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sjeezy8:
why does the moderator keep deleting comments?

LIKE I SAID GOOD FIND @Niger delta

lets ask the moderator why?

@ beaf from ur name , that show that ur comments and contributions are sentimentally stream, so got not disturb my self on ur post or contri

if that be then china is the giant of Asia while Japan is David  of Asia

udezue:
I did and didnt get it,  

pls try and focus on the woes and probs in ur domain rather than ranting on issue that can only be clearly notched by elders

precedence has shown that Nigeria is a sleeping giant, Goliath prey for David ,


in all fields we are far behind, in sport, academics, industries, agriculture and even politics,


pls tell me if truly we are the giant of Africa

pls read this thread
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-326789.0.html

pls doooo udezue

@ moderator why delete my post?

History

Immigrants from Anioma (Western Igboland) closest to the Kingdom of Benin are believed to have settled in Onitsha in the 16th century, which was originally called Ado N'Idu.[2] It soon became capital of an Igbo Kingdom. In 1857 British traders in palm oil established a permanent station in the city, and Christian missionaries soon followed headed by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a Yoruba) and Reverend John Taylor (an Igbo).[3] In 1884 Onitsha became part of a British protectorate.[4] The British colonial government and Christian missionaries penetrated most of Igboland to set up their administration, schools and churches through the river port at Onitsha.
The Onitsha bridge into Onitsha.

Historically, the former Eastern Nigeria did not experience a prolonged period of indigenous urbanization like Ibadan in the southwest or Kano and Zaria in the north. Onitsha became an important trading port for the Royal Niger company in the mid 1850's. Following the abolition of slavery, trade in palm kernels and other cash crops boomed around this river port. Immigrants from the hinterland were drawn to the emerging boom town as did the British traders who settled there and coordinated the palm oil and cash crops trade. In 1965, a bridge was built across the Niger River to replace the ferry crossing,[5] and plans are in place to add a second bridge as well. [6]

Trade soared between the east and west of Nigeria. This made Onitsha the strategic gateway for trade between the former eastern and western regions. The Biafran war years brought widespread devastation to Onitsha. The subsequent oil boom years brought a huge influx of immigrants into the city. The war-damaged facilities, still under repair, could not cope with the pace of the rural-urban exodus into the city. Slums consequently began to emerge from the hasty haphazard building construction to accommodate the huge influx. It lies at a major east-west crossing point of the Niger River, and occupies the northernmost point of the river regularly navigable by large vessels. These factors have historically made Onitsha a major centre for trade between the coastal regions and the north, as well as between eastern and western Nigeria. Onitsha possesses one of the very few road bridge crossings of the mile-wide Niger river.

Today, Onitsha is a textbook example of the perils of urbanization without planning or public services.

The history of Onitsha began with the migration of its people from the Benin Empire towards the end of early part of the Sixteenth Century AD. The migration was as a result of a wave of unrest, war and displacement unleashed by the Islamic movement from North Africa.

It was during their passage through the outskirts of Ile-Ife that they acquired the name Onitsha - a corruption of the Yoruba word Orisha and Udo, the famous shrine worshipped by the people. As time went on, the combination of the two words, Onitsha for Orisha and Ado for Udo culminated in the present name , Onitsha Ado.

The people of Onitsha left the out skirts of Ile-Ife and resettled in the Benin Kingdom and soon established themselves as one of the clans in the Benin Kingdom exercising all the rights and privileges attached thereon.

As a result of a long process of acculturation in Benin, the Onitsha people jealously guarded their acquired rights particularly with regard to their revered Shrine Udo.

It was suggested that the reason why the Onitsha people quarreled with Oba Esigie, (1404-1550), of Benin was because of the slight, the Oba gave their shrine-Udo. It was customary for newly installed Oba to pay homage to all important Shrines in the Benin Kingdom by slaughtering a cow in the shrines enclave. Oba Esigie failed to do this at the Onitsha people's Udo-Shrine, hence the quarrel.

It took the Onitsha people several years before they got to Obior and Ilah and finally crossed the River Niger and established Onitsha Ado. They stopped at several places in the then Mid-West now called Delta State, places like Agbor, Issele-Uku, etc. This explains the affinity with the inhabitants of Delta State like Ilah, Issele-Uku, Obbaamkpa, Onitsha-Olona, Onitsha Ugbo, Agbo, Obior, Onitsha Ukwu and so on.

