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Shome36:
What about the pride Dangote alone brought to Africa? (the richest black man in the world)

brain is a rare virture. that guy has obviously not thrown a tribal punch at anything here. he only said a fact. All regions have there bad and good and obviously will suffer the burnt of disintegration if it happens excect free trade between them is ensured cos they all depend on one another

Shome36:
LOL.... those cowards and empty threat are like 5&6

but my question is this: If it finally happened ( Nigeria is disintegrated) where would Abuja fall into?

Seriously don't wanna misz the NNPC towers, CBN and the NASS

the drama is on. Empty or no empty we will see. abuja?

This is getting interesting really.


Niger Delta militants have maintained their stand on the expulsion of northerners from the South-south part of Nigeria in spite of warnings by the Acting President, Mr Osinbajo.
Despite acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s warning against hate speeches and threats from any part of the country, a coalition of Niger Delta militants has insisted on its quit notice to northerners living in the oil-rich region.
The militant groups, in a statement on Thursday, also lamented that none of the leaders of the northern groups that issued the quit notice to the people of the South-East living in the North had been arrested.
Signatories of the statement issued in Port Harcourt, who gathered under the aegis of the Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators, are John Duku (Niger Delta Watchdogs), Ekpo Ekpo (Niger Delta Volunteers), Osarolor Nedam (Niger Delta Warriors), Okon Etete (Niger Delta Peoples Fighters), and Asukwo Henshaw (Bakassi Freedom Fighters).
Others are Ibinabo Horsfall (Niger Delta Movement for Justice), Duke Emmanson (Niger Delta Fighters Network), Inibeghe Adams (Niger Delta Freedom Mandate), and Ibinabo Tariah (Niger Delta Development Network).
The coalition said, “As a follow-up on our previous press release, a joint meeting between the Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators and youth leaders across the Niger Delta region held today (Thursday) in Port Harcourt to review the state of the Nigerian nation and the position of Niger Delta in the Nigerian state. After hours of deliberation; we hereby resolve as follows:
“All northerners living in the Niger Delta have been given three-month notice to quit the Niger Delta before October 1, 2017. We still stand by our previous decisions and we demand the immediate return of the oil blocs owned by northerners to Niger Delta people.
“All oil and gas companies operating in oil bloc(s)/well(s) illegally owned by northerners should also vacate such oil blocs/wells/platforms before October 1, 2017.
“We demand an immediate relocation of the NNPC headquarters to the Niger Delta and the replacement of the Group Managing Director of the NNPC with an indigene of the Niger Delta region. All offices/boards/agencies that have anything to do with oil and gas should be relocated immediately to the Niger Delta region and all non-Niger Delta directors/staff replaced with Niger Delta indigenes.”

