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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a forensic audit of the operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission from 2001 to 2019. The decision followed persistent criticisms of the operations of the commission. A statement by the Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Femi Adesina, said Buhari gave the directive after receiving governors of the states that make up the NCDC, led by Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State. The President said what was presently on ground in the South-South region did not justify the huge resources that had been made available to the agency. He said, “I try to follow the…
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In politics rumours, lies and propaganda play major roles. But it is quite unfortunate but true. Since after the Second World where Gobbels ran the Hiltler Propaganda machine, lies and gossips seem to now dominate political spaces. Imo State is not left out in this trend. In Imo politics of today, gossips and lies are the major ingredients that are thriving. And unfortunately, the tale Bearers mostly succeed because our Leaders tend to give much ear to rumours and lies, therefore making Loafers who dwell on heresay prominent in the political scene of Imo State. And because Tale bearers are…
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Amid a brutal backlash from Lagos residents over a four increase in land use charges in Nigeria’s commercial city, fresh questions are now being raised over the private company- Alpha Beta, exclusively named in the law to manage the revenue collection process. In the section of the law titled “Rules Governing the Distribution of the Lagos Land Use Charge” section 2 specifically states that; Alpha Beta or any other designated person(s) or corporate body who has the responsibility of monitoring the incoming revenues of the State through the collecting banks, shall provide a report to the Accountant General…
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sum of N10billion for the rejuvenation of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu State. “I have approved the sum of 10 billion Naira for an Intervention fund for the upgrade of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu,” Buhari tweeted on Today. President Buhari gave the approval following a meeting with South-East governors and leaders from the zone at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. “I have the assurance of the Minister of Aviation that the work will be done speedily and to the highest standards.” Buhari reiterate his administration’s efforts to prioritise infrastructure development in…
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The Nigeria of the future belongs to the past which the world is leaving behind. The Buhari administration through our opaque state oil company on Friday announced crude oil find in the North-East. Cynical Thomases in the South laughed at the announcement. To such unbelievers, the oil find and the fake presidential marriage of same day occupy the same comical seat in our national train. They see both incidents as masturbatory. And what good does masturbation do to the actor beyond its being a ‘solitary vice’? The one who does it thinks it is both therapeutic and self-satisfying. But that…
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“Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta state made a startling but sobering declaration recently. In paraphrase, the governor declared that the only thread holding Nigeria together is the indecision or prevarication of the South-South states of the Niger Delta zone over where to belong.” According to him, any day the zone decides to join forces with the pro-Biafra protagonists of the Southeast zone, the current Nigeria will cease to exist. In the mind of the newly reborn vocal governor, the life of the present Nigeria hangs in the balance awaiting the final decision of the South-South states. The governor went on…
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The chilling story of what happens in the Cold Room of University of Lagos is enough mirror of what goes on in the rest. It took the undercover, investigative journalism of Nikki Mordi of the BBC to open the can of worms. Our little daughters, sisters and even mothers are being blackmailed and devoured by the same caregivers in the nation’s citadel of learning where students are meant to be groomed and honed in both character and learning. Ours has since become a means-ends inversion (a case of something becoming a goal, which displaces the end (goal) that the method…
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The Chairman of Northern Elders Forum, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, has warned that they will only support candidates from the North in the race for 2023 presidency. In an interview with the Sun, Abdullahi condemned Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, for holding Hausa/Fulani responsible for Nigeria’s problems. When specifically asked if there is an unwritten agreement among northern leaders, to oppose the return of the presidency to the south in 2023, he replied: “Well, you see the question of where power goes, has multi-dimensional bases. If you go back to the period, from 1990, there has been politics that made it…
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The above question was posed in an article in The PUNCH newspaper edition of September 9, 2019, by columnist Henry Boyo. I have been a daily reader of The PUNCH for the past 10 years and I have not yet, read any comments from anyone on this question. There is a need to discuss this issue, as it appears that there is massive foreign exchange laundering going on in our banks. As the architect of the Diaspora remittances in 1996, I am naturally concerned at the abuses disclosed by Boyo. When in 1995, we at the Ministry of Finance reviewed…
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Since the inception of the current democratic dispension in Imo State in 1999, the State has held three council elections. And they were all under the regimes of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP. The first Governor to conduct Local Government election in Imo was Governor Achike Udenwa. For the eight years of two terms he spent in office from 1999-2007, he conducted two elections. And those elections could be described as the catalyst to the grooming of politicians in Imo State into greater heights, as the then budding Leaders used the platforms as Local Government chairmen, Vice Chairmen, Supervisory councilors,…
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In today’s episode of On Politics we shall continue with our dispassionate analysis of Section 285 (13) of the 1999 Constitution which is haunting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP )and her candidate in Anambra Central. I once again apologize to any one discomforted by the truth that shall be revealed here, as certain facts cannot be wished away. Moving forward, it is not yet uhuru for the PDP candidate, as her ‘celebration’ may be cut short if the Appeal Court unlike the trial tribunal becomes bold in determining the true wordings and intendment of Section 285(13) of the 1999 Constitution…
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A Tecno Mobile sign in Maiguguri, Nigeria. The Chinese handset brand is owned by Shenzen-based Transsion, which listed last week in Shanghai with a market cap of $6.5bn ©️ Bloomberg •Companies such as Transsion are using the continent as a test bed for innovation All over Africa, in its clogged cities and fast-changing towns and villages, buildings are painted in Tecno blue and billboards offer the allure of the Tecno brand. From the Grande Marche in Mali’s capital, Bamako, to the business hub of Nairobi in Kenya, where entire 20-storey towers are slathered in the Tecno logo, aspirational Africans are…
