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IGBO-SON:
^^^And in addition, can we see concrete evidence of what he's done for 8 years in education, health and the environment? I concede (going by the large number of people that say so) that he's done much in the provision of rural roads, but that's about it really! I was so shocked and shamed on hearing that Prof Achebes' alma mater was so dilapidated to the extent that President Jonathan and the President of Ghana had to intervene and promised to provide funds to rehabilitate it!

Also, governance is more than just providing roads; it's more about the economy and positioning the state for accelerated development in all sectors! In this regard, i'd say he's done reasonably well in providing an enabling environment for business and industry, but i'm highly disappointed with the states pathetic IGR as Anambra state should easily be bringing in 5 billion naira monthly.

So, like we see with Akwa Ibom, Lagos and Enugu, can we see evidence of Peter Obis' sterling work these past 8 years?


PS- it should be noted though that he's gone into overdrive in the past few months, but cynics would be forgiven for thinking it has something to do with the upcoming elections!

Where are from let see if there is no dilapidated school in your state

FreeGlobe: what are the others? Sabmiller, a beer factory owned by Peter obi? You see nothing wrong with a governor losing support right in his town?

Innoson was encourage by Obi administration, with many pharmaceutical company trooping in. malls and resorts building here and there, if complete will provide employment for our youths.
Anambra state bust the best road network in the east.
The only administration sofar (Anambra) that did not own her workers, did Ɣ☺ΰ hear workers going on strike before their 18000 mandatory minimum wages paid. ?
Rome was not build by a day
Meanwhile which part °ƒ Anambra are you from?

FreeGlobe: can you state what Peter obi has done in Agulu and shame the igwe. counter the igwe with facts.

We will be more interested to see what he have as Igwe done to Agulu. That stupid and self centered Igwe? Smh!

jbaur24: Do you realize dude is looking for money to pay his huge debt which is standing at 67Billion now? So how do you believe an educated clown for that matter?

The contenders are:
APGA
PDP
apc (in small letter)
Ifenyi Uba, is he among the three party?

jbaur24: One Igwe cannot make a difference. Remember that one is likely not be popular in his own town, but outsiders knows his worth. This is the voting pattern in the next election.

-Anambra North will go for APGA because of their son Obiano.

-Anambra Central will be shared amongst Obi, Ngige and Akunyili.

-Anambra South will be shared amongst Andy Uba, Obi, ifeanyi Uba.

With Obiano getting 100% block vote in the north, about 45-50% votes in the Central and about 30% in the South ,he is definitely the next governor

My mind!
Politics as we no is a game of number and Obi calculated well by chosen someone from north.
But some people with Yoruba reasoning can still not buy it

asha 80: i used to feel so....now i am not too sure...did you hear what igwe of agulu said about obi?....i mean the igwe of obi's town which is supposed to be a grassroot mobilizer?...not sure if it was personal conviction or ubah's money working.

Who is Igwe Agulu to start with? Nwanne, Anambra has grow pass the politics of igwe and chiefs, give that Igwe 1 million tomorrow he ll say another thing. We need progressive mind, we have outgrown the politics of road taring, we need industries Obi have set the tone with sabmilar and others

Mighty Sparrow: If Igbo are suffering now in the north, in saw they are being molested, in South Africa they are being killed, in Europe and Americas they are many in jails. We should know they are only being tolerated in Nigeria.. If Nigeria divides, religion will hunt them in the north,; standardization and taxes will harass them in South West; because of greed, they fight long wars with SS. All the bragging s will cease except for a rebranding.

What is this 1 talking? smh!

obitwo: If you look at what the SE states have been contributing to the centre versus what they've been getting, you will realize that the SE states have been profiting from the FG alongside the North. Only the SS and SW states have been making loses comparing their contribution to the centre to what they get from it

@Ijaw Citizen, I quite agree with you and the Itshekiri have strong historical ties with the Yorubas as well as the Edos. However, should there be a referendum to define our future, both tribes may choose to be with the Yorubas or the ND. However, I know that the Yorubas are ingenuous, sophisticated and highly progressive and can hold their own. What you're seeing today in the SW states with the little autonomy the states have, is like what the Western Region witnessed under Awolowo and co. We have what it takes and we can make it happen

Talking about what fg govt is getting from southeast compelling it with other regions is rubbish. Just like hopping to harvest more where you have planted nothing, oil was first discover in Ebonyi state but was abandoned for just no reason.
Onitsha was the biggest trade zone in west African but lack seaport and international airport to support its growth
Who build the international airport in Lagos =FG
Who build seaport =FG
Who site all the multi-national companies in Lagos that should have been in Niger delta where their operational base are the same FG
Their is Wharf in Kanu, Kaduna operating directly from Lagos but none in the east =FG the list is endless.
But even at that we are still competing or even better than most region when you talk about human capital

Donmichaelz: are yorubas and hausa's surviving by the help of FG?

