IGBO-SON:
Those township roads they say are completed; could someone help me tell the state gov't that the roads look nake/d and undressed (they need speed-limit signs; street names; traffic lights; road markings; zebra crossings), and they should try to sweep the dust/dirt accumulating on the verges on a daily basis. The grass planted should be well maintained so it doesn't look patchy and bare in places......and they should plant trees on both sides of the roads as well.

Besides those nagging issues i pointed out, it's a commendable effort so far.

with a sustained effort all you have pointed out will be achieved.

What is currently happening in Imo state should be applauded by all. The suspension of Okorocha is a self/face saving act by APGA which means nothing since Okorocha has since pitched tent with APC. We still have a long long time before the general elections in Imo state which will give Okorocha and those against him opportunity to rationalize and normalize their positions and strength.

For the masses, it is the best that can happen to them. Okorocha will now sit up and deliver the democratic dividend which will make the electorate return him or ohakemize him.

ilugunboy: So all these GEJ-PEJ rabid attack dogs have to start looking for how to rubbish the Prof.....you better start digging deeper because the Prof will soon hit all of you again in a very clinical way...

Una never jam...you think the Prof is looking for favor the way you low lifers are looking for favor from politicians?

if he is not looking for favor, why his selective activism. Wisdom is known to come with age. but in WS case, we are disappointed his case is in the opposite dirction.

2mch:

A lot of people say this to garner sympathy. They have various ID's. Pathetic. You mean all these tears after all the boasting, arrogance and insults on Yoruba's ROTFLMAO. Obi, Orji, Aka ikenga, massob the whole Ibo NL crew. Na wa o. After all the big and mighty talk. . What should hausa, niger, yoruba and togo people do? Die Noise makers. Make some more noise, next week another batch will go home. . Keep lagos safe

well your Fashonwu is dancing in the market square. We are waiting for him with our sticks ready. We will make sure we hit him well and where it hurts most when he goes unclad and extends his hands.

Atouke: Where is Wole soyinka and Falana on this? Keyamo? Where are the Self styled Progressives? Where are the so called Vanguard of democracy?
Do they only respond when the issue fits their fancy or when it agrees with their politics? I supported them when they said that 5 is not > 27 and 16 not > 19.

They seem to be silent on the plights of nigerians that are deported in their own country!

What an abuse of right of a citizen in his own country and yet no outcry from those who pretend to be protectors of our rights as citizen.

Its times like this that i miss our countrys greatest human right advocate. the peoples lawyer the great Chief Gani Fawehinmi.He would have stood up to fight by the side of the people. Adieu chief! for the pretenders who who claimed to have inherited your mantle are ethnically,tribal and politically biased and have disappointed Nigerians.

No WS will not see this as an abomination. According to WS any act by ACN/APC is right .

dridowu: lauging in swahili.................hjhjhjhjhjgjgjgjgj, my broda u dont have have to use dirty word before u proof ur point to me, ds is a forum, we are all here to dissagree so that we can agree. Ok
am from Ogun State, so proud of my state, according to u Fashola is not from lagos state, let assume its true but as at today he remains the excutive governor of lagos state, so he must act within its jurisdiction ( i mean laws of lagos state and Nigeria ). Yorubas never lay claim to Benin Republic but u igbos are the one claiming that u pple are from Isreal origin,
https://www.nairaland.com/653574/igbo-people-lost-tribe-israel
so in ds case i believe the real Nigerian are Northern Nigeria , South Western Nigeria and South Southern Nigeria , i guess u can have an idea about those that need to be deported outrightly away from Nigeria. So once more learn how to communicate with out using dirty words
PEACE

don't worry . during the next election, we go tell you who be lagosian and who be nigerian. The best option left for you and your APC fashola is to deport all Igbos out of lagos because at the pooling boot we will let you know that we are more lagosian than you anwo ofe mma nu at goun lagos settlers.

