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Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani kayode has called on the founder and General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet T.B Joshua to pray for the actualization of the Oduduwa nation.

The former had last week, in an article he entitled “Give us Oduduwa or Let Us Die” said Nigeria can no longer stand as a country.

In the lengthy write up, he claimed that the north and the south have already disintegrated but only living in pretense.

Fani-Kayode in his latest tweet claimed that the north stopped Awolowo and MKO Abiola from becoming Nigeria’s president and now they want to stop Osinbajo.

He called on T.B Joshua to pray for Oduduwa Republic.



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The Nigeria Police on Saturday accepted and also commended a building donated to it by the of Africa.
The Deputy Inspector General of Police coordinating police operations in the South-south states, Mr. Emmanuel Inyang, thanked the movement for constructing and handing over the building to the Cross River Police Command.
Inyang who was represented by the Cross River Police Commissioner, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa made the commendation in Calabar during the 13th annual lecture and 40th anniversary celebration of the movement.
He stated that the through its philanthropic activities has shown that it was an organisation with good intentions for the development of society.
According to him, the building was constructed with surprising speed and will go a long way to assist the force, which he said, is underfunded with inadequate personnel to effectively police the nation.
He also called on Nigerians to man to assisted the people through provision of working tools and supply of information to enhance their operations.

The , also known as is regarded by many as a secret cult group which has wrecked havoc in many Nigerian universities.
Many student have been killed and many more maimed for life due to activities of the in several crashes with other secret cult groups in the nation’s ivory towers.
The movement had sometime in 2015 dragged the police to a Federal High Court in Lagos for arresting some of its members who were said to be having a meeting at an hotel in Ogba area of the state.
Also, last year, more than 20 members of the who were described as a Nigerian mafia gang, were rounded up during raids in Italy.
The suspects were accused of being involved in a catalogue of criminal activities, from prostitution and protection rackets to drug dealing and human trafficking.
Meanwhile, last year, a member of the was reportedly killed, and several others injured during a gun fight with policemen in Owerri, Imo State
Operatives were said to have descended on the group allegedly terrorising residents of Egbu community.
The deputy commissioner of police in the state, Dave Akinremi, told journalists that several suspected cultists were arrested during the raid after a gun battle.

