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Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has claimed that Oduduwa Republic will be created 6 months after Biafra becomes a sovereign nation.

Fani-Kayode, who has been publicly supporting Biafra’s movements for secession from Nigeria, took to his Twitter page on Friday, to insist on a referendum.

He wrote: “‘Treat the surrendering Biafrans well or risk their children rising again’- Gen. Phillip Effiong, 1970. Prophetic words.


“Oduduwa Republic shall be established no more than 6 months after Biafra has been created. Then we shall be free. TIME FOR REFERENDUMS!”

Yesterday, Fani-Kayode said Nigeria should be begging Igbos for forgiveness and not threatening them.

According to Fani-Kayode, the people from the South East need to be apologized to, after “we killed 3 million Igbos in the war including 1 million children.”

Larryfest:
This has got to be the most useless statement of this century he spoke only as a citizen of hausa land rite or what nonsense is this man saying.....for God sake he is the president of all not just any other citizen.

A senator has defended President Muhammadu Buhari’s controversial use of Hausa language in his Sallah message to Nigerians Saturday.

Shehu Sani, a senator from Kaduna State, joined Kola Tubosun, a language teacher, and other commentators to play up the bright side of the ailing president’s action, which has been widely criticised.

“There’s nothing wrong with the President sending Sallah message in Hausa language,” Mr. Sani said in a Facebook post.

Mr. Sani, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, said Mr. Buhari was not speaking in his capacity as Nigerian president but as a private citizen, since the country already has an acting leader in place.

“He is on medical vacation. He has transferred power to the Acting President. It’s the Acting President that is bound to act ‘officially’ on state matters, including speaking in ‘our official language, English,” he said.

But the senator admitted that the controversy sparked by Mr. Buhari’s use of Hausa was “avoidable” in the light of recent tensions in the country.

A civil rights organisation, Campaign
Against Military Impunity, has raised
the alarm over alleged recruitment
scandal in the Nigerian Air Force.

The organisation alleged that the Chief
of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sadiq
Abubakar, had compromised standards
in the recruitment exercise for non-
commissioned officers from the core
North.

“Presently at the Airforce Base in
Kaduna, there is ongoing pre-training
formalities and tests for successful
recruits, where 80 per cent of them are
Northerners”, CAMI said.

Executive Director of CAMI, Victor Coker,
told journalists in Abuja yesterday, that
the government should carry out an
audit of the exercise and courses going
on in all the military training
institutions.

“To unravel this misnomer, there
should be an audit of the courses going
on in all the training institutions. The
audit should look at the composition
and last three batches of those in
training”, he stressed.

“They were supposed to take 68
persons in each state; but after the
normal recruitment, the Chief of Air
Staff now brought over 2,000 names
spread across the core Northern States.

“Out of this figure, only 30/40 was
given to the South. This is not the first
time it is happening. Such things have
been done in DSS, EFCC, and even
police, Army and the Navy.

“We keep on preaching One Nigeria,
One Nigeria. But behind the empty
slogan of One Nigeria lies bare-faced
hypocrisy and grand design to
sentence part of the country to
perpetual slavery.”

“How can the desert be more
populated than the tropical rain forest?
This was how the population census
was done before independence”, he
queried.

The Majority Leader of the House of
Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila,
has faulted President Muhammadu
Buhari for using Hausa language to
convey his Sallah message to Nigerians.

DAILY POST reports that on Sunday, the
Presidency had, first time since the
President went on a medical vacation
to London 51 days ago, released an
audio message containing Buhari’s
message to Nigerians to mark the Eid- el-Fitr, commemorating the end of
Ramadan.

Reacting to the controversy trailing the
audio message, Gbajabiamila flayed the
President’s handlers for his choice of
language in conveying his message to
Nigerians.

Gbajabiamila, who is also the All
Progressives Congress caucus leader in
the House, told Punch that the
criticisms by different groups and
individuals were not unfounded.

