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Health / Re: Salt Therapy For Ebola- Dangerous Rumour by Stallion77(f): 7:22am On Aug 08, 2014
We should then all go about with nose masks and hand gloves and oxygen hanging on our backs...that would be surest! Salt ke... maggi ni...
Politics / Re: Is The Police Truly Your Friend? by Stallion77(f): 6:16am On Dec 27, 2013
No they aint my friend...I will rather have a dog as a friend than the police. Quote me anywhere...
Politics / Re: Is The Police Truly Your Friend? by Stallion77(f): 6:13am On Dec 27, 2013
I could not sleep that night. The following morning, I had to call my brother to come bail me with the sum of N13,700 for an offence I never committed,” he concluded.

A tri-cyclist, Abdul Bsasiru, told LEADERSHIP how he was beaten for an offence unknown to him. “I do my business here in Gwarinpa; but one day, while it was raining, I took passengers to Life Camp and after I had discharged them, I was trying to turn. A police man just appeared from nowhere and without explanation, started beating me. He beat me almost within an inch of my life that I began to prefer if he had asked me for ‘something’,” he narrated.

When contacted, the police public relation officer (PPRO) Frank Mba, told LEADERSHIP that he was too busy to comment on the issue.

Despite all these, it cannot be denied that a society like ours is in dire need of a police force; albeit, one free [to a degree] from the ills and vileness of the society it is trying to police. But for now, to be very honest and going by happenings around us, while the police may not be the enemy, it has not done very much as a friend.







http://leadership.ng/news/271213/police-truly-your-friend
Politics / Is The Police Truly Your Friend? by Stallion77(f): 6:12am On Dec 27, 2013
Over the years, the Nigeria Police Force has played a significant role in maintaining law and order in the society; one will neither be mistaken nor exaggerating if he says “no police, no society”. This, in fact, calls for a collective commendation to this brave men and women, many of who lost their lives in the course of executing their duties. Recently, though, the once hailed cliché “the police is your friend” is now whispered in mockery of the force and not as an encouragement at friendship.

Constitutionally, the force was established to protect the civilian populace, maintain law and order, prevent the commission of crimes and ensure the prevalence of peace and stability in the society. In its zealousness (if one can call it that), it has turned upon the citizenry, intimidating and brutalising the people it swore to protect.

Many times, in order to get people to ‘confess’ many innocent [and even the guilty who would have spilled information were they wisely led on] people have lost their lives in the hands of the police. The Justice Initiative, a non-governmental civil organisation which released a report on the investigation it carried out on police brutality in about four hundred police stations and parastatals from 2007 to 2009 reveals that “Officers refer to suspects as ‘ram’ or ‘bush meat’ and police investigations are merely avenues to apply torture to draw out confessions from suspects. Officers drove nails into suspects’ hands, heads and even genitals, and some suspects are hung upside down,” the report claims.

On September 29,2013, another condemnable of the force emerged when a young graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Musa Murtala Aminu, was allegedly killed by a police officer in Kaduna. The bread-winner of his family, Aminu’s aged father confessed that losing his sone meant that the family would have to live by the goodwill of others.

A video footage obtained and broadcast by international news network Aljazeera during the early emergence of the Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Borno State, was described as “not only an act of extreme brutality by the Nigerian Police Force but a national disgrace”, as the incident drew the attention of international human right groups. The video showed some officers of the force carrying out extra-judicial killings. A number of unarmed civilians were forced to lie down on the street and shot at close range. One of the officers was overheard rapping his colleague for shooting unarmed civilians in the head, instead of in the chest.

Another area where brutality is freely meted out is at check-points. Ordinarily mounted to monitor the movement of people and other abnormalities, they have become points which citizens dare not approach, especially if they have ‘nothing’ to give to the officers for ‘pure water’. If a driver declines to give the stated amount, different degrees of humiliation will ensure quick compliance or deadly injuries, depending on the driver’s level of ‘compliance’.

On October 19, 2012, confusion broke out along the Niger-Kwara Road, when a trailer-driver parked his vehicle across the road, preventing movement on the other lanes. He was simply protesting against the shooting off of his tires by a police officer, because he refused to part with ‘something’.

