₦airaland Forum

emmke:
oga u know nothing about plateau so just keep quiet. And who told u that beroms are the only natives of plateau? I.ve said this many times, plateau people aint lying and watching the hausas butcher them. For every no of casualties u hear or read on the papers (some us live in jos so we know better), there are more hausas. And even among the christians, there are igbos and other southerners. So if u always get excited when u hear casualties in plateau crisis, thinking it's only Gowon people, then i'd say sorry for your ignorance.

Sad. So the issue is now who gets killed more. So sad. The fundamental problem stares us in the face and if Gowon's folks are being killed in their land even if your argument is that they are killing more of their traducers, does it not occur to you that heaven is telling Gowon to quit the hipocrisy,arrogance and lies by bringing home to him what ojukwu and Ndigbo suffered then so perhaps he can be in the vanguard for the campaign for SNC or/and a just and safe Nigeria or Nigerias instead of still living like an ostrich in 1966-75 and his civil war propagandas. It is sad that after his apologies since his spiritual rebirth and His prayer crusades, he seems not to really know the correct prayer requests to make or the right campaign to embark on. The sufferings of his people still have not woken him up from his delusions of gradeur. May he not allow the tragedies to get to apersonal or family experience before he knows the right thing to do or pursue.

I have been saying this for ages

Is there any source to this story?

Oh my God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that poverty is a big cause of cheating at home. Fewer girls are looking for money from sugar daddies and so the men are faced with less temptation. Of course there are many other factors involved but I think this is a major factor for an unfavourable cheating environment.

If that will stop our highways from being death traps it is welcome. OBJ made a wrong move there and it has caused so much deaths. The little toll one pays is small compared to the lives that it could save. Concessioning of the Toll plazas must be used to avoid mismanagement.

lakhadimar:
Sounds more like repairing with your right hand & destroying with your left hand. All these charity works are mere camouflage. Bill gates & warren buffets are both fu cking racists, they are supporters & sponsors of 'planned parenthood'- it is an eugenics project by the american public health service aimed at cutting down birth rate among african americans thereby leading to there depopulation. Bill gate will derive so much pleasure in seeing the entire black race wiped away from the face of the earth.

Proof please

nolongTing:
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Explanation please

alj_ harem wrote:

1. The administrative capital- Abuja
2. The commercial/business capital - Lagos
3. Manufacturing/ science and technology capital - Anambra

This way, revenues are WELL distributed round the country
There would be more population shift. I mean Lagos would be de-congested along side Abuja and other cities and states surrounding Lagos and Abuja.
More Jobs created and equally distributed around the country. Thus equal opportunities

Incredible idea from Alhaji. Is this the same Alhaji Harem or another? However this is a wonderful idea. Nigeria can take a page from the playbook of S. Africa.

I think that this triangular partnership innovation can be used by the global South to help themselves not necessarily by looking towards the G20 or G8 or G anything Nations. They can partner among themselves to get out of the woods.

Great man who got tired of making money but has learnt to give it away. Resigned from being ceo of microsoft but signed on to being ceo of the crusade against malaria and now global poverty- extreme poverty. We need more of such men.

Development with Impact: Innovation and Partnerships
Drawing on his experience at the foundation and in the private sector, and on examples of innovative development projects and partnerships, Bill outlines opportunities to create a better life for people in the world's poorest countries.
Earlier this year, I visited a flood-prone area of India where farmers were planting a new variety of rice that was bred to survive the standing water that often wiped out entire crops – and produce twice the harvest the old variety yielded in a good year. Not surprisingly, demand for the new seed is high. In the next six years, an estimated 20 million farmers in poor countries will plant this and other new varieties of rice seed.

This is one example in my report to G20 leaders of the enormous potential that innovation can play in global development and in improving living conditions for people in the world’s poorest countries. Another example I point to in the report is the impact that new drugs and new long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets are having in the battle against malaria. As a result of these efforts, deaths are down 20 percent in the last 10 years. Meanwhile, research into a malaria vaccine is showing promising results. This could eventually be another tool in the battle against malaria.

Especially now, when economic conditions are putting a lot of pressure on aid budgets, the G20 is in a unique position to catalyze new approaches to research and delivery of development aid to the world’s poor. The rapidly-growing member countries of the G20 – such as China, Indonesia, Brazil, and Mexico – are particularly well-positioned to accelerate the kind of innovation we need. In addition to their ability to contribute economically, these nations – having successfully grown their economies and dramatically reduced poverty rates – possess a sophisticated understand of what poor countries need.

I’m excited about the opportunities for these rapidly growing countries to form new kinds of “triangular partnerships” that involve poorer countries and traditional donors from wealthier nations.

