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sulaak:.............. All these you mentioned were not born into slavery, whatevet that means. They are indigenous peoples. However, the Pygmies of Congo are escaping into the forests for fear of extinction. |
SmartyPants:............... Thanks for the discovery. I am Mad Max, so expect my Fury next. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road |
sulaak::............ An African American has his niche cut out for him; no one can begrudge him that. So, it is with any other culture. |
SmartyPants:.......... A mind is a terrible thing to waste, think sage. |
SmartyPants:....... You may be looking at both legitimacy and legality with a tinge of moral placement. The plaintiff believed his score were too good for him to be sacrificed on the alter of upgrading the cultural and educational entity of an ostensibly disadvantaged class in Medicine. They both retained places as medical students in California that same academic year. The plaint by the Caucasian was not about Affirmative Action per se, but his inalienable or fundamental rights(?) as a deserving student not to undeservedly sacrifice his place for another, personally. |
Bbbwings:................ You are conflating disparate issues. The North has characteristically grasped political power due to the ideological pertinence of honour and respect for leadership... In the same trajectory, the academic and educational perspective of Affirmative Action comes to play, as it is realised that there is hardly a Northern professor in UNN, IMSU, EBSU, etc. but the Southerners abound in the North. |
sulaak:............ It has got nothing to do with population size. Access, opportunity and power play the main roles. If you check, you'll see that the recent arrivals in the USA have more PhDs than the earlier arrivals, but the children of the 1970s generation are more into sports and entertainment. Just as you wrongly indicated, the Hausa may be more in population than the Fulani but the latter may have greater access to political power and education. |
true2god::............... Hey Guy, just mentioned the California case. As a matter of course, all predominantly white schools. It hits more for the Native Americans. There are many scholarships across board too; but they hardly use them. Americans, black and white want to take on professional courses or sports, more than anything else. So, the foreigners rush to get those nonprofessional courses. It was so in the late 1970s that most of the PhD students in the biomedical sciences in UAB, University of Alabama, Birmingham were disproportionately 100% Indians and other Asians. No, the Igbos do not represent the Caucasians in all cadres in Nigeria. |
Canvass:........... It is called Affirmative Action Program; and it is done all over the world. California 1976/1977, a white dude who had a higher score than a black dude was denied admission into medical school due to Affirmative Action. The Caucasian fought his case to the Supreme Court, and got admitted to the medical school. |
This is Radio Biafra. The time is 6 o'clock. Here is the news in English read by Okonko Ndem. The news in Ibo, Efik, Ijaw and Ibibio will soon follow. The Gallant Biafran troops have entered Abonema, Buguma and Degema after successfully entering Bonny without any resistance......... |
Burkina Faso pipped hosts Ghana 1:0. Thus, Nigeria and Burkina Faso will be heading for the AFCON, and Nigeria definitely has a place in the World Cup - U17 men's highest and five-time world champions. |
ArewaNightmare:.............. Aguero and several others have been forced into retirement whereas Omeruo and Mikel Obi are still playing. |
Save for Qatar 2022, Nigeria may be the only country in Planet earth that has already qualified for each pending continental showpiece final and for the world cup proper, viz: all women's U17, U20 and Senior World Cup as well as men's U17 and U20. We have already qualified for the women's U17 and U20 World Cups. No goal was conceded in the qualifying series of the women U17. We won the men's WAFU B U20 Trophy. We are all qualified and competing for trophies in the men's U17 and U20 as well as the Senior Women's AFCON Finals. No other country comes near. |
Release MNK unconditionally, he has done nothing wrong. MNK has the right to deny saying those things. Was he there, when they were killing people? Are they not also killing people in the North? Mind your business skull miners, we are not complaining in the southeast. It is good that the person was done away with. Doesn't the person know that it is sit-at-home? IPOB/MNK filing similar and identical court processes (tantamount to abuse of court processes) in Aba, Abuja, Enugu, Umuahia, but the FGN just watches, and the courts, suo moto, are in complicity. Without getting words from MNK first: Mr President, just give us your word, and we will go and tell him. He is our son. He will listen to us. Thereafter, traditional rulers killed at random in Imo and Anambra States for failing to convince Aso Rock for unconditional release. He is my son says a Catholic Reverend Father. He is innocent. The resultant impact is that Enugu becomes a killing field, especially on Mondays. A female police inspector in the southeast: If we get Biafra, my salary will increase becaue we will be paid in pounds and not in Naira. |