Let the Igbos Go But....
By David Ademule
15 June 2017 | Opinion/Feature
"Thereareboththingsininternationallaw:theprincipleofterritorialintegrityandrighttoself-determination."
~VladimirPutin,PresidentofRussia.
There is no doubt that the Igbos are an adventurous and ambitious people. Flowing in blood of the average Igbo man, I believe, is the desire to dominate, to get out of comfort zones and conquer new grounds. And since the love for adventure and wild sport comes with independent-mindedness, the Igbos historically had no kings, no rulers, to flog them into line, tosubject themto his own whims and caprices.The Igbos, therefore,think freely - having the rights to challenge constituted authorities. The Aba women riot of 1929 and the enormous difficulties faced in Igbo land by the warrant chiefs imposed by the British indirect rule system are worthy testimonies to prove that the Igbos are not conservative,at the very least. It would thenappearthat theIgbos have an inherent libido to challenge the status quo.
Permit me to say that it was the quest for adventure tinged with a strange dissatisfaction with the status quo that drove some Igbo soldiers to stage and spearhead the first military coup less than six years after Nigeria's independence on January 15th 1966. The coup witnessed the death of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the then Saudana of Sokoto and Premier of Northern Nigeria. SirSamuel Ladoke Akintola, the then Premier of Western Nigeria, was also assassinated in the bloody couptogether withAlhaji Tafawa Balewa, then prime minister. It was also on record that top ranking Hausa and Yoruba army officers wereassassinated in that infamous coup led by Major Nzeogwu Kaduna. Yet, no single Igbo politician was killed in that coup. The coup successfully installed the late Aguyi Ironsi, an Igbo man, as the head of state.
AlthoughChinua Achebe, the African literary giant, and other Igbo intellectuals have struggled, all in vain, to convince the world that Nigeria'smaiden coup was not an Igbo coup, had no Igbo agenda, but there have been insufficient evidence to drive home their theory. In Achebe's last work and masterpiece, There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra, Achebe decried the assumptions that the January 1966 coup was an Igbo coup, citing the involvement of a fewsoldiers from other ethnic groups but he could notname any prominent Igbo politiciankilled in that coup. Achebecould not explain why a coup led by an Igbo man, which installed an Igbo man as Head of State, an Igbo man who refused to punish the Igbo men (Nzeogwu Kaduna and others at large) who led the coup should not be tagged an Igbo coup.
Unfortunately, Aguyi Ironsi,rather than unifyingthe various federating units of Nigeria, introduced a unitary system of government which eventually sparked the fire of ethnic distrust and tribal domination in post colonial Nigeria - a major reason why the north led a counter coup in July 1966 to flush the Igbos out of power. The counter coup would set the stage for the civil war which lasted for almost three years between 1967 and 1970.
The civil war led by theBiafran warlord, Ikemba Odigmegwu Ojukwu,frankly claimed the lives of millions of innocent people, mostly Igbo, and property worth millions of pretty naira were destroyed. Hunger and naked starvation hovered over Igbo land for three years. Women and children, in an event now infamously known as the Asaba Massacre,were slaughtered by the federal forces, all to conquer Biafra - the land of the rising sun. As a matter of fact, Achebe described the civil war as a pogrom, that is, a deliberate effort by some organized bigots to wipe out the Igbo race.
A fine conscience cannot deny the fact that theIgbos were greatly disadvantaged during and after the civil war, many losing their life savings to greedy banks. Others who had huge property outside Igbo landbefore the warlost ownership to hoodlums and a few aristocrats who took possession of the property. As a matter of matter, the Igbos are still struggling to recover from the wounds of the civil war.
Today, about two thousand and six hundred weeks after the civil war, the agitation for Biafra has resurrected afresh and swept all over the country like wild fire during harmattan.IPOB and MASSOB, two ethnic militant groups, have been in the forefront of thisrenewed callforsecession. The groups are claiming that the Igbos havebeen marginalized and shortchanged in the unholy, cursed marriage called Nigeria. They, therefore, want an independent state of Biafra,which is notunlawful and illegal.
Very recently, a group of northern youths have admonished the Igbos to leave the north and relocate, tocarry their houses on horsebacks and flee the north in three months or less. The callmade by Arewa youths is not only condemnable; it is satanic and barbaric, the reason being that theIgbos are still part of Nigeria and consequently have inalienable rights to own propertyall over Nigeria. Even if the Igbos sucedes eventually, they remain rightful owners of whatever property legally owned in other parts of Nigeria. At best, theNigerian government may increase their land use tax because they arenowforeigners.
Let me state emphatically herethat the actualization of Biafra does not mean that every Igbo man in other parts of Nigeria should be stoned or that any Nigerian in Igbo land should be stoned; what a Republic of Biafra would mean is that there would now be a new citizenship status for the Igbosoutside Igbo land and for Nigerians in Igbo land. A declaration of Biafra in this modern age, like Brexit, shouldnotresult to bloodshed; there should be anationalreferendum to determine whether majority of the Igbos want to go or stay. There can be a peaceful Biafra; this is not 1966.
However, if the Igbos insists on divorcing Nigeria for good they must not subsume other minorities in the South-South geopolitical zone into Biafra except if a majority of the non-Igbo speaking nations there trust Biafra enough, enough to align with Biafra. Meanwhile, the old map of Biafra must be studied again and again and again by the bestIgbo geographers and ethnographers, so that the clear boundaries of Biafra will be known, to avoid a repeat of history.Let the Igbos go but they must only bite the portion of the cake that islawfully theirs.
"Whatexperienceandhistoryteachesusisthatpeopleandgovernmentshaveneverlearnedanythingfromhistory,oractedonprinciplesdeducedfromit."
~WilhelmFriedrichHegel,GermanPhilosopher.
David Ademule, a member of Amnesty International, is a student of human society and crime. He lives and writes from Lagos where he goes about carrying his enigmatic pen in his pockets.
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if I understand you well 9jaAgosurvive, you believe praying fire and brimstone will solve Nigeria's crowded mis
hap. we will be joking till eternity. we need practical knowledge and not all this kill Nigeria's enemy by fire thing

