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Taylor86:
mumu

guess you referring to bashir

nice, and obedient son unlike Bashir El rufail

buhari can never and will never my only fear is senate president Saraki he can do anything for power

buhari can never and will never my only fear is senate president Saraki he can do anything for power

#dont bring back gay

we shall over come there mess

tosynecutie:
In light of the on-going leadership crisis rocking the National Assembly, Senator Dino Maleye has said the Senators belonging to the Like Minds group of the All Progressives Congress, APC, deserve national honours for making it possible for an APC candidate to emerge as Senate President...

Read more: http://www.post-nigeria.com/senate-presidency-i-deserve-a-national-award-from-apc-melaye/

instead of you to pray you win the case today at court of appeal

feedburner:
No reasonable Igbo man (maybe he his fathered by Hausa/Yoruba) will say that the blood of millions of innocent biafrans is a sacrifice for the unity of the zoo called Nigeria. If that monkey don't take his time I will cause him in the name of those innocent blood crying in Biafra land. He should go to hell.






yakubu Gowon together with team of mass murderers should be tried for genocide.

if you waste time cursing it will only bounce back on u

zendy:
This entire write up by Joe Igbokwe is utter nonsense from top to bottom. I don't blame him after all, he is just another APC "hired-hand". Joe Igbokwe is just an obsolete relic in a digital age. The issue here is not how old Nnamdi Kanu is, the issue is if what Nnamdi Kanu stands for which the actualisation of Biafra, is a just cause. Have the Igbos and certain minorities in the SS got the right to disband any political ties with Nigeria and seek their own nation? That is the pertinent question to ask. Just look at the reasons Joe Igbokwe put forward why Igbos should forget their God given right to self determination in favour of a fraudulent and oppressive Nigerian state:

Igbos paid a high price during the war yes Igbos paid a high price but freedom is one of the very few things in life worth dying for. We fought to prove to the world that we are not Nigerians. It is highly patronizing of Mr Igbokwe to say " please forget Biafra so that we will not be killed again". This is the talk of a myopic coward who has no sense of emancipation. Someone who has imbibed "captivity mentality" and a born defeatist.

He said Igbos have outlet to the world to propagate their language:

What has propagating my language go to do with gaining my sovereignty? Of what interest is to me if a Yoruba or Hausa man learns Igbo? The Yorubas and Hausas spread their language through their imperialistic machinations before the coming of the White man and that is their business.

Nigeria provides a bigger space for Igbos

Absolute rubbish! The Igbos have spread out across the world like a great swarm. Nigeria is like a tiny dot on the earth compared to mobility of the Igbos. For a small thinking Igbo man like Mr Igbokwe, Nigeria is big.

The world pays attention to Nigeria because of population

Another nonsense written by this man. The world pays attention to what a nation is producing and its human development. They don't care about population. Is it my job as an Igbo man to make up the population of Nigeria? Belgium is a country of just 11 million people but is far richer than Nigeria and is the seat of the European union. Bangladesh has a population of over 200 million but nobody knows them.


Igbos control 60-70% of Nigerian imports and would lose that market if Biafra emerges

This is the thinking of a man living in a box. As large as the world is, it only the Nigerian market that Mr Igbokwe can see. Is importation even such a good thing? People import when they are not producing anything. We should have Biafra so that we can turn those '70% importers' into 'exporters' of made in Biafra goods so we can grow our nation not import as if to say this is an economic plus.

how can the Igbos thrive without Lagos,Abuja and Portharcourt ?

Just look at the daft question an Igbo man is asking. Igbokwe doesn't even know that Porthacourt is an Igbo city owned by the Ikwere people ( Ikwere people speak Igbo as their ancestral language and bear Igbo surnames so if anyone says they are not Igbo can be debated another day) and is part of the Biafran establishment. Everyday, the work of Nnamdi Kanu brings the Ikwere nation closer to their Igbo brothers and they realise that the Nigerian state only used the war to cause divisions because of Oil. Igbokwe should as himself what will become of Lagos and Abuja if Igbos leave those places. Igbos don't need Lagos or Abuja, it is Lagos and Abuja that needs Igbos.


