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Another Nairalander posted the following list of Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister's Music Catalogue.  Thank you, Olawonder! It will come in very handy.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-569456.128.html#msg7358156

"VOL.2 : ALAYINDE MADE O"
"VOL.4 : ITAN ANOBI RASAQ"
"VOL.5 : ALAYINDE NKIYIN"
"VOL.6 : ORI MI EWO NINSE" (1975)
"ORI MI EWO NINSE"
"VOL.7 : ORISA BI IYA O SI"
"VOL.10 : E JE K’AYINDE GBAIYE" (1977)
"VOL.11 : BISIMILAHI" (1977)
"VOL.12 : OMO NIGERIA" (1977)
"IYA LAJE OF LAGOS" (1978)
"AMUDA WA SUKURA" (1978)
"FUJI REGGAE SERIES 2" (1979)
"EYO NBO ANOBI" (1979)
"AWA O JA" (1979)
"FUJI DISCO" (1980)
"OKE AGBA" (1980)
"AIYE!" (1980)
"FAMILY PLANNING" (1981)
"SURU BABA IWA" (1981)
"ORE LOPE" (1981)
"E SINMI RASCALITY" (1982)
"IWA" (1982)
"ISE LOGUN ISE"(1982)
"EKU ODUN" (1982)
"IJO OLOMO" (1983)
"NIGERIA" (1983)
"LOVE" (1983)
"BARRY SPECIAL" (1983)
"MILITARY" (1984)
"APPRECIATION" (1984)
"FUJI VIBRATION ’84 ‘85" (1984)
"DESTINY" (1985)
"SUPERIORITY" (1985)
"FERTILIZER" (1986)
"OKIKI" (1986)
"AMERICA SECIAL" (1986)
"ILE AYE OGUN" (1987)
"MATURITY" (1987)
"BARRY WONDER" (1987)
"BARRY WONDERS @40" (1988)
"FUJI GARBAGE SERIES 1" (1988)
"FUJI GARBAGE SERIES Ⅱ" (1988)
"CURRENT AFFAIRS" (1989)
"FUJI GARBAGE SERIES Ⅲ" (1989)
"MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZA" (1990)
"FUJI NEW WAVES" (1991)
"FANTASIA FUJI" (1991)
"NEW FUJI GARBAGE" (1991) [UK version]
"DIMENSIONAL FUJI" (1993)
"THE TRUTH" (1994)
"PRECAUTION / CANADIAN FUJI" (1996)
"INFERNO" (1996)
"OLYMPICS ATLANTA ‘96" (1996)
"PROPHECY" (1998)
"ADIEU M.K.O ABIOLA" (1998)
"DEMOCRACY" (2000)
"MILLENNIUM STANZA" (2000)
"FUJI MISSILE" (2001)
"FUJI BOOSTER" (2001)
"REALITY" (2004)
"CONTROVERSY" (2004)
"PRECISION" (2004)
"WISDOM & CORRECTION"
"IMAGE & GRATITUDE"

Just found more of Omo Naijiria album has been posted.  Here's the video; I'd like to find time to transcribe those lyrics as well, to complete that set.  Meanwhile, enjoy. 

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Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Omo Naijiria, cont.
(1b - Video courtesy of EgbaAlake)

Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o
Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o
Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o
Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o

Ilaro ni mo gba de Aiyetoro o
Ilu Haji Lasisi
Omo Kuledo mi o Isola
Omo Adelakun mi o Isola
Oko Afusatu mi o oko Risi o
Lasisi omo Kuledo Aidi
Ogogo go ku ori
Oku oloye oku lejo
Oku leko jan da akano ku lejo
Won she bi kuku lo ku
Barrister Prince Awo Haji Commander mi Ayinde

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Mo gba be o di Ikorodu ile
L'abe Kabiyesi oba
Oba Oyekusi Salawu oba olola
Ayongunrin mi omolola
Haji Bayiti lahi mi ololola

N'Ikorodu eluku mede
Eluku mede mede
Eluku mede mede

Omo Elu
Omu Elu
Omo eluku me
Omo eluku me . . . de mede mi o
Kirumole wafeleja
Omo akeni gbo
Keru o ba ara ono
Omo asale jeje bi eni wipe ko r'obinrin ri
Age mo ni koriji koriji koriji
Koriji koriji koriji koriji koriji koriji ese
Ko sa kodu o pe meji
A be be luku mede
Ejoji ko e gbo do wo
Ejoji to ba foju wo oju e nla ti fo

Akinju Ijebu ti fo ko eja pena
E toju Bola Oyekuti mi olola
Awo ki telumi jewu mi olola

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Omo eluku mede
Mede
Mede mede mede
Mede
omo eluku mede
Mede
Mede mede mede
Mede
Nle omo akenigbo
Nigbo
Keru o ba ono
Ono
Omo asalejeje
Jeje
Bi eni pe ko r'obinrin ri
Rin ri
Ade mo ni kori ki ko ri ki ese
Ese
Kori ki ko ri ki ese
Ese
Ko sa ko du won pe meji
Meji
Aje felukumede
Mede
Ejoji kan o gbo do wo
Woo
Ejoji to ba bo ju woo
Woo
Oju e lan ti fo
Ti fo

Gbogbo omo Ikodu oriwu e to ju alhaja jarianatu mi olola
Jarinatu oyinbo alaso
E to ju aya baba ibeji
Baba loke mafi ku yawa e sa amin o

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Mo gba be o di Odogbolu
Odogbolu lo de Ikenne
Ilu Obafemi Awolowo o
Ko se lu baba Ikenne
Baba Olusegun Lawyer
Baba Oluwole Director Oyinbo Eleko
Omo Ikenne Ereke ni bi o gbe so
Omo afi wure foso . . .

