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Nigerians have really lost hope in this government, see posts
Instead of all these negative posts, let's use 2015 election to elect people with reputation who have been tested and trusted.
God bless Nigeria.

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Thanks Mr. Gbawe for your enlightening posts.

Nigeria go better one day sha I don't know how but I know it is going to happen.

Goodluck to all jambites. The day I wrote mine was one of my best examination days, thanks to baba GOD
233-Jamb, 211-post UTME

Most importantly, know that cheating can't take you far in life. It is a sinking ground

Gbawe: I am fairly sure this will never happen with Femi Falana. Ordinarily, every courteous and mature person should honour invitation to meet the leader of his nation. Tinubu meets with GEJ despite criticising him non-stop. Ribadu actually worked for GEJ while Buhari is at National functions regularly with GEJ and has stated that he does not rule out the possibility of working with Jonathan if Mr.President is sincere. Falana visiting GEJ is therefore no big deal. These men are not sworn enemies even if they disagree with each other on issues concerning the leadership of Nigeria. Many actually get on well privately despite what we think here.

Let's hope so. Remember that three years ago no one would believe Abati could take the a$$ licking job he his doing now, he has so much integrity then.
Bro, I tell you none of these people are trust worthy. Very few of them seem to be outstanding, who prefers integrity and dignity over millions of dollars. One of them is Soyinka. As for Falana

This is serious o

Same way the PDP wanted to bribe Imo state speaker to impeach the best governor in the East-"Okorocha"

But all these people the PDP is against are all performers
.Fashola
.Oshiomole
.Okorocha
.Amaechi

If all these outstanding governors are gone is there any hope for Nigeria again?

Demdem: Falana simply went to tell the retardeen to try and wake up from his foolishness if possible.

You sure it is not about 2015? Because presido seems to be desperate about it, don't dull.

I see the work of Jonathan and the PDP
I only wish Faseun doesn't sell the future of his unborn children for an amount that won't exceed a decade.

Very soon Falana too might be licking Jona's a$$ just like Abati and okupe
Seem most of the activists we have in Nigeria are only being active because they are interested in the national cake, except for very few of them like the prof Soyinka and the Felas' family

kettykings: Just take a look at the nonsense that a regional media organisation spewed out on their front page ,when people stop buying their paper they would turn around and accuse GEJ of being a retardeen and favoring only Niger delta media houses,
this report is only for soft sell magazines or could punch be going the way of Next newspapers which tried to survive by selling scathing stories on Philip Emeagwali hoping to get wider igbo readership.

This could be another way of driving traffic to their liquidated site by uploading controversial write ups by just any body having an igbo surname

Bro did you check the newspaper site that has this write up in it? It is "punch"-Most widely read newspaper in Nigeria. Nigerians are really buying the paper I tell you
Wouldn't have taken it serious had it been it is all those gossip magazine site, but as for punch no way.

Don't blame the region you believed is in control of the nation's media because no one is stopping other regions from telling whatever story they like in theirs.
"If you don't like the story, write yours"-Prof Achebe(RIP)

GOD bless Nigeria

“I was doing the business at Ojurin area of Bodija but stopped after five months and switched to Indian hemp sales at Kara, Bodija. I discovered that it was a major drug in that area. The miscreants and labourers there love it (marijuana), so I decided to be trading in it. Of course, I am also a smoker.”

The same bodija that I stay I only know of smokers nothing like Indian hemp sniffers

