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kennyland1:
I don't know about anyone but I think we should all count down to the most awaited date in Nigeria for now January 14th..... less than 14hrs left. Who is with me

We are now open!!! :-))

Dear members,

The holidays are over, and we''re now open. Just as promised. (You might have already noticed that we always stick to our promises. :-)) Actually, we promised to be open on January 14, but we''re open now, January 13, as you can see, which is a day earlier. (Well, I hope, the members of the System will forgive us for that. :-))

It''s related to the hysteria raised by the authorities and the mass media around MMM. By joining forces, they''ve managed to nearly give the members of the System a heart attack and have frightened them out of their wits. Poor souls don''t know what to expect. Will we open again or not? :-))

This is why we''ve decided, considering the situation, to reach out to the members, reassure and cheer them up by opening a little earlier. After all, Together We Can Change The World! :-))

Here we go.

1. As of this notice, MMM resumes its usual operation. You can now create your GH-requests.

2. However, it''s obvious that panic will reign in the first few days after the re-opening of the System. We’re likely to be deluged by GH-requests. Therefore, we''re going to make gradual paybacks by setting internal output limits. In other words, we will only pay a certain amount per day. Please, be prepared to wait for a couple of days. We are certain things will then calm down, and the System operation will return to normal.

We''re the ones setting the limits, so it''s completely under our control, and we are not expecting any emergencies in principle. Have no fear and go on about your business as usual. :-))

As the System is socially oriented, we will make paybacks to the poor and the economically disadvantaged in the first place: it means to the members with small PH amounts. The richer can wait. Moreover, we''ve warned you repeatedly to only provide help with amounts that are not critical for you. Therefore, if these large amounts are not critical for them (the richer), they can wait a few days. No need to be tragic about it. :-))

This is the way it''s going to be.

Hoping for your kind understanding, Sergey Mavrodi. We Change The World!

P. S. I''d like again to call on the authorities and the mass media: Please, leave us alone! Have mercy on people.

We are now open!!! :-))

Dear members,

The holidays are over, and we''re now open. Just as promised. (You might have already noticed that we always stick to our promises. :-)) Actually, we promised to be open on January 14, but we''re open now, January 13, as you can see, which is a day earlier. (Well, I hope, the members of the System will forgive us for that. :-))

It''s related to the hysteria raised by the authorities and the mass media around MMM. By joining forces, they''ve managed to nearly give the members of the System a heart attack and have frightened them out of their wits. Poor souls don''t know what to expect. Will we open again or not? :-))

This is why we''ve decided, considering the situation, to reach out to the members, reassure and cheer them up by opening a little earlier. After all, Together We Can Change The World! :-))

Here we go.

1. As of this notice, MMM resumes its usual operation. You can now create your GH-requests.

2. However, it''s obvious that panic will reign in the first few days after the re-opening of the System. We’re likely to be deluged by GH-requests. Therefore, we''re going to make gradual paybacks by setting internal output limits. In other words, we will only pay a certain amount per day. Please, be prepared to wait for a couple of days. We are certain things will then calm down, and the System operation will return to normal.

We''re the ones setting the limits, so it''s completely under our control, and we are not expecting any emergencies in principle. Have no fear and go on about your business as usual. :-))

As the System is socially oriented, we will make paybacks to the poor and the economically disadvantaged in the first place: it means to the members with small PH amounts. The richer can wait. Moreover, we''ve warned you repeatedly to only provide help with amounts that are not critical for you. Therefore, if these large amounts are not critical for them (the richer), they can wait a few days. No need to be tragic about it. :-))

This is the way it''s going to be.

Hoping for your kind understanding, Sergey Mavrodi. We Change The World!

P. S. I''d like again to call on the authorities and the mass media: Please, leave us alone! Have mercy on people.

Okorocha imposes N3,000 development levy on Imo adults

By Charles Ogugbuaja,

Citing the need to replicate development in all 637 communities of Imo State, Governor Rochas Okorocha has directed all taxable adults in the 27 local councils to pay N3,000 as development levy.

The governor, who gave the directive at the weekend while inaugurating the state’s Development Council and presenting adult registers to government representatives in Owerri, urged the people to face current challenges and pay for their benefits, adding that every taxable adult must register.

House of Assembly Speaker, Acho Ihim, reminded the audience of the Imo State Traditional Rulers and Autonomous Law which mandates that a community must have a minimum population of 2,000 for it to be recognised by government.

The Commissioner for Community Government, Culture and Traditional Affairs, Innocent Eke, said the Community Government Council (CGC), put in place by the current administration, had decentralised power and empowered communities, as the people now participate in the management of their affairs.

The chairman, Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Sam Ohiri, assured execution of the order.

Guardian

Ohakim tackles Okorocha on ongoing demolition

The Former Governor of Imo state, Chief Ikedi Ohakim and his successor, Governor Rochas Okorocha, have taken swipe at each other concerning the ongoing demolition exercise embarked by the present government.

While Ohakim, alleged that the original master plan laid down has been destroyed by the present government and that the ongoing demolition exercise was not captured in the state budget, Governor Rochas Okorocha, described Ohakim as one of those politicians in the state, who do not see anything good about his administration and that his regime has come to correct the maladministration of Ohakim in 4 years upon which he said, he was voted out of power in 2011.

In a letter addressed to the Imo State government, titled “Current Trends of Events in Our State” and signed by Ohakim, he said, Your Excellency, your present road expansion in Owerri Municipal is not in conformity with the master plan and any know element of road design. For example, the huge economic losses from the present exercise will far outweigh the few meters to be from the proposed expansion.”

” To worsen matters, no public right of way is left for the replacement of pipes and cables, as your proposed expansion will end at the foundation of peoples houses. I have it on a good authority that the ongoing exercise were captured in any of the state budget in the last five years. This, therefore makes it fiscally wrong to embark on such projects because it negates the essence of good governance.”

Great woman of virtue!