~ Lyrics transcribed by isale_gan2, 20101222 ~

While I procrastinate completing Aiye lyrics, I will repost my earlier transctiptions here.  It's not perfect, so wherever you spot mistakes, let me know.  I want to use the transcript later, so I would like it to be error-free. 

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Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Omo Naijiria
(1a - Video courtesy of EgbaAlake)

Gbogbo yin ni mo ki ni ti'le to'ko oooo
Omo Naijiria mo ma n ki yin oo

Gbogbo yin ni mo ki ni ti'le to'ko
Omo Naijiria mo ma n ki yin oo

Mo bere lori Eko Fedira
Eko ile ogbon
Eko ile ola
Eko ile owo
Eko ile oro

L'abe Adeyimika Oba wa
Kabiyesi Oyekan Oba toto o
Baba Kolawole Oba baba e Oba

Eko aromisa legbe legbe
Legbe legbe
Legbe legbe
Aromisa legbe legbe
Eni to de'ko ti o ba gbon
Ko ni towun r'amerika o
Ko gba be lo si Washinton
Ko gba be re New York City o
Ko travel around the world
Ko nitowun o tun da ri bo wasile
Shaka lodaju po ni towun o tun legbon mo oo
Omo fedira mo ma n ki yin o

Mo gba be titi lo'de Mushin Ajina
Ilu Alhaji Fatayi o
Omo Irawo ni Mushin omo olola
Fatayi omo Alhaji - Haji Wahabi mi Irawo ni Mushin
Omo Alhaja Fatayi Alhaji mi olola
Oko Kikelomo omo tonton
Oko Shade Alhaja mi olola
Baba Fatimata mi o omo jeje

Omo o ni Mushin Ajina
Wo wo ye
O wo ye
O wo ye sese ni ba

Atonda da'sho fun eyan o tun dasho f'egungun
Atonda o ku didin ire
Subulade o ni je o ri'ja oun
Chairman managing director
Irawo Block Industry ti n be ni Ketu
Fatayi omo o ni Mushin Ajina de o
(Omo o ni Mushin Ajina de o)
Haji Londoner
(Omo o ni Mushin Ajina de o)
(Omo o ni Mushin Ajina de o)

Mo ma gba'be titi lo de Itire ile
L'abe Onitire o
Kabiyesi Oba baba e Oba
Omo Itire ni tile toko
E ma ba mi toju Counsellor o
Commissioner l'ola Buhari
Alade omo Abuleshowo

Mo gba be titi lo de Isolo
Labe Arolafade Oba wa
Kabiyesi Disu mi Akande o
Akanni Ade omo Faronbi o

Life patron fun Fuji Exponent
Awo Haji Commander Ayinde
Fuji Exponent Ayinde nko o
??Omo eja lo mi fun Amodu

Omo Onikoyi mate
Ikoyi mate ti o ni ku
Sa ma Onikoyi mape lemo loju ogun
Ilu Prince Faronbi mi
Alhaji Karimu omo sansan o
Oko Moriamo Oko Nimatalayi oko Abeke
Baba Afusatu mi o omo olola
Baba Muyideeni baba Adisa
Baba Yisa a mi o omo olola
Baba Sikiru mi o omo jeje

Ilu okola won Adibu
Nle oko Alhaja
Alhaja mi Adihun
Oko Alhaja Risikiatu
Oko Alhaja Muyikatu
Ashikeshora (lo??) mi olola o
Oko Lawon Adibu
Baba Gamodin baba Idaya
Omo oludegun erin o gojo loju ogun
Ala sasa Alasa redi ija

Omo onitosin Ajina de o
Omo oni Mushin Ajina de o
Bami toju Haji Fatayi Irawo oniMushin Ajina de

Oko Lawal Adibu omo'le o ton o se yaju
Nle omo le ana o se yaju o
Omo'le ana o se yaju
Ilu Haji Shakiru mi
Omo Aregbesola
Oko Alhaja Amotayo
Aja Londoner mi olola o

Nle Baba Bolanle
Omo Aregbeshola mi ni' Isolo o
Ni'solo sa ni'le omo olola
Awo Memudi ni Idimu
Memudi mi Alamu
Olohun funmi oko Ganiya
Baba Suleimana mi omo olola
Omo Bayidimu mi o eko Balonla
Awo Haji Commander Ayinde
Nle awo Pele mi Adisayere

Awo Jimmy Radio mi
Walijimo Ati mi olola
Omo Alimi ni omo jeje
Eda me je o ri ibaje laye

