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In 1953 the North massacred other tribes in Kano over the excuse that they were not ready for independence. To help them, the rest of the country handed them political power and control. They claimed they were educationally disadvantaged, a situation caused by the elites themselves through their own nobility system which ensured non nobles were not educated. To pacify them, the rest of the country gave them a lower educational hurdle and handed them the keys to choice admissions at the detriment of the children in the south! Then they said they were not well represented in government, and…
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This is the first part transcript of authentic audio conversations obtained exclusively by SaharaReporters and confirmed by the central bank of Nigeria featuring of governor of the apex bank, Godwin Emefiele, deputy governor, Edward Lametek Adamu, Director of Finance, Dayo M. Arowosegbe and special adviser to the CBN governor, Emmanuel Ukeje. The transcript details a frantic effort by Mr. Emefiele to find the money to restore to the bank before it becomes obvious to shareholders and the government. Phone Rings Lady: Sorry Sir. Man: Yeah. Lady: It’s the network sir. Man: Ahh …my God. Let me talk to Arowosegbe. Lady: Hold on the line…
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Milo Yiannopoulous, Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan have all been banned Facebook is banning several prominent figures it regards as “dangerous individuals”. The social network accused Alex Jones, host of right-wing conspiracy website InfoWars, its UK editor Paul Joseph Watson and ex-Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos of hate speech. Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has expressed anti-Semitic views, will also be excluded. Facebook has already banned anti-Islamic UK groups like Britain First. The latest ban also applies on Instagram, which Facebook owns. “We’ve always banned individuals or organisations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless…
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BEING TEXT OF KEYNOTE ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE PUNUKA ANNUAL LECTURE SERIES ON THURSDAY 9TH, MAY 2019 AT TRANSCORP HILTON, ABUJA Before I venture into the heart of my presentation, let me share with you the verbatim report of a text message I received on the 2nd May 2019 which reads: “Your excellency, Sir I truly apologised for disturbing you sir. Last year March. I sent a msg to you sir concerning some PHCN staff exploiting us for money in Aborishade/Olufowobi street in Lawanson, Lagos concerning our transformer. They demanded #1.3M from us then hence my msg to you sir…
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1. There are no corruption allegations against me; 2 there was never anything like N3b or even N2b in the Emirate council’s account when i became Emir; 3. The Rolls Royces they talked about were bought by my two friends, Kola Kareem and Bola Shagaya. This is normal. The late Emir’s limousines were bought by Aminu Dantata, Fernandez, Isiaka Rabiu, Sani Abacha and Ahmed Muazu. Everyone has friends and well wishers; 4. I am renovating the palace at my expense drawing on my overdraft with First Bank and liquidating assets and i dont mind being paid over a long period.…
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While the hyperbolic lyrics of the legendary Sarkin Kotson Kano Abdulrahman’s magnum opus – Sir Sanusi Sarkin Yaki Zakin Daga Na Abashe – turned the late Sir Sanusi’s inborn hubris into believing that he was above his peers and superiors, his grandson chose to take inspiration from a tribe of cyber buskers cheering him to banishment. Barely three years after his ascension to the Kano throne, the present emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has dumped a set of etiquettes laid down by Muhammad Al-Maghili during Emir Muhammadu Rumfa’s reign in the 1480’s to inspire awe and instil respect for…
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“A lie’s greatest defence is to tell the lie and hope that no one will counter it with the truth.” Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has struck again! Far from using his prodigious intellectual prowess to document for posterity the reigning anomalies in governance, or dramatise in vivid details this calamitous moment of our national history, a time that is almost certain to reign in infamy for a long time to come, he is massaging the facts. Well, a friend lamented recently that the good old days when the crescendo of political/judicial activism was alive and well in this country…
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In spite of French-led U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 creating a no-fly zone over Libya with the express intent of protecting civilians, one of the over 3,000 new Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department on New Year’s Eve, contain damning evidence of Western nations using NATO as a tool to topple Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. The NATO overthrow was not for the protection of the people, but instead it was to thwart Gaddafi’s attempt to create a gold-backed African currency to compete with the Western central banking monopoly. The emails indicate the French-led NATO military initiative in Libya…
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(1) This week, we have been inundated with news about how the Kano State governor Abdullahi Ganduje aka Gandollar has waged war on the Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido. Gandollar is unhappy about how the emir was opposed to his re-election after the governor was video taped receiving bribes to collect government contracts, so had the monarch probed and now is creating four more emirs in Kano to reduce Sanusi’s influence (2) No doubt, with the creation of more monarchs in Kano, the power of the emir will wane but alas at what cost. Nigeria currently accounts for about half…
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. Four of us were present at this private meeting at the Green Spring Hotel, Old Ife Road in Ibadan on this fateful day. Chief Adisa Meredith Augustus Akinloye, a former leader of Ibadan People”s Party with the famous Adegoke Adelabu Penkelemeesi, as his deputy. He was Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources under Chief Obafemi Awolowo. He was the Chairman of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in the Second Republic. It was Chief Obafemi Awolowo who gave him the acronym. AMA – Always Mentally Alert from his name initials. There was Chief Richard Osuolale Akinjide, former Private Secretary…
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In a very perfectly worded article by the Time Magazine of November 10, 1958, it was very obvious that the amalgamation of Nigeria into one country was a mistake. Sometimes in history, Nigerians are told as an utopian narrative that their forefathers or founding fathers were united and sort after a united Nigeria. But a very cursory glance at the article from Time Magazine exposed such narrative as a very disturbing lie. The founding fathers or those who fought for Nigeria’s independence were never united and such disunity seems to have passed down to the present generation. In fact, this…
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Novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who has lived in Lagos on and off for a decade has written an essay for Esquire’s new Travel & Adventure issue, in which she reflected on life in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos. Lagos will not court you. It is a city that is what it is. I have lived part-time in Lagos for 10 years and I complain about it each time I return from my home in the US — its allergy to order, its stultifying traffic, its power cuts. I like, though, that nothing about Lagos was crafted for the tourist, nothing done…
