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From this picture, you surely do not see a MONSTER in the making!!!

Question: How did the MONSTER came about?

The answer I strongly believe is in our society!

Dont forget we are a mirror of the society we live.

Poor man talk. Is better to cry in a Lamborghini than cry on a bicycle

I thot the Lamborghini is to bring you happiness?? so why cry in it!

Dangote needs good people to show him quality.

He has the money but not the taste.

is this what he got for $98million?

where is the Heli Pad?

this one brand new cost same price.

NONE!!!!!

@obadiah777,

Yes, you are true in all your write-up on this topic.

It is a pity our people have been brain-washed. All that glitters is not GOLD. West is surely not GOLD.

They need us more than we need them! Simple!

Now Nigeria is being dragged to Mali. For what? Nothing! Our army boyz will be killed for nothing and we stoog support France in their quest to control Mali's Oil.

U see the West knows all along, what they are doing. The Attack on Saddam is meant for Iran.

They first attack your neigbour to get close to you... this is what they did in Libya. Now in Mali... you watch it!

We have to thank our stars we still have China, Russia and Iran!

well if USA uses drone in naija

let them be aware naija will equall use drone in USA.

what is good for americans is also good for nigerians.

enough said. Goodluck bring out ur drone.. BAYLE1.3.0

gbosa!! gbosa!! gbosa!!!

the best post on nairaland.

can you please provide all the fifty pictures?

we need to patent this.

it is time to promote our own.

am sure brainwashed people here will applaud if same hair style is done by Armani, Ferragamo etc.

backward africans!

if true, Blame the parent!

They never taught the boy: never ever kill your self because of anything!

there is always light after the dark tunnel!

may his soul rest in peace.. hopefully.

when u look at where we are coming from.. I will say well done

but when u look at what we have and what we could have done.. I will say we are far away!

all the same.. some small baby step progress.

nice house. good luck to her.

but she should learn from Mike Tyson and Holyfield.

Why is Military helicopter being used for civilian purpose.

Now under which account will this crash be recorded?

who is liable for the accident and the dead?

we do things without proper thinking.... BIG MAN sydrome!

reading many posts on this topic shows why Nigeria will never develop!!!

This is same MAN that used $10billion to provide us DARKNESS.

what a backward people we are!

@PAGAN_9JA,

Well written. U have hit the nail on the end.

such is how black people lost their direction and creativity because they were too gullible.

Nigerians will get always the PRESIDENT they deserve.

You vote for Badluck. So deal with it.

enough said!!!

Gullible Africans!!!

Sanusi is being clever by half.

After benefitin from same Fed Character; he does not want others to enjoy.

Naija never changes.

The TRUE ACCOUNTS OF THE MASSACA at Imagbon

In May 1891 the British Acting Governor, Captain C.M. Denton C.M.G., left Lagos with an escort of Hausa constables (Hausas are from the Islamic north of Nigeria) to visit Jebu Ode to make agreements allowing the free passage of trade goods through Ijebu territory. However the Awujale refused to agree to the British requests and he also rejected the British presents given to him by Denton, doubtless fearing that to accept them would obligate him in some way.

London then instructed Lagos to obtain an apology from the Awujale for the perceived "insult" to Denton, and to insist on free right of way through the Awujale's territory. In January 1892 a representative of the Awujale went to Lagos to agree to the British demands, and in return the British granted the Ijebu 500 pounds annually to compensate for the loss of customs revenue. However the tribe was unhappy with this outcome as it did not wish to change its traditional methods and practices, particularly when threatened by foreigners.

A white missionary was allowed through Jebu territory but the second one who tried received a rough time and was sent back, as was a party of Ibadan porters attempting to come south through Jebu Ode. London now authorized the use of force, quickly sending out some special service officers from England to act as a military staff. One of these was Captain Edward Roderick ("Roddy") Owen of the Lancashire Fusiliers, a famous jockey at British race meetings.

Troops from along the West African coast were concentrated at Lagos. The Gold Coast Constabulary sent 150 men from Accra, the 1st Battalion The West India Regiment (the British garrison regiment for West Africa) sent a company from Sierra Leone. These troops joined 150 "Lagos Hausas" (mainly escaped slaves from the north of Nigeria that had been recruited and trained into an efficient unit now titled the Lagos Constabulary) and some irregulars from Ibadan, north of Jebu country.

The Inspector-General of The Gold Coast Constabulary, Colonel F.C. Scott C.B., was the force commander and on 12th May 1892 he moved his 450 armed men and 340 carriers by a flotilla of vessels and canoes up Lagos Lagoon, and landed at Epe without opposition. Scott's men had three 7-pounder field guns, two Nordenfeldt guns (hand-cranked multi-barrel weapons that fired in waves of rounds), two rocket troughs and a Maxim gun as fire support. At Leckie, near Epe, another 186 carriers were recruited.

(The West Indians were expert at using rockets, either for drawing enemy fire by firing them into likely ambush locations, or for setting village thatched roofs alight.)

The Jebus were believed to have up to 8,000 men and some old Snider rifles, but the tribe was not rated highly as fighters. This assumption was mistaken. The British left Epe on 16th May and marched to Pobo where it burned four villages but took 8 casualties. The next day the force reached Atumba and had to fight hard for half an hour. One Briton was killed and one wounded whilst 12 Africans were wounded. The Jebus lost heavily to machine-gun fire.