Name one big man in yoruba land you can't trace his source of wealth from govt

Donmichaelz: These is not to create any dis-unity amongs us.I have heard people say the NORTHERNERS(Hausa's) but what they fail to realise is Hausa's are the best farmers in Nigeria.Some say it is the SOUTH WEST(Yorubas),which I don't and will never belive because they have the most peaceful environment in Nigeria and where there is peace there is Growth.

To Me the SOUTH EAST(igbo's) will suffer most,not because they are nt hard working but because of they can't survive without others,go to every market in nigeria and half the people there are igbos imagine if the country divides and everybody returns Home,most igbos will never survive in their own environment (eg imagine 50 fake chemist on 1 street or 30 substandard shops selling baby food)

Note;- I don't hate iGBO's I just don't trust them

What about You which region will suffer Most?

LWKMD to your myopic thinking
Without Nigeria Lagos will be no more or less attractive.
International airport and seaport will no longer boom.
Many mult-national company will leave Lagos
Lagos will be less than 4million in population.
Houses in VI, banana island will be less than 25k a year because of low patronage.
Imagine when DIRTY old Yoruba from Ekiti, Osogbo, Ogbomosho etc, littered Lagos with shirt. (nylons with shirt everywhere in the street) smh.
Places like Okuta, Festac, satellite town, Alaba International market areas, trade fair, Banana island etc will go back to its usual slump.
Can Yoruba alone maintain Lagos?
All the oil sector company in Lagos will move to Niger delta
(who will allow company to be operating in different country with it headquarters in another country)

Igbo have been surviving with out FG

Governor Amaechi in white gets down from his car to talk with the police

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
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After widespread public condemnation of the Police blockade of the access road to one of the entrances to Rivers State Government House last night that denied Governor Chibuike Amaechi access, the Rivers Police Command this afternoon removed the blockade.

However, five trooper Police vehicles and armed policemen are still manning the sealed office of the New Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Secretariat opened by Tony Okocha, the Chief of Staff to Governor Amaechi yesterday.

Simon Lalong,The Chairman of the former Speakers' Forum and ex-Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly,who was among the former Speakers in the entourage of Amaechi when they were denied access called on the National Assembly to urgently call for the resignation of the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar over what he described as police impunity in Rivers State.

Lalong said the police may have acted on a directive from the State Police Commissioner Joseph Mbu who takes his instructions from the Inspector General of Police and called for his (IG's) resignation.

He said what has happened is not really police overzealousness as the police are controlled by higher authorities and requested that people should collectively call for the resignation of the Inspector-General of Police, because as the highest-ranking police officer, the Police Commissioner (Joseph Mbu) takes instructions from the Inspector General of Police.

" For this level of impunity, I think the National Assembly should start calling for the resignation of the Inspector-General, not even the Commissioner".

"I was only watching these things (happening in Rivers State) on television and reading in the newspapers but I saw what happened this evening as the highest level of impunity in Nigeria for a governor who has immunity and everything to be stopped on the way blocked by policemen. It means that they are in another way trying to remove his immunity unconstitutionally. So it is really very unfortunate on the side of the police, so we don't have police protection again".

Lalong called on the international community to begin to look at this situation “because it is no longer about the governor because if the Governor can suffer such indignity, then the ordinary person will be worse for it.

“I think something must be done in respect to the Nigeria Police that we are funded with taxpayers money. Many of us were afraid when we saw this kind of thing (the roadblock), so if it is happening to the governor who has immunity, what about people who don't have immunity, so very soon maybe you will see people, they will start arresting people in their houses, so I wonder what is really happening. I think the President must intervene in this issue", he said.

Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, Rotimi Amaechi has condemned the Thursday night Police blockade of the access road to the State Government House, saying that it is the height of lawlessness and impunity.

Governor Amaechi was returning to Government House, Port Harcourt with the Forum of former Speakers of State Houses of Assembly in Nigeria at about 7.00pm after an inspection of numerous projects executed by the governor when it was discovered there was a police roadblock at the Port Harcourt Club junction along Forces Avenue.

Amaechi while receiving the forum on Thursday night in Government, said, "all of you saw how the former Speakers came down from the vehicle to tell them (police) where we were coming from, but the Police resisted. It is for Nigerians to see that we no longer have democracy in this country. We are now in a regime where, the law is no longer supreme. We must rise up against this impunity against our democracy”, Amaechi said.

The Governor has apologized to the ex-Speakers of Nigeria for the embarrassment by the Rivers Police Command.

"I apologize for the embarrassment you suffered during our return from inspection to various projects.”

Also reacting, former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly and ex-Senator Olorunimbe Mamora expressed sadness at the Police action, recalling that Governor Amaechi made the detour to get to the Government House with his guests because he is a responsible citizen.

Senator Mamora said: "I think to say the least that (roadblock) was quite unfortunate because we were coming from inspection of projects, more than 70 former speakers were in the governor's (Amaechi) entourage to inspect projects and on our way back to the Government House, we discovered that we just couldn't pass because the road had been blocked and we were wondering of course what was happening only to discover that it was a group of policemen who claimed to be acting on the instruction of the Commissioner of Police here in Rivers State and it was quite unfortunate I would repeat because you would wonder why such a thing would happen".

He said that Freedom of movement is guaranteed under the constitution and “a situation where you are now compelled without any justifiable reason not allowed to pass despite all our entreaties, all our appeals made to that effect and we thought that as responsible citizens of this country”.
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A friend of my was unjustly ban by AntispamBot. on celebrity section for opening the thread below
https://www.nairaland.com/1436130/top-ten-hottest-woman-2013
Pls i want to know what's his offense

What a manner of man is AntispamBot? And why did he ban op.....

Oshi!

Nna, dont let any body decieve u. a born again Christian should not take part or paticipate in de dat devlish, fetish & idol worshiping event called new yam festival. instead take ur new crop, yam & grain for an offering to church. dats de biblical. present ur first crop, grain & yam to a priest to bless for u.

The Italian coast guard said Saturday it had rescued more than 700 migrants and refugees, including many Syrians and Egyptians, from four struggling boats, the latest in a surge of refugee arrivals.

There were also Nigerians among them. But their number was not stated.

Coast guard and navy vessels rescued the migrants from troubled boats off the coast of Sicily on Friday and Saturday, rushing four of them — a mother, father and their two young children — to hospital for emergency care, the coast guard said.

One broken-down boat was carrying 207 migrants from Nigeria, Ghana and Eritrea, including six children and two women in the late stages of pregnancy.

Another boat was carrying 212 migrants including eight children and was being towed toward the tiny island of Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost point. The coast guard did not say where the passengers were from.

Two other boats carrying a total of 293 Syrians and Egyptians were brought Friday to Augusta, on the eastern coast of Sicily.

The number of refugees trying to reach Italy in dinghies and other boats has increased in recent months because of surging violence in Syria and Egypt and calm summer weather that has tempted many to try their luck on the seas.

The Italian interior ministry says 3,000 Syrians arrived in Italy from the beginning of the year to the end of August, mostly arriving by boat in eastern Sicily.

Last week, on 27 August 10 Nigerians were among the 81 African migrants from a large dinghy that was adrift and sinking some 18 nautical miles from the island of Malta. They were all rescued.
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agbameta: 1. I am not ashamed of who I am and where I come from and had it not been for others holding us back I know where the south west and the Yoruba would have been by now in terms of development.


2. I will never renounce my views. As a matter of fact now more than ever before I see how important it is for us to ensure a certain degree of separate development in this country and to hold on to our heritage because we are just so different. Those that have chosen the path of aggression and open hostility and that seek to suppress our voices, intimidate us into silence and drown us with their propaganda are vulgar, crude and rude. That is their way. They are also experts at telling lies.



God bless FFK.

