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This variety in this kind of sensational news is obviously being spread to smear this guy. None of the reports are even consistent: first it was UK, then someplace in Europe, then Kenya, now South America? Haba... at least lie consistently if you're going to smear somebody.

It's really sad to see this... meanwhile Buhari is solidly behind his fulani brethren, who go about maruading entire villages - yet government officials go to pay them courtesy visit in the bush. Together are laughing at uncle Joe for being their faithful puppet.

All the people that have been killed at the hands of unknown herdsmen... it's for Kanu's arrest you are thankful? I suppose all the killings will suddenly stop.

If the standards were the same, why aren't some leaders asking to "rehabilitate" Kanu in the same manner they've been calling to "rehabilitate" bandits?

wink2015:
THE IGBO APEX BODY SHOULD NOT DISOWN NNAMDI KANU.

THEY SHOULD SUPPORT HIM TO GET HIM FREE FROM HIS PRESENT INCACERATION.

The british government in their traditional format have betrayed one of their national although of Igbo parentage but born in Britain.

Britain has been part of Nigeria's political problem as they use the northerner to scatter Nigeria and make it difficult for Nigeria to develop.

Niger delta militant, Oduduwa supporters, and other prodemocracy group must rally round to give the incercerated freedom fighter the support he needs to overcome his needless trials.

FULANI HERDSMEN ARE KILLING FARMERS IN ALL LENGTH AND BREADTH OF NIGERIA.

NOBODY HAS HELD THEM TO ACCOUNT.

NNAMDI KANU THAT IS FIGHTING FOR THE FREEDOM OF HIS PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH EAST HAS NOW BECOME PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE TO THE BUHARI NORTHERN CABALS.

There will be freedom at the end of the tunnel.

The late Nelson Mandela passed through that tunnel and he became a freeman.

It is my conviction that Nnamdi Kanu will passed through that tunnel and become the symbol of a new world order in Africa.

Biafra can never be suppressed for too long.

Well said!!!

You've said everything I wanted to say on this, except more eloquently.

Oduduwa, Arewa, and Biafra are better off separate. Hopefully we can cooperate in the future as independent countries, but as long as this contraption of a country continues to divide and incite hate, it will forever be hobbled, and bring suffering to all its citizens.

Splitmind:
Kill Kanu and all Igbos!

My my... let's not start please. This type of sentiment is not acceptable, please.

When people start taking this statement to heart, that's how genocides start.

Sigh... Arewa youths, your house is burning... where are the arrests of BK sponsors?

The only difference between "rebel" and "founding father" is who won the fight.

tishbite41:
We all know the British hate the Igbo.
The IPOB high command made a mistake by allowing MNK to go back to the UK.
The USA and Israel were better options.
The Brits are snakes.

You already know! A nation of Ndi-Igbo would be the only credible competitor to UK in West Africa - they know that and are quite scared.
I would rather have a peaceful referendum, but many options are on the table...

Nwannem, remember a few months ago when I said we should not celebrate or take seriously any support the UK pretends to show for the Biafra cause?

I was called all kinds of names in several posts, though some later apologized.

This same UK that you were praising has handed our brother Nnamdi over to Nigerian FG. Showing their true colors.

Because the woman isn't interesting.
If all a woman can offer is sex - well, after the act, a man's desire subsides for her, and on to the next babe. It's in our genes.

There are exceptions, but basically, a man is biologically wired to spread his genes (can make many women pregnant within days), a woman is wired to stay put and nurture (can only have one pregnancy at a time for 9 months). A woman has to have other qualities to keep the man from moving on.

It can also be the same for women: if a man is uninteresting, the woman doesn't really want him around, unless he's bringing other things to the table (e.g. he can provide for her, or make her laugh).

People are selling akara and making more than your salary... just saying...

bjtinz:
Totally unnecessary if u ask me.
Juice is not an essential commodity, simple economics tells us that it's demand is extremely elastic, and added to that, it has significant competition.
Like someone said, you can go for the natural fruit, or better still good 'ol plain WATER.
I don't know how many people would fret over inability to get juice.
So really don't know what the fuss is about.

