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 Politics › Re: 2015: Why Buhari May Defeat Jonathan- Analysis by LRNZH(op): 9:11pm On Jan 13, 2015 |
To be sincere, there's an argument TANoids make that may hold small water.... The likelihood of Jagaban chickening out last minute... The other is a potential doctoring of election numbers in the NE by PDP to further heighten the appearance that no voting occurred there due to insecuroty... Since those numbers will add to GMB, they will try to reduce them as much as possible. Beyond these two small qualms... I project GMB to carry the day come FeBuhari 14th. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigeria’s Strictest Leader... Photos And Video by LRNZH(op): 9:06pm On Jan 13, 2015 |
| Politics › Re: ENUGU International Airport Scam: Another 419 On The Igbo Nation by LRNZH(op): 8:56pm On Jan 13, 2015*. Modified: 9:13pm On Jan 13, 2015 |
Samchelsea:Guy!!!! It is obvious you didn't read this article. Check the source. It was published today, Jan. 13, 2015. Excerpt: This airport is a big risks to international airlines especially those from Europe, America, Asia, Middle East because it is international in propaganda and not in facilities. Egypt Air and South African Airways have rejected overtures to use the airport. The only airlines that had the magnanimity to use the Airport are Ethiopian Airline which operates skeletal flights to Addis Ababa and in connecting flights to some destinations. The Turkish Airlines signed agreement in principle as announced by Vice President Sambo a year ago but fled back to Greece after inspecting the equipments on the ground. If that airport is truly international airlines like Virgin Atlantic Airways, Lufthansa Airlines, British Airways, KLM, British Caledonian Airlines, Oatar Airways, Emirates Airlines will ply the route, but for now all overtures from certain quarters to lure these carriers to Enugu have failed woefully due to what they termed poor quality infrastructure. As at January, 2015, no airline from Europe, America, Asia and Middle East have landed or taken off from Enugu International Airport. Has any of this changed? Is the writer lying? 4 Likes |
| Politics › Re: ENUGU International Airport Scam: Another 419 On The Igbo Nation by LRNZH(op): 8:40pm On Jan 13, 2015 |
Samchelsea:Keep calm and reason well. The article is written by an Igbo man. The picture shows the consistent flooding that happens at Enugu Airport in the rainy season. Did you read that out of the N13Billion earmarked for the airport only N6Billion has been spent and that's it? Learn to question your Gov't or show us counter proof and stop acting like a clueless tout.  8 Likes |
| Politics › 2015: Why Buhari May Defeat Jonathan- Analysis by LRNZH(op): 8:33pm On Jan 13, 2015 |
https://cdn.akamai.thisdaylive.com/0bef99d6-acf5-4e2c-9779-8fa02ba3fcd4/assets/Head-Head-Goodluck-Jonathan--Muhammadu-Buhari-1214.jpg?maxwidth=400&maxheight=540 In spite of the weight of incumbency, Doris David explains why President Goodluck Jonathan may lose the February 14 presidential election to former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari For the fourth time, General Mohammadu Buhari will contest the presidency of Nigeria as a civilian. He was military Head of State between December 1983 and August 1985. He will be contesting against the sitting President Goodluck Jonathan for the second time. The last time was in 2011 elections. They have chosen their running mates. President Jonathan is retaining Architect Namadi Sambo to run with him. General Buhari has dropped his running mate in the last elections and picked a Professor of Law and former Lagos State Attorney-General, Yemi Osinbajo for this race. Their parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP-Jonathan) and the All Progressive Congress (APC-Buhari) are all charged up and ready to go. It is clear that Jonathan defeated Buhari in the last election. Buhari then stood on the platform of the relatively newly created Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), registered with the INEC just a year before the elections. It was virtually a personal party, based almost exclusively in the north of the country. President Jonathan, then as now, stood on the platform of the PDP, which prides itself as Africa’s largest political party. The results of the 2011 elections reflected the strengths of the parties and not the candidates. While the PDP and Jonathan campaigned in every state of the federation and placed daily adverts on television, the CPC and Buhari could only campaign in northern Nigeria, leaving the whole of the south. They could also manage some posters and handbills, but could not carry the campaign to the electronic media. As he did not campaign at all in the south, Buhari did not secure the required 25% of votes in southern Nigerian states, yet he won all the states in the north and secured 31.9% of the total votes. Jonathan secured the necessary 25% of votes in the northern states and secured 58.8% of the total votes nationwide. Already it is clear that it would be different this time. Even if PDP were to win the national elections, it would be the narrowest of margins. But there is a fair chance that the APC would be the winner of the 2015 presidential election. If they do, it would be the fault of President Jonathan and Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, mainly because of very poor party leadership, the total disregard for internal democracy and perfidy. Nigerians have for a long time not trusted the PDP and Nigerians have for over six years bemoaned the dullness and indecisiveness of President Jonathan. Yet they submitted to the machinations of PDP because they had no choice. Now the APC presents a viable opposition. While some of the bigwigs in the APC defected from the PDP, there are a good number of their members that have for decades preached a different kind of politics, such that it is clear to Nigerians that there is a difference between both parties. The PDP built on corruption and all its ways are corrupt. While President Jonathan has severally been accused publicly of presiding over a system of corruption and that he surrounds himself with the corrupt; his opponent, General Buhari’s name has never been associated with corruption in the Nigerian discourse. Indeed, he is mentioned as the only person who was president of Nigeria that actually took genuine steps to fight corruption and the general social malaise. He is given as the only example of a former head of government that did not enrich himself. All the Nigerians who wish the evil of corruption in the country to end will gravitate towards him. Buhari is regarded as a decisive leader, one who would make tough decisions, irrespective of whose ox is gored. Nigerians recall how his government stood up to the international community during his presidency, refusing to be dictated to by the Britain and the United States. They recall how despite Umaru Diko's status in Nigerian politics, the Buhari government crated to return him to Nigeria from self exile in Britain to face trial for corruption. At this point in time, Nigerians are praying for a person of true leadership qualities to take the country out to the doldrums of corruption, crime, poverty and terrorism. On the other hand, President Jonathan is derided as a man who cannot bridle his wife from her rude intrusion into party and national affairs; he is seen as mentally lazy, indecisive and ineffective. He is talked of as totally lacking in leadership qualities, the kind of qualities that the country direly needs now. As evidence of what they say about President Jonathan, people need only point to the disarray in the party that he leads, even at the threshold of national elections. Due to his weakness, governors have consistently usurped the powers that belong to the president; they make his appointments for him. Governors have reduced the office of the president to ridicle. Governors under the leadership of Rotimi Amaechi were able to turn what was supposed to be their talk shop, the Governor's Forum, into a trade union, with the federal government as their target. And in one fell swoop, five governors defected from his party, formed an alliance with the opposition and eventually embedded themselves there. Now they present him a very formidable challenge within the APC. Right now, there is crisis in at least 17 PDP states over who should be the governorship candidate. In Abia, Adamawa, Akwa-Ibom, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Kebbi, Kwara, Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba and Yobe States there are acute disagreements about how the governorship primaries have been conducted. The powers that be within the PDP anoint aspirants behind the scenes, and then still pretend that they are conducting primaries. In some cases, as in the case of Rivers State, the party allows a contender to actually make all the arrangements, chose the electoral committees, chose the screening committees, and produce a delegates list from non-existent delegate elections. The whole system is riddled with fraud when it should have been very simple to follow the provisions of the party’s constitution and the electoral guidelines. On the other hand, we have seen the APC publicly conduct free and fair delegates elections and governorship primaries. The disaffected aspirants and their supporters will punish the party. In some cases, aspirants and their supporters have defected to APC. In any case, the general dislike by the populace for this kind of fraud, a finger-pointer to the kind of electoral fraud and rigging that the PDP is set for, will alienate many voters. Jonathan will certainly lose lots of votes in each of these states to Buhari. Perhaps as a belated damage-control, the PDP has set up a presidential reconciliation committee to appeal to elders and party followers in Rivers State to forgive. Why should they? There is still time for the party to move to the right path. President Jonathan and the party cannot deliberately hand over the electoral process to the most unsuitable candidate in the state, insult the elders and elite of the state, denigrate that state by saying that it is only Chief Nyesome Wike that possesses the quality to win governorship elections in the state, ignore all petitions at every stage of the process by various concerned groups in the state, and then set up a reconciliation committee to go and share dollars to a few hand-picked in a state where over two million people have votes. President Jonathan is right in keeping his vice-president as his running mate. Had he changed the running-mate as emeritus-president Olusegun Obasanjo had tried to force him to do, it would have complicated an already very bad situation for him. But even here, General Buhari has trumped him. By choosing Professor Osinbajo, General Buhari has burrowed both into the dedicated followership of the Obafemi Awolowo political dynasty as well as the teeming Christian evangelical followership all around the country. Namely, Buhari’s chosen running-mate is a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church, which is one of the largest denominations in the country. Professor Osinbajo’s wife is a direct grand-daughter of Obafemi Awolowo and also an officer of the Mountain of Fire Christian denomination. While there is no concrete statistics as to what percentage of votes is dictated by religious affiliation, it is known that there is a great deal of religious influence in who people vote for at elections. The Peoples Democratic Party may be thumping its chest as the largest party in Africa. Well, such a party with obvious lack of internal democracy is a shame. But what is more important is that its politics and electoral fortunes are confined only to the space that is Nigeria. During previous elections, when several small parties opposed it, it was always certain of itself. That self-assurance should cease. In the previous election General Buhari contested on the platform of the CPC, a small party more or less confined to the north. Now the General is the standard-bearer of the APC to join former PDP governors, Speaker of House of Representatives, Ministers, Commissioners and several others. Buhari will win the twelve states he won in the 2011 elections and secure maybe five states in the South-West. He will make gains in the South-South and South-East where he did not campaign at all in 2011. Jonathan will be losing votes where he was very secure in 2011. The total tally nationwide may favour General Buhari. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/why-buhari-may-defeat-jonathan/198994/ 15 Likes 4 Shares |
