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Sweet talk. We have been hearing about planning from politicians since.
On getting to power, their plans always still remains planning.
God help us.

Donelli:
What we know
- A diplomat of the federal republic was killed on foreign soil.
- It was established as an assassination.
- Investigations were reported to have been carried out and a certain female Sudanese Nigerian was alleged to have confessed to the crime

What we don't know
- The motive, since it was confirmed as not terrorist related.
- How the case was/is being handled.
- About six months after, nothing is heard of the case.

Conclusion
Like many assassination cases, investigations are either "killed" or the findings are swept under the carpet. The writer in the OP pointed out that this was the first time a Nigerian diplomat would be assassinated on foreign soil and is it a coincidence that it happened in Sudan...

Huuun, we shall see how this story will end

Why are we displaying stupidity openly like there is no longer someone with little sense in our land again.

To say the election was rigged is normal in Nigeria.
But for us on the ground here in kwara, we know that the will of the electorates was fully respected and declared.

Lajet:
It surprised me how non-indigenes coming to rule us in Lagos from Tinubu, Fashola and Ambode. this same people from Osun,Ogun,Ekiti Ondo

Oyo can never accept Non-Indigenes from another state to become local council chairman in their states. we lagosian must wake up and reject this modern day slavery. we must all vote for our lagosian brother Jimi Agbaje

If you do background checks on Jimmy Agbaje family, you might also find out that his forefathers also migrated from somewhere else.
In today's society, many of us we found out that where we call home town is where our grandparents dwells and raised their children, it may not necessarily be where these grandma and grandpa were born.
So, where you were born and raised is automatically your home.

Anyone believing Kanu and his Jubril story need to examine his/her reasoning faculty.
Kanu is calling all of us fools, and the real fools among us are really behaving foolish.
When Kanu know all the nonsense he is talking about now since January 2017, why did he not raise alarm since that time?
Is he now telling all of us that the conspiracy theories he is broadcasting to the world now was sanctioned by the world powers.
Is he not too glaring to every reasonable fellow that this is politics taking too far.
Nigeria and Nigerians must watch out.

MaziOmenuko:
The company was already running at a loss. UAC with all its dedicated machinery kept it afloat hoping for a favourable business environment. At a point, UAC had to suspend the distribution of Swan water in the south west, using all its networks to saturate Gossi and place it as the premium product down south while Swan maintains market lead up north. All for a new business it has only about 15% stake in.

Bottom line is that any business a Nigerian govt has a stake in always heads to abyss. It's not just Gossi and Ekiti govt, check out our refineries and most govt parastatals. It's always the same!

True.
This is simply because of status quo system, bureaucracy, and non committal of management staffs to anything government own.
You will only see the managers bragging about with official cars and other paraphernalia of office while the business is dying.

Until our politicians know that government is a continuous improvement on whatever the previous government left behind and not starting a new project while the other one started before is not complete, we are just wasting our time and resources

BISHOP KUKAH’S RECONCILLATION OF SINNERS AND THE BOOMERANG EFFECT

BY: Celestine Mel
24/10/2018

I just read the long treatise and lengthy epistle by our dearly respected Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah. According to the erudite clergy and renowned peacemaker, he was in Obasanjo’s Otta home 3 weeks ago, to discharge his self and God-imposed responsibility of reconciling enemies and making peace where there is strife, and not to endorse Atiku Abubakar as Presidential candidate. He went to great detail to narrate everything that happened as contained here: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/10/16/kukah-my-focus-was-to-reconcile-obasanjo-atiku-not-endorsement/

Bishop Kukah has been light to the world since 1800. I have always held him in extreme esteem. The timing of this one though, showed that he, like every one of us, is also human. The mere length of this episcopal explanation, for a simple act of peace-building between warring friends shows that something was not right about it in the first instance.

Agreed that the Bishop was on a peace mission, I wish to ask – peace for who and reconciliation for whom? Can there be peace without justice? Can there be reconciliation and forgiveness without confession and admission? In this instance, what caused the quarrel between OBJ and Atiku? Was it a personal misunderstanding or matters of principle including betrayal of public trust and coveting of public property to personal use? Or was it just an ego thing between two leaders who meant good for our country?

The only way we can address these questions is to reproduce the now-viral narration in OBJ’s book – My Watch, where he copiously, conspicuously and fully documented his perception and root of the distrust between them both. OBJ wrote the following about his friend and former Vice - Atiku “ What I did not know, which came out glaringly later, was his parental background which was somewhat shadowy, his propensity to corruption, his tendency to disloyalty, his inability to say and stick to the truth all the time, a propensity for poor judgment, his belief and reliance on marabouts , his lack of transparency, his trust in money to buy his way out on all issues and his readiness to sacrifice morality, integrity, propriety truth and national interest for self and selfish interest". These are heavy stuff.

