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Thunder1010:
I know some enemies of progress will still mock the program, where as they have never dash out 5k since the beginning of this year. There own is to against every government programs.

some people reason from their anus. The money they are giving out, is it their personal money? Have you ever heard Buhari 'dash' anyone his personal money since his existence.

The Nigerian Army has said that most of the businesses looted or destroyed in Lekki, Ajah, Sangotedo and nearby places were owned by people of Igbo extraction.
Brigadier-General Ahmed Ibrahim Taiwo stated this in his testimony at the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses and other matters.

The Army is testifying following its invitation by the panel in the wake of the October 20 shootings at the Lekki Toll Gate.

https://thenationonlineng.net/breaking-endsars-most-businesses-looted-destroyed-were-igbo-owned-army/

Orji says if Buhari does not discuss with IPOB, they will continue to give him trouble.
Former Governor of Abia State, who now represents Abia Central in the Senate, Theodore Orji has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to have a conversation with the leadership of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafran to avoid trouble in the country.
Orji said this on Sunday, November 8, 2020, in an interview with journalists as part of activities to mark his 70th birthday celebration.
The senator said dialogue with IPOB members is one of the best ways to achieve peace in the South-East region, adding that the Igbo, which has been crying of marginalization deserved a listening ear rather than the use of force.
Orji said, “ If there are dissident voices, the president should call them and discuss with them.
“He should find out the cause of their agitation and work out ways to address their grievances.
” He should see how he can bring them in and fully integrate them into the system.
“That is what will solve the problem of the country. Call the dissident voices to a conference.
“There is nothing bad in discussing with the IPOB. If you don’t discuss with them, they will continue to give you trouble.
“We can’t be happy when other regions have six states and we have five. It shows that we are marginalised and cheated. That is what is causing the agitation in the region.
“ Some groups are agitating that the zone should be a country on its own. Others are demanding restructuring because it is glaring that the South-East is being marginalised.
“ If you treat me fairly like you treat other persons and I’m convinced that you are sincere, I will not complain. It is when I look around me and I see that I am being marginalised and treated like a second-class citizen that would make people be agitating.”
Orji maintained that the South-East region remained marginalised being the only region with just five states. He added that the region with a major tribe is the only one that has not produced a President of Nigeria since 1999.

https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/senator-orji-asks-buhari-to-dialogue-with-ipob-to-avoid-trouble-in-nigeria/4plfjmk

They're busy with unarmed civilians in #Oyibo. let them finish with the order given by 'Hitler Wike'

From: Nosa Akenzua, Asaba

The Asagba of Asaba, Obi Chike Edozein on Wednesday put an end to the controversy over the ancestry of Asaba community, favouring the Igbo argument against the Igala theory of origin of Asaba people.
Speaking to Journalists in his palace, Obi Chike Edozein said that the Asaba people shared closer affinity and deeper cultural motifs such as language with the Igbos west of the Niger, adding that Igbos are brothers to Asaba people.
He noted that prominent sons and daughters of Asaba played prominent roles during the Nigeria Biafra war to defend what they believed in, the Monarch held the positions in the apex Igbo sicio cultural organization known as Ohaneze Ndigbo and recalled the sinppets of the genocide which he said, obliterated two generations of all the educated people in Asaba.
Obi Chike Edozein however demanded for the establishment of a Federal University in Asaba, adding that although Gen Yakubu Gowan who was the then Head of State, had apologized in a personal capacity and several years ago after the war, but regretted that” although we accepted the apology, the compensation is yet to come”.

https://peoplesdailyng.com/monarch-ends-ancestry-debate-favours-igbo-origin-in-asaba/

Peter Obi has said politicians breaking heads in their struggle to be in control of affairs in Nigeria will soon discover that what they are struggling over is an empty shell, as the entire structure the country is built upon is collapsing.

The warning came from former Governor of Anambra State, Obi, who, on Wednesday, bemoaned the parlous situation in the country, warning that the road the leadership was taking was fraught not only with danger, but would lead to a dead-end if not perdition.

Obi took the opportunity of being the guest speaker at the 60th anniversary of the founding of the University of Nigerian Nsukka, UNN, to once again, point at the stark realities facing the country, heaping the blame on the leadership style of successive leaders in recent years.

For instance, he bewailed the fact that the country’s receding profile had placed it at an unenviable position of the world poverty capital.

He noted that with six persons dropping into the poverty basket every minute, children dropping out of school, a lot of people going to bed hungry and insecurity rising, Nigeria was now at the level where countries ravaged by war, like Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan were now doing better.