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This week marked the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the Sovereign State of Biafra and one or more questions still linger. I will not delve into the more contentious questions, but for the sake of improving the relationship between the Igbo and their Yoruba neighbors, let me touch on one or two areas where, if the truth is brought to the fore, the relationship between omo Oduduwa and Ndi'Igbo could be improved.
Firstly, why do Ndi'Igbo still believe the false stereotype that the omo Oduduwa (Yoruba) are cowards? This is simply not true and the facts do not support this belief.
In the history of Nigeria, only two men have returned to Nigeria to face almost certain death even when they had the option of a very comfortable political asylum abroad. Both of them are Yoruba. In 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida toppled the Buhari regime while Major General Tunde Idiagbon (mixed Yoruba/Fulani) was at Mecca yet Idiagbon returned.
In 1995, Olusegun Obasanjo (pure Owu Yoruba) was accused of planning a coup by the blood thirsty tyrant, Abacha (if you do not like that truthful description of Abacha or if you believe that 'Abacha did not loot', you can go and join him where he is) while he was away in Copenhagen. He returned to face almost certain death.
What more example of bravery can there be than these two shining ones.
Furthermore, there is the apocryphal example of Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi who chose to die with the Head of State, rather than abandon his guest, which he was at liberty to do. I am hard pressed to believe that if it was vice versa, Ironsi would have done the same for Fajuyi, but then again, I may be wrong.
I admired Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu for his guts and stubborn determination during the events leading up to and during the civil war, but I was disappointed that he fled Biafra when the end came. I wish he remained.
I also admired the Right Honorable Nnamdi Azikiwe, but Chief Obafemi Awolowo would NEVER have abandoned his people as Azikiwe did when he defected to the federal side during the civil war.
Awolowo was in prison because of his people and he could have been released had he compromised his beliefs but he stoutly refused. That is courage not cowardice.
I have been in direct communication with General Yakubu Gowon whom I admire but he did not return to Nigeria after he was accused of being behind the Dimka coup.
All things considered, Fajuyi, Obasanjo and Idiagbon are probably the bravest Nigerians ever. They are (were in the cases of Fajuyi and Idiagbon) certainly braver than Murtala Ramat Mohammed, who was safely in London waiting for Joe Garba and co to topple Gowon.
Even with the sullying of his name as a Quisling in the pages of history, it is on record that of all the first republic politicians that were killed in the January 1966 coup, only Samuel Ladoke Akintola, the Premier of the Western Region, put up a fight. He had a rifle and exchanged gunfire with Captain Emmanuel Nwobosi and his men. Akintola, a civilian, injured the trained soldiers and was only killed when his ammunition finished. And even at that he did not cry or beg!
Ndi'Igbo may do well to remember how Wole Soyinka, at great risk to himself, traveled to Enugu during the height of the civil war crisis to persuade Ojukwu against secession. Soyinka had nothing to gain. He did what he did as a humanitarian in support of the Igbos, an act for which he was arrested by the Gowon led Federal Military Government and thrown in jail for 26 months, 22 of which he spent in solitary confinement.
These facts of history prove that the stereotype of Yorubas as cowards is false. Every ethnicity has cowards and brave men. As we celebrate #BiafraAt50, I hope the Yoruba and Igbo can find common ground and unite as Southern Nigeria's two main ethnic nationalities otherwise the South will continue to be politically disadvantaged even when it is the most educationally advantaged part of Nigeria.
It is true that the Igbo are marginalized in Nigeria, however, I am of the opinion that a lot of the blame for this can be laid at Ndi'Igbo's doorstep.
In my opinion, and remember this is an opinion not a fact, the major undoing of Ndi'Igbo is their misunderstanding of the term strength.
Ndi'Igbo erroneously believe all strength is physical. They do not seem to realize that strength is your ability to assert your will on earth and that that ability may not always be physical. The proverb-discretion is the better part of valor-is not understood by the Igbo. They tend to be reactionary and consider pausing to study a situation before you respond (not react) as cowardice. One or two of them may get it, but as a race in general they do not.
They do not consider diplomacy as a first step. To them it is weakness and makes you an efulefu! If they have an enemy, they are not able to suppress their emotions and work with those they do not like. They must make their hostility obvious to the person they do not like and being aware of the dislike, the person is armed against them. In an organization, others may be sublime and discrete in their scheming, but the Igbo are more likely to be obvious and in your face about theirs and end up causing unity amongst their enemies in plotting their downfall.
As a general rule, Ndi'Igbo have very little humility and are very proud individually though there are few exceptions and I must single out my friend Emeka Maduewesi as one of those exceptions. An epitome of a gentleman! Another example would be Uche Chuta. May God throw up leaders like Uche in Igboland!&
For example Since 2010, my white beard has been my trademark. In fact Punch newspapers refers to me as 'the white bearded Omokri'. Yesterday (May 30th), my grandfather called me and asked me to shave it off because he does not like it. That same day, I obeyed him. I obey my grandfather at 43 the same way I obeyed him at 3. I am very successful today and I trace my success to the upbringing and prayers I got from my father and grandfather. No money ritual is as effective as a prayer and blessing from your fathers. I may be wrong, but I am not sure that a father or grandfather can have this type of influence on an adult financially and socially successful male in Igbo land. What I did may even be construed as weakness.
In my opinion, Ndi'Igbo are also individually more intelligent than their neighbors (I call it as I see it) but they hardly use their intelligence to unite and have one leader, one goal and one destiny. Because of this, even though they are more intelligent, they are almost always doomed to serve those that are wiser than them because wisdom is superior to intelligence.
The Igbo also appear to value leaders because of the leader's personal attainments in life and so money gives you more leadership credentials than wisdom or age. They forget that a rich man may have more clothes than an elder but cannot have more rags than him. They overestimate the power of money and underestimate the power of wisdom.
If the Igbo can learn humility and practice diplomacy and discipline themselves to have one leader that they listen to in good and bad times not because he is always right but because he is their leader, their marginalization will end and their dominance will begin.
These are merely my opinions which may be wrong.
