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Una go wound person for here o.
Ileke-Idi how far na?

Don't worry, if aboki reach Agege, trade fair, Alaba, Ebute metta and Oyingbo, then he will be stopped dead by raw okoro power.

PROUD-IGBO:
^^^Onlytruth, regarding what's happening to Enugu Airport, here's your answer:
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=enugu%20airport&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CEsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.punchng.com%2Fnews%2Ffaan-shuts-enugu-airport%2F&ei=Is1nT-fZD8r-8QOtsvz8CA&usg=AFQjCNH0z2vb7EEM4qYUKL2eAdSRItx2_g

I swear, if i had a naira for everytime that Airport has been closed for 'maintainance' i'd be a rich man by now . It's just part of the tricks being used to pull wool over our eyes. I remember the President coming down in Oct' 2010 to commission the refurbished runway which was to herald Int'l operations at the Airport. So much was made of it, and i also remember Anenis' wife (who was a minister at the time) saying that Ndigbo are happy as they'll be able to fly in directly for Christmas hol's that year.

I do feel Jonathan heart is in the right place concerning doing right for Ndigbo, though i feel he's threading carefully b'cos he's surrounded by 'others' (if you know what i mean) who are from places/groups that traditionally have not wished Ndigbo well, and he doesn't want to be seen as favouring Igbos over and above others. You can see how everything is done with 'Federal Character' and 'National Spread' when projects (etc) are being planned, even if it doesn't make economic sense, or even if fairness dictates that the South East should be given special attention owing to decades of neglect. I feel he's not bold enough in this regard, as he wants to satisfy everyone no matter what.

Let's give him the benefit of doubt till end of 2012, and we see where we are in the scheme of things after then.

My brother thank you for this information.

That airport will determine GEJ's fate with Ndigbo after this year. We are beginning to wonder why only our needs are ignored in Nigeria even though "awa man" is inside Aso rock. Ndigbo will start to ask more questions as time passes without us having anything infrastructural to show for our unprecedented support to GEJ.
We need that airport desperately to unleash our full potential in the East.

Oops! Duplicate thread. Mods take note.

[size=16pt]Hausa, Yoruba clash in Lagos over murdered youth[/size]

Agiliti, Mile 12, Lagos, erupted in violence that lasted for hours on Monday as some Hausa youths clashed with their Yoruba counterparts.

P[b]UNCH Metro learnt that the clash, which started around 7am, began when some Hausa youths allegedly attempted to dump the corpse of a man they had reportedly slaughtered in the Maidan River.

A man, who declined to give his name, told our correspondent that, “This morning, we were not far from the river when we saw the Hausa youths trying to dump a corpse in the river. We immediately accosted them and demanded to know where they got it from and what happened to the man. The youths told us he was caught during a robbery.[/b]

“The body showed that the man had been brutally beaten. It was noticed that he had been slaughtered too. So, we asked them why they killed him and why did they not hand him over to the police if he was a robber.

“Before we know it, the whole area had been roused and we had been overwhelmed by the Hausa youths. We had to leave the scene after some scuffle.”

The youth told our correspondent that the Hausa residents who stayed behind later burnt all motorcycles in sight.

When our correspondent got to the scene, a large crowd of youths, who were speaking Hausa, were seen destroying shops and kiosks on three streets in the area.

A police helicopter hovered in the sky, while nine police patrol vehicles and a Rapid Response Squad’s Armoured Personnel Carrier were stationed at the scene, but this did not deter the youth from destroying shops.

Three streets; Nuhu Oluwo, Oniyanrin and Adeyeye, were completely taken over by the Hausa youth who wielded clubs, pipes and machetes and other weapons while they ransacked every shop on the streets.

Some of them broke into a shop, pulled down the door and carried away two air conditioners they found inside.

Some of the youth also attempt to pull down the roof of the shops.

Our correspondent noticed that they had earlier broken into other shops on the streets. Other youths were seen grabbing loafs of bread in a shop they had broken into.

However, some older Hausa men were seen appealing to the youth to stop the violence.

