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All of us including the Yurobas, knew very well even before the campaigns that Buhari has no capacity to manage a diversified country like Nigeria.
But as a result of hatred for south south and south east Nigeria the Yurobas collaborated with their slave masters again to hand over nigeria to an incompetent man just to spite the east and gain the vice presidency and a few govenrment appointments.
And the Yurobas are so disapointed because outside of the ministerial appointments in which the constitution force the president to have a minister per state, the president has sent all the available appointments to the north, asking his yuroba slaves to go to hell, telling them that he does not trust them.
its a shame, the level of incompetency mr. buhari is dissplaying at the presidency.

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Here Christ was very particular about giving to the needy (directly - not giving to the church to give to the needy)


Here Christ unequivocally approved the putting of gift into the temple treasury (church) BUT what He didnt approved was compulsory giving or show off or giving because you were told to. God loves a cheerful giver

THANK TOU FOR YOUR HORNEST INPUTES PLUS THE SCRIPTURE REFERENCES. LETS KEEP THEM COMING.

BROTHERS AND SISTERS, I WANT CLEARIFICATION WITH THIS TOPIC, SUITABLE BIBLE REFERENCES WILL BE APPRECIATED.

IF I GIVE TO THE CHURCH AM I GIVING TO GOD?
IF I GIVE TO THE POOR OR MY NAIGHBOUR WITHOUT GIVING TO THE CHURCH HAVE I COMITTED A SIN?
CAN I CONTINOUSLY GIVE TO GOD WITHOUT GIVING TO THE CHURCH?

PLEASE I NEED ANSWERS.
THANK YOU ALL.

OBI OF ONISHA EMPLOY 70 YOUTHS WITH 35 MILLION, BUHARIS GOVT TO UNDEREMPLOY 500000 GRADUATES, WITH 23000 NAIRA MINIMUM WAGE. (CONTRACT JOB FOR 2 YEARS TO SCORE CHEAP POLITICAL POINT).

IF NA YOU WHICH ONE YOU GO CHOOSE?

GRADUATES GO SOON STONE APC OH.

AT NIGERIA ARMY, COULD YOU PLEASE PUBLISH THEIR NAMES AND STATES OF ORIGIN TO DISPROOF THE SO CALLED LIES?

this space is not for sale.

tell buhari his Libian brothers are here again.

CHIBOK IS THE BIGEST POLITICALLY STAGE MANAGED CRIME IN THE HISTORY OF NIGERIA.
HUASA-FULANI FORCEFULLY REMOVED GOODLUCK WITH LIES AND PROPAGANDA IN COLABORATION WITH YULOBA, the odourless fufu shopers.
NIGER DELTA AVENGERS ARE BLEEDING NIGERIA DRY.

FELLOW NIGERIANS YOU HAVE HEARD FROM THE HORSES (NORTHERN) MOUTH.
BUHARIS BAD GOVERNANCE IS MAKING JONATHANS REGIME LOOK LIKE A SAINT REGIME.

SINCE 1983 BUHARI HAS BEEN MAKING BAD POLICIES WITHOUT TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE IMPLICATION ON THE POOR CITIZENS, ONCE AISHA, HER KIDS AND THE PEOPLE IN GOVERMENT ARE NOT AFFECTED BUHARI GIVES NO DAMN.

AVERAGE TRADERS CANT ACCESS FUNDS, POOR NIGERIANS CANT TRAVEL, WE CANT BUY FUEL, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO SCHOOL ABROAD CANNOT ACCESS FUNDS VIA ATM, BUT ONCE TINIBU GETS HIS ONE PERCENT TSA FEE (25 BILLION MONTHLY), THROUGH SYSTEM SPECS AND REMITA. AND AMEACHI, FASHIOLA, LAI, ETC EARN 500 MILLION YEARLY ONLY IN SALARIES, AND THE PRESIDENT BUDGET 1.7 BILLION FOR HIS FEEDING NO PROBLEM.

Elder statesman, Tanko Yakassai served as Special Adviser to President Shehu Shagari on National Assembly Matters and before then was commissioner for Finance in the old Kano State. In this interview, he reviews the steps of the Muhammadu Buhari administration among other issues. Excerpts:

After seven months in office do you believe President Buhari is finding it difficult to settle and why?

Buhari has not been in office for seven months but rather for 13 years. Irrespective of the fact that the election was held in March and he was sworn into the office in May, Buhari has desired the presidential office since 2003 and so he has been in office for 13 years.

This is because it is not when a person assumes the mantle of leadership that that person begins to prepare himself or herself to rule but rather the day he desired to attain that position.

One is supposed to have a fair idea of what one intends to do and the people that would assist him in attaining that goal. It is not after getting the job that a person begins to learn how to do the job. This act is called “learning on the job”, an act that is very difficult.

