₦airaland Forum

malton:
Bros, there's not even a single Fulani tribe on the Plateau. Not even in neighbouring states up north let alone Plateau. They are mostly covetous marauders, and nothing more!

The governor is just a serving traitor and collaborator who has betrayed his own people for only God knows what!

I think he is trying to preserve his office by way of pleasing the fulani presidency this is exactly what the south east govnors are currently doing.

dayokanu:
The crisis between Ijaw, Itshekiri and Urhobo destroyed all economic activities and forced all foreigners and indegenes out

The lack of economic activities brought aout Poverty and consequent militancy

Then the coming of democracy instead of empowering the people made them poorer

U have summarized it all the real problem of warri is the Ijaws, uhrobos and the itsekiris who are the three major tribes of the area, there is too much division and mistrust amongst them this was what made gej not to commission and complete the epz gas project which could have provided thousands of jobs for the indigens of the area but infightings amongst them about the real ownership of the land where this project was sited could not make gej to commission it before he left office. So the whole blame of the situation of warri should go to the pple of the area for inability to come together to map out a better future for their generations yet unborn.

sainty2k3:
Federal goverment should stop maltreating this whistle blower. Else the whistlw blower act will backfire. I will rathe collect a sure amount from the culprit silently than Government exposing me to so much ridicule

True I don't see anyone coming out in the future to blow any whistle after all this drama. Nigeria has officially entered one chance.

madridguy:
EFCC trying hard to chop inside the money by creating many non existing whistle blowers. Nonsense and corrupt agency.

U are very correct ur head get oil.

MARKETfund:
Word!
You'll wonder wether these guys undergo any form of training and orientation before taking up this job.
For all it is worth they forgot that the notorious kidnapper could not be operating alone even though he's the boss.
Again they forgot that prospective society nuisance(s) could mark their faces and could take them out even when nothing warrants that

That's why they are ranked as the worst police force on this planet.

IditaBoy:
Nothing is going to happen, not with my ide ifa and sese efun on my left wrist.

I've walked at a certain part of Ogun state around 2AM from late night drinking, walked an hour distance home (I have a house there in Ogun state).

Stop fooling urself nigerians are aware that the south west is the headquarters of skull miners in Africa.

Kolababe:
SEE ALL HIS PHOTOS & VIDEO THAT CAUSED THE CONTROVERSY>>> http://m.af1234.com/Af1234/details/meet-24yr-old-nigerian-doctor-in-uk-millions-of-ladies-are-crushing-on

This guy should have done better as a basketball player.

[quote author=massinola post=61853711]President Muhammadu Buhari's trump card in 2019 presidential election wouldn't be signposted on the war against corruption. That's if he is strong enough to take a shot at the presidency for a second time. It would be something else, unknown to Nigerians. Because the anti-corruption plank upon which he stood to pull the rug off former President Goodluck Jonathan's foot is weakened and has lost its lustre. President Jonathan's corrupt dealings can now be properly said to be mere stealing, while under Mr. Buhar, corruption is the air the nation breathes.

President Muhammadu Buhari's trump card in 2019 presidential election wouldn't be signposted on the war against corruption. That's if he is strong enough to take a shot at the presidency for a second time. It would be something else, unknown to Nigerians. Because the anti-corruption plank upon which he stood to pull the rug off former President Goodluck Jonathan's foot is weakened and has lost its lustre. President Jonathan's corrupt dealings can now be properly said to be mere stealing, while under Mr. Buhar, corruption is the air the nation breathes.

Dead on economic recovery direction, lack of initiatives on power generation, killing and kidnapping of Nigerians by his Fulani herdsmen, inequality of education, and other woes plaguing the nation, President Buhari has shamed himself as an ethnic potentate whose bigotry is beyond comprehension. Buhari's Presidency which stands on antigraft solo soil has been romanticising with the nation's past and present financial criminals from Northern Nigeria who allegedly sponsored his presidential election to the office where he hopes to prosecute his war against graft!

Nations approach tipping point as a result of unremitting corruption which leads to economic turmoil by fostering staggering poverty and broken economic systems on the people and society and kneecaps a nation’s ability to function.
Again, President Buhari's resistance to restructuring specific power structures and government architectures has provided an easier means for corrupt officials to exploit his government.

The questions on my mind has been since President Buhari has been plagued with delicate health or as a unregenerated military dictator, would that also have eroded his consciousness on key national and international sensitive issues bothering on concrete governance of the country? Did Buhari ever abreast himself with the happenings in Nigeria? Is it deliberate? Is it ethnically motivated?

From investigation, Abdulrasheed Maina alone allegedly contributed N1.8 billion to President Buhari's presidential campaign in 2019, the same Mr. Buhari who was regaling Nigerians with his inability to procure APC N20 million nomination form. If this is real and to be believed, then Nigeria has gone to the dogs. My earlier emotional investment and that of millions of Nigerians who voted for him in like manner, to take the country out of the woods have been truncated in the worst primitive form. Otherwise, how do you explain behind the scenes reinstatement of a dismissed fugitive looter into the public service, millions of naira paid to him while retirees across the country can't receive their minimum N20,000 (two thousand naira) pension on a monthly basis?

On 13th February 2013, the Senate gave President Goodluck a two-day ultimatum within which to sack the Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, from the Federal Civil Service. Mark spoke tough after a debate on a motion entitled, “Dismissal of Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina for refusal to appear before the Senate” sponsored by Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN) and 107 senators, urging Jonathan to sack Maina from the public service.

The Senate then threatened that President Jonathan risked dire consequences if he failed to end Maina’s tenure. Mark declared that the Senate as an institution had been pushed to the wall and could no longer tolerate the insolence of public officials working for the executive. “The executive has to choose between the Senate and Maina. He has crucified himself. If Maina remains, then the Senate would react appropriately. The Senate is not lacking in ideas on what to do. Nobody in this country is bigger than our democracy. I have been extremely patient with Maina so that when we react, they will know that we have been fair,” Mark told his colleagues.

Apparently mindful of the fact that he was sending a message not only to the Villa but also to Nigerians since it was in the full glare of media cameras, Mark threw a challenge to the Police about whether they would be on the side of the law or that of Maina, “This Senate is not going to allow this to linger, if in two days they (Police) have not done anything, we can come here and convene and take a decision. This Senate will bite when it needs to bite, and when we decide to bite, there will be no room for escape. We have been pushed to the wall. The reaction is the correct reaction; no matter the depth of the Maina situation nobody in this country will be left to go free, if he is associated with Maina, no matter who is behind Maina, we are not going to accept it.”

Before then, the Chairman and the Co-Chairman of the Joint Committee, Senators Aloysius Etok and Kabiru Gaya, gave accounts of their experiences with Maina. Gaya said the committee received 7,800 petitions during its assignment and that Maina coordinated the process of mismanaging pension funds.

A literally eviscerated Etok said of Maina, “We called him to account for his stewardship in all the offices he was overseeing. When we exposed some things, he decided not to appear again. Instead of appearing before the committee, he would go on the media, condemning the entire Senate. He said he was not given fair hearing, but when we offered him fair hearing, he refused. He drives two bulletproof cars, in a country where pensioners are hungry. He used N1 billion for jamboree in the name of verification abroad. He spends more than N8 million every two weeks on personal security.”