| Politics › ENUGU International Airport Scam: Another 419 On The Igbo Nation by LRNZH(op): 7:53pm On Jan 13, 2015 |
https://newsrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/floating-airport2.jpg by Obinna Akukwe The Enugu International Airport also known as Akanu Ibiam International Airport is another 419 on the Biafran Igbo citizens of Nigeria because there is yet nothing international about the airport. It is instructive to note that late President Umoru Yaradua was the one who in 2008 approved the upgrading of the airport to International status in line with his administration’s policy that each geopolitical zone will have at least one international airport. In 2009, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) under Yaradua approved the sum of N4.13 billion for work on the airport which would include extension, asphalting and marking of the runway. The old runway which is 2,400 meters long was to be extended by 600 metres to make it 3000 meters or three kilometers and the width extended from the existing 45 meters to 60 meter. In December 2009, the airport was closed temporarily for work to commence and those wishing to take the route were diverted to Sam Mbakwe Airport Owerri. This work spanned the period when Mr. Babatunde Omotoba was minister till when Fidelia Njeze took over. Therefore, the process of upgrading the Enugu International Airport was kick started by late Yaradua and N4.13 billion naira was approved by the FEC and released for the work to commence. The Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Jonathan on October 19, 2010 reaffirmed the upgrade of Enugu Airport to an international facility and awarded a reviewed contract of about N6.1billion. With the reaffirmation of the international status of the airport, Igbo leaders started the process of unbridled sycophancy by praising the current regime to high heavens over an international airport that still does not exist. Chief among the praise singers was the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremmadu who said that ““For many decades, the people of the South East, the local and international business community have waited seemingly endlessly for the commencement of international flight operations at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, and the people of South East will remain ever grateful to President Jonathan for the breakthrough.” When Stella Oduah moved from ‘Neighbor to’ Neighbor Campaign Organization’ where she muscled out and overshadowed the Chief Tony Anenih owned ‘Door to Door Campaign Organization’, she was rewarded with Minister of Aviation for a job well done and she commenced upgrade of facilities in all the 22 airports in Nigeria. In the first phase eleven (11)airports including General Aviation Terminal (MMA) International Terminal (MMA), Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, (International Terminal ), Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, (Domestic Terminal), Kaduna Airport Terminal, Margaret Ekpo International Airport Terminal, Calabar, Benin Airport Terminals, Akanu Ibiam International Airport Terminal, Enugu, Sam Mbakwe Airport Terminal, Owerri, Port Harcourt International Airport Terminal, Yola Airport Terminal and Yakubu Gowon Airport, Jos were scheduled for upgrading. Therefore it is absolutely silly for Igbo leaders to grovel before Jonathan for upgrading Enugu Airport as if it is the only one in Nigeria being overhauled. Completely silly and self-effacing!! For goodness sake the Igbos gave this man 90% votes and even zones that gave him 5% votes also got their airports renovated at amounts far higher than was spent at Enugu Airport. Julius Berger was awarded the N9.5bn contract for the Nnamdi Airport upgrade work, while Messrs Crew Construction Company in a joint venture with Itlay’s Messrs Cremona Construction and Romania’s Messrs Coffer Impex were to upgrade Aminu Kano at a cost of N12.8bn while Enugu got N6 billon and yet the Emir Ado Bayero of Kano did not lead a ‘ thank you’ praise singing troupe to Aso Rock. The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), George Uriesi, even affirmed that the Federal Government had invested $870 million (N139,200,000,000) in airport infrastructure, which includes the remodeling of the terminals and other safety critical equipment. If the Federal Government invested N139 billion naira to upgrade 11 airports around Nigeria and Enugu Airport got only N6 bilion of it, then why the celebration. Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Jos, Yola, Kano, Calabar and Kaduna airports had more budgetary allocations than Enugu Airport yet Afenifere, Arewa Consultative Forum, Middle Belt Forum, South South Peoples Assembly have not kowtowed before any Jonathan. The Governors of the South West, South South, North East, North West or North Central have never led any delegation to over praise Jonathan for upgrading their airports. President Jonathan had said that a new international terminal for the Enugu Airport will cost N13 billion naira. The question is, has any funds been committed to build the international terminal. Is there any budgetary allocation for the terminal for the year 2015? The answer is negative. Therefore the Enugu Airport project is a 419. What is the state of landing and safety equipment at the airport? This airport is a big risks to international airlines especially those from Europe, America, Asia, Middle East because it is international in propaganda and not in facilities. Egypt Air and South African Airways have rejected overtures to use the airport. The only airlines that had the magnanimity to use the Airport are Ethiopian Airline which operates skeletal flights to Addis Ababa and in connecting flights to some destinations. The Turkish Airlines signed agreement in principle as announced by Vice President Sambo a year ago but fled back to Greece after inspecting the equipments on the ground. If that airport is truly international airlines like Virgin Atlantic Airways, Lufthansa Airlines, British Airways, KLM, British Caledonian Airlines, Oatar Airways, Emirates Airlines will ply the route, but for now all overtures from certain quarters to lure these carriers to Enugu have failed woefully due to what they termed poor quality infrastructure. As at January, 2015, no airline from Europe, America, Asia and Middle East have landed or taken off from Enugu International Airport. The airport lacks many safety landing facilities including the Doppler Weather Radar used for real time detection and tracking of hazardous weather systems such as thunderstorms, wind shear, turbulence, dust storms. This equipment was recently installed in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Maiduguri, Yola and none installed in Enugu. What of the Low Level Wind Shear Alert Systems (LLWAS) and RETIM Synergy Satellite Image Receivers among others critical landing, navigational and radar enhancement equipments of international standards. They are missing at the airport and no foreign airline will risk a crash. The international terminal is not there yet. The runway and aircraft hangers are always flooded whenever there is rainfall and many times passengers have to removetheir shoes, fold their trousers to walk up the tarmac for boarding. Many Igbos who expected to connect from their various overseas destinations to Enugu were disappointed during the Christmas season of 2014 and will still be disappointed by December 2015 because there is no plan to give the South East an international airport. This Enugu International Airport is another 419 on the Igbo nation and the foreigner airlines have dismissed the international status of the airport as a scam. When the emperors decide to actually give us an l airport the volume of activities, flights and passenger traffic will prove it- what we have is another International airport 419 on the Igbo nation and some fools are still celebrating. http://newsrescue.com/enugu-international-airport-scam-another-419-igbo-nation-obinna-akukwe/#ixzz3OjFBFfAT 5 Likes |
| Politics › Re: MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigeria’s Strictest Leader... Photos And Video by LRNZH(op): 6:13am On Jan 13, 2015 |
crownprince102:You need a summary abi? 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigeria’s Strictest Leader... Photos And Video by LRNZH(op): 12:18am On Jan 13, 2015 |
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| Politics › Re: MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigeria’s Strictest Leader... Photos And Video by LRNZH(op): 11:51pm On Jan 12, 2015 |
itsmine:Spot on! That inaugral speech sounds like it is meant for the corrupt gov't of GEJ 29 Likes |
| Politics › Re: MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigeria’s Strictest Leader... Photos And Video by LRNZH(op): 9:22pm On Jan 12, 2015*. Modified: 12:51am On Jan 13, 2015 |
