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ekt_bear:
I don't view his actions as evil.

He didn't do anything worse than many have done throughout history.

If he is "evil", then so is Abraham Lincoln, General Sherman, Truman, and a host of other historical figures who today are being lionized (or at a minimum viewed neutrally by historians.)

As I said, there is an asymmetry here. That you find Action X repugnant does not mean that it is necessarily evil, or that all must find it wrong.

so what is your own definition of evil?

loma:
While I applaud the students for getting to the London round , help me understand this.

They came 34th out of the 35 schools in the London round. How does that translate to 14th in the World?  Also how do you extrapolate performance in a Moot competition to ranking of the Law school?  So next time students from UNAAB win a Fluid Mechanics competition (or come 34th out of 35 schools), they automatically become best Engineering school in Africa and 14th in the world?

Am I missing some part of the story?

abeg helep me ask o.  

NRI PRIEST:
My fellow Igbos we have to learn how to enrich,empower and make sure we send our siblings and kindreds to the best science schools. we need to produce more scientists and thinkers!!
Look at the Jewish folks, they are not very involved in American politics but they run things here and nobody fuuks with them!!

When ppl talk about boko harem or hausa/fulani I laugh because they forget we battled these ppl wth the help of their british masters and the rest of nigeria for three years with little funds. So, what makes you think we cant crush them if we sit down and plan very well? Just a thought ppl!

WORD my brother

2011 FDI Moot

Oral Rounds in London 4-6 November

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2011 Skadden, Arps FDI Moot at King's College London.

1 King’s College London - Skadden Arps Trophy 2011
2 Georgetown University
3 City University of Hong Kong, School of Law
4 Kaplan Law School
5 University of Warsaw
5 University of Belgrade
7 Federal University of Minas Gerais
7 Pepperdine University School of Law

Memorials

1. University of Barcelona
2. University of Warsaw
3. University of Belgrade

Counter Memorials

1. King’s College London
2. Pepperdine Law School
3. Kaplan Law School

Team Ranking (Oral Rounds 1-4 and Memorials)
Rank/University/Alias/Points

1 King's College London Mo 1542.5 Baker & McKenzie Prize 2011
2 University of Warsaw Gros 1448.75
3 University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law Badawi 1436.75
4 Suffolk University Law School Fabela 1423.5
5 University of Buenos Aires Jessup 1390
6 Universidad de Granada Dillard 1376
7 Charles University, Faculty of Law Fleischhauer 1374.75
8 Boston University, School of Law Hackworth 1343.25
9 Masaryk University, Faculty of Law Guerrero 1317
10 Novosibirsk State University Spender 1293.5
11 MGIMO University [size=14pt]Onyeama [/size]1281.5
12 University of Wroclaw Alvarez 1257.75
13 University of Barcelona (IELPO) Singh 1237
14 Universite Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne Forster 1170.75
15 Ankara University, Faculty of Law Mosler 1151
16 University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Law Rau 1149
17 City University of Hong Kong, School of Law Petren 1127.25
18 Paris Dauphine University Lachs 1063
19 Belarusian State University Visscher 1059.75
20 Kaplan Law School El-Erian 1055
21 Federal University of Minas Gerais Zoricic 1050.25
22 Russian Academy of Justice Morelli 1024.5
23 Pepperdine University School of Law Elias 1020
24 Uni Curitiba Baxter 989.5
25 New York University School of Law Evensen 987.5
26 Georgetown University Law Center Jennings 977.25
27 Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University Waldock 974.75
28 National University of Juridical Sciences Alfaro 951.5
29 Yonsei University Koo 873
30 Mykolas Romeris University Ago 871.75
31 Gujarat National Law University Castro 868.75
32 University of Silesia Erskine 845.5
33 University of Houston Law Center Tarazi 839.75
34 Lagos State University, Faculty of Law Khan 795.25
35 Xi'an Jiaotong University, School of Law Bengzon

hmm, I see.

nagoma:
As foolish as these boys who went to the vanguard are , they seem wise enough to avoid saying they want to be southerners. Tarka's experience with the transient romance with Awo will keep them away for ever. In case of going eastwards , I don't even need to tell them. My brothers middlebelters ( former northerners) know that they would better have an alliace with a rattle snake than go with the ibos.Ask the idoma and the tivs!

what happened to them? Did Igbos kill them in thousands like they killed Igbos during the war?
who sent in soldiers to kill thousands of tivs in early 1960s -amadu belo

olas2u:
Political thug

whao!

