₦airaland Forum

Christianvoice:
Islam is a cult now. That's why Northern leaders control mosques it is not like that in Church

Daft reasoning.....those xtians don't you have lawyers among you? You registered your BUSINESS CENTER(sic) under CAMA law and you are claiming govt did not POWER to regulate your activities? who kom be mumu.....

You are comparing yourself with muslims and mosques ,pls how many imams have private jets, large auditoriums, private schools and foreign coys?
more so if any mosque or imams started anything funny like that he will be subjected to same law as well

b3llo:
Why didn't he see or say anything about CAMA in his prophecy?

hahahhahahahaa i laugh in kanuri

When you register your business or organization as a charity or NGO, it means that whatever funds that comes in and goes is for the public and NOT for your personal use. You are accountable to the public. In exchange the government exempts you from paying tax. That is how it works
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Also, the government has the power to monitor and regulate such tax exempt organisations to make sure that the funds raised are for the public as stipulated and not misappropriated or diverted for personal use.
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This is how it works globally, including the UK, US etc.
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Religious organizations and their businesses worldwide also register as charities and NGOs and that is why no church, mosque etc or any of their establishments pays tax.
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Now it is the duty of the government to regulate these bodies who don't pay tax by making sure that the funds they generate rightly goes back to the public and not for personal gain.
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This is the reason why CAMA was created
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Now the question is why are only the Pentecostal pastors shouting? Why is the Catholic Church not complaining? Why are the rest Orthodox and Presbyterian churches not complaining? Because I don't get it, these same pastors shouting here all have branches abroad and they dutifully obey the laws there like lambs but when they come to Nigeria they want to be lawless.
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These same pastors rejecting CAMA now have all been involved in fraud due to misappropriation of funds in the UK.
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Ashimolowo was sanctioned by the UK government over fraud. CAMA was what gave him out!
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Oyedepo is banned from entering the UK because of fraud and diversion of church funds. CAMA was what gave him out!
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Pastor Chris Oyakhilome also...
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These people know that once you implement CAMA here as is obtainable in the UK and the rest, they are finished and that's why they are fighting and kicking. This is why rather than fight the law through the right channels using legal means, they employed the best way they know how– religious sentiments! It works on their members like charm! They claim it's an attack against the church as if the lawmakers who signed the bill into law after the 1st, 2nd and 3rd reading are all pagans. Nonsense
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Well, I've got news for these folks and their compatriots... CAMA is here to stay and asides wailing your lungs out, there's absolutely nothing you can do. If you don't like it go and create your own country!

JAMO84:
All northern branches of NBA should boycott the useless conference. Wike was caught on tape threatening to kill oppositions in Rivers, he came out and declare Rivers as a Christian state, demolished foundation of a mosque building, hypocrites did not condemn him.


No one ethnic group or religion segment have monopoly of hypocrisy and baseless propaganda, all NBA branches in the north would follow Jigawa's lead. NBA will soon be reduced to a regional association.



I AM DONE TALKING

They (Southern) think of having a monopoly of campaign of calumny against the Northern and his interest.It will soon backfire and they're in for a long walk...ask those that STARTED FIRST COUP D'ETAT against the North and what are the consequences till now...I AM DONE TALKING

"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it"

That was Jack Nicholson, when he starred as Col Nathan R Jessep in the blockbuster military thriller 'A Few Good Men'. While this statement might sound offensive or even totally bizarre to democratic norms, assumptions and sentiments, the fact is, that is how a typical soldier thinks. They all have some deeply embedded disdain for 'civilians', and most times for good reasons I think

Therefore watching Governor Babagana Umara Zulum's latest confrontation with a military field commander in Baga, Borno State, reminds me of my outburst against the Nigerian military at a National Security Council (NSC) meeting few days after the abduction of the Chibok girls in April 2014 and many more, including President Jonathan himself and other very senior military and intelligence figures

I was Nigeria's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs between 2011 and 2015. My official responsibilities included but not limited to coordinating all diplomatic, security and defense cooperations, agreements, pacts and mutual assistance with all the countries in our immediate radius, the sub region and the entire African continent. I was also President Jonathan's most frequent envoy to regional Heads of State and beyond. One reasonably hears, sees, and reads 'a lot' while discharging these sensitive duties.

It was very clear to those of us at the top in the foreign office that mobilising the world to isolate and defeat Boko Haram was not only President Jonathan's key foreign policy objective but his everyday obsession as well. He had committed so much resources and put in as much logistics support at our disposal to engage the world. If we insist he goes anywhere in person, he had obliged.

When our foreign intelligence service and diplomatic sources strongly believed that the instability in Northern Mali was a major Boko Haram enabler, Nigeria staked everything to stabilise the country. On one occasion, I had barely finished meeting with President Ahmad Tamanou Toure of Mali on behalf of President Jonathan at his official residence in Bamako when the Presidential palace was attacked in a successful coup few minutes after my plane had taken into the skies of the Bamako International Airport! And yet, a few months afterwards we convinced the President to fly into same Bamako himself when the crises escalated further. By this gesture, he happened to be the only foreign President who had stepped his foot on the Malian territory while the war lasted for a couple of years. I had also, among other desperate flights, flown to meet the four other Presidents in our neighbouring countries and reported back to President Jonathan who was patiently waiting for me in his study same day.

