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A Nigerian, Toni Iwobi has become the first coloured senator elected in Italy and will be the only black parliamentarian in the next legislature, according to Yahoo News. Iwobi from Nigeria is an IT Expert with a company that provides assistance on hardware and software for both private and public bodies. He has been living in Italy since the ’70s, long after leaving the shores of Nigeria. He was elected in the industrial city of Brescia in northern Italy. “Friends, it is with great emotion that I inform you that I was elected senator of the Republic!” he said in…
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That everyone exists for a purpose cannot be overemphasized but rather the burning issue should be on how many people have actually known and realized their true purpose for existence – and as many that have done, what proportion has taken conscious steps towards fulfilling them without fear or favour? Thus the question: “Why am I here?” What is your true mission on earth? Why do you do the things you do? What drives your passion? To live, up to this moment, is the greatest privilege of life – enjoy it. Make best use of the time. Some would have…
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A statement from the United States Government caught my attention this morning, I didn’t miss its emphasis and language, the statement said in reference to 2019 elections in Nigeria , “we are focusing on how to do a peaceful transition and a democratic transition for Nigeria”. I thought the language was unusual. Previous governments of the United States, Obama’s for example would say, “ we want to see free and fair elections in Nigeria”. Study the language closely, it is clear the Trump administration has transition at the heart of the 2019 elections. And what does transition mean, “the process…
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Now here’s a question that demands an answer. Why is it that arguably the world’s richest continent – in terms of natural resources – has some of the world’s poorest people? To answer it, we’d need to take a trip down memory lane. Already I can sense you rolling your eyes deep into the back of your head. “If I hear one more time about slavery in Africa …” We often seem to be a people with little patience for history or interest in the impact of past events on present realities. But time isn’t linear and we aren’t always…
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Those who do not yet understand that Nigeria is the name of a scam, set up, first by rogue British Colonialists, but currently under the control of their local agents, the Caliphate, operated for the sole purpose of legitimately looting and carting away humongous values of assets, will continue to wonder why bizzare things happen here all the time. Those who think that we operate in democracy here, must be ignorant of the meaning of Democracy, even by the simplest definition of democracy “Government OF the people, BY the the people and FOR the people”. Nigeria does not pass the…
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The United States government has spoken on the upcoming general elections in Nigeria. The US said the 2019 general elections was its priority focus, and vowed to work towards achieving a peaceful transition. America’s Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, said this while doing a background briefing on his planned trip to Africa from Tuesday. He said the United States recognizes that Nigeria would be the third most populous country in the world by 2050, and as such was worried about the complex political issues and ethnic and tribal issues and security issues it is currently contending with. He said, “As…
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This is the same Boko Haram that they told us had been “technically defeated” two years ago and whose leader, Abubakar Shekau, they claimed to have killed a number of times over the last three years but who keeps popping up all over the place like a bad coin. This is the same Boko Haram that they took 1 billion USD from government coffers a few weeks ago and claimed that they wanted to use it to fight. The truth is that they have told us yet another lie and anyone that believes the fanciful tale that the money was…
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The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State Chapter, has been drawn to the unwarranted and satanic assault on His Grace Archbishop Anthony J. V. Obinna, the Archbishop of Owerri Catholic Archdiocese, by officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State. The infamous attack which was not the first on the Archbishop and the Catholic Church by same agents of the Imo State Government occurred during a requiem mass for the late mother of Chief Alex Mbata held at St. Michael Catholic Church, Ngwoma, Obube Owerri North LGA, Imo State and…
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President Jonathan replies buhari. I have just read President Buhari’s speech to the All Progressive Congress members who visited him at the Presidential Villa on Monday the 26th of February, 2018. It is rather unfortunate that a man who once deceived the nation with his fabled ‘integrity’ can descend so low as to spew forth very obvious lies and a revision of history. If nothing else justifies the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index rating which revealed that corruption in Nigeria has worsened under President Buhari, this latest Presidential Speech does. In psyching up the APC for 2019, the President, obviously…
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Before he died in 2015, the late Professor Stephen Ellis wrote his last book titled ‘This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime’. Going through this book left me with several thoughts, most of them unpleasant. It is a fascinating read covering, not just organised crime, but the evolution of the Nigerian state (or maybe they are the same thing?). At any rate, I want to share 8 random things I found interesting in the book and I will leave you to draw your own conclusions. 1. In 1947, late Chief Obafemi Awolowo wrote that “Corruption is the greatest…
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IT IS TIME! Dear citizens of Nigeria, today, we have come to announce to you the commencement of a new era. We have come to let you know that, the generation we have been waiting for has arrived. The hour is now upon us to query the conditions of our polity. As we do this, we must consider how we began our journey and be brave enough to chart a better course where we find necessary. This is the most crucial time in the life of our nation and, whatever we decide now may well determine our trajectory and our…
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IT IS TIME! As we get ready to embark on this mission to create a better society, let us consider what we have been told; it has been said that, there is a national cake big enough to go round and that everyone could get a piece of it. However, it would be wise for us to demonstrate an informed sense and not deceive ourselves into thinking that the national cake is big enough for everybody. The truth is that, the cake will not be enough because, it is exhaustible. Our country’s unpleasant situation at the moment is testament that,…
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THE COUNCIL OF SEVEN IT IS TIME! As we deliberate with our peers in seeking solution to the Nigerian problem, we have been asked by cynics to stop wasting our time. They say that, the youths will never be allowed to administer governance to this nation, that it will always be an elusive opportunity. But we will not allow the cynics’ opinions become our reality. Our destiny is in our own hands. Let us decide now that, we will no longer agree to remain stagnated nor pushed backwards by old, retrograde ideologies. We are now required to move forward with…
