₦airaland Forum

Please the match is on Sunday(tomorrow) and it is by 5pm not 4pm.
I predict Nigeria 2-0 Rwanda.

These people want to turn peaceful Ibadan to Jos just becoz of a prostitude! Na wa oo!

By Ola Ajayi, Ibadan

SOME violent Hausamen
yesterday threw sanity to the
wind as they unleashed
terror on some policemen in
the popular Bodija Market in
Ibadan leaving two persons
dead and a police post burnt.

Also, eleven vehicles, nine
motorcycles were either
burnt or vandalized. The
bloody clash forced
thousands of marketers and
traders out of the market
abandoning their shops and
wares. Some butchers whose
shops are close to the place
left their meats on the table
and ran for dear lives.

When they besieged the
police post, all detainees
under investigation were set
free. The quick response of
security men which included
policemen, the security team
tagged Operation burst, men
of the Nigeria Security and
Civil Defence Corps, soldiers
checked the escalation of the
crisis.

When Saturday Vanguard got
to the scene of the incident
yesterday, all the stalls, shops,
banks, filling stations in the
area were deserted, while
the troubled spot was
barricaded by fierce-looking
policemen.

According to one of the
officers on night duty at the
police post, he said the
genesis of the crisis was the
clash between a Hausa man
and a Fulani who were
fighting over a commercial
sex worker in Bodija.

FSU: Hausa and Fulani are fighting in Yorubaland and part of a major Yoruba market and its police security have been burnt by these non-Yorubas and all Yorubas have scampered to safety from their own market

hmmm!

Enugu – The Nigeria Air
Force has completed its
International Helicopter
Flying School in Enugu and
may inaugurate it in July, an
official has said.

The Chief of Air Staff, Air
Marshal Mohammed Umar,
made the announcement
during a courtesy visit to
Gov. Sullivan Chime at the
Government House in Enugu
on Thursday.
“Your Excellency, you will
recall that sometime in 2010,
we were here in Enugu
when the Nigeria Air Force
brought the idea of
establishing an international
helicopter flying school here
in Enugu.

“Since then, we have put
plans in motion to realise
that dream. I am very
delighted to inform you that
the dream is gradually
coming to pass. We hope
and pray that the school will
take off on July 23, 2012.
“That is why I am here
personally to come and
inspect the level of progress
of work in the school.
I am
very glad to inform you that
more than 90 per cent of the
project has been completed,’’
the air force boss said.
He said that although the
force was experiencing
some challenges in the cause
of the inauguration, it would
ensure the total completion
before the date of the
opening.

The air chief assured the
governor that it was ready to
give the state the deserved
exposure to the international
community.
Responding, Chime
expressed delight that the air
force was being fortified in
the state.

He pledged the support of
the state government toward
ensuring the success of the
project and the allocation of
a befitting office site to the
force in the state.
“I am happy that the air
force is re-establishing itself
here in Enugu. We will do
everything possible to keep
you here in Enugu, anything
that will make your stay here
more comfortable,’’ the
governor said. (NAN)
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/nigeria-air-force-to-inaugurate-helicopter-flying-school-in-enugu/

Yeske!:
Homepage please

Mr.chippychappy:
This has to be on the frontpage. SMH

They are now blind!

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Torch1: By GBENGA OLARINOYE
OSOGBO—A middle-age man,
Deji Oloyede, yesterday, in
Ipetumodu, headquarters of
Ife North Local Government
Area of Osun State, allegedly
went berserk and macheted
two brothers to death.
According to sources, the
suspect was said to have
killed the twosome , Messrs
Ajani Awodele and Julius
Awodele, in the early hours
of yesterday in their rooms
at Latimogun compound in
Ipetumodu.

The Divisional Police Officer,
DPO, in charge of Ipetumodu
Police Division, Mr Musa
Okene, who confirmed the
incident, said the suspect
had been arrested while the
case had been transferred to
the state Criminal
Investigations Department in
Osogbo.
He noted that the suspect,
who is in custody, made
useful statements to the
police during interrogation.

