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PoliticsRe: Cool FM OAP, Rosemary Ajuka Goes On #buhariisnotchange Twitter Rant by Philistine(m): 6:27pm On Oct 14, 2015
what do u expect from a biafran bi_tch. 'All igbo girls are prostitutes'- Nnamdi Kanu
PoliticsRe: Who Was Your Best Ministerial Nominee For Today? by Philistine(m): 6:19pm On Oct 14, 2015
1. Fashola 2.Fashola 3.Fashola 4. Fashola 5.Fashola 6.Fashola 7.Fashola 8.Fashola 9. Fashola 10.Fashola
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PoliticsRe: Igbo Member In Lagos Assembly Protests Against Use Of Yoruba During Sitting. by Philistine(m): 9:38pm On Oct 13, 2015
voltron:
Access to the internet should be based on level of literacy
U dis mad man, quote me again and see d wrath of Amadioha descend on your family. Anumanu!
PoliticsRe: Who Was The Best Screened Minister Today??? by Philistine(m): 5:00pm On Oct 13, 2015
All the ministerial nominees were extremely brilliant.....walahi i dey gbadun dis change. Sai Baba till 2023!
PoliticsRe: Breaking: Akwa Ibom Tribunal Orders For A Rerun by Philistine(m): 4:48pm On Oct 13, 2015
Even if d Tribunal orders the rerun 10 times, pdp would still win.
PoliticsRe: Igbo Member In Lagos Assembly Protests Against Use Of Yoruba During Sitting. by Philistine(m): 3:05pm On Oct 13, 2015
If he is not contented with the use of yoruba in the assembly, he can join his brothers in Biafra or take solace in the lagoon. Smh!
PoliticsRe: Please Help N240k Disappeared From My Bank Account by Philistine(m): 2:19pm On Oct 13, 2015
Another Graduant from Yabaleft
PoliticsRe: We Will Do To Boko Haram, What We Did To Biafra - Obasanjo by Philistine(m): 1:32pm On Oct 13, 2015
I support the Ota farmer on these issue, boko haram would be decimated the same way biafrans were made to kiss the dust.
PoliticsRe: 3 Lagos Senators endorse Fashola's nomination. bad news for the wailers!!! by Philistine(m): 9:33am On Oct 13, 2015
Great! Another bad news for mogidi and Pa Chukwudi!
PoliticsRe: Drama As Buhari Faults Auditor-general On Lake Chad Report-vanguard by Philistine(m): 6:44pm On Oct 12, 2015
He might replace him with another Northerner. Confused party!
PoliticsRe: Obasanjo And The Copenhegan Foundation Visit Aso Rock (photos) by Philistine(m): 6:36pm On Oct 12, 2015
Obj again? Can't this baboon just leave buhari alone. Smh!
PoliticsRe: Ministerial List: Names To Watch Out For (photos) by Philistine(m): 6:24pm On Oct 12, 2015
rionel:
BREAKING: The List of Top 20 Most Corrupt Nigerians (dead/alive) - CNN

1. Oluesgun Obasanjo - He stole $25 billion from 1999-2007 ($16.4 from power sector alone)

2. Ibrahim Babangida - He stole $15 billion from 1985-1993 ($12.4 billion from oil wind fall in 1990)

3. Abdulsalam Abubakar - He stole $9 billion from 1998-99

4. Sani Abacha - He stole $7 billion from 1993-1998

5. Ahmed Bola Tinubu - He stole and continues to steal from Lagos State treasury since 1999 till date. It's estimated that he has stolen $6 billion so far.

Muhammadu Buhari - He stole $2 billion from NNPC accounts in the '70s and the money was traced to Midland bank (now HSBC), London. Under his watch as PTF Head, N25 billion got missing according to PTF Situation Report submitted to Abdusalam in 1999.

6. TY Danjuma - He fraudulently got enriched through oil blocks from the Niger Delta worth $20 million in the 70s after the counter coup. Those oil blocks worth billions of dollars in today's value.

7. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi - He stole $1.2 billion as CBN Governor from 2008-2014.

8. Bukola Saraki - Through his father, Olukola Saraki, their bank, Societe Generale and as a governor of Kwara State (2003-20111) he stole $1.1 billion

9. Nasir El Rufai - Before he was made the FCT Minister, El Rufai was broke, homeless and was looking for loan to import taxis from the UK. After he was made the minister, he seized landed properties that belonged to Nigerians and resold them with huge profit. It's estimated that he stole $1 billion from 2003-2007.

10. Tunde Fashola - He is the poster boy of Tinubu. Boht of them looted Lagos dried and left it in debt of about N1 billion. Fashola, among other thing built his personal website for N78 million, drilled borehole for over N100 million per each and built a kilometre road for N1 billion. He stole $900 million from 2007-2015. He'll soon be a minister to continue the looting.

