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Can FG tackle this big problem alone

Nigerian students spend N100bn on tuition in Ghanaian varsities
on august 22, 2013 at 8:50 pm in education
BY PETER DURU
MAKURDI—Over 200,000 Nigerian students studying in Ghanaian universities are reported to expend over N100 billion annually as tuition outside sundry fees.
Former lawmaker and educationists, Senator David Iornem, who disclosed this yesterday at a briefing to mark his 64th birthday anniversary in Makurdi, said the figure represented a major capital flight from the country.
According to him, “available figures show that the over 200,000 Nigerians currently studying in Ghana, expend over N100 billion annually on tuition and sundry fees. This situation arose because official figures show that out of N1.7million Nigerians seeking admission into institutions of higher learning, only 500,000 find placements leaving many with no other option but to seek admission in Ghana.
The federal government should take immediate steps to unbundling the higher education sector in Nigeria by adopting the United Kingdom, American, Malaysian and German models which allows for the establishment of small university colleges by willing entrepreneurs.
“In these countries, small university colleges which may be affiliated to bigger universities are set up by small scale entrepreneurs with adequate resources. I believe that when we kick start this process, more than 500,000 university places will be created in the first year.
“This can be achieved by involving small entrepreneurs and allowing existing universities to set up satellite campuses. By the third year of starting this system, no Nigerian youth wanting to enter a university, polytechnic or a college of education will have any difficulty or denied the opportunity to development him or herself.
Prof. Iornem added, “it is totally unacceptable to officially shut the door against young Nigerians wanting admission, thereby, leaving them stranded and hopeless; we must return the higher education sector to its days of glory when brilliant young people were sure of their future.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/nigerian-students-spend-n100bn-on-tuition-in-ghanaian-varsities/

Boko Haram kills 35 in Borno village attack
on august 23, 2013 at 6:19 pm in news
ABUJA (AFP) – Suspected members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram have attacked a village in Borno, killing at least 35 people and wounding 14, the military said on Friday.
“Boko Haram people attacked the village on the ground that they have refused to cooperate with them, that they refused their message,” defence spokesman Brigadier General Chris Olukolade told AFP of the incident in Dumba. “The report that was presented has it that 35 people were killed and 14 wounded.”
The attack occurred on Monday, but the information had not become public until Friday with phone lines cut in the region and the village located in a remote area
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Census Chairman Has Been Consuming Too Much Alcohol And Should Be Sacked, Says Kwankwaso
Posted by: daniel on August 23, 2013



MR. FESTUS ODIMEGWU
Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State, on Fridday described the appointment of the chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Mr. Festus Odimegwu Odimegwu as a huge mistake for publicly ridiculing the results of the 2006 census.


Kwanwkaso, who made this known in a parley with State House correspondents after he met with President Goodluck Jonathan at the presidential villa, said if Odimegwu, a former Executive Director/CEO of Nigerian Breweries had not been drunk on some of his products, he would not have discredited the achievements of his predecessor in office.
He said, “We are not happy about that appointment and think that it was a mistake. Festus shouldn’t be there in the first place. Why; because, you see, unfortunately, somebody read his CV. He had only one thing in the alcohol industry, all his life. And my guess is that he’s taking a lot of his products and that is why we feel that his appointment is a mistake because he cannot be the chairman of NPC and at the same time be attacking what his predecessor had done.


“Even if it was wrong, he now has the good opportunity to correct it, but instead of doing that, he has been running around to discredit the 2006 census.”
Recalling his first encounter with Odimegwu, Kwankwaso said, “I just met that man when I was Minister of Defence, we had a military occasion in the East and just when we were about to finish, protocol came and told me that President Obasanjo had another thing to do, and I followed him and just went there and saw a big brewery.
“And they said he was the head but the way he was talking then, I knew immediately after the appointment that there was a mistake there.”

http://www.informationng.com/2013/08/census-chairman-has-been-consuming-too-much-alcohol-and-should-be-sacked-says-kwankwaso.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

[quote author=Dat~ibo~boi]Is APC the answer? — 2
on August 18, 2013 at 12:29 am in Frankly Speaking
By Dele Sobowale
“The more you read and observe about politics, you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks best”. Will Rogers, 1879-1935.
SUNDAY PUNCH of August 11, 2013, on pages 70 and 71 provided the names and pictures of people it called “Opposition Power brokers: The Strongmen of APC”. It reads to me like pictures of WANTED men at a Police Station. For a start, the list had no single woman – that tells us a lot about the gender discrimination in the new political organization. It is doubtful if this new “progressive” political contraption is what will take us to the promised land.
I have always been free of the deliberate self-deception of commentators who write for print media owned by politicians. My colleagues who write for such papers pretend to objectivity which their papers would not allow to be published. It is my great fortune that the publisher of VANGUARD, like me, does not carry a party card. So our freedom as columnists on this paper is total in that regard.

