It is not uncommon even in developed countries for a missing plane to take more than 3 days to locate.
For all other variables listed,I totally agree. For an Alhaji to be in charge of Soccer leaves much to be desired. That soccer match at Kano for goodness sake. Why Kano? A city where one has to be mindful while entering a public transit. Please, give these people their country.
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Ah yes! Nigeria again continues to reaffirm and confirm the ingenuity of our fore-parents. Our brethren who still do not realize why we should go back, research the path left us by those geniuses who gave the world ‘civilization’, ‘rule of law’, ‘democracy’ and ‘One God”, and relearn what it means to be Igbo, only have to look at the ‘British Birthed Abomination’ Nigeria, to finally understand one of the many sayings they left us, “he that holds someone down, holds himself down”. Pointing fingers at the Hausa-Fulani or Yoruba will not cut it, since the salvation of Igbo is in the hands of Ndi Igbo and Ndi Igbo alone.
All we have to do is to grow some backbone and take the victory that Chi Ukwu, the Mighty Yah, has already given His/Her children (Umu Chukwu). As it was in the day of Moses, so shall it be today - ISEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
As this abomination of a country has intensified its marginalization of Igbo, it has continued to plunge at a super-speed to the bottom of the barrel as the poorest nation in the world, since Ethiopia cannot be counted because of the famine in that country. How else do you explain that nothing works in that abomination of a country that is as wealthy as Saudi Arabia or Kuwait.
If it is the solution to the present dilemma, an insignificant problem to our fore-parents, we crave, the answer as usual is in our past. Our fore-parents, those geniuses, who were already traveling in to space while the western world still lived in caves, left us a road map!
How else could they thousands of years understand that without the sun, our solar system would not exit. They called the sun, “Anyanwu – the eye that never dies”, for if the sun were to die, the world would seize to exist. They called Human, Mma Ndu – the beauty of life. ETC. And most importantly had settlements all over the world. Their civilization was unequaled and even to this day unrivaled, and until the sons and daughters of those geniuses understand who they are, – “Mara onwe gi”, they will continue to lament their sojourn in this barbaric country where lip service will continue to be paid to ‘the rule of law’, and Biafara and of course paradise will continue to be an unattainable dream.
But for those who think that there is no basis for what I write, below is a recent article in the “Daily Sun”.
DAILY SUN
SHOCKING REVELATION!... Adam and Eve are Nigerians, says Prof. Acholonu By LUCKY NWANKWERE, Abuja Monday, September 26, 2005
That the first woman, Eve was an African may not be news to many. That Eden was an African location may also not be news. But what definitely is news is the fact that Adam and Eve may have originated from Nigeria.
The information is fresh and steaming. It may well be on its way to receiving world endorsement. It is the result of painstaking research by Nigeria’s professor of African studies, Catherine Acholonu in collaboration with India’s computer wiz kid and information technology specialist, Ajay Prabhakar. It bears testimony to the fact that the first man and woman, Adam and Eve may be Nigerians afterall.
Long before now, researchers in major breakthroughs in genetic engineering and mitochondrial DNA analysis conducted at Emory University, Michigan University, University of California at Berkeley, all in the United States of America had revealed that all humans descended from one woman (proven to be Eve) who lived in East Africa 300,000 years ago.
Also, it has long been concluded that the famous Eden (remember the garden where Adam and Eve were said to have disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit) was an African location. From this revelation has emerged another conclusion that Adam was equally an African.
But what has not been established until now is whether or not they had Nigerian connection. So, could Adam and Eve have been Nigerians? Well, for four years, Prof. Acholonu and her Indian collaborator, Prabhakar toiled, looking at ancient artifacts, rummaging through ancients records as well as scriptures of lost races of the world and have now come up with what may lead to that conclusion. Hold your breathe.
In a daring project ever to be undertaken on the African continent described as a marriage between science and culture, the duo have found what they call the truth and are out to shock the world. Their findings published in a book ‘The gram code of African Adam’ soon to be presented to the world, the researchers are about to put Nigeria at the centre stage of world culture and tourism.
