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fiizznation:
This silly man. You think six years will be enough for any meaningful development to take place in a country like Nigeria? A silly senator that wasted all his political career in the NA without achieving anything shouldn't be taken serious by sane minds. Hopefully, you and saraki will be retired permanently in 2019. Stealing your constituency money and buying all the luxurious houses in U.S shouldn't be something you should be proud of, Mr deputy Senate president.


Anyway Buhari till 2023 and after Buhari, fashola will takeover from him insha'Allah. And after fashola, hopefully insha'Allah it will be MY TURN

YOU SOUND LIKE A FRUSTRATED SILLY IDIOT.
IF ANYONE CAN NOT ACHIEVE ANYTHING IN SIX YEARS, IS IT IN THE REMAINING TWO YEARS THE PERSON WILL ACHIEVE ALL HE COULDN'T ACHIEVE IN 6 SIX?
EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO HIS OPINION. IF YOU HAVE ANY COUNTER OPINION, YOU'RE AT LIBERTY TO AIR IT WITHOUT CALLING AND INSULTS.

YOU ACCUSE AN INDIVIDUAL OF STEALING MONEY FROM WHERE? WAS HE A GOVERNOR OR PRESIDENT OR WAS HE A SENATE PRESIDENT?

''We are not saying tell us the source of your story, we are saying tell us where the document emanates from''.



NL English teachers, please i need some lessons on the above.

MRSoftapples:
Bros,, so you mean you can't give or spend 6k on a lady without demanding for sex from her?

Haba bros,, I'm not saying I'm rich o,, but as broke as i am,, 6k is nothing, i mean absolutely nothing if you are a real man..

so your definition of a real man is going about spending money on girls?

tesppidd:
That was how they sang and beat the drums for GEJ, he got roundly beaten in 2015 even with his power of incumbency.

Then came Nnamdi Kanu; they sang and beat the drums for him. They gave him god-status and he enjoyed every bit of it, until he got demystified and destroyed.

Saraki enjoy your spotlight while it lasts.
When your comeuppance comes, these ipob youths and wailers clapping and singing for you will not save you.

In their minds now Buhari is the anti-Democrat while Saraki is democracy personified abi?

Lol, Mumus!

Kwara state is basically a family business for Saraki.
Two words which should never be found in one sentence are Saraki and democracy.

But no, Nigerians are tortoises.

A man who is richer than his state and who basically owns kwara state is talking about saving democracy.

Wao!

You are actually the mumu.
You call Saraki thief and hail Tinubu. Una hypocrisies de stink.

Those hailing Saraki are not hailing him for stealing from Kwara State but stopping the impunity and rape of democracy by your lords. They are not all Igbos. They are hausas, Yorubas hailing him too.

sarrki:
Ipobs are disgruntle elements

I see you are one of the enemies of Nigeria. How many presidents of the world travel to other country for medical check up the way your president does? You are not even ashamed of yourself. A president that can not use what he's giving to Nigerians. If you love Nigeria, you should demand for quality health care. You praise singers are the problem of Nigeria.

Sahara reporters and APC apologists won't come and tell us how Saraki and magu conspired to freeze a state government's account to ridicule Buhari's government. When they are condemned they will look for who to rope in.

Rotentina:
May sudden sickness fall on those who are stealing our money.

did he steal your money? has he been a governor or a president? he's a law maker which we all know that a deputy senate president does not sigh checks when the senate president is there. or you want to tell me that he stole all the money from the senate

post=69659333:
THE GUILTY ARE AFRAID.
Bunch of corrupt souls

thats all you can say? do you have any case of corruption against any of them?

seunmsg:
APC really gave Saraki a long rope to pull. Now is the time to play really dirty. I endorse any move to remove him as senate president.

now you've confirmed where your heart lies. i thought you said police and dss should be allowed to do their work? and part of their work is by blocking him and his dsp because they want to remove his as the senate president?

seunmsg:
Saraki should report to the police and stop playing hide and seek. He's not immune from arrest so, this should not be a big deal. He should go and explain his relationship with the Offa armed robbery suspects and stop politicizing the matter.

he should honour the invitation by blocking his house? and what is the reason for blocking DSP or was he part of the robbery too?

people saying that saraki should go and clear his name, what is the offence of the DSP? why lay siege in his home too?

its shocking that this post is still here. Moderators, there are certain posts that shouldn't be left to stand. someone can not just wake up one day and be making spurious and defamatory allegation. he has no valid fact to show and if he does, he should take it to DSS and not here.

since people here are supposedly imaginary, i think this forum should be sanitized and any post that has no verifiable link should be deleted immediately.