[b]12. BUHARI TODAY & CONCLUSION https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader-16.jpg Today, the stage is set for a final showdown in 2015 between the old warhorse General Buhari and incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. Buhari is generally perceived as a honest leader capable of stemming the tide of nonsense in Nigeria but some people are afraid and are not really sure if Nigeria will retain its secularity under a Buhari presidency. Some analysts also feel that his base is mainly in the North and he has to do his homework well in penetrating the south if he is to win. As for the other camp of GEJ, whether the Sun likes, it can rise in the west and set in the east, Jonathan will still win. They count on various factors like his achievements while others harp on his power of incumbency and others. But whatever will happen, I have just one prayer: may the Federal Republic of Nigeria survive 2015 and beyond -onto greater heights. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. ™ NB: Please, if you have any relevant information on General Buhari or any other Nigerian (or Nigeria) and you wish to share with the world for the sake of posterity, kindly send a message to info@.com[/b] REFERENCES -http://the-politico.com/politics/national/maiden-speech-of-major-general-muhammadu-buhari/ -http://allafrica.com/stories/200601170166.html -http://www.demotix.com/news/1849864/retired-nigerian-general-buhari-attends-african-diaspora-conference#media-1849852 -http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/thisday/2006/01/16/rimi_godall_expose_my_wifes_killers_safinatu_buharias_estranged_wife_is_dead.php -http://www.google.com/imgres?start=226&biw=1440&bih=809&tbm=isch&tbnid=0LrVctTwQ1WTbM:&imgrefurl=http://it.utabby.com/v%3Fi%3DkyTMMoh7xUQ&docid=dwAFF-KggckQfM&imgurl=http://utabby.com/vimg/01/1oolpik3IvM.png&w=480&h=360&ei=MULQUbesDOXY4QTYjYGIBw&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:54,s:200,i:166&iact=rc&page=9&tbnh=172&tbnw=229&ndsp=29&tx=137&ty=72 -http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/chinua-achebe/2005dec24-chinua-achebe-foundation-muhammadu-buhari-interview.html -http://meniru..com/2008_04_01_archive.html -http://dailyindependentnig.com/2012/09/umaru-dikko-if-i-were-nigerias-president/ -Buhari swearing in the new governors>>> youtube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northeastern_State_Nigeria.png -http://www.insiderweeklymagazine.com/ed47.php -http://www.gamji.com/haruna/haruna123.htm -NNPC: http://www.nnpcgroup.com/AboutNNPC/Corporateinfo.aspx -http://features.rr.com/topic/Muhammadu_Buhari -http://mobile.saharareporters.com/news-page/crimes-buhari-wole-soyinka -http://saharareporters.com/article/zulaiha-buhari-tribute-rarest-gem-all-hadiza-musawa -http://saharareporters.com/news-page/general-muhammadu-buhari-daughter-dies-sickle-cell-disease -http://www.dssc.gov.in/PHOTO_GALLERY/index.html -http://www.africa-confidential.com/whos-who-profile/id/2606/ -http://babajidesalu./2010/04/27/the-drama-greed-assassination-deceit-bribery-looting-and-letter-bomb-of-the-evil-candidate-called/ -http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-33898.html -Nigeria Newsletter, Issues 130-154, International Communications, 1984. -Middle East Economic Survey, 1983 -African Defence Journal, Issues 41-52, The Journal, 1984. -The News, Volume 8, Issues 1-12, Independent Communications Network Limited, 1997. -Soldiers of Fortune by Max Siollun. -IBB - Smart But Foolish: The Fall of a Goliath by Abejide Olusegun -Hajiya Safinatu Buhari Foundation, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hajiya-Safinatu-Buhari-Foundation-for-People-Living-with-Diabetes/129269227132967?v=box_3 -Social Psychology and Social Change in Nigeria: A Systematic Evaluation of Government Social Policies and Programs by Denis Chima E. Ugwuegbu -African Political Elites: The Search for Democracy and Good Governance edited by F. O. C. Nwonwu, Dirk Kotzé -Nigerian Foreign Policy Under Military Rule: 1966 – 1999 by Olayiwola Abegunrin -http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/umaru-dikko-the-man-who-was-nearly-spirited-away-in-a-diplomatic-bag-8061664.html -http://blueprintng.com/new/2012/11/i-havent-forgiven-my-kidnappers-umaru-dikko/ -http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20211380 -http://againstbabangida.com/Speeches/the-babangida-coup.html -http://www.gamji.com/article8000/NEWS8043_archived.htm -http://www.pointblanknews.com/authbioofabiola8.html -http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkNigeria/message/118475 56 Likes 3 Shares |
| Politics › Re: MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigeria’s Strictest Leader... Photos And Video by LRNZH(op): 9:16pm On Jan 12, 2015*. Modified: 12:08am On Jan 13, 2015 |
[b]5. LOVE, ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE General Buhari's first wife was the late Hajiya Safinatu (nee Yusuf) Buhari. He courted her when she was fourteen and married her at the age of eighteen. A very shy and conservative Muslim woman, she was not too visible on the social radar. They married in 1971 and the marriage was blessed with four children, all girls (Zulaiha Magajiya (the first daughter, and she was named after Buhari's mother) Fatima, Hadizatu Nana, and Safinatu Lami). Buhari was so focused on salvaging Nigeria that he preferred to remain single throughout the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) and it was not until the war ended that he got married to his sweetheart, Safinatu. Although he was so passionate about his job that he was said to have being 'married to the Army', he always called his wife on the phone on a regular basis. As the First Lady of Nigeria, Hajiya Safinatu was not in the spotlight. Actually, she avoided the limelight for religious and cultural reasons, and coupled with the fact that her husband led a life free of ostentation, Nigerians do not know much about her.[/b] https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader-11.jpg [b]The late Hajia Safinatu Buhari was born in Jos, Plateau State to the family of the late Alhaji Yusuf Mani (a descendant of the Fulani scholar-warrior, Shehu Usman Dan Fodio) and the late Hajia Hadizatu Mani on the 11th of December, 1952. An indigene of Mani Local Government in Katsina State of Northern Nigeria, she attended the Tudun Wada Primary School in Kaduna from 1959-1960 and later the Nasarawa Primary School, Katsina (now Dikko Memorial Primary School) owing to her father's transfer to Lagos to work as the Private Secretary to the late Alhaji Musa Yar'adua, the Commissioner for Lagos Affairs in the Federal Cabinet of the First Republic. Following her primary school education, she attended the Women Teachers' College in Katsina and bagged her Grade II Teachers Certificate in 1971. When she finished from the same college at the age of 18, she married General Buhari just two days after her graduation. The marriage produced five kids: Zulaiha (now late), Fatima, Musa (now late), Hadiza and Safinatu. In the year 1998, she was diagnosed to have diabetes mellitus in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and for eight years, she battled the condition until she breatheed her last on the 14th of January, 2006. A foundation, the Hajia Safinatu Buhari Foundation (HSB) was formed by her late daughter, Zulaiha, in her honour.[/b] https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader-12.jpg [b]General Buhari and his family around 1983. After Buhari was released from jail, he divorced Safinatu for reportedly receiving financial assistance from IBB while he was in prison. Later in December 1989, he got married to Hajiya Aisha Halilu, a Fulani lady from Adamawa State. https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MUHAMMADU-BUHARI-WIFE-AISHA_.jpg Here, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari (in red gear) arrives at a fundraising dinner for female contestants of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), her husband's party at the International Conference Center, Abuja. Hajiya Safinatu later died in February 2006 from the complications of diabetes. The Hajiya Safinatu Buhari Foundation (HSB) was created by her late daughter, Zulaiha, in her honour. The foundation caters for destitutes suffering from diabetes (now, that's a noble idea). FAMILY AND CHILDREN General Buhari's children - Fatima, Hadiza, Zulaiha, Aisha, Safina, Halima, Yusuf and Zarah. [/b] https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MUHAMMADU-BUHARI-Wife-Children-Kids-Family.jpg General Buhari with his wife, Aisha, and kids. https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MUHAMMADU-BUHARI-FAMILY-WIFE-CHILDREN-2011_Family.jpg General Buhari's family in 2011. -On Friday, the 30th of November, 2012, the death was announced of Zulaiha, Buhari's eldest daughter. Described as a most humble and gentle person by her friends, she was born on the 5th of December, 1972 and had her nursery school education in the United States where her parents were based then. Later, she attended the Air Force Primary School (AFPS) in Lagos and then to the prestigious Queens College, Lagos. In 1985, she continued in the second year at the Federal Government College, Kaduna and finished in 1990. For her university education, she attended the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where she bagged a degree in economics. https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader-13-Daughter-Zulaikha.jpg https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MUHAMMADU-BUHARI-CHILD-DAUGHTER-ZULAIHA3.jpg The late Zulaiha (left) during the World Diabetes Day, November 14, 2010 at her mother's foundation, Hajiya Safinatu Buhari Foundation for People Living With Diabetes. Zulaiha created the foundation in honour of her late mum who died of complications from the disease. https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MUHAMMADU-BUHARI-CHILD-DAUGHTER-ZULAIHA2_.jpg The late Zulaiha, General Buhari's eldest daughter. Later, she finished her postgraduate studies in management in the same school and got a diploma. She worked at the Ministry of Solid Minerals and Steel in Kaduna until her demise shortly after delivery. Before her death, she was also the Treasurer of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM). An active community worker, she worked without making any noise in other non-governmental organizations in the country despite the fact that she had a long-running battle with sickle cell anaemia. Her sisters fondly called her 'Yaya Babba' and she is survived by her husband, Captain Junaid Abdullahi, three kids: Halima, Muhammad Buhari and the baby girl after whose delivery breathed her last at a private clinic in Kaduna. https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/General-Buhari-and-his-grandchildren.jpg General Buhari and his grandchildren. 23 Likes 6 Shares |
