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seunfly: That must be joke cos any sensible president will never accept that.
I also doubt that source, i am waiting 4 it to come out of reputable source.

Its funny when liars do a really lame job leaving their lie so obvious, that you begin to wonder if even they themselves (the so called journalists) believe what they are writing... the language and way the phrases in the text is definately not how administrative documents are written... for example, the one i recall (i dont want to give that post a second read - waste of my time) is the word "enjoyed" ... something along the lines of "the way the niger delta people enjoyed..." lol i mean that sounds like 2 somewhat literate women chatting on their way back from the farm....

@ OP, enjoy your lies.... but please dont come posting it on here as time is precious to some of us, and I always don't have much to spare on stuff like this. I ghotala? Good boy. Cheers

My sister, ike gwuru o. People being hypocrites and speaking from both sides of their mouth is to me, the lowest a person of no self value can go. x is good or bad, depending on who does X.

They will rush into Biafra threads and celebrate the death of women, children and defenceless civilians, saying that "action and reaction is not the same."
The way someone who says this can come now on this thread (on this same nairaland) and say that you dont like this or that doesnt mean one should break property etc... one will be shocked to see the same poster taking a complete 180 with absolutely no shame.

They can shout bigot bigot bigot all they want, other Nigerians knows which ethnic group introduced bigotry into Nigerian politics. Sanusi couldnt have been more apt. Thank heavens Chinua wrote it in a golden pen for our future generations to read and forever watch their backs from backstabbers.
Hate eats people up from the inside, little wonder different vices devoour their land and people sleep with their daughters-in law, drink rat poison, generals weeping like babies, taking a dump in water-proof and use the same water-proof, unwashed to pack their food to eat the next day ... living lives of complete and utter shamelessness.

Till love is embraced, and tribalism shunned, but rather have people treated with respect and dignity irrespective of tribe or race, but with the same manner one would want others to treat him or her ... until then... may God have mercy.

nnenna.1:
In other words, the message should have been left alone to be displayed.

Gotcha.

haha thats what happens when i cant sleep... its like 3:00 am and m still up...
btw... I had wanted to ask you how to contact you... recall when i asked you about what and how NNO is going for a response/action from the authorities in Nigeria about the dead people found in the river in Onitsha (or was it Awka or so) ... I want to join the "inner caucus" as i have suggestions of goals we can work towards... i have consistency problem giving my schedule, but things are winding down and this summer, i will try to be more regular and not MIA or showing radomly or irregularly to this forum. Cheers.

manny4life:

That definition of Kogi...haha

KOGI = Kemgbe Onamasi Gi Inwu!
(I just made that up heheh? funny huh? lol Not!) May we live in peace, i pray thee Lord.

Some of us may not like the others, and the others may not want anything to do with us...
but since we are in this together, at least, living inpeace with each other, as best we can, is what we need.

Ka Chineke nke puru ime ihe nile, mezie okwu a n'aha Jesus Christ bu onye nwe anyi... amen.

Onye nwe anyi, meghee egbugbere onu anyi...
Onu anyi g'ekwuputakwa otuto gi...
Chineke, zoputa anyi oso oso...
Onye nwe anyi, mee ngwa inyere anyi aka...
Otuto diri Nna, na Okpara, na Mmuo nso...
Otu o diri na mbu, ka odi ug ugbua, ka oga digide otua... wee rue n'uwa ebighebi ... amen....

Sunday nke mbu ka easter gara, septugathany.

Sbeezy, how you doing, bro?

recall years back barging into a thread and saying negative stuff about Ojukwu? and then about half an hour later or even less... you came back and said something to the effect of "I take back my words..." the astonished e-warriors asked why a sudden change of heart and you said something like... "He had no choice, he had to do what he had to do for his people... " and stuff like that....

each time i see your moniker on here it reminds me of that incident... it was kinda funny, but i remember it primarily for being an unusual thing to happen. was kinda sweet of you too loll.

so what do you still think about the man, Ojukwu? i dont have the time to go through your posts... maybe over the weekend...but how are you doing? hpe the going is going? did you mourn the Ikemba Nnewi? just kie Chinua, people from all over the word doffedd their heart with their heads bowed at such an untimely demise.

