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Good riddance.

So you'll admit Lagos is "foreign soil" when there is no economic advantage to gain. Your dead need to get to Igboland before they can be buried, but your destitutes should not be sent away from Lagos so they can be rehabilitated with Igbo money.
Anyway, I agree that the government should decentralise the issuance of the necessary certificate, but your guy shouldnt have suggested that it should be cancelled if it was not decentralised. Because of a few burials...

meforyou1: you think igbos are like you that don't have culture? No matter how long it takes, we will wait, and those corpses must go home

All groups in the world have cultures peculiar to them, and 'not having a culture' would also be a kind of culture.
Anyway, we Yorubas have a very vibrant and beautiful culture. The entire world is interested in our religion; our language is taught in Universities in America; our artifacts were loved and stolen by the Brits; our food is served in resturants across the world, etc.

He should have stopped at advising the government to decentralise the issuance of the necessary certificate(s). That makes sense, Suggesting, in thesame breath, that the government should cancel it altogether dosent.

Sunglow: The bible says that all men have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

Considering the kind of evil God embodies, I'd say his glory is over-rated -if it exists at all, that is.

Malawian: i guess i should have added "pirated" for maximum effect

What does he mean "pirated"? There's been a Yoruba village, Oyotunji, in America since the 70's.
"America built an Igbo village for us" is a big lie. It was built by Anambra State and I think it's somewhat like a museum show-piece. This one, like Chinatown and the others(which were not bulit by America by the way), I hope would be intended to drive commerce.

I'm sick of being neighbours to people who will attack anything good that has Yoruba written on it. Here is what another SICK Igbo said about the village on the punch's website:

"Nonsence, another avenue for joblessness for
yoruba people to meet to gossip, eat ,do
owambe party. Nothing meaningfull will ever be
done through this center. I’ve not seen a race
outside the shores of nigeria that hates
themselves like the yoruba race, so why pretend . Awolowo has cursed the yoruba race, thats why
the smart once among you like Hubert ogunde,
mko abilola gbenga adeboye once said ‘ omo
yoruba ronu’."
The hate and envy.

Almost troubling news. Nigerian immigrants in the US are regarded as one of the most succesful groups educationally and I'm afraid these girls will dumb up their average IQ.

estyvino: Na wayting Fashola kon think na! Deportation?

Check the link

The Lagos state governor Babatunde Raji Fashola and Adekunle Ekine(a fellow of Echidina Global Scholars, Nigeria) have been named among the top 100 global thinkers of 2013 by LSDP- a global personality assesment organization.

Some of the other global personalities in the list are Pope Francis of the Vatican, Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe and Mayor of Warsaw, Poland, Hanna Gronkiewicz-waltz.

“Pope Francis was named as number one because he reminded the world that the Catholic Church is a Global Power while the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, 31 on its list, was named “because 2013, for better and for worse, has been the year of Abenomics."

Read more here http://www.channelstv.com/home/2014/01/04/fashola-ekine-named-among-lsdp-top-global-thinkers/
If Nigeria wasnt governed based on ethnicity, Fashola would be our President come 2015.
And no one should bring up the deportation wahala, read the facts of the crisis here http://newsbytesnow.com/a-must-read-deportation-saga-who-has-bewitched-the-igbos-by-c-don-adinuba/ if you are interested in the truth. If not, keep hating

Lagos must be the reason why the statistic is that high in the South West.
The Niger-Delta people don say dey no dey carry last

bad meat: Hey!una can lie o!

Na me talk am?

