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Jakpon: Shut the fvck up.

Osun state's IGR was omitted for the period under review same as Delta, Cross river, Ogun etc.

What do you make of a sleepy state like Kwara that has an IGR of 13.8 Billion while anambra, your acclaimed pride of the east has a meagre 8.7 billion

Kwara state is at least 6 times bigger than Anambra yet they are rubbing shoulders in IGR, don't you have shame?
I thought you guys said land mass was everything.

Abia's IGR is more than double that of Enugu.
The title of the article is wrong.

ISpiksDaTroof: This is a bloody lie from the pit of hell, and today I promise you this: GOODLUCK EBERE JONATHAN WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT COME FEBRUARY 15, 2015! Neither State nor Justice (Depts.) has Nigeria blacklisted from legal Arms purchases. What we have been against from jump were the illegalities involved in their procurement and transactions. To blame the United States for this scandal is to admit what we have thought all along: THIS CORRUPT NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT HAS A HAND IN THE INSURGENCY AND HAS A LOT TO ANSWER!!!

If Nigeria pushes, we will push back. Theres a lot to be revealed and I think its about time this evil group of people leading Nigeria to the abyss are put to shame once and for all.

Foolish Yoruba Ape forming Americana.
LWKM!

Billyonaire: You need a hand book on warfare and containment of insurgents my good friend. It's quite easy when we are armed with keyboard, fast internet and a laptop to criticize the methodologies of soldiers who sleep in bushes under rain and bites of mosquitoes.

Tell me; How possible is it to defeat some suicidal killers whose gain is dying with others who love their lives and have a family they pray to return to ? Pray tell me, how easy is it to know that the 16yrs old you see with Nike T-shirt is a Boko Haram member ? Pray Tell me, that the entire villages have been vacated by civilians and only Boko Haram members sit there, so that the soldiers can just bombard everywhere.

Sometimes, its good to put on our thinking caps and shut the hell up instead criticizing the very people who fight to keep the rest of us safe.

Aluta Continua, Victoria Aceta!

We were hearing the same flimsy excuses when they were isolated in a forest before they kidnapped a group of girls now use as shield, they moved on control 25 towns and we are still hearing the same excuses.
They are sitting back defending Konduga form barrage of attacks, boko haram will only get wiser with each battle and will finally find a way to penetrate that place if the army continues like this. They win a battle and then go into town to celebrate, boko haram can penetrate while they are busy celebrating their successful ''defence'' in Maiduguri. Maiduguri might not be too far from falling.
Let us see how far we'll go with this defensive tactic.

egift: OP, who is TAN? Is it the same sycophants who are campaigning when they is an existing ebargo against all political campaign by INEC?

He ran away from presidential debate for not getting Expo
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HoldHeld a shameless counter with dbanj
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It was a disgrace, he went ahead to debated himself
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Are you drunk or just plain illiterate?

The men of Ogun State police command attached to Ayetoro Division on Monday arrested a 25-year-old man, Kayode Akanni, of Pedepo Village in Ayetoro for defiling a 3-year-old girl. The suspect was said to have tricked the victim into his room, before he defiled her, injuring her in her private part. The command spokesman, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, said it was the injuries inflicted on the girl that exposed Akanni. This, he said, made her parents to report the matter to the police and the suspect was promptly arrested. The suspect, he added, has confessed to the crime. He said, “During police interrogation, it was discovered that the suspect tricked the young and innocent girl into his room by telling her to bring to him a bunch of key outside the room. “It was after that he had unlawful carnal knowledge of the baby. “The suspect has confessed to the crime,while the victim has been taken to hospital for treatment.” Adejobi said the commissioner of police, Mr. Ikemefuna Okoye, has ordered the case be transferred to the Department of Criminal Investigation Eleweran, Abeokuta for thorough investigation. Adejobi said the command would carry out thorough investigation and perfect prosecution of the matter, as such would debar people from engaging in such barbaric act.
www.punchng.com/news/ogun-police-arrest-man-for-defiling-3-year-old-girl/

Vessi: The Scotts have fought the UK hard for their independence in recent years now and it's yielding.
What has Biafrans done post civil-war to gain freedom?

This is more than just Biafra, maybe you need to read the article again.
How did Scotland fight the UK and how is it different form what all the sepratist groups in Africa are doing?