Now that I have touched on Ndi'Igbo, perhaps I may also touch on the South in general.
There are four things that the South has to understand about the North.
One, there is no such thing as Hausa Fulani. It is a myth. There is Hausa and there is Fulani.
The second thing is that the Fulani are not our enemies. They are our rivals for power. Once we make this paradigm shift, our attitudes to seeking political power will change.
The third thing is that the Northern elite are experts at brinkmanship.
A perfect example is the recent ranting by the chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, the cantankerous Ango Abdullahi, who says that the North is prepared to split from Nigeria.
When at Chief EK Clark's 90th birthday in Abuja, Ango Abdullahi said "I come from Kaduna State, the population according to the 2006 census puts us at 6.3 million. And if you look at the resources that come from the so called federation account to Kaduna, it is one quarter of what Delta gets", what Nigerians should understand is that he was only playing the game of brinksmanship.
Kaduna contributes only 0.1% of the funds that enter the Federation Account and gets 1.4% of the monies that leave the Federation Account.
Who should complain between Kaduna and Delta?
The fourth and final thing is that too many Southerners are filled with hostility for the Hausa people. Unbeknownst to but a few of us down South, there are very few actual Hausa people in the North.
Hausa is more of a language than a people. Most of those we in the South label 'Hausa' in the North are a motley crew of various minority ethnic groups who are bound together by a common lingua franca-Hausa.
For decades before Independence these minority groups had been dominated by the Fulani and when Independence came they thought that the more exposed Southerners would come and hand them a hand of fellowship and deliver them from their oppressors but to their shock we greeted them with hostility and sometimes open hatred and a wise sage like Sardauna Ahmadu Bello opened up his hands to them through his policy of One North and empowered Northern minorities like Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Sunday Awoniyi and co.
Who knows, he may have done the same with the South and created a truly 'One Nigeria', if his life had not been tragically cut short in the coup mistakenly called Nzeogwu coup but which was actually masterminded by Emmanuel Ifeajuna with Nzeogwu being slightly more than a pawn in the game.
Ahmadu Bello was not a tribalistic leader. But he was a regional leader. He was suspicious of Southerners in general and he had something akin to disdain and maybe even contempt for Ndi'Igbo. It is an inconvenient truth that cannot be denied. Even his hardcore followers cannot deny this. He is caught on video articulating this view and these videos are now on YouTube.
Some of Sir Ahmadu Bello's successors have built upon the foundations he laid and have matured to be great patriots.
For instance, despite what the media has written about him to exaggerate his faults, the fact remains that former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is one of the most patriotic Nigerians alive. Only President Olusegun Obasanjo can be said to be more patriotic than General Babangida in contemporary Nigerian history.
How do I mean? Consider this; In 1998 after Abacha died and Babangida's protege, General Abdulsalami Abubakar became head of state, President Babangida engineered the shift of political power from the North to the Southwest and specifically to President Olusegun Obasanjo.
For those who think that he had to do this let me ask you a question: What would have happened if the 1999 Presidential election had been thrown open to all and sundry, and not just restricted to the Southwest, and a Northerner like Atiku Abubakar or some other credible Northerner had won?
Would the Southwest have seceded? Would there have been war in 1999? Would Nigeria have gone the way of Rwanda? No, no, no!
There would have been a great discontent in the Southwest, but as long as the results were free and fair, there would have been little the Southwest could have done to change the situation.
Now let me ask a hypothetical question: Placed in that same situation, with Igbo dominance in the military and in government, would an Igbo leader have ceded power to the Yorubas to compensate them for an event like June 12 knowing that even if he did not there was little they could do by way of taking the power from him?
Even an Igbo man would agree with me that this is very unlikely.
I do not need to ask the question of whether or not a Yoruba man would do this because General Olusegun Obasanjo had already done it in 1979.
It is this statesmanly humility, (having the power to do something that would favour yours and your people's cause, yet having the conscience and discipline not to do it because it is against the principles of natural justice), that Ndi'Igbo lack in sufficient quantity at their leadership levels.
The above reason is why power continues to elude them. It is more than physical. It is spiritual. As James 4:10 says "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up."
This humility is ingrained into Yoruba and Northern youths from infancy. In the North, youths squat to greet their fathers and their male elders. In the Southwest, children are taught to prostrate for their elders as a form of greeting. Banky W, is an international star but when he met Dele Momodu, he prostrated before him. Long before him, Sir Shina Peters did that to King Sunny Ade. I doubt that an Igbo man can even muster enough humility to prostrate before his own father how much more an elder! He would consider that as foolishness.
And there is nothing unGodly about this. It is not idolatrous. Many Igbos like to claim Jewish ancestry. Maybe they are right maybe they are not. But Abraham is the father of the Jewish nation. In Genesis 18:2 the Bible records that "Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground."
Look at that "bowed low to the ground". Abraham prostrated!
That act of humility does not take anything from you. But it gives everything to you. You see, a man's greatest pleasure and need is not money or sex. It is to feel important. It is to be respected.
Both religion and science support this position. In Genesis 1:28 God gave man a charge and said "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion".
It is God Himself that put the desire in man to want to dominate, to want to be respected.
According to Sigmund Freud, man is dominated by two urges, the sex urge and the urge to be important. This goes back to Genesis 1:28 'be fruitful' and 'have dominion'.
Women by and large influence men through the first urge which Freud named 'Eros'. Men influence other men through another part of the male personality that Freud called ego.
Because every man has an ego (the only difference is in size) it is very difficult, if not impossible to influence another man without massaging his ego. Refusal to do so can only end in two ways:
Conflict: which arises when two egos collide and one refuses to bow to the other, or
Frustration: which arises when one person refuses to work on the ego of a man who has power over him.
And let me say that no one can have power over you except he was given that power by God which is why Romans 13:1 says "there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/06/03/igbo-can-learn-yoruba-fulani-power-reno-omokri/

