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malton:
Make an Igbo man the head of any security agency and watch him attempt to move its headquarters to Enugu.

During Jona's regime, a certain aviation minister alongside the then head of school of aviation, also Igbo, made desperate attempts to move the NCAA from Zaria to Enugu. It took the intervention of numerous northern elites to halt the move.

When Dora was made information minister, she also made attempts to move the National Film Institute from Jos to Enugu. The indigenes had to protest to have the decision rescinded.

People are suspicious of the Igbo man for justifiable reasons; he sees everyone else as undeserving of anything.

The are not politically sagacious.

There are many good Igbo people out there, but the shady ones make you stand firmly on your feet whenever you deal with any Igbo man. It's pathetic.

Hmmn.... this is deep!

robosky02:
by the way

children of "nama days" I don't think they enjoy half of what we enjoyed back in the days

seating before the television to start at 4:30pm

after school things

Na true word you talk! Your post make sense, die! Children of nowadays cannot understand the simple pleasures we enjoyed in those days. Now they live a gadget-filled life, from mobile phones to video games. I ate every thing you mentioned in your posts. From Planta to Okin biscuits, and Cabin Biscuits. Chai! Time don go, o! How old am I sef? I am scratching my head, still trying to get the answer...

By the way, do you remember using this telephone? My uncle told me this was the type of phone that was available during their time, and you had to press the buttons several times to even get a dial tone.

DupsonProperty:
BE PART OF THIS FUTURE INVESTMENT AND OPPORTUNITY. WHEN LEKKI PHASE ONE BEGAN,IT was formerly known as MAROKO, a slum inhabited by poor people, before it was destroyed by the then Raji Rasaki led State Military Government in Lagos(to know more about lekki phase 1 and 2 in History, http://nigeriarealestatehub.com/lekki-peninsula.html/) Credit to Lekan Olofinji. NOW A PLOT OF LAND IN LEKKI IS NOTHING LESS THAN 180-200MILLION. A place which was formerly a slum, a poor and rejected area, a place the government had to intervene to prevent an outbreak of disease is now the a citadel for comfort, glee, security and a gold mine for real and good investment.…………

Stop telling such fake stories! Lekki Phase 1 was NEVER known as Maroko. The area known as Maroko extended from Sandfield area in Victoria Island to Dideolu Estate & Oniru Estate. Lekki Phase 1 was a fresh site reclaimed & dredged from the Lagoon in the late '70s to early '80s.Lekan Olofinji needs to get his facts straight. You don't need to use his lies, as part of your marketing strategy in order to make a sale.

obaaderemi:
37 .It's just that the rate at which things nosedived saddens me and makes me feel I am no longer in the same country where i grew up,though even then i didnt think i was living in a good society,but then things were cheap and power supply was good.I am talking about early 90s nigeria.Now explorer's thread shows us it was even better in the 60s and 70s.

Thanks for your response. I understand what you mean. I truly do. I pray Nigeria gets better soon, for all of us.

nonjebose:
Why are you displaying your silliness. Outrageous bill issued for darkness is also caused by Ibori.

You dey mind am? Am not a fan of Ibori, but the blame for these huge bills that bear no correlation with the power supplied, should be laid squarely at the doorsteps of the Discos!

obaaderemi:
A bottle of 35cl coke was just N1 in 1990 if my memory serves me well.You wouldn't even buy teabags of lipton way back then,you would buy a pack.One naira could buy stuffs then.A DC comic then at utc stores,dugbe in ibadan was 6naira and a tintin comic was 25naira.The last time i saw tintin comic at shoprite,it was 1600naira.even with my humble background,i could save money and buy those things on my own as a child.i just pity today's kids with humble backgrounds.

Oga, if you don't mind my asking - just how old are you?

See some of the other things that happened during the trial.

THE TRIAL.... continued

On September 4, Lekwot and six others were charged in a new 22-count indictment, which included a charge of culpable homicide, punishable by death. Lekwot was also accused of distributing guns and ammunition to a riotous group and inciting a group of Katafs to violence. In December, virtually all the charges were dropped except that of culpable homicide.

During the second trial, Justice Okadigbo repeatedly demonstrated his bias against the defendants to the point of reportedly terrorizing the defense attorneys, the defendants and spectators. His improprieties included telling the defendants during the trial that there would be "gnashing of teeth" on the day of judgment, and threatening to jail defense lawyers if he did not like their lines of inquiry.

On September 29, the leading defense counsel, Chief G. O. K. Ajayi, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, threatened to withdraw from the proceedings which, according to him, had become "impossible from the point of view of the defense."

Mr. Graham-Douglas, one of the Christian members of the Tribunal, resigned early in the proceedings, giving the reason that the other Tribunal members met privately without him and gave judgments on cases they had heard together without seeking his opinion.

In late October, defense lawyers went before a Kaduna High Court to seek an injunction restraining the Tribunal from further handling the case because the defendants were unlikely to receive a fair trial. The Kaduna High Court refused to grant the injunction on the grounds that it lacked jurisdiction over the case.