I just want to finish this by telling my fellow Igbos and Biafran enthusiasts to Ignore Mr Igbokwe. He is just a myopic individual who cannot see beyond his nose. He is just another slave of "one Nigeria". Let us all see Nigeria as our dark past and Biafra as our new beginning. Forget the likes of Igbokwe, a slave and a free thinker can never reason alike.

I wish you have the email of the gentle man so that you direct it to him

feedburner:
When Chukwuokike abiama told pharaoh to let his people go he was arrogant and stubborn.
@op the time has come for the children of God (umuchukwu) to restore the kingdom of heaven of earth; Biafra

that's why it can't stop. Nigeria (zoo) has expired (1914-2014)

o boy read it very well, the above article was written by a reasonable Igbo and that who reason like u

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ver since former President Jonathan lost
the presidential elections on March 28
2015 which some of us knew he will
never win based on the facts that we all
know and the statistics available, majority of
Igbo have been unhappy and angry. They have
been cursing and abusing the President and APC
leaders wishing that President Buhari never
existed and APC never formed. Many of them
have been so frustrated after the elections that
they are now looking for a way to get back to
the APC controlled Federal government.
Joe Igbokwe writes from Lagos
Now, one Nnamdi Kanu who has been dreaming
about the State of Biafra has provided a space
for them to vent their anger. Some of them have
joined this small boy to begin to wish for the
State of Biafra. Suddenly the so-called Radio
Biafra has created a momentum for them. On
facebook I have watched with a keen interest
what these guys dish out on daily basis in the
name of fighting for Biafra. They tell blatant lies,
they create havoc, they make terrible noise, they
abuse other Nigerians, and they preach
unimaginable propaganda and hate that at once
put Igbo land in potential danger. I have been
waiting for the South East Governors to speak
up but they have maintained a deafening silence
that suggests complicity. I have also waited for
our elders to call this small boy to order but
nothing has happened. With the so-called Radio
Biafra this boy I do not know his age has
unleashed an unimaginable trailer-load of lies
and potentially dangerous propaganda that has
put Igbo nation in danger. It is now 45years
after the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War and I think that
Igbo must rise up to stop this small boy who
never saw the 1967-1970 Civil War and who may
not know the implications of what he is doing.
He has never consulted anybody to seek his
opinion. He has been speaking to the gullible and
not too educated people in Igboland, and very
soon these uneducated people will take a
dangerous decision that may decimate and
destroy Igboland. Soon our people will start
complaining that they were not consulted. To be
fore warned is to be fore armed.
Last week, I saw the photo of a group of people
that gave the impression that they are getting a
military training somewhere in Igboland. This
afternoon I saw another photograph on facebook
with some youths bearing guns and Nnamdi
Kanu standing with them. I may not know where
these pictures came from and what they are
planning to do but this is the time to speak out
and I urge anybody who is anybody who
understands where we are coming from to stand
up now to be counted. Woe betides a nation
whose leaders are children. If we elders do not
talk about this evil, posterity will never forgive
us. Let us speak out and if these children do not
hear us, then it should be on record that we
spoke. About a month ago the barrage of lies
and uncontrolled propaganda Radio Biafra dished
out everyday drew the attention of NBC which
asked Nigerians to stop listening to this useless
Radio Station.
Now here are compelling reasons why Igbo must
remain in Nigeria in their own interest:
Igbo fought a civil war of self determination
between 1967 and 1970 and lost about one
million people. This should be taken as a huge
price for the unity of this country. Having paid
this monumental supreme price I think Igbo
should work for the unity of this country based
on social justice, equity and fair play.
Nigeria has three major ethnic groups: Hausa/
Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo. The Hausa/Fulani
Empire has Hausa people stretching all through
the Sahel to the Sudan. They are mostly Muslims
and they have contact with the Arab world. The
Yoruba nation has Togo, Benin Republic, Sierra
Leone and even up to Brazil and Cuba to run to
where their kinsmen are. Igbo nation has no
outlet anywhere in the world where the language
is spoken. Therefore they must see Nigeria as
where they belong and work for its survival.
Nigeria provided a big space for Igbo to spread
