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On Twitter last week, Nigeria leader Muhammadu Buhari wrote: “Happy Birthday to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National Leader of our great party, the APC; pillar of democracy; and father of modern Lagos State. His best years are still ahead; I pray that the almighty God will grant him longer life, health and more wisdom to keep serving Nigeria.” It reminded me of the newspaper article, ‘The Three Changes Nigeria Needs,’ which President Buhari published in the Wall Street Journal on June 13, 2016. He expressed the hope that his work in the years up to 2019 would “build an economic…
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DECENTRALISING PORT OPERATIONS AND ENDING THE CHAOS IN LAGOS. LAST week, I was trapped for hours on the Isolo-Apapa Expressway in an unprecedented traffic gridlock. Many lanes of the so-called expressway were seized by articulated vehicles especially trailers carrying containers and fuel tankers, forcing other vehicles to drive against the traffic, in an effort to move forward since most of the articulated vehicles seemed stationary. Nigerian road users were sweating and cursing. A friend of mine who was riding with me in exasperation asked” When will this war end?” I turned to look at him wondering what war he was…
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I know Femi Kusa. He is a friend and a classmate. I knew of him from his Daily Times days. Then we met at the University of Nigeria shortly after the end of Nigerian Civil war. I have read his reflections on Ndigbo and the politics of Lagos. And have followed with considerable curiosity the Galestorm his article set off and some of the responses to his rebuke of Ndigbo. My reaction has been influenced by a number of experiences from my own life’s journey. Two related to the times I shared with Femi at Nsukka, the other came from…
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The full text of an address delivered by Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 9th Bola Tinubu Colloquium that was hosted as part of his 67th birthday anniversary in Abuja last Thursday. I want to thank President Buhari for sharing this special day with me. The pressure of affairs facing the leader of a nation is such that you could have easily found reasons why you could not participate. Instead you chose to be here and to even give me the compound honor of accepting to be the Chairman of this occasion. Mr. President, you have gone far these past few…
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Money (banknotes & coins) is a medium of exchange. But some African politicians and particularly the politicians in Nigeria are gradually redefining money as a medium of influence. These politicians steal millions of dollars of public funds, not because they want to buy bread and butter, but to control those people who are willing to sell their days for gold – apologies to Kahlil Gibran. This kind of treasury looting can only happen in a country where kleptocracy is practised but masked as democracy. Merriam-Webster dictionary describes Kleptocracy as “government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at…
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities called off their strike over pay and conditions, a few days to February 16, 2019 general elections. The strike commenced on November 4, 2018 and had threatened to run through the elections, creating an own goal for the All Progressives Congress and the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari into a second term in office. The terms of the “memorandum of action”, which ASUU and the Federal Government agreed to, was not exactly clear to the public. It was thus not easy to say with certainty whether it would turn out to be another stop-gap…
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1. Between May 2015 to December 2018, based on official reports from the NNPC, over $389million/N140billion was wasted to do Turn Around Maintenance program of the refineries. Yet the refineries are not doing more than 10% of its installed capacity. 2. Between May 2015 to Dec 2018, over N550billion/$1.8billion losses were incurred by the NNPC on these refineries operations. 3. Between January 2016 to December 2018, over $10billion/N3.05trillion was diverted by the NNPC to pay for average daily bogus/ghost pms import of 60m litres per day and subsidy rackets. 4. Factual records from the US Energy Administration Agency show clearly…
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Hope! Justice! These two words have suddenly taken a prime place in Nigerian lexicon. The Osun State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal made this possible. Last Friday, the tribunal ruled that Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party won the September 2018 governorship election in Osun. The three-man tribunal ruled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not substantially comply with the Electoral Act 2010 in the conduct of the run-off in 17 polling units. Hence, the electoral umpire, it noted, wrongly declared Adegboyega Oyetola of the ruling All Progressives Congress as the winner of the election. It said INEC should…
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What was supposed to be a moment of jubilation was turned into sadness for Air Peace, Nigeria’s largest carrier, last Wednesday during the arrival of its latest Boeing 777 into Nigeria, as the aircraft was denied landing for several minutes, THISDAY has learnt. THISDAY gathered that the aircraft, which was supposed to touch down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos by 3p.m from Dallas, the United States, was stopped from landing 30 minutes to its arrival by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, (FAAN) over alleged “no parking space” at what is supposed to be the largest airport…
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It is a big shame that values and truth have been so destroyed in Nigeria. It is so disgraceful and shameful that electoral results are now being manipulated to favour those who did not win because of silly and stupid considerations that they will be made ranking members in the Senate and house of Rep . Why will any sane and honourable person support the daylight robbery of someone’s mandate just because you think he is not in a position to be Senate President or Speaker of house of Rep from the east ? What kind of fraud , madness…
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Ndigbo assimilated the Whiteman’s religion, culture, indomie, shawama and gbogbotigbo. By 2050, at the present rate, Nigeria may be up to 450 million people. Of that number, well over 300 million will be in the North where their girls begin at 13 to pop out kids. Your average Igbo man now starts at 35. His far Northern counterpart starts at 21. By the time the Igboman has his first grandchild, his Northern counterpart has had many great grandchildren. Nsogbu dikwa. If the consequences are not self-evident, then you may want to ask Inec. Northern Nigeria is now electorate dense. So…
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In the last few days, Mr. Rochas Okorocha, the Governor of Imo State, seems to be a sober man. In the last eight years that he has been the keeper of the shop at Imo, he has carried on the business of managing that shop with an unusual swagger, wielding power with a tremendous sense of the ultimate, omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent controller of the people’s destiny. He could do, and did, almost anything he wanted, appointed anybody from his family to any position he wanted. It is a surprise, indeed inexplicable that Imolites, who constitute a huge chunk of…
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Kaduna has remained that quintessential time piece that reflects the Nigeria future. Beyond the state demarcated and the ancient city named after the crocodile “Kaduna” looms large as a concept that captures the collective essence of Northern Nigeria. Looking into the archives our records reveal that Bishop Tugwell and his expedition team left Lagos on the 21st of January 1900 and reached the great walled city of Zaria on the 6th of April. It was the first capital city of an emirate that the team would visit and they were received cautious but kindly by the Emir. When the Emir…
