₦airaland Forum

repogirl:
I don't get it, are the ranches owned by the federal government?

National park and ranch don't sound like the same thing o...It seems like they are trying to merge cattle with the parks because I seriously doubt cows belong in parks.


They should kuku open ministry of cattle and assign a minister to it. Shady people.

tommysparks:
Audu Ogbeh is just stealing money with ease, he first of all imported grasses from Brazil for 180million, now he wants to train livestock rearers with 400million. We are watching this anti corruption in 3D by sai Baba

Paramilitary Training

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Officers & men of the Nigeria National Park Service undergoing training at some military formations in the Country. This is in action towards a formal Commissioning and full take off of the Service Paramilitary Status granted her by His Excellency the President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Officers & men of the Nigeria National Park Service undergoing training at some military formations in the Country. This is in action towards a formal Commissioning and full take off of the Service Paramilitary Status granted her by His Excellency the President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with effect from January, 2014.

Officers & men of the Nigeria National Park Service undergoing training at some military formations in the Country. This is in action towards a formal Commissioning and full take off of the Service Paramilitary Status granted her by His Excellency the President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with effect from January, 2014.

SalamRushdie:
Park services for domestic animals? Who do you think you Fulani people are fooling ...This is an attempt to legitimize and arm the Fulani militia so they can openly defend grazing routes they have siezed...nonsense

uboma:
My question is,

Why involve the Nigerian Army in the rearing of Cattle?

Let the Army focus on their primary assignment and continuous training.

There are enough herdsmen to benefit from these training instead.

naptu2:
Many countries around the world have national parks and game reserves for the conservation of animals and plants. Examples in Nigeria include the Yankari Game Reserve, the Obudu Cattle Ranch, the National Arboretum in Abuja, etc.

The problem is that many poachers would like to kill the animals in the reserves. For example, poachers would like to kill the elephants and sell their tusks to the Chinese. Loggers would also like to cut down the trees in the parks and reserves.

Therefore, the Nigerian National Parks Service (NPS) employs armed park rangers to guard the national parks. It is these park rangers that the conservator-general of the federation is referring to. He says that they requested that the Nigerian Army should train them (paramilitary training), but the cost was too high, so they've found other ways to train them.

Now read the (badly written) article again.

http://nigeriaparkservice.org/

victorazy:
Noticed some, since 2baba got married, he has been vocal and active in matters in govt.

Mynd44:
Pius is making sense as usual.

Even Tolu Ogundamisi said it yesterday.

This is a democracy, the same right you have to be satisfied with the government is the same rights ither have to be unsatisfied. If people want to act in the unsatifactory situation and decide to mrch against it, they are nothing but people who want the best.

You who thinks we are on the right path as a country also have the right to protest, march or anything else.

Freedom of expression is a right we should take seriously

naptu2:
Another masterpiece from Professor Pius Adesanmi. He is so good that it's hard to choose which of his articles is my favourite, but here are six fantastic articles that he wrote.


Letter Of Gratitude To Senator Iyiola Omisore (2010)
https://www.nairaland.com/562153/letter-gratitude-senator-iyiola-omisore


And It Came To Pass (2009)
http://saharareporters.com/2009/07/08/and-it-came-pass


And It Came To Pass II (King Jona's Miracles). (2013)
https://www.nairaland.com/1272098/king-jonas-miracle-pius-adesanmi

General Buhari: A Whole Former Head Of State! (2014)
https://www.nairaland.com/1923568/general-buhari-whole-former-head


Was God Angry the Day He Created The Nigerian? (2015)
http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/30/was-god-angry-day-he-created-nigerian-pius-adesanmi

I May Renounce My Canadian Citizenship By Pius Adesanmi (2015)
https://www.nairaland.com/2800523/may-renounce-canadian-citizenship-pius#40990338

Air, You're Under Arrest!

By Pius Adesanmi

President Buhari's administration, its supporters and well-wishers, do not want Tu Baba to have his say in a democracy. They do not want him to organize a protest against the direction of Nigeria under President Buhari's supervision.

They have denigrated him.
They have abused him.
They have abused his father and mother.

Those who defend the musician's right to agonize and organize in a democracy have been surprised by the ferocity of those determined to silence the man.

