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I don't understand politics in Nigeria. He is first a yoruba man before any political affiliation o!

Heffalump:
There cannot be economic progress when there is insecurity in the country. Security must come first before you talk of fixing the economy. Unknown to this villains, any attempt to destabilize Nigeria will only spell doom for themselves. Nigeria can easily attract foreign support to quench or obliterate any uprising. Enemies of Nigeria should be prepared to DIE!

The two can and must go hand-in-glove ie security and economic prosperity. There cannot be one without the other or have u not heard that a hungry man is an angry man? When there is anger due to hunger what happens next? Security is compromised! U need to know that environmental pollution and injustice have been elevated to issues of national security. The US, UK and other advanced nations recognise this fact, read up and see. My point is, if the environment where extraction of natural resources are carried out is not preserved and the inhabitants properly considered and provided for, then there will be the kind of conflagration we see and worse.

What is the basis of the ND agitation we have today? Is it not environmental injustice and pollution as well as non-development? Why was Ken Saro Wiwa killed? Adaka Isaac Boro? Despite all the environmental activism there has been even before it degenerated to the violent dimensions we see today, what did the Nigerian government do? Even now, after the much touted launching of Ogoni cleanup, has anything been done since then? No! So what do you expect? I hope u can see now why I say the two must go together and not that security must necessarily be achieved before any attempt is made to revamp the economy otherwise, the core issues will remain unaddressed just for oil to flow freely and for the Nig govt to earn forex whilst the people die or are cheated of their rightful portions!

@the bolded: Who are the 'enemies' of Nigeria? What is Nigeria about, the few persons that make up the government or the entire population of citizens? Before oil was the South not in peace? Is it not the Nigerian govt and her foreign counterparts that discovered oil and failed to take steps to protect the environment and its people? So who is the enemy, the one that disturbed the peace and tranquility of a people without adequate plans for preservation, reparation and compensation or the one demanding justice, fair share and autonomy? Disabuse your mind of every bias and cast your mind back, was it so in the beginning? Even the Nigerian Constitution provides clearly that:

Section 14(a) sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority; and

(b) the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government.

So who should be considered paramount? The interests of a few foreign companies and political bigwigs or that of the many people of the lower Niger and by extension, Nigerian citizens who depend on the ND as the economic mainstay of the country?

orunto27:
For economic and administrative purposes, please let's restructure NIGERIA now while Buhari is the Chief Executive Governor of the Nation. Let the 1999 Constitution be processed to 1, combine and regroup our present 36 States into four or six Trade Zones. 2, limit Federal Responsibilities to Foreign Affairs, Treaties, Air, Boundaries, Marine and Military. 3, Make the States fully autonomous and so on. By this, we will be calling the bluff of Biafra and at the same time prohibiting any mischievous moves such as the Fulani Herdsmen and so on. This is clearly not secession but an inalienable rights of Nigerians to be free internally and externally.

This will be the best! Calling the bluff of Biafra should not even be the goal but making Nigeria a real nation. The basis of the Biafran agitation is primarily the deliberate attempts at stifling a certain group, having to be bogged down by the weight of others and blatant inequalities. We would rather take our fate in our hands and govern ourselves so if we don't get an independent nation and have to do it under the same Nigerian name then let the terms of engagement be agreed upon, spelled out and varied to give some level of autonomy and free enterprise to federating units/regions. Simple!

They will rig and over-rig. This is just a clear example of a dullard using expo and then proceeds to copy everything including the name and matric number of another student. How can a large area like this be disenfranchised yet have results announced for them as having voted? I am sure if forensic experts are called to examine the ballot papers, it will be discovered that only a few thumbprints appear repeatedly over 50,000 or more ballot papers while the real voters are either disenfranchised or have their votes thrown aside because it is not in favour of one party or the other.

gaby:
Not in support of Buhari,Sylva or Efcc,but trust me this is sensational journalism at it's worst.
48 houses indeed! How about listing out these houses one by one with addresses.

https://efccnigeria.org/efcc/index.php/news/266-ex-gov-sylva-s-properties-court-extends-forfeiture-order