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I was flabbergasted and outraged after reading the reports emanating from the CCT trial of CJN Walter Onnoghen—I deliberately omitted the word “suspended” because he remains the Chief Justice of Nigeria in the eyes of the law; until CONSTITUTIONALLY removed from office. I was astonished at the emptiness of the prosecuting (persecuting) counsel. The three prosecuting witnesses called out of the six penciled down to testify, actually exonerated the accused—going by their testimonies; to uttermost chagrin of most Nigerians. The castle of satanic propaganda built against the nation’s number one judicial officer in the last few months by the APC’s…
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There has been so much controversy on who owns Lagos in recent times between the indigenes and the non-indigenes, between “omo Eko” (indigenes ) and “ara Eko” ( residents), that a little knowledge of the history of Lagos may remove the blinkers from our eyes.The indigenes of Lagos have a saying “Awori lo l’Eko” meaning Lagos belongs to the Awori. The Awori were the original settlers of Lagos and their settlements still exist in various Awori settlements from Iddo, Iganmu, Apapa, Isheri, and so on up to Otta. These Awori settlements were founded around the 12th century during the evolution…
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Here is yet another account of what I saw in the politics of Ogun State and Nigeria. One of my early teachable moments was the realisation that you are required to dress like the people whose votes you are looking for, and operate at that level, be like them, connect with them. When the 2019 political struggle began, I used to attend meetings wearing suits. Party members looked at me suspiciously. I couldn’t miss the glances, the whispers, the murmurs but I couldn’t quite figure out what was amiss until one Sunday afternoon, I arrived at a scheduled meeting all…
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The days of Fulani hegemony in Nigeria are numbered. I love history because it repeats itself. ZANZIBAR is part of Tanzania. Tanzania is in the East of Africa. ZANZIBAR is an island within the Indian ocean. For over 500 years, ZANZIBAR was ruled by Arabs who enslaved black Africans and forced them into slave labour in their plantations. In fact, Zanzibar was once a foreign territory of Oman (colony of Oman). Oman is a country of Arabs in the gulf in the middle East, sharing borders with the UAE and Saudi Arabia. For over 200 years, Zanzibar was ruled by…
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The British-Igbo War That Lasted For 31 years – The Ekumeku Resistance The resolutions of the Berlin conference of 1804-1805, gave European nations the rights to lay claim to lands and resources in Africa. Britain, who had engaged in the trade with coastal cities before and during the 19th century, made bold their intentions to covet resources and rule over indigenous nations all over Africa. They came with guns and preachers. Many Africans tribes resisted the British invaders, and this led to protracted wars. Many African tribes put up a great fight against the superior fire power of the suppressive…
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One of the putrid stench from the many heaps of governance rots and decay that Rochas Okorocha will be passing over to Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha to inherit is the unpaid N57billion Pension Arrears of our retired senior citizens. Make no mistake about it, from May 30, 2019, the Senior Citizens will converge in Owerri to commence fresh agitations for payments of their rights and monies. Imo state, just like Abia state is one of the two states in the South East of Nigeria with huge unpaid pension liabilities. Huge pension liabilities that stretches over 8 years and have resulted…
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There is no alternative to good health, and public health seeks to meet the health needs of the public. According to Everett Koop, “Healthcare is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time.” Regardless of space and time, class and status, it impacts everyone. The field of public health entails prevention and education of the general public to help improve the overall health and reduce risks to a population, as opposed to the provision of individual medical treatment to one patient at a time. Public health…
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1. Total Domestic Debt Obligation: N101, 964,536,533.04 2. Foreign Debt Obligations: $65million/N23billion 3. Pension Arrears/ Liabilities: N57,000,000,000 4. Debts / liabilities owed to deposit money banks, contractors, judgement debts liabilities etc.N48billion. Total Estimated Debts and Liabilities : N230, 494,536,533.00 (Two Hundred and Thirty Billion, Four Hundred and Ninety Four Million, Five Hundred and Thirty Six Thousand , Five Hundred and Thirty Three Naira Only). Kindly do a rough desktop estimate of the debt servicing obligations on just the interest portions of this huge debt staring Imo state in the face and see the rough roads ahead. Kindly also note that…
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Rochas Okorocha rose to power in a ground swell/ overwhelming masses support. He had such mass appeal and goodwill that were/are only accorded to anticipated deliverers. According to his close ally and bosom friend of over 25 years, Prince Eze Madumere, (the current Deputy Governor of Imo State), Rochas did not have up top N5m of his own when he became governor of Imo state on May 29, 2011. He was heavily indebted to banks and had to even pawn his main house then in Abuja to support his election bid of 2011. Such was his state and condition when…
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One day I was in Main market Ọnicha with my in-law and looking at the numerous goods and services exhibited in different shops for market and sells, I asked my in-law, “Nwanne, do you know the financial worth of all the goods and services in this market?”, he answered “well I wouldn’t know, maybe in hundreds of billions” and I asked again, “do you know where the bulk of these hundreds of billions go to?”, he answered again, “in the pockets of the Igbo traders of course”, then I intercepted. “No no, the bulk of these hundreds of billions do…
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So we just came out of an election circle and there are winners and then there are mega winners. I see only the winners, however Nigeria as a Nation should use this momentum to push for a transformation of its structure to a more flexible one that accommodates all Nigerians, I believe that is the right thing to do at this time. Having said that, I believe that a very big winner in the entire election experience are the people of the old eastern region of Nigeria made of the Igbo Nation and the ethnic minorities of the South South…
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Our attention has been drawn to an unwarranted, and disrespectful publication against the person of Chief Martin Agbaso (Ochoudo) where you deliberately posted false facts just to deceive the reading public in your usual mudslinging manner. The said ignorant publication did not deserve ours or indeed any educated persons response, but on a second thought, we resolved to make some truths known so as not to allow these your blatant lies, deceitful and selfish statements continue spreading. As such we state that; Olu owerri is not the apex socio political group of owerri indigenes, in Imo state and in Diaspora…
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Al Barney, Herman Radnitz, Mark Girland, Malik, Tom Lepsky, Maddux, Joe Biegler, Helga Rolf. Do these names ring a bell? Any avid reader will readily profess to having favourite authors. In my early days in secondary school, I can stay glued for 15 hours stretch gulping every page of virtually every available title of James Hadley Chase Novel. Do those names now ring a bell? Yes they definitely do, if you you were a fan of Chase. Those names were the recurring characters in some of the hit tiltes of James Hadley Chase that kept me glued for those 15…