11. Chubike Rotimi Amaechi - From 2007 to 2015, he stole $700 million and $150 million from that money was used to sponsor Buhari and APC.

12. Atiku Abubakar - When he as asked by our reporter how he made his money, he simply said "he was always at the right place at the right time." Atiku is an astute businessman, but through shady deals, he stole $500 million from 1999-2007.

13. James Ibori - He stole $150 million from 1999-2007 as governor of Delta State. He's serving his term for money laundering in the UK.

14. Amina Mohammed - This woman was the founder of Afri-Project Consortium (APC) that was in charge of all PTF Projects during Abacha's regime. About $125 million was stolen from PTF accounts from 1994-1998. Buhari has just nominated the same woman as a minister to continue to stealing.

15. DSP Alamieyeseigha - He stole $120 million and was arrested for money laundering. He pleaded guilty and long served his term.

16. Sule Lamido - He stole $110 million between 2007-2015 and out of that amount, $50 million was found in his sons' bank accounts. He was arrested and detained for days together with his sons.

17. Rabui Kwankwaso - He stole $100 million as a governor of Kano State. EFCC has arrested many of his aides and they are "singing" how they siphoned the money

18. Kashium Shettima - this governor has stolen about $80 million and still counting.

19. Rauf Aregbesola - he has milked Osun State to the tune of $60 million.

20. Kayode Fayemi - this former governor stole $40 million and stashed some part of the loot in Ghana. He was reportedly bought a bed for N50 million
yeye! l'm dead sure d list was compiled by a useless biafran. Anumanu!
PoliticsRe: Ministerial List: Names To Watch Out For (photos) by Philistine(m): 6:19pm On Oct 12, 2015
Ok. Goodluck to them.
PoliticsRe: Ten Most Powerful People In Nigeria 2015 by Philistine(m): 6:12pm On Oct 12, 2015
I see all d geo-political zones on the list...only d lost tribe of israel.
PoliticsRe: Power Supply Decline: Share your Experience by Philistine(m): 1:30pm On Oct 07, 2015
Stable power supply in Mafoluku/Oshodi. Too much Light fa!
BusinessRe: Elance.com, Upwork.com And Other Freelancing Site: How To Succeed Guide. by Philistine(m): 1:47pm On Sep 19, 2015
victor101:
@vivaobi read the thread from the beginning
Bros, u have not answered my question na?
BusinessRe: Elance.com, Upwork.com And Other Freelancing Site: How To Succeed Guide. by Philistine(m): 7:03am On Sep 19, 2015
victor101:
Yea, apart from that, you should have a skill(s) you are exceptional in. This should answer your question.
pls, is there any training centre or academy in Lagos where one can acquire these Skills.
PoliticsRe: Breaking News : Steve Nwosu’s Wife Released by Philistine(m): 1:37pm On Sep 17, 2015
Good News! I hope they have not forcefully pumped her piss hole sha.
PoliticsRe: Back To Nairaland: Message To Members Of The Wailing Family(barcanista) by Philistine(m): 4:48pm On Sep 13, 2015
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PropertiesRe: Standard New Mini Flat At Ekoro Rd Abule Egba For 300k. All Tiles And Painted by Philistine(m): 2:46pm On Sep 13, 2015
Pls If u have a mini flat for rent in Oshodi or environs with total package not exceeding 200k, u can let me know. Thanks.
PoliticsRe: Re: See What Is Happening To Nigeria’s Economy Under Buhari by Philistine(m): 2:44pm On Sep 11, 2015
Great! God bless Nigeria & Long live the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: See The State Of New Market, Ngwa Road In Aba (photos) by Philistine(m): 5:25pm On Sep 06, 2015
Igbos and poverty are like bread and butter. Mehn! See squalor in human form. Umu Anumanu!
PoliticsRe: Picture Evidence Of CHANGE Under PMB - Cramjones by Philistine(m): 7:27pm On Sep 04, 2015
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PoliticsRe: Picture Evidence Of CHANGE Under PMB - Cramjones by Philistine(m): 7:26pm On Sep 04, 2015
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PoliticsAbubakar Audu & The Bonanza Of Youth Ignorance by Philistine(op): 4:46pm On Sep 03, 2015
Abubakar Audu & the Bonanza of Youth Ignorance By Pius Adesanmi

(This note was first posted on my Facebook Wall on August 18 – before the primaries that tragically produced Audu. I am using it my column for wider circulation and to warn the people of Kogi state with the weapon of memory)






by Pius Adesanmi

Sep 02, 2015




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The greatest thing that Abubakar Audu has going for him in his bid to return as Governor of Kogi state is the decibel of a large youth demographic. So many Kogi folks, 25 years and below, are all over the airwaves telling the rest of Nigeria that they don't know what they are missing by not having somebody like Abubakar Audu. The love they are professing for Abubakar Audu is greater than the love story between Ekiti and Fayose. Audu, they assure us, must "capture power" again in Kogi.





