Mazisimonekpa: “If Buhari wins the coming election, it would take Igbo and the Southeast a minimum of 20 years or more before… producing the President of Nigeria.” Second republic politician, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has raised the alarm over the fate of the Igbo in the present political arrangement, expressing fears that the Southeast might be shut out of the presidency for the next 20 to 28 years should Muhammadu Buhari win the forthcoming general elections.
The octogenarian, who wants the people of the region to support the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, warned that the region may have none to blame, but themselves if they vote otherwise.
The elder statesman also cast a view on the forthcoming general elections, saying that the contest between Atiku and Buhari would be close in the North even as he argued that the President Buhari we have in the Aso Rock is the real Buhari and not a double as have been alleged in some quarters. Excerpts:
Ahead of the 2019 elections, what is your assessment of the political activities across the country?
My general assessment of the 2019 general elections is that it would be something like the 1964 elections, where you had two major groupings, namely UPGA comprising the NCNC, Action Group, NEPU and others and NNA made up of Northern Peoples Congress (NPC), Midwest Democratic Front (MDF) led by James Otobo, Niger Delta Peoples Congress (NDPC) led by the late Chief Dappa Biriye, Chief SLA Akintola’s Nigeria National Democratic Party (NNDP) and some others. This kind of divide is what is going to play out in the general elections. APC and their allies in the Southwest already have their candidate in the person of President Muhammadu Buhari. And the other block is the PDP, which has Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi as their candidates. This is a divide with far reaching implications. Now, if Buhari who is now looking for a second term wins the election, he would complete his second term of four years. Since his running mate is from the Southwest, the natural thing is for APC to nominate his running mate from the Southwest. The candidate of the party would then come from the Southwest, who will naturally nominate his running mate among APC supporters from the North. If they succeed in winning the elections after Buhari, whoever wins the election on APC’s platform would likely run for two terms of eight years. If you put the eight years plus Buhari’s four years, it would amount to 12 years. And that is not all. After the man from the Southwest, it is impossible for somebody on the platform of the APC to aspire to be nominated to contest election from the entire South and, therefore, the candidature would now come back to the North after the Southwest. The North, naturally, with the trend started by Obasanjo, would also like to have two terms of eight years. If you put together that eight years, plus the eight years of the Southwest and the remainder of four years for Buhari’s second tenure, that would be a total of 20 years. That would be the time that it would take for anybody from the Southeast to have an opportunity to become the President of Nigeria, if elected. That is not all. The scenario is that by the time APC candidate from the North has competed his two terms, the slot will not automatically go to the Southeast or Igbo land, it will be available for both the Southeast and South-South geopolitical zones. But if, on the other hand, PDP with Atiku and a running mate from the Southeast in the person of Peter Obi, wins the election next year, they would run the government for a maximum of eight years, that is two successful terms. And after that government of eight years, automatically the shift would go to the Southeast and the possibility is that his running mate, who is from Igbo land and from the Southeast would become the candidate for the position of the President on the ticket of the party. In other words, if Buhari wins the coming election, it would take Igbo and the Southeast a minimum of 20 years or more before they can have the possibility of producing the President of Nigeria. Therefore, PDP’s victory in next year’s elections is the surest way of giving the Igbo man the opportunity to have one of their own becoming the President of Nigeria.
The way you talked, you must have been concerned about something. What are your worries and fears? What is pushing you to go public, at this time, with this kind of insightful political calculation?
My observation is this… you know I was a member of the NPN in the Second Republic. We in the NPN then decided to adopt zoning and rotation for the country in order for power to rotate among both the majority and minority ethnic groups both in the Southern and Northern parts of the country. Had President Shagari completed his two-term tenure, the late Dr Alex Ekwueme or somebody from Igbo land would have become the next President of Nigeria in that succession. That did not happen because of the military take over in 1983. So, the idea behind NPN adopting the concept of rotation is to ensure that every region or sub-region of this country has a taste of the Presidency within the quickest possible time. Now, the Yoruba under Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has had the opportunity to run the country for two consecutive terms of eight years. The South-South has had their opportunity under President Jonathan, but unfortunately, he could not make it because of the stiff resistance from the North on power shift because they believed that Jonathan should have allowed the North to complete the two term tenure of Yar ‘Adua. Now, we are back at it again. My sincere concern is that if it would take 20 years or more for an opportunity to present itself to the Southeast to produce the President of Nigeria, and in my judgment, that would be grossly unfair to the people in the Southeast, because all along, apart from Zik who held the position of ceremonial president and the brief stop by Ironsi, the Southeast has never produced a president for Nigeria from Independence to date. That does not and would not in future augur well for the unity and solidarity of the people of this country. This is my point.