My guy... so you want the machine to read out the numbers the blind person is punching in? rofl... as you said, itonly requires a few phrases to "guide" the user, the number 5 on the keypad usually has a dot on it, which is enough to rient and guide the person to where other numbers are situated.
if ATM will "talk" out lound my PIN, abeg free me from that ATM lol.

lillyveezy: Those of u saying UBA ATM talks,did u pay attention to the post?He/She means enough audio to guide the blind.He does not mean the ones that says"Welcom,pls enter ur secret number..."How the blind go come punch nawh?wat of the denomination part,does our ATM tell u anything?Abeg this is a good biz opportunity.just promote it and it sales.

Your mind is already made up, so why keep asking for evidence when no matter what is said to you is tagged false? stop wasting people's time here, abeg. This thread has just shown how unintelligent you are.

The.Big.Urban:
God of Abraham said "thou shalt have no other gods but me".....explain how this fits in with the polytheistic (many gods)

Furthermore, the igbos could not have a had a Hebrew inscription on their throne......they dont speak the language and never have.


Please, provide evidence for your claims ooo

@OP, I and a few of my friends are interested... but we barely have any info on how to apply... like, what is the website where we need to submit the form at? and can we get the application form form you? (and as someone asked, is UBA accepting the biafran pound? a personal contact of mine needs to know - and i also think it is important - can the US dollar buy the Biafran pound and vice versa?)

Just asking cause we need all the info we can get so we can go in with our eyes wide open, knowing our goal, aim, objective etc and more so, how feasible they are.

I hope to hear from you soon. Oh, and when willl this training be scheduled to start? (for how long is it too?).

Cheers, may God bless ala Igbo. Amii!!!

-Remark D.

Guess what his observation of you will be... exactly. I aint surprised at all your seeing someone "dedicated to glorify Igbos on nairaland" and the redunddant posters that never have anything good to say of Igbos - but always trying to rubbish anything Igbos skips your observation. Please just shove your observation up your you know what. I hate hypocrites.

Crassus: FSU has dedicated his life to igbo glorifying on Niaraland. keep it up !

You go soon tire like others before you.
my observation, You :
Just lost your job,
Applicant,
still writing jamb with no success,
or just miserable.

Take a good look at your profile and your recent post and the topics you opened.
there is no award for the best tribalist on nairaland so don't keep your hopes up.

My advice,
do something productive with your life. ethnic bashing and tribal propaganda wont do you any good. you are getting old by the day

oh my goodness! abegi! abegi!! Abegi!!!retreat, biko, overkill ga enwezi ka o ga-adi! lol. Their teeth (all of them) have been knocked out and their lips and big mouth (which they are known to run always) has cuts and bruises longer than the tribal marks on their faces, bikothe roaches don scatter and the rats have headed to the bush or taken rat poison, peace can now be unto this thread! ka okwu bizie!!!

nwando: A na m anu one?
Ndi Yoruba are like roaches
If you see one in your cupboard there are probably one thousand more
And they flock together
Na to comot shelltox begin spray dem
I hate roaches

nwando: Yeah yeah

The first people killed by firing squad for drug trafficking------ Yoruba
The oldest drug dealers male and female----------Yoruba
World Record breakers in drug swallowing ---------Yoruba
People smuggling cocaine on the bodies of their toddlers -------Yoruba
Most popular armed robber in the history of Nigeria Shina Rambo------Yoruba
Largest Indian hemp growers and users--------Yoruba
Teachers fing.ring little girls for fertility checks--------Yoruba
Highest rate of rap.e----------Yoruba
Highest rate of uneducated in southern nigeria-------Yoruba
Highest rate of murders,assassinations and hooliganism ----------Yoruba
419 churches and pastors---------Yoruba
Ugliest people on earth--------Yoruba
Southern beggars-------Yoruba
The almajiri of the south -------Yoruba
The problem with Nigeria--------Yoruba
The only area with human meat market ------Yoruba
The only area that actively deports their fellow tribesmen to their neighbouring states----------Yoruba
The people that exported juju to the outside world ------Yoruba
The only place to chase indigenes out of their ancestral homes-----Yoruba
The nigerians that abandon their children to white foster homes in England -----Yoruba
Marrying their own daughters for a chance to live in London------Yoruba
First gay pastor --------Yoruba
The land where most kids are born by absentee bed hopping fathers-------Yoruba
Culture of single motherhood and carrying belle for married men------Yoruba

I swear to Gadd, tears were running down my cheeks from laughing so hard half-way through this TKO post! Game over. Das it... that's all! lol. Kai! why isnt there a "post of the year" or award for such slap-your-mouth-shut posts like the above? lol

Didnt you see Dayo's post up there? and how he just posted a short haphazard post and ran away? [Knowing for sure that the person he quoted was going to finish him... and roflm did she ever! rofl) ... Thing is Dayo knows that power pass paower, so he respects himself whenever that poster is around. I am sure blue tooth and etc have seen this thread... but whenever Babyosisi or her other unbanned handles are on a thread ... they chance that place fast fast! lol.
quote author=vanstanzy]Bluetooth, bayokanu, maclatunji and co Igbo haters should see this. Mods frontpage please![/quote]

welcome or not is irrelevant... you know the cliches already.. Lagos is no man's land.. did you have to make me say it?

or that you papa and grandpapa fought with their lives just to live with Igbos in One Nigeria...

