₦airaland Forum

johnie:
Hi Naptu2,

I took a sabbatical from Nairaland but had to chip in when I saw this thread.

I am wondering, just wondering.

Could this planned relocation (eviction) have anything to do with the recent attack on Circle Mall (ShopRite) during the recent xenophobia saga?

Without a doubt, that area had been a hot bed a number of times with hoodlums attacking travellers on the expressway from time to time.

I see a lot of similarities between the Maroko incident and this one.

1. Hoodlums from the community attack people on the main road.
2. Government says they would relocate them to save them from environmental hazards.

Hmm, just wondering.

naptu2:
My brain was almost fried between Thursday and Friday because I couldn't remember the name of that hospital.

I was thinking about the fact that all those institutions had become nomadic institutions and that's when I remembered the hospital, but I was frustrated because I could not remember the name of the hospital. The hospital is, of course, Ifeoluwa Hospital. It was owned by a very nice woman called Mrs Marquis (may her soul rest in peace) and they used an orange and white Land Rover Series as their ambulance. Apart from the main road into Maroko, all the other roads were not tarred and it felt like you were driving over hills and valleys. In some places it felt as if the hills and valleys were composed of beach sand and that explains why they used a Land Rover as their ambulance.

Ifeoluwa Hospital moved to Jakande after Maroko was destroyed. They started over in one flat, but they eventually bought over the entire building that they were in.

St Kizito's Clinic was run by an Italian NGO and some of their doctors were Italian (I remember Dr Nikki). They obviously received a lot of funding from Italy and they were able to build a much bigger, better and finer building in Jakande after Maroko was demolished. That clinic was probably the finest building in Jakande.

St Theresa's Catholic Church was a huge brick building at Maroko when I went there in the early 1980s. The next time I went to the church (after the destruction of Maroko), it was basically people gathered under a canopy of palm branches. The floor was covered with concrete, but that was the only part of the "building" that was made of concrete. They were trying to raise money to build the church building and they kept their equipment in a nearby house in the meantime.

I went to that church one day in 1991 and then I did some charity work there between 1993 and 1997. They had a proper roof and concrete walls by the time I stopped going there in 1997, but their walls were not painted.

I wonder where those institutions will move to this time.

Electricity supply at Maroko was pretty poor. I remember that an enterprising person, who had a diesel generator, was selling electricity to residents of Maroko. NEPA officials went there with policemen to arrest the man c1988. I felt that NEPA was wrong because the man would not have succeeded in selling electricity to people if NEPA had done its job. The arrest was shown on the NTA News.


Quite a few residents of Maroko sold fish at the Sand-Fill Market that I wrote about earlier.

The Lekki Expressway was quite different at that time. There was no such thing as traffic once you've gone past Maroko. There were often little traffic jams around Maroko because of the Sand-Fill Market and because of the police road block at Maroko Police Station, but the road was totally free once you went past the police station. People used to race and learn how to drive on the Lekki Expressway.

In fact, the expressway was so empty that you could see the water mirage in the distance when driving on that road.

Once (c1984) we were searching for the new beach (Lekki Beach) and we drove for a long time until we came to the end of the expressway (it hadn't been completed at that time). We saw two men sitting at the end of the road and we told them that we were going to Lekki. They asked (in Yoruba) if we were going to Lekki where people go to receive breeze or if we were going to Lekki where people eat beans. We laughed and told them that we were going to Lekki where people receive breeze.

What they were asking was whether we were going to Lekki Beach (where people receive breeze) or to Tekunle Prison (where people eat beans).

tinsel:
You are very mischievous. If you watch the video you will see Buhari talking to her but was accidentally blocked by the man.

Ishilove:
Sweetheart, enough of this Toto talk

Ishilove:
I watched it many years ago.

So, do they know that Toto means something else entirely in Nigeria?

Ishilove:
Emmm, nothing really mind-blowing. Just their history, discography etc

So there is even a dog named Toto??

TonyeBarcanista:
My Oga, I loyal!

How did you hear their conversation? Is it Audio conversation? (Davido's voice)

TonyeBarcanista:
Only YOU hear conversation

Naptu no de fall hand

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Ishilove:
Toto? Seriously?? I love the song, but I never knew the name of the group until now....

Toto- Africa

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

livebyday:
And this proves he is well.exposed ?

livebyday:
this man has never been in a plane,

And you think he will return ?

naptu2:
Bennie Technologies Ltd (@bennieagro), a machine design, fabrication & manufacturing company which specialises in producing agricultural equipment has produced a “made in Nigeria sports car”. The company, which prides itself in the fact that it simplifies local agricultural processes by mechanization & automation, unveiled the car in the presence of the Plateau State governor.



Video of Jerry Mallo. He graduated from the University of Hertfordshire. He had offers to work in the UK automobile industry, but he chose to return to Nigeria to produce farm equipment because his parents were farmers and he wanted to change the way that people worked on the farm in Nigeria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz5v-8hw_oU

StaffofOrayan:
Dude ! Use ur time for something more productive

naptu2:
Much ado about handshakes (this is another old post that has been on my mind for years).

My British cousins were recently arguing over the question of who Boris Johnson shook hands with and who he didn’t shake hands with and that reminded me of an old post that I wanted to make but couldn’t because of lack of time.

President Buhari swore in new ministers a few months after he was inaugurated and some people noticed that he did not shake hands with some of the female ministers and they decided that he did not shake the female ministers’ hands because he was a religious extremist. They held this up as evidence that Buhari was going to “Islamise Nigeria” and declare Sharia law across the country.

