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Ugwuanyi has returned enugu state back to the 1990.
Before ebeano's tenure.
I can't imagine why Sullivan didn't seek a technocrat to continue with his good works...

Next they will hand over to Ikeoha and enugu will be worse than yobe

Davido is scared.... He don buy market.... All it needs is for someone to light fire for this fuel he spilt.

Good job.
try to mention their recent previous meetings.
And maybe a personal prediction of possible outcome.

In all, welldone

oshiiteoku:
it's not where you are thinking at all,it Eke town ,you must reach 9th mile and get to NBL before getting to Eke,home of the honourable minister for Foreign affairs and nobody is saying anything.

God I passed thru dat road that same day. Drove to ezeagu to felicitate with a friend at his traditional marriage and came back at night around 8pm to Enugu town.

This happened with all d police check points on that road? How?

letusbepieces:
Nobody is perfect, they are our closest and most trusted confidant.

No one like them, in the whole Nigeria.

Have u lived anywhere in akwa iblm before?

Na dem envy pass.
No just try progress pass dem.
Serious envy and violence lives with this people

Naughtysite:
Is that how it is done in developed countries ?

Trump is being investigated because he made a phone call that the son of a supposed future electoral opponent should be queried in a foreign country.

We need to unlearn the wrong things done by Nigerian leaders if we need a better tomorrow. You are adding fuel to a wrong fire, giving moral courage to wrongful power abusers.

Stop glorifying and quoting the abnormal things as if they are normal because you want to support someone who shares your ideology.

If the man wants to open an online brawl with Davido, or even the son of a Peasant, allow both of them to brawl it out. That's how it's done in decent countries.

Stop WORSHIPPING MONEY.

Alas... We ain't in a developed country.

And everything is not politics.
Finally... My opinion is mine... U can FREELY make yours without quoting me

Monter1:
Ancelotti is already working to calm down his players. A VAR that does not solve but creates more problem.

Football is Died because of VAR

And u want to kill English too?

When I'm done, I'm done... Forgive? Yes always... Forget? Hell No

This match could be okay for the neutrals.... But am sure for the managers.... It's a poor match. U don't concede 5 goals from open play and be happy with ur team

nzeobi:
Why would a man of his age banter with a young man like Davido.

Two wrongs don't make a right!!
No matter who u are, u don't insult an elder brazenly.
And those, who have d blessing of fame, should also have d responsibility of self awareness

Davido... Too much money, too little wisdom.

If that man has people in government or has power tomorrow, all ur money won't save u from power.
A man of power will render a Dangote pennyless in a month.

Childish... But i'ld excuse him... Boys his age with money are often full of brawns, empty on brains.

Manage am... What are friends for?

My bros u got it. Cameroon is even hostile to themselves. They are d ones who should be called a shithole.
I had a Cameroonian neighbour while studying abroad., even in Europe the guy doesn't feel safe and is very suspicious of everybody. Their president is like an archaic king.. Every other institution / arms of govt is just a formality

Take the first ten and play 1& over 1.5 this weekend

Join Apc, Amechi will empower u

respect80:
If the igbos must sit at the country's pinnacle of power, they must show prospects as well as inclination to the rule of equity ( he who comes to equity must come with clean hands. ) But if they continue to showcase antecedents of coming to serve everyone a cup of their own medicines, then the idea of igbo presidency is tantamount to a play child building castles castles in the air.

One thing people like u don't know is that outside the political class, the ordinary igbo man cares less about igbo presidency. The average igbo man will not bother to call his own brother or friend if he bcoms a president or governor and becomes aloof, his position not withstanding.
The whole igbo presidency thing is a political class thing and if u feel the street(people) , they don't care a hoot. What more could go wrong than it is now??

wakaman:
A mock vote=a mock result=mock projection.

Reality is for an Igbo man to become president in Nigeria is beyond numbers of votes, there they would fail abysmally. The crux of an Igbo presidency is not as much as having Igbo candidates but more on acceptability of an Igbo president by Nigerians due to issues of trust, precedence and attitude of the candidate's tribal stock on the terrain of social, economical, religious and tribal dispositions.
The average Nigerian from other stock as the Igbos, (politics is all about averages ) has an unconscious belief in an agenda for presumed revenge and political upheaval by an Igbo stock president owing to the past and present inclinations of an average Igbo in the unity and sustainance of the entity Nigeria. From the social media pages, tweets, press releases, town hall meetings and other domestic presentations on the nation and intact at other compatriots ( compatriots I use at liberty) This notion of suspicious because of the average Igbo person is the major herculean hurdle before the Igbo presidency project..