Omo Awori won ma ma ngba fe
(Omo Awori mo man ma gba fe o)
Awo Amao n Ghana
(Omo Awori won ma ma n gba fe o)
Awo New Observer
(Omo Awori won ma ma n gba fe o)

Elegbe mi mo kuro ni Isolo
Mo gbera o di Okiki
L'abe Okiki Alawun
Omo Adobishe Okuro o ran mo nise fayati
Oni ponpo da aja ajantan
Okiki jare dangan
Okiki jare gbe ji abi gbogbo bi jare jare
Awo Kabiyesi onigbakan o
Enigbakan gege
Kabiyesi Lawali Oba toto o

Mo gba be o d'Ota
Iganmoda omo afeleja
Afikoti yotun eda gbangban kanyaju ketu
Omo bo nile o sun a pe le nkole eni titi
Bi o ba j'oko ajale
Ki i se bi to le
Bi o ba j'oko ajale
Bo pe titi orun ama mu onile lo
Gbogbo won l'Ota mo man ki yin o
Ikomede afeleja
(Ikomode afeleja)
Ikomode afeleja
(Ikomode afeleja)
Afikosi yoju eda afi ponpo jon yoju Ketu
(Ikomode afeleja)

Titi lo de Ajileke
Adileke de Badagry o
L'abe Oba Akram
Kabiyesi mo shi fila pade o

Titi lo de Ipo Okiya
Ilu Bolarinwa mi o Chief Abioro yakubu Ishola
Alhaji Fetinlayi olola
Omo Alhaja mi olola
Oko Alhaja Muyiba Olola
Muyibatu mi Oyinbo Alasho wa ni
Baba Alhaja Lawin
Chairman managing director

(??) tan twice in Nigerian limited
Abioro managing director

Hotel Conc(??) ni Ido Iroko
Awo Olusegun omo Ogundele
Oko Karo o mi o omo olola

Awo ogunkorobiti korobiti
Ogun korobiti korobiti
Meta logun meta nire
Ogun onile wa majaja
Ogun onile ajeje eyan
Ogun olegagbana agegi non mu
Olusegun omo ogundele
General Manager mi o Ayinde . . .

~ Lyrics transcrbed by isale_gan2, 20101222 ~

There's gonna be more Stevie Wonder before we're done here.   "Ribbon in the Sky," below.

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Hadn't seen the above video before, although I know the song, "Send One Your Love."  Is the pretty lady next to Stevie the one for whom he wrote all those 70s/80s love songs?  Great burst of creativity!  I know she looks nothing like Syreeta(sp?) the singer to whom he was married for 2 years. See below ("Lately". 

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No idea Stevie wrote and produced this Aretha song, "Until You Come Back To Me."

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Hmmm.  Just thought it was a cool-sounding song.  Then, I read the lyrics.    

Used the artistes' original video because one of them, Brian Burton a/k/a Danger Mouse, had this to say about his work: "Musically, there is no one who has the career I want. That's why I have to use film directors as a model."

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BROKEN BELLS, "The High Road"

We're bound to wait all night
She's bound to run amok
Invested enough in it anyhow,
To each his own
The Garden is sorting out
She curls her lips on a bow
I don't know if you're dead or not
To anyone

Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes,
This army has so many heads
To analyze, 
Come on and get your overdose
Collect it at the borderline
And they want to get up in your head, 

[Chorus]
Cause they know and so do I
The high road is hard to find
A detour in your new life
Tell all of your friends goodbye

The dawn to end all nights
That's all we hoped it was
A break from the warfare in your house
To each his own, 
A soldier is bailing out
And curled his lips on the barrel
And I don't know if the dead can talk
To anyone, 

Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes
This army has so many hands
Are you one of us?
Come on and get your overdose
Collect it at the borderline
And they want to get up in your head

[Chorus]
Cause they know and so do I
The high road is hard to find
A detour to your new life
Tell all of your friends goodbye

It's too late to change your mind
You let laws be your guide,

It's too late to change your mind
You let laws be your guide,

It's too late to change your mind
You let laws be your guide,

It's too late to change your mind
You let laws be your guide, 

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858810745/2/ASC/#73015974205

Russian President Fires Finance Minister for Insubordination

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The icy exchange between Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev, second from right, and Aleksei L. Kudrin, his finance minister, left, was broadcast on Russian television.

By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
September 26, 2011

MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev fired Russia’s longtime finance minister for insubordination on Monday after the two had an icy confrontation on television that revealed the fault lines in a government where disagreements are usually kept strictly under wraps.

The finance minister, Aleksei L. Kudrin, openly questioned the president’s competence in economic affairs the day before, announcing that he would quit rather than work for Mr. Medvedev, who is to become prime minister next year in a leadership swap with Vladimir V. Putin.

Mr. Kudrin has been an essential player for more than a decade on the governing team that was initially put together by Mr. Putin when he was president. Mr. Kudrin’s departure could be a major blow to the government at a time when Russia’s economic troubles are growing. Foreign investors say he is a cheerleader for privatization and other reforms and that his leadership has helped avert financial instability.

