JW214: Ibori holds a dual citizenship, he is a British, that is just the simple reason why he was convicted and jailed in England in the first place when his second country won't do anything about his case during President Musa Yaradua's tenure as the president of Nigeria.

The Agreement will only affect the transfer of inmates who are serving jail terms that are not British Nationals, especially those who are involved in Immigration and other related crimes who are not citizens of GB. Instead of wasting so much tax payers money to cater for them in Jail and at the end of the day repatriated back to Nigeria.

This is just a way to cut the huge tax payers money spent on this foreign nationals (immigrants) serving in British Jails, so please get your fact rights, this agreement wasn't signed because of James Ibori.

I am so sure, he will finish his jail term in Britain because he holds a British Nationality, he is not qualify for a transfer, like the articles quotes "only about 60% of Nigerians there qualifies for such transfer"

The author of this article dragged Ibori's name into it to catch attention

Henry Okah get South African citizenship? Now they are giving you money to reform prison una dey accept, when they bring their useless gay marriage issue now, na then we go remember say we be sovereign nation

Politics sweet o! I thought somebody won't give a damn.

Sanusi I bow to you o. See as you fall my presido hand. Well, e good make man sabi him right from left. Meanwhile, in the US, a democrat presidedent is nominating a central bank chairman(Governor) for the first time since 1988, all other appointment before now has been done by Republican presidents, and democratic presidents didnt bother bringing their own candidates because theirs is a system of meritocracy where the capable individual presides, but in our own animal farm here, everything na politics.

Miner13:

Are just trying to show how silly you are by tieing a rapper to your neck and conclude that as a source or sauce which one self i dey vex.

Go and get a life!

Sorry kid, I have got a better life than u will ever get in your whole life.

jplay: abeg post source jor

. Na until u see punch website or Osun defender before you go believe? Na me be the source. Picture evidence no do u?

Having witnessed his team being humiliated week in, week out, a Nigerian born Manchester United decided to take his life by hanging himself after watching them losing to Swansea city in the FA cup.
RIP young man

Jesus! North Korea leader is an animal.

Not a fan of hitting out at the Mods but whoever it was that pushed this to front page when other educative threads are out there needs to have his or head reexamined.

