obailala:
The south-south is a geo-political zone and not just a geographical area. The zones were carved out considering not only the geographical location, but also the political interest of the people involved. The SS was carved out of the western/midwest zone and the Eastern zone and the main consideration was to group southern minority tribes into a separate zone where they wouldn't be dominated by the 2 major tribes of the western and eastern block (Yorubas and Igbos). Ive never seen anyone from the SS or the North central zone complain of the fact that they were carved into separate unique zones.

The term SS or Niger delta, what's the difference? And how does the term 'Niger delta' make it feel better?... besides, these are geo-political zones, not just 'political' zones; so would you have prefered the 6 zones in the country to be have NW, NE, NC, SW, SE and Niger Delta? Does it really make any sense?

I guess you are reading too much meaning into what I said.
There is absolutely no complaint over creating unique zones for minority tribes.

You correctly said it is a geo-political zone and in the context of geography, South-South is a meaningless name.
You asked if there is a difference between South-South and Niger Delta? I'm sure the difference is self explanatory.
Again, no minority tribe in the south is complaining that a separate zone was created for them. My comment is not a political one but is about the meaningless name as it does not represent any geo-location

obailala:
Where are you from?... I've never heard a person from the SS make this statement before.

Same way North-North does not make any meaning is what South-South is. While the name does not have any direct bearing on capacity, Niger Delta would have made more meaning as a geo-political zone than that nonsensical South-South coinage.

There should be no South-South because there is none

Seunfretty:
It's just a reflection of wat Italian football as become...and how much football as evolved...The Italian teams need to start tweaking there playing philosophy and try playing more in the front foot...tl

Roma got a goal against Sevilla and went to park the bus ..Sevilla equalized and the still parked the bus...they had to wait and hope for a penalty ...something that happens to be 50/50.. unfortunately they weren't lucky


Inter was better against city ...taught hard and made life difficult but even if they had equalized in the second half they would have parked the bus and hoped to play on counter and then hope to drag the game to penalties...another gamble style of game...just like Roma

There are different ways to success in footal...but the rather pragmatic side is something not really working anymore...and that's wat the Italian teams kind of favor in style ..they are the most user of the 3-5-2 formation in their league a formation which is more rigid and defensive than offensive...

The only team that really plays possession based and attacking football is Napoli ( and partly lazio) and it's no surprise Napoli cruised to the league title

The quality in the league is also a set back even the home grown players ...Italy can hardly bost of fast ..skillful..exciting attackers...but year in year out the produce rugged defenders ..most which are not even really good in possession

@bold

Exactly what led to Roma losing that match, I was livid.
How can you be on the front foot, play so well, score a goal then go back to park the bus. Roma could have even gotten another goal if they had kept the attacking momentum especially in the first half.
Mourinho screwed that match

hspda:


During GEJ Tenure.

Jonathan -- Christian
Sambo-- Muslim
David Mark-- Christian
Tambuwal--- Muslim


During GMB Tenure

Buari-- Muslim
Prof Osinbajo---Christian
Lawan---Muslim
Femi Gbajabiamila--- Christian

The Christians have had a fair share

Gbajabiamila is a Muslim

Rach310:
My thought too,why not let them school here instead of sending them to Cyprus and ghosting them though[b] I am against them posting chats they had with him,that was really petty on their side.[/b]

@bold

The very reason I am suspecting there is more to this abandonment story from these boys.

Very very petty and invasion of privacy. They should tell us what they did that led to the abandonment cause I sense entitlement mentality in their rant. These boys love attention....like posting personal chats with their benefactor is really petty

UptownVibes:
CJN did you see anywhere I mentioned constitution in my comment? Maybe you are not in Nigeria to know how things works over here Do they follow constitution in Nigeria? I said immunity covers formal president, don't argue dust with me oga.. This is Nigeria, everything doesn't go by the fvcking constitution.. People are above the law in this country..

Some of you are very unbelievable and rash.

You made a statement "immunity covers former presidents" and I drew your attention to the law that there is nowhere such is written or even inferred. An innocuous correction for that matter.

In your reply, rather than acknowledge that you just made the statement in the context of how things are done anyhow in Nigeria, you arrogantly wrote a rash and meaningless comment.

