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VanuatuWycombe:
Don’t listen to what most people are saying here. No amount of therapy can solve or clear this in your head. You are not Oyibo o.

Face the problem, squarely. Call first meeting with your mum and your biological father. Let them explain why things happened that way and who is at fault for delaying you from being given to your biological father. Ask so many logical questions from both of them, since you are now an adult. Answering these questions will give you more clarity and perspectives to the matter. Their answers will lead you to how to address the issue at hand.

If they can’t agree or give you clear answers or reasons why it happened, schedule another meeting with them for another day.

Request a DNA with your biological father. If the results come out positive, you have scaled the first hurdle of truly knowing your biological father.

If the result comes out to be negative, conduct a secret DNA of your ‘surrogate’ father. If the result comes out negative, you are now in another dilemma but all-in-all, na who raise you be your father o.

Still love your mom because you too could have made the same mistake when young, except if she hasn’t changed her behavior after what happened when she was young.

Love your surrogate father and take proper care of him. He may only not like you again, if he gets to know you already know this. Be ready to deal with the situation, maturely, any day your surrogate father gets to know. Let him know you love him and can’t trade him for an absentee father.
If your surrogate father chooses to trigger your release clause, your biological father should be ready to pay all your father and mother have spent on you, while he was away.

I could see that your biological father isn’t serious about you. If he is serious, he shouldn’t have allowed your mom to give you to another man. Even after 12 years, he still allowed you to continue living with your surrogate dad till you are now an adult. That’s a sign to tell you that he doesn’t need you. He too may be hiding you from his wife at home.

You are kind of living in an unreal world. He should call his elders, including a treacherous biological father for a meeting? Have you considered he does not know the history between the two men?
This could mean war that can end the life of one or two of the men, wreak his family totally asunder.
If you are Igbo, do not dare call your father for a meeting with a stranger you think is your real father, the outcome will likely be very very negative. The most you might do is discuss it with him in secret, but even that is very abnormal.

The other guy up there is writing about traditions being that your biological father is your right father. Am sure that must be yoruba culture. In Igbo culture, your father is the man married to your mother. You will not be the first or the last, and truly nobody cares if your father is your biological father, because it not your place to determine who your father is.

Listen, you are thinking like a boy, better man up.

First reality check:- in the 50s down to 70s, infant mortality was a big issue. Post civil war, it was even a bigger issue than normal. Women adapted by mixing up genes of their kids so they do not all die of something. Some of the people responding are not even aware they are products of such. I am guessing you are Igbo. The current ideas you have about paternity and fidelity are not necessarily same as your parents. And your father my well be aware that you are likely not his biological child. In Igbo culture, a married man owns all the children birthed by his wedded wife, biological or otherwise. Fathering a child in another man's house is considered a loss to the sperms donor, not the the house owner because children are considered wealth. So no Igbo man above 60 years today really cares that much about if his wife's children are all truly his, they simply claim right of fatherhood over you, doing otherwise is a sign of weakness, and giving up his manly rights freely to another man.

Understand this, your father does not critically care if you are genetically his. He has claimed you and raised you. He is a Victor. This is what your mother tried to make him loose by letting you know that you are not his. If you ever open your mouth to question his paternity, you a joining your mother to cause him a loss, and you are forcing him to confront an issue which his generation simply choose to ignore. They did not have DNA test then. As far as your are concerned, your mother could also be wrong.

Second Reality-check. Yes, you are an adult, but you are not a party to the marriage contract between your father and mother. Its not your place to reveal any truth. It is simply not your responsibility, especially when you do not understand the cultural background and value system. Repeating what your mother told you, with your own mouth can be extremely insulting to your father, not because it is or is not the truth, but simply the fact that you the son not only gave it thougth but also gave it voice. Your father's response as an Igbo man is very straight forward to predict, he will reject you, not because of your mother acts, but because you are already questioning in your mind that he is not your father. He has lost in your mind, and thats the real loss. Your mother's treachery is not just having a child from another man, but majorly trying to steal your mind from the man she told you to call father.

