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has condemned the allegation by Maj.-Gen. Hamza al-Mustapha, the Chief Security Officer to the late Gen Sani Abacha

when did al-Mustapha became a Major General?

how are the issues being raised by Mustapha now relevant to the case at hand of murdering a woman Kudirat Abiola in cold blood,Mustapha is just, that was how his case was so prolonged.

He is gone but he ensured one of his son replaced him at the national chop I chop forum, 

Well it is a game of numbers,9ja population should count up for something.

all of the above, provided it is to be eating with any drawl soup or ofe nsala.

Open Message to Ban Kim moon, david Cameron, Vladimir Putin,Nicolas Sarkozy Barrack Obama, Hu Jintao  , Dmitry Medvedev

@musiwa, have you  travelled from Onitsha to Awka to Enugu to Abakaliki? or from Onitsha to Ihiala to Orlu to Umuahia, they are all withing South East and in need of concessioning like any other concessioned roads if the FG is not ready to reconstruct them. (Ebonyi is known as the Salt of the Nation but because of road condintion in Abakaliki, the capital,it is now known as the Dust of the Nation or in raining season now, Mud of the Nation)

About time something is done about the road, I used to wonder if there was a court injunction against doing anything about the road. The N300 billion collected by Tony Anenih for the same road is down the drain?!!!

MIT latest invention! Paper thin solar battery
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2011-07-28 02:45 PM
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research team has invented a paper thin solar batteries, solar cells are printed in "ink" form to ordinary papers and immediately generate electricity. MIT pointed out that the technology is cheap and simple, can be printed by the printer and able to charge iPad, clothes drying within two years.
MIT experiments show that the durability of "solar ink" made paper thin battery is high and sufficient to supply electricity usage for an LCD clock. If repeatedly fold the paper 1000 time the battery still remains its performance and functions. In addition, the lightweight paper battery is good to carry, can stick on the briefcase, a hat or folded close in pocket when needed and then spread out under the sun to generate electricity.

Currently, the conversion efficiency of solar cells is less than 2% which only able to provide power to electronic alarm clock and other small supplies of electricity, but researchers estimated that the conversion efficiency will be increase to 8% in 2 years to supply the application to electronic devices such as mobile phones, iPad and other low-power electronic devices.

That is the effect of having a performance driven institution, if other sectors are driven like banks in innovation,efficiency especially the public sector,things will take shape since the public sector is the only major source of money into the economy.

Beginning of chop by turn,wait for your time democracy,GEJ should extend the bill to cover education sector, with the falling standard in education generally, undergraduate programmes should be extended to 8years, secondary school 10 years,nursery/primary school 12years,without option of repeating or reseating the class or programme.

Atheists are been marginalised in Naija nah. Sanusi should consider them, Atheists Bank of Nigeria Unlimited Plc.

this man Amosun and his chef(cook) cap, what if he was shot if the issue degenerates to exchange of fire?

this is the picture of Onitsha Port, almost completed.

Just wondering where is Nigerian military in all this,what is our strategic military objective as a nation?

Like Ike Turner,Judy Garland,Corbaine,Cyndy Lauper, Michael Jackson,Dagrin, now Amy,(
Many others omitted unintentionally) predestination can never be changed, so don't rush to judge.

Let's try bio-degradable materials for making the satchet , that way it will rot away after exposures to the environment. We need to go green ,

About N1.2trillion on carbohydrates and sugar alone, no wonder Pile,diabetes,jedijedi is common, compared to the protein of only 97billion provided the figure is accurate. It is a pity most of the food items can be grown locally if we embrace agriculture more.

Will have to verify this story, I dey for Asaba, may be another publicity stunt like during the election when an aircraft started going round Asaba skyline which some old people claimed reminded them of the civil war when those Biafran and Red Cross aircrafts from Uli airstrip engages in cat and mouse game with the Federal aircrafts.

Where are those NIMET people before the rain.? NIgerian Meteorological Agency. why didn't they warn the government and Lagosians or what is their function?

