Crime / Re: Photos: Chinese Adultress Stripped Unclad, Thoroughly Beaten & Humiliated by Mapletraks: 12:38am On Aug 07, 2015 |
Pidggin:
If women are scarce why are they fighting for men? ^^^^^^ That is the irony here. Well since women are territorial on the emotional level, they will seek to take their pound of flesh out of anyone who causes them emotion pain! 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Ooni: ‘no Human Sacrifice In Rites Of Passage’ by Mapletraks: 12:27am On Aug 07, 2015 |
macof: SOURCES close to the palace, have allayed fears that rites of passage for the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, would involve human sacrifice. They took exception to the view describing it as a rumour aimed at tarnishing the customs and traditions of Ile-Ife, regarded as the cradle of the Yoruba race. There had been anxiety among residents of the town, particularly some students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, that burial rites of the monarch might involve some form of bloodshed.
The sources urged indigenes and residents of Ife not to entertain fear or panic but go about their lawful business, and do nothing to contravene customs and traditions of the town. The Oro festival declared by traditional rulers in the town, and which began yesterday, is still in force.
www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/08/ooni-no-human-sacrifice-in-rites-of-passage/
^^^^^^^^^ This is a nice post from @macof. Punch, and some newspapers behaved irresponsibly by publishing fake insider news allegedly from the Ife Palace despite the fact that according to centuries of traditition, it is ONLY the High Chiefs that can finally say officially that any king from Yorubaland has translated. What is so difficult in that? The irresponsible article of today 6th August 2015 by dailypost newspaper speculating about the alleged location of the Ife monarch should't have made the front page of Nairaland. In the UK, Japan, and elsewhere, the monarchies are highly revered and highly traditional so deluded people should desist from peddling criminal and libelous rumors on in the print media like dailypost, Punch, the Sun, and on the Internet. Punch has a bunch of young and mentally lazy journalists who do not carry proper investigations, and lift information from non-credible sources. The Aboderins own Punch and as a family of SW ancestry should not be seen to be desecrating culture via their publication. Just on Tuesday, Channels TV debunked the false article in Punch stating that one of their camera men in the East was arrested. Wale Aboderin should weed out any mentally lazy journalist in Punch for publishing irritating speculations and sensationalism! 3 Likes 1 Share |
Culture / Re: Northern Soldiers And Their Relations with Igbo Women In Post-Biafran Nigeria by Mapletraks: 11:55pm On Aug 06, 2015 |
dom: yeah. IBB, Yohanna Madaki, OBJ etc. Even Gowon was engaged to Edith Okongwu but the marriage was called off owing to civil war sentiments.(Heard she took in for him too). plenty northern soldiers took wives from the former biafran enclave. If you see any igbo lady (late 20s, early 30s) that says her father is from the North, chances are that her father was a soldier and got married shortly the war.I grew up in the barracks and saw quite a few of them. (dunno where daisy danjuma is from, though)
^^^^ Daisy Danjuma is from Itsekiriland. I attended a Northern FGC decades back and had a wonderful classmate whose father is from Kano and mother from Onitsha. My friend and classmate by the name of Mohammed used to travel to the U.S. for holidays so he came from a family of proffessionals. The father was not a military man. A former Presidential aspirant by the name of Alh. Galtima, a very articulate man and ex-student of FGC Enugu or Owerri (I can't recall offhand which of them) from Maidiguri is married to an Ibo woman. |
Crime / Re: Photos: Chinese Adultress Stripped Unclad, Thoroughly Beaten & Humiliated by Mapletraks: 5:57pm On Aug 06, 2015 |
trendysturvs: A 38-year-old Chinese woman, Lin Yao Li was violently stripped naked and beaten senseless by a mob of women on a busy shopping street … but the police never came. Nobody intervened as she was kicked in the groin and breasts as she writhed screaming in agony on the pavement. The reason, onlookers said, was that it was an ‘argument of the heart’ – she didn’t deserve help because had slept with another woman’s husband.
She was ambushed by four women as she walked home from the shops in the city of Puyang in eastern China’s Henan Province. Punching and kicking her to the ground while she writhed in agony, her attackers then ripped her clothes off and continued the beating, pulling her hair and kicking her in the breasts and groin.
The sickening attack they said was carried out by the scorned wife of the man Lin is accused of sleeping with, and her three friends, and it was watched by passers-by who did not think it was their duty to help the defenceless woman. Local man Jun Feng, 30, who helped the woman after spotting her lying on the ground after her attackers left told local TV: ‘This type of thing is becoming quite normal.
‘Angry wives and girlfriends get their revenge on their cheating men by attacking the other woman. ‘People don’t tend to get involved because they see it as being an argument of the heart,’ he said. The woman was later taken to hospital where she was being treated for cuts, severe bruising and shock after begging someone to call an ambulance.
Did the man’s wife and her friends go too far?
I can't post all the pictures here due to Nairaland's T & Cs. See more 18+ pictures here - http://.com/2014/10/14/photos-chinese-adultress-stripped-naked-thoroughly-beaten-humiliated/
^^^^^^ The Chinese are modernising rapidly but are still traditionalists so this picture of the beaten woman is not a surprise. Wife kidnapping also exists in China because of the scarcity of women who are less than men. People are ready to pay money to get wives through kidnapping of young women in China. |
Crime / Re: Security Alert!!! Watchout For Hoodlums On The Apongbon Stretch Of Eko Bridge by Mapletraks: 5:37pm On Aug 06, 2015 |
Iluv: I aim to create awareness about the state of insecurity on our roads at night, especially around traffic hot spots.
I was robbed around some weeks ago on the EKO bridge. Precisely around the spot where the bridge is directly opposite UBA head office. It is worthy to state here that the stretch of the bridge immediately after the down-link leading to Marina till you get to Apongbon is practically not safe while you drive. I hope you all understand my description of the trouble spot here. My story: That fateful evening around 8pm, I was driving home from work and it is normal to experience traffic on the EKO bridge almost from around the CMS part of the bridge till you get past Apongbon(usually on bad traffic days). I had a female passenger beside me and unfortunately for me, I was low on fuel and decided to wind down the windows both on my side and the passenger side. I only put it down halfway. I was also hungry and decided to purchase bottled water so I can use that to hold on till I get home. I asked my companion to bring out #100 naira from my wallet which she did and we waded slowly through the traffic looking out for pure water seller.
I was already around that troubled spot, which practically for those familiar with this route, you would find less of hawkers. The hawkers are mostly selling before and around the down-link to marina.
Lo and behold I noticed 3 guys, 2 on my side of the road and 1 on the other side. What struck my alertness was that they were not holding any items to hawk and I wondered what they were doing at that part of the bridge. Almost the same instant I was wondering, one of them pointed towards my car and they all raced down to me and started shouting "Bring the money, your phone". I replied them "which money" only to look at my companion and seeing she was holding the #100 naira and her phone. As a security conscious person, I have always advised not to have phones displayed while driving at night. But as fate would have it, we were caught off guard.
One of the guys had his hand around his waist acting like he was going to pull out a gun, the traffic was at a stand still and the had put their hands over my glass. The thief on the passenger side managed to collect the #100naira while they were still screaming for me to bring phones. Fortunately for me, traffic eased and the driver of the car beside me was carried away observing what was hapening, immediately I drove right into the space with the intention of bashing right into the car infront. I didn't eventually bash the car in front and had to wind up my glasses while on high alert if those guys would come back. They never did and I lost only #100naira to them.
This encounter happened within a 30seconds time frame. I realized if they had a gun, they wouldn't hesitate to bring it out, that's what gave me the courage to drive off.
The following day I did not see them, but after about 3weeks of studying that route on my way home, I have discovered a pattern for their activities.
My people be highly conscious of mostly 3 guys around that stretch of the bridge. Sometimes they seat on the bridge side while one other would be walking aimlessly along the bridge looking for cars that have their windows down. The make signs across to each other if that one finds a potential victim and they would all rush to the car.
I also noticed they are off some days, like a day in between times I saw them and I suspect they take a break following a successful attempt at robbing people, maybe to sell stolen items and they are back after that day. To notice these guys, just watch out for individuals that don't have any items to hawk walking around and crossing between traffic on the bridge aimlessly. Honestly I have a very bad plan for them on a good day. I could have lost more than what they took. This is a call to security agencies especially the Police RRS. There is need to station RRS bike patrols at that part of the bridge.
The white car in the image below is at the tip of the down-link to Marina. This is a picture of the troubled area to help your imagination.
Thanks and please share your stories for enlightenment and also propose solutions for security.
