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pocohantas:
I have (always) noticed this trend of being called indomie generation when one is (totally) clueless on some “historical” subject.

I like to think I am old enough to be old, yet I still have some friends and colleagues calling me Indomie generation.




Suffice to say, Indomie is 31YEARS OLD IN NIGERIA.


So, what exactly makes one an indomie generation?

Anybody that was less than 5 years old in 1990 when Indomie became popular in Nigeria (it was introduced in 1988, but it didn't become popular until 1990-1993) is a member of the Indomie generation.

From c1990 onwards many parents fed their toddlers Indomie. It became a regular part of a Nigerian toddler's diet.

stagger:
So am I right or wrong in saying that this is an inappropriate way to convey feed for horses? Read the FRSC act. Such method of transporting goods is prohibited.

O God!

That's not the issue. The issue was that some people said that it was a regular patrol vehicle that had been diverted for private business. Some people had started making insinuations about "someone's cattle" and Fulani herdsmen, when in fact that truck belongs to the Mounted Police Unit.

stagger:
The issue is the method of transportation. It is a road safety hazard. A covered truck would have been more suitable.

Try this as a civilian and see whether you will not be stopped and fined heavily by VIO and FRSC.

That's not the issue that I was referring to. This thread and the two other threads had very different headlines when I made that post and what I was reacting to was completely different.

The mods have since changed the headline.

Thanks to the mods for changing the titles of this thread and the thread that was created after it.

https://www.nairaland.com/5390341/nigerian-police-vehicle-transporting-feed#5390341.12

igbodefender:
So, how do you assess the Heisei era vis-a-vis the Showa era, and what is your advice to the Weiwa Emperor?

My favourite era was the Meiji era, because that's when Japan came of age and became a major global power.

(But I was referring to emperors that reigned during my lifetime, not those I read about in a book).

This is the 3rd emperor of Japan whose reign I have witnessed.

The first was Emperor Hirohito, who I thought would live and reign forever. He passed away in 1989 and they had an amazing funeral for him. Almost every world leader from around the world attended his funeral.


The second was Emperor Akihito, who inherited the Chrysenthemum Throne from his father, Emperor Hirohito in 1989.

Emperor Akihito abdicated the throne earlier this year, in favour of his son, Emperor Naruhito.

Update:

I watched the NTA News report about the meeting and it was more detailed.

The Toyota executives accepted the offer to set up an assembly plant, but they had certain requests/conditions.

1) They want the government to be involved in the plant.

And this is because:


2) They want the importation of 2nd hand cars to be stopped.


3) They want the government to create a mortgage/hire-purchase system so that it will be easier for Nigerians to own cars.

Reference:
I like the effort and hope it can be qualified. What I donot like is the banner I can see in the background which shows.... yet again agro-products and extracrive minerals and I am like..... not again. When are we going to start thinking differently. We have been doing this since independence.... haba.

We cannot support our rampaging population on farm products and sacks of columbite. We just cannot. It will not give us the lifestyles we so desire even if we are 100 percent disciplined as a nation.

Well, at least the second picture shows shoes (presumably from Aba) in the Bank of Industry banner.

More

Here are pictures of the Nigerian stand at TICAD7.


https://mobile.twitter.com/ChifeDr/status/1166966698982772736

Not again!

naptu2:
This is not the first time that this kind of thread has been created on Nairaland.

https://www.nairaland.com/2568172/see-mounted-nigerian-police-van

Going by what happened the last time, it is necessary to state that there is an arm of the police force called the Nigerian Police Force Mounted Troop. These are policemen who operate on horseback.

They are involved in crowd control, patrolling difficult terrain like beaches, etc. The police also use horses for ceremonies like parades.

Those horses must eat and they eat grass.

Can't you see that "Mounted Police Unit" is written on the side of the truck??

If someone watches the video and doesn't see President Buhari at the 24 second mark and if someone sees all the pictures of TICAD7 and says that Buhari wore the same outfit all through, then it means that the person has very serious eye problems and he/she needs to visit the eye doctor

missjo:
Hello, please what is this tea party about exactly?
I'm aware of the Chinese tea ceremony, but i am just knowing about this for the first time. Is it a cultural thing or just for diplomacy

The Emperor of Japan usually hosts tea parties for visiting heads of state. It is derived from the tradition in the Wikipedia link below, but it is a little less formal and traditional than what is in the link.


Japanese Tea Ceremony
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tea_ceremony

Kennitrust:
I no see Buhari in that video o

Make it e no be say ipob don hole am

Watch the video again. He was right in front of George Weah in the welcome queue. Pause the video when you see Weah. At the 24 second mark.

The Emperor and Empress were also present at the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize award ceremony.

In 2006, the Japanese government established the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize to publicly honor individuals and groups with prominent achievements in the areas of medical research and medical services to combat infectious and other diseases in Africa. 

Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, for whom the prize is named, is a bacteriologist who is well known to Japanese people because his portrait is on the 1,000 yen note.

