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stephanie11:
@POLITICSNGR

The presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), Oby Ezekwesili has said that the “widely reported power” of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is “grossly overestimated”.

Ezekwesili said this on Monday in a statement released by her media team in response to repeated questions about her ability to win the presidential election due to her supposed lack of structure.

Below is the full statement made available to PoliticsNGR;

"The most recurring question that have come up since I decided to contest the position of the president of Nigeria has been the issue of structure. I hear it all the time everywhere I go, from family, from friends, on the Internet and offline, in hushed whispers and in the worried voices of people who express their fears to me personally.

How is she going to win? Does her party have the reach or the structure to go all the way and carry the day eventually?

But you see, these questions, while valid, all come from a place of trepidation. Trepidation at how truly powerful the office of a citizen is and the possibilities that can happen when this power is unleashed. The truth is that you, my fellow citizens, are all the structure that we need to make this happen and this isn’t some lofty ideal. It is very possible through difficult but practical steps.

Let us look at the data. Data is something these old order politicians who want to rule forever haven’t bothered to engage with. Alimosho for example, is the largest local government in Lagos state with over 1.2million persons resident according to official census figures. In 2015, only about 650,000 of these people registered and obtained their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs). Faced with the rather unattractive choice of voting for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Goodluck Jonathan, or the anyone-but-Jonathan candidacy represented by Muhammadu Buhari, a great many voters chose to abstain.

At the end of the day, the #APCPDP, the twin terrors of Nigeria, only managed to conjure up 140,000 votes between them. In Almighty Alimosho. This says something loud and clear, that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu with all of his ‘might’ and experience in so-called grassroots politics could, at the end of the day, deliver only 86,897 votes for his candidate Buhari and their party.

Where then does the source of this his widely reported power come from? Isn’t he grossly overestimated? Asiwaju Tinubu and his like in #APCPDP control only as much as we let them. And the situation is the same in every other part of the country- from Kano to Ilorin- where any godfather claims to hold sway.

These men are only as powerful as we, the citizens let them be. They have been getting away with this for so long because we outsourced our responsibility as voters to people who do not necessarily represent our best interests.

The biggest trick that these entrenched politicians have played on us is to convince us of their invincibility, and we permitted them. This stops NOW!

The data shows otherwise. The 500,000 persons in Alimosho who were so unimpressed by the #APCPDP that they refused to come out to vote are the numbers who will probably decide the 2019 elections. They are the numbers my campaign is seeking to activate. Everyone has one vote only and we would work hard to earn the votes of these Nigerians who care enough about their country to be wary of giving their votes to a bunch of self-preserving and recycled polo-trickians who have had several years to deliver dividends to the people but failed woefully.

The #APCPDP and the revolving door of politicians that they represent sell us lies of invincibility to convince us to remain bystanders in our most important civic duty. They want us to remain at home, disinterested and disillusioned while they pillage the country and loot our resources. No more.

https://politicsngr.com/tinubu-overrated-cant-even-control-alimosho-oby-ezekwesili/

Islie:
http://thenationonlineng.net/efcc-to-push-for-diezanis-extradition/

Officialpdpnig:
Grown ups are having a banter here and not children. You should go and play with sand or a toy or something more your age

ImperialYoruba:
Go to work, its Monday!. Early monday morning you enter nairaland begin yearn nonsense.

immhotep:
so you mean that imperialyoruba, t9ksy, shukuokukobambi and roger3d are afonja jews

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SEGLIZ:
.... never heard of such ghost bank in this country before now (pardon my ignorance). 2 out of the facilities used in siphoning our soft currency to boost their system and make their currency harder, has just closed shop blaming Mr President for tightening the economy against them.
the report has blame Mr President, let wait and the first person to blame APC and Buhari for this.

immhotep:
I know you want to try again.
You are just pretending for us here .

Lzaa come and hear oh

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Simbrixton:
na una way jare.... Continue osu

totit:
The SE region only have just 4 states excluding anambra which belong to the Bini/Edo people.

Yes, anambra was founded by Edo and they own that land. IBO's should stick to their 4 states abeg.

