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unclesuruoffi:
The Sultan of Sokoto and President General Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) Sa’ad Abubakar, has disclosed that he fears for the future of Nigeria in 2023 as the signs are already there. The monarch who spoke during the weekend at the 2019 General Assembly of the Da’awah Coordination Council of Nigeria (DCCN) held at the Sultan Palace, Sokoto, expressed worry that Nigerians has become more divided politically ahead of the next general elections in 2023.

The Sultan of Sokoto who disclosed that he fears for the future of Nigeria in 2023, added that the 2019 elections witnessed a very disturbing trend with religious leaders who ought to be neutral, openly pitching tent with candidates.

"If Nigeria has these troubles in 2019 then, I have my fears over 2023. The signs are already on ground. “Brothers no longer talk to each other. Friends are now divided in a very terrible way because they have been insulting one another before the election. Neighbours now hate each other because they belong to different political parties,” he added.

“We that are religious leaders, have to be careful of what we tell our followers because most of them are not educated and will take whatever you say as true. I have been an observer of the election over the years and have never declared support for any candidate. As a religious leader, I have never asked Imams or Muslims preachers to preach against anybody or in support of any as well,” he asserted


https://unclesuru.com/2019/04/14/i-fear-for-the-future-of-nigeria-in-2023-sultan-of-sokoto/

Your religious leaders were, in their mosques in the North, telling people that Peter Obi was amongst those who planned Nigeria’s first coup — Peter Obi that wasn’t even alive then let alone a baby. And they, largely illiterates, believed the rumour and spread it.
You should be honest and altruistic as a Sultan.
Meanwhile it’s funny that Buhari’s first term hasn’t even ended yet these fellows have been talking about 2023.

Sadly, it means that the governance that should happen between 2019 and 2023 isn’t their business at all.

I blame Mr Lugard for merging the Northern and Southern protectorates together.

vezycash:
There are people that will succeed even if they don't know how to read or write. Example - the founder of coscharis motors, Dr. Cosmas Maduka left school at primary 3 (aged 7) to help his mother.

He however kept on reading anything he could find. He also underwent apprentiship and the rest is history.

Self driven people like that succeed DESPITE of their level of schooling or state of the national schooling system. In fact, schooling harms driven guys like him.

Another category of people who succeed inspite of the schooling system are those with rich parents and / or very supportive parents. Parents who absolutely will never allow their children to fail. They'll enroll them in other schools, send them out of the country, bribe, buy certificates, place them in their companies or companies of friends.


On the other hand, mass Schooling was supposed to be the great equalizer. The tool for making MANY people achieve their potential. In other words, the promise is that for those who pay their school fees, read their books, come out with a good grade, they'll be equipped for real life.

Unless you want to lie and let thunder strike you, you know this isn't the case.

All you have told me is that only a fraction - say 1% of those who go to the system make it in any reasonable way. And it's okay with you.

LOL.
If you notice, when people start using curses to engage in conversations and prove their point, I quietly take my leave.
Cheers, mate.

vezycash:
What you just said is similar to this:

My [father, mother, aunty, uncle, neighbor, or teacher] molested me as a child. Despite that, I worked hard and now work at [NASA, CBN, Toyota, Dangote...]

So people who see this molestation survivor story will conclude that molestation makes people successful?

Besides, your Norther brother story does not add up. You didn't mention the year they traveled. 1970, 1980? Cos it's gotten increasingly difficult. You also didn't how rich their fathers are. You also didn't state if they just got the job based on their Nigerian qualifications ALONE or if they went back to school.

Soyinka supposedly got 3rd class in Nigeria, went out and redid his university education. So his Nigerian schooling made him who he is today?!




Yes - you are absolutely right. The level of laziness repulses me on so many levels. The use of internet for absolute nonsense is appalling. However, people typically respond - not to words but to action and incentives.

And by this i mean, in many Nigerian universities, it's an open secret that what you read doesn't matter in the least. It's buying handouts, lecturer text books, and sending your appreciation money a.k.a. sorting that really matters.

So can we really blame the kids? I say this because I studied both here in Nigeria and Ghana. First year Nigerian students in Ghana didn't read. They assumed that they would fail regardless of their efforts. By their 3rd semester, the change was stark. They read more, listened more in class and consequently did way better than they did in this country.



Incentives like I mentioned earlier go a long way. We are in a country where your pali - the certificate is what matters the most. What's in your head is a secondary, or tertiary concern.

I'm a life long learner. You can check my previous posts, I own over 8000 udemy courses. However, employers really don't care.

I interviewed in a place at Ikeja where I told them learning was my hobby. And was flat out told, it's irrelevant to their operations. Did another interview at lekki and was told that I was lying about the number of skills I possessed - content writing, marketing, web design, fast typing, graphics design. They were unfazed even after demonstrating a bit of my web design, writing, and typing skills on the spot.

The koko is that our society doesn't value knowledge, skill - else the person who actually knows the job would earn less than someone who is useless but has a degree.

Until this changes, oga, you're preaching to the air.

Interestingly, you do not see 1st Class and 2.1 students engaging in these sort of excuses-justifying arguments. Harsh, but true.

Excuses are the most easiest thing to latch on to.
Students do this very well. And I completely understand.

Thankfully, not all students do this and they have gone onto do bigger things in life with their Nigerian-education, despite how "local-class" it is.
And they do not have two heads.

wanger50:
This is what get me mad with our Nigerian "Engineers". We are trained to design:That's there motto.So what are you designing?Of all the engineering products I have around me and uses everyday,I can't find any designed by our Nigerian Engineers so why keep wasting money and time training them?I know what will happen if our roadside mechanics go on strike for a day even as I'm very sure the nation won't feel any pinch if our Engineers refuses to work for a year;that is if they have any work that they do at all

I take it that you haven’t been to Aba then.

