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Its never due to illiteracy as some of them are more literate than you think. It's a grand plan by their elites. Its a pity many more will still die. R I P to the dead.

Fact: The value of life in SA generally is very low.
Fact: Most of the killings of of Nigerians in SA OF RECENT IS BY FELLOW nigerians.
He that defrauds people should expect the worst.
RIP TO ANY OF THE INNOCENT AMONG THEM. .

If we all are wealthy we MUST have love to remain alive. No one will serve the other hence ONLY love will make the difference.

Love supercedes, surmounts, overwelms and is above all things wealth inclusive. With love we don't need wealth.

adconline: I said to a very religious friend of mine Jesus Christ was not a Christian, because Christian was coined in Antioch after Christ's death.

Logically you are right but fundamentally you are not. 1 and 1 could equal 2 or 1 still, it depend on the operator used.

If Gen. Sule Maina(the former GOC of Jos barracks) is not among the culprits, then the army is yet serious to cleanse the army of undesiraale elementr in the Nigerian army.

4chi: Ugly unoccupied "mansions" in the midst of nowhere and adding absolutely NO VALUE apart from massaging the very fragile ego of the largely illiterate ibo " money miss road" trader . Yet gorillas still jump all over the cyberspace beating scrawny chests and making absolute fools of themselves. You really can take okoro out of the village but you can never take the village out of okoro..... We will start taking you seriously the day you go back to your villages and stay put.

'Ugly' is not the right word and you know that. Rejoice with he who progresses ro that it may eventually get to you. Yeah, in the jungle gorillas remain the king among primates and Nigeria is a jungle. Finally, according to the time of life many of us shall leave your land and return to our place if that will make you happy.

Nice buildings! Igbo ekenem unu.
I could remember the time some of my colleagues were making jest of Alaigbo . I kept mute until we visited a community in Njaba, Imo state. I welcomed them to Alaigbo from Agbor, Delta state, intermittently explaining what was evident before us. At Njaba(can't rmb the name of the community1) , the were shocked beyond belief. From the look on their faces, you could tell what was going on on there mind: a gradual transformation. After then their pride was shattered and more regard was accorded umuigbo. Let our achievement speak for us.

jassie: I went to one of those schools at Ebuta metta & I can tell you that the beatings we received were crazy. . .

No wonder a lot of students find it hard to concentrate in class.

You get flogged for late coming - Flogged for PTA- Flogged for noise making even when you're not involved. . . In fact, everything we learnt back then in school was 80% flogging.

God dey sha.

So funny. Some teachers abtually do eenjoy flogging.

The problem of Plateau is beyond Jang alone. The people of Plateau MUST TEAM TOGETHER to overcome their adversary. Notice that focus has shifted from Jos city to rural areas. It partly is because of the ingenuity of Jang. It's really going to be messier as the genocide cnmmtinues.
RpI. P to the innocent dead.

Its heart-rending hearing such news. Its more worrisome to know that even within Nigeria mort of the 'littlegirls' that prostitutes to the pilfering elites do so out of poverty. Pls tell me: who then will bell the cat?

Good night Sir! Adieu Nigeria

Even though a Christian, I don't support the MOGs statement. It would've been better if he had stopped at encouraging the Christians in Lagos to participate in politics fully. Lagos is peaceful and it should remain so.. Peace to the progressives.

rawtruth: Fulanis are not interested in ranches, they believe that such confinement would scuttle their final drive to totally subdue the "kafiri" tribes of the north. The money they are expending on armament, if invested in the establishment of ranches, would have by now reduced the number of cattle herds roaming the countrysides and destroying crops.You will never hear any fulani man, including the well-informed among them, discussing the establishment of ranches for/by their animal herding brethren. What they want is grazing fields to be sited on the lush greens where already established farmers derive their means of livelihood. Their brothers/sisters in the national assembly are pushing for a bill that would allow them unhindered access to peoples' farmlands, particularly in Nassarawa and Benue. Their attack on local communities are deliberately aimed at weakening resistance from locals who, tired of losing their loved ones on daily basis, would give in to dialogues that would be dictated by fulanis. They are having it easy at the moment, but it might not end the way they anticipated. By the grace of God!

