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1 Climate change


2. Demographics. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/01/10/presidency-absolves-buhari-of-herdsmen-killings-blames-crisis-on-demographic-changes/

3. Gaddafi

Here's how Nairalanders discussed it:

https://www.nairaland.com/83718/2face-shot-robbed-arrival-uk#1558938

How gunmen opened fire on Tuface
•Blow-by-blow account of attack
•He is hale and hearty, says kid brother Hyacinth
By Sun News Publishing
Sunday, October 7, 2007


In the face of adversity and threat to his own life, Tuface Ididia, the award winning pop star, reportedly displayed rare courage last Thursday as he stood between vicious gunmen, yet he acted to save his pal.

The gunmen had attacked him Thursday night along Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, precisely at Cele Bus stop.
Even as bullets smashed into his left thigh, the Nigerian pop star, who just returned from the UK after clinching the award for the ‘Best African Act of The Year,’ displayed raw bravery and courage in the face of adversity.

Ifeanyi Orji, elder brother to Faze, who also doubles as his manager, recounted to Sunday Sun, last night in Lagos, how split second timing and raw courage, on the part of the singer galvanised him into action when the assailants opened fire on them.
"It was at Cele Bus stop. We were in light traffic, ‘ free styling’, a song he was writing, when I saw a couple of guys get down from the car next to us.

‘Open the door!’ I heard the command from one of the assailants, and the blood froze in my veins! What was happening? I was rooted to my seat like a statue. The next thing I heard was boom! boom! The glass shattered. I thought I was dead! Then I heard Tuface’s voice calling "Odogwu, move! Get out of the car!" I don’t know how I did it. I just saw myself running and stumbling and running.

"Suddenly I discovered that he was behind me, panting, asking, ‘’are you okay!’ Despite his wounds, he was still asking about my state. I reached out to support him as we staggered on. It was like watching a James Bond movie but in this case, we were the actors! "
They would later be rescued by a van carrying pure water and taken to Cedar Hospital in Festac Town, where they were all admitted.

It was in the bus that they discovered that they were wounded and bleeding: "I discovered that he was bleeding. When he noticed my blood soaked T-shirt, he cried out, ‘Odogwu, are you okay! He thought I was shot in the stomach. He forgets all his pain and was asking after me. I was touched. I was scared like a fool. Tuface was bold and confident! He was the reason why I fled the car. It was his voice that made me run for dear life."

Hycent Idibia, younger brother of the singer and a member of the music duo, Da Natives, whose current single, ‘Love You Better’ is making waves on TV, reassured Nigerians of his brothers state of health: "he is hail and hearty and in very high spirits. I want to use this opportunity to debunk reports in certain sections of the media that he was in critical condition. I spoke to him five minutes ago and I can authoritatively tell you that he is in excellent health condition. He should be back with us in a couple of days.

"I was waiting for the arrival of my brother, chilling when I heard the news. I was like, ‘what kind of news is that? Less than an hour earlier, they had called and told me that they were on the way. I was dazed. I couldn’t believe it. He was shot! I drove like a madman to Cedar Hospital, almost knocking down people. People were screaming, madman! I just did not care."

However, he said that when he met him at the hospital, Tuface was calm.
He laughed and said, ‘Na wa-o HI, bad boys shoot me.’ Despite his pain, he still could make a joke about his situation. He kept smiling and reassuring me."

Contrary to speculations, HI insisted that his elder brother was not in any danger or critical condition: He is as fit as a fiddle. He was never in danger of losing his life. The darkest moment is over, I was relieved."
On speculations that hired assassins attacked him, he said: "It could be a robbery attack or set up, I don’t know. All I know is that I am happy that he is alive and God would always protect him."
Decrying the state of security in the country he said: "The security situation is terrible. This is the second time it is happening. The police should concentrate more on protecting lives and property rather than harassing people in the name of stop and search."


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2007/oct/07/national-07-10-2007-002.htm

Jarus:
Camerounian keepers get big clubs in Europe from the 80s till today.


The current first keeper of Ajax is also a Camerounian. Idris Kanemi has been one og the top keepers in La Liga for about 15 years.

Looks like they had some sort of mentoring system going on.

Kameni was discovered by Nkono and brought to Espanyol where Nkono had been keeper for years.

johnie:
Looks like work on the Lekki-Epe expressway is about to be extended to Eleko junction.

Took a drive beyond Abraham Adesanya recently.

Streetlights are being erected along the median.

I thought the median will be properly constructed with proper delineation of turning points.

johnie:
Looks like work on the Lekki-Epe expressway is about to be extended to Eleko junction.

Took a drive beyond Abraham Adesanya recently.

Streetlights are being erected along the median.

I thought the median will be properly constructed with proper delineation of turning points.

