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Biggysmalls919: u are a nigerian right? So u ought to know non muslims are called infidels world over. Am a realist so don't get it twisted around me

Non muslims are called infidel world over by who?

qualified: Kobojunkie, who are u, BH spokesman, member etc?

Wht are ur basis for ur claims? Defending their actions cos u are scared, on or religious grounds? Wht has Christians done, are they d govt? How can anyone justify d killing of Christians in a country that support Freedom of worship?

This is another thing that makes it very easy for them. We get emotional, start squabbling amongst ourselves (us & them) and make it very easy for our common enemy. THINK!

See! People don't even know that Boko Haram started carrying out attacks in 2003 (during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo) and that Boko Haram members were first arrested in 2005.

What we are dealing with here is not christian vs muslim, north vs south, hausa vs berom or whatever; what we are dealing with is fascism pure and simple.

The sooner we unite to confront this madness, the better for all of us (ask the tribes in Pakistan and Afghanistan what happened to them).

1) Who is a "true muslim"?

2) Was Usman Dan Fodio's jihad against christians, animists or muslims? (Read the letters that were exchanged between the Sokoto Caliphate and Kanem-Bornu).

3) Have Al-Qaeda'a attacks in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan been against muslims, christians or animists or all of the above?

Wow! I got a severe ban and the whole topic got hidden!

[quote author=T-smooth]I
suspect that friday bombing was carried out by Oritsajafor's boys i.e
CAN. Have u eva notice that when a suicide bomber die, they would say it
is Mustapha, Ahmad and co. but when they are caught u will found out
that they are either Jesus, Abraham, Moses, John e.t.c Abeg shine ur
eyes.[/quote]Here we go again smh.

CAMEROONPRIDE: that's talk politics are always talking Malians need actions .....anyway Nuke them enough is enough those rebels groups are becoming very annoying .......

I agree with you 100%

Ecomog generals are meeting to thrash out a Mali invasion plan.


http://forum.newzimbabwe.com/index.php?/topic/55118-ecowasecomog-generals-meet-to-thrash-out-a-mali-invasion-plan/

[size=14pt]3-year Jail Term Awaits One-way Traffic Offenders In Lagos[/size]

Lagos State House of Assembly has passed a bill for a law to repeal and re-enact the road traffic law and to make provisions for road traffic and vehicle inspection in Lagos into law for Governor Babatunde Fashola’s assent.

The new amended traffic law which was passed last Thursday, stipulates that driving in a direction prohibited by the road traffic law, that is driving against traffic, popularly known as one way driving now attracts a 3-year jail term, while a first offender gets one year term and the vehicle forfeited to the state government.

Also, bullion vans are not exempted from the law as any bullion van driven in a direction prohibited by the road traffic law will be forfeited, while abandoned vehicle on highway will be fined N50,000.00 or three years imprisonment, or both fine and imprisonment.

The bill which emanated from the executive arm is aimed at regulating vehicular movement and to impose sanctions on any erring vehicle operator in the state.

Lawmakers had carefully examined the bill in June during a public hearing where all stakeholders were invited and their input and memoranda were considered at the committee stage.

According to schedule (1) section (2) of traffic offences and penalties it stated that riding a motor-cycle against traffic and riding on the kerb, median or road setbacks, 1st time offender will attract N20,000.00, subsequent offender N30,000.00 or the rider’s motor-cycle will be impounded.

Smoking while driving will attract N20,000.00, failure to give way to traffic on the left at a roundabout N20,000.00, disobeying traffic control will be N20,000.00 violation of route by commercial vehicles will attract N20,000.00. Riding motor-cycle without crash helmet for rider and passenger will attract N20,000: 00 or 3years imprisonment or both.

The law also prohibited under aged person, under 18yrs old, riding a motorcycle with fine of N20,000.00.
Operating a motor-cycle in a restricted area on or prohibited route will be fined N20,000.00 or his motor-cycle impounded.

In schedule II, section (4) or prohibited route for motorcycle and tricycle on major highways in Lagos. The highways are Lagos Ibadan expressway, Apapa Oshodi, Oworonshoki, Lagos Ikorodu, Lagos-Abeokuta, Babangida Boulevarde way, others are Eti-Osa Lekki Epe expressway, Funsho Williams Avenue, Agege motor road and Eti-Osa Lekki coastal road.