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The President General of Igbo National Stakeholders’ Assembly (INSA) Chief John Uche has lamented on the high level of discrimination against Igbo. John in a statement made available to the Press on 9th May 2019 while celebrating his 63rd birthday in Lagos noted that Nigeria cannot progress in the absence of justice. The statement reads; “Nigeria as a failed state can work again when we put away those things which divide us and embrace those that bind us together. The high level of sycophancy, nepotism and tribalism prevalent in Nigeria accounts for the current underdevelopment of our nation. The propaganda…
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No one conversant with the history of Nigeria in the I950s and 1960’s will miss the overwhelming impact of Dr M.I. Okpara on the nation. After all by 1964 he was fully in charge of the fastest growing and industrialising economy in the world- the Eastern Nigerian economy. Nothing illustrates the warped sense of history and the complete abandonment of the values of merit and excellence in our national affairs as this wilful omission. And now to the review. The life of Dr Michael Okpara will make a fascinating and historical story anytime. He was born in December 1920 and…
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• Alleges Criminals Masquerading As Herdsmen now hide in Akoko-Owo, Oke-Ogun, Ijebu-Remo, Egba, Yewa, Ekiti, Ile-Ife Forest in Multitude • Says marauders hails from Kano, Sokoto, Katsina, Kebbi, West Africa Countries • Proffer solutions to the quagmire In what looks like a wakeup call to a sleeping Giant, a Pan Yoruba Socio-Cultural Group, Yourba Koya Leadership and Training Foundation on Monday sent a “wake up call” to all Governors and Governors-elect in South West Geopolitical Zone of the Nation of Nigeria, urging them to be vigilant, stating very expressly that the entire region has been surrounded by Criminals from within…
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I never got worried over the recent drama ongoing between the “presidency” and the rampaging and terrorists herdsmen to which the notorious MiyyetiAllah Cattle Breeders Association is their umbrella body. My worries have always been on the part of some bunch of morons of southern extraction whose whole essence of “education” and “exposure”, have been at destroying what supposed to be their tool of engagement. From Ohanaeze to Aferifere, down to Pandef are nothing but hopeless docile group of the south. They are more of internal destructive competitors against the external competition they ought to have engaged on. HOW THE…
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Ndigbo have cried out to humanity for help over what they described as “war against its people” by the Nigerian police. It is said that the Nigerian-Biafran war which lasted for three years from 1967-1970 could be said to have ended, but no, the war is still ongoing, but this time, strategically posed against the people of the south-east where the government is using every mechanism to stoop down the people from the zone. In interview conducted by Ogene Ndigbo Newspaper, Ndigbo have described themselves as “defenseless people” as the police have taken control of their zones and areas, extorting…
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One of Nigeria’s greatest assets is our diversity. But unfortunately, in the years since our independence in 1960 we have completely failed to exploit this diversity to our advantage. Instead, we have quibbled and fought concentrating on the few things that drive us apart instead of the many things that draw us together. It is my unshakeable, stoical belief that a united Nigeria means a stronger Nigeria and a stronger, more competitive Africa. Every ethnic group in Nigeria has something to teach and also something to learn. In this article, I will be concentrating on what every Nigerian can learn…
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The chicken has come home to roost. Now they kill themselves daily. It is a land flowing in blood. Their own blood. In most states of northern Nigeria the diet of death is served as breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is served stone cold in blood. They do not comprehend what has befallen them. The awareness of how deeply they have fallen into trouble is not too obvious to them. They don’t know what hit them. They are the children of wickedness. The offspring of evil doers. They have innocent blood on their hands. The promise of God that He…
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Jimmy Agbaje says he is now a debtor because of his failed bid to become the governor of Lagos State. He is just one of the many people who have suffered great pains because of their involvement in politics. The other day, my friend, Paul, told me that his father would not have suffered a stroke if he hadn’t delved into partisan politics. I tried to educate him that he was just being superstitious, but he refused to agree with me. After Abubakar Audu’s death, Paul reminded me that Nigerian politics was enough to give anyone a high blood pressure…
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The new appellation and euphoric praise name by which high-profile governorship candidates were addressed by their supporters during the campaign and voting period is the word, ‘incoming’. Now the governorship elections, including that of the slow motion Rivers State, are over and the ‘incomings’ have become governors-elect. As far as this columnist is aware, there is no institution in Nigeria, offering programmed instruction or crash courses in democratic apprenticeship or stewardship for new office holders, either at the executive or legislative levels. So the governors-elect will have to make their own coffee, as they contemplate taking the first tentative steps…
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Did the West have any right to predict that Nigeria may break up? Well, they are entitled to conduct research on sub Saharan Africa, predict likely scenarios and outcomes and prepare an effective response to safeguard Western interests. Yes, they are entitled to predict the future of Nigeria in the same way that they are looking at the global consequences of an emerging Chinese Business consolidation of Africa, how to Engage and Contain China, the likely scenarios in the Middle East, nuclear Bombs in the hands of India, North Korea and Pakistan, and a host of other topics. Of course…
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I read some of the comments and submissions of a majority of Nigerians, especially the youths in the social media, their utterances and actions, and shudder at the future of this country. Where are we heading to from here? A majority of our people, especially, the youths do not want to work. They do not want to put their hands into honest works and ploughing?. A majority of Nigerians do not even understand the roles they are expected to play in the society. A majority of them are so ignorant that they do not realize, understand or appreciate their citizens…
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Your Imperial Majesty, Alaafin of Oyo Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, with utmost respect, and on prostration, we are responding to your letter dated 2nd May 2019. We greatly appreciate your contribution to the public consciousness of our cultural origins, linkages and identity. We are also informed that the Ooni of Ife is also glad that the conversation is taking place to give us a true picture of our cultural origins and linkages. ASHE Foundation welcomes all scholars to contribute to this most important conversation in 500yrs. We have previously stated that the discussion is about whether Ifa recorded the full origins…
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You dig your own borehole. Every house in Nigeria has its own private source of water. You are your own Water Corporation. Some people in this generation have never seen pipe-borne water. You hire your own security guards- your estate or community hires one and because you don’t really trust that communal effort, you still hire a private guard for your house. Police? Don’t even start. You are your own Police. When you’re on the road, you’re at the mercy of agberos, touts and kidnappers. So you hire a bodyguard. If you can’t afford a bodyguard, you depend on God.…