People are so ignorant. Being a Christian does not make one a coward. Love your neighbour as yourself does not in any way relate to being a coward. Living peacefully with all men doesn't mean doing nothing when you are being slaughtered like a goat. You have to be alive to even practice the peace. David being a man after God's own heart prayed to God to lead him to war. Psalm 144:1. Fighting a spiritual war is different from physical war.
God himself lead the Israelites to war. Even though he could have destroyed their enemies without Israel doing nothing.

What the OP said is a plain truth. I've had the opportunity meeting some ladies from Anambra in particular, especially, those that have lived all their lives in Anambra, they so much hate Ebonyi people. Unfortunately, they classify every other Ebonyi state indigene as Abakaliki man or woman forgetting that there are other people who are different from Abakaliki.
The hatred is much. I was dating an Anambra lady and we planned getting married but her parents bluntly refused that she can't marry an Abakaliki man. I'm from Ebonyi state and I know what the OP said is the truth. But I careless whatever anyone especially Anambra people think of Ebonyi man. If they say they are not Igbos, then they should tell us where they belong....

Biglittlelois:
Though what Leke said wasnt right but this freeze has problem, the biblical days didnt have money then, they use flocks and food as tithe so what is he saying, he quoted matthew 23:23 that actually supports tithe lol

Don't just make comments to condemn Freeze because every other person is doing so.
Are you sure there was no money in the old? Please read Deuteronomy 14:25-26 to know that money was never used or intended for tithing.
There were other professions during that time. There were blacksmiths which was one of the highly respected profession. And then the carpenters and the rest. But God never asked them to tight or exchange whatever they manufacture for tithing. The message was purely for farmers or herders because it's edible.
The Matthew he quoted as you said supports tithing, what does that passage literally means? There are more important things the teachers of the law should be more concerned than tithing....

Why is this a special news na? ...... It's a normal thing in Benin city. Girls walk around without bra. I don't know what's so special about a going to club without bra

whiteTORTIISE:
This is pure Poli-Magic.



The full meaning of the above word is Political Magic. This is to cover up Senator Saraki bad records of arming political thugs with weapons to cause mayhem during election. I can put to you that without the godfatherism of Senator Saraki and the Governor of Kwara state, those hoodlums wouldn't have carried out such gruesome murder of 33 people.


Just one Micheal Adikwu killed/ wasted/ cut short and sent 22 different peace loving innocent people of Offa to their early grave.

I'm sad about it.

Let Saraki be question and made to realise that this is the outcome of giving out weapon to cultist n thugs during election.


Fulani herdsmen and Bokoharam started like this. Today, they are threat to every individual in this country.

Did you ever read that most people killed during the operation was at the police station?
Did you also read that the shooting was carried out by a dismissed police officer?
Please, go get facts.

Yes, it's very possible. My younger brother uses a different surname from me. I'm using my grandfather's name as my surname while my younger brother is using my father's name as his.... So, it's not a big deal here...

wirinet:
So what will you call someone who quoted and got approvals to supply items that everybody knows for 10 times the price and got 100% payment upfront?

What do you term the malibu oil deal that all other foreign nationals that was involved had served jail time?

Do you take these cases to court on "mere stealing" charge or corrupt enrichment.

You're argument is vague..... Corruption is a compound word which can be relative. If someone goes to a shop and steal some items and people are shouting, " corruption corruption", what do you think will be people's reactions? People will even be looking at the person, like, what's he saying.... Now compared to when he's shouting thief thief.....
Now GEJ was trying to explain to people like you that anyone who steals government's money should be called a thief and not say the person is corrupt.

Can I get a good car for ₦600

See the reply Alex gave to an IG user @adedeji_tipsy who trolled her for coming from a poor home....

See reactions*******

Cee cee has won the show already....

iamJ:
nigeria is a failed country not because of our leaders, its because of us, we are all self centered lazy ungrateful, hypocrites that want free thing without working, u think that am lying?

go to aba and see fake drugs

go to lagos and see fake products

go to any business owned by a nigerian and see how he will charge u unnecessarily for no reason


we like to lie to ourselves and deceive ourselves, when ur pastor says God will visit boko haram and destroy it and u say amen, sit down and ask urself how? the same prayers up and down and ur life never improve, ask urself na?

buhari didnt lie, we are lazy


person go church and say amen to buy car and build house and the person sells onion, how na?

person carry him family do juju to get money

scams, land sales, car sales, mmm and the other ones


buhari might be blunt and harsh but in our hearts we know that what he said is true