Assets belonging to the former governor against which a forfeiture order was obtained by the EFCC include a mansion at 3 River Niger Street, plot 3192 Cadastral zone AO, Maitama District Abuja;
nine units (comprising six one bedroom and 3 two bedroom apartments) at 8 Sefadu Street Wuse zone 2, plot 262 Cadastral zone AO2, Wuse Abuja;
2 units duplexes at 5 Oguta Street, plot 906 Cadastral zone Wuse 11 Abuja.
Others are a duplex at Plot 1271 Nike Street Cadastral zone AO5, Maitama District Abuja;
a duplex at Phase 1 Unit No. 1 (Villa 1) Palm Springs Gold Estate, Cachez Turkey Projects Limited, Mpape, Abuja;
10 units of one room apartments at 8 Mistrata Street plot 232 Cadastral zone Wuse 11 Abuja;
5 units duplexes at Plot No 1070 Dakibiyu District Cadastral zone B10, Abuja;
16 units service apartments at Plot 1181 Thaba Tseka Crescent, Off IBB Way, Wuse 11, Abuja; and
3 units of three bedroom flats at No. 1 Mubi Close, Plot 766. Cadastral Zone A01, Garki, Abuja

Count and see how many houses or properties u come up with.

Dalek:
Am I the only one who read this news or some of you are just happy to wallow in stupidity. EFCC filed the case against him during Jonathan's tenure, and the case was struck out again during the same GEJs tenure.
The houses (48 of them FFS) we're returned now.
And e-diotic wailers are still shouting Buhari and APC upandan. if this government had blocked the return of the houses, y'all imbes will say Buhari tyrant et al.
instead you should be demanding why the case was struck out or accuse GEJ of negligence cuz this is what it is.
we're our own problem in this country and until we accept that... we have no hope for revolution..

The EFCC withdrew charges against him and the court struck out the case in November 2015! Who was in power by November 2015? Buhari or GEJ? Pleasse stick with the truth at all times, it helps

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/193981-court-dismisses-corruption-charges-against-timipre-sylva.html

http://www.nigerianwatch.com/news/7085-former-bayelsa-governor-timipre-sylvas-corruption-case-surprisingly-withdrawn-by-efcc

Jesusloveyou:
and gej fought corruption by seizing his opponent houses, he use 6yrs as president to seize sylva properties,what a shame, he could not even convict sylva for 6yrs, and pardon convicted criminals like dsp alams and bode george. this new efcc under pmb wil re-investigate the issue, unlike gej witch hunting.

Contrary to your myopic beliefs, 'this new EFCC' is investigating nothing and rather dropped the charges against him immediately buhari came into office so he could contest the Bayelsa elections which he lost anyway.
Note that he was still a member of the PDP when the EFCC filed original charges against him in 2012 so it was a question of the EFCC doing its job despite his being a member of the ruling party unlike now that membership of the APC guarantees freedom to loot and keep all proceeds and even be exonerated or shielded from investigations.

http://www.nigerianwatch.com/news/7085-former-bayelsa-governor-timipre-sylvas-corruption-case-surprisingly-withdrawn-by-efcc

ItsMeAboki:
Abeg receive, what can Buhari do after the case had long been struck out since under GEJ's time or can't you read? - if he should order EFCC to hold on to the properties, I am sure the likes of you would be the first to start calling him dictator/undemocratic.

No. It was under Buhari that his case was struck out to enable him stand for elections as the APC flag-bearer in the Bayelsa elections. The EFCC under buhari curiously withdrew the charges against him and naturally the court struck out the matter. Read for yourself:

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/193981-court-dismisses-corruption-charges-against-timipre-sylva.html

http://www.nigerianwatch.com/news/7085-former-bayelsa-governor-timipre-sylvas-corruption-case-surprisingly-withdrawn-by-efcc

Now people are beginning to get serious and call a spade what it is. It is time to get to the root of the Nigerian question and all the problems it entails. The structure of the country and its constitution are fundamentally flawed, thereby breeding thieves and hamstringing attempts to address these flaws because the foundation is completely wrong!

...the sentence in the preamble of the 1999 Constitution “falsely asserts and presupposes a meeting and an agreement among the peoples of Nigeria. It is this false claim that is at the core of the fraudulence of that constitution of 1999 and all it contains and creates, including the very Nigeria itself as one political union, the 36 states, 774 local councils, the federal Exclusive List, the quota system and all other shenanigans therein,"

Now this is the crux of the matter! Nigeria is not organic, certainly not a nation but a mere geographic expression! There is no agreement in the real sense rather it is enforced by way of arms, war and bloodshed! It will never work that way, simple!

