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papyskinsy:
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What bunch of childish reactions is this man making and some trolls making here? Just imagine the idiocy in the whole contradictory claims! In one breath, the man claims Igbos play politics of emotion and cannot unite. In another breath, he claims they are united and put their eggs in one basket.

One thing I have come to realise is, when you are a butt of envy no matter what you do people will find faults. In all honesty, would you do deals with inconsistent and unreliable folks? Ndigbo have shown over and again that they are consistent in their ideological choices. Why are Northern Hausa/Fulani voters not attacked for voting in bloc direction where their interest is best served?

It is this anti-Igbo sentiments on platforms and discussions such as this that make Nigeria such a shithole of bigotry and underdevelopment.

Nigerians must end ethnic profiling and break the jinx and anti-Igbo sentiments. 2023 is Nigeria's date to show that this is truly one nation. Nigerian President of Igbo extraction is an indisputable reality.

MY FINAL TAKE ON BUHARI, ATIKU

My fellow Nigerians and friends, it is imperative that we all take a stand on the presidential election on Saturday.

This election is not just about President Muhammadu Buhari and his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar Atiku; it is about our individual lives and the destiny of the entire country. Therefore, where do you stand?

To help us answer this question, certain salient issues need to be made out here. Let’s narrow them down to just two which are: 1. What is Nigeria's main concern at the moment? 2. Which of the two main contenders is best placed to deliver on these concerns?

In the number 1, Nigeria still grapples with disunity, lack of economic competitiveness, physical infrastructure, lack of jobs, poor standard of education, poor medicare, poor housing, lack of industrial capacity, endemic corruption, insecurity, lack of industrial agro-sector, among others.

To address disunity, the country needs to improve its constitution and fiscal federalism. Buhari has insisted that there is no need to review the federal structure of Nigeria to meet the yearnings of the country. But Atiku says he will review the federal structure very early in his tenure.

I will take economic competitiveness/physical infrastructure/lack of jobs together. Buhari's ERGP is focusing on enhancing the business environment and diversifying the economy. But the fact that the plan has not significantly improved the economic competitiveness of the country is why Atiku promises to speedily implement reforms that would open up the economy to produce goods and services and create jobs.

While Buhari believes in increased public expenditure in physical infrastructure mainly from oil revenues, Atiku wants to use public/private partnership to anchor a modern, supersonic infrastructure similar to models in China, Malaysia, Singapore and some resurgent African and South American countries. Buhari's model of infrastructure will not easily add to existing jobs as our procurement process is inefficient and fraught with corruption. Nigeria has had over 20 million jobs shortages in the last four years, according to NBS. But a PPP model proposed by Atiku would be more sustainable for the creation of jobs and skills for the youth.

Looking at the standard of education and medicare, Buhari had promised to end medical tourism, which featured prominently early in his govt with restrictions on Dollar excanges rate. But his own ill-health in London raised criticisms against the policy. The parallel exchange market was viewed as a huge conduit for corruption in the govt.

Nigeria still need public regulation of the standards of education and both Buhari and Atiku plans to focus on that. Both intend to focus on science and technical education for the modern economy. But the just called off prolonged ASUU strike raises questions as to Buhari's value on the sector.

To touch on housing and agriculture, we see Buhari's housing plan is not well defined viz-a-viz the population growth rate of 3.5% as per GDP rate of 1.9%, whereas Atiku plans land reforms and increased investment in the mortgage sector. Atiku hopes to combine a statement of intent and action to attract billions of dollars in the housing sector with modern global technology and other modern technology leading to millions of sectoral jobs in machine tools, nails, roofing, tiles, paints, smart bricks etc.

Though Buhari delayed the takeoff of his govt in 2015 because of the lack of the right vision, he still targeted to create millions of jobs in the agricultural sector. This however has not materialised to food sufficiency in the last four years because it is still public driven with loans from CBN and Bank of Industry given to farmers in some states mainly in the North. But Atiku's focus is that agro jobs must be massively encouraged through PPP and according to each state's competitive advantage. For instance, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi can attract investments for tomato, cotton and rice, Abia, Akwa Ibom and Cross River can attract largescale investments in palm oil, cassava, rubber and rice. All these will be with value chains and backward integration activities. Oyo, Osun, and Ondo can do cocoa, cashew and rubber.

