These things will continue to happen until we abolish indigenship.
Even family members (father and son) wrangle over positions and issues, let alone two states, albeit of one ethnicity. Hope they agree to disagree maturedly.

I can only say that something big is going on under the chair, beyond the realms of the average.

Northern Minorities to Southern Leaders: Liberate Us From Hausa-Fulani Oppression


A top political meeting began today in one of the South-West geo-political zone’s state between leaders of Northern Nigerian minorities and as well influential elite of Southern Nigeria, comprising South-South, South-East and the host South-West.

The meeting reliable sources said is geared towards cementing political deal between the Northern minorities who are mainly Christians, and the rest of Southern Nigeria who have no religious extremism ahead of 2015 general elections.alt

The meeting according to sources also involves senior Christian leaders, women and youth leaders and representatives of traditional rulers from the largely Middle Belt Zone who have consented and threw their weight behind thealt synergy.

Highlight of today’s deliberation was appreciation and commendations led by one of the Action Congress of Nigeria’s governors, and other elite to the Northern minority Christians who ensured that a presidential candidate perceived to be a religious presidential candidate was vehemently rejected for the rest of the candidates comprising, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, Goodluck Jonathan and Malam Ibrahim Shekarau.

The meeting also discussed the Hausa-Fulani’s midnight killings in Jos, Plateau State and their recent penetration to Southern Kaduna where serial killings are going with no concrete security to overcome the lingering raiding.

It also decried the situation unravel in Bauchi State two weeks ago, where Police discover terrorists training camp in Toro local government area.

According to report the leader of the camp was in the process of recruiting another 35 people for training before the camp was invaded by the Police.

The suspects arrested were undergoing training at the camp, and Police recovered five camouflage military uniforms, 70 rounds of 7.62mm AK47 live ammunition, 44 rounds of live cartridges, four pump action guns, one military jungle hat, four machetes in bayonet-like form, and a box containing assorted charms.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, had said “Since my posting, this is the first time I am seeing such. They have refused to name their sponsors, but investigations will unravel those behind the camp.”The Police Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Barau, said the suspects would be taken to Dikwa in Kaduna state for further investigations because they confessed that they were supposed to go on a reprisal attack following the killings of some Fulani people in the area.

The PPRO gave their names as Buba Yayi, Sule Saleh, Lawalle Abdulkadir, Abdulkadir Saleh, Musa, Abubakar alias Musa duna, Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed (leader), Adamu Jagaba, Seidu Saleh, and Risku Usman

Barau said, “We arrested them in a village called Gumau in Toro. The first thing we did was to screen them based on the suspicion of conspiracy, unlawful possession of offensive weapons, firearms, live ammunition and pump action cartridges — all lethal weapons.

“As investigation progressed, it became obvious that they were no mere criminals, but terrorists.The fact became obvious when from the confessional statement of three of them, they said that they were recruited by one Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed, who is their leader.

He quartered them and they have commenced training in the use of fire arms and tactful defence.

“They were to be trained in weapon handling. It was obvious from their statement that after the training, their mission would be to avenge the death of their Fulani brothers and sisters that lost their lives in Kaduna riots. To be more specific, they were planning an attack on Zankwa community in Zangon Kataf in Southern Kaduna.”

Barau said five of the suspects were arrested around 7am on September 15, after an attack on the village of Fuska Mata in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. Fuska Matta is a border village between Jos and Toro in Bauchi.

He added, “More importantly the group is being investigated for their possible involvement in the attack on the village of Fuska Matta which was attacked by Fulani on September 9 at 9pm. It was these five that took us to the house where the remaining five were arrested.”

He said that the suspects were being trained with one AK47 rifle and one pump action.

The CP added that the police would not leave any stone unturned in a bid to unmask the sponsors of the group but that his greatest headache was the internally-displaced persons who migrated from Maiduguri and Jos to Bauchi.

He said, “Most of them are not employable. However, our 24-hour patrol is on and we are making efforts to contain these hoodlums.”

http://www.naijapundit.com/news/northern-minorities-to-southern-leaders-liberate-us-from-hausa-fulani-oppression

^^^^
This is Ibadan. Looks like somewhere around Molete, the niche of the late Adedibu, the Ibadan strongman, or around Beere Oje

Obiagu1:

I really need to see the kind of buildings surrounding Cocoa house.

