₦airaland Forum

hmabdool:
IF NOT FOR PMB.
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How would you know that Patience Jonathan mama is currently spending billions of dollars even while in the grave?
How would you know that Saraki kept N1.4b to himself from Paris Club refunds and is richer than Kwara state?
How would you know that $2.1b was shared by ATM Dasuki among ranks and files?
How would you know that Wale Oke hide N4b raw cash at Ikoyi's apartment?
How would you know that someone abandoned N400m at Kaduna's Airport without looking back for the fear of EFCC?
How would you know that over N1trillion was shared every year by the subsidy cabals yet you still had fuel scarcity?
How would you know that Tompolo was paid over N43b to protect our water ways by Jonathan?
Tell me, how would you know that over N240b was spent to import rice every year thereby leaving the local farmers poor as church rats?
How would you know that Deziani embezzled billion of dollars not to talk of the 56 choice property recently forfeited to the Federal Government through the court?
How would you know that Jamb who had over the years remitted N3million now remitted N8billion to the Federation account within one year?
How would you know that Fayose collected N4.7billion from Jonathan through Obanikoro to fund his Ekiti state election?
How would you know that Nigeria Customs can generate over N300b within first quarter of 2017 compared to N3b remitted over the years?
How would you know that Atiku and company (Intel) has been stealing from Nigeria government through the NPA for past 17years?
How would you know that some judges and lawyers are encouraging corruption through perpetual injunctions and what have you?
How would you know that Stella Oduah used her maids to launder N2.4b?
How would you know that Patience Jonathan also used her maids to launder over N13b even own Hotel worth N11b in Bayelsa?
How would you know that the unscrupulous ones hide billions of dollars on farms, grave hards, suckaway pits, tanks etc.?
How would you know that Deziani bribed INEC officials with N23b in the last 2015 elections to achieve victory for Jonathan and his cronies.
How would you know that Femi Aluko (Deziani's boy boy) bought a Yatch (Boat) worth N32b.
Hmmm, how would you know, how would you know...? if not for the Best President of our time.
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Like Oliver Twist, we are surely waiting to know more even if the National Assembly refused to pass the bill you sent to them (The Anti Corruption and Special Court bill) to Prosecute the corrupt elements in our midst besides our constitution which shelter the unscrupulous elites... the high and mighty ones in our society.
We all know that the House of Assembly/House of Legislatives are part of the rots in our country and we are eagerly waiting for them comes 2019.
We also know that their end is near because the lives of innocent people that died as a result of their callous ways will hunt them down.
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PMB, God bless and guide you for us.

I didn't see the grass-cutting contract, and the $45 million found in a house in Lagos.
If not for the corrupt Buhari, we for don get the reports published a long time ago. But Buhari is a criminal who works with fellow criminals, hidding their evil, and playing politics with the so-called war on corruption. God will be the judge!
Remember the recent $25B from NNPC?
Anytime Buhari is mentioned, money go begin to miss!

Soon, very soon, Brutai will carry army invade Atiku home, and "disappear" the man and his family. Then Buhari and his supporters will start to look for Buhari all over the place!

More of the fight against corruption, but with nepotism.

http://punchng.com/insubordination-by-buharis-appointees-one-too-many/

Insubordination by President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointees against their superiors in the past two years, according to analysts, has become a recurring decimal that should be addressed, writes JESUSEGUN ALAGBE

When a strong-worded memo from the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to President Muhammadu Buhari on the actions of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru, leaked last Wednesday, not many people, perhaps, expected that such a feud had been going on between the minister and the NNPC boss.

In the memo, titled “Re: Matters of insubordination and lack of adherence to due process by the GMD NNPC – Dr. Baru,” dated August 30, 2017, Kachikwu had expressed dissatisfaction with the way Baru had repeatedly snubbed and disrespected the board of the national oil firm, which is chaired by him (the minister), as regarding decisions made by the corporation.

The letter had detailed how Baru made oil deals worth $25bn (N9tn) and also made some changes within the NNPC structure without intimating the minister and board chairman of the national oil firm’s activities.