Simbrixton:
who are afonjas

Roger3D:
You sef wettin carry you come hia?

walefresh3:
Here is the truth, whether Igbos like it or not:
1) the Igbo man is addicted to Lagos
2) the Igbo man cannot survive in the Native region, the SE.
3) The average Igbo man especially the ones that lack exposure are envious and hateful of other regions
4) Biafra is an Igbo man's opium
5) An Igbo man is tribalistic and only cares about himself first, then his village. Clanish in nature, an Igbo man can only survive in a cosmopolitan society. He can't stand his fellow Igbo man's nature.
6) An Igbo man would choose money over morality and values hence, if you have money in Igbo land, you are king.
I know in their deepest hearts, they know these FACTS but they are in denial.
My two cents.
As for those carrying Lagos on their head. Ha...don't worry. It's gradual na. As you can see, you have no commissioner slot in Lagos unlike before....Keep calm and watch.
Just FYI, the powers in Lagos are watch all your comments on social media. Continue calling Lagos a no man's land. Na your papa land. Remember, your C of O is a lease agreement for 99 years. You do not own any land in Lagos and you collect Governor's consent or approval to build on the LEASED land.
Good luck owning Lagos

immhotep:
Those who open 300 new Igbo threads on Nairaland every week know that Igbo amaka.



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totit:
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immhotep:
Biafrans left Lagos for you in 1966, guess who hustled to bring them back to Lagos .
Please sit back and enjoy our one united, indivisible and everlasting Nigeria

cc lzaa onyeoga pointzerom eternaltruths jumpandpas velocity25 tossie101

DabuIIIT:
GANDUJE will still tif



Btw,why are coneheads quiet,dumb and mute over ganduje?

These were people who were very vocal over the likes of Stellla Obuah,Alison Madueke, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala,Mama Peace,Gej,Fayose,etc ..They were like attack dogs.
Now,their master is involved,they have lost their voices. What a treacherous hypocritical bunch of betrayers.
Lzaa immhotep shalomc onyeoga

OnyeOGA:
How long are you going to continue twisting history to suit your devilish purpose? says someone who doesn't know anything about the zoo history:
During the slave trade, Igbo slaves were known to be the most rebellious. Most of the slave rebellions in the United States, Haiti, Jamaica, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Guyana were led by Igbo slaves. In South Carolina, Igbo slaves were reported to have drowned themselves, rather than be kept as slaves. Today that place is called Ebo Island in commemoration of the slaves who died there. The Gullahs are Igbo. Igbos were one of the 13 African ethnic groups that provided the bulk of the slaves who were brought to the Americas. Majority of the slaves who ended up in Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Mississippi, South and North Carolina and Georgia were Igbo. An Igbo museum has been built in Virginia to honor the contribution of Igbo slaves to the state. One of the Igbo slaves who was sent to Liberia by the American Colonization Society-Edward Roye- became the fourth president of Liberia. Another Igbo slave, Olaiduah Equiano wrote the famous slave chronicles.
During the colonial period, the British disliked the Igbos, because of their supposedly uppitiness and argumentativeness. During military service in Burma and India, the pride of Igbo soldiers amongst other African soldiers was proverbial. In the company offices and orderly rooms, the first few words from the White officer speaking to an Igbo soldier was followed by “don't argue, you! Or “you want to be too clever”, and similar expressions. Their expressive and aggressive mentality which they enjoy in their culture at home, does not always allow them to accept false charges or accusations without responding. The late famous writer, Langston Hughes, observed “the Igbo looks proud because he is bred in a free atmosphere where everyone is equal. He hates to depend on anyone for his life's need. He does not mind if others look proud. He has much to be proud of in his land. Nature has provided for him. He is strong and able to work or fight. He is well formed. He is generally happy in his society where no ruler overrides his conscience. He likes to advance and he is quick to learn. He likes to give rather than take”.
In his book, the Brutality of Nations, Dan Jacobs describes the Igbos “as ambitious, dynamic and progressive people whose education and abilities did not endear them to those among whom they lived. Even during British rule, there were massacres of Igbos in Northern Nigeria-in Jos in 1945 and in Kano in 1953. The Igbos have acquired the sobriquet, Jews of Africa”.
Politically, the Igbos are very effervescent and volatile. According to author Dan Jacobs “for Britain and for the British civil servants who continued to work in the Northern Region, the Igbos have always been a troublesome element in the federation, a people with a democratic tradition who are not easily controlled. Many British were glad to see them out of a central position in the federation, as were those who had driven them back to their homeland and those who now held the civil service and other jobs they had left”.
“one could hear on Northern Nigerian radio the reading of long lists of Igbos who were targeted for extinction”.-see Goddell team report, congressional Record of February 15, 1969, pp51976-7. The Igbos believe, and rightfully so, that had they not fought back, their fate would have been worse than that of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The same way Northern Nigerian radio was exhorting the Hausa/Fulanis to kill the Igbos, was the same way Radio Milles Collines was exhorting the Hutus to slaughter the Tutsis in Rwanda.
Kid! I can still go on if you insist. Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. Cc; horsepower101 lzaa immhotep gidgiddy

