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It is always hotels, hotels and more hotels.

What about some industries? It doesn't have to be manufacturing, but what about investment in health industries. There are a lot of educated people who live in Enugu. That is a resource that needs to be tapped into.

U.S. reports malaria vaccine breakthrough

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(CNN) -- U.S. researchers say they've successfully tested a vaccine for malaria on a small group of volunteers and hope to conduct large-scale tests soon.

The vaccine involves multiple, intravenous injections of a weakened form of the disease, scientists from the National Institutes of Health, the Navy, Army and other organizations reported Thursday. Though the results were promising, more extensive field testing will be required, the researchers wrote.

The mosquito-borne tropical disease kills about 1 million people a year and sickens more than 200 million. Dr. William Schaffner, head of the preventive medicine department at Vanderbilt University's medical school, called the results "a scientific advance" -- but it may be eight to 10 years before the vaccine can be scientifically proven, approved and distributed.

"This is not a vaccine that's ready for travelers to the developing world anytime soon," Schaffner told CNN. "However, from the point of view of science dealing with one of the big three infectious causes of death around the world, it's a notable advance. And everybody will be holding their breath, watching to see whether this next trial works and how well it works."
The findings were published Thursday by the peer-reviewed journal Science. The trials involved 57 subjects, including 40 who received the vaccine, between October 2011 to October 2012.

Researchers reported that the six volunteers who received five intravenous doses of the vaccine did not contract malaria when exposed to the microscopic parasite. Of the nine who received four doses, three contracted the disease.

Schaffner, who was not part of the study, said previous attempts using injections into skin or muscle didn't work. Multiple, intravenous injections are "a heck of a way" to administer a vaccine, but "desperate times call for desperate measures," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/malaria-vaccine/

[quote author=IGBO-SON]^^^My sentiments too! I'm not from Enugu as well, but i'd prefer that the entire Ndigbo (from all South East and South South states) focus on making Enugu a world class city. Something tells me this would be asking for too much, considering the divisions and abuse we notice on this thread.

This is where having one unified and homogenous state, government, and command structure would have served us well......like the old East Central State was.[/quote]I think some Igbo feel that if we focus too much on Enugu, we will be forgetting about other cities in Igboland like Owerri, Umuahia or Awka. This is clearly myopic thinking, because what is good for Enugu is good for the entire East.

We can focus on commercial activities in Aba and Onitsha, but but Enugu should be paramount over all Igbo cities.

This should be our beacon for Igbo civilization.

Jaja of Opobo

(1821-1891)

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Born in Igboland and sold as a slave to a Bonny trader at the age of twelve, he was named Jubo Jubogha by his first master. He was later sold to Chief Alali, the head of the Opubo Annie Pepple Royal House. Called Jaja by the British, this gifted and enterprising individual eventually became one of the most powerful men in the eastern Niger Delta.

The Niger Delta, where the Niger empties itself into the Gulf of Guinea in a system of intricate waterways, was the site of unique settlements called city-states.

From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, Bonny, like the other city-states, gained its wealth from the profits of the slave trade. Here, an individual could attain prestige and power through success in business and, as in the case of Jaja, a slave could work his way up to head of state. The House was a socio-political institution and was the basic unit of the city-state.

In the nineteenth century—after the abolition of the slave trade in 1807—the trade in slaves was supplanted by the trade in palm oil, which was so vibrant that the region was named the Oil Rivers area.

The Houses in Bonny and other city-states controlled both the internal and external palm oil trade because the producers in the hinterland were forbidden to trade directly with the Europeans on the coast; the Europeans never left the coast for fear of malaria.

Astute in business and politics, Jaja became the head of the Anna Pepple House, extending its activities and influence by absorbing other houses, increasing operations in the hinterland and augmenting the number of European contacts. A power struggle ensued among rival factions in the houses at Bonny leading to the breakaway of the faction led by Jaja. He established a new settlement, which he named Opobo. He became King Jaja of Opobo and declared himself independent of Bonny.

Strategically located between Bonny and the production areas of the hinterland, King Jaja controlled trade and politics in the delta. In so doing, he curtailed trade at Bonny and fourteen of the eighteen Bonny houses moved to Opobo.

In a few years, he had become so wealthy that he was shipping palm oil directly to Liverpool. The British consul could not tolerate this situation. Jaja was offered a treaty of "protection", in return for which the chiefs usually surrendered their sovereignty. After Jaja's initial opposition, he was reassured, in vague terms, that neither his authority nor the sovereignty of Opobo would be threatened.

Jaja continued to regulate trade and levy duties on British traders, to the point where he ordered a cessation of trade on the river until one British firm agreed to pay duties. Jaja refused to comply with the consul's order to terminate these activities, despite British threats to bombard Opobo. Unknown to Jaja, the Scramble for Africa had taken place and Opobo was part of the territories allocated to Great Britain. This was the era of gunboat diplomacy, where Great Britain used her naval power to negotiate conditions favorable to the British.

Lured into a meeting with the British consul aboard a warship, Jaja was arrested and sent to Accra, where he was summarily tried and found guilty of "treaty breaking" and "blocking the highways of trade".

He was deported to St. Vincent, West Indies and four years later, he died en route to Nigeria after he was permitted to return.

Ironically, Jaja's dogged insistence on African independence and effective resistance exposed British imperialism and made him the first victim of foreign territorial intrusion in West Africa. The fate of Jaja reverberated through the entire Niger delta. Amazed at this turn of events, the other delta chiefs quickly capitulated.