Cc ishilove lalasticlala ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks to the OP and everyone who shared his/her encounters with these criminals along the Marina/Apongbon bridge axis. What I observed right up to the 3rd page is that up to 7 users of Nairaland have posted there encounters with the criminals BUT NON of you mentioned ever reporting this issue to the Police Headquarters in Lagos or the office of the Lagos Commisioner of Police - past or current. These Senior officers will take immediate action on the exact crime spots. I visit Nigeria on regular basis and still have extended family members in Nigeria - so I have to make my useful/functional post here for the benefit of all. In addition to the Lagos Governor has to be directly informed about these black spots and the sense of urgency involved before we lose lives. Last but NOT least, I'm aware that Lagos State publishes a magazine called LAGOS INDICATOR where the direct phone numbers and emails of BRF and goverment officials in Lagos State, the Commisioner of Police, and emergency numbers were published. Google Lagos Indicator magazine to get more info on the free magazine, and please the print media especially should be informed about this so that those gangsters who are usually under the influence of hard drugs are put behind the curtain where they belong! PS: More illumination with powerful street lights will deter these criminals. Those caught should be well punished, while rehabilitating them at the same time, knowing full well that 7 out of 10 crimes are commited by REPEAT offenders in Nigeria based on statistical data. |
Properties / Re: Ask All Your Questions On Building Foundations/structural Issues -expert by Mapletraks: 2:31pm On Jul 31, 2015 |
opalu:
Buildings and their foundatons can be designed to perpetually remain in water. The truth is that good concrete mix without void and with great protection can last in water for God-knows-when. A smart Engr will assume the worst case scenario in which the foundation of the Lekki building remains in water. Truth is that there is little a house owner or professional can do to totally remove underground water. However proper drainage must be done to eliminate surface flooding and retention of water around the building for too long since most buildings in the highbrow estates were done without making allowance for the said 'worst case scenario '.
^^^^^^^^^ @Opalu Thanks for this brilliant reply to my earlier post. You are a TRUE professional and any of your clients/future clients need not fear because they are in safe hands and will get their housing projects delivered as and when due. I will keep in touch with Daystar Shelter soon for a personal housing project in Nigeria. Thanks again. 2 Likes |
Properties / Re: Ask All Your Questions On Building Foundations/structural Issues -expert by Mapletraks: 9:21am On Jul 26, 2015 |
opalu: I have been involved in the structural corrections of more than 1,250 buildings that were wrongly built in the past 10 years. In all, I have discovered the major reasons why buildings fail structurally are 1. Lack of professionals on the project. The some sub reasons that owners give are that they don't have money to pay them since their charges are avoidable. And also that they themselves have ideas about buildings etc. When there are no professionals on the project, such project will not have the necessary CORRECT designs/drawings. Such projects won't have the right professionals Supervising the Construction Process. 2. Another major reason for Structural failure and foundation issues is the use of substandard materials. These include reinforcements, Sharp sands, Granites, Cement even Water etc. So many Rebars being used can easily cut or rust. Water that contains impurities is not safe for concrete a since those impurities attack the concrete. (Chemistry 101). A Man wanted quote one day and I gave him. But he went for one desperate Contractor who used filling sand to cast concrete! After 6 months, the suspended slab (decking) started vibrating like water bed. I was also called upon and i corrected it at a cost 3 times the cost to build a solid slab. In addition, using the same size of granite (coarse aggregate ) can weaken the concrete. 3. Another reason for failure in buildings is the use of wrong methodology in construction. For instance there is a method whereby wet concrete is vibrated in order to expel voids and holes inside. If you are using pole vibrator, it has to be poked into it left in there for brief interval and removed and poked somewhere else. Some quack roadside casters just use stick to shook here and there or hit here and there. Even if the vibrating machine is used wrongly, it will trap voids. Every construction work has best practice that if not followed, the result will be bad. Another example is that when a carpenter lays the 1x12 for first floor slab, every hole between the planks must be covered with well sliced cement bags nailed with tiny nails. This should be done before laying of reinforcement. Reason being that when casting is done, the wet concrete usually slip through those holes thereby weakening the lower part of the slab which is subjected to tensile stress. But due to the leakage of the concrete at that bottom, what plasterers usually do is to fill it with mortar before plastering suffix of slab. But don't forget that the reinforcement were exposed before. So structurally, the bottom reinforcement is nonexistent. So when there are tensile forces, the slab cannot withstand them and what do you get? CRACKS!!! Then your fine POP starts cracking, blocks starts detaching at first floor and even crack etc.
Let me stop and await your questions. ^^^^^^^^ @Opalu This is a GREAT, straight-to-the-point post/thread YOU have here. On the other hand, I have a quick question, with the constant flooding of some highbrow estates in the Ajah/Lekki axis such as VGC, during the rainy seasons, what is the medium to long-term effect of this on the structure of the gated estate buildings if NOT resolved on time? Thanks again for the illuminating info on this thread. |
Politics / Re: 5 African First Ladies Who Cheated On Their Husbands (photos) by Mapletraks: 1:51am On Jul 26, 2015 |
JAZES: There is additionally a typical conviction that ladies are compelled to stray subsequent to their spouses are famous womanizers… they are practically denied their matrimonial rights and could starve for a while on occasion. This sold out lady will in this way begin sniffing other men to get even or the much consideration they miss.
We can attempt to apply these hypotheses to the Royal Swazi sex embarrassment. Other than his political duties, King Mswati has 13 wives; one may ponder what kind of a course of action he has made to guarantee every one of them are candidly cooked for.
We have put together the list below:
5. Nothando Dube ( wife of the king of Swasiland) News about the claimed sex embarrassment including Swazi King Mswati III twelfth wife, Nothando Dube, with the nation’s Justice Minister, Ndumiso Mamba, hit the features over the world.
Regardless of all the buildup, “LaDube”, as she is broadly known in Swaziland, is not the only one in this. In 2004, two of Mswati’s wives — Delisa Magwaza (LaMagwaza) and Putsoana Hwala (LaHwala) left the illustrious kraal after disloyalty claim.
4. Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma (SA First lady)
The second on the list is South Africa, another country that has had what’s coming to its of sex outrages as well! Aside from President Zuma’s adoration for skirts, his second wife Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma purportedly had a hot illicit relationship with her bodyguard Phinda Thomo, who later on took his own life.
Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma was said to be pregnant with Mr Zuma’s 21st kid, yet the assertions brought up issues over the child’s paternity.
http://onlineleaks.com/here-are-the-list-of-wives-of-african-presidents-who-cheated-on-their-husbands/ Nice post... |
Career / Re: 8 Categories Of Occupation People Do That Brings Forth Insult From The Society by Mapletraks: 10:50pm On Jul 25, 2015 |
tosyne2much: 8. Nairaland Moderators
This kind of job also brings insult. When people violate rules and they are being placed on ban, they quickly open a new account and rain curses on the moderator who sent them to jail. I wouldn't like to mention names ^^^^^^ @tosyn2much, You got me laughing over here with that witty post you made... |
Religion / Re: There Are Many Other Virgin Births Besides Jesus. by Mapletraks: 4:47am On Jul 19, 2015 |
Bastage: Here's a wikipedia page that explains the alignment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_Bethlehem#Astrological_event
I'm not for one moment claiming that there was a star floating about all over the place. Therefore my statement is not a farce.
I'm indicating that there was probably some sort of astronomical event that the early Christians found pertinent enough to include in the scriptural text in some way and that it explains how the idea of the Star of Bethlehem came about. Indicators point to astronomy, the Sun and to a degree, astrology being important to early Christianity. Not really suprising when you look at the pagan religions and ideas of the time that it absorbed. The Star of Bethlehem was very probably based on that importance and there's no reason why the birth-date of Christ wasn't moved to match that occasion. It doesn't matter if an alignment was viewable or not - if they knew about it, it may explain how the star idea came to be. The fact that it has turned into the story that it has where they've got this massive star following everyone around and leading them everywhere, only reinforces the fact that they took astronomy/astrology seriously. Also, remember that Christ was not born on the 25th of December as that date has much more to do with Mithras Day and wasn't given as Jesus' birth date until years later. From the texts, it would seem he was born September, although some scholars have put forward an argument for May if I remember rightly.
There are also some scholars who believe that the star could have been a very bright comet. Again, I read somewhere that there was one at about the same time of Christ's supposed birth which was recorded by astronomers as far away as China.
It's a difficult thing to pin down without knowing the exact year and time of Christ's birth. Like I said, discard the literal Biblical description, but there are plenty of theories that give quite convincing evidence that the Star of Bethlehem story was based on a real astronomical event of some sort.
