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OjukwuWarBird:
Just pray that it is not true because, if it is true, then the war Buhari is looking for, he will get it and this time around the prediction by the US that Nigeria will breakup in 2015 will come to past even though a little bit late than the expected year

You and this your war, I wonder if it is zobo that is running in ur vain, if war strikes, u tink Buhari would hav a scratch? It is you and I who would look for water n food none of them. I dont know how u keep tinking that ur call for war is a punishment to ds adminisrration. Which generation do u want to evn fight for. My dear, me i dont want war, if u do, pack your load to Sudden or pakistan, u will see ur fellow war guys.

Clearly, IPOB had a hunch that the military was not comfortable with thier activities. Why barricade the road, why throw stones at them. It is only a foolish man who does not know the difference between raising eye brow and a wink. If I were among those present while the soldiers were said to be passing, believe me, I will not pick even a cellophane to throw, no, because I know what would result, but like our elders say, a dog that is doomed never hears the call of its owner.

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Kolababe:
http://m.af1234.com/Af1234/details/outrage-as-korede-bello-bags-chieftaincy-title-in-kano

I am a certified and talented English language teacher. I obtained a BA in Eng/lit from ABSU and an MA in Eng from the University of Ibadan. I can teach English language and literature to Masters level. Anyone who needs my services should contact me on 08038999587. If the pay is good, I can relocate to Sokoto, yes, joking apart.

As troops and security agents continue the search for fleeing leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, there were indications last night that he was in the South-East.

Security agencies have been placed on the alert at the airports, seaports and borders to watch out for Kanu.

The Turkish Embassy in Nigeria clarified yesterday that it was not in support of secessionist activities in Nigeria

A top security sourcesaid: “Intelligence gathering has shown that Kanu is still holed up in the South-East. We will soon fish him out of wherever he is hiding.



“We are only trying to be constructive in our engagement to avoid huge cost. Security agencies know what to do but they are just being careful.

“We have identified some of his sympathisers who could harbour him. At the appropriate time, we will brief Nigerians.

” We know he is planning to escape from the country but we won’t allow him. We are determined to arrest him.”

The Turkish Embassy in a statement said: “The Embassy of the Republic of Turkey wishes to inform the Nigerian public about the following:

“Abdulkadir Erkahrahman, a Turkish citizen, has been sharing videos for some time against the Nigerian Government and presents himself as a Turkish diplomat.

“Mr. Abdulkadir Erkahrahman is neither a diplomat nor a civil servant or an official representative of the Government of Turkey.

“The Government of Turkey is committed to the territorial integrity and political unity of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“Furthermore, Turkey never supports secessionist activities against the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”


http://thenationonlineng.net/kanu-holed-southeast-turkey-video/

RichFoundation:
IPOB.


WE WANT NO PEACE

WE WANT EQUAL RIGHT AND JUSTICE

Young man, pls, go someone and hang yourself, we want peace. If I hear your voice again, i will vent all my bottled-up anger on you.

chrisxxx:
Northern Youths dress in Igbo attire, went round Kano preaching peace and assuring the Igbo community of their safety despite what happened in Aba and Port Harcourt.

How do you see this??
Mods, promote unity

I know the real Hausas are good. What these guys have done has really touched me, we must stay togeda in peace, the rich elites have failed, the youths are wiser now. If not that I am already picked, walahi, my responce to this would be to marry an Hausa, joking apart

mazimee:
Dream on

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I am Igbo, I have lived both in the north and west. I know this nation can exist as one. I know we can settle this problem amicably, it would do no one no good if we allow this to degenerate into war. Whom the gods wish to kill they first strike with madness, a dog that would die does not hear the whistle of the owner.

Each time I hear young ones speak in high tones how they are willing to fight the Nigerian army, I just wish to bring them to my house and have them listen to my dad's account of the story of the Nogeria civil war. When the sound of this drum of war u all are drumming begins to echoe, hmmm, it may deafen our ears. We are bruising our skin because of a little itch, it is easy to think that we will all get fair treatment when the new nation is born, but that is only a wish.

I know someone reading this would call me a coward, but just so u are reminded, the coward stays alive to narrate the story of the dead warrior.

OjukwuWarBird:
The only industry the North exports

The only image the North presents to the world


Can anything good come out from the North.?

It is called "North', meaning nothing

GoldNiagara:
You are only meant to act your part. It is not like Marriage is kind of salvation gig. Act as a responsible mother, wife, companion, lover, respectful daughter in law and take away laziness from your bone with a tincture of neatness and decorum.

