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Lionnation:
note the difference, it's a geopolitical zone not an ethnic group, educated illiterates

It is the same.

The logic of handing power to a geopolitical zone gave Nigeria the poor and failed leadership of OBJ, GEJ and lastly, Buhari repeating that mistake because we want to accommodate the interest of the SE or the Igbo ethnic group will lead to another failed leader.

Nigeria should return to ethnic political parties such as the old NPN, UPN and NPP and let start the real restructuring, the national parties' project (APC/PDP) has failed woefully because Nigeria can never be a united nation. Let APGA, SDP and other regional political parties dominate their regions.

kingthreat:
While this is happening, Osinbajo is declaring for presidency.
Your citizens are in the bush under terror and you just do not give a hoot whether they are dead or not.
This insensitivity simply has to end. Maybe the whole Nigerian populace should ban elections from taking place. No votes.
We cannot elect fools into power and bear with their incompetencies.

It is shocking. They are only interested in their self -interest.

Penguin2:
I’ve said it before and I will say it again…

In 2023, it’s either Igbo presidency or Nigeria will sign the divorce papers.

Between two things, one must happen.

I will rather sign the divorce papers than be blackmailed by an ethnic group.

samwash:
After the failed years of APC & what they have done to the Nigerian economy, you still expect me to rejoice if an Ameachi, Osinbajo or Tinubu is getting the ticket to contest for the seat of the president.
I wonder what APC will use to campaign this time around & their manifesto.

You have a choice there are other parties like ADC, SDP, AAC and APGA the excuse that the new parties don't have the finance or infrastructure is nonsense, democracy should be about ideas and policies but Nigerians want to be paid to vote. We deserve our selected politician

PoliticalChinex:
Russia have exposed themselves as highly overated in conventional warfare.

So we should test their ability in Nuclear war

Buhari warned against corruption and its implication but is currently the most corrupt president in Nigeria's history. The current minister of petroleum has done more damage to Nigeria, through his incompetence and mismanagement.

They say the first stage of corruption is incompetence. I will advise Northern Nigeria against believing that Buhari is a victim of corruption when in fact he is the perpetuator.

And yet, for the deadly attack of the past fortnight, all of these appear to have been foretold, and by none more than President Buhari himself who had warned repeatedly about the dangers of corruption to the development of a young nation such as ours.

Paulheyman:
My Journey through academics (Bsc. MSc. Ph.D)

NOTE: I am writing this article to inspire young Nigerians/Africans who have flair for academics.

My name is Emeka Ekanem Muyiwa Kyari and I was born a sickle cell patient. At the age of seven, I developed passion for teaching, my love for teaching was born out of my urge to know more. I was passionate about learning. Though, my maternal grandfather was a headmaster, I dreamt of becoming a Professor someday. My greatest weakness was my health, my greatest strength was my friends and family.

Naturally I was born "maybe" intelligent but those who are familiar with sickle cell crisis knows that at certain age the crisis becomes increasingly recurrent and this was the greatest set back I had during my BSc. because it affected my CGPA (3.39/5). Except for my second semester 4th year, I couldn't write a single quiz/test during my BSc. even the exams I wrote from my sick bed.

During my NYSC I was posted to Akwa Ibom State (I love Akwa Ibom). I am a lone wolf, I function better alone. I had a dream which is getting MSc. and staying back in Akwa Ibom would hinder that dream. My little alawee can't sustain my stay in Akwa Ibom State moreover we all thought that the state paid #16k but during camping we discovered they paid #6k so I had to redeploy to my state where they paid #5k/month. I was able to save up enough fund by living with my parents, in fact I saved everything I was paid just so that I could start my MSc.

After the NYSC I enrolled for my MSc. in Nnamdi Azikiwe university (NAU). I was once again faced with my greatest fear which was my health. I had crisis multiple times, even during my exams. As my savings was gradually depleting, I took a job that paid me #3500; funny thing is that my present office actually closed the school down. Then, I took another job that paid #7500, then, another that paid #15000 before getting employed by the state civil service. My MSc. delayed but I later got it at the 4th year, CGPA (4.06/5). My MSc. was a battle fought in love and on grace. The universe was kind to me and I survived the journey. My worst experience was the day I took pain killer injections at Eastern mass transit park in awka (terrible).