Written by  Oluwatoyin Malik

FORTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD Felix Ademola is old enough to set good examples for young ones around. A semi-literate man who also learnt the vocation of automobile engineering, he would have been expected to teach the young ones around him some morals that would help them turn out to be useful to themselves and the society at large.
However, he decided otherwise as he took a decision to join two young men who could at most be his nephews, to form a robbery gang in Ibadan city. Their areas of operation were not restricted to Ibadan as they were also reported to be travelling to other towns to carry out their criminal activities.
However, nemesis caught up with Ademola on Saturday, April 6, as he was nearly mobbed to death after he was apprehended while his gang was leaving the scene of a robbery operation they had carried out. Crime Reports gathered that Ademola and two other gang members, Ola and Ayo invaded Odo Eran area of Oyo town while armed with a gun at about 8p.m. and held a trader hostage.
When they could not get the money they expected, they reportedly packed the clothings their victim was selling and tried to escape. Unfortunately for the gang which was said to been led by Ola, their victim’s cry attracted those around and they were able to apprehend Ademola who was at the rear on the okada they used for the operation. Though Ola and Ayo were said to have escaped on the bike, they lost their weapon as the gun said to have been held by Ola fell from his hand. The gun was recovered by the police with two live cartridges.

It was further gathered that it took the prompt intervention of SARS operatives in Oyo, who were led by their officer-in-charge, Sola Aremu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, for the suspect to be rescued from the mob, which had beaten him and put tyres on him, ready to set him ablaze. He was said to have been quickly rushed to the hospital where the deep machete cuts on his head were sutured and treated.

Speaking with Crime Reports, the Ondo town, Ondo State-born suspect who said he was divorced from his wife who bore him a child, revealed that after he left his hometown some years ago for undisclosed reason(s), he came to Ibadan and started selling newspapers in 2011.

“I was doing the business at Ojurin area of Bodija but stopped after five months and switched to Indian hemp sales at Kara, Bodija. I discovered that it was a major drug in that area. The miscreants and labourers there love it (marijuana), so I decided to be trading in it. Of course, I am also a smoker.”

Speaking on the arrest of the robbery suspect, the police image maker in Oyo State, Olabisi Okuwobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said he would be arraigned in court after all investigations, adding that the police were already on the trail of the two suspects at large.

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/9577-police-rescue-robbery-suspect-from-mob-in-oyo-town

Sibrah: Sorry about the change in stance on issue bro. That thing happens between me and my wife, Agip, and even MEND all the time. As for your comment, i have the biggest trash can ever for it. What i need from you is to come chop () with me in here and scratch my back properly.

Nice try, I for join but my conscience won't let me rest if I do.

No vex Oga at the top

Gbawe.:
Joker. Oga , you are surrounded by "chop your dollar" mercenaries. Forget what Okupe, Omokri, Tukur and Maku are telling you. 2015 na long thing.

Egbon you wan burst sincere 9jerian bubble and spoil market for am. Please don't increase the amount of unemployed youth in this country.

Hope Fashakin knows what he is doing. He should not let the FG use his to destabilize the excellent Yoruba people, because that has been the antics of the present administration(FG)

Sibrah: ^look stop saying things that will dampen my 2015 chance. I paid that guy (S9) to clean up my mess here, yet he absconded with my 'dough' when i seem to be down. The aviation sector is booming. That's all i know.

oga at the top but infrastructural development in Nigeria is more important than your carrier. We Nigerians "don't give a damn" about the future of your career.

If at all you want to retain that same position in 2015, lying is not the way out. You are the damn president of Africa's most populous nation.

South Africans and HIV

And some deceitful people wanted us to believe the aviation sector is making progress. not knowing it's in a sorry case.
Aviation minister I see you

chiover: bros! Ur points are very ok but,let me ask u dis simple quest. Are u aware dat d road in question belongs to FG? D Governor has no right to touch d road without putting word across to FG.

You omitted this

I-B.:
Taking up a federal government abandoned project needs permission, lol. If the Federal government is irresponsible to do her job and a thinking state government knows the importance, hell with permission.
When we all know the type of federal government we have, with possibilities that those requests might remain pending for the next seven years when the governor making the proposal is out of power.

If state like Lagos has been waiting for the federal government to get her requests permitted before FG's responsibilities are being embarked on, so many projects in the state would be in a extremely bad situation.

