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Igbos relax, no curse for alarm. I have called my brother in the village (Aguleri otu) he said nothing like that is happening.
Kogi to attack us? Who born the maga? Them no de fear face?
Abeg nothing de shereh! Na Yoruba propaganda. I go break person head oo

Ghost school kwa? No wonder GEJ called boko boys 'ghost' na the same people

belovedaja: another misplaced comment

No wonder violence will never depart from their tent

okosodo: Nonsense talk, you are trying to praise boko haram before their master

Waiting concerns agbero with over load!

As per say he's corrupt free? Abeg na the same people

Tinubu owns the station? It's dead on arrival. Yoruba no sabi business. talk about hitv, glo etc..... Glo came before Mtn in Nigeria but instead of capturing major cities like lagos, Abj, Kano, Onitsha, PH etc, they was busy mountain mask at Oshogbo, Ife, Akure etc. Same thing with Hitv, they was busy buying cars for their staffs when they have premiereship right, instead of developing their stations

Even in lagos fuel are still selling 100 to 120 in some filling stations especially with gallon

Na them no o

Shame on you

Boko boys no de smile at all

Wsdm: And the yoruba in the North will be moving freely? This is exactly what Jonathan is planning; since the yorubas and the hausas are mainly the people planning to boot him out of power, hit their headS together and set the rigging machine in motion come 2015. IN 2011 election it was the religious card that played out and in 2015 it is most likely the ethnic card. A case study ; THE MOTOR PARK BOMBING IN KANO TO TURN THE IGBOS AGAINST THE NORTH AND NOW THE FOILED BOMBING IN LAGOS TO TURN THE YORUBAS AGAINST THE NORTH. MAY GOD SAVE US FROM THE EVIL MECHANIZATION OF OUR ENEMIES.

it's a lie! All terrorist are muslem. So its same GEJ that's bombing other Muslim world including Afghanistan?

Another misplaced priority

Wahala de oo

Weten kill the guy nah? He no even reach 82. nawaoo

APC Musiwa / tonto dike
P D P Adamu ciroma / Bode George

[quote author=~Bluetooth]What did he contribute to Nigeria to deserve a state burial ? This is somebody that doesn't believe in Nigeria for fucksake,therefore,Nigeria shouldn't not recognise him !


His kinsmen can as well give him a biafran burial or whatever they like to call it but definitely not with a link to Nigeria.[/quote]Did you believe that the great Ojukwu will be giving state burial when he was alive? Wait till federal govt announce Achebe burial then you can jump into Atlantic ocean

Odikwa risky

Our noisy neighbors get mouth shah!
But wait oo! for their mind they believe that you can just wake up and decide to eject your tenants just like that without quit notice?
Do those fake awo free education consider that tenants have their right so far they are not owing the landlord,
nothing person no go hear from our noisy neighbors

tintingz: hun? When did kwam1 carry drugs?...who is ashewo to re mecca? Was any drug found in baba suwe shi;t?

who's that Sunny Ade guitarist? Is he Igbo?

Omo see threat ooh! OPC abeg make una go siddon 4 bush
Instead of praying make evil BH no see una tent una dey hear de talk rubbish. Bomb na ewedu?

I don't wish anybody bad but BH problem will not solve by making noise on the page of newspaper.
You don't stop terrorist by verbal challenge, this is not time for Media propaganda.
Imagine OPC threatening BH!
Well Yoruba get mouth shah

Yoruba get mouth sha!

Seun your Nairaland have become poo. No more respect, even 4 a great man like Achebe
All your mods are tribal bigot. You need to live above ethnicity sentiment.
As a Yoruba which you are we know that you must have some grudges on Achebe's book but you don't have to sacrifice your Biz on the alter of ethnicity sentiment

Feed me more: Africa in mourning for Chinua Achebe, grandfather of African literature


From Nobel laureates to roadside booksellers, Nigerians expressed their grief and shock at the death at 82 of Chinua Achebe, the literary giant whose works made him a household name and national hero. Many who had worked alongside him wept as they paid tribute, and bookstores in downtown Lagos said his books sold out as news of his death trickled in.

Despite his age and distance from his homeland– he died in Boston, where he had lived for years – Achebe's frequent and often barbed pronouncements against an oil-fed Nigerian elite kept him very much in the national psyche. He further endeared himself to a younger generation of Nigerians weary of corruption, when he twice turned down a national honour in 2004 and 2011.