The ruling was upheld by the Court of Appeal on November 20, 1992. The defense then took their case to the Supreme Court.

However, on December 1, while the case was pending before the Supreme Court, the government promulgated Decree 55 of 1992, which removed the authority of the regular courts, including the Supreme Court, to hear any case regarding any abuse of constitutionally guaranteed rights by the Tribunal and in all other cases involving military decrees.

According to Decree 55, constitutionally guaranteed rights may be obviated by military decree. https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/NIGERIA933.PDF

xtreemk:
SOUTHERN KADUNA: WHO ARE THE REAL VICTIMS?

Muhammad Auwal Abu Suhaib Jama’a town was founded by the Muslims in 1804 under the Ruler ship of Malam Usman Yabo and similarly Zango town by the Hausa Muslims traders. Therefore, the crises in the region is a grand design to completely wipe-out the Muslims and Muslim Communities in the area by the Christians Militias taking advantage of their numerical strength. It is important to note that, the Districts of Zangon Kataf, Kachia, Kagarko and Chawai referred to as at then as Southern Zaria were under Zazzau Emirate until the creation of Chiefdom by the administration of Colonel Lawal Ja’afaru Isa in 1995 and the additional by Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi in 2001.

Details of some these crises were given below:

(1) 1987 Kafanchan Violence, 19 Muslims killed,Many wounded and property worth N78,537,768.94 destroyed. Instigators are
(i) Rev Abubakar Bko
(ii) Capt Manya
(iii) Fellowship of Christian students
(iv) Mrs Ladi Lekwot and others,

(2) 1992 Zangon Kataf Genocide against Muslims,1,533 Muslims massacred, thousandth wounded and property worth N207,658,560.00 destroyed.
The planners and executors were: Gen Zamani Lekwot,
Mal B.A.D Gora,.
Mr J.B.Ayok and many Christians and political leaders.

Gen Lekwot and 5 others were found guilty and sentenced to death but was not carried out.

Stop spreading lies and falsehood. Maj-Gen Zamani Lekwot did NOT instigate any crises. He was framed. Ask Col. Yohana Madaki who was assigned to defend him at the trial. And your one-sided recital is trying to portray the Christians as instigators of the crises, when they are most definitely NOT the ones who started it.

How come none of the Muslim instigators were included in your list? And how come none of the Muslims involved in the violence were tried and sentenced for their role, during the attacks? Didn't they bear arms? Didn't they shoot to kill? Or was it Christians that were fighting among themselves? Is that what you want people to believe??

Let everyone read this report.

NIGERIA MILITARY INJUSTICE | Major General Zamani Lekwot and Others Face Government-Sanctioned Lynching | Volume 5, No. 4 | March 30, 1993

Fifteen Nigerians are currently imprisoned, awaiting death by hanging for their supposed participation in ethnic/religious riots in Kaduna State, in northern Nigeria, in May 1992. The death sentences were delivered by two Special Tribunals that tried some 70 suspects alleged to be involved in the riots. All constitutional guarantees were suspended for the trials, and there is no right of appeal.

The farcical proceedings threaten to culminate in a government-sanctioned lynching. None of the trials even approached the stringent due process requirements for the imposition of the death penalty that are established by international standards.

The case of a group of six of those sentenced to death has attracted particular international attention in part because of the distinguished record of one of its members, retired Major General Zamani Lekwot, who was military governor of Rivers State in southern Nigeria in the 1970s and later held the title of Ambassador-at-Large to Mauritania, Senegal, Cape Verde and Gambia. The trial of the six, before Benedict Okadigbo, a retired judge, was characterized by an extraordinary level of abuse, including blatant bias and hostility by the judge, a presumption of guilt and inadequate access to counsel.

A number of factors point to the involvement of Nigeria's military government, led by President Ibrahim Babangida, in ensuring the convictions of the Lekwot group. Most significant is the promulgation of a military decree that barred any court from inquiring into abuses of constitutionally guaranteed rights that occurred during the trial.

Human rights attorney Chief Mike A. A. Ozekhome, president of the Universal Defenders of Democracy, a recently formed human rights group based in Lagos, has challenged the death sentences on the grounds that Lekwot and the five others did not receive a fair trial. The suit has secured a stay of the executions until March 31.

BACKGROUND

Political, ethnic and religious factors all contributed to the riots and the subsequent arrests, convictions and death sentences. Nigeria's tightly controlled transition to civilian rule has forbidden Nigerians from forming parties of their own choice, including any parties based on ethnicity or religion. In denying Nigerians a legitimate arena for the promotion of interests based on ethnicity, the government has driven these ambitions underground. This has heightened tensions among the country's more than 250 ethnic groups, which often see themselves as competing for political power.

In Kaduna State, as in northern Nigeria as a whole, the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group is the largest and most politically powerful. The Katafs are one of the ethnic Christian minorities in the north, of which General Lekwot is a member and for whom he has been for years a vocal leader and organizer. Zango-Kataf, inhabited by both Hausas and Katafs, has been a center of tension ever since colonial days. It is there that violence erupted in 1992.