Third Reality Check- once you reveal your so called truth, your father's extended family will be very happy to write you off. Even if your father is not doing so. You will loose all the rights of sonship in that lineage, evidenced by your vocalization. But your so called biological father can never bring you into his family. He has wife and children, who will not want you added to their family. Neither will his extended family want you added. There are no bast-ards in Igboland because every child belongs to the man who married his mother, to the mother's father if unwedded. If you stupidly open your mouth as you are thinking in something yhat is not your place to discuss talkless of declare, you will become one of the first bas-tards in Igboland. Do not think the people around you do not know who fathered you. As long as your mothers husband does not speak of it, no one will as long as he is alive for they fear him, cause he will see it asa challenge to his authority. When he dies, they will definitely tell you as an insult, but none of them can change what he did not change while alive. That is the Igbo culture.

Better go live your life, your mother is truly dumb, trapping you in a child's mind with a man's problem. Simply ignore that her truth as if it does not exist, and move on with your life. As for your future wife, it's none of her business. It's your mother's truth, not your truth. you can let your wife know your mother's truth after you have been married for decades. Your truth, the one told to the world when you were born is the only truth that can and should come out of your mouth.

As for opinions fearing leakage of the secret. That should not bother you. Only what comes out of your mouth can have an impact, especially on your father, (even if he already knows)

If your mother makes the claim, your father will dismiss it as mere treachery on her part in his old age. But your mother if already afraid to make such a claim and never will openly. She knows the consequences. Which is that-

If your so called biological father makes claims over your, it is considered a direct personal challenge against your father, for which your father or his brothers or proteges will be within his rights to have your biological father killed.

If any other person, even your father's brothers or sisters makes this claim openly, it will be dismissed as rumour mongering and jealousy. Infact the closest is your father's brothers, who will be immediately accused of coveting his inheritance.

The only person that can safely make this claim, get away with it, and hurt your father is you. That is why your mother planted that seed in you in the guise of telling you the truth.

In Igbo land, he who marries a woman owns and father's all her children.

Christistruth00:
Your case is very very easy

Just do not find yourself out of power, cause it will cost you dearly.

Meaning, That a state of Emergency can also be declared in Lagos, and the activities of a tribalistic governor checked.
It's always good to set a precedent, it will come back to you, just a matter if time.

attackgat:
Eze Ndigbo Sokoto, HRM Eze TOB Gbahara, has visited IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, in Sokoto prisons, along with some members of his cabinet.

Eze Gbahara pledged that the Igbo community in Sokoto would stand by Nnamdi Kanu for as long as he was in Sokoto prisons

Point of Correction
Igbos have no Kings.
Eze actually translates to Leader or Influencial.
It's the Britsh that was desperately looking for how to add Kings to Igbos, and purposely mis-translated Eze to mean King.

The warrant Chiefs you have today courtesy of British Colonials do not choose to be called Eze, Rather they choose to be called Igwe- meaning "Sky" as reference to being "Highest" or Greatest courtsey of British support. Thats because they felt Eze was too common for the position Britain created for them. Igbo has no word for a Monarch because they don't exist in our sphere. A typical Igbo community in olden times has several Eze's, it takes integrity, attainment of wealth prowess, attainment of spiritual prowess, and followership to be an Eze. The spiritual ptowess being most important.

Eze is a common reference in Igbo communities. In a given community you will have multiple Eze. You will also have multple people with Eze in their surname. They are all leaders or their fathers were, but never exclusive. It's more akin to a Senator modern terms or a British Lord. Due to British interference most young Igbos also think Eze means King. Its actually a title, like Sir, or Maazi.

Your title should be "Leader of Igbos in Sokoto visits Nnamdi Kanu"

Samantha125:
The Igbo Amaka nation, Africa's hard workers AKA developers, the beautiful children of Baba and Mama Tinubu, the red cap nation, and giants of Nigerian entertainment industry, I come in peace...

Please find it in your hearts to translate the chorus of these Igbo lyrics for me to English... ... I promise not to bother you guys ever again if you could do this one thing for me...🙃🙃🙃

In fact, I've just added this song on the list of the songs I want to be played next month on my traditional Sesotho wedding day.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js2kO-rlFZU?si=eb7AfNunqN3KPmb_

Ebe egburu Jesu
Egburu ya ikpere nala were gbaa ya oto

Where Jesus was killed, they forced him to kneel and stripped him naked

Peter n'egwu
Oruwa Mbombo, si m gbara ya oso
(This is not so clear, but sounds like)
Peter was Afraid, pointed me out and told me to run

Ebe egburu jesu, entered ya Poti poti,
Maria di nso.