Section (4) of the bill stipulates vehicle inspection offences and penalties which includes driving without valid driver’s license. Such offender would have his vehicle impounded. Learner driver without permit will attract N20,000.00, driving with fake number plate 1st offender N20,000.00 and 6 months imprisonment or both. Fashola is expected to sign the bill into law soon.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/3-year-jail-term-awaits-one-way-traffic-offenders-in-lagos/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter


https://www.nairaland.com/989727/3-year-jail-term-awaits-one-way

Eti-Osa Lekki coastal road

Biggysmalls919: they say we are infidels, so how do u want us to unite? Be realistic

Who are the "they" that say you are infidels and who are the "we"?

Every advantage has a corresponding disadvantage. I'll list 3

1) Cross border trade. ECOWAS guarantees free movement of people and goods across the borders of member states. This means that Camerounians stand a better chance of taking advantage of, for example, Nigeria's large market. However, you must be competitive in order to reap the benefits of this (for example, the Ghanaians are currently trying to restrict Nigerian traders in Ghana, because they are less competitive).

2) Defence/Security: Cameroun can request for help from Ecomog should she ever need it. However, some citizens of West Africa, because of pride and sovereignty issues, do not like the idea of Ecomog intervening in their country.

3) Free and easy movement of people: You would not need a visa to visit any Ecowas country. This would also mean that criminals can easily move across borders.

Boko Haram has most likely killed more muslims than christians (they've been killing muslims since 2004, but it's when they started killing christians that it came to the attention of people in the south). They've killed imams, etc, who don't agree with their brand of islam.

OP, who killed ANPP’s Borno State gubernatorial candidate, Alhaji Modu Fannami Gubio (a cousin of Ali Modu Sheriff), in January 2011?

Eti-Osa Lekki coastal road

I think it'd be a great idea. Of course the geography doesn't matter, neither does language, etc (Angola is part of SADC, while Rwanda is part of the Commonwealth). The only thing that matters is strategic interests.

[size=14pt]FEDERATION CUP: NFF INSIST ON BAUCHI AS WARRI WOLVES PULLS OUT FOR SECURITY CONCERNS[/size]

The Nigeria Football Federation on Thursday stated that Bauchi remains a centre for the group preliminary stage matches of the 2012 Federation Cup competition.

NFF’s Chief Sports Officer, Umar Kontagora, told sport journalists in Abuja that there was no going back on the choice of Bauchi as one of the centres.

Warri Wolves, Enyimba, Lobi Stars and Samba FC are scheduled to play their group games in Bauchi from July 17 and according to Kontagora there was no issue to be addressed regarding the choice of Bauchi and the concerns raised by some of the four participating clubs.

Meanwhile, Warri Wolves have announced that they will pull out of the Federation Cup following the insistence of the NFF to organise the group games in Bauchi.


According to the Media officer of the club, Timi Ebikagboro, the club would not put the lives of their players at risk by going to Bauchi for their group games so they will not be going to the northern Nigerian city because of security concerns.

http://premiumsportscenter..co.uk/2012/07/federation-cup-nff-insist-on-bauchi-as.html

This thread demonstrates why Nigeria is such a soft target. Nigerians would keep fighting amongst themselves and make the job easy for Boko Haram. Same thing that happened in Iraq & Pakistan.
Instead of us to unite and face our common enemy we are engaging in our favourite past-time ----silly bickering.

We'll keep thinking it's "their problem" until it finally gets to us. Hope it won't be too late then.

meedx: His name on set was Nduka.

Thanx

[size=14pt]Boko Haram Hideout Uncovered in Northern Cameroon![/size]

Posted by Information Nigeria in Home » Nigerian News on January 8, 2012 -

The Boko Haram terrorist group has a number of bases in neighboring country, Cameroon.

On New Year’s Eve, the Nigerian government temporarily shut down its land boundaries with Cameroon, Chad and Niger as a means of impeding crossborder activities by militants of the radical Islamic terrorist group, the Boko Haram.