Saint Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us.

favourmic:




May her soul rest in peace, have you watch this movie ayeloja if you see the crazy makeup artist that why I ask

The victim is a HE not SHE. I have not watched the movie.

Pa Daniel was until his death on the 7th of August 2016, a retired Jos prison officer, who I believe have served this country diligently and was abandoned. He was buried on the 12th of August 2016; may his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace, Amen.

There are many like Pa Daniel in our society who have nobody to care for them. We really need to change our mindset on how we see and treat our senior citizens (old). Because we'll surely grow old someday.

It's really disturbing to know that this man's children, and relatives might still be alive.

Adieu Pa Daniel

#carefortheelderly

favourmic:
Wait o are you sure about this abi nah make up artist work

This is not an artistic work, but a real life situation.

MY FATHER'S ADVICE TO ME WHEN I WAS SEARCHING FOR A WIFE.

My son, I will be very raw and sincere with you. Do not worry about the size of a woman buttock or breast but worry about the size of her heart and brain. Worry about the size of her love and endurance. Because after 5 or 10 years, it will not be about the breast or buttock. As you can see, your mum now has a flat chest and almost flat buttock but we still live together happily, I still love her and she still love me.

Be careful of a woman that loves money. I mean the woman that talks ‘every time’ about her hair, clothes, shoes, bags panties and make-ups. Marriage is not all about these things. Without makeup, clothes, shoes and panties a good marriage will still stand but without love, no marriage can stand.

When I got married to your mum, I didn’t have a car or house of my own. I was not even educated, but I had dreams and she appreciated and supported me. Any woman that does not support your dream is not worth thinking-a-minute about. There are women that will see your dreams better than you, you are lucky if you find one.

My son, open your ears very well, there is a kind of woman you should avoid, do not make a mistake to marry this kind of woman or you will regret it. I mean a woman that always has bad things to say about everyone. If you see this kind of woman, run away. One of the worst kind of woman you can marry is the one that complains about everything. If you buy this, she says you should have bought that, if you do this, she said you should have done that. Please stay away! Most women enjoy talking but the one who talks for two hours and listen for two minutes is a potential ‘bomb’. Be wise

Be very careful of a pretending partner. A pretending woman is not hard to know. She will always know everything about everything, she will be careful. Just close your eyes and open your heart and you will see! No woman is perfect. If you see a woman who believes in your dream, who respects you, who is
committed, and who is not all about herself alone then don’t let her go.

But remember, you must not be a wayward man. I have trained you!
If you find a good woman but you are a bad man, you won't have a good marriage!
I won’t pick a wife for you but I have given you my advice. When you find her, bring her for my blessings.

May you find a woman that will increase you not decrease you.

By J.J Rawlings, Former Ghana President

The butchers from the North

By Femi Fani-Kayode

The butchers from the north are better known as the Fulani militants and herdsmen. They have unleashed horror and levied war against the people of Nigeria over the last one year.

The saints are the Christians that they have slaughtered all over the country in that same period of time. I consider every single saint that they have killed as a martyr because they died for their faith. I honor them with this essay and I dedicate it to their memory.

On 24th August 2016 Mr. Phil Smart wrote the following on Facebook: “Catholic seminarian butchered, pregnant woman’s stomach cut open….as Fulani herdsmen continue killing in Enugu”.

The words were accompanied by a picture of a Catholic priest whose body had been shredded into pieces like fresh mincemeat or a Japanese sirloin steak. There was another of a pregnant woman whose stomach had been slit open right down the middle and whose unborn foetus and guts were hanging out for all to see.

Clearly she had been carefully and clinically gutted. Many other bodies were strewn all over the burnt out fields and compounds of the village and some were so badly mutilated and chopped up that it would have been difficult to convince anyone that they once belonged to human beings.

Not even babies were spared. In truth this was not the work of men but rather of demon-possesed hybrid entities that the famous British conspiracy-theorist Mr. David Icke describes as “shape-shifting reptilians” and sociopathic beasts. Worse still this was the second time in a matter of weeks that the relative tranquility of Enugu was desecrated by the presence of these nomadic beasts and murdering bastards. On the previous occasion they caused as much havoc, slaughtered as many people and engendered as much consternation and outrage as the succeeding one. Yet it doesn’t stop there. On the very same day that the latest attack in Enugu was going on other Nigerians were being attacked and “burnt alive” by people of the same radical Islamist bent and spirit in far away Zamfara for “blaspheming against Islam”.

Other similar attacks by the same fanatics and jihadists took place on that day in southern Kaduna, Benue, Niger, Ondo, Plateau, Delta and various other parts of the country. If the truth be told this carnage and butchery has now become a daily occurence in our country and it is always the same people, namely the butchers from the North, that perpetrate them.

The worst aspect of it all is that no-one has ever been arrested, prosecuted or brought to justice by the govermment for these hideous crimes mainly because President Buhari himself is a Fulani and consequently the authorities seem to have cultivated a soft-spot for them. Indeed Buhari is actually the life Patron and “protector-in-chief” of the umbrella organisation of all the Fulani Herdsmen in Nigeria which is known as Miyetti Allah.

There is of course another view which is that the herdsmen are actually a tool of conquest who are being carefully cultivated, co-ordinated, controlled, organised, armed and funded by a sinister and dark hidden hand: that they are something akin to a Fulani “death squad” or armed militia. Those that share that view, and yours truly is amongst them, often refer to the butchers from the north as Nigeria’s “supporter of APC”, after the ruthless camel-riding Arab Muslim militia which Sudanese President Al Bashir commissioned, armed and employed to decimate, slaughter and commit genocide against over one million defenceless black African Sudanese Christians in the vast region of Darfur for many years.

It is also why the U.S.-based Global Terror Index describes them as the “Fulani Militants” and has designated them as the “fourth most deadly terrorist organisation” in the world. Whatever one chooses to call them, whoever is behind them and whatever their motives may be one thing is clear: their actions are outrageous and barbaric and such behaviour has no place in a civilised society.