Disagreements between the Hausas and Katafs over land ownership date back at least a century. Katafs claim that Hausas are settlers on their land, which the Hausas deny. Katafs resent the regional political system, a holdover from the colonial era, which vests authority over non-Muslims in Muslim leaders. The Katafs and other non-Muslim ethnic groups in the north have been demanding for years that they be allowed to elect a local chief of their choice. This right continues to be denied them.

A precursor to the May devastation occurred in February 1992, when approximately sixty Hausas and Katafs died in communal violence. The immediate cause of the conflict was a plan to move the local marketplace from the center of the Hausa district to a site where the Katafs were in the majority. Political analysts stress that a struggle for political power in light of the impending hand-over to democratic rule was also an important factor in the violence.

Katafs were irritated by several procedural issues surrounding the seven-person commission of inquiry established to investigate the violence. They complained that Kaduna Governor Dabo Lere appointed a majority of Muslims to the Commission, thereby weighting it against the Katafs. They also objected to the shift in the venue of the commission from Zongwa, the Zango-Kataf local government council headquarters, to Kafanchan, a larger city nearby, and finally to the city of Kaduna, capital of Kaduna state, where Muslims are the majority.

Both Muslims and Christians criticized the government's inadequate response to the crisis. After the February violence, Isa Kaita, a former federal minister and respected Muslim, and Kaduna's Archbishop Peter Jatau led meetings to help resolve problems between Christians and Muslims. They recommended that joint Christian-Muslim committees be formed at all levels of government to resolve problems and sent
the recommendations to President Babangida, but no government action was taken.

In mid-May, the violence spun out of control when a number of Katafs engaged in what was apparently a killing spree against the Hausas in Zango-Kataf. The violence spread to the cities of Kaduna, where some of the wounded were transported, and also to another large city, Zaria, also in Kaduna State.

In those cities the violence took on a more overtly religious--rather than ethnic--tone, with Hausa Muslims apparently attempting to avenge the killings in Zango-Kataf by attacking Christians irrespective of their ethnic identity.

The government claimed that fewer than 300 died, but others contend that thousands lost their lives. Calm was restored on May 20. On May 22, the governor, without legal authority, dissolved the Zango-Kataf local government and appointed a sole administrator, Mallam Haruna Zok, to oversee the area. https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/NIGERIA933.PDF

THE TRIAL

On May 18, the Federal government established the Zango-Kataf Civil and Communal Disturbances Tribunal in Kaduna City, with powers to try those allegedly involved in the bloodshed. In addition to the Chairman, Justice Okadigbo, the other six members were: Godwin Alaye Graham-Douglas (Senior Advocate of Nigeria), Alhaji Aminu Malumfashi, Hajia Tani Yusuf, Otunba A. Adeleke Adedoyin, Colonel Yusuf Abubakar and Mustapha Wali. The composition of the Tribunal, which includes five Hausas, four of them Muslim, led to a wide perception of bias against Lekwot and the five others.

General Lekwot was arrested on May 18, sent to Kuje Prison, nearly 200 miles away, and detained incommunicado under Decree 2, which provides for virtually unlimited detention without charge or trial. After pressure from human rights organizations and others, Lekwot and five other Kataf leaders were arraigned on July 29 before the Tribunal and charged with unlawful assembly with intent to subjugate the Hausa community in Zango-Kataf. Both before and during the trial, the defendants were held in abysmal conditions in Kaduna prison, where they were not allowed access to their families or attorneys.

According to Mike Ozekhome, the human rights attorney, the government violated its own military laws in establishing the Zango-Kataf Tribunal. Civil Disturbances Decree 53 of 1987, which provides the legal basis for the Tribunal, requires the government to establish a commission of inquiry and conduct investigations before bringing charges. That requirement was ignored when the Zango-Kataf Tribunal was
established.

The trial was subject to obvious political influence. In August, when it became apparent that there was insufficient evidence to convict Lekwot and the others, the prosecution filed a motion not to pursue the case. Meanwhile, however, as reported by the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, a Nigerian human rights group, the politically powerful Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, and other prominent Hausa-Fulanis publicly demanded that those responsible for the Zango-Kataf riots not be spared.

Apparently in response Justice Okadigbo, in ordering that Lekwot and the others be released, said that the "police would have to do their duty." The six were immediately rearrested on the Tribunal premises and placed in incommunicado detention in Kaduna Prison. Read the rest here: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/NIGERIA933.PDF

Samanza89:
Our bill for February was #52,978.82....
Can you beat that?... Just for a single compound, Just my family, no tenant, no business of sort. Less electricity, if there is any agency to be probe by EFCC it's certainly this electricity companies.

What marvel me most is my neighbour, he was disconnected for a month and they still brought him bill. Is he paying for his SINS?...

It is the same story in many parts of Nigeria. Every DISCO uses this same method of sharing outrageous estimated bills to consumers for poor electricity supply, as a way to increase their revenue generation scheme. Eko Electricity Distribution Company (i.e.Eko Disco or EKEDC) is the worst culprit in this regard! Benin Electricity Distribution Co. (BEDC) which is in charge of Sapele, learnt the tricks of the trade from them! Welcome to the real world. The world where useless Discos act with impunity.