Iliyasu, a tricycle engineer at Gwarinpa Estate, Abuja, narrated to LEADERSHIP how he was brutalised by the police in the course of carrying out his duty. “One day I was called to repair a tricycle that broke down somewhere. When I finished, I was towing it back and it was quite late at night. Unfortunately, the tricycle ran out of fuel, so I started pushing. Some policemen came to me and after very brief questioning; they concluded that I was a thief and must, therefore, follow them to the station. Wallahi, despite the fact that I had my identity card, they refused to let me go and insisted that I must follow them to their station. I had no choice. But before reaching the station I was beaten black-and-blue, because they said I was misbehaving. They put me in the same cell with armed robber.
Politics / Re: Tukur, Oyinlola Embrace At Nnamidi Azikwe International Airport by Stallion77(f): 11:26am On Nov 22, 2013
All their wahala na for media.... these guys wine and dine together
Car Talk / Re: Is It Better To Buy A Car Outright Or To Buy Using A Loan? by Stallion77(f): 8:31am On Nov 14, 2013
A vehicle is a liabilliability and the loan is a liability so do not buy a liability wit a liability.... be wise.
Politics / Re: Fake Boko-Haram Member Arrested In Enugu by Stallion77(f): 11:32pm On Oct 24, 2013
Nigerians have enormous brain capacity for productivity but some choose to engage it in sinister motives. Smh
Romance / Re: How Long Can A Relationship Without Intimacy Last ? by Stallion77(f): 8:39am On Oct 23, 2013
cluewebhost: Long distance relationships can last as long as you want them to


Long distance relationship without true commitment such as engagement or marriage is a scam.
Travel / Re: Nigerians Shun Domestic Air Travel Over Fear Of Crashes by Stallion77(f): 8:35am On Oct 23, 2013
When people are falling from the sky
Politics / Re: Reason APC Remains Silent Over Oduah's BMW by Stallion77(f): 10:08am On Oct 21, 2013
lagosph:
http://xclusivemagazinefun..co.uk/2011/08/fashola-acquire-jeeps-worth-n600.html
FIXED


Put your source in the main opening thread instead of following each comment and putting the source...abi u be learner? grin grin
Politics / Re: Reason APC Remains Silent Over Oduah's BMW by Stallion77(f): 10:06am On Oct 21, 2013
Waspy: Just as expected, bullshiits have no source undecided

Bullshit get source o! The Bull.
Politics / Re: Tinubu Orders Dr Ngige To Reconcile With Wife by Stallion77(f): 8:40am On Oct 21, 2013
fresh_dude: But we all know that Jonathan has adulteresses as his best friends, Diezani and Oduah to mention a few.


Hear say.... bandwagonism at its best...
Politics / Re: Aero Contractors To Emerge National Carrier by Stallion77(f): 8:37am On Oct 21, 2013
grafikii: www.thisdaylive.com/articles/aero-contractors-to-emerge-national-carrier/162232/

This is absolutely disgusting,

I want to believe this comment was not for this thread
Politics / Re: Tinubu Orders Dr Ngige To Reconcile With Wife by Stallion77(f): 7:50pm On Oct 20, 2013
The clear power behind a woman.... and a real man that knows the potency of a woman
Politics / Tinubu Orders Dr Ngige To Reconcile With Wife by Stallion77(f): 7:47pm On Oct 20, 2013
APC Anambra governorship candidate Dr Ngige has been ordered by Sen Tinubu to truly reconcile with his estranged wife Dr (Mrs) Ngige whom he parted ways with while he was the governor of Anambra state between 2003-2006 as one of the conditions for him and other south-West governors to foot the bills of his campaign.

This condition came as a result of the fact that Chris Ngige is the only governorship candidate that campaigns without his wife in Anambra state. The godfathers told Ngige, that "people will not take you serious without your wife by your side".

Dr Ngige however have little option as he will lose the funding from Lagos, by giving favourable consideration to Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu's order and immediately instructed his aide to take drinks to the former wife people according to tradition.
Ngige requested his over 8-years estranged wife and son living in Maryland, USA to return back to
Nigeria
Mrs Ngige was in Anambra where he showed her to APC Chiefs and Anambra people as he was instructed.

Anambra government house on 18th March 2006 was found to be a mini brothel after the Appeal court suddenly sacked Dr Ngige from office. He could not tidy the mess he left in government house before leaving.