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The Nigerian nation state has, since inception, become a workshop in nation building. Many development rolling plans have been formulated by the past and present variegated regimes. Huge resources not even available to many developed nations have been haphazardly deployed with predictably erratic results. You do recall the two broad objectives of Vision 20:2020 are to: Make efficient use of human and natural resources to achieve rapid economic growth and to translate the economic growth into equitable social development for all citizens. Both objectives failed. Any attempt to paper over and bypass national question to develop the country will remain…
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…As Dr. Nnia Nwodo, others, fought back tears. According to Princess Naja Chinyere Njoku, the founder, DNA Tested African Descendants, a total of 27000 black families in the Caribbeans have through DNA traced their roots to Africa, a good number of them to Nigeria and a greater number to Igbo ancestry. At this year’s Council of Igbo States in Americas (CISA) event held at Igbo village, Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton of Virginia, a total of 21 Caribbean families were able to reconnect with their Igbo root and were admitted into their Igbo ancestry in emotional but dream fulfilling ceremony.…
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•The P & ID contract has 11 other contentious contracts tied to it and are said to be in various stages of claiming damages against Nigeria. •There’s an article circulating that the govt is looking at all 13 companies to see the govt’s exposure and in a bid to preempt any lawsuit are trying to find wrong doing on the 12 other company’s part The Breached Agreements: ⦁ P&ID (Propane Dehydration (12-24 months) 88.198MMscf/d. ⦁ Octopol Energy Limited (LPG Extraction (12-15 months) 4.676MMscf/d, 3.039MMscf/d, 4.800MMscf/d, 2.100MMscf/d, 13.4MMscf/d. ⦁ Petrolog Oil &Gas Limited (CNG (9-24 months) 8.76MMscf/d, 20.600MMscf/d. ⦁ GFD Energy…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday addressed the nation. The President gave the early morning speech on the occasion of Nigeria’s 59th Independence Day anniversary. https://youtu.be/mCzo3RohQiU Read the full speech below: INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY MUHAMMADU BUHARI PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF THE 59TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY 1st OCTOBER, 2019 Dear Compatriots, 1st October each year is an opportunity for us to reflect and thank God for his endless blessings on our country. 2. It is also a time for us, collectively, to: 3. Remember the sacrifices made by our Founders and great leaders…
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“Nigeria is not one and has never been one. It is a ‘state of nations’ and not a ‘nation-state’. The traitors in the south are heroes in the north whilst the heroes in the south are traitors in the north. The value system of the north is totally opposite to that of the south. The lenses through which we see justice and equity can never be the same. The Nigerian state is the tragedy of 20th century in Africa”- Aare Kurunmi Kakanfo, “Nigeria Is Burning”, Facebook, 30th September 2019. I could not have put it better myself. Today our nation…
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The problem of the Nigerian nation is prebendalism(political systems where elected officials and government workers feel they have a right to share government revenues, and use them to benefit themselves, supporters, co-religionists and members of their ethnic groups) and Machiavellian conspiracy of the inept ruling elites. What the Nigerian nation state has since become is therefore not so much for issues of tribe or religion but actually the result of the evil machinations of the said political elites. The Nigerian political elites are perhaps the worst to be found in any clime, bereft of any progressive ideas, and overly corrupt…
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By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo Between 250 CE and 1948, Jews were expelled from Europe over 80 times. That is, in 1,700 years, people in Europe expelled the Jews at the average rate of once every 21 years. It happened in France, England, Spain, Portugal, Germany and dozens of other countries. These countries in their own characteristic ways rose up one day to declare that they were tired of hosting Jews and tolerating their behaviors and accepting their attitude that whatever land they lived in was no man’s land. These Europeans claimed they were more charitable, hospitable, accommodating and generous to…
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“We have no friends among you” – Justice Nikki Tobi The Supreme Court of Nigeria is the nation’s final court of appeals on all matters – socioeconomic, political, cultural, traditional and even religious. It also serves as court of first instance on matters for interpretation of the Nigerian Constitution. The Supreme Court has also been the final court of appeal for presidential election ligations and petitions, on both election and pre-election matters. In order to hear the presidential election petition appeal, just as Atiku Abubakar and the PDP are bringing before the apex court and avoid undue pressure and suspicion…
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Agnes Callamard, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions Introduction I conducted an official country visit to Nigeria from 19 August to 3 September 2019. I warmly thank the Federal Government of Nigeria for their invitation to visit the country, and the officials I met for their availability and support. I also thank the United Nations (UN) Office in Nigeria and the UN country team. Their logistical and substantive support during my visit was invaluable. The principal goals of my visit were to examine situations of violations of the right to life by State and non-State actors;…
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Notes from Atlanta with Farooq Kperogi I admit that it’s always ill-advised to use the word “never” when you prognosticate the outcome of a future event. The vagaries of life can throw a wrench to the works of the most auspicious auguries. I know that. Nevertheless, I am prepared to go out on a limb and proclaim that in spite of his feverishly desperate, frenzied, backstabbing machinations, Bola Ahmed Tinubu can never be Nigeria’s president.Here’s why. Tinubu isn’t electable in any region of Nigeria outside the Southwest, his natal region. Even in the Southwest, his political capital has suffered incalculable…
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Kaduna’s Governor Nasir El-Rufai is straight-up Nigeria’s most bigoted and most dangerous public official alive. In a Nov. 9, 2013 tweet, he called Goodluck Jonathan a “lazy, docile, incompetent, clueless, hopeless, useless leader” using a photo of him praying in a church for illustration. Yet this man detains and torments people who criticize him. Abu Hanifa Dadiyata, a critic of his, just disappeared in Kaduna without a trace. Several other critics are in detention. And he recently threatened: “If you want to tweet anything about Kaduna be very careful because I’m watching…” BTW, would he also use a photo of…
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IGBO AKIRI (IGBANKE): SENDS SOS TO NDIGBO, OHANAEZE AND ALL IGBO ORGANISATIONS HOME AND IN DIASPORA.
