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LilMissFavvy:
Make i help you small sha. Feminists love intelligent men, so you gotta be smart in your dealings with her. Feminists love romantic men, surprise her with nice gifts, take her to a beautiful place, etc, she's gonna feel good to be swept over her feet. Feminists love men who are cool, ie don't give her too many rules, respect her personality. Some men are afraid of feminists, bt Dont let anyone deceive you, a feminist who is in love values and respects her man, as long as the man understands her. What's the big deal about her travelling for masters? some far distance relationships do work. Most importantly, get a nice body spray if you don't have one already cuz most women love men who smell good.

Lilmiss even if he does all you said, it won't work.

norris123:
Hi everyone, there’s this sweet girl I met in my place of work, mine is directly opposite her own place of work and her father owns the business.
It all started last year after she finished her NYSC, I got attracted to her though I have been crushing on her any time she comes back from school then but wasn’t ready to tell her not until this year I asked for her number which she gave to me, we started talking on phone and she would come to greet me when she comes to work so I asked her out one Sunday and she came we had some conversation and I told her I like her and would love to date her but she said it won’t be able to work since she can’t stay for long here( she’s planning for masters at another state). I didn’t give up on because I already made up my mind she’s mine so I started following her like before and I asked her out for the second which she came and we had a wonderful time though no signs were there so I continued to follow her, to cut the story short she accepted to date me in an usual way while we were standing on road.
The problem now is she is not like other regular Nigeria lady, many things don’t trip her and I was very much concerned about that because we were not flowing the way I wanted, one day we were discussing and she told me she has been trying to know if our relationship will work but it seems she’s not getting any emotional, she told me she’s feminist though I have been thinking about that too I told her I will try and change d way I do things and she should just calm down. There has been an improvement though I NEED AN ADVICE ON HOW I CAN WIN HER HEART FULLY.
She will relocate for her masters soon and I won’t like to lose her, she’s very dear to me.
Advice needed please

Work on the bolded

COOL10:
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Osheey. White Knight to the rescue . You go dey alright las las.

His wife is scared that he might be miseducated.

Deji63:
Ubunja is clearly sex starved, jobless or impotent. Probably all three. A highly frustrated loser. Calling any woman a hoe clearly indicates that you were born by a cheap hoe. Simple.

Your "miseducation" is appalling and ungodly.No wise man will listen to your trash borne of mental instability and loneliness I am truly sorry for your generation future and presnt that is if you have any.

Your frustration is out of this world and no you won't succeed.

He won't succeed in what ma'am?

EdoBoyJazzie:
What part of Esan?

Lots of Muslim in Ewu

Edodefender:
No sane Edo person practice Islam. God forbid

So the Afemai people are not from Edo state?

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Plateau State governorship election inconclusive.
The state returning electoral officer who is the Vice Chancellor of Benue State University of Agriculture, Richard Kimbir, made the declaration at exactly 3:31 a.m.
He explained that the margin between the two major parties must be in excess of the total registered voters of the areas where election was held.
The incumbent governor and candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) polled 583,255 while his opponent, Jeremiah Useni, polled 538,326.
The state governorship candidate for the Alliance for a New Nigeria (ANN) Alex Ladan, came third, polling 2,216 votes.


The electoral officer furthered explained that the margin between the APC and PDP is 44, 929, while the cancelled vote is 49, 377.
Mr Limber also said INEC would have to conduct a fresh election in 14 local government areas, out of the 17 in the state.
These are Jos East, Jos North, Jos South, Kanam, Langtang North, Langtang South, Mangu, Panshin, Kanke, Mikang, Quanpan, Riyom, Shendam, and Wase.
He also said the reasons why the results in some polling units were cancelled were due to overvoting, manual voting, and violence.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/north-central/319381-plateau-state-election-declared-inconclusive.html

Can man rig the will of God?

Where do you get the inspiration to write?

Who put this on FP?

The Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Atiku Abubakar, recorded a landslide victory in Anambra State polling 487,550 votes to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress who recorded 31,452 votes.
The PDP vice presidential candidate, Peter Obi, is from Anambra State.
Results announced so far from 20 out of the 21 local government areas in the state show Mr Abubakar leading with about 456,098 votes, having won in all the LGAs.
At 8 p.m. Monday, Francis Otunta, the Vice-Chancellor of Michael Okpara University, accepted the result from the 20th local government.
The results from the remaining local government – Idemili North – is yet to be announced due to violence at Obosi which disrupted the collation of the results.
Earlier, at about 4 p.m., duplicates of form EC8A which was requested by Independent National Electoral Commission were retreived from the police as stated in schedule 1(6) of the regulations and guidelines for the conduct of elections to aid collation of results for the affected local government.
Okowa Campaign AD
The forms were publicly handed over by a commissioner of police, Rabiu Ladodo, to Nkwachukwu Orji, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state.
The results released by INEC so far:

ANAOCHA LGA
APC- 1055
PDP- 30655
DUNUKOFIA
APC- 1452
PDP- 17270
ANAMBRA WEST
APC- 2428
PDP- 15384


NJIKOKA
APC- 967
PDP- 28364
OYI
APC- 1272
PDP- 20977
ANAMBRA EAST
APC- 6755
PDP- 13422
ORUMBA SOUTH
APC- 761
PDP- 18867


AWKA SOUTH
APC- 1435
PDP- 40099
AWKA NORTH
APC- 1134
PDP- 15725
NNEWI NORTH
APC- 1324
PDP- 34260
ONITSHA SOUTH
APC- 905
PDP- 29795
IHIALA
APC- 1382
PDP- 34307
AYAMELUM
APC- 1458
PDP- 18642


ONITSHA NORTH
APC- 1220
PDP- 33597
AGUATA
APC- 1955
PDP- 32328
EKWUSIGO
APC- 906
PDP- 23194
NNEWI SOUTH
APC- 1127
PDP- 21658
IDEMILI SOUTH
APC- 2220
PDP- 17039
OGBARU
APC- 1044
PDP- 22084
ORUMBA NORTH
APC- 652
PDP-19883


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/316284-atiku-wins-landslide-in-anambra.html

The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has won the presidential election in Benue State.
The former vice president defeated the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), his main challenger.
Announcing the result in the state collation office in Makurdi in the early hours of Tuesday, the chief returning officer of the state and vice chancellor of the University of Jos, Sebastian Maimako, said the PDP polled 355,355 against the APC’s 347,668.
The PDP candidate won in 13 out of the 23 local governments of the state while Mr Buhari won 10.
Mr Abubakar won in Samuel Ortom, the state governor’s local government while Mr Buhari won in the George Akume, the APC leader’s local government.
Find full details of results below:
Okowa Campaign AD
BENUE STATE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS

LOGO
APC – 3,872
PDP – 28,227
GUMA
APC – 6,172
PDP – 21,641
OHIMINI
APC – 7,865
PDP – 6,775
GWER WEST


APC – 6,275
PDP – 14,660
OBI
APC – 7,336
PDP – 7,803
AGATU
APC – 4,170
PDP – 8,225
APA
APC – 5,255
PDP – 8,073
TARKA


APC – 12,197
PDP – 4,875
ADO
APC – 5,373
PDP – 8,614
KONSHISHA
APC – 27,165
PDP – 8,726
USHONGO
APC – 18,764
PDP – 15,479
OKPOKWU
APC – 5,956
PDP – 11,974
OGBADIGBO
APC – 6,970
PDP – 8,889
OJU


APC – 14,062
PDP – 10,451
MAKURDI
APC – 39,584
PDP – 24,649
OTUKPO
APC – 17,460
PDP – 15,547
UKUM
APC – 15,806
PDP – 18,827
GWER EAST
APC – 14,907
PDP – 18,192
BURUKU
APC – 17,033
PDP – 23,236
KATSINA-ALA
APC – 20,315
PDP – 24,197
KWANDE
APC – 27,273
PDP – 20,173
GBOKO
APC – 35,750
PDP – 31,117
VANDEIKYA
APC – 28,108
PDP – 16,467
TOTAL

APC – 347,668
PDP – 355,355

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/316273-just-in-atiku-narrowly-defeats-buhari-in-benue.html

President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the presidential election in the polling unit of Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State.
Mr Buhari beat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) , Atiku Abubakar, to the second place with 453 votes to 80 votes.


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nnorth-east/315479-buhari-wins-dankwambos-polling-unit-in-gombe.html

The leader of one of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State,Senator Kabiru Marafa on Friday accepted Thursday’s verdict of the Court of Appeal that paved the way for the party to contest all elections in the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday said it had decided to relist the party’s candidates in the state for elections on account of the court’s ruling.

“This is what Allah has decided and destined, we have accepted it,” Marafa said in a statement.

He added: “We tried our best but Allah knows the wisdom behind this. I have said it, that whatever comes out from the court, we will open our hands and accept it as Allah’s will. What we are fighting is injustice and nothing personal.

