Arsenal Special

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger will not let the club's 125th anniversary overshadow his goal of victory over Everton on Saturday. The Gunners lost 3-1 in the Champions League to Olympiakos on Tuesday, but the side fielded was significantly weaker than the one likely to be deployed for the hosting of the Merseyside club at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday in the English Premier League. And while Wenger is only too happy to acknowledge the club's rich history, he does not want to allow it to get in the way of a win over David Moyes' men. "History is one thing, performance on the day is another, and that is what is important for us at the moment," said the Frenchman, whose side is fifth on the league table. "We are in a position where we just want to collect points because the pace dictated by the teams in front of us is tremendous." "To keep in touch with them it is important we win our games." Wenger has successfully orchestrated a complete turnaround of the Gunners' form, after their season looked destined for disappointment. A humiliating 8-2 loss to Manchester United in August was the low point for the north London club, but - thanks in no small part to in-form striker and captain Robin van Persie - they are currently on a fine run heading towards Christmas. "We know we fight for our lives in the Premier League," Wenger said. "We have come back to a decent position and want to climb high up." "Our job is to focus to reach our targets, to make history but to leave it to other responsible people at the club to honour those who have already made history." "We are there to perform, and that is what we want to do tomorrow." Wenger revealed full-back Andre Santos will be out for longer than originally thought, with the Gunners making contingency plans in his absence. "We have lost Santos for a while because the ankle injury is more severe than expected," Wenger said. "How long he will be out we do not know, but it will be more than three weeks so he is definitely out for the Christmas period, that is for sure." "With (Kieran ) Gibbs not being available yet, we have a problem on both flanks with two right full-backs and two left full-backs out." Thomas Vermaelen is likely to step in at left- back for the meantime, with Wenger aware that playing the Belgian out of position is 'not ideal'. "Let' s hope we get away with it," he said. "It's not ideal at the moment, but that's part of the team as well, to adapt to problems and get over them." "We are where we want to be " we are a team who has improved the levels of performances and the level of confidence, but there is still room for improvement."

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Cheat List

See the keyboard? Type the cheats (displayed in CAPs) to get the effect. Note that Cap Sense does not apply to the cheats! • THUGSTOOLS ~ Weapon set #1 • PROFESSIONALTOOLS ~ Weapon set #2 • NUTTERTOOLS ~ Weapon set #3 • ASPIRINE ~ Restore health • PRECIOUSPROTECTION ~ Gain/restore armor • ICANTTAKEITANYMORE ~ Kill self • YOUWONTTAKEMEALIVE ~ Increase Wanted Level • LEAVEMEALONE ~ Decrease Wanted Level • FANNYMAGNET ~ Female actors follow player • CERTAINDEATH ~ Tommy smokes a cigarette • DEEPFRIEDMARSBARS ~ Player model changed to fat • PROGRAMMER ~ Player model changed to skinny • STILLLIKEDRESSINGUP ~ Player model changed randomly • CHEATSHAVEBEENCRACKED ~ Player model is Ricardo Diaz • LOOKLIKELANCE ~ Player model is Lance Vance • MYSONISALAWYER ~ Player model is Ken Rosenberg • LOOKLIKEHILARY ~ Player model is Hilary King • ROCKANDROLLMAN ~ Player model is Love Fist rocker #1 • WELOVEOURDICK ~ Player model is Love Fist rocker #2 • ONEARMEDBANDIT ~ Player model is Phil Cassidy • IDONTHAVETHEMONEYSONNY ~ Player model is Sonny Forelli • FOXYLITTLETHING ~ Player model is Mercedes • PANZER ~ Spawns a Rhino Tank • TRAVELINSTYLE ~ Spawns a Bloodring Banger • GETTHEREQUICKLY ~ Spawns a Bloodring Banger (alternate) • GETTHEREFAST ~ Spawns a Sabre Turbo • GETTHEREVERYFASTINDEED ~ Spawns a Hotring Racer • GETTHEREAMAZINGLYFAST ~ Spawns a Hotring Racer (alternate) • THELASTRIDE ~ Spawns a Romero's Hearse • ROCKANDROLLCAR ~ Spawns a Love Fist Stretch/Limo • RUBBISHCAR ~ Spawns a Trashmaster • BETTERTHANWALKING ~ Spawns a Golf Caddie • BIGBANG ~ Explodes nearby cars • MIAMITRAFFIC ~ Aggressive AI driving on • AHAIRDRESSERSCAR ~ All cars become pink • IWANTITPAINTEDBLACK ~ All cars become black • COMEFLYWITHME ~ Flying cars cheat • GRIPISEVERYTHING ~ Vehicle handling improved • GREENLIGHT ~ All traffic signals green • SEAWAYS ~ Cars hover over water • WHEELSAREALLINEED ~ Only car wheels visible • LOADSOFLITTLETHINGS ~ Some cars have big wheels • HOPINGIRL ~ Actors get into player's current car • ALOVELYDAY ~ Weather sunny • APLEASANTDAY ~ Weather overcast • ABITDRIEG ~ Weather very overcast • CANTSEEATHING ~ Weather foggy • CATSANDDOGS ~ Weather stormy • LIFEISPASSINGMEBY ~ Time compression (speeds up game time) • ONSPEED ~ Time compression (alternate) • BOOOOOORING ~ Time expansion • CHASESTAT ~ Shows Media Level • FIGHTFIGHTFIGHT ~ Actors all attack (riot cheat) • NOBODYLIKESME ~ Actors attack player • CHICKSWITHGUNS ~ Female actors armed • OURGODGIVENRIGHTTOBEARARMS ~ All actors armed • CHASESTAT ~ Show media level (when 2+ stars):

