APC said subsidy was a scam, later they said that they have removed subsidy and today they are arguing on the amount they pay as daily, monthly and annual subsidy. But like the great Lai Mohammed would say "I have never told a lie". The more you see the less you understand.

From changing the word "subsidy" to another term called "price modulation"...they want to try as much as possible to manage this lie until Dangote's Refinery comes up to cover the APC govt's shame cos the state of the Nigerian Refineries is another matter altogether

Is that not the interview where he wore Burari's campaign tag on his left breast pocket?

What about the debt profile in this administration? Loans upon loans from inside and outside the country. They are always silent on that. You've made Nigeria porer than you met it

Meanwhile, Buhari is buying enough time for them to finish with Benue. Here's what he said yesterday "We are doing our best to make sure we have stopped the cross-border and so on, and — to get the weapons from the (inaudible) and weapons in the region checked. But it’s going to take time..."

It's my two cents to Benue. I wonder how many encounters it will take to learn one single lesson...

enlady:
Let me give you a case in one state alone.
Over 54 communities have been displaced in two LGAs of Plateau state alone. It is well documented. The indigenous inhabitants are either IDPs or have relocated to Jos metropolis. Today the fulani herdsmen occupy all the communities. I am angry with political leaders and elder statesmen in the Middle belt. They have failed the vulnerable people in the rural areas

enlady:
It is a land grab

Correct! It's simply targeted at driving away the host communities out of their homes, it's working in Kaduna, Plateau and now it's working in Benue. The perpetrators want to buy time and look good all through the process

Probable Solutions:
1) The state govt can a private Isreali intelligence firm to investigate...
2) The state govt can develop a modern Land Ownership system (with GIS) ASAP, showing who owns what and the communities it belongs to
3) Bury the dead at the border between Benue and Nassarawa states (one per grave per person in honour of the dead and not mass burials) with a huge Signpost on the road sending a strong message
4) Write to united nations
5) Raise a fund from the international communities and well-meaning Nigerians to sponsor a counter-terrorism squad made of main locals
6) Cry out LOUD and clear.

Its up to our Benue citizens tho

The guy has just admitted clearly in this statement that the Fulani herdsmen are the KILLERS. We know it, they admit it OPENLY yet this present govt looks the other way?

The disturbing thing with this government is that no matter how much the masses shout at the open faced nepotism and favouritism on display they still arrogantly go ahead with crazy decisions! We still remember:

- NNPC Management appointments
- Backdoor recruitment in CBN and FiRS
- MainaGate
- SGF and Grasscutting Scandal
- Killer Herdmen
- All the nepotistic appointments distributed across all security arms (DSS, EFCC, NIA, Army...)
- MDAs and many others

Not one of these mistakes have been reversed but rather the govt keeps seeking for ways to justify its earlier line of thought. As at today when the government sits to make decisions which affects its citizens, less than 40% of our demographic distribution is being represented. Thats what one gets from a leader who speaks of unity but sees no sense in inclusive development (97 vs 5% speach at U.S. Institute of Peace on July 22)

"...adding that Buhari has created jobs for over 200,000 people in Nigeria..."

Lies lies and more lies. Now i'm sure that these politicians don't read... even when statisctics from reputable organisations show that over 4million jobs were lost in this administration

If the masses truely know what has been going on in the oil sector they will shiver in fear.

It is a shame that the APC government is waiting for Dangote Refinery to commence production in 2019 and has the intent to use it as an achievement for 2019 election campaigns. It has completely ruined and abandoned the three national refineries without any clear-cut plan for its refurbishment or even sale. Afterall, Buhari already successfully made those nepostistic appointments in NNPC any talks on performance is no longer neccessary. I just feel for Nigerians

Even before i read the contents one can tell that he will still use the same blame game rather than tell us about notable acheivements.

Has anyone also noticed how he blames PDP's 16years rule and cunningly ensures that he exempts OBJ 8 years rull from it? Thats the icon of a very sly guy

Dear Tinubu, its your reluctance to accept the truth which worries us. Here's the challenge, we find it diffucult to support you in prayers against the same Boko Haram which you all claimed had already been defeated. Is this another uprising or the lies still stink?

