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Who is that
true-born Igbo that would ask his own to quit
a seat to have another when the North is
already having numbers one, three and four
citizens? What number is DSP and SGF on the
protocol list that one would have to go for the
other for the Ndigbo to have a say in this
administration? But we know ourselves, those good for nothing wealthy businessmen and gullible politicians will succumb to this trick and will want to dissuade Ekweremadu from the DSP position and when he refused as he would they would want to rubbish his name claiming he is selfish while they (the coalition to dissuade Ekweremadu) are truly the selfish ones. This is exactly our problem as a tribe. We are watching, Our beloved DSP has come to star and will deliver the services needed of him to the Federation and Igboland.

magabounce:
[size=25pt]HMMMMM!!!!
Wrote the exams few months ago in Calabar
The questions ehhhhhh!!!!!!!! No be here o!!!
Wasn't called for the next stage sha![/size]!

please any clue on how I can apply for it, do I have any chance...

Pangea:
Everyday people talk about starting another war without remembering that war is hell. Thank God for the War Journalist who helps us remember. One such a Journalist is the Frenchman Gilles Caron who first saw war as a French soldier in Algeria and hated it so much that he stopped fighting and spent the last 4 months of his Military service in French chains.

He then went on to fashion photography which he found boring and returned to the front this time without a gun but with a camera and has given us some of the most thought provoking photos from various conflicts including our own Biafra.

My favourite ( if we can call it that ) is this one of wounded Biafran soldiers being left by their mates as the battle turns and the Federals advance.,

Just as you see the back of the fleeing Biafrans you can take inventory of the fright and horror of the surviving wounded soldier in his eyes pleading with the remaining troops ( Caron included ) not to be left behind to a certain death.

Instances like this made Gilles Caron drink heavily and you sure can’t blame him because I would be shooting heroin just to be able to go to sleep.

So as you rattle your swords and gnash your teeth crying for war…remember this side and that the young man on the ground is someone’s son, brother or even a Father. Worse still he may never get to be a Father.

WAR IS HELL - Photo Biafra April 1968 © Gilles Caron for the Gilles Caron Foundation
- Iwedi Ojinmah -

go to hell with your post, you simply wrote this because you believe a certain people have had enough of ill treatment. No one is afraid of war unless your right has not been trampled upon. I quiet agree that a call for war is a call for casualties, but who will suffer the most and who will be liberated?

When someone says Muslims = Boko-Haram some people get offended because it's the simple truth a k a religious/tribal war

Zoom off to hell with your idiotic rants, how many senators represented South East. Even if Ekweremadu is not meeting up to expectations, how many of the Senator's representing South East made half the impact of Ekweremadu. Some of our Igbo brothers are hypocrites they accuse another of selfishness while becoming a Judas, this is exactly the reason why we are being trampled upon.

sameer1212:
These guy should fvck the hell up. How many appointments has the Mr president made so far? So he should appoint outsiders as his personal securities abi

just see how handsome your pix perceived but your words say otherwise.

Ephemmm:
Must you hear everything at once? Until the killing of Osama, did you hear about the intelligent efforts being exerted by the US military in the public domain? It is only gullible like you that believe that security affairs is a matter that must always be in the public domain.

For your information, security is not about carrying guns and making unnecessary publicity which can further give the militant news clue about their mode of operation: it is about having intelligent information at hand that can lead to curbing the menace of such irreprehensible act.

How can a serious army be taking 'selfie' in the battlefield? How can a serious intelligence be posting ' we are now in sambisa' on facebook? This shows how level of maturity and things will continue like this until we learn.

If Jonathan has taken serious step from the onset, we would not be where we are today. insurgency is like a sore in someone's body: the earlier you cure it the better. Whether we like it or not, insurgency has gained ground since the days of Jonathan: if he has been serious the same way he was serious three weeks to the election, things could have been better than this.

May God help us.

good try, brother secrets are kept from you because they don't want you to know the true story, of course completely bought the fact that Osama bin Laden was killed by America, but let me tell you this, Osama died long before or probably still alive. America has no clue of his where about. So don't even tell me you were fooled by this latest lie on Boko-Haram

Story for the God's, fooling continues

Let them zoom off to hell.

