₦airaland Forum

jason123:
This is a bit dull.
State boundaries are not based on ethnicity but on viability, among other factors. With that said, from the article, he said 5 oilwells were located between bendel and ondo, why not share it 50-50? Why assume that it must go to Edo or Ondo?


There is nothing to be revisited. Any further visitation will cause more harm than good. Again, state boundaries are not based on ethnicity.

I dnt understand how Ondo state would have boundary with Delta state skipping Edo state.
If not for the oil wells, what else then?
This is so much insane. I mean insane.

alj harem:
Yes I read the post every single word of it.

According to you, you were saying it is greed that made Nigeria give Bakassi away but it was not.

Boundary adjustment started in 1960 not just 1966 or so are you and Dr omoguia want to put.

Boundary adjustment started way before all the so called oil wells and bakassi, rivers imo etc

that is why I said we should go to the foundation

So what is the problem?
The topic says people in govt during OBJ military ERA adjusted the boundaries so they could have some oil wells in regions where it does not exist.

The boundary between Delta, Edo, Ondo needs to be visited again.
Just looking at the map makes me wonder.

Aigbofa:
Of course they did; In your self deluded fantasy.

Are we backing away from the Anti Aircraft balderdash already? I guess my job is done.

You ve proven one thing to me, you are a sick jealous fellow. lol.
You simply do not exist.

Aigbofa:
Yeah, one that is discerning enough to know when I'm being sold a dummy. And Biafrans have a lot of dummies to sell. Like ogbunigwe aka Anti Aircraft Missile!!

Like I said earlier, give it 50 more years and we will hear about Biafran exploration to Jupiter.

Ok, I get it now. Do you believe they built armored vehicles and rockets?
Also, where did you see any mention of Anti aircraft missile on this thread?

alj harem:
Haba Relax101, it is not them

rather I put those in power around those between the 1963 to 1966

if the foundation was good, then those in 1966-1980 would have built on it, well the foundation was not good so blame the source not the latter.

When was the boundary adjustment made? And what led to these adjustments?
Did you in anyway read the post?

Now what's the problem?
You dnt believe, they produced Ogbunigwe or you just one sick jealous fellow who goes crazy when things like things are mentioned?

Aigbofa:
Tales by the moonlight, embellishment, distortions and outright lies. The propaganda continues.

You be real fool.

Aigbofa:
Argue with me? Like you have what it takes? Self deluded rat.

I no get your time.


Hope you are happy.

^^^ I dnt have the time to argue with your block infested brain.
I had to put this info up to let people know why it was called Ogbunigwe.
I no get time to argue with you.
Wait make I go call Alh harem for you.

ifyalways:
^Owu oge nile ka iwe na ewe gi?Otu ubochi I ga-eji isi gi kuwa 'block' ka anyi nile were mata ma kwetakwa n'iwe na ewe gi.
Onye iwe!

@Odumchi,Congrats na oru-agwu ugwo Moduranshi.lolz.Ghari=mgbawoju anya=confused/not very clear.

Nwa Darfur m.m ga-eji nsusu tapu gi ire na onu.Anyi a choghi ima,Ikomus nwuo.lolz

Chukwu gozie ndi Igbo.

Ify omalicha nwanyi, chei! happy sunday!

Thanks people for exposing your slangs. lol
Now the FBI would have no problems understanding your phone conversation.

Good job. Enugu is not my home but I hopefully want to live there.
My cousins live there at the moment.

“In October 1967, the federal troops, having captured and secured Enugu, the capital of Biafra were on their way to Awka and Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Biafra, through the old Enugu-Awka-Onitsha road. The well armed, heavily equipped federal troops, with their superior fire power, encountered a battalion of poorly equipped, out-gunned and virtually exhausted Biafran troops at the Ugwuoba Bridge, few kilometers into Awka. However the Biafran troops had on hand some of their air defence dust mines. Unable to withstand the superior firepower of the federal troops, they began to run for their dear lives carrying along with them their air defence ‘mines’. Their resourceful commander (whose name has escaped my memory) ordered them back and commanded them to place the air defence mines horizontally rather than vertically as designed and fire them on the approaching federal troops to see what would happen and thereafter run for their dear lives. The command was promptly carried out. Indeed, the federal troops could not understand what hit them. The effect of the horizontal detonation of the air defense dust mines was very devastating leading to loss of many federal troops, as well loss of large quantities of arms and ammunitions some of which got completely burnt. The devastation was, indeed, very extensive particularly in the unintended loss of military personnel, some of who died from the shock waves generated by the unexpected explosions. The mass of water, from the river below the bridge, was thrown up and widely spread by the generated waves, thus adding to the trauma of the advancing troops.

