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If it were in naija, the IGP will take the glory and tell the world how his men on hearing the baby's cry from their office swung into action and rescued the boy.
As for the real hero, they will secretly slam him with illegal immigrants charges

Gazzuzz, what causes a car to be having this jerking vibration when stationary or in slow motion which seems more pronounced when the A.C. is put on

This administration is too toxic. Their reactions to issues are always unpresidential and petty. Maybe when the likes of that woman onochie, femi adesina etc were employed, they weren't given any specific scope of function thereby leaving them to believe their duty is to look for real and perceived enemies to insult.
Then we have a minister of information who still acts like apc spokesman and attack dog, not knowing that by that ministerial appointment, he is now our no1 brand ambassador on the global scene.
Sad. Very sad indeed. How did we find ourselves with such incompetence

Every organisation has rules and regulations guiding its operations and activities. If its not okay by you, you are free to go elsewhere. I worked with various financial institutions, none of them permits beards. Some dont even permit mouthstache, and everybody complys without noise. If you cant abide, you ship out.
This new found attitude of this generation wanting things to conform to their ways without an iota of discipline is ruining our values

But in actual sense, did anybody really believe Linda ikeji made all this money from blogging?
Nairaland has far greater traffic and ads than her blog yet he hasn't made enough to buy a house in the most expensive neighbourhood in Nigeria or float a tv station

She wasnt even at the studio that morning.
Look at how that fool Okon Abang is seriously embarrassing himself and his family.
Is there any buhari apologist that isnt a goofer

My respect for these men have just grown. Five of them were given bail conditions, four met theirs the same day while one couldn't. But in mark of solidarity, the other four who were free to go home decided to sleep in the prison with that remaining one.
Thats loyalty to the core

Going by Rochas videoed statements, he never understood the igbo race. They are republican in nature. Unlike other tribes he mentioned, an igbo can not sit back and watch you rule over them perpetually, plant your wife or kids for elective office, decide who gets what etc. At a point, some boys will become men and they will show you that they know what you know.
In igbo land, you can never perpetuate yourself. Everything is turn by turn.

thesicilian:
The man who successfully brainwashed millions of his own people into untimely death.

I am not sure you read the interview. It was borne out of a self defence of a continued massacre by the north and the continued backstabbing and reneging on every peace agreements by gowon and his northern advisers. Ojukwu as a refined officer never wanted any personal involvement but little did he know that the people he thought he knew had developed some tribal affiliation.
Try and do some reading. It will help your intelligence

A MUST READ:

JOURNEY TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE! by Dim Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu

The coup of January 15, 1966 caught me by surprise. The first thing that hit me was-here am I in the northernmost part of Nigeria surrounded completely by troops and I have not even tried to find out their allegiance. The telegram they informed me about the coup came to me at the parade ground.

The first thing was to try to get some sense from Lagos for about 14 hours I called numbers, but people were telling me nothing. I did not realize the suspicion everybody had in everybody. I suppose it was my persistence that got Ironsi [the late Supreme Commander of former Nigeria] to speak to me. He told me what actually happened. He said that the Cabinet [the disturbed civilian federal government] was meeting.

The federal government later handed over power to the army to stabilize the situation. I found this extremely confusing. Nobody knew where any other person in the Army was.
After Ironsi’s first broadcast, I immediately spoke, I was the most senior officer in Northern Nigeria, to the North. Somebody else spoke to the West. Ejoor spoke to the East. The announcements had a snowball effect. They helped in restoring confidence and a sense of direction in the army. The country also became clear about the change.

After that announcement I got on to Nzeogwu [one of the leaders of the coup], then in Kaduna, and said, “ You are now famous. You should now demonstrate to the world that you have no personal motive in the coup. Now that the G.O.C has called, all you have to do is to get back into line.” Before then there had been friction between Nzeogwu and myself because I maintained my independence.... The announcement affected him [Nzeogwu].

This is how I got involved in the government. Nzeogwu found it difficult to except my advice, though he realized it was already a fait accompli. I continued to talk..... I wanted him to fall in line, and quite suddenly he said to me, “If you say so I agree”. I told Ironsi that Nzeogwu had agreed. Later, I was ordered to Lagos and appointed [military governor] for the East, Fajuyi for the West, Ejoor for the Midwest, and Hasan Katsina for the North.
Ironsi tried very hard to unify the country. Personally, I think he went too fast. Or rather, he delayed too long, and when he started he went to fast without explaining.

