Atiku's paper would just be cooking lies up and down.
How many of the people listed below, told you that the newspaper cooked up lies about their rejection of Tinubu’s reelection, which is a prelude to his 3rd term agenda?
The 3rd term agenda that Obasanjo tried and failed to achieve, despite his Ghana must go bags of bribes to NASS members, including the Georgia fraudulent lawyer, who is now Tinubu’s CoS.
ogododo: The signatories include Hon Sergius Oguns, Hon Herman Hembe, Hon Sam Okwu, Hon Zakari Mohammed, Hon Tom Zakari, Hon Mohammed Soba, Hon Chika Adamu, Hon Sadiq Ibrahim and Hon Tajudeen Ajagbe.
Others include Hon Supo Abiodun, Hon Danlad Donald Olayonu, Hon Abubakar Amuda Kannike, Hon Rufus Omiri, Hon Mayor Eze, Hon Kamil Akinlabi, Hon Shaaba Ibrahim, and Hon Nkwo Nkole.
Lord Lugard, the former governor-general of Nigeria, in 1926, wrote his unfiltered thought about Nigerians. From his book, The Dual Mandates, come these excerpts: "In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewellery. His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.
"Through the ages, the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility - he will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue. In brief, the virtues and defects of his race -type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy. Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future"
Guys lets discuss the thoughts of Lord Lugard. he had a supremacist view obviously. But is he right in the way he describes Nigerians and Africans in general? How many of the issues that he raises are valid?
Ofunaofu: Intellectual capability shows in transparency and consistency, not just how polished someone sounds.
Polished balablu town hall is a good sign of cluelessness and incompetence as we know now, and as Lagosians have known for 27 years of his TAX monster plan.
Inosky: Your messiah Atikuu is power-drunk, it's a known fact. Go and read Obasanjo's book about him. It's a known fact. Let me correct your wrong narrative, your messiah Atikuu has no power to make Obasanjo a one-term president in any dimension even as his vice president or wishes of the north. If not that Saraki, as the Senate president, stopped Obasanjo's 3rd term bid, Obasanjo would still be president till today like his counterpart in Cameroon.
Your messiah Atiikuu is power-drunk, has wicked and hidden agenda, and he's not a liberal Muslim like Tinubu and few others. Obasanjo's book "UNDER MY WATCH" will give you more details about the kind person your massaging. Obi is far better than your messiah Akiituu 1 billion times. Take this or leave it.
Saraki that was Kwara governor in 2007 was also senate president simultaneously? Are you sniffing what Reno said that Tinubu was selling in Chicago to have these hallucinations?
Obasanjo's stories are the rantings of a jilted woman, because of Atiku's leadership of democratic forces that halted his 3rd term agenda.
Obi knows that Atiku is better qualified to win and serve Nigerians as president, as stated severally during their 2019 campaign, after he was rescued from the IDP camp where Obiano had consigned him.
It;s the same thing with beggarly, ologogoro FCT land grabber Wike.
anonimi: Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant
Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT
Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.
Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.
The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.
The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.
The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.
Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury
Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.
One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.
Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.
ddippset: Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.
Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku. He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.
He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party.. Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.
This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.
He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.
Inosky: Atikuu is power drunk, it would be very difficult to convince the old man that it's still the turn of the south in 2027 before he will start dolling out $50k USD to buy his way in.
And I see him not making any significant changes to if he ever climbs to the seat of president rather to collect back the money he's spent several years contesting for president. Let him hear that... Obi is more close to the people and understands their pain, and he's prudent with resources.
He's only contesting to give back to the Nigerian populace and to change the evil narrative holding Nigeria. Let them give him a chance or kiss the 2027 election a goodbye. Simple.
If Atiku is power drunk, why did he not succumb to 2003 northern pressure to make Obasanjo a one term president like Mandela, and like Tinubu made Jonathan? That was the year that Buharis first asked Nigerians to give him the job of president.
Are you sure you and your Peter Obi have any clue what prudent means?
Report: How Peter Obi as Anambra governor failed to declare assets kept in tax havens
Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state, kept secret assets in tax havens, a series of leaked documents has shown.
The leaked files which were retrieved from 14 offshore services firms around the world were revealed in a Pandora Papers project led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and which Premium Times is a part of.
