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This article is straight from Bourdillon. First, Buhari can not sack Emefiele and any sane journalist should know that.

Secondly, what did Osinbajo really achieve as Acting President apart from travelling to the South East and the South south. Obviously, he's tried to unify the country but other than that, he's really done nothing.

The only thing I can say here is that he's likely to become a better human being. One thing I've noticed as a health professional who has cared for a lot of patients going through acute and life threatening ill health is that they become better human beings after such episodes. He may tone down on his tyranny, bigotry and hatred for some groups.

What he's passed through and still going through now must have thought him that vanity upon vanity is vanity.

WebSurfer:
This is sad. but i want to know if those affected include the yorubas or mostly other tribes

Most houses in Ajao estate are owned by Igbos bit a few Yorubas may also be affected.

doctokwus:
The justice Sidi Bage that delivered thar lead judgement is a future Chief justice material.
Erudition,principles of law and unequivocal assertion of d supreme court to champion d battle for Nigeria to turn a new leaf,is top notch.

He'd do well handling Buhari certificate scandal

Babytruth:
Ojonoda ,God has long forgiven me and you dare put your condemnation on me??
Ojonoda,I condemn you today by the same God who called me and forgave my sins , when I asked him for mercy, and I return your curses back upon your head and marriage 7000 fold in Jesus Christ name Amen, Amen , Amen..

Miss Otobo is that you?

mrsfavour:
Ag. Vice president can continue, its obvious he still needs medical attention. but if its me I won't continue to be the president. Get well sir.we wish u good health.

Well said.

Apple1992:
The thing pain sarrki. The guy be like baba I take God beg you. no fold my hands.

Lol

mubaroqah:
Pardon,the president is not a dullard,he is a good,strong and a family man.

May God run your life the way Buhari has ran Nigerian economy. Say Amin!

When Sarrki, Omenkalives and Aufbauh heard Buhari will be leaving again in 2 weeks to continue treatment.

Lalasticlala over

Cambells:
President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo strolling in Aso Rock shortly after his arrival from the UK.

http://www.cambellsblog.com/2017/03/photo-president-muhammadu-buhari-and.html

Abba Kyari has resurfaced.

omenkaLives:
I just hate it when ignorant kids jump into my mentions to flaunt their stupidity.

E pain am!

Omenkalives be like: baba why you dey do us like this na?

nwabobo:
BREAKING: Osinbajo remains in charge as I continue my rest, says Buhari


President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to continue in acting capacity while he keeps resting.



More to follow…

https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-osinbajo-remains-charge-continue-rest-says-buhari

Truth is, the man is not well enough and may never regain full fitness for the rigours of the office but the cabal had to bring him in to secure their ground.

BMC won't like this news.

cc: Sarrki, Omenka, Aufbauh, Omenkalives

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to continue in acting capacity while he keeps resting.

Buhari returned to the country on Friday morning after a medical vacation in the UK.

Shortly after his arrival, he met with top government officials at the first lady conference room of the presidential villa in Abuja.

Abba Kyari, chief of staff to the president; Babagana Monguno, national security adviser; Lawal Daura, director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS) and Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman; were among those who attended the meeting.

Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, and Abdulaziz Yari, his Zamfara state counterpart, also attended.

Buhari expressed gratitude to all those who prayed for him during his time in London, and asked for more prayers.

He said he was feeling better, but still needed to rest.

He retired into his residence at the end of the meeting.

President Buhari, first lady, Aisha and one of his grand daughter
Buhari’s wife and one of his grand children
Buhari left the country on January 19, after transmitting a letter to the national assembly that he was going on a 10-day vacation.

He told the lawmakers that he had handed over to Osinbajo, who was in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, at the time.

Osinbajo had to cut short his trip to take over the responsibilities.

Buhari was expected back in the country on February 5, but he extended his vacation indefinitely, saying he was awaiting results of some medical tests.

Two weeks after, Adesina said the results of the tests showed his principal needed a longer period of rest.