Michael Adebolajo tells court he killed Lee
Rigby in 'military attack'
One of the men accused of murdering Lee Rigby has
said in court for the first time that he killed the
fusilier, telling the jury that he was "obeying the
command of Allah".
Michael Adebolajo described himself as a "soldier of
Allah" and said he killed Rigby on 22 May outside
Woolwich military barracks in south London.
Asked by prosecutor Richard Whittam QC whether
he planned to kill Rigby on that date, Adebolajo
answered: "Yes."
Giving evidence from the witness box of the Old
Bailey, Adebolajo said: "I am a soldier of Allah and as
I've explained part of fighting jihad sometimes it
tells killing the enemy soldier."
He added: "As I said we planned a military attack
which obviously involved – sadly, it's not something
enjoyable – the death of a soldier."
When asked whether the killing was political, he told
the jury: "Jihad by its very nature is political."
Giving evidence from a witness box in front of the
soldier's family, Adebolajo told the jury he was "a
soldier of Allah" and that he had had "no choice" in
attacking Rigby outside Woolwich barracks in May
this year.
"Allah commands that I fight those militaries that
attack the Muslims," he said. "I don't feel that I have
any choice. I obey Allah and I commit my affairs into
his hands. This is all I can do."
Amid strict security, Adebolajo, wearing a black
zipped top, was handcuffed when being taken to the
witness box, and surrounded by five security guards
while giving evidence, while plainclothes police
officers wearing wires sat elsewhere in the court.
His co-accused, Michael Adebowale, watched from
the dock, also surrounded by prison guards.
Both men deny murder, though Adebolajo, who
addressed passersby filming him with camera
phones immediately after the killing, openly
admitted attacking Rigby in his evidence.
Asked by his barrister, David Gottlieb: "What is your
defence to the charge of murder?", he said: "I am a
soldier. I am a soldier. I am a soldier of Allah. I
understand that some people might not recognise
this because we do not wear fatigues and we do not
go to the Brecon Beacons to train.
"But we are still soldiers in the sight of Allah and to
me this is all that matters. If Allah considers me a
soldier then I am a soldier."
Asked about his feelings towards Rigby's family, the
28-year-old, who referred to himself in the witness
box as Mujaahid Abu Hamza, said he had "no
animosity or bad feeling towards them, because
every soldier has family, and his family love him just
like me. My family did not stop loving me the
moment I became a soldier so I don't blame them.
"I killed somebody who they love and who is dear to
them. At the same time, people who I love who are
dear to me are killed as well. We are not the only
ones who feel pain in this country. Muslims feel pain
too. We love people too."
Asked about earlier comments that his actions had
been part of an "ongoing war", Adebolajo said:
"Basically it's a war between Islam and those
militaries that invade Muslim lands. One of them just
happens to be British military and therefore the war
continues even to this day."
The 28-year-old mumbled frequently during his
evidence and had to be told to speak directly into his
microphone, but nodded when Gottlieb led him
through the procedures of the court. Told not to
speak when Mr Justice Sweeney, referred to as "his
lordship", was speaking, he said: "I agree. I don't
believe he is a lord, but I agree."
The barrister, who had warned him he would be
stopped if he tried to embark on "political speeches",
interrupted his answers a number of times. "I'm
going off a bit, forgive me," Adebolajo said at one
point.
Asked by his barrister to outline his views on British
foreign policy since 1997, the accused said: "I am
wholeheartedly against it … When I speak to the
average non-Muslim, even they don't agree with
foreign policy and their government since 1997, so I
don't believe I am the only one."
Describing himself as a "mujahid" or jihadist fighter,
Adebolajo said he was "wholeheartedly against"
British foreign policy since 1997, adding that he
blamed Tony Blair for the death of a schoolfriend
who had been killed in the Iraq war.
Adebolajo told jurors that he was "wholeheartedly
against" British foreign policy and that he was
"disgusted" by television coverage of the US-led
shock and awe operation in Iraq in 2003.
"The Iraq war probably grated on me the most when
I was in college. I remember watching the news,
watching Trevor McDonald, I remember I saw
Operation Shock and Awe unfold on the news. I was
disgusted.
"They were reporting it as if it was something
praiseworthy … the might of the west. It disgusted
me. I wasn't Muslim at the time but it disgusted me."
Gottlieb asked what he believed should happen to
him after the trial, whether he is found guilty or
innocent of the charge, he said: "As an enemy soldier
I believe either I should be ransomed to my