Let us go to other major issues: corruption and insecurity viz a viz oil sector. No doubt, Buhari has raised much awareness on endemic corruption in Nigeria and a lot of recoveries have been made. But many have questioned the whereabouts of the recovered funds and properties. This is because, the major projects being undertaken under the current govt i.e, railways, airport terminals, and Lagos-Ibadan expressway and Second Niger bridge were said to have been commenced by previous govts on a Chinese long-term loan. The fact that the present govt has borrowed over N23trn to fund its budgets worries observers. And there are no answers as to why this govt, with Buhari as Minister of Petroleum, removed subsidy of petroleum from N95 to N145 at the expense of Nigerians but allegedly makes financial provisions of hundreds of billions from LNG as under recovery as subsidy payments to oil marketers. And with public outcry, subsidy is now officially budgetted at N1.4trn for the same removed subsidy. Who is subsiding who? And there are no explanations as to Senate President Saraki's questions as to why a country that should be consuming about 15m litres of fuel, with less people driving cars in the current govt, is budgeting for 50m litres. Who is smuggling out or diverting the differential?

On this, Atiku focuses on PPP for the oil sector to remove wastages, corruption and innefficiencies. There is no reason why oil bloc owners should not invest in modular refineries and refine at home to cut the exhorbitant international rates. Thousands of jobs can be created with this alone and in the power sector as being planned by Atiku especially, with his focus on managing of amnesty for stolen funds repatriation to Nigeria, which was poorly managed by the Buhari administration.

On insecurity, it’s been on the increase because this is tied to lack of jobs, opportunities and poverty. Atiku wants to engage all aggrieved groups in dialogues and not make wars. He wants to bring innovative solutions to communal crisis, terrorism and criminality in the country using technology and mediatory approaches.

Question number 2: Which of the two main contenders is best placed to deliver?

Some Nigerians are making their decision on the premise that Buhari has integrity to save funds for Nigeria. They are under the illusion that oil revenue can sustain Nigeria's development gaps when the rest of the world are moving to alternative enegry sources.

The question is can you rely on only one export commodity and expect to sustain your economy and country? The case of Venezuela stares us in the face. Venezuelans, a once biggest oil exporter, now rely on handouts from neighbouring countries. But under Atiku, Nigerians would be creating wealth and giving handouts to neighbours. The North, West and East would become the centres of many industries. The North East, North Central and South South will enjoy more competitiveness.

Finally, the international community will respect Nigeria again for its adherence to rule of law and democratic norms.

Because I want Nigeria to survive, MY FINAL TAKE IS ATIKU, ATIKU AND ATIKU.

This story on Badeh’s death was picked by a blogger and put on his/her website just to attract traffic and fame without as much as credit the source. This is a clear case of plagiarism, a crime under Nigerian laws.

Here are the original links to the story and video:

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/how-gunmen-killed-alex-badeh.html

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/video-badeh-death-exposes-security-threats.html

Please house, can someone help to reinstall Google Play Store in my Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X.
I am not able to use some apps like Twitter, Instagram, Gmail etc due to this issue that begun in June this year, and I bought the phone in June 2017.
I suspect it happened because I misplaced the installation password and since some of the signs are in Chinese it has been extremely difficult to reinstall.
The manufacturers gave me a guide but it’s not working.
Can anybody help because I really don’t want to drop this phone due to its excellent battery and camera qualities.
I have attached some snapshots of the phone here.
Thank you

