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That guy has a mission to seduce that woman

Excited or aggrieved crowds?

All the players and actors are simply fighting for proceeds of corrupt practices

..in the words of Obasanjo- substantiate

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Good one for her .....
So glad she has been able to overcome the damaging issue hanging on her head for a very long time.
Very few people can survive a manslaughter case of a medical doctor or anyone at that, which she agreed she did but was an accident.

Go and Excel pretty Lady!
You only live once!

I thought she was sentenced to life imprisonment?

The first woman to coach a football club in Germany’s top five divisions has put a journalist in their place by joking that she selects her line-up based on her players’ manhoods.

Imke Wubbenhorst was appointed as head coach of fifth-tier outfit BV Cloppenburg in December after half a season leading their women’s team.
In an interview with German newspaper Welt, she was ready with a witty retort to a poorly judged question. Asked if her players should cover themselves up before she came into the changing room, she replied: “Of course not. I’m a professional – I pick the team on penis siz


Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/i-pick-players-by-size-of-penis-says-german-woman-coach/

Trendvoice:
A man died a day after his traditional wedding.He was laid to rest in the day his white wedding was scheduled to hold .

Though the cause of death hasn’t been revealed ,he is being mourned by friends on Facebook .

Photos below :

Gist via :- https://nairatrend.com.ng/graphicman-dies-a-day-after-his-traditional-wedding/

Where did this happen? In Nollywood?

"...I normally help people to wash thier pants..."

Pants washer, come and wash Bola's boxer that is stained with poo

Are these monies they were demanding to stamp passports statutory fees?

Naughtysite:
Very Good.

I had not read this write up when I called Obiageli Ezekwesili and Omoyele Sowore POCKET Activists.

Omoyele as I see him will be a very hard hearted leader while Oby is the type of person who never sees good in another man's idea.

And that "Politics is mainly about individual interest with little concern for the society at large, especially within the Nigerian context", comes to play in this intrigue.

CONCLUSION: CONSENSUS BUILDING

A fine patriot the Presidential Candidate of YES Party, Mr. Alistair Soyode had called me for a meeting. I went there with my Chief of Staff, Mr. Oyinlade Adu. Soyode is a very humble and down to earth individual who has the largest black entertainment television station in Europe. Who in his own right is not a push over. The meetings we had that period with him and some memebrs of his team like; Dr. Maryam Manzo and Mrs Wunmi were mostly to form an alliance and produce a winning strategy. Soyode is one of the candidates on this race who has always been truly honest with me on his willingness to produce a consensus candidate that will bring us a good win.

My dear friend Mr. Mathias Tsado who I speak to regularly on the phone had called me and requested we sat down for a meeting in December, 2018. I obliged and we had a meeting at the Piano Lounge in Transcorp Hilton Abuja. He spoke very honestly on the need to support a candidate from the northern extraction who is a nationalist but most importantly had the financial capacity to deliver a presidential campaign in Nigeria. He suggested that I visit Mr. Gbenga Olawepo Hashim. I called Mr. Hashim and we agreed to meet in his office (note: in all the meetings and visits made I am always the one going out to meet them)
Unlike most candidates like Fela Durotoye who will be waiting for someone to broker a consensus meeting, I have reached out to every single contender with a clear indication that I do not have all the answers but collectively we could find a solution. Today some individuals claim that they have always made themselves available for possible consensus meetings but have forgotten that they deliberately avoided meeting when they were reached out to.

I still commend Kingsley Moghalu despite his lack of political understanding he responded to my call for a meeting between both of us. I told him we needed to form a synergy, the kind of synergy that will create a spark in the political space. In my words, I told him I have unreserved respect for his economic understanding but based on the expectations of the electorate let us join hands and shock the political space and run an Ahmed Buhari/Kingsley Moghalu ticket. Integrate our policies, strategies and our teams. I also added that even if we do not succeed in 2019, we reverse the presentation and give the people a Kingsley Moghalu/Ahmed Buhari ticket in 2023. Unfortunately, Kingsley was mostly focused on the fact that he was older, more experienced and more educated. But you see, on making political decisions these elements are important but not totally the determinants of the people’s choices.

I told him the synergy will not guarantee a win but it would have given him the opportunity to debate Professor Yemi Osinbajo and Mr. Peter Obi on what will be the biggest debate ever on the Nigerian Political stage. But Kingsley didn’t see it as so. He quickly interjected that he finds the zoning topic unfortunate. My Chief of Staff who was present at this meeting then asked him why he had settled for a running mate from Kano State and not a competent individual from the South? He said; to strike a balance. I laughed and told him, my dear Prof… that is zoning. Kingsley then told me that he knows he will win the 2019 elections and that I am welcome to join his team. We shook hands and called it a night.

