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Glory be to Allah, Zainab Aliyu with Officials of the Nigerian Consulate in Jeddah, shortly after she was freed from Saudi prison.

#webelieve!��

Alleged drug trafficker, Zainab Aliyu, who was detained in Saudi Arabia has been released to the Nigerian mission in Saudi. The other victim, Ibrahim Abubakir will be released tomorrow.
This was announced by the Perm. Sec., Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Osagyefo98:
Dats what awolowo took(rat poison)and saved many rats.

Lol

All this online miscreants sef

Donald95:
Yes. They hate him because they hate progress and are Envy because of his money.

Nop

He’s a bigot

He’s not and will never appeal to us

slimfit1:
And your father has surpassed that?

Seriously I mean it

Coz you lack morals

Donald95:
Elechi will take us back to 1942.

Obiano is enjoying the pathway made by Obi.

Peter Obi or Sullivan is good for the job. They will correct many mistakes made by buhari

You need to also understand that Obi is not sellable to other regions

He’s seen as a bigot

Donald95:
I love Osibanjo and would like him be president but he doesn't have the balls like GEJ. Cabals will push him around like a boy until his leadership is messed up. We need a strong leader like Peter Obi the stainless upstanding man

Obi is weak

Rather I go for elechi Or Obiano

amaniro:
I don't know bout you. All I see is a servant fake lying pastor and two thieves.

I am sure your generation or incoming generation has never and will never produce someone like him

Yemi we are with you all the way

Cc lalasticlala

Cc mynd44

My Question is who are there sponsors?

What did they intend to gain?

I will put to a conclusion that it’s a northern elite agenda to make money

[b]Nigeria seeking Russian help against Boko Haram is pregnant with interesting meanings in a season when the United States is feeling sick over the expansion of Chinese influence in Africa. And not only is Nigeria asking for assistance on Boko Haram, it also wants Russia to help with maritime security on the Gulf of Guinea. In other words, Nigeria wants the Russian Navy to become its security consultant on issues along its 800km maritime boundary. [/b]The request was tabled by the country’s defence minister, Mansur Dan-Ali, at a global security meeting hosted by Moscow recently.


It is still green – the part exposed to the public at least – and we don’t want to speculate about what the specifics will boil down to but definitely, this is packed full of interesting sparks of geopolitics. Moves being made inside the fog of war are a powerful opportunity for major changes and sudden realignment with lasting impacts.

Let us examine national security and public perception of that subject in Nigeria first as a tool for anticipating our diplomacy with Russia on the issue. The ravages of Boko Haram have shaken us all for about a decade now and thousands of people have been killed. Thousands have disappeared and hundreds are in captivity and sexual slavery. Hundreds of our troops have been killed. That is the easier part, and I say that with all sense of responsibility and respect for the country. The harder parts are the havoc that is prowling silently on the Abuja-Kaduna highway, the incendiary situation deeper inland at Zamfara, the sudden flares in Sokoto, the death that strikes suddenly in Anambra, Delta, Benue states; this gradual spread of pure evil that suddenly turns day into night, catching everyone off guard to inflict the most vicious and most terrible blows on men, women and children alike. It is a war of nerves openly professing affiliation with ISIS, the group that killed 390 people in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday as people worshipped in a feisty church service or took it easy in luxury hotels in Colombo, the nation’s capital. As we speak, troops are being deployed in a part of Ekiti State as “herdsmen” have been reported to have attacked a hamlet there and accomplished deaths and destruction. Kidnapping by terror groups has been reported in Osun and Ondo states as well. This is not something Nigerians want to live with a day longer and if it means Russians offering advice, I believe the word from Nigerians is definitely, “So be it!”


Or even a little more than offer of advice will be okayed by Nigerians. Russian arms, intelligence doctrines, full-fledged military strategies and tactics such as deployed in its full ruthlessness against ISIS in Syria are all welcome, I might say. Nothing worth living for can be made to happen in a place where bombs explode and gunfire rakes from time to time and so, we have to put peace and the eradication of terrorism first on our to-do list. America is not going to like it much but we have to do what we must for now. We have to be alive before we are friends of the West or anyone for that matter.


But what will Russia demand in return?

Oil? No. Russia can supply us with oil if we need some. It has excess of gas and coal as well.

Russia needs friends, influence and bases -covert and overt – where it can open the window on the US, the European Union and China and monitor the moves of those countries. Russia also has a need to make America feel bad in a general way and clogs in that country’s wheel of efforts at creating a global hegemony. Allowing Nigeria to be a part of all that would have been dangerous up to 1991, and perhaps until 2016 when America still had a solid façade of respect for and desires of friendship with Africa. Getting into the fray at this time may just serve us well because we are somewhat in the age of much more self-interest and nationalism.

Personally, I will even prefer the Nigerian government gets decisive in negotiating with Russia and takes steps that show Britain, France and the US that we value the lives of Nigerians above being in bed with their collective ideologies and covert positions on Nigeria! Nigeria should learn something from Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish president, and the adept moves he has been making recently, artfully playing the East off against the West and getting what he wants. I will like our diplomacy to be more emphatic and more committed in this case and I have a feeling that the West will only recede and we will have mostly China and Russia left in the game. That is not a bad thing. This is life and opportunities will always show up and we can always identify and seize them if we are prepared. Nigeria should welcome Vladmir Putin but put in place a good agreement and timelines in sorting out its security challenges despite any frown of the West.

https://punchng.com/nigerias-overtures-to-russia-on-boko-haram/

midolian:
Immortalise kor, mortal combat ni!