Did you say in your opening statement that you were only making reference to our corrupt system? If no, how am I suppose to know that was what you meant?
Some of you are just arrogant for no good cause

Judolisco:
I still dey wait d day wey Nigerian go resign... We rent plane, paint am talk say na plane launch...
For naija we no dey use steal again... Na embezzle or laundering... Because d money Don pass wetin thief dey steal

Exactly what Jonathan said and the propaganda machine from a section of the country picked it up, oiled it to deceive the ever willing Nigerians that love to be deceived.

Jonathan was of the opinion that, calling the theft of public funds as just "corruption" which every learned person know it to be is not good enough in our Nigerian experience. And that whoever is proven to have stolen from government should be called a "THIEF" instead since that will resonate more with the people.

For example,

ex-governor Akp**** is a thief
ex-governor Akp**** is corrupt

The first example clearly situates the Nigeria understanding of how severe the crime of taking what is not yours is, unlike masking it under the generic term "corruption"
It is because we don't tag them as thieves, that's why a man accused of corruption, that is in court, to the tune of N102 billion would present himself to be elected as a president, governor or as a senate president.

The honest explanation that ex president Jonathan was trying to make- boom, the propaganda machinery tagged it as Jonathan saying "stealing is not corruption"

UptownVibes:
Immunity covers that devil nah.. So this idiot will pay for his boss's sin,and his together..

There is nowhere in the Nigeria constitution that confer immunity on a former president.

You just made an outlandish statement.

Cloudflare:


If the size of the US is as big as an entire continent, what then will you call the size of India and China whose size is by far bigger than the US?

Wrong.

China, India is not bigger than the USA by landmass.
Only Russia is bigger than the US at 17.1million square kilometers.
The only other country at par with the USA in terms of size is only Canada at 9 million square kilometers.

solmusdesigns:




Wow


I went to eat at a mama put and some women got talking

The normal Ibadan hood women , traders and vendor

They said in their Neighborhood Yahooboys won't let them rest with Sounds of Generator from morning till night as they don't work, and they also go clubbing disturbing them at night

They said with subsidy removal atleast the money would go to power generation for the whole country and other infrastructure

If these women could understand it's Economic importance , I wonder why some educated folks are against it especially NLC boss


Nigeria has over 11,000 abandoned Projects

*Fix Ajaokuta with $1.2billion USD and Nigeria would become manufacturer of steel based products

*Complete Zhengeru Projects, Mabila dam with $500m and we have more power

*Build two Nuclear powered plant and like 5 coal plant and Generate enough power to sell accross west Africa

*Build monorail in all major city

*Build Inter state roads and rail



.

@bold

They failed because there is no money or they failed because of corruption?

Nigerians love hiding behind one finger. It would be an error for you to think Nigeria is failing because there is paucity of funds.

Some of you just re-echo beautiful bedtime stories presented by politicians in public fora like you are the one saddled with the responsibility to implement it judging from the way some of you say it with so much gusto.

Funds spent on power between 2003-2019, is it not enough to build the "2 Nuclear Power plants, 5 coal plants and generate enough power to sell across West Africa" just exactly like you captured in your statement?

The 11,000 abandoned projects that you mentioned; is money the reason for their abandonment?
What have you seen differently this time around that is suppose to allay the fears of those that view every government action with suspicion? Is there any way we can hold them accountable if they repeat the same process?

Those are the indices we should be discussing and providing solutions, and not how you went to an amala joint and overheard market women saying what government will do with subsidy funds.
What you heard the women saying, how is it different from the failed campaign promises we have been nourished with in the past?

N3TRAL:
The NLC are empty individuals. Government didn't fix petrol prices, NNPC did for their filling stations.

By virtue of the Petroleum Industry Act, NNPC is a private company and no longer a government corporation. The price fixed by the NNPC are independent.

Filling stations that are not under the NNPC franchise can sell at whatever price they want.

Let's face it, the NLC wanted their party to win. The leadership of the trade union endorsed the Labour Party during this year's general elections.

It is painful when groups try to stall genuine and pertinent economic plans because they're not in power. It is counterproductive to play politics when its time for governance. Tinubu himself and the most members of the APC countered Jonathan when he started the process of removing fuel subsidy many years ago.

However, the NLC and sister organisation the Labour Party will fail to stop the removal of fuel subsidy and will fail to win elections in 2027 😂

Why then is government threatening and/or sealing private fueling stations?

Some of you are just unbelievable

adioolayi:


Let the shock continues...Subsidy is gone and gone for good.

