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butanep:
what was the issue all about?

Hello House... please I have two questions.
1. One of my friends' DOB has issues. He saw 1st of September on the NYSC portal instead of 2nd September and he has bin unable to change it. Will it stop him from receiving his call up no on monday?He completed the registration the only problem is that instead of 2nd sept. he saw 1st sept as his DOB.
2. another of my friend has his surname spelt wrongly? will it affect stop him from getting his call up no?

tawa89:
Hello House... please I have two questions.
1. One of my friends' DOB has issues. He saw 1st of September on the NYSC portal instead of 2nd September and he has bin unable to change it. Will it stop him from receiving his call up no on monday?He completed the registration the only problem is that instead of 2nd sept. he saw 1st sept as his DOB.
2. another of my friend has his surname spelt wrongly? will it affect stop him from getting his call up no?
Thanks ...

This one Butanep

butanep:
Information reaching me from NYSC Benin - City states that any PCMs that failed to do his\her online registration might end up not getting a call up letter and the implication of it, is that he\ she might not go for the batch C 2014. The board said that it was a compulsory exercise all PCMs would ve done in order for the agency to compare the online data with the one provided by the school.
The agency also said some couldn't get their call up no after the online registration is as a result of many factors which include inability of the school to send names of PCMS, wrong data provide by the individual during registration or the school among others...
They said they are working to resolve most of the issue or problems that can be handle by them at the shortest possible time...
NYSC giving false hope to PCMs since 1973...

bro please can u address the issues I raised up there? Thanks boss.

Hello House... please I have two questions.
1. One of my friends' DOB has issues. He saw 1st of September on the NYSC portal instead of 2nd September and he has bin unable to change it. Will it stop him from receiving his call up no on monday?He completed the registration the only problem is that instead of 2nd sept. he saw 1st sept as his DOB.
2. another of my friend has his surname spelt wrongly? will it affect stop him from getting his call up no?
Thanks ...