PLEASE SHARE THE MESSAGE TO HELP NDIGBO CREATED INTO EDO STATE. Igbo-Akiri (Igbanke) is an Igbo speaking community of IKA accent in Orhionmwon local government, Edo state. We, the people Igbanke are gradually losing our Igbo linguistic and cultural identity as a result of our forceful membership with the Binis through conquest (Biafran war). If urgent measures are not taken, our linguistic and cultural identity would sooner than later go into sudden extinction. In order to avoid the impending extermination of our race, we therefore, ask that a local government area be created that would consist of Igbo Akiri (Igbanke)…
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In what may be another desperate move by President Buhari and the APC to emasculate the judiciary, the President has ordered the Justice Tanko Mohammed-led National Judicial Council (NJC) to urgently recruit new judges for the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Information available to us indicates that the National Judicial Council (NJC) is currently interviewing judges who will be appointed into the Supreme Court. According to the information, the interview commenced on Thursday September 19, 2019 and is expected to end on Tuesday September 24, 2019. This hush approach is in anticipation of the PDP and Atiku/Obi appealing last week ruling…
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History is still clearly in the making. It is not a fixed, immovable and permanent thing; it is evolutionary and dynamic. And I am not Adiele Afigbo, those are the ones who are trained Professional historians of the Igbo world. Nonetheless, it has always struck me that the Igbo are generally antipatethic to their own story, often prefering the glamorized story of other people. Mazi Offoaro, I salute you, and I’ve taken note of the spelling of your name. I am particularly taken with the following statements: “Yes, Ahmadu Bello may have prepositioned the Hausa Fulani to dominate Nigeria militarily…
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He was a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, an enviable position that made him the high priest of the Nigerian Constitution. A seer who took oath to serve Nigeria and his fellow citizens by helping all aggrieved to understand the spirit and letter of the Constitution. But he was dangerous. Yes, Alfa Belgore has been allegedly identified as the man who helped a foreign company(P&ID) to win an award of $9.6 billion against Nigeria. They paid, and he dissected loopholes in the Constitution as a legal expert to P&ID: “Acting as a legal consultant, Mr Belgore, head of the Supreme…
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The upshot of all this is that it is a waste of time casting votes in any future presidential election. We just went through the worst presidential election in Nigeria’s history. To add insult to injury, we have now been assaulted with the worst judicial verdict in the history of Nigeria. The presidential election petitions tribunal (PEPT) delivered a judgment on Atiku’s petition against INEC’s declaration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the winner of the February 2019 presidential election, and it was one of the most outrageous judicial verdicts I have ever heard. One of my late mother’s favourite expressions…
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“GOD, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps.” – Josiah Gilbert Holland Democracy is a system of government where a majority of citizens decide who governs them. ‘How Democracies Die’ is a 2018 book by Harvard University political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about how elected leaders can…
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Operatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States went to town recently with the names of some 77 Nigerians they nabbed over financial crimes in that country. While many compatriots agonise that these criminals are hideous ambassadors of their nation, not a few have argued that scams of this nature have their ancestry in the colonoial days and, in many cases, have tentacles in mysticism. Over time, scams in Nigeria began as small time trickeries and pilferings; they graduated to crass stealing of the people’s commonwealth and now they have grown up to become cross-continental grand…
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In furtherance of my Bi-lateral meeting with the Chinese Consulate, yesterday, I led two of my constituents and illustrious key players in the Nigerian economic sector; Chief Allen Onyema, CEO of Air Peace and Chief Akai Egwuonwu, CEO of Anambra Rice to a strategic partnership meeting with the Chinese Consul General; Mr Chao Xiaoliang in Lagos. During the meeting, we had strategic deliberations on the possibility of Air Peace commencing direct flight operations from Nigeria to China, especially in view of the forthcoming Chinese world Canton trade-fair which will occasion the influx of over 4,000 Nigerians into China for commercial…
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Like his first term, Buhari’s second term took off on a disappointing note. He didn’t hit the ground running. It took him months to appoint his ministers. Even so, some of the ministers appointed are thieves, looters, and despicable politicians. I have been following Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidency since 2015. Based on his extensive overseas trips from 2015 to 2018, I penned a piece “Buhari: The Absentee President” published by SaharaReporters on May 23, 2019. The article summarised in eloquent details, Buhari’s overseas junkets year by year, month by month, and date by date. I conclude that what emerges from his…
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The concept of Aladimma in the Igbo world view is not a claim of having it all and good at all times, and certainly not built on sitting in recrimination over the disaster of a consequential war waged on them and the other Eastern Nigerians in an avoidable chain of actions escalated by the egos of otherwise professional soldiers who departed their careers and delved into statecraft for which they were ill-prepared. The concept of Aladimma is a prognosis of the would-be, anchoring on the best that had been of the past, relegating the flash points of conflict in present…
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In 1962, a Great Igbo son, Michael Ọkpala asked a very critical question thus, “I have never understood why Nigeria should export 41,947 tons of raw cotton in 1961 valued at £9.5 million while importing 177, 684, 000 square yards of textiles valued at £19 million. Why should we continue to import such heavy commodities as cement when limestone abounds in this country?” Ụmụnne, before we delve into this critical question, I think it is proper to first examine the Igbo concept “Azụbụeze” especially how it affects the Igbo entrepreneurship philosophy. The word “Azụbụeze” is made up of three (3)…
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“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” -Bertrand Russell It was quite a relief reading senior lawyers like Jibrin Okutepa, repudiating the strange judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal. Lawyers call non-lawyers laymen and themselves learned. Law is not just an ass but also a strange profession. Facts and laws can be bent or made polar opposites. Facts and truths are also not in bed together. Our nation’s judiciary has now abandoned the laws, truths and facts to embrace technicalities.…
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These are the worst of times for Nigeria. Nigerians are being arrested in Los Angeles and New Jersey, United States for advanced fees fraud, impersonation and credit card fraud and for what is now generally called “Nigerian scams”. When other people commit these crimes, they are charged for committing “Nigerian scam”. We have now gone into legal history as giving name to a particular kind of crime. Tens of our people are being beheaded in Saudi Arabia for drugs peddling. The American FBI is looking for almost a hundred Nigerians for fraud. One of our country men even appeared on…
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Wah gwaan bredrin, everyting ire? Ever heard the word “red eboe” in Jamaica? Your suspicion is true. “Red eboe” was used to refer to the Igbo slaves in Jamaica because of their light skin. Jamaica witnessed the influx of the Igbo race between 1790 and 1809, a time when the British had just passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The modern Igbo race dwelt in the Bight of Biafra in Nigeria. It was from here that the Igbos who were kidnapped and sold as slaves by the Europeans were taken to work on plantations. While it is known…