But for the NNPC GMD’s persistent refusal to carry him along in the activities of the national oil company, Kachikwu said he would not have resorted to writing a long letter of complaint to President Buhari.

“Not only did he (Baru) not give my letter the courtesy of a reply, he proceeded to announce the appointments without consultation on board concurrence,” Kachikwu had written.

While the memo has continued to generate reactions from Nigerians and Civil Society Organisations, some have described Baru’s behaviour as “absurd” and inimical to good governance as he ought to have carried the minister along in all deals, being the national oil company’s board chairman.

However, in his defence five days later, Baru replied that no law mandated him to report to Kachikwu because the latter was just a Minister of State and not the substantive minister, that is, President Buhari.

The NNPC GMD’s response had partly read, “It is important to note from the outset that the law and the rules do not require a review or discussion with the Minister of State or the NNPC board on contractual matters.

“What is required is the processing and approval of contracts by the NNPC Tenders Board, the President in his executive capacity or as Minister of Petroleum, or the Federal Executive Council, as the case may be.”

Although the NNPC Act indicates that the Minister of Petroleum Resources (in this case President Buhari) is the NNPC board chairman, it was the President himself who, on July 4, 2016, named Kachikwu the oil firm’s board chairman.

Even though Kachikwu and Baru gave the impression they had reconciled on Tuesday at the 23rd Nigerian Economic Summit, political analysts have said there is a need for the President to stop condoning acts of insubordination by his “appointees,” which is gradually becoming a hallmark of his administration.

A United States-based political scientist and Convener, Youths Must Arise, Mr. Femi Matthews, told Saturday PUNCH via LinkedIn that it was unfortunate that Buhari was losing his goodwill as a “tough and disciplined hero.”

The political scientist noted that prior to becoming the country’s leader in May 2015, Buhari was regarded among many Nigerians at home and abroad as someone who would not tolerate any act of indiscipline or misconduct.

He said, “However, two years down the line, it is not as we expected. Personally, I believe that for every act of insubordination in this government, it has an unwritten backing of the President himself. Most of the people who have shown acts of insubordination are his people, his appointees.

“Look at Baru not having an iota of courtesy to respond to Kachikwu’s memo for a long time. It was because the latter was frustrated that he had to write Buhari, not knowing that Baru was only acting on the instructions of the President. No one is a fool. We all know what’s happening.

“If someone that the President does not like had erred, fire and brimstone would have been unleashed on the person. The President would have called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to look into the $25bn allegation raised by the minister.

“But because they know what they are doing, that’s why the President has not said anything about the matter. Now, the two men (Baru and Kachikwu) have met and agreed. What happens to the allegations raised?”

Perhaps true to Mathews’ assertion, there have been several instances of insubordination by the President’s appointees against their bosses. However, despite Buhari’s knowledge of the issues, he has yet to respond to some of them.

For instance, apart from Baru, allegations of both insubordination and corruption have also been levelled against the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, who was appointed by Buhari on June 21, 2016.

The Police Service Commission, the body responsible for police affairs in the country, had last Sunday blamed Idris for the rot in the police force, saying he did not implement the directives sent to him.

The commission had lamented that although it had constitutional powers to appoint, promote and discipline police officers, it did not have the authority to discipline “an IG who refuses to implement decisions.”

While responding to allegations of promotion scandal rocking the force, the Head, Press and Public Relations, PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, had said it was common knowledge that most times, its decisions were not implemented by the IG.

Ani further explained that the commission had given Idris guidelines that should govern his recommendations on special promotions, however, noting that all recommendations from him (Idris) on the issue had been put on hold until he complied with the PSC’s guidelines.

Still on Idris, the lawmaker representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District at the Senate, Isah Misau, had on August 26, 2017, alleged that the IGP collected about N120bn annually as payment for special security services rendered by the police to corporate organisations and very important personalities.

Saying that over 50,000 personnel involved in the act had not benefitted from the money, Misau, a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, had also alleged that the special promotion of officers by the force was fraught with corruption.

Meanwhile, some Nigerians were amazed when on Tuesday, the Federal Government, through the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, filed two separate sets of charges against Misau for spreading “injurious falsehood” against the IGP.

