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this tribe call Yoruba mehn!!!! i just tire for them

Caleboha: Kindly delete Orji Uzor Kalu from the list. That 4th place is highly undeserved. Using embezzled money to fund your company or biznes doesn't inspire me or anyone! We admire entrepreneurs, people who worked smart and clean, not thieves!!!

Dont get it twisted, orji uzor kalu has been a billionaire before joining politics, and hope you wont come to tell us tomorrow to delete ifeanyi ubah from the list if he wins anambra governorship election.

BTW where is

Dr Tony elumelu (UBA,Heirs holdings,Tony elumelu foundation, ),

Dr Ernest Nnaemeka Azudialu-Obiejesi (Nigeria’s biggest oil baron,Founder and Group Managing Director of Nestoil PLC, Nigeria’s foremost indigenous oil and gas company)

Mr. Frank Nneji, OON (ABC transport and FIBI sausage roll)

Prince Arthur Eze,(Chairman of Orient Petroleum)

Sir Emeka Offor, (Chairman of Chrome Group)

Dr Innocent Chukwuma(CEO innoson group)

What a great coincidence today.In the match played today between Nigeria and Burkina faso. Did you also notice this:

1st goal scored by Brown Ideye 23 mins.

2nd goal scored by Brown Ideye 43 mins.

3rd goal scored by Shola Ameobi 53mins.

4th goal scored by Emmanuel Emenike 63mins!

Goal difference 4-1 =3goals

Extra time added on 3mins.

GREAT COINCIDENCE!!

Should we see this great piece of science as an advancement or as most people would call it a death sentence?

nice work teirari, wishing you all the best. Hoping to see more from your collections

Falana go back to law school and start over.Falana is a daft and corrupt lawyer.Who gave him a SAN.Good article and good articulation.You put Falana to shame.God save Nigeria if this Falana does not even know how to interpret the law.A whole SAN that cannot tell the difference between incarceration and deportation??Shame on Falana.You are no Gani Fawehinmi,the only crusader of truth and the common man.No one can take the place of our honorable Chief Gani Fawehinmi.Since he died,Nigeria has been awashed in self promoting and self serving social crusaders like Falani.Falana is only interested in putting food on the table for his family.160 million mumu,dont be deceived by daft and foolish so-called civil crusaders.

Citizenship Versus Indigeneship By Idowu Ohioze
Posted: August 15, 2013 - 15:20
By Idowu Ohioze

This piece serves two purposes; in the first part, it is a response to Femi Falana’s position on the “deportation” controversy currently making the rounds in Nigeria. On the second part, it seeks to rephrase the “deportation” debate for clear understanding and resolution.



In seeking to put the issue of the “deportation” of some Nigerians by some state governments to rest, Mr. Falana characterizes the incarceration of certain Nigerians as acts of “deportation” by the governments of the day.



I. Banishment or Deportation



First, Mr. Falana goes far back in history to cite King Jaja of Opobo’s removal from Opobo, then a British territory, to British West Indies. The validity of King Jaja’s trial in Accra apart, his removal was to serve a term of imprisonment for challenging the taxing authority of the British sovereign in Opobo. Hence, he was “banished” to British West Indies.



King Jaja was banished; not deported. In fact, he was “exiled” but not “deported”. Simply speaking, “to banish” (to exile) isn’t the same as “to deport”.



While the former means the removal of a person to another part of a country by authoritative decree, the latter refers to lawful expulsion of an unwanted alien to another country. The colonialists banished (exiled) King Jaja to British West Indies on the reasoning that both Opobo and West Indies were part of British territories.



In 1885, King Jaja and other residents of Opobo were subjects of Britain and that country was thought to extend geographically to all its territories. As a result, the removal of a person from one part of the country to another, by authoritative decree, amounted to the banishment or exile of that person. Exile, of course, may be self or authority- imposed.



We must remember that Oba Ovonrawmen Nogbaisi was exiled (banished) to Calabar by the British in 1897. Curiously, Mr. Falana did not cite this example as an act of “deportation”.