All these, according to Obi, who was the vice-presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, while quoting from current statistics, as usual, had also put Nigerians into lowest bracket of the most stressed and unhappy people on earth, where the gap in inequality between the rich and poor remained also among the highest in the world.

Dwelling on bad governance and poor leadership as the major factor, Peter Obi lamented that virtually all of the countries that were at same level with Nigeria had left the country behind, with the only exception being Sudan.

Peter Obi reviewed a number of countries in Asia, such as China, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philipines and those in Africa, such as Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Ghana, who were almost at the same level with Nigeria and even those far behind in the last two decades.

Reviewing Nigeria so far was at the core of his speech at the event, which drew a lot of important dignitaries, including the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Tunde Lemo.
Obi, who chose to limit himself to 2,000, dismissed the debate on which government outclassing the other in terms of performance, arguing that there there was a global mechanism for measuring a country witnessing growth.

He said: “The world has a standard for measuring development that is universally accepted. Like in the university system, there is a standard for measuring the quality of teaching and learning.
“The standard is the Human Capital Development, HDI.

“It is the standard through which development is measured and in all Nigeria is lower than the countries under comparison.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/nigerian-politicians-fighting-over-collapsed-structure-peter-obi/

A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission , Prof Attahiru Jega , on Friday warned that Nigerians ’ future was at stake due to misgovernance .

Jega , who stated this at the inauguration of the 34 - member Policy Advisory Committee of the People ’s Redemption Party in Abuja on Friday , asked Nigerians not to allow “bad people ” to continue to misgovern the country by contributing to the electoral process .
The committee is made up of Jega , Mr Richard Umoru , Prof Ifeanyi Anigbogu , Dr Aminu Aliyu, Mr Abdulkadir Isa , Prof Ahmadu Sanda , Hajiya Aishatu Dankani, among others.

The former INEC boss, who is a member of the committee , said , “I believe that all Nigerians can no longer sit on the fence , as everybody needs to contribute to the cleansing of politics in Nigeria . There should be no fence - sitters ; our future is at stake. We cannot allow bad people to continue to misgovern us and continue to wreak havoc on our country and its future . ”

Jega said the committee was to prepare policy papers and frameworks that would make the PRP a strong political party that could win elections .
The party chairman , Mr Falalu Bello , earlier while inaugurating the committee , said its members were thoroughbred intellectuals drawn from different fields of expertise and experience.
He advised the members to consider the progressive provisions of Chapter two of the 1999 Constitution in carrying out their assignment .

“Our party , the PRP , shall court the involvement and participation of intellectuals in the struggle for the material and social advancement of the masses of this country ,” he said .

https://punchng.com/nigerians-future-at-stake-warns-jega/

Cyberterror:
The same Jonathan who is now an errand boy to Buhari. Level pass level. Next level.

Before Buhari came to power in 2015 how many past and current President visited him? If you're learned enough you''ll differentiate the Office and the individual. without the office of the President, Nobody will visit Buhari or report to him.

Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohamed, has warned those still calling for the implementation of the 2014 constitutional conference report to stop troubling themselves as that will never be done at all. Dr. Mohammed in this interview with VINCENT KALU, emphasised that former President Goodluck Jonathan had already written a constitution and wanted them to rubber stamp it, but those of them from the North showed him how to play politics. He said those calling for the nation’s breakup are asking for the impossible.

How do you assess the current state of the nation?

It is one of hopelessness and despondency. This country has never been so bad. We have people in charge, who are completely incapable, incompetent, thoroughly inept and thoroughly dishonourable. I’m now 70 years old, I have been politically conscious from the time I was ten years because I come from a political family. Within the last 50 years of my life; in fact from 1970, I have never seen Nigeria in this kind of hopelessness. One, the economy is in tatters; secondly, the security is absolutely messy and lousy; thirdly, there is nothing you can call leadership, the political class is bankrupt and irresponsible, and we are in a situation whereby there is so much rancor and disharmony that you may ask, ‘if you are in a desperate situation who do you run to?’ It is not the government because they have nothing to offer. We have a situation whereby we spend more time quarreling about who will be the next leader, who will take what position, who will be next governor, rather than the actual governance. If the nation’s political class or the elites have nothing to offer other than quarrels among themselves, you can see that clearly, the nation is doomed, and there is nothing to celebrate. There is a lot to feel disgusted in the way this country is governed.

Every problem has a solution. How does the country come out of these problems you have highlighted?

