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jaymejate:
Seriously he went to Corona?
I've always wanted to go to that school

Please do they Study Geology

Corona is a group of primary schools, based in Lagos. The secondary school arm was just opened a few years back in Agbara area of Ogun State. Geology is a course offered at university level, not at primary school level.

PrincessJaneDoe:
Seun, we have had to change the title of this thread a few times in the past just so that it stays in the politics section. The Igbo threads on the hand have been there for over a year and nobody has asked them to change the title or moved their threads.

The content of those threads is not in anyway different from ours. Why then do we have to be the only ones to bend? If you are going to enforce rules, the least you can do is to make it applicable to everyone.

This thread is the only reason some of us visit this site. It has even brought some old members back as we have all found something we are interested in, which is the advancement of our group.

Please do right by us and move our thread back to the politics section.

Cheers.

Seun:
What's the commonwealth part about? Perhaps we should create a new thread titled "Yorubas In Diaspora News Thread"?

I agree with the Princess. Even non-Yoruba folks like us, have learnt a great deal from this thread. The title says "Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics", which I truly believe captures the essence of this thread. Some aspects of a people's culture, cannot be totally separated from their political lives. And I believe that while there would still be a mix of culture and politics in this thread at any given time, the politics aspect would still hold sway and have the upper hand.

So Seun, please kindly move this thread back to the Politics section. May God bless you, as you do so. May your babe never leave you, even if Dangote comes to toast her. And may your heartthrob continue believing you are still the world's best thing, since sliced bread.

But from the OP's post, all 3 candidates recorded 9 A1s. All of them excelled! So what makes one person first, and the other second?? I don't get it, o!

Let us hope that sometime this year, they will finally get round to harmonising all these taxes, as I still see so many disparate forms of taxes being levied everywhere by state and local govts.

Rollingdice:
ON THE BIAFRAN BROUHAHA…

I have watched with keen interest the brouhaha generated by the call for secession by the “Biafran people”. Some days back, I saw a picture of some South Sudanese eating grass as food (I do not have empirical evidence whether it is true or not). One thing immediately struck me. Some years back, when the agitation for the creation of South Sudan was at the peak, we all thought that by now, South Sudan will be in a state of “oyunua” (wonderment), especially because of the abundance of oil. Alas, we all know the true story. No sooner had they achieved independence that they remembered that they were not only South Sudanese, but belong to diverse tribes.

Today, the newest African country is involved in a state of “wadoghe” and “filaga filogo” (apologies to Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon). Today, all the promises the nascent nation once held are no longer there. There is no more Omar Al-Bashir to blame for their calamity. Every mallam is now with his kettle. Similarly, in the build-up to our independence, Ahmadu Bello, Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Abubakar Tafewa Balewa were ALL Nigerians, they were not Ibos, hausas, yorubas etc. Immediately we became a nation, everyone suddenly remembered his tribe.

For those who have studied the BH phenomenon, you will discover that one of the factors that aided the acceptance of the sect in the north-east, is what I call the “gbogbonise effect”. This is the belief that should Sharia’h law become implemented, then most of the problems would automatically die a natural death.

Methinks it is the same factor driving the quest for Biafra - the belief that if Biafra secedes, all the problems facing the Igbo people will automatically vanish. Fa-fa-fa- foul!!! So, the Aguleri man and the Umuleri man will suddenly become chums? The Abia/Imo man will permit his child to marry from Enugu/Anambra?

Ask the Igbo man what his problem is and he will tell you he is suffering “marginalisation”. I laugh whenever I hear this. You want to know what marginalisation is? Let me tell you. The Idoma man hails from Benue state, but can never dream of governing the state. Same for the Igbirra man, the Irigwe man, the Akoko-Edo, the Ogoni man cannot dream of ruling Kogi, Plateau, Edo and Rivers states respectively. And you talk of marginalisation? Which tribe is not being marginalised? Some tribes have not gotten as much as a special adviser in their state not to talk of Commissioner or minister. Therefore, your cry of marginalisation is not peculiar to your tribe alone. Besides, who said access to political appointment is a sine qua non to the development of an ethnic group? By now, the north would be a paradise of some sort. A state like Ogun would have been a paradise having had their son rule the nation for over eleven years, minus other appointments that may have been made from the state.

The idea that once Biafra is attained, everything will be transformed, is nothing but laughable. When you bicker about how the federal government has treated your region, what have you done to your governors and local government chairmen? Are you not the same people who have consistently elected a clown like Rochas, and inefficient governors like Ikedi Ohakim or T.A. Orji? The Igboman should stop blaming every other person for his woes.

I do not think I would be wrong if I say the south-east has the worst network of roads as a region (perhaps, excluding Enugu state). Have the governors done anything to fix these roads? Just in case you do not know, some state government have been fixing federal roads. Truth be told, the Igbos as we speak hold the economy of this nation in their hands. They control almost all the business ventures in Nigeria. Go to any state nationwide and remove the Ibo investment and see what happens to that state. One time the Ibos closed shops in protest over a member of theirs who got killed, the town got grounded. That is how powerful they are economically.

