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"...The police later received an order from the Governor, who allegedly ordered them to shoot at the protesting the doctors."

Rochas ordered the police to shoot and kill the doctors?

Politics can be interesting at times. But it's stories like this that make the social media bill necessary. Any slowpoke can just open a free blog and start disseminating his/her gruesome imaginations as news; and of course the target audience are mainly sentimental buffoons in society who sit idly in their kiosks wishing and praying to hear this kind of stories, so they care less about verification.

Anybody that sees the picture from this second angle and still throws insults at Pa Buhari for sitting on a wrong seat, such a person must be a self inflicted blind dolt.
https://i.imgur.com/UJtwfAE.jpg?1

obyrich:
Supreme court interpreted the law without bias. Use of card readers is not recognised by the current electoral law. It is the responsibility of APC/Buhari to amend the law to incorporate card readers as a valid method of accreditation. Meanwhile sorry for your loss.

With APC wielding all the powers at Abuja, do you really think the APC would want to amend that law before 2019 knowing that the status-quo would favour them in the 2019 elections? I think that is what the Op is trying to point out; it is the PDP that should be pushing to amend that law now.

Lol...

But can we see another view of the picture?

I expected Udom to win his case, I don't think APC has enough supporters in Akwa Ibom, especially not after the performance of Akpabio. However I definitely expected a rerun in Rivers and an outright victory for Otti in Abia.

Hopefully the supreme court justices know what they are doing; I hope these kind of rulings wouldn't fuel a do-or-die election in 2019. Congratulations to all the winners, now we can move forward.

Which kain story be this? Frontpage!

Very typical in most Naija government universities, especially at 100 level, too bad!

lender:
The train from Lagos to Kano has started working about 3 years ago during Jonathan regime.

The thread is talking about trains, real 21st century trains running on standard gauge rails tracks. We aren't talking of pre-1960 refurbished narrow gauge scrap metals rail tracks here, this is 2016.

Ikology:
Mr Oshunbade! When you decide to implement a well thought policy by someone, Please acknowledge them. Hypocrite

Acknowledge who biko?

Obiagelli:
There has been this cry about the
government focusing on anti
corruption when in actual fact it has
been media that has turned a blind
eye to other activities of
government.

Next time don't tell us the government has no plan.

FIRS Targets N5tn Revenue In
2016 Non-oil Revenue To
Account For 80% Of Earnings

www.nairaland.com/2909095/firs-targets-n5tn-revenue-2016#42575237


Why Ajaokuta Steel Company Won’t Function Immediately –Minister

www.nairaland.com/2909195/why-ajaokuta-steel-company-wont#42572540

China-exim Bank To Fund Lagos, Kano, Calabar Railway Projects – Osinbajo

www.nairaland.com/2909131/china-exim-bank-fund-lagos-kano#42573382

You know I was actually wondering myself how these topics never got to the FP and just disappeared without a trace from the politics section.

Oga Lalasticlala, Seun, mynd44, OAM4J, make una com see beta news oh!

Hmmm

wytecat:
Regionalism has always been the best way, and that was the reason Yoruba asked for it in the national conference, if other tribes had followed Yoruba to ask for same, there won't be need for side talks that's going on now. Is the man confused or just waking up? His region was against it.

And where did you get that impression from that 'his region opposed it'?... Why dont you get your facts right before coming online to make comments?

ojoyentalk:
NEMA confirmed 11 passengers on board. They are all alive and helicopter has been rescued.

FADEO:
The 11 persons have been rescued alive. Details coming soon.

Halelluia!

neocortex:
Give me one example of a country which become great by being arrogant
and isolating itself ?

South Africa will have been worse than Zimbabwe today if Mandela had not
used wisdom and not heed to the voice of those calling for revenge against the whites.
But Mandela cautioned and argued that the minority whites are experts in many field
and relegating them to obscurity will not be in the interest of SA and we can all see the
result today.

Same for china during the Mao days many of their leaders were bitterly anti-western but the post-Mao
chinese leaders recognized that it is not in the interest of china to isolate itself, we can
all see the result today.

It is the same "anti-" mentality that is holding back the blacks in the US, instead of
them on playing smart and focusing on how to make progress in the system , many are only interested in
showing how tough and proud they are which only reinforces the poverty cycle in various communities.

I am sure if the destruction that was meted on Japan during world war 2 happened to
an African country, it will still be struggling and seething with hatred and revenge till this day
instead of taking advantage of the situation.

While I am against becoming a puppet of any country, it is better to take the middle rather than
extreme course.

Do you think pride is worth centuries of suffering ?

Wisdom beats pride any day any where.

It is a good thing to maintain ones pride, it is also good to sometimes compromise a little if it can benefit your people. However, my comment was only to correct a misconception that Mugabe and Zimbabweans ran their country to the ground the very moment the whites left because they were incapable of managing their farms and their economy without the whites. No doubt, the country was brought to a halt the moment the whites left, but ascribing that misfortune to the incapacity of Zimbabwean people is an even greater evil than the evil the western powers themselves did to the country. The real reason Zimbabwe's economy crashed is because the western powers decided to punish/maltreat/assault/molest the entire country because Mugabe refused to bow and play ball.