FLAG LAUNCH: From left— Prince Abiodun Ogunleye, former Deputy Governor of Lagos State; Chief Henry Ajomale, former Chairman, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Lagos; Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, Lagos State Deputy Governor; Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State; Chief Kemi Nelson, former Women Affairs Commissioner, and others at the formal inauguration of All Progressives Congress, APC, flag in Lagos, yesterday.
Because the All Progressive Congress aspires to rule Nigeria, it will be subjected to the most stringent test of its suitability for that role. I regard myself as a progressive, but that does not mean I am prepared to swallow all the falsehoods which political parties dish out routinely. I read, more for amusement than for anything else, all the daily exchanges between Lai Mohammed and his counterparts in the Presidency. Lai, Reuben and Doyin, could form a comedy team. Their utterances on serious matters of state, though not informative, will be hilarious.
Let me now return to the list because it summarises all my fears about APC. I searched in vain for the faces of Governors Fayemi of Ekiti, Amosun of Ogun and Ajimobi of Oyo States. Perhaps, they were ably represented by Fashola and Aregbesola. On the other hand, as economists often say, they might not want their mug shots on the wall with the other “SUSPECTS”.
But, that is a minor matter. If ever there was a marriage of strange bed-fellows, APC is it. Unlike the PDP which started with the G-34, a group of courageous and largely principled men, Dr Alex Ekwueme; Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, Chief Bola Ige, Professor Ango Abdulahi, Obong Victor B.
Attah and others (see the list in my book, PDP:CORRUPTION INCORPORATED pp 65-66), and grew into a broad-based national party and a constitution, the APC started with political parties each virtually owned by one individual and which might disintegrate if anything happens to the “owner” of the franchise. That is not a solid foundation in my opinion.
Granted, the PDP had since abandoned its original principles and embraced opportunism, it still has a blue-print for organization and governance to which it can return if only men of goodwill prevail. By contrast, the APC, as presently constituted, consists of elements which should not ordinarily be seen dining at the same table – unless everybody comes to the dinner with ten-foot long spoons!!!…
GOVERNORS ALSO LIE
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all”. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 130).
“Egbon, if the Ibos don’t like Lagos, they can return to their states”, Isale-Eko Boy.
The matter of deportation of Igbos from Lagos had been so thoroughly thrashed, perhaps, there is no need to continue with it. However, two reasons compel a revisit.
First, I am happy that the ethnic conflict which the original outcry started (see Isale Eko Boy’s reaction) is gradually giving way to more reflection on the larger issue. Second, we run the risk of allowing that matter, deportation, or the treatment of the destitute or beggars, wherever they may be, to be swept under the rug.
For the record, it is a fact that spokespersons for the Lagos State government, at first denied knowing anything about the people dumped in Onitsha.
That was a colossal lie. By the time they later admitted that they were active participants in the atrocity, the explanations offered by Governor Fashola were contrived and unconvincing. He still failed to address the question: why should any Nigerian citizen be forcefully removed from one place and taken to another place. That amounts to kidnapping by government.
Meanwhile, Governor Obi of Anambra was playing dishonest games of his own. His letter to the President suggested that his government was not aware of the planned deportation of Igbo to Onitsha. That was, until Obi was reminded by Fashola about the exchange of letters between the two governments. If Obi wanted to enforce the fundamental rights of his people, he should have bluntly refused to accept the human cargo and should have gone public before, not after, the evacuation, which posed a political challenge to him. While most of the attention was riveted on the Lagos atrocity, Obi was again reminded that his own government had also deported people to Akwa Ibom from his state. To the best of my knowledge, no Ibibio, Anang or indigene of Oron made an issue out of it. Perhaps, they are not Nigerians!!!
Let me for now conclude this piece by summarizing, as best as I can, the story of deportation from Lagos. The first two batches, each consisting of 1,000-plus individuals, male, female and children, were sent to the North by train. Although some disembarked on the way (Jebba, Bida, Kaduna, Zaria), Kano was the final destination. This was followed by deportations to Abeokuta, Ibadan and Osogbo (Ogun, Oyo and Osun States respectively).
At least the governor of Osun had announced that his state was the recipient of the victims of forced movement from Lagos. The northern human cargo included people from over fifty ethnic groups, but they were all dumped in Kano or on the way there. At least over sixty ethnic groups had been involved. So, the matter of Igbo hatred does not arise.
The truth is, there is no state in Nigeria which is home to as many ethnic groups as Lagos; so the state is the victim of influx of all sorts of people – seeking jobs and houses that don’t exist. To me, what has happened is a blessing in disguise. It has provided the opportunity for all Nigerians to address the problem of the increasing inflow of people into Lagos – which has probably exceeded its carrying capacity.
It is self-deception of the worst kind for “Civil Rights activists” like lawyer Bamidele Aturu to assume that Lagos State, or any state for that matter, can continue to welcome over 10,000 new people daily from other states and be able to provide for them.
Let those who now, without offering an alternative solution, ask anyone who lives on a street where there is an uncompleted building, which had been invaded by homeless and jobless people, irrespective of ethnicity, about the experience of the neighbours, and the limits of the constitution will be apparent. Are the neighbours, according to the constitution, not entitled to safety, clean environment etc – all of which the invaders trample upon? We need a national conference on this matter.
SHORT AND SHARP, OBASANJO LIED
“Alabi [Isama], however, was right in one thing, that the war had already ended before …Obasanjo came into the picture. And he came on the scene after I allowed Akinrinade to make a call to him”. Col Joe Achuzia, THE NATION, August 11, 2013.
At last we know the truth from the man who was at the receiving end of the Nigerian fore-power during the Civil War. Colonels Adekunle, Akinrinade and Isama had already won the war before Obasanjo, using “Owu wuruwuru”, took credit for the victory. “Coward”, now “liar”. Will a duel still take place?
POWER GENERATION DROPS TO 2,628MW
“The total amount of power generated in Nigeria as at 6am on Saturday was 2628.6 megawatts. SUNDAY PUNCH, August 11, 2013, p 7).
Last time I wrote that the Minister of (Mis)Information was telling a lie by stating that the average Nigeria enjoys 18 hours of interrupted power supply, some “yam heads” (as our Latin teacher at Igbobi College called dullards) wrote back to say that they enjoy 24/7 power supply. How 4000MW can provide 24/7 power supply to 160 million is left to them. Now its 2628MW, and Lagos supply is down by 67%.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/is-apc-the-answer-2/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter[/quo front page na