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BIAFRA: BRIEFING FOR THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT. (FULL TEXT) Nigeria in Crisis There is a crisis in Nigeria. The Nigerian State has never been at peace with itself and recent events amplify this pending emergency. And, as has been the case since independence from Britain in 1960, Biafrans are the easy target of the lack of a credible Nigerian state. Nigeria governs without the consent of all within its borders. Nigeria claims to be ruled by law, but in effect, there is a de facto lawlessness in Nigeria. Nigeria’s epidemic of violence flowing from the North is well documented. In 2014…
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Friday, September 6, 2019. PROTOCOLS A 100 days ago, my Deputy, Hon. Engr. Gerald Irona and I were sworn into offices as Deputy Governor and Governor of Imo State, respectively. At that solemn event, we pledged to serve you with honesty, transparency and the fear of God. We have not, for one day wavered from that commitment. Let me begin by thanking you for entrusting the leadership of our dear State to us at this auspicious time in our history and for your support and prayers that have taken us thus far. In keeping with the hallowed tradition in democratic…
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A dying Irishman went for one last big score in Nigeria. The project failed, but a London tribunal says his company’s owed $9 billion and counting. Gaslighting. The oilfield fires of the Niger Delta burn day and night. Metal pipes snake through the swampland, spewing flames so vast they cast the sky in apocalyptic orange. Southern Nigeria sits atop a bubbling stew of oil and gas. Companies want only the former, so they incinerate the latter. The industry calls it “flaring.” For millions of Nigerians, flaring is a curse. It fills the air with toxic fumes that cause respiratory disease…
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Imo State Executive Council has approved an ambitious and massive 13 roads rehabilitation and construction across the state estimated at N24.34b as part of the first 100 days activities The contracts were immediately signed inside Sam Mbakwe Expanded Council Chambers in Owerri by the various contractors and the representatives of the state government including the Commissioner of Works, Engineer Ben Ekwueme The flag-off of the roads projects according to the Commissioner of Works, Engr. Ben Ekwueme takes place today Thursday The roads involved which cut across the three zones of Orlu, Owerri and Okigwe, include: Ahiara-Okpala junction; Nkume-Umuowa-Orlu ; Mgbidi-Oguta;…
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First, it was an accusatory attack on Nnia Nwodo. Then the physical molestation of Ike Ekweremadu, then recently the raid against Dave Umahi. All these have one thing in common, a loss of innocence. And an unmasking of our masquerades. These are the things we now live with. And they’ve been building up for a while. At the background is an unchallenged and unrelenting attack on the rank and file rights of Ndigbo every single day across the country. This has become so normal that it’s no longer news. And the *Copy and paste* Social Media journalists has ceased even…
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AS KHRFI PETITIONS EFCC, SEEKS OKOROCHAS’ ARREST AND PROSECUTION. The kingdom human rights foundation international has petitioned the Economic and Financial crimes Commission seeking the urgent investigation, arrest and prosecution of the former governor of Imo state, Rochas Anayo Okorocha and all others involved in what it described as dubious, over-inflated and fake contracts awarded to the company. In a petition signed by the Executive Director of the Organization, Barr Okere Kingdom Nnamdi addressed and submitted to the office of the Chairman, Economic and Financial crimes Commission and made available to the press, the organization alleged that the former governor,…
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In March 1960, 69 black people were massacred in Sharpeville, South Africa, by the white apartheid police. That same year, Nigeria successfully liberated itself from 160-year British occupation. The new Nigeria`s leaders` reaction to the Sharpeville massacre has changed everything in South Africa from then on. Here is a letter the then Nigeria`s Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa sent to the African National Congress (ANC) “militants“ on April 4, 1961. A LETTER FROM NIGERIA’S PRIME MINISTER ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA TO THE ANC SENT ON APRIL 4, 1961. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO EMPHASIZE NIGERIA’S COMMITMENT TO FIGHT AGAINST APARTHEID IN SOUTH…
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This is not the best of times to be identified as a Nigerian, especially if you are a Nigerian in diaspora. It is indeed the worst of times to be Nigerian because of the kind of daredevilry that our compatriots have demonstrated in recent times, in criminal pursuits of such scale, texture, volume, and depth, not at intervals but at an alarming pace and regularity, not just in one country or continent, but from continent to continent, country to country, giving such impression that perhaps apart from the traditional Cosa Nostra, the Italian Mafia, or the Russian Mafia, or the…
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The 8th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made two decisions on confirmation hearings of ministerial nominees. The decisions were, one, that the President should submit his list of ministerial nominees within 30 days of the inauguration of the Senate. This decision was based on the public outcry in 2015 when it took about six months for the President to submit the list. The President did not meet the 30 days prescription in 2019 but he did much better this time by submitting the list within six weeks of the Senate’s inauguration. The second prescription was that portfolios should…
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The Bible says “knowledge is power”. It also says “know the truth and it will set you free”. This is made all the more important given the fact that history is not taught in Nigerian schools. Let us join hands and walk down the beautiful path of knowledge, truth and history together. Our focus and subject-matter for today is the Fulani tribe of northern Nigeria. The Fulani are only partially African and only partly negroid. They are the product of cross-breeding between the Taurags, Berbers and Arabs of north Africa on the one hand and the local black African women…
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Like his first term, Buhari’s second term took off on a disappointing note. He didn’t hit the ground running. It took him months to appoint his ministers. Even so, some of the ministers appointed are thieves, looters, and despicable politicians. I have been following Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidency since 2015. Based on his extensive overseas trips from 2015 to 2018, I penned a piece “Buhari: The Absentee President” published by SaharaReporters on May 23, 2019. The article summarised in eloquent details, Buhari’s overseas junkets year by year, month by month, and date by date. I conclude that what emerges from his…
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Born in Umuduruoha, Amaigbo, Imo state in the year 1821, his actual birth name is unknown, and also the identity of his true parents. The Igbo land in the 1800s was in chaos, as it saw Europeans invade the land for slaves, in exchange for firearms, tobacco, bullets and black slave raiders were invading different regions and selling Igbo’s to slavery. After he was kidnapped and taken to Bonny Island, Rivers state, he was renamed Jubo Jubogha by his first master, and later resold to Chief Alali, the head of the Opobu Manila Group of Houses. It was here that…
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Austin Okeke Writes. 24 August 2019 Greetings from South Africa and I hope this message finds you well and happy too. Our people are being killed and raped daily under our watch, our land is besieged and yet it appears that we are under a spell not to offer any form of resistance. All we do is to write open letters? Igboland has police, army, customs and all manner of people in uniforms mount checkpoints a kilometer apart from each, these rogues in official uniforms extort money from poor souls in full view of the Nigerian government, and all they…
