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Theres nothing suggesting an assault here. The guy poked is head through the window and the bus' not a commercial bus. There's nothing wrong in law enforcing officers asking you stop your car and come down , especially if an offense was or perceived to have been committed, what normally happen is we Nigerian generally and in most cases do not respond appropriately to officers in such situation. Not saying police and LaSTMA officers are not problematic though.

Yes irrespective of where you stay. Use small generator (650-1000 watts) eat home cooked meals at least 2ce daily, Change her vehicle to a not more than 1.6 litre engine, Subscribe to startimes, internet and phone calls less than 8 k monthly better to even be on bb, choices of dress based on neatness, fitting and anyother thing rather than to impress cost wise, and behave like someone just starting life at least for 1 year. She should be having and average of 35k savings monthly.

Nigerians just try to endure this allergen for the next 6 years,so many things will have gone from bad to worse if not to the worst. I however know us all as long as we can still perceive the possibility to steal some money, cheat the system or get cheap favors/patronage from the temporal ruling high and mighty then no need to complain; in fact PEJ and the office is just the best thing we need in this country even more than the office of the president. Like I said after six years, the Excellencies will cease to be excellent and those who achieved by their real sweat will endure. To the cronies (horses that does not know how to refuse being ridden to the war front) after six years or there about, we'll all be together. Patience as in the word and not the name is indeed a virtue.

Good that he asked people to stop donating after getting to the required amount, that is integrity and something we pray for in Nigeria. Well shame on the aston martin, bughati and owners of exotic cars who didn't do jack. Anyway to a further and show appreciation , he may with permission from his numerous donors donate the excess amount accrued during fund raising to someone else who has same condition and needed similar help. I pray for a successful operation and quick recovery.

Reverse back . Body is scratching me. I want to drink garri. Give me my change. YOUR FATHER

I JUST LOVE THE BINIS NO LIE . Comgratulations to the King Ukuakpolokpolo.

For all pictures like this there 's always extra cameraman or men who records all the movement of the primary researcher or photo adventurer . This is done to authenti ate the claims ( pictures / video recording) of the primary

J12: You folks should let this woman be for Christ's sake. So what if the office of the first lady is unconstitutional and she uses the nigerian coat of arms as an emblem? Does it change anything? No it doesn't.

This depicts you as someone who doesn't know what decorum and order is. People like you will not see a reason why the national flag could not be used as a towel , a table cloth or worst still a rag. I may not entirely blame madam for that ( she might not know anyway which is also a sad one as she being a teacher ) but the protocol details around her are to be entirely sanctioned for the denigration of the national symbol.

We have many sweet mil personnel in 9ja

obadiah777: SHE LOOKS SURPRISED TO SEE US

MUST BE THAT DRAWING ON EYEBROW LINER

Is police now military ? and I wonder what an officer will be keeping long nails (natural or fixed) with hands ( some fingers) in the pocket if not in the police.

What I really find un interesting is the fact that June 12 has been turned disappointingly into a tribal thing which is not and it is expedient for all Nigerians irrespective of ethnicity not to allow it. More is the making it an only Abiola thing, it's ridiculous, many Nigerian suffered and died in the struggle of the June 12 and not only Abiola infact scores of people on activcampaign and demonstrations against the injustice done to us ( not Abiola alone) were either maimed , bearing injuries and physical incapacitations or killed . they deserve to be honoured too.

Some people will kill their own.life future destiny and: blessing on the useless irresponsible platter of tribe. Three individuals came up with a beautif!ul song and then video ( which trully I stiill bang in my dream) and less than 5 threads down the line in this yhread it has already gotten a tribal sentiment ( negative one at that).
Some people are really from the bush and will amount to nothing even they are exposed to the best envir,oment. Nat King Cole sang in spanish with good Cuban accent in Havanah and was appreciated by cubans and up till now there are still folk songs for that moment this is inspite of the hostilities between the 2countries . OK o se agreee Igbos are better than Yorubas o no argument but real correct Ibos in Yorubaland speaks, Yoruba, appreciates the hospitality and are thriving the others hating are not but only making money. Chidima is an example of what Yorubas and other sensible people in Nigeria and world over are looking for to promote A new world and living let the cave people stay in their cave

I want liken this to a 10 years old boy imagining how sees himself by the time he's 50 years with hard work resilence prudence and the will to achieve. He goes on to paint a picture of this lofty and achievable dream to his neighbours whom they stay together in the same ghetto. The neighbor on hearing and seeing the picture scoffed, laughed at and despise him for his dreams; went ahead and called him a fool for having such dreams. Please who is the fool and the damned here. Lagosians and Fashola Keep dreaming working and believing and soon the dream will come to reality and these neighbours will surely shamelessly associate with the impending success. long live Lagos State and anyindividual who believe in the dream.

