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Logins2125:
we're the same! Whether Ibo or not , as far as you're from South South and south east, we're all the same!

An Ikwerre man, or an Ijaw, or Urhobo or Itshekiri man, like Wike or Asari Dokubo, will not agree with that.

Logins2125:
Ibos don suffer for this country called Nigeria

FYI, the man arrested is not an Igbo man.

shortgun:
Tinubu's supporters are just as brainless, inept and intolerant as their leader. Why should the CJN's son not have a political opinion?
Hasn't Tinubu already proven beyond every reasonable doubt that Peter Obi was the better choice?

How has Peter Obi proved to be a better choice? Which of his performance metrics did you use to arrive at that conclusion?

emperor4love:
K,most yoruba nd hause in oil sectors won't like this

So is Usifo a Yoruba or an Hausa name? Be intelligent once in a while.

Scrap:
Nigeria federal house of rep basic salary is about 700k monthly. I always wonder where you guys are getting this millions info from. Stop being emotional and get actual facts. Some members can't even afford to take care of themselves financially. Their consultants are always on their neck for financial supports. Some do regret running for the office

Eeyah!, they are really suffering o. Please what can I do to help these polithiefcians?

All degree certificates from Cotonou University issued between 2017 and the present will be rendered invalid. Additionally, all personnel currently employed by the Federal Government are to be terminated immediately.

The federal government has authorized the termination of employees in both the public and private sectors who possess counterfeit degree certificates acquired from the Republics of Benin and Togo.

During a press conference held in Abuja on Friday to mark his first anniversary in office, Minister of Education Tahir Mamman revealed that these initiatives were sanctioned in a recent meeting of the federal executive council, which was presided over by President Bola Tinubu.

He said, “One of the things we did in the course of the year was — remember when information broke out about some of our students going to neighbouring countries —some not even going at all — to obtain certificates.

“The ministry set up a committee to look into that; the committee came up with a detailed review; that review was sent to the federal executive council about a month ago, which approved some of the recommendations from the ministry.

“Now the recommendations will be implemented along with other ministries and agencies affected, including NYSC, Immigration.

“Because we have to take some major decisions here, some staff who are affected faced disciplinary measures, and that the whole unit went through some kind of review.

“But by and large, we can’t have in our midst people who procure fake certificates and to compete with our students who graduated from our universities and polytechnics through their sweat, some spent four, five, six, or more years going out to compete with people who procure certificates right here without going anywhere, for a lot of them.

“So what the FEC now approves is that, through the data, that NYSC has, about 21,684 students that are parading fake certificates from Benin Republic, obtained between 2019 to 2023.

“Togo is about 1,105. How did that happen? They simply attend schools, which are not recognised in those countries.

“Remember, this point is extremely important. The non-recognition itself is in those countries. They are not institutions recognised to offer degree programs in those countries.

“Instead, some of our parents, take their wards to these institutions, and of course there is no way we would recognise qualifications which are not recognised in those countries.

“In the case of Togo, we have three universities that are officially approved and licensed to offer degrees, and in Benin, there are about five of them.

“So anyone who didn’t attend these universities is parading a fake certificate.

“And from 2017, anybody who attended a university solely run in English is wasting his time because it’s not an approved university. That is their policy.

“But a lot of our countrymen went there—some didn’t go anyway; remember, these numbers are just what we have, a lot of them didn’t even bother to go to NYSC.

“The number may be more…Some who attempted to but couldn’t succeed in the screening process disappeared into thin air.

“So in the final analysis, what the federal government approved is that the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, will issue a circular to all employers, whether public or private, to fish out anybody with a certificate from these institutions—that circular probably would have been out by now.

“And the Head of Service, has also been mandated to fish out from the public service anybody who is parading certificate from these institutions.

“So this is the decision of the federal government on this matter”.

“Let me take His Excellency Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the world back in time and history of the atrocities of Atiku and how he crippled a nation that President Tinubu with no single fault of his inherited a nation sitting on dynamite. Let’s not forget Atiku was in charge of the economy and former President Obasanjo gave him free hand until the Galaxy Backbone scandal happened.