The Official Launch of the MTN Platinum Plus Club – 3rd December 2011

Come this Saturday 3rd December 2011, one of Nigeria’s leading telecommunications company – MTN is set to launch the MTN Platinum Plus Club.

MTN Platinum Plus Club is one of the many ways the telecommunications brand is rewarding its loyal and high usage subscribers.

According to Bola Akingbade (MTN’s Chief Marketing Officer) “MTN Platinum Plus club is the first of its kind in Nigeria’s telecoms space. The creation of the club is a demonstration of our genuine appreciation of our customers support over the years. It is a reward scheme based on all the products and services they use and not just on voice.”

This event will attract captains of industry, top technocrats, high ranking government officials and other high net worth individuals and it is expected to be a fun night as guests will treated to a night of unrivaled entertainment and excitement by some Nigerian and international artistes – Evergreen Musical Band, Sisters with Voices (SWV) and Mid Night Star.

VERISON'S GALAXY NEXUS PRICE $199.99
A holiday ad makes it look like Samsung's Galaxy Nexus will costa hair shy of $200 from Verizon.
(Credit: Android Police) A holiday-themed Flash ad makes it appear that Samsung's Galaxy Nexus , the phone that's carrying Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" to market , will cost$199.99 through Verizon.
The phone has gone on sale in the United Kingdom , but has yet to appear in the United States. The phone has a large 4.65-inch touch screen, a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, a 1080p videocamera and 720p screen, and 4G LTE speeds on Verizon's wireless network, but its mostnotable feature is the next-gen operating system from Google.
Android Police spotted the ad, notingthat it points to a Verizon special offerspage . That could mean that the Galaxy Nexus might not always have a $200 price tag; the same ad promotes the$149.99 Stratosphere for a price of $99.99 and the $199.99 Droid Charge for a price of $99.99.
Needless to say, thoseprices require a two-year contract whose monthly fees ultimately will dwarf the original purchase price.
Verizon will begin selling the Galaxy Nexus later in 2011 , Samsung has said.
The Galaxy Nexus can be had for anywhere from free to 169 pounds ($) from the initial U.K. sales partner, Phones4U , with varying two-year contracs. Outside the U.S., though, the phone supports only 3G networking and has 16GB of flash memory, compared toLTE and 32GB in the Verizon incarnation.
Samsung's Galaxy Nexus.

TIME AND DEATH OF BIAFRAN WARLORD

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and politician. Ojukwu served as the military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria in 1966, the leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970 and a leading Nigerian politician from 1983 to 2011, when he died, aged 78.

Career
Ojukwu came into national prominence upon his appointment as military governor in 1966 and his actions thereafter. A military coup against the civilian Nigerian federal government in January 1966 and a counter coup in July 1966 by different military factions, perceived to be ethnic coups, resulted in pogroms in Northern Nigeria in which Igbos were predominantly killed. Ojukwu who was not an active participant in either coup was appointed the military governor of Nigeria's Eastern region in January 1966 by General Aguyi Ironsi.