Contest for office

If a nurse simply because she watches doctors operate on their patients decides one day to perform procedures on a patient, the outcome would be very disastrous. So ,Buhari did not start to work from the day he was elected but rather from the day he made up his mind to contest for office.

Buhari has been contesting for the office since 2003, today makes it 12 years. To me 12 years is long enough for a person to make an impact he wants; the means or resources he has, the means to help him achieve his objective.

So far, how would you say the administration is on course?


*Alhaji Tanko Yakassa
Buhari came to power with three major promises, that is tackle Boko Haram, down grade corruption in the country and lastly provide employment for jobless Nigerians especially graduates.

These are apart from other personal promises. So, for us to evaluate his performance, it should be related to the platform upon which he came to power. Buhari gave a deadline of December ending to get rid of Boko Haram, but just a few days back I heard that the Federal Government is warning the general public that Boko Haram are changing their tactics to attack soft spots such as schools, motor parks, markets and other areas where people gather.

Waiting and praying

This can only mean that Boko Haram would not be done with this year otherwise there would have been no need for the government to warn people.

Buhari should not have claimed the attention of the public by saying that he is going to do havoc here and there. I am waiting and praying that we would be able to deal with the Boko Haram before the end of 2015. But from my own observation, I have my share of doubt if we would be able to achieve this by the end of this month.

I say so because of the experience of the American President who took American soldiers to Iraq. President Bush gave a deadline for the withdrawal of American troops. Bush left the office without achieving this goal and Obama came to power on the promise of returning the troops.

It took Obama a second term to complete this task. So, the day Buhari gave a deadline what came to my mind immediately was the case of Iraq and Bush. If with all the power at Bush’s disposal as the President and their allies (Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Austria, Italy and the rest of them) could not complete an operation at the targeted date what would Nigeria have to say for herself? So immediately Buhari gave a deadline I knew it was not achievable and I doubt in few days from now we wouldn’t be able to finish with the Boko Haram. I hope and pray we would be able to achieve this but I doubt.

Can Buhari’s economic policy take us to the Promised Land?

Everybody in Nigeria now is crying that life is very difficult. By this time last year, life was not as it is today and from my prediction, we would continue to suffer through the coming year, 2016, 2017 and probably if we are lucky we would begin to see a change in 2018, if you are not prepared, you better start getting ready. This hardship would not go away not just immediately my prediction is that perhaps if we are lucky it would begin to go away by 2018.

I know that the government is assuring everybody that it would be a temporary situation but they know that the citizens are suffering and it wouldn’t be over because unless the government is ready to print paper money and distribute it, the economy will remain the same. If the government prints paper money, it would shoot the price of everything in this country.

You see the suffering that we are having today is as a result of the decision of the government to introduce a Treasury Single Account system for all the government departments and agencies without proper planning.

How?

The previous minister of planning said that they have been planning for it but they were thinking of the space of time that it would take them to introduce this system.

He said that it is not a bad thing in itself but it is not something that happens at the blink of an eye. It is something that has to be introduced stage by stage but unfortunately the present government just announced that schedule should no longer allow accounts to be operated, all the banks most return deposit from government to Central Bank.

The banks were lending money to businesses before out of the government deposits as well as making money from them. Now that the money is not available they are not lending to the businesses and the businesses would now begin to experience lack of activities and the result would be retrenchment.

Irrational approach

My experience with life is that need does not go away, when the need for you to spend comes, and you don’t have money the need would wait for you to have money. The first one would come and the second would come and meet the first one the third one, the fourth one and the fifth one.

The moment you get money your predicament is which out of the first to fifth would you give priority to.

You mean Buhari is to blame for sins of past government ?

The problem is we suffered from this same irrational approach to government policy when Buhari was a military head of state. He decided overnight to change the currency, giving a deadline without realising that most of the people in the rural areas did not know anything like the bank.

People who are engaged in the selling and buying of livestock, food stuff and so on. They do not take their money to the bank they know how to keep their money until the next market day. Buhari came with a deadline, and eventually they were pauperised and they suffered.

Trade batter with Brazil

Buhari stopped the importation of things like Maggi and wives of big men would leave their houses as early as 5 a.m to go to Leventis, Kingsway or other shops to queue up for Maggi, salt or sugar. I didn’t let my wives go so I sent my house boys instead to go queue up on their behalf! The common Maggi in Kano became a real scarcity overnight.

This thing happened to us before and Buhari in spite of the large amount of livestock that we have in this country, we engage in trade batter with Brazil. Brazil was supplying Nigeria with beef and frozen chicken. This common chicken that we grow in our backyard. These are the types of policies they adopted.