Maina was one of the supper corrupt individuals for allegedly misappropriating N159 billion of pension funds who sank the graft boat of President Goodluck Jonathan's government in 2015. At the time the Senate was debating him, Maina was being driven around town, including to Aso Rock, in a convoy of several vehicles with a retinue of policemen. It was the one scandal that made many conclude that the Jonathan administration did not ‘give a damn’ about public perception. After his failure to honor numerous invitations by the Senate joint committee, the upper legislative chamber ultimately issued a warrant for Maina’s arrest, prosecution, and sack.

A few days later, the House of Representatives followed suit and endorsed the decision of the Senate for Maina’s arrest and prosecution. The lawmakers said in a motion that the House was “conscious of the need to present a common front with respect to the institutional integrity of the National Assembly” as they were “aware of the need to send a strong signal to the executive arm of the government of the resolve of the national assembly to stop impunity and disregard of due process in the conduct of government business.”

However, President Jonathan eventually caved in and gave the go-ahead for disciplinary action to be taken against Maina, who was dismissed by the Head of Service for absconding from duty and evading arrest. Nothing was heard from Mr. Maina until he was seen in a photograph with President Buhari recently in Aso Rock, which his media aides denied. But Buhari has yet to deny his Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, twisted a 2013 high court judgment to ensure that Mr. Maina was recalled and promoted by the Federal Civil Service Commission, FCSC.

Mr. Malami had in a letter directed the FCSC to give consequential effect to a judgment he said voided the process that led to Maina’s dismissal from service. In line with the directive, the Ministry of Interior, at its Senior Staff Committee meeting held on June 22, placed reliance on the AGF’s letter and recommended that Maina be reinstated into the Service as Deputy Director on Salary Grade Level 16. Contrary to claim by the AGF that Maina was given clean-bill-of-health by a court of competent jurisdiction, a copy of the judgment made available to the public revealed that the court merely quashed a warrant of arrest that was issued against the former pension boss by the Nigerian Senate. The judgment delivered on March 27, 2013, by Justice Adamu Bello (now retired), of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, only faulted the process that led to the issuance of the warrant of arrest against Maina.

The court never cleared Maina of the allegation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, that he embezzled pension fund to the tune of N2billion. The court, in its judgment, equally did not insulate Maina from EFCC’s investigations. Instead, Justice Bello advised Maina to surrender himself to the authorities investigating the alleged N2 billion fraud.

President Buhari's decision to sack Mr. Maina is ridiculous. He did not sack his interior minister who facilitated this fraud in the Interior Ministry. He did not sack his attorney general or the COS who are all part of this fraud. He ordered the sack of Maina even when he knew that the Civil Service Rule did not give him the powers to sack any civil servant.

To further prove his active connivance as the head of these moral criminals, economic gangsters, Mr. Buhari ordered that MainaGate be investigated and the report submitted to his Chief Of Staff, Abba Kyari, the same Abba Kyari who reportedly masterminded the reinstatement and double promotion of a wanted criminal.

When did Abba Kyari become a saint? This is same Abba Kyari who purportedly collected N500 million from MTN management to mitigate its legal punishment for defrauding Nigerians. While MTN top management staffers who bribed Abba Kyari have been sacked, Abba Kyari remains Buhari's COS. You may wish to ask again why did Buhari refuse to act on the report that indicted his COS? What happened to the report on Mr. Grasscutter who stole millions from IDPs and was even defended by Buhari? What of the Ikoyi Dollars?

Was Zakari Biu, the sacked police commissioner who facilitated the escape of Boko Haram Kabiru Sokoto, not recalled and re-instated? Is the discredited Ibrahim Lamorde not currently serving as a senior police officer? How about Buratai and his Dubai property? What of Abdulrahman Dambazau, Buhari's interior minister, and his U.S mansion?

The 2015 presidential election was not a victory for President Buhari, it was a rejection of President Jonathan's corrupt government. Nigerians wanted a replacement for a girly-girly President who believe stealing is not corruption. President Buhari has turned out to be more corrupt now than his predecessor.

Even at that, Buhari's past can't be separated from his present glorification of corruption. He did not only served the most brutal and corrupt government of Abacha, he equally swore by all the seven gods of Daura that Abacha was not corrupt. This is same Buhari who violated his first campaign promise of publicly declaring his assets. It's only a question of time before Nigeria goes completely downhills as the most intrinsically corrupt country in the world, after Somalia.

http://saharareporters.com/2017/10/28/maina-buharis-culture-corruption-finally-unfolds-erasmus-ikhide[/quote
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What do u expect from a president who was sponsored by the most corrupt politicians in nigeria?

Celcius:
Hmmm....
I know they don't represent a good number of Kogi youth, if not, it will be safe to say Kogi has no future.

Just look at what the apc govt have reduced nigerian youths into with any amount these shameless youths are ready to flood the streets for u to do their bidding even the corrupt pdp didn't stoop this low.

TonyeBarcanista:
Nigerians may recall that one of the biggest criticism that trailed the government of President Goodluck Jonathan administration was his lukewarmness to take action in his then Chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina despite several recommendations by the 7th Senate. Though he would later fire Maina when it got too hot, many, including the opposition felt a lot of damage had already been done. It is however shocking and evil to see the reappearance of Maina under the Muhammadu Buhari government.

The Man Maina And What He Stood For
Maina, an Assistant Director in charge of Customs,Immigration and Prisons Pension in the Federal ministry of Interior within the human resources department, was appointed the Chairman on Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms by Goodluck Jonathan's administration. The key mandate of the task force was to sanitise public pension sector that has been enmeshed in acute corruption, his position was like a sort of cop.

https://vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Maina-Abdulrasheed.jpg

To his credit, Maina's Team blew the whistle that led to the investigation, prosecution and "conviction" of Mr. John Yakubu Yusufu, then serving Assistant Director who stole over N2 billion belonging to Police pensioners. He pleaded guilty and was tried alongside accomplices that include; then Permanent Secretary, Atiku Abubakar Kigo, the Director, Ahmed Inuwa Wada, Cashier Veronica Onyegbula and Sani Habila Zira the ICT Officer.

N/B: Despite pleading guilty to the stealing of N2 billion belonging to retired policemen, Mr Yusufu was told by the trial judge, Justice Abubakar Talba of Abuja High Court to forfeit properties that weren't worth 200 million naira and pay N250,000 fine to avoid going to jail. He paid right there in court.

Maina was however accused of "re-stealing" N2 billion belonging to pensioners by pensioners through petitions to both the Senate and House of Representative. He was invited by the Senate joint committee on public service and establishment led by Aloysius Etok to defend himself but refused to honor any invitation, the Senate subsequently issued an arrest warrant on him. Maina absconded the country after the police management withdrew his security details and placed him on Wanted List. He was equally fired from the Civil service for absconding from duty and his failure to respond to summons.

It is unfortunate that such a man could be returned to the service through the backdoor by an administration that came to power through its anti corruption rhetoric.

Who Is Liable For Maina's Return?
In my candid opinion, the following people are primarily liable for the return of Maina.

1. Gen (Dr) Abdulrahman Dambazzau: The Interior minister, who is also in charge of supervision of Nigeria Police that had declared Maina a fugitive cannot turnaround to claim innocence. The fugitive was posted to his ministry as a director of Human Relations (if his claim is correct). Part of citizens responsibility (as demanded by the law) is to arrest fugitives and hand them over to security agencies or give valuable information that will lead to arrest of fugitive. Maina, being a fugitive was supposed to have been arrested by citizen Dambazzau and handover to the Police or EFCC that declared him Wanted. As public servant, Dambazzau is under a oath to uphold, protect and defend the laws of land, which he failed to in this case.

2. Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita (Head of Service, HOSF): She is in charge of posting, reposting and discipline of civil servants. I am very sure she is aware of Maina return and approved his payment of benefits. As HOSF, she was expected to understand the implication of the return of Maina as an infringement on civil service rules.

3. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior: Being the Chief Accounting Officer of the ministry, the "Perm sec" cannot claim ignorance of this backdoor appointment.

4. President Muhammadu Buhari: The bucks stops at his table! He can't claim ignorance of Maina return because such senior level appointment/reappointment cannot take effect without his authorised approval/signature upon the recommendations of HOSF and Federal Civil Service Commission. His recent claim of ignorance is simply face-saving to get someone take the fall.

Appropriate Action
What is appropriate now is for the President to fire/suspend everyone with link (or possible link) to the reappointment of Maina and judiciously institute a probe to unravel all the real perpetrators of this wicked act. They have betrayed the trusts of Nigeria people especially pensioners, whose monies were squandered by Maina and likes after putting decades into the service of the country.

As for Buhari, I'm sure Nigerians should be tired of him already. The scandal he has been linked with in less than 3 years in government is more than the entire scandal in the 5+ years of the past administration. He has no moral justification remaining in office beyond the May 29, 2019 mandate given him by the Nigeria electorate on March 28, 2015 and which came to effect on May 29, 2015.

Sacking Maina is not enough, Baba Must Go!

No doubt pmb is a collosal failure it's now very obvious he was all these while only seeking to come and enthrone fulani supremacy on the rest nigerians and also to come to revenge allerge wrongs done to his fulani pple in nigeria nothing else.

Basic123:
But the North has not supported the Igbo to produce
the president in spite of all you have said?
It’s because of the conspiracy between the Northern
ruling class and the South-Western ruling class
because by number, by resources, they are more
powerful than the East and they always prevent it.
For example, let me tell you and I’m being frank
with you; publish it. The first tragedy that can strike
a feudal Northerner is to have an Igbo president.
And in the case of the Yoruba, it’s more than a
tragedy to have Igbo president.


Let us look at IPOB, the way they are agitating, are
they not looking for another war?


Well, I don’t even think they know the consequences
of what they are doing. It’s just like the Igbo people,
who because there was competition between them
and the rest of the country in which they were
losing out publicly, took a kind of rash decision, a
kind of adventure that caused the 1966 coup. If they
had thought very well, they wouldn’t have done so.
But they did it. Now they have created people like
IPOB who are adventurous and as I told you, you can
talk to a Northerner about something. You can talk
to a Westerner and he will listen to you because he
has this inhibition. The Igbo man has no inhibition.
For instance, anybody, once he acquires some
wealth in the East, he is something. Even education
is secondary. But in the North and the West, you
won’t have wealth if you don’t belong to the
tradition. If you don’t belong to Islam, you don’t
belong to Christianity, you are nothing. Go to any
palace and you will find the same thing. So, we in
the North and the West have inhibition, which stops
us from doing even the right thing and at the same
time, from doing the wrong thing. But in the case of
the Igbo, he is a free agent. He does what he thinks,
whether rational or irrational.
So, that 1966 coup was not just a fight at all?
No, it was not just a fight. It was an adventure by
the Igbo man who felt that he had arrived, why be
restrained by the inhibition of the Northerner and the
Westerner? What is good for Nigeria, let’s have it.
Change leadership at any price. Now, the Northerner
and the Westerner have inhibition. He will not go to
this rashly. For instance, if he is a Northerner, he
goes to the mosque or to the Imam or Emir or
somewhere. If he is a Westerner, the same thing; he
will go to something, the Oba or somewhere. The
Igbo will not. That’s how they did it with the 1966
adventure. This IPOB knows the reality that they are
the products of that youthful adventure. You can see
almost every other Igbo group has rejected them.
But it’s still there.


If you look at that coup and the civil war, do you
think they were avoidable then?


The civil war was avoidable. The Igbos planned it.
They made a mistake. They were betrayed, in fact,
by the South-West because the South-West
intellectual bourgeoisie at that time was part and
parcel of the conspiracy to get rid of the feudalism,
the domination of the North. The Yoruba were part
and parcel of that conspiracy. But the Igbo, either
because they realised it is too late or simply
because that is the nature of people in politics, still
went ahead. Remember what happened, when the
killing recently came, did the Igbo take part? Now
this time with IPOB, it is the same adventure. They
also rely on the conspiracy of the South-West. For
instance, in the Northern part, the Igbo are
disowning IPOB with vigour. But is the South-West
doing the same thing with the same vigour? They
are calculating what they will gain from the quarrel
between the North and the East.


Let us look at our political structure since
independence. Why have we not gotten it right?


The system, the structure, economic and political
system controlling all development in the country
and the political leadership inevitably produced by
the system are based on self-interest first, public
interest second. Nigeria from the beginning till today
was based on the basis of self-interest first and
public interest second. So, how can it succeed?
At what point did we miss it? Was it that coup?
Nigeria inherited the system from western countries.
We got it wrong when we became independent. We
didn’t look at this method seriously and come out
with something that can unite the country and
develop the country. Some people were concerned
about this, they saw it, but because money power
had taken over even at that time. For instance,
Awolowo, even though he was a Yoruba champion,
had campaigned against disunity. He campaigned
for equal right and he demonstrated it by bringing
the Yoruba up to standard. Without the Yoruba
having Awolowo, would they have reached the
position they have reached now in terms of
education and development? Awolowo, right from
the beginning, brought about free education. In
those days, he was competing with the East,
because until the 1966 coup, the East was leading in
educational development. The Igbos, were leading
everywhere. When Awolowo came, he began free
and quality education to bring Yoruba, to the level,
which he succeeded.


This issue of restructuring, why are the Northerners,
apart from only a handful, against it?


Atiku said something which I agree with. He said
Northerners, and in this instance, he is talking about
the elite in the North, are against restructuring
because they are lazy. I agree with Atiku. Let me
tell you, we are now talking about North and South.
We are now talking about the three Northern zones
and the three Southern zones. We are now talking
about them, North and South, isn’t it? Now, if you
take the North and the South separately, who has
more God’s favour in everything than the other?
When you take every other thing that matters into
consideration, God has favoured the North with more
than he has favoured others. Take for example, the
North has been cooperating for virtually 1,000 years.
Take any tribe like the Jukun; they have related with
the North for about 1,000 years or more. In the case
of the South, is there any society that has related
with the South for more than 200 to 300 years? Oyo
Empire has done the same but on a very small
scale. In the case of the East, there was nothing like
that except the Onitsha people. In the case of the
South, they have related with one another, known
one another only when the British came, that is 100
years ago. In the case of the North, for 1,000 years,
they have lived together. Now, who has the favour of
God to know how to live with one another than they?
Are the Northerners demonstrating this ideal of
living with one another peacefully? The North has
been together for over 1,000 years. The South has
not had that benefit. The South had very small
communities, not even up to a ward, until today. The
ones that went beyond that was the Oyo Empire and
the Oyo Empire was riddled all the time with wars.
What about the East? Nothing like that, because they
have always been Republican right from time. So,
who has God’s favour how to live with others better
than Northerners? Are they demonstrating this
whatsoever? Let us take size or territory. The North
is three quarters of Nigeria in terms of territory. The
South is only one quarter. Is that not a favour? In
those three quarters, they are bestowed with God’s
favour with agriculture and other natural resources.
Three quarters of the natural resources are in the
North. Are they developing them? No. But they have
this advantage of territory. When you take into
account the economic resources of Nigeria, even
with oil, it’s in the North. Three quarters of it is in
the North. Is that not a favour? Now, when you have
people who have been this favoured by God and
they become the problem of the society, who do you
blame? You blame them. If you want answers, first
blame the Northerner for having not benefited from
this God’s favour. You have larger territory, you have
long history of coexistence, you have more
economic resources.
When you come to political power, the North has
been in control of political power itself. Who can
win the presidency without the North? You Yoruba
never wanted [Olusegun] Obasanjo to be president,
but the North wanted him and he won. The North
has this power. So, if things go wrong in Nigeria,
who do you blame first other than the one that has
all these favours of God? You blame the North first
and the others.
So, what Atiku said was true. The Northern ruling
class doesn’t want this to be outside. He doesn’t
want to lose this favour by doing something
concrete. He wants to retain the favour just for that
without fighting for it. So, the solution is don’t talk
about the North or South. Don’t talk about the
Hausa, Yoruba or Igbo. Talk about the dignity of the
human being. Build systems based on the dignity of
the human being and you will succeed and that is
what is possible only through a constitutional
revolution or a social revolution. Let us Nigerians
take the one we want.


