₦airaland Forum

A PAN-YORUBA organisation,
Afenifere Renewal Group,
ARG, has alleged that there is
a calculated attempt to
relegate the Yoruba to the
background in the polity.
In a state in Lagos by its
National Chairman, Mr
Olawale Oshun, entitled: “A
cry from the wilderness: The
nation has to listen”, the
group faulted moves to
marginalise Yorubaland from
mainstream politics.
Oshun argued that there are
reports of ethnic cleansing
aimed at Yoruba saying “the
Yoruba demand to know
why discrimination against
us is on the increase.”
He said “we note with
verifiable evidence at our
disposal, that most routine
appointments and
recruitments into the public
service under this
administration completely
short-change our people.
For instance, out of the 792
cadet officers recently
recruited for training at the
Custom Training College, CTC,
in Kano, only 45 cadets were
recruited from the six South
Western States of Nigeria,
compared with 263 cadets
recruited from the North
West Nigeria. In the same
recruitment exercise, the
North Central Zone got 168
cadets, North East 157, South
South 91 and South Eastern
Nigeria was allocated 68
cadet officers. The evidence
before us therefore shows
that 5.8 percent of the
recruited cadets are from the
South West while the North
West took the lion share of
33.1% of the lot. We ask:
What exactly is happening
here?”.
He also lampooned the
Goodluck Jonathan-led
administration for failing to
nip corruption in the bud
adding “Nigeria is
currently buffeted by
corruption in a scale
witnessed only under the
dark and evil military
dictatorships of Generals
Ibrahim Babangida and Sani
Abacha.
jonathan-women
Abuja, the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT) has become
the official headquarters of
grandmasters of corruption.
In an environment where a
model of articulate
leadership and responsible
governance should be
expected, given the
enormous powers and
resources available, what we
have instead, is an organised
and well-commanded
conspiracy of the political
and economic elite, against
the Nigerian people, to keep
them in perpetual poverty
and misery, through high-
level corruption, profligacy
and financial impunity.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/01/afenifere-group-alleges-marginalisation-of-yoruba/

maybe she was pulling stunt

seems Mr Nkechi Okoro needs the #800 very badly.
Better he is allowed to go and meet the girl where she is and collect the money.