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I brought it to the attention of PDP chairman Prince Uche Secondus on his facebook page, the need to stop APC from registering minors for the 2019 election and the need for PDP to use the 2014 Confab report as a tool for campaign. Now, over 40 million votes has been secured for PMB by INEC before the 2019 elections via registration of minors and foreigners. This will deal a devastating blow on the opposition in the coming elections if nothing is done about it. Yes, Prince Uche Secondus condemned the non-inclusive 8 man panel set-up by INEC to investigate…
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Tunde Bakare, the serving overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), says he cannot comprehend what President Muhammadu Buhari and 22 state governors were doing at the Kano wedding, while 110 Dapchi schoolgirls are still in captivity. On Saturday, at least 22 governors convereged on Kano, to celebrate the wedding of Idris Ajimobi and Fatima Ganduje, offsprings of Abiola Ajimobi, and Ibrahim Ganduje, governors of Oyo and Kano states, respectively. Also in attendance was the president, and high-ranking members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), including Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos state. Bakare says the wedding, which came two…
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“No-one is more hated than he who speaks truth”- Plato. These deeply profound and insighful words of Plato, Ancient Greece’s greatest and most reverred philospher, who was a student of the great Socrates and a teacher of the great Aristotle, are as true today as they were in 400 BC when he wrote them. You will not read the following account about President Muhammadu Buhari’s so-called “war against terror” in Nigeria’s mainstream media because they have mostly been compromised and intimidated by the Federal Government. You can however read it in this two-part essay if you are interested in knowing…
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Chairman of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiatives(PCNI), Gen Theophilus Y. Danjuma (rtd) and former military President, Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd) Thursday met for a crucial but secret security meeting. The meeting held at the IBB Hill Top Villa in Minna, Niger State. None of the camps has revealed to the media details of the meeting which lasted for hours. It was gathered that the parley may not be unconnected with recent developments in Nigeria. These include the Boko Haram resurgence; herdsmen/farmers clashes resulting to numerous killings in Taraba, the home state of Danjuma, Benue, Plateau and other…
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Mr. Gwnfor Evans MP, the great Welsh politician, lawyer and author and the leader of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, for no less than 36 years before he passed on in 2005, made the following historic and profound observation many years ago. He said, “‘Britishness’ is a political synonym for ‘Englishness’ which extends the English culture over the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish”. As a student of English and European history and one that was not only trained and educated by the British from the age of 7 but that is also highly conversant with their system and…
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Perhaps the most insightful and concise contribution that I have read about the history of the Fulani and their inordinate ambition and insatiable thirst for domination and conquest was provided by Mr. Gbonkas Ebiri. His research and analysis of this topic is as historically accurate as it is outstanding. Permit me to share his words. “Kingdoms that accommodated Fulani herdsmen in the past were eventually overthrown by the Fulani. In all situations, these herdsmen took up arms and fought for a Fulani leader to overthrow the kingdoms that accommodated them and their cattle. Examples in history: The first Fulani Jihad…
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Any discerning mind who listened to Governor Rochas Okorocha recently when he was talking on how the APC Governors have been asked by the Presidency to set up campaign councils in their zones, will immediately know where the governor is heading to. He wants to make himself the emperor of the South East in the name of campaigning for President Muhammadu Buhari. Although the Presidency through the spokesman, Femi Adesina has debunked the claim that a Director General has been appointed with campaign councils, for the purpose of re-electing Buhari, the people of the South East, especially those in the…
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A gathering of pro-democracy and civil rights groups in the five states of the South-East geopolitical zone under the auspices of Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights & Good Governance Organizations, SBCHROs, has published the result of its fieldwork which returned Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state as the Worst Serving Governor in the South-East. The exhaustive project also singled out the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the most unpopular and unfriendly federal government among the people of the South-East, as it named the Nigerian army and its 82 Division in Enugu as the most atrocious security organization in…
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The peace moves in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have run into a hitch, with the chief peace maker, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, accusing the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, of frustrating the reconciliation efforts. He said the chairman had compounded the challenge of reconciliation by taking “improper unilateral decisions” on issues affecting national and state chapters. Tinubu added that Odigie-Oyegun had refused to cooperate by delaying the release of information critical to the resolution of crises in state chapters. The former Lagos State Governor made the observations in a February 21 letter to Odigie-Oyegun, titled: “Actions and conduct…
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Geneticists claim rising cases of deceptions, infidelity and adultery among couples have made the need to popularize Deoxyribonucleic Acid testing otherwise known as DNA test inevitable, BUKOLA ADEBAYO writes Deoxyribonucleic Acid, also known as DNA testing is still not a very popular procedure in Nigeria. However, experts say there is a need to increase awareness on the dynamics of the test . The importance of DNA testing came to the fore after a Dana plane crashed in Lagos on June 3 killing all 153 passengers including crew members on board and others on ground. Most of the bodies were burnt…
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Imo State is said to be the fifth richest State in Nigeria, blessed with abundant mineral and natural resources; blessed with favourable physical environment and human resources. Since the creation of the State in 1976, successive administrations have undertaken various developmental planners, policies and projects, either aiming at reviving or restructuring the economy to generate revenues for the state and also create employment opportunities for the teaming population of the unemployed. Most of these stood and produced the desired results during the eras of their initiators and immediate successors and later either become quasi-effective or moribund. These administrations failed due…
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A comprehensive expose on how elections are rigged in the country has been unveiled by one of the insiders in the political process and former Cross River State Governor, Mr. Donald Duke. Last Wednesday at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Duke gave a blow by blow account to a gathering of pro-democracy advocates, including the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), of the modus operandi of State Chief Executives and Resident Electoral Commissioners to thwart the mandate of the electorate, not just in states controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but all the others. In his opinion, it is not just a…
