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Son of Afro-beat king, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, who died 15 years ago, Seun, has condemned the ban of marijuana and cigarette, adding that the position of the law on the two products was illogical.

According to Seun, the favoured cigarette has lethal consequences, while the legally opposed marijuana was medicinal and good for human consumption. But, Seun said, the lethal cigarette was favored simply because it was to the white man’s profit, stressing that marijuana would make black countries richer than the white if legalized.

Seun damned black politicians for taking the white’s advice against its own natural produce of ‘weed’ which he said was good after all and accepting the white’s product which truncates lives.

“Marijuana is medical, and I feel Cigarette is selling legally because it is white man’s business. It is killing millions of people every day. ‘Igbo’ is not killing anybody… Marijuana is not only for smoking. It’s used for a lot of things; you can make clothes, you can drink tea, it is good, it is medicinal, it helps your appetite, they give it to cancer patients.. a lot of benefits”, he said in a tone of finality.

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By David Schwartz, Reuters

An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix on Saturday because he failed to vote in the election, police said on Monday.

Holly Solomon, 28, was arrested after running over husband Daniel Solomon following a wild chase that left him pinned underneath the vehicle.

Daniel Solomon, 36, was in critical condition at a local hospital, [/b]but is expected to survive, Gilbert police spokesman Sergeant Jesse Sanger said.

Police said Daniel Solomon told them[b] his wife became angry over his "lack of voter participation" in last Tuesday's presidential election and believed her family would face hardship as a result of Obama winning another term.

Witnesses reported the argument broke out on Saturday morning in a parking lot and escalated. Holly Solomon then chased her husband around the lot with the car, yelling at him as he tried to hide behind a light pole, police said. He was struck after attempting to flee to a nearby street.

Obama won the national election with 332 electoral votes compared with 206 for Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Arizona's 11 electoral votes were won by Romney.

thelastPope: This is the reason I have been advocating the scrapping of LGAs and instead the promotion of cities. If you want to change Nigeria, encourage the building of cities. LGAs are just an opportunity to share allocation. One of the reason football propers in Europe is because of peoples allegiance to cities. Chelsea, Manu, arsenal, grew as clubs that were supported by whole cities or parts of a city. City I said, not tribe. When other people migrate into the city, they take on the identity of the city and not their tribe. Lagos, Warri, Benin and KD, are the only cities in Nigeria that have a little bit of that. Benin and KD lead though. Most youths from Benin and KD see themselves more as citizens of Benin or KD more than being citizens of their state of origin

thelastPope: @op, I give you +100 for your insightful post. Many eediots who come on this forum to spew ethnic garbage are the problem of Nigeria. They can't see beyond their nose. I have lived in Lagos, PH, Kaduna, Aba, Benin, Warri, Uyo and I have visited Enugu, Owerri, Benue, Kano, Ibadan and can speak as a true Nigerian. That is why I always say NL is not a true picture of Nigeria. In all the places I have lived in and visited, Nigerians are mostly accomodating. Some places are more accomodating than others definitely, but all are ok. We are what we are as a country because of ideologies that were propagated by some of our founding fathers. We need to move away from those ideologies.

Most of the tribe bashing eediots on this forum are too stupid to know that Nigerian have inter migrated all over. Do you know anytime yorubas do their meeting in PH, you can hardly get a taxi? There are Yorubas in PH is very large numbers. Many of them work in the oil companies. Many are even pastors over there just like you have so many Edo, and Ibo pastors in Lagos.

There are also very many Yorubas and Ibos in Benue and Benin. In fact, in terms of % mix of tribes, Benin is among the top 3. The kind of impression that is being pushed around have made many folks to remain in one spot and missed big opportunities. There is more tendency for a man to prosper outside the city he grew up in. Reason is because you need a challenge to push yourself to big things and most times, it is difficult to find that challenge in a place you have lived all your life.

Like you said, Lagos, PH, Abuja opened up and grew because of government presence. That is the result of the central power system we have in Nigeria.

afam4eva: The three most diverse cities in Nigeria are Lagos, Abuja and Port-Hacourt and the reason is not far from the fact that the Federal government paid a special attention on these cities against other cities in the country. If not for that, almost every city in Nigeria will be an ethnic enclave of some sort. Imagine if the government allowed every region to develop on their own. Most cities would have been like Enugu, Ibadan and Kano in terms of diversity.

I also see that about from these three main cities, other cities have not struck a balance in the livability, diversity and in commerce. Cities like Enugu and Calabar ate livable but very little commercial activity goes on there. For cities like Ibadan and Kano, despite their high population, they're kinda stuck in in the medieval times. As these cities have an anachronistic feel to it.

solomon111: Is it the same lagos that is now sending away 'non-indigenes'?
The same lagos where some so-called 'son of the soil' want to reap where they did not sow.

Mgbadike80: kitikpa gbagbuo gi. My own onitsha is wreckless and lack good governance?

Eze Promoe: I think when the OP mentioned Lagos, Abuja and PH only, he meant cities which are not dominated by the natives in population e.g Enugu is dominated by Igbos, Ibadan is dominated by Yorubas and Kano is dominated by Hausas. My own thought though

Abagworo: A lot of people are quite ignorant and write out of ignorance. Who said Kano does not have more foreigners than PH and Lagos? Maybe Nigeriens, Chadians, Burkinabes, Sudanese and other non-European countries are not foreigners. There are millions of Igbos and Yorubas in Kano just like Lagos.

However if what we mean is Europeans and Americans, then Port Harcourt carries the day. Majority of our export is through Port Harcourt and the majority of our foreign investment is in the oil sector with Port Harcourt as the headquarters. The only advantage Lagos has is being almost the only functional seaport and infrastructure put on ground when it was the capital of Nigeria. Its just like Abuja being our only functional seaport and capital at the same time. So Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt are not what they are because of cosmopolitan status but rather because of Government presence and added natural advantages for PH and Lagos. Abuja is purely on its status as the federal capital.

No city of over 500,000 in Nigeria is ethnically homogenous. In Aba for example you'll find non-Ngwa Igbos from Imo, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi by far majority than the indigent Ngwa group. A high population of Efik/Ibibio/Annang, Rivers people and Northerners are many too. The only group that are quite few are the Yorubas who engage only in driving, sewing, banking, Pastor, Traditional healing and mechanics. They also trade at what they call Yoruba line in the markets. Same goes for Onitsha or Calabar. What about Maiduguri, Kaduna, Jos, Sokoto?

Los Angeles, California, USA. We were recently in Los Angeles, to cover the maiden edition of the Africa Fashion Week Los Angeles. Landing at one of the entertainment capitals of the world was an eye opener. And to say the truth we thoroughly enjoyed the 7 days in LA.

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One of those we saw in town was the one and only Toyin Lawani of the Tiannah Styling & Elegante Couture fame, who had come in from the UK, with her UK based publicist and a model from the Queen's land UK in tow to showcase at the 3 days event and an intern from New York, who had also flown in.
We had both landed a day to the event proper, so we had to hit the ground running. The 15 hours flight for us, first to Houston for 12 hours and then from Houston to LA another 3 hours did not dampen our spirit. So we quickly made preparations to attend the welcome party for all, which the event organizers had tagged 'welcome mixer'.

Getting unpacked at our hotel at the Staple Center Inn, we quickly had a change of clothes and we were off to the venue of the mixer, the Standard Hotel, which was quite a distance away. Though we got to the cocktail party a bit late, we still had great fun mixing & chatting, with other designers, a few guests, some models, a few of the organising team etc.