Then suddenly on the night of 14th-15th of April 2014, about 276 female students were kidnapped by Boko Haram from a Secondary School in the town of Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria. This coming at a time when there were already growing concerns and frustrations within the international community about our counter insurgency operations only helped to add more salt to an already painful injury. We were already loosing long term friends and reliable allies within the international community faster than we could either retain them or make new ones. The Obama administration too and most of our EU partners had already turned their backs on Nigeria in one of our greatest hours of need.

The foreign office was to become completely overwhelmed after the Chibok abduction. The whole world appeared as if it had erupted in a staged media frenzy. “Bring back our girls!” it shouted in unison. And days later, we, who had to speak to the outside world were to completely lose the control of the narrative.

Then came a little relief. The Nigerian military announced that it had rescued all but a few of the abducted girls. There were serious doubts about the authenticity of the story and the world wanted to be sure. Within days Cable Network News (CNN) took the unprecedented step of putting a reporter in Chibok town from where the parents of the missing girls looked a skeptical world in the eyes to flatly deny the claim. This awkward contradiction was to later force the military to retract their claim and admit 'errors' from their sources. Predictably, the world went into an even bigger frenzy as we watched in despair; I was to become totally devastated!

With the benefits of some hindsight, I think I wouldn’t be too wrong if I begin to see myself as a once upon a time Nigeria's war time Foreign Minister. And war is by its very nature as much a diplomatic exertion as it is the real physical combat. Those at the diplomatic back ends can actually grow as weary and war fatigued as the actual combatants and their professional handlers

I accordingly cut on all non essential foreign trips to avoid both media and diplomatic interrogations. I had learnt my lessons the bitter way. Once, I had to exit a certain high level meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, through the backdoor to avoid the press waiting by the enterence. I was by then all weary, frustrated and angry all at once. I had also become reasonably cynical of some aspects of the Nigerian Military Operations too and was just looking forward to the earliest opportunity to empty my mind where it mattered most. I had arrived at my wit end; an outburst was very imminent.

I therefore considered it the perfect opportunity to unburden myself when I received a notice for an urgent National Security Council meeting while I was still sufficiently frustrated to cause a stir in the Council. The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces chairs the Council, with the Vice President, the National Security Adviser (NSA), Chief of Staff, Service Chiefs, the Attorney General, and Ministers of Defense, Interior, Police and Foreign Affairs in attendance. Anyone, who had something to do with anything Defense, Security and Intelligence in Nigeria would be in attendance, and I was determined to make myself heard there.

In what might now look like a suicide note, I had told my wife to be ready for the worst. I made her and myself reasonably comfortable with the possibility that I might at least not remain a Minister after that NSC meeting. She got the message and I left.

The floor of the National Security Council isn't new to outbursts. I had earlier seen the President in a fit of his own outbursts in the security council meetings. In one particular occasion, the Commander-in-Chief wanted to know who finances Boko Haram and was almost banging his table at his Service Chiefs. And when Boko Haram bombed a church in Kaduna and the entire city got engulfed in a reprisal orgy, the President had to cut short a foreign trip in Brazil. He later chaired an emergency security council meeting same day where he poured his raw mind on it's floor. Boko Haram, he had compellingly barked at his service chiefs was the cause of his growing unpopularity. There was no consoling him!

I was also up close the day an NSA and a defense Minister were both sacked as an aftermath of an explosive outburst from a retiring Chief of Defense Staff. I heard the President lament loudly to himself too, and a few days later, the entire Service Chiefs were sacked! And in about two previous meetings, I was forced to listen to my own outburst too

President Goodluck Jonathan is a good listener who had probably already grown accustomed to some of my frank views. And starkly frank I was that day. I told the Council that no matter the circumstances of the abduction, the fact was that kids were indeed abducted. I also drew the attention of members to the glaring inconsistencies from the Defence Headquarters while communicating to the world and how that might have potrayed the whole government as unserious and not effectively in charge. I also squarely deconstructed the growing sentiment even within the Council that the President, and by extension the entire government could be a target of some global media conspiracy. As a global citizen at that time, I knew we just offered the world a damn good story. It simply devoured.

As is expected, the military, most especially the army were not pleased with my 'audacity' as they would rather call it.They found channels to register their displeasures afterwards. But some of my colleagues in the Council approached me after the meeting to confess that what I had said was the truth. When I asked why they would rather leave the President uninformed, their response was all the same; they had concerns that the President could misinterpret their intentions. I was clearly the only foolish fellow around.

I was never a President. The truth is one hardly knows what they know sitting behind that table. But whatever it is that I said that day, I think at least a portion of it did make alot of sense to the President Jonathan. Because a few months after that encounter, far from sacking me or even 'misinterpreting' my intentions, the President gave me his Information Ministry to manage in addition to my Foreign Affairs portfolio.

The National Security Council meetings are not like any of your typical high level government meetings. I wouldn't call it a very frank one either. There are very strategic reasons behind why such meetings are highly discrete, very confidential and unusually classified. But I feel it is also the perfect place to direct our 'outbursts' for those who have both the access and courage to do so. But those who aren't members but have the passion and the courage to shout must do so not only at the top but discreetly too .

No country should entertain any unguarded public censorship of it's military operations. A soldier or even an officer in the theatre of operations could, in certain circumstances be as helpless as anyone of us. He may also reasonably be as much a victim of our systematic failures as we all think we are.