You are a patriot

Saraki is a failure

He governed Kwara for 8 solid w

He was a senate president

He couldn’t for his father that made him

How on earth will some people believe he’s a hero still marvels me

Oyinkansola, daughter of the late Kwara State political icon, Dr Olusola Saraki, has appealed to the state governor-elect, Abdulrahman Abdulrazak, to immortalise her father.

She said her late father paid his dues in the politics of the state.

She made the call in a statement made available to journalists on Sunday.


Oyinkansola urged the governor-elect not to let the alleged infractions of her brother and President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, stop him from honouring their father.

The statement read, “Congratulations, governor-elect, Abdulrahman Abdulrazak. I am appealing to you sir to immortalise my father, Dr Olusola Saraki, the man believed to be the strong pillar of Kwara State politics during his lifetime.


“With all due respect sir, may I remind you that my father single-handedly established political grounds in Kwara State in the Second Republic.

“It may interest you to know that most governors of the state rode on his popularity and influence to the corridors of power; they include Adamu Atta, Cornelius Adebayo, Mohammed Lawal and his son, Bukola Saraki.


“Everything Bukola is today was my father’s doing, yet he could not think of honouring his father by immortalising him.

“It just shows the kind of son he is. I acknowledge that my brother may have stepped on people’s toes but sir, my father deserves to be honoured in Kwara State.”

Oyinkansola said Abdulrasak would score more political points by immortalising the late Saraki, adding that it was the only way her father’s heritage could live on.


“I believe you will serve the people of Kwara well. I know you are a man of integrity. I am appealing to you sir in the name of Allah to do this for me so that my father’s name and all he has put into the development of Kwara State will not perish,” the statement added.



https://punchng.com/immortalise-my-father-sarakis-sister-begs-kwara-gov-elect/

nwadiuko1:
so what do you think is the way forward?

We should garner our strength and make our government working at local and state level

Tax as much as we can do

Make use of the money judiciously

For infrastructure
Then we can call the shot

By then restructuring have already taken place

nwadiuko1:
what did you just say?

You heard me loud and clear

All this divide and rule should stop

Southern part of the country should stop fighting each other

So far there is Know former governor or redundant politician in the list

He can constitute it anywhere

Tinubu is also in uk

Fadomero:
for sure IBO no go fit be president of naija cos dem go sell naija

Then I will gladly support Nnamdi Kanu talk

If you say Ipobs I agree

But not Igbos

Miscreants miyetti

Nobody has monopoly of stupidity

IJOBA2:
ALHAJI SARRKI DON MAD AGAIN

You actually need a psychiatrist

chriskosherbal:
Sarrki let's say he is meditating




Check out my signature .

That one 2 dey sha

I will say it’s a state of mind

Praying does not necessarily means you are communicating

Also it’s a personal thing

id911:
sarrki, better lick your master's ass and stop pretending. It's like Lie Mohammed has ordered Bashir Ahmad to stop paying your monthly 30k stipend

Am a patriot

Am a nationalist

I pray for this too

Lord answer my prayer

FG Completed the Repair Works on Abuja-Kaduna Highway in Readiness for Abuja Airport Closure in a record time.

It took only 50 days for the existing 165km dual carriage that was characterised with several failed sections, portholes and multiple cracks was sorted out with N1.1bn just like that.

The Lagos–Ibadan Expressway is a 127.6 km long dual expressway .This expressway is the busiest inter-state route in Nigeria. The highway was commissioned in 1978 by Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo.

For many years no fund was earmarked for maintenance of this road. Olusegun Obasanjo never invested a dime there from 1999-2007, Yaradua came skeletal repair was noticed in his three years. In 2008 no fund was earmarked for this highway

The reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway was flagged off on July 2013 by Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at a whopping cost of N167bn which is 1.3bn/Km as against a contract for the 1,028km Lagos-Abidjan road project was estimated to cost between N167bn and N240bn by the Economic Community of West African Countries. The six-lane project is expected to connect five major cities in the region namely Lagos, Nigeria; Cotonou, Benin Republic; Lome, Togo; Accra, Ghana and Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.

The Jonathan administration spent 22 months and the Buhari administration is on the 47th month also and the road completed so far is at 48% max.

Imprudently, government is incurring a huge cost on variations because cost of materials keep going up.

They don't care about the poor man's plight because they fly most time. They hurriedly repaired the road they will ply when the Nnamdi Azikwe Airport was shut down for repairs. They do not want to die or end up being kidnapped.

One thing I have for the youths who are their vuvuzela posterity will judge you all.

Caseless:
it's Ka'aba not "kabba".

Feedback taken

Edodefender:
wow thanks for this. I blame the British I'm sure they funded and helped Nigeria during the war

You sound ipobians

Am sure you are an ipob online agent

One is a nincompoo the other is a porn star