₦airaland Forum

stebell: Pls house, i wanna ask a simple question. Why didn't Chidi Lloyd attack Evans Bipi d̶̲̥̅̊α̇̇̇̊τ̲̣̣̥ fateful day? Was he afraid of Evans? Maybe he knows wat wud hv followed if he had touched him. Hahaha.

Bipi will give Usain Bolt a run for his money anyday! He was the first to bolt out of the chamber when Lloyd emerged with the mace. Who wan die?

Fadelex: sowi bro, he no get respect for elders

Lol, 10x!

Ishsoph: Bro use ur brain. 300 students sent to UK and only 18 were seen with placard, what about the remaining 282? Or they traveled as their Governor was set for the visit? And pls apart from this imaginary 500 mordern schools he built what other outstanding achievement can he boast of? See, I hate politics cos its founded on lies.

I should use my brain

[quote author=babe_online]and yes they send students to Canada. There are some students from Rivers in my school who are on Rivers scholarship. Good job Amaechi.[/quote]Ok!
Now we know you school in Canada!!
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7Up...

There was a party!!!

Great! Now, I can represent my people without having to join any political party. All parties in Nigeria are more or less the same. Independent Candidature all the way...

Olaolufred: IS THIS PROFESSOR CHINUA'S NEW BOOK?

Lol, I no mention anybody's name o!!!

There was a party!
There's time for everything under the sun!!
Time to be the last; and time to be the first!!!

Great! Congrats to the newest CEO in town.

His Royal Highness, George Alexander Louis, King George VII.

Still living in denials...

500 primary schools built in 5 years? 300 students sent to the UK and Canada on scholarship every year?? I think he's a firm believer of the saying "Education is the best legacy"! Not bad in my opinion.

Kim890: Hey guys,

Thanks so much for your messages. I will indeed look into the things you mention, Youngies. Epiphany, I would be glad to read your work, thank you so much for offering to send it to me im not sure how to send you my email address without posting it for all the world to see, any suggestions?!

Im really interested in whether there is a distinct form of Nigerian Social responsibility. Is there anything Nigerian people do to help each other out, and help in the community? Do small businesses do anything for the community such as donate money, or are they just trying to survive? And larger Nigerian-formed companies, such as Zenith Bank or Guaranty Bank- do they help the community at all?

Thanks very much, hope to hear from you

Guaranty Trust Bank has a CSR project that supports kids with Autism. There's another volunteer project for orphanages. They also sponsor a major football competition amongst high school students (known as the Principal's Cup), they recently donated classrooms, dormitories and other facilities to some schools and renovated other colleges like St. Gregory's, etc. They're presently constructing an ultra-modern facility in the University of Lagos as well as undertaking a complete renovation of the passport office of the Nigeria Immigration Service at Ikoyi. That's all I can recall for now, hope it helps a bit?

akpomeme: We as a people need to think of how to heal our country. It is pathetic what we all have become. Some of my words may have appeared hash and unguided as well but it was deliberate in order to see the reactions of those who defended the unguided utterances of an elder statesman. Wole Soyinka will remain respectable till death, but let this be an example to him and those that blindly support unbecoming body languages of our elders. I hereby apologize to everyone who felt slighted by my mere attempt to bring we as a people to listen and learn as well as to bring reasons to bear on the fact that WS over stepped his boundaries. God bless you all and may Wole Soyinka live long in good health. Amen. The bitterness needs to stop.

Typical of a SHAMELESS COWARD!!!

bookface: You are not in that League of those who are fit to make a "harsh critique" of Wole Soyinka!

Kongi is a lone voice - a rare badger! He stood and fought the crazy military rulers - both with his might and his pen. Those long days when your fathers and grandfathers hid underneath their beds - Kongi was out there, doing what he knew to do best - fight for posterity!


Where are your fathers? Where are your grandfathers? Who are they? No one knows them, if alive, they are just one of the several millions of Nigerians who came, saw and did nothing - Kongi is still here - bless his soul - doing what he knows best, fighting!

Fighting an utterly shameful and spineless corrupt government, led by a President and a Sheppopotamus wife who are so drunk with power, they now make an @ss out of themselves! They will be gone soon like those before them, and posterity will remember them only very little - Kongi, however remains a badger, someone who came, saw and fought with all his might!