KINGwax007:
ironically, u were not invited into the matter.. I was practically enjoying the mature argument between the two, until ur fanatical statement abt a man who couldn't even finish the Niger bridge, which is the only promised monument, in the east, during his 5 and half yrs of incompetent regime, created a lump of obstruction, in my already high smooth ride of sensibilities!

But since u're still pained by the loss of a yr and half, you can....

I could clearly see d confusion caused by d myopic and ignorant responses because obviously the subject matter was Peter Obi of Anambra state yet some oaf decided all he wanted to talk about was his fixation on GEJ, clearly off d point of the op so where is the maturity there? Or u don't understand the word?

Now u are unfortunately as slow as the one I advised the op about so I'm not surprised at ur infantile attempt at some kind of jab cos it fell really flat and way off mark. You should be thanking me for getting u off the cheap, expired drugs u were high on. Then again, the world can most definitely do with one less junkie so keep at it.

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Realdeals:
I don't understand, I'm talking about Peter Obi here and not GEJ

The character u have unfortunately been quoting and communicating with is a junkie on Jonathan matters. He's cross-eyed from seeking every avenue to discredit GEJ so much so that it must find a way to tie any and everything back to GEJ even when it is absolutely illogical to do so as in this case.

chibuzorAbia:
But Yorubas are not trooping to our region, why?

Sha! Keep shut there and stop pretending to be what/whom you're not! Our region indeed!!

kITATITA:
PMB should just forget about the refineries. The cabal fuel importers will never allow them work. Simply sell it to them

And this is your solution? Slowly but surely the real reasons for ousting a man from the South to install this demonic government is being exposed! The same 'cabal' y'all hounded GEJ about for being too weak to dismantle is whom u expect our refineries to be sold to piecemeal!

So he should just forget about the refineries and not make any attempt dislodge them? Well of course he won't cos they are all one and the same with d president existing with the sole purpose of fleecing Nigeria particularly the regions they don't belong to but want to exercise control over. Shane on all them bastards because their madness is shortlived now.

Hos observations lack validity for the simple fact that he criticises the 1966 as responsible for destroying political structure n clout of d country yet claims not to understand or support a restructuring now. What else is the restructuring being demanded for other than reversion to the position obtainable before the arbitrary creation of states by Gowon?

No be winch ds government people dem be? Shebi they did not see complaints to make about pension scheme and now they are dreaming about sticking their skeletal, leprous and thieving fingers into savings generated by Nigerian workers? Some special zombies will even say they trust baba to spend d money judiciously to justify their wholehearted support for subsidy removal now after their diabolic refusal to support same in 2012!

I don't know what kind of stupid thieves are in office now that only believe that the previous governments should have prepared and kept savings for them to come and squander. So what are their plans for generating funds and using those funds raised? Why do they believe governance ought to be an easy ride for them all the way? That is why they are being disgraced everyday as the shallow, dumb, vapid and absolutely ignorant thieves they are! No ability to deploy positive and innovative means of governance, they all just want easy money lying around to feast on abd build reserves for foreign fulani herdsmen.

God punish any and every goat that attempts to sell off our national assets or touch workers' pension funds when they have not cut their allowances to the barest minimum, stopped buying exotic cars at exorbitant prices, sold off presidential jets and Aisha's jewellery and handbags, or refunded monies expended for fruitless travels abroad and yet still refuse to restructure the country and let regions control their resources! Bastards!

blueto:
“I have bored you with this long explanation because there are things that could be hidden from you by those that have mismanaged the country in the last 16, 17 years.”

Maybe we should not attack him too much anymore if he keeps passing the buck that stops ordinarily at his table because he has unknowingly begun to tie in his own time in office among those who have mismanaged and continue to mismanage the country. 16 years of PDP ended in 2015, he's been at it from May 2015 till date so that 17-year statement includes him and confirms his incompetence within 18 months which clearly has a worse effect than previous 16 years of civilian governance from 1999.

He's just an inept yet wicked thief unfortunately.

HungerBAD:
October 7 is around the corner.

Justice delayed is not justice denied.

Actually delay defeats equity. You know very well the real truth that Justice delayed is justice denied. Do not always turn the truth on its head just to justify some form of zombieship.

If the target audience had chosen to like and share u will still be the first to come and tell ur usual stories of how someone is using Biafra to support n promote his personal business and how people have been gullible enough to fall for his antics.

Op: Is it stupidity or joblessness that is ur case? U may likely expire on Biafran matters o! Kontinu!

DaudaAbu:
You will be surprised those state governors would squander the money

And still owe the police 3 - 6 mnths.