At this point I was slowly concluding that most of these candidates knew their races were not going to produce a victory but to build political capital against the 2023 elections. Sadly, they were clearly undermining a great chance that would have changed the entire tempo.

I still found to called yet another presidential candidate Mr. Emmanuel Etim and agreed to have lunch together. I waited for over an hour and then placed my order, as I was really famished. I finished lunch still rested for a bit and eventually Etim arrived with an apology for his lateness. We exchanged pleasantries and couldn’t talk much as time was already far spent. I was happy he showed up because the end goal is to build political relationships.
As we all managed to keep up the tempo, another fine patriot who still believed in the need to have a consensus candidate called for another meeting. Dr. Ayodele Favor despite all odds, he took his time to beg candidates to reconvene. The meeting was set for 10:00am that fine morning in Lagos but up until 10:30am the Chairman of that meeting Professor Wole Soyinka who was present at exactly 10:00am was unhappy that many invited candidates had not showed up and requested we kicked off the meeting. During his speech he clearly mentioned that two other candidates had previously met with him some months ago seeking his support for the mission they had embarked on and that he clearly could see that they didn’t have what it took to resolve our impending problems. He did mention however that he sensed their true passion but didn’t think they were ready. He even added that one of them in a recent interview he was watching goofed, as he couldn’t respond to very simple and direct questions asked by the journalist. He added that I am able say this without denting his ego as he is not present here with us. The meeting was attended by Dr. Felix Nicholas, Dr. Wilson Ikubese, Miss Godstime Iruabuchi, Mr. Victor Anilaja, a respresentative from Dr. Adesina Fagberon Byron, a representative from Mr. Alistair Soyode, Mr. Clement Jumbo a representative from Alhaji Mohammed Shittu and a representative from Maj. Gen. John Gbor. Mr. Fela Durotoye came 2 hours into the meeting after the departure of Professor Wole Soyinka and at about 1:30pm that afternoon we called it a day and agreed to reconvene in Abuja in two days.

In the middle of all of these, January 2019 had arrived and I got a call from Hajiya Rabi Cengiz another Presidential Candidate inviting me for yet another ‘Third Force’ meeting. I honored her call and presented myself in Abuja for the meeting. At the meeting I met with other Presidential Candidates like; Dr. Onwubuya Breakforth, Professor Jerry Gana, Dr. Davidson Isibor Akhimen, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, Maj. Gen. John Gbor, Mr. John Dara, Rev. Dr. Felix Johnson Osakwe and Mr. Chike Ukaegbu (the only young candidate who made it to CNN and Al-Jazeera and the youngest of us all)

In all honesty, this third force in Abuja was truly more organized, more experienced and more open as to how a consensus should be done. It was a room with more Northern candidates and I was determined to get the other half of the younger southern candidates on board so that we not only show that as young people we were ready but also that we had the competence but most importantly to strike that balance of age, ethnicity and experience.

After observing the direction the old candidates in Abuja were towing, I mentioned at the next Abuja meeting with the young third force candidates organized by Dr. Ayodele Favor held at Chelsea hotel Abuja that there was another meeting going on with a sizeable number of candidates and that a possible merger will give the process more credibility for both groups. We all agreed to join them at Peneil Apartments in Wuse 2 and everybody at that meeting showed up except for Fela Durotoye’s Vice Presidential Candidate who didn’t show up and didn’t let us know why she turned it down. Some speculated that Fela asked her to stepdown from the process. Kingsley Moghalu’s vice presidential candidate and his party chairman were also present but didn’t show up for subsequent meetings?

As you read this, I am sure you are asking yourself why Omoyele Sowore is missing from all the possible consensus meetings? Well, it is obvious he believes he can do this alone.

As we proceeded everyday with series of meetings held at Peniel Apartments, more young candidates kept dropping, leaving the older candidates in charge. This was really disappointing as I could clearly see that we weren’t prepared to understand that this mission couldn’t be accomplished without the old, the young, the saints and the sinners. It has got to be a collective. And how on earth can you effect a change from the outside? We didn’t show readiness to drop our ego or step down for anyone knowing fully well that we were still going to be running a race to no where.
We had debates with the older candidates and from the young people’s perspective; only Chike Ukaegbu and myself were still present at the exercise. In all honesty, we both outshined our elders on the table. But we needed more than our ideas. We needed to pay attention to the general acceptability by the electorate and most importantly the financial strength we were bringing to the table.