He is 79 and full of wisdom. If he wanted, he could choose to pick up mouth watering appointment from the likes of Harvard and Wharton who will fall over themselves to have him. But he's a badger, his love for his homeland is unquestionable. He's shed his blood, tears and sweat for his country, posterity will reward him well for than.

You are not in the league of those who can make a "harsh critique" of Kongi. Not you, not your President nor the buffalo he married. You should do something worthwhile with your life. Don't follow the paths of your fathers or grandfathers whom we know not. Follow the path of the "mad professor" and posterity will write books about you!

Strength and Honor!

U235weapongrade: 4th in line to the throne....congratz to the house of WINSDOR

3rd in line, after Grandad Charlie n Dad Willie!

atlwireles: Tell us what you understand about "Differential equations". You don't have to insult people's wives to show your mentally superiority. Look at the debate we are have today about girl child marriage in Nigeria, only in the land of the blind is one eyed man king. No matter how most of you call it in this forum, Mrs Jonah is better off than 99.9% of your mothers, sisters and wives. Worry about your mother and wives and leave the woman alone.

Another product of same-sex marriage!

Billionaires: For someone that worships Sango

For someone that founded and sponsored CULTISM

For someone who married, 1-2-3, 3 women and all 3 left.

For someone who served in a military government and give it legitimacy.

For someone who address women as mere domestic appendage.

For someone who call Amaechi his friend, when he is Governor not when he was nothing not minding age and intellectual difference.

Wole Soyinka's Nobel price on Literature is a mistake and his content of character is questionable.

Wole is MAD.

Just as your progenitors!

[quote author=Rhino.5dm]Front page!!!![/quote]What do we need to do to ensure this makes the front page? We MUST ensure it hits the front page (in Amaechi's voice of 2010 at Okrika waterfront).

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berem: I listened to radio this morning and heard the word hippopotami. never knew it's the singular word for hippopotamus. Soyinka no go kill me with engrish!

You mean "plural"?

Jarus: Imagine, ED at 34.

I tell you!

lacasa: Most of the names i read here had very influential parents and guardians who most likely than not facilitated their access to vibrant sectors and quick rise to the top.


Compare them to enterpreneurs like chris gardener and oprah winfrey who came from modest if not wretched backgrounds to the top of their respective trades.


Bone that thing abeg!!! Na silver spoon tinzz

No sire! The parents of most of the guys on that list are ordinary civil servants, a la Tayo, Aig et al...

Jarus: Stories of young and successful that interest me more are those that never had headstart in terms of being put there by their parents or so (e.g Paddy Adenuga, Kola Abiola, Ladi Balogun etc), but those who were just average Joes and rose to high positions at young age.

Look at:

Atedo Peterside, founded IBTC in 1989 at 32
Fola Adeola (at 35) and Tayo Aderinokun (at 34) founded what is GTB today
Herbert Wigwe and Aig-Imhoukhude, both left GTB at 34 years of age, to found Access Bank. When they left GTB, they can't be less than AGM. So AGM at 34 was an achievement on its own.
Tony Elumelu was in his early 30's when he co-founded STB and became CEO.
Jim Ovia was also in his 30's when he founded Zenith Bank.

All these guys (except Wigwe and Aig) founded these banks 1989-1990. Before that time, we had the old school banks (Union, First, Wema, Cooperative, Savannah, UBA etc), later dubbed First Generation Bank. These guys, most of whom, were working in these banks, probably thought there were more innovative ways of providing financial services than what these conservative First Generation banks were offering. That's an opportunity. Pronto, they explored it, and coupled with IBB's liberalization policy of the era, they established the banks. A couple by the old folks (Adekanye, Osayemah, Femi Ajayi, Duro Emmanuel etc) failed, but these young guys' became mega successful.

Atedo Peterside came back from LSE and realized merchant banking as was practiced in Nigeria was still crude. That's an opportunity. He floated Investment Banking and Trust Company (IBTC) in 1989, to do just one thing: investment banking. He made it.

I think it is about recognizing an untapped opportunity quickly and grabbing it.

Aig & Herbert actually left GTBank as Executive Directors (EDs) in 2002.

"Jonathan's Destiny is to Bankrupt Nigeria" - Tunde Bakare ( January 2012).

GTBank should pay dividend of N1.50k by 18th April. Definitely no bonus shares!

Lol

Soccer : Peter Odemwingie has risked further angering West Brom by responding to their accusation he acted “wholly unprofessionally” in his failed bid to move to QPR by claiming he joined the Baggies in similar circumstances three years ago.

