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It is not only in the political sphere that Nigerians a making a mark in the United Kingdom.Six footballers of Nigerian parentage are members of England's National Under 20 team that has reached the final of the on going FIFA Under 20 World Cup in South Korea to take on Venezuela tomorrow. They are;Fikayo Tomori, Josh Onomah, Dominic Solanke, Ademola Lookman, Sheyi Ojo and Ovie Ejaria.

DocHMD:
Lol!

You mean the ewedu anti-Biafrans on social media or the ones yet to migrate from sudan or fall from heaven?

Abeg clarify!

we raised every Igbo that matters in history with our Ewedu soup.
Ojukwu father arrived in Lagos when he was 26 years old. He raised Ojukwu a Lagos boy.
Ekwueme attended Kings College and was developed eating Ewedu
Chinua Achebe the most popular Igbo and the Okigbos were raised and developed in Ibadan eating Ewedu and Gbegiri
Emeka Anyaoku's wife prepare Yoruba ewedu for him everyday as a Yoruba woman to develop his brain, that is why he is different from monkeys like Kalu and Kanu.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla was raised with our Ewedu and gbegiri going to school at St. Annes Ibadan. Just like we raised her father in Ibadan.

You see most Igbo with anything to show were raised with our Ewedu.

DocHMD:
Most of the workers na ewedu people fighting Biafrans on the internet.

More gnashing of teeth for them.

we raised every Igbo that matters in history with our Ewedu soup.
Ojukwu father arrived in Lagos when he was 26 years old. He raised Ojukwu a Lagos boy.
Ekwueme attended Kings College and was developed eating Ewedu
Chinua Achebe the most popular Igbo and the Okigbos were raised and developed in Ibadan eating Ewedu and Gbegiri
Emeka Anyaoku's wife prepare Yoruba ewedu for him everyday as a Yoruba woman to develop his brain, that is why he is different from monkeys like Kalu and Kanu.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla was raised with our Ewedu and gbegiri going to school at St. Annes Ibadan. Just like we raised her father in Ibadan.

You see most Igbo with anything to show were raised with our Ewedu.

Tai Solarin, a civilian, risked his own life by going right into the heart of the Biafran enclave to rescue Igbo children and gave them education at Mayflower School, Ikenne.

augustine:
While I commend the unknown Yoruba man. I wish to state that this is an Isolated case that can be found in every tribe, even within the Hausa mobs'. On a wider scale and with far reaching national effect; a Yoruba man by name Chief Obafemi Awolowo of blessed memory as finance minister, supervised the intended pauperizing of the Igbo nation immediately after the civil war. He operated a policy that ensured that every Igbo person that went to the bank after the war, with valid documents to withdraw cash from their accounts to start life anew; cannot get any amount above £20.00 (Twenty Pounds) irrespective of having thousands or millions of pounds in such bank accounts.

The £20-for-every-Igbo who had bank accounts was a myth. What happened then was a currency crisis. On 30 December 1967, the Nigerian government decided to change the Nigerian currency in circulation in order to render useless the £37 million Ojukwu had for buying foreign weapons. The Biafran leadership quickly took the loot, mopped up the ones they could get in circulation and headed to Europe to exchange them for hard currencies. Eventually, they introduced Biafran notes as the only legal tender. There was around 149 million Biafran pounds in circulation by the end of the war. After the war, there was a general scramble to exchange these notes for the new Nigerian notes. Awolowo explained that he didn’t know on what basis these notes were produced. It is like someone bringing a single 50 billion Zimbabwean dollar note to the bank and expecting to be given N50 billion. The exchange rate should be known to determine the worth of the Zimbabwean dollar. Currently, 39 billion Zimbabwean dollars is worth 1 US dollar. In the case of Biafra, the worth of the currency was unknown; they were produced out of desperation, with lax security features to boot. In his statement of 1 February 1968, Dr. Okigbo, Biafra’s Commissioner of Economic Affairs, said “the lack of international acceptance and lack of a commensurate exchange rate was immaterial since the currency was intended only for circulation in Biafra.” In other words, it was worthless outside Biafra. After the war those that had this money were carting them to Nigerian banks, hoping to get the equivalent in new Nigerian notes. No banker or economist worth that description would approve that. Awolowo, in his bid to rehabilitate the Igbo and restore economic normalcy, approved the payment of 20 Nigerian pounds flat rate for every Biafran notes depositor. It was never £20 for every Igbo. Twenty pounds for every Biafran? That would have been around £300 million, when Nigeria’s annual budget before the war was £342.22 million, for a population of 57 million.

