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For those who care to know: Oil boom is over! The cost of a metal barrel (drum) is more expensive than the cost of crude oil of one barrel volume now! Even large pizza is more expensive than crude oil! The cost of three bottles of Guinness is more expensive than a barrel of crude oil! Is like many people have no idea of the gravity of the trouble at all. Many people that know should try enlighten those on self-denial of the reality of global economic crisis! Stout bottles expensive pass crude oil now...And still Nigeria senators want to spend N115bn in 2016 for their luxurious burden on the economy with N4.7bn set to buy imported 2016 SUVs to fight corruption....LMAO@@@~ #MMA

Egotistical individuals.

Lol #chicken republic doing damage control, having already goofed. They quickly entered into their system to produce one for APC to calm the situation. Nice try anyway.

You proponent of Buhari's change have not seen anything yet, by the time he finishes his mandate in 2019, y'all will be cursing the day you came into this world.

Corruption will be beaten by straightening institutions, not by disregarding them.

More or less a lawless entity, the president is setting a bad precedent by disobeying court orders and he expect others not to follow suit.

Wow! I 'm speechless...

Ugonnax:
Yoruba again...that can't even manufacture a simple rat poison. Awolowo had to order it from Aba.

*** falls from Udara tree***

Nice one from the military

HBD to omokri

It's a shame corruption had eaten deep into every fabric of our society and all hands must be on deck to fight this evil. May God help us

Busy body everywhere, you guys should leave ice prince alone, he likes his girl that way no matter the atrocities you guys thinks she has committed. Let he who has not sin cast the first stone. Hypocrites everywhere.

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On 17th January, I went to the EFCC headquarters in Abuja during the visiting hours to see the detained Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission.

In an earlier post, I had vehemently stated that I stand with Emeka Mba whom I have known for many years as a fine gentleman and very professional technocrat. Now, I am not the only one in the broadcast and entertainment industry who feels that way. Almost everyone in these sectors are shocked and upset at what is happening to a man who professionally has turned around sectors of our industry over the years through his astuteness and dedication to duty.

I got to the EFCC at about noon and saw a couple of people also waiting to see the DG. Amongst them were professional broadcasters and his wife. I was introduced to his wife who looked distressed and tired.

‘My brother, thank you for coming. Please what did they say my husband did? Yes, my husband. The Emeka you know. What did they say he did?’ I knew she was psychologically distressed. If anything, it’s not Emeka Mba whom should be detained or arrested. Not Emeka. Emeka is the epitome of forthrightness.

‘Madam, what they say does not matter.’ I replied. ‘ What matters is the man you know. The man I know. The man many of us know. We know he’s not guilty of the accusations. We stake our honour on it. So please be strong’

She replied ‘ I’m strong. I’m just disillusioned. This man who served this country with all his heart. All through the years, I can count the number of times his kids see him home early after work. Always a hard worker. Always giving his all to his assignments. How can they just lock him up like that? Even after he has explained everything, showed them all documents, everything to prove his innocence? Even after many people, both in Nigeria and from abroad, have come here to vehemently say this man is innocent of these charges? Why are they still detaining him?’

I and a friend comforted her.

A couple of hours later, the security operatives at EFCC allowed me and a couple of others to see him during the visiting hours. Now, I must say this of EFCC. They have fantastic gentleman in their employment who are very friendly and professional. The atmosphere there does not intimidate but is friendly to visitors, from the security operatives to the main officers.

Emeka was brought out, dressed in a T-shirt and slacks. He saw me and gaped.

‘Ah, Ah. Charles! This is a surprise. How are you?’ He exclaimed. He was obviously in high spirits and his psyche and usual boisterousness has not been dampened by his ordeal.

I gave him words of encouragement. ‘ Oga, I came here not only to visit you but to assure you that your friends in the industry, the broadcast and entertainment industry stand by you all through this. We are rooting for you. We are mobilising for you to be released and acquitted of these charges. We know you. We know who you are and we believe in you. You have not been abandoned. So be strong’

He was touched. Openly touched.

‘Thank you, Charles. I appreciate this’ he replied.

‘ How have they been treating you?’ I asked

‘Well… these guys are ok. I’m their ‘visitor’ and we have been talking’ he joked. We all laughed. The EFCC operative who was with him there laughed the more and said;

‘ Na wah o. Since I started working here I have never seen the calibre of visitors this man has received. Everyday, powerful people especially from the broadcast and entertainment sector. Powerful people. It’s amazing’

I replied ‘ That should tell you that this man is one of us. This man does not deserve this. We know you have to do your job but this man here is an asset to this country.’