If the unification of the country had been done within the first week of the coup, perhaps the popular impact and the enthusiasm [generated by the January 15 coup] would have carried it through. Subsequent events, however, clearly indicated that the violent reaction of Northern Nigeria could have been only a delayed action on that the North could never have allowed any form of unity which sought to broaden the Northerners national outlook and turn them into Nigerians. When Ironsi moved, he was quite willing to give a blank degree unifying everything. I resisted that quite a bit.

Assets of the then Eastern region was seized. I maintained that we should get the constitutional proposals first agreed before the assets will put into the common pool. The North did not agree with me.
I got myself more and more involved in the politics of the change – more involved because I think really I was perhaps better equipped than most of the military leaders to handle political issues owing to my background, education, and training in administration before joining the Army. So I really got quite involved. The Supreme Military Council tried a number of things to inspire confidence and strengthen the unity of the country, but actually there was much to do, and before the whole place could be stabilized the North struck on May 29, 1966.

I still harbored hopes for unity, but I told Ironsi then that this was the last sacrifice the people of former Eastern Nigeria could be expected to make.
In spite of this pogram, I still thought that the army had a chance to keep Nigeria together, and that chance was to try to get everybody looking upon the government as the government. All I asked of the Supreme Military Council was a Commission of Inquiry on the May massacre. I did not quite realize how far Northern Nigeria was prepared to go. If I knew, perhaps my suggestion would have been different. The council decided on the method of inquiry. But as soon as it was announced, the Northern emirs met and told us that the instructions from Lagos would only be carried out over their dead bodies.

My whole attitude then was to establish once and for all that there was a government. For this reason, we insisted and set August 2, 1966, for the beginning of the inquiry. In doing this, the council [the Supreme Military Council] wanted also to demonstrate that it was going to be fair- a British judge would be the chairman and there would be commissioners from Northern Nigeria. On July 29, 1966, they [the Northerners] struck again. This time they killed Ironsi.

After that, I knew that the end had come. The murder of 3,000 people, by any stretch of imagination, was terrible. 30,000 was the third massacre [September 29, 1966, pogrom], but there was nothing in the past to match the cruelty and sadism of the last massacre.

After the July 29, 1966, mutiny, I tried to get Lagos on the phone. All efforts failed. When eventually I got Lagos, nobody was willing to tell me what was happening. At last I got and spoke to the next most senior officer in Lagos [Brigadier Ogundipe]. I said to Brigadier Ogundipe: “What are you doing? Get the Army together; don’t let it disintegrate”. He said it was very difficult because he could not get the soldiers to obey him. But I told him to take a risk and shout at them; to get on the air and say something to the country. “

Tell them that you are the next most senior officer, you do not know where the Supreme Commander is, but you are trying to control the situation”. After a long time, he said “OK, I will do it”. When the statement was made over the air, it was a most supine statement. He said something like this: “Perhaps you do not know me, my name is Femi Ogundipe.

I am trying to do my best”, and that was the end! This only added to the confusion. Again I got on the phone to Brigadier Ogundipe, who said, “These people [Northern Nigerian soldiers] want to go [secede]; they say they cannot stop killing people unless we allow them to separate”. I advised that if that would stop the bloodshed, he should let them go. On another occasion after this I tried once again to contact him on the telephone-I waited for nearly half an hour without success-the man had fled.

Now what could I do? Luckily, both coups had not affected the then East. I thought of it, talked to Ejoor and even Katsina, but could not get any sense out of them. So I decided to phone Gowon. I rang him, but Mohammed [Colonel Mohammed] answered. He fetched Gowon, and as we were talking, it was quite clear a number of people [Northern Nigerian officers] were standing with them. Gowon could not answer any point unless he discussed it with the people standing around.

I got this conversation taped. He insisted he was going to announce that his boys would only be satisfied if he took over, and I told him that he could do so, but not the East. “ If you want, as Chief of Staff, and only as Chief of Staff in Lagos, I will cooperate with you to enable you to stabilize the situation so that Ogundipe or whoever is next in seniority to him can assume power. He replied that the other governors had agreed with him to take over. He told me that he was going to make a statement at 7 o’clock. I phoned Ejoor; he was not very coherent, and he said that all this slaughter must stop and that he left me to do what I could to help the situation.

Gowon announced himself the Supreme Commander, and immediately I decided with the few people available that if we once got under him we would not be able to get anything and all our people would be massacred under the legal cover of the assumed legitimacy of his rebellion. But if we stayed out and negotiated we could save our people. So I spoke out immediately that I did not recognize him as the head of the government. Later, I sent a team to Lagos to the Ad Hoc Constitutional Conference. While the team was discussing our Constitution, we endured another massacre on September 29, 1966.
Ever since, I have made suggestions to bring about a solution. But each time a suggestion was made it was rejected and more bitterness was generated.

