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Between Yorubaland and the Hausa/Fulaniland, there are 14 Area Commands of the Customs. The Yorubaland alone has 11 Area Commands whilst Hausa/Fulaniland has only 3 Area Commands. The Yorubaland Area Commands of the Customs: 1. Apapa Customs Command; 2. Tin-Can Island Customs Command; 3. Lagos Airport Customs Command; 4. Kirikiri Lighter Terminal Customs Command; 5. Seme Customs Command; 6. Tin-Can Island II Customs Command; 7. Lagos Industrial Customs Command; 8. Ogun Customs Command; 9. Oyo/Osun Customs Command; 10. Ondo/Ekiti Customs Command; 11. Kwara/Kogi Customs Command. The Hausa/Fulaniland Area Commands of the Customs: 1. Kaduna/Kastina Customs Command; 2. Kano/Jigawa Customs Command;…
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The “Restructuring” being forced upon a very reluctant North is totally different from the dummy the North is willing to accept, on terms to be dictated by the North. However, there will be no letting by the forces that have the Caliphate’s Sole Title Deed over Nigeria – 1999 Constitution in a “pinfall”and “chokehold,” until that Document breathes its last and all the fraudulent benefits it conferred upon the Caliphate, reversed, retrieved or extinguished, including the 36-States Structure, the 774 LGs roguery, the 68-Item Exclusive List, and most importantly, the egregious falsehood that “We the Peoples of Nigeria* signed off…
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The World Bank has said Nigeria may be heading for serious financial crisis following the decision of the government to seek for more loans to fund critical infrastructure. It would be recalled that the Minister had on Sunday at a press briefing to end the World Bank/International Monetary Fund annual meeting in Washington DC, United States announced that Nigerians would continue to borrow at least in the short term to fund critical infrastructure. Giving the insights through its Senior Economist, Gloria Joseph-Raji, in Abuja, World Bank said the cost of borrowing or paying interest on Nigeria’s debt is now a…
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The greatest crime that man has inflicted on his fellow man in the last 50 years is the evil concept of unrestrained globalisation coupled with the incremental evolution, unacceptable espousal and wholehearted acceptance of the artificial, man-made, mongrel nation-state which is made up of ethnic and religious incompatibles. Yet thankfully there has been a backlash. The forces of the far-right and ethnic nationalism are marshalling and are on the rise all over the world. Consequently a laudable, unprecedented and irresistable counter-offensive has begun. We see this in Trump’s United States of America, Putin’s Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Israel, France,…
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It is sad and shocking that what is called “Nigerian Army” today and its mother “security and defense” establishments are nothing but “resurrected Glover Hausas” of the 19th Century. Recall that in 1863, British Lt Glover of the Royal Navy selected 18 indigenes from the Northern part of the country and organized them into a local force, known as the “Glover Hausas”. The small force was used by Glover as governor of Lagos to mount punitive expedition in the Lagos hinterland and to protect British trade routes around Lagos. In 1865, the “Glover Hausas” became a regular force with the…
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Over the weekend, the news was all over the place that the Alafin of Oyo, arguably the highest traditional institution in Yorubaland, has bestowed on Gani Adams the title of Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland (the war Lord or field marshal of Yorubaland). The last person that held that position was late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, the Nigerian president that never was. So, who is Gani Adams and what does he stand for? Well, I did not know so I googled him. And according to Google, “Gani Adams is a political and social activist. He is a faction leader…
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Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday withdrew from a suit on the leadership tussle in the Ogun Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The judge, who announced his withdrawal from the suit no. FHC/L/CS/1556/17 in the open court, said his decision was based on a petition written against him to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court. The suit was filed by the Ogun State delegation to the PDP National Convention. Listed as plaintiffs are a member of the PDP National Working Committee, Alhaji Adewole Adeyanju, the PDP Youth Leader in Ogun…
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There are these consistent fallacies that have been perpetuated over the years. Let me address some of them from my personal point of view. Ndiigbo need Nigeria because we are mercantile people. False. Ndiigbo have done well all over the West African coast and now moving into the rest of Africa. Princeton Lyman the former US ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa said this as part of his speech lambasting Nigeria. “I served in South Korea in the middle of the 1960s and it was time when South Korea was poor and considered hopeless, but it was beginning to turn…