In recent history, Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki of Sokoto was deposed and banished from Sokoto to another part of Nigeria on April 20, 1996. Even Sir Olateru Olagbegi, one time Olowo of Owo, was deposed and banished to another part of Nigeria. These were not acts of “deportation”; King Jaja’s experience shouldn’t be termed differently.



Second, Mr. Falana considers the Nigerian military’s incarceration of himself, Gani Fawehinmi, MKO Abiola, General Obasanjo and a host of others on multiple occasions as acts of “deportation” akin to the recent unfortunate incidents that begot this debate!



Without doubt, the imprisonment – its legality though contested – of those citizens in penitentiaries located in parts of Nigeria other than their states of origin does not amount to an act of “deportation.”



Where there were trials – kangaroo or otherwise – the confinement of those prominent Nigerians in prison situated in parts of the country other than their states of origin can never be termed acts of “deportation”. In Mr. Falana’s case (imprisonment without trial), he was simply illegally incarcerated. Of a fact, many Nigerians are presently illegally incarcerated, either awaiting trial or simply put away in the interest of powerful Nigerians, in prisons outside their states of origin. Any reference to this fact as “deportation” borders on credulity.



By citing these instances, Mr. Falana seems to suggest that the removal to or imprisonment of citizens in other parts of the country amounts to “deportation” of the type Lagos, Rivers and some states have been accused of.



Such suggestion, if intended, reflects a lack of understanding of the import of the acts. Though both highly intrusive and rights-curtailing, they are quite different in meaning and conjure separate legal ramifications.



At the heart of this debate is the wrong use of “deportation” to explain Lagos and Rivers state actions. Even more so is the need to distinguish citizenship from Indigeneship.



II. Internal Deportation or Internal Displacement



The misapplication of “deportation” to the instances analyzed above led Mr. Falana to mischaracterize the Lagos and Rivers states incidents as “internal deportation”. Though not defined by Mr. Falana, the phrase suggests that “deportation” can be internal or external.



But if “deportation” is the removal of an unwanted alien to another country, in what situation can it be internal?



Though not challenged by the perpetuators of the acts, the terming of the removal of those unfortunate Nigerians from Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to their states of origin is not “deportation”.



Since “deportation” means the removal of unwanted aliens to another country, the removal of those Nigerian citizens from their habitual residences in Lagos, Uyo and Abuja to their states of origin amounts to some other unlawful action.



I posit that what Mr. Falana and other commentators classify variously as “deportation” or “internal deportation” is in actuality an “internal displacement” of citizens. Internal displacement is the forceful removal of persons who have not crossed internationally recognized State border from their homes or places of habitual residence by reason of conflicts, disaster, violations of human rights etc.



For if by the removal of those Nigerian citizens from their states, we accept that the Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom governments “deported” those individuals, the result is that we have recognized these three states as sovereign states within Nigeria!



Invariably, we are recognizing that these states have the authority to confer citizenship on anyone of their choosing and revoke that of anyone they abhor.

How did “deportation” enter into this debate? Do we actually mean that whereas Mr. Ben Akabueze, a Nigerian of Igbo extraction, is a commissioner in Lagos state, his fellow Igbos and Nigerians are deported to their states of origin! Does this make sense?!



Mr. Falana wrote that there is no enabling law that allows a state government to deport Nigerian citizens. If there was one, would it have legitimatized the acts in the eye of Mr. Falana?



As an aside, if such law exists, it should be struck down by a competent court of law; but knowing the caliber of lawyers that sit on the bench in the Nigerian judiciary, my guess is as good as yours!



Can a state government “deport” a Nigerian citizen, whether by law or force?



The point is: when characterizing certain actions, care must be taken not to use the wrong term. Muddling up two terms has the potential to give certain actions different legal meaning, thereby (de)legitimizing the actions.



III. Citizenship versus Indigeneship



I condemn in unmistaken terms the actions of the Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom state governments in removing Nigerian citizens to their states of origin. It amounts to a violation of their citizenship right to freely inhere in the geopolitical space called Nigeria, to the exclusion of private residences.