A product with elastic demand is a great leading indicator of where things are going. Think of it as a derivative: if it goes negative, it indicates stalling production - thus you can predict future will be going negative, even if the near-term appears rosy.

If a non-essential commodity is becoming scarce that should set off warning bells in leaders' minds. Fewer oranges: fewer people being employed by that industry, from growing, picking, transport, concentrating, mixing, and retailing.

Don't wait until essential commodities become scarce. Scarce juice implies natural fruits are becoming scarce...

We've already seen garri, rice becoming really expensive - if not scarce - which suggests a downward spiral in economic activity.

When I said last year that food scarcity, rationing, and queuing for basics will happen again in 2021 (like I remember in 1984 due to Buhari), people laughed at me. They said I was a wailer and a hater.

Rather than look forward to see the results of not nipping the various menaces and agitations in the bud, he has allowed them to fester and - predictably - we're seeing food shortages. Forget rice or onions... garri now is becoming so expensive.

There's just something about Buhari and his tunnel vision that results in a vicious cycle of inflation, food scarcity, manufacturing job losses. Even now we've borrowed a lot of money for infrastructure - but where's the basic revenue we're going to use to pay for this? It will become delapidated in two-three years since we don't have the funds to maintain what we've just bought. It's a repeat of the mess than saw us spending more on debt servicing than on education for nearly two decades till OBJ and NOI.

I suppose we're going to feel this crunch for at least 4 more years, if we're lucky. The next president will have to start from scratch.

I sincerely pray that Nigerians will learn from this catastrophe and vote better people - but it's a wasted prayer. My people will still shout "sai baba" to the next incompetent contender.

Wasted effort. First he abused Governor Okowa's efforts in the state. Thankfully ours is a talk-and-do governor, and anybody with eyes and objective mind can see Okowa is working, so this accusation held no water. Summarily suspended from PDP, he has now decamped to APC. Little does he know that he won't find what he is seeking.

I'm still wondering who his paymasters are, because one has to have some level of self-hate to do the nonsense he is engaged in. But what do I know, I don't have the skills for politics.

ephraim18:
Dr maduka of PDP we know... Though is gonna be a big fight but he's gonna win with margin

Quite right... it's time we elect people with a solid track record of accomplishments. I'm hoping he can transform the health and education sector. Maduka all the way to win PDP primaries and governorship!!!

But I won't cry if Soludo wins either... I think he's also a strong candidate with great ideas for developing the economic strength of Anambra.

I'm not so sure of their acumen as politicians though... but this is good: Anambra will be choosing between great candidates, as opposed to choosing the lesser of evils.

Abeg, let's hurry up and have dot nation. "Onye dot" is sweeting me.

It's not by size of territory, nor by amount of natural resources. Igbo minds and creativity will be unleashed to create a first-world country in 4 decades, when no longer held back by the circle. Rather than dilute our efforts across a large, relatively oppressive country, we can concentrate on Igboland to great effect.

See all the land in Northern Nigeria, yet it boasts the most poverty-striken populace. This is fact, and brought on by bad leadership. The North is also rich in minerals (talc and silicon for instance), and should be the hotbed of pharmaceuticals and IC manufacturing, but again, bad leadership.

Raw materials can be bought easily from our circle neighburs, and since the circle continues to refuse to learn how to manufacture, we can easily sell our finished goods to them. All we need is the river, and a couple of airports.

May the dot shine bright!

aspabay:
Happening in the great America.
Oya unpatriotic Nigerians, time to use this to abuse your country again.

Simplyleo:
This happened in the "infallible" US, watch how shildren of 8, anger, perdition and frustration start insulting Nigeria over it because of Buhari.

Abegi. I'm neither an America apologist nor a Nigeria basher, but let's talk true.

One country experiences a collapse in a very long time (this was built in 1981 BTW), vs another country where at least one collapse in every rainy season in every city is expected.

Ewoooo, even lawmakers...

The armed men shot sporadically into the air to scared aware the security men on guard and kidnapped the owner of the hotel and the guests.

