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Nigeria is a dead country. Going backwards in every area possible.

Four more years of Buhari and its all over...

Original AGIP. Its because of this sort of itiboribo leader that Igbo youths have joined IPOB en masse. Nobody to look up to besides Ezeife and few others that are either very old or not rich

Nigeria is finished. Buhari and his buffoons have destroyed it

sarrki:
Some people can still attribute this to pmb

Buhari's Nigeria that people have been exchanging their sons for a bag of rice? To abandon family na small levels

Honestly Buhari has been bad news for this country. He is is a very vindictive, small, poorly lettered and divisive man. Real paper General. Abacha wasn't this incompetent even though more wicked.

These people came here looking to provoke a reaction after Trump's meeting with Buhari

Shawnnn01:
Igbo people at it again fooling themselves. If corruption is not stealing what is it ?

Tribalism is everything for some of you

When I use my influence as a director in a ministry to give my younger brother a contract have I stolen? The answer is no but using my power for personal advantage is corruption

mktinsight:
Nice but this is what Obianos Anambra really looks like

Where exactly is this place

See Eastern region economic map in the 1950s. Just imagine the possibilities. Yes Nigeria is holding Igbos down

Buhari should not send airforce men to come and murder our youths under any guise

specter:
You are an honest homo sapien sir. May God bless you.

Amen sire

keneck1:
kwakwakwakwakwakwa i know you so pained by this revelation eyaa your cry cry has just begun imminent defeat awaits all of you that donoy want naija to move forward cry on boi

What is "donoy"

Deji7474:
Former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has revealed how some powerful aides of immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan embezzle $6 million yearly from the Cargo Tracking Note (CTN) charges.

In her recently released book, “Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines”, Okonjo-Iweala said she became a target of very powerful interests after she sought and got approval from Jonathan for the implementation of the ports reforms, which include the abolishing of a Cargo Tracking Note (CTN) a regime which importers argued added costs to them for duplicate services.

Excerpts: “During my second month in office in September 2011, the issue of port congestion Okonjo-Iwealawas brought to the attention of the Economic Management team by members of Nigeria’s organised private sector, especially the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) as a serious impediment to doing business. Importers were irate about a Cargo Tracking Note (CTN) regime which they argued added costs to them for duplicate services.

“They said that their cargos were already being tracked by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) from origin to destination, so then; there was no reason for the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to collect this charge. Upon enquiry, we learned that charges totalled about $6 million a year, so this was consequential. I had never seen this money remitted to the treasury and, in fact, had not known of the existence of the CTN. We recommended that the CTN be abolished immediately.

“On October 14, 2011, the Minister of Transport and I sent a memo to the President that outlined the short, medium and long term problems of Nigeria’s ports, proposed solutions and requested approval for implementation shortly thereafter. Then the problems began. I received an anonymous text telling me the port reforms were bad and harmful and I should rescind them. I learned that some agencies such as the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and others that had been told to develop alternative collaborative arrangements with the Customs to take care of their responsibilities while staying out of the ports were not happy and were lobbying to be let back into the ports.

“About six weeks into the implementation of the port reforms, in early December 2011, I received a message that a top-ranking presidential aide wanted me to stop by his office anytime I was in the Villa.”

The former Director of World Bank further disclosed that she was locked out of the Villa for refusing to obey the order given by the unnamed influential aide in Jonathan’s administration to restore the CTN with immediate effect.

https://www.abusidiqu.com/how-jonathans-aides-embezzle-6m-yearly-from-npa-okonjo-iweala/

Obasanjo aides got a piece of the pie. Jonathan aides got a piece of the pie. The same way Buhari aides are getting a piece of the pie today on a bigger level. Same way the aides of the next president will join hands with the cabal and CHOP! It's an institutional flaw that was being slowly cured until APC came.

As coordinating minister she was slowly chipping away at those interests.