This short piece was first written in 2006, long before I started this
column. I am republishing it now because too many of my friends
have been asking for it lately; because nothing has changed …)
Growing up in the 70s and 80s in Isanlu, an Okun town in the old
Kwara state, my first real contact with the “outside world” –
besides European and Canadian Catholic priests, my father’s vast
family library, and social studies in primary school – came in the
form of settlerist migrancy. There was the sabo area of town, ceded
by Kabiyesi to Hausa/Fulani settlers. That was where you bought
suya and fura da nono on your way to and from school. There was
Kwaku or Mensah, the ambulant Ghanaian shoemaker (sobata)
who roamed the village with his wooden box containing assorted
tools of his trade held around his waist by a rope slung across his
shoulders. Akosua, his wife, sold rice and beans during break at
school. Then there was Okoro from Igboland. He’d been part of the
village for as long as everyone remembered. He spoke Yagba and
standard Yoruba: he was a quintessence of integration other
Nigerians hardly ever achieve. Most importantly, Okoro owned the
only trading store in town.
No matter what his real name was, he was always Okoro to the
village people. He got that name partly because of his
cantankerous Igbo namesake in The Village Headmaster, arguably
Nigeria’s most famous TV drama of all times, and partly because of
Nigeria’s internal dynamic of racism and othering: each of the
three major ethnic groups, forced into a party by the British, has
unprintable names and degrading stereotypes for the other two.
Okoro was the villagers’ sole access to manufactured goods:
clothes, maths set, exercise books, whot cards, Ludo boards,
kerosene stoves, sardines, geisha, glucose, Wembley 4 soccer
balls, skull slip-on shoes for women, candles, asepso, tetramosol,
nku cream, elephant blue detergent, tomapep, shelltox, knitting
needles, name it! Okoro’s store was the world: miniature
globalization in that little corner of Africa before academia hijacked
that word noisily!
Okoro’s customers always expected him to have two versions of
every item he sold: the original and the fake. Folks believed that the
original came from Europe and America. The fake, according to
local lore, was manufactured in Igboland by ingenuous folks
capable of reproducing any industrial good with the speed of
lightening. Welcome to the legend of “Ibo made” in Nigeria’s
national imaginary. “Ibo made” came to represent what you bought
grudgingly because you couldn’t afford the real deal. It gathered
other registers of inferiority along the way, signaling everything
that is wrong with the way Nigerians think.
“Ibo made” is the most explicit metaphor for the Nigerian tragedy. It
explains why we abandoned mal-development and
underdevelopment for zero development. It is an unserious country
that expects development by disparaging and killing the industry,
inventiveness, and technological savvy of an entire segment of its
population, socializing generation after generation of her people
into a mental universe where every candle or pencil made in Aba is
deemed inferior because it is “Ibo made”. Neither the obtuse rulers
at the centre nor the Governors of the respective “Ibo made” states
were ever imaginative enough to develop “Ibo made” into a full
scale national asset.
Nigeria is truly a funny country. Her ports are permanently
congested because she imports everything from wooden tooth
picks to wooden rulers. If air could be imported, Nigeria would
import it. Yet, half the things clogging her ports used to be made in
Aba and other places in the east. Nigeria killed rather than develop
those manufacturing potentials. What Nigeria rejected as “Ibo
made”, our friends in China took to unimaginable levels. Now,
foolish and ostentatious Nigerians who consider buying “Ibo made”
an insult buy stuff that are even inferior to “Ibo made” from China!
The Chinese, not being as foolish as we are, flood Nigeria with
every imaginable fake and pirated product under the sun. Nigerians
buy everything from fake Louis Vuitton products to fake tooth picks
from China. A good friend of mine, Mazi Ebere, predicts that unless
we change course, Nigeria will soon import elubo, efo riro, and pure
water from China.
Other Nigerians have received help from the Igbo in terms of the
sustenance of condescending attitudes to “Ibo made”. An Igbo
friend of mine based in France inspired this piece. He phoned me
from Paris the other day fuming. He is building a house in Nigeria
and has just discovered that his contractor was billing him for
“original material” while using “Ibo made”! When I drew his
attention to the irony of an Igbo man fuming over “Ibo made”, he
dismissed me impatiently: “Pius, abeg, leave matter jare. When you
are ready to build your own house, hire the same contractor and let
him use Ibo made material for you!” I changed the topic. Enter any
Igbo shop in Lagos, Ibadan, or Kaduna. If you are a regular
customer, the Igbo trader is sure to tell you: “oga, those ones
outside na Ibo made o. Original dey inside. You know now.” We
sure do have a long way to go as a country.

I smell Front page

spyder880: Dee Sam Mbakwe road.

Wow This is nice....looks like an European city.

Imoy: Well, that is wot they think.
Freedom of thinking. But we also believe wot we tink, so their thought is really not important to us

Hmmmm it's like US don't want Terrorism to end in Nigeria

They almost condemned the death of Shekau. This just doesn't add up

LooooL. The Yanks are pathetic, it's like they are almost denying the death of Shekau, like they are praying for his safe return from Monduga...... Maybe, just maybe it's the yanks that are financing Boko Haram. Something is definitely not right with this press release.

BOKO HARAM: US thinks Nigerian military is lying about Shekau’s death, says its a “propaganda”
SEPT. 26, 2014

The United States of America has expressed doubts over claims by the Nigerian military that the Islamic sect , Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau had been killed in recent clashes with soldiers.

Speaking with reporters yesterday a senior State Department official said“ the Nigerian government has announced several times that the head of Boko Haram was dead, and every single time, we find out that it is not true.

“What I read recently is that Shekau’s lookalike or some Shekau impostor was killed and then I read later that maybe, Shekau himself was killed. I don’t put a lot of weight on those stories until we see more evidence,” the official added, asking not to be identified.

The Nigerian Defense Ministry had, on Wednesday, released a statement claiming that Shekau was dead after one Bashir Mohammed, was killed during recent clashes with troops.

