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Nigeria is a lawless country. That's extrajudicial murder right there. Why not charge him to court.

Future presidents, senators, and governors

You are a mumu man

musicwriter:
As I've pointed out in similar stories, beware of Western propaganda!!

The reason you're seeing this type of news these days is because the third world war is already being planned out.

The west is aware that our allegiance won't favor them.

Lessons from slavery....
Lessons from colonialism...
Lessons from neocolonialism....

African soldiers who helped them win the second word war were abandoned. No gratuities paid, no remembrance, we got nothing in return.

Now, they're courting African nations with all sort of mind games. Don't fall for it!! That's how they fool people!!

We're better off being used by Russia or China in the upcoming third world war than being used by white people again.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Bro, in whatever you do. Don't fight another man's war. Africans have done enough. We should be left alone

bestofnollywood:
https://applesbite.com/nigerian-mechanic-deceived-by-job-offer-finds-himself-in-russian-army-camp/

Nigerian government has failed to protect Nigerians, even after concerns of Russia luring Africans into the war was raised over a year ago.

They allowed him to fly to Russia without verifying that he wasn't a victim

brain54:
Performance wise both their styles are different...


Both the tone, structure of the music and the physicality with femi being more physical and energetic!

I was listening the a song yesterday with my elder brother. I mentioned to him that Fela's songs are evergreen. He replied that it wasn't Fela, but Femi.
I insisted and he agreed with me. After a short while, he retorted, that's Femi, don't confuse me. We ended checking and truly it was Femi.
I have heard that song many times and always thought it was one of Fela's songs

Remove Lagos from the list

tnerro1:
Bad infrastructure has taken another one, why can’t the government privatize the rail way sector, I would have love to see investment in the railway industry, like they have in other countries.

But the rail ain't fail proof. If they are poorly maintained as well accidents are bound to happen

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For those that will fall for this, just know that the Russians will use you as human shield in the war front.
During the 2018 world cup in Russia, most Africans that intended to abscond after the games experienced first hand Russian hatred and racism. All of a sudden they now want to open their borders to the same set of people. People should use their akornuche

The people behind this campaign should be investigated. They are the betrayals

US lawmakers go dey give statement for wetin dey happen here, while our lawmakers are ass licking their mandate bearer.

Those guys would intentionally make the process difficult so that desperate Nigerian will have no option that to patronize their boys...

They will kick them out, sand fill the place and share it among themselves.

Validated:
Family affairs, no outsider should interfere.

This is about the image of the NPFL. Nothing family here. The incident should be investigated and sanctions applied where necessary.

May God grant him eternal rest

Why was he there in the first place? The morally bankrupt elder sister failed to provide proper guidance to the lad.

She is lucky he wasn't USED

Tinubu the Tax master. Quick to collect from the masses, but slow to deliver on anything the benefits the masses

All of them ADC, APC, PDP etc are all fighting to loot our common wealth. They don't care about the masses.

What we need is death penalty for anyone involved corruption

Banbanna:

Salah just became like some other African great players that could not win the Afcon for their country. This is most likely his last tournament.
Na this one Sadio Mané take pass am.

My concern now is that would Morroco allow Naija a pass to the final given that Egypt their fellow Arab country just got booted out by Senegal??
That match is most definitely gonna be a tough battle for us.

Whether them allow or not them go chop am

People should respect boundaries.

Same Nigerian Army that killed unarmed young people at Lekki toll gate. Same Army whose soldier killed a 13 year boy trying to protect his sister. Same Nigerian Army personnel that saw Nigerian pupils dying on the road after their school bus had an head on collision with a truck somewhere around Ore in December 2013, they cleared the traffic that resulted from the accident and drove away with their Chinese expatriates, leaving the kids to their fate.

That same Army? I'll pass

The young lad is a hero in my book.
It takes a coward to aim and shoot at people who aren't armed.

How does this affect the unborn children of Issele-Uku Kingdom? If the doesn't affect them, then the entire idea is useless

Stop dating broke girls

The woman in question is wicked. Why didn't she give the fleshy feets to her kids?

The slap was excessive though. Jus go to the kitchen as the man, get a nice portion and add to the maids plate, no long talk.

mascot87:
The driver of that Lexus is a clown. AJ Should be careful who he allows to drive him.