The fact is that Jonathan's government was strangling corruption and corruption fought back through APC/Buhari. Very unfortunate

Nigerians are very wicked and daft. They don't deserve wonderful performers like NOI, Adesina or Jonathan. They deserve monkeys like Amaechi, Buhari and co that will deplete the treasury, cause recession and disobey court orders

APC really is the most useless conglomerate of clowns Nigeria has ever seen. So after all the years of Buhari in office they have not been able to convict Diezani of any crime. Their strategy is to pay bloggers to talk rubbish. Meanwhile Babachir Lawal is flexing his life after stealing IDP money but bloggers no go see that one

A person's name is an Igbo name. The person calls his traditional ruler Obi or Eze. The person says he is not Igbo

The person na mumu

Easy o. American police dey look for black people to shoot these days.

This useless ohaneze that positions itself to collect money from every president during every election cycle.

No wonder Igbo youths, women and other groups disrupted their meeting in Enugu recently and disgraced them forcing Nwodo to escape through the back door. They do not speak for Igbos.

Go to Igbo land and sample opinions from traders, artisans and ordinary people in general and they will tell you they are fed up with Nigeria and want a referendum or restructuring

This must be a joke or propaganda. Ban keke in asaba with all the narrow streets? What will he replace them with?

That Rev. Laripuu should leave our matter abeg. Igbos have shown a lot of solidarity with the Benue people since this matter began.

Why didn't he mention the other tribes that are not aloof. Cowardly thing

softmind24:
This is laziness and foolishness


Why not stay in ur village and defend ur selves




Stop waiting for government or u guys will all die for nothing.

These ordinary farmers to defend against herdsmen that have been killing soldiers recently? Abeg life no get duplicate. Make dem run for their children's sake

As if hooligans communicate by email or registered letters? Ifeanyi Ubah pretty much opened their nyash when he quashed their artificial fuel scarcity two years ago

Hypocrisy!

Tinubu thugs stoned Gani at Igbosere High Court when he challenged the validity of Tinubu's certificates in 1999.

Today na statue

Yet silence by the yoruba e-warriors.

Na only to dey dream of inheriting Igbo properties in lagos when Nigeria breaks wey dem sabi

If Igbo man argues with yoruba area boy dem for dey shout "Ibo respect your hosts"!!!

deomelllo:
These low self esteem and insecure people with their pity party threads.



SMH.

Poor man

Onye owu ite

authehighness:
i think,we the igbos are complaining too much,even when,we know what God has done and is still doing for us since the world ended,our recovering is miraculous,i have been and even live in some northern part of nigeria,their sufferings are numerous,sickness,poverty,illitreacy and hopeless youths,even for years now those that fought against us during the civil war,are being killed on daily basis,their women raped without them knowing when it will end,it is time for us to stop complaining and learn how to appreciate God

Knowledge is power.

You cannot implement policies that killed growth and expect that the facts of what was deliberately and maliciously done will not be talked about when it is discovered.

It is your history, why don't you want the truth to be known?

The Federal arrest of the Nnewi Master-plan as a microcosm of the arrest of development of Igboland and advancement of Igbo people in Nigeria –

This will be my Tribute to Prof J.O.C Onyemelukwe, just laid to rest in Nnewi, April 2018 as I mourn with his son and my friend, Obiora Onyemelukwe.
While lamenting the atrocious Post-War Punitive Policies of the so-called “Federal Government” of Nigeria in Igboland and the heinous outcomes, Chike Onyemelukwe wrote as follows:

“By plan since after the War, the Zone by Official Federal Government Policy was denied Infrastructure to support meaningful Development. Roadways, Water, Electricity, Seaports, Airports, Federal Institutions, Foreign Embassies. NotIgb only that, Self-Help Community efforts was outlawed right after the war in East Central State. It was outlawed, because Nnewi developed a Master-Plan for Nnewi that would have Nnewi businesses headquartered at Nnewi, with a Market bigger than Onitsha Market with Roads and Highways to the Food-Producing areas. It was at the stage of raising the Funds in the Nnewi traditional manner that the news got to the Federal Government. East Central State was forced to pass an Edict, to the effect that any Community that raised Funds for Community Projects, shall forward the raised Funds to the State Government. The State will decide what the money will be used for and where. Some will remember that at the end of the War, people were forced to drive from Sokoto, from Lagos, from Madugiri to Nnewi for Motor Parts. By 1973 the Roads and lack of structures forced the business people to relocate to Lagos and from there to other parts of Nigeria with roads and etc. Our people were forced out of Igboland. The Professor that led the effort on the Master Plan for Nnewi at that time was buried Thursday last week, Prof J. O. C. Onyemeluke. He drove from Ibadan every two weeks in a Volkswagen Beetle, for a working meeting with other professionals.”