I think that Mr. Innocent Idibia's traducers - the Buhari administration and its voices in the public sphere - have a better understanding of history than those who are acting surprised and are blindsided by the ferocity of the opposition to Mr. Idibia's planned protest.

Let's be clear: I support and endorse that protest and the spirit which informs it. If I were in the country, I'd join it to protest against the failures and the shortcomings of the current administration and insist on better, responsible, and accountable governance.

If we cede Nigeria to the crude and primitive instincts of those who would have us perish even the mere thought of peaceful and legitimate protest in a democracy just because they deify President Buhari, we are totally finished. A Nigeria in which the right to protest is demonized cannot contain us and such people.

It is instructive that many of those who are attempting to prevent legitimate protests against President Buhari in Nigeria see no contradiction whatsoever in hailing legitimate protests against President Trump in another democracy in faraway America. Perhaps we should not be surprised because irony and the Nigerian have never been good friends.

I said that the Buhari administration and its supporters who are trying to block Mr. Idibia's right to dissent have a better handle on history than those who are surprised by the state's reaction.

Come with me.

Centuries before Christ, in ancient Greece precisely, a fellow called Orpheus became the perfect embodiment of poetic genius in music. It was said that his father, the god Apollo, gave him a lyre and taught him to play it. Orpheus became the greatest musician in the universe. The world obeyed the command of his art. Rivers, mountains, animals, and humans all melted when he played the lyre. He fell in love with a beautiful lady called Eurydice.

Misfortune happens to this perfect love story and his wife died and descended to Hades - the underworld. Orpheus had one power, one weapon that no force could withstand - his music. With his lyre, he was able to descend to Hades, cross the dangerous Stygian realm, charm Cerberus the monster with three heads, and gain admission into the presence of Pluto, the god of the Underworld, whose heart he melted with music and retrieved his wife.

Nothing was able to withstand or block the liberating capacity of the music of Orpheus. Orpheus had served notice to humanity that music liberates. Music frees people from tyranny. Such is the awesome power of the musician.

Such is the awesome power of the musician. Fast forward to several centuries after Christ, in 13th-century Germany, the people of the little village of Hamelin were in bondage. The bondage of rat infestation. Doctors could not save them from that bondage. Armies could not save them from that bondage. A single musician and his pipe saved them. He also of course had the capacity to punish them for failing to compensate him as promised. Just as the Pied Piper of Hamelin used his music to lure the rats away, he lured the children away. Such is the awesome power of the musician.

Such is the awesome power of the musician. In Jericho, the invading Israelites had to make the transition from professional soldiers to professional musicians. They laid down their arms and blew trumpets. And the Wall of Jericho fell. Such is the awesome power of the musician.

Such is the awesome power of the musician. In folktale after folktale after folktale after folktale, Ijapa the tortoise uses song and music to conquer, to overcome, to liberate, to bring down tyranny in the Yoruba world. Such is the awesome power of the musician.

Such is the awesome power of the musician. If you watch the documentary, Amandla (find it on YouTube), you will gain an understanding of the fact that it was song and music that brought down Apartheid in South Africa. You will hear former Apartheid police officers and security forces declare that they were more afraid of the song and the chanting "of the blecks" (Blacks in South African English) than the stones and the bullets of the anti-apartheid fighters. Such is the awesome power of the musician.

The man who finds favour with the Muses and they invest the art of music in him immediately becomes an existential threat to power because he is in possession of a weapon that has been the nemesis of power throughout history. Whether he is singing or just operating in the secular realm of a protest beyond musical performance, he is still an existential threat to power.

This explains why the Buhari administration and its supporters are so afraid of Mr. Innocent Idibia. This explains why they are so jittery. And this explains why their reaction and hysterics should be familiar to those who have read enough books to understand the history of such reactions to the musician.

The Nigerians trying to stop the artist have ancestors dating all the way back to ancient Greece - agents of power and forces of reaction who have always tried to catch the wind and arrest the air. Sadly, they will go the way of all those who have tried to arrest the air before them. They will go the way of those who have tried to "arrest the music", to borrow the title of Tejumola Olaniyan's excellent book.