A youth who brought out an amulet and wore it on his arm, was told to pocket it, while another man, Alhaji Gambo Limani, slapped a youth who broke a bottle on the ground and wielded it as a weapon.

When our correspondent later spoke to Limani, he said, “I had to caution them because most of these youths are hoodlums. They would blow the problem beyond proportion.

“I really don’t know the basis for this whole crisis because I just got back from Sokoto this morning. My main concern is to ensure they don’t cause crisis in this area.”

When our correspondent asked Limani about the whereabouts of the Sarkin Hausa (head of the Hausa community) of the area, he said the Sarkin had travelled.

Our correspondent reports that Oniyarin Street was completely deserted and the majority of the residents locked themselves up in their residences.

When asked why the area was deserted, a youth said, “These people (Hausa men) are many in this area. They inhabit most of the houses here. Anybody who has his life to protect should not attempt to go close to that area.”

Our correspondent watched from a safe distance as the rampaging youths smashed the windscreen of a bus in the presence of the policemen who made no effort to stop them.

The youths spoke in Hausa, occasionally pointing their sticks at the policemen to dare them.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of operations in the state, Mr. Tunde Sobulo, later came to the scene and dispersed the youth. He addressed the policemen and gave them directives on how to man the area.

When our correspondent attempted to speak with him, he simply said, “This is operation. I don’t have any comment to make now.”

But the spokesperson of the Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Joseph Jaiyeoba, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone, said the police were being cautious because the clash was between two ethnic groups.

Jayeoba said, “The police got a report early this morning about a corpse of a man that was allegedly killed in Oniyanrin area of Mile 12. Policemen were quickly drafted to the area to remove the corpse. The clash was due to perenial accusations between the Yoruba and Hausa residents.

“In any case, the DCP operations and the area commander have been there to restore peace. The area commander has also invited the heads of the two ethnic groups in the area and all other stakeholders to resolve the issue. Right now the area is calm.”

http://www.punchng.com/metro/hausa-yoruba-clash-in-lagos-over-murdered-youth/

Dudu_Negro: There are two distinct areas,

1. An on-shore location on firma terra
2. An off-shore location on maritime waters

The firma terra is a direct territorial domain of Nigeria and governed by trust and consensus. The maritime waters is an extension of the sovereignty of Nigeria and is owned and held by proxy for the consentual peoples.

Indigenous lands and territory of the people of the oil producing coastal towns will include the land upon which they have abode and the territory sorrounding from which they earn a living and subsist. Any land and or territory outside of that range belong to some other indigenous people. If no other indigenous are found or subsist on a land and its territory then such area is a property of the convening power in which the land and its territory is by jurisdiction located.

We must know the territorial range in which these coastal people fish or subsist for their livelihood and spiritual wellness. How far out is it into the sea? How far away are the off shore oil deposits and wells? Are the wells outside of the range of the Deltan fishermen? If it is then the maritime waters and its mineral deposits belong by proxy to the peoples of Nigeria.

I think we are saying the same thing then.

Dudu_Negro: Onlytruth, isn't it refreshing to see that owners of oil producing lands do not have full grip and understanding on the law relating to their oil? T[b]he off-shore ownership question when it first started to circulate was a shocker for the Deltans. . . most of them had no idea that their oil ownership was limited to onshore. What a shame[/b]!!

I haven't read your comment on this issue; so tell me what do you think about the offshore oil resources? I'm still following pure logic on it, until someone shows me something that can sway me to the opposite direction. I see it like I see Nigeria's embassies abroad - commonwealth of sort owned together by the whole country. I would support only payments to fishermen who may be affected by offshore exploration, especially if their fishing is affected.
I don't believe that Nigerian states are the federating units.

Obiagu1: We are his "chi" like you said; we hold the key to his re-election.
But my brother, I don't tire no be small, [b]the way SE is being neglected till date is really sad [/b]and they wonder why we remain staunch Biafrans.