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Protocols: The world apart from Nigeria had long realized that history is the basket where solved and unsolved human issues are stored for easy retrieval to be used in solving contemporary problems. As George Orwell reminded us, “he who controls the past, controls the future.” Meaning that it is the interpretation given to Nigerian history by its contemporary leaders, in this case the Fulani that determines the direction the country goes. For instance, they have come out boldly to claim the middle belt as their land by tradition and conquest and so have a right to free grazing. If this…
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DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY FUTURE IN NIGERIA AS A EASTERNER – PLEASE READ THIS TO THE END:: YOU WILL BE AMAZED!!! The shockwaves arising from Roguish Electoral Ritual of 2019 in Nigeria seems to have finally awakened the obdurate One-Nigerianists of Eastern Nigeria to a new realization that there is absolutely no future for Eastern Nigeria in Nigeria’s Political Firmament and Discussions began to shift rapidly towards some kind of Let’s-Forget-Everything-Else-And-Go-Develop-The-East. As if on cue, many moribund and jaded Economic Development Blueprints and Initiatives began to resurface and a new zeal to put…
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Exposed! WHY OKOROCHA WANTS TO CUSTOMIZE AND PRIVATIZE IMO STATE FOREVER – By Ogu Bundu Nwadike, M.A
Conclusions have emerged why the expiring governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, is hell bent on customizing and privatizing the state for himself, his family, friends and associates. The reasons include but are not limited to his proven natural inclination towards feudal greed and avarice; primitive acquisition and amassing of wealth; ill-motivated ambition to become Nigeria’s president in 2023; primeval Uthman dan Fodian dream of creating a dynasty or empire out of other people’s natural endowments and inheritance; and phobia for official probe by the next governor. Let’s discuss them one by one. First, Rochas Okorocha’s proven natural inclination towards…
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We were taught something very interesting in our MBA Class which may also interest you. This is it. ALL BUSINESSES HAVE FREE ACCESS TO THE FACTORS THAT MAKE FOR GREATNESS. HOWEVER, WHETHER A BUSINESS EXCELS OR REMAINS MEDIOCRE OR AVERAGE LIES SQUARELY WITH STRATEGY! In other words, STRATEGY is the chief factor in achieving exceptional performance and in attaining leadership and superiority! This is where the FAR NORTH has beaten THE REST OF NIGERIA hands down! By the Far North, I’m talking about the Fulani Oligarchy. By the rest of Nigeria, I mean the Middle Belt, Southern Nigeria and the…
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In a contest in which the two leading candidates were Hausa-Fulani, the whispering campaign in many religious circles that the Hausa-Fulani is the worst evil that has befallen the region since Satan, didn’t seem to make much sense. As the final results of last week’s presidential poll were released, three broad groups emerged: Those genuinely surprised that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, lost; those in pretentious denial of his defeat; and those in a quandary because they hoped to profit from a stalemate. The first group comprise those who expected that the electoral math would be significantly…
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Times have truly changed. I believe very much in nde owerri my people. Nde Owerri know their rights, even though the man on the street is perceived as hungry and will accept money to sell his conscience. I continue to admonish nde owerri anyi to take any monies offered and finally vote their conscience – vote for an individual who you are sure will deliver and work for you, not a candidate imposed on you by instruction or one beholden to Godfathers and other interests. I am beholden to you my people and true altruistic leaders of owerri federal constituency…
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As the general elections in Nigeria draw closer, i advise the electorate of Owerri federal constuency and Imo state in general to vote for individuals and not political parties which as we all know are mostly bereft of manifestos and ideologies. By embracing fanatic partisanship, we have become perfect examples of protagonists of the polarity of our political system. By voting blindly for party’s bereft of ideology, we are not acting intelligently; rather we are brainwashed into blindly and gullibly following a personal prejudice and escalating and fuelling an increasingly corrupt, counter productive and fraudulent system. While i can’t give…
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I am Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi-Oforgu, House of Representatives candidate on the platform of the Action Alliance (AA) aspiring to represent Owerri Federal Constituency. I am happy to tell you my constituents that, I am not in politics because I have the financial means. In fact, I do not really have it. My motivation for going into politics, has more to do with the fact that I know I have far much more to offer in terms of service to the good people of Owerri. I am actually in politics because of my desire to bring more economic development, federal…
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Full text of WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE COALITION OF nPDP IMO STATE IN SUPPORT OF SENATOR HOPE UZODINMA PROTOCOL GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS, I bring you good tidings as I welcome you all to this New Year of 2019, a year that holds definition to our persistent struggle to bring good governance back to the beleaguered Imo citizens who’s been traumatized in the last 8yrs of the present government of Owelle Rochas Okorocha. You may recall that, during our Maiden Address and founding of nPDP Imo, a lot was said about the rascality and impunity of those that felt…
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I am Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi-Oforgu, House of Representatives candidate on the platform of the Action Alliance (AA) aspiring to represent Owerri Federal constituency. I am happy to tell you my constituents that I am not in politics because I have the financial means, and in any case, I do not really have it. My motivation for going into politics has more to do with the fact that i know i have far much more to offer. I am actually in politics because of my desire to serve the people and to bring more development, federal presence and enlightenment to my…
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“For Ohanaeze to Endorse Atiku Abubakar and not me, simply means that Igbo problems are Never Tribalism, but Pure Hatred for Buhari, and it is Not good.” – Prof Kingsley Moghalu. **** I said it many here, that these small Presidential candidates are working for Buhari and wanted to use the Debate to annihilate Atiku. I am sure that Kingsley Moghalu forgot that Peter Obi that was endorsed along with Atiku is Igbo also. Moghalu is crying blood that Igbos not Endorsing him or his Master, Buhari shows our hatred for Buhari This exposes his little understanding of the importance…
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The witch cried at night The baby died in the morning. Atiku had always been assailed on conjectures So let’s PRESENT everyone’s facts and then allow the fertile mind to connect the dots. Please educate me. Is there a career path to becoming CBN Deputy Governor, or is it also a political appointment like a *Ministerial Appointment?* If the latter is true, then it is conversely factual that the beneficiar(ies) of such appointment are inexorably connected to the political horse trading that occasioned the appointment. Prof Kingsley Moghalu served as deputy governor of financial system stability and the director of…
