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wizzyrich:
As it stands, the only thing that has not sky rocketed is matches sticks and maybe sachet pure water.

Actually every bag of satchet water is #100, while production cost is #130, so every factory looses #30 per bag of satchet water sold, the materials has climbed from #600,000 to #1000,000 per tonne, that is why satchet water factories are closing at an alarming rate.

aguele:
Restructuring should not serve as basis for threatening Nigeria's unity - Elders Council

The Patriotic Elders Council has warned that the clamour for restructuring of Nigeria in some quarters should not serve as basis for threatening the country’s unity
There have been calls from different quarters over the need to restructure the country with the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor EA Adeboye lately joining the list.
Adeboye had called for restructure of Nigeria as soon as possible to avert a disintegration of the country.
However, the presidency in its reply insisted that the administration would not succumb to threats and intimidation to make hurried decision over the matter that has continued to generate controversies.

Speaking on the ongoing debate over the state of the nation, the Patriotic Elders Council noted that though restructuring in itself is not a bad thing as every institution or corporate body, but bringing such an issue up at a time the nation is being re-engineered for the better is counter-productive.

A statement jointly signed by Alhaji Muhammadu Ari Gwaska, National Chairman and Chief Simon Shango, Secretary General, urged fathers of faith to pray for Nigeria and speak against the evil of corruption and other vices plaguing the country.

The statement read, “Nigeria has come a long way. With six regions, 36 states, over 300 ethnic nationalities and a common history that dates back over a hundred years since the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorate in 1914, Nigeria has fast become a case study in resilience, doggedness and and oneness of a people.
“While other nations with less component complexities and challenges have not been able to withstand the pressures that come with such experiences and have since balked under the challenges that come with keeping people of diverse backgrounds under one entity and broken up, Nigeria, despite all odds, has pulled through and has remained one united country.
“It has survived a civil war, internal strifes, coups, political crises and various other social cataclysm.
“Given the background of what transpired in the previous years and the much the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has put in place to bring a turn around, it would be most unfair to allow the issues that dogged past administrations to be imported as germane in the current dispensation.
“As observed earlier, given the efforts of the Buhari administration to turn things around for the better, this is hardly the time to toy with such issues.
“Unfortunately, some respected Nigerians like the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, have joined in the call for restructuring of the country.
This implies that restructuring of the country “as soon as possible” is the only panacea to forestall a breakup of the various social-ethnic components that make up Nigeria.
“It is our belief and we stand to be contradicted, that men of God should use their calling to inspire hope, build confidence and avert heating up the polity.
“Though restructuring in itself is not a bad thing as every institution or corporate body tries to take stock of its features from time to time to see where there's the need for adjustment, but bringing such an issue up at a time the nation is being re-engineered for the better is counter-productive.
“Further to that, the National Assembly is there to legislate on any matter that requires national attention that Nigeria does not have to resort to primordial fault lines to find solutions to its problems.
On the way forward, the council said, “What is required now is for all stakeholders including great men of God to put their hands together and corporate with the government to move this nation forward.
“Their prayers and intercession are what Nigeria need to pull through, not some veiled ethno- religious agitations and threats.
“Men of God should help the government speak about the evil of corruption and other vices plaguing the country and support the government in its drive towards revamping the economy.”

The truth is that this country has fought over restructuring before, albeit under another name confederation, so the nation leaders should strive to restructure the country. The way I see it, enemies of this country are looking for excuse to plunge this country into another civil war, by sponsoring aggrieved groups. The best way out is for the present leaders to write their names in the anals of human history by restructuring and renaming the country to a more dignifying name, thereby killing two birds with one stone. Lessons from history (No country survives two civil war)

Bigmanpickin:
Its true no doubt but we can try by strategically and deliberately planning to be better than our beginning.

Not possible: 1) it's always difficult to change a culture using the same mindset that built that culture. 2) politician who are used to eating from this faulty arrangements are also the people that we expect to change the arrangement which favours them instead of the nation, absolutely impossible. 3) strategically, deliberately planning from who? The same beneficiaries of the warped system, I mean with their selfish mindset 4) the only people that can cause damage, and achieve restructuring are the secessionist, but most ethnic nationalities, apart from the Igboes, Oduans and some minority ethnic groups are being used by the same selfish politicians to fight the secessionist group 5) This leaves only two ways out, in physics when pressure builds up, you create an opening to dissipate it or it burst or explode the system, but here, the politicians are blocking the system more and more by banning protest, killing the people, in order to subdue them, and as they continue to toe this approach, the pressure will reach a tipping point. Of course the politicians feel that it's impossible, which serves as a catalyst to the explosion of the system, bringing with it the aforementioned two options: a) a Jerry Rawlings approach which will only eat the heads of the politicians or b) a bokoharam approach from the unlikeliest areas, but because the people handling this will be educated youths, it will be 20 times more deadly. The whole country will be consumed both the politicians and the masses.

rontolo:
Trump loves blacks? Trump promoted Alsharpton? I think you need to be schooled. Trump will promote satan if it serves his selfish interest. He privately abhors black people. Spot a black person in his White House! They don’t come more racist than Trump. Someone on this forum is comparing vile, racist trump with a man running on the same ticket with a powerful, intelligent black woman?