Gbawes: The bias of nairaland is becoming apparent every day.
Mtcheeew!

Brilliant write up, APC goon mods are scared of the truth raised in this write up.

Front page

If this post hit front page make I nack my prick for concreat wall

@ op op where did you get figure, I only saw 4 dead

Ater~all 042 is not just a number

Da-range:
well if its to remove the vpn cos after deleting it,it would still be active on home screen so to put it off,u got to settings,then general,then under cellular u'll see vpn,then u put it off,but if u still want to be the vpn u downlaod again..

Thanks
I have dealeted the VPN is no longer in my setting but still I can locate the hotsport again. Pls what should I do now

And it made front page


Why these topic below never did

https://www.nairaland.com/1401570/strongmen-apc-most-wanted-men

Amadioha will visit all the mod in Nairaland politics section bogotical fools of the 21st century

I'm still wondering why this cheap crap made front page.
If the vice was the case could it happen.

What about the sea port kwanu

Dat~ibo~boi:
Need help pals
I just downloaded free VPN on my iPhone4 it worked perfectly but I discovered that my hotsport has disapeared I can't connect with my pc again. ill try to delete the vpn from home scream but the VPN is still in the setting while my hotsport is not yet back, I want my hotspot back
I really need a help

Still waiting for a respond or do I have to pay for this

akpomeme: Please shut up. Everything written is true unless you don't live in Nigeria or you have a mandate to defend rubbish.