“I’m appealing to my teeming supporters to be law abiding and shun anything that would cause confusion and breach of public peace.
“Please come out massively to vote for President Buhari. And for other elections vote for the candidates that will protect you and your properties in senatorial and house of representatives elections. Vote according to your conscience.

“We have already filed an appeal at the Sokoto division of the appeal court. It will come up soon. We will pursue it to its logical conclusion.
“I sincerely thank all the good people within and outside the state that supported us in standing up to the tyrannical tendencies of Gov Yari and his backers.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/zamfara-apcmarafa-accepts-appeal-courts-decision/?fbclid=IwAR0t3IUokmbCbA0ls73CnoKOkeYrxya4W-mMrKJNlIP78FImQPRhLgqZCMM

Army and Police should look well before they shoot o. Mama Chinedu uses this box to sell buns.

Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, said there was no iota of truth in the allegation that he plotted to undermine Saturday’s presidential election and the electoral law in favour of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC.


He said this yesterday in a statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Don Adinuba.

Obiano was reacting to allegations by the Atiku/Obi Campaign Organization that the governor sent out a memo to the administration department of the Anambra State Post Primary Schools Service Commission, PPSSC, to supply information about teachers and civil servants in the state ahead of Saturday’s election.


However, the governor urged the people to disregard the rumour.

The statement added that the governor had consistently been directing Anambra electorate to vote for candidates of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in all elections.

The statement read in part: “Some political party members wrote a fake news report alleging that Governor Willie Obiano has directed Anambra voters to kill any person who fails to vote for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari next Saturday.


“When the report was written initially, their bloggers from Anambra State refused to distribute it because, apart from being unconscionable, it falsely paints their state in lurid colours. The writers now approached school dropouts who are not indigenes of the state to distribute it.

“It is ironic that the forged report was published on the social media on the day the Catholic Diocese of Nnewi was honouring Governor Obiano for principle-centred leadership which took into consideration his commitment to peace, order, healthy pluralism, sacredness of life and dignity of the human person.

“No matter the level of provocative propaganda against the governor during the 2019 general election by political desperados and all those who want to acquire power by all means possible, both the people and government of Anambra State have resolved that their beloved state will remain the most peaceful in the country and the most socially harmonious

http://dailypost.ng/2019/02/21/buhari-vs-atiku-obiano-speaks-plotting-rig-elections-apc/

Some people are still deceiving themselves

Dino Milaye dancing at PDP NEC meeting

TheNEWS magazine (published by Independent Communications Network Limited), through its solicitors, is asking Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central, to pay the N5 million advert debt he is owing the media house since March 2018.

That was after exploring all avenues of making the Senator to honour his promise as a gentleman, a much acclaimed human rights activist, social critic and a highly respected national legislator. First, the company explored personal contacts to persuade Sani to pay, he did not. TheNEWS wrote a letter dated 29 November, 2018, to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to intervene. Nothing happened.

Therefore, Barrister Umudjoro, of Umudjoro & Co, (OWHE Chambers) wrote a letter to Senator Sani, dated 7th February 2019, entitled, “YOUR INDEBTEDNESS TO INDEPENDENT COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK LTD, PUBLISHER OF TheNEWS MAGAZINE.”

The lawyer demanded as follows:
1. That you, in company of your S.A. media, Comrade Abubakar Ahmed, had a meeting with some of its officials at its premises, wherein it was agreed that its magazine known as TheNEWS magazine, should be deployed for a media coverage and publication of a supplement of your constituency projects.

2. That it was further agreed that the publication which is to be a 10- page pull out should be published on credit, with payment agreed to be made within three months of publication at a cost of five hundred thousand naira (500,000.00) per page, making the cost of producing the 10- page pull-out at Five Million Naira (N5,000,000.00) only.

3. That pursuant of this agreement, TheNEWS magazine published the 10- page pull out of your constituency projects in the March 2018 edition of the magazine, showing extensively the several and different pictorialsof your constituency projects in their different stages. In addition to the publication highlighting the constituency projects, the magazine published an extensive interview you granted to its editors which turned out to be very explosive, nationally and internationally. Need we say, you had full coverage as you had desired and wished for.

4. That unfortunately, eleven months down the line, you have neglected or refused to pay the debt of Five Million Naira (N5,000,000.00) accrued from the publication and all efforts made by our clients to persuade you to liquidate the debt, have yielded no fruit.