It was gathered that the
suspect and the Awodele
brothers lived together in the
same house amicably in the
last six months.
A resident of the area where
the incident happened, Alhaji
Musibau Adetokunbo, said
the lifeless bodies of the
siblings were seen in a pool
of their blood after the
suspect had reported himself
to the head of the compound
who later reported the
matter to the police.
When Vanguard visited the
residence of the deceased,
traces of blood were seen all
over the house.

The DPO said the corpses of
the deceased had been
deposited in the morgue of
Obafemi Awolowo University
Teaching Hospital, OAUTHC,
Ile-Ife, for autopsy, saying
that the police would
investigate the matter to
ascertain the cause of their
death.

Which autopsy and investigation is he doing?
I taught the suspect reported himself to the head of d compound?
Na wa oo to this DPO.

By GBENGA OLARINOYE
OSOGBO—A middle-age man,
Deji Oloyede, yesterday, in
Ipetumodu, headquarters of
Ife North Local Government
Area of Osun State, allegedly
went berserk and macheted
two brothers to death.
According to sources, the
suspect was said to have
killed the twosome , Messrs
Ajani Awodele and Julius
Awodele, in the early hours
of yesterday in their rooms
at Latimogun compound in
Ipetumodu.

The Divisional Police Officer,
DPO, in charge of Ipetumodu
Police Division, Mr Musa
Okene, who confirmed the
incident, said the suspect
had been arrested while the
case had been transferred to
the state Criminal
Investigations Department in
Osogbo.
He noted that the suspect,
who is in custody, made
useful statements to the
police during interrogation.

It was gathered that the
suspect and the Awodele
brothers lived together in the
same house amicably in the
last six months.
A resident of the area where
the incident happened, Alhaji
Musibau Adetokunbo, said
the lifeless bodies of the
siblings were seen in a pool
of their blood after the
suspect had reported himself
to the head of the compound
who later reported the
matter to the police.
When Vanguard visited the
residence of the deceased,
traces of blood were seen all
over the house.

The DPO said the corpses of
the deceased had been
deposited in the morgue of
Obafemi Awolowo University
Teaching Hospital, OAUTHC,
Ile-Ife, for autopsy, saying
that the police would
investigate the matter to
ascertain the cause of their
death.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/man-kills-2-siblings-in-osun/

I taught that was a masquarade?

The House of
Representatives Committee
on Petroleum,
Downstream, has advised the
Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, to shut
down the Warri Refining and
Petrochemical Company,
WRPC, due to the dangerous
emission
of carbon black soot on the
environment.

The Chairman, House
Committee on Petroleum,
Downstream, Hon. Dakuku
Peterside, made the call in a
statement after a meeting
with stakeholders over the
lingering crisis between the
refinery and the Ekpan
community.
The call followed a
petition written to the
committee, entitled, “A Save
Our Soul Appeal” written by
Ajomata/Awhakpor
Landlords Association of
Ekpan, dated May 24. In the
petition to the committee
were urged to sanction
NNPC over the life-
threatening carbon black
soot being emitted into their
environment.

According to the landlords,
“This appeal was
necessitated by the reckless
emissions of dangerous
carbon black soot/chemicals
into our environment on a
daily basis without due care
and keeping to international
best practices.
“Our continuous appeals in
writing and physical
visitation to the management
of the said company and
their supervising Ministry of
Petroleum over the years
have been ignored, as they
have never replied any of our
letters nor stopped the life-
threatening nuisance that
their emissions have
become.”

The landlords alleged that
whenever the carbon black
soot is released, within a few
minutes, all persons, water,
air, land, clothes and even
pets and domestic animals
in the Ajomata/
Awhakpor area would be
soaked in carbon black soot.
According to them, people
could hardly stay outside
their homes for 10 minutes
without getting their clothes
soaked with carbon black
soot.

They also
claimed their children were
the most affected as they are
always in and out of hospital
for sundry ailments such
as respiratory infections,
heart diseases and asthma
attacks.
They recalled that in 2006,
fishes in the pond of one Sir
Elijah Atomatofa all died from
pollution from the carbon
black soot, adding that
many of the indigenes were
forced to relocate from the
locality thereafter.

