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100 - Romelu Lukaku is the 28th player to have scored 100 @premierleague goals, and the first Belgian to do so. Centurion!

Also, Lukaku is the fifth youngest player to score 100
Premier League goals. After Michael Owen (23y 134d), Robbie Fowler (23y 283d), Wayne Rooney (24y 100d) and Harry Kane (24y 191d)... Milestone.

Sanchez...... Lingard the provider... José Mourinho has never lost to Swansea FC.. Salah and Liverpool back to 3rd...

''The best President Nigeria never had.''- Ojukwu.

Let us crystallise their palace. There is just one God and he loves Manchester United...

Anything less than annihilation, obliteration and total destruction is unacceptable...

Chelsea to beat Manchester City...

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Originalsly:
Hmmm....38 hours? ... to Zaria?...double check. ... it may be Zambia! Are you going to tell us about the journey?...or just post pics? Did the train leave on time?...was the car clean/dirty?..smelly?...were there many passengers in first class?.... crammed in the other cars?...was the seat comfortable?...TV?...wifi?...always available?.... toilet on board?/rush to bushes? ... mosquitoes invading at sunset?....what foods available?...from where and pricing?..... such stuff so we can get a good idea of what you are experiencing.

Presently, I'm in Kaduna.. The interior is okay.. Price is also okay. But unnecessary long stops at the stations is nauseating.

Malayy:
The kind hunger wey go hammer you eh.. And , make sure your phones and power banks are fully charged.. At least to keep you busy.. Boredom kills

Thanks. There are charging ports in the train...

binajiya:
Enjoy ur journey

Thanks man.

PointZerom:
Hope you carry enough gala, garri, bread and water?.

Lols. I'm not a gourmand..

So, I decided to travel again by train. This time, on a first class ticket to Zaria. We are about to leave the terminus now and I shall be updating you as we progress.

Lagos to Zaria: ETA, 38 hours...

11:59 am: Train takes off..

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The world is a book. Those who don't travel only read a page. Travel! Live! Love!

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Rebekkah:
What days are the journey from Kaduna to Lagos? is it still in operation

Heard the flood disrupted the Jebba-Mokwa tracks.. I'll have to confirm from Lagos. But I don't think the train is functional now. Only the Kaduna-Abuja own is in operation...

M2dX:
i want visit somone at yaounde, am coming from onitsha . Pls if i stop at ikom where would i change my morney, and most they stamp my passport at the border

You can change your money in Bamenda or Ekok. Though naira can still be spent there but I don't know of Yaounde.

You need a means of identification at the border with the customs officials and also the Cameroonian gendarmes.

The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the candidate of the PDP challenging the election of Governor Godwin Obaseki for lacking in merit.

The apex court said it will give its reasons for the judgment on July 24, 2017.

A seven man panel led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onneghen unanimously dismissed the appeal.

The CJN stated that the court had gone through the brief earlier, making it easier to arrive at a judgment as quickly as possible.

The PDP candidate Mr Ize-Iyamo had approached the apex court filing the dismissal of his appeal at the Appeal Court, which challenged Obaseki’s election as governor.

http://www.channelstv.com/2017/07/10/supreme-court-affirms-obaseki-governor-edo/

THE FIRST BLIND NIGERIAN STUDENT TO COMPLETE PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY EDUCATION

Bitrus Gani-Ikilama was the first blind student to complete the three tiers of education in Nigeria. Born in Donga, then in Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State, to a blacksmith and farmer in 1944, Gani-Ikilama against all odds and challenges attended primary and secondary school in Gindiri, Plateau State, performing excellently well in his Cambridge exams - especially History where he had an 'A'. In fact, as at then, he was the only blind student in a secondary school in the whole of Nigeria.

Gani-Ikilama proceeded to the London School of Physiotherapy in September 1963 where he obtained his Bachelors four years later in 1967 when Nigeria was getting prepared for the civil war. Despite all entreaties not to come home, he eventually returned to Lagos where he got a job as a Physiotherapist at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba where he, like other medical personnel, proved capable in assisting war victims who flooded LUTH daily during the war. He was at LUTH for six years.

In late 1973, he joined the services of Ahmadu Bello Teaching Hospital, Zaria, where he rose to be Chief Physiotherapist.
He breathed his last on Sunday, February 20, 2011 just 5 days before his 67th birthday. He was survived by his wife, Taiwo and six children at the time of his death.

#HistoryVille

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There may be some Igbo girls among those Chibok girls.