As at today, less than 50 percent of Nigerians have bank accounts. In the 60′s, the figure was less than 5 percent of the Nigerian population. How come every Igbo man became an account holder with fantastic sums lodged in the fictional accounts after the war when it looked like the federal government would pay claims by account holders after the civil war? The claims could not be verified because most were not able to answer simple questions. The figures they gave were also impossible when tallied because it added up to more than 1000 percent of the total cash balances of the banks as at the beginning of the war.

In the 1960's, a young banker, had a house in Apapa G.R.A Lagos. His neighbour then was a young Igbo architect. The architect fled in the wake of the of the upheaval of the civil war and relocated to the Eastern Nigeria enclave of the ill-fated Republic of Biafra. When the war ended in 1970, the architect returned to Lagos and the banker not only returned the house to the owner, he had kept all the proceeds of the rent for him in the bank. That young banker is our most respected elder, Otunba Olasubomi Balogun, the founder of the First City Monument Bank, FCMB, and the architect is our elder statesman, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, former Vice President of the Republic of Nigeria. While Otunba Balogun did that, like other Yoruba in other parts of the West, we know what happened to abandoned properties in other parts of the Federation.

Austin Ejide, one of six Nigerian players who have featured in three(3) world cups.

Nigeria's Victor Moses or Alex Iwobi will become the seventh(7) Nigerian to win English FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world when Chelsea face Arsenal in the final at Wembley.Here under are the forerunners:
1.John Fahanu,Wimbledon,1988.
2.Daniel Amokachi, Everton,1995.
3.Celestine Babayaro,Chelsea,2000.
4.Kanu Nwankwo,Arsenal(2002 and 2003),Portsmouth(2008).
5.John Mikel Obi,Chelsea(2007, 2009, 2010, 2012).
6.John Utaka,Portsmouth,2008.

Wife of constituted authority

In the early days of Tunde Bakare' ministry, Latter Rain Assembly,OGD was the Keyboardist of the church.

Nigeria's Victor Moses is the 15th African to win the English Premier League.Others before him are as follows:
1.Christopher Wreh-Liberia,Arsenal,1997/1998.
2.Lauren Etame Mayer-Cameroon,Arsenal ,2001/2002 and 2003/2004.
3.Kanu Nwankwo-Nigeria,Arsenal.,2001/2002 and 2003/2004.
4.Kolo Toure-Cote D' Ivoire,Arsenal and Manchester City,2003/2004 and 2011/2012.
5.Quinton Fortune-South Africa,Manchester United, 2002/2003, He did not play the required 10 games stipulated to earn a winner's medal.However, he was awarded a Premier League winner's medal by special dispensation.
6.Didier Drogba-Cote D' Ivoire,Chelsea,2004/2005,2005/2006,2009/2010 and 2014/2015.
7.Geremi Njitap-Cameroon,Chelsea,2004/2005 and 2005/2006.
8.Michael Essien-Ghana,Chelsea,2005/2006 and 2009/2010.
9.John Mikel Obi-Nigeria,Chelsea,2009/2010 and 2014/2015.
10.Yaya Toure-Cote d'Ivoire ,Manchester City,2011/2012 and 2013/2014.
11.Salomon Kalou,Cote d'Ivoire,Chelsea,2009/10.
12.Riyad Mahrez-Algeria,Leicester City,2015/2016.
13. Jeff Schlupp-Ghana,Leicester City ,2015/2016.
14.Daniel Amartey-Ghana,Leicester City ,2015/2016.

madjune:
I could remember when this child was born.

I think 1988 or so...people were saying, so IBB even had time to make babies while there were numerous office jobs on his desk.

She was born on Monday 7th August 1989.Why do I have such a precise recollection? I was celebrating my birthday that day when the news that Maryam had given birth at the State House Hospital,Dodan Barracks Ikoyi Lagos.