Where they killed Jesus, they rubbed mud all over Him,
Maria the holy one.

Peteru ooh
Peteru bunu ekwe ekwe

Peter ooh
Peter us very disagreeable.

Caveat. The lyrics are not in Igbo grammatically fictional sentence.
I do not know why he calls Peter Peteru, or uf he means something else. Peteru is not Igbo.

nairalanda1:
Cities do fund their metro system on a combination of tax and fares.

I mean most countries get their funds from tax. In Nigeria where the minority pays tax and the majority does not, how is the income going to be sustainable. See the problem.

And the costs are enormous. It's because most of you say we are too poor that we don't get a sustainable good transport system.

There is no transport tax. If you are talking of diverting tax from other sources to fund public transport, that is subsidy.Most European cities have a public transport system that pays for it self more or less. In fact, they are often run by private companies on licence and do turn a profit for them.

nairalanda1:
Well, I know you will call me meister tax, but the thing is, all those good transport systems we see overseas, cost a hefty amount of money. IN taxes and in fares.

Our transport system is the way it is because that is what we can afford. IN most cities, na 1990 busses and cars dey form backbone of the transport service, as well as keke. All of them are easy to maintain and easy to fix, and you can use second hand parts to keep them running.

If we want transport system like we see overseas, then we must be prepared to pay high taxes and high fares for them. Or else government go take loans to pay for it...since we are too poor. And when the debt grows, no money to maintain am, and then they go crash...and we would shout poor maintenance culture.

I effing wish it was not so.

No city funds its metro system on tax. The government might subsidize but mostly commuters pay the cost. The key here is economies of scale.

It's similar to how electricity billing works. When you want to on your TV might not be when I want to do sane, but accross 10 million people, we can achieve a relatively constant electricity demand that makes it cist effective for the power company to run its generators constantly.

Similarly, funding for City transport will never make sense when you fund it per trip. Rather, if you design it to be the exclusive public road transport, provide comfort and reasonable hygiene using professional cleaners and machines. You attract enough people subscribing to make it run continously on timed rotations and economically.

Kudos to Enugu Government!
Do not forget maintenance workshops. The bus manufacturer should provide maintenance based of SLAs(service level agreements), otherwise you will have or employ mechanics going through a learning curve that will cost you a significant number of buses. Shift that risk to the bus manufacturers. This should have been part of conditions for procurement.

Also a few buses and drivers are kept as reserve to replace faulty ones.

You also need a parking lot, the bus terminal should not double as bus maintenance and bus cleaning facilities, because both activities should be opaque to bus users.

This man gave the tacit approval and directive that got Kenya working with Buhari, under MI5 to kidnap Nnamdi Kanu? What is he doing in Igboland or he came to celebrate with Hope Uzodinjo the evil conviction of Nnamdi Kanu.

What exactly is IGR?
Oil from Niger Delta are they not internally generated from the states.

Bottom line Only Niger Delta states excluding Edo and Cross River are self sufficient. If only the other parasite states including Lagos are not stealing from them in the name if Federal Government.

Rich4god:
I don't need to write much, most of the things I want to pen down, everyone already knows.

Nigeria as a nation is not a serious country and they are always looking for ways to blame Igbos for every problem, even when the main problem is staring at them.

Right now, let the Igbos desist from trying to contest for the presidency. Nigeria as it is now cannot be salvaged. So if an Igbo man is the president and things are going south, they will just put the blame on the whole Igbos.

Let's rather focus on how we can make our selves better with or without the actualisation of what we are fighting for.

Imagine if Peter Obi is the president and all these kidnapping is happening under him. What do you think the media will be saying about the Igbos. One primate left all the life threatening problems facing Nigeria and is complaining about Igbos.

It's high time we look inward and secure our land, because this criminals coming from the sahel may not relent till they reach the Atlantic ocean.

