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I doubt if there would be elections in 2023.

It's like there is a formula of appointment that this man must replace same tribe in the same position.

I finally believe the world will never recover from immorality. It's has become a normal thing and fastest way to quick money....what a world!

They are religious, just that it's not Christianity or Islam

OyinO:
Very very obvious. Yet it is a non religious con3. Naija that is world most prayerful con3 with the prayer warriors being corrupt people.

@RevDesm0ndJuju I have always wondered why Hitler went after the Jew, please kindly shed more light on that if you can.

RevDesm0ndJuju:
Well, the lunatics at the WEF and IMF want an end to the dollar and every other national currency and in it's place a global digital currency.

Bitcoins is just another worthless crap that they rolled out to test run their soon to be rolled out digital currency.

To achieve this, the US must be bankrupted which in turn will see every other currency pegged to it lose value over night.

What is going on has been done before in the great crash of 1923.

The only solution to address this massive fraud called fiat currency is to do what Hitler did. The NAZIs had a trade by batter system which bypassed the Jewish banksters. German industrial goods were exchanged for wheat, and every other thing the Germans could not produce or had as natural resources. This saw German economy and currency transform from one of the worst performing to the best performing in just 8ys of Hitler coming to power. It was a miracle and the German society offered the best living standards than any European American society had ever seen.

I marveled when I see how far and wide Nigerians are read and understood the world politics.......@Fuckingmallam, I respect your quote....

Fuckingmallam45:
China will not surpass the USA economically until they reform their political and economic systems. China is headed for trouble unless China allows truly free enterprise and democracy to root out party corruption.

The 2012 book attracting praise from prominent economists and Nobel laureates is Why Nations Fail – The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Through numerous historical examples, the keys for economic development are found to be the openness of society, creative destruction and the rule of law, which principles include private property rights, competition and free elections. Acemoglu & Robinson enable us to put the formula for national success in very simple terms: Nations with inclusive institutions prosper, while nations with exclusive and extractive institutions fail. Why Nations Fail and its many examples echo Toynbee’s dynamics of decline, namely that leaders, in this case ChiCom bosses and their cronies, attempt to hold onto positions they have ceased to merit and fail to overcome challenges. Acemoglu & Robinson write that China had “authoritarian growth,” but is still greatly limited by extractive policies, central governmental control, one-party rule, insecure property rights, censorship, and the lack of both creative destruction and free elections to limit or stop corruption.

It’s no secret about the rule of law: Nations with the least corruption are the most prosperous.

Americans can relax and focus on their own problems.

To what end is all these killings and kidnappings?

No Language is difficult, it's difficult because you haven't practice enough. By the time you do lot of practice, you will know that it's very easy.

Ok

Congratulation to him.

Ok

There will always be bad people, trust me, most Nigerians are good and hard working people. We are not fraudulent as the white want us to think of ourselves.

Fraud doesn't pay, the enjoyment doesn't last forever.

Who are we going to believe now? Someone should be writing the truth.

Igboland is not landlocked
IT’s often said that a lie told so many times, if unchallenged, may – in course of time – begin to pass for the truth. One of such is the terrible lie, institutionally purveyed since the end of the Civil War, to the effect that Igboland is landlocked or has no access to the sea. The purpose of this essay, therefore, is to debunk this lie with some simple historical and topographical evidence that are even in plain view, if you care to dig or do some basic physical explorations of your own.


Suffice it to say that it is a profound tragedy that entire generations of the immediate post-war Igbos never bothered to check but seemingly accepted this brazen institutional falsehood, largely intended to taunt the Igbo and put them down. A few that knew it to be false just didn’t care anymore. And that history was constructively banned since the end of the Civil War made it worse, plus the fact that most people don’t take physical geography (or even adventure) that serious anymore, otherwise they would have discovered that Abia, Imo and Anambra states have varying short-distance paths to the Atlantic through Imo, Azumiri and Niger rivers.

It’s not really rocket science, as you can easily confirm this if you know how to read (or plot) Google Earth; or you conquer your fear of swamp snakes and walk through these areas on foot. There are also many other hardly explored waterways and slithering tributaries, including the remote reaches of Oguta Lake and Urashi River at Oseakwa (Ihiala) that meandered through Igbo-delta wetlands to the southeastern ends of the Atlantic waterfront.