All crap. Cocoa House is a mini oasis in the desert. However, even that building itself is decrepit as you can read below. As a matter of fact, as of 2005 and back when I was 100% conversant with it, most suites there were rat-infested, dilapidated, and thus, unoccupied. Hope they have been fixed and rented out now.
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Man dies inside Cocoa House elevator - Decomposed body found after three days
By Jackson Udom

TRAGEDY struck on Thursday at the premises of the Cocoa House, the tallest building in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, when a man, in his bid to make use of the lift facility in the commercial complex, fell headlong and died immediately.

The management of the complex and those who have business concerns within the complex were said not to have been aware of the tragedy that had befallen them. According to an eyewitness account, “the man wanted to use the lift, which is under repairs, but he stepped into an empty space which hitherto housed the lift, fell headlong and died instantly.”


It was also gathered that neither the contractor handling the refurbishment of the outdated elevator, nor the workers in the complex, were aware of the unfortunate incident, until the body of the man (whose name is yet to be made public), started decomposing with offensive odour oozing out from the ground floor of the lift compartment.


As a result of the tragic incident, the premises that houses the building is now being inundated with posters warning members of the public to stay clear of the lift area, saying: “The lifts are under repairs and it would be dangerous for anybody to either make use of it or go near it.”


When Sunday Tribune got to the premises, those who spoke with our reporter confirmed the incident but they were not ready to give further information on whether the man died as a result of the faulty and outdated elevator or he died due to his carelessness. They all blamed the management of the building for not being sensitive to the safety of members of the public who come to the premises to transact one business or the other. “Virtually everything in that building is outdated and grossly malfunctioning.


“The elevators there are now death traps. Those elevators were installed by Papa Obafemi Awolowo and since then they have always been undergoing repairs. Now that somebody has been trapped in it, may be they will do something about it.” Attempts by Sunday Tribune to get in touch with the management of the building proved abortive as none of them was available for comments.


According to a police source who pleaded anonymity, “we are yet to know the identity of the deceased and by Monday, we would invite the site contractor, because what we are hearing is that the man was one of their workers. We learnt that the man fell from the lift. The decomposing body of the man had been evacuated to the Adeoyo Mortuary.


When contacted, the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ms Bisi Okuwobi, confirmed the story adding that the man’s decomposing body was discovered three days after his death inside the elevator. “It is true. The man died several days before his body was found inside the elevator.”

Duh!!!! Of course he is a villain; a big, fat one.

~Bluetooth:

What has South East and philip06 got to say about this ?

How is he different from Yoruba obas r.a.p.i.n.g youth corpers serving in their towns?

UI denies 1,012 students admission over fake, doubtful results

Read more: http://www..com/ng/youths-education-scholarships/7013-ui-denies-1-012-students-admission-over-fake-doubtful-results.html#ixzz1ZjTFXoq4

http://www..com/ng/youths-education-scholarships/7013-ui-denies-1-012-students-admission-over-fake-doubtful-results.html

A very good example of how fake Yorubas are is in the number of buildings falling in the SW compared to other zones (google)
Fake human beings, fake certificates, fake buildings; even fake environment. Haba.

Fake Admission: Ekiti Varsity Expels 412

http://nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=103

This in Abuja (of all places)

FCTA seals off 370 Illegal schools
http://www.nigeriancompass.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4621:fcta-seals-off-370-illegal-schools&catid=54:nigeria-today&Itemid=594

Ondo To Close Down Illegal Schools

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=8660

Ondo battles illegal, substandard schools

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5708383-146/story.csp

http://allafrica.com/stories/200307310661.html
Axe to Fall On 10,000 Illegal Lagos Schools

Some sound bites
Oyo Shuts Illegal Group of Schools

http://allafrica.com/stories/201001070694.html

Only 494? When fake schools in Ekiti/Ogun/Oyo/Ondo/Osun/Lagos are 1000s and counting. Ebonyi people no try at all; if they must copy illegality from ngbatis, they must do it better.

seanet02:

Na today?

This loser. You no go go weep for your political loss? You want Igbos to help liberate you. This time, you will do it yourself.

seanet02:

see the man whose people are crying being hated because they were not allowed to become the President
Igbotic reasoning

Who is the loser here?

