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cozy7:
She did so by sleeping with d lecturer n enjoying it (eating her cake), then trying to, with d help of her mother expose d lecturer, while exonerating herself in d process (having her cake). Thank u very mch.

ujoatu:
:"The history of the manipulation of the bishopric succession in Igbo land and the constant shoving of the Mbaise right with complacent impunity has been a recurrent datum from the earliest time. There was the incident in which Rev. Fr. Edward Ahaji of Umuokirika Ekwereazu Mbaise who was considered one of the best and was expected to be a bishopric candidate of the then prospective Umuahia Diocese, was eliminated in favour of Fr. A. Gogo Nwedo of Umuahia in 1945 even to the surprise of Fr. Mark Unegbu. But “There was no cry of anit-Mbaise sentiments or stereotype then when Ahaji was not selected”. Again, history had it that Fr. Nwedo was supposed to be transferred from Umuahia to succeed Bishop Heery in the then Onistsha Diocese in 1967 as the Holy Ghost Fathers did not want Arinze to succeed Bishop Heery. But Nwedo was frustrated and prevented from being the bishop of Onitsha by the combined forces of Bishop Mark Unegbu and Fr. Francis Arinze. Arinze personally insisted that only the son of the soil could become the bishop of Onitsha Diocese. Bishop Unegbu being his mentor, fought tooth and nail in his favour and helped Arinze enthroned on the Onitsha Episcopal seat. Another most favoured Mbaise priest, Rev. Fr. Ignatius Okoroanyanwu was again denied the bishopric of old Owerri Diocese in favour of Rev. Fr. Mark Unegbu. This time, Bishop Arinze had to “pay off” Fr. Mark Unegbu for giving him the Episcopal seat of Onitsha. Thus, another favoured Mbaise priest was stopped against the will of the predecessor. This Same act was initiated, superintended and achieved, in the words of erudite Fr. David Iheanacho, when, “In non-subtle manoeuvre, Archbishop Arinze cornered the Episcopal See of Owerri Diocese to his mentor, Fr. Mark Unegbu while blocking the will of Whelan and the missionaries that stated quite clearly they wanted Msgr. Ignatius Okoroanyanwu to shepherd the Episcopal See of Owerri Diocese”. It is not surprising that this accumulated vendetta annoyed Mbaise people and soured their relationship with Bishop Unegbu for long. It was this relationship of victimization and animosity that resulted in the long refusal to create the Diocese of Ahiara until after a long drawn fight.

But the greatest shock came when on the creation, yet another person outside the new Diocese was being eyed for the Episcopal seat of the diocese but was bluffed. It is also on record that not less than two Mbaise priests still alive today have been denied being the bishops of other dioceses in Igbo land some years back. The plan to appoint them were immediately nipped in the bud before it was ever pronounced, in spite of the fact that they are usually qualified and marketable. One wonders why a people so treated like this for years by an institutionalized and unjust hierarchy in a civilized and spiritual institution like the church, should not react once to liberate themselves from an entrenched and unjust structure. It is only a pity that the blind Timeus of our time who see human beings as if they are trees walking around, never know these paganistic dealings fraught in favoritism, son of the soil sentiment and despotism meted to Mbaise people in the past and intending to continue it in this age of enlightenment. It is unfortunate too, that they and the papal Nuncio have rather preferred to tag the Mbaise people clannish and ethnic in other to intimidate, blackmail and oppress them further."
21 hours ago · Like..Nwaimo Steve Chijioke Let us still share this view: "It would be recalled that before the death of the former Bishop, he was supposed to have actually submitted “only names from his diocese” as his prospective successors according to tradition, and this is renewable as directed and demanded by the Canon law and the Vatican. In the event of a sudden death those priests whose names were submitted or other persons outside the list, but who are from the diocese by incardination or as indigenes, would be screened for appointment to the bishopric. Coincidentally, the bishop died around the time Awka Diocese also needed a replacement for the retiring bishop, Eze Okafor. Rev. Fr. Peter Okpaleke from Awka Diocese was attempted by the godfather(s) to take over Awka, in spite of the then sitting auxiliary bishop of the diocese. But he was rejected in his own diocese for untoward and unbecoming desperation and other reasons best known to them. It was then that, impelled by frustration and urged by the forces of distorted and unholy ambition and power, he and his allies started manipulating for Ahiara Diocesan succession with great audacious intrusion. It was this hidden and dark interference that made the two year prayer and attempt for smooth selection of the bishop of Ahiara diocese a huge frustration. Unaware of this, the lay faithful started embarrassing Ahiara priests for their delay in selecting a bishop for two years, ignorant of the fact that it is not the priests themselves that should directly appoint the bishop and that the appointment from those submitted was being compounded by something yet unknown.