ShoProperties:
The on-going construction of the West Africa gas pipeline project in Ibeju-Lekki LGA by the Federal Government will serve the energy needs of the industrial and residential occupants of this axis.

In what part of Ibeju-Lekki is this pipeline being constructed?

Bookmarked. Am following...

demovertion:
the high number of Nigerians who don’t own a home. A recent study confirmed that over 70% of Nigerians, particularly residents of Lagos, continue to live in rented properties. Affordability remains the biggest problem as many people, despite having decent jobs and a fair income, cannot afford the high-interest mortgages offered by Banks.
This your chance!!!
Not all of us will be millionaire or billionaire but, with this bizz we can create more middle class.
By using laterite 80% 10-20% cement with give you solid bricks.
With machine below.

Hi demovertion, hope you are doing good. I had to move your post from here: https://www.nairaland.com/2970495/quotation-right-2-bedroom-apartment/3#43503422 down to this thread. Hope you don't mind. Did your firm build this brick house shown below? If the answer is yes, can you give an estimated cost of the whole project? How much cheaper was it to build, using stabilised laterite bricks as compared to the normal sandcrete blocks?

Kagawa10:
What's this one saying?

No one stopped him from contesting but the point is nobody voted for him because he wasn't one of us! Get that into your dumb brain!

Zik wasn't voted in the West like Eyoita was in the East. His party people and AG party voted for Awolowo only for the idiotic Zik to throw the tribal card that his party people cross carpeted to Awolowo's party.

Eediots always throwing the blame card and acting as the victim when they are always the one to show their inbred greedy devilish acts. Why the fool couldn't contest in the North where he was born is what I don't understand.

Whichever ways, our Deji has spoken and the Eze Ndigbo fool who first attacked the cones of the honey bees now knows whatz up! Greedy self entitled being.

Ignore that chap. He is a pretentious joker who goes around parading himself as a pseudo-intellectual, in his misguided bid to be taken seriously. His stock in trade is propaganda. You can see the way he has been throwing tantrums up and down on this thread. Anyone who does not agree with his warped view is Afonja, even if such a person is Gwari, Ibibio, Kataf, Itsekiri or Jukun.

Read this excerpt below, and you will see that Awolowo's victory which was attributed to 'cross-carpeting,' tribalism or an ousting of Zik, was untrue. Some fringe parties in the SW came together to give their votes to Awo. The Western NCNC supported Zik till the end.

In the first place,Zik never wanted to assume the position of Head of Government Business in the Western Region in 1952 as alleged. Evidence abound that all that Zik wanted was to install an NCNC government in the Western Region and then proceed to the central (national) Legislature in Lagos as decided by the NCNC national executive committee.

Secondly, the “famous carpet-crossing saga” is usually somewhat over-stretched and has been used to foist inter-ethnic misunderstanding between the Igbo and the Yoruba. It is not true that Yoruba NCNC parliamentarians abandoned Zik on the floor of the Western House of Assembly and crossed over to Awolowo’s side as often painted.

The truth is that five members of the six elected parliamentarians from the Ibadan Peoples Party, IPP, led by Adisa Akinloye (and some other fringe groups) tilted the balance in Awolowo’s favour by teaming up with the Action Group, AG; the sixth member, Adegoke Adelabu, joined forces with the NCNC to form the NCNC-Mobalaji Grand Alliance.

For too long, many Igbos have been deceived into believing that the Western NCNC abandoned Zik and that the Yoruba are therefore a bunch of shifty, non-trustworthy people that are unworthy of strategic (political) alliance. Far from this, the Western NCNC stood solidly behind Zik to the bitter end.... http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/zikeyo-ita-face-off-aladinmas-misrepresentations/

Virgohills:
Hello guys, I’m Bayo Fagbenro.
I have been working for Spots.ng for a while now and I want to talk to you about the opportunities that I have benefitted from this past month.
I first saw a post on Facebook advertising a job of 4,000 Naira per day. Basically, what the job is about is sending in the names and addresses of great locations and spots (minus hotels) that are popular in your locality or throughout Nigeria. For every spot that I submitted, I earned 200 Naira, and after every 20 that I send, I get paid in batches of 4, 000 Naira.
At first, I was doing 20 per day, but now I do between 50-60 each day depending on the feedback from my friends in other states and the speed of the internet. And now, I have been making 9, 000 to 12, 000 Naira every day
They don’t ask for picture, just a name, address and description of the place.
In this time of recession, this thing has helped me a lot and I felt like sharing to others too.
Here’s a link to the submission form if you are interested:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJ9YlYcyjV6jgQSedku51NG6zHFE5qsVs72rglgciFmakMtA/viewform

Here’s a link to their website: https://sites.google.com/hotels.ng/spotsngupload/

You have started this your fairy tales on this thread again, without answering the questions that were raised on the last thread you created. Let everyone read it here: https://www.nairaland.com/3644451/earn-4000-naira-every-day

You absconded from that section, only to resurface here with the same stories you have been peddling on NL. Na wah for you. This your scam is not working, nah. Just drop it!

