Sucker punch

Igbo kwenu! I'm proudly igbo and I'm happy to see my people rise again particularly in the area of human development but I think we should learn to celebrate our achievement in the right way and not to be boastful about it because when pride leads fall comes next.

Most of our kits & kin across d delta & including those in the middle belt whom we share common cultural heritage with, I guess have learned their lesson on the
side they choosed during the civil war and I'm sure that when next they are presented with such choice again they will choose rightly.

All is fair in war and there is casualty from both sides. Pls let us build bridge of friendship and political ally especially now that the opportunity has presented it self but if u keep reminding others that we are superior than them, u will end up making more enemies and even your neighbors may even align with your enemy to bring you down in other to put u in same level with him. This is the reason the jews suffered persecution all over Europe cos they always want to remind Europeans that they are special people and better than them,

op I noticed your maturity in this post but beware of the children of hate, soon they will arrive and do what they know how to do best.
I call them bunch of crabs in a basket, since they ain't coming out, they will rather pull you down to remain with them

That Soji salawo street looks like somewhere I know in bricks estate in independence layout

The merryland achara layout road leading through timber has been completed towards the end of December last year but the ones that needs urgent attention is the etudo junction, that road is very bad and also police post junction from merry land leading to achrara layout. Thanks gburu gburu for your efforts so far.

Yankee101:
Two fighting (a'raba two sege!)
There was a party.
End of APC in power Loading.

u na old school gee, reminds me of my primary school days, u just put a smile on my face ���

Honestly I think this Buhari is different from the other that travelled to London for medical treatment because the way he responds to matters constructively at times makes me wonder whether they replaced his brain with that of lai Mohammeds twin brother ���

The problem with Nigeria is the mass illiteracy in the north and religion extremism in the north

Nigeria is such a messed up country and there's nothing we can do about it then to live with it.
Believe it or not Boko Haram has metaphorized from a religious war to a commercial war, because since Nigeria govt decided to pay undisclosed amount of ransom money to release the first and second sets of chibok girls and also the lake Chad abducted oil workers, what do u expect? Surely they will come back for more victims once they run out of cash.
This is why America don't negotiate with terrorists

Tragedy struck in Obadolovbiyeyi community in the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State when a vigilante, Efe Igbnovia, was shot dead by some soldiers.

It was gathered that a local vigilance group had in the early hours of Wednesday arrested some suspected herdsmen for alleged armed robbery on the Benin-Abraka Expressway.

Igbinovia was said to have been asked to watch over the suspects while his colleagues conducted a search for the fleeing members of the gang.

It was learnt that a group of soldiers stormed the area and fired continuously.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the military men, who were said to have arrived in the community in a Honda with the number plate, AP 641 KTN, shot Igbinovia dead and freed the suspects.

Some angry youths reportedly blocked the path of a commercial bus conveying two of the herdsmen earlier arrested to the Benin Central Hospital for medical treatment before the intervention of personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.

One of the youths, Henry Osemwengie, said the vigilance group had earlier arrested six herdsmen for robbery and taken them to the Ogbekun Police Station.

Osemwengie said, “Two other herdsmen, suspected to be members of the gang, were later caught. Igbinovia was asked to stay with them. Before then, the police had been called to come to pick them (herdsmen) because that is what we usually do. Suddenly, a red Honda car with about four men in military uniforms and armed with AK-47 rifles came and started shooting.

“Igbinovia shouted that he had been hit. By the time the other vigilantes returned, he was already down. The soldiers killed him and went away with the two robbers. Robbers, most of whom are Hausas, usually operate there. They keep their cows by the roadside, block the road and start robbing.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Kokumo, confirmed the incident.

Kokumo said, “The herdsmen were alleged to have blocked the expressway. Two of them (suspects) are with the police undergoing interrogation.”

On the alleged killing of the vigilante by the military men, Kokumo said, “It is an allegation we are investigating. Actually, one of the vigilance members died in the course of duty.”

When contacted, the spokesperson for the 4 Brigade Command of the Nigerian Army, Capt. Mohammed Maidawa, said Igbinovia was shot after he was mistaken for a robber by military troops deployed in the area.

Maidawa said, “Troops deployed in Ologbo for pipeline protection received information of a suspected armed robbery close to their location. They were mobilised to the scene and engaged armed men at the scene.
Unfortunately, one person, who was later identified as a vigilante, was killed. Preliminary investigation revealed that the vigilance group also responded to a distress call on the robbery. It was a case of mistaken identity. We are going to get in touch with the bereaved family.”

He said he was not aware that the herdsmen were robbers.

https://punchng.com/soldiers-kill-vigilante-release-arrested-herdsmen-in-edo/

This Fulani people haven't told us their real agenda...For God sake is there any grass in Lagos? I'm based in Abuja and from my observation, all the cows in Nigeria put together cannot finish the grasses that grows here in Abuja alone talk more of other northern state that I've been to
It's now obvious that this is a deliberate act, otherwise what are they looking for in Lagos.

