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I hope that some people within the ranks and files of the armed forces are not informants to the herders. I have the feeling that there is a mole that would be leaking sensitive military activities to the marauders

SMH on the comments above - Nigeria subsidiary of MTN is managed by Nigerians and not South African people. The Nigerian CEO should put on his thinking cap and implement far reaching business ideas with positive outcome in the market they serve. MTN South African has not done anything wrong. You will see the top executives and senior managers in MTN Nigeria with their pot bellies, cruising in SUV with zero product knowledge on how to serve their immediate market.

PDP members are in serious dilemma about Wike - when he was single-handedly sponsoring the party, the party big wigs were in Abuja eating his money and singing his praises - they allowed him to keep changing the leadership of the party because he was the one funding the party - he even hosted the national convention of the party for the selection of its presidential flagbearer in 2019. As the governor of Rivers state, Wike was the sole decision maker of the PDP. He funded PDP candidates in other states and was the rallying point for Obaseki during his rift with Oshimole, when APC denied him ticket. The behemoth they allowed to grow is about to consume them. Nevertheless, PDP is in Wike's hands.

People in the South do not know how maternal mortality has killed many mothers in Nigeria. The mortality rate in the South is not that big. When I served in the North, I could not count the number of times people within where I stayed as Corper passed away while giving birth. Two staff (laborers) of the firm I worked for lost their wives while giving birth. Maternal mortality is deeply entrenched in the North and I don't know why government have not taken it seriously.

Samfloxin:
They should invest that money in real estate

Real estate marketers are becoming another set of motivational speakers. You people would see a security man earning 50k and advice him to come and buy land and be paying "small small". At the end, the man would not have anything left in his pocket, wouldn't be able to feed himself and would be unable to sell the land as he has not completed payment. Make una dey fear God o

They should have added June 12 instead of wasting money and resources to announce another public holiday on June 12.

Naija sweet die. The country with the highest number of public holidays in the world

I hope say US and NATO no go place sanctions on Nigeria for honoring the friendly game.

The West is doing everything to isolate Russia, including using sports.

This one enter, abeg. Wiked Wike, finishing Amaechi . Amaechi's worse nightmare.

I no see any smiling chinko face in the photograph

It's quite sad that majority of Igbos do not understand or know who were/are the heroes of Biafra. Many are busy celebrating Kanu and other modern Biafra "agitators ". Why not put the pictures of brave Biafran soldiers that died defending the cause of the resistance? Pictures of Professors Kenneth Dike, Eni Njoku, Kalu Ezira and others; Christopher Okigbo, Frederick Forsyth, Bruce Mayrock, UNICEF, CARITAS, Red Cross; World Council of Churches - these were organisations that saved Igbos from mass starvation; People like Mazi Mbonu Ojike, Dr. M.I Okpara, Okokon Ndem were all heroes. The then Presidents of Ivory Coast, Gabon, Zambia, Tanzania (Julius Nyerere), Haiti, Kenya and others that gave the nascent Republic a diplomatic recognition.

And he was still allowed to dress in that designers suite?

Someone that has continued to threaten the entire region and turned SE into a lawless and potential bankrupt fiefdom in Achebe's words by his reckless statements.

musazulyadain:
Obi should just merge with SDP and PDP and other stranded party to claim power.

Which power?

Obi should play politics the Nigerian way to even have a glimpse chance of success. You don't come to the devil's dinning table and wearing white.

Obi and Atiku had their chances in 2023 and blew it away. If Obi had agreed to pair Atiku in 2023, they would have won and Atiku would have potentially prepare Obi for 2031. Politics is not by "gragra" or "I too know ". Its better to serve a master, pay your dues and get positioned for higher power than to throw yourself into the ring when you are less prepared. Nigeria's politics is different from the politics in other climes. You have to study the intricacies and how to take any advantage. The Nigerian electorates are not the only ones that determines electoral outcomes.

As it is now, nothing will stop BAT till 2031. The man has proven himself to be a "good " and "effective " politician, by Nigerian standards.

OnyeObowo1:
Mark my word.

B4 2027 shetima will take over...

Mark my word again

I have marked your word. So, for your mind, BAT will not be alive till 2027 or you believed that he would be impeached by the national assembly that is being controlled by his loyalists? You better pray for BAT to complete his tenure because I don't see Shettima being any better. The VP, sometimes, looks clueless. BAT is 100% better in terms of cognitive ability. Do not because of perceived hatred for BAT jump from fire to frying pan. Shettima will not be any better o!!

The dude is lucky that it is within a friendly territory. Let it not swim across to enemy territory or else

BAT is not GEJ and will never be!!! The odds against GEJ were massive.

BAT is more politically experienced than GEJ and he will never allow any repeat of 2015

The former FCT Minister, Mallam Adamu Muhammad should be arrested and charged for gross incompetence. For 8 year, under Buhari, he was the FCT Minister and never commissioned any project. What did he do with the huge allocations to the FCT during his time? Sadly, Buhari was aloof and unconcerned while members of national assembly with oversight functions over FCT affairs were after contracts to execute nothing. Both the house committee on FCT and Senate committee on FCT were complicit in the mismanagement of FCT under Buhari

Nothing indecent about the dressings I am seeing. These are adolescents kids. Nothing to worry.

......And he is being referred to as a "Bar tender".

Och77:
Why was the name of the Divisional Police Officer conspicuously absent in this report? Could he be from the South?

I think DPO may have come from the other side. In order to avoid more commotion and any ethnic coloration to the whole issue, the name was hidden in the report.