Exactly!

Beync: kontagoros theory in mathematics then was very difficult
flashes back

Pythagoras Theorem you meant to say? Was it difficult for you?
@topic, Adieu General. Every man,'s work shall speak for him.

You've heard nothing yet. They are busy preparing for 2015 while most of you are depending on the army. Nothing will happen to the man.

Henry120: Nasarawa Killings: SSS Vows to Fight on

27 May 2013
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Police Headquarters


By Yemi Akinsuyi 

The Director General of the State Security Services (SSS), Mr. Ekpeyong Ita, has vowed that despite the gruesome killings of 10 of his operatives by Ombatse cult group in Eggon, Nasarawa State, the service will not be the first to fly the white flag.

About 100 security operatives including 10 SSS were on May 7, killed in Nasarawa State when they allegedly went to effect the arrest of the leader of a notorious Ombatse cult group accused of forcefully initiating Muslims and Christians into their group.

Ita, who said this at a candle light service held in honour of the 10 SSS operatives killed during the attack, insisted that the service would not deter in fighting any form of crime and criminality in the country.

“We will remain resolute, determined and focused. Therefore for the sake of our colleagues and the survival of our country, we will never raise the white flag. Those who do not wish this country well will be made to face the music. To those who could only kill the body, note that you have made your community an ignoble sepulcher of innocent law enforcement agents and that even though our spirits are cast in iron yet we will not deter in fighting on,” he said.

The SSS DG recalled the incident leading to the onslaught, as he noted that the security operatives embarked on the deadly mission to avert what could become the emergence of another case of Boko Haram or Maitasine.

“I want to recall that exactly 17 days today some 10 dedicated and highly committed officers and men of this family were sent in an operation. The operation was aimed at fulfilling our sacred mandate, that is, the protection and preservation of our nation which is our collective patrimony. They went to keep the peace and douse the tension generated in the state by the activities of an unscrupulous group of primitive people.

“This group had on April 20 at Arugba Isa village in Lafia North, forcefully initiated some members of Izala Muslims. Also, on April 28 some Christians in Gidan Gambo village were forcefully initiated. Similarly on May 2, at Kayarda village an attempt by some of the group members to initiate some Muslims almost led to a violent confrontation. It was in an attempt to arrest the situation from further deteriorating that law enforcement agents were sent.

From experience, this was the same manner Maitasine and the Boko Haram terrorists started,”, he stated.

In an emotion laden voice, the SSS boss lamented the death of the operatives and promised that they will never die in vain.
“We have waited in vain for your return and accordingly, we have come

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Mr Ekpeyong Ita should better channel his energy in investigating Al Makura ammd his Fulani merceneries.

KnowAll: If d Eggons are d majority in d state how come minority tribes have been ruling them. Look at neigboring Kogi State d idomas or is d igalas are d majority & every Governor since d advent of democracy has been an idoma or igala man. So why can't d Eggons dominate d politics of that state.

~B But for time, I w6uld have explained certain things to you.. Almakura is complicit to this event.

Adieu Officer.
We know that BH has sympathizers in the Nigerian army. We have stated this long before now. Sorry Nigerians, the situation can only grow worse. Get ready.

chocopearl: I'm stil in d dark abt dis ombaste killings, why did d policemen and d sss ve to go there in troops in d 1st place?? I heard they went to arrest d chief priest, jst 1 man wit all dat troops a man pple said go abt d streets of lafia in his car. I stil need answers pls, what really happened in dat state

Good question! Let verifiable reasons be giuten.. Almakura is culpae

aribisala0: So many people have responded without understanding what they have read,what literature is or what Wole is saying
First of all what is literature?
Traditionally ,for Europeans,it would refer to the "written" word/language