He admitted that the President’s
handlers should have ensured that the
language of communication was
English.

Gbajabiamila stated, “The criticism is
not unfounded, but I am the leader of
the House in charge of government
legislative business not a Presidential
handler.

“I think that question should be
directed to those who handle Mr.
President.

But as a matter of opinion, I
would have preferred he spoke in
English. But, again, not every Nigerian
speak English, not everyone is literate.

“Yes, at this critical time and with all
that is unfolding, it would have been
better to speak in the official language.

“However, moving beyond the form to
the substance, at least now, we have
heard Mr. President speak.”

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The pan Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for addressing the nation in Hausa language.

Buhari in his sallah message to Muslim faithfuls had spoken to Nigerians in Hausa, a situation that has caused outrage in the country.

The Presidency had released the audio to debunk report that Buhari was suffering from speech impairment.

Reacting to the audio message by Buhari, Deputy Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chuks Ibegbu said Nigeria has descended to the level of a ‘Banana Republic.’

Addressing newsmen in Enugu, on Sunday, Ibegbu said the authenticity of the audio message should be investigated.

According to Ibegbu, if the audio was found to be authentic, then there was a big problem.

He said, “First of all, we have to ascertain the veracity of the voice because in these days of technology, a lot of things can be cloned, including human voice.

“But if it is true that Mr. President addressed Nigerians in a local language, it means something is wrong somewhere.

“I want to believe that the voice is not real, but if it is Mr. President that actually spoke, then, it means that we have descended to the level of a Banana Republic.

“The Federal Government should tell Nigerians whether it is actually Mr. President’s voice, or not.”

The Ohanaeze spokesperson stressed that the address couldn’t have been meant for Nigerians if it was delivered in Hausa.

“Which message; message to who; in what language? Is Hausa our lingua franca? If Mr. President wants to address us, he should talk to us in English, which is our lingua franca,” he said.

A former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Alani Akinrinade (rtd) has compared agitation being led by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Ken Saro-Wiwa, late leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP).

Akinrinade told Punch that the latter went about his agitation in an intellectual context which attracted sympathy from many Nigerians and the international community.


Ken, writer and environmental activist, was killed alongside his colleagues in 1995 by the Abacha government.

The chieftain of the defunct National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, was reacting to federal government’s handling of the agitation.

He, however, warned that Biafra and other agitators should not be treated as hoodlums.


His words: “It is usually treasonable to take up arms against one’s country – even to have violent demonstrations. But, one must keep asking oneself: why?

“Why would a normal person, especially from the educated class, participate in anything that would be either illegal or dangerous?

“It is not good for us to look at these people (pro-Biafra agitators) as just hoodlums. We know how Isaac Adaka Boro was treated.


“He didn’t have military knowledge. If he did, Nigeria would have been a different place today. So, eventually he died.

“The next charge was led by an intellectual (Ken Saro-Wiwa) and it’s not different from what these boys (pro-Biafra agitators) are doing now and asking for – except that he put his own in a very intellectual context and tried to make us reason with him.

“What did we do? The government hanged him, hoping his ideas would die with him in the noose. That’s where we still are today.

“Therefore, whether Nnamdi Kanu embarked on his agitation the right or the wrong way, the question is: what prompted such agitation?

“Why would anybody keep talking about Biafra after the carnage, the wanton destruction of lives and properties and the psychological trauma brought upon Nigerians, not just people from the East?

“I don’t have the mind to condemn the Indigenous People of Biafra, the (Niger Delta) Avengers, and other groups. Who created the situation for these people to think differently from us?” Akinrinade said.

