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this is raw unprocessed, untrained talent. he needs to be properly mentored. if possible send him abroad to study if u can afford it

pass111:
In Christ there is no such thing as slave nor free born, there is no Jew nor gentile, no Woman nor man , all are equal before the lord remember The grace is available to ALL ... even the grace to preach, minister etc.
Gal 3:28

Acts 2:17
“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out
my Spirit on ALL flesh, and your sons and your DAUGHTERS shall
prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men
shall dream dreams

Romans 16:1
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at
Cenchreae,

Romans 16:3
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,(I guess Sister Phoebe, Prisca and Aquila are all male abi)

You have said it all,I don't need to add to this

mystical109:
Igbo men ndi isi karaka.its better I smuggle drugs than to defile a minor as accustomed to my yellowbar nd ariwa brothers

[b][biafra]the land of my fathers

Really no one forced you to comment. Its people like you that give igbos a bad name. Your comment has no iota of intelligence or sense in it

Nigerians are a very religious people, they will stay away from that place

What an irony. Ameachi's hand can't possibly be clean. Wike should also take note that the next governor will set up a commission on his head. What goes around always comes back around. Same goes for every other governor and political office holder

HOMO-ALERT

INTROVERT:
is it a plane or helicopter...




All those quoting me down below... una try.. there have been conflicting reports on what crashed... plane or helicopter.

Am a bit shocked that u are asking it was a plane or a helicopter. A chopper is anothe name for helicopter not a plane.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of some of his administration’s most key officials Thursday set off a firestorm of condemnation, with critics characterising the nominations as overwhelmingly lopsided, lacking in gender balance and regional equity.

Mr. Buhari named Babachir David Lawal, from Adamawa State, as Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Abba Kyari, from Borno, as his Chief of Staff.

He appointed Hameed Ali, a retired colonel, as the Comptroller-General of Nigerian Customs Service, curiously finding no career customs official suitable for the post.

He also named Kure Martin Abeshi as the Comptroller-General of Nigerian Immigration Service.

Messrs. Ali and Abeshi are from Bauchi and Nasarawa states respectively.

A former Senator, Ita Enang, from Akwa Ibom, was appointed senior special assistant to the president on Senate affairs, while Suleiman Kawu of Kano, who is a former House of Representatives member, was named the president’s senior special assistant on House of Representatives.

The six officials brought to 29 the total number of frontline administration staffers who will handle the economy, energy, defence and other important sectors of governance for the nearly 100-day-old Buhari administration.

In all, the president has yet to appoint a single female, a marked difference from Mr. Buhari’s immediate predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, who had women in all major segments of government.

That has angered not a few pro-democracy and gender activists across the country. But what has alarmed critics more is the apparent lack of regional balance in the appointments, a failing Mr. Buhari has been vigorously criticised for in the past.

Details tabulated Thursday by PREMIUM TIMES show that Mr. Buhari has appointed by far more officials from Nigeria’s northern region where he comes from, in violation of federal character law.

Under the Third Schedule of the Constitution, the government must ensure “the principles of proportional sharing of all bureaucratic, economic, media and political posts at all levels of government”.

The posts referred to include those of the Permanent Secretaries, Directors-General in Extra-Ministerial Departments and parastatals, Directors in Ministries and Extra-Ministerial Departments, senior military officers, senior diplomatic posts and managerial cadres in the Federal and State parastatals, bodies, agencies and institutions.

PREMIUM TIMES chart shows that only 25 per cent of the president’s appointments are from the south while an overwhelming 75 per cent are the north.

Also, Mr. Buhari’s North West geopolitical zone, has the largest share of 43 per cent, while the South East for instance, has no appointee. (See chart below).

The appointments have sparked anger across the land, with some critics now referring to Mr. Buhari as Nigeria’s most provincial leader ever.

“Buhari is the most provincial leader Nigeria has ever had,” said Ikechukwu Amaechi, a former editor of Daily Independent and Editor-in-Chief of The Niche, in a post on his Facebook wall. “He is not fit to be President of Nigeria. How can he continue appointing top officials of government from the north? Customs, Immigration bosses, SGF, Chief of Staff all from the North?”

“If I am President Muhammadu Buhari, I would have appointed a South Easterner as SGF,” said Sunday Akoji, a public affairs commentator. “If I am Baba, I will not appoint five people from the north into sensitive positions in one day and throw one worthless carrot called SSA on National Assembly Matters to the entire South.”

The president general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Gary Igariwey, told PREMIUM TIMES he would comment on the appointments Friday.

A former governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, slammed the president for not considering an Igbo for any political appointment so far.

“I don’t understand what is going on,” he told PREMIUM TIMES in a telephone interview Thursday. “It appears Buhari has some messages for various people.

“I don’t know what to say. If it (appointment) is only for the North, it is okay.”