Billyonaire: Its predictable. In every fight, when one is bitten black and blue, he throws blows blindly with balloony emotion. This is the beginning of the end of Boko Haram as we know it. For those saying the NA is defensive, Yes, thats the sane approach cos Boko Haram can only show itself by attacking, cos there are largely not in uniforms and can largely be determined after firing a shot. SitRep opines that the entire 4 units of Boko Haram are co-operating in this attack, and Insha Allah, we will defeat these Islamists.

There is no excuse for our army being defensive and allowing boko haram to take the initiative.
They have moved out from Sambisa forest and are now occupying towns and villages, no single soldier of ours can step foot in Bama or Gwoza right now, isn't that a shame?
So basically, you are saying if boko haram stops attacking and decides to make do with the towns and villages they already have, they will be left alone?
If our army keeps sitting back and waiting for boko haram to attack, there will be no end to this war.
Truth

gregg2: [size=13pt]I see the APC getting jittery hereoooo . . .[/size]

That group is a thorn on the flesh of APC. You only need to look at the way their leaders and their internet plebs lament about the group all the time.
LIE Mohammed should take up the challenge or shut up forever.

https://static.today.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/laimoha.jpgThe Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN),
Wednesday, said that rather than organise a rally in the North East which is slated for this week Saturday, it would instead put in place a prayer session for Nigeria because of the security challenge following the activities of members of Boko Haram. According to TAN in a statement by its Director of Communications, Udenta O. Udenta, top clerics from the two main religions in the country, Christianity and Islam from within and outside the zone would
be mobilized to Gombe, the Gombe state capital for prayers to God to put an end to the problem, according to report from Vanguard Meanwhile, Udenta O. Udenta has challenged the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC to a public debate where they would face each other and brainstorm on national issues, adding, “Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria,
TAN after due consideration of the developments in the polity as it relates to the continued deliberate misconception of the its activities and the mindless attacks on it, has on Wednesday challenged the main opposition party All Progressive Congress APC’s spokesman Alhaji Lai Mohammed to a public
debate with its spokes person Dr. Udenta . o. Udenta to discuss issues of national importance According to TAN, the challenge has become imperative to lay to rest the opposition party’s bell arching over the ongoing nationwide rallies of TAN, adding, ” the debate is to enable the two bodies, APC and TAN present to the public their various
positions on raging political issues for their discernment. TAN said that as an advocacy group it would not shy away from its responsibilities just because some political nihilists are intent on sowing chaos and disorder in the polity. “The feedback from TAN monitoring system shows that Majority of Nigerians are happy with our activities going by the turn out and enthusiasm that greeted four out of our scheduled six zonal rallies. “The zonal rally scheduled for the North East this
Saturday will take a unique shape different from the previous ones to reflect the prevailing situation in the troubled zone. The Saturday rally, the statement continued will be more of a prayer session for peace to return to the zone and indeed Nigeria. “Top clerics from the two main religions in the country, Christianity and Islam from within and outside the zone would be mobilized to Gombe, the Gombe state capital for supplications to our creator
for an end to the hostilities, prayer for members of the nation’s armed forces who are putting their lives in the line of fire to keep the nation safe, and distribution of relief materials to victims of terrorism and other internally displaced persons.”
www.today.ng/news/nigeria-2015-tan-opts-for-prayers-in-north-east-challenges-lai-mohammed-to-a-public-debate/

Our Army cannot continue to ve defensive, take this war to boko haram, wipe them off from every village and town the occupy, chase them all the way to Sambisa and wipe them off from every square meter of that forest.
Anything other than that is not acceptable

These guys seriously feel like Africans are still slaves to them, just check out the arrogance.
So Scottish people can gate a referendum to decide their fate but African groups will not be allowed by the so called western powers to do the same because of flimsy reasons?

Busybody Yoruba man.
The day boko haram blasted Lagos, they suddenly lost their voices.
So Nigeria should end every deal with Israel because some useless Muslims do not like them?
Hahaha

