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Many of us might not be keenly following the visit of the young French president (Emmanuel Macron) who is currently in Nigeria for an official visit. His visit was not really popularised by the mainstream media due to poor Aso Rock sponsorship on Macron visit media publicity. France from inception has not really been a friend of Nigeria due to her role in Biafra/Nigeria war which cost France her investment and interests in Nigeria today. Till date, Nigeria hasn’t seen France as a trusted friend. Many factors might have led to this agelong mistrust on the side of Nigeria. Apart…
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WRITTEN BY Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher* Ph.D, an Executive Director, African Leadership Institute, Dayton, Ohio”. The commentary below was written before PMB came to power but you will think it was written today. Introduction There is a war raging in Nigeria between the Fulani and Tiv ethnic groups. It is a classical multifaceted war; stimulated, driven and fuelled by environmental, political and cultural stressors. While the conflict between the sedentary farmers in Nigeria and the Fulani nomadic cattle herders is decades old, the present escalation into a full-blown war between the Fulani and Tiv “cousins” is a recent phenomenon. It is…
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My dear friends, family, associates and constituents, Over the past 17 years, i had received several calls from various friends and political leaders urging me to translate my almost extreme passion for politics, social media activism, mass education and social enlightenment into service to the people by running for office. Some had urged me to run for governorship, some for senate, federal house and even state house elections. After prayerful consideration and family discussions I decided to accept the challenge before me, by aspiring to run for the House of Representatives seat to represent Owerri federal constituency. Being actively involved…
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When asked, Dr. Robert Gallo explained: “We were forced To Create The HIV Virus As a Secret Weapon To Wipe Out The African Race.” A review of the Special Virus Flow Chart (“research logic”) reveals the United States was seeking a ‘virus particle’ that would negatively impact the defense mechanisms of the immune system of the African race. According to Global Health Observatory (GHO) Data, Global situation and trends: Since the beginning of the epidemic, almost 71 million people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 34 million people have died of HIV globally. Unfortunately, there are other versions…
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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Dr. Katch Ononuju, in this interview with BIYI ADEGOROYE and TAI ANYANWU, traces the history of the current clashes between Fulani herdsmen and other ethnic groups in Nigeria and offers some solutions. What do you think is the major cause of the current action by Fulanis or Fulani herdsmen in the country? It is democracy and nothing else. Democracy has over 19 years brought so much confidence to our people, you can’t stop it. This is the first time we are having the longest period of political stability, 20 years. You know when the British…
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“As a rogue state continued to exploit its citizens, what we have had and still have is a nation too divided and distracted” – Bishop Kukah. Introduction: The Truth of our Nigerian Story? Let me start with a conceptual clarification regarding the title and topic of this lecture. Not unexpectedly, my first reaction is to ask what is a broken truth? What does an unbroken truth look like? When we speak of truth, we immediately recall the trial of Jesus before Pilate: When Jesus said to Pilate that He had come to bear witness to the Truth, Pilate replied, ‘Truth,…
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28 June 2018 Question for Short Debate in the House of Lords 2.16 pm Asked by • Lord Alton of Liverpool To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the continuing violence between communities and armed groups in Nigeria. • Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, the tragic topicality of today’s debate was underlined last weekend when more than 200 people were reported to have died in co-ordinated attacks on around 50 communities in Plateau state in Barkin Ladi. These attacks began on 22 June and lasted until 24 June. The majority of the victims were…
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Says NASS under siege by Executive arm. The Senator representing Abia South, Enyinnaya Abaribe has Thursday, at the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abuja, said that his arrest and detention by the Department of State Services, DSS, was part of the “dirty politics” being played by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. He observed that the entire National Assembly was under siege, adding that members are being hunted by the Executive arm saying that the 2019 election will be a decisive factor for governance in the country. The senator warned that the actions and inactions of…
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‘Confused Fulani Jihadist will loose in Nigeria ‘s 2nd Civil War Kanem Borno empire had early contact with Trans Sahelian Arab traders and thus became Muslims centuries before Othman Dan Fodio immigrated from Fouta Jallon in the present Guinea to Gobir. Kanem Borno resisted the evil plans of the Fulani to Islamise Kanuri people as already Muslims. There was no rational for the jihad. The only reason for the jihad just as it happened among the unsuspecting and naive Hausa communities was to enslave the entire northern people. Typical of some wicked fulani leaders, once a Fulani but not all…
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In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated. China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.…
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We are writing to inform you of developments in the attempt by the National Assembly (NASS) to amend sections 81 and 121 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999. The two sections prescribe the timeframe for the presentation of Federal and State budget estimates by the President and Governor to the NASS and the State Houses of Assembly respectively. The amendment (Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fourth Alteration, No. 28) Bill, 2017)proposes that instead of the old order, where the President and Governors present the budget estimates at any time in each financial year, they…
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Enough Of This Bloodshed! By Igwenyere Christian Obioma In our editorial today, Ogene Ndigbo talks about the level of killings in the country since the inception of Muhammadu Buhari administration. On this note, the newspaper says, “enough is enough”. It is very saddening that things have turned red since Muhammadu Buhari came into office in 2015, and he is ready with his team to make things turn redder. Nigeria is in shambles, anyone who argues otherwise is on the wrong side of history- and these are the people that will be perpetually tormented by the evils of this era of…
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The frontline PDP Imo Governorship Aspirant, Distinguished Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu has demonstrated his poise to meet the desires and prayers of Imo people and abate their affliction. He is convinced that his aspiration is clearly a Divine mandate from God just as Samuel was called by God. This explains the unbeatable support and acceptance from Imo People so far. The Ikeduru born Senator who is loved by Imolites because of his open door – open arm policy has pledged his commitment to assuage the sufferings of Imo people and run a government that will focus on developing the economy of the…
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It was a great day for the LNC and it’s MNN Partners at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Victoria Lagos, Thursday June 28, 2018 at the VOR Event where the Leading Voices for the immediate Fundamental Constitutional Reconfiguration of Nigeria from across Country gathered to chart the practical crystallization of that Reconfiguration. Against the backdrop of the recent charge by Gen Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s President, that the Proponents of Restructuring of Nigeria were driven by a Parochial Agenda, the Event was an emphatic affirmation by the Non-Caliphate rest of Nigeria that no one was going to yield to…