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Yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari surrendered all pretence to the rule of law and constitutional democracy by sacking the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. Unilaterally and in flagrant violation of the Constitution, he also swore in Tanko Muhammad as the new acting CJN. By this act, the President has precipitated needless confusion in the polity. A shocking action, it will aggravate tension ahead of the general election in February and March. This poses a great peril to our democracy. Though the President defended his action by citing an order from the Code of Conduct Tribunal directing Onnoghen’s suspension, his action…
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The 1999 Constitution has neither checks nor balances. There are zero consequences for any breach of the wordings of the Constitution. The make-up of the states as vassals of the central government does not permit the fake federating units to disagree with the central government and call for negotiations of a point of discord. There are no means of enforcing any judgement given by any court… There is no way whatsoever a president could be curtailed or contained if and when he goes overboard! There is no way to manage a rampaging president! Some newts write that the current president…
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The purported suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Honourable Justice Walter Onnoghen, by President Muhammadu Buhari is unequivocally unconstitutional, illegal, immoral and grossly indefensible. What General Buhari has done, putting it mildly, is a brazen coup against democracy. The following 20 (twenty) points are worth noting: 1. The office of the CJN is not a ministerial or extra-ministerial position. It is a creation of Sections 230 (1) (a) and 231 (1) and (2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) (subsequently referred to as ‘the Constitution’). 2. The Chief Justice of Nigeria is…
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• Detectives write three banks •Battle shifts to court on Monday •Anxiety over restriction of Onnoghen’s movement •Tight security in Supreme Court judges’ quarters • US, UK, EU urge caution The CJN is accused of false declaration of assets. A six-count charge has been filed against him. Further investigation into Onnoghen’s accounts notwithstanding, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the European Commission (EU) yesterday urged caution on the part of the federal government in its handling of his case. The US called for due process to be followed in the matter while UK faulted the timing of…
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Please read her below: Three hours ago, I arrived far flung Cabo in Mexico where our Albert Einstein’s Genius100 Visionaries meeting is holding. I was delighted to read reactions of real patriots to my announcement that I’ve decided to withdraw from the 2019 Presidential race& end my membership of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria- ACPN. I have also seen the reaction of ACPN leadership to my decision. Fortunately, they have divinely helped me by making the Nigerian public now fully understand why I had to swiftly depart from their midst. How could I upon realizing the divergence of values and…
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RETIRED Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, His Eminence, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie has warned the nation’s leaders to tread softly because there is anger in the nation, arguing that even leading members of the ruling All Progressives Congress at the centre have demonstrated commendable candour by openly acknowledging that the hopes of 2015 have been shattered. In his latest open letter to the nation, Cardinal Okogie began on a sporty note, reminding the nation that late football commentator, Ernest Okonkwo, was fond of using an Igbo proverb while giving minute-by-minute description of football matches on the radio. “Anytime there was an…
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Not many Nigerians are aware that Nigeria has a comprehensive 30 years , $3trillion/N915trillion integrated infrustructure development master plan that cuts across all the key sectors of our economy. What this simply means is that to fix Nigeria’s huge and gaping infrastructure deficit, which will help us to create the enabling environment for sustainable enterprise and job creation to thrive competitively, we must attract/invest fiscal and non-fiscal capital of at least $100billion/N30.5trillion annually. This is the kind of volume of investments , YoY that is urgently required to help us halt the growing/ deepening extreme poverty crisis in Nigeria today.…
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Zik’s account of events here presented is long but worth a reading! “Yes. I played a prominent role in Biafra for the unity of the country in order to restore peace and bring about unity of the country. That’s the role I played. I advised Ojukwu. I said well look, you have declared secession. What we should do is to get the elder statesmen and women of the nation to reconcile you and Gowon. I said by declaring secession, you get so many people who do not believe you to remain there. You see all of us were interned. As…
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I am closer to the power brokers in this Buhari regime than I can persuade many people to believe. But I’m not in the business of persuasion. I just want to arm people with the right information. They can choose whatever they want to do with it. In the wake of the gale of defections that hit APC around August last year, Buhari was overwrought with intense grief. Days later, as the relentless certainty of his electoral defeat stared him in the face, he called members of his inner circle and swore, in a fit of anger and frustration, that…
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Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has described the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Walter Onoghen by President Muhammadu Buhari, as a coup against democracy and a deliberate attempt to endanger our hard-won democracy. Saraki, in a statement personally signed by him stated that the suspension was another act of desperation by President Buhari. He noted that by the suspension of the CJN, Buhari has acted outside the provision of the constitution, has exercised the powers which he does not have and that this action amounted to gross misconduct. “This is an action aimed at undermtining…
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Fellow Nigerians, A short while ago, I was served with an Order of the Code of Conduct Tribunal issued on Wednesday 23rd January 2019, directing the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Honourable Justice Walter Nkanu Samuel Onnoghen from office pending final determination of the cases against him at the Code of Conduct Tribunal and several other fora relating to his alleged breach of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers. 2. The nation has been gripped by the tragic realities of no less a personality than the Chief Justice of Nigeria himself becoming the accused person in a…
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The Northern Democratic Front (NDF) “a group of democrats committed to the respect for the Rule of Law” has rejected “in totality” the purported suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari. Rising from an emergency meeting in Kaduna, the group took a swipe at President Buhari over what it described as one of the worst examples of harassment of judicial officers ahead of 2019. “We also take exception to this brazen pedestrian, Gestapo style of attack on the third important arm of government – the judiciary. The group also took a swipe at the APC-led Federal…