Truth may hurt atimes but it pays to stick to the truth.

Well, it just confirms the fact that there's an INHUMAN side else we wouldn't need to have a "human side" on documentary

Whenever someone from the South South does something stupid its only then that the rest of Nigeria will recognise him as an Igbo man. The Nzeogwu, Jonathan, Secondus, Wike are just a few that come to mind right now. But same people will nearly loose thier minds when you allude that the igbos do have oil...

The average Nigerian mindset still needs healing

okway:
Any Yoruba man that doesn't learn from Ibo + GEJ and Ibo + Wike sagas is very stupid.


It's very open and obvious that given the position, Ibos will try to bury Yorubas out of jealousy, envy and hatred.

Ibos have never meant well for Yorubas, while Yorubas like FFK, Fayose, Saraki, Afenifere etc continues to speak out for Ibos. This has to stop and well-meaning Yorubas have to stop these fools from supporting people who perceive Yorubas as enemies.

Buhari has nothing to offer Nigeria.
However, PDP has nothing to offer SW too. SW still has something to gain from APC.
Therefore, we will pour our energy to vote APC and to survive politically.

SW PDP needs to scrap itself and start afresh. Create a regional party that focuses on the SW regional interest. They can eventual branch nationwide. But PDP has nothing to offer the SW. Yorubas are brilliant, persistent and survivors. We will survive this.

PDP belongs to Wike and Ibos. Let's see what they do with it.

That's wrong, i can't own Lagos. Like I said earlier "Lagos is really for everyone". It was developed by so many people, this includes whites and blacks. Its futile for anyone to try to take the glory alone.

IkpuMmadu:


Una no dey tire for this Lagos ownership....okay na you own Lagos....na you own Nigeria....

How many bank alerts has this statement given u now

Well, those are the pros (and cons) of one Nigeria. You can't claim one Nigeria and still get angry when a citizen buys your land and owns the property. Even if it makes some people get angry, it doesn't change the fact that in the spirit of one Nigeria, Lagos is really for everyone. There's no need narrowing it down to Igbos alone, Lagos isn't for Igbo but rather for everyone. This may hurt a bit but its a part of what the one Nigeria talks implies.

This is a step in the right direction. The Nigerian state had lived in a state of continual and perpetual denial of the attrocities commited during and after the war and this had dangerously deterred the nation's healing process.

Healing is very possible but we must first acknowledge the wound. That's what this payment represents for lives cannot be truely compensated with money. I think this is really key in fostering the healing process.

Wars are always humans vs humans and not snakes vs cats or Tigers vs Lions. History and the present should teach us that no one truely wins a war. No matter how each region/tribe attacks the other, no matter how we despise each other, no matter the offence, no matter the greiviances... one thing still remains, Nigeria will never see true progress until EVERY part of this nation is carried along.

Just one question, have you directly witnessed any of the religious crisis in the North?

banky23:
you believe so much on emotions rather than realities, jonathan had no choice but no conceded the defeat but so many clueless folowers sees him as a hero and i can see you are one of them.

For years, the Federal Government of Nigeria avoided the issue of compensation for the Nigerian Civil War victims despite the proven cases of criminal engagement by the Federal Army in Asaba and other parts of the South Eastern States. Recently, the Government announced its decision to pay the war victims N88 Billion as ruled by West African Court of Appeal. Here, Emma Okocha, Human Rights Crusader and Author of the book “Blood on the Niger” speaks with OSA AMADI, analyzing this development:

His reaction to Government’s decision to pay war damages:

I was not surprised. On the strength of our work, shouting out, uncloaking the hidden 50 years old genocide story to the world, we were sure that before long the ship would find its anchor. Whatever, I must admit that the Asaba 50th year Genocide Anniversary event shook the land and coupled with the expert foreign and Nigerian leading Human Rights participation in the event the country and her leaders felt for the long suffering Asaba and the other forgotten Igbo war victims.

