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Caaz:I guess you are a short person. No surprises here. |
Caaz:I'm sorry but that was a valid observation. Unless being without clothes posed a threat to her health, she should have just been covered and guarded. Putting clothes on her would have involved manipulating her legs in a such as way that her intimate areas would have been visible. The person's hands would have been all over the poor woman. I maintain that her privacy was violated if it wasn't carried out sympathetically by a fellow woman. Even that too is debatable. |
Canih28:True. Unless it was a fellow female who put the clothes on, her privacy was violated. Covering her and standing guard to relevant authorities came would have been sufficient. |
taiwotimitt:You gotta be kiddin me mate?! Those chaps are stone age leaders! |
Zimri:And good at ripping it's owner's face off too https://ifunny.co/video/DR2HtoXc7 |
*THE NORTH AND RESTRUCTURING* This is The most interesting PIECE I have read on The Nigerian Social Media on Restructuring. It is Copied from "IKOYI CLUB BUDDIES FORUM" Posted by Deji Ibeh, a Lawyer. I commend The author. Tunde Oduwole,I-QS. 08.07.2020. New Telegraph *Restructuring: The North, The South And Nigeria’s Future.* Posted on July 7, 2020 AuthorCLEM AGUIYI Comment(0) CLEM AGUIYI July 7, 2020. Give it to the North, they get what they want at every turn while the South do the talking. Most radical ideas that had shaped Nigeria’s political landscape often originated from the South only to be perfected to advantage by the North. For instance, while the South championed the struggle for independence, the North acted like she wasn’t ready and would rather remain under British domination. But from when the British lowered the Union Jack, it was the North that had dominated the South and still do. Another is the idea of military coup. It was actually Southern officers that executed Nigeria’s first military coup before the North perfected the art of coup plotting and used it to entrench Northern domination. Almost all successful coups in Nigeria were hatched and executed by Northern officers from 1966 to date. Again, Nigeria started well on federalism until some group of Southerners introduce unitary government. The North shouted ‘Araba’ the Hausa translation for ‘separation’ and insisted on true federalism. But as soon as it seized power in the counter coup of 1966, it jettisoned true federalism and perfected unitarianism to her advantage. Today, it is the South who destroyed federalism that is shouting true federalism. Take again the question of constitutional democracy. This is a concept alien to both Islam and the oligarchy. While the South talks plenty of democracy, the North which only reluctantly embraced democracy perfected the act of shaping democracy to its own advantage. Because the North understands that democracy is a game of numbers they made sure they have the numbers and a population they can easily manipulate and control. They control their population with illiteracy and religion and make no apology for it. One can go on and on to list how the North beat the South at all times in its game. Whether as a friend or a foe you must understand your opponent so as to engage properly. The inability of the South to read the North is one of her biggest albatrosses. Fast track to the current issue of restructuring, another idea currently advanced by the South as a remedy to save Nigeria from disintegration. The Southern proponents of restructuring believe that Nigeria is not functioning properly because the centre is saddled with too many responsibilities and powers. Restructuring means devolving more powers to the states. Despite the clarity of this concept, somehow the North pretends it does not understand what restructuring is all about. To get the South busy with talking, they pretend that restructuring will put her at a disadvantage or to say the least that it is an agenda to dismember Nigeria. For these reasons, many Southerners have wrongly convinced themselves that the North will never give in to restructuring whereas the North in actual fact is getting ready for restructuring and once again intends to perfect it to their advantage. The import of this article is to warn the South to get ready and prepare for restructuring. The British who merged the North and South together has not abandoned the reason for the merger. They remain very sympathetic to the North hence western leaders like Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and John Kerry had at various times tutored the Northern leaders on how to reorganize the region for a post oil economy. Between 2015 and 2016, the US Institute for Peace had held series of strategy sessions strictly for Northern leaders on how best to prepare and re-energize the region for a post oil economy. The sessions agreed that restructuring is inevitable without which even the North will not survive. The sessions harped on what the vulnerabilities of the northern region would be when restructuring occurs and more importantly how to ensure that such vulnerabilities are dealt with well before restructuring. One major vulnerability is the fact that the North is landlocked hence they were advised that the region would need alternative international trade access routes that do not depend on the South. This explains why President Buhari commenced building the ongoing high-speed railway lines designed to connect with the Niger Republic’s supply and logistics systems. They were also advised that they needed to be independent of the South for petroleum products hence they went ahead with the project of building a completely new modern refinery in Daura, Katsina State. The Daura refinery is purposely built to refine crude oil coming in from Niger Republic. The choice of Daura as a location is to reduce the cost of pipelines, as piping to the Kaduna refinery would have been very expensive. Daura shares a common border with Niger Republic. Another major vulnerability is the fact that a significant proportion of Nigeria’s power generation and infrastructure is located in the South. It was suggested that the North would need to rebalance power generation, if it was to industrialize. It is therefore not surprising that contracts have been awarded to pipe gas from the South to pass through Ajaokuta to Abuja, Kaduna, and Kano (AKK) where three thermal stations will be built in each of the three cities with capacity to generate 4,500MW of electricity. While at the face value this project may appear good for Nigeria which can now export excess