I hear you loud and clear my brother Obiagu. I don't even know what is happening, why nothing is happening by way of delivering those elections promises by GEJ.
This is 2012, and I swear that I will not support GEJ past this year if nothing happens for that airport and the bridge.
They are both under his direct power. So, if they are not done, he is personally responsible. Period.

ndu_chucks: Gbawe is right. For starters, per the Mineral and Mining Act 2007 the federal government owns and controls ALL of the mineral resources of the land. The Act vests entire property in and control of all Mineral Resources in, under, or upon any land in Nigeria, its contiguous continental shelf and all rivers, streams and water courses throughout Nigeria, any area covered by its territorial waters or constituency and the exclusive economic zone in the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Under this act, no state or individual can explore or exploit any mineral resources until the property in mineral resources shall pass from the Government to the person by whom the mineral resources are lawfully won upon their recovery in accordance with the Act. In other words, no state can develop any mineral resource until the federal government allows and agrees to such development.

No time to educate you further. Go and read the [size=14pt]Petroleum Act, the Oil Pipelines Act, Minerals Act, Associated Gas Re-injection Act, the Land-Use Act, Mineral Oil Act, NNPC Act, and Petroleum Industry Bill [/size]and enlighten yourself.

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TO KEEP NIGERIA ONE IS A TASK THAT MUST BE DONE

don't mess with aboki, wallahi. hehehe!
So, ndu_chucks, all you have been doing in your life has been to study ALL the oil laws of Nigeria, even though you have no drop of the resource in your backyard?

Chai! I repeat, don't mess with aboki where oil is concerned!

Abagworo: I regret starting this thread for so many reasons but I make bold to ask anyone to copy and paste where I attacked Anambra people . All I did was to create a competition between Anambra and Abia because I perceived their Governors as not performing. I accord Ngige all respect he deserves for what he did in connecting rural areas by road of which I started a thread on. If you notice, I have not praised Rochas for one day but after visiting Imo this Easter, I will either be impressed or disregard him. That is my way. I don't lie and I dislike misrepresentation of facts.

How I wish you would show similar enthusiasm in highlighting the institutional marginalization of SE. That is what you should be working on!
Get your camera, tour the SE and capture as much pictures of FEDERAL ROADS as possible. Come here and publish them and received your well deserved encomiums.
That is what we should be doing. At times like this, I lament not being in Nigeria.
So, start your presentation of facts by doing something positive for your people Ndigbo for once.

Obiagu1: Eze Igbo, lol, those in Enugu will be in a better position to tell us the state of the Airport.
As for GEJ, I leave him to his "chi".

Nna we are his "chi".
He has to deliver to us or else we toss him under the bus and look elsewhere. The marginalization of SE is getting intolerable!
He needs to deliver Enugu International Airport for us ASAP.
The Onitsha bridge is another project that needs urgent action. We must have new bridge.

We need these two things more than we need an additional state; though we would accept additional state only to equalize with other zones.
I'm still eying Anioma as that additional state to be zoned to SE.

Obiagu1: Why the need for Ibaka seaport when Apapa is there already and why the need to state governors when the President is there already?
SMH!

hehehe, I don't understand that guy frankly.

Abagworo: Port Harcourt airport is there already, why the need for Enugu when Port Harcourt is easily accessible for most people?

Dede1 flew into PH airport and swore that it is a "batcha" house, but my feeling is that Enugu is more strategically located with shorter distance to Abakaliki, Nsukka, Onitsha and Nnewi, with an expressway linking Aba.
Also, it is possible that PH may play that role, but the state governor/government has to accept common destiny with the rest of us first.
Just my thoughts.

[size=16pt]Does anybody know the level of work going on at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu?[/size]
[size=14pt]When will that airport be ready?[/size]

[size=16pt]Does anybody know the level of work going on at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu?[/size]
When will that airport be ready?

If it is not ready this year, should we support Jonathan ever again on any issue apart from making sure that nwa afor Igbo succeeds him in 2015?
Why are we not raising hell about this airport that can revolutionalize commerce in SE?

These are things we should focus on!