Emeka kept smiling as he looked down to the floor, contemplatively.

A few other female staff of NBC came visiting and immediately they saw their DG in casuals, their eyes welled up. Emeka comforted them with his words and told them not to cry. Even us, the guys there were finding it hard not to shed a tear or two. Emeka doesn’t deserve this.

We all did our best to cheer him up and discussed generally about the country and other matters. He laughed at some of our banter. And then someone asked him a crunch question. What would he do after this?

He replied stubbornly and defiantly. ‘ I’m tired. Very tired. I don’t play with my honour and integrity. I will leave. Isn’t that what they want? I will leave. I have given my best, turned around the NBC and made it a multi-billion naira yielding parastatal ( even more than some Ministries). I have shown the government how broadcasting can even fund the whole budget of this country alone. I have done my best. And now, through some politics and witch-hunt, they pat me back with this. Who takes this kind of thing? The officers here have heard my side of the story. Every document and paper vindicating my defence has been shown. Why I am still here is up to them. But I’m tired’

I shook my head. I don’t blame him. Anyone in his position would be tired.

It was time to leave. I shook him firmly and encouraged him more with my words and we left.

My position on this is clear. I stand with Emeka Mba on this. I stake my honour that he is innocent of these malicious allegations.

The nebulous N15 Billion naira they say he is accused of is NOT missing. It’s sitting in the bank and safe. It’s a bank guarantee for the operators of the digitisation switch over and if you know what a bank guarantee is, then you would know that not one penny of that money was touched. The EFCC is acting on a petition by someone from within the NBC who’s obviously in cahoots with forces to get Emeka Mba out of there.

Before Emeka Mba got there, the NBC was never declaring billions as revenue. Emeka got there and changed the revenue base of the NBC. NBC and the federal government stands to make up to N1.7 trillion naira in the next two years from the digitisation switch. That’s mega money. Of course interests would come in. That’s my theory.

Emeka democratised and demystified the licensing process at the NBC. Before him, it would have taken years for anyone or organisation get a broadcast license after application and due process. Emeka changed and fast-tracked the process. He knows broadcasting creates jobs. For every TV and radio licence given, the economy is affected positively through jobs creation. Thousands of jobs.

Why this country cannibalises its good hands is a mystery of service in Nigeria. That’s one of the reasons I have personally not served in any political appointment ( and I have been offered a couple in the past ). Your good name and pedigree gets rubbished by the pettiness in the political pot.

Emeka Mba doesn’t deserve this.


- By Charles Novia

Quick survey

Out of the 9million 3 million are under age voters mix with almanjiri

Little wonder robbery is on the rise, this cults guy takes to robbery at night and cult activities by day. And this is because we have a lame govt in Lagos, whose primary duty is to destroy market across the state, while they turn a blind eye to the activities of the cultist/robbers.

Eko onibaje!

tolugar:
Yes


And another as bonus

The security apparatus in that vicinity/city should be on the watch out, it might as well be a dry run to test how easy it is to penetrate public places, if and when she eventually comes back wearing a sucide vest.

It's cuz our society is messed up, if not, she was suppose to be interrogated to ascertain the veracity of her claim. You never might know she could be a Boko haram field soldier for all we know.

She is so full of herself, what an arrogant twart.

Our society is truly messed up, minister's wife ko, Boko wife ni.


Unless Islam purges the violent sociopaths from its ranks, the rest of the world will eventually be forced to do so for pure survival reasons. That tipping point will be the use of weapons of mass destruction.

Follow your heart

GenIgrigi:
**grins** OP Igbos toil for this hell hole called nigeria and nigeria has never been given back in return.
Which group goes to hausaland, develop and possibly get killed by the hausa muslim during their riots of intolerance? Igbo!

Which group projects nigeria positively through nollywood? Igbos

Which group gives it all for the country during sporting competion? Igbo! Infact 1994 Super eagles team was made up of 85% Igbo. The '98 olympic champions were made up of 95% Igbo. Pundits called 2013 victorious Super eagles at Afcon Biafran eagles.

Who builds in other regions believing that nigeria will be one forever? Igbo!