History

Immigrants from Anioma (Western Igboland) closest to the Kingdom of Benin are believed to have settled in Onitsha in the 16th century, which was originally called Ado N'Idu.[2] It soon became capital of an Igbo Kingdom. In 1857 British traders in palm oil established a permanent station in the city, and Christian missionaries soon followed headed by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a Yoruba) and Reverend John Taylor (an Igbo).[3] In 1884 Onitsha became part of a British protectorate.[4] The British colonial government and Christian missionaries penetrated most of Igboland to set up their administration, schools and churches through the river port at Onitsha.
The Onitsha bridge into Onitsha.

Historically, the former Eastern Nigeria did not experience a prolonged period of indigenous urbanization like Ibadan in the southwest or Kano and Zaria in the north. Onitsha became an important trading port for the Royal Niger company in the mid 1850's. Following the abolition of slavery, trade in palm kernels and other cash crops boomed around this river port. Immigrants from the hinterland were drawn to the emerging boom town as did the British traders who settled there and coordinated the palm oil and cash crops trade. In 1965, a bridge was built across the Niger River to replace the ferry crossing,[5] and plans are in place to add a second bridge as well. [6]

Trade soared between the east and west of Nigeria. This made Onitsha the strategic gateway for trade between the former eastern and western regions. The Biafran war years brought widespread devastation to Onitsha. The subsequent oil boom years brought a huge influx of immigrants into the city. The war-damaged facilities, still under repair, could not cope with the pace of the rural-urban exodus into the city. Slums consequently began to emerge from the hasty haphazard building construction to accommodate the huge influx. It lies at a major east-west crossing point of the Niger River, and occupies the northernmost point of the river regularly navigable by large vessels. These factors have historically made Onitsha a major centre for trade between the coastal regions and the north, as well as between eastern and western Nigeria. Onitsha possesses one of the very few road bridge crossings of the mile-wide Niger river.

Today, Onitsha is a textbook example of the perils of urbanization without planning or public services.

The history of Onitsha began with the migration of its people from the Benin Empire towards the end of early part of the Sixteenth Century AD. The migration was as a result of a wave of unrest, war and displacement unleashed by the Islamic movement from North Africa.

It was during their passage through the outskirts of Ile-Ife that they acquired the name Onitsha - a corruption of the Yoruba word Orisha and Udo, the famous shrine worshipped by the people. As time went on, the combination of the two words, Onitsha for Orisha and Ado for Udo culminated in the present name , Onitsha Ado.

The people of Onitsha left the out skirts of Ile-Ife and resettled in the Benin Kingdom and soon established themselves as one of the clans in the Benin Kingdom exercising all the rights and privileges attached thereon.

As a result of a long process of acculturation in Benin, the Onitsha people jealously guarded their acquired rights particularly with regard to their revered Shrine Udo.

It was suggested that the reason why the Onitsha people quarreled with Oba Esigie, (1404-1550), of Benin was because of the slight, the Oba gave their shrine-Udo. It was customary for newly installed Oba to pay homage to all important Shrines in the Benin Kingdom by slaughtering a cow in the shrines enclave. Oba Esigie failed to do this at the Onitsha people's Udo-Shrine, hence the quarrel.

It took the Onitsha people several years before they got to Obior and Ilah and finally crossed the River Niger and established Onitsha Ado. They stopped at several places in the then Mid-West now called Delta State, places like Agbor, Issele-Uku, etc. This explains the affinity with the inhabitants of Delta State like Ilah, Issele-Uku, Obbaamkpa, Onitsha-Olona, Onitsha Ugbo, Agbo, Obior, Onitsha Ukwu and so on.


pls try and search u will see what u failed to agree to or decide to not

@ Oba, Oduduwa tussle

Note one thing,  ask Oba of Benin he will tell you were the benin came from, and ask the obi of Onitsha he will tell you they left Benin in 1745, and the Ika Igbos in Edo and Delta state stayed behind for the fear of crossing the Niger river,

udezue:
Enahoro is clearly not Ijaw so don't expect MEND to even bat and eye.  

Edwin Clark can burn in hell fire and tell MEND I said so.

MEND should hammer him not me after all where is he when his people get slaughtered from Odi to Gbamaturu? The 1st leader to rush to the aid of Odi people was Okadigbo not Clark. Tell me where was that old hag when he was needed. You only see him talk when he wants to spew hateful venom that he likes to feed the uneducated Ijaw ppl who are easliy swayed by anti Igbo rhetoric not the educated ones who know all that talk na rubbish talk that serves no one any good.

You cant argue against the points I made earlier coz you know its true.