Last week made it the 57th celebration of
independence of the country and some people argue
that independence has not really given Nigeria what
it is looking for. Do we still continue to celebrate
independence?


We have nothing worth celebrating. This
independence was the result of the work of the
colonial masters. Why don’t we create something as
a result of our own indigenous work? We attempted
it but destroyed it. For instance, the election of
Abiola was the most significant step freely taken by
Nigerians to subordinate all other irrelevant
considerations, and go for the best consideration.
Let people be empowered to elect who they want
and that was what was done June 12. But we
bastardised it by annulling it, annulment by a
military dictator and allowing him to get away with
it. Up till now he is still alive and is still claiming to
be relevant, but we can’t force him to tell us what
was behind this annulment.


Any hope for Nigeria?


There is no hope. As I said, if you talking about
political power, no hope. There is no political power
that can perform.


What of at the economic front?


The same thing. Nothing will change from PDP
which was bad to APC which is worse. For instance,
the fascism of APC is not so arrogant. We may one
day end up with an arrogant APC or arrogant party
which will even be more fascist than we suspect it
can be. Now why is this? Because the basis for
deciding how to get the right type of person has
been destroyed by the role of money power. Money
power plays leading role in politics and election in
Nigeria. You cannot have a President in Nigeria as it
is today or even a Local Government Councillor who
is not a thief or is being supported by thieves. For
instance, you are above 40, how can you be
President of Nigeria in spite of your knowledge
without money? And this money that you can easily
come about is money that is got through either
stealing or made available by a thief who is hoping
to recoup. So, as long as you cannot have a clean
system producing a clean leadership, how can you
get away from the problem? You can’t?
What message do you have for Nigeria at 57?
With the system as it is, which is controlling all
development and the type of leadership we have, if
it continues and presently there is no evidence that
it will not continue, we will have the same thing as
we have been having in 2019. Then there is no
possibility, of a fundamental change. There is
nothing to show hope in the next presidency
because we will continue to have a situation where
money power is the deciding factor in politics and
election. Unlike during the Second Republic and
sometime even after the Second Republic, when we
were to have an election, we could say out of the
candidates aspiring to be president of Nigeria, this
candidate is better than that. We are now in 2017.
Can we say that? For instance, the person who is
now the president, with whom we are not satisfied
with, we don’t think he is performing. He is not
correcting anything that went wrong. But from all
honesty, can we say those who are now waiting to
take over from him in 2019 are better, anyone of
them? You know those that are being speculated. As
bad as he may be now, there is nobody that you can
say categorically that is better than him. So, Nigeria
is in trouble.
www.tribuneonlineng.com/north-swest-nigerias-major-problem-musa/

Wow this man is very very blunt.

dbynonetwork:
His skull has been harvested for ritual purpose..

Very soon the Afonjas will go to IMO state and harvest the skull of JACOB ZUMA statue..

Exactly what am thinking afonjas don't joke with skull mining.

ipoblogic:
Day 2:

Most schools are shut.

Parents have kept their kids at .home.
We are not taking chances with this evil regime.

Perhaps, this with be so until Monday.
Mark you, no announcements were made.

Obiano will be shivering from the cold.
Nobody listens to such folks anymore.

We have the right to decide what happens to us in our lands.

What's Democracy again?
Government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Time is gone when a social misfit from Katsina will tell us what to do.

We own our lives and lands abs we have the right to decide our fate.


Nigeria and her army has scored another won goal.

All these is all because of the natural resources in biafraland.

naijafortruth:
Before I lend him my advice, below is a brief academic and professional background of Dr. Ibe Kachukwu



Why did I choose to cite his background, because this evil, useless country always destroys the reputation of the best among us who sacrificed their career abroad to come back to serve their country. As with Professor Bath Nnaji, Aruma Oteh, Okonjo Iweala, Diezani Madueke, you will be ridiculed, caricatured and disgraced.

Take a look at Dr. Kachukwu, a man who has worked hard all his life, a brilliant genius, a powerful lawyer for corporations and oil companies in America whose specialty was on overseeing contracts, that's what he taught at Harvard University before Major Oil companies saw the genius in him and hired him. This is a man that his judgement his being questioned. Dr. Kachukwu knows how these contracts are administered and awarded, this is what he has done all his life...FOR MAJOR OIL COMPANIES; EXXONMOBIL, TEXACO and in consulting capacity for several oil companies around the world, his judgement is now being ridiculed and kicked to the curb. I feel sorry for him, this is what you get for serving this useless country.

Typical Hausa-Fulani attack; they go and pay unions upon unions to side with GMD NNPC Mr. Baru, deceiving gullible and dumb Nigerians to psychologically make you believe Baru is right because paid unions are siding with him. Here is a man(Mr. Baru) without the educational qualification and professional background to come near to Dr. Kachukwu in an egalitarian and fair society, let alone sit in a executive board with him all in the name of quota system and One Nigeria, has guts to challenge a professor of contract law at Harvard; the best institution in the world. I SPIT ON THIS COUNTRY AND HER CITIZENS.

Dr. Kachukwu, LISTEN TO ME NOW, honorably resign like Dr. Bath Nnaji and go back to America, just like him and Aruma Oteh did. You are dealing with animals in the zoo who will bring you down at all cost because they want to maintain the status quo to continue to launder billions of dollars in their pockets. The same animals are the ones haunting down Diezani Maduke today, whom like you was a graduate of Howard University in America in Architecture and rose to become senior executive at Shell Petroleum, only to be ridiculed, caricatured and disgraced...ALL BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO SERVE HER COUNTRY? Anyone of higher intellect and professional background thinking about serving this country, you are an idiot and a fool!

Well written the truth is that the hausa/fulani factor will always rubbish ur reputation once u decide to work for the zoo.

factsandfigures:
Sensible Nigerians are expecting this familiar line. Very soon they will come with reports on how Kachikwu stole billions from NNPC and how he built mansions in Venus and Mars. They just succeeded in exposing the demonic manoeuvring that has been going on. This report was written more than a year ago and if Kachickwu was indicted, why was he retained as Minister of State for Petroleum? How many of such reports have been written about other Ministers that are being held to be released whenever they refused to fall in line?