And while the impacts of that decision are only beginning to be felt in Cameroon’s predominantly Muslim northern regions, with reports of rising fuel prices and stranded traders, authorities there are almost certain they have blown the cover on a Boko Haram refuge.

Reports indicate that members of the extremist group are increasingly present in Lagdo, a cosmopolitan settlement in the North Region, following calls for vigilance by local administrative authorities in the regional headquarters Garoua.

“They are easily identifiable with their bizarre dressing.  They wear long beards and red or black headscarves,” Peter Kum, a reporter with the French language daily, La Nouvelle Expression reported Tuesday, January 3.  According to him, since several months Lagdo locals have testified that the strangers are combing surrounding villages and actively preaching anti-Western sermons, establishing units and proposing huge amounts of money to those willing to follow them.

Presiding at a December 15 security coordination conclave devoted to maintaining peace and order before, during and after the 2011 end-of-year festive period, the Governor of the North Region, El HadjGambo Haman did not mince words.  He instructed security forces to be on the alert, noting the increasing influx and presence of Boko Haram militants in parts of the region.

“The Boko Haram being chased from Nigeria’s northeast, as well as thousands of runaway Chadian soldiers in irregular situation here must be closely monitored to avoid unwanted trouble throughout the national territory,” he warned.  Separate sources suspect that the presence of the extremist Boko Haram militants has soared steadily following increasing clampdowns on them by the Nigerian government especially following the Christmas Day blasts that left close to fifty dead.

Security sources and administrative officials in the North Region, speaking on condition of anonymity, say for the time being, there is no need to panic.  They are claiming that intensified intelligence monitoring implies the activities of the terrorists are under control.  “We cannot begin to arrest suspects because the law does not allow for that.  At the moment, they are not breaking the law,” one said.

Following the fatal Christmas Day attacks in Nigeria claimed by the group, authorities in Cameroon’s Far North Region, which also shares porous borders with Nigeria, have also reinforced surveillance.  Several Quran learning centers have been reportedly shut down, while Islam teachers are being closely watched by intelligence operatives.  Many of them are grumbling following several interrogations they have been put through.

Source: The Cameroon Post

http://www.informationnigeria.org/2012/01/boko-haram-hideout-uncovered-in-northern-cameroon.html

https://www.nairaland.com/841105/boko-haram-base-found-north

How could I forget Kwaghir? The amazing puppet and masquerade show from Benue. I LOVED the signature tune. We had both funny and scary puppets and masquerades.


A festival of the Tiv people in Benue state of Nigeria, it is a display of traditional masquerades, puppet theater, some forms of acrobatics, dancing, music and sartorial display. A colourful festival indeed, it attracts many people and is accentuated by the friendliness and warm welcome of the Tiv people of Nigeria.

Interesting...I've just discovered a male Kobojunkie.

Cameroun should join Ecomog to help us battle Boko Haram in northern Cameroun.

Its time to go on Animal Game,
The games that's meant for you and me,
Its meant for one for all,


Mr Lion, Mr Tiger, Mr Snake, and Mr Cat
Its time to say hello,
Its time to say hello,
Its time to say hello,
Mr Lion, Tiger, Snake and Mr Cat,
Its time to say hello.

Check NTA2 Lagos' Youtube page for Village Headmaster (1970s & 80s), Mirror in The Sun (1985), etc. Click here http://www.youtube.com/user/NTA2Lagos?feature=watch

akinsdeji: Gone were the days,when men were boyz lolz,can someone tell us where we can get a link to download this plzzzzz

1) Go to Google

2) Search for youtube downloader

3) Download it.

4) Go to youtube and search for the programme of your choice.

5) Download the programme using youtube downloader.

Kate Henshaw played the role of a house maid in a late 90s/early 2000s sitcom. It certainly wasn't in the 1980s.

Variety & talk shows included "The Bala Milla Show" (Wel-come every-body!), "The Art Alade Show", "The Yom-Yem Show", "Sunny Side of Life", "Sunday Rendezvous", "Kessingsheen Hit Show", "New Trends" (Fashion, events and lifestyle show with Ime Oge James), "Shoppers Guide" (Femi Robinson), "News Week" (Maudlyn Park), "Morning Ride" with Danladi Bako (especially when there's a beauty pageant coming up), Newsline (Yinka Craig and Patrick Oke) etc.


