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We don't need to be hearing Any words like "I wil stand down in 2023" if we take our constitution and laws serious in Nigeria, I don't think we need any words of promised like dat b4 we can be assured of something dat as been enshrined in d constitution. But d truths of d matter is dat Mr president is saying it out to silence the sycophants who doesn't av any hope of survival beyond "sai baba".2023, and want him to remained in power forever.
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A WARNING FOR THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA

"I would appreciate them in helping us as well to address the belief our people have and the reality that there are many persons from Nigeria dealing in drugs in our country"- Dr. Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, South African Minister of International Relations.

Is this the sort of thing that ought to be said by the South African Governmrnt when we are still in mourning and when we have not even buried our compatriots that were cruelly slain, bludgeoned to death and cut to pieces in the streets of South Africa?

At a time when this irresponsible, insensitive, shameless, conflicted, self-hating, pitiful and mendacious creature that has been described as the Foreign Minister of South Africa should be apologising to the Nigerian people for the mindless savagery and barbarity of her blood-crazed compatriots, she is pointing accusing fingers at their victims and the objects of their collective hate and seeking to demonise them. What have we done to deserve this? First you kill us then you seek to justify it and demonise us!

Does this she-devil of a Foreign Minister really believe that innocent Nigerian men, women and children should be butchered at will in the streets of South Africa by bloodthirsty and bestial mobs?

Worse still does she think it is right and proper that this is done with the full endorsement and support of both the South African Government and police? Is that the way forward? Is that the way to build bridges in Africa and enhance peace and stability on the continent?

Can such behaviour be justified or defended under any circumstances? What would she do or think if the Nigerian Government and people decided to reciprocate and mete the same treatment out to South Africans that reside in Nigeria and South African companies that are situated here?

In any case how many of those that were butchered over the years were drug dealers? If it is true that as many Nigerians deal in drugs as she has suggested, why can't the South African Government apprehend, arrest and prosecute them and send them to jail rather than demonise, misrepresent, target and kill innocent and defenceless Nigerians?

This is a clear case of racial stereotyping and a squalid and shameful attempt to justify hate, racism, xenophobia, self-hate, black on black violence and mass murder. Permit me to educate the South African Foreign Minister and set the record straight.

There are thousands of Nigerian professionals, academics, lecturers, intellectuals, businessmen, scientists, engineers and doctors in your country working hard, doing a great job and contributing massively to your development and economy.

The fact that your people hate Nigerians and enjoy killing us has nothing to do with drugs, human-trafficking or drug-trafficking. It is because your people are hateful, ignorant, xenophobic, lazy, racist and envious of ours.

And the few irresponsible Nigerians that go to South Africa and indulge in terrible and unforgivable crimes like drug and human trafficking and gang-related violence do so only because your people have a terrible weakness, an undue fascination and an insatiable appetite for hard drugs, alcohol, prostitues, men and women of easy virtue and the dark, ugly and wild side of life.

It is therefore not surprising that South Africa has, for the better part of the last 25 years, been described as the "world's capital for homicide" and the country with the "highest number of people that have been afflicted with HIV AIDS!"

Rather than work hard, like their Nigerians counterparts, South Africans prefer to go to sleazy and cheap nightclubs, gamble on the gaming machines and poker tables, drink huge amounts of beer, take massive amounts of hard drugs and stay at home, watch television and sleep. They are not particularly good at anything except singing beautiful songs and killing other Africans.

It is for this singular reason that their women love and respect Nigerian men and have nothing but contempt for their own. Generally-speaking Nigerian men are strong, productive, virile, focused, courageous, industrious, adventurous and hard-working with a touch of arrogance and they excel in all their ways. Sadly the average South African male does not possess these virtues.

It does not stop there. For the better part of the last 50 years Nigeria has been the major military and economic power in Africa and we have used our wealth, power and influence wisely and expeditiously to the advantage of many countries on the continent.

For example, had it not been for us the minority white Boers would still be ruling over the black South Africans and apartheid would still have been firmly in place.

We nationalised British Petroleum and Barclays Bank because of them in the late 1970's and thereby compelled the British to accept our demand of black majority rule in South Africa and Zimbabwe and to stop supporting apartheid and their white minority governments.

