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When did understanding 'a dying language' like ibo bcome a measure of IQ?


Go to Owerri road,GRA,Enugu,it is business as usual!Fighting any ibo online is a waste of time,the way ordinary ibos took his death speaks volume.

The man wasted the high-prized prestigious Oxford education.

Sadly,all he is remebered for,desite he was a FORMER GOVERNOR OF OLD EASTERN NIGERIA,like Hitler,is a war!

HE TRIVIALISED THE WAR AS ACCIDENT OF INFANTILE REFLEX.Who would or who compensated families that loved their loved ones on both sides of the war?Would you do same if you are made the governor of eastern region?


KO SI OLORI L'AGAN,O MASE O.

[b]I HATE WARS AND THE SENSELESS WASTAGE THAT ACCOMPANIES IT.

THE CHINESE ARE TAKING OVER WITHOUT FIRING A BULLET!
AMERICA WON THE COLD WAR EVEN WITHOUT ONE SHOT AT OD USSR!

GOWON STOODBY AS NORTHERNERS MASSACRED IBOS AND LED A WAR AGAINST THE IBOS WHO WERE ALREADY DECIMATED IN THE NORTH,INTERESTINGLY,THE PEOPLE HE WAS TOO SCARED TO CAUTION THEN ARE THE ONES KILLING HIS OWN PEOPLE IN JOS NOW!
HE ALLOWED HIS HANDS TO BE SOILED IN BLOOD OF INNOCENT PEOPLE.

OJUKWU WAS THE WORST CULPRIT,ARMED WITH A UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD CERTIFICATE IN HISTORY,THE BEST HE COULD DO WAS TO DRAG A WHOLE RACE INTO A WAR HE WAS NOT ADEQUATEL[Y PREPARED FOR!
HE TOOK THE WISE COUNSEL OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF NIGERIA FOR GRANTED,OJUKWU MURDERED SLEEP EVEN IN THE MULTITUDE OF WISE COUNSEL
OJUKWU AND GOWON(STILL ALIVE) LIVED LONG TO OLD AGE,EVEN IN OLD AGE CONTINUED TO LIVE ON NIGERIA DESPITE THE HUGE LOSS TO THE COUNTRY WHILE OTHERS THEY FORCED THEIR WAR UPON DIED IN THE WAR,LOST THEIR VALUABLE BODY PARTS AND PROPERTY TO THE WAR AND OJUKWU EVEN DESTROYED THE CORDIAL[ITY BETWEEN THE YORUBAS AND THE IBOS BY HIS YOUTHFUL EXHUBERRANCE.
WHAT IF AWO DID NOT RALLY THE YORUBAS TO FORGIVE THE IBOS AND RETURN THEIR PROPERTY UNIKE THE OTHER NIGERIAN NATIONAITIES,WHAT IF THE YORUBAS ARE REJOICING OVER THE DEATH OF OJUKWU LIKE SOME NORTHERNERS,WHAT IF OJUKWU WAS NOT SUPORTED AND PROTECTED BY THE YORUBA WHILE HE WAS AN INNOCENT CHILD GROWING UP ON OSHODI STREET,L[[AGOS ISLAND,IN YORUBAAND.FOR ALL THE KINDNESS WE SHOWED TO THE IBOS AND OJUKWU,ALL THE YORUBAS GOT WAS INGRATITUDE,GOD WILL JUDGE OJUKWU.HE IS GONE,HE NEVER APOLOGISED AND LEFT BEHIND ANY FOUNDATION TO HELP AT LEAST THE DEPENDANTS OF THOSE HE AND GOWON KILLED WITH THEIR SENSELESS EGO WAR.

MAY WE NEVER HAVE THESE KINDS OF FATHERS WHO WOULD LIKE GADAFFI,DESTROY,THAN BUILD.E S'AMIN E.AWON AGBA TO JE,TI ILU DARU![/b]

I HATE WARS AND THE SENSELESS WASTAGE THAT ACCOMPANIES IT.

THE CHINESE ARE TAKING OVER WITHOUT FIRING A BULLET!
AMERICA WON THE COLD WAR EVEN WITHOUT ONE SHOT AT OLD USSR!

GOWON STOODBY AS NORTHERNERS MASSACRED IBOS AND LED A WAR AGAINST THE IBOS WHO WERE ALREADY DECIMATED IN THE NORTH,INTERESTINGLY,THE PEOPLE HE WAS TOO SCARED TO CAUTION THEN ARE THE ONES KILLING HIS OWN PEOPLE IN JOS NOW!
HE ALLOWED HIS HANDS TO BE SOILED IN BLOOD OF INNOCENT PEOPLE.

OJUKWU WAS THE WORST CULPRIT,ARMED WITH A UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD CERTIFICATE IN HISTORY,THE BEST HE COULD DO WAS TO DRAG A WHOLE RACE INTO A WAR HE WAS NOT ADEQUATEL[Y PREPARED FOR!
HE TOOK THE WISE COUNSEL OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF NIGERIA FOR GRANTED,OJUKWU MURDERED SLEEP EVEN IN THE MULTITUDE OF WISE COUNSEL
OJUKWU AND GOWON(STILL ALIVE) LIVED LONG TO OLD AGE,EVEN IN OLD AGE CONTINUED TO LIVE ON NIGERIA DESPITE THE HUGE LOSS TO THE COUNTRY WHILE OTHERS THEY FORCED THEIR WAR UPON DIED IN THE WAR,LOST THEIR VALUABLE BODY PARTS AND PROPERTY TO THE WAR AND OJUKWU EVEN DESTROYED THE CORDIAL[ITY BETWEEN THE YORUBAS AND THE IBOS BY HIS YOUTHFUL EXHUBERRANCE.
WHAT IF AWO DID NOT RALLY THE YORUBAS TO FORGIVE THE IBOS AND RETURN THEIR PROPERTY UNIKE THE OTHER NIGERIAN NATIONAITIES,WHAT IF THE YORUBAS ARE REJOICING OVER THE DEATH OF OJUKWU LIKE SOME NORTHERNERS,WHAT IF OJUKWU WAS NOT SUPORTED AND PROTECTED BY THE YORUBA WHILE HE WAS AN INNOCENT CHILD GROWING UP ON OSHODI STREET,L[[AGOS ISLAND,IN YORUBAAND.FOR ALL THE KINDNESS WE SHOWED TO THE IBOS AND OJUKWU,ALL THE YORUBAS GOT WAS INGRATITUDE,GOD WILL JUDGE OJUKWU.HE IS GONE,HE NEVER APOLOGISED AND LEFT BEHIND ANY FOUNDATION TO HELP AT LEAST THE DEPENDANTS OF THOSE HE AND GOWON 'KILLED' WITH THEIR SENSELESS EGO WAR.