Shops were opened fully with all businesses in all stalls of every tribe and ethnicity going on with full speed at Wuse Market earlier today before I left for Kano. Going by reports, this sit at home if really complied to is a good one that should be extended for more days say 5-7 days. I hope other tribes will learn to stand with one voice and adhered to similar non-violent call in the nearest future. It is really a test of relevance in the scheme of things the Igbos in Nigeria and to me IT IS WELCOMED. KUDOS Shops were opened fully with all businesses in all stalls of every tribe and ethnicity going on with full speed at Wuse Market earlier today before I left for Kano. Going by reports, this sit at home if really complied to is a good one that should be extended for more days say 5-7 days. I hope other tribes will learn to stand with one voice and adhered to similar non-violent call in the nearest future. It is really a test of relevance in the scheme of things the Igbos in Nigeria and to me IT IS WELCOMED. KUDOS

Anything you've done before then are the things to do by then. Be focused and aim and shoot if it hits targets good if not continue. Life is not that kind of race, if you've achieved the stated and others before 35 good it might not even be close to what you can , and peeps if you are still way off and you're more than 35 then don't let these makes you think you have failed. LIVE YOUR LIFE THE WAY YOU CAN AND WANT BUT TRY NOT TO HURT NO ONE AND YOURSELF.

Let me ask is there any difference in the way some of them dance on stage and on videos and what the way go-go and strippers do except the clothings. If some pays to watch a stripper do the same thing as beyonce on stage (like I said except that she's cladded)then if strippers backside could be touched or slapped , Why not Beyonce's ? The guy should've shown restraint anyway

It is of no suprise to me that abati ranted like that, I remember FaniKayode insulting everybody including Wole Soyinka and other elders across the country then and I said to myself, this reign is just for a s-e-a-s-o-n which is definitely going to expire and it did see him today. It is now Abati's time to do same let him continue, his own season to will definitely expire and we'll aklll be able to be on same common man level then he can recount and either be sober or continue to think he still "has it". It is however shameful when he ( repeating I'm not surprise though its always been in the blood) can resort to such low level of throwing insults like omo alata ( no offence meant to those people majority of them are noble anyway)/ area boys/ street urchins then he has actually spoken, it is uncalled for and besides why taking it that personal ? We are waiting and watching. TOO MUCH POWER AND CONSCIOUSNESS THEREOF DEY REALLY OVERLOAD SYTEM WITH ADRENALIN.

Just BB and he was jailed that is what people are saying here :oJust BB and he was jailed that is what people are saying here It just shows how much we endorse morality. The truth be told majority of us have lost morality. If you'd ever lost a hand set with all your contacts and information to thieves then you'll not feel sorry for any type of phone be it cost 3000. It's like setting one back and killing permanently or temporarily an aspect of ones life. No justice resides in our hearts no more and I smh for thus country.

Your intensions are good but your action wrong but not irredeemable, let the guy be and never make such sacrifices for a guy or anybody. Who said in the first place that he is your responsibility ? If e doesn't have a job, then let him leave with it, he should have been whining about it ( This goes for al guys and girls , nothing is your responsibility until you are married). Bluff your boss and resist his blackmail( Yes you can even while in the same office). Ask for Gods forgiveness and forgive yourself then move on.

JAmes Brown the father of rock n roll :oJAmes Brown the father of rock n roll where is Little Richie ?

In a way you are correct being proud of who we are just like any other people will but we make the loudest noise, sorry. That may not be true in all aspects though because some people in this country really appreciates other people for their peculiarities and what they bring to the table and are humble enough to concede such to the other people. a virtue in-born and indoctrinated into , they don't force their ways and believes down the throat of others and therefore has the largest population and indeed percentage of non-indigenes residing and making a GOOD living from their area. Anytime you come in the country Nigeria, that's where you'll most likely feel safe to stay.

sweetcheecks: Wow, you are hopeless!



By the way I have come to accept that Africa to Nigerians mean Nigeria. That is painfull realisation.

It also make me wonder why the tittle of the Father of African Literature would be given by Americans just becouse the man happened to work among them. If one takes you discription of what the status af a Father of. . . What about the Sotongas, the Plaatjies who wrote most African most popular anthem? God bless Africa?
And how come none of the initial SA writers are not called fathers as they were the first to be educated and have a black university in Africa ( Uni Forte 1916 vs Uni Ibadan 1948 )

And why were and are still most Africans not aware of Chinua? But are very well aware of Soyinka?
If he is father aint we as African suppose to impose the tittle on him rather than some Americans who get exposed for the first time to a African/Nigerian writer?

Please forcing a crown on this man is more disgraceful and embarassing more than anything. Please let go! He is a father of his children, for goodness sake! Go be a hero and stop looking for heros.