Mujihadeen brothers … either ransomed back to the
Mujihadeen or I should be set free or I should be
killed."
Killed by whom, asked Gottlieb. "I don't know how it
typically works, but from what I have read from
previous wars, maybe the military, maybe a court."
He was asked why, in the moments after the killing,
he had assured horrified pedestrians who had
witnessed the attack that they were not in danger.
"Because at the best of times people can be afraid of
black men," he said. In addition to these
"unfortunate stereotypes", he acknowledged, there
was "the fact that I had blood on my hands and face,
that I had bloodied weapons".
He paid tribute, however, to the firearms officers
who gave him and Adebowale first aid after
disarming them, saying: "With regards to the
firearms officers, you can have nothing but
admiration for somebody who has the kindness to
attempt to preserve the lives of two men who on the
surface he must have thought I was going to kill
them. So for him to perform first aid, I respect that."
As for the medical team that had treated his injuries,
he said: "I believe that this country perhaps going by
what I experienced at King's College hospital,
perhaps we have the best nurses on the planet. They
were so kind … I told my family that anyone who
heard of these people … should bring them
chocolates and flowers. I respect them very much
indeed."
Adebolajo also said that he considered al-Qaida his
"brothers in Islam" and that he was radicalised in
part by television coverage of the Iraq invasion.
Asked by his Gottlieb how he could be certain that
Rigby was a soldier before the attack, Adebolajo told
the court: "Well, I don't believe there is a way to
know 100% he was a soldier. However, there was
some steps we took before we set out on the day.
"I stayed up worshipping Allah, begging him that he
make the mission a success, that we strike a soldier
and a soldier only.
"As well as that, while we were waiting we
continued to beg Allah to ensure that we did not
target anyone outside the permissibility of Islam. I
saw the soldier, he was carrying this type of bag
they all carry in Woolwich.
"Then we waited to ensure he was going towards the
entrance of the barracks. These things combined
made me certain that he was a soldier."
Asked the same question by Whittam, Adebolajo
said: "The truth is we targeted a soldier and we
killed a soldier. He was not a medic, he was a
professional soldier."
Adebolajo, who appeared to have some of his front
teeth missing, described how he was raised by
Christian parents and would attend church every
Sunday.
He said he converted to Islam in his first year at the
University of Greenwich and that it was his
"everything".
"My religion is everything," he said. "When I came to
Islam I realised that … real success is not just what
you can acquire, but really is if you make it to
paradise, because then you can relax."
Asked for his opinion on al-Qaida, Adebolajo said:
"al-Qaida I consider them a mujahid group. I love
them. They are my brothers. I never met them but I
love them. I consider them my brothers in Islam."
He later told jurors that he realised he might end up
killing a soldier when he converted to Islam.
"I never, obviously growing up I never thought about
killing a man. It's not the type of thing the young
child thinks about," he said.
"But when the soldier joins the army he knows he
will likely kill a man in his tour of duty … When I
became a Muslim I realised I might end up killing a
soldier."
Adebolajo said it was "childish" to ask how he
believes his own views compare with those of the
average British Muslim.
"I love every Muslim," he said. "Allah said it's my
duty to protect them even if they hate my guts right
now because of my actions. That's not my concern.
My concern is does Allah love me."
He said he believed that the British people have
become "so arrogant" that they believed that "only
our lives are valuable".
"The love for my mother is not greater than an
Afghanistan man for his mother," he said. "Why is
that greater than an Afghanistan man for his
mother? I don't believe this."
Adebolajo told the court that he tried to go to
Somalia in 2010 because he wanted to live in
accordance with sharia law, but was detained by
Kenyan police.
The 28-year-old, who grew up in Romford in London,
said he was arrested unjustly on two counts of
assault against police officers after attending a
demonstration. It was while being held in the police
cells after his arrest, he said, that he began to see
political protest as "impotent rage".
"It allows you to let off steam. The reality is no
demonstration will make a difference. Even the 1
million people [who] marched against the Iraq war it
did not change a single thing."
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Our leaders insult us with every available opportunity or how else do you explain Okupe coming out to make this blasphemy comparison? The two of them are light years apart.