Bla bla bla BLAME Igbos for floods in Niger Delta, blame Igbo for Tsunami, rain, etc etc. You give Igbo ppl more importance than they need when you even do that. Since we have the power like that to destroy the South u might wanna bow down and beg us so we won't go any further coz u know we are that POWERFUL. Abi? Idiot. Go and blame Clark, Wiwa, Enahoro, Awolowo, Elechi Amadi, Ukpabi Asika, for destroying the South not Igbo people. The last time I checked it was your leaders who didn't want Aburi accord but are now hyperventilating to have all that it provided back. This is what blind hatred can do to people. Tufia

can you pls  give 5, or 2 of any of your brothers or sister that gave all or little to the growth of this country,  pls do i want you to prove me wrong

@ bold,  what has he done wrong that could not meet up with the 1,000 rights of your brothers and sisters

History

Immigrants from Anioma (Western Igboland) closest to the Kingdom of Benin are believed to have settled in Onitsha in the 16th century, which was originally called Ado N'Idu.[2] It soon became capital of an Igbo Kingdom. In 1857 British traders in palm oil established a permanent station in the city, and Christian missionaries soon followed headed by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a Yoruba) and Reverend John Taylor (an Igbo).[3] In 1884 Onitsha became part of a British protectorate.[4] The British colonial government and Christian missionaries penetrated most of Igboland to set up their administration, schools and churches through the river port at Onitsha.
The Onitsha bridge into Onitsha.

Historically, the former Eastern Nigeria did not experience a prolonged period of indigenous urbanization like Ibadan in the southwest or Kano and Zaria in the north. Onitsha became an important trading port for the Royal Niger company in the mid 1850's. Following the abolition of slavery, trade in palm kernels and other cash crops boomed around this river port. Immigrants from the hinterland were drawn to the emerging boom town as did the British traders who settled there and coordinated the palm oil and cash crops trade. In 1965, a bridge was built across the Niger River to replace the ferry crossing,[5] and plans are in place to add a second bridge as well. [6]

Trade soared between the east and west of Nigeria. This made Onitsha the strategic gateway for trade between the former eastern and western regions. The Biafran war years brought widespread devastation to Onitsha. The subsequent oil boom years brought a huge influx of immigrants into the city. The war-damaged facilities, still under repair, could not cope with the pace of the rural-urban exodus into the city. Slums consequently began to emerge from the hasty haphazard building construction to accommodate the huge influx. It lies at a major east-west crossing point of the Niger River, and occupies the northernmost point of the river regularly navigable by large vessels. These factors have historically made Onitsha a major centre for trade between the coastal regions and the north, as well as between eastern and western Nigeria. Onitsha possesses one of the very few road bridge crossings of the mile-wide Niger river.

Today, Onitsha is a textbook example of the perils of urbanization without planning or public services.

The history of Onitsha began with the migration of its people from the Benin Empire towards the end of early part of the Sixteenth Century AD. The migration was as a result of a wave of unrest, war and displacement unleashed by the Islamic movement from North Africa.

It was during their passage through the outskirts of Ile-Ife that they acquired the name Onitsha - a corruption of the Yoruba word Orisha and Udo, the famous shrine worshipped by the people. As time went on, the combination of the two words, Onitsha for Orisha and Ado for Udo culminated in the present name , Onitsha Ado.

The people of Onitsha left the out skirts of Ile-Ife and resettled in the Benin Kingdom and soon established themselves as one of the clans in the Benin Kingdom exercising all the rights and privileges attached thereon.

As a result of a long process of acculturation in Benin, the Onitsha people jealously guarded their acquired rights particularly with regard to their revered Shrine Udo.

It was suggested that the reason why the Onitsha people quarreled with Oba Esigie, (1404-1550), of Benin was because of the slight, the Oba gave their shrine-Udo. It was customary for newly installed Oba to pay homage to all important Shrines in the Benin Kingdom by slaughtering a cow in the shrines enclave. Oba Esigie failed to do this at the Onitsha people's Udo-Shrine, hence the quarrel.

It took the Onitsha people several years before they got to Obior and Ilah and finally crossed the River Niger and established Onitsha Ado. They stopped at several places in the then Mid-West now called Delta State, places like Agbor, Issele-Uku, etc. This explains the affinity with the inhabitants of Delta State like Ilah, Issele-Uku, Obbaamkpa, Onitsha-Olona, Onitsha Ugbo, Agbo, Obior, Onitsha Ukwu and so on.

Let him rescind his decision if that was his intention and let not our money be wasted on rubbish,

Sanusi let no one push u,

Tension in Bayelsa over INEC refusal to declare re-run polls’ result
National News Sep 21, 2009

By Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa-The refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to announce the result of Ekeremor constituency II re-run election into the Bayelsa State House of Assembly is now causing tension in the state.

The court of appeal sitting in Port Harcourt had ordered INEC to conduct a re-run between the candidates of Labour Party and Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy (MRDD) after disqualifying the PDP candidate, Selekitimbi Ebiotu and disqualifying him from further participation in the polls.