Nigeria Reacts to #HallelujahChallenge As Media Mogul Comes For Nathaniel Bassey
247nigerianewsupdate.co Jun 13, 2017 1:00 PM

Media mogul, Joy Isi Bewaji, has written a piece on Nathaniel Bassey’s trending #hallelujahchallenge a.k.a Olowogbogboro. According to Joy, It won’t change anything, you can’t pray Nigeria to greatness, as she further disclosed that Religion succeeds in Nigeria and is the bedrock of our confidence and convictions.

Here’s her rant;

“#Rant881

#HallelujahChallenge will succeed bigly in Nigeria. That’s a given. Not a miracle.

Religion is the bedrock of our confidences and convictions.

Reinhard Bonnke succeeded in the 90s with his exaggerated revivals in Nigeria.

Adeboye succeeds every first Friday of the month, leaving travelers along Ibadan-expressway pulling out their hair (the irony of that situation: a god worshiping mission that makes people swear and curse in god’s name for hours of traffic they have to suffer just so a few can practice a religion).

Christ Embassy succeeded on Television. No ministry is yet to beat the hours dedicated to Oyakhilome’s theatrics.

Religion succeeds in Nigeria.

If I start a church today, it will succeed. Calling or no calling.

Because we are not people given to anything apart from an obsession with things we cannot see or have any control over, whilst all that we see rot away and are destroyed by our innate corruption.

This cute online revival will change nothing; even if we gather half the numbers in Nigeria to spread their faith on third mainland bridge and cry out to God (apart from that good feeling that plasters your heart after belting out and sweating on a few hallelujah songs).

This is the era of knowledge. We are not Israelites under Moses. Salvation has come. Jesus has come and died. What else do you want?

We have had too many spiritual revolutions. What we need is a mental one.

You cannot pray Nigeria to greatness. It is impossible for God to move in a country where we allow our police to discard rape cases with the wave of a hand, and our politicians rob us blindly. It is not up to God to save the rot in our educational institutions or fix the drainage on our roads. It’s up to us. And we can’t do any of that on our knees. We get shit done in 2017 by cerebral drudgery.

Religion is like soda. It’s Coca-cola. That drink isn’t going to save anything. It’s feel-good… and like Coke, we are addicted to this feel good process. Every Sunday we go to church to get our feel-good tablet. Then we have to come out of that fix after a few hours and face the issues that have been haunting us for decades, still unsolved. Still in need of a different approach.

Religion makes us vulnerable, self-centred and clearly delusional. It attacks our rational and coherent capacity.

Things are moving well in your life and a miracle occurred in your life and you finally got an answer to something that had been bugging you in your life because you prayed. But your prayer doesn’t have the depth or promise to change the problem called Nigeria. Your little success is beautiful. But what does it matter when every part of the country you call home is a wreck.

If you have beautiful lips but your body is ravaged by cancer, what then does it count for – those beautiful lips?

#HallelujahChallenge will succeed bigly. That’s a given. Not a miracle.

Why then are y’all so surprised that you can gather 50,000 people online? Revivals are our biggest achievements. The most educated will bow to a man of God who couldn’t pass his WASSCE exams. It is why we are what we are.

