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^^^ seconded

nobody seem interested in the topic. ok, GEJ more power to ur elbows. No more condom, bare-back this time around.

i wont be surprised if this country goes begging in the nearest future. 

what a shame!

gej , sanusi and aganga = three blind clueless rats!

By WILL CONNORS And PETER WONACOTT

ABUJA, Nigeria—Nigeria has spent more than $27 billion from its oil-windfall savings account in three years, significantly eroding the total and putting the financial health of Africa's most populous country and biggest oil producer under scrutiny ahead of April presidential elections.

Officials here say they spent $27.5 billion from their so-called Excess Crude Account to weather the global financial crisis and to counteract falling oil prices, and that they can account for "every penny" spent.

But analysts say the depletion of the account—combined with dwindling exchange reserves, a rising debt profile and a lack of fiscal transparency — represent financial setbacks for a country that is poised to become Africa's biggest economy by the end of the decade.

The criticism reflects concern that Nigeria could be deprived of funds from much-needed infrastructure projects and maybe forced into financial straits if the price of oil drops sharply. The debate over the government's fiscal responsibility has fed into a contentious presidential-election campaign.

Since 2008 Nigeria has spent $27.5 billion from the Excess Crude Account, and there is now $5 billion in the account from a 2007 high of $20 billion, according to Segun Aganga, the Nigerian Minister of Finance.

"I have nothing to hide," Mr. Aganga said in an exclusive interview Tuesday. "The [excess crude] account was used, it did not disappear. It was used to augment the budget when there was a sustained fall in the oil price."

Some analysts disagree, however, arguing that the amount spent is not commensurate with need.

"With oil prices up again, withdrawals are not justified to stabilize the economy," said Antoine Heuty, the deputy director of New York-based Revenue Watch Institute, a group working to promote financial transparency in governments. "The $5 billion in the ECA is unlikely to provide a strong enough cushion for the economy in case of a new economic shock."

"Political motivations provide a more compelling rationale for the drawdown on the ECA," Mr. Heuty said. "It demonstrates the grip of state governors on fiscal management in the country and spending pressures to influence the outcomes of the upcoming elections. The lack of transparency regarding the size of the withdrawals and the allocation of the funds fuels corruption and the mismanagement of public resources."

Mr. Aganga said that the government can account for "every penny" that came into the account, but he admitted that he has no oversight over how money from the account gets spent once it is distributed to the Nigerian states.

"That is not my job," Mr. Aganga said. "The problem we have is that we do not talk enough, we do not share information. It's a lack of transparency, a lack of adequate disclosure."

Nigeria weathered the global downturn better than most other countries. The International Monetary Fund projected Nigeria's economic growth at 8.5% in 2010, more than twice as fast as the continent's biggest economy, South Africa. It predicted this year, the economy would grow by 7%, thanks in part to the emergence of a consumer class and demand for retail goods, telecommunications and other services.

Mr. Aganga, who is a former Goldman Sachs executive and was appointed finance minister in April 2010, said that $8.2 billion was spent on improving the country's power sector, though that sector remains erratic and leaves the majority of Nigeria without electricity for weeks at a time. He did not provide any additional breakdowns.

The excess crude account, which was never formally passed into law, was established in 2004 by then-Nigerian Finance Minister and current World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and accrues funds when the world oil price is above a benchmark oil price set in Nigeria's national budget.

In an interview Tuesday, Nigeria's central-bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, said a priority was keeping the economy on track. Rejecting recent IMF comments that Nigeria's currency is overvalued, he said the central bank will stick to a stable exchange-rate policy as the country ramps up its economic growth.

The central-bank governor said Nigeria could grow at twice the clip projected by the IMF by overhauling its lackluster infrastructure.


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^ who is the stabber in SS ? Ibibio ? Definitely not, Efik? Definitely not, the smaller minorities in rivers ? Ijaw? Not,  Look guys, there is a big difference btw disagreement and hatred. River minorities and Igbo are 95 % same, very similar culture, they all understand Igbo, we heavily intermarry. The only problem Is that there is no umbrella to seek redress of issue, which then leads to gossip an maligning of character. An look , it always arouses envy when even a brother is getting far better off than ursef.
Rest of Igbo had problems Ngwa and ikweres, it even happened in Owerri ,  these guys seeing non locals coming over to buy up ur land n establishing business that doesn't improve ur life, rocket up the cost of housing, mking ur life a lot more difficult, traffic etc.
It sure does arouse envy and at things anger but hatred? I don't think so.

But look , now that the oil derivation is more in folks hand, most ND has liquidity and hence those 80s skimish don't happen anymore.

Abidjan?to secure the French support. The FG was closing in, Biafra ravaged and destroyed, Britain still flooding Nigeria with arms n heavy armament, it's only natural that he seeked to lobby one of then super power to at least prevail on Britian to stop aiding genocide.

Mind u I never called or insinuated cowardice or treachery on the person of awolowo and Yorubas in general, so please desist from personal, or personality attacks.

@odumchi, your venting is not encouraging, who re u angry at ? Yorubas ? There peeps are also finding difficult in the Nigerian equation. When a riot erupts in the north Igbo might b d easier identifiable victims but Yorubas die as well. Lad time in Jos they even suffered the more. So no need to vent anger on something I believe u don't even understand.

Neither is the common aboki man d problem. An average aboki is sincere and loving. The problem is the governance n clicks of cabal bent on indoctrinating peeps then leveraging on that to secure their now investment. And also radical Islam.

Now we hav a southerner in the person of GEJ, it cud hv been an Igbo if Igbos had had a credible young gov at that time. We had Kalu n chimarokee, U don't need me telling u their stock in trade.

Again obj had a thing for Igbo, I wudnt call it hatred but surely in the line of envy.

Look guys, stop making a fool out of awolowo, the more u deny it the more u give credence to it, moreover every known historian local and foreign has confirmed that he did voice it, supposedly meant it. FG was scared cos Awo was the grassroots hero, mouth piece (he was still in opp then).

Rather wat u shud mk arguments on shud b on the " why" he cudnt stand on his words. Even Jesus christ wen he faced death was scare at a point.