Public outbursts targeted at such officers and their soldiers only help ridicule their sacrifices and sense of pride. The Military especially is a very proud establishment that thrives on the time tested traditions of strict regimentation, absolute loyalty, self worth and discipline. Public officials must show deference to these facts even while the military MUST remain accountable to all of us.

I must confess that Gov Zulum, the Executive Governor of Borno State has checked most of the right boxes in responsible and responsive leadership. I am infact his distant admirer. He is both intelligent, bold, fearless and proactive. He is also clearly charismatic, passionate, empathic and compassionate. But I think it is also about time he applies more wisdom, some tact and a robust emotional intelligence into his approach to especially those issues that are of direct and serious national security concerns.

It is possible that His Excellency had come across quite enough human misery and devastation in his line of duty as the Chief Security Officer of his state, and previously its commissioner of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement. He is also most likely war fatigued or possibly perhaps even bearing some measure of a post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I wouldn't be surprised if Zulum is occasionally even outrightly exasperated. But so are some of the soldiers and their officers in the field. The fact is that Mr Zulum wouldn't be of much use to us if he is not available with us in flesh. He can be a hero, a winner and alive all at once. While the military can also (if done discreetly) respond to the harshest of our criticisms and still win the war for us. All of us except Boko Haram can win.

The Professor Governor must discipline himself more to exercise the highest level of restraint under such extreme emotional states. He should perhaps learn to direct his fury to the very top. The top is not only where our outbursts are most appropriate but where they are naturally most productive too. Because no matter the provocations, those who literally die so that we may live should never be our objects of public ridicule. Yes, NEVER!

I hope His Excellency reads this

SweetJoystick:
Performing his duty as a party member is humility? Una get sense at all? Na so una sell Buhari the chronic fraudster as a man of integrity

Am with you on this.

Uneasy, so goes a popular saying, lies the head that wears the crown. Never has this saying been more apt than in the case of the current Service Chiefs of the various Services of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. More than ever before, there have been calls for the removal of the Service Chiefs on account of the perceived failure of the Armed Forces to decisively put down the Boko Haram insurgency and other emerging threats in the country. The other often stated reason is that they have exceeded their constitutional tenures. If previous calls for their removal were ignored, the latest call, from the Senate, is seen by some as the height of legislative activism.

Frustration over the activities of the insurgents in the North East as well as the emerging threats posed by armed bandits and other criminal elements in the North West, North Central and other parts of the Country is understandable, for several reasons; the most prominent being the loss of innocent lives caused by these criminal elements. The displacement of thousands of people, the dislocation of economic and social life as well as the spill-over effect on other sections and segments of the society, further fuel the agitation for a change of strategy and, as has been the case, in the leadership of the Armed Forces.

However, in order to put the situation of the country in proper perspective, we must first critically appraise where we are coming from and juxtapose it with the situation today. Prior to the coming on board of the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration in 2015, the security situation in the Country was quite dire. Attacks by the Boko Haram Sect spread beyond the North East even up to Abuja, where the United Nations Building was attacked by suicide bombers. There was also a bomb attack at a Catholic Church in Madalla on the fringes of the Federal Capital Territory. In addition, the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters in the Central Area and Banex Plaza in Wuse 2 Abuja were also bombed, while the Nyanya Motor Park was attacked with improvised explosive devices on 2 separate occasions.

Outside Abuja, the former Emir of Kano was attacked in Kano while Kaduna equally experienced its fair share of bomb attacks. Indeed, the President (then Presidential Candidate) Muhammadu Buhari himself narrowly escaped death as his vehicle was targeted by Boko Haram suicide bombers while on a trip to Zaria. Similarly, the Bauchi Prison was attacked, with several prisoners freed and others killed by the insurgents.

At a time, the three States of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa were under a state of emergency. Furthermore, as at early 2015, the Boko Haram Sect was in control of over 14 Local Government Areas in the North East of the Country. They had established a Caliphate with Headquarters in Gwoza, where they had killed the Emir and abducted his wife. Furthermore, Bama and other prominent towns were under their total control. This was after they carried out devastating attacks in Baga, where 185 people were killed and over 2,000 homes destroyed; Banki; Benisheik as well as in Maiduguri where Giwa Barracks and the Nigerian Air Force Base/Maiduguri Airport were attacked with many killed and equipment, including aircraft, destroyed. Yobe and Adamawa States also suffered similarly; recall the horrible attacks on the Government Secondary School in Mamudo and the Federal Government College Buni Yadi, Yobe State that resulted in the death of 25 and 29 children and staff, respectively, subsequently leading to the closure of all schools in the affected States. Maiduguri was like a ghost town at that time; hardly were prayers held in Mosques, while routine celebrations, like weddings and naming ceremonies, that could have occasioned large gatherings, were suspended for fear of suicide bomb attacks.

Since the current set of Service Chiefs took over the helms of affairs, the Armed Forces, supported by other security agencies, quickly took action to dismantle the Caliphate and ensure the liberation of virtually all territories hitherto occupied by the Sect. Bombings have now become a thing of the past and the activities of the Sect mainly curtailed to the fringes of Lake Chad and parts of Sambisa Forest. As a result, many formerly displaced persons have been able to return to their ancestral homes, as peace returned to the hitherto war-torn areas.

Consequently, one can safely say that while we are not yet where we want to be, we certainly are not where used to be and the credit must go the current crop of Service Chiefs. They have been able to do this in spite of the fact that the insurgents have been buoyed in manpower and technology by new entrants into the fray following the crisis in Libya and the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq, which led to an influx of experienced, battle hardened terrorists who injected new tactic and vigour into the ranks of the Boko Haram insurgents.

