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Becomrrich:
Osisi, if awo is a tribalist, then you do not understand politics. Ask Obama , when he was senator, was is view on the floor of the USA senate not for the progress of his state. This is what senators do. And that was what awo did. Have you heard of the famour chicago politics.

And you can not link awo to any killing of igbos. If you can the internet is open. Post it or shut up.

I challenge you to start a thread on that topic about Awo and the starving children of war and I'll oblige you if I care.
I don't want to derail this thread.

Arnold,like I said earlier,whoever labelled you a man at birth made a huge mistake.
karmamod tried this line last year and failed and here you are ,acting a fool.

Why not quote me in context rather than picking and choosing what you want your hearers to read.
Now this was my statement in full.
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-18580.32.html#msg541705

Re: What Have You Heard About Other Tribes In Nigeria? « #46 on: August 03, 2006, 01:45 AM » 

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I heard that those yoruba women sitting and selling in the market place also defecate in those containers they are sitting on and could be selling you things at the same time.

I heard that they are very dirty also.

I heard they borrow money to do all that owa mbe

that Yorubas are unreliable.

that they are all mouth and no action,remember Jegede Shokoya of masquerade

that Hausas are very truthful and trustworthy

that Igbos would kill for money

all 419ers are Igbos

that bini girls are mainly prostitutes
bini men are armed robbers

that Ijaws are whiners and complainers

calabar people are the best cooks
calabar girls are the best wives



these are just stereotypes,I'm sure it's not true,there are good and bad in every tribe.
But Yinka wanted to hear stereotypes,there you go.

anyone foolish enough to believe a half truth is a fool.

If I believe those things about Yorubas ,do I also believe Igbos are 419ers?
Even if you lived a thousand lifetimes,you'll never be half as smart.

and as for the Awo comments that pain you so much so that you've quoted them for 2 years
I stand by them squarely
Awo was a  bloody tribalist and died with the blood of innocent children on his hands.
The Spirit of those kids he starved to death must have haunted him and anyone like him  till the cold hands of deathy snatched up his cold soul.
Quote me anyday and I will produce the documents to buttress my low opinion of him.He must be sharing a flat with Hitler in the great beyond if he didn't repent.

As for tribal marks on kids and FGM, they are barbaric and belong in the dark ages.Thankfully Osun state condemned it and I was the first to give the officials a high five on that thread.
Whipping up cheap sentiments shows how immature you are,
If you have tribal marks,deal with it or set up funds for plastic surgery like some have done or better yet, sue your parents like some poster planned on doing.
It is barbaric I say
add that to your quote.

why should this anger any right thinking person?
This is a good opportunity to boost our tourist industry.
There are war museums,holocaust museums,black museums and all types of places housing relevant archives that help the revenue of various states in the USA,why must our own stuff be different?

The day my man buys a flowery shirt, that is the day he throws his money in the trash.
It will disappear ,never to be seen talk less of worn.

Is that Ellen Degenerate returning from her trip to get a double mastectomy?
everything about that man screams ga-y, gay-ish, gay-oid, gay-like

Finally:
I say kudos to the Enugu Govt.

If any State/City in Nigeria can boast of relative power supply, Enugu is on of those states (Unless if it has changed )

The coal city is my second home,I agree with that statement somewhat

Hauwa this army thing don enter your head
did they send you?

asha 80:
@chibaby

ok

@osisi
Gi ga cha training ma azuka ma nkeiru ga ata

ROFL.

good move.
Drinking pure water and surfing the net to a candlelight
allahu Wakban!

asha 80:
Osisi bu uzo ba ano m gi azu.Umunwanyi na eso kwa na army @ibkaye
I ka na amakwa jijiji?

Are you still wobbly?

ha ga e reject m
nkeiru m na azuka m ga a confuse the soldiers
they need to be focused

Ok o! I go sufry;

@Babyosisi
Nne Kedu long time

My brother,I dey o
bia crazykid, are you now a woman?
I thought you were a man when we started our nairaland journey in 06

crazykid:
If at all such story is true, there would have been video clips of the match.

which video?
juju go come appear for video?

