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Fuel has never been cheap in the East, except from the NNPC mega stations
In very many places there, 160 +/- a few naira is more like what people pay for fuel even before the increase.

Hm!!
Igbo bu Eze ego

GeneralGEJ:
dont forget my secret.  share it with the rest of ibos - I am trying my best to deliver a ibo president  - but it is going to be tough.  Please go easy on the anti yaribas threads , u will need their votes

Every Nigerian zone needs the vote of the other. This is  a time-tested fact. However, it is a matter of rub my back I rub yours. Igbos have rubbed others' back. We have rubbed North's, SW's (Abiola, OBJ) and SS's back. For the purpose of equality and justice, 2015 is our turn to get our back rubbed. Otherwise, it is going to be a political stand off that we will have to sit down and harsh out. As you can see from the last election, Igbos are beginning to see the strength in their numbers and the strength in using that number for a common goal. We practically put GEJ there, damning all the juicy lures from his opponents.

GeneralGEJ:
These Ibos think i gave shitttt about thems.  All i need is your vote
the owners of Nigeria my boss - will never allow an ibo president.  

but let meshare a secret with you  - the voting block of se/ss can nver deliver presidency for you - fact. hence you wil have no choice but to beg the yaribas for vote.  another secret - the relationship btw ss/se is fake. I has an ijaw man dont trust an ibo man.

Is this the original GEJ or the mutant one? We know GEJ, who are you?

This man did not escape by himself. He was helped to do so. GEJ has said there are BH insiders in his govt. He better finds them fast before they consume him.

Boko Haram= no western education
Yet, Boko Haram bomber is studying in the West, in London.
Abdul muttalab, the Detroit pant bomber also studied in London

What sort of hypocrisy is this?

Clearly, this is not just about religion (I have said this over and over), but about more about eliminating Jonathan using the killing of others (Christians and Igbos in particular) as the bait.

Escapee Boko Haram Master Mind of Christmas Day Bombing is Post Graduate Student in London

Written by Naija Pundit on 17 January 2012.
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The Boko Haram suspect alleged to have masterminded the St. Theresa's day Christmas bombing is said to have escaped custody after policemen took him to his house at Abaji close to Abuja, to conduct a search.

According to a witness, trouble flared up when policemen from Abuja city brought the suspect in a Toyota Hilux van. A gang of youths flagged down the vehicle as it was heading for the Ona of Abaji’s Palace, creating a chaos during which the suspect escaped.

It has just been confirmed that Ibrahim Umar Abba (not Kabir
Sokoto as was previously reported) the Matser mind of the Christmas day bombing by Boko Haram of the .St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Madalla is a  Post Graduate student of the University of Birmingham in the UK.

It would be recalled that he was arrested at the Borno State Governor's lodge while planning to flee the country for the United Kingdom.

It may be recalled that this is not the first time that Nigerians or indeed young Muslims have been radicalized in England. It may be recalled that after the 911 attacks perpetrated by Al Qaeda, many young Muslims had become radicalized in London and all over the United Kingdom and had travelled to Afghanistan to help the Taleban fight against the U.S. led invasion.

It would also be recalled that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab began his studies at University College London in September 2005, where he studied Engineering and Business Finance. It was in London that he became radicalized by radical Islamic groups and organized a  lecture while he was president of the school's Islamic Society. The lecture was titled  Jihad v Terrorism and was billed as “a lecture on the Islamic position with respect to jihad".

Meanwhile, the Borno State has reacted to the arrest of the suspect at their State Governor's lodge.

In a statement issued Monday by the Secretary to the Government of Borno State, Ambassador Baba Ahmed Jidda, the state government said it was a case of security breach which it is now investigating.

He described as “untrue, misleading, callous” attempts by “some detractors to turn the truth on its head and to try to score political points with a very serious matter of individual and state security”.

Governor Kashim Shettima, he said, immediately ordered an investigation.

Jidda wrote: “On the evening of Thursday, January 5, one Ibrahim Umar Abba, an indigene of Borno State and a post-graduate student at the University of Birmingham in the UK, called the permanent secretary of the Borno State Liaison Office in Abuja.