I knew that their position was total nonsense because I knew that Buhari had shaken hands with women in the past, but more importantly, I knew why he didn’t shake hands with the female ministers (I’ve been there before).

I’m shocked that nobody has stated the real reason that he did not shake hands with the female ministers.

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My experience.

A lot of people in positions of authority came to my house when I was a kid and I shook hands with all of them. Of course I also bowed to them, but I shook hands with all of them. I also shook hands with the elderly people that came to my house, including my grandmother.

However, there were certain encounters that stuck in my mind. I remember a time that a new official was appointed to a certain position. My neighbour’s family was very influential in the institution that the official had just been appointed to head and so he paid a courtesy visit to their house and I was in their house on that day. They introduced me to him as **** son. He looked happy to see me, but something happened that stuck in my mind. I extended my hand for a handshake and there was a momentary look of surprise on his face. It lasted for less than half a second, but I noticed it. He said, “You want to shake the ****” (he mentioned his new title) and then he shook my hand.


There was another encounter that I remember. It was kind of a family event. I got to a certain house and the woman of the house was greeting everybody at the door. I bowed and shook hands with her as I greeted her. I could see a look of absolute shock on her face as I shook hands with her. Much later, my sister whispered to me, “Did you see how shocked she looked when you shook hands with her”?

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You see, in Yoruba culture, it is quite unusual for a much younger person to shake hands with a much older person. The younger person is expected to prostrate, stoop, bow, kneel or curtsey. The younger person will only shake the older person’s hand if the older person extends his hand for a handshake.

Similarly, it is unusual for a person in a much lower position in an organisation to shake hands with someone in a much higher positions/someone in a position of authority except if the person in a higher position extends his hand for a handshake.

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Many Muslim women do not shake hands with men that are not related to them. This can be awkward for a man who extends his hand to shake a woman. Therefore, many men do not extend their hands for a handshake except the woman extends her hand first.

Think about it the way that you would think about a hug. Would you hug a woman that you’ve just met for the first time? Would you hug a woman that you’ve just met for the first time if she extends her hands for a hug? You would probably respect the woman’s space and only hug her if she extends her hands for a hug, right?

Read this https://medium.com/@hana.jafar09/why-you-should-ask-before-hugging-someone-7825f503ac06

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Obasanjo

I was shocked when there was a furore about whether President Buhari shook hands with women, because President Olusegun Obasanjo had observed this practice in a very extreme manner and yet nobody complained.

I noticed that President Olusegun Obasanjo never shook hands with women who wore hijabs, even when the women extended their hands for a handshake. I noticed this for the first time during a national honours award ceremony. An honouree extended her hand for a handshake, but President Obasanjo clasped both of his hands together in front of his chest, instead of shaking hands with her. I later noticed that he did this to any woman that either wore a hijab or was from the far north, even if the woman was Christian and even if the woman extended her hand for a handshake. Yet nobody complained.

Buhari
New ministers were inaugurated in 2015 and an incident during the inauguration ceremony led to the ridiculous claim that President Buhari does not shake hands with women.

The protocol was that, after being sworn in, the minister would sign the register and then shake hands with President Buhari while smiling for the camera. It was Kemi Adeosun’s turn to shake hands with Buhari. Being a Yoruba woman, she waited for President Buhari, who is older and in a higher position of authority, to extend his hand for a handshake. President Buhari, being a northern muslim, waited for Kemi Adeosun, who is a woman, to extend her hand for a handshake. Therefore, because neither of them extended their hand first, there was no handshake.

People picked up on this and said that President Buhari does not shake hands with women and then it became a self-fulfilling prophesy. Other women, because they had heard that Buhari did not shake hands with women, did not extend their hands for a handshake when they met him and therefore, the rumours that Buhari did not shake hands with women continued.

Some people said that "Buhari's refusal to shake hands with women was proof that he was a religious extremist, a bigot and that he wanted to Islamise Nigeria".

I knew that this was just complete nonsense. How did I know? The musician, Onyeka Onwenu was a supporter of President Goodluck Jonathan and he appointed her to head an agency (I’ve forgotten the name of the agency). The members of the board of the agency went to meet and congratulate President Buhari soon after he was sworn in. This was before ministers were inaugurated. President Buhari shook hands with Onyeka Onwenu at that event.

Besides, I had seen Buhari shake hands with women when he was a military head of state in the mid-1980s.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asmoh-gbBmQ

naptu2:
So here's what actually happened.

President Buhari arrived the International Conference Centre and there was a line of people that were waiting to receive him. He shook hands with the people on the line, but Mrs Tinubu did not extend her hand for a handshake. Instead she curtsied and said, "Good morning sir". President Buhari looked at her and said, "Madam ****" (the second word was inaudible) and she smiled. He then asked, "How are you?" and she replied, "Very well sir".


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

Anambralstson:
You guys keep deceiving yourselves, same way you were denying when he sacked Osebanjo aides, till today he hasn't resuscitated them, keep deceiving yourselves it will clear for your guys eyes soon.

Ishilove:
Sounds Japanese.

naptu2:
The 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Peter Konyegwachi, Innocent Egbunike, Oliver Orok, Ironbar Bassey, etc.

The space man with the jet pack on his back.

The Los Angeles Forum (or was it the Coliseum? I can't remember)

Ishilove:
I have always found this song fascinating because it is so...energetic

What exactly is LA '84?

Ishilove:
I have always found this song fascinating because it is so...energetic

What exactly is LA '84?

voltron14:
Shabba doo doing the beakdance.

The guy with the hovercraft flying over the stadium.

bluebay:
I give up .. Buhari is mad .. maybe it's because she's not politicians wife ..