We would not be surprised if they even discovered billions of Naira in his apartment. The line is simple: Speak against the APC government and you will be tagged corrupt!
The sad realities is that some Nigerians even professors and SANs have been afflicted with conspiracy of blindly supporting the unsupportable!

It's a pity this is what tinubu and co brought to nigeria due to very selfish reasons what a shame.

shankara7:
The Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha has lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari has forgotten him despite his sacrifices and contributions to Buhari’s victory by way of preventing the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from rigging their way to power in 2015.
Speaking when the people of Njaba Local Government Area of the state paid him a solidarity visit on his 55th birthday celebration, he said the administration has not been fair to him but he held on to faith.
Comparing his contributions to the APC in the last general elections with that of then Rivers governor, Rotimi Amaechi, h said, “Look at Rivers State where they rigged Rotimi Amaechi out by allocating over 1.2 million votes to the PDP, yet he got lots of juicy positions like the Ministry of Transport, NIMASA and all that.
“But, in all these, have you seen me complain? No, because I know that one day, my time will come and President Buhari will remember me,” he said.


http://www.herald.ng/buhari-has-forgotten-me-but-favours-amaechi-okorocha/

Buhari still see you as a 5 persenter but you are too dumb to know that.

LasGidiOwner:
I have seen threads upon threads where the corpses of ipob members are littered.

One question I want to ask, was Kanu or any member of his family one of the dead on the streets of Abia State?

Was Kanu's wife there?

Was Kanu's kids there?

Was Kanu's father there?

Was Kanu's mother there?

Was Kanu's siblings there?

Then why should you die for nothing because someone said you should keep yelling "Biafra or death?


Until I see any of the Kanu's family members pay with their blood to bring about Biafra I will never take them seriously.

Nnamdi Kanu should sacrifice first his wife and kids who are now in faraway city of LONDON for the sake Biafra. A leader leads from the front.

My people particularly Abia state people THINK for once.

Nigerian govt is killing igbos while pple are putting the blame on nnamdi kanu.

preciousmaro:
The whole world should see this please share this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-gNyTpYJ68

WAR IS LOOMING

989900:
One side of the story.

The sad part of this all is, when the chips are down, when all Kanu's hate speeches come to roost, when Biafrans start killing northerners, most almajiris can't differentiate between southerners (Igbo, Yoruba, Efik, Ibibo, Ikwere, Ijaw, middle belters, etc. .
. even northern Christians would bear the brunt up north).

Kanu called for the President to be killed in his speeches, called for other tribes to be massacred -- he shouldn't have made bail in the first place on a good day

Feigning illness (OBTing the justice system), but came out to cause more trouble.

His cup is full, the country's intelligent agencies can dump any crap on him why the military is present in the south east and it will stick.

There are about 230 countries in the world, and Kanu wouldn't have gotten away with half of these threats in at least over 220 of them.

As far as I am concerned, Kanu hallucinates, one of the major symptoms of Psychosis. Now lace that with his arrogance, ego, sociopathic and fraudulent tendencies coupled with demagoguery.

Same guy that once preached one Nigeria during GEJ, curses and disrespects GEJ and his kindred for respecting the Constitution and our democracy, same guy that thinks he can pray and Nigeria's oil will dry up, same guy that doesn't believe this is the real Buhari, but some dude from Sudan, same guy that turns around 360° few days later claiming Buhari wants to assassinate him! Duh!

Kanu belongs to a mental home for evaluation and treatment -- he is not fit to stand trial -- a good lawyer will get him off most charges if they go the mental instability route.

Stay away from harm's way my people -- it is not worth it!

Where where u when the grandfather of all hate speeches was calling nigerians baboons and monkeys also dividing the country by 97/5% even threatening to spread Islam to the entire country?

