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It is not a time for PDP / APC politics. Leave anyone who refuses to speak alone. Tinubu a right to talk or not to. It is even good he has remained silent because whatever he says will inflame the matter and escalate the contentious. An escalation is not desired. Those who have talked like Prof Wole Soyinka and Chief Ayo Adebanjo are eminently qualified to speak for the Yoruba Nation.

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NGpatriot:
https://punchng.com/group-gives-tinubu-24-hours-to-reveal-position-on-amotekun/

It appears the North is going from despondency to desperation on Nigeria's case. What has Amotekun, a populist security collaboration got to do with 2023 presidency.
First, the North is not trusted to relinquish power in 2023 even if Amotekun was not formed.
2023 presidency is not Yoruba matter but an ambition of some eligible Yoruba sons and daughters.
Therefore, we are better off having our people secured from marauding herdsmen and kidnappers than gambling our security for yeye presidency. The North cannot be trusted.


quote author=Limitednow post=85847230]Supporting Amotekun may deprive Southwest of 2023 Presidency, Miyetti Allah tells govs



Source: https://punchng.com/supporting-amotekun-may-deprive-southwest-of-2023-presidency-miyetti-allah-tells-govs/[/quote]

We don't need the logic that failed this country in the past for the present or the future. Nonsense and tribal general protecting their golden goose. Anything that looks like the a threat to the Northern control of the country quickly unites the parasites.

MelesZenawi:
https://www.channelstv.com/2020/01/14/ibb-says-amotekun-not-viable-advises-south-west-governors/?fbclid=IwAR3oHj9PGPdt9gkYJYibmPV8bjkiUjQo3wEMPr1WLwRUBpa0Y0VUaDr5nFM

Dead on arrival. AMOTEKUN is here to stay and other geopolitical zones will form theirs. The matter will go the Courts. The incompetent FGN that failed miserably to protect our women, men and farmers from killer herdsmen and kidnappers cannot stop us from protecting ourselves.
South West will not be turned to the North Central. It is not possible to take SW land by force under the pretense of cattle herding. The Maiyetti Allah was first to cry call for blood and now the AGM of insecurity. We are first Yoruba before being Nigerians.

hisexcellency34:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/01/breaking-amotekun-is-illegal-security-outfit-%25E2%2580%2595fg-declares/amp/

She should dare to use the presidential jet in 2024 since she does not know it was an abuse of her father's office. ISASUN O MO PE OHUN A JE ATA.
Every time I read inappropriate news around PMB, it reminds me of the GMB that wept for loosing election and I wonder if the weeping was not for his ego and self interest alone.

Islie:
https://punchng.com/i-cant-wait-for-the-next-project-says-hanan-buhari/

She should dare to use the presidential jet in 2024 since she does not know it was an abuse of her father's office. ISASUN O MO PE OHUN A JE ATA.
Every time I read inappropriate news around PMB, it reminds me of the GMB that wept for loosing election and I wonder if the weeping was not for his ego and self interest alone.

Islie:
https://punchng.com/i-cant-wait-for-the-next-project-says-hanan-buhari/

She should dare to use the presidential jet in 2024 since she does not know it was an abuse of her father's office. ISASUN O MO PE OHUN A JE ATA.
Every time I read inappropriate news around PMB, it reminds me of the GMB that wept for loosing election and I wonder if the weeping was not for his ego alone and self interest alone.

Islie:
https://punchng.com/i-cant-wait-for-the-next-project-says-hanan-buhari/

May God heal those who harbour so much venon that they can't sleep. May they realise a coin will forever have two sides and the two sides have no reason to be bitter with themselves because the coin is not a whole without the two sides.

Realtord43:
Iran citizen know better now! but some terrorist in north nd southwest(moslem afonja) think the know iran affair more than its citizen. God will continue to bless and strengthen TrumP so we can have peace on mother earth

One country , different policies. Federal universities in the South have a clear merit list first which gives more intelligent students a better chance at admission regardless their states of origin and it rewards performance. You think what ABU is doing is right?

Kalaba:
That's there policy and they have been adhering to it.