IF THE NAME "NELSON MANDELA' IS YOURS!
THE 27 YEARS IN JAIL IS ALSO YOURS!
- It amazes me how PDP claims President Goodluck
Jonathan is the new "Nelson Mandela" and APC
elements also believes that Gen. Muhammed Buhari
should be regarded as the Nigerian Nelson Mandela.
- Can Nigerians now see how people we call leaders
have become so clueless and lack vision of their own,
but struggle to inherit the name of a man who had less
opportunities than they have had in a lifetime (and still
having), but used his to the maximum height to make
his name great?
- But what did and what are our leaders doing with
their names? or is Jonathan or Buhari not names like
Nelson?
- Now they fight to inherit Mandela's name.(Funny).
- I hope the federal government of Nigeria and the APC
also nominate Goodluck Jonathan and Gen. Buhari to
go to Jail for 27 Years like Mandela did.
- Then can they be truly Nelson Mandela.

Don't jump to conclusion cos you did not hear her own side of the story. Sadly, the dead don't speak. That account of Madam might not be true.

I graduated from Delta State University so I think I am in a good position to counter this man. Although I'm only taking his talk with a pinch of salt because we all know what the concept of politics is all about in Nigeria. He failed to point out that Abraka the community he is making so much noise about has been suffering because the government he is boasting of left it that way just to punish the citizens because that is where the opposition candidate hails from. Talking about development at the permanent site of the University, that site has always been a block industry even before I gained admission. All the Government does is to use that as a medium to steal by awarding contracts that wont be completed in twenty years time. I remember how we used to joke about it back then in school that we will be the ones to commission those buildings when we become the Governor of Delta state. The foundation for post graduate building was laid in 2005 and it was just completed last year. That was how long it took to finish a two storey building. Sir, please keep singing your praises while it lasts. Like it has been said, your days are numbered. Betrayed your own brother. Humanity has gone to the dogs. Bloody sycophant.

I think the Government is now coming up with the blaming game because of articles like this, they feel ASUU has lost public sympathy which is not true cos if you ask me, I say ride on ASUU.

I'm a Nigerian and I gave my vote to the best in Africa. YAYA TOURE.

In 1990, at the age of five, Luo Gang was kidnapped and sold to a family in another part of China. Unable to remember his parents' names or the village they lived in, he stood little chance of ever going home. But 23 years later he did.

Luo Gang had waited a long time for this bowl of noodles.

"Is it tasty?" his mother asks. "Do you want some chilli sauce or something?"

"No, no. It's OK," he replies.

Luo had been a small boy the last time he had eaten his mother's cooking. Now this simple meal marked a reunion that for so long had seemed impossible.

"Don't think about it, just eat," his mother says as she dabs the tears that have begun to flow from her boy's eyes. Luo's father turns to address the crowd of well-wishers that have turned out for his son's homecoming.

"Eating noodles on the first day back home will bring security and health," he says. "I hope everybody is safe and sound."

Play
Luo Gang's biological mother cooked him a bowl of noodles on his return home
The tender scene is the happy ending to a story that begins in 1990. Back then Luo was a schoolboy called Huang Jan, living in Yaojia Village, Sichuan Province. His father was a builder and his mother ran a shop. He had a younger brother. It was a modest but happy childhood - and he remembers well the day it changed.

"I was going to kindergarten and there was a man and a woman," Luo says. "I thought they were friends of my father so I went with them.

"I was transferred from car to car. Later on I was told I was in a mountainous area in Fujian province."

The bewildered schoolboy had been taken to Sanming, 1,500 km (900 miles) away where life with a completely different family awaited him. Luo was given a new name and introduced to a new sister.

He had become one of thousands of children abducted every year in China, very few of whom will ever return home. The country's one-child policy and lax adoption laws has fuelled an underground market for trafficked children. Earlier this year a police chief in Fujian claimed over 10,000 children had been trafficked in 2012 in his province alone.

"I was very afraid, but I had been abducted and I had no choice," says Luo, who at first assumed living with this new family would be temporary. But when he realised there would be no reunion with his parents, Luo made the decision to start rehearsing his fading memories, determined that one day he would use them to find his way home.

So each night as he lay in bed, Luo repeated what he could remember of his life before.

How he and his brother used to play on an old stone bridge opposite their little house with a tiled roof. How he had once fallen off the bridge and hurt his back. That there were two streams outside and how they used to cross rice fields to get to school.

"I was like a computer," Luo says. "I tried to keep my memories of family and the geographical surroundings - I didn't even really know my own name."


A childhood picture of Luo on Baby Come Home website (L) and later pictures
Luo's new parents never explained why he had been taken before they died two years after his arrival. Nor did the "grandparents" who raised him after that.

"I was angry about it but they treated me quite well," Luo says of the couple he affectionately now calls grandpa and grandma. It is likely that his adoptive parents had paid traffickers to deliver them a boy - he thinks for as little as 5,000 RMB (£500) - though today Luo is keen to avoid blaming them for their actions.

Back in Sichuan, Luo's birth family had grown frantic. The local police made no progress with the case and his mother and father, Dai Jianfang and Huang Qingyong, took to handing out leaflets in neighbouring towns and placing newspaper adverts.

