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ALTERNATEID:
Except they can produce her revalidated APC membership card, they have no point. That she was once a member of APC doesn’t mean she is still a member.

What!!!!!!
"Revalidated membership card"? At least you have acknowledged that she "was" an APC member.

Have you not on your own established her membership, either presently or formerly?

She get boil for head?

I think this Yomi Fabiyi exposes himself as a dubiously interested party. All along he led us to believe that his so called friend and accused, baba Ijesha, was framed up. We clearly can see that his motive of making the noise was personal enrichment. His actions would have made Princess angrier and more determined to send Baba Ijesha to jail. While in jail he will profit from the sale and enjoy the benefits.

For me it is a monumental disgrace on the part of this so called fake friend. Yomi Fabiyi should simply bow his face in shame for this set up and embarrassment to himself and the movie industry. It is worse that a lot of these so called actors do not have good scripts and will always be copy cats. Most of their movies are copies of the jobs of others and unfortunately repetition kills the interest of movie lovers.

He gives himself away as either a paedophile or a potential one. I hope his stupid actions will not further exacerbate the case and ultimately earn his so called friend a long time jail.

And those who fought what happened to them? The same government disarmed them, arrested them and killed some of them.

It is now a fact that government wants to impose grazing routes on all parts of Nigeria. Artisans, okada riders, etc of the northern stock boast openly that they are in power and can get away with their crimes.

Government must show fairness for us to have peace.

festacman:
It is either Chief Edwin Clark is deceiving his people or he does not even care about the interests and welfare of Niger Delta people. Are you kidding me? You mean as leader of so-called Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Clark wasn't following the progress PIB in NASS and the caucus of ND lawmakers weren't briefing him on per-step-basis. I mean, even the Sultan of Sokoto and the nominal leaders of ACF, Audi Ogbe kept vigil on PIB on behalf of the North.

In any case, PIB and all the percentages therein have little benefits for the common man. Like NDDC situation, the politicians will corner the percentages and help themselves.

Unfortunately, once again, the Northern politicians displays wrong prioritization by focusing more on oil than developing crop production and animal husbandry that will employ and empower millions of young Northerners. Not yet uhuru for bandits to end.

I cannot but agree with you on this.

Without doubt if there is sincerity with government to tackle the banditry issue, get herders to ranch, peace should be restored.

Also leaders like Chief Edwin Clark should be abreast with proceedings, especially as they affect his people, to enable his people maximize benefits due to them. Now it feels like he’s crying over spilled milk.

ALTERNATEID:
They still want to keep eating this guy’s money after losing the ticket. Even if Maduka is naive about Nigeria’s politics, I want to believe he has family members who understand the system very well. Elders and knowledgeable members of his family should call him and tell him to stop eating his money.

Folks like Alex who are pushing him to contest on the platform of a smaller party simply want to drain him of his money. He should go back to his business and try again in 2025. Accord party or any other mushroom party cannot win governorship election.

Accord = according to PDP. You may confirm.

Such a shame that this governor asks citizens to tell him what he already knows and is part of. The founder of boko haram was well known and how he was killed is openly known. Shekau who resigned in his stead was well known until his so called suicide. The son of the founder of boko haram who became a factional leader is well known to them all. The new leader of boko haram informed the whole world.

This nation will remain in this position until we have leaders who are far less tribalistic and nepotistic as these present ones.

Bandits have leaders. We have been told how bandit ogas make tons of money kidnapping and giving peanuts to their boys. Those who accepted amnesty offered by some governors are surely not boys. Was it not this same man who told the whole world that money was given to bandits as settlement after the 2015 election? Surely monies were not given to boys but to the leaders of the respective bandit groups.

I think these people should stop deceiving themselves and attempting to mesmerize us all the time. They should get their Fulani relatives to behave themselves and let's all have peace of mind.

Brexxit:


No wonder he is called cownu.

He says he'll secure biafra from fulani invaders yet could not secure himself.

