Soludo should find better things to do with Anambra state. Clashing with customs and traditions may not be a good direction. The state assembly may have also been misled to wade into an area ordinarily for traditional rulers.

The government and political class will not like this. Elections will no longer be rigged. Riding over people with impunity will no longer be possible. Feeling like a demi God will be gone for the ogas and their criminal security agencies. They certainly will not want this. They will not let it happen.

We are being regaled with ugly stories of kidnapping in Nigeria today. No region is spared the trauma. Citizens are becoming haunted. Security agencies are finding it very difficult to keep pace with the criminals. The question is Why? I may not have all the answers, but I believe that to solve a problem, the best possible option is to improve your self. Have the security agencies improved themselves? Let us look at how the security agencies especially the DSS may have aided the current kidnapping for ransom in the country. How many Nigerians remember the modus operandi of this security outfit when it comes to arrest of suspects. Midnight operations. Breaking down of doors and walls. Removal of house roofs. Brutal invasion of offices. Vehicle Chase and double crossing of victims/suspects on the roads. Invasion of court houses and legislative assemblies. These impunious displays were staged not minding the possible outcomes and consequences. Today, we witness kidnappings patterned after those displays of the security agencies. We even see them wearing their uniforms. The initial effort by the kidnappers was to make their crimes look like security operations. And today, they exhibit their own impunity by showing us videos of their activities. Conclusion: Are the security agencies ready to improve themselves? Can they restore confidence in the people? The time is still morning. A stitch can still save 9.

Mr Retired General, how did you become so stupendously rich? What qualified you to own oil blocks in the niger delta? Fundamentally, why have you not been prosecuted for the bloody coup and bloodletting you and your cohorts carried out Nigeria?

This is the best of labour since after the Anti-SAP demonstrations. Kudos to the present leadership. Nigeria's current descent to anarchy and reckless impunity has to be checked.

Road travel ordinarily should be pleasant and interesting. The same can not be said about travels on Nigeria's roads. Bad roads, kidnapping, robberies of various shades including that by outright criminals and government backed ones are part of the turmoil on Nigeria's roads. One agency fast becoming notorious for road robbery is the federal road safety commission. Transporters have observed recent recruitment of freshers with this terrible zeal for extortion. They gleefully request for fire extinguisher, spare tyre, expiry date of tyres, lights, and recently refurbished plate numbers. All sorts of offense targeted at exploiting the road user who has already been brutalized by the nature of the roads being travelled. The worst being operating in an economy where bare existence has become a terrible challenge. WHY WILL FRSC PUNISH MOTORISTS WHO HAD THEIR FADED PLATE NUMBERS REFURBISHED BY THE LAGOS VIS? Is this not the height of impunity and wickedness? Which law permits this agency on the road and for what purpose? Why don't they make themselves useful by identifying bad road portions and getting government do the needful while standing at such spots to prevent accidents. Why can't they make sure road signs are visible to direct road users appropriately? Why don't they operate only ambulances for rescue of accident victims? Such should actually be the concept of such an agency. Finally, the Appeal court has ruled that FRSC has no business on state and local government roads. Why are they not obeying this judgement. They are rather seeking for firearms. This is laughable and pitiable because they will become game for bandits and ugm aside turning themselves into armed robbers. FRSC should be scrapped as it appears a ubiquitous being without clear-cut direction.

This is good from the Nigerian police. Hope they establish this case beyond reasonable doubt and punishment served out. No human rights claiming governor should deny such death warrant when passed. Such crazy trend must be checked and on time.

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What is President Tinubu doing precisely in UAE?

Let's start from there[/quot

You asked a reasonable question here.
Let me reply this way.
A good friend of mine about 30 years working experience with an agro allied firm just informed me yesterday that his department which had 24 staff just reduced to 9 this past week. That is 15 person's thrown into the unemployment market. Will UAE provide jobs for them?

Sharpsharp00123:
chinedu chinedu

Just rest in Jesus name

You are right.
Some of us have been favoured by God to run business in Nigeria for about 3 decades. We are about retiring to more quiet life. But are we going to have a peaceful rest with most youths as jobless and crime hunting?

