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Getting ready to hit the town with my hommie....

Nice advert. this nigga just trying to pull enough traffic on his side. Google never buy Road Angels and other bigger traffic applications in the world for a billion dollars, na the one wey dey handle lagos traffic which does not even have all its streets on GPS. Abegi!

Seriously, I don't know what people are celebrating here, I believe lots of guys praising all heaven here has not been to this airport before. The poster should extends his high praise pictures to some other areas and tell us how the government has really messed up this airport.
Starting from the parking lot, its a total disgrace. Even though the parking toll was increased 3months ago from N150-300 for cars and N200-400 for jeeps, the parking lot is a total disgrace. The roads are so terrible, pot-holes every corner and filled up with beggars and touts. I believe they should take a clue from the MM2 multi storey parking lot that was built my a private firm.
Another serious grey area is the departure/arrival lounge. not a single chair to sit down. u see travellers and users all sitting on the floor while some just spread cloths on the floor to sleep while waiting for their love ones. its indeed an eye-sore.
Well, I need not mention non existence of coffee centres, relaxation spots, non VIP restaurants etc. and yes, the almighty begging that goes on at the airport. right from the customs officials, to the immigrations and the so called SAHCOL officials that keeps begging you to give them money at every point. Annoying.
Mr poster, all this GEJ is working syndrome you are promoting here na wash. some of us surely know better. Try again.

ConcernMan: If I was given the opportunity, I would have hit the "like" button a thousand times

I don't know what kind of mathematics u guys are trying to invent here. looking at it critically, the road already has 3 lanes from lagos to redeem church camp and 2 lanes from that point to sagamu. its just that the lanes where not marked. It was done den by RCC during Obasanjo regime. What JB need to do is just add extra one lane from the redeem camp to sagamu. And for sagamu to Ibadan, all what is required of RCC is to resurface the road without adding any xtra lane. so much for N160bn.....kini BIG deal?

I said it before.... musa is nothing but a boko haram goat

Musa is the most useless player to ever play for 9jaria

welldone mikel....GOALLLLL,................

my boys not doing badly. just a stupid mistake by d defenders

@Sakaguchi..... bro, u wicked no be small o!!!

The fear of Mourinho's return, the Beginning of their retirement. One down two to go...........

My prayers goes out.... What is the world coming too....

May God heal Everyone in this situation.

Well, as a Christian, I know miracles do happen. But too many loopholes in d story. 1st, he said his wife prepared the soup they were gonna use to eat d bread. So, where was his wife for the 4 days he was left alone in d room. Even if they don't stay together, at least after unpicked calls, she ought to have tried reaching his husband one way or the other.
2nd, why should his brother who plans to kill make use of his workers? That's strange. Why not assassins or people that will not be known after the crime. 3rd, he kept repeating he was dead, he was moving, he was dead. Very confusing. 4th, he said they were accused of murder, how come when he's still alive. That should be attempted murder. Lastly, there is nothing like he told the judge they should be released cause he has forgiven dem. Abeg, nothing like dat exist. Attempted murder is attempted murder.

Answer.....Grammar!

@ poster, I believe you getting it wrong here. We all need to look at the whole issue from a different angle. You are being carried away because of your childish way or reasoning.

1. We've always had and will ever have exotic cars till thy kingdom come. 20-30yrs ago, we've always had expensive cars and ppl have been acquiring dem time immemorial. The range rovers, shagari type benz, Royce, Bently, citroen, aston martins, etc. Some people actually bought those rides the (Subomi balogun, ojukwu, Dantatas, business and entertainment moguls etc) ask dem how much they got to rides den in reference to cost of living then and you'll know its not something new. Its basically dat its ur time now and you believe the economy is growing cause ppl are buying something more recent now.

2. Also, you don't have to be an Economist to know that the population of the country has grown overtime thus leading to more people acquiring such luxury cars. Example, if in the 80s we have a ppltion of 80M nigerians, and the number of luxury cars den was around 500k, now dat we have over 160M ppl, definitely we should have luxury cars owners climbing up to a million or even more (ceteris paribus) so mr poster, telling me because ppl are buying xpensive cars now means Nigerian economy is booming is just a fallacy. I can bet you in the next 20 yrs, a kid like you will surely come up with the same ideology. FACT!

Yes, some of you are damn right. Fashola should provide employment for over 200 thousand okada riders presently plying our roads, then next year when another 200k arrives from east and abokiland, den he should surely provide another set of jobs for them too. Then in 2014 when another 300k enter lagos as a governor dat has a company dat manufacture jobs, jobs should be provided for those ones too. Didirin. Ppl, how many jobs has the president of the country been able to create since d last 2yrs? And there u are expecting a governor to manufacture jobs for millions trooping down in their millions daily! E ma pe nbe!