I won't support the school of thought that feels Tinubu should have announced this later into his administration...no way! It would have been seen by majority of Nigerians as if it's his policy.. because we forget thing in this country.

So, it's better he is all out and out on this categorical statement that, he is inheriting what is already a LAW..that's Subsidy has not budgetary provisions in 2023 budget beyond June.

Some of you are unbelievable. Trying to pass the buck as a president is one of the first signs of failure as a leader, and it is exactly that you are trying to do on behalf of the new president.
If Tinubu does not have a 100% buy in on subsidy removal, he wouldn't have made executive declaration of its removal on his first day in office, especially when there is appropriation for subsidy payments till June ending.

Again, what exactly is the narrative that he inherited it, it is a law and other attempts at hiding behind one finger?
If president Tinubu wants subsidy payments to continue beyond June, he has the prerogative to send a supplementary money bill to the National Assembly for approval.

The idea behind what you wrote, exactly just like others, is an attempt to shift the blame to the previous government in the future if Nigerians begin complaining about the effects of this government policy.

The president of Nigeria is arguably among the most powerful presidents in the world because he can virtually do anything and not be held accountable so they have no good reason to fail, and to see ordinary citizens making lame excuses for their actions is difficult to read.

TheboyGhost:
A public officer charged with a duty of arresting and prosecuting financial offenders making such comments is the height of incompetence,

Nigerians don't take cognizance of these little details and their attendant implications.
Same way a section of Nigerians celebrate Ya'adua for admitting the process that brought him to power was not fair, but he still held on to the position

Bawa is suppose to resign for making this reckless statement

GreyLaw:


Why settle put of court? What she did is equivalent to a man forcefully having his way with a woman. No difference! She should be charged for rape and assault. After all holding the man's privates and trying to seduce him is already a secular activity.

@bold, very valid.

I'm sure she's already ruing her action. If men decide to treat women in their own language where they say "castrate him" "hang his balls" etc if the reverse were the case, they would become solitary.

If the man decides to press charges, he is not wrong for doing so.
My opening comment was just a theatrical sarcasm

They should settle out of court.

The power and sweetness of the male joystick should never be discussed outside

LeoDeKing:

Do you know what 33kv is?

Or for your understanding,

Do you know what 33,000 v is.

Note, what you use at home is 240 v.

At 33kv, you don't need to touch it, just a meter away from it, the electric field is enough to completely roast a human being.

Google is your friend.

Like what the other man said, there is actually protective equipment/wears for every voltage level/power ratio. It is not about Google is your friend.

Apart from the regular 0.415kv lines, there is protective equipment even for 11kv, 33kv lines in Nigeria, I can authoritatively confirm.
Though, Feeders are shut down over here during repairs

jaeyking:
When you stay in an hostile environment
You should learn to respect other people's beliefs.

Voicings out your "opinion" which is insultive to their beliefs will be a dangerous thing to do.

Extremists exist in various plains

Were people not battered because they were not obidients
people being lynched to death cause of false accusations (Arluu)

Or can you go and start flogging masquerade during festivals in east or south because you feel you have a right

So voice out your opinion when you know it's safe

In Nigeria, there is freedom of speech but freedom after speech is not guaranteed

May her soul continue to rest in peace

While this advise is a good one for people to be self aware and be safety conscious, it is creating a room for these terrorists to exist among civilized people and continue with their terrorism. Personal or group beliefs do not supercede the "law" that govern civilized people.

Incidents like this, you condemn the evildoers totally and leave no room for interpretation

Fortruth:


Naija was never designed to go anyway guy

It’s just a business venture of Britain and they have a few Niggers managing it for them…

WHat is meaning of Rivers or Bayelsa…. You name a river then take the name back from them as your identity abi?

Rivers, Cross Rivers, Plateau,

Childish LOL

Bayelsa stemmed from initials of the three founding local government areas in the state:

Brass/Akassa
Yenagoa
Sagbama

I don't know whether it is because I am a Nigerian, and I consume Nigeria media/news primarily than other countries. I think the level of drama, whining.... surrounding the evacuation of Nigerians from Sudan effortlessly beats the combined efforts of every other countries that has evacuated people from Sudan.

Evacuation of Nigerians from Sudan cum Egypt has proven to be as difficult as giving Nigerians constant power supply, all thanks to our leaders

Chucks13:


Help me ask them is that the Air peace Shehu Basket Mouth Sanni almost caused tribal war on Internet yesterday?