That driver could have killed him. Abi the brakes failed?

bluebay:
Edo state is a state where the kimg needs to been put to his place. The people of Benin respects the king more than a Sitting Governor.. I totally condemn the Attack and those involved should be brought to book and the king should be sanctioned.

Sanctioned how? You comment without knowledge of the full story. Did you see the king in the video? The chiefs they meant at the palace told the youths who assaulted him that no one was after Don Pedro Obaseki for anything he said. When the youths insisted that he must be arrested, they ask them to go, that the palace would handle the situation.
The chiefs they met ground were very civil in handling the situation. Immediately they saw him kneeling, they ask him to stand up. It was the youths that insisted he must kneel and crawl inside the palace.

ariesbull:
they were acting on behalf of who? I will be waiting to see if the Benin monarch would make a press statement condemning it

Go and watch the full video. Forget press statement.

Throwback:
Why was the truck stationary?

What warning signs were positioned around the stationary truck?

FRSC quick to blame over speeding. Why didn't they remove the the faulty truck from the road

ariesbull:
I recently watched with concern a video, of Pedro Obaseki being assaulted by some youths because he disrespected the Oba. Yes, actually he did! As a native Edo person, you are bound to pray for the Oba and wich him longetivity. When you begin your prayer for the Oba and you abruptly stop and say something else, it is an insult. But there are better ways to deal with this small matter. And what did we see? A show of shame. Similar to what we saw from MOWAA some weeks ago. Let my Benin friends ask themselves. If a natiev Brit insults the King of Britain, would he be humiliated the way we saw from the video? People must understand that they are in the 21st century. This shows of shame - firstly from Mowaa and now this hardens my position regarding any political alliance between the Anioma people and our Benin neighbors. Let us ask ourselves, would these shows of shame (Mowaa and Pedro) occur under British colonial rule? Hell no! It seems the present generation of Benin people want their "empire" restored. Because you dont invade other people's space or dignity just to defend the glory of your kingdom and your Oba. And if this is truly the case, then good luck to them. My Anioma people will not be part of it along with the people of Igbanke whose land is Igbanke land (Benin has no legal title to it like Gelegele) and whose people are not Benin people.

Now why did I bring up this issue of political alliance between the Benin and Anioma? Well that was (and perhaps is) what Mr Pedro Obaseki has been working for. And if you can recall, some years ago, he declared the old Midwest as a distinct from the West and East and by default should not fall under the sphere of either regions. But the Midwest is a POST COLONIAL CREATION and does not carry the same weight as pre colonial political units of North(East/West or North/South. The original draft of the Midwest based on what was written in the Willinks Report refers only the the EDO SPEAKING PEOPLE and not the Igbo speaking Anioma people. And what was even more curious about Mr Obaseki's clamor was when he declared the dialectal groups of Ika, Enuani(Aniocha-Oshimili) and Ndokwa(Ukwuani) as "tribes" and he went further to declare Owan (Ivbiasakon) and Etsako as distinct from each other. Both Etsako and Owan (Ivbiasakon) belong to the same Afenmai branch of his Edo speaking people which by the way extends to Akoko Edo but it seems he chose to define them as tribes just to play the game of divide and rule over. Because if all Afenmai people are brought together, they are actually the populated branch of the Edos within Edo State. The Benin and Esan are about the same size demographically.
And this was exactly the same script he played when it came to the Anioma (West Igbo) people. He avoided the word Igbo ( the video is available) and he goes further to indicate that the Igbo people are only found in the Southeast, which for people like me is an affront to the Anioma people. He wished we are divided as micro-minorities within the sphere of the old Benin imperial sphere and also sent a signal to the Eastern Igbo that we)Aniomas) are stuck in the Midwest permanently - which is arrant nonsense! The Willinks c report clearly states that peoples who belong to the larger ethnic groups in other regions can decide if they want to remain in where they were placed under colonial divisions or engage themselves in an acceptable referenda to be transfered to the regions where their own ethnic kith and kin are largely found. This was proposed for the Northern Yorubas of the present Kwara and Kogi and this should also be applied to the Igbos of Anioma and of course other Igbo groups like the ones still stuck in Kogi and Benue States.