They further stated that he was a lookalike who had been impersonating him in videos.

But analysts have also dismissed the report, saying it was a propaganda. The State Department official equally maintained that Boko Haram was still carrying out attacks.

The official held that the United States remains committed in trying to find some 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militant group in April, which he acknowledged was “a huge challenge” stressing that “many of them were taken into the forest and given the long time in the hands of the terrorists, it is possible that many of them have been taken to other locations.”

This Chino guy is an enemy of Anambra state

So According Davis, Ihejirika is funding BH Yet he killed their leader
Ihejirika: Shekau on june 3,2013 I will kill you ok?
shekau: ok sir...
doesn't add up..

1stola: convert it na.
Reduce the size if larger than 300kb

done....do you think that's him

Finally.... Heard he was killed in Konduga by cameroonian army. The NA is still verifying.

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texazzpete: All these quotes from 'unnamed top security officials' are beginning to sound fishy.

I think it's just a ploy to distract us and provide some plausible reason for $9.8m in cash being smuggled into SA in a private jet.

So far, I've seen no official confirmation of any arms sales ban or whatever. And one certainly does not carry only 9.8m dollars if you want modern helicopters.

bros did see what the MH13 helicopter did to BH boys last week? that's what we got from China when Americans refused to sell to us now imagine what $9m of military hardware will do to bh. Americans are in our house, they won't leave until will pursue them.
NB: why do u want to know the name of the military sources? you want to put them in trouble? you sound like a politician .....

Two months after the Americans came down to Nigeria to help find the kidnapped Chibok girls, after all the noise they made, the showboating and media frenzy campaign led by Obama and his wife to bring back our girls, they still haven't made any headway in bringing back our girls.
American security forces are blocking us from acquiring state of art military hardware , when we tried to get some from eastern Europe , they tipped off the South African government. These people aint helping us and I wonder what they are still doing in our country.
I'm with FG on this, The American Snitches should leave our country within 48hrs.

INSURGENCY: FG wants ‘non-cooperative’ American security forces out of Nigeria
SEPT. 20, 2014

The Federal Government is querying the continued presence of American security forces in the country more than two months after they promised to assist in rescuing the Chibok girls and stem the tide of terrorism without results.

It was gathered that top officials will be in the United States this weekend to straighten things out on Nigeria’s displeasure with what has been described as the “lack of cooperation” with Nigeria by the American agents who are in the country, according to report from Nigerian Tribune

A top security official reportedly said that Nigeria was beginning to query the real mission of the American forces in the country.

“These people have been around for more than two months. They made so much noise before coming that they would assist in rescuing the Chibok girls and fight Boko Haram with technology but can you believe it that these people do not share intelligence with Nigeria? They do not relate at all with Nigerian officials. In fact, they have their office in the US Embassy where they process their intelligence.

“The procurement of military equipment is another area where they are frustrating Nigeria. By now, we are supposed to have taken delivery of some of the equipment but unfortunately, they are delaying this with unnecessary bottlenecks in the name of ‘compliance issues.’ Now, Nigeria is being forced to look for succour in the direction of countries in Eastern Europe. We just took delivery of some equipment, including attack helicopters from China which will soon be deployed for operations.

“The $9.3m arms deal that was bungled in South Africa was one of the desperate moves taken by the government to get out of the frustration,”

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Very soon, children of Ndi-Igbo will not learn about trains through cartoons and pictures… – Jonathan’s Address At World Igbo
Congress