But on Sunday, Buhari hinted that his the end of his medical vacation was near.

The president had told Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state, that he would soon to the country to continue his assignment of “providing purposeful leadership for the nation”.

Source:https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-osinbajo-remains-charge-continue-rest-says-buhari

sarrki:
Thank you Jesus

Thank you Lord

Welcome my mentor

Your mentor?

So you plan becoming a dullard?

loopman:
More like bad news for IPOB and their dilector Igwe and Eze Ndigbo of Kuje prison

What would Ndigbo have benefitted from Buhari's death? Nothing. It would have made Osinbajo become president and later decide to go for another term and the rafter the North would want it back therefore delaying the Igbos ftom having a go.

Afonjas ntorr

loopman:
Bad news for IPOB and wailers/mischief makers . They won't sleep this Friday

Bad news for Afonjas I would day. They were already salivating st the prospect of sn Osibanjo presidency.

NgeneUkwenu:
I Pity Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB Youths and Their supporters!

Some Of Them Might Die Off, after Hearing This News!


Anywhere, Welcome My Mentor....

Ebekue Dike Nke Mbu N' Ala Igbo!

Gaa Gaa Na Ogwu!

Agbawara Dike Izu, Agbagharia Ya!

Nnoo Nwoke Oma!

He will soon go back. Bookmark this page.

cheruv:
Biko do you've a PDF format of this document??
I need it seriously

Here's a link to the PDF format - https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://eie.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/TheWillinkCommissionReport_conc_recom_lt.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwjUi_yZncrSAhXBuBoKHezkDGEQFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNEbZJ62kypsHX_VleiWYX0IRdb60g

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14. “A group of miscellaneous grievances and charges against the Ibos from Calabar may be treated together; we were told that the Ibos did not observe local customs in the markets….We formed the impression that jealousy of the Ibos successes in the markets was the main factor.”

THE PROPOSAL FOR NEW STATES

15. “The Ogoja state proposed to us would include former Ogoja province, whose population of slightly more than One million include more than 700,000 Ibos…the main intention would be separation from the central body of Ibo population, but in which they will still be linked together with as a minority with their Ibo neighbours in Abakaliki and Afikpo…A majority of evidence we heard from Ogoja was direct that they preferred the present situation to any association with Calabar and that they were at least as much afraid of domination by Efiks and Ibibios as by Ibos.”

16. “The (Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers or COR) state proposed would consist of Calabar, Rivers and Ogoja provinces excluding the two Ibo Divisions of Abakaliki and Afikpo. The population of this area is 2,649,000 and the following would be the five largest tribes:
Ibibio 717,000
Annang 435,000
Ibo 428,000
Ijaw 251,000
Ogoni 156,000
As already explained, the small but important Efik tribe of 71,000…The (COR) area is far from homogenous , and many of the other tribes expressed at least as much fear of the Efiks and Ibibios as of the Ibo. It would leave the Ibos of the Ibo Plateau surrounded by a state whose reason for existence was hostility to themselves: the Ibos are an expanding people…”

17. “The area claimed for Rivers state consists of the whole of the Rivers province, that is: The Division of Brass, Degema, Ogoni, Port Harcourt and Ahoada, together with the Western Ijaw Division from the western region, and two small sections in the Eastern Region from outside the Rivers Province, Opodo and Andoni being one, Ndoki the other.”

18. “Port Harcourt is an Ibo town and it is growing rapidly and the indigenous branch of the Ibos who are original inhabitants are already out-numbered by Ibos from the hinterland.”

19. “The people of Ahoada, a Division of which a pan runs down to meet Port Harcourt, appear at one time to have favoured the idea of a Rivers state, but have changed their views and before us expressed themselves as strongly against it. Comparatively few of them live in the low-lying swampy country of the coastal strip and they have voted for the NCNC consistently, they said themselves that a main factor in their change of front had been the inclusion if the Western Ijaws in the proposed state. So long, they said, as the Rivers state was to consist of the River Province only, the Ibos would have been the most numerous tribe within it: but the inclusion of the Western Ijaw Division put them at a numerical disadvantage beside the Ijaws and they therefore preferred to stay out. Whether or not this was a line of reasoning that really had a wide appeal, the fact remain that before us they were opposed to the idea of the state. This is not surprising because their problems are different from those of the ijaws.”

