This Blog is by Osbert E. Agho, a Benin City, Edo State based businessman and a prominent politician. On this blog, you will get first hand, and hard to find news items, commentaries and events happening around the World and Nigeria. News about the every day people and their environment. Enjoy reading news will uplift mankind.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
This is my response to Mr Akin on Edo Political Forum on gun ownership....@ Akin Etin- Ojehomon
Sr my dream is to arm every Nigerian. According to Smith and Wesson an America
gun manufacturers, which said in an advert in the early '50s, that God made man
in his own image but that Smith and Wesson made them equal. The question now is
that how do guns make men equal?
Friday, January 4, 2013
This is my response to a
post on Edo Political Forum EPF by Jeff Ikhinmwin asking for support for the
funding of the stem cell research at the University of Benin Teaching
Hospital in Benin City ...... @
Jeff Ikhimwwin the stem cell
program is a great project which everyone should be proud of. We should
show concern, however there are questions that we need to ask those incharge
at UBTH. They should tell us how much has the Federal government invested
in this stem cell project? How many patients have benefited from all that
money the FGN pumped into it?
Many people in the polity are already saying
it is a scam when considering the huge investment and the return on
investment. We should ask questions and not allow our emotions to lead us into
an obviously inefficient program.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
A response by against book harram I saw in today’s vanguard 25/12/12 on the
killing of Christians up North in Yobe State.
My fellow Christians if you are in an area that is
prone to violence from boko harram like yobe and you want to do an all night
service, please arm 10 of your members with an UZI each and station them
strategically. I tell you boko boko will be a thing of the past. I am just
tired of hearing this rubbish. The only message they understand is an eye for
an eye.
In his response Pluto said all will be blind
@ Pluto
that is over simplification. Let me tell you there are no churches in Nigeria
where boko boko can kill more than 50 worshipers in one church service. But
there are thousands of mosques in Nigeria were any crazy christian can take out
thousand of Muslim without even jeopardizing himself. Does it take rocket
science to obtain and throw a bomb at their Friday meetings? Why are they so
dumb? Do they think if Christians want to throw bombs at them that na that yeye
and primitive IED level. Some smart Muslim leaders should warn those boko boko
so that they dont drag you all to your early grave.It was Malcom X that said if
some one slaps you make sure he does not have a hand to slap another. A word is
enough for the wise.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Merry Christmas to every member of this great Edo PoliticalFforum. As 2012 draws to a close let us let bye gone be bye gone. If we have been opportune in the time past to assist friends in their times of need it should never become an issue of public discuss. We all can use a help . It helps sometimes when your friends knows that you can keep some personal things about them to yourself and will not run them down in the public. I do not see anything that can not be resolved over a bottle of "beer" My late Uncle and a popular transporter in Benin City in the early 70's once told his son that he was an investment risk. One of his son approached him for a loan to execute a contract. So he ask the young man for a collateral and the son proudly said Dad I am your son that is my guaranty. My uncle asked what of if you are crossing the road tomorrow morning and a trailer crushes you who will pay my money? and what will you tell God you did with my money? If you can not let go of the money do not borrow to a friend. Again MERRY CHRISTMAS to all on EPF.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Wonders and
the mystery of Death will never end. Yesterday the 20th of December
2012 at the upper sokponba road area of Benin City, tragedy struck when a fight
ensued over #20.00 and a young/fresh University graduate lost his life. The
story was that the young graduate took Okada (a motor bike used as a means of transport in
Nigeria) to his house. The Hausa bike rider had charged the graduate passenger
#100.00 but on getting to the graduate’s destination/family house he paid the
bike rider #80.00 instead of the agreed #100.00. The bike rider refused the
offer and the graduate threw the money on the ground and worked away. The bike
rider insisted on getting his complete money and that the money should be
handed to him and not thrown on the flour. A woman in the neighbourhood who
watched for a while came out and added the balance #20.00. But the bike rider
refused and said the graduate should pick the money from the ground and give it
to him personally. After a long argument and persuasion from his neighbours the
graduate then agreed to pick the money up. However, as he bent down to do so the Hausa boy pick
up a piece of firewood that the boys mother sells and struck the graduate on
the head. The force was much that the boys eyes popped out of the skull and he
died on the way to the hospital. As the Hausa boy was about to escape the neighbourhood
boys apprehended him and handed him over to the police.
Some people
are of the view that if such a thing had happened in the North that they would
have lynched the non native instantly. The Benins they say are very accommodative. Others are also saying
that the late graduate and other youths in that area are always of the habit of
entering okada and not paying the riders
that the reason the people did not lynch the Hausa boy was that they did not
like the injustice.
The graduate
has carelessly wasted his life, caused pain for his parents and made the
Christmas a miserable holiday for all concern. I hear the graduate is from the
Royal Family of Ugo in Iyeke-Orhionmion. They say his father was the one that
held the enogieship unbehalf of the current Enogie of Ugo who was then too
young to ascend the throne.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
In response to a post by Akin Etin- Ojehomon Sr on employment discrimination in the USA...... That is the more reason we should all come home and develop a concept for our people. The Yoruba's are doing it in Lagos and Nigeria. When the big companies come to Nigeria and anchor in Lagos they make sure that their people staff all the sensitive positions by the time the company grows and expands to other states they send Yoruba managers to man their branches even the churches like Baptist, RCCG, Anglican, Catholics, Living Faith etc are also ran this way. They all have Yoruba managers/Bishop in Benin City. Who come be mumu? I will surfer racism overseas and then at home. However, if we come together we can also create a NICHE for our people.
There is the news making rounds that the late governor of Kaduna state who died in a helicopter crash a few days back will be replaced by his wife as the deputy governor. This is the most civilise action of the Nigeria Political class. It is a civilise thing to do. The Americans do it every time. There is HOPE for my country.
This is my response to a post by Henry Igiede on EPF lamenting the protest of Edo Courier service over the non payment of their 14 months salary. ....Genuine concern but in that 14 months how much did the courier company make? What was the contribution of each and everyone of them towards running down the company? When I see retired civil servants complaining about the non payment of their dues I always laugh at them because if when they were in the service they corrected the abnormally or made life easy for those before them they would not be experiencing the non payment now. People should always do what is right.
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