In their work, they were able to establish that the most important city in the ancient world was that called Tilmun. "This city was glorified in the writings of the kings of Egypt, Assyria and Sumeria as ‘the land of the living’. It was the destination of the pharaohs of Egypt who sought for the Afterlife. It was the sacred territory secluded by the gods. It had the most important seaport known in antiquity which supplied the world with gold, timber, date and other palm produce".
The important landmarks of this most important city, according to the researchers included its proximity to the Atlantic, a Delta sea coast, a confluence of two rivers (believed to be those of Niger and Benue), the Lake of Reeds (Chad) and a volcanic mountain of the gods (believed to be Lake Nyos in Cameroun). Acholonu said Western researchers had erroneously located this city, Tilmun in Bahrain, provoking huge tourism interest in that country.
"Our research proves conclusively that the location of ancient Tilmun is today’s Nigeria", Prof. Acholonu and Prabhakar told us. In all of these, the duo have equally established that the obscure village of Ikom in Cross River State may well be the world’s destination.
Some 350 ancient stones, called monoliths found in Ikom are said to bear writings with the exact layout as those found in France dating to the Upper Paleolithic Period of 18,000 BC –12,000 BC. Acholonu and Prabhakar deciphered these writings and found that they contain the names of gods of Egypt and Mesopotamia and what they say are astronomical details such as the names of stars in various ancient languages and records of celestial events contained in ancient scriptures.
"The interpretation of the writings reveal the name of the language in which it is written. It says that the writing is called Gram (which is the origin of the words tetragram (the Hebrew name of God), penta-gram, grammar, milli-gramme and its multiple intonation of the name of Ham which shows that it is a heritage of Ham, the ancestor of the black race.
"Powerful parallels between the stone inscriptions and the Hebrew Cabbala suggest that the former was a model for the latter. The discovery of language connections between the rural community of Ikom and distant languages in Europe, South America, Asia and the Middle East and especially with the Hebrew language suggest strongly that the ancient language of the creators of the monoliths was the original language of mankind and that the Hebrews have a deep contact with this part of Africa that is yet to be revealed", they posited.
The researchers further explained that the most shocking of all their discoveries was the monolith which the people of Ikom call Shishe (the first mother of mankind), which actually bears the Hebrew name of Eve (Ish-sha) written in a combination of Sumerian and Dravidian letters.
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quote:It is not uncommon even in developed countries for a missing plane to take more than 3 days to locate.
No, Rick my dear brother, in most cases the missing plane’s location is detected in a matter of hours, the slight delay may be as a result of how to retrieve it. Locating it never constitutes much wahala, though you may actually be right but a couple of instances would help. The part that dealt with the missing plane on this thread is just a side show. Did you pay attention to the names of those at the helm of most of the sleepy parastatals? There lies the crust of the post.
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Do you expect me to re-invent the wheel? I do not have time for that. What do you mean by local or indigenous land ownership? Bakassi is aboriginal Cameroon Land. Nigerians in Bakassi can own land or houses just as Nigerians in Bamenda, Douala, Yaounde, Garoua and so on. The Nigerian Northerners in Briketerie in Yaounde who started Ministere de Soya have been there for over 60 years and there is no problem. Those in Bakassi came only after the civil war after most were GIVEN land to settle on by their Cameroon landlords. Others were fishermen and women who settled. One of the high profile settlers is Florence Ita-Giwa who peddles her politics in Nigeria and not Cameroon.
Bakassi is Cameroon Land, and for indigenous land ownership on Cameroon, I will respectably refer you to Cameroon's Ministry of Territorial Administration.
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SAMBLE YOROBA/AWUSA MANAGEMENT:
Pa Fru Ndeh/Udochi
Well, I do not want to follow the boundary argument because it does not come to play in my points to be made below.
That portion was given away to Cameroon headed by a Hausa man called President Ahidjo. WHY? please read very carefuly..................
