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Chino72: APGA launched campaign today in the city of Onitsha..

Obi Ofala Ife aji bu onitsha erika NwaNnne

masu: yorubas fulanis and hausa are really the destroyers of naija and they are the people that lead us to this mess of a country.

I regret to say "from now I refuse to accept news from yorubas against GEJ" they are pure haters of the minorities.

I use to see yorubas with an open mind but hell no they are dubious in most things.

my advice to all minorities is to watch well in choosing an ally, not that he sweet talks etc nonsense.

what will it profit you guys when you hold a group down for too long a time? wickedness

better recognized,sanusi warned you..

Unquestionable you are the Lord

NDI Ohe

I think is political

[b]We’ll send confab report to NASS —Jonathan •Says it will aid constitution amendment
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PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan insisted on Tuesday that he decided to organise a national conference in order to give the disparate views expressed by Nigerians on the polity a definite focus to enable the country to move towards a more equitable and united future.
He also said the outcome of the planned confab would be forwarded to the National Assembly to aid the constitution amendment process.
Receiving the Nigerian Muslim community led by Vice President Namadi Sambo who paid him a Sallah homage at the Presidential Villa, he told them that he would do his best to ensure that this generation of leaders bequeath to young Nigerians a country they would be proud to call their own.
Jonathan remarked that the decisions of the national conference would be forwarded to the National Assembly for consideration for possible inclusion in the constitution since the legislature was in the process of constitutional amendment.
He recalled that some of recommendations of the Justices Mohammed Uwais and Alfa Belgore Committees have since been put in the form of bills and forwarded to the National Assembly for their consideration.
Jonathan stated: “Even the Justice Uwais committee that was set up, that report was passed on to the National Assembly. In 2010, we brought Belgore and others and I said in 2005 Nigerians discussed somethings, why don’t we begin to implement some of them?
“So, we need to come up with some bills in those areas we have agreed and we push it to the National Assembly. Of course, some of those bills have not come out from the national Assembly but we believe that even in the constitutional amendment that is going on, some will be useful.
“And this national dialogue is even critical and is coming at the right time because the National Assembly is thinking about how they will amend the constitution. So, the results of the discussion of course will be passed to the National Assembly.
“It is only left for all of us who are Nigerians to impress it on our representatives, those in National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly because our state and federal parliaments must work together to ensure these are properly enshrined in our constitution so that as a nation, we will hand over a country that is better than what we have met to our children.
“I assure you that myself, my Vice President and our team will continue to do our best for Nigeria so that our children will be happy in the end.”
In his remarks earlier, Vice President Sambo praised the president for his leadership and for transforming the country, observing that President Jonathan has ensured economic and political stability in the country.
He observed that Nigerians have been talking in the media about what was best for the country, but these views were largely scattered and uncoordinated and therefore have not had any effect, adding that the national conference would provide a direction for such discussions.
He said: “At times, when you listen to radio and read in the papers and you see sometimes even our elders that are supposed to give us leadership quarreling over nothing, sometimes even insulting themselves and even making provocative statements that will sometimes instigate one group against the other.
“We decided that we cannot continue that way, the talking must have a direction. What has been happening on the pages of newspapers are discussions that have no direction.”
Recalling his elementary physics, the president likened the ongoing debates to scalar quantity defined only by magnitude but without direction, saying that the national conference would bring the discussion to the standard of vector, which in physics, is defined by both quantity and direction.
Jonathan noted: “So, we want a country that will have a direction. So, the discussions must have a direction, the discussion must lead Nigeria to where we want to be, not a divided Nigeria, not a Nigeria that is sown with hate, not a Nigeria that will be based on acrimony, ethnicity and tribal sentiments in the way we conduct ourselves.
“That is a reason we set up that committee and we have given them the free will. Some people are still instigating others that the president is doing this, the government does not have the capacity to do that. We are totally committed to do what is right. We don’t need to carry a cane to flog Nigerians to show that we are determined.”
The president, who noted that in spite of the current challenges facing the nation it was still able to celebrate Sallah and express gratitude to Allah, vowed that his administration would create a peaceful Nigeria.
According him, “that is why we are totally committed to do our best to ensure that we pass a Nigeria to our young people that are coming up, a Nigeria where people will live in peace, a Nigeria that wherever you go, you call the next person your own brother or sister, a Nigeria that our young children who will become adults will say that I am proud to be a Nigerian. Not a Nigeria that people will kill them probably because they don’t recognize them.
“The killings that have been going on in some parts of the country have nothing to do with religion and ethnicity. That is why I asked those who killed those 50 students (recently); did they even bother about their religion or ethnicity?
“It has nothing to do with religion, it has nothing to do with ethnicity, it is because the world generally is experiencing terrorism.
“But in Nigeria, we must work very hard, we must talk to ourselves the way that our children will not develop hate among themselves. And that is one of the key reasons that we decided to have a conversation as a nation.”
ACF sets up steering committee for agenda
As the preparations for the proposed National Conference hot up, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), in its determination to forge a common front at the confab has constituted a steering committee.
A prominent member of the Forum told the Nigerian Tribune in Abuja on Tuesday in confidence that the decision was taken at its last week’s meeting in Kaduna.
According to the source,”we have set up a steering committee to harmonise everything as a region, once this is done, we will make further consultations with other stakeholders including the governors, traditional and religious leaders among others and then come up with a position paper for would-be delegates from the northern region as a whole.”
The source, however, dismissed the speculation doing the round that the north was not in support of the proposed confab,” individuals or political parties may be expressing their own personal opinions on the subject matter, but should not be taken to be our stand.”
“It is not true that the north is not in support of the confab, we are in total support of the confab, as we speak now, a steering committee has been set to harmonise our position for the confab,” he declared.
“Why must anybody or group be critizing or be afraid of such a golden opportunity for all the regions to come together to discuss the future of the country? Maybe those opposing the confab have a hidden agenda, the north is ready and set for the confab,” he declared.

