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Is this not the same fellow on trial under GEJ for pocketing some of the proceeds from selling naija's houses in New York? Was that trial concluded or is he being arrested now for jumping bail? And did GEJ arrest him for criticizing PMB's govt too?

Even more: his information commissioner who was disgraced via the withdrawal of her official car is now NDDC top dog! What a turnaround!

shegxi:
for me, it is nt about dis story alone.....
remember how he became governor?
remember his travails as NGF chairman?
imagine where he wuld be if jonathan had won?
who thought people from wike's wing wuld ever go to amaechi's side(even wike's appointees at dat)?
forgotten how people sang of apc using him and abandoning him?
now think of were amaechi is today.....for all his shortcomings, u can't deny d grace on amaechi's life!!! hate him or love him, d dude is simply blessed.

Your comment was so good it was plagiarised by The Nation reporter at http://thenationonlineng.net/land-cruiser-hits-poles/

His version reads: “From the way the car jumped over the gutter, brought down two electric poles, and even destroyed the fence like a bulldozer would, it’s certainly a clear case of over speeding. Despite people shouting speed kills, speed kills. Let drivers be careful on the wheels especially when the road is free,” said an onlooker.

ladyF:
Oh my....

From the way the car jumped over the gutter, brought down 2 electric poles, and even destroyed the fence like a bulldozer would, it's certainly a clear case of over speeding. Despite people shouting "speed kills, speed kills". Let those who have ears, let them hear. God help us.

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You lie. I follow the account: https://twitter.com/DrJoeAbah

VickyRichmond:
THIS ACCOUNT @DrJoeAbah DOESNOT EXIST.THIS IS A FAKE NEWS.MARGINALIZATION IS STILL TAKING PLACE IN THE FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE...LIES LIES EVERYWHERE! ! !

This is about surfacing the real facts about naija so we know those who are truly marginalised instead of the loudest wailers getting further undeserved concessions from those already downtrodden. Let IPOB come out with its counter facts.

LVStone:
I don't know the the intention of the OP but its wrong to relate every piece of information to tribalism.

The earlier we get that as Nigerians the United we will be.
#TEAMONENIGERIA

Is local govt FGN? And if Delta has only 4k federal civil servants how many did you expect to be in your family?

oc2fish:
I am from Delta state. In my town i know of only one federal worker. In my local govt i know another two. Where did you get the number. I served in Gashia Yobe state all the people in Gashua receive salary in the local Government. Tell me what i dont know.

Pls note no SE or SW state in the red zone while most oyel producers are down there as well as most of the North. They should just join hands and beat up those two zones which are milking naija dry

PMB should have done what the US does to those preaching terrorism - point a Predator drone in his direction. http://www.allgov.com/news/us-and-the-world/who-are-the-8-americans-killed-by-drone-strikes-150427?news=856342

Sanchase:
Even though Nnamdi Kanu is an Idiot, the FG has no right to detain him for so long for no just reason . He was exercising his rights as a freedom fighter but unfortunately he planned to fail.

Buhari needs to release him or arrest all the Nigerians who has one way or the other voiced their opinion on the way the country should be governened including Sanusi.

I actually went to the SE to snatch her from under the noses of boastful layabouts like you so, so much for Yorubas not venturing beyond their blessed land. You said she lacked self respect and I proved to you that she is what even you would regard as successful considering how many of your kind she feeds. Most of the unfortunate kinsmen are too busy carrying Biafra placards to be unhappy about me stating things the way they are.

If I can make billions from my own territory why would I go to struggle for scraps in your territory? How many Igbos of substance do you know who made their money in the SE? If even Igbos can't make money in Igboland why would I go seek water from a stone? You can turn necessity into a virtue from now till kingdom come but we all know why you are so far from home: not love or adventurism but plain desperation. The shame is you being too deluded and boastful to just make your money in peace. You must tell us all how much of a favour you are doing us by making money from us.