My understanding is, ABU will take the two best from each state regardless of the scores and ranking on the overall average performance by all candidates. This implies a candidates with lower score but who comes either first or second from one state gets admitted of a candidate who scores higher but comes third and from another state. This is not merit all and it is simply 100 percent federal character. This is not the way Federal universities in the South manage admission. Again, JAMB claimed ABU was wrong yet did not report them to NUC. Neither was ABU instructed to stop the practice.
This is the practice that destroyed merit in this country and ABU continues on the path at this age, I am short of words.

quHowote author=2mercy post=85644198]*Registrar meets Niger State, ABU representative



https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-admission-row-jamb-orders-abu-to-offer-girl-medicine/[/quote]

And you that debunked the news is also without authentic source and have no access to intelligence sources.

Xisnin:
Don't be fooled by the source.
This is not proper news from independent. This is a propaganda opinion written by a pro-Iranian columnist.



No. The commander is a diehard Shiite militant.
He wasn't in Iraq to discuss peace, he was there to meet with rebel top commanders.
The prime minister should have at least name the Saudi General who also came for peace
but since such General does not exist, he surely can't be named.
This is 2020, Generals are never used for peace negotiations as they have vested interest in
war. If Iran was interested in peace, it would have sent a diplomat, not a warmonger.

Saudi will never reach out to Iran for peace because they are no fools.
They are both interested in middle east dominance and there can only be one winner.
Besides, no country negotiates peace in an enemy territory. Iraqi government is largely
beholden to Iran via the Shiite ties. Saudi would have to be dumb to propose a peace meeting
via the Iraqi government.
There will only be peace when it becomes too costly to fight.



The fact that you can call terrorists to order via proxy proves that Iran indeed ordered the embassy attack via its militia wing.
Soliemani killings was a revenge for the embassy attack.

One thing DJT has brought to US is integrity doubt in view of the many mistakes and policy somersaults precipitated by his spontaneity since he assumed office. It will take more than just another US president after DJT to restore the lost trust.

CaptainMeks:
As part of the incendiary and escalating crisis surrounding the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, there has come an explanation of why the Iranian commander was actually in Baghdad when he was targeted by a US missile strike.

Iraq’s prime minister revealed that he was due to be meeting the Iranian commander to discuss moves being made to ease the confrontation between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia – the crux of so much of strife in the Middle East and beyond.

Adil Abdul-Mahdi was quite clear: “I was supposed to meet him in the morning the day he was killed, he came to deliver a message from Iran in response to the message we had delivered from the Saudis to Iran.”

The prime minister also disclosed that Donald Trump had called him to ask him to mediate following the attack on the US embassy in Baghdad. According to Iraqi officials contact was made with a number of militias as well as figures in Tehran. The siege of the embassy was lifted and the US president personally thanked Abdul-Mahdi for his help.

There was nothing to suggest to the Iraqis that it was unsafe for Soleimani to travel to Baghdad – quite the contrary. This suggests that Trump helped lure the Iranian commander to a place where he could be killed. It is possible that the president was unaware of the crucial role that Soleimani was playing in the attempted rapprochement with the Saudis. Or that he knew but did not care.

One may even say that it is not in the interest of a president who puts so much emphasis on American arms exports, and whose first official trip after coming to office was a weapons-selling trip to Saudi Arabia – during which he railed against Iran – to have peace break out between the Iranians and the kingdom. But that would be far too cynical a thought.

Abdul-Mahdi spoke of his disappointment that while Trump was expressing his gratitude over the mediation, he was also simultaneously planning an attack on Soleimani. That attack took place not long after the telephone call from the president.

There is also the possibility that the US military planners knew nothing about the conversations between Trump and Abdul-Mahdi, and took out Soleimani when the opportunity presented itself.

There may be credence to this, if one follows the narrative which is emerging from defence and intelligence officials in Washington: that the assassination option presented to Trump was bound to be refused, as it had been by his predecessors in the White House. And that there was a desperate scramble to track down Soleimani when, much to their shock, Trump ordered the hit.

What does the Iran crisis mean for Trump’s impeachment?

The existence of the talks between the Saudi and the Iranians and, more importantly, the threat of impending violence, has meant reaction in Riyadh at the killing has been markedly muted.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, not a stranger to sabre rattling, has sent his younger brother, deputy defence minister Khalid bin Salman, to Washington to urge restraint.