Anyway let me discuss what interests me most.
[size=16pt]Does anybody know the level of work going on at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu?[/size]
When will that airport be ready?

If it is not ready this year, should we support Jonathan ever again on any issue apart from making sure than nwa afor Igbo succeeds him in 2015?
Why are we not raising hell about this airport that can revolutionalize commerce in SE?

These are things we should focus on!

NRI PRIEST: Ezeigbo,e kenelum gi rinne. But we also have to understand that Chino wasnt the first person here to throw punch! Multiple times I have seen our fellow Igbos insulting Anambra Igbos but we will never fight back but as soon as Anambra folks start to eulogise themselves some people will actually find it offensive! We must no throw away the child with the bad water! Chino is our blood and we must treat him as so !

Eze nmuo,I know all these things, but Chino just don't listen to any counsel or even advise, especially in his choice of words. I know that there are other Igbo from other states always picking on Anambra state just to make themselves feel better, but Chino often plays into the hands of those people.

Methinks that one of the greatest attribute of Anambra state is that we are very sane folks and use our heads A WHOLE LOT, which explains our level of individual success.
I only want Chino to represent us as we are known.Ndi Yoruba can afford to be lose canons, not nwa Anambra state. While others are talking, we are busy making hay!
That is what Anambra state is known for. That is part of what makes us tick. All these braggings are almost entirely alien to us.

The day you trust an aboki is the day you might lose your most important possesion - YOUR LIFE.
I prefer a thief who may steal my property, to a neighbor who may steal my life.
Nuff said.

ndu_chucks, don't let me revisit that 13% derivation thread.
Now, run along.

NRI PRIEST: Chino nwanne,biko dont find what the Ezeigbo said to be offensive but as a way to prevent unnescessary animosity between brothers. You are a true son of your father and Anambra love you too just like you love her. I dont see anything wrong in defending your state but we must not forget that na "ofu onye sielu ora nni fa elisia ya mana ora sielu of onye oma elisi nni afu". Lets keep calm and act like we dont know how some people feel about us. I chose not to discuss somethings here just because of what people might say regarding my state of origin. Hapu fa maka na ubosi nta ayi ga achu na owelle nchi.

Nna Eze nmuo Nri biko talk to Chino in any language he may understand.
This thread should never have got to this number of pages if we Anambra citizens ignored it for what it is.
I don't know what is so difficult to understand about this type of thread.

Olodostein: This is funny. So so funny. Bunch of rolling stones!!

Instead of concentrate on bringing ideas in developing the entire East. You are here tearing each other apart.

One funny thing is, education, which is the epitome of civilization is missing in the equation. What is compared are buildings and so called roads which NONE of your ancestors developed the theories nor engineering for.

Well, i think its high time your deficiencies are tackled and your "pride" shattered with hardcore facts on here .

More on the way .

If you go back to the beginning of this thread I did everything I could to avoid all these nonsense going on here, but some of our Igbo brothers lack the brains to think and cannot see beyond their noses.
I severally asked them to ignore this thread, but somehow their brains couldn't reason past cave mentality.
SE is the most marginalized zone in Nigeria.
This stoopid "debtate" is anacronistic and obtuse!

We have not won our foreign battles yet.

chino11: You have started throwing your weight around again, I think this Eze-ship is causing more harm than good. What is that supposed to mean? Have you asked the op why he has to call my name at the inception of this thread? Have you bothered to query that, instead you are endorsing what you do not know. What do you know about endorsement, this is not national assembly? I respect my fellow NLders more especially my Anambra brothers/sisters, but if we cannot get on well here we had better become something else.

Well, please make my day! BTW you have ZERO respect for Anambra state and Anambra citizens here on Nairaland. Many of us have asked you to desist from your ways, but you ignore us all. I have personally used EVERY SANE method and strategy known to man to talk to you about your wild ways, but you just never listen. If the issue under discourse has nothing to do with me or my home state, you would never see me trying to cajole you into sanity. The issue affect me personally as nwa Anambra state. So, I have a standing to ask you to desist!
If you don't desist, then be prepared to face EVERY Anambra person on this website (apart from your multiple clones of course), and I assure you that you will not win the resultant battle. In fact it is the type of battle I would like to fight because it keeps the fight very local, incapable of destroying the SE and Ndigbo.