Nigerians, pls get sense!

Well, let's say according to you, trump only promote blacks, If as you said, it serves his selfish interest, and as you said he privately abhors blacks, don't you think that he is better than someone that publicly shows you that his child can't be in the same school with your child but hypocriticaly uses a black woman as running mate, I mean, how low can one get

gidgiddy:
The 3 million people who died had nothing to do with Nzeogwu or the coup he led. Many countries in Africa went through military coup just Nigeria did, but they did not fight civil war like Nigeria.

The real reason why 3 million people died was because of the civil war and the civil war was caused by the ambition of the North to control all of Nigeria, and Igbos said no.

Three million people had everything to do with the coup, without the coup their wouldn't have been any pogrom, without the pogrom their wouldn't have been any secession and without secession their wouldn't have been any war.

Bkayyy:
See what I'm talking about, they will find a way to blame it on Ndigbo forgetting how they shamelessly went to dance for FG troops led by a Northerner with the name Murtala Mohammed for liberating them from Igbos and shamelessly tried to convince him of how they are not igbos. Ndị ara, shameless cowards

Not only that, chukwuma kaduna nzeogwu, who led the coup that caused the war, is their son, yet, whole Igbo tribe bore the brunt and suffered for something that they know nothing about, only for the same people to come and tell Nigerian forces that they are no more Igboes, who will believe such nonsense.

WoundedLamb:
I don't what led to her outburst but going by this video, I honestly do not get her logic. That's someone isn't orginally American does not mean he shouldn't have an opinion about the politics of his host country. That someone is from a poorly led country doesn't mean he shouldn't have a take on the politics of the country where he currently resides. The only difference between her and the man is the American passport. And Trump's leadership style impacts both foreigners and citizens alike so asking him to keep mute cause he's an immigrant is rather unbecoming. It's not as if he was complaining about or criticizing the US.

Her response to Trump's criticism (assuming the guy actually did just that) is the the kind you'd expect from someone who doesn't have any logical defense against the point brought forward. Otherwise, why would she leave the debate to attack the debater and his home country? This foreigner could be a citizen tomorrow and when that happens, what argument would she have in Trump's defense?

Arrant nonsense, a person whose house is on fire, leaves his house to go and pour water on a small heap of refuse, his neighbor is burning. And here you are, in all your sophisticated wisdom supporting him. Country of residence my foot. He should come back and give his advice where it's needed, if he is tired of their policies.

Guestlander:
I have absolutely no time for any idiotic arguments. If you think Biden is a racist fine. You are entitled to your opinion and I am entitled to mine.

Biden is a racist and an ignorant bigot who called for jihad without knowing the meaning of the sura he quoted.

Triangles1:
Why going to mecca to stone Satan meanwhile we have them here many.. .

Exactly, this is the headquarters of satan, yet our policians who are the main workers of satan go to mecca to stone an unenexistent satan

ElsonMorali:
Why? Because he's Yoruba?

Obasanjo is Yoruba and he fought against se/ss during the biafran war, yet they voted for him. Yat adua was a fulani man yet se/ss voted for him. It will take you a thousand years to reach the political maturity of se/ss.

[quote author=robinso01 post=68400258]bro, you are free to vote for anyone you wish and so am I, I just don't have good feelings about this man, the same way I felt about Buhari in 2015.[/quote



Exactly, theirs this gut feeling I always had when someone that's bad news is around, and it's always on the mark, it had made me very successful in taking business decisions and avoiding scammers, I was a kid when obasanjo was vying for president and I was all out for him to succeed, I worked for yar adua and Jonathan too but when friends where caught up in the buhari frenzy, I vehemently opposed it. Whenever I observe this man sowore I noticed that same kind of gut feeling of an unholy foreboding, I can't place my hands on it, but I don't think that he has the capacity for equity, when trusted with power, maybe it's because of his hasty decisions in accusing the former administration, which after investigation where later found to be mostly baseless and untrue, and I don't think I've heard him apologising for those allegations that were later found to be untrue, that he can't apologize when he finds out he is wrong leaves a lot of bad taste to his character.