If not that yoruba join force to stop Biafra who knows
I hate it when a man crying like baby, pls Femi or whatever you called your self, we don't want war in this part of the world, Igbos are not our problem even though they are arrogant. We have been living happily with them without trouble.
Isn't not our men (Adekunle, OBJ and others) stoped them when they said that they are tired of Nigeria.
Enough of whatever you are smoking they in Ogun state
How did your ministry benefit Yoruba land when you are in charge?

Massobs are group of low life peeps that have no use for Igbo and Nigeria in General. true son of Biafra....

micklplus: Very well written! God bless you. My people perish because, they lack knowledge.

I commend you for this post. Weldone @Op

God bless u 2 o

Galatians 6:7-9
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap….for he that sows to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting (absolute life, the anointing, power of the Holy Spirit)….let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not (if we stay constant, and don’t quit).

FALLACY OF SEED SOWING (2 TIMOTHY 3: 6, 4:3-4) We are in the heart of the last days and the prophecies of the scripture are being fulfilled in our very own eyes, daily. Today if you turn to virtually every corner of the city, you see a church or ministry as they are called now. Frankly, most believers in Christ misconstrue the meaning of church, ministry and denomination. That is a message for another time though. The Scripture says in 2 Timothy 3: 6-7, “For this sort are they which creep into houses, and led away captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” In 2 Timothy 4: 3-4 it says, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers with itching ears; “And they shall be turned unto fables.” In Micah 2: 11, the Scripture says, “If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying I will prophesy unto thee of wine and strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.” This scriptural verse agrees with 2 Timothy 4:3-4, all that most ‘followers of Christ’ want in these last days, are self- edifying sermons, not necessarily what God wants them to do. The reigning message is no longer, ‘seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all other things shall be added unto you,’ but sow seed in the church or ministry and whatever you want shall be added unto you, in the preacher’s declared measures. I think every believer with the spirit of discernment ought to know where this heretic doctrine comes from. Most Christians are very deficient and lazy in searching the scripture to listen to what God wants them to understand about His purpose for their lives, but run to places where all manner of teachings and doctrines are taught. We prefer to follow the easy way where multitudes are found while neglecting the caution that says ‘the path that leads destruction is broad and narrow is the way and strait is the gate that leads to eternal life’. The first time I heard of the sowing of seed was when I came to Jos newly. On 9th September 2001, the Sunday after the Friday 7th September 2001 Jos North ethno-religious crisis, I went to a church in Kufang. After the sermon, the pastor of the church said that there was need for us to pray so that we will have a peaceful week, which was good. But what troubled me was, when he asked who will sow seed of three thousand naira (N3000.00), two thousand naira (N2000.00) and one thousand (N1000.00) and so forth. I was wondering when the Lord has changed his principle of answering prayers by grace, to answering prayers by sowing of seeds. I was invited to a program in a church some few years back at FDA Road Dadin Kowa Jos; a pastor from a different church was invited to preach. He preached wonderfully about the last days and the maneuvers of Satan to destroy the church, but after the sermon he said that those who would want to escape the snares of the devil should sow seed of two thousand naira (N2000.00) to be prayed for. And if they didn’t have the cash on them at the moment, they should make pledges. Those pastors are cunning with words and intimidate their congregation into sowing seeds; otherwise, their prayers will not be answered. In fact that same pastor gave a testimony, where he said in his church the Lord told them to bring plastic chair each, but a lady refused. So one day when she was preparing for her wedding, he met her and reminded her about the chair, but she didn’t take heed. On her way to the village he said, a car lost control and drove straight to where she sat in a bus, and hit it hard and she died. According to him, she died because she refused to bring a plastic chair to his church, by implication, it can be said that she went to hell because she refused to bring a plastic chair to a church. Candidly, only Satan can do that and not Jesus Christ of the Holy Bible. When has God dropped faith to embrace material things as a condition for inheriting his promises? His word says, “Without faith it is impossible to please Him.” (Hebrews 11: 6). In James 1: 5-6 it is written, “If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally and up braideth not; and it shall be given him. “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with wind and tossed.” When Peter met the lame man at the Gate called Beautiful, the man did not sow seed before Christ healed him through Peter, but his faith. The woman with the issue of blood was not healed by Christ because she sowed seed, but her faith. I can go on and on. The people that believe such pastors don’t have the spirit of God. The spirit of God is not the author of confusion, and is full of knowledge and wisdom. I want those that sow seeds for prayers by their pastors to tell me, the prayers they do before eating their food, their morning devotion, before embarking on a journey and so on, to whom do they sow seeds to? Are they not the prayers of faith? If you believe that praying at night before going to bed will move God to protect your family, why would you believe that sowing seed is prerequisite for God to answer your prayers on other issues?. What is it that you have that has not been given to you by God? And what will you give to God to bless you and how much do you worth to buy His blessings? He said, “The Heaven is my throne and the earth my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is my place of rest? “For all these things had mine hand made, and all those things have been saidth the LORD: but to this will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my word.” Isaiah 66: 1-2. To prove further that God is more interested in our hearts, Jesus Christ said that if you bring your offering to the alter, and remember that someone has something against you, leave your gift at the alter and go and reconcile first. With these how can someone tell you that it is the seed, and you believe? Apostle Paul through the spirit of God said, “Let us come with boldness unto the throne of grace to obtain help in time of need.” In Hebrews 4: 16 Jesus said, “He that comes to me in no wise will I cast him away.” Why is it that you cannot go to the throne of grace with boldness so much that you have to sow seed for someone to pray on your behalf? Is there fire at the throne of grace? Has God cast you away? Why fall prey to these Sooth Sayers that pose as servants of God? Christ said, “Come unto me ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest, do you exclude yourself from this call? Matthew 11: 28. Christ wants you to come to him directly, he is not a terrorist. How many seeds did you sow, that made God sent Him to die for you and I? If his death was free, where did God say you must sow seeds for Him to hear your prayers? God cannot be bribed. God spoke through the Psalmist saying, “I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest are mine and the cattle upon thousand hills. “I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? “Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.” Psalm 50: 9-15 Brothers and sisters God wants us to ask in faith and not sow seed for our prayers to be answered. Christ paid the supreme sacrifice; all that He wants from us is to reach out to Him in faith.