MAY WE NEVER HAVE THESE KINDS OF FATHERS WHO WOULD LIKE GADAFFI,DESTROY,THAN BUILD.E S'AMIN E.AWON AGBA TO JE,TI ILU DARU!

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[b]The story carried above has once been reported by punchnewspapers and attracted calls by Nigerians to do a thorough investigation.That this case got to this extent is gladenning but does not call for sensationalism
It is a serious case involving a wayward igbo girl (Blessing Ukeh) who got impregnated by another young igbo okada driver with no reliable means of livelihood.The girl ( Blessing) was delivered at the hospital and could not pay a dime after a successful delivery.The irresponsible igbo lad that imregnated her was no where to be found and the hospital workers failed to release her,according to them,the MD of the hospital was out of town and nobody wants his/her salary deducted to pay for the service rendered to blessing.
According to the punchnewspaper reporter,Blessing was not allowed to leave the hospital and when the hospital staff took pity on her,they gave her a room and asked her to work as a cleaner in the hospital.It was one of the nights that this silly girl fed her baby petrol,according to her,she took petrol to kill herself but mistakenly breastfed her baby and the baby died !
Immediately the hospital workers got wind of it and reported to the police and peole called for more investigation.The guys being arraigned are those unfortunate hospital staff that took pity on her and provided medical help to her only to find out she is completely indigent!As at the time punch reported the news,the silly igbolad that impregnated her was still nowhere to be found![/b]

ibo's famed but jaundiced envy of awo had been transferred to Tinubu,maybe they are scared of another civil war with a Tinubu alive!

How does a genuine call for a discussion by nigerians for nigerians amount to treason or attract name-calling?they dont like the messenger so they go for the messenger.Losers!

It is only on nairaland that you see people who can not spell 'illiterates' call another person illiterate.People with let-my-people-go grades castigating a 3.54 out of 4 gpa .
[b]It is only on nairaland people will compare Tinubu who came out of University with 3.54,head hunted by the best business organisations in the world,whose wife is a serving senator of FGN, walking free in lagosafter 8years in governors office and half a decade after leaving office of meritorious service that earned his party more governorships seats and political endorsements with a James Ibori,who came out of ordinary uniben(not even a first generation university in Nigeria) with 3rd class,has been a contractor,supermarket staff,military apologist and serial ex-convict all his life and currently serving Delta state in a british gulag with co-prison mates that include his wife,sister,mistress,lawyer and maybe very soon,his cousin uduaghan,who cannot walk the street of Chief Clark let alone the street of Asaba,whose successor is nothing but a political misadventure.Listen to what Olorogun Michael Ibru told his wife Cecilia Ibru about Ibori"that boy is a criminal,dont ever get yourself in business with him"That Cecilia eventually landed in jail and Michael ibru's advice is a true description of Ibori says it all.[/b] To ibori apologists,Listen to what the Nigerian Judge that sent him to prison said about Ibori'this is the man I convicted,there is no other James Onanefe Ibori".That he became a governor and celebrated on nairaland with a dubious attempt to compare him to Tinubu is the height of mischief.The Yorubas are smarter,Tinubu,love him or hate him,he is the smartest living political Tactician in Nigeria.You dont like it,you must be a never do well.

[b]Ayinla condemns agitation for the splitting of Lagos State

November 23, 2011 06:02PM




A former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Jubril Ayinla, on Wednesday kicked against the agitation for the creation of Lagoon State from the present Lagos state.

Mr Ayinla, who spoke in Lagos, stressed the need to reduce the cost of running government by consolidating on the existing states, instead of creating more.

Agitation for the splitting of Lagos State into two is gathering momentum among politicians in the state.

Ayinla noted that even now, the resources available to Lagos State was inadequate to cope with its physical development, largely because a lot was being spent in running government.

“We have too many states in Nigeria; government is too expensive. If you start agitating for more states, then every home in Nigeria will become a state.

“I think we should forget about the creation of more states, instead, we should think of reducing government expenditure by putting the number of states together to have regional governments,” Ayinla said.

Regional governance would mean coming down to six regions, instead of the current 36-state structure which the retired naval officer believed was unwieldy and draining the nation’s resources.

Ayinla stressed the need to embark on the concept of a regional system of government, noting that the cost of running a state at present, would be enough to run a region.

He also kicked against the re-introduction of toll gates in the nation highways as a means of maintaining the roads, adding however, that “the country has a terrible maintenance culture”.

The former naval chief also said it could be appropriate to introduce a form of petroleum tax for the maintenance of highways.

According to him, government will raise enough money from the tax to construct roads of international standard and maintain them without necessarily re-introducing toll gates.


















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A long list of commentaries by predatory conmen/car dealers cum businessmen and Naija diaspora,I could not expect anything else.You can theorise and blame everything including the competence of the mechanic cos you think the auto-mech is plain stupid lamenting his ordeal in getting a replacement part for an audi !
I am not surprised at all!
Abeg,to you all that is important is profit and nobody should spoil your 'show'.