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4b. EVENTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS AS HEAD OF STATE [b] -Buhari made it very clear he would not be doing any business with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and had no need of their bogey loans which are in reality, booby traps (IBB would later gladly take them). Buhari instead, advocated for barter and direct countertrade with Brazil and other nations of the Third World. He was more interested in bartering oil for technology, spare parts and raw materials. Naturally, that pitched him against the West even if that meant good news for the economy of the world's most populous black nation. However, this move was severely criticized by people like General Olusegun Obasanjo and Major-General James Oluleye. -Clamping down on the press: It was not funny at all for journalists during the Buhari regime. Decrees upon decrees ensured that if your pen danced too much, you will go and sing the rest of your Awilo in jail. The Guardian, which was one of the most liberal newspapers at that time had many of their writers imprisoned. Some of the decrees (like the obnoxious Decree 4 of 1984, called the Public Officials (Protection Against False Accusation Decree)) were quite ridiculous in the sense that you will go to jail if you write and publish a story that was embarrassing to the government, even if that story was true, as it was in the case of Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor of The Guardian when they wrote article about military officers sent to diplomatic posts overseas. For me, that is excessive, you don't need to put stew on jollof rice na...lol! -Restriction of freedom and deprivation of fundamental human rights: According to the Decree Number 2 (1984), the State Security (Detention of Persons) Decree, the Chief of Staff (Idiagbon) had the power to detain, without formal charges, anyone deemed to be a security risk for up to three months. Ha! When we are not living in Pyongyang...lol! But please note that this decree has been existing since the time of Ironsi. Using the instrumentality of this decree, journalists were hounded and jailed while about a dozen press houses were closed down (Beko Ransome-Kuti, Tai Solarin and Haroun Adamu were all jailed under this decree). The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) were proscribed. Lobatan! Also, industrial actions were banned, demonstrations were not allowed and if you organize public protests, you will sing ohun oju mi ri l'Alagbon more than Orlando Owoh. But how was the dictatorial regime of Buhari able to do this? There was the National Security Organization (NSO), Nigeria's first secret police service, which was on hand to intimidate, harass, detain, punish protesters/demonstrators, students, lecturers, critics, activists and civil servants who dared embark on strikes. It was so bad that by October 1984, about 200,000 civil servants had been retrenched. -Corrupt civilian governors and ministers under the Shagari government were all rounded up by Buhari and jailed but without trial. IBB would later release them in droves...lol! Funny kontiri. President Shagari himself and his vice, Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme were slammed with corruption charges. -Expulsion of foreigners: About 700,000 foreigners, especially from Ghana and other West African nations were expelled from Nigeria following an announcement on the 15th of April 1985. The Internal Affairs Minister dropped the bombshell and illegal immigrants had to scurry to meet the deadline of 10th May. The exodus was massive but it was not the first time it would occur. -Death sentence for drug mules: The Buhari regime is also notorious for sentencing to death those convicted of drug trafficking with Decree 20. However, nothing caused more uproar than the retroactive application of the laws even though this has been disputed. Bartholomew Owoh, Bernard Ogedengbe and Lawal Ojulope were made to face the firing squad. Some argue that Owoh was the only one arrested BEFORE the promulgation of the decree. In April 1985, six Nigerians were convicted by a Special Military Tribunal headed by Justice Adebayo Adesalu and condemned to death for drug trafficking: Mrs. Sidikatu Tairi, Miss Sola Oguntayo, Oladele Omosebi, Lasunkanmi Awolola, Jimi Adebayo and Gladys Iyamah. I remember clearly one of the women fainting upon hearing the death sentence and prison officials had to come to her rescue. Gladys Iyamah, locked up at the Federal Maximum Security Prisons in Kirikiri, Lagos, was a crippled mother of two and was the first woman in the history of Nigeria to be sentenced to death. The Federal Military Government knew the implication of executing a paralysed mother of two and the sentence was secretly approved. But thankfully, it was never carried out. -War Against Indiscipline (WAI): On the 20th of March 1984, the Buhari/Idiagbon regime launched this programme that many Nigerians will remember biting their fingers and desperately preventing a tear from dropping ….lmao! Not a few will forget the koboko (horse whip) lashes that lacerated their backs when they became unruly at bus-stops or littered the environment. And if you fail to do the environmental sanitation activities at that time, you don enter one chance be dat. Just pray that a miracle will occur and Idiagbon's WAI Brigades (set up in each state under the Ministry of Information and Culture) do not catch you. The essence of WAI was to instill discipline and order in a society that has now all but broken down as far as morality and etiquette were concerned. Today, indiscipline and entropy reign in the Nigerian society. Even while outside the country, quite a lot of Nigerians are thoroughly indisciplined, shouting at airports, making noise inside the aircraft (or refusing to switch off phones or use seat belts), fighting over things that will leave you smh..ing, not obeying simple instructions in their host countries and all sorts of abanilojuje behaviour. Nigeria surely needs a new version of WAI, with vigorous implementation from the Presidency downwards because the level of entropy today is alarming. Soldiers beat up policemen, civilians are regularly harassed by uniformed men to the point that many 'bloody civilians' think it is a normal thing...and so on, and so on. WAI was first launched in Kano by the late Major General Tunde Idiagbon. As far as the Buhari regime was concerned, indiscipline was the major obstacle to Nigeria's social, political and economic development and that if national development was to be made, then Nigerians must (whether they like it or not) accept discipline as a way of life 'at a personal, government, corporate and institutional levels'. Even if they made some mistakes, they were right about that one, and today, our society still stinks to the high heavens with indiscipline. Yes, and a megadose of corruption. The WAI programme was executed under five phases: -Queue culture (it really annoys me when I get to an ATM and we cannot form just a single line. We just crowd round the whole machine and start saying 'Ehs, Aunty, Ayudilastpesinondilayn? Please ayam at your back' then you go sit down or hang somewhere and have yeye gist with a friend, wasting precious time of national productivity. I am yet to get to an ATM and see Nigerians queue up neatly in a line, not to talk of campus bus-stops, iyen tie worse or filling stations. So much chaos everywhere). -Work ethic (unless you threaten civil servants with query and sack, many will not arrive punctually or prefer to sell all sorts of things in the office, from Tianshi herbal tea to GNLD vitamins. But honestly, can you really blame them?) -Nationalism and patriotism (for where? Nbo? Pa kini? Kilonjebe?) If a slave ship berths today at Apapa and the sailor calls that it is a slave ship going to America, it will be full in less than 30 minutes. -Corruption and economic sabotage (dat one na one a per-second basis) -Environmental sanitation (go and tell that one to Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji, the Ochendu Ibeku, the Ohazurume of Abia South and the Utuagbaigwe of Ngwaland (our leaders and megalomania of pathological proportions sha). Just make sure that tourists do not see those mountains of dirt and refuse in Aba. Ariaria 'International' Market nko? Make I no talk sef). Same goes for Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State. This one that they haff opened Soprait and many pipu will go and do som sopin, I just hope that the Mount Kilimanjaro of refuse in Ibadan do not become an Everest overnight. Ajumodoti o kin shey inkan toda o...lol! #JustSaying...lol! Not that other states are extremely neat too o...lol! Buhari and Idiagbon focused on these five areas with their WAI policy. They no doubt had good intentions to instil a cultural revolution and value reorientation into the psyche of the Nigerian but it was not to be. And it remains so, as you read this. -Also, General Buhari dealt mercilessly with religious fundamentalists during his era. In February and March 1984, the Maitatsine sect under the leadership of Musa Makaniki unleashed terror on the populace in Yola, Adamawa State and about 1,000 lives were lost. Buhari had to send in federal troops to crush the extremists. A similar event would occur in 1985 under Buhari. -On the 3rd of February, 1984, members of the National Security Organization (NSO) arrested an American businesswoman, Mrs. Marie McBroom at gunpoint. The lady was on Nigerian soil during the December coup and decided to stay behind and finish her business deals involving food material and petroleum for her import-export enterprise that she just opened. She was not the only one arrested, there was another female tycoon, Dorothy Davies and both of them were accused of trying to buy crude oil without getting a licence for export. Both were bundled to an interrogation unit at the NSO headquarters before being flung into the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prisons. Davies spent 40 days and 40 nights...lol in jail before she was released while the American woman languished in jail for nine good months before she was arraigned before a military panel made up of four members on the 30th of November, 1984. Probably more than any other body in the nation, the NSO was granted incredibly wide powers of arrest and detention and decrees were handed out to back this. There was the State Security (Detention of Persons) Decree Number 2 of 1984, under which the NSO could detain anyone they feel is a security risk. Under this obnoxious and tyrannical decree, one can be detained for three straight months in two tranches which could be renewed. There was also the authoritarian Decree 4 under which it was a punishable offence for anyone to publish any material that was deemed as embarrassing to any government official. On the 11th of April, 1984, operatives of the NSO arrested two journalists: Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor, of the Guardian newspaper and before you could spell KAI, they were brought before a Special Military Tribunal led by Justice Olalere Ayinde and accused of falsely accusing public officials even if what the journalists wrote was on point. on the 2nd of June, 1984, a summon from the tribunal was sent to the accused and it read: Form 2 Public Officers (Protection Against False Accusation) Decree No. 4 of 1984 summon to accused. "That you Tunde Thompson and Nduka Iraboh of The Guardian Newspaper, Limited, Rutam House, Isolo on April 1, 1984 at Rutam House, Isolo in Lagos, did publish “False statement contrary to section 1(1) of the Decree No. 4 of 1984. You are therefore summoned to appear before the Tribunal mentioned above sitting at Federal High Court on the 4th day of June at the hour of 9.00 a.m in the forenoon to answer the said complaint". Their employer, Guardian Newspapers Limited was also accused. -The Umaru Dikko Affair: On the 5th of July, 1984, a team of Nigerian security operatives (led by Major Mohammed Yusufu) and Israeli katsas (field intelligence officers from the MOSSAD, Israel's national intelligence agency, also called the world's most efficient killing machine) were on hand to kidnap and bundle back to Nigeria, a former minister of transportation during the Shagari era (as Shagari's in-law, he also had extreme influence in the government). His name is Alhaji Umar Dikko. After Shagari was overthrown, Dikko vanished into the thin air only to resurface in the United Kingdom where he stayed in exile.