“In 2006, the Federal Secretariat Ikoyi, was acquired by Babalakin’s Resort Ltd. A 15 storey prime asset overgrown with weeds from Atiku and OBJ through a Development Lease Agreement (DLA) for N7.2 Billion. A Court asked Buhari to pay N54 Billion to Babalakin for that blunder.

“The DLA, dated October 10, 2006, granted Babalakin Resort Ltd a 99-years lease to redevelop the Federal Secretariat complex, which OBJ & Atiku had abandoned for 7 years into 480 luxury apartments. This was on the eve of their departure from government. The transaction was one for the road.

“The DLA hit the rocks when the Lagos State government in the interest of the public indicated willingness in acquiring the Federal Secretariat complex. LASG insisted it should be accorded the right of first refusal since LASG is the issuing Authority of the C of O, coupled with other reasons.

“In 2002, the first three years of the Obasanjo/Atiku, manufacturing accounted for 6% of GDP. Nigeria’s GDP fell by half for the first time in 20 years. This was the year all textile factories in Nigeria closed down and unemployment was 28% within the formal sector alone!!

“In 2002, the United Nations estimated that 70% of Nigerians live below the poverty line compared to 48.5% in 1998 under military rule. Life expectancy fell from 54yrs to 51yrs. Two-fifth of every child below age 5 were malnourished and only 50% of the 128Million Nigerians have access to clean water.

“NigerDock is the largest ship fabrication yard in the West Africa sub region. When it was sold, its Ex-MD Engr. Nkpubre Okon, openly stated how ‘Mr. Job Creator’ ignored the Transport Ministry then to open a bid for NigerDock.

"Atiku’s preferred bidder, ‘Global Energy’ that agreed to increase NigerDock’s workforce from 4,800 to 6,000 as part of privatization agreement dismissed 2,200 immediately it took ownership. Jagal Group that took over after Global Energy lost out on power play also sacked 1,400.

“Nigeria Port Authority reform was purely contrived to grab landed properties. 10,000 workers were sacked and 133 bids opened for Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) properties consisting of 68 properties in Apapa, 28 houses in Ikoyi. The highest reserved bid was for a property in Ikoyi fixed then at N390.4 Million.

NIGERIA RAILWAY
“How can His Excellency Atiku Abubakar forget how 7000 railway workers were sacked in 2005 without compensation to reduce its workforce to 6,300? Another 1,260 were fired in 2006. When ATIKU and their administration were leaving in 2007, they left N5 Billion in unpaid Railway pension arrears.

“Nigeria Airways and their houses in GRA Ikeja, what happened to them? Then owned by the Nigeria Airways and all now sold to whom? Nigeria RE. The biggest reinsurance company in Africa who bought it? NICON Insurance who bought it? NITEL was sold for peanuts and killed by them so that their investment in AIRTEL, MTN, GLO, etc will yield dividends. NITEL House, one of the tallest in Marina was sold cheap to a former Speaker of the House of Representatives.

“What is the Status of National Stadium Surulere? Millions of Naira was budgeted for refurbishment by the sports ministry, yet there is nothing to show. Compare that stadium to Lagos State owned Teslim Balogun stadium and the difference is clear.

“Nigerian National Shipping line; where are the ships? They disappeared between 1999-2015 maybe that’s what encouraged Nigeria Air to disappear in the immediate past administration that President Tinubu is currently battling to ensure it appears. NEPA after Obasanjo spent $16 billion, they broke down NEPA to several units and sold it to themselves and NEPA is still not efficient while Atiku’s Mikano Generators are powering Nigeria & her businesses!

“Atiku sold Port Harcourt Refinery to their cronies in 2007 and President Yar’Adua reversed it because it wasn’t in the interest of the nation.

“The Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria AMCON, the company that was set up to help the rich buy their debts, once alleged that 350 Nigerians (out of 200 million citizens) are responsible for 80% of AMCON’s N5.4 trillion debt portfolio. The corporation also pointed out that, out of the millions of BVN numbers with the banks, only 100 BVNs collect 60% of bank lending. And this has left the banks with 13,000 bad loans worth 5.6 trillion borrowed by “big men” who are now fighting to remove this administration so that they won’t ever pay their debts!

“As Head of National Council on Privatization (NCP), from 1999, Atiku dug Nigeria’s economic grave for today’s extreme poverty and unemployment. There were over 600 federal assets when Atiku’s NCP started selling. Atiku should tell Nigerians who bought what and what was left for the country when he left power in 2007.