In trying to find a consensus candidate, I visited Chike Ukaegbu at his office in Abuja to discuss the way forward. It was evident that he wasn’t ready to step down for any candidate and was prepared to loose alone. I respected his position and encouraged him to still attend the meetings.
I sat down many times with everyone on that table as we spoke very openly on agreeing to support a candidate. I told them I am prepared to drop my ambition and support whoever emerges if the individual can show me evidence of having the financial capacity to deliver a presidential election, the existing political structure I will merge with my followership and structure and resume campaigns with the consensus candidate but all the people on that table couldn’t prove to me that they were ready and so I honorably delivered my discontinuity speech and I took a bow.

Please can anyone say myself and my team haven’t swallowed our pride and presented ourselves to the polity?

I have never revealed all of these because I do not want us to play politics of bitterness, emotions, sentiments and sensationalism.

After all said and done, we still need to salvage our Nigeria and without over flogging our unfortunate mistakes and the eminent losses, I will go a step further by making sure our policy document gets adopted by whoever wins the 2019 Presidential Election since I can’t get into office in 2019.

After all it is about our nation.

As I have always said; this is not an AMBITION, it is a VISION.

*Ahmed Buhari*
*Presidential Candidate for the 2019 General Election under the Sustainable National Party of Nigeria.*

*WHY DID YOU OPT OUT OF PACT?*

For those who never got my own version of what happened at the Presidential Aspirants Coming Together (PACT), I wish to share a few of the events and why I walked out of a process I knew will not hold water.

I want to commend Dr. Wilson Ikubese and Mathias Tsado for their hard work towards bringing together some young presidential aspirants with the hope that we will be able to come up with a consensus candidate that will not just be a true representation of the majority of Nigerians but one that will be acceptable to all sides of the divide.

For me, I sat in those meetings with the preparation to step down for an individual that will have integrity + intent + competence that will give us the desired results. But I wasn't oblivious of the fact that the political realities and expectations from the electorate needed to be closely monitored and inform my personal decision on who to step down for if need be.

After the first meeting held at Chelsea Hotel in Abuja, we were invited to Charlie Boy’s house in Gwarimpa for a meeting with other Presidential Aspirants in attendance. Charlie Boy and Deji Adeyanju convened the meeting with some of passionate Nigerians who wanted to see this project work. The most significant activity at that meeting aside from all of us openly declaring to work together, we all also agreed to exempt a third party’s interference in what ever decision we might adopt. But more importantly, I didn’t see politicians with me in that room. It was mostly technocrats and activists driven by emotions and sentiments. I knew this was going to be a difficult quest because over time I have learnt to differentiate between politics and activism. I remember somebody calling other politicians ‘our enemies’, I quickly interjected and reminded them that it is only politics and the rule of the game will require political rules. But I don’t think anyone was listening.

I clearly told all of us on that table that individually we cannot win, collectively we still cannot win and that except we start thinking politically by inviting everyone else to our table we will still be speaking the same language.

Many people disagreed with me but more evident was the fact that most of us on that table had failed to drop our ego for the Nigeria of our dreams.

My main reason for walking out of the PACT was our denial on what the political realities are and when people like Kingsley Moghalu told me that he was clearly the best candidate and that we should all step down for him. Right there I knew we weren't going anywhere. Tope Fasua on the other hand had already taken a bow. Sowore attended the first meeting came with so many cameras granted an interview announcing he was the preferred candidate. Clearly I saw how a man's attitude will determine his altitude. I also asked why a strong aspirant like Adamu Garba wasn't invited to the process. This was not a Lagos State election neither was it a social media youth election but a Nigeria Presidential Election. If we needed to make the required impact we had to have been completely real with ourselves and understood that emotions and sentiments had no place in politics. If we cannot stretch our hands out in friendship with all people regardless of their ethnicity, faith, age bracket and political party affiliations then we aren't prepared to unite and move Nigeria and Nigerians forward.

I remember how I reached out to Fela Durotoye after the first PACT meeting that we meet and talk. Mostly to know him better and educate myself first hand how much of the politics he understood. We agreed to meet at Eko Hotel in Lagos for 1pm that Saturday afternoon and Fela called to tell me he was running late, 2 hours later he told me we should make the meeting happen by 4pm but around 4:30pm he called again to tell me he was going to be at a programme and that we should reschedule for another day. Still I let it slide because I know the instability that comes with the business of politics.

After the third PACT meeting in Abuja Mr. Fela arranged a meeting with me again but this time around he didn't show up and his phone number was switched off. This is not how we build political relationships that are true to transformational progress.

