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angels09:
No wonder I am following you. Nice comment.

I am following you too- bumper to bumper

The handler of this EFCC handle should be given more roles.

Ok

God of heaven

Election doesnt happen.

its selection

we have a long way to go

It can only be in the south

Deserved

Rossikki:
Do you ignorant dolts understand there is a $25 billion high speed national rail network CURRENTLY under construction in Nigeria? It will outclass anything Kenya is currently doing, while connecting every state in Nigeria by high speed rail. This is why you and your ilk need to study and research before commenting.

Oga stop fooling yourself in delusion. Google rail projects in Nigeria. It's not the first time we are having such plans which only ends in paper. The rail project you are hallucinating about is to be funded by the Chinese on lease. We are to provide 30% counterparts funding for them to do it. Nigeria does not have the money to meet up with the counterparts fund. We can only wish it happens. This administration has one year to go. Election starts next year and Nigeria will pause again. Alas, it's a circle of doom. Restructure this country and let every region build their region.

European security services are bracing for more attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, after Islamic State called on its followers to rise up in an “all-out war” on "infidels” in the West.

Last Saturday marked the start of a 30-day period of fasting and reflection in the Islamic world, which has in recent years seen a large uptick in Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) terror attacks.

“Muslim brothers in Europe who can’t reach the Islamic State lands, attack them in their homes, their markets, their roads and their forums,” the jihadist group said in a message entitled Where are the lions of war? and published on YouTube.

The latest terror attack occurred on London Bridge
The latest terror attack occurred on London Bridge CREDIT: AFP
Defending themselves after the suicide attack on Manchester Arena, which left 22 mostly children and teenagers dead, the group said: “Do not despise the work. Your targeting of the so-called innocents and civilians is beloved by us and the most effective, so go forth and may you get a great reward or martyrdom in Ramadan.”

It is not yet known if Isil were behind this weekend's London terror attack, if they inspired it, or whether other groups were responsible. However, it highly likely that Islamic jihadists were to blame given eye witness accounts of the attackers screaming 'This is for Allah' as they carried out their atrocity.


Last year, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the late Isil spokesman, issued a call to arms to followers to carry out lone wolf attacks during the holy month. It was the bloodiest Ramadan month on record.

Isil took credit for a lone jihadist gunman, an Afghan American who perpetrated America’s deadliest mass shooting in history and worst terrorism on US soil since 9/11 during early morning hours of June 12 at an Orlando gay nightclub, killing 49 and wounding 53.


Scene of the Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando in June last year
Scene of the Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando in June last year CREDIT: PHELAN M. EBENHACK/AP
An Islamist jihadist then stabbed a police officer and his wife in a Paris suburb in front of their son. The killer explicitly claimed in a live broadcast of the murder that he was responding to Adnani’s call.

Later that month, three Isil suicide bombers opened fire then blew themselves up at Istanbul’s main airport, killing 45 and wounding more than 250.

The final global body count after the month-long rampage was 421 dead and 729 wounded.

Hitting multiple targets in many different countries is designed to send the message that no person on earth is safe or can be protected from terrorism.


As countries have tightened borders around the world making it harder for militants to slip in and out of the Isil’s so-called caliphate, the terror group has modified its message to encourage supporters to carry out terror attacks in their home countries.

The jihadi group even appeals to recruits telling them that their incapacity to reach the caliphate is an asset, not a liability.

A recent report from the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War argued that Isil is seeking to use Ramadan “as an occasion to reorient its strategy” with attacks both in its core arena of operations in Iraq and Syria and abroad.


It is feared a network linked to Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old suspected Manchester bomber, is still active in the UK and could have enough explosive material for another attack.

On Friday, the search for his Islamist cell was continuing with a total of eight people being questioned on suspicion of involvement in what officers described as "significant arrests".

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/26/islamic-state-calls-all-out-war-west-start-ramadan-manchester/amp/

Till we get electricity right. Nigeria should forget development. 80% of our development is tide to it. Modern trains are impossible without electricity.