Dr. Noguchi was born in 1876 to a poor farmer in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, studied very hard, became a doctor, and went to the United States in 1900. He achieved many breakthroughs in the study of syphilis and yellow fever at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize. But Noguchi died of yellow fever in 1928 at Accra in the British-colonized Gold Coast (currently Ghana) in West Africa, where he had moved to research the disease.

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), located in the Republic of Ghana, is named after him.

The winners of this year's prize are Dr Francis Gervase Omaswa from Uganda & Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum of DRC.


1) The Emperor and Empress arrive the award ceremony.

2) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows to the Emperor

More pictures of the royal tea party.

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, accompanied by Imperial family members, hosted a tea party for leaders attending the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) at the Imperial Palace.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M466dvpq-H8


Picture 1) President Emerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe being welcomed to the palace by the Emperor and Empress.

2) President Muhamadu Buhari of Nigeria arriving the Imperial Palace.

TGM2015:
While reading through many so media platform, most especially the npowerng #MeILikeMyCountry, I could remember a song track of group of Nigeria musicians then around 2001, since then I have been looking and searching for that song.
still searching, if anyone can help in getting this song, please do .

Nigeria unite.
No matter the tribe you may be,
No matter the religion you belo-ng,
No matter the language you speak,
Let us unite so we can solve the problem of our country.

Remember we are made by one God.
Remember we are brothers in this world.
One people, one nation, one Go-d.

Together, we will change our people
Together, we will change our count-ry
Together, we will change the world.

Chorus
Together we shall live forever (forever)
Forever we shall live together (together)

funmo:
Sir Naptu2

Can you help out please

I beg of you sir

Sonny Okosun - Togetherness (1983).


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

TGM2015:
While reading through many so media platform, most especially the npowerng #MeILikeMyCountry, I could remember a song track of group of Nigeria musicians then around 2001, since then I have been looking and searching for that song.
still searching, if anyone can help in getting this song, please do .

Nigeria unite.
No matter the tribe you may be,
No matter the religion you belo-ng,
No matter the language you speak,
Let us unite so we can solve the problem of our country.

Remember we are made by one God.
Remember we are brothers in this world.
One people, one nation, one Go-d.

Together, we will change our people
Together, we will change our count-ry
Together, we will change the world.

Chorus
Together we shall live forever (forever)
Forever we shall live together (together)

funmo:
Sir Naptu2

Can you help out please

I beg of you sir

You almost broke my mind just now.

As soon as I read that chorus I felt like I could hear the girls singing it.

The problem was that I was certain that it's not a 2001 song. That song was released in the early 1980s.


And then I remembered that Sonny Okosun sang that song, but I still couldn't remember the name of the song.


I think I have it now. The song is called Together (or Togetherness, or something like that).

mapet:
..besides I think the Toyota plant launched in 2016 is Chief Adeojo (Elizade's) franchise......

Sometime in the 1990s Toyota made a change in the way that their cars are distributed in Nigeria. Previously there were many distributors like Elizade, Briscoe Motors, Westex Motors, etc.

Toyota then created a single entity called Toyota Nigeria Limited. That entity owns the Toyota franchise in Nigeria. All other distributors must go through Toyota Nigeria Limited.

Chief Michael Ade-Ojo is the chairman of Toyota Nigeris Limited and the factory is owned by Toyota Nigeria Limited.

ebukason3:
Oga am not political, Coscharis have his assembly plant at Awoyaya and Toyota ( Auto nation) had theirs at Bogije both in Ibeju-Lekki lagos. God is good also wants to setup an assembly plant around that Ibeju Lekki.

Exactly!

TSRC:
I still think we would be better served getting their automobile business even if for the West African subregion.
They can always build a medical plant anytime.

I'm not against the automobile business. Here's what I'm saying, the plant that they already have here is not making much profit. Other assembly plants are also suffering (read Cosmas Maduka's recent interview about the Coscharis plant) I think it'll be a better idea to figure out why they are not making great sales and fix that problem before building another plant.

Mohamed M. M. Fall, UNICEF regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa with Tony Elumelu at TICAD7

Mohamed M. M. Fall, UNICEF regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa with President Muhammadu Buhari and President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger outside the conference hall.

Channels TV's video of President Buhari's interaction with Nigerians in Japan.

He basically said that Nigerians in Japan have done well and represented the country well. There are some Nigerians giving Nigeria a bad name, but they are a minority and Nigerians are not bad people. He said that he will not support criminality anywhere, whether at home or abroad.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CfD1mBxVfA

TSRC:
Is Toyota into business of medicine?
WTF is going on here?

Why not get them to build a giant world class vehicle plant that can possibily serve the Continent.

Won't they serve us better economically than a single medical aid?

Yes. Toyota went into the medical business in 2011.

ornicus:
I really wonder where the issue is. If they can provide competively priced cars, Nigerians will rush them.

They were motivated to set up the assembly plants because government unveiled an auto policy that included an increase in import tax of second hand cars and that the government would curb smuggling. The government has not been able to do either of those things.