And you think you made sense in that you wrote there?
If the leaders had put a working institution, would those fake products you mentioned be? It's the citizens that makes economic policies for the country? The same problem we face was same India, China and the rest had, but their leader had policies that changed their countries for good.
How much have been invested in the power sector between 1999 till date? Do you still hear Americans using road construction or rehabilitation as a political tool? Do you see police officers taking bribes on a broad daylight and nothing is done about it?
The leadership failed woefully

…Moves to resolve own crisis
…To set up separate reconciliation, confidence building c’ttee

By Omeiza Ajayi


The Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led reconciliation efforts in the ruling All Progressives Congress APC may have lost its steam following the decision of the party leadership to scale up crisis mediation efforts ahead of the 2019 General Elections, Saturday Vanguard has learned.

President Muhammadu Buhari had weeks ago appointed Tinubu to embark on troubleshooting and confidence building efforts in the ruling party, but the party now seems ready to resolve its crisis its own way in spite of the Tinubu ‘committee’.

Tinubu
APC Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
The former Lagos State governor had on February 14 visited the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun led National Working Committee NWC of the party at its secretariat in Abuja to intimate them about the commencement of his work as well as solicit their support in delivering on the presidential mandate given to him.

At the meeting, Tinubu was alleged to have listed several terms including asking the party leadership to stand down all ongoing reconciliation efforts in order not to work at cross-purposes with his team.

Tinubu on his own in a letter he wrote to Chief Odigie-Oyegun days after the meeting, said he had also requested for documents on the state of affairs of the party in some States, a request he said had not been granted as promised.

He had also asked the party to appoint a liaison officer to interface with him and the party in the course of his troubleshooting assignment, a request that had since been granted by the party through the appointment of the APC Director of Organization, Alh. Abubakar Kyari. It is not known whether Tinubu has named his full team.

However, Saturday Vanguard learned that the party has been making efforts to resolve its crisis, a move that has left the Tinubu committee with nothing much to do.

“Kogi is one of the flash point states that Tinubu is so much interested in. Even in his last letter to the national chairman, he stated it. Now, the NWC has insisted that the status quo ante bellum be maintained in the state, meaning that Haddy Ametuo, obviously favoured by Tinubu against Gov. Yahaya Bello’s choice of Alh. Ibrahim Ahovi, remains the chairman of the party in that state”, said a national officer of the party who did not want his name mentioned in the report.

In Kaduna, the party had recently set up a committee headed by its Deputy National Chairman, South, Engr. Segun Oni to wade into the crisis afflicting the party in the state. Other members of the fact-finding committee were the National Auditor, Chief George Moghalu and National Woman Leader, Hajia Rahmatu Aliyu. The team was to “ identify the remote and immediate causes of the disagreement and circumstance that led to the demolition of the house of Sen. Suleiman Hunkuyi” among other issues.

Apart from mediating in the crisis in other states including Cross River, the party leadership earlier in the week took its efforts a notch higher by wading into the continued altercation between the National Assembly and the Executive when it visited its Senate Caucus on Wednesday.

Consequent upon discussions at the parley, the NWC and the senators resolved to set up what could appear as a parallel crisis mediation team to resolve all the crises in the party.

At the end of the meeting which lasted about three hours, Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan said the party would soon constitute a caucus, comprising members of the executive, the legislature, governors and the party leadership, to resolve issues confronting the party. “The discussions centered around so many things, including the issue of election sequence. We are coming to a situation where that can be resolved. We are hoping that as soon as that caucus is constituted, this kind of issue will easily be addressed and resolved. Senators took the opportunity to express problems bedeviling the party. The party will soon constitute a team that will comprise the Executive, Legislature, governors and the party itself. The meeting was worthwhile and the party was happy to be here this afternoon. It was a frank discussion.

“The idea of bringing everybody to the table is to ensure that we are able to resolve any issue; issues at party, National Assembly and at the executive levels and with some of our governors. Should there be any issue, we should be able to discuss and dispense with it as quickly as possible.

“When you have everybody on the same page, you would have reduced misunderstanding to its barest level or eliminated it completely. There may be times when there will be disagreements. Such disagreements must not be allowed to become a clog in the wheel of progress.

“This is our government. This is our administration. We should not be fighting dirty in the public. If we have misunderstanding, we should be able to deal with it inside our house. It is not as if a political party will not have problems, what makes the difference is for the political party to manage such challenges that will arise from time to time. We are on top of the situation. We are going to resolve all our problems.”