Albion chairman Jeremy Peace accused the Nigeria international, who still has 18 months on his contract at The Hawthorns, of acting “wholly unprofessionally”.

Odemwingie today admitted he was perhaps a “little unprofessional” but defended himself by claming the circumstances were not so different to when he joined West Brom from Lokomotiv Moscow in 2010.

He also put yesterday down to a misunderstanding.

“I came to this club (West Brom) in a wholly unprofessional way. I wasn’t given any written permission by Lokomotiv Moscow but I arrived at this club. I did a medical, I don’t think everything went so professional when I arrived,” he told Sky Sports News today.

Clarifying his comments, he said: “I’m saying that these things don’t matter so much when adults are dealing with each other. I think there was a misunderstanding somewhere because I could have held my goodbyes to the (West Brom) players if I was told it is not going to happen.”

Odemwingie felt he had been given the go-ahead from West Brom to complete his move to QPR, but conceded he did not have written permission.

He said: “They (West Brom) didn’t give me written permission, but you know we are in England and when you’re gentlemen you understand each other so easily. In my opinion, everything was done right and at the last moment, I don’t know what really happened, but I think other people can answer this question as well.

“We were almost there, the club were angry that I went there and it was on TV. They weren’t angry that I went there, but when it came up on TV that’s when they said that this deal is off and why did I do that. So I understand the club to be honest, it was a bit unprofessional but we all know our positions and we were almost there.”

Asked if he felt West Brom technical director Dan Ashworth had given him the impression the move was fine, the 31-year-old said: “I can say yes. Anyway, we have to find a way forward that’s suitable for everyone now. The truth is we all went wrong somewhere. The last day yesterday we found an agreement, and the only question from what I understood from the conversation was a player they wanted from QPR and the question was who was going pay his wages.”

Speaking outside the club’s training ground, Odemwingie added: “I’ve had a chat with Dan Ashworth this morning and the club will say more later. I have been given a few days off and will be back in training next week.”

QPR manager Harry Redknapp said he felt sorry for the situation Odemwingie found himself in.

“I wasn’t at all disappointed yesterday as I felt we made some fantastic signings,” Redknapp said. “I was just disappointed the way the Peter Odemwingie situation went. I was disappointed for the boy. The whole thing was a bit of a mess. I felt genuinely sorry for him. I think there was a mistake. He travelled down and I think he thought the deal was done and that is why he turned up.

“I think he thought ‘I better get down, have the medical, sign the forms’ — it was just a mistake. It is now difficult as he has to go back to West Brom and get on with his life. It wasn’t easy. He is not a bad lad, he is a nice, nice boy and that is what disturbed me last night, that he got himself into that situation and there was nothing sort of malicious in it.

“I don’t think the deal would have been problem, it is just a player (Junior Hoilett) was going to go on loan the other way and decided he didn’t want to go. The kid ended up turning up at QPR and it didn’t happen.”

The very first picture (and the second) is that of the Senate Building of my alma mater: Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), situated in Ogbomosho, not Ibadan! Reminds me so much of the Kegites' Klub and the Shrine opposite the Students' Union Building.

That's not to take anything away from the post though...

@OP, Nice work. I'm a BIG FAN of Oluyole myself!!!

ME? To be drawn into a diatribe with you?? You clearly left me in no doubt to your state of mind and reasoning ability, given that all that made sense to you in my submission is my indigeneship of a particular place! You seriously don't expect me to start a tete-a-tete with you, do you?
[quote author=Dudu_Negro].....yeah, name three Agbole in Epetedo and briefly tell me how Igunnu came to Epetedo if you are truly an indigene of Epetedo.[/quote]

I'm tempted to say "of all the folks trying to justify the action of the LASG here, only naptu2 is reasonable (at best) in his submissions. I'm afraid Dudu Negro, Eko Atlantic, and their other less visible tribal warriors do not have the strength of character to drive home their points objectively. What a shame! By the way, I'm Yoruba (and from Epetedo in Lagos) but believe issues should be analysed based on facts (like naptu2 did) and not sentiment and ethnic hatred as demonstrated by these folks (named above).

@naptu2: we need to ascertain if they CHOSE to RETURN and if their state governor was contacted prior to their return, which I doubt (if the write-up is anything to go by) anyways. At any rate, thanks for the insight!

...and the LIPS?

ogugua88: Don't judge a book by its cover lol.