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha,
on Sunday berated various group
agitating for Nigeria’s breakup, saying
“They will be disappointed.” This is contained in his Eid–El–Fitr
goodwill message signed by his Chief
Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo. The governor stressed that for Nigeria
to be great it has to pass through
“certain challenges.” He expressed optimism that after the
troubles, the country would come out
“stronger and more united.” The statement reads, “As Muslims in
the country and in Imo state, in
particular join their Muslim brothers
and Sisters all over the World to
Celebrate Eid – El – Kabir.
“The Imo State Governor, Owelle
Rochas Okorocha, has called for serious
prayers for the oneness and progress of
the nation, than they had done in the
past.
“What we need now are prayers for
the leaders and for genuine love
among Nigerians irrespective of their
tribes and religion, with honest
prayers, the nation would come out
stronger and more United from its current challenges. “No nation had achieved greatness and
prosperity without going through
certain challenges in the process and
concluded that Nigeria’s case would
not be different.
“Those expecting that the country will
divide will be disappointed and
Nigerians should begin to see light at
the end of the tunnel for the nation’s
economic and political growth. “This is not the right time for hate
speeches or to apportion blame for any
reason against one another, but time
for tolerance and understanding
among Nigerians. “We pray for President Muhammadu
Buhari and wish all the Muslims in the
country a memorable Eid-El-Kabir.”

omenkaLives:
All these rageddy ipob zombies have been programmed to do is shout "Afonja" with every breath they take. Wisdom and knowledge is the most alien thing to humanity as far as they are concerned.

Imagine how they've totally abandoned the the very essence of the thread to attack a poster who gave his honest opinion.

Sometimes I wonder if they have a manual for their foolishness because a dozen times over, I've tried to pretend to be or act as stupid as they do only to fail woefully.

At no point in time can One step a foot on this forum without the pain of being confronted by the stench oozing out their decomposed brains.

Would be the happiest man alive the day this country sees their back honestly.

seunmsg:
How will he be able to pay when sugar mummy, Deziani is in London treating a mysterious cancer while oga clueless is in Otuoke cooling off after his loss. The free oil money he enjoyed under the stealing is not corruption regime of Jonathan is gone forever.

Last night we noted that yet another
luxury condo at Manhattan’s One57
tower, a member of “Billionaire’s Row,” a group of high-end towers
clustered along the southern edge of
Central Park, had gone into
foreclosure - the second in the span
of a month. The 6,240-square-foot, full-floor penthouse in question,
One57’s Apartment 79, sold for $50.9
million in December 2014, making it the
eighth-priciest in the building and likely
the largest residential foreclosure in
Manhattan's history. According to Bloomberg, the owner of the apartment attempted to conceal
his/her identity by using a shell
company (you know how those kooky
billionaires can be) but was able to
obtain an 'unusually large' mortgage
with an even more unusual term: one- year.
In September 2015, the company took out a $35.3 million mortgage from
lender Banque Havilland SA, based in
Luxembourg. The full payment of the
loan was due one year later, according to court documents filed in
connection with the foreclosure. The borrower failed to repay, and now Banque Havilland is forcing a sale to recoup the funds, plus interest.
Of course, it was only a matter of time
until the mystery man behind
Manhattan's most recent luxury real
estate epic fail was exposed. As such, meet Nigerian oil magnate, Kola
Aluko.
As it turns out, the world renowned,
Nigerian-born, billionaire playboy is
about $25,000 behind on his
property taxes. But, that is probably the least of his worries as the New York Post points out that he currently wanted by authorities in both Nigeria
and Europe for defrauding the Nigerian
government out of oil sale profits.
Meanwhile, it seems that the only
reason Aluko isn't already in prison is
because the Nigerian courts can't seem
to find him to serve papers. Apparently he's been hiding out on
this 213-foot, $100 million yacht, the
Galactica Star, for over a year. Over the past year, the boat has been
spotted making port calls in Cancun,
Mexico and Turkey. Of course, if you're going to be an
international playboy then you need to
have rich and famous friends and, as it
turns out, rappers Jay-Z and P. Diddy seemed to have fulfilled that role for
Aluko. Back in 2012 the rap duo apparently hosted Aluko's birthday
party in Beverly Hills. Then, just a few years later in 2015, Jay-Z and wife Beyonce rented Aluko's mega-yacht
for the bargain basement price of
just $900,000 per week to sail around
the Mediterranean.
Well, presumably it was fun while it
lasted.

