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PoliticsRe: Group Decries Buhari's Worrisome Display Of Misogynistic Tendencies by OnReflection: 6:08am On Oct 13, 2015
In the statement, the SCN called to mind that the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan gave women about 35% representation in his appointments, wondering why President Buhari has chosen not to tow the same path, as his 21-man ministerial nominees only had about 3 women.
I stand with the SCN on this vexing issue.

The fair representation of women is one of the measures which signposts how progressive a nation truly is.
PoliticsRe: Howard University Faults Alison- Madueke’s Year Of Graduation by OnReflection: 2:26pm On Oct 12, 2015
^^^This 419 technocrat only finished school at the grand age of 32, yet we have legions of reprobates regaling us with tales of her intellectual prowess on these boards.

Here is woman who never even came to equity with clean hands, in the first instance...Smh


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMnLHmTXjgU
PoliticsRe: Howard University Faults Alison- Madueke’s Year Of Graduation by OnReflection: 2:16pm On Oct 12, 2015
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Mrs Alison-Madueke’s critics say this career narratives are now in doubt.

“You can’t build something on nothing,” said an official of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, who is peeved that President Goodluck Jonathan proceeded to reappoint the minister despite the weighty allegations of corruption hanging on her neck. “Since she lied about her graduation date, she must have lied about her work history as well.” Going by this new revelation that she only made it out of the university in 1992, Mrs Alison-Madueke has barely one-year post-graduation work experience before she was hired as a unit head in Shell.
Source:http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/191295-throwback5-howard-university-faults-diezani-alison-maduekes-year-of-graduation.html
PoliticsRe: Femi Gbajabiamila Take On Two Senator Endorsment Rule.. constitution OR NOT? by OnReflection: 2:11pm On Oct 12, 2015
Scintillating arguments!
PoliticsRe: James Ibori: Alameiseigha Built Just One House. Was Never Corrupt by OnReflection: 7:36am On Oct 12, 2015
gunuvi:
All those are propaganda. The western nations were part of the propaganda and injustice agaisnt the ND.
It is a shame that you have elected to be permanently enslaved by leaders who care not about your existence.

https://nm.onlinenigeria.com/articlefiles/6219-AlamsMansion.jpg
Workers installing imported marble on a staircase at Mr. Alamieyeseigha's official mansion.

...Here in Mr. Alamieyeseigha's state of Bayelsa, that means serious money. Under a Nigerian law enacted to help develop the oil-rich but long-neglected Niger Delta, 13 percent of the revenue generated in any state is returned there for development. Bayelsa produces 30 percent of the country's oil, and with recent sky-high oil prices, the state budget this year ballooned to $560 million, compared with nearly $300 million in 2003.

But the money has not brought widespread development. It has mostly paid for white elephants like mansions for the governor and his deputy. The 2005 budget sets aside $8.5 million to construct those two houses, along with more than $2 million for furnishings.

And that is just this year. Since 2002 the state has spent more than $25 million on the governor's mansion, according to budgets on file in Yenagoa's tiny public library. The fence enclosing the two houses alone cost $5.7 million.


A glossy, mostly wordless booklet issued by Mr. Alamieyeseigha's press office, "A Legacy of Selfless Service," includes artist's renderings of the houses, depicting fantasias of waterfalls, fountains and artificial lakes. At the construction site where the governor's house is nearing completion, workers raced to lay thousands of square feet of imported granite tiles and mahogany ceiling panels.

Meanwhile, the Poverty Eradication Committee, whose purpose is not explained, has a budget of about $23,000, according to the 2005 spending plan, which is posted on the state's Web site, www.bayelsagov.com. That is a little more than half of what is budgeted for toiletries for state officials.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/29/world/africa/as-nigeria-tries-to-fight-graft-a-new-sordid-tale.html
PoliticsRe: Buhari’s Administration Has Clear Policy Direction – Senator oduah by OnReflection: 6:45am On Oct 12, 2015
Cold comfort for wailing wailers - this one.