NASTYNASOSO:
THE FULL LIST OF ALL THE 371 TRIBES IN NIGERIA & THE STATES WHERE THEY ORIGINATED FROM


Below is a comprehensive list of all Nigerian Tribes and the States where they live…
1 Abayon Cross River
2 Abua (Odual) Rivers
3 Achipa (Achipawa) Kebbi
4 Adim Cross River
5 Adun Cross River
6 Affade Yobe
7 Afizere Plateau
8 Afo Plateau
9 Agbo Cross River
10 Akaju-Ndem (Akajuk) Cross River
11 Akweya-Yachi Benue
12 Alago (Arago) Piateau
13 Amo Plateau
14 Anaguta Plateau
15 Anang Akwa lbom
16 Andoni Akwa lbom, Rivers
17 Angas Bauchi, Jigawa, Plateau
18 Ankwei Plateau
19 Anyima Cross River
20 Attakar (ataka) Kaduna
21 Auyoka (Auyokawa) Jigawa
22 Awori Lagos, Ogun
23 Ayu Kaduna
24 Babur Adamawa, Bomo, Taraba, Yobe
25 Bachama Adamawa
26 Bachere Cross River
27 Bada Plateau
28 Bade Yobe
29 Bahumono Cross River
30 Bakulung Taraba
31 Bali Taraba
32 Bambora (Bambarawa) Bauchi
33 Bambuko Taraba
34 Banda (Bandawa) Taraba
35 Banka (Bankalawa) Bauchi
36 Banso (Panso) Adamawa
37 Bara (Barawa) Bauchi
38 Barke Bauchi
39 Baruba (Barba) Niger
40 Bashiri (Bashirawa) Plateau
41 Bassa Kaduna, Kogi, Niger, Plateau
42 Batta Adamawa
43 Baushi Niger
44 Baya Adamawa
45 Bekwarra Cross River
46 Bele (Buli, Belewa) Bauchi
47 Betso (Bete) Taraba
48 Bette Cross River
49 Bilei Adamawa
50 Bille Adamawa
51 Bina (Binawa) Kaduna
52 Bini Edo
53 Birom Plateau
54 Bobua Taraba
55 Boki (Nki) Cross River
56 Bkkos Plateau
57 Boko (Bussawa, Bargawa) Niger
58 Bole (Bolewa) Bauchi, Yobe
59 Botlere Adamawa
60 Boma (Bomawa, Burmano) Bauchi
61 Bomboro Bauchi
62 Buduma Borno, Niger
63 Buji Plateau
64 Buli Bauchi
65 Bunu Kogi
66 Bura Adamawa
67 Burak Bauchi
68 Burma (Burmawa) Plateau
69 Buru Yobe
70 Buta (Butawa) Bauchi
71 Bwall Plateau
72 Bwatiye Adamawa
73 Bwazza Adamawa
74 Challa Plateau
75 Chama (Chamawa Fitilai) Bauchi
76 Chamba Taraba
77 Chamo Bauchi
78 Chibok (Chibbak) Yobe
79 Chinine Borno
80 Chip Plateau
81 Chokobo Plateau
82 Chukkol Taraba
83 Daba Adamawa
84 Dadiya Bauchi
85 Daka Adamawa
86 Dakarkari Niger, Kebbi
87 Danda (Dandawa) Kebbi
88 Dangsa Taraba
89 Daza (Dere, Derewa) Bauchi
90 Degema Rivers
91 Deno (Denawa) Bauchi
92 Dghwede Bomo
93 Diba Taraba
94 Doemak (Dumuk) Plateau
95 Ouguri Bauchi
96 Duka (Dukawa) Kebbi
97 Duma (Dumawa) Bauchi
98 Ebana (Ebani) Rivers
99 Ebirra (lgbirra) Edo, Kogi, Ondo
100 Ebu Edo, Kogi
101 Efik Cross River
102 Egbema Rivers
103 Egede (lgedde) Benue
104 Eggon Plateau
105 Egun (Gu) Lagos,Ogun
106 Ejagham Cross River
107 Ekajuk Cross River
108 Eket Akwa Ibom
109 Ekoi Cross River
110 Engenni (Ngene) Rivers
111 Ekpeye Rivers
112 Esan (Ishan) Edo
113 Etche Rivers
114 Etolu (Etilo) Benue
115 Etsako Edo
116 Etung Cross River
117 Etuno Edo
118 Falli Adamawa
119 Fulani (Pulbe)
Bauchi, Borno, Jigawa , Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi , Niger, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, etc.
120 Fyam (Fyem) Plateau
121 Fyer(Fer) Plateau
122 Ga’anda Adamawa
123 Gade Niger
124 Galambi Bauchi
125 Gamergu-Mulgwa Bomo
126 Qanawuri Plateau
127 Gavako Borno
128 Gbedde Kogi
129 Gengle Taraba
130 Geji Bauchi
131 Gera (Gere, Gerawa) Bauchi
132 Geruma (Gerumawa) Plateau
133 Geruma (Gerumawa) Bauchi
134 Gingwak Bauchi
135 Gira Adamawa
136 Gizigz Adamawa
137 Goernai Plateau
138 Gokana (Kana) Rivers
139 Gombi Adamawa
140 Gornun (Gmun) Taraba
141 Gonia Taraba
142 Gubi (Gubawa) Bauchi
143 Gude Adamawa
144 Gudu Adamawa
145 Gure Kaduna
146 Gurmana Niger
147 Gururntum Bauchi
148 Gusu Plateau
149 Gwa (Gurawa) Adamawa
150 Gwamba Adamawa
151 Gwandara Kaduna, Niger, Plateau
152 Gwari (Gbari) Kaduna, Niger, Plateau
153 Gwom Taraba
154 Gwoza (Waha) Bomo
155 Gyem Bauchi
156 Hausa: Bauchi, Borno, Jigawa, Kaduna,Kano, Kastina, Kebbi, Niger,Taraba, Sokoto, etc
157 Higi (Hig) Borno, Adamawa
158 Holma Adamawa
159 Hona Adamawa
160 Ibeno Akwa lbom
161 Ibibio Akwa lbom
162 Ichen Adamawa
163 Idoma Benue, Taraba
164 Igalla Kogi
Igbo-culture
165 lgbo: Abia, Anambra, Benue, Delta, Ebonyi,Enugu, Imo, Rivers
166 ljumu Kogi
167 Ikorn Cross River
168 Irigwe Plateau
169 Isoko Delta
170 lsekiri (Itsekiri) Delta
171 lyala (lyalla) Cross River
172 lzondjo) Bayelsa, Delta, Ondo, Rivers
173 Jaba Kaduna
174 Jahuna (Jahunawa) Taraba
175 Jaku Bauchi
176 Jara (Jaar Jarawa Jarawa-Dutse)
Bauchi
177 Jere (Jare, Jera, Jera, Jerawa) Bauchi, Plateau
178 Jero Taraba
179 Jibu Adamawa
180 Jidda-Abu Plateau
181 Jimbin (Jimbinawa) Bauchi
182 Jirai Adamawa
183 Jonjo (Jenjo) Taraba
184 Jukun
Bauchi, Benue,Taraba, Plateau
185 Kaba(Kabawa) Taraba
186 Kadara Taraba
187 Kafanchan Kaduna
188 Kagoro Kaduna
189 Kaje (Kache) Kaduna
190 Kajuru (Kajurawa) Kaduna
191 Kaka Adamawa
192 Kamaku (Karnukawa) Kaduna, Kebbi, Niger
193 Kambari Kebbi, Niger
194 Kambu Adamawa
195 Kamo Bauchi
196 Kanakuru (Dera) Adamawa, Borno
197 Kanembu Bomo
198 Kanikon Kaduna
199 Kantana Plateau
200 Kanufi
Kaduna, Adamawa, Bomo, Kano,Niger, Jigawa, Plateau, Taraba, Yobe
201 Karekare (Karaikarai) Bauchi, Yobe
202 Karimjo Taraba
203 Kariya Bauchi
204 Katab (Kataf) Kaduna
205 Kenern (Koenoem) Plateau
206 Kenton Taraba
207 Kiballo (Kiwollo) Kaduna
208 Kilba Adamawa
209 Kirfi (Kirfawa) Bauchi
210 Koma Taraba
211 Kona Taraba
212 Koro (Kwaro) Kaduna, Niger
213 Kubi (Kubawa) Bauchi
214 Kudachano (Kudawa) Bauchi
215 Kugama Taraba
216 Kulere (Kaler) Plateau
217 Kunini Taraba
218 Kurama Jigawa, Kaduna, Niger, Plateau

219 Kurdul Adamawa
220 Kushi Bauchi
221 Kuteb Taraba
222 Kutin Taraba
223 Kwalla Plateau
224 Kwami (Kwom) Bauchi
225 Kwanchi Taraba
226 Kwanka (Kwankwa) Bauchi, Plateau
227 Kwaro Plateau
228 Kwato Plateau
229 Kyenga (Kengawa) Sokoto
230 Laaru (Larawa) Niger
231 Lakka Adamawa
232 Lala Adamawa
233 Lama Taraba
234 Lamja Taraba
235 Lau Taraba
236 Ubbo Adamawa
237 Limono Bauchi, Plateau
238 Lopa (Lupa, Lopawa) Niger
239 Longuda (Lunguda) Adamawa, Bauchi
240 Mabo Plateau
241 Mada Kaduna, Plateau
242 Mama Plateau
243 Mambilla Adamawa
244 Manchok Kaduna
245 Mandara (Wandala) Bomo
246 Manga (Mangawa) Yobe
247 Margi (Marghi) Adamawa, Bomo
248 Matakarn Adamawa
249 Mbembe Cross River, Enugu
250 Mbol Adamawa
251 Mbube Cross River
252 Mbula Adamawa
253 Mbum Taraba
254 Memyang (Meryan) Plateau
255 Miango Plateau
256 Miligili (Migili) Plateau
257 Miya (Miyawa) Bauchi
258 Mobber Bomo
259 Montol Plateau
260 Moruwa (Moro’a, Morwa) Kaduna
261 Muchaila Adamawa
262 Mumuye Taraba
263 Mundang Adamawa
264 Munga (Mupang) Plateau
265 Mushere Plateau
266 Mwahavul (Mwaghavul) Plateau
267 Ndoro Taraba
268 Ngamo Bauchi, Yobe
269 Ngizim Yobe
270
Ngweshe (Ndhang.Ngoshe-Ndhang)
Adamawa, Borno
271 Ningi (Ningawa) Bauchi
272 Ninzam (Ninzo) Kaduna, Plateau
273 Njayi Adamawa
274 Nkim Cross River
275 Nkum Cross River
276 Nokere (Nakere) Plateau
277 Nunku Kaduna, Plateau
278 Nupe Niger
279 Nyandang Taraba
280 Ododop Cross River
281 Ogori Kogi
282 Okobo (Okkobor) Akwa lbom
283 Okpamheri Edo
284 Olulumo Cross River
285 Oron Akwa lbom
286 Owan Edo
287 Owe Kwara
288 Oworo Kwara
289 Pa’a (Pa’awa Afawa) Bauchi
290 Pai Plateau
291 Panyam Taraba
292 Pero Bauchi
293 Pire Adamawa
294 Pkanzom Taraba
295 Poll TarabaPolchi Habe Bauchi
297 Pongo (Pongu) Niger
298 Potopo Taraba
299 Pyapun (Piapung) Plateau