Guyman02:
No be by force to comment, you dont have an idea that model can fetch in the US.
You should be congratulating NLers for bringing this guy to national attention. I expect the Delta State Govt to do the same for that mini aircraft maker.

Lol... Guy, that model is a toy and can't fetch nothing in the US, except of course the lad has got other skills.

The African hero, a man whose only noble and heroic deed / achievement was to step down after losing a democratic election. Africa is certainly a jungle.

Everything in Nigeria is a anomaly; I'm afraid it would take several generations for these systematic anomalies to be solved.

Huh?

Is it me or does anyone else think this makes absolutely no sense?... Or could it be that I am missing a part of the story?... What is special about a person creating a prototype design of a car?... If a moulded prototype of a car can fetch American scholarship, then I guess sculptors on the streets should start moulding rockets, maybe Tambuwal will send them to NASA.

Where is the CBN when you need them?

Hallelluia!

For anyone who cares to know, news like this is the exact reason why I supported Buhari to be president in 2011 and in 2015. If all Buhari can achieve in 4 years is for people like Maina to be jailed, then his presidency would be a success to me.

Bevista:
That is a very linear way of looking at issues. The fact is that the local farmers did not possess sufficient know how and resources to manage those farms. It's like PMB pursuing all the foreigners operating our oil companies on the alter of a Nigerianization policy. I don't need to tell you how that would turn out.
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Even the schools and hospitals the missionaries left for us decades ago have not improved. Force or Fiat does not guarantee development, structure and planning does. On that front, Mugabe has failed woefully. Zimbabwe economy is the worst in the world with record inflation. Add that to the fact he has no regards for democracy.

And you really think it's because Zimbabwean local farmers did not know how to farm, that was why their economy crashed the moment white farmers left??.... If you believe that story, then I'm sure you would also believe every trashy propaganda churned out by western media. For a country which mainly produces and exports 'perishable' farm produce, what do you think would be the fate of such a nation when western powers places export embargoes on them?? How else would they convert their produce to money if they can't sell it easily??

Using the Nigerian example you gave, assuming all foreign oil workers are chased away from Nigeria and then western powers places an embargo on Nigerian oil exports, do have an idea what that would do to our nation??... And probably when that happens, the international media would claim it's because Nigerians don't have 'sufficient know-how' to handle the oil and gas industry, a statement which we all know is a bloody lie.

andresia:
watched his speech yesterday and I must say I was really impressed by his eloquence and thought process.

very few African leaders can match him in speech and thought. Dude was applauded by all throughout his speech.

but how did this man run Zimbabwe aground like dis na

Mugabe did not run Zimbabwe aground like the media always makes you believe; the western nations crippled Zimbabwe's economy themselves because Mugabe refused to bow to most of their pressures. For a country which produces and exports farm produce, the economy can be grounded instantly once western powers places an embargo on their exports.

What is the Op even talking about?... Not a single Nigerian city of 2016 comes anywhere close to London of 1830 in terms of planning and development.

Baroba:
Am not sure what part of the UK you reside bro, but i see good amount of food stuff coming from Nigeria.. Olu foods surely ain't Ghanaian and he is very big. The only food stuff Ghanaians have an upper hand is that their puna yam....You will find fresh Nigerian vegetables ( all types) in major ethnic shops/ markets in London and surrounding counties.. The use to come in every Thursday via KLM but these days you get them mostly everyday..

Kudos to Anambara government, this is a welcome development, there is huge potential in food export to Europe and North America considering the huge population of Nigerians in diaspora..

Yes Olu Olu has a good market but the next time you go into those shops, just take a look at most of the labels one by one and you would be shocked where most of those items you buy come from including simple things like garri or palm oil. I once saw tinned banga paste which had 'Nigeria' written on it, but upon reading the label, I realised it was Nigerian palm fruit processed to a paste and tinned in Ghana; I was sad. There is really no reason why the bananas on the shelves in tesco/asda etc should not be from Nigeria, but if you check, they are mostly from Cameroon, Ivory coast or Columbia. The truth is that we can do much more than we are doing presently.

On a serious note, the 2016 budget is not inspiring at all. What on earth is the government doing to radically promote agriculture and solid minerals' development?? All we hear about is 'a plan' to focus on these two areas but I am yet to see or hear of what this plan is all about. The 2016 budget doesn't even make any 'inspiring' provisions for these ministries to give one the impression that they are serious about diversification.

I really hate reading expositions like this, they just leave one feeling really sad and depressed. Things like this just removes all the doubt in my mind about the black man being under a very heavy spell, a spell which we can only break by ourselves. For God's sake, why can't the black man ever just get anything done right??

Even with this expose, I don't believe the FG in its lazy nonchalant ways will still do anything about this, I am not surprised by the cold response of the solid minerals' ministry to the author's proposals; I must confess, I have gradually started losing confidence. Meanwhile just a while ago, the same Kayode Fayemi was literally begging the Yanks to come help us develop the solid minerals' industry.

NormalCodes:
See as I dey always look you when you make comments.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3355269_img20151012174300_jpegfc4c605b3c475b1ffec36190a83b5e44

Lol... These jokers have resorted to kidnapping and other subtle acts of terrorism. Let them kill the foreigners and watch their villages obliterated, they forget Nigeria is still a jungle.