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HomieQuan:
its true ai...its on wikipedia

Wikipedia is not a valid source of research or info because it can be create and edited by anyone

Attacks by Boko Haram has reduced in Nigeria- M Buhari
https://www.nairaland.com/2667889/attacks-boko-haram-reduced-nigeria

Kx:
Seriously?
How?
Did he do that by taking Nigeria back to massive foreign debts after OBJ had settled it all?

Lol, you can write to the author at thetrentonline.com as that is the perspective of Awolowo's former secretary note mine.

"Former Secretary to late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Odia Ofeimun has stated that former President Goodluck Jonathan was kicked out of office by foreign powers because he wanted to truly liberate Nigeria from relative colonialism.

Speaking to Sahara TV, Ofeimun gave his thoughts on Nigeria’s status after 55 years independence from the European colonialists.

On the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, Ofeimun said so far, the President is further strengthening the North-South divide that was put in place by the colonialist".

Source: thetrentonline.com


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEvo0Zy-BXQ

It was an embarrassing moment for Nigeria as the government of Nigeria was missing at an event centered around Nigerian insurgent group, Boko Haram, at the on going United Nations 70th General Assembly.

According to a Nigerian participant, Bukky Shonibare, other participants at the event expressed surprise that the Nigerian government, which is the major victim of Boko Haram militancy would choose to absent itself from an event where crucial talks on the insurgent group is to be held.

Bukky Shonibare, who is the Group Chief Executive Officer of The 555 Group, took to her Twitter page to express her embarrassment at the no-show by the Nigerian government.

Her tweet also contained pictures of the order of activities of the event, showing an indication that the Nigerian delegation was scheduled to be at the event.

See her tweet below:


It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari left for the UN General Assembly with a 21-man delegation, which has caused uproar among social media observers, especially as all the governors in his entourage are from the Northern part of the country.

ALSO READ: Eyebrows Raised As Buhari Heads To UN Assembly With Only Northern Governors

The post Nigerian Gov’t Missing From Boko Haram Centered Event At UN Assembly (PHOTOS) appeared first on The Trent.

When would all the people in Nigeria who believe in foreign religions understand that it will be some day important to see foreigners Worship Nigerian Gods ?

Found this in the toilet of the airport, I guess there are no limits to where people share their political views

glimpse33:
I was an angel in heaven as at that point in time

You still sure look like an angel here on earth dear

OP, we're is the judgement from the court?

ziky2010:
The present problem Apc is experiencing is lack of support of the people of south-east for Buhari.This is not a tribalistic post.So,dont see me as a tribal bigot.It is just my candid opinion.Had it been Senator Chris Ngige was voted for the second time as a senator,he would have been made the senate president and nobody would have disputed that.A candidate from the North central would have been the deputy senate president and another candidate from the north east would perhaps have been the speaker of the house of representatives thereby making a candidate from south-south like honourabe Iriase from Edo to become the deputy speaker.With these kind of calculation,all the top positions would have been shared equally.What do u think my people? No insult please

Bro, the people of the S.E have the right to select their leaders, moreover Senator Chris Ngige been the senate president wouldn't change the price of goods in the market for an average Ibo trader. Neither would his emergence make the entire people of the south east senate president

I wonder why people feel so proud if their tribe man holds a government position. I understand the OP's ideology of tribal politics but so many Nigerians now believe in their individual hardwork rather than seating and waiting for government appointment.

kazmanbanjoko:
Op, dont be too sentimental. He is the president and if he wants to use the road, let him use it. Or do yu mean he doesn't have right to use the road dat he shuld use helicopter. Jonathan and hin wife do pass dis one so Yu beta get used to it. If yu no like am, relocate to benin republic.

Sorry for been sentimental Kazmanbanjoko, but dude the government didn't buy the ticket for me and other people trying to catch flights this morning. Also, I pay my taxes here in Nigeria and have the right to question how it is been spent. Have you ever thought about how much it will cost for allowances per hour to make police and soldiers guard almost 43km of road.

Have you ever thought how much it cost to fuel the presidential vehicles, police and military vehicles which should be nothing less than a hundred compared to 1 or 2 helicopters.

This Presidential way of wastage has been going on for too long and I believe people have the right and freedom to express their views on how government treats its citizens.

Please try to be more critical in your thinking rather than been sentimentally sarcastic.