Your ingratitude poisoned your young ones and today they are running about the streets making illogical demands that you DARE not bring to pass. In PMB's shoes I would INSIST you have that referendum and ensure it is conducted by the UN just to make sure you don't have anything to hide under when the results come out. When your wish is granted I shall go further to grant you all two year work permits in the rest of naija after which you must all return to the 29,000 square kilometres of the SE and apply for work permits from there. Of course you will have to queue behind Ghanaians and other less antagonistic Africans. Even the Lebanese will be preferred over you since they at least know where their bread is buttered and aren't so openly full of vile insults for their gracious hosts.

Be very careful what you wish for as you just might get it.

ofenmanucom:
Those UNFORTUNATE kinsmen back home wouldn't be so happy reading this tripe from their supposed 'generous' inlaw. You have absolutely no respect for them and your so-called wife. You probably believe you did her alot of favour by marrying her. Still validates my earlier assertion. No self-respecting Igbo woman would find herself in the house of hateful Yoruba. She definitely must have done it because of the filthy lure of lucre. I said it already, Yorubas and Igbos have nothing in common and should never inter-marry. It is an abberation and an abuse of the institution of marriage.

Secondly, the Chinese, Lebanese, the Europeans and the Igbos are all around the world doing business. It has nothing to do with love or loyalty. It's purely a capitalist quest for enterprise. It shows a high level of competitiveness. Your inability to explore and expand your frontiers beyond the immediate confines of your comfort zone is not my fault. That you're unable to compete is nobody's making! I dont have to show gratitude for investing and paying taxes in your land. I mean that's a crazy way to think.

This piece by a foreign policy veteran thinks otherwise: http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-wounded-dangerous-154330580.html

kernel504:
SINCE YOU ARE NOW SHIFTING GROUND FROM THE BORN OF CONTENTION, GOOD.
AM NOT PRO JONATHAN, BUT BUHARI HAS FAILED BY MANY INDICES.
ONE... OVER SIX MONTHS, HE GAVE BOKO HARAM TWO DEADLINES ALL TO NO AVAIL, IS HE OUT OF IDEALS OR AMORMIES?

FULANIS ARE NOW WORLD DEALIEST GROUP, UNDER BUHARI, THANKS FOR BIRTING NEW MILITIAS.

The US would have set him up for a drone strike.

harrysterol:
what will he be asking of the prices of guns for? Is he a military man?

No judge can listen to Kanu's online rants for five minutes without convicting him for treason. Let justice be done. In other climes he might have been the target of a drone strike but naija is an accommodating democracy. Didn't the chap accused of recruiting yankees for ISIS wind up dead, taken out by drone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

Self respecting or not today she can buy and sell you and has hundreds of your unfortunate kinsmen back home on her scholarship scheme. I don't think all the ezes gave her all those titles because she lacked self respect.

If despite preparing for a reprise for 45 years you still have to make 90% of your wealth from those hated regions then it might be time for you to accept that oga na master.

ofenmanucom:
I don't care who you married.... And for the records, no self-respecting Igbo woman would end up in the house of hateful Yorubas. What annoys me most is the misguided thinking that 1967 would ever repeat itself again.

This was the same thing that happened in Rwanda. The Tutsies always thought it was done and dusted. They were used to having the upper hand till the massacres started. You guys should be careful. Igbos haven't forgotten yet. You don't take a fight to such a person.

Even those high on dope and tales by moonlight have seen the light:

https://www.nairaland.com/2789571/ipob-massob-suspend-pro-biafra-protests

The way you have been taking care of yourselves in the last six decades?

meforyou1:
coward, worry about your yoruba brothers in the north and leave. We are igbos, we will take care of ourselves

GEJ borrowed $1b to fight earlier this year yet he couldn't stand BH since as we all now know the money meant for guns was spent on campaigning and settlement. The fact that a clueless govt couldn't stand BH doesn't mean naija can't stand BH or fight a war if it has to. And that is why we needed #Change!

kernel504:
BEEN BIASED SHOULDN'T MAKE YOU DUMB, HOW CAN YOU PLAY DOWN FACTS FROM WIKIPEDIA?... DO YOU THINK AM DOING SAHARA REPORTING?