Vaginal care is a very important facet of every woman’s lifestyle, with new trends continually coming to the fore.

However, women have been recently warned against trying a oak gall new trend that suggests using ground-up wasp nests to tighten and rejuvenate their vaginas.

According to the New York post, the trend involves the use of oak galls which are nests that house wasp eggs as a natural way of cleaning female genitals.

The product reportedly is crushed into a paste and applied topically, with one listing on Etsy, which has now been removed, claiming it can improve a woman’s sex life.



They are also being advertised by online retailers as helping to “heal episiotomy cuts, rejuvenate the uterine wall and clean out the vagina” after childbirth, though there are warnings that it can “burn” when applied.

However, gynecologist Jen Gunter is warning women not to get sucked in by the new trend after branding it “dangerous” — saying the practice is using “drying agents” to tighten the vagina.

Writing on her blog, she said: “Drying the vaginal mucosa increases the risk of abrasions during sex (not good) and destroys the protective mucous layer (not good).”

“It could also wreak havoc with the good bacteria. This is a dangerous practice with real potential to harm.”

“Here’s a pro-tip, if something burns when you apply it to the vagina it is generally bad for the vagina.”

But it’s not the first time the gynecologist has warned against using herbal remedies for the vagina.

Last year, she had similarly spoke out against the womb detox trend which claimed to help women with endometriosis, ovarian cysts, thrush and fibroids.

Bags of perfumed herbs, known as Herbal Womb Detox Pearls, were being promoted as a health boost and women were being told to insert three of the balls into the vagina for 72 hours.

But Gunter explained further: “Leaving a product that is not designed for prolonged vaginal use (and these are not) in the vagina is a risk for toxic shock syndrome. Just don’t do it.”

She stated.

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/06/03/gynecologist-jen-gunte-warn-against-oak-gall-new-trend-for-tightening-vaginas/

StateReporters News , Lagos

The Nigeria Customs Service Tincan Island Port Command, on 1st June, 2017, handed over 2 suspected stolen Range Rover SUV to Interpol.

In his narrative while handing over the Range Rovers, the Controller Tincan Island Port, Comptroller Bashar Yusuf disclosed that the interception was sequel to intelligence report from Interpol. He stated that the vehicles loaded in a 1x40ft container No. UACN 548368\1 was imported from Washington D.C in the United States of America and declared as Toyota Tundra and Chevrolet Cruiz with some bicycles.

He stated further that based on the intelligence made available to Customs from Interpol, all consignments from the United States were placed on high surveillance to ensure that the suspected container is tracked.

“The vessel was monitored from the port of loading to Tincan Island Port and was intercepted on arrival at the Tincan Island Port”. The vehicles are Gold coloured Range Rover Suv 2014 with Chasis No.SALGS2VFGEA126188 and one black coloured Range Rover Suv 2015 with Chasis No. SALGS37FOFA239330.

Comptroller Bashar expressed the deep commitment of the Nigeria Customs Service to partner and share intelligence with all agencies both foreign and local in the spirit of inter-agency collaboration and synergy.

Generally speaking, he was emphatic that the interception will portray the country in good light considering the concerted effort of the service in ensuring that the exhibits were tracked. He reiterated the need for Nigerians to desist from acts capable of bringing the country to disrepute, particularly in this era of Information Technology where interception of this nature will be Internet based.

He vowed that the Nigeria Customs Service will resist any attempt by any individual or organization to use Nigeria as a conduit pipe for illicit transactions and noted that Interpol Nigeria will subject the vehicles to due diligence investigation through the Courts and will eventually use their internal mechanisms for repatriation of the vehicles to the United State

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/06/02/stolen-suv-range-rover-from-washington-seize-by-custom-and-handed-over-to-interpol/

One week, two dramas, who will save Okorocha from himself?

Whenever I’m about to forget what it means to be a politician in these parts, I remind myself of the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha. He combines the drama and ebullience of Ayo Fayose with the shenanigans and hubris of Wada Nas. The fellow just keeps your jaw agape, making you laugh and cry at once.

It happened to me twice last week. First came the news that Okorocha had rejected the appointment of his daughter, Uju Anwuka, to the Board of the Federal College of Education and Technology, Omoku.

He said he rejected it because he was not consulted and he suspected that it was a Greek gift by unnamed politicians who don’t wish him and his family well.

I’m sure that Okorocha knows by now that if his wellbeing depended on what people wish, especially those in his State wish, he would be long gone back to his village in Ogboko. The Imo State that he is governing today is, in many ways, a shadow of itself unable to pay its workers or pensioners and yet having enough to dedicate official quarters to the first family.

Imo is a chattel of Okorocha, a piece of real estate for the governor and his family. I will come to that.