Abubakar Audu




Via APC. Of course!

Now, if your instinct is to blame these kids and land koboko on their post-pubescent asses, you are wrong. What is happening is that they are confused. They are mistaking weed for spinach because they do not know the difference. What “elaloro” in Yoruba philosophy asks you to do is to hold spinach in one hand, weed in the other, and say to them: “children, here is weed and here is spinach.” Once you have done that, you can ask for water, wash your hands like Pontius Pilate, and sing owo mi ma re o funfun nene...

You must remember that if there is something the Nigerian detests more than fellow Nigerians of a different ethnicity or religion, it is memory. The Nigerian who witnessed yesterday deliberately erases it for the convenience of today. The Nigerian who was too young to witness yesterday will never dig to find out what happened, laziness and ignorance being preferable to the inconvenience of memory and remembering.

Many of Abubakar Audu's vuvuzelas were in Primary and Secondary school when he stole US$1,719,954 from the treasury of Kogi state to purchase the mansion pictured here on March 15, 2001. The mansion is located at 12301 Glen Road, Potomac, Maryland 20854, USA. He initially denied owning the property but later confessed after a scandal. Nigerian political thieves have no relationship with mortgage in Europe and America. They buy their multi-million-dollar homes cash. Just like that.

Many of Audu's young supporters are not intellectually equipped enough to make the connection between this mansion in America and their own abjection in Kogi; the connection between this mansion and the poverty of their parents in Kogi. You will likely hear that others have stolen more than Audu and even with his own stealing, we ought to be grateful to him for building a University, a Polytechnic, clinics, etc. It will take several modules in civics to help them see that they do not owe anybody spending their tax money on routine infrastructure any gratitude.

So the purpose of this post is to bring memory to these youths since they will not go to memory.

A final word to these young Kogi people: in 2014, Potomac, where Audu's mansion is located, was Number 3 on the list of the most affluent neighbourhoods in the entire United States of America.

Of course, you know that a Nigerian politician would consider it an insult that his property is not located in the most expensive neighbourhood in America. When you are done electing him in November 2015, his next mansion in America will be located in The Golden Triangle, Greenwich, Connecticut.

I have shown you weed.

I have shown you spinach.

My work is done.

Follow me on Twitter: @pius_adesanmi
PoliticsRe: Photos: Imagine The Road Of The Popular Shoe Plaza(bakassi) Aba. by Philistine(m): 4:24pm On Aug 28, 2015
WOW! BUT Igbos SAY THEIR LAND IS DEVELOPED. ALL I CAN SEE IN THE ABOVE PICTURE IS FILTH AND UNDER-DEVELOPMENT.
PoliticsPDP Nullifies Metuh's Suspension by Philistine(op): 6:05pm On Aug 27, 2015
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has said it has nullified the alleged suspension of the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh.

The party said this in a statement by its National Legal Adviser, Mr. Victor Kwon, on Thursday in Abuja.

The party asserted that it still has confidence on Metuh’s ability and actions that had stabilized the party so far.









The statement reads, “The NWC restates its implicit confidence in the National Publicity Secretary and expresses satisfaction with his commitment toward the progress and development of our great party at all levels.

“The NWC of the PDP notes with concern, misleading reports that a certain group in Anambra State, unknown to our party, has purportedly suspended Chief Olisa Metuh.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the NWC reiterates that Chief Olisa Metuh is a member of the National Executive Committee and as such, can only be disciplined by NEC.

“He can be disciplined in accordance with Sections 57(7) and 59(3) of the PDP Constitution 2012 (as Amended), and that is in the event that a need for such arises.”





It added that, “the purported suspension is therefore a nullity.’’
PoliticsOrphans Of The North East by Philistine(op): 5:46pm On Aug 27, 2015
Kano State Government announced a decision to adopt 100 kids orphaned by the Boko Haram insurgency. As part of the package, the children would be trained in special schools from primary to tertiary levels. Looking emaciated and worn out, it was immediately clear that in their short lives, they have seen too much.

Many of the children, with age ranging from three to six years were so young that they could not even remember their own names, that of their parents and where they hailed from. None knew why or how they became orphans or even made the 750-kilometre journey from Maiduguri, in the North East to Kano. They were lucky because all things being equal, their future is already guaranteed. Most of the millions already orphaned like them or would be orphaned like them have their fate currently hanging in the balance.