First and foremost, there can never be a solution to any problem without adequate, competent and effective governance. If a nation is not governed effectively, there is no way you can change that nation, we have been groping in the dark for too long. From 1960 when we became independent up to present day, we have had some elusive intervals when we had leaders that gave us hope, but that vanished either through assassination, coups or attempted coups, and every time we have leaders, we thought they could justify the confidence reposed in them, but they turn out to be massive disappointment; they turn out to be liars, corrupt, nepotistic people, who do not care about the country, and who imagine that somehow, by playing the media against the rest of the country; playing those who are privileged against the rest of us who are not privileged, that they will somehow win loyalists, and unfortunately, they have not been able.

The country is so charged, so tense that I imagine somehow that you can strike a stick of matches on it, and then conflagration will ensue. That is very unfortunate for the country, and unfortunately, I see no way out, especially with the current people who are now in charge because all their lies have been denigrated; everything we have been told has not happened, in fact, it is getting worse. If a nation has a government that has only one agenda item, the moment that agenda is quenched, the entire government loses credibility and without credibility, there is no way you can do anything. If a government comes in to fight corruption and somehow, some of the worst corrupt elements are part of the government, or related to those who are in the government, you can see that there is no hope.

Talking about solutions to the nation’s problems, former Kaduna governor, Balarabe Musa, recently, proposed breaking the country into six zones, which should be the federating units, and devolution of powers. What is your take on this?

What he was talking about is that the country should be broken up completely; why didn’t he come and say straight away, ‘break up the country’. Forget about what he called the federating units because the federating units in Nigeria didn’t create itself; not that they voluntarily came together and formed a country called Nigeria. Coming together of Nigeria was done at the instance of the colonial powers, and if you want to now break it, you have to go back to the period that preceded the colonial powers, and I begin to ask, what are the constituent units? Nigeria came to being by the colonial powers bringing the North and South together in 1914, and you now come to say, let us break what emerged from 1914 and after, and he is also telling us that we are going to do it on the basis of the current six geopolitical zones, he has to tell us the basis. Without basis, it turns out to be ridiculous remedy you can imagine. We had 12 states as federating units, we had 21, then 23 and now 36, no reason can one advance to persuade the people of this country that these six zones are the most prudent structures that we can have in the country, and no one will listen to that garbage. The man is over 80, how come he never came up with this idea since.

I believe in politics and when the time comes and we have a serious crisis, which we need to put our best foot forward; men with ideas, not those who want to see their names on the pages of newspapers because when we have a crisis, you don’t simply talk of how we break up, but how you come out of the crisis.

What Balarabe Musa was saying isn’t new; it is has been part and parcel of the Southeast for agitation of additional state, local governments and of course agitation for presidency to go to the region. He was not part of the 2014 constitutional conference, I was, and I represented Kano, the largest state in the country. If he wants to now be a propagandist and a demagogue for a section of the country, he can go ahead and do so, but the fact of the matter is that, what he is even canvassing cannot be delivered even in his village in Kaduna.

When he mentioned devolution of powers, has he told you the power that should be devolved? If it’s education, then let me tell you, I’m not in government, but I have information in government. According to the constitutions of Nigeria in 1979 and 1999, primary education and substantial part of secondary education are supposed to be the responsibilities of state and local governments, but unfortunately, they took or stole the money meant from primary and secondary education. So, whoever was in charge over the years from 1979 or 1999 to date would have to now come and finance to ensure the running of primary and secondary education, otherwise, the entire education in the country would collapse.  The federal government had to create parastatals to run education because the states would not do it if the money is given to them. What the law says is important to adhere to, to avoid anarchy, but at the same time, it is important to realise that in addition to what the law says, you have to look at what is practical, and how to go about it. Do you deny the country education simply because we have irresponsible governors, and irresponsible local government chairmen and their councilors because if the wordings of the constitution were to be adhered to, none of the state governments would run their education system effectively; they would only steal the money. I don’t go for cheap words or slogans – true federalism, this or that. In actual terms, what does that mean and how does it translate to your lifestyle, to my lifestyle, my security, your security, to social harmony between you and I and other people; these are what I want to hear from people who claim to be politicians; who think they know something.

You said you were a member of the 2014 constitutional conference, why can’t the report be implemented to address some of the problems in the polity?

Yes, I was. In the first place, what was actually submitted to former President Jonathan was not what was agreed by members. Secondly, the legitimacy of the conference and all the recommendations were stillborn; it was a bastard constitutional conference because national conference or constitutional conference is supposed to be a new image for the country itself.

When we went to the conference, we found that its composition has been so skewed that the minority became the majority and vice versa. In the course of the discussion, a lot of things we didn’t discuss or we didn’t agree or accept or didn’t get before were smuggled into the final report. What they said we agreed was not what we agreed. We found that they already had a prepared constitution they wanted us to rubber stamp, and we refused to rubber stamp it and that nearly broke the conference.