On memories and forgiveness

My few brothers and sisters who betrayed our over 30 years strident campaign to identify the perpetrators, bring them to justice, and push for the victims’ overdue indemnities have because of the latest development, confessed their sins. I’m a proselyte and a chronicler of the Non-Fiction Prose. Unfortunately, I’m fascinated and interested in reversing the fables that thread the actual true stories of the Nigerian civil war. Most of the plot lines are cluttered in blood, and the genocide chapters are overwhelming stories in human pathos. I don’t strive for popularity or heroism researching on the gruesome death of my kith and kin. In this terrible journey, I have witnessed death centers like Buchenwald, Mauthausen, and Dachau in Europe. These centers of death are always imprinted in my mind’s eye and each time I go to sleep the deadly visions are reincarnated like the Ogbeosowa procession of the dance of the dead. I cannot sleep or forget the Isheagu crematoria aglow with the fire of burning flesh. I have sniffed and peered into the Cable Point inferno and have experienced the hell fire that is Hell! To me the heroes of that Asaba event no doubt should be Professor Wole Soyinka and Archbishop Mathew Kukah. As far as I’m concerned, I think the speed by which the Federal Government reacted to these lingering Igbo civil war compensation after that Asaba event, testify to the courage of these two internationally celebrated Literati and writers of conscience.

Wole Soyinka’s contribution

First of all, it may be true I wrote the first book on the genocide and the civilian bloody travelogue during the civil war… but it was the Professor who initially in his book, The Man Died, drew the eyes of the world to the massacre when he wrote about the Yoruba soldier boy who massacred people in Asaba prison simply because they were speaking Ibo. Wole Soyinka is influenced by his life revolutionary inclination which in dedicating his struggle to the Nigerian people, hopes he would affect revolutionary changes for the country in his life time. Hence when Segun Sowemimo, was brutally beaten up by soldiers on the orders of the then Military Governor of the West, he followed Sowemimo’s case with keen interest. When the poor Journalist died of his wounds, the news came back to him with the title of his celebrated book, The Man Died. With that revolutionary aptitude, he was the first Nigerian that asked the question; what community of intelligentsia is it that accepts without a squawk, the disappearance of a Trade Union Leader without a trace? What sort of Labour solidarity is exhibited when the Secretary General of the huge Army of the Post and Telegraph workers is allowed to die like a dog in the dungeon of Dodan barracks, without a voice raised in protest? Soyinka, for the records, told Nigeria for the first time how the handsome Gogo Nzeribe was starved to death in 1967! It was the same Professor Wole Soyinka who reported of the disappearance and death of an Ibo photographer, Emmanuel Ogbonna, at Odo Ona, Ibadan. Ogbonna was murdered and thrown into the bushes. Two soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, Ambrose Okpe and Gani Biban were later charged to court and somehow the Army authorities intervened for the case to be dropped. Subsequently, for everything he did for opening up the case of our people’s genocide in the hands of the Second Division of the Nigerian Army, Asaba has in gratitude renamed the Professor, Asabamaka.

“Let the sinners confess before forgiveness” – Kukah

On Archbishop Kukah, he was the Secretary at the Oputa Human Rights and Justice Tribunal. The Asaba massacre case file is not foreign to him. He was the one who when he started his opening address mentioned my name. He was also the one who admonished the forgiving disciples of the town not to run before crawling. As a Roman Catholic Priest, he would prefer sinners to confess their sins before the victims may consider forgiveness. The Reverend gentleman in the Catholic Church would always offer the perpetrators the listening ear for them to confess their sins before bringing the perpetrators and the victims together for reconciliation.


Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/n88-billion-war-compensation-soyinka-kukah-writers-conscience/

Guns and knives were set for the killing spree to commence but when Jonathan made that call it changed everything...most people who do not understand this have also never understood how religious crisis erupts in the North.

The Stephanos Foundation says no fewer than 75 people were killed while 23 others were injured following attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen in two communities in Irigwe kingdom, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.

According to the foundation, about 13,726 persons have been displaced from the communities after the hoodlums burnt 489 houses during the attacks which occurred between September 8 and October 17, 2017.

The Executive Director of the foundation, Mark Lipdo, told journalists on Thursday in Jos that the organisation had also obtained reports of attacks in Benue, Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Edo, Ondo, Ekiti and Delta states where victims alleged that their attackers spoke Fulani and Hausa languages.



According to him, more worrisome was the fact that most villages attacked were now being deliberately occupied by Fulani people.

While calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that military personnel were deployed immediately in these areas, he also challenged the Federal Government to ensure that the attackers were arrested and arraigned in court for justice to be done.

Lipdo said, “Another inhumane act has happened this time, the Irigwe people of Plateau State are the targets. On October 15, 2017, 29 people were massacred in a classroom under the military watch at Miango in the Bassa LGA of Plateau State. Again, the perpetrators have not been arrested and justice has not been done in this situation.

“The Irigwe people reported that between September 8, 2017 and October 17, 2017, in just five weeks, two major communities of Irigwe land were attacked and sacked. Seventy-five people were killed, 23 injured, 489 houses burnt and 13,726 people out of a total population of 80,000 people were displaced.”

Lipdo said the Stephanos Foundation was concerned that the Nigerian Army, with its reputation as a renowned regional force, was not only unable to apprehend the criminals but also admitted that troops were intimidated by the hoodlums.

“This clearly is another threat of genocide, this time the Irigwe people are the target. The government should also ensure that Fulani herdsmen are properly disarmed,” he added.

The SF demanded that the allegation of military complacency and connivance should be investigated and officers involved court-martialed “for the already shattered trust in the military to be rebuilt.”

Lipdo said, “It appears that Nigerian security agencies don’t matter when it comes to Fulani-related criminality. If these criminalities are left unattended, we fear that it could also leave the entire Nigeria vulnerable to more attacks, even from similar external forces.”


Source: http://punchng.com/herdsmen-attacks-75-killed-13726-displaced-in-plateau/

This administration stinks. And the level of hypocrisy is unbeleivable!
So many crystal clear and scandalous allegations of corruption in this administration have been buried, investigated reports of corruption in the cabinet (Babachir, Kyari etc.) received no attention, nepotistic appointments made by his office (NNPC, Military etc) were never reviewed and all manner of illegal back-door recruitments accross the nation (CBN, FIRS...) were never reversed while many unemployed youths languish in penury...

Many crystal clear and scandalous allegations of corruption from the presidency are yet to be addressed, completed investigation reports of corruption in his cabinet receives no attention (Kyari, Lawal etc), nepotistic appointments made by his office (NNPC, Military etc) is yet to be reviewed and all manner of illegal back-door recruitments accross the nation (CBN, FIRS...) were never reversed while many youths languish in penury...

Yet the government says ""change begins with me" while politicians satisfy thier selfish interests

"Nobody should blame Buhari" yet many crystal clear and scandalous allegations are yet to be reversed, investigated reports of corruption in his cabinet receives no attention, nepotistic appointments made by his office are yet to be reviewed and all manner of illegal back-door recruitments accross the nation (CBN, FIRS...) were never reversed while many youths languish in penury...

Yet still fools say "nobody should blame buhari"

This is the plain truth

oz4real83:
As I have always said,APC is equal to PDP and PDP is equals APC ,they both have the same traits,tendencies and are filled with people of questionable characters. We are even fortunate to be hearing some of these infos. The ones we hear is a tip of iceberg compared with the ones we don't. These people,whether APC or PDP, don't care about the people. It is all about private and personal interests.

Well, Nigerians also laud the following:

1) CBN and FIRS backdoor recruitment
2) Crazy NNPC Top Management appointments and funny contract awards in a ""changed" NNPC
3) NIA Director scam
4) Buratai's clean slate
5) Dambazau's $2Million
6) The Inspector General's clean slate
7) Ameachi's forever ongoing "investigation"
Babachir Lawal's wonderful onslaught on grasscutters
And so many others laudable acheivements

Let me also join in the "laudament" afterall the Otedola and Farouk case is still lingering...what a country!

I wish you all the best

ALMUSTAQIM:
Nigerians React to Maina’s Reinstatement, Lauds PMB On Anti Corruption war:

Some Nigerians have reacted to the recent reinstatement of the former Chairman of Presidential Committee on Pension Reform Task force Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, into the federal civil service, saying the development is victory over corruption and age-long pervasion of the civil service rules and labour laws.

Speaking with New-Nigeria Reporters via telephone conversation, Coordinator of the North Central Youth Leaders’ Forum, Hon Alfa Nma in his reaction to Maina’s reinstatement stated that some corrupt pension looters ganged up against Maina and he was framed to be corrupt. “Maina’s car was shot on his way from the Presidential Villa since then, Maina went into hiding. “So, who will not run away when it has become obvious that people are after your life,” he said.