After a comprehensive
meeting with all the relevant
stakeholders which included
the people of Ajomata/
Awhakpor community; NNPC;
the Department of Petroleum
Resources, DPR; Ministry
of the Environment; National
Environmental Standards and
Regulatory Enforcement
Agency, NESREA; the
Environmental Rights Action,
ERA, and the
committee leaders, the
lawmakers called for the
suspension of operations at
the plant.

Speaking on behalf of
members, Peterside, called
on the NNPC to shut down
the plant as a matter of
urgency. According to him,
WRPC will further be
endangering human life if it
continues any form of
production.
Peterside also condemned
the obvious lack of
cooperation among
government agencies, which
played out in the course of
the meeting, and warned
that nobody including NNPC
is above the law.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/pollution-reps-advises-shutting-of-warri-refinery/

Hoteph: 1-1 tufiakwa

my broda! This one na big Tufiakwa! They scored at 89minutes and yet they couldn't defend it for d next 4mins.. How could they allow Malawi to score in 93mins? Am disappointed! Tufiakwa! Tufiakwa!! Tufiakwa!!!

Funkymallam: Amechi, Igbo? I laff in kanuri...

ismhab: WHO TOLD U THAT GOVERNOR CHIBUIKE AMAECHI IS AN IGBO MAN.

Domaro: supported, Rotimi Amaechi is not an igbo neither is he a yoruba man. I prefer NGIGE/FASHOLA and ROHCHAS for 2015 presidency

No ooo! Amaechi is not an Igbo, he is a Chinese!
Now can we rest?

PeterKbaba: [s]Fashola's is a Yoruba who practices the Yoruba religion,[/s] his wife and her families are Christians... Fashola goes to church all through the christian festive seasons of the year and Muslim festive seasons too... [s]The WORLD INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY as indicated the Yoruba religion as the most peaceful religion in the world that does not discriminate, and the Christianity and Muslim's came out from the traditional culture of the yorubas... Do research yourself. Countries practicing Yoruba Religion PARTS OF ( USA, Canada, Trinidad and topego , Mexico, cuba, south america, Europe etc.... Just type on youtube or google : Yoruba religion and put any of this countries and see how white men and Blacks a practicing the yoruba religion in the traditional ways intact.

So yes, it does not matter fashola's religion.[/s]

i don't need your lecture on Yorubas and thier religions.

The Action Congress of Nigeria,
ACN, should start now thinking of
a Christian successor to Governor
Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, a
Muslim, by religion, for 2015.
Otherwise Christians should
spend the next three and a half
years, before the April 2015
elections, searching for another
political party in which they will
no longer be treated as second
class members.www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/lagos-state-governorship-2015-christian-agenda-–1/

And moreover core Northerners are seeking for presidential seat and not vice president seat, i don't see the possibility of Fashola/El-Rufia(Muslim/Muslim) ticket, many core Northerners might vote against it becos it is not for thier own interest and am sure majority of Christian will not support it becoz the fear of been marginalise.

Laila Ikeji: Leaders of two leading opposition parties; Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), have met and expressed their determination to work out a merger ahead of the 2015 presidential election.

ACN’s national leader, Bola Tinubu on Thursday met with the leader of the CPC, Muhammadu Buhari, at his residence in Kaduna for a meeting which was held behind closed doors

In his address to journalists after the meeting, Mr. Tinubu stated that the meeting centred on how to work out an acceptable leadership to steer the affairs of the country.

Hinting on the willingness to reach a compromise for the merger talks ahead of the next presidential election, Mr Tinubu stated that “if we have security agencies that are charged with the protection of the sovereignty of the country at the expense of their own lives, then the leaders must be able to make sacrifices and be flexible enough to help redirect.”