^^^^^^ The SUN GOD!= The SON of GOD. #Fact |
Crime / Re: (Photo):Nigerian Men In Usa, Killing Their Imported Wives From Nigeria. by Mapletraks: 7:18am On Jul 03, 2015 |
Lucasbalo: It's not the RN that is the problem, its the man that do not understand American way of life. There is something called DIVORCE. My significant other is a RN with a B.SC from a reputable Catholic college and so are many nigerian women and we don't have that problem. A man must come to the table well equipped too. You dont expect your wife to dominate you financially in US even though you brought her here. Killing is never justify unless you are defending yourself. ^^^^^^^^^ @lucasbalo, Well said! Low self-esteem is at the epicenter of these vicious attacks by these men on their RN spouses in the U.S., and the subconscious fear of losing them to other "better motivated" imaginary male lovers. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Crime / Re: (Photo):Nigerian Men In Usa, Killing Their Imported Wives From Nigeria. by Mapletraks: 7:05am On Jul 03, 2015 |
Markieee: Hmmmm. Lots of stories,, I get an RN aunt o, in that same USA, and issues have been going on for a while now, make them no go kill am for me o.. I dey get tips from her ooo... Aunt I cover you with the blood of Bro J Amen ^^^^^^^^ ...You got me laughing there! You like money... eh! Most Nigerian women in the U.S. are RNs. Some men who read microbiology or biochemistry in Nigeria are also RNs in the U.S. and they are well-paid! 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Ambode Names Igbo Man Engr Okonji As GM State Electricity Board by Mapletraks: 6:28am On Jul 03, 2015 |
bigfrancis21: This is a political move made to make up for the destruction of Ladipo Spare parts market. I can say that Ambode is a strategic politician.
As for Ladipo auto spare parts market, let it be destroyed whatsoever and rebuilt with whatever ultra modern market structure they want to build, give that market 5 years and watch Igbo traders take over the place. Igbos are very resilient by nature, easily bouncing back from any setback whatsoever and can hardly be held back. If they could bounce back from the civil war in just under 30 years, they would bounce back from this small setback in under 5 years. Commerce is just not a thing for the Yorubas, and the Igbos being aggressive at commerce and trading will take over majority of the stores by natural competition. I am not pitching one tribe against the other but I am just stating facts as they are. From observation, Yoruba traders barely survive in trade in the midst of Igbos traders due to the competitiveness and aggressiveness of Igbos in business, who always find one way or the other to stay at the edge.
The ultra modern market complex could be completed and stalls allocated to, say, half Yorubas Half Igbos. Observe nature take its course and see most of the Yoruba traders sell their stores to Igbo traders and move elsewhere because they can't cope with the competition of fellow Igbo traders until Igbo traders take over the ultra modern market. It happened already with Alaba market, Computer Village, Ladipo Market etc. in Lagos when Yorubas were majority but today Igbo traders are in control and it will simply happen again with Ladipo Ultra Modern Market Structure. ^^^^^^^^ @bigfrancis21 Your post about the Yoruba not being good in commerce is VERY misleading and YOU need to expand your knowledge about other people as a Mod. on Nairaland! Re-read your post again and you will become AWARE that you sound condescending on the subconscious level by saying the Yoruba will sell there shops to your kinsmen. This statement is UNCALLED for as a Nairaland Mod. There are Yoruba sub-groups that are known for their business sagacity and acumen such as the Ijesas and Ejigbo people of Osun, the Ijebus, the Igbominas, and even among several sub-groups of the Yoruba, You have highly successful entrepreneurs among the Ibadan people, Ekitis, Aworis of Lagos and Ogun States, the Ondo Town people as well as the Ogbomosos who are into a variety of commercial activities and even have their town unions in diffetent parts of Nigeria and in the Diaspora. In 1987, I flew on board a Nigeria Airways A310 [one of the 4 that the national airline had just purchased] for an international conference at Hotel d'Ivoire in the beautiful city of Abidjan from Lagos. I was stunned to see a large number of male and female Yoruba traders and business people living and doing business in Ivory Coast. Many had been living there for decades and spoke very fluent French. The same thing is replicated all over Central and West Africa where you find thousands of Yoruba who are involved in big commercial activities. Ambassador Dele Cole from Rivers State, who is the father of Tonye Cole, one of the co-founders of Sahara Energy also wrote a book which he launch this year about the History of the Yoruba and their way of life, and in the 3-part series he wrote in The Guardian as well he clearly mentioned the enterprising skills of the Yoruba and their business presence in several West African countries. Sir Allan Burns also mentioned 4 advanced civilizations in pre-colonial Nigeria. Benin Empire, Oyo Empire, Kanem Bornu Empire, and the Sokoto Caliphate. The mastery of long-distance trading with other Empires in West Africa such as Mali Empire, the Ashanti, North Africa via Nupeland and the Hausa States, etc, is what gave the Yoruba (Oyo Oba) or Oyo Empire the power and economic ascendancy. For over 200 years, the Yoruba have had a strong trading presence in Ghana just like the Hausa in Northern Ghana. The CIA Country Facts Website lists over a million Yoruba as being citizens of Ghana along with Hausas as well! The late business mogul, Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony was born in Kinshasa, in the then Belgian Congo, because he came from a family of enterprising merchants. So, it is misleading for you to say that the Yoruba cannot compete in commerce because from my studies of the business/trading history of several ethnicities in Nigeria and globally, nobody has the monopoly of the knowledge of commerce except if you have some clanishness like in the diamond industry where a larger market percentage is controlled by a few people of Israeli/Jewish descent right from the middle-ages. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Akande Reveals How Subsidy Thieves, Corrupt Businessmen Enthroned Saraki, Dogara by Mapletraks: 12:04pm On Jun 29, 2015 |
msmon: Former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande has explained how some persons he tagged as subsidy thieves, corrupt businessmen enthroned Saraki and Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively.
Akande in a statement on Sunday said those jittery of President Muhammadu Buhari’s constant threat of anti-corruption battle encouraged and financed the rebellions against the APC democratic positions, which led to the adoption of Saraki and Dogara by the PDP.
He said the party must reposition for it to offer Nigerians the change it promised.
According to the statement, “Sometimes in 2013, the Action Congress OF Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) resolved to merge and set up a merger committee to work out the modality for glueing together as one political party under one name, one constitution and one manifesto.
“A splinter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) sought to be included in the merger. An application made to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to this end by All Progressives Congress (APC) National Interim Committee, composed of ACN, ANPP, CPC, and factions of APGA and Democratic People’s Party (DPP) was approved in July, 2013.
“Between Bola Ahmed Tinubu (an ACN leader) and Kashim Imam (a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader), the idea came up and was adopted that the new party should embark on a membership recruitment drive to certain PDP governors, whose main agenda was to see President Goodluck Jonathan out of power.
“The recruitment efforts took APC leaders to Rivers, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa and Adamawa states. Eventually, five PDP governors of Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa, Kwara and Rivers, together with the majority of their PDP National and State Assemblies members and other PDP National Assembly members from Gombe, Bauchi and Nasarawa, under the banner of the new-PDP, joined the APC.
“The APC thereafter organised membership registrations in all the over 120,000 polling units and followed up by using these registered members to conduct congresses in all the almost 8000 wards, in over 770 local governments, in all the 36 states (including Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and a convention at the National level, thereby creating one united APC party structure all over Nigeria.
“With this air of oneness, APC went ahead to conduct primaries to select candidates for state governors and Houses of Assembly and for the presidency and the National Assemblies.
“After the elections, which saw the APC to victory all round, a meeting was reported to have been held by certain old and new-PDP leaders in Alhaji Kawu Baraje’s house at Abuja to review what should be their share in this new Buhari’s government and resolved to seek collaboration with the PDP with a view to hi-jacking the National Assembly and, having got rid of Goodluck Jonathan, with an ultimate aim of resuscitating the PDP as their future political platform.
“Unknown to most APC members, while Senator Bukola Saraki was being adopted as the candidate for Senate President by certain old and new-PDP tendencies, the theory was being propagated that, like in most presidential democracies, the APC minority leaders in the old National Assembly (i.e. George Akume for the Senate and Femi Gbajabiamila for the House of Representatives) should automatically become Senate President and Speaker respectively, now that APC has the majority.
“Certain leaders felt that most past Senate presidents had come from Benue State, which Akume represented and that Benue State should be made to assume the traditional home of all senate presidents.
“At the same time, certain senators were clamouring for one of the most ranking senators anywhere outside the Northwest zone that produced the President. That was how Ahmed Lawan, who has been in the House of Representatives for eight years and in the senate for another eight years emerged as the candidate for the senate president.
“Democrats among the APC leadership insisted on selection by mock elections, rather than tribal or sectional considerations. As a result of primary elections, Ahmed Lawan and George Akume emerged as APC candidate for Senate President and Deputy respectively while Femi Gbajabiamila and Mohammed Monguno emerged as the Speaker and Deputy for the House of Representatives.
[b]“Numerous among those calling themselves businessmen in Nigeria are like leaches, sucking from the nation’s blood largely through various governments and particularly through the Nigerian Federal Government. While all these schisms were going on in the APC, those who were jittery of Buhari’s constant threat of anti-corruption’s battle began to encourage and finance rebellions against the APC democratic positions which led to the emergence of Senator Saraki as the candidate of the PDP tendencies inside and outside APC.