It’s Senseless, Needless For PDP To Oppose PMB- Gov Umahi

Oct 12, 2015 6:16 am

https://www.leadership.ng/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/CHief-Dave-Umahi.jpg

The Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Dave Umahi, at the weekend said that his administration and the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state will not engage in “senseless and needless opposition” to the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government.

He disclosed this in his country home, Uburu, Ohaozara local government area when a team of the PDP in the state paid him a condolence visit.

Umahi said that since Ebonyi State has a lot of challenges, it would make no sense for it to embark on “senseless opposition against President Buhari.”

The state governor, however, said that supporting Buhari’s programmes did not in any way mean that he and other members of the PDP in the state would abandon their party. Reiterating his support for President Buhari’s anti-corruption programme, Umahi said he believed in the President’s honesty and commitment to bringing graft to the barest minimum level in the country.

The governor said, “A number of people who like to jump from one place to the other have been asking me and I said look, we are in PDP and we remain in PDP, but we are supporting the programmes of Mr President”.

“We like what he is doing in the fight against corruption. You can see honesty in his administration and his commitment to rebuilding Nigeria. I share certain virtues with him”.

“We, as a state, will continue to support him. To oppose him is to oppose the truth. But as we support him, we have to support our party, the PDP, so that together we can stand”.
Source
PoliticsMental Screening Canvassed For Ministerial Nominees by OnReflection(op): 6:41am On Oct 12, 2015
Mental screening canvassed for ministerial nominees

October 12, 2015

A director with the World Health Or­ganisation, WHO, Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Neuroscience, Prof. Oye Guruje, has said be­sides assets declaration of would-be ministers under President Muhammadu Buhari, the Senate should also ensure they are certi­fied medically fit for the job.

It would be recalled that the Senate had last week told the ministerial nominees whose names were sent to the National As­sembly for confirmation that “you must declare your assets, and must have a certificate of proof that you have declared your assets, and that you are given a certificate of proof by the Code of Con­duct Bureau.”

But Guruje during this year’s World Mental Health Day in Ibadan at the weekend admonished the Senate to also insist that the incoming minis­ters should be men of in­tegrity like Buhari so as to jointly salvage the nation­al economy from the brink of collapse occasioned by years of mindless looting of the nation’s treasury by public officers.

Guruje, who is also ini­tiator and project direc­tor of the mental health leadership and advocacy programme (mhLAP), a project of mental health leadership capacity build­ing and advocacy being conducted in five West African countries, in­cluding Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra-Leone, Liberia and The Gambia, said corrup­tion was a thing of the mind and not necessarily connected with the state of mental health of public officers.

Speaking on this year’s theme titled “Dignity in Mental Health”, he noted that the stakeholders were raising awareness on what could be done to ensure people with mental health conditions live with dig­nity through the develop­ment and implementa­tion of policies and law that protect their human rights, adequate training of health professionals to provide effective mental health service, respect for the views of persons with mental health conditions by their health providers, their inclusion in decision-making processes, and informed public atti­tude to mental illness.

Guruje, who was flanked by Dr. Adeoye Oyewole, a consultant psychiatrist and Dr. Viv­ian Ikem, whose new book “Shadows in the Mirror -the many faces of depres­sion’’ billed for launch later this month in Lagos was introduced to the public, quoted from a 2010 report which stated that about one in seven adult Nigerians will have one form of mental disorder or the other in their life­time.
Source
PoliticsRe: James Ibori: Alameiseigha Built Just One House. Was Never Corrupt by OnReflection: 6:14am On Oct 12, 2015
Three-times convict Ibori (once in Nigeria and twice in the UK) is hardly the paragon of objectivity. cool

Ex-Convict Alamieyeseigha To Forfeit $600,000 US Mansion, $400,000 Cash, As US Justice Department Implements “Kleptocracy Initiative”

Former governor of Bayelsa and convicted money launderer, DSP Alamieyeseigha will be losing his mansion in the Potomac area of Maryland, as he could not pay his annual real estate tax to the state.

Mr. Alamieyeseigha, popular known as “Alams,” bought the property from his looting of Bayelsa State resources. That led to his arrest in the United Kingdom in 2006, from which he jumped bail dressed as a grandmother.

