₦airaland Forum

ABUJA: A total of 94 people
have lost their lives to road
traffic crashes in 191 road
crashes recorded in the last
5 days across the country.
Corps Marshall and Chief
Executive of Federal Road
Safety Commission, FRSC, Mr.
Osita Chidoka who disclosed
this in Lokoja, the Kogi State
capital, when he stopped
over in the course of the
aerial monitoring of traffic
situation on Lokoja-Abuja
highway blamed the crashes
on speed violation by road
users.
Chidoka who expressed
serious concern over the
incidents said the attitude of
the road users is
unacceptable.
He said that with this
negative fall-out, the Corps
has devised speed calming
measures as part of
strategies to engender safer
traffic conduct among
motorists especially during
the festive season.
He added that “It is an
attitudinal issue as this year
witnessed rehabilitation of
major corridors of the
highways, people tend to
disregard traffic laws
bordering on speed limits
and accelerate beyond
recommended speed thus
resulting to the figures we
have witnessed the last 5
days. We have devised
measures to address this
unpleasant development”.
Chidoka however appealed
to motorists to reduce their
speed and obey traffic
regulations so as to reduce
carnage during the festive
periods.
He expressed delight over
the free flow of traffic on
Abuja-Lokoja-Okene
highways, attributing the
success to the activities of
his men and other security
agencies and the
improvement in road
conditions across the
country. He urged motorists
to be mindful of road
regulations, warning that
acts of phoning while driving
and drunk driving, over-
speeding, overloading and
seat belt violation would be
visited with severe
punishment.
With this development, the
Corps Marshal said the Corps
will re-double efforts to cope
with expected influx of
traffic during the new year
to avert further crashes.
The State Sector Commander
of the FRSC, Mr Mohammed
Garba commended the
Federal Government for the
timely repair of a section of
Lokoja-Abuja road which
was washed away in the
recent flood disaster, saying
that the action contributed
immensely to the free flow of
traffic being experienced on
the road now.
He also stated that enough
men and vehicles had been
deployed to strategic points
in the state, saying that the
current level of patrol would
be sustained till mid-January.
At the Nnamdi Azikiwe
International airport, the
Corps Marshal said the FRSC
has sustained aerial
surveillance to get real-time
information on the traffic
situation on the nation’s
roads during the Christmas
and New Year celebrations,
adding that the purpose of
the surveillance was to
identify areas of gridlock and
resolve them to ease
travelling.
According to him, the
helicopter flight will take the
Corps’ officials over
Gwagwalada, Lokoja,
Onitsha, 9th Mile and other
areas that usually experience
serious jams during the
Yuletide. The Corps Marshal
added that the surveillance
would enable the Corps to
monitor the flow of traffic in
many parts of the country.
Chidoka explained that the
Corps recently carried out a
road audit which was
submitted to the Federal
Ministry of Works and the
Federal Road Management
Agency, adding that the
agencies had since
rehabilitated many bad roads
to make driving smoother
for motorists. He said, “In my
five years as Corps Marshal, I
have never seen such a
concentrated effort to
rehabilitate the roads by
FERMA and the Ministry of
Works.
Still on the aerial patrol,
Chidoka was also at the
Niger Bridge in Onitsha to
monitor traffic which
extended into the city and
the neighbouring city of
Asaba, Delta State where
promptly directed for re-
allignment of patrol
strategies as the Anambra
State Sector Commander,
Hyginus Omeje, Corps
Commander had to relocate
to Onitsha on Sunday from
Awka.
The traffic on Monday,
however, was heavier at the
Asaba end of the Niger
Bridge as thousands of
motorists struggled to gain
access to the bridge from the
Western and Northern parts
of the country. Vehicular
movement in other parts of
Anambra State had increased
as many citizens of the state
and their families troop out
for the Christmas
celebrations but the
presence of the Corps’
operatives in Onitsha and
support from component
Commands in Delta State,
contributed to normal traffic
flow along the Asaba-Onitsha
highway.
However, as at yesterday,
there has not been report of
any major road crash since
the traffic began to build up
a few days ago along the
Asaba-Onitsha corridor.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/xmas-94-die-in-road-crashes-frsc/

outrage: Right back at ya.

badt guy! U understand wetin i type?