Then, came the PhD. The challenges where enormous, my fear were still there but the crisis wasn't recurrent as before. Again love, grace, humility and perseverance saw me through. The PhD came within 3 years. CGPA (5/5). I finished my PhD at 30 years

My Advice to young Academia's
1) To succeed in academics requires perseverance and love of what you're doing.
2) Keep your circle of friends tiny as possible. If possible be an island.
3) The dissuading voices are there to motivate you. Use them, let them penetrate you. My "guy" told me it was impossible to finish PhD in three years but I did
4) Don't wait to have enough fund to start your postgraduate journey. The university is an ocean of opportunities. You'll get enough fund to see you through your study.
5) Avoid any relationship that will lead to spending money. Minimize your expenditure
6) You must create time for leisure but ensure it won't cost you much money.
7) Your supervisor should be your best friend, they've what it takes to progress your research.
Join many groups on Facebook based on your research interest, follow people on Twitter who share similar research interest with you. Don't forget to always ask questions. In fact form the habit of questioning everything
9) Chose your area of specialization and research interest based solely on your passion. When you're passionate about a research findings it makes it easier to progress. Be guided!!!
10) Equip yourself with so much knowledge during your PhD, don't leave PhD empty, your PhD knowledge will prepare you and skyrocket you to greatness. During my PhD I learnt how to use so many software such as Autodock, Autodock vina, NAMD, SPSS, pyrx, pymol, Discovery studio, Avogadro, Sigmaplot, Datawarrior etc and all was fun. I had friends on Facebook (non Nigerians) to teach and guide me through each software


Conclusion
Though I am not a professor yet, but I believe that at the appropriate time I will. I made it this far, I know that everyone else will. School is fun not scam. One day I know that my certificates will fetch me greatness because I don't just wanna be a salary earner I want to be remembered for my contribution to knowledge.

My name is E.E.M Kyari BSc., PGDE, MSc., PhD

Congrats

Your BSc., PGDE, MSc., PhD were in what field of discipline.

showafrica:
But why would Nigeria run power grid from North to South. Why not generate in each state and save us these stress

Chief, no one can understand the logic of Nigeria.

The North has hydro, solar and wind, the South has oil, gas and solar each region should localise its energy needs.

The reason why decentralisation and restructuring are now very important is that one region is subsiding the poverty of other regions.

joe54:
As patriots we must unite and condemn this Destruction of national infrastructure.

We should be reminded that we are in massive debt brought upon us by our failed political elite.

Instead of asking for unity only.

Why not question the relevance of Nigeria's Electricity architecture?
Why should a power plant based in Akwa Ibom affect the entire country?

Nigeria must decentralise its infrastructure and security architecture immediately.

erico2k2:
And UK generates 75.8GW of electricity. chi this life nor balance

Under sanction, Iran is generating 85 GW

Nigeria can now generate 751 MW for a country of 220 million.
Egypt is generating 62,0000 MW
SA is generating 53,0000 MW
Ghana is generating 6000 MW

This is not funny, the country has collapsed completely.

Tinubuadvocate:
Yakubu gowon has done the right thing Buhari will not do pass himself. Their condemnation will not help the matter. Instead they should look for solutions.

This insecurity of thing not started during Buhari administration he only inherited it and getting worst daily. The activities of this terrorist might last for 50 years if north not come together and stop the war.

He was elected (selected) to fix the problems he inherited and not make them worst.

buckeyemedia:
Na Jonathan finalize privatization of electricity 7th November 2013? President Buhari inherited quacks.

Even electricity no dey Ebele village to tell you how Mumurist Jonathan was?

So why didn't Buhari fix what he inherited, 7 years is more than enough time to solve the problem. He had a solution to increase energy generate to 7000, 11000 and 25000 in 5 years, what happened to that plan.

It is easier to talk about a plan but doing it is difficult.

grandstar:
Are you for real? If you don't judge the tyrant, then don't blame the victim. If Putin did not want Ukraine to join NATO, this could be achieved without firing a single shot.

Zelensky refuses Scholz's offer to avoid war with Russia. An offered neutrality was struck by the German Chancellor and Putin in February but Zelensky rejected the deal and insisted that joining NATO was the will of the Ukrainian people. Ukraine wanted this war and didn't believe that Russia would attack. They are getting what they deserve.

ENGINEERG:
Stop disturbing yourself, reasonable countries are not fighting war again....But don't we have like 3 countries that are part of NATO sharing boundary with Russia before? Can't NATO attack Russia from there or what are u saying ?

Reasonable countries are not fighting war again because they have outsourced wars to your backyard. USA defence budget is $740 billion per annum, you think that budget is for buying sweets.

