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They put too much emphasis on getting rich.

Nigeria is a country where is difficult for people to get money (livelihood) through legal means.

Il Capitano: One word:piece of crap

Abi.

The name remind me of Sir Shina peters.

The standard of translation is going down. It was not like that before.

The film industry is just trying to survive.

So what is the solution to our numerous and uncountable problems in this country??

1000,000 likes .... and still counting.

Olalekan 0: This assertion is not incorrect.A typical example is Hon.Rotimi Makinde from Osun. The yoruba genre actor turned politician representing the ACN is a disgrace to the state of the living spring.

I think he has Masters in Finance from Ladoke Akintola University. According to house of rep. home page. http://www.nassnig.org/nass2/portfolio/profile.php?id=HON. MAKINDE MIKAIL OLAROTIMI

Governments at all levels should be more serious on solar power.

We can generate more than mere 450MW from solar power.

Our honourable people of Ondo State will show the whole nation that good governance is uppermost in politics.

Gov. Mimiko has done his part by delivered good governance.

Lets our people do their part by electing Gov Mimiko again for second term.

The IROKO of our time. Gov. Mimiko for sure.

Well anyway, Gov. Mimiko deserved to come for second term.

Eni mi ko mi (an unshakable man). The IROKO.

Our good people of Ondo State should vote enmasse for our dear Gov. Mimiko. The performing governor.

No shaking, the governor is superb (nah ẹlẹlẹ)

The IROKO. Our IROKO. The performing governor.

President Jonathan was on political tourism to the PDP political thugs in Ondo State.

No picture?

Dondbuzor: Op, if u can't edit the pix, then change d topic of the thread! Simple

Agreed.

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Unfortunate country. Probably it was another religious killing not armed robbers thing.

Ishilove: No nation survives religious war. Now that xtians may be respönding to boko haram mindless attacks on churches as kaduna mosque attack may be a reprisal one,the nation is heading to a doom. Let all hand be on deck to save this conscripted entity called nigeria. We are in a season of anomie.

The beautiful country was destroyed by senseless leaders.

Ganys: Sharrap my friend, Armed Robbers attack Mosque
Wetin dem wan rob? Do You think the Imam Collect Tithe like Machants of Gospel along Lagos Ibadan Express Way

Armed robbers attack Mosque?? I don't think so.

Well, we have "new nigeria" anything can happen.

According to him, dams are built for purposes of irrigation and power generation but these dams are not being used for these purposes and the way water is released ‘wholesale’ makes the ordinarily bad flooding situation worse for Nigerians.

Hiss.

Very unfortunate.

The police should be well trained. Why not shoot into the air (sky)?

mrperfect: This is sad news for the regions.

Sad news for the country. nigeria is going down under water.

nigeria started on bad ground. On mere selfishness.

In short we are not compatible.

To hell with one nigeria.

Aigbofa: An excerpt from Awos biography.

An article written by Zik himself, published on the front page of the Pilot, and entitled: "'Football Iliad, 1940 Edition'", shocked many people. It was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. A football team composed of students of the Christ the King's College, Onitsha, came to Lagos to play a 'Win the War' football match against St Gregory's College. The CKC team from Onitsha defeated St Gregory's team by 5 goals to 4. To the ordinary man in the street, let alone the highly sophisticated elements, there was nothing extraordinary or unusual in one school or college defeating another in a game of soccer. But not so with Dr Azikiwe. He saw in the sporting exploits and triumph of the team from Onitsha the inherent superiority of the easterners over their opponents, and he went to very great pains to establish this fact, by means of careful choice of words and emphasis. These extracts from the article are relevant: And then to think of the great combination of the Spartan heroes who crossed the lordly Niger, journeyed through the good earth of Benin, hurried across the domains of the Oshemawe of Ondo, of the Atanla of Owo, of the Owa of Ilesha, of the Oni of Ife, of the Alake of Abeokuta in their invasion of these islands!
Who, but heroes of mighty brawn and exceptionally developed brain would have dared to make this invasion and to succeed in carrying to their River Niger home, the Golden Fleece of InterCollegiate Soccer Championship of the Eastern and Western Provinces?
Yet they came to Lagos, they saw the irresistible defence put up by their opponents, and they conquered impressively, convincingly, and were graceful even in victory!
Could their achievement be paralleled?
Would it not be better for me to leave the answer to the laps of the gods?