QueenOfNepal:
Stop disappointing those who look up to you. The poll talks about buhari v gej.



How long has Osibanjo acted? I'm sure you are a parody of the Maupe Ogun we Know

Nigerians have said that the country is more divided under Buhari-led administration than the Jonathan’s administration.

This was gotten from an online poll conducted on Twitter by former media aide to Ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan,Reno Omokri.

According to the polls, those that think Nigeria is more divided under Buhari’s adminstration had over a thousand votes while otherwise for Jonathan’s administration were just 135.


Recall that acting President,Yemi Osibanjo, on Tuesday met with elders and leaders in the Northern States at the Presidential Villa, Abuja to address the issue of disunity and calls for disintegration.

He warned youths in the North that the Federal Government will not take the threats issued to the Igbos lightly.

Former aide to the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe has written an advisory letter to the ActingPresident of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

In the letter he entitled “The State of Our Divided Nation” and shared via his Facebook page, Okupe warned that the drum of war was sounding very loudly from everywhere now.

He said that things will soon fall apart in the country if no adequate measures were taken to address the situation.

He advised Osinbajo to set up committees that will approach both Southern and Northern leaders to address the issues of restructuring the county and hate speeches flying about.

Okupe wrote, “It is no longer news that things area 'no longer at ease’ in our nation, what we all fervently pray for is that ‘things should not fall apart’ as our late distinguished novelist, Chinua Achebe, wrote in two of his very popular novels.

“The drums of war are becoming extremely loud and are sounding from everywhere. The shouts of injustice, marginalization, inequity, nepotism are deafening… separatists movements are springing up from every part of the land.

“Never in our chequered history has visceral hate with so much outpour of potent venom been spewed publicly in our country. Certainly Nigeria will never be the same again.

“This time around, we have allowed the sword of division to penetrate the very fabric of our unity; even up to its marrow.

“Because of deep seated anger, frustration and uncontrolled impudence and widespread impunity, outbursts from various quarters and conclaves have crossed the line of civility.

“But we must not allow our sordid and painful past conflict with our present: to do so will be to jeopardize our future, as the saying goes.

“However, Winston Churchill said: ‘Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of deep thinking and confusion of counsel… all these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

’“Your Excellency Sir, this is the time to act and act decisively. If you act now, ‘History will be kind to you because you would have written it yourself.

’“It is perhaps for this reason; as Mordecai said to Esther that the Lord God Almighty who you serve deliberately chose you out of the many available persons of stature in Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political dynasty,

“What I am about to say next may be seen in some quarters as impertinent. But I believe that my experiences borne out of closeness to and with two past presidents in moments of severe national distress, compels me all the same to submit my thoughts to you on the present situation of the country, with all humility for your consideration.

“Your Excellency, may I therefore suggest as follows:

“1. Set up a high powered Federal Government Committee to meet urgently with IPOB and stakeholders in the South East.

“2. Let a similar committee meet and team up with a committee of the Northern Governors Forum with the aim of evolving strategies to engage in consultations with Northern leaders and stakeholders.

“3. A similar team may closely interface with militants and stakeholders in the Niger-Delta area.

“4. Let a strong team from the Presidency, including the Attorney General, meet at different times with the leadership of the South who were members of the confab, and also their counterparts from the North.

“The aim of their engagement will be towards finding a renewed consensus on their previously published agreement or at least redefining what is agreeable now and what still requires further consultation and mediation.

“Part of the agenda of this team will be to resolve once and for all, the issue of restructuring of the federation.

“All the above activities should commence immediately and must be concluded within 6-8 weeks.

“Thereafter, the Federal Government will collate all the information and come up with a working document within another 4-6 weeks.