20. “To include within a River state Ahoada and Port Harcourt, would, we believe, create a problem as acute as that with which we were asked to deal at present and and would be sharply resented by the Ibos of the central plateau.”

The 1958 Willink's Commission Report that explains Eastern minorities' rift with the Igbo
THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED TO “ENQUIRE INTO THE FEARS OF MINORITIES AND THE MEANS OF ALLAYING THEM”, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “THE WILLINK COMMISSION REPORT OF JULY 1958”
THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND.

1. “More than 98% of people who inhabit this area (the ‘Ibo Plateau’ of the Eastern region) are Ibo and speak one language, though of course with certain differences of dialect. There are nearly five million of them and they are too many for the soil to support: they are vigorous and intelligent and have pushed outward in every direction, seeking a livelihood by trade or in service in the surrounding areas of the Eastern Region, in the Western Region, in the North and outside Nigeria. They are no more popular with their neighbours than is usual in the case of an energetic and expanding people whose neighbours have a more leisurely outlook on life.”

2. “Though there has been no great kingdom or indigenous culture in the Eastern Region, the coastal chiefs grew on their trade with the (European merchant) ships and they adopted customs, clothing and housing more advanced than those of the peoples of the interior on whom they had at first preyed for slaves. They came during the 19th Century to regard the people of the interior as backward and ignorant, and it was therefore a blow to their pride, as well as to their pockets, when the Ibos began to push outwards into the surrounding fringe of the country and particularly into the Calabar area, to take up land, to grow rich, to own houses and lorries and occupy posts in public services and in the services of large trading firms.”
“It was among the Ibos, formerly despised by the people of Calabar as source of slaves and as a backward people of the interior, now feared and disliked as energetic and educated, that the first political party formed.”

3. “It is important to remember that of this (Ogoja) Province’s 1,082,000 inhabitants, 723,000 are Ibos, almost entirely in Abakaliki and Afikpo (Divisions), while the census classifies 350,000 as “Other Nigerian Tribes.”

4. The Rivers Province …includes the two divisions of Brass and Degema, both overwhelmingly Ijaw, and the Ogoni Division. The former Rivers Division also includes over 300,000 Ibos of whom 250,000 are in Ahoada Division and 45,000 in Port Harcourt. Port Harcourt is a town of recent growth and of rapidly increasing importance; it is built on land that blonged originally to an outlying branch of the Ibo tribe, the Diobus, but is largely inhabited by the Ibos from the interior who have come to trade or seek employment….Of the total 747,000 in the Rivers province, 305,000 are Ibos, 240,000 are Ijaws and 156,000 are Ogonis.”

5. “The strip to the south of the Ibo block, is physically, divided by a block of Ibo territory, tipped by the important Ibo town of Port Harcourt and tribally divided between the Ijaws and the Ogonis.”

6. “In the whole of this non-Ibo area there is present in varying degree some fear of being over-run, commercially and politically, by the Ibos….. if Ahoada and Port Harcourt, which are really Ibo, are considered with the solid centre of Ibo population, there are 54 seats for the Ibo area and 30 for COR (Calabar, Ogoja and Rivers) in (Eastern Regional House of Assembly).”

THE FEARS AND GRIEVANCES OF MINORITIES

7. “It was suggested (by non-Ibo petitioners) that it was the deliberate object of the Ibo majority in the Region to fill every post with Ibos (in public post and services).….when, however we came to consider specific complaints about the composition of public bodies, we found them in many cases exaggerated or unreasonable.”