20. Easter region accuses federal government of failure to implement the Aburi accord and warns that the country is on the brink of political disintegration. (March 1967)

21. Ojukwu warns that the East will secede if invaded or blockaded. Both sides mobilize civilians (May 1967)

22. Awolowo announces that West/Lagos will secede if the East goes. (May 1967) - story, na today !

23. Political situation deteriorates due to non-implementation of Aburi accord. Ojukwu expresses pessimism at a negotiated settlement. (May 1967)

Foreword by: Gen. Philip Efiong (Late)


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   1. December 1964 Federal elections

   2. October 1965 Regional elections

   3. Post-election violence in Western Nigeria (1965/66)

   4. The military takes over the Government: (January 1966)

   5. Anti-Ironsi demonstrations and killing of Igbos in the North (April/May 1966)

   6. Overthrow of Ironsi's regime and death of Ironsi (July 1966)

   7. Gowon seizes power, and in consultation with only Northern officers and politicians, forms government. Killings of Igbo officers continues unabated. (August 1966)

   8. Ojukwu offers to confer with Gowon to end bloodshed and asks for repatriation of troops to their regional origins to lower tension; says offer was refused by Gowon. (August 1966)

   9. Out of safety concerns, Ojukwu refuses to go to Lagos for meeting of the 4 regional military governors but is still hopeful of peace resolution. (August 1966)

  10. Mass exodus of over 300,000 Igbos from the North to the East resulting from flare up of many riots and Igbo killings. (August 1966)

  11. Ojukwu declares official day of mourning and Gowon condemns it.(August 1966)

  12. Gowon issues decree restoring the Federal system and abolishing the unitary Government. (August 1966)

  13. Regional representatives convene a conference to determine grounds for unity. Gowon opens conference with offer of 4 forms of government. (August 1966)

  14. Over 2000 Igbos are massacred in Kano on September 29th, 1966 by a combination of Hausa mobs and troops of the fifth battalion in Kano. Further Igbo exodus

  15. A DC-4 carrying weapons to Eastern Nigeria crashes in Cameroon and Henry A. Wharton, a German-American is arrested.(October 1966)

  16. Gowon suspends the constitutional conference. (November 1966)

  17. Eastern Region faced with resettlement of refugees. (December 1966)

  18. Gowon and 4 military Governors confer in Aburi, Ghana. Optimism expressed about the future. (January 1967)

  19. Nigeria confirms the death of Ironsi; flags fly at half mast. (January 1967)

  20. Easter region accuses federal government of failure to implement the Aburi accord and warns that the country is on the brink of political disintegration. (March 1967)

  21. Ojukwu warns that the East will secede if invaded or blockaded. Both sides mobilize civilians (May 1967)

  22. Awolowo announces that West/Lagos will secede if the East goes. (May 1967)

  23. Political situation deteriorates due to non-implementation of Aburi accord. Ojukwu expresses pessimism at a negotiated settlement. (May 1967)

  24. As impasse continues, Ojukwu seeks mandate from Eastern Assembly to Declare Biafra. (May 1967)

  25. Gowon divides Nigeria into 12 states/Biafra is declared. (May 1967)

  26. Nigeria invades Biafra. (July 1967)

  27. The Mid-west operation and Biafra's military setbacks. Losses of Nsukka and Enugu. The saboteur phenomenon (August 1967)

  28. Wale Soyinka is arrested and detained; Biafra looses the Mid-west. (August 1967)

      28a. Two disastrous attempts by Nigerian troops to take Onitsha from Asaba. (October 1967)

  29. Ojukwu executes three military men and a civilian in Enugu. (October 1967)

  30. Soyinka is a confessed Biafran Agent, says Enahoro. (October 1967)

  31. Gowon accuses Portugal of aiding Biafra. (October 1967)

  32. Biafran plane shot down in Lagos. (October 1967)

  33. Biafra Accused of Hiring Mercenaries. (November 1967)

  34. Mrs. Soyinka Requests Hearing for Her Husband. (November 1967)

  35. Soyinks denies alleged Confession. (November 1967)

  36. OAU Mission Visits Nigeria (November 1967)

  37. Ghanaian Gen. Ankrah named OAU Emissary to Biafra. (November 1967)

  38. Nigeria suddenly, changes Currency Notes. (December 1967)

      1968

  39. Nigeria frees two jailed Americans (January 1968)

  40. Gowon Under Pressure to End War. (January 1968)

  41. Nigerian old Bank Notes Arrive in Geneva. (January 1968)

  42. Ojukwu calls for Cease-fire and Negotiations. (January 1968)

  43. manliness Tiger Joins Biafran Army (January 1968)

  44. Gowon sets 3-months deadline to defeat Biafra (January 1968)

  45. United States Affirms Its Support for one Nigeria. (February 1968)

  46. Commonwealth Secretary Arrives in Lagos. (February 1968)

  47. Dr. Martin Luther King cancels Nigerian Trip. (March 1968)

  48. Monsignor Rochcau Reports on Midwest Genocide. (April 1968)

  49. Tanzania Today Becomes the First Country to recognize the Republic of Biafra as a sovereign State. (April 1968)

  50. Ojukwu Takes One Week Retreat. (April 1968)

  51. New York Times Condemns Tanzania for its Recognition of Biafra. (April 1968)

  52. Houphouet-Boigny Praises Tanzania's Recognition of Biafra. (April 1968)

  53. Preliminary talks begin in London for both sides. (May 1968)

  54. Zambia recognizes Biafra. (May 1968)

  55. Peace talks begin in Kampala and fails. (May 1968)

  56. Addis Ababa talks begin and fail.(July 1968)

  57. Political and diplomatic battles over acceptable relief routes to Biafra. Nigeria refuses direct daylight airlift of supplies to Biafra, and Biafra refuses relief passed through Nigeria. (July 1968)

  58. Britain accused Ojukwu of obstructing relief operations and of using famine to gain world sympathy.(July 1968)

  59. Belgium cancels all arms supplies to Nigeria following crash of Belgium airliner carrying arms to Lagos.(July 1968)

  60. Over Gowon's objections, OAU consultative committee invites Ojukwu to Niamey to meet with them by July 18th, 1968 to discuss the crisis.(July 1968)

  61. Ojukwu goes to Niamey, meets OAU committee members and Hamani Diori. Meets with Biafran delegation under Eni Njoku before returning home. Gowon had left Niamey before Ojukwu's arrival. (July 1968)