But as the years passed and their savings dwindled, the distraught couple scaled back their search and adopted a girl.

Luo, meanwhile, finished school and went on to complete national service with the fire brigade. Though he had settled in to his new life, his desire to be reunited with his birth family was growing stronger.


"Fallen leaves will always find their way back to their roots," he says, reciting a Chinese idiom. He registered with a government website that had been set up to reunite abducted children and their families. "I hit many dead ends but I kept on," he says.

In October 2012, when Luo was 27, he turned to a website called Baby Come Home, a volunteer-run forum where parents and abducted children share details of their cases. Luo posted details of everything he could remember - those memories that he had spent years rehearsing each night.

"I was 110 cm high," he wrote. "I had big eyes. On my left hand there is a scar that I got from moving stones in a river."

He did not know the name of the village but he thought that he might be from somewhere in Sichuan - as a teenager, he recalled, a neighbour once remarked that he had addressed her with a piece of Sichuan dialect.

Luo posted a photo of himself which had been taken by his adoptive parents not long after his abduction. He added a description of the red sweater with a white swan motif that he had been wearing on the day he was snatched (he presumed this had been knitted by his mother).

"I ate braised pork at home, with a bit of couscous or sorghum on top," he noted.

"My house was built with tiles. Nothing special. The road was a tar road, newly built. Many trucks ran on it. It seemed like a main road.

"There were small hills nearby. The river flowed towards the town. There was no rail near home, just that road."

One of the bridges had been carried away by a flood, he thought.


Luo posted photos that showed a scar on his hand sustained before his abduction
The site's volunteers quickly began to consider the clues.

"In 1990, people from east of Sichuan Basin didn't grow couscous and sorghum," a volunteer suggested.

"If there was a tar road, that means it wasn't a poor area," added another. "It must be a suburban area."

Next, Luo posted a map of his village that he drew from memory. The bridges. The walk to school through the rice fields. He thought that the newly built tar road could have been a motorway.

Over the following months, Luo's case was discussed on the forum and volunteers posted names of towns for him to consider. Even if he was correct in thinking he came from Sichuan province, that still left an area of nearly 500,000 sq km to consider - twice the size of the UK - and with a population of more than 80 million.

But slowly the search was being narrowed. Records of heavy rainfall and areas affected by floods in the late 1980s were checked. Another volunteer looked up newspaper cuttings that had announced the construction of new roads.

Then in March came Luo's first breakthrough. A motorway map from 1990 had been obtained. If Luo had indeed lived by a motorway, the volunteer reasoned, the search could be narrowed dramatically - the map showed that at the time there were only two motorways in the area.

Luo zoomed in on the satellite imagery and began working his way down the route of the motorway.

"Look into the rivers that flow to the town at 90 degrees," urged the volunteer. "And places where people grow rice and sweet potatoes."

On 26 April, Luo's digital trek took him to Yaojia Village in Linshui County. It was here that he saw two bridges crossing a river with a distinctive turn. He found what could have been his old school. Opposite, where he remembered a building site, now stood a giant ceramics factory. Everything made sense.

"My hands were shaking, I typed many things wrong," Luo says. "I could see the river and about 100m (330ft) from my house there was the main road."


Luo's map drawn from memory proved to be accurate
A volunteer from the website agreed to check out the area. "Yes," came the reply. "The building is still a school!" One of the bridges had also been damaged by a flood in 1989 - just as Luo had remembered.

This discovery coincided with another extraordinary piece of news. A volunteer had checked the area for details of abducted children and a couple who had lost a child at the same time as Luo went missing had come forward. They said the boy had the nickname "Xiaodong" - Luo said he remembers being called by the name "Zhendong".

"I told my adopted sister and she said it was best that I go and have a look without telling grandpa and grandma," Luo says. He was certain that he had found home and arranged to meet his parents as soon as possible.

"I flew to Chongqing and at 09:20 on the morning of 9 May I met my parents. I was quite calm but my mum was really excited and she cried."