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Benin is the name of the capital, Kingdom and Empire that proceeded forth. I shall later sit down to put my thoughts together but in a nutshell, the following are evident – : There is a difference between Benin Kingdom and Benin Empire. That Igbo provinces constituted part of the Benin Kingdom and of course the later Benin Empire. That Igbo land shares contiguous boundaries with the Bini, Esan, Urhobo, Isoko and Igala at various points in Anioma land. History also notes that there were no military campaigns against Igboland by Benin Kingdom or Empire. Of the Kingdoms that made…
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I think until we truly get interested in politics to the point of being part of the *selection process*, we may likely remain in this situation of having bad leadership in the South East in the foreseeable future. I have read and heard many blame the masses for the election of bad leaders for the SE and I strongly defer. I do not think masses or the populace are to blame. While it is good to tell every Igbo adult to get his or her voters card to enable them vote, i strongly believe that when we miss it *at…
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Some of us clearly understand where the imaginary line of our true leaders is drawn. We can easily separate good things from the junks. As it is wisely said;By their fruits we shall know them. Thanks for the opportunity presented by President Buhari finally having a shot at the leadership of this country after four unsuccessful outing that ended up in emotional shedding of tears like “Cry my beloved country”. It is his emergence as the President and the huge unsettling and disturbances of the status quo that ensued that has forced the appearance and eventually ultimate disappearance of so…
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If there is any assumption Nigerians made in the run up to the 2015 general elections, it is that given his experience and the long years spent seeking for the office, General Buhari is uniquely placed to run, perhaps, the most competent, organised and corrupt-free administration in Nigeria’s history. However, since ascending to the presidency, President Buhari has proved Nigerians wrong by running perhaps the most lethargic, chaotic, incompetent – and as it is now increasingly becoming obvious, a corrupt administration wrought with infighting, confusing, contest for power and authority and a shocking lack of grasps of the fundamentals of…
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Those who know me in this state and beyond are fully aware that I write for nobody as I have criticized almost all political leaders based on the facts available to me. I am the moral mind of journalism and I want my children to grow up tomorrow and be proud of their father’s very modest achievements. This is my philosophy in life that I will never sacrifice for anybody or anything. If I write for money or other benefits, I would be a very rich man by now, but I am very satisfied and a very rich man in…
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This one is not hear-say. This is from the horse’s mouth. President Muhammadu Buhari specifically asked the World Bank to focus all their developmental activities in the North. Let me quote the World Bank boss in his exact words: “You know in my very first meeting with President Buhari, he said specifically that he would like us to shift our focus to the Northern region of Nigeria and we’ve done that. Now, it has been very difficult. The work there has been very difficult” This is from the World Bank Oga kpatakpata. Monies from NNPC are going to the north.Firms…
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Amid agitation by leaders of the South East for the creation of an additional state in the zone, Kaduna State governor and chairman of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Committee on True Federalism, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that it would be a grave injustice to agitate for “equal unequals” According to him, even in population and resources, the regions of the country are not uniformly endowed. He, however, said though the representatives of the agitators were few in number, “the majority must always win.” Speaking at a town hall meeting organised by his committee to get inputs from youths,…
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The attention of the State Government has been drawn to an on going medical outreach being undertaken by the Army in Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Local Government Area. The State has been made to understand that the exercise is part of Army social responsibility to members of the public. However, strong apprehension among the populace has followed the exercise leading to withdrawal of students from schools by parents, misconception of the actual motive behind the exercise by stakeholders, community leaders and a general reservation by the public for whom the outreach is intended. To this end and to ensure no further escalation…