You people should visit home and find how easy it is to take your hard-earned money to begin to order parts that Nigerian roads will thoroughly disgrace even after spending a fortune scanning,wasting precious time at the mechanic's place and the distruption caused by a disappointing car!

You either bring cars with parts that are available locally or one of you with owo-igbo should bring down these scarce parts to flood the market or just keep quiet!

Qualitative education: Ogun govt provides free textbooks for students



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Written by Olayinka Olukoya, Abeokuta Wednesday, 23 November 2011
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The Ogun State government has taken delivery of 10 lorry loads of textbooks to boost its intention to provide free and qualitative education to pupils and students in the public primary and secondary schools.

A statement by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Information Officer, Kayode Oduyebo, said that one of the contracted publishing firms delivered 117,000 textbooks which covered subject areas like JSS English Language, Mathematics, Social Studies and Yoruba while SSS subjects already supplied covered subjects like English Language, Mathematics, Government, Physics and Literature in English.

The books were received by the Director of Curriculum Development and Evaluation, Mrs Kike Akinwande,on behalf of the state commissioner, Mr Segun Odubela.

The acting Managing Director/Chief Executive of Longman publishing firm, Mr Fred Ijewere, noted that the exercise was in fulfillment of Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s campaign promise of providing free and qualitative education to students in public primary and secondary schools in the state.

Mr. Ijewere said that his company was part of the success story being recorded in the state and urged beneficiaries to make judicious use of the books.

“This is laudable project; we should commend governments for providing free education to students in the State. Education is the bedrock of any nation and any investment in education is a worthy investment. Teachers and students are however admonished to make judicious use of the books. This is the only way Government can be encouraged to do more,” he added.

It would be recalled that the state government had signed a contract worth N1.8 billion with some reputable publishing companies to supply text books to be distributed free for all its students in primary and secondary schools across the state.

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How does that amount to a solution in the long run?
I guess if you are a road user who ply our bad roads in nigeria,you know that auto parts replacement is not a one-off thing,it goes on on a continous basis,the real probem wont be addressed for as long as the part is not in the country.

TODAY I was at my auto mechanic's workshop to service my car but alas I met the man and his lieutenants brainstorming on a car that appeared so ravishing new and beautiful,the car was one of the new models of AUDI 2.8 SEDAN CAR.I must confess,I love the car and when I was told people are already bidding for the car and the owner of the car,a car-importer based overseas is breathing down their neck to please fix the car ASAP.That immediately got me worried,is there a ploy to sell the car with a hidden fault and the unfortunate buyer would then 'carry the cross'?
I enquired from my mechanic what is wrong with the car.I never expected the kind of response i got-"The car is nothing but a disaster,we have moved all around Lagos for its parts to buy the replacement but all to no avail"he thundered out of frustration.'I dont know what the man wants me to do,maybe he expects me to turn myself into a sparepart' He concluded. Seeing his mood and frustration I did not even bother continuing with the discussion until he said[b]"Can you imagine that people are already bidding over a million for this useless car!,I pity whoever buys this(2.8L audi sedan car)." [/b]


Pls my brothers and sisters,pls be more diligent in your enquiries about a particular brand of car and availability of spareparts locally before shipping cars down,I know that apart from the agony and financial loss it causes the eventual buyer,it is a huge environmental liability as most of those cars just liter the environment and trust Naijas,the buyer will find another suegbe and pass it on to until eventually the car is a complete environmental mess.Abeg,let us save our environment .God bless.

@ op.first it was blaming Fashola for the badly ruined airport access road owned by the federal Govt even though as an educated person,all you need do is google and research on the road,at least before posting.
Now,it is comparing Ibori and Tinubu in a manner that suggest your intention is less intellectually rewarding,at least,for us to remember you and always want to read your posts.
The bible says'study to make yourself approve'.W are the future,those that wasted yesterday like Ibori,you can know from their legacies and by Ibori's fruit,you can know him,Tinubu may not be a Saint but check his legacies,FGN,with all federal might could not even get a credible evidence to nail him!And you think we can all be swayed by the pdp-sponsored propaganda of demonising Tinubu.None of those you mentioned from kalu,nnamani etc,what is their current electoral worth?Mind you,these guys' efcc cases are still on!
For Ibori,It does not have anything to do with Urhobo!My Preacher is Urhobo and I bless God for his life.He is like a father to me a Yoruba.I am not too impressed at all.

typical nigerian govt of hallucinating escapism.No damn ex-mauritaninan president is involved if you consider our checquered political history.This country has not been fair to its citizens and almost everybody has one or more grouse with the country!That people are not forthcoming with intelligence report alone is an indication that people even trust and fear boko haram more than the govt.They should convene a soverign national conference before it is too late!

prof,pls dont visit home because of the silly invitation by abati,just read my abrigded version of GEJ's priority since he outrigged buhari

1. 7yr single tenure presidency.
2. oil subsidy removal
3.federal university in his village
4[sylva-must-go campaign
5.toll gate errection.
6 controversial soverign wealth fund
7.canonisation of Hafiz ringim with OFR
8.BOKO HARRAM
9.Demotorisation of benin-ore road
10. de-salamisation of the apeal court
11.infact there's no motorable road connecting the airport to the rest of Lagos!

midwifing a system that unleashed a malfeasent Al-mustapha and Rogers to depopulate the ranks of few goodmen and women.
de-secularisation of Nigeria by dragging Nigeria into Organisation of Islamic Countries(OIC),
caricatured the nigerian academia,
how about that man jerry Gana who can lie from both sides of the mouth.

