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Sometimes I ask myself if Buhari really has any good advisers? The man does things and takes decisions as someone who doesn't even know what's going on around him. Nigeria really entered one chance.

We should not allow them to fool us, this is just a re-packaging of the old shit

This is the real meaning of the new SWAT

Onochie's loyalty is to Buhari not Nigeria! This is all shades of wrong. How can he appoint an apologist to INEC?! Buhari is irredeemable.

This Lauretta Onochie of a woman appears to me as someone without integrity and human sympathy. She seems like someone who can do anything and everything ( Even hurting others) to achieve her pay master's interest. She is the definition of a stooge. Appointmenting her to the post of INEC national commissioner is an aberration, because she is too partisan to be neutral.

They are still humans... My condolence to their family

This Lauretta Onochie of a woman appears to me as someone without integrity and human sympathy. She seems like someone who can do anything and everything ( Even hurting others) to achieve her pay master's interest. She is the definition of a stooge. Appointmenting her to the post of INEC national commissioner is an aberration, because she is too partisan to be neutral.

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Bkayyy:
Can't the senseless man use this energy to revive this beautiful abandoned infrastructure.

I left Aba around 26 years ago and this building was uncompleted then and still till today I am still seeing this building uncompleted. What is going on?

justicechichex:
You say wetin? Maybe the man is a billionaire!

I don't know of Prince's dad being a billionaire but I know of his son in law Emmanuel Iwanyawu being one.

Luftwaffe:
Defection loading...

Dude, did you photoshop these likes and shares I am seeing as your signature?

Prince's elder sister Frances is married to Emmanuel Iwuanyawu, she got married to him when she was just 23 years of age and Emmnuel was 73.

This news is fake. They are mixing up what FFK's third wife, the Ghanaian woman said and attributing it to Precious. I think somebody is being paid somewhere to try to portray FFK as a good husband.

Dear Femi: The Facts Speak For Themselves. You Do Not Have to Speak For Them

I watched, with considerable amusement, Femi Adesina’s interview on Channels TV on Wednesday, September 17, 2020, wherein Femi said that his boss, General Muhammadu Buhari, inherited a badly divided nation from former President Goodluck Jonathan, and has been working to unite her.

Mr Adesina said:

“As of 2015, when President Buhari came, Nigeria was terribly, terribly divided; divided along religious lines, divided along ethnic lines; divided along language, divided hopelessly, terribly and that is the division that the President had been working at.”

Well, it is true that there are some fault lines in Nigeria, as there are in many other nations, however, it is false to say that Nigeria was badly divided under Jonathan, and that General Buhari has been trying to repair that division.

In proof of this, I call Nigerians to mind that, to cement Nigeria’s unity, then President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated a National Conference on Monday, 17 March 2014, with terms of reference, which included coming up with recommendations that would help unite Nigeria.

Then President Jonathan insisted that resolutions of the National Conference be reached by either consensus, or a 75% majority threshold (3/4 majority).

Many people scoffed, and said that it was not possible to achieve that type of consensus. But President Jonathan achieved it by managing our diversity.

Over 600 resolutions were reached, by each and every ethnic nationality in Nigeria, by consensus. That this was possible is a testament to how Jonathan built the kind of unity that no other President had built before him.

Speaking during the submission of the Conference resolutions to him on Thursday, August 21, 2014, then President Jonathan said:

“When I was inaugurating the Presidential Advisory Committee in December last year, I made it very clear to the committee that it was a sincere and fundamental undertaking, aimed at realistically examining and genuinely resolving, longstanding impediments to our cohesion and harmonious development as a truly united Nation. At the inauguration of the National Conference in March, I told you the Delegates our expectations. I did say that I expected participants to patriotically articulate and synthesize our people’s thoughts, views and recommendations for a stronger, more united, peaceful and politically stable Nigeria.”

In the light of the achievements of that Conference, it does appear to be an attempt to revise history for Femi Adesina to say his boss inherited a very badly divided Nigeria from former President Jonathan, especially as General Buhari has refused to implement the resolutions of the conference. Something he would have been wont to do, if unity was truly his goal.

The fact that Nigeria is now more divided, under Muhammadu Buhari, than at anytime in her history, stems from the words and actions of Buhari himself.

Fresh from winning the April 16, 2011 Presidential election, former President Jonathan reassured those who did not vote for him by saying:

“I have no enemies to fight.”

He repeated those exact words just before the 2015 election, on Thursday, January 8, 2015.