Dont mind that lazy guy, I bet he only read the caption

emiye: Lazy write up,i know many lazy thinkers will join the bandwagon to hail this write up.

He has said the truth by half

what is his definition of female powerbrokers in paties? which party has examples of such female powerbrokers?

No body owns any imaginary franchise, at startup of any party, there must be frontliners with force to reckon with to propel the party to success. Will he have said Awolowo owns action group party? .

The coming together of these parties is a welcome development, before the merger there was no true or formidable oppostion to PDP at the centre, with that trend, once PDP conducts its presidential primaries, who ever emerges is the president of the country, as national elections looks like formality.

Instead of the so called parties playing clannish or regional politics, they have taken the bull by the horn to activate the power of synergy where 1+1 =3, what i would have love to hear from him is an expresssion of interest in knowing the themes of the parties manifesto.

He was also talking about the govt not having the right to forcefully remove someone ?I say no, a state govt has the right to "forcefully" remove a nuisance/security risk from a position, if he /she will not co-operate. I will like to know his reaction if a mad man strolls in to his family compound and picks a spot of abode in there. The LASG has decided to rid its street of certified destitutes, train them in a skill for a period of time, while feeding them and reunite them afterwards with their families representative.

Frankly your write up lack cohesion

Dat~ibo~boi:
Is APC the answer? — 2
on August 18, 2013 at 12:29 am in Frankly Speaking
By Dele Sobowale
“The more you read and observe about politics, you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks best”. Will Rogers, 1879-1935.
SUNDAY PUNCH of August 11, 2013, on pages 70 and 71 provided the names and pictures of people it called “Opposition Power brokers: The Strongmen of APC”. It reads to me like pictures of WANTED men at a Police Station. For a start, the list had no single woman – that tells us a lot about the gender discrimination in the new political organization. It is doubtful if this new “progressive” political contraption is what will take us to the promised land.
I have always been free of the deliberate self-deception of commentators who write for print media owned by politicians. My colleagues who write for such papers pretend to objectivity which their papers would not allow to be published. It is my great fortune that the publisher of VANGUARD, like me, does not carry a party card. So our freedom as columnists on this paper is total in that regard.

