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Well done FFK, this is one the reason I want History to be taught in school. We definitely need to learn from our past.

Arizona1:
Thank you for this observation. I don't believe the two witnesses are real. Besides apart from politics, Metu is a very reach man from all they inherited from their father, he's from Nnewi.

Very reach indeed!, Nnewi is full on reach people....

No bail money yet?, Chai.....PDP has abandoned metuh...lol

700 million bail!!, every currupt politians under the watch of EFCC should be really worry right now.

The picture posted with this article is trafalgar square, london

I knew it was all propagada expecially when the article claimed picture of trafalgar square as white house...lol

These are pictures of trafalgar square, london.

They should return all the money and use it to upgrade oron facilities.

I guess all igbo politians then were saint..lol

More pictures....

In a performance for the history books, Wale returned to the White House for the third time on Tuesday night (Jan. 12) as the opener for none other than President Obama. Yeah, really.

Viewers who tuned in before Obama took the podium and declared the U.S. “the most powerful nation on Earth, period,” were in for a hype musical treat when Wale took the stage, marking the first time a rapper has ever opened for a State of The Union address.

The D.C. MC tore through hits like “Chillin’” and “LoveHate Thing,” successfully setting the mood for Obama’s big mic drop moment.

After his performance, Wale took to Twitter to thank Obama and the White House, calling hip-hop “limitless.”

Oh, and he also apparently took a selfie with Vice President Joe Biden’s wife, Dr. Jill Biden, because why the eff not?

Wale’s no stranger to the White House — last January, he was among the attendees at the president’s gun control announcement, and in July, he performed as part of Michelle Obama’s “Reach Higher” initiative.

Just yesterday, Kendrick Lamar shared details about his powerful conversation with President Obama. That, coupled with Wale’s historic gig tonight, prove the president’s appreciation for hip-hop is truly unparalleled.

Watch "Wale Performs at President Obama's State of the Union Address" on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkgpxYceAnI

http://www.mtv.com/news/2727777/wale-opens-state-of-the-union-address/

Lady [/b]Sara Forbes Bonetta (1843 – 15 August 1880) was a West African Egbado Omoba who was orphaned in intertribal warfare, sold into slavery, and in a remarkable twist of events, was liberated from enslavement, and became a goddaughter to Queen Victoria. She was married to Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, the wealthy Victorian Lagos philanthropist.

[b]Early life

Originally named "Aina", Sara was born in 1843 at Oke-Odan, an Egbado village. In 1848, Oke-Odan was raided by a Dahomean army; during the attack Sara lost her parents and ended up in the court of King Ghezo as a slave. Intended by her Dahomeyan captors to be a human sacrifice, she was rescued by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the Royal Navy, who convinced King Ghezo of Dahomey to give her to Queen Victoria; "She would be a present from the King of the Blacks to the Queen of the Whites," Forbes wrote later. He named her Sara Forbes Bonetta, Bonetta after his ship the HMS Bonetta. Victoria was impressed by the young princess's exceptional intelligence, and had Sara raised as her goddaughter in the British middle class. In 1851 Sara gained a long-lasting cough, believed to be caused by the climate of Great Britain. She was sent to school in Africa in May of that year, at the age of eight, but was unhappy and returned to England in 1855 at the age of 12. In January 1862 she was invited to and attended the wedding of the daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice.

Marriage and children

She was later sanctioned by the Queen to marry Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies at St Nicholas' Church in Brighton in August 1862, after a period that was to be spent in the town in preparation for the wedding. During her subsequent time in Brighton, she lived at 17 Clifton Hill in the Montpelier area. Captain Davies was a Yoruba businessman of considerable wealth and the couple moved back to their native Africa after their wedding where they had three children: Victoria Davies (1863), Arthur Davies (1871), and Stella (1873). Sarah Bonetta continued to enjoy a close relationship with Queen Victoria such that she and Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther were the only Lagos indigenes under standing order by the Royal Navy to evacuate in the event of an uprising in Lagos. Victoria Davis was also goddaughter of the Queen of the British Empire. Victoria Matilda Davies married the successful Lagos doctor John K. Randle. A great many of both her and her daughter's descendants now live in England and Sierra Leone, while a separate group of them, the aristocratic Randle family of Lagos, remains prominent in contemporary Nigeria.

Death

Sarah Forbes Bonetta died on 15 August 1880 of tuberculosis in Funchal, the capital of Madeira, a Portuguese island. Her husband Captain Davies erected an over eight-foot-high granite obelisk-shaped monument in memory of Sarah Forbes Bonetta at Ijon in Western Lagos, where he started a cocoa farm. The inscription on the obelisk reads:

IN MEMORY OF PRINCESS SARAH FORBES BONETTA

WIFE OF THE HON J.P.L. DAVIES WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT MADEIRA AUGUST 15TH 1880
AGED 37 YEARS

Please kindly forward another copy to Putin..lol

Scam everywhere.....smh, i hope theres biafra money aswell or are you expecting your people to buy biafra passport with the zoo money....

beautiful pictures. well done op

White people dont really like him though, he's under fire after he halted a drug trial and dismissed the entire jury upon noticing a lack of black jurors.