The whole village turned out to meet their lost son. Firecrackers announced his arrival and tables for a lavish meal were laid in the street.

A volunteer from Baby Come Home filmed the proceedings.

"The stove is still here!" Luo is heard to say as he enters his old home. His brother Huang Chao asks if he remembers the water tank - "there used to be a cupboard on it," he prompts.

"I often used a stool to climb up for the goodies stored up there!" replies Luo.

"Do you remember, Xiaodong?" asks his maternal grandmother. "This was your home."

The compelling footage found its way to a television station, and Luo's adoptive grandparents - unaware of the reunion - were watching back home.


Luo with his family after their reunion
"They rang me up and they were quite sad," says Luo. "They said it's good that you've found your birthplace. Enjoy a few days, but come home soon. I spent eight days there and then returned to Fujian."

"My father asked me to stay but I didn't agree at first, because I was waiting for the results of a DNA test. I was quite sure they were my parents but it's better to rely on the scientific tests to be certain."

Today Luo, who has returned to live with his biological parents, is circumspect about his abduction.

"I thought at first that it broke one family. Now I think it broke two families," he says. "My adoptive family raised me for 23 years. But my biological family are family. I don't have a paradox - I think of both of them as my homes and I will spend time with both."

The reunion allows Luo to honour a promise he made to himself that he would only marry his girlfriend when he had found his birth parents. With a wedding planned for next year, both families are invited.
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Vote Julius Agwu to replace Saka.
NCC go dey fine dem, Julius Agwu sef go dey one corner dey request for 100 million. Una wan wreck the company?
Fingers crossed cos if dem pay, MTN dey trouble for my hand. 200 million on my mind.

Bash92: Mikel and Moses need your vote to win the BBC
African footballer of the year.
The voting is closing tonight. www.nairaland.com/1531069/lets-vote-mikel-moses-bbc

. Thanks, I don vote for Yaya Toure.

Make all of una dey form oyinbo there. Na magun kill am.

If true, no need to go for judgement. Na to ask Apostle Peter where road to hell fire dey

See as these people dey call billion when man pikin neva chop morning food. E no go better for all of una wey steal unborn generation future.

2 Agbayas

Voted in 2007 and 2011 so don't tell me about active voters talking. I will also be in my room

Fhemmmy: Why are you people so mean like this to this woman . . . I am sure she never "it is a writing" this one . ..Lol

Is she a your former teachers?

Na we dey carry first for religion and I sure say na we go carry first for hell fire population alongside India. Having said that, I will expect Akpabio to dress in Santa Clause attire and start giving out cash and vehicles like he was already doing before christmas.

I just pity the teacher, the beating might be a factor but not also ruling out the possibility that other factors might be associated. May we not fall victims of traps set by enemies from the village.

nutty_hnic:

Saying Ondo is a sh1t hole is fair enough, trust me.
By the way i m from Delta.

The entire Ondo is a mess.

Hey small brain, I am from Delta state, had my University days in Delta but born in Ondo State and I have lived there all my life. I beg to disagree with this white lie of yours. Maybe you were posted to a remote area which I think every state in Nigeria is guilty of having, but for you to label the whole of Ondo State as a shithole! Only a villager from Delta could have said that. Can you boast of anywhere in Delta State, even Asaba itself is more of an apology. Finally, word to the wise: desist from that made in Abbey Igbo you have been smoking. Its not good for your health.

tbaba1234:

Up till today, Arabic words/culture are still in the university system.

Alumni comes from the word Alim (which means a knowledgeable one).

Even the design of the graduation thobe is from the muslims....

The roots are still there.

We are talking of the things that laid the foundation for the modern world not the finished products.

No need to get worked up over this. Every civilisation has made some contribution to the modern world.

No be only the root dey there, d tree sef dey there. Alim ko, Boy Alinco ni.

If I become a billionaire today, I will first go to Aboki stand and buy suya worth of 100,000 naira and after that, I'll start thinking of what to do with the remaining money.