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“Any pharmacist that is not mentally impaired can lead other pharmacists.” – Livy-Elcon Emereonye That men consent to be governed not elect to be ruled is enough reason for constitutional and participatory democracy for professional excellence – and done right, it brings about politics without bitterness, promoting issue based campaigns for responsible leadership and good followership. But this is not the case with the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) EDO 2018 elections as realities on ground had once again brought out our true characters and the things we hold dear regardless of what we profess along with the…
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Black German Scholar, Ulrich Von Hutten in 1517, scolding a Cardinal for misbehaviour. The Spanish occupation by the Moors began in 711 AD when an African army, under their leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from northern Africa and invaded the Iberian peninsula. A European scholar sympathetic to the Spaniards remembered the conquest in this way: ”The reins of their horses were as fire, their faces black as pitch, their eyes shone like burning candles, their horses were swift as leopards and the riders fiercer than a wolf in a sheepfold at night . . . The noble…
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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press, DEMOCRACY IS THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA The National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) welcomes you to this Press Conference which is aimed at expressing its concerns about the state of the Nigerian State as well as propose solutions. As this Press Conference coincides with the 67th World Congress of the International Press Institute (IPI), taking place in Abuja, the NCEF wishes to appreciate Journalists worldwide for their immense contribution not just to provide information, but for acting as guardians of freedom, justice and equity in nations of the world. Without the Journalists, dictators and tyrants…
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I have read severally the very twisted narratives of Buhari’s remarks during the budget signing ceremony and attempts by his social media vuvuzela’s to pass the buck for their failures/ incompetence to the NASS. I just could not help shaking my head in utter disgust. Kindly note that this piece is in no way any attempt to hold brief for the NASS or deliberate/debate on the appropriation powers of the NASS as enshrined in the constitution. (Factually and based on what is obtained in sane climes, a majority of the people in the National Assembly are so selfish/ruderless and have…
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An absolute, unprotected intercourse with nature, among other things, will expose one to very painful but invaluable experience in life. The end of the exercise often leaves the curious active participant tired and exhausted at the height orgasm with the need for rest, refreshment and re-energization but after a while, the circle probably with more pressing urge and style would be sought again, in search of joy amidst pains. Like eating and defecating, waking and sleeping, which is a must for normal living process, every human endeavour and pursuit looks more like a continual process but always come to abrupt…
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I was with a group yesterday having political discussions… To my greatest supprise, some people where antagonizing themselves… Some said cash flowed in circulation during Goodluck and OBJ’s administration… I looked at them and laughed at their notions kind of painted with ignorance… But I couldn’t had let them live with that, so I asked them a question… With all the money the PDP shared, why are people broke, does it mean they never invested??? To my aught most surprise, their response was cold such that one said at least he got up to #170,000.00… It was then I realized…
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Gentlemen of the press, I welcome you all. I am comrade Ahanonu C. Williams, Imo State Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party. As you all know, youth of this country have been neglected to political obscurity for so long, inspite of their enormous contributions to national development and emancipation of our country from colonial rule. It is record that Chief Anthony Enahoro of blessed memory was editor of a vibrant newspaper at the age of 21. He also moved the motion for Nigeria’s independence on the floor of the federal House of Representatives before he attained the age of…
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Press Statement on the published National Honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) on me: My Reaction At the weekend, notably on Friday, 12th December, 2008, it was published in most of the newspapers in Nigeria that the Federal Government of Nigeria has honoured me with the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR). I have had time after the publication to think deeply whether to accept or reject the honour. I thank the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umam Musa Yar’Adua. I thank the Federal Government Nigeria and I am…
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I am shocked that the Igbos are not speaking up at the apparent siege laid on their land by uniformed person of different categories. They range from Army, Navy, Police, Civil Defence, Customs, FRSC, etc. My journey had taken me by road from Isele-Mkpitime, where I had gone to pay tribute to a Nigerian icon, Chief (Dr) P.K.C. Isagba, the Odogwu of Isele-Mkpitime. He was one of the first Nigerians to believe in my ability as a young fledgling lawyer. I had been handling his cases whilst at Chief Gani Fawehinmi’s Chambers. When I left as Deputy Head to set…
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has expressed concerns over the alarm by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the Federal Government plans to arrest Mr Obasanjo on trumped up charges. Mr Obasanjo raised the alarm on Friday through a statement by his spokesperson, Kehinde Akinyemi. Reacting to the development through a statement he personally signed and issued through his media office, Mr Atiku warned government against acts he said could aggravate tension in the country. Below is the statement by Mr Atiku: Statement By former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Alarm Raised By former President Olusegun Obasanjo I have received with serious concern the…
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Press Release: June 8, 2018 – Since Chief Olusegun Obasanjo declared in his State-of-the-Nation Special Statement on January 23, 2018, the desperation to frustrate, intimidate and blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of the people to better life and living continued unabated and has even taken a bizarre dimension. Impeccable security sources have alleged Chief Obasanjo’s name is on their Watch List and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed. According to these informants, many of who are in the top echelon of the Nation’s security management and close to the corridors of…
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“This Will Give You Cold Chills! Geert Wilders is a Member of the Dutch Parliament. In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: “Who lost Europe ?” Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom the Netherlands , at the Four Seasons in New York , introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .. Dear friends, Thank you very much for inviting me. I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult…
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6th June, 2018 PRESS RELEASE: The National Assembly (NASS) yesterday presented an 11-point position paper in which it threatened to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari. The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) is irked by the constant propensity of Nigerian lawmakers to armtwist the executive. We condemn acts of legislative brigandage and parliamentary subjugation of the executive. It is a rape on the democratic principle of separation of powers. We are inclined to believe that the latest threat of impeachment is not unconnected with the current travails of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. This attempt to turn the heat on Buhari particularly at this material…