What do they in return? Taunt from ungrateful nigerians e.g 'I will never vote an Eastern/Igbo president.'

The Biafran truth don capture your nigeria, now you are running helter-skelter trying to salvage the carcass of what's left of nigeria. **grins**

You've said it all.

God bless you!!!

dmater:
It is becoming increasingly ridiculous the manner the 'BFR is dead' chanters put forward a thousand and one reasons why the quest for nationhood will not succeed.

You boast that Igbo people have no crude oil. You assure yourselves that Igbo people are mainly concerned about South-south oil even when there are indigenous Igbos in South-south. You even console yourselves that Igbo people do not add value to the system. You spread evil news. You attempt threats - of war, starvation, properties confiscation, forfeiture of resident permit. You have concluded that Igbo people cannot survive as a nation.

With all the many negative wishes you have got you are still not satisfied that your prophecies are enough deterrent to the emergence of a new nation.

Every day the cycle of evil tidyings is repeated in different ways in the media to give yourselves a false sense of fulfilment that you're making progress to stop the emergence of BFR. But then frustration and its resultant consequences are waiting down the line just because you have wished to dictate how another people live when it is evident that you are barely existing.

Umunna dalu, ga sike onye were nu were nmadu

woodcook:
First and foremost I will assume that you have acquired some form of education or maybe still in the process.

I am only going to comment on this post for the purpose of the young ones who are going to read it, so they can start at a very young age to learn how to think and make logical argument. It seems most Nigerian youth are bad at engaging in critical thinking.

That aside, firstly I am going to take your bait and play 'sand-sand' play with you :what do you mean by successful? Because being successful connotes different things to different people. Going by the names you picked out, for every P-Square or Mikel that grew up outside the East there are Flavor, Genevieve, Phyno etc that grew up in the East. For every Ojukwu and Zik there are notable men there are people like Soludo etc that grew up in the East.

Talking about environment, if you have ever step a foot outside where you have been holed-in all your life, you would know that there is no better place to raise kids and imbibe the spirit to conquer and take the world by the balls than in the East. Those that came to Lagos to hustle already had their instinct nurtured and cultured back home from the streets of the East. Forget the noise in Lagos go down there and try out your survival instincts, compete with youths your age on daily survival skills and you will come back to testify (na then you go know say 3 into 3 places na 9).

On a serious note before you come up with a conjuncture like this do a little finding (stop being lazy your mb is not only to watch porn ) and always top such write up with concrete data. Concrete data and verifiable facts helps a lot.

This part is for all Yoruba youths out there. I am advising most Yoruba youths of this generation not to be like the past generations. You people should leave your 'hole' for once, travel around Nigeria. Go to the North, go to the East, go to South-South. Spend weeks or even months living there and you will get to learn that there is a world outside Lagos. Nigeria does not start and end in Lagos. Being educated does not clean up ignorance, you can be educated and still ignorant. From my experience when it comes to knowing Nigeria and Nigerians, I think the Yorubas are the most ignorant just as most Americans are about the world outside the US of A. Some of you many find it insulting but truth as to be told. The tides are changing it is time you leave your comfort zone, go out learn more about Nigeria and Nigerians, and your approach to issues will never be the same. You can ask those that happened to leave the SW for the first time during their NYSC year how ignorant they realized they were? London is never Nigeria and will not make up for your ignorance about your own country and its people. Stop using Lagos as a gauging scale Lagos is not and will never be the ideal environment to learn about the people of Nigeria.

O ga diri gi mma

Where is the pic?

Trump is a racist, moronic, egotistical piece of garbage!!!!! It makes me so sad that there is even one person in america that would vote for him

Op, it's 10,000 cfa and not 1,000 cfa to 3,300 naira.

Lol

With all the warning from the IGP the "korofos" won't stop being body guard to the highest bidder. Smdh

2kaybiel:
One day the muslim in the north will be wise to see religion has nuisance

I'm sorry to say that day may never come and you and i knows that...

All na wash abeg

Nigerian Politicians can turn themselves into a bus conductor, meat seller, or even "shit Parker" if they want your vote, but as soon as they win the election you will begin to see their other side. Smdh!

Hmmm...that's one of the advantage of digital cameras and gadget, you can replace your ex from your photo with anything, for example a tree like seen in this pic, a house, a snake, your grand dad, Obama and so on and so forth. (Photoshop)