We’re already seeing some great examples of this. In response to a request from African leaders for a better weapon against meningitis epidemics, the Serum Institute of India developed a vaccine for meningitis A, the first vaccine created specifically for poor countries. The effort involved the private and public sectors in industrialized and rapidly growing countries, including raw materials provided by a Dutch biotech company and a technology transfer from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Thirty years ago, Japan helped Brazil adapt the soybean to Brazil’s tropical savanna and it is now one of Brazil’s most important crops. Now, Brazil is working with Japan to help poor farmers in Mozambique grow soybeans in an area with similar climate and soil conditions. And the Japanese are looking at ways to upgrade Mozambique’s port and railroad infrastructure to make it easier for farmers to export the beans.

China has launched a “Green Super Rice” partnership with several global research centers to help develop adapted varieties of rice with 15 poor countries in Africa and South Asia. China also plans to sequence 10,000 varieties of rice to discover traits such as heat tolerance and disease resistance that are needed to adapt to climate change.

Recently, our foundation joined with the Chinese government and private companies there to make low-cost vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics available for developing countries. We also are partnering with another G20 country, Brazil, to share its expertise in agriculture, tropical diseases, family health, and vaccines with African countries.

In the report, I talk about other approaches to development that can help poorer countries better tap their own domestic resources. For instance, improving the transparency of government deals with mining, oil, and timber companies is a way to increase revenue and minimize mismanagement and corruption. The G20 countries could assist in this effort by supporting legally-binding transparency requirements.

Helping governments in poorer countries do a better job of collecting taxes could also have a big benefit. One G20 country, South Africa, is leading the way here, working with several neighboring countries to strengthen their revenue systems. Similarly, the G20 should, I believe, encourage multilateral institutions to better prioritize their aid efforts.

Given that the private sector is the main driver of economic growth, it makes sense for the G20 to look at innovative ways to tap private investment and expertise to help countries development essential infrastructure such as roads, and irrigation and power systems. Tapping even a small portion of the sovereign wealth funds of rapidly growing G20 countries for infrastructure investment could raise tens of billions of dollars for badly needed development.

Encouraging investment by diaspora communities – by reducing transaction costs associated with remittances and selling bonds that could be used for infrastructure development – is another great idea I would love to see the G20 embrace.

Other innovation and partnership strategies are outlined in the report. But even if the G20 were to adopt many of these, it is still critical that wealthier nations uphold their development commitments as a step toward giving the poorest people the opportunity for a better life, improving the world economy, and helping strengthen global stability.

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Development/Development-with-Impact-Innovation-and-Partnerships?

Who says God does not answer prayers? The cries concerning Imo State to God since Mbakwe left are being heard.|Let's keep the prayers going.Eventually those for all Ndigbo and Nigeria wiil be answered.

Thanks folks. I hope our other intellectuals and businessmen and professionals in diaspora will take a cue and start to think home and go home so that we start experiencing a reverse brain drain.

Staff from three UK universities have teamed up to donate unwanted books and equipment to students in Nigeria.

Dr Bonny Umeadi, a researcher from the University of Greenwich, and colleagues from the University of Oxford and the University of East Anglia are behind the initiative, working in partnership with the nonprofit organisations, Prof Godwin Ejodame Foundations and Footstepforlife.

Over the last three years, Bonny and his fellow academics have gathered together a substantial collection of 7,000 items, mostly library books which are no longer needed by the universities in fields such as engineering, architecture and law. The donation also includes specialist equipment for research and teaching visual aids. Publishing companies have joined in too, giving a large number of new titles to be used overseas.

The donated books and equipment are to be shipped to Nigeria this month, where Gateway Polytechnic Igbesa, in the Ogun State, will distribute books to local universities and school which need them.

Bonny Umeadi explains: “Our UK universities are all committed to sustainable reuse, rather than disposal, of surplus books and equipment. Each Nigerian institution will receive between 50 and 100 books, giving whole classes of students access to new technical and management resources which will complement their existing book stock.”

Bonny Umeadi, post doctorate researcher at the Sustainable Built Environment Research Group in the School of Architecture, Design & Construction rtners in the initiative are Dr Chukwumerije Okereke, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Climate & Development Centre at Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment, University of Oxford and Godwin Unazi, a researcher in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.

see
http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/news/articles/latest/students-in-nigeria-benefit-from-university-book-donation

Have Mark Henry break your leg as he did Big Show, Vladimir Koslov, Cain,etc or have kevin Nash break your vertebra as he did Triple H or do the power bomb on you as he did CM Punk severally or have Awesome Truth twart your title match with Alberto De Rio as they did to John Cena or Bodus Clay ram into you several times or Big show choke slam you or the viper RKO you or Sheamus broak-kick you. Try experiencing 619 or the wastelands or the zigzag or cross roads  or the world's strongest slam or the sharp enemities and then come back here and tell me it is fake and I will believe you. Perhaps the firing of Macmahone, the walkout on Triple H and his subequent removal from managing Raw are all fixed. Try seperate the hard reality part from the show part then you arrive at a good analysis. If it is fake, then Macmahon is a magician and needs serious acclaim.