does anybody remember a whole generation of nigerian army wiped in the alleged state-sponsored plane mishap in ejigbo(infact the sight is not ejigbo,it is isheri-osun area just after Bucknor area before you enter isheri-osun behind jakande estate,oke-afa,isolo) during ibb's tenure?I am not sure any nairalander has a relation in that ill-fated flight,I saw that plane before it landed and I kept wondering why on earth a plane could be releasing its tires in air.I just watched as the plane kept rising and descending until it disappeared from my view.Till thisday,I still remember that day and when eventually I saw a piece of the shattered plane parts collected by people who thronged the sight of the crash then the whole thing sank in me.I feel very for those guys on that plane,when I later heard about the then military govt planned it,i was devastated!
How about Dele Giwa and the alleged Buba Marwa connection or is it annulment of june12 that gave rise to abacha,saro-wiwa hanging,mend,boko-haram,opc,jos carnange etc.Infact,ibb did not think about how history would judge him.I think he should just do as Albert Nobel did!He has just read his obituary and unlike Albert Nobel who was called merchant of death,ibb is(was) the merchant of violent mischeif and predatory confusion.


ibb should learn fron nobel.

Popular Yoruba Actor Arrested on Cocaine Possession – Punch



Posted: October 13, 2011 - 17:17








Babatunde Omidina, aka Baba Suwe



By SaharaReporters, New York/Punch

Nollywood actor and comedian Babatunde Omidina, aka Baba Suwe, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for alledgedly concealing drugs in his stomach.



The actor was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Wednesday night as he tried to board an Air France flight to Paris. The drugs were allegedly discovered in the 53-year-old actor‘s stomach as he passed through the scanning machine at the airport and he was immediately arrested and detained at the airport.

He was said to have denied swallowing hard drugs and was subsequently put under observation.






The spokesman for the NDLEA, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, confirmed the development.

A Nollywood actress, Hassanat Taiwo Akinwande, was caught with drugs in September 2006 at the same airport by the NDLEA and eventually excreted 92 wraps of high-quality cocaine weighing 1.214 kg. She was sentenced to three years in prison or N1 million fine on January 25, 2007.

Another Nollywood actor, Uche Odoputa, was also arrested with cocaine at the MMIA on March 23, 2007 on his way to London and sentenced to eight months in prison.

chukwumer1je-n0t0ri0us abacha ap0lg1st & minister 0f pr0paganda -new leader 0f ndigb0 in 2011!

@ abagworo,dis ur invasion the0ry is a new  low 4 ibos

if this is the best fault or legal malfeasance they can throw up against Tinubu,then it is a verdict that much of the silly dem-say,dem-say gilberish against tinubu as being corrupt cant stand close scrutiny!They could not even find ONE SINGLE CASE OF LOOTING OR FINANCIAL CORRUPTION (a la igbinedion,alams,ladoja,gbenga daniel,saminu turaki  et al)AGAINST THIS MAN FOR 8 YRS HE WAS IN THE SADDLE IN LAGOS IS A CLEAR PROOF THAT TINUBU IS CLEAN!The people fighting tinubu have all it takes to find a greater case against him if he has his hands soiled!

dem go fail,gboin,gboin loke,TINUBU ni oko iya won!

Abeg no give Tinubu tea oh!God bless and protect my Tinubu!

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Four feared dead as Fulani herdsmen, Hausa traders clash

On September 21, 2011 · In News
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BY WOLE MOSADOMI
Minna- Four people have been confirmed dead at Golbin Boka, in Rijau Local government area of Niger State following a violent clash between some Fulani herdsmen and Hausa traders in the area.

There had been series of armed robberies in the community in the past few weeks, leading to suspicion between different tribes within the community over which group was perpetrating the criminal activities.

Vanguard reliably gathered that the fracas started when one Aliyu believed to be an Hausa trader from the community was attacked while on his way to the village (Golbin Boka) to transact some businesses.

He was said to have fought back by engaging his attackers in a scuffle which eventually led to one of them (attackers) being seriously injured.

Aliyu was said to have narrated his ordeal in the hands of the attackers to his kinsmen, who embarked on a manhunt for the suspected armed robbers.

According to the sources, while Aliyu’s kinsmen were busy hunting for his alleged attackers, some Fulani herdsmen whose kinsman was allegedly wounded by Aliyu during the scuffle were said to have stormed the market and started unleashing terror on any Hausa man on sight, leading to immediate retaliation form the Hausa community during which four people were confirmed killed.

Niger State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Assistant Superintendent Richard Oguche, confirmed the story, saying however, that no arrests have been made even as investigations had begun.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/four-feared-dead-as-fulani-herdsmen-hausa-traders-clash/

RIP GEJ!NOW THE SS AND THE IJAWS KNOW OIL WITHOUT EDUCATION IS A DISASTER,GEJ WAS A BAD AMBASSADOR!

at last,ndigbo is waking up!the key to 2015 is SW,ndigbo nids SW not the other way round.The SW would expectedly ask ndigbo to support call for full federalism and SNC!And TO ofcourse,forget GEJ! GEJ would lose in this game of high powered politics hopefully if OBJ could be neutralised

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My family, my biggest pain
BY BRUCE MALOGO
Sunday, September 04, 2011

Eddie Ugboma
• Photo: The Sun Publishing

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Continued from last week

This week, we are concluding the chat with Chief Eddie Ugboma, a veteran movie producer. Last week, he discussed his early life – how he snatched his life from the treacherous Lagos streets of those days and how he landed in London on his brother’s ticket.

Well, he was forced to pay back the fare through the hard, unexpected way. He also talked about his father and mother and how they separated, his life in London and how he was the first Nigerian to bring world-class musicians to the county.
In this concluding part, he continues the story of his life – his dysfunctional family life, his regrets about the film and movie industry and many other things in-between.
Excerpts:

When you came back from London, you started film productions?
No, I started promoting shows first; I was going and coming back. When I touched this place, I find out that none of their television stations was to my standard, but I just wanted to work, to contribute to the growth of the place.