5. That it is our brief to recover the said sum of Five Million Naira (N5,000,000.00) with interest from you. We therefore by this letter demand the immediate payment of the aforementioned debt. In this light, we request you to deliver to our office a cheque for the said sum of Five Million Naira (N5,000,000.00) drawn in the name of our client.

TAKE NOTICE that we shall not hesitate to seek legal remedies in a court of competent jurisdiction if you refuse/neglect to accede to our client’s demand within two weeks of the receipt of this letter.

PAY UP and avoid the negative publicity usually associated with litigations of this nature.

Thanks in anticipation of prompt response.

Yours faithfully,

BENJAMIN UMUDJORO ESQ
(PP OWHE CHAMBERS)”


https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/02/19/pay-the-n5m-advert-debt-you-owe-us-thenews-asks-senator-shehu-sani/#.XGw03Qw5tOA.twitter

“Without consulting INEC, we are proceeding and we are ready to meet them in court. Because they cannot by administrative fiat amend or distort extra provisions in the relevant electoral act and those laws are not secret to INEC," Oshiomhole said.
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKFEB 18, 2019

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has resolved to continue with its campaign in the light of the postponement of the elections.

This was announced by Adams Oshiomhole, the APC National Chairman, at the party’s national caucus meeting held in Abuja on Monday.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the postponement of the elections by one week, respectively, hours before the presidential and National Assembly elections were scheduled to begin on Saturday, February 16, 2019.

At another conference with political stakeholders later that Saturday, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, had stressed that campaigns remained suspended.

However, the APC has taken a contrary position, insisting that it would continue with campaigns till Thursday, in line with the provision of the Electoral Act.

Oshiomhole said: “You know that when you have low voter turnout, that is when election rigging is most easy. Voter turnout and voter apathy can result from the confusion. If at our level, we are sufficiently disturbed, what would be the fate of the ordinary man? I think we need to remind them across the country that elections have been rescheduled and they should have trust, faith, and remain determined to vote. The process of doing that would require that we return to campaign between now and Thursday this week. Friday is not a campaign day.

“To ask us as a political party not to go out? The members, our people, would have forgotten. Some would have assumed that ‘look, I’m not sure what these people want’. And the result could be very, very low turnout. That is not good for a party that has huge, huge support base. It can only be good for a party that is not sure of its level of grassroots support.

“So, without consulting INEC, we are proceeding and we are ready to meet them in court. Because they cannot by administrative fiat amend or distort extra provisions in the relevant electoral act and those laws are not secret to INEC.”


http://saharareporters.com/2019/02/18/breaking-without-consulting-inec-we’re-proceeding-campaign-says-apc

By Onu John Onwe


Of the three ethnic groups whose political preferences swing the electoral votes at the national level, the Igbo lack the political infrastructure to mainstream that choice. The other two groups, Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba have some semblance of unified centralised structure to hoist their choices. The Igbo, prior to British conquest and subjugation and eventual amalgamation of the ethnic nationalities that constituted Nigeria between 1859 and 1914, had no unified centralised authority. In counterpoise to this Igbo milieu, we have the Yoruba and the Hausa/Fulani with well-established political infrastructure.


But on the formation of Nigeria on January 1, 1914, all the ethnic nationalities were conquered, subjugated and placed on equal footing as the “subjects” of the British Monarch. None was greater than the other. However, the British by adopting the political structure of the Fulani Islamic Caliphate of Sokoto amounted to the re-conquest of the tribes and subjugation under the Hausa/Fulani and the Igbo was the most devastated. There was public outcry which led to rebellion epitomized by the 1929 Aba Women Riots. Colonialism lasted barely 40 years before some educated Nigerians domiciled in Lagos stirred up nationalist agitation for political independence. This agitation was led by freed slaves that made Lagos home but later joined by locals such as Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo. The politics of nationalist agitation was led by Southern educated elements. The deployment of the print media journalism led by Nnamdi Azikiwe (an ethnic Igbo) irked the British colonial establishment and it planned a counter-attack. The attack consisted of informal adoption of the Hausa/Fulani and grooming them and laying a favourable political structure to ensure that whatever happens to their colonial control of Nigeria, their favoured group will be in control of Nigeria after the demise of colonialism.