I have never read that Atiku has denied these allegations in any way, shape or form. I have not seen a counter narrative by the man or his agents, to strengthen things out in the proper perspective or any legal action taken to sue his former boss for libel. We have instead been fed with dozes of uncommon silence. Instead of taking a firm stand to defend his reputation and image from such heavy dent, we have been seeing our dear former Vice-President, running from pillar to post to impress his accuser and “beg for his forgiveness”! And here lies the burden for our dear Bishop Kukah, to tell exactly the essence of his “peace-making” effort to the society and country.

Could it be that Atiku was guilty of all these allegations? If yes, is OBJ’s forgiveness sufficient to atone for these sins against God and country? Is Bishop Kukah aware of the damage that acts of disloyalty, corruption, malfeasance, untruthfulness, poor judgement, lack of transparency and vested interests have done to our fatherland? If he does, who should he have tried to reconcile? Who are the victims of the misrule of Atiku as contained in OBJ’s book? OBJ himself? Or Nigerians? We need answers.

Under biblical canon and the common cannon law, penance, forgiveness, restitution, reparation and reconciliation go together. One cannot exist without the others. For instance, the Lithurgy and Sacraments website has the following to say about forgiveness: “Confession is for the forgiveness of sins. Once confessed, God forgives the sin and grace is restored. However, that is not to be thought of as a "get out of jail free card." There is still the issue of temporal punishment (reparation or consequences) for the sin. An example might be if a person were to say visit a prostitute. Afterwards, he may feel compelled to confess his sin. He can be assured of the fact that God will indeed forgive the sin, but can he be assured of the fact that there won't be consequences related to the sin (STD, marital problems, etc.)? Will God (who has forgiven the person) further protect that person from any consequences that come about because of his sin? No. The old but good example of the little boy who broke a neighbor’s window while playing ball also illustrates this concept. Initially, the little boy runs home, afraid of what may happen. Then later he feels the guilt of what he did and returns to the neighbor to ask forgiveness. The neighbor tells the little boy that he forgives him, but is that the end? No, forgiveness maybe given but in this case it doesn't fix the broken window. The boy should be expected to repair the damage (reparation).” In another example, the website draws the following illustration and I quote verbatim: “There are two brothers. The older brother discovers the younger brother's piggy bank and finds that it contains $5. He takes the money and spends it on candy later that day. However, by that evening the older brother was feeling guilty over having taken the money and confesses to his younger brother and asks him to forgive him. His younger brother does, in fact, say that he forgives his brother. Again, should that be the end of the story; or should the older brother, though forgiven, repay his brother for the money he had stolen? Rest assured any temporal punishment (payment) that isn't paid here on earth will still be paid in purgatory.” (Source: The Liturgy Website)

This writer does not intend to join issues with the nobly respected Bishop Kukah. In fact, the mention of the Bishop’s name evokes sweet, wonderful and fond memories, especially, the role he played as Secretary of the National Peace and Reconciliation Committee (also known as Oputa Panel) where he opened our eyes a great deal to the failures and foibles of the Nigerian project, the conspiracies that intertwine to drag her down, and the wicked perfidious single-minded determination of our ruling elites under different military and civilian apparatchik to destroy the soul of Nigeria. Bishop Kukah was the secretary. He did a good job. He served his country well. Also worthy of note is the Bishop’s sustained campaign at home and abroad for the restitution and cleansing of the despoiled Ogoni land, wroth on by the almighty Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria. In both instances, the Bishop could have as well feigned ignorance or put on an I-don’t-care attitude, or simply partook (like other fellow –but self-appointed – jet-plane-owning, universities-owning, blessing-is-a-commodity-hawking, gatekeepers-of-hell Bishops) to connive with the ruling bourgeoisie class to “see-no-evil, hear-no-evil” and do nothing. With the benefit of hindsight, Bishop Kukah has always meant well for this great nation.

In the matter of endorsement of Atiku at Otta in the presence of Bishop Oyedepo (who has used the sanctity of his Winners’ alter to repeatedly sow naked scary hate against an ethnic and religious group as can be seen in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5urgzmYnEM , and this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05uZonWIQuE , the Bishop committed a blunder. His Excellency Atiku Abubakar is a Fulani man like President Buhari. Atiku is a Muslim like Buhari is. Atiku is a northerner like Buhari is. Atiku is 70+ years old like Buhari is. The only difference between both men today is that Buhari is strongly and staunchly incorruptible while Atiku’s history with sleaze is well documented. And this last factor is at the core of the struggle and vicious campaign to pull PMB down by all means, using all sorts of falsehoods, lies, innuendoes and cooked up stories. Buhari has insisted that those who have fed fat from Nigeria – Bishops who own Universities and private jets and Imams who live off the sweat of their flock – must pay their fair share of tax. Buhari has insisted that we all must contribute to build our nation in our different ways, within our capabilities. That should not be such a big issue, ordinarily. But it is with Bishops that own multi-billion US Dollar property and mansions all around the world and have never paid a dime of tax on any.