Though the election was almost marred by violence in ward eight of the constituency the turn out in the area was impressive and free and fair.
It was learnt that the return officers were almost collating the result when the Resident Electoral Officer, Mr. Humphrey Nwageneh, ordered the stoppage of the collation until he got an order from INEC headquarters to go ahead with the announcement of the final result.

The REC ordered that the collation be moved to Yenagoa from Ekeremor where the election took place and that the result would be announced by 10:00am yesterday (Sunday).

But most newsmen and supporters of the Labour Party and Movement for the Restoration of Defence of Democracy that stormed INEC premises yesterday as early as 9.30am thinking the result of the re-run election would be announced, left disappointed when information filtered in that it had been postponed by the REC who is awaiting clearance from the commission’s headquarters.

Though attempts by journalists to get the comment of the REC and the commission’s public relations officer, Timidi Wariowei, proved abortive, chairman of the Labour Party, Mr. Bobo Atario, expressed disappointment over the delay in the announcement of the result by INEC.

[b]Why do people like you love to spew garbage just for the sake of spewing garbage? U talk of Niger Delta like its some Paris. Biko be quiet jare. Igbanke, Anioma, Ikwerre, Ekpahia Opobo, Aro, all happen to be native people of states considered Niger Delta. Who give's a rat's ass whether Ijaw na majority there? LMFAOOOOO!!! Before u even go there don't forger we have Efik-Ibibio-Annang-Ekoi-Oron who are same people and are a majority in the Niger-delta. The Igbo groups in Edo, Delta, Rivers, Cross Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwaibom all put together are also a majority so my guy shut up about all that rubbish coz it hasn't improved your situation. Only toddlers like you yip yap about trivial issues like this. The last time I checked even Cross River state officials who are not of Igbo origin were there too. Listen as long as Igbo natives are present in your "little paradise u call ND lol they have a right to use the name and rep it too. Niger-Delta is not an Ijaw or Urhobo, copyrighted word ewu nkapi. I can understand if they said 1st Ijaw, or Itsekiri but naw they said Niger Delta which is inclusive of all Eastern people not just Ijaw. See how u called Ijaw majority without acknowledging, the vast Igbo, Efik-Ibibio population there who might not be so obsessed with using the name ND but are part and parcel of it and you can't wish em away. You call all the non Ijaw minority? When did u conduct census? Ijaw, Igbo, and Efik-Ibibio ppl are majorities in ND but you'll fail to see that coz you are simply a bigot. Your hate won't let you acknowledge em. So I'm sure people like Achuzia from Delta, Odili-Rivers, Amaechi-Rivers, are not qualified to lead in ND since they are Igbo? Igbos in SS used to act so freaking timid and were intimidated by bigots like you under the likes of Clark, Enahoro but my guy this is 2009 and u can clearly see that they are becoming empowered and no longer feel they have to hide their Igbo identity to be liked by bigots like you. Go tell em they have no rights in their own native region to conduct events, lead in politics where they are qualified to lead and I'm sure you'll regret that.[/b]

@ Udezue

pls try and c precedence, your people has brought many harm to the Southern part of Nigeria than Good, and it has cost the top post in Nigeria, if a common Nigeria is asked if an Igbo man should be the President of Nigeria, he/she will out rightly say no,

on your comment on Chief Enahoro and Clark pls re-track it or u have the MEND Hammer on ur head, for God sake what good has come out of the so-called South East, , tell me please, Ujukwu or the who u want to tell me , tell me now

HER ROYAL MAJESTY UCHECHUKWU UMUNNA KWE

Adandiigbo 2008

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Adandiigbo, a beauty pageant of the Igbo community which is in the eastern part of Nigeria has transformed itself to the first ever beauty pageant that is unique to the Igbo tribe. This unique pageant is also a celebration of culture and beauty among the “adas” the first daughters. The non swim wear pageant is in line with the igbo tradition that disallows nudity of the first daughters.

Adandiigbo which started in 2004 had since crowned beauty queens of igbo land and have also promoted igbo art and culture. This festival which is celebrated in every year has attracted dignitaries, sons and daughters of igbo land both in Nigeria and abroad.

Winners of this pageant are given $4,000 (four thousand US Dollars), an official car and one year modeling contract with Jennifer’s signature.