“The final document (NOT Government White Paper) is now circulated to members of the Council of States at least 2 weeks before a scheduled meeting which will deliberate on this pertinent national issues and advice the Federal Government on the road map to explore towards resolving these national issues.

“May the Almighty God direct you which way to follow, grant you divine wisdom to manage these delicate affairs and give you the courage to do that which is right, just and equitable.

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has advised Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to desist from agitating for secession, saying the Igbos were not ready for another civil war.

Okorocha gave the advice at a news briefing at the Government House in Owerri on Tuesday.

He also urged the Movement for Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and other Nigerians in diaspora,drumming support for the actualisation of Biafra, to stop.

Okorocha called on Igbo youths to calm down and redirect their agitation toward the actualisation of economic advancement of Igbos rather than asking for a new sovereign nation.

On the recent sit-at-home ordered by IPOB and MASSOB, he said the exercise succeeded because the people, especially traders wanted to avoid trouble.

He described the statement by the Arewa youths directing Igbos to leave the North as “nonsensical and inciting’’.

The governor said that Igbos were peaceful people, who had come a long way in contributing to the economic development of the country, adding that no other ethnic group had contributed as much.

He called for reorientation of youths to repair the broken political relations between the North and the East and end the existing hatred and division between them.“We have failed as leaders hence the campaign of hate for one another; we need to take responsibility and end it.“We need to rise and take steps to end it and get rid of the inherent hatred and division we inherited from the colonial masters,” he said.

Okorocha also said that agitation over the leadership of the country by the different geo-political zones in the country was an ill-wind which had not done something good to the country.

He, therefore, called on all Nigerians to guard against hatred and unite to fix broken relationships.

Former governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has said he withdrew his support for former President Goodluck Jonathan because he believed that a Jonathan second term would have ruined the country. Before the 2015 general election, Oshiomhole was the only South South governor in the opposition party and some expected that Oshiomhole’s hands might be tied by his geographical kinship with the former president. In the current edition of the Interview Oshiomhole said, “Competence that was expected was not there. The level of fairness was not there. And even if you talk about sentiments, the sentiment of servicing the geo-political zones, the South South had nothing to boast of. Even the road to Yenagoa did not show that a president came from there!”He also said he referred to a private meeting where he advised, through Jonathan’s former Chief of Staff, Mike Oghiadomhe, that the former president should not contest after 2011, but his advice was ignored.“I said,” Oshiomhole recalled, “let Jonathan complete Yar’Adua’s second term and handover to a northerner…”In the current edition, described by the MD/Editor-In-Chief, Azu Ishiekwene, as “perhaps one of the most exhaustive in the magazine’s nearly two-year history,” Oshiomhole also spoke, for the first time, on why he accepted the N200m severance package approved for him by the Edo State House of Assembly.“I was never going to talk about it (the severance package),” he said, “but I have to say it now so that you can understand where I’m coming from.”The former labour leader then delved into his decades of service as a union leader “without a kobo” as severance benefit, the legal challenge he mounted to remove his predecessor and his legacy, among many other explosive subjects.

Jorussia:
I have been following Ishmael for about four years now,and i must say he is a very intelligent person. I wonder why he has not been giving a federal appointment all this while.Congratulations to pyo for correcting the mistakes of pmb.