A citizen’s right to move freely in any part of Nigeria is only lawfully curtailed by a declaration of state of emergency, lawful imprisonment or curfew. By this unlawful action of the Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom state governments, the governors brought into reality one’s fear: those local states are already acting as sovereigns within a sovereign state!



One concept that drives this internal displacement of Nigerian citizens by state governments is “indigeneship”.



Since independence, many Nigerians have been denied their citizenship rights on the ground that they are not “indigenes” of the states from which they seek employment, residence, education, social assistance or other lawful pursuit of man. Various state governments confer “indigeneship” on Nigerians of their choosing.



My personal experiences would suffice here:



I was born in Bariga, Lagos state to parents whose state of origin is Edo (formerly Bendel). I was raised and completed the first twelve years of the 6.3.3.4 educational program in Lagos state, and as a result fluent in both spoken and written Yoruba language as well as my Owan West mother tongue.



I played football on the streets of Lagos, represented my primary and secondary schools in school competition winning laurels for Lagos state schools. My parents paid tenement rates, development levy, income taxes to and helped develop Lagos state. But in the law school, I could not receive the Lagos state bursary because I was said not to be a Lagos “indigene”!



Suddenly in my adulthood, Lagos state officials pointed me southward to a state that I never lived in for no more than a sprinkling of visits! If I had attended Lagos state university, I would have been made to pay differential school fees as a “non-indigene”.



Lagos state officials couldn’t care less: I am a Nigerian citizen but not a Lagos indigene!



What is it about “indigeneship” that qualifies Mr. Akabueze to be a commissioner in Lagos state whereas I could not obtain student bursary from the state in which I was born?! Why was Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, present Osun state governor, appointed a commissioner in Lagos and a Kwara state born Nigerian became the chairman of Somolu local government but I couldn’t?



Whatever it means to the powers-that-be, state “indigeneship” is prioritized over Nigerian citizenship.



It is for the same reason that the Abia state government recently retrenched from its civil service Nigerians of Anambra extraction! Some years before the Abia saga, the Ekiti state government sacked so-called “indigenes” of Ondo state from the old Ondo state university (OSUA) whose campus was then in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital. Meanwhile, those termed “indigenes” of Ondo state were, just a few years back, “indigenes” of the same state as the Ekiti people who fired them!



In removing from their states the weak people that the Nigerian constitution is meant to protect, the state governments found them unworthy of their states’ “indigeneship”! Those poor souls were thus left to embrace their Nigerian citizenship which does not, unfortunately, confer anything on hapless Nigerians!



They became internally displaced by states governments who violated their citizenship right to inhere in any parts of Nigeria - including under the Oshodi Bridge, in motor parks and at the gate of Alausa - only to the exclusion of private residences.



If the unsightly scenes of homeless Nigerians inhibiting bridges, motor parks and refuse dumps worry Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states, their best response should be to remind themselves of their social responsibility to their residents and rehabilitate the poor, the homeless, the weak, and the sick.



Now that those poor fellows have been sent back to their states of origin, are the social problems of Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states thereby solved? Will these states proceed to build borders around their states and create controlled points of entry so that the same destitute will not return?



Let’s face it: federal, state and local government officials’ ostentatious lifestyles have rendered many Nigerians destitute of livelihood. Homeless is only one of the many results of misappropriation of public funds and corruption.



This internal displacement is an unlawful act for which significant damages could be awarded if redress is sought in the court of law.



This public discourse challenges us to decide which matters more to us as Nigerians: citizenship or indigeneship.



If you choose to be silent in the face of this impunity, you may well the next victim should you venture outside your state of origin. By the way, how many Nigerians live in their states of origin?



Idowu Ohioze, a lawyer, lives in Canada.

Nwankwo Kanu loses N1.4billion to manager of his hotel

kanu-nwankwo Nigeria’s football star, Nwankwo Kanu has lost N1.4 billion in his hotel business and the Managing Director of the hotel, Mr. Ayoola Gam Ikon, 49, has been arrested and charged to court for the alleged fraud.