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The South West geo political zone of Nigeria became a political swing region since 2011. It swung and elected two Presidents: former President Goodluck Jonathan and incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari. This has not been lost on political strategists. Prior to 2015 presidential election, the handlers of President Jonathan saw the hand writing on the wall and moved in to placate the zone. It renamed the University of Lagos after the acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election. That gesture was an act of desperation and Nigerians were not deceived. Jonathan was voted out. Critically, The gesture was…
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Lawal Idris has been an ally of President Muhammadu Buhari for over 40 years. He is the one who reportedly got Buhari to join politics. In this interview at his residence in Kaduna, the 69-year-old political observer and retired businessman said, despite his good intention for Nigeria, Buhari has been hijacked, but that there is still hope. Excerpts: The story is that you are very close to President Muhammadu Buhari, how will you describe this closeness? Personally, I have been very close to Buhari since 1972. But I do not know if he is close to me now. Buhari’s presidency…
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When a government advertises its No. 3 citizen as a thief … Nigeria is on the road to Babylon: A place of confusion. Three years ago, the people were convinced that they had found a messiah who will lead them to the Promised Land, and meet all their expectations. Onnoghen Saraki and Buhari Today, everyone is speaking in different tongues; “turning and turning in the widening gyre…the falcon cannot hear the falconer… things fall apart; the centre cannot hold/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world/The blood-doomed tide is loosed, and everywhere/the ceremony of innocence is drowned…surely, some revelation is at…
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On Monday, May 4, 2018, our dear brother, Chinweizu, wrote an article entitled: “Federalism, confederalism or restructuring not enough” published in The Sun. His rejection of the demand for autonomous regions is valid, based on his premises. So also is the demand for autonomous regions valid based on the premises on which it is asserted. According to Chinweizu, the Caliphate for whom Nigeria is the estate of their forefathers, will not accept autonomous regions or any form of restructuring of Nigeria that will remove the federation from their firm grip. Only a neophyte lacking in understanding of the dynamics of…
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If it is true that the people, and by extension every generation, get the leader (ruler) they deserve then there is no need for anyone to complain about bad system and bad government – we should rather accept our fate and then do the needful. It can’t be better except when we get into the ring to wrestle power for the common good of the majority. Challenge the status quo and you change the narrative. Power is not given; power is rather taken – and by force. The struggle for power is not a jamboree party, so don’t sit in…
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Nigerians may recall that members of the former New PDP Block within the All Progressives Congress (APC) addressed a letter dated April 27, 2018 to the Chairman of APC where we informed the party of our grievances and expectations from both the party and government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Following this development, the party invited us and we honoured their invitation for a meeting. We met with the leadership of the party last week during which we resolved to report the outcome of our meeting to our members and stakeholders before arriving at any decision or proceeding with the next…
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As President Muhammadu Buhari and a former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, continue to engage in a war of words, a report has been obtained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission regarding corruption allegations against Mr Obasanjo. The clash between the president and one of his predecessors was triggered when Mr Buhari, while receiving a delegation of the Buhari Support Organisation at the Presidential Villa on May 22, indirectly accused Mr Obasanjo ofwasting $16 billion on power projects with nothing to show for it. Mr Obasanjo immediately fired back at the president describing his claims as ignorant and unsubstantiated. The report,…
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It will be recalled that by an Open Memorandum dated May 14, 2018, addressed to the Ohanaeze Conveners of the Restructuring Summit and titled, “UNDERSTANDING THE OBJECTION OF THE EASTERN NIGERIA SELF-DETERMINATION COLLECTIVE TO ANY “RESTRUCTURING” THAT WILL BE DEPENDENT ON AMENDMENTS TO THE 1999 CONSTITUTION”, the Lower Niger Congress dissected the core issues driving the disputations between Proponents of Self-Determination in the Greater Eastern Nigeria and those canvassing the Restructuring of Nigeria, in the hope that the illumination offered by that Open Memorandum would bridge the gap between the two sides. Considering the Countrywide support for the Reconfiguration of…
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BACKGROUND When in February of 2016, Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “Israel is Coming Back to Africa and Africa is Returning to Israel” he wasn’t joking. That is because Donald Trump must have advised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to get to work and make more friends on the continent so Israel is not constantly isolated at the United Nations whenever the need for voting arises. Israel is one of the most hated and vulnerable UN member states. If they have more allies, more countries will vote in their favor at the Security Council. This is very critical because Donald Trump will…
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Having achieved the change agenda, it is now crystal clear, that the change we had clamoured for is not the change we got. Under your [Buhari’s] tenure the rule of law has been replaced with the rule of force. You have injected fear into the society. People who voted for you to save them from corruption and ineptitude have been barred from speaking up against the myriads of evil and wicked acts being perpetrated by officials in your government,” Frank said. Timi Frank, a leading member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who was controversially suspended as Deputy National Publicity…
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Everything, including the minutest and unnoticeable change, has a cost – an opportunity cost. Change is not only a constant phenomenon but it is also something that can happen with or without our consent. People, things, change for good or bad, better or worse, with lots of ripple effects. But whether we are actively involved or otherwise, we almost always, directly or indirectly, feel the effects and consequences of such radical, inevitable changes. This is because while we have control over certain things and may wish some things away, there are countless others we cannot influence and some of them…
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Imolites watched with disgust and disbelief on Friday, May 11, 2018 as All Progressives Congress (APC) state secretariat on Okigwe Road in Owerri, Imo state capital went up in flames. For several hours thick smoke that oozed from the fire incidence enveloped the sprawling city causing severe environmental pollution. Those who had activities within the premises scampered for safety as they ran for their dear lives. There was palpable confusion and hysteria in the place. At the end of the incidence monumental damage had been recorded as most of the facilities in the secretariat were razed. The above agonizing reality…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of corruption in the handing of the fuel subsidy regime under the All Progressive Congress (APC) government. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, recently announced its annual expenditure on fuel subsidy saying it had risen to over N1.4 trillion. Mr Kachikwu described the expenditure as ‘under-recovery’ for supply of petroleum products across the country. While the federal government has not formally said it is paying for fuel subsidy, it has consistently pushed the explanation of how public funds are spent to ‘subsidise’ fuel consumption to the Nigerian…
