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Are there armed robbers in the North?
Are there kidnappers in the North?
Are there ritualists and murderers in the North?
Are there political looters in the North?
Are there drug dealers in the North?
The answer is obvious as we all have seen read and heard
So those who think the North is a holy land should keep living in dreamland

In the land of the blind (Nigeria), the one-eyed (Tinapa pictures) becomes the king. The question is where else in Nigeria can you find such? If none, then the pictures are interesting

Most people do not even have the land to live off
Those who have do not make use of it
The figures could be a bit inflated; should be something like 70 %
But again if USAID did carry out a real survey, then they could be right
What is the minimum wage? 7000 per month
How much of that is a dollar per day, then times 2
7000 naira a month = appr. 47 dollars per month (@150 naira/dollar) = 1.5 dollars per day
How many Nigerians earn 7000 per month? How many earn more?
How many don't earn anything at all?

Many Nigerians fall within the 7000 naira and less bracket

But many more (senior staff of FGN, state, oil coys,  banks, other industries, traders, importers and exporters, transporters, artisans, etc) earn more than that, many actually far in excess of that
95% poverty is possible in the North, but not in Igboland.

The end of the country is nigh. Thank God

she is on holiday and money laundering spree and simply using the meeting as a decoy. grow up people

Beware! Phone Guns Now In Town
September 13, 2009 18:12, 656 views

By Emma Una/ Calabar

Malam Mohammed Bala Ahmed, Police Commissioner in charge of the Cross River State Police Command, has disclosed that intelligence reports have revealed that deadly guns that are operated via phone are now available in the country.

He said the phone guns which are manufactured in America and some European countries, have the lethal capacity to hit targets over one thousand yards away and could wreak havoc with the same capacity of any other shot gun.

The Police Commissioner said the European law enforcement agencies have condemned Global System Mobile phone manufacturers for inventing the decoy, which he said, security operatives are battling hard to stop its distribution in Nigeria.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Cross River State Police Command, Mr. Etim Dickson, who took his turn to comment on the phone, said there was the need for members of the public to be vigilant, in order to report any person found with the phone-gun to the nearest police station or any other security agency.

Worried about the situation, Mr. Dickson, said the Nigeria Police have already taken steps to check the distribution of the phones in the country, as security activities have been beefed up at the various airports, seaports and other entry points to screen every mobile phone that may be imported into the country.

Giving graphic description of the phone, the PPRO said the handgun cum cell phone has .22 calibre ammunition, operated with the help of the keypad.

He said the decoy has four rounds of ammunition can fire in rapid succession, with the help of the keypad trigger.

According to the police image maker, the keypad of the phone has digits number 5 to 8 as the trigger, with high destructive power.

At first sight, he said, the gun appeared to be like normal cell phone, but has extra weight when lifted up, explaining that the weapon has an in-built bullet magazine.

Muslim Ummah Condemns Parading Of Fawehinmi’s Corpse
http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/index.php/news/headlines/5907-muslim-ummah-condemns-parading-of-fawehinmis-corpse

Come Home or Shut Up, EFCC Tells Akingbola
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=154513

Chinua Achebe Joins The Brown Faculty PDF Print E-mail
Written by Achebe Foundation
Monday, 14 September 2009 18:34
Brown University has announced that internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe has joined the Brown University faculty. Achebe comes to Brown after 19 years on the faculty of Bard College

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Famed African Writer Chinua Achebe Joins the Brown Faculty

Brown University announced today that internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe has joined the Brown University faculty. Achebe comes to Brown after 19 years on the faculty of Bard College, where he was the Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature.

Named the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown, Achebe is best known for his novels and essays which critique post-colonial Nigerian politics and society as well as the impact of the West on Africa.

Born in Ogidi, an Igbo village in Nigeria, Achebe studied at University College (now the University of Ibadan). His first novel, Things Fall Apart, is the most widely read work of African fiction, having sold more than 12 million copies and been translated into 50 languages. His other prominent works include No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, and Anthills of the Savannah.

For many decades, Achebe has worked to build greater understanding of Africa through his uncompromising political commentary, social critique, and creative writing. Acknowledged godfather to many African writers, he served for a time as editor of the African Writers Series for Heinemann Publishing. He is the author of numerous collections of short stories, poetry and essays. One of his essays, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,” aroused considerable debate and had a marked impact on Conrad criticism. A devoted student of Igbo culture, his latest work on Igbo culture and theology is scheduled to be published in October 2009 by the University of Notre Dame Press. Also in October, Achebe’s first book in a decade, the autobiographical collection: The Education of a British Protected child, will be available from Knopf publishers.

Achebe is the recipient of numerous honors. He was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for outstanding fiction in 2007. Among his 40 honorary degrees is an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Brown, where he will serve in the Department of Africana Studies and oversee the Chinua Achebe Colloquium on Africa, a new initiative to be developed by Achebe in keeping with his life’s work to foster greater knowledge of Africa. Tricia Rose, chair of the Department of Africana Studies, said, “We are honored and thrilled to welcome Professor Achebe to Africana studies and to the Brown community. He is a towering figure in African literature and postcolonial thought. We will benefit enormously from his on-going insights into the necessity and complexity of global, cross-racial translations and exchanges.”

Bard College, with a distinguished history of supporting Achebe’s work and legacy, will continue to provide a home to Achebe projects which the writer will continue to guide. “My history and ongoing relationship with Bard is very important to me,” Achebe said, “and I want to preserve and enhance the excellent and gratifying work that we have begun and will maintain at Bard. President Botstein and my many colleagues at Bard have my enduring gratitude for their vision and commitment to my life’s work.”

“Brown is delighted to be invited to contribute to what Leon Botstein has so brilliantly accomplished,” Brown's President Ruth Simmons said.

The start-up phase of the Brown Achebe Colloquium is expected to last throughout the fall semester, with Achebe launching the colloquium with a major lecture this fall.

Achebe is married to Christy Achebe, a visiting professor at Bard. They have four children.

tpia.:
reporting yourself to police is now cowardice?

That is what he said. How do we know he actually did report himself? Moreover why report yourself to a foreign police when the crime was committed at home? Do you have UK criminals coming to report themselves to Nigerian police?

He squandered the bank's money and escaped
His fellow squanderers stood tall and faced the music of their crime
But one escaped and reported himself to foreign authorities
Reminds me of the escape of Abiola
And his declaration '' I am president of Nigeria'' in a foreign land
Why would some people not be bold to face the consequence of their actions
Some say he who runs away lives to fight another day
But not so in Abiola's case
He ran, lived and then died
So some merely postpone the doomsday
Akingbola will run and return
Then extra prison term will be added unto him
for wasting everybody's time
If others get 10 years
He will get 10 years + 3 years
for cowardice
for eating and denying
for lack of patriotism (reporting himself to foreign authorities instead of the authority of his own country)

I do not see how Lagos is safer than the East. Somebody tell me how?

Is it a coincidence that:

Of all the indicted bank chiefs, Akingbola is the only one who ducked and escaped abroad
He is the only one from South West among them (the main five)
Then he reported himself to London police (as we heard oh!)
Then he claims persecution.
What does this say of him
COWARD?
That word sounds familiar. Isn't?
Is it