₦airaland Forum

zarabab:
Nigeria is in total mess. We need a violent revolution. where top governmrnt funtionaries like permanent secretaries, Heads of MDAs and even directors in this MDAs, serving and former governors, Serving and former presddents and heads of state, All HRP/assembly members federal and state government. Even the local government bosses and socalled royal fathers should be ERADICATED at once. This shld happen in a matter we got the news of the Five banks CEO.

Hence, things will continue be passed from generation to genertion to come.

THE SITUATION OF NIGERIA IS WORTH CRYING FOR!

When you kill all them who are you going to replace them with, the yahoo yahoo boys or the ones that spend 2 of 5 years university training on strike? The situation is very scary because the kids of vagabonds in power seems to be the only ones with some form of good training right now,

@topic, How can any one take over bank 100% when public shareholders have not sold their stakes. Whatever is done to clean up the mess is fine with me. In the past two years lot of money have been lost in investments in Nigeria with most pension funds reporting more than 30% loss. So if what it takes is for "foreigners" to save the situation fine. If my brother can mismanage my fund why not give it to foreigner that would do a better job. It is a painfull decision but if needed fine. afterall who are the ones running our oil fields.

vezycash:
that is boring man. In all my encounter with oceanic staff (well over 100 times) very frustrated guys who want to frustrate customers,

You have not been to Bank PHB lately,  I wonder how those guys manage to still stay in business., customer service, -0.

why not get that behind us today and tomorrow we do another thing, procrastination is thief of time you know,

@topic,
hug , if e no dey too much, lol

that was a typo wanted to write "how do I "

good night swit D, but I dont know gender ooo,

good night and sweet dream hugs

swit D, I do I know your gender from hug

get some hugs sha, for being nice, lol

swit D, been around now, but you wouldnt tell me your gender, lol

@topic,
hug

swit D , not me, Howdy?

@ topic
Hug again.

hug

tubabie:
Ifeleke
Bawo ni, se daada lowa?

Remii
Se alaafia ni?

Tubabie, daadaa laa wa o, Igbawo ni oluya t'owa ni profile e maa pari aworan re yiya? o nti yan to ojo meta. lol.

Shinatu:
Ehido,

Get on that Rig as Dr told you! Not all PEs get the opportunity to work on a Rig and those who have spent most of their time in the office admire any PE who has a good Rig experience.
Like Dr Ferlie said, do not limit yourself to the Roustabout job you have been called to do there, get to know as much as you can, if I can use Dr's exact words, open your eyes, very well, relate with the engineers on the rig, get as much information and exposure as possible.You can then go to that school to consolidate.
It all depends on you.It may not be easy though but anyone who wants success on a platter of gold is a thief.
By the way, I am not a driller but I am in Oil & gas , I work more with Drilling fluid & completions Engineers and if that e-mail address that Dr Ferlie provided for the Mud School is Charles Pepple's, then the School must be solid, I worked with him some 10years back, he sure knows his onions.

Dr Ferlie, I hail o! This is a good thread, call it a way of giving back to the community. Another guy is doing something like this on a thread for the Telecoms Industry. It is threads like these that make time spent on Nairaland worthwhile for me.

I didn't know that Charles has a mud school, the only one that am aware of is that run by Dr Victor Maduka, formerly of Bariod. He taught almost all locally trained mud engineers in Nigeria that I know off. If Charles and others do the same that would be a vey good development.

Good idea, guys you can visit www.drillers.com to get some ideas too. Hopefully we would be able to develop this trend to that level. I am a chemical engineer by training, presently working as a company man, would gladly like to share ideas.

Pure

Barka Jummah

IFELEKE, kaa bo so ri eto. Gbogbo ile nko.

tubabie:
Nisisi yin ni mo mo pe orietifokasibe
Mi o le ni ife eni ti ko ba ni ife Man utd.

One United!!!!!!!!

Bobo femoo, Ramadan Kareem.

kola oloye:
Orisa boo ba le gbe'mi, semi bi o ti ba mi

Mumuni to re ile onifa[/b]_________________________-

I like this trend.

Mumuni to re ile onifa, [b]ti yan ara e mo oun ebo. (se mo gba a)


E gbiyanju eyi:

Iwon laa je igi mo, ________________________

TheSeeker:
In oyo dialect, there's nothing like "sh", it's "s"

That is only Ibadan. like "Segun Segun, Suku nbo yoo sa o lese". (Shegun, Shegun, Chukwu nbo yio sa o lese).

Kini soo, soo suo ni, eran ki laje lana, eran sikin ni, kila ai joko kusin sia ni., lol.

Aigbofa l'anwoke, ifa kan ko si ni para.

