Kano state (North)one of the best city in Nigeria.

Kano is the capital city of Kano State in North West, Nigeria. Kano is the commercial nerve centre of Northern Nigeria and is the second largest city in Nigeria.

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Justice must always be served in the end

gambia:
There shall be no peace for the wicked.

Rwandan genocide suspect, Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 26 years on the run, the French justice ministry said.

The 84-year-old, who is Rwanda’s most-wanted man and had a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, was living under a false identity in a flat in Asnieres-Sur-Seine, according to the ministry.

French gendarmes arrested him at 0530 GMT on Saturday, the ministry said.

Kabuga was indicted in 1997 on seven criminal counts including genocide, complicity in genocide and incitement to commit genocide, all in relation to the 1994 Rwanda genocide, according to the UN-established International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT).

Rwanda’s two main ethnic groups are the Hutus and Tutsis, who have historically had an antagonistic relationship and fought a civil war in the early 1990s.

A Hutu businessman, Kabuga is accused of funding the militias that massacred some 800,000 Tutsis and their moderate Hutu allies over a span of 100 days in 1994.

“Since 1994, Felicien Kabuga, known to have been the financier of Rwanda genocide, had with impunity stayed in Germany, Belgium, Congo-Kinshasa, Kenya, or Switzerland,” the French ministry statement said.

His arrest paves the way for the fugitive to come before the Paris Appeal Court and later be transferred to the custody of the international court, which is based in the Hague, Netherlands and Arusha, Tanzania. He would then be brought before UN judges, an IRMCT spokesman said.

Two other Rwandan genocide suspects, Augustin Bizimana and Protais Mpiranya, are still being pursued by international justice.

“The arrest of Félicien Kabuga today is a reminder that those responsible for genocide can be brought to account, even twenty-six years after their crimes,” the IRMCT’s Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz said in a statement.

He added the arrest was the result of cooperation between law enforcement agencies in France and other countries including the United States, Rwanda, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and others.

Rwanda’s justice minister, Johnston Busingye, told Reuters that a statement on the arrest would be issued but did not specify when.

Kabuga, who controlled many of Rwanda’s tea and coffee plantations and factories, was part-owner of Radio Television Milles Collines which ran a radio station that fanned ethnic hatred against Rwanda’s Tutsis, told Hutus where Tutsis were to be found and offered advice on how to kill them.

He is accused of being a main financier of the genocide, paying for the militias that carried out the massacres.

His arrest “is an important step towards justice for hundreds of thousands of genocide victims…survivors can hope to see justice and suspects cannot expect to escape accountability,” Mausi Segun, Africa director at Human Rights Watch, told Reuters.

Source:- ● Reuters

This bill looks fair...

Koralords:

Thanks bro ,you helped me to know more about his death

the pleasure is mine

Koralords:
Listened to that guys music when growing up,one of my fond childhood memories

well I lived a compound where our landlord plays his music all the time and then he would talk about the man and about how he died by his own doings, so I heard his music recently and decided to look for stories about him and his death. Well I'm glad you know the true story now.

agbekeOreke86:
Such a sweet read.The yoruba 'chip-ins' made it more interesting.Thanks OP ....i love Ayinla 'mowura's music...'awon to ngun eh bi eshin to ba pe won,won a mo eh loju. .....mo nsoo...

my pleasure to share the long but worth the read event of a music legend.