“Before the party knew it, the process had been hijacked by polluted interests who saw the inordinate contests as a loop-hole for stifling APC governments’ efforts in its desire to fight corruption.
“Most Northern elite, the Nigerian oil subsidy barons and other business cartels, who never liked Buhari’s anti-corruption political stance, are quickly backing-up the rebellion against APC with strong support. While other position seekers are waiting in the wings until Buhari’s ministers are announced, a large section of the Southwest see the rebellion as a conspiracy of the North against the Yoruba.[/b]
“What began as political patronages to be shared into APC membership-spreads among ethnic zones, religious faiths and political rankings and experiences have now become so complicated that the sharing has to be done by and among PDP leadership together with cohorts of former new- PDP affiliations in the APC, by and among gangs of past anti-Buhari’s Presidency, and certain APC legislators and party members who dance round the crisis arena to pick some crumbs.
“Now that the whole conspiracy has blown open, it is doubtful if the present institutions of party leadership can muster the required capacity to arrest the drift. It is my opinion that President Buhari, and the APC governors should now see APC as a recking platform that may not be strong enough again to carry them to political victory in 2019 and they should quickly begin a joint damage control effort to reconstruct the party in its claim to bring about the promised change before the party’s shortcomings begin to aggravate the challenges of governance in their hands”. .
http://dailypost.ng/2015/06/29/nass-crisis-akande-reveals-how-subsidy-thieves-corrupt-businessmen-enthroned-saraki-dogara/
Cc: obinoscopy, lalasticlala ^^^^^^^^ @msmon This is information from dailypost.ng that you posted is the REAL press release from Chief Bisi Akande. Chief Akande did NOT attack the Northerners like the other post or article from TheCable sensational headline potrayed, on Nairaland front page. Chief Akande should sue TheCable for Defamation of Character and a FALSE and misleading headline of his Press Release that was made on Sunday (yesterday) about the APC state of affairs. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: A Drug Baron Cannot be a Leader In The Party In Power #apcsacktinubu by Mapletraks: 9:48am On Jun 29, 2015 |
omenka: They would rather ignore the facts and hold on tight to their warped understanding of the event because that is what suits them the most after being dealt a bloody nose yesterday.
Imagine the same people claiming SR is under Tinubu's payroll. . Isn't this just a double tragedy? ^^^^^^^^ @omenka You are absolutely right! The laws against defamation of character should be activated rapidly so that people like PMB or Tinubu can get quick justice when defamed. False rumours on FB, twitter, blogs, online forums, etc, can be monitored using IP tracking/advanced technology to trace the originators. When 20-30 of them get arrested and charged to the court law, The rest of them will learn to respect Tinubu and/PMB. That warped thinking that you wrote about will vaporise from their tribally bigotted brain cells instantly. There is NO absolute freedom of speech when trashy and libelous are done in most countries of the world. |
Politics / Re: Most Dangerous Drugs Circulated In The Country Are Produced In Anambra –NDLEA by Mapletraks: 6:29am On Jun 29, 2015 |
businessline: Most dangerous drugs circulated in the country are produced in Anambra –NDLEA
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has declared that the most dangerous drugs circulated in the country are produced in Anambra State.The state NDLEA Commander, Mr. Sule Momodu, who made the declaration on Saturday at the Women’s Development Centre in Awka to mark the 2015 United Nations
Day against Drug Abuse and Trafficking, identified one of the dangerous drugs produced in the state as methamphetamine Momodu expressed worry over the increasing production of illicit drugs, abuse and trafficking in the state and called for a concerted effort to stop the development.
He disclosed that the anti-drug abuse and trafficking agency arrested at least 122 drug suspects between January and June this year. While 114 of them were men, eight were women.
A total of 110.624kg of illicit drug, he said, was seized during the period under review with cannabis sativa known as marijuana topping with 107.26kg.
Other seizures were cocaine, 138.2 grammes, heroine, 100.54grammes, liquid methamphetamine 2.615kg and solid methamphetamine 510 grammes.
The NDLEA commander said the agency also arraigned 22 suspects during the period, out of which eight convictions were obtained while 28 fresh cases were filed.
He expressed optimism that the agency would fight drug abuse and trafficking in the state, asking stakeholders to join hands in the campaign against drug abuse. He lauded the state Governor, Willie Obiano, for the support he had given to the agency, especially involving it in the State Security Council and the approval of a parcel of land in Awka, the state capital, for the building of the agency’s rehabilitation centre.Momodu warned that if the war against illicit drug use and trafficking “is not won now, the scourge will take over the society soonest.”
Momodu, however, called for the inauguration of the state Drug Control Committee to help drive national drug control plans and objectives.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jesophat Akabuike, who represented the governor at the event, restated the state’s commitment to the fight against crime in the state, including drug abuse and trafficking.
http://nigeriacamera.net/most-dangerous-drugs-circulated-in-the-country-are-produced-in-anambra-ndlea/ ^^^^^^^ @OP Indeed NDLEA data collated over the last few years shows that most of those arrest for cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine hard-drugs trafficking at Murtala Mohd. International Airport come mainly from Anambra. If you further drill down the data, those arrested come mainly from a particular part of Anambra. The remaining less than 10% of those arrested at MMIA come from other ethnicities or states. Just last week a 37-year-old Drug baron from the same Anambra was arrested for illegally producing methamphetamine in his Ajao Estate in Isolo, Lagos residence. This substance causes cancer and psychosis when it is ingested, and the waste product from the meth production can contaminate the underground fresh water table. NDLEA usually brings US-based professionals to into Nigeria to decontaminate the houses where these illegal meth labs in Lagos and Anambra were located. Other illegal meth labs have been discovered in 5 locations in Lagos in 4 years(since 2011) and 1 location in Nanka village in Nnewi being operated by these same criminal syndicates. People need to be aware that methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, etc, are punishable by DEATH in serious Asian countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, etc. Good that Gov. Willie Obiano has been assisting the NDLEA and other Governors should be at alert and offer assistance to curb the menace of hard-drugs intake that has ruined many young people in the society. Because NDLEA keeps arresting the drug pushers and barons at the international airports and elsewhere, the dealers are now pushing the hard-drugs such as meth, heroin, etc, out into the local Nigerian environment and Nigerians have to beware! 1 Like |
Politics / Re: A Drug Baron Cannot be a Leader In The Party In Power #apcsacktinubu by Mapletraks: 5:45am On Jun 29, 2015 |
Justcash:
APC needs to do the needful first. They need to sack Tinubu the drug baron and desist from calling him a leader in the leading party. That is an insult to Nigerians. ^^^^^^^^^ @justcash The post by YOU the OP amounts to a defamation of character punishable by imprisonment! Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu is NOT a drug baron. If he was, the Americans would have arrested him long ago. Tinubu TRAVELS to the U.S. regularly and was at the U.S. Congress this year! The Americans have zero-tolerance for drug barons or drug pushers, and Tinubu who is a brilliant chartered accountant has also been cleared by the Americans. The story posted here by the OP is very old or STALE and had been overtaken long ago by events! The OP should stop the hatred towards Tinubu and stop the sensationism. Tinubu since 2007 has NOT had political immunity, yet the PDP-government of GEJ in it's dying days started a print media and AIT and NTA attack on Tinubu in order to make people hate this man. Why wasn't he arrested and charged before the elections? I'm a bit angry with Tinubu for not taking these malicious attacks by all manners of people seriously until he finally sued AIT. By the time he makes a scape-goat out of these people spreading Defamatory and sensational lies about him online and offline, then these group of Nigerians will realise that LIBEL/DEFAMATION of character is a criminal offence all over the world! I remember the late Emeka Ojukwu in the 1990s sued a media outfit for publishing false information about him and he won by being awarded some millions of Naira in compensation. Tinubu should be more serious about dealing with anyone that defames him online and offline because there is a well-targeted attempt by his political opponents affiliated to mainly the rival political party and tribal/ethnic bigots to lower his reputation in the eyes of the public, and it is working especially among the gullible folks who do NOT bother to ask critical questions. #EnoughSaid 9 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Oil Production Ranking Of States by Mapletraks: 10:56pm On Jun 28, 2015 |
new2020: Ondo is the least producing state of all NDDC states. ^^^^^^^^^ @new2020 ONDO State is the 5th largest crude oil producer in Nigeria, followed closely by Edo State, then Imo State, and Abia State is the least oil-producing state. Some of us who use Nairaland such as myself have worked and still work in the oil and gas industry and know FULL WELL that you are lying or just plain IGNORANT! You have been posting this FALSE information on Nairaland that Ondo State is the lowest oil-producer on other threads and claiming that the information is from NNPC. This is highly mischievious of you! You must DESIST from this insidious and petty behavior, so that you don't confuse people who use Nairaland for educational and business research. |
Crime / Re: Drug Baron Held For Producing Drugs In Anambra State (PICTURE) by Mapletraks: 2:29am On Jun 27, 2015 |