African literature burst onto the world stage with Achebe's 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, which portrays an Igbo yam farmer's fatal struggle to come to terms with British colonialism in the late 19th century. It remains the best-selling novel ever written by an African author, having sold more than 10-million copies in 50 different languages. Nelson Mandela, who read his books during his 27-year incarceration, once said of him: "He was the writer in whose company the prison walls came down."

Wole Soyinka, a fellow giant of African literature, who was informed by the Achebe family in a dawn phone call, said, "We have lost a brother, a colleague, a trailblazer and a doughty fighter."

Writing for the Guardian's Comment is free section, Soyinka said: "No matter the reality, after the initial shock, and a sense of abandonment, we confidently assert that Chinua lives. His works provide their enduring testimony to the domination of the human spirit over the forces of repression, bigotry, and retrogression."

Speaking from the town of Ogidi where Achebe was born in 1930, village head, Amechi Ekume, said: "There is deep mourning all over the village, both young and old are mourning."

"As we say in Igboland, when an extraordinary person dies, the iroko [African teak] has fallen," said a weeping Dora Akunyili, a former minister who worked with Achebe during his tenure at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Achebe's earlier works focused on the social upheavals wrought by British colonialism. "He was the first of our African writers to tell the story from our own perspective. But even beyond Africa, people who were colonised or oppressed could relate to his stories," said Denja Abdullahi, the vice president of the Association of Nigerian Authors, which was founded by Achebe and other writers in 1981.

Wheelchair-bound since a car accident in 1990, the octogenarian had made time to speak with hundreds of fans during a gruelling national tour to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Things Fall Apart. Abdullahi said, "He was always so welcoming to everybody we met, anytime. He was very humane, very reflective. Even when he wasn't speaking, he just had so much presence."

Speaking of Achebe's impact, Abdullahi said: "He's the father of African literature and children always try to imitate the good qualities of their fathers."

The celebrated Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, last year said she wept when she received a note from Achebe praising her best-selling novel, Half of a Yellow Sun. She was too awed to pluck up the nerve to call him back. Meeting him for the second time, she was again too shy to approach as writers including Toni Morrison and Ha Jin crowded around him backstage during an awards luncheon. "Before I went on stage, he told me, 'Jisie ike [more grease to your elbow]'. I wondered if he fully grasped, if indeed it was possible to, how much his work meant to so many."

Novelists from a younger generation described the freedom to write in their own voices, which Achebe's own writing opened up, and the daunting task of trying to live up to his works.

"In the last five decades, just about every post-colonial African author, one way or another, has been engaged in a creative call-and-response with Chinua Achebe," said author Lola Shoneyin. "You are never weaned off his fiction because it renews itself. It gives you something new every time. He was just that kind of storyteller."

Another novelist, Chika Unigwe, recalled reading Things Fall Apart as a young child: "I like to imagine it was on a Sunday afternoon, right after lunch, lying on my bed. I [clearly] recall … the wonder of reading the world he creates in the book so beautifully. Its power did not hit me until years later when I re-read it as a much older reader. I am immensely grateful to him."

His children's books on African folklore remain popular with Nigerian parents. "I just literally handed The Flute and also The Drum to my daughter two weeks ago. She was glued to them, reading and re-reading them. I was too," said Ifeamaka Umeike of her 7-year-old. "I feel like my granddad died."

Released last year, Achebe's final book, There Was A Country, was a deeply personal account of his experience during the 1967-1970 Biafran civil war.

"Even a lot of [white] people buy it," said Success, hawking books amid the choking Lagos traffic yesterday. "We don't have anymore to sell but people are still asking. That means he is a man of the people."

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/22/chinua-achebe-grandfather-african-literature-dies-aged-82

Death no get respect

Eko Ile: na insult and bad luck for atiku to shower anybody with praise. nuff said

Sorry, but you are a ___BIG BLACK FOOL___

namfav: sanusi has contributions which achebe can only dream of (if he has a heart), about sanusis comments this is not the thread to talk about it

Yorubas are ungrateful- Almdu Ali
oya defend him

dayokanu: If Achebe had died 6 months earlier he could have been a hero

The last 6 months of his life eroded any good work he might have done for the 80 plus previous years

What a shame.

He wrote rubbish to sell a book, the irony is that the proceeds would be used to bury him, he probably never spent a single dime of the Tribalism Encyclopaedia who wrote in good health

Achebe was an Iroko of integrity : Atiku
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/achebe-was-an-iroko-of-integrity-atiku/
How do you think that your opinion count? Go to other media houses and see how he was been celebrating.
When did Nairaland become a yardstick to measure integrity before?

Achebe was an Iroko of Integrity: Atiku
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/achebe-was-an-iroko-of-integrity-atiku/