I feel a deep sense of anger and outrage on the one hand and utter shame and frustration on the other about what is going on in our country today and what these butchers from the north are doing to our people. Theirs is a scorthed earth policy and they take no prisoners. They rape, kill, abduct, kidnap and terrorise people and they rob, burn down, destroy and pillage their homes, churches and farmlands at will. Worse still they commit these atrocities with total impunity and without any fear of the law enforcement agencies or security forces. And all this is done in the name and under the guise of herding cows and looking for grazing land for their cattle.

I feel a deep sense of anger and outrage towards President Buhari and his government, because they seem to believe that the constant spilling and shedding of innocent Christian blood is something that brings them good fortune. It also appears to give them immense pleasure and joy otherwise they would have put a stop to it long ago. I feel shame and frustration because the Nigerian people themselves seem wholly incapable of standing up to that which is nothing less than pure evil. They seem incapable of protesting against anything, no matter how bestial and barbaric that thing may be. I wonder who has bewitched us? Is this the work of the “mai chanji” sweeping broom brew? Have the Nigerian people been charmed? Are we under a spell? Are we like the biblical Galatians who the Apostle Paul says were “bewitched”? Our people appear to be wholly incapable of resisting and facing down those that have enthroned sadism and wickedness in their hearts and that take pleasure in indulging in mass murder, genocide and ethnic cleansing in our land. It is not only the government that has failed but the political leaders from all the opposition parties, the traditional rulers, the clerics, the religious leaders, the media practitioners, the publishers, the columnists, the writers, the human rights activists, the editorial boards of newspapers, the bloggers, the intellectuals, the businessmen, the teachers, the students, the writers, the elites, the middle class, the workers, the unions and the ordinary people themselves have all failed too. They have all been gripped by the spirit of fear. They have been bullied, intimidated, brow-beaten and shocked into pitiful submission and a sickening and cowardly timidity. They have all failed to defend and speak up for the defenceless, the weak and the vulnerable in our midst. They have failed to protect and shield the thousands that are hacked to pieces and burnt alive on a regular basis by the rabid islamist beasts and terrorists in our midst for no just cause other than the fact that they are perceived as being nothing but Christian, Middle Belt and southern slaves. I am going to say some hard things and speak some home truths in this conbtribution and frankly I do not care who takes offence, whose ox is gored or who feels hurt by it. People are being killed by the demons in flesh, the tsetse flies and the religious and ethnic bigots in our land every day. Buhari’s Nigeria is awash with blood and most of it is Christian blood that is being shed by his misguided and dark-hearted Fulani kinsmen. It is time to speak the truth no matter how ugly that truth may be and no matter how politically incorrect it may be to speak it. It is time to stand up to the evil in the land, to damn the consequences and to bear the threats and insults that always come for speaking and exposing the truth in what has essentially become a police state. It is time to coin that famous Ghanaian phrase that says “all die be die” and to remember Shakespeare’s words when he wrote “even though the heavens fall, let the truth be told and let justice be done”. And that truth is that the evil that has seized our land has two columns, two heads and two primary sources of motivation. The first is the forceful and bloody quest for Fulani supremacy, ethnic hegemony and racial domination. The second is the morbid obsession by the radical Muslims of core northern Nigeria to shed innocent blood, to take life in the name of their god, to effect Jihad against those that do not share their world view, to wipe out Christianity, to enslave our people and to islamise our country. The truth is that every single CORE northern Muslim leader that has ever ruled this country has either died on the throne or been removed from power in a military coup. Not one of them ended well. Whether the second coming of Buhari will end any differently remains to be seen. One thing that is clear to me though is that the whole thing is spiritual. It is being orchestrated and effected by the finger of God and not by any man. It is God’s way of saying that they were never meant to rule and be there in the first place and that He has rejected them. It is the work of the Ancient of Days and the Lord God of Hosts. They believe that they were “born to rule” but in actual fact they have been rejected by the Living God. Those that employ mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide as a tool of conquest and a legitimate weapon of war, that consider their fellow Nigerians to be sub-human and that believe that those fellow Nigerians are nothing but chattel and serfs that are destined to be ruled over by some distant caliph are in grave error: they have not fully understood God’s plan and purpose for this country. They cannot comprehend or understand what is slowly unfolding. They do not appreciate the fact that no matter how much evil they visit on the rest of us that God is at work and His counsel alone will stand over our people and in the affairs of our nation. The truth is that the Lord regards them as nothing more than unbelieving slaves and they are far below us. They are of the darkness and we are of the light. The bible describes it is a “great evil under the sun” when “the children of slaves ride on horseback” whilst “the sons of Kings walk around barefoot”. That is what has been happening in Nigeria since 1960. The children of the “bonded woman” have been riding on horseback whilst the children “of promise” have been walking around barefoot. This is indeed “a great evil under the sun”. It is a spiritual affliction. It is witchcraft. It is an abomination. It is unacceptable. It is a total reversal of the way things ought to be. It is a rejection, usurpation and total corruption of God’s original plan. It is ungodly and it is anti-Christ. I blame no-one but the leadership of the body of Christ in Nigeria for this mess. There are a few good ones amongst them who stood firm and spoke out when it mattered the most but sadly there are others who are more interested in collecting tiny crumbs from the President’s table and buying fine clothes, expensive jewelry, fast cars and private jets than they are in standing up for their flock and effecting God’s purpose and plan for Nigeria. Worst still there is also a small handful, like that short and vocal Rev. Father from Enugu, who have chosen to sell their souls to the devil, collaborate with the enemies of Christ and serve as the principal cheerleaders to the tyrant. If our men and women of God were bold and courageous and if they were doing their job properly the radical Muslims could not have turned Christians in Nigeria into second class citizens and toilet paper and a sharia-loving, Muslim-fundamentalist, closet- jihadist and Fulani supremacist like Buhari would never have been in power today. The bottom line is this: if you are not ready to die for Christ or to lose your life or liberty for defending and protecting the gospel, God’s children or the faith then you are not worthy of being called a Christian. We must help the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to stand firm and strengthen their collective resolve but we must not leave it at that. We must also organise ourselves as well, not only in the political arena, but also by setting up strong Christian militias and defence squads to protect our churches and our people from the terrorists and butchers. We must aspire to emulate the Christian Phalange militia in Lebanon which was formed just before the Lebanese civil war broke out in the ’70’s and 80’s. They were disciplined, well organised, gallant and courageous and they defended the lives of their people and the honor of their faith. The truth is that had it not been for the Phalange the Christians of Lebanon would have been wiped out by the Muslims in that war. I abhore violence and neither do I advocate its use. However we must accept the fact that, whether we like it or not, ultimately this matter will be settled not just by prayers, politics, long essays and press statements but also with guns and bullets. This is because violence is the only language that the butchers from the north appreciate and can comprehend. If the state is either incapable or refuses to protect the Christian community in Nigeria we will be left with no choice but to defend ourselves and protect our own. Permit me to conclude this contribution with the following. I would urge all those that still love and support this government to take a long hard look at the pictures that are strewn all over the internet of their fellow Nigerians that have been mutilated and carved up like Christmas turkeys and sallah goats. This is the work of Buhari’s kinsmen, the Fulani militias and herdsmen. He has refused to arrest any of them let alone bring them to justice. Instead he has ruined our economy, impoverished and destroyed the lives of our people and aborted their God-given destiny, divided our nation on religious and ethnic lines, demonised us before the international community and labeled every Nigerian, apart from himself, as being incompetent and corrupt. This is a man that spends his time pontificating about corruption with long and boring speeches and pointing fingers at others. This is a man that told Mr. Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan at the Tokyo summit in Nairobi just yesterday, that Nigeria’s “business environment is not friendly to investors” and that consistently tells other world leaders how supposedly “corrupt” his own people are. He has conveniently refused to tell those same world leaders how his presidential campaign was funded, how much money those that ran his campaign paid Mr. David Axelrod, President Obama’s campaign advisor and publicist, and how many cars and how much “allowance” he collected from Col. Sambo Dasuki, President Goodluck Jonathan’s National Security Advisor, before being “elected” President. The Bible says “let he who is free of sin cast the first stone”. Nigerians may not know the truth today but God does and He cannot be mocked. Let Him judge between us. Yet the truth is that President Buhari’s administration is not only essentially hypocritical but they also have no shame. All those that continue to support them and cheer them on are equally shameless. Worst still their supporters are cowards because they cannot find the courage to admit that they were wrong in supporting a government that is manifestly divisive, insensitive, incompetent, corrupt and intolerant of criticism and dissent. They are the ones that we must hold responsible and accountable for what has happened to those unfortunate people in all those pictures. They are the ones that we must blame for what has been happening to thousands of others at the hands of the Fulani militants and herdsmen all over the country for the last one year and three months. I say this because they are the ones that have encouraged the beast and cheered him on. They are the ones that have fed his blood-lust and encouraged him in his morbid quest to steal, kill and destroy. They are the ones that wanted, and still want, “mai chanji”. I say a pox on all their houses! Shame on them and shame on the beast and tyrant that they worship. May the souls of all the saints, believers and Christian martyrs that were cut short by the butchers and barbarians from the north rest in peace and may the Lord God of Hosts avenge them speedily. Shalom.