In his response, the former governor told Premium Times: “I don’t declare what is owned with others. If my family owns something I won’t declare it. I didn’t declare anything I jointly owed with anyone.”
In 2010, more than four years after Obi became governor, he reportedly set up his first discreet company in the British Virgin Island, and named the company Gabriella Investments Limited, after his daughter.
To set up what has now become a convoluted business structure, Obi, Premium Times reported first approached Acces International, a secrecy enabler in Monaco, France, to help him incorporate an offshore entity in one of the world’s most notorious tax havens noted for providing conduits for wealthy and privileged corrupt political elites to hide stolen cash.
According to the newspaper, Obi also paid Acces International to provide nominee directors for the company — these directors are residents of tax havens paid to sit on boards of companies to hide the identities of real owners of offshore firms.
Acces International officials, who reportedly took briefs from Obi and or his representatives, headed to the British Virgin Island where they contracted a local registered agent – Aleman Cordero Galindo & Lee Trust (BVI) Limited (Alcogal) — to set up Gabriella Investments Limited for the former governor.
NLCreator: Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
Journalist: how do you intend to engage members of your party who are members of the house, so that they can stand different.......?
PO: Let me start with the issue of labour party members in the house, have actually discussed this issue with them, surprisingly, I can tell you ,… pic.twitter.com/svybrcY4t3
— Senator Baruch Chinanu Boniface (@SenatorBaruch1) November 7, 2023
legallyminded: If you like, guilt-trip or gaslight, it won’t work.
Obi or Nothing.
What role did Obi play in the foundational work for PDP's deregulation and privatisation policies that gave us 16 years of widespread prosperity before Tinubu packaged his expired Buhari as APC positive change messiah?
Should we not all work together to stop APC extreme poverty shege and return us to PDP prosperity
Nemere2020: The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.
He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.
He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.
“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.
“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.”
Riskymarvelous: Where are the pictures the old one and new ones because that is how Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State and his government used to lie about road in Ogun State awọn aláìní laakaye eda eniyan jatijati
That one has been a disgraceful disappointment in all sectors, especially free basic education in Awolowo's state despite PDP's matching funds through UBEC for nine years free and compulsory education of all children.
UBEC that was established in 1999 by the Obasanjo/Atiku administration.
Uncompleted projects, dilapidated classrooms litter Ogun despite N10.2 billion rehabilitation
PREMIUM TIMES visited schools that the state government claimed to have rehabilitated and found decrepit and inadequate facilities.
January 8, 2023
Governor Dapo Abiodun said last year that over 400 primary and secondary schools have been renovated in Ogun State under his administration.
However, when PREMIUM TIMES late in 2022 toured the three senatorial districts of the state, our reporter found facilities in many public schools still in deplorable conditions.
The renovation project was executed with a N10.2 billion fund jointly contributed, equally, by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the state government.
UBEC released its share of the fund to the state government in 2019 to address infrastructural decay and inadequate facilities in 236 public schools across the state.
PREMIUM TIMES found that in many schools captured under the rehabilitation project, the exercise has either not been completed or started at all. All the schools mentioned in this report are those the Abiodun administration listed as schools it has renovated.
The rehabilitated blocks of classrooms all had yellow roofs, the signature of the Dapo Abiodun administration.
Cracked walls, leaky roofs At the St Joseph RCM Primary school in the Ayila area of Ogun Waterside Local Government Area, pupils were attending classes in uncompleted buildings with cracked walls and leaking roofs. Because chairs and desks were insufficient, some pupils sat on the bare floor.
One of the two buildings in the school looked like it could collapse anytime. “We cannot abandon it because we don’t have an alternative,” a teacher told PREMIUM TIMES.
The teacher said classes are suspended whenever it rains, because of the leaky roofs and low walls.
“When it rains, there is no class because all the pupils need to be moved to the two classes that are still manageable,” the teacher said.
Toye, one of the pupils, said he wants the government to repair and upgrade the school.
Gboko community in Ketu, Yewa North Local Government Area, has only one primary school. The mud-walled school has no teachers.
A block of three classrooms built as part of the UBEC project reportedly collapsed following heavy rainfall. It was after the incident that members of the community pooled resources together to build the mud-walled classrooms in 2021.