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Those who deploy soldiers to civilian spaces except in war time or rare cases where civil authorities are over-stretched, are nothing short of murderers because soldiers basically understand just two clauses: Open Fire And, Cease Fire. Anyone sending soldiers to administer any form of vaccines or whatever medical aide to school kids without sensitizing the parents of the kids and authorities in the area, have ulterior motives. Such a person should be feared. He couldn’t have meant well. In sane clime, touching school kids, asking them any question or making them participate in any activity not related to their academic…
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For Nigeria as a country, the clause “Independence Day Celebration” is an oxymoronic expression because the truth is, Nigeria IS NOT independent in any way. Not politically, not economically, not even spiritually and certainly not physically. Where is the independence?? Colonialism, which is an euphemism for slavery, never really ended in Nigeria. It only got repackaged in such a way that the slaves now see their chains, not as an obstacle but a beautiful bracelet. They sing and dance in a deceitful sense of freedom even when they are anything but free. And this is why enthroning real Freedom or…
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Concerned Northern Youth, a group of Northern Youths, have warned Politicians and leaders from the North to stay away from the agitation to restructure Nigeria. The group vowed to make anyone from the North who supports restructuring “pay with his/her life”, according to a statement signed by Usman Tijani for the group. Only recently, the All Progressive Congress, APC, led Government appointed Governor Nasir El-Rufai as Chairman, Committee For Restructuring. El-Rufai had in the past spoken against restructuring. The move by APC is seen as a response to the calls for the restructuring of Nigeria in the wake of agitation…
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For the nearly two and half years of being in office, President Buhari’s leadership has been considerably fledging. The president is been continuously challenged from all directions, by even members of his governing party and cabinet. Over this period, his popularity has visibly ebbed and waned; and public support for his government has correspondingly crumbled and dwindled significantly. He has greatly demoralized his supporters who are daily growing disappointed and frustrated, and compatibly energized his opponents who are increasingly becoming vindicated and emboldened. The reason for this unpleasant trend is that his regime has so far failed to make any…
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The biggest lie we’ve told ourselves as a people is that colonialism ended in Nigeria in 1960. Nothing can be further from the truth than this. Colonialism never ended as far as this country is concerned. It only got repackaged in a coded but deadlier form and the baton passed from external colonial masters to the Internal ones. The major difference being that the internal colonial masters are now running the country like a jungle, not even a Zoo. What happened in 1960 was the official hand over of the colonial staff to the Hausa/Fulanis to continue from where the…
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President Muhammadu Buhari is not innocent as people make him. They say he may not be as corrupt and flamboyant as the other presidents but he never spent many years in power as the others until now and we are beginning to see it as it is now that he has spent more than two years in office. His ardent supporters almost always try to shift the blame to others exonerating him from all responsibilities when he is responsible for everything. As a president you are responsible for the running of the nation. This whole NNPC scandal exposed by Ibe…
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“Every reasonable person watching affairs in Nigeria, would likely conclude that the greatest issue in Igboland today, is neither the much-advertised Second Niger Bridge nor the nightmare people go through to access federal roads in the area, because of their impassable nature. Certainly, these are huge problems that raise concerns of monumental proportion. But they pale into insignificance when laid side by side with the question of locating the place of the Igbo man in Nigeria’s socio-political architecture, and which, more recently because of Biafra and all the concomitant attachments thereto, has now assumed a new meaning, having become, somewhat,…
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The sum involved in the NNPC scandal is $25 Billion. Less than 10% percent of that ($2 billion) is involved in the so called armsgate fund allegedly converted by the former NSA for which hundreds of Nigerians mostly PDP officials and members have been arrested and hounded. Nigerians can now see the hypocrisy in the so called anti-corruption fight. We may as well say that the privileged class of APC members enjoys total immunity from the anti-corruption campaign. Tired of this double-faced corruptions fight and cover ups we demand an immediate commencement of investigation into this latest exposed sleaze by…