You fought us and as losers in the war, it is perfectly expected that we will suffer political consequences
You are the winner, yet you are the one now suffering and writing tons of articles about your marginalization all over the damn place. What an irony.

seanet02:

Only God know if an ibo man will be the President of Nigeria before the extinction of the country

Let's see you divide the country now. No be for mouth. Until then, you are in political limbo (sorry).
Your Yoruba elites can never allow a division; the milk and honey is too sweet to let go for them.
You have only one option: renounce the frog-eyed one, and your erstwhile political status will be restored

Any i.d.i.o.t knows this. So, what is the new knowledge gained here by Fasola reiterating what is commonplace knowledge? These loafing butt lickers at work.

Yoruba going into political extinction.
Next election time they will have to look before leaping at Tinubu's orders.

^^^^^^
Photos, please.

Igboland  has improved tremendously from the bombings of the Biafran war. Kudos to our can-do spirit. So far, Enugu and Owerri are the ebeanos


However, we have neglected Ebonyi for so long. Can we get a thread going where pictures of Abakiliki and other Ebonyi towns/cities can be posted?

I have one running here but we need to populate it with photos https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=771556.msg9246710#msg9246710

tpia@:


you're projecting.


what i specifically asked was can someone find out the destination ie where those buses went to with the returnees.

You were the one projecting by ignorantly saying that because the buses had Anambra #s, the passengers must be Igbos. That is the folly of your position.
You will have to wean yourself of this crass ignorance for me to continue with you. Now go and find their destination, what they were doing in Libya, and their names and tell us, before you continue spewing more ignorance-laden retorts here.

~Bluetooth:

Funny. . .you think your opinion that doesn't count which you continue to spill around just to defend your fellow ibos is enough to rubbish this report.No wonder your fellow NL ibos were screaming junk journalism when they saw the reporter being a yoruba.
Ibos and hausas fought for Ghadaffi !

And your own opinion counts to who? You and your fake journalism.

alj_harem:

you really have to know nigeria

the newspaper = odili news by igbos

the top 7 comments was by igbos

even the yorubas that are marginalzed are not complaining yet this igbos are complaining for them

My brother nothing pesin no go see for this site

I mean read this

sbezzy8, what right person would write this that is the problem with this people

@ THE YORUBA PEOPLE OUT THERE

Please avoid commenting on topics like this.[size=14pt] It feeds the DEVIL[/size] .

Grass-eating cow. So Taiwo Adisa is now Igbo? So Tribune News paper is now Igbo paper? Did you click the link to see the source, GOAT?

udezue:

This is N vs SW so keep SE out of this.
North vs SouthWest

I wonder oh!
Newspaper that reported is Yoruba
Journalist is Yoruba
Subjects are Yoruba versus North
Yet, one incorrigible nincompoop is frothing Igbo from his/her mouth

tpia@:

As per the buses, well the link gave their registration numbers which are anambra state.

I dont know if luxurious bus companies are registered in the state their headquarters are based in, or their destination states.

It would help if you could find out what's the usual procedure for transporting large numbers of displaced people. Does the govt have state vehicles it uses in such situations or are private companies contacted for help.

Now I know where your ignorance stems from. You assume because they are Igbo-owned, their destinations must always be Igboland
Well, some of those buses have never set their tires on Igboland:

They ply Lagos-North and opposite
Lagos-Senegal and opposite (West African route, especially ABC transport)
Lagos-Abuja and opposite
Lagos-East
East-North and opposite
Ibadan-Port Harcourt and back
East-Lagos (in which case their destination is Lagos)
North-North and up to Niger Republic.
Etc, etc.
So, the fact that the buses are Igbo-owned does not EXPRESSLY mean those guys from Libya were Igbos, nor does it mean the buses were Igboland-bound. Got it now

http://odili.net/news/source/2011/oct/2/622.html

How North sidelines S/West in civil service * No South Westerner in top ten of federal protocol

Written by Taiwo Adisa, Group Politics Editor
Sunday, October 2, 2011

Notwithstanding the constitutional inviolability of the Federal Character Principle, which provides that no section of the country will be perpetuated in office above the other in a determined effort at ensuring equity, balance and fairness in the sharing of the nation's resources, investigations have shown that the South-West geopolitical zone has consistently been shortchanged in the application of Federal character over the years.



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Incidentally, the fault is not traceable to lack of competent hands by the zone; rather, investigations revealed that the zone has always presented its best and the best hands for the job at hand.