Operatives of the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit arrested Ikon, the managing director of Hardley Suites Limited situated at Waziri Ibrahim Crescent, off Elsie Femi Pearse Street, Victoria Island, Lagos southwest Nigeria, for allegedly stealing the N1.4 billion belonging to the hotel and suites owned by Kanu.

Also arrested along with him over the alleged fraud is a hotel staff, Oke Samuel.

They were arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s court on a 19-count charge of felony to wit, obtaining money under false pretence.

The police alleged in charge suit No. K/8/2013 that Ikon was arrested following a complaint by the management of Hardley Suites Limited, Nwankwo Kanu and Ogbonna Kanu, that Ikon between 2005 and 2012 allegedly defrauded them of the sum of about N1.4 billion on the pretence of using the money to expand the existing facilities of the hotel by constructing and furnishing of additional blocks of 30 suites and conference facilities, but he allegedly failed to use the money for the purpose and allegedly converted the money to his personal use.

He was also alleged to have forged a special resolution purportedly made by the board of directors of Hardley Suites Limited to obtain loans of N187 million, N50 million and N493 million from Skye Bank Plc without authorization.

The offences, the accused allegedly committed, according to the prosecutor A.M. Animashaun, contravenes sections 8 (a) 1 (a) of the advanced fee fraud and other fraud related offences Act 2006 as applicable in Lagos State.

The accused pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

The prosecutor presented before the court an application for the remand of the accused persons in prison custody pending advice from the office of the directorate of public prosecution, DPP, because the lower court lacks the jurisdiction to try the matter.

But the Chief Magistrate, Mrs. O.O. Oshin overruled him with legal facts after quoting copiously from several sections of the criminal justice administration laws of Lagos State to buttress her claim that the court has the jurisdiction to hear and admit the accused to bail.

She admitted the first defendant to bail in the sum of N1 million with two sureties in like sum.

One of the sureties must be the defendant himself, the other should be a civil servant on level 16.

She also admitted the second defendant to bail in the sum of N500,000, with two sureties in like sum. One of the sureties must be a level 16 civil servant while the other must be working with a reputable company.

She adjourned the matter till 4 April, 2013 for mention.

The defendants were, however, moved to Ikoyi Prison, Lagos pending when they would fulfil the bail conditions. [PM News]

Addis Ababa - Ethiopia TO Enugu - Nigeria, this is the new route Ethiopian flag carrier and Star Alliance member will introduce as of August 24, 2013. This exciting announcement was made today by Tewolde Gebremariam, CEO of Ethiopian Airlines. In a report titled 'Enugu, Nigeria - the next city in Star Alliance Ethiopian Airlines network', E-Turbo News confirmed that the management of Ethiopian

Airlines has concluded arrangement to commence international flight operations to the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu following the upgrade of the airport to an international airport.

The inaugural flight is scheduled to take place on the 24th of August 2013, elombah.com has learnt. It was also gathered that other foreign airlines are also weighing the options of flying to Enugu increasing traffic on the new route.
"Now, passengers from Enugu will have direct flight connections to many destinations in Africa, Middle East, Asia, South America and Europe with the youngest and modern fleet in the continent and enjoy the usual Ethiopian hospitality."

“Our flight to Enugu is another exciting step towards enhancing our commitment to the needs of our traveling publics. Nigeria has always been and continues to be one of our important destinations in West Africa. We are continually improving our products and services to meet our customers’ expectations. We thank the people and the government of Nigeria for their continued support in making this new service to Enugu possible,” said Tewolde Gebremariam, CEO of Ethiopian Airlines.

The decision by Ethiopian airline to be the first airline to fly into Enugu Airport may not be unconnected with the high level of patronage the airline is receiving from traders from South East on the far- East routes and as such would like to consolidate against growing competition from other airline on the route

This development gives credence to the promise by President Goodluck Jonathan of the Ethiopian Airlines flight to Enugu which some political gladiators said was another political gimmick to capture votes from the South East.