Unfortunately, that chance of a last encounter was missed, so I don't really wish to comment on the work at this point. It is however a book I wish he had never written – that is, not in the way it was. There are statements in that work that I wish he had never made.

Bluff is no substitute for bullet.

But – “rivalry for domination,” to quote you – healthy or unhealthy? Now that is something that has been cooked up, ironically, by camp followers.

Before that, I had hosted them in my Abeokuta den on a near full-day visit. Would Achebe, if he had been able, and was in Nigeria, have joined us? Perhaps. But he certainly wouldn’t have been present at the Awolowo Award event. That is a different kettle of fish, a matter between him and Awolowo – which, however, Chinua did let degenerate into tribal charges.

Well then, this prospect that “my 1986 Nobel Prize in literature poisoned my personal relationship with a supposedly resentful Achebe” – I think I shouldn’t dodge that either. Even if that was true – which I do not accept – it surely has dissipated over time. For heaven’s sake, over twenty-five people have taken the prize since then! The problem remains with those vicarious laureates who feel personally deprived, and thus refuse to let go. Chinua’s death was an opportunity to prise open that scab all over again. But they’ve now gone too far with certain posturings and should be firmly called to order, and silenced – in the name of decency.

It is a Nigerian disease. Nigerians need to be purged of a certain kind of arrogance of expectations, of demand, of self-attribution, of a spurious sense and assertion of entitlement. It goes beyond art and literature. It covers all aspects of interaction with others. Wherever you witness a case of ‘It’s MINE, and no other’s’, ‘it’s OURS, not theirs’, at various levels of vicarious ownership, such aggressive voices, ninety percent of the time, are bound to be Nigerians.

Yes, these are the ones who, to co-opt your phrasing, “diminished (and still diminish) Chinua’s image”. In the main, they are, ironically, his assiduous – but basically opportunistic – hagiographers – especially of a clannish, cabalistic temperament.

Chinua is entitled to better than being escorted to his grave with that monotonous, hypocritical aria of deprivation’s lament, orchestrated by those who, as we say in my part of the world, “dye their mourning weeds a deeper indigo than those of the bereaved”. He deserves his peace. Me too! And right now, not posthumously.


It is not all bleakness and aggravation however – I have probably given that impression, but the stridency of cluelessness, sometimes willful, has reached the heights of impiety. Vicarious appropriation is undignified, and it runs counter to the national pride it ostensibly promotes. Other voices are being drowned, or placed in a false position, who value and express the sensibilities between, respect the subtle threads that sustain, writers, even in their different orbits. My parting tribute to Chinua will therefore take the form of the long poem I wrote to him when he turned seventy, after my participation in the celebrations at Bard College. I plan for it to be published on the day of his funeral – my way of taunting death, by pursuing that cultural, creative, even political communion that unites all writers with a decided vision of the possible – and even beyond the grave.

Was it the Nobel that spurred a young writer, stung by Eurocentric portrayal of African reality, to put pen to paper and produce Things Fall Apart?

For those who could not realize the level at which they've so much descended into in playing tribal games and displaying crass puerility with this text. refusing to behold the deserving respect these literary icon have for each other and removing facts from emotions and fictions. Then what could I say let them ( thrse jingoists) continue to wallow in their KNOWLEDABILITY and continue to spill out their trash we are amusingly reading. Its a case of BONE OR NO BONE QUESTIONS I MUST ANSWER BONE.

I hate beer and alcohol and will avoid salary wages and allowances that is made from tax thereof. Infact, I will neither collect anything from anybody that is linked to alcohol in anyway be it through work. Will not be allowed to be sprayed or helped from money it . If a man is dyeing because he's consumed alcohol I will not touch him let him die because it's against my religion to touch or be touched with it. I want to ask, is it not consumption that is forbidden ? I will not forgive my boss, the government or neighbours if they force me to do any of the above.

In the heat of the moment, you really forget that the next person is a Babalawo or an aetheist and you'll share and express the moment. If God can grant us mercy and come so low to forgive us by giving us these laws to observe in the first place, then who are we not to do likewise, coming down from our mighty pious holy pedestial. Where is now the justice that is to be extended to all Humans. Well they should avoid to infringe on his right to religion and forestall the wrath of the pious Islamic pratisioner. GOD ALMIGHTY as translated into all languages is the GEATEST.

Some response has actually revealed how educated but uninformed , uncivil and uncultured we can be. The way some don't see anything wrong in misdemeanor and feigning ignorance of what even a secondary school leaver should be aware of and abide with. It is the same culture of contempt we display to every rightly constituted authority and order in all spheres of life that which is a major problem in this country is what was displayed brazenly by the Youth Corps members. Sometimes it is not the weight of the offense that matters but committing the offense and the wide no- remote implications. Let them be docked to set example for their stupidity and unexpected ignorance.