I met Tope Fasua in Abuja and asked him why he was no longer showing up at the PACT meetings, he told me he needed to complete the vision and mission he had when he created the ANRP (his political party) and that he was determined to get to the polls and register that his party took part in the 2019 Presidential Elections. I respected his honesty and we remain good friends till date. He has not only served as a critic on my policy document but a good adviser to me.

I still had series of meetings with Mathias Tsado, Victor Anilaja, Dr. Abubakar Alkali, Auwal Abdullahi, Clement Jumbo, Allistair Soyode, Eragbe Anslem and Adesina Fagberon. All these fine individuals were totally honest about finding a unifying candidate and I respect them till date

PACT still produced Fela Durotoye after a process that Kingsley Moghalu, Favor Ayodele, Mathias Tsado, Wilson Ikubese, Dare Fagbemi, Clement Jumbo, Eleshama Ide, Victor Anilaja and Godstime Iruabuchi partook till the very end under the supervision of Mrs. Oby Ezekwesile who served as the umpire. At this point I didn't like the desperation from Kingsley Moghalu and his outright arrogance on his position as the best of all the people he was seeking will vote in his favor. I consider Kingsley an intelligent man with a good economic background. He had called me a night before the PACT elections soliciting my vote but he lost my vote when he said he was better than everyone else on the table. That is not the kind of president I want for my country. Pride and arrogance are two things a leader must manage. Unfortunately, Kingsley has a triple dose of this calamity.

So as I walked into that meeting on the day of the PACT elections I had two questions on mind; 1. Do we as a PACT understand the political realities? 2. Do we as a PACT have the financial capacity to execute this project? And so as I sat down on that table and asked Oby Ezekwesile who was the umpire a few political questions and I realized she was stuck to her personal views neglecting the fact that PDP and APC have members who are Nigerians and our failure to make our effort a collective will not get us to our destination. At that point I became convinced we couldn't get it right. Unlike Kingsley Moghalu who followed the process, solicited for votes, signed the agreement, took part in the voting process until it became a stalemate between himself and Fela. According to those at the table the last round of voting was carried out between Fela and Kingsley with Kingsley so tensed and sweaty while he waited for the results. Eventually, Fela emerged and my Honorable presidential aspirant in an interview called the process a political assassination on his person because it did not favor him and in the same breath he said if it had gone in his favor it would have been credible. This was most unfortunate and a show of poor sportsmanship.

If you are still reading, I am sure you will be asking yourself what does Ahmed Buhari mean by 'Political Realities?' Well, political realities are those clear indicators that determine the outcome of our politics. It is imperative to understand that these political realities fluctuate depending on the time and season. For the 2019 general elections it is obvious that a northerner will emerge. Many of us will think I am a supporter of the zoning arrangement but I am not. However, I am a realistic political strategist. I cannot lie to myself. I will say it as it is. Many have said they do not believe in zoning, this is to remind them that the fact that they got an opportunity to interact with some northerners on that table and still couldn’t trust any of us breaks my heart. Clearly it was not a question of competence, antecedents, educational qualifications or ideology because all the northerners on that table had it all. But it was obviously the failure to truly look beyond ethnicity and understand that no unity government can be formed without that collective.

Unfortunately, many people will still disagree with my political calculations but those who have been on the field can clearly see that the expectations of the electorate is to have a northern president for 2019.

Very importantly, we must understand that the electorate must always be included in our political calculations. I have heard many people say it is unfortunate to think of picking a young northerner to contest against the two older contestants from the north (President Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar) while all the southern contenders give their full support to that northerner as we break the system. But when it came to selecting a running mate, all the southern contestants picked a northerner as a running mate. If it is solely about competence then how come no candidate chose another southerner as a running mate? This is not ‘rocket science’ but clearly a case of wrong political calculations. If this were the 2023 election I would have supported one of my friends representing the south with ease because I believe in their competence.