The question that needs to be asked is, why does the Ibo man find it more convenient to invest outside the South-east than at home? I have met some Ibo people who told me they will rather remain in the north than return home, because they do not want to be killed in their primes. As we speak, more people are still coming to the North, from the east. For the Igbos, I would recommend what Ichie Benjamin Amaechi would call “economic Biafra”. This refers to the economic development of the South-east. The Igbos should invest more at home and develop the region, rather than being cry- babies shouting “marginalisation” and “secession”.

Imagine if Aba were to be a big manufacturing hub like Guangzhou in China and Onitsha a huge market hub. Imagine if Ndigbo built more industries at home, rather than abroad or outside the region. Take a cue from the Jews. They are hardly interested in governing America but because of their economic powers, they play a critical role in who governs America. I stand to be corrected but I think Joe Liebermann is the only Jew I know to have sought a high-ranking office (and he even ran as vice-president). Yet, the Jews control almost every facet of the country’s life. That is why the USA will are not take any step inimical to the interest of the Jews in the Middle East. Dem wan die?

Another interesting factor is how the proponents abuse every other person (including Ibos) who does not buy their ideologies. They keep referring to Scotland and Cataluna. While the Scots were going about the referendum for independence, I never heard them refer to the United Kingdom as a “zoo”. Neither did they abuse the Welsh, English or Northern Irish. They went about it maturely and in a civilised manner, till they got what they wanted. I never heard the Catalans blames or insult the Basques or threatened them. They went about it till they got what they wanted.

Here, the Biafran agitators would insult the yorubas, the hausas and everyone and blame everyone minus themselves for their woes. One other funny thing I must say that most of the people carrying the matter on their heads are people who would probably not have a total net-worth of u-p to a hundred thousand naira an some who still feel pained that the man they supported in the last elections (who has moved on with his life) lost the election.

The part I do not understand is how they want to co-opt the south-south by fire, by force into their Biafra. Ojukwu did it in 1967, running away to Ivory Coast when the heat became too much and left Phillip Effiong, a S/Southerner to do the job of handing over, only to return years later, when they smoke had settled. Nnamdi Kanu is in the UK, enjoying all the good things of life because there is a government that works am you who do not have up to N5,000 in your pocket, you are joining him to make noise about war and succession? I pity you. I have witnessed a little bit of crisis in Jos an I do not need a dibia to tell me that war is a more horrible situation that must be avoided at all cost. Try and watch Al-Jazeera, CNN. Fox CCTV and other international stations and see what was does to a nation.

Even those wey bi say when dem dey school, frat men show hostel, dem go enter under bed still join dey make mouth say they are ready for war. Dem dey count meat for soup, “kpomo” sef dey raise muscle. Dem dey count animals with horns, Snail go mark register (Albert Einstein, 2005)

Assuming without conceding (Go forbids!!!) that it happens, so na Nnamdi Kanu go be una “Onye-isi? If succession must be done, it should be one in line with internationally agreed ways of so doing, and not to threaten violence and insult people. Meanwhile, those wey come dey lament say FG no give dem job, yet call Nigeria a zoo, una case ehn Amadioha still dey research wetin im go d o to una. Una ndooooo!!!! As an aside, why has Nnanmdi Kanu not been able to meet his bail conditions? So, no Igbo man can come forward to be a surety? Also, why are the Igbo elites not expressing support for the Biafran cause?

Source: https://mobile.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153809984159736&id=805874735&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.10153410686922600%3Atl_objid.10153410686922600%3Athid.772472599%3A306061129499414%3A2%3A0%3A1448956799%3A-581189169462651002&__tn__=%2As

Phew!! This article was obviously written when Nnamdi Kanu was just newly clamped into detention by the SSS. Anyway, irrespective of the time when it was published, it still makes a few valid points. I therefore assign 1,000 likes to this post!

nwanlecha:
What makes them street urchins? This is a Keke driver that is making an honest living, who proudly identifies with his country, Biafra. I don't know why some of you Nigerians look down on others, like you are better than them.
By the way, why tell us you are Igbo, like who cares?

If he loves Biafra so much, why isn't he in Ala Igbo earning his living there?? Why did he come to Lagos??

Chanchit:
I would never use this mb waasting away on my phone to watch that nonsense. And this is not tribalism, I can't enter such keke cos I dnt knw why someone clamouring for biafra sees nothing wrong in making money from a region that is not Biafra.

May you live long! I no know say you sef, see am!!

SirJeffry:
I'm sure if a man with that mentality seeks your hand in marriage, you will be so fast with these two words "God forbid"

I don't respect Bill Gate's wealth but I respect his brain for thinking out the wealth.

Some successful men we have in our society today were once danfo drivers but they were no touts.

A man who has time to make silly video like that is more of an urchin than a responsible man.

So lecharagi sim na iru puo kam hu uzo.