So, I ask you to stop and if you must continue,then LEAVE ANAMBRA STATE OUT OF IT!

ACM10: Nwa Ada daalu!

Ejine, Abagworo, and others should [size=16pt]bear in mind that Chino does not speak for us Anambrarians. We condemn and disown his unguarded utterances. He's completely on his own, and any attack should be directed at him[/size]

My name is Onlytruth, and I endorse this message!

Chino11, why is it so hard for you to ignore this idiotic thread? Why are you going about on this forum creating bad blood between Anambra and other Igbo?
Nna i na akpasu m nnukwu iwe o! How many other Anambra citizens have you seen here talking and acting like you? Isn't that supposed to tell you something about our people? Anambra is not your personal property, and therefore you have no right whatsoever to destroy whatever relationship we enjoy with our brothers from Imo, Abia, Enugu and other states. You can decide to think like onye Yoruba if you like, but please keep Anambra state out of that nonsense!
I REALLY wonder whether you are REALLY from Anambra state. Eziokwu!

I speak now as an Anambra man, and I say that you have no right to destroy what we own collectively.
Therefore, cease and desist!

Nnenna1: [size=16pt]Chino and Roadstar please if u're also going to join in this sleazefest keep Anambra folks out of it and restrict the comparisons to yourselves/families[/size].

Gbam!

Hmm, I have a nagging feeling that this offshore issue won't go away anytime soon. Methinks that it may need special interpretation by the supreme court (I don't know whether it has done so already), because IMHO I don't know whether the oceans can really be treated as "land". If you doubt me, show me any farm lands or houses or people living on them.
I would think that the legal intent of derivation is to compensate for land use and environmental impacts of oil extraction. When those are not happening, I begin to wonder why anyone should be paid for it, except the federal government whose naval and maritime security resources manage, defend and protect those resources.
Just my brainstorms.

BTW @ FACE, I would vote for you as governor of Abia state!

Please let's continue to ignore the poisonous bait being dangled by Abagworo and crew.

Let me ask again.
Una still dey here? lols

@Ejiné, Ndigbo si na "Onye choro ira nwunye nna ya raa ya, ya asina na nwanyi a bu onwe ya biakwute ya!" (a man who wants to sleep with his fathers wife should do so boldly and frontally, and stop blaming the woman for seducing him!) Please stop using Chino11 as you pretext to do what you DESPERATELY want to do. All your post here have NOTHING to do with Chino. Let's stop deceiving ourselves.

I saw ekt-bear come to stoke the fires a little and head off. I am sure he is somewhere here now laughing his @ss off.

Please umu Igbo, let us continue to ignore this stoopid comparison. The SE still have only 5 states, and we still don't have any international airport. Those should be our concern.

Here I stand.

This is exactly how they drive up the cost of land in Abuja and all the exotic zones in Nigeria.
I have said it severally that if we fight corruption and bring it to the barest minimum, the price of land will fall like a pack of cards throughout Nigeria.

[size=16pt]Perm sec caught with N2bn cash
•Cabal moves N18bn from account, withdraws N300m daily[/size]

From ADETUTU FOLASADE-KOYI, Abuja
Monday, March 19, 2012


A serving federal permanent secretary (names withheld) has been arrested over a N18 billion scam uncovered in the police pension scheme with N2 billion cash found in his residence.

The matter has been handed over for prosecution to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
The permanent secretary was a director in a federal ministry from where he was seconded to one of the newly-created ministries.

Two other accomplices, who are also a serving director (names withheld) in two federal ministries but who had earlier worked with the Police Pension Fund office, have also been arrested and handed over to the EFCC and ICPC for more investigation. EFCC’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the report, saying that apart from the permanent secretary, there are four other top civil servants involved.