Tolexander: no!
Na tragedy see pastor, tragedy now hid itself from pastor.
Mumu!
We dey talk serious matter e dey talk nonsense!

Hmmm, insult this early morning?

Tolexander: RIP to the deceased!



the recent fire cases in nigeria call for everyone to have a fire extinguisher(s) in his pocket, wallet and handbag cos only God knows how nigeria is secretly turning to hell where if people aren't burning themselves, car will be burning them.

So paying tithes, sowing seeds, special donations to pastors for prayers of protection etc is effort in futility if pastor can not see tragedy befallen his family in their vision?

berem: eyaaaa! RIP.

But pastor 4 see the tragedy coming nah....

Me think say Naija pastors de see vision? How come em no see this 1 coming....
All na watch!
Anyway shay RIP to d dead

— TRAGEDY-- Saturday night, as at least eight persons including a Pastor’s wife, Pastor (Mrs) Hellen Samuel, her three children, Saviour, Ensigne and Purity, were reportedly killed in an auto crash in Katagbegi village of Niger State.
The accident occured when the bus owned by the Niger State Transport Authority they were travelling in ran into an articulated truck at a bad spot along Bida-Minna road.
The family of Pastor Abraham Samuel of the PotterPorchChurch, Minna and the other passengers in the bus were said to be travelling from Lagos to Minna when the crash occured at about 8pm, Saturday night.
The bus, according to eyewitness, was said to have caught fire shortly after the accident, thereby making rescue efforts difficult.
It was, however, gathered that only one passenger was rescued alive with serious burns.
Special Adviser to the Niger State Government on Emergency and Disaster Management, Mohammed Shaba, confirmed that the eight bodies had been recovered from the scene of the accident, even though the bus was believed to be carrying 18 passengers at the time of the accident.
Shaba said corpses of the deceased had been deposited at the Minna GeneralHospital.
The passengers were said to have been burnt in the vehicle because the local people that rushed for the rescue efforts lacked the capacity to curtail the fire.
Our correspondent who went to the church met the Pastor preaching during yesterdy’s church service after which he announced the demise of his wife and three children.
Members of the church screamed at the news but the Pastor remained calm with elders of the church around him.
According to Pastor Samuel who, however, maintained sober mood “My wife and the kids are resting.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/pastors-wife-3-children-4-others-perish-in-road-crash/