Okoro2015:

The above quoted author should go and do a silent reflection and reconsider future utterances against God's anointed people (Ndi Mbaise). If by chance you are related to the godfather or any of the beneficiaries, know ye today that the game is over! Udo diri gi.

chukwudi44:You are the one dreaming!! Bishops are not chosen in mbaise but rather in rome.Okpaleke was consecrated as the bishop of ahiara diocese on May 21 2013,if you are not yet aware of that then continue dreaming.You will have to wait for enternity for the pope to send another bishop to ahiara diocese.

chukwudi44: Okpaleke is already the bishop.You people can protest from now till thy kingdom come.I think what the church hierachy
should do is close down the ahiara diocese and put it under owerri

chukwudi44: Okpaleke has been appointed as the substantive bishop of ahiara diocese.He is the only one recognised by rome to run the diocese and all correspondences about the diocese must go from him to rome or the CBCN.The ekwulobia diocese does not exist and no bishop has been appointed for it.Whenever it is created the pope will appoint someone to take
charge of that diocese.The catholic church will rather
close down the ahiara diocese than succumb to the antics of renegades masquarading as priests and their
thug laity collaborators.We have seen them before in
the church history.Mbaise people are even just too
small and represent an insignificant percentage of the
catholic church.

The above quoted author should go and do a silent reflection and reconsider future utterances against God's anointed people (Ndi Mbaise). If by chance you are related to the godfather or any of the beneficiaries, know ye today that the game is over! Udo diri gi.

onye nwe anyi nu ynere umu mbaise

kettykin: If visa offices and diplomatic mission for high destination countries like china America, Britain, Germany UAE are opened in enugu that would facilitate flights to those countries why would I have to travel to lagos or abuja to get my visa and come back to enugu to board my flight.
The east still has a lot of work to do in this direction but a good start anyway

Na small small. a journey of 1000 miles should start with a step. I know we can jump but where it is not possible to jump, let the default 1st step be encouraged to move.

ARROBA: The management of Ethiopian Airlines has concluded arrangement to commence international flight operations to the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu following the upgrade of the airport to an international airport. There are indications that the inaugural flight maybe on the 27th of August 2013 as plans are in high gear to make that flight happen as promised. It was gathered that other foreign airlines are also weighing the options of flying to Enugu including traffic on the new route. The decision by Ethiopian airline to be the first airline to fly into Enugu Airport may not be unconnected with the high level of patronage the airline is receiving from traders from South East on the far- East routes and as such would like to consolidate against growing competition from other airline on the route This development is laying credence to the promise by President Goodluck Jonathan of the Ethiopian Airlines flight to Enugu which some political gladiators said was another political gimmick to capture votes from the South East. The service would herald the beginning of international operations at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu. This is coming just as the airline is planning to expand its operations in Nigeria by adding flights to Port Harcourt and Kano. Tewolde Gebremariam chief executive officer of Ethiopian Airlines disclosed recently that the airline is planning to fly to Port Harcourt as well as Northern Nigeria’s largest city Kano, while increasing the number of flight trips to Abuja.


http://www.nigerianpilot.com/ethiopian-airlines-begins-flight-to-enugu-in-august/

@bolded, even if it is political whatever, let the news/promise keep coming at least 1/100 will materialize unlike in the past when 1/1000000 never did.

good

Pataki: Jonathan.....mumu for leadership quality, mumu in presidential protocol, mumu in setting her wife straight.

Awon adoju ti eni radarada people.

and you are mumu in referring to him as "her".
olodo pari pasau

.

[quote author=9ja_I_hail][/quote]

Aderostock:

who cares about your existence? The yorubas had been freedom fighters and activists from time immemorial. starting with:
Herbert Macauley
Funmilayo ransom kuti[/b]Respect
Habibat Mogaji
[b]Obafemi Awolowo Ex convictcheck the concentration of the rat puyzn
Efunsetan Aniwura
Beko ransom Kuti
Anikulapo Kuti
Woke Soyinka once a great man but going nut lately still investigatig the reason for this free fall
Gani Fawehinmi Great man but drug addict RIP
Femi Falana Speaks from both of his mouth unrecognized loser so chamelionic that he changes per size of the envelop
Tunde Bakare Confused fellow
Joe okei-Odumakin
Yinka odumakin I can't believe you included this name as one of your hero.. quiet celebrating mediocrity
And now the dogged fighter 'Bola Tinubu Oh not again.... Tinubu an activist? You deserve a hot slap na only a hut slap! also p in his mouth

I think we have to check the reason for this desperate support for Amaechi by WS. There must be something going under the bridge.