A judge of the FCT High Court, Justice Jude Okeke, has criticized staff of his court over truancy during sitting hours.
Justice Okeke warned the staff that any further “act of indiscipline” would not be accepted.
The warning followed the absence of the court clerk and other staff after break, around 1.30pm. The judge was to attend to some cases requiring the calling of exhibits, but no staff was available to produce them.
The judge consequently adjourned all cases for that day to October 22 for hearing.
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, in April cautioned all staff of courts to work within the dictates of the Code of Conduct for Judicial Officers and Court Employees.
“Consequently, directors and inspectors must be up and doing as they are expected to pay regular visits to the courts in order to inspect the personnel and facilities therein,” he said.
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/judge-berates-court-staff-over-indiscipline.html

THE death toll from last Friday Osisioma fuel pipeline explosion has risen to 200, even as protesting youths from the host communities of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, depot, yesterday, shut operation at the facility over the incident.

Scene of pipeline explosion The youths, numbering 2,000, who barricaded the gate of the depot with a coffin containing the corpse of one of the victims, lamented that the pipeline explosion was caused by NNPC’s negligence, by pumping fuel through a leaking pipeline which had been abandoned for over three years. Vanguard gathered that yesterday, additional 16 corpses were buried at Umuimo, while Okpokoroala village buried 10.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/10/osisioma-pipeline-explosion-death-toll-hits-200/

That Peter Obi's voice eeeh. But I will still vote them

Prof. S. A. Zuru

According to orthodox theology of faith in both Christianity and Islam, humans are ordinary mortals that would sometimes be conquered by negative impulses and predilections of revenge and therefore, it is the absurd normal to wrong each other.

It was against this background that both classical religions in unity with the wisdom of paganism innocently sanctioned that, in the face of justice of revenge, to forgive becomes the biblical nobility. However, these religions never envisaged a scenario where human conscience could be corrupted by viruses of greed and inhumanity that he becomes an existential threat to himself and the rest of the society, yes indeed, thus making forgiveness the stupidity of human rationality.

In this current session of subterfuge of political forgiveness, it is a charade of deception outside the realm theological thesis therefore, it will be stupid to forget. The truth is, when political forgiveness challenges the imperative logic of common sense then, it is null and void to the extent of its repugnancy. It is the opinion of this writer that with the primaries of political parties behind us, it is obvious that the predators have regrouped with a formidable toxic venom and malignant determination to make WE their supposed perpetual prey the KILISHI of 2019.

According to Oscar Wilde, “keep forgiving your enemies because nothing annoys them so much.” My point of departure with Oscar Wilde is the fact that, as long as you forgive, you must always remind your enemies that humility is not stupidity and therefore, you will always remember, afterall, the simple truth is that, those who forget learned nothing.

It is in this spirit that those who offend the gods always receive the wraths of gods. Another travesty of this period of Greek forgiveness is the depressing reality that demented men of God, patronising prayer worriors and buy one and get one for free imams and sheikhs could join the political caravan of evil men. The tragedy of these treacherous swine politicians and the parochialists of faith is that they don’t appreciate the fact that sacrifice is not a death sentence and Nigerians are stubbornly optimistic about the future of their country. The truth is that, Nigerians have eaten from the same calabash of sorrow about these politicians and their ideology of leadership. At the end of the day, the 2019 election will be decided on the paradigm of choice between good and evil, between deception and reality, between common sense and rationality and between opportunism and security. However, between the opportunism of yesterday, the exaltations of today and the promises of tomorrow, we shall do the right thing.

According to Winston Churchill, “we shall do the right thing when all the alternatives have been exhausted.” The truth is that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s purported forgiveness of former VP Atiku Abubakar was a Molotov cocktail meant for the kami kazi population of Nigerians, but luckily, Nigerians are wiser and have rejected mass murder. You can’t stripe somebody naked in the market square and call him a madman in the morning only to turn around in the afternoon to declare that you have cured his madness and expect people to take you seriously.

I make bold to say that to be a Nigerian is not stupid. This reminds me of a book by Dr. Philip K Howard titled, ‘The Death of Common Sense’.

Prof Zuru is the Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Abuja.
https://universalreportersng.com/when-forgiveness-becomes-a-travesty-of-reason-obasanjo-and-the-rest-of-us/