NOT necessarily written for Africans
http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/staffhome/siryan/academy/foundation/what_is_literature.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_literature


I realise there are several sensible definitions but a working definition for me would have to go beyond "writing" and focus on "RECORDED" which may involve human memory, or other technology than writing otherwise we would be saying literature is closed to blind people or that audio forms are NOT literature and if we admit audio forms do we admit performances that are typical of Africans and their use of language involving no writing?
These issues have been debated elsewhere and responding without undersanding these issues is just folly

I think the primary quarrel which many modern writers have with designating Achebe "father" of Afrian literature is simple; namely that it reinforces the European prejudices that there was no literature before they "civilized" us .Also it confines any works previously Not done in European languages to the dustbin and sells the idea we did not record anything before Europeans civilized us and our young people lose curiousiy about their heritage and accept there was no African Literaure till Achebe came along.
We have had literature in Africa for millenia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebra_Negast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Sundiata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utendi_wa_Tambuka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Texts


The stories of Kunkuru,Yemenibo,Anansi etc are ALL literature.


What about the Ifa Odus/Canon are they not literature even recognized as a Masterpice of Oral Humaniy


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpieces_of_the_Oral_and_Intangible_Heritage_of_Humanity
Does literature have to be written or can it be recorded and transmitted in other ways. Braille,audio recording, human memory and oral tradition.This question has been debated elsewhere.The context of Wole's argument as I understand it is "Africa has had literature for centuries just like Europeans and others" and so to designate anyone who is alive or even was alive in recent memory as Father is patronizing and wrong.The fact that white people did not know about our "literature" that it was written or not ,did not comply with their definition of literaure is irrelevant.


Let us take a number of forms drama and poetry. Did Africans have drama before Achebe or even before colonization? Does failure to record them in written or "European compliant" ways make them any less "literature" than Shakespeare etc.
Achebe's work is peppered with wonderful examples of ,in my view, literary forms,which clearly are ancient Igbo heritage that have clearly been transmitted over several generations. .So Achebe is not even the father of Igbo literature which has been around for centuries but a child of it how then can he or anyone be the Father of African literature. That is like calling anyone of recent memory father of African music. The objections raised to this title being given to anyone alive or recently dead is that it diminishes Africa because it says there was no Igbo literature before Achebe no other African language literature or tha literature MUST be written and preferably acknowledged and validated externaly. All humans even blind and deaf can access literature and have done for ever.

Genealogies,tribal stories and many more forms are and have been performed in many African societies for ever in complex ways that are uniquely "African" but in my view qualify ,too, as literature. Those who wish to call Achebe Father may try "Father of "WRITTEN ENGLISH" Nigerian literature but [b]even that may be argued as he is not known for drama or other forms designed to be performed. [/b]We must not forget that the African is ,perhaps, drawn more o those forms that are performed rather than read as many masquerade ceremonies(Even among the Igbos ) show.I think there is a very grave misunderstanding of what literature is and I agree that this unseemly argument impugns Achebe's legacy.

Nobody said Africans never had literature before the advent of the Europeans. The title bestowed on him by authors 4s .the Father of Moderm African Literatuse' and he deserves it. His works were not the best but they were the most influential. Very informative, inspiring, challenging as well as entertaining . His role in the African Writers' Series should ring a bell to descerning minds.as

So long Legend Samuel Okwaraji. You gave your all for what you believed in. However, you were wrong... Nigeria is not worth dying for. Overzealous ignoramuses take note.