I really do not know how we think we can have a unity government or unite our people if respected and knowledgeable individuals like Dr. Christopher Kolade will call for a ‘Third Force’ meeting with young Presidential Candidates to find a consensus but failed to extend invitation to all other young northern contestants. Was this third force against the north? I was born a northerner, I did not choose to be a northerner and I hold no one any apology for this fact. This to me was unrealistic but to make matters worse those meetings he held with all southern candidates still could not produce a consensus. I had already built relationships with most of the individuals at Kolade’s meetings but none of them deemed it fit to mention to him other fine patriots they had met on the field. This sends very wrong signals. Could this be a plot against the north? Or is this an indication that the northerners they had met on the field including myself are not educated or do not have the competence? Or is this just the ethnic card playing out? I have heard many say the north believes in a born-to-rule mentality, if it is true would I have agreed to attend every single meeting I have been invited to and insist on inviting my southern patriots if the organizers are from the north? Nigeria is truly in a terrible state when it comes to how we see ourselves and most of the smiles on the faces of those you think are enlightened are all surface dressing. I have always mentioned that ‘Hate is not the first enemy of Love, it is Fear…. because fear destroys our ability to Trust’. I have made myself very available so that I dispel that fear and promote some trust in our hearts but it seems many of us have our minds already made up.
Or could it just be a coincidence that the media, which are mostly controlled by the South, have deliberately exempted me from interviews and debates? I know how some concerned individuals have protested on my behalf that I am invited for interaction and I am thankful to my team and advisers on our policies and view points as none of these interviews we have attended hasn’t clearly distinguished our smart deeply thought through approach to handling some of our most pressing issues around the economy, agriculture, job creation, housing, security, the almajiri menace, healthcare, youth empowerment, education, adoption of data management systems but most importantly reorienting the mindsets of our people.
I got Adamu Garba’s number and called him up to have lunch with me. I must confess that the young man is one smart individual. His choice of political party was also a smart one.

Unfortunately, the same young Nigerians who happen to belong to the same political party he declared for, who have always clamored for a young candidate did not support him and so the overwhelming strength of the party deciders undermined the continuity of his presidential ambition. We still maintain our political friendship till date.

...to be continued

PREAMBLE:

This post is merely for avid readers a[b][/b]nd politically inclined persons with dynamic minds and with bias for youthful representation, geared towards changing the old order and enthroning a new order for the overall benefit of our dear country, Nigeria.

Therefore, political jobbers and rats, as well as the fainthearted or bad readers and youth haters, please stay clear or you read and grumble at your own peril.

Happy reading...

*THE ROAD AWAY FROM THE NEW NIGERIA*
BY AHMED BUHARI

Have we honestly designed realistic political strategies and alignments that will give us this victory?
When I declared to run for office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 1st of October 2016 it was borne out of my sincere desire to awaken the consciousness of Nigerians especially the youth to understand how we can demand for good governance and participate in the political processes that produces this good governance.

Shortly after this declaration, many other young candidates surfaced and flooded the political space. Initially it looked a bit clumsy and lacked unification but I later embraced it as it began to appear as though the time had come.

I remember having a deep discussion with Mathias Tsado in Kaduna State explaining to him why I had gotten into the field for this purpose and a few months later he declared for the same office. I reached out to him and congratulated him on his boldness and determination to join the race.

I later reached out to Comrade Eragbe Anslem who I have tremendous respect for and we slowly began to build synergy.

On the 11th of January 2018, I was invited to Sahara Reporters for an interview. After that interview, I met with Omoyele Sowore and told him about the journey I had began and he said he was aware and that it was a good one. Three months later, he declared to also run for the same office.

Three weeks after his declaration, a mutual friend Miss Adesua Okosun called me and requested I have a sit down with Sowore.

We agreed to meet at Radisson Blu Hotel in Ikeja for 3pm. Two hours later Sowore called to tell me he was running late. I waited and by 6pm I called him again and he pleaded I waited a little bit longer. I eventually decided to leave the hotel that day after waiting for him for 5 hours. He later called to apologize for standing me up and promised to reach back to me. One year later he still haven't done so. When we met at the PACT effort he still didn't apologize for not reaching out to me but I excuse him because I know very well the demand this political exercise comes with.

At this point, I knew the urgency to talk to people like Mrs Oby Ezekwesile who by all standards represents strength and compassion. I got her mobile number and called her to arrange a meeting. She requested I sent an email to her personal assistant, which I did and never got a response. The next time I met her was at the PACT process. She served as an umpire on a process that I walked out on because I didn't think we understood the political realities. Oby supervised the emergence of Fela Durotoye and instead of showing her support for him decided to also declare for that same office.

...to be continued

afroniger:
So sad that even Odumakin has joined the likes of Ffk in spreading fake news.

Why wouldn't he? He's still pained that after betraying Buhari was when God answered his call, otherwise, he would have been the Baba's spokeman.

donvat1:
China are really determined to take over the world

They will tell you that they have not arrived yet.
...infact I was stunned when one Chinese guy working for one of thier construction firms told me one day that the Abuja beauty we celebrate here is not as beautiful or modern as the least provincial headquarters in China.

Christty:
May God help us and lead us right by giving us good leaders.

Amen

Shawnnn01:
You Igbos must think everyone is dead in the brain like the 2 million foolish ones Ojukwu led to their early grave with your kind of lies.