8. “The allegation was put forward by counsel (to petitioners) that the Judiciary (when not European) was predominantly Ibo, with the implication that this caused fear among those who are not Ibos. But it was clearly stated in evidence by Dr. Udoma, the leader of UNIP, that no occasion could be adduced of the judiciary acting with partiality. The fact is that the legal profession is largely Ibos and the reasons for this do not seem to be Government action. It is therefore inevitable that there should be an Ibo preponderance among Judges and Magistrates. Further, it is the declared policy of Government that the Judiciary should be federal and this does not indicate a desire to control it. Again, the operation and composition of Public Service Commission here, as in the West, appeared to us in no way open to reproach.”

9. “In the Police, which in this region alone is wholly Federal, the number of Ibos in the higher appointments is not out of proportion to the Ibos in the region. The force is now federally controlled and although there are a large number of Ibos in the lower ranks, this is due to the fact that it has for long been a tradition among the Ibos to offer themselves for recruitment in this force in far greater numbers than any other tribe.”

10. “we noted that in five years, 1952 – 1957, from a total of 412 secondary scholarships, 216 were awarded to persons living in the COR areas, while the figures for post-secondary scholarships were 211 out of 623. The latter is about the right proportion of one-third, the former considerably in excess. It was suggested that scholarships awarded to non-Ibos were of an inferior kind and that the best scholarships went to Ibos, but we were, unable to see that this claim held any validity. On the evidence before us, we conclude that the allegations of discriminations in the matter of scholarships are unjustified.”

11. “It was further suggested that loans by the Eastern Regional Finance Corporation, the Eastern Region Development Board, and the Eastern Region Development Corporation were made with some degree of preference to Ibos. It did appear that most of the loans made by these bodies were to Ibos, but that is not to say that this was necessarily improper. Ibos constitute two thirds of the population of the region and have a bigger share of financial and commercial responsibility than their numbers warrant.”

12. “That there should be modern streetlight in Onitsha, and not Calabar, was also quoted as example of discrimination; it proved however that Onitsha Urban District Council had financed this measure from their own resources.”

13. “The question of land was repeatedly raised, it being resented by the Efiks and Ibibios that the Ibos should acquire land at all in their territory while the methods by which it was obtained were also questioned. There is no doubt that on the Ibo Plateau there is insufficient land for the people and the Ibos ate thrusting outwards where possible they acquire land and use it either for cultivation or building…..This is a matter which will require legislation sooner or later and it will be delicate to handle, but the economic process is in itself healthy and we had little sympathy with a witness who remarked that there is much undeveloped land in district and he was anxious that it should not fall into the hand of the Ibos….We believe that Governments in Nigeria should be careful not to try to protect minorities by introducing measures that would restrict development....”

princemillla:
Na u chop am

#Diamondbank

princemillla:
Funny enuf I have a case like this. I also mistakenly sent money to someone and since last June he is unable to pay back.


OP, abandon the case for now.... Don't go to the station. Open another account and Continue your job. Later on you can challenge the case or forget it for life

That your 40k?

sarrki:
He's confuse

You haven't been too active these days. Alert never drop? #BMC

momentarylapse:
How do you know that is his name? Or were you the victim? Na wa oh! Everything na tribe matter dis days?

Ask him if that is not his name.

martineverest:
i dont support violence...but this man got what he deserve...y name ur dog muhammad when u know the implications?

Some people are just professional troublemakers

So it was ok for the Hausa guy to name his dog after d Igbo guy but not Vice versa?

Jabioro:
His wife told her citizens that Robert has no one to hand over to and I assured him that he would handover to death.. it has been confirmed.. next?

Na you confirm am?

maasoap:
https://m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/162060/primary-school-in-anambra-cries-for-intervention.html

"Orient Daily, who visited the school recently, reported that insufficient classroom blocks, chairs and desks pose lots of challenges to the over four hundred pupils compelled to study either sitting on the floor or standing in the crowded little space apartments (classrooms) constructed by its host community and federal government prior to the state government whose building is yet to be completed."

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