Officials of the state of Maryland Assessment and Taxation department told SaharaReporters that Alams owed the state some $10,000 in real estate taxes.

They said the property, which is located 504 Pleasant Drive, Rockville, MD 20850-5879 belongs to Solomon & Peters Ltd, an offshore front company used by the ex-convict to purchase the property in 2003 while he was the governor of Bayelsa state. Solomon $ Peters Limited in registered in the British Virgin Islands.

Alams’ legal troubles led to the elevation of Goodluck Jonathan to the governorship of that state, and soon after, to national prominence when he was singlehandedly selected by President Olusegun Obasanjo as presidential running mate to Umaru Yar’Adua. He was later arrested in the UK for money laundering but fled to Nigeria, where he was arrested and prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after members of the Bayelsa State assembly impeached him.

In 2005, Mr. Alamieyeseigha’s daughter, Oyindounbra, also bought a house in Whittier, California, where she attended a Community College. In that same year, she sold the house for $1.7 before relocating to Nigeria.

Maryland officials told SaharaReporters that Mr. Alamiseyeseigha has not paid his property taxes for almost a year.

Interestingly, the same property in Maryland is being recovered by the Obama administration through the US Department of Justice’s “Kleptocracy Initiative”. In March this year, the office of the US Attorney General filed to forfeit the assets of Mr. Alamieyeseigha in the US. The Potomac home, which is valued at $600,000, and another $400,000 belonging to the disgraced Governor was also found in a brokerage account at the Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC account in Massachusetts.

If and when the civil proceedings are concluded, the US government plans to repatriate the stolen monies to Nigeria.

“Funds of this nature that are repatriated to Nigeria ought to be put directly into specific public projects that are negotiated between the United Nations and the Nigeria government,” a newspaper columnist told SaharaReporters today. “Otherwise, how does one know that the funds do not return to Alams through Nigeria’s own Kleptocracy Highway?”
Source: http://saharareporters.com/2011/08/01/ex-convict-alamieyeseigha-forfeit-600000-us-mansion-400000-cash-us-justice-department
PoliticsRe: APC, FG Hounded Alamieyeseigha To Death - Fayose by OnReflection: 6:01am On Oct 12, 2015
StOla:
Of all female hypocrites on this forum, she is the queen.

Don't think that some people do not enjoy chaos or do not prefer a corrupt Nigeria.

Don't even hold your breath expecting an answer to your questions. Anyone who is proud to identify with PDP the moment the president or the top party leaders are from their region, obviously have no shame.

Ask them to point to a major success of GEJ's regime, they will suddenly go quiet like a graveyard. Yet they have shown themselves to be the most needy for change, impatiently asking for the dividends of a change they never wanted.
Efin ni iwa (character is like smoke, it cannot be concealed)
PoliticsRe: I Will Not Join Saraki To Hinder Buhari Administration - Tinubu by OnReflection: 5:58am On Oct 12, 2015
cassimere:
Yeah. Sunday Dare is a seasoned journalist. He attended the great University of Jos, then to Harvard and Oxford. One wouldn't expect his lexicon to be limited.

And with what I've seen so far, you could easily compete for his position yourself.
Cassimere,

Thanks for the investment of confidence.
However, as one who is more at home in the world of binary numbers, I know well enough not to cross swords with the likes of Sunday Dare - a seasoned public relations expert whose lucidity bears the makings of a modern day Cicero. wink
PoliticsRe: I Will Not Join Saraki To Hinder Buhari Administration - Tinubu by OnReflection: 12:17am On Oct 12, 2015
Grundig:
Tinubu got it wrong here.

That article was pure propaganda by TheSun or whatever news journal carried that story. Tinubu shoulda known better.

Now everybody knows he doesn't fancy saraki.
Erm...Tinubu's position has been unambiguous from the day Saraki smuggled himself into a car park at 6am, only to emerge Senate President under the most dubious circumstances. cool

Tinubu – I Won’t Recognise Saraki As Senate President, Unless…

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has responded to the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as President of the Senate.

Tinubu, while speaking on the development at the national secretariat of the party on Tuesday in Abuja, said, “I will never recognise such a kangaroo arrangement that produced Bukola as the Senate President. “Or how do you want me to recognise a man who deliberately defied his own party because of his personal interest? It is not done anywhere.

