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Iv refrained all along to call him names but i can easily refer to him now as a completely clueless buffoon. The guy fall hands no be small....

Useless country, hopeless rulers, foolish followers....

Religion in general is constantly becoming such a mirage. The more you try to understand it, the more confused they make you with different versions of this and that concerning its mode of operation. Wait another few weeks and some other dimensions will be released again. Me? Im done with the whole bollocks of religion, at least for the time being.....

Im am Yoruba and will vote an NOI or Peter Obi. Im finally done with anything born-to-rule ever again. Not after this gargantuan failure on our hands. And if this is sounding bigoted, so be it. Fake ass zoo has always been bigoted since whenever....

Been trying for some time too, wonder what d problem is....

visaclick:
Data share no longer working properly, what is the problem with mtn self?

And some idiots keep deluding themselves with the "e go better" chant rants, same thing iv been hearing since the late 70s. Uselessly hopeless country filled with morons both as rulers and followers.....

bidexmat:
A nation state that has been in existence for more than five decades and basic amenities is still a dangling mirage! Nigeria is a lie. The entity defiles all logical reasoning. No where else to call home though but I say this with no apology to no God damned soul, I regret being a Nigerian. Even the unborn generations are already corrupt by default. Snake Alley is rather a far more better place than this lie of an entity. Our leaders are evil, wizards and blood suckers cause, when you deny your own people good water, electricity, good health care, well laid road network et al, it is EVIL! It's been same old story since I was birthed in the 80s till this very moment. Our children have met us in this same mess. A country with no vision will wallop in hoplessness and endless pain.

Electricity Distribution Company workers,
Nigeria Police,
Politicians.....
Very pathetic lot in my opinion. You may add yours.

Yes, on any bill they feel is worth pushing through, they can override Presidential assent with their 2/ 3rds.

Okayim:
Does that mean that with or without presidential assent, 2/3 majority vote can make Nigeria Peace Corps legal na this one concern me ooo

They can override presidential assent with 2/3rds majority vote....

bettercreature:
They are just wasting their time PMB wont sign these bills

Excerpts; by Onyeka Nwenu....

On the Python or crocodile dance operation in the southeast, a peaceful region, on a Christmas season and criminal silence of all southeastern governors, states assemblies, senators and house reps. I say this to you, you may hide under the altar of cowardice and hypocritical silence, be assured we know why you are silent. When we voted for you guys, we entrusted our collective welfare into your hands. In matters like this, we look up to no one put you. Silence speaks one language betrayal. Yes you betrayed our trust. We feel abandoned. We will wait for you during election time.
From the slaughter of our old men, children and rape of our women by Fulani herdsmen, to the beheading of Bridget and the acquittal of the murderers, to the slaughter of pro Bi...afra agitators praying, those celebrating memorial of our fallen heroes to this final occupation of our land, we tell you Bi...afra shall arise.
Bi....afra is our destination. The youthful spirit of our ancestors. The eternal city of all who desire to live in freedom for self actualization. That day will come when the oja will sound, the gong shall herald the rising of the Sun, the victory of the wise men from the east. That day as Martin Luther King Jr said, "we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
And for Nigeria, the grave of Bi...afra ingenuity, keep your evil intent on the people of Bi...afra. You must know that it is your hatred, marginalization through policy of exclusion and your murderous policies and impunity to our people that fuels our energy.
We will not give up.
Bi...afra is all we ask and only that we shall accept. No presidency. No restructuring.

So much loathe the Nigerian politician. Evil is an understatement for their name....

Useless Glo. I stopped sub-bing since my last one ran out.

I practically wake up most nights now fanning my way through the heat till early morning. Reason for this as we already know is self-explanatory. How are you coping in your various abodes. Which way Naija?

My brotha, i dey vex gan ni. I couldnt sleep overnite due to heat. Practically woke up, sat down and was fanning myself till early morning. How do we reconcile that?

Miles300:
bros u dey vex oo

One foolish Minister called Fashola, shooting off with his stinky mouth that power issue is no rocket science. He thought running a federal project is like the stupid 12mw plant he planted on Lagos Island. Him eye go done dey clear now. Bastards in govt. As for that Buhary, i now totally agree Gen. Idiagbon was the poster man of his earlier administration. Very inept crooks.....

Crazy, useless as always been....

Foolish Fashola, shooting off with his stinky mouth that power issue is no rocket science. He thought running a federal project is like the stupid 12mw plant he built on Lagos Island. Him eye go done dey clear now. Bastards in govt. As for that Buhary, i now know Idiagbon was the poster man of his earlier administration.

Im a victim. Glo has almost made my life miserable...