“He said he was scheduled to catch a British Airways flight back to the UK the following day and would like to spend the night at the Governor’s Lodge in Abuja. The permanent secretary, who at the time was in Maiduguri, granted Ibrahim Abba Umar permission to spend the night at the lodge.

“When Ibrahim Umar Abba turned up at the lodge, he came with two other persons, one of them an Air Force officer, the other a civilian. Neither of them is known to His Excellency the Governor, or to any other official of the Borno State Government. It turned out that the security agencies were on the trail of one of the three men, later identified as Kabiru Sokoto. The security agents arrived at the lodge and arrested the three ‘guests’ as well as all the staff of the Governor’s Lodge.

“I will like to state emphatically that neither His Excellency Governor Kashim Shettima nor any other top official of the Borno State Government ever knew the said Kabiru Sokoto or the other two men. In fact, their surreptitious gaining of entry into the lodge where His Excellency often stays during his visits to Abuja is a very serious breach of security which has caused acute embarrassment to the state government.

“I will also like to remind the public that in the last one year alone, many leaders of the Borno State ANPP have been assassinated by suspected members of the Jama’atu ahlus Sunnah Lid’dawa’ti wal Jihad. They include the late Awagana Ali Ngala, then North-east Vice-Chairman of ANPP; Alhaji Modu Fannami Gubio, ANPP gubernatorial candidate Borno State; Honourable Mustafa Baale, Chairman of Jere Local Government; Fannami Ngranam, ANPP Chairman for Jere Local Government; Goni Modu Sheriff, Chairman of Ngala Local Government and many others.

“How therefore can the Borno State ANPP chapter and the state government that it controls possibly be in cahoots with or knowingly shelter a suspected member of the sect thought to be behind the cold blooded murder of so many of our leaders? The truth of the matter is that the incident was a major security breach by men who have the sinister intention to cause harm to His Excellency Governor Kashim Shettima, but for the providence of God. They have been plotting this for a long time and they succeeded in penetrating the Governor’s Lodge and spending a night there due to the sloppy breach of procedure by an innocent government official.”

http://www.naijapundit.com/news/escapee-boko-haram-master-mind-of-christmas-day-bombing-is-post-graduate-student-in-london

ak47mann:
i believe that self employ is not meant 4 everybody,but time has come for others to use their heads to make a living,

Not everyone can muster the intellect to be self employed. E dey for blood.

@op, why are you apologizing for doing the right thing?

This has to do with why the protest was so loud in the SW: poverty

Emerging trend of social almajiri in Yorubaland
By Hakeem Jamiu

There is a social malaise which is gradually creeping into the lexicon of Yorubaland and this is the ugly spectre of hungry children begging for food and alms at social events. Older women are equally not left out in this ugly but strange practice in Yorubaland. It is strange in Yorubaland because the concept of almajiri which simply means street urchin is common in the Northern part of the country. Yorubas use to refer derisively to anybody soliciting for arms in Yorubaland in the olden days as almajiri. The almajiri of the North are usually children between the age bracket of 7 and 20 in most cases. Almajiris are so desperate for food that any unsuspecting visitor to the Northern part of the country who goes to a restaurant to eat but mistakenly left his food to wash his hands is likely to lose such to waiting almajiris before he comes back for the food.


I first noticed this ugly trend at a ceremony I attended a few months ago at Ayetoro Ekiti. Elderly and middle aged able bodied women from Kwara, Osun and Oyo states invaded the burial ceremony uninvited and were embarrassing guests who refused to give them money. Also noticeable were children with their begging bowls who thronged the venue of the ceremony soliciting for left over food and alms. The children were a pitiable sight. Poverty was clearly written on their faces. I have attended many social functions after that and the same trend was noticeable. But I became worried a few days ago, when I attended the burial ceremony of a friend's father in Ilesha , Osun State . They came in various groups and employ different methods in soliciting for alms. There were the elderly women who were busy harassing guests in the name of praise singing and would not leave until you part with money, there were the men with their public address system which they use in praise singing but which is disturbance and yet, there were Yoruba children in the mould of almajiris with their begging bowls scrambling for left-over and at the same time soliciting for alms.