To accommodate all the pupils in the makeshift building, the junior classes were merged into a single class, while classes five and six shared another classroom.
The Chairman of the school’s Parents/ Teachers Association (PTA), Fakonbi Paul, said the school management wrote the government for another block of classrooms but there had been no response.
“The building was a UBEC project, it collapsed after heavy rain last year (2021). We wrote to the government but nothing was done. When we saw that nothing was forthcoming, the community decided to construct this mould blocks classroom with the assistance of our Kabiyesi (traditional ruler).”
“Goats, hens and dogs enter our classrooms because there are no doors or windows,” a Primary Four pupil told our reporter.
“Whenever we arrive every morning, we sweep the faeces of the animals in the classrooms. That is the instruction our teacher gave us,” the pupil added.
The situation is similar at Yewa North Local Government Primary School, Kakanfo. The few classrooms built have no windows or doors.
Abiodun Michael, a parent whose children attend the school, said pupils are usually sent home whenever it is about to rain because the classroom roofs are broken.
“The roofs have been broken for a long time and left like that,” Mr Micheal said.
District High School, Agosasa, also had classrooms with leaky roofs and cracked walls. These features seem to be shared by all public basic schools in the area.
Same situation in the capital Abeokuta
The state government listed Owu Baptist school, Ita-Iyalode in Oke-Shokori/Totoro ward, as one of the schools where classrooms were built or renovated. But our reporter found during a visit to the school that the project was abandoned.
The scaffold installed for the plastering of the wall still surrounded the building but some of the planks had decayed.
A worker in the school, who simply identified himself as Baba Jamiu, said the project had been abandoned for many months before the visit of the reporter.
However, he said the yet-to-be-completed classrooms, which were under lock and key during our reporter’s visit, were already being used.
“Leaving the scaffolding after plastering is dangerous. They don’t have any usefulness, but the contractor has refused to come and remove them. Pupils are already using the classroom that way because we don’t have enough classrooms.
“The contractor was to plaster and paint the building, but they abandoned their work halfway, which is really bad,” he said.
The situation is not different at AUD Primary School, Ikatedo in Ago-Ika ward of Abeokuta North local council. A large building marked for rehabilitation but abandoned has become an abode for smokers around the area.
Residents said the renovation was started in 2019 but nothing new has been done to it in the last two years.
Around the school compound, the reporter found the roofs of many classrooms damaged. The structure of the buildings looks weak, while the environment generally seems not conducive to teaching and learning.
The government also claimed to have rehabilitated some classrooms at St. Peter’s College in the town. While the entire ceiling of one of the classrooms was replaced, work on those of other classrooms was not completed.
A block of four classrooms has a yellow roof, but the walls were not plastered and it has no windows. The building does not look like one where work was ongoing.
A worker who took this reporter around the school refused to give his name for fear of sanction by the authorities. He said the building has been completed despite not being plastered and not having windows.
Budgetary allocation to education sector
In December 2021, Governor Abiodun signed the N338.6 billion 2022 budget of the state and later adopted a 2022 Supplementary budget of N100.2 billion in August 2022.
In the initial budget, N56.07 billion was allocated to the education sector. N529.1 million out of that was for the maintenance of public schools; secondary education got N22.9 billion while primary education got N3.2 billion under the category of total expenditure by functional classification.
In 2022, the state’s total budget stood at N350.74 billion. Education had the second-highest estimate of N56,071 billion or 16 per cent of the total estimated budget. The lion’s share went to Infrastructure which gulped N77.8 billion, constituting 22 per cent of the total budget.
For the 2023 fiscal year, the governor voted N66.79 billion for education, representing 14 per cent of the total budget of N472 billion.
However, many residents still hope to see the impacts of these funds on the dilapidated schools in the state.
The Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Abayomi Arigbabu, did not respond to repeated calls and text messages to his phone for his comments on issues raised in this report.
But at a briefing in September 2022, Mr Arigbabu said infrastructural decay at schools predated the current administration when contacted, the spokesperson of UBEC, David Apeh, refused to respond to questions on the matter, especially on whether UBEC is monitoring the use of its funds by the Ogun government.