The very real risk of the region becoming a arena for conflict has led to rare cooperation in the stand-off between the Saudi-led Gulf block and Qatar, whose foreign minister was dispatched to Tehran with a similar appeal for calm.

In Tehran, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani to discuss “measures to maintain the security and stability of the region,” the state-run Qatar News Agency reported. While in the UAE the foreign minister, Anwar Gargash, called for “rational engagement”, tweeting: “wisdom and balance must prevail.”

As well as being in danger of getting caught in the crossfire of a war between the US and Iran, the Arab states in the region are vulnerable to Tehran’s allied militias – in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Syria. There is concern whether the US, after unleashing a wave of missiles, would do anything when retribution is taken on its partner countries.

The Saudis learned only too clearly last summer that one cannot always depend on American commitment, when drone and missile attacks on oil-processing facilities in the kingdom halved oil production. Trump directly blamed Iran for the attacks but there was no American military response, just as there has not been to the many attacks on the kingdom from the Houthis in Yemen.

In the light of all this Khalid al-Dakhil, a Saudi political sociologist, pointed out: “Saudi Arabia and all the Gulf countries are just quiet. They don’t want to antagonise the Iranians, because the situation in the region is so delicate, so divided, so sensitive, that you don’t want to stir it up further.”

Robert Emerson, a British security analyst, said that it was clear why caution was prevailing. “You don’t know whether Trump will just light the blue touchpaper and then just disappear,” he said. “The Arab states are right to be wary. The talk about Iran and Saudi negotiations is intriguing, further details should be emerging.’’

The Trump administration continues to insist that Soleimani was killed because he was about to launch an imminent terror campaign, without providing any evidence for the assertion. There is increasing scepticism about the claim and the questions are not going to go away. There are too many memories of Saddam Hussein and his non-existent WMD arsenal. The repercussions from the assassination in Baghdad will continue for a very long time.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/qassem-soleimani-death-iran-baghdad-middle-east-iraq-saudi-arabia-a9272901.html

Those guys have been bitter they were booted out. Another contractor crying me a river.

quote author=Islie post=85553198]

https://www.independent.ng/the-united-states-funded-buharis-campaign-says-military-contractor/[/quote]

''Diehard human right activist''? Iyen FFK? Diehard self seeking activist may be.

Nik77:
The former Aviation Minister and diehard human rights activist, Femi Fani Kayode has attacked Ismaila Isa Funtua for saying that if Igbo (Southeastern Nigeria) must occupy the position of President in 2023 general elections, "they should belong."

Kayode on his official tweeter handle, @realFFK, blasted Funtua, calling him "unrepentant amalekite, racial supremacist, uncircumcised Philistine & ageing almajiri."

Read the full tweet below:

"If the Igbo want to be President then they must belong'' - Ismaila Isa Funtua.

"Belong to who? To you & your people? Just listen to this asinine and arrogant contribution coming from this unrepentant Amalekite, racial supremacist, uncircumcised Philistine & ageing almajiri.

Who the hell does he think he is? Was he there when the Lord created the universe, established the foundations of the earth and forged the heavenly firmament? Is he God?

He wants the Igbo "to belong" after the heinous crimes that were perpetuated against them by the Nigerian state over the last 59 years and after denying them their most basic and fundamental rights?

He wants the Igbo "to belong" after humiliating, marginalising and excluding them from virtually every sphere of governance and human endeavour over the last 4 years?

He wants the Igbo "to belong" after attempting to destroy all their top businessmen and businesses and after denying them the support that he gives others?

Is this creature serious? Is he in full control of his mental faculties? Does he come from another planet or from another world? Is he from Nigeria, Niger Republic, Mali or Chad?

Let me give him a piece of free advice. If he wants the Igbo "to belong" then he should first apologise to them for the mass murder, ethnic and religious cleansing and genocide of 3 million Biafran civilians, including 1 million children, during the civil war.

If he wants them "to belong" then he should urge the Federal Government to stop butchering and demonising them and to stop treating them like slaves and animals.

If he wants them "to belong" they should stop calling IPOB members and Nnamdi Kanu terrorists simply because they called for a referendum on independence and Biafra.

If he wants them "to belong" they should be fairer to them when it comes to Federal appointments.If he wants them "to belong" they should stop humiliating, bullying, depriving, cheating, insulting, raping and denying them at every point in time.