It is not impossible though!

The only reason they are suspicious (and i'ld rather say afraid of igbo presidency is that they know especially this apc govt knows that they have treated the south east badly and promoted ethnicity to a level it's never been before in this country.
An igbo man identifies with and prides in his roots.
And they are afraid of been served their own medicines.

princeade86:
efcc has no right to broke down or forced their way into his apartment. they will rather wait or hang around d vicinity till he come out because in a saner country, he will sue them and win them. what of if all his cars he parked, he don't go out with it, and u don't meet him at home.

And u have no right to "broke " English like this�

ZZ22:
So nothing is wrong with delivery of money in bullion vans on election eve? Would you have reacted this way if two bullion vans were seen entering Atikus or Secondus house on election eve?
You might think you are supporting Tinubu but the truth is you are crushing the future of your un/born kids

Oga no mind them.... Na person wey never sure of his own belle, u want him to think of his unborn??
For his mind, "who dash him banana?

The aviation minister’s explanation, that there was no budgetary provision for the project, thus that it just could not be taken on and executed after it was shut down, begs the question. Does it not? So it was actually the visit to Aso Rock that suddenly, magically and perhaps miraculously, put the rehabilitation of the Enugu airport in the budget? It was also the visit that mysteriously, worked out the cost of the project and ferreted out the funds? So should we then assume that the figure magnanimously announced by the president was advised by actual verifiable calculations, or was it just announced on a whim? Whichever way we choose to look at it, there is cause for misgivings about public administration in Nigeria, the concept of “national emergency” and much more. The South East mourns!
Sorry to those who on seeing the title of this article easily assumed that it was to address the recent series of misfortunes, including fires, avoidable deaths and loss of property, in the South East? No, the misfortunes of the South East are much more than that. Many of them are self-inflicted. The misfortunes are there alright. So are the fires and the avoidable deaths and other losses. But over and above all these stand in bold relief the sustained diminution of a region of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, through deliberate government gymnastics and the political illiteracy of its own ruling elite.
Yes, it has the largest population per square kilometer. But it also has the lowest number of local governments, based on population density. It has records of exceptional performance in all competitive examinations, but the lowest representation in federal institutions. It has the highest number of dilapidated federal roads, no place in the national gas plan and no mention in the epidemic of rail series springing up everywhere else in the country. That is the South East for you. The region mourns today!

The over 30 years of traffic nightmare for travelers on that route lingered and became the norm. Local economies even sprang up around the area; which have thrived for decades.
When finally approval was given for the Bridge to be built under the PDP government of yore, it turned out to be a Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) arrangement. In other words, the bridge was approved to be built by whoever was willing, able and available to put down his money for it. Yes, the builder will fund the project and then later recover the money by putting up toll gates on both ends of the new bridge. It is those using the bridge that would pay for the cost of building it; and it was not to be handed over to the government to be used free of cost, until the number of years stipulated as adequate for the builder to recover his cost, along with the accruing profit. And, mind you, there was no case of national bankruptcy; or a dearth of projects of even higher net value being executed all over the nation at the time.
But the bridge was still not built. Had it been built as initially planned, it would most probably have been the only spot in the federation where toll gates were erected so that users of a public, land transport, facility like a bridge would pay for using it. And this was at a time the federal government banned and dismantled all toll gates in the country. It does not matter now, as observed earlier, that projects of higher value have been, and are still being, built all over the federation at government expense. Only the South East must moan, groan and bleed through the nose for a bridge that should have been constructed over 40 years ago.
Now that work has finally commenced on the bridge, thanks to the Buhari government and after a protracted toing and froing on several fronts, the euphoria of this “breakthrough” has, again, exposed the myopia and infantilism of South East political leadership. An elite that clamoured, and still clamours, for an inland port in Onitsha is blind to the fact that this new bridge has been deployed as undertaker for the port project. Go on, take a look at the main frames of the ongoing construction on the second Onitsha Bridge. What type of ship will pass under it? With what type of cargo, if any, or finished products will the ship pass? What in the current specifications show that it is being constructed with a contiguous inland port facility in mind? Who will now stop the work, given the stage it has reached and the amount of money already spent on it, to raise the beams so ship can pass under it?
To be fair, there is enough head room for, crabs, swimmers, speedboats and rafts. For good measure, it may even endure a flat-bottomed steamer ferrying sand around the now-dry banks. But that would be all. So we can at least commission the Onitsha inland port for some form of retail shipping, using canoes, fast swimmers and speedboats between the creeks of the South South and Onitsha. The South East mourns!
Which brings us to the recent presidential intervention on the rehabilitation of the Enugu airport, which was shut down some two months ago. It was with relief and gratitude that many people noted President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that the sum of ten billion Naira be released for rehabilitation work on the closed airport to start. This was after the South East governors, accompanied by the President General of Ohanaeze, the region’s foremost socio-cultural organisation, paid him an all-important visit. It was like a trip to a shrine to appease a mighty oracle. The issues were presented. The pleas were made. The period of pensive waiting, with bated breath was not missing. Then came the magnanimous pronouncement of a reprieve. Phew! Hurray! But, that is because the South East is involved.
The plan to shut down the airport should ordinarily have been on the table along with the plan for its rehabilitation and re-commissioning.

