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[quote author=sarrki post=57644590]Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja

The Department of State Services has warned groups including northern youths and the Niger Delta militants against hate speeches.

The DSS, which stated this in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mr. Tony Opuiyo, in Abuja on Sunday, said it had observed how some Nigerians had been preaching hate in the last few weeks.



The DSS spokesperson described the trend as disturbing and warned those he called desperate and mischievous elements, to stop in their attempt to steer the ship of Nigeria to calamity and irretrievable destruction.

He also warned all those it said were charting the course of disunity among Nigerians to desist from their divisive actions.

Recently, a coalition of some Arewa youth groups had in a press statement called for the relocation of the Igbo from the North.

More than 10 days after the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, ordered their arrest, none of the security agencies had made attempt at apprehending them.

But Opuiyo regretted that the action of the Arewa youths had been followed by a release from an unknown source styled, the Niger Delta Watchdogs, threatening all northerners to quit the Niger-Delta region as well.

He said that another group went to the extent of harvesting from the Internet, a horrific accident scene, for the purpose of making it look like a site of massacre of Igbo by northern youths.

He, however, said that the “service has been able to establish that the purported murder scene being depicted as a field of massacre was a high casualty accident scene which occurred along the Owo-Akure Road, Ondo State, on March 3, 2016.

“Those involved in these misleading and despicable acts have since been warned to desist from anything capable of causing disaffection and stoking nationwide tensions.”

Consequently, he said that the service, in line with its statutory mandate of ensuring the internal security of the country, would stop at nothing to deploy all resources at its disposal to identify and deal with all those culpable, as well as maintain peace and order in the country.

“To this effect, all those who are charting the course of disunity among Nigerians must desist from their divisive actions,” he warned.

He added, “The service is also not oblivious of the efforts of some miscreants to ignite fear and cause ethnic tensions across the country.

“It strongly condemns in its entirety the call for relocation of anyone to places against their wishes. Such relocation order is not only illegal, but it is strongly viewed to be against the spirit of our constitution which allows for freedom of movement and association among others.”

Opuiyo said that the DSS also frowned on the tendency which he said some ethnic chauvinists easily and cheaply resort to in order to achieve their devilish aims.

For example, he said some of them resort to hate speeches, misinformation and total manipulation of information especially on the social media to fan the embers of discord and subvert the efforts of government in implementing its policies for the good of everyone.

He called on well-meaning and law-abiding citizens and residents to disregard persuasions by those he described as ethnic jingoists to make the country a theatre of the absurd and bloodletting.

Rather, he said it was time for Nigerians to show their humanity and patriotism which he said had been their defining strength as one united indivisible nation.

He added that the service had “already commenced investigation to get the perpetrators of these hate campaigners as well as their sponsors.

“At the appropriate time all those involved in these condemnable acts will be unmasked and decisively dealt with in line with the laws of the land.”

He added that the service “would not leave any stone unturned to ensure that those who are bent on causing a breakdown of law and order are not spared.”

The DSS spokesperson called on anyone with useful information on how to get those behind the hate speeches to volunteer same to the “service or the nearest security agency/formation for prompt action.”




http://punchng.com/hate-speeches-dss-warns-arewa-youths-ndelta-militants-others/
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No matter the amount of threat, it will not solve our problem. If we want Nigeria restructured let it start today, tomorrow may be too late all the threat and talk, talk is waste of time.

oladeebo:
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what non sense?
op if you can't respect your self can't you respect others?
when I see the headline!
am shock think may be cattle had knocked pastor down in congregation that would escalate into another trouble!
only to see a beautiful photo of cows moving peacefully with out disturbing anybody!
those cattle were our resources in this county that we must fight to protect!
or after the church service the pastor would not serve beef at home?
if our cows eradicated and we are imported beef for meal in this country, then we are in the bottle of where we can't get out!
with out meat in the meal no palatable of food!
op be warned!