They use their arrogant and overly pride nature to ruined Onyeama good deed.

The students will be evacuated by road to Egypt, before they will be airlifted from Egypt to Nigeria.
Airports in Sudan are closed to commercial flights.

The above information is in public domain. I wonder why your comment appear like you don't know especially when Air Peace don't operate commercial busses, and the busses conveying the students now will not bring them to Nigeria

sonature1:
Those who lead this Ohaneze are sooo childish that they don't know when to speak and when to keep quiet!

Very childish and empty.

Complaints like this even ridicule their ethnicity they are fighting on behalf for national inclusion and relevance.
Ordinarily, participation in a transition committee ought to and must be far below what a national body like Ohaneze should be clamoring for. Noise such as this should be left for the Easteners in the APC.

Ohaneze and those running the body should learn when to speak and when not to in order not to be reduced to crybabies

AbdulHakeem44:
Some people would start comparing with Nigeria now like we are on the same level with USA.

Tey think evacuation in this situation is just go in and bring out your people like the lies they used to feed us in their movies, HELL NO!

Their is already a mutual agreement between US and sudanese army and sudanese rebels to allow USA army evacuate their citizens peacefully. They know they can't afford the wrath of US army if they dare touch their citizens and diplomats.

What do we have as Nigerians, even they don't respect our military anymore in Africa, nor is there any direct benefits they enjoy from Nigeria, so u think the rebels would allow peaceful evacuation of our people so that the sudanese army can use the opportunity against them abi.

My opinion though, you are free to disagree but no foul language, argue like a reasonable and rational thinking human being not like a lout

@bold. You are right, I'm sure that's why the US is extending thanks to Saudi Arabia in the statement for their role in the evacuation effort.

However, the Nigeria government is still grossly incompetent in our foreign relations. We always suffer from this die-minutes syndrome where we wait till something is almost beyond repair before we act...largely for selfish reasons.

Imagine sending a letter to Ethiopia in a war situation that can be dumped anywhere. How about calling their diplomatic lines directly either by the minister or even the president himself, to reach an agreement so our people can take refuge in that country.

It is because of our incompetent government that's why even countries like Sudan don't take us seriously or fear us, especially when we are even Specialists in killing our own citizens before the very eyes of the world.

Mumu statistics

By this metric, there are more poor people in the South than in the North

Kukutenla:

You're capping
Neither Aston villa nor Nottingham forest were small clubs when they won the European Cup.
Besides, making your argument based on number of clubs to have won the ucl from a country is wrong because it's a case of margins. If Valencia and Atletico had won their finals against Madrid for example, Spain will have four different winners. I hope you're aware Valencia also got to the final in 2001 and were defeated by Bayern, a back- to- back final loss.
Even Deportivo made the semis once. Same with Villareal who almost eliminated liverpool last season.
So making a case based on number of clubs to have won including a relegated club who have not even appeared in UCL in this millennium is baseless.
Ucl is about wins not spread

@bold

It is because you read that part of my comment in isolation, the reason I believe you missed where I said "clubs considered to be small in present time . I never alluded if Aston Villa was small in 1982.

Secondly, the reason why I mentioned the number of teams that has won the competition from England was purely to support the argument that the EPL is highly competitive or the EPL has more teams competing at the highest level.
I don't understand why you brought in Valencia and Athletico....the claim is about "what is" and not "what could have been". If it was about near luck, I would have added Mancity and Tottenham.

@last paragraph.

It was the original argument from the first commentator that elicited the issue of spread.
Again, I still maintain that saying Madrid is better than the whole of the EPL because of the number of UCLs won is a wrong thing to say.

Aklee4994:
have your EPL win a Spanish team in a cup final...let me remind you that out of 5 champions league won by Barcelona three of it is from English side and Madrid also twice against Liverpool moreover Sevilla villareal and ATM has also won the UEL from EPL team so tell me what I don’t know then Na two club Dey Spain 🇪🇸 league but you have about 6 but can’t still stand those crazy two team..no be make teeth 🦷 plenty make him Dey useful be the matter..your best club today in that your league as no champions league even the table toppers no get one champions league...When did Chelsea even won they first champions league is it not a decade ago..Sevilla is king 🤴 of UEL and Real Madrid is born to always win UCL.