Shuo? Upon the hundreds of thousands these security guys have been paid over the past few years (assuming they were paid), all they can do is be scared away? Na wah... better to just have some beefy dogs around.

Yoruba amaka
I'm from Asaba. You don't have to hate on the achievements of young Nigerians just because you're from a different part.

I've been waiting for them to become licensed. Hopefully they will stay out of trouble with regulators, EFCC, and DSS.

All the money people are using to bury the dead... if only they spent it on them when they were living...

Righteousness2:
This is Great, Awesome and Wonderful!
But if your Foundation is not Built on the Solid Rock of JESUS Christ, it does matter who you are, or what you Have, it is a Waste. It is Useless.
It is a guarantee of Eternal Damnation.

It's only poor people who think this way. All of religions' founders - and most of the early adherents - have a habit of being poor, and cook up all kinds of visions of an afterlife instead of working hard and succeeding in this one life. Are you saying that all the billions of humans who lived before Jesus came along are damned? What about all those who didn't even know his religion existed (eg. Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Native Americans, etc) for 1800 years after his passing? Eternal damnation for them too I suppose?

*you don't really know, but I'm sure you'll reply with something that doesn't give a satisfactory answer.

MozB:
It will only take 28 years if Nigereians are the ones handling the project. If you have enough money to bring the Chinese to build it here in Nigeria, how many years do you think it wil take the Chinese? It's not about Nigeria. It's about who owns the project and who is handing it.

But that's the point isn't it. If it was handled by Nigerians, whether in Nigeria or China, it would take 28 years.

candidtalk:
This action turned off the judges rather than impress them as the desperate lady wanted. People don't love these kind of actions. This is a beauty pageant and not a political protest.

There is a time and place for everything and it would be obvious to the judge this is a cynical character desperate to use anything to win. A total turn off.

You're right, there is a time and place for everything.

When youths protested in the streets - exercising a right enshrined in the Constitution - they were eventually run off. The recent Jun 12 attempts at protests were quashed. You can't protest on twitter - since it was banned. You dare not say something on facebook, else DSS will come for you. Where then can we exercise our "time and place for everything" since the places we can protest (online and offline) are being censored.

candidtalk:
This action turned off the judges rather than impress them as the desperate lady wanted. People don't love these kind of actions. This is a beauty pageant and not a political protest.
What has a beauty contest got to do with political protestations against a nation or government? Is it the right platform for that sort of thing?

The time to use all means to protest the state of the country is NOW, the place is EVERYWHERE: beauty pageants, sporting events, comedy routines, driving a taxi, etc. All hands on deck. This is not the time for Nigerians to pretend as if it's business as usual and I commend everything youths are doing to bring attention to how bad things are, using whatever platform they find. I think it's also incredibly brave for them to do so, given the backlash and potential losses to their well being and income.

I've never thought it patriotic to keep quiet and watch one's country burn while the government ruins it. It's quite the opposite. The true patriots are those who loudly point out that there is fire on the mountain, not those who turn a blind eye and say things like: "you're embarrassing us for pointing out our problems. You're disrespecting our flag in front of others". If you don't want protests, fix the problems the protests are pointing out.

The flag is a powerful symbol of what the country stands for. Seeing it bloodied should galvanize a patriotic government to fix its ways. Anybody getting insulted is more interested in their ego than in the Republic.

Whether other countries do the same as us is not the point - we are not other countries, and we owe it to ourselves to right this ship, as loudly as we all can.

Simplyleo:
Lmao.
In the 21st century?
Yet, igbos are the most educated.

This is intended to be a joke, I get it.

If 1% of men of a certain place beat women, we call that an anomaly, and punish that behavior.
If 20% of men in another place beat their women, we call that statistically significant.
If 50% of men in yet another region beat their women, we call that mental.

Guess which region Igbos are in.

We thank God for this woman's life. One can never understand all that children and women go through in this country. I pray someday that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated anywhere in this country.

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GerogeI:
When you can, go to market buy three broiler or local chicken. Come back and tie all there left legs together in one bundle. Leave them outside and come back in 24hr . They won't be further than 3 m from where you left them. That's exactly what Britain did with Nigeria.