Sources in the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) told Daily Sun that investigation showed that “there is a syndicate which operates in the ministry. A cheque of N300 million was used to clear money from an account which is being kept for that sole purpose.
“The permanent secretary and his accomplices have been handed over to the EFCC and ICPC but investigations are still ongoing. On conclusion, we expect ICPC and EFCC to take the matter to court...”

EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, had earlier confirmed the investigation at a parley with newsmen last week.
Meanwhile, indications emerged at the weekend that PRTT Chairman, AbdulRasheed Maina, has rejected fraud allegations leveled against his team by Assistant Chief Accountant in the Police Pension Office, Mr. Toyin Ishola.
Ishola had earlier testified before the Senate Joint Committee on Establishment and Public Service and States and Local Government Administration investigating pension management and administration.
He told the committee that Maina allegedly distorted the existing Police Pension Account by transferring N21 billion into three different accounts domiciled in three different banks.
The Joint Committee Chairman, Senator Aloysius Etok, and his co-Chairman, Senator Kabiru Gaya, thereafter issued a warrant of arrest against Maina.

The warrant, which was dated March 8, 2012, pursuant to Section 89 of the 1999 Constitution.
But in a 50-page written submission to the committee, Maina insisted that the PRTT has so far saved and recovered N151.6 billion and £6 million for the country from 2010 to date, out of which N74 billion was appropriated as part of the N4.877 trillion 2012 budget.

[b]Another N24 billion was reportedly earmarked as contingency for harmonization of arrears particularly with police, where officers in the cadre of AIGs/Commissioners of Police are paid monthly pensions between N84, 000 and N101, 000.
The documents showed that the two accounts in two different banks were opened with the authorization from the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation vide an August 9, 2011 letter. The new mandate showed that Yakubu Kolawole Adeyemi, Edwin Ementa Nwokoye are the new signatories as at September 5, 2011, replacing Ishola and one Mike Okoro.

Furthermore, the PRTT noted that it discovered that there were illegal “withdrawals by staff of the Police Pension Office, using multiple cheques in fictitions names in excess of 30 cheques per day to withdraw cash from their bankers.
“Such illegal withdrawals amounted to N14 billion. The PRTT, assisted by the law enforcement agencies, have made substantial recovery of the said stolen monies. A staff of the Police Pension Office (names withheld) turned in N1billion cash.[/b]

“Another surrendered three luxury estates with about 27 blocks of deluxe flats he built in Abuja and many others...”
Maina equally indicated in the documents submitted to the committee that while he is from Biu in Borno State, Danjuma Zubairu is from Kabba in Kogi State; in a direct response to allegations that the account in a bank in the Central Business District branch, was domiciled in the account of his younger brother.
Zubairu, Maina maintained, is the Group Head, Private Banking, Abuja region of the bank. Repeated calls and text messages to Etok and Gaya were unanswered.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2012/mar/19/national-19-03-2012-001.html

I guess that what I'm saying is that most "Negroid"(no pun intended please!) groups aren't violent enough, and fulani (a hamitic group) always sense this and take advantage.
While you are busy arguing with a fulani about some issue, he is already thinking about how to kill you. They take advantage of our nature.
I believe that one can change his "nature" though, drawing from experience of these types of stories.
Stay alive; don't argue with a fulani unarmed!

olayinka1987: Don't fuse the avergae oyinbo for a gun toting rambo. The herdsman would've cut him regardless of color.

I doubt that because the "oyibo" would have studied him like a book. The fulani dude will only feel something hot enter his skull; before he can think about what happened, he'll be dead.

A white friend who lives in the outskirts of town owns a pack of Rotweiler dogs. He also owns a small armoury in his house!
One day, he didn't like how one of the dogs snarled at his little daughter. Well, he shot the dog!
This is part of why I like white folks a lot. They don't act in stoopid ways most of the time. If this fulani dude was working for a white man, he wouldn't dare this type of nonsense or he'll be dead for sure.

This is why I say never argue with a fulani man unarmed and ready to kill. Nuff said.