“To whom did Atiku sell the following companies:
NAFCON
Eleme Petrochemical
Daily Times
Ughelli Power
Egbin Power
NICON Insurance
ALSCON
Transcorp Hilton Hotel
NICON Luxury Hotel
Sunti Sugar Ltd
NetCom House
Bacita Sugar Ltd
MM2

“In 2007, Onigbolo Cement operating at 500,000 tons per annum was sold to Dangote at N1.7Bn. May I remind H.E ATIKU ABUBAKAR of Senate public hearing of August, 2011 which succinctly captures how Atiku through retinue of cohorts, fronts, shell companies, ring fenced over 70% of FG’s assets through a brazen daylight robbery privatization that he supervised. What I stated isn’t sensational. Its real life facts and all the Senators are alive today.

“The 2011 privatization Senate committee was made up of Senator Ahmed Lawan – Chairman, Senators Babafemi Ojudu, Philip Aduda, Mohammed Ndume, Ifeanyi Okowa, (I’m surprised he accepted to be his running mate in 2023), Hope Uzodinma and Mohammadu Magoro.

"Let’s look at Aluminum Smelting Company, ALSCON, which Atiku privatized. ALSCON, which Nigeria built with $3.2 billion, was sold to a Russian firm, Russal, for $130million. As of the time of sale, ALSCON had received $120million for the dredging of Imo River, but it was never done. When the Senate Sitting of August, 2011 asked the Russian company the whereabouts of the $120million dredging money, the company’s then Deputy Managing Director, Vitaly Kuzrestov, said that the money has been used for Environment Impact Assessment.”

“The Federal Government’s Five percent share in Eleme Petrochemical worth USD27 million was never presented at the National Council on Privatization before it was sold to Indorama. Indorama recovered this amount selling Polyethylene and Urea to the entire West Africa sub-region in just 14 months.

“The Atikulated Business Theory is a process of selling to yourself government assets that leaves millions in penury, to set his personal businesses that provide for a few. Atiku didn’t employ the few hundreds he employed because he likes them, he needs them to work to preserve what he took from the Government that mortgaged our future.

“A man who supervised sales of over 145 federal investments as a vice president, without a thought for the future and today he dares accuse president Bola Tinubu of mortgaging our future. In the words of H.E Peter Obi, if Nigerians are in doubt of all that I’ve said, they should ‘Go and verify!’

“To H.E. Atiku Abubakar in the Christian bible the book of John chapter 8: verse 32 says ‘And now you know the truth, and the truth will set you free.’ Learn to be a statesman rather than a salesman.”


Dr Josef Onoh......Culled from The Nation Newspaper, 23.08.2024

mbaise1000:
Now you are showing your own hateful nature by calling in people who are not mentioned in this thread.
What I said and I stand by it is that anyone who can not forgive whatever offence committed against him is not a Christian, I don't suppose you are one so how about you keep to what you know, what you should have done is ask me why I said he is not a Christian and I would have simply explained as I did here.
I didn't pass any judgement on that person. I stated a fact, I did not condemn him either, he is still alive, what I said is not necessarily for him alone, it applies to everyone, especially people like you who think that there is nothing wrong in bearing grudges, and living in pain like that person, if you are a Christian yourself, you will know that if that person dies in that condition without forgiving his mother or others that offended him, he will not be SAVED.
I am not saying that you must do it, because if you cannot forgive, you are not a follower of Jesus Christ. So keep being what you are but if you want to be a Christian, you will obey the commandments of Jesus Christ, and serve him the way He wants and not the way you want.
I stand by my comment.

Mr. Judge, and Mr. Holier-Than-Thou, are you truly SAVED in Christ as you are claiming here. Search yourself and judge yourself first.

PovertySlayer:
E no go better for APC.

Eeyah! Why?

Ibehchizzy:
Only Yoruba tribalist are enjoying the economy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Only Igbo tribalists like you are enjoying the country, that was why they did join the protest because they were selfish.

franchasofficia:
Why did Sanwo-Olu abandoned all the intra-city roads in Lagos to their sorry state?