The case of the dead Abatete lady whom Ngige was alleged to have procured abortion for, is still hanging was one of the cases that broke the former Governors family and the Abatete people in Idemili seriously have an axe to grind with Ngige. - Hope For Nigeria.

LIKE www.fb.com/hopefornigeria Page, if U have not done that already.
Politics / Re: Dr. Fola Akinkuotu Of NCAA Must Be Sacked by Stallion77(f): 7:34pm On Oct 19, 2013
niggadee: Fck fola fck Stella fck Nigeria sh*t country full of negatives and backwardness.

U need to be castrated wit a blunt knife.. My country ain't perfect but I love her.
Politics / Re: Dr. Fola Akinkuotu Of NCAA Must Be Sacked by Stallion77(f): 7:32pm On Oct 19, 2013
OP.....Your title say Sack....ur content says he must resign... Make up ur mind jor..

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Politics / Re: Why Festus Odimegwu Resigned As NPC Boss by Stallion77(f): 7:05pm On Oct 19, 2013
geeez: If you're not moving to a better job, chances are that your resignation is to forestall a sack

The man has been very reckless and irresponsible

He demanded N600bn to conduct a census when the so-called First Class graduate could not think of integrating data already captured by INEC with a view to integrating data already documented and registering only the unregistered

He also openly criticised the last census reports setting himself up for the inevitable hammer

I personally suggest that someone from a minority ethnic group like the Tiv or Idoma should replace him because no matter what the results are, it will be disputed if conducted by a Hausa, Yoruba or Igbo


600billion...this billion tinz had turn to pocket money for naija big men o...and some still dey struggle to reach the first million...1million
Politics / Re: Candidates, Deputies To Square Up In Debates, Oct 22, 29, 31 by Stallion77(f): 7:02pm On Oct 19, 2013
warrior01:
Are you for real? Ngige eloquent? wetin person no go see for Nairaland

grin grin grin
Politics / Re: I Wish Nigeria Could Breakup. by Stallion77(f): 5:15am On Oct 19, 2013
Wrong wish....wish again. This time think carefully about it and check cos you might be your own problem.
Health / Re: 30 Ways To Protect Your Sperm By Prof. Oladapo Ashiru by Stallion77(f): 4:46am On Oct 19, 2013
Guys just live well and relax with all this avoids jor... e Remain make the man stand still all him life na!

Number 40. Avoid walking too much or you will cause friction down there that will damage the sperm cells... grin grin grin
Number 41. Avoid looking too much or eye strain from your eyes will inturn damage sperm cells.

Africans are too rugged for all these avoid things... Maybe its for whites grin

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Food / Re: 25 Powerful Reasons To Eat Bananas by Stallion77(f): 4:42am On Oct 19, 2013
Person wan open Banana shop...this na advert o!

The only thing missing is Banana brings dead people to life again!!!
Politics / Re: Why Festus Odimegwu Resigned As NPC Boss by Stallion77(f): 4:05am On Oct 18, 2013
Dudu_Negro: Ibos lack tact to act responsibly and act maturedly in positions of power. In a sensitive position needing coalition and compromise to move ahead and add to the building-block , they soon exhibit their lack of vision and penchant for rebellion.........making enemies instead of winning friends!

Odimegwu will not be Ibo if he didnt turn people off with his authority as headman of the commission.

Yeye dey smell for SE!


The smell of another tribalistic element pass the yeye wey you say dey smell for SE

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Politics / Re: The Legacies Of Our Heroes And Heroines Past by Stallion77(f): 3:51am On Oct 18, 2013
I thought i would see Obasanjo's name sef...maybe when he dies, or maybe he is still a youth among these... grin grin grin
Politics / The Legacies Of Our Heroes And Heroines Past by Stallion77(f): 3:48am On Oct 18, 2013
On the 1st of October, Nigeria marked her 53rd Independence Anniversary. That occasion not only called for celebration, it also called for sober reflection on the sacrifices of our great men and women, who, at one time or the other, and in one way or the other had laboured to shake loose the grip of colonial powers on our collective destiny.

According to the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, a hero is a person, especially a man, admired by many people for doing something brave or good. A heroine is, to be specific, the female counterpart. Thus, these men and women are Nigeria’s heroes and heroines.