One in ten women surveyed in Niger Delta was either raped or survived a rape attempt last year in the Niger Delta. More women were raped in the Niger Delta region
of Nigeria than any other part of the country last
year, a recent crime survey published by CLEEN
Foundation has said. The survey, National Crime Victimization and Safety
survey, said that one in every 10 women were
either raped or victims of attempted rape in the
region last year. The Niger Delta region is Nigeria’s crude oil
production hub and is recovering from militancy
that plagued the region in the years leading up to
2010 when the government declared amnesty for
armed youths in the region. The incidence of rape in the region was higher than
the national average by 100 per cent. The survey
showed that the national average of victims was
five per cent – one in every 20 women surveyed. The survey also shows that the national incidence
of rape almost doubled from three per cent in 2011
to five per cent in 2013. “The incidence of rape has been on the increase
from 3 per cent in 2011 to 5 percent 2013 within its
geopolitical zones,’’ the report said With 10 per cent incident of rape or attempted rape,
the South South region could be described as the
rape capital of Nigeria followed by the North East –
6 per cent. The South West region and North West
region had rape incidence rate of one in every 25
women – four percent each. The North Central followed with three per cent –
one in every 33 women polled. The South East had
the lowest incidence rate of one in every 100
women. Most of the victims – 36 per cent – told CLEEN
Foundation they were raped near their homes.
Another 19 per cent said they were attacked “at
their homes” while 13 per cent said they were
attacked in schools or workplace. ‘‘Respondent was further asked how widespread
the incidence of rape was. 10 per cent believed it
was very widespread, 33 per cent said it happened
occasionally, 48 per cent believe it was non
existence while nine per cent said they do not
know ,’’ the report said.
Read more here:
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/147281-niger-delta-rape-capital-nigeria-survey.html

nekaa: cause the money is too small to be used for anything actually....















Before you start barking and biting; I am a yoruba gal

yup, you're probably absolutely right.
But supposing you were wrong, being 'a Yoruba gal' dosent give you the right to insult the culture.

"Christ did something for me and all the people in
the world. We are sinners! We are condemned
criminals! We are supposed to die!"

When did i do all those things mentioned above?

For some reason, most Igbos like to play the victim in all issues. This is the fundamental truth of the deportation saga.
Another truth is that for some reason, the Igbos have launched an internet vendetta against the Yorubas and they go about denigrating all that is Yoruba. most Igbo internet forums have articles insulting Yorubas as their welcome note. To understand what i am talking about, just search 'yoruba' on google and count how many igbo-authored articles that comes up insulting Yorubas on the first to six pages.
No doubt, the igbos would have used all the falsehoods of the deportation saga in their campaign against Yorubas. Like many things they (igbos) say abt us, it is all just a big lie and if the defamation is not stopped soon, i fear for the image of the yorubas an Africa and in the world.
I'll just copy and paste an article by an igbo journalist from the vanguard now.in another thread, i'll copy an another article devoid of ethnic sentiments like this one.