Omole calls for caution from stakeholders
The National Coordinator of a nongovernmental body, Peoples, Problems and Solution [PPS], Dr Wale Omole, on Tuesday, called for caution over the proposed plan to national conference to reposition the country.
He said while such national dialogue was imperative, given some critical issues that tended to undermine the corporate existence of the federation, the stakeholders should avoid fanning the embers of disunity.
His views were contained in a statement tagged, National Conference: Which Way Nigeria, a copy of which was emailed to Nigerian Tribune.
He warned Nigerians against playing into the hands of some enemies of the country, who were apparently envious of the comparative advantage that Nigeria has continued to enjoy in the international community.
He said, “An intelligence report in the United States of America predicted the break-up of Nigeria into smaller nations some years ago. The issue did not go well with Nigerians. Several people have thrown bricks at America for such prediction. Rather than asking America what culminated to its drawing this conclusion, Nigerian leaders merely said ‘we reject it’ and kept claiming that the Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba, many other nationalities making up the country are one. But we all know that we are not one.
“We are groups of different people co-existing in painful tolerance. Our cultural values are different. Our main menus may be similar but not the same. We all have different languages. We have different goals. An Igbo man knows his true brother. A Fulani knows his true brother.
“Either of them knows that a Yoruba man is not his brother, but a co-habitant. So, to the majority of Nigerians within and outside Nigeria, the general perceived solution to our multiple problems is the national conference. Yes, we need a national conference, but in a larger sense, we must tread with caution and be ready to manage it and its likely complications very well because of the complexity of our country.”
He advocated wide consultations with all segments of the society, especially the major stakeholders preparatory to such conference, in view of the prevailing fragile political climate in the country.
Noting the enormous sacrifices Nigerians have continued to make to ensure national stability and preserve the corporate existence of the country, Dr Omole said the stakeholders should eschew unhealthy rivalry, acrimony and inflammatory utterances by all concerned.[/b]

Northerners was not ready to join nigeria is due to oil in the south they joined

Musiwa gowon is a time bomb that will soon be defused Gej protection will not save him..

centje: the federal govt is building this facility in all the states. I dont know where that of enugu is cited, maybe they are yet to reach the state.
its a very nice development.

i can attest that in agricultural sector GEJ has done well..
Look at a Rural road in awgbu-ogbu in anambra state

New silo project that means anambra state will soon have too much food to feed both anambra and enugu state

Food storage facility in igbariam built this year to retain 250000 metric tonnes of grains

BY federal govt

asha 80: iyienu hospital is actually owned by one the church denomination...not sure if it catholic or anglican....what you are seeing here is as a result of the financial assistance(wrongly called donation) that he has been giving the churches to repair ,upgrade and furnish hospitals owned by these churches...i guess it is the same thing happening to schools both primary and secondary handed over back to their original church owners....this hosptal is in ogidi.

you are absolutely correct,churches are handling all their projects very well am glad he pass those responsibilities to churches, that way he can focus on other matters.

Afam4eva: ^^^
Is that the way it looked before or now?

bruv you dnt want to see the old hospital,if you see it you wonder how patents survive in a place like that.Obi changed everything from down to up,he pull down the old structure and rebuild it.

road at the country side in anambra state

ifyalways: Very true!
I hope they also upgraded the nursing school,used to be one of the best.

the nursing school is looking like world class indeed obi really try in upgrading all these run down critical infrastructures in the state.View inside iyenu upgraded hospital

one NIGER.........AREA

Which tribe hate one nigeria the most

And which tribes love nigeria the most? i think we all no who they are

chino iyenu hospital has change dramatically peter really change the look of that hospital

Anambra state election will only go to APGA,obiano is the next governor

The North and the S/W as usual are afraid of a sovereign conference.
I don't blame them, who would want to loose his free meal ticket!
With a lean centre, the North will loose appetite for war on power and find something else to live on.
Same Aburi principle which the North and S/W rejected!
The stone that the builders refused, and plunged the Nation into a bloody civil war, will eventually be the corner stone.
On Aburi we will eventually stand. The Regions have only increased to six.
Our problems are still the effects of the millitary intervention of 1966 and the decrees which interrupted the regional setup and the Parliamentary system, resulting in untold central and lateral corruption, an expensive Presidential failure, and a near failed state!
Devolution of power is the ONLY reason countries like the UK are still united. Without regional devolution Britain will today be at least four separate Nations. This is what we failed to do in 1967 and went to war. We are back to square one!
What ever form of devolution is decided, It is hoped a separation agreement principle will be in built. Regions must NOT be held together by force, it's got to be democratic! That is the only way we all will respect and appreciate our union.
For now Nigeria can not survive a referendum on sovereignty.


One only hopes lessons have been learnt by the North and the interfering S/W.

nice discussion

Dallas Cowgirl: My son, do not post foolishly.

Ibos are killed regularly in the same North as much as Northerners.

Nigeria is boiling over and it has nothing to do with your Yeye Biafra, else they'd have migrated to Biafra to show you what real war means.

Keep calling it a Northern battle till it moves to the East.

You're like the foolish turkey laughing at the cow during Christmas. Nigga turkey forgot that thanksgiving is around the corner.

east never had any boko clashes like the yorobe region,so you are the turkey and roast potatoes