This was a Hausa to Hausa deal with the help of the Yorubas to short-change Biafra.. The plan was in three folds….[a] give away part of Biafra to another Country. Sign and seal the deal during the war secretly because Biafra might win but they Biafra will be shocked to find out that they had already lost their territory while they were in Nigeria .
…[b]…Cameroon should take part of that area with the oil as a payment you help in the food blockage originated by Mr Bola Ige [ former Att Gen], carried out by Mr Awolowo and enforced by Col Adekunle.
..[c]..This was also a move by the Nigerian Hausa to calm Cameroon on the Northern land encroachment fro Adamawa to Lake Chad.
Cameroon took the offer and signed the deal. . Those present were all Yoruba and Hausa with inferior minds. They thought it was like those give and take back deals they do at the ministerial levels. NO. NO. NO. This has turned out to be way over their heads. Just like the method they used in creating states emulating the colonial master. They look at the only maps they had and drew lines of demarcations without adequate knowledge of things on the ground. This was so bad and embarrassing that they were out smarted by the guy they invited for dinner [ the Cameroon boys] that Gen, Gowan even forget that he was at the signing ceremony to give away part of his empire to fight war. He was promptly reminded that there are pictures around to verify his presence. Then he blamed the Surveyor General of Nigeria was not the surveyor general. The surveyor did not know maps, did not have maps, did not visit the location, his maps did not have co-ordinates. All these were done in an Army barracks in a hurry to seal a deal and win the war against Gen Ojukwu. NOW WHICH MAPS ARE YOU GUYS TAKING ABOUT ?. It is a fake map. 419 map from ABUJA. they never had one between 1967-68 .
This was the same Gen Gowan that looted dry the National art works and gave them away to visiting heads of states as gifts from Nigeria. Including the Bronze the Queen and British Govt. have refused to return calling them gifts. He was the one that gave Rivers to Shell oil for 30 years which has just been renewed by President Obasanjo till 2039 with another renewal option till 2060.
Also remember that it was the same President Obasanjo while the Bakassi case was in court, he went and signed a secrete deal with Fernando Po Island that the two countries co-owned Bakassi and that they will share the revenue at the ratio of 60/40 and Nigeria getting 40% !!!. When Nigeria lost, the deal died quietly.
Nigerian govt. [aka Hausa /Yoruba] has in their mind that the IGBOs are in charge in the east and to keep them in check, deny them access to the ocean and keep them landlocked. But they are now finding out that Biafran movement is an idea rooted in deep thinking not a physical location.
Is not amazing that the Bakassi residents are doing the same thing Biafra was all about? Can we not give glory to the God Almighty that after the Death of Mr Kem Sero Wiwa that the Rivers are the other leg of Biafra?.
The French Oil companies have been drilling in Bakasi for a very long time from Cameroon using Horizontal and Slanted drilling method. They have been sucking the oil from across the boarder. It is not a secret!! What is going on is a game. Camerron is not in a hurry to physically take over Bakassi because of financial obligations which they want the expenses of the people to be still that of Nigeria while they the Cameroon Govt, still get the oil!! What a master stroke in strategy.
The Academic arguments of Bakasi in the constitution and drawn and redrawn maps are just medicine after death which Nigeria inflicted on itself on their quest to smash Biafra..
Do not forget that Cameroon got its name form the type of SHRIMP the white explorers found in that river around Bakasi area.
The Yoruba group tried to ask as the wizards of international law, they assembled people who did not know anything but went o overseas under Awolowo scholarships. They lost. They did not even know what to take to court and what not to argue on. They did not even have all the documents signed by Gen Gowan who was still denying his presence at the signing ceremony instead they resorted to a narrow focus not related to the case buy making Gen. Ojukwu the case both world and internal arena. Igbo man gave out Bakassi, Ojukwu gave away Bakassi, Ojukwu started the War, The igbos are rebels, But these were not the issues. Can any body remember what the issue was? Yes ,the only issue was did Gowan give away Bakassi? Does any Hausa or Yoruba know the answer except Ojukwu, Cameroon[Ahidjo] and world court?.