My Gaari ijebu don soak patapata,

Bible says,spare the cane,spoil the child,

Sooner very soon,we are going to see the Train, another empty promise,probably made to take thunder out of similar promise ACN and LP about economic integration. BI COurtney too has promised to commence  work soon on the Express road when rain stops, [url][/url]

Ogun state can still collect tax from all the trucks loading by installing a weighing bridge at Ifo for trucks heading towards Lagos and installing another at Papalanto for those heading towards Sagamu bypass towards Ibadan or Edo/Delta, or by building a truck park with facilities, the governor is a chartered accountant,something will be worked out.

Nigeria: 'The Nation's Economy May Overtake South Africa by 2025'

Obinna Chima29 June 2011



Nigeria's economy may reach about $400 billion by the end of the decade and could overtake South Africa by 2025, economist at Morgan Stanley said in a research note.

Bloomberg quoted the international research and investment firm to have predicted that Nigeria will probably expand 8.4 percent in 2011 and 8.5 percent in 2012. Morgan Stanley's economists: Andrea Masia and Michael Kafe, where quoted to have made the projections in Johannesburg.

The also forecast that the naira may strengthen to N153 against the dollar by the end of the year and reach N150 by the end of 2012.

Morgan Stanley also recommended that investors buy shares in Guinness Nigeria Plc, Nestle Foods Nigeria Plc, Diamond Bank Plc and Guaranty Trust Bank Plc.

In a related development, FBN Capital Limited has also predicted that the country's foreign reserves may rise 24 percent to the highest due to the creation of the Sovereign Wealth Fund tighten spending.

Reserves had fallen 14 percent to $32.3 billion as of June 24 compared with a year earlier. Bonny Light oil has added 38 percent over the same period.

Bloomberg quoted the London- based Head of Macroeconomic and Fixed-Income Research at FBN, Gregory Kronsten to have said: "Our feeling is that in the second half of 2011, reserves will pick up, perhaps to $40 billion, as the new government opts for modest fiscal tightening and foreign investors respond positively to the reform agenda. A transparent sovereign wealth fund would address market concerns over how the nation's oil revenues are managed."

He noted that the nation's external reserves may not have risen because foreign-currency "demand at auction is robust and has not cooled since the elections in April.

Demand at the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) bi weekly auctions reached a post-election high of $499 million on May 16 and was at $476 million on June 22. The apex bank has been defending the naira, keeping it within 3 percent above or below 150 per dollar marginal rate at foreign-exchange auctions in a bid to curb inflation.

Is this not pipe dream?


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@igboboy, how come Enugu has two orthopaedic hospitals? are there too many okada riders in Enugu?even a neuro-psychiatric hospital too many kolomentals,onyearas? whereas none of these in Ekiti because there is no need.

National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu
Orthofit Orthopaedics hiltop hospital,Enugu

Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Chime Avenue, New Haven, Enugu

@musiwa, comparison is odious especially when used for ulterior motives, you are comparing pictures of old residential sections of Yoruba cities with modern business areas of other Nigerian cities.remember the type of person the Yorubas used to describe as a person who used left hand to describe the way to his fathers house.of what relevance are those pix to the topic?

at least we still grow enough to make Banga soup, 

Every day my prayer is that the oil and gas well should dry up so we can really develop with our handwork and not with rent collection from oil proceeds. I was in Erin Ijesha Waterfalls in Osun State one time, come and see the wasted opportunities begging for attention, many countries with waterfalls develop the site eg. Niagara falls in US, Yosemite fall-US, Victoria falls In Kenya, Angels falls in Venezuela etc.

the Revenue Allocation Committe,FIRS,Min of Finance should create a template to map the revenue from each source and share accordingly,states running sharia should not enjoy revenue from haram source. also, since pepper,tomatoes,onions,cows,goats,rams,beans etc from the North are sold in the South directly by the producers and the cash collected from us,likewise stated producing petroluem products in the south should sell directly to them and collect the cash directly, only proceeds from oil exports should be shared by all. Since CBN is introducing Islamic Banking, there is urgent need to introduce Haram Accounting for Revenue to determine which states get what. Kolanut,Tobacco,bittercola is common to all, Pork meat is restricted to the South/Middlebelt,

Insult on Awo: Apologise or else,  -Yoruba tells Omatseye
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Written by Jackson Udom, Stephen Gbadamosi and Olayinka Olukoya
Friday, 24 June 2011

THE Yoruba, on the platform of the Yoruba Unity Forum (YUF), have warned the chairman of the Editorial Board of The Nation newspapers, Mr Sam Omatseye, to apologise to the Yeye Odua,



Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo, the Awolowo family and the entire Yoruba nation, or face whatever consequences his refusal will bring.