In a way I like what is happening because it would teach Nigerians a lesson that when politicians come with their slogan that they are going to turn everything into heaven, they should think twice before they lend them their support.

If one says he is going to solve poverty in the country he should tell us how he intends to do so and if he can convince us, then we can vote for him and support him. I hope this would be a lesson for all Nigerians.

How would you evaluate the anti-corruption war of this administration?

There is only one case so far concerning a public officer who was arrested and taken before the court on account of corrupt practices that is the person of Sambo Dasuki. This is the only case of Buhari’s regime has originated so far. There is no other case.

All the other cases were originated by the previous administration. Sambo Dasuki’s case is the only case that has arisen during the life time of Buhari’s administration. If there is any other case please do well to mention it.

So to me, the fight against corruption cannot start and end with Dasuki it should be a holistic action. And from the look of things, most of the targeted people are people who are perceived to be either personal enemies or political opponents of the regime.

If one is going to fight corruption successfully, one should do it without discrimination, it should be holistic, whether the suspects are your children or mother or wife that is involved, it should be dealt with.

Party in power

So far we have not seen this happening in this country. And not part of any member of the party in power and they are a lot of them that are believed to be corrupt. I personally know a lot of them and I refuse to mention any of them.

Is it justifiable the way and manner Dasuki expended the funds entrusted to him?

I promised that I wouldn’t comment on Dasuki’s matter until I hear his own side. As a Muslim, am directed by my religion to hear both side before I pass my judgement. Although he has been speaking, he has been speaking through his lawyer, he didn’t file his defence in the court and until he does this I can’t make an informed statement about him.

Did you benefit from the funds from Dasuki’s office?

Dasuki is my son, but we only met once in the mosque. I know that during the campaign, there were rumours that I received millions of dollars from Jonathan.

Fortunately I happen to be a member of the generation of Nigerians who believe in doing good on the bases of friendship. I have only met Johnathan once in my life which was two days before the election and it was on a matter that bordered on a very glaring issue that would affect national security and the wellbeing of every Nigerian. I tried many people to convey that information to Johnathan but it appeared that they didn’t do it.

So I felt that I have a duty to try my best to see him and draw his attention to it at least I would satisfy my conscience that I tried my best.

So I used the good office of a person that is like a nephew to me who was kind enough to convey my desire to meet the president and that since I have never applied or requested for any interview Johnathan himself told my nephew since I have never requested to see him and since this time that I have requested to see him, it must be on a matter that is considered important so because of that, he told me to meet him that very day by 9 a.m. and I went.

Request for that audience

I told him what the matter was and he confirmed that the information was passed to him by a number of people and he did not take it very seriously but today since that I have never asked for an audience from him and the fact that I took the trouble to request for that audience. And that was the first and last audience I had with him.

So you never received a dime from Dasuki?

No not at all. If Dasuki or any other person gave me money, you would see it or at least hear about it. Besides, I want to make it categorically clear that no officials of the last regime either Mr. Jonathan, his lieutenant, agents, contractors or person having links or relationship with the last administration gave me cash on behalf of that regime for a reason.

Are you satisfied with the way and manner the present regime is handling the fuel crisis?

The present regime hasn’t done anything new. There is no major step they have taken to solve this problem since they came to power.

Do you support the removal of fuel subsidy?

I started campaigning for the removal of subsidy from the time of Yar’Adua because I undertook a study not specifically for that, but as I travelled around the country I took the trouble to observe the cost at which people in rural areas buy fuel and I discovered that even where you get people buying fuel at the official price is in the cities mostly in the rural area people buy fuel at the black market price.

They have forgotten that there is anything like the official price for fuel in Nigeria. Go to Mobi, Gujungu or any rural market you find that they have never bought fuel at the official price so the bulk of the users in Nigeria are not buying at the official price.

I know that we are passing through a difficult month and Buhari many not have the courage to remove fuel subsidy at the moment and I think it is the only way out because as long as the price of fuel is cheaper in Nigeria than in our neighbouring countries, the smuggling of the product would continue unabatedly.

Petroleum marketers

Secondly, petroleum marketers have now devised a strategy whereby they would go and fill their tanks of six compartments 5000 thousand litres each, come to a filling station discharge only one out of six carry the remaining five to the bush and sell it at black market price. If you observe, 5 or 10 kilometres away from the centre of any city, in this country you would find fuel in abundance. The only thing is that the fuel is the black market price. It is not that there is no fuel but it is there being hoarded by the marketers and there are so many and they are in control of the situation and there is no way that government would ensure that the subsidy that we are paying would go to the pocket of the ordinary man, it would never happen. So it is better that we withdraw it so that the product would be available. In a matter of two or three weeks, the product would be available everywhere if you allow everybody to import and I assure you the competition would force the price to come within the neighbourhood of 110 or 120 Naira per litre. Now a gallon of fuel costs 1000 Naira.