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Nukilia:
I imagine that feel you get when you carry certificates from Nigeria

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Excuses are a terrible thing.

Dothraki:
what is the point of going to school if everything you need to succeed is outside of university wall?
Many of the innovations we enjoyed today came from within university walls.
With people that think like you, Nigeria can never progress

I honestly dont understand how people provide justification for failed system we practice in this country.
Many engineering graduate believed that technology is a product of witchcraft. And here you are defending such nonsense

Untill people stand up. And challenge the status quo. Nigeria will never progress

The Western Universities you praise students are not taught all they need to know. From their A-level to PhD level they are allowed and in some cases, instructed to do research on their own and in group work. Gap years. Placements.

The basics of Engineering taught in Nigeria—Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Strength of Materials, Material Science, etc— is the same basics you get at a Russell Group university in the UK or an Ivy League University in the US. That is why if you make a 1st Class in a Nigerian University you will fairly easily get a PhD admission offer in a Western university without being asked to re-do your BEng again. You are only asked to do an English test— and most countries take this.

I know a student who had a 1st Class in Mechanical Engineering at Unilag and applied and got an offer at the University of Manchester for a PhD. He’s finished now and got 3 post doctoral research positions at Bath, Cambridge and Strathyclde. And Manchester.

He had that Nigerian education which you are deriding. A hardworking student makes the most of his/her given situation. And never regrets if.

The lazy student complains and complains.

But it’s a hardworking student that makes 1st Class or 2.1. Not lazy, excuses-justifying students.

CodeTemplar:
The problem is selfish and lazy attitude from student like you who blame their flaws and forgetfulness on the system.

What practical do you expect people never thought practicals to teach you? Please state some practical aspects of Engineering lets see.

Thank you.
Students these days are so extremely lazy, looking to latch onto the most readily available excuse in order to justify their laziness.

Dothraki:
Engineering undergraduates study old theories from Way past generation, that is of little relevance to modern engineering. The university system teach so many calculation, and almost nothing on how to apply these mathematics to solve real life problems.

Many of theories learned aren't useless jargon, since we arent taught how to praticalise most of those knowledge, 99.99% of all engineering graduate would have forgotten what they learned by the time they graduate.
We only remember what is useful to us, what help us get through, or things we do constantly. Everything else, our brain trashes it.

Its quiet disturbing Most of the engineering student only read to pass. Which makes one question, are we in school only to pass some paper? If so, modern technology would not have existed at all.
Our primary purpose of studying engineering is to apply scientific discoveries to solve practical problems in the society. But unfortunately the system only made us to study only for grade.
Without practicing what we learn our brain will eventually discard everything as useless

An average engineering graduate does not remember 90% of what he learned in five years, I tried to go through some of my jottings from 300l, i was suprised because it all seem strange to me.. i couldn't remember a thing from the calculations l did with my own hand. A friend of my who have have a very much good grade have the same experience.

Apart from the abstractions of studying engineering in nigeria, most of the curriculum is old, we spent so much time studying theories that should be thought as a mere history. No wonder there havent been any groundbreaking engineering achievement from Nigerian universities

Majority of the engineering jobs that involve applying engineering maneuver will be given to foreigners. Innoson motor employs foreigners to do All of its engineering design, our Nigerian graduate work as if they are
mere technician. Engineering graduate will never apply most of the theories they learn at school. lot of our graduate who are lucky to find job in engineering companies work as a maintenance engineer. Whenever they need new designs or innovation, they hire foreigners to do the job, this is quite sad in my opinion. They have made mockery of 5 years of lifes. Quite sad

Studying in Nigeria and completely relying on your lecturers, laboratories, etc, is deluding yourself.
Going outside the box in every course is the way to go.
I know graduates of Engineering in Nigeria who are currently working at NASA, Washington D.C. Two brothers from a University in Northern Nigeria.
Anywhere in the world, if you ONLY rely on what you are being taught, you'll probably end up being mediocre. The world is fiercely competitive. If you go outside the box, you wouldn't. The average Nigerian student is extremely lazy. He/she goes on the internet to chat and engage in other frivolities. It is the same internet that gives the hard-working ambitious student, Edx and Coursera free courses, which this hard-working student takes and improves his knowledge of data science and analysis to complement the theories he learns in school.

The ambitious student does not have two heads. The lazy student easily latches onto an excuse, such as describing his/her course of study in Nigeria as a "scam". No sir/ma. It isn't. You are the lazy, scamming student.
It is up to you.

Martinez39:
Jesus never existed. He was a version of early mythical figures. This is just a tourist scam.

Science even proves that Jesus together with all Biblical figures -the good, bad and ugly- existed and lived.
You can question what they did, etc, but questioning their existence is, to put it mildly, childish in the face of all the evidence.

hisexcellency34:
Not surprised. Even Wole Soyinka writes terrible English. God bless late Chinua Achebe

Wole Soyinka writes headache-inducing English. Read his “The Interpreters” and you’ll understand why he’s called a playwright and not a novelist.

engineerboat:
APC, Presidency in fresh plot to set up Atiku – PDP NWC

The National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday said no amount of fabrications, attempt at set-up as well as veiled and open threats allegedly by the All Progressives Congress, APC-led federal government can stop its Presidential candidate in the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar from reclaiming his mandate at the tribunal.


President Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar
This is even as the party rejected in its entirety, “the declaration by the Presidency that Atiku Abubakar is “lucky to be walking free”, adding that such a statement was inciting and “brings to the fore the unwholesome intention of the APC-led administration against Atiku Abubakar for seeking to retrieve his stolen mandate at the court.”



In a statement signed by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan on Thursday, the PDP said it was aware “that the series of orchestrations against Atiku Abubakar and the PDP by agents of the federal government, officials of the Presidency and the Buhari Media Organization, BMO, expose a well-coordinated plot, which includes a resort to unfounded claims of links with a foreign lobby group, to attempt to frame Atiku Abubakar, cause tension and ultimately derail the recovery of the stolen mandate at the Presidential election tribunal.”

The statement added that “such orchestration are also targeted at instilling fear, cause apprehension in the citizenry and create opening to further suppress genuine public opinion and the course of justice in the quest by Atiku Abubakar and the PDP to restore the will of the people.”

The statement continued: “Part of the motive is to use lies, fabrications, threats and sponsoring of Atiku campaign posters to portray Atiku Abubakar and the PDP as being desperate and ready to subvert the rules in the pursuit of our mandate; and by so doing discredit our candidate in the eyes of the judiciary and the public in general.

“This explains why agents of the APC-led government fabricated and pushed into the public space, bogus and laughable claims that Atiku Abubakar paid $30,000 to a US lobby group to assist in the quest to reclaim our mandate only for the Federal Government and the Presidency to turn around to feast on the fabrications with threats against Atiku Abubakar.

“The PDP calls on Nigerians to take copious note of threats by the Presidency through the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, to jail Atiku Abubakar based on trumped up allegations, while describing him as “one who is lucky to be walking free.

“Nigerians now know who to hold responsible should any harm come to Atiku Abubakar, his family or any member of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, PPCO, in the course of the pursuit of the mandate at the tribunal.

“Moreover, it is instructive to state that the PDP and Atiku Abubakar do not need any foreign lobby group to prove our case before the tribunal as Nigerians themselves have been at the forefront of this pursuit, especially with our overwhelming evidence before the court.

“The PDP therefore cautions the APC-led Federal Government to allow the tribunal to judiciously carry out its responsibilities without let or hindrance as well as stop their unrelenting plots to overheat the system and derail the course of justice as such will all come to naught.”


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/04/apc-presidency-in-fresh-plot-to-set-up-atiku-pdp-nwc-2/

APC’s propaganda of $30,000 was the height of insult (admittedly, they have many heights) to Nigerians and Americans. Which Washington pony group will collect $30,000— which is someone’s school fees for a year in the US— for a 3 months lobby in Congress?

I saw it and laughed! I’m sure sensible Nigerians saw it and laughed. Those lobbyists in Capitol Hill command monthly fees that run into millions of dollars. Not $30,000 that someone will spend in a couple of nights hang out in New York.

Yeye APC

ijustdey:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/buhari-looks-like-jonathan.html

The fattest lie around.

But I understand the predicament of this Jamila. She has to make a comparison to a figure which was demonised by the North and West in order to get a soft-landing from Buharists and Northerners.

chimjoshjuan:
Governor Aminu Masari who spoke to the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Muhammed Adamu, told him that bandits have taken over some parts of Katsina he governs.The Katsina State Governor who said his government has met with the eight front-line local government chairmen to keep them abreast and will do whatever possible to see to the final onslaught on the bandits and kidnappers in the state, said the IGP was coming in a period of anxiety and apprehension.

According to him, Katsina State has supported and will continue to support the ongoing ‘Operation Puff Adder’ with funds, logistics and accommodation. He announced a donation of 12 vans to the police.The state's deputy Governor Mannir Yakubu, who spoke on behalf of Governor Masari, said the bandits have taken parts of Katsina in meeting and also strike and destroy properties at will. 

“These bandits strike at will, maim at will, destroy lives and property at will" he said. “In other parts of the state, we also have kidnappers who not only take people on the road but in the comfort of their homes,” he added, citing the “unfortunate incidence of the governor’s in-law who was taken in the comfort of her home.”

The eight LGs are Jibia, Batsari, Safana, Dan-Musa, Faskari, Sabuwa, Dandume and Kankara. Some of the LGs share boundaries with Zamfara State, which is under constant attacks from bandits and kidnappers.

https://unclesuru.com/2019/04/11/bandits-have-taken-over-parts-of-katsina-governor-masari/

The North witch-hunted GEJ when Boko Haram increased their attacks. Went to CNN, the United States, BBC, etc all in their plan to remove GEJ.
Well, there's a saying that, "whatever one sows, he shall reap." This is merely what is happening to the North. Whether he is a Muslim, Christian or an Atheist, you can not gang up against an innocent man and get away with it. The world system and nature does not operate that way.
Unfortunately, this is only devouring the poor in their midst.
Sad.

nairavsdollars:
By Temidayo Akinsuyi

Prince Tony Momoh, a former Minister of Information and one of the national leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in this interview with TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI , speaks on the controversy surrounding power shift, former CJN Walter Onnoghen’s resignation and other issues. Excerpts:

The general impression that the presidency will come to the South after the completion of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in 2023, but right now some Northern political leaders are threatening to field candidates, saying the South should forget . What is your take on this?