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Many African countries have secessionist
movements, partly because their borders were
drawn up by colonial powers in the 19th
Century. Will the Scottish referendum lead to a
greater push for independence on the
continent?
In one of the few referendums on sovereignty to be held in Africa, in 1961, the people of the British colony of Southern Cameroon voted to join the French territory of Cameroun, while the separate territory of Northern Cameroon opted to join Nigeria. More than half a century later, some English- speaking Cameroonians want independence, saying they face discrimination by the French- speaking majority. "The conspiracy between the UK and France denied us the option of independence. Now, the British are being haunted here," independence campaigner Emmanuel Akwanga told the BBC.
'Enemy of your enemy' "
They are all Anglo-Saxon, but the Scottish are
having their own referendum with an in/out
option. Why can't we?" But analysts say there is unlikely to be a "domino effect" of independence referendums across Africa.
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"The international community has no appetite to rearrange boundaries. It will be an endless
process," says Paulo Gorjao, director of the
Portuguese Institute for International Relations and Security. Mr Gorjao argues that Africa's myriad secessionist movements are weaker now then during the Cold War, when they relied heavily on the support of either Western powers or the former Soviet bloc.
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The Polisario Front's demand for independence is rejected by Morocco
"Now, none of the major players support a faction against the government," Mr Gorjao told the BBC. Expressing a similar view, Berny Sebe, a lecturer in colonial and post-colonial studies at the University of Birmingham in the UK, says the Polisario Front (PF) is a good example of a movement which has suffered as a result of the new international dynamics.
Africans make up a paltry 0.6% of Scotland's 5.3 million-strong population. But as the referendum is a tight race, their vote - along with that of other minorities - could influence the outcome. Many Africans are as passionate about the referendum as the native Scottish. On Monday, a pro-independence rally was held in Glasgow's Calabash restaurant, a popular hang-out among Africans. My impression is that many Africans will vote for
independence. They believe Scotland has more
favourable policies towards immigrants - for
instance, a student can stay here longer than in England after graduating. They also draw parallels with Africa, arguing that just as British rule ended there in the 1960s, it has to end in Scotland. But others disagree, saying that "petty nationalism" lies at the heart of the campaign for Scottish independence. They believe it will set a dangerous precedent, and encourage separatist groups in Africa to step up their campaigns for independence. They also argue that being part of the UK benefits
them economically as they can go to England to look for jobs - something that may become difficult if Scotland splits from the rest of the country. The PF received strong Algerian and Soviet support in its campaign to press Morocco to give the Saharawi people their own homeland, while Morocco was backed by the US and France as it resisted their demands. "Geo-politics in the region has changed. With the end of the Cold War, it is no longer critical to support the enemy of your enemy," Mr Sebe told the BBC.
While in Angola, the end of the civil war between the MPLA government and the Unita rebel group led to a decline in support for the Flec movement, which has been fighting for three decades for the independence of the oil-rich Cabinda strip, which is physically separate from the rest Angola, Mr Gorjao says. "People realise it's a lost cause. Everyone is benefiting from the stability of the last 10 years.
People are living better, despite the corruption," he adds.
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Demands for the creation of Biafra state are still heard in south-east Nigeria
As African countries emerged from colonial
empires, the Organisation of African Union (OAU), now the African Union (AU), agreed in 1963 to accept the existing boundaries in order to avoid border wars between newly independent states. "This has been mostly respected, and even when there were territorial disputes, they often stemmed from conflicting arrangements between rival colonial powers, like the conflict between Libya and Chad in the 1970s and 1980s," Mr Sebe says. Mr Gorjao says referendums to change colonial boundaries have been the exception rather than the rule in Africa, and he does not expect any to be held in the foreseeable future. "It doesn't make sense to hold referendums. It will open a Pandora's box," he says.
'Messy divorces'
Only two internationally-recognised states have emerged in post-independent Africa - Eritrea, which voted to break away from Ethiopia in 1993 and South Sudan, which split from Sudan in 2011 after a referendum backed by the United Nations (UN) and AU. In both instances, the splits were messy - Eritrea and Ethiopia fought a border war between 1998 and 2000, which left some 70,000 people dead.
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Similarly, South Sudan's boundary with Sudan has not yet been clearly demarcated, and both sides have accused the other of cross-border incursions. South Sudan has also faced internal conflicts - the most serious one the battle between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar. The fighting, which broke out in December, has forced more than two million people to flee their homes. Martin Ewi, an analyst with the South African
Institute for Security Studies, says the crisis facing South Sudan may have harmed the cause of independence movements elsewhere on the continent. "I don't think people will want to see new states emerging and heading in that direction," he says.
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Citing the case of Cameroon, he argues that its
secessionist movement is "dying every day". This is because ethnic affiliations cut across internal boundaries and are stronger than "Anglophone or Francophone nationalism", says Mr Ewi, who is a Cameroonian.
Furthermore, President Paul Biya's government has made efforts to address the grievances of English- speaking Cameroonians, Mr Ewi argues. "Having travelled around the country, I don't see a fundamental difference in development [between former British and French-controlled areas]," Mr Ewi told the BBC. "When it comes to education, there were only
French-speaking universities in the past but that argument no longer holds. Today, we have English- speaking universities," he adds.
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The emergence of militant Islamist group has raised concerns about creating new states
However, Mr Akwanga, who seeks independence
for English-speaking Cameroon, disagrees. He argues that as many African governments are
repressive, only international pressure will force
them to hold referendums. "In Paul Biya's Cameroon, no party similar to the
SNP will be allowed to win an election," Mr
Akwanga says. On the other side of the continent, some residents of the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar are following the Scottish referendum, hoping for something similar to determine its relationship with mainland Tanzania, says the BBC Aboubakar Famau, who is on the island.
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People in Zanzibar are hoping that their relationship with the mainland will be reviewed
Once a British protectorate, Zanzibar became part of Tanganyika in 1964, forming the United Republic of Tanzania. Although it is already a semi-autonomous territory with its own parliament and president, many people in Zanzibar believe it gets a raw deal and are pushing for more powers or outright independence. The Tanzanian government has agreed to review the constitution in an attempt to address their grievances.
In Nigeria, the military brutally crushed efforts to create the breakaway state of Biafra in the south- east in 1967, seven years after Nigeria won its independence from Britain. Some 50 years later, "secessionist demands are never too far from the surface" in Africa's most Populous state, which is heavily divided along
ethnic and religious lines, says Mannir Dan Ali,
editor of Nigeria's Daily Trust newspaper. "Currently, all the regions are suspicious of the real intention of the other," he told the BBC. 'Artificial country'
"However, at sober moments, most people agree that Nigerians need each other and it is only in one Nigeria that you will have the numbers and the variety of resources to become an important country that could satisfy the yearnings of more if its citizens." Mr Sebe argues that the emergence of militant
Islamist groups like Nigeria's Boko Haram reduces the chances of foreign powers supporting the creation of potentially failed or shaky states where jihadis could operate freely. "Nigeria is an artificial country formed as a result of British imperial activity. There is a distinct possibility
of more devolution, but I don't see its unity under threat in the current circumstances," he told the BBC.