If Okorocha says the offer of a board appointment to his daughter was a setup, he must know what he is talking about. But I still don’t understand why it was his job to reject the offer for his adult daughter. Wasn’t it possible for him to explain whatever dilemma it was privately to his daughter and for her to publicly and personally reject the offer for whatever reason?

How many Nigerians who are not Okorochas get such malicious offers of appointment? And God knows that out of the 541 Federal boards in this country you can count on the fingers of one hand those where an appointment means appointment to work.

Take the National Population Commission (NPC) board, for example. The Board comprises 37 commissioners statutorily appointed from the 36 states and Abuja with a five-year tenure each. They are virtually on the same level with Federal ministers, drawing comparable personal benefits, allowances and perks.

For all the free milk and honey, in a place like the NPC board, for example, all 37 commissioners appointed after 2006 when the last census was conducted have done nothing in 11 years. No enumeration, no census, nothing. But they earned their allowances and perks nonetheless.

Multiply this waste in about 541 places, including the College of Education board, where Okorocha would have us believe that his daughter was ruthlessly set up, and you will understand why the biggest favour anyone can do us is to scrap the boards, including the one where Uju Anwuka has been offered an unsolicited letter of employment. The board members should all go home.

But the College of Education board recusal was just one incident. It was, for Okorocha – my governor, my governor – one week, two dramas. The second was at the Children’s Day leadership summit hosted by the Imo State government and broadcast live on Friday, May 26.

I thought it was a day when any modest host would lead from behind, allowing the children to take the stage as they share their hopes, aspirations and disappointments with us.

In a country where one million children die of preventable diseases yearly and where 40 percent of children between the ages of six and eleven have no access to primary education, I thought the generation of leaders that has been responsible for this mess would be ashamed to preach to the same children whose future they have eaten along with their own.

Not Okorocha. He shamed shame. The summit stage was his shrine with his life-size pictures emblazoned in a backdrop. They provided a throne for him on his altar, while a few aides and security men squatted, almost incognito, on a low bench behind the governor’s throne.

Speaker after speaker mounted the stage to speak of how the governor has turned their night into day. They spoke of how he makes the sun to rise and the rain to fall and how the state could never see the like of him again in our lifetime. His Excellency grinned through it all as he fiddled with his trademark sash.

Hardly anything was said about leadership or the tens of hundreds left behind.

I didn’t see civil servants who have been compelled by Okorocha to forfeit 60 per cent of their monthly salaries and still don’t get paid the balance regularly. I didn’t see pensioners who travelled all the way to Owerri, the State capital, to sign off 60 percent of their 24-month pension arrears and yet are not getting the balance regularly. I didn’t see elders of communities who levied themselves to support Okorocha’s fourth-tier community government but who have apparently been conned.

Only the whitewashed crowd was invited. Depressingly, they also recruited children, who took turns to praise the governor in exchange for plastic hugs from him. I’m trying hard to remember the lessons the children learnt about leadership but it’s the charade that keeps coming to my mind.

I know that with Okorocha nearing the end of his second term, there’s nothing we can do to make him change his ways. He will continue to reign like an emperor and we must bow or be bent for his good pleasure.

His fingers are in every pie. His wife, Nkechi, is the only person in Nigeria who has more government portfolios than Babatunde Fashola: she supervises the Ministries of Women Affairs, Works, Health and the Office of the Secretary to the State Government. His son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, is the Chief of Staff, and a government building is named after one of his daughters, Uloma Nwosu. Imo is Okorocha’s chattel.

Is it too much to ask that he should leave the children out of his drama the next time?

As for the rest of Imo and other states afflicted with wolves in sheep’s clothing, the lesson is to be a little more careful the next time you vote. That’s your only insurance.


http://www.statereporters.com/2017/06/01/one-week-two-dramas-who-will-save-okorocha-from-himself/


Ezugwu Okike is an Online Political Editor with StateReporters News Cable . With a decade experience in investigative journalism, Public Affairs Commentator , political analysis and a graduate of law. Ezugwu also produces Interview shows with StateReporters News Cable

Good for her

Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has said that the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) was possible because of democracy.

Ikpeazu said this while addressing State House correspondents, after a meeting with Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday.

The Governor said the compliance could be either to show solidarity with IPOB, or to avoid falling victims to miscreants “who might want to take advantage of the situation”.

Ikpeazu added: “You know the beauty of democracy is that there is freedom of expression and we also have the freedom of gathering and meeting.
“My experience in that area is that we have two major cities in Abia; Umuahia was quiet, Aba is calm also, government offices and agencies opened, but is up to businessmen to either open their shops or close them at will.
“Two reasons, one some people want to comply and the second reason is that a few people will want to close their shops for fear that hoodlums may hijack the exercise to loot.
“So in all as long as no life is lost, as long as nobody is molested, as long as lives and property are secured, it is okay. That’s my assessment of it.”


http://www.statereporters.com/2017/05/31/biafra-sit-home-order-ipob-enjoying-beauty-democracy-abia-state-governor-ikpeazu/


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Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy Senate President, representing Enugu West senatorial district, is the leader of Ndigbo in People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the leading opposition party in Nigeria. That is why the raid on his Abuja guest house by Special Squad of the Inspector-General of Police last Friday where he claimed nothing was found has generated lot of reactions.