Oga, kindly throw your defeatist attitude to the bin. So what if they blame Igbos? So what?
Igbos have put unprecedented global political pressure on an Islamist union between Fulani and Yoruba. Instead of joining your fellows Igbos and doing your bit in exposing this evil and clandestine government to the world, your are here writing pacifist nonsense.

Abeg disregard the propaganda news.
Ribadu and Co. went to US trying to enter the UN event where Nicki Minaj spoke about Christian Killlings. They were neither invited nor allowed to participate.

That UN event will lead to the consensus US is building to take action in Nigeria. Since they could not make impact they went visiting US senators and secretaries, who gave them the Usual diplomatic pretentious welcome, which they are over blowing as collaboration.

Can you Imagine Ribadu going to meet trump instead of the president or even vice. Oh I forgot, some people alleged that one was a drug dealer known to CIA, the other is a bandit. If true, Trump won't listen to drug dealers, he kills them with missiles. Neither will he tolerate bandits (Islamic jihadist) that kill Christians.

buygala:
I would have called you a fool


But I will rather say "ok"

Myself would have called you a "Charlatan"
But let me say "aimless wast of time"

buygala:
Irrelevant to the thread

But ok

Are you OK at all, you are demanding for a law as if you even have a clue. Details of progression in any profession is not stipulated through law. Not even that of civil service is codified in law.

Rather you may have a code of practice, or Establishment papers for gov agencies.
In the case of the military, its a colonial hand down, so the most likely upto date stipulation will be detailed in the staff remuneration system documents.

buygala:
One of the statements made by Lieutenant Yarima while he was defending his actions of blocking Wike the FCT Minister from access to a property was "once a General, always a General'.

I have done my private research by combing through the Armed Forces Act which established all branches of the Nigerian Armed forces, as well as the Nigerian Constitution which provides their foundational legal authority, and I have seen nothing supporting this frequently bandied assertion that "once a General, always a General'...

If anyone has any legal provision supporting this assertion, please do well to draw it to our attention ...If there is none, then we must call a spade a spade and not a spoon...

As far as I am aware, even the President/Commander-in-Chief, once he leaves office, is not "once a Commander-in-Chief always a Commander-in-Chief' ....All Nigerian Presidents have quietly retired...Even Buhari with all the power he wielded as President, quietly retired to Daura to rest and enjoy his family until he quietly passed on...Even Obasanjo that was both a Military and Democratic President, has never been in the news for constituting a stumbling block to extant authority...

So I am at a loss as to why, someone who has retired from the armed forces as Chief of Naval Staff, will continue giving orders to active members of the armed forces even to the extent of frustrating a sitting Minister's duty...

Of Course I am also aware that senior officers and ex-officers like Buratai and the current CDS have aligned with that Lieutenant's action obeying a retired officer's orders at the expense of an sitting Minister..

But as far as I am concerned, Buratai and the current CDS are simply supporting a system that favors or will favor them in the future... Buratai as EX-COAS enjoys his full perks of retirement which obviously includes the "once a General, always a General' title which grants him certain extra privileges...The sitting CDS is also very aware that he will also retire at some point in the future, so he will be wise to protect that whole "once a General always a General' thing so that he too can enjoy it upon retirement..

However, while in one breath we are berating Wike for lawlessness and abuse of office, we should not in same breath support this whole "once a General always a General' thing if it has no legal foundation, as it will be the height of lawlessness if a few men can sit somewhere and decide that they can drop a uniform and the responsibility/danger/duty that comes with it, but not drop the command benefits and ostensibly illegal perks that go with it...

If we must crucify Wike, we must also examine that retired CNS's authority to issue an order to countermand a sitting Minister...What is good for Greece must also be good for Uganda

After all said and done, these soldiers are employees of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and must like everyone else, be subject to its laws...Even a President isn't always a President issuing laws and stuff after retirement...

Of course all my complains will be moot if someone supplies a law supporting that "once a General always a General' tradition that military retirees frequently rely on to perpetrate impunity outside their service years.

In most professions, once you reach the pinnacle of the profession, you are entitled to all benefits for Life.

A Professor in Nigerian University, before the advent of contributory pension Retires with full Salaries and allowances. The benchmark was set at Professing for 20 years. A professor Emeritus remains a ceremonial part of the faculty after retirement.