As Azikiwe, Macaulay and Obafemi Awolowo were busy in anti-colonial agitation, Britain was busy laying a formidable and impregnable political/groundwork which will render nugatory whatever designs these southern political upstarts may have up their sleeves. Azikiwe was close to achieving pan-Nigerian nationalist political control of Nigeria but he bungled it for quick fixes and extant gains. After NCNC formation in 1940s, a group called the Zikist Movement was formed by some concerned youths outside the control or mandate of Azikiwe or NCNC apparatchik. The Zikist Movement was revolutionary and was so well organised and energetic to the consternation of Britain. It abhorred British political chicanery and its major object was to seize power from Britain unconditionally or certainly not on Britain’s own terms.
READ ALSO: Ohaneze Faction Apologises To Buhari


Britain abhorred this Zikist’s scheme and considered it the greatest threat to its designs and interests in Nigeria. So it counter-attacked and that with unspeakable devastation. It had floated a hoax of how it was willing to cede power to the nationalists led by Azikiwe on a ‘platter-of-gold’ hinting that the Zikist Movement was a stumbling block to its realisation thereby putting Azikiwe in a state of divided interest as he thought that the Zikist Movement might after all jeopardize his political future under the British political transition. So in a state of split loyalty, Azikiwe settled for rapprochement with British colonialists while distancing himself and the NCNC from the Zikist Movement’s activities. Having achieved the division of loyalty between Azikiwe/NCNC and the Zikist Movement, Britain as the master of intrigues moved in to sponsor tribal groups to transform into political parties to break the ascendancy of NCNC in Nigerian politics. While these two British schemes were at work, the British colonialists weighed in with an alleged attempted murder of colonial secretary, Hugh Foot by an agent of Zikist Movement. At the happening of this event, Azikiwe effectuating his new found love with Britain, disowned and condemned the Zikist Movement even before the group had made its defence of the allegation. This event and Azikiwe’s reaction to it marked the downfall of Nnamdi Azikiwe as the political leader of Nigeria and that destroyed the political trajectory of the Igbo as several principled and committed Igbo politicians were rubbished by that singular act of Azikiwe and Azikiwe and the Igbo never recovered from that betrayal’s after-effects. From then on, Igbo politics became transactional: a cocktail of short fixes, anything goes, based purely on what one gains as opposed to committed and principled vocational political struggle to achieve group/public interests as opposed to individual gains.


At the fall of Azikiwe, Britain gingered the tribal unions in Mutanen Arewa and
Egbe Omo Oduduwa to transform into political parties to challenge the NCNC. Despite these shenanigans, NCNC managed to have national spread especially in Eastern and Western Regions until the political masterstroke executed at the Western Region House of Assembly where NCNC renegades joined Awolowo’s AG to form government thereby marking and establishing the culture of cross-carpeting in Nigeria. Having been politically outsmarted, Azikiwe scurried to Eastern Region to displace Eyo Ita as Premier and thereafter settled for hollow office of Governor-General and later ceremonial President and abandoned the Igbo in the lurch. Since then, the Igbo have not got their political bearing right in Nigeria. This situation was made worse by the 1966 political crisis which led to civil war in which the Igbo lost.


The loss led to the victors of the war (mainly the Northern military rulers) being the drivers of the new political system designing all kinds of political schemes especially in the census, political structure of states/local governments creations just to keep the Igbo in check.
After the war, the bogey of domination by the Igbo which was a Northern disease now became a national ailment as the Federal Government policies were directed at containing the Igbo in Nigeria. Such policies as the Federal Character Principle and Quota System were designed to deemphasize merit in civil and public service and even in selection of university and colleges’ administration officials and students. It was all these problems that conditioned the politics of the Igbo and made it reactive instead of assertive. Every Igbo politician is coming from a position of weakness. In the first place, he is a product of a system of which he is an outsider and has no control.


This is because between August 2, 1966 and 1999, the political recruitment and tutelage has been under a political system in which Northern military and civilian politicians have been in control and as such, those recruited and empowered became clientele of these Northern military civilian aristocrats. Secondly, the political system (census, states, local governments, personnel of the institutions such as the armed forces public services etc.) has been rigged against the Igbo so that he cannot effectively compete for power on his merit or on the objective factors of the political infrastructure. For this reason, Igbo politics has been knee jerk and reactive.


Moreover, groups in Nigeria such as the Yoruba, his Eastern neighbours in the Niger- Delta and South Eastern axes no longer found comfort in political alliance with him thereby robbing him of vital springboard to assert his political preferences. It is all these problems that Ohanaeze in recent times has come to check by intervening in the political re-ordering by declaring political preferences on behalf of the Igbo. As stated in the beginning of this essay, the Igbo lacked and still lack political structure of centralised authority and it is this lacuna that Ohanaeze Ndigbo has stepped in to fill.