India has it in theor constitution that every newly elected leader must add 5000 megawatts to existing power generation.

These are the train stations built in Kenya, they don't have as much money as Nigeria but they know what is obtainable abroad where the leaders go often. Our own leaders should learn to build modern day facilities they see out there and stop replicating what they used to have out there, in the 80s.

This is the kind of development we want and stop singing your praises when you build outdated facilities for Nigerians.
The Future is on!

What should we do to all our past leaders. Simple electricity they can't provide


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TonyeBarcanista:
Well Said!!!

Osinbajo has no business contesting in 2019. Ditto Buhari...

It is both morally and politically unjust to do that. But if he decides to run, I guarantee that he will suffer the heaviest defeat in our political history.

I have followed you closely in this forum and your lopsided analogy of political happenings worry me. You started this veracious attack on a man who has not said a word.

What is more disturbing about your permutation is that Nigerias development is nowhere in your analogy. If Osibanjo holds on and turns the tide, he should resign and hand over to a clueless idiot just to pacify the North in your senses.

I weep for this country. Ethnicity and regional politics has killed our development.

My sisters who are still single but slaying everyday in their glorious singlehood...... My successful Slay Queens who are desirous of getting married .... Pls remember to unmask yourself to that man you want to marry before you tie the knot with him..... Odikwa very necessary

He sees you all the time in all your slaying glory..... With your fabulous lace wig, your flawless make up, your artificial eye lashes, your generous push up bras that enlarge your tiny bosom, your bum enhancer which gives you an amazing curvy booty.....

He thinks that's the way you are naturally..... In addition to falling in love with your character, he is also falling in love with the body you present to him...... He wants to marry you, so he can own that amazing body...... He dreams of the wedding night and how he will peel off those clothes and behold the image of your voluptuous curvy beautiful unclad body..... He has no idea he might end up with quite the opposite..... After the wedding

He sees you as very fair skinned..... The top quality bleaching agents you use have successfully bleached your skin till it is nearly "Snow White"..... Like Bobrisky..... Even your knuckles and your feet have also succumbed to the bleaching agents..... And you are now flawlessly fair skinned..... With no trace of the dark skinned woman you were in the past.

He doesn't know that that fairness is not genetically driven.... It is acquired..... You were not born that way and he deserves to know..... He may be expecting that your fairness will rub off nicely on his children..... His reason for wanting a fair woman may be to attenuate the prevailing dark skinned colouration in his family...... He may want his children to be fairer that he is.... And he has a right to want that and pursue that..... Pls let him know that your fairness is not genetic.... Let him know it was acquired and so it cannot be passed on to your children.

He needs to know that the hair is a wig, the lashes are artificial, your boobs are not that large, your bum is not that big and rounded, and your fairness is acquired...... So that he doesn't get a rude shock and frightfully run out of the room after the wedding..... He should understand that it's all packaging.

Moreover you don't have to sleep with him before he can be made aware of these things.... When going out with him, be your natural self sometimes, go without makeup, remove the wig, let him see your natural hair, drop the artificial lashes sometimes, wear ordinary bra sometimes, do not enhance your bum occasionally and be sure he notices all these..... You and he should freely discuss these things..... If you do it often enough, he will see the real you as he will see on your wedding night and will be realistic in his expectations of you.

That way when you "gaj up" in all your slaying attire..... And he will understand that it is just packaging ..... Nothing more nothing less..... At least he will not be under any misguided impression about how you really look..... You guys will be on the same page.

Slay on Nnem..... But slay with style when it comes to your man..... Unmask yourself to him from day 1.... Skilfully..... So that he knows what he is getting at the end of the day.

God help us all Amen

Copyright Oliaku Njeze Eneh 2017
@TheEssenceOfOliaku

Nothing wey no go be news for nairaland

Yea

Just like Bradford to Asians and middle Easterner.

Likes attract

good old age

Ok na

ok

His testimony nailed Ibori and Victor Attah can't visit UK.

All our leaders from 1999 till date should be gathered in a drum and gassed

Interesting

Team green tea. Medicine to the soul

I am a tea collector.