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Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, says he should be examined by a psychiatrist if he joins the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) masterminded by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo recommended the coalition in a letter he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari in January. The elder statesman had asked Nigerians to rally round the movement, saying neither the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) nor the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) could give Nigeria the leadership it deserves. But speaking in an interview with BBC Yoruba, Soyinka said the coalition is not meant for someone like him. “Me? Obasanjo would establish a group and I…
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Nigeria’s leading carrier, Air Peace on Friday set a new record with the arrival of its newly acquired Boeing B777-200 aircraft, becoming the first and only Nigerian airline to procure and register the brand of airliner in the country. The development is coming weeks after the airline took delivery of two Embraer 145 aircraft on January 31 and February 9 respectively and made history with the setting up a subsidiary, Air Peace Hopper to organise its short-haul operations in line with its no-city-left-behind project. The 274-capacity aircraft, which touched down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 3.45…
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The clash between the Sultan of Sokoto Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III and Kaduna State Governor Nasiru El-Rufa’i over 2019 was the reason behind the boycott of the Kaduna Centenary celebration by northern governors and some prominent traditional rulers, this newspaper reliably gathered. Multiple sources at the Kaduna Centenary secretariat told our correspondents that the anniversary was almost sabotaged by the Sokoto monarch, who is the spiritual head of Nigerian Muslims over irreconcilable differences with the Kaduna state governor over 2019 presidential elections. “The fact remains that the northern traditional rulers, the state governors are sharply divided over the 2019 presidential…
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Imo State is said to be the fifth richest State in Nigeria, blessed with abundant mineral and natural resources; blessed with favourable physical environment and human resources. Since the creation of the State in 1976, successive administrations have undertaken various developmental planners, policies and projects, either aiming at reviving or restructuring the economy to generate revenues for the state and also create employment opportunities for the teaming population of the unemployed. Most of these stood and produced the desired results during the eras of their initiators and immediate successors and later either become quasi-effective or moribund. These administrations failed due…
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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*. First is to reckon that the Caliphate-Imposed *”1999 Constitution”* to which the winner of any Election in 2019 will *Swear Allegiance* and by which he/she *Will Govern,* is the very instrument by which the Caliphate *Legitimize the Enslavement of the rest of Nigeria.* Many here would not know that this Constitution was commissioned in 1975 by the *”Butcher of Asaba”* himself, Murtala…
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Without the North, Nigeria and Nigerians would be reduced to nonentities. In 2005, Goldman Sachs Investment Bank forecast that Nigeria will be the 20th largest economy in the world by 2025 and the 12th largest by 2050; ahead of Italy, Canada and South Korea. Having identified Brazil, Russia, India and China as four emergent powerhouses of the world economy referred to as the BRICS; it included Nigeria among “the Next Eleven” countries of Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Turkey, and Vietnam. At the U.S.-Nigeria Trade and Investment Forum organised by the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation…
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Tinubu made the allegation in a letter written to the president, vice-president, senate president and speaker of the house of representatives and dated February 21, 2018, reports online news platform, TheCable. President Muhammadu Buhari had appointed Tinubu to reconcile aggrieved members of the APC, but the former governor accused Odigie-Oyegun of contravening the spirit of the discussions both of them had at the party secretariat when Buhari gave him the assignment. Tinubu’s letter read in part, “Disappointment greeted me when I discovered that you had swiftly acted in contravention of the spirit of our discussions. Instead of being a bulwark…
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Northern Elders Forum appoints new leaders, condemns insecurity in the country – A meeting was held by the Northern Elders Forum to discuss some critical issues. – Lamenting the state of insecurity in the country, the Forum condemned kilings going on in the north and other parts of Nigeria – It promised to work to ensure that peace returns to the north and to Nigeria The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) held an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday, February 21, in Abuja, to deliberate on critical issues concerning the organization and the nation. At the end of deliberations, NEF approved the new…
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In the run up to the 2015 General Elections, the All Progressive Congress (APC) hired a vicious media propaganda team with the objective of misleading Nigerians, planting concocted stories about opponents and destroying the foundations of the growth of Nigeria. They achieved this ugly goal. Through high level political blackmail and propaganda, the APC was able to gain control of the Federal Government, majority of states and the National Assembly. One of the key tools in the APC Propaganda Machine ahead of the 2015 General Election and in 2018 is Daily Trust Newspaper. This newspaper was key to plunging Nigeria…
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The Devil is most successful amongst people who believe he does not exist. That is the situation around this debate of whether or not there are Masters and Slaves in the Nigeria of now. Those who reduce everything to spurious academic arguments and vacuous postulations are at liberty to amuse themselves but there are some of us who already have the monster enslaving Eastern Nigeria in a pinfall and chokehold and there will be no letting until that monster is fully dead and interred, thereby freeing its many Captives starting with Eastern Nigeria. That monster is called “One-Nigeria”. HERE ARE…
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The Archbishop AJV Obinna of the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri on Sunday, February 18, 2018, took a swipe at Governor Rochas Okorocha in his 2018 Lenten message to the Catholic faithful, lamenting the incessant demolition of markets and people’s properties by the Okorocha government, even as he said that Governor Okorocha is inflicting pain and suffering on the people of Imo State. The Archbishop also cried out againat what he said was anti people policies of the government, praying God to console the people in the face of biting hardship and poverty in the state. In his letter which was…
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Buhari has found himself in exactly the same position he was in 1983 before he was overthrown by Babangida. His sectarian agenda has stalled as marginalised and terrorised communities brace to defend themselves in the face of failure of the police to safeguard them. Buhari is not criticised because he is Fulani. Those who are insinuating that Buhari’s critics are motivated by sectarian reasons, are either partisan or uninformed to say the least. It is both disingenuous and preposterous to suggest so. Buhari is lambasted because of his nepotistic attitude, incompetence and his failure to act honestly, fairly, decisively and…