  62. Biafra rejects proposed relief route from Enugu to Awgu to Okigwe saying Biafrans will not eat food that passes through Nigerian hands for fear of poisoning. (July 1968)

  63. Speculations on Ojukwu and Gowon leading their respective delegations to upcoming Addis Ababa talks. Ojukwu, in interview, looks forward to decisive confrontation with Gowon.(July 1968)

  64. Pilots flying arms cargo to Biafra with Henry A. Wharton threatening to revolt unless a fee of $1000 per trip in increase is made. (July 1968)

  65. France announced support of Biafra and calls for settlement of dispute on basis of self determination. (July 1968)

  66. Addis Ababa talk opens with Ojukwu present but not Gowon. Ojukwu delivers two hours and ten minutes address insisting that only sovereignty can guarantee security for Biafrans. Ojukwu leaves talk accompanied by two Gabonese officials whose presence Nigeria had protested. (August 1968)

  67. Activities of Biafra 4th Commando Division under Major R. Steiner and five other white officers. (August 1968)

  68. Noted Swedish pilot, Count Von Rosen flies food and medicine to Biafra through secret route immune from Nigerian anti-aircraft fire. (August 1968)

  69. Biafrans display 98 Nigerian troops that surrendered as a unit. (August 1968)

  70. Nigerian troops push for Aba, cross Imo River but encounter Biafran resistance at Akwete; Ojukwu announced that Nigerian thrust on Aba has been effectively checked, but sources say Ojukwu has moved his headquarters to Umuahia (August 1968).

  71. Gowon orders "final offensive". (August 1968)

  72. Biafra faces imminent collapse in September/October 1968 as Nigerian forces take Aba, Owerri and Okigwe in rapid succession. Umuahia is the only sizeable town in Biafra's hands. (September 1968)

  73. Charles de Gaulle in interview hints at possibility of recognizing Biafra and admits that France has been aiding Biafra. (September 1968)

  74. Nigerian troops threaten Umuahia but Biafrans are defiant.(September 1968)

  75. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) suspends relief flights to Biafra because Uli Airport is badly damaged by Nigerian bombs and Nigerian forces are rapidly approaching Ohi- Uturu airstrip. (September 1968)

  76. Nigerian forces near Oguta bringing Uli Airport within artillery range. Ojukwu reportedly visits Biafra commanders at Oguta and gives them 24 hours to clear Nigerian forces from within artillery range of Uli airport.(September 1968)

  77. Nigeria announces capture of Owerri and march on Umuahia.

      77a. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda announces that Biafra will be allowed to set up government in Exile in Zambia, if defeated.(September 1968)

  78. As Biafra loses Aba, Owerri, and Okigwe in rapid succession, Ojukwu asks China for help to counter what he called "Anglo-American imperialism and Soviet revisionism". (September 1968)

      78a. Otuocha market massacre by Nigerian war planes; over 500 killed. (September 1968)

  79. Canada rules Biafran postage stamps invalid.(October 1968)

  80. International observer team, sent to monitor conduct of Nigerian troops, clashes with Col. Benjamin Adekunle in Port Harcourt. (October 1968)

      80b. Nigeria apologises for Col. Adekunle's behaviour (October 1968)

  81. Biafra dismisses Col. Steiner and his mercenary group in charge of the Biafran 4th Commando Division. Action linked to friction between Steiner division and Biafran regular army units. (November 1968)

  82. Britain alters expectation of Nigerian total military victory over Biafra. Expects that Biafra, even if totally occupied, could prolong the stalemate by guerilla resistance. (December 1968)

  83. Biafran troops re-enter Owerri,, with house to house combat reported. (December 1968)

  84. Gowon declares 2-day Christmas truce starting Dec. 21. Ojukwu agrees to 8-day truce starting Dec. 23. Gowon refuses extension of truce to one week. (December 1968)

      1969

  85. De Gaulle urges "recognition of right to self-determination for valiant Biafra" (January 1969)

  86. Mobil Oil Corporation sponsors visit of J.S. Tarka to United States to counter Pro-Biafran sentiments. (January 1969)

  87. In Enugu, the Nigerian Army executes 3 Igbos accused of attempting to assassinate Nigeria's 1st Division Commander. Col. Mohammed Shuwa. (January 1969)

  88. Nigerian Government prepares for another final offensive. Nigerian Government spokesman says Biafra must be defeated by the end of February or growing international support will make Nigerian victory impossible. (February 1969)

  89. About 300 civilians (with eventual toll over 500) are killed by the Nigerian air force at Umuohiagu market. (February 1969)

  90. Ojukwu, in a speech to Biafra's consultative assembly in Umuahia, says that Nigerian Government has began their "last desperate effort", but bars any Biafran surrender. States "land army program" will increase agricultural effort. (February 1969)

  91. United States New York Senator, Goodell et al, arrive in Biafra. (February 1969)

  92. U.S. Congressional delegation headed by Representative Diggs of Michigan arrive Biafra. (February 1969)

  93. Nigerian government reject peace formula proposed by Dr. Azikiwe (February 1969)

  94. Ojukwu expresses hope that De Gaulle, in his forthcoming meeting with Richard Nixon will convince Nixon to press for cease-fire in the war. Ojukwu in interview, discusses three ways in which the war may end. (February 1969)

  95. Nigerian warplane kills over 250 civilians in Ozu-abam market. (February 1969)

  96. The United States, the Red Cross and others protest Nigerian's bombing of civilian population in Biafra. (March 1969)

  97. British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson arrives Nigeria for state visit 29/3/69. Wilson invites Ojukwu to meet with him outside Biafra. Warns Gowon that bombing of Biafran civilians is eroding the remnant of British support for the war(March 1969)

  98. Ojukwu rejects Wilson's invitation; calls invitation "political propaganda exercise". (April 1969)

  99. Nigerian troops open another offensive, after six months. (April 1969)

100. Several push-and-shove action between Nigerian and Biafran forces between Uzuakoli and Umuahia. (April 1969)

101. OAU Committee opens another meeting to try and end the war. (April 1969)

102. Medical camps for care of Biafran children are established in the Ivory Coast run by doctors of New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and Ivory Coast Red Cross. (April 1969)

