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neolboy:
Why u go paste story for one thread and paste the source in another thread, abi u never sabi copy n paste

My broda no vex! I neva sabi copy and paste stuff well. Some time I go get am at other time I no fit get am. I beg teach me now.

nikkiking:
Which kind long story be this

Don't be lazy my friend. Its people like you that made Trump concludes that Africans are lazy! Read it!!!!!!!

Vanguardngr.com 11/10/2015

A wise man once told me: “Nigerians are mules, everyone who can, kicks at them.” The thing is, the more things change, the more they feel the same. In 1984, Major-General Muhamadu Buhari as military tyrant diagnosed “indiscipline” as Nigeria’s national malaise. The sexy power word in those days was “summarily.” Buhari promised that the military government of which he was head would “summarily” deal with any Nigerian who was found wanting in “discipline.” He quickly launched a “War Against Indiscipline.” It caught on fire. Nigerians were pressed to “behave.” They began to queue for buses and other services in places like Lagos, notorious for jumping queues. That was the greatest achievement of WAI: Nigerians learnt to queue. Military governors sometimes arrived the gates of government secretariats very early, and waited for government workers who arrived late. Late-coming civil servants were humiliated, made to kneel down irrespective of their office or positions, or age, and frog- jumped as punishment for coming late to work. In some cases, they were “summarily dismissed.” Buhari’s government authorized armed soldiers to raid warehouses, and seize the goods of traders accused of “hoarding essential commodities.” That was in a period, of course, when “ESSENCO”was very scarce. Buhari’s War Against Indiscipline, stemmed from his genuine convictions that Nigerians were an undisciplined lot, and had to be forced to obey the simple laws of the land, and of courtesy. Recent evidence suggests that Buhari continues to believe this as a fundamental problem with the Nigerian character. Last week, our friends, Dr. Barry and Claire Mauer had us all over for a party for Claire’s birthday at their College Park, Orlando, home. We were all going at it, with a little wine and sherry, and that good stuff, when Shanti, another friend of ours said, “I hear your president say all you Nigerians are unruly, and you need to stop being unruly!” I too had heard that the previous day on the BBC. It was big news for the BBC that president Buhari’s Independence Day message to Nigerians was that Nigerians were “unruly.” It triggered their fancy so much that they made such an event of it. They brought a Nigerian, whose name I do not now recall, and Ghana’s Elizabeth Ohene, to talk about the “unruliness” of Nigerians as claimed by a president who increasingly seems really disconnected from the Nigerian reality. In the symbolic moment of Nigeria’s 55th anniversary as an Independent nation, more sober considerations should have been made regarding the trajectory of Nigeria’s journey, the transitions that have been made, and the true reasons for the failures of Nigeria. We should rather celebrate the hardiness and resilience of Nigerians in the face of a terribly confused administration as Buhari’s is turning out to be.Ordinary Nigerians must not be made to carry the can for failed political leadership this past fifty-five years, of which Buhari has been a distinct part. The President had not much to say to Nigerians except that Nigerians are unruly and discourteous, and must change, in order to achieve development. Actually, this is the worst Independence Day speech I have heard of any Nigerian president. It had no concrete facts. It simply was high on the weed of self- indulgence. On such a symbolic day, President Buhari should have celebrated Nigeria, and offered it hope. There are ordinary Nigerians laboring heroically to turn the disadvantages of being Nigerian into something hopeful, and meaningful. Nigerians are not unruly. The Nigerian child I know is taught, right from the home, to be courteous, and respectful of people, especially, older people. Nigerians know to “throway salute” when they meet you. They say, “Afternoon, sir!” “Enlee ma!” “I boola chi e!” and so on. Nigerians are not, by their very nature, or even by acculturation, unruly or discourteous. Our political leaders have been unruly and discourteous. Those are the real culprits and makers of our national malaise. They have very little regard or respect for the civil and economic rights of Nigerians. Anyone who suddenly arrives at political office, begins immediately to see the rest Nigerians as adversaries and enemies; people who must be contained and repressed, and garrisoned. Nigerians are constantly infantilized in the minds of the men and women who arrive at power. That is the true meaning of unruliness: to ride rough-shod on your county men because you have the privilege of the protections of public office. It is unruly of public office holders to capture the road on a hot, uncomfortable, tropical day, with sirens and a long convoy, and horse-whip people to the sideways, and travel freely while the rest must deal with congested traffic. It is unruly to shield political power holders behind the barricade of high walls inside government buildings, while the rest of Nigerians are left to the vagaries of crime. I think President Buhari must first, look inward. As president, propriety demands that he be accompanied by no more than his police orderly in public, while the secret service organize his security with unseen and invisible agents, who mingle with the crowd, without harassing Nigerians with an overwhelming image of armed power. It is the image of overwhelming force, especially modeled by the military that has created the psychological crisis that has reduced Nigerians to its current social miasma. Nigerians, subjected to force rather than governance, since 1966, are suffering from the trauma of social violence, and are reproducing that violence. They know nothing else but the unruliness modeled by the makers of the public system: the government, and political leadership. It will not do merely to preach order, curtsey in society, when the conditions in which Nigerians live make it possible. If there was a well-organized public transport system, Nigerians would have no need to “rush.” But in a city like Lagos, with a population over fifteen million, to have only one means of moving that population is madness in itself. It is nightmarish, and the social pressure of moving about in Lagos which ought to, like cities even half its size, have an underground system, a surface metro system, a water transport system, as well as well-kept roads that do not clog up movement, makes courtesy difficult, and unruliness only a means of survival. A man who has no access to clean public toilets, must defecate, and if he cannot find any will be forced to the indignity of relieving himself in public. To prevent that, it is incumbent on governments to provide clean public toilets in strategic places, to prevent such unruliness. The government itself must model the meaning of courtesy, by treating the public with the highest respect in public. A government officer, like a policeman or soldier or tax collector, who harasses any member of the public is modeling unruliness; a government who keeps armed soldiers and police on the highways and streets where they harass Nigerians, is an unruly administration, and will reproduce an unruly nation. A government that offers, not work, but whips to Nigerians, will create the kind of social pressure that will make civilized conduct impossible. So, President Buhari should for a moment, get off the back of Nigerians. Nigerians did not elect him merely to preach, they elected him to act. So, to make Nigerians more courteous, the government should begin a work program, strengthen internal regulations and enforcement codes in the public service, provide public infrastructure, enough to make an aggressive search for it redundant. That will reduce the kind of social pressures that make Nigerians unruly.