However, when placed in a similar situation, after emerging victorious in the 2015 election, General Buhari, at an event at the United States Institute for Peace, said on July 25, 2015, as follows:

“Constituents, for example, that gave me 97% cannot, in all honesty, be treated, on some issues, with constituencies that gave me 5%.”

Those words greatly set the tone for the divisions that has been the hallmark of the Buhari years.

Under former President Jonathan, there was balance in the government. The Executive was headed by a Christian Southerner, while the Judiciary was headed by a Muslim Northerner, even as the Legislature was headed by a Christian Northerner.

The armed forces were also headed by a Northern Muslim minister of defence, a Southern Christian Chief of Army Staff, a Northern Muslim National Security Adviser, as well as a Northern Muslim Chief of Air Staff and Inspector General of Police, with a Southern Muslim head of the Navy.

However, Under General Buhari, the heads of the Executive, Judiciary, Legislature, as well as the Ministry of Defence, Army, Airforce, Police, DMI, DSS, EFCC, NIA and 90% of the headship of Nigeria’s security agencies are all Northern Muslim Males.

Where is the balance?

During Jonathan’s tenure, there was never anything like quit notice given by one region, to members of another region. Yet, on June 6, 2017, egged on by General Buhari’s nepotism, Northern youths issued a quit notice to all people of Southeastern Igbo origin to leave the Northern regions.

Former President Jonathan, though from Southern Nigeria, built 165 almajiri schools and 9 out of 12 new universities in Northern Nigeria. He also constructed the single largest infrastructural project under Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, the Abuja-Kaduna railways. Dr Jonathan focused his developmental strides in Northern Nigeria.

However, what did General Buhari do when the table turned? When fate placed him in the same position, General Buhari told the President of the World Bank to focus exclusively on the North to the detriment of the South.

On October 13, 2017, the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, said:

“You know, in my very first meeting with President Buhari he said specifically that he would like us to shift our focus to the northern region of Nigeria and we’ve done that. Now, it has been very difficult. The work there has been very difficult.”

So, flowing from the above facts, I would strongly urge Femi Adesina to have a rethink. It is quite possible that Nigeria is so divided under Buhari because people like Femi, in a bid to paint a rosy picture, fail to tell their boss the truth. This may be why the Middle Belt region recently broke away from the North politically, and formed its own union.

The truth is that Nigeria, of Friday, May 29, 2015, was a very united nation, which was why no dog or baboon was soaked in blood after the 2015 election.

But, we have seen how elections have held since then. There has been so much violence and bloodshed, to the extent that even the United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on Monday, September 14, 2020, took the unprecedented step of placing a visa ban on serving Nigerian officials.

Dear Femi, the facts speak for themselves. You do not have to speak for them.

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.

There is nothing extraordinary about the places I am seeing in these pictures.

No matter how she tries she still looks Chinese even with her modified eyes.... But as a minor does this little girl have the right to undergo such a surgery with an adult's consent?

Igbo, Igbo, Igbo..How many times did I call? I didn't wanna say it but I am tempted to say, Igbo Amaka

humilitypays:
As a company owner in Nigeria I 100% agree with you.


Majority of Nigerians lack honesty and integrity whenever money is concerned, and they take this greed, dishonesty and lack of integrity to leadership positions and government appointments.


Nigerian custom officers will all go to hell fire! Anyone of them you see in church is wasting time, they are more criminal minded than the Nigerian Police.

Same goes to FIRS staffs!


White people need to come and recolonise Nigeria till Jesus comes because we have proven to be unworthy to rule ourself


If you want people to handle your company's financial department, employ young girls that have no boyfriend and doesn't do slay mama. All those girls that look ugly and focused, employ them, but you see all those girls trying to be like Kim K at work, don't hire them, it's either they are potential criminals or they have criminal boyfriend that will pollute their mind and teach them how to steal your money


If you go to my company premises, all the girls working there are ugly looking with deeper life hairstyle, I am not foolish, I don't need slay mama in my company since I am not running a marketing business or bank that require marketing with pretty ladies to influence foolish men. During final interview I must see the applicant, if you are beautiful and dressed to kill, you have failed my interview already

This thread is quite insightful. I am making plans to come and open up a manufacturing company in Nigeria, but the issue we are discussing here has been a worry to me. Reading all the comments here, I am really learning great things here. Thanks to the Op for opening this wonderful thread.