We are far ahead of South Africa in terms of education and virtually every other sphere of human endeavour and we have opened up our country for them to come and invest in.

Today Nigeria is by far the biggest market for their expertise, products, goods and services and if that market were to ever be closed to them or their companies nationalised it would affect their economy enormously.

The truth is that they benefit far more from and make far more money from us today than we benefit and make money from them.

In a trade war they have far more to lose than we do because not that many Nigerian companies have invested heavily in and operate in South Africa whilst many South African companies have invested heavily in and operate in Nigeria.

As a matter of fact some of those companies make more money from the Nigerian market and their Nigerian operations than they do in the whole of the rest of Africa put together. That is what we have offered and given them and yet they have offered and given us next to nothing in return. All we get from them are insults, violence and heartache!

Historically and in every other way they are very much our juniors. Our people were educated at Oxford, Cambridge and the very best universities in the world since 1860. South African blacks never went to a real university until the 1990's after aparthied fell.

We have liberated and brought peace, justice and stability to many African countries and been a blessing to the Africa continent for many decades despite our present challenges.

Whether it be Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Eritea, Ghana, Namibia, Sierra Leonne, Liberia, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Chad, Niger and so many others: we were there in full force with our money, our arms, our logistical support and in some cases our troops.

We shed blood and our blood was shed for other African countries over the years yet all we get in return are insults.

If you say Nigerians are drug pushers and human traffickers then I will say that South Africans are losers, racists, drop-outs, failures and genocidal maniacs.

Worse still had the white Boers not built up South Africa it would still be a barren land and the black population would still be nothing but slaves that live in filthy and squalid little townships.

Despite all the razzmatazz and great public relations about being a happy and prosperous "rainbow nation" where everyone is so happy and is treated so well, the truth is that South Africa remains a country with a black body and a white head.

I say this because even though political control and leadership has been ceded to the blacks, 80% of the multi-national corporations, big business, industry, the private sector and the economy and 90% of the choicest land, the biggest farms and the best farmlands still remain in the hands of the white minority.

Given this, is it any wonder that black South Africans are literally going mad and are so deeply frustrated and filled with hatred and bitterness?

They have nothing and, other than a handful of political leaders who are essentially token niggers and Uncle Toms, their prospects of ever amounting to anything over the next 100 years is very dim. The real power still resides in the hands of the Boers and the prospects for the future lay heavily in their favour.

If only the black South Africans knew and remembered their own history and considered ours they would be praying for Nigeria and thanking us every day rather than insulting and killing us.

Without our support and the pressure we brought to bear, the great Nelson Mandela may never have been freed and the ANC and its armed wing would not have received the massive and robust funding and support that it did throughout the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's.

Together with the Cubans and the Libyans, Nigeria did more for the liberation of South Africa and South African majority rule than any other nation in the world.

What the South Africans are doing to Nigerians today makes me regret the fact that we did so much for them in the past. They have repaid our good with evil and consequently evil will never leave their doorstep. They have shed our blood for no just cause and the heavens will respond and avenge us. They have made us weep and shed tears for our compatriots and they shall pay a heavy price!

The South African Foreign Minister and those that share her racist and deplorable disposition and xenophobic views should consider these facts and the imolications of her words and actions before she ventures to open her fat, ugly and very undiplomatic mouth to speak untruths and garbage about Nigeria and Nigerians again.

Failing to do so may provoke a series of events and reprisals which would result in the final demystification and humiliation of the "rainbow nation" and the unending and everlasting disgrace of its people.

Make no mistake about it, even a Nigeria in her weakened state and with all our challenges is still big and strong enough to bring South Africa to its knees. And if the killing and mass murder of our people does not stop that is precisely what will happen. A word is enough for the wise.

Permit me to conclude this contribution with the following.

Many years ago in the early to mid-1970's, when apartheid was alive and well in South Africa and when I was a young student at Harrow, which remains undoubtedly the best private school in England, I broke the jaw of a blond, blue-eyed English-speaking white South African fellow student who said some very nasty things about black South Africans during a history class.

