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Ndimkpurummiri:
Someone who declared that our security agents should be killed has not committed any offense?
Why are you more intelligent than entire federal government of Nigeria because this your is not among the 7 allegations levelled against him in court by government.

AtikuNetwork:
Kanu's release must be predicated on very stiff conditions. First, he must publicly renounce his Biafra agitation and express full and unwavering commitment to Nigeria's unity. He must be made to recite the Nigerian national anthem and pledge of allegiance on national television, and willingly join politics like normal people do. Either that or he should be allowed to rot in prison while his trial keeps getting endlessly postponed. The truth is, if his trial is allowed to continue, he would most likely be sentenced to death. No two ways about it. He'll be executed and heaven will not fall, except for maybe some unrest in the SouthEast which would abate after sometime. I'm sure the igbo leaders are aware of this hence their meeting with the FG.

presidency:
As you read this piece, President Muhammadu Buhari and his team are in the French capital, attending the Paris Peace Forum, a gathering of about 30 Presidents and head of governments from around the world. The Nigerian leader is among the few that were asked to deliver a speech.

On Wednesday afternoon, we had been at the Palais Elysee, the seat of the French government, where President Buhari paid an official visit to President Emmanuel Macron, who himself had been in Abuja in 2018. Impressive is a mild word to use for the spectacle.

Earlier that Wednesday, President Buhari had been at the Shangri-La Hotel, to give a keynote address at the Nigeria International Partnership Forum, put together for Nigerian and French investing community. It was a roll call of the brightest and best in the Nigerian business firmament, including Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, Chairman BUA Group and head, France-Nigeria Business Council, Mr Tony Elumelu, Chairman Heirs Holdings and UBA, Alhaji Mohammed Indimi, Chairman, Oriental Energy Resources, Prince Nduka Obaigbena, Chairman/Editor-in-Chief, ThisDay Group and Arise News Channels, among many others.

Now, the narrative that some people have labored to paint over the years, either out of hatred, or cheap political reasons, is that nothing was happening in the country, other than wanton killings and massive insecurity. They trumpet and magnify insecurity to the exclusion of any other thing. Yes, Nigeria battles grave security challenges like many other countries, particularly in the Sahel region, but then, many other good things are happening, while evildoers are also being given a pounding by agencies of state.

Mr President spoke to the galaxy of Nigerian and French business people and investors, to a massive applause. And what did he say?

The government in Nigeria was on the right path to achieving multi-sectoral progress. It has re-assessed and updated the national security strategy, which has contributed to success in fighting insurgents and terrorists, and also countering violent extremism.

Still firing from the hips, Mr President told his audience that there was a link between modern infrastructure and the overall economic development of a nation, “hence the massive infrastructural expansion programme we have been executing in various sectors.”

He gave examples such as railways, seaports, roads, renewable energy, housing, and many others.

Petroleum is the cash cow of the Nigerian economy, which is now being heavily diversified. But for more than two decades, the enabling law for the industry crawled through the legislature. Till the Buhari administration gave it a fillip, and out came the Petroleum Industry Act, the liberalizing force of the oil industry, with incentives as tax holidays, zero interest loans, development plan for host communities, and easy repatriation of profits, among others.

On agriculture, President Buhari spoke about the Anchor Borrowers Programme, which gives loans and technical support to small holder farmers, leading to expansion of rice mills from 10 in 2014, to 40 today. The result is that we no longer import rice enormously, and now save billions of dollars, which can be utilized for other things.

Fertilizer blending plants were about only five in 2014, today we have 46, with the result that the commodity is widely available and accessible to farmers, at modest costs.

Many other facts and figures did the President adduce to justify the fact that good things were happening in Nigeria, and investments were not only safe, but also generating handsome returns. And that makes one to challenge those engaged in the paroxysm of ‘nothing is happening in the country’ to countermand or controvert any of the stated developments.

Has security not been jigged up in a way that bandits, terrorists, insurgents have been put on the back foot? Are evildoers not being daily sent to God to answer for their crimes? Is the country not being cleaned up, and it is just a matter of time before the sanitation is completed?

Don’t they see the infrastructure? Roads, bridges, airports, pipelines, awesome projects like the Second Niger Bridge, Bodo-Bonny road, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway, Loko-Oweto Bridge, AKK gas pipelines, Lagos-Ibadan rail project that is up and running, other rail projects under construction round the country, brand new airports in Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt, new runway and terminal building in Enugu, and many others. Which will the wailers, caterwauling all their lives point to, and deny its existence? Yet they keep repeating like broken gramophone records that nothing was happening in the country.

The truth is that no single government will solve all the challenges of a country in its life span. It will do its level best, and yield space for others to continue. Muhammadu Buhari has touched Nigeria in diverse ways. Our armed forces have been equipped, trained and motivated like never before. The economy has successfully been diversified, after more than five decades of lip service. Corruption is being robustly fought, stealing is something to be abhorred. And Nigeria is being rebuilt. Projects, projects everywhere, with a good number of them slated for commissioning next year.

The apostles of ‘nothing is happening, except insecurity’ should look for other music to sing, and for other dance steps. Honest Nigerians can see and feel the good things happening. It was unfolded to Nigerian and international investors in Paris on Wednesday. Those who have consigned themselves perpetually to the complaint counters should wake up. The market is over. It is time to go home, and do something better.

*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity

sarrki:
Mattawalle a Senator and former Governor of sokoto and yari who was also a former Governor of zamfara visited bola Ahmed tinubu in London

Tinubu is said to be recovering from knee injury

LordVoldermort:
Your sounding as if there's no governor or local government chairman to blame, everything is Buhari

stephanie11:
POLITICSNIGERIA.COM



https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-abba-kyari-reacts-to-hushpuppi-allegations/

PrinceOfLagos:
Thought my fellow Yoruba people called Kanu a coward

Who's the low budget coward now

Benin republic of all places?

Igboho truly is a low budget freedom fighter

walozanga:
Nigeria having a digital money..

What will be the worth.1$ = 0.00000000072 nigerium
That's what they will promise

Abdul05:
I thought that before,



No deaf gods like the police and DSS can arrest igboho ,impossible ni!


Yoruba people don't run from danger like that idiot in buhar's cage..we are not weak in character very strong in character

anigbajumo:
See Mumu of the highest order, is it today DSS have tried to arrest igboho abi na Mumu u be. He should wait and arrested like ur coward mentor that was captured like a fowl. Mention me here if DSS were able to arrest him like ur kanu.

Jerryherd:
No wonder Kanu dupes Ipobians because they are bunch of fools and retards who don't even have simple brain to reason

Educating a brain dead Ipobian is like pouring water to fill a basket... It's of no use

anigbajumo:
See Mumu of the highest order, is it today DSS have tried to arrest igboho abi na Mumu u be. He should wait and arrested like ur coward mentor that was captured like a fowl. Mention me here if DSS were able to arrest him like ur kanu.

Exponential101:
While Kanu n your father already de jail O
Many of your Igbos are despicable to say the least. A tribe filled with cowards is waiting to see the only tribe put up any resistance are cowards. Like Ojukwu n Kanu ran off dressed in woman wrapper. IGBOHO is still here facing the Nigeria army n DSS alone n you are asking what tribe is filled with cowards n lunatics.

Fahdiga1:
We the Yorubas want to be on our own. We are tired of staying with the Igbos

aminulive:
https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-hale-and-hearty-jubilation-as-tinubu-returns-to-nigeria-photos/