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The Yoruba Council of Elders is right that Nigeria’s biggest security problems are concentrated in the North and these problems are draining the country’s resources. Are the Boko Haram terrorists not Northerners, mainly from the Northeast? Is religious violence not concentrated in the North? Are Muslim fanatics that attack Churches and loot Igbo shops in the name of peaceful protests not Northerners? Are these mobs that extra-judicially lynch non-Muslims for alleged blasphemy not Northerners? Do Yoruba Muslims take the laws into their own hands by lynching others for alleged blasphemy? Don’t the Southwest have Muslims? Why are they not behaving…
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The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has lamented that quacks have taken over every institution in the country, including the country’s political space. Kukah said that the quest to achieve a united Nigeria, devoid of rationalization and fictionalization, will only be an illusion. The cleric spoke at the National Conference and Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, NIPR, Kukah. He further said Nigeria is one of the most dangerous country in the world to live in. Kukah said, “The quest for national cohesion remains an illusion and the result, therefore, is that marketing…
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Some undisputed facts are, first, Nigeria is a country of over 250 ethnic nationalities. Second: Nigeria was created by Britain for British interest. Third: From 1914 till date, Nigeria has enjoyed peace for only 31 years out of 105years. The peaceful years being from 1914 to 1945. Four: Before our colonial masters left in 1960, we agreed to stay together with enough slack built into our Constitution to allow each region to grow and develop their own Economy and their people, at their own pace. Five: Without actually understanding each other, we were told and we believed, that Natural Law…
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. The mantra,”REBUILD IMO” was the cornerstone and embodiment of His Excellency, Rt. Hon Emeka Ihedioha’s core message to Imolites during the campaigns. He repeatedly stated and assured that local governments must be made to play its role as an engine of growth and development. It is this message that struck a cord with the masses who voted overwhelmingly for him. The acceptance of Ihedioha’s message by Imo people showed their appreciation that indeed the state lies comatose and needs fresh oxygen to breath again. The voters accepted that there are needs for reform initiatives and strategic plans to revive…
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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa 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…
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Dear Brothers, Sisters and Leaders in our land, “Towards Recreating and Enhancing Igbo National Consciousness And Rebirth” I forward to you this Memorandum captioned MAY 30 AS IGBO NATIONAL REMEMBRANCE DAY/BIAFRA REMEMBRANCE DAY in the name of Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF) and all individuals and groups that currently share in the message it conveys. ADF is aware that several groups, organizations and individuals have annually been celebrating this auspicious day in our History as a Remembrance Day in one form or the other. Many religious groups and several Pan-Igbo organizations including Pro-Biafra organizations such as Ekwenche, MASSOB, IPOB, Coalition of…
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Alaafin Sets The Record Straight, Refutes Ooni’s Claim On Yoruba Ancestral Ties With Igbos SCRIPT OF THE LETTER PUBLISHED IN THE NIGERIAN TRIBUNE ON THURSDAY, 2 MAY, 2019 PAGE 9 In recent time, I have been inundated with calls and even visits to my Palace on a recent Video Tape showing His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife during the Aje Festival in Ile-Ife, Osun State. With all sense of modesty but candour, I cannot recall exactly the number of the video tapes that have been sent to me by well-meaning Yoruba elders and patriots. (2)…
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On December 23, 1985, the Vatsa family had just concluded plans to travel to Calabar because, usually, they spent the yuletide in the Cross River State capital, (Sufiya is Efik), the Id-el-Fitri in Minna, Niger State (Vatsa is Nupe) and the Id-el Kabir in Kaduna. After the necessary packing for the trip, the family waited for the return of General Vatsa from the Armed Forces Ruling Council, (AFRC), meeting he had attended. He returned home late, so the trip was postponed till the following day. At about 12 midnight, while Sufiya was watching a movie in her bedroom, her husband,…
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According to NBS reports, Labour Union Intelligence reports and submissions made Nurudeen Bala on October 2017, only 4 states in Nigeria can literally be said to be solvent. These 4 states can survive no matter the fortunes of the crude oil prices in the international market. Some other 12 states in the lowest rung of the solvency rating (Imo state included), are technically bankrupt and if they are to be companies, would have since 2016 been under receivership. Creatively, prudentially, honestly and progressively managed with robust fiscal discipline, some of this technically bankrupt states, would have been self-sustaining and above…
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Enoch was the holiest human being in his time. He did not die. He was taken by God. He wrote the first piece on how God created the earth. Some of the Apostles and Teachers made reference to his writings, and his book was considered a part of the scripture by them. One of the oldest bibles in the world written in ancient Ge’ez language contains the book of Enoch. How come the book he wrote was removed from and not included in the bible? The book of Enoch is one of those books in the bible that exposes the…
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The quest to realise the president of Igbo extraction for the country in 2023 may have started in earnest as sons and daughters of the ethnic group gather today in Enugu to inaugurate a pressure group, “Southeast for President 2023 Movement.” The Guardian gathered that the inauguration of the group, made up of Igbo intelligentsia, religious, business and political leaders, was to ensure that the zone does not work at cross-purposes. The movement, it was further gathered, would ensure that “every political party, especially the two major political parties, and or any third force will cede their presidential candidates to…
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There seems to be some tension within the royal family right now. Following the announcement that Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan will be moving out of their two-bedroom home at Kensington Palace and into a 10-bedroom cottage at Windsor Castle, 20 minutes outside of London, reports have begun to spring up claiming that the real reason behind the move is due to “some tension” between the couple and Prince William and his wife Duchess Kate. After all, news of their impending move out of Kensington Palace, which is where Will and Kate live with their three children, came after it was revealed that…
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Frank “Black Caesar” Matthews (born February 13, 1944) is a major heroin and cocaine trafficker who operated throughout the eastern seaboard during the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the peak of his career he operated in 21 states and supplied major dealers throughout every region of the country. Although there is more attention paid to other drug kingpins of the era, Frank Matthews is said by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be one of the most significant traffickers of the time. He led a flamboyant lifestyle, with large sable mink coats, prime seats at major sporting events, luxury…