When first called over the phone on a Tuesday, Mr Apeh asked this reporter to call back on Wednesday.
When called according to his dictate, the spokesperson asked this reporter to call again after two hours but since then, he has refused to pick up calls nor respond to text messages.
An email sent to the official email address of UBEC was also not replied to.
Do you have a magic formula for using pictures of the road to pay for:
- children's school fees in private establishments - refuse collection by private companies - primary healthcare needs - water supply
since the governor is failing, like other governors since 1999, to employ well paid civil servants to make these basic services and utilities available for every Enugu child and resident
SpaceX: godfatherism in Nigerian politics have never worked,
Kwankwaso want to selfishly keep his claws of Kano state funds to enable him work his way to the presidency, he is delusional. Abba gave him the don't disturb treatment.
Na so o.
Even Obi's attempt to be a godfather in Anambra was frustrated by his protege, who quickly made him a homeless IDP politician before Atiku rescued him from oblivion in 2019.
newsbook: Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.
Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.
Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.
Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano administration at the end of his tenure.
But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.
He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.
Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.
These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.
The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never accounted for by the former governor.
On the actual sum the former Governor claimed he left behind, Governor Obiano made it clear that he inherited liability of about N127 billion debt from him in contracts awarded and other responsibilities, which he has been religiously undertaking in the spirit of continuity.
He said Obi flagged off several roads even on the day he was leaving office and saddled him with the burden of paying for it, but he assured the people that he has his eyes on the ball and will not allow anything to distract him from fulfilling his promises.
The Chairman of the Governor’s Re-election Campaign Committee, Chief Victor Umeh said APGA as the political spirit of Ndigbo, has in the past three and half years, availed Anambra good governance at its best, reminding the people that the upcoming guber election was not about Willie Obiano but about ensuring that the state remained free from political godfatherism.
A former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in his speech said that at this time, the State needs a tested hand like Governor Obiano who has the experience and expertise to effectively steer her affairs.
Willy2025: No betrayal at all. The governor has the right to belong to any party he wants. Moreso, Kwankwaso is becoming and overdemanding overbearing too much.
All the heavyweights in Kano politics are now in APC and APC has always been formidable in Kano. It is safe to say that Tinubu has secured the North West.
Was that how Tinubu secured Lagos in 2023 and even in 2015 when all heavyweights in Lagos politics were aligned with the TAX monster planner?
2015 was when Oba Akiolu issued the genocidal lagoon fatwa against Igbo voters after the shock presidential results that PDP almost won, while six HoR slots were won by PDP and Accord.
What has fleeing to Nigeria got to do with ICE killings engineered by your worshipful god in America?
Rest your self-hatred: each country has its own cross to carry, there is no El-dorado anywhere anymore.
If there is no eldorado anywhere anymore why are Nigerians praying and fasting for japa visas despite Tinubu and APC's renewed hopelessness continuity of APC extreme poverty shege that replaced PDP widespread prosperity 11 years ago
Your self hatred is self evident in your alternative reality propaganda.
Nemere2020: The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.
He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.
He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.
“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.
“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.”
Guyman02: They are a problem to Nigeria as they always vote rubbish people into power who will continue to keep them in poverty which affects reasonable citizens in other places.
They are supposed to have their own country with their poverty mentality
How are they different from Lagosians and other southerners in voting rubbish people who continue to keep us impoverished and deprived of basic services and utilities
anonimi: The eyesore on Bourdillon Road 2nd January 2025
Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.
If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.
That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.
Itiskdg121: You could have checked Qatar, UAE, Kuwait.
Also, are you aware that every new birth Briton gets weekly pay by their government till age 16?
What is the source of your claim?
Do children in Britain, Qatar, UAE and Kuwait get free and compulsory education to produce a diversely educated workforce that generates revenue beyond oil?
Should you not focus on that instead of your phantom claim of free oil money shared to people who don't want to be educated in order to be workers and entrepreneurs later in life
dequir: The best reply for our in-house pessimist:
For Trump supporter it’s normal but if Nigeria military agent kill an armless citizens they call their country failed country
USA is a failed country for killing the innocent young man and many people have been killed by this same ice
#COPIED.