Politics is a talkshop. The armoury in the dictionary of politics is word. The only thing is that communication has rules. For instance, communication in a love letter should be different from communication that is published in national newspapers. I believe that there should be time for everything. We just finished a general election about a month ago and people are already talking about irrelevant things when we ought to be dealing with more pressing issues that will grow the country. Having said that, power is not served a la carte; you struggle to acquire power. There is no way anybody can beg anybody or any region to come and take power. So, it is a struggle and any part of the country can struggle to occupy any position in the country. Wining election is decided by votes, so if some people sit down and think people will say ‘come and take these positions in 2023, then they don’t know what democracy is all about. Politics is like a game of chess and those who are good players win. When PDP zoned positions, a lot of people from the North and South contested. I remembered when the PDP presidency ticket was zoned to the South, some people in the North contested.

Even look at the APC now which has zoned the position of Senate President to the North- East but some people from other regions are protesting, saying that they have a right to occupy the position. So, if anybody thinks that the Presidency will be zoned to the South in 2023 and then the North will just sit down and watch, then they have a lot of shocks coming for them. We can still find another person from another zone who may contest under another political party and win. So, nobody should think that they can just sit down at home, not work hard and then power will just be handed over to them like that.

But don’t you think the rotational policy between the North and South should be strictly adhered to so that there won’t be any political crisis?

Although that is what people think, it will not be that smooth. It has never been that smooth. When they said the PDP presidential ticket should come to the South- West to pacify the people in the region, did other people from other regions not contest? We had people like the late Alex Ekwueme from the South- East and the late Abubakar Rimi from the North who contested against Olusegun Obasanjo. I believe in 2023, a lot of people will come out to contest for Presidency and nobody will stop them. So, people must work hard to get power and the prayer for winning election is answered by votes; the volume of votes you can produce.

Now that he has resigned, should former CJN, Walter Onnoghen be prosecuted?

Prosecution is a political decision. I have said it before that all Onnoghen would have done to save everybody the embarrassment of being suspended by stepping down. Now that he has resigned, what happens next is a political decision.

Are you saying the Federal Government can decide whether to prosecute him or not?

It depends on what the issues are. What are the issues? Did he plead guilty to misconduct? The Attorney-General is very powerful. He can withdraw a case at any time, he can take over a case at any time and he can institute a case at any time. The power to prosecute is there and that is why I said prosecution in any matter of this nature is a political decision.

Given the proliferation of political parties in the country as witnessed in the just concluded elections, some Nigerians are suggesting a return to the two-party system like we had in the 1993 elections. Are you r perspective on this?

What happened with the SDP and NRC during the time of IBB was an attempt to reduce the proliferation of parties in our political life and you know that a committee was set up and they had all the entries grouped into ‘a little to the left’ and ‘a little to the right’. So, we had the SDP and the NRC, and when we began preparations for a return to civil rule in 1999, a lot of people said, no, that the SDP and NRC were government parastatals. But the fact is, what people didn’t know is that as at the time Abacha dissolved those parties, they had taken over the ownership of their party because after the annulment of the June 12 elections, meetings were being called and SDP that produced Abiola was deciding to or not to attend meetings because they were already in charge of their party. So, if we had allowed the NRC and SDP to grow with all the structures already in place at the local, state and national levels, they would have grown into institutions that would have stabilised our democracy.

But what happened after 1999 was that we had a situation whereby the power of INEC to register was being questioned, and Obasanjo messed up the whole system by asking INEC to register as many parties as possible, most of which were initiated by the PDP. So, we had this situation where we had so many political parties, and as at the last count, we had 91 in the system, and it is not as if they are tired. More parties would spring up because we must look at what we have made of politics in Nigeria and you are a political association until you are registered as a political party. You cannot do business as a political association.

You can only do business when you are registered as a political party. We have made politics a business and political parties are the vehicles for those businesses while Nigerians are ruthless businessmen. In business, there must be a gain. We are not going to have a reduction in parties; we are going to have more. So, we have a challenge which is to ensure that politics becomes what it should be. In other realms, it is service, not a business. As long as we continue to see it as a business in Nigeria, we are going to handle political parties as we handle selling pepper or sugar or even 419.

We must decongest the political space. If we don’t do that, we will continue to have the outcome of what we have now and even vote buying will increase because again if the National Assembly is, and then you decongest the political space, reduce the power at the centre, move them to the States, then cancel local government elections and reduce it to part-time if you must have them, you will see overnight how we will cure these ills because these are businesses. Nigerians are ruthless businessmen and women, and it will continue to be business as usual.
https://www.independent.ng/moving-presidency-to-south-in-2023-wont-be-smooth-tony-momoh-2/

We are still in 2019 and they are talking about 2023?
If only Northerners can be passionate about governance as they are passionate about holding political positions. We would have a Dubai-looking North.

Now we have a Boko-Haram/ Fulani-terrorists-herdsmen overran North.
Sad.

ainas247:
What happens if they failed to respond, would they declare Atiku winner
I am laughing in 3D


Rank your business fast on Google
check results

Then Nigeria will have an illegitimate President.
That would be terrible for Nigeria’s relationship with the international community.
I’m sure APC will respond even if it’s on the last day in order to gain time.

SillyMods:
https://www.thecable.ng/atiku-turns-to-us-to-unseat-buhari-hires-lobbyist-for-30000

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has employed the services of a US lobbyist firm to advance his challenge of the outcome of the February 23 presidential polls.

President Muhammadu Buhari defeated Atiku with over three million votes in the election but he rejected the results and filed a suit before the presidential election petition tribunal challenging the process which he said was “heavily militarised” and results manipulated.

According to a report by Centre for Responsive Politics (CRP), Bruce Fein, former justice department official and his firm Fein & DelValle PLLC registered on March 24 as foreign agents on behalf of PDP and Atiku.