Fellow guests on my table at the event who were also journalists expressed their concern in unison about the growing trend of almajiri of various categories in Yorubaland. They all agreed that it has become a social problem. We started discussing and realised that the culture of begging in the mould of almajiris is alien to Yoruba culture. In those days before the advent of the British, the Yorubas are a proud people known for their hard work and industry. They practiced hoe agriculture and were well known as traders and for their crafts. Yoruba artists have produced masterpieces of woodcarving and bronze casting, some of which date from as early as the 13th century. Many of Nigeria 's best-known artists and writers are Yoruba. Other occupation of the Yorubas at that time were drumming and masquerading which would now be called showbiz. They engage in all the foregoing occupation but a Yoruba man or woman (able bodied) would not beg for alms as it is considered shameful and something akin to a curse. The Yorubas cherish their oriki (folklore) which is a poetic version of eulogizing the exploits of their progenitors which is an incentive for them to excel and even surpass their progenitors. The Yorubas have harsh words for lazy people. Such people are objects of ridicule and butt of jokes in the society. With this background, it is understandable why we became worried with the array of beggars at the Ilesha ceremony.


After leaving the party, I reflected on the scenario of the almajiris in Ilesha and I was able to draw a relationship between Political almajiris and social almajiris. I discovered that social almajiri had its root in the advent of the politics of do -or-die introduced into the political lexicon of Yorubaland by apostles of mainstream politics especially ex-President Obasanjo. The grand Patron of political almajiris who recently passed away was Chief Lamidi Adedibu. Many have argued that his death has led to the proliferation of almajiris in Yorubaland. This is because those he hitherto dole handouts to must look for other means of survival since he is no more. These political almajiris are ready to exchange their mothers for few coins. A new political class of men without integrity and anything goes was created and they became political almajiris who survive on crumbs from their masters. They would rig, kill, maim and do all sort of things to acquire political power. With the ascension of these men in power, good governance became a thing of the past. Our collective patrimony was squandered by these political almajiris. Nigeria has never been so blessed with petro dollar with oil selling for $156 dollars per barrel but Nigeria has never been so poor with a chunk of the population living below poverty line. So versions of the political almajiris are the social almajiris that now invade ceremonies in Yorubaland. With these children begging for alms, a ready made market for thuggery and other social vices is assured. The activities of the beggars are not limited to parties. At bus stops in our cities, it is a common sight to see women most of who are still in their mid thirties, who would strap a baby at their backs and approach men with stories of despair to solicit for alms. Many of them would end up in bed with such men. This is another brand of alamajiri and these are Yoruba women. A violent version of almajiri but which is gradually being tackled in Lagos is the 'Area Boys' syndrome. These are Yoruba street urchins who are semi- armed robbers.


The underlying factor in this new trend is failure of the Nigerian State on one part and the laziness on the part of these women. Most of them don't want to work, In those days, when everybody's occupation was farming you dare not beg. You must find something to do. But these days, our women and children are too lazy. It is either they steal or beg. In most cases a mother and child become almajiris at social events. So the question now is can a Yoruba man now refer derisively to a Hausa beggar as almajiri when we have many of them now in Yorubaland? The answer is no! This trend must be arrested before it goes out of hand. The almajiris in the North these days engage in novel forms of drug abuse like sniffing of gutter water to get intoxicated, sniffing of adhesives and other drugs so that they are ever ready to unleash terror on the rest of the society whenever they are called upon to do so by the political wing of almajiris. I strongly recommend that guests at public functions must stop encouraging almajiris by giving them money.


But can government which itself owns the political wing of almajiris arrest this trend? Time will tell.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-149827.0.html

manny4life:
This is no longer obsession but plain bigotry, SMH

This dude has opened at least three topics about Igbos at least within the last four months,  If there aren't deleted, you can see some of them post. Like, the dude is having serious sleepless night about Igbos, don't die of High Blood Pressure

Don't mind them. We are here to continue to hammer them as they twist facts. We will use attack and both defense modes to do so

Is it our fault that they failed to explain that it was because they are so poor they cannot pay the new fuel price that they are protesting and killing themselves? If they were humble enough to explain and beg us to help them, we could have considered them. Did you not read where their Gov said his people are so poor that they are practically untaxable?