oloriooko:
Tnx OP it was worth the long read
Lalabrother you do well

He claimed that after Ayinla grabbed his cloth, Ayinla began to tremble all over and then collapsed. His Counsel argued that the evidence of the prosecution witnesses contained such contradictions as to make it unreliable. Counsel also argued that if at all Ayinla was attacked, it was in self-defence. Case adjourned for judgment.
The whole of Nigeria waited with baited breath. Rumours began to circulate. Someone claimed that Ayinla had woken up miraculously! It was also claimed that Baiyewunmi had disappeared from prison. Rumors grew wings and flew far and wide throughout Yorubaland that Ayinla killed himself.
The Courtroom was filled to the brim on the day My Lord Justice Kolawole was to deliver the judgment. The judgment took the whole of one hour. His Lordship held that Baiyewunmi had to be taken as having intended the natural and probable consequence of his act, which was that Ayinla would suffer grievous harm as a result of the blow to the head.
At this point, Justice Kolawole looked up from his record. There was pin drop silence in the court room. Baiyewunmi stood in the dock with his head bowed. Counsel for prosecution and defence watched His Lordship intently.
The judge turned another page and continued: “In coming to my conclusion, I only need to say in the words of Apostle Paul in his letter to the Corinthians at chapter 11 verse 29: ‘For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself…The accused eateth and drinketh unworthily; he eateth and drinketh damnation to himself.”
Baiyewunmi was therefore found guilty of the murder of Alhaji Ayinla Waidi aka Ayinla Omowura, Egunmogaji of Egbaland, Anigilaje, Alhaji Costly!
Baiyewunmi was sentenced to death accordingly.

-Background research and information extracted from Music of Our Fathers by OLÁNREWÁJÚ

He plied Abeouta-Lagos Route. It was said that Ayinla would sing non-stop from Egba to Lagos on his trips.
He was humming his new songs whilst been driven in his King of Road, a brand new Mercedes Benz. It must have been the mental exercise, Ayinla’s throat began itching for something stronger than cold water. Alhaji Costly directed his driver to stop at a beer parlour for the much needed refreshment.
Like the King he was, Ayinla stepped out of his car majestically. He was followed by the driver and two of his bandboys who were with him in the car.
Egunmogaji! People hailed the maestro. He waved at them. He was wearing his magic ring.
Apparently, Ayinla was not the only one who needed a drink. Seated comfortably in the bar and enjoying himself was no other person than Baiyewunmi himself! Baiyewunmi!
Ayinla saw Baiyewunmi! Baiyewunmi saw Ayinla! Two elephants met! “Lo pe Olopa fun mi ni Eleweran! Oju Ole re!” Ayinla ordered his driver to run to Eleweran to fetch police so that Baiywunmi, the ‘thief’ could be arrested.
Police ke! Baiyewunmi stood up immediately. The bar became tensed. Everybody in the bar knew everybody. Baiyeunmi was not afraid. It could have been Dutch Courage. He took another sip at his beer. He placed the heavy mug back on the metal table. “Hadji Costly! Oro yi ko le to bayi.” He addressed his former boss with the endearing name he knew Ayinla loved.
Omowura was unmoved. “You are sleeping in Eleweran tonight! Ole!” Seeing that entreaties and pleas would be futile, Baiyewunmi weighed his options. He decided to bolt. Ayinla was blocking the entrance, but not totally. His medium frame was not enough to stop a determined band manager. He took on Egunmogaji headlong. Ayinla was not a former driver for nothing. He swiftly stepped aside. He lunged at his attacker. He caught hold of his cloth. Baiyewunmi was caught like a spider. Anigilaje smile triumphantly.
What happened next was as surreal as a scripted movie. Baiyewunmi was locked in Ayinla’s tight grip. Though his hands were free, Ayinla held on to his cloth tightly. Police would soon be here! Ayinla beamed at his quarry. It must be the word ‘Police’ that Baiyewunmi heard. He staggered back to where he was drinking, dragging Ayinla with him. His hand caught the handle of his beer jug. In a moment, he struck Ayinla on the head with the now empty but heavy mug.
Ayinla collapsed like a shot antelope. Baiyewunmi didn’t wait a moment longer. He fled. Omowura felt the wetness of his head. He raised his right hand to assess the damage. His hand was soaked in blood.
Ayinla began to chant incantation from one of his albums. Bi iku ba n pa won leworo leworo, ki e ma ka temi mo won (If death was killing them by the dozens, my death will not be included).
His two boys took him to the hospital. Ayinla must not die! Music must not die! Doctors battled to save the life of the musical genius. People stood outside the hospital praying ceaselessly. Muslims, Christians and Traditional worshippers cried to the heavens.
Cock has crowed. Eagle has flown away. Ayinla Omowura is gone!
Baiyewunmi was arrested and charged with the murder of Mr. Waidi Ayinla contrary to section 254(2) of the Criminal Code. The trial judge was Mr. Justice Owolabi Kolawole of the Ogun State High Court (later OFR and later, Justice of Court of Appeal).
Medical evidence was presented. The cause of death, contrary to long held myth, was not the magical ring. The ring – be it plastic, wooden or golden – did not even attract a mention in the trial. The cause of death was certified to be cerebral shock resulting from a fracture of the skull associated with a contortion of the brain as well as large intracranial haemorrhage consistent with the deceased having been struck on the head with a heavy object. Big Grammar! In a layman’s basic English, Ayinla’s head was cracked with a jug. Simple!
In his defence, Baiyewunmi denied striking Ayinla.