The Truth is that WWE is showbiz and so has a high dose of show intertwined with reality. TO CALL IT FAKE IS PREPOSTEROUS. YOU CAN CALL IT A SHOW with loads of hardwork put in to make it entertaining but certainly not fake.

Rochas adaptation of child benefit. I suspect this could be a pilot scheme as 100naira per month is poor. To really give these kids the sense of belonging I believe he aims to, Rochas should up this stipend a bit. Again it should be given to their parents to now pay for their daily lunches or pocket money as is done in UK and many western nations.

big crash to so much hope

Cry my beloved forum.

Truth there. We in the diaspora need to chart another cause away from WIC. They have made WIC more like a yearly ritual. We younger ones with fire and purpose probably need to take over the leadership of WIC and Igbo leadership. These guys seem to have lost it. Few come out once in a while like Chukwumerije with a flash of vision but  a steady visionary leader needs to emerge and once he does, many things will fall into place. He will naturally inspire followership and the awesome spirit of  the whole AlaIgbo to take our rightful place in the comity of Nations not just Nigeria.

Onlytruth:
Posted by: houvest
I have always maintained that because of how things are in Nigeria, Ndigbo need a powerful foreign ally NOW, and none (as far as I can see) is better than Israel. We need to reach out to Israel. They can do a lot for us (if we establish that strategic link). This is necessary because of our history in Nigeria. No other group in Nigeria shares such history, so our agitation will always be treated differently by the Nigerian powers that be. That is why they are gunning down unarmed MASSOB members.
Our struggle (from 1966) till date is actually an INTERNATIONAL struggle. The day we understand that is the beginning of our emancipation.

Quite Profound. What beats me is why many Igbo leaders do not see such glaring facts. It is baffling. Added to Israel, why have they not sought to re-establish relationships (even if ceremonial) with our wartime allies France, Gabon, CIV, Tanzania, Haiti, etc. What is wrong with our leaders? Internationalising ethnic groups' agenda/issues are sure ways of receiving visibility and attention not to talk of strenghtening bonds that may come in handy in future.

Folks want leaders to- fit their own moul-d o-f leadership forgetting that l-eaders are neither super human nor omniscient.- They are people like us and shoul-d no-t be pushed to mak-e mi-stak-es without p-rop-er info-rmation in order to meet artificial- deadl-ines in the name of swift deci-sions.

T8ksy:
Very soon some desperados go kidnap the Ikemba of Nnewi himself.

Unfortunately, the ugly wh.ore Bianca will not pay a penny as ransom for the useless vegetable, so

they might as well chop off his redundant tes.ti.cles and sell it to the Okija Shrine priest for rituals.

Unfortunate and unnecessary diatribe against an elder and an elder statesman. Repent from such unnecessary malice.

Between 1920 and 1948 The Jews had two organisations in their fight for statehood. The pacifist Zionist movement led by David Ben Gurion and the militant underground Haganah and both groups  combined to achieve statehood for Israel. Ndigbo can learn this approach from their jewish friends and get Massob a militant brother movement in face of the BM nonsense and the upswing in mil-itancy from other ethnic groups.

Defini-tel-y Rochas has a presidential ambition and has never hidden it but whether it is 2015 or not I- do not know.

Mo-st- h-i-l-l-ario-u-s -th-read i-n- -N-L- h-i-sto-ry

The 419ners at it again. No more chance for you guys. I-m-o- i-s still being rescu-ed fro-m Ohakim and the 419-ners'- di-saster.

Good one Chukwumerije. Why such folks that should be in the fore front of Igbo leadership like to remain laidback beats me. Ndigbo need a militant group. whether it is massob or not remains the issue as Massob is clearly committed to non-violence. The fact is that each ethnic group needs to be prepared like the Boy scouts in face of this BM nonsense and also to be not only seen but heard since it appears violence is the language the powers that be understand

Very sad day.Very sad Afcom with Egypt Cameroun, Nigeria missing. Which kin AFCON this one come be?

Well said GEJ. You do not have to be someone else to change the country.Just  remain yourself. Do not let anybody force you to be what he wants. The changes are trickling in whether the naysayers like it or not. Those who are deliberately distorting the import of his speech have another 3 and half years to continue their unholy job of hate and distortion while he waxes stronger and stronger.

I think this is a good move by the OBJ that be. This will neutralise the real BM so that the political BM will be exposed.

Can anyone provide a link to where Buhari said this? If he really did that beside his emotional instigation by crying why haven't the authorities invited him for questioning yet?  Appologising is not enough.  The person I know who made that statement was another northerner not Buhari but I await further information. Meanwhile OP should edit his topic to reflect the verb form of apology.