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Is there anyone who still want to argue that Madam BringBackOurGirls, Mr Inspire to Expire and their fellow empty Theorists are not political Yahoo Yahoo Characters on an undercover Vote-Splitting mission for the Asorock Cabals?? Who is still in doubt? Few months to a very important General Election, some supri-supri speaking clowns jump out from no where, no structure, no strong political background, not even the wherewithal to muster enough agents to dispatch to almost 120,000 polling units in the country and they tell you they want to be President???? How can anyone with even an indomie-adulterated brain not know…
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Elections across the world over are not cheap ventures. It requires time, intellect and human capital, while huge amounts of money is required to reach out to the electorates during campaigns and before or during election. In Imo, money politics has long dominated our elections and the problem is worsening. Imo Politicians focus a lot of attention on raising money and resources which are needed to buy the costly party’s nomination form for aspirants seeking elective posts, and to also do loud deceiving campaigns. The major problem with money politics is that politicians tend to invest by spending in the…
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One of the things that characterize every political period is propaganda. Some of these propaganda are too watery to deserve a rejoinder, hence it is allowed to die a natural death, some are professionally shaped and manufactured to the point that the receiver or the target would have to engage media warlords to counter and change the narrative. But overtime, events have shown that, no matter how watery or unbelievable a narrative appears to be, there is need to combat it with truth before the little false story grows into a monster and causes so much damages to one’s political…
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In 1962, the federal government of Nigeria built a transmission backbone to connect Kainji Dam and the power plants in Lagos. Excess power from the transmission system was sent to the Eastern Region to support the Oji River coal plant running as an independent power. War broke out in 1967. The federal government disconnected the Eastern Region from the National Grid. The Oji River was maintained, expanded to power the young country called Biafra. Electric power was sustained in the places connected to the Biafran Grid. Those places that were not connected ran on generators. The war was over by…
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Dr Fimiletoks takes Obasanjo to the cleaners, says “teacher don’t teach me nonsense”: 1. Last kick of a dying horse. A toad doesn’t run in the afternoon..You are afraid, fear has overwhelmed you. You should have written this letter to yourself in 2003 and 2006 when we witnessed the worst elections in our history. https://twitter.com/fimiletoks/status/1087113177446391811?s=19 2. I am old enough to know who you are.. 2003 / 2007 was massively rigged, you were planning to turn Nigeria into a one-party state with Iwu. Let me remind you that you removed 3 sitting senate presidents, chased away 2 PDP chairmen, state…
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We have foreign invaders on our door steps, who want to come in and take over our land and way of land in front of our very eyes. People like Tinubu and Osinbajo are blindly watching this happen and saying nothing. Tinubu is too selfish to see beyond his greed, and Osinbajo too naive and far too settled with his butler position in government. If we do not all bond together now to stop it. In 50yrs time, Nigeria will be a completely different place and our descendants will wonder why we did nothing to stop it, or why after…
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Nigerians would be fools to allow the government spend to 2Trillion to secure Fulani settlements all over Nigeria. I wish those states which have donated lands luck. I have argued for several years that the special treatment given to Fulanis and their live stock business is discriminatory because it is not extended to farmers and traders. Cattle herding is a private business, why is Nigerian government subsidising it when it is not extending the same facilities to others? This is equivalent to government building a market and asking traders to use it without paying rent or giving land and seeds…
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Word on the street is that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Honourable Justice Walter Onnoghen admitted guilt to the Code of Conduct investigators and tried to excuse it by pleading mistake. The next line of argument is that ignorance of the law is not an excuse. I heard it from a layman like Fisayo Soyombo who said that the Honourable Chief Justice of Nigeria has already been convicted in the court of public opinion. Then I heard it from Prof. Oyebode on national television and then from a radical young lawyer I admire so much Mr. Umar Sa’ad. The question…
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What an earth shattering apology from a Nigerian Prof in USA. What I find intriguing is everything he says about the tribal coalition that brought in Buhari was decided by Bro Bosun when he called APC a Muslim party 5 years ago. He stands vindicated! It is now quite clear that what happened in Nigeria in 2015 was not a revolution but a scam of historic proportion. To be more specific, it was, as University of Texas Professor and Punch columnist, Adunni Adelakun, put it, a “tribal victory.” How so? A core group of politicians and intellectuals from the Northern…
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Elder statesman and former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, has faulted ex-President Olusegun over his Sunday’s comment on the security situation in the country. Obasanjo had during a press conference on Sunday claimed the security situation in Nigeria has deteriorated under the Muhammdu Buhari-led government. Reacting in a letter entitled “Your Open Epistles Have Outlived All Usefulness”, Tsav said Obasanjo goofed on his submission.. The letter reads. Let me use this opportunity to wish you and your family a happy, blissful and prosperous New Year, as we pray for God’s guidance and wisdom in the leadership…
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The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani has rebuffed an accusation by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, that President Muhammadu Buhari is not a “full-blooded Fulani man because he cannot speak Fulfulde.” Atiku, who made the claim during a campaign rally in Jigawa State, described Buhari as a fake Fulani man, saying, “a real Fulani man would not drag his followers into extreme poverty like what is happening under the All Progressives Congress administration.” However, the National Secretary, Miyetti Allah, Mr Saleh Alhassan, said Buhari’s inability to speak Fulfulde did not make him any less of…
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National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has attacked former President Olusegun Obasanjo again, calling him an election rigger without peer. Tinubu, who issued a letter on Tuesday, titled: “Chief Obasanjo -At War Against his Own Deeds,” in response to the letter written by Obasanjo to attack President Muhammadu Buhari, said the ways of Obasanjo were not those of the APC and that this difference had meant the better for Nigeria. “There is no election which occurred under Obasanjo’s watch or in which he participated that did not involve cheating on his part. “Even the late…
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A bill for an Act to amend the Electric Power Reform Act to prohibit and criminalise estimated billing by the Electricity Distribution Companies has passed third reading in the House of Representatives. The House unanimously voted in favour of the bill when it was put to voice vote by the Deputy Speaker, Yussuf Lasun (APC-Osun), at the plenary on Tuesday. The bill, which was sponsored by the Leader of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila (APC-Lagos), had scaled public hearing on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. NAN recalls that at the public hearing, Gbajabiamila said there was nowhere in the world where electricity…