by OMOJUWA | SEPT. 4, 2014

Nigeria's President Jonathan

Remarks by

His Excellency, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR

At the

The World Igbo Congress Day, Houston – USA

Saturday, 31st August, 2014

PROTOCOLS

Great, progressive pillars of Igboland, I am indeed very happy to join you today in this unique initiative set aside to celebrate excellence and reaffirm the joint vision for the continuing development of Ndi-Igbo and Nigeria as a whole.
As you gather in Houston to re-dream a better Igbo society with a united and greater Nigeria in mind, it is befitting and positively symbolic that the World Igbo Congress of this year is taking place at a time we have just concluded a successful National Conference where your sons and daughters together with other Nigerians gathered to dialogue on ways of moving our country forward.
We convened the 2014 Conference to engender unity and to advance our collective development as a people in Nigeria, Africa, and the world.
Let me therefore use this opportunity to reiterate my commitment to work in concert with all arms of government and all stakeholders to implement the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference Report.
All through our history, the Igbo have cut a distinguishing niche in all aspects of our national life in the areas of Education, Sports, Politics, Science and Technology, Literary Excellence, Enterprise, Diplomacy, among others.
Ndigbo, wherever you have deployed your energy and skills, you have excelled. Many in Nigeria and elsewhere see mainly your talents in Enterprise which clearly stand out, but the Igbo, from our point of view, are much more than that.
For observers and admirers who see the enterprising nature of the Igbos, cite great Igbo names like Chief Louis Ojukwu, who, legend has it, was the first Nigerian to own a Rolls Royce in Lagos, and of course his equally unforgettable son, our own Ikemba Chief (Dim) Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu!
Let me very quickly say that Chief Louis Ojukwu’s amazing life story will need a special telling on another occasion. We must also celebrate the first Nigerian to own an ocean going crude oil conveying tanker and engage in the crude oil export trade, Sir Onyechere Anyiam Osigwe.
My brothers and sisters, there is much more out of Igbo land! In entertainment, the Oriental brothers, the golden Chief Dr. Oliver De Coque, the stallion Lady Onyeka Onwenu, and many others who all donated their amazing voices and talents to an appreciative Nation as we dance in happiness.
In literary excellence, Chinua Achebe stands tall, supported by Cyprian Ekwensi, Chris Okigbo, Flora Nwakpa, Chinwezu and in recent times Chimamanda Adichie and many others. The Igbo donated Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, scholar, journalist, nationalist, foremost politician and first President of Nigeria, who in concert with Sir Ahmadu Bello, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Dappa Biriye and others, fought for our independence from Great Britain.
The great Zik of Africa’s power of leadership example was so captivating it overwhelmed my paternal grandmother to name me after him. So, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I became at birth Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan.
We must not also forget that in the train of politics were great giants like Sam Mbakwe, Akanu Ibiam, Michael Okpara, Jaja Nwachukwu, the first Speaker of the Federal House of Representative, and others who played diligent politics in service to our nation.
In sports, one of the most decorated in Nigeria’s football history is Nwankwo Kanu and he is a Nigerian from Igbo land. My brothers and sisters, I could go on and on throughout the remaining days of this convention recounting great Igbo sons and daughters who have shown the way, in various fields and trades and we will not be done.
Very distinguished guests and participants, there is no time more apt than now to reflect on the factors that have put the Igbo on the pathway of achievements. Personally, I believe hard work, excellence, persistence and resilience are at the heart of Igbo success story.
I also believe that the time is now to build on the foundations laid by the elders and leaders in Igboland by adopting technology and planning, so as to deliver better planned functional modern cities that would attract the growing population of the Igbo in the diaspora, so that they can come back and settle to a lifestyle commensurate with what they have helped to develop elsewhere.
Such planning must integrate and harmonise the industrial and trading activities of entrepreneurs in a way that they become more mutually beneficial and also take advantage of economies of scale and engender a more modern, friendly and comfortable business environment. Such an effort will ease tension and encourage domiciliation of affordable technology and wealth creation. The integration will also attract investors, small and big and from far and near.
Distinguished World Igbo Congress attendees, such more modern endeavour will help support the many young men and women who are based in the hinterlands, so that they are not tempted into crime and other anti-social behaviour. For us as a Government, we are responding to hinterland challenges by building several Skill Development Centers across the country, and the South-East is not left out. The young men and women who wish to learn alternative means of livelihood will have an alternative.