You have spoken well. One thing is to perceive a problem, but another and most important is to find the solution to the perceived problem. What, therefore, do you advise the political elements in the Southeast to do at this point in time to avert your fears?
You earlier asked me about my concern? Didn’t you? My concern is that I have seen some elements in position of influence in Igbo land thinking of their immediate interest rather than the overall interests of the Igbo as a people in Nigeria. Those of them who are complaining that the PDP candidate did not consult them and all that stuff are complaining so that they could draw the attention of the PDP candidate – probably to settle them, failure of which they would support the other side or they would remain aloof, which is the same thing as supporting the other side. This is the reason I am concerned and I feel that Igbo people and their leaders should not sacrifice their overall interests on the altar of their narrow personal ambition or interest.
The EFCC was recently alleged to have frozen some accounts belonging to the vice presidential candidate of the PDP, Peter Obi. What is your reaction to that development?
Although there are speculation that they (EFCC) have denied the report, when I first heard the story, my immediate reaction was that this combination of Atiku and Peter Obi is now making the APC and its presidential candidate quite jittery to the extent that they can see themselves losing the coming election and, therefore, they are becoming more and more desperate. I have held the view all along that the security forces and INEC, whether anybody likes it or not, would like to dance to the tune of the APC and to the tune of President Buhari because to my mind, Buhari has carefully chosen the people who would definitely not go against his interest and put them in positions of authority in our country, including in INEC. I don’t want to deal with individuals, but I know that some of the key figures at INEC are very close to President Buhari; some of them owe a favour to him because he had favoured them before – either by working under him in the PTF or by getting contracts from him under that organization. So, there is a natural feeling on their part to return this favour to Buhari. So, INEC and the some individuals in the security in the country are intentionally or otherwise skewed to support the candidature of President Buhari. If you look at this fact, some of them who have completed their time in the service, have had their tenure of service virtually extended, despite reaching the stipulated retirement age of service as provided by our law. I cannot expect such individuals to become unconcerned on a possibility of their benefactor losing power. They can hardly be neutral in such a situation. The possibility of that type of people becoming neutral in the forthcoming elections is very difficult to imagine.
But do you think that there is anything that can be done to address the issue of neutrality that you have just highlighted? The election is just weeks away?
I don’t know… I don’t know. But the question is why must we not allow the law to take their natural course? Why shouldn’t they be allowed to retire like any other public servant and enjoy the rest of their lives like their likes as stipulated by the law? The aspiration of any employee is to reach the age of retirement so that he can join his loved ones to live in peace and harmony with them without let or hindrance from any unnecessary incumbency.
Of late, your friend, Ango Abdullahi is singing a different tune about Buhari, indicating that himself and his group are not with him anymore. What do you think could have led to the sudden face-off? Is it that Ango didn’t get what he wanted from the administration or he is crusading for the Nigerian people?
Well, Ango has never been my friend. He has been my junior brother. We maintain a very cordial relationship. I don’t know what happened, but I know that Ango Abdullahi and his friend, Sani Zango Daura had been together politically for many, many years. They are age mates and I don’t know whether they went to school together. I don’t know. They came from two different old provinces – Ango from the old Zaria Province while Sani Zango Daura from the old Katsina Province. But they were very intimate friends all along. I have been reading the discordant views that are being expressed by Ango and I take note of it and I feel that even the organization that they formed and are running together from the onset, Northern Elders Forum, is now virtually divided between a group led by Ango, who is the overall chairman and a group led by his deputy, Sani Zango Daura. My belief is that either Ango has genuinely realized the mistake they made in supporting Buhari in 2015 and he is now trying to amend or the way things happened in the administration did not match his expectation. Whichever is the case, I’m not sure, but I know it is one of the two, and things are not the same.
We are faced with one interesting drama, a very funny one indeed. Is there one Buhari? Does Buhari have a double as alleged? What is your reaction?
The way people are doubled in the past is that it is not done permanently. It is only done for an occasion. You find your look-alike, and you keep him for a purpose. When the need arises, you bring him to appear on your behalf. You don’t do it permanently. You do that only occasionally.
I know that the late Fuhrer Adolf Hitler was said to be doing that. So, also the late Saddam Hussain of Iraq was also alleged to have had a double. But such doubles are only used momentarily and only appear for a moment and disappear as soon as the occasion was over. If it is done for a long time someone clever enough would discover the trick. But it is not done continuously. The double doesn’t appear all the time. He only comes out at a particular time when he is needed. The moment he serves that purpose, he goes back to where he belongs. But he cannot be on a permanent basis.