“If you think that you have different views from the president on the economic agenda, then you can write me a corresponding letter of resignation,” Mr. Medvedev told Mr. Kudrin at a televised meeting of officials in Dimitrovgrad, Russia, on the Volga River. “Answer here and now. Will you write the letter?”

Mr. Kudrin, looking stung by the president’s threat, responded that he would seek the advice of Mr. Putin, who is now the prime minister, before giving an answer.

“You can seek advice from whomever you want, including from the prime minister, but I am president for the moment, and I make these decisions myself,” Mr. Medvedev said. “You need to decide very quickly and give me an answer today.” He then added: “No one has abolished discipline and subordination.”

A few hours later, Mr. Medvedev’s press secretary announced that Mr. Kudrin had been dismissed on Mr. Putin’s recommendation. Under the Constitution, the prime minister must approve such dismissals.

The confrontation appeared to be an effort by Mr. Medvedev to reassert his authority two days after he announced that he would cede the presidency back to Mr. Putin after presidential elections in March that Mr. Putin is sure to win. Under that agreement, Mr. Medvedev would become prime minister. Some analysts have predicted that Mr. Medvedev will lose the confidence of top officials in the coming months as they move to align themselves with Mr. Putin after years of uncertainty over who was actually running the country.

Mr. Kudrin made his initial criticisms of Mr. Medvedev over the weekend in comments to reporters at a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington. He called Mr. Medvedev’s military spending irresponsible and criticized him for failing to address deficits in the country’s pension fund.

“I do not see myself in the new government,” Mr. Kudrin said.

Analysts said that Mr. Kudrin had perhaps hoped to become prime minister himself after serving for more than a decade as finance minister.

Whatever his reasons for criticizing Mr. Medvedev and affirming his loyalty to Mr. Putin, Mr. Kudrin exposed rifts within the ruling elite that some analysts said could undermine the so-called ruling tandem that had long been presented to the public as inviolable.

“This is not a split, but it is a test of the system’s strength,” Aleksei Makarkin, a political analyst in Moscow, told the Interfax news agency. “If they end up fighting over this issue, then it will be a crisis situation of a political nature.”

Indeed, after Mr. Kudrin’s remarks were published by Russian news agencies, aides to the country’s top two leaders offered contradictory responses. Mr. Putin’s press secretary, Dmitri S. Peskov, told journalists that Mr. Kudrin would remain on Mr. Putin’s team. But Mr. Medvedev’s press secretary, Natalya Timakova, said the finance minister’s departure was under discussion.

“Anyone who doubts the course of the president or the government can openly appeal to me with a proposal,” Mr. Medvedev said at the meeting on Monday. “But I will put an end to any irresponsible chatter — up until May 7,” he said, referring to his last day in office.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/europe/dmitri-medvedev-fires-aleksei-kudrin-russian-finance-minister.html?ref=world

U.S. Quietly Supplies Israel With Bunker-Busting Bombs
By THOM SHANKER
September 23, 2011

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has quietly supplied Israel with bombs capable of destroying buried targets, like terrorists’ arms caches or perhaps sites in Iran suspected of being part of that nation’s nuclear weapons program, American officials said Friday.

The administration’s transfer of bunker-busting bombs, first reported in an online article by Newsweek, began in 2009. American officials who confirmed the shipments spoke on the condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. They declined to comment on the number of bombs that had been supplied to Israel or on their capabilities.

Israel had sought this class of weapons for many years. In 2005, the Bush administration notified Congress of a pending transfer to Israel of bombs designed to destroy buried targets. “This proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a friendly country,” a news release from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency stated.

Subsequent notifications of plans to sell Israel different models of bunker-busting weapons were sent to Congress by the agency again in 2007 and 2008.

But the weapons were not given to Israel at the time. Pentagon officials were frustrated that Israel had transferred military technology to China. And there were deep concerns that if the United States supplied bunker-busting bombs to Israel, it might be viewed as having tacitly endorsed an attack on Iran.

In the interim, Israel developed its own bunker-busting bomb, officials said, but the American variants were viewed as more cost-effective.

George Little, the Pentagon press secretary, declined to comment on the reports of a weapons transfer. “We’re not going to comment on these press reports, but make no mistake about it: the United States is committed to the security of Israel and Israel’s ability to maintain its qualitative military edge,” Mr. Little said.

The issue is so sensitive that Israeli military officials asked the United States not to release documentation of the arms transfers, even if requested under the Freedom of Information Act, according to American officials.

The arms transfers could help President Obama’s political standing among Jewish voters. Israeli-American relations have been bruised by a variety of political and geopolitical matters, and efforts by the administration to strengthen the Israeli military may convince some voters that the president is sufficiently supportive of Israel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/us-quietly-supplies-israel-with-bunker-busting-bombs.html?src=recg

Sorry o.  Couldn't resist this odd picture of Messi. 

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The Iceman Cometh.  So, here's the footballer with ice water running through his veins, Juan Roman Riquelme, crazy Argie, and Boca Juniors player.

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More footy.  Here's a Letter To NYTimes Editor from an obviously insane impassioned football fanatic.   It's from several World Cups ago, but we're happy to deliver a replica, by virtue of the digital age.  We thank Al Gore for the gift of the internets sha. 

