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tpia@:
hmmm

Deported from Nigeria to their countries. Not deported from Sokoto to Kano. Comprehend?

Ebonyi

McAdem:
na greener we go chop?

No, but this thread is about greenery. Create yours for food. Thanks.

Abeokuta

Ibadan versus Enugu
Lagos versus Owerri
Abakaliki versus Abeokuta
Ife versus Awka
Umuahua versus Ekiti
etc, etc

Where do you have better greenery?
We have seen photos of Ibadan compared to Enugu
Photos of Abeokuta compared to Owerri
Where do you find more trees?

Ogbomoso community is losing battle against erosion

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5438128-147/story.csp

Erosion kills 2 in Ibadan



http://www.nigeria70.com/nigerian_news_paper/erosion_kills_2_in_ibadan/128809

SE cities

SW cities- no trees

SE and SW Nigeria which is greener?

SW and SE which is actually greener?

Yes, erosion is a problem in the SE, but it is also a big issue in Edo, Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Benue (google)
Ocean surge is a problem in Lagos, Rivers, Bayesla etc
Desertification is an issue in the North
Massive flooding is a problem in SW states
Erosion also ocurs in Ibadan- Visit UI-Ojoo-IITA road heading to Ilorin

Tree planting is but only an aspect of soil protection measures, which may not work well in some land slide instances, depending on the ferocity- the trees will simply be uprooted
Grass planting is also an option
Overall, all sorts of environmental and civil engineering can be harnessed to try to tackle the menace

^^^^
I guess you are blind to the three links I provided above, Senile fo/ol?

BTW, tree planting is only a facet of the solution, not the complete solution
Tree planting and environmental engineering will work alongside each other

Tree planting, solution to climate change -- Director

August 04, 2011 15:55

Planting trees, solution to accelerating climate change

NAN-H-37

Trees

Enugu, Aug. 4, 2011 (NAN) The Enugu State Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources has said that tree planting will help solve the problem of climate change. More here:

http://nannewsngr.com/section/4/tree-planting-solution-to-climate-change-director

Daily Champion (Lagos)
Nigeria: Enugu - South African Group Donates 10,000 Tree Seedlings

13 September 2010

http://allafrica.com/stories/201009170080.html

Vanguard (Lagos)
Nigeria: Enugu Launches Tree Planting Campaign

Tony Edike

13 August 2009

http://allafrica.com/stories/200908130936.html

Eko Ile:
The question is, are you planting trees?

Do you have tree planting policies

What strategies do you have in place to stop or prevent erosion and landslide?

So you are the one planting all the trees in Igboland? Can you compare the greenery in Imo (for example) with that in Oyo (for example). We can compare existing threads on the two cities. You are a complete mo-r-on.

Ileke-IdI:
The youth is the worst of course.
The Youths are the children of tomorrow.
who wants drugged out leaders?

In addition to your youths, of course. Remember Ekiti and drug-induced madness amongst the youths there?

naijaking1:
My people, even the governor thinks cutting down trees is the way to develope

Can you prove this? Do they cut trees down for the fun of it or you mean you can build roads, houses and bridges without decapitating trees that stand on the way?

Silinu Sogbonsi was five years old when unknown men seized him as he walked home from school in Selinu, a little town in the southeast of Benin, near the Nigerian border. Blindfolded, he was pushed him into a waiting car which sped away.

For several days, Sogbonsi was hustled along by his captors on motorbikes through bush paths and on buses along highways.

Finally he arrived in a little village he was to identify as Alamutu, near Abeokuta city in southwest Nigeria. Here Sogbonsi joined other children, aged five to 15 on a daily routine to dig up stones for their masters from the quarries that litter the area.

The children, who earned 50 naira (US $0.38) a week, each worked 12-16 hours, crushing enough gravel to generate 35,000 naira ($269). Every evening a lorry delivered the gravel to construction sites in Nigeria’s southwest region.