Alhaji Wahidi Ayinla Omowura
Born in Itoko, Abeokuta in the early 1930s. Also known as Anigilaje, EgunMogaji, or Alujonu Elere ‘Djinn of Musicians’, he was the musician of choice of motor parks up and down Agege Motor Road, Lagos, and well into Abeokuta and environs.
He steadfastly released album after album during the years 1970 and 1980, with his albums selling like hot cakes on EMI NIGERIA label. Anigilaje reigned supreme at the annual Ogun festivals of motor parks, Ogun Ajobo / Sango, Ogun Ajobo / Mushin, Ogun Ajobo / Oshodi.
According to rumors and myths surrounding his death, Ayinla Omowura killed himself.
How? Well, according to the same long held popular beer parlor rumors, Ayinla Omowura had a ring which he wore permanently on the thumb of his right hand. It was however not an ordinary ring. It was a magical ring. With the ring, Ayinla could sing in Hausa, Igbo, Fulfulde, French and English Languages effortlessly but there's no record that the list included Mandarin. Thank God we were spared the spread of his language prowress to the orientals because our social contact with the Chinese or Beinjin was far and limited during that period.
That was not all. The magical ring is said can also make Ayinla to disappear at will. Anyone slapped with the ring, according to the myth, was bound to collapse and die. The ring however came with a warning. It has èwò – a neutralizer. It must not come in contact with human blood. The day it touched blood would be Ayinla’s last day.
Waidi Ayinla was bold! Egunmogaji was brash! Omowura was brave! Anigilaje was uncouth. Alhaji Costly was an iconoclast. He was the stormy petrel of Yoruba music in the 70s. He took no prisoners. He admitted in Omi Titun Ti Ru that the only person he respected in music circle was Haruna Ishola alone!
So how did Ayinla kill himself?
As the infamous myth goes, Ayinla was at a party where he was invited to play when a fight broke out. He saw that his band boys were involved in the fracas and he decided to intervene. In the process of mediating, someone hit Ayinla with a metal chair! Blood! Instinctively, Ayinla felt his skull with his right palm. You can imagine the rest.
Sorry to disappoint you that contrary to this long believed tale by moonlight, Ayinla Omowura was not killed at a party.
So where or how did he die?
Baiyewunmi was Ayinla Omowura’s band manager for many years. He was Ayinla’s dependable Man Friday. He booked his shows, arranged his programmes and was also responsible for keeping the band’s money. In at least two albums, Ayinla sang his praises, even if fleetingly.
Then the bubbles burst. Ayinla accused Baiyewunmi of fraudulent accounting. On top of this, he was in custody of a Yamaha 90 motorcycle that Egunmogaji gifted him before the bubble burst, of which he had sent word for him to return.
Baiyewunmi was summarily summoned to Itoko in Abeokuta by the Emperor of Music. Perhaps scared of Ayinla’s fiery tongue (or afraid of the famed Magic Ring), Baiyewunmi, the embattled band manager refused to appear in court to show cause.
Egunmogaji declared him a wanted man. Everyone in Abeokuta began looking for the estranged Baiyewunmi. Had he fled Egba to Lagos? Someone claimed to have seen him on his way to Cotonou. Another claimed he was in Ibadan arranging some boys to rival Ayinla as Apala Musician. And there were reported sightings in Kano, Enugu and Kafanchan. But no one reported seeing him in Abeokuta.
Where was Baiyewunmi! Of course, Baiyewunmi was in Egba Alake. He was not even in hiding.
In Yoruba land, name – whether given or adopted – is usually instructive. Omowura was the golden child of Apala music. Baiyewunmi loved good life. And good life loved him. And that proved to be fatal!
Ayinla Omowura had just finished composing another blockbuster album in his head. He had a legendary reputation for not writing his songs down.
Before he became a professional musician, he was a motorboy and later a driver.