The advance continued with the Ibadan irregulars scouting ahead and the Gold Coasters and Lagos Hausa alternating daily as Advance and Rear guard. All Jebu villages found were torched. Colonel Scott was anxious to prove that the Gold Coasters and Hausas could fight as effectively as the regular West Indians, and so the latter were kept tucked away in the Main Column. The track to Jebu Ode that the British were following was the main trade route, and the outer edges where feet had tramped for hundreds of years were well rutted down, leaving a triangle of earth in the middle which had to be straddled by the marchers. Thick bush on either side forced the British column into a single file two miles long, allowing the Jebu to easily pick off soldiers and then disappear, leaving a corpse or wounded man blocking the track. As yet no white man had ever used this route and the Jebu fought hard to preserve that tradition.

On 19th May the Jebu made a determined stand on the north bank of a ford over the Yemoyi River, five miles south of Jebu Ode. The river here was 40 yards wide and sometimes over 4 feet deep (the Jebu had dug it deeper for this battle to create a difficult obstacle), and above and below the ford the river narrowed and ran through impenetrable bush. The southern approach to the ford ran through a gorge that prevented the British from manoeuvring off the track. The enemy warriors were located on both sides of the river, and the narrowness of the track being used made it extremely difficult for the British to bring up and concentrate their heavy weapons. The Ijebu were determined to prevent the British from crossing the ford and as warriors were shot down or ran out of bullets fresh relays of men from the rear replaced them.

Scott ordered his Hausa advance guard across the river but they did not want to move. It was believed that the Jebu had made a human sacrifice to the goddess of the river in order to obtain the goddess' support in repelling the invaders. Finally a machine gun was brought up to the river bank and Scott ordered the West Indian Regiment company under Major George Colquhoun Madden to storm the ford. The crossing was successful, and once the Hausa had observed that the river goddess was inactive then they too crossed and engaged the Jebu. By now the guns and rockets had struggled up the congested track and these fired into likely Jebu positions until resistance ceased.

The remainder of the force now crossed the ford and advanced half a mile to Imagbodon village where Scott took stock of the situation. Since they had left Epe the British had lost 56 men killed and 30 more wounded including three white officers, one of them being Roddy Owen at the river crossing. Although the Jebu had lost around 700 warriors at the ford, mainly to machine-gun fire, thousands more remained at large ready to fight.


Therefore next morning as the march resumed Scott's Advance Guard was surprised to meet envoys from the Awujale offering submission. The Ijebu admitted to losing a thousand warriors and seven chiefs and were anxious to stop the burning of any more villages. The tribe accepted defeat and, in the words of the Awujale, they were "no fit for fight with white man".

A few hours later Jebu Ode had a Union Flag flying over it, the Awujale's palace was being used as the British officers' mess and the surrounding buildings housed the soldiers. Scott banned looting but this order antagonised the Ibadan irregulars who had to be disarmed. Flying columns marched along the trade routes declaring them open, Roddy Owen commanding the one that went north to Oru to destroy the Ijebu toll gates there. The West Indians marched back to Lagos declaring that south-westerly route open also.

Before marching away and leaving a garrison in Jebu Ode the British burned part of the city including the Fetish House. The Ijebu were great believers in dark practices and had slaughtered thousands of sacrificial victims in order to placate evil spirits (good spirits could be ignored as they did no harm). After ritual torture the victims were beheaded, buried alive or nailed to trees by their heads. After the latter the bodies were thrown into a special pond but the skulls were left adorning the trees in the fetish groves.

Man slaughter!!!!

This capital projects development work is very insulting to the people of Ogun State!

Much more is expected from a state that boasts of Chief Awolowo, Tai Solarin, Mr Obasanjo, Prof Soyinka, Haruna Isola, Pa Ogunde, Chief Soleye, Prince Ajibola, Kwam 1, etc.

Only the best is good enough for the people of Ogun!

If only u all could see beyond USA propaganda.

Below is pciture of Iran Metro... better than London Undergroud

BRT in Lagos was copied from Iran.

Iran is increasingly capable.....

RIP

we ALL have to go sooner or later!

RIP Bro.

Lesson: Yankee is not what its potrayed to be.

And you have the right to SHOOT anyone in your premises if you feel threatned!!!

Corrupt country!

There is FG identity smart card, there is INEC voters card and all sorts of card!!!

The fundamental remains that Local Government level is best placed to issue ID Smart Card that would equally be used for voting, banking activity.

What a giant!!!

What a loss!!!

RIP Baba.... hopeful your works are archived for future generations to enjoy and learn from.

truly nice designs. keept it up.

The final lesson.

Hamzat is dead.. a premature death!!!!

This has nothing to do with GOD or Mercy!!!

I am sick and tired of this shit.

It has to do with:

1. Build Good Roads

2. Ensure the Drivers are well trained and WELL PUSNISHED

3. Put proper control measures on these roads: speed camera, speed control officers

4. Ensure only ROAD WORTHY cars on the road.

5. Reform the Public Transport System.

May their souls rest in peace!

Good for him. But the point is if all he wanted to be was a truck driver.. why go Uni? waste all these years, money...

This story is a bit fishy!!!

By now, he would have had a big truck company for himself.

nice but why cant we be original and create our own.

we have 'Egungun' even before the WEST dreamt of this Halloween.

why cant we improve on that

africans are so brainwashed!

Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday directed the Ministry of Works to carry out immediate rehabilitation of all the dilapidated road infrastructure nationwide before the yuletide season

if above is true... then

This man is badluck. nothing good will come from him.

Xmas is less than 55days. Clearly there is no way even for Prof Peller to do magic and rehabilitate all roads.

very sad. when will nigerians rise up? when