“Therefore, recognising Bukola as the Senate President after all he had done to our party today, having gone against the wish and pattern of our great party, honestly will amount to endorsing impunity, and which you should all know I will not ”
,Tinubu said.

He added, “For me to recognise Senator Bukola as the Senate President, he must show remorse for today’s action. He had earlier promised to defy the party and the deed has been done. You don’t do that in politics.

“Personal interest must not override that of the party that beget you. It’s a spoken and silent rule of the game, which all and sundry must abide with. “I’m not God, but as far as this party is concerned, I’m a leader and I know what is good for the party at the appropriate time.

Speaking now is not for the party, but for myself. I cannot recognize Bukola as the Senate President.”
Source: http://www.informationng.com/2015/06/tinubu-i-wont-recognise-saraki-as-senate-president-unless.html
PoliticsRe: I Will Not Join Saraki To Hinder Buhari Administration - Tinubu by OnReflection: 11:53pm On Oct 11, 2015
Phew! APC does harbour some serious wordsmiths.

This statement of intent, which not only discredits the subterranean machinations of his traducers but also sets out Tinubu's stall, would be most unsettling for the harbingers of doom.
PoliticsRe: My Opinion: Babatunde Raji Fashola Vs Stella Oduah by OnReflection: 5:23am On Oct 11, 2015
moyinoluwabun:
thanks bro. D firm got 10 million payment but the money released was 78million. That means 68million is inside someone's pocket. And if truly d amount approved was 10 million, let lasg make a statement and tell what was posted on their site was an errror.
Like I said earlier, provide incontrovertible evidence of your allegations and let's have a sensible discussion.
Anything short of this lends itself to character assassination.

Fashola's own statement
...One of the services was an “upgrade” quoted for N12.5 million but awarded for N12 million. There were other services that were new; like a handover countdown clock, mobile Apps for Google, for IOS and ipad, for Microsoft, and for Research in Motion (Blackberry), which the existing website did not have, as well as the annual maintenance cost for managing the website.

It was for all these services that the contract was issued for N78 million, which the Lagos State procurement agency gave a No Objection based on the advice of the Ministry of Science and Technology, who are the Government adviser on ICT matters. In publishing this Contract award which was the Government tradition under my watch, the procurement agency’s website summarised it as “upgrade” only without detailing the other services and this has been distorted by the agents of hate as their suspected “smoking gun”.

For those who are familiar with mobile Applications, they will know that users either pay for them online or download them for free. What is usual is that applications for service are usually provided to users free, but somebody bears the cost. Since these applications were to be made available to the public for free access and to assist Government communication, we decided to pay for them. The entire documents are with the Lagos State Government and are available for those who seek the truth.
Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/when-you-wrestle-with-a-pig-fashola/
PoliticsRe: My Opinion: Babatunde Raji Fashola Vs Stella Oduah by OnReflection: 5:18am On Oct 11, 2015
CuckoldMaster:
Yoruba are demonic cowards
^^^So says an unabashed nincompoop.
PoliticsRe: My Opinion: Babatunde Raji Fashola Vs Stella Oduah by OnReflection: 5:16am On Oct 11, 2015
chuna1985:
fashola na thief.
Another unhinged individual, who is clearly incapable of advancing rational arguments.
PoliticsRe: My Opinion: Babatunde Raji Fashola Vs Stella Oduah by OnReflection: 5:17pm On Oct 10, 2015
moyinoluwabun:
you're quoting from a website that cost lagosians 78million naira. Naija youth na wah ooo
I would rather deal with facts and not conjecture.

What Did LASG Get For the alleged “N78M”?

N12.5m was quoted for the upgrade of the www.tundefashola.com web site, which includes complete re-design of all the hundreds of page templates. Meanwhile, the LASG spent less than N10m on this and not N78M being bandied on the social around.

Info Access Plus Limited will provide free technical support for the entire life cycle of the web site.

Info Access Plus Limited will manage the contents of the site, which consist of press releases, speeches, photos, videos, etc for one year.

