₦airaland Forum

dayokanu: Since ACN would take over Anambra with Chris Ngige I suggest Alao-Akala to run under ACN in Enugu state

Our Yansh: Very Nice!!

Tolexander: yes John baba. I have the knowledge about the OYES scheme, and it is applaudable. But what am saying is that employing 18,000 on permanent staff is what i am doubting. Cos politicians are full of inflating digits.

Tolexander: cos i dont take any news from any politician until i make a clear and concrete verification.

hollandis: LIARS 18,000 YOUTH FOR WHERE?OW MUCH ARE THEY COLLECTING ,,WHO ARE THEY,PUBLISH THEIR NAMES ...LIARS ..ALL BECAUSE OF ANOTHER RUN FOR THE POST NEXT TERM

Nightshift: Goods worth less than €600 million , too little for a country that wants to be among the 20 leading economies in 2020. We are not being sincere to ourselves....

watchinglagos: He listed the commodities as including: palm kernel cake, cocoa beans and wheat bran pallets, cashew nuts, sesame seeds, ginger, hibiscus flower, gum Arabic, processed rubber, shrimps, and lead ingot.

Others are 4, 625,837 square feet of processed leather, 74,547 cases of Dettol brand of disinfectant, Maggi Crayfish, 29,062 cartons of biscuits 97,100 bags of assorted bathroom slippers and 1,655,320 litres of ethyl alcohol.


http://www.watchinglagos.com/2013/01/n129bn-goods-exported-through-lagos.html

At 16, Isaac Fadoyebo ran away from his home in southwest Nigeria and signed up to fight for Britain in World War II, a decision made from youthful exuberance that saw him sent to Burma to fight and nearly die.

Courage and luck kept him alive behind enemy lines as local farmers protected him for months until the British broke through and found him. When he returned home to Nigeria, his story and those of his fellow veterans largely fell away from the public's mind as independence swept through the country and a devastating civil war and political unrest later followed.

Fadoyebo, who died in November at the age of 86, represents one of the last so-called "Burma Boys" in West and East Africa. On Thursday, his family and friends gathered for a final worship service and celebration of his life, as new attention has been paid to his sacrifices and those of other Africans drawn into the fighting.

"There was this allegiance to the British; we would sing 'God Save the Queen.' ... Those who joined the war then were of course celebrated as heroes, not as we were celebrating them now," said Elizabeth Adenike Ajayi, a daughter of Fadoyebo. "But like much of Africa's history, there wasn't an attempt to get the history from the perspective of the Africans."

Fadoyebo served as a medical official in the Royal West African Frontier Force, a military comprised of Britain's then-colonies of Gambia, the country that would become Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Coupled with recruits from Britain's eastern colonies as well, authorities recruited some 500,000 Africans to fight.

Fadoyebo ran away from home and joined the force out of curiosity, the desire to have an adventure, the money that British forces paid and a "youthful exuberance," Ajayi said. Historians say many others joined for the same reason. Fadoyebo sailed with others around the Cape of Good Hope and toward India, later arriving in Burma, the country now known as Myanmar.

Shot in the leg and chest in battle, Fadoyebo drew the attention of Japanese soldiers who approached him with bayonets on their rifles. However, they left him alone, likely believing he'd succumb to his serious wounds. He survived, crawling to a fellow soldier still alive from Sierra Leone. Villagers later took them in and protected them for months, even though they could have been killed for aiding the African soldiers, according to accounts from him and his family.

Fadoyebo returned home to Nigeria, still then a British colony despite a growing call by nationalists for the nation's independence. Soldiers who took part in World War II from Ghana later sparked the 1948 Accra riots, the start of the nation's march toward independence. However, their Nigerian counterparts largely faded back into normal life as the nation gained its independence from Britain in 1960. Later that decade, some soldiers fought during the nation's civil war that saw 1 million people killed. At that time though, most of the military commanders in the nation came from a later generation.

History, however, has a way of fading quickly in Nigeria, a young nation that has seen its population boom to more than 160 million people. The British commonwealth still pays to have a portion of a Lagos cemetery where the graves of World War II dead still lie. A Nigerian military cemetery next to it for those who died in the 1990 peacekeeping missions to Sierra Leone and Liberia has trees growing out of the graves and overgrown bushes blocking people from entering a memorial there.