Awo was the best president that Nigeria never had-"Late Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu,former Biafran warlord."

In all his forty years in Nigerian politics,the essential Awo remained the same-a man magnificently gifted,charismatic,competent;Nigeria’s best finance minister to date,a leader possessed of great foresight,a sage ,a statesman, a genius.



Thirty years after,his immortal legacy is still the yardstick for measuring political correctness in Nigeria.He thrust himself into national prominence through a dint of hardwork,gift of organisation and his administrative skills.He had always been a tough and belligerent man.He fought the British colonial lords in Nigeria headlong and in the process earned their ire.His belligerence and political acumen combined to convince the British to exclude him from political power in the post colonial era.

He won accolades as an innovator and welfare state builder as premier of the defunct Western region.He left indelible marks as his legacy which are still visible for generartions to admire.His outstanding performance as federal minister of finance,1967-1971 consoldated his sterling reputation and contributed immensely to the rapid conclusionof the civil war in Nigeria in 1970.He was envied and he attracted many political foes across Nigeria.His advesaries endeavoures to block every move he made to govern Nigeria even though he campaigned harder than anyone else to achieve his ambition.As a preacher of socialism,he regarded the whole multi ethnic country as his parish.They tried to eclipse his political career by framing him with treasonable felony in 1962.Because he was firm and immovable on principles,some of his contemporaries said he was dogmatic and rigid.

He worked diligently for the masses of Western Nigeria so God rewarded him with a life span of three-score and eighteen years.He was kept behind bars for four years by his political foes before the military coup of January 1966.On his release,he agred to serve in the federal cabinet as the most prominent civilian minister to save his country from being balkanised.His financial expertise ensured that Nigeria did not go a –borrowing to prosecute the civil war.Though he assisted the military government to win the civil war in 1970,at heart,he was a democrat par excellence and gave up his ministerial appointment as soon as victory was achieved.

After the war,he bided for the presidency twice and was thwarted by vote stealing.Whatever the historian’s on-going judgement may be,Awlowo will remain an enigma for the forseeable future.His robust political record portrayed him as wise,imaginative,innovative,bold and competent.

We can count all his faults,multiply his mistakes twofold,treble his errors of political judgement but when matched against his abilities,good intentions,relentless and fierce ambition to put the country on a straight and solid foundation,vigorous and superlative achievements in public office,the net verdict is inescapable-that he Awolowo was the most outstanding statesman of his era.

He will be remembered for his democratic credentials,his outstanding vision,sagacity and as a beacon of good hope to future generations for his statesmanship,consistency,doggedness,steadfastness,transparency,dedication to duty and honesty of purpose.

Three decades after the loss of the most disciplined politician of his era and a philosopher king Nigeria never witnessed his kingship, Obafemi Awolowo looms large now and he will continue to loom into our future so long the country remains in existence. What a man!

lalasticlala:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shonekan

Chief Christopher Abebe was the first Nigerian managing director of the United African Company.

“Ma f’orun yo mi, gbogbo wa la jo n lo” is a popular Yoruba adage which translates into “don’t make mockery of the bereaved because death is a debt we all owe”.-

Understand the various types of kisses and know how to apply the adequately. This has helped a whole lot of married couples.

(1) A wife feels adored when her husband plants a kiss on her hand. To her, it means ‘I adore you.’

(2) Wife, each time you kiss your husband’s neck, you are saying ‘we belong together and you are my everything.’

(3) When a husband wants his wife to know he is caring and he places a kiss on her forehead, he is saying ‘I want you to know I am with you and we’re together forever.’

For either spouse, kisses can also explain your sexual intention without saying a word. For instance,

(4) when you kiss your spouse’s shoulder, you are simply saying ‘I want to have sex with you as soon as possible.’

(5) A kiss on the stomach means I am ready for sex.

(6) A kiss on the breast or a peck on the Tips means I feel like going on and on from the first round to the second to the third, can you roll with me?’

(7) A kiss on the navel actually means ‘I want to give you a good Mouth Gig and send your clitoris on a treat.’