Here is your One Nigeria... Igbos are coming... run!!!!! lol. After buying all the remaining land in Lagos, they'll move to the next state, before you know it... your people will be like the native-americans living in the remotest parts of the state. lol. And when they kick you bottom out of London, since una no dey build house for villagewhat you gonna do, huh? Lagos boy? What you gonna do when them Igbos buy up your land and you have no place to live?

Maybe you can come work for the factory in the east and live in the stair well... like a rat ... just don't take poison, okay? We love you, bro.

omonnakoda: There are already too many Ibos in lagos

taking the life of another with no recourse to a judicial ruling is ... i want to say unforgiveable... cause why should one live whom takes that of another in the absence of reason. I really can't express how exactly i feel about murderers.... its just unbelieveable, and very very very unacceptable.

Manny, is this letter just online? or is it going out in hard print or other forms to reach the so called leaders in Igbo land.

I cant understand how the people we have chosen to lead us (or whom have been chosen for us) can not feel for the lives of their fellow human beings/citizens and even brothers...

Anyways, i can only say as much... may god pass his judgement on those whom feel they can take life into their own hands...

IGBO-SON:
Thinking about it again ACM10, i think you're right, and we're basically saying the same thing.

You're not being helpful.. you're being confused and id.i.otic ... should i add tribalistic as well... heck you're just being... Yo(mama)robber.

Don't start getting wet now and begin flapping your (dirty) gums... my time here is limited and i just wanted to say "Hi" to you... so "Hi, sweetie"

Desola: Tufiakwa! Ibos being Yoruba? Ka ma ri! Mo taka osi danu!

I was only providing a pointer since you obviously didn't know that ibos exist in Nigeria. I was been ingenious by providing you with places to go and see the ibos who migrated from the said iboland as I am aware that if you were lucky enough to find your route to the said iboland, you might not find them there as 99.9% of them have either migrated to Yorubaland or the prisons in the land of the orients.

Just been helpful, that's all.

lol Jealous you can't have his beautiful queen ... someone from your village would have to sleep with his own daughter, flesh and blood and other incest behaviors southwesterners are known for. I mean, i dont get it ... Bianca was not a minor when she got married, but the age difference worries you more than your own leaders and so-called heros sleep with their family members?

Or your traditional rulers raping an NYSC lady he was to be protecting in his land...

How barbaric can some Yorubas be?

The so called sage drank rat poison and was buried with other dead rats that shared the poison with him, and Ojukwu (I know his name frightens you) is given a state burial and you are concerned he died "alone" blah blah blah ...
You never surprise me, just baffled at the depth of silliness you display. Carry on... (just dont sleep with your sister or mother... you came out from there, not supposed to be "going in" there okay? I know thats probly hard for you to understand, but try... prove that the free education your sage gave you is worth something, howeverlittle... .

dayokanu: Call Ojuku names ke?

Was he not a coward? Or didnt he flee in the middle of the night?

Didnt he phuck his best friends daughter?

Didnt he sleep with his own GodDAUGHTER?

Didnt he impregnate an unknown hausa woman

Deny any of these allegations

I've thought of this (something similar... music/rhythm and dance) to be specific; how i was able to play certain rhythms so easily and my (white) buddy was so amazed and was like "Hhow do you do that" and he took the drum and started playing irregular rythm... in dance, there are some moves and ... should i say comes from within, like it seems like a knee jerk or involuntary/sub-conscious reaction when you make a move or dance step etc... but oyibo will find that difficult to do (some of them anyways). (Finally) coming to topic, i think that Africans do have the capability, but not just good support/facilities/opportunities to grow or maintain their skill. also at certain times, these sports are seen as things that "wont put food on the table." <<< although that is gradually changing... (from foodball/soccer to now, music have become money making things that can now "put food on the table."
In my highschool, i remember a junior boy that ran the 1500 meters race (the whole/round the football pitch, once) and from the blast of the whistle, this boy went full steam, full speed until the end... i mean, when others start at a gradual pace in order to conserve energy for the last meters of the race, this guy is dashing like he is doing 100 meters. I remember then thinking how strange this is and that i hope i will someday be able to manage this guy and make money when he competes on the world stage. but that was something really spectacular.