The Former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major HamzaAl-Mustapha and the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) Chief Ralph Nwazuruike, ‎ Monday, met in Kaduna to broker peace over the quit notice issued to Igbo to leave the northern region by a coalition of Northern youths.
The meeting held at the Arewa House where the norther youths made their infamous declaration was convened by Major Al-Mustapha apparently to douse tension caused by the declaration.
Major Al-Mustapha‎ challenged the youths in the region to allow reason to prevail and resist the temptation to be used to ferment trouble that would affect the unity of the country.He alluded that the present crisis in the country as a result of divisive utterances from various groups may have been sponsored by countries that envy Nigeria, adding that these countries could even sponsors their lackeys into leadership positions in Nigeria.“We are appealing that our younger ones whom have been declared wanted should be set free, and the order of arrest should be rescinded because it is not the solution” he said‎In his remarks, the leader of MASSOB leader, Chief Raphael Uwazurike noted that the crisis in Nigeria is being manipulated and caused by politicians, stressing that “the youth must not allow that, the country must continue to exist as one nation but issues of marginalization can be discussed. Nwazurike explained that when he founded MASSOB in 1999, it was purely meant to be a peaceful platform through which issues of perceived marginalisation of the Igbo’s in Nigeria could be discussed and tackled. He said though it was right for any part of the country to seek self determination, it was wrong to pursue same through violent means.“I handed over Radio Biafra which I created to Nnamdi KANU in London as the managing director and was hoping it would serve the purpose for which it was created, but was disappointed that politicians hijacked it and it became something else,” he said.He assured the Northerners in all the Eastern part of the country of their safety, saying that he was happy it’s same assurance of the safety of easterners in the north byMajor Hamza Almustapha (rtd).“I want to assure northerners that your people in the South east are safe and nobody will harass them and am ‎happy that my friend Al-Mustapha has also given same assurance of the safety of our people in the north.“Self determination without violence is a fundamental right, we must strive against sowing the seed of discord ‎but do all that willpromoted peace and justice.“There is a gap of communication from our leaders which needs to bebridged hence we are meeting withnotable leaders in the north to persuade them that there is no cause for alarm” he noted.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan
has said Nigerians are desperate to
know more about his regime. Jonathan was speaking in reaction to a
new book by his former aide, Reno
Omokri. Omokri captured important events in
the last administration in ‘Facts versus
fiction: The true story of the Jonathan
years, Chibok, 2015 and the
conspiracies’. The book is already an
Amazon bestseller. In a Facebook post on Sunday,
Jonathan said the book has emerged a
bestseller on the global platform
because “Nigerians are hungry for the
truth”.
“In a mere 24 hours, a book on my
administration, Facts Versus Fiction:
The True Story of the Jonathan Years,
Chibok, 2015 and the Conspiracies,
became a worldwide #9 bestseller and
the #1 trending topic in Lagos, Abuja and the entire nation of Nigeria,” he
wrote. The book was 23rd in the ‘politics and
social sciences’ category on Amazon on
Saturday.
It has now risen to 11th on the same
category.

The Movement for the Actualization of
the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB,
weekend, described the directive given
by Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna State to
arrest the northern youths who issued
quit notice to Igbos in the region as deceptive and a cover up for the plots
the North has put in place against
Ndigbo. MASSOB made the accusation in a
statement issued in Abakaliki, Ebonyi
State, by its Director of Information,
Comrade Edeson Samuel. Samuel stated that anybody asking
Ndigbo to remain in the North was an
enemy of Ndigbo. He accused Northerners of deriving
pleasure in shedding the blood of
innocent people at the slightest
provocation. He said Ndigbo living in the North
should not listen to those false
promises made by Northern governors
because on the day of attack, none of
these governors will show their face
until after the killing.
The statement read in part, “Massob is
maintaining its earlier stand on the
quit notice given to Ndigbo in Northern
Nigeria. “We congratulate them for taking the
bull by its horn. When a landlord is no
longer interested in his tenants, the
best way is to serve him quit notice
instead of using thugs to eject him. “The Northerners have given us quit
notice, it is our duty to vacate their
land without delay. It is better we part
in peace than in pieces. “The Bible says that two cannot work
together unless they agree. The north
and the east are like oil and water,
which cannot be mixed. Our culture
and religion differ. “We the Igbo value lives, we hate
shedding of blood but the Northerners
derive joy in shedding the blood of
innocent people.
“Anybody encouraging Ndigbo to
remain in the north is an enemy of
Ndigbo.”