He says in Africa, Libya faces the biggest threat of disintegrating as rival militias battle for power following the overthrow of long-serving ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. "Unfortunately, it is quite similar to Somalia in the 1990s, where the world witnessed the gradual decomposition of the state," Mr Sebe says. Since long-server ruler Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991, several self-governing territories have emerged from Somalia, but none are internationally recognised. No effective central government exists in Libya
either, with militias, split along ideological, regional and ethnic lines, fighting for territorial control. In the east, regional leaders declared autonomy, calling the area Cyrenaica - a name which harks back to the 1950s when Libya's regions enjoyed federal power. Mr Sebe says the resolution of the conflict in Libya will require the concerted effort of Western and
Arab states, but their attention is currently focused on Iraq and Syria, raising the risk that its disintegration will continue. But overall, most African states are more stable and
democratic now - and there are stronger links
between different ethnic groups - than in the
period immediately after independence,analysts say. This is another reason why we are unlikely to see more African countries breaking apart in the near future.
www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29209741?

BOAR: Why are you easy to get into fit of anger, you should attend anger management classes. You resort to insults the way a kid does.

If you can celebrate Ojukwu that took you to war as Biafrans, why can't others celebrate a Nigerian General that fought on behalf of Nigerians.

Clean yourself of bigotry.

Clean yourself of hypocrisy man, it is disgusting.
Go and read my posts over and over again.
My only interest you is to expose you and your likes for all to see.
I am done.

ifekemmie: Nairalanders...kindly confirm.

If true then it seems BH are trying very hard to remain relevant.

They shall be swept off the face of the earth soon to be reunited with the 72 virgins.


Amen. Confirmed!

They are not trying to remain relevant, they are actually getting more relevant. They have moved from inhabiting in forests to living in towns and villages, yet you guys feel we are defeating them. How laughable.

BOAR: If you can escape from your bigotry, you will see that Adekunle was against anything that will break Nigeria.

Ojukwu and your other heroes are not different from Shekau, same ideology of breaking Nigeria and forming different nations.

Are you saying if it was the Nigerian military that bombed and opened fire on these innocent people to prevent the disintegration of Nigeria by boko haram, you would have celebrated it?
You are a foolish hypocrite, the fact remains that he killed a lot of innocent people ''things that moved and didn't move'' and you celeberated it. You have absolutely no moral justification to criticise those who don't care about the deaths in the north. Yours is far worse, they 'don't care'', while you actively celebrate.
You guys are the worst hypocrites on earth.

BOAR: The people that even clicked the LIKE button on that comment are even more pathetic!