Rockyrascal:
lipton for 75k,

75 kobo. It was less than 1 naira. Or didn't you grow up to see them using coins as a means of legal tender?

gartamanta:
This what people say when they have no superior argument. History is there and the fact remains that Gowon caused the war by going against the Aburi agreement he signed in Ghana

Your mission to derail this thread with your propaganda will NOT succeed. Abeg, swerve! Explorer, resume your posts please.

Would these Nigerite houses be as strong as those built with laterite bricks or stabilised mud blocks? Kindly read up more about houses built with stabilised laterite blocks on this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/3142733/building-interlocking-bricks-photos/2#down .

Here is another thread that deals with construction works: https://www.nairaland.com/1376075/alternative-building-technology-application-nigerian

jojoki:
I used the Hydroform Bricks materials for a clinic construction like 3 years ago. It was a wonderful experience then

laudate:
Are those the pictures of the clinic? Wow! Nice!! Can you kindly give a rough estimate of the budget spent on the building then? We can adjust for inflation and run the current numbers, to see if it beats using the wet construction method. What was your experience on site, using these laterite bricks?

@Jojoki, can you kindly respond please?

topsy23:
oNigerite is using the same method to build house in Nigeria. There is a completed project in portharcourt rumuji area. No stress and very fast. 3bedeoom flat can be deliver within 2weeks. There is another on-going project with the same method along Lekki -Ajah road immediately after the second toll gate. We handle Electrical and plumbing installations for them.

I have posted one of the pictures here, so that we can see exactly what it looks like. But how durable is it? It looks as if the walls are thin and can easily be pierced or shattered by a sharp object. Or am I wrong?

What about the interior? Is it insulated? What material are the boards made of? Won't it get too hot inside the building?

cupidhero:
I'm that son that knows we don't need to torture or kill animals carelessly in order to look good. Fur coats, Snake skin belts/shoes and even croc leather goods is a no no for me. 90% of the money generated from poaching activities like ivory hunting end up in foreign pockets. Indigineous owners of the lands were these elephants are killed and slaughtered for their ivory tusks gets nothing.

Donate those ivory bracelets & anklets to the Onikan Museum in Lagos, or any of the museums closest to you. They would surely appreciate it, and put it on display as a historical artifact.

ab11baddo:
nice... For those " we developed Lagos "

Hehehe.... That was the same thought that crossed my mind when I saw that picture, too!

gartamanta:
No you are wrong. The coup did not lead to the war. It was not the 'proximate' cause of the war. This is one error a lot of Nigerians believe which must be debunked.

Nigeria was already on the path of war even before 1966, violence was prevalent especially in Western Region.

What causes a war is the same thing that causes a fight, the inability of two or more people to reason like adults and reach a compromise that does not include fighting.

That was what Gowon and Ojukwu met in Aburi to avoid. The met, discussed for two days and reached an agreement which both signed. The went back home and there was peace. War became inevitable when Gowon could not live up to his side of the agreement.

The war was not caused by the first coup, it was caused by Yakubu Gowon.

Stop this yah propaganda, abeg! Don't derail the thread! Explorer, continue your good work, jare....

BabaRamota1980:
Well done Explorer.

This Biafran soldier flogging a villager in one of the places they invaded and planted flag.

Bookmarked for reference.

Jiang:
people from that era don enjoy woh, How i wish i had a time machine, i remember my grandpa saying at that time, YOU CAN GET ONE BIG YELLO & BLACK LEDA FULL OF PROVISIONS FOR JUST 50 kobo, something even 3k cant do for you nowadays

Just look at how organised, awesome & beautiful Nigeria used to be

Which kain 3k? Na 10k you go spend now. Which time you go market last?

@Explorer, this thread is beautiful. God bless you! Keep up the good work. And thanks for the memories.....

Explorers:
General Gowon shaking Justin Trudeau as a baby in 1973. Trudeau is now the Prime Minister of Canada at 42.

This was history in the making! Why didn't my parents allow me to shake a president's hand too, when I was small??

Explorers:
Vintage Brand new Volvo ads, #14,000.

=N=14,000 naira only?? You got to be kidding me! What year was that?!

Explorers:
Sitting room from 1973. Nice TV set.

Choi! It is exactly like my late grandad's TV set. The thing stopped working years ago, but he refused to part with it, till he died!

Hmmn... this is deep. I have heard that in some communities in Nigeria, if a man dies intestate without kids or sons, his mum (if she is still alive) can marry wives who would go out and procreate with strangers, in order to have male children that would carry on the man's name after his death.

pasol4real:
See who is talking ,
Lazy asses claiming they will survive without igbos .
Everything that Made Lagos What it is today is gotteb from biafra land especially oil n the igbos.
Who says an igbo man is interested in ruling Lagos .heck we are not even interested in ruling nigeria how much more Lagos.
So u ppl are free to rule while we keep making money buying off lands n Controlling the economy of Lagos.
Statistics now Shows that igbos own 58% of lands in Lagos.
Food for thought

Bia, what brand of weed are you smoking?

uzoclinton:
London TV worker: ‘I was dismissed from my job in Soho for being too good looking’

A London TV worker claims she was dismissed from her job at a Soho production company for being “too good looking”.