A 28-year-old man, who claimed
to be a naval rating, Mr. Ikechi
Okoro, is now on the run after
allegedly killing Chidera Timothy
with a bottle over an N800 debt
his brother owes the girl’s
mother.
Twelve-year-old Chidera was a
primary five pupil of the Holy
Trinity Anglican Primary School in
Calabar, Cross River State.
Ikechi’s younger brother, Friday
Okoro, has been arrested by
policemen from Atakpa Police
Station in Calabar where the
matter was reported.
Following the arrest, the
members of the Okoro family
residing at 34, Wilkie Street, have
taken to their heels.
Narrating the incident to PUNCH
Metro on Saturday, the girl’s
father, Timothy, said Ikechi’s
brother, Mr. Orieke Okoro, who
repairs tricycle, had refused to
pay his wife, Mercy, the sum of
N800 that he owed her for
several months.
Timothy said Orieke was a
regular customer at his wife’s
restaurant and beverage shop
and at times bought things on
credit.
After Orieke’s debt rose to N800,
it was learnt that he stopped
patronising the restauranteur.
Timothy said, “The debt rose to
N800 and has remained so for
two months. Whenever my wife
asks him about the debt, he
would claim he does not have
money. When my wife discovered
that he no longer patronised her
but rather bought things from a
nearby shop and still paid cash,
she threatened to seize his tools.
“On Monday, December 17, 2012,
my wife went to him to collect
her money but the boy said he
did not have money, my wife
then picked his tools and the boy
did not react.”
Trouble, however, started, when
Ikechi took over the matter when
his brother’s customer, who
brought his tricycle for repairs,
claimed that one of his spare
parts was missing.
Timothy explained further,
“Ikechi came with the customer
to my wife’s shop to look for the
spare part in the toolbox, but
because my wife didn’t know
them, she refused to release the
box. She insisted that they ought
to have come with Orieke and
her N800 before she would
release the toolbox.
“Then the fake naval man started
insulting my wife and threatened
to beat her up if she did not
release the toolbox. He said the
worst that could happen was for
the police to arrest him. As he
struggled to enter the shop to
collect the toolbox, my wife
blocked him and in the process,
he slapped her and she held his
shirt.
“As the trouble was going on, my
son, Chukwuemeka, who had
returned from where he went to
fetch water tried to ask why the
man slapped his mother then
Ikechi allegedly ran to their
house and collected a machete
and returned with his younger
brother and the elder sister.
“Three of them beat up my son
and my wife. Friday used the
machete on my son and gave
him a cut on the left hand while
the sister hit my wife with a
wood she was holding.”
He said that as the trouble was
going on, Chidera rushed to call
him (Timothy) from where he
was working close by.
He added that when he got to his
wife’s shop, he saw Ikechi with
an empty bottle threatening to
kill someone with it.
Timothy said, “As I was trying to
find out what happened and to
calm him down, he struggled and
freed himself from the people
holding him and said that he was
going to kill somebody. He said
as a naval man he could do
whatever he wished.
“He threw the bottle at my son
but he dodged it. However, the
bottle hit my daughter on the
head. She fainted immediately. I
rushed her to Mambo Clinic
which was the nearest clinic for
treatment. She was there till
December 23 when she died.”
He said although he reported the
matter at the police station, no
arrest was made until he went
back to the police station after
his daughter had died.
Friday, who allegedly injured
Chukwuemeka with a machete,
according to him, was arrested.
Chidera’s corpse, he said, was
deposited at a mortuary on
Edgerley Street in Calabar South.
When contacted, the state police
Public Relations Officer, Mr. John
Umoh, confirmed the incident,
saying the matter would be
properly investigated by the
Criminal Investigation
Department.
Also, the Information Officer of
the Eastern Naval Command,
Lt.Commodore Williams Olabisi,
said the alleged assailant who
claimed to be a naval man might
have been an imposter.
“If any of our officials commit
offence of that magnitude, there
is no way I will not be aware of
it,” Olabisi added. http://www.punchng.com/news/man-kills-12-year-old-girl-over-n800-debt/

that is the consequence of bad leadership and followership anyway.
But our doctors are still trying anyway cos considering the archaic medical instruments they use in training, lack of smooth academic calendar due to the ASUU-fg disagreement, lack of good academia amenities, they still tried in making somethings do from their 'la cram la pour'

trash as usual!
Doesn't dissapoint me anyway. Just clueless as always.
Promise with no execution

ABBA-WINNER TAKES IT ALL
"The Winner Takes It All"
I don't wanna talk
About things we've gone
through
Though it's hurting me
Now it's history
I've played all my cards
And that's what you've done too
Nothing more to say
No more ace to play
The winner takes it all
The loser's standing small
Beside the victory
That's her destiny
I was in your arms
Thinking I belonged there
I figured it made sense
Building me a fence
Building me a home
Thinking I'd be strong there
But I was a fool
Playing by the rules
The gods may throw the dice
Their minds as cold as ice
And someone way down here
Loses someone dear
The winner takes it all
The loser has to fall
It's simple and it's plain
Why should I complain?
But tell me does she kiss
Like I used to kiss you?
Does it feel the same
When she calls your name?
Somewhere deep inside
You must know I miss you
But what can I say?
Rules must be obeyed
The judges will decide
The likes of me abide
Spectators of the show
Always staying low
The game is on again
A lover or a friend
A big thing or a small
The winner takes it all
I don't wanna talk
If it makes you feel sad
And I understand
You've come to shake my hand
I apologize
If it makes you feel bad
Seeing me so tense
No self-confidence
But you see
The winner takes it all
The winner takes it all...

offering and tithe time!
Please pay them o cos that is the only way to God's blessing. The basket for the offering is flying.
Rememba what malachi said!
Yepee! Am gonna buy jet next year mehn. I don hammer big time. Almost 950 thousansand members