Guys, pls am a little confused here. You mean in this country, we have a special adviser to the president on Media, who collects salary and benefits that runs into millions yearly, who surely has a PA, a secretary and couple of staffs, who runs a whole office that has budget allocation, with official cars, entitled to travel allowance anytime he moves around with d president etc... And the best he could do to our clueless retardoo is to copy and paste an article from a newspaper without verification, and read to over 150M Nigerians on independent day? Wow! Funny enough, and the SA still went to office dis morning knowing nothing go happen! Kai, Oyibo kare!

@ Billyonaire...according to you, since lagos is no man's land and does not belong to d yorubas. Come 2015, you can tell ur FATHER to contest for d governor of lagos state and let's see how it goes. IDIOTA..

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NEXT!!!

Super power ko, super chicken ni! Na beans..

2012----
No stable Electricity. Less dan 5k mgw for a population of over 170M
No drinkable water for d masses
No 3rd class health facilities not to talk of 1st class (ask madam patience)
A country dan cannot design or produce common electric pump, when some are working to land on Mars
A country that imports virtually everything up to common toothpick
Where a graduate Engineer cannot differetiate between a rotor and a motor
A country without a single fast commercial train to move the masses from point A to B
That cannot maintain common airport, refinery, stadium and other infrastructures.
Where police cannot solve crimes using latest techs...fingerprint etc
Where there is no database to even know the true numbers of its citizens
Where a truck will be driving on a motorway @ nite without head or tail light because FRSC closed for d day (7am-5pm)
A country where you can only enjoy a particular food or fruit @ a particular period of year (season) due to lack of technology
Abeg, I can go on and on and on....
Dream on dreamers..
Super power my *ss. Na yam!

U need to watch CNN now, most Arab and northan Africa nations are damostrating now setting cars and buildings on fire.
SUDAN- German and American embassies on fire
LEBANON- KFC and other American companies on fire. 20 dead and over 30 injured.
IRAQ- police having tough times with protesters
YEMEN- police using tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters
EGYPT- hundreds wounded as protest continues
LIBYA- more buildings on fire
PAKISTAN- violent on streets burning American flags
TUNISIA- US embassy breached. Building on fire

I just pray say nothing of such happens here in 9ja and our security officers will be ready incase of any uprising...

Getting our priority wrong. 4 new terminals for what? Is that what is needed now? When our educational system is in comatose, when the health system cannot even treat our first lady of food poison, when our roads are highways to heaven, when every water we use are provided for by individuals, when we have to provide our own security cause a call to d police will take 72 hrs before response, when business spends 45% of their production cost to generate electricity and what do our federal government do, borrow money to build 4 new terminals around the country.
I tell you, even if we have 36 world class airports in Nigeria, what's the probability that this will increase the numbers of air travels in total. No be people we don chop belefull go fly by air? Or will it automatically increases the numbers of airline coming to Nigeria? Person we no get visa dey travel? Nonsense!

This is the problem with Nigerian MDA"s. Its their daily responsibility. Must they announce it before they actually go about their normal job? Nonsense. They should also tell us wen nxt they are collecting their salary so that we know they are seriously working. Rubbish!

See as jealousy wan kill some people here. Just a mere mention of ACN and some idiots wan commit suicide. Na wa o...they have nothing to offer, yet they see nothing good when others are trying to move ahead! SMH

Useless people, telling a rich man where and how to spend or invest his money. Where una dey wen d guy dey struggle, building his life, sweating it out to make his millions. Now, he's rich and has decided to invest his money somewhere he prefers and some idiotas dey open their mouth saying rubbish here. Abeg go make ur own money too and spend it wherever u like... Shior!!!

Well, for those complaining about the punishment being too harsh in respect to d offence committed, driving against the traffic is actually attempted murder. What most ppl don't know is dat by so doing, u can actually kill any unsuspecting pedestrian. One year jail term is even too small. For heaven sake, why should a sane person drive against d traffic. Its barbaric. Simple. For those ou you complaining, wen next u find yourself in Europe or the States for holiday, try renting a car and drive against d traffic and come here to tell us ur beautiful experience!

Sincerely, I've seen this sticker on a car before. Some few weeks back and the first thing dat came to my mind was DAMN.... Dis is wrong. Anyway, as some nairalanders will say, how does it affects the price of garri!

24 Aug 2012



John Pepper Clark’s Fulani Cattle remains an issue of many sorts, either as a victim of man’s inhumanity to the cattle kingdom and the fact that the herdsmen who lead the cattle in search of pasture, turn them into agents of destruction to the communities they invade their farms. In Abia State, cattle menace may soon be a reason for bloody encounter between Fulani herdsmen and farmers if the authorities do not come in quickly to find an answer to this boiling cauldron waiting to explode.