The ops partisanship is very glaring in this write up. Are you the publicity secretary of APC in Kogi or Abubakar Audu's image maker?

Colombia has been battling insurgency for over 50 years without success. The story from this country regarding terrorism management is not attractive. So, what do we have to learn from them that will help us in the battle against Boko Haram? Nothing! That was why I found the visit to President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday by the so- called Colombian security delegation bizarre. The tetchy former President Olusegun Obasanjo led the team to meet with Buhari. The Colombian experts are in Nigeria to share professional expertise on security and counter terrorism, so says Obasanjo. He said Nigeria needed to learn how Colombia survived insurgency for more than 50 years. Rubbish! Everybody is just trying to exploit the Boko Haram crisis to milk this country dry. Obasanjo has a lot of questions to answer in this regard. He has been all over Buhari since May 29. Now, he is talking about Colombian security experts. Many will agree with me that Colombia is obviously a failure in this regard. Common sense dictates that Nigeria should be talking to countries that have successfully battled insurgency and not one struggling with it. For those who have not been following the crisis in Colombia, let me just run through it briefly. The Colombian conflict began in 1964 and is an ongoing low- intensity asymmetric war between the Colombian government, paramilitary groups, crime syndicates and left-wing guerrillas such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), fighting each other to increase their influence in Colombia. It is historically rooted in the conflict known as La Violencia, which was triggered by the 1948 assassination of populist political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán and in the aftermath of United States-backed strong anti-communist repression in rural Colombia in the 1960s which led the liberal and communist militants to re- organise into FARC. The FARC and other guerrilla movements claim to be fighting for the rights of the poor in Colombia; to protect them from government violence and to provide social justice through communism. The Colombian government is fighting for order and stability and seeking to protect the rights and interests of its citizens. The paramilitary groups are reacting to perceived threats by guerrilla movements. According to a study by Colombia’s National Centre for Historical Memory, 220,000 people have died in the conflict, most of them civilians (177,307 civilians and 40,787 fighters) and more than five million civilians were forced from their homes between 1985 – 2012, generating the world’s second largest population of internally displaced persons(IDPs). Nigeria’s target is to decapitate Boko Haram by December. So, what do we have to gain from a country that is confused and has been struggling with terrorism for over 50 years? Na wa oh! Boko Haram has become big business for our big men. Many of them have clearly been profiting from the terrorism. They are always plotting to sell useless things to the Nigerian government in the name of contributing to the war against Boko Haram. May Allah save us from these merchants of filth?