we don't need the government to buy these food packages and be sharing at our door steps. let them just credit one of our bank accounts linked to our bvn(at least they claim its a bvn for each person). we will get food that we need on our own.

id4sho:
Things fall apart

the center cannot hold

Obj has been writing open letters for a long time. Here is one he wrote on behalf of those ingrates in South Africa, addressed to Margaret Thatcher, the leader of one of the world's greatest nation at a time few would have dared to do so.

August 1986

"Dear Margaret,

After our meeting on Sunday, I write as one committed democrat to another. Yours is an old country with a lengthy democratic tradition; mine a new country undergoing a press of nation-building. But as democrats, we can be frank with each other.

As you know, I came to the EPG (Eminent Persons’ Group) mission with reluctance. It was difficult enough for me as an African and especially as a Nigerian to contemplate exchanging pleasantries with those responsible for the institutionalised oppression of so many of my brothers and sisters.

My repugnance was exacerbated by the widely held perception that the EPG was a substitute for action won by you at Nassau for the benefit of P.W. Botha. However, I persuaded myself that whatever the odds, the prize was so great that I should overcome my personal feelings.

Not that I was prepared for what we found. As you know, even Tony Barber – a frequent traveller to South Africa – was appalled by what he was to see in that other South Africa which visitors seldom see. We jointly expressed our shock and dismay in our report.

I have seen extremes of poverty and of oppression in many parts of the world. But South Africa unashamedly moulds both elements into a system which enables the white minority to enjoy a “Dallas” lifestyle at the expense of the great majority forced to endure conditions as degrading as anything I have seen anywhere.

In our discussions, Malcolm Fraser and I tried to convey the true nature of the system and were against cosmetic changes which have merely softened the face of apartheid.

However, such was our discussion that I must ask: Did you even read our report?

I infer from what you said that afternoon that you had not. You concentrated on the trivia of the Government’s “reforms” – like the welcome but essentially insignificant repeal of the Mixed Marriages Act – and ignored their implacable opposition to changes in the basic pillars of apartheid.

As we emphasised, to begin to dismantle apartheid, the Population Registration Act and the Group Areas Act must be repealed without being replaced by some measure designed to achieve the same ends under a different guise.

You gave credence to the dangerous notion that the political rights of the dispossessed can be adequately met by what President Botha calls “group rights” at the expense of individual rights and freedoms. Despite all the talk of “power sharing” between different communities, our inescapable conclusion was that this was a cloak for power remaining in white hands, and the essentials of apartheid continuing unchanged.

Nor have you any appreciation of the issue of violence. The apartheid system has an inherent violence which, through forced removals and the creation of barren homelands, has created the fiction of a white land and through the barrel of the gun, denies blacks any form of legitimate political expression.

We are all opposed to violence other than in self-defence. Why should blacks not have a right to defend their own families, homes and freedoms?