He recalled that Senator Kabir Gaya who earlier accused Maina of stealing 195 billion Naira soon renounced his accusation when he declared that the said money was found to be lodged in the federal government’s account, which is part of the TSA of the Buhari’s administration.

The group, North Central Youth Leaders’ Forum, had earlier called on President Buhari to sustain the anti corruption war, urging him that while fighting corruption, he should look into the files of those fighting corruption in the previous administration and were framed up. According to the group, the advice was with a view to determining the merit or otherwise of some cases to not only clear them but also to make them part of the anti corruption war as in the case of Maina.

Similarly, Mr. Ibrahim Kuru who spoke from Kaduna noted that the reinstatement of Maina is a victory over corruption, saying, “it would be a victory for the corrupt people in the system if obvious cases of people who were framed up for doing the right thing were not looked into.

On his part, Comrade Okpokwu Ogenyi who spoke from Abuja hailed President Mohammadu Buhari over Maina’s reinstatement, saying it is a plus for the anti corruption war of the present administration.

According to Dr. Mohammed Ardo, a retired civil servant , “any reasonable person would commend President Buhari for righting the wrongs of the past by reiterating Maina”.

Also, in his reaction, the Chairman Federal Concerned Pensioners, Mr David Audu who spoke from Lagos added that President Buhari has rekindled the hope of Nigerians who suffered injustice, noting that unjust acts of the past administration can be corrected by Maina’s reinstatement.

He said, ” a bunch of clueless people will sit at your homes and operate on hearsay, even when they do not have a copy of the civil service rules.”

“You don’t jump into conclusions and engage in a smear campaign on a man who has done nothing to offend you. People are not just sacked or dismissed if they are not political appointees.”

“If you are a career civil servant, there are rules and processes to follow and it was obvious that the process that led to the sack of Maina was flawed and the President should be commended”, Mr Audu said.

It could be recalled that Maina while fighting corruption in the pension sector through the PRTT in 2010 recovered over 200 billion Naira in cash but, as some Nigerians put it, “in the process, the hunter became the hunted as corruption forth back and was sacked illegally.”

It could also be recalled that Maina led PRTT recovered 1.6 trillion Naira both in cash and assets within a period of one year.

Well, Nigerians also laud the following:

1) CBN and FIRS backdoor recruitment
2) Crazy NNPC Top Management appointments and funny contract awards in a ""changed" NNPC
3) NIA Director scam
4) Buratai's clean slate
5) Dambazau's $2Million
6) The Inspector General's clean slate
7) Ameachi's forever ongoing "investigation"
Babachir Lawal's wonderful onslaught on grasscutters
And so many others laudable acheivements

Let me also join in the "laudament" afterall the Otedola and Farouk case is still lingering...what a country

I wish you all the best.

The corrupt Buhari will simply press "ignore" for the guy has been saved by the broom and surely gullible Nigerians who are not even card-carrying members will generate a befitting excuse for Buhari in other to remain politically correct amongst in thier circles. How we so easily forget that a huge chunk of APC leaders have spent more years as card carrying members of PDP than they have in the APC.

Good governance will continually elude Nigerians until we learn that the governed must demand for good leadership from its leaders. For now, the learning continues...

People can be so dumb! The article shows that Jonathan was the one probing into the accounts yet people just concluded from the headline that he stole the money!! This is so unbelievable

Eazybay:
Dumb people do not understand that GEJ hired a firm to carry out the probe .

NIGERIANS never read. Even Omenka

And you are a blessing to mankind ba? I'm constrained else you could have gotten a few expletives from me. I only wish the words you use for one will be used for every other religion.

The freedom you enjoy in castigating christianity was given to you by same, prove me wrong by trying same on islam right here on nairaland and see if you won't be treated with inequity.

ALOWONLE419:
CHRISTIANTY IS A CURSE TO MANKIND

My fellow citizens, kindly ensure you chop the money of these politicians as much as you can during this campaign period for upportunity comes but once. But for the polls, follow your conscience.