i think its a matter of time, africa seems to be dealing with its problems and troubles bit by bit, and when "other" presssing neeeds are taken care of, i am sure sports will be their ruling domain. For example, you see vegetarians in developed countries because they already have too much food to eat that they can now pick and choose and call themselves vegetarians, whether to protest animal cruelity or whatever, but Africans whom never see chop will not spare the goat or (the Calabarians) will not spare the dog as a meal...[ okay there's my two sense. Nice observation though.

quote author=ekt_bear]I know it is a bit foolish to draw conclusions based upon just my personal experience. But I play basketball quite a bit recreationally. I've noticed that African Americans can typically run faster and jump higher than whites. They also seem to react faster...better lateral quickness.

But the Africans I've seen play, they've not looked overmatched physically. Or it isn't like the slowest black guy on the court will be an African.[/quote]

Did you come up with this rule or.... more like is Seun aware of this? cause honestly i take no offence at the words "Igbo" "Okoro" ... i mean even "aAboki" will be banned? I really dont think this is a good idea. its gonna change and make this site look odd and not have that nigerian feel anymore. because honestly, i am sure that when the Yorubas talk they do refer to Igbos as Omo ibo or whatever ... i say Yoruba and Iyamirir or whatever it is the northerners call Igbos etc should not be bannable offences, because, the origins are not out of hate, but due to an understanding of that particular ethnic group by another, based on certain characteristics or whatever. and its not even the bad/worst characteristics that are used... in other words .. how can you ban "Okoro" and willyou also an someone if they call Igbos "Spare part dealers? Anywho... i hope so many changes all at once wont start driving people away from this site.

Btw, i actually came on here to congratulate you, Afam4ever on your moderating this section despite all the heat and wahala your detractors are creating around ya. it is not easy... keep it up. i think you are very good at banning, but not as good with making rules... just my opinnion, no ban me o! lol.

But i support you and think you should even slam the hammer down stronger on those miscreants that create new usernames just to start trouble. was fun seeing someone banned until 2106! keep it up, ban 'em until Year 3000 if possible! lol especally those that oblige you (and Seun too).
That's all for now (folks). Peace.

Afam4eva: Any language that is used to refer to a tribal/ethnic/racial group is a slur.

and while ièm at it, Eze Onlytruth, I really think that there should be more concrete goals and objectives, and even a blue print if possible, of the mission youo will be leading us to... even review points along the way to assess progress and re-strategizing if and where possible... i will like to see tangible things being made posssible by this process... since we spend so much time on nairaland, instead of fighting the ÈOfemanusÈ maybe the fight can be a fight for peace and collectively ridding bias and the hate from and to both sides ... i have too much n my mind that its all coming out at once... but hope you get an idea of what i am saying.. or at least, trying to sayÉ

Congratulations once gain.

Eze! I ga adi!!!
The greeting, proper, traditional/original/correct greeting of Ndi Igbo is only what i read andwas proud to salute you. I was afraid people are forgetting? maybe diluting? or is it "text language" and lack of time to give a proper greeting that has led to the greetings i see on here sometimes and shake my head.

I won't name names, but i will mention the greetings that get on my nerves:
#1. The heck is Ututu oma?
Say that in your village and before you go to sleep, say "Abali oma" to your folks...

and the worst "farewell" greetings is when people say "Udo" at the end of their message.
Why not just go on and say "Udo n'ezi" and we'll know whether you neeed help or not.

Please, let us stop bastardizing our language that seems to be getting extinct little by little.
If you want to greet "Oha" ... and you don't know... ask someone who knows... translating from English doesnt cut it...
having gotten that off my mind... i can now continue reading our Eze's address...

Udo n'ezi unu nile!

Onlytruth: Cha cha cha Igbo kwenu!

Kwenu!!

Kwezuonu!

Ndigbo ga adi ndu!

Umunne m,

We have done it yet again. We have just successfully organized the freest and fairest online elections ever recorded in Nigeria.
Onye si na o di nfe, ya bia me ka anyi hu! (if anyone says it was easy, let him attempt it, let's see how far he can go!)