Sources confirmed that a cabal in the Federal Civil Service, working hand in hand with some influential forces in the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) and the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) has combined to consistently execute an agenda against candidates of the South-West.

Three instances stand out

Of the myriads of infraction against candidates of the South-West, three major appointments in recent history stand out. The appointment of the Auditor-General of the Federation (AGF) in 2009, the appointment of the Clerk of the National Assembly (CNA) in 2010 and the appointment of the new Head of Service of the Federation to replace Professor Oladapo Afolabi, who retired on September 29, are the classic instances of direct marginalisation of the South-West in the Federal Civil Service.

Somehow, the instances of marginalis- ation were orchestrated by forces believed to be working for the interest of the North.

Only last week, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed the replacement for Professor Afolabi from the North-East zone, contrary to widespread indication that the president was set to appoint a candidate from the South-West, in line with the desired balancing act in the federation as designed by the constitution.

Taking the Head of Service post to the North-East, the Federal Government has, thus, completed the routing of the South-West from the top 10 of the federal protocol, the zone having earlier lost the number four slot allotted to it by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) through some insider connivance traceable to the politics of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), which won majority of the House of Representatives seats from the zone.

In 2009, activities were flagged off when it was discovered that the two most senior directors in the office of Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. Gabriel Ogunsina and Mr. Timothy Osonuga are from the South-West. By the rule guiding the service from independence, the two were supposed to take office one after the other.

But the unseen hands that wanted to the two South-West candidates invented a policy which indicates that the Auditor-General position could be advertised and the age classification contained in the advert deliberately sidelined the two, apparently to sideline them.

The administration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, which adopted the policy, in November 2009, forwarded the name of the then Auditor-General of Benue State, Samuel Ukura, to the Senate for confirmation, thus, striking out the two most senior directors in the office who had risen to positions of second and third in command to the Auditor-General at the time.

The case ofAuditor-General of the Federation

The FCSC had prepared a position which laid the foundation for the marginalisation of the South-West in the appointment of the Auditor-General, insinuating that the two most senior officers in the office of the Auditor-General of the Federation might not be competent to hold the substantive post.

But a career staff had stated then: "If the two most senior directors in the office of the Auditor-General, Mr. Gabriel Ogunsina and Mr. Timothy Osonuga, are not competent enough to be Auditor-General, as the Civil Service Commission tends to infer, how did they manage to rise to the position of directors? Would it not amount to self-indictment on the part of the commission that promoted them to the directorate cadre just as other civil servants in the service?"

Also in attempting to set the records straight, career auditors in the Federal Civil Service, in a petition to the president of the Senate, Senator David Mark, in November 2009, signed by Messrs Kabiru Iliya, Uzor Chimezie and James Ologbon, said the nomination of Ukura was against the rule of law and due process.

They also claimed that contrary to established procedures, the FCSC bypassed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and the Head of Service (HOS) of the Federation in making the appointment.

According to them, the appointment also sidelined the career auditors in the system as the FCSC only advertised the position, against the laid down procedure.

The career auditors protested that only the position of the Auditor-General was being so treated in history, while all other positions in the service are occupied by career personnel.

The auditors wrote: "Why did the Federal Government which has been professing the principles of the rule of law and due process suddenly jettison a set of rules and guidelines collectively set by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) when it came to appointing an Auditor-General for the federation?

"Contrary to insinuations that there are no qualified officers in the office of the AGF who are eligible for the position, the committee is enjoined to investigate the educational background and experience of officers in the directorate cadre in the office of the AGF.

"This will enable the committee to confirm that there is, indeed, a conspiracy against the staff of the office. For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state here that apart from the officer currently in acting capacity as Auditor-General and who has just submitted the annual audit report in record time, as required by the constitution, there is also a director who had his first degree in 1983 and who qualified as a chartered accountant in 1988. These officers have served all their careers as federal auditors and are still being regarded as 'not qualified.'

"On the other hand, the nominee, Mr. Ukura, graduated in 1986 and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1992. We can all see through the thick veil.

"We also want the PAC to note that the work in the office of the Auditor-General is not done by the Auditor-General himself, but by the staff of the office. The government is now bringing somebody who may need between two to three years to learn on the job. It is instructive to note that the job at the state where Mr. Ukura is coming from is different from that of the federal level.

"For instance, a state Auditor-General has never handled matters relating to the Federation Account. We also state that it is morally wrong for any government for whatever reasons, to jeopardize the career of all the officers in the directorate cadre of an establishment just to favour one individual.