The senator representing Kaduna Central at the Upper Legislative Chamber, Shehu Sani, has admonished northerners in power to see themselves as servants and not demi-gods.

Sani noted that the north must focus on education, agriculture, tourism, mines, ICT and health, to steer development in the region.


The lawmaker said this at Northern Senators forum retreat held in Katsina.

He urged the northern region to also revive its manufacturing sector, and prepare a post oil plan.

According to Sani, “Those in the position of power must see themselves as servants and not masters or gods or Demi gods.

“The north must stand up and end extremism and terrorism. The north must build bridges between its majority and minority ethnic groups.
The north must prepare a post oil master plan for its socio-economic development.

“The north must start test running on restructuring by budgeting without dependent on federal allocation.

“The region must factor on 6 key areas; education, agriculture, tourism, mines, ICT and health. The north must revive its manufacturing sector. The north must empower its people, provide opportunities for the most vulnerable and end poverty and dependency culture. The north must see itself as a component of the Nigerian nation.

“The north must equally neutralize the menace of materialism and revive its moral values fading fast in the lives of its younger generation.

http://dailypost.ng/2017/12/13/servants

Buharism’s Post-Truth Politics
It isn’t just Brexit and Trumpism that luxuriate in and exploit our emergent post-truth world; post-truthismis also the lifeblood of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration in Nigeria. In the face of its crying failures and ineptitude amid the worst economic crisis in recent memory, the administration is whipping up emotions, turning logic on its head, and doing so muchunconscionable violence to truth and basic decency as a defense mechanism.
Lies, deceit, and mindless propaganda are now the oxygen of the Buhari administration. If you deprive it of lies, deceit, and mindless propaganda, it will suffocate and die.
And there is a shrinking but nonetheless potent corps of Buharists, especially in the Muslim north, who perpetually lie to themselves-and to others-to the point of believing their own lies that Buhari’s administration is the savior of the nation. For example, they believe their own-and the Buharigovernment’s- lies that Boko Haram has been “technically” defeated. The fact of the unceasing Boko Haram attacks in Borno State and the tragic spike in the murder of our soldiers there do nothing to change this narrative.
The fact that Nigerian soldiers have not been paid their legitimate salaries, not to talk of their allowances, for at least three months is hidden from the public by government’s propaganda machine and is dismissed as “untrue” byBuhari supporters blinded by the plague of post-truthism. So is the heartrending malnutrition among, and deaths of, internally displaced Boko Haram victims, especially children-and the sexual exploitation of their young women.
Buhari is hailed as “fighting corruption” even when no one has yet to be prosecuted for corruption more than one year after the government came to power-and when clear cases of corruption against the president’s own loyalists are brazenly swept under the carpet. Post-truthistBuharists almost always retort that “corruption is fighting back” when anybody calls attention to the invidious selectivity and insincerity in government’s so-called fightagainst corruption.
Buhari is still called a “man of integrity” even when it came to light that he didn’t tell Nigerians the truth when he claimed he was so poor that he couldn’t afford to buy his party’s presidential nomination form and had to take a bank loan. At the time he made the claim, at least two of his children were studying at UK universities.
The president had said in the past that he had no other house other than the houses he had in Kaduna and Daura, but his partial, half-hearted asset declaration in 2015 said he has a house in Abuja. Only multi-millionaires and billionaires own homes in Abuja. Yet the president feigned that he was poor in order to win voters’ sympathy-and their donations.
He has repudiated even his most basic campaign promises, such as fully declaring his assets like the late President Umar Musa Yar’adua did, yet he is still touted as a “man of integrity.”
He is also called a “frugal” and “modest” man even when evidence shows that he is probably Nigeria’s most profligate president. He is, for instance, the first and only president to spend millions of naira to build a helipad for his exclusive use in his hometown, which will be useless after his presidency. He is the only president in recent memory who officially goes abroad for “holidays” while the vast majority of the people he governs writhe in agony as a consequence of his economy policies, and so on.
It is only post-truthism that can blind anybody to the truth that Buhari’s government is pushing Nigeria to the brink of the precipice, that he is not the poor person he said he was, that his claims to “integrity”“modesty” and “frugality” have no basis in evidence.
But for post-truthers, emotion is all that matters. Evidence is a pesky, expendable encumbrance.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/politics-of-grammar/oxford-dictionary-s-word-of-the-year-describes-trumpism-and-buharism/172431.html

Damian077:
That car is golf 3 wagon not SUV.
RIP to the deceased and quick recovery to the wounded, while praying that God give the bereaved the fortitude to bear the loss.