A great disappointment! 2/10!

Keep the live commentary coming guys! We are in darkness here in Gwags, Abuja. I no get fuel for my gen. Thanks to you all for the live update.

Bunch of cowards and murderers! Why did they not denied the story when he was alive? After using the request for his extradition to hound him to death, they are now calling it a rumour. They should be given the corpse to take to london. Wicked Britons! Nigeria will live to spit on your grave.

FOR four months, President Muhammadu Buhari was busy in his one-man conclave spinning an elaborate mystery about the character and quality of people he would nominate into his cabinet. He stoked expectations, and speculations ran riot in the media and public spaces. The nation waited impatiently for him to unveil his saintly agents of change. What finally came out, for most Nigerians, did not reflect the “Change” that Buhari promised but a massive “Shortchange”. The president made a big mess of the simple act of eating an egg! Looking at the names now on the table of the Senate President Bukola Saraki, it is obvious that Buhari could easily have formed his cabinet within a week of his swearing-in. His inner or “kitchen cabinet” is made up of “people he knows”, those who have worked for him over the years when he ran and lost presidential elections. Now is the time for them to reap their “rewards”. The outer cabinet (ministerial nominees) is made up of those who contributed in one form or the other to the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his own emergence as the president of Nigeria. The search for ministers was not an act of altruism. It did not put aside political considerations to appoint men, women and youth of impeccable character to give Nigeria a fresh opportunity. Fresh opportunity Being a recycled material, he merely went and recycled other materials, including many who played leading roles in what APC likes to call “sixteen years of rot and misrule” by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as National Chairmen, Governors and what have you. However, in bending to political necessity rather than altruism, Buhari actually did what our highly permissive constitution expects of him. The constitution says that for a person to be a minister he must be qualified to be a member of the House of Representatives. Since independent candidacy is not permitted, it means he or she MUST be a card-carrying member of a political party, especially the party that won the presidential election to govern for four years. The constitution expects that these politicians coming into the president’s cabinet would go to the various ministries and help the president and the ruling party to implement their manifestos and campaign promises. Based on this, it would have been difficult for Buhari to sideline or sidestep some of the most derided nominees, such as Rotimi Amaechi, Babatunde Fashola, Kayode Fayemi, Chris Ngige, Audu Ogbeh and others. Amaechi, we must remember, was the Director General of the APC Presidential Campaign. He was a mainstay of the Buhari campaign. He is the biggest factor of APC presence in the South-South, and he is paying for his efforts with the probe he is undergoing under the government of Governor Nyesom Wike, his successor. Fashola, an estranged scion of the Bola Tinubu political clan, threw himself headlong into the Buhari campaign during which little else happened or mattered in Lagos. Buhari obviously noticed his untrammelled display of direct loyalty (as opposed to coming through Tinubu) and the two clicked at the personal level. The same goes for Fayemi, a very likeable gentleman and intellectual resource person who, many had believed, could have been the Chief of Staff or Secretary to the Government of the Federation. However, when victory came, people like him were pushed to the background while northerners who were never heard of during the campaigns were brought to fill “97%” of the kitchen cabinet. I had predicted on this forum that this would happen under a President Buhari. Chris Ngige is a sacrificial lamb of the APC in the South-East. A founding father of the PDP, Ngige was rigged into the office of governor of Anambra State in 2003 by his political godfathers, but when he refused to dance to their tune they humiliated him. He was eventually bundled out of power by the courts, but not before setting an enduring foundation for good governance in Anambra State. Ngige who narrowly won election for the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to the Senate in 2011 was flushed out in 