Then the police remuneration and emoluments should come as a first line charge directly to the commission and on to the officers. It should be taken completely out of the reach or access of state governors to avoid unnecessary influence. Same should apply to the judiciary as it is for d legislature so there is autonomy of thought and action in the exercise of their statutory duties.

There are ways to address these things but political interests always make them continue stealing and lying.

They better remember to redirect FG allocation for d Police to the states before we hear that it failed because states are unable to pay salaries.

There should be full devolution of powers and divestment of unnecessary weight from the centre and it should be done wholly otherwise this piecemeal approach will be scuttled very easily.

jollymizzle:
That is why we call you people 5%,pple are fighting to get their share in Nigeriaand instead of you pple to join in and pick a side you are sitting on the fence,you think when the dust settles them go call you to come and take?

Pick a side? Are u dreaming? There are already too many pigs in the mud...no need to add to the mess.

I guess their mandate is now clear: Focus on the Christian dominated villages and LGAs. Yet, Buratai will come and say Shekau is mad. Abi is it the other faction that is acting up now? Their claim to fame was that the Army recovered all areas from boko coverage. What is happening now?
BBOG has finally been put to rest and Chibok is now only used as a point of reference due to the infamous kidnap scam...

Will the truth ever come to light? Of course our national dailies and the press have gone to sleep and that is why it is from the BBC that we are receiving this news. Why all the subterfuge and lies? What nefarious game is afoot?

I hope the funding is sustained and real selfless, developmental strides are achieved. God bless my homeland...iseeee!

Please they should pack as many bags of cement as they can. That doesn't even compensate for d cheap dollars he gets from CBN only to still hike d price of cement by almost 100%.

Meanwhile d govt needs to sanction Dangote and his killer trucks. They've destroyed more property and human lives than he's worth! If Dangote trucks aren't running into one obstacle or another, tankers carrying petroleum products are falling over and containers are crushing cars! What is it?!

Wowz

doctokwus:
Some of these things were manifest but we all thought the man was true to his words that he wudnt spare anyone because he was assumed to have the highest integrity of any Nigerian leader since 1979.Alas,Buratai,Kyari and Dambazzau proved everyone wrong,including die hard supporters.
Almost all his cabinet ministers and key appointees were accused of corruption,he chose to play deaf.
SR like many of his supporters seems to have had enough of PMB deceptions and inactions and with the veil and romance having been cruelly divorced of his dirty garments,the medium I am sure will go into it's usual frontal assault to totally expose the grand deception that is the anticorruption fight.Just like some,its ironic that it's the one campaign promise that brought him into power that PMB's has completely shown his grand deceit.

To assume (ASS-U-ME) makes an ass of u & me.Next time study antecedents before 'assuming'. Buhari is not doing anything new or unexpected considering his nature, history and cronies that visibly surrounded and still surround him. All of these were out there and concerned citizens screamed to high heavens but u got taken in by dreams of 'pighting kwarrapshin' and seeming sainthood. Refusing to publicly declare his assets as he swore he would was already a deal breaker. Now eyes don clear...there were more optins beyond APC and PDP but y'all chose to make it an 'either/or' situation so we gotta deal with it.

So the anti-corruption fight is now grand deception? How sad that u only realised the lies now that it is too late to do anything about them. I wonder how u guys could even comfortably place buhari and integrity side by side in a positive sense! How? On what basis? Na wa o!

People should read this to see the real and intelligent thought processes of a sane Nigerian.
https://breaking.com.ng/nigeria/chukwuma-soludo-sale-of-nigerias-national-assets-as-dangerous-policy-myopia/

Huh what? Blind or deaf? Boko boys are at their favourite hunt, stronger than ever. Or are u surprised this one escaped the censorship gag and hit d news?

HungerBAD:
Huh?

The sycophants around will simply convince the airhead to disregard this and his previous letters or direct him to d comics where he can laugh and laugh. Sycophancy + arrogant criminal leadership = Danger/Recession : The story of Nigeria today.

OrlandoOwoh:
Malcolm X was reprimanded by the Nation of Islam, a group which he belonged to, for saying "the cock has come home to roost." How many followers condemn Kanu for making insightful comments?

When did it become a crime to make 'insightful' comments?

BABANGBALI:
Seun see this babe dey take her dialect to abuse you and mukina2

Can u try not to display ur ignorance and foolishness especially around my mentions? It's nauseating!