If he wants them "to belong" they should stop slaughtering Christians and burning Churches.

You have the nerve to cite MKO Abiola as an example of a man that "belonged" and that "was allowed" to win an election forgetting that your people never allowed him to exercise his mandate or to rule and that they ended up murdering him whilst he was in detention.

When will these insulting, patronising, disrespectful, outdated, anachronistic, racist, provocative, infantile, petty, tongue-in-cheek and puerile assertions from unrepentant barbarians like Funtua cease?

When will you accept the fact that the Igbo, and indeed the entire south and Middle Belt, are far more interested in a restructured Nigeria where power is devolved from the centre, or indeed full blown independence, than your accursed Presidency.

Get this clear and stop acting as if yours is a master-race that owns our country and that was born to rule. You are not the one to determine who will rule Nigeria: GOD IS!"

https://mobile.twitter.com/realFFK/status/1213726904332771328

Closing the border was never an economic blunder. Even US did something similar. Those neighbours were too much parasites. Only unpatriotic Nigerians especially those smuggling goods were embittered by the border closure. We should criticize constructively.

Racoon:
See how an economic blunder is gonna cost Nigeria more security complication.

America benefitted more from the war. Billions of barrels of Iraqi oil and artifacts were stolen by US.
quote author=FlyoruB post=85527629]The demand by the Iraqis that the u.s leave their country can be considered a major diplomatic coup by Tehran and a big slap to America, after spending trillions of dollars and wasting so many American lives, only to be disgracefully asked to leave by those they paid with American blood to 'liberate' American misadventures in the Middle East are always bound to fail from the very beginning.[/quote]

Prayerful Muslims get insight and guidance from dreams and visions. Some even hear verses of the Quran recited to them in their dreams. This helps to direct them to the path required of them.

quote author=AIIyIic post=85357013]Please, no pun intended here. Just trying to get my facts right and make proper decisions. Do Muslims see visions and do they fall in trance?
Lalastica[/quote]

God bless these courageous judges. Thieving politicians.
quote author=ijustdey post=85440929]
https://www.independent.ng/court-declares-pension-to-ex-governors-null-and-void/[/quote]

Bro, forget am. Even stars change over time. Only God knows the truth and no man can truly see the future , nor the character that will manifest in the future.

Kendumazy:
I guess you didn't pray about your relationship or you didn't get to do spiritual consultation about the kind of person your wife is. See, when it comes to two people coming together to get married. There are a lot of things involved. A wife star might superceed that of the husband and atimes it could be the other way round. These are parts of what parents sees that make them stand their ground that their son or daughter won't get married to a particular person. Not that the person is bad but it's just that, we all have the star we carry. You don't need to fight your wife. You just need some prayer or spiritual journey to see what could be the cause of your downfall or you can try and leave the home for like a month and watch any changes.

If you read the Sultan's speech with an open mind, you will agree with him. Bias and prejudices are equally serious worms eating away our societies.

quote author=helinues post=85278423]Ohhhhh.. So Boko haram are Catholics right?

ISIS are Buddhists sebi?

Taliban are definitely Anglicans

Houthis are indigenous Pentecostal

Nonsense and ingredients[/quote]

Exactly.

quote author=lexy2014 post=85218716]

Brother I was thinking of this point u raised earlier in d day. If these are investing $600m, then there's massive concessions they will b getting from d govt same way they did in SA[/quote]

Why is no one talking about the antecedent of the Gupta family? This is the beginning of another Chagoury family. quote author=Bazamfare post=85194623]

https://leadership.ng/2019/12/24/600m-steel-plant-will-be-nigerias-highest-non-oil-fdi-gupta/[/quote]

Does not change the history. Trump does not like it.

9jahotblog:
Democrats formed majority in the house. If you look vividly, all the republicans reps votes against the impeachment which shows that they are united. Republicans are united in both house of reps and the senate. The senate that formed majority will acquit trump dismissed the impeached articles by the democrats. It's done deal for POTUS as he will be reelected in November 2020 presidential poll.