When we found ourselves at Aburi, Ghana, it was our last chance. Those decisions at Aburi could have saved the situation, but again Gowon was very badly advised. He was very badly advised, though he was carried along by the way we all talked. My last statement to the group was: “ I know what is worrying you. We cannot solve this problem by hitting each other across the face. If we keep the agreements made here, Jack, I would probably ask this body to appoint you the Supreme Commander”. This you can ask General Ankrah. Gowon left his seat, came over to me, and embraced me. It was then Ankrah that said “All right, let us shake hands”. When we ended the meeting, and came out of the hall, Gowon and Ankrah and I sat in Ankrah’s car and there he took my hand and placed it on Gowon’s hand and said, “Both of you have got 56 million people to look after.

If you keep to these agreements you will achieve peace; if you don’t, then whatever comes is your fault. You have seen the way, it is up to you.
As a gesture of peace, I made a short visit to the Midwest before coming back to the East. I must say this for Gowon: The first three days after our return to Nigeria he did all right. But on the fourth day, he mentioned there was one publication he wanted to publish: Crisis 66. I said, “Why publish it now? If you do so, my people would now want me to answer and the whole problem would begin all over again”.
I suggested, “collect them, keep them, if I misbehave then publish it”.

He agreed. The next day the publication was announced all over the world. I rang him and he explained it as a leak. I spent the whole day discussing with him how to punish the director of the Ministry of Information. That night, tuning the various radio stations, I discovered that the book was formally launched by ambassadors in London, Washington, and Ghana; it was not a leak!
Then the various attempts to implement Aburi failed, the refusal to pay our money came, the economic blockade followed, and finally came the fragmentation of the country.
It was under these circumstances that Biafra was born. When it was born I made a statement and said it was going to be hard time.

I thought possibly that Gowon would try after that to bring us together very quickly. Intelligence reports spoke about the massing of troops by Gowon on Biafra‘s borders. He declared war. There had been an opportunity to strike first, but I knew that no matter what our temporary advantage, eventually with the Nigerian resources they would be able to push us back. So it became very important to me that the world should know that I was not the aggressor. We fought well for six weeks; then we were at par. British help came to Nigeria, and then Russian. Attempts at subversion, and then the journey to the slaughterhouse resumed. This was a journey that started from the Northernmost part of the country and then slowly came to this place. It is not power I wanted. I initially came to this post as a routine military duty.

Looking back at it, I do not think I had a choice. Each time I felt perhaps that I had a choice.
Could I, after the July 29 massacre, say to the people of the East “ I resign, I am going ?”

C. Odumegwu Ojukwu
Interview with Jim Wilde of Time magazine, Umuahia, August 16, 1968

Copied from ada Sledgehammer Ogbunigwe

Linda Ikeji has not told her fans what makes her a multi millionaire, even to the extent of buying a house in banana island. Nobody is fooled by that blogging hog-wash.
Meanwhile, have we lost our sense of decency to the extent that we no longer see anything wrong with flaunting pregnancy outside marriage with no known father. Are we now that reprobate

If i ever hold an office at the national level, one of my first appointees will be Reno Omokiri.
Apart from the fact that he is highly celebral and a custodian of facts and figures, he is loyal to the core. He won't leave you if you fail to win, which is rare among our present day office holders

APC is filled with men of greed. So its only his wife that is good enough for ministerial slot. Like Fayemi like Tinubu like Rochas

Irony is when you are on strike, protesting against doctors and you have an accident and had to be rushed to hospital where the same doctors you are fighting had to treat you.

I like this. Based where?

If Nigeria wants to progress and join the league of successful nations across the globe, then they should strip the north of all leadership positions for just ten years and we'll be amazed at how Nigeria will be transformed in the shortest possible time. Atleast, things will be done by merit and not tribalism.

The spiritual punishment that will be meted out to Buhari, his APC members and his appointees have finished press ups and have started coming for them.
Just watch out for more in coming weeks and months.
one landed a dirty slap on Rochas and he had to be bundled to India for diabolic healing and fortifications

Watch as zombies will avoid the truth in the message to attack the messenger. There is something about Buhari supporters that makes reasoning far from their brains

Ndi Imo will vote any candidate who is serious about probing Rochas and his family. You need to see the number of private properties he and his family forcefully revoked their C of O's and converted to their families' use.
That man's greed is insatiable and spiritual. Its not normal

Rochas got in there on the sympathy of the people but he has gotten carried away, thinking its his sagacity that put him there.

Lies and make-beliefs are all part of our today's showbiz. Sad.