One must of course understand the feeling of exasperation, especially given the emerging internal security threats in other parts of the country such as the activities of the new set of gun-wielding herdsmen whose modus operandi is seen by many, as the greatest, post-civil war, threat to the unity and stability of the country. However, it would be necessary to look at these threats holistically within the context of how the threats have emerged and consider, in a comprehensive manner, what must be done to deal with them. Hence, it is necessary to dispense with the belief that once the Service Chiefs are dropped, the insurgency and other criminal activities will suddenly end. Sadly, such a position is not supported by either our history or by logic.

Granted, nobody is indispensable. However, nothing will be gained by falling victim of the fallacy of monocausal explanation. We need not look too far into history. The changes in Service Chiefs in the past did not bring about the much-anticipated decisive defeat of Boko Haram; nor did it check the mushrooming of militants in the northern axis of the country. What this means is that, to find the answers to the problem, we must look beyond the Service Chiefs and indeed, the several variables that play up, in the web that has buoyed the insurgents, undermined our military and placed our society in peril.

First, there is the challenge of consensus building in our society. The Bible tells us that a house that is divided against itself cannot stand. Any keen watcher of Nigerian events will agree that never since the end of the Civil War, has the country found itself so divided. Sadly, the political elite, the group looked upon by the society to rally consensus, is guilty of aggravating the divisions that plague the country. How do we expect our military to perform wonders when those they are fighting to protect, divulge their every move and plan to the adversary, resulting in the carnage that often happens after every ambush of our soldiers? Are the informants who betray every move of our military not from the constituencies of our legislators? What have the legislators done to rein in on the saboteurs in their constituencies? Who is fooling who?

Second, the military is a microcosm of the society. It depends on the quantum of budgetary allocation and the speed of delivery, to effectively drive its processes. This is particularly so in combat readiness which includes acquisition of military hardware: tanks, aircraft, weapons and spare parts; motivation of servicemen and women; intelligence gathering and collaboration with sister services of neighbouring countries. Unfortunately, while military operations require speed and adequate supplies, the Services are also subjected to the negative fallouts of budgetary and bureaucratic delays.

From my inquiries, since 2015, there has been a gradual reduction in funds appropriated to the Armed Forces. This is especially worrisome when compared to the amounts allocated in 2012, 2013 and 2014. In 2012, N921.91 billion (18.90 per cent) of the N4.877 trillion budget went to the Defence Sector, and in 2013, N1.055 trillion (21.16 per cent) of the N4.987 trillion expenditure went to Defence. In 2014, Defence was allocated N968.127 billion or 19.51 per cent of the N4.962 trillion appropriated for the year. Curiously, the figure came down to N388.459 billion (7.67 per cent) of the N5.068 trillion budget in 2015. For 2016, it was N429.128 billion for the sector, that is, 7.08 per cent of N6.061 trillion budgeted; and for 2017, Defence received N465.87 billion or 6.26 per cent of the final N7.444 trillion budget. In 2018 the budget was N9.12 trillion, of which the Armed Forces got N580.145 billion or 6.26 per cent of the budget.

For 2019, the Nigerian Army got a total allocation of N228.415 billion, out of which N208.792 billion (91.41 per cent) was assigned as Total Recurrent, while just N19.623 billion (8.59 per cent) was allocated as Total Capital Expenditure. In like manner, the Nigerian Navy in the 2019 budget got a total of N101.391 billion, with N74.240 billion as Total Recurrent, leaving a paltry N27.151 billion as Total Capital allocation. Also, in the 2019 defence budget, the Nigerian Air Force was allocated a total of N114.835 billion; of this sum, N69.784 billion was provided for Total Recurrent Expenditure, leaving N45.051 billion as Total Capital allocation.

As my investigation revealed, a more worrisome question is: were these budgeted figures actually released in each of these years and were they released timeously to the Services? For instance, my investigation reveals that the 2019 capital releases only began as late as September – 4 months to the end of the year. For the current year, 2020, sources indicate that not a single penny has been released from the capital budget to any of the Services. Under such circumstance, how do the lawmakers expect the Services to acquire the needed military hardware with insufficient budgetary allocations that are not fully backed by cash and that trickle in so late in the year? Who is fooling who?

Third, as we are all aware, internal security ought to be the primary responsibility of the Nigeria Police. But a Police Force that has only about 350,000 officers and men for over 200 Million people is grossly understaffed. Burdened by the spate of internal crises mushrooming all over the country, I have it on good authority that the military has been deployed in 32, out of the 36 states of the Federation, to support the Police. Unless we want to be hypocritical about it, this constitutes a major distraction to a military that is confronting one of the deadliest and well-armed insurgency groups in the world. One certainly knows that it is not tanks or aircraft that are most effective in tracking small groups of cattle rustlers or kidnap gangs. No! This falls within the purview of the Nigeria Police Force. Evidently, the Nation needs a stronger, better equipped Police Force structured in a manner that elicits confidence among the component units of the Federation. What is the legislature doing to shore up the strength of the Police Force to deal with these internal security threats?

Worse still are the numbers in the Armed Services whose manpower is grossly below what is required to deal with the current challenges. For example, the Nigerian Air Force, by establishment, ought to have a strength of 40,000 but still only has about 20,000 personnel. This is another area our lawmakers have to address in order to ensure that Nigeria has a more effective and efficient Armed Forces.