Stevens, Oluwole A. "Olu" 
Birth Year : 1970 
Louisville Judge Olu Stevens is the presiding Judge in the 30th Judicial Circuit, Division 6.  He had been a prosecutor with the Jefferson County Attorney's Office; he was in private practice for ten years; and was with the firm Stoll Keenon and Ogden. Stevens is a graduate of Morehouse College and George Washington University Law School. He is a past president of the Louisville Bar Association and a past president of the Louisville Bar Foundation. In 2009, Olu Stevens was one of three African American judges who received appointments from Kenucky Governor Steve Beshear; Stevens was appointed a circuit judge in Jefferson County. The other two appointments went to Sadiqua Reynolds and Erica Lee Williams, both were district judges [source: Wolfson, A. "Governor appoints three Black judges," Louisville Courier-Journal, 07/01/2009, News section]. In 2010, Judge Stevens was one of three African American judges to be elected in Jefferson County, and he retained his circuit court judgeship, defeating Thomas J. Cannon, garnering 60% of the votes [source: J. Riley, "3 African-American appointees elected," Louisville Courier-Journal, 11/03/2010, p.K8, News section]. The other election winners were District Judge Brian C. Edwards in Division 11, who had also received an appointment from Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear in 2009, and District Judge Erica Lee Williams in Division 17.

After Adam Satterly’s bond on drug charges was revoked, he thought it would be a good idea to shout “Punk-ass n--ger” in the courtroom where Judge Olu Stevens was presiding.

Usually, when in court, people tend to be on their best behavior. Adam Satterly, whose bond on drug charges was revoked Monday, apparently didn’t get the memo and earned himself an additional 60 days in jail for being in contempt of court, according to WDRB.
Satterly didn’t take it well when Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens revoked his bond. In a video, Satterly was heard shouting “Punk-ass n--ger” as he was escorted out of the courtroom. A visibly upset Stevens asked sheriff’s deputies to bring Satterly back into the courtroom.  

“Is there something that you wish to say to me?” Stevens asked Satterly.

“No, no, no, I didn’t mean it like that,” the video shows Satterly responding, and adding that he had been referring to his brother, not the judge. 

Stevens, however, wasn’t having it. “Oh, you didn’t mean it like that?” Stevens replied. “You don’t speak those words in here. And that word particularly, you don’t use that word. I’m going to give you 60 days for having used that word. I’m going to hold you in contempt right now for having used it in this courtroom. It’s disrespectful; don’t ever do it again.”

“This is how the new year starts,” Stevens said. 

The judge Tuesday reduced the sentence to time served after Satterly apologized.

According to the news station, this was not the first time matters of race played a central role in Stevens’ courtroom. Stevens, who is black, had not been hearing cases, amid an ongoing investigation by the Judicial Conduct Commission, after being called out by Kentucky’s chief justice, John Minton, over his comments that Commonwealth’s Attorney Tom Wine wanted “all white” juries.

Stevens was also heavily criticized for comments made to victims of an armed robbery, accusing them of “fostering” the views of their 5-year-old daughter, who, they claimed, was scared of black men after two black men held the family at gunpoint.  

“I’m offended by that. I’m deeply offended by that. That they would be victimized by an individual, and then express some kind of fear of all black men,” Stevens said, WDRB reports. “I wonder if the perpetrator had been white, would they be in fear of white men? The answer would probably be ‘No.’”

Monday was Stevens’ first day back on the bench since Minton denied a request to disqualify him from criminal cases. Minton did, however, criticize Stevens’ comments regarding Wine before referring that request to the Judicial Conduct Commission for possible future disciplinary action, the news station reports. 

http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/01/black_ky_judge_adds_60_days_to_man_s_jail_sentence_for_yelling_punk_ass.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxjZXzVCbDk

ibadan

asorocker:
Competition is when you have a level playing ground for all the people involved. Marginalization is when in some events that doesn't favor a side quota is brought in and in another event that favors the side and doesn't favor another quota is abolished.

Hypocrisy is when you claim that non of that exists to serve your selfish interest and cry when it affects you.

Now no group can marginalize igbos effectively, the richest igbo had $20 in his account for all his deposit in 1967

Today some parts of Nigeria are about being given an equivalent of $ 20 to cushion untold hardship they brought on themselves and this is in addition to their previous bank deposit.

Calm down bro, all part of nigeria are facing some kind of hardship or are you telling us you didnt know some of south east governoon also collected bailout...

oglalasioux:
Don't be sarcastic. The coup was unfortunately perpetrated by some young men who were erroneously thinking like Patrice Lumumba. They all saw their folly. But that doesn't erode the fact that Nwafor Orizu was once a former President and should be so recognized.

How could he ever be a president when we azikiwe was still alive?

Our brother from the east always plays the victim cards, nwafor orizu was acting president that later handed power to another brother of his from the military.

Omo olalomi, omo abisu joko..... you are my family!!, but funny enough im not from kwara state..lol. i dont really like sanusi, but who am i to tell you who should be your mentor.........

Jarus:
Omo Olalomi ni mi sir.

Omo olalomi, omo abisu joko..... you are my family!!, but funny enough im not from kwara state..lol.

Congratulation..mrs bukola love ariola.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_3uIA7_WNM

Bayo agonglo from benin

scholes0:
OMMFG!!

I remember!!
This is the best Yoruba song of Beninoise origin ever!

U will like this aswell....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL-APInPawQ

scholes0:
Iwo nikan ni paracetamol mi....
lool.

Hahhah...do you also remember this....?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqzBFXa2js0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79HGAL32NU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK1iqLH_9uE

Oluwakemi from benin....

strykr:
If the reason why buhari shouldn't be probed, is because he didn't know the money used for his SUVs, was from the arms deal, then I see no reason why Dokpesi, Bafarawa, Metuh or any other person should be probed. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Its government responsibility to provide entitlements to former head of state (which is back by law), while donating money to fund political party is NOT!.

Is the money in dollar or naira?