Who's this person

Ehiscotch:
Yeah. And somebody somewhere would step in and oppose the next government and the cycle continue for decades. You get?

I'm not saying Fashola is accountable or anything but is he telling the truth or should we throw away the baby and the bathwater? Just because he lacks accountability does that negate what he said?

So, I am saying he is right and let's not argue ad hominem, devoid of reason.

What sort of baby with bathwater are you talking about, if they know they can't handle criticism the way they dish it out to others, then they shouldn't immerse themselves in such enterprise. in local parlance "if na we eeh, we for don finish this problem" so wetin come happen, this one don turn to rocket science" allow fashola
and his ilks walk there talk, and allow us to admonish them, at least half as much as they admonished the previous administration, that way, only those who has solution to our problems will dare to ask for governance.

JAMO84:
Those who lost 3 million of their ancestors to Fulani bullets will want others to be like them. We don't want Python in our beloved SW, Python should go and dance in its usual location.



I AM DONE TALKING

Are you saying that people should abandon their rights for self determination because of fear of the caliphate.

J111333:
Shebi una say PDP na Igbo party. You either vote Aketi or see PDP take over Ondo government house like they have done in Edo.
Na for scrotum this mosquito dey perch for una case now.

Wicked!!!

AlexBells:
Who is Muslim and Supporting Buhari, I'm an undiluted Igbo but I get it Nigeria is a Tribalist state prio to the war, when Igbos dominated the federal service and all of that, they were like the Fulani of the time, everything is not about merit, you have to respect federal character, I don't support buhari, let Hausa take the place, Fulani take their place, if they have non educated person it doesn't matter if you head their government with educated Igbos or Yorubas in the alter of merit, would you also head their homes as Igbos or Yorubas in the alter of merits, even those English that brought us the this alter of merit, The queen of England can never replace the Scotland in the alter of merit, even if all Scots are dumb

Liar!!!!!! You are muslim northerner and a staunch supporter of nepotism.

7lives:
Tell me more about it, so why did Adaka Boro declare the Nigeria Delta republic if the minority had it Rosy in the East?.
Anyway Abacha already make sure that what happened in the west, also happened to the East.
Happy independence to everybody.

Niger Delta republic from Nigeria not east

So what's the difference between Nigeria breaking up and Nigeria disintegrating.

Jafar1:
U know nothing of my belief... keep fooling urself..

He doesn't need to know anything about your beliefs. Just as you believe that Allah is supreme, so also do other from different backgrounds believe that whatever deity the believe in is supreme, no matter how good your argument is.

BigDick70inch:
Why will church even have diety in is museum sef??

All these catholic churches get as e be Oo..

Those deities where subdued and defeated by the church, that's why they are in prison or museum as people puts it.

Certain kind of stories that comes out from South East, makes them one of the exciting tribe to be with. Now I understand why chinua Achebe's books are bestsellers.

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
It is not the government the people are stupid in Nigeria which chased is a company out of the country three years later he is sending his children to look for job in that same company in another country expecting his children to be employment. The government has nothing to do with it Nigerians and naturally stupid go and see them in UK and America running after criminals up and down the place. Recently I was just looking at a seed company which left a state in southwest the same idiots which chased the seed company out of the country is now sending their children to look for job in that same company in another country expecting their children to be employed in literacy is Nigeria's problem

What closed those companies are unfavourable government policies, multiple taxation which are looted by the same government, giving way to infrastructural decay, since social amenities and infrastructure are lacking, those companies finds it difficult to survive.

Okoroawusa:
Calamity will befall me for having a choice in an election? Amen!

Calamity is not anyone's monopoly. Life is all about choices. I have also left calamity to the choices you have also made in life.
.... still in the prayers and curses mood.

Anything else?

Nope, nothing else, let's all be fair and live with our choices.

Okoroawusa:
Another Amen!.

What else do you want me to do?

Kill fowl for the ancestors?

Shout Allah Akbar?

Talk let me start doing it sharp sharp.

Prayers n curses are nobody's monopoly. I am waiting for the consequences. I need them badly.

