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Politics / Re: Suspected NIMC Officials Arrested In Niger Republic Enrolling Foreigners For NIN by sidney22: 11:46am On Oct 21, 2022
“According to him, they have been handed over to the appropriate authority for further action.”

Further action indeed.
Politics / Re: Video: Fulanis For Obi. See Massive Fulanis Supporting Obi In Northern Villages by sidney22: 4:51pm On Oct 20, 2022
There is this adage concerning the bird wood pecker.
Wood pecker boasted that when the mother dies he was going to bring down the iroko tree with its peak.
Alas when the mother died what happened ?
The wood pecker grew boils on its peak .
Judge a parable.
Be guided.
Oracleforce:
Jigawa state that is closer to Kano is where Pthief Obituary is anticipating for votes....

Where we have kwamkwaso movement, and the other former governor

Obi followers are day-dreamer....

If obi win this election...i will give two of my houses to any Igbo person that I know he is supporting Obi...and start all over again...

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Food / Re: Mackerel: How Do I Identify Original From This Fish? by sidney22: 5:36pm On Oct 19, 2022
Take a close at both .
Then prepare them separately, you will definitely confirm.
obembet:


How sure is this?
Food / Re: Mackerel: How Do I Identify Original From This Fish? by sidney22: 5:27pm On Oct 19, 2022
The original has smaller eyes while the ‘fake’ has bulky eyes.
Learnt that from a fish seller.

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Sports / Re: Messi: Barcelona Fans Storms Camp Nou by sidney22: 1:57am On Aug 06, 2021
Why breakup ?
Did she initiate the rape ?
She needs you now more than ever.
Except na arrangee rape be that
Investment / Re: High Income Skills You Can Learn Using Your Smartphone by sidney22: 4:51pm On Aug 03, 2021
Yes
Politics / Re: Pick The Worst ABOMINATION That Ever Befall Nigeria by sidney22: 1:06pm On Jul 22, 2021
Buhari 1984

Buhari 2015

Implementation of Gideon Orka’s coup speech

Then we have a real and progressive nation.

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Crime / Re: Niger State: 16 Suspected Cultists Arrested During 7/7 Celebration (Photo) by sidney22: 11:27am On Jul 14, 2021
Why the arrest ?

Anything wrong in fraternizing ?
Were they caught in any criminal act ?

The misconception in this clime about fraternity is alarming.

We refuse to differentiate between occultism, cultism and fraternization.

What part of our constitution declared gathering of like minds as a crime ?

I need to be educated on this please .

Since the mid nineties when the term “cultism” gained currency into our lexicon, the Nigerian youth of higher institution extractions have not known peace.

They have been turned to endangered species , blackmailed, hunted , arrested , maimed and killed - some among them have not helped matters though.

The unjust treatment of those who exercise their freedom of association rights in our campuses is appalling and so pathetic.

The same treatment can never be meted to the several evil groups masquerading as religious groups that are scattered in our campuses or to other groups that claim to be civil and non governmental organizations.

Yes crime is bad and must definitely be condemned in all ramifications ,but arresting people because they are socializing or fraternizing based on one concocted intelligence report , to me is condemnable.

How many people have been arrested because they are gathered in a church or place of fellowship even if it were to be in a hotel ?
None !!

But when a group of boys fellowship together also ,they are always termed cultists, hunted down and arrested.

Believe you me , if all these fraternal groups in schools rebrand , register and operate as exclusive male / female religious groups nobody would call them evil again.

As if evil and devil resides only in non religious places or bodies.

The biggest cult groups in Nigeria are the religious groups who are so discriminatory and malicious that they always fail to notice and remove the mountain of refuse within but are always much concerned and eager with the litters without.

The brain washing centers !

Let the young boys be released please if they were not found engaging in criminal activities.

Cultists, cultists every time.

How many times have Ogboni, Amork or Illuminati members been arrested through intelligence gathering ?

Sorry , I forgot.