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Yesterday (17/01/19) the FEC (Federal Executive Council) presided over by VP Osinbajo agreed to Miyetti and Buhari’s “The National Livestock Transformation Plan”. This plan where land is going to be “donated” to Fulani herdsmen so they can have their colonies and places of worship funded by Nigerians, in every part of the land. The plan starts in the 10 states of Adamawa, Benue, Ebonyi, Edo, Kaduna, Nassarawa, Oyo, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara. Already, 94 locations in these states have been “donated”. This plan for the benefit of Fulani herdsmen will use up the bulk of the Agriculture budget. This effectively…
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RETIRED Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, His Eminence, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie has warned the nation’s leaders to tread softly because there is anger in the nation, arguing that even leading members of the ruling All Progressives Congress at the centre have demonstrated commendable candour by openly acknowledging that the hopes of 2015 have been shattered. In his latest open letter to the nation, Cardinal Okogie began on a sporty note, reminding the nation that late football commentator, Ernest Okonkwo, was fond of using an Igbo proverb while giving minute-by-minute description of football matches on the radio. “Anytime there was an…
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Unknown to 84 million Nigerian registered voters, Saturday, 19th January, 2019 , was a day set aside by the APC and her siamese twin sister, the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) , under the flawed leadership of Mr John Momoh, to openly rubbish and humiliate the PDP and her most popular and winning candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the just ended 2019 presidential elections debate. The presidential elections debate was a booby trap laced with an intention to ambush, mock and malign; all from the stable of today’s villa men. The debate was a decoy to exploit. Eventhough 60% of…
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There are no coincidences in life according to Yoruba philosophy. However, many Yorubas and Igbos, the two largest original African groups, as well as the whole Southbelt believe it was a mistake to have been lumped together in this ‘mere geographic expression’ called Nigeria created by the British. Especially with the Afro-Arabic Northern Caliphate that is believed to arrest their development. Probably if the French hadn’t been delayed in their colonial campaign on the River Niger, they would have colonized Northern Nigeria and it would have been part of French West Africa with the planned railway along River Niger to…
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Before another misguided fool tells you to vote for Buhari for his self aggrandizement……please read. In 2017 Nigerians woke up to a shocking leaked audio tape purportedly exposing a highly obnoxious and sinister ethnocentric plan to completely, not just marginalize, but at best frustrate the Igbos of Nigeria and eradicate every last economic influence that they may have in much of the South West of Nigeria, especially Lagos – the economic nerve center. But it wasn’t just going to be the South West alone, it would be a nationwide mop up exercise with more emphasis on Lagos, owing to its…
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I have taken my time to analyse the candidates of political parties contesting for the 2019, IMO gubernatorial election; their strength and weakness, their disposition to humanity, which undoubtedly would impact greatly to their governance and their capabilities to deliver. Among the lots, I found Senator Uzodinma ranking higher than others. Senator Hope Uzodinma is humane and accessible, he has abiding loyalty to friendship, a man of the people. His representation of his zone in the SENATE, speaks volume for itself. Senator Hope Uzodinma, the conqueror of the Imo emperor, is a man that is not given to inordinate acquistion…
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The lies that the enemies of Nigeria, the retrogressive elements, the unproductive and backward walking agents of darkness that have held Nigeria down over the last 40 years, have continued to feed us with is that corruption is the root cause of Nigeria’s woes. Nothing can be farther from the truth than this deliberately created fallacies designed to hoodwink gullible Nigerians and take away our focus from the root cause of our woes. The root cause of our retrogression as a country. The root cause of the deepening extreme poverty in Nigeria-from 4 million extremely poor Nigerians in 1980 to…
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 January 13, 2019 Despite assurances that the rift between Imo PDP governorship candidate, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha and Senator Samuel Anyanwu is over, a member of the party in the State, Mr.Lancelot Obiaku believes otherwise. In an article titled “ Imo PDP: Why Ihedioha And Sam Daddy Are Far From Reconciliation, Mr. Obaiku said despite Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu’s public declaration that the rift is over, “the two heavyweights and their political camps and structures are still at daggers drawn” He wrote “From my thorough investigations to unravel why reconciliatory moves by the two parties keep stalling, my deduction is that as…
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An emergency meeting of the governors of the states of the South South geopolitical zone, held at the Bayelsa State Governor’s Lodge, Abuja on Sunday, January 13, 2019. The meeting, called at the instance of the Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, who is also Chairman of the South South Governors Forum, was attended by the Governors of Cross River State, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, and Delta States. The meeting deliberated on the recent happenings at the Supreme Court involving the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter Onnoghen and resolved that the action against him constitutes a…
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Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has stated that the planned arraignment of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) is meant to anoint another CJN who would help legitimize President Muhammadu Buhari’s second tenure at the Supreme Court. Frank in a statement in Abuja condemned the haste and the illegality apparent in the move by Buhari and APC to get Onnoghen replaced at all cost before the February presidential elections which they have concluded plans to rig in favour of Buhari and…
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•To be docked on Monday, as moves to force him out of office thickens ABUJA- In an unprecedented move, the Federal Government, has slammed a six-count criminal charge against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, over his alleged refusal to declare his assets. Aside allegation that he failed to disclose his assets as prescribed by law, FG, in the charge that was filed by the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, equally accused the CJN of operating foreign back accounts. The prosecuting agency alleged that contrary to relevant laws regulating conduct of public office holders, the CJN, maintained…
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A strong judiciary is one of the irreducible fundamental platforms for any meaningful constitutional democracy. If you terrorise, intimidate, harass and humiliate the judiciary, using strong hand and brute force, it is a stage set for bidding democracy farewell. The president Buhari government has been very intolerant of any credible dissenting voice in the country. From the crude break in and invasion of judges houses in October 2018, by masked DSS operatives, to the horrific siege laid on the NASS and the residences of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Dr Ike Ekweremadu, it is clear that…