In the light of this background, how do you see this claim of a Buhari’s double?
It was just an academic exercise, a mere academic exercise. The Buhari we have is the real Buhari. I have not seen anything to convince me otherwise. This is not his replica. It is him.
There is a feeling that 2019 presidential election would be mainly a contest between Buhari and Atiku in the North. How do you size the strength of the two leading contestants in the North?
You know that this is an era of hired crowd and all that. So, I do not judge one’s political popularity based on the gatherings that appear at rallies and political occasions. Having said that, let me begin by saying that there are three important factors that helped Buhari in 2015 to win elections that year which would not be the same next year. One is the fact that he was a Moslem and his opponent was a Christian. That played a very important role particular here in the North. This is so when some Imams in their various Mosques, the Friday before the elections, had urged their respective congregations to vote for somebody who would promote interest of their religion. In other words, they were urging the people to vote for Buhari. That is factor number one. Factor number two, Buhari was a Northerner and Jonathan was a Southerner and as I said at the beginning of this interview, Northerners were itching for the North to complete the eight-year tenure of President Umaru Yar’Adua. There were a lot of people in the North who felt the region had been short-changed by Jonathan, and it was a genuine feeling. Number three, there is the factor that the Hausa-Fulani are largest ethnic group in Northern Nigeria and they have their cousins who always think and act together with them on matters of politics and other aspects of life. For instance, the Nupe people, the Igbira people, the Igala people, the Jukum people, the Camba people, Gbagi and many others. They have been together with Hausa-Fulani for 100 years, they intermarry and do things together. These three factors contributed to the success of Buhari in the North in 2015. They are not there anymore. Today, Buhari is Hausa/Fulani, his rival Atiku is Hausa/Fulani. Buhari is from the North, his rival Atiku is from the North. Buhari is a Moslem, his rival, Atiku, is a Moslem. So, the tendency is for the two of them to share the votes cast in the North, maybe somebody would get 55 per cent of these votes while the other would get 45 per cent. But the scenario would certainly not be the same as what happened in 2015. That I am very sure would happen.
Some Northern states with huge population like Kano are more favourably disposed to Buhari. Don’t you think Buhari would take advantage of this, especially when we are already hearing of claims of five million votes and 2.9 million primary election votes in favour of Buhari?
Well, I am basing my political calculation on genuine votes that would be cast by Nigerians, not on rigging or votes that would come from rigging the polls. Honestly, I fear that an attempt at rigging these would be made particularly by those who control power and resources in order win power in the coming elections. But things will not be the same as before.
But do you, like many, smell the possibility of rigging in this election?
I do.
What makes you think this election could be rigged?
Buhari could not have ensured that he has influence in INEC and in the security establishments all for nothing. I don’t know and I am not in his mind to know why he felt the need to retain some people in that area at all costs? But as a human being, I don’t think he was doing all that for nothing.
A few days ago, a number of political parties formed an alliance with the PDP ahead of the polls. Looking at this development, do you expect their alliance to be as successful as the alliance, which was formed against Jonathan in 2015?
I think that most of the parties in Nigeria have no alternative than to support Atiku and the PDP. And this is for two reasons. One, Nigeria has tested Buhari twice and Buhari has nothing to show for it. In his first coming, you cannot remember Buhari for anything apart from his notorious War Against Indiscipline (WAI). Now, he has spent more than three and half years since his election as a civilian president and there is nothing he can show for it except for some developments in dealing with Boko Haram insurgency. Even in that, the general belief is that Boko Haram has only changed their tactics by now turning their guns against the security forces instead of against the civilian population. This can be seen from the casualties inflicted by Boko Haram against the military and the police. He talks of fighting corruption, but ask yourself: How many people have been convicted? How many important personalities? I can only remember just two, Jolly Nyame and Dariye and if you remember well enough, their cases started with Obasanjo and Jonathan administrations. Their cases did not start with Buhari and if Buhari is claiming credit for these cases, he is not being fair.
But since he came to power, yes, he arrested people through EFCC, ICPC and so on, but none of them is convicted. Majority of those arrested are members of opposition parties. And interestingly, if an opposition party member is arrested the day he decamps to the APC, his case would go into limbo. The case of former Senate minority leader is a classical example. He is now a beautiful bride as Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe once said after the 1959 general elections in this country. Apart from that, Buhari administration did not suffer the kind of sabotage, which the Jonathan administration experienced.
