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Stingman:
A prominent Islamic scholar, Dr Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi, has declared that Nigeria will disintegrate and that the North will suffer most compared to the other regions.

According to him, in the face of a possible break up, the Southwest will be relatively stable; Southeast will be stable, but the North will be volatile.

Narrating what Nigeria will be like if disintegrated, the cleric said, “I see chaos and probably Nigeria can even disintegrate. And disintegration will be bad for Nigeria,” he was quoted by Sun.

“Let me tell you about the North if there is disintegration. The worst thing any country will like is to have an unstable country as a neighbour.

“So, Southwest will be relatively stable; Southeast will be stable, but the North will be volatile. How can we contain Boko Haram in the Northeast? No way.

“How can we contain the problem of the herdsmen in the North? We cannot contain them.

“In fact, the little weight the Southwest and Southeast are adding to fight them is what is suppressing them, but if you go and leave us with them we will just eat ourselves and you have a very volatile North and I do not think we will have peace there because the borders are not barbed-wires and there are so many inter-marriages.

“In fact, Nigeria will just be like another Lebanon or Yemen. Nobody can control the North because nobody has monopoly of power in the North.

“The herdsmen, if they have any iota of political acumen, even if they are evil since your man is in power what do you do? You lie low to allow him to have the power.

“You don’t become so virulent that you end up destroying the northern power by attacking people everywhere not caring who is there. Let me tell you this.

“Nobody is in control of the North now. No northern politician has that clout to embrace everybody in the North.

“Everybody in the North is with his clique and that is a very dangerous situation for the country. The Southwest is divided into two equal house and nobody is in control there too, but generally, the people there are not violent.

“They can negotiate and stay in peace. The people of the Southeast seem to understand each other because their own is business. I see it to be more stable even though the Kanu IPOB people are there because generally the population there can understand and negotiate.

“They can only have population problem if people ask them to go back to their region. But the North? So, you can just imagine.”

https://dailypost.ng/2019/08/11/nigeria-will-break-north-will-suffer-sheikh-gumi/

IDanfulani:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkbvEV4m3B8

gidgiddy:
I'm not much of a fan of Sowore. I personally think that his Sahareporters website has deliberately made some misrepresentations I find offensive. However, it is important that whenever we see something wrong, we put sentiments aside and call a spade by it's right name.

What was it that Sowore did wrong that warranted the DSS to invade his home, armed to the teeth, and bundle him away to Abuja like a kidnapp victim?

He put the word "Revolution" as the appellation of his public protest?

Revolution has many meanings, the Oxford dictionary defines revolution as:~



1)The forcible overthrow of a government

2)The change of a social order in favour of a new system

3)A dramatic and wide reaching change in conditions, attitudes or operation

4) An instance of revolving

5)The movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another



Of the many definitions and meanings of revolution, why was it the first definition that the authorities decided to hold on to as the only definition?

Sowore has been organising and leading protests for over 20 years. He has never been violent, armed nor killed anyone. His protest has been mainly been about definitions 2 and 3.

So why is the government now saying he wants overthrow them?

How can an unarmed Sowore, who wants to lead a protest in Lagos, overthrow a government in Abuja?

How do unarmed people overthrow a government protected by hundreds of thousands of armed military personnel?

Is it now a crime to utter the word revolution?


Let's learn to leave sentiments aside and judge things for what they are. When Sowore was backing APC and Buhari, against GEJ and PDP, there was no problem. As soon as Sowore decided that APC was as bad as PDP and wanted to lead a protest against APC, they came for him under the excuse that he mentioned the word "revolution". A word with several definitions and meanings

Sowore's arrest was just one of the many arrests of people who dared to protest against the tyrannical government of Buhari and its failure to address social issues from insecurity to poverty

thegazetteng:
Nigeria's most popular Senator representing Adamawa Northern Senatorial Zone, Senator Ishaku Abbo has been confirmed and appointed the Vice Chairman Senate Committee of the Nigerian Navy.

Senator Abbo took it to his official facebook page Senator Ishaku Abbo - SIA  thanking the leadership of the Senate for his appointment.

See post below:

TITOPE:
http://www.titopeblog.com/2019/07/ambode-speaks-on-dumping-apc-for-pdp.html


Former governor of Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode has spoken on his rumoured planned defection from the All Progressive Congress, APC, to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

There have been speculations in some quarters that Ambode was disappointed he did not make the ministerial list President Muhammadu Buhari submitted to the Nigerian Senate.

Many had thought the nation’s leader would compensate Ambode for losing his return ticket to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

Buhari picked two nominees from Lagos and Ambode lost out.

Those picked were ex Lagos Governor and immediate past Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, and the Managing Director of Nigeria Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora.

But Habib Aruna, Ambode’s spokesman, in a terse statement Monday night, said any information of his principal leaving the ruling party was “totally untrue”.

While debunking the news as an attempt to malign former Lagos helmsman, Aruna appealed to the public to disregard mischievous persons and their sponsors.

He said: “We enjoin the general public, particularly Lagosians to disregard the planted news by some faceless and mischievous individuals in some unknown blogs, who are hell bent on creating acrimonious situation, spreading fake news that the immediate past governor of Lagos State, HE. Akinwunmi Ambode has dumped the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) for the PDP.

“The news is fake. The former governor is firmly a member of APC, working in his own capacity to see that the progressive ideas and the next level agenda of President Buhari succeed”.

chrysora:
Senate President Ahmad Lawan yesterday said adequate measures must be taken to halt incessant killing of Nigerians in South Africa.