prophetfire: the Igbo boys being caught are the street hustlers like this one and they call them barons. The real barons are the kashamus n tinubus. ^^^^^^^^^ @ prophetfire Don't trivialise this issue... That criminal that was arrested for producing meth crystals in Ajao Estate in Isolo Lagos, and later arrested in his home state of Anambra is NOT just a street hustler but a drug baron. If you had read the full article on this thread, you won't be saying this. The NDLEA agents have arrested several members of these drug barons in different parts of Lagos and Anambra who produce this very dangerous methamphetamine in their illegal and highly toxic laboratories in Nigeria. 5 meth labs were discovered in residential areas in Lagos, and another 1 in Nanka village in Nnewi. Decontamination of any house used by these criminals is usually done by experts hired from the U.S. by NDLEA because of the highly toxic waste products and cancer-causing fumes which get embedded in the walls/wall coatings. Meth causes cancer, delusion/mental psychosis among users which also leads to increase in crime in the society. This is why China, Malaysia, and Singapore that are advanced societies have death penalty for methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin trafficking! Lastly, Chief Bola Tinubu is NOT a drug baron that is wanted in the U.S. If he is a drug baron, the Americans would have arrested him long ago. He was even at the U.S. Congress this year, and he was never arrested. The false allegations and the dirty AIT propaganda against Tinubu were sponsored by the members of the opposition party. If you don't know, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu's house in the U.S. was used to harbour Nigerian pro-democracy fighters who were persecuted by the Military Govt. in the 1990s and had to flee Nigeria. America does not tolerate drug dealers and barons and for those of us who were grown up, we can still recall HOW American forces invaded Nicaragua in the 1980s to arrest former President Manuel Antonio Noriega, and took him to the U.S. to stand trial for his involvement in crimes perpetrated againt U.S. interests. Tinubu was a brilliant Senior Chartered Accountant with Mobil Nigeria and worked as an accountant with global financial giant, Arthur Anderson as well as Delloitte. He is NOT a criminal. I blame Tinubu for not taking quick action by sueing/getting those spoiling his name arrested. It is only now he is taking action against AIT. Buruji Kasamu said it is his twin brother who is now late that was into drugs. If his hands are clean, then he should fly to the U.S. Why has he been avoiding travelling to the U.S. with all the money that he has and his links with Chitown or Chicago in the past? Something smells fishy... |
Crime / Re: Drug Baron Held For Producing Drugs In Anambra State (PICTURE) by Mapletraks: 1:14am On Jun 27, 2015 |
Obipat: sentor kashmu is n igbo man? What of Tinubu? Go and sleep ^^^^^^^ Leave Chief Bola Tinubu out of this. He is not a drug baron! If he is actually being wanted by the Americans for drugs he would have been arrested by them on his several visits to the U.S. Tinubu was at the U.S. Congress this year and he was not arrested. You and some other people do not seem to realise that it is a criminal act of defamation of character to openly lie or accuse someone falsely, if you are arrested, you or anyone can be sent to jail. Buruji Kasamu of PDP's case is quite obvious! He said it was his late brother who is his twin that was involved in the U.S. drug case. If he is innocent, then he has to go to the U.S. to clear his name. There is a movie "Orange is the New Black" on the Kashamu imbroglio in the U.S., If he says he is not the one but his twin brother, then he should go to America without waiting to be disgraced further! Enough said! |
Crime / Re: Drug Baron Held For Producing Drugs In Anambra State (PICTURE) by Mapletraks: 12:14am On Jun 27, 2015 |
illiad:
While I do not condole any kind of criminality, I found your statement rather too generalising and that is a height of hypocrisy & bigotry. Every single tribe in nigeria is involved in drugs. The guys that produced the killer baby drug 'my piking' were northerners. Many children died before nafdac took off that drug from market & today nothing was heard about these northern criminals. And shall we go into the damage the hausa fulani kanuri & Islamic movement of boko haram has done to our economy lives & image both home & abroad? And if you come down to south west it is an open secret that most if not all their political Leaders are drug barons. Or shall we visit their insatiable taste for ritual rape & incestouosness? Or shall we talk about embezzlement of national treasury?
You see, I hate people playing Jesus once the man in dock at moment is not from their tribe. IF the Igbos are more in number among drug dealers so are other tribes are more in number in various other more heinous criminality.
^^^^^^^^^ @illiad First off, DID you read and re-read my original post with understanding? From your post it shows you were overcome by sentiments and emotions without looking at the BIG picture! Read your post again and you or anyone will see that it is you who has unfortunately generized by casting aspersions on entire people of the S/West and the North in a very unwise fashion and on your past posts on other threads, you were clearly cautioned by a poster for engaging in rabid insult on the people of the S/West! The FOCUS of this thread was on the 37-year-old criminal and methamphetamine hard-drug baron who produces the CANCER and PSYCHO TIC substance in Ajao Estate in Isolo, Lagos. This substance when produced is even highly toxic to residents of Isolo or any location where it is produced because of the waste products! 1. The FACT I stated about the over 90% of Ibos being arrested for hard-drugs among Nigerians comes from official intelligence info from NDLEA and the NIA which gathers info on Nigerian convicts from abroad. Certainly like you indicated other Nigerians are involved in the remaining percentages of drug traffickers. 2. The NDLEA and NIA data on drug trafficking data was well collated so you cannot accuse NDLEA or anyone of tribalism or ethnicism! The demographic data from NDLEA also shows that a particular part of Anambra has the highest involvement among SEs. This info will even help to dispel the thinking that Ibos in general are a nation of drug pushers which is not. 3. You said the My Pikin owners are Northerners in your post above. This is false as the owner is from the West or Yoruba, and he had members of staff from different Southern ethnicities in his Lagos-based company which was legitimately registered. What led to the death of the babies was a result of a production or batch error when a chemical they purchased had been adulterated by the seller and the negligence of the production unit in not testing the chemical used as a raw material. They are serving jail-terms now contrary to what you stated in your post. 4. Your tribalistic rant and tantrums against an entire SW as being the base of child rape, molestations and ritua.l killings is uncalled for as we know that such cases have been reported all over Nigeria and even in the Western world! If you remember the ritual killings of Women in Enugu-Ezike, the rapes of elderly women in the SE, and just 2 weeks ago in Imo, 6 evil men of SE origin were arrested for selling human parts of people they killed. Does this represent Ibos? NO. When I came to Nigeria on a visit few years back, an Ibo lady phoned in to an Agony Aunt program on Ray Power FM at night to ask for assistance on how she could be helped to overcome the depression from the se.xual assaults she was subjected to by her father while the lived in one of the S/Eastern States. Her father had divorced her mother when she was a young girl. No African society either in the North, SW, SE, or SS will condone such abominable actions which traditionally leads to ostracization of such culprits in the SW and SE communities for example. 5. About your allegation that most, if not all SW politicians are into drugs, it is only Buruji Kashamu that has being clearly indicted and it is obvious that he has something to hide by not going to the U.S. to clear his name even though he said it was his twin brother who is now dead that was the culprit. Any other accusation by you will amount to defamation of character of someone like Chief Bola Tinubu which can land you or anyone else in jail if you are arrested and taken to the court of law. Tinubu who you are refering to aside from Kashamu, travels freely to the U.S. and Europe. He was even at the U.S. Congress this year, so if he is a drug baron wanted by the Americans like is being falsely spread online before and after the 2015 elections, the U.S. would have arrested him and charged him to court! 1 Like |
Crime / Re: Drug Baron Held For Producing Drugs In Anambra State (PICTURE) by Mapletraks: 10:38pm On Jun 26, 2015 |
otiigba1: you talk too much! FYI there is no different between your paracetamol, phensic or panadol and methamphetamine , only that the Big dealers like the American, British and nigerian goverments want people to believe that its illegal, so they the goverments can control and sale it themselves as medicines you can buy from your chemists, if you must know Achohol is a bigger killer of humans, why is it not illegal? Because it creates a huge amount of wealth for the goverments ^^^^^^^^^ @otiigba1 Your post is very misleading! How can you equate the very deadly hard drug called methamphetamine with panadol, phensic, and paracetamol which are prescription/medicinal drugs? Methamphetamine causes violence among the youth in the wider society, psychosis, hallucination, cancer, etc. This is the reason SERIOUS countries in Asia such as Singapore Malaysia, China, etc, have death penalty for cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin drug barons and drug smugglers. Nairaland should NOT be used as a place to mislead people about methamphetamine, which is in the same class as cocaine and heroin. Desist from telling people that methamphetamine is the same as Phensic, Paracetamol, or alcohol! |
Politics / Re: Another Civil War Will Lead To The End Of Nigeria; Setting The Records Straight. by Mapletraks: 8:48pm On Jun 26, 2015 |
new2020:
Fool...I gave you a chart from NNPC. It's called FACTS! Now get out! @new2020 I saw one of your posts where you posted that same false information about Ondo State being the lowest oil producer based on the top 80/bottom 20 graphics you attached to your post on page 6. That chart is NOT from NNPC. For your information I worked in the oil industry and lived in PH as well and it is an open secret that Ondo state is the 5th largest oil-producer in Nigeria. Ondo State's onshore and offshore annual crude oil output is 3 times more than the combined annual output of Imo and Abia States. Edo comes NEXT in crude oil annual output to Ondo State which shares boundaries with the massively oil-rich Itsekiriland in Delta State, along the same oil-rich coastline. The Ilaje-Yorubas of Ondo State and the Itsekiris of the oil-rich Ugborodo [Escravos] are direct cousins who have contributed to the crude oil income along with other South-Southerners that is being used by Nigeria. The largest to the lowest based on the official data from the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission are listed below: Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa[the number 1 gas producer in Nigeria, but 4th crude oil producer], Ondo, Edo, Imo, and Abia comes last. Cross River had lost some oil wells to Akwa Ibom State so has dropped off the radar of oil producing states, but is still a member of NDDC. Desist from peddling FALSE information on this thread and Nairaland with that attached 80/20 oil-producer graphic on page 6 of this thread. The graphic is NOT from NNPC and you actually RIPPED it from a non-oil industry based Website! There are many well-educated people who use Nairaland for networking from all over the world, and BS information can easily be spotted and corrected. I've been using Nairaland since 2005, and all I want to see are FACTS on Nairaland not lies being peddled by people with low self-esteem and bogus ethnic supremacist ideologies! 4 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Another Civil War Will Lead To The End Of Nigeria; Setting The Records Straight. by Mapletraks: 8:23am On Jun 26, 2015 |
chuna1985:
They don't want us to go because we feed their lazy Asses.