Lol, almost a forgotten scenario

Dannyset:
I never talked about amnesty and I will never will. And I never said the bombing should stop either. Now tell me, those who were protesting against BH killing in the South East, what did u think they are doing? They are simply sending a message that the killing is bad and it's not acceptable. These are ways u can also fight the menace and at the same time not stopping the bombing.
What PMB did their was to condemn the act and also carry it to the mosque to openly preach against it. What u hav bn doing on NL is to preach against it. U hav never carried a gun to fight against it. PMB is slow towards it, I agree, but what he did wasn't out of order.

ok let's give up the fight to find a common ground, I can we are on the same part but fails to agree with each other, Am not falling to their trick. He preached that because some Muslims were slaughtered at the mosque, what was his past statements, moreover we preach here on NL because we are civilians so if you want civilians to carry arms allow them the use of arms or arm them yourself.

Dannyset:
Brother abeg check all our argument and tell me who mentioned or talked about amnesty. Stop fooling around.

really, low cunning lunatic. Of course I checked and your very last comment tried to say that every necessary method has been adopted and non has worked and how you translated the latest Buhari's statement to be an effective tool. Who are they fooling when he had the time to preach against it he never did and instead he indirectly promoted it. You talk of truth didn't you, main the truth and not mixing things up

No sir, they boycotted the meeting because they are no longer in charge, some people from the North has high jacked the party while some one is sulking. Next time if there will be next time he won't draw plan to wrestle power without clues on how to manage them. Who ever thinks he can dictate for the Notherners is a fool

Number one thing is the fact that PDP is not even opposing them, yet APC is heading straight to the bottom of the river. I wonder what will happen when PDP tramples on them with constructive propaganda unlike the lies they used to deceive Nigerians.

What a shame, what is the aim of this tread? a question you need answer. Its just a matter of time before the insults starts pouring in.

Dannyset:
What truth pls? U see one problem of Nigerians is that we like to cut a tree without uprooting it. What has the shooting and physical confrontation done to ameliorate this BH menace? We hav shot, bombard and even seized, nothing seems to be working. While we didn't pend all these, he's taking his time to preach and advise against it and ur saying am shielding the truth. What would u hav me say? oh! that he isn't doing much to curb it, or he's bn weak and gentle with his dealings with them? Pls give me a break.

and the worst problem of nigerians is that people with low IQ talks the most. With which people's money are you giving them Amnesty? Please make I ask o who is Boko-Haram and we're they from

He should be the first to condemn them, they are his brothers after all, nonsense.

baby124:
As for BH, how long did it take the GEJ government to perform any action? Almost 2yrs. Buhari government so far have done more.

Did Jonathan ever declare any assets Remove the speck in your eyes before you start accusing other's. It will be very hard to judge Buhari because PDP were worse than demons.

of course you are a baby, that is why you didn't know that GEJ was sabotaged from inception starting with the military High ranking personels, and later by international bodies. That up till now you have not wakeup from slumber and ask your self what does the North really want, that you have nothing to say about all the lies instigated by this people from past to present, that you probably don't understand the fact that Nigeria is an amalgamation of different people with different ethnic believes and principles, that you don't even know that they were towing the exact part they criticized some people about that someone's sweat on electricity was claimed by another and nearly The refineries...

barcanista:
I want the best for Nigeria and Nigerians. I have been following the government of Muhammadu Buhari even before it came to power. Below are some observation that I believe are of National importance.

Is PH Refinery Now Working at 80% Capacity?
The NNPC earlier this year told Nigerians that our existing refineries will be up by the first quarter of 2016. Speaking at the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources(Downstram) the GMD of NNPC in March 5, 2015 mentioned that the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of our four refineries by the administration of Dr Goodluck Jonathan will yield fruit in the first quarter of 2016.


After Buhari assumed power on May 29, 2015, the same NNPC under him came out on June 10 to tell Nigerians that the Portharcourt refinery will work optimally (80%) by the end of June/early July.

www.punchng.com/news/pharcourt-refinery-to-commence-operations-in-july-nnpc-gmd/
June is long gone, we are in the 4th day of July, How far with the refinery dear APC? Where are the daily 5 million liters of petrol from Portharcourt refinery dear Buhali-led NNPC?

Who is Subsidising Who?
In his pre-inauguration interview the President's words pointed that the subsidy regime is non existent.

www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/top-stories/20804-i-don-t-know-what-fuel-subsidy-means-buhari
However, on June 28 data obtained by the PUNCH from the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency(PPPRA) shows that the government of Buhari accumulated N57billion subsidy debt within 30 days. My question to Buhari is Who is subsidizing who?