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Senator Dino Melaye, on Monday afternoon, released a lengthy statement detailing how he was arrested by over 200 policemen and attacked by the Federal Government. Melaye revealed that he was pounced on by the government for speaking the truth and demanding accountability. He also thanked the Nigerian people for standing by him, he praised the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, describing him as a man with a vision for Nigeria. Oblong Media obtained the statement. Read it below; “1. Someone once said, that, rock bottom is good solid ground and a dead-end street is just a place to turn around. In…
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•Party’s Contact and Integration Committee gets two-week extension •Jonathan’s ex-minister emerges dark horse in the race •Ex- Gov. Boni Haruna is Turaki’s Campaign DG •Dogara walks tight rope WHAT’S ON OFFER TO WHO KWANKWASO: State PDP structure in Kano, governorship ticket to his preferred candidate and Senatorial seat SARAKI: PDP structure in Kwara, governorship ticket to his candidate, Senate Presidency presidential primaries, ministerial ticket if he loses WAMMAKO: PDP structure in Sokoto, governorship ticket to his candidate, Senatorial seat DOGARA: Speaker, House of Reps; Ministerial appointment The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given its Contact and Integration Committee a two-week…
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1. We speak on behalf of Alaigbo: The Igbo-Speaking Peoples in Nigeria and elsewhere in the World, particularly those in the main Igboland, Anioma and Ikwerre and any other areas. 2. We are a Nation, a land of free peoples and any Union with any other nation must be based on free choice, namely, on the hallowed principle of Self-determination. 3. We did not become part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria initially out of choice, but by force, due to the determination of a foreign power that led to the Amalgamation of 1914. 4. After 104 years, the Federal…
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This is a most Logical Summation of facts and and a most brilliant deployment of Logic on the subject of Fulani guile, and what the rest us, particularly in the South and Middle Belt should do, in Self-Redemption. The title to this post is a quote taken from a comment in a Forum where the discussants were examining the options open to the Peoples of Nigeria, entrapped in a Union of Death and Attrition, foisted by the Caliphate-Imposed, Fraudulent Master-Servant Constitution of Nigeria, 1999. This is a most Logical Summation of facts and and a most brilliant deployment of Logic…
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On 24th March 2012, Chief Rochas Okorocha, then less than a year in office as Imo State Governor, was in Kosovo where he signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for an independent power plant, an agro processing plant and several other industries that he promised would be established in his state. There were neither feasibility studies nor any clear ideas as to where the money to finance these projects would come from but those sorts of things never really worry the ebullient governor. A few weeks before the trip to the Balkan Peninsular, Okorocha had declared a four-day holiday for…
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A combination of false labelling, misrepresentation of facts, propaganda, distractions, unwillingness, inability, aiding, abetting, condoning and lopsided security appointments by the present Federal Government of Muhammadu Buhari has continued to fuel and escalate the Janjaweed (Jihadists under the cover of cattle herders) attacks and destructions carried out on Christian faithful and other non Muslims and their sacred places of worship in Nigeria especially since mid 2015. Specifically, the central Administration and many, if not most of the mainstream media outfits-majorly owned or controlled by some, if not many serving public office holders and their allies in the country; have intensified…
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220 Killings In The Past 15 Days Of May 2018: Nigeria Receding To Total Regime Collapse And Anarchy.
No fewer than 220 killings or violent deaths arising from nontraditional crimes or violence have independently been recorded in Nigeria since the beginning of May 2018 or between 1st and 15th May 2018; out of which no fewer than 71 confirmed deaths and 87 feared deaths took place in Kaduna State alone. There are also no fewer than 59 Christians killed by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in the States of Taraba, Adamawa, Benue and Kogi since the beginning of May 2018 or between 1st and 15th May 2018. Over half of the 87 citizens feared killed along Birnin-Gwari Road in Kaduna…
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When crocodiles eat their own eggs, let frogs run and run. Because of the 2019 elections, an intra-class war is currently raging among a special breed of Nigerians. I call their exclusive enclave the Generals Club. These are a lucky set of army officers who either staged the counter coup of July 1966 or benefitted from it. That was a coup that forever changed the fortune of Nigeria and its inhabitants. The young officers came, seized and squeezed Nigeria into their suffocating cubicle. They came and became our permanent landlords. They built all the good things; they also enthroned all…
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The attempt by president Muhammadu Buhari during his recent visit to America and the UK and the attempt by Senator Jegeri Alkali, leader of Miyetti Allah, to justify Fulani terrorism is as nauseating as it is repugnant. How can a normal person with conscience, sense of responsibility and respect for human lives, give excuses for the unprovoked and unjustifiable aggression against a peace loving people in order to take over their land for the rearing of cattle? The question is, why is Buhari lying to the world about Fulani herdsmen terrorism? Why does the president of Nigeria prefer to characterise…
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I feel so sorry for our youths in the middle belt but especially on the Plateau for the outright display of ignorance during the arraignment of Baba Jang. I am not of PDP or APC, but I have this to say to you all…if what defines your loyalty in your political pursuit or activities so far is party, tribal or individual affiliation, then I feel sorry for you, you are an illiterate of the 21st century (the illiterate of the 21st century according to Alvin Toffler will not be those who will not be able to read or write, they…
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“There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth.” —Louis Farrakhan President Buhari’s 97/5 per cent policy was grossly implemented recently at the NNPC Tower, Abuja. In the nepotism-driven shakeup; Fulani oligarchy had their way. Shaibu Musa was appointed MD of the NNPC Medical Services, Ibrahim Birma was named new Group General Manager, in charge of Audit Division, of which was renamed Governance, Risk and Compliance Division. Ahmadu Katagum was appointed Group General Manager, Shipping, in Downstream Autonomous Business Unit, Kallamu Abdullahi was made Group General Manager in charge of Renewable Energy Division in…
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President Herbert Hoover did not cause the Great Depression. But his sin was that rather than his policies bringing it to an end — or at least bringing it under control — his policies indeed worsened the whole situation. Even knowing fully well that the fact on the ground couldn’t lie, President Hoover preferred to engage in self-deception and false optimism, accusing his predecessor to be responsible for the economic menace. In the meantime, believed that come November 1932 he would be winning landslide. However, Hoover lost big simply because his arrogant mindset blinded him from seeing the reality on…