HeatFusion:
ok o. . . sofry sofry now.
Busayo (snickers ) they need to recruit you ASAP. . . I go vouch for your Igbo-nity

You mean his Igboticness

bawomolo:
i thought the bonus was 20000 bucks? see money

I know for doctors in the reserve it's $35,000

unu agaa kwala banye US army
ha na acho ndi Igbo

*Hauwa*:
Debo,

am in it   there is nothing like US Military!! I was at anapolis   last week and i was sooo proud of them all. Even you debo wey dey canada na under america shed una dey.

yes if you can serve, please do.

Support our troops!! SEMPER FI!!

so you are really?
I toyed with the idea of being a reserve many years back
That $35,000 annual pay for reserves was very tempting in my earlier years here.
I have a collegue who is and all she does is a 2 week bootcamp thing annually somewhere in California and a one weekend/month at the nearest army base.
She's collected her cool $35,000 plus her annual salary for over 4 years now and no wars.
In fact they wave the trainings when you're carrying belle.

Why don't they go to Aba to recruit
They'll get 50,000 hefty men in less than 10 mins

I hope they're not going there with Ghana must go bags
They may be refused entry and who could blame the authorities?

crazykid:
I don't believe they are Virgins; were they examined before the contest?

I mean, anyone can come in there to register and say she's a Virgn. I don't believe all that shit.

Oh you didn't see the earlier thread by earth mama
a male OBGYN fingered countless gals and came up with 41 finalists and from the 41,he did more "investigation" and came up with 3 winners.
In Lagos o,not Tudun wada or Birnin Kebbi

KarmaMod:
Either that or turn them crazy. The US has a history of completely screwing their own people in the military not to talk of foreigners.

Berra send a memo to that one who was looking for a way to leave Naija by container.

We already have enough crazy ones as it is
let them recruit from those ones abeg if that's the plan

Sauron you need to sign up
there must be a place for all that your testosterone
we need you in Pakistan to fish out Osama
You can say "anuofia" can't you

asha 80:
Maybe my tiv friend who is US at the moment might want to enlist since he speaks fluent igbo even more than me because he was born and brought up in owerri.

Tufiakwa!
abeg no
someone said this may be for Biafra we don't want sabo if that's the case

Please my Igbo brothers should be careful.
I hope they're not trying to render our men strerile in order to decrease our population by force
God won't agree

OMG
I heard those stories too about Indians and juju football.
They said Segun Odegbami (I think that was the goalkeeper of the Eagles when we were kids) would want to catch the ball and it would turn into a huge snake and he'll run for his life ,then the ball goes into the net.
Then on some other ocassions,he'll see 5 balls coming at him and he won't know which one to catch

Another official of the Nigerian embassy in Washington alleged that Rotimi only appeared for work at the embassy thrice a week and retired to Florida where he has a home, for the rest of the week. “How can he effectively run a key embassy like this,” the official queried.

Flying back and forth from DC to Florida on our money.
let him be used to set an example to all these Nigerian diplomats lazying around in DC,NY and ATL
eating Isiewu and nkwobi on the job

He should have been made to tender a formal apology before being disgraced out of office.
We don't need people like him representing us here.