The President Muhammadu Buhari's convey in a normal Presidential way block roads leading to the airport this morning. I almost missed my flight but thanks to checking in online. I really think the President should use the helicopter and stop making the police and soldiers stand under the rain and block civilians from their daily activities.

StOla:
I think it's time Buhari finally becomes a billionaire legitimately, by suing for libel.

The president can not sue or be sued... Sad twist of immunity

Were the Customers for inside ?

Front page please

I got this text from my photographers

Fake smile , previous pic looked better

Actually, the bill is 203605.40naira as that bill should be in Lebanese Pound

Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)

THE plan by President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to commit resources to a renewed search for crude oil in the Chad Basin is a terribly bad idea and should be dropped. At a time of dramatic changes in the global oil and gas sector, featuring oversupply, falling prices and the emergence of many more producers, it is retrogressive to consider resuming the 40-year-old waste of public funds in a venture of uncertain benefits. Instead, Buhari should prepare a reconstruction plan for the North-East zone that would harness its untapped agricultural and solid minerals potential.

Buhari is reaching back into a time long gone and thinking of solutions that have no place in today’s globalised era. Receiving a delegation of notables from Borno State in Kaduna, he promised that his administration would reactivate the fast-receding Lake Chad and deploy “enormous resources to resume a vigorous search” for oil in the Chad Basin. We fully back his plan to replenish the vanishing Lake Chad to boost farming, irrigation and fishing which, back in 2001, provided food and income for over 10 million people in the basin area reaching seven countries, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

But it is politics and not economics that has been driving the search for crude in the Chad Basin area. Begun in 1978 when Buhari was the Federal Commissioner (minister) for Petroleum, successive governments have committed funds, through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, to prospecting for oil in the area with only little results. Buhari, especially, appears to have taken it up as a personal crusade as he resumed the search when he rode to power as head of state in 1984 on the back of a coup. It would be short-sighted and out of tune with today’s reality if he once more sees economic salvation in Chad Basin oil.

When he left office as military head of state in 1985, crude oil politics and revenues were of more paramount global importance. Today, the capacity of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries to solely determine crude prices has been smashed with the emergence of many more producers, reduced dependence of the United States and the West on OPEC member countries following America’s resurgence as a major producer, fuelled by its robust shale oil output and increased use of alternative energy sources. The International Energy Agency’s authoritative Oil Market Report on April 15 said global supply rose to 95.2 million barrels per day in March while demand was 93.6mpd. In 1985, the US bought over 40 per cent of Nigerian crude, but this declined progressively until it reached zero last year. Not only had the US become the world’s third largest producer by this year with 9mpd, after Russia (10.59mpd) and Saudi Arabia (9.69mpd), new entrants like Angola, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and a clutch of former Soviet republics in the Caucasus have since gained importance as producers and exporters with the IEA listing 115 countries as producers by March 2015.

The prospect of finding oil in the Chad Basin was brightened by oil finds in Niger Republic and Chad. In 2012, the then NNPC Group Managing Director, Andrew Yakubu, said an integrated team put together by a consortium of consultants set up by the Federal Government to study the possibility of exploring oil (in Lake Chad Basin) had identified an area of 3,350 square metres indicating the presence of oil. Before then, the NNPC had claimed that there was a possibility that oil could be found in commercial quantity in the Chad Basin because of the discoveries of commercial hydrocarbon deposits in neighbouring countries of Chad, Niger and Sudan, which have similar structural settings with the Chad Basin. Other areas of interest in the oil hunt include the Anambra, Bida, Gongola/Yola and the Sokoto basins alongside the Middle/Lower Benue Trough.

But how did Chad go about its oil search? A “Convention Agreement” signed in 1988 granted a consortium of petroleum companies a long term concession of 30 years to develop the oilfields in the Doba Basin, in southern Chad and to produce and transport oil to the market. Under the 1988 convention, the consortium was granted an initial exploration permit to 2004. By 1993, oil resources had been confirmed in the Doba Basin, within the original exploration territory designated in the 1988 convention agreement. The consortium, according to United Hydroncarbon, an international oil corporation, consists of ExxonMobil (the operator of the project), Petronas, Chevron and Esso Exploration and Production.

This is the way to go. Buhari should leave the private sector, which will be guided by profitability, to prospect for oil in the Chad Basin or anywhere else in Nigeria. We recommend that the state-owned oil prospecting firm be immediately privatised to avoid the kind of political influence that motivates the desperate quest by some elite faction to find oil, using common resources when proven oil finds in Anambra, Imo and Abia and others are kept in reserve.