"We often slept in the forest where we dug," Sogbonsi, now eight, told the police and officials of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that recently rescued him. "We were always tortured and beaten, at times until we fainted."

He was one of the 194 children rescued by the police from various work sites around Abeokuta between September and October this year and returned to Benin under a renewed crackdown on human traffickers.

All the children had the tell-tale signs of malnutrition – yellowing hair, skinny limbs and distended stomachs – in addition to palms calloused by two to six years of digging granite.

Police said at least 13 children from Benin were found dead and buried around the sites where they had worked before the racket was cracked, following a tip-off by local people and non-governmental organisations.

Thousands of children in Nigeria

Security agencies and human rights workers blame traffickers operating an international network that covers most of West and Central Africa and several European cities, for the plight of tens of thousands of children exploited for their labour and women bonded into prostitution.

Some of the children returned to Benin said they were taken willingly from their impoverished parents in remote villages with promises that they would be taught useful skills in the cities. Others were obtained in exchange for token gifts (such as bicycles, radio and television sets) and promises of monthly payments that never came.

Yet there were several, like Sogbonsi, who were kidnapped – indicating a new level of desperation among the criminals.

Nigerian police said its intelligence reports indicate that 6,000-15,000 children trafficked from Benin were being used as child labourers in Nigeria. The largest concentration is believed to be in the southwest states of Ogun, Lagos, Oyo, Ondo and Osun. Most of them work in cocoa farms.

"We are still expecting more recoveries and more handovers of children to their home country," Chris Olakpe, Nigerian police spokesman, told IRIN.

Yet the movement of children between Benin and Nigeria forms only one part of an increasingly sophisticated regional trend in human trafficking.

Other children from Benin and Togo are brought to Nigeria in transit to destinations like Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea – where the boys are often used as farm labourers and girls as domestic hands or LovePeddlers.

The trafficking routes

The children destined for Central African countries are usually moved from the southwest to southeast Nigeria - on the Atlantic coast bordering Cameroon - from where they are put in sea vessels that transport them to these countries.
seems the ijaw are collaborating in this evil act Undecided Undecided

The journey is often hazardous, the vessels locally built without navigational equipment and the children invariably overloaded along with goods. In the last decade, hundreds of children have perished in the Atlantic waters in accidents in which vessels carrying them, sank.


In recent years hundreds of such children have been returned from Gabon and Equatorial Guinea with the assistance of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Nigerian embassies there.

Traffickers are also active in Burkina Faso and Mali, where children are recruited and taken to Cote d'Ivoire to work in the cocoa farms of the world's leading producer. Most of the children originate from Mali and are boys from the areas of Ségou, Sikasso and Mopti.

Activists say trafficking networks to Côte d'Ivoire were established in Mali in the early 1990s due to a demand for cheap labour on its cotton plantations. Most of the children are recruited by intermediaries who sell them to plantation owners.

Others were promised work by relatives or friends and arrived on the plantations, mines, construction sites passing through family networks.

In Ghana children have for decades been bonded to fishermen in the Volta Lake region where they worked long hours for little or no pay. In September hundreds of these children were freed from the employment of these fishermen. A draft Trafficking In Persons Prevention Bill has been prepared by the Ghanaian authorities to check the practice.

Women trafficked to Europe

Equally worrying are the activities of human traffickers in West Africa which operate criminal rings that specialise in obtaining women and sending them to Europe to work as LovePeddlers.

Activists estimate that 60 percent of LovePeddlers walking the streets of Italy are from Nigeria. Spain, France, Belgium and The Netherlands also have significant populations of LovePeddlers from West Africa.

Titi Abubakar, wife of Nigeria’s Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who runs the Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF), said 19,774 Nigerians have been deported from Europe since 1999 for offences related to trafficking and prostitution.

Between March and August 2003 alone 4,835 Nigerians, mostly women, were either arrested in Europe or deported to Nigeria for similar reasons.