Liverpool has done it against Real Madrid in the Champions League, and against Deportivo in the UEFA cup. Likewise there are other English cup final wins against Spanish teams in the Super Cup. Most recently Chelsea vs Villareal
However, I am not interested in that argument cause it is a deviation from my argument in my opening comment.

Someone said Madrid has won 14 UCLs, while English teams combined has only won 13 which is wrong because it is 14, then he went ahead to opine that Madrid is better than the whole EPL for that singular reason.

The crux of my argument is that it is wrong to say so because more teams from England has won the competition including some that we consider to be very small clubs in present time. Other teams winning the UCL from the EPL apart from the traditional big-5 is a sign that the EPL is highly competitive, so I submitted.

I don't want to be dragged into a di*k measuring contest because the argument about the "best league" in the world is highly subjective

Aklee4994:
the EPL did not have a good representative in UEL abi stop lieing to yourself once it on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday night respect the Spanish side.Did you know that Spanish has won half of all European cup in this 21 centuries??

@bold
If only you had followed the trail.

My comment is and was not about the Uefa Europa League.

VinnyBaba:


Don't Mind them.

Even Tottenham Hotspurs reached the UCL finals in 2019.

Apart from maybe Atletico Madrid, which other Spanish clubs have done well in the UEFA Champions league in the past 15 to 20 years? 😕

None.
Barcelona and Madrid are the only good representatives from LaLiga in the competition in recent years.

Worthy to mention, there has been multiple all English finals in the last 15 years

VinnyBaba:


Liverpool has won it 6 Times!

But then, We can Argue that DIFFERENT clubs in EPL have won it.
But La Liga, is ONLY Barca and Real Madrid. 😒

Don't mind them, they just like making unnecessary noise and comparison.

Clubs like Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest has won it from the EPL, and that is a big sign of the highly competitive nature of the EPL.
Real Madrid is the grandmaster of the UCL, but trying to use that to rubbish the EPL that has produced five different winners of the competition is totally uncalled for

Skankamola:

Annual budget 2years ago was 91billion, maybe typo error from sahara or deliberate misinformation.

Read the letter.

Whether Sahara lied or not, this particular letter from the health ministry is devoid of any fact.
The letter only mentioned bringing health care closer to the rural communities by setting up PHCs in the 177 wards of the state...the letter failed to mention at what cost, and if the PHCs in the 177 wards were all built within this budget cycle.

Besides making reference to 177 PHCs and wards in this letter, every other thing in that letter are just mere and general statements not worthy of a rebuttal.
What does patients getting care at no cost to them at a particular time got to do with refuting a claim that they spent 91 billion on PHCs, or mentioning how government has been doing well in the health sector?

The letter did not even state "if such money was not spent on PHCs" rather gave a line explanation of the gains made by the health ministry in building the PHCs and the procurement of other health equipment.

When fake news channels make outlandish claims, government should do well to provide facts so the public can shame the fake news merchants

Soulsymbol99:
All these English managers are only good for mid/bottom table teams. Besides no English manager (except sir Ferguson) hv carried d epl in recent history. I still believe that caretaker manager who played against Liverpool would hv done better than lampard.

Spot on.
At least he gave the team One Point, as against Lampard wasting all possible Twelve Points.

The idea behind appointing Lampard is what I'm still trying to understand but I simply can't.
Assuming in their risk assessment, they decided to wait till the end of the current campaign to appoint a competent and permanent manager largely because Chelsea may not fall to the drop zone as the bottom teams would also drop points in the coming weeks. Then why appoint a more clueless Lampard when the other caretaker manager could have continued, especially considering the fact that the team has nothing more to lose

ALAT has been doing great. Arguably the best bank app

IfnobeGod20:

Why not just go and do yours and bring it here instead of using all your energy to castigate the guy. You even went extra miles to tell him he wasn't born when you'd started using data. Please do you know the guy or you're the one that gave birth to him? Nothing one no go see in this faceless forum.

I'm constrained to think "that guy" is just a jingle bell. Apologies to him.....

The background data is in public space, rather than do his own so we all can put it through public scrutiny, he has been whining and dancing around the whole thread like a scared virgin on seeing a big joystick.
It is ridiculous and against good conscience for any one to criticize another's statistical data persistently in a public forum without providing any evidence whatsoever to support his own claim(s)