“The following morning some members of the S&T Group were summoned to Ugwuoba Bridge by the military to help explain the new phenomenon and what really had happened to make the air defense dust mines accomplish what they did. Meanwhile, the people of Amansi Awka, the neighbouring village, were called out to the scene to help in burying the dead. An elderly man from Amansi Awka on seeing the large number of dead soldiers along the bridge exclaimed in Igbo: “ogbuefa n’igwe” (the dust mine had killed them in masses or massively). That was how the otherwise anti-aircraft “Air Dust Mine” got its name ogbunigwe (mass killer) and the S&T Group came to be referred to by the generality of the Biafra public as ogbunigwe people.


http://www.gbooza.com/group/nigeriapolitics/forum/topics/3-decades-after-military#axzz1dbL5UWtK

By VINCENT UKPONG KALU Saturday, March 5, 2011

Dr. Felix Oragwu is a nuclear physicist and the arrowhead of the scientific and technological innovations that sustained secessionist Biafra during the thirty months of the Nigerian civil war. While many records have been made of the bloody struggle, there has not been much attempt to chronicle in details the scientific and technological feat that took place in Biafra.

To fill that gap, Oragwu decided to provide that missing link by writing the book, Scientific and Technological Innovations in Biafra: The Ogbunigwe Fame 1967 – 1970.

Ogbunigwe, the deadly mass destruction missile that made the federal troop jittery, was a product of the scientific feat of Biafra. Oragwu revealed how the Biafran scientists were assembled and how the name ogbunigwe was coined.
The author, in an interview with Saturday Sun, informed that the book basically deals with two major things – the ability of a nation in the development of science and technology and an instrument for the economic and industrial development of a country. The book was supposed to have come out in the 1970s, but couldn’t because of the heightened emotions then.

How ogbunigwe was invented
Between late July and early September 1967, it was reported that Biafra enjoyed air superiority over Nigeria by mere possession of an old 1939-1945 war vintage B.26 Bomber. One early September morning in 1967, the old B.26 was, as usual, primed for action at the Enugu airport, where the bomber was normally stationed preparatory for its routine bombing trips on military targets in Nigeria.
A Bofor ground to anti-aircraft gun located near the Enugu Airport defended the airport and the bomber. The primed B.26 bomber was ready to take off, at about 0630 hours on that fateful day to Nigeria, when suddenly there appeared a fast moving, low flying Russian MIG 15 Jet fighter, over the Enugu Airport and Biafra airspace for the first time since the war began. No member of the Science and Technology (S&T) Group before this incident had witnessed a MIG Jet fighter in action. The MIG jet fighter promptly attacked the airport and deflated the tyres of B.26 bomber, thereby immobilizing the vital warhorse.
“Later in the evening of that eventful day, the Commander of Biafra Air Force, after recovering from the shock and humiliation of the morning incident, summoned his officers, including the commander of Biafra Army engineers and some leading members of the S&T Group to the Enugu Airport for advice on the matter and what to do to bring down the low flying MIG jet fighter without the ground-to-air anti-craft guns.

“The Air Force commander, in shaking voice, informed the small group assembled of the MIG 15 Jet incidence of that morning and the implications for Biafra short-lived air superiority over Nigeria.”
With the emergence of MIG jet fighters in the federal troops’ arsenal, the use of B26 bomber, says the author, had come to an end. The ‘Bofor’ gun at the Enugu Airport had become irrelevant against fast moving low flying jet fighters. Therefore, he sought for what could be done to contain the jet fighters and maintain the morale of the Biafran troops and the population at large.
“In the course of the deliberations, a number of suggestions were made. The most viable was to find a mechanism for sending up debris, dust, small pebbles and the like in the path of the flying jet fighters in the hope that these dust particles could be sucked in by the jet fighters to impede its propulsion, asphyxiate and bring the jet fighters down. The question was what type of mechanism could be produced easily and quickly in Biafra to accomplish the task.
“To utilize this scientific principle in throwing up the debris in the path of a fast flying Jet fighter, the S&T-Group had to solve two problems. The first was the rotation of the debris in the bucket to set up laminar flow without allowing the latter to spin, the second was to generate such a recoil that the reaction to the recoil could impart sufficient energy to the rotated debris to rise far beyond the rooftops and spread the contents over a large air space.