The feat is remarkable by any standard: the HIGH performance standard of our electoral team led by our able Chief electoral commissioner PointB, and our queen -Eze Nwanyi Ndigbo Nairaland Ogugua88; then the defacto "protocol officers" of the electoral commission -9ja_I-hail and manny4life (our just discovered data processor in chief!); ezigbo nwa Igbo Afam4eva who worked closely with our Mod friend OAM4J; all these ensured that the process was transparent and spotless. The process was so superbly implemented that at a time I thought I was watching a US electoral process!

Igbo kwenu!

I wish to quickly congratulate my brothers in arms Alex101 (oyiri Eze 1 of Nairaland -he is just like me! ), and Biafra_rep who I'm sure would have made a great Eze as well. Umunne m, you graced this process with your offer of service, and I promise that you shall be given that opportunity to serve Ndigbo here; just get ready, we are now where we need to be. Ugo eberego na mgbagbu! Thanks for a great brotherly "fight".

I wish to also congratulate the entire Igbo nation who made this a thing of pride for us all. Though a few of our people attempted to deviate the process, they were largely gently nudged into line, and some of them repented when they saw a smooth process unfolding. Heck even non-Igbo trolls joined the effort to deliver a flawless process! It means we are gradually winning the moral war with the force of our cultural moral values. Soon, we shall deliver a knock out punch on the satanic forces trying to hold Igbo down, and foist our own standards of morality on Nigeria, nay Africa!

Igbo kwenu ozo!

Umu Igbo di nnukwu egwu!

Some few hours from now, I shall unfold the methodology of the new Eze Ndigbo III tenure which begins today (Saturday March 2, 2013).
At this juncture, I wish to thank Ngwakwe, re@lchange, xtgozie, tChidi (my latest wife by fire by force ), and ALL other volunteers who have already offered to work for Ndigbo. As for those who have not volunteered, please start thinking of what you are good at now, and offer your service when I put up a thread for recruitment of Igbo Nairaland "government". I shall do that before the end of today Saturday, March 3, 2013.

Finally, I wish to thank our outgoing Eze Odumchi for his service to Ndigbo. Forever, there will be Eze Ndigbo Nairaland II, and his name is Odumchi.

The celebration shall run hand in hand with the formation of our new government.

Ka Chineke gozie Ndigbo (May God bless the Igbo nation). Isee!

Signed,

Yours truly,

Onlytruth, Ndu di n'eziokwu 1 of Igboland.

Ara umu nwanyi Asaba o na ato uto?
(Gwam gwam gwam, gwam otu ara umu nwanyi Asabi si ato...)

Odunnu: Ife di nukwu? Munwa bu Ara nwanyi Asaba, Ukwu nwanyi Owerri. With me as the Treasurer, I will hold the Eze's heart as a treasure

Please take note of my objection here, right now lol, to the candidacy of Onlytruth. Thanks.

And so i enjoin Ify, Promo and others that preferred Odum to stay, to come out and boldly object to Onlytruths candidacy as well... I havent reviewed where it is in the constitution, but i recall someone stating that a fair amount of objections (a particular percent) can disqualify a candidate; and i stand to be corrected, please.

Before i go on to my nominations, a few random chit-chats....does anyone else find Naija_I_hail a bit weird? like queer? ... i'm not sure what it is... if its his writing style and choice of words or wha... cant put a finger on it, but if one is looking for a square peg or round hole or whatever... he is neither ...

Also enough respect to the poster that held his own when a lday was yanking his chain. A gentleman should have self control and not denigrade women. There were some hidden posts i noticed and not sure if our former Eze (Onlytruth) went down that road with the lady poster (Ify i believe it was).

Okay, now on to my nominations.

I will start by singing a song:

"Manny ka anyi ga eso! Manny ka anyi ga esooo!!
Mao na adi ndu, ma o na-anwu anwu, Manny k'anyi g'eso!!!

Ma o na eche eche, ma o na ala ala,
Manny k'anyi g'eso!!!!
(and no one should ask me to interprete the meaning of the second to last line lol).

I nominate and will vote for Manny because he isthe "middle ground" between the former two occupants of the throne.

For those who said Odum pandered to our brothers west of the Niger... welll, Manny is your man because they do not see him as "friend" as he often challenges them on their insinuations andany lies they try to propagate about Igbos. (Not that Odumchi didnt do that ... even before his tenure, but the point is that ... they dont like him as much as they did Odumchi (and the Ezenwanyi).

Manny knows when to use silence as gold, and bark and attack when detractors need to be put in their place.