KwoiZabo: it is the man at the rear can't you see the Army Lt. Colonel behind him? he has not allowed Presidency make him loose respect for his wife so as usual its Ladies first but as educated and exposed as soyinka is he has no respect for women so he has used three women already and presently none of them is with him.

Tolded them!

duni04:
Now you've gone from chauvinist and cultist to tribalist, all to denigrate someone who's selflessly pursued the Nigerian cause even at the risk of his own life as during the biafran war. You are indeed a very shameless person. May the gods soyinka worships pay you back in your own coin.

will you guys stop bringing this Soyinka Biafran war hero stuff up. So because he stood up against injustice at one time , he should be allowed at the next time to shit poo. WS has to apologize to PEJ for the misfire.

Well we understand he has issues with most women in his life. But that should not make him transfer his anger to PEJ.

homesteady: Blogger werreva!! I'll always tell you!! Stop posting on NL!! You always sound foolish!!

You shot yourself when you said
"What opportunities did she
not have?people of her generation had
bountiful opportunities"

Chai!! My dear modify that comment sharply before plenty people see it!!

They guy/Girl is something else.

mekaboy:

It is not about the case being closed, it shld not have happened at all. The simple action shows the character and mentality of the leaders in those states.

Even when the rivers crises is resolved, nigerians already the the caliber of pple in the rivers house of assembly.

Why cant you grow up and take the advice. Even among siblings, they fight and make up. Stop bringing up Anambra , Imo and Abia issues in these manna. Abi e bu efulefu?

size38: Are we sure its GEJ's wife that spoke all those grammar? I seriously doubt. I know she hardly make any correct sentence. But that aside, I expect GEJ and his wife to listen to the words of this distinguished prof. Instead of Abusing him. I totally agree that d wife of d president matches exactly what our respected prof described her "As a mere Domestic Appendage". Pro. Soyinka is well lettered and educated more than GEJ and his wife put together no doubt.

If you loved WS, will you advice him to get into a fight with a woman! He should have directed his angst to GEJ. They even showed respect to him by referring to his past achievement, ordinarily she would have responded with more insults on him. So that next time he will learn his lessons.

I am beginning to wander how WS will relate with his wives. How he will react if someone says this about his wife.
" When You Marry An Illiterate Woman as a Wife, You Make silly Decisions Like Jonathan – Wole Soyinka ". I guess he might be suffering from PDS (post divorcee syndrome) been a double divorcee himself.

NB: Soyinka has been married thrice, and divorced twice.