During a heated debate about racial segregation and the South African Mixed Race Act which made it a criminal offence for blacks and whites to get married or have sexual relations, he got up and said, before the entire class, that

"allowing those dirty black dogs to touch our beautiful and pure white women is sacrilage. It is against the laws of God! It is like getting a monkey to mate with a human being!"

Finally he said "no sane white womwn would ever want to have sex with a black African monkey and any of them that do should be sent to jail".

I reacted swiftly and without any hesitation. Without any warning or even words of anger, I left my desk, walked up to him and broke his jaw with one clean blow from my right fist. He never knew what hit him!

I remember hearing and enjoying the way his jaw popped open and cracked. It was a strange noise and as he hit the floor his legs started to shake uncontrollably after which he lost consciousness.

For one horrendous moment I thought I had killed him but thankfully eventually his eyes opened, he sat up and he was rushed to the hospital on a stretcher.

He hailed from one of the biggest and richest white families in South Africa who were (and still are) in the diamond mining business and I almost got expelled from Harrow for my "wild and unruly" behaviour until I gave my reasons for hitting him to the school authorities.

They were shocked and equally appauled by what he had said, which they rightly regarded as a grave and reckless provocation, and they decided to let me off the hook.

I was reprimanded and warned and I remember that the Headmaster wrote a formal letter about the incident my father who was livid with me for jeopordising my entire academic career because of a racial slight and slur.

Papa said "you didn't have to hit him and almost kill the poor boy: you could have just attempted to educate him in a civilised manner and at the worst insult him back!"

Yet I had no regrets or remorse about my course of action or the choice that I made and to my eternal credit I never apologised for my action to the South African, the school authorities, my father or anyone else.

The truth is that I was proud of what I did and I believed that defending the honor of my black South African colleagues was far more important than staying at Harrow. I was prepared to risk it all by physically assaulting the white boy and I did.

My gamble paid off and the South African boy, as sober as ever, never insulted or spoke ill of blacks again in my prescence. As a matter of fact we ended up becoming friends in the following years and I will never forget what he told me just before we left Harrow in 1977. I remember the words because I wrote them down at the time and have meditated on them for years.

He said "you don't understand the Bantus" (meaning black South Africans).

He went on to say "the day they get power in South Africa is the day that South Africa will begin to die. Since the 17th century we Boers built up everything there and they contributed nothing. We fought the Zulus and later the British and we built and developed that land with our flesh, sweat and blood. Giving a country like South Africa to them is like giving a monkey a loaded gun. They will use it to kill everyone around them and eventually they will kill themselves. They are not like you Nigerians: they have no history or class. They are unenlightened, ungrateful, primitive, uncouth and very backward and one day the rest of Africa will know them for what they are!"