Let’s I forget, may be it is/was Gen Ojukwu and the Biafrans that signed the 50 yrs deal with the oil companies. It is /was that created three states in the East to separate the IGBOs. From the national Oil. It was Ojukwu who gave his people N10.00 to start life afresh in 1970 and gave the rest to Awolowo. It was Ojukwu who used the derived money to moved the New giant construction projects to Hausa land called ABUJA. It is Ojukwu who decided to reduce FED. presence in Lagos and south by selling all FED buildings to private individual making it impossible for federal to embark on any other construction project in Lagos that is not from State allocations. This they carefully called privatization. Now Lagos has to tax its people and residents to construct and reconstruct!!
But the reverse is true in Abuja. The FED is busy building, expanding and then inviting people to move to barren lands. Some greedy people are falling for it as cheap investments.
Nwadike
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Hmmmmmm, another eye-opener. Very interesting. Wouldn't it be nice to have a one-nigerianist explain this to us? Lest we forget it was Dokubo and not the war criminal gowon that gave away a part of the territory he was fighting to keep as one. How dumb is dumb!
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quote: This was a Hausa to Hausa deal with the help of the Yorubas to short-change Biafra.. The plan was in three folds….[a] give away part of Biafra to another Country. Sign and seal the deal during the war secretly because Biafra might win but they Biafra will be shocked to find out that they had already lost their territory while they were in Nigeria .
…[b]…Cameroon should take part of that area with the oil as a payment you help in the food blockage originated by Mr Bola Ige [ former Att Gen], carried out by Mr Awolowo and enforced by Col Adekunle.
..[c]..This was also a move by the Nigerian Hausa to calm Cameroon on the Northern land encroachment fro Adamawa to Lake Chad.
Cameroon took the offer and signed the deal. . Those present were all Yoruba and Hausa with inferior minds. They thought it was like those give and take back deals they do at the ministerial levels. NO. NO. NO. This has turned out to be way over their heads. Just like the method they used in creating states emulating the colonial master. They look at the only maps they had and drew lines of demarcations without adequate knowledge of things on the ground. This was so bad and embarrassing that they were out smarted by the guy they invited for dinner [ the Cameroon boys] that Gen, Gowan even forget that he was at the signing ceremony to give away part of his empire to fight war. He was promptly reminded that there are pictures around to verify his presence. Then he blamed the Surveyor General of Nigeria was not the surveyor general. The surveyor did not know maps, did not have maps, did not visit the location, his maps did not have co-ordinates. All these were done in an Army barracks in a hurry to seal a deal and win the war against Gen Ojukwu. NOW WHICH MAPS ARE YOU GUYS TAKING ABOUT ?. It is a fake map. 419 map from ABUJA. they never had one between 1967-68 .
....Pa Fru Ndeh/Udochi, as posted by Amadi O.
Some scholarly references will really help to elucidate the above points. In the absence of these references, it is my suggestion that the above write-up be viewed with the contempt it so richly deserves. It amounts to nothing but a figment of the writer's robust imagination and wishful thinking on the part of death-to-Nigeria chorists.
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Ok, you disagree with this account of what happened at the meeting. Would you educate us and would you tell us why this report is a "robust imangination" on our part. We also want to know whether you think the nigerians came to the table as competent as they ought to be and achieved a result that could be described as better than mediocre.
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Ok, you disagree with this account of what happened at the meeting. Would you educate us and would you tell us why this report is a "robust imangination" on our part.
....Amadi O
Whenever you guys cite the infamous Aburi conference, you come up with references of both written and eye-witness accounts, thereby making your position somewhat unassailable. The only thing i am asking is for the writer to produce something to concretise his position, in the form of eye-witness or written references that we may all refer to. Even you will concede that it is indolent to stay in a one-bedroom apartment somewhere and formulate reasons to justify events, sans verification.
quote: We also want to know whether you think the nigerians came to the table as competent as they ought to be and achieved a result that would be described as better than mediocre.