Stop being so shocked that people want to serve God. It is what we do. It is the only thing we do well. When we are done, we go back home and justify a paedophile, or delay the transaction of a debt, or bear false witness. Or choose any of the 100,000 ways to live sinfully. Then the process continues the next Sunday. Like a dark cycle, like playing russian roulette, until your own dark faith and spinelessness kill you.

God, however, wants you to get your knees up and go challenge your Local government for a start. He wants you to write a petition and follow through in regard to Queens’ College. Or choose any 100,000 ways to fix your country.

Try #ScienceChallenge, a hashtag that hopes to promote facts through experiment and observation, and see how far that will go. It definitely will not get 50,000 people questioning why we, a people of over 170million, cannot produce our own malaria drugs.

Do you know if they close the borders of Nigeria we will all die? Over 90% of our daily needs are imported. Even toothpick.

But prayer is the key. Smh.”

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LordCrimson:
But that No1 breast dey look shoe

na fried egg

LegalBaby:
Color=deeppink] -They have unresolved marital issue/conflict
-They have a high drive
-Their partner had an affair
-They feel like they missed out on an experience[/color]

hmmmm really

justscorchone:
Since I started reading stories from joro on IG my mindset about nigerian women has been reformatted 99.9% of the women are money hungry bishes and would go to any length to sleep with a man because of the money not minding if he's married or not.

most of them are just lazy buboons waiting for free finance all around. just few of them are future thinking there life's. they all just want to use the latest gadget and latest designer wears. I pity for ther lives

a woman who will cheat in relationships will do so no matter how much you try for her. except in marriage anyway if you can't satisfy all her financial needs especially Nigerian girls, be sure she will Bleep your best fend. so if you still dey huzzle never get hurt when your woman cheats on you.

ifyan:
Who said Obama is more brilliant than Trump?
Read this...
Donald J Trump`s concerns on Muslims.
Something to consider. This is why we are in big trouble. Can Muslims be Good Americans?
Can a devout Muslim be an American patriot and a loyal citizen? Consider this:
Theologically, no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, the moon god of Arabia.
Scripturally, no. Because his allegiance is to the five pillars of Islam and the Qur’an.
Geographically, no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer 5 times a day.
Socially, no. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.
Politically, no. Because he must submit to the mullah (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America, the great Satan.
Domestically, no, because he is instructed to marry four women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him. (Qur’an 4:34). Can you see a court case brewing here?
Religiously, no. Because no other religion is accepted by his Allah except Islam. (Qur’an, 2:256)
Intellectually, no, because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.
Philosophically, no, because Islam, Muhammad, and the Qur’an do not allow freedom of religion and expression.
Spiritually, no, because when we declare “one nation under God,” the Christian’s God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as our heavenly father, nor is he ever called Love in the Qur’an’s 99 excellent names. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist.
Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic. Therefore after much study and deliberation perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both good Muslims and good Americans.
Call it what you wish…it’s still the truth. If you find yourself intellectually in agreement with the above, perhaps you will share this with your friends. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country. Pass it on. The war is bigger than we know.
To be "All-American”… One must support the Constitution and the principles of our Founding Fathers. There is no room for Sharia Law and Hudud or supporters of that backwards Islamic system of laws.
DJ Trump
US President
True or false?

just as they(Muslims) and their respective ideology has been the bane of world peace.

Ezedon:
What are they using it for

last born. to bury buhari

low self esteem at work. what other thing does she do that looks weird.

eniorisha:
Wooing ladies. Fear of being rejected. I always anticipate d resonse 'i av someone' , 'i am engaged' or i don't av time 4 guys now...i av preference for ladies above 24yr of age though.

good choice, 24 above, less stress.

my greatest fear is ending up unsuccesful, am a passionate good planner, and becoming poor after sends chills down My spine.