Enyi, daalu nu! You talk am well! Abeg, collect one chilled bottle from the waiter over there. All the drinks are on me.

zendy:
Nonsense. Suspension of parts of the constitution, limitation of press freedom and centralising of powers. These are the hallmarks of every Military rule, anywhere in world. There was no way Ironsi could rule as if he was a civilian ruler. What is important here is if Ironsi introduced the unitary system. Who abolished the regions? Who created States? Who took away resource control and federal fiscal policy? Certainly not Ironsi. Therefore, Ironsi cannot be blamed for the unitary system. But even if Ironsi was the one who did this, who sustained it? Those who killed Irondi said that one of the major reasons they did this was his introduction of unitary rule, why didn't they keep the regions and abrogate the decree when they came to power? Why did the go against the confederation they agreed to in Ghana? Let's not fool ourselves. Murtala and co wanted to pull the North out of Nigeria, but when they were reminded of Oil, they reversed. The North had to get to the oil and the unitary system they claimed they were against was the perfect opportunity to do that. To this day, they are the major proponents of the unitary system

The unification decree paved way for Gowon to come in later and create the states. Stop trying to rewrite history with your silly theories that have no basis in reality. Guy, your lack of understanding and knowledge is so painfully obvious yet, you keep refusing to educate yourself. When Aguiyi-Ironsi promulgated the Unification Decree No. 34 decree, what was it designed to achieve??

Then you turned round to say: " What is important here is if Ironsi introduced the unitary system....." What do you mean by 'If'? Oh, are you saying he did not introduce the unitary system?? And are you really being honest by claiming that: "therefore, Ironsi cannot be blamed for the unitary system?" Must you lie to get your points across? And then you went further to do a distracted dance into the realm of ridiculous antics by trying to deflect attention from Aguiyi-Ironsi and claiming that Gowon did not undo the unification decree done by Ironsi, instead he went ahead to create states. Abeg, stop this silliness.

The issue under discussion was that Aguiyi-Ironsi was the first person who destroyed the autonomy and federating structure of the regions, by enacting the unitary system. Every other thing that caused the decline of the regions started with that singular act. Stop trying to exonerate Ironsi, by beating around the bush and throwing Gown, Murtala Mohammed and co. into the mix! Stick to the topic please, and stop digressing using half-baked submissions.

Duru1:
Ironsi did not take over any government in the zoo called Nigeria. Gen Ironsi was invited to lead a nation without a government, in this case the government has been sacked by a group of junior military officers. One of the drawback about Nigeria is lack of intellectual honesty.

Hehehe.... I laugh in Greek. Lack of intellectual honesty is something you would know about, since you practice it a lot. Go and read what happened in the meeting held by the old cabinent ministers, including the late Prince Abyssinia Akweke Nwafor-Orizu the old Senate President and Aguiyi-Ironsi when he took over.

In July 2000, at a public book launching ceremony in Nigeria, Chief Richard Akinjide stated:

"Talking on the first coup, when Balewa got missing, we knew Okotie-Eboh had been held, we knew Akintola had been killed. We, the members of the Balewa cabinet started meeting. But how can you have a cabinet meeting without the Prime Minister acting or Prime Minister presiding. So, unanimously, we nominated acting Prime Minister amongst us. Then we continued holding our meetings. Then we got a message that we should all assemble at the Cabinet office. All the Ministers were requested by the G.O.C. of the Nigerian Army, General Ironsi to assemble. What was amazing at that time was that Ironsi was going all over Lagos unarmed. We assembled there. Having nominated ZANA Diphcharima as our acting Prime Minister in the absence of the Prime Minister, whose whereabout we didn't know, we approached the acting President, Nwafor Orizu to swear him in because he cannot legitimately act as the Prime Minister except he is sworn- in. Nwafor Orizu refused. He said he needed to contact Zik who was then in West Indies.

Under the law, that is, the Interpretation Act, as acting President, Nwazor Orizu had all the powers of the President. The GOC said he wanted to see all the cabinet ministers. And so we assembled at the cabinet office. Well, I have read in many books saying that we handed over to the military. We did not hand-over. Ironsi told us that "you either hand over as gentlemen or you hand-over by force". Those were his words. Is that voluntary hand-over? So we did not hand-over. We wanted an Acting Prime Minister to be in place but Ironsi forced us, and I use the word force advisedly, to handover to him. He was controlling the soldiers. The acting President, Nwafor Orizu, who did not cooperate with us, cooperated with the GOC. Dr. Orizu and the GOC prepared speeches which Nwafor Orizu broadcast handing over the government of the country to the army. I here state again categorically as a member of that cabinet that we did not hand-over voluntarily. It was a coup. "

Corroborating Akinjide's account, according to Shehu Shagari, in his Book "Beckoned to Serve",

".......At about 7.00 am, I returned to Dipcharima's residence to meet with some NPC ministers who had gathered there. Dipcharima was then the most senior NPC minister available. We received the latest reports on the situation, first from Alhaji Maitama Sule, Minister of Mines and Power, who had visited the PM's residence by bicycle! We then heard from Alhaji Ibrahim Tako Galadima, the acting Minister of Defence, who had brought along with him Chief Fani-Kayode.