E pari eleyi:
Orisa boo ba le gbe'mi, ______________________________________

Happy Birthday Bluespice, long life and prosperity,

May kelly:
Yes, your right. No moon No Ramadan

The rule is that if the moon is sighted start fasting, if not, count Shaban up to 30 days and start Ramadan. That is why lunar months are either 29 or 30 days.

Horus:
Is Ramadan too short?. Why do Muslims only fast only one month in commemoration of the revelation of the Koran? When the Koran was revealed over a period of 23 years ?(Koran 17:106).

Ramadan is not in commemoration of Quran. It was just that 1st revelation occurred in month of Ramadan. Fasting if 1 of 5 pillars of Islam.

A kii moo gun moo te, ___________________________________________

kola oloye, goodass, oladeegbu, dayokanu, romade, ifeleke, bluespice, eniyan gbogbo e ma je ki tirend yi ku sona bi eefin ke!!!!!!!!!!!

According to the link below from Nigeria Guardian Newspaper, The Jacksons family have traced their root to Badagry Nigeria.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/friday_review/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=210809&ptitle=Slave%20Route%20project%20reunites%20Jacksons%20with%20their%20Badagry%20root


Slave Route project reunites Jacksons with their Badagry root
By Anote Ajeluorou

ACTIVITIES will commence tomorrow, Saturday, August 22, 2009 for the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the 'International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition' in the ancient slave port of Badagry. This year's celebration will assume a distinct dimension as the famous Jackson's family has identified the ancient town, famous for slave trade in the 18th century as their place of ancestral origin.

To this end also, an oracular pronouncement has identified Alaga, a sub-tribe from Egun in Badagry as the home of the Jackson's from the Ajanemusan family (shortened 'Ajanesan'). This was revealed in a world press conference, which the organising committee for the Badagry Folk Festival addressed on Tuesday at the Badagry Local Government Council Secretariat, Ajara, Badagry.

As a result, the late music superstar is now called Michael Jackson Ajanesan in Badagry. According to a traditional priest from the Egun community, the fame that Michael Ajanesan attained in the US had long been foretold by the deity to which the family belonged as Michael Ajanesan was a deity himself. He claimed that it was only a god that could perform the feat that Jackson Ajanesan attained in life, and that he deserved to be given proper traditional rite of passage to join his ancestors peacefully.

And to properly accord their late superstar kinsman the burial rites befitting of a god, his yoko or spirit will be ritually invoked in the form of sand particles taken from his graveside and brought to a shrine or yoho for ritual internment. It is from this yoho that the necessary rites of passage will be performed to lay his spirit to rest among his ancestors from which the Ajanesans, taken into slavery these several years will again be reconnected to their kin.

Giving an account of how this bit of history was reconstructed to trace the Jacksons family back to Badagry, Special Adviser on Tourism at the Badagry Council, Hon. Prince Yomi Ajose gave account of his meeting with Marlon Jackson in Michigan, US, back in 1996. He stated that then it appeared as a haunch to the superstar's elder brother, who said he strongly felt that his ancestry was from Badagry. He was to match his belief with action when he made a dramatic visit to Badagry in 2008.

At that visit, Jackson undertook to visit the infamous slave trade route. On getting to the Point of No Return, Prince Ajose recalled, "Marlon became hysterical beyond words. And at the spot where slaves were buried alive, where no grass or tree has grown ever since, Marlon completely broke down". These manifestations became the first intimations that the Jacksons had their roots from Badagry. But beyond a possible DNA test to finally confirm this assertion, Prince Ajose also stated that with the consent of His Majesty De-Wheno Aholu Menu-Toyi, the Akran of Badagry, the oracle was consulted to resolve the Jacksons ancestral link.

It did; hence the Ajanemusan connection to Alaga at Egun.

The theme for this year's celebration is 'Family Reunion'. For the people of Badagry, this year's remembrance day is significant as it will reunite them with their long lost kinsmen, particularly Michael Jackson Ajanesan, whom Prince Ajose said had personally pledged to visit Badagry after the proposed London show, which did not materialise before he passed away in a heart-attack that is still shrouded in suspicious circumstances.

Now instead of receiving Michael Ajanesan in person to perhaps give further historical significance to the ancient sleepy town, it is only his yoko that will be received. But to Badagry people, such is life. Whether in death or alive, they are treating the event with so much emotional attachment, particularly the reunification with a part of the Diaspora.

The Badagry people are also thrilled that at last the Lagos State Government has finally recognised the historical and tourism significance of the town and was deploying resources to developing them. The long neglected 'Slave Route' will now receive attention and plans are underway towards developing it into an international resort and tourism centre. Work has started at the Marina Beach line. Lekki Beach Resort Limited, a sports and recreation developer has started work to transform it into a world class golf course.