Secondly ending up loosing the woman I love which is what is staring me ryt in d face nw

1. b sincere enough

2, dnt start what u cant finish

3. Dnt gv up ur career 4 any girl, they dnt worth it

4. U wl b more heartbroken dan ur girl if she cant get over her ex

5. Dnt av ur heart on a girl who is indecisive

6. Fulfilment in relationship works wt u being financialy comfortable.

7. B strng enough 2 let go a girl who is nt api wt u

8. Dnt try keeping sm1 who has found reasons nt 2 b wt u.

Be comfortable financially, lv does nt exist, fantacy does infatuation does, comfort does,

love should make you comfortable and happy if not, its no love

hmm,
learnt not 2 hang on to an indicisive fellow/girl.

Don't remain with a girls who has nt gotten over her ex.

Run from a girl who is sturbon and wants things her way all the tym. U wl one day loose ur patience and dat wl turn u a bad person.

i jst cant help bt wonder y we remain wher we ar nt apreciated. Move on sis dats if u knw u were never d cause of his actions. Am nt sayn he is wrng neither ar u.

the two pple who have contributed so far, i realLy appreciate. Eddodor, i av equally tot abt combining skul and business 2geda. Tnks.

MPVGoddess:
it's your life

Don't let someone else live it for you

They can suggest, and you must consider

ULTIMATELY, YOU DECIDE, BECAUSE YOU WILL LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES NOT THEM!

How old are you?

Finally, please follow your heart, try what you love, if it fails, you can always change course, many roads lead to the same venue, and you have said you don't love to work for someone else nor do you really care about further education at the moment!

Hope that helps

tnks man. Sure it does.

papoose999:
Jungle justice is bad buh ds wud sound a note of warning to pickpockets nd co stop dah shii.....peeps in nigeria are on red alert mode

and wat befalls those stealing million and billions of our national wealth which who knws might av caused d kid's inpoverished state. A revolution is abt 2 take place in ds country against dis bastard loters and nt on a yng boy who may nt av even eaten for days

picture pls

hmm, did he really say those

Alikote:
better return your loot and have peace...dont bring Mandela into this your friend in theifferry has return 1 billion ex cg custom.obanikoro 100 m ameachi will also be force to vomit his when baba buhari tenure end

and u av 2 quote d whole lng senseless essay. U dey even dey gv am relevance

leetech:
I would go for siena and I Hv d both incase u wanna buy

tnks. I av always prefered it too but i heard it consumes fuel a lot

yedidiah:
Gbese re o...Dangote is losing money from the fall of the naira and from the excesseof his truck drivers.

not neccessarily excesses from his drivers but rather from its management. they load so much on dis trucks which further takes its toll on vehicle.

I tnk the government need to do smtn fast about this truck owners and company especially dangote. Dangote should b mandated by d federal govt to reduce its load tonage. how can a truck carry 45tones, dat amounts to 900 bags of cement and u expect it not to have break failure always. dats y they keep ramming into one place or d other

we are watching, however, d media can be very stupid, they can make u believe what dosnt exist. Hope trump comes up in defence of all negatives abt him.

i am seeking an option on what vehicle to go for for a personal transport biz. Toyota siena or a mitsubishi l400.

Based on
1. Fuel consumption

2. Durability and ruggednes

3. Spare parts and mentainance

4. Second hand value as i cant afford tokunbo for nw.

I hope 2 work with it myself for say 8months so as 2 raise money to buy a truck and go to skool afterwards

I am here because i seek direction.

Am a young school leaver(ND PRECISELY) I ought to b back to school for HND but for finance. prior to dis tym i had my IT in a bank, made up my mind against banking job except as a full staff.
presently i work with a haulage company in larfarge, although d pay presently isnt encouraging but i love what am doing cos of d experience involved, as av alway loved transport business as a whole. Nw preasure is coming frm home abt me goin bak for my HND but 2 me i wnt 2 work for lyk one more year, get a cab,preferably a mini van, run it myself for a tym being until i get money to get a truck. yes truck, i can stl get a good one at 1.5m to 2m. am realy torn between goin bak 2 skul and starting a biz. please, guys what should I do. skul or business. moreover i dnt lyk d idea of job searching as a person.

i am interested. We av got trucks at sagam branch of lafarge plant.