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Plus10: You should have also asked:Apc said pdp is corrupt,why then do they accept their defectors?

For your info both of them are thesame apart from the acronyms that form them.

An0nimus: Still strolling?

proudlysports: Bellerin actually plays midfield for the U21 team though he started out as RB. He is very good with the ball at his feet but needs to improve as defender.

As for playing him in midfield, I don't want what happened to Eboue to happen to him . Bellerin is still very young and hence has time to learn. If he can master the art of defending, he'll be an excellent RB probably amongst the best.

But in terms of going foward as a RB, I can say he's better than Jenko already

Tvegas: Why do blacks hate themselves so much. We need to take a cue from the European union, a Spanish man can relocate to UK and he will be welcome. However the few countries making progress like Ghana and south Africa always allow things to get into their head. Look at how ordinary SA that was traumatized with apartheid keep chasing Zimbabweans and Nigerians, Ghana was also hostile to Nigerian businesses back then.

HAH: Middle belt is just another name for Christian northerners association, if not how can someone from Michika or Biu be claiming middle belt, kwarans don't call themselve middle belt they either align with west or call themselves north central ,same with Niger people they don't call themselves middle belt but north central, the only states that call themselves middle belt are those from former Benue-Plateau state.

And I repeat Middle belt is an opportunistic Body depending on where the pendulum swings, if a northerners is president they are northerners if not they are against north.

Most of your so called Middle Belt leader were made who they are by northerners, including Onoja ,Mark,Jang check your history books tell me one Middle belt leader that has not benefited from northern leadership.

Itoroetti: this sectionalism doesnt help us at times

Nigeria has decided to suspend its diplomatic tussle with Ghana over the alleged deportation of Nigerian businessmen from the country following the intervention of the Economic Community of West African States.

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa confirmed this to SUNDAY PUNCH.

Ghana had slammed foreign businessmen, mostly Nigerians, with a $300,000 (N46m) business establishment fee and allegedly sent those who could not pay packing.

Dabiri-Erewa however, told our correspondent in an interview, that ECOWAS had called for a negotiation between the countries.

She said, “Ghana has rescinded the decision and the negotiations would last for four months. We hope we will reach a mutual understanding within the period.”

A text message notifying her of the suspension was forwarded to our correspondent.

It read, “The task force, charged with the responsibility to close shops, is made up of the officials of Ghana’s Registrar-General’s Department, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, Ghana Revenue Authority, Immigration, Ghana Police Service, Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“Representatives of these agencies, as well as journalists had gathered at the Ministry of Trade in Accra on Monday, June 25, 2012 for the closure exercise. Suddenly, the Director of Communication, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Mr. Nana Akrasi Sarpong, emerged and announced that the exercise had been called off for now.

“While this was going on, the Vice-President, Ghana Union of Traders Association, Mr. Daniel Aggrey, angrily dashed in to oppose the suspension of the exercise. We believe the call-off is temporary.”

Dabiri-Erewa had recently led a delegation to the Deputy Senate President and Speaker of the ECOWAS parliament, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu to register a complaint over Ghana’s policy.

According to her, the Ghanaian Parliament’s law which states that Nigerians must have the $300,000 before they can run a business in Ghana is unfair.

She said, “Most of these Nigerian traders in Ghana, deal in small goods like CDs, videos, cassettes. For anyone to ask them to bring $300,000 before they can set up a petty business is a bit hypocritical.

“Even if the traders come together, I don’t think they will get N46m to do business there. Ghana should not take us back to 28 years ago when we had issues in West Africa.”

The Ghana Investment Promotion Council had first introduced the fee on November 28, 2007. The council was alleged to have sealed-up hundreds of shops that were not able to pay the fee for more than 20 months.

It would be recalled that South Africa and Nigeria had been embroiled in a diplomatic feud in March, 2012, after authorities at the Oliver Thambo Airport, Johannesburg deported 125 Nigerians, alleging that their yellow fever vaccination cards were not genuine.

Nigeria had, in return, deported 84 South Africans within two days.

customized13: didn't hear of this, well, i stand to be corrected.

customized13: i think the poster is wrong, nigerians are a major investors in ghana, to some extent ghana was lenient.

HAH: My problem with your so called middle. Belt is your opportunism, if today power comes back to the north the same middle belters will start saying they are arewa people. You better take a stance

Barely a week after the apex socio-political group in the North, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) publicly reprimanded one of its leaders and former military administrator of Plateau and Katsina states, General Lawrence Onoja, for visiting the Presidential Villa in Abuja along others to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 election, the forum has again come hard on the Benue State born retired military officer.

The ACF has removed Onoja from all leadership positions and in his place appointed another retired military officer, General A. B. Mamman.

One of such committees, chaired by the ex-military administrator before his sack, is the ACF’s harmonisation sub-committee on North Central, which was set up to unify all major groups in the North, especially the forum and the Northern Elders Forum (NEF).