Yinka Odumakin, the spokesperson of Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-cultural group, said Mr. Buhari’s action poses grave danger to Nigeria.

“It is not healthy for a plural society,” Mr. Odumakin, who was once Mr. Buhari’s spokesperson, told this newspaper. “There are competent people across the nation. When you do this there can’t be a balance. We need constructive surgery, not bulldozing.”

Even for many of the president’s ardent supporters, Thursday’s announcement was one too many in a string of appointments that have become increasingly skewed.

A PREMIUM TIMES columnist, Ademola Bamidele-Olateju, who had all along backed the president, wrote on Facebook, “These all northern appointments don begin worry me. I’m getting disillusioned. It can only get worse from here.”

“These last set of appointments by Buhari are too brazenly and unacceptably lopsided in favour of the North that I can no longer defend his actions. Not this one,” Okechukwu Nwanguma, the National Coordinator at Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, posted on Facebook.

Mr. Buhari has come under consistent criticisms for his actions as Nigeria’s leader so far. In his administration’s brief tenure, he has drawn fire for his delay in forming a cabinet, and for appearing not to be in haste to fix a nation faced with gargantuan, multifarious problems.

His previous appointments too were considered disproportionate for a nation that holds together six geopolitical zones, 36 states and a federal capital territory, 774 local governments and over 250 different ethnic nationalities.

Yet, the president’s response has been anything but heart-warming, critics say. In fact, during his visit to the United States in July, that indifference approached something of defiance when he openly told Americans and Nigerians he should not be expected to offer equitable treatment to Nigerians who barely gave him votes.

President Buhari received the least number of votes in the South East and South South, the political stronghold of his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan.

It is not clear whether the appointments are in demonstration of that conviction.

But as controversy over past appointments grew last week, a former governor of Kaduna state, Balarabe Musa, urged the president to respect the federal character law.

“Those who are complaining that President Buhari is favouring the North in appointments have a strong case,” Mr. Musa told PREMIUM TIMES.

Mr. Akogi said the president has no excuse for the latest appointments.

“Don’t you dare throw the ‪competence‬‬ of the appointees in my face. Baba got this one wrong! From Baba’s body language, it is becoming obvious that he no longer “belong to everyone and belong to no one,” he said.

See full list of the president’s appointments till date:

Appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari to date:
1. Aide de Camp to president: Lt. Col Abubakar Lawal, [Kano State, North-West and husband to President Buhari’s foster daughter].

2. Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the president: Femi Adesina, [Osun State, South-West].

3. Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity: Garba Shehu, [Kano State, North-West].

4. State Chief of Protocol/Special Assistant (Presidential Matters): Lawal Abdullahi Kazaure, [Jigawa State, North-West].

5. Accountant General of the Federation: Ahmed Idris [Kano State, North-West].

6. National Security Adviser: Babagana Monguno [Borno State, North-East].

7. Chief of Defence Staff, Abayomi Olonishakin, [Ekiti State, South-West].

8. Chief of Army Staff: Tukur Buratai, [Borno State, North-East].

9. Chief of Naval Staff: Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, [Cross Rivers, South-South].

10. Chief of Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar, [Bauchi State, North-East].

11. Chief of Defence Intelligence: Monday Riku Morgan [Benue State, North-Central].

12. Director General, State Security Services, SSS: Lawal Daura, [Katsina State, North-West].

13. Acting Chairperson, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Amina Zakari, [Jigawa State, North-West].

14. Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA: Habibu Abdulahi [Kano State, North-West].

15. Special Adviser, Niger Delta Amnesty Office: Paul Boroh, [Bayelsa State, South-South]

16. Acting Director General, Nigerian Maritime Administration, Safety and Security Agency, NIMASA: Baba Haruna Jauro [Yobe State, North-East].

17. Executive Vice Chairman/ Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Communications Commission: Umaru Dambatta [Kano State, North-West].

18. Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS: Babatunde Fowler, [Lagos State, South-West].

19. Director General, Budget Office of the Federation: Aliyu Gusau, [Zamfara State, North-West].

20. Group Managing Director, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Emmanuel Kachikwu, [Delta State, South-South].

21. Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal, [ Adamawa, North East]

22. Chief of Staff to the President: Abba Kyari, [Borno, North-East].

23. Comptroller-General, Nigerian Customs Service: Hameed Ibrahim Ali, [Bauchi State, North East].

24. Comptroller-General, Nigerian Immigration Service: Kure Martin Abeshi, [Nasarawa State, North-Central].

25. Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate): Ita Enang, [Akwa Ibom State, South-South].

26. Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives): Suleiman Kawu, [Kano State, North-West].

27. Director, Department Of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Modecai Baba Ladan. [Niger, North-Central].