2015 because his people believed he belonged to “the wrong party”. Besides, not much has been said of Ngige and corruption. He and grandpa Audu Ogbeh (Minister of Communications 38 years ago when the then Senate Leader and Bukola Saraki’s father, Dr. Olusola Saraki, participated in screening him) are among the relatively clean politicians among Buhari’s nominees. Instructively, they were also ranking PDP top shots! A bold political statement Buhari has made with this exercise is that he is methodically creating a new APC (both party and government) which will reflect his own image and likeness. The days of sitting with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and sharing power along the CPC/ACN merger terms are over. Tinubu’s vision of power sharing with Buhari was that, at least, he would be allowed to nominate all Buhari’s manpower from the South West and maintain his hard-won political kingdom. But Buhari ignored him and appointed Tinubu’s rebellious political godsons, Fashola and Fayemi. Tinubu was not even allowed to nominate the minister from Lagos! Sources close to the president disclosed that when Tinubu sent Chief Bisi Akande to find out why his nominees failed to make the list, the president reportedly told him that since he (Tinubu) had already produced Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Majority Leader of the House of Reps, Femi Gbajabiamila and the nation’s chief taxman, Babatunde Fowler, there was a need to give “other tendencies in the South West” their own share. Question: who are these “other tendencies in the South West”? The entire South West came into the platform that produced Buhari’s victory through Tinubu’s defunct ACN. Even Governors Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo and Adekunle Amosun of Ogun won their first term elections under Tinubu’s ACN. But Buhari chose to remember that Amosun once contested election under the defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) when he (Buhari) ran for president on its platform. Now, Fashola, Fayemi, and Amosun’s former finance commissioner, Kemi Adeosun, are treated as “other tendencies in the South West”! The implication is obvious. Even if Buhari is not encouraging Tinubu’s disciples to be rebellious towards him, he is not discouraging them from bringing their loyalties directly to him. As ministers who are independent of Tinubu, Buhari can easily use them to bolster his hold on the APC in Yorubaland and eventually consign Tinubu to increasing political irrelevance. Political irrelevance The mergers that put Buhari in power will give way to a new APC created after the image and likeness of the president. APC will thusly cease to be what Lai Mohammed naively described as a party with “many leaders”. Our old question as to whether Buhari will share power with Tinubu will be comprehensively answered. How will the political “partnership” between the North and South-West, which brought Buhari to power fare henceforth? Will the late Dr. Sam Goomsu Ikoku be proved right, once again? He once postulated thus: “a merger of unequals always results in the tyranny of the major partner: a master-servant relationship”. Looking ahead, with the profile and character of politicians and individuals heading for Buhari’s cabinet, we are likely to see a lot of scandals. Politicians who funded the president’s campaign and got rewarded with ministerial posts will definitely want to recoup their “investments” and rearm for 2019. In fact, that some of these people with bold question-marks hanging on their heads are selected to be part of a government that purports to fight corruption is already a scandal of its own. Political expediency is already overshadowing Buhari’s avowed war against corruption. Again we ask: is this Change? Or Shortchange?

PassingShot:
This is the part for me and it is what we all need to understand.

Those who stand to defend Sarakis, Diezanis, IBBs and other who have caused untold hardship to the common man are as guilty as those looters.

Op exposes his bias by only mentioning these names. Why not Tinubu, Amaechi, Attah, etc. Afteral like these that I have mentioned, none of those you mentioned have been found guilty by any court. Let's be careful else we allow our personal feelings interfere with an issue as serious as corruption that the Econet man is talking about.

You neva tell us the prophecy wen say you go be president. Let us know now, so we can glorify God when it comes to pass.
Abi na Tinubu dat prophecy concern? Professor you sure say you go last for this your vice so!