I learnt you cannot move one meter in most parts of Lagos state like Ikotun, Isolo, Ejigbo, Satellite town, Festac, Oshodi, Mafoluku, etc without having a flat tyre or damaged car suspension due to completely worn out roads which Lagos state government have refused to maintain or repave except the ones done by Governor Ambode before they ganged up and pushed him away just because Igbos praised his infrastructural achievement in Lagos and supported him.


A whole mega city like Lagos is still struggling to maintain intra-city roads even in its central areas like Isolo, Mushin, Oshodi, Mafoluku? Tufiakwa

A hater and an envious demon sighted.

martineverest:
chatgpt/meta is that u?

Yes o, na me gidigba.

franchasofficia:
We Jews love you too


We are waiting for Iran to do pim, then they will be resetted to their original Persian era

Fake Jews.

Igb0s are transmigrators from Ile Ife, and far, far from being Jews. Read your ancient history journals to get the true facts instead of adopting a fake Jewish heritage.

Zooposki:
Only one state that has an advantage since the beginning of eternity. Abeg park well.

Why is your own state not having the same advantage? Or is your governor deficient of investment knowledge or shortsighted?

ednut1:
dangote has been divorced twice

Dangote was the one divorcing his wives, and not vice-versa.

chibnnodi:
Davido's grandma was Igbo, his mother was Igbo and he married an Igbo lady. It's a family history.

Davido's mother is not an Igbo.

The call likely came from someone who breached Hezbollah’s communications network.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

A phone call led Hezbollah commander to go to an apartment higher up in a building, thus facilitating his assassination, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Shukr, who lived an almost reclusive life despite his many activities with Hezbollah, received a phone call telling him to go to an apartment seven stories above the one where he was staying.

Soon after he moved to the new apartment, a strike slammed into the apartment and all those three stories below.

Shukr, his wife, two women and two children were killed in the attack.

The goal was to lure Shukr to a higher floor where he would be easier to target.

The call likely came from someone who breached Hezbollah’s communications network.

Hezbollah and Iran are investigating what led to the security breach and the assassination, but it is believed that Israel’s superior technology and hacking skills allowed it to interfere with communications.

Shukr was responsible for the attack on Majdal Shams that killed 12 children and is wanted by the US for the 1983 bombing of the US Marine Corps barracks in Beirut in an attack that killed 241 US Service personnel.

The US had put a $5 million bounty on the head of Fuad Shukr.

In addition, Shukr was a chief advisor to Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah and was the mastermind of the cross-border offensive that killed 8 IDF soldiers, kidnapped 2 others and started the 2006 Israel Lebanon War.

He was also instrumental in building Hezbollah’s arsenal from 15,000 to some 150,000, missiles, making it the best-armed nonstate actor in the region.

Shukr played a pivotal role in smuggling in Iranian weapons through Syria.

Hours after Fuad Shukr was assassinated in Beirut, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran, reportedly by an explosion that was planted where he was staying months earlier and detonated by operatives within IRGC ranks.

The two assassinations have led to a standoff between Israel on one side and Hezbollah and Iran on the other, with the latter threatening to attack and get revenge for the assassinations.

https://worldisraelnews.com/a-phone-call-facilitated-the-assassination-of-hezbollah-commander-fuad-shukr/

Wordson:
Will like to know what happens here after 90mins..

After 90 mins, it is going to be overwhelming victory for Chelsea, and tears for Man-City.

ilovewater89:
Why will Biden walk up to my door in Abeokuta?

To greet you naa.

LagosPrince:
I will buy the Labour party form in my ward in next election

Join the party first.

Vintage001:
My wife just gave birth to twins

Congratulations Bro. Which #Vintage wine we go take wash am?

MIKOLOWISKA:
You dint disavow them you dolt
You discord the process
Like you have another way of choosing leaders in your back pocket
Maybe we need military rule to teach you a lesson

Who is a dolt between me and you, who is quickly throwing insult just because your candidate of choice is rejected. What has that candidate done to better your life? Well, from your acidic defense, you might be one of those looting the state and taking joy in your present illicit influence and wealth in the state.

However, I don't give a damn if the military takes over or not. And whether you vote or not is your own kettle of tea, leave me out of it and take your nonsense elsewhere.

You are unnecessarily extending this thread beyond its usefulness, so goodbye to you.