Your “moral revulsion” for sanctions struck me as unconvincing. The economic sanctions you so energetically pursued against Poland, Afghanistan and Argentina were brushed aside in your determination to withhold their application to South Africa. Yet to many of us there is only one significant difference: the victims in South Africa are black. Is sauce for the Aryan goose not sauce for the Negroid gander?

Your concentration of the economic effectiveness of sanctions is disingenuous if not hypocritical. Sanctions were imposed against Poland, Afghanistan and Argentina as political expressions of outrage.

Nor can your opposition be based on any assessment of where the best interests of Britain lie. Your country has considerable trade with South Africa, but this is dwarfed by that enjoyed with the rest of Africa: it cannot be in Britain’s interests to encourage them to place their orders elsewhere.

Further, your appearance as an apologist challenges the democratic forces in South Africa to seek help from whatever quarter they can. The longer-term consequences for Britain, the United States and the West could be considerable.

But most of all, I was dismayed by your lack of vision. You offered no action as an alternative to sanctions. You insisted that nothing whatever be done – even though in the final analysis you moved a little. There is no vision of a way ahead; simply a forlorn hope that P.W. Botha would experience a “Road to Damascus” conversion on the road to Soweto. Such hopes are in vain.

Sooner or later, Botha or his successor will be driven to negotiate meaningfully. Sir Geofferey’s visit again confirmed that Botha is not yet under sufficient pressure to do so – despite a dwindling rand, escalating inflation, a declining economy and mounting violence. More pressure must come.

I must tell you that many people around the world view your continued opposition to sanctions as founded on instinct, not logic and as displaying a misguided tribal loyalty and myopic political vision. The consequences of such perceptions are far-reaching for a country which has traditionally claimed the high ground of principle.

Not only does the mental laager of the Boer seem to be mirrored in your own attitudes, but his fatal concessions of too little, too late are paralleled by your actions.

I am glad that the Commonwealth has moved on without you and I know that sooner rather than later, Britain will have to join us. I also know that apartheid will end, and its demise will be the product of a combination of internal and external pressures. The equation is a simple one. The less the external pressure, the greater will be the price to be paid internally.

Those who seek to minimise sanctions and their effect will have the blood of thousands, if not millions, of innocents on their hands and on their consciences. My heart will be heavy but my hands will be clean. Will yours?"

(General Olusegun Obasanjo was Head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria 1976 – 79 when he handed over power to an elected civilian government. He was later elected President of Nigeria from 1999-2007.)

Asisat to the world again... Congrats girl

this one no fit make heaven oooo!

You just Graduated or Finished NYSC? And you're quite confused, here are few things you need to do:

-Be specific about where you want to work and what career path you want to go in line with. Don't stay open, and hope for whatever comes your way.

- Attend conferences and meetings in your career line.
This way you can meet so many people in your field and increase your network which is quite brilliant! Most of the jobs you would get would come from your network.

-Apply:
The job isn't going to fly into your mail, how many times have you applied? have you reviewed your CV, what is missing? I read about a man who wrote to 360 companies seeking for a job.

No job is too small:
Rather than sitting at home, take on something. I had honestly told myself I wouldn't mind being a cleaner for @MoAbudu
if I wanted to work with her, at least you get the opportunity to meet them and have a conversation.

Learn a skill:
Don't stay idle, the Internet is full of lessons and the more skills you have the more likely you're going to get employed by that HR.

Intern:
Most companies are looking for interns, and as much as I hate interning in Nigeria, it's honestly one of the best ways to meet some of the big goons. Just ensure you don't run too many errands and forget why you came.

Lastly, Be desperate, do people really know you're seeking a job or you've left the work to your parents to find you a job.


@enioluwa_

itswell2019:
Do you know any centre in abj

just use google, there are a lot of them in abj

There are fertility clinics in Lagos that pay from N20,000 to N50,000 for your sperm.

Don't just self-service away, MONETIZE IT!!!