Everybody can remember the case of diversion of huge funds approved by President Jonathan for the prosecution of the war against Boko Haram as we now know that was done by some leading members of the military high command like the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshall Alex Badey and many others and the purchase of unserviceable military equipment which retarded progress in the prosecution of the war against the Boko Haram insurgency. Well, we have only two months to the elections and let us see if some miracles would happen to change the narrative in the management of this country and if any physical change will happen between now and then. But I doubt.
Sudan has also tilted closer to Moscow in recent months. The country, where a military coup last year derailed a fragile transition to democratic rule, has concluded a big deal offering Russia a port on Africa’s eastern coast for 25 years. Eritrea – the only nation on the continent to vote against the UN motion– is a brutally repressive authoritarian state which Moscow has also wooed.
Other Russian ties across the continent are strengthened through investment in mining, financial loans and the sale of agricultural equipment or nuclear technology. Rosatom, the Russian state corporation involved with military and civil use of nuclear energy, has sought to expand in Africa in recent years. Russia was the largest arms exporter to sub-Saharan Africa in 2016–20, supplying almost a third of total sub-Saharan arms imports, up from a quarter in 2011–15, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Western officials have been particularly disappointed by Uganda, which has received huge sums of western aid. A once close relationship with the US and the UK has soured over the crushing of political dissent and western pressure to recognise LGBT rights. Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, has accused the west of interfering in domestic affairs.
Museveni’s influential son and aspirant successor, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, said on Twitter that “the majority of mankind (that are non-white) support Russia’s stand in Ukraine”.
Uganda’s UN representative said Uganda abstained from the vote on the UN resolution to protect its neutrality as the next chair of the Non-Aligned Movement, a cold war-era group of 120 member states that includes almost every African nation. However Museveni has made little effort to hide his sympathies, criticising the west’s “aggression against Africa” and describing Russia as the “centre of gravity” for the Balkans, like China in south-east Asia.
Nicholas Sengoba, a columnist with Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper, said that many authoritarian African leaders like Museveni were pleased to see Putin “stand up to the big boys in the west.” Analysts say that more recent examples of what is seen as western ‘neo-imperialism” also influences the reaction of many in Africa to the conflict.
“The 2011 Libyan crisis and the Nato intervention there, instability in the Sahel and other experiences mean that many countries buy into the wariness of western dominance and believe that we need a global counterpoint … Russia is seen as representative of the former Soviet Union in this regard,” said Singh. Reports that some African students have faced discrimination from security officials and others in Ukraine as they attempt to flee the conflict, magnified by social media, have also prompted anger in Nigeria and elsewhere.
But it is unclear how far the positions taken by often elderly leaders reflects broader sentiments, especially among younger populations. The war in Ukraine has laid bare political, social and other divides within countries, as well as among them.
In South Africa, the populist leftwing Economic Freedom Fighters praised Moscow’s action to “avert … a patent and clear security threat to Russian territory and people by Nato forces, and particularly the US”, while the centre right Democratic Alliance projected the colours of the Ukrainian flag on to the provincial parliament in Cape Town, a city it runs, and said it
joined “the global condemnation of Russia’s attack on Ukrainian civilians, mostly women and children.”
The anti-western and anti-Nato stance of some on the continent risks overshadowing the early stance against the invasion of Ukraine taken by the African Union, and the speech made by Kenya’s ambassador to the UN, Martin Kimani, who argued that as Africans had suffered imperialist violence themselves for centuries they should not condone efforts to alter or impose frontiers by force.
“It’s important to note that a majority of African nations voted in favour [of the UN resolution] and that regional and continental bodies such as the African Union or the ECOWAS [a West Africa grouping] were quite quick to condemn Moscow,” said Bax.
One recent study found that the 27 African countries that voted for the UN resolution were mostly democracies and all western allies, often actively involved in joint military operations. Most of those that abstained or, like Eritrea, voted against the resolution, were authoritarian or hybrid regimes.
Cold war echoes as African leaders resist criticising Putin’s war Many remember Moscow’s support for liberation from colonial rule, and a strong anti-imperialist feeling remains
Twelve hours after its forces attacked Ukraine last month, Russian government officials and senior soldiers in South Africa gathered at a comfortable residence in the city of Pretoria for a cocktail reception to celebrate Russian Motherland Defenders’ Day. The host was the Russian ambassador, Ilya Rogachev, and his guests included the South African minister of defence as well as the head of the country’s armed forces. Neither saw any reason to shun the gathering as many other nations’ officials did, nor to apologise afterwards. Attendance was “integral to the fulfilment of defence international affairs”, a government spokesperson said.
Support from many African leaders and governments for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine – or at least reluctance to condemn it – has dismayed western officials. At the UN general assembly resolution 17 African nations abstained – almost half all abstentions – and one voted against condemning Russia for its ‘aggression’ and demanding a withdrawal from Ukraine, though a majority of African countries gave it their backing. The resolution passed by 141 to 5.