103. Biafra recaptures Owerri using its 14th Division under Col. Ogbugo Kalu. (April 1969)

      103a. Col. Ogbugo Kalu and Biafran Information Commissioner, Ifegwu Eke, address 6 foreign jounalists in Owerri to counter Nigerian denial of its recapture (April 1969)

104. Ojukwu is promoted to Major General and given new mandate to continue the war. (May 13, 1969)

105. Colonels Adekunle and Haruna, commanders of Nigeria's 3rd and 2nd Divisions respectively are relived from their posts. (May 1969)

106. Pius Okigbo, Biafra's rep. to the U.S. urges U.S. to recognize Biafra. (May 1969)

107. ICRC (Red Cross) Director, Dr. August Lindt and aides are detained for 16 hours by Nigeria with no charges. (May 1969)

108. Youth, B. Mayrock, of Old. Westbury, New York, sets himself on fire and dies in protest against Genocide in Biafra. (May 1969)

109. Biafra marks 2nd anniversary of nationhood. Ojukwu, in address, says Biafran forces are ready to meet expected Nigerian offensive. ( May 1969)

110. Biafran forces raid Kwale, across the Niger, killing 11 oil technicians (10 Italians and 1 Jordanian). Biafra captures 17 other oil workers (14 Italian and 3 W. Germans.) Biafra sentences them to death. (June 1969)

111. Pope writes letter to Ojukwu regarding lives of Oilmen captures in the Mid-West. (June 1969)

112. Wale Soyinka is reported seriously ill in Kaduna Prison, where he is incarcerated without trial. (June 1969)

      112b Nigeria shoots down a Swedish Red Cross Plane.(June 1969)

113. Biafra frees captured Oilmen.(June 1969)

114. Nixon urges end of impasse on relief shipments. (June 1969)

115. US Senator, Strum Thurmond, urges Nixon to rush relief food to Biafra with or without Nigerian permission. (July 1969)

116. Pope visits Uganda and attempts to mediate peace between Nigeria and Biafra. (August 1969)

117. Zik withdraws support for succession and urges Biafra to abandon war. (August 1969)

118. Gabonese President, Albert Bongo, reports that Gowon requested him to arrange meeting between him and Ojukwu; Nigeria denies making such a move. (September 1969)

119. Wale Soyinka is freed. (October 1969)

120. Canadian Prime Minister accuses Biafran authorities of being interested in receiving arms, not food and medical supplies. (November 1969)

121. Nigerian forces open offensives on both Northern and Southern borders of Biafra, ending a seven month lull. (December 1969)

122. Biafran delegates arrive at Addis Ababa for new peace talks but Nigerian delegates were absent. (December 1969)

123. Ojukwu, in Christmas speech says that Biafra is faced with the toughest military test of the war. (December 1969)

      1970

124. As war entered 30th month, Nigerian troops report they've cut Biafra into three parts. (January 3)

125. Massive Nigerian troops link up and pressure cause refugees to stream into Owerri as Biafra nears collapse. (January 4th)

126. Ojukwu announces over Radio Biafra that he is flying out of Biafra to explore possibilities for peace. (January 11th)

127. Nigerian forces reportedly recaptures Owerri and are moving on Uli Airport. Pandemonium and fright as millions of Biafran refugees clog roads in chaotic flight from advancing Nigerian troops and artillery fire. (January 11)

128. Biafra appears near collapse as Nigeria confirms recapture of Owerri, and Uli airport is virtually destroyed by artillery fire. (January 11)

129. Biafra capitulates, ending a 30-month war that cost an estimated two million lives on both sides. (January 11)

130. General Effiong, in radio broadcast, orders Biafran troops to lay down their arms and says he is sending representatives to meet with the Nigerian field commanders to negotiate armistice. ( January 13)

131. Gowon, in broadcast, rejects all relief aid from countries or groups that aided Biafra. (January 14)

132. Nigerian Red Cross claims sole responsibility for distribution of relief. (January 15)

133. Last Missionaries to Leave Biafra Describe the Beginning of the End. (January 15)

134. Biafrans Scramble to get on the Last Plane. (January 15)

135. Gowon Re-instates Biafran Civil Servants and Prohibits the Word "Biafra". (January 15)

136. Effiong makes formal surrender statement/declaration in a ceremony in Lagos. (January 16)

137. Ojukwu appeals to the world to help save Biafrans in a statement released for him in Geneva by Markpress. (January 16)

138. Last observers to leave Biafra describe the beginning of the end. (January 16)

139. Nigeria Expels 4 Journalists for Visiting the East without Permission. (January 17)

140. General Effiong reassures the Nigerian Government that the Biafran forces hiding in the bushes will not wage guerilla war. (January 18)

141. Portugal offers asylum to all Biafran refugees and says it will maintain its facilities at Sao Tome for relief operation. (January 19)

142. Nigeria thanks USSR; Ambassador George T. Kurubo says Soviet aid to Nigeria was the most important factor in the defeat of Biafra. (January 21)

143. Nigeria drops safe conduct passes to remote areas to persuade Biafran troops and civilians to come out from hiding places. (January 21)

144. Obasanjo Detains 80 Journalists in Port Harcourt. (January 21)

145. Gowon, After Stalling, Increases Money for Relief Distribution; First News Conference since End of the War. (January 22)

146. Gabon Offers Asylum to Biafran Exiles. (January 22)

147. Nigeria Grappling with Troop Brutality and Indiscipline. (January 23)

148. Unabated Food Shortage in Biafra. (January 23)

149. British Team Deplores Indiscipline among Nigerian Troops. (January 24)

150. Ojukwu is given asylum in the Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast Government says he will refrain from all political activities. (January 24)

      150b. Reports of indiscipline, plundering and looting among Nigeria's 3rd Marine Commando troops. (January 24)