You need to wake up, your so-called Western friend is truly your enemy, you think Shell, Exxon and Total are working for Nigeria's interest.

As Rage Against the Machine will say no your enemy.

plaindealer:
This is the saddest and most despicable war effort in the history of mankind.

You keep saying you are fighting a war that is supposed to be with the Ukrainian army, but most of the fighting and destruction is with the civilians.

All the missiles fired are on civilian targets, civilian infrastructures including housing, hospitals and now train station.

Why not just go and face the Ukrainian military and leave the civilians alone?

I've never seen this kind of war in my life..

How many civilians have died?

We know that Russia has lost between 7000-15000 men according to Western media.
We don't know the causality of the Ukraine army

So please educate us on the number of civilian death because major towns and cities have been spared destruction by Russia, you think that they cannot flatten Odessa, Kyiv, Liev and many other cities.

Maynman:
How is usa and nato using Ukraine? Was it Ukraine that invaded Russia?
Who is using Russia?
And Russia cares so much about Ukraine, it’s visible for all to see right?

Are you living under a rock, it's all over the western media that the Ukraine war will be a repeat of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, the end result was Afghanistan was destroyed and the Taliban was created. The Soviet Union collapsed.

The difference is that the world is more bipolar with China and India now becoming major world players due to the size of their economies.

paafin:
Chad, Cameroon and Niger pose no military threat to Nigeria..

That's why these west ass aslickers always call this war "Unprovoked"..

Oga, this war was highly provoked!

The provocation was blatant and out there for all to see, NATO expansion to the border of Russia and the USA withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was all that triggered Russia's response.

NATO has also been more offensive such as their invasion of the old Yugoslavia, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.

United States withdrawal - Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
On 13 December 2001, George W. Bush gave Russia notice of the United States' withdrawal from the treaty, in accordance with the clause that required six months' notice before terminating the pact—the first time in recent history that the United States has withdrawn from a major international arms treaty.[15] This led to the eventual creation of the American Missile Defense Agency.[16]

Supporters of the withdrawal argued that it was a necessity in order to test and build a limited National Missile Defense to protect the United States from nuclear blackmail by a rogue state. B[b]ut, the withdrawal had many foreign and domestic critics, who said the construction of a missile defense system would lead to fears of a U.S. nuclear first strike, as the missile defense could blunt the retaliatory strike[/b] that would otherwise deter such a preemptive attack. John Rhinelander, a negotiator of the ABM treaty, predicted that the withdrawal would be a "fatal blow" to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and would lead to a "world without effective legal constraints on nuclear proliferation". Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry also criticized the U.S. withdrawal as a very bad decision.[17]

Feggie3:
You see your stupidity? Ukrainians specifically elected this man because they are tired of pro Russian puppets. Ukrainians went on a wide protest because they wanted NATO and EU and they wanted to break out from Russia's hostility.

There was a coup in 2014 backed by the USA to remove the elected president.

The comedian president has taken his country into a proxy war between the West (NATO) and Russia with the consequence being the total destruction of Ukraine and its people. This is the tragedy of the situation.

ENGINEERG:
This is so painful that just a mere FEAR that Ukraine is joining NATO is causing all these death at this century, when war is not common again.
If not that Russia and their supporters are bastered, why the pain of Ukraine joining NATO...Three formal Soviet union countries( latvia, lithuania, estonia) have joined NATO before and heven didnt fall, but Ukraine own is their headache now.
Russia has not benefited Ukraine, and same Russia don't want them to join EU and NATO that will pay them.
As The world saw the end of Hitler, definitely the world will see the end of Putin.
And as for Putin supporters, may you experience more evil than what Ukrainians are experiencing now

Russia's fear is justified, based on historical facts; Napoleon and Hitler both invaded and virtually destroyed Russia via Belarus and Ukraine.

Russia has to decide their future today, on whether it will allow Ukraine to be a member of NATO thereby hosting an offensive nuclear weapon that can hit Moscow in 6 minutes or whether it should end NATO expansion and aggression now.

Russians are not docile Africans

There are no thanks for being stupid after the event.

This is so sad.

RIP young doctor.

Please stop showing her naked body, it is disrespectful to her family.

Ezeama400:
Asari Dokubo should tell Niger Delta how and Why he ended up his fraudulent agitation... Everbody is not selfish like you clown who usedNiger Delta agitation to enrich yourself and built several universities in another African country..