electricity to other African countries, the main objective however is to make the North electricity sufficient, and under restructuring will make the South to pay charges for passing power from any of the thermal stations. The North is also investing heavily in agriculture with a view to be in a position to not just feed her population but to export food to the South and other African countries. Only the South can solve its problem with regards to food. A lot can be learnt from Israel if it must readdress the food imbalance. To boost agriculture, President Buhari did what no other government in Nigeria has been able to do. He closed the land borders, and presented farmers with a great windfall. Massive incentives were provided to motivate Northern farmers. Northern farmers, who work through cooperatives, were provided with machinery and low interest loans through the CBN and the Bank of Agriculture to help stabilize the level of growth in agriculture. I have taken time to reel out these few examples to debunk the laughable notion held by the South that the North will not give in to structuring. That is far from the truth. The North understands restructuring perfectly well and their vulnerabilities in case of restructuring. The North is light years ahead of the South in their proactive preparations. I support restructuring for the singular reason that it will make Nigeria better than its current form. It will bring government closer to the people, enhance development and ensure efficient and effective governance. Rather than being emotional and wasting valuable time on empty rhetoric, the best legacy Southern leaders can leave behind is to put on their thinking caps and get to work. They must use the opportunity of the current time to map out strategies that will rave and drive the economic and social development of the South post oil revenue. The youth who are the future of tomorrow must understand that the future they symbolize and represent is now. The only practical way they can be part of that future is to hold her elected political leaders accountable by making every single one of them and their families uncomfortable until the right things are done. https://www.newtelegraphng.com. |
Aboks:You know plenty bros. You be veteran for that side ![]() |
joyandfaith:The only person who has used reverse psychology is Donald Trump with his recent statement. I say no more. Go figure. |
mightyhaze:Why nah? Issit a sin to carry bear bear? ![]() |
ogbiwa:Meanwhile we are here still obsessed with Tribal Superiority, or inferiority as the case may be. Aggressively, and sometimes violently insisting one culture is superior and the other inferior. Oh look at our colourful traditional attire. See swag na. On point. Afrobeat is twerking and taking over the world (meanwhile e nor even show face for major music charts). Plotting to control power, so as to control crude oil that is slowly but steadily being replaced by alternative means of energy. We need to rethink our values, our priorities and what gives us a feeling of self worth and pride. |
Cerebellum:I don already drill large borehole down there. Nothing remain. Even rimming self no dey possible. ![]() |
Choi. Person name be Hitler? |
Sebastine1994:She must be a very razz local girl wey go dey piss for bed. |
Cerebellum:So 4 pikin ladies are ok then ![]() |
ChiefSosa:Double Niger - eria. That child will be best advised to ruggedly climb back into its mother's pvssy and reject the double wahala placement. |
PCG001:It seems like you don't know what's happening. These people have been taking massive loans in the name of NIGERIA to assist their billionaires and execute huge infrastructure projects in their regions. If Nigeria splits up, these huge assets will remain in their respective zones (ports, rail, dams etc) but the debt will be split amongst any countries that emerge. |
hustla:Unbelievable! When Nigeria the country itself started out as a grand FORMAT by the British, then it only follows that anything born out of it will be the same. Goat nor dey born dog. |
jackcanfield:Ok, that's misleading. A couple of years ago that figure would have been about $2.3billion but today it's $1.7billion. Therefore it's probably less or the same in real terms, bearing in mind we import almost everything |
A continuous unfolding never ending tragedy |
iwaeda:He's yet to recover from shock. Truth be told, Buhari sef go don taya for naija
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Hmm |
olatade:attempting to have sex with a colleague’s wife, Lol! |
olatade:More than 20 others were equally dismissed for having foreign spouses, Wasn't Abacha's wife a foreigner?? |
olatade:The military authorities also discharged Ptes Kingsley Obumneke and James Joseph for misfiring, Da f.uck does this mean?! |
olatade:Tanko was dismissed for getting pregnant out of wedlock. FFS!? In this day and age?? |
obinna58:I doesn't mean you cannot be holding something while you're working towards your goal. Bodi nobi wood |
obinna58:Everything is not about money, my man. Economic and commercial considerations will be relegated to the background with the right woman. There's nothing like the sweet companionship of a lover to ameliorate the effects of harsh economic realities. |
Lol Some people don go sew Chelsea Jalabiya ![]() |
NwaorguF:Story It's when it comes to politics and power/money grabbing that we black people come to life. You will see in-depth analysis, breaking down of points, various scenarios etc. How does all this crap improve the life of Nigerians? World capital of corruption; world capital of poverty; world capital of violence and, in my opinion, world capital of toxic stone age ethnic bigotry. Solve ordinary electricity problem? ZERO Solve hunger problems? ZERO Solve water problem? ZERO Solve poverty problem? ZERO Solve basic healthcare problems? ZERO Solve employment problems? ZERO Solve security problems? ZERO Solve corruption problems? ZERO Solve economic problems? ZERO Solve any problems at all? ZERO Just shows that just because we were fortunate enough to use white man to exploit crude oil (that we did not put there in thr first place), and sell to use the proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle, send our kids to the best schools in the world, fund a music/movie sector etc, does not mean that we are special. We were just lucky that we had crude oil and a massive population to hype our things. Keep on strategizing to grab power and oil money that is rapidly dwindling. |
Gravatar:But you are here commenting? |
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