paxonel:............... ''Chronicules'' is not an extant term. However, there are 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles as written items in the Holy Bible and nondeceptive writings. But it was the English political theorist Algernon Sidney who originated the now familiar wording, "God helps those who help themselves", apparently the first exact rendering of the phrase. Benjamin Franklin later used it in his Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) and has been widely quoted. |
''The Passengers were merely cowards. Passengers must rely on the discretion of pilots at all times. Accidents occur at anytime with or without blaring/glaring flashlights''. https://www.google.com/search?q=planes+landed+in+the+dark+in+airport+runways&client=ms-opera-mini&channel=new |
CARL GUSTAV von ROSEN, BIAFRA AND KAMIKAZE NIGHT FLIGHTS Biafra The Nigerians would not allow in relief flights, including Red Cross, to help Biafra’s ten million people, one-tenth of whom were living in refugee camps. They said that such flights inhibited the ability of the Nigerian air force to carry out its mission. The only food getting through arrived on a few night flights by daredevil pilots sponsored by international relief organizations. Most of the world, preoccupied with the year’s busy agenda, regarded this war with a fair amount of indifference, not supporting the Biafran claim to nationhood but urging the Nigerians to let relief planes get through. But on July 31 the French government, despite predictions that de Gaulle’s days of foreign policy initiatives were over, departed from its allies and its own foreign policy by stating that it supported Biafra’s claim to self-determination. Aside from France, only Zambia, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Gabon officially recognized Biafra. On August 2 the war became a U.S. political issue when Senator Eugene McCarthy criticized President Johnson for doing little to help and demanded that he go to the United Nations and insist on an airlift of food and medicine to Biafra. Americans responded by creating numerous aid groups. The Committee for Nigeria/Biafra Relief, which included former Peace Corps volunteers, was looking for a way to get relief into Biafra. Twenty-one leading Jewish organizations, Catholic Relief Services, and the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive were all looking for ways to help. The Red Cross hired a DC-6 from a Swiss charter company to fly in at night, but on August 10, after ten flights, the flights were suspended because of Nigerian antiaircraft fire. Then, on August 13, Carl Gustav von Rosen, landed a four-engine DC-7 on a little dirt runway in Biafra. The plane, carrying ten tons of food and medicine, had come in on a new route free from Nigerian radar-guided antiaircraft guns. Von Rosen had first become famous in a similar role in 1935 when he defied the Italian air force and managed to fly the first Red Cross air ambulance into besieged Ethiopia. In 1939, as a volunteer for the Finnish air force in the Finnish-Soviet war, he flew many bombing missions over Russia. And during World War II he flew a weekly courier plane between Stockholm and Berlin. After successfully landing in Biafra, von Rosen then went to São Tomé, the small Portuguese island off the coast of Nigeria, where warehouses of food, medicine, and ammunition were stacked up ready for Biafra. There he briefed the pilots on the air corridor he had discovered. He had flown this corridor into Biafra twice to make sure it was safe. The first time he did it in daylight, even though daylight runs were unheard of because of the risk of interception by the Nigerian air force. But von Rosen said he had to be able to examine the terrain before attempting a night run. He said that he didn’t care whether the pilots used the corridor for food or guns. “The Biafrans need both if they are to survive.” The tall Scandinavian with blue eyes and gray hair called what was happening there “a crime against humanity. . .. If the Nigerians go on shooting at relief planes, then the airlift should be shielded with an umbrella of fighter planes. Meanwhile we are going to continue flying and other airlines will join in.” He was greatly concerned by the plight of the Biafrans and on his release trom Transair at the age of sixty returned to Sweden to form an air force for Biafra. He purchased five MFI-9Bs as sporting aircraft and shipped them to France for the fitting of rocket launchers by Matra. From there they were shipped to Libreville, where they were assembled and camouflaged. They were not given markings or serials. The first strike by the light aircraft, popularly called ‘Minicons’, was on 22 May 1969 against the airfield at Port Harcourt: flying from Orlu, four aircraft claimed two MiGT 7 s and two Il-28s damaged or destroyed. On the 24th they attacked the airfield at Benin City, claiming damage to one MiG and one 11-28. On the 27 th the airfield at Enugu was the target, and on the 28th some damage was caused to the oil facilities at Port Harcourt. The Minicons transferred operations to Uli and continued to sting the Federal forces, who by now were surrounding a much contracted Biafra with a view to starving the country into submission. Von Rosen returned to Europe, where he purchased more MFI-9 aircraft from private owners, allegedly for the Abidjan Flying Club but transferring them to Biafra in October. The main task of the Minicons was to inhibit the oil industry, which they did to some effect. The hard-pressed Biafrans finally collapsed after their