In 2015, Bishop Kukah openly endorsed former President Jonathan, just as Bishop Oyedepo did. Both men did not support Buhari. It turned out that the masses of Nigeria wanted change from the old crooked ways of the previous 16 years. So, they voted for Buhari against the wishes of Kukah and Oyedepo. That vote has turned out to be the Achilles hills of unexplained wealth accumulators.

We cannot pretend that all is well; continue doing the same things and expecting different results. Bishop Kukah should know that we understand the undercurrents of all the gang-up and odious determination of wealthy filthy Nigerians to stop a Buhari second term by hook or crook. It is hinged on the fear of the final clampdown that PMB would bring to looters and plunderers of our commonwealth once-and-for-all. They are so afraid that Buhari would not be mild as he is today especially as he would not need anybody’s support for any term in the future again. We understand that the rich and soiled, are desperate to rein in President Buhari, to cut their ongoing losses. We are aware that licenses to oil wells are gradually expiring, and the super-rich who have cornered these wells for so long, are afraid that the tap is drying up, and they can do anything under the sun, to give life to those dry taps again. We know, and the common man knows.

Bishop Kukah misfired in Otta. He found himself in the company of leaches. His explanation about the sanctity of that mission does not belie the truth that he has lately been sympathetic to the old order that brought our nation to her knees. We pray the spirit of discernment on our dear Bishop Kukah so that he would not need to write lengthy explanations again, on a simple visit for peace and reconciliation, even if it goes awry. This country is our own. We must build it together.

*** Celestine Mel is a Chartered Banker, Projects Specialist, IT Consultant and Public Affairs Analyst from Essien Udim LGA, Akwa Ibom State. He writes from the FCT-Abuja.

Too much desperation. Something is wrong about this Okorocha desperate for his son in law.
Our politicians are getting more greedier in their quest for power.
Now trying to make the sit of government looking like a family affair.
Uche Nwosu is very qualified for the position of governor of IMO STATE.
But this particular ambition of Okorocha is putting serious dent on Uche chances.

Nigerians BEWARE. Politicians don't die for election, they DEFECT! If U die because of them, U die for NOTHING!

I hope there will be solutions to all these problems of everyone wanting his/her candidates to win at all costs.

Another round of useless shadow chasing.
4 years ago, this same noise was raised. It didn't stop buhari from winning the contest and becoming the president.
Why would a sain fellow be so busy fighting for nothing.
In all honesty, Buhari secondary school certificate should not have become an issue.
A man that have been serving in the public services on the highest level.
A former Army General ( We all know what it means to rose through the rankings), a former federal minister, a former military governor, a former military head of state and a sitting President.
There are many burdering issues that supposed to energized our discussion about 2019 elections.
Buhari secondary school education should not be what a serious minded people should occupied themselves with

Not really sure of any sain man/woman that will firstly work for another to eat before taking care of his/her household.
Politics is a game of interest. You first take care of your interest before looking at how you can help your friends out.
Umahi is not a novice in the political field or so I think.
Fashola is saying it as it is.
Wagging your mouth about a re-branded party is also good.
But, you must build your bridges before the water start gushing.

Africans must not forfeit everything about our culture .
All religions being practicing in the world today is a tradition and cultural heritage of certain people who were able to documented their heritage and enforced it through education.
Be it western or Arabic education.

Whatever, pdp is more organized than alcohol. However, pdp should not be considered for another chance to rule Nigerians.
Apc is not serious about governance.
We really need another party to come to power in Nigeria.

All is well with fayose. nothing much is going to happen than question and answer session with efcc officials
In all, may be he will pass some nights in efcc custody.
Next he will be granted bail.
Lobatan.

I know this will definitely happened. State house of assembly are just a rubber stamp for any sitting governor.
Our democracy is still in infant stage .
Fayemi is now planting his own yes boys in position. Olorun akowa yo.

10 Fela Songs That Are Still Relevant In 2018, 21Years After His Death

1. Original Sufferhead (1981)

This song describes the problems and sufferings that abound in Africa as a continent, despite its rich resources. He condemns the ‘big big man’ and ‘white man’ for taking up everything and leaving nothing but suffer and anguish for the average African man.