South Eastern Nigeria lies prostrate and without dignity today. It has been thus for a long time now. Enveloped by an incubus of snarling befuddlement as it is dragged towards a benighted terminus, the region has become a metaphor for how to exist (without really living) in a federation of supposedly equal partners. It twists and turn piteously in subdued pain. There is an unvoiced gnashing of teeth and a bitter forbearance. Denuded, ridiculed, swindled and roundly scandalised on all fronts by an elaborate pretense at nationhood that has been to its detriment for far too long, the South East Nigeria is at best a metaphor for nominal and fraudulent citizenship. Its gifted, energetic and bold youths are forced to scavenge around the fringes of morality and legality.
That is because they have found themselves in a system that excludes them from what their peers and supposed fellow citizens take as a matter of course; and regard as their entitlement. There is, for people of the South East, an unnamed fear here and a semi-uncertain confusion there. There is also a semi-real trembling yonder. Anon, it is as if there is always some creeping, inexplicable, yet ever-present, but clearly unhealthy quivering of political and economic nerves. Perplexity walks the land – and with bold, intimidating steps.
But, being a people resolved not to dissolve under inclement currents and the unrelenting assaults of a merciless state that seems determined to annihilate them, Ndigbo remain resilient in the face of inhuman political and economic odds. But does the rest of the Nigerian federation really know, and to its fullest measure, that thralldom and misery have taken permanent residence in the entire South East? Put differently, does anyone really care what people of that region feel, or do not feel, about everything going on around them – and sometimes in their name? I think not. And that is because everyone has been living with a badly treated South East since after the civil war in 1970. It has become normal to reckon without the people in every way.
The failure of the post-war rehabilitation and reconstruction programmes, the decades of burgeoning neglect by the central government, the lack of group cohesion among the people themselves, the curse of poor strategic group leadership, the political incompetence of new “Igbo leaders” and an emergent attitude of presumptive preeminence by most eastern Nigeria’s public office holders of today, have taken their toll. That is why the land and the people now bleed from all pores. Yes, the South East mourns. And so might the rest of the nation if things are not put right and in good time.
It is a matter of fact, and record, that the South East region has remained sidelined in federal developmental projects for decades. The nation has lived with this reality for very long before the current government. The region lacks relevance in the siting of impactful institutions and major drivers of our economic environment. It is mocked by the wretched profile of its most visible political actors. Its sons and daughters in national public positions mostly live to survive their tenures. They sneak off to some recondite and narrow existence, or to their villages, once out of office. Not so for their peers, contemporaries and supposed equals from other parts of the country.
Look around you calmly and you must conclude that there is really nothing happening in the South East to warrant serious national human, economic or political traffic in that direction. It boasts the most dilapidated federal roads in the nation. It is the least considered in the new epidemic of rail projects springing up all over the nation. The second Bridge over the Onitsha end of the Niger was on the cards for decades. It became a metaphor for what should have happened immediately after the civil war, but which did not happen.

Location?
28k?

Walk away.... But not without showing her who the man is.


I 'ld say.. U wreck her life before u leave... But
Dem go say devil get hope pass me if I tell u how.

Bruno3000:
Just imagine! As members of winners chapel, we don't have a say on how OUR money should be spent. With the rising unemployment and increasing misery, all this man can think of is road construction. SMH

Speak for urself, u and who are we?
Which of the money is "our" money that u want to have a say in?
I'm sure u are not even a partner.
U think its ur fifty Naira offering and 200 tithe that builds the church?
That's if u are even a winner in d first place

karnafiu03:
Wada Fc vs Yahaya Fc

Wada Fc.....Goal!!!!

VAR(INEC)........NO GOAL!!