Info Access Plus Limited developed and managed the first and only web-based 1-year Countdown Clock to May 29, 2015 on a 24-hourly basis off the back of this same service cost for a period of 1 year from 2014 to May 29, 2015.

Info Access Plus Limited developed mobile apps for the top four platforms, namely Apple iOS, Google Play, Microsoft Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry World off the back of this same service cost.

Info Access Plus Limited will provide free technical support throughout the life cycles of all these mobile apps also off the back of this same service cost.
Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/188050-it-firm-denies-receiving-n78-million-for-fasholas-website.html
PoliticsRe: My Opinion: Babatunde Raji Fashola Vs Stella Oduah by OnReflection: 5:10pm On Oct 10, 2015
obailala:
What other prove do you want to confirm that a website developed with N78m or two borehole sunk with more than a hundred million naira are inflated?

What other prove do you need to know that the price of a bullet proof bmw bought for N125m per piece was inflated?
Do you have any specific details on the bore holes in question? Or is the case that you consider tangible facts immaterial?

#32 of 40
Stop Public Defecation To Preserve Underground Water
Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN)
4 June 2013 12:00 pm

Most of the waters we need to survive as a people today is not the water from Lagoon or the water at the bar beach, it is water under the ground.

Most of us who defecate and urinate on the ground contaminate the underground water. So in few years, your children may be drinking your urine.

That is the reality. In a few years, your children may be drinking water containing some of your own waste. So we must stop polluting the groundwater. Stop dumping refuse in water body, as it will come back to hurt us.

We are not saying don't drill bore hole, we are saying get information before doing it. We are saying one borehole may be enough for a whole street, don't drill 20. We can share to preserve water.

Water means many things to many people. For some it is a business. What we call "pure water", how pure is it? I don't know but it provides money to sustain life.


For some people it is also a resource, manufacturers rely on a lot of water to get so many things out with which we get on with life. For us on this side, it is a critical component necessary for us to discharge public responsibility to save lives and public property.

Water is an important part of our public strategy. Its management is important in our security and defense system.

www.tundefashola.com
Does it not make more sense to you to go after more granular information, before drawing hard and fast conclusions?
We saw documents during the Stella Oduah saga...if you have anything other than the one page spreadsheet we have seen for Fashola's case, then please share it.
PoliticsRe: My Opinion: Babatunde Raji Fashola Vs Stella Oduah by OnReflection: 4:56pm On Oct 10, 2015
I bet the FGN funded http://www.reubenabati.com.ng, a website that was always more up to date than anything else run by Jonathan's Presidency. Unethical - for sure - but not as uncommon as it seems.
PoliticsRe: My Opinion: Babatunde Raji Fashola Vs Stella Oduah by OnReflection: 4:42pm On Oct 10, 2015
obailala:
Both cases of inflated contracts are condemnable, however may I remind you that Fashola did his without breaking the law; Fashola got an approval from the state assembly so what he did might have been morally wrong but it wasnt illegal.

On the other hand, Oduah did not get the budget approval from the NASS for those cars but she still went ahead and bought them at a price which was eventually even above the price she presented to the NASS in the first instance which was even rejected. In summary, Oduah made illegal extra-budgetary expenses.

Hopefully, you now see the difference between both cases?... If Nigeria was a sane country, she should be in prison today.
While I am not going out on limb to shore up Fashola's defence, it is important we acknowledge the emboldened statement in your post has not been proven.
PoliticsRe: My Opinion: Babatunde Raji Fashola Vs Stella Oduah by OnReflection: 4:40pm On Oct 10, 2015
When are TANoids going to learn to marshal the right arguments?

A borehole contractor, Mr. Elijah Idowu, who runs Noble Fourstar Hydro Resources, explained to Saturday PUNCH the process it takes to reach a depth where drinkable water can be extracted in the Ikoyi-Victoria Island-Lekki zone.