151. Nigerian Government refuses to use Uli Airport for relief, saying it is a symbol of rebellion. (January 26)

152. U.N. Envoy Calls Biafran Relief Distribution Insufficient. (January 26)

153. Facing Criticism, Nigerian red Cross says It's Expanding Relief Operations. (January 27)

154. Nigeria Arrests Two C.B.S. Newsmen. (January 27)

155. Gowon says there will be no Nuremburg-type trials for rebel leaders and he reiterates General amnesty. (January 30)

156. New York Times columnist, A. Lewis describes chaotic conditions in Biafra. (February 1)

157. Nigeria Establishes Board of Inquiry for Biafran Officers. (February 6)

158. ICRC ends relief operations, citing Nigeria's obstructionist tendencies. (February 7)

159. Nigeria Bans Arms Possession in 3 Eastern States. (February 13)

160. U Thant defends his policies during and immediately after the war. (February 18)

161. Igbos are beginning to return to their jobs in the North, West, and Lagos. (February 22)

162. Gowon Urged to Abate Anti-Missionary Hostility. (March 7)

163. Ojukwu to Face High Treason Charges. (March 14)

164. Nigeria's National Rehabilitation commission takes over relief distribution from the Nigerian Red Cross. (March 15)

165. Nigerian Chief Army of Staff, Brigadier H.U. Katsina says Ojukwu will be tried or high treason if he returns. (March 15)

166. Maj. Gen. Effiong Under Arrest. (May

167. Flat payment of 20 pounds to all Igbos for their Biafran and pre-war Nigerian money deposited in Nigerian Banks, regardless of amount. (June 5)

168. Nigeria to Dismiss Pro-Biafran Employees. (August 15)

169. Nigeria Reconciles with Biafra's Friends. (September 1)

170. Nigeria reconciles with Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Gabon and Zambia. (September 2)

171. Gowon defers civilian rule to 1976. States census and new constitution are prerequisites to civilian administration. (October 2)

172. 5000 Biafran children evacuated during the war return to Lagos. (October 11)

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Blazay:
When all these retardhed Biafrans want to justify treachery and start crying foul for not being supported by lesser "Igbo" stock, they have some form of nauseating selective amnesia.

Your so-called Ojukwu and co went against the 1966 coup and you still wanted them to support "Zik" and follow you to Biafra huh?

Ewu Crystal Lager Beer!

Serves y'all right. Deal with a mega dose of your own 'me-re-cine'!
So happy about the law of Karma and it's divine mechanisms of everlasting operation via redistributive justice.

"The Steadfast Love Of Our God Never Ceases. . .His Mercy Endureth Forever"!

Ojukwu should be talking?
Ha!

Blaze, sincerely i dont blame u for thinking this way^ , u have, just like everybody else including some igbo, been indoctrinated by the aboki led FGN for so long.

Now, if i may ask u what do u think caused the war? can u give an articulated, non-evasive answer ?

Also i blame the igbo leaders who on their part wudnt recognise those that were killed, starved, and massacred. No monument for the dead,  No remembrance day, No museum, no nothing to spun questions, questions that genuinely need to be answered.

Till these actions are rectified and put in place Igbo wud continue to be seen as provocatuers and maligned about by non-igbos.

Rhino.5dm:
The assailants were sent to take him out. NO ONE PLAYS WITH FIRE WITHOUT GETTING BURN!
we are coming back for his head, very soon! bloody ijaw.

all i can say is that: "u dont walk around fire expecting not to sweat"- - - ( lil wayne, 2010 )

10cirenoh:
@macjive01

  If it's not a policy, then what is it? if you call it failed just because you think it has not substance, then can you kindly share with us what these substances that are missing are?

My dear, i am a consultant. I am paid to think for people, paid to fashion-out radical, novel, innovative and developmental ideas. But for the sake of your asking, the good natured way u structured the question i will tell u.

2. Generate, transmit and distribute from current 5,000 – 6,000 MW to at least 15,000 MW of electricity by 2015 and increasing to 50,000
MW by 2019 with a view to achieving 24/7 uninterrupted power supply by 2019 whilst simultaneously ensuring development of
sustainable/renewable energy.

[s]HOW ? NO SUBSTANCES! anybody can say these as well    ( FAILED- THAT IS NOT A POLICY)
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The populace expects to heard from him something like;

He wud put out the bidding for the construction of an immediate 2000MW clean coal powered power station in Enugu with an option of expanding (that wud have to depend on the market and other conditions).

present to the nation the cost, and how he wud source the money.

if Buhari makes such statement, and say he wud source the money from ECA becos the effect of power is a strangulation on our economy
and moreover the initiative wud spun the coal section of which could contribute 30,000 direct hand job and another 80,000 indirect job ASAP .


3. Embark on a National Infrastructural Development Programme as a Public Private Partnership that will ensure the (a) construction of
3,000km of Superhighway including service trunks and (b) building of up to 4,800km of modern railway lines – one third to be
completed by 2015;


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buhari 's team shud have made the neccesary consultation by now and shud have figured out what and where needs to be connected. building super heaven tracks across marsh/desert unpopulated uneconmic barren unproductive regions is a waste, a waste for now. ( the nation needs to focus on region hubs instead of trying to develop every tom and harry LGA)

So Mr B team shud be telling us that they intend to build a ELV high speed train (bullet train, cos thats the world trend, doesnt mk sense building standard speed train only to have it scrapped up by another administration or wud entail upgrading after 2 years.)
connecting lagos to onitsha passing thru ogun, warri on its way to onitsha then continue down, passing thru aba to portharcourt , portharcourt proposed deep water seaport.

This wud reduce the menace on our high way,
improve the longivity of our high ways as heavy equipment and contain wud find it more enabling using the track.
provide in the north of 60, 000 direct and over 200,000 indirect jobs.

dont forget what is decribe above is just a possible one route, ofcourse there shud be another route connecting lagos-ogun-lokoja-abuja-kaduna-kano.
then anoda, onitcha - abuja, portharcourt is connect already to the onitcha trunk.

present to the nation the cost ( would get that off a contract estimator) of this said project and how the money will be sourced (btw china dev bank wud willing give us a cheap loan if the contract is awarded to a chinese company. they re the best anyway, when it comes to high speed train).