OIL PRICE IS DROPPING, WITH NIGERIA FOREIGN DEBT ON THE RISE, DEPLETED FOREIGN RESERVE... LOOK, IF NIGERIA CAN'T STAND BOKO HARAM WITH LESS THAN 100,000 WARRIORS NA 40 MILLION BIAFRAN SOLDIERS THEY WAN WIN... HAHAHAHA.
SINCE YOU DON'T KNOW THAT NIGERIA CAN'T FUND WAR NOW, THE LAST TIME BUHARI HAD TO BORROW FROM IMF, WAIT OH, YOU WAN BORROW GO FIGHT?

BELIEVE ME YOU'VE NOT READ NIGERIA BUDGET AT ALL.

I hope you don't ever make the mistake of citing Wiki in any academic work. As for needing money to start a war I hope you know Charles Taylor spent only $2m to set Liberia on fire and take over the country. We might not have money for schools or salaries but we have plenty of billions for war. As for oil pipelines: about half naija's production is now from deep offshore which a few frigates will easily protect from any 'bagger'. You are free to set your own backyard on fire. I hope when you finish polluting your farmlands and fisheries with oil you won't start shouting about another deliberate starvation policy. You guys really don't think your 'bright' ideas through.

kernel504:
NIGERIA - BIAFRA FACTS.

Strength:
120,000 (1970)30,000 (1970)
Casualties and losses
25,000 - 50,000 Military casualties[ citation needed]10,000 - 25,000 Military casualties[ citation needed]
NIGERIA SUFFERED MORE MILITARY DEFECT AND STARTED KILLING UNARMED CIVILIANS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War

LOOK MR MAN, I WOULDN'T KNOW IF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WAR REQUIRES MONEY? NIGERIA CAN'T EVEN PAY SALARIES OR FIGHT SMALL BOKO HARAM AND THEY NOW WANTS TO FACE 40 MILL PEOPLE AND BOKO HARAM, THAT'S LAUGHABLE. WE CAN STARVE TO SEE BIAFRA, BUT YOU CAN'T DIE FOR NIGERIA, BEWARED.
THIS TIME, NIGER DELTA WILL BLOW UP THE OIL PIPELINES, LET ME SEE HOW YOU WILL FUND THE WAR.

You have conveniently forgotten that about half the Igbo nation is dispersed in the five other regions of naija where they are minorities and might not be allowed to get back to their home region intact if war breaks out. When are you guys going to start thinking through the likely dynamics of this madness you are about to unleash? If war starts today how many Igbo traders and their families do you think will come out of the North alive especially after IPOB has killed the few 1000s of Hausas it finds in the East?

ugojamali:
Again you make reference to genocide without understanding how it works. And let me use one of your examples to point it out. Why did the nazis almost succeed in wiping out the German Jews? Because of numbers. Genocide works with numbers. Ten million people could possibly commit genocide against one million people. But seven million people cannot commit genocide against five million people. Genocide works with numbers. War is quite different.

A boko haram rag tag army of 10,000 men can successfully wage war for years against a Nigerian army of 1,000,000. They are two different strategies. Genocide also works with the fear factor. The people to be wiped out must be so afraid and defenseless against the oppressors. So they cannot defend themselves.

Like i pointed out earlier, if you talk about war, then I agree with you. But before you scream genocide, you need to study Genocide. If you do, you will know that it will never apply to Nigeria. Even if all the other ethnic groups decide to wipe out the yoruba nation, they're strong enough to withstand total annihilation. They will fight back. They're not a minority tutsi of one million helpless people facing a majority hutu of more than ten million armed men. They're equally not six million unarmed German Jews facing fifty million nazis armed to the teeth. Same goes for the igbo nation and the hausa nation.

Nigeria could go to war. But Genocide can never occur here.

Yet you think genocidal war isn't around the corner?

Maxi112:
this dude is telling u d truth... I can't go to any church own by a Yoruba or Hausa man... this is d level biafra agitation has gotten to (my opinion tho)

Was Yugoslavia war or genocide? What are the Serbian generals being tried for? When hatred gets to naija level war will always end up as genocide. While we are on it, what did the Nazis perpetrate against the Jews and other unfortunates? And don't be so sure you won't get the same gang up against Igbos this time around the way you have perfected the art of creating enemies and estranging friends. I make the last point as a Yoruba who married an Igbo woman of my own freewill.

ugojamali:
Now you're talking about war. Genocide is different from war. In a war the two sides will lose. Nigeria won the biafran war, but the truth was that it suffered as much as biafra. War is war. Genocide is Genocide. You could argue war and I'll totally agree with you. But when you speak Genocide then you're wrong.