FLAG LAUNCH: From left— Prince Abiodun Ogunleye, former Deputy Governor of Lagos State; Chief Henry Ajomale, former Chairman, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Lagos; Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, Lagos State Deputy Governor; Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State; Chief Kemi Nelson, former Women Affairs Commissioner, and others at the formal inauguration of All Progressives Congress, APC, flag in Lagos, yesterday.
Because the All Progressive Congress aspires to rule Nigeria, it will be subjected to the most stringent test of its suitability for that role. I regard myself as a progressive, but that does not mean I am prepared to swallow all the falsehoods which political parties dish out routinely. I read, more for amusement than for anything else, all the daily exchanges between Lai Mohammed and his counterparts in the Presidency. Lai, Reuben and Doyin, could form a comedy team. Their utterances on serious matters of state, though not informative, will be hilarious.
Let me now return to the list because it summarises all my fears about APC. I searched in vain for the faces of Governors Fayemi of Ekiti, Amosun of Ogun and Ajimobi of Oyo States. Perhaps, they were ably represented by Fashola and Aregbesola. On the other hand, as economists often say, they might not want their mug shots on the wall with the other “SUSPECTS”.
But, that is a minor matter. If ever there was a marriage of strange bed-fellows, APC is it. Unlike the PDP which started with the G-34, a group of courageous and largely principled men, Dr Alex Ekwueme; Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, Chief Bola Ige, Professor Ango Abdulahi, Obong Victor B.
Attah and others (see the list in my book, PDP:CORRUPTION INCORPORATED pp 65-66), and grew into a broad-based national party and a constitution, the APC started with political parties each virtually owned by one individual and which might disintegrate if anything happens to the “owner” of the franchise. That is not a solid foundation in my opinion.
Granted, the PDP had since abandoned its original principles and embraced opportunism, it still has a blue-print for organization and governance to which it can return if only men of goodwill prevail. By contrast, the APC, as presently constituted, consists of elements which should not ordinarily be seen dining at the same table – unless everybody comes to the dinner with ten-foot long spoons!!!…
GOVERNORS ALSO LIE
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all”. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 130).
“Egbon, if the Ibos don’t like Lagos, they can return to their states”, Isale-Eko Boy.
The matter of deportation of Igbos from Lagos had been so thoroughly thrashed, perhaps, there is no need to continue with it. However, two reasons compel a revisit.
First, I am happy that the ethnic conflict which the original outcry started (see Isale Eko Boy’s reaction) is gradually giving way to more reflection on the larger issue. Second, we run the risk of allowing that matter, deportation, or the treatment of the destitute or beggars, wherever they may be, to be swept under the rug.
For the record, it is a fact that spokespersons for the Lagos State government, at first denied knowing anything about the people dumped in Onitsha.
That was a colossal lie. By the time they later admitted that they were active participants in the atrocity, the explanations offered by Governor Fashola were contrived and unconvincing. He still failed to address the question: why should any Nigerian citizen be forcefully removed from one place and taken to another place. That amounts to kidnapping by government.
Meanwhile, Governor Obi of Anambra was playing dishonest games of his own. His letter to the President suggested that his government was not aware of the planned deportation of Igbo to Onitsha. That was, until Obi was reminded by Fashola about the exchange of letters between the two governments. If Obi wanted to enforce the fundamental rights of his people, he should have bluntly refused to accept the human cargo and should have gone public before, not after, the evacuation, which posed a political challenge to him. While most of the attention was riveted on the Lagos atrocity, Obi was again reminded that his own government had also deported people to Akwa Ibom from his state. To the best of my knowledge, no Ibibio, Anang or indigene of Oron made an issue out of it. Perhaps, they are not Nigerians!!!
Let me for now conclude this piece by summarizing, as best as I can, the story of deportation from Lagos. The first two batches, each consisting of 1,000-plus individuals, male, female and children, were sent to the North by train. Although some disembarked on the way (Jebba, Bida, Kaduna, Zaria), Kano was the final destination. This was followed by deportations to Abeokuta, Ibadan and Osogbo (Ogun, Oyo and Osun States respectively).
At least the governor of Osun had announced that his state was the recipient of the victims of forced movement from Lagos. The northern human cargo included people from over fifty ethnic groups, but they were all dumped in Kano or on the way there. At least over sixty ethnic groups had been involved. So, the matter of Igbo hatred does not arise.
The truth is, there is no state in Nigeria which is home to as many ethnic groups as Lagos; so the state is the victim of influx of all sorts of people – seeking jobs and houses that don’t exist. To me, what has happened is a blessing in disguise. It has provided the opportunity for all Nigerians to address the problem of the increasing inflow of people into Lagos – which has probably exceeded its carrying capacity.
It is self-deception of the worst kind for “Civil Rights activists” like lawyer Bamidele Aturu to assume that Lagos State, or any state for that matter, can continue to welcome over 10,000 new people daily from other states and be able to provide for them.
Let those who now, without offering an alternative solution, ask anyone who lives on a street where there is an uncompleted building, which had been invaded by homeless and jobless people, irrespective of ethnicity, about the experience of the neighbours, and the limits of the constitution will be apparent. Are the neighbours, according to the constitution, not entitled to safety, clean environment etc – all of which the invaders trample upon? We need a national conference on this matter.
SHORT AND SHARP, OBASANJO LIED
“Alabi [Isama], however, was right in one thing, that the war had already ended before …Obasanjo came into the picture. And he came on the scene after I allowed Akinrinade to make a call to him”. Col Joe Achuzia, THE NATION, August 11, 2013.
At last we know the truth from the man who was at the receiving end of the Nigerian fore-power during the Civil War. Colonels Adekunle, Akinrinade and Isama had already won the war before Obasanjo, using “Owu wuruwuru”, took credit for the victory. “Coward”, now “liar”. Will a duel still take place?
POWER GENERATION DROPS TO 2,628MW
“The total amount of power generated in Nigeria as at 6am on Saturday was 2628.6 megawatts. SUNDAY PUNCH, August 11, 2013, p 7).
Last time I wrote that the Minister of (Mis)Information was telling a lie by stating that the average Nigeria enjoys 18 hours of interrupted power supply, some “yam heads” (as our Latin teacher at Igbobi College called dullards) wrote back to say that they enjoy 24/7 power supply. How 4000MW can provide 24/7 power supply to 160 million is left to them. Now its 2628MW, and Lagos supply is down by 67%.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/is-apc-the-answer-2/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Very specific, he touched almost the problem of our present Nigeria