....Amadi O
How do we even know there was a table in the first place?
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The borden of disprove is on you on this one. The Biafrans can't do everything for lazy cultures with a reputation of taking a once thriving environment under Biafran management and turning it into a stone age waste land, by stealing, looting and paying-off everyone -- the only management skills olusegun obasanjo seems to have mastered. Why do you plead laziness about finding the answers you seek by doing a little research of your own. After all, you are the one disputing this report as presented to you, right? The responsibility falls on you to disprove it or you can shutup and accept the account as you have read from someone who has done the work for you.
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EXCERPTS FROM GANI FAWEHINMI'S OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBASANJO; > WEEKS AFTER, ACCORDING TO GANI, THE FEDERAL GOVT HASN'T GIVEN AN > OFFICIAL EXPLANATION ON THE SURGERY THE LATE FIRST LADY UNDERWENT: > > "We must examine what happened in both events and proffer advice on > how to prevent future occurrence in each case. > We have heard mountains of hyperbolic rhetoric in the last one week > and tons of sentiments and emotions had been shed. The time to take > an analytical and sober look at the two events has come. Sentiment > must not be allowed to replace reality and emotion must not be a > substitute for the truth. Otherwise, we will go back to groping in > the dark and repeating the same act of commission or omission in both > tragic events." > > "I do not know what the post-mortem report reads, but as the husband, > you told the whole world in a broadcast on Tuesday, 25th October, > 2005 that your wife went to Spain on a holiday without a visible sign > of illness. However, reports nationally and internationally have > revealed the following: > > *That your wife was admitted into Molding Clinic, Banus Port near > Malaga, Spain for cosmetic surgery for purpose of beautification. > > *That either during or after the cosmetic surgery, she developed > complications which finally resulted in her death in Spain." > > "If these were the circumstances of her death, Nigerians are entitled > to answers of the following questions, queries and apprehensive > observations: > > *Why did our Head of State allow his wife to leave Nigeria for > cosmetic surgery so that she could look more beautiful? By the way, I > personally attest to her beauty as a woman...Whether it is called > cosmetic or plastic surgery, I do not see how that could not be dealt > with or handled in Nigeria if your government had lifted the health > care facilities of this country from the doldrums since you assumed > power". > > "Mr. President, you are not the only one to suffer from this tragedy > of the incompetence of your government to provide the Nigerian people > with modern medical facilities and care, when you swore on 29th May, > 1999 to advance the welfare of the Nigerian people. I too am a > victim. My son, Barrister Mohammed Fawehinmi, a graduate of Business > Administration of the University of Lagos, and of Law of the > Buckingham University, England and of the Nigerian Law School, who > qualified in 1998, had a motor accident on 23rd September, 2003 and > broke his spinal cord. He was taken to National Orthopaedic Hospital > Igbobi, Lagos". > > "Mr. President, in that hospital (National Orthopaedic Hospital > Igbobi, Lagos) they had no Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), to > detect the location and extent of the spinal cord injury. No C.T. > Scan. They had only an ancient X-Ray machine. When his condition was > growing worse, I was advised to take him abroad at a heavy financial > cost, which was more than a fortune. He was in various hospitals in > England for seven (7) months. The hospital where he was operated upon > had more than ten (10) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to detect the > state and extent of the spinal cord injury". > > "Mr. President, as at 23rd September, 2003, there was no MRI in the > whole of Lagos State. The one under your nose at the National > Hospital, Abuja was as dead as dodo. There was none in University > College Hospital, Ibadan. There was none in University of Benin > Teaching Hospital. There was none in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching > Hospital, etc. Four years after you came into the saddle as President > of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, our health care delivery remains > primitive and totally unbecoming of an oil-rich nation-state". > > "In a period of six (6) years, you have virtually traversed the > entire world visiting most of the countries of the world. One would > have expected that not less than sixty (60) Heads of State and their > wives would either have graced the occasion of the burial of your > wife or sent their wives to represent them at such burial. From my > reading of the newspapers in Nigeria and I buy all the newspapers > published daily in this country, neither myself nor the Director of > my Library (Barrister Adindu Ugwuzor) and his librarians could find > any reports or news item of the presence of any Head of State or Head > of Government (and/or their wives) from any of the European, American > and Asian countries at the lying in state or burial of