The Abia State government last year came up
with an ingenious policy: All non-indigenous
employees in the state public service,
including teachers, were to be relieved of their
duties because the government’s resources
were meant for only the indigenes. Over 80 per cent of those who were affected
were from Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra and Enugu
states. Most of Igbo leaders maintained a
conspiracy of silence on this policy which for
long will remain one of the greatest
impediments to Igbo unity. By doing this, Abia State was actually treading
the path of Enugu State which had in the late
1990s decided to sack all non-indigenes in
the state’s public service in order to “save
resources.” Almost every casualty of this policy was Igbo. But a number of Igbo social activists have
now suddenly found their voice. The
overnight activists have created an
unmistakable mass hysteria in both the social
and traditional media over the bogey that
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has been “deporting” Igbo people from his
state. Some politicians who are determined to make
political capital out of the so-called
repatriations have been busy simulating the
hysteria. But perhaps, unbeknownst to these
people, they are hurting in a most profound
manner strategic Igbo interests. No people can survive—let alone—progress on a diet of
lies and emotions, or by allowing politicians to
create and sustain a culture of paranoia or
siege mentality, otherwise called persecution
complex. Here is the true position of things. The Lagos State Government launched a few
years ago an ambitious project to turn Lagos,
Nigeria’s economic nerve centre with a
population of some 16 million, into a true
megacity. This entailed, among other things,
the enthronement of a new social order and a different aesthetic regime. Consequently, the state began to clear
thousands of homeless people, beggars and
urchins from the streets. Thus, a large number
of “area boys” who are mostly Lagos Island
indigenes, like the governor, are to this day
still arrested and hounded into “Black Maria” trucks by Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI)
officials. Borrowing a leaf from such places as New
York and Hawaii, Lagos initiated a program of
returning many destitute individuals to their
home states. Over 3,000 of such people have
been relocated back to northern states where
they have now been reintegrated with their families. When about 80 individuals were sent
to Oyo State in November 2009, the Oyo
governor screamed to high heavens that
“they were dumped on Molete Bridge” in
Ibadan. About 14 destitute people from Anambra
State were sent to Onitsha last week because
of the failure of the Anambra State Ministry of
Social Welfare to arrange for the arrival of
these people, unlike those of Akwa Ibom and
Katsina states which made proper logistic arrangements for their own citizens. A section of the media has since gone to town
with the extremely dangerous propaganda
that the Lagos State governor is driving Igbo
people out of Lagos through “brazen
deportations and repatriations.” Even professionals and scholars who are
expected to be more thoughtful and strategic
in their actions have capitulated so easily to
the mind poisoning reports and have been
responding exuberantly. A man who introduced himself as a professor
from Nnewi called me on the phone on
Thursday morning to assert with so much
authority that “only Anambra indigenes are
being targeted for expulsion from Lagos
because all Nigerians know that Anambra is the leader of the Igbo nation.” A lawyer in
Maryland, United States, wrote that Fashola
would dare not relocate beggars of northern
extraction, alleging that the Igbos are the
whipping boy of Nigerian politics. He is
blissfully ignorant of the thousands of northern beggars taken away from Borno
Street in Ebute Metta and environs and sent
back to their families. How did the industrious, highly republican
and intelligent Igbo people embrace, all of a
sudden, this level of groupthink that has
made us look like a people with unimaginable
amnesia? Only last month, a very big plaza in Olodi,
Apapa, belonging to Igbo entrepreneurs and
housing hundreds of 1gbo traders was burnt
at night. The next day Fashola was at the site
and promised to rebuild it at the Lagos State
expense. No Igbo governor has visited the place up to this moment, and none has
promised to assist the victims. Last December, Ngozi Nwosu, an actress, was
reported to be down with a serious liver
ailment, so an appeal fund was launched. No
Southeast government, including her home
state of Imo, responded, just as no wealthy
Igbo man or woman did. Only N1.5 million out of the N6 million needed for her treatment in
the United Kingdom could be raised. Fashola
provided the remaining N4.5 million. And now some so-called Igbo activists are
accusing him of anti-Igbo sentiments. Two months ago, Fashola completed the
biggest housing estate he has ever built and
named it after Emeka Anyaoku, an erstwhile
Commonwealth Secretary General from
Anambra State. At a time when some Igbo people cannot be
hired as teachers or civil servants in
Southeastern states other than those of their
origin, Fashola recruits them in large numbers,
with some becoming judges and magistrates.
His Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Ben Akabueze, is from the Southeast.
The chief executive of the state Infrastructure
Maintenance and Regulatory Agency, Joe
Igbokwe, is an engineer and publisher from
Nnewi. Mac Duruigbo, from Imo State, is
Fashola’s Personal Assistant on the Media. Fashola gave Ikemba Nnewi practically a state
burial last year in Lagos, the only non-
Southeast governor to accord the famous
Biafran leader this high honour. He was the
only governor who attended, last March, the
Chinua Achebe colloquium at Brown University in Rhode Island, United States,
where he praised Achebe for his monumental
achievements at a time the great writer was
the butt of criticism by the Yoruba political
establishment following Achebe’s unflattering
remarks about Obafemi Awolowo in his new book, “There Was A Country,” a personal
account of the Nigerian Civil War. So, how did some of us come about the
brainwave that the dynamic and
cosmopolitan Lagos State governor is anti-
Igbo? This is simply because his government
relocated some Igbo elements to their home
states. Some of these people came to Lagos to
do business but instead took to hard drug
consumption and became urchin, better
known as “area boys.” Interestingly when Fashola began to crack down on “area boys,”
most of whom are from his state, Igbo traders
were over the moon, rejoicing that the
governor had saved them from the miscreants
of “area boys” who had for decades been
tormenting the traders daily, extorting huge sums from them and viciously assailing those
who refused with dangerous weapons. There are more Igbo people in Lagos than in
any other state. There are so many
investments in Lagos because Lagos has for
long welcomed the Igbo people, enabling
Ndigbo to prosper in Lagos more than in any
other state. And no governor in Nigeria’s history has demonstrated as much affection
for our people as Fashola. Commonsense dictates we protect in a
strategic manner the interests of our people
and reciprocate the friendship of well-
meaning individuals and groups. It will be a colossal tragedy if we savour the
dishes of salacious lies and terrible
propaganda which we are being served by
opportunistic politicians and garnished by
hysterical Igbo social activists. We must be guided at all times by truth and
reason.