Fourth, ought we not seriously to interrogate the conditions that throw up these criminal elements and give rise to these festering conflicts in the first place? Although some of us hate to hear the truth, we cannot continue to shy away from the fact that, as a result of decades of neglect, our country gestates too many ungoverned areas. Nor can we wish away or continue to treat with levity, the loud protests by some segments of the society, against what, in their view, amounts to the absence of inclusion. By eroding confidence in the system, the attendant agitations for self-determination often climax in security challenges that distract the military from its core responsibility of effectively engaging recalcitrant threats of the hue of Boko Haram. Consequently, despite the bold efforts by the current Federal Government to emplace infrastructure such as roads, rail lines and bridges as well as initiate social investment and other programmes to alleviate the sufferings of the most vulnerable groups, guaranteeing internal security is bound to remain a mirage so long as there are still so many Nigerians living on the fringes of existence or who hold strong aversion to the union is presently organised. Some of these citizens are merely seeking for more cost-effective means to evacuate their produce from their farms, while others are simply looking for such basic amenities as boreholes for potable water. These people, because of the failures of some State and Local Governments, barely know that Government exists and are sometimes forced into a life of crime. Can the NASS, in all honesty, claim that it has lived up to its mandate in ensuring that the benefits of good governance reach such people, thereby dousing the tensions in these areas? Who is fooling who?

Amotolongbo:
lol

1.Abba Kyari
2. Isa Funtua
3.

“iku ti o n pa ojugba eni, owe ni o pa fun ni”(the death killing one’s contemporaries is sending an omen to one)

“Omo yeri e, oko” (Dodge your head from the oncoming stone)

These southerners "Kafir" self eh..cos you disagree with someone the next thing you're wishing him death..... so you leave forever on earth ooo

i laugh in calabar hik,hik, hik.hik.hik.hik

Eye services

Arrewa:
Let me still put this here!!

I'm not a fan of Buratai or a fan of Buhari!!

But I must commend this government in the fight against Bokoharam in the north East.

Before 2015 Bokoharam were strong and well equipped that no northern state is safe.

Kano was not safe... Bombing here and there!!

Kaduna, Gombe, bauchi, Sokoto, Kebbi,Adamawa, And Yobe were not safe...bomb was killing people here and there!!

They take over local governments and take full control... Displacing and bombing people in large number... There's no week we don't hear of Bokoharam attack in the north.

Even Borno the headquarter of Bokoharam is now almost free if not some villages which are soft targets

Today Bokoharam only have the capacity to attack Borno villages that are close the forest.

We northerners know that things are now better compare how it was before.

The only problem I have the with this government is their poor stragies in the fight against bandit in kastina, Zamfara and southern kaduna.

We only want BUHARI's government to do more!

Bandits in zamfara and kastina should be given same attention that was given to Bokoharam stop underestimating them...

We need more action and change of outdated strategies!

aboki you fall my hands.......are we secure now?

"Almost every guy wants to woo her and all of that"

mumu you....continue woo her till you die idiot.....

"Almost every guy wants to woo her and all of that"

mumu you....continue till you die idiot.....

omenka:
And of what political, moral, economic or social significance is this thread exactly?

To tell those miscreants that the NORTHERN wealth were used to develop the SOUTHERN part this country at the expense of the North. So the
table can turn anytime

So pathetic .............
more so with the level of conspiracy theories propounded by those jobless AFENIFERE (Yinka Odumakin ) and co..

DOCUMENT

I really don't envy Mr President at this trying times. His team is gradually exposing its deficits in character, competence, integrity and fidelity, leaving behind a disappointing feeling of a rudderless ship on the high sea.

Seventy percent (70%) of the Cabinet members have no business being in a 21st C. digital Nigerian cabinet.

For a country that is in a haste to catch up with the rest of the world, haven missed out on great opportunities due to serially failed leadership and lack of vision, we should have our best hands and brains on board.

All we see is a set of disorganized retinue of aides and ministers working at cross purposes and constituting opposition to one another at the detriment of the administration.

MAGU - Under investigation, connotes a big dent on the Anti-corruption drive because his office is expected to be above board.

MALAMI - A pro-corruption apologist and personified antithesis in the fight against corruption, is at the centre of all sorts of controversy with sever damage to his office as AGF.

AKPABIO - Engrossed in corruption and allegations of sexual scandals unbecoming of a Cabinet member.

COMM MINISTER - Disgracefully embroiled in a war with The Chairperson Diaspora community over office space. All of same Party serving same President.

NDDC turned into a cesspool of corruption and controversy by a supossed interim management committee set up to carry out forensic audit of the last Executive now bent on surpassing their corruption profile.

Presidential appointees writing damaging reports to The NASS discrediting the President's own nominee whose name has been forwarded for clearance. This is shameful and unacceptable.

Going through the list of ministers, you find spent forces and Pro-Corruption elements under an administration bent on fighting corruption?

As an ardent supporter and admirer of the President, I am tempted to ask, what value can these gentlemen bring on the table in furtherance of the C-IN-C's intent at delivering on his social contract with the people.

I genuinely feel disturbed as a Concerned non-partisan ordinary Nigerian who celebrated the entry of this Administration.

We can not afford to see this President fail and just exit with no positive impressions on the minds of Nigerians.

Mr President you rode on the Tripod of Security, Economy and Infrastructure to the Presidency.