Do you know what genocide is? It's saying that the igbo tribe will try to totally wipe out the hausa tribe while the Yoruba tribe, tiv, ndoma, ijaw, bini and all the other tribes sit down and watch. How is that ever possible? No tribe in Nigeria is stronger than the next. Our strength is in our alliances. The hausas needed the yorubas and the middle belt people to win the war. They also needed Britain and France. The igbos lost because they felt they needed no one and only realized they needed help when it was too late

AMEN my brother.

utytill:
OH GOD,HEALS OUR LAND.

You expect the West to waste blood and treasure to settle a bloody quarrel between 180m 'monkeys'? Really? How many boots on ground do they have in Syria now and how long did it take them to intervene in Rwanda? If it is such unwarranted hope in a Western saviour that is impelling all this foolishness then you are indeed done for.

knowledgeable:
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@Simon Abah, you have a yoruba mentality, you reason like them period.


Igbos don't want another Rwanda, because they were the first in Africa to experienced "a Rwanda", and transmitted down that gory experience to their yonger generation.


The yorubas and people in the south that have their kind of mentality, always talk about another Rwanda.

Surprise as it is, Hausa/Fulani and North in general don't speak of another Rwanda, maybe because, they are a little bit unwilling to defend "one nigeria" as they kinetically did in the late sixties because they are unsure who will join or not both domestically or internationally, given the history since after the war. Maybe the world will not stand by for another reenactment, who knows?.

Igbos who want Biafra(some don't) are angling towards a referendum or plebiscite and NOT another Rwanda.

Yorubas are the ones wishing for 'a Rwanda' on Igbos, but lack the capacity to bring it on their own.

At the end, the Northerners and not the yorubas and those that think like them will pull a surprise for all to witness.

How many presidents have died in civil wars? If there is any 'whirlwind' it is people like you who will die in it and not Buhari whatever he has done right or wrong. The sooner you recalibrate your brain and start thinking seriously about who will lose and who will win the better.

HammerEvery:
Simon Abah (if that is your real name) , somebody told you that the evil entity Islamic controlled nigeria will be broken, yet you wondered if he was a true christian?

Did you mr simon listen to Hon Farouk and kunle's conversation about dealing with the SE/SS.Did you you listen to Buhari's 97% 5% speech? Buhari divided your country 97% and 5% by admiting that all regions and by extension all nigerians will not be treated equal.

You expect Easterners to hear that they are going to be destroyed yet submit to destruction without a fight when they have an alternative? Your dullard president created the apprehension, he has sown in the wind, let him reap in the whirlwind.

All your pro-nigeria sentiments are useless if you can not tell us where it written in heaven or earth that nigeria's existence is sacrosanct.Th muslims hausas don't like us, we Eastern christians have lost patience with their bloodletting and are now ready to serve them their own medicine in full measure. Why should it be a problem?

Finally, rwanda has nothing to do with secession, the hutus didn't kill tustsi because they wanted sovereignty. Make enlightened arguments pls?

Biafran has come to stay, you and your hausa/ fulani gods should make peace with that fact.

I know if Jesus makes the mistake of coming back as a Fulani / Yoruba man most Igbos will abandon xtianity

HammerEvery:
Those are the yoruba pastors that Biafrans still run to their churches. They will take your offering but will never will never vote a christian easterner. How many Igbo pastors are highly ranked in RCCG, Deeperlife, Winners and co. ? I pity any Biafran who still attend yoruba churches to pay weekly salaries to those pastors.

And what does the logic of your last sentence dictate?

