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“Infrastructural drive”. Yet he was said to have underdeveloped Abia state in his eight years as governor.

Jagbajantis intete!

And we have a new COAS.

Rather than face the volatile north and deal with the security problems there, they face the very peaceful SE to create an imaginary crisis to enable them ruin their peace. I cannot understand the battle against IPOB in the south east. If this is a method of increasing security budget to enable a few people fill their pockets with more money, then it is a shame.

The SW which herdsmen have turned into a killing field has been left without the provision of soldiers to protect farmers on their own lands. When the Yorubas fight back, they will find another reason to deploy soldiers to attack the innocent farmers and citizens to the disadvantage of those who are oppressed in their own lands.

Why is this terror allowed to spread to the entire south, where even the northerners run to for security and safety.

Why will government not focus on dealing effectively with the bandits and terrorists in the north? Why should some governors like Mattawale choose to settle people who deliberately kill innocent citizens in their thousands? Is this not another method of looting public funds? If the funds are no longer there, how can Mattawale keep them quiet? What if the demand more than they are given? Have the farmers in places like Zamfara gone back to their farmlands?

The FG has been warned severally that this country is gradually drifting towards a full blown war. Government must wake up and stop these invaders and wicked people from continuing their evil acts.

southniyikaye:
instead of them to emulate her progress, charisma and intelligence, they are busy emulating her dress sense. No wonder most of them are Senseless and have nothing in their head except urgent things like 2k


Truly, girls are bitter souls and this comment reeks of it..
The words truly enter them for where he dey pain hence the abusive words...
If truly we have enough sensible female youths, the likes of Bobrisky should not have followers.. They only created this challenge for the fun of it not to really emulate her

Na owu dey worry you!

Hahahahahahahahahaha. We know the secret.

Chase ESN out of the forests so that herdsmen can continue to enjoy their encroachment and stay!

Abeg carry this same force to Sambisa, Niger, Zamfara and stop the wicked acts of those same people terrorizing the innocent citizens of those states.

Resurrection212:
Mr man im not switch any moniker im not a Yoruba. I knew our people hate truths.anyone saying truth must tagged Yoruba or northern.

My question is this when are we going to tell ourselves truths? Im talking of igbo presidency's you are talking how Yoruba project NOI failure to become WTO president.

If I may ask did NIO is a igbo?

You gave yourself away with your English.

With due respect to our friends and brothers in the SW, this individual is from the SW.

“I’m not switch any moniker im not a Yoruba”.
“Anyone saying truth must tagged Yoruba”
“If I may ask did NIO is a Igbo”?

You should be ashamed of yourself and your failed English. You are certainly not an Igbo person and you just want to gather “likes” to make yourself happy.

“When are we going to tell ourselves the truth”? You only need to tell yourself the truth about your level of understanding and very poor English.

I advise you to write in Yoruba language so that our beloved Yoruba brothers and friends can help us interprete and save you this monumental embarrassment.

Gumi located them physically. The authorities say they are in touch. Abeg how e be say na Gumi come dey know all of them?

Jones4190:
arsenal will continue loosing until they tell us who kill 2-pac

Ntoiiiiiiiii.

If they sell or concession to fund the 2021 budget, what will happen to the 2022 budget when there is nothing to sell or concession? They will still tell us stories about funds generation.

These people no get ideas before so tay reach now. Dem no go get again. They have taken loans all over the world and now they will take people’s deposits in dormant accounts. I never hear that kind thing before for many years I dey Nigeria reach today.

HacheNoire:
And your knowledge tells you in a geographical region like Nigeria, Delta place is a viable location to invest such enormous capital? You really are vast in solar energy. Same reason your kind had to build a refinery in the North while the raw material it's in the South.

And if you so much knowledgeable about all you claim to know, you should know that considering "wear and tear"
the infrastructure will suffer to great extent.

I think listed are basics you should know about what you claim to know.

Optimal efficiency and durability should be your watch in making decisions for such enormous infrastructure.

Talking about the refineries in the north. At first they were considered economic wastes. If we put the issues bedeviling the refineries in perspective, we cannot but conclude that the problem with the refineries is the failure of all governments over the years. Next to that is the issue of embezzlement and corruption.

With the discovery of oil in the north, it is sincerely hoped that this government can do something about Kaduna refinery, to get it working.

“Durability” with respect to solar power depends on the government agents who do the negotiations with the manufacturers. If the right equipments are purchased with good technical assistance from, then the equipments will surely serve their purposes over the years.

hopexter:
You think it's as easy as you say? How long is it gonna take for all the solar equipment to arrive Nigeria from Singapore, land preparation and installations. If will be hard if this project doesn't take upto 6 years.

Haba! That’s not fair.