Nbote:
Any apn u lyk use, once d glo ntwrk in ur area is poor, ur name na sorry. Dats y ppl can't stand d ntwrk. I still use etisalat because d once I tried using glo was d tym I gave up on it.

The man is fast becoming a major disappointment and embarrassment. Perhaps he still got a little time to turn things around....

Just maybe

Still struggling to comprehend why some so called Nigerian youths are still clamouring for these set of thieves and rogues that have decimated our collective fortunes over the years. There's something terribly wrong with the black Mans mind..... smh

You've said it all. We are being ruled by scums, urchins, idiots, imbeciles, morons, maggots all balled into one. Nigerian politicians in times past and as presently constituted are evil, subhuman, malevolent, anarchistic, antichrists, and the proper devil incarnates. Only God can save the zoo called Nigeria....

matrixme:
We are really living in a shitty country with lopsided policies. Our leaders are such idiots. In a sane situation, does demurrage suppose to affect power transmission equipments that is meant for the common good? Maybe I don't know better, someone else should enlighten us further.

Since last week’s visit of former President Goodluck Jonathan to Sokoto and the tumultuous welcome given to him by the crowd, many people have been toying with the idea of a Jonathan presidential comeback in 2019.
Jonathan had visited Sokoto to commiserate with the people, especially the Dasuki family, on the death of their former Sultan, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, father of Jonathan’s national security adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, who has been in detention since last year over the management of security funds.
The media reported that the crowd that welcomed Jonathan displayed placards which read: “Baba Jonathan Come Back.” Ironically, Sokoto State is controlled by the All Progressives Congress. Shortly before last year’s election, Jonathan’s name was like a taboo in Sokoto and most parts of Northern Nigeria, even though he was still the President. Chants of Sai Baba rented the air in solidarity with the presidential ambition of the APC’s candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, who is the President today.
The surprise is that in less than one year and six months of the Buhari Presidency, there could be any desire to have Jonathan back in office. It is worse that such would come from the North, which is seen as the stronghold of Buhari. Some commentators, including ThisDay columnist, Dele Momodu, who campaigned for Buhari, have written about the possibility of Jonathan contesting the 2019 election. But they seem to miss the point in the reaction of the Sokoto crowd.
It will be foolhardy for Jonathan to even consider the idea of contesting the 2019 election. Jonathan never portrayed himself as power-crazy while in office. That was why last year’s election and transition went without bloodshed and crisis. It is better for him to remain the way he is, with some praising him for achieving some milestones and others condemning him for achieving nothing. If Buhari had not begun ruling Nigeria last year, today, he would be viewed as the Messiah that would have saved Nigeria and made it one of the top 10 countries of the world, if he was given the opportunity. But by coming into office, it is a widespread view that Buhari has been demystified.
During last year’s election, it was obvious that Jonathan and Buhari were not fantastic choices, even though their political parties as well as the mainstream media and social media engaged in outlandish exaggeration to win the election. Each of the two candidates had some strengths and deficiencies, and each voter preferred one candidate based on perception and conviction.
The reason for the nostalgia for Jonathan is not because he will do miracles if he were to return. It is because the electorate has experienced the performance of Buhari and is disappointed. Hunger or job loss knows no ethnicity, religion or political party. The reaction of the Sokoto crowd should be a wake-up call to Buhari. Inflation Buhari met in May last year at less than 10 percent stood at 18.3 per cent in October. A bag of rice which sold at N8,000 in May last year now sells at over N23,000. A dollar which exchanged in the parallel market at about N230 in May last year now exchanges for about N470.