Roger3D:
This is news that can make an IPOB miscreant like LZAA hang a milestone over his neck and drown himself in the sea

immhotep:
E pain am.

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MiracleOparah:
I know most of us here manage the lousy internet connections from mobile operators (Eg MTN). What I'd like to find out is if anyone has an alternative that they're sure is working.

Like an independent ISP that can provide up to 100mb/s or more.

I ran into wifi.com.ng, they have interesting offers that are too good to be true. Has anyone worked with them?

How do you download large files? Is it with the 4mb/s internet in Nigeria or what?

Please help me.

zombieTRACKER:
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Badt guy

LifestyleTonite:
The interim coach at Real Madrid, Santiago Solari, has said that every time Lionel Messi holds the ball, the earth shakes and the air trembles.

42-year-old Solari is currently in charge of affairs at the Santiago Bernabeu pending when the club finds a replacement for Julen Lopetegui who was sacked yesterday.

Mirror UK quoted the new Real Madrid coach saying:



After losing 5-1 in the El Clasico fixture against Barcelona last weekend at Camp Nou, Real Madrid will take on Valladolid in their stadium on Saturday.

https://www.wotzup.ng/2018/10/real-madrid-coach-messi-earth-shakes/

CastedDude:
A young lady who just finished her mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), made name for her self where she served in Cross River state. 

The young lady named Promise Oberiko, made her presence felt during her one-year service in Ogoja area, garnering every available awards, at the end of her service year.

Her most impressive act of humanity was shuttling between Ogoja and Calabar, last month, to bring the plight of the "roaming lunatic family of 5" to the attention of the public and appropriate authorities.

The mentally unstable family, Mr Ben, his wife and three kids are now receiving medical care and undergoing rehabilitation at the Federal Psychiatric Hospital in Calabar, all thanks to the help from the young lady.

Progress Oberiko, had taken to her Facebook page to share the story of the inseparable family of 5 battling mental illness in Ogoja, Cross River State.

According to Oberiko, she always wondered why a whole family would be plagued with insanity. But one of the interesting things she noticed about them was their effective skills of communication.

See more; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/10/promise-oberiko-corper-who-won-multiple-awards-in-cross-river-state.html

nextstep:
Actually, though Enugu improved the 2nd most (long line) to about 57, but it's actually still behind Ogun in ease of business, which is at 58 or 58.5. This means there's policy by the state gov't between 2014 and 2018 that has allowed it to get much better, and we can project that if it keeps up the pace, in 2022, it will be in 70s. It's not there yet, today.

Analogy: it's like Nigeria's economy growing by 7% and USA growing by 2%. That doesn't mean Nigeria's economy is actually bigger or broader.

RabbleRouser:
NYSC Certificate Forgery: PDP keeps mum as Razak Atunwa plots to present WAEC as highest qualification

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has refused to explain its position to Nigerians a week after its governorship candidate in Kwara State, Rasak Atunwa, was exposed for forging the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) discharge certificate.