Then you will see marriage isn't rocket science.

But when you want to slay any prick that wag along. cheat on your partner, disrespect your hubby, his friends and in law, then marriage will be calculus to you.

You can have your board room but when the meeting is over, come and boss around in the bedroom.

Millions of ladies are enjoying marriage few with bad manners will want the whole world to think marriage is over rated, so they can join them.

work on your manners and world views and you will enjoy your marriage.

I owe you a 360 degree hug. How do they expect their marriage to work when they wont be subjective. One does not ignore the bible's councel and hope not to reap the consequences. The bibl says women should be in subjection to their husband, in another development it says pride goes bf a fall. They think God does not know what he was doing wen created Adam first, and Adam led the way for Eve, most of God's interraction to Eve was tbrough Adam. Our woman today want to lead everywhere, no respect, tell them what to do and they ask "why".

NaijaCelebrity:
Fashion entrepreneur, Toyin Lawani, says she does not believe in marriage anymore. Toyin who is a single mum of two, said this when she appeared as a guest on the recent episode of Hot Topics with Latasha on Linda Ikeji TV.

She was reacting to the news of Canadian singer, Keisha Chante, who called off her engagement to a former Canadian Ice Hockey player, Ray Emery, who she dated for 7 years.

“I don’t believe in marriage anymore because I feel marriage is just a subject people take too serious. It is a serious institution but I feel like everybody deserves to be happy but you don’t need marriage to define happiness”


http://www.tunezmedia.com/2017/08/i-dont-believe-in-marriage-toyin-lawani.html

If you don't believe in marriage, you should by the same stretch not believe in sex and child bearing. You seive out the gnat but swallow the camel. Like the proverbial chichidodo bird, in Ayi Kwei Armah's " The beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born", you hate shit but flex maggot.

Evaberry:
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my friend shut up there

can you imagine the rubbish?

we are talking about biafra, lack of jobs, money being spent recklessly, inflation and other problems cause by buhari and his clueless government and you are analysing other individuals grammar.
what a jobless man!!!

English is not our 1st language, it's a borrowed language and as such nobody should be castigated when they make error.

Have you seen or heard about the queen speaking Yoruba or igbo.

My friend, if you were within arm-reach, I would deploy all my strenght to deposit a well strutured slap on your face, regardless of your age. The op has blessed my morning with squeaky - clean grammar class. It's time we embraced the English language, it's now a meal ticket. It is, although sadly, an index of one's intelligence. Write and speak the English language well, or remain a taciturn.

Aderemi Raji-Oyelade is a distinguished researcher and scholar at the Department of English, University of Ibadan. He was the African recipient of the 2017 Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives, which took place recently in Berlin, Germany. He speaks with OYEYEMI OKUNLADE on the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, among other salient issues.

You’re one of the recipients of the Alexander von Humboldt Alumni award; what is the award all about?

The Alexander von Humboldt Alumni Award for 2017 is the ninth in the series. Its focus is to encourage networking among scholars who are engaged in innovative works in their fields. The award is given to those proposals that introduce new initiatives that are inventive in creating a global network among scholars in the applicant’s home country or continent with a view to connecting with scholars in Germany.

is that for this year, the award was given to five scholars, each from Greece, Belarus, Canada, Turkey, and Nigeria.

Being the only African on the award list for 2017, what was the feeling like representing Nigeria in particular and Africa in general?

To tell you the truth, I didn’t realize the feeling until the following day, after the ceremony. My colleague and fellow Humboldtian, Professor Akin Odebunmi, stressed the point that the award was not just for UI and Nigeria, but for Africa! Looking at the photographs of the award ceremony, I now feel it was something big. Afterall, there is reward for hard work.

What are the prospects, if any, for Nigeria in terms of collaborating with the host nation, Germany?

The activity of collaboration is always already built into the project. No foundation would give you an award if it does not have the merit or the credit of giving back some value or benefits, not in monetary terms but in terms of research outcomes. How do you connect, how do you make meaning and relevance beyond your immediate environment? They look out for projects that encourage global networking. Here, I already have colleagues who have been part of the network. I also have colleagues from across other nations in Africa who are also part of the network. And yes, I have been lucky to have very good hosts and willing collaborators in Germany who are very interested in my scholarship.