The cattle apart, a new wave of crime incorporating rape, murder and ritual killing, robbery, and stealing of the farm proceeds of natives, has emerged. His Royal Highness Eze Edmund Chukwu, the king of Lokpanta Ngada-Umuelem in Umunneochi Local Government Area, is happy to tell his visitors how on September 9, 1949 the people of Umuchueze capitulated to the superior fire power of his forefathers. “Umuchueze wanted to occupy here by force. We conquered and re-possessed our land. Now, all that is history because we remain good neighbours and still inter-marry. The conquerors and warriors of old are gone,” he added.

While Chukwu is glad to re-tell the conquests associated with his ancestral past, the new wave of crime that has filtered into his kingdom is the fear of Hausa/Fulani nomadic cattlemen from the Northern part of the country and the West Coast.

“We live here with them. We fear them; we don’t kill, poison or deal with juju. We fear blood. Our visitors kill, rape, whether married or single. People have stopped going to the farms for fear of encountering them. These people have come here to desecrate our land and farms. My sister Mrs. Rhoda Chukwu was killed by these herdsmen in her farm in 2009. She went to one of our farms known as Oru Agbara and her head was cut off for ritual sacrifice.


Two weeks ago, a man who went to burn wood for charcoal in the bush experienced a similar fate; his private parts were cut off. They cut our palm nuts and before our very eyes sell them to their people; the same goes for our palm wine. Cases of ritual murder, which did not exist here before with their advent is now common.”

Has Eze Chukwu brought this to the knowledge of lawmakers, law enforcement officers and the state government? He replied: “Uche Chukwumerije is our senator while Nkiru Onyeagocha represents us at the House and Ezekwesisili Ikedi is at the state House of Assembly. They have done nothing about it. His Royal Majesty G.I. Ezekwesili, the Ochi 1 of Isuochi is very much aware of what is going on. They have taken us as abandoned property. In the last elections, this place gave them their largest number of votes but the dividends are hardly felt in any way. Nobody speaks for us. The Prime Minister of Ngada- Umuelem Joseph Awobi interjected: “They graze our farms and loot what is left behind; they rape our women and kill those they can for ritual purposes. They have taken over the express and sealed the culverts with cow dung.”


At the cattle market, the crew met Alhaji Musa Bishara 63, an indigene of Borno State and chairman Abia Cattle Market Association. Bishara acknowledged there was a problem but exonerated his association from the vandalisation of farmlands in the state with emphasis in Umuelem. Bishara stressed the Fulani cattle herdsmen who come all the way from the West Coast, swoop the farms with their wild and young cows, ravaging cash crops. “It is the Fulanis and their white cows that cause this trouble. My cows come here and two days, three days we don’t sell them but this people live inside bush. We are in peace here and no kata kata.”


James Onuoha Igwe, 36, the veterinary officer in-charge of the market, who is an animal health and husbandry technologist, said this problem started in the 1990s when the late Col. Ike Nwosu was military administrator of Abia State. He ordered the gyanakos and their cattle out of the state in 1995. The Imo State government received them and they relocated to Okigwe. Sadly, their menace could not be contained and they found themselves back here, with their number doubled and increasing by the day.”


On the issues on ground, Abia State Commissioner of Police, Ambrose Aisabor, said he had called two meetings of stakeholders in his office including the Sarkin Hausa and Sarkin Fulani, the natives, association of farmers and that the ball was in the court of the Ministry of Agriculture. According to him, a panel was earlier set up to follow up all decisions taken. “They have to wake up because we cannot afford to have a crisis in the state. A taskforce has also been set up to act as foot soldiers checking these excesses. All cases of malicious damage will be investigated and charged to court.”


How has he handled cases of ritual murder and rape? Aisabor said such cases were not reported to the police, which without evidence cannot act. “In other states where I served, cattle zones are usually demarcated with specific grazing zones and not anywhere else. Let’s cross our hands and watch how the taskforce performs its job. We need to prevent attempts at matching these incidences as reprisal attacks against the activities of Boko Haram in the North.”