This warning was contained in a communique issued at the end of the forum's meeting held at the Efunyela, Hall of the Awolowos home in Ikenne- Remo, Ogun State, on Thursday.

At the meeting presided over by the forum's acting chairman, Archbishop Ayo Ladigbolu and attended by prominent Yoruba leaders, traditional rulers and hundreds of youths, temper rose to a fever pitch when the issue of Omatseye's "condemnable" tirade against the sage's family was raised.

Speaker after speaker, berated Mr Omatseye, describing the article as insult to the entire Yoruba race.

In the communique, signed by Archbishop Ladigbolu, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, Senator Femi Okurounmu; and the secretary of the forum, Senator Tony Adefuye, the body said the haughty and unapologetic posture of Omatseye was more offensive and irritative.

"The forum condemned in the strongest terms the vituperation of one Sam Omatseye concerning the Awolowo family and considered it an insult to the Yoruba race and an attempt to desecrate the cherished heritage of the Yoruba people.

"It considered the haughty and unapologetic posture of Omatseye and his sponsors since the infamous publication as even more offensive and irritating, warning them that only God and the people could confer leadership on any individual and not his wealth.

"The forum calls on Omatseye to tender an unreserved apology to the Yoruba and the Awolowo family. While the Yoruba Unity Forum is prepared to forgive, consequent upon appropriate apology, they should be prepared for any consequences, if they fail to apologise," the communique read.

The forum, which also reviewed the killing of Yoruba people in the crisis that erupted in parts of the North in the wake of the last general election, threatened that the Yoruba would react if any such occurence repeated itself.

"The forum reviewed the post-election killing of youth corps members in the North, especially the Yoruba among them, and warned that killing of Yoruba anywhere in the country must stop henceforth, or else, the Yoruba would be forced to react.

"Thr forum also took steps to redeem its promise to the Yoruba in Jos, Plateau State, who had suffered persecution and mass murder of their relations in the recurring crisis in the city," it stated.

Among other Yoruba leaders present at the meeting were former Attorney General and World Court justice, Prince Bola Ajibola; former governor of Lagos State, Chief Lateef Kayode Jakande; former Minister of Health, Professor Adenike Grange; former Chief of General Staff, General Oladipo Diya; director of the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation, Dr (Mrs) Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu; former military governor of the old Western Region, Admiral Akin Aduwo; former deputy governors of Lagos, Oyo and Ekiti states, Chief (Mrs) Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele, Alhaji Taofeek Arapaja and Dr Sikiru Tae Lawal, respectively; and founder of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr Fredrick Fasheun.

Others were chieftain of Afenifere, Alhaji Rasheed Shita Bey; Senator Suleiman Salawu; a former Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Osun State, Alhaji Kazeem Adio; coordinator of Rights Monitoring Group (RMG), Mr Olufemi Aduwo; former coach of the nation's national football team, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde; Mr Tokunbo Ajasin; the chairman, Egbe Omo Yoruba in the United States of America (USA), Mr Ola Ogunwole.

In a related development, Yoruba elders also called on President Goodluck Jonathan to find all means of making amends over the alleged marginalisation of the Yoruba people in the sharing of political offices in his administration.

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II was represented by the Oludo of Ido Osun, Oba Aderemi Adedapo, Agbowu of Ogbagba, Oba Sikirulahi Olaleke and Salu of Edun-Abon, Oba Elijah Omoloye Oyelade.

In the communique it issued after its meeting, the Yoruba Unity Forum said a situation in which the Yoruba were schemed out of the top positions in the political hierarchy of the nation was deplorable.

"The forum deplored the situation where the Yoruba have been schemed out of the top places in the political hierarchy of the country. It enjoins President Goodluck Jonathan to remember that the Yoruba voted for him overwhelmingly, but not for his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

"It, therefore, calls on the president to make amends quickly to give the Yoruba a sense of belonging in the nation, and show appreciation for the massive support they gave his election," the forum said.

Should he apologise

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