So, why must we ratify and enact what we didn’t agree upon? Like I said, the composition was stillborn. It as a bastard constitutional conference put together for the purpose of tenure elongation of Jonathan. You cannot play with the intelligence of 200 million Nigerians. Those who took his money and told him that if only he could hold the conference that his reelection was assured have disappeared into thin air.

If we had a proper constitutional conference arrived at from the basis of national consensus, particularly among the elites, because it’s the elites who go to constitutional conference, then of course, the result could be implemented. You cannot implement the result of something, which was stillborn. So, it was dead on arrival.

Afenifere, Ohanaeze, PANDEFF and Middle Belt Forum, have dragged President Buhari to court over lopsided appointments, what is your view on this?

First and foremost, there is nepotism and there is lopsidedness in the appointments by this present administration, but I also believe that if something should be done, it should be for a certain reasonable time line. Do we take the composition of the federal government from 1979 or 1999 in particular, and see who and who are in each board, each department, each ministry and each agency and we look and see who are the people who are represented and the people who are not represented. You simply can’t sit and say, from the time Buhari came to power, he made such and such appointment. I’m not defending him, but people around him can advance the reason that the people he is appointing now are maybe under represented, but I don’t know; I’m not defending him to say that was right. What I’m saying is that, if you want to do a census, you must do it from a certain timeline agreed and let us see how many people are from which state and from which local government and let us see how many are from what tribe or which town. I must also say, there is a limit to what I can say as regards the matter, because it is subjudice, but if the matter were to be discussed, I would be more than glad for everybody to bring his own case, and let the matter be discussed because I believe if people complain, they must have a reason for that, and they have the right and are entitled also to justice. Beyond that, I’m not prepared to follow people who are nothing but demagogues and who are fighting not what they claim to be fighting for, because if you ask any of them to produce a minister they will bring their own relations; if you ask them to bring people for employment into Customs, CBN, they will bring their relations. Nobody has the right to use the name of Southeast, Middle Belt, PANDEFF, Southwest and what have you to come and generate agitation to drive certain personal advantages. If you want to do it, let us do it in a way that is rational. If you have certain position, you now say, which state or local government is entitled to this position, let it be advertised, and you set the benchmark, and whoever that makes it, is entitled to go forward for an interview, that is how you do things rationally.

Our hands are always full; how does the international community regard us over the sordid news oozing out from EFCC and NDDC?

We are not respected outside our borders; we don’t even respect ourselves. The EFCC unfortunately might have been well meant under Obasanjo. The merit and the mandate of the EFCC have been bastardised as a result of the recent event. I don’t want to blame anybody, but I know there is no way you can run an institutionalized anti corruption agency with the force of law and the right to prosecute if you subject the people in the EFCC to the kind of political shenanigans under some small boys who are very corrupt and who don’t have the capacity to even work as middle level officers in the EFCC itself.

Everybody who is working in the NDDC is in that place as a result of recommendation by some governors or some political powerful elites. If you think these are the people who will remedy the problems of Niger Delta, you are deceiving yourself. I worked in the previous NDDC, which was OMPADEC and I know special people who worked there came from the leaders. I also know that in spite of the fact that I had lots of problems with the chairman, Albert Horsfall. If the government is serious with those at the helm of the organisation, the result they deliver will be meaningful, if they are not sincere and not serious and they subject it to corrupt governors and other political and relevant elites, nothing will be achieved.

The NDDC can be salvaged so long as it will be seen as a national assignment by people who have conscience and know the needs of the people in the area and of the necessary things that need to be done, but if you subject the mandate of the NDDC to the whims ad caprices of the governors who are politically and in every sense comprehensively corrupt, you will not get result.

EFCC and ICPC are gone, and nothing will happen and whatever little they have achieved, God bless those who were sincerely responsible, but I don’t see how under the present circumstances that the EFCC can be salvaged. ICPC was an unnecessary duplication. We have to go back to the drawing board, start all over again and ensure that we have an enabling law and the people that will make the agency work will never subject the EFCC chairman to the ratification of the Senate. We must make the EFCC and similar organisations directly under the president so that we hold the president directly responsible. This idea of having EFCC chairman, who will survive by playing games can’t take us anywhere. Look at the four chairmen we have had, none of them finished well because none of the presidents, including the current never meant well for EFCC and was not sincere in the anti corruption fight. You don’t fight corruption in the situation we find ourselves by merely shouting slogan. This is the situation we find ourselves. Are we prepared to fight, if we are prepared, who are the commanders in this fight and what is the legal and other enabling environment for us to do so?  You will have a situation whereby all those who have been appointed have come from the police; you and I know what we know about the Nigeria Police. The entire thing is a police operation; those who stop people on the way and extort N100, N200, are the kind of people you expect to come and fight corruption for you, you cannot be serious. Some Nigeria Policemen were sent outside Nigeria and they did well. But for them to fight corruption in Nigeria? You must be joking.