A DARK cloud seems to be
hanging over Nigeria–trained
doctors desiring to practise in
the United Kingdom.
Figures released under the
Freedom of Information Request
by a British tabloid, the Daily Mail,
reveal that three-quarters of the
doctors struck off the General
Medical Council (GMC) register in
the past years are foreign-
trained and that those trained in
Nigeria rank second on the list of
those removed from the
professional register of the GMC .
According to the figures
published in the Mail article of
yesterday, India-trained doctors
top the list of foreign-trained
doctors to be struck off the GMC
register in the past five years and
Nigeria-trained doctors have the
record of being second.
Egypt-trained doctors occupy the
third spot. The paper revealed
further that “194 of the 285
doctors struck off for misconduct
or incompetence in the past five
years were foreign-trained, while
29 of the 39 removed from the
medical register in the past year
received their medical degree
overseas.”
Continuing, the paper disclosed
that “with only one-third of the
250,000 doctors on the medical
register trained outside the
United Kingdom, this means that
those from overseas were more
than five times likely than British
doctors to be banned.”
Quoting the data it obtained
under the Freedom of
Information Request - the
equivalent of Nigeria’s Freedom
of Information Act - the Mail
revealed that “India has the
largest number of doctors struck
off in Britain since 2008,
followed by Nigeria and Egypt.”
This is in sharp contrast to Hong
Kong, which has the best record,
“with none of more than 700
doctors working here – in the UK
– struck off or disciplined in the
past five years. New Zealand’s
600 medics also have a clean
record.”
Based on the revelations, the
paper quoted Julia Manning, the
chief executive of the 2020
Health think-tank, as saying
“these figures are really worrying
and shocking” and that “we
need to take a hard look at the
assessment of all doctors coming
into the country.”

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=109219:nigeria-trained-doctors-rank-second-on-uk-blacklist&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

may God bless the Lagos State Government.
We are too generous in the SW mehn!

swedbase: Atleast he is better than your cowardic abiola family

cowardic Abiola still won a national election.
Heroic Ojukwu couldn't win an election in his backyard.

[quote author=fx-seven]I think you don't know the meaning of paedophile. choose another word to qualify the beloved hero.[/quote]beloved hero indeed!
Beloved hero that fled warfront to abidjan!

Arysexy: and wot legacy will ur wretched father leave for u poor son? Animal!

my father isn't a paedophile anyway.
Silence is the best weapon for people like you

what a lagacy from a warlord and a paedophile!

WARRI—DUTCH police
prosecutors, L. N. Stempher
and G. R. C. Veurink, have
indicated their intention to
withdraw one of the charges
against Nigerian activist and
founder of Holland-based
Hope for Niger Delta
Campaign, HNDC, Comrade
Sunny Ofehe, who is facing
terrorism charges in The
Netherlands, for lack of
sufficient evidence.
In a letter dated December
10, 2012, and addressed to
the investigative judge, Mr.
Havik, and Ofehe’s solicitors,
Mr. Manders and Pennings,
written in Dutch, the
prosecutor said, “in
continuation of the
investigation of the case
against Mr. Ofehe, we have
had to make a new
translation of the wire tap
conversations.
“This new translation, in
combination with the
testimony of a witness’
declaration, has now made
us to withdraw the fifth
charge “causing explosion,”
out of the indictment.”
According to the prosecutor:
“We cannot call the witness,
Mr. Umueri, who lives in
Nigeria to come to testify.
Through the intervention of
the Ministry of Security and
Justice, we have been
informed that the safety of
this witness will be put in
danger should he come and
testify in a terrorism case.
“We, therefore, do not have
sufficient evidence to press
for the number 5 charge. We
advise you to proceed with
the court hearing where we
will ask for the charge to be
dropped.”

http://vanguardngr.com/2012/12/dutch-police-to-drop-charge-against-nigerian-activist-ofehe-2/

why is it always fulani vs the indigenous people?
Do the fulanis still believe we are in the era where the whole country can be controlled and conquered by a sole jihadist. Usman dan fodio self wont even dare it!

jchime: If every tribe in Nigeria can be as peaceful like the igbo tribe, then Nigeria will be as holy as jerusalem of old

what a sarcasm and irony!

summary
of the majority of the scandals is corruption.
What about the ABSU5, okonjo iweala's mum that was kidnapped, vice
presidents house, ojukwu's will revealing tanny hamman, achebe's fiction?