These are some location for both eggs & sperm donation clinics.

There are however criteria
1. Male (18 - 45 yrs), Female (less than 30 yrs preferably)
2. Non-smoker
3. Free from Hepatitis, Syphilis, HIV & other diseases
4. AA genotype
5. Tall, preferably 5ft 8' and above
6. Must be ready and available for intensive screening and medications.


Location
Omni Medical Centre & Advanced Fertility Clinic
18 Boyle Street, Onikan, Lagos.

Kanz Specialist Clinic & Maternity Home
Unity Street, Ikeja, Lagos.

Ayomide Women's Health Specialist Hospital &IVF Centre (Egg donor are in high demand here)
30, Road, opp. Dayus Petrol Station, 2nd Gate, Powerstation Powerline, Osogbo, Osun.

I will add more if I get further information.

There are actually more fertility clinics all over the country than we actually imagined. I remembered being continually begged to donate my sperms when I was in Medical School.

Just Google fertility clinics in your location and walk in if you meet the criteria.

Cc: Dr Ayeni
https://mobile.twitter.com/Adamsayeni/status/1135470733721776128

so na housegirl the man fit see?

Kingosytex:
no blame the guy jor, body no be firewood

according to the lady, this is happening right now in her neighbourhood.

This hausa man and his family went for tahajjud only for the man to sneak away from the mosque and go back home to meet the housemaid.

read the image below
https://twitter.com/jimenez_cartel/status/1135424349282787329

The bet won was placed on Man U not losing more than a goal margin.


Many thought Barca could win with plenty goals but woe unto Barca and their fans

MrBrownJay1:
what man in his right mind would bet on Man U?! really...

DaBogu:
I am 21 years old, and he is 57 years old, Will the relationship walk??

it will crawl

Tuface rose by pulling blackface and faze down as alleged. Let's be guided

SyrusdeHansome:
Envy has turned this one into a sad old man. Maybe he fails to understand that God doesn't give every man the same measure of gift. Tuface is greater than u today because he took a decision to maximize his God-given potential while u keep wallowing in pain because of laziness. U said u wrote African queen nd tuface made money with it then write a song better than African queen. Maybe ur talent is writing songs nd not singing.

Sometimes good and wonderful isn't compatible...

DanDeeBoss:
If he's a good man and Lilian is a wonderful person, then what went wrong??

Who is this one

peteruuu:
LUST, not LOVE

If truly she loves him, she'll not bring those stuffs that would destroy his life the more.


Heck!.

-Birdbox
-Skateboard or die

Sanchez01:
The year rounds off some hours from now and movie lovers already have their sights on some releases starting from April, 2019. No doubt, there has been good movies this year just as some hyped, horrible movies. Sequel to the 'best movies of 2018' thread, it would be nice to have a list of horrible movies released this year.

Well, I have them in abundance and will try to list them as they come to mind. In no particular order, below is my list of horrible movies of 2018.

1. Venom: Lazy storyline, inconsistent and disjointed
2. Annihilation: This movie is purely dumb as a donkey
3. The First Purge
4.Kin
5. Samson
6. Sicario 2
7. Silencer
8.Tango One
9. The Cage Fighter
10. Batman Ninja (Anime)
11. The Dark Kingdom (Mtchewwwww)

I've lived in Lagos and have heard stories about most lagos rogues or kleptomaniacs but the name Michael Suya seems not popular.

Who would help us share his story?

4years ago Atiku was a SPECIAL GIFT & an ASSET to Buhari. He wasnt Corrupt to them & none of them asked him about travelling to the US.

Do you know Bayo osinowo? Just close your mouth and be watching jare. Anyways Thanksgiving go sweet for church tomorrow na�

seanfer:
And where are those shouting Godfather last week?.. Gbenga Ashafa just lost Primary Election

achievers007:
Becomes black all of a sudden boooooom

And what was that on her leg?

its called shoe cover