6. Boost the local manufacture of pharmaceuticals and make non adulterated drugs readily available.

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he cud have every company registered,( i know presently that companies are registered, in a book at the CCA office,) and store in a project management softwared database of which wud prompt for visitation, inspection, etc

He shud tell us who he wud appoint to man Nafdac - imagine if he say " i will urge dora to go back to NAFDAC, we need people of her caliber and accomplicement to safe guard us. the nation need to be healthy to be wealthy !!  wudnt u be convinced to vote him afterwards?   


macjive01 is a political strategist
worked for obama "Yes WE Can" campaign 2008
He has been attributed with plotting the strategy that won Iowa for obama.
He is 27 years old.

lol @the sustance . my computer no gree spell-proof today.

udezue:
This is the reason why I keep saying that Igbos should become hardened tribalist and not give a 4k about anyone who does not give a 4k about them. Nigerians hate the Igbo and the must in return hate Nigerians even more with exception of their neighbors but at the same time must demand respect. The only thing that will save us is when we harden ourselves in the way we treat others. Whether we perform magic for Nigeria we will still be hated and envied hence we should in fact do all those things we are accused of doing. I mean its better to be hated for something u are doing not what u are not doing. Rather than try to fix economy of Nigeria Okonjo and Soludo should have helped tank and destroy it completely hell after all all Nigerians will feel the pinch. We should view the Nigerian state the way Jews view Arabs. No love but pure contempt. Igbo must strive to destroy that cesspit till they Nigerians start begging us to freaking declare our own nationhood. We must frustrate that nation economically the way the Ijaw are doing by blowing up oil pipelines. If it means going back to re-invent the Ogbunigwe bomb then so be it. Let Nigerians regret ever having us as a part of their entity not the other way round.

calm down udezue, is not always the case.
soludo despite all the denials is genuinely acknowledged as a reformer - sanusi action are even making it more glaring, despite the mallams/aboki lead NTA lack of acknowledgement and recognition, when Atiku wanted a face of a reformer who did he call?

Ribadu, has literally begged Aunty Ngozi, asked and cajoled Ngige, they both turned it down.

Tmrw with chime actions and reform orientation he wud be the man to b solicited for in the near future, so the notion of not to work to hit back on the country isnt right, the country is for every body.

i also think there is recognition,  i think it is even more now with the advent of internet and data storage- one can easily flip back on history, achievement and archives.

has the kidnapped abi abducted oba not been found yet?  

abeg the country no need further escalation of wahala

Ijaw Congress president shot, hospitalised
From HENRY CHUKWURAH, Port Harcourt

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

President of Pan-Ijaw organisation, the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Dr. Atuboyedia Obianimie, is now lying critically ill in a Port Harcourt hospital, following an attack by gunmen. The Rivers State Police Command, however, suspects that his attackers were kidnappers.



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Dr. Obianimie, a senior lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt, was shot in the thigh on Monday night in the university town of Choba, near the Rivers State capital.

The attack occurred less than 48 hours after two gunmen on a motorcycle shot another university lecturer dead in the state.

It was gathered that an unspecified number of gunmen attacked the INC president at about 8.10 pm at the Choba roundabout.

A timely intervention by policemen on patrol foiled an attempt to kidnap him and possibly snatch his car.

Confirming the incident, Police spokesperson in the state, Dr. Rita Inoma-Abbey (SP), said the Police patrol team later pursued the gunmen up to a spot where they ran into a market.

She explained that the hoodlums escaped because policemen could not fire any shot for fear that innocent persons in the market could be hit.

The Police image-maker said the gunmen abandoned two AK 47 rifles, two magazines and 21 live ammunition.

She confirmed that the INC president was responding to treatment in an undisclosed hospital, assuring that investigation and the manhunt for the gunmen were in progress.




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If Jonathan were Igbo
By ORI MARTINS

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

For more than four decades, the Nigerian oligarchy and its subjects have been strutting on, as if the Igbo nation does not exist. Of course, we do not need the powers of a clairvoyant to let us know that Ndigbo are a conquered people. This is not the issue at hand. What I am talking about here presents a pungent and poignant question which borders on fair play, equity, justice and political correctness or lack of it in the Nigerian context.



For good or bad measure, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), sensationally and predictably elected President Goodluck Jonathan as its candidate for the April 2011 presidential election. The PDP would have based its choice of Jonathan rather than former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on two cardinal points namely: There is a military saying that it is not good to drag a commander, a general for that matter, to a battlefront and leave him bare, without back up troops.

This simply means that it would not have been in the best interest of the party and indeed Nigeria, if PDP had abandoned President Jonathan in the middle of the road and left him to his own fate in the primaries which brought him as the presidential candidate. In other words, Jonathan did not cause his predecessor’s death, thus the anger and frustration of his departure cannot be visited on him. Simply put, PDP said it is not good for the party to have disgraced a seating president out of office because of an infinitesimal nomenclature called zoning.

Secondly, since democracy encourages individual aspiration and ambition, and whereupon Jonathan indicated his interest to contest the 2011 presidential election, political loyalty demands that all party faithful should rally round the President or be accused of anti- party activity.

To make my stand clear, I was one of those who had expected President Jonathan to have completed Musa Yar’ adua’s tenure and leave. But Jonathan had other ideas. Supported by almost all the intimidating arrowheads and forces in PDP, he declared his interest to continue in office against the party’s zoning principle which was enshrined in its constitution . This is where I have questions for Nigeria, for I am convinced that the story would have been otherwise if Jonathan had been Igbo.

If he were Igbo, the Nigerian state would have rallied against him, reminding him that he was an ungrateful fellow. He would have been labeled an usurper, a greedy man who wants to destabilize Nigeria because of his personal interests. Nigeria is always at peace whenever the Igbo is disillusioned. This is an incontrovertible fact, if you consider the following factors.

After the January 15, 1966 coup, Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi emerged as the Head of State and Commander - in- Chief of the Armed Forces. Ironsi could only last for six months as he was maliciously overthrown in a bloody coup that also consumed about 162 army officers of Igbo stock. The plot to oust Ironsi was gradual but steady. To make his ouster very easy, all sorts of lies were leveled against him, even from those who knew that he was too patriotic to carry out a dastardly act like a coup.

Ironsi was a martyr who died for sins he never committed just because he was Igbo. On the day of the January 15, 1966 coup, all accounts from the principal actors indicate that he had no hand in the mutiny that ended the First Republic abruptly. Rather, he did his best to foil the coup and that accounted for why the coup was largely inconclusive. Instead of commending him, the army turned against Ironsi, sabotaged, abducted and eventually assassinated him in a most wicked way. Sadly, the unitary system of government which Ironsi adopted to govern via the much vilified Decree 34 was the same means successive military rulers in Nigeria adopted in another name.