A leader of a group of people who claim to be smarter than everyone kidnapped like a chicken?

Where are his biafra intelligence servicemen? seems they have been collecting salaries for nothing.

Where you that young in 2009 when the founder and spiritual leader of boko haram was killed just like that? Hopefully you see the result today with boko haram becoming a threat to the very existence of Nigeria.

Your prayer is that his followers do not grow and become like boko haram which a certain leader claimed that an attack against them amounted to an attack against the north.

honor4me:
I discovered the same in Azare in far far away Bauchi. That was way back in 1988!
I stayed many years in Abia, precisely Aba. My brother from the East who I still love till date should know how hard it’s to get even a plot of land to buy if you are not an indigene. Even for the indigene, you know what you will go through to secure a land! But we love them. The likes of Kanu who never really stayed long at home are the problems with their warped perspectives of Nigeria. Nigeria had been there now for only 60 something years as a Nation. That’s just a dot in the time space of a Nation. Buhari that you all hate will soon finish his tenure and if not for the way self determination agitation is being pursued, sooner or later the people from East could also be given the opportunity to control the country. I dare to mention that even in America where there was similar agitation which unfortunately led to war there. It took almost hundred years to produce a President from the anti-federalist Zone. History is there.

It is definitely not difficult to buy properties in the SE. The truth is that our brethren from the SW still have the mentality that Igbos east humans. They run away from the east because of this wicked story given to them by their great grand fathers. They tell other people of other ethnic nationalities to keep away from the east.

On the other hand too if you cannot purchase lands in the east, why not push the blame to the military and politicians? Do you know that Kogi state is the size of the entire southeast? With such wickedness, how do you expect the people to sell the lands which are not adequate.

Sammy07:



I don't know of other regions.

BUT not SOUTHWEST

Economy is not only buying and selling of electronics, and second hand phones and parts.

For every Igbo man selling any of those in any towns SW, there are hundreds of hundreds selling similar in The same town.

I don't know why people think economy is solely based on Buying and selling of second hand clothes and spare parts.

Who controls the Music, Movies, Arts, Education, Plywoods, Techs, ICT, ceramics, Building materials, Tourism, Agriculture etc?


Lol, ECONOMICS should be a major.course to be studied in South East

If you say "not southwest", then you are either being economical with the reality or you are not abreast with events.

All those areas of business and economy you quoted above are largely controlled by the Igbos. The Igbos have industries all over the nation. Their very nature enables them take risks and make large investments that profit them in the end. You failed to include pharmaceuticals in your list. We can safely say the press is dominated by people of the southwest while oil is in the hands of the people of the north.

Igbos have massive industries with investments in automobile, ceramic, machinery, etc. You may wonder why it is so. I can fathom only one reason. It is MARGINALISATION. The Igbos would rather build from their pockets than wait for government. They are gifted with that extra eye that enables them see beyond what others see financially.

Go to that your abule you will find one Chukwuemeka running a chemist shop. They rent their rooms, in a little time purchase lands and reside permanently there. In residing in those abules, they make their contributions to the great of their new environments.

In the southwest you surely cannot maintain that the Igbos do not dominate. The leading pharmaceutical industries are owned by who? Etc. Please do a little survey and check your facts again.

“My value for relationships”, she said. Therein lies the security, therein lies the money, therein lies the future and therein lies the peace, if you make good relationships.

Are these areas developed already? Cheers.

Factionalism created by politicians to make them go from party to party. All seeking opportunities to improve their own lives and further impoverish the citizens who are hood winked during elections to vote them in. We must ask if Nigeria and Nigerians truly understand what democracy means.

dvkot:
That's great.. No increase in the price of my glasses too

How durable is it?

Maybe you need to be reminded that resources from those areas were used to get Lagos to the level it is today. Maybe you forgot that Lagos was once the administrative capital and resources were required from the Igbos, Abokis and the Niger Delta to develop infrastructure in Lagos. Now you can see that Lagos has become home for all.

