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Trut:
APC does not only rig elections, they also HACK INEC database. I pity those that support Another Problem Coming (APC).

Since when do you believe Nigeria law enforcement agencies? If they such an expert in IT, how come they never find out and raid where BOKO HARAM post their video from?
If APC was hacking INEC , what good did that do them in Ekiti against Fayose?

Nigeria is a real comedy estate. You can always guess what their opinion will be on every subject irrespective of the topic.
If a man was murdered for just breathing, if the victims is a APC or PDP sympathizer, you can always guess what each other will say and the length they will go to defend that crass opinion. What a shame, what politicians has turned their victims. Very sad and hilarious at the same time.

theSpark:
But why is his son going to another country to get a high school education? Doesn't sound too humble.

Where his son goes to school is not the point especially a University education where his son has the right to choose the school they attend as long as they knew their parents can afford it. I had no say whatsoever the UUniversities my kids attended. Especially, he wasn't a president when his child enrolled into the school.
The main issue of the story is that public officials should be able to differentiate between their official life and private life.
Nigeria official cruzing in the official vehicles on the days they are not working for the state is not only wrong but illegal.

Nigerian presidents and governors has no idea about the difference between when to be a public official and a private citizen. When Jonathan and the governors travels, they do so with legions of their aides, servants and hang-ons, even when going for a private event.
They use public fund to buy wedding gifts like cars and houses, funeral bonaza for the bereaved family of their friends and child naming ceremony goodwill bonanza.

Last time Abati told us how humble Mr Jonathan is, he was refering to Nigerian president eating fried plantain for a meal, therefore he is a humble man.
Ok! fancy this story and tell me how, once shoeless person eating a delicious food translate to being humble?

The Indonesian president has caused a stir by flying economy class to Singapore to attend his son's high school graduation.

Joko Widodo and his wife declined to take the presidential plane because it was a personal trip.

The pair paid for their own tickets, although the government paid for security guards who accompanied them.

Father or president?
The Indonesian president and his wife, Iriana, went to see their youngest child graduate from the Anglo-Chinese School, where the president took selfies with other students.

They flew on the national carrier, Garuda Indonesia, on Friday, queuing up at the check-in desk in Jakarta with other passengers, causing a flurry of interest from other travellers.

"The president is travelling as a father, not as the head of state," said an Indonesian official, explaining the unusual presidential travel arrangements.

Joko Widodo - known affectionately as Jokowi - built up a reputation as a man of the people, first as the mayor of the city of Solo and then as governor of Jakarta.

Coming from a humble background, he would often turn up unannounced and unaccompanied in Jakarta's slums to speak to residents.
It appears he wants to maintain that image now he is president of Indonesia.
Following the graduation ceremony, Mr Widodo had a breakfast meeting with Singapore's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, on Saturday before returning to Indonesia.

Nigeria biggest handicap, lack of culture of maintenance in full display.
From the picture, you can easily see that this school was well built and equipped but had been left to rot by the school and lack of maintenance plan on the part of previous and present governments.

Nigerian rulers are quick to build new things, when a similar old one is in a state of despair. Who still remembers the once pride and joy of Nigeria sports fans- The National Stadium at Sururlere? Now mostly occupied by rodents. Instead of repairing it, they rather spend another billions building new one in Abuja and abandoned Surulere .
In my school days in the old East, we use to have PWD, whose sole job is to look after all public facilities and infrastructures including schools and it's facilities.
Then school heads are required to keep record and inventory of their school facilities, which get inspected every six months. If a slight damage in dictated, it is then fixed with days.
School buildings are painted every minimum two years. Laboratory equipments are checked annually, either to repair damaged ones or replace the outdated ones.

Even a dash of paint, few landscaping effort, and few repairs, here and there can easily transform this school again. How can a school head come to this place every single day with some roof blown off without alerting the education department or the local school authorities? Who is in charged?
Some may be calling for the governor now but this is why you appoint commissioners, assistants, departmental heads. It's the governor and his government job to have a laid down policy and procedure by which public properties are protected and maintained, which those he appointed to work with follows and in the event of this nature-heads rolls.
What is the job of the state legislatures? How many bills have they passed in relation to protection and maintenance of public properties, including schools? Probably none.
And they claimed to be in a democracy? Democracy is not just about going through elections. It is what you do after the elections with your mandate.
This a failure of the Nigeria as a people and culture of no one is responsible, rather than a failure of the present government in power because kids that goes to this school has parents. How can they see their kids taught in this kind of environment and kept mute, year after years, who is the legislator that represent this area, someone is paid monthly as the supervisory councilor for works and education.