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Gentlemen of the press, Nigeria is on the Brink As you are aware, President Muhammadu Buhari is on his way to the United States, the home of democracy, whereas back home in Nigeria his administration has completely wrecked our democratic order, eroded constitutionally guaranteed rights of citizens while foisting a siege mentality on our people. We have called you here to alert the entire world, particularly, the United States, that our nation is now on the brink. Nigeria is facing a perilous time; our constitution has been technically suspended; we have now become a Police State; governance has reverted to…
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24th April, 2018 The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State, has again been drawn to a subterranean plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) of Governor Rochas Okorocha to disobey the nation’s Apex Court directive that the Kangaroo Local Government elections being packaged to defraud unsuspecting political parties and their candidates, in Imo State be put on hold until the Supreme Court determines the case between the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Imo State and the Imo State government. The PDP in Imo State therefore, wishes to categorically state that it shall not take part…
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25th April, 2018 The peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State has observed with utter dismay, the continued onslaught against the people of Imo State and their means of livelihood by Governor Rochas Okorocha. This reprehensible, inhuman and repulsive aggression against the same people whom the governor ate their akara (bean cake), drank their sachets of pure water and hugged, prior to his election in 2011, is to say the least, beastly and unjustifiable. It has to a large extent affirmed the PDP’s position that the All Progressive Congress (APC) and everybody associated with it, are out to only plunder and…
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Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, said on Sunday that he had already formed his opinion about the government of the ruling All Progressives Congress and knew exactly “where I’m going to cast my vote” when voting time comes. But Soyinka warned Nigerians not to allow themselves to be hoodwinked by those he said took part in the destruction of the country, but were now parading themselves as messiah. He urged Nigerians not to allow themselves to be plunged into “a zone of amnesia,” but to go back and check the track records of such people and the company they kept.…
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In the last couple of weeks, particularly in the last couple of days, I found myself asking the question: What is the value of human life in our dear country Nigeria? Anytime this question popped up in my mind, a part of me yelled out “nothing!” in righteous anger and frustration. But not surprisingly, this is the nagging question on the lips of many Nigerians. We are living in a frightening new reality where people’s lives mean nothing and can be taken at any time by another or others. The Nigerian state is failing abysmally to perform the most important…
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Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, I hope this meets you well. I don’t know if you remember me. My name is Simon. Simon Kolawole. Never mind. We will come to that later. Let us briefly journey into history for proper context into why I have chosen to openly write you this morning. I first heard of your name in the evening of December 31, 1983 when you were named the military head of state. Earlier in the day, Brigadier Sani Abacha had woken us up with the announcement of the overthrow of the civilian government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari. The economy…
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On account of dejavu alone President Mohammadu Buhari chose the wrong moment to lay bare the open secret of his ambition for a second term in office. In terms of symbolic association, departing Abuja for London in the past one and half years evokes all the wrong memories. Predictably, even before he landed in London, the maniacally driven gossip mills in Nigeria had revved into overdrive in speculations on the real story behind the departure, this time around-afterall, the scheduled meeting of the commonwealth heads of states and government was a week away. Adding sumptuous grit to the rumor mill…
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Sometimes, I want to laugh at our people and say, it serves you right. Some other times, I just want to “siddon look”, apologies to our Cicero, the late Chief Bola Ige. And yet more often than not, my first instinct when they are complaining about the “strange” goings-on in government is to say, some of us told you so. You see, a child who fails to heed the warnings of elders to stay away from fire, will run away from ashes after suffering the consequences of fire. The 2015 presidential election has come and gone but the lies, tone,…
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The United States government on Friday released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying grave violations continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were almost never prosecuted by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Why it matters: President Buhari is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on April 30, and both men would likely discuss further U.S. military assistance to Nigeria against the backdrop of serious human rights violations by security forces who use the same weapons to kill civilians. The U.S. annual report on global human rights violations, released in…
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Fellow Nigerians, these are not the best of times for our dear President, Muhammadu Buhari. And it must be much worse for his media handlers. Let me state matter-of-factly, from the onset, that President Buhari gets into regular trouble, indeed, too frequently, because he has invested heavily in a media team but lacks a public relations team. In Nigeria, most leaders fail to realise that being a good journalist, Editor, Publisher, Broadcaster, and what have you, does not make you a good or excellent public relations guru. The other problem is I’m not sure the President is surrounded by those…
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The National president of the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF), Yerima Shettima has condemned President Buhari’s lazy Nigerian youths comment. Buhari, while speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, said the country’s youthful population is reliant on the notion that Nigeria is an oil-rich nation, which leads to the demand for free things. He said “More than 60 percent of the population is below 30, a lot of them haven’t been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria has been an oil producing country, therefore, they should sit and do nothing, and get…
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1. . When Philip Morris became Altria Philip Morris, the maker of Marlboro, found that its corporate name was too synonymous with the taint of tobacco-related death and disease, according to a study by researchers at the University of California San Francisco. In late 2001, the company announced it would change its name to the Altria Group, in an attempt to insulate other brands like Kraft from the negative associations, the researchers say. 2. Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC In 1991, Kentucky Fried Chicken began to subtly rebrand by shifting the focus to its initials, KFC. There were a lot…
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1. Firstly, it is acknowledged that this is a decision of Imo State Government backed by relevant and extant CGC and Autonomous Communities Laws in Imo State. 2. Out of abundant caution, it must be accentuated and underscored that creation and recognition of Autonomous Communities in Imo State beginning from the 1978 Imo State Traditional Rulers and Autonomous Communities (TRAC) Law as variously amended has always been predicated on a number of stringent conditionalities some of which include contiguous land mass, large population and viability measured through abundance of leviable adults. All the relevant amendments to Imo State Traditional Rulers…
