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fallout87:
Intelligent and well thought out message from a president who has wished the best for Nigeria.

A president who didn't try to intimidate or jail APC members and Buhari to keep them from election..

A president who believed so much in democracy he didn't even challenge his loss, called and congratulated Buhari.. even though there was significant proof of rigging in the north...

A president who didn't want any bloodshed.. unlike the murderous fundamentalist Buhari who started rampage killings with his bitter utterances every time he lost in the past.

Jonathan’s War Against Media Enters Second Day …Impounds Major Newspapers, Circulation Vehicles, Arrest Drivers


The President Goodluck Jonathan regime on Saturday continued its onslaught on the media by impounding packs of major newspapers, their circulation vehicles and arresting drivers.

The clampdown, which began on Friday, entered its second day on Saturday with greater ferocity. Our correspondents, who monitored developments round the country, report that early on Saturday morning, soldiers stormed newspaper distribution centres in the Federal Capital Territory and other parts of Nigeria.

In Abuja, Saturday Punch could not distribute early because soldiers barricaded the newspaper distribution centre at Garki, ‘Area One’, marching out newspaper marketers, distributors and vendors around 2am.

This was similar to what happened on Friday when soldiers and officials of the State Security Service tore wrappers of The Punch at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, damaging copies of the newspaper in the process.

On Saturday, the armed soldiers prevented marketers from offloading newspapers from distribution vans that brought the papers to the centre.

The military men searched each of the marketers, distributors and vendors, before allowing them to enter the centre.

The situation worsened around 7am, when the soldiers ordered them to go home, declaring that they would not allow distribution of the newspapers.

When the workers of the media houses and distributors assembled near the centre, the soldiers dispersed them, threatening to deal with any one who failed to leave the area.

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Newspaper Distributors in Abuja, Mr. Oladipupo Moses, said the distribution vans in the custody of the soldiers included those of The Guardian, Leadership, Thisday, Daily Trust, Sun, Pilot, Newswatch and The National Mirror.

Oladipupo said the soldiers led by an officer in a green tracksuit said henceforth, all distributors and vendors must operate with identity cards.

He said, “They impounded all our distribution vans. The soldiers then searched all of us. They didn’t allow us to distribute newspapers.”

http://www.thegazellenews.com/2014/06/08/jonathans-war-against-media-enters-second-day-impounds-major-newspapers-circulation-vehicles-arrest-drivers/

IgbosAreOsus:
Woe betide you Jonathan.
You Jonathan championed the precedence of looting, Embezzlement and corruption.
You are a thief.

Fuckyoumod:
Useless Government....

Nigeria is in grave Danger.

A new Tyrant is in town, why did he not go after them before now??

If you dare criticise this government, you become a suspect of one crime or the other.

What a mockery...

dainformant:
A man has narrated how violence would have erupted today at Onitsha Main Market in Anambra state after a Hausa man allegedly fought with a group of Igbo men following a disagreement. Ekwegbalu Nnamdi who witnessed the incident - took to Facebook to narrate what happened. Read below;

An ordinary incidence would have deteriorated into a violent demonstration today in Onitsha Main Market. And the incidence was as follows: a certain Hausa man allegedly was said to have been beaten by a group of Igbo men, reason being that he allegedly threw a metal pipe at a group of persons merely because they had asked him to carry his load with ease. Angrily some of those men resorted to fighting the Hausa man.

The Hausa man however, speedily ran to the barracks to bring military men. The soldiers without hesitation landed in the market and bundled a certain unsuspecting man into their truck. The man allegedly wasn't part of the incidence, but was unlucky to have been found at the scene of the incidence as of the time the soldiers arrived.

In response to the action, the people demonstrated that truly "Igwebuike" {Unity is Strength}. They quickly rallied round the military truck and refused that it would bundle this innocent Civilian to the barracks with them.

The soldiers however started threatening to invock violence. The matter would have gotten exponentially worse, as the people were determined to see to it that the worse happened, citing the injustice which daily is being meted on the Igbo race: from Boko Haram attacks, to the onslaught by Fulani Herdsman. They then wondered, how it is that these soldiers who were heavily armed responded quickly, merely because it was there fellow Hausa who brought the complaint.

As the tension continued to escalate and more people gathered to the scene, whereas the soldiers were equally undeterred. The chairman of Onitsha Main Market, Chief Ikechukwu Ekwegbalu swiftly intervenened, by descending to the arena like a Lion, requesting that the matter be brought to his office without delay, and with wisdom presided over the issue.

Long story cut short, the man was eventually not taken to the barracks as planned. Lesson to learn, when there is a strong leadership it acts as a deterrent to chaos. But then a point to ponder: Do these soldiers really react this speedily when a man who is not their kinsmen brings a report of an injustice to them or was it merely motivated by ethinic sentiment?