28. Managing Director, Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON, Ahmed Lawan Kuru. [Kano].

29. Commissioner for Insurance and Chief Executive of the National Insurance Commission, Mohammed Kari [North-West]

29. Executive Director AMCON: Kola Ayeye []

30. Executive Director, AMCON: Eberechukwu Uneze, []

31. Executive Director, AMCON: Aminu Ismail, []

32. Group Executive Director, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, []

33. Group Executive Director, NNPC, Isiaka Abdulrazaq, []

34. Group Executive Director, NNPC: Dennis Nnamdi Ajulu, [].

35. Group Executive Director, NNPC: Babatunde Victor Adeniran, [].

source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/189117-outrage-grows-across-nigeria-as-buharis-lopsided-appointments-continue.html

Oh my! I made a mistake to view this disgusting Image, now I can't get the picture off my mind

Wow am liking these appointment. I don't really mind the one-sidedness simply b'cos of the individuals appointed, they are all people with a good track record. Nigeria will definitely get better

why the increase in road accidents or maybe its 'cos social media lets us see them. may the dead RIP.

Too many fake pastors intown

This life is funny. The same will be collected from the present governor after his tenure ends

pus97:
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This is the map of Nigeria..


It is like the USA saying to Canada, That the USA give citizen to Canadian and Cameroon.

It does not mean Canada is no more a country, or that the country of Western Nigeria is no more a country. Our government have not stop in the country of western Nigeria.. when the military overthrown the government, the military did not overthrown the government of western Nigeria. it does not mean that the government of Canada have stop been the government of Canada. Western Nigeria is a country different from Nigeria.

because celine dion got USA citizen , it does not make Canada part of the USA. The country of Western Nigeria is not part of Nigeria.

Osibanjo is a person who went and cross over international bounder to get a job in the country of Nigeria. Like Barrack Obama from Kenya. Osibanjo is not president or vice president inside the country of Western Nigeria. [/size]

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/11/13/1384364534968/Celine-Dion-010.jpg?w=620&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=a67508d6bafcdc5ee1a2522538fba408

First I can't make heads or tails of your balderdash post. It makes no sense and I can't understand what you are saying when the thread is about asa and ty bello. Then you crowned your post with very bad written english

Beautiful but not breathtaking as the thread title states

kestolove95:
Wow, so romantic

You must be high on cheap drugs

Nelkoko:
APCPERSS......ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS PROPAGANDA -E- RATS SALARY SCALE

You are a funny silly dude

All these allegations coming up close to the time where we all expect fashola to have a major appointment in this new government. Obviously Tinubu has not forgotten his feud with fashola and is now using Ambode his loyalist to dig up increminating deals and issues to discredit him. We are watching to see how thing turn up

Kudos to omotola and her hubby for keeping the family together. No breakups, no scandals. Wish them the best

EgunMogaji:
Shift for one side...you and me no be mate. Go find primates in your level to correct abeg

Now who is the kindergarten? Be like say e pain u well well wen I say make u take correction. Pele o, besides this egun name, shey u be idol worshiper? Pele o

EgunMogaji:
Of course my opinion and yours should be different. It is clear that you did not understand what I wrote but unfortunately I don't write for kindergattners.

General Buhari is a Nigerian.

It is clear he and I have developed beyond wearing our faith on the cuffs of our shirts like minions like you.

Your reply is a bit funny to me. Instead of taking correction, you chose to throw insults. That's an obvious kindergarten trait. Guy learn to take corrections without being offended

Honestly I think oshiomole should focus on his responsibility as a governor and stop this show of hatred for jonathan. Its just irresponsible and childish to continue to shift blames on jonathan. Mature governors like El-rufai who hated jonathan with a passion are busy carrying out their responsibility without chasing blaming jonathan every chance they get

That babe had better run fast, else she will soon be going to register for Ante-natal (ask "gollibe")

HeartRobber:
Truth be told

Sex is good in a relationship, it nurtures relationship

Outside the right context it doesn't. sex without a commitment of love (marriage) will cause distrust and many other vices

Brightology2:
Anoda aboki

this guy must have smoked something

olukenzo:
I love this girl, I can do almost anything for her. It's not because she's a star or anything, there's just this aura about her being that pulls me.

I might leave all and be her house boy, if she agrees.

Fantasies!

MR 'aura' you dont mind being a house help for asa! that's bad o, don't you have any self worth?

lovely view

not fine, just same ol, same ol

a beautiful lady doesn't need a show of cleavage

o boy! this is a serious issue. na the marriage important not the wedding

Trailblazer1:
I am a patriot
I love and support buhari's anti-corruption stance.
I want all our looted resources to be returned, both the ones looted by APC and PDP members.

However, Since charity begins at home, I will advise buhari to first recover all the resources looted by Amaechi and Fashola(78million inclusive) and all his inner caucus, before he starts to chase Dieziani and okonjo. This will assure Nigerians thst he's not witch-hunting.



My people abi no be so

Na so o!!!!

ok so LIB flaunts boobs and black gate, irrelevant write up