Manny is for the unity of Ndi Igbo; i have seen him time and time again (Gee that Janet Jackson song just popped into my head... the '9? song.. Again. Anyways) ... I believe that as an educated young man, he knows the importance of unity amongst brethen... and on the Biafra issue, hear him in his own words on page ... 8? 9? will check... of this thread.

In my plan... if i have the time this weekend and next week... i will see to it that following happens:
- Onlytruth will not contest, by hook or crook.. somehow shaa.
- the to contest will be Alex101, Manny4life and Akija Juju.
- there will be debates amongst them, stating their vision, plan and etc for the group and where they stand on Igbo issues.
- Voting will follow...
- Manny will win.

i say Manny ecause, in my view, he is the most qualified. in the sense that ... by process of elimination, Alex101 seems to have popped out of nowhere just "recently" and as someone stated, what if he is planted. i feel he is planted by Radio Biafra London.. that is cool, but when you remind us 70 x 7 times on one thread to go follow/visit the webiste.. it gets ... too much.
But i have absolutely no doubt he has a passion for our people and their progress.
For Akija, he is ... best an entertainer... imagine Nkem Owoh running for president, i mean... he could have what it takes, but his antecedents ... questionable.

k'a emesia, i will be back. Peace

PointB: Thanks for the update. But l think freeglobe has already made his opposition to OnlyTruth and OkiJa_juju nominations. I think we should note that.

Roger that, my dear. You know the governor had not invested as much as his counterparts had to be singing his praises 247, both true and untrue, or projects that were not gonna be completed, but just flagged off or commenced. but if you check his finished projects, finished goods as they call it, this man has done a lot of good things for Abia. Again, as i always add, for Umuahia. Maybe i am biased because i am from Umuahia and love the serenity and beauty it is having. but he will for sure do well and better if he invests in Aba and other areas. but Umuahia is doing really well, thank God; a state capital should be nice.
however, i heard the diagnostic centre is not a government clinic, but his private biz, is that true? anyone know anything about that? is the money going to his pocket? and i hear people saying he bought all the land in umuahia town, i mean.. if he has the money... why not? its not like he snatched it from them? i heard one man that declined to se ll .. to sell... no matter the price he was offered, but other people made lots of profit, a family frend actually used his mone to buy another piece of land, property, and had some funds left over to even buy a car.... i really hope umuahia continues in the path of infrastructure development... i myself have been thinking of what i can do... is business (and what type) a good thing for economic development, or housing estates etc... btw anyone know how Ehimmiri housing estate is doing?


God bless Abia State and all Abians. Abia is God's own state, unu anugo!!!
- from Nwa afo Ibeku, Egwu assa!

ore64dollar: Abia is great. Always in the news, sign of good things to come. Everybody has interest. A great state indeed!

Wooord! That's my alma mater Didnt Gowon attend this schoool too? i think i had heard something about that ... 2 shot was one of my seniors back then, and his lil bro... son of a gun that i gave "pay" and he saw me one morning "dodging" morning assembly, and placed one of my cheeks in one of his palms and gave me a dirty slap with his other hand. Na God go punish am.

The school compound is so vast, huge fields everywhere, and the buildings are built so strategically ... i noticed it was in a circle, with the quadrangle in the middle, that you start from one part of the circle, (JS1) and by the time you get to SS3 you are on the opposite side of the circle and then go off tangent to graduate. the dorms (Cozens, nile, Niger, Simpson, Fisher, Erekosem, Kent, School and Wareham house which was mine) are spread across the different routes to the main class rooms and offices, but nice sturctures, albeit old, you see the cherry trees and how they all had lawns here and there, paths all when you concentrate on it, see that it is really beautiful).

i have a smile on my face cause i really miss that school, sitting under the trees, huge trees and roots, telling stories, watching different soccer matches, or just gisting and enjoying the shade.
The staff building is the kinda houses you see here in North America, made of wood and ceramics or something... but the floor is wood, the only place cement is used is for these pillars, short square-like pillars that is holding up the floors of the building, and the steps of course.
when i was graduating though, we had a principal that in my opinion, was up to no good. Son of a biscuit was planning to plan palm trees in the quadrangle! i mean who does that! and he was cutting down beautiful trees and using it for wood to do constructions around campus! Who does that?! and instead of hiring labor... he will be out to capture SS3 students to do the labor~! Who does that?! SS3 when you are to be enjoying your 5 or 6 years of oppression under prefects whom were seen as gods; - dunno where he got peace corps from in their uniforms to be patrolling campus, idly... we fought them back shaa lol but that was part of the experience, i must say, that i miss, even manual labor which i hated then, i am missing nown...
Good thing was that those whom you started JS1 with, are the same peeps, pretty much, that you end up in SS3 with, so you get to know each other really well and form bonds and friendships as you go through the whole process together, as a team, per se.
not going to uni in Nigeria, makes secondary school (day student albeit) one of my lifes most memorable experience and i think about it all the time. sad thing is that peeps have moved on, i call my fellow Umuahians from time to time and it seems they all went different ways in University which took over secondary life for them... for me, it was more of getting adjusted to the new and different life in ala bekee.