A school of thought described the raid as part of the plan of the ruling APC to gag opposition in the country. Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation described it as an attempt to silence opposition in the country.

He said, “It is about time Nigerians woke up and stood up to their madness and tyranny. We must employ all lawful means to resist them and expose them for what they are. Ekweremadu made history in 2015 as the first senator to be elected deputy senate president from the opposition party.

His emergence was made possible by the internal wrangling in the APC, over who should occupy the principal positions in both chambers. Since the emergence of Ekweremadu who is one of the longest serving senator, the ruling party has made every effort to unseat him.But this has not been posssible due to the determination of members to guide against external influence.

Recently,Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, who is also the chairman of Progressives Governors’ Forum , at the meeting of the APC governors in Abuja, revealed the plan of the party to ensure that Ekweremadu vacates the position of Deputy Senate President,which, in the history of Nigeria democracy, has been occupied by the ruling party.

Okorocha was scheming for Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu, who then won the Imo North senatorial election on the platform of APC to take over from Ekweremadu. He said, “The position of Senator Ike Ekweremadu as the Deputy Senate President is at the moment under heavy threat, because in no distant time, the APC Senator in-waiting from Imo State, Benjamin Uwajumogu, will take over the seat on the grounds that it is an aberration that a PDP senator from the South-East is deputy to an APC Senate President because, before now, the APC could not produce a senator from the South-East zone”.

Chief Ekweremadu, in 2002, was appointed Secretary to the Enugu State Government. Before then he was Chairman of Aninri in 1997 and won the Best Local Government Chairman, Award in Enugu State. He was appointed the Chief of Staff of the Enugu State Government House before his election into the senate in 2003.

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/05/31/storm-not-yet-over-for-senator-ekweremadu-see-why/

this is too bad,will need a change in this country

you can view the reason why he fired all
here using this link

https://www.nairaland.com/3831167/okorocha-fires-all-commissioners-27

Report coming in from imo state early this morning indicate that
Okorocha fires all commissioners, 27 local government committees on Biafra Remembrance day

– Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Tuesday sacked the state executive council and 27 local government transition committees with immediate effect – The Transition Committee (TC) chairmen are advised to hand over to the directors of administration and general services of their respective council areas A statement by the Principal Secretary to the governor, Mr Pascal Obi, in Owerri directed all former members of the executive to hand over to permanent secretaries or the most senior director in their ministries.

Obi quoted the governor as appreciating the invaluable contributions of the affected appointees to the success recorded by his rescue mission administration and wishes them well in their future endeavours.

At the time of filling this report StateReprters News has yet to confirm the reason behind the sack.

Although our source inside indicate it was due the support those appointes gave to the celebration of Biafra Rememberance day in owerri

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/05/31/okorocha-fires-all-commissioners-27-local-government-transition-committees-on-biafra-remembrance-day/

https://www.nairaland.com/3830672/biafra-sit-home-owerri-record highest percentage

check what happen in owerri

The sit-at-home protest ordered by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB) today registered near total compliance with Markets, banks, schools, transport companies shutting down business activities for the day.



StateReporters News Correspondent who monitored the level of compliance in all cities in the state reports that in Owerri imo state, all major markets were under lock and keys, while resident who intended to move from one location to another were stranded as vehicles were scarcely available, save for few people who drove in their private cars.
According to Mr Anywanu Dainel who told our Correspondent in owerri
Near orji Amawire junction that he was disappointed when he left his house in the morning around 9.00am to access cash in diamond bank near orji as was stranded when he get to bank seem that banks was close

StateReporters News, however, reports that as at the time of filing this report, some roadside traders had picked up courage and started opening their shops for business.

The entire exercise has so far been peaceful, and police have been sighted around various towns patrolling to ensure that no violence was recorded.

When will visit peace park mass Transit orji will able to see few people who are not up to 9 in no sitting at park discuss about Biafra

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/05/30/biafra-sit-home-owerri-record-highest-percentage-compliance-banks-schools-market-shoutdown/

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), in what appears to be defiance of court condition for granting him bail, addressed a crowd of supporters, numbering more than 10, in his father’s compound in Abia State.

The address, whose video has since gone viral on social media, appeared a violation of conditions set by Justice Binta Nyako when she granted Mr. Kanu bail in April.