The struggle for political emancipation and self-determination became popular in the geo-political entity called Nigeria at the close of the 19th century. The activities of some educated pan-African nationalists who overtly expressed their opposition to colonial oppression through their write-ups sparked the fire of national consciousness, such that the first half of the 20th century witnessed a full-blown nationalist struggle by the indigenous intellectual elite, who fought colonialism to a halt with their pens.

But prior to this era of popular nationalist movement, there were brave men and women, leaders, who fought to defend their kingdoms or nations or even states as the case may be, against external control in like manner. It is a fact that the heroic posture of these early nationalists in different parts of what is now Nigeria inspired the concerted efforts that eventually ended colonialism and brought freedom our way. LEADERSHIP Friday today takes a look at the legacies bequeathed to us and generations to come by our heroes and heroines past.



King Jaja of Opobo (Amanyana)

Jaja of Opobo (full name Jubo Jubogha, 1821-1891), was a merchant prince and founder of Opobo city-state in an area now part of Nigeria. Born in Umudioha, Amaigbo in Igbo land, he was sold at about the age of 12 as a slave in Bonny. He later took the name “Jaja” for his dealings with the British.

At the 1884 Berlin Conference, the European powers designated Opobo a British territory and the British soon moved to claim it. Jaja’s opposition to colonial advances led to his incarceration and trial in the Gold Coast (now Ghana). He was later taken to London and eventually exiled to Saint Vincent in the West Indies.

In 1891, Jaja was granted permission to return to Opobo but died on the way, allegedly poisoned with a cup of tea. Following his exile and death, the power of the Opobo State rapidly declined. But there is no gainsaying the fact that Jaja was one of the few Nigerian monarchs who sowed the seed of opposition to colonialism that eventually led to the actualisation of independence for Nigeria.



Queen Amina of Zazzau (The Nigerian Princess)

Another legend who could be categorised as one of the earliest rulers in Nigeria that guarded their kingdoms jealously, repelling all external aggression, was the woman by the name Amina Mohammed (also Aminatu), Queen of Zazzau (now Zaria) in what is now Kaduna State.

Although the time of her reign as queen of the empire has been a subject of controversy among historians, most of them situated it in the Elizabethan era, between the late 15th and early 16th centuries. According to an account composed around 1836, Amina was the first to establish government in the area. She forced Katsina, Kano and other neighbouring regions to pay tribute to her and even collected tribute from as far away as the Nupe and Kwararafa Kingdoms. She ruled for 34 years, during which the kingdom triumphed under her leadership in battles that bordered mainly on protecting and expanding the territory.

She helped Zazzau to become the centre of trade and to gain more land. The introduction of kola nuts in the area and the building of earthen walls around Hausa cities are credited to her.



Nana of Itshekiri

Nana Olumu (1852-1916) was an Itshekiri chief and merchant from the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria. He was the fourth Itshekiri chief to hold the position of Governor of Benin.

In 1851, the British Consul for the Bights of Benin and Biafra, John Beecroft, established the post of Governor of Benin River and gave it to an Itshekiri chief.

Nana also sowed the seed of nationalism in his time. The business romance that thrived between him and the British came to an abrupt end when, after the Berlin Conference and the ensuing scramble for Africa, the expatriates tried to bypass the Itshekiri middlemen and trade directly with the Urhobo people. In the estranged relationship that ensued, Nana moved to frustrate any direct business transactions between the coastal residents of Urhobo land and the British.

In response to his uncompromising posture, he was arrested and deported to the Gold Coast. His struggle, like that of his contemporaries, may have been part of the background to the nationalistic struggle that culminated in Nigeria’s independence.



Hajiya Gambo Sawaba

Hajiya Sawaba (1933-2001) was a Nigerian politician and political activist who was a supporter of the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU). This means she was part of the political struggle that eventually won independence for Nigeria.

Although Sawaba had a poor educational background and was married out at the early age of 16, she towered above her challenges to emerge as a dynamic, independent political activist, helping to educate many others. She came out of colonial repression and deformity, refreshed in her political activism. And like most of her contemporaries, she put in a lot towards the emancipation of African women from the clutches of obnoxious African traditions that were perceived as anti-women.



Pa Michael Imoudu

Pa Michael Imoudu was a strong pioneer labour leader who, while piloting the affairs of the Nigerian Labour Union back then, stood firm in his resolve to confront and rebuff the industrial injustices suffered by Nigerian workers under the repressive and exploitative administration of the British. The Edo-born unionist, though not visible in the mainstream of politics in his time, led the labour movement revolt against the injustices and evils of colonialism. One of such occasions was the general strike of 1945 by Nigerian workers.