I must confess that I am really elated at what I ve been reading so far about the history and the culture so far that is at least devoid of foreign religious influence and knowing about another culture in its beautiful untainted and innocent self. truly foreign religion ( from the middle east ) has caused us serious damage but it's not too late, though. I believe and worship God.

Fulaman198: The thing is that many Nigerians generalize, they don't even realize that majority of Boko Haram isn't Hausa or Fulani but Kanuri. Most Southern Nigerians could care less, to them Hausa, Fulani, Touareg, Kanuri are all the same. That is pure naivety.

You can blame them, being that the most if not the only visible position which these groups have been identified with and which they used to sell or perpetrate themselves and the region has been nothing but common Islamic Heritage, infact it is presented in such a way that nothing else matters to them in that region except Islam even if everybody is starving. ( Not necessarily food)

I guesss you are a n airforce soldier, less things are best said in the open . It takes less effort to know who you be judging from your utterances and I guess you know the consequence just try and be guided that is if you are airforce operative
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solomon111: None of the jets in the military are flying coffins,though i believe we should have decommissioned some of them by now.
The airforce is currently looking for air-superiority fighters,and i just hope they go for SU-30.

Unmgh! 5 supefighter jets which can cover majority of our immediate threats that really we know their capabilities ( what gives you impression that the aircraft in this case is not one ?). Well I don't blame you that much I just remember that as up-coming middle class Nigerians, we think less of functionality of our cars and things we most atimes acquire to our lives and pocket and jobs but how superb it will make us look before our peers and neighbours, major reasons why most of us covetous , corrupt and self gratifying. Well you have some point though but I only agree with you 30 percent

Mad Cow: So we should rather put our officers inside aircrafts that are so easy to shoot down with a simple RPG instead abi?

Why not spend money to purchase 5 super fighter jets rather than have 25 super ordinary flying coffins?! Just the other day in Port-Harcourt, I saw an Airforce Gunship that was smoking as if it had just been hit in combat.

Just couldn't but laugh at the last 2nd and 3rd comment before mine at the level of idiocy ( I can't help at this time but to be abusive)displayed. w Which pilot especially on Fighter aircraft in the world does not know when and how to pull ejection seat? In fact Ejection seat are like G-suits worn by the pilots in that without knowing one you cant fly. Any pilot in Nigeria military have had nothing less than 18 months active training abroad prior to over two years training in Nigeria with certified well maintained aircrafts, some can even pull more Gs than your high fabled Oyinbo pilots . Do you think they are ( were) stupid as some of you are portraying yourself here. None of this internet idiots were ther ewhen they were earning their full wings and what one idiot is saying is they don't know that there ;s ejection seat or don'[t know how to operate one. These clowns don't realize that some African countries bring their ac into Nigeria for servicing. because you see some seemingly grounded aircrafts at the airports does not mean the ones flying are not in excellent conditions and besides HOW MUCH REALLY IS NIGERIA"S MILITARY BUDGET SEF. YET OUR SOLDIERS STILL KEPP A HIGH MORALE AND DOING A GOOD JOB Too much TV made some people chasing dreams, who say ejection is possible in all situations ( bastards who have never done or achieve anything in their lives except sitting down before a laptop and feeling tough. I wish we can see the faces of people on this forum sometimes. Really.

MY PROFOUND CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES< CLLEAGUES, THE SERVICES AND THE WHOLE NIGERIA FOR THE LOSS OF THE LIVES AND THE PROPERTY. LIVES CANNOT BE QUANTIFIED AND THAT AIRCRAFT TO ACQUIRE ALONE REQUIRES NOTHING LESS THAN 10 MILLION DOLLARS ( MY ESTIMATION) EXCLUDING OPERATIONAL AND MAINTENANCE COST AND OTHER OVER 30 SOLDIERS REQUIRED DIRECTLY ON IT TO MAKE IT FLY. ITS HIGH TIME WE START APPRECIATING THE LITTLE THINGS IN THIS COUNTRY DON'T MIX YOUR HATRED OR FOR THE POLITICIANS AND POLITY BECLOUD JUDGEMENT ON OTHER SMALL BUT WORTHY THINGS INCLUDING HUMBLE EFFORTS OF UNKNOWN PEOPLE IN THE LAND.

Wht is so shameful about it yyou want the heavily sophisticated stuff which at the end of the day will become waste. You arm yourself according tp you perceived and real threats . What are our major immediate defence or military threats. Cameroun, Niger or Bennin republic. What are their capabilities .Do you a acquire pistol or rifle , when your immediate threat is a lizard ? _[/sub][sub][sub][/sub]