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1 year ago Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (2ndR), Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote (L), and Microsoft founder Bill Gates (C) arrive to attend the closing ceremony of the National Economic Council (NEC) in Abuja on March 22, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / • Says ERGP doesn’t reflect people’s need • Bill Gates says Nigeria one of most dangerous places to give birth. • We’re investing in people through ERGP—Osinbajo • To compete globally, we must prioritize investments—Dangote • Nothing wrong with ERGP—El-Rufai Chairman, Bill and Melinda Foundation, Bill Gates, yesterday in Abuja, faulted the Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth…
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The fire that destroyed much of the Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris is a tragedy that is irreparable. Even if the cathedral is rebuilt, it will never be what it was before. Stained glass windows and major architectural elements have been severely damaged and the oak frame totally destroyed. The spire that rose from the cathedral was a unique piece of art. It was drawn by the architect who restored the edifice in the nineteenth century, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, who had based his work on 12th century documents. In addition to the fire, the water needed to extinguish…
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• Almost everyone is now a thief. For fire-spitting former Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa Nigerians have borne too much in terms of bad leadership that a coup as happened in Sudan recently or a civilian rebellion – the Venezuelan option could become options if the situation in the country continues to worsen. In an interview, on Sunday Vanguard, Musa, now a renowned social crusader, said things have deteriorated in the country that anything could happen at any moment in terms citizen reaction which would not augur well with the country. The former governor described the 2019 general…
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SLIPPING THROUGH: A gold trader in Uganda shows nuggets of gold that he said had been smuggled out of Democratic Republic of Congo. REUTERS/David Lewis High prices are luring Africans into prospecting for gold. But huge volumes are smuggled out through the Middle East. Billions of dollars’ worth of gold is being smuggled out of Africa every year through the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East – a gateway to markets in Europe, the United States and beyond – a Reuters analysis has found. Customs data shows that the UAE imported $15.1 billion worth of gold from Africa in…
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“No revolution is the fault of the people but the fault of the government.”—Johann Goethe, 1749-1832, A revolution is underway in the northern states of Nigeria. The downtrodden constituting 99.9 per cent of the population, hitherto docile beggars, saying rankaindedeto the privileged 0.1 per cent, are sick and tired of begging. They are now demanding for their own share of “the national cake” to be delivered to them – at gun or cutlass points. Nigeria will never be the same again. The North is now gradually sliding into the dictatorship of the beggars or almajiris. As usual, Nigerian pseudo-socialists, like…
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The government of Saudi Arabia has expressed readiness to sign a memorandum of understanding with Nigeria for the revamp of Nigerian refineries and for the construction of a new one. This was revealed by the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources. It said based on the proposed MoU, Saudi Arabia had expressed its intention to also invest in liquified natural gas in Nigeria, as well as product supply trading in crude and refined products. The Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Khalid Al-Falih, said his country was ready to partner Nigeria in developing the…
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Fellow Biafrans! Greetings to you all!! My appreciation to all those who are still in the struggle to restore the lost sovereignty of the Biafran people as a result of British imperial ambition of which Nigeria is one of her disastrous creations. Let me start by asking everyone to observe a minute silence for all those who died to protect and restore the sovereignty of the Biafran people from the British & Fulani colonial ambition. Although silence is golden but there are times it is necessary to talk before things go haywire. Of recent, our dear compatriot Alhaji Asari Dokunbo…
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The Standpoint! Question: Is Southeast and Igboland the same thing? Answer: Not at all. Southeast is only about 3/5th of Igboland. Igboland covers the whole of Southeast, parts of Rivers, Delta, Edo, Cross river, Benue, Kogi and Akwa Ibom states. Question: Why were we taught in school that Igbo people are easterners?* Answer: It is both an unfortunate parroting by teachers and careless adoption by Igbo educated class. Igbo people come from Southern Nigeria and not Eastern Nigeria. It may be correct to say that the Igbo are found predominantly in eastern Nigeria. However, by saying that the Igbo are…
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1• Narmer (Reign: ca. 2650 B.C. — 2632 B.C.) Narmer, also known as Menes, unified Upper and Lower Egypt for the first time and, therefore, founded the first dynasty of a unified Egypt. 2• Khasekhemwy (Reign: 18 years, ca. 2690 B.C.) Khasekhemwy ended the infighting of the second dynasty and reunited Upper and Lower Egypt after a civil war between the followers of the gods Horus and Set. 3• Djoser (Reign: 19 or 28 years, ca. 2670 B.C.) Djoser (also read as Djeser and Zoser) is the builder of the Step Pyramid and is believed by most Egyptologists to be the…
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Dated 28th March 1966 CONFIDENTIAL To: The Supreme Commander and Head of the Federal Military Government, Lagos. Thru: The Director of Prisons, Prisons Headquarters Office, Private Mail Bag 12522, Lagos. Sir: Prerogative Of Mercy: Section 101 (1) (A) of the Constitution of The Federation Act 1963 1. I am writing this petition for FREE PARDON under Section 101(1) (a) of the Constitution of the Federation Act 1963, on behalf of myself and some of my colleagues whose names are set out in the Annexe hereto. 2. Before I go further, I would like to stress that the reasons which I…
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A new dimension was recently introduced to the unending controversy about Yoruba history when Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi claimed that Igbos from the Eastern part of Nigeria and not Ugbo from the Ilaje, Ondo State, invaded Ile-Ife before Moremi sacrificed herself, to liberate her people. The Olugbo of Ugboland, Oba Frederick Obateru Akinruntan, had in the book he presented to the public in August, this year claimed that his stool predates that of Ooni. He was particularly angered that the Ooni referred to his lineage as Igbo, describing Ooni’s narrative as a deliberate distortion of historical facts about…
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Chukwu and Otedola Who is my neighbour? That was what led Jesus Christ to render the parable of the Good Samaritan, a story which every Christians could tell heart. But let me recount it for the benefit of the non-faithful or those who may have forgotten the lines. On one occasion, one of his traducers described as an expert in the law, intent on pinning him down, stood up to test Jesus, by asking: “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Reading his mind, Jesus replied: “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” The man…