So, at what point did you now say it was all over with show business, let me face movies?
I was not having satisfaction with show business and I still saw the vacuum in the movie industry. I saw a lot of messages missing, a lot of statements missing; I saw Tarzan calling elephants, lions to beat Africans and I could not talk to my pussycat.

I saw America that lost wars in Vietnam, they always shoot films on how they conquered Vietnam; I saw John Wayne with a six-round gun, he will shoot this gun nonstop and kill all Indians; I saw Clint Eastwood, he could be looking on his left side and shoot and kill 10 people on his right. I saw all this and I said: ‘See, Eddie, go back to this industry and tell your stories and make your statements.’ And that is what I have done; all my films are statement movies.

If you remember in the ‘80s, I shot Oil Doom and everybody shouted, “Ah! why, we are in boom.” Where are we today? It is super doom. I shot Oyenusi, my first movie with the statement that crime does not pay; that if they don’t watch the society, guns would be everywhere. What do we have today? Armed robbers. I shot The Mask when the British people refused to give us our mask back. I said well, since they stole it here, let’s go there and steal it. So when we shot that movie, the British government said, ‘Nigeria, please come and negotiate to take your artifact.’ That is the power of movie.

What of Apalara?
Apalara is a story about a cultist that became a preacher, an alfa. He didn’t like what the cult people were doing, so he decided for God and began preaching. They begged him to stop preaching, but he refused. He was exposing them.

That happened to be your first traditional film?
In a way, Oyenusi said the same thing.

No, what I mean is, Apalara is in Yoruba language.
Of course. I am versatile, I shoot Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa language movies. I believe in Nigeria and it is this new thing trying to destroy itself: there is Nollywood, Yoruwood, Kanowood and all the wood. So, like my last two movies, they are statement films. The Black Gold is an improvement on Oil Doom. The one I just finished late last year is called Desert Warrior. That is a film I read from the book called Bayaida. It is the story of how these Fulani came to Nigeria.

At this level, one would have thought that somebody like Eddie Ugboma would have shot an epic?
Well, my films are epic.
Epic, in the sense that every generation will remember and make reference to it.
Every generation; people are making reference to it.
I am sure that my children would first of all ask me who Eddie Ugboma is and to talk about his movies would be something else…

Yes, but it is the fault of the media. For the records, there is no film that you can make today that people will remember if it is not written down; if they don’t have the archival. Do you know that I have spent also N8 million of my money, setting up a gallery of moviemakers? I have been crying for Lagos State to the federal government to buy it; UNESCO has been hurrying me to buy it.

But when I saw Germans come to Nigeria to do the history of High Life, calling all these old High Life musicians and paying them money to put them in hotel; so maybe next 10 years, our children will go to Germany to learn High Life. So I blame us the adults, especially the media, the educationists, our televisions who don’t write. How many of them have been bold to write about Eddie Ugboma? It is an insult and a disgrace that I have to write my autobiography, Eddie Ugboma by Eddie Ugboma…
We were talking about you. We’ll yet come back to your professional calling.
Yes, sure.

Tell me, how’s your family life?
I got married very young when I was lonely in Britain. People used to think that my wife was my sister or I was her brother because we didn’t wear our wedding ring in the school; we had it on our neck chains. My first child is 44 now and I am 70. The last one is 12. So I got married young because, with British and American loneliness, you can’t live alone, you need someone to talk to.

In our time, it was a crime to be Black and live in Britain; people don’t know that. Like this riot, I was laughing – that riot was long overdue. In our time, it was a crime to be Black. If you go to hire a house, a room or flat – which I suffered a lot – you will see room to let but when you go there, they’ll shout, monkey! and slam the door on your face. It went as far as that. They will write on the wall of their hostels Room to let, Whites only. So I have experienced life a lot and I am not regretting it. All I am just regretting is being a Nigerian.

Why?
My wife is a biochemist; she is one of those who started this NAFDAC of today. She was at Yaba, Food and Drug; she is half American half Jamaican but now a nationalised British. She came home with me, she was working in what they call NAFDAC today –it used to be Food and Drug at Yaba and I was shooting my movies.

Where is she now?
She is in Britain.

She went back?
Yes, she went back.

You told me earlier that you have 13 children?
Yeah sure; she had five for me and then she left and I married again.

Why did she leave?
She left because of greed; it is unfortunate to say that word. My family was a nuisance to her; my mother and brothers were harassing her. They said she doesn’t know how to cook, doesn’t know how to put pepper in food. I said no, my wife didn’t come to serve you people. They will come to the house, they just go straight to the fridge to take beer but when she says, ‘Please, uncle, sit down let me serve you,’ they’ll say ‘no, this is my house;’ you know the stupidity of our people, this is our house, you cannot tell us.

So she was not a happy lady here. But the worst thing that she did to me, for which I am begging Nigerians never to marry foreigners, is, , whatever the situation, don’t marry a foreigner. My wife was working and collecting dollars and I didn’t know. She was working as expatriate, collecting good money. So every December when she buys ticket for me and the children for us to go to London, New York and back, I was saying that I was enjoying but when (Gen. Tunde) Idiagbon took over, that was what actually broke my home.

How?
When Idiagbon took over, my mother-in-law died; so when we went for her burial in Britain, and then while we were there, Idiagbon made a law that every foreign woman married to a Nigerian, should collect her money in naira or forget it. So when she heard the news, she didn’t want to come back again because that was what she was enjoying in Nigeria. So, she said she wanted to do a postgraduate acupuncture; because she read medicine here at LUTH, she read biochemistry in London University.

When you came back here with her?
Yes, she read medicine here at LUTH, so she said she wanted to go and do acupuncture. So I came trying to get permission but they said no, she is an expatriate, she doesn’t need permission, she can go, whenever she comes, the job is still there, she can take over. I was shocked to my marrow; I couldn’t believe it. This was not one week but years; about seven years. I bought her cars, chauffer-driven. I was sad.