(cool A kiss on the tip of the pubic hair means ‘I want different varieties of dog style.’

(9) A kiss on the palm of the hands means ‘I love to finger you very deep in-between sex.’

(10) A kiss at the back of the hand means ‘I will be very gentle, patient and understanding with you,’ ‘tonight I am at your service.’

(11) A kiss all over the body is an indication that you want to have a marathon sex for days, and it’s time you both have a holiday.

They are separated. She is no longer his girlfriend.

I am pleased to announce the launch of our inaugural Whistle Blowing certificate programmes listed below:
- 6 Months Diploma in Whistle Blowing (DWB): This crash-course programme will equip you with the ability to spot suspected houses where stolen funds are kept. With this degree, you will be able to spot Naira stashes kept behind walls.
- 3 Years Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) Degree in Whistle Blowing: Smart people don't keep stolen funds in Naira. So why should you go about looking for Naira loot? This programme equips you with the aided ability to spot all looted foreign currencies.
- 18 Months M.Sc Degree in Whistle Blowing: The looters have become masters, and that is why you also need to be a master at whistle blowing. Take your whistle-blowing ability to the next level with our M.Sc. Spot looted local and foreign currencies in Houses (Mud or Modern) Safes (Fire or Water proof), Wells (Wet or Dry) Caskets (Cemetery or Burial Ground).
- 3 Years Doctor of Philosophy in Whistle Blowing: Looters understand the importance of leaving no trails, and have now employed digital currencies in looting. With this degree, you will be able to decipher owners of bitcoin wallets with looted funds. You don't even have to leave your house scouting for houses like a real estate agent, or burial grounds like an undertaker. Simply sit behind a computer like a Yahoo Yahoo boy and earn whistle blowing $$$ easily.
Signed,
Director of Recruitment,
Oju Ole University

*Letter from debtor to creditor*

Dear Sir,

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your correspondence dated the 12th of April last, by which, for the third time, you demand the repayment of the money which I owe you.

First of all, I do not dispute my debt and I intend to reimburse you as soon as possible.

However, I would like to inform you that I still have many other creditors, all equally honorable as you, and I also wish to repay them.

Therefore, I see myself obliged, every month, to proceed by drawing lots.
So I put all the names of my creditors in a hat and I pull one at random and I hasten to pay back immediately.

I hope your name will be drawn soon.
I am certain that you will be able to understand the motivation of my approach and, being convinced that you will be one of the happy winners of the draw, I hope to have patience on your part.

In the meantime, I extend my sincere greetings to you, and I ask you to accept, Sir, the assurance of my distinguished sentiments.

P.S.: Given the very unfriendly tone of your last letter, I inform you that you will not participate in the next 2 draws!

Josephnice:
Am I the only one who doesn't fancy this gap tooth of a thing. The most irritable thing i found about people who are gifted with it, they hardly close their mouth and keep sampling it as if everyone is in love with whatever deficient they suffered. I love the sight of dimples cus it comes through a beautiful smile. I'm sorry sister if my utterances actually hurt, I'm trying to be truthful to you and myself so that you can atleast know not everyone fancy that against your generalization that everyone does.

The truth is that dimples are actually genetic defects that are caused by shortened facial muscles. Dimples are caused by a fault in the subcutaneous connective tissue that develops in course of the embryonic development. A variation in the structure of the facial muscle may also cause dimples

The history of cards in football is not a particularly long one when you consider that they were only introduced at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. The system was the brainchild of renowned British referee Ken Aston.Born in 1915, Aston worked as an English teacher and qualified as a referee in 1936. Reports suggest that he was also the first referee to wear the black uniform with a white collar that later became mandatory for all match officials(originally, referees wore a white shirt, golf trousers and a sports jacket). Known for his strong character, Aston was keen to change the way in which fair play was evaluated in football. His inimitable style immediately set him apart from other match officials and enabled him to rise through the ranks to ultimately become chair of the FIFA Referees’ Committee.

Referees warned players verbally and dismissed them from the pitch in the event of any further rule infringements. Spectators only realised what was happening when a player began his long despondent or irate walk towards the tunnel. Despite this system, games occasionally descended into chaos.