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Corruption has given birth to quadruplets or quadrupled in Nigeria since the inception of the Buhari/Osinbajo Administration in late May 2015. It has also made the Buhari/Osinbajo Administration a meddlesome interloper in matters of the fight against corruption in the country. In other words, the central Administration is an imposter in the anti corruption crusade in Nigeria. As a matter of fact, corruption which traditionally and globally has its root in immorality or integrity decadence is the very foundation upon which the Administration was founded. From the composition of the present Administration and its Political Party to its policies, actions…
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It’s painful that Joe Igbokwe has continued to use his intellectual gift negatively against his compatriots. Even when he reluctantly pretends to advise them, he turns it upside down or he dishes out an opinion that is against history and completely false. I want Mr Igbokwe to note that Igbos have always played good politics in Nigeria right from the beginning and they are still doing very well. The last two years of the current administration which has appeared very hostile and deliberately sidelining of Ndigbo can never be a referendum of Igbo performance in Nigeria politics. No ethnic president…
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Perhaps, President Muhammadu Buhari’s only selling point in the run up to the 2015 election was his trumpeted integrity, incorruptibility and anti-corruption credentials. Consequently, upon ascending the president, Buhari set the war against corruption as its core mission in government. Rightly, during the President’s inauguration, the President declared that if Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria. He even went ahead to set up a Presidential Advisory Council on Corruption, headed by an eminent lawyer and professor to help with studies of the nature of corruption and advise the administration how best to tackle the scourge. Of course,…
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Western Nigeria obtained independence from the British in 1957. Similarly, Eastern Nigeria obtained independence in 1957. While Northern Nigeria obtained independence in 1959. It was the Federal government that obtained independence in 1960. Those three regions operated like three different countries at the time – each with its own Constitution, foreign embassies, etc. It was the military coup of 1966 led by Major Nzeogwu, (although it was General Aguiyi Ironsi who eventually became the Head of State) that led to this unitary system in which everything is now controlled from Abuja and the regions/states can no longer develop at their…
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It is very unfortunate that the Public Affairs Division led by Mr. Ndu Ughamadu the Group General Manager would take up time to portray loyalty to his boss to protect his job but ended up communicating absolute rubbish in the public space. In his write-up, he wrote that the law and the rules do not require a review or discussion with the Minister of State or the NNPC board on contractual matters “what is required is the processing and approval of contracts by NNPC tenders Board, the President in his executive capacity as or Petroleum Minister as the case may…
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Nigeria’s main oppositon party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is on a quest for rebirth having been miraculously rescusitated from its near interment state, all thanks to the surgical intervention of the Supreme Court. Now hope is renewed that the party can indeed fulfil its role as the main opposition party or even a viable alternative to the ruling government. The PDP is quite in a weird position as an opposition party for the first time since its creation in 1998. This very much explains the conflagration it has suffered since losing its hold on the power at the center.…
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PDP remains the best party.. Sen Achonu. Describes the APC state government as the worst in history.
Senator Athan Achonu has described the Peoples Democratic Party PDP as the best party in Nigeria and called on Nigerians to join the party. Speaking to newsmen in Abuja, Sen Achonu declared that PDP is a responsible and a truly national party. He further described the party as firmly united under Senator Ahmed makarfi and Barr Charles Ezekwem the Imo state chairman, while calling on those who still find themselves outside the party to join hands with the Ezekwem led exco to move the party forward. He condemned any attempt to create factions in the party and urged all aggrieved…