Sir let me educate you, protecting our resources is doing the needful and obeying the law of the land. Rearing cattle in Nigeria are solely a private business and there is no law in Nigeria that says any business has right to destroy or disturb another business. Nigeria doesn't have more cows than America or even South Africa but you will not see cows constituting nuisances in their roads, churches, and schools.

IpobExposed:
Nigeria must be one I love this.

Shame on IPOB
Shame on Arewa youths

Watch video of them dancing like igbos here


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFwRp_C5GEw

Igbos wearing Hausa clothing and Hausas wearing Igbo clothing, my people fashion is not our problem in Nigeria if we all want one Nigeria it has to be renegotiate the terms of which we will be together. People here shouting shame on IPOB but as for me, IPOB is the best thing that ever happened to Nigeria at this time. IPOB has struck nerves on Nigerians to understand the need and urgent to renegotiate our existence.

sarrki:
I Don't understand?

Are we saying they are above the law ?

If the led Federal Government did not do anything they will should not dare arrest any group that made such in future

It seems the Fulani herdsmen that operates freely is same shenaghian

I begin to lose hope in Nigeria

Sarrki will I say, someone is now waking up from its slumber. This what Kanu you despised has been saying for a long time, he may not be doing it the way you wanted it but sometimes we as individuals have to put on our breaks in other to evaluate critically before we criticize with our eyes close.

EverestdeBliu:
Igbos are the architect of their own misfortune, they should stop wailing already and try to address their cultural issues...The world has moved on.


Hey calm down, I am from the Southeast too, but its high time we started telling ourselves the truth.



I just arrived from Enugu few weeks ago, and where I stayed was very close to the airport and I saw flights taking off; Enugu airport is still in full operation.
And why should the Lagos seaport be closed? Because it's not in the Southeast? SMH

Now the problem is this, around 65% of the Igbos stay elsewhere in lieu of the Southeast, how do you expect the region to develop when our people barely stay and do business at home?

Why do people throw figures that defies common sense 65% my foot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D50A-zYNxIg

INTROVERT:
A few days ago, the social media was awash with the dare devil robbers who trailed a car to a zenith bank and robbed its occupants while engaging police and shooting sporadically in the air and ended up killing a police sergeant and losing one of their gangmembers also. See link below

https://www.nairaland.com/3851650/brave-sergeant-zenith-bank-robbery


Well today, a new image popped up of top police men at that particular crime scene and I was almost in tears with how the police officers were going about the whole thing. Maybe I have watched too much CSI Miami, but those top shots displayed a high level of incompetence.

So can you point out a few things wrong with this picture.

Happy weekend guys.

Everything is wrong

Oladimejyy:
This news is fake..
Let be realistics Igbos caused everything,if they had caution Kanu all this wouldnt be happening
THIS IS FAKE NEWS

DON'T PUT THE BLAME ON KANU NIGERIAN PROBLEM STARTED BEFORE KANU WAS EVEN BORN.

chie8:
In what appears to be an indirect reaction to the call made by Arewa Youths for Igbos to leave the northern part of Nigeria and the continuous call by Biafrans to separate from Nigeria,popular pastor Bishop Dr Sam Zuga and General Abdulsalam Abubakar met and had a discussion on the issues.Obviously both are against Arewa Youths' quit notice and Biafran agitation. During their discussion on peace strategies,they said...

'What we need in this country is to do what we told God to help us to do. "ONE NATION,PEACE AND UNITY " not Biafra agitation and Arewa quit notice'.


Speaking further,Bishop Zuga said.....

'BEFORE YOU BREAK UP NIGERIA, YOU MUST CHANGE NATIONAL PLEDGE.