What is your reaction to the agitation by some Ibos to leave Nigeria?

It is our young people that are talking about going, you see they don’t consider the consequences of leaving. They don’t even know what the consequences would be. Firstly, the world is that in which the bigger you are, the stronger you are. Look at the European Union. The creation of the 36 state structure in Nigeria has made it nearly impossible for Ibos to break away from Nigeria.

How?

This is so because they are surrounded by other states and they cannot occupy the other states and the people of the other states would rather battle against them if they attempt to occupy their state. Secondly as I mentioned earlier, the people agitating for Biafra are the youths and I know what their problem is and this issue is affecting everybody throughout the country that is the lack of employment, poverty, everybody is suffering from this and secession is not a solution.

Among Nigerians, the Igbos are the most resilient people they are very enterprising, they don’t believe in staying idle, they are hardworking people so it is impossible for them to go outside the confines of Nigeria’s territory.

They came out to all parts of Nigeria and are welcomed.

Take a look at Lagos for example, in Alaba market, the Igbos are the most populated in that place. With all the industries, banks and insurance companies controlled by the Yoruba they are not competing with Ibos at Alaba market. This is because the Ibos are Nigerians, but if they aren’t Nigerians do you think the Yorubas would allow them to go and dominate a market in their area and they cannot do anything about it.

Same thing applies in Kano, when a light bulb gets spoilt in the Emir’s house, the Emir’s servants would have to look for an Igbo shop to buy bulb for there to be light in the palace. Same thing applies in the issue of building materials, electronic gadgets, electrical appliances and many other things which the Igbo’s through their resilience and enterprising attitude they are now the dominant elements throughout Nigerians. Igbo’s claim that on Sundays they go to the church, this is not entirely true because 90 percent of them go for their town union’s meeting.

On such days one can’t get anything, if a car gets spoilt, there is no spare part to repair it because the Igbo spare part seller is not available. So the Igbos are important to the economy of this country that I don’t think they can survive comfortably outside Nigeria
S. VANGUARD.

My friend I don't think you read the write-up sef.Shey my Mother in-law is not an inlaw?

So loving means indulgence for your mind?

I need no one to do me chores,I Av someone who comes around to do all that including washing with my washing machine.okay?

Next time you are reading,stay objective.

When you marry,make your wife slaves to your relatives all in the name of loving them Shey?

Park well abeg



FIRST OF ALL, IF YOU HAD CLINICALLY READ MY REPLY, YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN THAT I AM MARRIED, MYSELF AND MY WIFE SERVE OUR INLAWS THE WAY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ASK US TO SERVE OTHERS SO AS TO MAKE HIS KINGDOM. SERVING YOUR INLAWS OR ANYOTHER PERSON, DOES NOT MAKE YOU A SLAVE. IT MAKES YOUS BLESSED.

FROM YOUR REPLY YOUR MIND IS MADE UP, YOU DO NOT LIKE YOUR INLAWS, YOU ARE ONLY MANAGING YOUR MOTHER INLAW COS YOU DO NOT HAVE AN OPTION, ATLEAST FOR NOW.
IF AFTER ONLY TWO DAYS YOU HAVE SOLIDIFIED YOUR MIND ABOUT AN 18 YEAR OLD GIRL, WHOM ARE SUPPOSE TO MENTOR, COACH, AND CORRECT, THEN YOUR CASE IS HEAVY AND YOU NEED HELP.
PLEASE KINDLY, POLITELY SEND THE POOR GIRL AWAY PEACEFULLY, BEFORE WATER PASS GARRI.

YOU SAY THE ONLY REASON REASON YOU ARE STILL IN THAT MARRIAGE IS BECAUSE YOU WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN?
NO DISRESPECT MAN, BUT YOU ARE ALREADY ON YOUR WAY TO HELL, BECAUSE YOU SLEEP WITH ANGER EVERY NIGTH, AND THAT IS ENOUGH TO LEAD YOU TO HELL.

YOU MARRIED THE WRONG WOMAN, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY IN FINDING YOUR GODGIVIN WIFE ACCORDING TO YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR JOB. AND NOW YOU HAVE LOST THAT SAME JOB TO THAT SAME WRONG WOMAN. SNOWBALL EFFECT?

HOPE SHE HAS NOT DISTROYED YOUR ACCADEMIC CREDENTIALS YET? BECAUSE I SUSPECT THAT IS THE NEXT THING SHE MAY DO. BETTER GET THEM OUT OF YOUR HOUSE IF THEY ARE STILL THERE.
YOUR LIFE IS DISTROYED ALREADY, PICK IT UP, DEVORCE HER AND START OVER.