^
abeg who be Tokyo? what is his job?

Ejiné:
Guys, google it. There's no other news body affirming this story except Bola Tinubu's 'The Nation'.
What is going on?

hehahaa!
na amala paper write am! 

abeg help me identify dis man. what makes him tick? lol

Okija_juju:
Nri priest! You can shove your being Igbo up your rectum! I do not give a Bleep. If being Igbo means being you, then I'll denounce my igbo linage completely and become a full fledged Rivers man.

Your security?! The one Osisikankwu and Bakassi boys gave you abi?! The same security that took ndi ugwu (the army) to come and contain abi!

Nna biko go to bed. Ibe ghi na okuko a naba go.

you nor be from anambra again?
you see why some people de call you usu the bat

Relax101:
A RAILROAD linking Uyo with Port Harcourt is one of the plans of the Akwa Ibom State Government to unlock the maritime potentials of Akwa Ibom State for the accelerated the economic development of the country.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/akwa-ibom-to-link-rivers-with-railroad/

i don't see the economic value of this railroad unless i'm missing something
it is more economic (shorter and over solid land) to connect Ibaka with Aba
it is also more viable business-wise
oh well

jason123:
As par usual na!
Naive talk. If the MB bring a candidate. The whole South will support him. Quote me on this in 2015. The alliance does not revolve around anyone, yet, the alliance needs the SS and the MB to work!

jonathan is running in 2015, if not it goes to SE (sponsored by GEJ)
the only way se loses it is if they don't put out a candidate early

jason123:
No more SE/MB/SS/SW[b] connections[/b] again??!

the connection exists only if MB support SE for 2015. MB must show good faith to SE
else make everybody answer im papa name

Abagworo:
The worst person to be your friend in this world is an ingrate and hypocrite. The middlebelt has ruled Nigeria far more than any zone. They have also produced three heads of State under the Northern arrangement. The aim of all these is to deceive and victimize Igbos to sheepishly rig in David Mark as President in 2015 instead of a South-easterner or South-southerner. After which we will still be massacred and short changed.

2015 is for SE, or it will stay with GEj

dis adekunle sef

onlytruth

devil goes to church. lol

alj_harem:
I see, you point but there is a lot more to gain from the north

Majority of our past leaders have been middle belters rather than core northerners

Check the history books.

There is no place in Nigeria where peace exist. each group is always trying to outwith the other.

Take a look at the south. It is a laughting stock of even international communities.

emmke, you would be a big fool to listen to alj_harem whose goal is hausa/fulani domination and rule of nigeria.
that is why he is trying his best to keep you under his control.
this is your last chance to run away from hausa/fulani control
soon, southerners will become armed enough to defeat all of you even if you support aboki, but then, it would be too late for you because we will not accept you in a southern nation. open ya eyes now
the future is very bleak for the north

ezeagu:
How can Enugu's air traffic be more than twice that of Kano when there's 70 million people in Kano?

a very brilliant observation
it is either kano is not up to 70 million, or the people there are very lazy and backward
i think it could be both

FACE:
According to 2009 FAAN statistics, the busiest domestic airports in terms of aircraft movements are

MMA: 55,876, Abj: 48506, PHC: 21163, Warri:12,936, Cal: 7622, Ben: 7330, Enugu:6286: Owerri:4362, Kano: 4135, : Kad: 3431,

Busiest in terms of passenger traffic:[/b]MMA 3.3 million, Abj: 2.87 million, PHC: 1.03 Million, Warri: 417,000, Enugu, 367000, Cal: 316000, Benin: 308,000, Owerri: 277000, Kano: 187000, Kad: 146000