I believe our advancement in the 21st century will be dependent on how we can mobilize human and material resources most efficiently and in furtherance of our objective. It is in this regard that I want to reaffirm that the Federal Government will support you even as we support other nationalities, so as to meet this great goal, for the benefit of all Nigerians.
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, in pursuit of productivity and excellence, we have appointed competent and capable men and women to positions of high authority and strategic responsibility in all fields of national endeavour. In our dogged determination to develop our country, the Igbo are well represented and in some of these appointments, the Igbo are having them for the first time.
Some have said that this government has done more in appointments than any other in our history for the Igbo, but that is a matter for the pundits and historians. Let me state that appointments by this administration, across the country, will continue to be based on equity, fairness and competence.
Even when some utilise politics to undermine our commitment to fairness and justice, we will deploy the Principle of Federal Character to progressively correct it. No part of Nigeria under my leadership will be short changed.
Similarly in projects and policies, we have continued to do our best. Throughout the South-East, we inherited federal roads in very poor conditions. In spite of the highly competitive demand and constraints on funding, we have taken on most of the major roads, realising the impact that their improvement will have on business and life in our country.
The Owerri-Onitsha Road, which was under construction at the outset of my administration, has been virtually completed. Three other very important roads, theEnugu-Onitsha expressway, the Enugu–Port Harcourt road and the Nguju-Edda-Nporo-Ohafia road which cuts across Ebonyi and Abia States, are steadily progressing. Our hope is that improved budget and Sure-P funding will see quicker action in the months ahead.
The Obiziora-Iziagu road and Enugu-Abakaliki road are some of those that have progressed to good standard. Further attention will be focused on theUmuahia-Ikot Ekpene road which is already being addressed remedially by the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA).
The Igbo, being a very mobile people, have also benefitted from works in other leading roads nationwide. The Ore-Benin road long known as a death trap has been totally transformed and now provides a safer and more reliable ride. The Lagos-Ibadan road is similarly being reconstructed and the Benin-Lokoja-Abuja road is now being dualised as we are doing in other roads in the far North.
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, after many decades of planning, history was made in March this year as the Second Niger Bridge project commenced. It is expected that the contractor will hasten, according to the funding plan, for early completion of a project that will do so much to ease business and movement.
The revival and rehabilitation of the Eastern Corridorof the Nigerian Railway, which runs from Port Harcourt via Aba to Enugu and Maiduguri, is almost ready. Very soon, children of Ndi-Igbo will not learn about trains through cartoons and pictures. They will see and hear the “Chaka-chaka, Gbim-gbim” sound, as trains travel through the country side of our Nation.
The Onitsha River Port has been completed and we are progressing on the concession agreement for its efficient operation. Other River Ports like the Oguta River Port project is also under focus.
In the aviation sector, the Akanu Ibiam International Airport has started living up to its name, taking travellers from all over the world and vice versa, direct into the Igbo hinterland. Efforts are now on to expand the airline flight traffic in order to address the high demand, and a new befitting International Airport Terminal, under construction.
My belief is that the sons and daughters of Ndi-Igbo must arrive safely in Igboland without connecting flights, if they so wish. The Sam Mbakwe Airport, like others across our country, is receiving repositioning.
In agriculture, we have, in association with the Ebonyi State Government and private farmers in the area, begun a renewed revolution in rice production. Today, we have 10,000 farmers registered under the Growth Enhancement Scheme, and an integrated chain wide system of improvement, involving enhanced inputs, adaptable technology, milling and marketing strategies. These initiatives are beginning to yield good returns.
We are also paying attention to the revival of palm production, for which the South East has always been known. Intense rehabilitation programmes are underway in almost all the South Eastern States, in partnership with oil palm cooperative societies and farmer groups.
The scourge of erosion which destroys livelihood, farmland and property is being vigorously addressed by my government. We have had to set up a Presidential Erosion and Flooding Committee to look into this dangerous trend and the report has been accepted.