If you are a blind Buhari supporter, Mr. Innocent Idibia is not your problem. President Buhari is. Face him and tell him to up his game and deliver on his electoral promises. You did not elect him to run Nigeria catastrophically on auto-pilot as he is currently doing. At any rate, if you are a patriot, your loyalty will always be to Nigeria and not to any President.

If you belong in Team Nigeria, the team of transcendental non-partisan patriots who believe that Nigeria is bigger than anyone, including the President, and his supporters must consequently not be allowed to reduce Nigeria to a theocracy run by their god, defend Mr. Innocent Idibia's right to protest. Support him.

Physically, they may shut down that protest or even prevent him from holding it. Don't worry. Mr. Idibia is an artist. He has song. He has music. He is beyond them.

Let them continue to arrest the air.

It's their funeral.

obiageIi:
Like missy89 said he is going to join the b team that plays in the spanish second division. The npfl spanish tour seems to be paying off.
He cound be called up for senior games if quota permits

LAGOS CITY MARATHON: ORGANISERS ALERT ON ROAD CLOSURE PLANS
by Fred Edoreh January 29, 2017 Athletics, Featured 0 Comments 86

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For several hours on February 11 when the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon flags off, some major roads in Lagos shall be closed to regular traffic and the General Manager of the event, Yusuf Alli, has on Sunday released the details of the route plan to alert the public on movement.

Alli disclosed that for about twelve hours some part of Lagos will be shut down for the safety of thousands of runners, hundreds of thousands of cheering fans and millions of Lagosians.

In view of the arrangements for the race, he urged residents of Ikeja and environ going to Victoria Island to go through Ikorodu Road while vehicles from Badagry, Mile 2 and environ going to Victoria Island are advised to go through Apapa and Orile to link Eko Bridge.

Similarly, residents of Lagos Mainland, Surulere and environ are to avoid Alhaji Masha Road and National Stadium areas to link Victoria Island through Iponri/Iganmu routes.

Also, vehicles coming from Ibadan, Mowe and environ can link Victoria Island through Ojota and Ikorodu Road while vehicles from Okota would have to go through Mile 2 to Orile.

For traffic from Sango-Otta going to Victoria Island, the public have been advised to go through Mushin, Funso Williams Avenue (Western Avenue) unto Eko Bridge while those from Epe, Ajah, Lekki and environ are to use the alternative route to Victoria Island just as Ikoyi residents going to the Mainland are to use Alfred Rewane (Kingsway Road) link and Osborne Road to the Mainland.

According to the organisers of the marathon, some roads will necessarily be totally or partially closed.

“The Third Mainland Bridge will be closed from 7.15 am to 2pm. Alaka Road Service lane will be closed from 5.45 am to 7.30 am. National Stadium to Ojuelegba, Dormanlong Bridge, Onipanu, Obanikoro, and Anthony will be closed from 6.45am to 9 am. Antony Village to to Oworosoki will be closed from 7.15 am to 9 am. Adekunle Junction that links Third Mainland Bridge will be closed from 7.30 am to 2pm.’’

Ali also informed that runners will start collecting their kits from February 1, 2017 at the Molade Okoya Thomas Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium. The media accreditation for the event is also said to be in process.

“I am also happy to inform our media partners that they can collect their accreditation form at the Marathon Office, Teslim Balogun Stadium. The deadline for collection and submission is February 6 and accreditation cards will be distributed on February 9, 2017”.

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dabossman:
Thanks for these memories Naptu2. I watched both Mind Your Language and Second Chance growing up. Also remember comedy shows like The Jeffersons with George and Louise, and Good Times that had Jay Jay and John Amos as their father. Then there was Different Strokes,Mixed Blessings, Sanford and Sons and the likes. The 80's was the real deal.

dfrost:
“O, blimey”

Jay Jay always smashing the eggs in his pocket

80's was the real deal like you said. I'm definitely taking my kids there.

manikspears:
do you remember this logo?

manikspears:
do you remember this logo?

manikspears:
do you remember this logo?

manikspears:
On a great space coaster off we go .it new gnue. . I watched it on one Arabian channel of in 2000.but I don't think this is it, because that one has something to do with France or tower,there were 2 guys dressed like Michael Angelo. Or so.