I pledge to Nigeria my country, to be FAITHFUL, LOYAL AND HONEST. to serve Nigeria with all my strength. TO DEFEND HER UNITY.SO HELP ME GOD. If you once said this in primary school, you can not divide Nigeria. You must not go free when you are not loyal and honest. Because you told God to help you when you are about to violate your pledge. You promised to defend the unity of Nigeria and so shall it be. Everybody should go and do something better. Break up is not possible for now. Behold the Nigerian peace ambassadors. We must achieve the desired peace'

Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2017/06/abdulsalam-abubakar-bishop-sam-zuga.html

All i hear from our so called leaders and defender of one Nigeria is Nigeria will not divide but non is ready to do the right thing that will keep Nigeria as one. If really they want one Nigeria the solutions are there already, let the so called leaders come out tell the Buhari administration to start the implementation of 2014 confab or let the national assemblies enact a bill that will force the executive to implement it.

stephanie11:
The All Progressives Congress(APC) has issued a word of advice to two pro-biafra groups, The Indigenous people of Biafra(IPOB) and Movement for the actualization of the sovereign state of Biafra(MASSOB).

The ruling party, in a statement released on Thursday, advised the groups to join a political party or form a new one in order to 'push their cause' rather than opting for secession. This is coming a day after the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum(AYCF) issued an ultimatum to Igbos to leave all 19 northern states before October 1st, 2017.

In the statement, signed by the spokesman of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi, the APC condemned the move, describing it as undemocratic.

The statement read in part;


“As a party, we submit to the inalienable right of citizens and groups to agitate for a legitimate cause. However, there are lawful laid down procedures for any form of agitation in a democracy. We observe that the nature and content of recent agitations clearly transcend the boundaries of the law and exceeds the limits of freedom of speech,”

“While agitations on many contentious issues in the polity are normal and key ingredients of the participatory democracy which the APC stands for and defends, such agitations must be peaceful and show respect for the constitutional rights of other citizens. The national assembly, the courts and several lawful avenues are available to citizens, groups and sundry interests to make a change, seek redress and advance legitimate causes. Therefore, we call on agitators to either join a political party which shares their ideology or form a new party to push their cause.

“The APC strongly condemns any utterance, ultimatum or actions that threaten our corporate existence as a country. The party is confident that our security agencies will investigate and prosecute promoters and sponsors of these provocative, divisive, inciting and undemocratic declarations and actions.”

http://politicsngr.com/2017/06/08/form-political-party-push-agenda/

Join a political party and lose your credibility

ObiOmaMu:
Two days ago, Kenyan socialite and former Big Brother Africa star, Huddah Monroe told the world that Nigerian men are not husband materials. According to her:

Nigerian men are good for enjoyment but not marriage or family settings.

She has today again continued her rant against Nigerian men saying she never wants to get married but if she does, God forbid she marries a Nigerian man because their domestic violence & polygamous ways is a NO for her.

Read what she wrote on her Snapchat account:

http://www.lailasblog.com/2017/06/may-god-forbid-marry-nigerian-man-huddah-munroe-continues-rant-nigerian-men.html

Nigerians don't marry prostitute

post=57178136:
PHOTOS: Osun State's Oyeleye Lateefat Emerges Overall Best Medical Student In Ukraine


Osun Govt Medical Student Miss OYELEYE Lateefat Abiola emerged overall best in Ukraine Medical School Final Exams.

http://www.newshelmng.com/2017/06/photos-osun-states-oyeleye-lateefat.html

This are brains Nigeria will lose to other organized countries because our leaders have failed to do right things.

SoNature:
These Orlu-this, Orlu-that people are so annoying. Stop ranting here, will you?! When Rochas comes out for another elective position, don't vote for him.

Stop filling up this thread with irrelevant comments nobody is interested in.

You lots talk as though Orlu was the only LGA/zone in Imo. In a state of 27 LGAs and the governor is concentrating his development strides on one, you should know that the other 26 LGAs are affected, yet you don't see their people coming here to rant every second apart from Orlu.