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PRESS STATEMENT. October 11, 2017. $5.5 billion loan: Buhari Is mortgaging our children’s future. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) receive with shock, the Plan by the Government of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to plunge Nigeria into further debt, and consciously mortgage the Future of our unborn generations through needless and mindless borrowing of the Sum of $5.5 Billion USD. 2. Like other well meaning Nigerians, we consider this new bid for a foreign loan of $5.5 billion being sought by the Administration of President Buhari as an attempt to push the Nation down into the black hole of debt…
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http://dailypost.ng/2017/09/29/ipob-nigeria-must-use-dialogue-not-military-option-us-insist/
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https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/245518-aisha-buhari-attacks-management-of-aso-rock-clinic.html
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https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/245599-updated-buhari-writes-senate-seeks-approval-for-3-billion-external-loan.html
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https://www.channelstv.com/2017/10/09/breaking-aisha-buhari-calls-for-probe-of-state-house-medical-centre/
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The attention of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been drawn to the act of illegality perpetrated on the Floor of the House of Representatives today (Thursday) by two members of the Parliament who were elected on the Platform of our Party. 2. We wish to announce to all Nigerians that the PDP as a Party, do not have any crisis nor do we have any division within the leadership structure of our Party which could justify the Decision of the Two House of Representatives Members to jump ship. 3. In the light of this, we wish…
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http://saharareporters.com/2017/10/09/kachikwu-met-only-aides-not-buhari-during-aso-rock-visit-friday-sources-0
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http://thenigerialawyer.com/agbakoba-sues-fg-over-non-inclusion-of-seast-zone-in-nnpc-board/
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Corruption has given birth to quadruplets or quadrupled in Nigeria since the inception of the Buhari/Osinbajo Administration in late May 2015. It has also made the Buhari/Osinbajo Administration a meddlesome interloper in matters of the fight against corruption in the country. In other words, the central Administration is an imposter in the anti corruption crusade in Nigeria. As a matter of fact, corruption which traditionally and globally has its root in immorality or integrity decadence is the very foundation upon which the Administration was founded. From the composition of the present Administration and its Political Party to its policies, actions…
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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/nepotism-mother-corruption/
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wishes to express our shock at the loud silence of President Muhammadu Buhari on the humongous corruption scandal and other illegalities currently being exposed at the nation’s cash cow, the NNPC in which two of his henchmen, the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu and the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Maikanti Baru are the dramatis personae. 2. As a political party, we expect that the President, who prides himself as an indefatigable corruption fighter, would for once try to live above board, by genuinely allowing one of his own, accused of corruption,…
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The Governors of the South-East and South-South States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria met in Owerri, Imo State on Sunday, October 8, 2017, to discuss and take a position on certain issues common to the interests of the States in the Nation’s affairs. The meeting which was chaired by Mr. Udom Emmanuel Governor of Akwa Ibom State, had in attendance 8 Governors and 1 Deputy Governor. Other Governors present at the meeting were Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, Governor Seriake…
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https://m.guardian.ng/news/huriwa-urges-buhari-to-declare-armed-herdsmen-as-terrorists/
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The truth is: Unless Nigeria is redefined to become “Our Project” instead of the Criminal Enterprise it had been from 1914 when the British cobbled it together for their own Commercial Interests, to when in 1960, their Local Agents, the Fulani were coronated to run it as a British/Caliphate Joint Venture, to now, when subsidiaries have been conscripted into the Criminal Enterprise from all over the Country by virtue of Fraudulent Unitary Constitution, the Nigeria defined by that Fraudulent Constitution 1999 is not “Our Project”. The Self-Evident “We” versus “Them” reality that manifest in virtually all spheres, Horizontal and Vertical,…
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LET THE SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SOUTH NOT BE OUR ENIGMA – The tale of two regions. By Donald Ekpo.