An engineer member of the S&T Group called William Achukwu, Agricultural Engineer, volunteered to design and fabricate a metallic bucket-like system for the trials.

“A series of trial tests with varying masses (light materials) and sizes of the debris respectively, depending on the mass/sizes of the debris, gave excellent results achieving heights of 30-1000 feet (10-30 meters) respectively depending on the mass/sizes of the debris. The Air Force commander, the military personnel present, and members of the S&T Group present who witnessed the feat achieved, were very excited and went into jubilation. Most people were convinced that the new mechanism was an answer to the jet fighters, and the S&T Group was directed to produce many of the devices to be used not only at the airports but also as air defense cover at various Biafran troop locations.


The name Ogbunigwe

“In October 1967, the federal troops, having captured and secured Enugu, the capital of Biafra were on their way to Awka and Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Biafra, through the old Enugu-Awka-Onitsha road. The well armed, heavily equipped federal troops, with their superior fire power, encountered a battalion of poorly equipped, out-gunned and virtually exhausted Biafran troops at the Ugwuoba Bridge, few kilometers into Awka. However the Biafran troops had on hand some of their air defence dust mines. Unable to withstand the superior firepower of the federal troops, they began to run for their dear lives carrying along with them their air defence ‘mines’. Their resourceful commander (whose name has escaped my memory) ordered them back and commanded them to place the air defence mines horizontally rather than vertically as designed and fire them on the approaching federal troops to see what would happen and thereafter run for their dear lives. The command was promptly carried out. Indeed, the federal troops could not understand what hit them. The effect of the horizontal detonation of the air defense dust mines was very devastating leading to loss of many federal troops, as well loss of large quantities of arms and ammunitions some of which got completely burnt. The devastation was, indeed, very extensive particularly in the unintended loss of military personnel, some of who died from the shock waves generated by the unexpected explosions. The mass of water, from the river below the bridge, was thrown up and widely spread by the generated waves, thus adding to the trauma of the advancing troops.

“The following morning some members of the S&T Group were summoned to Ugwuoba Bridge by the military to help explain the new phenomenon and what really had happened to make the air defense dust mines accomplish what they did. Meanwhile, the people of Amansi Awka, the neighbouring village, were called out to the scene to help in burying the dead. An elderly man from Amansi Awka on seeing the large number of dead soldiers along the bridge exclaimed in Igbo: “ogbuefa n’igwe” (the dust mine had killed them in masses or massively). That was how the otherwise anti-aircraft “Air Dust Mine” got its name ogbunigwe (mass killer) and the S&T Group came to be referred to by the generality of the Biafra public as ogbunigwe people.

“Arising from the Ugwuoba incident, a device designed and fabricated as an anti aircraft dust mine had suddenly become useful as a ground-to-ground weapon with devastating impact beyond imagination. Its new mode of deployment provided Biafra with additional ammunitions. This incident vindicated the adage “that necessity is the mother of invention.”
*The book was presented in Lagos yesterday


Read more:http://www.gbooza.com/page.html#ixzz456 http://www.gbooza.com/group/nigeriapolitics/forum/topics/3-decades-after-military#ixzz1dbMHYzPw

texazzpete:
Bottom line is that Nigeria (and Nigerians!) is backward technologically, stuck somewhere in a position inferior to even WW2 era levels.
Even the highly touted Biafan war 'innovation' have been seen to be the norm for any group stuck with the onus of improvisation in the face of necessity. The Libyan war has shown us that.

I have mu doubts as to the practicability of this 'Antonov' vehicle, but people laughing here will be foolish not to understand that such silly 'inventions' are usually the stepping stone to much more advanced concepts. You use this as a test bed for ideas and roll it out in future improved designs. People actually sneered at the first attempts to make motor cars as an act of tomfoolery to make 'horseless carriages'.

So yes, it looks like crap, but it's still progress in the right direction. And it's no less ingenuity than welding sheets of plate metal to a truck and calling it a 'main battle tank'.

Remember[b] we're yet to see any pics or blueprints of the 'ogbunigwe'. Can any of the people sneering and sniggering here produce some photos[/b]?