their tentacles, explore, excel and blossom. South
East is too small for this highly mobile and
dynamic people to thrive.
The world pays attention to Nigeria today
because of our size and population. If Nigeria
splits into smaller countries the world will pack
their bag and baggage and leave. Population and
size make a nation a destination.
Assuming we manage to get a State of Biafra
which State in the South East will produce the
first President? When Enugu State was created,
the late Governor C.C Onoh sacked all the Civil
Servants and Teachers from Anambra State.
Recently former governor Orji of Abia State
sacked workers from Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi and
Enugu States. Now how can we manage Biafra
with this attitude?
Igbo control 60-70% of all the imports in Nigeria
and other Nigerians, Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani, Ijaw,
Efik, Birom, Tiv, Idoma etc provides huge market
for Igbo mobile and big time traders.
Monumental inter marriages between Igbo and
Yoruba and other ethnic groups have thrived for
close to 70years now that we cannot just
dismiss all these with a wave of hand.
Igbo own huge and massive investments in
property in Lagos and Abuja, and other State
capitals in Nigeria. Now are you going to wish all
this away?
Other Nigerian cities have provided safe haven
for Igbo as places to run to cool off whenever
self inflicted crisis arise or other problems. When
kidnapping became a way of life in the South
East, our people moved to other parts of Nigeria
to settle. Now where will Igbo go when
confronted with these problems in Biafra.
How can Igbo thrive without their Lagos and
Abuja or Port-Harcourt? What happens to all
their connections and relationships in these
places?
Can someone tell Nnamdi Kanu that wars may
be fought for 50years and people will die to
achieve Biafra? The war may even consume
Nnamdi and all the members of his family and
millions of others without achieving the purpose.
We have been so inter-married, interwoven,
intertwined, inter-related that the idea of
separation may not be encouraged. I do not
want to lose my friends from the other parts of
Nigeria for anything.
I can go on but there is no need to continue to
do so. We must be strong enough to stop this
world’s old problems of looking down on people
who are different from us. This is the problem of
Nigeria. Nigeria’s diversity is a big plus for all of
us to excel. United we stand, divided we fall. I
confess that Igbo have not played better politics
in Nigeria since 1970 and that has been our
bane. Anytime we want to change bad leadership
in the country Igbo as a block will resist it. It
happened in 1993 and we lost everything. In
2015 Igbo were at it again but forces of history
prevailed. Igbo can do better than this.
Now we must collectively stop this small boy
called Nnamdi Kanu who is still sucking his
mother’s breast before he endangers the whole
of Igboland and plunge us into a civil war once
again. When a writer is silent he is lying. A story
that must be told never forgives silence. The
only thing necessary for evil to triumph in any
society is that good men do nothing.
However, I want Nigerian leaders to show
leadership by carrying all Nigerians along in
distributing power and resources. If there is no
justice, there will be no peace. If there is no
peace there will be no progress. Let justice
prevail.
Let us be fair to all concerned. If the truth must
prevail and it must prevail, Nigeria has not been
fair to Igbo since the end of civil war. They tell
us that there is no victor and no vanquished but
in actions and deeds the victors are still
celebrating and enjoying the spoils of the war
while the defeated are still languishing in abject
neglect. For instance, of all the six zones in
Nigeria only the South East zone has five States.
We have found solace in all these because we
have found out that those who are still
oppressing the Igbo in Nigeria are not better. We
also take solace in the findings of the Fathers of
the Second Vatican Council that all acts of
indignity against human persons, against human
society debase the perpetrators more than the
victims. It is not that the offended cannot
forgive but have the offenders repented? This
injustice must stop now for the sake of unity of
this country. I wrote Igbos: 25 Years After
Biafra in 1995 thinking that the book will prick
the conscience of other Nigerians but they have
not paid any attention. It has been business as
usual. Now, President Buhari must address this
injustice. Case rested!
Joe Igbokwe
Lagos


http://saharareporters.com/2015/07/14/compelling-reasons-why-nnamdi-kanu’s-biafra-project-must-be-stopped-now

good to hear you hail from borno......u need to end insurgency in your home town

Princewill1:
ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH!!