Without any rise in the people’s earnings, the prices of all goods and services have risen by between 100 and 200 per cent. Sadly, there is no sign that this destabilising rise is about to stop. With the continuous depreciation in the value of the naira, it is obvious that there could be an increase in the pump price of petrol any moment from now, because the bulk of the petrol we use is imported with dollars. Many of those who were earning salaries have lost their jobs with the mass sack that has been happening in the banks and other organisations. The state of the economy and non-availability of dollars have made many companies to close shop or leave Nigeria. This month, Erisco Foods Limited shut down and relocated to China, citing an unfavourable operating climate which had escalated operational costs in recent months. That caused 1,500 people to lose their jobs.
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In addition to all these, Nigerians see inertia in governance. Simple decisions seem to take an eternity to make. At first, it seemed as if the six months it took Buhari to appoint his ministers was just a one-off teething trouble, but events have shown that it is his style. Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States, Prof Ade Adefuye, died on August 27, 2015. Over a year after, he has not been replaced. Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Prof Joy Ogwu, left office many months ago. She has not been replaced. Mr James Ocholi, who was the Minister of State for Labour, died in an accident on March 6, 2016. He has not been replaced. Since last year when Prof Attahiru Jega and many commissioners retired from the Independent National Electoral Commission, many positions have not been filled. Last month, it was reported that as many as 29 states did not have resident electoral commissioners.
The two areas Buhari projects as his trump cards are security and anti-corruption fight. After a rise in Boko Haram’s attacks from when Buhari took over, there was a lull some months ago. It was a sign that the security agencies were recording successes in the fight against Boko Haram. It was comforting. The security agencies and the government stated that Boko Haram had been “degraded”. But it seemed hasty. In recent weeks, the extremist group seems to be trying to prove that that it has not been defeated. This has led to many attacks which caused the loss of lives of many civilians and soldiers, including senior officers. It shows the security forces still have much work in their hands.
The activities of Fulani herdsmen and kidnappers are also worrisome, and there is no sign that they are being tamed.
On the issue of the anti-corruption fight, there have been accusations of a selective fight meant to subdue and silence opponents to the government. But the angle that seems glaring is that the anti-corruption fight is not institutionalised and systematic. It looks like something that has no tap roots and will wither once Buhari leaves office. On the roads, in the offices, and at different national points of entry or exit, officials of different government agencies still brazenly demand bribes. They do so because they know that nobody is coming after them.
One sign that shows that a country abhors corruption is the use of agent provocateurs and underground agents. They pose as people who need services or they pose as people who are ready to commit a crime. If anybody demands a bribe from them or wants to join them in the crime, they play along, recording conversations and collecting evidences that will implicate the offenders. Once the bribe is collected, their colleagues come in and make arrest. What it does is that it puts everybody at alert. Hardened offenders will still find ways to collect bribes but others will stop for fear that they do not know who is real and who wants to ensnare them. But because many people have noticed that there is no depth in the anti-corruption fight, corruption still goes on in a blatant manner.
Buhari came to power last year with so much goodwill. Expectations were high. He was seen as the leader that would change the culture of impunity, corruption, indiscipline, poverty, flamboyance, injustice, tribalism, nepotism, mediocrity, waste, and other vices going on in Nigeria. But his action and inaction show that he seems overwhelmed. Except for those who defend whatever Buhari does because of political, ethnic or religious loyalty, there is discontent in the land because of the continuous slide into hard times as well as a lack of clear-cut plan to turn things around. That was why the Sokoto crowd asked for Jonathan’s return. Buhari should find a way of reversing this descent and give Nigerians something to cheer about.
By Azuka Onwuka