HYPOCRICY OF A NATION AND OF A PEOPLE

*COUNTRY:
1- Nigeria will set out January 15th of each year to 'REMEMBER' FALLEN SOLDIERS while IGNORING THE LIVING ONES ; but when you set out a date, say May 30th, to REMEMBER your children and relatives those same soldiers killed- YOU TURN THE BAD GUY!

*PEOPLE:
2-Nigerians will travel across seas, ocean, forest and high in the skies to the Big Apple- New York; either on vacation or business and find time to visit the World Trade Center Memorial where victims of terror are REMEMBERED. They will look so sober while there. They will shake their hypocritical heads as if that was the worst calamity known to them. They will shade crocodile's- hypocritical tears (like the case of a Nigerian woman seen at the Memorial in 2015). BUT WHEN YOU SET MAY 30TH TO REMEMBER YOUR OWN CIVIL WAR VICTIMS - YOU ARE A TRIBALIST!!
What a SHAME!!!

*COUNTRY AND PEOPLE:
3-Have you noticed, and if you have, have you asked why recently Nigerians spend so much to bringing back those captured alive by Boko haram; whereas, those who paid the ultimate price have only abandoned mass graves in their REMEMBRANCE? When those captured were released, did you also notice the hypocritical activities and show-biz that went through? Presidency taking pictures etcs. WHO REMEMBERS THE DEAD? Only the bereaved families do. ANY DAY THESE FAMILIES PICK A DAY TO REMEMBER THEIR LOVED LOST ONES; EVEN THOSE THAT POST SOCIAL MEDIA PICS OF THEIR VISIT TO WTCM - NEW YORK, WILL NAME THEM -'TERRORISTS'!!!!

OUR CULTURE OF HYPOCRICY DAN TOO MUCH!

Ok

Most Igbos support Biafra.

Many don't just want violent approach.

Judge

Ok

They only announce it when it's the poor they ate with just to pacify the gullible

Nice

emerazz:
go and ask d south Sudanese how far, then come back lets talk...

Expand your mind. Over 30 countries have either seceded, emerged through referendum or broken into pieces.

All of them is not like South Sudan.

You just need to travel out a little and see countries who took their destinies in their hands and they are mostly landlocked

Let me help you.


March 21, 1990: Namibia became independent of South Africa. Previously, Namibia was known as South West Africa when it was a German territory.

January 1, 1993: The Czech Republic and Slovakia became independent nations when Czechoslovakia dissolved.

May 25, 1993: Eritrea was a part of Ethiopia but seceded and gained independence.

October 1, 1994: Palau was part of the Trust Territory of Pacific Islands (administered by the United States) and gained independence as a former colony.

May 20, 2002: East Timor (Timor-Leste) declared independence from Portugal in 1975 but did not become independent from Indonesia until 2002.

June 3, 2006: Montenegro was part of Serbia and Montenegro (also known as Yugoslavia) but gained independence after a referendum. Two days later, Serbia became its own entity after Montenegro split.

February 17, 2008: Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia. The representatives of the Kosovo people unanimously agreed the country would be independent of​ Serbia despite eleven of the Serbia minority boycotting this.

July 9, 2011: South Sudan peacefully seceded from Sudan following a January 2011 referendum. Sudan itself was the first to recognize South Sudan and did so one day early.