Emma Hulse says she was sent home from her freelancing shift at the central London TV company by a manager who told her: “You should be on a catwalk”.

The 24-year-old, who lives in Mayfair, said she was only five minutes into her eight-hour shift when her boss told her to leave.

Company UNIT TV, based on Great Marlborough Street, accepted the incident happened and have since dismissed the employee who was allegedly involved, who had only been working there for three months.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-tv-worker-i-was-dismissed-from-my-job-in-soho-for-being-too-good-looking-a3470651.html

The girl never tell the whole truth, jare. Something happened that they are hiding. It is either:

1). The girl was totally unfit for the job, because she performed poorly or lacked the skills to carry out her assignments;

2). Her boss tried to date her, and she turned him down. In retaliation, he cooked up some silly excuse and decided to relieve her of her appointment.

metrosexual:
You are such a pathetic liar!

As stated by them on "their" website: "A POI contains information such as the name of the place, description,contact information of handlers, coordinates and a minimum of 4 descriptive pictures.

They can't even get their own website, they are using Google free site platform, these set of people can easily get your information and not give you a dime and disappear!

Shey na dat one dey vex you? Cool down small. Just click on the 2nd link he provided, and open up the excel sheet attached to the page. Read it carefully and you would see the bank account details of all those that have sent articles to them for payment!! These chaps obviously do not realise they can be sued for uploading personal details of a person's account numbers for public viewing, without permission.

Kanyeti:
Kayode Adams was a student activist at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) in the mid-sixties.This was a period when the Federal Government removed Prof. Eni Njoku as the first Vice- Chancellor of the institution and replaced him with Prof Saburi Biobaku. The students’ protested against the decision and in the process, Adams stabbed the new VC when he assumed office in 1965. He was tried by a Lagos High Court and he pleaded insanity as his defence. FRANCIS FAMOROTI, Head, Judiciary reports.

.....A radical student activist identified as Adams surged forward from the crowd and stabbed him on the back, ostensibly in protest against Njoku’s removal. The VC fell and was promptly rushed to the university medical centre. Adams was immediately arrested by the Police. There was tension in the university and this incident resulted in the closure of UNILAG for months.

.... As it were, after Biobaku’s medical treatment, he returned to UNILAG and served his tenure without any further hitch. It was learnt that Adams died mysteriously some years later. Since that unfortunate incident occurred 49 years ago, the university has never again witnessed any physical attack on its past and present VCs.

In fact, Biobaku left as the UNILAG VC in 1971. Another historian, Prof. Jacob F. Adeniyi Ajayi took over from him and served between 1972 and 1978. Thereafter, Prof. Kwaku Adadevoh was appointed the VC from 1978 to 1980. Prof. Akin Adesola took over in 1981 and served till 1988 when Prof. Nurudeen Alao succeeded him. The later left as VC in 1995. Prof. Jelili Adebisi Omotola became the VC in 1995 and served till 2000 while Prof. Oyewusi Ibidapo- Obe took over from him and he completed his term in 2007.
Other VCs are, Prof. Tolu Odugbemi: 2007-2010; Prof. Babatunde Adetokunbo Sofoluwe 2010-2012 and Prof. Rahmon Ade Bello who assumed office in 2012 and he is still occupying the VC ‘s office till date.

Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the doctor who prevented Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American man infected with the deadly Ebola virus from leaving the hospital, and ended his quest to spread the virus in Lagos, was the daughter of former Unilag VC Professor Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh (deceased) of the Adadevoh family of Anyako Royal House, Ghana and the Crowther/Macaulay family of Lagos, Nigeria and Deborah Regina McIntosh of the Nnamdi Azikiwe (President of Nigeria 1963-1966) and Smith/Wilkey families of Lagos, Nigeria. She gave her life to prevent the death of millions and slipped into eternity on August 19th 2014. May her soul rest in peace.

Professor Akin Adesola who later served 2 terms as VC of Unilag, was said to be the most urbane, charming and approachable VC the institution ever had. Student unrest declined drastically, and his easy-going style endeared him to the students. Peace reigned during his tenure. His successor Professor Nurudeen Alao was the one who came in and sought to "islamise" the school. Under his tenure, the wearing of hijab was launched and Muslim students took an active part in Students' Union activities.

Their religious activities were also given centre stage, and a call was made to segregate the car park of the mosque from the carpark of the chapel. Both buildings stood next to each other, and under Adesola's time, worshippers could park anywhere they wanted. All that changed with Alao. The first casualty of his reign was the Mr. Unilag & Miss Unilag contests, which were suspended without a good reason.