Chief Fani-Kayode said he had been fetched from Ibadan early that morning by rebels and locked up at the Federal Guard Officers Mess in Dodan Barracks, where the mutineers initially made their headquarters. Disguised in army uniform, loyal troops handed him over to Alhaji Galadima, who had called in at the barracks, which was a stone's throw of his residence......The acting Minister of Defence assured us that Major-General Ironsi was doing his best to arrest the situation.

Maitama Sule and I were separately detailed to explore with our absent NPC and NCNC colleagues the possibility of naming someone to stand in for the PM. I was consulting with NCNC ministers at Dr. Mbadiwe's residence when we heard that the Northern and Western premiers, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Chief Akintola respectively, had been assassinated. Hence I rushed back to Dipcharima's residence, where I found my colleagues in a state of shock and desperation.

However, we decided to recognize Dipcharima, a Kanuri from Bornu, as our interim leader; and to ask the acting President, Dr. Orizu (President Azikiwe was away on leave), to appoint Dipcharima acting Prime Minister. We also summoned Major General Ironsi and gave him full authority to use every force at his disposal to suppress the rebellion. He moved his headquarters temporarily to the police headquarters at moloney street to facilitate easy communication with army units in the regions.

While at Dipcharima's residence, we contacted the British High Commission and requested for military assistance in the event that our loyal troops should require any. The response was positive, but the British insisted that the request must be written by the PM; or, in his absence, by a properly appointed deputy. We, therefore, drove to the residence of Dr. Orizu, and requested him to appoint Dipcharima acting prime minister. Dr. Orizu requested to see our NCNC colleagues to confirm whether they supported our proposition, and they joined us soon afterwards. They had apparently been caucusing at Dr. Mbadiwe's residence. He (Mbadiwe) was their choice of acting Prime Minister. This was naturally unacceptable to us since the NPC was the major governing party.

While we were at Orizu's residence, Major-General Ironsi, who had seemingly secured Lagos, came in with some armed escorts. He requested for a tete-a-tete with Orizu. The two had a 40 minutes discussion in another room, while we waited anxiously in the sitting room, with the armed soldiers standing and staring at us. When Major-General Ironsi finally emerged, he talked to Dipcharima sotto voce; and then drove off with his troops. Dr. Orizu then joined us, regretted his inability in the circumstances to oblige our request. He suggested we all return to our homes and wait until we were required. All efforts to get any clarification failed, and we left in utter desperation.

I was about to break the Ramadan fast on Sunday 16th January, when all ministers were asked to report to the Cabinet Office at 6.30 pm. The whole premises was surrounded by soldiers in battle order that some of us initially hesitated to enter. In the Cabinet chamber were Major General Ironsi, Bukar Dipcharima and Ibrahim Tako Galadima. There were no officials present.

Major General Ironsi admitted to us that he had been unable to suppress the rebellion, which he said was getting out of hand. He stated that the mutineers were in control of Kaduna, Kano and Ibadan, and had killed two regional premiers, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Chief Akintola. They had also murdered a number of his best officers, including Brigadiers Maimalari and Samuel Adesujo Ademulegun, the Commander 1st Brigade Headquarters in Kaduna. Ironsi was full of emotion and even shed some tears. When we asked him about the whereabouts of Sir ABubakar and Chief Okotie-Eboh, he said he still did not know but averred efforts were being made to locate them. At this stage Mbadiwe broke down and kept crying: "Please where is the Prime Minister?"

When we reminded Major-General Ironsi if he needed to avail himself of the British pledge of assistance, he replied it was too late as the army was pressing him to assume power. Indeed, he confessed his personal reluctance to take over because of his ignorance of government; but insisted the boys were adamant and anxiously waiting outside. He advised it would be in our interest, and that of the country, to temporarily cede power to him to avert disaster. Accordingly, we acceded to his request since we had no better alternative. Ironsi then insisted that the understanding be written.

Surprisingly, there was no stationery to write the agreement; and all the offices were locked while no official was around. Alhaji AGF Abdulrazaq the Minister of State for the Railways (former NPC legal adviser), managed to secure a scrap paper on which he drafted a statement, which we endorsed. That was the so called voluntary hand-over of power by the Balewa Government to Major General Ironsi! It was agreed that the statement would be typed and Dipcharima would sign it on our behalf. We were then advised to return home and await further instructions. I only got to break my Ramadan fast around 9:30 pm.

Later at 11.50 pm, Dr. Orizu made a terse nationwide broadcast, announcing the cabinet's voluntary decision to transfer power to the armed forces. Major General Ironsi then made his own broadcast, accepting the "invitation". He suspended certain parts of the constitution; set up a national military government, with the office of military governors in each region; and briefly outlined the policy intentions of his regime. Nigeria's first democratic experiment was effectively over. And although the mutiny had by then practically collapsed, military rule had arrived. It was a fact. http://www.gamji.com/nowa/nowa25.htm

Promhize:
What are you saying? The crux of the matter is that, easterners were more educated, civilised, industrialized, than the north before and after independence.