Perhaps, the best known intervention in the politics of the Igbo was the 2015 general elections when the Ralph Uwechue-led Ohanaeze Ndigbo declared support for President Jonathan against the wishes of some Igbo groups who countered with the narrative that the Niger-Delta minorities betrayed the Igbo during the Civil War and have never considered the Igbo as good neighbours or friends worthy of political alliance. They also cited the war policy of abandoned property which the Ijaw supported and benefited immensely from. But the Igbo ignored all these to adopt Jonathan and vote massively for him. And they (the Igbo) are allegedly being punished by Buhari’s regime in his 97/5% ruling scheme which excluded the Igbo from security and other vital appointments except ministerial appointments which 1999 Constitution made mandatory that every state must have a slot.


It is in light of all these historical backgrounds that the Ohanaeze Ndigbo has reviewed Igbo position in Nigeria and have settled that Igbo politics must be anchored on the need for the review of the constitutional and political structure of Nigeria to restore competition and merit-based political economy as opposed to this feudal contraption formed and entrenched by the military rulers under a basic law called the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended. The Ohanaeze Ndigbo is of the opinion that the present system benefits only individuals whom it turns into billionaires over a space of four years but impoverishes the people and the country to the point of rendering the country a failed state bedeviled with political turbulence, crimes and poverty. The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has made clear its position that it is in favour of a political party and presidential candidate that accept restructuring as their key agenda and never shied away from presenting this position to the people and the public.


It is in the light of the foregoing that Ohanaeze’s endorsement of Atiku and PDP must be understood and appreciated. Ohanaeze Ndigbo is being historically conscious as recent events have signposted. The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra’s agitation for separate state, the Boko Haram insurgency for an Islamic caliphate incorporating Nigeria or larger part of it in the ISIS Caliphate, the Niger-Delta agitators, etc. only call to mind the need to review Nigeria’s term of union to avoid forcible breakup and descent into chaos. The governors, ministers and sundry South-East politicians confronting Ohanaeze’s intervention are not on the side of history. They are guided by extant political expediency.
Onu John Onwe

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/02/the-igbo-political-journey-1914-2019/

Chidi Odinkalu is the intellectual upgrade of Nnamdi Kanu. In March 2017, he was caught tweeting fake image of an allegedly bartered corp member in Zamfara state in order to incite hatred against a section of this country. It turned out Chidi's tweet was false and the image was the work of a celebrated Nollywood make-up artist. It is a shame that Chidi once headed the Nigerian Human Rights Commission.

His recent attempt to deny the murder of 66 Fulani victims in some Fulani hamlets in Kajuru is merely the manifestation of his malevolent hatred and contempt against a section of our population. It has nothing to do with the politics of El-Rufai. All those mentioning El-Rufai are hiding behind the governor to express their undisguised contempt for Fulani lives and dignity. And who are Chidi's sources? The very population where the alleged attackers came from.

This is part of the deliberate psychological conditioning that is the result of a sustained campaign of one-sided anti-Fulani propaganda by the Nigerian press where attacks against the Fulani are hardly ever reported - and where they are reported - are portrayed in a way that the crime appears insignificant and the perpetrators appear blameless.

Even supposedly educated people are subconsciously under the control of that propaganda model. That's why they are asking for evidence over a crime that actually existed and was carried by credible media sources. Even when the evidence is presented to them, their response is that it is either the casualty is exaggerated or the crime is still not carried by their favourite media sources who coincidentally are deliberately leading the campaign of media blackout against Fulani suffering.

This campaign of hatred has succeeded in stripping the Fulani of their right to genuine victimhood by casting them as people unworthy of public empathy. The Nigerian press and other civil society groups who deliberately ignore/underreport crimes against Fulani and at the same time amplify the ones committed by them provide the institutional cover for these crimes and people like Chidi Odinkalu provide its pseudo-intellectual justifications.

This blatant anti-north bias by the southern media is as old as Nigeria itself. During the official launch of New Nigerian Newspaper in the 1960s, the then premier of northern Nigeria Ahmadu Bello lamented the deliberately inaccurate and inciting reporting of northern Nigeria by the southern press. He then charged the newspaper not to emulate that misguided editorial style. In his words: 'Do not counter their campaign of misinformation against the North by launching a campaign of misinformation against the South. Counter their campaign of misinformation against the North by telling the world the truth about the North and at the same time telling the world the truth about the South.'