MIKOLOWISKA:
You can't do it yet you don't want another to try
Is this not an evil spirit of ignorance /arrogance afflicting you?

Hope something is not wrong with you, am I asking you not to vote for whatever polithiefcian you wish to vote? It is my choice to disavow them as a possible candidate of repute, and there is no crime in it.

If you like vote Aiyedatiwa or vote Agboola, it has nothing to do with me, I don't believe in them, and that's that.

MIKOLOWISKA:
Why can't you run
Must you always vote for another if you think your so good

Did I tell you that I am hankering to be a Nigeria polithiefcian? They are next to a demon.

The two significant contestants in Ondo State, Aiyedatiwa and Agboola have no good reputation of integrity and moral uprightness, so why should I vote for them? And the rests are just hungry polithiefcians seeking to loot the state.

dauntless15:
Ehn and your bible preached forgiveness, if your analogy is the way I would have less than 5ppl to talk to in the whole world cuz almost everyone I know has hurt me a lot at some point, plus he's lucky his mom is still around, many of us didn't get that luxury, and I'm not even religious.

And how many are you hurting daily with your lifestyle? Are all your family, friends, neighbours and colleagues have a positive view of you, or can relate peacefully with you anywhere or anytime? Can you truly say you have no grudges or grievances against anyone in life.

If you can truly answer these assertions in the positive with complete honesty, it is then you may wear that garb of holier-than-thou you are assuming on this thread.

mbaise1000:
If this were from any one who doesn't claim to be a Christian, it will be understandable but coming from a person who claims to be a Christian and who claims to be an evangelist, (fort this is what I will take a gospel singer to be) this is not it. This comes to prove again what we keep saying that majority of people who claim to be Christians are in reality not christians, this person is certainly not a Christian. What exactly is he preaching through his music? Every Christian must be able to forgive every single offence no matter how many times, this is very difficult to do but only christians can do that, do this person is not a Christian no matter what he may claim.

Judge not, for the same measure you used in judging others will be used in judging you too. Can you truly say that if you stand in front of your maker now, you will not be found wanting.

You are not in Kirk Franklin position, and have not experienced what he had gone through in life through parental abandonment. When you go through that and find it in your heart to forgive, then you can maybe raise a negative comment about the man.

Many of you raising negative view of the man's disposition against his mother are the chief tribalists on this hate-filled platform. Just because their candidate lost an election, many are daily spewing acidic and abusive comments against the opponent and his supporters. Yet they are all preaching forgiveness here, claiming fake Christianity.

Focusmind:
See how cemetery should look like and not the public cemetery we have here, that looks more like abandoned forests.

More like evil forests, full of strange demons.

INVINCIBLECSP2:
Make things easy for your citizens and stop this rubbish statistics.
Make we leave our houses to go rent house there abi.
Thiefnibu should just do his miserable one term and get lost.
Ineffectual buffoon

And who is the saint or magician you are expecting to take over from your "ineffectual buffoon", that you believe will turn Nigeria into El-Dorado?

Forget it bro, Nigerians are corrupt from top to bottom, so much that no single person can transform the nation, except by dictatorial forces, through threat of death for any financial malfeasance.

Eriokanmi:
You mean Gbenga Daniel was in office in 2016 and same revoked the contract? Wonderful. Amosun won't support anything that won't put money in his pocket draudnnely. I remember the dangote refinery that was initially planned to be cited in ogun but was moved to lagos due to Amosun's greed.

I also remember the kms of roads which same dangote was constructing from ijebu igbo which amosun stopped cos the contract wasn't awarded to his crony and the idiroko road which winners Chapel wanted to rehabilitate with their money but same amosun was asking for the money or they construct the road and name it affer hom that he's the one who did it instead and oyedeposaid, to hell and stopped the project. These are the enemies of the masses you people are celebrating.

That you are trading all these accusations against Amosun doesn't mean they are true, because Amosun is almost the best performing governor of Ogun State. He transformed the physical infrastuctural ambience of Abeokuta, the state capital.

There are many beer parlour postulations on this hate-filled platform that are far from the truth. And yours are always part of them.

Beware of any contractual agreements with the Chinese, and the Russian too, they always have devilish intention towards African resources and lands. But it seems our governments are yet to learn this lesson.