your wife > Stella despite several times (more than one and a half years in > total) that you slept out of Nigeria visiting foreign countries in > Europe, Asia and America". > > "Mr. President, is that not a hard lesson? Even for a Chairman of the > Commonwealth and Chairman of African Union (AU), is the lesson not > obvious? You must now realise that it is what you do at home to > promote the welfare of your people that sells your image abroad". > > "In spite of all I have written above, I sincerely sympathise with > you on the death of a woman who became a human rights activist of > note, fighting tooth and nail for your release from incarceration. A > woman who initiated a programme for the children who are physically > disadvantaged. Such a woman will be remembered from my own stand > point not for being the wife of a president who is anti-masses but > who was herself fighting the cause of the physically challenged". > > "You should not be deceived by the presence of men and women of > Nigeria's "timber and calibre" (apologies to Late K.O. Mbadiwe). > They dominated and populated the crowd at the lying in state and at > the burial of Stella. Do not be deceived by their presence. Yes, they > shed tears for different reasons. There were genuine tears. > There were also Ministerial tears, Contract tears, Rotten-head tears, > 2007 tears, Teasing tear, Oil block tears, GMG tears (Ghana Must Go > Bag tears), Immunity tears, Pardon me tears, Face-showing tears, > Business tears, Brixton Prison tears, amongst others". > > "The first twelve (12) hours after the crash, your government at the > highest level and also through your aviation agencies did not know > the site of the crash. The world was told by your government that it > was at Kishi in Oyo State that the Bellview plane crash-landed. Your > Minister of Information, Mr. Frank Nweke Jnr told the world on > Sunday, 23rd October, 2005 that the nation's President was directing > rescue operation in Kishi. The Minister of Aviation, Professor > Babalola Borishade confirmed that the crash site was Kishi. Even your > Minister of Health said that he had made all arrangements in a > government hospital in Ilorin where possible survivors of the crash > at Kishi will be admitted and treated". > > "The world's attention was misdirected to Kishi by the incompetent > compass of your regime. On television, it was Kishi. On radio, it was > Kishi. Even the almighty CNN echoed government's misdirection - it > was Kishi. When finally the African Independent Television (AIT) > located the site at your backyard in Ogun State at Lisa in Ifo and > broadcast the new site, instead of an accolade to AIT, your > government shut it down for telling the truth, only to be reopened > the second day without an apology". > > "The rescue operation at Lisa in Ifo was disastrously shabby, as it > was impudently shoddy. The site was not secured by the security > agencies of your government. All sorts of people and all manners of > men and women were allowed to roam about picking anything as souvenir > without regards to the security importance of such materials. There > was nothing to show that the officials of government at the site had > any prior inkling of rescue training. > Seven days after the crash, a substantial part of the aircraft > remained buried inside the ground, spewing out fire from time to > time. To add insult to injury, memorial prayer session was held on > Thursday, the 27th October, 2005, and the President laid wreaths when > no conscious effort has been made by your government to excavate the > substantial part of the plane buried in the ground". > > "In essence, there was no appreciable rescue operation. And the > inability of your government so to do exposed the rescue incapacity > of your administration in such a situation. Your no-holds-barred > privatisation policy came to naught at Lisa when no private company > could singularly undertake the excavation of the entombed aircraft". > > *The government policy on the type of planes we use in our aviation > industry, the age of the planes and their airworthiness should be > revisited immediately; > > *Our runways and the need to ensure that the runways light never go > off; and > > *Our control towers should be manned by trained and retrained > personnel using modern equipment". > > "We are happy that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are in > the country because a United States major died in the crash. With > American involvement, I believe the lackadaisical attitude of your > government in such matters will be checked if not prevented from > tainting such inquiry". > > "The events of Saturday and Sunday the 22nd and 23rd October, 2005 > which have thrown the country into mourning should never be allowed > to repeat themselves. We do not want another plane crash and if you > bring in another wife before you constitutionally quit office on 29th > May, 2007, please do not allow her to go for a cosmetic surgery for > beautification again. We cannot afford another death of the > President's wife in Aso Rock". >
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Whoever is quoting “Pa Fru Ndeh” writing as a source of reliable information on issues bordering Nigeria and Cameroon needs his head examined, and am not surprised the person making the reference is Amadi whose opera mondus for adulterated references is well known.