Sad to say that most Nigerians are just walking corpses. Most has cardiac issues without knowing about it until they are dead. Starch for breakfast, heavy starch for lunch and super starch for dinner, big Guinness or Gulder instead of water, Isi Ewu or Nkwobi full of potassium for dessert, obesed, no exercise regime, fresh fruit and vegetables are considered a pigeon food, high BP as normal everyday life.
No thorough medical care or checks and they are supposed or expected to live long.
If you are unfortunate to share a drink with them or exchanged bad words with them prior to them dropping dead, you are in big soup, because you supposed to have killed him/her with juju..

Funny how corrupt Africans often try to run under their age when they cannot control or demand some respect they didn't deserve.
Even if you are 100 years old but a rogue who steal from the poor, you do not deserve or merit decorum or honour but deserved some kicking.
No one told him that Twitter is no NTA and other meaningless state media they control.

Positivist:
So, politicians now have such 'respect' for traditional rulers? What do you make of this picture showing 'humble' former Vice President Atiku Abubakar sitting on the floor in Emir Sanusi's palace?

Nothing to do with being humble, it the culture of the place. Not as if he is sitting on a hard bare cement floor for the whole day.
Jonathan ate some plantain, Abati told us, he is humble for eating normal delicious food. Rochas rode a bicycle for his fitness, his supporters tells us how humble he is for riding a bike.
Patience Jonathan was even called humble because she faked crying with her glasses still on without any tears. Now it's Atiku's turn on the humble treadmill.
What is humble is, not stealing from those who probably are 1000 times poorer than you, just because you could.

chukwudi44:
bros you no get wok ni? how many APC governors can match the Akpabio you have been tring to rubbish?

Is everything really about APC and PDP to some of you? We are talking about welfare of human beings and you have reduce it to party politics. Do you think a running tap in Akwa Ibom will gush out water or APC/PDP?
When they pay their taxes, do they pay with had earned income or with APC/PDP?
Some of you are not even official card carrying members of this parties, has no direct or indirect stake at them, but find time defending those molesting your present and future of the unborn.

Nigerdeltaboi:
rubbish how can our pilots who fly hinds and other complex systems not know how to operate cobra helos ,but you sell to eygptians and saudi ba ! this sily yanks are only applying double standards joor

Maybe the Egyptian and Saudi pilots receives up to date training required to operate such a modern machine, while probably your own military budget for the same purpose ends up in a secret private bank accounts abroad.

Gordieshegz:
In as much as I do not take side with this woman,I will not hesitate to stress out the fact that she has been a good and virturous wife to her husband all the way..though her strength has helped her family,her weakness has tainted nigerian's
image

We don't know what goes behind the scene. She may be a good (wife) to her husband in the traditional wifey role at home, when its just them alone as Mr and Mrs Jonathan, who knows?
But in terms of being the wife of a president, she is a total liability to Jonathan. Study her activities carefully, you will see that most of the heats Jonathan get as a leader emanates from her corner, be it reckless talk, lack of decorum, abuse of power or corruption.

VICTORCIZA:
i went on break.

It seems like you needed more break as election is fast approaching.

VICTORCIZA:
A WOMAN OF PURE HEART!!!
MUMMY WE LOVE YOU!!!

Do not come running to me when you real mummy, you know, the one that carried you in her womb for 9 months and suffered hours of birth pains read your last sentence.

slimmy05:
She holds many traditional titles, some of which are:
-Odadigba of Otuoke Kingdom, meaning the Ladder of Success.
-Unume Wheshi Ekpeye 1 of Ekpeye Kingdom in Rivers State.
-Yeye Obateru of Owu Kingdom, Ogun State, means the Wife of He Who Shares the King’s Burden.
-Yeye Ohun Orun of the Source of Ife Kingdom, Osun State, meaning the Wife of the Voice of the Heavens.
-Staff of Office, Okpahgwe Amawbia, Anambra State.
-Ada Di Oha Mma of Ukpo Kingdom (Daughter of the People of Ukpo).

You mean after all these years, she only got 7 titles? What has Abati and Okupe being doing? I tell you that those two Yoruba guys does not know their job like fellow Odua, Lai Mohammed.

slimmy05:
The hidden story about Dame Fakabelema Patience Goodluck:

She is a Mathematician, Psychologist, Biologist, Teacher, former Banker and a philanthropist.

Really?
Do you know that my grandma was an Astronaut at NASA?

wierdpsycho:
lol..... how's your retirement going?

Retirement? It is almost two years now. Thanks for asking though. I am not use to staying at home being nagged by my Mrs all day to make myself useful, so I decided to go back to uni and study again, just to keep myself busy.