As it was for shutting down the Nnewi Master- Plan, so it was for shutting down the only Power Plant in Igboland at Oji River built by the Government of the then Eastern Region to Provide Electricity to the Eastern Nigeria.

So it was for shuttering the entire Eastern Economic Corridor which includes the Ports of Port Harcourt and Calabar and which forced the almost 80% of Importers in Nigeria, who are Igbo, to ship in their merchandise through Lagos Ports and then run the gauntlet from Customs, to Police to all manners of Robbery-Style Tax Roadblocks.

So it was for the deliberately degraded “Federal” Road Infrastructure across the East which in turn ruined all other Roads.

So it was for the deliberate
De-Industrialization of Eastern Nigeria from the lofty heights already attained during the Premiership of M.I Okpara under an Eastern Region Industrial Master-Plan that became the support-frame for the miracle-grade Biafra’s Technological leap into the future;

So it was for the targeted, deliberate degradation of human Capital with the omnipotent Quota System which severely constricted academic opportunities for our People by near-impossible entry-point requirements but lavishly avails the same opportunities to the others at ridiculously lowered, almost-nil entry-point requirements; (Unity Schools, JAMB, NDA etc).

So it was with the glass- ceiling placed on the Igbo in the Public Service of the Federation, Armed Forces, Police and other Security Services of the Federation.

So it was with the many Policy obstacles deliberately placed on the way of Igbo-owned businesses while mind-boggling concessions are granted their competitors from elsewhere thus while Ibeto had to be run out of one cement town, Dangote had to be airlifted into several cement towns. Innoson Motors is still embroiled in the FG-Induced-Shut-Igbo-Down miasma.

In response to these malevolent offerings of Nigeria to the Peoples of Eastern Nigeria, a generation has arisen to extricate the Territory from the vicious, backward “British/Caliphate Suzerainty” the World calls “Nigeria”

The LNC is in the vanguard of the decisive Self-Determination push, targeted at collapsing the Caliphate-Imposed, Worse-Than-Apartheid, Master-Servant Constitution 1999 to free the entrapped and Occupied Eastern Nigeria into Independence via a Referendum.

Tony Nnadi is the Secretary General of Lower Niger Congress (LNC) and Movement for New Nigeria (MNN)

ooduapathfinder:
www.thepathfinderinternational.com


The South-West/Yorubaland has been rightly deemed the 2019 “battleground”. This will not be the first time Yorubaland/Yoruba Nation will be the “battleground”; from the motion for Independence by the Action Group, championed by the Yoruba, to the 1951 Western Regional Elections which established Federalism as the pathway towards Nigeria’s future, to the resistance to the massive rigging of the 1964/1965 Federal and Regional elections by the NPC/NCNC Alliance,

False!

The 1964/1965 Elections could not have been rigged by the NPC/NCNC Alliance because the alliance ended BEFORE the elections when it was obvious the north represented by the NPC had rigged the 1963 census to enable it rig the upcoming 1964 Federal elections in its favour.

NCNC left the alliance and formed UPGA with other parties from the North (NEPU), Middlebelt (UMBC) and a few elements from AG (West). Michael Okpara the Premier of the East even ordered a mass boycott of the elections

The NPC responded by forming the NNA with Akintola's NNDP (West) and MDF

Blue3k:
Anyway I see them going to supreme court to fight this futher. If anyone still cares they should use FOI to find out funny business going on in state like Paris club refunds.

Hey mapet update to story.

Of course they will escalate to Supreme Court. Government money is the sweetest and they have been fighting tooth and nail from the High Court level to keep spending public funds like their fathers bequeathed it to them. Unfortunately for them they have no case and the SC no get time

The president of Sudan has an arrest warrant hanging over his neck. One day na one day. Especially Buratai that has houses in Dubai. Imagine having houses you can't visit