Former Bayelsa Governor, Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha is dead, a source in Bayelsa State confirmed to Pointblanknews.com. Alamieyeseigha died today at a private hospital in Port Harcourt, Rivers State where he was said to have been rushed after suffering a cardiac arrest earlier in the week. Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the former Bayelsa Governor was devastated after hearing the news of his possible extradition to the United Kingdom, U.K for trail. Britain had requested for the extradition of the former governor to London to answer an outstanding case in the UK on money laundering. The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, was quoted to have said that the President Buhari-led government is prepared to assent to the request of the British Government as the United Kingdom has every legal right to demand for the extradition of the former Bayelsa State Governor. “The UK is in principle correct to be making such a request based on the fact that the crime was committed on the British soil. However, when there is delay in trial as a result of time, there may be consideration on legal grounds so that the trial is not seen as oppressive,” he said. (“DSP”) as he was popular called by friends was (born 16 November 1952) was governor of Bayelsa State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 9 December 2005. Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was born in 16 November 1952 in Amassoma, Ogboin North Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. He attended the Bishop Dimeari Grammar School, Yenagoa. He joined the Nigerian Defence Academy as a Cadet Officer in 1974, then joined the Nigerian Air Force, where he served in the department of Logistics and Supply. He held various air force positions in Enugu, Markurdi, Kaduna and Ikeja. Alamieyeseigha retired from the air force in 1992 as a Squadron Leader. After leaving the air force he became the Sole Administrator of Pabod Supplies Port Harcourt. Later he became Head of Budget, Planning, Research and Development of the National Fertiliser Company (NAFCON). Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was impeached on allegations of corruption on 9 December 2005
Please can someone confirm this?

lovesamzy:
OP, post d source plz....

The source please: RingTrue with Yemi Adebowale; yemi.adebowale@ thisdaylive.com and SMS: 07013940521

I agreed with all but Mobutu Sese seko. He was a dictator and a despot in the mold of Idi Amin of Uganda. He was also a colonial puppet that was used to overthrow the revolutionary govt of one of Africa's brightest, Patrice Lumumba.
I will rather choose Felix Houphouet Boigny of cote de ivoire.

dialfa:
Thanks. He neither wants to work nor invest. He just wants to come and live here for a few years. Are you saying he can't? He has enough money to support himself.

He's not married.

What is he doing to have enough money support himself? He can apply for a multiple entry business visa and break his stay for 6 months at a time through extensions. On entry, he will be given one month to stay. Since he intends staying longer than 56 days he can pay $200 dollars at the airport that will allow him stay for 90 days. He is still entitled to another 90 days extension before the expiration of the first 90 days. He can then go back before the expiration of his stay and come back again and repeat the process. Who knows since he has enough money, he may invest here or get married to a pretty Edo girl during this period..

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State never ceases to amaze me. His profligacy is legendary. The most recent of his charade is the trip he led to Turkey in what he called, “fact- finding industrial trip”. His 100 - man contingent, including industrialists and all manners of characters returned to the state last week Tuesday. This is the second of such trips with a large entourage, all in the name of understudying Turkey’s industrial might. A huge amount of tax-payers money has gone down the drain because nothing will come out of this worthless trip. Those things Imo needs to do to become an industrialized state are obvious – Good and honest governance, enchanting infrastructures, enabling environment, attractive industrial estate and security. These do not require going to Turkey to know. The state lacks all I have listed. As at today, Imo is a failed State with decaying infrastructure. It was recently bailed out by the federal government. The level of insecurity here is frightening, with kidnapping and armed robbery at an alarming level. There is no single standard industrial estate in this state. Workers in ministries, department and agencies have gone for months without salaries. Simply put: There is chaos in the state. Okorocha should be thinking more about how to put this state in order instead of spending its limited resources on worthless trips.

