Happy Birthday to our Moderator

Dear Ikenna,Larry & all,

Thank you for the birthday wishes.

My birthday announcement sounded like a 'coded word ' for the victory of Obama, but it was really my birth day.. that of Ndy and St Charles day i.e 4th November. You can imagine there were and still are many things to celebrate.

I am still riding high on Obamas' victory, other celebrations will follow as soon as time permits.

Ikenna, I am flattered by your words.'uno fa quello che può' 0ne does what he can.

Thank you onec more.

Charles

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Dear Charles,

I join the train of congratulations to wish you a wonderful birthday and many wonderful and prosperous years ahead.

L.T.

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To: NIGERIAN_DIASPORA@ yahoogroups. com
From: ikennakelvin@ yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 09:03:05 -0800
Subject: [NIGERIAN_DIASPORA] Happy Birthday to our Moderator

Dear Charles and all, Sometimes they say age is a question of number but we have very often neglected the fact that in our fast paced world today...everything is reducible to number. Oga Charly has added one to whichever number he had before and it is my pleasure as a friend and a member of this forum to wish him HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MANY RETURNS. I am not given to praises, but praises withheld when they are due is a kind of injustice. Charles has served this community in a way that has actually raised the standard of our communication and relationships in the community and beyond. Through this forum, people have been linked up from many parts of the world. No matter how you think you are getting to receive too much of what is sent, imagine the effort and resilience that goes into making me and you focused on the the real events about us and around us. Oga Charly, if we divide the number of your posts to this forum by the number of your years, i am almost certain that the ratio will show both the mental and physical resources you have put into this among many of your other interesting ventures. I wish you a fulfilling life ahead. It is obvious that your loved ones have contributed immensely and still do contribute to the quality of life you live today. Extend our love and affection to them in the most sincere way and keep the flag flying. It is not for nothing that we call you moderator... you have demonstrated that even though we are in an unfriendly environment like Italy...yet we can...and really yes we can.... History...your birthday and the day the first black man was elected into the white house...is a testimony to the history you can make. Once again...happy birthday and many more years. Ikenna

WHY OBAMA TO USA AND WE BERLOSCONI???

Well well, for foreigner living in Italy today it was a double sweet sensation to see Obama and family greet the nation as the USA President elect.

The joy was general even within the Chines community noted for their withdrawn attitude to things that do not connect them and their business directly. All foreigners found a point of unity in this victory.

The exchange of congratulatory compliments and greetings , feasts , offers of coffees and drinks in bars and pizzerias were fantastic. Every black (even Indians etc) person in the community I live was a toast . I think I have at least a paid coffee in each of the 25 bars in the area I live .
The average Italian was happy because Obama represented hope ; something that is becoming more elusive daily here in Italy. '.......He is handsome, elegant, energetic, intelligent and a new unifying personality a sign of equality, liberty, democracy and freedom that has not been full established for us Italians,,,' said some of the young people I spoke with at work.

Most people liked him "... just because P.M Berlusconi didn't like him...." Berlusconi was the only European Head of state that declared openly his preference for MacCain during the campaign.
Others Italians just didn't care for anything but the fact that someone was able to "...interrupt Bushissmo...." which they feared McCain may have continued to propagate.

Therefore ladies and gentlemen, not every Italian is Silivio or Gasapperi. As usual the politicians here speak and act different from those who elected them.
Click on the links below and read some of their reactions. Our English might not be the best , but it is a part of the fun......

• Italians react to Silvio's color jokes

• PROTESTS AGAINST SILVIO S REMARKS IN ROME
  

HAMILTON NAKI..THE BLACK CLANDESTINE

I've shared a document with you called "HAMILTON NAKI..THE BLACK CLANDESTINE":

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ds8gnng_0dfzbbsfx&invite=cncj7ff

It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs. To open this document, just click the link above.

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BELOW ARE SOME LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION ON HAMILTON NAKI

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Naki
• http://it.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1041544130/Naki_Hamilton.html

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Chukwubike Okey C.