Soccer and Nationalism
Published: July 8, 1998

To the Editor:

Re ''Soccer Savagery'' (Op-Ed, July 2): Tunku Varadarajan's characterization of the reaction of the English toward David Beckam, the English soccer player who was given a red card expulsion in England's loss to Argentina in the World Cup, is not accurate. Poor Mr. Beckam will not really be lynched by an irate mob of pub owners and nannies. But the severity of the criticism against him is understandable, considering the importance of the event.

The World Cup is not only the most important sporting event in the world, it's the single most important world event, period. Reactions are sure to be heated, as passions run high. Journalists like Mr. Varadarajan detract from the benefits of historic meetings of nations on the playing field by playing on fears of nationalistic violence.

(anon.)
Washington, July 2, 1998 
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/08/opinion/l-soccer-and-nationalism-766089.html?ref=letters


Etc.
A warning to all other football fans about choosing your mates/spouse very very care-fu-lly.  Abo oro lan so fun omoluabi. . . 
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-475740.128.html

Mehn, I should be an advice columnist. lol.  ::I hope I didn't break them up. . . anyway, if I did, serves him right; imagine expecting good advice from NL. pfft.:: 
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-475740.128.html#msg6405378


Note to self: Give equal time to Argies' bitter rivals, Brasil, very soon. 

Oh, yeah.  I remember now.  The Germs were desperate to equalize.  Klose is a dirty dirty player.  He kneed the Argie goalkeeper, Arbondazieri(sp?) in the kidney, and took the guy out of play, leading to them being able to equalize against the replacement goalkeeper.  I had that game on tape and watched it a few times too.  That's one thing about some strikers.  They're not just these pansies who are just so weak and just there to run away from hard-tackling defenders. They also go in for the kill, usually against the goalkeeper. 

That was also the match where you can clearly see what an utter butthead Mascherano is.  He ticked off the referee so much, you could see the ref making dubious calls against the Argies just cos of that brat's obnoxiousness.  Memorable match. 

And Germany's next match, the semi against Italy was tremendous. 

2006 World Cup was a good one, o jare.  2010 was a dud.

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Felt bad for Zidane and France though.

List is from 2004.  He hadn't made an impact yet. 

I remember Messi didn't even play at the 2006 World Cup.  Like Theo Walcott for England, he was just another much-talked about young footballer- at the time.  I still remember the cameras panning to him sitting there, watching helplessly as Argies fizzled out at the quarters against Germs.  Lol.  I remember one of my faves, Juan Roman (the Iceman ) Riquelme shooting a free kick that went to Ayala, leading to a goal, allowing Argies to even up with Germany and making it to Penalty Shots. . .  Anyway, that's just off the top of my head. I could have some facts wrong.

This guy didn't make the list either.

Best Ogedegbe 1954-2009

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More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Ogedegbe
More Nigerian Footballers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Ogedegbe
The current national team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team

I know some don't like Wiki, but it has the basics, plus linking to more data within a topic is seamless.

More Footy News:

Soccer is known for some meaningless statistics.  When I first saw this, my thought was, "how could they have stayed in the Premier League if they haven't had a win in 2 years? Can you survive on simply drawing all your games?" lol

"90+3'FULL-TIME: Liverpool hold on! It should have been more convincing, but the Reds deserved the victory despite a spirited effort from Wolves in the second half. That's Liverpool's first win in the Premier League in September for two years!"
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/premier-league/2011-2012/liverpool-wolverhampton-wanderers-453989.html

Talking about Arsenal, did Walcott totally milk that contact he had with the Bolton player that got Red-Carded?  Looked like a dive from Walcott.  But, I know that for the purists, any contact in the penalty area is a potential red card offense.   

Arsenal are celebrating every goal like it's a World Cup match.

But, they do make watching English soccer a little more tolerable, so I'm not hating.  Good on them. . . 

Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton

P.S.: Van Persie scored his 100th goal for the club; another reason for the jubilation. 

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-675773.192.html#msg8427566

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=675773.msg8427566#msg8427566 date=1306854842]That life is fleeting, history is cyclical, that we existed before Nigeria and we will be here after it.

That Leaders cannot do good all by themselves. Human beings are naturally selfish. They have to be compelled by a well oiled system of laws, custom, culture and a programmed or forced sense of belonging to care for others beyond themselves and their immediate family.

That ultimately, people should matter more that rules, regulations, norms, culture.

That pride can be learned and government systems can be rebuilt (the British forced new systems on us, didn't they?) we can do the same. It does not mean the country will collapse.

That we need to value our people, make the quest for their progress an obsession -especially if you are in leadership- recognize the right of the individual to seek freedom and emancipate herself from oppression.

plus more. . . We can learn plenty of lessons from these stories, and from our history.[/quote]Great post. 

More memorable moments from this thread: 

RIPPING PEOPLE FOR THEIR INSUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE OF YORUBA GRAMMAR or their observed poor writing skills.  A constant victim target of this is my one and only, Katsumoto.  We thank God Kats has a thick skin; if he didn't already have one, I'm sure he quickly developed one after merciless group heckling like this:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.800.html#msg7708581
- He may speak fluent Yoruba but he certainly does not write fluent Yoruba.
Awon linguists NL oma ni pa yan ke!
- You are both jokers; mo fluent gan now. Take your time o. 
- Naijababe, tell me you arent pissing yourself with Katz fluency!