Anywho, moving on with the topic of the thread.., did you say Ojukwu bunker is in Anambra? there is this underground passage thingy at the War museum in Umuahia... somewhere around there, i heard there is an Ojukwu there, is this not so? I never saw it though, unfortunately.

The hills in Enugu are indeed a sight so beautiful. even in Okigwe, lots of small hills and vallies that just make an unwinding stretch along the highway is just amazing; i recall going to Uturu International on visiting days to see my brother and we'll see all these winding roads and vallies and i'd be scared our car will slip and fall in there lol shouldnt there be barriers aloong these roads that partition the vallies? and did i mention the crazy amount of cashew trees along the roads that seems to go on for waht seems like kilometers upon kilometers?

Andre Uweh: Government College Umuahia (1929). This famous college produced celebrated writers such as Chinua Achebe, Emeka Ike, Elechi Amadi, INC Aniebo,, Ken Saro-wiwa, Christopher Okigbo and Gabriel Okara.
Apart from men of letters, Famous GCU alumni include master artist Ben Enwonwu, Jaja Wachukwu, Okoi Arikpo, Victor Mukete, Dr Endley (Southern Cameroon), Dr J.O.J Okezie, Bede3 Okigbo, E.J Allagoa, Laz Ekwueme and Dr Dagogo-Fubara.
Also are: Orji Uzor Kalu, Achike Udenwa, George Kurubo, Alex Madiebo, Tony Eze, Tim Onwuatuegwu, Emelifionwu etc.
Great Umuahians.

Krap! my text got messed up! typing with phone touchscreen aint easy

J12: Why the commendations and praise? He's not going to achieve anything. Lets watch him and see

You said he's not going to achieve anything, why (on what premise and facts or reasons) do you believe that? When you look at a persons resume and ccomplishments (such as his) in your heart you will believe and say for sure he wont be able to achieve anything? just wondering how you are reasonsing...

i dont know this man, but I recall hearing his name in a passing conversation i was having with my pops... on how (bad) things are in my state; somehow the discussion went to Ebonyi State and then the university there and how someone from the south-west was the VP and he'd ended up colluding with other corrupt looting indigenes of the state to rob and run the school into the ground, and my pops said when you ask him he'll say "No be your broda -fellow state indigene- do am?" ... whilst the south easterner (this was when he said Nebo's name and i heard it for the first time) had been sent to the Ekiti university and he was performing well there .. think he said the university was able to utilize the abundant agricultural resources in the state to generate finance for the university and stuff... are there any current students of the Ekiti university who can give us a current report of his performance at the campus? no doubt ESUT and UNN were transformed by this man. I always wondered (who andd) when post ume exams started as I wrote mine and peaced out in '02 or so...

and i must say that I agree our problems are more of a lack of good institutions and systems or structures put in place to sustain and keep growth and performance alive. There are many intellects, performers, people of integrity from all parts of the country, but either they have left, planning to leave, or being u outside nder-utilized by this our country and its (corrupt system). naija can be proud to return and work for or serve the country someday. Even some of my Indonesian undergrad classmates are returning.

I feel sad when i think of some friends of mine i knew from primary school anda was impressed by thier intelligence and performance, one is now an aeronautic engineer in the US, another is a medical doctor in europe, I am myself not keen on working in Nigeria (for health reasons) but i pray (that just like China) all these students that get quality education

J12: Why the commendations and praise? He's not going to achieve anything. Lets watch him and see

Was that funnier than "The Lord answer me"? and "Answer" for short? and the person who began to wonder when he/she heard someone's name was "Wonder"? am i the only one that burst into loud laughter at these two? That is one of the funniest things nairaland has done to me... not too many things make me laugh out loud, but this one was too much to holdin...

ok. @topic, y'all have said it already, those phrases are beautiful names in our trad. languages. Those names that cracked me up in Igbo could be .. "Chizam"? or I know someone named "Chizaram" (think its common, means) The Lord answered me.