16 bitter truth Prof. Soludo told Buhari-led APC govt in Kaduna

Professor Charles Soludo, on Monday in Kaduna State, took the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government, to the cleaners detailing what the government must do to take Nigeria to a progressive change.
Soludo spoke as a guest lecturer at Kaduna Progressive Governance lecture series with the theme: “Building the economy and developing inclusive sustainable growth.”
Below are the 16 hard truths Soludo told APC governors with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in attendance.
1. That the collapse of oil price is a blessing to Nigeria as it presents an opportunity for a new beginning.

2. That the Federal Government should consider ‘loosening of Abuja stranglehold on the states’.

3. That Nigeria can’t experience sustainable and inclusive growth in the face of ‘mass elite discord’

4. That agriculture might not be a sustainable option for Nigeria’s economy given the disastrous level of poverty and illiteracy in the country.

5. That there is urgent need to Identify and break ‘dynasties of poverty’ as the surest path to sustainable growth and inclusiveness.

6. That APC government must not see the oil price collapse as a temporary development with hope for a rebound.

7. That APC must stop the blame game and focus on the challenges confronting Nigeria at the moment.

8. That APC government has not much time left having spent 35 per cent of its working days with no major milestones.

9. That he wondered if APC has any sustainable agenda at the moment, as a collection of any five APC leaders might just be source of comic relief.

10. That APC should consider proper devolution of power to the states for the management of their resources.

11. That APC should come clean with Nigerians, providing a measurable agenda with specific timelines for execution.

12. That APC should be the change it professes to be, if it must be taken seriously by Nigerians.

13. That APC must create an agenda for industrialisation and give form and content to change.

14. That APC must change from a coalition to grab power to a governing team.

15. That APC must be careful not to repeat the mistake of PDP which ruined itself with opposition from within.

16. That not providing qualitative education for the poor masses is building a time bomb that will affect everybody sooner or later.

17. And that he has belief, faith and hope that Nigeria would be great if its leaders do the right things.

MR. CHINAKWE'S DOG, THE SONS OF LUCIFER AND THE SEED OF AL SHAITAN

"I won't be surprised if the man arrested for naming his dog Buhari is arraigned before Justice Okon Abang. There is nothing beyond this government"- Mr. Deji Adeyanju, Twitter, 20th August, 2016.

Mr. Adeyanju, who is a young and rising bright star in Nigeria's political firmament, is absolutely right.

When the likes of Mrs. Oby Ezekwezile, the former Minister of Education and a hitherto great supporter and friend of the Buhari administration can publicly proclaim that
"President Buhari does not deserve to be President", then you know that this government has indeed gone beyond the pale, that the meltdown has started and that the corpses are beginning to smell.