Margaret Ekpo

Margaret Ekpo (1914-2006) was a Nigerian women’s rights activist and social mobiliser, who was a pioneering female politician in the country’s First Republic and one who rallied women beyond ethnicity. She played major roles as a grassroots and nationalist politician in the eastern Nigerian city of Aba, in an era of a hierarchical and male-dominated movement towards independence.

Apart from championing the cause of women’s rights, Ekpo joined the decolonisation process, which led her to the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), as a platform to represent a marginalised group. In the 1950s, she teamed up with Fumilayo Ransome-Kuti to rise against the killing of workers who were protesting some colonial practices at the Enugu coalmine. She was not only nominated by the NCNC to the regional House of Chiefs in 1953, she also co-opted many Aba women into active politics and won a seat to the Eastern Regional House of Assembly in 1963. In short, she was part of the struggle that later led to Nigeria’s freedom in 1960.



Sir Herbert Macaulay

Herbert Samuel Heelas Macaulay (1864-1946) was a Nigerian journalist, politician, engineer and musician, considered by many Nigerians as the founder of Nigerian nationalism. Born in Lagos to Sierra Leonean Creole parents (descendants of freed African-American slaves settled in western Sierra Leone), he was the grandson of Bishop Ajayi Crowther and the son of the founder of the first secondary school in Nigeria, the CMS Grammar School, Lagos. After his secondary school education, he went abroad and studied civil engineering in Plymouth, England.

Macaulay was one of the first Nigerian nationalists and for most of his life a strong opponent to British rule in Nigeria. As a reaction to British claims that they were governing with “the true interest of the natives at heart”, he wrote, “The dimensions of ‘the true interest of the natives at heart’ are algebraically equal to the length, breadth, and depth of the white man’s pocket.” In 1908, he exposed the corruption in the handling of railway finances and in 1919, argued successfully for the chiefs whose lands had been taken by the British, in front of the Privy Council in London and they were compensated. In retaliation for his uncompromising posture, he was jailed twice by the British.

On June 24, 1923, he founded the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), the first Nigerian political party. He was an integral part of the constitutional development that later saw Nigeria actualising her dream of independence on October 1, 1960.



Nnamdi Azikiwe

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, better known as Nnamdi Azikiwe and more popularly simply as “Zik”, was one of the leading figures of modern Nigerian nationalism. He was a great pan-African, who spared no time in forging an intellectual struggle against colonialism and imperialism in Africa, especially the West African sub-region.

The legacy of Zik could be used to justify the saying that the pen is mightier than the sword. An educational stint abroad, which saw him graduating in 1930 from the Lincoln University in the US and bagging a master’s degree in political science from Columbia University in 1934, saw Zik intellectually prepared for the uphill task of decolonising his fatherland.

After working at Lincoln University as an instructor, Zik practised his combative anti-colonial journalism in Ghana during the regime of Kwame Nkurmah for a few years, before returning to Nigeria. In 1937, Zik founded the West African Pilot Newspaper with the motto “To show the light and let the people find their way.”

He soon became actively involved with the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM), the first genuinely nationalist organisation. He later co-founded the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) with Herbert Macaulay in 1944. Following the attainment of independence in 1960, Zik became the second (but first indigenous) and last Governor General from 1960 to 1963 and the first president of Nigeria, following the declaration of Nigeria as a Republic in 1963. He is indeed a national hero, considering his dogged and selfless commitment to the cause of an independent, vibrant, united, detribalised and sovereign Nigeria.



Tafawa Balewa

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912-1966) popularly called “the man with the golden voice”, was an eloquent but humble politician of northern extraction, who was an integral part of the constitutional build-up to Nigeria’s independence. A trained teacher, he made a foray into politics and was elected in 1946 to the colony’s Northern House of Assembly in 1947. As a legislator he was a vocal advocate of the rights of northern Nigeria, and together with Ahmadu Bello, who held the hereditary title of Sardauna of Sokoto, he co-founded the Northern People’s Congress (NPC) as part of the struggle.