300 Qua Cross River
301 Rebina (Rebinawa) Bauchi
302 Reshe Kebbi, Niger
303 Rindire (Rendre) Plateau
304 Rishuwa Kaduna
305 Ron Piateau
306 Rubu Niger
307 Rukuba Plateau
308 Rumada Kaduna
309 Rumaya Kaduna
310 Sakbe Taraba
311 Sanga Bauchi
312 Sate Taraba
313 Saya (Sayawa Za’ar) Bauchi
314 Segidi (Sigidawa) Bauchi
315 Shanga (Shangawa) Sokoto
316 Shangawa (Shangau) Plateau
317 Shan-Shan Plateau
318 Shira (Shirawa) Kano
319 Shomo Taraba
320 Shuwa Adamawa, Borno
321 Sikdi Plateau
322 Siri (Sirawa) Bauchi
323 Srubu (Surubu) Kaduna
324 Sukur Adamawa
325 Sura Plateau
326 Tangale Bauchi
327 Tarok Plateau, Taraba
328 Teme Adamawa
329 Tera (Terawa) Bauchi, Bomo
330 Teshena (Teshenawa) Kano
331 Tigon Adamawa
332 Tikar Taraba
333 Tiv Benue, Plateau, Taraba and Nasarawa
334 Tula Bauchi
335 Tur Adamawa
336 Ufia Benue
337 Ukelle Cross River
338 Ukwani (Kwale) Delta
339 Uncinda Kaduna, Kebbi, Niger, Sokoto
340 Uneme (Ineme) Edo
341 Ura (Ula) Niger
342 Urhobo Delta
343 Utonkong Benue
344 Uyanga Cross River
345 Vemgo Adamawa
346 Verre Adamawa
347 Vommi Taraba
348 Wagga Adamawa
349 Waja Bauchi
350 Waka Taraba
351 Warja (Warja) Jigawa
352 Warji Bauchi
353 Wula Adamawa
354 Wurbo Adamawa
355 Wurkun Taraba
356 Yache Cross River
357 Yagba Kwara
358 Yakurr (Yako) Cross River
359 Yalla Benue
360 Yandang Taraba
361 Yergan (Yergum) Plateau
362 Yoruba
Kwara, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Kogi
363 Yott Taraba
364 Yumu Niger
365 Yungur Adamawa
366 Yuom Plateau
367 Zabara Niger
368 Zaranda Bauchi
369 Zarma (Zarmawa) Kebbi
370 Zayam (Zeam) Bauchi
371 Zul (Zulawa) Bauchi

If you did not see your Tribe Name in this list, go to Nigerian Immigration Office and register yourself and your family as Foreigners.

This is modern day tower of Babel no wonder there is so much confusion and conflicts in nigeria.

sarrki:
Immediately PMB returned, in his nationwide broadcast, he specifically warned Kanu and he said he would stop his madness!!!

Instead for his supporters to warn him that "Dont take General's threat for granted", they were busy criticizing the President's grammar. Their focus was on what the president didn't say and not what he said!!! Now the president is keeping his broadcast promise!!!

Yoruba say "he who warned you before defeating you is a Master Wrestler...."

Long live PMB!!!

General indeed a general who only targets soft targets why can't he go and crush bokoharam for over two years now?

lightblazingnow:
Atiku Should Travel To America if He is Not Corrupt, Obasanjo Dared Him
newsrescue.com

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has yet again opened up over the estranged relationship between him and his former deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, saying that despite the fact that the latter was corrupt during their regime, he (Obasanjo) had to take him along for his second term in office in 2007 due to expediency.

“At that time, politically, I needed to carry him (Atiku) along but then to put him in check,” said Obasanjo.

Obasanjo, who said that he was unaware of Atiku’s activities until law enforcement agencies in America alerted his government, however, confessed that he could not in good conscience ask that his deputy be investigated then.

He, however, said he could not ignore the calls by the Americans to investigate the ex-vice president, which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) did then.

The ex-president added that the allegations by the Americans were justified since Atiku is a fugitive in United States.

“I don’t know if he can go to America…He travels? Travels to where? To Dubai? Let him go to America and return to Nigeria”.

He also took a swipe at the same EFCC, saying that the commission had lost its original vision of a bold and fearless agency capable of fighting economic and financial crimes in the country.

Obasanjo made this criticism in an interview published in the current and special edition of Zero Tolerance magazine, a publication of the anti-graft agency to mark its 10th year anniversary.

Obasanjo also denied ever prompting Ribadu to investigate anybody for political reasons but he was quick to admit that Ribadu went haywire.

The ex-president also faulted the choice of Mrs. Faridi Waziri to head the commission after its pioneer chair, Nuhu Ribadu, was unceremoniously removed by the late Ptresident Yar’Adua, saying she did not have the cognate experience and connection needed for the position.

Talking about Nigeria’s position on global corruption index before and now, he said: “There was a lot of work that was done to achieve that feat (moving from position number 2 to 45). I think we have come down to only being above 34 countries; that shows that there must be a lot that the EFCC should be doing that they are not doing.When you have gone that far down, it becomes very difficult to climb again.”

“I had the vision of an EFCC that will be fearless, bold, untied to the apron strings of the executive, legislature or anybody for that matter, and Ribadu was bold, fearless. I never told him this is the one you should pursue and investigate.

“When I was personally accused, I sent the mail to EFCC and to ICPC. I asked him to carry out clinical investigation, leave nothing out, and they did. And EFCC of my dream carried it out; that is the type of EFCC that I want,” said the ex-president.

Also recalling events leading to the build-up to the 2007 general elections, Obasanjo said: “He (Ribadu) brought a report to me and said these people are corrupt; how can I, in my position, receive a report that said these people were corrupt.

“I didn’t ask him to carry out an investigation. He even came out and said he had found 28 governors as corrupt and later on, unfortunately, Ribadu hobnobbed with one of the governors he had found corrupt and that is where things started going haywire,” Obasanjo said.

He, who said Ribadu did very well until he lost his direction when he (Obasanjo) left, however, faulted the way he was kicked out of office and declared if given the opportunity he (Obasanjo) would re-appoint Ribadu as EFCC chair and warn him to desist from corrupt company.

“He did so well that he became a threat even to the incoming administration; that’s what happened. He was so successful that his success began to be a problem for him,” he added.

On why Ribadu’s successor was a wrong choice, Obasanjo said he learnt that it was a now convicted governor who scouted for her for the late Yar’Adua administration.

“I know that the woman they brought to replace Ribadu (Farida Waziri) was not the right person for that job, because I understood that one of those who head-hunted her was James Ibori. If James Ibori who is now in a UK Prison for fraud head-hunts somebody who will fight corruption in Nigeria, then you can understand what happened,” said the ex-president.

Waziri, however, in the same edition of the magazine, denied ever knowing ex-governor Ibori until she met him after her appointment at the presidential villa during one of her routine visits to President Yar’Adua.