How did we get to this point as a nation, where people have no empathy for innocent victims of this BH madness?

The same useless and Idiotic Yoruba hypocrite who was celebrating Adekunle's murder of mostly women and children few minutes, few hours and few days ago.
You guys are shocking!

Ozonna: As our military starts recording victories against the insurgents at the war front, these vile creatures will have no option but to resort to attacks like this and suicide bombing. They're now desperate.

The intelligence community (DMI, SSS, etc) and the police should rise to the occasion. In cases like this instead of waiting for the army to respond because they're obviously being overstretched at this moment, our MOPOL should've been the first line of defence.

RIP to the dead

I have read this nonsense so many times on this thread, what exact victories are our military recording? These guys were isolated in Sambisa forest but now they control towns and villages installing emirs, hoisting flags etc. Yet you guys think we are recording victories against them because they have failed at 2 attempts to take over Maiduguri? When will our military first chase them out of Gwoza, Bama and other towns and villages before we talk about the almighty Sambisa forest?
You guys have no idea what we are in for.

mrham03: keep deceiving yourself. Have u not heard of ghana's atuabo gas project. Its ready to use. it will rid us nigeria's poisonous gas.

Petrodullard has been telling us about this gas project for years now. You keep shifting the completion date.
Your country is fûcked yet you guys come here to talk about power failure in Nigeria.

JiggamanGh: That's the price of dealing with a failed country like Nigeria. They don't understand the word contract.

Go and read the highlighted parts of the opening post, your country is dealing with serious darkness with or without gas from Nigeria.
You cannot provide elctricity for less than 20 million people, what a shame.

V0lv0: Lol where is collynzo the buffoon? This coon is always creating topics then disappearing. Coward

Collynzo the Chief slayer of Gayna on Nairaland a coward?
Didn't you notice how fellow Gaynaian warriors were trembling just at the sight of my username alone?
I have left an indelible mark in your psyches

Individuals and businesses should brace themselves up for more power outages in the coming days, following the decision of the Nigerian authorities to stop gas supplies to Ghana. The decision, which took effect from yesterday, followed labour unrest in Nigeria. “The Nigerian authorities communicated this bad news to us this afternoon. We are working out emergency measures to forestall adverse effects on individuals and industry,” a highly placed source at the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum told the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday. “What the stoppage of gas flow to Ghana means is that the Asogli Power Plant will shut down because it runs only on gas,” it said. The Asogli Power Plant was augmenting Ghana’s energy needs with an average of 180 megawatts (MW). “This is certainly not good because other power plants are operating below capacity due to maintenance schedules, delay in crude oil supply and other factors,” the source said. Ghanaians, local and foreign businesses have been grappling with problems associated with the intermittent supply of electricity for several months. The water level in the Akosombo Dam keeps dropping while power plants in the country continuously operate below capacity. Therefore, the suspension of gas supply from the West African Gas Pipeline will aggravate an already precarious power situation. Despite the challenges, the source gave an assurance
that work was on schedule to tie the Atuabo Gas Plant to the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is being operated by Tullow Oil plc. Thermal plants in the country are also expected to be powered by the gas which will flow from the Atuabo Gas Plant. Additionally, two power barges expected to generate a total of 450 MW are being built in Turkey and are expected to be shipped to Ghana before the end of the second quarter of 2015. Meanwhile, the first power barge, which has a capacity of 225 MW, has been constructed. There was an eight-month break in gas supplies from Nigeria to Ghana after a vessel broke one of the gas pipelines in Togo in August 2012. Ghana’s demand for electricity is between 1,800 and 2,000 MW, but it is targeting 5,000 MW by 2016. It wants to have enough to export to other West African countries by the end of 2016.
http://mobile.ghanaweb.com/wap/article.php?ID=326238

money121: my brother na our lagos ooooo

the slag now is that EKO ONI BAJE JU BAYI LO OOOOO !!!

The funniest tinzz is that ashiwaju bola ahmed tinuke jus dy build one ultra model market 5mins drive frm this area

Please modify the title to Aba so that it can hit front page.

This can't be Lagos, it must be either Ibadam or Aba.
No, not Fashola's Lagos!

But the corp members still need to travel to their schools to get their statements of results which they need for camp registration don't they?
What about those who live close to their schools, how will you justify spending N4000 for call up letters to them?

Anyway what is special about this Presidency and how does it help the people of the region where the President is from?
For example, how will an Igbo President develop the South east without being labelled an ethnic, tribal or even Biafran President.
Jonathan who has done more for the north than his region has already been labelled such.