In addition, the discovery of quinine as the cure for malaria enabled the British traders to bypass the middlemen and deal directly with the palm oil producers, thus precipitating the decline of the city-states.

King Jaja's downfall ensured a victory for British supremacy, paving the way for the eventual imposition of the colonial system in this region by the end of the century.

Ekumeku Movement

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The Ekumeku Movement consisted of a series of uprisings against the rising power of the Royal Niger Company of the British Empire in the Anioma communities of the Lower Niger River. The British penetration of Nigeria met with various forms of resistance throughout the country. In the south, the British had to fight many wars, in particular the wars against the Ijebu (a Yoruba group) in 1892, the Aro of Eastern Igboland in 1901–1902, and from 1883–1914, the Anioma.

Political theater from Fashola. He can only do this in the South-West.

Let him try to deport "destitutes" back to the South-South, South-East, Middle Belt or North.

People are wiser now because Peter Obi put this issue to the forefront.

Enugu should be the gateway to Igboland.

We must focus our attention on this city before other Igbo cities. I am not even from Enugu, but I love the city.

plaindealer: And you wonder why Lagos state is living the rest of the country behind....

Don't you mean "leading?"

I guess Lagos education system is not "living" the rest of the country behind...

Seems like Peter Okoye just ruined it for most Nigerian men.

Now Nigerian women are going to expect a Range Rover or some vehicle before you propose to them.

Igbos and Yoruba should just simply marry each other.

My brothers just look at Peter Okoye!

About time! It took him long enough.

All the Ndigbo want is an apology. Is that too much to ask for?

Fashola would be respected more if he could admit that he was wrong.

That is what a true statesman does...

We should be proud of our traditional attire.

And I think we do not wear it enough. We should wear it everyday we go to work!

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I do not know why any African would wear a suit in a tropical climate.

It looks funny just like Nigerian judges who wear those white wigs.

Rossikk: What a lousy, illiterate write-up by a colonised mental slave with no sense of dignity, self-worth, or independence.

The audacity this pig has to equate African attire with 'uncivilization' and western attire with 'civilization' alone is enough to confine him to a mental hospital for the severely reta.rded. Worse is his smug assurance that he can actually equate his self-hatred to some sort of 'enlightenment', positing that our traditional attire were created ''hundreds of years ago''. Well the western suit WAS invented 'hundreds of years ago' too, and, like African wear, has only been modified as the years progressed. Why can't this goat advocate a more 'work-friendly' transitional process for African wear if that's his thing, if not for his colonised self hatred? Just as this goat is happy to import his language, his religion, his eating habits, his car, he also wants to jettison his indigenous wear for imported clothes alone. How long before pigs like this begin to advocate for mass skin bleaching of all Africans to ensure we ''meet up'' with the light skinned colour of ''civilization''? It seems all we've got left to remind us of who we are is the skin colour. Don't bet against self-hating orang outangs and swine like this writer campaigning to shed that too.

Finally, the writer's claim that ''The wearing of cap is not indigenous to any ethnic group in Nigeria'' shows his GROSS HISTORICAL ILLITERACY, and that he is an absolute DUNCE where it concerns Nigerian/African history. A walking white dunce in black skin. An embarrassment to every living African, and a caricature representation of the bamboozled slave steeped in ignorance and self-loathing. The sooner his loathsome ilk die away from our independent society the better for us all.

This is the best post here! I tip my hat to you.

Of course Amaechi would follow Fashola.

Both are equally wrong.

Because Lagos did it, does it make it right? No.

Because Rivers state did it, does it make it right? No.

jason123: IMO and Abia ....lol...it's time to go home. Although I love IMO peeps. It's those anambrans I want chased away

You do know that Rivers state neighbors Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom as well?

Who said that these people come from Imo or Abia with your annoying reasoning?

Afam4eva: https://s5.postimg.org/r78ju9rif/NNAMDI_AZIKIWE_UNIVERSITY_Igwe_Nneka_Edith.jpg

There is a difference between beautiful and sexxxxyyy. And this one is sexxxxy.

Igbo Amaka!

sheyie2007: SE.. shame

Why bring the SE into this?

We are happy for Ogun state!

Hopefully Abia can get its act together as well.

Time for an owambe!

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Did he leave Nigeria like most Nigerian politicians?

419, drug peddling and now terrorism.

Which of the three is worse? We can deal with the first two, because they are linked to greed, poverty and lack of education, but terrorism is tied in with religion.

Now Nigeria is being compared to Pakistan. A country that is associated with backwardness. Nigerians both in Nigeria and in the West need to stop disgracing us!

Let peace reign. These Igbo v. Yoruba fights need to stop.

But tribalism seems to be the bane of Africa. Just the other day, I stumbled on a tribalistic fight between Ethiopians. I think it was Oromo people v. Tigray. And it was just as nasty as the ones we see on Nairaland. I was completely shocked while the Somalis were on the sideline.

I am starting to think the Fashola has a problem with poor people of all the tribes.

He is building a new city for the rich. But who is going to take care of these rich people, if he is forcing all the poor out of Lagos?

And why is Lagos treating humans like animals. That looks a cage for lions.

There is no doubt that Owerri is beautiful and clean.

The issue is the Imolites did not vote for Okorocha for him to join APC. They voted for him, because he was a populist and their dislike of Ohakim.

Ask any indigene of Imo how they feel about Okorocha antics. Many are simply in dismay and are unhappy with him.