Then last week my hubby informed me that his paternal cousin will be spending Xmas season with us.I first got pissed when he said he will be going to pick her from their place.I said maka why a girl of 18.but told him if he insisted, he can go ahead to do d pick up even though I found it unreasonable

Women of nowadays! I can autoritatively tell you that before this girl came, you have a bad motive against her, and from your write up you do not like your inlaws, not because they are bad but because you do not trust them or you are not comfortable around them.

Truth be told, no matter what that girl do in that house, in the form of chores, cooking, erands, cleaning etc, you will never like her as long as she is your husbands relative. It is not the girls fault, you are just manifesting who you really are. (A WOMAN WHO HATES HER INLAWS BEFORE EVEN METTING HER HUSBAND).
My wifes best friend have always wished to marry a man whose mother is late, even as a tenager. God answered her prayers and today she got married to a man who lost his mum early in life. she (my wifes friend) now has a 3 year old son. what if her future daugther inlaw wants her death too before her wedding to her son! BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!
Most times i do not blame you women for hating your inlaws. I blame your weak husbands who allow you to devalue their relatives.
If you really wants to live an inlaw free live, please do not get married, or better still find a husband who is an ophan.
As long as you are married to a man or woman who grew up in a family and have relatives they must inconvienence you, and where ever humans are there must be problems, as a mature person you must find a way to solve your problems and not outrigthly trowing them (your inlaws) out.
THE REASON WHY MY WIVE HAS TO VALUE ALL MY RELATIVES WHETHER SHE LIKES IT OR NOT IS BECAUSE IF I WERE A NOBODY SHE WOULD NOT HAVE MARRIED ME. MY FAMILY, BOTH NUCLEAR AND EXTENDED ALL CONTRIBUTED TO MAKE ME A BETTER PERSON. I ALSO TREAT HER PEOPLE WELL AND WELCOME THEM TO MY HOUSE AT ALL TIMES.

Smoke2015:
Nigerians, just like when Bill Clinton told the Americans during one of his election campaigns that it was the economy, I am also now telling Nigerians that it is a class war period.

Our sufferings and frustrations are not because we belong to any section of the country or because we are Igbos as the hapless Nnamdi Kanu and his ilk would have us believe it is simply because we remain the grass under the feet of a collection of elephants in a continous struggle for power both political and economic.

Our low level of education and enlightenment continue to put us in positions of servitude to be used and misused by the elites whose membership cut across ethnic lines and are kept together by their collective greed.
The Marxists pushed this position in the 70s and we refused to see it. I have been mulling these thoughts and have decided to expand on it as I now have incontrovertible evidence that our oppressors do not take their decisions based on the integrity or otherwise of the people they claim to represent but are driven by the urge for the primitive and continuos accumulation of power and wealth.

My people, I watched this documentary on Nigeria and it was very clear that the civil war, several coups and economic bastardization that we have faced since we gained independence have been direct consequences of this struggle. Let me illustrate, I have always wondered why Fela the Late genius hated with a passion the Military especially Obasanjo and Yar'dua. The link is very clear, his mother was part of the independence push in the 50s. She attended most of the talks both in UK and in Nigeria. She fought gallantly and even dethroned a sitting Oba in the wake of her powerful incursions into politics. But immediately we gained independence she went into obscurity, cheated out of the fruits of her struggle culminating in her final humiliation by the OBJ junta. This was Felas grouse, how can his mother be so treated by these 'vagabonds' after all she had done for this country.

So what did he do, he fell back on the masses, taking advantage of their illiteracy and a need for release as a result of their massive poverty and suffering to rail against another section of the elitist club with which he was a major member by reason of his bourgeois birth. He wore the pants, smoked the weed all in his bid to show that he belonged to the masses. He succeeded to an extent but in death, his people came for him and took him away from the masses. They rewarded his family with political appointments, immortalization of his family name and all sort. Even today the Lagos state Government has given up although on lease as I hear a major part of our national historical monument - the Lagos Prison for his family to manage and maintain through his eldest daughter who is in a relationship with a talented Architect.

People, please open your eyes to the games of our masters. Another illustration is that of MKO Abiola, the purported winner of the June 12 Elections. He always regaled us with stories of his poverty, his poor upbringing and all. He did all these to curry the support of the masses in his fight against his colleagues as he struggled for power. He was not poor even in his youth, he was educated by Felas father in a school meant for elites and their children. Obasanjo attended the same school, (hope you are seeing the link) sent abroad to study and came back to join the Lagos University Teaching hospital from where he moved to some multi national and still as a very young man bought his first company. As a bonafide member of the elitist club, his colleagues in the military gave him all sorts of contracts making him one of the richest Nigerians of all time. During this time, he made very shallow contributions to the welfare of the masses. Making gratitious donations which were in no way compared to the massive wealth he had amassed through his prostituting with the military membership of the elitist club. All these was to hoodwink us and make us believe that he was a trusted ally.

