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[quote author=fergie001 post=112548881][/quote]Of course Kwara/Kebbi (NC/NW)

The United Kingdom government has finally accepted Nigeria’s classification of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organisation.

Following widespread killings and acts of lawlessness, the Nigerian government designated IPOB a terrorist group in 2017.

But some foreign countries, including UK, which IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, holds its passport, did not acknowledge the declaration at the time.

However, four days after the outlawed group beheaded an army couple, who were on their way to Imo State for their traditional wedding, UK acknowledged IPOB as a terrorist organisation, directing that it should be excluded from its asylum programme.

Although the killing, which sparked nationwide outrage, was not among the atrocities of the Nnamdi Kanu-led terror group the UK listed in its policy review document, the action was taken a few days after the murder.

The acts of the terrorist group listed by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), a division of the British Home Office, were the invasion of an All Progressives Congress (APC) meeting in Enugu state where a party chieftain was killed; attack on an Imo Police Station where an officer was killed; killing of Anambra residents during enforcement of ”sit-at-home” order; killing of some policemen en route to Anambra International Airport, among others.

All these attacks happened in January 2022 alone.

Last year, UKVI had released new guidelines to its decision makers on how to consider and grant asylum applications to IPOB.

But in a fresh update published on its website three days ago, UKVI made a U-turn.

“IPOB is proscribed as a terrorist group by the Nigerian government, and members of the group and its paramilitary wing – the Eastern Security Network (created in December 2020) – have reportedly committed human rights violations in Nigeria,” UKVI said in its policy notes.

“MASSOB has been banned, but is not a proscribed terrorist group in Nigeria. It too has reportedly been involved in violent clashes with the authorities.

“If a person has been involved with IPOB (and/or an affiliated group), MASSOB or any other ‘Biafran’ group that incites or uses violence to achieve its aims, decision makers must consider whether one (or more) of the exclusion clauses under the Refugee Convention is applicable.

“Persons who commit human rights violations must not be granted asylum.”

The policy directed that decision makers must also check if there has been a previous application for a UK visa or another form of leave, noting that asylum applications matched to visas should be investigated before the asylum interview.

According to the British government, establishing a convention reason is not sufficient to be recognised as a refugee.

“The question is whether the particular person has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of their actual or imputed convention reason,” it added.

For an asylum application to succeed, it said the decision-makers must consider each case on its facts, taking into account the legal status, profile, size, and organisation of the group/organisation to which the person belongs and its activities; whether a person in the UK would wish to continue their activism if returned to Nigeria (if not, why not) and whether the group/organisation has a presence in Nigeria as well as outside of the country and any evidence that it is being monitored by the government.

https://dailytrust.com/uk-finally-designates-ipob-as-terrorist-group-bars-members-from-asslyum

APC Presidential candidates who have so far bought forms:

South-West:
1. Hashim
2. BAT
3. PYO
4. Amosun
5. Bakare
6. Fayemi
7. Bankole loading.....

South-East:
1. Umahi
2. Nwajiuba
3. Rochas
4. Ngige

South-South:
1. Amaechi
2. Akpabio
3. Ishiomole

North-West, North-Central and North-East:
1. Yahaya Bello
2. Badaru

Aftermath of APC primary election will be full of regrets, accusations and realignment though some information coming from the contestants indicated that some candidates are promised to be refunded their N100m for the forms they purchased and additional N40m to collapse their structure to other serious candidates. Jigawa state Governor is allegedly in collaboration with Fayemi to be his running mate if he succeed in the run up of the primary or is planning to be adopted as the candidate of Progressive Governors to be VP candidate of any Southern candidate who may emerge APC flag bearer.

Ignorant man ruling over illiterate followers

Maxymilliano:
UN secretary general should go round and see that Nigeria is worse than Afghanistan, no thanks to Buhari

However, the UN Secretary General made this remark after his visit to Borno.

What many people don't know is, many of these buyers aren't really contesting for primary election but planning to collapse their structure for one canididate or the other. Those from the North like Badaru are targeting VP seat in secret collaboration with Fayemi others are promised to be repaid N100m for their forms and extra N40m to collapse their structure prior to the primary election.