A former Head of State, now President once said that “An Attack on Boko Haram was a war against the North”. And here was a Boko Haram that did not just make threats, but took to the guns, IPDs, APGs AAGs, rocket missiles, shot down our Jet Fighters, raised flags and even killed the civilian populations in their numbers.. – And you know what? 80% of northerners, even the Christians the Boko Haram were killing joined force to make sure Jonathan was removed to save them from the military occupation. In Kaduna, a lady working with us in the elections…
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On October 1, 2017, a very brief post lightly circulated on Facebook. I didn’t really take it seriously even though I made some comprehensive comments under some two different names that carried it. However, as days went by, I kept seeing the post re-circulated and shared to the extent of meeting it again in a Whatsapp group. Initially, I was overwhelmed by the volume of ignorant takes that trailed the post. In fact, in one of the posts where I commented in my effort to educate folks, I was ridiculed but I was firm enough to engage the disagreeing interlocutors…
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For the nearly two and half years of being in office, President Buhari’s leadership has been considerably fledging. The president is been continuously challenged from all directions, by even members of his governing party and cabinet. Over this period, his popularity has visibly ebbed and waned; and public support for his government has correspondingly crumbled and dwindled significantly. He has greatly demoralized his supporters who are daily growing disappointed and frustrated, and compatibly energized his opponents who are increasingly becoming vindicated and emboldened. The reason for this unpleasant trend is that his regime has so far failed to make any…
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https://breaking.com.ng/nigerianews2017/former-imo-deputy-governor-jude-agbaso-loses-wife/
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41523250?ocid=wsnews.chat-apps.in-app-msg.whatsapp.trial.link1_.auin
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In this interview with COLLINS OSUJI, Deputy Editor/Political Reporter of Nigerian Horn and other seasoned journalists, the maverick legal practitioner bares his mind on certain issues that concerns NBA in the state and on the expectation of every lawyer in the state. Who is Barr. Lawsrence Nwakaeti? Mr Lawrence Nwakaeki is an Imo State based legal practitioner and currently the chairman NBA Owerri branch, the mother branch of Imo state NBA chapter. Ok sir NBA Imo state chapter has been a strong voice against some state government actions, but recently on the news the government donated a new bus to…
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http://newsexpressngr.com/news/44546
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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/group-holds-town-hall-meeting-igbo-presidency/
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https://m.guardian.ng/news/u-s-slams-military-option-in-resolving-nigerias-conflicts/
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Reno Omokri, former special assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has reacted to Prof. Itse Sagay’s comments about the All Progressive Congress (APC). APC leadership during the week described Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption, PACAC, as an “arrogant and rogue elephant.”In a post on Facebook post yesterday, Omokri warned President Muhammadu that he is surrounded by hypocrites.He added that Sagay’s comments about the APC had finally confirmed his fears about those leading the APC. He wrote: “When I responded to the All Progressive Congress’ National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi’s, attack on the record of the People Democratic…
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Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in 1904(was 10years old when the 1914 treaty was signed) Obafemi Awolowo was born in 1909(was 5years old when the 1914 treaty was signed) Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was born in 1912(was 2years old before it was signed) Ahmadu Bello was born in 1910(was 4years old before it was signed) Michael Okpara was born in 1920(the treaty has been signed 6years before he was born) Who and who signed these papers on 1914 and called it amalgamation of the Northern Region and Southern Region, that we shall live together as one family without War, Marginalization, Conflict of…
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Nigeria journalist petitions ICC over Nigeria Army invasion of South-East. A Nigerian journalist has written a petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over human rights abuses, torture and extra-judicial killing perpetrated by members of the Nigeria Army during the recent invasion of a community in the South-East region. In a letter dated September 24, 2017 addressed to the Chief Prosecutor of the court in the Hagues, Fatou Bensouda and addressed to the Information and Evidence Unit, Mr. Ahaoma Kanu, a multiple award winning journalist, called on the court to intervene and stop the unlawful deployment of soldiers by the…
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05hc1lf
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The South East Executive Committee of the Party held today at the Government House Enugu, further reaffirmed the ratification of the National Convention of the party at the non elective congress held on the 12th of August 2017. Citing the constitution of the Party the South East Zonal Chairman informed the meeting that IMO Exco. having been dully ratified at a National Convention remains the anouthentic State Exco. He therefore called on all members of the Party in Imo State to rally round the Ezekwem led Exco. A position the National Secretary, Senator Ben Obi confirmed. The Meeting which was…