U need to increase your vitamin A intake to help you see clearer
RIP TO THE DEAD

plusfield:
This is the time for Benue state PDP to shop for a credible guber candidate to oust this clueless governor. Kogi PDP should also start searching too

Oga did you read the story at all? let help you out

He urged all the indigenes form the state to look beyond party and tribal affiliations and work with his administration to seek a solution to this recurring attacks that have brought pain and sadness to the state.

She is right but in a unitary system where govt controls all the resources, it cant work.
Had it been we are practicing federal system just like USA that she mentioned to cite her example, the private sector will be fully empowered to employ labour.

OR IS AMERICA ALSO PRACTICING FEEDING BOTTLE SYSTEM? ??

She is right but in a unitary system where govt controls all the resources, it cant work.
Had it been we are practicing federal system just like USA that she used to cite her example, the private sector will be empowered fully to employ labour.

OR IS AMERICA ALSO PRACTICING FEEDING BOTTLE SYSTEM? ??

She is right but in a unitary system where govt controls all the resources, it cant work.
Had it been we are practicing federal system just like USA that she used to cite her example, the private sector will be empowered fully to employ labour.
As long as we keep practicing this feeding Bottle system where every state a4e

Either Cross River or Akwa Ibom state

Our people hate thieves more than corrupt people, yet most times, we use corruption to cover the lapses.
“A thief should be called a thief and treated as such.

This is what GEJ is trying to explain.

jaymichael:
Guy, pass me a little of that stuff you took. I need to visit Babylon too.

We are tired of this blame politics in the south, unity is not a crime

“The CJN, Mustapha decided to take a look at the files that dealt with corruption and more than 80 per cent of them were just cases of stealing. But people use corruption to cover all. What I am saying is that let us go to the South-West and go to a typical community and they look at you and say this man is corrupt, people will be looking at you. But call that same man “ole”, that is thief, and see what will happen to him. Our people hate thieves more than corrupt people, yet most times, we use corruption to cover the lapses.

“A thief should be called a thief and treated as such. In my village, when an adult steals, they strip him unclad, humiliate him and his family, but if you say this man is corrupt, they won’t know what you are talking about. We are using corruption to cover it all up.

“So, let us communicate properly. It was not me that said it, I quoted Mustapha. He examined the corruption cases and he saw that they were just cases of stealing.

http://www.informationng.com/2015/02/jonathan-explains-stealing-is-not-corruption.html

biacan:
You've done worst than obiano...... anambra people make the right decision for kicking your ass out

U need deliverance

wellmax:


I there any now?
When was the last time you had about first lady.
She's simply the wife of the President.
Unlike the wife of the drunken master who had the audacity to summon security chiefs.

Free your mind from hate so that we can move this nation forward

A country is like an industry. It must be managed properly by people who have brain and great ideas upstairs.

Lala FP please

Today, I am going to address only a segment of the Nigerian population. I am going to address the people who are voting for the first time, those of you who will attain 18years this year.

Whatever I say, when you go back, call your aunts or call your uncles, your father or your mother, or your cousin, that is at least 60 years old and confirm and ask them what you heard that the Presidential candidate of PDP mentioned in any of the rallies because 2015 elections is about the young people: either you vote and continue to be relevant in Nigeria’s political history or you vote for you to be irrelevant.

Nigeria must move forward, Nigeria is for the youths. Nigeria is not for old people like us. The young generation must redefine this country. We must take this country to where we want it to be. Nobody can push us backwards. The past is past. They have led us backward and backward.

Young Nigerians were doing things fantastically well, they were acting films and these very people were snubbing them, they were playing music and these very people were abusing them. But we are encouraging them and the world has accepted them. Do you want to move forward? ….. Do you want to go backward?

At this point, let me apologize to some Nigerian civil servants who did not receive their salaries in December early enough and I will tell you what happened. I apologize to those families that suffered because we believe that for you to fight corruption; you must take measures, establish and strengthen institutions. You just don’t wake up, enter the street, arrest one person and lock up and show on television and say that you are fighting corruption.

If they had succeeded in fighting corruption, corruption would not have been with us here today. If they had set up structures and especially in today’s modern science using ICT to manage resources, we would not have been talking about corruption today.

If somebody tells you that the best way to fight corruption is to arrest your uncle or father and show him on television, well, you won’t stop corruption, you will even encourage corruption. I used to tell people and I will also address press conferences so that people can ask me direct questions. Armed robbery is still with us, despite the fact that we are shooting (death penalty) armed robbers. Is that stopping armed robbery?

So arresting people and demonstrating on television will not fight corruption, we must set up institutions, strengthen them to prevent people from even touching the money and that is what we are working on and we are succeeding.

They say we are weak because there were some people who took our fathers, our mothers and our uncles while they were abroad put them in a crate and flew them to Nigeria but they were intercepted by superior powers. That blocked Nigerians from even going to Britain at a time and the relationship between Nigeria and Britain… the whole world isolated Nigeria.