Security, I make boldly to say is still a serious challenge despite all efforts by your administration. I have written extensively on what I think should be done.

The economy too, though of no fault of yours, (but the buck stops on your table), remains in bad shape, with severe consequences for business and wellbeing of the citizenry.

Infrastructure has witnessed some bold attempts at flattening the curve, but given the depth of decay you met on ground, all efforts put in amounts to mere scratch.

So invariably what would the score card look like on your departure? This is my greatest discomfort for someone that admires you and have loved you since my days as a Boy soldier in Military School and young officer.

SOLUTION:

Mr President, my solutions:
1. Rejig your cabinet.
70 % of your present cabinet members have no business in a 21st C. digital Nigerian cabinet.

2. Scout for young, smart brains, technocrats with requisite exposure in governace and accountability protocol.

3. Disengage The Service Chiefs.
Pave way for fresh hands, fresh thinking and Initiative to strategise over the quagmire we find ourselves in presently.

4. Revisit the Big Five deficits of The Military & Paramilitary Agencies viz: Funding, Manpower, Log/Equip, Training and Welfare.

5. Establish an Independent Special Forces Combat Borderline Patrol Force.
Avail it full accoutrements of a Command chain, Equipment and Manpower holding. I have written extensively on the modality and framework of this with an available discussion paper.

6. Conduct a nation-wide National Small Arms and Light Weapons mop-up Exercise with monetary incentives for every weapon submitted.

7. Manpower Deficit.
Establish additional 3 Training depots with an annual capacity of 5,000 recruit in take each, in the East, West and NE to compliment the one at Zaria.

8. Banditry Challenges.
Engage able bodied 'reservists' from the pool of retirees on very attractive contract terms to beef up strength and perform Rare Area Protection tasks in vulnerable communities while the regular troops advance on.

Mr President your concern now should be "How would posterity judge me ?" Have I left indelible footprints in the sand of history ? Have I unified Nigeria beyond where I met her or further deepen her divide ?

Sir, go out there mobilise every resources, human or material, from every nook and cranny, that can turn around the table for you, and let them give you results.

If you must as a personal principle restrict your team selection to the North, please do, but pick the best of hands and brains.

So far, 90% of your appointees from the north are push overs and perfect examples of mediocrity and backwardness.

They give the false impression that this is the best the North can offer. Drop them now and make way for game changers. Your cabinet is replete of them.

Mr President, your name and reputation is at stake. You have no other election ahead of you as a threat. So come out boldly and decisively to effect whatever changes you want in the best interest of this country.

Sir, we have very sound, young, well read, exposed and polished northern chaps even in your party the APC, doing quite well in the private sector and Internationally who could come on board as technocrats and turn things around within the last few years you still have in Govt.

However, I will urge you to look beyond the North, because as President, your constituency is the entire country.

Mr President I leave you with these few suggestions by way of advice. If it ever gets to you, do give some serious consideration to them.

I shall be visiting Daura after the hand over in 2023 to have a personal feel of a man I have come to respect from childhood.

My guy....i pity you for comparing police to Armed Forces. it is Military that make police to have Police College in Wudil like the NDA where only the wealthest in the society are commissioned. better find your way before is too late. NOBODY SEND YOUR QUALIFICATION

Armed* *Banditry/kidnapping* *Acts*

At about 061620A Jul 20,unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in numbers shot at motorists along Okene - Lokoja road close to mark's farm and 1 x offr Capt GSM Abubakar (N/13600) of 353AR Regt NA Cant Ojo, Lagos ,in a private Honda Accord car with reg no FKJ 455 BQ (Lagos)on transit from Lagos to Jaji for JD cse was shot dead while his mother and wife were abducted by the hoodlums.Also other offrs who were on convoy with him mnvr to escaped the attk. Meanwhile efforts ongoing by own tps to rescue the victims and apprehend the perpetrators while the corpse has been deposited at FMC morgue.Pictures of the deceased offr att below.

When all the hypocrisy evaporates, we can put on our glasses and see clearly that in the Nigeria of today, the extremely few people who are not from the HUSHPUPPI CLAN are the endangered species.

The metamorphosis into this reality started many years ago, when the likes of OVATION Magazine, BOS and other TV shows & magazines replaced the academic competitions with showcasing private jets and luxury homes of young footballers, their fast cars and the celebrations of the high and mighty...

Rubbing the lifestyles of the rich in the face of the suffering masses while the hardworking retired men died on the queue in the wait for pensions that never came...
The banks had security men who allowed only luxury cars into the parking lots within their compounds while 'other' vehicles park along the road...

Then, suddenly, almost every young person either wants to go and play football abroad or do some other work in Italy...

Secondary school teachers sell exam questions and parents who can afford them buy them...

In the higher institutions, the buying and selling continues...
Our graduates cannot invent anything because most projects are bought in the market and installed in the lecturer's /supervisor's new house for the students to pass and graduate.

Most of the get rich quick scams that ravage our society from time to time often - if not always have the secret collaboration of our banks...

What about the HUSHPUPPI GOVERNMENT in place?

Many of our traditional stools are presently occupied by members of the HUSHPUPPI CLAN.

Should I look away from the clan members behind the pulpits in our churches and mosques?

The civil service and the justice system are run by this same clan.

The security outfits are terribly HUSHPUPPIED�

You have a right to be angry � at this post or the writer...�‍♂️

Winners of academic competitions win N500,000 or double in prize while crazy reality show competitors can exhibit a lack of home training and loose morals to win houses, luxury cars and N25m plus endorsements to REPRESENT corporations.