they are not strong , they r just cowards. ^^^^^^ It is interesting to see a 30-year-old like you exhibiting clear symptoms of delusion and psychosis. Your childish tantrums on your previous posts that I've read and re-read show a person who has not clearly defined what his GOALS in life should be. The SWest if you are NOT aware is the 5th largest oil producer in Nigeria from Ilaje LGA axis of ONDO State - onshore and offshore. Next is Edo, Imo, and Abia is the least oil-producer in that order. The Yoruba have been contributing to Nigeria's annual income from the sale of oil and gas. Did you know that the Ondo state produces 3 times more crude oil than Imo and Abia states combined? So how can you say that your people in your ethnic enclave feed the Yoruba and they don't want you to go...? @chuna1985, snap out of YOUR death-wish state of being and don't allow the hatred of yourself and others to ruin you! #ManKnowThySelf 2 Likes |
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Crime / Re: Drug Baron Held For Producing Drugs In Anambra State (PICTURE) by Mapletraks: 2:40pm On Jun 25, 2015 |
swizken6: Chai.. lekwanu blessed ooo Ezennunu 1 na Isolo.. Jah be with you! ^^^^^^^ Ezennunu1 of Isolo indeed. Look most of those young Ibo men in Lagos and elsewhere who are very loud and build houses outside Iboland have questionable wealth from methamphetamine drug trafficking and production right within residential areas such as the guys of Ibo origin who were arrested by the NDLEA between June 2011 and December 2012 in Satellite Town, Iba New Site, Majek in Ibeju-Lekki LGA. 4 of those methamphetamine illegal factories were sited within developed residential areas in Lagos State, and only 1 illegal meth factory was discovered at Nanka in Nnewi! All these men were from Anambra State based on NDLEA data! Infact one of them had a methampethamine factory within his house in Satellite Town and another underground factory/crude laboratory in his home town in Nanka in Nnewi, Anambra State. Methamphetamine production and the by-products causes CANCER when these Brainless people pour the waste into the ground for disposal thereby endangering the lives of the people living in the immediate environment of Iba, Satellite Town, Nanka and other laboratory locations in Anambra, etc. The GROUND WATER becomes contaminated in those areas with the waste that can cause hallucinations/delusions/psychosis, weight loss, etc. Death penalty has to be introduced for this kind of crime just like in Singapore, Malaysia, S. Arabia, etc, because an NDLEA report that I read 4 years ago indicated that Imo State was experiencing an increasing usage of hard drugs among the youth as a result of the tighter security at the International Airports. Imo state was said to be targeted because of the high student population i.e., in Owerri. Information available to me also shows that over 90% of drug pushers arrested at MMIA in Lagos State are of Ibo origin, with most coming from Anambra. Those on death-row abroad in especially Asian countries based on the bi-annual report from the National Intelligence Agency [NIA] which is Nigeria's equivalent of CIA, shows again than over 90% are Ibo who claim to be doing Import-Export as a cover. Nigeria and Anambra most especially have to wake up to solve this problem and major stigma. I remember in 2009, a major newspaper reported that Ohaneze Ndigbo had a meeting to proffer solutions as to why young Ibos like this 38-year-old criminal that has just been arrested, constitute the majority of drug-pushers, and other crimes across Nigeria and abroad, but they STILL haven't found a solution as a socio-cultural body. I think from reading the articles of intelligent Ibo Public Affairs analysts over the years in the Sun Newspaper and other publications, it all boils down to EXTREME GREED, and the pressure from the hometowns and cultural groups to acquire fast wealth by any means. |
Family / Re: Wedding Palava: Church Wedding, Court or Traditional?? by Mapletraks: 2:46am On Jun 25, 2015 |
lolaredvelvet:
Thanks dear.. V helpful info ^^^^^^^^^ @lolaredvelvet @all I came across this interesting thread and would like to say my piece... It is this sort of excessive show-off in the Nigerian society that put me off from getting married to a Nigerian. I had attended a couple of weddings years back of cousins, friends, etc, and realised as well that the so-called WHITE wedding a.k.a church wedding is actually the TRADITIONAL wedding of the white people. So a lot of Nigerians are IGNORANTLY doing TWO wedding ceremonies by taking part in two traditional wedding ceremonies[the Nigerian and the white man's traditional weddings]. I think the traditional weddings can be further modernised so as to do away with the white wedding in church which isn't our culture. It is ridiculous when I see Nigerians back home and some in the Diaspora doing 2 traditional weddings and wasting money. The Nigerian women I rolled with were very intelligent and would have loved to be married to one of them, but I found myself gravitating towards a non-Nigerian to avoid all the loud preparations, pressures from Nigerian families to conform with the HERD MENTALITY that is associated with Nigerian weddings. My wedding was done outside Nigeria to my spouse who is biracial and it was done without much stress in the presence of a few family members and friends on both sides. Even amongst the North Americans and Europeans, weddings usually last between 30 to 40 minutes in a church/civil wedding and then the reception takes place, and more people in the West and other locations are heading for manageable destination weddings with just a few family members and friends in places like Seychelles, Maui, Barbados, etc, then do their honeymoons in those locations as well to save cost. I wish you the best on your impending wedding/marriage. Cheers! 1 Like |
Culture / Re: Ekiti People by Mapletraks: 12:51am On Jun 21, 2015 |
macof: I just felt I should compile this for my beloved Ekiti people.
The Ekiti people are aboriginal, culturally homogeneous and highly intellectual agriculturalist Yoruboid-speaking people that forms a sub-group of the larger Yoruba ethnic group of West Africa, particularly in Nigeria and some part of Benin. Ekiti people who are well-known for their diverse and quality of traditional arts, music, poetry and witty sayings are reside predominantly in the Ekiti State in Western Nigeria. The Ekiti constitutes one of the largest Yoruba sub-group in Nigeria with the 2006 population census by the National Population Commission putting the population of Ekiti State at 2,384,212 people.
Ekiti State lies south of Kwara and Kogi State, East of Osun State and bounded by Ondo State in the East and in the south. It was declared a state on October 1, 1996 alongside five others by the military under the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. The state, carved out of the territory of old Ondo State, covers the former twelve local government areas that made up the Ekiti Zone of old Ondo State. On creation, it took off with sixteen (16) Local Government Areas (LGAs), having had an additional four carved out of the old ones. Ekiti State is one of the thirty-six states that constitute Nigeria. The capital of Ekiti State is Ado-Ekiti.
There are not less than 120 towns in Ekiti state. One important aspect of the Ekiti towns is the common suffix "Ekiti" attached to their names eg. Ido-Ekiti, Ado-Ekiti, Oye-Ekiti.
Historically Ekiti people like the larger Yoruba are aborigine to the region, until absorbed by the invaders from the East. The term Ekiti denotes a "Mound", and is derived from the rugged mountainous feature of the country. It is an extensive province and well watered, having several tribes and clans right on to the border of the Niger, eastward. They hold themselves quite distinct from the Ijesas, especially in political affairs but have always had a strong brotherhood consciousness.