But all his charade was blown open when he was bluntly told by his colleagues that the Presidency was not 'for sale'. However in his stubbornness he continued, relying on the bridge he had built between himself and the people to deliver the Presidency. This failed him for he underestimated the power of his cabal of wolves, his ambitions were frustrated by the military junta and he jumped to the masses for help like they always do, but we had been thoroughly weakened by his activities and that of his cohorts in the elitist movement and he invariably lost his life.

The linkages are very strong. The same people and their children have been ruling us both politically and economically. They only jump at ethnic and tribal colorations when they loose out in their intra class struggle. Falling back on the poor people to fight for them, claiming to have been cheated because they belong to a certain tribe but conveniently forgetting to state clearly that they were just poor strategist in a club the majority of us will never belong.

Let's look at Ojukwu the leader of the Biafran Secessionist movement. His father was at the time the richest Nigerian. Ojukwu lived a life of privilege and attended the best schools. His education gave him a little advantage over the other members who were firmly divided into three class subdivisions within the elitist movement- the political, economic and military. Ojukwu played in all the spheres and did not understand why he should be subjugated to Gowon who played in only one space and was not as educated. The progrom in the North and the continued massacre of the igbos gave him the firm vehicle and platform to carry out what to me and some scholars was a purely egoistic Crusade which led to the killing of over 2m Nigerians. After the war, what did we hear, 'no victor no vanquished', Ojukwu had run away with his famous Mercedes Benz to live a life of luxury in exile. This kind of camaraderie was a slap on the face of all those who had lost their lives, suffered untold suffering and saw their destinies thwarted but what would you expect after a fight between 'two brothers'?

The competition between the elites led to massive recruitments on all sides. The North carried out their Northernization policy, using the famed Barewa College as a bastion for recruitment into the civil service and the military school in Zaria for recruitment into the military. The west embarked on theirs too sending their scions out to the UK on scholarships mostly to study Law. That is why you hear of people like Fani Kayode being a third generation Cambridge educated lawyer. The Easterners also had theirs with what was then called the Argonauts, this was the Azikiwe led young Igbo Turks who were mostly educated and trained in the U.S steeped in the radicalism of the civil rights movements. Today you will see their children and descendants still holding forte.

People like Bola Tinubu, El Rufai, Buba Marwa, Dasuki, Femi Otedola, Aliko Dangote, Keem Bello Osagie, Udo Udoma are all direct descendants and beneficiaries of the bastion of elitist control.


How do these elitists perpetuate themselves in power? Its Simple. Education and in some cases marriage. They have identified very early the importance of education hence the continuos push for their children and chosen ones to get the very best in education and tutelage. They go to the very best schools in the world and get the kind of exposure that common people's children will never get. In the olden days it was through scholarships opened to party members children and wards, today its making sure recruitment into choice jobs was strictly based on the level and quality of education preferably overseas degrees. Tell me how will a Shomolu man's son no matter how brilliant compete?

They have also perfected the art of intra class marriage. They marry themselves ensuring continuity and spreading of bloodlines although firmly within the elitist circle. Any attempt to marry out of this class is rebuffed and frustrated until the usurper packs his bags and runs away.

Clear illustration, look at the Management of Forte Oil and the pedigree of its Chairman you will see what we are saying. From the Group Managing Director to the Chief Financial Officer are children with strong pedigree that can be traced back two generations. They also parade very strong educational qualifications and tremendous exposure. So how will someone who went to Makoko Comprehensive and graduated from our ASUU strike bedeviled institutions compete favorably with these people. So you see, it's a class war my people.


Otedola himself comes from a strong pedigree that could be traced to the Awoist free education and scholarship platforms of the old western region. His father being one of the wealthiest people in the land emerged as the first 'sleeping' Governor of Lagos State and eventually today Femi is one of the wealthiest black men in the world. He is also perpetuating the elitist lineage by sending his own kids to the very best schools in the world, recruiting only the very best that his money can afford from a very shallow pool of labour and effectively limiting the rest of us no matter where we come from Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo or Ibibio to the servitude that remains our fate.

Now that it's rosy, we are not hearing that he is enjoying all of these because he is a Yoruba man o. By the time, he experiences a small hiccup, maybe a little intra class struggle he would fall back on his people and scream for war that these Hausa people want to take his firm because he is Yoruba.

This is where Nnamdi Kanu is getting it all wrong. The igbos are not suffering because they are Igbos, they are suffering because of their position in the societal hierarchy which decides who stays where no matter where you come from. Why do you think the South Eastern Governors will never support his position? it's because it may cause an imbalance of power and a restriction to resources. The Igbo elites will always look at Nnamdi Kanu as an orphan and treat him as such.