petrov 10: Oh pls hurry

i do nt knw hw much longer i can hold dis konjis

It willl be faster if you volunteer for the human trial

The team looked at a form of SIV that is up to 100 times more deadly than HIV.
A vaccine for the monkey equivalent of HIV
appears to eradicate the virus, a study suggests. Research published in the journal Nature has shown that vaccinated monkeys can clear Simian
Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) infection from their
bodies. It was effective in nine of the 16 monkeys that were
inoculated. The US scientists say they now want to use a similar
approach to test a vaccine for HIV in humans. Prof Louis Picker, from the Vaccine and Gene
Therapy Institute at Oregon Health and Science
University, said: "It's always tough to claim
eradication - there could always be a cell which we
didn't analyse that has the virus in it. But for the
most part, with very stringent criteria... there was no virus left in the body of these monkeys." Search and destroy The research team looked at an aggressive form of
virus called SIVmac239, which is up to 100 times
more deadly than HIV. Infected monkeys usually die within two years, but
in some inoculated primates the virus did not take
hold. The vaccine is based on another virus called
cytomegalovirus (CMV), which belongs to the
herpes family. It used the infectious power of CMV to sweep
throughout the body. But instead of causing
disease, it has been modified to spur the immune
system into action to fight off the SIV molecules. "It maintains an armed force, that patrols all the
tissues of the body, all the time, indefinitely,"
explained Prof Picker. The researchers gave rhesus macaque monkeys
the vaccine, and then exposed them to SIV. They found that at first the infection began to
establish and spread. But then the monkeys' bodies
started to respond, searching out and destroying
all signs of the virus. Of the monkeys that successfully responded to the
vaccine, they were still clear of infection between
one-and-a-half and three years later. Prof Picker said his team was still trying to work out
why the vaccination worked in only about half of
the monkeys. "It could be the fact that SIV is so pathogenic that
this is the best you are ever going to get. "There is a battle going on, and half the time the
vaccine wins and half the time it doesn't," he said. Human trials The researchers are now testing the vaccine to see
if it can be used after SIV exposure to treat and
potentially cure infected monkeys. They also want to see if the technique could work
in humans. Prof Picker said: "In order to make a human version
we have to make sure it is absolutely safe. The researchers now want to move from monkeys
to test the vaccine in humans "We have now engineered a CMV virus which
generates the same immune response but has been
attenuated [modified to lose its virulence] to the
point where we think it is unequivocally safe." This would first have to pass through the
regulatory authorities, but if it does, he said he
hoped to start the first clinical trials in humans in the
next two years. Commenting on the research, Dr Andrew
Freedman, from Cardiff University School of
Medicine, said: "This suggests that prophylactic
vaccines - vaccines designed to prevent infection -
using CMV vectors may be a promising approach
for HIV. "While they may not prevent the initial infection,
they might lead to subsequent clearance, rather
than the establishment of chronic infection."

Fifteen year old Miss Eniola Oladipo of Vivian Fowler Secondary School, Lagos has emerged winner of the maiden edition of the Channels Television Organized National Prize for literature. The competition, which required
candidates in secondary schools to
summarize Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall
Apart, had entries submitted from
schools across the country. The first prize of the competition is an all
expense paid trip to the 2013 Frankfurt
Book Fair in Germany, while the second
and third prizes get a trip to the 2013
Ake Art and Book Festival in Abeokuta
and Library of Looks worth N50,000. The competition was supported by
Lufthansa German Airlines, Lateran
Books and Goethe Institute, Nigeria

we have a basic difference in ideology here.
I dont think the path to spirtual healing is\should be unified.
Let those people discover their own truth based on circumstances unique to them and we'll do thesame here

i'm a gmail nut

I know the origin of the word 'pagan'.
I'm just saying it is and was designed to be derogatory. Calling people 'pagan' gives christians and muslims a sense of superiority over other religions.
Africans can still return to their roots without submitting their spiritual beliefs and ideas to the offensive definitions muslims and christian are eager to give them.
Our fathers initially left their religions because they were confused by the colonialists and jihadists that it was inferior. Accepting the title of a 'pagan' dosent fight the falsehood in my opinion

Pagan 9ja.
I know it is just folktale. I just used that illustration to show him that it is foolish to give more credibility to the christian story because both tales are equally implausible.
If he questioned one, he should question the other and not just accept