A Nigerian has made the nation
proud in faraway Kingston,
Jamaica. Last weekend, Nigeria’s
contender in the Miss UN
International Tourism beauty
pageant, Gbemisola Shotade,
emerged winner after trashing
21 other contestants. 21-year-old
Shotade, current Miss Global
Nigeria (MGN)’s first runner-up
came tops at the pageant which
featured beauty queens from all
over the globe. Commenting, an
excited Shotade who returned to
the country on Tuesday morning
at the international Airport said:
“I am so excited. There were
many pretty girls there but I was
lucky to have won.
I am glad I was able to make my
country proud and set the
Nigerian flag flying in faraway
Kingston, Jamiaca.” Shotade,
reigning Miss Congeniality, also
won the award for Best
Traditional Atire at the pageant.
She smiled home with $10,000
cash and a modeling contract
with Oil Sheen, an international
beauty brand.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/entertainment/enter-gbemisola-shotade-miss-un-international-tourism/

I thought i could win the 500 thousand naira via google search, i just typed goodluck jonathan's completed project for google!
I saw 'showing result for goodluck jonathan's UNCOMPLETED projects search instead goodluck jonathan's COMPLETED project'.
GEJ gat promises pass execution mehn!

Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Federal Capital
Territory (FCT) Smart Adeyemi,
has raised the alarm that
governors will derail fresh
attempts by the National
Assembly to amend the 1999
Constitution. He said the state
chief executives opposed
Constitution review and are
already demanding more powers
in the amendment which would
come into operation next July.
Sen. Adeyemi, former national
president of Nigeria Union of
Journalists (NUJ), told reporters
in Abuja that governors want the
National Assembly to hands off
certain clauses in the
Constitution. He listed them to
include creation of more states,
removal of immunity clause,
financial autonomy for state
Assemblies and local
governments.
His words: “They are opposed to
state creation because they
believe it will reduce their
empires. They are against the
removal of immunity clause
because they don’t want their
atrocities exposed while in office
and they are against the
autonomy of the state
Assemblies because they want to
enslave them. If we have
governors who are progressives,
the Constitution amendment
would be successful.
“They will not allow the
Constitution amendment to be
successful. They are going to
derail it. The fundamental aspect
of the Constitution amendment is
the autonomy. If we cannot get
the state Assemblies to be
autonomous, there will be no
development and the standard of
living of the people will be static.
“The governors are already
saying that they don’t want it.
How can one individual be
determining the freedom of a
whole state? It is for the media
and the civil society to rise up
against the governors and allow
people to have their freedom.”
On whether the Senate is
helpless in addressing the
situation,
Adeyemi replied, “with the
provision of the Constitution
handed over to us by the military,
we have to obey and respect the
content and spirit of the
Constitution. “We cannot amend
the Constitution without getting
two-thirds of the state
Assemblies concurring with us
and the governors are also
saying that they don’t want the
autonomy of local governments,
he said. “Were the local
governments created by
governors themselves? The Local
Government Reform of 1976 was
meant to bring governance
closer to the people, and
subsequent Constitution
amendments recognized local
government as the third tier of
government.
The governors are demanding
more powers for the states from
the Federal Government, while
they are against freedom for
another tier of government. “The
states were not created to
ensure a true federal structure.
In creating a state, factors such
as norms, cultures, values and
linguistics are taken into
consideration. That is why states
are not equal in the U.S. People
agree to live together.
“The way some of the governors
behave now, if we some of them,
based on their comments,
become president, you can have
an idea of the kind of
government they are going to
run. How can they be against
local government autonomy?
Sitting on the resources meant
for local government is
unconstitutional, he said.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/constitution-amendment-govs-oppose-new-states-senator/

ola ki tan laye (tomorrow will neva end)
just like 2012 was goin to be better waking up on the 1st of january and realizing the subsidy on our fuel had disappeared!