Gerrard59:
"So far in business, I've come to realise that honesty should be elevated over competence in recruitment. You can teach someone to be competent but you can't do same to be honest.

Someone can be taught to operate a machine but not to say the truth.

Honesty over competence."

I posted that on a different social media channel few days ago. Apparently, I'm not alone. But the aspect of allowing staff to handle physical cash to deposit creates an avenue for theft irrespective of nationality. I have been advised to implement a kinda of accounting/finance system that tracks payment, so I believe the person can do same.

Can you please explain more about this accounting/finance system that tracks payment please?

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rentAcock:
Sad. Another one who has chosen to flee instead of fight.
Another Ivy league educated scholar who could change Nigeria for the better has decided to switch sides.
This is very sad, she will be remembered as a loser
She gave up because she lacks foresight

Me and my household will never flee or beg the white man for visa, greencard or citizenship. We will continue to fight and do all we can for the betterment of this country.

You are saying this because you haven't had such opportunity yet. A loser is one that'll have an opportunity to live in a place where things are done better but decides to remain in a pond where suffering is the order of the day, a place where nothing is working at all for the good of the people that live in it. Remember we all have only one life to live. No one deserves to live it out in hell.

I am tempted to say "Igbo Amaka". Just give Easterner Biafra and see how they will make the black race proud.

Nigerian Man, Obinna Ukwuani, Appointed Chief Digital Officer For Bank Of Kigali In Rwanda
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Obinna Ukwuani, a Nigerian man, has been appointed to lead digital innovation and growth as Chief Digital Officer for the Bank of Kigali, Rwanda.

Ukwuani, a former executive at Paystack, created NESA by Makers, a Lagos-based skill centre that trained people on web development.

He also founded Exposure Robotics Academy in 2011 where STEM programs were taught to secondary school pupils.

The academy coached 113 students in 17 states across Nigeria between 2011 and 2014.

In his new position, which took effect from June, he is expected to lead the Digital Factory Division for product development for the bank, BusinessDay reports.

Recall that another Nigerian man, Kaycee Madu, was recently appointed Justice Minister and Solicitor-General of Alberta, a province in Canada.

Madu was raised in South-East Nigeria, graduated from the University of Lagos with a law degree in 2001 and practiced law in the country before immigrating to Canada in 2005 with his wife.

http://saharareporters.com/2020/09/01/nigerian-man-obinna-ukwuani-appointed-chief-digital-officer-bank-kigali-rwanda
©Sahara Reporters

sinistermind:
Very stupid and tribalistic post.

That's what you call it, maybe because you are not at the receiving end. You may not know what it means to be an Igbo man in Nigeria.

Harrykn:
Oh lord, very nice of ndi igbo amaka

The should continue tribalising everything in Nigeria and run the country down ....those bright brain can't work in Nigeria with the rotten system we have here ...

My happiness is that one of those elected to serve the New Jersey Governor elect , Chief , Sir. Paully Ubah is from Ubomiri in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo state

MsAllison:
yeroba Muslims oya scream it without crying

IGBO Amaka!

You wonder why yeroba Muslims envy the great tribe igbos
mind the word "yeroba Muslims"

It is the engraved hatred of the igbo into the brain box of the Nigerian system ; that is its topido. Until that disease is removed from its membrane, its growth will ever remain stunted.

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Something good & pleasant is happening to the Igbos in the Diaspora. It seem the season to manifest her leadership abilities has finally come.What a serial positive and record-breaking appointments across the nations of the world. Glory to God

NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR-ELECT PHIL MURPHY APPOINTS THE FOLLOWING NIGERIANS INTO HIS TRANSITION TEAM: THEY ARE:

1). Chief Sir Polly Ubah, to serve under:
EDUCATION, ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITY

2). Chief Charles Ugo Eke, to serve under:
GOVERNMENT, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

3). Chief Dr. Francis Owoh, to serve under:
ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

4). Chief Dr. Iwuozo Obilor, to serve under:
HEALTH

DID YOU NOTICE SOMETHING?
THEY ARE ALL IGBO. AMAZING! None based on quota but on their worth, as well educated and cerebral gentlemen.
While the Nigerian government is recruiting Malaysians as economic advisers to help pull it out of woods, the Americans are utilizing Igbo best and brightest brains to solve their problems.

Tribalism and marginalizing Ndigbo is Nigeria's undoing.

If you want Nigeria to develop stop allowing unqualified people to lead or manage your affairs just because they are from your tribe.