Attention seeker! Proud and arrogant.

I am NOT your fan.

Do not just quote me

I do not like why some fathers or mothers would come to a wedding to announce that her daughter is a "virgin". You do not need to tell the world the sexual state or purity of your daughter during her wedding day. It could be embarrassing, though. I attended one wedding, a wealthy man from my village. He announced publicly that he was giving her daughter the latest Toyota corolla because she "maintained" her virginity till marriage. I may be wrong but I considered that unnecessary. Some do all these as way of telling the world that their daughter is a very descent and pure girl.

Exceed15:
Blood brothers wasted their lives while the woman lives on. Men be wise

The man would also be heading to jail for a potential life imprisonment while the woman moves on to the next suitor or to whoever would fund her new shop.

If all this visit is to unseat the incumbent, then, it is exercise in futility. Everyone should resign to fate about BAT's presidency in 2027.

I wonder how people think that BAT would relinquish power easily considering his type of person and politics.

Nigeria and white elephant projects

The "Nwa-boi" apprentice system needs serious re-evaluation among the Igbos. it is now being abused and destroyed by the same people that benefited from the benevolence of their former masters. Agreed, the system and practice have produced lots of millionaires and made the Igbos to be one of the tribes with the highest rate of social mobility. You will see families that were hitherto wallowing in poverty in the village but because of the fact that one of the sons that went to Onitsha, Aba, Lagos or North to stay with a master and learnt a trade has been settled and he is doing well, sending his newly acquired wealth home to support his siblings in the village, who would benefit and eventually escape the poverty circle.

My own father was a product of the "Nwa-boi" apprentice system as he served his own master, got settled and started his own business. Likewise, he did same to numerous "Umu-boi", plural for nwa-boi, that lived with us, many of whom came from Ebonyi and Enugu states, respectively. Some of them are doing well, built houses in their villages and have supported their kit and kin back home. The system is currently facing its biggest challenge as the men that were product of the system have turned monsters to the upcoming "nwa-boi", coupled with the fact that the Gen -Z wives of the modern Ogas are contributing to the collapse of the apprentice system. Some of the Oga's gen Z wives have abused the "umu-boi" beyond records ever seen in the past, turning them to slaves and unwanted guest.

The Igbo community should come together to salvage this system and the government should enact laws to protect the interest of the "nwa-boi"still undergoing through the apprentice system. The "Nwa-boi" system have been studied in numerous foreign universities, including Harvard, Columbia and Dartmouth College, to understand how the system has been so successful and created the largest social mobility ever seen in a tribe. I considered the apprentice system as practiced by the Igbos as most potent and effective poverty alleviation program with positive outcomes and chain effects on a large scale. The "Nwa-boi" apprentice system is under threat within the Igbo enclave and the system should be salvaged as it has supported families, extended families and entire kindred in the past.

Emiefele seems daft to have done this kind of looting.

To the extent that he even wanted to contest for the presidency. I heard that someone within the Buhari cabal was nudging him on to contest because of how he "assisted" the cabal. He never knew that Tinubu would win the election. His bet was on Atiku, or at worst, Obi or even thinking that Osibanjo would have clinched the APC ticket from the way Buhari was indifferent to Tinubu's aspiration. Most politicians invest their loot into properties. Go to Lekki and see properties uninhabited for years because most of the owners were people with connection and invested in properties.

The man's wife, if she is alive and living with the man will taunt him and finish him. It would take a special Grace of God for the man's wife to forgive him. The man contributed to the death of his son. I don't argue with any uniformed armed personnel in Nigeria. I simply hail them, praise them and drop small Roger to them and disappear while on the road. I travelled down to the East and spent close to 35k on police and check points just to keep moving as I had my whole family in the vehicle. I didn't want any delay or unnecessary argument that could keep us late on the road. The man will live to regret that very day. I feel for him.

Work-related stress is one of the things causing hypertension in Nigeria, especially in Lagos. Commuting from mainland everyday is a silent predisposing factor. During my 9-5 job, I peaked 135/88. But since I left paid employment more than 9 years ago, I haven't exceeded 125/80. The last result showed 118/78.

Nigerian politicians and trivialities

Book launch to say what exactly?? How he looted or how he was part of the cabal that have mismanaged Nigeria

A country of "distinguished" personalities and no development outcome. What an irony?

Ukraine seems extremely degraded since the coming of Trump's presidency. EU are just noise makers without US. EU have opposed any direct talks with Putin since the war started, instead, they kept on urging Ukraine to keep fighting till they wear Russia out. Trump came onboard and knew that this war could not be won in the battle field and needed to end it quickly, much to the dismay of the European allies, who would have wanted a prolonged conflict with Moscow at majorly US costs. Putin and Russia seems to be dictating the direction of the war and any peace talks. I have noticed that Putin usually ignores any call for ceasefire from Zelensky or EU but rather unilaterally declares ceasefire whenever it suites him. The funny thing is that Ukraine abides by the unilateral ceasefires declared by Russia but Russia has refused to abide by any unilateral ceasefire proposed by Ukraine. It shows that the tides of this conflict seems to be halting fast against Ukraine

But I still do not understand this Baby daddy thing and how the baby daddy could be able to create a lasting bond with a child he sees once in blue month. I am sure Davido may not have seen her for the past weeks or so but remembers her on her birthday. Yes, they may be talking over the phone but nothing beats the presence of the father all the time with the kids. I mean, presence with money o. If you no get money, your presence makes no meaning. You may be irritating to your wife sef.