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This analyses on economics and management sent to me by a friend is in a lighter mood:
YORUBA ECONOMICS You have two cows U kill them both And throw an owambe party!
IBO ECONOMICS You have two cows U make very good counterfeits of them And sell for the price of the real cows!
HAUSA ECONOMICS You have two cows You rear them till they are four you treck with them from pillar to post Make sure ur kids rear cows too And just maintain!
TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. You retire on the income.
INDIAN ECONOMICS You have two cows. You worship them.
PAKISTANI ECONOMICS You don't have any cows. You claim that the Indian cows belong to you. You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid, British for Warplanes, Italy for machines, Germany for technology, French for submarines, Switzerland for loans, Russia for drugs Japan for equipment. You buy the cows with all this and claim exp loitation by the world.
AMERICAN ECONOMICS You have two cows. You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You profess surprise when the cow drops dead. You put the blame on some nation with cows & naturally that nation will be a danger to mankind. You wage a war to save the world and grab the cows.
FRENCH ECONOMICS You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
GERMAN ECONOMICS You have two cows. You reengineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves.
BRITISH ECONOMICS You have two cows. They are both mad cows.
ITALIAN ECONOMICS You have two cows. You don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
SWISS ECONOMICS You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.
JAPANESE ECONOMICS You have two cows. You redesign them so that they are one-tenth the si ze of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowkimon and market them worldwide.
RUSSIAN ECONOMICS You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 17 cows. You give up counting and open another bottle of vodka.
CHINESE ECONOMICS You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyone reporting the actual numbers.
NIGERIAN ECONOMICS: You have two cows You eat one and claim it was stolen Call in the Police to investigate Police arrested everyone living within 100km Torture them thoroughly until someone admitted kidnapping the cow The police instead collected one cow each from everybody arrested You have your cow back and the Police now owns a cattle farm.
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Although I agree with the decrepit condition much of Nigeria's infrastructure and system is in, I fail to see why this is an ethnic issue. Many past Igbo administrators don't have a sterling reputation either.
I suggest people refrain from needless ethnic baiting and focus on the issues at hand: issues that affect all Nigerians equally.
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I think the Cow story is a good one meant for comic relief that somehow captured the political tone/economic outlook of different countries. I do not see how anyone would call it ethnic as it made "fun" of almost all. It's ok to take a joke sometimes, guys. I can almost make an argument about the claim that the Igbo would make "counterfeit" of theirs, they don't. A more reflective semantics like, reproduce, copy, or described with a more modern parlance, CLONE would have sufficed in place of “counterfeit.” Overall, the author still scored an ace in my judgment.
___________________ BIAFRA: The land of my ancestors now, yesterday and always. So it will be! Posts: 2482 | From: Ala Igbo | Registered: Apr 2004
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My prior message was not referring to the cow joke: I was referring to the very first post on this thread and the thread's title.