Who Is Winning The War Against BH?
Since President Buhari assumed office in May 29, Boko haram has strucked more than 15 times. In fact, I painstakingly followed the numbers of strikes by BH since May 29 and I had to give up the count when it got to 12th count. I felt bad that over 700-800 Nigerians in the North East especially those in Borno state have been sent to the other side by Boko Haram in the most brutal and inglorious manner. Instead of holistically fighting the terrorists in line with their campaign promise, Vice President Yemi Osinbanjo (on behalf of Buhari) publicly insulted Nigerians by saying that we are progressively having upperhand. In his own words...

Who and who are the "we" that Osinbajo was referring to? Was he speaking on behalf of Nigerians or "West Germans"?

DSS DG: Like Obasanjo Like Buhari
When Obasanjo took over power in 1999 he brought back Col Kayode Are from retirement to serve as the SSS DG. Col Are like Obasanjo is from Owu in Ogun state. Following Obasanjo's step, Buhari brought back Alhaji Lawal Musa Daura a retired SSS operative to head the SSS as Director-General. Alhaji Daura is a Daura man from Katsina state like President Muhammadu Buhari.

Unlike the aforementioned men, Presidents Musa Yar'adua and Goodluck Jonathan kept to professionalism by appointing directors within the SSS as their respective DGs without taking to consideration whether or not they are both from their home towns. Yaradua appointed Mr Afakriya Gadzama a distinguished SSS Director from Borno state to serve as his DG, while Jonathan appointed another distinguished Director Mr Ita Ekpeyong from Cross river state.


Finally, when will the President and his Vice show transparency by publicly declaring their assets as pledged by them?

always on point Barcanista, APC was a scam from time immemorial, Buhari on the other hand proving to be more clueless in ruling Nigeria but knows how to rule the North

Nonsense, acting or no acting he is retired. There are credible people ready to take over the job

Nonsense, acting or no acting he is retired.

Bold move and a good one, the likes of me supports you, we shall all say no to same sex marriage

Bamz:
This administration would not be a long one for me. It's good to proclaim what you want in life.

good for you

The likes of me is already fed up, we have seen were the Scam country is heading to. Let's not waste too much energy, as the people that celebrated victory the most were the first to start crying only that some e-brats are not ready to face reality. Let's tighten our belts course this 4years is going to be a long one, though we have some play to watch.