Luckily, his successors and other subsequent VCs were less strict. Prof. Jelili Adebisi Omotola became the VC in 1995 (may his soul rest in peace!) made staff welfare his priority and launched the Unilag Staff Housing Scheme both in Magodo and Awoyaya area in Lekki, during his tenure. Under Prof. Sofoluwe and Prof. Ibidapo-Obe, Unilag car parks were turned into revenue generating schemes under a 'park-and-pay' scheme. Even with the ones that surrounded the hostels. The students found a way round it however. They offered to give the carpark attendants a percentage of the full fee, if they could turn a blind eye to their antics and give them access to a space.

Shops were built on open spaces and efforts were made to increase the number of classrooms and academic blocks. Today, the school is overbuilt and the large expanse of greenery and open spaces have been taken over by different structures. Its' structural beauty is slowly declining and something needs to be done about it.

ChetaNwaeze:
We Igbos are the one that developed Lagos

Dem don start! Bia keta, which kind of ogogoro were you drinking, when you typed this one?

florixi:
Many Thanks to igbo for that. hope u will be able to develop Nnewi too?

....and Aba, Onitsha, Enugu etc. Oh, you forgot to add Umuahia and Awka to the list! I hope they can develop each of these places, to the current level of Lagos.

funmisticqueen:
lagos was great before you igbos came along after all it was a city, the capital of nigeria before the civil war. Please kindly go back to your bush village in the east and develop it to move nigeria foward. Your tribe can help us decongest lagos via a mass exodus. No matter how u say you develop lagos, none of your tribesmen can ever govern this state, you will ruin it. We true lagosians just tolerate u and allow you longthroats in our land. It would be best you remember that .

Chimo!! See finishing....

supomi:
Dana Air launches two sweet initiatives....

As fares keeps skyrocketing in the aviation industry occasioned by operational challenges, Dana Air has taken a step to ease the pain of travelers by launching a perfect valentine promo.

Also, the airline has launched additional flights to Port Harcourt

_mtcheew... Nothing can make me fly Dana Air again. Their customer service desk is one of the most chaotic, that I have ever come across. I remember one time in Abuja when everyone was struggling to get seats out of the city on a Friday evening, to Lagos.

We had all paid for our tickets, only for them to tell us at the counter that there were no more seats. Immediately, they added an extra surcharge to their fares, for those who wanted to be put on the waitlist, in case seats became available.

Come and see how people were rushing to pay extra money to Dana, in the hope that they would still be able to board the plane. Okay, after waiting for about 3 hours, the plane finally arrived and we boarded. Only for us to discover that the entire plane was half-empty. Yet, they had given us a false impression that it was over-booked, and even made two-thirds of us to pay extra money, to secure seats.

When they now told us after boarding, that we would still have to wait another hour to get more passengers, come and see how people on board lambasted them. No one told them, before their pilot shut the doors and took all of us with the half-empty seats to Lagos.

Despite the fact that Emeka Mba the former Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) carried out his assignment in a commendable manner, there are some disgruntled elements who are bent on tarnishing his reputation. The question is why?

A look at Mba, former DG of NBC last days in office and the Digital Switch Over | March 14, 2016 | IT PULSE MAGAZINE.

The last days of Emeka Mba, former DG of NBC was turbulent, owing to his arrest and subsequent detention by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on alleged N15 billion fraud within the commission. In this report, Martin Ekpeke takes a look at how Mba piloted the affairs of NBC and the now controversial Digital Switch Over.

The activities of the former Director General of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mr. Emeka Mba have been seen as innovative; especially the way he liberalized issuance of broadcast licenses; thus, the rise in number of radio and TV stations across the federation.

At the last count, Nigeria presently has over 410 Radio and Television stations spread across the country. These exclude the over 30 Internet Radio stations, which are currently broadcasting.

Again, the way and manner he anchored the funding of the Digital Switch Over process at the time the federal government appeared handicap as a result of the paucity of fund shows thoughtful leadership, worthy of emulation by other government agencies and parastatals.

Nigeria was unable to meet its international obligation to transit from analogue to digital broadcasting. Nigeria could not meet the July 2015 deadline set by the International Telecommunication Union, an arm of the United Nations, which Nigeria is a member.

This was due partly to the huge burden on the economy emanating from the 2015 elections, which was around the corner, and the pressures of the war against Boko Haram.

But in his thoughtful leadership, the former Director General of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mr. Emeka Mba looked at a proposal from Technology Advisors, a leading ICT Law Firm in the country and a dedicated DSO funding platform was developed on the basis of the free and available broadcasting spectrum, which by law is under the administration of the NBC.

The express approval by former President Goodluck Jonathan to issue the licencing of spectrum covered not only the utilization of the proceeds realized for DSO, but also the format of the special auction to be conducted for the license, as well as the provisioning of set-top-boxes (STBs), providing STB rebates, DSO publicity and other critical aspects of the DSO. MTN Communications Limited, who made the highest bid offer in the special auction process, was later licensed by the NBC and the proceeds were immediately put to use as directed by the former President in order to meet the new regional DSO deadline set by the West African States.