HUSHPUPPI IS A REPRESENTATION OR THE FACE OF THE NEW 'NORMAL' NIGERIAN.

The fact that you're yet to scam anyone does not exunerate you... Most people are just looking for the right opportunities to take the stage.

Only a few aren't in the HUSHPUPPI CLAN. THEY ARE THE ENDANGERED SPECIES...

European countries have started opening their gates for the POST COVID19 life to resume... They're making lists of countries that can visit... They have a good excuse... I am yet to see Nigeria on any of the lists...
This lists will increase gradually...

Somewhere deep within me, I cannot tell how or when, but I still have this hope that Nigeria as a people will re-emerge and succeed as a nation...

HUSHPUPPI IS NOT A PERSON, HUSHPUPPI IS A PEOPLE.

This thing deep gan-an... Much more elaborate than I know or can explain.

Why Niger Delta Must Be Sovereign*

Why Fulani's Will Never Stop Their Agenda*

How We Got to this Sorry State by The Greed Of a Few*

From the Archives of Intelligence Gathering Vault*

A must read piece to the end.

Igbo political leaders and their past misadventures resulting in current national political problems*

Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;

Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence staff was fron SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!

Still there was dissatisfaction by easterners; the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!

Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.

Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!

We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets. There is the tendency to think those are truths and facts.

What follows are documented facts that can be cross checked for authenticity!

Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central govt because his brother Aguiyi Ironsi was the head of state then. Today, he is shouting restructuring that he helped to destroy. We won’t forget.

Let those who have ears hear.
*What Biafrans will never tell you about the real cause of their woes in Nigeria today*
The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausa-fulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their seeming claim of being in third class citizen status in Nigeria.

In their perpetual attempts to play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria nation.

The story told in the post above is one of such selective and distorted accounts of history which the average Igbo man is fond of narrating. However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning way back from even before 1914.

I will therefore proceed to furnish my readers with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge and act from an informed position.

Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done with colonial fiat without the consent and consensus of the different tribes which were over 300.

This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended. To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as:

"The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".

Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be called a country let alone a nation. Awolowo added that if the amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any one single tribe.

But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, terming them ethnic champions. He accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and he declared further that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.

After moving the motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future.

According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance.

But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria.

At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constitution.

While Azikiwe did all these, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe

Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in.

But Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too. Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.

For those in doubt, here is a link of one of the numerous instances in which Nnamdi Azikiwe fought against the secession clause proposal for the future Nigeria constitution.

*https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/…/my-opposition-to-seces…/*

It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.

Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe. (The first Nigerian tribe to produce a university graduate is the Binis).

As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here are some quotes:

"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Nnamdi Azikiwe (1945).

"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeamma. (1949)

As at 1900, the whole of the present Benue State, Kogi East Senatorial District and some southern parts of Taraba State called Munchi District back then; were all in the Southern Protectorate.

Whoever doubts this should consult MacMillan Atlas for secondary schools in Nigeria.
With that situation the South had a higher population than the North hence always had an upper hand in any democratic bargain.

But as at the early fifties when the regions were being created, common sense dictated clearly that these areas should fall in the future Eastern Region.

But against common sense, the colonial masters decided to gerrymander them into the Northern Region.

While they did that, Azikiwe who was supposed to be in Enugu fighting against it as the leader of the East, was far away in Ibadan struggling with Awolowo to rule the Western Region and also playing the spoiler role against Awolowo's attempts to have Kwara and present Kogi Yorubas carved into the Western Region from the North which was already too large by landmass.

While he abandoned his burning house and was far away in Ibadan struggling against Awolowo for his own (Awolowo's) region, Igbos saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather they applauded him as a nationalist. A nationalist whose house was burning yet busy chasing rats in a far away land.

When opinions became unanimous that Lord Luggard and his government must be forced out of Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa, it was still the Igbos that frustrated the attempts.

Here is how:
In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Azikiwe and some other Igbos had agreed to deliver the keynote address.

But when the D-day came, Azikiwe was nowhere to be found as he deliberately disappeared into thin air for fear of being arrested and dealt with by Lord Luggard.

Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the job improptu but perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned Lord Luggard and the British Government.

However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony.

Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview in which he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exuberance.

On regaining his freedom few weeks later and being told of Azikiwe's radio interview, Enahoro resigned from his post as Editor of Azikiwe's newspaper - The West African Pilot.

Then he wrote a book titled "Nnamdi Azikiwe: Sinner of Saint".

After launching the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC, and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.

The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority of Igbo army officers.

That was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post Independence and led to a succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for 33 years.

Through that first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures to escape by tipping them off prior to the D-Day.

In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except their Eastern Region.

*In the end an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria*

*Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heroes*

*This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. On the 23rd of February 1966 (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup porpularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup, an Ijaw born Army officer called Isaac Adaka Boro who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region*
*But Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him naked, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December that year by the Supreme Court*

*His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria. Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal*

*Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. But God so kind, a revenge coup happened on July 29 by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was overthrown and killed*

Gowon took over and released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally, reinstated him into the Army with his previous rank.

Then on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu too declared secession of Biafra Republic from Nigeria and without consulting or apologising to Isaac Boro, drew a Biafra map which included the very areas that made up Isaac Adaka Boro's earlier declared Niger Delta Republic for which he fought against him and killed his soldiers.