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You "agree with the decrepit condition much of Nigeria's infrastructure and system", but you don't like holding the yoroba/awusa responsible for thoroughly mismanaging the economy by their unbelievable incompetence. You prefer a fuzzy, feel-good general talk about how ndiIgbo joined the yoroba/awsa to bring down economic management standards. This is exactly the kind of silly, child-like talk that Africans are famous for, and why others regard Africa as a place where the standard rules must be suspended. But you wont hear us throw Igbo/Biafrans into this incompatible brew of highly incompetent cultures that have continued to confirm how helpless Africans are in the modern world. To be sure, the Igbo/Biafran has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with the state of Biafranigeria economy today or the mismanagement of it.
I'm sure you have read accounts of how the british left a working infrastructure, including a functioning rail system, efficient postal service, electricity, school and health systems that worked, in the hands of the Igbo as colonialism receded, and how Igbo managers imposed meritocracy on the system to keep it functioning well. Maintaining this standard required hard work, know-how in critical areas such planning, attention to details, and willingness to study the world and to be ready to compete with it and win. This job was not for cultures that just want to consume imports as is the case with yoroba/awusa management since 1970; it is not for those who do not see the opportunity in competing to win in the global marketplace or people with easy-going, carefree attitude to managing public money. The job is for cultures that have something to prove to the world by showcasing a higher standard of living for Africans in Africa – a quality of life that match the standards anywhere in the world using the huge resources available in the land. The job is for men like General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, who in the heat of battle, developed industrial systems in Biafra, refined petroleum products and built missile defense systems to defend his country.
Unfortunately, the awusa/yoroba cultures conspired and overthrew this functioning, efficient system. In place today is yoroba/awusa culture and worldview – a mockery of the previously well planned Igbo/Biafran system. Now it’s nothing but downhill for all the people. We wont shy away from finger-pointing or putting the blame where it belongs!
[ November 29, 2005, 08:57 AM: Message edited by: Amadi O. ]
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Soldiers, policemen evict Bar Beach Towers residents By PHILIP NWOSU, OLA AGBAJE and PETER ANOSIKE Wednesday , December 7, 2005
A combined team of military personnel and mobile policemen Tuesday evicted residents of Bar Beach Towers, one of the government high rise buildings in Lagos. This is even as a court order restraining the Federal Government from taking such action subsists.
Daily Sun gathered that the soldiers and policemen, numbering nearly 500, stormed the premises as early as 3am, broke into apartments and forced residents out. They were said to have shouted at residents: "Pack out or you'll suffer."
Residents who were seen packing, said they were doing so to protect their property from being tampered with, vowing not leave the premises.
An official of the residents association, identified as Lady Franca, told Daily Sun that the act of deploying armed soldiers to enforce the eviction of the tenants of Bar Beach Towers who are mainly civil servants was a flagrant abuse of authority.
She said: "The whole world is watching and everybody will attest to the fact that this is not democracy in the real sense of it. This is autocracy and tyranny because we went to court, obtained an injunction restraining government from forcefully ejecting us, but they went ahead irrespective of the court orders." She said that residents of the Bar Beach Towers collectively bidded for the purchase of the buildings following a government white paper which instructed them to bid. "We bidded and we won the bid and paid all the necessary fees that were required as stipulated by the advert, but they refused to accept our money when they saw that nobody else bidded."
Lady Franca challenged government on its policy of housing for all, saying that the discriminatory moves by the government, especially allotting the building to soldiers in place of civilians was disappointing. "Soldiers are public servants just like civil servants. Why would you prefer a particular set of Nigerians to others? Are you now saying that these civil servants are second class citizens?" she queried.
Some of the tenants who were seen moving their things into waiting trucks, said they had converted the vehicles into temporary accommodations, as they have nowhere to go to.
Reacting to the eviction, Lagos lawyer, Chief Fawehinmi said it was criminal act of lawlessness, adding that the Federal Government demonstrated that it is not only lawless, but also a criminal administration. "Those affected by this barbaric act of crime against humanity should go back to court and seek two reliefs: the order of their immediate reinstatement into the quarters and the committal to prison of the Minister of Housing, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko and the Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Bayo Ojo (SAN) for masterminding this gratuitous contempt of court.
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