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ClearFlair:
Wait. It is the name you're concerned about and not the fact that they're killing people. APC supporters never disappoint sha

TimeManager:
Mahmouda doesn't sound like a name of a group, it's more like a name of an individual. Media like Sahara Reporters just rushed to create some false narratives in the media and everyone is following and repeating it like a zombíe. May God save us from fake news.


-Kiss the truth!

StaffofOrayan:
Do these senators realize they are public employees?

edogu:
Toyota corolla was between 1.1 to 1.5 m. Chai!

helinues:
Elections are not conducted on social media. Election no be BBA now

helinues:
You people will explain tired.

Between the 2023 election and now, so many revelations have been revealed about Peter Obi

All those saint narration is just one of the as usual jokes

Thescrutinyng:
National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu, during a visit to Benue State on April 22, stated that President Bola Tinubu’s administration inherited a severe security crisis but is working hard to restore stability across Nigeria.

Ribadu’s visit to Makurdi aimed to commiserate with the government and people of Benue following attacks by suspected herdsmen, which claimed over 72 lives in Katsina-Ala, Ukum, and Logo local government areas.

Condemning the killings as a tragic evil, Ribadu urged unity to combat the threat, saying, “We will defeat it. The entire country is with you. I commiserate with Benue people and assure you this is a trying period for all of us; we are 100 percent with you. We will confront it. Benue is an extremely important state to Nigeria. We must fight and maintain Benue as a peaceful state.”
He acknowledged the efforts of security forces but noted the challenge of covering every hamlet, adding, “Our armed forces are doing well. It is impossible to post soldiers or police to every hamlet. Give us a chance and stop politicising the killings. This will help us to restore peace.”

Ribadu claimed progress in reducing violence compared to the inherited situation, stating, “We inherited an extremely bad government, and things have improved, and we will address all these issues cropping up. It is a matter of time; to do the harm is easy, but to solve it is difficult. We have considerably reduced the number of violent (incidents) we met. This one, too, we will confront it.” He called for patience and warned against politicising the crisis.

Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia described the state as under siege since 2011, with persistent attacks devastating agriculture and displacing communities. He reported 17 internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and highlighted a “Black Friday” attack during Easter, saying, “Instead of a Good Friday, we have a Black Friday with a venomous attack on Katsina-Ala, Ukum, and Logo. It is quite devastating. It is telling on us. 72 lives lost.”
Alia noted state efforts, including purchasing 100 Hilux vehicles and 600 motorcycles for security, but stressed the need for urgent federal support, stating, “We need help like yesterday. The president has been very supportive, and we hope that support will come.”

Alia identified the attackers as speaking Fulani and Hausa, alleging a deliberate strategy to kill and occupy land, and urged President Tinubu to expel the “killer herdsmen”, saying, “We are helpless. We do not have AK-47. We are defenceless. We tell the people to be law-abiding, and the attackers take advantage of this. We are not in a banana republic.”

Chief Iyorkyaa Kaave, representing Tor Sankera Chief David Sevav, reported an additional 11 deaths in Afia, Ukum, with more bodies being discovered. He appealed to Tinubu to hold the perpetrators accountable for the ongoing atrocities.
https://thescrutinyng.com/benue-killings-we-inherited-an-extremely-bad-government-nuhu-ribadu/

Ever8090:
Omo....I think this Benue killings now requires urgent attention by the international community as the people are not ready to defend themselves

P1PrinceKT:
All these killings, nobody was there to video them?

SmartPolician:
Nigeria doesn't need any regional government because there are regions that will still become a mini-Nigeeria as the people don't have a uniform language and culture.

Nigeria needs to have a system that allows states to totally control their resources and policing. That will compel the best to vie for elective positions because no more handouts will be coming from Abuja. Every leader will think out of the box to create wealth, except some Niger Delta states and Ogun/Lagos.

johnmartus:
Select 4 people and give is better than sharing this 10k.

appleous:
Same Mazi of Twitter yesteryear?

If he likes he should share aeroplane

helinues:
Stale and dry

His Excellency, welcome back to the country.

I am sure so many deals must have taken place during your trip, it's time to get to work.

We have projects to campaign for reelection. Infact, we will monitor INEC in other to conduct free , fair and credible election in 2027. Rigging is out of the option. Clear victory with whoever might be on the other side.

MatrixReloaded:
Magnificent to behold. It tells humans that even in the aquatic realm there are species more capable of taking siege but they are found in the aquatic world. That is why it's important humans should thread with caution to fellow humans. Would you kill what you can't consume. Until humans realise that you eat what you kill then will normalcy return to the world. So much bloodshed!!!
Greater Eyes are watching us.

etokhana:
https://x.com/DailyPostNGR/status/1914640778191655364?t=cM1oXYTrY2POKDDQTzpSMA&s=19[/quote]tinubu needs to apologise too for causing pains to nigerians in the last 2 years

Tochi3:


..when no more in this life..blame fake media..