Nigeria, according to the president wants to play a great role in the G-20 group. They also claim to be looking for investors to woo into the bourgeoning investment climate in Nigeria. As good as the talk sounds, I want to state small but effective realities that are not just keeping the foreign investors away, but also eliminating current businesses in Nigeria.
1) A truck movement from say the east to either the north or west Nigeria costs a bribe and non receipted payments of about #50,000. This is payment to corruption.
2) As at today a truck traveling in the aforementioned routes may not complete the journey in three days due to the horrible states of the Enugu -northern routes and the Onitsha - Lagos or Onitsha - northern roads. This is decay in infrastructure and loss on time.
3) I received a foreign investor from Belgium recently. He narrated his experience with the FRSC. The officials precisely along Isheri Igando road harassed him and made serious attempt to extort money from him on the allegation that he was not wearing a seatbelt at the back of the taxi that he was in. There was serious panic in his voice as he was calling me. I quickly made contact with our lawyer but he was let go before our lawyer could get to the scene. This is the foreign investor that the president and his team are looking for on television.
There are definitely a lot one can talk about. The principal thing is that the government need to remove the internal problems they have created before attempting what they are already embarking on. Their actions so far seem like self deceit.

I have watched with dismay Nigerians' reaction to the News that 36 soldiers were KILLED in Niger state by bandits. This seems nearly a platoon of soldiers. And Nigeria did not declare a state of mourning. Flags are not flying at half mast. The federal government functionaries today were busy lunching a book written by an octogenarian in a television life broadcast. What a shame! What if the president had died. The flags will fly at half mast and days of mourning would have been declared. Just one old man! What makes the life of a president who may have manipulated his way to office be more important than that of 36 young soldiers? Who deployed these soldiers? What was the intelligence that preceded the deployment? Is the military high command investigating this massacre? Could there have been sloppiness in the deployment? Where is the dss in all this? Is it possible that they were too busy with the president looking for a scapegoat in Emefiele and Bawa? Why are NIGERIANS keeping so quiet over this NATIONAL tragedy. I beg to be different. I also want to think that there are still some human beings left in the country. I am not asking for too much. Let the NATION mourn. If there is a president, there would have been a national broadcast. Flags would have been flying at half mast.

We have observed the unrepentant behaviour of some Nigeria policemen responsible for the recent endsars demonstration that took place in the country. What is not clear yet is the role some government officials play in the malfeasance. The thought is that Time will tell. The practice of criminalizing young men especially those with a certain hair style is trending. It is not just about the harassment but the mindless extortion that follows. Presently, some of these evil minded officers lay seige at Dopemu bridge in Lagos about midnight to intimidate and extort money from truck drivers who's crime is coming in and going out of Lagos as prescribed by the state's traffic law. A bridge that has neither a no truck pass sign nor an overhead barrier. How does that fit as a no truck pass bridge. That is where the government has a role. Are trucks barred from using Dopemu bridge? That however, does not grant these robbers in uniform to extort hundreds of thousands of naira from hapless and ailing businesses.

Any living human being is entitled to any belief of his choice. Threats can breed violence and no human being is immuned to the effects whether in your village or not. You probably need to go to places the drama is playing out to understand better.

This matter has nothing to do with the present case before the presidential election petition tribunal. I don't understand why too many people are in a hurry these days to play God or foresayers. Could it be as a result of the high rate of joblessness in the country or desperation to keep making money via unnecessary discussions?