Seeing such level of arrogance in Ojukwu, Isaac Boro asked Gowon to provide arms for him to crush Biafra by fighting on the Nigerian side in vengeance for Ojukwu's frustration of his own secession declaration 15 months earlier.

Isaac Boro, as an Ijaw man conversant with the waterways, led the Nigeria Army through the coastal areas into Igboland to finish off thousands of Ojukwu's soldiers thus leading to the crushing defeat of Biafra.

But today, Igbos accuse Ijaws of betraying them in the war. But from the facts as above, who really betrayed the other in all honesty?

Be the judge.

Why Gowon fought against Ojukwu's declaration of Biafra was as follows:

After Ironsi and Ojukwu successfully crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic declaration, Ironsi immediately proceeded to promulgate the Anti-secession Decree which made the mere mention of secession from Nigeria punishable with death by hanging.

Ojukwu openly supported and endorsed the decree despite disapproval of it by the general public. So when Ojukwu later declared Biafra secession, he was reminded of the Anti-secession Decree made by him and his brother Ironsi.

Deadly Truth: Igbos frequently reference Aburi Accord to create the impression that the rest Nigerian tribes don't honour agreements. This is a very dishonest narrative from Igbos.

First and foremost Aburi Accord was organized by soldiers and unelected civil servants who should not participate in political exercises like making laws due to the civil service anonymity principle.

Secondly, those civil servants and military men in attendance were not elected by their federal constituencies to the Aburi summit.

In the philosophy of democracy the only universally acceptable way of making laws is through duly elected representatives of the people. But in going to Aburi the peoples' representatives duly elected in the 1965 elections were all sidelined for soldiers to hijack the process.

Where on earth do soldiers make laws for the people? Rather, the civilian populace makes laws that guide the military.

Aburi Accord therefore had no seal of the people's sovereignty hence it was an illegality which shouldn't have been allowed to stand.

Thirdly, in 1957, Nigerians from all federal constituencies democratically elected representatives whom they sponsored to London, paid their flight tickets and hotel cc accommodation for the Independence constitutional conference.

Those representatives all resolved and agreed on federalism marked by regional autonomy and resource control in the Independence Constitution which they brought back home and everyone accepted it.

In that constitution, Nigerians all agreed that on no account shall the military take over power. It was also clearly stated in it that ammendments to it could be done by only democratically elected representatives.

That constitution was the first ever agreement between all Nigerians.

On the day of his inauguration as the Army GoC, Aguiyi Ironsi stood before the whole world and with his own mouth swore to protect and defend that sovereign Independence constitution regardless of the circumstances that may later arise.

But just six years after he manufactured an excuse to clinch power against the clear provisions of that constitution we all agreed to, unilaterally began to amend its provisions with his very offensive Decrees, and ended up dismantling the federalism and resource control therein, and ultimately subverted that constitution we all painstakingly sacrificed to draft.

That was the height of irresponsibility and the dishonoring of sacred agreement. That was how Igbos breached the first agreement, all Nigerians, ever all mutually consented to, thus laying the foundation for violation of future agreements.

So Aburi Accord was only treated exactly the same way Igbos treated the Independence constitution agreement.
Obasanjo removed history from the school curriculum hence the reason why many of what we do for a know of the eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suite their narratives.

With the Igbo’s in Yoruba land, “the hand shake has exceeded the wrist”. And as Chinua Achebe said in his book, “it has turned to a fight”

One thing I can about Yorubas is that they are liberal and broadminded. Well I believe God is on our side. We are like givers who will NEVER lack

It’s high time Yoruba nation intelligentsia go to works, see how we can relate and equitably accommodate the Igbos without undermining our own interests. Yes Nigeria is a nation but the Igbo people will not allow a fraction of what we tolerate in Lagos in Ochanja (Onitsha), Aba, Enugu and the likes.

sakaguchi:
I think the prophet Muhammed (PBUH) wrote the Qur'an. Every part of it, and copied some text from the Bible, and made up some things.

you try

Blackbishop:
Oga I am using UBA and I don't have any issue with them since 2007.... So you complaining about virtually all the banks baffles me... As an ex banker once you report a cash retract or dispense pending issues, first report at the branch level then start calling customer care line they will give you the code of your report so you can track the progress of your complains. And believe me it works. They will be calling you from time to confirm if you have received the alert

ex banker ba...you are one of them...

Wema na bank?...haba

Goke7:
Nigerians are hypocrites, when timi dakolo wife accused the COZA pastor of rape, she was shouted down and made to feel like a list. Seriously ain't moved by all these stuff anymore

Dont mind those munafiq.......even the so called female celebrities do not kom to her aid

see face of a liar....show proof i tore your clothes after two years.....? May God have mercy on your soul

kponkedenge:
I use both an iPhone 8 and an infinix S4, I'd say the infinix is really strong and has a good battery life.
Nice advert, but thanks.....I'm not buying another phone for now.

S4 ? full of shit .....hanging

INFINIX.. fake phone ...i have three different types all faulty within three months..the latest S4 full of shit,very slow and always hanging...................tufiakwa

May God have mercy on their souls and give the famliy the fortitude to bear the loss

You have a weak mind......after caught her cheating you still called her your wife?? pathetic "A MAN IS NOT A MAN SIMPLY BECAUSE HE PARADE AN OKRO SPROUT" Chinua Achebe...

How about idoma in Benue state ?