President Goodluck Jonathan
yesterday assured Nigerians of
better days ahead saying his
administration will ensure that
2013 becomes better for the
nation than the outgoing 2012.
Speaking at the foundation
laying ceremony of the Living
Faith Foundation Bible school in
Kaduna, Jonathan said the people
should expect more quality
service delivery from his
administration in 2013.
"Let me assure all of you and
indeed all Nigerians that 2013
will be better for us than 2012 in
all aspects of the nation's history.
The New Year shall be better for
us in terms of job creation,
wealth creation and improved
security among others," he said.
The president urged Nigerians
not to despair as government is
set to implement reforms that
will improve living standards of
all.
Jonathan called for patience as
the reforms may be slow due to
tedious processes involved.
He said he was aware that
people find it difficult to continue
to believe in the government
saying "Sometimes, challenges
make people doubt the sincerity
of government, but I am
confident that God knows
everything."
The President said like the
biblical Job who lost everything
he had "God wants Nigerians to
learn some lessons from the
challenges they are facing. God
means well for this country."
Jonathan said the security
challenges in some parts of north
will soon be history saying
"having sanitised the electoral
process, we are also intervening
massively in road construction,
upgrading of airports and
railway development."

http://m.allafrica.com/stories/201212240498.html/?secid=10063

and that may be the begining of their problem!

Flashaldrin: *following shaperly! I go swear for person head wey go derail this thread!

this your comment don derail am big time cos it has nothing to do with the topic

my most embarassing moment with my gurl.
I proposed a date to my darling gurl which i met 3days before the date proposal, she agree to go out with me.
we went swimming and later went to a 'new buka' in oau campus. We sat down in rotunda ordering for drink, then i asked her if she minds SHAWARMA, the response she gave me is 'SHE DOESN'T LIKE TAKING ALCOHOL.
That evening, i could helped laughing inside of me cos i neva knew sharwama is an alcohol to her.

There were three things involved
1maybe she wasn't a virgin as she claimed to be ceasing that incidence as a bail out
2 maybe during the process of the 'tikabodi' i.e virginity test, the hymen was ruptured leadin to the blood stain on the pant and
3 blood from her menstres

Fourteen-year-old Esther (not real
name), one of the victims of the
virginity test that was allegedly
conducted on pupils of Ajuwon
Senior High School, Ajuwon,
Ogun State, by their principal,
fears she might have lost her
virginity. She spoke with our
correspondent, TEMITAYO
FAMUTIMI, on Sunday. Excerpts:
Why did you choose to do the
virginity test when some pupils
ran away?
I did not choose to do the test.
After I and other female Senior
Secondary School one pupils
lined up in front of her (Olufunke
Aladeojobi’s) office, I fled the
scene but she noticed it and sent
people after us threatening to
deal with us.
Why didn’t you explain to her
that you were not interested in
the test?
I explained to her that my
parents would be mad at me if
they got to know that I did such
a test without their consent but
she brought out a cane and
threatened to beat me
mercilessly.
What happened afterwards?
Our principal marched me into
her office and the school’s nurse
asked me to put off my pants
and laid me on the bed. She wore
a glove, spread my thigh and
dipped a finger into my private
part. The school nurse then told
the principal who was beside her
that I was a virgin.
What did your principal do after
the nurse said you are a virgin?
The principal said I “should not
open my thigh” to any boy or
man. She subsequently gave me
two Ogun State customised
exercise books.
Did you lose blood?
Yes, I lost blood. I didn’t notice it
initially. It was the next person
who saw me while dressing up
that told me that my pants were
stained with blood. But, I can’t
say if it was the blood from my
menstrual period because my
menstrual period just ended or
the blood was as a result of the
virginity test.
Did your principal know you lost
blood?
She didn’t because I left the place
almost immediately and she was
busy attending to other pupils.
How did your parents get to
know about the incident?
I washed my blood-stained pants
when I got home. I didn’t initially
want to tell my mum but she
noticed that I was keeping to
myself. When she now queried to
know what was wrong with me,
I explained everything to her.
Did your principal warn you
against telling your parents?
No, she didn’t. But I wouldn’t
know what she might do to me if
she got to know that I told my
parents about it because she is
strict and we all fear her. That
was why I felt reluctant to tell my
parents.
How have you been feeling since
you underwent the test?
I have been doing fine just that
I’m not happy about the incident
because my classmates have
been looking down on me. They
keep saying that we have been
“disvirgined.” I feel ashamed of
myself.
Are you a virgin?
Yes. I have not had sex before
but with what everybody is
saying I don’t know if I am still a
virgin. I really wish I’m still one.