Mr Pedro Obaseki spoke like a Benin ethnic nationalist. He is clever to know that his Benin people fall by default under Yoruba cultural hangover. He thus demanded that a post colonial creation like the Midwest be declared as distinct from the East or especially the West (which by default his own Benin people falls under) and to pamper the shoulders of his own Benin people and their "empire", he hopes it includes the Anioma people who he sees as "buffer" between the Igbo of the East and his Benin people. And since some Anioma people are enthusiastically ready to deny their Igboness even if it means claiming their people fall under the imperial space of Benin, it works perfectly for his Benin people. It was no surprising that he was physically present when the Ika Bible was launched some years ago. It was to show and demonstrate to the Ikas that he fully support some Ika people who deceive themselves that they are not Igbo people. As a native speaker of Ika myself, I can tell that Ika is clearly an Igbo dialect. Not at all a distinct language and follows the rule of continuum you find with languages spoken in a relatively large area or by many speakers. The Yorubas have theirs, the Hausas have theirs too. It is only when it comes to the Igbo people, we deceive ourselves and the likes of Dr Pedro Obaseki jumping to capitalize on it just to protect his own Edo people and project their own political interest.

This is why what happened to him was rather unfair. Yes he disrespected the Oba. He should have said "Oba gha tokpere" as a native Edo person. That is the custom but some people to humiliate him in such a manner (even when he is fighting to protect the political interests of his Benin people) is a disgrace! And it is irresponsible. Anioma people have no business with people who behave and reason like this. And take it from me, when people behave like this, development becomes a challange, a huge one. This is why Edo State since 1991 would rank as the least progressive state in Southern Nigeria if not in Nigeria and it becomes quite clear if we look up from 1999. When we (Aniomas- west Igbos) left their Bendel/Midwest project PERMANENTLY since 1991, Aniomas have experienced progress. There is mutual respect for one another in Delta State- the Igbo, Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaw and Itsekiri (coastal Yorubas) all respect themselves and we try to distribute power and projects- yes it is not perfect but it is not bad. There is no group that strives to dominate the other via cultural hangover like we see in Edo State 8which was to some extent the case in Bendel). There is no alternative Govt House known as the "Palace" The Asagba does not wield the kind of power the Oba has. The Asagba, people should underszand is like the president of "kings" and wuite democratic. Thus he knows that there are other kings even within Anioma and we all respect ourselves and get along with each other. I dont see that in Edo State.

When Edo State was created in 1991, it had at least 75% of the infrastructure of the old Bendel. The state has great potentials strategically situated between the West and the East. It is an oil producing state and I believe it generated no less than N90 billion via IGR last year. It has a large diaspora population. Edo people are smart and very sociable. So what could be the reason the state is still lagging in development, it is sadly the slavish mentality of many of its citizens who still think they are still in a Benin prior to 1897. And when some of their ethnic nationalists stretch their imperial mentality to the Anioma people, simply because some of our people are in delusion, that they are not Igbos, it gets quite annoying. At least for someone like me. Edo people need to know they are in the 21st century and look more to the future rather than the past.

It is not up to me to call their culture barbaric. That culture had a profound influence on some aspect of the culture we have in Western Igbo land. But no Anioma youth would condescend to the what I saw with Mowaa and now this. And people just take it as normal. It is absurd. Yes Edo people, neighbors to Western Igbos (including Igbanke) look more to the future not the past. Calling people "Oba"s enemy" if they disagree with your institutions or disgracing yourselves when foreign dignitaries were around for Mowaa will not take you to the promised land. Even many of those Anioma people deceiving themselves that they are not Igbos, would be irritated by what they saw let alone those like me and the majority of us in Anioma that have long declared that you are on your own and Anioma people (along with Igbanke) would chart their political path just as you should chart yours. When a people are so obsessed with the past instead of the future, such a people have no business with Anioma people. The Japanese had an Emperor who was seen as a god just as Benin people see their Oba. But in 1946, the Emperor renounced his divinity projecting the Japanese as a modern state. I am not sure that would be the case of Benin. Good luck to them anyways. My Anioma people have been chosen by fate to be one of the primary pillars of the Igbo nation. I wish Dr Pedro quick recovery from the trauma. And I hope lessons had been learned. By the way I am not sure this matter would just rest like that. Though it is not my concern. My concern is my Anioma people and their future. Future is the key word not the past.

Osita Mordi

Bro, you don't equate the actions of a few people as Edo culture. The people who assaulted him weren't acting on behalf of the Benin Monarch or the Edo people.

I saw someone drown, so I wouldn't use water anymore