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Sincerely, no country or her leadership can truly lay claim to any honest fight against systemic corruption without sustainably instituting an enduring culture of openness, accountability, transparency and probity in the way and manner the nation’s resources are generated and dispensed . For weeks now, I have expected the National Assembly to institute a high powered probe into the NNPC claims that they paid Petroleum subsidies of N1.4trillion/$4.6b over the last one year . Such outrageous amount of money is enough to start and complete 1. over 1,400 kilometers of brand new Narrow Guage Rail network and infrastructure across Nigeria…
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REPORTS ON RE-INTRODUCTION OF NEW POLLING UNITS. The attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been drawn to some newspaper reports alleging that the Commission had perfected plans to re-introduce 30,000 new polling units in order to compromise the 2019 General Elections. The fact of the matter is that in response to 3,789 requests so far received nationwide for the creation of new polling units, the Commission directed its Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to thoroughly asses and provide it with information on: 1. New settlements that are not served or inadequately served by existing polling units; 2. Areas…
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Intersociety, Nigeria: 22nd April 2018 Killing in the name of Islam or Political Islam is centuries-old global headache that had led to estimated global death of 270million Christians including animists and ors otherwise called “unbelievers” by radical Muslims and Jihadists in the past 1400yrs or 622 AD when the first Muslim Jihad or “legitimate killing of unbelievers and possession of their properties and inheritance” started. This is according to the Religion of Peace or TROP in its research statistics of April 2018. Most of the ancient killings in the name of Islam took place during the first major global wave…
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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant to the Owerri federal Constituency seat at the House of Representatives Duruebube Chimazuru “Oblong” Nnadi-Oforgu, has unveiled his political manifesto to his election sponsors in Lagos and Abuja with a promise to bring social-economic development to his constituency through a participatory approach. The PDP aspirant, who reeled out his political manifesto to a select group of his core election sponsors, assured them that to achieve a legacy of sustainable development across the constituency he is going to use a participatory approach to ensure that the constituents are carried along in the prioritization, design, implementation,…
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Royal Dutch Shell paid a total of $4,322,742,582 (about N1.5 trillion) to the Nigerian government in 2017, according to its annual payments report seen by TheCable Petrobarometer. The amount is broken down as $3,197,530,557 for production entitlement, $765,526,389 in taxes, $245,769,306 in royalties and $113,916,331 in fees. By comparison, Nigeria earned a total revenue of N10.6 trillion in 2017 from both oil and non-oil sources according to CBN Economic Report — meaning Shell alone contributed about 15 percent to the country’s income. The total paid to Nigeria by Shell is the highest to any of the 29 countries where the…
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For some reasons unknown to me, Nigerians are no longer paying attention to things that matter about the way they are being ruled. They no longer pay attention to some of the things their rulers say. Otherwise, a strange item in President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Year Day speech should have brought millions of Nigerians to the streets in angry protests. When first I listened to the President making that speech I could not believe my ears. So I had to wait until the mainstream media published the full text of the speech, and there it was in cold print: “Negotiations…
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By Tyler Durden As the blame game over the alleged chemical attack in Syria escalates ahead of what is expected to be an imminent, if contained, air strike campaign by the US, UK and/or France against Syria, on Friday morning, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow had “irrefutable evidence” that the attack – which allegedly killed more than 40 people in an April 7 chemical weapons strike on the former rebel outpost of Douma -was staged with the help of a foreign secret service. “We have irrefutable evidence that this was another staged event, and that the secret services…
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28 years have flown by Fellow Nigerian citizens, On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major Gideon Orka, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vasta, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to materialize and other human…
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Being text of a Joint Declaration by the Lower Niger Congress, the Federation of Oodua People and the Middle Belt Congress at a World Press Conference held on June 30th 2011 at Lagos We, the undersigned Representatives of: The LOWER NIGER CONGRESS, made up of indigenes of The Lower Niger, (the Homeland of the ethnic nationaliities of the former Eastern and Mid-western Regions of Nigeria), involved in the mission of evolving a LOWER NIGER FEDERATION, The FEDERATION OF OODUA PEOPLES, made up of indigenes of Oodua Land (the Homeland of the Yoruba ethnic nationality of the former Western Region of…
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It would appear that since the dethronement of Alhaji Mustapha Jokolo as the 19th emir of Gwandu and the ascension of his successor, Alhaji Muhammadu Ilyasu Bashar, also known as Major General Muhammadu Jega, this pair of closely associated emirs have placed their connection by family on ice with one suspecting the other. It would also appear that beneath the not too stormy exterior which the people of the Gwandu emirate on both sides take for tranquility, there have been developments which have pitched both emirs in a battle of words. The twist in the ill-temper and feelings of bitterness…
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In this Nigeria, an average Southerner is a weakling. A born coward with serious complex issues. A fool and an idiot. A slave. A typical example of a butterfly who thinks himself a bird. But this is not even the problem. The biggest problem is, he doesn’t even realise he is any of those things. The only thing an average Southerner is good at is blowing high sounding grammar and acquiring degrees upon degrees but when it comes to things that matter most, he goes to slumber. An average Southerner has this twisted mindset that the best way to be…
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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has called on youths in Nigeria to show President Muhammadu Buhari that they were not lazy and uneducated by voting against him in 2019, saying; “it is painful that the President could describe youths in Nigeria that are daily struggling to make a living under a harsh economy as lazy people.” Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said; “Contrary to the morale-killing comment of the President, Nigerian youths are hardworking, intelligent and enterprising. Their future was mortgaged by past leaders like President Buhari, who had…
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The Nigerian Senate has stepped down the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill, which seeks to reshuffle the sequence of polls in a general election. The bill, which was considered for second reading, on Wednesday suffered a setback when several lawmakers raised various issues against the amendment. The lawmakers resolved that the bill be stepped down and referred to the Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, with a mandate to expunge the clauses faulted by President Muhammadu Buhari, for which he withdrew his assent. The parts not faulted by the President, however, would be sent back to him for assent.…