Buhari should rather key in to the Borno Agricultural Transformation Plan under which Governor Ibrahim Shettima plans to plough in N30 billion “for economic rebirth and rehabilitation” of the insurgency-devastated state and create thousands of jobs. Oil resources have done more damage than good to Chadians. A report says the exploitation of oil has destroyed the local farmers’ production system, depriving them of their livelihood; it is polluting the water, soil and air; it is dividing the people and sowing despair. The stark reality is that since the first oil boom of 1973, our per capita income of $2,700, despite our enormous oil earnings, ranks far below Singapore’s $36,897.87 and Botswana’s $7,704, which have much less resources.

A well-thought-out programme on agriculture that provides 80 per cent employment, and exploitation of its proven mineral deposits – gypsum, feldspar, topaz, potash, iron ore, kaolin among others – to create processing industries, will cost far less, create mass employment and be less ecologically disruptive, is more desirable. Accompanied by an efficient programme of land reclamation from desertification and the reclamation of Lake Chad, should be the programme; not wasting taxpayers’ funds on a sectional venture of scanty prospect and dubious benefit to country.


Source: http://www.punchng.com/editorials/buharis-chad-basin-wild-goose-chase/

Please note that the view of the author does not indicate the views of OsamaB, thus this is just to understand the views of individual in this forum regarding the article.

aim5:
No, I just hate when people who don't care about boxing just jump on the bandwagon now that the mainstream media hyped up this annoying fight.

Dude since when are you the moderator who decides who should like boxing. This is a fight that has been hyped for five years, meaning a kid born five years ago can use this historic fight to develop love for the sport. Take it easy

Funny how people want everyone to congratulate Buhari when he hasn't and never congratulated anyone whenever he lost.... Typical

Six

9jatriot:
Why u de lie like this na? this picture was during the protest of the presidential election

No offence but Iike I said, "word has it that....". Thank you for clearifying this to us

After the APC candidate got word of his loss, word has it that he fainted and had to be revived.... Take it easy now, some people lost and congratulate the opponent now

Dakuku Dakuku

4, Delta
Most Urhobos have decamped to APC because the PDP candidate is délta ibo. This means their sénatorial district intends to hold the power for ever

Dasdfgnb:
The truth is bitter they say, where do you belong?
1. Those Who Are Late For Everything:
Some people are late because they're just really bad at being on time. They're late to everything: doctor appointments, their own wedding, and work(just name it). I don't know if there's any hope for these people.

2. Those Who Are Never Ashamed For Ever Being Late:
They are already used to it and are never ashamed of coming late for church services. You will see them confidently bounce into the church. Some will even come late and start shaking hands greeting those involved in the same act as if their presence demand royal attention.

3. Those Who Have Little Regard For God:
Speaking of those who walk into church late. Not everyone gets stuck in traffic or woke up late. If the church and God himself is so important to you, there is no reason to consistently walk in late. It seems completely disrespectful to me when people walk into the auditorium 1 or 2 hours into the service.

4. Those Who Think They Have Little Or No Problem:
Some people believe that those who are poor and in need of money, success, prosperity and material things often go to church early to make their supplication to God. Therefore, they attend church service late because they are comfortable with their finance, situation and everything that surrounds them.

5. Because They Want To Skip The Worship:
They don't want to have to stand there and sing the songs. They'd rather take their time getting to church and get there after the singing is over and be in time for the sermon. I know that in many churches the pastor isn't even in the room during the singing. He shows up 30minutes later when he appears on stage to preach. This sends a message to the congregation that the singing is something that can be skipped.

6. Those Who Spend More Time Wearing Make-Up:
It often takes much longer for these ones to get dressed than anticipated (especially for the ladies). They will spend time applying make-up and other perishable parameters as if they are going for beauty peagent and before you know it, they are late for church.

7. Those Who Have No Reason For Being Late:
It is a strange phenomenon. People who are never late for work, school, interview will saunter in 10 minutes to the end of the service and think nothing of it. They don't think the habit of being late for church is a big deal

8. Those Who Are Not Prepared For Anything:
These people are never prepared for anything, they are never prepared for church services, lectures, interviews and so on and so forth

I bet that is from the books of dasdfgnb

Too Quick to express satisfaction... If results don't favour him, hope he will be satisfied

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