“I never knew him. I never knew James Ibori. When I was appointed, I went to the Villa very often because the president called his staff and told them Farida has free access to him 24/7, whether in the office or villa. So I went there very often and I met Ibori; he was always there,” Waziri said.

She said the Ibori toga probably stuck to her through a former minister of justice, Michael Kaase Aondoka, who she called her “younger brother” on account of hailing from the same local government area in Benue State who, she said, was close to Ibori.

http://leadership.ng/news/110913/why-i-needed-atiku-though-he-was-corrupt-obasanjo

If obj is not the great grand father of corruption in nigeria according to the nass he should explain to nigerians how he came about his stupendous wealth.

ItsMeAboki:
Quite the opposite; they are often the victims of attack, rustling or duping out huge sums of money for phantom land /grazing rights; their actions are often reprisals but unfortunately the media frequently depicts a one sided story with them as mindless marauding killers who attack unprovoked - just for once, ask yourself why does the media hardly ever investigate and report the causes of such attacks but only concentrates on the victims with graphic images of their injuries?

Even if ur submission is correct whatever they are passing through they brought it upon themselves for refusing to reinvest and upgrade to modern ways of breeding cattles instead they trespass and destroy other people farmlands with impunity.

LocalChamp:
Published September 11, 2017

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Abdullahi, has lamented the constant harassment of the Senate by Nigerians, adding that the upper legislative chamber cannot disclose its salaries and allowances.

Abdullahi said this during a live programme on Channels Television titled, ‘Politics Today.’

The Senate spokesman also refused to state how much the lawmakers earned in salary and allowances.

When asked to say how much he earned, Abdullahi said it was rude of the presenter to ask him how much each senator earned.

Abdulahi said, “You don’t expect me to come out on national television to say this is what I earn. It is not done. I cannot ask you as a journalist how much you earn. It is not done.

“If anybody is interested in how much we are getting paid, you know where to get the information. The documents are available. If Nigerians won’t believe that, is it what I will say that they will believe?”

The Senate spokesman said the figures released by the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), were false, adding that the Senate’s budget was not even as high as what Sagay released.

He said Sagay was only trying to cause unnecessary tension between the National Assembly and the Presidency.

When confronted with the figures exclusively obtained by Channels Television which put the salary and allowances of each senator at N14m per month and House of Representatives members as N8m per month, Abdullahi said he could not confirm or deny the figures.

Abdullahi said the cost of democracy was not as high as the cost of not having democracy and Nigerians should look on the bright side.

He added, “This issue has become a recurring decimal. In the last two years people have been discussing this matter and I always ask myself, what do people really want to believe? I think if this subject matter has been discussed for two years and we are still looking at issues wrongly, then I think there is something wrong with us.

“The institutions that are responsible for providing this information are there. A law was promulgated on Top Salary Scale also known as TOPSA and it is based on this scale that everyone who holds one political office or the other gets paid.

“I want to also submit that I presume Prof. Sagay would have been paid based on the provision of this scale. For us in the National Assembly, the question needs to be asked ‘what is the cost of having democracy and what is the cost of not having democracy?’”

Sagay (SAN), had said last week that a Nigerian senator earns N29m per month.

“From the information I have gathered, a Nigerian senator earns about N29m a month and over N3bn a year,” the professor said.

He added, “Basic salary N2,484,245.50; hardship allowance, 1,242, 122.70; constituency allowance N4, 968, 509.00; furniture allowance N7, 452, 736.50; newspaper allowance N1, 242, 122.70.

“Wardrobe allowance N621,061.37; recess allowance N248, 424.55; accommodation 4,968,509.00; utilities N828,081.83; domestic staff N1,863,184.12; entertainment N828,081.83; personal assistant N621,061.37; vehicle maintenance allowance N1,863,184.12; leave allowance N248,424.55; severance gratuity N7, 425,736.50; and motor vehicle allowance N9, 936,982.00.”

http://punchng.com/we-cant-disclose-our-allowances-senate/

This are the real armed robbers terrorizing nigerians which one is motor vehicle, hardship and vehicle maintenance allowances again?

[quote author=Cyynthia post=60263941]To hell with restructuring !!!.
To your tents O Israel.

Let's break up. Enough is enough.
As a progressive Yoruba, I have nothing In common with Northerners both in religion, food, culture or even Language.
We progressive Yorubas( excluding some of my muslim brothers) have said no to united Nigeria. NEVER AGAIN !!!. It's too late to restructure.

Oduduwa we seek and Oduduwa we must get.
God bless Adeyinka Grandson,
Nnamdi Kanu, all fighters and Lovers of



Igbo boys are getting ready for anything.

naijainform:
A Fulani socio-cultural association, under the aegis of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has called on the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris to investigate and arrest those behind the killing of Fulani herdsmen in Delta state.

The group also expressed dissatisfaction over the alleged non responsiveness of the Commissioner of Police in Delta state, Mohammed Ibrahim Zana and the state Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa.

While the herdsmen accused the Governor of not been proactive enough in responding to their plights; they also accused the Police Commissioner and his men of “denying the Fulanis justice.”

In the latest clash between the Fulani herdsmen and the farmers of Ossisa community in Ndokwa area of Delta state on 25th August, 2017, scores of casualties were recorded.

The herdsmen, however, claimed that the youths of the community were those who allegedly massacred their members and also killed over 60 of their cows, while raping their women in the process.

At a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, the National Publicity Secretary of the group, Malam Yusuf Musa Ardo, called on the police to ensure the killing of the herdsmen by their host communities is curbed.

Ardo said his group had received a petition from members of Alhaji Mohammed Bassa family and other Fulanis living in Delta state.

Cc lalasticlala

http://naijainform.com/miyetti-allah-petitions-police-ig-over-herdsmen-killing-in-delta-indicts-gov-okowa-cp-zana/

This is how they roll blaming their victims after committing atrocities against them.

lionjungle3000:
Afonjas want Igbos to look like them by fire by force. Lol...get it into your ewedu skull, Igbos don't look like Afonajs and will never look like afonjas. Go and meet your brethen in Kenya and South SUdan that look like you.

U hv said it all brother I don't understand all these obsession about light skin igbos by some nigerians particularly afonjas I m completely fair skin like nnamdi kanu I got this complexion from my mum though my dad is darker will u now call me a white man? What about Obama and some other half cast Individuals who have completely black fathers will you also call them whites?.

Youngadvocate:
http://sunnewsonline.com/nnamdi-kanus-father-raises-the-alarm-fg-wants-to-kill-my-son/

Great grandpa full of wisdom

Freemancipation:
This government knows that they only way to turn out crowds is to pay them. This has always been the case in Nigerian politics. That's why they envy Nnamdi Kanu who people travel from thousands of kilometers away to come see without being paid.


Amnesty international busted them this year when they sent an undercover journalist to take pictures of payment to protesters that were harassing them for 1 week.

They have obviously ran out of ideas

[quote author=Danladi7 post=60255386]Whoever has human feeling should suggest a way out for them![/quot

The south east has the lowest Igr yet the north and the west are ready to go to war to keep them in nigeria does that make any sense?

Naijiant:
More: https://www.naijiant.com/articles/yoruba-summit-politics-ignorance/

So we should accept the present structure that has produced Midiocres in all the regions no country survives and trives when mediocrity is institutionalized as the norm.

[quote author=brainpulse post=60259857]Vacancy for the post of IPODs target practice for Nigeria army is currently available. Kindly go to 23 Nweka road Aba

Stupid zoogerians