These rivers have varying lengths of short navigational paths to the Atlantic, and in some cases, are far shorter nautically (and even on footpath) than the Port Harcourt, Calabar and Ibaka seaports are to their side of the Atlantic. Many of these pathways, including particularly the ones from the outer reaches of Imo and Azumiri rivers terminate at the Atlantic at no more than 15 to 30 nautical miles to the beachhead. To put it in lay language, one nautical mile equals 1.8 kilometres.

Thus, the contiguity of Southeast (not even the greater Igboland) to the Atlantic is nautically less than the Atlantic is to the seaports in Calabar, Onne, Ibaka, Lagos and Port Harcourt. If you discount the territories unfairly excised from Igboland during state creations and the damnable boundary adjustments, it will be far less. To be sure, Ikwerre land or Igweocha which bears the greater portions of the Port Harcourt seaport was dredged up to 50 miles to the Atlantic front through the Bonny River.

Onne seaport was dredged up to 60 miles to the Atlantic and Calabar seaport was dredged some 45 nautical miles to the Atlantic. Ibaka seaport is about 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic and the Lagos seaports dredged up to about 50 nautical miles to the Atlantic. Compare all these to Obuaku in Abia State, which is only 25 nautical miles to the Atlantic from the confluence of Imo and Azumiri rivers, of which Azumiri, on its separate merits, lies not more than 30 nautical miles to the Atlantic beachfront.

The less obvious one is the little-known Oseakwa (Urashi) in Ihiala (Anambra State) which is mere 18 nauticals to the Atlantic, all with its 65 feet of natural depth, unarguably comparable to no other river in Nigeria. Additionally, what is geopolitically known as Igboland today is far smaller than what it was and legally supposed to be.

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As far back as 1856, Baikie – one of the earliest and credible geographers of ancient Nigeria, had this to say: “Igbo homeland, extends east and west, from the Old Kalabar river to the banks of the Kwora, Niger River, and possesses also some territory at Aboh, an Igbo clan, to the west-ward of the latter stream. On the north, it borders on Igara, Igala and A’kpoto, and it is separated from the sea only by petty tribes, all of which trace their origin to this great race” (Baikie, William Balfour, published with a sanction of Her Majesty’s Government in 1856).

But with that infamous post-war abandoned property policy and the egregious institutional injustices in boundary adjustments, coupled with the widespread anti-Igbo gerrymandering, Igbos physically and psychologically lost political hold of their vested ancestral lands, all to the point of not caring anymore about their historical contiguity to the Atlantic, which their ancestors beheld and called ‘Oshimiri’ – The Great Sea.

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The psychological beat-down and gang-up got so bad and institutional that some of the descendants of these Igbo ancestors (nearest to the Atlantic and now lying outside southeast) are no longer sure whether they are Igbo or not. The worst injustice was in 1976 when the Justice Nasir Boundary Adjustment Commission made a serious and targeted agenda of carving out core Igboland territories into some neighbouring states of the South-South. But they didn’t quite make an absolute success of it.

They missed the southernmost Southeast lands that possess rivers that meandered through slices of Igbo-friendly South-South territories and ended up at the Atlantic, thus unwittingly (and luckily) placing Igboland and its right of access to the sea under the canons and realms of customary international law.

As it stands, international law of the sea guarantees Igboland (whether it remains Nigerian territory or not) unhindered access to the nearest sea (in this case: the Atlantic) peacefully through any of the various short-distance rivers, waterways and tributaries that originated from Igboland but ultimately washed into the Atlantic through contiguous South-South territories.

For avoidance of doubt, there’s particularly the Obuaku confluence in Ukwa West (Abia State) that flows through greater Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State before expanding out and washing into the near-reaches of the Atlantic. And the River Niger which ultimately joined the Atlantic through a vast network of hardly explored creeks and mangrove swamps that abut the Bight of Biafra (officially corrupted to Bight of Bonny, after the war).

Nigeria is subject to the International Law of the Sea and is, therefore, bound to abide by its provisions, should the need arise in a scenario of persistent sovereign oppression of the Igbo as an identifiable (and protected) indigenous group within Nigeria. The others are the United Nations Treaty of the Sea and the African Union Treaties and Conventions on the Sea, including particularly the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, which Nigeria ratified and domesticated in 1983.

The pertinent provisions are mostly embedded in the copious protections relating to the collective economic and commercial rights of indigenous peoples lying within a Treaty nation. Ndigbo are undoubtedly an indigenous people presently lying within Nigeria.

So, international law will surely come into play should a belligerent or legal conflict arise out of Nigeria’s oppressive institutional resistance to granting a seaport to Igboland – an issue so fundamental and compelling that it bears the fulcrum of what is agitating the Igbo to the point of seeking an alternative to Nigeria.