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The identity of the man who wrote a damning petition against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, has been revealed. According to online information about Mr. Dennis Aghanya, he was a media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari between 2009 and 2011; while he was also a pioneer National Publicity Secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change. Aghanya is not new to controversy, as he once advised the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, to dissolve the party’s two factions in Enugu State when they couldn’t seem to agree on the way forward. In a letter…
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  The South South Governor’s Forum has scheduled an emergency meeting of the Forum for Sunday. A statement by the Special Adviser, Media Relations to the Governor òf Bayelsa State, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, stated that the security òf the Niger Delta, during and after the election, the issue of derivation, and recent development involving the Chief Justice of Nigeria would feature for deliberation at the meeting. Expressing his opinion at the development in the Supreme Court, Governor Seriake Dickson said that while he was yet to know the full details surrounding the developments at the Supreme Court concerning…
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Our attention has been drawn to the trending news that the Hon. Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onoghen has been charged before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, based on a petition submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau on Wednesday the 9th of January, 2019, and is to be arraigned before the Tribunal on Monday , the 14th January, 2019. The prosecutorial decision that has been taken by the Executive Branch of Government ( FGN / FRN) is a very grave one. It is unprecedented in the political history of Nigeria. Let us go down memory lane. During the blistering…
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Justice Onnoghen, the Chief Justice of Nigeria has confirmed that his asset declaration form numbers SCN 00014 and SCN 00005 were declared on the same day, 14/12/2016 and will expire in 2020. He noted that the 2009 Period which he did not make declarations, were submitted in 2016 when he noted the omission. According to Hope For Nigeria, Justice Onnoghen added that “following my appointment as acting CJN in November 2016, the need to declare my assets anew made me realize the mistake and filed them. “I then did the declaration to cover the period in default. I did not…
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The Kaduna State governor Mallam El Rufai, last week published new laws about the practice of religion in Kaduna state. It is a law to regulate religious activities. However, it is the usual steps that most Muslim dominated countries have used to kick start their elimination of other religious groups. EL-Rufai’s new laws. In Kaduna State you cannot preach without license. Every preacher will have to go and get ONLY one year license (renewable every year). That is, you must always preach without an expired license or you risk 2 years imprisonment. If you invite any external preacher (i.e. preacher…
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•OPPOSITION COALITION CUPP CONDEMNS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PLOT TO FORCE THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF NIGERIA OUT OF OFFICE TO HELP BUHARI APC MANIPULATE 2019 ELECTION TRIBUNAL. •OPPOSITION COALITION ENJOINS CJN NEVER TO RESIGN FOR THE SAKE OF OUR DEMOCRACY AS THIS IS THE FAILED ACTION OF A TYRANT TO SUBDUE AN INCORRUPTIBLE JUDGE •OPPOSITION COALITION ALLEGES THAT PLOT TO MANIPULATE POST 2019 ELECTION PETITION TRIBUNAL BEHIND MOVE TO DESECRATE OFFICE OF THE CJN. •DECLARES DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK IN NIGERIA •CALLS IT THE LAST DESPERATE ACTS OF AN OUTGOING GOVERNMENT TO BLACKMAIL THE CJN OUT OF OFFICE AND BRING IN A ROUGE…
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A Clarion Call In Defence Of Our Constitution I have received the news of the sudden charges about to be filed against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, with apprehension and suspicion especially as such a move against the head of an arm of our government is coming so close to an election in which the Buhari administration has shown growing desperation. My suspicions are further exacerbated by the fact that the Buhari government is pressuring an independent and self governing arm of government with the aim of getting CJN Walter Onnoghen to resign or be pushed aside.…
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Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says he has read several reports of the trending audio clip depicting the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, insulting President Muhammadu Buhari but he has not been able to spot any insults as insinuated by the media. Soyinka said this in Abuja on Wednesday at a symposium on fake news organised by BBC News. The playwright, who was a panellist at the event tagged, ‘Nigeria 2019: Countering Fake News’, urged the traditional media not to act like the electronic media by spreading unfounded allegations. He said, “Just two or three days ago, I read an…
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The APC wing of the Scions Of Danfodio are actually not as politically sophisticated as we give them credit for. They just happen to be dealing with a common sensically-barren political elites, from Igbo and Yoruba, who, like two foolish dwarfs, have refused to aspire to be the Giants that they were created to be but are busy fighting to be taller than the other. Promising Ndigbo and the Yoruba the 2023 Presidency at the same time, in exchange for their 2019 support, when it is clear, even to the blind, that the Presidency can only be occupied by one…
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…Party chairmen demands list of Collected PVC before election …Party Chairmen want Amina to step Down as head of collation unit . ….Party Chairmen want IGP sacked. The ongoing meeting of the leadership of INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) led by Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and National Chairmen of 91 Political Parties snowballed into crisis over the issue of production of the Guideline without the consultation and notification of the chairmen of Political Parties who saw the guideline smuggled into the meeting with obnoxious clauses and strange inclusions that will lead to massive rigging of the 2019 election. Trouble started when…
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Analysis of budgetary allocations in the last four years show that N3.94 billion, N3.87 billion, N331.70 million and N1.03 billion were allocated in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively, for the operations of the State House Medical Centre. Despite top Presidency officials routinely flying out of the country to seek medical attention, the Federal Government allocated a total of N9.17 billion for the operations of the State House Medical Centre between 2015 and 2018, findings by New Telegraph show. The figure could, in fact, hit N10 billion if the N823.44 million the government proposed for the operations of the facility…
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Agency Report The United Nations says Nigeria lost an estimated 2.8 billion dollars in revenues in 2018, mainly due to oil-related crimes. This is according to a new ‘Report by the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS)’ on Monday in New York. The report, which covered from July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018, said “Maritime crime and piracy off the coast of West Africa continued to pose a threat to peace, security and development in the region. “Oil-related crimes resulted in the loss of nearly 2.8 billion dollars in…