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/05/man-reveals-what-happened-after-fight-between-hausa-man-and-igbo-men-in-onitsha.html

BakireBulmaker:
Don't be a stubborn goat!

Obasanjo and GEJ actually laid the foundation of whatever power improvement we are having today.

The foundation of a building is never seen or appreciated. Yet it is the most important part of a building and a lot goes into its construction.
Same goes for the power sector.

deji68:
and your useless baba is giving us light abi ?

deji68:
Well, 10 Power Plants completed between 1999-2015 OBJ(4) GEJ (6) .....Baba should show us the ones he completed or keep quit

ChaleeBendel:
Another proof Nigeria needs someone with quality education than the present one with NEPA certificate.

Here in this channelsTV video is an energy expert debunking Buhari's allegation.
Go school Buhari refuse, see ya life?

watch?v=GANtJEhqB8M

The 3,050MW Mambilla power project stayed on the drawing board for 30 years/Tthrough OBJ's 8 years in office and while the same OBJ spent $16 billion on 2,520MW, PMB is constructing the same 3,050MW Mambilla power project for $5.79 billion, way less than half of the $16 billion OBJ spent on 2,520MW.

aolawale025:
No wonder. Its from the APC news letter

The 2009 Report of the then Ndudi Elumelu panel was submitted to Bankole.

It said that $13.278 billion was spent on power projects between 1999 and 2007.

The committee recommended the termination of 13 contracts and the review of 10 others.

According to the report, about 15 contracting and consulting companies were to be investigated by the appropriate agencies.

These highlights were contained in the report of the committee on Power Generation Transmission and Distribution between June 1999 and May 2007.

The Elumelu Committee was put in place by the House on January 31, 2008.

PVision2020:
Reno is just encouraging the liberal northerners to vote for Buhari. You can't keep insulting the north and expect their vote in return.
I've said is time and over that there is largely no difference between APC and PDP, the only difference is that APC is more smart and clever than PDP.

2019 Election is going to be an easy one for buhari. The landslide victory will be so alarming.
#Markmywords.

HotMata:
This is hate speeches at its fullest.
can you both just start to reason better and see the good things we have in this nation?? and stop calling each other names please..

NaijaMutant:
Buhari's irresponsible, nepotistic, despotic, tyrannic and bigoted government could make anyone go insane

I'm fighting really hard to keep my sanity even though buhari is a cow

somehow:
What has Christianity turned to in Nigeria?

NaijaMutant:
Buhari's irresponsible, nepotistic, despotic, tyrannic and bigoted government could make anyone go insane

I'm fighting really hard to keep my sanity even though buhari is a cow

LochOtieno:
when next u type, try and used the required punctuations.

stop masturbating on people's words.

Notable absentees to the event were all south east governors, Along with those governors – Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state, Rochas Okorocha of Imo state and Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state – were two others as Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state and Nyesom Wike of Rivers state.

LochOtieno:
try and add fullstop full stop next time after typing.

LochOtieno:
must u people masturbate every igbo thread

u not needed....why are u here...
only those that matters are here....

is igbo summit abeg...

Firefire:
Useless government of blamer and bucks passing m.

The 2009 Report of the then Ndudi Elumelu panel was submitted to Bankole.

It said that $13.278 billion was spent on power projects between 1999 and 2007.

The committee recommended the termination of 13 contracts and the review of 10 others.

According to the report, about 15 contracting and consulting companies were to be investigated by the appropriate agencies.

These highlights were contained in the report of the committee on Power Generation Transmission and Distribution between June 1999 and May 2007.

The Elumelu Committee was put in place by the House on January 31, 2008.

“From the assessment done during the committee’s tour of the project sites, it is safe to conclude that no meaningful progress was made in the execution of power contracts.

“It is curious and quite strange that officials rush to pay contractors in full even before engineering design for the projects have been completed and approved.

EastGold:
Biased judge

The same judge granted Nyako his request to have himself treated abroad and for a case above N10B

Why denying Metuh the same request for just N400M?

“Although, he said he was unafraid and would not bend, the President’s concern, and fear on the part of many, is that if a corrupt Leader takes over, it will be happy days all over again for former Oil Minister, Diezani Alison-Maduekwe, who has so far forfeited USD153 million, N23.4 billion, USD4 million, and USD 5 million, in separate accounts.

“’Change the Change’ would mean she will get the money back. So would the former Managing Director of the Maritime Agency, NIMASA, get back GBP 578,080 seized from him, and the Ikoyi apartment owners have back their USD 43.4 million; N23 million, and GBP 27,800.”

BakireBulmaker:
Don't be a goat!

I said I don't have time to start searching for links. I don't do such on Nairaland.

Rather, Tunde Bakare made the assertion and backed it up with figures and I saw it here on Nairaland.

Are you doubting me or Tunde Bakare

What will you do after I show you evidence?
Will you repent of your aboooki asslicking lifestyle