Ejimakor, a legal practitioner, wrote from Lagos
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/igboland-is-not-landlocked/

Kokoebapluse:


Name of Jesus always fail when it come to healing of HIV, Cancer, corona.

You are a pathological liar, Name of Jesus never fails. Death is not avoidable.

Instead of engaging in name calling and other things that could tear us apart, let's look for a way to create a country where justice and peace is our primary purpose.

Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart, tells a story of Okonkwo of Okonkwo, the main character, who was banished from his village of Umuofia for accidentally shooting a young man. When it was time for Okonkwo to return, after seven years in exile, he instructs his wives and children to prepare a huge feast for his mother's kinsmen in a gesture to show his gratitude for their support. When asked why he was “overloading the table with food,” he said, “I cannot live on the bank of the river and wash my hands with spittle.”


Suffices to say that like Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart, Igbos who are known to be outgoing are not washing their hands with spittle, because across the Nigerian landscape, they are living right at the banks of the Benue River, Kano River, Kaduna River, Ogun River, Sokoto River, Cross Rivers, etc. They also thrive at the banks of these rivers and “overload” their abode with human and infrastructural development.

Unfortunately, every now and then, one of the most absurd analyses by the proponents of an independent state of Biafra which is that the five Igbo states in imaginary Biafra is not landlocked makes it to the mainstream media. Last week, in a piece “It is a lie: Igboland is not Landlocked” published in Sahara Reporters, Aloy Ejimakor presented what looks like overwhelming evidence on how easy it is to transfer Apapa Port to the banks of the “Atlantic” Oguta Lake in Igboland for the business of shipping.

As expected, those without a good understanding of the Nigerian physical and human geography; no good grasp of the maritime industry, and no clue on the economies of shipping and logistics are attempting to push water uphill. The campaign to entice Igbos to withdraw from the waters off the coast of Lagos, Port Harcourt, Warri, etc. is an attempt to force the waters to flow uphill.

Forget about the “dredging” of the Oseakwa River in Ihiala, the Azumiri River, or the “Atlantic Ocean” at the mouth of OgutaLake, the truth is that Igboland is landlocked and will suffer, economically. Do not let anyone deceive you about that. All you need to confirm that is to consult a good physical geography teacher. If you do not have one, simply go to Google Maps on your phone and look for blue markings indicating water bodies and decide for yourself how close the Atlantic Ocean is to Igboland. It should be that simple, if only you approach this quick visual research with an open mind.

Here are some facts per World Bank economists working on trade logistics issues, being landlocked is a major reason why 16 of the world’s 31 landlocked developing countries are among the poorest in the world. According to the Economist, of the 15 lowest-ranking countries in the Human Development Index, eight have no coastline. All of these are in Africa.

Without seaports, these landlocked countries pay more and wait longer for imported food, and other goods. Also, they have an equally hard time exporting, with the result that they trade less and grow more slowly than their coastal neighbors. A quick look at the map of Africa and the location of Central African Republic, Burundi, Niger, Chad, South Sudan, Mali, and Burkina Faso, will give you an idea of what it means to be landlocked. So, it is clear, the most obvious handicap of Igbo people who are known for international trade will be moving goods to and from ports.

It has been augured that the actualization of the state of Biafra does not mean that Igbos will be forced to come back to the land-locked states. We are told that we will still have access to the ports in the neighboring countries around landlocked Igboland and as such can easily import and export goods and services. A counterargument is that if Igbos are forced to pass through dozens of police checkpoints between Lagos and the Niger Bridge, Onitsha, under one country Nigeria, how many roadblocks will be put in place if Biafra is an independent country?

Just imagine that for a moment.

Now, imagine also what will happen if the same blockade is put in place from the northern, southern, and eastern boundaries all around Igbo land. How on earth will such an independent state be independent economically? If the movement of imported heavy goods must be re-transported inland to landlocked Igboland, how on earth will the economy be viable?

I am a teacher who makes use of graphics to help my students understand some concepts that would otherwise be difficult to grasp. So, for clarity and easier comprehension, I ask that you pause here and take another look at the Nigerian map. Pay particular attention to the location of Apapa, Port Harcourt, and the new Lekki Deep Sea Port under construction. Then, slowly move your eyeballs inland towards Igbo states for a good understanding of why seaports are sited on the coast of major water bodies. So, forget about emotions and sentiments, a sea is a sea and a river is a river.

