pentasticsione: I was in a bus once, travelling a long way from a remote village in the east of Nigeria when I looked outside the window and saw the picture of a man.

He was the councillor of that village and the words on the sigh boldly read ''LET US JOIN HANDS AND DEVELOPE THIS TOWN''... Reading those words made me have a sense of hope in the man...but then my smile turned into a puzzled look when I noticed that the man had on a Suit and Tie...

I sat back, put my head on the head rest, closed my eyes, pressed play on my music player and began to think.
I thought of how my hope ebbed away when I saw what the man was wearing.
And then I wondered, how can a farmer ever farm effectively if he keeps worrying about the brand new leather shoes on his feet.
How can a guitarist play smoothly if he keeps worrying about his newly manicured finger nails?
How can a mother save her new born aqwchild from suffocating if she is too disgusted to use her mouth and suck the mucus out of her childs' blocked nose?
And then I ask myself, how can a man see to the development of a remote village if his Suit and Tie confines him to a chair behind a desk, with a plaster of paris ceiling above his head, white walls around him, refined air from a split unit AC blowing him and a door in front of him that leads him home or straight to the bank.

How does development come when the people that are equipped to make it possible, cyphone the funds to maintain their suit and tie.
It is important to know that the people cannot be understood by someone who has spent his life feeding on

the spoils of Urbanization.
Only a person who has felt poverty can help the poor when he is rich.
How can the problems in the rural areas be solved if the chosen leaders have never even tried living in the slums.
And then I smiled at the thought of a certain man in one of the slums who people always called upon when there was light failure or when young men needed to be organised to fix a road or clear a refuse dump. Yet such a man cannot become councillor simply because he doesn't wear a suit and tie. *the Irony*

I'm not trying to be a critic, I'm just one concerned citizen out of many who believe that the problems of the 'grass roots' can only be solved by the people of the 'grass root' themselves. People that have sat outside in the hot sun or sat under a leaking roof on a rainy day and wished there was something they could do about the situation of the people.
Those who contributed in word and action to make sure that the little community is maintained.
The men who wear rags and do not even dream of a suit and tie but do what they do because something needs to be done and they are able to do it.

My thoughts were cut short when the lady beside me tapped me, it was only then that I realised the bus had stopped and I was the only one left on it. I took my bag and climbed off the bus... I realised that the problem is not in the clothes. Instead the problem is the mentality behind it all.
Men made for the office with nothing to offer the people, who are too scared to get their clothes and hands dirty in order to make a situation clean.
Finally the solution to a problem really lies within...I said aloud as I walked away.

winexviv: I got this information from a very close friend and a close source to Sullivan Chime that my governor is discharged from a London hospital and is strong and well. To crown it all, he heared him speak on phone and was laughing at his death rumours. He said he will return this January but the the sad truth is many jobs will be lost when he is finally back.

edoyad: This is a very Intelligent article by the way. But what the Flying FCCK Man!! Ndu Chucks come and see what the lord has done, another record for you to cherish.

Chizin: Former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, is due to be sentenced by a London court today and Tuesday after pleading guilty on February 27 to 10 charges of fraud and money laundering.

His assets acquired with the fraud proceeds will, consequently be confiscated and returned to Nigeria.

Ibori, governor of the oil-rich Delta State between 1999 and 2007, opted for a plea bargain with his British prosecutors in the hope of receiving a lighter sentence.

His trial was originally scheduled to commence in London’s Southwark Crown Court on February 27 only for him to admit defrauding the state to the tune of $79 million.

The court heard of how Ibori, during his tenure as governor, racked up credit card bills of $200,000 a month and owned a fleet of armoured Range Rovers.

He was on the verge of buying a plane for $20 million when he was arrested in 2010 in Dubai at the request of the Metropolitan Police and extradited to London last year.

Prosecutor Sasha Wass told the court Ibori had accepted he was involved in "wide-scale theft, fraud and corruption when he was governor of Delta State".

He was alleged to have used a false date of birth to conceal previous convictions so that he might not be prevented by law from contesting the governorship election. "Mr Ibori tricked his way into public office. He had tricked the Nigerian authorities and the Nigerian voters. He was thus never the legitimate governor of Delta State," said Wass.

Police detective, Paul Whatmore said : "We are pleased with today’s guilty pleas which mark the culmination of a seven-year inquiry into James Ibori’s corrupt activities. We will now be actively seeking the confiscation of all of his stolen assets so they can be repatriated for the benefit of the people of Delta State."

His wife, Theresa; sister, Christine Ibori-Idie; associate, Udoamaka Okoronkwo; and London-based solicitor, Bhadresh Gohil have all already been convicted of money laundering.

The British police had earlier dropped corruption charges levelled against Ibori, leaving him to face money laundering charges.

Ibori-Ibie and Okoronkwo-Onuigbo were later sentenced to 21 years in prison in London for their different roles in the case.

via The Nation

Andre Uweh: Law in Igbo language means Iwu. This is often referred as Iwu ala, iwu ani, iwu ala, iwu eli or iwu obodo. This is the law of the land, or the law of the town, or the law of the country. From Iwu, the following are derivable:
1. Odi na iwu: it is forbidden by law, illegal.
2. Tinye iwu: make law or enact law.
3. Mebi iwu: commit crime, offence, break law, sin, wrongdoing.
4. Ida Iwu: to break the law.
What are these laws?. Some are similar to those in the official Nigerian system while some are universal because Ndigbo are part of humanity. A few are nonetheless, distinctly Igbo.
Ndigbo, let us assembly them.

lungtruth: These evil men is sponsored by politician. I weep for my country

Otosdd: I went to my husband's office to see him only for me to find out that the door leading to his office was locked. The security had to call him that the wife is around that he should open the office door for me to come in. It took him 30 minutes for him to open the door only for me to enter the office I met a girl in the office. He has been telling me the girl is just a friend he has nothing to do with her, and that any time he is in the office he likes locking the door. But it's not my firs time of going to the office - the door is always open.

Please somebody should advice me on what to do because right now I am going mad. I need mature advice no insult please.

moneylover: now all of you who have looked at this naught pic..have committed a sin... now go confess

sexyverah: marriage is not by force it should be by choice.... if she is not ready to get married to u now maybe when her face is old and wrinkled she will be ready.....

sugar 001: I need a piece of that cake badly.