[/b] https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MUHAMMADU-BUHARI-UMARU-DIKKO-2.jpg Umar Dikko then and later (below). He died on 1st July, 2014. https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MUHAMMADU-BUHARI-UMARU-DIKKO.jpg [b] Then came Buhari and his anti-corruption goons, and they were bent on getting their hands on people like Dikko, who was accused of stealing $1 billion before negotiating with his legs. Thus, he was drugged, put into a crate and labelled as 'Diplomatic Baggage'. An empty Nigerian Airways Boeing 707 plane was already waiting at the Stansted Airport waiting for him to be 'extradited' back to Nigeria (I laugh so hard each time I remember this story, sounds like a comedy-filled drama). Just at the last moment, one of the eagle-eyed British officers at the airport noticed some unusual activity and demanded a thorough search. The Nigerian team of 'kidnappers' had rented an apartment and actually posed as refugees seeking asylum from Buhari's regime while the Israeli guys disguised as anti-apartheid activists and tourists from Africa...lol! Later on, the team combed all the high-brow areas of London, sifted through the registries but saw no trace of Dikko until one day when one of the Israelis sighted him while driving. He parked and trailed Dikko to his home. The Director of MOSSAD, Nahum Admoni was immediately contacted and an Israeli consultant anaesthetist was hired to administer anaesthetic agents to Dikko and fit in an endotracheal tube to prevent him from choking to death in his own saliva. The next day, Dikko was abducted right in front of his home and put in a van driven by Yusufu. And off to the airport, where he was passed off as 'diplomatic luggage' from the Nigerian embassy. Dikko said in an interview with the BBC in 1985: "I remember the very violent way in which I was grabbed and hurled into a van, with a huge fellow sitting on my head - and the way in which they immediately put on me handcuffs and chains on my legs." Unfortunately for them, Dikko's secretary, Elizabeth Hayes, had witnessed the abduction and she alerted the authorities thinking it was an act by criminals, even the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was informed. And again, they failed to actually label the crate as diplomatic baggage and as the airport officials were clearing the 'cargo', a list arrived alerting them of a kidnap. That was how the plan was foiled. The crate was opened just minutes before the plane was to take off and inside it was Dikko, without shoes, socks or shirt but with a heart monitor placed on his chest and handcuffs on his ankles, lying on his back and the Israeli doctor, who was inside with his kit of anaesthetics to ensure that the poor dude does not die in flight. The cargo manager, narrated that the cargo was not labelled and did not have the proper documentation and they had to opened and do the accreditation in the presence of a Nigerian diplomat, who was already present, he said to the BBC: ...the cargo manager, hit the lid on the bottom and lifted it. And as he lifted it, the Nigerian diplomat, who was standing next to me, took off like a startled rabbit across the tarmac," Mr Morrow said. "You have to remember we are on an airfield which is square miles of nothing. He ran about five yards (4.5m), realised no-one was chasing him and then stopped. "Peter looked into the crate and said: 'There's bodies inside!' Even after that, the kidnappers insisted that Dikko was the biggest crook in the world...lol! If not, Dikko would have opened his eyes only to meet himself under the bright shiny sun of Ikeja and he go do him like dream......e for sweet die....lolololol! He was later taken to a clinic and he sustained no injuries and later lived in Britain for more than 10 years before returning to Nigeria. In an interview in November 2012 with the BBC, Dikko said he has not forgiven his kidnappers: ''Those that orchestrated my kidnapping are still alive; it was just wickedness and blatant lies against me. They are still alive and why would I forgive them? Why would I forgive such inhuman and barbaric act against human being, without them asking for forgiveness? This is the lies we face in Nigeria and the truth is clear, I haven’t forgiven them, it is just propaganda that they used through the media. Have they repented? Before you forgive a person, he must repent and say it is a mistake or intentional, but have they repented? This is my stand, if some agreed that they made a mistake then you forgive them; but they have not and I haven’t forgiven them. What have they found after all these plots? Nigeria, the land of very funny people...lmao! Diplomatic relations between Britain was broken off for two years and even when a formal application was made to the British government by Buhari's junta, it was turned down. Omo, e no funny o...lol! The drama did not end there. The Nigerian Airways crew was detained (Buhari also responded by ordering a British Caledonian plane that was already in the air flying from Lagos to London via Kano be returned back to Lagos where it was also detained by the Nigerian authorities. Immediately the United Kingdom released the Nigerian Airways crew, Buhari also freed the British plane to fly to London...lol) and total of 17 men were arrested and four of them were later sentenced to 10-14 years, these included the anaesthestist, two MOSSAD agents who hid in the second crate and Yusufu. All of them were released after spending 6-8.5 years in jail and were silently deported. Nigeria retaliated too buy promptly picking up two British engineers (for stealing aircraft....rotflmao!!!) in Nigeria and slamming 14-year prison sentences on them. Do me I do you, man no go vex...lol! Interestingly, both the Nigerian and Israeli governments denied any responsibility in the saga. However, Nigerians were overwhelmingly in support of Buhari at this time and even called for diplomatic relationship with Britain severed. Even the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) commended Buhari for the way he handled the affair. NB: I must state that this operation was covert and was carried out despite the fact that both countries were yet to normalize diplomatic relations. Israel was still getting a huge chunk of her oil from Nigeria while Israel was a major supplier of arms to Nigeria. Both nations still had underground relations. Even till today, Israeli forces are involved in providing security for the Aso Rock Presidential Villa. -His regime also managed to reduce inflation, rejected all IMF's conditionalities, such as the devaluing the naira, sharply reduced unnecessary imports, minimized oil bunkering and when bunkered oil was seized, he used it to get relevant commodities, equipment and machinery using the counter trade policy. The latter measure ensured that Nigeria was exporting even above the OPEC quota. Today, what happens? An entire tanker full of bunkered oil disappears right under the nose of the Nigerian Navy...lol! -There was also a sudden creation of new notes to halt currency smuggling and there was considerable refinancing of trade debt arrears. [/b] 17 Likes 2 Shares |
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4a. THE COUP & BECOMING HEAD OF STATE https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader-7.jpg [b]On the last day of the year 1983, a coup was in operation to overthrow the democratically-elected government of President Shehu Shagari. The most interesting thing about the coup was that even though it was neatly orchestrated by middle-cadre and top brass in the military, Buhari was not initially the person to become the Head of State. The person that was expected to become the new HOS after the coup was Brigadier Ibrahim Bako. Bako and his boys stormed the President's residence to overthrow him. Shagari was quickly woken up by his security team and alerted that Bako and his men were on their way to the State House to arrest him. Quickly, President Shagari was evacuated to a safer location and the stage was set for one of the most dramatic gunfights in Nigeria's political history. To guard, protect and defend the Nigerian President then was the Brigade of Guards, headed by Captain Augustine A. Anyogo, an elite presidential bodyguard made up of some of the best-trained hands in the Armed Forces. They fought to the last and in the ensuing battle and under circumstances that are still not very clear, Bako, who was supposed to be the new Head of State was hit (IBB denies that Bako was to be the new HOS but agreed he was a chief plotter). He died. On Bako's death, IBB would later say that maybe it was due to an accidental discharge. Hear him: Question:“…What really happened to General Bako?” Babangida: “..….when they went to Abuja for that operation, ….this thing happened in the night… you see, from the experiences we had from the civil war, we found out that soldiers sometimes panic and when they panic, there are dire consequences. So, it was in the night and there was what you could call accidental discharge and the first reaction of the soldiers was that they were being attacked and in situations like that, you could shoot anyway. It happened to us I remember, during the civil war. You get shot at in the front and the sound reverberates behind so the soldiers at the back believes that the person shooting is right there then they forgot that some 500 meters away are what we refer to as own troops, your own forces. Because of no adequate training, a soldier would just cock his rifle and start shooting only to discover that he is shooting his own people. During the civil war, we sustained lots of casualties as a result of this situation. So, my suspicion is that a similar situation must have played out during that operation in Abuja and a bullet hit the late Ibrahim (Bako).” Question: “So, claims that General Tunde Ogbeha may have pulled the trigger on Bako are not correct after all?” Babangida: “I would not like to say he did it, no. It was the situation they found themselves; it was dark and everybody was shooting anyhow.” In short, no one really knows exactly how Bako died. As at the time of the coup and following Bako's death, General Buhari was commanding the Third Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army in Jos, Plateau State and he was far from the center of action in Lagos State. An agreement was reached and Buhari was selected to become the head. A jet was dispatched to Jos later bring Buhari who was not in the meeting. But during one of the meetings to choose him, a mild drama played itself out. Some of the military officers wanted to select IBB as the new head of state but in a fit of fury, Mustapha Jokolo drew out his gun and said no one would leave that place alive if Buhari was not crowned the head of state, that IBB would become the Head of State over his dead body. Jokolo would later become the aide-de-camp (ADC) of Buhari and later the Emir of Gwandu in Kebbi State before he was deposed and banished from his own kingdom (Jokolo and Colonel Sabo Aliyu, who was heading the Brigade of Guard were captured the day Buhari was overthrown and were beaten to a state of stupor, the beating was so intense that rumours initially flew out that Jokolo was dead). To cut long story short...lol, Buhari was 'elected' as the Head of State and the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces and his appointment was formalized on the 1st of January, 1984. It would last until the 27th of August, 1985 when Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and his cohorts like Abacha dem took over. The Supreme Military Council (SMC) was formed (see the full cabinet list below).