Airports with passenger traffic below 100,000 Maiduguri: 81000, Yola: 58000, Jos: 50000, Sokoto: 45000, Ilorin: 25000, Minna: 12000, Akure: 11000, Katsina: 9000, Ibadan 8200 and Markurdi 4800.

all these airports in bold should be closed down. the money saved should be used to upgrade the viable ones.
nigeria sef

maki:
Wat is d time? 10:14? I think it's way past your bed time and u must be sleep typing, so to bed my little one.

no,  enjoy foulfresh air, lol

up fresh air!

the fulani rampage continues in middle belt

[size=16pt]Benue killings: Number of deaths, unknown[/size]

350 still missing – Eye witness

By Peter Duru, Makurdi
From Naka to Makurdi, Guma to Gwer, tales of woes and lamentations rented the air following the invasion of Fulani herdsmen who have staged persistent attacks on Benue communities and villages leaving in their trail deaths and destruction.

The carnage has left many homeless, women widowed and children orphanned. The remains of the crisis dot the landscape of the affected communities like a sour thumb while huge refuge camps have been set up at Yogbo, Ortese and Daudu and the border town of Kadroko all in Guma local government area of Benue State.

Even the outrage that has repeatedly greeted the bloodbath in the communities and villages has not in any way calmed frayed nerves as the fighting and killings continue.

Not even the killing of some military personnel by the invading herdsmen and consequent drafting of heavily armed security personnel to the troubled spots has stopped the bloodbath.

There is no gainsaying that Benue is under a siege by the marauding herdsmen who invade the state from neigbouring Nasarawa State in a commando fashion, hitting their targets with reckless abandon and utter disregard for sanctity of human life.

They have turned the hinterlands of the state into a theater of war, leaving their victims heartbroken, overwhelmed and in total despair.

Only recently, in Mbagwen, over 30 persons were butchered and buried in mass graves by the invaders; it’s all tales of woes across the agrarian state.

Benue has become a crisis zone and the awful situation seems to have overwhelmed the state government.

Governor Gabriel Suswam, accompanied by the paramount ruler of the community, Ter Nagi Chief Daniel Abomste, dressed in mourning robes, recently visited the displaced persons in Naka and pleaded with them to sheath their sword and refrain from any act that could escalate the crisis.

He assured that the state government was partnering with the Federal Government on the issue, maintaining that decisive steps would be taken to address the situation; yet the killings and wanton distraction of property has continued unabated.

Abomste decried the invasion, describing it as another jihad aimed at conquering the Tiv nation. .

Abomste urged the Federal Government to move fast to arrest the situation in view of the consequence of the crisis escalating.

Suswam’s peace moves got the attention of his Nasarawa counterpart which led to the setting up of a peace committee by both governments with a view to addressing the persistent skirmishes.

But shortly after the Naka killings and destructions, the Fulanis struck again at Mbagwen on the outskirts of Makurdi town, leaving over eight persons dead and several property destroyed.

But the bloodbath got to a head, last week, when over 50 persons were reportedly killed and property worth millions of Naira destroyed by the Fulani herdsmen in a renewed attack on Tiv communities in Guma local government area of Benue.

The crisis has taken a dangerous dimension and is also creeping into Makurdi, Benue State capital, with refugees fleeing the fighting streaming into the town.

Sunday Vanguard gathered that the areas hardest hit by the renewed attack include Tiv settlements of Dooga, Kpata, Lokobi Ajimaka, Ekeae, Giza, Yogbo, and Mbagwem.

Other communities include, Zongo Akiki, Nyijir, Tse Taki, Agbeke all in Gwer West, Guma and Makurdi in Benue and Kadroko in Nasarawa State.

It was also gathered from an eyewitness who fled the fighting with his wife and children from Kpata village, Mr. Tyopine Agar, that the number of the dead could exceed the figure already declared, stressing that as many over 350 persons are yet unaccounted for.

According to him, “many of our people were in the farms when the crisis erupted and, up till now, no one knows their whereabouts”.