airstrip at Uli was overrun in 1970, severing their only remaining supply link. Despite his controversial methods, Count von Rosen would later be remembered for his efforts to modernize relief efforts to remote conflict zones. One of the notable figures assisting Count Carl Gustav von Rosen was Lynn Garrison, an ex- RCAF fighter pilot. He introduced the Count to a Canadian method of dropping bagged supplies to remote areas in Canada without losing the contents: a sack of food was placed inside a larger sack before the supply drop. When the package hit the ground, the inner sack would rupture, but the outer one kept the contents intact. With this method many tons of food were dropped to many Biafrans who would otherwise have died of starvation. Later models of the Malmö Flygindustri MFI-9 became the SAAB MFI-15 Safari, with official modifications, developed from the Biafran concept, to facilitate the dropping of food supplies from underwing hard points. Von Rosen was utilizing this type in Ogaden, Somalia when he was killed during a rebel ground assault, 13 July 1977. Correspondents who managed to get into Biafra reported extremely high morale from the Biafrans, who usually said to them, “Help us win.” The Nigerians launched ever more deadly assaults led by heavy shelling, and the Biafrans continued to hold their ground, training with sticks and fighting with an assortment of weapons acquired on the European market. But by August Biafran-held territory was only a third the size of what it had been when the people had declared their independence the year before. With hundreds of children starving to death every day, eleven thousand tons of food had piled up ready for shipment from various points. Odumegwu Ojukwu, the thirty-four-year-old head of state, a British-educated former colonel in the Nigerian army, said, “All I really ask is that the outside world look at us as human beings and not as Negroes bashing heads. If three Russian writers are imprisoned the whole world is outraged, but when thousands of Negroes are massacred . . .” The U.S. government told reporters that it was helpless to aid Biafra because it could not afford to give the undeveloped world the appearance that it was interfering in an African civil war. It was not clear if this decision took into account the impression it had given the world that it was already interfering in an Asian civil war. But it did seem true that there was a growing resentment in Africa of Western aid for Biafra. This, not surprisingly, was particularly true of Nigerians. One Nigerian officer said to a Swiss relief worker, “We don’t want your custard and your wheat. The people here need fish and garri. We can give them that, so why don’t you find some starving white people to feed.” |
LordVoldermort:.......................................... ''I'm looking at the fact that the court granted him bail and also that the police couldn't prove he did it,....the court, police and parents have all deemed the man temporary innocent..'' Did you read this story, or are you acting out another script? Well, let me assume what you are attempting to understand. Anybody is constitutionally entitled to bail; and the terms and conditions are at the discretion of the court/judex. A defendant is assumed/presumed innocent until proven guilty. This is summarily determined in the course of the trial, or when all evidence is given and judgment delivered at the end of the trial as in a magistrate court of competent jurisdiction. The presumption of innocence is law, and does not preclude anybody from assuming otherwise until proven beyond reasonable doubt through the prosecution/police prosecutor. A fact in law does not connote truth but materials/evidence in/before the court. |
Kingspin:..................... All na di same ten-and-ten pence. Dem be non-state actors wey dey take law for dem hand; dem dey intimidate and quench people: Umu oma and UGM wey IPOB/ESN born put for obodo Naija, etcetera, etcetera |
Faber:............... Attend to the context of your initial agitprop and stop compounding felony.The venerable Pope did not merely state ''fight'' but WWIII has commenced. There is a difference between ''fight'' and ''fighting''. Are you suffering from or inundated with the ''phd syndrome'' that you intend to use your ingrained pettiness to ''dismantle'' your inferiority complex. The Grandemperor states the instant/extant pope is a product of the dissipated WWII from Italy to Argentina, which I will accuse you of, in your originating rustic and outlandish conspectus of the idiosyncracies pertaining to Pope Francis that you and your ilk repugnantly deride as excessively liberal. Mr/Ms, for your attention, Pope Francis is already a living saint.Me da muchisma verguenza con los negritos Africanos y las preguntas del ''Grammar Ingles'', Que Pena. |
Faber:................. Everything you've stated here is total gibberish and out-of-context to the reason I joined issues with you. You've enhanced your agitprop with ignorance that the Pope did not concern himself with the Jihadists, for instance, but war(?). A jihad is a holy war, whether in northern Nigeria or elsewhere. The colonialists have not left. They are in assimilation and negritude. They have implanted colonial mentality in You, considering that they have no reason to hang around but you commit perspicuous suicide crossing the Sahara and Mediterranean, residing in their climes in wooden houses in the USA and ancient structures in Europe - living in a box. You are still enslaved and colonised. FYI, what I don't know is not worth knowing. Leave the Pope alone 'cause he and I are convergent in views of this extant global imbroglio, per se. He has enunciated what others have failed to explicate. He provided his views as a mortal person not as a product of WWII from Italy who escaped to Argentina, and metamorphosed into Pope Francis; soon, hereafter, to be canonised ino a Catholic Saint. Who no know go know. |