The members are so useful to the society that they control everything ranging from power to commerce while the school boys are just nuisance and therefore must always be taught the language they would always understand .

I cry for the Nigerian youth .

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Sports / Re: Argentina Vs Brazil: Copa America Final (1 - 0) - Live by sidney22: 6:31am On Jul 11, 2021
Never watched the match.
But what a joy to wake up with the most wonderful football news of all times.
What a beautiful day and week ahead.
Joy full my body.
Messi , Messi , the lion of the great tribe of Argentina.
Take a bow.

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Politics / Re: Ban Open Grazing, Lose 2023 Presidency, Fulani Groups Threaten South by sidney22: 5:12pm On Jul 10, 2021
It is highly getting irritating.
People of under 5% of the population of the country issuing threats here and there.
I am seeing Central Africa Republic treatment loading.
If only the Hausas can be delivered of this Fulani demon that possessed them.
Then the Aborigines will take charge of their lands.
I pity the Hausa.
If only then can have someone that can open their eyes and liberate them from this eternal life of servitude.
Dissociate from the demons and see the light.
One day it will happen.
And these demons will be cast into the abyss and the land will surely be healed.
Politics / Re: The Hypocrisy Of Arewa Against Hausas by sidney22: 1:11pm On Jul 08, 2021
The Fulani made the Hausa a dot in a circle in his own land.

With a smile on his face the Hausa accepted whole heartedly his fate as a subdued and conquered nation and moved on for the sake of peace.

But the Fulani will not stop at that .

Not satisfied with making the Hausa living an eternal life of servitude, the Fulani hiding under the cloak of Hausa/Fulani nation/tribe continues to drag the peace loving Hausa in the mud by constantly committing brazen acts that are injurious to the existence of other nations/tribes around them.

The Hausa must be helped to free himself from these shackles of the Fulani before it is too too late. It is late already. But something can still be done. The baakwomi life style must end .

The Fulani is not up to 5% of the population of the Aborigines of Northern Nigerian but they have succeeded in taking charge of every thing in the North because they first emasculated the Hausa who are the Aborigines with the highest population.

Every other person to them is expected to fall in line.

If the Hausa can truly find his voice in this country without being afraid of the Fulani, the problems in this country will be 80% solved.

The Hausa is the nicest person you can have as a friend. The Hausa is the most straight forward and trusted person you can deal with and he is NEVER VINDICTIVE.

Please let us help The Hausa.
Politics / Re: Katsina: Mustapha Yusuf-Jibia Wants Viewing Centres Converted To Islamic Schools by sidney22: 11:35am On Jul 07, 2021
This people, this people, thiiiis people.
Where are they even from ?
Why is their reasoning always strange.
If in this age people reason this way , who knows how they must have reasoned in the Stone Age ?

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Politics / Re: The Future Is A Two States Solution: The Nigeria Tendencies by sidney22: 12:56pm On Jul 06, 2021
Arewa Islamic Republic (AIR) - Aireans
Crime / Re: NDLEA Arrests Woman With 100 Wraps Of Cocaine Hidden In Her Private Part -video by sidney22: 3:36pm On Jul 05, 2021
Na waa ooo
Nairaland / General / Re: Look At The Male Rabbit I Killed Today by sidney22: 3:33pm On Jul 05, 2021
Ewii no be rabbit naah
Sports / Re: How Sport Betting Changed My Life For Good by sidney22: 3:30pm On Jul 05, 2021
What is the strategy you are using now.
Share please
Politics / Femi Adeshina - Aburi Accord And Current Drums Of War by sidney22: 5:20pm On Jan 25, 2021
THE ABURI ACCORD THAT WOULD HAVE SAVED NIGERIA FROM ALL HER PROBLEMS…( but aborted by the Fulani Oligarchy)

By FEMI ADESINA( current spokesperson to President Buhari)

In December 2009, I was at Aburi, while holidaying in Ghana. We Nigerians call it A-b-u-r-i, but the Ghanaians pronounce it as E-b-r-i. For those who have read widely about the civil war that we fought between 1967 and 1970, Aburi is a significant place. This was what I wrote about Aburi, after returning from that journey:

“Aburi. Beautiful, serene Aburi, set daintily atop a hill. It is home to a botanical garden that is 119 years old. But for us in Nigeria, Aburi goes beyond just nature and its preservation. It is the town where General Yakubu Gowon and Odumegwu Ojukwu met, to try and avert the Nigerian Civil War that lasted between 1967 and 1970. They came out with Aburi Accord, which later broke down. And a shooting war started. You could see the Presidential Lodge on a hill, where the Nigerian leaders had parleyed at the behest of Ghanaian leaders. It all ended in futility.”

As one of the key parties to the Aburi Accord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, returns to mother earth today, it is also apposite to return to Aburi, and look at the letter and the spirit of the accord once again, an agreement that was violated by the Federal side, and which made a bloody internecine war inevitable.
For most part of 1966, the northern part of Nigeria, particularly, had been turned to killing fields. Non-natives, especially Igbos, were killed in thousands. Many fled, many others were displaced. There was complete anarchy in the land. The average Igbo looked up to Lt. Col Odumegwu Ojukwu, military governor of the Eastern Region, to provide leadership and direction. He did not fail. He picked the gauntlet and championed the cause of his people.
By January 1967, the drums of war were loud and clear, reverberating across the length and breadth of Nigeria. But there was a last ditch effort to prevent what was imminent. There was a peace meeting hosted at Aburi, in Ghana, by the then Ghanaian head of state, Gen J. A. Ankrah. At the meeting were Gowon, Ojukwu, all the military governors of the regions, and some top civil servants, both from the Federal side and the Eastern region. The meeting held on January 4 and 5, 1967, and came out with what is popularly known today as the Aburi Accord.
The agenda of the meeting consisted of three crucial issues: (i) Reorganization of the Armed Forces (ii) Constitutional agreement (iii) Issues of displaced persons within Nigeria.

The two-day meeting reached consensus that were acceptable to both sides. Among others, it was resolved that legislative and executive authority of the Federal Military Government was to remain in the Supreme Military Council (SMC), to which any decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination provided it is possible for a meeting to be held, and the matter requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their comment and concurrence. What does this mean in simple language? The SMC would run the affairs of the country, but not without consulting the regions as represented by the military governors. This was something akin to federalism, even under a military government.

Other terms of the agreement include that appointments to senior ranks in the police, diplomatic and consular services as well as appointment to superscale posts in the federal civil service and the equivalent posts in the statutory corporations must be approved by the SMC. What does this mean again in simple language? Equity, fairness, true federalism.
Other matters like the holding of an ad hoc constitutional conference, fate of soldiers involved in the January 15, 1966 coup, rehabilitation of displaced persons, etc, were also amicably resolved, and the conferees returned happily to Nigeria. Only for the Federal side to deliver a blow to the solar plexus: the Aburi Accord, Gowon said, was unworkable, and he reneged on all the agreements.

Using the Eastern Nigerian Broadcasting Service, Ojukwu played the tape recording of the proceedings at Aburi repeatedly, to educate the populace on who was playing Judas. Later, he made a broadcast in which he said: “we in the East are anxious to see that our differences are resolved by peaceful means and that Nigeria is preserved as a unit, but it is doubtful, and the world must judge whether Lt. Col Gowon’s attitudes and other exhibitions of his insincerity are something which can lead to a return of normalcy and confidence in the country.

“I must warn all Easterners once again to remain vigilant. The East will never be intimidated, nor will she acquiesce to any form of dictation. It is not our intention to play the aggressor. Nonetheless, it is not our intention to be slaughtered in our beds. We are ready to defend our homeland.”

In a piece I did last December, shortly after Ojukwu passed away, I said he was virtually pushed into war by the infidelity of the Federal side to the Aburi Accord. I still stand by that position. Ojukwu was called ‘warlord’ for many decades, but he was by no means a warmonger. He only did what he needed to do for his people–and for the country.