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Do you remember the 2012 fuel subsidy removal rally and strike? If you have forgotten, it took place from Jan 6-12, 2012. It got to a peak on Jan 8, 2012. Background fact January 1, 2012, GEJ led FG increased fuel pump price from N65/ltr to N141/ltr so that subsidy can be totally removed! Voila! #OccupyNigeria protests erupted in Lagos and some other cities. NLC, TUC, Save Nigeria Group, civil society organizations, Nollywood celebrities, ACN and opposition Politicians etc took turns to address the rally at Gani Fawehinmi memorial park at Ojora, Lagos to denounced the subsidy removal. The strike…
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Imo state, just like Abia state is one of the two states in the South East of Nigeria with huge unpaid pension liabilities. Huge pension liabilities that stretches over 6 years and have resulted to untimely death of some of our retired senior citizens . The most tragic situation that stares Imo state and our pensioners in the face is that we do not have reliable, credible and accurate record of the state pension liabilities. The whole mess has become an endless conundrum and hydra-headed monster that have defied all analoguous and corruption infested solutions thrown at it by the…
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Protocols: I would like to welcome you all, the leaders of our party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the formal inauguration of the APC Presidential Campaign Council for the purpose of managing our campaigns for the 2019 general elections. 2. This is a historical moment and I consider it a great privilege to have been unanimously nominated by our party to run as its candidate, unopposed, for a second term of office as the president of our country Nigeria. 3. I thank God Almighty, and our hard working, long suffering, yet resolutely committed fellow citizens, for the continued investment…
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In the few days leading to the eclipse on 2018, reports from the warfront in North East Nigeria provoked huge concerns, fiercely stirring panic within communities in and around Maiduguri, Borno state. Governor Kashim Shettima, within this period, quickly called an emergency security meeting to receive briefs from different security commands in the state. At the Executive chambers of the Government House, Maiduguri, the seat of power in the state, the situation was grim and faces drawn. In fact, the situation appeared so dire as Nigerian troops facing the onslaught of the combined affront of insurgency from terror groups, Islamic…
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We know the lies have sinked in for ages, but we must say the truth so that those who care can be set free from lies. And for the world to know the truth of history, the powers of this world and their scholars must accept the inevitable reality that just as the oldest human culture and religion were practiced first in sub-Saharan Africa, so also is the oldest language of mankind spoken first in Africa. This original language of the universe is not extinct. Not every human group migrated out of Africa. Some ancient people, especially some among the…
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Kola Shittu did not match the picture the reporter expected to see. It was the second day of the new year and the Kwara State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was calm and all smiles as he ushered party officials into and out of his office in his expansive home in the old GRA, Ilorin. Could Mr Shittu be unaware of the higher-than-usual excitement in the state over the coming general elections, driven by the resurgence of the opposition in the state? At street junctions and on almost every wall in Ilorin, even around Mr Shittu’s house, bright…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the prosecution of the President of the Nigerian Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, over an alleged multi-billion scam in the organisation. It was also learnt that the Federal Government through the Presidential investigative panel headed by Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, had placed Pinnick on travel ban. Our correspondent gathered on Saturday that Buhari gave the order for Pinnick’s prosecution when the Obono-Obla presented a preliminary investigation report to him. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission also addressed a report on the NFF to Mr President detailing the outcome of their investigations which tallied with what Obono-Obla’s panel…
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Igboland is an ethnocultural region in the present-day southeastern Nigeria. It differs from the South East Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria in that it encompasses both the zone and other adjoining territories of the eponymous Igbo ethnic group. With an estimated 35 million inhabitants, it is comparable to the US state of California in population and would be the 12th most populous country in Africa were it independent, surpassing the likes of Ghana, Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Senegal and Zambia. A repository of natural resources, including coal, natural gas, petroleum and arable land, in addition to its wealth of human capital,…
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If not anything, the Party has shown itself the most resilient party in Nigeria and has survived as the Third Force in the nation’s political Party equations. One of the celebrated US Presidents, Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a speech, March 6, 1956, gave an insight into why political parties in the current dispensation in Nigeria have a fundamental problem. He said: If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power. This…
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A man’s character is his fate Heraclitus Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (US), said: “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” As a clergyman, I have watched pitiably how people self-sabotage themselves by seeking spiritual solutions to character-deficit issues. They look around at everybody as suspects for their predicaments when their greatest demons lurk within them- their character. What we often call our destiny is genuinely our character, and since that character can change, then fate can…
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In March 1952, three months before general elections, soldiers in a small country, Cuba overthrew the government. The coup was led by a candidate and former military dictator, Colonel Fulgencio Batisa. Cuba itself was essentially a gambling and tourist country for fun-loving Americans whose mafia led by Charles Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky also ran the gambling and prostitution rings. The coup which enjoyed the approval of America seemed a settled matter. But some young Cubans including students and young ladies decided enough was enough; no longer would their country be played around like football. They decided to arouse the…
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My goal is a fact filled assessment of what is driving Igbo politics in the upcoming presidential polls and its implications for Igbo liberation. As the facts will show, collective Igbo interests have been relagated and sacrificed in the altar of personal ambitions of key principals in Igbo politics in a way to constitute a definite but temporary setback to said interests. The purpose of this writeup is to clear the dense fog of confusion that has beclouded the eyes and minds of Igbo elite. 1. Collective Igbo Interests NdiIgbo have made it resoundingly clear that their sole interest in…
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I have always admired the Southwest of Nigeria. One of the topics that fascinated me in secondary school history was that of Oyo Empire, particularly the story of Kakanfo, the renegade general, whose rebellious streak gave rise to Ife Kingdom. I have learnt from history that conformity gives rise to very little. It is not the catalyst to change. If everyone simply belonged and obeyed, no revolution would have taken place in any sphere of human endeavor. Let’s face it. The Southwest has it; that Kakanfo streak that has made Lagos-Ibadan the nucleus and watershed for everything that is new…
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