Yet nothing is more indicative of the Federal Government's misplaced priorities and more reflective of their total and complete moral degeneration and psychotic paranoia than their behaviour towards the owner of a dog that was named Buhari. Consider the following.

One year and two months ago when President Goodluck Jonathan was still in power, a man named his goat "Goodluck Jonathan".

After doing so he took a picture of himself with the goat and proceeded to splash it all over Facebook and Twitter.

As insulting and provocative as this was, no-one in government raised an eyebrow and neither did President Jonathan take it in bad faith.

Again one year and two months ago whilst he was still in power President Goodluck Jonathan was maligned, misrepresented and labelled as being "clueless", "weak" and "incompetent" by many.

We took advantage of his meekness, decency, sense of restraint and humility and we took the basic freedoms that he gave us for granted. It didn't stop there.

On several occasions during the course of the 2015 presidential election campaign he was stoned in parts of the core north by violent groups of hungry-looking and thuggish almajiris whilst the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, was unfairly and cruelly portrayed as an illiterate, a drama queen, a clown and somethiing akin to a female court jester.

She was even referred to as a "hipoppotomos" by no less a person than our Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka whilst Jonathan himself was described as "a pig" by Mr. Japhet Omojuwa, a young and dynamic blogger and political commentator.

Yet despite all these unwarranted, crude and provocative insults the President did not lose his cool, the heavens did not fall and his government did not query, warn, threaten or arrest anyone.

One year and two months later things appear to be very different. Permit me to explain. A few days ago a man who named his dog "Buhari" was promptly arrested by the police and remanded in custody. His name is Joachim Chinakwe and he lives in Ogun state.

The police told members of an incredulous public that they took and kept Mr. Chinakwe in custody "for his own safety" and that they intended to arraign him in a court of law in a matter of days for having the effontry to name his dog "Buhari".

According to them, giving his dog that name was a provocative act that could have lead to an ethnic and religious conflict because Mr. Chinakwe's neighbours were Hausa-Fulani.

Apparantly those neighbours were not too happy with the name that he had given to the dog, in view of the fact that our President shares the same name, and therefore they threatened to kill him for it.

As far as I am aware this is the first time in the history of our country that anyone has been arrested simply because his dog shares the same name as our President.

It is also the first time that the victim of a serious crime and an individual whose life was threatened ended up being thrown behind bars whilst those that threatened to take that life ended up being the complainants in the case.

And all this because of a poor dog named Buhari which, we are told, had to be quietly put down and sent to the great beyond by its owner so that it couldn't be used as evidence against him in court!

The whole episode sounds like a second rate Hollywood script but sadly it really happened. I guess that is "Mai Chanji" for you.

Yet examples of the startling contrasts that exist between the Jonathan era and the one that we are in today refuse to abate.

Things have got so bad in this country that Mr. Ebube, a regular and increasingly influential commentator on Twitter, posted the following words on his handle yesterday. He wrote,

"Under this misfortune called APC people are arrested for writing about EFCC, naming a dog and criticising a governor".

I guess that is Mai Chanji for you. When one considers the economic situation things are even worse. Mr. Oshioke Audu, a public commentator, put it well when he posted the following words on Facebook. He wrote,

"Twenty years ago the South African economy was 7.5 times the size of the Nigerian one. At the end of 2012 the South African economy was only 1.4 times the size of the Nigerian one. By 2014 Nigeria officially became Africa's number one economy and the 23rd in the world. Then the APC took over with inept Buhari in 2015. By 2016, Nigeria is now the 40th world economy and the third in Africa".

What a tragedy! Yet no-one captures it better than a young and courageous politician from Anambra state by the name of Prince Henry Nwazuruahu Shield who wrote the following on Facbook:

"Recession does not speak politics. It is simply a result of one man's ignorance about the management of the economy. A robust economy benefits both APC supporters and PDP's. We need to agree that Buhari is the SOLE problem of Nigeria".

This insightful young man has hit the nail on the head. Permit me to conclude this contribution by touching on a matter that has brought many of us in the Christian community immense sorrow.

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Southern Kaduna is on fire and its people are being slaughtered on a daily basis by blood-sucking Fulani herdsmen. Despite this the Federal Government has done nothing to abate it or to bring the perpertrators to justice.

The truth is that those that commit these heinous crimes and their powerful rich friends that secretly buy them arms and that covertly encourage, protect and support them are nothing but the sons of Lucifer: they are the seed of Al Shaitan.

Pastor Luka Ubangari was one of their latest victims. His cold-blooded murder in southern Kaduna a few days ago by Fulani militants together with the slaying of Pastor Eunice Elisha by muslim fundamentalists in Kubwa, Abuja a few weeks back means that in the last 3 months no less than two Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastors have been butchered by islamist terrorists in northern Nigeria.

The government's slow response, irresponsible attitude and inexplicable refusal to clamp down on them has further emboldened the Fulani terrorists and militants. This is dangerous and unacceptable.

The matter is simple: if the government does not do something fast to stem the tide of violence and provocative acts of terror, self-help and self-defence will be the only recourse left for those that are being subjected to genocide and ethnic cleansing.

I hope that Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye and Vice President (Pastor) Yemi Osinbajo, both of RCCG, both of whom I have immense respect and affection for, are taking note of this gruesome and tragic horror movie as it unfolds.

I hope that they are also taking note of the body count of Pastors and believers that is slowly building up.

Ditto my friend and brother Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Reign Assembly and Pastor Kumuyi of Deeper Life, both of whom have expressed their support for President Buhari in the last few days in spite of the sheer carnage that members of their wider flock and Christian brothers and sisters are being subjected to all over the country on a daily basis by the President's kinsmen.

Things have got so bad in this respect that Mr. Babatunde O. Gbadamosi, a Lagos-based businessman and social commentator, accurately reflected the mood of the nation and the growing anger when he wrote the following words on Facebook. He said,

"Buhari is condoning organised genocide in Nigeria. And Nigerians are too scared to speak out".