The party’s national headquarters and its chapter in Kwara both continue to sidestep the scandal despite repeated attempts by PREMIUM TIMES to understand their position on whether Mr Atunwa would be passed to the Independent National Electoral Commission as the party’s governorship candidate.

But PREMIUM TIMES has now learnt that Mr Atunwa has not been told to withdraw from the race or be dropped by the party, which has prompted him to intensify effort aimed at retaining his party ticket ahead of INEC submission deadline.

The electoral body has scheduled November 2 as the deadline for all parties to submit names of governorship and presidential candidates. The deadline for submission of state assemblies and National Assembly candidates lapsed on October 18.

As part of his plots to escape being dropped as candidate, Mr Atunwa has already moved to present secondary school certificate as his highest qualification.

Although the embattled politician has, for years, claimed to have obtained both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from two universities in the United Kingdom, he believes submitting only a high school certificate would extricate him from the NYSC Act that requires a university graduate to participate in a yearlong national service.

Since 1973, every Nigerian who attends a university or polytechnic have been mandated by the NYSC law to participate in the national youth scheme for one year after graduation, provided the person finished before age 30.

Failure to serve would prohibit such individual from employment in Nigeria, and making false claims about serving attracts up to 14 years in jail. Also, anyone who graduates before 30 but deliberately declines to serve has committed a crime that attracts 12-month imprisonment, even if the person did not forge NYSC documents.

Only a person who obtained a degree after 30 or served in the military or won national honours medal qualifies for exemption certificate under the NYSC law.

But even if Mr Atunwa presents his high school certificate, he would still run into legal troubles for committing perjury. He had sworn under oath at Kwara State High Court in Ilorin that he had university degrees and participated in NYSC between 1995 and 1996.



The two universities he attended in England and his qualifications were also still available on his page at the National Assembly website as of 10:40 a.m. on October 29.

The lawmaker submitted forged NYSC documents to the PDP despite two raging scandals involving two Nigerian ministers.

Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria’s finance minister, was forced to resign from office over the scandal, and communications minister, Bayo Shittu, was denied governorship nomination by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State for failing to serve his fatherland upon graduation.

AUDACIOUS FORGERY

Mr Atunwa, born on October 17, 1969, said he studied law at the University of East London, graduating in 1992 at age 23.

Having earned a bachelor’s degree at 23, Mr Atunwa, going by Section 2 of the NYSC Act, should have participated in the year-long national service.

But rather than present himself for national service, Mr. Atunwa stayed back in the United Kingdom, returning only in 2005 to join the cabinet of then Governor Bukola Saraki in Kwara State at the age of 36.

Between 2005 and 2010 when he stepped down to run for office, the politician was commissioner at four different ministries: Land and Housing, Works and Transport, Information and Home Affairs and Finance.

It was not immediately clear whether or not Mr Atunwa presented any NYSC document to authorities since 2005 when he was first appointed commissioner, 2011 when he became speaker of Kwara State House of Assembly and 2015 when he became member of the House of Representatives.

But to secure the PDP governorship ticket on October 1, he submitted a counterfeit NYSC discharge certificate and accompanied it with an affidavit, indicating he lied on oath, an offence that attracts up to 14 years in jail.

Mr Atunwa — who claimed he qualified for law practice in the United Kingdom after obtaining undergraduate and master’s degrees at separate universities in London — indicated in the nomination document he submitted at the PDP national secretariat in Abuja that he partook in the youth service scheme between 1995 and 1996.



The lawmaker, who is chair of the House Committee on Justice, then accompanied it with a notarised affidavit sworn at the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on September 10. The document was attached to his PDP expression of interest form.

He signed the document despite a clause indicating he remained automatically disqualified as candidate if any statement or information he provided is found to be false, inaccurate, or mislead the party or its agents from making proper assessment of his competence to contest the governorship election under the platform of the PDP.

For one, Mr Atunwa’s ‘certificate’ purportedly obtained in 1996 carried the signature of Walter Oki (brigadier general at the time).