Oga Kilode?, Anything from the Irunmoles regarding Katz fluency?
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.832.html#msg7709606

- Mon ki se one of the power brokers ni NL now. I am just a regular member.
- "Mi o ki ise ara awon alagbara lori gbagede Nairaland."
I would start charging money for Yoruba lessons ooo
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.896.html#msg7714968


BLACKSTA ALSO CANNOT WRITE YORUBA:
a gbo yi da bi agbo awon  omo  odua
won ko ko iko ku ko   
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.832.html#msg7712140

- wo ni  eni ti wan ba ko ni ile  wan ko ni ta.   
- Na werin be dis? Yoruba abi Anago?
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1120.html#msg7794891


BLACKSTA'S IMMEASURABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THIS THREAD:
23 pages of fluff 
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.704.html#msg7704475

4 more pages of fluff
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.832.html#msg7710409

more fluff
na wa ooooooo
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.928.html#msg7715491

more fluff
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1024.html#msg7733293

72 pages of fluffezes
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.2304.html#msg8411939

Omo see fluff 
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.3008.html#msg8973961


BLACKSTA WISHES HE HAD NOT MENTIONED HIS BOSOM BUDDY, DEBOSKY:
Debosky na my padi _ i know am for real life.
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.704.html#msg7705643

Adam KNEW his Wife and they begat Cain
Blacksta KNOWS Debosky for real life?   
WHy am i not shocked at these GAYYners
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.736.html#msg7707235

- And what do you guys do together in real life?
- what of kind of question be that  - what do u do in real life with your people 
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.736.html#msg7705758

Lol. Thank you thank you! 

One of my best copy and paste jobs.

Ticket-Fixing Inquiry Grows Into Scandal on Police Leaks
September 22, 2011

Early one morning last September, more than 50 members of the Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau gathered in Lower Manhattan during a continuing investigation into widespread ticket-fixing by New York officers. They were briefed and divided into teams, and then they piled into cars and vans bound for all 12 precinct station houses in the Bronx and others around the city to seize copies of tens of thousands of summonses.

But almost as soon as the Internal Affairs teams set out — and long before the first one arrived at its target station house — their plans were exposed by a betrayal that some investigators suggest is far more insidious than the ticket-fixing itself, according to a person with knowledge of the events of that day a year ago.

A union official was captured on a wiretap telling a union colleague who was under scrutiny in the case that he had received a call from someone in the Internal Affairs Bureau, and that the caller had warned him that the investigators were on the way, the source said. The call came shortly after the teams headed out toward the precincts.

Investigators suspect that the call was just one of roughly half a dozen instances during the three-year ticket inquiry in which officers believed to be assigned to Internal Affairs leaked information about the case to police union officials, all of them officers, who were under scrutiny, several people with knowledge of the events said.

The suspected leaks may be the most damning of the departmental weaknesses unearthed to date in the ticket-fixing investigation. The leak accusations seem to lend support to the argument, long put forward by many current and former prosecutors and police officials as well as academics, corruption experts and politicians, that the Police Department is incapable of policing itself.

The timing of some of the suspected disclosures underscores the gravity of the problem.

The first came just a few days after Internal Affairs investigators and the Bronx district attorney’s office obtained authorization for their first wiretap on the phone of a police union delegate, one of those with knowledge of the case said.

“The first delegate’s phone is tapped in December 2009,” that person said. “Almost instantly, there is another Bronx I.A.B. leak.”. . .

More here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/nyregion/ticket-fixing-inquiry-grows-into-scandal-on-police-leaks.html?scp=2&sq=ticket-fixing&st=cse

Psyched!  Fake fight. 

But I enjoyed the tests.  After a while, it feels like cheating 'cos you start getting some of the the same words.

I will concede my average score is[b] 11/15.[/b] 

That didn't last. 

Are you asking if I'm male or female?  Why sexxual orientation? 

But carry on.  Just passing through. 

Leave Toba alone, please.

I was just just kidding.  Toba is "Good People."  He's demonstrated that this past few days - with people jumping all over him, and him being able to maintain his equilibrium and gentlemanly ways. 

P.S. Hope it lasts.

Hmm. I'm trying to stay out of trouble o.  But folks won't leave Isale alone oo.  You all see oooh!

Lol.

Anyway, (1) the test is not supposed to be OPEN BOOK!  I'm just saying. 

(2) Furthermore, I just took the "British" version. (Ola2, btw, it is not the pronunciation, it is the spelling.  I'm sure you know that American English deviates somewhat from authentic English spelling, e.g., Judgement/Judgment, Organise/Organize, Colour/Color, etc.)
Yes, I took it, and I scored 14, missing phlegm, cos the dumbass Oyinbo man said "flan."

(3) Even still, to submit even more argument - because everything we do here in America, we do it hard - our, US English, test is harder than yours cos you people are softies and the whole world knows it, so yeah, Oxford language folks have to go easy on you.