At the 1962 FIFA World Cup, Ken Aston oversaw the encounter between hosts Chile and Italy, a match deemed risky even before kick-off thanks to the Chilean press’s efforts to whip the country into a frenzy. The match ended with a 2-0 win for the hosts but was later dubbed the “Battle of Santiago” by a British television commentator. Looking back at images from that day, it seems incredible that nobody ended up in the hospital. The fouls were tantamount to assault, fights broke out almost every time players squared up to one another and vengeance was immediately sought for every overzealous tackle. Headbutting, punching and spitting was rampant. Aston ran around frantically in an attempt to separate players and calm tempers, and sent off Italian players Mario David and Giorgio Ferrini, the latter of whom had to be led away by Chilean police after refusing to leave the pitch. In another incident, Chile’s Leonel Sanchez broke Humberto Maschio’s nose with a left hook, but the referee did not spot it and Sanchez stayed on the field. Years later, Aston remarked: “I wasn’t reffing a football match, I was acting as an umpire in military manoeuvres.”In light of this infamous footballing conflict and a number of contentious incidents in other matches, Aston saw the necessity of introducing a clear visual system that could be easily understood by players and spectators alike.
Following an incident in the England vs Argentina match in the 1966 World Cup, it came to Aston's knowledge that Jack Charlton had been booked by the German referee, Rudolf Kreitlein. Charlton called the press office, where Aston was ensconced (as Head of World Cup Referees), in order to confirm the information that he had read within the newspaper that Kreitlein had booked him. Aston, driving from Wembley Stadium to Lancaster Gate that same evening, had Charlton's confusion in mind during the journey.On the trip, as he stopped at a traffic light junction at Kensington High Street, Aston realized that a colour-coding scheme based on the same AMBER/YELLOW ('stop if safe to do so') - RED (Stop) principle as used on traffic lights would traverse language barriers and clarify to players and spectators that they had been cautioned or sent off.Aston later explained that upon arriving at his home, he explained the dilemma to his wife, Hilda. She disappeared into the other room, only to return a few minutes later with two "cards" made of construction paper. She had cut them to fit into his shirt pocket. Thus was devised the system whereby referees show a yellow card for a caution and a red card for an expulsion, Aston presented his idea to the FIFA Referees Committee, who approved the cards’ introduction at the 1970 FIFA World Cup World Cup in Mexico. There, the Soviet Union’s Evgeni Lovchev became the first footballer ever to be shown a yellow card, in the opening match against the host country but the fact that no red cards were brandished during the tournament suggests the new system had a positive effect. The first World Cup dismissal came in West Germany four years later, when Chile’s Carlos Caszely was sent off for committing two yellow-card offences also in a match against the host country.

Atychiphobia describes a person who fears that they aren't good enough to be in a relationship with a specific person.

MrEgbegbe:

You think this will help those dumbasses that voted for a 98 years old donkey ??

Tell me how someone who voted for a [b[b]]drink[/b] illiterate would be concerned about the use of words[/b]

The 98 old year old donkey can never make an elementary such as this.Drunk is the right word.

There is no better way to waste your time as a single lady than to date a married man. Especially that moment when the wife calls him, and you have to play dead in the background. You have to remain dead silent as they update each other on the family projects. "Which floor has the plumber fixed? "Have the kids done their homework? "Will you send the cash to fix the car? "Honey who are you with and the guy man will say nobody.... Exactly a side chick is a nobody.... Etc. He is busy, yet your work is just to lie in bed and give him pleasure and fake orgasms whenever he needs it, and all you receive are picked change afterwards. By the time you realize your time is been wasted, all the eligible bachelors are gone and married. And your sugardaddy, sugarfather, sugar-grandfather will go home and celebrate 25years, 30years, 35years, 40years anniversary of their marriage depending on the category that carries and used you. They will post the wedding anniversary on Facebook and you will even foolishly wish them happy togetherness and many more years, while you yourself remains single.

The Chief Commander of juju (Miliki system) music, Evangelist (Professor) Ebenezer Remilekun Obey Fabiyi, MFR, popularly called “Obey Commander” or Simply “Obey” is 75 years old. We wish him many happy returns in good health, joy, honour and contentment.