The director of the State Security Service (SSS), Barrister Matthew Obodoechi, said: “Most people from this part of the country see the activities of Boko Haram as primarily targeted at them and hence the tendency for violence and attack on the face of provocation is very high. We have become more proactive by using key communicators or agents of influence to mould opinion and curtail excess reaction. A committee known as the Pastoralists Development/Livestock Routes and Grazing Reserves Rehabilitation Committee has been set up to handle the cattle menace issue. One is a peace brokerage committee set up with rules and resolutions, while the task force enforces the rules. We are actively involved in enforcing the rules. Ohafia community lodged a complaint recently and we quickly nipped it in the bud. Our experience in the kidnap saga is very useful now and I can tell you timely intervention has helped. Umunochi is a Hausa settlement where destruction is very common, always ending up in violence. This trend is more pronounced in the North in such places as Nasarawa and Borno but because the people of the South-east are long suffering, violence more often is not the response. Ugwunagbo has a serious case and we notice that sometimes the cattle strays without a deliberate attempt to destroy a farm but the response of the herdsmen does not suggest a remorse. In all cases we try to prevent people from taking the law into their hands.
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State Chairman of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Chief Dunlop Okoro, said: “They are always willing and ready to fight, armed with swords, shot guns and arrows. Their actions suggest they have the backing of a superior agent. They act with impunity; our argument is a visitor cannot have the audacity to challenge a native if he is not spoiling for war. In Ahaba Imenyi, a farmer was arrested for killing a cow and was even labelled an armed robber. The losses cannot be quantified. It is all over the state. Our patience has ran out. We will no longer take this deliberate destruction of our farmland. We borrowed money from government and nobody pays us compensation.”

His Royal Highness Sariki Yaro Danladi is the leader of the Hausa Community in Abia State as well as the Vice-chairman Northern Traditional Rulers Council in the South-east and South-south. Danladi, 46, has lived all his life in Umuahia where he was born, and is married to a native Ohuhu woman. His narration therefore is that of a man on the spot. “This problem started long ago. Many more cattle keep coming from the North, having found Abia more convenient for their business without realising what injury is being inflicted on farmers. The solution is to set up a grazing area for them. My appeal is for peace to reign and we are asking the honourable Commissioner for Agriculture, Ike Onyenweaku, to convey our wishes to our listening governor, His Excellency Dr. Theodore Orji, to act immediately on this vexed issue of cattle menace. The Commissioner for Agriculture said the Abia Exco met and directed a 19-man cattle route committee be set up with responsibility to identify the problems on ground and proffer solutions. “In spite of this the invasion kept rising to unprecedented levels. We raised an alarm in the BBC Hausa Service. An agreement was reached including the understanding they must not come to the state capital, and should stop henceforth grazing on people’s farmlands.”


According to Onyenweaku, a task force was set up on August 16 with the mandate to enforce the rules. The task force will be replicated in all the 17LGAs. They are to track cattle that come with traders and those that come from neighbouring states in particular cattle that come to graze in farms with the herdsmen.”

Is Onyenweaku optimistic he will get it right this time? He answered in the affirmative but wants the Federal Government to assist the state government in the set-up of seven grazing reserves with two for each senatorial zone and one major reserve at Lokpanta as well as a 269 kilometre stock route already marked out and not developed. “Finally, the Federal Government should assist the herdsmen in the management of their cows.”

When these propositions are in place, Onyenweaku said, this conflict situation between Abia farmers and the natives on one hand and the recalcitrant herdsmen on the other, would have been averted.

Source..
www.thisday.com/articles/trouble-over-cattle-menace-in-abia/122917

Neymar..... What an over-hyped specie!!!

UK of all places... Dem go soon hear am!

By HARRY HAWKINS



 

SEVEN Cameroon Olympic athletes have gone AWOL, their country's sporting bosses have confirmed.

The five boxers, one swimmer and a footballer are believed to have fled the squad's HQ to avoid returning to Africa.

A spokesman for Cameroon's Ministry of Sports and Physical Education confirmed the six men and one woman had vanished from the Games.

Mission head David Ojong said: "What began as rumour has finally turned out to be true. Seven Cameroonian athletes who participated at the 2012 London Olympic Games have disappeared from the Olympic Village."

Ojong said a reserve goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team, Drusille Ngako, was the first to disappear. She was not one of the 18 finally retained after pre-Olympic training in Scotland.

While her teammates left for Coventry for a warm-up match against New Zealand, she vanished.

A few days later, swimmer Paul Ekane Edingue and his personal belongings were also not found in his room.

And on Sunday, boxers Thomas Essomba, Christian Donfack Adjoufack, Abdon Mewoli, Blaise Yepmou Mendouo and Serge Ambomo disappeared from the Olympic village.

International Olympic Committee officials said on Tuesday they had heard nothing about the missing athletes.

“We are unaware of it,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said when asked whether organisers had heard of the mass disappearance.

It is not the first time Cameroonian athletes have disappeared during international sports competitions.

At past overseas sporting events games as well as junior soccer competitions, several Cameroonians have quit their delegation without official consent.

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