So how did he get relieved of that job?
It is in the book. Adekunle was tired. In the military, there’s what is called Post-Trauma Stress Syndrome and it is in the book. Adekunle would be talking to you about something and would drift into another matter. That was a sign that this man was tired. Adekunle would be discussing tactics and strategies with you and suddenly, he would be asking you where the next party would hold, how many drinks would be needed and how many people we would need to dance. These were the signs. We were warning him that he was tired. We warned him against the plan to go to the Ibo area and attack Owerri, Aba and Umuahia. We could capture Uli- Ihiala, which was Biafra’s centre of gravity. A centre of gravity is a place that when I hold it like your balls, you would surrender to me. That’s why you see boxers continue to punch your head so that your knees would buckle. The Adekunle that I knew, that I worked with, didn’t do anything wrong except that he was tired. And it got to a stage where he was losing ground and we were silly. I was just 27 years old and would always go against him. He then ordered that Akinrinade and myself be ambushed. The story is in the book. The mother of the man he sent to ambush us had just visited and I took this woman in my jeep with escorts to Port Harcourt, where his son was. As we were going, shots were fired at us. We thought the woman was sleeping, but she had fainted. But I took her to the child, who was the military police commander. The next day, the man escorted his mother back. My mother was there, too. The two women became friends and I presented her with a bottle of whisky. She then went with my mother. Then this same man from Benue, who’s dead now, was ordered to ambush me. Adekunle sent for Akinrinade and I to report at Port Harcourt at 7am. That meant I had to leave Uyo by midnight. I left at midnight to pick Akinriande at Asa and had to drive without headlights for fear of being found out by enemies on the way. We left Asa at 4:15am and drove to Port Harcourt without headlights. We had to get a password across the line to get through. For example if you say Jack, I should say Johnson; if I fail to say that, they would open fire. When we got to Port Harcourt, we knocked, but he was not home. He was in the office. Adekunle never slept at night. He would be drawing maps. So we went to his office and met him with a Lagos musician, Roy Chicago. As soon as we entered, Roy Chicago said: ‘Oruko yin lafin jeun l’eko, ema jaa (We take pride in your names in Lagos, so please don’t quarrel). We didn’t know what he was talking about. So Adekunle asked us how we got there and we reminded him he told us to come at 7am. He gathered himself together and said he would talk to us separately. Akinrinade was asked to stay outside. He was outside when the dispatch rider that was sent to Uyo to deliver a note that we should not drive through Asa on our way back arrived. The man had the note since he did not meet me there. He met Akinrinade standing there. So he gave the note to Akinrinade, who read it and immediately barged in, shouting: ‘Let’s get out of here; they wanted to kill us!’ I read through the note and looked at Adekunle. I would have just shot him dead right there. I asked him what we did to deserve being ambushed. We took the note to Gowon and others and we explained to them what had happened. Finally, they realised that many of the officers, including Adekunle, were tired and decided to change them. But to change them, the senior officers that were left were Hausa and Gowon was worried that the first and second divisions were already headed by Hausa officers and there was no Yoruba officer to lead the third division. We had Olutoye, we had Shotomi, we had Oluleye, but it was Akinrinade that suggested Obasanjo to General Yakubu Gowon. I didn’t know the man before then. Akinrinade was the first person to take me to his house in Ibadan. Gowon was not sure that Obasanjo would want the job of replacing Adekunle because he was an engineer. We told him Obasanjo did not need to be convinced because the post he was holding in Ibadan as the garrison commander was an infantry job. Gowon said we should contact him. When we met Obasanjo, we told him our mission and gave him a comprehensive briefing on the situation at the war front. We went with maps and explained to him the defects of Adekunle’s plan to attack the Igbo heartland. We also told him about Operations Pincer 1, 2 and 3 and explained that if Pincer 2 was adopted, the war would end in 30 days. We spoke for three hours without food or drink. Obasanjo simply listened. And when he spoke, he said he was an engineer and he was not going to the war front. He also said we wanted to have him killed by nominating him for a spot at the war front. I was enraged and gave him a dressing down. I reminded him of his conduct when the Biafrans entered the Midwest and we asked the army to immediately blow up the Ore Bridge to delay the Biafran advance to Lagos. Obasanjo’s engineering corps did not know what to do. It was one Mr. Akinde of the Public Works Department at Ibadan, assisted by men of the Ministry of Works, who blew up the bridge. I was so incensed that I continued pouring venom on him. The suggestion that the bridge be blown up came from the wife of Governor Adeyinka Adebayo, whose husband was in Iseyin because of the Agbekoya riots. The Agbekoya had moved into Ibadan and were close to the Governor’s Lodge in Agodi and had freed inmates at Agodi Prisons. Mrs. Adebayo said: ‘Eyin ni Army Commander, eranyan lo’be (You are the army commander, please send someone there!).’ This fact is contained in General Adebayo’s biography. But Obasanjo wrote in My Command that he was the one that ordered the bridge blown up. Akinrinande made Obasanjo the Commander of the 3rd Marine Commando, where he came and caused problems because he was clueless.When Obasanjo took over, we briefed him in a comprehensive way. However, I didn’t know that he held a grudge against me over our encounter in Ibadan where he accused Akinrinade and I of wanting to get him to the war front so he could be killed. Obasanjo’s first battle experience was a disaster.

So where is your own oil spoil!