Here's a piece of advice: if Rochas refuses to develop your Orlu, pool your resources together and help yourselves - that's what people from the remaining 25 LGAs are doing right now.

Please you Orlu lots should give us some peace here!

This is just ignorance want to be relevant.

hardwerk:
where d feck is luwanda?

Luanda Angola

priceaction:
normal events centre wey full lagos

All this jokers that act like kids in this site, comparing Ebonyi and Lagos? You may not see it as a stadium but it is, because it's not 50/60 thousand seats so it is not a stadium, Ebonyi understands their need from their want and the governor did it well.

modelmike7:
The guilty are afraid

The guilty are afraid when court of competence jurisdiction find you culpable. It's only in Nigeria where arrest comes before investigation.

Alariwo2:
Well said prof.
Those leeches have no idea what's coming. They think they can sit their ugly asses down in other people's land while they shut others out from theirs.

They don't reason normally so I expect them to shout afonja as usual.
You lots will relocate whether you like it or not, no Army or police will come to your rescue when we are set to drive you away

Sometimes people say things that doesn't make sense. As an Igbo man, I believe that let biafra be the last resort if restructuring fails, but i don't know whether you are being hypocritical or being stupid. They are leeches, sit their ugly asses down in other people's land, they don't reason normally, and You lots will relocate whether you like it or not, all are your words. If may ask you what really do you all want from Igbos? They want to leave voluntarily for their Biafra for you to have your land back you all are resisting but what you want is drive them away does that make any sense?

MetaHuman:
If only these people do this when they catch them with drugs in malaysia, singapore, south africa, china etc.
They will just tag them biafurians, not nigerians.

BUT THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT BUT YOU HYPOCRITE ARE AGAINST IT.

ijustdey:
http://dailypost.ng/2017/05/19/buhari-using-jonathans-ideas-fight-corruption-apc-rep-olasupo/

Whether it was Jonathan's idea that Buhari is using has no relevant, government and governing are continuous. In Nigeria our politicians play politics with everything good or bad policies, it doesn't matter. Headache is not a sickness but a symptom and Nigeria will never succeed in the fight against corruption with the best ideas whether Jonathan's or Buhari's. Fighting symptoms and neglecting the root cause is counter productive and now all Buhari is doing is fighting the symptoms.

hucienda:
Been observing FFK's outbursts of late and what I don't understand is why he's trying to incite non-Yoruba to rally to a cause that was obvious from the get-go. The constitution is clear as regards presidential succession.

The Igbo made their stand clear in 2015 - they are currently receiving political punishment for same but they don't seem to mind.
The Hausa-Fulani made their stand clear in 2015 as well - as they have since 2003 - and are currently reaping the political bounty as they have always had since Lugard.
The peoples of the Niger Delta also made their stand clear two years before - win or lose politically at the centre - they can still sit at table since they have the goose that lays the golden egg for all of the republic.

What isn't clear, however, is where you and the Yoruba stand.

What was the stand of the Igbos because they did not veto in mass to a particular party? If i may ask what is democracy? Nigeria is not a one party system. Please if i may ask again, what was the percentages of the Igbos that vetoed for APC? What are their faith in scheme of things in Nigeria today. In state level, Imo state vetoed in mass for APC government what have Imo state gained from APC if democracy is all about you veto for me than you get something or are you telling me that no APC member from Imo state is worthy of federal government appointment minus constitutional mandate. It is only in Nigeria that democracy has a different meaning which is if you people or your states did not veto for my party you lose your place in scheme of things.

waledeji:
Another round of lamentions and protests from our iPod brethren after Nnamdi Kanu brouhaha


Eebos be like... .

A country that disregard the rule of law is a failed state, Uba may be guilty, but it is up to a court of competent jurisdiction to find him culpable. You may call it whatever (lamentation or Brouhaha) but when impunity cast the net, you, your father, mother, brother, sister and relatives may one day be among the one inside the net.

sarrki:
It seems romantic section is not attractive anymore

I thought by now you would have committed suicide because of Nnamdi Kanu's matter.