Yet Ironsi died for it and is almost forgotten. Since 1966 till date, Nigeria has seen so many coups but none was as cruel as that which swept Ironsi under. Look at this account from Chuks Iloegbunam’s IRONSIDE ‘ The Supreme Commander General Ironsi, asked Major Danjuma, ‘ ‘ what do you want’’. Major Danjuma replied: ‘You are under arrest. You organized the killing of our brother officers in January and you have nothing to bring the so-called dissident elements to justice because you were part and parcel of the whole thing’. You see, Igbo is always unwanted as you can glean from this account.

Although, Ironsi was the first and so far the only head of government with executive power the Igbo has produced, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe ( Zik) was a ceremonial president and he got the same treatment that was meted out on Ironsi in another fashion. In 1951, Zik, in his bid to prove his true nationalism and to confirm he was a shrewd politician, worked hard with his NCNC to win most of the seats in the Western House of Assembly. It was an unprecedented feat and a victory never expected. But before anybody could say Jack Robinson, the Western NCNC members who were elected to the House cross carpeted and declared for AG, just to deny Zik victory. Zik was furious and felt betrayed.

We all know that between 1979 and 1983, Zik contested the presidency on the platform of the now defunct NPP. That he lost the election is not our concern here. Our interest is that the then South –South states of Rivers (which had Bayelsa State where Jonathan comes from) and Cross River (today’s Akwa Ibom State was a part of Cross River then) rejected Zik and whatever he represented. Don’t forget that both Melford Okilo of Rivers and Clement Isong of Cross River led their people to Shagari’s NPN rather than Zik’s NPP. You can see the frustration of the Igbo.

In the wake of the 1966 disturbances, it is on record that three principal Igbo army officers played heroic roles to quench the January 15 coup and they succeeded 80 per cent. They were, Ironsi, Alexander Madiebo and Odumegwu Ojukwu. Ironsi foiled the coup in Lagos; Madiebo stopped it in Kaduna while Ojukwu put it off in Kano. Yet the coup was regarded as Igbo oriented, no matter. Six months later, in July 1966, the rampaging Northern forces attempted to take over the government by force. And they got their desire.

They succeeded in the North, Lagos and West, but Ojukwu not only opposed it but he also stopped it in the East. In the process, Ironsi had fallen and became a victim alongside his host, Col, Adekunle Fajuyi. As a disciplined and professional soldier, Ojukwu demanded that due process should be followed and insisted that the army should not name any Head of State until the whereabouts of the Supreme Commander had been ascertained, maintaining that Yakubu Gowon was the most qualified to rule even if Ironsi was missing. For his insistence on due process, Ojukwu was labeled ‘ a rebel, warlord and a troublemaker’. Overnight all the coup plotters became national heroes that ended up ruling the country at different occasions, allocating oil blocs to themselves while Ojukwu was demonized, castigated and battled to stand still.

One of the brightest brains the Igbo nation has produced was the late Dr M.I. Opkara, the former Premier of what used to be Eastern Nigeria, present day South-East and the former Eastern minorities.

The lies the then Eastern minorities now South -South have always told against Okpara was that he built Igbo land without bringing any development to their own region. The insinuation here is that Okpara never minded the present day South- south in the discharge of his duties. But it is not true. It is all lies. It is an extension of the discrimination against Igbo elite. The truth is that Opkara was quite fair in his duty post as the Premier. According to Chris Offodile, Okpara’s biographer, the late Premier was one of the most detribalized administrators Nigeria has ever produced given how he touched all spheres of the former Eastern Region during his reign . Offodile wrote: ‘ Okpara was responsible for setting up many farm estates such as the COLARO Estate and the QUA FALLS Estate both in the former Cross River State.

The Trans Amadi Layout was one of the biggest projects that Okpara built in Port Harcourt at the cost of three million pounds. He also set up the Michelin Factory and the Glass Factory also in Port Harcourt as well as the five million pound cement factory located in Calabar. In regard to hotel industry, his government built the Hotels Presidential in Port Harcourt (and Enugu). Okpara also built the Obudu Cattle Ranch and Hotel Complex in Cross River State. He had started the Ahoda\ Mbiama Road (in present day Rivers and Bayelsa states) project before the civil war broke out. He worked closely with Chief I.U. Apkabio (from present day Akwa Ibom) and Dr S.E. Imoke (from present day Cross River) both today have their sons as governors of their respective states.’ Despite these well documented feats, Okpara is not even remembered but maligned and dismissed as a failure and tribalist because he is of Igbo extraction.

What of Dr Alex Ekwueme? He was victim of grand conspiracy. In the Second Republic, Ekwueme was the deputy to President Shehu Shagari. This was in 1979, and both men ran the government of the day in the first tenure on the platform of NPN. When NPN was returned to power in 1983, expectation was rife that at the expiration of their tenure in 1987, the NPN would then give the presidential ticket to Ekwueme. This was a perfect plan and would have worked wonders for Nigeria, but it was not to be. Ekwueme must not rule. To stop this from happening, the military struck and overthrew the Shagari administration with Ekwueme as the heaviest casualty. Really, the 1983 coup was meant to stop Ekwueme from ruling Nigeria because he is from the South-East. Again in 1998\99, despite leading the G34 that fought dictator Gen Sani Abacha to submission, and later transformed into PDP, Ekwueme was dragged to Jos in the PDP convention and disgraced as he lost to Olusegun Obasanjo in the primaries for the presidential elections. Of course, he lost again in 2003 in Abuja.

The case of Ebutu Ukiwe was even more pathetic. A published report put it this way: ‘ Commodore Okoh Ebitu Ukiwe became the first Chief of General Staff in General Ibrahim Babangida’s regime. It was a tragic mistake. In months, Ukiwe was sacked and retired. But he had done no violent action. He had not plundered the treasury. His hands did not drip of human blood. A reporter had asked about Nigeria’s membership of the Organisation of Islamic countries (OIC) which was contrived by Babangida, and Ukiwe replied that the matter had never come up in the deliberations of the Armed Force Ruling Council(AFRC). And for this he was fired!’