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Tag: ifyalways, blank, naptu2, megastu, icon8
, x2x, remii

What's your assessment of the impact on traffic of

1. the reconstruction of the roundabouts
2. opening of Freedom Way
3. opening of the Jubilee (Ajah) bridge

naptu2:
They also had to rotate their players, it's just that they had a lot of very good players (e.g. goalkeepers like Antoine Bell, Jacques Song'o, Thomas N'kono, etc). They also had a lot of players that played in their local league.

Cameroun had the best set of keepers in Africa for a long time, starting with Nkono.

While our Okalla was very good, I think the other keeper close to the Camerounians was Zaki of Morocco.

1wolex85:
But how were the Camerounians able to do it? Their stars were present, from the Biyiks to Jacques Songo

I think most of their players plied their trade locally.

Union Douala, Tonerre Yaounde and Canon Yaounde were formidable club sides in those days.

naptu2:
And Ivory Coast between 1991-1994.

Remember that crazy semi-final against Ivory Coast at Tunisia '94 and the qualifiers against them in 1992/93?

How could I have left Ivory Coast out?

I remember that match!

Tiehi's shirt tugging celebration after his
goal against us and Ben Iroha's waltz into the net for our own goal.

Iroha, our left fullback came to our rescue.

The penalty shoot-out was epic!

A pregnant colleague of mine at work had to leave the area of the office where we were watching at a point- couldn't bear the tension.

Finidi cooly rolled in his penatly.

That was a match!

Nice compilation as usual, Naptu2.

Remember our duels with Cameroun at U20? The Biyik brothers, Mboma? The days of Andrew Uwe, Agu, etc?

Cameroun, Ghana, Senegal (almost got us out of 2000 CAN). Always epic!

megastu:
Our Gardener was a bit lucky. He escaped with a fractured leg.

I'm sorry to hear this.

I hope he is recovering well.

naptu2:
I think that's Now Or Never. I didn't realise that Majek was in the video.

I drew blanks searching for the video.

Can you dig it out?

While searching I found out Okosun had earlier been Sir Victor Uwaifo's band boy.

Remember King Pago who performed with Uwaifo and later Majek?

I see a thread in these. Do you?

Of course, the Bendel link is there.

I think there's some similarities in Uwaifo and Okosuns strings and percussion arrangements.

Majek had a peculiar percussion stlye - pangolo. Any link to Uwaifo or Okosun?

Funny thing is that Okosun is gone (physically), Majek is ...(I don't know what word to use) but their Baba (Uwaifo) is still very much around!

Okosun also had gigs with Fela and the Libitos.

naptu2:
Tags

caveatemptor, johnie, joseph1832, DanseMacabre, stagger

Thanks for the mention.

Majek oh Majek!

These videos bring tears to my eyes.

I was very happy for him when I saw the 'Majek Fashek in NY' video.

That joy turned sour when he returned.

The later release of 'Little Patience' raised some hope but it was not to last.

My thoughts and prayers are always with him.

His songs are very 'spiritual.'

He released 'Send down the rain' when I was writing major exams.

That song and 'Silver Shadow' by Atlantic Starr were what you could call my 'charge songs.'

I used to sing them to charge myself up when going to write the exams and they did wonders for me (of course I prepared adequately and God was on my side!)

Each time it was played by RN2 in the mornings before we set out for class, it would rain!

Within a week, my friends and I quickly took notice of this.

On another note, do you know he was a 'waka pass' character in one of Sunny Okosun's musical videos?

I can't remember the title of the song but the video begins with a classroom scene in which Sunny was in front of the class addressing (singing to) the people in the class.

After about a minute, they all pour out of the class singing and dancing.

Majek was one of the people in the class and his light complexioned skin stood him out.

He must have been what is today know as an 'upcoming artiste' or one of Okosuns's band boys at the time. Probably around 1987.

Do you know the video?

I'll try and recall the title of the song and probably get the video.

GavelSlam:
Staged as in he accepted to take a fall or what?

Virgil treated him like a kid in the ring.

I have no doubt that Lasisi lost that match.

My interest is the fact that within a few short years Nigerian athletes began to actively seek to change their nationality to further their careers.

naptu2:
Los Angeles 1984 Olympics

What a throwback! I watched this fight live with my dad in 1984 and we felt that Konyegwachi should have won. It was very close, but I felt that Taylor won the first round, while Konyegwachi won the second and third rounds. This should have been Nigeria's first Olympic gold medal. (I thought that Taylor won because he had the home advantage).

Thanks for the mention.

Joe Lasisi still insists that his loss to Virgil Hill in their world title clash is the US was because the fight was staged in there and he received no support from the Nigerian government.

According to him, the only other Nigerian apart from his training crew at the fight was a journalist.

As a matter of fact, one interesting thing he said in an interview years later is that he was offered American citizenship just before the fight.