IAMTHEHERO:
Everyday new members are buying the IPOB offerings. Why? Nigeria has nothing to sell to the lgbos rather the Nigerian government gives them the reasons to join the IPOB movement: Harsh economic policies that have led to the loss of jobs and businesses;hatred speeches from both PMB and other tribes( 5%, Igbos will be drown in the lagoon), see the big shame that played out in Bayelsa election.I have carefully listened to the IPOB members, they will tell you that either Biafra or death. What does it signify? It means staying in Nigeria is as good as death. l once overheard a yoruba man saying over their dead bodies they will see an Igbo man become the president of so called one Nigeria.The truth be told, among all tribes in Nigeria, none believes in one Nigeria than the lgbos.The lgbos have their properties and businesses spread to the other parts of Nigeria more than other tribes.

Yes, it won't be a war but genocide with every man's hand raised against his neighbour. Those who think this will be Biafra reprised are seduced. Africa and Africans have gotten much richer, exposed to technology and have learnt to hate one another much more. Rwanda and Biafra were ~1m each. Congo is already more than 5m (Africa's WW). If Nigerians ever go to arms again as many as 20m will pay the ultimate price. No family will remain untouched and no surviving individual will escape without lifelong physical and other scars. Yes I know it can't happen but then we are all working very hard to make this impossible nightmare come to pass.

ugojamali:
Piece of garbage. While you made valid arguments, iI do not see anywhere you gave valid reasons why Nigeria is one step away from Rwanda. I can only think that you, like many people, do not know the Rwanda story. People should not just post anything they feel like. They should research before posting. Nigeria cannot be like Rwanda because no ethnic group in Nigeria can cleanse another. Rwanda genocide was all about ethnic cleansing. It almost succeeded because the hutus had more than 70 percent of the population compared to the tutsis. Now how does this apply to Nigeria? Are the hausas the clear majority. Or is it the yorubas?

There's is no major ethnic tribe in Nigeria that could successfully cleanse the next. Please go educate yourself before writing sentimental and misleading bullshit.

Nigeria: One Step Away From Another Rwanda
— Dec 8, 2015 7:44 am | Leave a comment
By Simon Abah

The founding fathers of the American society in the bid to win their freedom from Britain didn’t say,”wait until we get there,” enough to know what to do, how to run the affairs of the country when they get there. They knew what to do and framed agreements and concessions for a just society before they got there. It was no wonder then that they decreed religious freedom for all, tolerance for all even though that country was founded on christian principles. It was no wonder that the North took up arms against the south and other confederate states in a civil war to free the slaves when the Southerners failed to honour agreements to free them.
President-Paul-Kagame
But in Africa, Eritrea – had no fore plan on how to govern her people when she went to war with Ethiopia, and even though she got her independence, she is now in limbo after winning her freedom from Ethiopia.

South-Sudan won her freedom and without shame today needs international bodies to teach her how to govern her oil rich country. No thanks to disintegration, Russia today is not strong to the days of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and is still embroiled in a war with Chechnya, the southern Russian republic.

This writer has had cause to speak to many people promoting irredentism these days and also watched many from close quarters and came to the conclusion that Nigeria is only a step away from another Rwanda.

The Rwandan genocide which is in the public domain, didn’t happen at once. It took months of systematic planning, double-speak and the promotion of hate campaigns and what many thought a joke devastated a country in ways that can be compared to the pogroms in Hitlers’s Germany and Milosevic’s Yugoslavia.

As I gobbled my meal recently in a restaurant in Port Harcourt, I overheard two young men from the south-east, a table away from mine, who couldn’t be up to 35 years if appearance are enough to judge a man’s age complain bitterly about “police brutality on people who were only protesting the cause for separatism, peacefully.”

Such talk is understandable, but what isn’t agreeable to me was when I heard one say again, “that when war breaks, I will personally shoot saboteurs even if they are our brothers when they stand in our way to get our freedom.” I had to engage them healthily, giving second opinion on why war for the second time in Nigeria shouldn’t be contemplated, most of all by youngsters who do not know the pangs of war. Regrettably, we couldn’t reason together. Their minds were made up. I left them with a poser,”you may have a leader but not a government, failed republics fail because of the absence of real government and countries do not succeed only because they have good leaders.”

One thing I noticed was the way, they were dressed, expensively! And wondered how they would dress and survive should war break?

What plans do they have in place to administer the republic especially as they told me:”we will know what to do when we get our country.”