You are not been sincere.
If an armored vehicle and a rocket could be built by the Biafran scientist, what then is common Ogbunigwe.
There's a video to back up the claim.

sheyguy:
i tried to xplain same 2 them but they kept their initial stance, and will rather praise ogbunigwe which to me sounds like welding wheelbarrow to A car because they can't  afford to operate it (as it was designed).

this is one of those nigerian feat that merits all kinds of recognition.
These r the the kind of pple we r missing in Nigeria today. Not flashy copycats.

Trash!!!

Whoever was in govt. from 1966 to 1980 did more harm to Nigeria.
Efik people meant nothing to some people.
I am suprised they had to add the northern part of Cameroun to Nigeria and give out southern Nigeria to Cameroun.
Ohh Foolish and greedy, selfish leaders!!!
Thank God Omoigui spoke it exactly the way they handled business in the past.
All because they want some people to be put in a tight corner.

the girl is pretty.

That's lovely. At least we competing on a level-playing field.

^^^^ I like the tawai sound. lol.

You see how they did wuruwuru to the boundary adjustment.
No wonder there are boundary problems everywhere.

Everybody trying to claim OIL. Haba, na by force?

By Gabriel Enogholase, Benin
MR. Daniel Aiyanyo Omoigui, father of the Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui Okarau, and former Surveyor General of the Federation, turned 80 last Thursday. In this interview on the milestone, Omoigui speaks on why students run away from mathematics and his narrow escape from death during the civil war.

He also speaks on Bakassi Peninsula, which, according to him, has never been part of Nigeria but has always belonged to Cameroun. He adds that he was forcibly retired as Director of the Federal Survey because he refused to do the bidding of a former minister that would have transferred oil wells belonging to Bendel to Ondo State.

How would you describe life at 80?

First and formost, I have to give glory and honour to God for what he has done for me. I think God has done so much for me for the past 80 years. That is my wife sitting with me here; we have been married for 53 years. Therefore, God has been very kind to me.

When I look back to those years, most of my age mates, colleagues have died; most of them did not have the opportunity of formal education, and some of them were even older than me. Therefore, when I look back, I thank God for blessing me and my family. I am now thinking of relocating back to Benin because I have been in Lagos all these years.

‘How would you describe your early school days?

I was born in the village. I did not start primary school until I was 14 years old. When I started school, I used to trek from the school, a distance of 25 kilometers on foot. Every year, precisely on May 24, we used to celebrate the Empire Day; so, to that extent, we celebrated colonialism.

Some people used to say that Nigeria getting independence from Britain was too early unlike India. There were so many good things during the colonial days; the streets were clean; the Electricity Corporation of Nigeria (ECN) was running well; the crime rate was low, etc. My parents did not go to school, but they encouraged me to go to school to learn.

What would say about your early working experience?

After my education at St. Patrick’s College Asaba in 1949, I came back to Benin- City and took a teaching appointment at Niger College, Benin, in 1950. Besides, I also read at home to prepare for my future challenges while there.In 1953, I took the entrance examination into the University College, Ibadan, passed and I took the Inter.

B.Sc examination of the University of London. I entered the University College, Ibadan to read mathematics in October of that year, but, in December, the result of the Inter. B.Sc University of London came out and I passed. Therefore, I had to move to the next class and graduated in 1957.

How would you describe the Benin- City of your days as a young man?

Benin City was a very small place compared to what it is today. The whole area where we now have the Government Reservation Area (GRA) and where I now have my house was all bush; a vast rubber plantation. Boundary Road was so-called because that was the end of the GRA. You are a graduate of Mathematics.

What would you adduce for students’ hatred for the subject?

I read mathematics at the University College, Ibadan. I can tell you that one of the reasons students run away from studying mathematics is the attitude of the teacher. There was nothing like mass education in those days; there was something about the quality of the school environment; the school buildings and the teachers. At that time, even though the teachers were few, they were well trained and disciplined.

However, government’s takeover of schools from the missionaries is part of the problem we have in our educational system today. At that time, Government Colleges were very few. We had here in Benin, Edo College and Government College, Ughelli.


MR. Daniel Aiyanyo Omoigui
The missionaries then had many good schools such as St. Gregory College; Igbobi College; CMS Grammar School; Methodist College, all in Lagos; Christ the King College Onitsha, CIC Enugu, among others. These colleges have produced Nigerians that have occupied eminent positions in the country.

Therefore, if the government had allowed the missionaries to continue to run the schools, things would have been better. Every school is a government school since the takeover. I visited a school in my village some months ago and the school is now a shadow of itself, dilapidated. My junior brother, who practises medicine in England, was a product of that school, but everything there has gone under.