Judging from the words of the South African Foreign Minister and the xenophobic and racist diposition of the South African President, Government and people, it appears that that day has finally come.
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Should Kogi workers heave a sigh of relief now that their governor, Yahaya Bello has agreed that he indeed owes workers between six and 38 months salaries and that he would offset that debt before December? The answer should be simple. When your governor makes a promise, his word should be his bond. But if you take Bello’s words to any bank or any of the three markets in Lokoja or anywhere else in the state, you are bound to return with an empty basket of disappointment. Bello is a failed governor and it sucks because he is the youngest governor ever in both Kogi and perhaps Naija’s history. Those who dis the geriatrics recycling themselves in government for Naija’s underdevelopment have a sad example why the ‘youths’ are no better. In four years in office, Bello has nothing positive to point to except perennial staff audits. This was the first excuse he gave for not paying workers. In the years since he sustained this scam, his government is yet to come up with a single prosecution. As anyone conversant with the ekuechi festival knows, where there are ghosts there are puppeteers directing the ghosts. If Bello’s audit has saved Kogi taxpayers money, it should be used to pay pensioners or for tangible development. Even after federal bailout, Kogi remains indebted to its workers while the governor bloats. Executed projects are so shoddy they barely survive commissioning. ADVERTISEMENT After serial cover-ups and denials, Bello’s admittance of debts owed is perhaps the only truth that has come out of late. This confession is because Bello is facing the electorate for the rubberstamp votes needed to sustain a notion of democracy in Kogi. Elections are to politricians what examinations are to students; they force them to become accountable. Those who describe Kogi as a civil service state are wrongly right. Yes, education is the major industry of Kogi people, but the ground under their feet is as rich as their grey matter. Kogi has been unlucky with leadership. Plagued since creation by people who love the perks of office but deny the responsibility thereof. Bello is the epitome of the kind of leadership crisis that has plagued the state. Although he printed posters, he was absolutely unprepared to govern a state like Kogi. He got a court-induced mandate but rather than invest in ideas, he hired a host of advisers most of who are in need of advice. The result is a top-heavy administration with little or nothing left for governance. ADVERTISEMENT Bello fell in love with Abuja and the occupant of the highest office in the land. He would fuel up a horde of vehicles and whimsically take off to Abuja, to prove loyalty to Muhammadu Buhari leaving his citizens high and dry. If it were possible, Bello would have taken over the sitting room, the kitchen and the other room. He has sustained the propaganda of loyalty until the APC machinery, came to the realization that he is a liability and not an asset worth open re-endorsement. That was when it dawned on Bello that he would need to stand on his own two feet, except that he has dug himself in a bog. As a state, Kogi’s potentials are obvious. It is not a poor state. It’s natural hosting of the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers were tapped even by colonialists. That made Lokoja the capital the capital of Nigeria, the headquarters of the Royal Niger Company and Frederick Lugard’s home base. Kogi’s fertile land is most suitable for food and cash crops. The people are industrious enough to feed themselves and grow for export. Properly harnessed, Kogi is a gateway state with enough tourism potentials for carnivals, regatta and other cultural fiesta. Its acquatic potentials could be tapped into by a prepared governor. Bello has been clowning around Arsehole Rock instead of harnessing resources. Investment in the educational potentials of the state could help the state run first-class institutions to attract students from all over the world, making it a centre of learning, tourism and commerce. But Bello has no desire for development; instead, he has turned the state over to the dogs. While he has failed to pay salary and emoluments, he has never gone to Abuja without taking his own allowances. With unpaid wages, Bello runs the most overtaxed state in the country. He has a culture of entrenched political primitivity lending the state into a state or anarchy. Kidnappers and armed robbers have used the few trees left in the forests as cover for their nefarious activities. In politics, anyone who is even perceived to be a potential threat is hunted, hounded and often murdered in cold blood. Young Natasha Akpoti’s life was threatened so many times and her father’s house torched in unprecedented level of political intolerance for daring to run for senatorial office. This writer, with no political affiliation had his father’s cottage and several others in a remote village of Okeagi vandalized on the eve of the last elections in which Bello was not even a candidate. Family members constantly caution against writing this article for fear of reprisal of the Kabawa boys, an army of thugs writ large in hitherto peaceful Okun land. In the eastern part of the state, thugs shot and killed several people during the same election. In Kogi, people live in eternal fear. Only those who have raised higher thugs to meet Bello’s hoodlums fire for fire are free to roam our free land. Casualties are left at God’s mercy. People have died on fake payment queues and slumped over false payment alerts. Bello’s vuvuzelas have attributed the high level of criminality in the state to the divestment of armed thugs from government largesse except they are yet to prosecute one political crime baron in the state in four years. With elections coming Bello and his friends want to hoodwink voters to sign in to four more years of irreversible servitude. He seeks to entice people with their hard-earned entitlements. We’ll all be doomed if we let him because Kogi deserves better.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/the-yeye-in-bellos-kogi.html

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Let the landing cost be anything you choose to tell us. Why do we import fuel? . What happened to our refineries?. How much did Nigeria spend in the turn around maintenance of the oil facilities. Your government earlier denied paying for subsidies and later accepted it. That's fraud and corruption. All the nails Goodluck Jonathan received from the APC on these issues, are we better now. The petroleum industry in Nigeria is a big fraud and that's why all bills to tame the tide in the industry has been successful. Fellow countrymen and women arise in furious anger and let's occupy Nigeria now because leprous hands is now manifesting. Enough is enough.