Coldshisha:




What do you expect when Abokkiiis and Ibos are practically everywhere leaving their under developed region

Catering for 20 million Economic refugees yet Tinubu and his team still get villified by the ingrates


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Na waoh!

Get A & S Shawarma in Egbeda and you”ll thank me for a fantastic experience.

isthatso:
where do I start?


A good example: Trump called some countries "shithole" countries but you will never see an official letter/communication from the office of the US president, or any of his representatives (or any civilized well run organisation) refering to ANY country as a "shithole" because if that happens, it is no longer Trump the person labelling a country a shithole but the US government. In fact you did not see any country issue an official rebuttal because Trump did not "officially" call any country a shit hole.

There is a difference between the office and the person that occupies the office and as a general rule, 1) you dont use emotive language in official communications 2) When you use instrument of office to adress personal issues.

you will notice the statement was signed "Governor" not Ikpeazu

Chief Press Secretary to the Governor.
23rd February, 2021."


Technically speaking, it is the government of Abia state (not Ikpeazu) that has officially, on the record, pronounced Adeyemi as having a mental ilness. If Adeyemi were to sue for defamation it's not ikpeazu he will sue but the govt of Abia state! Abia state will be liable not Ikpeazu or the Press secretary.

When you occupy high office, you must learn to ignore abuse and communicative with the respect the office you occupy deserves. And if you must respond, you sign it in your personal capacity without the instrument of office.

Thank you for this explanation.

I am of the opinion that on the floor of the senate, when debates are held, certain comments by our senators must be with decorum and respect. I think the senator deserved the very strong worded response that he got from the government of Abia state. Notice that he said “Abia state is governed by drunkards”. By inference he was addressing the leadership of the state. He went further to call the people of Abia impoverished, before the SP advised him to mind his words. His comments were recorded as official on the floor of the senate. The CPS of Abia state rightfully informed him that he should have addressed his fellow senator who made the supposedly negative remark about the Kogi governor.

See bro, strong worded responses are issued in international politics. Look at some of the exchanges between Iran and the United States of America. You find such strong worded responses. Aside from addressing Trump in his personal capacity, some of the responses were addressed to the United States. Do not forget the threats issued. Threats are taken seriously and sometimes nations carry out actions to checkmate threats to their existence.

In all and without sentiments, I think the distinguished senator went overboard with his comment. Utterances must be guided by such leaders so that the the public do not get the wrong messages.

Thank you once again for taking your time to answer my question decently.

Few inches more and that car would have been difficult to get to. I saw a big ditch just a little ahead of where the car stopped.

I thank God for saving this wonderful golf entertainer. I wish him very quick recovery as he undergoes surgery to fix the injury on his legs.

isthatso:
unfortunately they didnt consult the manual on official etiquette on how to draft an official letter. Smart Adeyemi was uncivil in his outburst but Abia state has been dragged into the gutter by the type of wording they used on official communication.


This is a result of the type of charlatans that occupy public office. Every official communication is from the office of the governor, president etc. These morons dont understand the difference between personal and official communication and the implication thereof.

Please tell us the difference between “personal and official communication” with respect to the dispute talked about.

DarkJeddi:
English..

Have ever heard of punctuations?

How could he have?

Surely he is a Muntula!

RisenPhoenix1:
I saw it in a researched study online. Whatever the case may be, the schools have been publicly funded for decades now.



All this serves no purpose. If there were schools that allowed students to learn in an atmosphere of voluntary inclusion, then that is laudable. However, such an atmosphere cannot be imposed forcibly on a section of the students. By excluding Muslim girls who refuse to disobey their religious tenets, you are proposing an atmosphere of seclusion different from the portrait you draw. In this case, the inclusion is no longer voluntary, it is forced.

@bolded. This is what I find especially interesting. What is it about the Muslim hijab that Christians find so oppressive to themselves? And those schools are no longer missionary schools, so calling them "your own house" is a gross misnomer. They belong to the government.