How did you find yourself in the Federal Service and rose to the position of Surveyor – General of the Federation?

I joined the Federal Survey Department in 1957 in Lagos and the job took me virtually to all parts of Nigeria. In 1958, I was at the Royal Military Survey Institute, London, for further studies and I came back to Nigeria in 1959. I got married to my wife in 1958 and she came to join me in the United Kingdom in 1959.

My first son, who is a cardiologist in the United States, Dr. Nowamwangbe Omoigui, was born in London. When I returned to Nigeria, I was posted to Kiama in present Kwara State, but I had to leave my family behind at Ilorin.

From Kiama, I was posted to New Bussa because the Kainji Dam was being constructed, and from New Bussa to Nikki in Benin Republic. In 1961, I returned to London as an attaché to the Director of Overseas Survey, War Office.

I found this experience very useful later in life. On my return from London, I was posted to Lagos and made the Chief Computer Analyst at the Federal Survey Department because of my background as a mathematician.

In 1964 – 65, I was posted to do Geodesic Survey throughout the country and, because of this nomadic life, I decided to keep my family in Lagos permanently. In 1966, I was posted to Markudi to take charge as the only office outside Lagos then.

This was a very trying period in the history of the country because of the tension generated by the 1966 coup d’état. I was still in Markudi when the second coup of July, 1966 took place and there was trouble all the country. In September 1966, there was trouble in Markudi and so many people were killed.

So, what was your experience during the civil war?

I would have lost my life in Markudi if not that God used one Lt. Col. Adeniran to save our lives. At that time in Markudi, the town was essentially made up of Igbos because the Tivs were predominately farmers. Lt. Col. Adeniran gave us non-natives a platoon of soldiers that escorted us from Markudi to Lafia, then Suleija and to Jebba.

At Jebba, it was a terrible and horrible experience at the River Niger Bridge. People were asked to identify themselves. When I told them I was a Benin man, an army sergeant from Zuru who had lived in Benin came and spoke to me in Benin language, and I replied.

That is what saved my life. After the civil war, I started the boundary demarcation of the entire country, so, my stay in London helped me a lot in this assignment. Most of the documents today on boundary demarcation were produced by my team.

Then you were involved in the demarcation of the boundary between Nigeria and Cameroun Yes. In August 12 – 14 ,1970, the first meeting of the Nigeria/Cameroun Boundary Committee took place in Beau, Yaoundé. The Nigerian delegation was led by the late Chief R.O Coker.

I was like the technical secretary to the committee. There were representatives from the Customs. Immigration, Cabinet Office in the delegation. When we came back from Yaoundé, the delegates from the External Affairs Ministry did their report to their Commissioner, the late Dr. Okoi Arikpo, who then wrote to the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney – General of the Federation,[b] Dr. Teslim Elias, for his opinion on the Nigeria/Cameroun boundary issue. Elias’ reply has remained a landmark legal opinion that Nigerian has no claim to Bakassi peninsula; that all we needed to do was the maritime boundary between both countries.

The General Yakubu Gowon administration followed Dr. Elias’ opinion. From 1970 -1975 when General Gowon was removed from office, I took part in the negotiations.

I have all the documents. What Gowon did then was to convene a meeting of the Supreme Military Council to brief them on the legal opinion and Col. Olusegun Obasanjo, as he then was, was the Commissioner for Works while Col. Murtala Muhammed, as he then was, was the Commissioner for Communications.

I was then the Assistant Director in charge of the Mapping Section at the Federal Survey Department and, in 1978, Chief Coker retired from the service and my colleague took over as Director of Federal Survey.

In 1979, we had a civilian administration and, in 1981, the Cameroonian gendarmes invaded Nigeria and five of our soldiers were killed. With my experience, even though not heading the maritime section, I was requested by the National Asembly to tell them the exact location where the killings took place.

I told them it was in Cameroun, east of Ekeng. Although they knew it was in the Cameroun, they started to flex muscles.[/b] When Buhari took over in 1984, he set up a task force on Nigeria’s boundary with Chad Republic and I was a member of the task force.

It was then we knew that Richard Akinjide had sought the opinion of a Cambridge Director for his opinion. I was then brought in to supervise the technical report while the main report did agree with Elias that Bakassi was in Cameroun.