My favourite producers were Peter Igho, Jimmi Odumosu, Inyang Emma, Jimmy Ate, Segun Olusola and Dejumo Lewis.


Soap operas: "Mirror in the sun" (Barbara Soky, Clarion Chukwurah, Lari Williams, etc), "Ripples", "Behind the clouds", "Supple Blues", "Fortunes", "Checkmate", "Adio Family", etc

It's not complete. It's disjointed. But here it is.



[size=14pt]History of road transport in Lagos[/size]


An important factor in providing transport facilities in Lagos state has always been the aquatic nature of the state. According to Adeniji A.O. “Lagos Island which covers a mere 1.55 sq. miles was a rather small piece of land. Yet, up to 1950, 65.4 percent of the population lived there. No doubt a contributory factor to this situation could be found in the lack of adequate transport facilities which would have encouraged people to live on the mainland and shuttle to the island daily for business. It should be noted that besides the small size of the island, many parts of it were also swampy or waterlogged”.


Boats therefore became an important means of transport in the area now known as Lagos. According to Kunle Lawal, “ scholars are now suggesting that boat making industry thrived in Lagos as a result of the availability of more durable wood supplied by her eastern neighbours”.


The situation changed with the commissioning of the Carter (1901), Eko (1975) and Third Mainland (1991) bridges which connect Lagos Island to Lagos Mainland. Road transport gained primacy as the most important means of transport in Lagos.


Ayodeji Olukoju, who contributed a piece called “Urban Transport” to “Nigerian Cities” edited by Toyin Falola and Steve Sahm, wrote that “the first commercial bus service was established in 1914 by Charlotte Olajumoke Obasa, a leading indigenous entrepreneur of that time.”
Damola Osinulu on his part writes that, “In the 1920s, road-based bus transportation was pioneered in Lagos by two Nigerians, W.A. Dawodu and Mrs. Charlotte Obasa. This was followed by the establishment of J.N. Zarpas, a company owned by Levantine expatriates. Zarpas dominated the Lagos transportation scene until their buses were acquired by the Lagos Town Council in 1958 to form the Lagos Municipal Transport Service”


Chinedu Ozordi and Olugbenro Adeoye state that“There was no significant change until the 1960s when many operators went into the transport business. This resulted in the emergence of the Bolekaja, which literally means “come down and let’s fight” in Yoruba. As there was never enough room in the packed vehicle for a decent sitting arrangement resulting often in fisticuffs; they would tell each other to “come down and let’s fight.” Bolekaja has since been phased out, and they are now used to carry foodstuff in rural communities”.
Yinka Aderibigbe states that “Molues, it was learnt, took over when government banned the use of Bolekaja, an average sized wood axial bus, which got its name from the manner passengers usually disembark. With only one wooden door at the back, passengers often had a hell of time entering and disembarking from the single exit point and conducting the bus from that position usually had its own problems, which often times led to free for all, making passengers to give the name bolekaja which means (disembark and let’s fight)”.



Yinka Aderibigbe further states that “Until the last one decade, they were the kings of Lagos roads. Those who have lived in the sprawling megacity for upwards of two decades hardly knew any other cheaper means of transportation. They are the moving yellow contraption known in the local parlance as Molue, the effervescent machine that hauls commuters from one part of the city to the other”.
Though many Lagosians are at a loss about the meaning or the etymology of the name, it is thought that Molue is the corruption of “Maul Him”, a description given to the vehicle by the city’s elite who are piqued by the incessant manner the large bodied buses tear clothes and even flesh of passengers while either entering or disembarking as they reach their destinations. Molues are kings of the roads. They are found everywhere, a private sector response to the yearning need for a safe means of mass transportation for the teeming population.