This industry actually messed me up; family wise, I lost a lot because I thought that money was everything as long as I continued doing my job. When you cry, I just give you money; that is how I lost all my children. My wife didn’t take them home. When my two daughters finished their WAEC, JAMB said they didn’t get enough cut-off to do medicine and law, I told them, ‘Go and do A Level in London, when you finish, do direct entry.’

My first boy wanted to go to elementary school, (Governor Lateef) Jakande went to court and banned every private school and said everybody should go to the same school. So I didn’t wait for the case to finish, I sent my boy there. So that is how I sent all my children back to Europe again. My wife was so happy. So when we went for the burial, she stopped coming. We never divorced, we never quarreled.

Even till now?
Yeah, that is how she vanished. I went there more than 20 times pleading to her to come, that everything would be all right. She said, ‘No, I am not going back to your country.’ Part of her excuse was my mother and brothers, who were a nuisance to her life, too. I tried every time to keep everyone together.

Myself and my brother are the only children that my mother had. Even though I had a house for her and furnished it, she would still come to my house and cause her aggravation. And when she was getting too much on my nerves, I asked her, ‘Did you ever pay my school fees? Did you train me?’ Because I am one of the unfortunate people that never had mother or father’s love in their life. That is why I spoilt my children; I can’t remember ever having my mother embracing or carrying me, maybe as a baby, yes, but from the time I was walking, I never had mother’s love or father’s love in my life and that is why I am so soft with women and children. So I got another Nigerian woman, she too had four children and my biggest downfall was I kept having girls. If not, I wanted to have only two children.

You call that downfall?
Yes. What are women? Nothing. The worst thing, my daughter just got married; one year, I have not seen her. Since she got married…

That is a strong statement.
Yes, that is a strong statement and I mean every word of it. My daughter is there at Oke-Ira; she only says hello, daddy, how are you? And I spent a fortune on her marriage. Then to worsen it, the three girls abroad, I don’t know whom they are married to. I saw the other day on Internet, Chukwuemeka Golden, Deborah Something, Sophia Something and they are all my kids. Then I saw their two brothers’ names, Afamefuna Ugboma, Chukwudi Ugboma. So I know that, that is the family of Ugboma. So, I am not lucky with them and I pity myself that…

Even the boys?
Yes.

They are all lost to you?
Sure. The boys are there with them. So right here, the only one boy I have here, I hope that he will finish university and take over, because all my children hate this industry; they all hate it.

Let’s talk about your children; you said most of them are lost to you?
Yeah.

Why is that?
Their mother confused them. Those I trained in Lagos, about five of them; they find this place that I brought them up as bush now. Whereas, it is this bush that they went to elementary school, secondary and university and then as soon as they got a job, they say daddy that place is so far, I will see you next week. I laugh at them; it is their mother’s bad influence.

My weakness is women, they are very nasty to me because I so much pamper them; I spoil them; so they take liberty. My third wife, the mother of these children, was the only unfortunate one, she died suddenly 10 years ago and I vowed, no more women. I have nine daughters and four boys – 13, a football team and two reserves. I have just had enough at 70. What am I going to do with woman? To get killed?

Those children in London, don’t they ask after you?
No. They came four times to take me back and I said, ‘I am not a parcel, why will you take me back?’ What I have achieved here in Nigeria, I will never have achieved it in Europe and America. I was just one Black man there. I wasn’t even allowed to use my full name in the programme that I was directing on television there.

They will not allow me to use Eddie Ugboma. I had to use Spike Eddie, and they were paying me extra money for not using Ugboma. But look at me here in Nigeria, a big moviemaker, a national awardee, an adviser to the government on film and television. I am the chairman of the Board of Trustee of Actors Guild, Producers’ Guild, Directors’ Guild; I am the president of Moviemakers Hall of Fame; too much.

Now, what is your circumstance?
How?

In substance; are you in good standing, materially?
As far as I am concerned, I think I am one of the richest men in this country; I have children, I have good health, I can feed myself, I have cars, I have houses, what else do I want? Blood? The Almighty God has been too good to me; He has compensated me for my commitment but the country has failed me woefully.

Let’s talk about the film industry; you say that we don’t have film industry? What is the problem?
Well, the thing is in a total coma; it needs a big surgeon and why the surgeon cannot work is that there is no theatre to work because it has been so split in pieces that it is tribalised that you don’t know that such a big industry can go to the gutter like Nigerian politics. What is the sense? An Indian gave us name, Nollywood; Nolly in the dictionary means nothing, so they are nothing-wood.

The Yoruba people said, ‘Ah! We won’t accept it; what about us?’ And so they have Yoruwood. The Hausa people have came out with Kanowood. That’s it. What are they Wooding about? Can they compare with Bollywood and Hollywood? That is what it is. Now they go to shoot a film – Emeka Ike kisses Genevive and Genevive kisses and cut! Those wet stories they carry on and the monotony of the same faces for the past 15 years; it is only five artistes, how about those thousands coming out from the universities? I have been in many meetings where they stood up to say: ‘The Eddie Ugbomas, their days are gone, they should be dead; these are our days.’ Once, someone asked: ‘If Eddie Ugboma didn’t open the road for you, would you have passed?’

What problem do they have with you?
Who?
Those in Nollywood, in the home-video industry, that is.
The simple thing is my correction. They don’t like my corrections.