The two deadly attacks carried
out by Boko Haram in
Maiduguri and Monguno last
Sunday did not come as a
surprise to me. But it deeply
hurts me anytime these
bastards strike. Innocent
people are usually the victims.
By official records, 81 people
died in the two attacks. I
believe this government was
economical with the casualty
figures. This has been the
usual practice for weeks now.
Residents caught up in the
explosions said about 200
people lost their lives in the
attacks. These attacks put to
question claims by this
administration and the military
that progress was being made
in the war against terrorism.
The Buhari administration has
simply been grandstanding
about taming Boko Haram; all
words with little result. The
most painful aspect of the
recurring attacks is that many
now go unreported. There is
big cover up going on to
deceive the people. A good
example here is the killings in
Jibe, Disha, Patawe, Kwatara
and Hambagda villages of
Borno State last week. They
were only exposed when some
of the villagers were able to
make their way to Maiduguri.
It is now obvious that all these
talks by the military about Boko
Haram members surrendering
in their hundreds are just
propaganda. Let me say it
straight away: I don’t believe
that the military is making
much progress in the war
against Boko Haram. The
number of innocent people
killed is on the rise because the
terrorists are firmly on ground
in many villages in Borno State.
It is also sickening that Boko
Haram suspects are being
released by this administration
to go and do more harm. Even
the soldiers that ran away from
the war fronts and Court
Marshaled are being
reinstated. Muhammadu
Buhari and his administration
have simply been deceiving
Nigerians. Many can now see
that the President’s vow to end
terrorism within two- months
was part of the deceit to get
power. As reality dawns, the
facts are emerging. Boko
Haram has grown bigger than
Buhari thought.
We are in this dire situation
because Buhari and his cohorts
played politics with the Boko
Haram crisis. They allowed it to
get out of hand by refusing to
cooperate with the Jonathan
administration. They used the
crisis as a major campaign
point. At a point, they were
even giving subtle
encouragement to the
terrorists because they wanted
power at all cost. This
emboldened the terrorists;
Boko Haram grew very big and
even went into alliance with
ISIS. It is now a monster. Many
will still remember Buhari’s
infamous statement on
Sunday, June 2, 2013 in a
programme on Liberty FM
Radio Kaduna in which he said:
“While the Niger Delta militants
were treated like kings, the
Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna
Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad which
some people call Boko Haram
are being killed and their
houses destroyed unlike the
special treatment given to the
Niger Delta militants. This is
injustice to Northern Nigeria.”
This is the result we are getting
today. As at the last count,
about 1300 people have been
killed by Boko Haram in 120
days, under Buhari’s watch. We
have never had it so bad.
The most frightening reality is
that this administration does
not have the slightest idea
about how to end Boko Haram.
From the result we are getting
from the field, it is clear that
Buhari has no blueprint on how
to end terrorism. This is the
truth that must be told; and this
is why the killings have
continued. This is also the
reason why the prosecution of
the war has been slipshod.
Under Buhari, Boko Haram
captured Dikwa and Gamboru
Ngalla. These towns were only
recently recaptured. If we are
not careful, these bastards will
start taking territories again.
So, where is the “change”
promised? Buhari has simply
been doing precisely what
Jonathan did – run to Chad,
Cameroon, Niger, United
States, France, G7 and the rest
of them. So, what has been the
impact of all these trips on the
war against Boko Haram?
What have we gained from
Buhari’s visit to the United
States? Nothing! Our dear
President simply wasted time
and resources. He went
crawling to a country that has
never been our friend in the
war against terrorism. It was
despicable watching Buhari
begging President Barack
Obama for arms and funds to
fight Boko Haram. At the end of
the day, Obama did not make
any commitment on counter-
terrorism assistance to Nigeria.
If Buhari is still expecting
Barack Obama and the G7
countries to help him with arms
to fight Boko Haram, then, he
must be a big joker. Just like
Jonathan, he is already
celebrating a worthless
negotiation with the terrorists.
How did we get to this situation
where the Nigerian nation is
the one talking about
negotiation with terrorists? I
thought we are supposed to
pummel them to a level where
they will beg for negotiation?
So, what is the way forward? It
is very sad that Buhari
contested and won election
without any blueprint for the
problematic sectors of this
country. Buhari must swiftly put
together a Think Tank that will
come up with a blueprint on
how to effectively tackle Boko
Haram. It must be made up of
people (from within and
outside Nigeria) versed in
modern war fare; not type-
writer experts like those that
advised that the Military
Command and Control Centre
be moved to Maiduguri. From
the result we are getting, this
ill-advised movement has not
achieved anything. The
Pentagon was not moved to
the gulf region before United
States troops decapitated Iraqi
forces.
Again, we should be moving
closer to Russia and China if we
want to decapitate Boko
Haram. I said this few weeks
back. We made progress when
we had mercenaries and
Russian experts on ground,
working with our military on
the war front. That was why
the Jonathan administration
was able to recover captured
territories. Contracts with these
mercenaries and Russian
experts were cancelled by
Buhari immediately he
assumed office; he even
mocked the military, saying
that they relied on the experts
in the war against terrorism.
This is why we are getting
these frightening results. For
those who are saying that our
military should take on the
terrorists alone, my response is
very simple: Only very few
military in this world can tackle
terrorism alone. This is why a
multi-national force is tackling
ISIS in the Middle-east. We
must get the best brains from
anywhere in the world to help
us actualise our dream of
wiping out terrorists. No
country’s military can be an
island on its own in modern
warfare.
Just as I clearly stated in an
earlier piece, the suicide
bombers are within the
country, manufacturing and
using Improvised Explosive
Devices. They are using petrol
and gas cylinders, all obtained
within the country. Intelligence
gathering and technology are
vital for detecting and curtailing
the deadly activities of these
suicide bombers. We need
Russia and China here.
Community policing is also key.
We need to put our internal
security in order instead of just
running to G7 leaders, Chad,
Niger, Cameroon and the rest
of them. Of course, leadership
matters a great deal if we are
to curtail terrorism. Buhari
needs to be told that
competence is a key factor in
leadership. Ability to identify
competent people and then
making positive use of them is
also vital in leadership. The
point I am making here is that
we need a leader who
combines competence and
honesty if we are to win this
war against Boko Haram and
other challenges facing this
country. For now, I don’t think
we have that leader. A man
cannot give what he does not
have. May Allah save us from
Boko haram.