The latest development is that eight Christian polytechnic students were burnt alive in Zamfara state for allegedly making "blasphemous comments" against Prophet Mohammed. Clearly the madness is spreading.

I hate to say "I told you so" but I guess that we all have to live with the consequences of the choices that we make. That is "mai chanji".


Those amongst us that are still "too scared to speak out" and that live in a state of perpetual bondage and fear have much to learn from the words of Alexander the Great, one of the greatest kings and warriors that ever lived. He said "conquer your fears and you will live forever!"

The people of Nigeria have much to learn from those words.

May He that rules in the affairs of Heaven and earth and who holds the universe together by the power of His word arise in defence of His children.

May the souls of the servants of the Living God and Christian believers that were cut short by the agents of the evil one in the last few days and weeks rest in peace.

May the Lord God of Hosts, the Ancient of Days, the Man of War, the Seven-fold Spirit of the Living God and He that holds the four winds of the earth in the palm of His hand avenge them speedily.

PRESIDENT BUHARI AND WHAT DONALD TRUMP WOULD NOT DO



Four months ago I wrote an essay titled "Mr. Trump and Islam".

In that contribution I argued that Donald Trump, the American entrepeuner and billionaire presidential candidate, was unstoppable.

I said he would win the nomination as flagbearer for the Republucan Party and then, against all odds, go on to win the November presidential election against Hillary Clinton.

The first has happened and, even though many in our country would disagree with me, the second is likely to happen as well. In my view the world needs Donald Trump and consequently I am with him all the way.

During the coming election debates he should do the Nigerian people a favour and ask Hillary Clinton one question. That question is as follows.

Why did she and President Barack Obama refuse to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organisation until late 2014?

This was after they had slaughtered over 100,000 innocent Nigerians in the space of 4 years.

If the victims had been Americans would they have taken so long to designate them as terrorists?

Is Nigerian blood not red and do Nigerian lives not matter?

Donald Trump would never have made such a mistake or tolerated such evil.

If he had been the POTUS for the last seven years and not Barack Obama Boko Haram would have been designated a terrorist organisation five years ago.

If he had been the POTUS for the last seven years there would have been no ISIS today and Al Qaeda would have been history long ago.

If he had been the POTUS for the last seven years there would be no war in Syria today, Ghadaffi would still be alive and Libya would still have been at peace.

If he had been POTUS for the last seven years the American Ambassador and four others in Benghazi would not have been murdered, the Muslim Brotherhood would never have won an election in Egypt and Iraq and Afghanistan would be in better shape today.

If he had been POTUS for the last seven years Al Shabab would have been destroyed, Somalia would have been less dangerous, Israel would be safer and Iran would not have been handed a "sweet" nuclear arms deal on a silver plate.

Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State of America when all of these things happened or were initiated. She therefore has to bear as much responsibility for them as Barack Obama does.

Unlike Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, when it comes to foreign policy, DonaldTrump is incapable of tolerating and accepting evil from those who espouse terrorism and the cold-blooded murder of women and children as a way of life.

That is the difference between him and them. He knows what to do to the islamist terrorists and he will support any foreign government that will take a hardline against those that slaughter innocents in the name of their god.

He will crush those that wish to establish a new world caliphate in which non-muslims and moderate muslims are slaughtered or turned into slaves.

Unlike Barack Obama he will not pamper the terrorists, encourage them in some parts and treat them with kid gloves. Instead he will wage a hard, full-scale, relentless and comprehensive war against them.

He will, like Russia's Vladimir Putin, see it as a battle of the forces of light against the citadels of darkness.

He will view it as an end-time war between the sons and daughters of God and the emissaries and agents of satan.

He will decimate the ranks of the Philistines, the Amalekites, the Midianites and all the other vultures, vampires and blood-thirsty barbarians in our midst.

He will not support a Nigerian government that has a clear-cut religious and ethnic agenda, that seeks to shame and dehumanise Christians and that is attempting to restrict the spreading of the gospel of Christ.

He will not pamper and encourage a government that goes out of its way to persecute and destroy all those that it perceives as a threat and that it considers to be its enemies.

He will not encourage a government that destroys the morale of the people, reduces their standard of living, destroys the economy and squanders its resources.

He will not prop up an administration that joins an all-muslim international military coalition even though the majority of the population that it governs are christians.

He will not stand by a government whose army murdered one thousand shiite muslims, bulldozed their homes and desecrated their graves simply because they blocked a VIP from using a road.

He will not support a President who is incapable of reaching out to those that refused to vote for him even in the name of peace and national unity.

He will not encourage a government who wages a selective, vindictive and nonsensical "war against corruption" in which the enemies of state are locked up indefinately and the friends of the President and his ruling party are above the law and untouchable.

He will not support a government that wages a so-called "war against corruption" in which only the President's perceived enemies are targetted and which is not based on any cogent evidence of any wrongdoing but rather on coercion, intimidation, extortion, threats, sensational lies, media witchunts, ridiculous and unsubstantiated allegations and heinous disinformation.

He will not support a government that refuses to protect its own people from the barbarians and terrorists known as the Fulani herdsmen and which has made no arrests after thousands of non-Fulanis have been murdered and raped by those same terrorists over the last one year.

He will not support a government that sat by silently and allowed genocide to take place in Agatu and who encouraged the state-sponsored murder of many young, defenceless and innocent IPOB protesters in the south-east.

He will not support a government that calls in Blackwater mercenaries from Saudi Arabia to wage war against his own people and is hell bent on using his army to crush the militants and good people of the Niger Delta area.

He will not cheer for a government that violates court orders, breaches the constitutional and human rights of its own citizens and tries to intimidate the Judiciary.

He will not stand by a government that tries to humiliate and muzzle the National Assembly by destroying the Senate President and discrediting that hallowed chamber.

He will not support a government that locks up its political enemies and, despite court orders and public outrage, throws away the keys.

He will not support a government and a political party that is surreptitiously trying to push a National Grazing Reserve Bill through the House of Assembly in an attempt to grab southern and Middle Belt lands.