A General in the Army will retire with full benefits, and that includes protection against decision made while in command, so yes, they have military men at their command.

Does anybody take BBC serious anymore.

For Africa, they routinely recruit poor performers from Northern Nigeria, who could not find jobs after getting undeserved scholarships from the Nigerian Federal Government to study in UK.

These are the ones dishing out ethnic propaganda in the name of journalism using the BBC brand in Nigeria.

[quote author=motayoayinde post=137358830]Here’s a breakdown of how he got to Nigeria:

### 1. The Escape from the UK
First, it's important to set the stage. Mike Arnold was a British drug trafficker who was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to 16 years in prison. In 1999, while being held at a low-security prison in Suffolk, England, he simply walked out during a recreational period and escaped.

### 2. The Illicit Flight to Nigeria
After his escape, Arnold needed to get out of the UK and to a country that did not have an extradition treaty with Britain. Nigeria was such a country at the time.

According to his own accounts and court records, Arnold's journey involved:

* **A Privately Chartered Plane:** He did not fly on a commercial airline, where he would have had to show a passport. Instead, he and an accomplice (his cellmate who had been released) chartered a small private aircraft.
* **Departure from a Small Airfield:** They flew from a small, regional airfield in the UK, where security was much more lax compared to a major international airport like Heathrow or Gatwick. This allowed them to bypass standard passport controls.
* **Direct Flight to Nigeria:** The chartered plane flew directly to Nigeria, landing at an airport where he could enter the country with relative ease, likely by using a forged passport or by bribing officials.

In his own words from a 2002 interview, Arnold stated: *"We chartered a plane from a small airfield in the UK and flew to Nigeria. It was surprisingly easy."*

### Summary: The "How"

So, to answer your question directly: **Mike Arnold got to Nigeria by chartering a private plane and flying illicitly from a small UK airfield, bypassing all official immigration controls.**

### What Happened Next?
His time in Nigeria was short-lived and dramatic:
* He was arrested in Lagos a few months later in a dramatic shootout with Nigerian police.
* He was tried and convicted in Nigeria for immigration offenses and illegal possession of firearms, receiving a five-year prison sentence.
* After serving his sentence in Nigeria, he was eventually extradited back to the UK in 2006 to serve the remainder of his original drug trafficking sentence.

His entire escape and journey to Nigeria is a classic example of a fugitive using wealth, connections, and audacity to exploit weaknesses in international travel security.

Reno, Reno the Acrylic Liar
Is that you Reno?
New moniker and brand new lies!

Yes, we in the south east will welcome US military intervention with utmost cooperation to get rid of Fulani Islamic militias once and for all. Neither our people nor IPOB are terrorists, so we have nothing to fear.



However, so should Lagos, Ondo Ogun and Osun States, where Amotekun is fighting a loosing war against Fulani Islamic Militias masquerading as herdsmen.

Helinues are you a terrorist or friend of terrorists, why are you so afraid, Trump said they are coming to kill terrorists.

Agebab:
https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2025/11/02/oba-akiolu-fires-at-trump-over-christian-genocide-claim-in-nigeria/

Who is Oba Akiolu? Is Oba his first or last name? What's his relevance?

What an airhead, he probably thinks the US is filled with people of low IQ.
He is referring to ESN,
Tell me again why ESN was formed?
Governors like him remaining aloof, while Fulani militia masquerading as herdsmen were picking people off the major roads daily. There are scores of victim revelations who paid ransoms to be let go in Anambra alone.
Further, move to Anambra North communities, the Fulani overun of Adani, and subsequent in incursion into Iffite Ogwari is well documented by the media. It was ESN that stopped their progress.

Even today, go to the farmlands of Iffite Awka, in Awka capital. Fulani militia have taken over. People are afraid of going to farm.

Dotherightthing:
Dear President Donald Trump,

What is happening in Nigeria is not a religious war. Rather, It's an ethnic war. It's Fulani bandits versus Nigeria.

A prominent Fulani leader - Sheik Gumi - alluded to this on live TV - Channels TV - sometime in 2021-2022. An abstract from his interview goes thus - "A Fulani man cannot set foot in Shinkafi town in Sokoto state, yet the Emir of Shinkafi is a Fulani man."