If you are so pained, take this bombshell on your head, again:

FLASHBACK:

THE SPEECH DELIVERED BY BRIGADIER JOSHUA NIMYEL DOGONYARO AFTER BUHARI'S DETHRONEMENT ON AUGUST 27, 1985


I, Brigadier Joshua Nimyel Dogonyaro, of the Nigerian Army, hereby make the following declaration on behalf of my colleagues and members of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

Fellow country men, the intervention of the military at the end of 1983 was welcomed by the nation with unprecedented enthusiasm. Nigerians were unified in accepting the intervention and looked forward hopefully to progressive changes for the better. Almost two years later, it has become clear that the fulfillment of expectations is not forthcoming.

Because this generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations have no other country but Nigeria, we could not stay passive and watch a small group of individuals misuse power to the detriment of our national aspirations and interest.

No nation can ever achieve meaningful strides in its development where there is an absence of cohesion in the hierarchy of government; where it has become clear that positive action by the policy makers is hindered because as a body it lacks a unity of purpose.

It is evident that the nation would be endangered with the risk of continuous misdirection. We are presently confronted with that danger. In such a situation, if action can be taken to arrest further damage, it should and must be taken. This is precisely what we have done.

The Nigerian public has been made to believe that the slow pace of action of the Federal Government headed by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari was due to the enormity of the problems left by the last civilian administration.

Although it is true that a lot of problems were left behind by the last civilian government, the real reason, however, for the very slow pace of action is due to lack of unanimity of purpose among the ruling body; subsequently, the business of governance has gradually been subjected to ill-motivated power play considerations. The ruling body, the Supreme Military Council, has, therefore, progressively been made redundant by the actions of a select few members charged with the day-to-day implementation of the SMC’s policies and decision.

The concept of collective leadership has been substituted by stubborn and ill advised unilateral actions, thereby destroying the principles upon which the government came to power. Any effort made to advise the leadership, met with stubborn resistance and was viewed as a challenge to authority or disloyalty.

Thus, the scene was being set for systematic elimination of what, was termed oppositions. All the energies of the rulership were directed at this imaginary opposition rather than to effective leadership.

The result of this misdirected effort is now very evident in the country as a whole. The government has started to drift. The economy does not seem to be getting any better as we witness daily increased inflation.

The nation’s meager resources are once again being wasted on unproductive ventures. Government has distanced itself from the people and the yearnings and aspirations of the people as constantly reflected in the media have been ignored.

This is because a few people have arrogated to themselves the right to make the decisions for the larger part of the ruling body. All these events have shown that the present composition of our country’s leadership cannot, therefore, justify its continued occupation of that position.

Furthermore, the initial objectives and programmes of action which were meant to have been implemented since the ascension to power of the Buhari Administration in January 1984 have been betrayed and discarded. The present state of uncertainty and stagnation cannot be permitted to degenerate into suppression and retrogression.

We feel duty bound to use the resources and means at our disposal to restore hope in the minds of Nigerians and renew aspirations for a better future. We are no prophets of doom for our beloved country, Nigeria. We, therefore, count on everyone’s cooperation and assistance.

I appeal to you, fellow countrymen, particularly my colleagues in arms to refrain from any act that will lead to unnecessary violence and bloodshed among us. Rest assured that our action is in the interest of the nation and the armed forces.

In order to enable a new order to be introduced, the following bodies are dissolved forthwith pending further announcements: (a) The Supreme Military Council (b) The Federal Executive Council (c) The National Council of States. All seaports and airports are closed, all borders remain closed.

Finally, a dusk to dawn curfew is hereby imposed in Lagos and all state capitals until further notice. All military commanders will ensure effective maintenance of law and order. Further announcements will be made in due course. God bless Nigeria.

CAN ANY NIGERIAN TELL US THE DIFFERENCE THEN AND NOW?

Shawnnn01:
You Igbos must think everyone is dead in the brain like the 2 million foolish ones Ojukwu led to their early grave with your kind of lies.

As dead brain like the desert where u drink cow urines and eat camel poo

INTRODUCTION:
Under the Bill Clinton's Presidency, Chinese domination of the PHD programs in the US became a national security issue. They will research, defend and return to China and set business to rivals American business and efforts. The result is what is now known popularly Made in China 2025.

"On Made In China 2025.

On several occasions I run across these Chinese kids here in Georgia Tech, what surprises me is the type of courses they study. Almost all of them under Chinese government scholarship here to study in Americas best universities are studying courses that have to do with the future.

They study artificial intelligence, systems science and engineering, and hard core courses for tommorows World, their social lives are zero and they always hold sophisticated telephones. Very suprizing, but China is a country that thinks ahead and every Chinese is a potential suspect.