He led talks to seek an end to the hostilities by seeking peace with the then Nigerian military leadership, headed by General Yakubu Gowon (Nigeria's head of state following the July 1966 counter coup). The military leadership met in Aburi Ghana (the Aburi Accord), but the agreement reached there was not implemented to all parties satisfaction upon their return to Nigeria. The failure to reach a suitable agreement, the decision of the Nigerian military leadership to establish new states in the Eastern Region and the continued pogrom in Northern Nigeria led Ojukwu to announce a breakaway of the Eastern Region under the new name Biafra republic in 1967. These sequence of events sparked the Nigerian Civil War. Ojukwu led the Biafran forces and on the defeat of Biafra in January 1970, and after he had delegated instructions to Philip Effiong he went into exile for 13 years, returning to Nigeria following a pardon.

Early life and education

Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu-Ojukwu was born on 4 November 1933 at Zungeru in northern Nigeria to Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, a businessman from Nnewi in south-eastern Nigeria. Sir Louis was in the transport business; he took advantage of the business boom during the Second World War to become one of the richest men in Nigeria. He began his educational career in Lagos, southwestern Nigeria.

In 1944, he was briefly imprisoned for assaulting a white British colonial teacher who was humiliating a black woman at King's College in Lagos, an event which generated widespread coverage in local newspapers. At 13, his father sent him overseas to study in the UK, first at Epsom College and later at Lincoln College, Oxford University, where he earned a Masters degree in history. He returned to colonial Nigeria in 1956.

Early career
He joined the civil service in Eastern Nigeria as an Administrative Officer at Udi, in present-day Enugu State. In 1957, within months of working with the colonial civil service, he left and joined the military as one of the first and few university graduates to join the army: O. Olutoye (1956); C. Odumegwu-Ojukwu (1957), E. A. Ifeajuna and C. O. Rotimi (1960), and A. Ademoyega (1962).

Ojukwu's background and education guaranteed his promotion to higher ranks. At that time, the Nigerian Military Forces had 250 officers and only 15 were Nigerians. There were 6,400 other ranks, of which 336 were British. After serving in the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in the Congo, under Major General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi, Ojukwu was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1964 and posted to Kano, where he was in charge of the 5th Battalion of the Nigerian Army.

1966 Coups and events leading to Nigeria-Biafra civil war
Lieutenant-Colonel Ojukwu was in Kano, northern Nigeria, when Major Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu on 15 January 1966 executed and announced the bloody military coup in Kaduna, also in northern Nigeria. It is to Ojukwu's credit that the coup lost much steam in the north, where it had succeeded. Lt. Col. Odumegwu-Ojukwu supported the forces loyal to the Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Major-General Aguiyi-Ironisi. Major Nzeogwu was in control of Kaduna, but the coup had failed in other parts of the country.

Aguiyi-Ironsi took over the leadership of the country and thus became the first military head of state. On Monday, 17 January 1966, he appointed military governors for the four regions. Lt. Col. Odumegwu-Ojukwu was appointed Military Governor of Eastern Region. Others were: Lt.-Cols Hassan Usman Katsina (North), Francis Adekunle Fajuyi (West), and David Akpode Ejoor (Mid West). These men formed the Supreme Military Council with Brigadier B.A.O Ogundipe, Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon, Chief of Staff Army HQ, Commodore J. E. A. Wey, Head of Nigerian Navy, Lt. Col. George T. Kurubo, Head of Air Force.[citation needed]

By 29 May 1966, there was a pogrom in northern Nigeria during which Nigerians of southeastern Nigeria origin were targeted and killed. This presented problems for Odumegwu Ojukwu. He did everything in his power to prevent reprisals and even encouraged people to return, as assurances for their safety had been given by his supposed colleagues up north and out west. On 29 July 1966, a group of officers, including Majors Murtala Ramat Rufai Muhammed, Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, and Martin Adamu, led the majority Northern soldiers in a mutiny that was later tagged "counter-coup". The coup failed in the South-Eastern part of Nigeria where Ojukwu was a Governor, due to the effort of the brigade commander and hesitation of northern officers stationed in the region (from the fact that they know they will not leave the area alive if they kill southern officers/ soldiers).