"The adverse implication is that the entire directorate cadre from assistant directors upward may likely retire before the expiration of the tenure of the nominee under consideration.

"This is in view of the fact that while he stated his date of birth as June 5, 1956, in his curriculum vitae, his date of birth was given as June 5, 1959 in the security reports issued on him. This has made it difficult for anyone to know which of the two dates represents his true date of birth."

An example from the OBJ days

Incidentally, the South-West has also suffered in areas it has comparative advantage. Under the leadership of Senator Anyim Pius Anyim as Senate president, the then Senate rejected the choice of Mr. Joseph Ajiboye as nominee for the AGF office on two occasions when he was presented by President Olusegun Obasanjo. The argument then was that the public finance sector at that time was lopsided in favour of the South-West, especially as the then governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the then minister of state for finance were from the South-West.

The situation in the National Assembly

In 2007, it was discovered that the time of the then CNA, Alhaji Nasiru Arab, was up since according to record, he had started work in the old Kaduna State in 1972 and should have retired in 2007 which marked his 35 years in service. But there was resistance by the NASC to let Arab go. Information later came into the open that Arab had consolidated his service records and that the new record showed that he started work in 1975.

A ding-dong was flagged off as it became obvious that a group within the NASC was actually attempting to prevent the emergence of the then Deputy Clerk of the National Assembly (DCNA), Prince Yemi Ogunyomi, who hails from Ondo State to emerge the substantive CNA. On record, no one from the South-West had served as the CNA, the chief accounting officer to the Nigerian legislature, since independence in 1960. Indeed, from 1979 to 2007, the North had held on to the position.

But Ogunyomi was in solid position to occupy the top post, having emerged the most senior civil servant in the legislature with nearly 30 years in direct service of that institution, compared to Arab, who as of then, had 15 years experience in the legislature. He (Ogunyomi) also remained the only Nigerian legislative bureaucrat who was part of the making of all Nigerian constitutions and constitution amendment processes from 1978.

Thus, it was a difficult task trying to sideline Ogunyomi. But the NASC accepted reports that Arab had consolidated his service, thereby removing the years he served as teacher between 1972 and 1975. It insisted that the then CNA would retire in 2009.

By October 2009, Arab spent one more day longer than permitted in the office, when he showed up on October 12. It took the intervention of Senate President Mark to ensure that the proper things were done and Ogunyomi named acting CNA.

Even at that, forces moving against the South-West further ensured that the letter authenticating his service as acting clerk was not released until January 2010, when his tenure had commenced as the substantive CNA.

Ogunyomi went on record as the clerk with the shortest period in office, 10 months in all, as he retired in August 2010.

Afolabi's tenure as HOS also short

Incidentally, the newly retired HOS, Professor Afolabi, also spent 10 months in office. He was named for the seat in November 2010 and left at the end of September 2011.

The scenario leading to his assumption of office was similar to that of the National Assembly and the making of the Auditor-General.

The FCSC had recommended that a thoroughbred civil servant, who grew through the ranks, should be picked as the HOS in its report to President Jonathan in 2010.

The president was, however, said to have called for a full report of the circumstances leading to the recommendations of the FCSC. He was said to have discovered that Professor Afolabi actually emerged the best for the job according to an assessment done by the same FCSC, but that a plot to perpetually sideline the Yoruba had informed the recommendation. He insisted that the best man must be given the job, a development that led to the appointment of Professor Afolabi.

Sources said the recurrence of the situation whereby South-West candidates don't last in office, even when they emerge at the top, is caused by sincerity on their age and records of service.

"Whereas many other officers from other geo-political zones would keep changing their records in the name of consolidation of service and other things, most top civil servants from the South-West present their true records and that is often used against them by certain forces which are perpetuating Yoruba marginalisation," a source said last week.

hercules07:

This is Ibadan, why are you offering 100USD?

You too smart!!

aloy/emeka:

www.nairaland.com/attachments/539067_xxxx_jpgb2a965a52d8ebf4db59ea48d8074a45f

Ado Ekiti

Nope!!!

arsenefc:



Union bank and UBA are Yoruba banks, so the UBA house and union Bank HQ are both Yoruba buildings

Union Bank and UBA are Yoruba banks? Hhahahah! You must be crazier than I thought.