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Pilots are not drivers and drivers are not sailors. Every drivable machine has a driving technique and requires skill and alone those that has the skill are qualified and allowed to sail ships in the ocean. When drivers are handed over ship to sail, then know it that the ship’s sinking time has arrived.This is a case study of IMO, my dear state. The sole reason behind the accident that befell IMO of today,is the mistake of mistakenly giving a car driver of no driving license,a ship to sail in the midst of great sailors under the umbrella,PDP. Its on…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South East geopolitical zone has endorsed the party’s zoning arrangement, which zoned the office of the President to the North and that of the National Chairman to the Southern part of Nigeria. Rising from a meeting of the Zonal Executive Committee of the party held in Enugu, the South East PDP reiterated its commitment to national unity and also reaffirmed the party’s earlier agreement on the zoning of party positions allotted to the South East in respect of the forthcoming elective National Convention. Presenting a communiqué after the meeting, which was well attended…
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Ikemba Okigwe the people’s Chairman who spoke during the Imo PDP women conference held at PDP secretariat #98 Okigwe road Owerri Imo State, on Friday 28th Sept, 2017. Said the women block is the most vital and reliable community in electioneering campaigns and politicking at large, in his word “I am so passionate about women and their activities because they are the only crop of people when they are with you, you are rest assured”. He harped on them to continue in their mobilizations, sensitisations and awareness programmes across the state, that they are one of the strong resort for…
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The entire national day broadcast by PMB on the occasion of Nigeria’s 57th independence is quite disappointing in all ramifications.It was very unpresidential and unreconciliatoty. PMB left the real issues and pursued triffles. The speech was bereft of nobility of statesmanship,and devoid of a calm grasp and appraisals of the dire straits Nigeria is currently in. The broadcast was rabidly narcistic, parochial, nepotic and clanish,as it failed to see anything wrong with the blatant and well reported threats by the Arewa youths to quit fellow Nigerians from their domains. The speech followed his now well worn out fixation of perceived…
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https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/28/brexit-catalonia-referendums-anger-politics
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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/anambra-guber-nnewi-monarch-igwe-orizu-endorses-chidoka/
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http://globalsentinelng.com/2017/10/02/forgotten-martyred-enugu-coal-miners-accelerated-nigerias-independence/
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https://www.naij.com/1127787-us-advocates-dialogue-resolving-nigerias-conflicts.html?utm_source=mailfire&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=online_pusher#1127787
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https://www.naij.com/1128058-former-aviation-minister-urges-federal-government-lift-ban-ipob.html#1128058
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http://globalsentinelng.com/2017/09/21/op-ed-leadership-curse-south-east/
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http://dailypost.ng/2017/10/01/nigeria-57-presidents-speech-reveals-deep-seated-grudges-unmitigated-hatred-igbos-huriwa/?utm_source=dlvr.it_dp1&utm_medium=twitter
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http://punchng.com/breaking-national-electricity-grid-records-total-collapse-tcn/
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https://www.google.com/amp/dailypost.ng/2017/09/25/biafra-ipob-nnamdi-kanu-terrorists-presidency-replies-eu-us/amp/
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Protocols. Let me begin by extending my deep sense of gratitude to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, for inviting me to participate in this current series of discussions on, Next Generation Nigeria: Accountability and National Cohesion. The involvement of this reputable British Institute in discussing and proffering suggestions for extant Nigeria’s problems is not only commendable, but I believe most relieving for the British establishment, who must understandably feel a deep sense of vicarious responsibility for putting together a country confronted with such grim future. Nigeria became a united British colony by the amalgamation of its Northern and Southern…
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http://www.lnc-usa.org/blog/ipob-directorate-of-state-takes-on-chief-nwodo-for-his-stance-in-bbc-interview/
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I believe the Igbo should have their Biafra because I find no single positive reason why we must live as one nation while other people closer to us than the Igbo are having separate nations. As a man without colonial mentality, I do not allow colonial hangover to becloud my reason. There is already Biafra. No Hausa dares dream of going to the east for whatever reason. So where is the One Nigeria? Is it not better to make the separation formal so that we can trade freely and and even send ambassadors? Can’t you see how we ralate with…