The firm is expected to “encourage Congress and the executive to forbear from a final declaration and recognition of Nigeria’s February 23, 209 presidential election until outstanding legal challenges to the initial government of Nigeria assertion that incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari was the victor are impartially and independently resolved by the supreme court of Nigeria without political or military influence, intimidation or manipulation”.

Atiku is seeking to be recognised by the US as the president of Nigeria, and halt the final declaration of Buhari as the president until the matter is ruled upon by the supreme court.

According to the firm, parts of its services on behalf of Atiku includes to “Meet and consult with members of Congress and staff in an effort to pass House and Senate resolution(s) to forebear from a final declaration and recognition of a winner of the 2019 Federal Republic of Nigeria presidential election pending legal challenges to the initial assertion that incumbent President Buhari was the victor are impartially and independently resolved by the Nigerian judiciary in accordance with the rule of law and due process, free from military or political influence

“Draft articles and op-ed pieces to spotlight the issues in Nigeria post-2019 presidential election arid to promote the rule of law and due process in resolving electoral disputes in Nigeria.

“Make television and other media appearances to engage in public advocacy discussions of these issues.”

In a letter replying Atiku’s request for their services, the firm said a “Nigerian barrister and trusted confidant of Your-Excellency Dr. Lloyd Ukwu, will assist in the operations of the U.S. Situation Room”

It added that Fein will be paid $30,000 over a 90-day contract.

The firm said its lobbying effort will demonstrate that an Atiku presidency is “the will of the People.”

It added that its services will convince the United States that an “Abubakar presidency” will open a fresh and new chapter in Nigerian politics, while “highlight the declining rule of law, democracy and clue process in Nigeria under the APC and the current administration.”

It said it will establish that if Atiku “is denied victory”, problems like genocide, poverty, corruption and strife will “undoubtedly continue.”

Another propaganda from APC. You have "won" yet begging and bullying everyone to recognize you. From CAN to the United States.
Haba! Don't you guys realise how shameful this is? We didn't even know that the United States is yet to recognize APC "win".

themomentng:
The outgoing Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, Monday gave what he described as two reasons the Igbo people failed woefully in Nigeria politics.

According to Okorocha, while briefing newsmen at the government House in Owerri, said that one of the reasons was that the Igbo people failed to accept the light coming to them.

He also said that the Igbo also did not appreciate the person who came to assist them.

Okorocha went on to say that he was confident that his certificate of return as Senator-elect for Imo West, would be given to him attributing what has been delaying his certificate of return, to game of politics.

The governor also said he gave banks in Nigeria, seven days ultimatum to tell the world whether he has borrowed any money from them. He also challenged civil servants in the state, to open up whether his government was owing them.

On the Imo West senatorial election, he said: “Elections have come and gone and we are dealing with the outcome. For the Imo West senatorial election, somebody said that he declared the result under duress. The truth is that the gentleman was employed to do a hatchet job and he could not do that.

“The drama is that he had another option he wanted to declare it in Owerri, at first he said there was no result and at a point he entered the toilet and suddenly he saw the results sheets and shouted who dropped this result here. What it means is that there is a game.

“I think that the INEC, should do the needful. We are in court and I think that we don’t need much procedure to do the right thing.”

On the allegation that he was engaging in illegal withdrawal of funds and selling government property, Okorocha said: “After that declaration, Imo PDP, went to town with the allegation that I have withdrew N17 billion. It is not possible.

“I have said this time without number, and I gave banks in Nigeria, seven days ultimatum to come and tell the world If I have borrowed from the banks any money not only that, I am not owing any worker in Imo state, I also challenged them in seven days to come out and say the truth.

“I am happy to bow out of government but I want to appeal that there should be peace in the land. There should be tolerance in the land. I here that they are counting my property, they should also go to Abuja, and count the ones in Abuja.”

Adding that, “I, Okorocha have failed politically for two reason, not to accept the light that has come to me and also not to appreciate the leaders that have come to help me.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2019/04/Okorocha-have-failed-politically-okorocha/%3famp

Okorocha has failed politically.
You all can read my link. It’s been corrected.

ijustdey:
https://www.tribuneonlineng.com/201805/

Looking for charm to save them from Buhari’s herdsmen terrorists. Yet, these same people will hail and support him.

I tire.

9jaArea:
Whatever Deji was prevented from smoking in prison he has gone back to it again.

I think he is right.
Buhari has been true to himself. He hasn't changed. We've always known him to be a despot, bigot, Fulani-centric and incompetent.
He has not deviated from these known characteristics.

Those group of people, on the other hand, have. Osinbajo for instance. From his conduct, can one really say he is a Christian?
Buhari, in comparison, has been honest about himself.

uchefefe:
Hello!

For background, I was born to a Igbo father and a black American mother. I grew up in the U.S., and because my father didn't teach me anything about Nigeria, for the first part of my life I didn't even know I belonged to another culture. As I got a bit older I would question him about things pertaining to Nigeria; his response was "that's not important" or "don't ask such questions, focus on your book instead". At some point I asked him if he spoke another language. He confirmed that he did, but when I asked him to teach me he told me "no one speaks it, instead we just use English" and I accepted that answer.

I had a revelation one day in middle school when eating lunch with one of my friends. Like me she was born in the U.S., but had Chinese parents. We had gone to school together for nearly 10 years, so I was shocked when one day she picked up a phone call from her grandmother and spoke to her in fluent Chinese. When I questioned her on how she learned, she told me that her parents had been teaching her. That way, if she ever goes to China she won't struggle to communicate with her people, and if she chooses not to go she'll at least be able to talk with her grandparents that don't know English.