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that was what i found on the site http://adandiigbo.com/, i wonder where the interest of the Igbos is now that of the Niger-delta, like the yorubas do so the igbos, always want to associate with people u have despised, detested, hated, scorned - treated with contempt, pls let the Igbos be let we the minors and our major the Ijaws be , leave us alone,


this post should have be the 1st eva Igbo tourism, cultural fair and Exibition not otherwise

this might just be another ways of making news out of the old stuff, noise maker plenty, i just pray for a God fearing man as Nigeria Leader

Power failure paralyses N/Assembly

Idowu Samuel and Bola Badmus, Abuja - 17.09.2009

A blackout, lasting full working hours, hit the National Assembly Complex, Abuja, on Wednesday, paralysing nearly all activities. The prolonged blackout was the first of its kind since the National Assembly became fully operational 10 years ago.

All the banks, which have branches within the Complex, could not conduct business, a situation which forced their customers to seek alternative banking transactions outside the National Assembly.

All the Automated Teller Machines (ATM) installed within the main complex, most especially at the basement of the White House, were out of use. The blackout occurred in the early part of the morning and shortly after the Speaker, Honourable Dimeji Bankole, left his office for the International Airport for his scheduled trip to Saudi Arabia for Umrah.

The Senate President, Senator David Mark, was also not around for work since the two legislative Houses are currently on end of the year recess. The power generating set that serves as an alternative source of energy to the complex could not work either because the panels that offer current were said to be bad.

The blackout also affected electronically operated doors and equipment, thus forcing many offices to throw open their doors and windows for manageable illumination and ventilation.

2011: Atiku, Tinubu, Kalu plan alliance

Taiwo Adisa, Abuja - 17.09.2009

A grand alliance of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Governor Orji Kalu of Abia State and his Lagos State counterpart, Senator Bola Tinubu, is likely ahead of the 2011 presidential contest.

If it materialises, the alliance will see the Action Congress (AC), where Atiku and Tinubu belong, enter into a political fusion with the Progressive Peoples Party (PPA) of Kalu.

Atiku had earlier nursed the idea of returning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but the talks went awry when elements of the PDP moved in to frustrate the bid.

It was gathered that the governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako and some PDP bigwigs in Adamawa were opposed to Atiku’s return to the PDP.

Though the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) had recently vowed to bring back all its members, including Atiku, to the PDP, not much was being heard from that front.

But giving the indication of a possible alliance that would involve Atiku, Tinubu and the PPA, former Abia State governor said the PPA had a soulmate in the AC.

In an interview with the Nigerian Tribune, he said the PPA and the AC were mutually compatible, adding that Atiku and Tinubu remained his political soulmates.

Nobody benefited from Lagos shares in Econet - Tinubu

17.09.2009

THE former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, has again insisted that the state investment in Econet (now Zain), currrently a subject of controversy in the media, was a straightforward institutional investment, which earned the state a profit of more than N15 billion and from which no individual benefited.

Reacting to allegations that there might have been some illicit payout, now a subject of British Metropolitan Police investigation, Tinubu said the claim was not true.

He said the transaction was made by IBILE Holdings, a government-owned investment company, and that no broker was involved in the transaction. He added that the state, through IBILE, invested N4 billion, but reaped more than N19 billion when it divested.

“I must , stress that when Lagos State sold its shares, it hired no broker, agent, or intermediary of any kind – just as it did not hire any agent when it bought the Econet shares,” he declared in a paid advert in major national dailies.

“So, the allegation that a broker called African Development Fund Inc. (ADFI) was ever used, by the Lagos State government is false. The state did not pay any commission to anybody, from whatever profit it earned from the investment.”

The former governor, however, challenged anyone who had contrary facts on that matter to come forward with them, and also called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to carry out a speedy but thorough probe into the matter.

“I challenge anyone who claims any commission was paid, received or laundered to come forward with proof. I also call on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to carry out a speedy but thorough investigation into the matter, since some of us have families, relations and well-wishers; and these allegations are rather traumatic to them,” he said

20 million Nigerians ‘ll be infected with HIV/AIDS by 2020’

Dapo Falade, Ado-Ekiti - 17.09.2009

THE Chief Executive Officer of the Women Initiative for Development and Environmental Protection (WIDEP), a non-governmental organisation, Professor Funke Egunjobi, has warned that over 20 million Nigerians would be affected by HIV/AIDS disease by 2020 if measures are not taking to curtail the growing menace of the disease.

While warning governments at all levels to take the fight against the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic serious, the NGO executive said those who would be affected were young people below 15 years, lamenting that this would increase infant mortality rate, which was presently growing at an alarming rate in the country.

Egunjobi made the revelation, while speaking at a two-day workshop in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Tuesday, adding that WIDEP got the statistics from the research conducted by the United Nations Children Emergency Funds (UNICEF) into the rate of the spread of the scourge in the country.