Traffickers who specialise in taking young women to Europe, where they are held in debt bondage and forced into prostitution, have established networks all over West Africa, according to police and NGO sources.

From bases scattered all over the region the women are taken on the tortuous journey across the Sahara Desert to destinations in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, from where attempts are made to smuggle them to Europe.

"Every year scores of young men and women die either from dehydration during the Sahara crossing or by drowning in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach Europe," an Interpol official told IRIN in Lagos.

Security agencies, local NGOs and UNICEF and the International Labour Organisation (ILO), who have been involved in battling human trafficking in West Africa in the past decade, believe the trend is growing despite their efforts.


http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=47205

My ordeal in ritualists’ den – 14-year-old student

News Tuesday, October 18, 2011

BY GBENGA ARIYIBI

ADO-EKITI-It was a joyful reunion when a 14 year-old, Ranti Opeloye, earlier abducted by a syndicate involved in ritual killings in Ado Ekiti, regained her freedom and returned home after four days sojourn in the ritualists' den.



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Ranti, a student of All Soul's Anglican Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, was seized by a six-man gang of ritualists from where she had gone to buy vegetable at Basiri area of the state capital around 4 p.m.

They took her to an unknown destination, after being charmed.

Apparently rejected by the oracle in the forest where she was taken to, the young girl was later dumped at a remote area in Ado Ekiti the following Thursday after spending four days with her abductors

Narrating her ordeal to newsmen, Ranti recounted how she was ordered by members of the gang to enter a waiting vehicle which was used for the operation.

The teenager, whose father , Mr Kolade Omolade, a native of Afao Ekiti is a Traffic Warden with the Ekiti State Police Command said, the men immediately covered her face with a black hood and drove her into a bush, where she was tied to a tree alongside several other old and young victims.

Continuing, she said she saw a deep cave where the ritualists took the next victim to and got an envelope in exchange, which she suspected to be money after the victim had been certified to be appropriate for the ritual.

The released victim suspected the two students kidnapped alongside with her to be students of Christ's Girl School, Ado Ekiti, adding that the students had not been killed when she was relased. .

"The three of us were hung outside the cave, but I knew that those that were the real ritualists were inside the cave.

"When a victim is taking into the cave and he is good for ritual, they will give the kidnappers an envelope, which I think contains huge amount of money".

Explaining how she finally escaped she said; "On Thursday when I was to be killed, I struggled with them as they were dragging me into the cave and a man just emerged and ordered them to take me to where they picked me without giving the reasons and that was how I was charmed again and I became unconscious until I was brought into this Church".

Corroborating, Ranti's sister, Mrs Kemi Olayiwola, who sighted her where she was dropped and brought her to a Church said, she could neither stand nor speak when she was brought to the Church.

Adding that members of the family had searched for the victim everywhere in the State capital without success before she was found.

Speaking in the same manner, the leader of the Church, Pastor Lanre Idowu told the newsmen that he had to hurriedly assemble the Church's prayer warriors for a special prayer session before Ranti could regain her consciousness.

"She behaved like a slowpoke when she was brought here, but after about one hour of prayers , she began to regain her consciousness".

Ileke-IdI:
LMAO @ Yoruba mafia and Bini mafia.

I agree with the Yoruba mafia part, but drug is not one of their forte. That would be the Igbo mafia.

Not with your elderly (especially females) getting caught everyday with drugs at different airports
Igbo young ones do, Yoruba young ones and elderly do
I wonder which is more vile?

Rascals at work
Tinubu, father of rascals
Aregbesola, uncle of rascals
Fashola, wannabe rascal

dhtml .:
If the OP can respond properly in spanish to all i have said - then i will know that she is really of spanish origin.
You may use google translator to read what i have said, but if you are not trained in spanish, you can never
respond properly in a convincing way. BTW, i can differentiate written spanish - written offhand from that written
by someone that learnt spanish as an alternative language(like me), and a true nativo espanola.