Igala in Kogi state,Idoma and Igede in Benue state are part and parcel of the new Biafra movement by Nnamdi Kanu.

tell that to your leader

Duru1:
From the above crap, it is safe to say you know nothing about nation building. Initially Biafra was a matter of eastern region but actual Biafra would have included Ndiigbo across the River Niger as well as those in today's Benue and Kogi States. British government knew the reason it fought so hard to stop Biafra.

u don't have a point

zendy:
Who told you we forgot them? One of the demands of the referendum is that Igbos of the lower Benue and Kogi must be included.

check the map of Biafra very well, you will know they are no where to be found

With the recent movement for emancipation of Biafra nation by many Igbos (establishment of radio Biafra, online reaction and the call of the recognition of republic of Biafra by UN.)
I took my time to go through the map and realize the Igbo and the entire Biafra nation are not sagacious enough in the demand for Biafra nation or what they refer to as true federalism.
Despite the repudiation of some included zone such as EFFIK & IBIBIO, the igbo has refuse to dispel them from the plan.
I met a guy just of recent whose name is Emeka, from kogi state but claimed to be IGALA and also speak igbo fluently.
How come you bear Emeka and not an igbo? I asked
He reply by saying my village is a stone throw from Nsuka but is in kogi state.
This perhaps force me to go through Nigeria map meticulous and make some other research and I realize Igbo do not only have their kit and kin in kogi state but as well as Benue state.
If Igbo could remember to plan to plan Akwa Ibom, C/river etc in their Biafra dream, why have they forgotten their own brothers in the north central.
My opinion tells me that the south-easterners are more interested in the wealth of the ijaw and Ibibio
Let me use this opportunity to remind you that whenever the Yoruba counterpart having a regional meeting, there kit and kin in kogi, edo and delta are always included
Dele Aliu

the deed has being done....... let ijaw blame themselves for such loss

Mr momodu should at least be sagacious enough to tell his friend resign!

alaoeri:
Saraki will surely feel the heat of his actions but still have a life line in as much as Kwara state is within his grasp as for Dino, i can say he's politically finished because APC will deny a return ticket come 2019 & he won't even near PDP.

we will teach dino how they catch monkey in Brazil
though he has embezzled enough
but he will still feel the heat

Bollove:
Cross your fingers and watch .... Saraki do not need media to finish Tinubu .... Saraki is already done with Tinubu ..... and any slight physical move by Tinubu to tamper with Saraki will make Tinubu become less popular in National Politics.

Only local godfathers do media ..... Saraki is Tinubu's nemesis ...... Lagos is not Nigeria.

you don't battle with someone you more than
you leave them for your boys....that is exactly what Jagaban is doing

francisbiz:
The incriminating broadcast on Tinubu in NTA is far worse than this. TINUBU'S ARE SORE LOOSERS

the broadcasting on AIT and NTA has no evidence....
but in this case evidence so clear

ociboy:
okay,let me call my mum so she won't go to sabo market ooo.. lol.

it hasn't gotten to that bross

IN recent times, Ikorodu, which sits on the outskirts of Lagos, has been battling with the problem of cults and cultism; but the problem seems to have reached crescendo recently. Security operatives and residents seem to be at a loss as to how to manage the crisis that is ravaging several communities, shutting down businesses and endangering lives and properties on a daily basis in the area.