But truth be told, a broke guy toasting a lady is nuisance

Editor’s Note: Tracing back to the mid 1960s,
the piece basically highlights the various
aspects that the Igbos have been
marginalised. Regrettably, as it is, the few
privileged people who have touched power and
happen to be Igbos, tend to negate the hope of
the ordinary people by sidelining them thereby
getting saturated in absolute exploitation. To
this end, it is believed that the Igbos are
responsible for their own decline. Douglas
Anele has written on how Ndigbo
underdeveloped Igboland.
The views and opinion expressed here are
those of the author and do not necessarily
reflect the official policy or position of
Naij.com.
Story highlights:
— The civil war provided haters of Ndigbo
within Gen. Yakubu Gowon’s cabinet
— From the administration of Ukpabi Asika to
the present governments of the five South
Eastern states, corruption have remained
leitmotifs in Igboland.
— People of Imo still remember with nostalgia
late Chief Sam Mbakwe for his laudable
achievements in the old Imo state
— The Igbo not only fight themselves in
Igboland; some of them for selfish reasons
exhibit excessive competitiveness in other
parts of the federation.
In our discussion last Sunday, I made the
point, which was almost distorted by
editorial pusillanimity, that ideally, in order
to render justice to Ndigbo Nigerian leaders
who participated in genocide against them
during the civil war should be prosecuted
at the International Court of Justice. But I
also argued that given the very low level of
political maturity and moral consciousness
in the country presently, that would never
happen.
READ ALSO: Buhari’s Age: What Union In
South Africa Has To Say
Now, the major motivation for the two-part
series entitled “Ndigbo and the burden of
history” is to draw attention to how
members of the ruling elite dominated by
Northerners had, especially from 1966 to
1999, contributed to the underdevelopment
of Igboland.
The civil war provided haters of Ndigbo
within Gen. Yakubu Gowon’s cabinet and
the Nigerian army to execute their
genocidal intentions against Igbo people.
And even afterwards, the same
misanthropes insisted on maximum
punishment for the former Eastern region.
Accordingly, the Gowon administration
adopted a banking policy that nullified any
bank account operated during the war by
the Biafrans. Each Igbo depositor of the
Nigerian currency could only access a flat
sum of twenty pounds, irrespective of the
deposit. In addition, the military
government promulgated the Enterprises
Promotion Decree of 1974, or
Indigenisation Decree, ostensibly to compel
foreign holders of majority shares of
companies operating in Nigeria to hand
over a larger percentage of stocks, bonds
and shares to indigenous Nigerian business
interests.
But the real targets of that decree were the
war-weary Biafrans already impoverished
by the conflict, the wicked banking policy
mentioned earlier, and ban on importation
of second-hand clothes (okirika) and stock
fish. Of course, the Igbo in general did not
have the financial wherewithal to benefit
from the Indigenisation Decree. Moreover,
most of the jobs and positions in virtually
all the sectors of the economy previously
occupied by Easterners were taken over by
those from other parts of the country. In
my opinion, scars of the civil war and its
aftermath are still visible in Igboland.
For instance, as I have stated severally in
this column, of the six geopolitical zones in
the country, theSouth East has the least
number of developmental projects from the
federal government. It is very likely that
marginalisation of Igboland would continue
under President Muhammadu Buhari’s
government, because his party, the All
Progressives Congress, is dominated by
political shylocks who would want to exact
revenge from the South East for voting
massively for former President Goodluck
Jonathan.
READ ALSO: Why Saraki Ran To Obasanjo
(Photos)
It is patently false to lay all the blame for
the underdevelopment of Igboland on
Igbophobic Nigerians from other ethnic
groups. The desperate situation there has
been worsened by the blizzard of
incompetent leadership in different Igbo
speaking states. Specifically, with very few
exceptions, top political office holders in
the states that comprise the defunct
Eastern Region have been grossly
incompetent, selfish and corrupt.
From the administration of Ukpabi Asika to
the present governments of the five South
Eastern states, financial rascality,
nepotism, indiscipline, corruption, and petty
jealousies and visionlessness have
remained leitmotifs in Igboland. Governors,
commissioners, top civil servants, highly
placed judicial officers, traditional rulers
and members of the clergy have sacrificed
core values of truthfulness, hard work,
honesty, integrity, regard for good name,
humility and brotherly love embedded in
Igbo culture in the pursuit of power and
wealth.
How many governors in Igboland, both past
and present, can give satisfactory account
of how they spent the monies that accrued
to their respective states during their
tenure?
Why is it that governors, federal and state
legislators and other top political office
holders become stupendously rich after
leaving office? In large parts of Igboland,
the roads, health facilities, educational
institutions, etc have deteriorated despite
the revenue accruing to both the states and
local governments.
People of Imo still remember with nostalgia
late Chief Sam Mbakwe for his laudable
achievements in the old Imo state, which
should have been emulated and improved
upon by governors that came afterwards. It
is deplorable that many prominent Igbo
sons and daughters who could have
deployed their influence to attract
developmental projects from the federal
government to their respective states
merely use their positions to enrich
themselves.
Another cause for concern is absurd and
pernicious discrimination within each South
Eastern state and between the five states
as well. For example, in the civil service
and educational institutions up to the
university level, people from different parts
of the same state discriminate and fight
among themselves. Sometimes, an
application for employment or promotion is
rejected because the person is from Imo
state rather than Enugu state, and vice
versa.
READ ALSO: Wike Slams Another Damning
Allegation Against Amaechi
Former governor of Abia state, Theodore
Orji, committed a very serious blunder when
he sacked employees from other Igbo
speaking states in a misguided attempt to
ameliorate the unemployment problem
there. Although he later reversed the
decision, his irrational action demonstrates
that sometimes Ndigbo are their own worst
enemies.
The Igbo not only fight themselves in
Igboland; some of them for selfish reasons
exhibit excessive competitiveness in other
parts of the federation. In the North and
South West, there are incidents of
unhealthy rivalry between Igbo individuals
and groups, each trying to outdo one
another using Machiavellian tactics,
generating unnecessary animosity in the
process.
Certainly, within reasonable limits,
ambitiousness and competitiveness are
psychological triggers for self-discovery,
self-actualisation, and societal progress.
But in the long run, it is better for Ndigbo
wherever they might be to work together in
solidarity for the benefit of one another. It
is betrayal of the highest order that
prominent sons and daughters of Igboland
create socio-cultural and political
associations purportedly to promote
collective Igbo interests, whereas the real
intent is to use such bodies for getting
favours from government. Some of them
even collect mobilisation fees from
government without executing the
contracts meant for their states.
More than anything else, there is urgent
need for moral and ideological
reorientation in Igboland. Well-placed
Ndigbo should see themselves as role
models for the young ones to emulate.
Right now, the lifestyles of many Igbo VIPs
tend to promote excessive preoccupation
with primitive accumulation and hollow
ostentation. Now, the average Nigerian
generally believes that Ndigbo love money
too much, more than members of other
ethnic groups. There is a pernicious cliché
that if a purportedly dead Igbo man fails
to rise up at the clanging of coins near his
ears then he is truly dead.
The fact of the matter is that different
people have different levels of pecuniary
attachment, irrespective of their ethnic
origins. The Hausa-Fulani, the Yoruba, the
Nupe, the Isokoand so on want to be as
financially comfortable as much as the
Igbo. Remember, Ndigbo, because of
hardships of the war and the need to
survive extremely daunting post-war
challenges, had to struggle harder than
other Nigerians just to survive.
Even before the civil, their gregarious can-
do-it attitude compelled them to leave their
homeland in search of livelihood
nationwide. And because jealous
Igbophobic Nigerians unnecessarily
concerned by the relative successes of
Ndigbo in their midst, misinterpreted the
single-minded determination of the latter
by creating the myth of excessive money
mindedness referred to earlier.
READ ALSO: Buhari Should Focus On Youth
Development
I submit that Igbo political office holders
who steal funds meant for the development
of Igboland are a complete disgrace and
should be treated as enemies of the
people. For Ndigbo to occupy their rightful
place as primus inter pares within the
Nigerian federation, they must begin to live
according to the moral principles
encapsulated in the concept of ezigbo aha
kariri ego(good name is superior to
money). Prominent Igbo indigenes,
wherever they might be, must set aside
their ephemeral egoistic interests and work
for the good of Igboland as a whole.