A Lagos-based lawyer and social commentator, Ms Kike Babalola, said she couldn’t understand why a suit would be filed against Misau for the “mind-boggling revelations.”

She said, “Sincerely, I can’t believe what’s happening in this country. Is this a joke? With all the weighty allegations against the IGP, why would the Federal Government be muzzling Misau with a lawsuit and not tell the EFCC to probe the allegations? I mean, this is really pathetic!

“Now, how would Buhari defend himself when people say his anti-corruption war is watery? To me, it is. This whole anti-graft fight is a facade. The whole scenario is becoming uninteresting to watch. This has confirmed the President’s ineptitude in combatting corruption on a large scale.”

[b]In the meantime, another instance of insubordination and corruption perpetrated by one of Buhari’s appointees was by the suspended Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf, who was appointed by the President on July 29, 2016.

Within just a year in office, Yusuf was alleged to have committed a fraud to the tune of N919m in the agency.

However, when the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, who supervises the scheme, asked Yusuf to step down for three months for investigations to be carried out, the NHIS ES snubbed the minister, saying he had no power to ask him to be suspended.

Giving a reason for his inability to comply with the minister’s directive, Yusuf said, “Except removed from office by the President under the circumstances specified in the NHIS Act, my appointment is for a period of five years. This is subject to a further term of the same period at the discretion of the President.”

Nevertheless, the minster’s directive prevailed in the end, and after investigations, a panel set up by the Ministry of Health to probe Yusuf found him culpable of the charges and in September 2017 submitted its report to the President for necessary action.

But while the President has yet to act on the panel’s report, Adewole on October 6 suspended the NHIS boss indefinitely.

Apart from his act of insubordination to the Minister of Health, Yusuf had also in April 2017 failed to carry out a directive of a committee set up by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, over an industrial crisis at the agency, regarding the secondment of 15 officers by him (Yusuf) to the NHIS.[/b]

For several weeks in March 2017 when the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), was asked by the Senate to appear before it wearing his uniform and he refused to do so, some political analysts described his behaviour as insubordination to the law-making body.

Ali had been summoned by the Senate for questioning on the controversial vehicle duty he had announced then but later suspended.

The Customs boss had also not been seen in Customs uniform since he was appointed by President Buhari in 2015.

In his view, Lagos-based political scientist, Dr. Samuel Igbobie, advised President Buhari against allowing his reputation to diminish by not acting promptly on issues of insubordination that had been committed by his appointees.

Noting that the act was fast becoming an attribute of the President’s administration, Igbobie said the situation could lead to rendering the anti-corruption war fruitless.

He said, “Insubordination is a serious problem in governance. What is even noticeable is that those who have committed the act are the President’s own men, the people he appointed. Maybe he loves them too much to be disciplined. But if that’s the case, this whole anti-corruption war is over.

“If the President is refusing to act on these issues raised by his men’s bosses, his administration will lose its reputation for anti-graft war. Of course, many people have already doubted the whole war. His inaction will make many people think of him as an ineffective leader. Then, his other appointees might take advantage of his inaction.

“They might also summon the courage to flout their organisations’ and superiors’ directives because they know they can get away with it. This is not good for his administration and the country.”

Citing an instance of the President’s inaction on negative reports about his appointees, Igbobie suggested that nothing had been done about the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, because the latter was Buhari’s man.

Lawal had been suspended on April 19, 2017, after he allegedly flouted due process and misappropriated N270m meant for the rehabilitation of persons displaced by Boko Haram insurgency and for the redevelopment of the North-East.

Probably not believing that he could be suspended by Buhari, Lawal had on the day he was suspended reacted to the development by asking journalists, “Who is the Presidency?”

Asking Buhari to stop delaying acting on reports of allegations against his appointees, Igbobie said, “It is high time the President stopped being overprotective of his men.

“If indeed he is here to fight corruption, he should show that there is no one who cannot be probed, even his closest allies. It is time for demonstration, not mere talk.”

AntiWailer:
No 25billion was missing. Stop sounding like a chronic idiot

Can u quote the part of Kachukwu's memo that says 25billion is missing ?

Take time and refute the facts, not lob childish insults.