As for "Wonder" .. i will have to join the other poster and wonder about this one too lol... in Igbo that could perhaps be... "Itunanya" (i made this up, but what keeps someone from grabbing it for his/her child...nothing as we have seen deja.)

Peace y'all.

blank: Now, that was really funny.

anyone know how i can lay my hand on a record titled "Goodbye Nigeria"? I am in love with traditional choral Igbo music, and my mom was a student of Felix (i forget his last name, the rival of Sam Ojukwu) who were tops in their day.... we have very bautiful choral music, but i am scared it is eroding with globalisatioin and americanization. I was so lucky to find out of a man named Harcourt White, and i was surprised it had been on youtube for 4 years without my knowing.... anyone that has these songs, please e-mail me some, i beg of thee, want to teach a couple to my acapella group. My heart melts when i hear Igbo trad. songs. there was this youtube video ... a documentary of the civil war, and they showed the Biafran soilders marching and getting ready to go fight, and the song they sang, the tone of their voices, the passion in their hearts, you could feel it in the song... the words will make you want to weep. it reminds me of the suffering experienced by all Igbos, life is precious, we are not blood thirsty people, but we find ourselves in this situation and ... it is heart breaking to say the loist. the lyrics of that song (i will try finding the link later) are: "bia lee ... mu na nwanne m jere oru, ... blah blah blah etc.." then a part goes ... "zogbuo ha, tigbuo ha, oh nna..." May God help us all... Amen.

odumchi: This thread is for that time that you have a question but don't know who to ask; that time you have something you'd like to discuss but not sure with who; that time you just want to discuss anything and everything cultural with everyone.

Though I've seen him (Oga J) in questionable use of his mod position, I still deem(ed) him a gentleman and unbiased for the most times... but the excuse of "quota system" abi na "quota environment" ... come on, lets be honest.. thats just plain $ illy; who has lived and worked in Nigeria that can come out and say that, in an online forum for that matter... anywho, it is over. Good luck to you, Sir.

Seun: It's true. Even OAM4J can confirm that before the end of year contests, Jarus hardly moderated. He only moderated when he was organizing awards and debates. So after the awards, he was looking for any excuse to resign. When I urged him to remove Chinua Achebe from the hall of shame, he thought he had found his opportunity, so he resigned. But then people started begging him to reconsider, and he didn't want it to seem as if he was being stubborn, so he demanded an apology from me thinking I would not apologize. When I apologized, he was shocked, but he came back reluctantly in order to please the people who begged him to come back. But he still wanted to resign because he really doesn't have any time to moderate. So when I appointed Afam as a moderator, he resigned again, using the ridiculous excuse that he "can't work under a quota system". It's a very strange excuse, if you think about it. Why should the appointment of a moderator to help the fight against tribalists and eliminate the complaints of marginalization by Igbos be a problem for Jarus as a moderator?

They have no game. they should go home. case closed. Imagine he is saying not banning someone for using the "Yoruba" shows bigotry/bias? really? saying or calling someoneby/with (the) lots of oil in their soup should be an offence and bannable? Chai! its actually a bit disgraceful that a renowned bigot and tribalist can be whinning like this and get so petty... i knew he was all talk and no action.. abi he no be Yoruba again? oops i said the O word... abi he no be Yoruba? imagine such a stupid and useless ego-ridden comment and apparently, empty boast and threat of making sure someone does not become a mod as far as he is on this site.

it was fun for a few pages seeing Afam striking his ban-stick at them, wish more of them, that is, all of them i mean, would have gott en a ban, just for fun, then their IPs, multiple IDs etc, you know? ban 'em like there is no tommorrow, [quote author=holyvirgin) if i ere you, i would hide my face in shame, or better still get a new moniker. Bigots like you should quit being foolish.
I thought u said as long as you live Afam would nt be mod? I thank God you are alyf to see it, so u can roast in hell for all i care.
lol, and then we get down to business the next day.

Anywho, Seun has done what he believes is best for his business and the forum, I am sure he wont drop him just because people are complaining without even letting him moderate for a day, Afam is the new politics section moderator, again, there are transformers and bottles of rat poison for those who need them. Happy 2012 for the rest of y'all.
(thats a long enough post to lalst me for a couple months, i hope - nothing will lure me to log in here again to comment)Nairaland belongs to oluwaseun osewa from owerri[/quote]

A COMMOT FROM HERE. (I JUST HAVE TO CALLYOU THIS ... ANU NPAM... ITS A NICE WORD