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Major Hamza Al Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, has been deepening mobilization in the North for his presidential ambition in the 2019 general elections which his followers said has been shaking that part of Nigeria. The former CSO has reached out to prominent northern leaders seeking their support. However, his major focus is on the youth whom he indicated he is going to represent in governance. He was gathered to be popular in Kano and within the Abacha dynasty in the North. To stabilize his presidential campaign, Al-Mustapha formed a new political…
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The Arch Bishop of Canterbury is the head of protestanism, the spiritual head of the house of Lords, the head of international capitalism, superior to the PM of United Kingdom in political ranking after the Queen. He is a strategic global leader exerting tremendous political and spiritual influence. His meeting with Buhari is one in his series of acceptance trips to Europe and America precedent on his re-election in 2019. Buhari got the acceptance in 2015 and the Arch Bishop visited Nigeria as a show of that acceptance. In the last meeting, buhari was confronted with the issues of poverty…
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Elder statesman and prominent politician, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai has revealed that massive rigging took place in the North in the 2015 general elections. Yakassai revealed the electoral fraud to journalists when he led the newly formed Northern Leaders’ Stakeholders’ Assembly to former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, at his Uphill Mansion in Minna, the Niger State capital, on Sunday. According to him, while the electronic voting was religiously observed in the southern part of the country, it was not so observed in the north. He remarked: “When the electronic voting was introduced, I was in support of it, but I…
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PRESS RELEASE: We have read in the print and social media Governor Okorocha’s disdainful disrespect to the office of the Governor of Imo State. Unfortunately he has been the occupant of that office since 2011. Okorocha had on Monday, 16th April 2018 opened his basket mouth once more and made vitriolic remarks to the bewildered and suffering Imo people, that he has retired some politicians in the state, including His Excellency Dr Ikedi Ohakim, who was Governor of the state for four years and now running for a second term in 2019. Okorocha’s senseless comments and actions in the state…
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Date: 19th April, 2018 * IGP orders Commissioner of Police FCT Command to beef-up security at the National Assembly. 1. Sequel to the invasion of the Senate Chambers of the National Assembly, Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 18th April, 2018 by some suspected thugs who disrupted the Senate Plenary Session and carted away the Mace of the Red Chambers, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni, immediately instituted a high-powered Police Investigation and Intelligence Team coordinated by the IGP Monitoring Unit of the Force and further directed a total lockdown of the Federal Capital Territory…
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Our attention has been drawn to a plot by Gov. Okorocha to dupe the 644 Autonomous Communities in Imo State the sum of almost N4billion in the dying days of his regime. In a letter issued by his Commissioner for Community Government, Culture and Traditional Affairs, Hon Louis O. Duru, each of the 644 Communities was been directed to pay the sum of N6million as counterpart funding for developmental projects. The communities have been threatened with withdrawal of their autonomy were they to fail to pay as well as suspension of Salaries/Allowances of their Traditional Rulers. This cheap blackmail to…
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Buhari’s description of the “Nigerian Youths” at the 2018_Commonwealth Conference would have been entirely correct if only he added the prefix, “Northern” before “Nigerian” and also go further to describe the “North” in question to exclude the Middle-Belt where his “North” is currently staging death shows, delineated Purple in the Map below. That North that boasts of millions of out-of-school, but school age children, who Buhari’s North calls amajiris, blindfolded with illiteracy and ignorance, but who are armed by their demon-possesed elders with both PVC’s, guns machetes and sundry dangerous cudgels on Election days, to dictate the outcome of Elections,…
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It has come to the knowledge of Ohanaeze Ndigbo FCT chapter that renegades from the disbanded Okechukwu Isiguzoro-led Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing and the Callista Adimachukwu Ohanaeze Ndigbo Women are presently in Abuja for a purported endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari for the 2019 Presidency. This shameful exercise which is been coordinated by an Enugu-state born head of a federal government parastatal is the crystallization of the vituperations of these discredited groups on the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo for the past one month. It should be noted that while Ndigbo are not against the candidacy of President Muhammadu Buhari in…
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As a General Caveat, let me posit upfront that all the demands for the *Restructuring of Nigeria* are fueled by the *Self-Determination desires of the Constituent Components of Nigeria.* Let me also posit that *”Restructuring”* as being currently canvassed, basically means the *Reconfiguration and Reconstruction of the Constitutional Architecture of Nigeria* to revert of to the Federation it was designed to be at inception. Accordingly, it follows that *Restructuring* is not mutually exclusive with *Self-Determination,* rather the former is one of the means of attaining the latter. It also goes without saying that *”Restructuring “* may deliver varying degrees of…
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The Federal Government, said, Wednesday that it is focusing on establishment of cattle ranching as solution to the protracted clashes between the herdsmen and farmers, which resulted in killings of several people and wanton destruction of properties by suspected herders across the country, especially, Benue, Plateau, Taraba and Adamawa States. Minister of Interior, LT. Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazau, Retd, who made this known in Abuja, at the stakeholders’ dialogue on the eradication of herders-farmers conflict in Nigeria, said another measure put in place by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Interior is the establishment of Agro Rangers. Danbazau, while speaking…
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Given their backgrounds in the industry, the relationship between Dr Edmund Dakorou as Minister of State for Energy and Mr Funso Kupolokun as the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was always going to be difficult. And so it proved. By 2005, it had become clear that the duo could not work together in harmony and their hostility towards each other had become known not only within the oil and gas sector but also in the media. Against the background that working at cross-purposes in such a critical sector was detrimental to the goal of his…
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Investigations have shown that snatching of mace, the symbol of authority in the Nigerian lawmaking institutions as witnessed yesterday at the National Assembly had a root in First Republic’s western region(1965) following the crisis that ensued between the leadership of the defunct Action Group (AG) and the premier of the western region. Late Chief Obafemi Awolowo led some members of the Western Assembly to remove the premier, Chief Samuel Akintola and the governor of the region. Consequently, the development split the lawmakers into two factions thereby leading to a mild drama on the floor of the House; and in the…
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The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting is underway in United Kingdom. On the heels of the conference is the Commonwealth Business Roundtable where experts from all over the Commonwealth Nations are carefully selected to profer solutions on thorny issues affecting member Nations. The theme of this years Business Roundtable is on “”Energy Transition””. Engr Chibuike Achigbu who represented Nigeria at the Roundtable spoke on how to ensure access to sustainable and affordable energy for all and how to ensure sufficient energy forbour needs.