Ultimately, the obsession of Fr. Peter Okpaleke and his godfathers is purely a problem of settlement. There is an accumulation quagmire that might logjam to a frustrating alley if he fails to cling to Ahiara Diocese unstopped. The greatest aggression of a man would always come from the frustration of accumulated and unbridled ambition that trespasses beyond his capacity and the none availability of personal resources. But such aggression could be transferred to whoever becomes the obstacle that neutralizes and brings to vanity an erroneously concluded enterprise. This has been the secrete behind their battle of survival in Ahiara Diocese and Owerri province, making Msgr. Peter Okpaleke, a supposed spiritual priest of the Church saying, “over my dead body” that he should resign the bishopric of Ahiara Diocese, in spite of all persuasions by some wise advisers."
21 hours ago · Like..Nwaimo Steve Chijioke Still more on that view:"The settlement problem choking up those masterminding the crisis of Ahiara Diocese is obvious. It should be noted that a big shot in the Vatican power broker is alleged to be choked up with the dire urgency of settling Msgr. Jonas Benson Okoye who was once his secretary and personal aid, as well as Denis Isiuzor and Peter Okpaleke, and perhaps others. It is learnt that these have been flown for the bishopric of some dioceses, for instance Awka in 2010 and the attempt met a brick wall. Nsukka Diocese also failed to yield because the bishop emeritus warned the Nigerian bishops never to attempt to do in his Nsukka Diocese what they have done in Ahira Diocese. Therefore, Nsukka was recently given an indigenous diocesan bishop. But there is an impending urgency to create Ekwulobia Diocese from Awka where Okpleke rightly belongs. Many wonder why Okpaleke should not have been announced for his new Ekwulobia Diocese to stop the long raging battle for Mbaise. The obvious reason is to safeguard Ekwulobia for the settlement of the remaining others born for bishopric. Hence, it became necessary and strategic to hurriedly announce Okpaleke for Ahiara Diocese and install him at all cost to create room in Ekwulobia for the remaining lining up for settlement. If Okpaleke is militarily imposed on Ahiara, he becomes the third from Onitsha province in the seven Dioceses of Owerri Province without one from Owerri shepherding in Onitsha and till date no religious from Owerri is heading any religious congregation in Onitsha province. What a Holy Spirit and universality! If Mbaise must continue to obey the Holy Spirit and the Pope against them and in favour of a certain group since the1950s, then the Holy Spirit must have her maternal home with those people. Why then did the same Spirit not continue to allow the Papacy remain in Italy but decided to change to Germany and now Argentina?

The rejection and resistance of Ahiara Mbaise therefore stems from both the history of suppression of the people of Mbaise in particular, Owerri province, as well as the above chess play of vain ambition by those who see the episcopacy as their exclusive vocation in Igbo land. But this is not an Anambra collective action. Although “Anambra” has been used in the course of this struggle as a matter of illustration, it is never an issue of Anambranaization. The diocese is not fighting against Anambra, the papacy, his infallibility or that it must be their own son, but against injustice by one man, who is coincidentally, from Anambra. It is not a struggle of clannishness or ethnic either on the side of Mbaise people. It is purely a battle against religious imperialism and suppression of a people, who must fight for self-survival and preservation in spite of using the name of the Pope to blackmail and sedate them. Apart from these, have those who preach selfish universality asked themselves the type of justice where the people of Mbaise scattered through out the churches in Nigeria, and one of the first Diocese to loan their priests to almost all the dioceses in Nigeria to start their new dioceses and even now feed them with human, religious and financial resources, not have an indigenous bishop in the midst of the Nigerian bishops in the name of a lop-sided universality?