Sunshinelady:
. I don't care WHY he married her, my point is , obviously she isn't d 1st wife (or even d 2nd or 3rd). So if dey wan 'advertise' or campaign wit wives dey shuld go 'dig out' d oldest wife & bring to us to see

Beatrice Ekwueme wasn't Alex's first wife or the only wife when she was all over the place during her husband's time in power.

Sam Mbakwe's first wife was not Victoria, rather Florence, Alex Mbakwe's mum. But Victoria was the one the public knew except people like us that knew the family many years even before Onunaka's position in Biafra.

Most Nigerian elite are polygamous, except Jonathan. Kudos to him, but I don't believe that his monogamy is down to him, rather his wife. Imagine any women even dreaming sharing husband with Patience? That woman and Jonathan will be dead even before they utter "I do".

Is there a provision for an unconstitutional first lady's debate in the Nigeria constitution, possibly between her and Madam Peace? I will pay to watch that debate.

Nctrice:
Akpabio is just a Typical Akwa IBOM Man... I might not blame him... in as much as the writer is right in his assertion he should not forget get that Akpabio constructed thousands of kilometers of good roads, roads are said to be basic infrastructure, even though I have always been of the opinion that in Nigeria we should have grown past the level where we celebrate roads as a form of development. But one thing I am sure of is that come 19th when super eagles would play their qualifiers on that stadium an average man might end up making some extra cash for himself by venturing in one form of business activity or the other! To me it starts there!

I always likes to make it personal. If the money spent here was your family inheritance under Akpabio's care paid care would accept that he used it to build a project, lucky to be used twice every year and that will cost arm and leg to maintain?
I take it that super eagles will be playing there each weak.
Teams like Arsenal their stadium cost almost the but twice the capacity of Akpabio nest work hard to bring more revenue despite making average of £3m per game at the Emirates.

ShySteady:
One look at this picture and it tells a thousand stories in one sentence, "Power belongs to God Almighty and He gives it to whom He wills". Your present status today, no matter your age or tribe cannot determine where God chooses to place you tomorrow.
There are those who would kill just to be in the office GEJ presently occupies, but if God has not destined a man for greatness, he can never be great.
That is why I make bold to declare that nobody can kill you except God permits, or you permit such a person through your ignorance.

So God gave Mobutu to the Congolese, Hitler to the Germans, Saddam to the Iraqis or Abacha to you. What sort of God is that? Definitely not the almighty one in heaven. The only god that brought GEJ to power is OBJ.

spankyflex:
are all this available in your state?

Which one is my state? Its available where I pay my tax and that is how I knew about them and they are not an impossible target if you have the will and set your priorities right.
It doesn't have to be in another state for you to start. The money he has blown building this meaningless elephant dung will pay for half of what I had listed or at least lay foundation for it for his successors.
If you as a citizen is in doubt, then what do you expect from your leaders? You have given them excuse not to do much as you think it's impossible to achieve.

Idrismusty97:
Trust me. The North East will accumulate more investment than even the peaceful South East region. More investment are pump into the North and South West especially. Insurgents can't stop that. Investors go where there is potentials not where is peaceful. How many FDI have been directed into Enugu mighty coal reserves? Yet the US preferred to lay a pipeline from Niger republic to Katsina state for the sole purpose of generating 300MW of electricity. Dagote preferred to pump $3bn for a sugarcane farm in Adamawa and he also build a coal plant in Tanzania despite Enugu abundant coal reserves. Why?

Sorry, we don't want any coal mine in Enugu and may it remain so. Tanzania can have him and tomorrow their children will start an ecology war after the coal mining had ruined their future.
By the way, the world is slowly moving away from dirty coal energy. Even Britain shut down all their coal mine 30 years ago.

callmenow:
The US, EU and UK, Russia and China has refused to sell any arms to Nigeria because of what Nigerian Army did at Odi, Bayelsa and Zaki Biam during OBJ's tenure under the human right abuse (It was claimed by CNN and BBC that more than 8000 people were massacred by the Nigerians Government, before Jonathan's Administration). Which is why Nigerian army went to SA (of all places) to buy weapons. The Nigerian armed forces have run out of ammunitions and serviceable equipment. Boko Haram knows this. They will know when this embargo is lifted by our so called 'friends'. The ignoramuses on this forum who refuse to see the writing on the wall should take a jump. An army without ammunition and equipment is not strictly 'armed forces'. Meanwhile Boko Haram are shipping over ammunition from Libya and Sudan unimpeded. The thing is why the buffoon CDS can not fess up to his fellow citizen about the situation.