According to him, the killing and molestation of Nigerians in South Africa and in other countries would continue unless necessary diplomatic steps were taken.

He reiterated that Nigeria would no longer tolerate the killing of its citizens in South Africa under any guise.

Lawan’s stern warning came as the immediate past Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama appeared before the Senate for screening and confirmation for reappointment.

The Senate President, who did not hide his disappointment over the continued killing of Nigerians in South Africa, said he had written the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to furnish him with the number of Nigerians so far killed in South Africa.

He said he would also write the South African Government to ask what the country is doing to stop the killing of Nigerians in the former apartheid country.

Lawan said: “I personally met with the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria. If we don’t get things in place, more Nigerians maybe killed abroad. Even if Nigerians commit crimes, killing them should not be the first option. This has got to stop.

“I have written to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I have asked them to furnish us with names of Nigerians killed in South Africa so far. We are going to write to the South African Government and we will put an end to these killings.”

Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu also highlighted the maltreatment of Nigerians by officials of American Embassy.

The Abia North senator insisted that something must be done to ensure that Nigerians get fair treatment without any harassment.

Onyeama noted that some criminal elements in the Nigerian community in South Africa were a setback for them.

The nominee told the Senate that plans were underway to halt the killing.

According to him, a frame work has been formulated for Nigerian Presidents and South Africa President to meet regularly to talk about more bilateral agreements and about how to solve some of the problems.

On the non-payment of salaries of embassy staff members in Washington DC, the nominee noted that allocations and releases to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet its financial obligations to foreign mission staff was not enough.

Onyeama said one of the ways out of the problem was to further reduce the number of foreign missions.

He said the country should focus on missions it can finance to avoid over-stretching its resources.

The nominee noted that he raised the issue at the Federal Executive Council meeting on how to fund foreign missions or reduce the number where necessary.

On maltreatment of Nigerians and non-issuance of visas, Onyeama noted that the country should develop adequate response strategy.

He said: “Because of the situation in South Africa, I went there myself and met with officials. I also met with Nigerians there. There was a trust deficit between the South African police and Nigerians. We met with some Government officials there to have regular meetings with Nigerian unions and High Commission.

“The South African Government is not complicit in the killing of Nigerians. Whoever takes over as Foreign Affairs Minister will have to put in a line a contact line to always be in contact with the South African Minister of Foreign Affairs.

“We have worked on stolen funds. I worked with some countries to ensure that funds were repatriated. Economic diplomacy is something we should really push going forward.”

A former Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Goddy Jedy- Agba, who also appeared for screening said that it was possible to end subsidy regime in the country.

Jeddy-Agba advocated the establishment of a control room, equipped with competent professionals and modern technology, to end oil theft and pipeline vandalism.

The Cross River State nominee pledged to push for the optimum functionality of all the government owned refineries and the completion of the privately owned refinery under construction as we well as the establishment of modular refineries if appointed as a minister.

He said that the government did not need to pay trillion of tax payers’ money to subsidise imported refined petroleum products once crude would be taken directly to the existing functional refineries across the country.

He said: “We don’t need to import petroleum products. What we need to do is to strengthen the various agencies to checkmate the actual crude being loaded and write report.

“We do not have the technology to monitor the process of loading up to the point of export. For now, it is the International Oil Companies that determine the quantity of crude they export because we don’t have control over their operations.

“If I am in that ministry, I will push for the establishment of a control room where we will monitor the process of crude loading up to the point of export. We can do that Nigeria”

Jeddy-Agba also said the best way to stop pipeline vandalism was to lay the types of pipes that would be difficult to destroy while drones should be deployed to monitor those pipes and pour hot waters on the vandals.
http://chrysora.com/index.php/2019/07/29/we-will-no-longer-tolerate-the-killing-of-nigerians-in-south-africalawan-warns/

babecode:
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu with Mr Sunday Dare, Senator Gbemi Saraki and Senator Mamora.

https://all-gists..com/2019/07/tinubu-pictured-with-new-minister-sen-gbemi-saraki-photo.html

Hitgistnaija:
Newsbroadcastnaija:
In an open speech to the entire public today, the President after much happenings finally opened up to say to Nigerians. He said, “Anybody who thought he have any other Country than Nigeria, Good bye.” - President Buhari.

Cc

Lalasticlala Dominique Mynd44

Watch video: https://www.newsbroadcast.com.ng/2019/07/anybody-who-thought-he-have-any-other.html

massmediang:
Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, has commenced removal of the iron bars which former governor Rochas Okorocha placed across the major streets of Owerri.

Okorocha who is now the Senator representing Imo West constituency, used the iron bars and artificial palm trees to beautify the state capital.

But Ihedioha seems to want the state capital to look different so his administration has embarked on the removal of all the iron bars across streets in the state capital. The trees are also going down one after the other.

Massmediang gathered that this action by Ihedioha is coming with mixed feelings among Imo people as some of them are happy with the action while others feel that this is tax payers’ money being wasted. Some feel that Ihedioha should face more important projects while others feel that most of Rochas Okorocha’s numerous projects, including the iron bars and artificial trees are remind them of the wasted and bad governance of the past administration and should be removed.

See more photos;

https://massmediang.com/ihedioha-begins-removal-of-rochas-okorochas-iron-bars-and-trees-in-owerri/

hisexcellency34:
Prior before now, it is rumoured that President Muhammadu Buhari wanted to compensate Akinwunmi Ambode, former Lagos State governor as Minister but Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is trying to stop it.

Now the list is out and Ambode's name is missing. Did Tinubu have his way?

FuckThaMod:
Please who are you again? And who is your people?