Expressing regrets that various governments in the country had been paying lip service to the war against the disease, she said the attitude of those in positions of authority to the disease had been dissuading people from making themselves available for test.

He said the workshop was organised in collaboration with the African Women Development Fund (AWDF), adding that the high rate of stigmatisation of the people living with the disease called for attention.

On the increasing high infertility rate among African women, she advised that women should refrain from reading spiritual meanings into barrenness, saying that they should rather go for intensive medical care in competent hospitals to ascertain the cause of their barrenness.

New N5, N10, N50 notes out Sept 30
Cover Stories, National News Sep 17, 2009

By Babajide Komolafe

LAGOS-The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said it will commence the issuance of 1.9 billion new polymer currency notes of N5,N10 and N50 denominations .

Its governor, Malam Lamido Sanusi, said this yesterday, adding that President Umaru Yar’Adua will launch the new notes on September 30.

He said; “The existing denominations of N5, N10, and N50 paper notes remain legal tender and will circulate side by side with the new polymer notes for the next six months. The new N5, N10, and N50 polymer notes have retained their current sizes, designs and other key elements. Only the watermark has been replaced with the transparent window and G-switch which turns from green to gold when the note is tilted.”

The CBN in 2007 commenced a currency restructuring programme. Consequently, the N5, N10, N20 and N50 were redesigned and issued into circulation.

According to Sanusi; “To enhance the durability of bank notes and sustain Central Bank’s clean policy, the N5, N10, and N50 were varnished on both sides while the N20 note was printed on polymer- a plastic material made from petrochemical products.”

Explaining rationale for converting the N5, N10, and N50 paper notes to polymer notes, Sanusi said, the objectives of the currency reforms were substantially achieved with the cost of printing banknotes reduced, while the polymer note found to last longer in circulation.

michelin89:
Obviously someone reported you. It would make no sense for me to report you to the mod since I am the mod right?

If you haven't been unbanned let me know. I'll inform the admin of the misunderstanding.

AM STILL BANNED PLS DO, I HAVE A LOT OF THREADS THAT I HAVE 2 FOLLOWUP

How Nollywood star raped me, by victim
By Omobola Tolu-Kusimo

A GRAVE silence descended an Ikeja Magistrate's Court yesterday as an 18-year-old man, Amusa (surname withheld) told the court how he was allegedly raped by a 39-year-old actor and producer in the Nigerian (Yoruba) Movie Industry, Alhaji Rasaki Olaniyi, alias Tunji Alaso.


An emotional Amusa told Magistrate T. A. Omoyele that the popular actor drugged him with a fruit juice drink, held him captive, raped him and wiped the semen he released on him with a white handkerchief.

The victim said: My name is Amusa (surname withheld). I am 18 years old. I work as a fuel attendant at a filling station in (area name withheld). Alhaji Oni film (as he referred to the alleged rapist) came to my filling station to buy fuel. He started chatting with me and asked me what time I would close from work. I told him that I close by 10:30 pm. He told me that the job I am doing was not good for me and that he would help me to get another job that will be better than being a fuel attendant.

"He gave me his phone number and address and promised to give me a job. I called him later in the week and he asked me to meet him in his house at AIT Road, Okofilling by 6:00p.m. I got there by 7:30p.m. and met some men in the sitting room. They told me to go and meet Alhaji Oni film in the bedroom but I began to feel that something was wrong. I told them to call him out but they insisted that I go inside his bedroom to meet him."

Amusa continued: "When I entered the bedroom, I saw Alhaji Oni film in his underwear. He asked me to sit down and offered me a drink. I refused to drink and told him that I wanted to leave as it was getting too late in the night. He refused to let me go and ordered me to drink the fruit juice or they would force me.

"When I refused, he called the two men I met earlier in the sitting room to hold me down and they forcefully poured the drink in my mouth.

"In the next five minutes, I discovered that my body was weak I did not have power to move and I immediately felt like sleeping. I saw Alhaji removing his underwear and started raping me by putting his penis into my anus. He released his semen on my body and wiped it with a white handkerchief.

"He later asked the two men to open the door for me to go. When I got home, I was supposed to go to work but I could not go because I was feeling the pain. I later noticed that I could not excrete through my anus or urinate. I called my father and told him what happened between me and Alhaji and he took me to the police station to report the case. That was how they arrested them and brought them to court."

Amusa's narrative did not go smoothly as counsel to the defendant interrupted him several times, which elicited objections from the prosecuting lawyer and generated heated confrontation between them. The magistrate, however, calmed both parties down for the session to continue and adjourned the matter to October 13 and 15, this year.