Kslib: Wait oh!!! Na for north i grow and i dey wonder when fulani begin carry gun sef.. I bin dey think say na only stick dem like..
**shaking my head***

A typical Fulani herdsman carries two daggers(one by the waist, the other by the leg) and a sword sword aside the staff. A very dangerous man indeed. Imagine adding an AK47 TO IT then you understand the enemy before you. For the last time: people 6f N4gesia, arm zour7elve7

[quote author=Austine.E]...i didnt want to respond to your comment but i think we must take a holistic look at it,agreed Nigeria is a free and secular nation were freedom of movement and association is garanteed!talking about xenophobia,we all know that in our recent past some states e.g Lagos state deported some Nigerians to their various states for constituting nuisances to the state and i guess,that wasn't discriminately because it was by an opposition party state....then we ve also had states who woke up one morning and declared sharia in a country assumed to be secular!by this action,states like Zamfara made islam a state religion,state money were used to build mosque,sponsor muslim clerics,create the state Hibah(security)board and financed with state money,in a supposedly secular nation.As a christian from the south or elsewhere,i can no longer freely drink my beer,or a lady freely putting on her smart trousers to work etc..i think this is more xenophobic than the ban on new cattlemen entering delta state,where the molest,kill and plunder!i also wldnt want to talk about the Mullah that runs our apex bank,who went ahead to introduce islamic banking in a secular nation inspite of opposition from Nigerian christians!Delta state has the absolute right to protect life and properties of it citizens in the state.[/quote]Thanks so much. Evil only thrives when men keep silent.

The Ombatse vigilante group should not be anihiliated. Do they have a past record o3 violence? NO! Its actually a plot to invite the army to neutralize any non muslim militia groups defending their people against the rampaging Fulani jihadists masquerading as herdsmen. Pol4titians from the middlebelt must protect them. Th

Leebeedo: Nigeria is doomed! I live and work in Lafia and I want to give u guys a full gist of what really happened.
Everything boils down to 2015 gubernatorial race. The Egon people said they are tired of been ruled by foreigners (i.e migrants from Maiduguri) which the current governor Umaru Tanko Almakura and the emir of Lafia are and so they’ve started preparing for 2015 elections. The militia group actually recruited youths but they never did it forcefully, Egon youths voluntarily enlisted themselves because we never heard of such occurrence @ the church (Egons are predominantly Christians, say 98%). Sometimes, we see the militia group matching around Lafia peacefully with their black uniform not disturbing anyone or causing mayhem and even sometimes, we see their leader drive around his SUV robed with all sort of charms and we laughed.
The governor got scared because of the growing strength of the militia and even attacked them severally through Fulani herdsmen, they even killed a Fulani herdsman close to my house early this year.
The governor’s second shot was through the emir. He invited the chief priest to his palace and tried to charm him but the chief priest defeated him and it was even rumoured that the emir was dead that period. (RUMOUR)
Discovering that he couldn’t succeed with his Fulani herdsmen and the emir strategy, he decided to use the police, SSS and civil defence guys through the commissioner of police, one stupid Yoruba man that doesn’t know his job and really good at driving around Lafia with his dead BMW disturbing with siren sound. The commissioner fell for it and he sent his boys to arrest the chief priest of the militia. They claim to have gone there peacefully to arrest him, but ask why they went with machine guns. The killed some of the militia guys but the militia wiped them all, just about 6 of them escaped. I don’t think the militia group used guns because I went to the hospital where they deposited their remains (Dalahatu Specialist Hospital at Shendam road) and I saw deep cutlass cuts on them and I also saw stuffs like blue powder on them, they were burnt and were over 100 in number. Immediately this happened, the governor ran to Abuja and later ran to kano probably to meet with the emir. The commissioner cried all through but many don’t know why he cried. It’s because he’s to retire in 2 months’ time but now will likely face dismissal.
The candidate egons want to put forward is Solomon Ewugha (not sure of the spelling)

Excellento!
Majority of the people of Nigeria do not know that that the battle for the sou5 of the Middlebelt 4r on going. We are watching.

RIP to the sacrificed security men. However, the Eggon people have been ret up here. The Ops brothers the welknown merchantsof death carried out the act and blame it on the Eggon7.
We are watching.

[quote author=Texas.Cowgirl]What's your tribe: Yoruba
What's your nickname? Ileke Idi
Period.[/quote]