This is even as facts have emerged on how frontline Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, allegedly tricked some of the leaders who attended the controversial endorsement meeting to the presidential villa.

Saturday Sun had last weekend reported how Gen. Onoja was rebuked by the ACF national chairman, Alhaji Aliko Mohammed, during the body’s annual general meeting in Kaduna, where angry youths also mobbed him, for allegedly joining some leaders on a visit to President Jonathan in the villa, where they endorsed him to re-contest in 2015.

An angry ACF chairman had declared, in his remarks at the AGM: “ We noticed with dismay that some members of this organisation have gone to the president and assured him that he must contest in the 2015 election. We are really surprised that some members that went there are also members of ACF. It is very sad that the Presidency has employed the divide and rule tactics against the North.

“I am speaking particularly of two gentlemen; the two gentlemen I am referring to, one is in ACF and the other is of Northern Elders Forum. The person in ACF is retired General Lawrence Onoja. He was actually part of the group that went to see the president. Also, one of the elders, Senator John Wash Pam, was there.

“It is the considered view of ACF that starting politics of 2015 is too early. It is counter-productive. Apart from heating up the polity, such early start can distract from governance, more so that INEC is yet to give the green light for political activities to begin.

“We were surprised that they have gone to see the President, particularly Onoja that is here with us in ACF. We have gone with Onoja to every meeting we have held, and he turned round to say the President must contest in 2015, using the word, must.”

After Mohammed’s remarks, journalists were excused from the meeting, after which other leaders took on Onoja.

A source at the meeting revealed that an opportunity was given to the former military governor to offer the forum an apology but instead he chose to defend his visit to the presidential villa, citing his fundamental human rights, as enshrined in the nation’s constitution as grounds of his defence.

This posture, youth leaders in the meeting took for arrogance and mobbed Onoja calling him such names as “sell out”, “you’re broke”, “inconsistent leader” among others . It was learnt that it took the intervention of some ACF leaders, especially Senator Joseph Waku, to calm the angry youths who wanted to lynch the retired Army General.

Waku was said to have succeeded in prevailing on angry members at the meeting to consider the implication of any fracas, stressing: “Those who want to divide us will be happy.”

The ACF national vice chairman, it was gathered, thereafter, asked Onoja to stand on his feet, while he (Waku) apologised to the Forum on his behalf.

Onoja however, told journalists last week Friday that though Jonathan has constitutional rights to contest 2015 presidential election, he never at any time endorsed him under the platform of ACF but under the umbrella of Middle Belt Forum (MBF), stressing that ACF’s accusation that he endorsed the President for 2015, on its behalf, lacked every iota of facts and figures.

He said that as a Nigerian he has every right to visit the president whenever he wanted to visit him, adding that nobody could stop him from visiting the nation’s seat of power. He said he would not apologise to ACF for what he did not do against the Forum, stressing that whoever apologised on his behalf must have done so out of elderly responsibility and wisdom for peace to reign.

In his words: “It is completely false that I told Jonathan on behalf of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to contest 2015 election; it is a misinterpretation of the fact. I am a member of ACF. I am a very active member for that matter, and this was attested to by the Chairman during the AGM meeting.

“And so for anybody to say that I went on a mission to endorse the President, the person does not have the fact before his conclusion on me. And let me also add that the president is a Nigerian. He is the elected president of Nigeria as of now, and he has the right to contest for his second tenure, and that is completely in his hand, it is not in anybody’s hand, he has the right under the constitution to seek second term.

“As far as I am concerned, I’m a Nigerian who has the fundamental rights to choose to do whatever I want to do. I went to see the president as part of the people of North central and elders of the Middle Belt Forum. And when I went there I didn’t say anything to the press nor did I grant press interview. So if anybody issued a statement regarding the document, it is the person they should call and hold him responsible.

“But for anybody to hold me responsible for any endorsement, that person does not have the facts. I have every right to visit the president any time I feel like doing so because the president is the president of the whole country.

“I did not apologise to ACF over the matter, it was Senator Joseph Waku who apologised on my behalf. My reaction to that apology is that if I were to apologise directly I wouldn’t have apologised because I have no apology. After all, I had already left the venue when he apologised. However, as an elder, Waku must have intervened in a matter that involved me in the ACF, where I am a member.

“As far as I am concerned, the president is my president; he is my Command-In-Chief, and I reserve the rights as a Nigerian to visit the villa at any time I feel to do so.

“It must be remembered that as at today, the president is in a different party, and I am in a different party. As the president of the alumni association of National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, an outfit directly supervised by the president, I therefore, from time to time, go to the Villa to consult with the president or the vice president on issues relating to the administration of NIPPS along with the alumni association which is an outfit of that big institute.”

