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Arutan:
Reno will excel. It’s a perfect choice.

Elusive001:
“Some of these nominees have a lot of cases with the EFCC. Their integrity is questionable. I saw the former INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on the list and was surprised he was included,” Okaba said.
Una want make he appoint men with integrity? So you want to have men wey he go dey fear to talk to?
For him to reward a man who had been insulting an ethnic shows that he is really the ine behind Reno's insults against igbos.
Tomorrow his foot soldiers will accuse PO of tribalism that is the one of the major constituents of their being.

SmartPolician:
You make a character like Reno Omokri an ambassador and not expect Donald Trump to call Nigeria a now disgraced country! Dey play!!

The ambassadorial nomination of Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has triggered controversy and division among the kinsmen of the former president in the Ijaw nation.

DAILY POST recalls that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Saturday unveiled a 32-man list of ambassadorial nominees, with Omokri among those selected.

Reacting, President of the Ijaw National Congress, INC, Prof Benjamin Okaba, queried the integrity of some nominees, alleging that several had pending fraud cases with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Okaba, while using Omokri as an example, claimed the nomination appeared to be a reward for his support of President Tinubu.

According to him, Nigeria needed men and women of integrity to represent the nation, especially in a period marked by severe security challenges.

He slammed what he described as the recycling of old political actors into sensitive positions without consideration for how such choices reflect on Nigeria internationally.

“Some of these nominees have a lot of cases with the EFCC. Their integrity is questionable. I saw the former INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on the list and was surprised he was included,” Okaba said.

Differing with Prof Okaba, however, a prominent Ijaw leader and convener of the South-South Reawakening Group, SSRG, Joseph Ambakaderimo, said there was nothing wrong with Omokri’s nomination as a non-career ambassador.

“I don’t see anything wrong in nominating the young man. He has worked as a presidential aide and has a wide range of followership. He has the experience and can handle the position well,” Ambakaderimo stated.

Addressing concerns about Omokri’s past criticisms of President Tinubu, particularly regarding alleged drug-related controversies and certificate issues, Ambakaderimo said past presidents had also faced public attacks.

“President Tinubu is a man with a big heart. Reno Omokri will do very well as an ambassador because he knows the game. He has the followership. Mr. President made the right choice,” he said.

As so often with Donald Trump it was a half-digested news item that prompted him to reach for his box of matches. After watching a segment on Fox News about attacks on Nigerian Christians, the US president took to Truth Social for one of his customary blasts. If Nigeria didn’t stop the killings, he warned, he would deploy the US military “guns-a-blazing” to get the job done. “If we attack, it will be fast, vicious and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians.”

Trump has got it wrong, or at best only half right in what one Nigerian commentator called a “scandalous oversimplification”. Nigeria’s problem is not that it fails to protect its Christians. It is that it fails to protect anyone of whatever faith — from criminal gangs, bandits and organised terror.

For nearly 20 years, successive Nigerian governments have failed to provide even minimum security — let alone job prospects or decent public education — in swaths of ungoverned territory. Many of these are in the predominantly Muslim north.

Into these lawless lands have rushed the forces of religious fundamentalism, kidnapping gangs and marauding herdsmen. Nigeria has at least three overlapping security crises, none of which explicitly targets Christians, but in which Christians — who make up half of the nearly 240mn population — are inevitably victims.

Kidnappers sometimes target Christian boarding schools, as happened when more than 300 children were seized from St Mary’s Catholic school in Niger state last week, believing they will fetch a good ransom. Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province, two Islamist groups that operate in the north, are happy to attack Christians, but also Muslims who do not share their medieval doctrines. Herdsmen, armed with AK-47s that poured out of Libya 15 years ago, are Muslim. Most of the farmers they attack are Christian. But their struggle is over land and pasture, not religion.

Christians and Muslims occupy senior positions in Nigeria’s state. Bola Tinubu, the president, is a Muslim; his wife is a Pentecostal Christian. The problem with Nigeria’s state is not that it is anti-Christian, but that it is outrageously incompetent. The security forces that have proved so ineffective at providing law and order are merely a reflection of other parts of government: they are riddled with corruption and ill prepared.

Much as Nigeria feels slighted by Trump’s characterisation of its overlapping crises, its pressing job is not to educate Washington, as it seems to believe. Its single urgent task is to seize the security crisis by the scruff of the neck and to bring it under control. This is a gargantuan task that entails nothing less than rebuilding the state, starting with the police and armed services.

Nigeria could, however, flip the tables on Trump. It has heard him. Now, it should ask, is the president prepared to help Nigeria tackle the problem through a multiyear plan, supported by Washington, to rebuild its law-enforcement apparatus?

In the long run, of course, even competent law enforcement will not end the crisis. A stronger economy with better prospects, more public services funded by taxes and the establishment of a secure investment environment are the best things the Nigerian government can provide.

To be fair, after years of disastrous drift, the ship of Nigeria’s economy may at last be turning around, providing the faintest glimmer of hope. Tinubu must now urgently set about building a competent state with security control over all its territory. In all probability, Trump’s attention will soon drift to something else. Nigeria’s must not.

elonize:
let's all b on d same page that he deserved it,but why is this same thing not given to boko haram members first?

Shimbo96:
billionaire single Father with 5 wives or what are you talking about. You and your Regina need rehab asap

elonize:
how many south east did e burn?and yourself plz show me how many politicians kip their families here and you already know y sm or most of them take dem outside d nation.
Don't laugh at him,for example if e didn't challenge the judge like u claimed, wat do u think wud b the outcome, dem go let am go abi?🙄😏.
Whether or not if challenged their rubbish judgement, na wetin them don plan to do am,na dem go do.no matter how u 1 talk am pass.
And mind u,this is pure oppression, why is the boko haram members being injected into the army. Did u c dem charge to court and give dem death or life sentences.even if they sentence 1of dem,its a shorter sentencing.
Mind u,I didn't call u a terrorist, I don't call ppo DAT.but mind u wen dem oppress despite d truth,I go know weda u nogo cry.check who was wrongly sentenced,weda they didn't cry

elonize:
ur turn go cm.

phoenix45:
A coward has spoken

MEGAWATCH:
It will take you to wake up your Awolowo from the dead to break Nnamdi KANU....

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Switruth:
Na craze u wan craze so but you no know...

DMerciful:
There is no evidence linking Kanu to any death