I can't remember the rest of my argument.  But, I'm still rearing to go, so please, don't push me. 

References:

1) A good place to go for clarifications of misinformation on the internet, including the real truth on urban myths, internet hoaxes and fraud. www.snopes.com [/b]is a site to which I was referred by a bunch of computer geeks, programmers and assorted techies. 

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/advancefee/nigeria.asp
Here, they talk about how the "Nigerian Scam" is nothing new; It has been around since the 1920s, when it was called "The [b]Spanish Prisoner Con." So, all these 4-1-9 they try to hang on us are probably been perpetrated by Europeans anyway. I knew it! 

Here I used information from Snopes to refute some crazy allegations. . .  Please be warned that the thread containing my post has some gory and potentially disturbing images of a cadaver being dissected.   
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-309633.0.html#msg7540312


2) www.straightdope.com is a site I discovered while researching some obscure idiom.  Good for general interest things.  Founded by a know-it-all. 

Dude, I'm worried about you.

Hmmm. I am determined! lol.

About the audio.  There has to be an error-free way of presenting this test, don't you think?  I spelt the word, Narcissist, and was surprised to find I got it wrong.  Well, what the speech lady actually said was the name of the person for whom the disorder is named.  But, it wasn't properly enunciated by her, as far as I'm concerned. 

I also misspelt a word for a persistent skin condition.  Doggone Noxzema Creme tripped me up on that one.  lol.

I find I have problems with Italian words.  The double letters are often not where you expect them.

P.S. I took the test a few more times, scored 9 and 10 a couple of times, and quit when i repeated 11/15 again! Phew!!!

hahahahaha. I don't do well with compliments. But, just wanted to try my hand at this challenge you threw out there. 

You're right about the audio/announcer.  Half the words missed is due to confusion about what you're hearing, to be honest.

I'll take it again.  If I don't do any better than 11, you won't hear from me again today. lol.

Used USA English

Fiendish: Scored 11/15

Not happy. 

First word missed, sounded like measible wth?
Second, missed correct spelling for a[i] type of dinosaur/reptiles[/i]
Third, spelt a word as varigated - WRONG!
Fourth, a word that sounded like chibacta

I won't give away the answers since others might want to take the test. 

The U.S. presidential election campaigning starts much too soon - more than a year before the November 2012 polling date. What a long and tedious process, for the populace!  The Repubs were doing the usual dance about a week ago.  Sorry, I lost interest before the night was over.  For a while Michelle Bachmann was getting a lot of attention for her comments - many revved up by the press to highlight her controversial stance.  From what I've seen. . . she may not be the great hope, but anything that knocks that dumbarse screeching ex-governor Palin broad off the news cycle is fine by me. 

Then, there's New Gingrich.  The less said the better.  He was a Representative of this state, and we still remember his shenanigans.  Newt is a pest; and he is so full of it! Come to Georgia - we'll break it down for ya. lol.  Other candidates are Ron Paul, Buddy Roemer, and Former senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is someone whose records I have some familiarity.  He was a Rep, before he made the progression into the Senate.  He's what they describe as an arch-conservative, but I have not seen him betray his integrity.  After watching the political process for far too long, I respect a person who actually believes in something and sticks to those beliefs, whether or not I agree and whether or not he is my candidate.  Not sure of his chances.  Also, not clear at this time what will happen with the Democrats.  Sitting presidents usually can beat back primary/nomination challengers.  I don't see a maverick like a Jesse Ventura, a Ross Perot, or even a Jerry Brown jumping in to confront Obama.

https://graphics8.nytimes.com//images/2011/05/12/us/politics/two.jpg
Full list of Republican candidates: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/candidates

So, at the top of the republican drama, we have Mitt Romney, the two three-faced flip-flopping pro-choice pro-life politician and perennial presidential-election-loser (ad infinitum), jostling with Rick Perry of Texas, possibly another pretentious waffler.

Or, I could be wrong.  Perry could be a truth-telling sincere servant of the people who will right wrongs and do the will of God.  Yeah, right! While I don't have a lot of negatives on the guy, one of which is the issue about the forced vaccination executive order he made a few years ago. As tends to be the case with attention-seeking politicians and nutty tea-party folk, Bachmann went too far by bringing up the phantom retarded child and his momma. But the process[b]* [/b](see link at bottom of post) that imposed that dubious vaccination program on 12-year old girls is a real concern.  As soon as the opportunity presented itself, his own legislature struck down his ill-advised executive order, and there will continue to be real evidence put forth challenging the efficacy of the vaccination program, and what, if any deals went down to make Perry sign on without giving Texans and their legislators more time to debate the issue. 

For now?  Over to the "origin story" of our Man of the Hour, Texas Governor Rick Perry.

Paint Creek, the Town Perry Left Behind
By DEBORAH SONTAG
The tight-knit and traditionally Democratic community of Paint Creek no longer wholeheartedly embraces Rick Perry, even as it anchors his origin story.

“It was Rick’s first victory, and he won it with payola,” Wallar Overton, his old scoutmaster’s son, said with a chuckle.