The service would herald the beginning of international operations at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu. This is coming just as the airline is planning to expand its operations in Nigeria by adding flights to Port Harcourt and Kano. Tewolde Gebremariam chief executive officer of Ethiopian Airlines disclosed recently that the airline is planning to fly to Port Harcourt as well as Northern Nigeria’s largest city Kano, while increasing the number of flight trips to Abuja.

Under the headline, 'Enugu, Nigeria - the next city in Star Alliance Ethiopian Airlines network', E-Turbo News, a Global Travel Industry News publication of July 31, 2013, confirmed Ethiopian Airlines will be the first international carrier to fly to Enugu.. Ethiopian Airlines will also increase its five weekly flights to Abuja to daily service.

Ethiopian Airlines will operate four times a week to Enugu, its 76th destination. Ethiopian Airlines is regarded as a Pan African airline, and is one of the oldest carriers flying to Nigeria since 1960. This had strengthening trade, cultural and tourism ties between Nigeria and the rest of the world.

Passengers from our three gateways in Nigeria – Lagos, Abuja and Enugu – now have the opportunity to fly to destinations throughout the Ethiopian network, including Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Seoul, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, London, Toronto, Beijing, Beirut, Dubai, Mumbai, and Nairobi.

Enugu is the capital of Enugu State in Nigeria. It is located in southeastern Nigeria. The city has a population of 722,664 according to the 2006 Nigerian census. The name Enugu is derived from the two Igbo words meaning "hill top" denoting the city's hilly geography. The city was named after Enugwu Ngwo which coal was found under.

Industries in the city include the urban market and bottling industries. Enugu has become a preferred filming location for directors of the Nigerian movie industry, dubbed "Nollywood". Enugu's main airport is the Akanu Ibiam International Airport. The main educational establishment in the city is the Enugu campus of the University of Nigeria based in Nsukka, a town north of Enugu and in the same state.

the girl on black just keep holding her cloth.....lol!!

can't stop laughing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYaW5HDZYck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wF4wU6HuUk&feature=youtu.be

can wait to lay my hands on a copy. Enjoy!!

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Mods, why are my pics not uploading??

Ifeanyi Ubah's takes campaign south africa where he met with Anambra community and also visited the Afircan Icon, Madiba

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah recently spoke to journalists at his Nnewi country home on his current gubernatorial ambition in Anambra

state.

You said you are in Anambra State governorship race to liberate Anambrarians from bondage. What bondage are you referring to?

Today in Anambra State, one of the most essential needs of the people is water. But we have no water in our taps since the past seven and half years. Can anybody here tell me any of the taps that produces water provided by government?.

The only way you can afford water - both drinking and even water to take bath - is by buying water.

We are the only State in the entire South East that can boast of being blessed with a river called River Niger. What I expect government to do is to tap water from River Niger and reticulate water; create enabling structure that can power our water.

It is indeed bondage. There is no industry that government has created for the youths in the past seven and half years, not single one apart from brewery. How can we re-assure our youths that there is hope for them? Can you name single thing that the government of the day has initiated in Anambra State to take care of unemployment?

Go to our roads. Yes, government has done well in building roads. But road is not our only problem. And even in building the roads how many of our youths have been given employment by the construction companies?

If we conduct local government election we can create 1000 employments in every local government, meaning 21,000 employments in the 21 local government areas of our State. If we can create ten, ten factories or twenty, twenty factories in every local government, all you need to do is to invite all these people from China, they will be donating their factories to us. Those are avenues we can create jobs for our youths.

We are in era of kidnapping and armed robbery. We can create a network of telecommunication system in Anambra State that can bring down crime in this State to almost a zero level.

Our farmlands are dry. We don’t have any single investment in farming. We have a government that will come today and be dishing out cheques to people as if they are Father Christmas to those that they like; those that will be singing their praises. Is that the kind of Anambra State that we are dreaming of? So, we are still living in a State of anarchy. This is a state where a deputy governor was kidnapped and ransom paid and still they killed the deputy governor. Can we be proud of ourselves? So, why can’t we join hand together to fight? Investors can no more stay in this state.