Why we can’t tax Osun people, by Aregbesola
By Adesoji Adeniyi 21 hours 46 minutes ago
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Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola at the weekend explained why his administration has refused to tax the people.

Aregbesola said his people are very poor and tax would be an unnecessary burden on them.

He spoke at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Osogbo, the state capital, during a dinner with representatives of various financial institutions.

The dinner was part of activities marking the one year anniversary of the Aregbesola administration in office.

The governor urged the institutions to assist in eradicating poverty in the state, assuring them of security and a business friendly environment.

He solicited for funds to finance capital projects and programmes that would improve the state’s economy.

Aregbesola said: “I am in Osun State to eradicate poverty. If you are talking about Unclad poverty, it is here in the state. We can not tax anybody here because we do not want them to die.

“Are we going to tax people waiting to die? We were able to save 13 million in the last year, not through tax, but by blocking leakages in the system. So you bankers have no choice than to help us deliver good governance to the people. We need your support to eradicate poverty.

“I am amused about the uninformed comments of our predecessor in office about the finances of the state. They are confused and cannot comprehend what we are doing because they are not financially literate.

“We have the vision, passion and action. I am here to change the fate of the black man through the various programmes and projects of our unusual and unconventional government.

“My predecessor left the state’s account in a bad state. We met a suffocating loan of N18.3 billion, which the Olagunsoye Oyinlola administration secured in an unprofessional manner.

“But within a year in office, my administration was able to increase the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the state from N300 million to N600 million and pay the loan through the access of N25 million bond from the bank, with the monthly servicing of less than N100 million, instead of the N800 million used to service the former loan.”

The governor said his administration does not wait for the federal allocation before it pays its workers, adding that any state waiting for it is doomed.

He said states rejected the October allocation because of President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to deduct some amount from it for the creation of Sovereign Wealth.

Aregbesola said nobody has the right to deduct from any state’s allocation without the governor’s consent.

He advised state governments to exploit other avenues for generating revenue.

Commissioner for Finance, Economic Planning and Budgeting, Dr. wale Bolorunduro said the government plans to increase the IGR to N1 billion next year.

On incessant bank robberies in the state, Bolorunduro said the government has collaborated with security agencies to forestall a recurrence. He said the governor has ordered for five Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) and established a security trust fund to combat the menace.

Many of the bank executives acknowledged the governor’s passion for development and promised to support his administration.

They include: Ayo Abina, Skye Bank; Elias Akenzua, Zenith Bank; Akinleye Ogunleye, Diamond Bank; and Boyin Oladokun, Unity Bank.


http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/27811-why-we-can%E2%80%99t-tax-osun-people%2C-by-aregbesola.html

What do we get in return?
Kidnapping and killing of our people in SW https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-815047.0.html
I see no diff btw that and BH (okay one is covert and the other is overt)

Yorubas in Abia feeling free, let alone those in Imo, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi and Igbo speaking Delta and Rivers.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/05/yoruba-in-abia-appoint-monarch/

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-718689.0.html

This is Yoruba-on-Yoruba economic crime that should be protested

Eko Ile:
Fcukkkk you and everything you stand for in Life.

The biliousness of your existence is palpable. I guess the subsidy removal has taken a toll on you by reducing the amount of bribe money you receive from Fasola/Tinubu. You be proper omo odo.

''Obasanjo did far worse, yet we supported him''-------------Babalakin Femi

Again-----in case deafness/blindness is the problem:

BTW, NNPC reduced its own price, an evidence of the fact that they never imported at a high price commensurate to selling at 141. It appears that common sense is not common after all.

Only the NNPC mega station in Akure complied with the new pump price directives and its attendants were busy dispensing the product to the motorists when the Daily Sun visited the station along Akure-Owo-Abuja Express Road.

Few of the attendants who spoke with Daily Sun under the condition of anonymity said they were acting on the instructions of the owners of the filling stations that the pump price should remain N141 until there was further instruction from their end.
This development, however, has forced some motorists not to buy the product at N141 while only few who could afford to buy it at that rate complained about the exploitative act of filling stations owners.