Nigerian Ambassador to US, Oluwole Rotimi, Sacked

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Nigerian Ambassador to US, Oluwole Rotimi, Sacked
•Calls Foreign Minister a tribalist •Boasts that he defeated Maduekwe’s “ragtag” Biafran Army
By Yemi Adebowale in Lagos and Constance Ikoku in Washington DC, 02.14.2009

President Umaru Yar’Adua has appro-ved the immediate recall of Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, retired Brigadier-General Oluwole Rotimi, for “gross insubordination.”
Sources at the Nigerian embassy in Washington DC said the decision to recall Rotimi followed his running disagreement with the Foreign Affairs Minister, Ojo Maduekwe, over issues bordering on activities of the mission, policy, protocol and hierarchy.
[b]The disagreement that was said to have started last year resulted in a series of correspondence between Maduekwe and Rotimi, culminating in a letter written by the latter in which he called the minister a tribalist and boasted, “I have dealt with people like you in the past. I was the Adjutant General of the Nigerian army that thoroughly defeated your ragtag Biafran army.”[/b]Maduekwe who was piqued by the contents of the letter, particularly the reference to the Biafran war, formally complained to the President in a memo, attaching Rotimi’s letter.
Maduekwe in his letter to the President stated: “This man (Rotimi) has no temperament to be an ambassador of Nigeria in our most important mission.
“This is a strategic assessment of the situation. Anyone who has such a disposition may not be able to handle the Nigerian embassy in Washington, which is deemed in Nigerian diplomatic circles as a strategic and sensitive mission.
“The recommendation that he be recalled has to do with his capacity to run the place. It is not personal.”
It was on this basis that the President immediately approved his recall from the mission.In the interim, Ambassador Wakil, the Deputy Ambassador has been asked to oversee the mission pending the appointment of a replacement.
All efforts to reach the Ambassador last night on his mobile phone proved unsuccessful as it kept entering voice mail. Voice messages were not returned as at press time either.
A Nigerian embassy official in Washington disclosed that [b]the root cause of the friction between both officials started sometime last year when Maduekwe wrote two letters inviting the Ambassador and his deputy, Ambassador Wakil to a meeting in Abuja to discuss the emergence of Barack Obama as the 44th US President and what it would mean for Nigeria-US relations.
Rotimi was said to have felt slighted that the minister wrote a separate letter to his deputy whom he regarded as his subordinate.[/b]He subsequently wrote two protest letters - one to Maduekwe and a second one to the Secretary to the Govern-ment of the Federation, Yayale Ahmed. He also asked that the trip be rescheduled to enable him sort out one or two things.
Not satisfied, Rotimi further wrote to Senator Jubril Aminu, Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the same issue.
Rotimi then proceeded to Abuja when he did not receive an official reply from the minister. Maduekwe on the other hand was reportedly irked that the Ambassador proceeded on the trip without the necessary approval.
Rotimi’s action, an embassy official divulged, was seen as an infringement of an important regulation regarding the movement of public officers.
Insiders familiar with the Nigerian civil service set up said his trip was arbitrary given his protest letter and request for a postponement of the meeting, and that since he had not received feedback, it was seen as gross insubordination within foreign service regulations.
According to an official: “when you write, you wait for a reply. Movement must be sanctioned by your boss.”
Similarly, Maduekwe’s effort to streamline the operations of the foreign affairs ministry, particularly the embassies, was said to have been resisted by Rotimi in Washington.
The minister’s brusque style of leadership has reportedly ruffled feathers in the foreign service where most officials are used to “business as usual” bosses.
As such, the little or lack of cordial relations between both men compounded matters, making it almost impossible to mend fences.
In addition, other occurrences pointed to strained relations between the public officers. The usual practice is that an Ambassador receives the foreign minister at the airport when he arrives a country, and sees him off at the end of his official trip.
This was not the case when the minister visited Washington sometime last year to give a talk at a think-tank in the capital city.
However, by January this year, Rotimi tried to seek a rapprochement when he led a delegation to receive Maduekwe who flew into Washington as the head of the Nigerian delegation to President Obama’s inauguration.
But the short-lived détente came under strain again when Rotimi, during the swearing-in ceremony, introduced Emeka Anyaoku, the president’s special envoy, as the leader of delegation in the presence of the minister.
THISDAY learnt that there was actually a disagreement before the trip as to who should lead the delegation to the event.
Eventually, Anyaoku was mandated to head the Federal Government team, while Maduekwe led the foreign ministry team.
But this presented an image problem for Nigeria, because it gave the impression that the home base was in disarray.
Another official of the Nigerian embassy in Washington alleged that Rotimi only appeared for work at the embassy thrice a week and retired to Florida where he has a home, for the rest of the week. “How can he effectively run a key embassy like this,” the official queried.
Before the latest incident that led to Rotimi’s recall, Anyaoku it was gathered, tried to reconcile the two men shortly after Obama’s inauguration, but failed.
Rotimi was a former military governor of the old Western State from 1971 to 1975. He arrived Washington DC on 31st March 2008, and presented his Letters of Credence to the then President, George Bush at the White House, on April 9, 2008.
His sudden recall means that Nigeria will have to deal with the signals the incident would send to the international community, explained a diplomatic source.
One way to save face is to show that Nigeria is ready to revamp its foreign relations machinery and sharpen is focus on improving the effectiveness of the country’s foreign missions overseas, he said.