How are you going to tackle the situation if you eventually become governor?

Now, let me tell you what we want to do in Anambra. The first thing we will do in Anambra State is to fight insecurity. We shall set up structures to fight insecurity. Then, we will conduct a very credible local government election.

We will go to any extent commercially available to give employment to our youths. Our mission is to create wealth and eradicate poverty.

So, the issue remains that Anambra State needs to change because we have been voting for things we don’t know. It is now time for us to vote for human beings – a party that has human-beings as its logo (Labour Party).

Now look at our education sector. Where are our technical schools? 80% of the workforce undertaking building constructions in Anambra State comprises of the Togolese, Cameroonians, Cotonous. 80% of the P.O.Ps in Anambra State is being done by the Togolese, 70% of the marble work is done by the Ghanaians, Togolese and Cameroonians because we lack technically trained individuals. Today our youths are roaming the streets because they don’t have technical training. And it is the duty of government to create technical schools where people will be trained on how to make P.O.P building and other engineering. When our graduates finish their NYSC they can’t be self employed.

There is something I want to give to Anambra people, I want to change style.

There is this argument that the North senatorial zone has not produced governor of the state since it was created unlike the other two senatorial zones, and that justice, equity and fairness requires that the area should be given a chance this time around for one its own to taste the seat. Why don’t you support the idea?

The problem we are having in Anambra State is the logjam created by the governor (Mr. Peter obi) in saying he has agreement. Has there been any time in during our electoral process that the North didn’t participate? Where did Zik come from? Where did Ukpabi Asika and Okadigbo come from? Were these people not from the North?So if people are saying they have not produced anybody, who is deceiving who?

But the good thing about the North is that the area has so much potential. If by the grace of God I become the governor of Anambra State, the first thing is to build an airport in Onitsha. We shall have a cargo airport there. All our traders will be coming back with their luggages. We are going to promote Anambra State economically.



What special package will your government introduce to take care of the needs of the youths?

We are going to create agency that will cater for the youths. We are going to introduce dormitory industrial complex so you live in the dormitory and work in the factory.

But I won’t give free education. I will rather introduce bursary allowance to the indigent citizens of Anambra State in higher institutions. I want to make sure that tax payers’ money is being enjoyed by Anambrarians.

We shall improve the N300 million the government of the day generates monthly as internally generated revenue to N4 billion through business support and commercial support activities without taxing Ndi Anambra. I want this state be the commercial hub of this country.

Our vision is to have 150 million population of this country catered for by Anambra. We shall bring back our brothers and sisters doing business in different parts of this country back to Anambra State to attract night life, and, we are going to build a lot of hotels in every local government so that people can go and swim. I am mad about developing Anambra State.

Accountability and transparency will be our hallmark, and, as governor, Ifeanyi Ubah will have nothing to do with security vote. It is inhuman that in a State that cannot protect its deputy governor, the governor will be pocketing close to N600 million every month as security vote. I will have nothing to do with that money.



Why did you leave APGA to Labour Party? And what is your relationship with Chief Victor Umeh now?

You know it is not a hidden fact that I have always been supporting (Chief) Victor Umeh because I believe he is the authentic (national) chairman of APGA. But the truth is that the party of our hero, Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu is falling apart. And I tried to amend it and I tell you the truth, we came to a point whereby after judgment from the lower court things also fall apart. I said I won’t like to wait for Supreme Court to take a decision because I don’t know who is who. Everything has fallen apart. So I said, well, I have tried my best. So I went into consultations and discovered that it is not even the best place for me to contest. This is why I decided to leave them.

I have no issue with anybody, my respects always remains with Victor Umeh. He is my friend and my brother. My respects remain with my governor, Mr. Peter Obi. He visited me at Capital Oil in Lagos with his exco and I gave him cola of a hummer bus. But he has only cursed me, even my road here he refused to do it.