GEJ promises as usual. But executes as unsual!
Wonder what Nigerians mentality is. 'The
President
disclosed this at the Ekklisiyar
Yaruwa a Nigeria, EYN, (Church
of
the Brethren in Nigeria), Utako,
Abuja'. Why cant this islamic sect launch a target on this church service when Jonathan was there. Instead, their attacks are always on innoucuos christians.
This is a case of a masqurade(boko haram) chasing madman(innocuous christians) which doesn't yeild any sensible things.
Ori won(BH) ti buru bi elegun ti o n le were.

where are the killed and the killer naw? All dead!

Seventeen years after their
execution, details have emerged
on how former Head of State,
Gen. Sani Abacha, now deceased,
got members of his defunct
Provisional Ruling Council (PRC)
to approve the death sentence
passed on environmental rights
activist and author, Mr. Ken Saro-
Wiwa, and eight others.
Saro-Wiwa and others, who were
accused of killing four Ogoni
chiefs opposed to the campaign
by the Movement for the Survival
of Ogoni People (MOSOP), which
was headed by the late author,
were convicted after a
controversial trial that attracted
global condemnations.
MOSOP was at the vanguard of
the agitation against the
environmental degradation of
Ogoniland arising from oil
exploration.
But a memo from the meeting of
the PRC, obtained by an online
news medium, Premium Times,
showed how council members
approved Abacha’s request for
the death sentence to be carried
out on the Ogoni Nine so that the
military junta would not be
portrayed as weak.
Members of the PRC at the time
were Abacha; Maj. General Patrick
Aziza (Minister of
Communications under Abacha);
Major Gen. Tajudeen Olarenwaju
(General Officer Commanding);
General Abdulsalami Abubakar
(Chief of Defence Staff); Lt.
General Oladipo Diya (Chief of
General Staff); Maj. Gen. Victor
Malu (GOC); Ibrahim Coomasie
(Inspector General of Police);
Mike Akhigbe (Chief of Naval
Staff); Maj. General Ishaya
Bamaiyi (Chief of Army Staff);
Nsikak Eduok (Chief of Air Staff);
Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Useni (Minister
of the Federal Capital Territory);
and Michael Agbamuche
(Attorney General of the
Federation and Minister of
Justice).
During the debate on a
memorandum submitted to the
council by Abacha, many of the
contributors had lamented how
the government had been
regarded as weak for heeding
the pleas by the international
community to pardon some coup
plotters.
They had therefore stressed the
need for the government to
demonstrate its capacity to deal
with knotty security issue that
the Ogoni case had thrown up by
upholding the death penalty
passed on Saro-wiwa and others
to serve as a deterrent to others.
According to the memo, two
days before the execution,
Abacha had told the PRC
members that the activists
deserved no sympathy, and that
hanging them would stem
further discontent and prove to
the world the regime was bold
and courageous.
“He was of the view that no
sympathy should be shown to
the convicts so that the sentence
will be a lesson to everybody. He
stated that the Ogoni issue had
lingered for a very long time and
should be addressed once and
for all,” Abacha was quoted in
the document as saying.
The late head of state accused
Saro-Wiwa of being a foreign
agent used to destabilise Nigeria,
and a “separatist” who had
hidden under the cloak of being
an environmental activist to
pursue his devious agenda.
The execution of the Ogoni Nine,
however, sparked international
outrage with the European
Union and the United States
placing an economic embargo
and other restrictions on the
country.
Shell Petroleum Development
Corporation, which was at the
centre of the unrest in
Ogoniland, was also accused of
complicity in the killings and in
2009, it paid $15.5 million as an
out-of-court settlement to the
families of the deceased persons.
But the company had said the
payment was not a concession of
guilt, but a gesture of peace.
Besides its decision to uphold
the death sentence, the PRC also
proscribed MOSOP and used the
resources of the state to weaken
support for the organisation and
its leaders.
The tribunal that convicted Saro-
Wiwa turned out to be one of the
most controversial in the history
of this country. Headed by Justice
Ibrahim Auta, the current Chief
Judge of the Federal High Court,
the panel delivered a speedy, but
severely criticised verdict on
October 31, 1995, barely nine
months after it was convened.
Their executions on November
10, 1995 without an opportunity
to appeal the judgment, led to
the suspension of Nigeria from
the Commonwealth of Nations.
Others killed were Saturday
Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel
Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate,
Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel and
John Kpuine.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/how-abacha-plotted-execution-of-saro-wiwa-others/134961/