Hotstepper:
make I go ooo as far as I wont go 2 war, lol

I need to spread this news around in our next village meeting.
But wait o
they may send you to Iraq
at least you get citizenship even if na one eye and one leg you get

see now
If davidylan could speak his mom's language he would have been on a path to quick citizenship

U.S. Military Will Offer Path to Citizenship
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Military officials want to attract immigrants who have native knowledge of languages and cultures that the Pentagon considers strategically vital. The program will also be open to students and refugees.

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The Army’s one-year pilot program will begin in New York City[b] to recruit about 550 temporary immigrants [/b] who speak one or more of 35 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Igbo (a tongue spoken in Nigeria), Kurdish, Nepalese, Pashto, Russian and Tamil. Spanish speakers are not eligible. The Army’s program will also include about 300 medical professionals to be recruited nationwide. Recruiting will start after Department of Homeland Security officials update an immigration rule in coming days.

Pentagon officials expect that the lure of accelerated citizenship will be powerful. Under a statute invoked in 2002 by the Bush administration, immigrants who serve in the military can apply to become citizens on the first day of active service, and they can take the oath in as little as six months.

For foreigners who come to work or study in the United States on temporary visas, the path to citizenship is uncertain and at best agonizingly long, often lasting more than a decade. The military also waives naturalization fees, which are at least $675.

To enlist, temporary immigrants will have to prove that they have lived in the United States for two years a[/b]nd have not been out of the country for longer than 90 days during that time. They will have to pass an English test.

Language experts will have to serve four years of active duty, and health care professionals will serve three years of active duty or six years in the Reserves. If the immigrants do not complete their service honorably, they could lose their citizenship.

Commenters who vented their suspicions of the program on Military.com said it could be used by terrorists to penetrate the armed forces.

At a street corner recruiting station in Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, Staff Sgt. Alejandro Campos of the Army said he had already fielded calls from temporary immigrants who heard rumors about the program.

[b]“We’re going to give people the opportunity to be part of the United States who are dying to be part of this country and they weren’t able to before now,” said Sergeant Campos, who was born in the Dominican Republic and became a United States citizen after he joined the Army.

Sergeant Campos said he saw how useful it was to have soldiers who were native Arabic speakers during two tours in Iraq.

“The first time around we didn’t have soldier translators,” he said. “But now that we have soldiers as translators, we are able to trust more, we are able to accomplish the mission with more accuracy.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/15immig.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2&hp

Negro_Ntns:
Tpia, no doubt! Ask people for their grandfather name and they post a google link for you. People don't know who they are any more. Thank God for Google, Wikipedia and NAIRALAND ONLINE COLLEGE

where else do you expect to get origins of anything from except from books and the internet ?
were you there when any of these things took place?
didn't you read yours somewhere or you were born with that knowledge abi?

which one is it?

Israel ?
Ethiopia ?
Egypt ?
Old Oyo empire?
Let's settle this confusion once and for all