;DLet the landing cost be anything you choose to tell us. Why do we import fuel? . What happened to our refineries?. How much did Nigeria spend in the turn around maintenance of the oil facilities. Your government earlier denied paying for subsidies and later accepted it. That's fraud and corruption. All the nails Goodluck Jonathan received from the APC on these issues, are we better now. The petroleum industry in Nigeria is a big fraud and that's why all bills to tame the tide in the industry has been successful. Fellow countrymen and women arise in furious anger and let's occupy Nigeria now because leprous hands is now manifesting. Enough is enough.

God bless Goodlock Ebele Jonathan

The landing cost of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, is N35 higher than the pump price of N145 per litre, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, said on Tuesday.
Kachikwu said the rise in global crude oil prices after the 2016 hike in petrol price brought back subsidy.
Recalling the experience of 2016, when the government increased petrol price from N86.5 to N145 after months of severe scarcity, he described fuel subsidy as an emotive issue.

“You have very positive argument that says, ‘Why is this happening; let’s get it out.’ Once you do it, the streets get flooded by protesters. You have five or six or 10 days of no activity in the country. So, any attempt to remove the subsidy must be very well-managed,” the minister said on the NTA Good Morning Nigeria programme, monitored by our correspondent.

He noted that in 2016, the government wrote to the Nigeria Labour Congress and all the trade unions, adding that meetings were held with the security apparatus.
Kachikwu said, “Even when there was a consensus on how we were going to do it, we still had an issue at the very tail end of the moment; NUPENG and PENGASSAN supported but, of course, the other members of the trade unions pulled out.

“Eventually, thankfully, Nigerians saw through what we were trying to do and let it happen. And thank God that happened at the time because when you look at the gap today, the landing cost is about N180 per litre and sale price is N145. Imagine if it (pump price) was N90-something; we will literally be a bankrupt country.”
The minister added, “The point I am making is that anything you are going to do on subsidy requires a very efficient management of information – getting everybody who are stakeholders to tie into it.

“Should we deal with the removal of subsidy? I was gung-ho when I assumed this position that there was no way I was going to tolerate a subsidy regime at the time in 2015 of about N1.2tn-N1.3tn. There was just no way; we didn’t have the capacity to continue to pay.”
“So, I convinced the President that this needed to happen; thankfully, he listened, he agreed and we did. Now, we then had over-recovery period for quite a while and then we went into this upswing in prices that has now taken us again into under-recovery.”
The minister noted that the government had not paid marketers all the outstanding subsidy arrears.He said, “I think, first and foremost, we need to find a way of fixing refineries quickly, whether it is government-funded or whatever – my preference is always private sector funding.

“I think the labour union has never really said they would not be supportive of an attempt to take away this subsidy element; the union has always said, ‘If you are doing it, show me what you [will] do with those new receipts of income. Two, what do you do with the refineries?’ Therefore, we need to address those to even get their buy-in.“Secondly, we need to segregate between those who need subsidy and those who don’t; you will find that 80 per cent or more of those who get subsidy today do not need it. There is nothing necessarily bad with some element of subsidy if it is well-managed and is very little, and if the private sector can take it away completely; that is fantastic. That is the most ideal situation.”
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, which has been the sole importer of petrol into the country for about two years after private oil marketers withdrew from the importation of the product, bears the burden of subsidising the product.
As of March 20, 2018, when the international benchmark price for oil (Brent) was around $66 per barrel, the expected open market price of petrol, according to data obtained from the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, was around N189 per litre. The agency has not released any data since then.
The Group Managing Director, NNPC, on December 23, 2017, said the Federal Government had been resisting intense pressure to increase the pump price of petrol, noting that the landing cost of the commodity was N171.4 per litre as of December 22, 2017 when oil price was around $64 per barrel.

https://punchng.com/petrol-landing-cost-now-n180-per-litre-says-kachikwu/

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The 20 Naira note is the only Nigerian currency till date to feature a military man in person of General Murtala Mohammed of which the other notes featured civilians.

In 1975, he "invented" the word "Fellow Nigerians" when he gave his first broadcast to the nation.



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The 20 Naira note is the only Nigerian currency till date to feature a military man in person of General Murtala Mohammed of which the other notes featured civilians.

In 1975, he "invented" the word "Fellow Nigerians" when he gave his first broadcast to the nation.

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