Some observers have raised the possibility of a new strategic split across Africa, similar to that during the cold war. “It harks back to cold war days and the divisions we saw then. But … the objective reality of the international system is so different now this raises a lot of questions about some African countries’ commitment to the post-cold war order and its values,” said Priyal Singh, researcher at Institute for Strategic Studies in Pretoria. Since the ambassador’s party, the ruling African National Congress party in South Africa has doubled down on its refusal to criticise Russia, saying it hopes to remain neutral and encourage dialogue.
Some observers have raised the possibility of a new strategic split across Africa, similar to that during the cold war. “It harks back to cold war days and the divisions we saw then. But … the objective reality of the international system is so different now this raises a lot of questions about some African countries’ commitment to the post-cold war order and its values,” said Priyal Singh, researcher at Institute for Strategic Studies in Pretoria. Since the ambassador’s party, the ruling African National Congress party in South Africa has doubled down on its refusal to criticise Russia, saying it hopes to remain neutral and encourage dialogue.
Others on the continent have followed a similar line, calling for peace but blaming Nato’s eastward expansion for the war, complaining of western “double standards” and resisting all calls to criticise Russia. That the new divide looks like the one which split Africa decades ago is no coincidence. Many countries across the continent are still ruled by parties that were supported by Moscow during their struggles for liberation from colonial or white supremacist rule, analysts say. Though few among their youthful populations experienced the bitter battles of the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s, leaders of ruling parties in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola and Mozambique remember how Soviet weapons, cash and advisers helped win freedom. Emmerson Mnangagwa, the president of Zimbabwe, has described both Russia and China as “dependable pillars for many years” which “assisted us in our fight for independence, but equally … to defend our sovereignty against the sustained onslaught by our detractors,” a reference to western sanctions on Zimbabwe, imposed after human rights abuses under the regime of Robert Mugabe.
Mozambique also abstained at the UN, arguing like others that it hoped to encourage dialogue to resolve the violence. So too did Algeria, once seen as a “revolutionary” state close to Moscow. In recent years Russia has moved to exploit such historic links, underlining ties in public statements, at big conferences and on repeated trips across Africa by foreign minster Sergei Lavrov. Moscow has also pushed its agenda through covert social media networks which portray Moscow as on the side of Africans against western “imperialists”.
Such efforts have focused on unstable parts of Africa, which Moscow sees as a fertile ground for intervention, and have reaped significant rewards in places like Central African Republic and Mali, where resentment of former colonial power France already ran deep. “In the Sahel there is a strong anti-western feeling, an anti-imperialist tendency in public opinion and anti-imperialist means anti-US and the west,” said Pauline Bax, deputy director of the Africa Programme at the International Crisis Group. Mali has recently renewed ties with Moscow after a military takeover there, and the country’s new rulers have called in paramilitary mercenaries linked to the Kremlin to fight Islamic insurgents as French and other western troops withdraw. The Wagner group is run by a businessman who is a close associate of President Putin and is now thought to be present in at least six African countries, including the CAR and Sudan which both abstained at the UN. Boris Johnson announced sanctions against Wagner on Thursday.
obiekunie01: ANY IGBO MAN FEELING HE OR SHE IS PART OF ONE NAIJEERIA, THAT PERSON IS LIVING IN FOOLS PARADISE! WHAT I HONESTLY DON'T UNDERSTAND IS WHY THIS COUNTRY JUST REFUSE TO HAVE A PEACEFUL EXIT OF THE IGBOS!
WHY ARE THEY BEING FORCED TO BE PART OF YOUR CONTRAPTION WHN YOU HATE THEM SOOOOO DEEPLY?
JUST LET THEM EXIT PEACEFULLY.
Ask Britain and its allies.We can beg Emperor Putin to help us divide Nigeria.
The Somalia Battalion of the Donetsk People's Republic has raised its flag over the Kalmius district local authority building in Mariupol, as seen in footage filmed on Sunday, March 27.
The city has seen some of the fiercest fighting since the conflict began more than a month ago, with fighting occurring the Kalmius district, Mariupol's northernmost district, recently.
DaInferno: I wonder why this Tinubus ambition is creating such a buzz.
Or are people falling back to him out of tribalism or I don't really get. They've shown yall how he uses bullion vans without question, not to mention his health. Like what is it with this man, what betterment could he possibly bring to Nigeria, gosh! Yar'adua remains the best thing that ever happened to 9ja.
Wait fir the second coming of your Yaradua till Jesus comes.