[b]A few weeks before, after mass, for I am a Catholic, I heard a man of advanced years say emphatically to another, “we will break up this country and get our republic.” To think that he made such statement after leaving the Lord’s temple, left me wondering if he is truly a Christian. Today I look at him suspiciously.

Not long ago, a Knight that I know took the same stance as the man in the foregoing. This Knight is wealthy, highly exposed individual, those kinds who go a golfing.

Academics have joined the fray, giving ideological backing to struggles, and to read statements such as this, is now common, “Every nation or group of people is entitled to national movements. No one can deny a nation the right to self-determination. If a group of people, or a nation within a bigger nation, desires secession, it should be given a chance to articulate its desires. It is after a clear picture emerges that negotiations will begin.” Those academics sit on pedestals, yet clearer picture it would appear isn’t necessary from the get-go.

A grey beard chief, told me,”that our boys in Aba really tried by carrying out the protest march.”

What are these elderly ones teaching youngsters? What happened, happens and are happening in the name of irredentism is not the activity of adventure-conquerors, certainly not misguided youths trying to get cheap popularity, or make money. Like Rwanda, it is sponsored by the elders, state and prominent people who pretend not to be interested in the activities of these,’misguided youths,’ but behind-the-scene, give, the ‘misguided youths,’ moral and financial backing.[/b]

How else can you rationalize a situation where a youngster who hasn’t got the dole of democracy from the government in his region and was forced to move out and struggle to eke a living in Port Harcourt and elsewhere assume that secession will automatically solve all of his life’s challenges?

Various research have shown that people display high levels of belligerence, grandstanding, intemperate behaviours, etc., especially those with dull speculative resume, when they are brainwashed by the state, educated elites and the informed who choose to educate wrongly. Remember Hitler and his butchering rowdies, some clerics in the north and dangerous preachments prior to numerous religious crisis, in the north, and now the elites in the south-east are doing the same.

It is not enough to tersely say publicly that “the protests do not have the support or blessing of the leaders of the zone.” The Rwandese did likewise before the genocide.

Our youths, have veered off the right path. No thanks to the elites, educated, academics, political class and the religious. I know so. I see the puckered brow the youth wear when I ask that we reason together. I see hatred on faces and hear swapping denunciations. The minds are really locked. Who will open them? We are on our way quickly to Rwanda. A forbidden prospect.

While I still remember, those who look up to members of the international community, should bear in mind how they double-speak when issues concerning Africa come to public attention. Rwanda and the Nigerian civil wars are cases in point.

Simon Abah
Port Harcourt
Rivers State

http://www.leadership.ng/opinions/481641/nigeria-one-step-away-another-rwanda

The North supplies you with beans, yam, livestock, tomatoes, peppers etc while the SW supplies you with pigs, manufactured items etc but you still believe that it is oil that feeds you? What do you supply the rest of naija apart from the only thing we have too much of i.e. warm bodies?

ArodeTsolaye:
yorubas and their egg-and-basket politics. Na only food this people sabi for their life?

Mr oyegun, take your egg and take your basket you'll find them useful in arid oduarewastan where starvation will be the order of the day as there will be no more oil.

No pictures? Which kin marketing is that?

I think it instead runs the fan in the middle which helps the coal burn hotter and more efficiently. The same basic thing blacksmiths do with their bellows. Unluckily we like mystifying simple things in this part of the world which is why oyinbos say we behave like wonder filled children.

AsSabirin:
how is this sustainable?

from what i read up there, its not possible for it to be more efficient than the traditional kerosine.
except the battery is just to create spark for the wood or kerosine. thats the ONLY way it can last!

"Sources close to the service told our correspondent yesterday that any officer who made a false financial declaration would be detected through their bank verification numbers (BVNs) recently introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)."

Shouldn't Igbos be more concerned that so many Igboid sub groups are hell bent on not identifying with the mother group? Yorubas would search themselves if their peeps in Kwara and Kogi or those who emigrated to Warri were to consistently deny history and seek to break any connection. Even with the Edos the quarrel is over who is 'older' and not the existence of a connection. A father whose children decide to disown his name should ask himself where he went wrong. Raining curses on those children isn't the way forward. May God restore peace among my in-laws.