Mr Tinubu also expressed the determination of the two parties to resist being perpetual opposition, saying “we are working for a positive change in 2015. We don’t want to perpetually be in opposition, every politician wants the opportunity to govern,” he said as he explained that both parties were working for a change in the nation’s political history in 2015 that will lead to the formation of a government led by progressive minds.

He declined to give further details of their discussions saying “as politicians we discussed in general the situation in the country and how we can help ameliorate the problems facing the nation.”

Accompanying the former governor of Lagos state on the trip to Kaduna were the governors of Ogun and Ekiti states. Former Minister of the FCT, Nasir El-rufai represented the CPC.

Both parties were involved in a possible merger talks, weeks to the April 2011 presidential election, but the talks collapsed days to the final round of campaigns, owing to irreconcilable differences. The party’s presidential candidates both came second and third respectively in the poll that was adjudged free and fair.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/06/08/2015-tinubu-meets-buhari-to-begin-acn-cpc-merger-talks/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Na today!!!
A merger between slaves(S.West) and thier masters(core North) can't work.
El-Rufai/Fashola ticket can't pull down PDP, only Fashola(president) and El-Rufai(vice president) ticket can dismantle PDP, but is that possible? A Muslim-Muslim ticket in a country with religious crisis like Nigeria.

Nigeria will soon over take Somalia.

This Akwat Akwop or wat ever is another version of OPC.
Always talking no action.. I remembered last year when they threaten Boko haram what have they done to Boko haram members and now it is Fulani herdsmen..
Mtcheeew! Make dey go sleep.. Bikoo!

ONDO State Governor, Dr
Olusegun Mimiko has
advised members of the
National Union of Road
Transport Workers, NURTW,
to shun entreaties from any
political party that may want
to use them for political
violence in the coming
election, stressing that such
people should be advised to
make use of their children
instead.

Mimiko who made the
statement at the
commissioning of a N152
million ultra-modern motor
park along Ondo Road in
Akure, yesterday, lauded
members of the union for
their peaceful conduct,
noting “there is no gain
saying the fact that NURTW is
a critical sector of the society
and that any investment on
the union cannot be a waste
as it is their right to enjoy
dividends of democracy.
“Now that you have
rebranded your union, you
should resist all entreaties by
self-serving politicians who
might want to use you to
cause mayhem during the
coming governorship
election, just tell them to go
and use their children for
such undemocratic
purposes. Ondo State people
have vowed that never again
shall we witness election
brigandage in this state.

Ondo should not be a blood
bath pool. People of the
state are not bush rats that
could be captured , our focus
is one man one vote”, he
said.
Imploring it on the
transporters to maintain
good driving culture,
Governor Mimiko said People
might not have realized that
road accident is the highest
cause of death in Nigeria
adding that this has been
proved by statistical
research.
“So, until we start to do
things in line with best
global practices, we might
continue to experience
negativity as against
positivity” the governor
stated.

Mimiko further said since
transportation is a basic
ingredient for sustainable
development, his
administration is striving to
ensure that similar projects
are sited in other parts of
the state.
“We have already put
necessary machinery in
motion for the replication of
this project at the Benin/
Owo motor park, Akure and
in Ore, Odigbo Local
Government Areas as
provision has been made to
that effect in the 2012
budget”.

Equally, the Governor
mentioned that, we hope to
achieve similar projects in
major towns of the state.
Reiterating the ban on sale
of alcohol at the park, the
governor said the ultimate
desire which of government
is to preserve lives and
avoidance of accidents on
our roads through the
culture of right mindedness.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/mimiko-cautions-nurtw-members-commission-n152m-park/

ZUBY77: let them start coming back. That is the only thing they should do. Otherwise i dont care.

seconded! Nigeria is not really one and the F.G or state govt isn't really gonna help them.

Yola— Tension is mounting in Adamawa State as Igbo traders, yesterday, shut shops and other businesses to protest the killings of their kit and kins.

The protest over the killing of an unidentified Igbo man almost turned violent as the protesters clashed with security agents. Most of the major streets in Yola, the state capital, were deserted even as economic activities were paralysed.