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Nigeria is simply a geographical expression of the imperialists’ greed and spite. Recently, I was on a flight from Dallas to London when I struck an interesting conversation with an American professor of African history. We talked about the human race and countries. America, he said was named after an Italian explorer called Amerigo Vespucci. Amerigo was known to denote his discovered land a “ New World”. So long after her independence, the New World appropriated quite well with the dream of all Americans. “What about Nigeria”? He asked me. “Flora Shaw Lugard coined Nigeria and her inspiration was the…
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The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has come up with a fresh claim about the true nationality of President Muhmmadu Buhari. Kanu, in his broadcast from the United Kingdom at the weekend, said that neither “dead” Muhammadu Buhari, nor “his replacement” Jibril al Sudani, is qualified to contest for Nigeria’s presidential election. Nnamdi Kanu argued that being born on Nigerian soil was not enough to qualify one as a Nigerian citizen by birth, unless the parents, grandparents of such person is also born in Nigeria. The IPOB leader said that Buhari’s father, Hardo Adamu, was…
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Speaker Yakubu Dogara had alleged that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari is due to his presidential ambition. In a statement by his special adviser on media and public affairs, Turaki Hassan, Speaker Dogara said Tinubu’s “pretentious” loyalty to Buhari would soon be exposed. He was reacting to comments by the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) accusing Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker Dogara of “working against” the Buhari administration, budget padding amongst others. “The APC legislative initiatives while attempting to hoist noxious reactionary and self interested legislation on the nation,” “Even worse, they cut funds intended…
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The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?” The last line of a 17th century poem by John Donne prompted Louise Noble’s quest. “Women,” the line read, are not only “Sweetness and wit,” but “mummy, possessed.” Sweetness and wit, sure. But mummy? In her search for an explanation, Noble, a lecturer of English at the University of New England in Australia, made a surprising discovery: That word recurs throughout the literature of early modern Europe, from Donne’s “Love’s Alchemy” to Shakespeare’s “Othello” and Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene,”…
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I visited Douglas Road and what used to be Eke Ukwu yesterday and I couldn’t help but wonder; why did that promising young man have to die? If you visit that area, you’ll probably ask the same question I now ask our outgoing governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha and master of ‘iberiberism’ who in his ‘wisdom’ decided to demolish that market against court orders and indirectly caused the ‘execution’ of that poor boy. Was Somtochukwu’s death an answer to an occultic call for innocent blood ritual or an accident? For what sane or insane reason was Eke Ukwu demolished in the…
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Like every other average African American, James Churchwill Vaughan lived a decent life trying to make ends meet in America despite several societal issues that always put the black community several steps behind the white community. Born in South Carolina in 1828, James lived with both his nuclear and extended family where they lived knowing no other place to call home. Although he was born free, James’s dad was born an enslaved black man working all his life on a plantation until he was too old. It was a wish of his father that would change the Vaughan name from…
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He is noted in Nigeria as the first recorded Igbo lawyer in history. In Liberia, however, Edward James Roye is well-known as the country’s fifth president whose administration was short-lived and who died under rather mysterious circumstances. Celebrated as the first pure black person to become president of Liberia, Roye was a “pure descendant of the Igbo tribe from Nigeria”. His father, John Roye, was an Igbo slave in Ohio, America who later gained his freedom and became an illustrious merchant with considerable wealth and land in many cities. Born on February 3, 1815, in Newark, Ohio, Roye would benefit…
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Professor Uzodimma Nwala, a renowned retired Professor of Philosophy, is among the very few Igbo elders, who command the respect of the people today. The President of Alaigbo Development Foundation, ADF in this exclusive chat with The Nigerian Xpress speaks on marginalisation of the Igbo in Nigeria and the renewed quest for self determination. Can you tell us briefly about the Alaigbo Development Foundation? ADF was born in 2014, following an international colloquium organised by many Igbo scholars, statesmen, clergy, politicians, traditional rulers, businessmen. It was one of those momentous periods when the question of Ndigbo, where do we go…
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1. Yesterday, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, released another of his now well expected quarterly vicious attack on the person of Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, the President of the Senate. In the statement, one could see the master of media spins getting ensnared in his own game as he struggled to extricate himself from the narratives about the contest for leadership positions in the Ninth National Assembly. 2. Since we have taken it for granted that Tinubu’s attack on Saraki every three months (Quarterly) will come as expected, we would just have ignored his statement but for the fact that it…
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On Nov 3, 2016, the FG arraigned former Supreme Court Registrar Ahmed Saleh Gambo for sundry acts of corruption including receiving gratification totalling N74.4m from private contractors providing services to the Supreme Court between 2009 and 2016 including the sum of N10million from Willysdave Ltd, N2.4million from Welcon Nigeria Ltd, N16million from Dean Musa Nig. Ltd and N19million from Ababia Ventures Ltd. The defendants (Gambo and two other senior directors) were also specifically alleged to have diverted N2.2billion belonging to the Supreme Court of Nigeria, into personal bank accounts domiciled at United Bank For Africa Plc with account number 2027642863.…
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…. Set to capture NASS, decimated Atiku Abubakar, Nasir El-Rufai, Mamman Daura others The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu has set up a “Task Force” to realise his ambition of contesting and winning the 2023 presidential election. The task force deliverables have been divided into achieving five broad objectives: which are gaining the control of the party, the control of Lagos State government, the control of the National Assembly, the control of the media and the political liquidation of certain individuals who can match him wits for wits, money for money to safeguard his…
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EVERY so often someone asks me: “What’s your favorite country, other than your own?” I’ve always had the same answer: Taiwan. “Taiwan? Why Taiwan?” people ask. Very simple: Because Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon-laden sea with no natural resources to live off of — it even has to import sand and gravel from China for construction — yet it has the fourth-largest financial reserves in the world. Because rather than digging in the ground and mining whatever comes up, Taiwan has mined its 23 million people, their talent, energy and intelligence — men and women. I always…