What are your corrections?
That we should grow up. You can’t be shooting 500,000 junk every year and say that you are the biggest film industry. No. Bring about six of you together, get good equipment, bring good people, buy good stories, commission stories, not just you see Bruce’s story and then you improve on it and shoot your own. No. That is my fight and that is what they don’t like. Since 2008, I banned myself from going to any more festival. I have been to festivals for so many years and I cry when I am coming home. Before I know it, all these little, little countries have their day and we have nothing. And you see about 70 Nigerians going up and down instead of ,

But these films sell out in other countries, especially the eastern part of Africa?
Yes, because they don’t have alternatives; they run their television stations with Nigerian films of any standard. Like Nigerian television stations, do you call them television stations? They don’t have content because they don’t commission films, projects, documentary; so they pick any rubbish, put it on. That is why a television station runs musicals every afternoon for four hours, because they don’t have any content; because they are not ready to run a station.

So what they could have done is say, ‘All right, 7am – 12 midnight, close transmission. But no, all of them want to say 24/7. It is a pity. You see, these are things I say…because of my world experience and they say he talks too much. I feel pained, and this is my country. Like they say, I have nowhere to go. So if I don’t repair here, where will I repair? The white man’s country?
Now, can you quote me, please? Don’t miss this line: my father was a policeman and today, people in Nigeria hate the police and it hurts me. So, I wrote a series and went to Abuja five times to get permission from the IG to use my money to shoot a television series to show that these policemen are the type of policemen you asked for and most of them are good; it is just one out of a million that is bad and you rub everybody. Do you know that the IG, Ringim, didn’t acknowledge the letter?

I registered it to him and copied the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State. Now, do you expect people like that who are ignored to shoot a good film? Emmanuel Ojukwu, the former PPRO, once said that when a Nigerian man shoots a bad film about the police, he would be dealt with. I told him to keep shut; ‘have your boys stopped collecting N20 on the street?’ If the police want a good image, it is the moviemakers; show them that if the public is not a thief, we won’t be stealing. Show them where police receive bribe and they are locked up.

We can image the police, we can image everybody. But you don’t ignore it because we are a country of shock absorbers; we are a country of don’t worry, let’s move on. If this were another place in the world and Boko Haram comes to your house and blows it up, as IG, you resign. But here, the man is still sitting tight. Now, people don’t sleep anymore in Lagos because there is 25-hour armed robbery and the Commissioner of Lagos State will go to the television to say crime has come down; we are bunch of hypocrites.

From all I can see, from your family to your professional life, you are not only an angry man, but you must also be a very sad man?
No.

Sure?
Well, I feel pained. And I feel pained that I am so exposed and people don’t want to listen. I am like an encyclopedia, I am a gift.

What is your income stream now?
Zero, I can’t quantify it. It is so hard to quantify it when you have no place you are having steady money coming. I get money from consultancies or when I sell my old films. Now, the ready money that I used to get before 12 years ago was from my property but now, I don’t have any more income; occasionally, I browbeat my children, they donate N10,000 each to the old man and I am very happy. Like the book I wrote, the real people whom I expected didn’t come but those who came, people like Rashidi Gbadamosi, they were giving six-figure donations; Tony Momoh, even the Minister of Culture.

This man, Dokpesi, two weeks before the show, gave me N1.5 million which I used in finishing the book and organising the show and he carried the advert free-of-charge for two weeks on AIT. I was in The Sun, National Mirror, name it. All the media were behind me. So those little ones, when they come, I will eat and smile. My brother, I am a very rich, happy man.

If you were given the option of how to die, how would you want to die?
Simple, sleep, man; sleep and die in my sleep and they bury me immediately. I don’t believe in wake-keep and all those stupid things they do.

And your tombstone, how would you want it to be written?
Here lies Eddie Ugboma.

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[b]all those who failed to maake UNILAG and those with serious beef for the skl would do anything to make this kind of silly 'joke'.For all I care,no serious Akokite will find this joke funny!
Imagine this kind of thing on the internet for the whole world to read!It is the height of mischief and some of us will set the records straight.
For the records,
this is the school with the highest admission application and most competitive enrolment in the whole of west Africa!99,871 yearly applicants for 6000 slots,at the end of the day,when the 91000 plus fail being admitted, would start running down the schoo while they wish they could be part of prestigious UNILAGl!

The only school which insists on 6 credits at one sitting even when other schools and jamb accepts 5 credits at two sittings!

The only school strong enough despite the unparallel Lagos social pressure on scholarship(no other school can withstand)yet kept itself,as proven over the years,to remain the university of first choice.

THIS IS THE ONLY SCHOOL GOOD ENOUGHTO PRODUCE THE PRO-CHANCELLOR OF UI (Wole Olanipekun)AND CHAIRMAN OF UCH(Dr Sunny Kuku)!

NO AMOUNT OF BEEF CAN ERASE THIS,PEOPLE SHOULD STUDY HARD IF YOU WANT TO AT LEAST MAKE UNILAG MERIT LEAST AND BE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW SCHOLARSHIP IS UNILAG![/b]

^^^

yeparipa bank plc
BOKO HARAM Int'l plc
Revd KING HOLY BANK plc

Islamic Bank Controversy:can Plans Christian Banking After Swedish Model!
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The president of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, made some remarks yesterday in Benin City, Edo State, indicating that Christians in Nigeria are considering having their own version of non-interest banking after the Swedish model. He said this in relation to the ongoing plan to introduce Islamic banking to the West-African country.

CAN said it expects the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to deploy the same resources it had pushed into Islamic banking to make the planned Christian version a success.

“What we are telling the CBN governor is that he should be ready to spend the same billions when Christians eventually come up with their own. We are looking into what the CBN is spending on the project and we will come out with the figures. He (Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) will have to bring out that amount of money, he will have to make sure that Christians are trained in anywhere we need training. For example, in Sweden there is a very good Christian model of non-interest banking. So, Sanusi must get ready to bring out the billions to train over a thousand Christians in Sweden.”

He said uniform guidelines should be used to demonstrate that the CBN meant well for Nigeria by introducing non-interest banking and Islamic banking into the economy. He said except the CBN comes out with common modalities for the non-interest banking and then allow any interested party to go into the sector, its current position would continue to hurt the industry.