In this age of social media where misinformation and disorder are the order of the day and fake news travel faster than fact-checks and denials could keep pace with, pseudo-intellectuals like Chidi Odinkalu who hide behind politics to dehumanise genuine victims of verified crimes must be exposed for who they are.

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too bad

The commendation Osita Chidioke gave to the INEC chairman was very disappointing.

The army has confirmed the killing of 66 people in the attack on Kajuru Local Government Area Of Kaduna State.
The General Officer Commanding One Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Faruk Yahaya, said that 37 out of the 66 people killed were buried in a shallow grave near a river bank in Kajuru.
This confirmation comes amid conflicting narratives on what could have triggered the recent conflict as well as the casualty figures, just as some questioned the veracity of the story about the attacks, said have been carried out on Maro, Ungwar Barde, Iri and Kutora communities.
According to a community leader, gunmen had attacked Ungwar Barde village killing scores of people and burning down houses on Monday night, February 11, 2019.
He said this led to a reprisal in three other communities that also left several people dead and many others injured.
Meanwhile, the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, accompanied by the GOC One Division and Commissioner of Police in the state, has visited the communities where they held a meeting with the leaders with a view to identifying the remote and immediate cause of the crisis.
The governor expressed dismay over the attempt by some people to politicise the killings, adding that there was a deliberate plan to frustrate the government’s efforts towards fostering an atmosphere of peace in the communities.
On his part, the commissioner of police in the state, Ahmad Abdurahman, said that seven suspects had been arrested over the killings.
Kajuru Local Government Area has over the years been in the news as a result of violence resulting from ethno-religious conflicts, cattle rustling and kidnapping.
In 2018, an ethno-religious crisis in Kasuwan Magani, also in the same local government area, left over 100 people dead and property worth millions destroyed.

https://www.channelstv.com/2019/02/16/army-confirms-66-killed-in-kaduna-attack/

Obere4u:
This edited list of Reno.
Enter INEC website and do a screenshot. I visited their site and couldn't find the list you posted. If the image was downloaded, why is it having the portal address at the top ? If it's a screenshot, why is the portal address at the middle?

Well said

Obere4u:
This edited list of Reno.
Enter INEC website and do a screenshot. I visited their site and couldn't find the list you posted. If the image was downloaded, why is it having the portal address at the top ? If it's a screenshot, why is the portal address at the middle?

Well said

On November 2, 2018, INEC reshuffled the chairmanship of standing committees and replaced Amina Zakari with Prof Okechukwu Ibeanu as chairman , Electoral Operations and Logistics Committee.

“The chairmanship of five out of its 15 Standing Committees have been re-organised as follows; Information and Voter Education Committee, Barr. Festus Okoye, Board of the Electoral Institute, Asolomon Adedeji Soyebi, Planning, Monitoring and Strategy Committee, Mohammed Mustafa Lecky, Health and Welfare Committee, Amina Bala Zakari, Electoral Operations and Logistics Committee, Okechukwu Ibeanu,” the Commission announced.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/shake-up-in-inec-commission-redeploys-zakari-4-others/

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT BUHARI ON THE POSTPONEMENT OF GENERAL ELECTIONS BY INEC

I am deeply disappointed that despite the long notice given and our preparations both locally and internationally, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponed the Presidential and National Assembly elections within hours of its commencement.

Many Nigerians have traveled to various locations to exercise their right to vote, and international observers are gathered.

INEC themselves have given assurances, day after day and almost hour after hour that they are in complete readiness for the elections. We and all our citizens believed them.
This administration has ensured that we do not interfere in any way with the work of INEC except to ensure that all funds were released to the commission.

We now urge INEC to ensure not only that materials already distributed are safe and do not get into wrong hands, but that everything is done to avoid the lapses that resulted in this unfortunate postponement, and ensure a free and fair election on the rescheduled dates.
While I reaffirm my strong commitment to the independence, neutrality of the electoral umpire and the sanctity of the electoral process and ballot, I urge all political stakeholders and Nigerians to continue to rally round INEC at this trying national moment in our democratic journey.

I, therefore, appeal to all Nigerians to refrain from all civil disorder and remain peaceful, patriotic and united to ensure that no force or conspiracy derail our democratic development.

I have decided to move back to Abuja to ensure that the 14.00 hrs meeting called by INEC with all stakeholders is successful.