The Supreme Commander General Aguiyi-Ironsi and his host Colonel Fajuyi were abducted and killed in Ibadan but their status(dead or alive) were not declared by Federal government by which Ojukwu insisted. On acknowledging Ironsi's death, he insisted that the military hierarchy must be preserved. In that case, most senior army officer after Ironsi was Brigadier Ogundipe, should take over leadership, not Colonel Gowon (the coup plotters choice), however the leaders of the counter-coup insisted that Colonel Gowon be made head of state. Both Gowon & Ojukwu were of the same rank in Nigeria Army then (Lt. Colonel). Ogundipe could not mustered enough force in Lagos to establish his authority as soldiers (Guard Batalion) available to him were under Joseph Garba who was part of the coup, it was realisation of this that led Ogundipe to opted out. Thus, Ojukwu insistence can not be enforced by Ogunipe unless the coup ploters agreed (which they did not).

Leader of Biafra "General Ojukwu"
In January 1967, the Nigerian military leadership went to Aburi, Ghana for a peace conference hosted by General Joseph Ankrah. The implementation of the agreements reached at Aburi fell apart upon the leaderships return to Nigeria and on 30 May 1967,as a result of this, Colonel Odumegwu-Ojukwu declared Eastern Nigeria a sovereign state to be known as BIAFRA:

"Having mandated me to proclaim on your behalf, and in your name, that Eastern Nigeria be a sovereign independent Republic, now, therefore I, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall, henceforth, be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of The Republic of Biafra."

(No Place To Hide -- Crises And Conflicts Inside Biafra, Benard Odogwu, 1985

On 6 July 1967, Gowon declared war and attacked Biafra. For 30 months, the war raged on. Now General Odumegwu-Ojukwu knew that the odds against the new republic were overwhelming. Most European states recognised the illegitimacy of the Nigerian military rule and banned all future supplies of arms, but the UK government substantially increased its supplies, even sending British Army and Royal Air Force advisors.[citation needed]

After three years of non-stop fighting and starvation, a hole did appear in the Biafran front lines and this was exploited by the Nigerian military. As it became obvious that all was lost, Ojukwu was convinced to leave the country to avoid his certain assassination. On 9 January 1970, General Odumegwu-Ojukwu handed over power to his second in command, Chief of General Staff Major-General Philip Effiong, and left for Côte d'Ivoire, where President Felix Houphöet-Biogny — who had recognized Biafra on 14 May 1968 — granted him political asylum.[citation needed]

There was one controversial issue during the Biafra war, the killing of some members of the July 1966 coup plot and Major Victor Banjo. They were executed for treason, that could not be without the approval of the Biafra Supreme commander. Major Ifejuna was one of those executed. More or so, there was a mystery on how Nzeogwu died in Biafra enclaved while doing a raid against Nigeria army on behalf of Biafra.

After Biafra
After 13 years in exile, the Federal Government of Nigeria under President Shehu Aliyu Usman Shagari granted an official pardon to Odumegwu-Ojukwu and opened the road for a triumphant return in 1982. The people of Nnewi gave him the now very famous chieftaincy title of Ikemba (Strength of the people), while the entire Igbo nation took to calling him Dikedioramma ("beloved hero of the masses"). His foray into politics was disappointing to many, who wanted him to stay above the fray. The ruling party, NPN, rigged him out of the senate seat, which was purportedly lost to a relatively little known state commissioner in then Governor Jim Nwobodo's cabinet called Dr. Edwin Onwudiwe. The second Republic was truncated on 31 December 1983 by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, supported by General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and Brigadier Sani Abacha. The junta proceeded to arrest and to keep Ojukwu in Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison, Lagos, alongside most prominent politicians of that era. Without ever charged with any crimes, he was unconditionally released from detention on 1 October 1984, alongside 249 other politicians of that era -- former Ministers Adamu Ciroma and Maitama Sule were also on that batch of released politicians. In ordering his release, the Head of State, General Buhari said inter alia: "While we will not hesitate to send those found with cases to answer before the special military tribunal, no person will be kept in detention a-day longer than necessary if investigations have not so far incriminated him." (WEST AFRICA, 8 October 1984)



After the ordeal in Buhari's prisons, Dim Odumegwu-Ojukwu continued to play major roles in the advancement of the Igbo nation in a democracy because

"As a committed democrat, every single day under an un-elected government hurts me. The citizens of this country are mature enough to make their on choices, just as they have the right to make their own mistakes".

Ojukwu had played a significant in Nigeria return to democracy since 1999 (the fourth Republic). He had contested as presidential candidate of his party, All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA)for the last three of the four elections. Until his illness, he remain the party leader. The party control two states in and largely influential in largely igbo ethnic area of Nigeria.

Death
On 26 November 2011, Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu died in a london hospital of the United Kingdom, aged 78.

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