Ekiti themselves never saw each other as one nation until the Ekiti parapo(Ekiti confederacy) agreement of 1877 in order to raise a strong army against Ibadan. The 16 foremost Ekiti Obas also went into agreements with Ijesa as Ogedengbe of Ilesa led the Ekiti parapo army
It is believed that the ancestors of Ekiti people who came to combine with the aboriginal people on the land migrated from Ile Ife, the spiritual home of the Yoruba people. According to oral and contemporary written sources of Yoruba history, Oduduwa, the ancestor of the Yoruba traveled to Ife [Ife Ooyelagbo] where he met people who were already settled there. Among the elders he met in the town were Agbonniregun,Obatala, Orelure, Obameri, Elesije, Obamirin, Obalejugbe just to mention a few. It is known that descendants of Agbonniregun [Baba Ifa] settled in Ekiti, examples being the Alara and Ajero who are sons of Ifa from the same mother. Orunmila himself spent a greater part of his life at Ado before going back to Ife to become Oba of Oketase, Ife. Due to this, we have the saying ‘Ado ni ile Ifa’ [Ado is the home of Ifa].
The early Ekiti country is divided into 16 districts (and it has been maintained to this day), each with its own Owa or King (Owa being a generic term amongst them) some of which are Owore of Otun,The Ajero of Ijero, Alara of Aramoko, Alaye of Efon-Alaye, Ewi of Ado, Elekole of Ikole, Olojudo of Ido, Oloye of Oye, Arinjale of Ise(and 7 others i dont know). these 16 Owas controlled other small towns that paid homage to them, Ewi and Owore are said to have had the largest territories.
The Ekiti are very intelligent and have a deep love of home- there has been no large scale migration of Ekiti peoples to neighbouring countries, but Ekitis are in other parts of Yorubaland mostly in Ondo, Oshun and Kwara states. Respect for age and superiors, ingrained politeness is part and parcel of their nature. Ekiti land is reputed to have produced the highest number of professors in Nigeria.It is rather by heritage than by accident that the motto of the present Ekiti state is “Fountain of Knowledge,” since Agbonniregun whose descendants are all over Ekitiland is praised as Akeke-f'inu s'ogbon [the small man with a mind full of wisdom, which could be the source of the popular "Ekiti kete" slogan Several pioneers academics are from the state. Pioneers like Profs Adegoke Olubummo (One of the 1st Nigerian Professors in the field of Mathematics), Adeyinka Adeyemi (1st Professor of Architecture in West Africa). Others include renowned academics like Profs J.F. Ade-Ajayi, Niyi Osundare, Sam Aluko and others too many to mention
The main staple food of the people of Ekiti is pounded yam with Isapa soup or vegetable soup. NATURAL RESOURCES Ekiti land is naturally endowed with numerous natural resources. The state is potentially rich in mineral deposits. These include granite, kaolin, columbite, channockete, iron ore, baryte, aquamine, gemstone, phosphate, limestone,GOLD among others. They are largely deposited in different towns and villages of Ijero, Ekiti West, Ado - Ekiti, Ikole, Ikere, Ise-Ekiti and other Local Government Areas.The Land is also blessed with water resources, some of its major rivers are Ero, Osun, Ose, and Ogbese. More so a variety of tourist attractions abound in the state namely, Ikogosi Warm Spring, Ipole - Iloro Water Falls, Olosunta hills, Ikere, Fajuyi Memorial Park Ado - Ekiti and so on. The Ikogosi tourist centre is the most popular and the most developed. The warm spring is a unique natural feature, and supporting facilities are developed in the centre. The spring is at present being processed and packaged into bottled water for commercial purpose by a private company - UAC Nigeria
Moreover, the land is buoyant in agricultural resources with cocoa as its leading cash crop. It was largely known that Ekiti land constituted well over 40% of the cocoa products of the famous old Western Region. The land is also known for its forest resources, notably timber. Because of the favorable climatic conditions, the land enjoys luxuriant vegetation, thus, it has abundant resources of different species of timber. Food crops like yam, cassava, and also grains like rice and maize are grown in large qualities. Other notable crops like kola nut and varieties of fruits are also cultivated in commercial quantities
Ekiti Anthem " Oun abajoro kiipe kun Oun asepo nileye Ehin ola wa tidara o Awa Ekiti ati parapo Kaparapo katun panupo Awa Ekiti ati gbominira Okan lawansee Chorus: Ekiti, Ekiti ati gbominira (2ce) Awa Ekiti iwaju laomalo lagbara Olorun Awa Ekiti okan soso ma ni’wa o lailai."
Oriki Ekiti omo Owa omo ekun omo oro ninu waya agbele sebi eko, aidamo ro o yangba omo otiriki ju Ida, ki keri ogun hun won l'ule Owa Elila oke isa, okan din nibe eyin ra kan si, okan le nibe inse leyin pa kan je Omo agesin re popo ukoro, Omo ogbogan gbogan leti Omo aroyin royin kan se po e yo run lule aran Omo ekun peran dagba aya si, Omo jiwajiwa ileke Eyin lomo olulu oro kii ro loru. Omo olupepe ka sokasoka ka mebibo sere, ka soloko segbe ogiri lule eyigbo Eyin lomo irafi eemi, omo agbona bi ado Omo elewure funfun ilasa ki fun bi okin Omo obanla ba odo, omo arabaribi akuta Omo Aalaere gbendeke, Omo aji be gbaa ji Udile Ekiti Omo aji mogun sano omo opababa lesi lodo ose oko.
ADEYEMI Ekundayo Adeyinka, Prof. Distinguished Professor, 1st Professor of Architecture in West Africa Adegoke Olubummo, Ekit man and one of the 1st Nigerian Professors in the field of Mathematics Saraibi Ogedengbe Agbogungboro ^^^^^^ The 3rd man in the picture that was attached to @Macof's original post on page 1 is the Commander of the Ekiti Parapo Forces by the name of Ogedengbe Agbogunboro. I originally saw that picture in the historical archives in the late 90's. The iconic picture of the Ijesa-born Commander of the Ekiti Parapo Confederate Army was taken at Imesi-Ile in the year 1881 with some of his lieutenants who took part in the 16-year long Civil War that started in 1879. When I showed the original picture to a friend from Ekiti in the late 1990s, he went wild and said he had never set his eyes on the picture of Ogedengbe who he said is very popular in the history of the Yoruba and begged me to lend him the original archival picture so he could show all his family members. I'm a world history enthusiast and would enjoin the Ekiti/Yoruba and other ethnicities to acquire and preserve many of the pre-1900 and post-1900 RARE pictures of our people that are in the British Archives so as to better appreciate our histories within the 21st Century scheme of things. Thanks to @Macof for this post on the Ekiti history. It is illuminating. #Ekiti kete! 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: 6-man Gang Arrested For Ritual Murders In Imo State by Mapletraks: 6:16pm On Jun 20, 2015 |
superstar1: The Nkwerre Vigilante Network this week arrested a six-man gang specialized in the sale of human parts for rituals and transplant in Nkwerre, Imo State. The men confessed to kidnapping their victims at various locations in the state and using their parts for ritual purposes. Some parts they sold to people who needed them for transplant. Yeah, there are human beings like this amongst us.
The men, who are mostly bricklayers, confessed that they sell the parts from N500k to N1million, depending on the parts in demand. Two of the ritual killers were found to be pastors.
The men took the vigilante network members and some policemen to their hideout which is a forest in Umugara Village in Nkwerre. There, police found the decomposing corpses of some of their victims, mostly women and children.
Source: Lindaikeji |
Politics / Re: Oil Production Ranking Of States by Mapletraks: 6:01pm On Jun 20, 2015 |
superstar1: Many atimes we have heard so much noise about SW not producing oil. Ondo has always been an oil producing state and a member of NDDC. The good news of Lagos State joining the league of all producers also gladdens the heart, with Ogun State reserve between Tongeji Island and benin Republic border a welcome development.