Again, the Christians in Islamic missionary schools follow the rule voluntarily. If covering their heads was against their religion, and it was imposed on them, I would absolutely consider it their right to open up their heads just as I consider it their right for Muslim girls to cover theirs.

And those who whip up religious sentiments are those who impose rules specifically targeting a religious group, not those who point it out. Why does a rule imposed by a group of teachers in a public institution override the national constitution? Muslims say that the hijab is an important part of their doctrine. Who are we to deprive them of it or interprete their doctrine for them? The elephant in the room is these are publicly funded schools paid for by government funds. Private individuals or groups cannot have any say in what rules are imposed. And the government should only enact those rules that are in the public interest. Kwara state is predominantly Muslim. Why raise rancour in a Muslim state for no discernible benefit? What does preventing them from wearing the hijab fulfill? This question remains unanswered.



On the contrary, I have no interest in the matter, my argument purely arises out of irritation at the intolerant way Christians behave, and if you look at my first comment, this was precisely my point. Let us agree for the sake of semantics that the schools are still owned by the missionaries and funded by them. What is the downside of permitting Muslim students to wear their scarves? Since you believe that you are the logical and reasonable one here, explain this to me in a logical manner. What would it cost them to permit the scarf, or brown shoes, or a yellow bow tie; if a huge proportion of the population of that region desire it so passionately as part of their religious doctrine?



The mud houses taken over by the government no longer exist. And all lands belong to the various state governments. They cannot restore schools renovated with state funds to private ownership. The only real solution is to rename the schools using numbers and to run them completely along secular lines. The solution to uniting the country does not lie in imposing one set of religious rules over another or to hand over state funded schools to one religious group to control, but to completely secularise the process of education whereby every student can practise his/her religion without fear of being targeted for their beliefs. No state paid teacher should have the right to force students to disobey his/her faith tenets by either forcing them to wear or to remove whatever applies to their faith doctrine, or to pray with a group that they do not subscribe to; or even to pray at all. Students should have the right to state that they do not wish to pray and this should be fully respected.

"Whatever the case is, the schools have been publicly funded for decades". That's the problem. Government took over privately owned property taking advantage of laws used by the military. Was that proper? Funding it does not take away to wrong done by leaders using government power.

Now we all suffer the effects of the evil done.

Anyway, thanks for discussing decently. Do have a good evening.

RisenPhoenix1:
The so-called rule does not make sense, is unconstitutional and apparently has no practical application, except to sideline Muslims. If Muslims state that it is a part of their faith, then withholding this right from them for no logical reason is only an attempt to control their behaviour. As long as said behaviour is not harmful to you or anyone else, you have no right to control it, under any constitutional law. If you can provide a logical or scientific reason as to why you think a Muslim girl wearing her headscarf in school is harmful; out with it, otherwise, stop fishing for foolish justifications. "It's the rule" is not a justification. It's a cop out. If the rule did not favour you, you would be the first to decry it.

As for the takeover, part of the reason for the takeover was to eliminate the religious bigotry and divisiveness that missionary schools were trying to engender in the host communities. You call for a perpetuation of the bigotry with one breath while you support it with another. The best way to eliminate bigotry is to let Christians wear what they want and let Muslims wear what they want. If no one is forced, no one will feel sidelined. If it's the "rule" to make someone feel sidelined, then the rule should be done away with. This is why we Africans are ever on the march backwards.

I swear, I am beginning to understand why Muslims get so angry sometimes.

You miss the point.

“The reason for takeover was to eliminate religious bigotry”. Where did you get that from? Who ever said that to you? For me it was not. It was an attempt to muzzle in the Christian schools, which had far a larger share of the sector, especially in Lagos. You may ask: why the missionary schools? There were too many private schools before the take over. The reason is that politics had come into play and politicians were playing the religious card.