Wada is the man! Congratulation your excellency. That is if the above result is correct.

aminho:
must you lie?i was among the officials that picked him and the motorcade was nowhere near 25 from the villa motorpool and the road un question wasn't in locked dwn for an hour and a half cuz we are under strict rules not to do that

My friend I think you are the liar here. If you were among those to pick him up how then will you know how long we waited for you to pass through? You were enjoying the cool comfort of the presidential wing, while we were outside sweating it out. I left the international wing of the airport at 6:53pm and ran into the traffic jam at the presidential wing junction five minutes later. We did not leave there until the president's convoy left at 8:24pm. As for the number of vehicles in his convoy, they were more than 76 going at brake neck speed. If the number of vehicles from the villa pool is 25, what of those from his political associates and friends that thronged the presidential wing to welcome him from Ghana?

this is change indeed!

It was a hectic time for commuters on the ever busy airport Abuja yesterday evening when president Buhari convoy of about 76 vehicles held up traffic for more than one and half hours. The president who came into Abuja from Ghana cause the gridlock when security men barricaded the airport road junction against outgoing and incoming vehicles to enable the president pass through.
It was a moment for sober reflection for agents of change who finds it difficult that the man they worked day and night to get elected on the mantra of "change" has completely let them down. While those that voted for transformation were heard telling them "I told you". what surprise them most was the number of vehicles in the convoy. We counted 76 in all and it was unending!

Edo got what they deserve in Oshomhole. I don't shed tears for them. Believe me come 2016 they will still vote whoever Oshomhole presents to them. They are so blinded by hatred for Aneni to see the criminal in Oshomhole.

Sweetlemon:
Please spare me.
Out of 5 names there are 3 Christian names there and 2 Southerners.
What else do you want biko?

There is only one southerner there!

Hahhaaahhahaa! Where is Amaechi? Tinubu? Okorocha? Oyegun, Onu, Fayemi, Fashola etc? Sai king Buhari! The giant slayer! I doff my hat for you. May your reign be long and eventful.

Hahhaaahhahaa! Where is Amaechi? Tinubu? Okorocha? Oyegun, etc? Sai king Buhari! The giant slayer! I doff my hat for you. May your reign be long and eventful. All hail his majesty, king Buhari.

Hahhaaahhahaa! Where is Amaechi? Tinubu? Okorocha? Oyegun, etc? Sai king Buhari! The giant slayer! I doff my hat for you. May your reign be long and eventful.