Undeniable facts and figures clearly show that the only oil producing state in SW is the number 6 largest producer in the country and its total production, by extension SW, surpasses all other regions apart from the oil rich SS region. ^^^^^^^ @Superstar1 @all Ondo State is the 5th LARGEST crude-oil producing state in Nigeria based on onshore and offshore statistics. Ondo State's production output is among the 20% of oil production in Nigeria represented by Ondo, Edo, Imo, and Abia. Ondo State's output from the Ilaje axis of southern Ondo [onshore and offshore] is slightly higher than Edo, and 3 times the COMBINED annual output of Imo and Abia states. I worked in the oil industry in Nigeria and lived and worked in PH as well and this fact is an open secret to those in the industry and others who are well-informed. I discovered over the years - even before 2005 when Nairaland was formed by Seun, [I started using Nairaland in June 2005], that some misguided people had been posting messages online as far back as 2001 that the Western part of Nigeria has been feeding on the oil from the SE/SS without contributing anything. I thought the topic of this thread would originally be used to NOT only set the record straight about crude-oil production output and contribution to the Nigerian economy state-by-state, but also witness positive contributions on how to maximize oil and gas usage for the benefit of the main oil and gas producing states in Nigeria through VALUE ADDITION and internal utilisation for the BENEFIT of all in the face of reduced demand for Nigerian crude oil by the traditional buyers such as the U.S., China, India, etc. I'm just reading this thread again, and saw another uninformed and misguided poster BELOW saying that Ondo is the least oil producer among all the oil-producing states which is clearly FALSE! Nairaland should NOT be used to twist facts but should be used to educate people, and this is why I usually intervene by posting facts from time-to-time whenever some people peddle falsehood online. The SUMMARY of each of the oil-producing states output based on the March 2012 data by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission shows the highest to the lowest oil and gas producers below: Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Bayelsa, Ondo, Edo, Imo, and the least is Abia. (Cross River oil output has since dropped). As for gas production, Bayelsa is the leading producer, followed by Rivers, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Imo, Ondo, Cross River, and the least is Abia. |
Culture / Re: Ukwuani People Are Not Igbos. by Mapletraks: 5:43pm On Jun 20, 2015 |
mumbasa: Ukwuani is not a dialect and it is not Igbo. It’s an ethnic group it’s a language that is linguistically similar to Igbo language.
Something makes Umu- igbo sees themselves as always superior. Igbo, Ukwuani, Ekpeye, Ogba & Ikwerre are familiar tribes. Let everyone respect each other instead of claiming the territories of one another. The greediest among these tribes is Igbo.
All over the world we have distinct tribes with similar language and no one claims that the other person is answering his name so he must be Igbo.
Spanish and Portuguese – they both answer names like Diego, Jose, Fernando but the Portuguese man doesn’t wake up to tell the Spanish man that you are answering my name and you are Portuguese.
When a Portuguese man answers Rodriguez it’s a portugese name similarly when a Spanish man answers Rodriguez it becomes a Spanish name.
NO ONE OWNS THE NAME.
Uhrobo and Isoko – They both answer names like Afoke, Oghene.
Bini, Esan, Etsako – They are also different languages. I don’t mean dialects
Eleme and Ogoni – Some similar names but again different language and no one claims the other.
Ukwuani ,Ikwerre, Ekpeye, Ogba, and Igbo language – Big problem because the Igbo’s say we are answering their names but let me point out that if an Igbo man answers Chukwu it’s an Igbo name, If an Ukwuani man answers Chukwu it becomes an Ukwuani name similarly when an ikwerre man answers Chukwu its now an Ikwerre name.
Itsekiri and Yoruba language – they also have same problems with Yoruba’s but let them speak for themselves.
Ụkwụànì (sometimes spelled Ụkwànì) are a distinct ethnic group of people located in the heart of Delta State in the Delta North Senatorial District they occupy three local governments in Delta state and some of them bleed into Rivers state. They are closely related to the Ndoni people found in Rivers states in Nigeria.
They didn’t say they are not Igbo’s because someone drew a map and that placed them in Delta State. Remember that before the war they were all in one state with; Igbo’s , Ikwerres , Ijaw’s and Itshekiri’s called eastern region but they supported the Nigerian cause during the civil war and do not in any way consider themselves to be of the Igbo stock. Ụkwụànì language has 88% resemblance with dialects of Aboh and Ndoni.
When an Ikwerre, Ekpeye or Ukwuani man tells you that he is not Igbo it doesn’t mean that there is anything wrong with the Igbo’s or it’s a bad thing to be Igbo but don’t just use your ignorance to discard my identity and give me yours. There are many very intelligent, successful, rich talented Igbo’s spread all over the world so you can see that there is nothing wrong with the Igbo’s.
JUST DON’T DISCARD MY IDENTITY – Maybe the Itsekiris and some people in parts of Kogi and Kwara feel same because I have heard many of them say I am not Yoruba and the Yoruba man says your name is Tunde how can you say you are not Yoruba.
@ Mumbasa The Yoruba of Kogi West such as Dare Art-Alade, Senators Smart Adeyemi and Dino Melaiye, the present Deputy Governor of Kogi State [Yomi Awoniyi] are Yorubas of the Middle-Belt of Northern Nigeria and have NEVER denied being Yoruba. Yomi Awoniyi's late father was the first Yoruba Northerner to become the Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, i.e., Chief Sunday Awoniyi, never denied being Yoruba but was proud to be a Northern Yoruba because the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello treated non-Hausas in the North with love and respect. In Kwara State, out of the 16 Local Governments 12 belong fully to the Yoruba including Ilorin the state capital, and the language spoken in Ilorin for day-to-day communication is fully Yoruba. The Nupes own 2 LGAs and the Baribas also own 2 LGAs. Last but not least the Itsekiris have Yoruba and Edo ancestries, and are righly classified as a sub-group of the Yoruba and Edo. Itsekiri language is very close to mainstream Yoruba but has some Edo, Portuguese, and English words. The Original Itsekiris were of Ijebu ancestry in Omadino and Ode Itsekiri and towards Ugborodo[Escravos, the crude oil and gas-rich community], the Ilaje Yorubas founded the Ugborodu community over 500 years ago. This is why the oil fields in Ugborodo/Escravos axis is named in Itsekiri-Yoruba language (the okan, meji, meta, meren oilfields mean one, two three and four in Itsekiri and Yoruba). The Olu of Itsekiri has its origins from the Benin Royal House when Prince Giniwu the son the the then Oba of Benin in late 1400s and born of a Yoruba mother from Ife, had to leave Benin with 70 of his aides as a result of some cultural issues and finally arrived in Ode Itsekiri were he met Lenuwa an Ijebu Itsekiri. Lenuwa and his people accepted Prince Ginuwa in their midst and eventually made him the king or Olu. I observed that the Itsekiris senior chiefs usually attend meetings organised by the larger Yoruba and have never denied having STRONG ancestral ties with the Yoruba and Edoid groups such as the Bini-Edo and Urhobos. I remember in 2011, @kpogede77 posted that the Ilaje-Yorubas came to the military aid of their direct Itsekiri cousins who they share boundaries with along the Ondo/Delta State border, with sophisticated weapons to fight the Ijaw who had attacked Itsekiri communities. 1 Like 2 Shares |
Culture / Re: A Thread For Mixed Heritage Nigerians by Mapletraks: 3:12pm On Jun 18, 2015 |
laudate:
With reference to the part in bold type, I don't think this is true.
Pre-colonial Nigeria, had a lot of Ogbomosho people from the south-western part of Nigeria who were itinerant traders. They migrated up north and settled there. Some of them intermarried with the Hausa communities in those areas. More details can be found in this book: Approaching the Study of Yoruba Diaspora in Northern Nigeria in the 20th Century by Rasheed Olaniyi, IFRA SPECIAL RESEARCH ISSUE VOL. 2. In that book he states that...
You can also read this book Strangers and Traders: Yoruba Migrants, Markets, and the State in Northern Ghana by Jeremy Seymour Eades, Africa World Press, 1994 - Business & Economics - 234 pages. In an entire chapter titled The Legacy of the Nineteenth Century , he dwells extensively on the migration patterns of the Ogbomosho traders in Northern Nigeria, and makes comparisons with their entry into Northern Ghana, during the same period.
Also, if you go to the middle belt especially in areas like Ilorin, Kwara, Kogi etc., & some parts of the far North, you would find out there has been a long history of inter-marriage between the Hausa, Kanuri, Fulanis (who are sometimes erroneously referred to as 'Hausa') and the Yoruba tribe, due to the long historical links between them.
Post-colonial Nigeria, also saw a number of northerners, including the Hausa (I hesitate to use the word 'Hausa', to describe a collective group of people, as there are several minority tribes in the North that speak fluent Hausa, but are not core Hausa themselves) conducting inter-tribal marriages with Southerners, including Yoruba people.
^^^^^^ @laudate, that's an illuminating info you shared there. I have first and second cousins who are married across ethnic lines, but my spouse is biracial and non-Nigerian by birth. Last but not least, it is important that fathers teach and expose their mixed heritage kids to their ethnic languages before the age of 2/3 years to avoid the highly embarassing scenario where NON of them can speak neither of the fathers' or mother' languages. There are Yoruba language CDs/DVDs that are available in the Diaspora, and these can be made available for those with mixed Yoruba/other Nigeria ethnicities as well from online sources. The use of multi-media devices in audio and video format makes learning a language easier - be it French, Yoruba, Hausa, Ibibio, etc, EASY for kids and adults! |