Where does Boko Haram buys theirs without embargo? Even Nigeria armed robbers knew where to buy ammunition without any problem. Nigeria army always knew where to buy their weapon when it come to defenseless MASSOB members that posed no threat to them.

Are they sure? I hold my breath.
Last time I checked, they had killed Shekau, only for his to be resurrected two days later. Last week they had a ceasefire with Boko Haram, this week they send a suicide bomber to kill innocent kids at school.
Great news if its the truth but I will take it with a pinch of salt.

Never mind celebrating him as that is meaningless to a dead man, especially the one that died in vain for Nigeria. What you should worry about is what happens to his wife and kids now? As they will become part of the forgotten statistics.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
list the social amenities you mean, let's check whether they lack in uyo for eg
the presence of the stadium doesn't stop him from providing those things

1. Electricity, water, gas at a switch from inside your home.
2. A doctor per every 500 persons
3. Functional emergency services no matter where you live.
4 A general hospital in every LGA.
5. An average of two specialist cancer,othorpaedic,cardiac,diabetes treatment hospitals in every zone of the state.
6. Free annually cancer smear test for all women over the age of 22.
7. Free dental care up the age of 20 and senior citizens.
8. Free mosquitoes net for senior citizens.
9. A functional fire station in every 5 square miles.
10. Modern train net work that connect every single town in Akwa Ibom.
11. Co-operative partnership with farmers to help market their products.
12. A capped social security payment for the unemployed and the elderly.
13. WIFI connection to every school in Akwa Ibom.
14. A Functional and modern equipped science lab in every secondary school.
15. A Functional mini bus for every primary and secondary school.

This is just from the top of my head. A government that is committed to providing all this will have no cash left to be building a nest for glory hunters. A man that has so many mouths to feed at home don't have money to waste on fancy shoes and watches as my father use to say.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
If Aba with bad roads can be exporting shoes and other items, Onitsha with not so good roads habour the largest mkt in WA, Nnewi with narrow roads an industrial hub, what the hell is the excuse of akwaibom people for being poor when roads, airports are there?
You don't expect akpabio to share money , do you?

He cannot share money that doesn't belong to him. He can use the money to alleviate people out of poverty by providing social amenities that help people become self sufficient. It's called social welfare. Building stadium is the job private investors and public bodies like the football or athletic associations who sources their fund from private enterprise.
The new Wembley was not built with taxpayers money, the English FA who are independent of the government sort money through bank loans and paying it back through private business initiatives like friendly matches and music concerts.
Stop making public servants believe that public money is their personal cash they can spend however they wished.
But we have to ask members of the state assembly if they can go home and defend a budget that approved this sort of elephant project before the peasants that voted them into office to defend their interest?.
This is no democracy.

ujoinme:
pictures dont lie and performance is like a light you cannot cover it no matter how hard you try. Akpabio is a winner any day! propagandist will keep on buying N50 million bed for the govt.house and commision incomplete hospital and the blind will hail him as an infrastructure guru.

In this day and age pictures can tell loads of lies. My take on this, is the fact that Nigeria public officials treat public funds as some lottery they just won. Have you witnessed how most people that win lottery spend the money? I have seen one that bought 5 of the same model of a car in one go.
I know that some of you have opinion controlled by party affiliations, big man followership, hoping that following them will make them become big too.
Ask yourself this questions with a clear head and honestly supply the answer to yourself.
As an Akwa Ibom tax payer:
1. How does Akpabio nest benefit my family and grandparents in the village?
2. If Akwa Ibom citizens are to share $450m , how much will one person, average family get?
3. If Akwa Ibom people are given an option of a nest for Neymar and well equipped specialist hospitals in all the local government areas with a modern supporting land and air helicopter ambulance system, which one do you think they will choose?
4. Do you think drinking dirty water from 17th century method through borehole merit spending millions on a nest? How many people in Akwa Ibom can turn a tap now a get water running out? How many had treckked to a river this morning to fetch untreated water for consumption?
5. How much do you think stadiums like the Arsenal Emirates stadium cost and how much they target to make annually to cover the cost and make it economic viable?
6.How much does Akwa Ibom planned to make annually from the nest in order to recover the cost of the nest in the next 30 years before it looks out of date like most infrastructures?
7.If this millions of dollars is your personal money or family inheritance and your family hired and paid Akpabio good salary to look after the money for you and your family and he decided to use the whole cash to build the nest and spend another millions to gather African corrupt rulers to celebrate your money. Will you join the party or will sack and sue him for squandering your family inheritance?