To crush this resistance against their huge handedness, privileged Church hierarchies have to be employed in sophisticated manners to execute the imposition and conjure up blackmail and stigmatization to indict their challengers. Like Judas Iscariot, the Papal Nuncio, who seemed to have long perfected the act of external imposition with a grip to an offer in cash or kind, unknowingly betrayed his mind on visit to the Diocese in September 2011 in their midst of anxiety for a new bishop. He was on visit for a thanksgiving reception of a friend in Mbaise, to which he attached “accidental pastoral visit”. He personally enquired from the priests and lay faithful their pulse for the delay in the announcement of the new bishop and to know the type of bishop they would want for their Diocese. He was told. Surprisingly, he told the priests in a sophistry of language that they would be given a “catholic Bishop”, as if they were expecting a muslim bishop. He again unusually emphasized and exaggerated the “universality of the church” without regard to the local regard of the church, thereby adding to the suspicion and scare.

The suspicion for treachery came to limelight when the ordour of blackmail and accusation fouled the air that there was petition and counter petition among the priests of Ahiara. Meanwhile, the papal Nuncio was the only one to whom the documents of enquiry were passed under very high and exclusive secrecy. In a twinkle, the rumour of petition was followed with another strange rumour of a strange name as strong contender among the proposed candidates of priests of the Diocese. Up till today, the bishops and the Nuncio have not answered the question of who put the name, for what reason and when all the possible candidates in the diocese and province were exhausted before extending the search to Awka

Following the rumour, the Nuncio was immediately warned and appealed to in writing that this suspected imposition “would mean that none of all the Ahiara Diocesan priests is trustworthy now and implicitly poses the question of whether any could become trustworthy in the future. This could cause a big rift between people and priests in this Diocese for a long time because suspicion of sectarian in fighting would have been admitted if not approved. And if this happens, political considerations would have been respected… And on a very serious note, this would make late Bishop Chikwe’s twenty two years’ efforts in correcting the false image of Mbaise among her neighbours and through out the nation come to nothing; and believe me, I know my people they will fight it at the level one may least expect. Let it be clear that any decision based on fabricated, false and unproven information is bound in and by itself to be false and wrong and, as such, may be resisted to the detriment of faith and morals”."

sethken:
Okigwe as a diocese, has larger population of Catholics than Ahiara. That is a fact. Why don't you do some research on your own. The figures online is supplied by the Vatican. Remember, Okigwe includes Mbano, Isiukwuato, Obowu, etc. The entire Okigwe zone has one diocese, while Owerri senatorial zone has two dioceses, Owerri and Ahiara. Se

Dis ur source is not dat accurate, Okigwe diocese doesn't have a greater number of parishioners dan Orlu not to talk of Ahiara!
PS: am not from Ahiara diocese

EggovinMma:


Choi I remember when masquerade pursue me for village.Was like 11 years or no more than.
I'm still in shock why I didn't faint. I flew like a bird, hopped like antelope, crawled like a snail all to escape. When i finally entered my grandfather's compound everyone outside rushed to get hold of me as I opened my small mouth in exasperated wail.

*I won even cry sef*

I think I held biscuits stuffed on my hands for the rest of the day in other to keep me mute as my wailing was almost deafening everyone. Was still in shock don't blame me. My uncle went out and beat the masquerade mercilessly for "messing" with the family's mkpurumma!!!!

Still wondering why the masquerade choosed me in a multitude of very happy watchers! ! .
A

My Christmas "koikoi shoe was brought back to me.

cozy7:
One bad thing abt cases like this, even if d Dean is later proved innocent, d accusation alone has permanently dented his image. He might probably loose his job n not get it back even after proved innocent. From what I read, I guess d Dean initiated d sex, but d girl consented n enjoyed herself, THAT'S Y SHE DIDN'T SHOUT WEN SOMEONE KNOCKED. All these Calabar girls sef, she wants to eat her cake n hv it.

Joeadamxx:
This was the scenario until barely 3 months ago. I once mentioned it to a friend and he said "They are obviously the best there was then" No argument, perspectives do change! There was no huhuhuhh cry then, no court case, why suddenly is the President a "Northern President"?

1-NGOZI OKONJO OWELA -co-ordinating minister of the economy
2-BRIGHT OKOGWU-DG budget
3-EMEKA EZE-DG DUE PROCESS
4- ARUMNA OTEH-DG SEC
5- OSCAR ONYEMA-DG NSE
6- CHIKE OBI-MD AMCON
7- CHINELU ONOUHA --DG PENCOM
8- GODWIN EMEFIELE-CBN governor
9-UCHE ORJI- MD Soveriegn wealth fund
10- SUNNY IROHA--DG housing fund
11- EVELYN OPUTA- MD BANK OF INDUSTRY-
12-NENNA ORJI -Chairman Invt Sec Tribunal
13-PIUS ANYIM -SGF- the big masquerade himself!