From Ojota to Ketu or Ikorodu and from there to Iddo, a major terminus made popular by the now comatose railway system, to Oyingbo, a bustling transportation haven to Oshodi, Costain, to Obalende, and from there to Apapa, then Orile, Iganmu to Mile 2 and further still to Okokomaiko, on the ever-busy Badagry highway and on the southern fringes of Iyana-Ipaja, Pen Cinema, Egbeda, to Idimu and Ijegun, and other emerging satellite towns of the state, such as Alimosho, the Lagos Molue at a time, captured the terrain, becoming an opium of the commuting masses.


So popular were these buses, that they at a time were printed on postcards and favoured as the face of a developing city state of Lagos.
From wherever you boarded them, a ride in a Molue was an admixture of fun and tears. There, you might be unlucky to have your pocket picked by one of the extremely smart street urchins regarded as area boys, who deliberately crowded the two entrances, making ingress and egress a headache to passengers.


There was no decency inside the Molue. After filling all the seats, the spill over passengers were made to hang on a rail in what was usually called ‘standing’ in the buses. Passengers were so tightly packed that they made nonsense of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s mimickery of their plight in the song, Suffering and Smiling.The air inside the Molue most times are stale, passengers have to cope with the body odours until fresh air permeates the vehicle. Most Molues don’t have windows and passengers have to sit on bare planks which are crudely welded to iron bars by local smithes. A ride inside Molue during the rain can spell disaster if a special outing is in view, as one may end up drenched.


Apart from the steering wheel, the dash boards of most Molues are often barren of any functioning gadgets, the drivers who are often boxed in with a wired mesh, could be found dripping with sweat as they battle with the steering wheel. With no view finder and side mirrors, the typical Molue driver relies on his mates, better known locally as bus conductors to marshal the roads, and these barks instructions to him intermittently.
"O wa legbe e o, (there is a vehicle by your side), Wole wa, (enter this side of the road), O nbo le (a passenger is dropping) or more lewd ones like; Wole pelu senji e o, (enter this bus with the correct fare), O loyun o ponmo o (this passenger, obviously a woman is pregnant and carrying a baby), are few of the jargons of the Molue conductor.
The driver is ever in a hurry. Apart from when it takes off from its major park, Molue never stops. Whether you are dropping off the vehicle or boarding, you have to develop a running feet, as you practically jump off, or rush in, on motion. This act which has become the archilles heels of many hapless commuters have somewhat become the defining mode of recognising who just migrated to Lagos and who is a resident.


The Molue could be a market too. Itinerant merchants often make a kill inside Molue, hawking all manners of wares from the usual drugs to the cure-all herbs that take care of a thousand ailments. Standing at one corner of the bus, the agent projects his voice by usually cupping his hands round his mouth, clears his/her throat and begins by assisting the passengers to call out the many bus stops along the routes, before leading the passengers into prayers which often he/she uses to hoodwink them before bringing out his or her wares. Molues are also a veritable ground for peripatetic preachers. Many young pastors used the Molue as sound bites, from where they work on their confidence to handle microphone and address larger audience in the Church. It could also be a leveler of sorts, a melting pot for the upcoming middle class usually in his razor sharp edged shirts and tie and their female counterpart in their skirt suits, mingling and struggling for space with the pepper retailers, and the mechanics in their grease-blackened aprons.


Because it carries more passengers, fares on Molue are often times cheaper than the smaller commuter buses.


Wale Adeduro recounts this little story “I had asked my father why the largely ugly commercial buses plying Obalende-Oshodi route were dubbed 'Molue' in Lagos. I think my reserved father explained that he was not sure of the origin of the tag 'Molue'. He however adduced a reason for the name. In his opinion the first batch of such vehicles were 911 models of Mercedes Benz trucks without carriers. Some welders in the outskirts of Lagos had the expertise of building cabins on such trucks. Through their efforts, they were able to convert the trucks to passenger vehicles. No thanks to the recklessness of 'Danfo' buses (smaller commuter buses especially the Volkwagen types) conductors on the converted buses often admonished their drivers to 'Molue' (a corruption of the word remould) the smaller buses when they obstruct the larger ones. From that moment on the term 'Molue' became associated with the big bully nature of the 911 model of commercial vehicles in urban Lagos”.