ArmedRobber:
at times it is better to keep quiet and pretend like genius rather that making fool of yourself with stupid comment

BMC official, please rely with facts so that you can earn your allowance from your thieving patron who calls himself president, not childish insults

GoodMuyis:
My Last weekend went down with fill disappointment, where a lot of educated folks asked question "When did Military Personnel turn to Medical staff ?" that will be administering Health Service to Civilian, I guess a lot of them were used to Self/Home Treatment with Local Herbs, Local Clinic or Drug store, we should not blame the.

It was a surprise to me too the first time I visited 44 Nigeria Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna, I was to stay overnight with the patient. The next morning, it was time for routine checkup of patients, I saw this Lady/Woman between 35-40 years of age bracket, and in full military Khaki and boot, except that she did not have gun on her, came to examine/questioned the patient I stayed with. She must be a Lieutenant and one of the doctors.

Previously I Knew The Nigeria Armed Force do recruit Medical Personnel, But i did not expect them to be working/depolyed in an Hospital that admitted Civilians. So I dont want to budge you with story, below is a Very Short List of Military (NOT ALL) Clinics and Hospitals in Nigeria, believed me they are one of the best in any state. For example the 44 Nigeria Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna is said to be second best in Kaduna state after General Hospital Shika, Zaria which was among the best in Nigeria.

If you have ever visited any Military Clinics or Hospitals in Nigeria, you will know that are more friendly than our regular Medical Centers



List Source: http://www.medpages.co.za/sf/index.php?page=serviceregion&servicecode=364&countryid=22

For more info visit Defence Health Maintenance Limited Website dhmlnigeria. com

Next time Buhari wan run go London, please advice him to go to one of these useless army reference hospitals. After all Walter Reed Army Hospital, DC has been treating US presidents for years.

Handing out money, dashing people money that doesn't belong to you is corruption, and Buhari and his group found this to be an easy way to divert attention on the short run, and then pocket the major share!

Anybody remember the 2.8B naira missing when Buhari was minister of petroleum?
What about the $21B missing when he was PTF chair?
And now this $25B missing from NNPC.

His spokesmen denied that all these were missing, even in 1984 when the Nigeria's budget was about 5B naira, 2.8 B was stolen with Buhari in charge.
His government spokesmen denied, denied and denied.
Unfortunately investigative reporters like Vera Ifudu lost her job with NTA, Senate led by Olusola Saraki instituted a probe committee when Nigerians probing the loss began to be killed, or "disappeared" one by one.

Waiting for BMC members to refute this with facts, not insults and innuendos

Can someone take this child to a doctor who knows about nephrotic syndrome, quickly! To bad we are here just feasting our eyes, but doing nothing to save the baby's life.

Mikeangelo0433:
Well I feel dat if the Nigerian army wants to depopulate the south east by using a biological weapon, they would come up with something more virulent than monkey pox virus a virus that probably has an incubation period of a few minutes to a day so dat the individual who comes in contact with it dies almost immediately thereby reducing the risk of the virus being carried to other regions. However what is being peddled around is false, baseless,illogical and outrightly ridiculous .The mere fact that this rumour was bought goes to show dat the easterners do not trust the Nigerian govt and as such every move taken by them is viewed suspiciously.

You still have not told us what the army is doing in small primary schools in the first place. Defending the nation against some 5 year old kids?
In a sane clime, the army will be definitely made to answer these questions under oath.
Instead, they provide lack lustre explanations through social medial consultants like you who make things even more suspicious.

Vivere:
Are you OK?? Where was it written that the Army treated or vaccinated kids, without their parent's consent? Which parent has come out so far to say that his children were vaccinated without his knowledge?? Tell us, pls.

The Army itself has come out to deny this over and over again, but because you are so determined to believe the worst kind of propaganda and lies being peddled around, you are ready to accuse others of the worst kind of things.

If you are ever able to get your head out of the prejudiced net it's in, then please go and check if any child was vaccinated without his parent's consent or knowledge. I work with kids and would NEVER agree with anything that would jeopardize their health.

Which part of Nigeria do you work with kids, so that I never never, ever send my kids to that part of the country. Listening to you defend the criminal action of the army is outrageous!