This impassioned me and that evening when my father came home from work I begged him to teach me Igbo, even though "no one speaks it". He agreed and taught me simple phrases like "kedu", "afa m bu", and "o di mma". The thing is, which it was nice to know these things I could not actually use them to communicate. I didn't understand Igbo grammar and my vocabulary was limited to basic greetings. When I began asking him the name of household items and chores he became angry with me. He told me I was focusing on Igbo and not my books (even though my grades were great), and that he'll punish me if I keep asking so I stopped.

Getting more so to the point, I'm now a graduate student in my early 20's. While I have tried my best to study Igbo, I have met many frustrations that have led me to investigate Hausa and Yoruba. At this point, it simply pains me that when I meet people from my country, I have no means of communicating with people from my country besides English. I plan on moving to Nigeria in the not-so-distant future, and when I go I want to be fluent is something.

Between the three major languages, the arguments I have for each are:

Igbo
As an Igbo person, it makes sense for me to prioritize my language. I don't want to just sit there confused and lost during family gatherings, I also want to be able to speak to my grandparents who don't understand English well. That's really the only positives of Igbo though, even excluding the past experiences mention above, I've over all become disheartened by the idea of learning the language for a variety of reasons.

Yoruba
One thing I like about Yoruba language is that Yoruba people seem to have put a lot of effort into developing it and teaching it. Most Nigerians I've met in the U.S. that speak a Nigerian language speak Yoruba, despite the fact that I've met mostly Igbo people. In addition, of Nigerians I've met also born in the U.S., only the Yoruba's are able to speak their language. Despite that, my family roots are in the South East. I may be able to speak with more Nigerians by learning Yoruba, but I'll still be disconnected from my family. Yoruba people might seem to have less of a "complex" when it comes to their language than Igbo people, but I have observed it's still there.

Hausa
I've only ever met one Hausa family in the U.S., but from what I've observed in Nigeria they seem to practice their language the most. In addition, it seems like Hausa is a lingua franca for most of the country, and many non-Hausas are fluent in the language. Hausa is one of the few sources I can find unadulterated practice of the language. It's also West Africa's most spoken indigenous languages. It still has the same problems a Yoruba though when it comes to connecting with my family. I also don't know how realistic it is to expect to live in the Northern Part of Nigeria as I have limited experience there.

Like I said, I want to move to Nigeria at some point and that's where I want to raise a family and start a career. When I have children I don't want them to grow up like me. I want them to be connected to their people and be able to communicate with them on a level no other group in the world can. I can tell my children to love and embrace African culture and languages when I know none myself.

I decided to come here for insight from other Nigerians as I have no one to talk to about this in real life. Given everything I've said what do you think I should do? At the end of the day I just want a sense connectivity and belonging among my people. I want to put my efforts into learning a language its speakers wholly embrace so I can pass it on to my children.

Also, I don't intend for this to be tribalistic at all. I would also appreciate if responses avoided tribalistic sentiments.

You are Igbo, possibly bearing an Igbo name, Igbo people have a language, YET you are wondering what language you are to learn in your attempt to learn a Nigerian language?

Is this a question, really?

If you are French through your paternal lineage and you want to learn a language, will you start by learning French so you will understand your people more and the country or start by learning Kiswahilli of East Africa? Of course, what is logical is French!
Hence, why is this a question?

babslepe:
Oga you know nothing this guy will get life in prisonment or die by hanging . This is a lesson to all when you think you are too free you are not free at all use ya head all the time ,for one to complicate his or her life is very easy .And those wey carry government work for head na so e Dey be . Letting that boy go that day won’t have taken anything from him but the greed of extortion to satisfy his uncontrollable desire for alcohol ,food and women (cause this is what consumes 90% the money they extort from people )got into his head ,he should face the penalty rada rada

We shall see.
I hope so— we are on the same side, Chief.
However, institutions are currently broken and corrupted. So I’m not optimistic.

IamD18:
Very kind of her.
She did not abuse or rub the man's situation on his face, but tried helping.

They might end up as husband and wife someday.

Possibly.

CastedDude:
The hunter has now become the hunted. Inspector Olalekan Ogunyemi, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) officer that killed Kolade Johnson - was pictured in handcuffs during his arraignment in Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

The magistrate, Mrs. A.O. Salawu, ordered that Ogunyemi be remanded at Ikoyi Prisons pending advice from State Director of Public Prosecutions.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp. Kehinde Olatunde, had told the court that the defendant committed the offence on March 31, at 5.10p.m., at Onipetesi Estate, Idi-Mangoro, Lagos.

Olatunde said that Ogunyemi used his AK-47 rifle to shoot dead 36-year-old Kolade Johnson.

See more; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2019/04/inspector-olalekan-ogunyemi-pictured-in-handcuffs-during-court-arraignment.html

Until he is publicly tried and prosecuted, all these are PR campaigns to minimise the protests.

If you know, you know.

dachiwater:
Junaid Mohammed, a Second Republic member of House of Representatives has stated that the South should forget 2023 Presidency as the North will present a candidate in the election year.

The former lawmaker who claimed that zoning and rotation of power have collapsed and as such any region with the political strength can claim the coveted position, also accused Ohanaeze of collecting millions of naira to support Atiku Abubakar’s presidential bid. Speaking with Vincent Kalu, Junaid Mohammed who stated that the South should forget 2023 Presidency, added that the 2019 election had people who were responsible for maintaining law and at the forefront on mangling the election and upturning peoples mandate.

On equity in 2023, he said;

I don’t want to hear about this equity and justice, that is sheer nonsense.

The people, who abused this equity and justice, are the people from the Southeast because whatever we are talking about, in a democracy you cannot circumvent voting figures.