After the mess Yoruba up at the campaign.. this shameless humans still get mouth
Yoruba got secretary and youth leader and all this lies are coming from where please?
Thought Yoruba people said .. NO BUNI NO CONSENSUS AND WENT YO QUE LIKE HUMANS WITHOUT CHOICE
so how is that Tinubu wining?
Is it not the party chairman that runs the party abi Na secretary and youth leader ?
Yoruba sef .. they no like reality everyone saw with their two eyes
They don twist am
How 70 percent delegate like Tinubu
And which Northern elites .. try very ones that hate Tinubu with passion
Do you even understand “ elites “ or you think say Na this Alfa’s wey chip money
And which party of the North is Tinubu making waves
Yoruba pls tell us
Let know the part
Igbo promote your Peter Pandora.No get heart attack or die on top Yoruba matter.We dont need to be judged by Igbo’s moral compass.Do your own,I do my own,the sky is wide enough for all birds to fly without colliding with each other.
On Tuesday, Africa's richest person, Aliko Dangote, opened in Nigeria the continent's largest fertilizer plant. Demand is already knocking at the door.
"People are begging us to sell," Dangote told CNN on Tuesday.
Sitting on 500 hectares (1,235 acres) of land on the outskirts of Lagos, the $2.5 billion fertilizer plant has an initial annual production capacity of 3 million metric tons of urea fertilizer, according to information on the Dangote Group's website.
The opening of the Dangote Fertiliser Plant came amid a supply crunch in crop fertilizers due to sanctions against Russia, which accounted for almost one-fifth of fertilizer exports in 2021, according to Trade Data Monitor and Bloomberg's Green Markets. Russia is also a top exporter in key fertilizer ingredients such as urea, ammonia, and potash, according to the trade outlet Argus Media.
The supply strain has sent fertilizer prices soaring, with Bloomberg's Green Markets North America Fertilizer Price Index surging to record highs. This, in turn, is expected to feed into already soaring food prices.
"We are lucky to have this plant," Dangote told CNN. "It is coming at the right time with the Ukraine-Russia conflict as both Ukraine and Russia control substantial amounts of agricultural inputs."
Dangote's fertilizer plant is already shipping to the US, Brazil, and India, CNN reported, citing the billionaire.
Dangote, 64, is the 80th-richest person, with a net worth of $20 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Dangote Group, which he founded, is the second-largest employer in Nigeria after the government, the country's Vanguard News outlet reported recently, citing the Nigerian president.
The Dangote Fertiliser Plant is expected to create 5,000 direct and indirect jobs, Vanguard News reported, citing a government official.
Amid the war in Ukraine, resource-rich African economies are tipped to benefit from sweeping sanctions against Russia, the third-largest oil producer.
"As the European Union and the United States impose sanctions to deny Russia access to European oil and gas markets, oil-producing African countries could seize on the opportunity," Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, the director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in a recent note. Oil companies may also expand prospecting operations on the continent, he added.
RacistProudIgbo: Lagos as a Christian state need to retain this man so that Yoruba muslims won't mine innocent Igbo skulls in Lagos.
Werey how many nyanmrin skulls did fashola mine as govenor?The ritual epidemic in South west increase due to nyanmrin migration to the west because na una dey eat human meat like your brother Clifford Orji under bridge.
DonroxyII: African Parents will just transfer the demonic Frustrations and Depressions inside of them unto their children who is also Genetically suffering the same consequences. A stubborn mother will have a stubborn daughter.
What she would have done was to ask her to come in, Change cloth and take her for a Drive into the next restaurant far from Home: Then Have Heart2Heart talk. Something(Darkish) must have provoked her mentally to go ballistic on clothes like that usually from school(Boys/Girls) then such must be elicited from Her. But You went Ballistic too (Genetic Right there) like Mother like Daughter .... Na weyrey dem take dey solve weyrey in their House: Daughter goes Frenzy(Genetic: Stubbornness): Mother went wild(Genetic:Stubbornness): Police beg, beg she no gree, She warned warned her daughter she no gree : That's the Genetic Disorder right there: STUBBORNNESS she only took after Her Mother and The Mum didn't know ...
But she will never tell You what provoked her unless you come into her world, Show her you feel what she is feeling, You once passed through same and how you come out.... Then She will go Sober and Cry. Apologise and would never give a Damn about trying to proof a point to any Damn soul again in School or at Home:
Her Successes will become Sancrosanct nothing else will matter and you would have become Her best friend for all the campus Gists.
Anytime she remember how you spread her out inside that cold and call police on her and made her the Joke of the Resident: That's Future Stories You will hear from Her after she developed thick skin against You.