You’ve spoken of networking, can you expatiate on it as regards to what you’re up to presently? The project which won the award itself won’t start until September 2017 and it runs till September 2020. What I already put in the proposal is that I am going to network to study certain aspects of cultural transformations that occur to conventional proverbs in a number of African languages. With the collaboration of others, we are collecting and studying samples of new and radical proverbs from thirteen languages across Africa.

I started with the example of Yoruba language and published a number of essays and a book between 1999 and 2012. It was the argument in the 2012 book that I used as the basis for what is now a pan-African project. I refer to it as “Postproverbial Africa Project”. There have been interventions by other scholars like Professor Toyin Jegede of Nigeria, Professor Helen Yitah of Ghana, Professor Gilbert Dotse Yigbe of Togo, Dr Rethabile Possa of South Africa and Dr Ahmad Kipacha of Tanzania, who have done similar researches or made references to the terminology, “postproverbial”. So there is connection already. What I want to build on further is the potential of reaching out to other scholars in other countries and in other disciplines from anthropology to philosophy.

The agenda is to query the native intelligence of our people, to process the nature of changes that have happened to our oral and written materials, to show that there has been a body of philosophy that exists before the knowledge of Western philosophy.

What is HKHN?

HKHN stands for “Humboldt Kolleg in the Humanities in Nigeria”. It is also one of the programmes of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The Humboldt Kolleg is conceived as a conference or workshop for scholars to come together in an academic meeting in which younger scholars would be introduced to research opportunities and facilities available in Germany. It is a colloquium of Humboldtians including other scholars mainly organized to develop a roundtable discussion around a particular theme in their disciplines. I have the honour of being the Convener of the Humboldt Kolleg which will hold in the University of Ibadan, from February 19 to 22, 2018. Over time, we have noticed that scholarships in the humanities seem to be marginalized. The percentage of scholars in the humanities and the social sciences who are involved in research is gradually decreasing. The HKHN is a proactive response to that decrease or downturn of scholarly engagement in the humanities.

The workshop/conference is also being organized to shoot down some misconceptions. The first misconception is about the term “science”. When they say “scientist” in the German language, the word is Wissenschaftler, which roughly and literally translates as “producer of knowledge”. It goes therefore that a physicist and a philosopher, or an engineer and a linguist, are both united in the intellectual work of fabricating knowledge whether concrete or abstract knowledge. As fabricators or producers, they are all Wissenschaftler(in), scientists by all means. So, when we say HKHN, it doesn’t mean that we are excluding our colleagues in the core natural and applied sciences. We are only pointing directions to those who are in the humanities, the social sciences and education axes that “this conference is for you” so that we can have the opportunity to note that they are a part of the global community of scientists.

What are the problems militating against Nigerians in accessing international awards?

There are so many problems militating against access to international awards. I can only refer to a couple of them. Attitude towards scholarship itself is a major problem. Of course, no scholar of value writes only or deliberately to win awards. You must as a rule derive joy in what you do. There is an attitudinal dysfunction between what we do, what we hope to achieve and what really we should achieve. We always talk about town and gown. Our scholarship must have value, impact and meaning for the society as consumer.

But also, we have a system that is not supportive of scholars nor appreciative of the scholarships. I mean, a state system which does not support translational scholarship as a mode of intellectual production. How many of our policy makers have visited the University of Ibadan library? Or do we actually have a working network, a connection of libraries so that our Ministry of Information would have the best of the scholarly productions of the best productive academics in this country, to be able to use these materials and recommendations that students, doctors and professors provide every year and every session.

A nation without respect for its thinkers cannot call itself a civilized nation. A society where generations of ASUU members have to be struggling continually, agitating for funding and facilities, what kind of system is that? Our best brains started leaving the country since 1986. Now, even our best potential brains who are PhD and Masters students are leaving. They are leaving because they are getting support elsewhere. Tell me, if a country recognizes my intellect and is ready to support me, why will I not listen to their call? In just a month, a Nigerian senator is getting paid what the university professor will earn in five years, what a secondary school teacher will earn in one decade.

How can we correct these anomalies?