As his earthly remains are interred today, it is tragic that Nigeria is still submerged in the morass that Ojukwu already identified about 45 years ago. Today, bombs go off like firecrackers in the country. There is agitation for the review of the revenue allocation formula. There are strident calls for the convocation of a sovereign national conference. Even some component parts are threatening to pull out of the federation if anything happened to their ‘son’ who is now in power. Didn’t Ojukwu warn of these landmines ahead? Were all these issues not already settled at Aburi? Foremost journalist and media administrator, Akogun Tola Adeniyi, in a recent media interview, explained the Aburi Accord this way: “Let every region be semi-autonomous and develop at its own level.” Yes, that was the spirit and letter of Aburi, but which sadly became a road not taken. And is that not why we are still suffering today, living in a rickety and decrepit country that can burst at the seams any moment? I tell you, Ojukwu was a prophet, and like most prophets, he had no honour in his own country. Pity. But whether we like it or not, there’s no way we won’t return to Aburi. Willy-nilly. I only hope it will be sooner than later, before Nigeria goes to grief. On Aburi I stand.

Federal Government was perfidious and duplicitous on Aburi. It is still the same way today. That is why as Nigerians, we are most times disillusioned, dismayed, dispirited, dejected and depressed. When will change come to this land? Our hearts are getting weary.
Last December, I wrote that Ojukwu should be buried like a hero. I’m glad at the rites of passage so far, culminating in the interment today. Yes, bury him like a true hero. An icon, an avatar, deserves no less. This generation will surely not see another like Ojukwu. He fought not only for his own people, but for a true federation founded on justice, fair play, equity and rectitude. Unfortunately, he did not see the Nigeria of his dreams. Will we? Adieu the Ikemba, the Eze Igbo Gburugburu. May your soul rest in peace. Ka nkpur’obi gi zue ike n’adukwa.

▪This article was written by Femi Adesina the current Spokesperson to President Buhari in 2012 after the demise of Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu.

“THE QUESTION IS, CAN HE ( FEMI) STILL BOLDLY WRITE THE SAME ARTICLE NOW OR ADVISE HIS PRINCIPAL ON WHAT HE WROTE?[b][/b]

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Culture / Re: Empire Of The Eboes (hackbous Igbos Iboes Igboes Egboes) 1868 Publication by sidney22: 11:40pm On Jan 13, 2021
Kindly upload please.
Culture / Re: Empire Of The Eboes (hackbous Igbos Iboes Igboes Egboes) 1868 Publication by sidney22: 10:47pm On Jan 13, 2021
The kind of informative article I crave for.

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Business / Re: Between Opening A Driving School And Phone Accessories Shop. by sidney22: 2:11pm On Dec 30, 2020
Driving school is the ultimate.
Like someone said you must partner with the Road Safety.
Trying to get a virgin driving license now, you must produce a certificate from a Road Safety approved driving school.
That is another source of revenue apart from your lesson fees.
Brother try driving school and thank God later.

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Politics / Re: Armed Banditry And Kidnapping Big Business In Nigeria by sidney22: 12:30pm On Nov 28, 2020
The country is gone
Hunger and greed rules
Culture / Re: Sultan of Sokoto: North Is The Worst Place To Live, Bandits Operate Freely by sidney22: 2:07pm On Nov 27, 2020
The best place to spend our commonwealth !!!
Celebrities / Re: Betty Irabor: “I Once Had Miscarriage. It Was A Bloody Experience” by sidney22: 2:01pm On Nov 27, 2020
It is never an experience you can wish for an enemy.
Remembered when my wife had one in 2006 for what would have been our first child.
Very terrible.
After 4 months of pregnancy.
Was with her when excavation of the dead fetus was carried out.
God I couldn’t sleep for a week.
She needed counseling from a psychologist before she got over the trauma.
God save our wives.
God bless our wives.

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Romance / Re: What Happened Between My Girlfriend And My Mother by sidney22: 1:03am On May 18, 2020
Mmmmh

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