When Buhari next asks for billions and billions of dollar loans, everyone should know where he intends to develop and focus with the money apart from his own pocket and those of his friends

If nothing is done about the where about of NK, I bet you he will not be the last opposition personality to be murdered, and his body will be " disappeared" by Buhari's army.
Nigeria is not a country where people live by principles, that's why they will not complain about the injustice done to their neighbor until they are visited by same!

Lawyers of conscience?
I'm sure they have never heard of democracy, human rights, and equity.

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That's called nepotism

God bless FFK!

ocelot2006:
Do tell how Gowon is a loser. He's administration was responsible for the defeat of Biafra, and despite he "no victor, no vanquished" speech, he was clearly the WINNER. But hey, I guess you know something we don't.

He won the war, but lost the battle to improve Nigeria!

nengibo:
Yoruba Muslims

Hoping to be Hausa/Fulani muslims when they grow up!

A "leader" like Gowon ought to have published his own account of the civil war by now, for historical and civic purposes, instead he is going around the country making stupid statements about people.

BigIyanga:
Blame game continues!! Is he disappointed in himself and northern leaders who have bequeathed nothern youth with poverty, illiteracy and hopelessness?
How about blaming northern leaders for giving us BH?

Buhari joined the so-called Borno elders in 2014 to call GEJ names for fighting BK.

Gowon, always a looser, never a leader.
A leader would have commented before Buahri army killed Nnamdi Kalu, now that the army has made NK disappear suddenly Gowon has emerged to offer his own advice--to the dead man.

Everyone knows Orji Kalu, the vulture is doing a hatchet job for his Hausa Fulani masters.
Even foreigners know that Buhari and his soldiers either killed NK, his father, and mother, and either buried or burnt their bodies, or they have them locked up in some airless dungeon right now.

The tragedy of our democracy is that those who should be asking the army to produce NK are now the ones planting fake news about how he somehow managed to escape the invading Burutai army that murdered everything on their path.

Happy Independence day Nigeria, but we are neither Independent nor free.

sarrki:
Tw Go Pint Lin Wh
‘No dialogue with separatists’

Security agents have identified the Nigerian suspected to be operating the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Paris, France, it was learnt at the weekend.

The government last week said money was being raised from some Nigerians in the diaspora to fund IPOB.

Funds were also raised from events, including a football tournament organised in Senegal, for the banned organisation.



Funds raised from the diaspora Nigerians’ donation and other sources are remitted to an account in Paris from where it is disbursed for the organisation’s activities.

The account holder was not named at the weekend.

A source said: “Security agencies are still conducting more checks before releasing the details on the fellow running the Paris, France account on behalf of IPOB and its leader.

“When the necessary investigation is completed, the findings will be presented to the French government for appropriate action in line with the laws in France.

“These agencies will also trace other accounts in some jurisdictions where funds were remitted into the Paris account.”

The proscription of IPOB has been sealed with the Federal Government’s gazette of its ban.



This puts to rest speculations of a reversal of the decision as a result of a political solution.

With the gazetting of the proscription, the group ceases to exist by the nation’s law and the government might have ruled out dialogue with Kanu.

A top government source said: “The proscription order was gazetted by the Federal Government on Thursday. So, there is no going back on our position that the organisation remains illegal.

“Whether IPOB is registered abroad or anywhere is immaterial. The most important thing we have achieved is that the terrorist group can no longer operate in this country.

“The gazette is the climax of the presidential proclamation and the decision of the court on it.

“Any Nigerian or group associating with IPOB is doing so at a greater risk.”

Asked if the Federal Government would dialogue or negotiate with the IPOB leader, the source said: “No government will relate with a terrorist organisation. Certainly, any talk of dialogue is remote.”

Following an ex-parte motion by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of JusticeAbubakar Malami (SAN), Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court Justice Abdul Kafarati, last week granted the proscription request.

He restrained “any person or group of persons from participating in any of the group’s activities”.

He ordered the AGF to ensure the publication of the IPOB proscription order in the official gazette and in two national dailies.