People, we are all suffering. Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbira, Ijaw. A poor man is a poor man. The same sickness in Onitsha is the same sickness in Kano. Have you seen the poverty in the North? Have you been to Makoko in Lagos? Have you been to the slums of Aba? We are fighting like fools because we do not know who the enemy is.

Biafra will not put food on the tables of the poor disenfranchised Igbo man, Biafra will not give him infrastructure, send his children to school or even give him a voice. The issue can never be Biafra, the issue is elitist suppression and full control of the levers of the economy emasculating the masses throughout Nigeria.

If you doubt me, let us allow Biafra go and you will immediately see the permutation replay itself with the rebirth of these same elitist people creating a new hierarchy and entrenching the same issues that led to the creation of Biafra. Another Ilustration, IBBs rash of new states did not solve the issues but indeed created a new set of minorities still suffering from lack. I was a minority in the old Cross River State and still remain. Minority in the new Akwa Ibom State with my grandfathers house still not joined to the National grid. So what are we talking about.

The solution is education. We must break the walls of illiteracy by liberalizing education. Let's enlighten everybody so that we all can at least see issues in its true form instead of its present coloration along ethnic and tribal lines.

It is a class war and the sooner we realize this the closer we will get to the Uluru.

http://josephedgarng..com.ng/2015/12/itss-class-war-stupid.html

Lalasticlala, Dominique, Seun

SO TRUE SIR. I AM A MINORITY FROM CROSS RIVER CENTRAL, Reason i am educating all my younger once and i am saving like hell to send my kids to the best schools in the world. MY CHILDRENS GENERATION MUST BE BETTER THAN MINE, USING THE LEVERAGE AND UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OF EDUCATION.

SO ALL OF UNA MUSLIM-BOKO HARAM PEOPLE SHOUTING BOKO ARE NOT MUSLIMS SHUT THE Bleep UP. YOU ALL ARE TERRORIST. EVEN YUROBA MUSLIMS.

."Blame Northern-Nigeria Muslim Elites For Boko Haram" - Bishop Matthew Kukah by TolstoyFan: 3:40am
The Roman-Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah has said Northern Nigeria elites indirectly created terrorism as they used religion to deceive poor Muslims. Kukah made this disclosure in his keynote address at a conference organised by the Islamic Welfare Foundation at the Fountain University, Osogbo.



Speaking on the theme, ‘The Muslim agenda for Nigeria: Challenges of development and good governance’, Kukah said: “A hypocritical elite continues to believe that it can claim the benefits of democracy but use it only to consolidate its hold on power. This is what has laid the foundation for what is now Boko Haram. We must locate the current crisis of Boko Haram within the context of the inability of the northern Muslim elite to live by their own dubious creed of being Muslims. They preached Sharia Law but only for the poor. They preach a religion that encourages education, yet their own people are held in the bondage of ignorance.



“They came to power on the basis of a democratic society but they turned around and declared Sharia to generate a false consciousness among the poor that they want a theocracy. They did not wish to live by the same standards, so they decided to live their own Islam in the capitals of the world away from the prying eyes of their own people. Boko Haram began as a revolt against this mendacity, subterfuge and hypocrisy.





“Now, I hear Muslims in northern Nigeria hiding under the cover of the facts by saying: ‘These Boko Haram people are not Muslims. They do not represent us’. Well, first, they are your own children. You must take responsibility for what has made them what they are today and to the rest of society. They claim they have been inspired by the Quran and no other holy book. They say they want to build an Islamic state. So, they are Muslims. After all, from the debates of the Constituent Assemblies of 1979, 1988, and 1995 and beyond, did their fathers and grandfathers not stage walkouts, demanding Sharia Law? Was it not to tame them that President Ibrahim Babangida declared what he called ‘no-go areas’ in the debates about our constitution?



“The promise to institute Sharia has become the most potent tool for political mobilisation and organisation. Till date, the tactics may have changed, but the essence has not. Rather than face the tough questions of how and why over 15 million children in the northern states are on the streets; how and why the northern states are falling behind on almost every index of development, the northern Muslim elite continues to live for just the moment, with no plans for tomorrow.


“Should we pretend that a society that allows the forced marriages of its young daughters could frown on the idea of a group kidnapping and forcing young girls into sexual slavery? Islam must have an honest look at the mirror and have an internal discussion. Although we all seem to pretend that Boko Haram has caught us unawares, the worst thing is that we continue to hide our heads in the sands of self-deception by further denying the roots of this ugly side of our humanity.