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Held at Villa Gardens Hotel, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. The first-ever IGBO NATIONAL SUMMIT was convened today, August 22nd 2019 by key frontline Igbo organisations and major stakeholders, with representatives of her Neighbors in attendance, to examine the grave state of insecurity in our region, under the banner – Peace, Security and Development of Alaigbo and Her Neighbors. The event was presided over by His Royal Majesty, Igwe Amb. Lawrence Agubuzu – Chairman, Enugu State Council of Traditional Rulers. He was assisted by His Lordship, Bishop Obi Udezue Onubogu – Overseer, Rock Cathedral, Enugu. After an exhaustive of keynote addresses…
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Have you watched the video of the killing of three policemen and a civilian by soldiers of the Nigerian Army? If you haven’t, please go and watch it. Have you read the statement issued after the fact by the acting Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel Sagir Musa in response to the first police statement notifying the public of what had happened? If you haven’t, please search for it and read it. Also read the second statement by the police that picked apart the army’s explanation of what transpired. You will immediately know who is lying. Police spokesperson, Frank Mba,…
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(1) Looking at the lot and reality of the Igbo in Nigeria since 1966, the First and Most important decision to be taken is that the Igbo and the wider Eastern Nigeria has no future in Nigeria. Unfortunately, for various reasons ranging from unreasoned sentiments, greed, extreme selfishness, ignorance and outright folly, this all-important Decision has not been taken by the Igbo Leadership Collective, despite overwhelming evidence as to the inevitability of that self-preservation imperative which the masses being tormented by Nigeria seem to have been more acutely aware of, for years running, even as the Elite grope heedlessly from…
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Africa has been studied by scholars all over the world intrigued by the many cultural and traditional practices that have several meanings and significant impact on people. While some practices have gone extinct due to exposure to westernization, others have been stopped for the dangers they pose to victims while many others have prevailed. Marry women? One of the least spoken about cultural practices that dominated Africa remains the woman to woman marriage that functioned as a normal marriage rite in parts of the Dahomey Kingdom, Eastern Nigeria and parts of Southern Africa. The marriage, like any other ceremony, involved…
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DR. CHIEF DOZIE IKEDIFE, Ikenga Nnewi. Thinker, Philosopher, Equal Rights Activist, Humanitarian, Altruist. A look at some of the issues Ikedife cared about. “An unexamined life is not worth living.” The above dictum by Socrates as reported by Plato in his Apologia, was innate in Ikedife when he was born on the 24th of August 1932 and imbued him with such relentless intellectual curiosity that propelled him headlong into the then esoteric subjects as Classics, Ethics, Historiography, Cosmogony, Philosophy, and Natural sciences even before he was through secondary education. Little wonder then that Ikedife ended up in medical sciences obtaining…
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Our dear president Muhammadu Buhari just swore in his ministers and assigned portfolios to them. A critical look at the distribution of portfolios will reveal that notwithstanding the grave accusations of nepotism against the president in the past, he is not moved at all and will continue in the same trajectory in his purported next level agenda. Now, let us analyse the distribution of portfolios among the six geopolitical zones as well as among the states. 1. South East has six ministers. Three of them are full ministers, namely Chris Ngige (Anambra), Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi), and Geoffrey Onyeama (Enugu) assigned…
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“The wretched nurseries of unceasing discord and the miserable objects of universal pity or contempt….” – Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804. That was how Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of America and a former Treasury Secretary (equivalent to our Minister of Finance), described some of the nations of Europe when they were going through social, political and economic upheavals similar to what we are now experiencing in Nigeria. Invariably, the tensions were heightened by poor leadership and prolonged by lack of compromise on the part of the contending forces for supremacy. When a leader announces that he is, by nature, combative,…
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The report that a commercial court in the UK has ruled that Nigeria must pay a UK firm, Process and Industrial Development Limited (P & ID) a sum of $9.6 billion or have its assets in the UK to the tune of that amount forfeited has generated more than a little interest. For a country with a foreign reserve of $45 billion and sovereign debt profile of over $80 billion that judgment debt is quite a lot, potentially capable of rendering Nigeria even more technically insolvent. Dayo Apata, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Solicitor-General of the Federation…
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Anywhere else, it would be an open and shut case that President Buhari is not qualified to be president of Nigeria. Nevertheless, he has been president for the past 4 years. The question that remains is this: will he continue to get away with violating the law? Or has he finally met his Waterloo? The case against Buhari being president is overwhelming. At its most fundamental, he does not fulfill the constitutional requirement that the president must be educated up to school certificate level or its equivalent. Section 138, subsequent 1A of the Electoral Act (as amended) says: “An election…
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Proffesor Maurice Iwu, former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been released from Ikoyi Prisons after meeting the stringent bail terms granted him by the Federal High Court, Lagos, last week. The court granted him bail after he was docked last week Thursday before Justice Chuka Obiozor by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a four-count charge bordering on money laundering although OblongMedia found out that there are other reasons for his trial which may be inherently politically motivated. The court had ruled that Iwu be kept in the custody of the EFCC till Friday last week when…
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There is pain. There is anger. And there is collective rage in the land. Nigerians are empty of options and are seeking avenues for a purge; for catharsis. The season of retribution may be upon us sooner than we imagine. The physical abuse of former deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu at an Igbo forum by some young men in Germany, though condemnable, betokens the onset of nemesis. In a video recording in circulation, while the lawmaker was being assaulted, his abusers could be heard saying: “What have you done? People are dying.’’ This is the question most Nigerians have been…
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There is no such thing as a ‘resource curse’ and Africans are no more corrupt than others. There have been protests in Dakar, Senegal after the broadcast of a documentary alleging financial impropriety by Aliou Sall, brother of President Macky Sall Late last month, the Senegalese government made it clear it was not going to cave in to pressure to revise state energy contracts. This was despite weeks-long protests and calls from the opposition and civil society to take action against graft in the wake of a large corruption scandal. In June, the BBC released a documentary alleging financial impropriety by Aliou…
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The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of those who were enslaved and transported in the transatlantic slave trade were people from central and western Africa, who had been sold by other West Africans to Western European slave traders (with a small number being captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids), who brought them to the Americas. In…
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I wrote an article two days ago about the unfolding situation in Imo state especially as it relates to the allegations of corruption around the former governor Mr. Rochas Okorocha. It was quite short and did not capture the events in any details. As a columnist, I try to raise important issues for policy attention and move on to another topic. I had already started my research on my next topic when I received a lengthy rejoinder apparently written on behalf of the former governor against me and renowned journalist Ray Ekpu by one Onwuasoanya Jones. I gathered that this…