O boy u dey madt gan

Oshigun:
This is not tribalism or name-calling. Yorubas are always reactionary only after we have been slandered by others. It is Igbos, on this forum, and their Ogas like Kanu and manipulators like Omocry seeking to make Yorubas look bad over Sowore. Yorubas are then forced to explain the facts of how we reason differently to them.

You cannot have missed how Kanu taunted the Yorubas saying if they block third mainland bridge in protest for Sowore then IPOB will lock down the SE for weeks. Whoever told Kanu we are interested in protesting for Sowore?

Who informed Omocry that Yorubas cannot pay for Sowore bail for him to be suggesting Igbos did more to bail Kanu while Yorubas ignore Sowore when issues are about Yorubas accepting that Sowore did wrong while Igbos will always back their own blindly.

If reality bugs you then you can jump in the Lagoon as I make no apology to politically correct folks like you who ignore the truth on the ground to be promoting 'we are all one' Kumbaya BS. As if this whole Sowore lack of bail nonsense is not another effort of the bigots from the SE and SS to rubbish the image of the Yorubas as they are obsessed with doing.

Guy I don't know what ur problem is but u obviously have an issue with igbos... All I'm saying is the world is bigger than ur eyes can see. And u keep on going like u are d spokesman of the Yoruba race.
I don't listen to Kanu, why should I? Why should I listen to IPOB? why do u even listen to kanu?
U should learn to see humanity before seeing ur tribe

Oshigun:
Thank you. The problem is that everything for some people is about denting the armour of the Yorubas who have now become a barometer for the best practices and behaviour in Nigeria. Some , like Reno Omocry, assume that if you bring up Kanu and Sowore bail comparison you somehow manage to make Yorubas look bad. This is the thinking of Reno and many respondents here.

The simple truth, supported by countless historical evidence, is that the Yorubas have never failed to support what/who they believe in passionately and with all they have. They also do not blindly support their wrongdoers either as others do. Sowore lost credibility with the Yorubas because of the point you made. Yorubas are the wrong people to expect to back lawless and hypocritical behaviour. They are intelligent enough to note that anyone contesting to be President is saying that he/she wants to transform Nigeria through the most powerful office in the land. When such a person then loses the election, we think they should try again and work harder as Buhari did many times. Tinubu shed blood and went to court a million times to rid the SW of the PDP. Aregbe won and became governor through the court. We all saw how Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo was kidnapped and forced to announce PDP winner in Ekiti to the detriment of ACN and Yorubas then. Tinubu and even the biggest loser, Fayemi, decided to march to court to reclaim the stolen mandate. They did not call for revolution or a destabilisation of Ekiti during those dark days.

We all doggedly marched behind Jagaban lawfully and patiently throughout that trying period. We should now become a lawless people in 2019 because Sowore lost an election and does not want accept the fact that Nigerians have democratically elected those they want to lead them and rejected him?

We never expected Sowore to create rebellion against the office he sought officially but could not gain the vote occupy. Yorubas , shunning Sowore, are simply telling him to be a democrat 24/7 and not when it suits him. Lose an election (GEJ 2015 loss) to then disturb Nigeria with IPOB/Biafra noise is how the lawless and immature Igbos roll. Never Yorubas and Sowore should get this distinction right before he misbehaves again and is jailed for life. Yorubas are the only ethnic group with the conviction and number to stay the course if they believe in a cause. Sowore should remember this before misbehaving in future to then assume we will back him.

Pls the next time u quote me, don't bring tribalism or name calling. U can make ur points without speaking down on any tribe. U have to be a Nigerian to be either Yoruba, igbo or Hausa.
We are first Nigerians

Midas01:
Sowore unstable? Lol, ever since the 80s he has been resolute in his quest for better governance and has risked his life for that course.

Ask yourself which other politician has ever done so for Nigeria.

If someone who wants to be a president of a country through a democratic election only to turn around and want to forcefully overthrow his opponent in the election after losing is not unstable, then unstable has another meaning.

Me don't think d money is d problem... The problem is the guy is an unstable xter. ( it's obviously genetic)
So no one wants to stand surety for such a bloke.
He may even jump bail and both u and ur money is in trouble...

Again, South west politicians... Don't want to associate with him so as not to seem to support his stance against buharis govt.

What is going to collapse it??
If the structure is best fit for the space available, what is gonna collapse it?

Wait.... Pls... Somebody wears a watch that is 10million Naira?


Damn... If it doesn't tell when I'm about to die, writing I gain?