Other places where they have anti corruption agency like the one in South Africa, it is not a police matter; it is a national matter because they take it as a matter of life and death. They consider corruption as a big existential threat. They removed a president for corruption, but the difference in them and us is that they have real political parties, who are in charge; who can hold anybody to order. In Nigeria, there are no political parties, just a bunch of people who are busy fighting themselves, and who are busy changing parties and loyalties; today they are in one party and tomorrow they in another party. This is what I call a PDP culture. In South Africa, they inherited what they call Directorate of Public Prosecution, and they removed that from the Attorney General, and put it under Independent Prosecution Authority. It is about time we do that. If you do that our lawyers, especially the so called SANs will start shouting. If we are serious to do something, it can’t be now, it is too late. Maybe after this government and we start preparing now until 2023, if we don’t consume ourselves in some conflagration, on who will be the next president, then we have time to do some important amendments to enable us reorganise the mandates of ICPC and EFCC, and make sure that those who are going to do the job are protected, particularly from the Senate. The Senate should not have the power to ratify appointments in EFCC and ICPC because they are part of the problem.

You emphasised why 2014 confab report can’t see the light of the day, some argue that the North are opposed to it because they think that restructuring won’t favour them. Do you share that sentiment?

You have never sat me down and talked to me about restructuring and I told you that I’m not against it or I’m for it. None of the people you claimed to be speaking for the North, speak for the North. How many of them you line up in the newspapers for it or against it speak for the North? I don’t know of any. I have won election and members of my family have won elections. Whatever you want to do; do it right and make sure you carry the people along.

The idea that the North is afraid of restructuring is a figment of imagination of those who are peddling these sinister rumours. What we are saying is that if you want to do something, bring your own ideas and we bring ours and that was the whole import of the last constitutional conference. The week we arrived, we had walked into a trap. Jonathan had prepared the constitution and had prepared the composition of the Confab, he simply wanted us to sit and append it, but we showed them we have some political savvy; we have experience and some of us have come from political homes and we know how to play our game. We played that game and we defeated them.

Without an honest and sincere preparation, one hundred constitutional conferences cannot solve the problem of the country, but if you do adequate and sincere preparation, without some taking undue advantage of other people, of course, it can be done. There are more complex countries that have been able to resolve their problems. India is a democracy, and a nation of 1.3 billion people, and they have never missed an election; even when they have problems during the election, they have always ended up with a credible and legitimate government. When you are not prepared to do that, but you only want to take undue advantage of the others, then you have a problem. It can be done, but nobody should start blaming some people when in fact the game has not started. If you want to play game by having two set of rules, one set which is open and not everybody is going to be a participant and the second one, you introduce a new set of rules after the game has gone half way, of course, no one will accept that and that was what happened. No leader, be it Jonathan or Buhari can imagine that he can take this country for a ride.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/why-nigerias-break-up-is-impossible-junaid-mohammed/amp/

When it comes to defending the actions & inactions of the core North, They'll bring out a Southerner.
Why do they use the opinion of Lawyers from the South east to defend the secrecy of Magu's investigation & defense in this report?
Are there no Lawyers from the Core North?

Olugbanko:
lol...you conmen must be daydreaming thinking as sophisticated as we are,we Yorubas would lend support to a dead on arrival project. wait a minute, have you nyamiris suddenly realized you've all along been on a wild goose chase? jokers!

Kanu,Kanu, this route you're taking is dangerous. Note- Backstabbing is in their DNA. You have to learn from past experiences. A word is enough for the wise!

WHILE we do not know yet the Air Force guy who reversed the car that killed flying officer Tolulope Arotile, we know for sure that Sir Frederick Lord Lugard set the contradictories in the “impossible country” that led to her death in 1914!

The brilliant and courageous 24-year-old first female combat flying officer gave all her best to a false country she did not understand until she was killed on Tuesday most likely, the way agents of Boko Haram within the forces have been eliminating those waging war against insurgency on behalf of a non-existing country .

I listened to an ex-soldier, an anonymous call on Naija Info making a heart-rendering narration of how a colleague shot him with loud complaint in Hausa that “you too dey killl people “(people meaning Boko Haram” who should ordinarily be the enemies of the country if we had one). The fellow described himself as the best sniper in his unit who shoots without missing but served under very inhumane conditions.