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In the first place, Zik never wanted to assume the position of Head of Government Business in the Western Region in 1952 as alleged. Evidence abound that all that Zik wanted was to install an NCNC government in the Western Region and then proceed to the central (national) Legislature in Lagos as decided by the NCNC national executive committee. Secondly, the “famous carpet-crossing saga” is usually somewhat over-stretched and has been used to foist inter-ethnic misunderstanding between the Igbo and the Yoruba. It is not true that Yoruba NCNC parliamentarians abandoned Zik on the floor of the Western House of…
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Why Easter Means so Much to Christians. Easter is here. It is the greatest event since the creation of the world. It marks the single event which changed the world and has never been repeated again, namely, the death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The death of Jesus, the incarnate God, was so momentous that it split the curtain of the Old Jewish Temple of Jerusalem into two (Mt. 27:51). The split of the Temple signifies the split of history into two, marking world history by AD or BC. Jesus is the new Temple which cannot…
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The IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, recommended at the latest International Monetary Fund/World Bank Annual Spring meeting in Washington, United States that the removal of subsidy from petrol price would restrain Nigeria’s rapid debt accretion, so that erstwhile trillions of naira subsidy allocations could be deployed annually to improve the quality of health, education and infrastructure. The above advice, notwithstanding, IMF appears to wail more than the bereaved as Nigeria’s finance and budget ministers continue to soothe public anxiety with sweet assurances that all is well. Nevertheless, in April 2019, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachukwu, confirmed…
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Lt General TY Buratai sir, This memo is necessitated by issues of a very delicate nature which, in my humble opinion, may constitute crime against Nigerian school children if left unaddressed. General Sir, Nigerians woke up yesterday morning to a tweet on the verified handle of the Nigerian Army stating that come May 4th, 2019, a book titled “The Legend of Buratai” would be officially presented to school children at the federal capital territory library, Abuja. According to the report, the book written by one Dr Abubakar Mohd Sani is “a calculated attempt to transform his (Buratai) life into folklore…
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The Ghana Railway Development Authority which was established by the Ghana Railway Act of 2008 ( unlike our moribund act of 1955 that drives the Nigerian rail system ) has a master plan of modernizing the country’s rail network and addition of 4000km new networks to it . As part of delivering this master plan in organized and properly articulated arrangement that does not put a strain on the nation”s balance sheet, and realizing the fiscal revenue limitation of the country; the GDRA has concluded plans to execute a reconstruction of its rail network running from Accra to Kumasi. This…
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Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange today, per SEC documents and confirmation from CEO Sacha Poignonnec to TechCrunch. The valuation, share price and timeline for public stock sales will be determined over the coming weeks for the Nigeria-headquartered company. With a smooth filing process, Jumia will become the first African tech startup to list on a major global exchange. Poignonnec would not pinpoint a date for the actual IPO, but noted the minimum SEC timeline for beginning sales activities (such as road shows) is 15 days after submitting first documents. Lead adviser…
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Kenyan government risks losing the lucrative Mombasa port to China should the country fail to repay huge loans advanced by Chinese lenders. In November, African Stand reported on how Kenya is at high risk of Losing strategic assets over huge Chinese debt and just after some few month the Chinese are about to take action. The loans have been granted for the development of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). Also at stake is the Inland Container Depot in Nairobi, which receives and dispatches freight hauled on the new cargo trains from the sea port. Implications of a takeover would be…
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RESULT ANNOUNCED BY INEC BUHARI ~15,191,847 ✅~~~~~Winner ATIKU ~ 11,262,978 RESULT ON INEC SERVER BUHARI ~ 16,741,430 ATIKU ~ 18,356,732 ✅~~~~~~~Winner THE SERVER TRACES ~Server 1 – INEC_PRES_RSLT_SRV2019 ~Physical Address/Unique Mac Address – 94-57-A5-DC-64-B9 ~Microsoft Product ID – 00252-7000000000-AA535 ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION OF RESULT Election results were electronically transmitted to INEC server by INEC returning officers across the country, but INEC claimed the result Atiku is brandishing are not from their server. So Atiku has invited Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, IBM as witnesses to prove that even if INEC delete the result, they can still be traced and recovered because these were…
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Most nations are formed under the table of brotherhood, tribes and ethnic groups coming together to form a united state. Not every nation on earth can say this and Nigeria is one of them. For decades many have wondered why unity has been hard to attain among the tribes in this country. The answer lies in our history. Nigeria was not formed by groups or tribes who saw purpose in unity. Nigeria is as a result of Britain’s commercial interest in West Africa. Then Nigeria was once known as the slave coast but by 1870 that had changed. Britain had…
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Nigeria lost about N353bn in gold smuggled out of the country and sold in the international market between 2016 and 2018 without any revenue accruing to the government. However, illegal miners reaped the gain, investigation has shown. Within the three-year period, about 18 tonnes of gold were smuggled out of the country and sold in the international market as confirmed by the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Alhaji Bawa Bwari. Bwari, in a document, ‘Three Years Accounts of Stewardship,’ confirmed that although six tonnes of gold originating from Nigeria were traded in the international market on an annual basis,…
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 Babangida had promised the Nigerian nation that he would enthrone a new social order by doing away with the politics of the past, bring in new breed politicians and change the political landscape. And since he was not going to wave the magic wand, he sought and got Cookey to chair a Political Bureau. That Bureau was saddled with the responsibility of fashioning out, after due consultations with Nigerians via memoranda and public presentations, a new political order. It was in the pursuit of this mandate that the professor wrote to Pa Awolowo, requesting his participation and views. To…
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The dust raised during the last APGA primary election is beginning to settle albeit that the sores remain festering. At the centre of the sad incident is no other than the National Chairman of the party, Chief Victor Oye. The buck starts and ends at his desk unless he is a stooge My grouse with Oye is that for one who had Greatness presented to him on a platter against all odds threw it to the dogs. How can such a position of Great importance and significance to Ndigbo be entrusted to a man who never paid his dues within…