The traders, in their hundreds, matched through the major streets, chanting solidarity songs to register protest. They appealed to the state government to address the insecurity situation in the state as the ugly situation had made them to live in fear both at home and in the markets.

The situation, however, heightened when three Igbo traders were killed by unknown persons at about 1pm in the commercial area of Muhammed Mustafa way.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Nemuel Yoila, was said to be with the state Police Commissioner for a security meeting when Vanguard contacted his office for his comments on the issue.

Meanwhile, Adamawa State government has banned the use of commercial motorcycles, popularly referred to as Achaba in the Northern part of the country, in Yola.

Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Chief Ari Timnu, in a statement, yesterday, said the government had considered it necessary to ban commercial motorcycles in five major towns in the state because most crimes and security breaches were committed by men of the underworld on motorbikes in those areas.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/tension-in-adamawa-as-igbo-protest-killings/

Remii: On a lighter mood, No more Unilag babes, they are now Abiola babes.

lol.. Abiola babes! No be small matter!
IMO...Changing the name of most popular University in Nigeria(UNILAG) to Moshood Abiola University isn't a good idea.

I admire Akinola's courage.

Funkymallam: U ppl should free the guy jor, he isnt a blind supporter lyk most ACN goons here, when GEJ go wrong, we condem him and not ignore it.

Funky! Thanks for telling them that..

Mr. Globe:
lmaooooo. Two heavy tribalists chilling after the days work and 'relishing' their ordeals. They also have one or two things in common. 1000 ids on NL.

Roflmao! So true!

ak47mann: so you are jason123 i must say you good at it and you are kanuri as-well

LOL...
SMH... Jason123 opened the thread while Alj Harem took over.

Hypocrisy!

patriot2: I have never witnessed a Yoruba being racist, all I saw on this forum was igbomen insulting and provoking Yorubamen. For what ? A misplaced fealing about a war fought by our grand fathers ? Come on ?

Honestly, you are sick!
Am sure you know the likes of Bluetooth, Eko ile, Ileke Idi, Seanet and co..

patriot2: I like your comment, I have nothing against igbo people but i have something against igbo racists who keep insulting Yoruba on this forum, and who keep claiming their superiority and their ownership of Yorubaland. And what I thought is that if this is the general sentiment among igbos then there is probably going to be trouble in the near future.

I like your comment, we have nothing against Yoruba people but we have something against Yoruba racists who keep insulting Igbo on this forum, and who keep claiming their superiority over Igbo people. And what we thought is that if this is the general sentiment among Yorubas then there is probably going to be trouble in the near future.

Am hoping Chelsea will loose, i don't want Arsenal to play UEFA play off...

medjai: If this is the evolution of football when one team attacks practically for the entire game(Barca) and the other just plays in their own half, continuosly defending, diving intermittently to disrupt the flow of the game, relying upon a couple of opportunistic attacks and luck(Chelsea), then it is terrible for the game, period!

Games of such nature are destructive for the sport. The anti-football of Chelsea is shameful and destructive for the game of football. It's even more disgraceful when you consider that Chelsea are supposed to be a big club. Abrahamovic has endlessly pumped money into this Chelsea project since taking over. This is a Chelsea side that was put together with hundreds of millions of £ and even has a £50 million signing on the bench and yet, the best they could come up with is this cynical, vulgar and vomit-inducing, anti-football, SMH. It's understandable when small clubs like QPR, Blackburn and Stoke play like this but Chelsea? Even those poor clubs in Spain that don't have up to 1/10 of Chelsea's budget don't indulge in such shameful act. I can't even imagine how any football fan would be proud of such display. If every team played like that, I'm pretty sure there won't be as many football fans in the world today.

Where exactly is the sympathy for us fans enduring those 180 minutes of repulsive, anti-football?

so true! I hate watching Chelsea match, it is so boring.. Since Di Matteo take over it is this new method of 9-1 formation.. 9 players will just line up on 18yard box while only one player(Drogba or £50m) wil be on d front.
But am sure Bayern Munich will beat Chelsea even if they play that thier cowardly pattern becoz Bayern don't play like Barca.