He ruled: “That an order, declaring the activities of the respondent – Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) – in any part of Nigeria especially in the South-East and South-South regions of Nigeria amount to acts of terrorism and illegality, is granted.

http://thenationonlineng.net/security-agencies-unmask-ipobs-paris-account-holder/

I missed when the proscription of IPOB was debated, voted for, and adopted by the national assembly, then signed into law by the president, before being gazzetted. I smell too much military dictatorship!

Making more sense now

SalomonKane:
How did they know the mosque is yoruba? Never knew mosques now have tribes who patronise it alone.

Never heard about fake news?
This is it. They want to divert attention away from the peaceful young men killed to this trash!

^^^^
Ok?

-By Wale Akinola

The ongoing destructive ‘Python Dance’ of the Nigerian troops in the South-east states of Nigeria is easily the most futile conceivable strategy for defeating the growing Biafra consciousness in Igboland. It’s a thought police witch-hunt operation. And it is destined to end in a shameful retreat like all brawny wars waged against persuasions rooted in hearts and minds. The barbarous militarization of the reasonably quiet geopolitical zone is a bald-faced abuse of the Nigerian army. Emptying the barracks into civilian space in the absence of a present or imminent security threat is creating a gladiatorial arena for no just reason.

It should never have happened because it is unconstitutional for the president of Nigeria to deploy troops on a whim. And even if were, it's an repulsive course of action because its atmospherics cannot but help solidify the case for Biafra 2.0, radicalize the youths of the region, and create the perfect storm that didn’t exist before the soldiers’ siege. The ‘Python Dance’ does not have any perceptible prospect of getting Igbo heartland over a barrel. It can only be counterproductive. It will lend momentum to Nnamdi Kanu’s cause, enlarge his support base, and enhance his profile as an ordained prophet-leader of Biafra’s second exodus.

The ‘Python Dance’ panacea is a dumb idea. The only way it begins to make sense as a present-day reality understands that it is a dramatic product of the intersection of the Biafra paranoia of President Muhammadu Buhari and the snake fetishism of his army chief, General Tukur Yusuf Buratai. President Buhari is sick from Biafra. He is obsessed with Biafra. He dreads Biafra, nourishes that dread, and makes his nightmares out of its intangible essence. Buhari is so tormented by a seemingly ubiquitous apparition of Biafra that he is expressing and exercising that fear as state policy. He is radiating that fear like a distressed coward vested with military omnipotence. He is transmitting that fear as a command, making his anxiety the lived experience of other people.

The current siege on Igboland stemmed from Buhari’s desperate need to attack his own Biafra paranoia. He fears that if he hesitates to preemptively destroy Biafra, Biafra will destroy him. He believes the only pro-Biafra activists that can't haunt him and aggravate his fears are the ones killed in cold blood. Buhari unleashed Nigerian soldiers on Igboland in a bid to annihilate the fear he harbored within. The facts on the ground did not demand the deployment of a trigger-happy army of occupation to the South East. But he had to validate his Biafran paranoia by dispatching the military. President Buhari’s short broadcast on his return from London, after 104 days in medical exile, was all about the putative unity of Nigeria and how Biafra would secede over the dead bodies of its canvassers.

Of the myriad issues that needed to be addressed, he laser-focused on Biafra. He prioritised and singularised it. As far he was concerned, it was the most serious problem of Nigeria because it represented his greatest private headache. During his first briefing with military chiefs, he gave them marching orders to destroy ‘threats to national security and unity’. And by that, he meant Biafra. The Biafra he never tires of vowing to ‘crush’.

Fortunately, he has a brutal automaton for chief of army staff. Buratai is in sync with his commander in chief’s anti-Igbo hate. And he received the instruction as another chance to immortalize himself as a militant agent of the Grim Reaper. In November last year, he launched ‘Operation Python Dance 1’ in the five South East states. He rationalized the provocative militarization as a mission necessitated by ‘’violent agitations by separatist groups’’. That was a false pretext for invading the Igbo space and assaulting the sensibilities of the people. There were no violent agitations in Igboland at the time. Buratai’s relaunch of his ‘Python Dance’ consequent upon Buhari’s order scarcely lasted 24 hours before claiming its first innocent causalities: 3 dead and 20 severely wounded. By Buratai’s standards, this figure from the army’s raid of Nnamdi Kanu’s residence is nothing.