Gbajure:
Keep ur lies to ur uneducated supporters. Jigawa that is as backward as anything. Who know Badaru?

How do u measure development or backwardness?
Can u compare states created in 1991 with Jigawa state in terms of growth?
Can u ask those who have been to the state about what I mentioned?
I'm very much upbeat that u are among the dullards who measure the performance of their Governors based in their projects within a state capital only while neglecting other places.
You must be jealous of Jigawa state's luckiness for having workaholic governors.
Wake up and demand good governance from ur leaders and stop dreaming the good things from other states!

Newton2024:
If North have the most performing public servants, why the increase in poverty and insecurity? Most of the insecurity in the south is the spill over from north. E.g Fulani herdsmen terr-orists.

In developing countries poverty has more index where there is larger population growth and North has despite being the most employable region.
Kidnapping emanated from ND around 2004-2006, arm robbery has been a very profitable business by criminals as far back as 50yrs or aftermath of civil war, communal clashes have always been in the South coupled with the recent cultism, ritual killings and other vices. So, don't accuse others for ur problem when in reality arm robbery is an imported criminality from south to North quite some decades ago.

SmartProf:
The most remarkable achievement of this Jigawa governor since he was elected is the purchase of this nomination form...aside this Jigawa has never been in the news.

Jigawa doesn't need to be in news for the infrastructure that is very common in the state since the inception of democracy in 1999.
Under the leadership of Badaru, Jigawa built more than 1500km (93) roads across the state, he built Primary Health care of about 100 capacity in each ward across the state, he upgraded about 15 Primary health Care centres to General hospitals, free education from primary to secondary school including free WAEC & NECO fees, it has been a tradition of the state to send at least 100 students annually abroad to study Medicine, state owned university fee to indigines is N11k, around N15k in other tertiary education institutions, free medical care to check children and pregnant women, he built more than 500 schools across the state, he ensured that the state legislatures project is outlined based on demands of the populace by ensuring availability of pipe born water in almost all towns and villages with Jigawa people having access to available portable water than any other state in Nigeria, there is no LG in Jigawa that don't have good road network all over including major towns, there is no single bad state owned road in the whole Jigawa state except few FG roads, all LGs and major cities across the state enjoy street lights in the night hours to dawn.
No state in Nigeria can boast of the social amenities Jigawa state gives her 4.6m population in Nigeria. Jigawa doesn't make noise about infrastructure in media because of the antecedents of the workaholic work of their 3 past Governors. Jigawa state is the first state that established Galaxy ITT in 2001, the first indigenous IT company that gives internet services to some it companies in Lagos, FG agencies, Niger Rep, Burkina Faso, Chad and the first to established School of Information and communication Technology in 2001 when there was no degree program in computer in Nigeria which later send the school's graduated students to Singapore and later made the state having the best IT experts across the Nation earlier between 2001-2004.
Jigawa state may be a rural state but benefitted from relatively good governance than any other state in the Nation.
Fmr Jigawa state Gover Sule Lamido performed better than Badaru except in Health and roads which they're in almost close gap performance.

Newton2024:
Imagine a 70 years old emeritus professor from South and a 12 years old almajiri from North having the equal voting right. That's the ugliness of democracy in Nigeria. It is the majority stupeed people that determine who wins the election. "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large number." Nigeria can never get it.

You are so stupid to understand that the basis of ur problem starts from u. The bunch of educated illiterates in ur backyard who voted them into office?
Abuja is made up of mostly educated civil servants and business men, have they ever voted for the best public servants?
Is it not clear that today North have the most performing public servants than the so called educated illiterates from the South?

YOUNGELDER1:
Nothing special or surprising.
You’re expect to learn your host language when you migrate.
So many Africans migrate abroad and end up be fluent in their host countries language.

There are hundreds Chinese that are very fluent in Hausa some are Professors of Hausa language and have been to Nigeria for few occasions. Kande and many like her are not living in Nigeria, she lives in China.
There are more than 13 universities teaching Hausa across Europe, many in Asia. Before the issue of Boko Haram insurgency, they use to come to Nigeria and do their Hausa practical courses especially those from German Universities.

2023: Gov Badaru joins presidential race, purchases N100m APC form

Jigawa State governor, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar has joined other interested presidential aspirants to contest for the seat of number one citizen under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

He has also acquired the N100 million nomination form.