“That Boko Haram, its disciples and victims are localised to northern Nigeria, should be instructive. What this calls for is an honest review of the root causes. We need to ask what it is about the past or the present that has led us to this ugly and deadly path. It is my considered view that northern Islam has to confront the realities of taking its religion into the modern world of democracy seriously. Muslims in northern Nigeria cannot accept democracy and reject the inclusive nature of its philosophy as it is the case today.”



http://dawntodusknews.com/blame-northern-nigerian-muslim-elites-for-boko-haram-bishop-matthew-kukah/
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CHANGE HAPPENING IN TANZERNIA.
FAKE HAPPENING IN NIGERIA.
AMEACHI, FASHIOLAR LAI ETC WILL STILL EARN 500MILLION PER YEAR IN SALARIES ALONE.
PLUS JUMBO PAY IN NATIONAL AND STATE ASSEMBLY.
WE DON ENTER DOLADINO ONE CHANCE.

i de laf. shabi AP SHIT don celebrate and congratulated themselves.

BUHARI HAS SUDDENLY REALISED THAT BEING IN GOVERNMENT IS DIFFERENT FROM CRITICIZING FROM OUTSIDE.
I GOT SURPRISED WHEN HE ASK NIGERIANS TO BE PATIENT AND SUPPORT HIS GOVERMENT FIGTH AGAINST BOKO HARAM.
THIS IS A MAN THAT NEVER SUPORTED THE LAST GOVERMENT EFFORT TO CURB INSURGENCY WHILE HE WAS NOT IN POWER.
NEMESIS IS A BITCH.

DURING THE LAST GENERAL ELECTION THE YORUBA DOMINATED MEDIA TOGETHER WITH APC MADE IT LOOK LIKE IT WAS JONATHAN MISS RULE AND THE SO CALLED "CLUELESSNESS" THAT WAS CAUSING BOKOHARAM TO FLOURISH.
THEY MADE GOLIBLE NIGERIA YOUTHS TO BELIEVE THAT ONCE JONATHAN EXITS POWER AND BUHARI TAKES OVER NIGERIA WILL AUTOMATICALLY TURN TO A DEVELOPED NATION.
FAST FORWARD SIX MONTHS AFTER BUHARI TOOK OVER NIGERIA IS WORSE AND THEIR LIES KEEP STEERING THEM ON THEIR FACES. THANKGOD JONATHAN STEPED ASIDE PEACEFULLY, AND BUHARI IS HAVING A TASTE OF HIS OWN MEDICINE.
AS IT STANDS NIGERIA IF FINISHED.
DIVISION IS EMMINENT. NIGER REPUBLIC HAS JUST MIRACULOUSLY REMINDED US THAT THE 1914 BRITISH AMALGAMATION HAS EXPIRED. AND THEY ARE TAKING SOME PARTS OF KOGI UNCHALLENGE.
BIAFRA HAS COME AND THERE IS NO STOPING US.
HOUSA AND YORUBA, PLEASE OWN YOUR LYING COUNTRY.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
APC APC APC
Enjoy yo change oh, call me the driver pls tell him the conductor has no change.
EMPEROR BUHARI MINISTERS TO EARN 500 MILLION EACH A YEAR IN SALARIES ALONE,
10 PRESIDENTIAL JETS MAINTAINED WITH BELLIONS IN JUST SIX MONTHS, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NKO? BILLIONS IN SALARIES,
na only poor man own go reduce,
WERE IS ACTIVIST OBY EZEKWESILY? TIME DON REACH OH'
BRING BACK OUR SOLDIERS PROTEST ASAP,
WERE ARE THE OCCUPY LAGOS PEOPLE? TIME DON REACH OH, MAKE UNA COME OUT.

WHEN WILL RUBISH STOP MAKING FRONT PAGE ON NAIRALAND?
WHEN DID NAIRALAND DEGENERATED TO THIS LEVEL?
IS THIS STILL THE AUTHENTIC FORUM I JOINED IN 2008?
WITH DUE RESPECT, THE MODERATOR WHO IS CONTINUALLY SENDING ALL THIS USELESS PHOTOS TO THE FRONT PAGE IS SILLY.

THE OWNERS AND MODERATORS OF THIS SITE HAVE LOST IT. DO YOU MEAN INSTEAD OF DEVELOPMENT YOU PEOPLE ARE PUSHING USELESS PICTURES TO THE FRONT PAGE EVERY DAY?
SHAI,
WHEN DID THE NIGERIAN YOUTH LOST HIS DIGNITY?
SINCE THIS GOVT. CAME TO POWER THEY HAVE NOT CONSTRUCTED EVEN A KILOMETER OF ROAD AND HERE YOU ARE CELEBRATING MEDIOCRITY IN THE NAME OF PHOTOS?
WITH DUE RESPECT WHOEVER PUSH THIS TRASH TO THE FRONT PAGE IS SILLY.