The Chief Commander of Juju (Miliki) music, Ebenezer Obey was born at the famous Lagos Island Maternity Hospital on April 03, 1942, although his parents were from Keesi and Owu towns in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Fabiyi took the nickname “Obey” at elementary school in Idogo, Ogun State where his parents plied their trades, because of his constant admonitions to his classmates to always “Obey first and complain later”. From a local band boy who cut his teeth under the late juju music icon, Fatai Rolling Dollar, in Lagos in the 1960’s, Obey emerged a maestro who re-wrote juju music history because he was talented, creative and had the guts to barge his way into the presence of the then expatriate Managing Director of Decca West African records company in Lagos, Mr. Kress. At 22, in 1964, oozing with self-confidence before the MD, though unknown and without a waxed record to his credit, Obey said, “I am a future star. Sign me on, and Decca will be the better for it”. The sagacious expatriate MD obliged the confident “future star” with an audition followed by a recording contract. How prophetic Obey was! He not only improved Decca’s turnover, he became a shareholder of the company, director and later its owner.

Here is an interesting historical fact. Just have a look at the calendar for the month of September, 1752. Go to Google and type " September 1752 calendar" and see for yourself. You will notice 11 days(3rd-13th) are simply missing from the month.Here's the explanation: This was the month during which England shifted from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. A Julian year was 11 days longer than a Gregorian year. So, the King of England ordered 11 days to be wiped off the face of that particular month. So, the workers worked for 11 days less that month but got paid for the whole month. That's how the idea of "paid leave" came into existence.In the Roman Julian Calendar, April used to be the first month of the year, but the Gregorian Calendar observed January as the first month. Even after shifting to the Gregorian Calendar, many people refused to give up old traditions and continued celebrating 1st April as the New Year's Day. When simple orders didn't work, the King finally issued a royal dictum which stated that those who celebrated 1st April as the New Year's Day would be labelled as fools. From then on 1st April became April Fool's Day.

ALAYORMII:
The teacher made the statement on Tuesday



In other news


April 1st is named FOOL'S DAY, after Steve April. He was born on 1st April 1579. He did 105 businesses in his lifetime. He lost all his father's assets, and so everyone started calling him father of the fools.

At 19, he married a 61-year-old woman who divorced him after a year because of his foolishness. He used to read all kinds of fake stories like you are doing now.

Happy April Fool's day

THE ORIGIN OF APRIL FOOLS' DAY:
Here is an interesting historical fact. Just have a look at the calendar for the month of September, 1752. Go to Google and type " September 1752 calendar" and see for yourself. You will notice 11 days(3rd-13th) are simply missing from the month.Here's the explanation: This was the month during which England shifted from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. A Julian year was 11 days longer than a Gregorian year. So, the King of England ordered 11 days to be wiped off the face of that particular month. So, the workers worked for 11 days less that month but got paid for the whole month. That's how the idea of "paid leave" came into existence.In the Roman Julian Calendar, April used to be the first month of the year, but the Gregorian Calendar observed January as the first month. Even after shifting to the Gregorian Calendar, many people refused to give up old traditions and continued celebrating 1st April as the New Year's Day. When simple orders didn't work, the King finally issued a royal dictum which stated that those who celebrated 1st April as the New Year's Day would be labelled as fools. From then on 1st April became April Fool's Day.

His name was not in the convocation booklet.Possibly,this could have been taken on on his matriculation day.Convocation took place in the year 2002, two solid years after Melaye reportedly graduated from ABU, but his name was absent from the brochure.

Men will find cure for HIV/AIDS within 3 working days when ladies decide to withhold sex.

The first and only time I experienced detention at a police station was on on account of riding on a bike along a "banned road".Suddenly,I saw a police vehicle from the opposite direction driving menacingly towards us with the aim of blocking us which they succeeded at.After the initial shouting march, the bike rider and I were herded into the police van for onward movement to the station.After 30 minutes at the station,one of the policeman said I should provide N5,000 to secure my release which I negotiated downwards to N1,500 which he accepted.Unfortunately,I couldn't be of help to the bike rider as was asked to bring N10,000 for the release of his bike.