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Mr. Yinka Odumakin is the Publicity Secretary of Afenifere. He spoke on the crisis of Afenifere, how Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) was established and why he left. He also discussed the need to restructure Nigeria. SEYE OLUMIDE reports. Q• Is there any hope that the crisis in Afenifere would be resolved, at least in the interest of Yoruba nation? A• In retrospect, the crisis in Afenifere started from 1998, when the ban on politics was lifted and its leaders, who fought gallantly in the struggle against the late Gen Sani Abacha’s military government and the restoration of democratic rule in…
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Of course, Aliko Dangote is wealthy. That fact is beyond argument. In fact, he is so wealthy that everyone in the world knows it. Thus, when you mention the name Dangote, the immediate response of a typical mind is money, riches and wealth. That is understandable even if mis-leading. Dangote is much more than money and riches. He represents some of the finest attributes of Nigeria, and has emerged by dint of hard work, industry and character, one of the greatest Nigerians in this country’s chequered history. Last week was his 62nd birthday anniversary, an occasion which provided an opportunity…
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PSC/PR/COMM.(DCCCXL) COMMUNIQUÉ Adopted by the Peace and Security Council at its 840th meeting held on 15 April 2019 on the situation in Sudan, The Peace and Security Council, Recalling the relevant provisions of the July 2000 AU Constitutive Act, the July 2002 Protocol Relating to the Establishment of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (Article 7 (g)) and the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance; Also recalling Decisions AHG/Dec.141(XXXV) and AHG/Dec.142(XXXV), adopted by the 35th Ordinary Session of the OAU Assembly of Heads of State and Government held in Algiers, Algeria, from 12 to 14 July…
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I have always said that in no distant future, the unanswered question surrounding the citizenship of the peoples of the former UN Trusteeship Territory of Northern Cameroon will rear its ‘ugly’ head. But I never for one moment thought that it would be the Ruling Political Party in Nigeria (APC) that would help us open the matter to public debate. Thank you APC.You have made my work so easy. As a specialist on UN Trusteeship history, I have no doubt in my mind that the non-respect of the 1961 Plebiscite agreement was a time bomb. It is not news that…
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As part of his move to develop the proposed Deep Sea Port in the Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, Governor of the state, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Private Office of his Highness, Sheikh Dalmook Al Maktoum, who is a member of the Dubai ruling family. Akeredolu signed the MoU on behalf of the state government as he seeks collaboration with the United Arab Emirates in developing Ondo State and widening its investment horizon. Akeredolu was invited on Thursday to meet with the Dubai Secretary for Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economy UAE,…
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They hoard their gold, diamond mines and other solid minerals. They believe in jihad, sharia, religious conflicts, ethnic cleanings and federal character. That sums up the region with the people who boast of political supremacy to rule Nigeria forever. That sums up the state of the union. With the north, Nigeria is completely hopeless. With the north, count on incompetence, tom foolery and a believe system anchored on fascism and autocracy to achieve predetermined political objectives. It’s the North’s agenda to northernise the security agencies. It’s the North’s hidden agenda to have the country as an Islamic state for its…
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A very big confusion in economics and global public policy: IMF (International Monetary Fund) does not know the clear difference between Nigeria Sovereign investment Authority (NSIA) and Nigeria’s Excess Crude Account (ECA), as per terminologies. That IMF got trapped in that after years of those hard hitting articles on Nigeria is a concern. But thank goodness the local media challenged it, and the Fund has clarified. IMF had used “Sovereign Wealth Fund” (SWF) to refer to ECA which Nigeria has never designated as a SWF. NSIA has been Nigeria’s SWF. The latest report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ranking Nigeria…
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Abia State government says that Golden Guinea Breweries in Umuahia and producers of Golden Guinea beer, Malt, Eagle Stout or Bergedoff Beer is back after more than 17 years and would be available in Nigeria beer parlours in the next two weeks. The Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu broke the cheering news after visiting the company in line with the internal review and monitoring agenda. of the Governor Ikpeazu-led administration in the State. According to the Commissioner he was there to “see how far the work has gone at the facility and was pleasantly surprised when we…
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While we have been busy talking about Nigeria of today, I wonder if we have spared a thought about how this country will be in the next TWENTY-FIVE years. On October 1, 1979, when Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari was sworn-in as president, Goodluck Jonathan was just a 22 year-old undergrad of University of Port-Harcourt. Shagari was 54 years old. Ayo Fayose was 19 years old. Bukola Saraki was 17. Yemi Osibajo was 22. The generation of the likes of Shagari, Richard Akinjide, Adisa Akinloye, Sabo Barkin Zuwo, Sam Mbakwe, Jim Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo, Ume Ezeoke, Christian Onoh, Akin Omoboriowo, Olusola…
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Records show that there are conservatively over 7-10 millon Diaspora Nigerians around the world. In the US alone, there are over 300,000 Nigerians residing in the US (Official documentation). It is even argued that the number may top 500,000 by the time you add the undocumented Nigerian immigrants in the US. Records also show that these Nigerian immigrants are the most educated immigrants in the US. 4% of them have education up to the PhD level. 23% of them have education up to Masters Degree level and the remaining immigrants have atleast college education. There literacy level is 100%. Annually,…
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The only country amongst our immediate West Africa Neigbours, that is still subsidizing petroleum consumption and running an opaque oil and gas industry is Nigerian. We have refused to give up this terrible behaviour that have turned few men in power into overnight dollar billionaires , while pauperising and impoverishing tens of millions of other Nigerians . The lies, that this cabal of greedy and conscienceless men usually sell to us is that if the subsidies are removed today, that the poor will suffer more . Just like Judas , their argument is not altruistic. They do not have one…
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The current state of the Biafran struggle for self-determination has transcended the level the Nigeria political power brokers can contend with. The case has snowballed into an international matter which is capable of questioning the future of the Nigerian state and its sovereignty. The on-going case between the federal Government of Nigeria versus Nnamdi Kanu over the trumped up allegation that the latter committed treasonable felony, for which he and the four others were arraigned at the federal high court of the federal Republic of Nigeria, and later alleged to have jumped bail has taken a new dimension. But as…