At this point, industry stakeholders began to appreciate the innovation and wisdom of the NBC under the leadership of Emeka Mba, which was immediately recommended by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) for other nations battling with the funding of their DSO to meet the new regional DSO deadline set by the West African States.

With the understanding that Nigeria was about to create the largest digital free television network in the world with a known 26million television households, the government also approved a household set top box rebate assistance scheme, for the most vulnerable families across the country, in order to ensure that economically disadvantaged families are not cut off from watching television when the analogue switch off occurs.

The NBC in consultation with all relevant stakeholders involved in the DSO, including the licensed set top box manufacturers agreed to the STB rebate scheme financing, with the NBC provides the necessary ‘off taker guarantees’ to all the STB manufacturers through Zenith bank for the offshore manufacture and delivery of STBs for the pilot DSO launch in Plateau State.

THE ALLEGATION THAT BEING CANVASSED BY POORLY INFORMED ANALYSTS THAT THE EFCC HAS RECOVERED THE SUM OF N34BN PAID BY MTN FOR SPECTRUM, AND WAS ALLEGEDLY STOLEN OR MISMANAGED ARE FALSE AND WITHOUT FOUNDATION.

Industry watchers are aware that the major reason the guaranty was instituted was to ensure that the STB manufacturers were assured that their investment in importing STBs for the Jos DSO pilot and establishing manufacturing plants locally in Nigeria would be safe; and to ensure that government funds were not paid up front to anyone who may end up receiving the funds and frittering it away.

It was a win-win situation designed to guarantee the availability of the product and the security of the government funds. The off-taker guarantees and also covers the cost of the provision of the digital content access fee (DCAF) for all the STBs by the authorized middleware provider (Inview Limited).

Part of the innovative plan was that the DCAF was to be used for activation of each STB and would be ploughed into a broadcasting fund for maintenance of the digital infrastructure, provide training for professionals in the industry, creation of digital content, and provides support to owners of some thematic channels such as children’s programming.

Stakeholders following the DSO have argued that it is absurd for anyone to allege that the NBC defied the Federal Government’s directive on the Treasury Single Account (TSA) by diverting funds from the proceeds of the licence fee.

Investigations have revealed that the NBC had with appropriate approvals entered necessary agreements with Zenith bank and the authorized STB manufacturers for the bank guarantees on the manufacture of the STBs, without which it would be impossible to achieve the digital switchover. A portion of the DSO fund was already encumbered through the bank guarantees provided for authorized STB manufacturers before the TSA directive took effect. It is a known fact that the rest of the funds were swept into the TSA by the bank.

In an interview with a Lagos based telecom expert, Dr. Lanre Omololu, he told journalists that “The former Director General of NBC, Emeka Mba, is a known agent of positive change and a proactive person who is even needed in this present government if am asked”.

He said Mba transformed the broadcast regulation at NBC and liberalized the industry for accelerated development.

Another ace broadcaster and opinion leader in the sector, Alhaji Garba Rano said Mr. Mba enabled the industry to grow and become a key contributor in several international content markets such as MIPCOM, MIPTV, DISCOP, CABSAT and a host of others.

To him, “These platforms created foreign partnerships and attracted foreign investments in the broadcasting industry. Alhaji Rano added that the NBC received several local and international awards while Mba was at the helm of affairs. He argues that it was his presence that provided confidence and attracted several foreign investors into the industry, and elevated several senior staff members to Directorship even when some of his predecessors refused to do the same.

“Emeka changed the NBC website, which got the Philips Consulting Award last year in Lagos and also brought about more professionalism in broadcast regulatory practice through reformative regulations and industry research,” he stress further. Read the rest here: http://itpulse.com.ng/a-look-at-mba-former-dg-of-nbc-last-days-in-office-and-the-digital-switch-over/

Waubbish! Dem no see person give sword to?? Na Yahaya Bello? See im eye. Bello wey no pay salaries for more than 6 months, wey don make 'suffering & smiling' the new slogan of Kogi people? Bello wey never do one infrastructure project for him people? Bello, wey no sabi di meaning of progress? Haba, Olowo how you come fall my hand like dis, nah?

odimbannamdi:
Your point is very valid.

A woman who is described as being menopausal now has had over 30years of being fertile and able to get pregnancies normally. It is absolutely her fault that she didnt get pregnant when she should (at least, in our morally bankrupt time, a woman can get pregnant without being pregnant)

Artificially inciting menopausal women to carry pregnancies, to me, is not morally right and bodily healthy.

Nature should be allowed to take its course. Science should be channel its efforts towards achieving feats like resurrection from the dead biko

Pregnancy is NOT a product that a person can automatically pick off a shelf, or order on a whim whenever it is needed. It is a process. and sometimes this process gets delayed, or it simply does not happen through no fault of the woman, who longs for it.

So what do you mean by saying: "A woman who is described as being menopausal now has had over 30years of being fertile and able to get pregnancies normally. It is absolutely her fault that she didnt get pregnant when she should.." How can you say it her fault that she didn't get pregnant when she should??! Are you the one that created her body??! Or do you have the secret manual about how it works??!