They said that is the way to fight corruption. So immediately I suspect your uncle, I can just crate him and throw him into Kirikiri. Is that the way to stop corruption?
If somebody tells you that he will not follow due process… I came in with Yar’Adua and he advocated due process and I stand by due process. Any country that does not abide by the rule of law is a jungle.

Do you want Nigeria to be a jungle society? Immediately I suspect you that you have done something wrong I just ask the police or army to arrest you and throw you into jail. Is that the country you want?

They say to be strong is to jail people indiscriminately for 300 years. Is that where you want to go?
A country is like an industry. It must be managed properly by people who have brain and great ideas upstairs.

I believe that some few years back some young people have not seen trains except when you travel abroad and you have never boarded a train. Now our trains are moving. Can you do that without planning?

In the power sector, we are in Lagos; Egbin power sector got burnt in 2005 and remained so until now when we are fixing it. We have been able to finish the privatization of the power sector. This is an interface period but you already know that the generation capacity is almost double. Can you do that without planning?

This government feels that Nigerians are very dynamic people, very creative, very industrious, very talented in music, arts and business. Many of them do not have money and you know we are almost 200 million in Nigeria and we cannot reach everybody the same day. We came up with the concept of YOUWIN to give grants not loans to young Nigerians that have ideas. If you interview them, some of them are already manufacturing and in the next four to five years, we will be exporting things from this country. And they say we have noplans for the youths? They should come and tell us what plans they have for the youths.

I came up with a special scholarship that you must first of all make a First Class in the university. We have scholarship for everybody but you must first of all make First Class from your university and then we test the best brains and send them to the best 25 universities in the world. Can someone who has no plans for the future of this country do that?

Can somebody who does not think about the Nigerian youth do that?
Do you want to go back to those days when they had no plans for us?

When I came on board as President, I noticed that though in the country and on paper, there is this programme or policy of government that every state must get a Federal government owned university. Out of the 36 states we have, 12 had no federal universities and people were deceiving Nigerians that they were doing something.
I said we must establish these 12 universities in the remaining 12 states, start as small universities and grow and we have done that successfully and they are growing gradually.

You will ask some of those people who are deceiving you now and who hired some people from outside the country to go on social media and tell all kinds of lies, that when they were in power did they build any nursery school for anybody? Ask them, ask them, I say go and ask them.

If they did not build nursery schools for anybody, what did they use our money for? They built prisons or universities for you?

I will build universities for you, I will build secondary schools for you, I will build primary schools for you.

Somebody wakes up and says “O, Nigerian women I am going to give you position.’’ And you ask him when you were a Head of Government, you had a cabinet, I have the list of the cabinet members, there was no one single woman. Not even one in the cabinet.

So Nigerian women, you cast your votes and go back to the kitchen and die there or you cast your votes to liberate yourself.

The Nigerian women must decide where to cast their votes: you vote and go back to the kitchen and die in the kitchen or you cast your votes to liberate yourself. We are ready to liberate all Nigerian women.

Finally, let me tell all of you especially those of you, who want to go to the National Assembly that we just had a national conference. The document from that conference, because of the controversy we have in the present National Assembly, you know how chaotic the present Assembly is, we know that if you bring that document to the Assembly they will dump it.

So we want to present it to the next Assembly. So those people you are sending, if you mean well for this country, you must vote people who can go to the National Assembly, discuss and adopt that document that our leaders have agreed so that this country can move forward.

I stand today in the city of Lagos, in the south west on behalf of the leader of our party, Alhaji Muazu, the Vice President and all the leaders and promise that if you vote the PDP en masse to the National Assembly and to the Presidency, we will adopt that document so that this country will move forward.

That document is to liberate you, we did not influence it, our fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters that are credible came up with it.

Ask them, we did not influence it. I did not ask them to dot any `I’ or cross any `T’ because I have no personal interest. My interest is the Nigerian interest.

You must vote for your liberation, you must vote for your development, you must vote to take Nigeria to the moon. You cannot vote to take Nigeria backward.

Leave us who are half dead to bury our dead.You must vote for the progress of this country, you must vote for the Nigerian youth, you must vote for the Nigerian women. PDP!… POWER!
THANK YOU.

For full transcript http://thenationonlineng.net/jonathans-campaign-speech-lagos/

a true leader never imposes himself on anybody but rather he allows his work speak for him.
Even God in the book of Deuteronomy 30:19 says (KJV)
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live"

if na mama peace now the whole social media go catch fire with insult, dia is God oh

Guy u nailed it The aboki guy holding banner gave them out even without the T shirt,

Half bread is better than non, meanwhile, purge your self from igbo's obsession

For now, Mr Akandes speach remains the official stand's of the south west APC, Hence the so called embarrassed zombie is still anonymous.