Balewa entered government in 1952 as Minister of Transport. In 1957, he was elected a chief minister, forming a coalition government between the NPC and the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), led by Nnamdi Azikiwe. He became prime minister when Nigeria gained her independence in 1960 and was re-elected in 1964.

As prime minister, he played an important role in the continent’s formative indigenous rule. He was a key leader in the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU).



Sir Ahmadu Bello

Sir Ahmadu Bello (1910-1966) was a firebrand charismatic politician of northern Nigerian origin, who represented the political interests of that part of the country in the pre- and post-independence constitutional processes. Many saw him as the political godfather of northern Nigeria.

In 1954, Bello became the first premier of the Northern Region. In the 1959 independence elections, Bello led the NPC to win a plurality of the parliamentary seats. Bello’s NPC forged an alliance with Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe’s NCNC to form Nigeria’s first indigenous federal government at independence. Bello, then, as president of the NPC, was to become the prime minister, but chose to remain premier of northern Nigeria and devolved the position to his party deputy, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

Bello’s greatest legacy was the modernisation and unification of the diverse people of northern Nigeria. He was assassinated on January 15, 1966 in a coup that toppled Nigeria’s first post-independence government.



Obafemi Awolowo

Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987) was a Nigerian nationalist, political writer and statesman. A Yoruba man and native of Ikene in Ogun State of Nigeria, he started his career, like some of his notable contemporaries, as a nationalist in the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM), of which he became western provincial secretary and was responsible for much of the progressive social legislation that made Yoruba land a modern nation.

While he was a student in the UK, he founded the Egbe Omo Oduduwa, a pan-African cultural society, which set the stage for the founding of the Action Group (AP). He represented the western region in all the constitutional conferences intended to advance Nigeria on the path to independence. He was the first premier of the western region under Nigeria’s parliamentary system from 1952-1959 and was the official leader of the opposition in the federal parliament between 1959 and 1963.



Pa Anthony Enahoro

Anthony Eremosele Enahoro (1923-2010) was one of Nigeria’s foremost anti-colonial and pro-democracy activists. Enahoro had a long and distinguished career in the media, politics, the civil service and the pro-democracy movement.

The Edo-born politician was an accomplished journalist, who served as editor in the newspaper empire of Nnamdi Azikiwe. In 1953, he became the first to move the motion for Nigeria’s independence, which was eventually granted in 1960, after several political setbacks and defeats in parliament. Enahoro is regarded by academics and many Nigerians as the father of the Nigerian State.

He was prominent in politics at a time of rapid change. He was twice jailed for sedition by the colonial government for an article allegedly mocking a former governor, and then for a speech allegedly inciting Nigerian troops serving in the British Army.


http://leadership.ng/news/181013/legacies-our-heroes-and-heroines-past

Politics / Why Festus Odimegwu Resigned As NPC Boss by Stallion77(f): 3:37am On Oct 18, 2013
In the wake of the sudden resignation of the former chairman, National Population Commission (NPC), Chief Festus Odimegwu yesterday, certain facts have emerged as to why he took the decision.

The federal government had through the Secretary-General of the Federation (SGF), Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, immediately accepted his resignation, which took effect from yesterday, while Dr. Sam Ahaiwe, the commissioner representing Abia State in the Commission, was appointed to act in his stead, pending when a substantive head would be appointed.

LEADERSHIP checks revealed that Odimegwu’s resignation was not unconnected with government’s refusal to yield to the call by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), to reverse the query issued him, for alleging that the 2006 census was characterised by flaws and for attempting to warn the government about the possible failure of the proposed 2016 population census.

LEADERSHIP further gathered that before his resignation, Odimegwu was mired in controversy, especially regarding utterances by him said to be inciting. It would be recalled that apart from the call for Odimegwu’s removal by Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, over what he tagged attempts to criticise his predecessor Samaila Makama, 22 NPC commissioners had also raised the alarm over inciting statements credited to their former boss.

Apart from alleged blackmailing of former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, he was also said to have strongly disputed the figures for the state in the 2006 population census, accusing Tinubu of fraudulently inflating their number to 17.2 million against the 9 million arrived at by his predecessor, Samaila Makama.