On 24 August 1940, however, the same CKC team played in Ibadan against the Olubadan XI in another 'Win the War' match. The CKC were beaten 3-2 by the Olubadan XI which were an undiluted Yoruba team. Apart from sending the news to the Daily service myself, I also saw to it that it was wired to the Pilot. It was after there had been clamours in the Daily service, in form of letters to the editor, that the news of this Ibadan match was published some two weeks later in the Pilot. Even then, it was a small item on the back page, and it was explained in it that the CKC team were already tired and that some of them were in fact limping, before they went into the field against Olubadan XI. This was of course untrue.
I said before that the CKC episode was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. One or two more instances will be given. By the time the Pilot had published for a year, an important feature of the paper had become manifest. The Igbos in particular were given inordinate publicity on the pages of the paper. Perhaps this was as it should be. The Igbo had never had a share in newspaper publicity before the advent of the Pilot. But equally so, no Yoruba man of the class of the Igbos publicised in the Pilot ever had a share of publicity in any paper either. In those days one had to be an outstanding politician, a big shot in society, or a well-connected person, for one's name to appear in the Nigerian Daily Times, Nigerian Daily Telegraph andLagos Daily News. Of course if you had a friend working in the news or composing section of a paper, no matter who you were, you might be slipped in. Names of people like myself appeared in the papers simply because we were agitators or free-lance journalists. [b]All the same, it was generally agreed that the Igbos needed all the boosting they could get.But Dr Azikiwe went about it in a manner which disgusted those of us who were used to describing citizens of Nigeria as Nigerians or Africans, and regarding their achievements as reflecting credit on Nigeria, indeed Africa, as a whole. The following are typical of the titles of front page news items and of editorial articles in the Pilot.


1. ' Ibo Young Man to Sail to U.K.' is the heading of a frontpage story and picture on September 23, 1938. The young man is Mr Jaja Wachuku, now Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives.
2. '14th West African Student, 10th Nigerian, 8th Ibo in U.S.A.' Another front-page story on January 28, 1939. The 8th Ibo is Mr Nwafor Orizu, now Senator in Nigeria's Upper House.
3. 'Ibo Medical Student Passes Exam In First Class Honours.' Yet another front page story, on June 26, 1940, of the brilliant success of Dr S. O. Egwuatu.
4. Editorials:
i. ' A Model Union' ( August 8, 1938) in praise of the Ibibio State Union.
ii. 'One Year Ago' ( August 18, 1938) celebrating the first anniversary of the call to the Bar of the first Ibo lawyer, in the person of Mr Justice Louis Mbanefo, now Chief Justice of the Eastern Region High Court.
iii. 'The Ibo Are Coming' ( December 31, 1938) -- The very title is sufficiently indicative of the contents.

These are but a few examples of the publicity given to Igbos as a group. But as against these, the achievements of Yorubas and, in particular, the academic laurels of their scholars received, if at all, inconspicuous notice in the Pilot. When an Igbo did or was about to do something praiseworthy, he was invariably given a two-column headline and report in the Pilot, and was always described by his ethnic origin in the headlines. But when the Ph.D. degree of London University, indeed of any university for that matter, was conferred on the first Nigerian ever, the historic news was given a small singlecolumn space in the Pilot, and the headline read: 'Nigerian Economist Passes Ph.D. London.' The scholar concerned was Dr Fadipe, a Yoruba. As late as 1945, two Nigerian law students of Cambridge University, one Yoruba and one Igbo, passed the Law Tripos Examination. The Yoruba passed with second class honours (upper division), and the Igbo also passed with second class honours but in the lower division. The latter got front page publicity in the Pilot, but the former got a small space given to him on the back page a few days after the report of his Igbo colleague had appeared. As for outstanding Yoruba public men, they were all of them daubed as 'imperialist stooges' and ' Uncle Toms'.[/b]


Now, who started tribalism? The said article was written by Zik in 1940, over a decade before the carpet crossing you mentioned! As far back as 1938! Zik had already started his malicious campaign against Yorubas and suddenly he wanted to become their premier! Awo was a nice man, instead of carpet crossing, I would have had him flogged.

Another Hmmmmmmm!

dayokanu: Maybe you would be kind enough to tell us why your uncles decided to kill other regional leaders and spare theirs

Hmmm!

The thread is interesting.

They should do another meeting in Maiduguri.

Julian Assange deserved to have it than others.

Congratulations to the European Union.

I am yoruba because my family history points to that.

I am yoruba because OYA entrered ground in my family house.

toyeoye: You are yoruba if ur native food na amala and gbegiri

Abi o

I think the British has no competent jugde to handle their cases that why they were extradited to America.

May he go to hell. Who cares.

He belly food to the extent of looking for death. Riding bicycle around the country!

His father was/is one of those destroyed/destroying the country.

Riding bicycle around recklessly bring nothing except untimely death.

Our people in Ondo State will win the election. IROKO for sure.

"Anybody that intend to shake iroko tree will shake himself". No shaking for Gov. IROKO.

That's our IROKO.

Yes we are better off.

The Governor is performing.

I think Gov. Mimiko deserve to serve again.

The governor is trying.