[/b] https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader-8.jpg [b]HISTORY: BUHARI’S FIRST SPEECH AFTER THE MILITARY COUP OF 31ST DECEMBER 1983 In pursuance of the primary objective of saving our great nation from total collapse, I, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari of the Nigerian army have, after due consultation amongst the services of the armed forces, been formally invested with the authority of the Head of the Federal Military Government and the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is with humility and a deep sense of responsibility that I accept this challenge and call to national duty. As you must have heard in the previous announcement, the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1979) has been suspended, except those sections of it which are exempted in the constitution. The change became necessary in order to put an end to the serious economic predicament and the crisis of confidence now afflicting our nation. Consequently, the Nigerian armed forces have constituted themselves into a Federal Military Government comprising of a Supreme Military Council, a National Council of States, a Federal Executive Council at the centre and State Executive Councils to be presided over by military governors in each of the states of the federation. Members of these councils will be announced soon. The last Federal Military Government drew up a programme with the aim of handing over political power to the civilians in 1979. This programme as you all know, was implemented to the letter. The 1979 constitution was promulgated. However, little did the military realise that the political leadership of the second republic will circumvent most of the checks and balances in the constitution and bring the present state of general insecurity. The premium on political power became so exceedingly high that political contestants regarded victory at elections as a matter of life and death struggle and were determined to capture or retain power by all means. It is true that there is a worldwide economic recession. However, in the case of Nigeria, its impact was aggravated by mismanagement. We believe the appropriate government agencies have good advice but the leadership disregarded their advice. The situation could have been avoided if the legislators were alive to their constitutional responsibilities; Instead, the legislators were preoccupied with determining their salary scales, fringe benefit and unnecessary foreign travels, et al, which took no account of the state of the economy and the welfare of the people they represented. As a result of our inability to cultivate financial discipline and prudent management of the economy, we have come to depend largely on internal and external borrowing to execute government projects with attendant domestic pressure and soaring external debts, thus aggravating the propensity of the outgoing civilian administration to mismanaged our financial resources. Nigeria was already condemned perpetually with the twin problem of heavy budget deficits and weak balance of payments position, with the prospect of building a virile and viable economy. The last general election was anything but free and fair. The only political parties that could complain of election rigging are those parties that lacked the resources to rig. There is ample evidence that rigging and thuggery were relative to the resources available to the parties. This conclusively proved to us that the parties have not developed confidence in the presidential system of government on which the nation invested so much material and human resources. While corruption and indiscipline have been associated with our state of under-development, these two evils in our body politics have attained unprecedented height in the past few years. The corrupt, inept and insensitive leadership in the last four years has been the source of immorality and impropriety in our society. Since what happens in any society is largely a reflection of the leadership of that society, we deplore corruption in all its facets. This government will not tolerate kick-backs, inflation of contracts and over-invoicing of imports etc. Nor will it condone forgery, fraud, embezzlement, misuse and abuse of office and illegal dealings in foreign exchange and smuggling. Arson has been used to cover up fraudulent acts in public institutions. I am referring to the fire incidents that gutted the P&T buildings in Lagos, the Anambra State Broadcasting Corporation, the Republic Building at Marina, the Federal Ministry of Education, the Federal Capital Development Authority Accounts at Abuja and the NET Building. Most of these fire incidents occurred at a time when Nigerians were being apprehensive of the frequency of fraud scandals and the government incapacity to deal with them. Corruption has become so pervasive and intractable that a whole ministry has been created to stem it. Fellow Nigerians, this indeed is the moment of truth. My colleagues and I – the Supreme Military Council, must be frank enough to acknowledge the fact that at the moment, an accurate picture of the financial position is yet to be determined. We have no doubt that the situation is bad enough. In spite of all this, every effort will be made to ensure that the difficult and degrading conditions under which we are living are eliminated. Let no one however be deceived that workers who have not received their salaries in the past eight or so months will receive such salaries within today or tomorrow or that hospitals which have been without drugs for months will be provided with enough immediately. We are determined that with the help of God we shall do our best to settle genuine payments to which government is committed, including backlog of workers’ salaries after scrutiny. We are confident and we assure you that even in the face of the global recession, and the seemingly gloomy financial future, given prudent management of Nigeria’s existing financial resources and our determination to substantially reduce and eventually nail down rises in budgetary deficits and weak balance of payments position. The Federal Military Government will reappraise policies with a view to paying greater attention to the following areas: The economy will be given a new impetus and better sense of direction. Corrupt officials and their agents will be brought to book. In view of the drought that affected most parts of the country, the federal government will, with the available resources, import food stuffs to supplement the shortfalls suffered in the last harvest. Our foreign policy will both be dynamic and realistic. Africa will of course continue to be the centre piece of our foreign policy. The morale and combat readiness of the armed forces will be given high priority. Officers and men with high personal and professional integrity will have nothing to fear. The Chief Justice of Nigeria and all other holders of judiciary appointments within the federation can continue in their appointments and the judiciary shall continue to function under existing laws subject to such exceptions as may be decreed from time to time by the Federal Military Government. All holders of appointments in the civil service, the police and the National Security Organisation shall continue to exercise their functions in the normal way subject to changes that may be introduced by the Federal Military Government. All those chairmen and members of statutory corporations, parastatals and other executive departments are hereby relieved of their appointments with immediate effect. The Federal Military Government will maintain and strengthen existing diplomatic relations with other states and with international organisations and institutions such as the Organisation of African Unity, the United Nations and its organs, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, ECOWAS and the Commonwealth etc. The Federal Military Government will honour and respect all treaties and obligations entered into by the previous government and we hope that such nations and bodies will reciprocate this gesture by respecting our country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. Fellow Nigerians, finally, we have dutifully intervened to save this nation from imminent collapse. We therefore expect all Nigerians, including those who participated directly or indirectly in bringing the nation to this present predicament, to cooperate with us. This generation of Nigerians, and indeed future generations, have no country other than Nigeria. We shall remain here and salvage it together. May God bless us all. Good morning. Upon coming to office, Buhari suspended some parts of the 1979 Constitution. That was not all o. All the democratic institutions like the Presidency, National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly were all dissolved like salt in water.