Keep recycling this propaganda, if it makes you feel better. It is really amusing to see you being brainwashed by Forsythe's book.

Promhize:
M16 agent. What won't someone hear from you guys. Lol

I was replying someone so my reply isn't out of context.

Are you aware that Frederick Forsyth has documented other wars and his books are widely acclaimed and have been immensely successful.

Google is your friend. Do the research. And yes, you were replying someone, by using a comment that was taken out of context.

In His Memoir, Fredrick Forsythe Reveals He Spied for MI6 During Nigerian Civil War | ThisDay Newspapers | 31 Aug 2015

He is known today as the author of peerless spy thrillers, but his expertise was hard won. In extracts from his memoirs, Frederick Forsyth reveals how he worked for the MI6 to spy on the Biafran government during the Nigerian Civil War.

Most people have a problem with the various organs of the British intelligence community, typified by a seeming inability to work out which is which.

There are three main organs. The least-mentioned is the biggest: Government Communications Headquarters, (GCHQ) based in a vast doughnut-shaped complex outside Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Its task is mainly signals intelligence.

Alongside GCHQ is the Security Service or MI5. Its task is in-country security against foreign espionage, foreign and domestic terrorism and home-grown treachery.

The one regarded as the more glamorous is the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), usually referred to by a title it renounced years ago as MI6. Those inside the SIS call it the Office; those outside use the phrase the Firm, and the staffers of the Firm are the Friends. Not to be confused with the CIA, which is the Agency or the Company, its staff are the Cousins.

There is often confusion between the Secret Service and the Security Service, but everyone remotely concerned is universally described by those on the outside with another misnomer, that of “spy”. The true spy is almost certainly a foreigner employed deep inside the clandestine fabric of his own country who is prepared to abstract his country’s covert information and hand it over to his real employers.

The go-between is called an “asset” and the full-time employee who runs him is his “handler”. There is the relatively new nomenclature of “spook” but I never heard the word “spy” used within that world. Only newspapers and television use it, usually wrongly.

In late 1968 I was sought out by a member of the Firm called Ronnie. He made no bones about what he was and we hit it off. There are times in your life when you meet someone and in short order decide that he is a thoroughly decent fellow and you can trust him. If you are ever deceived in this later, it is like a hot dagger.

Ronnie was an orientalist with good Mandarin but to his bewilderment had been made head of the Africa desk. He admitted he knew little about Africa and less about what was really going on inside Biafra, the breakaway eastern region of Nigeria that was at war with the central government.

What he did know was that I had reported from Biafra for the BBC — and had resigned after it banned me from going back there for refusing to toe the British Establishment’s dishonest official line on the conflict. Since then I had been reporting on the war as a freelance. Before first going to Biafra, I had been given a minutely detailed briefing by a man from the West African Service of Bush House, the famed BBC World Service, the official voice of Britain.

The east, he said, was the homeland overwhelmingly of the Ibo people, whose collective character was long-term trouble­some. On a spurious basis and led by the military governor of the region, a self-serving rogue called Colonel Emeka Ojukwu, they had declared secession from the very fine republic of Nigeria. Its head of state, the marvellous Colonel Yakubu Gowon, had no choice but to use the federal army to reconquer the east, which was styling itself the Republic of Biafra.

When I reached Enugu, the Biafran capi­tal, and recounted this briefing to the British deputy high commissioner, Jim Parker, who was stationed there and was steeped in knowledge of the country, he listened grim-faced and then put his face in his hands.

The reason became clear as he explained to me what was really going on. Every word I had been given was complete and utter garbage, but it was the official view of Harold Wilson’s government. When I subse­quently reported the truth back to London, I was accused of bias.

By the time Ronnie approached me, after 15 months of the Nigeria-Biafra ­conflict, the Nigerian army was being ­quietly equipped with torrents of British weaponry, shipped out covertly by the Wilson government, which was assuring one and all that it was neutral.

But a debate was beginning and was made more intense by the torrent of ­hideous pictures showing Biafran babies reduced to barely alive skeletons. Public marches were start­ing in London; notable ­figures were protesting.

The debate might be at a very high level and in complete secrecy but the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), which backed the Nigerian government, was fighting a rearguard action for the minds of the vacillating Wilson government.

I think Ronnie and I spent about 20 hours over several days while I explained how bad things were: children were now dying like flies. Had I not trusted his word, I would never have agreed to what came next.

THE task of SIS is foreign information-gathering and its presence is worldwide, with a “station” somewhere in almost all British embassies and ­sometimes ­consulates. Basically, it seeks to discover and forewarn.

Politicians are wont to sneer when in opposition but drool with pleasure when, in office, they are taken to a quiet room to explained to them what is really going on rather than what they thought was going on.

Politicians loathe being taken by ­surprise, but forewarning depends on knowing what the bad people are planning, are intending or have in mind. As that is rarely given away, it has to be discovered clandestinely. Hence the espionage.

This broadly devolves into three ­categories: electronic intelligence or Elint, the scouring of the surface of the world with look-down cameras in ­satellites, drones or warplanes; signals intelligence, Sigint, intercepting everything the bad people say to each other even when they think they have absolute privacy; and Humint, or human intelligence-gathering.