It’s nowhere close to his Zaria overkill. The military occupation of the South East has now thrown parts of the zone into turmoil, with civilians mustering some forms of resistance. This is a needless crisis. It is a case of making trouble for the fun of it. The codename of the military operation, ‘Python Dance’, reveals that its purpose is to satisfy an expensive taste.
General Buratai is a snake fetishist who takes pride in indulging his fantasy. He is cashing in on his headship of the Nigerian army to eternalize his fascination for snakes. General Buratai keeps the statuette of an Egyptian cobra on his official desk. He farms snakes. He takes selfies with snakes. He feels an affinity for snakes. He launched ‘Python Dance’ to assert himself. For some reason, Buratai derives a sense of meaning from snakes. His pursuit of a ‘Python Dance’ is a quest to ensure to ensure that his life counts. It’s an attempt to secure historical significance.

Buratai has purported to ‘kill’ Abubakar Shekau many times. He has declared Boko Haram defeated countless times. But both Shekau and the death cult he leads continue to exist and kill with abandon. Buratai recently set for himself a 40 day target to get Shekau dead or alive. That deadline passed without any incident. Shekau was not captured. And Buratai did not resign. In fact, after Buratai failed to make good on his promise to capture or kill Shekau, Nigeria’s most serious threat, Buhari rewarded the army chief with the easier task of terrorizing civilians of South East Nigeria.

The spoiled general has seized that face-saving, achievable challenge as an opportunity to execute a snake-themed military operation. Nnamdi Kanu was a mere source of bombast on a pirate radio station until President Buhari made him a folk hero. Buhari’s arrest and incarceration of Kanu turned him into a martyr and phenomenon. He is now the most popular Igbo man alive.

It furthers the perception that Nigeria continues to maintain a policy of hostility against Igbo people after the 30 month-long civil war that wasted 3 million Biafrans. The deaths and human violations resulting from the operation will inevitably multiply the grievances that are fueling the agitation for Biafra’s secession from Nigeria.

The siege on Igboland is legitimizing Kanu’s quest for Biafra’s self-determination. His house arrest will make him a prisoner of conscience. Every state sponsored act of intimidation helps his cause. 'Python Dance' is snake oil. It will avail Nigeria nothing. Except romancing Buhari's paranoia and his army chief's snake fetish.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/1125304-nigerian-army-shooting-ipob-members-claim.html

senatordave1:
Katsina wasnt created from kaduna.in pakistan,afghanistan,iraq and iran which mostly deserts,they are heavily populated.census in nigeria is like elections,every area rigs.i was an npc official in 2006 in the south so i know.as of then,kano was more populous than lagos.dont forget that kano is more than 10 times bigger than lagos,is the commerci city of ths north and has been existing as a city and international centre of connerce hundreds of years before lagos became a city and kano has a birth rate of 7 per woman.

I beg, don't talk about reliability of Nigerian census, until you show me figures that are supported by other population figures such as birth/death rates, marriages, divorces, school enrollments, and most importantly tax base and collection.
As long as you base census on square meter areas of empty desert lands, sharing of federal income, and a political tool for immediate gratification, nobody, and I mean nobody really believes the numbers, unless those it had been skewed to benefit.

Buhari wants to establish another national carrier that will die one year after taking people to hajj free of charge?