Taking up a federal government abandoned project needs permission, lol. If the Federal government is irresponsible to do her job and a thinking state government knows the importance, hell with permission.
When we all know the type of federal government we have, with possibilities that those requests might remain pending for the next seven years when the governor making the proposal is out of power.

chiover: FG should let him do his work and never refund him any kob because he has chosen a path here. Flexing fragile balls with your upper boss(oga some where)





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My brother that is not the case, the Federal government is the one playing dirty politics here.
This road has been a dual-carriage road though, Ogun state government took up this road and decided to widen it to by one or two lanes at each sides making it three or four going lanes and three or four coming lanes. Already, demolition has been made, banks, worship centers, residential buildings, shops etc were demolished in the course of extending the road. Standard wide and deep drainage system were constructed at the beginning of this year, what is left is the leveling of the cleared sides of the road and make it balanced with the existing one before applying the necessary materials to complete the road. The federal government contractors then came from no where poured gravel on the existing tarred road, claiming to be doing a project in Ijebu-Ode just for 2015 preparation.

The questions are: why is the federal government so adamant in just renovating the existing part of the road that has been taken over for extension by the state government for a more standard construction?

Why is the federal government not concerned about the three federal roads that leads out of Lagos to other parts of the country?
-Ikorodu(Lagos) - Isagamu(Ogun) that has massive industries at the right and left sides is the worst federal road in the SW.
-Already the most vital road(Lagos- Ibadan Express way) hasn't received any meaningful attention.
-Ikorodu(Lagos) - Ijebu Ode(ogun) that also needs federal government attention was last touched perhaps during the time of Awolowo.

Enough said, this is just politics and nothing else mehn.
You played politics in appointment of people for certain duties, politics is human development and now politics in infrastructural development projects. Shameless federal government I must say.

Forget not that Mile12-Ikorodu express way in Lagos that is a federal road but has been taken over by Lagos state government also caused trouble between LASG and the FG. Why must it be the Federal government causing trouble at anytime their shortcoming and incompetent self is exposed to Nigerians? Very shameful

MODERATOR I am watching you in 3D if this my thread won't make the front page . Never had any thread at the front page this year

By Teo Kermeliotis, for CNN
(CNN) - Ola Orekunrin was studying to become a doctor in the UK a few years ago when her younger sister fell seriously ill while traveling in Nigeria. The 12-year-old girl, who'd gone to the West African country on holiday with relatives, needed urgent care but the nearest hospital couldn't deal with her condition.

Orekunrin and her family immediately began looking for an air ambulance service to rapidly transport the girl, a sickle cell anemia sufferer, to a more suitable healthcare facility. They searched all across West Africa but were stunned to find out there was none in the whole region.

"The nearest one at the time was in South Africa," remembers Orekunrin. "They had a 12-hour activation time so by the time they were ready to activate, my sister was dead.

"It was really a devastating time for me and I started thinking about whether I should be in England talking about healthcare in Africa, or I should be in Africa dealing with healthcare and trying to do something about it."

Orekunrin did the latter. Motivated by the tragic death of her sister, the young doctor decided to leave behind a high-flying job in the UK to take to the Nigerian skies and address the vital issue of urgent healthcare in Africa's most populous country.

Read this: Private jets spread their wings in Africa

A pioneering entrepreneur with an eye for opportunity, Orekunrin set up Flying Doctors Nigeria, the first air ambulance service in West Africa, transporting victims of medical emergencies, including industrial workers from the country's booming oil and gas sector.

"There was a situation in Nigeria where there were only two or three very good hospitals and they were sometimes a two, three, four-day journey away from the places where incidents happened," says Orekunrin. "We also have a huge oil and gas industry and at that time there was no coordinated system for moving people from the offshore environment to a hospital to receive treatment."

Currently in its third year, the Lagos-based company has so far airlifted about 500 patients, using a fleet of planes and helicopters to rapidly move injured workers and critically ill people from remote areas to hospitals.

"From patients with road traffic trauma, to bomb blast injuries to gunshot wounds, we save lives by moving these patients and providing a high level of care en route," says Orekunrin.

