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They should just do the needful by releasing the names, else they should forever remain silent.

Brief and covered several eras, but must admit the history is biased against America

A good write-up. Nice one OP

Itoroetti :
And u think u've so made a point right?
Go to aliexpress and confirm the prices of those chinese made rubbish and come back to tell us.
Stop filling ur tummy with sh1t

@OP, there is need for clarity of information in discussions. I was already being sympathetic to your allegations until other posters posted the cost and units of the Opon Imo project with sources for their information. Can you please give us the source of your own information or how you arrived at your figures

The Scandal Celebrity

I just hope she comes out openly to make a statement on her marriage, is she in or out, are these reports true or false, tired of hearing this and that.

gratieao: "Nonsense. Yorubas should mind their business and leave the Chime’s alone. Yoruba mouth piece ati SaharaReporters and the charge and bail lawyer Femi Falana has succeeded in breaking governor Chime’s marriage for no justifiable reasons. I don’t know why Yorubas are bad belles and such enemies of progress. They have been trying hard to tarnish the image of the most performing minister in Nigeria Stella Oduah and Chime the best governor in southeast. All this just for Enugu international airport. Yes over 30% of the revenue of MM airport has been diverted to Enugu State. Yes Stella Oduah will keep performing regardless of the bandwagon negative propaganda from the Yoruba media. Shekina".

Amalgamation expires midnight 1 January, 2014!

Dude, its okay, things are gonna get better, just hold on and don't put your frustration on others.

The encouraging part for me is that the petition was made by the Ife Youth Vanguard, so no one will play the ethnicity card. This is how things should be, expose corrupt even if they are your kinsmen.

Nnewi1stSon: I guess the airport will be used as a venue for 'owambe parties' beçause with the level of poverty in that shithol.e, i wonder who would be able to pay for flight tickets, when bus fare is just #1500 to get to Lagos(their one and only destination). . This one na blue pig project!

Bro, it is not hard to be intelligent these days, afterall the standards have been lowered, all you just had to do to make an intelligent contribution was to read and not bother making a comment. You would have added to the number of those who viewed this thread, but no one would have known your intellectual challenges

Good one. I wouldn't have expected Osun state to construct an airport, I thought a train system would have been better. But who says the state can't achieve both. I like the governor, though radical but with great benefits

MAY, and I am shocked at how I fit in almost perfectly.

ROSSIKE: Has Seun ever said anything about Tinubu at all?

Just asking.

Maybe you should peruse his political timeline, I am sure you will have more to learn about Tinubu's ancestry on it.

Source must be the nigerian version of "the newyorker"

would there be polling booths here in Lagos ?

iterator25: Change bariga / shomolu skyline and other eyesore in the state.. before attempting all this

You mean the skylines of bariga and somolu are more important than having a medical village

Nice write up, and opens up more discussions. I like threads like this, I am sure this issue has been in the OP's mind for long

Yoruba is merely a nomenclature, they could as well have been called romanbas, it wouldn't still change their identity. While you have the Ijebus, Ijesas, Oyos as distinct groups, they all still fraternized under the Omo Odua brotherhood even before colonisation. The yorubas in benin republic might not be classed as yorubas by nomenclature, but by identity they recognise themselves as Oduduwa people and still visit Ife and osogbo. Socio-cultural identity is by acceptance, while colonisation gave us a collective name, identity was still a matter of social-cultural an religious acceptance which really cannot be forced

For the Hausas-Fulani, their alliance was in effect and acceptable to their people before western influence. This acceptance was valid and structural and a reason the british decided on indirect rule. The real hausas and fulani know themselves, it is we in the south who normally call every northerner an hausa/fulani man. An Alago in Nasarawa speaks hausa well but will sternly warn you he isn't Hausa. If the british tried to force hausa/fulani identity on them it clearly didn't work. Taraba and Adamawa are other examples.

As for the Igbos, it still boils down to acceptance. You are Igbo if you believe you are. Obama doesn't call himself a Kenyan, neither does he call himself irish because of his mother's irish roots. He is simply an american because that is where he is accepted. The real igbos know themselves, you can't force it or take it away from them. I don't believe it is a western creation, maybe the name - the nomenclature, but the caricature of the Igbo man easily makes him know if he is one or not.

I agree to an extent that the whites tried to define us with their dictionary, but we know who we really are and what we want to be known for.

Safety first, that is all we care for and not the increase in the number of international airports.

Never knew Ngige was once a woman. Well we learn everyday.

Glad she is being summoned. Reform is not about change or uplift of physical infrastructure. Just as changing police uniforms or goldplating police stations wouldn't stop our police officers from taking bribes. She has done well in uplifting our airports, but she is the minister of aviation and not aesthetics. I will feel more assured with an oshodi-oke airport that enforces necessary safety standards and practices than one which houses decent flying coffins.

The problem is Tithes are paid on an individual basis, some pay in cash, with cheque or through online transaction. It's kind of hard to know who and who paid his/her tithe or when they paid it. Some churches register those who pay tithes and could know who gave what, but they are few. Only special donations are quite easy to track. No reasonable church should want to collect tithe from a corrupt politician, but then again you will have to extend such checks and balances to all professionals because thieving politicians are also aided by thieving engineers, accountants, lawyers, etc.

The church needs to scrutinize its source of finance to avoid ridicule, but it goes beyond just politicians.

More like unequal wealth of nations.

The only thing worse than insulting a country's president is having a president who insults the intelligence of the citizens.

So he was delivered of a new bouncing anger demon. More deliverance to his elbow

Religion and Politics again?

Mexyz: Nice work by Fashola, Agbameta, pls u opened a thread to shw us wat oga Fash is doing in lagos nd nt to cause any tribal war here. @Sheyie, u re a confused fellow,u must b a frustrated being 4 calln people flat heads, buzu nd wiawia lyk u. God bles Fash.

I appreciate ur observation, it is a nice thread by OP, we shouldn't let it be distracted through tribal slurs. Fashola has always impressed me with his innovative approach to governance

Good move. Most times the freed inmates have spent more time in prison awaiting-trial than they would have spent if they were sentenced.

tpia@:
22, 23 and now 26.

Who is the recipient being worked on here?

Seems she is using an Age boosting device. Only few days ago she was 23, I just hope she uses the age device with care, else she might turn 90 by december

Oh GEJ ! You broke my heart *weeps in american accent*

Good development from LASG. Maintenance has been the bane of our development, I hope they don't stop at buying new buses but also find a lasting solution to the maintenance problem. Sincere 9gerian, nice thread, still waiting for your opinion though.

Sound analysis. Individual financial progress is not a substitute for social capital and regional integration.

Sometimes I feel GEJ is saddled with lazy sympathizers, do you really think that in 2013 stories like SW, SS, SE and Northern Global youth forum said bla bla bla is an achievement. If you want to praise GEJ please post tangible projects like others do, we will appreciate that better.