Erosion sites in Umuoza-Ugiri in Isiala-Mbano, Oko, Nkisi, Alo, Nekede, and the Onitsha Main Market Saka Mori/Nwangene floodplain  and several other sites across the entire South-East States are being attended to.
We have also done our part in encouraging enterprise and industry in Igboland. One of the flagships of our new National Automotive Policy and best examples of local industry is the Innosons Auto Company in Nnewi. We support Innosons and will continue to support him. By supporting Innosons and all others who are dedicated to creating jobs and wealth, through the practical and profitable development of local technology, we are advancing our overall development as a people.
We have established and delivered a New Federal University in Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, bringing the state at par with others in the country in the number of Federal Universities. We have also upgraded, in categorisation and certification, as well as in infrastructure, various other educational institutions across the South East.
We have taken a number of steps to put in place an effective security infrastructure across the South-East and in other zones around our country. The rehabilitation and commissioning of the Ohafia Army Barracks is one of such examples. Not too long ago, the insecurity in Abia led to many people leaving the state. I can confidently report toNdi-Igbo that we have reversed the situation.
This is just a brief overview of what we are doing in the South East and we will continue to do the best we can within available resources, without denying other parts of the country their due.
As President, I will ensure justice to all Nigerians in my daily exercise of powers allotted to me by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are approaching election season, and it is a time for honest reassessment and reappraisal. I urge you all to take great interest, wherever you live, in the quality and pedigree of people you give your mandate.
By all accounts and as attested by compatriots and the international community, we have recorded emphatic success in the consolidation of the democratic culture in Nigeria. We were hopeful that this good augury will serve as impetus for greater political stability and development regardless of the evil visitation and arrival of a full blown terrorist insurgency into the shores of our beautiful country.
In this wise, we have done a lot to improve the electoral process and imbue confidence in the people and in the system. We hope that the peaceful expression of the will of the people which has been laid down in recent elections will continue to prevail in all others to come.
So what should be the position of the Igbo in today’s fast moving world? What is most desired for progress and for rapid development?  I would say, on my own part, that the greatest asset required of the Igbo today to move this great community to its rightful place in the country and in the scheme of things is Unity. Unity above partisan politics, Unity against internal division, Unity against external hostility, but more fundamentally, Unity in planning and in development as well as in the reawakening of the positive Igbo cultural resources. You have so much to offer our country and our government will encourage you to do so.
I am delighted to note that this programme is also being used to honour distinguished Igbo sons and daughters as well as friends of the Igbo and Africa. This type of honour engenders partnership and fraternity and is also a catalyst to further development. The Igbo must continue building bridges across our country and our continent because it is in the interest of Nigeria and Africa to do so.
I congratulate those being honoured today, as well as those who, though not receiving honours, are effectively playing their part in the upliftment of Igboland, Nigeria and West Africa by their untiring efforts.
At the last Presidential elections in 2011, Nigerians, in large numbers, reposed their confidence in me by the emphatic and overwhelming victory they bestowed on us. I appreciate the utmost goodwill and affection of all Nigerians towards me and my administration and I hope this goodwill will continue to wax stronger in the months ahead.
It has been proposed several times in the recent past (and I believe it is among the recommendations of the national conference) that Nigerians in diaspora be constitutionally enabled to vote in their countries of residence. This is a cause I am committed to support and champion with all the wherewithal of my office; and I am fairly certain that working together we can bring this to reality.  Your vote for whoever you want must not be denied.
I urge you all to keep up your support for our administration, I assure you that at all times, I will remain a brother to all, and a partner in progress, for the advancement of the community and our great country, Nigeria.
I cannot end this address without saying a word or two about this conference. I am impressed by the organisation and participation at this event, and I commend and congratulate the organisers, who have contributed worthwhile time and resources to its success.
Societies are founded on strong institutions of competence and integrity, and it is my earnest hope that theWorld Igbo Congress will guard jealously its strong position as a rallying point and trusted bastion of the community.