..this news will never make the FP..but a Delta rejected mandate snatcher "first lady" kneeling down will..

Eteka1:
The power sector holds the keys to Nigerian industrial and economic development. Unfortunately, successive governments have not been able to make it work.

Tinubu Should save Nigeria by putting Wike in Charge of the power sector. It Appears that Wike knows how to get the job done, there's no argument about that.

Image123:
Hmmm, see wetin my fellow citizens dey ask. Imagine if government build house for 45m, we go tear shirt say e too much. E be like i go join my dear citizens build 45m house dey ask if e enough oh. Instead of this 30k abi how much dem wan pay me to explain say government fit use 45m build house.

ooduapathfinder:
Hakeem Baba Ahmed: A Wake up call for Yoruba Elite.


The Yoruba Referendum Committee is not privy to all that transpired during Hakeem Baba-Ahmed’s tenure as Special Adviser (Political) to President Tinubu, whose office was located in the Vice President's wing. However, we are surprised by the reasons he gave for his resignation—ranging from allegations of Tinubu’s supposed schemes against the North to claims of Northern discrimination, concluding with a veiled threat: “If they think they’re going to do the same fraud they did in 2023, maybe this country won’t be as it is now.”
We are less concerned with what prompted this outburst and more focused on repositioning of political forces in expectation of 2027 elections; first by partisan forces working towards an electoral alliance, and spearheaded by the North, and now by non-partisan forces, ostensibly to be driven by Hakeem Baba Ahmed, all seemingly aimed at removing President Tinubu from office.
This should serve as a wake-up call to the Yoruba elite.
Hakeem Baba-Ahmed replied to our July 2023 Bulletin #33, written as a response to his interview in Punch as Secretary of the Northern Elders Forum.
His response was anchored on the need for inter-elite engagement as “t[i]he most elementary step to achieve a national consensus” over either a Nationality Referendum as we propose or any other pathway and that “there is no reason why the administration should be expected or pressurised into convening a national dialogue over our future.The elite of various groups should kick-start a productive national dialogue."
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At the time, Restructuring—not the 2027 elections—was his focus. With this newfound opposition to the Tinubu Administration, we expect him to advance the steps he proposed: that elites initiate a productive national dialogue.
Regardless of the reason for his disenchantment with the Tinubu Administration, we expect him to rally Northern elites towards this path, rather than resort to threats over future elections based on a widely acknowledged faulty structure.
This is because such a “National Dialogue” would necessarily facilitate a new Constitution for the country. To avoid pitfalls of previous dialogues/conferences, the new Dialogue must have an in-built mechanism for Legitimacy. This can only be guaranteed by “Nationality Referendums” as its prelude because the Referendum is already the Legitimate expression of the people's aspirations and expectations.
Hence, we expect Hakeem Baba Ahmed to encourage or mobilize the elite of the North to toe this pathway instead of threatening fire and brimstone on account of some future elections planned on a foundation which has been agreed to be faulty.
Of course the same condition applies to other elite, if not more so, especially our own Yoruba elite.
Our Bulletin #33 under reference addressed the issues posed in the said “Punch” interview. We distilled his points into three categories: drastically reducing corruption, cost of governance and Restructuring as the solution
He described corruption as a function of “societal corruption which percolates down to every other sections of governance”. Yet, It is well known that each society/nationality already has its shared values, regardless of the individual profession of faith and which mediates and modulates social relationships, and which affects its leadership.
To “drastically remove corruption” must therefore entail and embrace the particular social values of each Nationality. Hence the emphasis must be on arriving at inter-Nationality shared values, which can only be achieved by recognizing the realities of current Intra-Nationality shared values whose relevance will be brought onto the sphere of the political architecture.
Further, he called for good governance, security, and compassion from the Tinubu administration. He advocated Restructuring as essential, noting: “The North can’t sustain 19 governors, legislatures, and judiciaries. Governance consumes a massive portion of resources. Until we solve this—through common policies, strategy, and awareness—the North will remain burdened.”
As a way out, he suggested a forum to define Nigeria’s future and possibly change the Constitution. This is to be achieved by way of convening “some kind of forum that will genuinely look at what Nigeria needs to be, either incrementally or in one gulp, including changing the Constitution.
The Yoruba Referendum Committee takes the opposite view, to wit: what is needed are Nationality Referendums as the “informed strategy” because (a) various governments in the past convened forums for Restructuring and nothing came out of them. (b) The APC Government and party also set up the El-Rufai Committee on Federalism and, so far, nothing has come out of it. (c) Even if it is possible for the Tinubu Administration to be different, that is, it can convene such a forum with something coming out of it, we cannot afford to rely on such an assumption, mainly because such forums become substitutes for the People, often replacing the people's will with elite consensus. (d) Despite the characterization of such representatives as representing the people, the people, i.e. the citizens are prevented from exercising their veto power on decisions that may negatively impact them. (e) The answer is not in convening any forum as a first step but in ensuring that the wishes of the citizens are made manifest through the Referendum process after which any negotiations would commence. (f)The “Referendum Process” is what we call, for the Yoruba, the Yoruba Referendum. Other Nationalities can describe their process according to their realities, the central issue must be on emphasizing the Peoples'will by the Referendum vote. (g) These Referendums will provide the basis for a “National Dialogue” to result in a new Constitution and the composition of the Center, which the Yoruba Referendum Bill has defined as “a central Legislature made up of an equal number of representatives from the Federating Units(Nationalities) and superintended by a Presidential College consisting of one representative selected or elected from each Federating Unit and from which a “primus inter pares” will be selected/elected to hold the office of the President on a rotational basis. (h) This will permanently alter the over-reliance on the Center, thus reducing inter-Nationality conflicts and thereby making Nigeria become the expression of African post-colonial aspirations for functioning multinational federal democracies. This will also reduce overcentralization, resolve inter-ethnic conflict, and create a true multinational federal democracy—fulfilling Africa’s post-colonial promise.
Hakeem Baba Ahmed's criticism of the North’s 19-state structure further underscores the need for the North to hold its own Nationality Referendums to determine governance preferences. This is crucial not just for Restructuring, but also to reduce governance costs nationwide.
The above sums up our response to Hakeem Baba Ahmed's position.
Yet, Hakeem Baba Ahmed has forgotten about the Restructuring he advocated before his assumption of office and has now become an advocate for dislodging Tinubu from office.
This is why we are once again calling on the Yoruba elite to seize the moment by ensuring the passage of the Bill for a Referendum by the Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun,Ondo and Ekiti States’ Houses of Assembly.
We cannot be reacting to what the “North” does or doesn't do, especially now that we have been served a 6-month notice.
The above is the import of Hakeem Baba Ahmed's resignation and the reasons he adduced.