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Gentlemen of the press, We have invited you today to address very critical issues of urgent national importance and to once again alert Nigerians of the heinous plot being hatched by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled Federal Government to further beguile the people and perpetrate more harm on our dear nation. 1. INEC As you are aware, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been indicted for registering and issuing permanent voters card (PVCs) to millions of underage persons, particularly in Kano and Katsina states respectively. You are also aware that it took a press statement from the PDP and…
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Nigerian Breweries Plc has announced its results for the 2017 operating year with a dividend recommendation of N33 billion to its shareholders. The recommendation, which amounts to a total dividend of N4.13 (four Naira thirteen kobo) per share for the 2017 operating year was part of the company’s filing to The Nigerian Stock Exchange on Thursday, 15th February 2018. The recommended dividend is inclusive of interim dividend of N8 billion, which is N1.00 (one naira only) per share earlier paid by the company in November 2017. In the company statement signed by the Company Secretary/Legal Adviser, Nigerian Breweries Plc, Mr.…
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Former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha has flayed members of the Imo state House of Assembly over their reported rejection of the proposed amendment Bill seeking financial autonomy for the Local Governments. The Bill was forwarded to all the 36 State Assemblies by the National Assembly for their concurrence as part of the process of altering some identified clauses in the Constitution. The National Assembly had proposed an amendment to the Constitutional provision that hitherto guarantees State Joint Local Government Accounts. The amendment Bill which was opposed by Imo lawmakers sought that the joint account be…
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NATURE OF HATE SPEECHES In the aftermath of the divisions in the country caused by President Buhari’s Northernisation/ Islamisation Agenda, as manifested in his lopsided strategic appointments that unfairly favour the North as against the South, and the complete exclusion of the South-East from them, which gave rise to agitations for independent Republic of Biafra, Oduduwa Republic and Niger Delta Republic, coupled with the Quit Notice given by the Arewa Youths Coalition to Ndigbo to leave the North by October 1, 2017 – in the wake of all this came a spate of hate speeches by various individuals and groups…
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Before he died in 2015, the late Professor Stephen Ellis wrote his last book titled ‘This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime’. Going through this book left me with several thoughts, most of them unpleasant. It is a fascinating read covering, not just organised crime, but the evolution of the Nigerian state (or maybe they are the same thing?). At any rate, I want to share 8 random things I found interesting in the book and I will leave you to draw your own conclusions. 1. In 1947, late Chief Obafemi Awolowo wrote that “Corruption is the greatest…
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A massive probe to uncover how a dormant European company secured a $356 million contract during the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, has begun, Newsdiaryonline has learnt. Available facts show that a Nigerian company, Lingo Nigeria owned by Mr. Linus Ukachukwu, an Nnewi- born Abuja hotelier in partnership with an offshore company Strasky Husty and Partners were awarded a $356m contract for the rehabilitation of (Lot 3) Kuru to Maiduguri section, Nigerian Railway Corporation’s Eastern line of Calabar to Maiduguri. The contract for the Kuru Maiduguri portion of the railway project is now the subject of a probe by European investigators.The…
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Today, I consider it a great privilege as I join other patriots and crusaders of good governance, who have utilized this platform of ING lecture Series to lend their thoughts to the continuous discourse and contributions towards the advancement of our state. Its very remarkable to me, noting the fact that am the least among the apostles of good governance. Even more remarkable is the fact that I stand to make this address as a youth in my prime. Not just a youth, but a youth from the street, who grew up thinking that success in life can be attained…
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Here it is fellas, the news you’ve all been waiting for but secretly known in your heart all along: tall blokes and short women make the best partners – and this is coming from science! Move over Danny DeVito. Step aside Sir Mick and come on down Shaq, women just aren’t attracted to the smaller man! A group of researchers from Konkuk University in South Korea looked at data from 7,850 couples over an extensive period of time. Doctor Kitae Sohn noted ‘a greater height difference in a couple was positively related to the wife’s happiness’ and ‘the female preference…
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In reaction to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s promise to treat what he described as “hate speech” as terrorism Mr. Jackson Ude the publisher of Pointblank News said the following. “APC thrived on hate speech between 2014-2015. Today that seed they sowed is haunting them. They now say it’s terrorism! Don’t be deceived. APC came to power by hate speeches, divided Nigeria along ethnic and religious lines, sowed seeds of discord and blamed PDP! Hypocrites!” How apt and how courageous Mr. Ude’s assertion is. I could not have put it better myself. President Muhammadu Buhari, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, National Chairman…
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The number one terrorists in Nigeria are the Fulanis. They came like sheep to Nigeria. They had their way. They killed off all the Hausa rulers and chiefs and islamized them. Fulanis are strangers. They are different from Hausas. Hausas are indigenous. They are Nigerians. They were not Muslims. Their rulers welcomed Uthman Dan Fodio into the North from a strange land. Uthman Dan Fodio is a fulani who came with his fulani warriors. By night they planned. In the morning, the Hausas woke up to see their land burning. Their Shehus have been wiped out. All killed and Emirs…
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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, is…
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“Before pointing accusing fingers to the Igbos who didn’t declare war on Ikwerre land, i want you to tell me how come the Ijaws became land owners in P.H when the rivers were our boundaries prior to the civil war? How come the Northerner who claimed to be fighting for you ended up hijacking the same resources they accused Igbos of planning to take away from us? Are the northerners and Yorubas still not in charge of our resources ? Who emptied the oil wells in Ikwerre land? Igbos, Northerners or Yorubas? Didn’t Ken Saro Wiwa accuse Ijaws of hijacking…
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It will take some time for Buharimaniacs to realize that, in a democracy, there is nothing definitive about the outcome of an election. When an election has been concluded, those who opposed the winner are not required to shut up or go into exile. They are required to go into opposition. Those who opposed the winner are not defeated. As a matter of fact, their opposition may be justified subsequently by the actions and inactions of the winner. In his six months in office, President Buhari has done little to change the view of his opponents that he was the…
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The Fulani in Nigeria have said they will not accept cattle ranching because the country’s geographical location was not suitable for it. * It’s caused by strangers fuelled by politicians, religious leaders – Miyetti Allah Besides, the Fulani said the species of cows they had, as subsistence livestock farmers, were not good for ranching in the country, saying they could only be confined to ranching if their livestock were replaced with breeds suitable for it. This was even as they said the anti-open grazing laws being established by state governments would die a natural death like ‘political sharia law’ in…