[/b] https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader-9.jpg [b]FOREIGN POLICY https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader-10.jpg -The Buhari/Idiagbon regime maintained cordial relationship with various nations across the globe. One of these included the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in February 1984, the Saudi Oil Minister, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani was on a visit to Lagos, and not long after that, the Buhari regime reciprocated with Idiagbon visiting the Saudi King in Riyadh on a three-day official visit with a special message from General Buhari. This relationship would later work in Nigeria's favour when the nation was seeking to increase its petroleum production quota in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), of which Saudi Arabia was the most influential member. Idiagbon was received by the Saudi King, the Saudi Foreign Affairs Minister, Prince Saud Al-Faisal and the Saudi Petroleum and Minerals Minister, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani. -With Israel, the world's only Jewish state, the Buhari regime had a tenuous relationship. In 1984, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Dr. Ado Abdullahi Bayero and the Ooni of Ife, Alayeluwa Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II (both are very good friends) where both banned by the Buhari government from travelling out of their royal domains. Why? They travelled to Israel on business without government approval, and at that time, the Nigerian government was yet to restore diplomatic ties with Israel. Professor Wole Soyinka cites this as one of the 'crimes' of the Buhari regime. BUHARI'S CABINET Head of State and Commander-in-Chief - GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters (de facto Vice President) – MAJOR-GENERAL TUNDE IDIAGBON, also known for his stern attitude, the Ilorin-born General died in March 1999. Minister of Defence – GENERAL DOMKAT YAH BALI Agriculture Minister – DR. BUKAR SHUAIB Abuja (Federal Capital Territory) – MAJOR-GENERAL MAMMAN JIYA VATSA Trade – MAHMUD TUKUR Communications – BRIGADIER-GENERAL AHMED ABOKI ABDULLAHI Education – YARIMA IBRAHIM ABDULLAHI Finance – ONAOLAPO SOLEYE Health – EMMANUEL NSAN, Vice Admiral PATRICK SEBO KOSHONI Internal Affairs – MOHAMMED MAGORO Foreign Affairs (External Affairs)– IBRAHIM AGBOOLA GAMBARI Information – SAMSON EMEKA OMERUAH Transportation – ABDULLAHI IBRAHIM Petroleum and Energy – PROFESSOR TAMUNOEMI SOKARI DAVID-WEST Justice – CHIKE OFFODILE National Security Organization (NSO) – ALHAJI LAWAL RAFINDADI Service Chiefs: CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF: General IBRAHIM BADAMASI BABANGIDA CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF: Rear Admiral AUGUSTUS AKHABUE AIKHOMU (He was retained and promoted by IBB.[/b] https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Photos-General-MUHAMMADU-BUHARI-CHIEF-OF-NAVAL-STAFF-AIKHOMU.jpg CHIEF OF AIR STAFF: Air Marshal IBRAHIM MAHMUD ALFA (Born in Garkida, Adamawa, he was the first NAF officer to attain the rank of an Air Marshal. He was retained by IBB). 13 Likes |
| Politics › Re: MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigeria’s Strictest Leader... Photos And Video by LRNZH(op): 9:15pm On Jan 12, 2015*. Modified: 9:49pm On Jan 12, 2015 |
3. IN THE MILITARY https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/w.jpg Muhammadu Buhari (left), late Ibrahim Bako (c), late Umaru Salihu (right) at the Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC) in 1962. It was their first year. Image credits: Ed Keazor/Nigerian Nostalgia Project https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader-4.jpg In becoming a soldier, he attended the following institutions: -Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC), 1962 -Mons Officer Cadet School, Aldershot, United Kingdom (1962-1963). Generals Sani Abacha (read about Abacha HERE) and Obasanjo also attended this academy). In Aldershot, Buhari was described as 'an only pebble in the beach, a star in his calm and calculating disposition.' -Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington, Tamil Nadu, India (1973), Obasanjo also attended this college (see picture). https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader-5.jpg The main gate to Buhari's college in India. -US Army War College (1979-1980) where he was described as “a gentleman, a soft-spoken soldier, who preserved the ethics of the profession almost as a Quarter-Master-General. He would touch the tip of his cap in greeting for a lady, would never enter a room with his beret on. Always careful with his language, would smile at every joke and would never do anything to rock the boat.” In the year 1962, he joined the Nigerian Army and rose steadily through the ranks. https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader-6.jpg [b]Here, General Buhari (holding waist) with Bamgboye, Kwara State's first governor and others. Dressed like a hunter at the back looks like General Obasanjo....lol! -Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 1963 -Platoon Commander, United Nations Peacekeeping Force, Congo, early 1960s. -Platoon Commander, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Abeokuta, Ogun State, 1963. -Mechanical Transport Officer, Lagos Garrison, 1964 – 1965. -Transport Company Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade 1965 – 1966. -Battalion Adjutant / Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade/Battalion 1966 – 1967 (during the Nigerian Civil War). -Appointed Brigade Major, 2 Sector, 1st Infantry Division, April -July 1967. Brigade Major, 3rd Infantry Brigade, August 1967 – October 1968; Acting Commander, 4th Sector, 1st Division November 1968 – February 1970; Commander, 31st Infantry Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, February 1970 – June 1971; Assistant Adjutant-General, 1st Infantry Division Hqrs., July 1971 – Dec. 1972; Colonel, General Staff, 3rd Infantry Div. Hqrs. Jan. 1974 – Sept. 1974. Acting Director, Supply and Transport, Nigeria Army Corps of Supply and Transport, September 1974 – July 1975; Military Governor, North Eastern State of Nigeria, August 1975 – March 1976; Federal Commissioner for Petroleum Resources, March 1976 to June 1978; Chairman, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, June 1978 – July 1978; Military Secretary, Army Headquarters July 1978 – June 1979; Member Supreme Military Council, March 1976 – June 1979; General Officer Commanding, 4th Infantry Division, Aug. 1980 – Jan. 1981; General Officer Commanding, 2nd Mechanised Infantry Division, Jan. 1981 – October 1981; General Officer Commanding 3rd Armed Division Nigerian Army, October 1981 – December 1983. Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, December 1983 – August 1985 From July 1975 to February 1976, he served as the Governor of the newly-created North-Eastern State under the regime of the late General Murtala Muhammed (read all about Murtala HERE). The North-Eastern State is what we now know as Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Bauchi, Gombe and Taraba States. Mehn, that's huge! See the picture below.[/b] https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MUHAMMADU-BUHARI-11-NORTH-EASTERN-STATE_Naijarchives.jpg [b]Later, after the assassination of Murtala Muhammed, he served as the Federal Commissioner (now Minister) for Petroleum, Energy and Natural Resources under General Olusegun Obasanjo. He was appointed to that post in 1976 and was there till 1978. On the 1st of April, 1977, the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel and the Nigerian National Oil Corporation were both merged together to form what is now the ultimate ATM machine for Nigerian leaders -the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Buhari was appointed as the head of the NNPC in 1978 and was there till 1979. Under Buhari, who wasthe Pioneer Chairman of the NNPC, great achievements were recorded: 20 depots of oil involving over 3,200 kilometres of pipeline were constructed all over the nation, in addition to the construction of petroleum refineries in Kaduna and Warri (subsequent governments have wrecked these refineries and there is obviously no plan in their skulls to build new ones, I do not know of any other oil-producing nation and OPEC member that buys refined fuel from others. The largest refinery in the world is in India, a country that produces no crude oil. I see our importing refined petroleum as one of the most glaring stupidities of the Nigerian nation, the supposed giant of Africa). (The NNPC states that it's vision is to become a world-class oil and gas company driven by shared commitment to excellence while its mission as an integrated Oil and Gas Company is to be engaged in adding value to the nation's hydrocarbon resources for the benefit of all Nigerians and other stakeholders. I think that 'all Nigerians' should be rewritten as 'some Nigerians' while the 'other stakeholders' should be edited and become 'the cabal'. As an 'ordinary Nigerian', ayam yet to feel the full benefit o. Sorry for the 'digreson', e dey pain me for body ni, we were on Buhari shey....lol! ) Watch a video of Buhari swearing in the new governors below:[/b] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JjYG-ef8M 16 Likes |
| Politics › Re: MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigeria’s Strictest Leader... Photos And Video by LRNZH(op): 9:14pm On Jan 12, 2015*. Modified: 9:33pm On Jan 12, 2015 |
2. BIRTH AND EARLY DAYS https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader2.jpg [b]He was born on a Thursday, the 17th of December, 1942, (that makes him 70+ years even though he doesn't look it). Unlike many other northerners who were born into aristocratic backgrounds and climbed up using the prestige of their families and the influence of their fathers, Buhari was born into a humble family, what we call pako in my area. He lost his father at a very tender age (he was just four), both parents pampered him like a pet as he was their last child but he had about 20 other siblings whom his father sired with other women in previous marriages. His mum had given birth to a set of twins before Buhari but they both died shortly after birth. That explains one of his nicknames 'Leko' which means 'someone born after twins who died', something like 'Idowu' in Yorubaland. His father was Alhaji Hardo Adamu and Hajiya Zulhatu (nee Musa) was his mother, the daughter of the Sarkin Dogarai, what can be translated as the head of the infantry who was in turn the son of the Kauran Daura Lawal, head of the Daura military forces. His paternal grandfather was a typical Fulani who lived the nomadic life but later settled for a life of farming in Daura, Katsina State. His mother would later die on the 14th of December, 1988, a few days to his birthday. Buhari, who had just been released from prison, got to Daura a few hours after the burial of his mother. He was not fortunate enough to witness her being interred. Please note that Buhari's mother was not Fulani but Hausa (Habe) and she was already a widow with seven children when she married Buhari's father who was the Fulani chief of the Dumurkol Village, near Daura. As a child, he played round the dusty roads of the town and remembers clearly, the time he fell off a horse during one of his recreational periods[/b]. GROWING UP AND EDUCATION https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader3.jpg A proper Katsina boy, he attended the Katsina Middle School (Daura & Maidua, 1948-1952) and later proceeded to the Katsina Provincial Secondary School (now Government College, Katsina) for his high education from 1956-1961. From there, he went off to start his military education, like many boys of the north at that time. 29 Likes 6 Shares |
| Politics › MUHAMMADU BUHARI, Nigeria’s Strictest Leader... Photos And Video by LRNZH(op): 9:14pm On Jan 12, 2015*. Modified: 11:53pm On Jan 12, 2015 |