In a keynote address at the 36th yearly national conference and general meeting of the Nigeria Christian Graduate Fellowship, NCGF, in Benin City, Oritsejafor said it was hypocritical for the CBN and some persons to be promoting Islamic banking in a secular country like Nigeria.

He asked, “If they (CBN) say it is going to be Islamic banking because that is all we know about this non-interest banking, which ought not to be, and they claim it is for all Nigerians, is this true? Clearly, Islamic banking will be run according to Islamic laws. For example, if I own a piggery, will you give me a loan to operate it? The answer to me is no. For them to say if we don’t support it go to other banks when Islamic banking is purportedly for every Nigerian amounts to discriminating against such persons? Why is it that you are spending government’s money to promote it when it is certainly not for everybody?

The CAN president further added, “Nigeria needs prayers because the mistake a lot of people make is to think that those who speak out are against other religions. They are not, all we are asking for is equity and justice, we are not the ones that heat up the polity, we only respond to some of these things that certain persons throw up. Christians should pray, they should love their Muslim brothers, but not accept to be second-class citizens. Christians should educate people on the realities of some of these things and the implications.”

National President of the NCGF, Prof. Vincent Iyawe, said the aim of the fellowship is to see “the enthronement of righteousness in our nation and to inform and educate the church that the socio-economic and political well-being of the nation is the responsibility of the church.”

Responding to the issue, Former President of CAN, Rev. Sunday Mbang, urged the country’s leaders not to heat up the polity through obnoxious policies.

He said, “To make sure we don’t have crisis in this country, anything that anybody knows would bring problem in future should be avoided. My advice to the members of the National Assembly is that they should ask the CBN governor to put the issue of Islamic banking on hold. Let him do things that would bring unity to Nigerians and not what generates controversy. I am advising the CBN governor to do things that would bring unity to the country.”
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http://africanspotlight.com/2011/08/christian-association-of-nigeria-wants-christian-banking-after-swedish-model/

WHO IS THIS IGNORANT POSTER?
THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS A FORMER PRESIDENT AMONG THEM IS OBASANJO.COMPARE HIM TO OTHERS LIKE SHAGARI et al.

^^^I agree with you completely but the message that should not be lost is that the current tax regime in nigeria is corruptly designed in favour of the rich!!We really dont have to wait to fight corruption until these issues are addressed.Imagine the current nigerian reward systems for political leaders gives the almost everything from accommodation,transport,travel allowance,furniture allowance,subdisized fuel for unofficial cars and generators etc yet very poorly taxed.
Can GEJ take these economic and political parasites on through tax review.Lagos is doing it and the rich are seriously complainning about being taxed!!
taxing could also be used for revolution

Buffetting the rich

By The Nation2 hours 6 minutes ago

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Warren E. Buffet



The prominent American investor, Warren E. Buffet, is an unusual man. The so-called “Sage of Omaha” is well-known for his homely, laid-back and unpretentious approach to the business of making money. Even though he is one of the world’s richest men, he has been known to regale business meetings with bouts of fiddle-playing and table tennis. Unlike his colleagues who take refuge in expensive suits, obscure jargon and moral flexibility, Buffet has chosen to make himself as down-to-earth as possible.

Buffet’s capacity for plain speaking was demonstrated in an important intervention he made in the financial woes of the United States recently. In a recent article in the New York Times titled “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” Buffet revealed that he and other very wealthy Americans paid on average 17.4 per cent in taxes on their taxable income, compared to the bulk of the middle class, who could be taxed up to 25 per cent.

Arguing that tax-breaks for the wealthy did not endanger economic growth, he called upon the “billionaire-friendly” United States Congress to raise rates on taxable incomes that exceeded U.S. $1 million, with progressive increases for households which made more.

Coming at a time of bitter ideological divisions over the best way for America to reduce its burgeoning deficit, Buffet’s declaration is the triumph of pragmatism and commonsense over ideological posturing. He has used his own experiences to point out the way in which government policy has benefitted him to the long-term disadvantage of his nation and its people, and has made the case for change.

The U.S. is fortunate to have an entrepreneur as unpretentiously honest as Buffet. But what of countries like Nigeria, where great wealth is often not matched by a pronounced sense of social responsibility? This country can boast of many individuals who possess enormous personal wealth, and who continue to make fortunes from their various business activities.

However, it is sad to see that very few of them have ever tried to go beyond the business of making money. Apart from the odd donation here and there, too many of Nigeria’s rich citizens have been content to allow prevailing cultural attitudes, national policies and advantageous circumstances to benefit them at the expense of the majority.

With regard to taxes, for instance, it is a well-known fact that Nigeria’s wealthy are among the most undertaxed individuals in the country. Apart from payroll, property and other unavoidable taxes, many of the country’s rich people are notorious for doing everything to avoid their tax obligations. This does not stem from mere miserliness; many of them are only too happy to engage in obscene demonstrations of wealth at social occasions. It is simply that they would rather waste their money on frivolities rather than give it to the state.

A good deal of Nigeria’s rich also appear to lack Buffet’s capacity for self-reflection. The American’s non-conformity apparently emerges from his acute awareness that the wealthy have unavoidable obligations to those who are not as fortunate as they. Hence his committment to giving away most of his wealth, and his demand that the rich be taxed appropriately.

In Nigeria, such acts of self-abnegation are outstanding for their rarity. Most rich people see their fortunate situation as self-explanatory: it is a confirmation of their own talent and as a manifestation of God’s blessings, regardless of how the wealth may have been obtained. Even though they may be surrounded by poverty, deprivation and suffering on all sides, their consciences often only stir them to limited acts of philanthropy aimed at short-term solutions instead of the deep reflection necessary for a lasting resolution of the problems of inequality.

A generosity of spirit is the true basis of wealth, and Nigeria’s rich would do well to develop it.