According to him, if he had taken up the offer he would have won the bout.

He turned down the offer according to him, because he would have seemed ungrateful to Nigeria.

Isn't it interesting that just a few years later, our athletes began switching nationality without batting eyelids.

Francis Obikwelu and Glory Anozie readily come to mind.

bestman09:
Good old days. I also watched it live then. Bendel state was then the number one sporting state. BTW, where is Peter Konyegwachie and Davidson Ande now?

Davidson Ande is dead.

I don't know about Konyegwachie.

decatalyst:
You are to call op "UNCLE" and seek his advise on politics and every bit of the economy.

We can deductively say that Op is one of the reasons this country dey as e be

It is very unfair to heap Nigeria's woes on our generation.

On the contrary, you should 'pity' us.

If you witnessed the 'good times' gradually turn into what we have now and you have no control over the decline, you would appreciate how frustrating it is!

naptu2:
Hahahahahahahahaha

Joe Lasisi vs Jeremiah Okorodudu in 1988 or 1989.

Okorodudu said that Lasisi used juju because he saw three Joe Lasisis in the ring (of course you'll see three Lasisis when you are punch drunk).

They later fought in the US and Lasisi won again.

Jeremiah (with jerry curls) Okorodudu had returned from the LA '84 Olympics with a medal.

Because of his exploits at the Olympics, he was very much in the news.

Turning pro, Jerry had to take on Joe Lasisi for the national title.

The hype for the match was much given Jerry's exploits at the Olympics and Joe's unbeaten KO-laden antecedents.

However, it proved a mismatch with a Joe triumph.

Joe then proceeded to take on the world champion, American Virgil Hill in the US.

That proved too much for Joe who was beaten black and blue. Seemed his 'juju' could work only on African soil.

Jerry went on become Olympics boxing coach for Nigeria.

Jerry himself had been under the tutelage of another former Olympian, Isaac Ikhuoria when he went to the Olympics.

Remember Davidson Ande?

naptu2:
Maradona admitted (decades later) that the water had indeed been spiked.

Joe Lasisi?

naptu2:
Hearns had a glass jaw, that's why I suspected that he would lose. He is done for once a solid punch connects with his jaw.

Sugar Ray's dancing and good looks worked well for him. He acted in a movie, but I can't remember the name of that movie.

Hagler looked really mean.

Quite right about Hearns.

His long reach was an advantage that did not work against Hagler, a hard hitter.

The match-up was like that of Ali and Frazier.

Hearns, like Ali floating around while Hagler, like Frazier trying to pin the opponent into a corner for a pummelling.

Hearn's glass jaw was truly his Achilles Heel (no pun intended).

Caveatemptor:
I know the books you are talking about,but quite frankly I can't remember the name. There was a different text book for each class. We're they social studies text books or history text books?

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, there different books for each class.

I believe they were social studies text books.

johnie:
This thread is revived?

Great!

As an aside, there was this set of Social Studies textbooks (a different for each primary school class) we used in the late 70s that detailed the lives and exploits of people like Mungo Park, Lander brothers,Mary Slessor, Florence Nightingale, etc.

Does anyone here remember the name, publisher or how one can get copies?

Na.ptu2, Ishil.ove, placeo.fallure, scal.pel, stag.ger, maja.majic, iw.atch, na.ms77, dansem.acabre, jakumo

Caveatemptor, can you help with this?

naptu2:
You are quite right. The second name of the show was Sports Spectacular. I just spoke to someone who reminded me.

The show originally started with the name “Big Fight Of The Decade” around 1984, ’85 or ’86. They showed classic fights involving Mohammed Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Henry Cooper, Roberto Duran, Rocky Marciano, Rocky Graziano, Sugar Ray Robinson, The Chicago Hitman Thomas Hearns, John The Beast Mugabi, Marvellous Marvin Hagler, etc. It was shown at prime time (8pm) and I never missed it.

(My favourite matches were those between Sugar Ray Leonard and any of Duran, Hagler or Hearns. Do you remember the “No Mas” fight in which Duran gave up because he couldn’t stand Sugar Ray’s dancing? However, Ali was certainly the greatest. )

Then they changed the name of the show to Sports Spectacular in the late 1980s and they included other sports like tennis, although the show was still primarily about boxing.

Below: a more recent picture of Chuka Momah.

I remember that!

Sugar Ray, Tommy Hearns, Duran and Marvelous Marvin Hagler made me realise there were other weight categories.

Before they burst onto the scene, I thought only the heavyweight category existed.

My favourite was Sugar Ray with his boyish looks. I think it was a retina injury that retired him. Too bad! Brought some glamour to the lower weight category like Ali did.

Seeing a boxer with curls like Hearns also looked strange to me then.

Hagler, with his bald head, to me was what a boxer should look like. I didn't like him.