All these ideas of going to court, engaging a lawyer and all that needs money. were will he get that kind of money from, he has already spent enough

Sunnybobo3:
No way!!

The hypocrites were comfortable that Tambuwal did what was unconstitutional but are now deriding Ekweremmadu for doing that which is constitutionally allowed.

, that's what I wanted to know cause if they are expecting him to decamp, they are big time dreamers

Sunnybobo3:
But it was ok for Tambuwal to decamp and yet retain the speakership position abi?

Una never see anything yet.

you are not trying to say that Ekweremadu will switch over to APC are you??

omenka:
Imagine someone like Metuh saying it is only right that PDP is given one of the top position in NASS that winners shouldn't take it all. How many times in the 16 years PDP held sway was the opposition given anything close to even the deputy speakership??

Ekweremadu's position is untenable and all within the legal framework of NASS should be done to get his out of there. Saraki goofed big time on this one- just goes to show how desperate he is for power.

it's part of change at least a positive one

I feel your pain bro, and I will like to say here that you are not the first victim and likely won't be the last. Exactly this same scenario has played out in my school when I was Vice president of my department as I was part of the coalition that stood out to defend Our honest SUG president when school management moved to impeach him, But our fellow students and some ingrates in the cloak of Man O' War were used to fight us after some threats from the police. The only difference from your case was that the President never allowed it to lead to being expelled from school as we his back up disappeared because we have seen were the problem is getting to as we have no medium to fight or defend Our selves though scouts have been sent out to obtain the names of people Involved, at that point he was impeached and everything went back to normal. I sincerely hope help finds your way but I doubt as these money issues have become a culture to school management and you may be surprised that the Government personels who should come to your aid are aware of the illegal dealings and will one way or the other brush it off.

I feel your pain bro, and I will like to say here that you are not the first victim and likely won't be the last. Exactly this same scenario has played out in my school when I was Vice president of my department as I was part of the coalition that stood out to defend Our honest SUG president when school management moved to impeach him, But our fellow students and some ingrates in the cloak of Man O' War were used to fight us after some threats from the police. The only difference from your case was that the President never allowed it to lead to being expelled from school as we his back up disappeared because we have seen were the problem is getting to as we have no medium to fight or defend Our selves though scouts have been sent out to obtain the names of people Involved, at that point he was impeached and everything went back to normal.
I sincerely hope help finds your way but I doubt as these money issues have become a culture to school management and you may be surprised that the Government personels who should come to your aid are aware of the illegal dealings and will one way or the other brush it off.