Britain has never been able to compete with the vast budgets of the United States and has no space programme, but it brings to the table a worthwhile contribution in Humint. Infiltrating an agent into the heart of a tricky situation can produce more product than all the gizmos could ever see or hear. It is the speciality of the SIS.

Considering the 60 million-plus population of the UK and the size of its gross national product, it has always had a smaller SIS than almost any other developed nation in the world — and thus cheaper. The British taxpayer is far from shortchanged. There is a quixotic reason for this. Unlike all other agencies, the Firm has always been able to rely on an ad hoc army of volunteers ­prepared to help out if asked nicely. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/in-his-memoir-fredrick-forsythe-reveals-he-spied-for-mi6-during-nigerian-civil-war/218972/

Dahveydson:
No vex. But filling stations in oshodi are selling fuel if you have difficulty buying where you are.

So people should drive their cars on empty tank from Ibeju-Lekki to Oshodi to buy fuel?? How long is the queue at Oshodi?? And does the fact that a few stations in Oshodi have fuel, translate into the rest of Lagos having fuel?

Promhize:
By contrast the South, invaded by missionaries, the
precursors of mass-education, soon developed an avid
thirst for education in all its forms. By 1967 when the
Eastern Region pulled out of Nigeria it alone had more
doctors, lawyers and engineers than any other country in
Negro Africa. Missionary work in the North which might
have eased that area into the twentieth century was
effectively stopped by Lugard at the request of the Emirs
when he pledged to discourage Christian apostolic work
north of the Kabba Line." - Frederick Forsyth (pre-independence British journalist and author).

You are just recycling Frederick Forsyth's book on every thread. It looks as if you just read the book, and you now want to shove it down everyone's throat. This thread is about Barewa College, and not Frederick Forsyth who was a biased, MI6 double-agent on the payroll of Ojukwu. No self-respecting scholar who has studied the civil war thoroughly, would take him seriously. People take his works with a pinch of salt.

Lugard's pledge to discourage Christian apostolic work in the North was not really successful, as large areas in the Middle-Belt converted to Christianity, including large communities in Southern Kaduna, Taraba etc, and even parts of the core North. Churches like The Evangelical Church of West Africa now called Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN), The Baptist Missionary Society or Baptist Convention etc, won converts and planted several churches in the North.

Stop quoting Forsyth's comments and works out of context, and review it against the historical realities of that era, as well as successive events that have taken place, so that your comments can be meaningful.

Promhize:
And what about this by Sir Ahmadu Bello himself

In his autobiography My Life, Ahmadu Bello recalled the
strong agitation for secession by the North and added that
'it looked very tempting'. He admits he decided against it on
two grounds, neither having any connexion with the ideal of
Nigerian Unity that possessed the British. One factor was
the difficulty of collecting customs-dutics along a land
border, the other the unreliability of access to the sea
through a neighbouring independent country.

Go and ask Ahmadu-Bello himself. You know where he was buried.

zendy:
For how long will you people keep promoting this lie? How can you say that Ironsi introduced unitary rule when all four regions were in place as at the time he was killed and all four still had the essential ingredients of federalism such as resource control and regional autonomy?

Go back into the archives and read up on what Aguiyi-Ironsi did. The 4 regions were federating units in name only, after he took over.

During his short regime Aguiyi-Ironsi promulgated a raft of decrees. Among them were the Constitution Suspension and Amendment Decree No.1, which suspended most articles of the Constitution (though he left intact those sections of the constitution that dealt with fundamental human rights, freedom of expression and conscience were left intact).

The Circulation of Newspaper Decree No.2 which removed the restrictions on press freedom put in place by the preceding civilian administration. According to Ndayo Uko, the Decree no.2 was to serve "as a kind gesture to the press.." to safeguard himself when he went on later to promulgate the Defamatory and Offensive Decree No.44 of 1966 which made it an "offense to display or pass on pictorial representation, sing songs, or play instruments the words of which are likely to provoke any section of the country."

He also as per the proposals of a single man committee passed the controversial Unification Decree No. 34 aimed to unify Nigeria into a unitary state. This decree effectively gave preferential treatment to the Igbo in Unified State were the Regions no longer had any sort of autonomy from the Federal Government........ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Aguiyi-Ironsi

banixproperties:
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Why is it so difficult for you to provide the info right here, online?? What are you hiding??

neolboy:
Libya has banned the use of Hijab why not Nigeria. Moreover its not forever just for 21days

Abi, o! Just 3 weeks.

Dahveydson:
I am in obalende now, in a brt that is using AC and the AC is on. I can't really relate to this fuel scarcity.

Ah, no wonder you are 'mis-yarning' on this thread. BRT uses diesel which is a deregulated fuel. So diesel is easily available for sale. Everyone is complaining about scarcity of petrol. Do you understand the difference?? Come down from the BRT and visit the fuel stations before you start mis-yarning and misjiving again.