The Permanent Secretary was Ambassador Edwin Dove in the External Affairs Ministry while Hamzat Ahmadu now Chairman of Leventis was the Director – General. They were aware. Chief Uffot Ekaette was the private secretary to General Gowon and he knew about the issue.

In 1984, as the Director- General of the Federal Survey, following a re-organization in the Federal Ministry of Works, I initiated the establishment of National Boundary Commission when I was told that Cameroun had established its National Boundary Commission because of the sensitive nature of the issue. The Vice President was made the Chairman because of the sensitive nature.

[b]In 1977, the Obasanjo administration set up the Justice Mamman Nasir Boundary Commission and, following its report, the boundaries of some states were changed. Part of Western Ijaw went to Rivers State, part of Bendel went to Ondo; part of Rivers went to Cross Rivers and part of Imo went to Rivers.

Because of this, some oil wells changed hands. There was an oil well in Rivers very close to Imo and I was asked to demarcate where the oil well was actually located. After the exercise, it was found that the oil well was in Rivers.

Moreover, because parts of Bendel had gone to Ondo, there were five oil wells very close to the boundary. Initially, the Ondo people wanted the royalty to be shared 50-50 because they were very close to the boundary between both states.

In 1981, a Yoruba man, who was Director of Survey, wrote to the Ministry of Finance on the issue and, after charting, it was found that the oil wells were in Bendel State. He wrote to the Ministry of Finance that the Yoruba would not take this.

He went to Lagos, met with the Director of Survey and reported that a Bini man was behind the charting. Then my Director said no, he charted it. In 1984, Bamidele Otiko became the military governor of Ondo State and came to Lagos to meet my Director. At the meeting, my Director told Otiko he was responsible for the charting.

When Chief Olu – Falae became the Secretary to the Federal Government, he directed me to write a letter that pending the resolution of the Ondo – Bendel boundary adjustment issue, they should be sharing the royalty 50 – 50. I declined to write the letter.

They then posted one Ondo man to be the permanent secretary. He was reported to have said he was posted there to do their bidding and they would call him an outcast if he did not. After reading the file, he said I should do something, on the issue and I said, ‘No, you are the permanent secretary, draft the letter and sign it.

He refused. The then Minister of Works, Alhaji Abubakar Umar, was a witness to all these. Later some people did a letter purportedly written by me. When Mamman Kantagora became the Works Minister, he told me that the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) had retired me.

That was in 1988. The following week, the then Ondo governor called a press conference and told the media that I forged the map of Ondo – Bendel States to remove oil wells from Ondo to Bendel. [/b]The newspapers that published the story were sued for libel and I made them to write apology letters.

Since I was retired, they have not carried out any survey on the Ondo – Bendel boundary issue.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/omoigui-at-80-i-made-them-pay-for-claiming-i-removed-oil-wells-from-ondo-to-bendel/

There's nothing wrong with Umuahia.
You have the modest part and the business district.
Asaba seems to be the best modern capital. I think so.

El rufai=Buhari=Atiku=Nuhu Ribadu=Sultan of Sokoto=all the emirs=Sanusi=Evil.


Only Aliyu babangida and Shekarau behaves and think different from the rest.

The court ordered that the officer who shot and killed a Lagos traditional chief be remanded in prison

A police officer, Wasiu Adesina, who allegedly shot and killed a man, Chief Jacob Bamgbelu, was on Friday arraigned in Lagos.

Adesina, 35, was arraigned before Magistrate S.O. Matepo of an Ebute Metta Magistrate Court on a one-count charge of murder.

The prosecutor, Nwabueze Sunday, told the court that the incident took place on November 10 on Itokin Road, Ikorodu, Lagos State.

He said the offence contravened Section 319 (1) Cap 17, 2003 Laws of Lagos State.

Adesina’s plea was not taken but the magistrate ordered him to be remanded in prison custody pending advice from the Director of Public Prosecution.

Counsel to the defendant, Sporgon Ataene, had pleaded in vain with the court to remand the accused in police custody at CID, Panti.

The case was adjourned till December 14.

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/police-man-who-killed-chief-arraigned

The Lagos State Government has appealed to residents in the state to come out en masse for the 8th round of the state-wide free screening exercise for hypertension and diabetes.

The screening exercise has been slated to hold from November 14 to 18, 2011, in all the 20 Local Government Areas and the 37 Local Council Development Areas in the state.

The exercise is also scheduled to take place in three major clubs in the state; the Lafiaji development club, the Ikeja Country club and the Public Service Club, Ikorodu.