So e dey pain? When the Buhari govt decided to probe GeJ. Oshomhole was made the chairman of the committee. Osho is a well known anti Jonathan. If Buhari and Oshomhole has being calling Jona thief and still went ahead to set up a committee to probe him, then Wike is only copying them.

Why is Edo state $123m? We were told Edo had earlier collected $75m from the world bank before the recent $75m that the senate approved. That should make $150m. If however the $123m was before the recent approval, then Edo state debt is $198m. That is $123M + $75m. Which makes Edo 3rd on the list!

K

Akib Abiola is a frontline activist
and a protege of Moshood
Abiola, the winner of the
annulled 1993 Presidential
Election. He was one of the
founding members of the
defunct National Democratic
Coalition, NADECO. In this
interview, Mr. Akib spoke to
PREMIUM TIMES
about his
relationship with Tinubu and
how Mr. Tinubu betrayed
members of NADECO and US-
Nigeria relations.

PT: You and the leader of
the APC, Bola Tinubu seem
to come way back. However
you added that Tinubu
betrayed all those who
worked with him in
NADECO. Tell us about
what happened. Did you
choose to work for
Jonathan during the
election to spite Tinubu or
to settle old scores with
him. Or is it because you
don’t trust him. What kind
of a person is Tinubu?
Akib: I have known Bola
Tinubu since 1993. If we are to mention two proteges of the late MKO Abiola, it would be Bola Tinubu and myself. I first met Bola Tinubu in Jos in 1993 during the SDP convention.
After the convention we were
at the airport on our way back
to Lagos. There was only one
seat left on the plane. MKO
gave money to Tinubu and
asked me to join him on the
flight back to Lagos.
In 1994, I received a call from
Shola Ogunbode, who was a
strong member of NDM and
who was also running Tinubu’s
gas station in Washington DC
for him at the time. He told me
(Egbon….uncle) was deported
from the JFK Airport and that
the first time was at Dulles
Airport and they needed my
assistance to get him a visa.
Shola knew that I knew some
people at the State
Department because of my
employment with a U.S.
Agency.
I called Ed Atkins immediately
who asked me to meet him at
his office the following
morning. Ed had drafted a
letter that he wanted me to put
on the letter head of NDM. In
the letter he had elevated
Tinubu to the status of Prof.
Wole Soyinka and that if Tinubu
was not given visa, U.K. was
about to deport him to Nigeria
and if he is deported to Nigeria, he would be executed. He gave me the fax number to the U.S.
Consulate General to U.K and
his phone number and asked
me to fax the letter to him and set up an appointment for Tinubu directly for the next day.
This was how Tinubu received
his asylum visa. This
information can be verified
with the State Department and the U.S. Consulate office in U.K.
Tinubu has the tendency not to reciprocate favours to those who help him. If you look around him today, you will hardly see any of the original members of NADECO except Lai Mohammed. He has not helped any of the guys who helped him in Washington DC. I have visited him about four
times at his house, not once
did he offered me a glass of
water to drink. When I told him I wanted to run for the Senate under his party’s platform, he snubbed me. I have heard the
same story from all the people
that helped him back in the
days.
I spoke to Tinubu last year and I asked him why do you treat me as if you don’t know me and every time I came to see you, you are always snubbing me and you don’t have time for me. He apologized and blamed it on the pressure of his position and he also claimed that most of the time, his assistants don’t pass my text messages to him.
I think Tinubu has become a
lightening rod in Nigerian
politics. He is a political genius.
He knows the game very well.
He cannot be ignored. He is
book smart and street smart.
Which is a dangerous
combination for anyone who
may try to undermine him.
Buhari needs Tinubu more than Tinubu needs Buhari. Right now, Tinubu is holding the ace card, the trump card, the joker card in Nigerian politics. He can win the hand at any time by pulling out his trump card.
Overnight, he can make the
majority party become the
minority party and can single
handily make the minority
party to become the majority
party. He can use the media,
his international connections
and his followers and the area
boys to achieve his objectives
and goals.
I have no scores to settled with Tinubu. We are sons of the same political father….the late MKO Abiola.