He resigned after he narrowly escaped with his life and narrated how two of his colleagues were shot dead in similar circumstances by agents of insurgence in uniform.

Nigerian troops were ambushed some years back in Kogi State with devastating blows from Boko Haram with suggestion later, the movement plans of the troops were allegedly given to Boko Haram in advance by the insurgents’ sympathisers within the Army.

When a sobbing Commander-in-Chief Goodluck Jonathan came before Nigeria In 2012 that Boko Haram had infiltrated his government, those who didn’t have a full understanding of their country said all they needed was to replace him with a strong man in the next election even when what was coming from the supposed strong quarters was open defence of Boko Haram who were supposedly not given “amnesty like Niger Delta militants.”

For the record:

“President Goodluck Jonathan today admitted that members of the extremist Boko Haram sect have succeeded in infiltrating his government, planting its  members in  government agencies and security outfits.

“The president made the assertion during a church service at the National Ecumenical Centre as part of the annual Armed Forces remembrance day celebrations.

“The deadly sect has become Nigeria’s biggest security challenge, operating in an amorphous manner and bombing innocent Nigerians at random, even in churches and mosques.

“Government has so far been unable to contain the sect, halt its deadly activities and arrest what appears a slide to anarchy.

“An obviously helpless Mr Jonathan said he believed Boko Haram had sympathisers in government, national assembly and even security agencies.

“He lamented that the Boko Haram threat was becoming worse than the Nigerian civil war in which over a million people were killed.

“During the civil war, we knew and we could even predict where the enemy was coming from,” the President said. “You can even know the route they are coming from, you can even know what calibre of weapon they will use and so on.

“He described the Boko Haram sect as mysterious, saying some people in the North had told him it was  possible their children belong to the sect without them knowing about it.

“Some continue to dip their hands and eat with you and you won’t even know the person who will point a gun at you or plant a bomb behind.”

It was as if Boko Haram was a wing of the battle for the next election. The then spokesman of the opposition, Alhaji Lai Mohammed was issuing statements in defence of the rights of Boko Haram against government and some Nigerians ignorantly expected the same people to come and fight the same evil forces they were defending to a standstill.

They cannot later connect the dots when the Nigerian government became tongue-tied when the Wall Street Journal published that this government paid Boko Haram 3million Euros. My people perish for lack of knowledge!

A VOA report in 2014 titled “Army, Boko Haram working together in parts of Nigeria revealed some of the internal contractions of Nigeria why it cannot win the war against insurgency:

“A Nigerian soldier says he has witnessed incidents that suggest some Nigerian military commanders are working with Boko Haram, an Islamist militant group blamed for thousands of deaths since 2009.

In an exclusive interview with VOA’s Hausa service, he described how his military unit, based in the North-Eastern Borno State region, was ambushed by Boko Haram fighters.

The soldier, who did not want to be identified, said the commander of a nearby military unit, based in the town of Bama, recently sought assistance from his unit in carrying out a raid.

The soldier said when the two military units joined up, they were given different uniforms. The Bama unit commander gave his own troops green uniforms. The soldier said his unit received “desert camouflage” uniforms.

When the troops reached the battle area, the soldier said the commander of the better-equipped Bama unit suddenly withdrew his forces, leaving the remaining troops to fend for themselves against Boko Haram fighters.

Speaking in Hausa, he said, “We had only light arms and our men were being picked off one after the other.”

The soldier also said he recognised some of the Boko Haram fighters as his former military trainers in Kontagora, a town near the capital, Abuja.

“We realised that some of them were actually mercenaries from the Nigerian army… hired to fight us,” he said.

This soldier and others have said that too often, commanders have pocketed money that was supposed to be used to help equip units.”

When President Jonathan said some people could be eating with you and you don’t know who will point a gun at your head or plant a bomb behind you, maybe he should have added or drive a car into you.

Reasonable people reject the Air Force account that Tolulope died in an accident. That statement was an attempt to cover up the killing of the young lady in their eyes and with eyewitness accounts’ reports that it was a colleague who reversed a car into her killing her off, they have joined her family to demand a coroner’s inquest before her burial.

We need to know who killed her and the distance one can reverse his vehicle to hurt a pedestrian in an accident and the speed at which one can kill another person in an incident.

Unless a credible investigation convinces us otherwise, we hold strong vow that Tolulope may have been murdered and further weakening belief in Nigeria as a project.

Tolulope is dead and nothing can bring her back but the Nigeria Air Force owes her memory a duty to unravel details of her death so as not to bear vicarious liability as an institution. The fellow who killed her must be fished out and prosecuted.