If you carefully look through my previous comment you”ll find where I said that I attended a Christian school, where Muslims also attended. We did not know the difference in our faith as we all attended morning assembly and sang hymns. When our Muslim friends had Islamic things we all joined happily. The same happened in Islamic schools. Everyone was happy. Your question must be “where did the idea to take over missionary owned schools come from? You”ll be surprised to find out that a lot of our Muslim leaders, especially of the south, attended Christian schools and vice versa.

Lagos state many years ago had Jumratul Islamiyya, Muslim teachers training college, Gaskiyya Cardoso, etc. All those schools were attended by Christians. Infact in Gaskiyya Cardoso, all the girls dressed in hijabs and long gowns, all covered. It was a well known policy of the school. Christians who attended that school dressed in that manner happily. For selfish reasons, government took over and the rest became history.

Freedom to associate is enshrined in our constitution, but that does not give you the liberty to oppress me, not especially in my own house.

Why is it that it is only this Muric man who continuously whips up this religious sentiment? Have you ever heard of Barewa college? Do you know how many southern leaders who boast of attending that school? Does the school not have its own rules? Have you ever heard anyone complaining? Are there no Christians there? The Christians follow the rule and there is absolute peace. There are rules in place in northern Islamic schools and everyone adheres to them.

“Stop fishing for foolish justifications”. No one tries to justify what is wrong. You are just being overly sentimental and not addressing the matter realistically. This problem continues to linger in the south, especially the south west and must be addressed frontally.

The country is divided along various lines and that is the honest truth that we must all face. The solution once again is for government to restore the seized schools to their respective owners, who should be allowed to practice their faith and teach their students according to their beliefs.

Hahahahahahahaha. These people no dey tire.

So that old man and those ladies in the picture are part of the ESN that the police and soldiers combed the forests of Orlu to search for?

Why una dey lie like this na? Ok. Can that baba run up to 20 meters not to talk of running with an AK47s for up to 50 kilometers in the forest?

We know the story. Na the normal “where you ID card”, “hold it there or I shoot”, “where are you coming from”. After they will tell us that they are “held for screening”.

Jagbajantis intete!!!!

RisenPhoenix1:
Obviously another narrow minded individual. I don't like arguing with Christians. They are not after knowledge, only after validating their own propaganda.

And for the record, I'm an agnostic. I left your Christian fable long ago. It is losing ground. You can put up pictures of a mega church or ten, but that doesn't change the fact that people are waking up from their bondage. Science is irrefutable. Give me a scientific reason why a girl wearing a hijab is so oppressive to Christians.

May I ask who talks about oppression? Even science has rules or laws as they say.

If schools say no to Hijab then you either do not go there or do not take your children there, likewise Islamic schools.

What people are bickering about here was meaningless until the civilian government of 1979 came. No one knew the difference between Christian and Muslim schools until the Muslim governors in power then pretentiously took over schools.

How many of you know that the present site of the Lagos state university actually belonged to the Methodist boys high school, Lagos, which belonged to the Methodist church? That place was taken over by Lagos state under the late Chief Lateef Jakande after the because the governor in 1979. When they were looking for a site to establish LASU in 1984, that place which had been taken over from the Methodist church was used.

The religious, tribal and ethnic problems we confront today as a nation are self inflicted, especially from the politicians who want to get power and hold on to it perpetually. Religion has become a potent instrument in politics today. Nigerians need to realize the damage done daily to the psyche of the people by the political class.

Reference:
Once again. Public schools are public property no matter what title they bear and when a service is public it should reflect public interests for justice. Thus if these schools are funded by the taxpayer, the taxpayer has every right to decide how they are run except prior agreements had been reached between the previous owners and the present.

Second and more important point. Once again to Christians out there. It should be clear to you folks that the Missionary model of free, qualitative education as established a hundred years ago is no longer feasible and sustainable. It is clear that qualitative education requires qualitative funding.