Governor Badaru, during an APC stakeholders meeting held at Government House Dutse on Tuesday evening, was quoted as saying, “I will join the Presidential race since everyone knows I’m a highly qualified person to do the job”.

The Governor was also said to have told the gathering during the meeting that he was pressurized to contest for the presidential seat by his colleagues.

His media aide, Auwalu Sankara, said his principal sought President Muhammadu Buhari’s blessings before buying the form.

Governor Badaru is now almost the number 12 in the APC seeking to replace Buhari in 2023.

Our correspondent gathered that the decision of the All Progressives Governors Forum to push Governor Badaru to contest for the presidential seat might not be unconnected with the fact that in case southerners pick their candidate from PDP it will pave way for the APC candidate.

Sankara further explained that his boss has the know-how to continue where Buhari stopped.

https://dailypost.ng/2022/05/04/2023-gov-badaru-joins-presidential-race-purchases-n100m-apc-form/

ivolt:
Lies.
He used Saraki's diplomatic immunity the only time he visited US after he was indicted.

No, they used lobbying firms to beg US Congress to ensure his hitch free entry.

This guy isn't at the level of other youths contesting for HoR.
Useless scammer!

Abascoh:
So from what I read, they just arrested the last three people that called her and that is all. Is that all the Nigerian police have done? What's so unusual about a husband calling his own wife? A man was among the last three people that called his wife before she was killed and that's enough to arrest him and tag him a suspect linked to her murder? Nigerian police is a very useless security force.

Do u expect the police to tell u their findings before concluding their investigation?
What if they listened to their conversation and is found out that to be very suspicious?

DamnnNiggarr:
English scholars in the house!!!

It is unfortunate how the sentence used to ask the question is also wrong


Anyway, it isn't my language. No. 3 is correct!

Rastaramsey:
I wonder what he wants here....

He must surely know Boko Haram is controlled by the government....

They shouldn't bother to send any supplies sef....

Everything nah scam...

Since becoming UN Secretary, he visits some countries where they have humanitarian crises across the globe. This year he chose to visit Nigeria, but he was in Senagal and had Iftar with their President,the following day he joined Niger Rep President in celebration Eid Fitr and finally landed in Maiduguri today.

phemmyjohnson:
Divide and rule . The north might be a disaster poverty ridden region but they are first class in using other gullible regional leaders in causing political mayhem to achieve its aim ..
Region of dullards manipulating region of elites..
what north cannot do does not exist !!!

You must be ashamed for publicly declaring the excessive delusion and unintellectuality of your people.
Is it not obvious how greed, over ambitious, divided, uncoordinated, selfish your people are?
Your accusations proved how gullible your people are. Accusing North for this has shown that u don't yet know the renowned "pull down syndrome" in the DNA of your people.

In 2014 APC primary election, Kwankwaso, Atiku, Buhari among others contested from the North but they knew were the dot lines will lead to, they never engaged in dirty politics, they may all be desperate but they put Northern interest over personal interests and presented the most sellable, the one with most followers; Buhari.

However, is it not obvious to all SW stakeholders that Tinubu is nursing Presidential ambition?
Look at how extremely divided and bitter to one another they're?
Look at the kind of words their followers are throwing to one another which may end up degrading the value of anybody who may emerge flag bearer of the party among them.

Accusing North for this is baseless, go back to the history and see how North supported OBJ when he was rejected at home.

Go and check how North massively supported Abiola when his fellow kinsmen tried hard to pull him down.

Check how beloved Awolowo, a Nationalist was betrayed by his kinsmen he sacrificed his life for.
On the other hand, North love Saurdauna and Tafawa Balewa like gods, their love is still fresh in the mind of Northern pupils talk less of adults.

Go and learn how to play the game of politics and eschew blame games on others far away from u and stop accusing us on throwing division among elderly people, are they kids?

Rastaramsey:
Everything na big scam

Youth can't participate in politics
It is the sad truth...

Those old fools in the North will keep ruling till eternity...