It is for all these reasons and much more that I am an ardent fan and supporter of Donald Trump. America needs him and so does the rest of the world.

It is time that we had someone in the White House who is not fettered by political correctness and who has the strength of character and political will to do what has to be done to rid the world of evil.

That man is Donald Trump and despite what others may think I believe that he will make a damn good President.

Pernit me to end this contrubution with an aside.

On 29th July 2016 CNN reported that "the Nigerian government is preparing troops for a crackdown in the Niger Delta if peace talks fail".

This is sad and ominous. As United States Senator Ted Cruz once said "the light of truth is stronger than the terror of darkness".

It follows that the biggest mistake that the Buhari administtation can possibly make is to attempt to "crack down" on the Niger Delta and kill innocent civilians.

If this ever happens, for whatever reason, it will set off a chain of events that will lead to the end of Nigeria as we know it.

Nigeria will disintegrate before Buhari's very eyes if any more innocent blood is shed and if the towns, creeks and villages of the oil-producing states are shelled and reduced to rubble.

Sadly the slaughter has already started with the reported bombing and killing of over one hundred people by the Nigerian Armed Forces in the creeks of Lagos, Ondo and Ogun states on the fringes of yorubaland all in the name of fighting the Ijaw militants.

The question is this: were those that were murdered and whose villages were subjected to what the Nigerian media has described as "massive aeriel bombing" innocent yorubas and Ijaws or were they war-mongering and pipeline-vandalising militants.

The answer to that question remains to be seen but whatever it is one thing remains clear: the cries of marginalisation and the cause of the people of the Niger Delta, and indeed that of the Igbo people of the eastern region, is rooted in truth and is manifestly just. Their struggles and aspirations are legitimate and reasonable.

Self-detetmination is a right. It is a concept and principle that is universally accepted and that has the backing of international law.

You do not threaten to bomb those that seek to exercise that right: you treat them with respect, decency and decorum and you attempt to persuade them to stay.

This is a point that is lost on President Buhari and those around him. The bottom line is this, the Niger Delta Avengers are not Boko Haram: taking them on in the field of battle would be a monuemental error.

Violence begets nothing but violence and peaceful dialogue is the only way to appease a people that have been maligned, cheated and wounded. A word is enough for the wise.

� PDP accuses INEC of recruiting APC members in Edo as ad hoc staff

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Edo State of recruiting All Progressive Congress (APC) loyalistS as Ad-Hoc staff ahead of the forthcoming 2016 Edo State Gubernatorial election. In a statement issued in Abuja Saturday, the party said it had evidence to buttress its accusation. The statement signed by Prince Dayo Adeyeye, the Party’s spokesman said “there is a video evidence exposing INEC officials in Edo state of compromising the outcome of the gubernatorial election before the scheduled Saturday, September 10, 2016 poll. “We have once again uncovered another plot by the Electoral umpire in Edo State to rig the Gubernatorial election in favour of the government in Power in the state. There are clear evidence available to us showing how INEC officials are recruiting APC members as Ad-Hoc staff to rig the election for the APC candidate in the Saturday, September 10, 2016 governorship election in the State” Prince Adeyeye said. He warned that the Party will not tolerate any act of sabotage and advised the electoral umpire to recruit neutral and credible Nigerians without partisan interest as Ad-Hoc staff to maintain their neutrality in the process. “We will not accept anything short of free, fair and credible process leading to the Saturday, September 10, Gubernatorial poll in Edo State. We wish to assure INEC and the APC of our cooperation for a successful election but will not accept an election that is already compromised before the actual poll” he said. It further called on the electoral body to put every measure in place to conduct a hitch free and credible election.

Dear Dangote and other Nigerian Billionaires,
Did you watch the Nigerian team as they sweated it out against their Honduran opponents for the third place match? Did you see our bench? Are you not ashamed that it took a Japanese who does not have a single business interest in Nigeria to inspire our boys to the only medal Team Nigeria is coming back home in this Olympics?
Wealth is meaningless when you do not know how to expend it. Alhaji Dangote, you have more money than Dr. Takasu, but he has shown that he is richer than you.
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These boys would have come home with the Olympic gold and Nigeria would have got more medals from Rio, if you guys had extended some help to them.
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Truth is; you guys owe Nigeria this. You have enjoyed import waivers, done government contracts, stolen our subsidy money and benefited from the Nigerian system so much that sponsoring sports, the arts and other such areas is a debt you owe the Nigerian public, not an assistance.
We shall continue to hold Dr. Katsuya Takasu in higher esteem than we will ever hold any of you, till, and only if you will remember to encourage diligence, patriotism and talents, especially among Nigerian youths.
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Did you also hear that our U-17 boys have been dumped out of the AFCON qualifiers? The first time in our history! It is more annoying when we remember that all of you have the ears of those in power. You can talk to our President and let him know that he is destroying Nigeria. He is destroying our joy and trying to blank our future. But whenever you find your way to Aso Rock, the National Assembly or any of the State Government houses, you only go their to negotiate a new import waiver, new contract, or find a way in participating in the looting of our commonwealth.
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Dr. Takasu has sent a message to the entire world, that Nigeria has irresponsible billionaires. He has also come to tell the world that the wickedness, lack of vision and mediocrity that has kept Nigeria in the lowest rung of developmental ladder are not to be blamed on the political class alone, but also on you all, who have refused to stand up for Nigeria.
Sorry Sirs, but shame on you.
NIGERIA MUST PREVAIL!�
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By �Onwuasoanya Fcc Jones�

WE MUST SAVE NIGERIAN SPORTS

By Nnamdi Okosieme

The NFF have reminded us that we have now won gold, silver and bronze in football at the Olympics but they have tactfully hidden from us the fact that we are progressing in reverse.

In 1996 in Atlanta, we won gold; twelve years later in 2008 in Beijing, we settled for silver and now, eight years after Beijing, in Rio, we have managed bronze.