Some folks and their one-track mind. What is the evidence they bought fuel at a higher price? Most of them were already stocked up before the increase.

BTW, NNPC reduced its own price, an evidence of the fact that they never imported at a high price commensurate to selling at 141. It appears that common sense is not common after all.

Hope this one goes well. We know from which region most of the cabals come from. My only problem is that the head of EFCC (Babafemi) is from the same region as the main cabals. I hope he does his job without any primordial sentiments.

Eko Ile:
Fcukkkk you and everything you stand for in Life.

Everlasting loser.

Aren't these the same people protesting? It has been reduced to 97 Naira, yet they still sell at 141. What do these confused people want?

Filling stations still sell at N141 in Ondo
From Tunde Raheem, Akure
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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Following the reduction of pump price of petrol from N141 to N97 per litre by President Goodluck in his nationwide broadcast, many filling stations in Ondo State did not dispense fuel yesterday. Most of the filling stations visited by Daily Sun in Akure, Owo, Ikare-Akoko, Ondo, Ore and Okitipupa towns were under lock while few of the filling stations that opened were still selling at N141 per litre.

Only the NNPC mega station in Akure complied with the new pump price directives and its attendants were busy dispensing the product to the motorists when the Daily Sun visited the station along Akure-Owo-Abuja Express Road.
Some filling stations attendants declined comments on why they were still selling the product at the controversial N141 per litre when the president had announced the reduction of the pump price to N97 per litre.

Few of the attendants who spoke with Daily Sun under the condition of anonymity said they were acting on the instructions of the owners of the filling stations that the pump price should remain N141 until there was further instruction from their end.
This development, however, has forced some motorists not to buy the product at N141 while only few who could afford to buy it at that rate complained about the exploitative act of filling stations owners.

Meanwhile, the NLC and TUC in the state are observing sit-at-home protest following the security report that some hoodlums were planning to hijack the street protest of the union in the state and using the opportunity to attack NNPC mega station in Akure and other Federal Government establishments in the state.
Also, the coalition of civil society organisations in the state, which protested last Friday yesterday shunned the street protest following the attacks on their members in the last Friday street protest by some political thugs.

The civil society organisations, it was gathered, were holding series of meetings on how to map strategies to embark on street protest again. One of the coordinators of the group, Seyi Opeyemi, while speaking with Daily Sun disclosed that the last Friday attack on their members was politically motivated and “we have to go back to our drawing board to map out strategies. Meetings are going on and whatever be our conclusion, we shall write a communiqué to the press,” he added.
Meanwhile, due to the suspension of the street protest by the NLC and TUC in the state, commercial activities were at low ebb. Most of the motorparks visited by Daily Sun in Akure town witnessed low patronage; also, there was low turn out of people in most markets in some towns in the state.

ebosed:
Gbam!!! You are obviously behind civilisation. have [/b]you heard of cabalocracy? Please come to west for special education so that we can avoid another disaster yet to happen [b](sic, no punctuation) who knows you might become another president of Nigeria tomorrow.

Only illiterates start a sentence with a small letter and no observation of punctuations. Now be gone to a kindergarten class.

Why Yorubas were protesting (answer from a Yoruba man on facebook)

''The SW protest against subsidy removal was about ''protecting our brother cabals''
We want to protect Wale Tinubu and by extension ex- Gov Tinubu
We want to protect Adenuga
We want to protect  Otedola
We want to protect Otudeko''

However,

Like Yorubas, Igbos also have their own oil cabals (Ubah, Mbah and Iheanacho), yet Igbos support removing the sugar from the mouths of their own cabals because  a few cabals cannot be more important than the masses.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-847694.0.html

Other reasons you protested were:
1. Poverty ( the SW contains the poorest people in the south)
2. Malignity for Jonathan and anything former East of Nigeria
3. Inability to wean yourself of dependence on free oil

ebosed:
GBAM! Imagine the level of violence running through your veins. What are you angry at? Please come out from among them, so that you can smell better life and be more civil. This is good for your future.

Illiterate cretin. What's it with Gbam allover the damn place, Alj Harem? Is that your new vocabulary? Ewu awusa