Odimegwu, was immediately queried by the federal government through the SGF, following an uproar over alleged sponsored malicious reports of fraud, corruption and marginalisation against his predecessor, Makama and some serving directors in some national dailies. Later, some commissioners dissociated themselves from what they described as rascality at the expense of governance and service delivery issues. He also accused Odimegwu’s administration of disregarding the Act which established the commission, the Public Service Rules (PSR)

The 22 NPC commissioners had also expressed fear that if their former boss was not called to order by the appropriate authorities, the proposed 2016 census may suffer a major setback, as his unfavourable policies were already putting the commission at loggerheads with some of its development partners.

The petition by the 22 commissioners read in part: ‘Among other things, the chairman has also openly reported refusing to sign the presidential committee report on centralising demographic data collection headed by Vice President Namadi Sambo, boasting to staff and the commission that he has written a minority report to replace the vice president’s submission.’

But the federal government had issued a query to Odimegwu, asking him to explain the circumstances leading to his alleged inciting statements.

CAN had however called on the federal government to withdraw the query issued to Odimegwu and also tender an apology to him in the interest of fairness.

CAN further described Odimegwu’s query as political, saying it was a ploy by the North to blackmail President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the 2015 general elections.

Meanwhile, in a recent interview with the former chairman of NPC, Makama said that a census is the collection, analysis and publication of the demographic data of the entire people resident in a given defined geographical territory within a specific period. The purpose is to obtain the data and characteristics of the people in a country, for the purpose of planning for national development.

According to him, the mandate of the NPC as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution is to provide accurate and acceptable data to the federal government, for the purpose of national planning. It would be recalled that a national census was conducted in 1991 and it was acceptable. Following that was the 2006 census and it was nationally and internationally acclaimed and accepted as reliable.

Reacting to the alleged claim by Odimegwu, Makama said, “This is not true, because in the 2006 census, the Commission took all the necessary steps to conduct an accurate, reliable and acceptable census. By all standards, accurate census does not imply mathematical accuracy of 100%, because there is no such perfection anywhere in the world. A credible census is that in which all the scientific methods of census taking have been applied and a reasonable level of coverage of the population.

“So I can say that the 2006 census was credible and reliable, because all the processes involved in the conduct of a census were complied with, from the statistical planning to numerical area demarcation, pre-test or prior census, the actual conduct of the census, the retrieval of the census forms, the archiving, the scanning, the calculation and validation of the data. Moreover, during the 2006 census, all the activities, that is, the enumeration exercise was monitored by national and international monitors. Over 90 international monitors from 24 countries monitored the census across the country,” he explained.
http://leadership.ng/news/181013/why-festus-odimegwu-resigned-npc-boss

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Politics / Re: Why So Much Hate For GEJ by Stallion77(f): 5:21pm On Oct 17, 2013
SLIDE waxie: ^^
Useless post, senseless, foolish poster!

i dnt like jonathan, but u are worst!

Try to see beyond ur nose... thinking is a hard task for you so u resort to throwing verbal tantrums cos it doesn't require any effort... Lazy man.

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Politics / Re: UN Security Council Elects Nigeria, 4 Others As Members by Stallion77(f): 5:13pm On Oct 17, 2013
stevnwigw1: Nigeria is dividing next year , you are here talking about permanent seat.

Na bread knife u wan take divide nigeria?
America alone is bigger than Africa with loads of problems that their economy had crashed severally...do you see them asking for division.? ... We must learn to live together and work things out.

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Politics / Re: UN Security Council Elects Nigeria, 4 Others As Members by Stallion77(f): 5:10pm On Oct 17, 2013
Elliotwiz1: hehehe. It's not actually the work of GEJ, but It's a good development for the nation. Nigeria is always the first in Africa to ensure the safety of her sister, yet We're not a member of the UN security council... Most African countries can be controled like puppets by Western and european governments, but not Nigeria, they know that That's why they would never choose Nigeria if they have to handpick.


Oh really? Not actually the work of GEJ? But the negatives are his handwork abi...

Ask sincere9gerian to sell you some objectivity if you can pay for it.

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Politics / Re: ASUU And FG Who Is To Be Blamed For This Strike ? by Stallion77(f): 5:05pm On Oct 17, 2013
Blame Akon...

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Politics / Re: Ruqayyatu Rufai Joins ASUU Strike (Ex-education Minister) by Stallion77(f): 5:03pm On Oct 17, 2013
She always appeared confused during her tenure as minister so I wont be surprised if she soon joined market women to protest against ASUU....its part of the confusion manifesting...

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