http://www.punchng.com/news/virginity-test-my-pants-had-blood-stains-pupil-2/

A new radical Islamist sect,
Ansaru, on Sunday claimed
responsibility for the recent
kidnapping of a French national
in Katsina.
The group cited France’s push
for military intervention in Mali as
a justification, accordint to AFP.
A statement by the group said,
“Ansaru announces to the world,
especially the French
government, that it was
responsible for the abduction of
engineer Francis Colump, 63,
working for the French company
Vergnet.”
Wednesday last week, about 30
gunmen stormed Vergnet’s
residence in Katsina State, where
the alternative energy firm has a
wind power project.
“The reason for his kidnap is the
stance of the French government
and the French people on Islam,”
said the statement written in
Hausa.
The group specifically pointed to
“France’s major role in the
(planned) attack on the Islamic
state in northern Mali.”
It also cited France’s “law
outlawing the use of Islamic veil
by Muslim women.”
Paris has backed plans to deploy
a west African force in northern
Mali to flush out the Al-Qaeda-
linked Islamist groups who took
control of the vast desert
territory earlier this year.
“We inform the French
government that this group will
continue launching attacks on
the French government and
French citizens … as long as it
does not change its stance on
these two issues,” the Ansaru
statement said.
The police chief in Katsina,
Abdullahi Magaji, told AFP that
there were indications that
former or current employees of
Vergnet had been involved,
arguing that the attack appeared
to be “an inside job.
Ansaru is less well known than
Islamist group Boko Haram,
which is waging a deadly
insurgency in the North since
2009.
The two groups are known to
have ties but are seen as
independent.
In November, Britain’s interior
ministry identified Ansaru as a
“Nigeria-based terrorist
organisation” and declared
membership or support for it
illegal.
The group’s full name, Jama’atu
Ansarul Muslimina fi Biladis
Sudan, is roughly translated as
Vanguards for the aid of Muslims
in black Africa.

http://www.punchng.com/news/we-kidnapped-frenchman-in-katsina-new-sect/

Biafra(home) vs Nigeria(away)
ABBA-THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL
I don't wanna talk
About the 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 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 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...

OsunOriginal: There will be fire on the maintain for criminals and others who live on corruption - and those that take advantage of the holes in the systems to enrich themselves.

If you are one of them or you have a relative benefitting corruptly from the system, then there is fire on the mountain for you.

thrashbin content!

[quote author=Baby mama][color=#990000]
Obviously they learnt from Ijebuode
Have you heard anyone promoting it?
You lot are just too fetish,you don't even see anything wrong in it
See several threads dedicated to juju on Nairaland and the sad part is that it is all about it's promotion
Young people o
Tufia
we all know how okija shook nigeria when it was discovered even top men in nigeria were indicted visiting the shrine, yet it wasn't promoted.

9jacrip: god = Orisha
Irunmole = the spirits who go on errands and a human could morph into this.

you make sense is an understatement

[quote author=ndu_chucks]What is the difference between Orisha and Irunmole? What are the cultural roles of both entities? Thanks in advance.[/quote]nna! If you want any knowlegde ask politely and stop bein arogant.

Baby mama: It is shocking sha that in 2013 people are still talking about and promoting shrines and idol worship with it's attendant diabolic implications out in the open.
These people are so backward
Tufia

what about okija shrine

[quote author=ndu_chucks]Thanks. olorun implies a single being, so that must refer to the Almighty Allah/God. What is the Yoruba word for 'god', the one with small 'g'. There are many gods, but only ONE God/Allah/olórun. If you cannot tell us the yoruba word for 'god', then we should be able to conclude reasonably that it is irúnmolè. No?[/quote]yoruba call them olorun kekere or orisa.