You can say it is time for my people. We will not vote for you and let’s see what hap- pens. I said it in one of my statements, look at the way the people of the Southeast voted during the last election; they have a humongous collection of votes and they all voted for Atiku, and they expect somebody to come from his own area to vote for them.

If you want other Nigerians to vote for you, you better look for other Nigerians and make a choice. Maybe, in 2023, Kanu will come and force all Nigerians to vote for them. Democracy is a question of give and take; you vote for me and I vote for you, that was what Michael Okpara used to say. You don’t vote for me and maybe you think that by abusing me on the pages of newspapers that I will vote for you. I will not. If I come back into active politics, it will be because of that. Let us see, for abusing people how they will vote for you.

Look at Ohanaeze, how they are duping people; they collected millions from Atiku. Let us see 2023, by the grace of God, which candidate they want to produce.

There are over 232 ethnic groups in Nigeria, how can anybody be a candidate of a group and expect to be voted by the others. You pressmen you have a responsibility to enlighten people. I want to see how they will pick the candidate from Southeast in 2023. Some of us traditionally, we don’t talk too much, but don’t imagine that we will keep quiet and do your own bidding, it will not happen. See what is happening now, we have started the second term of Buhari’s administration, but today, people are scrambling for 2023, and the Yoruba are saying that it is their turn. How it’s their turn, I don’t know.

We keep on making this mistake of agitation of, ‘it is our turn’ over and over again. After all, somebody says the classical definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.

This is what I see happening in Southeast; you don’t vote for anybody, you only vote for who gives money, also those who say they are in APGA; all those who belong to the Igbo faction of PDP. They should think back and think of their own generation of those who are promising and who are educated and who don’t see politics as trading. Politics is not trading; it is a serious matter.


https://unclesuru.com/2019/04/06/south-should-forget-2023-presidency-junaid-mohammed/

Lol.
What website is unclesuru please?

360degreess:
Shame to those online pigs supporting him...hope it's clear to you guys now?

Shame to them.

Next, I see Kano's Gandollars Ganduje resigning too.
The scathing video evidence is something Buhari in his character of integrity can never put up with.

MrTrend:
Indian Govt Extends Scholarship For Igbo Lady Who Broke 100-year University Record (Photo)



Read More At: https://www.brainnewsradio.com/indian-govt-extends-scholarship-for-igbo-lady-who-broke-100-year-university-record/

Corrected.

Osagyefo98:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/we-live-peacefully-with-our-hosts-says-hausa-community-in-nnewi.html?fbclid=IwAR2kHzr4iuBqbyAtQbN-RsOMkELtRMDc78g-Q4fNSUKqIAy6pbBLDdYjXdU

LOL.

These herdsmen don't know that the world now knows that they hide their murderous weapons in their markets, burial grounds and mosques.
You think your hosts in the South East don't know?
Foolish herdsmen terrorists. Igbos live in your place, use your markets and when their people die, they take the bodies to the East and bury them.
Do the seem. Else, go back to Sambisa.

Oluwabash:
“In the past three years, Nigeria has implemented more than 140 reforms to make doing business in Nigeria easier. The World Bank also reported in 2018 that 32 states of Nigeria improved their Ease of Doing Business environment led by Kaduna, Enugu, Abia, Lagos and Anambra states.

“In 2019, PEBEC set a goal to move Nigeria into the top-100 on the 2020 World Bank Doing Business Index (DBI). To achieve this, we will be pursuing the continued implementation of reforms across all indicators, including the implementation of legislative reforms, specifically the passage of the new Companies and Allied Matters Act and the Omnibus Bills; the expansion of the regulatory reform program which started with NAFDAC and NAICOM; and now to include other regulators; the establishment of a National Trading Platform for ports; and the concession of our major international airports.”

Below is the full text of the Vice President’s remarks:


REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, VICE PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE 2ND PEBEC AWARDS, HELD AT THE STATE HOUSE BANQUET HALL, ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2019


PROTOCOLS


It really is a pleasure to be here this evening to celebrate the phenomenal successes of the PEBEC and especially the reforms, but more importantly to recognize specially some of those who made it all possible. Our incredibly selfless and committed private sector partners and the sterling performance of many in the public sector.

In the past three years, Nigeria has implemented more than 140 reforms to make doing business in Nigeria easier. Some of the successful reforms include the ability to:

- Reserve a business name within 4-hours

- Complete the registration of a company within 24 hours online

- Apply for and receive approval of a visa-on-arrival electronically within 48hrs

- File and pay taxes online

- Access specialised small claims commercial courts in Lagos and Kano states.

The World Bank also reported in 2018 that 32 states of Nigeria improved their Ease of doing business environment led by Kaduna, Enugu, Abia, Lagos and Anambra states.

In 2019, PEBEC set a goal to move Nigeria into the top-100 on the 2020 World Bank Doing Business Index (DBI). To achieve this, we will be pursuing the continued implementation of reforms across all indicators, including the implementation of legislative reforms, specifically the passage of the new Companies and Allied Matters Act and the Omnibus Bills; the expansion of the regulatory reform program which started with NAFDAC and NAICOM; and now to include other regulators; the establishment of a National Trading Platform for ports; and the concession of our major international airports.

PEBEC has now commenced the fourth 60-day National Action Plan (NAP 4.0) on Ease of Doing Business. NAP 4.0 is running from the 1st of March to the 29th of April, 2019. It aims to deepen the reforms delivered over the past 3 years and drive institutionalization of the whole reform process.