The english-writing style of the poster does not really look like the way espanol nativos construct their ingles at all!

Thanks, but do not waste your time. The OP is Yoruba and a regular nairalander.

Donlittle:
actually igbo language is the hardest gan

To you, cos of your low IQ

See as all of una fall mugu for the OP
The OP is definitely a Yoruba trying to start what they know best how to do.

BTW, she claims the guy speaks in Igbo, a language she does not understand, how come she knows he was talking about money?
Moreover, caucasians hardly spell Igbo as Igbo, but as Ibo
Op is Yoruba, most likely an alter ego of Ileke Idi.

Intercontinental is Access Bank’s subsidiary
By Collins Nweze 2 hours 8 minutes ago
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Intercontinental is Access Bank’s subsidiary

• New management takes over today



Intercontinental Bank Plc has become a subsidiary of Access Bank Plc, making it the first rescued bank to complete its recapitalisation.

This follows the approval of the shareholders of Access Bank Plc and Intercontinental Bank Plc, sanction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria and the nod of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

In a joint statement from Intercontinental Bank and Access Bank, both institutions announced the completion of the recapitalisation of Intercontinental Bank and acquisition of 75 per cent majority interest in Intercontinental Bank by Access Bank Plc. This means that effective from today, Intercontinental Bank, including its assets, liabilities and undertakings, becomes properties of Access Bank Plc.

Consequently, on October 14, this year, the retiring Board of Directors of Intercontinental Bank Plc reconstituted its membership upon the request of Access Bank. Also, the reconstituted Board of Directors of Intercontinental Bank was announced in which Aigboje Aig-imoukhuede - the incumbent Group Managing Director of Access Bank  emerged Chairman; Herbert Wigwe– the Deputy Group Managing Director of Access Bank; Paul Usoro, Taukeme Koroye and Obinna Nwosu were appointed Non-Executive Directors. Ojini Olaghere and Segun Ogbonnewo emerged Executive Directors, while Victor Etuokwu was named Managing Director.

The statement also said: “The combined effect of the restoration of the Net Asset Value (NAV) to zero by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and N50 billion capital injection by Access Bank Plc is that Intercontinental Bank operates as a well-capitalised bank,with shareholders funds of N50 billion and Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) of 24 per cent, well above the 10 per cent regulatory threshold.

“We are also pleased to announce that change of control process has been completed and the implementation of the business integration plan. Intercontinental Bank will be merged with Access Bank in the second quarter of 2012. In the interim, Intercontinental Bank will operate as a high performing subsidiary of Access Bank Plc, fulfilling all obligations to customers and other stakeholders.

“We are also pleased to announce that change of control processes for Intercontinental’s banking operations within Nigeria have been completed and we are working with host regulators to conclude change of control processes for its international banking subsidiaries,” the statement said.

The former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank, Lai Alabi’s last day in office was Friday.

Other rescued banks -Union Bank of Nigeria Plc; Equitorial Trust Bank, which is being acquired by Sterling Bank Plc and  FinBank, that is coalescing with First City Monument Bank Plc, are also expected to fully complete their recapitalisation soon.

Depilot:
Development and education will certainly make north much stronger.
And a stronger north is a threat to Yoruba and Igbo.

Why? I think Yorubas and Igbos are in a better position to answer this question

The North has always been a social and political threat to the south. Lack of education makes the threat more deadly. Education will abate the threat. Honesty and integrity, however, will not result from education. Otherwise those northerners who are educated and have ruled since adam would be saints today.

Abagworo:
Boko Haram has not killed a single Southerner and it should not be tribalised please.

You are joking, right?

ekt_bear:
aving wealthy neighbors. Certainly better to have a developed and educated northern neighbor than the currently poor and backwards one, imo.

All of this is just hypothetical talk, likelihood of them getting developed and educated unless something dramatically changes is pretty close to nil.

Thanks for this. Those guys will likely remain as they are till Christ comes.