He said, “Digging borehole is never a child’s play in that zone because you will be talking of about 500 or 700 metres before one can reach a drinkable water depth.
Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/lagosians-in-highbrow-areas-may-be-drinking-own-faeces-investigation/

“We know that only few landlords can finance standard boreholes. The common 100 feet deep boreholes being financed by property owners in Lagos metropolis is nothing but shallow wells. The depth of the boreholes being drilled at LSWC is a minimum of 250 metres. This is to ensure that un-diluted water is tapped from the earth for public consumption”, Holloway noted.
Source: Daily Trust

Screen shot attached taken from 'The Drilling Environment and Establishing a Drillers Association in Nigeria: Summary Report October 2007'. 2007 Prices quoted include of 'drilling, pump, generator, overhead tank supply and installation'.

I dare any one of you dimwits to advance your "my daddy said" logic, once more. angry

PoliticsRe: Diezani Was Not Arrested, Only Invited, Says Family by OnReflection: 6:08am On Oct 09, 2015
biafranqueen:
My friend go and sit down not surprised at this you backwardness. Instead of telling them to face governing this country, and stopping the murder of innocent lives your cheer leading a bunch of rumor mongrels, vomiting nonsense while Nigeria is sliding into national crisis.
Save the theatrics and attempts to shift the focus elsewhere for your co-travelers, who are similarly beholden to ethnic solidarity.
PoliticsRe: Diezani Was Not Arrested, Only Invited, Says Family by OnReflection: 6:05am On Oct 09, 2015
chukwudi44:
If she has been indicted for fraud by the british authourities like you claimed,how come she is still a free woman?
This one cannot be spun, Pa Chuks.

Much like Alamieyeseigha who jumped bail in 2005, the entire world now knows that she was arrested on money laundering charges.
PoliticsRe: Diezani Was Not Arrested, Only Invited, Says Family by OnReflection: 5:57am On Oct 09, 2015
biafranqueen:
where are the name of the 5 lying liars saga continues....
It does not work that way, I am afraid.
They are under no obligation to disclose such information to disbelievers like biafranqueen.

Footnote: Those who know how to follow a sequential time-line of events know precisely what is at stake. cool
PoliticsRe: Diezani Was Not Arrested, Only Invited, Says Family by OnReflection: 5:53am On Oct 09, 2015
The National Crime Agency thinks otherwise.

PoliticsRe: Radio Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu Just Called Igbos Standing On The Sideline Cowards by OnReflection: 12:49pm On Oct 08, 2015
DFemaleBoss:
They made his life what? Tell me you are joking. grin grin
I think you have made it quite obvious that comprehension is not one of your stronger points. cool
Go on, dip into your repository of bile... Stay true to form.
PoliticsRe: Radio Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu Just Called Igbos Standing On The Sideline Cowards by OnReflection: 12:39pm On Oct 08, 2015
DFemaleBoss:
"The people of Lagos and indeed westerners are the lowest, the most seditious and disloyal".
Femi Fani Kayode
Indeed they made Lugard's life quite unpleasurable cheesy
Rightly so, I might add.

That quote has nothing to do with Fani-Kayode, I am afraid. cool

In 1916, Lord Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, the first Baron Lugard, the fourteenth governor of Hong Kong and the first governor general of Nigeria, said the following: “Lagos has for twenty years opposed every governor and has fomented strife and bloodshed in the hinterland. I have spent the best part of my life in Africa; my aim has been the betterment of the natives for whom I have been ready to give my life. But after some twenty-nine years, and after nearly twelve years as governor here, I am free to say that the people of Lagos and indeed the Westerners are the lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by self-seeking money motives of any people I have met.
PoliticsRe: Radio Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu Just Called Igbos Standing On The Sideline Cowards by OnReflection: 10:40am On Oct 08, 2015
The simple reason why Nnamdi Kanu hates Igbos more than those he accuses

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/575285305390931970/OLPxydxN.jpeg

From Ejike Chinedu, Lagos

Without any fear of contradiction, one can say that Nnamdi Kanu’s Radio Biafra has become a thorn-in-the-flesh for the Nigerian government in the past few weeks. Not only has government expressed deep worries over the activities of the “illegal” media house, it has failed to stop its signals reaching the fanatical audience particularly in the South Eastern part of Nigeria.