RickRichards:
DoA: Dead on Arrival.

Abagworo:
What Amaechi gave as a response in one of his interviews remains an answer for the entire Nigerian project. If George Bush snr could be succeeded 8 years after leaving office by George Bush jnr then its possible in a changed Nigeria. If Buhari can make Nigeria work then in 20years time competence will completely overide tribe and religion.

Juvante:
I am ambivalent about the whole idea. I always shop at Shoprite Grand Towers at Apo or the outlet at Wuse, all in Abuja when I am in town, and their prices are fair and the quality and authenticity of goods is guaranteed. That is a plus.
But on the negative side, it will destroy the small businesses that are thriving in that area, especially the great Effurun Market which has existed for centuries. Apart from food groceries which comes from nearby villages, I can assure you that the small time traders will wiped out in the nearest future, due to competition. The cost of transporting from the market to the Shoprite outlet is about 30 to 50 naira by public transport, and the distance is less than 5 minutes!
It is one of the bitter price of globalization, the large companies gobbling up the smaller business entities, and no one seems to care!

abduljabbar4:
Does jonathan know the meaning of the word 'misconduct'? Why didn't he sack him long time ago?
Mr president you sacked him because he didn't rig the election enough for you. We saw what happened in Rivers when pdp rejected the officer he sent

abduljabbar4:
You will arrest the person that appointed you

joseph1832:
Abeg make we hear word joor! If people like this can come and make such useless statements without his kinsmen cautioning him. I wonder who now gave the rest of Nigeria the impetus to caution Asari when he was issuing threats here and there.

The Nigerian polity is now so loose and weakened that any nimcompoop another the name and guise of any organization can just come and make anyhow statements.

Or can you imagine the red indians saying they will secede from the U.S?.

All this senseless comments must stop and citizens should learn to caution any man who choses to open his mouth and ridicule his tribe/religion.

I believe the time for all this nonsense has long pass!. Imagine "igbos will secede if marganalized" I didn't know when he became chief spokesman/president/representative of the Igbo people!.

chowlade:
why do ibos always like to say dis man Obasanjo na wowo Man? una no see ojukwu

Obasanjo free Nigeria from debt, Goodluck
Jonathan took Nigeria back to debt. What an
irony of life.

click dis link to see wowo people www.nairaland.com/2304484/hilarious-photos-beautiful-people-must

quote me and die in lagoon.

EdCure:
This man has great plans to restore discipline and confidence in the police.
Given the time and circumstances surrounding his appointment, one can only hope that Buhari will allow him just enough time to prove himself and create a lasting legacy.

youngmonie:
Good news for him, but let us face reality on ground, especially those that live in the UK. Labout party would not repeat the same mistake they made with ED Miliband as leader of the party, I do not seee Muna becoming the next labour leader. He may have a local appeal in his local constituency, but not in the UK as a whole. #Justmy opinion as someone who lives here

Toktee:
i thought you want to said,shagari was pardon while ekwueme was sent to jail,since you are good at history,why don't you state what sent them to jail individually for all to know?
What was ekwueme's offence and that of shagari?
Dnt mind my English,just answer the question

Aigbofa:
It is a blatant lie that Biafra held Nigeria at bay for three years. Biafra was finished almost immediately, the rest was a waiting game and skirmishes that saw millions die of hunger and eventual capitulation.

mensdept:
Too bad the people have not done anything to rid themselves of warrant chiefs parading as PDP governors and senators. Look at the miserable ABia state, where Thief Orji, an occultist, presided as governor for 8 years and now smuggled himself to senate, and his stewart becoming the next governor. Where are the Aba women rioters?

omonnakoda:
They were defeated almost immediately. Ojukwu in his pride chose to play games with civilian lives and refused to surrender.Thank God the Nigerian Army were professional and not inclined to genocide

modath:
Plaintiff withdraws suit.



http://www.punchng.com/news/plaintiffs-withdraw-eligibility-suit-against-buhari/

Plaintiffs in the two of the three pending suits challenging the eligibility of the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to contest in the March 28, 2015, presidential election have been withdrawn.