The term "unknown gunmen" is no longer strange in the Nigerian lexicon. It may be a derivative of the popular "unknown soldier" according to the legendary Fela Ransome Kuti. The common denominator seems to be the destructive handiwork of the two. Currently, the south eastern states are witnessing the terror being unleashed by the now called UGM. They also appear to be sharing government functions in so many localities including the now regular Monday sit at home exercise. However, the major aim of this article is to x-ray the current tirade and subtle threats to the Igbo race by a few Yoruba leaders over the 2023 electoral choices and the manifestation of a sign of UGM in Lagos. Facts are that some Yoruba traditional rulers and motor garage touts have openly threatened the Igbo race in Lagos with death if they make it possible for a candidate other than the incumbent governor to win the gubernatorial election. The deputy governor of the state has been reported telling a gathering of Kwara indigenes not to allow their children to be "Obi supporters". Mr Segun Oshoba was reported to have cautioned Igbos to be careful with their political choices in Lagos. One Adamu Garba has also been making unguarded statements in the same direction. The executive governor himself also referred to Igbos as one of the reasons their principal lost the presidential election in Lagos. Following all these utterances are the targeted arsonist attacks on Igbo markets in Ikotun and Ajegunle. My piece is just to narrate that Lagos is building up structures that brought in the dreaded UGM in the south eastern states of Nigeria. The question will be if Lagos will survive that. Will Nigeria survive it? My humble plea is for the Yoruba leaders not go on with the current gathering of ant infested woods.

On politics today with Seun Akinbaloye, Mr Dele Alake the APC presidential candidate's media expert manifested total ignorance of the very popular political term gerrymandering. He said that Peter Obi engages in gerrymandering when answering questions. Knowing that gerrymandering is political manipulation of constituencies for electoral advantages, I really wonder the school Mr Alake and his APC folks would have attended. Or is it the same attitude of exhibition of ignorance with impunity for which they are known for?

Grass lawns and swimming pool, Yoruba culture revival? The pictures are nice. However, the purpose or purposes need to be outlined for better understanding. The next issue should be how this project fits into the present Nigeria.

It may be too early to start assessing the Chukwuma Soludo administration in Anambra state. However, my people say that ana esi na isi ahuru mara uto nsi. In other words, from the odour of a fart, you can know how sweet the feaces will be. My points: the current madness on Onitsha roads in the name of revenue generation is not only a border to decency, but also initiation of national business genocide. How can one expect any truck passing through Onitsha to pay #20,000 per day? How will it look when every state in Nigeria implements such lunatic revenue drive? Will any business in Nigeria survive such a situation? What about the fact that residents of Onitsha do not have any place to throw away refuse? Is it part of nuclear physics to evolve a simple refuse collection process which was well developed even as far back 1987 when we lived in the coal city of Enugu? Anyways I am posting the revenue receipt handed down on our truck after dangerously double cross our truck and beating the driver on the allegations that he did not stop for the touts or agberos as popularly known.

As the court pleases. And the right of appeal is still there for the convict to activate if displeased by the ruling of the honourable court.

Nigeria and Nigerians can not forget that Muhammad Buhari was directly responsible for the 2011 post election massacre of youth corp members and other patriots in the north. What was the punishment from the Jonathan administration? Probably that is partly why insecurity has gotten to it's new height in the country in fulfilment of his prediction that monkeys and baboons will be drenched in their blood. In life what you sow, you reap.

What is kassim so afraid of? A divided APC or the perception of an unsellable candidate? Kassim has been one of those who indicate an impending loser of an election. We will see whether this holds true in February 2023.

And we have a few yams to eat for the year.

The above came from a particular bag

Our experience started 2017 after some enlightenment on hydroponics. It's been rewarding and more can definitely be achieved.

crestedaguiyi:
Even the drainage has a dead end

Na so we see am oo

Can this be compared to Lagos street drains. And this is a federal highway.

Picture of the drain

I was on a trip to the East recently. On the Okigwe - Owerri road about the Mbano area We observed this drainage being constructed to help this persistently bad portion of the road. We really wonder at the engineering and whether this can solve the situation.

Whether the Efcc did a good job here will be left to posterity to determine. If they didn't have a good case, why did they proceed?

As politics and 2023 elections gather momentum, we have observed that the federal road safety commission has gathered it's momentum at the Lagos inner roads. One wonders what it is about these streets and roads for the FRSC. We remember that the ebullient Lagos state government under Ambode banished this clan to federal roads only for them to surface again under Sanwolu. We hope that Lagosians are watching as we approach 2023.

I wonder what would have happened if a Christian candidate took fake chief imams to campaign. Some people would have been burnt alive because some people think they own violence and impunity.