I believe there is a renewed jihad by the Fulani bandits against the Nigerian state starting with the north.

The Fulani bandits want to conquer the north all over again and will kill anyone - christian or muslim - who is NOT of their stock.

They did it first in the early 19th century led by Usman Dan Fodio in what is popularly known today as the Fulani Jihad of 1804. It was not total at the time as some parts of the north were spared.

This time around they seek TOTAL CONTROL especially as precious rare earth minerals which you, Donald Trump, can do anything for are being discovered all over the place. The quest for control cannot be more compelling than at this time.

Except you want to be mischievous and bitter that our president has called your bluff(abstaining from 2 UNGAs) and is setting our country on the right track economically(our Naira is appreciating and our FOREIGN RESERVE is RISING) against all odds, I see no reason why you should tag Nigeria a country of particular concern as regards killing of christians when indeed what is happening is an ETHNIC WAR.

During the administration of President Buhari, there were worse killings, yet the United States government turned a blind eye.

Please don't bow to lobbyists who want to bring down the current Nigerian government using 'killing of christians' as an excuse.

That is exactly what the Fulani bandits want - to regain power at the centre at all cost. They are not happy with the reforms instituted by this government since 2023 as it has given all and sundry equal opportunity and a level-playing field as against the undue, unfair advantages they enjoy when they are in power.

Rather, you can help us proffer lasting solutions to the problem. As it stands our military may have been COMPROMISED hence the difficulty in winning the war.

In Nigeria, ethnic loyalties take precedence of religious loyalties even though the Fulani bandits usually masquerade the former with the latter.

Please rethink your position.

Thank you.

Your faithfully,
Dotherightthing.

Are you okay. You called it continuation of Usman Dan Fodio's Jihad, then turn around to say its merely ethnic.
Or is it that you do not know the meaning of Jihad?

helinues:
It's the same way Trump made false accusations about the land settlement in South Africa, same he and his government are making false accusations about Christian genocide in Nigeria

Just some days ago, some Muslim worshippers was attacked, who is counting their own scores?

If the Muslim are the most affected with the insecurity in North, abeg who is killing the christians in Southern part of Nigeria?

Do the kidnappers, ritualists, armed robbers even rogue police officers segregate people before killing them in Southern Nigeria because those are the majority of the culprits of killing people in Southern Nigeria.

Herdsmen that might have been used as an excuse in Southern Nigeria , their activities have almost reduced to zero.

So who are the people killing the southern Christians in Nigeria?

I think it's your write up that is illogical.
You call them bandits because Buhari used tax payers money to rebrand an Islamic ethnic militia as secular criminals. In your warped logic because they kill Muslims too, they have no religious agenda, yet are accompanied by religious jihadist chants of Allah Akbah.

Just like the USA called them, Fulani Islamic Ethnic Militia, are ravaging communities North and South of Nigeria, for almost a decade, and the Government has found it convienent to not only rebrand them as mere bandits, but actually transfer arms to them is staged ambushes against a professional military.

An in the midst, of such enablement by a closet Islamist in the person of Barrack Obama, the actors even created a precedence, Muslim president and Muslim Vice in a multi religious state.


Yet, when it's called what it is you think it's illogical.

Who is talking of Adada state. Nsukka people who refuse to accommodate their fellow igbos, chanting indigenes and Non- indigenes up and down. Now you want Igbo unity in getting you Adada State.

Abeg shift.
Anioma State is the priority of every right thinking Igbo person. Uniting with our siblings across the Niger is most important. In case you are not aware, Zik also did same with Nsukka. By locating the prime Igbo University in your lands, He boldly marked you as Igbos. Allow us do same with Anioma.

First go and sort you indigenes/ non indigenes problems before trying to galvanize Igbos. It's absurd for extremely clannish people to be seeking unionship when it suits them. In Nsukka, Armed Robbers were selectively robbing Non indigenes, Land grabbers target Non-indigenes. Fire routinely breakout at the shops of Non-indigenes at Ogige Nsukka Market.

My opinion is that this list here, is the real reason why 1966 coup happened.