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I am not a woman, but consciously or unconsciously, I have found myself in sympathy with the lot of women and always agitating for them over a number of issues. Playing the role of a woman protagonist is borne out of the sympathy I have for them as a grossly marginalized group who are not even conscious of their plight. Even where and when they are conscious it plays only on their lips in form of verbal protest as they are also helpless in realising their dreams and aspirations through any meaningful action. It is already sunk and fixated in…
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How do I sum up 23 years in one page? I don’t know. How do I describe you? I cannot. Not in any depth. Not for anybody else – you were my husband, my brother, my friend, my child. I was your queen, and it was an honour to have served you. You were the lion of my history books, the leader of my nation when we faced extinction, the larger-than-life history come to, my life – living, breathing legend.But unlike the history books, you defied all preconceptions. You made me cry from laughter with your jokes, many irreverent. You…
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List of courses that have not been accredited in Nigerian universities have been released – A certificate issued for those courses will be considered void – The university of Abuja has the highest number of unaccredited courses The National Universities Commission (NUC) has released a list of some courses that have not been accredited. The unaccredited courses pose serious danger to students who study them as the certificates issued by these universities for the courses will not be officially recognised. Premium Times reports that 2016 accreditation status report indicated that these unaccredited courses were taught in 37 out of 143…
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The graphic exposition of the extent of looting that he masterminded is both surprising and sobering. His greed consumed him to the extent that he lost every sense of decorum and could not even do it intelligently. Imagine that he awarded different contracts amounting to N20 billion (including over N1.5 billion worth in one week) to an unknown company! I learnt about the fate that has befallen the former governor of Imo State, now senator, Ethelbert Anayo Okorocha. Like many discerning citizens of the State, one will say that it serves him right. It has been reported that so far,…
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I stand before you today fully cognizant, as are many of you in this audience, that these days are not the best for Nigeria. At the risk of being called prophets of doom, we really have no choice than to admit that our country, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, lies in the paths of sundry tornadoes, hurricanes, cyclones, storms, superstorms, whirlwinds, and typhoons all of which are rushing towards our Republic with deadly speeds and their concomitant devastating momentum. We all know that humans cannot perfectly predict what the future holds. But they can examine, assess and calibrate past and…
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13th August 2019 I had followed the altercations in the public space between Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State and his immediate predecessor Mr. Rochas Okorocha. Both of them had a bitter election fisticuff which ended in Mr. Ihedioha’s favour and Mr. Okorocha who had struggled valiantly to plant his son in law, Mr. Uche Nwosu, in the Governor’s chair has been inconsolable. The exchange of barbed shafts and poisonous messages has been unrelenting. A lot of rot has been allegedly exhumed by the Ihedioha Administration as evidence that Imo State under Okorocha had been hibernating in the waterland of…
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In the United States, the term “deep state” is used to describe a conspiracy theory which suggests that collusion and cronyism exist within the US political system and constitutes a hidden government within the legitimately elected government. Some people believe that there is “a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance, the military, the intelligence agencies and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process”, whereas others consider the deep state to encompass corruption that is particularly prevalent amongst…
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The wise say two wrongs don’t make a right. But three wrongs make a right in Nigeria. First wrong: lunatic soldiers shot dead an innocent civilian along with three well-trained Intelligence Response Team policemen on national duty in Taraba State while the military hierarchy dipped the memories of the murdered Taraba Four in a cauldron of excreta by justifying the killing with an insane logic and writing ‘kidnapper’ on the foreheads of each of the brutally slain men. Second wrong: hip-hop artist, Tekno, opened a new chapter in entertainment madness in Nigeria as he danced publicly with naked ladies on…
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It’s democracy versus Sharia ideology —Danjuma, Asemota, Lekwot, others. In a paper dated July 31, 2019, National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), parading prominent Nigerians including Elder Solomon Asemota, SAN; a former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen Theophilus Danjuma (ret.); Prof. Joseph Otubu; Major General Joshua Dogonyaro (ret.); Archbishop Magnus Atilade; Dr. Kate Okpareke; Dr. Ayo Abifarin; Major General Zamani Lekwot (ret.); Moses Ihonde; Elder Nat Okoro and Matthew Owojaiye, analysed the state of the nation, tracing the root of the current crisis in Nigeria to a conflict between democracy and Sharia ideology. The full text of the paper, under the…
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The mish-mash of Nigeria’s post-war history has permitted many sad revisions which in turn has made Nigerian historical studies and its statements therefrom to be lopsided, ethnic, and gnarled. We have tended in Nigeria to celebrate the worst of us, and have confined Nigeria’s true national heroes to the dustbin. Today, only in a place like Nigeria, with its twisted ethos, can a man like Ahmadu Bello for instance, have greater pride of place in the National rolls than Akweke Abyssinia Nwafor Orizu, one of the great spirits of the anti-colonial Nationalist movement. While the likes of Nwafor-Orizu were in…
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And in 1993, Margaret Thatcher’s wealth was put at £9.5 million or roughly $6 million. Kamuzu Banda’s wealth was estimated at $320 million, that is 53 times the wealth of *Margaret Thatcher.* In other words, *Kamuzu Banda* of poorest of the poor Malawi was worth 5,300 per cent more than Margaret Thatcher of first world UK. How do you explain that? How can you explain that? And remember that if you compared Kamuzu Banda’s wealth with that of Abacha, Kamuzu Banda is a mere pauper in comparison to Abacha’s wealth that was estimated in the billions of dollars. When Zambia’s…
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I have immersed myself in the study of the ontogenesis and manifestations of fascism since Buhari started to bare his ferociously fascist fangs. One of the world’s most insightful writers on fascist totalitarianism is George Orwell. As he himself pointed out in his 1946 essay titled “Why I Write,” “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism….” His most famous works, Animal Farm (published in 1945) and 1984 (published in 1949), were not just devastatingly searing fictional critiques of totalitarianism, they also offer enduringly accurate insights into how absolutist…
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Last year, rumours started circulating regarding a strange form of thievery in Nigeria. In this case, people were not stealing cars or computers, cell phones or wallets, but pants, female pants. When I first heard about this pant theft and ritual, I thought it was a joke, or some made up stories by local comedians. I was of the view that the pant ritual story would trend and quickly fade away. But I was mistaken. The story didn’t go away. Instead it kept appearing and reappearing in the media. In fact, the mainstream newspapers started publishing photos usually of young…
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT – WHERE IS THE “RESCUED” NOTORIOUS KIDNAPPER, ALHAJI HAMISU BALA WADUME?