Is that why Americans have been fleeing to Tinubu's renewed hopelessness Nigeria of tax reforms since January 2025
Fleeing along with Nigerians in America who cannot stay in your failed USA anymore.
TheBedWench: The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood) is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms).
This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups.[3]
The one-drop rule is defunct in law in the United States and was never codified into federal law.
Ladiesdoctor: The world Headquarters of Street Begging is in Kano
They are busy with red cap Kwankasiya or Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC for 2027 confusion to bother with free education for all their children.
Kwankwaso should send all his Kano almajiris across the border to Niger Republic to attend his bilingual schools of misplaced priorities.
Kwankwaso to build another bilingual college in Niger Republic Thu, 20 Feb 2014
He said the establishment of the bilingual college was aimed at enhancing relationship among the female students of the two countries. A statement signed by the governor’s spokesman, Alhaji Halilu Ibrahim Dantiye, indicated that the governor made the promise when he paid a courtesy visit to President Muhammadou Youssoufou of Niger Republic in Niamey.
Kwankwaso, the statement added, told the president that he was in Niger Republic for an inspection visit to the Kano-Niger Bilingual College. “Like the male bilingual college in Niamey, the proposed female college when established will provide opportunity for our young girls to learn French and interact with their Nigerien counterparts, ” he said.
Governor Kwankwaso inspected the dormitories, clinic, classes and staff quarters at the first Kano-Niger College in Niamey, which was constructed at the cost of N225, 937,910.
Itiskdg121: People don't really understand the consequences of corruption.
For instance, imagine every citizen been paid monthly stipend from our oil proceeds. I hope we'll get it right one day
Is that how every Briton is paid a monthly stipend from their oil proceeds instead of being educated free in government primary, vocational and secondary schools with adequate professional teachers who are well paid.
How many of your people that japa'd to Britain gave you this information
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? @ @ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
Sheuns: Tinubu said he stepped down in AC for Atiku during the 2007 presidential election.
That was after Obasanjo locked Atiku out of PDP despite being his benefactor several times. In the run up to 1999 elections and in 2003 when Atiku refused northern pressure to make Baba Iyaba a one term president like Mandela and Jonathan.
What else is Atiku's sin to Obasanjo apart from his alignment with democratic forces to quash his life president ambition via a 3rd term agenda? What else is his sin to the Ebolaa of Ota, who sees himself as the god of Nigeria
Olofofo247ng: Prof. Utomi lamented that while in some countries, opposition parties are welcome.
The reverse is the case in Nigeria, where opposition parties are branded enemies.
Has this serial presidential candidate and Tinubu's 2023 secret agent said anything similar about the aspiring dictator in Aso Rock?
The man who is increasing taxes to steal in order to bribe politicians into joining Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC and to buy votes from deliberately impoverished Nigerians. Is this not how he has maintained himself for 27 years as Lagos TAX monster planner
lexylaw40: The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, [/b]on Wednesday [b]stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.
Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."
The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.
"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.
Karlovich: One of the downsides of having old and senile presidents, the former one Boe Jiden was equally deranged with his love for the rainbow brigade bandits.
Anyone over the age of 70 should be banned from running for presidency, starting with the Chicago drug lord
How old were the soldiers who took our country on the destructive Pakistani path of military dictators from January 1966, instead of leaving us on the democratic and free markets path of India?
How old are the wrecking ball military dictators of Niger Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea
How quickly do you expect your folks in Trump's country to return to Tinubu's country to enjoy his worsening continuity of APC extreme poverty shege that we allowed to replace PDP prosperity in 2015
anonimi: The migrant crisis in Libya and the Nigeria experience
JUNE 24, 2019
The drive for survival and for greener pastures has continued to force millions of West African young men and women to gamble with death in attempts to cross over to Europe and other parts of the world. This quest to escape poverty, hunger, unemployment and insecurity, among other reasons, caused a major segment of Nigeria’s population to seek alternatives for better livelihood prospects for themselves and their families.
Those seeking economic survival see irregular migration as the best alternative, given the difficulty and resources involved in migrating through regular and legitimate routes. In many instances, very few of the original number who set out on these dangerous journeys live to tell their stories. While many regularly drown in the Mediterranean Sea, many also die in the deserts, and others are sold as slaves in a modern slave market.