Look at this clown asking for Peter Obi's achievement, are you daft ?. What is Anambra without Peter Obi ?
Ofcourse another criminal and moronic politician who sees Peter Obi as a threat has listed you on his payroll to do a dirty job that will definitely lead you to your perpetual disgrace..

Pls for the purpose of readers...

Below is what Peter Obi achieved in his first two and half years as a governor...

I will still come bck and update you guys more..
Anambra was the first State to commence Sub-Sovereign Wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. At a time many other Governors were leaving huge debts, I left the equivalent of $500 million Dollars in investment as well as local and foreign currency, including $156 million in Dollar-denominated bonds..

This just confirms Peter Obi uselessness, funds that should have been invested in roads, healthcare, education and electricity were put into savings, in a corrupt country like Nigeria. There is nothing wrong with debt if it is invested in development and industry.

Zoning the presidency wasn't right in 1999 and is wrong in 2022.

Nigeria is in a mess today is because the presidency was zoned to the SW region and produced a president that served the interest of the military cabal at the expense of the country, today Nigeria can barely function as a country.

We must not repeat the mistake of the past, Nigeria doesn't need an ethnic president.

EHoudini:
At the peak of fuel scarcity my wife befriended a filling station manager- a mallam! She got two full tanks of fuel, one for herself, another for her friend; and 20L for me. I innocently and gladly accepted, in a jerrycan. I didn't even pay, to be honest.

Few days later, when we had a little misunderstanding, she bragged to me that the fuel I've been using to cruise around was given to her by a man like me! Dangerous talks.

Since then, even we settled somewhat she's been receiving strange calls at odd hours.
Few nights ago, I was woken up by her shouts on the phone; that she's a married woman and that the person on the other end should stop calling her! I couldn't help but think and believe it's the manager. As though she didn't know she was married before she swindled the man of his fuel!

With all the aphrodisiacs (buran tashi) these mallams use, her (my wife's) nyansh go don suffer.

There's no free lunch even in Freetown.

Pray for me!

Your wife is a LovePeddler and you are a love-vendor. bloody lowlife

basilo101:
Tackle poverty first before infrastructure

Education, Health Care, and Security should be the first priority before audio projects.

Fahdiga:
Which powerhouse? This man might be meth addict for saying this trash

A powerhouse of terrorism, this government is all about image, nothing substantial, the railway that they have claimed to build has no fuel and security they can't even count the number of passengers on the trains. Rice pyramid but the cost of a bag of rice is going up. Fertiliser , but who is going to farm

Truthisunique2:
if you remove your lens of hate you would see the abuja-kaduna rail is already working and completed

1,25,10,12,13,15,14,16,17,18,19,20,21,23,24,27,26,28,30,36,39,40,42,,43,47,50,51,54 are not milestone that are "ongoing"

7 years and still ongoing, total uselessness people that are fit to run a toilet.

Buhariiswicked:
https://independent.ng/2023-malami-speaks-on-running-for-kebbi-governorship-election/

When did he become DR Malami ?

Truthisunique2:
Na man when dey deliver we want dey vote for henforth

Youth when never reach 60

Everything is an ongoing project, they have been in government for close to 7 years but they are still ongoing.

slimfit1:
This is an insult to Nigerians, to consult people that put us in a this state that we are in and make it bold and public, tells us or maybe me that PDP will never change, must not be allowed to hold any position of power. PDP have no morals, we must not make the mistake of running back to them again. We must keep away from anyone with Apc or pdp DNA we need fresh product.

ovieigho:
Let me remind you

Tinubu visited IBB too

Peter Obi and Atiku also visited IBB this year. The owner of Nigeria are Danjuma, IBB, OBJ and Adulsalami, together with the Northern cabal own Nigeria and as long as they are alive Nigeria will never prosper, the election is just a charade.

greatiyk4u:
This is not far from the truth

Na envy of Buhari social welfare benefits to Nigerians and massive infrastructure development coupled with revamping of EFCC and NDLEA dey cause this insecurity we are experiencing to distract our attention from the good side of Buhari regime.

Buhari is the petroleum minister that couldn't repair , replace Nigeria refineries capacity. He has failed to increase Nigeria crude oil production with has fallen from close to 3 million b/d to 1.24 million b/d today. Agricultural production is a mirage due to insecurity and poor roads. Inflation is skyhigh.

robosky02:
Still the best defensive midfielder Nigeria has produced


Imaging Mikel in the Ghana game....

Thomas partey dey learn

I imagine Mikel as Nigeria head coach