This song, released over 21years ago sadly still applies greatly. The economic disparity between Africa and other continents is displayed in the fact that basic resources like food, water, electricity and the likes are still unavailable to a large number of people living in this part of the world. Such disparities are even found within countries, where we have the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

2. Suffering and Smiling (1977)

Fela describes the life of the average Nigerian who is constantly suffering, but smiling through the pain, believing in the rewards that await them in the afterlife due to the teachings of religious leaders, who themselves live the most lavish lives, enjoying the so-called earthly pleasures. He warns people to open their eyes to this injustice and stop being blind followers of religion.

Things haven’t changed much today, as people still blindly follow religion (and religious leaders), without necessarily understanding its true meaning.

3. International Thief Thief (I.T.T.) (1980)

Fela uses the abbreviation of International Telephone & Telegraph (IT&T) to directly attack the company’s CEO, Moshood Abiola, and other politicians like Obasanjo who continuously betray the continent and their fellow Africans in their bid to get rich off the white man’s wealth.

This song is relevant in today’s world as seen in the violence that goes on in the Niger Delta as a result of the insufficient resources and recognition that the region is given despite being the major supplier of oil and the bulk of the county’s wealth.
Politicians are still looting, extorting and selling out their people in their bid to get richer.

4. Authority Stealing (1980)

This song, like may others, talks about how the government steals and loots the country’s resources daily and goes unpunished, while the petty thief gets killed and burned on a daily basis. For him, the people in authority are just civilized thieves who get away with their crimes because of their position.

Our government still steals from us and feeds us lies and we let them get away with it. The petty thief gets thrown in jail while the political robbers remain scot free and given liberty to continue looting.

5. Coffin for Head of State (1981)

This song also condemns politicians. Here, he speaks about the corruption that abounds in religion, especially by hypocritical leaders like Obasanjo and Yar’adua. These leaders were the most corrupt people in the world, killing and stealing from innocent people, yet they openly condemn such activities and hide behind Christianity and Islam.

Today, we still see a great deal of corruption and hypocrisy in the guise of leadership and religion. Our leaders are still stealing from us, but yet are the quickest to attend church programs and quote bible verses.

6. Beasts Of No Nation (1989)

This song talks about the many unusual happenings in the country and how the citizens all behave like crazy people. It touches political, economic, social matters and talks about the silence of the Nigeria people against government oppression and brutality while speaking up against apathy in foreign nations like South Africa. According to him, these could only happen in a crazy world.

This song remains relevant today as the same hypocrisy and silence in the face of government injustice is still the order of the day in our beloved country and continent as a whole.

7. Yellow Fever (1971)

In this song, Fela warns about the dangers of skin bleaching that was becoming a trend for women. He lists the many unappealing aspects of bleaching and tells women that they were better off leaving their skin in its natural form.

Today, bleaching has become even more rampant than in the times of Fela. According to the World Health Organization, Nigeria has the highest number of women in the world who use skin-lightening products.

8. Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense (1980)

This song highlights the fact that the white man seems to be living our lives for us, while they make their own decisions based on their culture and tradition. The white man, instead of condemning the bad leadership that goes on here, overlooks them while doing the exact opposite in their own countries.
He condemns the so-called democracy and begs Africans to open their eyes and realize that they are being misled and stolen from.

Today, instead of drawing away from the chains of colonialism, we still rely on foreign countries to help us make some of our major decisions and try to imitate every aspect of their lives, forgetting our cultures and traditions in the process.

9. Colonial Mentality (1977)

He speaks about the fact that Africans have colonial mentality and still live in the past despite having gained independence. They embrace everything foreign and believe theirs to be inferior, from basic things like food and clothes down to their names and religious practices.

This song is still very relevant today, as Africans in general would rather purchase foreign made products and would use foreign names instead of their traditional ones.Even Presidents go for treatment in foreign countries instead of developing their own health care system .

10. Confusion Break Bone (1990)

This song talks about the confusion that abides in the country and the lack or proper organisation. His tone here sounds sadder and more resigned to the fact that things might never get better for the country. He highlights all the problems he had mentioned in his earlier songs and says that nothing has changed and wonders at the insanity of things.

Nothing has changed today. The country is still in a permanent state of disorderliness and disunity. The government still gets away with being corrupt and unjust, and the innocent man still gets punished for crimes committed.

Are we going to say that PDP leaders are dumb?
How do they think that street protest will have any effect on a concluded election where certificate of return is already handed to a declared winner.

I believe the legal department of PDP must have advised the lost minded leadership of the party without them listening.