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An Igbo proverb goes that, Ijiji ne nweghi onye ndumodu n’eso ozu ana. (The fly that ignores wise counsel always ends up at the grave with the corpse). That is where Nigeria finds itself today with President Muhammadu Buhari . Rather than embrace simple dialogue , as canvassed by well-meaning Nigerians , Buhari chose to attend to the current Biafran crisis by brute force . Not unexpectedly, human casualties ensued , thereby swelling global sympathy for Biafra . To douse the current, Buhari quickly proscribed the Biafran youths as terrorists . As if that singular act lacks in folly, the…
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Greetings, Your Excellencies, the governors of the land of the Rising Sun. It is with a heart burdened with sorrow that I write you today to register my grave displeasure over your criminal complicity in the woes of the people you purport to preside over. With your permissions, Your Excellencies, I will like to start this piece with questions which have dug a very deep hole in my heart for a very long time and the questions are: Whose interests are you representing as governors? Where does your loyalty lie? Why does it seem like your dominant default instinct is…
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http://saharareporters.com/2017/09/25/2017-biafran-massacre-silent-queen-england-and-her-ferocious-african-dictators-b-u-nwosu
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https://www.google.com/amp/dailypost.ng/2017/09/24/biafra-ipob-hails-saraki-igbo-lawmakers-begs-senate-probe-nigerian-army/amp/
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https://www.naij.com/1126946-igbo-group-drags-buhari-buratai-icc-killing-ipob-members.html
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http://dailypost.ng/2017/09/25/ipob-igbo-youths-threaten-shut-southeast
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http://punchng.com/restructuring-it-wont-be-easy-for-north-to-give-up-its-advantages-says-nef/
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Source: BREAKING: Islamist Plot To Plant Arms On And Arrest Bishop Oyedepo, Apostle Suleman Exposed (DETAILS)
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https://www.naij.com/1127189-why-north-accept-restructuring-northern-chieftain.html
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https://www.naij.com/1127206-apc-a-chance-vehicle-pdp-chieftain.html
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https://www.naij.com/1127143-ipob-macban-frowns-sarakis-statement-calls-probe.html
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Your struggle speaks directly to the subject of the national question – Reuben Abati to Nnamdi Kanu.
https://www.naij.com/1127165-your-struggle-speaks-subject-national-question-reuben-abati-nnamdi-kanu-opin.html
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-tells-customers-direct-your-anger-at-uber-as-500k-back-calls-for-ban-to-be-reversed-a3641911.html
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reimagining-the-nigerian-federation-the-igbo-peoples-perspective-tickets-38063932246?ref=estw
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http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59c9680de4b08d66155044ff
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http://independent.ng/breaking-reps-wade-ipob-crisis-revisit-devolution-power/
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http://realnewsmagazine.net/business/fg-releases-n336bn-capital-funds-mdas-q1-2017/
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http://realnewsmagazine.net/business/cbn-retains-interest-rate-14-2/
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https://dailytimes.ng/politics/senate-knocks-buharis-govt-poor-funding-2017-budget/amp/
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https://dailytimes.ng/headlines/buharis-health-private-even-if-nigeria-paying-says-lai-mohammed/amp/
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https://dailytimes.ng/headlines/nigerian-senate-stop-380bn-capital-flight-oil-gas-sector/amp/
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https://dailytimes.ng/health/unicef-blame-fg-putting-children-risk-development/amp/
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1.1. There is nothing like military democracy. It is democracy, pure and simple – government of the people, by the people and for the people – practicing rule of law, where the security and welfare of citizens are paramount, without discrimination of tribe religion, sex, ethnic origin etc administering justice equally between the rich and poor, the mighty and the low, the educated and the illiterate, man and woman, Muslim, Christian and traditionalists, North and South. 1.2. Armies do not arrest civilians. Police do. Armies are not stationed against a peaceful people, or demonstration. Armies intervene where it is beyond…
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The Federal Government has gazetted the order of the Federal High Court in Abuja which proscribed the Indigenous People of Biafra and designated the group as a terrorist organisation. The gazetting was part of the requirements imposed on the Federal Government by the court to finalise the proscription of the group. The Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Abdu Kafarati, had, on September 20, issued the proscription order upon an ex parte application by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN). Justice Kafarati, who heard the AGF’s motion in chambers,…
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