Agar alleged that the Fulani herdsmen, assisted by the Alagos residing on the border of Benue and Nasarawa states in Doma town, laid siege to their villages, shooting and burning their houses and property.

Moved by the level of devastation in the communities, Speaker of the Benue House of Assembly, Mr. Dave Iorhemba, who paid an unscheduled visit to some of the refugees camped at the LGEA Primary School Kadroko, lamented the recurrent attacks on the Tiv communities.

Iorhemba, who regretted the “insensitivity of the Nasarawa government” to the plight of the victims of the attack, called on the Benue and Nasarawa governments to take decisive steps to check the carnage.

He also implored the two states to act on the recommendations of the peace committee set up by the states by releasing a white paper on the findings.

He called on the National Emergency Management Agency to step in with materials to assist the displaced persons who are in their thousands.

Iorhemba further called on the two state governments to create grazing routes for the herdsmen to forestall further destruction of farmlands of the communities and the consequent bloodbath.

Village head of Dooga, one of the ravaged communities, Zaki Tsashaku, lamented the devastation in his domain just as he called on the Benue and Nasarawa governments to deploy security personnel to the affected communities before the crisis escalates into major towns of both states.

He also pleaded with the Nasarawa and Benue governments to provide more relief materials to the displaced persons who are currently taking refuge at Yogbo, Ortese and Daudu.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/benue-killings-number-of-deaths-uknonwn/

maki:
U must be very silly. So u cannot make a comment without an abuse, So low

i thought he is your yoruba brother. lol
you people will cry one day if igbos decide to join them to show you your place in nigeria

Ufeolorun:
Lol!
They all sound the same way that you wonder whether its a just an individual using different monikers.
If it's not a pity party,it must be a chest beating convention lol!
Una no dey tire?
Han han! Kilode!?looool!

i thought it is ah ah? lol

nedu210:
i was just readin and readin, i dint want 2 say any thing but knw i will say something @OKIJA my broda your point is baseless, i was actualy thinkin u have a personal issue with ojukwu, let me ask u this question, had it been u were the governor of easter region and u see your people day by day being brought down in a train load of ddad human being in the train terminal in emugu 4 people from all over the eart 2 come and identify their own. If u were in ojukwus shoe what will u do?

he will "negotiate" with aboki, deeck in mouth lol
that would make him and aboki very happy

jason123:
At the determent of objectivity? Nah, I don't do that.

did you just say objectivity? onlytruth trumps you and everyone on that. you are just a hypocrite thats all.

^

you are doing the same thing he is doing -love your people

jason123:
Trouble maker, this is about Ndigbo, onlytruth, not me. I talk fairly. I know when to praise and when not to. When to support and when to withdraw the support.

you are a common hypocrite thats all

^
take a look at this thread and tell me how onlytruth is what you say.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-431316.352.html

you guys must know that the more you hate onlytruth, the more Igbos love him. lol  

jason123:
[b]No, Onlytruth is a bigot! He is a supremacist (Nazi-like ). He is anti-every other ethnic group except, of course, the oil producing communities in the ND. [/b]On the other hand, Eziachi is mature. He exemplifies the wisdom of a true Igbo Nigerian.

Eziachi is a Nigerian with grievances because of the civil war while Onlytruth is a bigoted Biafran with genocidal tendencies.

onlytruth believes in eastern nigeria just like you believe in western nigeria/odua. he thinks igbos need to copy awolowo and sarduana.  you see why i say you are a hypocrite?

jason123:
No, Onlytruth is a bigot! He is a supremacist (Nazi-like ). He is anti-every other ethnic group except, of course, the oil producing communities in the ND. On the other hand, Eziachi is mature. He exemplifies the wisdom of a true Igbo Nigerian.

Eziachi is a Nigerian with grievances because of the civil war while Onlytruth is a bigoted Biafran with genocidal tendencies.

guy i think you don't know them well enough then because onlytruth comes across as someone who wants to remain in nigeria if things change, ie if igbos are treated failry, but eziachi is a through through biafran. eziachi has never accepted being a nigerian