Is APC the answer? — 2
on August 18, 2013 at 12:29 am in Frankly Speaking
By Dele Sobowale
“The more you read and observe about politics, you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks best”. Will Rogers, 1879-1935.
SUNDAY PUNCH of August 11, 2013, on pages 70 and 71 provided the names and pictures of people it called “Opposition Power brokers: The Strongmen of APC”. It reads to me like pictures of WANTED men at a Police Station. For a start, the list had no single woman – that tells us a lot about the gender discrimination in the new political organization. It is doubtful if this new “progressive” political contraption is what will take us to the promised land.
I have always been free of the deliberate self-deception of commentators who write for print media owned by politicians. My colleagues who write for such papers pretend to objectivity which their papers would not allow to be published. It is my great fortune that the publisher of VANGUARD, like me, does not carry a party card. So our freedom as columnists on this paper is total in that regard.

FLAG LAUNCH: From left— Prince Abiodun Ogunleye, former Deputy Governor of Lagos State; Chief Henry Ajomale, former Chairman, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Lagos; Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, Lagos State Deputy Governor; Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State; Chief Kemi Nelson, former Women Affairs Commissioner, and others at the formal inauguration of All Progressives Congress, APC, flag in Lagos, yesterday.
Because the All Progressive Congress aspires to rule Nigeria, it will be subjected to the most stringent test of its suitability for that role. I regard myself as a progressive, but that does not mean I am prepared to swallow all the falsehoods which political parties dish out routinely. I read, more for amusement than for anything else, all the daily exchanges between Lai Mohammed and his counterparts in the Presidency. Lai, Reuben and Doyin, could form a comedy team. Their utterances on serious matters of state, though not informative, will be hilarious.
Let me now return to the list because it summarises all my fears about APC. I searched in vain for the faces of Governors Fayemi of Ekiti, Amosun of Ogun and Ajimobi of Oyo States. Perhaps, they were ably represented by Fashola and Aregbesola. On the other hand, as economists often say, they might not want their mug shots on the wall with the other “SUSPECTS”.
But, that is a minor matter. If ever there was a marriage of strange bed-fellows, APC is it. Unlike the PDP which started with the G-34, a group of courageous and largely principled men, Dr Alex Ekwueme; Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, Chief Bola Ige, Professor Ango Abdulahi, Obong Victor B.
Attah and others (see the list in my book, PDP:CORRUPTION INCORPORATED pp 65-66), and grew into a broad-based national party and a constitution, the APC started with political parties each virtually owned by one individual and which might disintegrate if anything happens to the “owner” of the franchise. That is not a solid foundation in my opinion.
Granted, the PDP had since abandoned its original principles and embraced opportunism, it still has a blue-print for organization and governance to which it can return if only men of goodwill prevail. By contrast, the APC, as presently constituted, consists of elements which should not ordinarily be seen dining at the same table – unless everybody comes to the dinner with ten-foot long spoons!!!…
GOVERNORS ALSO LIE
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all”. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 130).
“Egbon, if the Ibos don’t like Lagos, they can return to their states”, Isale-Eko Boy.
The matter of deportation of Igbos from Lagos had been so thoroughly thrashed, perhaps, there is no need to continue with it. However, two reasons compel a revisit.
First, I am happy that the ethnic conflict which the original outcry started (see Isale Eko Boy’s reaction) is gradually giving way to more reflection on the larger issue. Second, we run the risk of allowing that matter, deportation, or the treatment of the destitute or beggars, wherever they may be, to be swept under the rug.
For the record, it is a fact that spokespersons for the Lagos State government, at first denied knowing anything about the people dumped in Onitsha.
That was a colossal lie. By the time they later admitted that they were active participants in the atrocity, the explanations offered by Governor Fashola were contrived and unconvincing. He still failed to address the question: why should any Nigerian citizen be forcefully removed from one place and taken to another place. That amounts to kidnapping by government.