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“Nobody should try to remove Buhari in 2019. All Fulanis in Nigeria today our eyes are open. All of us are behind Buhari.We have seen that they want to destroy the Fulani because of Buhari. We would be ready to follow him and fight it”- Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Bodeji, President of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), The Sun Newspaper, 3rd February 2018. I was tempted to respond to the unveiled threats and the bellicose and boastful words of this provincial cattle-rearer and itinerant Fulani herdsman called Bello Abdullahi Bodeji in this contribution but when I picked up…
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Owerri was founded about the 14th century by Ekwem Oha. His mother’s name was Arugo. He fled from Umuori Village, Uratta in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State when his life was threatened by his younger brother Ndum. The threat to his life arose from the dispute over the sharing of the Funeral Cow slaughtered when their father Oha the aristocrat and embodiment of royalty died. The first son (Opara in Igbo) Ekwem was to provide the funeral cow as demanded by custom. He did not have the means to do so. He appealed to his younger brother…
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 ” The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community to which he seeks to attach himself “. – Lord Lugard in a Letter to his colleague, Walter H. Lang on September 25, 1918. “Under the circumstances of what has been happening in Plateau State, some people just have to die……Any society that refuses to be just and fair shall become a jungle where only jungle justice shall operate……… Indeed, the…
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Few days ago Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said the following. “100 billion naira and $289 USD million was withdrawn in cash by President Goodluck Jonathan two weeks before the presidential election ostensibly for security. This was unprecedented stealing and it led to the economic recession that we are suffering today”. Sadly the wild, baseless and frankly absurd allegations and willful and premeditated display of perfidy did not stop there. A few weeks earlier Osinbajo had said the following: “President Goodluck Jonathan did not put in place ANY infrastructural development in his last 5 years”. This is yet another unmeritorious and…
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Scores of indigenes of Umuchima – Ihiagwa community in the Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State on Friday barricaded the entrance gate of Federal University of Technology , Owerri , in protest. Umuchima -Ihiagwa is one of the host communities of FUTO. The indigenes, who bore placards , alleged that the university management had encroached into their lands and had forcefully taken over their water front . Addressing journalists at the school gate , the leader of the protesters, Amanze Iheanacho, alleged that the school management through the VC, Prof Francis Dike, had suppressed them by using security…
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“I feel let down facing the people of this state whenever I remember the promise I made to them that when they elect President Buhari into power, these killings will end. But unfortunately things are now getting worse” Governor Abdul Azeez Yari of Zamfara state. February 17, 2018 Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State has accused security agencies in the country of failing to prevent killings in his state despite alerting them about an impending attack 24 hours before the recent invasion of communities in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state, which resulted in the death of 39 persons.…
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Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has formally reacted to the controversy over the alleged plot to impeach his deputy, Prince Eze Madumere, saying such an impeachment would be of no political benefit to him or anybody else. Okorocha, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, described the report of the purported impeachment plot as disdainful and ridiculous. He said: “We have also been inundated with calls on the issue for reaction and for reasons best known to us we decided to remain calm until now. “And interestingly, those mentioned to be behind the imagined impeachment plan…
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Disturbingly interesting! It goes to reinforce my decision not to break my head or heart over Nigerian problem. My own is to do my own good bit and leave the rest! THIS PRESENT DARKNESS. Before he died in 2015, the late Professor Stephen Ellis wrote his last book titled ‘This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime’. Going through this book left me with several thoughts, most of them unpleasant. It is a fascinating read covering, not just organised crime, but the evolution of the Nigerian state (or maybe they are the same thing?). At any rate, I want…
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Jacob Zuma, the embattled President of South Africa, has resigned. But that is not the news. I carefully followed the events that led to Jacob Zuma’s exit and the whole thing lasted less than FIVE days. Again, that is not news. But note these: * In the build-up to Zuma’s exit, no one played the ETHNIC card. His place of birth in South Africa did NOT matter. * Again, RELIGION was not an issue. Nobody even remembered he bore a Christian name. * The party was more interested in saving its NAME and LEGACY, than saving Zuma. * Zuma did…
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A group, Imo Equity, said it has uncovered a grand plot allegedly being hatched by members of the first family in the state, to impeach Governor Rochas Okorocha’s deputy, Prince Eze Madumere. Madumere is perceived as a stumbling block to Okorocha’s succession plan in 2019. Coordinator of the group, Pascal Udochi alleged that a serving commissioner has been instructed to liaise with a member of the House of Assembly from Owerri zone, who is alleged to be the link between the state government and the leadership of the Assembly in the alleged impeachment plot. Udochi alleged that Chief Uche Nwosu,…
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President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to meet Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress at his country home in Daura, Katsina state today, a day after he received the party’s governors. President Buhari meets with APC Leaders Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande in State House NAN reliably gathered that the APC leadership and top chieftains of the party would be converging in Daura to commiserate with the President who recently lost two members of his extended family. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande had on Feb. 13 met with President Buhari…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission says some underage voters are being registered in some parts of the country because the lives of registration officers are being threatened by some members of the community. The Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Mr. Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, said this on Wednesday during a programme on the African Independent Television titled, ‘Kakaaki.’ Osazze-Uzzi, while answering questions over pictures and videos on the social media showing children registering and voting in northern Nigeria, said when officials refused to register underage persons, their lives were threatened by members of the community and they eventually caved in. The…