Have you ever heard of the concept, made in China 2025? It is Chinese Development blueprint that had sent fear around the world. It is meant to transform China from a labor intensive economy that makes toys, cloths, pharmaceutical to one that engineers advanced products like robots electric cars, and space explorations.

The Chinese are believed to be the most determined species of the human race. Once they set their minds to achieve a goal nothing stops them.

Earlier today, I listened to a commentary where the presenter clearly stated that the Chinese state would not mind stealing technology and intellectual property just to meet their goal.

I also read elsewhere, that Chinese kids are sent in droves to study unique courses like artificial intelligence, information systems, system science, robotic engineering, systems engineering in American schools. Surprisingly this is a deliberate state policy. You never see a Chinese student on scholarship studying arts, social sciences or religion.

What is most troubling is that they study these courses in America and United Kingdom top ivy leagues. They are here on full state sponsored scholarships.

While the economies of the world including the United States are exporting production distribution and exchange in an era of globalization, China is pursuing an agenda of localizing production.

They promote a policy to get almost 70 percent of their production value chain domiciled locally. This is very dangerous because in the future the entire world will answer to China in terms of production. My concern with China is how can a country and a people get it so right? Always ahead of the rest. Always scheming at a time our own kids are holidaying and eating barbecue in foreign restaurants.

The more I study the Chinese, the more I fall in love with these guys. They have leaders that think. They have leaders that plan for tommorow. More interesting, even children as young as five years in China know in every transaction they have to eat up their opponents or be eaten.

The big question: Can we ever have a country built on values? Unfortunately, this is our biggest handicap in Nigeria. Our leaders think only of themselves. Selfish and greedy, and some of our young people think only of what they can scoop out of these greed.

Vision 2020 we planned, this is 2019, nothing to write home about. Even the government themselves are busy politicking and killing themselves with no regard to attain the goals of vision 2020. Open a discussion with a federal minister on how his ministry plans to meet the vision 2020 goals he has no idea what you are talking about.

Our hospitals are still consulting clinics, women still give birth at home without medical support, our roads in disrepair, our schools abandoned and our politicians clueless.
Is there hope for our country that we can ever plan and execute with precision like the Chinese?

Sometime I wonder, do we embrace the Chinese and be recolonized or do we continue to align with the west?

These young Chinese kids in Western schools studying robotics and artificial intelligence are the ones to compete with our own kids 20 years from now at a time our educational system and universities are dead and lecturers still going on strike. I fear for my country and our future, to be candid I fear! - "

-Princewill Odidi, a Development analyst write from Atlanta.

Onechancearmy:
How many published Nigerian newspaper articles from 1885 can be found online, my dear dimwit?

Unlike you I have actually read a hard copy of this story and I can confirm that it is accurate, word for word.

You seem very familiar with the concept of foolishness. Your parents must be proud to see their DNA at work.

He is a brainwashed frustrated and castrated he-goat

Turantula:
My yeloba muslim friend, take it easy with the OP, if u have objections go and argue with Abati and ur forefathers. Anuofia

He is a frustrated he-goat

Shawnnn01:
The frajulent post on Abati website that lacks time or date is the only link you have referencing an article in 1985 ?! I do not care if I am banned; you are indeed exceedingly foolish.

Foolishness reigns in your family! Have you forgotten so soon?

Peaceplay0:
The President Buhari administration has signed an agreement with the Government of Morocco for the supply of fertilizer raw materials
on concessionary terms to boost local blending to facilitate making soil and crop-specific fertilizer blends available and accessible to
Nigeria farmers.

kolo mentality

Lizzysamuel:
British lawmakers defeated Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit divorce deal by a crushing margin on Tuesday, triggering political upheaval that could lead to a disorderly exit from the EU or even to a reversal of the 2016 decision to leave.

Parliament voted 432-202 against her deal, the worst parliamentary defeat for a government in recent British history. Scores of her own lawmakers – both Brexiteers and supporters of EU membership – joined forces to vote down the deal, New Telegraph reports.

With the clock ticking down to March 29, the date set in law for Brexit, the United Kingdom is now ensnared in the deepest political crisis in half a century as it grapples with how, or even whether, to exit the European project that it joined in 1973.


May’s crushing loss, the first British parliamentary defeat of a treaty since 1864, marks the collapse of her two-year strategy of forging an amicable divorce with close ties to the EU after the March 29 exit.

“The Brexit deal is basically dead,” said Anand Menon, professor of European politics and foreign affairs at King’s College London.

“The EU and British lawmakers will consider the deal dead, so the UK will have no Brexit policy and no viable alternative to the Brexit policy,” Menon said.