According to Okpi, Ozordi and Adeoye, “Molue and the Danfo buses, which rolled into Lagos in the seventies replaced “Bolekaja”. Molue is a Mercedes truck, which is reconstructed, locally, into a bus which seats about 44 passengers. The Danfo initially started with a Volkswagen model which seats only 12”.


According to Aderibigbe, “The journey to their extinction started some 10 years ago when the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration banned Molue buses from entering Victoria Island. Their operations were limited to Obalende or Falomo roundabout, their operations was replaced with the white painted small buses. With the commissioning of the BRT buses by the Fashola government on March 17, 2008, a more definite roadmap for the phasing out of this phase of the city’s major means of transportation began to take shape as government invited the National Union of Road Transport Workers of Nigeria (NURTW) to partner with it on the new face of Lagos transportation initiative”.



According to Ilevbare et al, “It was the second day of the Lagos State Ministry of Transport' launch of a new public transportation scheme. That scheme, by which private commercial bus operators were banned from plying the V.I and Ikoyi routes, is intended to sanitise traffic in these highbrow areas of Eti-Osa Local Government. But the new scheme offers no succour for commuters, particularly school children

The yellow and black private buses popularly refer to as Danfo , had from the previous day been barred from plying the roads of Ikoyi and Victoria Island by the state government. Scores of mobile policemen and officials of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority (LASTMA), were on hand at all entry points to the two neighbourhoods to prevent defiant drivers. Children and women went through untold hardship as they struggled for limited buses that were allowed by the new scheme to operate on those routes. The scenario could best be described as the biblical camel passing through the eye of a needle: a situation where close to five thousand commuters struggle to get seats in a bus that has provision for just 18”. “CMS Taxi and Motors Nigeria Limited (T&M), is the second carrier on those routes". The City Bus which has it's terminals at TBS, CMS/Outer Marina, Obalende and Femi Okunnu Housing Estate (Round About), also has major bus stops in Ikoyi and Victoria Island with different routes and their routes numbers.



According to Kekelola Oyebola "Conflicting claims have continued to trail the decision of the Lagos State government to replace the yellow commuter buses popularly called "danfo" by City Buses in Ikoyi and Victoria Island routes, even as the government has approved special commercial buses for Ajah residents.
The new buses are however, painted green and white as against the popular yellow and black. Feelers within the Ajah community showed that residents are yet to enjoy the benefits of this new transport system as investigation showed that most commuters are still often stranded at the various bus stops within the area.


It would be recalled that shortly after the announcement of the new policy by the Lagos government, a sizeable number of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) members went on rampage to registered their anger. “Efforts by to reach the spokesperson for Cross Country Ltd, owners of city buses to find out their future plans, and other measures put in place to ensure compliance from their drivers failed. He was said to be indisposed”.


According to Okpi et al, “The last time Gerald Onwuzurike visited Lagos was in 1998. Coming from the sleepy town of Okigwe, in Imo State, he was shocked at the frenzied lifestyle of Lagos residents. He has since come back to Lagos to stay for good, and he quickly joined the ever-swelling band of brothers called commercial auto bike (Okada) riders. Today, he is even more astonished at the sea of human beings who calmly wait on a queue for a BRT bus.


“This is an amazing sight,” he exclaimed in pidgin English. “Imagine Lagosians queuing up in an orderly manner. Such a sight was rare. This governor has really tried in providing this transport scheme that has been so popular.”


The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) scheme, introduced by Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Agency (LAMATA), on 17 March, 2008 has been praised by stakeholders as a largely successful venture.
According to Okpi et al, “The scheme was launched on 17 March, 2008, with 100 buses. BRT operates as a transport system, which relies on the use of ‘dedicated lanes’ special traffic lanes to guarantee fast and reliable travel time for commuters. These lanes are usually segregated, thus enabling the buses to have the right of way in situations of traffic congestion. It flagged off with the Mile 12 - CMS route. It was planned by the Lagos state government and run by LAMATA.
“The Bus Rapid Transit system, launched for Lagos on March 17, 2008, successfully transported 9.7 million passengers in the first 100 days of operations,” said Dayo Mobereola, managing director of LAMATA, at a media forum last year”.

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