senatordave1:
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF PUBLIC SERVICE
REFORMS:
Dr Joe Abah.
STATISTICS OF
EMPLOYMENTS INTO OUR PUBLIC SERVICE.
An attempt to simplify the raw stats/
(A). EMPLOYMENT INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE
1. NE Population 19.0m PS - 7,793
2. NW Population 35.8m PS - 8,806
3. SE Population 16.4m - 16,540
4. NC Population 20.3m PS- 17,661
5. SS Population 21.0m PS -18,038
6. SW Population 27.6m - 19,620
To appreciate these figures, it is necessary to
find out how many employees are taken from
every 1 million people in each of the geographical zones.
The result is:
1.SE has 1,009 Employees per million
2. NC has 970 Employees per million.
3. SS has 859 Employees per million.
4. SW has 711 Employees per million.
5. NE has 410 Employees per million.
6. NW has 246 Employees per million.
Here one can see that SE Zone has
over 1000 people engaged in the public service
of Nigeria in every 1 million Igbo people
whereas only 246 people are engaged in NW. Remember that this is the Zone of the
President of Nigeria. Curiously SW, the
Zone of the Vice President is the least in
Southern Nigeria with the employment of 711
people in a million.
It is pertinent to see the trend as regards
Political Office holders. Probably, those that
lost out in the Public Service, are compensated
with Political offices. Let's perform sample
surgical operation on the political employees.
(B). POLITICAL APPOINTEES.
We all have the statistics of political appointees
of the current Buhari administration.
1. NW has 51 political appointees from 7 states
2. NC has 47 political appointees from 6 states.
3.NE has 45 political appointees from 6 states
4. SW has 45 political appointees from 6 states
5. SS has 45 political appointees from 6 States.
6. has 41 political appointees from 5 states.
This translates to:
1st. SE: 2.50 appointees in a million.
2nd. NE: 2.37 appointees in a million.
3rd. NC: 2.34 appointees in a million.
4th. SS: 2.14 appointees in a million.
5th. SW:1.63 appointees in a million.
6th. NW:1.42 appointees in a million.
Alternatively
1st. SE: has 1 appointee in every 400,000.
2nd. NE: has 1 appointee in every 422,000.
3rd. NC: has 1 appointee in every 427,000.
4th. SS: has 1 appointee in every 467,000.
5th. SW: has 1 appointee in every 614,000.
6th. NW: has 1 appointee in every 704,000.
Once again topping the list of Beneficiary is
South East with one political appointee for
every 400,000 people.
As if it is an intentional act, NW, from whence
the President hails has the least of 1 political
appointees for every 704, 000 people while the
figure for Osinbajo's Zone is 614,000 and is the
least in the South.
THIS IS NOT MY DEFINITION OF
"MARGINALIZATION" BEING PEDDLED BY SOME NIGERIANS. TRHAT INFACT THE
IGBOS ARE THE BIGGEST
BENEFICIARIES GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA.

The census figures are even worse fabrication of numbers than the so-called civil service figures. It's a joke when someone tells you that Kano is more populous than Lagos even after the creation of Katsina, or that Nigeria is the only country in the World where the desert regions are more populated that the dense forest regions.
Bottom line, Nigerian census figures are a farce, just like the criminal army constitution of 1999.
Why did you change the parameters from "QUALIFIED APPLICANTS" to the so-called population.
So, my friend keep dribbling, confusing others, and being dishonest with stats.

Lajet:
The apex Igbo sociopolitical organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has again accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being bias in his appointments.

Ohaneze cited the recent reorganisation at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, saying that the Southeast has again been sidelined.

According to Ohanaeze, this is exactly why youths in the region are no longer comfortable being called Nigerians.

The Ohaneze’s position was part of a statement signed by its President General, Chief John Nwodo in Abuja on Sunday.

Nwodo said, “Ohaneze is appalled at the consistent and unrepentant disposition of disdain for the South-East by Buhari administration as copiously displayed in the recent reorganisation at the NNPC.

“Ohaneze had thought that after the President’s declaration in a broadcast recently that Nigeria unity had been settled and not negotiable, that he would take all necessary actions in his governance to achieve it, but the recent NNPC shake-up has not shown that the administration is walking its talk.

“Buhari administration, has shown in the new managers just announced tilting clearly in favour of the North, with the South-East totally ignored, as has always been the case since Buhari administration came to office.

“This brazen disregard, marginalization and non-compliance with the Federal character provisions in our constitution are the causes of lack of confidence which our youths have in our present governance structure.

“As long as President Buhari continues to live out his speech abroad that his government will favour those who voted 97 per cent for him against those who voted 5 % for him so long will the dissatisfaction and unrest in our polity subsist.”

http://dailypost.ng/2017/09/03/buhari-shown-hatred-igbos-nnpc-appointment-ohaneze

Why not Ohaneze sue Buhari to court