After repeatedly refusing to resign or to countenance another referendum, May will make a statement shortly. Her options include setting course for a no-deal exit, brinkmanship to try to secure concessions from the EU, a delay to Brexit, resignation, an election or a referendum.

See more:
https://zenithnaija.com/british-mps-overwhelmingly-vote-against-brexit-deal-2/

Thank God it's dead. Britain is selfish

THE ARROGANCE OF POWER:
Guardian's Editorial, Lagos.

It should be perfectly understandable if, in the wake of the recent coup, Nigerians seem a great deal more sceptical about their prospects than perhaps they need be. Two coups in 20 months, separated from a long stretch of military rule only by four brief years of ignominious civilian administration, do not add up to any settled understanding of the essence of government. What they do create is a climate of uncertainty and instability, conditions that are hardly helpful to a nation so desperately in need of orderly progress and development.

Yet, despite the havoc frequent coups continue to do to our psyche and our international image, the question does need to be confronted whether there are circumstances in which the military intervention, even against a military government, may be justifiable. And the answer to that question must, in our circumstances be a resounding yes.

It did not take long before the Buhari administration, so openly and so warmly received by Nigerians when it came to power, began to show it's true and frightful face. Soon enough, it became clear that his administration had a conception of government in which the governed were regarded as a hostile, adversary force, and in which government was virtually an end in itself.

Laws were made, as much through decrees as by administrative fiat, without any evident regard for the interest of the people, let alone their views. Regulations were casually put out, more as punitive devices than as measures designed to ameliorate the citizen's condition. Practically every segment, except, perhaps, the uniformed forces, was antagonised, sometimes humiliated.

Civil liberties were always precarious in military regimes. But the Buhari administration perfected the attrition of elementary freedoms to the point where the average civilian was driven to see himself, often against his will, as a pariah. He had no rights that the government and it's secret police were obliged to respect, and he lived in perpetual fear of being hauled into jail without even a token charge being made against him.

Criticism, even self-criticism, constructive or foul, was banned. Nothing could safely be said of a government that seemed determined to be remembered more for its self-righteous omniscience than for its decency or humanity.

Blackmailed into silence, Nigerians watched as the traditional foundations of the state were eroded. Ethnicity became a principle of state policy. The economy sputtered along. Educational policy was in a shambles. Our hospitals became graveyards. And all along we were invited to believe, as an article of patriotic faith, that we lived in the best of all possible worlds.

Ultimately, it was the arrogance of the Buhari administration that led to its downfall. For arrogance always leads to moral and political blindness. Blindness leads to isolation, and when any government is isolated from the governed, it's end is always predictable.

General Babangida is yet to vouchsafe a detailed blueprint of its intentions. But he knows, as we do, that his task is well cut out for him. His preliminary statements suggest that he does have a sensible idea of the causes of his predecessor's downfall. The more difficult project is to avoid the same pitfalls. No-one, least of all this newspaper, can lay rightful and exclusive claim to the answers to our myriads of problems. We can resolve them only through painful and collective application.

But the present government must provide the leadership. And that leadership cannot be genuine or legitimate unless it springs from the decisive conviction that this nation is one, and that the best government is that which, for good or ill, carries the majority of the governed with it.

https://reubenabati.com.ng/index.php/component/k2/item/5315-arrogance-of-power-the-guardian-newspaper-editorial-on-buhari-in-1985

ThisisBuhari:
Yes. I used to pay, but atimes they dont collect if the item is very very small. Anyway 500 Naira is too much. Minimum should have start from 100 Naira. Imagine shipping from China for free and paying on arrival.

I hope APC and Buhari will take note.

Buhari needs the money for his election campaigns

For security personnel?

See and caption this picture of President Buhari shaking hands with Senator Saraki when they met at the Army Forces Rememberance Day celebration in Abuja.

The way the number one and three men held their hands and the manner of thier gaze into each other eyes has not only got everyone talking, but the way the Vice President, Osibanjo was now gazing at Saraki has got many talking- what could have made Osibanjo to look at the Senate President in that assumptive expression?

For me, I think there is more to this scene than our eyes and mind can express, but I think Osibanjo is trying to make jest of Saraki.

You are free to caption yours.

Nelsnare:
How much is nebosh and ispon and how do I go about it?

Thanks for this clarification. What is the qualification for the M.sc( Occupational Health Safety)?

Greatken007:
ISPON General HSE is 45k (5days) and HSE COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT LEVEL 3 is 25k (5days)

Will ISPON honour a certificate on HSE 1,2,3 issued by a private training center like Novell center.

The girl child.. the mother of nations.

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