Politics is evolving in the North while u are here hallucinating.
Did U know Badaru, Buni, Bagudu, Simon Bako Lalong, El Rufai's influence in Northern politics in the past 10yrs? I guess u knew only TY Danjuma, IBB, Yakubu Gowon, Aliyu Gusau.
Go to NASS and see many youths like Elisha Abbo, Shaaban Sharada, Nazifi Sani, among bunch of youths being groomed to take over from the old class. The evolution may be slow but is effective. Watch out 2023!

aribisala0:
How about we separate

what are you afraid of

your region is parasitic and contributes nothing to share in Abuja

Parasitic

For you religion means being unproductive parasitic and child marriage

Nigeria's GDP amounted to N152.320Trillion ($500billion), About 24 percent of Gross Domestic Product is generated by the agricultural sector. The largest contribution was given by crop productions, which generated 21.8 percent of the country's recent GDP.
Agriculture contributes to a significant part of the country's GDP. It is a key activity for Nigeria's economy after oil. Nevertheless, agricultural activities provide livelihood for many Nigerians, whereas the wealth generated by oil reaches a restricted share of people.''

Also, ''the agricultural sector remains the largest employer of labour in Nigeria, employing more than 36% of the labour force''.

Looking into the GDP of different sectors and commodities in Nigeria and assessing who control the major stake of Nigeria's economy: Accommodation, food, transportation and real estate: 12.2%,
Education, health, science and technology: 6.3%,
Farming, forestry and fishing : 30.5%,
Manufacturing, mining and quarrying: 11.3%
Retail, maintenance, repair, and operations: 24.9%
Managerial, finance and insurance: 4.2%
Telecommunication, arts and entertainment: 1.8%,
Other services: 8.8%.

Going by the given statistics above it can be seen that Education, health, science and technology, Entertainment, manufacturing, Telecommunication, Arts and Entertainment that your people may claim to have control are not up to 30.5% of the GDP contributed by farming and fishing mainly control and done by Northerners while all other businesses your people do, Northerners and other parts of Nigeria are either into them en masse or are the main actors.

Oil and agriculture are th bedrock of Nigerian economy, oil is a natural resource which Govt depend upon for funding her most budgets while agriculture provides major source of labour and feed the Nation. If this is the case, what can u be proud of a group of people? you mean the economy around u control by few people with the larger population serving the rest through corporate entities? Man, wake up and embrace reality.
The issue of seperation is a topic on its own which I have enough information to feed ur coconut head on why it is difficult to seperate after being forced to sign a forced marriage out of will!

Child marriage in 2022? Get ur facts right.

See who take religion for head not us:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/05/2023-rccg-youth-pastor-calls-for-sack-of-another-pastor-who-campaigned-for-osinbajo

We contributed not just to Abuja but for the whole Nation, the food we eat. I feel very proud when I go to South and see most of the rice people eat are from mostly Jigawa and Kano with brands names of the people's companies I know clearly written on the bags and to my greatest surprise most of u call it foreign rice not knowing its source. I Feel happy when Lagos built the largest rice mill in Africa which will have its supplies from Kebbi state. I feel happy when I see infinite number of trailers moving from North to South with animals (meat) that u eat daily and food that u so often consume for either ur industries or human consumption. Learn more and eschew this delusions, Man.

Let me categorically make it clear to you, in as much as u choose to be dogmatic, media and haters will keep brainwashing and feed u with Ill information about others then you will never learn to know truth.

Emir01:
How many Muslims are there? Whenever I see people complaining about Buhari I will just be laughing.

Nigerians are a bit forgetful..

9Pluto:
Is it that you are being intentionally mischievous or naturally daft? How does this list translate to a majority igbo appointment? Particularly his appointment in security.

People like Peter Obi who is trying to risk his neck to salvage the country deserves pity. The country is irredeemable. It is a speed train heading to a cul-de-sac. It is just a matter of time before our economic realities sets in. You guys can keep playing foul politics until you succeed in ruining what is left.