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The Imo state Commissioner for Happiness and younger sister of Governor Rochas Okorocha has appealed to men in her State to try to marry two or more women as a way of reducing prostitution and redundancy among Imo state Women. Speaking in Owerri state capital this morning, Commissioner Ogechi said Imo state has more women than men forcing a lot of unmarried women to commit adultery with other people’s husbands. The commissioner said according to statistics, out of approximately 3.9 million Imo state indigenes, 3 million are women and only .9 million are men. “I am not forcing you, but…
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Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, on Monday revealed the identity of the person that would succeed him in 2019. The governor said at a meeting with members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Owerri Municipal Council Area, who visited him in the Government House in Owerri that he would support the governorship ambition of his Chief of Staff Chief, Uche Nwosu. He said his decision to support Nwosu fondly called Ugwumba stemmed from the fact that the chief of staff has “the qualities of ideal leader.” The governor, however, said Nwosu is yet to inform him of any governorship…
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In what appears to be getting more interesting by the day, the new sequence introduced by members of the National Assembly, for the 2019 general elections, is set to pitch Aso Rock Presidential Villa, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on the one hand, against members of the National Assembly who insist that it is within their powers to set the order of elections. Whereas observers are divided on the appropriateness of the move by the legislators, this report will show why, without prejudice to the real but veiled intentions of the legislators, a bottom-up approach to voting for…
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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Imo State Branch has described the State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, as a threat to democracy. The NBA made the claim in a press statement signed by its Branch Chairman in Owerri, L.U.N. Nwakaeti Esq, saying that Governor Okorocha lied when he denied that he was owing the judges in the state. “The Government of Imo State has shown that it is a present and looming threat to democracy and Rule of Law,” said Imo NBA. Barr Nwakaeti lambasted the Governor for denying owing judges in Imo State, describing the denial as one Okorocha’s lies.…
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Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Bishop Mathew Kukah, has said the ‘Third Force’ coalition, being promoted by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, will not help the development of Nigerian politics and democracy. According to him, the problems plaguing Nigeria would not be fixed merely by removing President Muhammadu Buhari and bringing another leader to replace him. Kukah made this known in Abuja on Thursday in a chat with select journalists on some burning national issues. He said creating a new platform because of the perceived inefficiencies of the president government will only create new enemies which will further divide the country…
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Since mid-January, there has been a concatenation of events whose denouement would decide, one way or another, the fate of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 election. In no particular order, the events include herdsmen incessant attacks on farmers and destruction of farmlands and the federal government’s inability, if not refusal, to stop it, culminating in the massacre of 73 people in some communities in Benue State and the ensuing national outrage; the “no-apology” endorsement of Buhari by the Nasir el-Rufai-led G7 governors from the north less than 24 hours after the state-organised mass burial of the Benue 73; the…
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Bullying is the act of using one’s advantage of strength, real or perceived, to force or coerce a real or perceived weaker person(s) to behave or react in a particular way; to forego some rights. I have introduced perception into it as against the presentation in the dictionary of real strength against real weakness because of my personal experiences about bullies as I grew up from childhood into adolescence, and thereafter. The neighbourhood bully generally believed that he/she was the strongest child in the neighourhood who could not be dared by the other children. His perception of his superior strength…
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Ndi Igbo, Ndigbo means (The Ancient People) The British called us IBO or (Heebos) I.B.O. means I Before Others (I Came Before Others). Aha, an Igbo man, established ancient Egypt. To provide evidence in support of my claim here, I will cite Dr. Ben Jochannan, a world renowned Egyptologist, he stated that ALKEBULAN and not Kemet or ON or any other name was the oldest name of ancient Egypt. ALKEBULAN is an Igbo word and any person from Igbo land can easily recognize this word as Igbo. In modern Igbo, ALKEBULAN would be written as AKAEBULAN OR AKAEBULAM OR AKAEGBUNAM…
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The crisis-free convention by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, aside from raising hope of stronger opposition party, appears to have been a reason for panic in the camp of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC The atmosphere was electric. The swagger was familiar. Eagle Square reverberated with nostalgia for the umbrella of green, red and black. Party faithful surged in and swarmed around the pavilions in their numbers, exultant, exuberant and boisterous. Comedians, physically challenged acrobats, musicians and women arrayed in a festival of their three colours added lively flavour to the unfolding political carnival. For a moment it felt…
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“You bathed in the blood of Biafrans, you crushed their bones and stripped away their dignity and self-respect just to keep Nigeria one. Now you say their children have no right to ask for self-determination simply because you killed their fathers and mothers during the war and shattered their dreams. Shame on you. If Nigeria was a normal country by now you would have been at the International Criminal Court (ICC) answering charges of genocide and crimes against humanity at the Hague instead of being President. If you want the Igbo or any other southerner to stay and if you…
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CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS have asked President Mohammadu Buhari to immediately sack the Director General, Nigerian Intelligence Agency, (NIA), Mr Ahmed Abubakar. The groups said his case presents the worse narrative of having an incompetent, corrupt and disloyal Nigerian occupying one of the country’s most strategic positions. The coalition said with Mr Abubakar occupying the post of DG, NIA, Nigeria will remain at its lowest water level in the international intelligence community. The groups also linked the inability of the Federal Government to deal decisively against the armed Fulani herdsmen to the composition of top security positions by people of the…
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This memo by EGBE OMO ODUDUWA to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State and APC key figures, was made available to OBLONG MEDIA and it’s hereby published undiluted: To everything there is a season, a Time for every purpose under heaven—Ecclesiastes 3:1 While noting the substantive leader of the APC, President Buhari’s mandate to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to reconcile the warring factions within the APC preparatory to the coming 2019 elections is a recognition of your political pragmatism, we are of the view that you must be very conscious of your role in history and refuse…