Granted that upon placing the order, the manufacturer will proceed with manufacturing the equipments. If we aggregate production and delivery date, it should take approximately four months. Clearing should take approximately one month to clear and the things are carried to the site.

Do not forget that government bureaucracies will commence. If the same government remains in power the job will commence after all due considerations. If another government takes over, then we will hear “abandoned in the warehouse”. But if the things remain as they were at the signing of the contract, it should take not more than one or two months to install and then connect to areas.

HacheNoire:
What has wealth got to do with a solar farm? We talking solar, and you talking about a shrine called Ashama.

Location should be key when you investing such amount in such technology.

And with the landmass of Nigeria, Delta state does not fall in the top 10 qualified locations

What has landmass got to do with the provision of electricity which is in serious shortage all over the country? So you want it to be installed in Niger, Borno, Sokoto and the northern states first?

When you hear of 200MW, how far do you think it can go in a nation that needs at least 40,000MW to provide the electricity needs for the entire nation 24/7?

thatigboman:
see what this one is saying
Did u even read the headline? fg begins repatriation of Nigerian refugees.
See the bolded

Oh I just read it again.

The word was wrongly applied. Our government will get the governments of those countries to repatriate our citizens. Our government cannot repatriate our citizens from other countries.

Imagine that you are a Nigeria there.

You go don remember how you take hussle water for Nigeria. How una dey take go river, waka with bucket dey find well, dey go baba olomi compound. How una dey line up for front of toilet and bathroom for gave me I face you. Una go teach oyibo the levels very well there.

HacheNoire:
Solar farm in Delta?

Nigeria needs to be sold.

Yes oooo. Except you are from one tiny hamlet in Zamfara state with no light, you"ll not know that Delta state is one of the richest in the country. And the site, Ashama, is not a tiny village.

Lewisalexander:
I hope it doesn't take 20 years to complete

Noo. With all the equipments in place, installation should just take a few months, at the most.

Legalcriminal:
I still don’t know how to pronounce Czech . Home to Angel Wicky and Connie Carter if you know this two you’re a real nigga

It is pronounced as CHECK or CHEQUE.
Try it out, except you are one of those our brothers from Ibadan (with due respect), who may pronounce it as SECK.

Grace001:
Less than ordinary is an understatement to quality this useless failed cursed country.

Those that run the affair of this country are heartless, wicked and brutal.

They can’t accommodate illumination because of the works of their hands

Darkness is a perfect condition for them to subject Nigerian to poverty and carry out their atrocities at night

Our sincere hope is that we have a better nation. Here our leadership feels like the winner takes all. In all the levels of leadership, those in charge seem to only want to get as much money as they can through various ingenious methods. Corruption has wrecked this country.

The potentials for greatness are found in this country. We hope that there is an intervention somehow so this country can be great.

caye:
Too many government agents on nairaland. Is this one's IQ sufficiently up to the basic minimum ba ?

Have you thought about your IQ?

With good thinking, you'd not be wishing such destruction on someone and his family. You may still be a youth with an aspiration to raise a family in the future. How will it sound if such an evil is wished for you and your family?

If there is anything like "the basic minimum", please apply it to yourself. Learn to think before you make certain destructive statements.

Seriously the Nigerian police must reconsider giving batons to certain mobile policemen in place of guns.

The guns handed over to these evil policemen for security of our citizens against violent crimes is used to kill innocent people daily.

Yet in the face of herdsmen, the wicked policemen drop the guns and flee.

thatigboman:
do u understand what repatriation means at all? They are bringing back nigerians who ran to niger, chad and cameroon to seek refuge due to crisis like boko haram crisis

Repatriation: the act of returning someone/people to the/their country of origin.

Nigeria cannot repatriate Nigerians out of Nigeria back to Nigeria. The country where Nigerians reside do that and vice versa.

Repatriation in this instance is the act of Nigeria returning the said nationals to their countries of origin.

I hope you understand it now?

Cheers.

Grace001:
Mmmm

"Ordinary Ghana"?

If na ordinary how dem take do am? If as an ordinary country Ghana dey get light 24/7 na im be say your country dey less than ordinary, since dem no dey get light 24/7.

Chiminemine:
How I wish it would just fall into sanwo olu's house and shock the living day light out of him. Pass about one million mega volts of undiluted electricity into his head. Nonsense

Be careful what you wish others. Remember what you sow you reap. If you sow bad wishes, you may get rewarded bad wishes in return.

ojaysam25:
I don't know if their performance has dwindle since the departure of ronaldo...all I know is that Madrid are playing shit and we have lost our fear factor for to 2-3yrs now.