Although there is no reliable data on the overall number of children orphaned by the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria’s North East, a reasonable estimate will put it at least 1 million. In May 2014, the Catholic Church in Maiduguri disclosed that it had 1,500 orphans. The Centre for Crisis Communication (CCC) recently organised a fact finding trip to parts of the North East and other areas in the country where the impact of displacement due to terrorism is being felt.





The trip highlighted the issues concerning orphans and what is likely to be their fate after Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps which are being managed by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) would have been disbanded in a country where social security safety net has not been institutionalised.

The Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Maiduguri, turned into an IDP camp since October 2014 houses only women and children. It has a population of 6,149 as at August 21, 2015. Of this figure, 3,614 are children and 40% or 1,446 of these are orphans. In the North East alone, there are at least 30 officially recognised IDP camps. There are others not recognised while camps have sprung up in many other towns and cities outside the North East in places like Abuja, Kano and Edo State. Thousands of Nigerians are also currently refugees in neighbouring countries.

A chat with a few of the orphans revealed the pathetic story of many of them while also teaching that a coordinated strategy must be fashioned to deal with the time bomb.

There was a beautiful young girl around 10 years old wearing a black hijab, the type that cascades from head to torso. She stood with an empty stare into space, betraying no emotion. One of the camp officials said “oh that girl? Her name is Hauwa; her head no correct again” meaning that she had become psychotic. He then went ahead to narrate to us Hauwa’s story.





Terrorists invaded their community and were going from house to house killing the occupants and torching their houses. They got to Hauwa’s home and ordered her father to be on his knees. She watched from a corner as her beloved father was slaughtered like a ram by the insurgents while her mother was raped in turns and later killed while the girl was watching. She later joined scores of other orphaned children and few women to trek all the way to safety.





Approached however, Hauwa warmed up to the show of affection by the guests and eventually opened up to the surprise of even the camp officials. According to her, life was no longer interesting since the day that she watched in horror and consternation as some people invaded her community, setting houses ablaze and gunning down people who tried to escape.

Later, the invaders whom by now have been identified as members of the boko haram entered their house and slaughtered her father after he declined to join their movement despite him being a Muslim. Her mother was also killed along with some other family members.

It was a sobering narrative for all present as a girl thought to be deranged was only much traumatised by the experience of seeing her beloved parents killed in the most cruel manner thus triggering psychological disorder now manifesting in unstable and sometimes anti-social behaviour. Her situation highlights the need for governments and the relevant stakeholders to arrange for psychologists and counsellors to be embedded in IDP camp managements.

There is also little Baba who had to trek the 75 kilometres distance from Bama to Maiduguri in order to escape rampaging terrorists who killed both his parents along with many others in his community. Wearing an oversized and dirty white and green jersey of the Super Eagles, the about seven year old boy was busy scavenging for survival by asking for help from visitors.

There was also little Nana Kashim. Nana is a seven months old girl whose father was slaughtered by insurgents. Her mother, who was then heavily pregnant with her managed to flee on foot to Maiduguri along with others from Bama. On managing to reach the camp, the woman went into labour and died immediately after. Nana is still hanging on at the camp where caregivers are taking care of her. She has been adopted.

There is also the case of the woman quoted by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees who picked up a child by the road as she fled terrorists. According to her “I live in Doro Baga, Nigeria. As I fled, I picked up this boy crying beside his dead mother. At 6am we heard the sounds of guns, When they arrived for us an hour later, we started to run. They came after us and killed many people. I saw the boy and took him with me and my children, onto my husband’s small canoe out into Lake Chad. We stayed on a small island for three days, with nothing to eat, until hunger forced us to leave. I know the family of the child. I know the father but I do not know where they went or what happened.”

But the question is what will happen to these ones after Boko Haram is defeated and camps are dismantled. Right now, there are fears that cases of malnutrition are on the increase in the camps because there is no special attention given to children in the supply of food. There is the need for Nigerians especially from zones not affected by insurgency to cater for these children by adopting some of them.

Many years ago, I came across the hostel built by late Chief Lawrence Omole in Ilesa, Osun State housing indigent young men and women, which he was caring for educationally and socially. It is a mode that other wealthy individuals and corporate organisations interested in philanthropy could adopt.

The state governments involved could also establish an agency to take care of these children as even as many children are themselves currently taking care of their younger ones in the various camps.

Sanya Adejokun

Cordinatinator, Journalists Against Disaster Initiative

Abuja
PoliticsRe: The Main Reason Igbos Want South South Minorities In Biafra by Philistine(m): 8:55am On Aug 23, 2015
Yolober man claiming SS.

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