I Love PMB

I'm not that wicked, you have done enough. I have no enemity with you nor will I enjoy any calamity befalling you. You come across as one with enthusiasm and complete trust of young life, which sometimes backfires when they realized that they trusted a myth built-up by the media, more of your trust should be allocated to God and yourself.

nomnso2016:
@Jude79
pls my brother I need your contact info for water project, I requested that on your 2016 topic, pls help a brother.
08136367771, nomnso2016@gmail.com

I can help you to setup your table water factory at the cheapest rate possible, but to be honest with you, it's no longer profitable, even though I haven't closed my factory, more than 30 factories around me has closed shop due to stupid economic policies of these regime which brought about the crash of naira.
Also many other manufacturing sector are not doing well either including farming, both crop and animal husbandry, none is doing well. I'm involved in many kinds of manufacturing, but table water is the worst hit.
On the other hand, before 2015 when business men both home and abroad where doing well, it's only those that are abroad who are buying up land and developing their estate, so I suggest you find a good country and escape the shithole before the shit hits the fan.

Okoroawusa:
I claim it with a big AMEN!!!!

Oh, beautiful, that's the kind of person I like. Stand and defend what you believe in, and live with the consequences, thanks bro.

obiekunie2:
two things a man must be ready to die for - HIS ANCESTRAL LAND AND HIS LINEAGE! A MAN WHO CANNOT FIGHT TO EITHER DIE OR LIVE FOR THESE TWO THINGS IS NOT FIT TO BE CALLED A MAN.

as you are fighting them, remember you are fighting for your land and your lineage THEREFORE NO GOVERNMENT OR INSTITUTION CAN DENY YOU THAT RIGHT!


All i will advice you people is WATCH OUT FOR THE BETRAYERS AMONG YOU SO YOU DON'T GET BETRAYED LIKE THE TIVS BETRAYED THEIR OWN.

But Tinubu has no lineage, fake primary, post primary and tertiary institutions, certificates, no classmates, school mates to point at, fake mother, fake indigene of Lagos State. So how can somebody who has no ancestral background lead the oodua nation, how?

Sammy07:
From this write up, Seyi makinde wants to set him up.

Yes now, the same way slave governors from the East betrayed nnamdi kanu.

I need mannaqbrill to respond amen like I responded to his own prayer
I hate hypocrisy, you can't be supporting something you don't appreciate, so I repeat
I think you are fair in your analysis mannaqbrill, so I say Amen!! Again I need both of us to say Amen to another prayer on behalf of Jonathan and buhari.
May those who supported Jonathan grow the way Nigerian economy grew under Jonathan, may they grow as dangote and other companies grew under Jonathan, I say "Amen"
May those who supported buhari grow the way Nigerian economy grew under buhari, may they grow as dangote and other companies grew under buhari, you say Amen to this.

[quote author= post=94302217]We say a very big AMEN on behalf of Bashir Ahmed and every sane, honest and hardworking Nigerians, along with all of us @[/b].

That being said, this is the prayer we pray always that always get into the supporters of thieves, criminals and looters that looted our country blindly for 16 wasted and looting years.

Wailers, Children of hate, frustration and perdition.....

[b]May your life be ruled forever the way PDP rule our darling nation for 16 years,
May all of you never miss one single day of what PDP brought this country into.
So shall it be for you and your households Insha Allah.

If you quote this post without an Amen,
May y'all end miserable in life.
But if you quote with an Amen, then you are the real deal.

Watch how Wailers avoid this innocent prayer and run as fast as they can with their tails between their toothpick tiny legs.

Number one Characteristic of a wailer: HYPOCRISY, number two is LIES!!

PMB won't be the president by now if our country was going in the right direction in 2015, and you are castigating us for changing the looting and STEALING going on?
Femi-Fani-Kayode (FFK) y'all!

Nobody can deny that there are very serious challenges in the country, particularly in the areas of security, the economy, and standard of living generally. But that is not all there is to Nigeria of today, and those challenges are being addressed very robustly. That hymn says “behind a frowning providence, He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour.” We will surely see an end to the challenges, if we all work together, and eschew hate speeches.[/quote]I think you are fair in your analysis, so I say Amen!! Again I need both of us to say Amen to another prayers on behalf of Jonathan and buhari.
May those who supported Jonathan grow the way Nigerian economy grew under Jonathan, may they grow as dangote and other companies grew under Jonathan, I say "Amen"
May those who supported buhari grow the way Nigerian economy grew under buhari, may they grow as dangote and other companies grew under buhari, you say Amen to this.

Elmojiid:
do southeast vote for him like that ...e take it like that

No it's niger republic that voted for him.

Sammy07:
We have eastern, western, northern rail.
Eastern rail is Ph, Aba, Calabar.

Even western rail didn't pass my state (Ondo)

it only pass Lagos, ogun, abeokuta, Osun and kwara

Yet their is more mkt in your state Ondo tan any forsaken desert in katsina or niger desert.