"Many of our roads are poorly maintained, so emergency transport by road during the day is difficult. At night, we have armed robbers on our major highways; coupled with poor lighting and poor state of the roads themselves, emergency transport by road is deadly for both patients and staff."

Flying helicopters, speaking Japanese

At 27, there isn't much Orekunrin hasn't achieved.

Born in London, she grew up in a foster home in the charming seaside town of Lowestoft in the south-east of England.

Aged 21, Orekunrin had already graduated from the University of York as a qualified doctor. She was then awarded the MEXT Japanese Government Scholarship and moved to Japan to conduct research in the field of regenerative medicine.

After moving back to Europe the young doctor looked set for a promising career in medicine in the UK. But her desire to improve healthcare services in West Africa brought her back to her roots.

Orekunrin quit her job, sold her assets and went on to study evacuation models and air ambulance services in other developing countries before launching her ambitious venture, which enables her to combine her "deep love for medicine and Africa" with her growing passion for flying -- Orekunrin is also a also a trainee helicopter pilot.

"I wanted to find a way that I can facilitate people who were critically ill," she says. "Get them to see a doctor, and not just any doctor -- I wanted to facilitate getting the right patient to the right facility, within the right time frame for that particular illness, and that's why I came to start the air ambulance."

Last month, the World Economic Forum recognized Orekunrin's achievements by naming her amongst its prestigious Young Global Leaders class of 2013, a group it describes as the best of today's leaders under the age of 40.

"It came as a surprise to me actually," she says of the honor. "I'm really flattered and really happy."

Trauma epidemic

Nigeria, Africa's second-biggest economy, is the continent's top producer of oil, boasting huge petroleum and natural gas reserves.

The industry's potential, coupled with a growing financial services sector, is expected to help drive further demand for companies such as Flying Doctors Nigeria, which works on a retainership basis with the public sector, wealthy individuals and oil and gas companies.

Yet Orekunrin says that there are still several challenges that need to be navigated to successfully run a company like hers in the West African country.

"The aviation business is very expensive in Nigeria," she says. "Keeping costs down is always a challenge," she adds, noting that red tape and bureaucracy are also testing small businesses' endurance.

But despite the challenges, Orekunrin remains determined to bring about change in Nigeria's healthcare system. "I want to achieve a proper use of the healthcare sector in Nigeria," she says.

Read this: One woman's mission to fix water crisis

Looking ahead, Orekunrin says her goal is to continue improving access to treatment while focusing on the pre-hospital and in-hospital management of injuries. She says that whilst much attention and funding is directed toward infectious diseases, Africa is also facing a big problem treating physical injuries and wounds.

"Eighty percent of the world trauma occurs in low-middle income countries just like Nigeria," she says. "I feel there should be more focus on the trauma epidemic that Africa currently faces."

"In the UK, I would see one gunshot wound every three or four years. In Nigeria, I see one gunshot wound every three-four days. Add in the road-traffic trauma, falls from heights, industrial injuries, stab sounds, injuries from domestic violence and you see a huge problem that definitely needs addressing."

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/08/world/africa/ola-orekunrin-flying-doctors-nigeria/

Mod checkout this thread
https://www.nairaland.com/1240185/university-ibadan-zoological-garden-pictures

10 Covenant University Ota

Private university even led some federal institutions.

Tolexander: Nice work! And very nice indeed.

But i notice i can't see Archachatina (Calachatina) marginata. Or they don't have it in UI zoo?

Thanks, don't know about those ones listed

I think they were separated to avoid bullying, the bigger ones might be harmful to the cubs.

Done

1)Brief history, facts about specific animals
2)Embalmed animals
-I think the tortoise at the front is the one that spent over 100 years before it death, can't remember.
-the left back is the embalmed body of the popular gorilla named Imade(not sure of the spellings)

Elephant died long ago with it skin embalmed, heard it stepped on nail which created home for insects and other termites and led to it death.

Also, the big tortoise I posted earlier is called 'Jide'

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Galaxy.Note.II:
Nice work ma'am, you did a great job

Thanks

Now to the KING OF The JUNGLE.

Lions