Ikorodu North and parts of the Ikorodu South are the flash areas but Ikorodu North is the worst hit. The reasons for this, according to residents are two folds: the proximity of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) to the residential areas and the absence of a police station around the area. The nearest police station is situated on Shagamu Road, very close to the Ikorodu garage and is miles away from the worst hit areas. The areas mostly affected in the Ikorodu North are First and second gates, Odonguyan, Odo-kekere, Odo-Nla, Agbede, Transformer, Ita-Oluwo and Ogijo.

According to a co-coordinator of The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), who spoke with The Guardian but declined to have his name in print, he said that the problem started in December last year when some members of the Aiye cult attacked and kidnapped an OPC coordinator in the area. In a quest to rescue their kidnapped member, things spiraled out of control. Unfortunately, some Aiye boys capitalized on the ongoing unrest, by accusing a member of Eiye, a rival gang, of ‘stealing’ his girlfriend.

The Eiye member who had a live-in girlfriend and a young son was brutally murdered and peace has eluded the whole vicinity since this unfortunate incidence occurred. The Eiye cult allegedly retaliated by killing a member of the rival gang and things have gone downhill since then. A former member of one of the cults who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Guardian that the killings wouldn’t stop anytime soon as it has become a matter of gang pride. According to him, they are ‘counting scores’ and need to retaliate each time they are attacked. The number of people a member kills determines his rise through the ranks and the more he kills, the more he is respected and feared.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/07/how-ikorodu-became-a-safe-haven-for-cultists-kidnappers/

this is number three (3) when Tinubu is done with this guy....... only God knows what will beckon him

babyhrt:
..Com to think of it....he did nt lie na...this boys were almost pushed to surrendering and there hardly any bombs going off up and down.

The deputy senate president shouldn't be cowed.

has a reasonable person, that should tell you that the terrorism of a thing is purely political.....

I know that is your prayer..... but God is more than your selfish wish by the grace of God you will be shamed like orubebe

trust me he won't scout free

mark your words with evidence not propaganda

A coroner’s inquest court in Lagos State has
indicted the head of Synagogue Church of All
Nations (SCOAN), Prophet T.B. Joshua, over last
year’s collapse of a guesthouse in his church
premises that claimed close to 120 lives, most of
the victims South Africans.
TB Joshua
The inquest, presided over by Magistrate
Oyetade Komolafe, decided to indict the building
contractor, a Divisional Police Officer (DPO), and
Mr. T.B. Joshua's church.
The coroner recommended that the contractor be
prosecuted for doing a shady and unprofessional
job. The magistrate also ruled that the DPO in
Ikotun area, Alaba Haruna, should be transferred
out of the area for not allowing proper
investigation into the case.
Also, the magistrate said the Church, headed by
Prophet T.B. Joshua should be duly investigated
for culpability in the faulty building construction.
The powerful Lagos-based prophet did
everything he could to frustrate the inquest,
including publicy claiming the building collapsed
due to a "supersonic boom" emitted from a jet
flying in the area during the fatal collapse of the
church building.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/07/08/tb-joshua-indicted-deadly-collapse-church-building