Now, our sports minister, who so far has failed to live up to his name, will come doing the "I told you so". What he will not tell us however, is that whereas countries like the United States and Japan are making in roads in sports where in the past they were no-hopers (America took gold for the first time since its participation at the Olympics, in women's 800 metres, and Japan took silver, yes Japan and not America, Britain or Bahamas, in the men's 4x100 metres relay), Nigeria is fast relinquishing stake in those events that had earned it global respect in sports.

Nigerian sports is definitely at its nadir. As I write this, World U-17 defending champions, our very own Golden Eaglets, have had their noses bloodied in Niamey, Niger Republic. The defeat handed to them this evening, means they will not be part of the next edition of the U-17 World Cup.

The defending champions have effectively been stopped in their tracks by a lowly football nation and this not at the Mundial itself but at the qualifying stage. They will thus join their egbons, the Super Eagles eating Boli ati Epa or drinking Kunu when the 2017 Afcon and the U-17 World Cup are taking place.

I decided long ago that if I didn't want to commit suicide ( you do not commit suicide only when you deliberately kill yourself through shooting, poisoning, knifing, etc; you also commit suicide when you see something patently destructive of your life and embrace it), I should completely detach myself emotionally from Nigerian sports.
The only time I'll probably get emotionally involved again is if Jayjay Jay-Jay Okocha or Kanu Papilo Nwankwo get back on the field again. They'll be worth the risk and I'll take the chance of explaining to Baba God why I took that risk.

That said, I want to thank Nigerian athletes for their labour of love toward this country, There can be no greater patriotism than placing your mind and body at the disposal of a country, which has in overabundance, callous, godless, greedy, lying, conniving, manipulating and obnoxious sports administrators; men and women in whom the milk of human kindness is absent.

Many Nigerian athletes have been maimed, raped, abused and have their careers truncated by these mindless mercenaries superintending over sports in Nigeria.

Nigeria as a country itself has been embarrassed, humiliated and shortchanged by the callousness, greed and ineptitude of these administrators ( I use the word administrators for want of a better term, for in truth, they are nothing but journeymen), feeding fat off the fragile body of Nigerian sports

It is tragic that a country that in the past produced some of the best athletes in the world would lie so tragically prostrate at the feet of mediocrity. In athletes alone, we have had greats like Innocent Ejima Egbunike, Mary Onyali, Davidson Ezinwa, his twin, Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adenekan, Pat Itanyi, Adewale Olukoju, his wife, Fatimat Yusuf-Olukoju, Chidi Imoh, Clement Chukwu, Chioma Ajunwa,Taiwo Aladefa(Tai Wo), Orode Oyiki, to mention just a few. Before them, there were the Felix Imadiyis, Bruce T. Ijirighos, Charlton Ehizuelens. How can we have these fine athletes still alive and athletics in Nigeria would be on life support?

I do not want to even talk about the array of former football talent this country has produced because I'd probably still be naming them by the time the Olympics ends.

We cannot continue like this. I am challenging these athletics greats I have named here and many I have not, to stand up and be counted. We must save sports in Nigeria. I am under no illusion it will be an easy task. It will be painstaking, excruciating, thankless and even dangerous but it can be done. We have principalities and powers to root out and these have agents in government and the media, two institutions critical in this fight. We must not despair. Despite the complicity and acquiescence of many in the media in the destruction of our sports, there are still fine and decent journalists ready to put patriotism and morality above pecuniary considerations. Please let us stand up and be counted. I beg of you.

mhisbliss:
But this guy has patience if its most guys they'll quickly abuse you and leave, cool kids though

You might not be this lucky!

rosy4u:
Awwwwn so lomantic



I no go snub again

Why embark on a venture you'll later regret? You might snub an angel sent to liberate your life.

You might not be this lucky. Not every man or woman will be patient, tolerable, after been snubbed.

Be kind to strangers, you might welcome an angel into your life.

Be wise!

Did APC complete this project before implementing the first budget of this administration?

joborskill:
Mumu guy

Babe wey una don dey together for over 12 months should have seen signs if it's leading to marriage or not. I just dont understand these dramas anymore. After serious knacking and several outings, yeye guys be kneeling down with aluminium ring like person wey dem press him mumu button The institution of marriage is not sustained by these melo-dramas but tolerance and forgiveness.


My papa no propose nor snap pre wedding pics but they are still together for over 4 decades. All this modern marriages are nothing but nolywood scripts.


After 2 years of marriage, una go dey write epistle for nairaland say my partner no sabi fuuckk, my wife no sabi cook. asking for yeye help from innocent nairalanders. That is if it doesn't end up in chasing each other out of the house with cutlass. Awon ode

Mindset

Secure the future, expose corruption.

This is wickedness.

Integrityfarms:
I don't know why he didn't make the Dream team list to Olympics!

Anyway my brother keeps soaring higher even if you aren't given your rightful place in the National team based on some NFF prejudice!

Manchester City refused to release him for the Olympics.

BE811APP:
I have been doing all dis na

You sound like yours have/has not been yielding much?

Good write up @ OP. Entrepreneurship is the only way out in this present quagmire we find ourselves in this country; regardless of your employment status.

Thanks for the reminder.

When money is involved, any Nigerian can be
turned into a robot.
They never protested when their fellow women
were killed in Kano and kubwa. But had the
temerity to go out in protest for an uncultured
politician.
Money and women? Shame!!

atirolu:
Like seriously?

Am one of those who didn't support the action of senator Dino on so many ground, but who protected when our first lady called fayose unchain mad God, who protested when remi herself called Dino thug or dog? Mrs remi need to be reminded that the red chamber is not part of his husband empire and can never be. Has much as I frown against Dino actions I believe this issue shld not be politically drag to sponsor protesters on the street


To those protesting I can the level of joblessness in the mind of nigerians for issue that put them to shame soon when Dino and remi will seat and settle for 2019 election. I pity some nigerians still fighting for some politicians .

The actions and inactions of these protesters speaks volume, why we can't get it right in this country. Our political class benefiting from lack of rational reasoning on the part of the electorate.