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ndu_chucks  
 obasanjo was the reason. ok, agree osun state. obasanjo was the reason why.   look at what she said,  

At a point in time, they did not know I could speak Hausa. Some of them went over the radio and the television to campaign against me because I was a Yoruba woman. The greatest opponents I had were my husband’s friends. Infact, there was a particular one that my husband really helped. He bought his marriage suit for him. He was his close friend but he was the same one who took a public address system telling people not to vote for a Yoruba woman.

http://sunday.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2606:my-world-as-a-yoruba-woman-married-to-a-bachama-soldier-senator-bent&catid=57:cover&Itemid=126

Does that give a sense that they love her her or yoruba people, so 1 yoruba woman living in a state with 2,000,000 northerner         1/2000000


Obasanjo

come now

first of all stop talking nonsense, She is not from osun state, she is from Obasanjo area, OGUN STATE, Do you see why she won. And did she win? ? that question is for your mind.

igbo people self

ireland too

Rotimi Adebari, a 43-year-old Nigerian immigrant, is ushering in a new era in his adopted homeland of Ireland, where he's been an advocate for the unemployed and hosts a weekly radio show.  (AP Photo/Niall Carson/PA)



Ireland offers visitors the chance to experience the lifestyle of "landed gentry."
(AP)  Ireland elected its first black mayor Thursday, the latest sign of how rapid immigration is changing this once all-white nation.

Rotimi Adebari, a Nigerian who arrived in Ireland seven years ago as an asylum-seeker, was elected unopposed to lead the council of Portlaoise, a bustling commuter town west of Dublin.

Adebari, 43, who has been an independent politician on Portlaoise Town Council since 2004, was backed by both the right-wing Fine Gael party and left-wing Sinn Fein.

Adebari, who planned a post-election party Friday at the new parish hall in Portlaoise, called it "a great honor to become the No. 1 citizen of the town."

Little more than a decade ago, a black person in Ireland risked being gawked at, so rare was the sight of visitors from different racial backgrounds. But Ireland has absorbed more than 30,000 asylum seekers - particularly from Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria - since the mid-1990s, a wave attracted by Ireland's booming economy and its relatively lax immigration rules.

These days, West African entrepreneurs run stretches of shops in urban Dublin and other Irish towns and cities, and social activists like Adebari are encouraging the newcomers to integrate into their communities.

"I got involved in the community and I volunteered. It gave me the opportunity to meet people firsthand and they got to know me," Adebari said. "We all have to make an effort to reach out to one another."

Adebari traveled to Ireland with his wife and two boys in 2000 and claimed asylum on the basis of religious persecution, citing bloody clashes between Christians and Muslims in his homeland. His application was rejected because of insufficient evidence he had personally suffered persecution, but he gained residency because his third child, another boy, was born in Ireland.

Asylum-seekers flocked to Ireland in part to gain European Union citizenship on the basis of having a child born in the country. Ireland in 2004 stopped granting citizenship to foreign parents of an Irish-born child, a law that had been unique in Europe.

Adebari said he had trouble finding work at first - in part because of an Irish law that bars people from working while they are seeking asylum.

So he volunteered at a local tennis club, helped found a lobbying group for unemployed people in Portlaoise and ran for office, winning a council seat on his first try in 2004.

Since then he's finished a master's degree in intercultural studies at Dublin City University, founded a consultancy advising authorities and immigrant groups on how to work together, and hosts a weekly radio show on his local station, Midlands FM.

"I want to encourage immigrants to be a force in their communities, to engage with their communities," he said. "People will get to know you. Their perception of you will change just like that. That's what happened to me."

By Shawn Pogatchnik © MMVII The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

hey u

My friend dump one.

na joke

did dipo dina read engineering in school.?

do you have prove.

what? i ask a question. what are you talking about? who is becomrich?

Is it true that plateau/Jos man call Gowon kill many southern christain.?

Is it true that plateau/Jos man call Gowon kill many southern christain.?

The reason why the igbo want the niger delta is that, they igbos want the oil .

selencious where you

if an igbo owns a company, what is the percentage of the non igbos in it less than 4%. that why the film sector is the way it is.

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Where did you see that in the bible selencious, that you should not call the name of Jesus in vain. It is not in the bible. Show us?