The above statement by Onoja was said to have further irked the ACF leadership, which this week decided to sack the former military administrator from all committees either as chairman or member.

The decision to remove Onoja, who has been noted to be an active member of the forum, from all positions of responsibilities in the body, was confirmed by the ACF’s national vice chairman, North Central, Senator JKN Waku, who however, said all moves to communicate the decision to the retired General had so far failed because he could not be reached since the incident in Kaduna last week.

According to Waku, “He (Onoja) is my younger brother. I brought him to ACF. Whatever he did wrong, it is my responsibility to plead for him. And I am sure he appreciated my intervention at the meeting because he called me last week Thursday night to thank me for my intervention. I have tried my best to save him from this embarrassment, but he came out to boast that he had no apology to offer, which is tantamount to ridiculing me.”

When asked why Senator Pam Wash, who also attended the meeting with Jonathan, has not been punished, like Onoja, Waku said: “Pam had offered explanations and apologies at a pre-AGM meeting on how he was tricked to the villa.”

A source said that Chief Clark had invited some of the leaders, who attended the endorsement meeting, claiming that, “President Jonathan wanted them to come so that he can appreciate them for the votes given him by Middle Belt people in the 2011 election.”

However, an ACF chief stated: “It’s unfortunate that they could be so easily tricked for whatever price,” while confirming the excuse as part of explanations given by Onoja and Pam for attending the villa meeting.

http://www.ekekeee.com/arewa-consultative-forum-sacks-senior-general-onoja-endorsing-jonathan-2015/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

dayokanu: Shey na wetin una dey call Buwaye be this?

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But US sources explain that the non-inclusion of Nigeria from this (APRRP, “A-Prep is likely as a result of the allegations against the Nigerian military and security agencies regarding human rights abuses and violations in their operations especially in the ongoing insurgency in the Northeastern part of Nigeria.



In fact, the US Congress under what is known as the Leahy amendment, is outlawed from supporting any military that is known to be involved in gross acts of human rights violations and abuses. Notably during the just concluded US-Africa Summit, the Amnesty International (AI) released a very damning footage that alleged serious human rights abuses and violations against the Nigerian military. But often times the Nigerian military has denied such allegations.

Truckpusher: This your grammer grammar sha!

Ibnsultan: Hmmmm. Allow the gentlemen to fufill their oat

MeAboki: Well said; any region would have its own peculiar problem, like you rightly implied, relating to failed leadership.
Please don't mind the OP; we already know his politics, he is a disgruntled element playing hard to identify with where he does not belong and would never be accepted - a political orphan, stranded in no mans-land; like the hapless quoted almajiri, unable to find his way home.
@OP:
My man from NOK but taking refuge in southern Kaduna, its seems your culture of burkutu and dog meat had taken its toll on you yet again; yeah, since when did a ROSS ALABO-GEORGE become a typical example from the core north - couldn't you have done better?

edoyad: Are you of those who abhours discussing the religious extremism in the core North with someone from there, answers like " it's the president and the south sponsoring the terrorists"? Well, some reactions on Facebook show that some core Northerners are not towing the El Rufaiesque and Co bull crap of looking at the things, they know failed leadership played the key role.
Read the comment and responses by clicking on the link

naijababe: I thought one ninja already hired a band, why can't he just celebrate with us anyway?

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152176848977805&id=525812804&set=a.48294347804.71857.525812804&ref=bookmark

THESE ARE YOUNG ALMAJIRIS IN THE NORTH!
These boys have no idea of their ages, they don't even know the name of their village and not even the name of their own Malam. I asked them the name of their village, one of them says, "kusa da Kano" meaning, their village is somewhere near Kano.
Some of them have rashes all over their bodies and have no shoes.
WHERE IS THE COMPASSION IN OUR RELIGION?
— with Auwal Umar Farouk

Sharafa Kalejaiye shared Chijioke Onyeogubalu's photo.
Yesterday
Kwakwasiya Fans.....True or False....
‘’ Borno State has a budget twice that of Enugu State but the poverty and unemployment level in Borno State is more than thrice that of Enugu State. Borno has a bigger budget than a Niger Delta state – Cross River. While the leaders of Cross River over the last decade have transformed it into the nation’s leading tourist destination; those of Borno have transformed it into a Somalia.
Kano State gets the highest statutory allocation from the Federal Government, because on paper Kano is the most populated state in Nigeria, yet Kano has about 1.6 million destitute Almajiris. Kano has a budget almost thrice the budget of Enugu, twice the budget of Kwara, Anambra and Ekiti, but how come almost 90 per cent of students in Kano fail WAEC? How come the poverty level in Kano is higher than all these states put together?’’.
---ROSS ALABO-GEORGE,VANGUARD.

Nihilist: It's been a long time since we last rolled out the drums on this thread.

Abeg na who hold studio key?