The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to the Press Release by the Nigerian Army dated 07 August, 2019, seeking to justify the unprovoked and unwarranted murder of three (3) Police officers and one (1) Civilian, and serious injury to other operatives, who were on legitimate criminal investigation activities to Taraba State, to arrest one Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume indicted in a series of high-profile kidnap incidents in the State. In the best tradition of Esprit de Corps, Inter-Agency Harmony and National Interest, the Nigeria Police Force would naturally have kept quiet, but it has become imperative…
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Open letter to the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Said and the Fulani leaders August 08, 2019 The Sultan of Sokoto and Fulani Leader His Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad THE STATE OF THE NATION We write this letter to you considering your importance as the head of the Fulani people in Nigeria. You are also the head of Fulani Muslims in Nigeria. It is our hope that you will be able to share the thoughts expressed here with the 7 million Fulani people in Nigeria through your traditional means of communication. We write to honour you with this letter, given the…
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Our present national predicament reminds me of the last days of Socrates, the Greek wise man. After an ignorant mob condemned him to death, for urging the people to be rational in their beliefs and in their approach to life, his triumphant detractors gloatingly asked him to plead for his life, so that they might have mercy on him. Socrates burst out laughing, instead. This was certainly not what they expected from a man staring death in the face. He did not do any of the usual things a condemned person in Athens of those days would do; like weeping,…
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(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 5 August, 2019). In July 1968, a year into Nigeria’s civil war, one of the divisional commanders fired a note, from the war front, to the Head of State: “What really are we fighting for: to enliven a new class of the domineering type or to integrate the country?” General Benjamin Adekunle who wrote that note to General Yakubu Gowon fought in our civil war and became a folk hero. He thought he was performing that duty for the sake of the children and grandchildren of a future Nigeria of justice. The celebrated…
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Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ottawa 1. Overview Sources indicate that Fulani herdsmen are nomadic pastoralists and mostly Muslim (France 30 Nov. 2016, 62; IEP 2017, 76). The same sources state that conflict between Fulani herdsmen and farmers, who in Nigeria are mostly Christians, increased in recent years (France 30 Nov. 2016, 62; IEP 2017, 76), driven in Nigeria by a lack of resources, desertification, ”ambiguous” land legislation, and a ”weak” rule of law (IEP 2017, 76). According to a 2016 fact-finding mission report on Nigeria by the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (OFPRA),…
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The most significant problem that African nations face is lack of leadership. Normally, Leadership should be an intentional conscious effort to attend to the people’s needs and aspirations. But in Africa, even though many of those that are thrust into the position of leadership mean well, they lack the capacity to lead and meet the people’s hopes and aspirations. Apart from lack of adequate preparation for leadership, one other notable factor that had inhibited good leadership among African leaders is the seemingly non-existent structures for research and information management in the society. Hence, many well-meaning leaders often do not have…
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Golden Guinea Breweries Plc, a beverage manufacturing company in Nigeria has re-opened its plant following a US$9.98 million (N3.6bn) cash injection to rejuvenate the brewery. According to a Beverage Industry News report, production operations in the firm were cut short in 2003 which has since then been engaging in efforts of bringing back the brewer to life. The brewery, which has been dormant for 17 years, reopened after receiving a loan facility of US$9,98 million from the Federal Government through the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) and the Bank of Industry (BoI) in April last year. The investment has enabled the…
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1. Introduction The Igbo race continues to face enormous political and economic challenges since the instigated and imposed civil war. A plain glance at the economic and political development in Nigeria may be considered normal in terms of where the Igbo people stand politically, especially economically when compared to other ethnic nationalities. Indeed a cursory look at the poverty level among the ethnic groups would make the Igbo race appear exceptionally successful. The Igbo people in reality experienced an overwhelming level of disadvantages based on public policies that seemed crafted to undermine their ability to maximize political and economic potentials.…
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You can call General Muhammadu Buhari all sort of names, but what I can assure you is that his popularity is increasing all over core Northern Nigeria and across the sahel region of West Africa. The Fulani with the brainwashed Hausa vassals will fight and die for him. General Buhari is one of the most intelligent and courageous leader the fulani controlled territory has ever produced. He is always two steps ahead of his distractors and he understands history, power and what it takes to build a civilization. General Buhari understands that there is nothing called One Nigeria in any…
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A must watch for our youths who lack in-depth information on our collective history.