Word on the street, is that Buhari and his Jihadist herdsmen, claimed they were finishing the work of their Great Great Father, Usman Dan Fodio.

Their Grandfather Ahmadu Bello, also sought to dip the Koran in the Atlantic ocean, and had started his hidden campaign in Tivland in 1964 into 1965. Yes, by 1966, that so wrongly labelled 1966 coup took him out and suspended his religious agenda.

What is funny, is that the people of the middle belt who were the designated first victims of the Jihadist helped to sustain them in power through the coup against Aguiyi Ironsi and the Civil War. 60 years later, Jihadists felt strong enough to finish what they started.

You work from home, your wife works from home.
You guys are spending too much time with each other. No break, no alone time. As immigrants, few friends and small social circle.


Get a shared office or hot desk. Go there in the morning, comeback in the evening. Give your wife some space to reset herself. Take your time and do same.

Enugu Transport system overhaul is commendable. But am really disappointed by what I hear as to its operation. Apparently its going to operate like any other shared yellow bus. It will leave only when full, and will share routes with yellow buses. This is not how to operate a modern city bus system. You have made the investment. built stops, terminals and even roads for this. Please run it in such a ways that it will be sustainable, neat, reliable and operate at world standard, not Lagos standard. Am posting this hoping it gets to the Governor. Great Vision, wonderful execution, now being operated like Lagos molue. Which Lagos governors retain for incubating touts and area fathers for political control.

Instead of going accross cities, start with in-city transport.

You create route based on bus ID. Eg. Bus A1 goes the route Holy Ghost, Stadium, Obiagu, Edinburgh, Kenyatta, Coal camp, Prisons, Back to Holyghost. You can dedicate two buses to this route, and they will pass every 15 mins. If you have enough Buses, you also create Bus B1 which will do same route in reverse. Which means the route will have four buses instead if 2. But you guys have just 100 buses, so go with just 2 per route.

Buses must arrive at designated bus stops within certain time, delays are like 5 mins max.
City transport systems planning and management is actually studied at masters level, under Project management, So their are international experts who can help the state plan and manage this to world standard.

How do you pay for such a bus.

1. Bus cards, most residents will buy bus cards which have monthly subscription, and special card for students.

2. Visitors to the city will have Day ticket. A day ticket will cost like 5000, and you can use it all day long. By 12 midnight it becomes invalid.

3. Single ride and pay as you go are costly on such bus, because the rider is not sharing cost with the other city users, so it's priced accordingly. In this case I will say N1500 per ride on the circuit. Once you drop from the bus, the ticket becomes invalid.

Intra city transport should be left for private operators for now. Until the incity transport is well tuned.

You need to understand that the city bus system is like insurance . People in the city all pay for it, even when not using it, so it can be available when they want to use it. When we all pay for something, it become very cheap for us all due to economies of scale.

Last and most importantly, private bus operators, shared rides cannot be permitted to operate on the same route as the city bus. Only taxies can ply same route and must charge more than the bus, to provide priority service. This is the part that maimed Lagos BRT. You must remove all the yellow buses from the route to have sanity and reduce the traffic resistance to the buses arriving timely.

You need bus lanes only at hot traffic points, not like in Lagos where they marked the whole half road from ikorodu to cms as BRT lane, just to avoid the yellow buses


If you guys run those buses like Lagos BRT mole, they will become eyesores within just two years. Go to Madrid, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and learn or copy how modern bus systems operate. Do not copy Lagos BRT, its crap.

Another argument you will get is about loss of job to keke and yellow bus drivers. A modern bus system such as the one di described, requires at least 3 drivers per 12 hour day operation. Each can only drive for maximum of 4 hours. It requires cleaners, who clean the bus fast once it returns to its home base after each circuit. Infact each bus requires at least 3 drivers, 1 cleaner, various administration and maintenance staff. 100 buses alone will employ not less than 600 people, for proper operation. So ample space to retrain and employ keke and bus drivers in new roles.

Commendable, but this is not how to operate a modern city bus system. You have made the investment. built stops, terminals and even roads for this. Please run it in such a ways that it will be sustainable, neat, reliable and world standard.

Instead of going accross cities, start with in-city transport.