Most of the victims of this trade are from West Africa. Many of them leave home with expectations of getting to Europe and other destinations perceived to have better economic prospects for them, but they end up in the slave merchant nets in North Africa. The victims are put in camps and sold in open markets in Libya, while the international community watches in silence. The geographical location of Libya renders it a transit route for migrants journeying to Italy and many other parts of Europe.
YeyeGbami: Asiwaju needs to send Nigeria army to MN asap
How does the Nigerian Army compare with the US Army, not just in weaponry and numbers of personel but also in terms of human rights consciousness in rules of engagement?
This ICE collateral damage is like the innocent northerners killed by the invading American soldiers that were supposed to be looking for Muslim terrorists accused of genocide against Christians, and invited by Tinubu to violate our territorial integrity.
Which previous president allowed such abomination in our country?
The balablu president has made his 2011 expired Buhari suddenly seem like a sharp guy. How did we get here?
More importantly, how do we get out of here
Maxymilliano: The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him. According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.
Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.
At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.
omenka: Amen. It's a pity all some of us are programmed to do is get on the internet and insult the hell out of these brave men daily, just out of hate for the C in C.
Is this the template used by Tinubu to make his 2011 expired Buhari president four years later, so he could fight for power and grab it before running aimlessly with it to worsen the situation in our country
EkoIle1: It is now abundantly clear that President Jonathan has finally bared his fangs confirming what was widely speculated. By declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, he has intimidated and emasculated the governors of these States. We are witnessing a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.
The body language of the Jonathan administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015.
Borno and Yobe states have been literally under armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.
Let me be quick to say that this administration will be setting in motion a chain of events the end of which nobody can predict. Experience has shown clearly that actions, such as this one under consideration, often give root to radical ideologies and extremist tendencies, a direct opposite of the intended outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness. The present scenario playing out in the country reminds one of the classical case of a mediocre craftsman who continually blames the tools of his trade for his serial failure but refuses to look at his pitiable state with a view to adjusting.
helinues: Hahahaha, is this the first time USA troops would be assisting Nigeria troops with all what you listed above.
The terrorists used to be tipped before any attacking on them. That's the main difference
What were the other times when Nigerian presidents invited American soldiers to violate our sovereignty, and kill innocent northerners while claiming to be looking for Muslim terrorists who are committing genocide against Christians?
thatigboman: the day one my friend, a girl from offa in kwara state boasted and danced and hailed herself "omo lagosian". The way and manner I hushed her up eh "taa shatap, you are from offa kwara state, North Central Nigeria". Wherever she see state or tribe being discussed and she see me there, she will run as far as her legs can carry.
What arrant nonsense? Which street in Lagos are u from? Nonsense.
Maybe he is also from Iragbiji like the Ayédèrú man who has a surname different from his Mogaji mother
abc115: There’s nothing particularly special about it, yet you made it special by taking time out of your busy schedule to view the thread, watch the video, and even share your thoughts.
God bless Federal Republic of Nigeria
Don’t mind him jare.
He doesn’t know how you and other APC BATist patriots are using a special power to make pictures of roads into legal tender Naira to pay for goods and services in this hyperinflation economy.
By the way, how much do you think 200 million Nigerians are being forced to pay for the corruption in APC’s oil industry now
anonimi: Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC
January 19, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.
On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.
But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.
It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.
onuman: Poor you. Standard gauge railway lines rule transportation today, the Lagos-Abuja type. You are still talking about road.
By the way, most of the federal roads in the southeast are now reconstructed by state governments.
The standard gauge railway that PDP built as part of their 16 years of widespread prosperity from deregulation and privatisation policies.
How did we allow tribalism in zoning and rotating public offices make us swap PDP for the extreme poverty propagandist liars of APC in 2015? How did we do that
abc115: President Bola Tinubu is the best President in the history of Nigeria
Yes o.
How many pictures of the uncompleted roads are you using as legal tender Naira to get expensive petrol that he failed to crash the price as he promised
Deltafirstson: Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.
In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.
Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.
Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.
At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.
However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.
“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.
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One of the downsides of having old and senile presidents, the former one Boe Jiden was equally deranged with his love for the rainbow brigade bandits.