What of the misfortune that befell Rear Admiral Alison Amechina Madueke ? ‘He was the first Chief of Naval Staff in Gen Sani Abacha’s regime and the first Igbo to be a service chief since Ironsi in 1965. Another terrible mistake had been made. In months, Madueke was sacked and retired. His offence was that he had advocated during Provisional Ruling Council (PRC) meeting that MKO Abiola, Yoruba, should be released from detention and engaged in dialogue.’

Unarguably, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, the immediate past Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, brought so many gainful changes to the apex bank and he got both national and international awards to that effect. Almost all the Nigerian newspapers celebrated him and gave him awards upon awards. But today, he is out of favour with nearly all the same media that celebrated him to the high heavens. The answer is very simple: Soludo is Igbo. He is now the most vilified public servant in Nigeria and that is what we are complaining about.

Remember also that the Savannah Bank, owned by former governor, Jim Nwobodo was closed down and its license revoked when it was glaring that the bank was healthy for operations. In the same vein, Orji Uzor Kalu’s Slok Air was axed and booted out of operations for no just cause, just as Sir Victor Ikwuemesi’s Sosoliso Airlines was closed down and ordered out of the skies. Ditto Mr C.M. Ibeto’s Cement Group which was embargoed out of production and circulation. We can go on and on.

With the above examples, it is clear that Jonathan would not have got the PDP ticket, given the same circumstances that played itself out in recent memory, if he were Igbo. Do not tell me that we are the cause because it is a matter for another day.

Martins is a staff of The Sun Publishing Limited 08060205494

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2. Generate, transmit and distribute from current 5,000 – 6,000 MW to at least 15,000 MW of electricity by 2015 and increasing to 50,000
MW by 2019 with a view to achieving 24/7 uninterrupted power supply by 2019 whilst simultaneously ensuring development of
sustainable/renewable energy.

HOW ? NO SUBSTANCES! anybody can say these as well    ( FAILED- THAT IS NOT A POLICY)



3. Embark on a National Infrastructural Development Programme as a Public Private Partnership that will ensure the (a) construction of
3,000km of Superhighway including service trunks and (b) building of up to 4,800km of modern railway lines – one third to be
completed by 2015;


HOW ? NO SUBSTANCES! anybody can say these as well    ( FAILED- THAT IS NOT A POLICY)

6. Boost the local manufacture of pharmaceuticals and make non adulterated drugs readily available.

HOW ? NO SUBSTANCES! anybody can say these as well    ( FAILED- THAT IS NOT A POLICY)

Firstly congratulation on presenting a manefesto  mr presidential candidate
i am chiefly impressed with proposed policies of openness, mandating LGA and other government agencies to publish contracts quoatations bidding and budget and expenditure, no doubt that wud go a long way to santisize our system.

also i am proud of the proposed policy of
3. Initiate policies to ensure that Nigerians are free to live and work in any part of the country by removing state of origin, tribe, ethnic
and religious affiliations and replace those with state of residence of There is nothing substantive about this charade he called a manifesto

however, u also proposed establishment of community policing and state wise without fundamentaly and strongly stating the kind of policies these comunities and state shall be permitted to pursue.
if a yerima kind becomes d governor of say lagos and decides to impose " a modesty law" albeit sharia, - no alcohol, no prostituting, or wild celebration. with his police and their guns can u picture the kind of harassment and violation of human rights that wud be unleashed on non- allah believer ?
our dear New year festival celebration might be abolished. then how will our gods react ?


4. Embark on vocational training, entrepreneurial and skills acquisition scheme for graduates along with the creation of Small Business
Loan Guarantee Scheme to create at least 2 million new jobs by 2015;5. Integrate the informal economy into the mainstream and prioritize the full implementation of the National Identification Scheme to
generate the relevant data;

you talked about vocational training for university students? UNIVERSITY STUDENTS!!!
university shd be the zenith of educational learning. one shudnt b expected to spend five agonising years in the university studying advance calculus, heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics only for him to finish and be sent to a vocation school to learn welding and vulcanising.
IT IS A SHAME!.  
you have No plan for education. our out-dated uni curriculum wud still be used. A curriculum that has been in service since colonial era.
A curriculum that teaches a computer/software engineering student fortran and not java. fortran in this age! (u wudnt know wat fortran is tho)


10. Put in place a N300bn regional growth fund (average of N50bn in each geo‐political region) to be managed by the REDAs, encourage
private sector enterprise and support to help places currently reliant on the public sector;

Mr presidential candidate, to encourage regional dev is not by giving REDAs 50 billion to distribute cos it wud only result to immerse inflation and wreck of our economy. If 1000 Abian are giving 5 Mil each, what wud happen? They all wud rush in to ariara and open up shops. and sell basically about same things.
which still means more import, lose of hard currency. one year from them most of the business will b out of operation.

solution
what is needed rather mr pres cand is a structured and articulated dev plan based on regional /state composition.

for the South East/ south south
Build a massive deep water seaport in portharcout to be channel to strategic inland ports and industrial estate

ie, a deep water seaport in portharcourt with inland containner terminals in onitish, aba,  then a gigantic industrial estate in nnewi, aba, ikot ekpenne linked by a rail line. with these infrastructure in place private investors wud flood this area and like magic establish companies , businesses and of course provide good paying sustainable jobs.

hey guys jimoh is a fine gentleman there is no beef against him, why shud there be?

he did not accept a job he can not do?

he did not, being a local mechanic and knowing fully well that he cant repair more modern computerized cars embark on its destruction.

He did not propose islamisation of the banking industry. hold on, i hv nothing against islam, but the proposition of such banking in a "dependent" third world corrupt country wud not work. what wud be the incentive for a hedge fund manager to invest his funds in the naija banks when the said banks wudnt charge an interest?

what bank wud give u and me -common folks (just now tho), no interest loan in a country that hasnt got a database for citizenry identification?

He did not cause MASSIVE retrenchment in the banking industry

He did not cause albeit indirectly, the high rate of kidnapping and criminality. it is believed the crimes perpetuated now re by educated, technology savvy folks. what sector is on the fore front in this tech age in naija
telecom
banking
yahoo boys

yahoo boys are still in business= no cause to commit "physical" crime.
telecom is still in business= no cause to commit crime
banking ??  union bank, wema bank, unity bank, intercontinental, savanna, citizen, afri bank, progressive bank, ACB, Bank PHB, . . . .   . .  .