Even if the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission eventually succeeds in completely jamming the signal and thereby extinguishing for the time being as it may appear, the popularity of the operators that is spreading like wild fire among the people of the South East, Nnamdi Kanu and his cohorts have every reason to be proud.

After the first claim by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Yemi Folasade-Esan, that turned out to be false, it became clear that the equipment used by the National Broadcasting Commission cannot interfere with what the little and unknown Radio Biafra has at its disposal. This seems similar to what we were told about the Igbos ingenuity during the civil war.

With every claim of jamming the signals of the ‘illegal’ station by the NBC came revelations rubbishing what the government agency was saying.

Therefore, Nnamdi Kanu should be proud that within such a short time, not more than five years, he has attracted to himself and his ideology such followership from among the Igbo speaking people, those that chose to refer to themselves as non-Nigerians but the Indigenous People of Biafra.

He should be proud that out of the estimated 170million Nigerians, not less than 50% of the elite now know about him and has spoken about him at least once.

Nnamdi Kanu should be proud that his picture had trended on the world state along with his Radio Biafra for days. He knows this hence he claimed on his twitter handle that “Radio Biafra is now more popular than the BBC.”

But if he would spare a moment and think deeply, the young man would realize that he is gradually constituting himself to a nuisance and a threat to his own people that he claims to champion their redemption. His dis-connect with civility and decorum is beginning to rob off negatively on the psyche of the millions of people who now see him as the “director of their destiny.”

Now, the real issue is that if not checked, Nnamdi Kanu will be responsible for the death of more Igbos than were killed during the civil war of 1967 to 1970. One of his messages which he repeatedly pushed out through his Radio Biafra and other medium of communication directed his followers to “begin massive destruction of everything around you, if they do not hear my voice on the radio for up to four days.”

He had succeeded in creating the deepest hatred in the heart of his followers, not for non-Igbos alone but for even those who became Igbo and championed the Igbo course before he knew his left from his right. Every Igbo man who does not agree with Nnamdi Kanu’s philosophy is freely insulted and referred to as an EFULEFU, meaning vagabond.

“Dr Ikedife the leader of saboteurs, enemy of Biafra & a member of APC, has dissociated itself from Radio Biafra”

“Mallam Rochas Okorocha’s Son Graduates from University of Manchester with First class.”

“Like father like son Ohanaeze harlot Ndigbo at it again, will do anything for money”

These are a few of recent tweets from Radio Biafra where derogatory words are splashed on men who Nnamdi Kanu and his lot should respect even if they disagree with his view.

My advice to Nnamdi Kanu is to reassess his approach to achieving his aim. Whether or not Biafra is realizable in the circumstance prevailing today is an issue for another day but while exploring the possibilities, if that is what he is really pushing for, he should avoid actions that would further endanger the Igbo people. Some of his actions suggest he is out to satisfy his personal ego not minding who is put in danger.

"Biafra must come or every living thing in the zoo will die...” Is one of the frequently made comments on the Radio and twitter by Nnamdi Kanu and then, he is still having and travelling with a “zoo” passport. You see what I mean?

Finally, It is not possible to bring back every Igbo son and daughter into the geographical definition of Igbo land. If that happens, the Igboness in the people will find no expression and therefore will choke itself. This implies that whether Biafra gains independence or not, Igbos will always thrive or seek to thrive among other peoples of Nigeria and by extension, the world. Igbos must continue to accommodate others and be accommodated by them.

Nnamdi should do himself and his people a whole lot of good if he seeks other civil means of sustaining his agitation for fairness and equity in Nigeria and if it comes to parting ways with the other parts of the country, it should be centered on clear issues void of hatred because hate is like a mad dog that bites its owner first.
Source: http://www.homelandnewsng.com/opinion/1555-simple-reason-why-nnamdi-kanu-hates-igbos-more-those-he-accuses
PoliticsRe: UK Asks Switzerland To Arrest Kola Aluko For Alison-Madueke Proceedings by OnReflection(op): 5:17pm On Oct 07, 2015
Stolen:
Never do anything with yorubas, Alison and GEJ are about to learn the hard way.