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The Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC), has announced its appointment of Mr. Obinna Anyanwu as its first Country Head for Nigeria, ahead of next year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Obinna Anyanwu who hails from Mbaise in Imo state is the son of 2nd republic Senator Tony Anyanwu and the younger brother of the late Hon Tony Anyanwu of the House of Representatives 6th house. The CWEIC is mandated by 52 Heads of Government to promote trade and investment across the Commonwealth. It explained in a statement at the weekend, that recognising that Nigeria is vital to this mission,…
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One evening in Medford, Massachusetts in March 2017, I was seated at the back of an elegantly designed classroom at the renowned Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. The master’s degree students were from various countries including the USA, Japan, India, Switzerland, Canada, Nigeria and the United Kingdom. The Fletcher School was jointly established by Tufts University and Harvard University in 1933 as an exclusively post-graduate institution to train leaders in the field of international affairs. Its curriculum covers international law, politics, economics, and diplomacy. Its privileged students typically end up in leadership roles in governments, business…
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Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange control over $1trillion worth of Africa’s resources in just five commodities – oil, gold, diamonds, coal and platinum. My research for the NGO, War on Want, which has just been published, reveals that 101 companies, most of them British, control $305billion worth of platinum, $276billion worth of oil and $216billion worth of coal at current market prices. The ‘Scramble for Africa’ is proceeding apace, with the result that African governments have largely handed over their treasure. Tanzania’s gold, Zambia’s copper, South Africa’s platinum and coal and Botswana’s diamonds are all dominated by London-listed…
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Lt. General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) stirred up a hornet’s nest recently when he called on Nigerians to rise in self-defence against killer herdsmen who have displayed an unrelenting thirst for human blood. He blamed the government and the security agencies which have shown articulable suspicion of collusion in the mindless carnage being perpetuated by herdsmen. The unwillingness of the Buhari-led government to stem the killings is well known. We have even seen excuses and some justification for the unending killings by top officials of the government. I dare say it took Danjuma too long to speak out against the atrocities…
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If it be true indeed that Mr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation of Nigeria, did say that “The Shortest route to Igbo Presidency in Nigeria is to support Buhari in 2019”, my response to him is to inform him that his suggestion is dumb, to say the least. Whoever sees the Boss Mustapha fellow should tell him that the reality of now is that even if Buhari resigns today in 2018, for an Igbo man or woman to take over as President of Nigeria without the gauntlet of Election, that will not alter the resolve of…
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The Good Book posits that in the mouth of two witnesses, a matter is established. I will put aside this piece by Austin Okere titled *”You do not Embellish a War”* amongst the very few that get so archived, as evidence that there are indeed others who understand the nature of the danger the Igbo is in at this time in Nigeria, namely : *That Igbo is targeted by a determined and relentless enemy which seek nothing but our complete extermination; sparing only those so totally subjugated at heart, that they proudly and actively aid the enemy in it’s onslaught…
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An Abuja Based Developmental Economist, Dr. Katch Ononuju, has revealed President Muhammadu Buhari’s role in the drastic decline of Nigeria’s foreign transactions, from N274.32 billion in December 2017, to N128.83 billion in February 2018. According to the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Foreign Portfolio Investors’ FPI records, transactions at the floor of the NSE dropped by N123 billion in the first two months of the year. Foreign portfolio investment, stood at N83.22 billion in February, 2018 compared to N206.48 billion recorded in December 2017. Domestic transactions fell to N128.83 billion in February, from N274.32 billion recorded in December, total transactions at…
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PRESS RELEASE The attention of former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, CON, has been drawn to a newspaper report in the Monday, April 16, 2018 edition of The Sun, titled, “Why Ihedioha Must Leave PDP – Oye”. The former Deputy Speaker views the statement as “unwarranted, mischievous and a misplaced demand, borne out of mere imagination. Chief Victor Oye, National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA) had urged Rt. Hon. Ihedioha to dump the PDP and join forces with APGA members in the South East, as according him, it is the easiest route through…
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In response to a comment by someone who wanted to know why the British are crying more than the bereaved as One-Nigeria staggers to it’s inevitable demise at ARABA Terminus, I had written as follows in 2017: “The whole essence of “One-Nigeria” over which tight Caliphate control was emplaced, instituted and promoted by Britain, was so that Britain can take whatever it wanted from any part of the vast Territory, including Oil and Gas, without having to deal with the actual owners of the assets, since the Caliphate-Controlled so-called “Federal Government” will be there to sign off for Britain, whatever…
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