The ball is in our court.

Editorial Board
Yoruba Referendum Committee.

ogododo:
Video https://x.com/SaharaReporters/status/1914452556132057526

Omooba77:
https://dailytrust.com/kano-katsina-jigawa-get-2-hr-power-supply-daily/

sirray001:
stop dreaming and keep your good works going in life. The day you depart this world, your end comes

franchasofficia:
lol, knowing how to swim is very important if you do travel by flight, just in case

nairalandadeux:
If you want to solve this killer herdsman problem, you got to do some things

1. Defeat the bandits, boko and ISWAP. This is non-negotiable, because at the end of the day, these people love raiding fulani herdsmen for cows and money. Thus many fulanis run to the south to graze their cows.

2. Plant trees, plant more trees. Especially in the far North. The Sahara is pushing down. The Sahel is essentially now non existent. The changes in climate are pushing fulanis down

3. Time for ranches, to be established up North...because that is where the land is. Set up the ranches, let them produce modern milk and meant the modern way. Roaming with cows is no longer possible.

4. Time also for an end to shifiting cultivation and instead time for modern farming. Commercial farming.

5. And time to work on our railways so that cows will be transported by railways, not by road, or by roaming around.


I DID NOT SUPPORT OR EXCUSE ANY MURDERS BY FULANIS
I DID NOT SUPPORT APC
I DO NOT SUPPORT FULANIS TAKING LAND FROM FARMERS
I DO NOT SUPPORT ISLAMIC TERRORISIM
I DO NOT SUPPORT TINUBU
I DO NOT SUPPORT ANY FORM OF EVIL.
i DO NOT SUPPORT FULANIS TAKING OVER
I DO NOT SUPPORT RUGA ANYWHERE IN THE SOUTH



I just stated my ideas. Read and think about them, time to stop the killing.

Jostoman:
Make una continue, this one wey them dey look for state wey them go declare state of emergency up and down.

Genloaded:
Soso Soberekon, the renowned Nigerian music producer and artist manager, has pledged a generous N20 million donation to support a rematch between singer Portable and Speed Darlington.

The offer came shortly after Portable’s victory over Speed Darlington in a celebrity boxing match dubbed ‘Chaos in the Rings’ on Friday night.

Following the loss, Speed Darlington took to Instagram to suggest that Portable had used ‘juju’ to win, and called for a rematch.

In response to Darlington’s post, Soberekon offered a hefty reward for the winner of the potential rematch, commenting: “Rematch 20m for the winner. @speeddarlintv you have my number or tell the promoters to reach out to me.”

https://genloaded.com.ng/entertainment/celebrity-boxing-soso-soberekon-offers-n20-million-for-portable-vs-speed-darlington-rematch/