During GEJ's era, if a serving minister wishes to run for an elective office, he is made to resign from office to avoid clash of Interests and relegation of duties. And thats the standard democratic practice.
But under Buhari, Fayemi is contesting for governor while still retaining his post as minister.
Under Buhari, we are watching the rule of law and democracy being turned on its head

I have never understood how some one will burn his credit to vote for someone to make him or her a celebrity. At the end, the new made celebrity would turn around and feel like a star and even look down on the people that made him or her with their credit.

....i dont get it.

You will still see men that will see all her untrained and ill mannered personality and still jump in to date her

Buhari is the first president to drive his nation into two recessions at the two different times he's been president.
Am not sure any other man in the whole world has such a gory record as president

It is this kind of proclamations that makes God to arise and use the simplest things(candidates) to triumph and silence the men who have become gods in their eyes

Nigeria’s President Draws Criticism for Seeking Medical Care abroad

May 8, 2018

ABUJA, Nigeria — President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, who has urged politicians not to go abroad to seek medical care, has traveled to Britain on his fifth official trip to see a doctor there.

Mr. Buhari, 75, left for London on Monday for a four-day visit, setting off renewed concerns about his health. His trip also comes after three weeks of strikes by health care professionals who are calling for better working conditions and more funding.

For nearly two years, Mr. Buhari has been receiving treatment for an unspecified illness, which he has repeatedly refused to discuss.

The president is scheduled to return to Nigeria on Saturday, at which point he will have spent more than 170 days in London on official medical leave since becoming president in 2015.
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Mr. Buhari recently declared his intention to run for a second term next year, but many people in Nigeria, including some former presidents, have called on him to step down because of concerns about his health.

After Mr. Buhari visited Washington to meet with President Trump late last month, he surprised reporters by not returning directly to Nigeria but instead making what his media team called a “technical stopover” in London. His aides later confirmed that he received medical treatment while in Britain.

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Mr. Buhari’s aides have insisted that the president is healthy and capable of running for office again, claiming that his political enemies are exaggerating any health concerns to attack him.

In April 2016, months before his first medical trip to London, Mr. Buhari condemned the use of Nigerian resources on international medical expenses.

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“While this administration will not deny anyone of his or her fundamental human rights, we will certainly not encourage expending Nigerian hard-earned resources on any government official seeking medical care abroad, when such can be handled in Nigeria,” Mr. Buhari said, according to a statement from the Health Ministry at the time.
During his campaign the president promised to end “medical tourism,” the practice of Nigerian politicians receiving medical treatment abroad even as most citizens are forced to rely on underfunded state medical services.

After what was reported to have been motorbike accident in January, the president’s son, Yusuf Buhari, was also treated abroad, although the president’s aides would not confirm where he was treated.

Nigerians see Mr. Buhari’s actions on health care as hypocritical, said Yemi Adamolekun, executive director of Enough Is Enough, a coalition of groups committed to building a culture of good government and public accountability in Nigeria. “As he’s getting a superior standard of health care for himself and his son, he’s done virtually nothing to invest in health care infrastructure and provision in Nigeria,” Ms. Adamolekun said.



This year Nigeria spent 3.9 percent of its budget on health care, a fraction of the 15 percent target set by the United Nations.

“Health professionals have been on strike now for three weeks, and they aren’t even talking about it,” Ms. Adamolekun said, referring to the government. “So we have poor health infrastructure, an exodus of qualified medical staff and now a strike with no conversation on how to fix it, yet our president jumps off to the U.K. for his own health.”

A nationwide strike of 72,000 public health care workers has crippled medical services in state hospitals across Nigeria, and many more are expected to join the protest in the next few days.

Biobelemoye Josiah, president of a coalition of unions involved in the strike, said that health care in Nigeria had suffered under Mr. Buhari’s administration. “There has long been medical tourism because our hospitals are grossly underfunded and that has continued,” Mr. Josiah said.




https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/world/africa/nigeria-president-buhari-health.html

Its actually under the portfolio of LGAs. But since most governors withhold and use the allocation of the LGAs, they now have to take up the jobs of the local govt chairmen

What kind of food was he giving his captives?
They should just shoot this man and his squad and end this rubbish. A man who will just waste his fellow human regardless of their families' pleas if they cant come up with his exorbitant ransom demand

Their first child will be teeth.




Chai...

Am very sorry

What he received looks like the kind of images seen in some shrines

Why would a woman be the first to raise her hands on a man. I have a personal conviction which i have held for close to twenty years that if am settling a dispute between a man and woman and she dares hit the man in my presence, i will just walk away to let the guy beat her like a tout.
These days, you see women who are meant to be ladies be the first to hold a man at the collars or even slap him first.
Any man acting as a peacemaker who couldnt restrain a woman from hitting a man should not stop the man from defending his dignity