Mr. Kanu, who is facing charges of treasonable felony at the Federal High Court in Abuja has been at the vanguard of the call for an independent Biafra republic from the Nigerian state.

In granting him bail in April, Justice Nyako listed 12 conditions, including an order for Mr. Kanu to avoid being seen in a crowd of more than 10 people.

The court also instructed that Mr. Kanu desist from granting interviews or engaging in any form of rallies as part of his conditions for bail.

However, in the 14 minutes, 22 seconds video, Mr. Kanu is seen speaking to a congregation of Biafran supporters on the occasion of the Shabbat, a Jewish religious programme.

“Not minding what is happening, we remain IPOB, is that correct? (Crowd respond in chants of affirmation for Mr. Kanu’s question). We are unstoppable. This congregation here is very special to me. This is the very first observance of Shabbat in this very family. My joy knows no bounds because in prison I used to dream about this; I used to dream about keeping the Shabbat,” he said.

The IPOB leader also made reference to the call by his organisation for the Igbo and supporters of Biafra to shut down their business operations on May 30, a call that has been condemned by the police.

“On the 30th of May, we will shut this very place down and prepare for Biafra. The choice is theirs, if they will give us a date for the referendum. And if they fail to do that there will be no election in the south east forever and ever,” he said.

Mr. Kanu had applied for the bail alongside his co-defendants, David Nwawuisi, Benjamin Madubugwu and Chidiebere Onwudiwe. He was granted bail, alone, on health grounds, with the judge granting orders for Mr. Kanu’s medical report to be delivered to the court on a monthly basis.

Reacting to the implication of the video on Mr. Kanu’s bail condition, his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, said Mr. Kanu’s appearance in a crowd of more than 10 people cannot be regarded as a negation of court orders.

“I have not seen the video, you are referring to, but that cannot be seen in the context you are taking it. The court itself recognised the fact that Kanu is a religious man and that is why one of his sureties was required to be a religious leader from his Jewish religion.

“Remember that Kanu is a Jew. The court, for example, cannot say that Kanu should not go to church, or to a supermarket or any such similar places. That condition and a few others are part of what we are seeking to get the court to interpret,” the counsel said.

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/05/29/nnamdi-kanu-defies-court-order-addresses-pro-biafra-crowd/

Today is Nigeria’s Democracy Day!

A critical look in the Nigeria’s so-called ‘Democracy’ birthed the caption of this write-up, This Is Not Democracy; It Must be Demo-Crazy.

This caption quickly reminds me of Seyed Mehdi’s 2014 satirical novel titled Democracy or Demo Crazy, which tells the story of a people who in an effort to deny any of the twenty-four brothers a second chance at the throne, finally decide to vote for prince number twenty-five, called Demo Crazy, who is in no way considered qualified for the position. The people actually do not believe that he will win, but they vote for him because they believe that he will most likely be the least brutal, and less of a tyrant than any of the other brothers. Demo Crazy forms a circle of cohorts and enacts his own Demo Crazian principles which consist of a combination of oppression and deception of the masses. He embarks upon a mission to destroy the country, playing off his actions as a “service” to the people. As it turns out, he is really in fact an enemy agent, who after ultimately fleeing his own country and taking refuge in enemy lands, surrenders his nation to them. The behavior and documented speeches of Demo Crazy are truly astonishing, and even more unusual are the laws and regulations he exercised in ruling over his country.

Often times, I wonder if Mehdi, our Persian writer, had Nigeria in mind in the writing of that novel, because all the attributes of the character Demo Crazy seem to look into political games which the Nigerian Politicians are known for.

It was Abraham Lincoln, who on November 19th, 1863 defined Democracy as ‘the government of the people, for the people and by the people.’ The most important aspect of Democracy that comes to our mind whenever we are dealing with the issue is simply the symbolic aspect of freely electing our leaders. This is most significant. Yet, if that understanding is something to go by, you would bear me witness that the so-called democracy is nothing but a scam.





So many years after we got married to democracy, we seem to have nowhere we are heading to. It is either we starving ourselves intentionally, or rather, the fact that we do not understand what the ideal democracy really is. Just like the famous philosopher Cicero, I strongly believe that, a man cannot be eloquent in a subject that he does not understand.

Before 1999, during the military rule, Nigerians campaigned gloriously for the coming of democracy, with a belief that it would provide a solution to all our political problems. After a long struggle, which was finally won, democracy was returned with the election of Olusegun Obasanjo, as the first democratic president of Nigeria. But have we truly gotten the success we carved for?

A critical study on the type of democracy which Nigeria practices reveals that, our democracy is a continuation of the military rule. Now, you can agree with me that, the only difference between democracy and military rule is that the democratic leaders parade themselves on civilian wears. Remove that, then, they are just the same.