Against the backdrop of the desire to maintain or sustain the Christian ethos by controlling these educational institutions churches and missions will have to come up with the resources to make them or keep them private and off the tax payer. But how is this possible when today there is widespread criticism about the charges indepedent Christian based educational institutions demand and criticism of the levies adherents are made today for the upkeep of these institutions. Every Christian out there complaining about secular/societal 'takeover' and equally complaining about financial demands of churches and missions should ask themselves how they want this circle squared.

I wish to call out those custodial churches mainly the Catholic and other orthodox Christian faiths and warn. If you will not pay for the independence of those schools you will lose them to the world. It is not the name that matters but the piper that plays.

First government must return schools to the original owners. Have you wondered why government took over missionary schools in the first place. For me I can find no excuse other than an attempt to muzzle the Christian schools, which were particularly the targets. Even the Muslim schools face the same challenge. What were governors looking for when they took over those very decent did schools of those days?

They were all properly run and were very well funded. As it stands, if the schools are returned to the original owners, they will pick up their pieces and continue from where they find them.

The missionary schools too have been underfunded by government and systematically destroyed.

Triangles1:
The IPOBIANS
The BIAFRA
The IGBOS
They're all shouting ranting and yelling on Hausa fulani Nigeria marginalized them maltreating them and sending operation Python � on their soil.

Imagine what brothers do to their fellow brother, if it was Buhari that disgrace Okorocha like road side pick pucket they will call him zombie.
Im not a friend or supporter of OKOROCHA but that disgrace is too much on ex governor, reason why Fulani would continue to milking Nigeria to stupor.
Either the south east like it or north when it come to presidency no Politicians as Igbo have the influence of OKOROCHA.

You guys should kiss the truth.

OLODO!!!!!!!!!!

Tranquility4u:
I see no reason why Muslim students should be denied
their constitutional rights.

All Muslim students, in particular, female students should be allowed to dress in Hijab since these schools are for the public.


“Are the schools not grant-aided? So you want to use
public money to persecute Muslim children until they
submit to forceful conversion? Even if they are
missionary schools, must they force female Muslim
students to strip? We are not surprised because it is
part of their old way of forceful conversion. Nigerian
Christians should desist from using Muslim children to
subject their parents to psychological trauma. We will
not go back to slavery. Enough is enough.

If not for lack of wisdom and intellectual myopia, why should you all be blinded to the evil done to Christian schools many years ago, when they were wrongly and wickedly taken over by government. Previously there were Christian and Muslim schools. They thrived successfully with students irrespective of tribe and religion attending all. I attended a Christian school with my Muslim friends. We were all happy together singing hymns at the morning assemblies. We attended Islamic celebrations happily with them when they came up.

Suddenly certain governors took over privately owned schools and the majority were Christians. Some states returned the schools to the original owners while others still held on to them.

If you get to a church or a mosque you are expected to conduct yourself according to the rules there. The same goes when it is schools especially as our leaders have opened our eyes to ethnic and religious tendencies. If Christian schools say hijabs should not be worn, why should groups like Muric insist that the rules should be changed? If a Christian attends an Islamic school where hijabs are compulsory, why should they disagree?

People like this Muric who have foolishly added religion to politics in order to confuse society should be held accountable for the many problems we face as a nation today.

Kwara state should return the schools to the original owners. Christians should attend Christian schools and Muslims theirs likewise where the ladies are free to wear their hijabs.

Not too long ago we heard of the kidnap for ransom of an American citizen. The Americans came in, dislodged the bandits and took their citizen away.

Boko haram and herdsmen threaten the peace and unity of this country daily. It appears the Nigerian army is not equipped enough to end this menace.

Rather than continue in this shame, is it not time to demand for stronger powers to rescue our country? Are we going to wait until this country turns into Iraq, Syria or Rwanda?

Calling in the Americans and Europeans will help eliminate boko haram/Iswap and the evil herdsmen permanently. The little done by the FG is not noticeable and those evil people now know that taking children for ransom will take in money for more.