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Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has hit at the Southern and the Middle Belt leaders, for always looking up to the North for leadership. In a series of tweets on Friday morning, Fani-Kayode suggested that this is the “source and foundation of our national malaise”. He tweeted: “At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, there were 41 secondary schools in the north and 842 secondary schools in the south. “Despite that glaring disparity, the north took political power and have had it ever since. Is this not the very source and foundation of our national malaise? “The truth is that there…
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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that it was possible that South East leaders like Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the governors, may learn their lessons from alleged silence of the Hausa\Fulani governors and Arewa Consultative Forum over the wanton killings of innocent Nigerians by herdsmen. According to IPOB, it was saddening that Ohanaeze Ndigbo and South-East governors condemned its non-violent agitation and even went as far as supporting the mayhem visited on its members by the Nigeria Army under Operation Python Dance. Asking if there has been “a single word of condemnation from any Hausa Fulani governor or Arewa…
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February 8, 2018 Press Statement The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lampooned the Presidency for abandoning its responsibility of governance and now deploying resources meant for the good of the people to push a desperate but ill-fated mission to perpetuate on Nigerians, an obviously unpopular Presidential candidate in 2019. The party said the Presidency has become so panicky that it effectively hijacked the functions of the leadership of its dysfunctional and ideologically vacuous All Progressives Congress (APC), by appointing people into partisan offices, outside its much-desired responsibility of governance. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Thursday,…
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MTN Nigeria to go public in 2018, raises $500 Million through IPO sales *This deal will give 30 percent of MTN Nigeria to the public. MTN Group Ltd is finalising plans to list its Nigerian subsidiaries on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) this year. The deal is also expected to raise about $500 million for the company. MTN is Nigeria’s biggest telecommunication company with over 50 million subscribers as of September 2017. The Nigerian market accounts for about 21.7 percent of company’s total subscribers and over 45 percent of its annual group revenue. MTN Nigeria going public is one of…
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Gani Adams, Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, has boasted that the people of the South West would resist any attempt by herdsmen to turn the region into a killing field. He spoke while lamenting the number of lives lost to the activities of herdsmen across the country. Adams also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently mandate security agents to, “arrest the blood-thirsty maniacs on the rampage in the country, masquerading as herdsmen, and bring them to justice, to avoid a total breakdown of law and order.” The Aare Ona Kakanfo stated this in a statement by his Special Assistant…
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Almost everyone I know wonders aloud— and in silence— why people in power change radically; why they become so utterly disconnected from reality that they suddenly become completely unrecognizable to people who knew them before they got to power; why they get puffed-up, susceptible to flattery, and intolerant of even the mildest, best-intentioned censure; why they appear possessed by inexplicably malignant forces; and why they are notoriously insensitive and self-absorbed. Everyone who has ever had a friend in a position of power, especially political power, can attest to the accuracy of the age-old truism that a friend in power is…
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1. The moment you *post* something on a social media page (twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, …), you loose control over it. 2. As long as you post it, you are *fully responsible* for every content of everything you post, even if you forwarded it from someone else. There is nothing like I just posted as received from somewhere. 3. Due to 2 above, it is important you *verify* both content and source of whatever information you have *before posting* 4. Be ready to answer every question relating to every post you send. Don’t post it if you can’t answer for it.…
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Nigeria is currently in the midst of deceit. She is currently in the hands of one who is limited but that has chosen to deploy doctrinal “Taqiyya” ahead of the 2019 elections. Now he pretends to agree to restructure, to have state police, even agrees to employing lopsided appointments and promising to address such pressinh issues. All these are called “premeditated sins”: he knew he was doing evil, persevered in it, defended it… but only now agrees to seek forgiveness as he knows these very actions are now going to haunt him in his re-election bid! And very soon he…
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As 2019 approaches, there is expected to be high profile alignments and realignments in the political space of Nigeria. These alignments are usually done with the sole interests of political gladiators in mind who pretend that their political crisscrossing is for the common good of Nigeria and Nigerians. Experience has however shown that such crisscrossing, alignments and realignments are done at the expense of the common man. Since the advent of the current political dispensation in 1999, politicians have moved parties severally in the name of serving the interests of the people or rescuing the people from an existing slavish…
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The drama, the controversy, the confusion, the double entendre, attended by seeming cowardice, that grew around a statement, perhaps the statements, purportedly issued by former military President Ibrahim Babangida on Sunday, February 4, is absolutely unnecessary, unfortunate and utterly avoidable. The drama, the controversy, the confusion, the double entendre, attended by seeming cowardice, that grew around a statement, perhaps the statements, purportedly issued by former military President Ibrahim Babangida on Sunday, February 4, is absolutely unnecessary, unfortunate and utterly avoidable. A statesman, the new role in which President Babangida has since found himself, is a father of the nation –more…
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 The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus has discredited former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s newly formed Coalition for Nigerian Movement (CNM), saying it is dead on arrival, adding that the All Progressive Congress (APC) failure to provide good governance will be a yardstick for Nigerians to vote for candidates of the People’s Democratic Party during the 2019 general elections. Mr. Secondus who was addressing leaders, elders and members of PDP at Delta state government’s Unity Hall in Asaba on Sunday shortly before the commencement of a meeting between the national working committee of the party and…
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…AS PDP NWC MEET IN ASABA TO PERFECT WINNING STRATEGIES AHEAD OF GENERAL ELECTIONS. NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has said the All Progressive Congress (APC) failure to provide good governance is a yardstick for Nigerians to vote for candidates of the PDP in the 2019 general elections. Prince Secondus who was addressing leaders of the PDP in Asaba today (04/02/18) shortly before the commencement of a consultative meeting between the national working committee of the PDP and Governors who won their elections on the platform of the PDP, expressed confidence that Nigerians will…