Scrutinise the list and do justice to it based on FCC principles, compare it to what U all blame PMB on and see if there is any difference. The list only contain some of th most juicy appointments under GEJ not Igbos only but beyond reasonable doubt have them more than others as they alyeas smear baseless allegations of all Northern names as Fulani.
History won't forget more harmful of such actions initiated by ur kinsmen actions which is still recuperating...

aribisala0:
It seems that the only App you downloaded is an anti-Christian App and you do not have any reasoning independent of that App

well I am not christian so maybe you need another App

I am not hear to discuss hjab

What is the way forward can Nigeria work?
Since the anger is so hot why don't we split. It seems to me as Yoruba that we gain nothing from you and we believe we will be okay as neighbours rather than compatriots . How about that?

I have no interest n Osnbajo Presidency

Yoruba will be fine without it. It will make no difference to Lagos our engine of growth .

What we want is a smaller federal government, resource control and state police

If you want to specialize in hijab production fine let everyone govern their region that is our priority not presidency or hijabs

My reaction doesn't care abt ur religious background but the aspersions of religious extremism u tried to smear on NW and NE people which I proved to u beyond reasonable doubt that is more prevalent in ur backyard than those palces, therefore go and settle ur issues before attacking others!

khadaffi:
You tried to be political in this listing but let's put that aside. Did you not see how balanced that list you put up there is. I'm sure you don't even know the states of most of those names you put up there. It is so balanced it reflected federal character. The only complain you can bring out is that there is no Fulani there. But there were northerners, even Jega was appointed INEC chairman but you left that part out

PMB's appointments are much more balanced than this highly lopsided appointments made by GEJ. Most of those shouting marginalisation can't even trace the origin of most appointments but only see Northerners names as Fulani delusionally. For this list, it portrayed how it has always been played...

Donaluta:
So you mean Yoruba and South South are south east .. walahi talahii... You be da iska .. so dumb that you can't differentiate between south west .. south east and south south .. kaaaiii after you go say you go school .. who do you this thing

I based my comments based on:
1. Juicy positions
2. South
3. SE
I tried to outline the most juicy MDAs in Nigeria and the appointees under GEJ's administration. I went further to highlight how SE dominated most of them. Simple logic u can't comprehend, can't u see even Northerners in the list?

aribisala0:
What is my religion?

your response is tired
Find something sensible to say
I am not Muslim, I am not Christian . so leave the ranting


my thing is simple

can we make Nigeria work if so how? what would that look like?

your response reveals your lack of intellectual capacity and a projection of your issues

You assume I am a religious bigot because i question Islam in the north.
Islam in Yoruba land is not a problem in Nigeria we do not burn churches etc we give space for all religions and tolerate everybody

we have Islam in Yoruba land it is very different from your Islam
Your version of Islam makes us incompatible
We want a secular nation where religion is PRIVATE. you want Islam in government

so rather than abusing each other why can't we separate and be neighbours?

Pls stop deceiving people with this deceptive secular word!
Is what RCCG is saying recently and trying to impose on us called secular or religious free politics? In the North, religious politicians don't win elections, beside Yariman Zamfara who disguised as religious never we have a religious adherent as a leader unlike u who can't even avoid the tittle of ur son.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/05/only-osinbajo-can-change-narrative-of-governance-rccg/
All the religious jingoism, fanaticism, marginalisation and persecution alleged by ur kinsmen is what u referred better religious practices in ur region?
https://thetorch.ng/muric-berates-political-marginalisation-of-swest-muslims/

Without a united Nigeria u would have been in a serious religious war; the Hijab saga in Kwara State and other alleged religious persecution would have triggered it. Stop being delusional and accept facts. Your atheism can't stop u from hating others, daft!

[quote author=Justiceleague1 post=112452383][/quote]After 2015 General Elections winning party made permutations to share major seats in accordance with faith, voting bloc and region.
With Northern Nigeria leading in both chambers and Executives; APC supposed to make most of their appointments from NW, NE, NC and SW going by the manner of the ruling party structure. Among the 3 zones in each region, the permutation was made in such away that since NW had President, SW had VP, it was decided that NE would have Senate President, Speaker SW with Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila respectively. However, the Southern usual pull down syndrome sabotaged the plan which led to the emergence of Saraki as SP and Dogara as speaker, North was so logical to have chosen a Christian Dogara as speaker from NE since they lost SP's seat to NC as planned by the party and also at the same time allocated a Christian Executives seat of SGF from the same NE leaving the supposed Speaker and VP slots of SW with only VP. However, SW was compensatd with the over 60% of PMB's appointments from that region with Ogun State alone having more appointments than the entire NW, the most important Ministry (Ministry of works, Housing and Power) was given to Fashola.
North would never afford to be so careless, insensitive to such kind of political situations!