SOURCE: http://www.naijarchives.com/muhammadu-buhari-nigerias-strictest-leader/#1 1. INTRODUCTION https://www.naijarchives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Life-Biography-Family-Photos-General-Muhammadu-Buhari-Nigeria-Strictest-Leader1.jpg (Wait. Before you start, can I have your attention for a minute, please? This is a time when the Nigerian nation is deeply polarized between Buhari and GEJ camps and their fans are ready to insult or call anyone unprintable names. I am not for either, so do not get it twisted thinking this piece is pro- or anti- whoever. This piece is mainly a story of the life of General Buhari as one of .com’s series on Nigeria’s leaders. This clarification has to be made because there are some readers who may be harbouring some funny thoughts. I write it as it is. Don’t waste your time labelling me as pro-Lagbaja or anti-Lakasegbe, I don’t have time for that. I am not impressed by any of our so-called politicians. So please, read this with an open mind and your contributions will be warmly appreciated. Thank you. ™ ) For the story of General Tunde Idiagbon, Buhari’s vice, please click http://www.naijarchives.com/tunde-idiagbon-nigerias-no-nonsense-general/ [b] He is bamboo-rod straight, his body frame is slenderized, he is of a meager weight, he is fair and in terms of height, he towers as one of the tallest of Nigerian leaders, if not the tallest. His milky voice evokes no fear but do not be deceived, his uncompromising stance on issues stands him out. Millions of Nigerians adore and practically worship him as the only Saviour of the Nation, while millions despise him and see him as nothing but a reincarnation of the Devil. This man is held in great esteem by a vast swathe of the Nigerian population while some others seethe with scary bitterness and violent hatred at the mere mention of his name. But hate him or love him, you will agree that Major-General MUHAMMADU ‘Leko’ BUHARI, Dogo Dan Daura, is the strictest Nigerian leader. His regime was one of an unprecedented clampdown on indiscipline, corruption and corrupt people. Even his sworn foes agree he has an extremely inflexible stand and an incorrigible will against corruption – which ironically led to his overthrow. Today, ’s lenses will zoom in on the life of this Daura-born Fulani general, a man many love with fanatical zeal, many hate with unspeakable fervour while many are not too sure whether to spew caustic hatred on him or shower him with benevolent adoration. Ladies and Gentlemen, General Muhammadu ‘Leko’ Buhari, GCFR. [/b] 40 Likes 6 Shares |
| Politics › Re: REPORT: NIGERIA Slips 22 Places In Global Prosperity Index by LRNZH(op): 9:46am On Jan 12, 2015 |
Window dressing the truth will not get you guys very far. Say it as it and look for a solution to your problems. Face your demons people. |
| Politics › REPORT: NIGERIA Slips 22 Places In Global Prosperity Index by LRNZH(op): 5:52am On Jan 12, 2015 |
https://punch.cdn.ng/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Minister-of-Finance-and-coordinating-minister-for-the-economy-Mrs.-Ngozi-Okojo-Iweala-360x252.jpg The Legatum Research Institute, London, has placed Nigeria on 125th position out of 142 countries worldwide based on its 2014 Prosperity Index (PI) ranking just released. Nigeria occupied 89th position in the 2009 PI annual ranking. The ranking, which represents a fall by 22 place among the countries under analysis, portrayed deteriorating living conditions and declining living standards. In 2010, Nigeria was placed 106. The disclosure which was contained in the 2014 annual ranking of countries based on certain standard of living indices, placed Norway on top of the list followed by Switzerland and New Zealand in third position. While the United States of America (USA) and United Kingdom occupied the 10th and 13th position, no African country was classified under the list of 20 countries. Speaking with THISDAY on Sunday in Abuja on the significance of the countries to review their economic policies for development, the Executive Director, African Policy Research Initiative (APRI) Ambassador Sunday Thomas Dogonyaro, said the analysis gave a background of living standard of countries around the world. On the relevance of the data for national development, he said: “We track international these reports very carefully and see what is happening and the statistics that they churn out which we use as part of our own study to build into the work that we also do because it helps to give us the picture of the continent in terms of what is happening.” “For example, when the board met last week, we shared the report from the Legatum Institute, London on their Prosperity Index. Nigeria for example slipped 22 places in four years. That is from 103 in 2011 and in 2014, Nigeria was ranked 125, from amongst 142 countries.” Speaking further, Dogonyaro stressed that in areas of electricity and security for example, the country didn’t do well, adding that shows that something is wrong According to him, if in a period of five years, you are slipping consistently, “For me, irrespective, of what you are doing, it tells me that you still need to check certain economic fundamentals,” Dogonyaro said. He said: “That means that certain things are not being done properly and so those kind of things help in terms of the interface that we are talking about because of the level of communication that makes things a lot easier to interface and share information rather than work alone. At this stage, you don’t need to re-invent the wheel as we keep in touch with each other to do our researches and investigations.” While admitting the need for synergy among research institutes, said APRI is fine-tuning a collaborative exchange with other research institutes across the globe. “The other phase where we are trying to get to is getting to the phase where we can now do exchange with these off-shore institutes. “Where some of our staff can go and spend some months and they too can come also into Nigeria if they need any specific aspects of our research materials and in that way synergies are built and http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/report-nigeria-slips-22-places-in-prosperity-index/198969/ |
| Politics › Re: NIGERIA, 3 Other Countries Account For Half Of Africa’s Poor, by LRNZH(op): 8:58pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
LouisVanGaal:Thanks. He's a pest. |
| Politics › Re: BUHARI EXPOSED ■ His Education, Life And Career by LRNZH(op): 5:00pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
Aigipan:It is actually a she but she made a good observation. However, the facts are on GMB's side. When arguing about GMB, I have never feared that I will be disappointed by any fact check. |
| Politics › Re: We Didn’t Adopt Jonathan – UPN by LRNZH(m): 4:50pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
lalasticlala:OP put source in a separate post. cc lalasticlala clevadani: |
| Politics › Re: Implications Of A Loss by Gej On The South South Region OF Nigeria by LRNZH(m): 4:39pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
IGBOSON1:Again, just as I stated in my first post on this thread, your comment is a huge insult on Ndi Igbo. You imply that they cannot recognise a failure after 6 years or they chose to support likewise blindly. Please speak for yourself. Ekwueme, Okechukwu, Uko, Mbaka share a different and more enlightened opinion. They have earned our respect for that. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Implications Of A Loss by Gej On The South South Region OF Nigeria by LRNZH(m): 4:33pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
PassingShot:I couldn't have put it better. I doff my proverbial hat. A lot of Nigerians have let ethnic kaleidoscope upturn common sense reasoning. Imagine the guy saying we would let SS rule for 8 unproductive years just because it is their turn. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: BUHARI EXPOSED ■ His Education, Life And Career by LRNZH(op): 4:21pm On Jan 11, 2015*. Modified: 4:41pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
NoreenUG:I respect you for picking out that 'apparent discrepancy'. Actually, Barewa college used to be known as Kastina College then Kaduna College before it became Barewa College. Check the Nairaland post you refer to again. It is stated there https://www.nairaland.com/2073467/name-muhammadu-buhari-barewa-college Wikipedia states the same as well. I had to go back and check facts on this one too. But it is clean information. |
| Politics › Re: BUHARI EXPOSED ■ His Education, Life And Career by LRNZH(op): 3:01pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
ezugegere:Why is it so difficult to explain this concept to you guys. If you have doubts about GMB, make contacts with all the institutions he has claimed to attend. Let them verify his claims or not. That OLADD guy is a dud for feeling strongly about a non issue. It is a non issue until someone can prove that he has falsified his academic/military qualifications. |
| Politics › Re: NDIGBO, It’ll Be Silly To Endorse Jonathan — Okechukwu by LRNZH(op): 2:55pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
adeyemi2015:Go on Brother. I'm impressed by these assertions of yours. Let's take a stab at another chance for Nigeria. GEJ is not the best even Bayelsa State can offer. |
| Politics › Re: NIGERIA, 3 Other Countries Account For Half Of Africa’s Poor, by LRNZH(op): 12:53pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
rozayx5:You're too clueless to understand the meaning of austerity. Google it up. Anyway GEJ also refused to approve the Lagos Red rail and PH monorail project under a normal Gov't without austerity. See how you avoided the statistics I showed you because you don't comprehend, that why you will open a thread asking why GMB can afford an 800k chartered flight. This your matter is beyond salvation. |
| Politics › Re: Police Confirms Bomb Attack On APC Office In Rivers by LRNZH(m): 12:25pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
OP state your source. Princecalm:Did they start today? The know themselves. Corrupt and clueless. 23 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: Secret NNPC Account With JP Morgan Exposed By Senate! by LRNZH(m): 12:22pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
tonytony208:We know Tompolo and Asari benefit from oil bunkering are GEJ's boys. Alamiesegha is another example. Tell NL the APC bigwig(s) involved in bunkering. We are waiting.... |
| Politics › Re: Secret NNPC Account With JP Morgan Exposed By Senate! by LRNZH(m): 12:21pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
tonytony208:We know Tompolo and Asari benefit from our Bunkering d are GEJ's boys. Tell No the APC bigwig(s) involved in bunkering. We are waiting.... |
| Politics › Re: BUHARI EXPOSED ■ His Education, Life And Career by LRNZH(op): 12:09pm On Jan 11, 2015 |
OLADD:Your judgement is seriously clouded by the low intellect of TAN you support. What have you stated differently from what I typed and you quoted? So u didn't read this part: LRNZH:You can not even recognise the same argument put forward using different registers. I'm sorry but you're on my side on this one. Ask around. Learn to control the thrush in your foul mouth while at it. 2 Likes |
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