SuperS1Panther:
The OP and the twitter user can equally create their own scam to discredit PMB's Govt by stage acting the abduction of their daughters and sisters by Asari Dokubo, Tompolo and other Niger Delta militants.

Simple as ABC.

As for me, if Chibok Girls abduction is a scam, the obliteration of Odi town from planet earth was equally a scam and the phantom death of 3m Osus during the civil war is even a greater scam.

The devilish post of the OP is meant for morally bankrupt and intellectually lazy elements.

No doubt there was an abduction of the girls but is time Nigerians demand answers. There is something about this particular abduction that Nigerian government need to explain to Nigerians. Can anyone explain to Nigerians the rational behind the shielding of the girls from their parents and relations by this government.

Bobbyjay001:
bros,I need your enlightment on the septic tank issue. Is it that they have a centralised septic tank that all sewages in d country are deposited or what? If that's d point,then they must have dug a big septic ditch to serve as septic tank. Pls enlight me. Am in the dark on d issue raised herein.

There is what is called sewage system where waste water are collected and treated. For instance a city like Owerri can construct five/six and it look like the picture below.

exlinkleads:
Islamic Cleric Blasted For Urging FIFA To Ban Christian Players From Making The Sign Of The Cross After Scoring

Is it that the world is afraid of Christianity or that Christianity is not real or have loosen touch as the world evolves? Which is it? or is it for the fact that Muslim community hates Christians with passion?

FIFA has been urged to ban Christian players from making the sign of the cross after scoring a goal. A Muslim cleric from Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Alarefe called on football’s governing body to write it into the game’s laws that players be prohibited from tapping their stomach, chest, left shoulder then right shoulder to make a cross.

Alarefe, who is professor of religion at King Saud University in Riyadh, posted the controversial call on Twitter to his 17.4million followers, but he was quickly flooded with messages disagreeing with him. A number of people pointed out to the Muslim scholar that a huge amount of players kneel on the ground and kiss the floor in celebration of a goal, mimicking the Islamic prayer.

Alarefe wrote:

‘I’ve seen video clips of athletes, soccer players running, shooting and when they win they make the symbol of the cross on their chests and my question is if FIFA’s rules forbid this.’

While people form all religious backgrounds, including Christianity and Islam responded to his views, many condemned the cleric, saying it incited division.

See tweets below...

http://www.exlinklodge.com/2017/05/islamic-cleric-urged-fifa-to-ban.html

Reason to start attacking football game are underway.

seguno2:
If you can't read and understand, you should refrain from making any comments.
Go back and read the OP slowly to find out that your fellow Nigerian could not justify how he came about the money. Meaning that he could have stolen it, among other things. Now, is that not an offence?

He has no obligation to answer that question to Malawian authority where the money come from, as long as he was not in anyway contravening any international law.

pentals:
http://tweemk..com/2017/05/photo-nigerian-man-arrested-at-malawi.html

Why are they holding him, he did not do anything wrong international law required $9999 it is $10,000 and above

Pierocash:
Wailers wil never rest,always trying to fabricate stories to suite the gullible minds who alway call their rescue a scam.
Those ones will soon flood this thread

This is not fabricated stores at least not on the part of wailers as you call them because in saw the program that Al jazeera did and i live in Chicago.

ipobarecriminals:
U PEOPLE SHOULD DISGRACING NIGERIANS with Ur CRIME/NUISANCE

People who read and comprehend will understand and they will give constructive criticism but someone with fish brain will call names. If i may ask, why do you still want to live with criminals/nuisances. You know they are criminals and they want to go to jail where they will live with other criminals and you refused please can you tell me why?