My advice to the leaders of pdp is that they should assemble their legal team to do the real battle in law court rather than playing to the gallery on the street.

Lagos State is developing everyday and night. Other states don't have to want competition with Lagos.

Naturally, development will flow to other states of Nigeria. We only need to have more infrastructurer development from our government at state capitals and some selected towns to make life more easier around the country.

Dino Melaye is always too childish. Dino is never a serious fellow.
If people take a closer look on this pictures, you can make deduction and addition.
The officer look like someone calming down an aggressive Dino.
But why should a senator protesting against lost election on the street after a certificate of return has already been issued.
To take the shame further up, our number three citizen is the leader of the road show.

Are there no lawyers in the country again for them to hire?
I believe everyone knows that the only authority to complain to in this matter is the tribunal constituted to handle such situations.

MummySilver:
is Ikechi and not Nkechi

Thank you for the correction

This is the beginning of good things in Abia State.
Nkechi Emenike is the next governor of Abia.
He is focus and experience.
God bless Abians.

Seriously speaking, Ambode went too far about his opponent.
Ambode should have use the opportunity of the world press conference to make case on issues rather than turning it to attack show on his opponent.
It's obvious that Ambode is a bad student of dirty politics. Such an amazing revelation should not have come from a sitting governor who is desperate for second term in office.
I believe, Ambode must have social media aids who fight social war on his behalf
It's not in our characters to use health issue to abuse someone in Yoruba race.

chieyine:
The former Vice President and Presidential Aspirant in PDP spoke his mind concerning the Just Concluded Osun election. He said,
The result just declared today in Osun by the Independent National Electoral Commission in favour of the All Progressives Congress and its candidate is a travesty of justice. That was not democracy. That was a demonstration of tyranny.

The victory of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ademola Adeleke, was firmly established last week on Saturday the 22nd of September, 2018.

This so-called victory of the APC is not a democratic victory. Observers, both foreign and domestic, reported the brazen intimidation of voters and outright suppression of voting in PDP strongholds with even PDP agents physically prevented from being at the polling units.

These actions showed to the whole world that this unnecessary rerun, in polling units cancelled or voided by the INEC, was nothing more than a red herring, to distract attention and gain time, while the ruling party perfected strategies to pull a fast one on the electorate, as it has done today.

I wish to say to Senator Ademola Adeleke and the good people of Osun State that I stand with you today and tomorrow in your time of need. I will not be presumptuous to tell you what to do. But what I can tell you is that whatever you choose to do, I will be with you both in word and in action.

Furthermore, I call on the international community not to stand idly by while democracy is being trampled upon. Nigeria is a very unique nation. We are very strategic to Africa in terms of population and location. A destabilised Nigeria will destabilise Africa and this must never be allowed to happen.

Thus, the international community must intervene to ensure that what happened in Osun must be investigated, reversed and prevented from spilling over to other gubernatorial, legislative and national elections.

Finally, I call on Nigerians to be on guard. The APC has shown its hand. It is the leprous hand of a tyrant. Therefore we must be alert in future elections, for as Thomas Paine said “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Atiku Abubakar
Presidential aspirant of PDP & Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999-2007.

Source: https://naijapolitico.com.ng/the-triumph-of-tyranny-is-only-temporal-atiku-tells-apc/

We always like to call international community to intervene in savings democracy from collapsed.
Why not call international community to help us out in the jungle that we have been living in time of no memorial.
Hypocrisy of the highest order.

Let's talk sense into some heads!

PMB and INEC conducted Bayelsa elections, PDP won.

They conducted Anambra elections, APGA won.

They conducted Oyo House of Assembly Ibarapa State Constituency, PDP won.

Some elections were conducted in Taraba, PDP won.

They even conducted a senatorial bye election where Dancing Senator Ademola Adeleke of PDP won.

In all of these, Buhari and INEC didn't rig and APC was a progressive party.

Now, they conducted Osun Elections, APC won you started calling names. Democracy is at risk and all the blablabla ranting and tantrums.
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Fani Kayode, onisokuso. Is this guy really know anything than to always act as a rouble rouser.

Very true, precise and details story pertaining to issue on the table. APC has been behaving like real mad dog.
PDP is not really what should be supported by the people due to their recent past history.
Unfortunately, Nigeria political system is not measured up to where political party without money and name can spring surprise.
Both APC AND PDP doesn't deserve victory in Osun State.
We really need a third force in Nigeria today.

Different opinions from different backgrounds, all painted to nothing.
The concerns authority has put seal on the election till Thursday.
God preserve everyone of us more than that day.
There must be a winner at the end of the day.
We are only too eager to conclude.