The Jackson Ajanesan family is not left out either in this quest to turn international attention to this otherwise sleepy town with a lot of history behind it. With their Motherland Group Inc, USA, the Jackson Ajanesan family, according to Prince Ajose and Sunday Balogun, who represented the Badagry Local Council chairman, Hon. Husitode Moses Dosu, are partnering with the Lagos State Government to build the Badagry Historical Resort that will also include the Michael Ajanesan Museum, where memorabilia from the late superstar will be kept.

The Badagry Folk Festival will add colour to the commemorative event that is a collaborative work of Badagry Local Government, African Renaissance Foundation and Ijinla Tours. The Badagry Folk Festival will include activities such as Zangbeto festival in Ajido, Vothun festival in Ajara, Water Sports in Gbaji and Royal Carnival procession in Badagry will mark highlights of the celebration.

However, the traditional funeral rites for the late Michael Ajanesan will start on Saturday 22, 2009 starting from 6am. A candle light procession will commence at 9pm of the same day in memory of the slaves, who were forcibly taken away from their homelands to unknown destinations. The following day Sunday 23, a drama presentation Wailing from Badagry will be performed at the Badagry Town Hall from 3pm to end with a lecture on slave trade. The drama is the initiative of African Renaissance Foundation. The celebration will finally climax on Saturday 29, 2009 at the Badagry Grammar School playground with a cultural exhibition, musical performance and book presentation.

A statement from the council chairman read, "This year's celebration christened 'Family Reunuion' is the 10th celebration since 1999 of this programme and it is dedicated to the repose of the spirit and soul of one of Africa's legends Michael Joseph Jackson (Ajanesan), whose ancestors have their roots in Badagry and are spiritually attached to us. A mega tourist resort known as the Badagry Historical Resort will be constructed in Badagry by members of the Jackson's family and some prominent African Americans. We are once again joining countries of the world in celebrating the UNESCO declared International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (every August 23) with a series of activities including the Badagry Folk Festival".

Prince Ajose lamented the long awaited development of the Slave Route in Badagry into a world heritage site. He stressed that while those in other parts of West African coastlines such as Ghana and Senegal had been developed and were contributing meaningfully to the economies of those countries, the one in Badagry, perhaps the most famous, was yet to enjoy similar status. The result being that the town is as impoverished as was possibly during the slave era. He maintained that the late realisation of the potentials of the Badagry Slave Route, and consequent action being taken to redress it were due to the nation's reliance on oil as the sole foreign exchange earner for the country. He expressed happiness at the late attention the ancient town was enjoying from the international arena, saying that though long overdue, it would finally put Badagry at her rightful historical

btw, OJUELGBA (re mi re mi mi re) is derived from Oju'bo Elegbara, Elegbara's shrine. Elegbara is another name for Esu (Satan) in Yoruba. The shrine is still located at the junction by the right while entering Ijesa Road.

ALAUSA (re mi do mi) (has nothing to do with Hausa people) it used to be and area with so much walnut trees.

ABESAN (re mi do) Under orange tree

AMUKOKO (re mi re do) - The area was so much invested with Hyena that you literally pick them like snail. fyi, Hyenas are scavengers could rarely kill a living person. (do not confirm this sha - lol)

dayokanu:
Ifeleke at work

se na Toyin in dey carry sha?

Barka Jumah and Ramadan Kareem.

@Ifeleke, Adupe lowo Olorun oo, ko ko ko lara le o.

@9jaganja, if you read my post carefully from the beginning of my post I wrote the Oduduwa met some people at Ile Ife. can you give a better origin of the word "Yoruba".
Yes, since no actual witness to history, it would continuously be updated based on new evidences, even the biblical Adam and Eve are being challenged as the first humans since when Cain became a full man he went  to East to take a wife, so who were these people from where he (Cain ) went to marry from if Adam and Eve were lonely on earth.

@9jaganja,

Yes, Oduduwa met people in Ife under the leadership of Agbonniregun an Ifa priest, history also said father of Oduduwa was Lamurudu which some people say maybe adulteration of Nimrod a cruel king somewhere in the East. They said Oduduwa came with some pamphlets that had Arabic inscriptions, which may still be in Ife if not looted already by Europeans among other relics. Some historians even said a tribe in present Borno came with Oduduwa's Yoruba group and that they even stayed awhile in an area around Chad border before Yorubas continued their own movement down to present Ile Ife. They claim Yorubas have similar tribal marks with them till today. Some say name Yoruba is derived from Hausa - Yaro Uba, Yar' uba -  children of Uba while Uba is suppose to be the leader of Yoruba group or Oduduwa.

Anyway, history is what is it, past. Let move on by concentrating on what would benefit the present and future.