Meanwhile, Governor Obi of Anambra was playing dishonest games of his own. His letter to the President suggested that his government was not aware of the planned deportation of Igbo to Onitsha. That was, until Obi was reminded by Fashola about the exchange of letters between the two governments. If Obi wanted to enforce the fundamental rights of his people, he should have bluntly refused to accept the human cargo and should have gone public before, not after, the evacuation, which posed a political challenge to him. While most of the attention was riveted on the Lagos atrocity, Obi was again reminded that his own government had also deported people to Akwa Ibom from his state. To the best of my knowledge, no Ibibio, Anang or indigene of Oron made an issue out of it. Perhaps, they are not Nigerians!!!
Let me for now conclude this piece by summarizing, as best as I can, the story of deportation from Lagos. The first two batches, each consisting of 1,000-plus individuals, male, female and children, were sent to the North by train. Although some disembarked on the way (Jebba, Bida, Kaduna, Zaria), Kano was the final destination. This was followed by deportations to Abeokuta, Ibadan and Osogbo (Ogun, Oyo and Osun States respectively).
At least the governor of Osun had announced that his state was the recipient of the victims of forced movement from Lagos. The northern human cargo included people from over fifty ethnic groups, but they were all dumped in Kano or on the way there. At least over sixty ethnic groups had been involved. So, the matter of Igbo hatred does not arise.
The truth is, there is no state in Nigeria which is home to as many ethnic groups as Lagos; so the state is the victim of influx of all sorts of people – seeking jobs and houses that don’t exist. To me, what has happened is a blessing in disguise. It has provided the opportunity for all Nigerians to address the problem of the increasing inflow of people into Lagos – which has probably exceeded its carrying capacity.
It is self-deception of the worst kind for “Civil Rights activists” like lawyer Bamidele Aturu to assume that Lagos State, or any state for that matter, can continue to welcome over 10,000 new people daily from other states and be able to provide for them.
Let those who now, without offering an alternative solution, ask anyone who lives on a street where there is an uncompleted building, which had been invaded by homeless and jobless people, irrespective of ethnicity, about the experience of the neighbours, and the limits of the constitution will be apparent. Are the neighbours, according to the constitution, not entitled to safety, clean environment etc – all of which the invaders trample upon? We need a national conference on this matter.
SHORT AND SHARP, OBASANJO LIED
“Alabi [Isama], however, was right in one thing, that the war had already ended before …Obasanjo came into the picture. And he came on the scene after I allowed Akinrinade to make a call to him”. Col Joe Achuzia, THE NATION, August 11, 2013.
At last we know the truth from the man who was at the receiving end of the Nigerian fore-power during the Civil War. Colonels Adekunle, Akinrinade and Isama had already won the war before Obasanjo, using “Owu wuruwuru”, took credit for the victory. “Coward”, now “liar”. Will a duel still take place?
POWER GENERATION DROPS TO 2,628MW
“The total amount of power generated in Nigeria as at 6am on Saturday was 2628.6 megawatts. SUNDAY PUNCH, August 11, 2013, p 7).
Last time I wrote that the Minister of (Mis)Information was telling a lie by stating that the average Nigeria enjoys 18 hours of interrupted power supply, some “yam heads” (as our Latin teacher at Igbobi College called dullards) wrote back to say that they enjoy 24/7 power supply. How 4000MW can provide 24/7 power supply to 160 million is left to them. Now its 2628MW, and Lagos supply is down by 67%.



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Need help pals
I just downloaded free VPN on my iPhone4 it worked perfectly but I discovered that my hotsport has disapeared I can't connect with my pc again. ill try to delete the vpn from home scream but the VPN is still in the setting while my hotsport is not yet back, I want my hotspot back
I really need a help

P.Stacks:
Why are you asking him what his business is on the ground that he might be a Northerner or Westerner..

You igbos are fund of this thing and you will always be the first to scream marginalisation on the slightest incidence..

If he is a northerner or westerner, doesn't he have a say in the whole nigeria polity or isn't it one-nigeria we claim.. Mtcheeew. Let this country kuku divide jare..

I can't believe a well breed man like Soludo that has occupied such an exalted office of the CBN governor would rubbish himself so low to a point where he would be disqualified. Such bullshit won't and can't happen to sanusi Lamido Sanusi.. Well, Igbo people and their ways sha.. Na dem sabi.