See even the biggest clubs in the world have consistency problems. Do not expect all the clubs and players to perform on the big stage day and night for too many years. That's why you hear about the playing years of footballers. People like Messi and Ronaldo have been favoured, injury wise. Many better players all over the world have not been favoured to get to that level. To top it is the fact that they have managed their social lives very well.

Real Madrid is doing well, just like other clubs. Changes will always take place, but club managements and players will always do their best.

"Lai Mohammed and his gang".

If Nabena na man make him mention the names of the members of the gang. If e no fit make we no gree. If e no fit mention the names of all the members make him mention the name of the oga of the gang.

ojaysam25:
Bro, Madrid is shit leave that thing.

I assume you are referring to Real Madrid.

Do you think so?

Do you think playing football, 90 minutes X two or three times a week is easy? How has Real Madrid performance dwindled since the departure of Ronaldo?

IamWonderful:
I don't understand why Igbos on Nairaland are crying and mourning all over this post, igbos were sent packing out of the north for mere insulting the north just because they are inconsequential and insignificant to the north, but in the south west, there was destruction of lives and properties but the unscrupulous elements referred can only refer to the north and south west as husband and wife or slave and master anyhow you see either husband and wife or slave and master, it show there is still significant added to the south west rather than the south east that north wanted to throw into the trash bin, that was why your men and women were taking from Oyigbo to death camp and sex slave. Muhammad referred to MUSLIMS as slaves, the comprehension of the group might be shallow on the issue of slavery

Chaiii. English, sorry.

Did you take your time to read what you wrote? By the way, what was your English score in your WAEC examination please?

Kindly admit openly here that you need to learn English language - written and oral - afresh, so that a knowledgeable person can teach you.

And the next time you intend to write the kind of disgraceful comment as you posted above, kindly seek some advice.

Repatriation no relegation ni.

Who are they deceiving? We know that mostly these people are Fulanis who have been made to know that Nigeria is part of the ancestral land and inheritance.

You repatriate them, yet the borders remain open for them to re-enter easily. You enforce the ban on rice in the south yet guns easily get in through the north.

Abeg make dem tell us another thing.

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Goco:
Hmmm
It is well.

A Yahoo boy once told me he has been drinking and smoking for over 30 yrs. He was 45 yrs old as at the time. Neither did he know he was gradually destroying his Kidney and Lungs. Well, after 2 yrs, he developed Kidney Failure and Lungs Cancer. The doctors booked him for Kidney transplant for over 40 million Naira in India. His lungs kept deteriorating. Well, he died after 4 months cos his case was very Critical.
May you not receive a bad news concerning ur health in the future when u are to enjoy the fruit of all ur hard labour. Hmmm.

The second case we had was another Yahoo boy who had similar kidney issue. His was worse becos he had already sold one kidney for millions of dollars when he was in Malaysia. When his remaining kidney developed problems. There was no solution again. He died as well.

People don't know that your lifestyle from childhood come back to affect you negatively later in life when u least expect it. It's so sad. That's why I tell people to be on Stem Cells. That's the only Solution.

Well, let me educate you.

Do u know ur Cells are dying daily?
Do u know as your Cells are dying daily, ur Organs starts failing and damaging gradually without u knowing and as it is damaging your Organs, it will get to a point its goes beyond Repair.
It's now worse if you have been indulging in Smoking all sorts and drinking for far to long. Your case is worse.
Then the Doctors will then tell u that u have Kidney Failure, Liver Problem, Diabetes, Heart Problem, Brain Problem, Prostrate Issue, Bone Marrow Issue, Cancers and so many other Degenerative Diseases. Please you all need to act now especially does in these category.

Your only Remedy is Stem Cells. People in these category need Stem Cells to Regenerate the Cells in those organs and Repair the damaged Cells and Organs before it becomes too late and they finally given up the ghost.

To know more about it, click here

https://www.nairaland.com/6343890/how-phytoscience-stem-cell-therapy

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Asgard13:
DO YOU LIKE THE FACE OF CURRENT PDP?

IS PDP AS OPPOSITION STRONG

THE COUNTRY IS SPEEDING DOWNHILL AND OPPOSITION IS SILENT
WITH EMPTY LIGHT POST; NO SERIOUSNESS

NOTHING SERIOUS IS GOING ON IN PDP

WHO DO WE BLAME?

OR THEY SHOULD CONTINUE LIKE THIS..

But Secondus alone does not make up the PDP. What are his shortcomings? If you think he is weak, what are the areas? Also what are the roles of others in the PDP who are spoilers?

If PDP as an opposition party appears weak, what must be done aside from removing Secondus. Do not take into account the current spate of decamping. I am very certain APC will lose many prominent members with the problems presently in the party and the struggle for the soul of APC post 2023.

Asgard13:
ELABORATE HOW?

Na Chinese I write?

He wants you to tell us why Secondus must be sacked. Please say it.