Fifty years later, as Mr. Perry, 61 and a three-term Republican governor of Texas, embarks on a run for president, the tight-knit and traditionally Democratic community that first crowned him king no longer wholeheartedly embraces him even as Paint Creek anchors his origin story.

People here in Haskell County do understand Mr. Perry in a way few can, seeing the spirited, mischievous child in the brash, ambitious politician and recognizing how far this son of a dry-land cotton farmer has already traveled from a county with one stoplight.

But they also know that this town “too small to have a ZIP code,” in Mr. Perry’s words, propelled a restless farm boy whose disciplinarian father was a local power broker into a life of politics that fed off his roots while he moved beyond them and, some say, betrayed them.

Many in itty-bitty Paint Creek, with its 259 registered voters, are proud and protective of Mr. Perry, the ardent Eagle Scout and scrappy athlete dubbed “most popular” and “Future Homemakers of America Beau” by his class of 13.

But others here will never forgive Mr. Perry for switching to the Republican Party five years after they elected him as a Democrat to the Texas House of Representatives in 1984. And they are leery now of seeing Haskell County, with its graying population, ailing economy and drought-parched landscape, used as a bucolic backdrop for his self-promotion.

“He’s overdone that small-town-boy thing pretty well at this point,” said Bobby Tidwell, a retiree and self-described “Y.D.” — yellow-dog — Democrat. “He’s living in a mansion in Austin while folks here are worried about losing their farms.”

In his 2008 book, “On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For,” Mr. Perry writes of the simpler, slower rural lifestyle that, with its focus on family, hard work, church and “core decency,” incubated his conservative values.

His childhood hometown was simple and slow, although Mr. Perry’s metabolism almost always revved at a higher gear, friends said.

From the time he was 7 to his graduation at 18 , Mr. Perry attended school in a one-story building framed by mulberry trees on flat land where the whoosh of the wind is interrupted only by chattering blackbirds. Opposite the school sat the Methodist church, now shuttered, that the Perrys attended every Sunday. There was also a Baptist church.

And that was Paint Creek, where, for better or worse, everybody knew everybody
else’s business.

“If I misbehaved in class, Mom would find out about it before I got home,” Mr. Perry wrote, and his father would get the news on returning from the fields. “Dad believed in the pain principle. His leather belt was usually the delivery method of choice.”

Mr. Perry’s ancestors moved to Haskell County after his great-great-grandfathers fought with the Confederates in the Civil War. Interviewed for a local history called “Putting Paint Creek on the Map,” the governor’s grandfather Hoyt Perry said his family sank roots near the red clay banks of the creek in 1889.

“When I can first remember this land, it was all prairies with just a few mesquite,” Hoyt Perry said. “This whole country was covered with prairie dogs. I used to catch me a few and make pets out of them.”

Hoyt Perry said he farmed with mules on a ranch owned by another family. His son Ray, the governor’s father, became a tenant farmer, too, until he acquired some acreage of his own and combined it with leased property. Cotton, wheat and grain sorghum were the crops that could be coaxed from the dry land. . . .

Full story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/us/politics/paint-creek-tex-remembers-rick-perry.html?scp=2&sq=rick%20perry&st=cse


One of the best reader comments on the Perry story:

I have a whole big chunk of my extended family living out in West Texas and when I read something like story, I just want to cringe. All this folksy imagery is a crock. To put it in the vernacular, all y'all are doing here is just making it seem like everyone down in Texas is either for or against Gov. Perry, the common son of a dry-land cotton farmer, as if that's all there is to talk about. Aw, shucks, ain't it something!

You ought to hop on the phone with my cousin and hear what he has to say about this sort of stereotyping. This here story is nothing if not a rolling cliche. Fact is, a whole heckuva lot of people in Texas are too busy trying to survive drought, crushed local economies, an actual hyper-violent war on the border that kills way more people that Iraq and Afghanistan combined, a crazy state legislature, a complicated immigration control issue (who do you think landscapes all those fancy properties in and around Austin?), hardcore poverty rates, thousands upon thousands of health uninsured kids - well, I could go on.

My relatives sure do! As my cousin puts it - "What we have here is a guy (Gov. Perry) who doesn't give a da-- about anybody, Republican or Democrat, who isn't in someway connected to money."

My relatives - almost all Republican - do not like Gov. Perry, whom they consider to be a big phony who has mismanaged the state into a situation where, without the gas and oil industry money, it would be a third world disaster story. I think this Paint Creek portrait plays right into their feelings. I mean - who cares about his background when his state is anything but the model of perfection he portrays it to be?

Do the digging!

I hope the Times spends a little more effort to pull back the curtain on this "Wizard of Oz" sham and starts writing with some teeth about the rolling disaster this self-promoter is presiding over.

I can just hear Molly Ivans - a former member of the Times - muttering to herself right now - "Oh, dear, oh dear.

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/us/politics/paint-creek-tex-remembers-rick-perry.html


* http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16948093/ns/health-childrens_health/t/texas-governor-orders-std-vaccine-all-girls/
About the forced vaccination; I wonder if he could have forced circumcision (as a preventative measure against cervical cancer) on males instead.  How well would that go down?  http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2157-circumcision-cuts-cervical-cancer-rates.html