Goodnight Tolulope, a dutiful officer born into the wrong country

https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-lugard-killed-tolulope/

Nigeria is the only country where Politicians turn billionaires overnight.
Nigeria is the only country that graduates & Phd holders are paupers.

As long as this road is located in the East, I'll wait until i see the completed project before i believe. Because the senators from that zone will embezzle the money meant for it, thereby, frustrate the effort of the Federal govt.

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide had supported the idea of Using Jungle Justice to discipline Some Erring Igbo Elders, whose Adult delinquencies had instituted Untold hardship and insecurity Challenges against Igbo Nation.

OYC wishes to State Categorically, that Nnia Nwodo as Former Minister of Information during the Military regime of Former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar in 1998, Presented and Marketed the 1999 Constitution to Nigerians without proper protection of igbos interests and without Apologies to Nigerians, in 2019, He called the 1999 Constitution he helped the Military Junta to imposed on Nigerians as a trained lawyer, a Fraudulent Document that should be discarded and Usher in restructuring.

Igbos had been victimised by Actions and decisions, erroneously took in the past on behalf of Igbo Nation,by few circle of Igbo Elders who placed their Pecuniary Interests above the Collective interests of igbos and never weighed the future consequences and negative impact such decisions will have on the lives and Properties of igbos.

Its Time for Igbo Youths to Cleanse the land, and any process that will effect positive changes on the lives of our people, including stoning the circle of Elders who had vowed to make life difficult and Unbearable for Igbo Youths, we will surely support the decision.

Signed:
Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro
President General
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide
Mazi Okwu Nnabuike
Secretary General
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide

https://dailypost.ng/2020/07/03/nwodo-erring-igbo-elders-should-be-stoned-ohanaeze-backs-nnamdi-kanu/

Really?

Nigeria and Iraq are the two most vulnerable members of OPEC that are badly affected by Coronavirus crisis which has badly impacted the price of crude oil and analysts fear that the two countries, which solely depend on oil to grow their economies, are at the brink of collapse.

According to analysts at Rystad Energy, the global upheaval which has resulted in oil price crash, upending the current fragile balance of power because key oil-producing countries, including Iraq and Nigeria, can’t buy their way out of this crisis with near-zero-interest loans like the Saudis and Americans can.

They said even with Brent at $25 (indeed, even when it fell below $20), the Saudis were throwing around cash at all kinds of investments, including COVID-sinking cruise lines. The American shale patch can bail itself out if it wishes to, even amid desperate talk of looming bankruptcies.

But in Nigeria, where oil is about 9percent of GDP and 90 percent of exports, and with a break-even price of around $57 a barrel and also a fiscal break-even of around $100, the economy is in serious trouble.

If the economy is in trouble, Rystad Energy analysts said, the government is in even bigger trouble as roughly 20 million people are unemployed, and that is now expected to climb another 25 percent. It’s enough to bring down a government, with the only lifeline now a $3.4-billion IMF emergency loan just approved. But making matters worse is the fact that no one even wants to touch Nigerian oil right now because there isn’t enough demand for it–even at $10 a barrel. And it’s competing with overproduced U.S. crude (light and low in sulfur).

Already the Federal Government on Tuesday revealed plans to cut the oil price benchmark for the current budget to $20 per barrel. The development would make it the second time the government is slashing the oil benchmark for the 2020 budget.

The sharp fall in the price of crude oil had earlier forced the government to slash the benchmark from $57 per barrel to $30.

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, disclosed Federal Government’s intention to further slash the benchmark on Tuesday.

Ahmed who spoke during a web conference which focused on the impact of low oil prices on Nigeria’s economy, said: “We are in the process of an amendment that is bringing down the revenue indicator to $20 per barrel,”.

The decline in revenue following the sharp fall in the price of crude oil is already taking a toll on Nigeria’s economy and Ahmed had in March disclosed that the N10.59tn budget would be slashed by 15 per cent.

The minister, at the web conference, also said Nigeria’s oil and gas projects would be delivered later than originally planned as a result of upstream budget cuts.

The Federal Government is planning to cut oil production to 1.7 million barrels per day from the 2.1 million barrels per day proposed in the 2020 budget.

The planned production cut is to be made in line with an agreement reached by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies better known as OPEC+.

In Iraq, the fragility will translate into a boon for the Islamic State first and foremost, while Iran and the United States grapple for control in this proxy war setting.

https://businessday.ng/energy/oilandgas/article/analysts-fear-nigeria-iraq-are-at-brink-of-collapse/

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Monday alerted Nigerians on the circulation of fake chloroquine phosphate 250mg tablets.

In a statement, the Director-General of the agency, Mojisola Adeyeye, said the NAFDAC was notified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the circulation of the tablets in Cameroon.