You create route based on bus ID. Eg. Bus A1 goes the route Holy Ghost, Stadium, Obiagu, Edinburgh, Kenyatta, Coal camp, Prisons, Back to Holyghost. You can dedicate two buses to this route, and they will pass every 15 mins. If you have enough Buses, you also create Bus B1 which will do same route in reverse. Which means the route will have four buses instead if 2. But you guys have just 100 buses, so go with just 2 per route.

Buses must arrive at designated bus stops within certain time, delays are like 5 mins max.

How do you pay for such a bus.

1. Bus cards, most residents will buy bus cards which have monthly subscription, and special card for students.

2. Visitors to the city will have Day ticket. A day ticket will cost like 5000, and you can use it all day long. By 12 midnight it becomes invalid.

3. Single ride and pay as you go are costly on such bus, because the rider is not sharing cost with the other city users, so it's priced accordingly. In this case I will say N1500 per ride on the circuit. Once you drop from the bus, the ticket becomes invalid.

Intra city transport should be left for private operators for now. Until the incity transport is well tuned.

You need to understand that the city bus system is like insurance . People in the city all pay for it, even when not using it, so it can be available when they want to use it. When we all pay for something, it become very cheap for us all due to economies of scale.

Last and most importantly, private bus operators, shared rides cannot be permitted to operate on the same route as the city bus. Only taxies can ply same route and must charge more than the bus, to provide priority service. This is the part that maimed Lagos BRT. You must remove all the yellow buses from the route to have sanity and reduce the traffic resistance to the buses arriving timely.

You need bus lanes only at hot traffic points, not like in Lagos where they marked the whole half road from ikorodu to cms as BRT lane, just to avoid the yellow buses


If you guys run those buses like Lagos BRT mole, they will become eyesores within just two years. Go to Madrid, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and learn or copy how modern bus systems operate. Do not copy Lagos BRT, its crap.

This is so absurd.
Unprofessional Airline
- does not recognize airplane mode,
- forces passengers to switch of their phones irrespective of airplane mode. Do they also manufacture phones?
- Assaults passengers, restraining them with out police presence
- Sexually assaults passengers by stripping them naked
- Damages passengers properties, such as wigs, jackets and phones, but complains that passenger is damaging the airplane
- Detains passengers inside the airplane without police presence
- Effectively Ibom air is acting as and usurping the powers of a law enforcement agency.


Unprofessional Minister of Aviation
- Makes public judgement on a case without proper investigation
- Commends unprofessional cabin crew for unprofessional attempt to detain a passenger within an airplane. Viz a viz taking the law into their own hands
- Commends unprofessional airline for not recognising phone flight mode, and commando style enforcement of phone shutdown
- Trying use a defenceless girl as scapegoat to hide un coordinated security lapses at airports, while avoiding confrontation with people who can actually fight back and bite hard K1.

In case you are wondering, the cabin crew already assaulted the passenger, trying to restrain her in the airplane and damaged her wigs, and disrobed her of her jackets, before, pretending to be at the receiving end of an assault. Everyother, response from the lady was simply in self defence. This lady needs a good lawyer and Ibom air will pay through its nose. Infact the more publicity and press releases, the more the compensation for damages.

Even the flood you see on the streets is diluted shit water. I always wow at people who wade through the water. My friends very rich next door neighbour pumps his sewage directly into the gutters, when it rains, it gets distributed all over the neighbourhood.

No government inspection
No town planning compliance team
No public health officials

yemre:
Bros, you are such a very smart guy!

The marketers are free to step up their game by building a refinery and competing with Dangote. How do you tell someone not come into the business or not to sell at the price that is profitable to him while also affordable to the consumers. It is a capitalist economy and the earlier the players accepts that, the better for them.

I just don't understand what is wrong with our people. Before Dangote started refining petroleum products, they would always tell us about the landing cost going up every time. Suddenly now that has changed because they could no longer sell that narrative. Dangote should be allowed to invest in LPG and allow people to sell freely.

Of course you would not expect me to come and buy from you if your product is more expensive than that of Dangote. A word, they say, is enough for the wise

They do not need to setup refineries to complete. All the gas flares in the Niger Delta are at least 10% LPG. So they should set up gas refrigeration and separation plants, the cost foot print is way less than Dangotes.