I think A Course should be created across universities all over the world on Child Management which must be compulsory for all couples. That's the newest evolution in the world.
Cc: KanwuliaExtra
No vex me abeg o-o.... I never born self neither Married so I might never understand the practicals. But theoretically this will work because I have helped nurtured 5 of My Families Teenagers through University and the Only way I was able to take them all off the street was making them my friend.
I even had to smoke marijuana with one before I stopped him from smoking Kush. I landed in the hospital after some overdoze myself and we both quit. He is a Bigboy now as an Officer telling all Hears I raised him. My Joy is Boundless. He just keep spoiling me with Monies and the remaining four(4) will not make a huge Decision without asking for My Input. We are all Friends now:
So be a Friend with You Daughter before devil snatch her away. No vex Ma.
The problem with us all is that, If You can't manage yourself, You can't manage others:
A madman can't heal a Madman: One has to be Sane for the other to take a Cue on How Sanity Works
The Essence is for her to Understand in her own language not Your own language. You have to speak in her language as if You are part of Her class and clique: Then Gradually rise her brain above the Evils in that Clique ... then You will become her Saviour not the one who Shame Her: You are Wrong in Your Approach as You only wants to Proof to the World but Never to Your Daughter.
The Essence is for you to show her how to behave when faced with Challenges when Far from You: How not to Succumb to the World and trust me Weyrey(Madness) from both of you won't stop that because she will only have to wait till she can be away from You and She will do more than You bargained for. You would have failed as a Parent.
No vex again, I just wanna help a little: I full Ground for Nigeria so I don't understand how The System works overthere but I don't use cane: I just enter into their Brain(With Reverse Pyschology) and Write what I want therein and Come out again with the door shut. Let them Process the rest and ask Questions: You would have influenced and Possessed them:
She will tell you before she even have Sex then gradually you manage the Obsessions therefrom so as to deliver her safely to Her Husband before somebody started calling you and asking you Shey two Maggie no go be too much for 1kg fish !
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Thumbs up.Good submission.Our style of parenting in Nigeria had only created monsters and demons and we now wonder why the society and the leaders lack empathy for others.The root cause is inflicting pains and violence.
cutecommend: Tinubu is one of the strong persons with presidential ambition, but we have some men who can stop his goal from fulfilment, no matter the tactics he uses, except God is really for him.
(1) Buhari: If Buhari does not want Tinubu as president, he should just forget the presidency. It will be very difficult for Tinubu, but if Buhari is on Tinubu's side, then Tinubu has chances.
(2) Babangida: If Babangida speaks to the northern elders and powerful northerners not to allow Tinubu in, Tinubu will find it hard to be a president.
(3) Obasanjo: If Obasanjo is against Tinubu, that may hamper his plan.
(4) Goodluck Jonathan: If Goodluck decides to contest, he has potency to beat Tinubu. Jonathan has advantages. (1) He has only one term to fulfill, which may be a good thing for the north (2) He has been friendly to Buhari.
(6) Mamman Daura: This is Buhari's relative. If this man is strongly against Tinubu, it may be a very tough one for Tinubu.
(7) Cabals: The northern Cabals. If these people are totally against Tinubu, Tinubu may never win presidency.
None of them matter,they are gate keepers for the real rulers.The annointed rulers of Nigeria are the US and NATO.Only them choose the suited Nigerian vassal leader.
babajeje123: See, this heart to heart talk doesn't work most time here. I have a 3 year old girl that will be running around and rolling on the floor everyday each day we arrive her school. I have talked and talked without any change. Aunty borrowed herself brain the day I took a small stick from the floor and I told her in yoruba that I will whip her.
Did you find out if she was being bullied/abused at school or find out the reason for always running or rolling on the floor everyday at the school? Canning only makes children internalize pains and sufferings,you are already breaking the bond between you and your child.Sometimes we overlook children’s reaction till the problem turns into a different dimension
You will wonder where the disciplined children of yesterday became cultists who dont have human feelings anymore.Pain and violence is part of the Nigerian discipline system.Violence only breeds contempt,Stockholm Syndrome and Narcissicism.
We are not on the slave plantation where white masters flog slaves.Our children are not slaves to be beaten/maimed but our precious mini me to be guided with love,attention and utmost care.
KanwuliaBaby: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR CHILDREN CALL THE POLICE ON JHOOOOO!
6. Ok! You have posted bail and you are back with the kids who sent you to JAIL! You still have to take care of them-hahahahaha
You have no job, you can’t pay your bills AND YOU NEED A GOOOOOOD DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ATTORNEY!