Fadoyebo ended up writing a book about his experiences called "A Stroke of Unbelievable Luck," while still receiving his disability payments from the British for his injuries into his eighties. He later was profiled as part of a documentary about Africa's contribution to British forces during World War II, drawing new attention to his incredible story.

"It is a surprise that I survived it. It's a miracle," Fadoyebo told journalist Barnaby Phillips in the documentary that aired on the satellite news network Al Jazeera. "I never thought I could survive it. I thought I was going to die."

Yet through it all, Fadoyebo remained humble, raising six daughters and retired from his job as a civil servant. His will calls for much of his estate to go toward establishing a clinic in the village where he grew up, Ajayi said.

"He was a focused man," his daughter said.

Seun: For not contacting me privately before posting this, I hereby resign from my position as the owner and admin of Nairaland and the politics section. Good bye to you all!

THE Power Holding Company of Nigeria, Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company has commissioned five different injection substations and replaced some obsolete and problematic panels.

The company said in a statement signed by the Principal Manager, (Public Affairs), Tokunbo Peters, that the company has successfully replaced 11KV panels with modern ones while also constructing new 11KV feeders and commissioning scores of distribution substations to deliver power to its customers.

According to the statement, the projects, which are strategically located at different parts of the company’s network include, Gaa - Imam, 1x15 MVA 33/11KV injection substation in Ilorin, Kwara State. This project has relieved the existing 1x7.5 MVA transformer at Gaa - Imam, Ilorin. Other project commissioned include, Ondo Road 2x15MVA 33/11KV injection substation in Ile-Ife, Ikirun Township 2x15MVA 33/11KV injection substation in Ikirun, all in Osun State, Mokowa 1x2.5MVA 33/11KV substation in Niger State and Igbaja 1x2.5MVA 33/11KV substation in Kwara State.

Other projects include the replacement of obsolete 11KV switchgear with a 7-panel board at Offa 2x7.5 MVA, 33/11KV injection substation in Kwara State, 11KV switchgear with a 7-panel board at Ibadan North 1x15MVA injection substation in Oyo State and replacement of obsolete 7-panel board at old Owode Road 3 x 15MVA 33/11KV injection substation in Abeokuta, Ogun State with modern ABB 11KV switchgear with a 7-board panels, replacement of obsolete and problematic 11KV panels at Eleweran injection sub station in Ogun State with modern ABB 11KV panels, and the replacement of obsolete 11KV panels at Abiola way 1 x 15MVA 33/11KV injection substation Abeokuta, Ogun State with modern panels and installation of 11KV Tarvida panel at  Eleyele 2x15MVA 33/11KV injection substation for Ologuneru 11kV feeder in Oyo state.

In addition to injecting more power transformers to its network, the company also constructed scores of 11KV feeders in different locations of its network. Among these feeders are GRA and Baba Ode 11KV feeders in Ilorin, and Ologuneru 11KV overhead line to separate Ologuneru leg from the existing 11KV industrial feeder in Ibadan, Oyo State.

These projects which are spread across Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Kwara and Niger states have not only improved the quality of power supply to customers in the company’s network, but it has also increased the capacity of the company to evacuate more power from the Transmission company of Nigeria to the Nigerian public. Thus, majority of the company’s customers now enjoy longer hours of power supply with very little interruptions.

The statement added that similar projects, which are at varying stages of completion will be completed this year and this will bring a lot of improvement to areas still experiencing poor service delivery.

Also, scores of distribution substations were commissioned in 2012 to relieve over loaded substations and improve the quality of power delivered to the public. The company is presently allocating more distribution transformers for replacement and upgrading of failed ones to the 22 business units in its network spread across Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Kwara, states and parts of Niger, Kogi and Ekiti states.

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the company, Bolaji Oyesiku stressed that the company is committed towards ensuring quality service to all the nooks and crannies of its network, but the company needs the customers’ support and co-operation in order to achieve the set objectives.

Thus, the statement enjoined the company’s customers to reciprocate its efforts towards improved service delivery by prompt and regular payment of electricity bills.

thrugemaster: i don already buy land for the city o

alj harem1:

1st it is jews

second it is the egyptians

3rd it is black jew

4th it is african american

now it is kenya

kai
we igbo have a long way to go in accepting our identity smh