But Mr Oki was only made NYSC director-general in 2002. In 1996, Soyemi Sofoluwe (brigadier general) was director-general of the corps and signed all discharge and exemption certificates during the period. He was succeeded by S.M. Dule (brigadier general), who served as director-general between 1996 and 2000.

To further crosscheck the authenticity of Mr Atunwa’s ‘certificate’, PREMIUM TIMES compared his with original ones that bore the basics of the document, especially those from foreign university graduates.

Aisha Abubakar, the minister of state trade and industry, returned to Nigeria after concluding her masters in development studies at the University of Leeds. Her certificate is marked NYSC/LA/FRN/91/18170, indicating that she served in Lagos, after graduating from a foreign university.

Khadija Bukar Ibrahim, the minister of state foreign affairs, also schooled abroad. She attended Roehampton Institute for Higher Education, affiliated with the University of Surrey and finished in 1989. She enlisted in the NYSC on October 2, 1990 and passed out on October 1, 1991. Her certificate is marked NYSC/LA/FRN/90/28750, indicating that she served in Lagos (LA) after graduating from a foreign university (FRN) in 1990.

However, Mr. Atunwa’s certificate, rather than bear FRN or FORN (code for foreign graduates) has KWP (a code reserved for graduates of Kwara State Polytechnic) as identification mark. But the politician did not graduate from Kwara Polytechnic. He claimed he attended the University of East London for the first degree and the University of London for his master’s.

“This is the most audacious forgery since PREMIUM TIMES began investigation into NYSC claims of senior government officials and politicians generally,” Liborous Oshoma, a Lagos-based legal practitioner, told PREMIUM TIMES last week.

‘BRAZEN HYPOCRISY’

Despite being amongst the top voices that called for the resignation and prosecution of Ms Adeosun, whose NYSC forgery was exposed by PREMIUM TIMES in July, the PDP appears to be plotting to sweep a similar scandal involving its members under the carpet.

Ken Asogwa, an Abuja-based lawyer and political commentator, said PDP’s failure to act on Mr Atunwa’s scandal further proves to Nigerians that the APC and PDP are not distinctly different as political parties.

“This is basically what we have been complaining about, it is not about the party in power but the people involved,” Mr Eluma Asogwa said. “There is no difference between the APC and PDP when it comes to immorality and corruption.”



Many Nigerians cited corruption as a primary reason for voting the PDP out of power in 2015, after 16 years of being in control of Nigeria’s political centre. The party apologised for its transgressions earlier this year, saying it would do business differently if given another chance in 2019, especially on corruption.

The party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has widely been seen as gaining steady momentum over incumbent Muhammadu Buhari ahead of general elections next February, but how it handles Mr Atunwa’s forgery would loom large on its chances at the poll, Mr Eluma Asogwa said.

“The PDP has not learnt from anything from its unflattering past despite its apologies that it would not condone corruption if given another chance,” the lawyer said.

“What does it take for a party that claims it would do things differently if voted into power to withdraw someone who forged certificate and apologise to Nigerians for its failure to detect the fraud before PREMIUM TIMES?”

Source https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/293075-nysc-certificate-forgery-pdp-keeps-mum-as-razak-atunwa-plots-to-present-waec-as-highest-qualification.html

AnonPoet:
Ease of Doing Business: World Bank Group rates Enugu State 2nd in Nigeria

The World Bank Group has rated Enugu State as "the second most advanced state in Nigeria towards the frontier of global good practices" with regards to Ease of Doing Business.

The rating is contained in the recently released World Bank Doing Business in Nigeria 2018 report.

The implication of this objective verdict is that Enugu State, under the visionary leadership of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has institutionalized far-reaching socio-economic reforms, and provided critical infrastructure and security that have engendered robust Ease of Doing Business climate, creating an increased inflow of local and foreign direct investments in the state.

See the World Bank chart below...

https://revue.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG-20181029-WA0051-498x1024.jpg

Truly, Enugu State is in the hands of God. #amokelouis

http://revue.com.ng/1346-2/