China is fighting the truth. Mezut's comments have further opened the eyes of the conscientious world to the genocide being committed by China. What goes round does comes round. Another ethnic group will someday be at the receiving end of China's gestapo tactics if the rest of China refuses to stand up for the truth.

basicallyme:
Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ccn.com/mesut-ozil-pes-2020-china-delete/

Without bias to the merit of the allegations made by Timi Frank, the description of the man as a political activist reminds me of Dino prior to the 2015 general elections. Dino then was out of government, and he quickly became a political activist and an anti-corruption campaigner sharp sharp. Timi was kicked out of APC. It seems our politicians will always find a way to make themselves relevant and pretend to be with the masses whereas they are after their own pockets.

Olusharp:
Timi Frank distance self from N40bn claim, insists N90bn diverted for 2019 election Challenges FIRS to sue him

A political activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has distanced himself from the report of PRNigeria claiming that only N40 billion were stolen from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to prosecute 2019 election by the ruling party.

The outspoken activist said his earlier position that about N90 billion were diverted to prosecute the 2019 general election for the government of the day has not changed.

Frank demanded an apology from the authority of the FIRS for saying that he was been used to fabricate lies against the revenue generating agency, adding that he is a man of integrity.

He, however stated that the agency and the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have explanations to make to the world regarding the missing money.

Frank in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, challenged the authority of FIRS to live up to its earlier threat of going to court as soon as possible.

Comrade Frank also accused the FIRS of brain behind the N40 billion claim in the media to divert attention from the original N90 billion claim to make his revelation appears incredible.

The Bayelsa born activist also lambasted the ruling party for describing the stolen money report as hogwash.

Frank said if the APC actually has the interest of the country at heart few elements who were not in the know of how its leadership mismanaged the taxpayers hard earned money ought to have been worried by the revelations.

"I don't know where the report of N40 billion is coming from and I don't actually have connection with the PRNigeria who released the report but it is incumbent on me to state categorically that my position on the stolen N90 billion has not changed.

"I have waited patiently for either of the parties involved in the swindling of Nigeria taxpayers' money to sue me but up till now the shameless elements are still hiding under one finger.

"They threatened but could not live up to their own expectations. A media organisation were force to retract the report thinking it will ends there but so many courageous media houses and the social media ensured that the truth could not be hidden. I salute the courageous ones, even as history will never forget them in a hurry," Frank said.

Reacting to the APC statement describing the report as hogwash, Comrade Frank said the judgement day for the ruling party is just by the conner.

"It is a shame for the leadership of the APC to speak on this matter now having kept quiet since the revelation was made. Understandably the party is the beneficiary, it must do everything possible to divert public attention," he said.

He called on Nigerians, especially the rights groups and courageous individuals to defend Nigeria's democracy by urgently rescue it from the handlers of the current government for the sake of innocent Nigerians.

Signed:

Comrade Timi Frank
Political activist
Abuja.

https://ngg.ng/2019/12/17/timi-frank-distance-self-from-n40bn-claim-insists-n90bn-diverted-for-2019-election/

Long throat will kill the North. Yet, it is the thieving elite of the North sha. Agreement is agreement. If they set the country ablaze, they will reap the dividend.
quote author=dre11 post=84901273]ACF chieftains disagree as Middle Belt, SOKAPU unite against North

•Elders call emergency meeting to present common position



https://www.sunnewsonline.com/2023-presidency-splits-northern-leaders/[/quote]

Comments like this are the very reason the social media control law is being considered. Someone certainly did a shoddy job on parenting.

Chizmickey:
Those people up north are very funny humans with low brains and high sexual libido. they can do anything to satisfy there foolish urge. No wonder they can kill for imaginary 72 virgins

He only rose to be a Senior in a Consulting firm. There are persons who are more eminently qualified professionally and academically than Nami all over Nigeria. Tunde Fowler was even more qualified than this Nami. This is not being biased. If the President must replace an appointee, he should at least chose someone that matches the outgoing one or better qualified and not someone less qualified. What are they thinking really?

Islie:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/11-things-you-should-know-about-muhammad-nami-buharis-nominee-to-head-firs.html

Alusi Ikenga.

IkengaAlusi1:
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Tinubu is a bastard drug dealing vagabond

God bless SERAP, its executives, and funders. God bless Justice Oguntoyinbo of the Lagos State High Court. There has to be an end to this daylight political robbery.

Shooyie:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/court-orders-fg-to-recover-pensions-collected-by-akpabio-saraki-amaechi-others.html