They are back stabbers and betrayers.
^^^This one is slowly being consumed by ethnic bigotry.
As if Madam Bling gives a flying fccuk about his existence...
PoliticsRe: UK Asks Switzerland To Arrest Kola Aluko For Alison-Madueke Proceedings by OnReflection(op): 4:53pm On Oct 07, 2015
cassimere:
That's unfortunate because they are one of the most thorough and efficient news outlet in Africa.
There is little to be gained from trying to appeal to the better judgement of one who is immutable to reason.
Other members of his crew will be here soon.
PoliticsUK Asks Switzerland To Arrest Kola Aluko For Alison-Madueke Proceedings by OnReflection(op): 4:43pm On Oct 07, 2015
UK Asks Switzerland To Arrest Kola Aluko For Alison-Madueke Proceedings

BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORKOCT 07, 2015

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Sahare Reporters has confirmed from the Attorney General’s Office in Switzerland that the United Kingdom has requested Mutual Legal Assistance from Swiss authorities for the detention of Kola Aluko.

Mr. Aluko is the alleged money launderer for the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

SaharaReporters broke the news earlier today that Kola Aluko has holed himself up in his regal estate in southern Switzerland after learning of Alison-Madueke’s arrest in the United Kingdom. Alison-Madueke and four others are confirmed to have been arrested by agents attached to the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the UK for bribery and other financial crimes.

In an email to SaharaReporters, Nathalie Guth of the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland said, “I can give you the additional information, that the OAG has received a request for mutual assistance from England.” Mrs. Guth bolded ‘from England’ to emphasize that it was the UK, not Nigeria, requesting Mr. Aluko’s detention.

This communication from the Swiss Attorney General’s Office contradicts reports earlier from Reuters news that it was Nigeria which had requested the assistance from Switzerland.

SaharaReporters spoke with Femi Adesina, the Senior Special Adviser for Media and Publicity to President Buhari, who told SaharaReporters that he did not want to comment on whether Nigeria requested mutual assistance from the Swiss because he did not have all the information.

SaharaReporters also called Mr. Aluko’s home phone number, +41919402714, but it has been disconnected since our last communication with his employee yesterday.

A call to the Home Office department in charge of Mutual Legal Assistance did not yield any result, as the officer who answered our call said he could not provide information about MLAs but the office confirmed they knew of Mr. Aluko.

The request to the office of the Swiss Attorney General was necessitated by rumors earlier today that Mr. Aluko had been arrested by Swiss authorities.
Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/07/uk-asks-switzerland-arrest-kola-aluko-alison-madueke-proceedings
PoliticsRe: See Photos Of Some Of Diezani Madueke's Alleged Properties In London by OnReflection: 3:42pm On Oct 07, 2015
Firefire:
Change is here...


Lies, forgery, propaganda and caricature.


Short live the APC.
^^^Leaving the infestation of leprosy behind to chase after house flies - the perennial problem of conflicted TANoids.

Investigators told SaharaReporters that Mrs. Alison- Madueke owns a number of properties in the United Kingdom and the United States, under a variety of names, often those of her family. One property, located in London at 22 Parkwood, St. Edmunds Terrace, St John's Wood, London, NW8 7QQ is registered in the name of her mother, Beatrice Agama. Her younger brother, Timi John Agama, has a property registered under his name at 67, Wades Hill, Winchmore Hill, London, N21 1AU.

The former minister’s elder brother, Bishop Agama, has a property located at 27 Tavistock Square, Holburn, London, WC1H 9HH registered to his name.
In the United States, the former Petroleum Minister owns three properties that are registered under her maiden name, Diezani K. Agama. They include a posh apartment located at 1220 West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland, with the zip code of 20910. Her son, Ugonna Madueke, has at least three properties registered in his name, two in Virginia and one in Maryland. The former minister’s son’s properties in Virginia are located at 11711 Scooter Lane, Fairfax, VA 22030, and 4227 Summit Manor Ct, Fairfax, VA 22033. His property in Maryland is at 13116 Silver Maple Ct, Bowie, MD 20715.
Source: [url]http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/05/how-nigeria%E2%80%99s-ex-minister-petroleum-madueke-laundered-looted-money-her-accomplices[/url]

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