The write up was written
By Azuka Onwuka


Before August 9, 1965, the Singaporeans were seen as an irritation in Malaysia. Then Singapore was one of the 14 states of Malaysia. Singaporeans were viewed as arrogant, stubborn, and domineering. While the United Malays National Organisation wanted affirmative action or “quota system” for the Malays, the People's Action Party of the Singaporeans insisted that the best thing for the country was a merit-based policy on all issues, so as to bring out the best in the nation and create a spirit of excellence.

This constant disagreements and tensions resulted in racial riots. It got to a point, the Malays could take it no more. So on August 9, 1965 they convened the parliament, with no Singaporean parliamentarian present. At that sitting, the legislators voted unanimously (126:0) to expel Singapore from Malaysia.

When the Singaporeans heard that they had been expelled from the nation, at first they were devastated. But they took their fate in the hands and started building a new nation. And indeed, by applying merit and the pursuit of excellence, Singaporeans built a country that moved from Third World to First World in record time, overtaking Malaysia in all ramifications.

Interestingly, despite this sad way of parting, Malaysia and Singapore have remained good neighbours. In spite of the success Singapore has recorded, it has not made Malaysia not to record its own success.

There are many similarities between the story of Singapore and Malaysia and Igbo and Nigeria. The Igbo are not happy with the quota system policy used in the admission into federal schools and federal positions. They want competitiveness in every sector, which will lead to the best being selected, for the sake of excellence.

The Igbo are seen as arrogant, noisy, domineering, greedy, over-ambitious, to mention but a few. Many Nigerians see them as irritants. They get killed frequently, especially in the North, at the least misunderstanding. Sometimes the cause of the provocation is someone from Denmark, Cameroon or another part of Nigeria.

There are many Nigerians who will easily tell you: “We will never allow an Igbo person to rule Nigeria.” There are many who believe that the problem of Nigeria is from the Igbo, and that once the Igbo are done away with, Nigeria’s problems will disappear.

Given this scenario, the Igbo want a true federal system that will make Nigeria look like what it was before 1966, with each state or region taking charge of most of its affairs and moving at its own pace. Sadly, anytime it mentions restructuring or true federalism, there are forces that resist it vehemently and insist that such will not be allowed.

Ironically, despite this view by many Nigerians about the Igbo, anytime any person or group from Igbo land asks that the Igbo be allowed to leave Nigeria to form their own country, the resistance from most Nigerians is fierce. This reaction creates a contradiction. If the Igbo are irritants and troublemakers, why not expel them from Nigeria the way Singaporeans were expelled from Malaysia? But if you see them as valuable and believe they must be part of the Nigerian state, why not treat them as equal partners in the union?

What does Nigeria really want from the Igbo?




Recently news broke that the Department of State Services embarked on a recruitment exercise, with 165 recruited from the North-west. The report said that 51 people were recruited from Katsina State alone, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Director General of Department of State Security, Mr Lawal Daura, while the number of people recruited from the five states of the South-east was 44 and the number recruited from the six states of the South-south was 42.

Compare that with the academic performance of the different zones of Nigeria. The Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Education of 2016 produced the following number of applicants from the six zones:

South-East (five states) = 335,883;
South-West (six states) = 320,691;
South-South (six states) = (299,632);
North-Central (six states plus the FCT) = 259,846;
North-West (seven states) = 163,240;
North-East (six states) = 96,220;

The six states that produced the highest number of candidates were:

1. Imo – 104,383
2. Delta – 78,854
3. Anambra – 77,694
4. Osun – 72,752
5. Oyo – 72,298
6. Enugu – 69,381

The six states that produced the least number of candidates were:

31. Adamawa – 15,615
32. Jigawa – 12,664
33. Yobe – 10,045
34. Sokoto – 10,006
35. Kebbi – 8,947
36. Zamfara – 5,295

The states that were given a minimum of 130 cut-off mark out of 200 in the 2013 examination into the Unity Schools were:

Anambra – Male (139) Female (139)
Imo – Male (138) Female (138)
Enugu – Male (134) Female (134)
Lagos – Male (133) Female (133)
Delta – Male (131) Female (131)
Ogun – Male (131) Female (131)
Abia – Male (130) Female (130)

For the same examination, the states that were given cut-off marks of less than 50 were:

Borno – Male (45) Female (45)
Jigawa – Male (44) Female (44)
Bauchi – Male (35) Female (35)
Kebbi – Male (9) Female (20)
Sokoto – Male (9) Female (13)
Taraba – Male (3) Female (11)
Yobe – Male (2) Female (27)
Zamfara – Male (4) Female (2)

The six states that scored above 50 percent in the 2015 West African Senior School Certificate of

Education were:
Abia (63.94%),
Anambra (61.18%),
Edo (61.05%),
Rivers (55.69%),
and Imo (52.49%).

The states that scored below 13 percent in the same examination were:

Kebbi (12.08%),
Katsina (10.81%),
Gombe (7.41%),
Jigawa (6.37%),
Zamfara (6.23%),
Yobe (4.37%).




These are verifiable results that have remained virtually the same for decades. And they give an idea of the number of candidates that are involved in education from each state and zone as well as their academic performance.

The point of this essay is not that it is only the Igbo that excel in many sectors. Other ethnic groups, especially from the South, also excel. But the focus of this essay is the Igbo. From the attitude of other ethnic groups, it seems that they are comfortable with the status quo. If not, they should not be focusing on the Igbo as their problem.

The call for restructuring of the country has been promoted as the solution to Nigeria’s problem. However, there are strong forces that are hell-bent on ensuring that restructuring of the country never succeeds. They have been erroneously schooled that restructuring will impoverish them.

The danger in this hard line against restructuring is that if restructuring fails, the alternative may not be palatable. Nigeria has moved in a self-destructive path for long. Nigeria has been wallowing in retrogression for long, because some stakeholders are afraid that pulling it out and setting it on the path of progress will cost them their feeding bottle. But nothing lasts forever.

Two weeks ago, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, met his seemingly impossible bail conditions within 48 hours. When the bail conditions were made public, the belief of many was that no serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria would want to associate with him. But the South-East caucus of the Senate met and quickly chose one of them to stand bail for him. All other conditions were also swiftly met.

If those conditions were given in December 2015, no Nigerian Senator would have wanted to be associated with Kanu. Since his coming into office, Buhari has continued to display a type of croynism and prebendalism that have never been witnessed in Nigeria. And the worst beneficiaries of these are the Igbo. He has been making it clear by his words and actions that the North and the Igbo are not equal partners in the Nigerian project.

He has been distributing Nigerian resources and appointments to his kinsmen and region as if they are his personal property. This brazen nepotism has made even the fiercest Igbo critics of Kanu’s call for secession to develop sympathies for Kanu.

Nigerians must decide what they want from the Igbo. It is either they want the Igbo in Nigeria as full citizens or they want them out as non-citizens. As the English say, Nigerians can’t have their cake and eat it.

Marpol:
So why are some deranged fellows still agitating for Biafra? They stand to lose all these investments!

The thinking that if Biafra dream materialize people will lose their investments are not so. If it is so there will be no foreign investments, just for instance the Chinese has invested a lot all over Nigeria, so you are telling me if there is Biafra they will lose their investments in Biafra? A Yoruba or Hausa will not lose their investments in Biafra in as much they are not many of them. All the investments will be consider as foreign investments in line with the laws of the country.

jericco1:
Don't wail for Osinbajo!

I'm not a wailer and i don't live in Nigeria so I'm not APC/PDP but my take is this we as citizens should not wave what FFK said aside without looking into it, its time to ask questions and not blinded by politics. Just look at the letter the president sent to the two chambers, the people who are today defending the word coordinator will be the one that will argue tomorrow that the president never transmitted power to the vice president. I hope it will never come to past but just keep your fingers cross.