Dahveydson:
Sincerely, this fuel scarcity is not as bad as it seems. I don't know about other states, but Lagos is not being affected that much. Filling stations were selling fuel today.

PS: the tweet doesn't change anything.

Guy, what part of Lagos are you reporting from?? It cannot be Ipaja, Abule-Egba, Amuwo-Odofin, Awoyaya, Igando areas, o!! No fuel along Ibeju-Lekki too, since Sunday.

neolboy:
The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has rejected in very strong terms the purported ban on Hijab in the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, orientation camps.

The Director-General of the NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, on Tuesday announced a ban on the use of “long hijab” by female corps members, citing security concerns.
But MURIC, in a statement by its director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, said the ban is unacceptable to Muslims and accused the NYSC DG of Islamophobia.
“The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) rejects the purported ban. It is reckless, baseless and preposterous. No public officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should speak in such manner.
“The pronouncement smacks of power drunkenness. It is a hate statement. The Director General needs to purge himself of Islamophobia....

“Is General Johnson aware that female Muslims in the British police use hijab on top of their uniform? Can he tell us how the hijab disturbs a corper’s uniform?

Source:www.informationng.com/2015/11/hijab-ban-in-nysc-camps-an-invitation-to-religious-crisis-of-monumental-proportion-muslim-rights-group.html

What the Director-General of NYSC banned was the long ankle-length hijab. Why are these chaps getting it wrong?? Even in the British Met Police, it is forbidden to wear long, ankle-length hijabs covering the whole body. Only the short ones that cover the sides of the neck, is allowed. It is also the same for the female muslim police officers in the US.

These people need to be sensitive to the security situation in the country. Why promote unnecessary security risk by putting on a hijab?? Female suicide bombers have been known to strap dynamite and bombs around their body, while concealing it under a hijab in order to cause havoc. Even in their uniforms, the female corpers still appear decent.

NYSC- is even supposed to offer some kind of para-military man o'war training. Do you know how clumsy it would be to carry out those exercises wearing a hijab?? Afterall, those female corpers and their parents knew that NYSC was compulsory before enrolling in it and they knew what the requirements of the uniform were. So why are they protesting, now??

Rubbish!! A very pointless thread!

prestige2013:
Energy is Expensive........
Nigeria tariff per consumption (kW/h) is still among the lowest in the world- try compare with UK and other like countries. What we lack is Energy efficiency and management and regulations. we waste energies which we in turn pay for.

What are our regulatory bodies banning when we have old technology consuming energies- any appliances without energy saving logo is a NO for me. I managed my consumption with my Prepaid meter and my energy saving appliances.......

Energy is Expensive, save energy if you don't need it and save your billing. 15hrs a day is not to bad in my area.

Please stop comparing apples with oranges!! Didn't you go to school?? In the UK, power is stable 24x7 round the clock, but not in Nigeria.

In my area on the Island where I work, we have not had light for almost 3 weeks, and even before that, we only had power for 4 hours every 2 days! Yet, their bills do not fail to come. Are we paying for darkness or what??! And you are opening your mouth to compare bills in the UK with Nigeria. Are you normal??!!

Even the pre-paid metres, it takes a long time after payment before it is installed. The bill was wrongly computed in my family house on the mainland, and the bill was 3 times higher than it used to be. After writing several letters of complaints, the head of marketing admitted there were errors in the computation, and instead of reversing it, they are asking us to go and pay first. They even went ahead to disconnect electricity from the premises. Can you imagine!! This is a house where nobody lives in except for 1 caretaker in the BQ, and the lights and appliances have been switched off for 2 years. The only thing that comes on at night is the security light which the caretaker switches on from 7p.m to 6a.m. So where is the crazy bill coming from??

Eko Disco needs to be sued for every cent they have, honestly!

scribble:
In fact God punish Eko electricity DISCO

They came with 78,0000 bill.

I pay 5000 each month

They told me its their bosses that set ridiculous targets for them as high as #200 million without even supplying light since they killed that poor Oluchi in Unilag

Is it possible to sue Eko Disco to court?? Honestly, I am tired of those billing and marketing crooks they call their staff.

AYOOZI:
We pay 25 grand

Very funny!! Were you not the same people that demonstrated against Fashola when he raised the school fees? He then reduced it by a certain percentage. Just 60%

The Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday bowed to pressure from academic union and students of Lagos State University, Ojo, by reversing the increase in school fees, which was followed by jubilations and merriment in the campus.

The reversal comes after months of protests by students and lecturers of the university. The Lagos State Government had, earlier in 2011, increased the fees from N25, 000 to N198, 000 for humanities and education, while medical students were to pay N350, 000.

Lasu students protesting school fees hike

After the protests, the state government approved a reduction by 34 to 60 per cent. That reduction would have seen students pay between N76, 750 and N158, 250 depending on the faculty and year of study.

That reduction was still opposed by the students and the lecturers. Thursday’s announcement by the governor could, however, lead to a reversal to the 2011 charges.

Chairman of the LASU branch of the Academic Union of Nigerian University, ASUU, Idris Adekunle, described the reversal of the fee as a “welcome development” adding that he is gladdened by it.