The problem of most Nigerians is this mentality of not reasoning that public money that their politicians spend is actually their money and should get them mad whenever it's embezzled, squandered or wasted.

There is nothing wrong with building a stadium but it's a matter of priorities. In economic terms it is called the scale of preference. Where will a sane person put Akpabio nest on that scale of preference for Akwa Ibom citizens?
Ebola outbreak has shown how public money should be prioritized watching what has hit Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
In the modern world, Akpabio job will be to attract private investors to build the nest but which sensible investors will plug in $450m in Akwa Ibom in sports facilities and hopes to get his money back?
Akwa Ibom need good rural roads for farmers, interest free loan for farmers and fishing industries, quality utilities that works, modern schools at all levels, modern hospitals per every 10 miles, employees paid every 20th day of the month and not a stadium that add absolutely nothing to the life of ordinary citizens, except the inflated ego of the king.

Sibabasibaba1:
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I don't do insults. At your age, you should know how to make your point without throwing insults. You have yet to answer these questions:

Was Ekwueme tried after 20 months?
Was Ekwueme ever found guilty?

Your habeas corpus alibi is neither here nor here. It doesn't explain why Ekwueme who was about the first politician to be arrested by Buhari's men was not tried for 20 months and others arrested later were tried and sentenced. Doesn't the fact that a tribunal headed by an eminent jurist exonerated Ekwueme suggest that Buhari was totally wrong in keeping an innocent man in detention. If I were you guys, I will continue to highlight the coupist's best attribute-which is that is is not materialistic- but will not defend the indefensible. Remember, not being materialistic does not equate not being corrupt, for Buhari is CURRUPT. Coup plotting is a crime, an illegal action and as such is corruption.
Who else apart from Buhari/Idiagbon saw the phantom $56,000 in Ekwueme's house?

Am sorry if you felt that I insulted you. Mine and yours understanding of the word THEM is different. I said that them denote an institution and not a person. If you find that as insult, them accept my apologies.
If know any junta government that doesn't detain people without trial, please let me know. So habeas corpus is fact not an alibi.
If Buhari was in power for 6 months and Ekwueme was held for 20 before, am not a maths expert but how does that make sense to you?
The argument of who was detained is quite nonsensical to me. What difference does it make if he was picked first or last? I kept asking you guys what tribe or religious was Umoru Dikko or Akinloye who suffered more than Ekwueme. Ambrose Ali almost died from his detention, Jakande was detained. Why is Ekwueme detention different. I don't care how quickly or how long he was detained, he was corrupt while holding public office. I don't care where he comes from or where he prays.

Sibabasibaba1:
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Oga, why not point out the lie rather than make sweeping statement?

Have you read things I have posted, those are the points and not generalized statement. He is still over the top wrong.

Was Ekwueme ever found guilty?

Yes he was.

Was it right to detain an innocent man for 20 months without trial?

No It's wrong to detain anyone without trial but guess what it a military junta environmental. Even America detained people in Guantanamo without trial despite being the beacon of democracy.

If there was any evidence against Ekwueme why wasn't he charged to court? I have tens of evidence, just start with his 3 five stars modotel hotels chain and his brewery which he built with your money when he was in power. In fact the one in Owerri was built on public land, that supposed to be a part of the central bank Owerri.
Yes he was charged before a tribunal championed by court judges like Uwaifo and he wasn't in isolation of such treatment. North, West, East were not left out and Nigerians cheering the junta government then.
[quote]The onus is on you to point out the lie. And don't bring church and God into this. If you have any alibi for your messiah why not come up with it?

Check the meaning of Onus again. You brought church and God into it because your sentiment about Buhari lies on religion and tribal lineage. And Buhari is not my messiah, far from it. But I don't need to tell lies about another person just because like their politics or their person.

Sibabasibaba1:
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1984 coup was Buhari's coup. You can't spin that. In his last interview with The Cable, the criminal coupist gave himself away when he said that they deliberately did not kill during that illegal move. So, all this Buhari was invited does not wash. He led the coup!

I Like people that debate issues with facts and not emotion of how they feel. Counter my argument with alternative facts and not generalized fiction laden with hateful raw emotion.
It's waste of time trying to beat a dead horse. I have no time for self imposed mediocrity. Knowledge is like a gem. You have to dig deeper to find it. That's why you never see diamond lying around on streets and that's why gems are not for the poor. If you want to know about Nigeria, you can, but leave your tribal sentiment behind and you will be amazed at what you will discover.
This is why I believe that the best future for us Igbos is independent Biafra and not Nigeria. How can any nation advanced with such hateful mentality against one another? Nigeria can never work.