“The falsified chloroquine phosphate 250mg tablets were manufactured by Jiangsu pharmaceutical Inc, Astral pharmaceutical New Bhupalpura, China.

“The tablets manufactured by these companies have no Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) and are in packs of 1000 tablets.

“The use of the falsified chloroquine phosphate 250mg tablets may result in treatment failure and could even cause death,” she warned.

She also said that the labelling information on the falsified chloroquine phosphate 250mg tablets manufactured by Jiangsu pharmaceutical Inc, China is labelled with a fake NAFDAC No.: 028060.

“The Astral pharmaceuticals, New Bhupalpura, China is labelled with fake NAFDAC registration No. 0587612 and advised the general public to be aware of this drug.

“All importers, wholesalers and retailers are hereby cautioned to desist from illegal importation, distribution and sale of falsified chloroquine phosphate 250mg tablets.

“NAFDAC has strengthened its surveillance in all ports of entry to prevent illegal importation of the falsified chloroquine phosphate 250mg tablets.

READ ALSO: CORONAVIRUS: NAFDAC ORDERS PRODUCTION OF CHLOROQUINE FOR CLINICAL TRIAL
“The agency has also heightened surveillance in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to prevent distribution and sale of this falsified drug.

“Healthcare providers and other members of the public are advised to be vigilant and contact the nearest NAFDAC office with any information on the falsified chloroquine,” she said.

She called on anybody in possession of the falsified chloroquine to submit it to the nearest NAFDAC office, and advised the consumer to report adverse events related with the use of the medicine, or call the agency toll free lines: 0800-1-NAFDAC and 0800-1-623322.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/386243-nafdac-alerts-nigerians-on-circulation-of-fake-chloroquine-tablets-from-china.html

Fhemmmy:
Why do we call name of God in vain, isnt it in the bible that we should obey the law of the land?

Isn't the bible that said the law should be fair and just to all.Why been selective. do Nigerians know God? Majority are full of hatred and with evil heart.

I thought the federal govt claimed the imported rice are not healthy for consumption and some are expired. Are they trying to finish the work covid- 19 started?

The Imams and Pastors that disobeyed the order in Lagos,none of them were arrested and charged. Bad Belle full Nigeria no be small. Funke you'll come out stronger. God is with you.

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If my region or people don't go forward nobody will go forward. That's the problem of Nigeria.(PULL YOU DOWN SYNDROME). No healthy competition amongst the various ethnic & geopolitical Zones at all. All we have now is hatred & animosity amongst ourselves. but we keep deceiving ourselves that we are one.
I just wish we could go back to the early 60's where there were healthy economic, political & social competition amongst us.
Its not a curse but Nigeria can never,NEVER develop with this kind of atmosphere.

24kmagic:
As a man, once you're able to fvck any girl you approached, you already won. All the calls, the efforts, the outings and the shoppings are all aiming towards sex. Shey you don fvck her? Oya breakup.

It's either you're damaging her kpekus or breaking her heart. If you're not doing any of these two things, you're the woman in the relationship.

For God's sake which man leaves his phone with a b!tch just because he wants to prove that he's faithful? What rubbish is that? It's a sign of "weakness." She should be the one doing that to prove that she's a wife material. Even if you don't have any side chick, you dare not let her know. In fact, you'll need to pretend that you have many girls disturbing you, if not she'll just rubbish you. Girls? Hmm

Again, I can bet my left ball that money was the key factor you used in getting her. The way you kept stressing how you buy her this and that, shopping for this and that, I can say money was a major factor in getting her. Shey you don fvck her? Oya, leave her.

She's in for the cash, she doesn't like you like you think. Reason why I don't always succumb to the "make money and girls will follow you notion." Money will get you girls but it won't get you their loyalty. No girl turns down the idea of a man coming to meet her people except she doesn't love him, which is the case here.

Finally, I want you all reading this to know that "NO GIRL DESERVES A GOOD THING" and the earlier guys realise that, the better. That good thing you think she deserves, she doesn't deserve it because she doesn't want it.

What she wants and deserves are pain, cry, games, cheating, lies, manipulations, STDs, and every form of one discomfort or the other.

If you can do all these without laying a finger on her, you're EVERY GIRL'S DREAM MAN.

Forget what they say online

Guy,This is the main point
[/b]Even if you don't have any side chick, you dare not let her know. In fact, you'll need to pretend that you have many girls disturbing you, if not she'll just rubbish you. Girls? Hmm[b]

Girls don't really like a man they don't fight off other girls for. Whether the man is rich or not.
Show her she's the only one in your life since Adam and watch her toy with your emotions.