When the military boys were in power, our people blamed them for corruption. Now, the amount of loots which we record has outnumbered whatever we saw with the military boys.

We cried out obviously on the issue of insecurity during the military regime, we cried out too, how people were disappearing on daily bases. One can now say that even the military boys tried in keeping insecurity very low, and it is so sad when you compare it with the civilian government, which should be better and safer.

What has the civilian government done in addressing some specific issues like poverty and unemployment? Why are the Nigerian youths jobless even after so many years of graduating from the University? Why is there an increase in poverty rate? Why is hunger lurking around the cranes of this nation? Hunger, in a wealthy Nigeria makes the country a crazy one.

Oil boom has made Nigeria one of the richest countries in the world, and placed us in the map of great importance. But what has those monies been used in building? How many good roads do we have in the country? How many bridges can we count? The schools in the country owned by the government are nothing to go by. Hospitals keep frustrating the lives of their patients through unnecessary strike actions. Show me a railway station in Nigeria and I will raise my eye-brows. There is none in Nigeria till today, but this is the country that prides herself as the giant of Africa. Is this not craziness?

The most painful thing now with our current Nigeria is that our politicians have not learnt anything from the past. They feel very insensitive to the matters of Nigeria. Every new election brings us men and women who are only focused with embezzling the nation’s wealth and drying up the treasury. And history keeps on repeating itself. This is craziness.

There is nothing free and fair in the way our leaders are elected. The heinous actions which are fostered by our electoral system are indeed a cause for alarm. What have we not seen? Is it the snatching of ballot boxes? Or the falsification of election statistics? Or godfatherism that come with it? What?

What we have not known is that, a government that is unjustly imposed by means of fraud will also rule in the same way. We shouldn’t expect them to turn into angels overnight. This therefore, sweeps the ideal democracy under the carpet, and brings demo-crazy to us.

Now, I must state it here: Democracy has failed Nigeria.

Come to think of it, ever since tribal politics crawled into our democracy, it failed. This is because, geo-political zoning have become the order of the day. The tribalism which this has caused over the years is part of the causes of demo-crazy. As a result, power now rotates barely on a particular section of a people while the minority perishes. Marginalization and her sister issues like domination, injustice, and ethnic-cleansing set in. The lucky faction rules the country, by getting the key positions and also recycling their own people there. They cut of oppositions and even try to exterminate any visible opponents.

Like I noted above, Democracy has failed Nigeria. But what shall we do? Should we fold our hands and watch it to continue failing us?



Now, Democracy Day is a great day to reflect on our democracy, how it has failed us and how to make it work. This day, I call upon the government, and all the people of Nigeria, to join hands in salvaging this dying democracy. But, until then, let me remind you, This is not Democracy; It Must be Demo-Crazy.

Happy Demo-Crazy Day!

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/05/29/not-democracy-must-demo-crazy/

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has described the Petroleum Industrial Bill (PIB) recently approved by the Senate as fraud on the people of Niger Delta Region.

Onuesoke who made the observation while speaking to journalists in Port Harcourt, Rivers State after a seminar he attended on climate change said he had gone through the approved PIB Bill and discovered that the section of the bill which allocated ten percent development fund to host communities where oil companies operate was removed from the approved bill.

Onuesoke recalled that in the draft PIB Bill, ten percent was allocated to communities were the oil companies are allocated, adding that the recommendation was removed from the approved Bill.

He argued that the removal of the community fund clause which was the main solution to Niger Delta problems is way of impoverishing the already disparaging people of the Niger Delta region.

“The removal of community fund which was the main solution to the Niger Delta problems is way of impoverishing the already disparaged people of the Niger Delta Region. Just like the infamous Onshore/ Offshore dichotomy, the Senate removal of the community fund is like passing a bitter pill down the throat of the Niger Deltans.
“This is the ulcer that has eaten deep into our collective fabrics.chief JAMES ibori, Obong Victor Attah together with other patriotic indigenes of the region fought the onshore/ offshore saga to bring succour to the region. But government of the day has deleted the betterment that would have accrued to each of the Host communities that are directly suffering the hazards of oil exploration. The effects on their arable land and aquatic life would have had recompense,” Onuesoke argued.

Onuesoke who said these was while he keep preaching unity among the niger delta tribes instead of them championing ownership of land and tribalism among themselves within the region. They should embrace one another than cutting selfish niche for themselves.

He appealed to members of the Red Chamber to consider the implementation of the ten percent fund for host communities as enshrined in the PIB draft copy so as to act as succor for host communities in the Niger Delta Region.

“The Senate should be considerate in their action. For fruitful bussines
to take place in the region the host communities should be given adequate attention,” he stated.

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/05/27/approved-pib-bill-fraud-people-niger-delta-onuesoke/

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