History555:
U hve justified why i said u are dull.
So in the list u designed andrew yakubu nnpc is from the south and lgbo
Jibrin usman is from the south and lgbo
Samuel yonogo aud general is from the south and lgbo
Seyi sijuwade, elemo, akikotu, oriya, wapmuk, apobolokemi, otunla acc general, gbenro mdg are lgbos. Dikko, dasuki, npa Mohammed, hassan principal sec are lgbos.

Oga take the back seat. U are too dull

Student of low IQ, I need to factor out the 3 objectives in my comment;
1. Juicy positions
2. South
3. SE
I tried to outline the most juicy MDAs in Nigeria and the appointees under GEJ's administration. I went further to highlight how SE dominated most of them. Simple logic u can't comprehend. How can I be so low to write what I'm not sure of? Neve!

aribisala0:
Do you have a vision of what a functional Nigeria would look like

do you believe Nigeria can ever work? when ? how soon?
As a Yoruba I do not .

why
#mainly because of the NW and NE and their perspective on Islam

I do not judge them for it

For me it is a compatibility issue

as a Yoruba i do not see what I gain from being in the same country with the NE and NW.

It is important to see that comment not as an insult but pragmatism.

what do we gain from you? What do you contribute to the SW.

everything you can possibly bring you can bring as a neighbouring country rather than being in the same country

You fucking religious bigot, go and address these issues before spreading ur cancerous hatred on others; Yoruba Muslims have been victims of political and religious persecution for a very long time. Muslim job seekers are asked to bring letters of recommendation from churches. Vacancies are shared in the churches to the detriment of Muslim job seekers. Yoruba Muslims are marginalised in political appointments both at the state and federal levels.
“For instance, a cursory look at the distribution of political posts in South Western states today will reveal heavy lop-sidedness in favour of Yoruba Christians. dividends of democracy not supposed
to go round? Must political leadership be special property of Yoruba people of a particular faith? It should not be so.
“At the ministerial level, let us cite the example of ex-President Jonathan’s period. All the six ministers appointed by Jonathan from the South West were Christians. This lop-sidedness made the Muslims visit the ex-president in Aso Rock where he promised to address the issue. This led to him giving Muslims two ministers out of six before the end of his term.
“As of today, only one state in Yorubaland gives clearly defined official recognition to female Muslim students and that is Osun State. Lagos allows it without an official statement backing the permission but at least it checks overzealous school teachers who persecute users of hijab. Muslims are on their own in other states as they face persistent intimidation, oppression and persecution in the schools.
“Although the Nigerian constitution gives Muslims the legal backing for use of hijab (Section 38 (i) (ii), Abuja continues to play the ostrich as Yoruba Muslims face religious persecution. We believe the centre will pay some attention if a Yoruba Muslim gets to Aso Rock.
https://thetorch.ng/muric-berates-political-marginalisation-of-swest-muslims/

MadamExcellency:
I don't know how a grown-up and supposedly adult can be this mischievous.

Fish out the target and make some statistics!

History555:
Another dullard on display. How is everyone on the list u posted lgbos. U are so dull that u copy and can't spend 2 mins to read wat u copied. Usman jibrin, adesola amosu, aresa, CG abdullahi diko, nsa dasuki, andrew yakubu are lgbos. Even npa md Mohammed is lgbo.

Dullards every where.

I personally designed the list. Read again and I quote that "the list contained Southerners appointed by GEJ in most juicy positions who are mostly Igbos". I have vast knowledge of Nigeria, I was born and brought up in the North, working in the South and I have been to the nooks and crannies of this Nation to know different tribes of Nigeria either by names or by facial expression and above all I know most notable Nigerian politicians through my long journey in politics.

Islie:
As the clock ticks towards the 2023 elections, some governors who are completing their second terms next year have commenced moves to switch to...






https://dailytrust.com/ahead-of-second-term-expiration-8-govs-plot-to-retire-to-senate


Lalasticlala

Badaru won't contest for Senate but the rest will!