So, do not let anyone deceive you, international treaties can promise access to the oceans, but the responsibility for implementing them lies with the governments of the "transit states". Now, imagine how happy and eager the minorities in the Niger Delta region will be to help build infrastructure that would mainly help their landlocked Igbo neighbors. They have little incentive to.

Also, just like Nigeria has closed its borders for months now, transit states to landlocked Igboland can interrupt commerce making the economic viability of landlocked Igboland difficult. For Nigeria with known civil strife between ethnic nationalities, landlocked Igboland will have to reroute trade at exorbitant cost, reducing their competitiveness. You cannot argue with facts.

It is also important to warn that landlocked Igboland should not be deceived by the success of the few rich landlocked countries like Switzerland that specializes in finance, which does not travel by boat, and its high-end manufacturing is integrated with Europe's single market. Also, Botswana, a middle-income landlocked country, exports diamonds, which are shipped by air. Pointing at such countries offers little hope to a landlocked Igboland without similar natural resources and with people that are heavily involved in the importation of heavy goods in containers.

From the analysis, above, you will see that it is not necessary to tell a wise person to get out of the sun. We are Igbos and we are wise. There should, thus, be no need for anyone to tell us that land-locked Igboland is an economic disaster waiting to happen.

On a final note, when you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger. Sadly, no matter the size or how full and bright the moon is, people who want to see the Atlantic Ocean at the banks of Oguta Lake or Otamiri in Imo state will see one. But, do not be deceived, landlocked Igboland will be an economic disaster. As my father used to say, I am a teacher and my responsibility is to keep teaching irrespective of whether the students are listening or not.

The worlds of the elders do not lock all the doors; they leave the right door open. Igbos should not lock themselves up. Rather, we should leave the right doors open as we work for an equitable and better Nigeria, for all.

Together, we can.

Churchill Okonkwo, Ph.D.

On Twitter @Churchillnnobi
http://saharareporters.com/2020/05/19/do-not-be-deceived-igboland-landlocked-and-will-face-economic-hardship-churchill-okonkwo

I shake my head.....

It's the truth, even though China kept the virus fatality too long.

I think the government didn't give people enough time to prepare for the lock down. If the lock down is not relaxed for people to stock up food and essential that can last a long time, anarchy will ensures and it will be chaotic.
ADVICE TO THE FG:
1. Release enough grains from the reserve to support the food in warehouses.
2. Do honest transfer of cash to people in need based on family size(hoping we will all be truthful)
3. Lock down the whole country for 21 days and deploy military services to mount road block.
4. All of us should comply by staying home �.
By doing all these, we will be able to separate those infected from those that are not, thereby not collapsing our fragile health system. If we failed to do all these, NEW YORK will be a child's play. I pray God give us a real help and save our land.

Since this is POS transaction, the merchant hasn't be credited with the value. It takes 24 hrs for merchant to be credited with POS transaction. So, call the bank as many times as possible between now and 8am tomorrow until someone tells you that the case has been properly reported to their fraud unit. Same thing happened to a known person about 2 years ago using Gtbank, she reported the case days after, and she was refunded every kobo to the tune of over 160k. I wish you best of luck, and your sweat shall not be eaten up by devourer.

It's getting real.

I thank God for your life, for overcoming temptation. God Shall be with you always in Jesus name, Amen.

[quote author= post=85725462]This is being Christ-like.
This is the exact same thing our Lord and Saviour would have done during his days.

It was Mahatma Ghandi, the India Buddhist that says ' I love their Christ but hate their Christians, because their Christians do not behave like their Christ!

Food for thought![/quote]God bless you. Ravi Zacharias reiterated the quote in the conference he had days ago. God is not transactional in His dealings with us, God will remove veils of ignorance from us all. Amen.

udemzyudex:
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saasala:
Sure link to watch the match live:

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It's just allegations not conviction. He has not been found guilty. I don't know why we like to see things only from ethnicity point of view. He contributes a great deal to the economy by employing Nigerians irrespective of tribe. He pays taxes as a responsible citizen. The indictment did not say he defrauded banks in the USA or in Nigeria, if you read the indictment, the whole thing they are alleging started about 6 years ago, I want to believe he won't be stupid to involve himself in kind trivia allegations. God will vindicate him if he hasn't done anything wrong.

Living in a country where they can make a very decent livelihood legally, still they chose crime.

Thank you for the write-up, I have been looking for who will do this for me since. From this, I can say that the contract was a fraud. A contract running to billions of dollars cannot be passed without the Federal Executive Council, Andoakaa was right when he said the FG should sue P&ID for corruption.

It's like we are in the season of python eradication!!!