No, I think the progenitor of this thread is a Biafran, no to Division

I think Sony is right, they did not minced words in the adverts, we in this forum might just in the spirit of re branding wants to project our country , while we are the tail end of the suffering, are the leaders not looting TAX payers funds?

Good Bye Gani - As foremost human rights activist is buried today - Son says struggle continues - Ondo govt to establish centre in his honour

From Akin Durodola, Yinka Oladoyinbo and Dapo Falade - 15.09.2009

THE late human rights crusader and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi, bids the world farewell today as his remains are to be committed to mother earth beside his mother’s tomb in her house in Ondo town.

As Gani’s entry into the world 71 years ago was marked by joy and fanfare, so has his death, since he breathed his last 12 days ago, been celebrated, as his house has turned into a Mecca of sorts, while dignitaries from far and near have been pouring encomiums on him.

Contrary to Islamic injunctions which say the corpse of a Muslim faithful must be interred the same day, or latest, the following day after his/or her demise, the corpse of Fawehinmi had visited a number of places for lying-in-state for honour by various groups, associates and state governments, a development some Islamic scholars said was unIslamic.

Having been laid in state at the Fawehinmi Library and Gallery and the Police College, in Lagos State, and, finally, Akure, on Monday, the remains of Fawehinmi would be interred today after a ceremony expected to be conducted by Muslim scholars in Ondo, his home town.

Already, the Ondo State police command has provided security for the burial with the deployment of about 1,300 police officers. As was done in the places where his body was laid, Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Monday, went in wild jubilation to celebrate the life of Chief Fawehinmi as the people of the state gathered for his lying-in-state.

The remains of Fawehinmi were brought into the Akure Township Stadium at about 1.00 p.m., led by the staff of office of the Osemawe of Ondo, Oba Adesimbo Kiladejo, but could not get to the podium until 30 minutes later.

The governor of the state, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, almost broke down in tears as he welcomed members of the family of the deceased led by the widows, Ganiyat and Abike, at about 1.30 p.m.

The 10,000 capacity Akure Township Stadium was filled to the brim with many of the sympathisers on the field in a bid to catch a glimpse of the body of the late legal icon.

The remains of Fawehinmi were clad in the traditional attire and brought into the stadium in a transparent casket to give room for easy viewing.

Many of the people had to trek kilometres before they could get to the stadium as the road to the place was closed to vehicles many metres away from the venue of the lying-in-state.

The Senate President, David Mark, governors, lawmakers, friends, associates, student bodies and labour organisations were all on hand to pay tribute to the departed soul.

The eldest son of Fawehinmi, Mohammed, however, told the mammoth crowd that the struggle of his father would continue despite his death.

He said it would be wrong for anyone to think that the struggle for a just society had ended with the death of his father. Mohammed also lamented the state of education in the country and called for the sack of the education minister, Dr. Sam Egwu, to pave the way for genuine negotiations that would ensure that university lecturers return to the classrooms.

He, however, expressed appreciation to the Ondo State government for putting together a befitting celebration in honour of his father. Mimiko, in his tribute, said the state government would establish a diagnostic centre to be known as Gani Fawehinmi Diagnostic Centre in Ondo town to keep the memory of the late human rights lawyer alive.

According to him, government would set up a Board of Trustees towards the diagnostic centre to advise it on the modalities to best actualise it. The governor said Fawehinmi was “an avatar of constitutionality and the rule of law, a persistent emancipator of the oppressed, a dogged fighter for the truth and probity, a principled crusader for good governance and an unwavering advocate of education as the key to human progress.”

Mimiko said Fawehinmi, as a lawyer, was a class act as he used the instrumentality of law for positive social engineering, because of his belief that law should serve the ends of man.

He said: “For being a dogged fighter in the temple of justice, Gani became the most persecuted Nigerian, dead or alive, by successive governments. He was detained 32 times in police cells, slammed into federal prisons eight times and had his passport seized 10 times in a period of 25 years.”

The Senate President, David Mark, said Fawehinmi was one of the greatest men that had ever lived in the country. Mark, who was represented by the senator representing Ondo North Senatorial District, Dr. Bode Olajumoke, said Fawehinmi was a fighter for democracy.

The Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, said despite Fawehinmi’s disposition to the military, he contributed to his success while in school.

Oyinlola said, “Gani lived for the masses. One tribute that I want to add is that I want to state that Gani was a very benevolent man. Despite his stand on military and his opposition to some of us in positions of administration during the military era, Gani ensured my success when I went to study law at the Buckingham University.

“He provided me with all the books that I used at the university; he was very benevolent. Gani lived a worthy life of emulation.” The President of the West African Bar Association, Mr. Femi Falana, said this world was vanity as the gathering was not put together to celebrate Fawehinmi’s houses, wealth and other material things.