Justice Adeniyi Ademola who is presiding over the matters at the Federal High Court in Abuja subsequently struck out the matter after the plaintiffs indicated their intention to withdraw the suits on Wednesday.

Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) who is representing one of the plaintiffs, told the judge on Wednesday that his client decided to withdraw his suit to afford the incoming government time to focus on the “enormous task” of governance.

When the second case which was filed by Max Ozoaka was called, his lawyer, Dr. Chike Amobi, also adduced similar grounds for withdrawing the suit.

With the Wednesday’s development, the remaining pending eligibility suit against Buhari is the one filed by Ayakeme Whiskey (FHC/ABJ/CS/68/15).

As of the time of filing this story, no date has been fixed for the hearing in the pending suit.

Buhari, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, was on April 1 declared winner of the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party.

The plaintiffs had filed the suits challenging Buhari’s eligibility, asking the court to declare him ineligible to contest in the election on the basis of his alleged failure to submit his certificate of academic qualifications along with his Form CF001 to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The plaintiffs claim that Buhari’s failure to submit his certificate of academic qualifications contravened provisions of sections 131 and 318 of the 1999 Constitution and section 31(3) of the Electoral Act, 2010.

kennydee05:
Ok
Birds of a feather.
President Ouattara Alassane taught Laurent Gbagbo a very big lesson
While General Mohammad Buhari did the same thing to President Goodluck Jonathan

luvmijeje:
Any Yorubas that apologise on behalf of the Oba after today is an OMO ALE...... Let them do their worst. The Yorubas will be waiting for them at the ICC.

Ymodulus:
I think I will start by trying to be Anthropomorphic, as it will bet express my heading.
Its really sad when insanity realizes that he has a mental disorder then he is as good as cured. The moment a people come to terms with their complex problem which often place them at loggerheads with their host communities the better for them.

I seem not to fathom how a tribe claim to have suffered humiliations and deprivation from other ethnic nationalities. This allegation should be consider very weighty even though it was not substantiated. Nonetheless, this aggrieved ethnic nationality needs to ask herself what is about it that could be responsible for the purported hostile acts of other ethnic nationalities toward it.

One problem I have with Chimanda is all her articles tends to quote Chinua Achebe, even when its evident chinua actions are wrong. The sane mistake she made, about his book "there was a country". Now she is trying to say that the Igbo's were murdered in early 1960's for political reasons? Who started the war? Was it the Nigerian Arny or The late Ojukwu ? I see Chimabda is biased. And she is just a staunt re-echoer of Chinua Achebe's belief.


I liked the fact that she related the massacre of the Ibos in different parts of the country before the civil war. However what I do like to ask her is this,

1. chimanda was there nothing that led to the massacre?

You can't deny that the tendency to dominate in another man's land which is being exhibited now by taking the Oba to court is what led to such. Tell me when you come back from court if the people of Lagos will still have a good relationship with the Ibos.


Chimanda while trying to play a neutral ground at the surface, is been biased deep down. I am sorry to say but if Chimanda spent her time writing this, she wasted that time. As this just further lowered NY respect for her as an internationally recognised writer. Novel is her thing not politics.

Just imagine how shez is spreading lies about 1960s massacre. Posterity Judge you.

lucrownt:
I was arguing with someone that Ngozi Okonjo Iweala can be prosecuted on the account of corruption, but the person told me that Okonjo would not be jailed (if found guilty) due to her international reputation. My fellow Nairalanders, how true is it? Is there anyone above the rule of law?

deemdeem:
what useless ND problem are u talking about? Apart from UNEP report, no serious issue.
So far the region is being given the highest allocation when compared to other regions.
The region has additional 13%
The region has a ministry of its own.
The region also NDDC.
Speak to ur governors and demand they make use of this resources judiciously.

SLIDEwaxie:
Jona wey don try left and right, wey don see say no other way dey, he come face who dey pursue am come say, kukuma kill me...na im u all dey decieve yourself say he conceded? The guy surrendered. In Yorubaland, they will say, IPA PIN... it means, all struggle don end.

So, wetin u want make him do? Make he continue fighting?

Dem say a powerful man dey play with u, u say u like the play...if you knw Like the play nko? U wan fight the man?

Na wetin do jona be dt...forget conceded and use surrendered!