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My attention has been drawn to a report making rounds especially online in which I was quoted as advising Nigerians not to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the coming 2019 election. Not only is the said statement untrue, it is in its entirety, an inaccurate representation of my view of the state of our dear Nation. As a former President and an elder statesman, I have existing communication channels through which I reach out to President Muhammadu Buhari on topical issues of national importance, should there be the need so to do. The media, both online or mainstream and…
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Former military president Ibrahim Babangida has asked Nigerians to co-operate with President Muhammadu Buhari until his tenure ends — but vote for a new generation of leaders in 2019. In a press statement released on Sunday by Kassim Afegbua, his spokesman, Babangida said it was time to sacrifice “personal ambition” for the “national interest”. THE FULL TEXT OF THE STATEMENT TOWARDS A NATIONAL REBIRTH In the past few months and weeks, I have played host to many concerned Nigerians who have continued to express legitimate and patriotic worry about the state of affairs in the country. Some of them have…
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NOTE THE FOLLOWING ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW AND LOVE: 1. The 14 to 45 year old males will be bearing arms directly whether or not they like it. About half of them will die within the first year of conflict. At least 30% of females in this age range will be raped and probably killed. 2. The bulk of 0 to 13 year olds will grow up as orphans. 10% will be killed in the first year and another 50% will perish from neglect in subsequent years. 3. The population above from 46 to 65 years will have their…
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The Secretary-General January 15, 2018 United Nations New York Sir, APPLICATION FOR UN DECLARATION OF MIDDLE-BELT AS REPUBLIC Of TAKURUKU On behalf of the leadership of Sovereign Republic of Takuruku Movement and good citizens, we hereby solicit for United Nations’ (UN) declaration and support of the international community to the Middle-Belt region as an independent country out of Nigeria. The Republic of Takuruku is a country built on the foundation of the fear of God and truly democratic. The secession of the Middle-Belt out of Nigeria has become imperative for the following reasons: In Nigeria, Tiv are the most cheated…
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The Commissioner for Information, Imo State, Prof. Nnamdi Obiaraeri, in this interview with CHIDIEBUBE OKEOMA, talks about the establishment of the Ministry of Happiness and Purpose Fulfilment, the erection of statues of some African presidents by Governor Rochas Okorocha and some other controversies in the state Recently, the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, appointed his sister as the commissioner for happiness and purpose fulfilment. Is the governor aware that what he did amounted to nepotism and an abuse of office or was it that he just didn’t care? The reaction that greeted it was a manifestation of ignorance. The constitution…
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Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo seems to have carried the anti-Buhari campaign to the international community, Per Second News gathered Thursday in Washington. Obasanjo in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari recently asked him not to seek for a second term in office, saying each day President Buhari offers fresh proof that he is failing the office that Nigerians entrusted to him. Information indicate that the former President has commenced high level talks with some powerful institutions in Washington, partnering with a former top U.S official with vast network of media and institutional lobby groups. The group is able…
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Elder statesman and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, has declared that Nigeria is a failed state under President Muhammadu Buhari. Prof. Nwabueze also said Nigeria may become extinct if he is re-elected in 2019. The erudite scholar noted that Nigeria, under the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC), government had failed to perform the major role expected of a state which is to ensure the security and welfare of the citizenry. Nwabueze made the declaration in a paper entitled ‘Nigeria under president Buhari is categorised as a failed state by an internationally-recognised agency’. “By all internationally relevant and accepted…
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If open hatred would lead to needed self realization, let it be and possibly in legions. If it would take the attack of an enemy to make me wiser, stronger, bigger and better, I need more of such attacks and may even beautify the scares years after the healing process, may be for a memorial. Welcome anything and everything that will advance your cause even at very expensive, painful price – and when it happens, be encouraged, seek the poignant message and grasp the essential lessons therein. Life is not a bed of roses so things might get very tough…
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Like him or hate him, Olusegun Obasanjo is an enigma. I am convinced that God has granted him a special grace to influence the course of events in this Nation for good or for bad, sometimes for a mixture of both. There is no living Nigerian Leader who is like him and I can not easily remember any past Nigerian leader who was quite like Obj. He is unique in many respects. When you ask some Nigerians to give you a list of the bad political leaders Nigeria has or has had, you will find Obj’s name prominent in the…
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In October 2012, I chaired the Committee that organized Dr. Alex Ekwueme’s 80th birthday ceremonies. On the 16th of October, we organized an international colloquium on “Nigerian Federalism: Building on the Ekwueme Legacy” at the ThisDay Dome Abuja—and this was the highpoint of the 80th birthday anniversary. After some five years and three months, I am here today, at the Federal Polytechnic Oko that has Alex Ekwueme’s imprimatur, to speak as we bid him farewell. For me, the loss is huge and the grief very deep. May his giant soul rest in peace! Yes, Dr. (Chief) Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, GCON…
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled that the Senate is conferred with the authority to ensure the choice of “only suitable and credible persons for appointment to the office”. The court gave the ruling in determining the suit challenging the Senate’s authority to deny an appointee to the office of Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under the EFCC Act. A copy of the judgement obtained by Channels Television on Thursday revealed that Justice John Tsoho gave the ruling on January 15, 2018. A lawyer Mr Oluwatosin Ojamo had filed a suit in January 2017,…
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Yinka Odumakin, a prominent rights activist and public affairs analyst is the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere. In this interview with TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, he spoke on the recent visit of governors elected under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to Benue, cattle colony and other issues. Excerpts: You granted an interview recently where you accused the governors elected under the platform of the ruling APC of dancing on the graves of those killed by herdsmen in Benue. Why did you arrive at that conclusion? It is quite obvious. I am not even the first person to say…
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The problem with those of us mostly from the Southern part of the country is the tendency to show off. Having attained some measure of the Western education, we tend to assume to know all and must have our say whether it makes sense or not. It did not start today. Long before the attainment of independence, this character trait has been with us. It is the preponderance to show off and the know-all attitude on our part that made the British colonial masters dislike for the South. They saw Southerners as pompous and arrogant, so they pitched their tent…
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