I lost a bet with a classmate in the Hagler-Hearns match. Naive as I was then, I supported Hearns simply because I didn't like Hagler's looks!

I also did not like Duran because he was Latino.

I wanted only blacks to rule the world of sports.

The folly of youth!

dabossman:
There's something called 'nostalgia'.

That feeling called nostalgia cannot be fully explained.

Makes you feel alive all over again.

Now that Evans has been apprehended, this piece of the puzzle should be publicised.

Can this be moved to the front page?

Freiburger, r231

naptu2:
In addition to what you wrote, Andrew Young and Olusegun Obasanjo were very good friends and Ambassador Young served as guardian to Obasanjo's son, after the son was smuggled to the US when Obasanjo was jailed by Abacha.

That might partly explain the link between the Abacha goverment and Louis Farrakhan.

naptu2:
This second photo, being honored by playing a fun doubles match with the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the honorable[b] Andrew Young.[/b] Ambassador Young happened to be traveling in Nigeria and learned of the American contingent that was there to play in the tournament. He made an unscheduled stop to join the team – and hit a few balls, for the afternoon.

http://www.blacktennishistory.com/benin-city-nigeria/

Andrew Young was an exceptional personality

He played a significant role in the Black emancipation movement in the US right from the days of Martin Luther King Jnr.

I think he went on to become Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and later played a big role is securing 1996 Olympics Hosting rights for the city.

It's good that he went on to hold such an important position as US ambadsador to the UN.

He was an important character in President Jimmy Carter's government and Nigeria's just after Murtala was killed.

As the report on the Ashe visit indicated, there were strong anti-US sentiments just before Murtala was killed.

When Obasanjo took over, Nigeria-US relationship became very chummy.

Carter even visited Nigeria.

I think you once created a thread on the visit.

The story behind the change in the relationship must be very interesting.

naptu2:
2) I used to call Ikoyi Road "The most important road in Nigeria" in the 1980s. That's because State House Ribadu Road, Dodan Barracks and Broadcasting House all have gates on that road. Flag Staff House (now Defense House) is also nearby. Remember that Murtala was killed at the Bank Road/Ikoyi Road junction.

You forgot to add the Federal Secretariat.

naptu2:
3) The visit of the Williams sisters was facilitated by Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas, Lord Rumens' nephew..

Another sports journalist of repute, like Chuka Momah, Deacon Ayo Ositelu (popularly called 'Arena' was the MC at the Williams sisters' exhibition match at LLTC.

naptu2:
Nduka Odizor
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https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19029479_1918218345102130_4143994334099467492_n.jpg?oh=bd40790853479bf6dba213117195914f&oe=59D3496C

Veronica Oyibokia receiving the top prize after winning the All Nigeria Open Tennis Championship in Lagos. In the middle is boxing aficionado, former host of Big Fight of The Decade and former president of the Nigerian Tennis Federation, Mr Chuka Momah.
https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18953072_1918218155102149_7537565156475862614_n.jpg?oh=6cbbfe6a100d52349cd24ddbec4d0299&oe=59E6FE4B

Lord Rumens, Ogbe, Dala. Hmm.

Those names bring a flood of memories- The Duke, Igbinovia, Oyibokia, etc.

There was a Lagos ITF tournament which began during Ashiwaju Tinubu's tenure as Lagos governor.

I think it used to be held at LLTC. Does it still hold?


I remember Chuka Momah's boxing programme on NTA.

He played significant roles in sporting circles.

I think he wrote a book recently on his experiences. That should be worth reading.

naptu2:
Tags: Ishilove, caveatemptor, johnie, joseph1832, DanseMacabre, stagger, kannymoore

Thanks for the mention.

Quite informative.

Cleared a few things I was not sure about and connected some dots for me.

E.g.


1. Thought Murtala was riding from Dodan Barracks to the Federal Secretariat when the coupist struck. The report says he was riding fron his home in Ikoyi to Dodan Barracks. Can anyone clarify?

2. Despite driving through the stretch between where he was killled and FRCN several times over the years, it never struck me that the coupists only had to walk a few meters to the radio station after killing Murtala. Not until I read this.

3. Also never knew LLTC ever hosted such a big tourney. I remember that the Williams sisters played there just a few years back. I thought that was the most high profile event there.

Also noted that

1. Customs also performed the role of immigration in those days.

2. Federal Palace was the place to be in Lagos for many years.

I remember reading about some strange events happening there around the time of the first 1966 coup.

Does Transcorp Hilton fit the bill of FPH in Abuja these days?


Thanks for sharing!

DanseMacabre:
I'm afraid the timeline is too early for me, too.

Thanks for your response

placeofallure:
Hmmmn, the time under review is way too early for me, if you'd asked about early 90s probably. Wish I could help though.

Thanks for your response.