Mr Adekunle said though the havoc caused by the increase in school fee would linger for a while, its reversal is a victory for the downtrodden in Lagos who would now be able to afford tertiary education for their children.

“Many of the students who would have taken LASU have taken other universities. Many who were inside had gone to take another JAMB form and move to other universities. There is no doubt about that.

“However we believe even if we don’t get the benefit right now the next few years we would begin to see the benefit. The citizen of Lagos state would be able to afford tertiary education. That is the most important thing,” he said.http://www.nigerianeye.com/2014/08/fashola-reverts-lasu-school-fees-back.html

Cigarini:
Hello friends, pls pardon my long sermon. I lost my job 2 months after my wedding. Have been trying so hard to secure a new job all to no avail, I ventured into freelancing because man must wack. The freelance thing wasn't steady, I have faced serious hardship all this while. I did a practical interview six months ago with an oil servicing company here in Port Harcourt though I passed the interview they never called. Just day before yesterday I got a call from the operations manager who is an expertrate and he was asking me if am still open and interested for the job, I said yes, so I went there yesterday and was referred to the company's hospital for fitness test and I passed. After negotiation we agreed 3.7M annual salary. I Will be going for induction 2moro @ clients company. God who has done it 4me will do it 4 U. Just believe and it will work. Thank U

Inspiring!!

mu2sa2:
And the physical condition of the school is most despicable, almost to the point of disbelief! You dont expect any serious academic pursuit in such despicable environment. To say even a single person among the old boys has the means to turn things around for the school to reclaim its lost glory, will be an understatement. And so it is that Barewa College fell from its enviable position as a foremost public school to one of the worst schools in Nigeria! Shame on the old boys!

People like El-Rufai who is an old boy, should mobilise funds to transform the school.He has enough money to overhaul the school all by himself, if he chooses to do so. Now that he is Governor of that same state where Barewa is located, let us hope he would take steps to improve the fortunes of the school.

Professor Patrick Obasi who was once the Director-General of the World Meteorological Association also graduated from Barewa College. At least, there are 49 ex-students of the school who eventually became top professors. Chief Raymond Ihyembe who was once MD of the defunct Afribank as well as some of his ex-colleagues who attended Barewa should also be able to chip their bit, to help the school. There are also 18 former Ambassadors listed among the old boys of the institution. They should be able to come together to improve the fortunes of the school.

mulattoclaro:
We all know that the struggle for biafra is all about control of the oil, land and sea of the SS minorities in Nigeria who aren't igbos. The game of the igbos is to wrestle it from the reach of Nigerians and have it to themselves alone in a country where they can muzzle the minorities with their population.

They claim they will have a constitution which allows for 100% resource control. So funny . A constitution that can be erased at the drop of a hat just as they stopped Nigeria's flourishing regionalism through a bloody coup.

If they so much love the SS by promising them 100% resource control, why not love them enough to let them be or have their own country without being with the ibos in a biafra which will seem like a mini-Nigeria where they won't have another majority tribe to run to should the igbos oppressed too much.

The new mantra of the igbos is 'give us referendum like it was given to the scots'. One would think they want the referendum to hold only in SE igbo land.

We all saw how they used buses to export igbos from SouthEast to South South cities like yenegoa, PH, asaba etc to protest, making it look like it was the SS minorities that were protesting in support of biafra.

Now, they want UN to hold a referendum in SE and SS. Their game plan is to export their sons and daughters from not only SouthEast, but also the North and SouthWest straight to the South South cities to vote for biafra the same way they exported them during their protests. This will give the impression that the SS wants biafra cos we all know the huge population of igbos outside igbo land. That is what I call being clever by half.

If the FG must allow igbos go, no inch of SS land should be forfeited to them. Prevent them from having SS minorities, then watch the agitation fizzle out.

Hehehe.... I concur!!

MayorofLagos:
Okuns own Lokoja according to history. It was acknowledged as a Yoruba town as far back before Livingstone and Landers who included this fact in their journals on the exploration of Niger.

You want the Nupes & Igalas to fight you??! Ha!

IlekeHD:
[size=22pt]Nigerian start-up Paga attracts foreign backers[/size]

Interesting! Tayo Oviosu is 3/4 Yoruba and 1/4 Edo.

citizenY:
You will not like it, I tell you. Since private schools are now available, the mandarins have abandoned their Alma mater.

It is quite sad, really. The management of the school have not effectively tapped into their old boys' alumni network, in order to improve the fortunes of the school. I have relatives that went to that school, and they still speak about the great time they had there.

Simplefaithy:
that is Nigeria's Harvard university. the institution that have produced all u.s presidents

Nah! It was regarded as Nigeria's equivalent of Eton in Harrow, UK. But that was in the good old days, when it was still going strong.

rman:
You are wrong. My dad was an alumni and he attended Barewa college on scholarship.

You are so-o-oo right. So did some of my older relatives. They attended the school on govt scholarship, too. In their days, Barewa had great facilities and a fantastic reputation.