We have highlighted key action items in all of the focus areas to ensure that they do not unravel, and to ensure we drive sustainability. Some of the targets achieved in the last NAP 3.0 include:

- Driving registration for utilization of the National Collateral Registry to facilitate access to credit for SMEs

- Clearance of all pending NAFDAC registration applications to improve efficiency; and

- Creation of a strengthened single joint cargo examination interface in all airports & seaports for import and export to reduce the time spent at the ports.

NAP 4.0 will focus on initiatives such as

- Enforcing compliance with SLAs across all indicators/focus areas,

- Driving the passage of the CAM Bill 2018 for improved effectiveness of company law in Nigeria (and as you have heard, what we are waiting for is the signing into law of the bill)

- Enhancing efficiency in the small claims court, and

- Enhancing the application and approval system for visas on arrival, to mention a few.

The Council will continue to work extensively with all MDAs, the National Assembly and other key stakeholders. All of us who have been involved in this incredible journey will agree that it has been both exciting and fulfilling even if admittedly sometimes frustrating. But that is the way of progress.

I congratulate you all for the great successes and thank you all for keeping faith with our joint vision. In particular we must commend the National Assembly for the great efforts they have made in ensuring the passage of very strategic and important bills. We must also commend our private sector partners who have contributed immensely to the technical output of the EBES through the secondment of professional staff to the secretariat.

Let me specially mention the KPMG Professional Services, Deloitte, Procter and Gamble, Banwo & Ighodalo, Aluko and Oyebode. The NBA-SBL was also particularly instrumental in the drafting of the omnibus bill. About 40 law firms worked pro-bono towards this effort. Our nation is truly grateful to you.

We must also specially commend the Hon. Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okey Enelamah, for his focused and forthright leadership, and the incomparable and tireless Senior Special Assistant to the President on Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, and her team.

To the rest of us, I think we have demonstrated that the work of creating a world class environment for commerce will be done by like minds in the Nigerian private and public sectors, and these are the exceptional ladies and gentleman such as yourselves who form the PEBEC family. Well done, everyone,

Thank you and God bless you all.

Released by:

Laolu Akande
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity
Office of the Vice President
4th April, 2019

The government of future tense.
Always, "is to..."

While in reality, this is the government at which people drop into poverty at the fastest rate.
Not even the military governments come this close in terms of incompetence.

famouscargo4u:
there are Nigerians in prisons and on death roll across different countries of the world. You are only pained because it is your tribe so you're protesting in solidarity. If it were a Yoruba that I am, I car3 less in fact, I would gladly recommend them to fast track the killing because we do not condone illegal activities and criminals. We place high premium on morals and values over money and wealth. We are OMOLUABI!

We don't need to know the names of all the Nigerians in prisons around the world. They would be, quite possibly, in their hundreds and I am not sure Twitter can take up those names in a single Tweet.

We just need to know the names of our fellow Nigerians killed by the Saudi Arabian government, so we can humanise them properly. If the names of Chelsea Manning and other Americans held/ previously held by regimes in the world are known, why would it be wrong to ask for the names of fellow, now killed, Nigerians?

LiveByNight:
Let me jump in , I am a Benin man and proud, I don't live in the west, I live in the northern part of Nigeria . I find the south west dirty , smelly and very insecure

Now let me interject and state why I hate you yoruba
.you guys are a heartless insincere bunch

You guys confuse manipulative behavior with intelligence

You are born pathological liars

You are untrustworthy and two faced

You are the most envious tribe of people in Nigeria , you pretend to want an outsiders success but the moment that same outsider starts progressing beyond your initial expectations you strategize how to halt , control or cease that progress

You are perpetually ritualists, before the internet everyone believed that the Benin people and the ibo are the most ritualistic and diabolical people, and Nollywood cashed in on this. Back then the news media hardly reported the real-time news in the south west until the age of the internet, today the world can see how deep rooted human rituals is in t he south west Nigeria

Yorubas are rapists and child molesters, it is endemic in your region, in the past I have had cause to live in of , ekiti, osun and Lagos as my job posted me around and I can tell you that what you read online doesn't reflect the reality in the south west. It's as if from childhood the your take pride in rape culture , they molest children and women daily .

Yorubas are the most tribalistic tribe yet the preach unity . Yoruba human resources manager gets to a company and starts schemeing how to get rid of other tirbes in high position and bring in fellow yorubas.

Yorubas corrupted the employment industry in Nigeria with their tribalism, yorubas turned some careers to their tribalism right , like accounting, human resources, auditing etc

Yorubas are just naturally terrible and evil , it's in their genes

And one that annoys my spirit the most is one Yoruba man had the guts to tell me that Benin people are their slave , that we served you in the old days !! I nearly lost my mind , I asked the stupid man if he is familiar with the old Benin kingdom and he just brushed it off.

Yorubas feel superior over Benin people because we are too quiet and homely ! We tolerate their insults and rubbish

Yorubas are masters of fraud ,419, scamming etc

You guys are always estate agents and can rent the same house to 10 people.. you guys started that nonsense, or you sell land as omo onile to 20 people.

Yorubas ruined banking , if you can check the efcc record check the tribe from which bankers who steal bank money are from the most ,99% Yoruba.. most banks hide this news so it doesn't make their institution look weak.

Yorubas started this steal culture as bankers , accountants , auditors etc yorubas are naturally criminals

This is harsh lol.

Unfortunately, most of these things are true.

famouscargo4u:
stop fanning the embers of hate. Was there anywhere she mentioned igbos of those that committed crime in UAE? She only reeled out their names as she did here.

Has she reeled out the names of those who were recently killed/ are on death row in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking?

Why hasn’t she done that?

You lots think you are speaking to people who are half-smart.