Muhammadu Buhari
Daura, February 16, 2019

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/313241-breaking-buhari-speaks-on-postponement-of-2019-general-elections.html?fbclid=IwAR1RIJAU5lfd62LSC8oUqsfsqq88dSv6yMgwqswd12y1kB0XEpmba3X9y84

madridsta007:
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The fact that a caucus of the Senate dissociates itself from the intepretation letter does not invalidate the letter nor mean the Surpreme isn't mandated to respond.
The Supreme Court is mandated to respond and will respond. And that will be official.
Unfortunate for APC as this means a response in line with the constitution will not be on in their favor. No wonder the embattled Oshiomole wanted him out!

Final Score: Saraki 3: APC 0. It is a full-time result!

You forgot the letter would land on the acting CJN table.

Saraki wouldn't even get the required number to pass a resolution to condemn. It would be a rowdy session.

Professor Niyi Osundare, 71, Nigeria’s multiple award-winning poet and 2014 winner of the Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA) for academic excellence, composed this poem two years ago to reflect the anomic times in the country’s judiciary, where sometimes judges take bribes to pervert justice
It was first published on 27 October 2016. As it is germane to our present reality, we republish again

My Lord
Please tell me where to keep your bribe?
Do I drop it in your venerable chambers
Or carry the heavy booty to your immaculate mansion

Shall I bury it in the capacious water tank
In your well laundered backyard
Or will it breathe better in the septic tank
Since money can deodorize the smelliest crime

Shall I haul it up the attic
Between the ceiling and your lofty roof
Or shall I conjure the walls to open up
And swallow this sudden bounty from your honest labour

Shall I give a billion to each of your paramours
The black, the light, the Fanta-yellow
They will surely know how to keep the loot
In places too remote for the sniffing dog

Or shall I use the particulars
Of your anonymous maidservants and manservants
With their names on overflowing bank accounts
While they famish like ownerless dogs

Shall I haul it all to your village
In the valley behind seven mountains
Where potholes swallow up the hugest jeep
And Penury leaves a scar on every house

My Lord
It will take the fastest machine
Many, many days to count this booty; and lucky bank bosses
May help themselves to a fraction of the loot

My Lord
Tell me where to keep your bribe?

My Lord
Tell me where to keep your bribe?

The “last hope of the common man”
Has become the last bastion of the criminally rich
A terrible plague bestrides the land
Besieged by rapacious judges and venal lawyers

Behind the antiquated wig
And the slavish glove
The penguin gown and the obfuscating jargon
Is a rot and riot whose stench is choking the land

Behind the rituals and roted rigmaroles
Old antics connive with new tricks
Behind the prim-and-proper costumes of masquerades
Corruption stands, naked, in its insolent impunity

For sale to the highest bidder
Interlocutory and perpetual injunctions
Opulent criminals shop for pliant judges
Protect the criminal, enshrine the crime

And Election Petition Tribunals
Ah, bless those goldmines and bottomless booties!
Scoundrel vote-riggers romp to electoral victory
All hail our buyable Bench and conniving Bar

A million dollars in Their Lordship’s bedroom
A million euros in the parlor closet
Countless naira beneath the kitchen sink
Our courts are fast running out of Ghana-must-go’s*

The “Temple of Justice”
Is broken in every brick
The roof is roundly perforated
By termites of graft

My Lord
Tell me where to keep your bribe?
Judges doze in the courtroom
Having spent all night, counting money and various “gifts”

And the Chief Justice looks on with tired eyes
As Corruption usurps his gavel.
Crime pays in this country
Corruption has its handsome rewards

Just one judgement sold to the richest bidder
Will catapult Judge & Lawyer to the Billionaires’ Club
The Law, they say, is an ass
Sometimes fast, sometimes slow

But the Law in Nigeria is a vulture
Fat on the cash-and-carry carrion of murdered Conscience
Won gb’ebi f’alare
Won gb’are f’elebi**

They kill our trust in the common good
These Monsters of Mammon in their garish gowns
Unhappy the land
Where jobbers are judges

Where Impunity walks the streets
Like a large, invincible Demon
Come Sunday, they troop to the church
Friday, they mouth their mantra in pious mosques

But they pervert Justice all week long
And dig us deeper into the hellish hole
Nigeria is a huge corpse
With milling maggots on its wretched hulk

They prey every day, they prey every night
For the endless decomposition of our common soul
My Most Honourable Lord
Just tell me where to keep your bribe.

https://www.nan.ng/feature/my-lord-where-do-i-keep-your-bribe-2/