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By now, it should be clear to any Nigerian observer that the Igbo are ignoring President Buhari and the APC administration. As far as the majority of the Igbo in Nigeria are concerned Buhari is now inconsequential, and his party, the APC, irrelevant to the future and aspirations of the Igbo who very unambiguously made their political choices even in the last election. One more time, the Igbo vote was a referendum on Buhari and the APC. No threat, not even the promise of political lollipop could convince the Igbo in Nigeria to vote for Muhammadu Buhari or the APC.…
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The definitive electoral outcome of the 2011 and 2019 governorship elections have placed Imo State as the most politically savvy enclave in the South East in particular, and Nigeria in general. As an honor, the people of Imo State deserve the accolades. This is because in all these elections, Imo electorates were able to demonstrate that SOVEREIGNTY belongs to the people. They demonstrated that the will to decide who governs a democratic government rests on the showders of the people through their electoral decisions. Again, the people of Imo proved beyond every reasonable doubts that political Representatives can be voted…
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Be it known to all that British Intelligence and their local collaborators in Nigeria that desperately want to keep Caliphate One-Nigeria going by all means concocted this August 5th 2019 “Revolution” scrap as their strategy to distort, derail and take wind off the sail of the burgeoning Self-Determination Campaign that has reached its positive tipping point across the defunct Federation of Nigeria which collapsed since 1966. Just as was done when the ELECTION-2019 SHUTDOWN Designs of the LNC and the MNN Alliance Partners was deployed to halt the journey to the badly doomed 2019 Presidential Election, these same characters (Sowore…
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Documents obtained by TheCable has exposed how former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha awarded 12 contracts worth N20 billion to a strange comapny, Zigreat International Company Limited between November 15, 2013, and November 3, 2017, three months after the suspected bubble company was registered. The contracts were awarded to the company in obvious abuse of power and in violation of the Public Procurement Act. The Act stipulates that to bid for contracts, a company needs to present three years tax clearance, audited accounts, evidence of work experience as the main contractor executing or having executed a minimum of…
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Controversy has trailed the recent decision by the Federal Government to proscribe and designate the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) – also known as the Shiites- as a terrorist organisation. The Federal Government had filed an ex parte application before the court barely 72 hours after a protest by members of the group in Abuja led to a bloody clash between them and the police. In that clash, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations, Federal Capital Territory Command, Usman Umar, and a Channels Television journalist, Precious Owolabi, died, with many others injured and property destroyed. In her…
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“While president says war against Islamist insurgency is won, army conceals toll in unmarked graves” MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA—At the northern edge of this city’s sprawling military base, a vast field of churned soil conceals the hidden toll of a deadly offensive by the allies of Islamic State. After dark, the bodies of soldiers are covertly transported from a mortuary that at times gets so crowded the corpses are delivered by truck, according to Nigerian soldiers, diplomats and a senior government official. The bodies are laid by flashlight into trenches dug by infantrymen or local villagers paid a few dollars per shift.…
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Prof Anugweje treats terminal ill cancer patients by an “un-orthodox” way and many patients recovered. He is also a sports medicine specialist. He insists that all athletes eat fruits on empty stomach. Before he used solar energy to clear the illnesses of his patients, he believes on natural healing in the body against illnesses. See his article below. It is one of the strategies to heal cancer. As of late, my success rate in curing cancer is about 80%. Cancer patients shouldn’t die. The cure for cancer is already found – its in the way we eat fruits. It is…
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“As an auditor, I used to work all over the North. You could see the vast land, but they don’t have basic infrastructure and didn’t have jobs. That was about 30 years ago and it was like a time bomb. When I was Chairman of Eko Hotels, I personally organised lectures to bring the plight of northern people to the government, but government turned deaf ears” – J. K. Randle, in a featured interview in ThisDay, Sunday Newspaper, March 24, 2019. There was a report carried by most Nigerian newspapers that billionaire Aliko Dangote, while speaking at the 2019 Kaduna…
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I have just finished reading a book, WHY NOT, with a subtitle: citizenship, state capture, creeping fascism and criminal hijack of politics in Nigeria by Prof. Pat Utomi. This book was written on behalf of all those who have tried to engage the system from inside, to work to correct what has derailed Nigeria with ideas but failed. Why Not is an answer to the question from family, concerned friends, haranguers, and cynics who are wondering what men of ideas, cognate experience and exposure are doing in politics – rather than quietly using their privileged positions to benefit themselves and…
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Abuja-based public affairs analyst, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, writes on the seemingly Sunni Vs Shia division in Nigeria, warning that Nigerian authorities must apply some wisdom in handling the issue, before it becomes too sophisticated for Nigerian leaders to contain. Read below: The conflict between Sunni and Shia is deeply rooted and intractable, it has existed for almost 1400 years. Before I proceed to discuss the conflict as requested by some of my friends here, let me note that Islam forbids division of any kind. And beyond forbidding such segregation, Quran specifically frowns at association with those that break away into sects.…
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There is a raging debate over whether the Shiite sect in Nigeria can now be called a terrorist organisation. This article settles the debate. El-Zakzaky’s Shiite sect is now a terrorist organisation, according to a Nigerian court (AFP) Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, spiritual leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) or Shiite, has been in detention since 2015 alongside his wife Zeenah Ibrahim, despite a court order in 2016 to release him. National leader of Shiite movement, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky has been in detention since 2015 (Punch) The Zakzakys were detained after members of the IMN stood in the way of…
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The 8th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made two decisions on confirmation hearings of ministerial nominees. The decisions were, one, that the President should submit his list of ministerial nominees within 30 days of the inauguration of the Senate. This decision was based on the public outcry in 2015 when it took about six months for the President to submit the list. The President did not meet the 30 days prescription in 2019 but he did much better this time by submitting the list within six weeks of the Senate’s inauguration. The second prescription was that portfolios should…
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In the picture is Maitatsine (The one who Damns) a Hausa revolutionary leader shortly after his capture in 1980. The first charismatic Hausa leader to unite his people against Fulani overlords was a scholar by the name Abd al – Salam , another Hausa scholar by the name Dan Buya joined him. His movement started around 1818, shortly after the death of Usman Dan Fodio. At the time, almost all Hausa people lived in slave camps and over 60% of them were vassals of the Fulani feudal overlords…. Another large faction were turned to chattels and sold to the Ottoman…
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