What do you do? Your court date is 6 months away. The bills are piling up, no help from ANYONE- your savings fastly drying up. You consult several attorneys and they are charging $1500 - $3500 to represent you. CHECK THE REVIEWS OF ALL THE ATTORNEYS BEFORE YOU HIRE ONE. CHEAPEST IS NEVER THE BEST!✅
Depression sets in!
Chi-Ching! Kasala Don Busssssss!✅
Dont they have legal aid council in the US providimg legal services to low income families?Every country has this even Nigeria.
KanwuliaExtra: I personally went through a similar experience with one of my daughters. She loved to dress provocatively at THIRTEEN!
One day she wore this:: I appealed to her nicely that it was 42 degrees outside and she had to change this outfit it I would drive her to school.
She refused and did not take her to school. I don’t know how she got to school.
When she returned, I told her she could not enter my house o. I RIPPED THE SKIRT OFF HER ARSE RIGHT THERE BY THE MAILBOX with only her UNDERWEAR on her and locked her OUT OF MY HOUSE. She stayed in the garage and told her she should only come in to use the bathroom.She called the police and told them I was freezing her outside.
OMO!
See SWAT TEAM for front of my house?
There were TEN of them in 6 police vehicles. They told me I MUST LET HER INTO THE HOUSE. because it was too cold! I refused. I told them it was her punishment for disobedience and she is locked out of my house for 4 hours.
I provided her with a space heater, some clothes, a pillow and blankets to SLEEP on the floor!
The police told me she had EVERY RIGHT to be inside the house. I told them to have me arrested if I was breaking any law.
The useless white cops left! Imagine the embarrassment in front of ALL the neighbors? My husband was SPEECHLESS!
That was unfair and unnecessary exposure to harm.Why dehumanise your own daughter? What if she developed pneumonia or got raped that is how she would have turned to a street girl. Parents raising their children fails to understand these children are peer pressured in schools and the environmemt they find themselves.All you needed to do was have a heart to heart talk with her not master/slave relationship most Nigerian parents have with their children.Africans parents only thrive in destroying their erring children not correct them in love and kindness. I will never treat my daughter like that.
logicalman: Akin okay oduyemi and his group made up of people whose mothers are of Igbo descent have declared yesterday at surulere lagos that they are in full support of having a president from Igbo extraction
Akin advised Yorubas to stand with Igbos in their quest to produce Nigerian president come 2023 . He further advise Yoruba presidential aspirants to step down and give their support to any credible candidate from Igbo land that will change the fortune of this country.He said as ọmọ ọmọbinrin wa ,I have talked with Igbo intelligentsia and they are of the opinion that most of our politicians are inconsiderate and selfish and their assertions are not far from the truth. Akin praised Afenifere for their stand and enjoined Other Yorubas to toll the same line.
Power is not given on a platter of gold.All the Southern tribes should come out to contest Edo,Urhobo,Itsekiri,Ijaw,Efik Ibibio,Yoruba,Igbo,Igala.The more the merrier. Let the strongest candidate or the last man standing win.
No matter what happens, never allow non Yorubas to tell Yorubas how to get rid of your leaders in Yorubaland. It is an ancient technique of internal colonialism and overthrow of indigenous power structure.
No matter how bad it may seem, the indigenous people must change their own leaders and orchestrate their own revolution. The Fulanis told the Hausas that their Habe kings were corrupt. They joined the Fulanis to destroy their own kings and the Fulanis used that opportunity to take over Hausa civilization and leadership. The Fulanis told Afonja and some Yorubas in Ilorin that Alaafin was corrupt, they used that opportunity to use Afonja as stepping stone to seize Ilorin power structure.
Arabs also used the same technique to seize power in Gibraltar and Iberian peninsula.
Non Yorubas have no right to demand for revolution or leadership changes in Yorubaland. Go back to your ancestral space to ask for such. Let YORUBAS deal with their leaders themselves.
Leo10000: Ah ah Na today you know : Na ashawo everybody go put for house last last Na only girls wey no get assets no dey do runs and e dey pain them sef say dem self no get wetin other girls dey use do occupation,if not, all of them for dey use body collect money ni oo. If your girl manage get ass wey shoot out la san with small orange for front,I fit bet my balls say she dey run one or two
No be fellow men turn them to ashewos so una must wife ashewo wether una like it or not.You cant plant Spinach and expect to harvest Okra that is hypocrisy. Ashana men for ashewo women,virgin Men for virgin women.
Politics › Re: Throwback: You Won’t Get Presidency In Next 20 Years If APC Wins In 2019 by cocolacec(m): 3:24pm On Mar 30, 2022
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