Senate presidency in Nigeria: Some
constitutional misadventure
JULY 6, 2015 : ANTHONY AKINOLA
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When the American founding fathers gathered in
Connecticut sometime in 1787 in order to
fashion a constitution that would herald a new
union, one very contentious issue was how to
reconcile the fears of smaller states about the
dominance of larger ones. The controversy was
resolved by a decision to have two Houses, one
in which the states were to be represented on
the basis of population while the principle of
equality of states was firmly established in the
other.
Today, the State of California with a population
of 38,332,521 inhabitants has 53 lawmakers in
the House of Representatives, while Wyoming,
with a population of 582,658 has only one.
However, California and Wyoming (as well as
other states) are equally represented in the
Senate by 2 senators each.
The philosophy or principle of equality of states
also informed the decision of the founding
fathers in giving the role of Senate President to
the Vice President. However, the Vice President
does not participate in senatorial deliberations;
all he or she does is to cast the deciding vote in
case of a tie.
Joseph Story explains the rationale in his book,
‘Commentaries on the Constitution of the United
States’: “… allowing the Vice President to preside
over the Senate and to vote in the case of a tie,
solved two important problems. Firstly, it
allowed that body – at all times – to come to a
definitive resolution, because the President of the
Senate would break tie votes. Secondly, it
preserved the equality of the states in the
Senate. Should a senator be chosen to preside
over the body and should that senator cast the
tie-breaking vote, a state would, in effect,
increase its representation.”
It would appear from the above arguments or
explanations, that the authors of the Nigerian
presidential constitution were more concerned
with the structures of government in a
successful democratic state than the principle or
philosophies behind those structures.
Going by the acrimonies that have consistently
surrounded the election of the Senate President
in Nigeria, and of course, the over-bloated ego
that goes with it, one would assume that the
American approach is the more reasonable one.
A mere disagreement on the floor of the House,
or a change in the composition of political party
representation, could mean the Nigerian Senate
President would be replaced. A couple of them
had either been impeached in the past or forced
to resign.
Now, let’s consider the legislature generally.
Dynamism and independence in the legislative
arm of government are critical to the success of
the principle of separation of powers; the very
engine of the presidential system of government.
In theory, an independent candidate can be
President by election. Such a person would still
have to work with a legislature composed of
elected party politicians.
And, as is currently the case in the United
States, a President can also belong to a political
party that does not boast the majority of seats
in the legislature. Such a President would still
have to rely on that legislature for the passage
of his or her bills. It would be a case of a
dynamic President working with a dynamic and
patriotic legislature.
The American situation is considerably helped by
the very nature of the nation’s complexities and
those of its political parties. The American
political parties are almost non-existent at the
federal level; they are mere electoral machines,
with members converging once every four years
at national conventions for the purpose of
selecting or endorsing presidential and vice
presidential candidates.
The eminent political scientist, Prof. Arend
Lijphart, describes the American party system as
“at best loose alliances of highly disparate
interests” and “like a four-party system
consisting of liberal Democrats, conservative
Democrats, liberal Republicans and conservative
Republicans”, “a six-party system with left, centre
and right wings in each party”, or “even a
hundred-party system with different Democratic
and Republican parties in each of the 50
states.” (quoted in my book, Party Coalitions in
Nigeria, p 133).
The Nigerian party system is still evolving and
the tendencies described above could very well
be replicated on our shores. Be that as it may,
the American political parties complement the
practice of presidential politics. There is hardly
anything like “party supremacy”, and there is not
even a mention of political parties in the
constitution. The concept of party supremacy is
appropriate in the practice of politics elsewhere.
The political parties of American-type
presidential democracy are programmed to be
able to work together. Journalists should help
educate our people by putting a stop to concepts
such as “opposition party” and “ruling party” and
substitute them with the more acceptable
concepts of “minority party” or “majority party”,
when they are reporting on political matters.
Prof. Mike Ikhariale forcefully articulated similar
views in a recent article in The Punch
newspaper.
Any scholar or politician wanting to understand
the influences on the voting behaviour in the
American legislature is invited to read the
brilliant book by David Mayhew, Congress: The
Electoral Connection. The basic thesis of the
book is that the American legislator is motivated
by an ambition to be re-elected (elections to the
House of Representatives take place every two
years).
The American legislators vote according to their
consciences, the predominant opinion in their
various constituencies, and the direction of their
future ambitions or aspirations. For instance, a
senator eyeing up the presidency would want to
be seen as a national politician rather than a
political pugilist of state interests. The voters
themselves must show an active interest in the
laws that govern their lives, as that is the only
way they can influence the outcome of decisions
in the legislative arm of government.
Dr. Akinola is a scholar based in Oxford, United
Kingdom


http://www.punchng.com/opinion/senate-presidency-in-nigeria-some-constitutional-misadventure/

I think is afraid of loose