First of all, we must have a national leadership that has listening ears. The United Nations allows a benchmark of 26 per cent of a nation’s budget for the funding of its education. The question is every time and everywhere, how much percentage are we dedicating to education? In the year 2017, Nigeria’s budgetary vote for education is just a bit above 5 per cent. But every ministry is connected to education. For instance, the Ministry of Health would have teaching hospitals, the Ministry of Agriculture has agricultural institutions and extension programmes. Everything has to do with teaching and research, including technological and other corporate institutions. So, we need to get close to the UN bar or level of reaching 26 per cent for budgeting.

http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/nigeria-must-begin-appreciate-thinkers-professor-raji-oyelade/

haven't 'violet'? So they write bad English even in London, hmmm, it av well, anyway, all na protest[color=#006600][/color][b][/b]

ebosie11:
Read more. http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2017/08/nigerians-hold-pro-buhari-rally-in.html?m=1

You haven't "violet" ?...hmmm, even people wey dey London dey write bad English, it av well. All join for the protest

In the year 2007 when I was admitted to study English and literature at Abia State University, I thought I had gotten on the path of financial security. I had worked hard before now to establish a remedial center with over eighty students, but I left this with establishment with my friend and embraced my admission. When I was told that my friend had changed the name of my remedial center and was in the process of appropriating everything to himself, I dint confront him, I felt it was not necessary given that I was in school, he was not, upon graduation I'll get a lecturing job and make it in life. By 2011 I was at FCE Kontagora, Niger state as a corps member. I was among the few corps members who were allowed to lecture. I lectured introduction to literature and varieties of English. I was on my way to my dream job. After service, I got praises from all quarters, the students pleaded with the the HOD to retain me. The HOD called me to promise that she would put in words for me to the registrar to have me retained. The dean, school of languages also promised that he would stop at nothing in making sure I get retained. All the lecturers loved me, or pretended they did. In my heart it was settled that I'll be retained. the department was in acute need of my services, and made no pretense about it.

Few months later, I saw an advert in a national daily declaring vacant position in the college, including English graduate assistant, I put in as you'll expect. Right before me, the positions were filled by the cronies of top men in the college, I had spent about 6 months after service, but some who just got their discharge certificate were given appointments, I wept, I witnessed first hand the much talked about favoritism and injustice in Nigeria. I lost hope in this country, as I saw people who should be under the tutelage of my students offered employment in the department where I laboured, while I go home to lick my wounds. The HOD claimed her hands were tired, the dean claimed that he had no hands at all. Even the Emir to whom I ran had no solution. A senator sent a letter of recommendation on me, addressed to the chairman governing council of the college, but my surname was the problem. For the first time I wondered why we were not given a destination form to choose where we would be born, was it my fault that I was Igbo. Each office I entered demanded to know my name, and I would just mention my name, the next question would be, ' what's your surname', I was scared of my surname, it closed door, brought frowns on faces. While I waited for things to turn out well, I enrolled for a pgde at National Open University Minna. Nothing came up. After the programme, things became really bad, I almost became a beggar with my certificate. A friend advised me to put in for a Masters programme, I borrowed fund and started an MA programme at the University of Ibadan and graduated with a Ph.D grade of 5.3. I called the college where I served to ask if I could get a chance, they said no vacancy.

I have applied to almost all the Universities in Nigeria, I have even applied to the University at Maidugiri, Gombe, all the Uni in the North, I do not even get an invitation for interview. They will ask for 30 copies of each of my cert, by the time I am done making photocopy, I would have spent 5k, sometimes I would have to travel to the school to submit the application, and they would write your name as if it would turn out good. I have also applied to Polytechnics, Colleges of Edu, Secondary schools etc.

Last year I was invited for a test at Oritamefa Baptist sch, Ibadan, I had to mention their name because they broke my heart the most. After the test, I emerged the best and was invited for an interview. They asked which church I attend, when I told them I was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, they told me plainly they cant work with me, I fought to stifle the tears threatening to burst from my native spring. It was my last hope, I trekked to the venue of the interview, from Agbowo to general hospital, if you know the area. Now I have enrolled for a Ph.D programme, no job yet. Who expects me to believe in this country, who? That I have not joined internet fraud and or armed robbery is because of the native sense my mum inculcated in me as child. That I have not begun scheming how to shoot at any politician who comes to preach equity is because the bible says I should have self control, and even give my enemies food to eat. But there are many of my kinds who have lost it, so many let on the loose. I have decided to share this story as a relief from the pains in my heart. The ladies in my life have fled, believing that I am under a spell, who would not, at the age of thirty five with 3 degrees no job, no room of my own, and uncertainty about the next meal, but what spell is greater than a country that disregards its youths. My parents may soon give me a notice to quite, I cant guarantee my sanity would still be intact and with a punctured sanity, justice demands that no one blames me for my action. It would gladden my heart should this make front page.

bamisepeters:
You think it is only when you beat a woman that you maltreat her?