You don't have to be shocked
@ the final paragraph,
That is the spirit of the igbo's, that's the uniqueness we don't give a phuck abt someone popularity unlike some chest bitters that worship a criminal like tinaubu and co .
For me I will say that soludo still have the chances of not only coming out victoriously from the primaries but will emerge as the next governor of Anambra state

Ngige should go and sue fashola and tinaubu for killing his political carrier in the south east

Chino48: Am not saying that there won't be capital at all. Am even proffering is a virgin land to be built up as the new capital just like we have it today in Abuja. Let me tell you, the greatest problem we will have eventually when Biafra comes is where to site the capital.

Enugu state will come and say that it hosted the former eastern Nigerian capital and so therefore they deserve it, Imo will say that they are the heartland state and therefore capital should be at the center, then of course Anambra will come and say that the first president of Biafra was Ikemba and that he should be honored by naming Nnewi as the new Biafran capital.

We need to face these fact squarely, we should not pretend that this feelings does not exist amongst us and that is why before I now, I will come out so straightforward and some may misunderstand me as being harsh and caustic. But, no, it isn't.

This look more like a child talk to me.

PrettyRita: Someone should please tell me, is this forum now operated by opposition elements?

There are some thread that ordinarily should make front page, but u don't see them there. Only post that appear to ridicule the govt, or critical of govt policies, of project the ruling party as being in crisis, those are the thread that adorn the front page. The thread on internal crisis in APC (Ekiti to be precise) has been suppressed since yesterday Even when it has continued to generate reactions. Am now beginning to believe what people are saying.

This is a forum that should be moderated by objective people, with neutral minds.

It is funny that these same people are the ones clamouring for change. Prejudiced minds hardly propagate meaningful change.

After taking my li'l time to observe the link below

https://www.nairaland.com/1396212/fashola-orders-kalu-sealed-house.
I concluded that either seun is as bias as his brothers on this forum or that maybe he left Nairaland in hand of most bigot moderator of the century.
If you try to criticize the action of the Lagos state govt. you will be ban, at the same time he left the pro fashola comment going on and on with both discrimination and racial slur agaist a particular tribe.
Well this is not the first time though, cus freedom of expression is not available on this site

soma042: What do you expect from a Muslim party that are busy deporting there fellow citizen

But seriously I'm begging to think that Abati might be right after all

PDP
Working
apc
Sealing houses

5,000 PPN, APC, LP members defect to PDP in Ijebu North LGA
on August 14, 2013 at 9:23 pm in News
LAGOS—No fewer than 5,000 members of various parties have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State.
Speaking on the occasion which was held last weekend in Ijebu-Igbo, the Zonal Secretary of the PDP in the South West, Chief Pegba Otemolu said 3,250 came from the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN), while the others were from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Labour Party (LP).
Notable among the defectors are the former Deputy Governor and Chairman, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Ogun East Senatorial District, Chief Rafiu Ogunleye; former Commissioner for Education under ex-Governor Gbenga Daniel administration, Elder Yomi Akinwonmi; former chairmanship candidate of PPN in Ijebu North Local Government Area, Otunba Adeleke Adekoya, among others.
The duo of Akinwonmi and Adekoya, who were former loyalists of Daniel, said they dumped their former party and leader because Daniel could no longer give any plausible reason for them to move from the PPN to LP.
A prominent leader of the PDP in the state, Prince Buruji Kashamu, said the defection of people from the three political parties showed that the ruling APC in the state was heading for the rocks ahead of the 2015 general elections.


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feminancy: Since the official did disclose the reason behind the sealing of the house, I hereby declare it uncivilized, unconstitutional coming from the govt. officials .
A spade is a spade

Your signature says it all.
Thank you princess . If we can be civil in this manner you did , then one Nigeria is assured

bakynes: Dream on broda not in this lifetime will lagos produce an Igbo deputy Govenor,when non-lagos indigenous yorubas don't attain deputy govenor.Bt if he decides nt to employ any igbo person into his cabinet there is nothing anyone can do.Pple wld vote based on his works in the state and not based on if he has an igbo person in his cabinet

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Bankynes I think your the one dreaming here and you need to wake up cus Nigeria democracy is moving up gradually and steady when the people's vote will be counted openly why you get the watch. After all the present and past leaders of Lagos state are not indigene of the state.