He said: “We are celebrating Gani’s honesty, truthfulness, courage and humanity. Therefore, what all of us can take home today is to aspire to be like Gani. Gani is not dead and to make sure that Gani is not dead, we should try to be like him.”

The leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Mr. Ledum Mitee, in his tribute, said although Fawehinmi was born in Ondo, he had people all over the country.

He said, “Gani gave us everything. We should leave here with one message that hereafter we should be able to measure the Gani in all of us. We want to see the Nigerian students that will be breeding people like Gani.”

In the same vein, former governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose also caused a stir as his arrival at the event was hailed amid praises and shouts from his admirers who were present.

As already noted by prominent Nigerians, the event organised to mark Fawehinmi’s passage was nothing but a celebration of life as the event was made lively by prominent and eminent Nigerian musicians, including the King of World Beat, King Sunny Ade and pop music sensations, Lord of Ajasa and Olu Maintain and the Ondo State Cultural Troupe who all put up superlative live performances in honour of the departed hero.

Capturing the essence of the late foremost legal luminary, Honourable Kola Adefemi, Special Adviser (Political and Inter Party Affairs) to the Ekiti State Governor, said Fawehinmi was a man who had succeeded in etching his name in gold in history with his contributions to the uplift of the country and his unwavering support for the people.

Adefemi, who was the pioneer Speaker of the Ekiti State legislature, told Nigerian Tribune: “Senior Gani has institutionalised himself as the thermometre with which the blood pressure of dictators and oppressors are gauged. It is difficult to replace his; his death should not be hijacked by political Pharisees who saw him as a trouble maker when he was alive and now as a saint in death.”

Gani was a human devil - Brother

By Abiodun Awolaja - 15.09.2009

THE late Chief Gani Fawehinmi’s elder brother, Justice Rasheed Fawehinmi (rtd), has said that the late legal icon, inherited his activist spirit from his grandfather, the late Lisa Alujannu of Ondo Kingdom, who died in 1908.

Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune in his bedroom at his Laje, Ondo residence on Friday, the elder Fawehinmi said his brother was a revolutionary spirit. “Gani, if you look at him critically, was a human devil, an imp. He inherited his fiery, temparament from our grandfather, Lisa Alujannu who, during his lifetime, was so powerful that he even usurped the power of the Osemawe,” he said.

“Lisa Alujannu, noted for doing extraordinary things, once buried a pregnant woman alive in the height of his power. He was a no-nonsense chief who brooked no opposition. You would not call that kind of man a gentle person,” he said.

The elder Fawehinmi, who said he spent 32 years at the bar, said that anyone interested in the Gani mystique should read his book Makers of Ode Ondo, published in 1992, a copy of which he gave to the Nigerian Tribune.

On the reactions of Nigerians to Gani’s death, the eminent jurist said that “Nigerians, by their reactions, have shown that they are mostly insincere.

Most of the reactions to Gani’s death are like the ostritch burying its head in the sand. The police, too, reacted just because the generality of the people were reacting. They were the people pushing Gani to prison whose orders are they obeying now in sympathising?” he asked.

The 82-year-old further said that the reaction of the publisher of the Tribune titles, Resolution Oluwole Awolowo, to Gani’s death contained incontrovertible truth. “He said Nigerians are liars. That is, those people who are now reacting are liars. He said the truth.”

He said he had read General Ibrahim Babangida’s tribute to Gani and he approved it “from the bottom of my heart.”

“He said Gani was consistent. He was like a man who goes to a Catholic priest to confess: Let me say something about Gani before he is buried. That was how I read his reaction,” he added.

Fawehinmi also said the Nigerian nation would never be free from corruption because of ethnic politics and lack of concrete reform. “I cannot envisage Nigeria’s freedom from corruption. The situation is very, very hopeless. And I cannot envisage the freedom of the politicians from ethnicity. All you do will be inconsequential when you don’t reform the mind. It is the mind that has to be reformed,” he said, adding that there was no solution in sight for the country. “Many of the politicians in the country now will be off if elections are not rigged.”

i believe justice will prevail in the extra, oversight function of this house member

i was told the guy had a lot of carry over

Tornadoz:
Gani was lucky he was not beheaded. Many non "Edos" were murdered for Oba Akenzua especially Igbos.

Are u sure and if Yes where are ur proves, this was not biafra war were non Igbos were used as War vanguard, ask an Efik Ibibio man he will tell u the true story

@ the Poster pls  i refer back to the msg on Kano Bachelor hunter? pls explain why i have to be banned with the ID n_delta, pls tell me, i need to be vindicTED