THE governors of the 36 states of the Federation are designated by the Constitution as the “Chief Executives” and “Chief Security Officers” of their states. It is for this reason that they arrogate to themselves billions of naira worth of “security votes” every year. It is also for this reason that they ride in armoured convoys with daredevil secret policemen, mobile policemen and sometimes even military personnel at their beck and call round the clock. That is why they are also pavilioned with immunity.
They are well protected from any form of enemy aggression. But, what about the people who vote them into that exalted office; the common people? Don’t they also deserve to be protected? Are governors the Chief Security Officers of themselves and their families alone? Is the security of lives and property of the people no longer the foremost function of government?
Most state governors have abandoned the protection of their own people from armed invaders masquerading as Fulani herdsmen for totally objectionable reasons. In Kaduna State, armed herdsmen are attacking Christian and non-Muslim communities in Southern Kaduna, killing, maiming and chasing people away from their native lands, burning down villages and occupying them with their cattle. Governor Nasir el Rufai plays deaf and dumb about it. The Federal Government and its security agents pay lip service to protection of lives and property, and the menace continues unabated. It is happening in Nasarawa, Plateau, Benue and most other states in the Middle Belt, South West, South East and South-South, with very tepid responses from the governors and little or no response from a Buhari administration that has Security at the top of its three-point agenda.
I have often wondered why the people of the Middle Belt, who were massively mobilised for the anti-Igbo pogroms of 1966 and became the main Northern contingent of the Federal side during the civil war, appear to have suddenly lost their fighting spirit. Their communities and people are faced with total annihilation and the Federal Government is not interested to do its constitutional duties.
The Middle Belt states still constitute a sizable element in the security forces today (army, police, DSS, Customs, Prisons, Immigration and other armed services). In fact, working for the security agencies appears to be their first choice of profession after farming. How could such a people renowned for their gallant roles in defending the nation fall so short when armed invaders, for over ten years now, have been threatening their people with extinction?. If the Federal Government does not want to protect them, should they lie supine and allow themselves to be obliterated? Is self-defence no longer the first law of nature?
The situation in the South East is even more baffling. Nearly 50 years ago, these people mounted a bid for independence and withstood the whole Federation and its foreign sponsors for thirty long months. They fought with locally-improvised armament. When criminals threatened to overwhelm the area after 1999, the governors, especially Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia State, elevated the people’s vigilante (the Bakassi Boys) into a state-sponsored outfit, which was used to contain the criminals.
The experiment was copied by Anambra and Imo States. Bakassi Boys were so effective that when the Sharia riots hit the North as from the year 2000 and many Igbos became victims; the Northern population in Abia State felt the heat and begged Governor Kalu to find a safe haven for them away from the Aba and Umuahia hotbeds. They were given a settlement at Lokpanta on the Port Harcourt – Enugu Expressway, where they have lived peacefully and flourished in their cattle and other businesses.
But today, in spite of the presence of the socially-irrelevant Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, and the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, armed herdsmen have extended their invasions from the Non-Muslim North to Igboland with impunity. The governors and people of these states have offered no meaningful response, and the emboldened Nigerian supporter of APC are raiding more communities.
The responses of the governors have been so pathetic. Enugu State has been conquered because the governor there, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Gburugburu) has offered to surrender his powers as the Chief Security Officer. When Ukpabi Nimbo was invaded and scores killed, Gburugburu wept like a baby. The following day, he dressed himself up in white Northern popular attire (babanriga) and went to Aso Villa to beg Buhari. The President promised to deal with the “criminals”, but nothing changed. This same Ugwuanyi was the first governor to place full page colour adverts congratulating Fulani king, the Sultan of Sokoto on his 10th anniversary. How have Ugwuanyi’s bootlicking antics helped to protect those who elected him into power?
Barely five days after Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State dressed up in an over-sized turban and went with a large delegation to genuflect before Sultan Abubakar III, an Air Peace aircraft with over 150 passengers on board nearly crashed into a herd of cattle on the Owerri Airport runway, but for the dexterity of the pilot! Cattle nearly ran his convoy off Orlu Road, Owerri in August this year. These are just tips of the huge iceberg on the menace of armed herdsmen in Imo State without any heartfelt response by the “Rescue Mission” governor. Rochas’ antics are obviously aimed at getting Buhari, the Sultan and the North to anoint him for president! Even if he gets it, you can imagine what manner of president he would be.
In Abia State, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu initially responded to the murderous Fulani herdsmen challenge by resuscitating the Bakassi Vigilante in all the communities to work with the Police to protect the people. Still, we get reports of villagers being killed in their farms by these invaders all over the state, the latest being in Abam. Governor Willie Obiano responded to the menace with typical grandiloquent rhetoric: he would start a helicopter patrol of the state. But only last week, three communities: Aguleri Otu (he is from Aguleri), Mkpunando and Eziagulu Otu, started mobilising to defend their farms against the herdsmen this harvest season. Just how effective is Obiano’s helicopter surveillance?
Contrast with this measure from Ekiti State in the South West. Armed herdsmen have killed, kidnapped people and destroyed farms in the zone, particularly Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, even Lagos, with very little done to deter them. But Governor Ayo Fayose rose to the occasion. He created a law against unauthorised grazing and established a task force to implement it. It became so effective that the Fulani Minyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association,MACBAN, sent a delegation to him.
Matters were talked over, and both sides took groups photographs to celebrate a negotiated settlement. How many other states has MACBAN responded to in this dignifying and esteemed way? This governor did not cry, beg or prostrate before Buhari and Sultan Abubakar. When Federal agencies failed to do their work, Fayose spoke the language of leadership and demonstrated his true stature as the Chief Security Officer of Ekiti State. The sponsors of the invasions came to beg. He put his people first. That is a leader!
“Cowards die many times before their death”, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar said hundreds of years ago. Igbos are not known for the cowardice which their today’s governors portray. Does it mean that Igbos elected the wrong persons to be their Chief Security Officers?Any governor who cannot protect his people does not deserve a second term in office. If the Federal Government and the state Governor fail in their duties to protect the people according to law, then there is no need for government. Left on their own, the people must protect themselves.
No coward can ever be my leader.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/cowardice-todays-igbo-governors/

teresafaith:
Why is there no census this year or has APC hijacked it

Census keh? With all Nigeria is battling with financially? :/

Thanks for getting back. Will do...

arlomah:
I write for a platform that is keenly followed by government officials and those in LASG. Kindly email me on idris@insidemainland.com for a detailed discussion. Thanks.

He looks frail but 74 years aint that old an age in itself, so what's the deal with him?

Glo, always leading the way....

The man, crazy as he is, made a few points. FIFA, like Nigeria is fantastically corrupt, and will always be...