Dr. Yewande Adeshina, the Special Adviser on Public Health, while addressing journalists on Friday, said the State Ministry of Health was targeting 100,000 residents in this round of the screening exercise.

"Diabetics and hypertension constitute a major component of what is generally referred to as Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and NCDs are the leading cause of functionary impairment and death worldwide. These diseases are, by far, the leading causes of mortality in the world, representing 60% of all deaths. By 2020, it is predicted that non-communicable diseases will be causing 7 out of every 10 deaths in developing countries," she said.

Adeshina added that the Lagos State government is committed to eradicating all forms of diseases in the state and urged residents to take advantage of the screening centres in their localities, so as to prevent terminal diseases.

Other similar health programmes being implemented in the state include breast, prostate and cervical cancer screenings.

The hypertension and diabetic screening exercise, which started in July 2007, has so far screened 600,000 people.

Last year 80,000 people were screened.

The screening exercise is scheduled to hold at the LGAs and LCDAs from 8.00a.m-5.00p.m. everyday.

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/free-health-screening-lagos

With the completion, the State Government ordered all mechanics in the capital city to move their workshops to the village

The Enugu State Government has ordered all mechanics in the state capital to relocate to the Mechanic Village built for them by the government.

The State Commissioner for Capital Territory Development, Ikechukwu Ugwuegede, gave the order in Enugu on Friday.

"As we speak, the mechanic village is ready for them to move in. From next week, we are going to remove all abandoned vehicles which are clogging our roads.

"So we intend to make the roads that we have built with our lean resources available for everybody. Nobody is allowed to convert a residential lot into a mechanic activity because he or she has not gotten space from his union in the mechanic village,” Ugwuegede said.

He said that the ministry was in touch with the mechanic union for the provision of spaces to its members and had begun towing vehicles either wrongly parked on roads or abandoned.

The Commissioner also warned motorists against indiscriminate parking of cars, saying that offenders would be made to pay fines.

On the deadline for the movement, the commissioner said it was a continuous process as efforts were being made to provide more spaces for the mechanics.

He explained that the ministry was in charge of the development of local governments in the capital city including, Enugu East, North and South councils.

"Our job is to ensure that infrastructures provided by government are properly used. We want to make this city attractive and conducive for investors."

The capital territory development ministry is one of the four new ministries created by Governor Sullivan Chime’s administration in his second tenure.


http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/enugu-mechanic-village-completed

Another Bomb Blast Injures Four In Bauchi!


KANO (AFP) – A roadside bomb exploded in the city of Bauchi, injuring four people, the latest in a series of attacks to hit the region in recent months, police said Saturday.

“There was a bomb blast in Wuntin-dada suburb of the city in which four people were injured,” Bauchi State police spokesman Mohammed Barau told AFP.

He said the incident happened Friday evening as workers were returning home.

“The bomb which was planted by the roadside went off as people were closing for the day. Forensic experts have been conducting investigation into the incident and bomb fragments have been taken to Abuja for analysis,” he said.

Barau said no arrests had been made and it was too early to blame any group for the incident.

The radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram has been blamed for scores of bomb and gun attacks in Nigeria, including the capital, Abuja.

The sect claimed responsibility for the August suicide bombing of the UN headquarters in Abuja which killed at least 24 people and coordinated attacks in the country’s northeast last week that left some 150 people dead.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/another-bomb-blast-injures-four-in-bauchi/

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^^^^ I think PDP dont charge women for party/nomination forms.
It's free for women.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=799934.msg9535688#msg9535688 date=1321067145]Right. They "dont" discriminate, they just make it way more harder for women to participate.

Iyalode, bawo ni?
Mo wa o [/quote]lol
I love women, haba.
I do my male duties too.

merge:
I'm interested in politics in Nigeria. The better question would be "Does Nigerian Politics allow Women to  participate and run for office?" That is the reason for the lack of interest.

Unfortunately, most Nigerian men are incapable of being good leaders in politics. Over 50 years has gone by and nothing to show for.

Yes Nigerian politics do not discriminate.
There is equal opprtuinity in Nigeria. Female=male in naija politics.
But you got to be 10 step ahead of your male competitor.


[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=799934.msg9535641#msg9535641 date=1321066074]This chick wicked no be small. 
Relax101, see ya e-life like this.  [/quote]Ileke bawo ni veterans day.
Eku gbadun o.
Kilo sele ni ale yi?