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The real reason why Zamfara killings are not abating is gradually coming out. The North is obviously playing with the intelligence of the South. I’ll quote copiously from Premium Times. Briefing newsmen in Abuja this evening, the IGP, Mohammed Adamu, unwittingly revealed: “… intelligence reports clearly established a strong and glaring nexus between the activities of armed bandits and ILLICIT miners – with both mutually re-enforcing each other.” Wonderful! So we even have “illicit” miners in the North? How come the army never warned them like they do with the “illegal” oil bunkerers in the South? What are they really…
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A report released on Monday has accused Nigerian security and law enforcement agencies of pocketing as much as N100 billion in roadside bribery and extortion in the South-eastern part of the country alone over the last three years. In a Monday morning statement to PREMIUM TIMES, the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law said findings into the report began in August 2015. It accompanied the report with pictures that seemed to show officers receiving bribes at checkpoints. A breakdown of the questionable operation showed that Nigeria Police Force pocketed N78.02 billion, the military (Army, Navy and…
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The sound was very clear, loud and distinct. Metal sound put on pressure. I checked the time, it was after 3 am. Peeping through the window, trying to make sure it is not within my house, I could now guess it is coming from my neighbor, 3 doors apart. It must be robbers or Kidnappers I thought in my mind. Nothing else can make this eerie sound of metal clatter, this hour, within the neighborhood. I was shaky, and am sure many neighbors were woken and horrified by the sound too. But no one dare work out of his door…
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It is not exactly new talk; the news is that it came from the lips of Aliko Dangote, thus breaking the age-old culture of silence. Summoning a moral courage rare among the elite, the Forbes-certified richest black man came down hard on northern governors while lamenting the clear and present danger extreme poverty poses to his native Arewaland. Speaking at the fourth edition of the Kaduna Investment Summit (KadInvest 4.0) in Kaduna last week, Dangote wondered why a region endowed with vast land that should have been exploited to drive agrarian revolution is, instead, wallowing in abject misery. His words:…
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Last week, a young man from Anambra State committed suicide. Alex Chukwuezie, 22, completed his senior secondary school two years ago but could not get any job. He complained to some people recently that life was becoming miserable for him. According to media reports, he tried his hands at business. But things remained tough. When he could no longer bear what life was throwing at him, he hanged himself on a mango tree. Until his death, Chukwuezie was an active youth leader in his ward in Ihiala Local Government Area of the state. This young man followed in the footsteps of…
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A disturbing interview given by a KGB defector in 1984 describes America of today and outlines four stages of mass brainwashing used by the KGB. Bezmenov described this process as “a great brainwashing” which has four basic stages. The first stage is called “demoralization” which takes from 15 to 20 years to achieve. According to the former KGB agent, that is the minimum number of years it takes to re-educate one generation of students that is normally exposed to the ideology of its country. President Trump was almost universally panned for the press conference that followed the meeting with Russia’s President Putin in…
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The late Sir Ahmadu Bello, defunct Northern Nigeria’s first Premier, gets an undeservedly bad rap from the South for being the patron saint of the sort of exclusionary, reactionary regional chauvinism that political leaders of the North have been accused of. But he wasn’t nearly the monster of retrograde ethnic particularism he has been presented to be in the South, and he would definitely be ashamed of Buhari’s insensitive, in-your-face, knee-jerk “northern” sub-nationalism. Of course, as a leader of the North, which was engaged in a battle of regional supremacy with the South, Ahmadu Bello was naturally protective of his…
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The Black African, the wretched of the earth, Is the only member of the human race who has been brainwashed to think that his ancestors bequeathed him with a curse that has prevented him from Attaining aspired goals and life desires. Almost every misfortune he encounters on earth is the fault of some ancestor… Who must be bound and cast with the fire of the Holy Ghost in the name of Jesus. The white people dont have terrible ancestors who have done terrible things. No. It’s only the black ancestor. Over the years, the black ancestor has been so vilified…
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The Federal Government on Sunday 07-04-2019 suspended mining in Zamfara state following series of attacks by bandits. It also ordered foreign miners to immediately leave mining sites in Zamfara States and its environs. The Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu briefed State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa Abuja. He said that any foreign miner that continues mining activities would have his license revoked
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As far as I am concerned, the 2019 elections are over. The so-called inconclusive elections announced by Professor Mahmood Yakubu are just smokescreens for arriving at conclusions already decided. At the very least, Professor Yakubu, who at various times was asked to resign by various groups and individuals, should quickly release the results he likes and then just as quickly resign. He will never go down in history as having conducted a free and fair election. Perhaps the next Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, should not be another professor. Increasingly, one is getting the impression that most…
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The Nigerian/ African richest and Chairman of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has said Northern Nigeria will continue to remain poor except states governments move to close the development gap between the northern Nigeria and the southern Nigeria. Dangote, who spoke at the 4th edition of the Kaduna Investment Summit April 2019 (KadInvest) Stated that the North is the poorest Region in Nigeria, most especially North West and North East. Mr Aliko Dangote and his Northern counterparts Enough of this deceit. The North is not poor. A lot of the nations wealth go to the Northern Nigeria. Northern…
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Nigeria’s political parties have many similarities than differences, the only visible difference being their names. It is sad we lack the opportunity to vote in terms of party ideology rather; we vote for personalities. This is because the best voters could do in the absence of party ideology is to look for the candidate of their choice. Political parties during the days of the Late Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Action group (AG), for instance, were social democrats, and when you voted AG, you would be sure to access free education if the group won the election. Today we lack parties that…
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FOR FLESH AND BLOOD HAS NOT REVEALED THESE THINGS TO HIS ROYAL MAJESTY THE OONI OF IFE, FOR IT CAN ONLY COME THROUGH THE PROMPTING OF THE SECRET HANDS THAT GUIDE AND PROTECT, THE ALMIGHTY GOD HIMSELF. AND MOST SIGNIFICANTLY, IT COMES AT THE PERIOD OF THE LIKES OF ADEYINKA GRANDSON AND FEMI KUSA KIND OF MINDSET, THAT SEEM TO HAVE MADE CAREER OUT OF DENIGRATING AND CONDESCENDING IGBOS IN GENERAL. WHAT A REBUTTAL? WHAT A BEFITTING RESPONSE TO THEM ALL. TO BE VERY SINCERE ABOUT THIS VIDEO CLIP, WHAT THE OONI SAID HERE CANNOT BE QUANTIFIED IN MONETARY MEASURE.…
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