This is some deep analogy here bro...

But back to the story: when I was a small boy around 1989, I built a solar cooker similar to the one in this picture, based on instructions from a book my mom got me. I was able to cook a small potato and a few other things.

I opened this topic hoping to see something along these lines, because Bauchi has a LOT of incident sunlight, and which would be great for cooking. If this was a serious country, they could invent a way to build them into kitchens in the North. Just need an open-roofed part, mirrors or other shiny surface and voila - albeit only when the sun shines.

I've also pondered using a very large version of this to fry garri industrially. See the second picture. This one uses uses molten salt to keep the heat even after dark. With enough R & D this could be a real thing invented by Nigerians.

However, to say I'm disappointed by this contraption is an understatement for several reasons:
1. direct solar heat will perform the task so much better
2. even if we give the benefit of the doubt that it's an electrical solution being used: it's only 5% efficient (panels are 15%, battery 70%, heating cooktop 50%). 0.15 x 0.7 x 0.5 = 0.05 (i.e. 5%)
3. obviously this contraption is not even solar... there's what looks like a gas burner and a gas hose likely connected to a gas tank.
4. even if it was biofuel, you don't ned the sun to spark... regular matches would do. Why go through calling it "solar" when it is anything but.

Such a let down really...

Good good... USA, UK, France and Russia have seen customer daa daa

yudee233:
Give respect to Elders

Normally I would agree.

But should we continue to show deference to elders who don't give a damn about the next generation after them? Since 1970s these elders (including OBJ and PMB) are the architects of all what we're experiencing. They inherited a working country with promise, but have managed to just ruin it.

Nigeria that should be rubbing shoulders with Brazil and South Korea... we have at least 100 million people who don't have access to potable, chlorinated water in this 2021. Can't one of them say: "OK, I will leave a lasting legacy for the young ones"? Just to chop and chop and chop (they don't even bother to clean mouth anymore).

These elders should not vex me this morning abeg.

As usual, haters will full this thread.

Just appreciate avant-garde creativity when you see it.

Before nko? Working visa ko, playing amex ni.

Taiwojon:
Ok, the sickness of Egypt shall not come upon us.
We are protected, we are save, we have JESUS.

Funny, people seek Jesus' protection from disease, yet they eat food. I wonder why prayer does not cure hunger... it should be easy to use this same faith to keep your stomach full.

God created all organisms - from the smallest virus to the largest mammal. He has also given humans the ability to understand, prevent, and cure diseases. Do not waste God's gift by sticking to 6000-year old understanding.

Here's hoping these centers will be funded, with well-trained staff, and that our government will try to provide constant light and clean water.

CilicMarin:
How did Buhari tweet break the law? That he would IPOB Terrorists in the language they understand or what?

Coming from a president, it could incite violence against a particular group. It's the same language that got Trump banned.
It broke twitter rules about inciting violence, more so when it's done by a highly-visible politician.


If Buhari wants to make such statements, he should not sign up to a service whose terms he agreed to. He is welcome to tell people his thoughts on NTA.

Stay single. Real advice my people.

I miss being able to get up and travel wherever I wanted at the drop of a hat. I had a very small space that didn't cost much. Slept when I wanted, worked as hard (or not) as I wanted. No responsibilities, no bills, no inlaws, no dependents. I miss the quiet peace.

If somebody had sat me down and told me the true amount of work marriage (and kids) are, I would have stayed single.

People will say: "who will take care of you when you get old". Well, with all the money you should saved from being single - without children - you can spend on a very decent nursing home (they are becoming popular in Lagos I see). Even now, how many people with kids are being taken care of now?

Fresh bottle or old bottle?

Regardless, it always amuses me that people will spend money and energy on babalawo, buying and burying things... yet they remain poorer than church rat. If only they channeled that time and energy into productive things...

I will save my Spouse. Who else will help me take care of our children? You want step-mom to abuse my kids?

As for Mama and Papa, they have lived their own lives. Till we meet again. I will remember your sacrifice.

The person owing me... well, that was my mistake and I won't make the same mistake twice. Just because you saved that person no mean say your loan nor enter voicemail.