There are so many ways you can be maltreating your woman which includes lack of care, not spending time with her, not fulfilling her desires either sexually or outside it and so on.

The truth is that the more you maltreat her the more you show her the way to the arms of other men out there who are ready to give her multiple of what you are denying her of.

Many women can only endure hardship for a while, they can be manipulated easily, for this alone you as a man needs to be up and doing.

Do you know how hard they try to resist the temptation that comes their way? Let me even put it this way; do you know many men are dying to get just a minute of her time? and do you know there are those ones dreaming for them to have her in their bed or those even saying it to her that they are ready to give her whatever she want if she can grant them entry into her most sacred part?

I bet you, you wouldn't know how much it hurts to see your woman moan in response to sexual pleasure under another man.

If she is trying all she can to resist the temptations staring at her face which other women out there cannot resist and you cannot still deem it fit to be all she deserves then you need to really check yourself.

Every good woman deserves to be cared for and mostly should share little of your time with you.

This is why i usually say that even if you are as busy as the president of a state you should try to make out time to be with your woman.

Money isn't everything you know? Apart from fulfilling your financial duties she also deserves to be cuddled and be listened to.

Remember that social networks now make it easier for you to get other people's attention, don't let the disadvantages of social media ruin your home as someone else might be giving her the attention she is lacking from you which might catapult to something deeper.

A woman who is shown care and all is still finding her way into other men's arms let alone the one you are battering or not giving little of your time just to put smiles on her face.

The truth is that she will soon find a place to hide and it will be in the arms of another gentle man who knows the worth of a good woman.

The truth is that you are the one that will regret it as you will not find someone like her.

They use to say it is only God that is not replaceable, humans can be replaced. I bet you, in this case when it gets to that stage when a good woman have to leave you for another man you will find her type to no avail.

Even when you cannot fulfil the financial needs of a woman she knows you want to through your effort but because of one thing or the other you are not able to fulfil them.

Women also understand situations most times but not when you want to take them for granted.

If you think you deserve to be happy in your home consider making her as happy as possible.

Source: http://bamisepeters..com/2017/07/when-you-maltreat-her-she-becomes.html

What is she maltreats me, because that is what is the case now

SalamRushdie:
She doesn't looked like who can offer anything

You sef can't offer anything. Which one is "doesn't looked..."

Caustics:
with the cheap prices and wrong spellings, this was not opened by lectures. the remote location and zinc batcha at the back is a good spot for killing people for organs and meat.

The restaurant was not opened by "lectures" but by lecturers. You who know how to spell, people like you do everything to make sure you turn every piece of goodnews into a bad one.

If they were this tall, we would not know them

Evidently, our old fathers are not ready to allow us become the leaders of today, which is the tomorrow they talked about yesterday. Even more devastating is that we, the youths, have not seen through the gimmicks used by these old selfish fellows to keep us perpetually at the fringes of leadership.

These old men whip up religious, tribal and even cultural sentiments as tools to fan the embers of hate and disunity. The fellow who read out the ultimatum asking the Igbos to vacate the north cannot be representing the northern youths, at least not the peaceful and accommodating northern youths I met during my service year in the north. Muslims, real Muslims, are peace loving people. But we are meant to see them as blood thirsty demons by those who benefit from the hate thereof. Love is the identifying mark of true Christians. Christians are very peace loving. What the youths in the north are told is that Christians are infidels.

I watched a video footage of northern youths dressed in Igbo attire and consumed in Igbo dance steps, how I loved it! I want to see Igbo youths do same soon. With the recent threats flying from north to east and east to north, our fatherland is on the precipice. This is the right time for celebrities to come out and support peace through music and tours. Music artiste and indeed everyone in the show bisuness should wake to this call and use their known voices to forestall the looming disaster. Let us disappoint these elders this time, we are not going to lift up arms against our fellow youths, this country is ours to plow not to plunder. Let us unite as youths no matter our religious and or tribal differences. This is a call to all fellow youths from the south, west, north and indeed all parts of our dear country. We cannot continue to be pawns in the hands of those who have used this country to the full. It is time we stood for peace. For this post to make a difference, all your facebook friends need to read it; COPY, PASTE AND HARSH TAG ISTAND4PEACE.

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