Faber:......................... Relate in context. You falsely alleged that Pope Francis did not concern himself with Nigeria and other same countries... To your new angle; it was mainly the breakaway protestants who were on the rampage with the Holy Bible in one hand and gun in the other colonising whatever. Au revoir. |
Faber:................... Protestant Imp, whereas there is religiopolitical war around the globe, the coronation of your queen is making headline news. That is how King Richard the Lion Heart of England was misled to fight the Muslims in the control of Jerusalem, and he was crushed with his Christian Armies in the Crusades. Now, here's what Pope Francis has to say in his opeining concern: Francis noted that while the fighting in Ukraine “pricks our sensibilities more,” wars also are ongoing in such places as northern Nigeria and Myanmar, “and nobody cares.” He added, “ I have been stating that the emergence of Boko Haram is nothing less than classic civil war, and should be treated as such. |
Nokia is the name of a town in Finland; and it is the headquarters where the Nokia phone, television and other communication gadgets, car accessories, chemicals, etc are produced. Certain recruitments into the Nokia firm are based mainly on psychological tests as pertaining to the Nokia phones. One remarkable observation is that any person recruited into Nokia becomes docile, easily maleable, teetotaler, extremely polite, and avoids social gathering and most public events, irrespective of the person's erstwhile dispositions. |
Not 6 but 2 years. Three-count charge of NDLEA 5, 6, 7. Two years each, to run concurrently. It means that each count will be conducted contemporaneously minus the number of spatiotemporal incarceration before and during court appearances. So, less than two years total per candidate. America take note that DCP Abba Kyari (suspended) may never depart the territorial niche of 9ja for Hushpuppy's case. Who no know go know |
Reallysimple::....................... Not 6 but 2 years. Three-count charge of NDLEA 5, 6, 7. Two years each, to run concurrently. It means that each count will be conducted contemporaneously minus the number of spatiotemporal incarceration. So, less than two years total. America take note that Abba Kyari may never depart the territorial niche of 9ja for Hushpuppy. |
YoudeyVexme:....:........................ What is this crap about Nigeria not being able to beat Ghana to qualify for a World Cup, so presenting the thrashing of Sao Tome y Principe as trash, and the tripping of S/Leone as unconvincing? In 1959, the Nigeria Red Devils (Green Eagles to Super Eagles) walloped Dahomey (Benin Republic) in the Nkrumah Cup 10:1; and beat them again 7:0 in 1977 and 1978, respectively as well as humiliating Burkina Faso 7:1 in 1991 wherein Rashidi Yekini scored four goals without the Nigerian Green Eagles qualifying for the Senior World Cup. The Guinea Bissau that beat Sao Tome y Principe, first conceded a goal that ended 5:1. That same Guinea Bissau flunked a 2:0 goal lead and drew 2:2 with S/Leone we beat 2:1. Since the end of AFCON 2021, Nigeria has not lost any competitive football match. Nigeria is the only African country (if not the only country in the world) to be in the trajectory of 5 of the 6 FIFA world cups, viz: the next U17 male and female world cups, U20 male and female world cups as well as the Senior female world cup but flunking out merely in the Senior male world cup. The other 5 world cups are already in the pocket, as it were. FYI, just within the week, Nigeria cricket women beat Brazil and Germany; while Rosemary Chukwuma, Favour Ofili and Nwokocha N made it to the 100m of the USA NCAA Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Who no know go know. |
andyanders:Ignoramus, every participant is rated/ranked. Where was the defeat? It was 0-0 and 1-1 respectively, in Kumasi and Abuja: decided on away goal rules. In 2006, it was based on head-to-head (corrected/modified from goal difference) in favour of Angola. We have dispatched the senior female team and U20 male team of Ghana preventing them from proceeding to World Cup next year; and a couple of days ago humbled their U17 4:2 as hosts tending to the 2023 World Cup. Limit your pain and ignorance per your neurophysiological incapacity. |
No se burla de São Tomé y Príncipe, por favor. "Qué
malos". |
In the comity of South East,
Ebonyi people are not regarded, I
continue to say that Ebonyi will
never be Biafra - Dave Umahi.
In the comity of Ibo people, Anioma/Ika are not regarded, I
continue to say that Anioma/Ika will never be Biafra - Grandemperor. |
The essence is that continuous absence from home and failure to return permanently to one's place of origin, irrespective of the mass acquisition of academic, professional and pecuniary wealth, the person is kaput - the person miss road; taking into consideration the number of years of residence in a foreign clime. |
under 17 Elders with nice kodo shaving 