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"Ojukwu is dead but his manhood lives on."- Patience Jonathan

cornoil:
Am in Yaounde now. I came through ship from Calabar port to Limbe and through bus to Yaounde. But thinking of going through bus to Ikom. Which is faster between through land and water from my location? I will like to have more details. Thanks.

Road is better. It is approximately 10hours anyways.

In light of the recent sit-at-home order complied to by the Igbos in the five Eastern states and some states in South-South Nigeria to mark fifty years of the birth of the defunct Republic of Biafra, some groups in certain part of the country found it as a slap to their faces.

Well, I’m not against self-determination , but I believe these steps ought to be taken through the right channels and not exuding the energy to sound the drums of war.

One of the groups based in Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, headed by one Shettima, gave the Igbos till October 1 (Nigeria’s Independence Day) to vacate every part of Northern Nigeria. Their belief and grouse is that if they really wanted a country, they should be serious about it and start their exodus as soon as possible.

As expected, the Ohaeneze Ndigbo responded to the threat as “an act of treason” and that security agencies should take possible and swift action to bring them to book. According to newspaper reports, it was gathered that governors of the Southeast region had taken proactive measures by sending an innumerable number of vehicles and trucks to “bring their people home”, but for the timely intervention of the Governor of Kaduna State who ordered the arrest of the threat makers (no news of their arrest till now).

Section 43 of the Nigerian Constitution gives the right for any Nigerian citizen to own properties and live in any part of the country. Personally, the statement by Shettima and his cohorts is not only reckless but unwise and lack of the requisite education. Let us even assume the Igbos (and other Southerners) left the North on that day, every single one of them (nearly impossible though), the North would lose more than the South and this is why the educated Northerners admist them, especially their leaders should do their utmost best to caution the youths that are fanning the embers of hate.

Though the South would feel the aftermath, it won’t be as grave as the North. Now, let us look at some of these “things” the North would suffer from if the Southerners, especially the Igbos, rich and poor alike, were to eventually leave the North.

Investment: Major investments, especially banks, in the North are owned by Southerners, the major Bank of the North even relocated their headquarters from Abuja to Lagos recently. Even Aliko Dangote, a Northern businessman and the richest man in Africa, has most of his investment in the South. So the North needs the South in this area as major industries based in the South but with branches in the North have been able to provide jobs for their burgeoning population.

Education: As at Nigeria’s Independence in 1960, there were only two secondary schools in the vast Northern Nigeria compared to a nearly thousand schools in the south. As at the time the first university in the North opened in 1962, 426 students were admitted. Of these, only 127 students were Northerners, a paltry 29.81% of the total students population. Space would also fail me to list many schools in the North owned by Southerners and the plethora of Southern lecturers in many high institutions in the North.

Religion: With the Christian minorities in the North, this is a huge disadvantage to them as most Southerners are Christians and they have been able to keep the Muslim dominated North under checks and balances. With the departure of the Southerners, these Christian minorities may lose their voices and footings in the social and political milieu of the North.

Transportation: Major transport companies are owned by Southerners, especially the Igbos. Though it would limit their movements to the South and may not fetch them the desired revenue, the North would be one lonely place in terms of human movement. The North may be populous, but few among them could afford to travel extensively as the Southerners.

Revenue: In Kano State, for example, the commercial capital of Northern Nigeria, 67% of the Internal Generated Revenue are acquired from Southerners. Most of the business activities of that state take place in Sabongari, a town dominated by Southerners. I’m sure the Kano State government wouldn’t want to take that risk.

Time would fail me to touch on other aspects that if these threat is eventually carried out, it would lead to nothing but tribal hate and chaos. I would implore of party to sheath their swords and let us look for a way to move the country forward. Nigeria cannot afford another Civil War. What happened in 1966 must not happen again.

Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

Death makes us all equal; whether rich or poor, whether rich or poor. May he rest.

The Igbos have dropped a bait for Nigeria and she fell for it. The storm gathers, the thunder rumbles. This is a perfect excuse for a referendum whether they should stay or go. Unfortunately, the Northern masters who own 80% of the oil blocs in the south will not concur. They don't know that it is better to jaw-jaw than to war-war. Freedom isn't given, it is taken. The night is coming when no man can work. The night is dark and full of terrors. Alaigbo, a word is enough.

Throwback picture of Broad Street in Marina Lagos in 1910 and 2010. Broad Street houses the headquarters of most financial institutions and companies in Nigeria.

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These Ajax people go wear Arsenal jersey, them wan come win??