On behalf of my family, the Government and the good people of Nigeria, I wish you a most rewarding and fruitful congress, dedicated to the peace and progress of the Igbo and our great country, Nigeria.
Igbo Kwenu! Igbo Kwezenu!!
I thank you.

Afenifere blasts Kwankwaso over comment on 1999 Constitution
Ben Ezeamalu - 9 mins ago

TOP NEWS

The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has described Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso’s comment claiming the immutability of the 1999 Constitution and called on all Nigerians to condemn it as selfish and unpatriotic.

In a statement on Sunday, the group blamed Mr. Kwankwaso and other “self-seeking” Nigerian politicians for endorsing the 1999 Constitution when it suits him and calling for its amendment when it does not.

In a media interview recently, Mr. Kwankwaso was quoted as saying that “any Constitution other than the 1999Constitution should be rejected because anything less than that is an instrument by those who think it will help them.”
“Kwankwanso, one of those who believe the 1999 Constitution is perfect for Nigeria, has had two reasons to call for its amendment recently,” the ARG said in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Kunle Famoriyo.
“He changed his stance on the agitation for state police when his security aides were withdrawn by ‘order from above’ during the Kano Emirship commotion. He also called for amendment of the impeachment laws when a raft of impeachment wave threatened governors of his party, All Progressives Congress, claiming Nyako governorship in the process,” the statement said.
“These two calls for constitutional amendment, coming at a time that Kwankwanso was at the receiving end of the imperial and despotic powers of the 1999Constitution, seem to suggest that the Constitution must exist only to serve his personal good and that of others with similar stance. It does not bother them if and when others are the victim of the Constitution’s despotic powers,” the statement continued.
“This selective philosophy from a man who wants to become Nigeria’s president is no less selfish and denigrating as the politics that currently dominates Aso Rock,” it added.
The ARG said that Nigerian politicians have not proved that democracy is indeed a better alternative to military rule, adding that “All Nigerian presidents since 1999 have found the 1999 Constitution handy in justifying dictatorial tendencies, with the current president claiming he is yet to even use 10 percent of the (despotic) powers of the constitution.
“This is a dangerous pointer to the fact that Nigerian politicians are still not faring better than military dictators who churn out decrees and amend them to suit their dictatorship ego.
“Neither Kwankwaso, nor any Nigerian politician, need be at the whipping end of the Constitution before patriotic sense prevails on all of us to fight to entrench true federalism in Nigeria. For Nigeria to survive, it must provide an equitable basis of existence for all federating units. The 1999is evidently inequitable and needs, not piecemeal amendments, but a total reworking.
“ARG has no grouse against any politician but it believes that no politician’s ambition should choke national interest. ARG therefore calls on all politicians to learn to sacrifice personal interests for the promotion of an egalitarian Nigeria anchored on true federalism principles.
“Nigerians are not made for the law. Neither should law, meant to promote equality, promote class divide. We must ask ourselves: can we truly have democracy when some parts of the country feel less privileged than others?”
The ARG also said that the Confab report must not be tainted by political ambition and “Nigerians should be allowed through referendum to decide what happens to the report because they should have the primal right to determine how they wish to be governed.”
“Though, the report does not represent everything we want in the Southwest and we are still consulting on what position to take, it is unarguable that the resolutions represent a consensus of both political and apolitical Nigerians,” the group added.

lacasa: Kindly point or quote the paragraph or line where SLS name was mentioned.


Abi SLS is CBN personified

He actually said Senior CBN official who just left office. who is this Senior oga kpata kpata official that everyone reports to that JUST left office? Stop playing the Ostrich because of Ethno religious sentiments. if we are to believe the man we have to take everything he says no half measures here bro.

BrunoMads: Lol. You must outta your mind to actually believe that Sanusi Lamido Sanusi will use CBN money to destroy the North. This man lost credibility when he made that accusation.

LMAO I'm sure dude is somewhere laughing at our stupidity. He stopped making sense when he insinuated that the Emir of Kano will finance some rag tags to bomb his beloved Kano to stone ages.
And there's no way BH will be receiving others from Christian infidel Ihejirika. Dude is a scam tbh.