Ngwanu

Ona kpotu

Nneka Aroh writes

I was speaking with a very young pharmacist from the South East yesterday. I advanced the restructuring/true Fiscal Federalism as what I believe is the way out of Nigeria's muddle. He would not buy it.
"Forget it ma'am. It's better we just go. Give us ten-fifteen years and see how Biafra would be transformed." He spoke with conviction. His eyes shone with what I thought was longing. "Just forget it. There is no need dragging this thing with them," he concluded.
A good number of Igbos, and I dare add, other young Nigerians, are totally not understanding Nigeria as it is right now. It is not enough to make dismissive remarks like "They were not even born when the war happened." Or remarks like "They don't understand what they're asking for."
Make them understand. That is, if you understand what you're asking them to understand. If it makes sense to you. It even gets more annoying when you hear the older ones, the actors and spectators of the unfortunate war, urge the younger ones to learn from history.
According to Osibanjo, "experience is the best answer for a fool. History is a much gentler teacher.'
I agree.
But comments like that could even draw the ire of the young ones who have today been denied history classes in school. Who keeps a people ignorant of their history? But even more annoying is the fact that those who urge this learning have themselves not only failed to learn from experience, but have bluntly refused to learn from history, the much gentler teacher.
And what is there to learn? What is there to understand?
That a boy from Anambra State aspiring to get some education at the prestigious Unity schools has to score about 139 marks in the entrance examination while his counterpart, perhaps even his classmate or neighbour from Zamfara State would only have to score 4 marks. And that it takes an even weirder turn when they're done with school, at which point the Zamfara boy would have over 80% more chance at a federal job than the 80% more studious boy from Anambra. How do you explain that to a young Nigerian so that he may understand?
How can they understand that a State like Kano, created at about the same time as one like Lagos, has about 44 local govt areas while Lagos State has a paltry 20 constitutionally recognized local govt areas. Bear in mind that Kano state has long been sub divided into two states of Kano and Jigawa. Jigawa alone has 27 LGAs of its own. You can say that the old Kano State has 71 LGAs while Lagos still lags behind with 20. And that the entire South East of five states has only about 94 local govt areas? Did it strike you that the South East is the only region still dawdling with five states? It would not have mattered of course if the National cake wasn't shared on the basis of local governments. Only if it was baked on that same basis. How would any young person without a brain for understanding twisted things get this?
How can they understand that in the present Govt, the entire South East has no representation in the security body of the country. So when the security chiefs sit to discuss security, the primary role of any govt, there is nobody from the entire SE region in attendance. How can anyone understand this.
How can even a gentle teacher make anyone understand that a South South youth would die for daring to steal crude oil from what used to be his fertile and arable farmland, while his Northern counterpart can freely mine minerals from his backyard. We only get to hear anything about it when lead poisoning begins to ravage communities.
How do you understand that we have Petroleum Equalization Fund which ensures that petroleum products get to the people in the North at the same price at which it gets to those in the South but we do not have Tomato Equalization fund or Carrot Equalization Fund to trim the cost for people in the South? Break it down for me so that I may understand since I didn't witness the war.
How do you break down the brazen massacres of Igbos, Christians and other innocent Nigerians any time the North wakes up from the wrong side of the bed? Or when an artist draws a denigrating sketch of Mohammed in countries some of the victims have never heard of? Or when a group of girls decide to bare their bodies in beauty pageants? Or when a man cannot win elections? Or when a farmer must till his farmland? Or just about when anything... Just unbelievable impunity. And no one ever gets justice.
But we can start by explaining how Katsina State alone just got allotted more slots that the entire SS, than the entire SW, than the entire SE, than the entire N.Central in the ongoing (or is it completed?) recruitment by the DSS.
And a host of flustering matters.
So what is it you want History to help you teach? That the oppressed should stay calm and "ask nicely" like Obasanjo put it? They should ask nicely for their share of a piece of cake jointly baked by all? They should treat Nigeria with love like Obasanjo again suggested. It shouldn't matter that they get only rebuffs in return. I don't blame Obasanjo. It's probably the way he knows love and reconciliation...one sided. Any wonder his daughter would literally disown him publicly?
I listened to all the speeches made at the Biafra@50 event. They were all rich in flowing grammar, beaming with rhetorics but glaringly bare on commitment. Nobody but Nwodo dared point a way out. Osibanjo's speech had no mention of restructuring, something I can bet my last finger that he believes in. It would seem like we don't want to find a way out of our predicament yet.
Make no mistake, the clamour for Biafra is getting more tumultuous by the day that I fear that the voices of some of us preaching 'restructure' may soon be drowned.
And this house may come crashing on us all.

We can't totally eradicate desperados and political bootlickers who are interested in the pocket