Describing the visit of the NWC to the Senate “as a father visiting his family”, Lawan said the NWC had requested for an interaction with the party’s Senate caucus to review events in the party and the country.



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/2019-apc-leadership-sidelines-tinubus-committee/amp/

Key northern groups met in Kaduna on Saturday and asked northerners to examine “all options” in political choices they will make in 2019 — a development not particularly good for President Muhammadu Buhari who is thought to be seeking a second term in office.

While some northern governors have already endorsed Buhari for another term, the 18 northern groups –including the apex socio-cultural group Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) — warned in the communique shared with TheCable that no one “should take the North for granted”.

They also said the leadership selection process must be critically interrogated “to present the best leader to Nigeria as a whole”.

Other prominent groups that attended the summit and signed the communique are the Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria, Jama’atu Nasiril Islam and the northern chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria.

“The historic gains in Northern political unity secured by Northern votes in the 2015 elections have been wasted by the poor management of conflicts between and among Northern communities,” they said, adding that that most political office holders from the north “are hereby served notice that they have failed the test to lead the region towards economic recovery and growth”.

THE FULL TEXT
Communique of the Summit of Northern Groups, held at Arewa House, Kaduna, on Saturday, 24th March, 2018

Leading Northern Groups and Associations held a Summit of their leaders at Arewa House, Kaduna on Saturday 24th March, 2018. The Summit was convened to assess the security, economic and political circumstances of the North and Northern communities in other parts of Nigeria. Specifically, the Summit reviewed the worrying state of insecurity under which virtually all Northerners live; the worsening economic fortunes of the vast majority of Northerners and the options that are available to the North as it prepares to engage the political process towards the elections of 2019.

The Summit noted that in spite of notable successes by the Buhari administration against the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East, many Northern communities still live under its threat. In many other parts of the North, communities are routinely exposed to attacks from shadowy killers, and suspicion and anger at known and suspected killers are pitching Northerners against each other. Armed bandits terrorize rural communities almost at will, while kidnappings and abductions have assumed alarming notoriety as crimes. The nation’s security and law and order assets are stretched beyond points where they can’t provide even the most elementary confidence and protection of citizens. The North has rarely been so exposed to multiple and varied threats.

The economy of the North continues to deteriorate in spite of the evident willingness of Northerners to work hard and earn legitimate incomes. Its basic infrastructure suffers massive deficits in funding while its growing population starves from lack of critical investment in human capital development. Federal government spending is severely tilted against the North, while most State governments only pay lip service to real development in their states. Agriculture shows limited glimpses of recovery, but almost entirely through efforts of peasants and antiquated processes. The North is completely de-industrialized, while the rest of the nation moves towards sustainable growth and development. There is no evidence of bold thinking, strong political will and/or serious concern by any leadership at any level to reverse the alarming decline of the Northern economy.

Since 2015, Northerners have occupied positions with the potential to make decisive differences in the economy, security or political fortunes of the region. The hopes that leaders who have exercised power since 2015 will reverse the abuse and neglect of the region in the previous decade have been betrayed. Weak governance, gross insensitivity and unacceptable levels of incompetence have been compounded by battles of attrition in which northerners have sapped each others’ strength. Weak and incoherent responses to provocations from other parts of the country around the imperatives of re-visiting the foundations and structures of the Nigerian state have created the false image of a North without its own positions beyond survival as the parasite of Nigeria. The historic gains in Northern political unity secured by Northern votes in the 2015 elections have been wasted by the poor management of conflicts between and among Northern communities. Today Northern communities are erecting barricades against members of other communities, as well as and politicians who have failed to lead and make impacts in lives of the poor and the vulnerable are daily feeding the people with hate and resentment instead of searching for genuine and lasting solutions. In a region with enough resources for every community or trade, our people are now fighting for morsels, while leaders think of new ways to turn our misery into electoral capital.

The Summit, having undertaken a thorough analysis of the state of the North and our communities, therefore:

URGES all leaders, elders and communities to seek peaceful resolutions of conflicts between and among communities. Lives lost, injuries suffered and losses incurred in any community must be redressed firmly and fairly. The roots of co-existence and inter-dependence in all Northern communities are much deeper than the barricades being erected around communities. All persons who are involved in killings and crimes against communities must be brought to book.

DEMANDS immediate and decisive steps to improve the security of lives and economic assets in the North by the federal and state governments. Too many communities are at the mercy of attacks from sundry groups of criminals who appear to have unchallenged access to space and weapons.

APPEALS to Northern Governors and President Muhammadu Buhari to set in motion serious initiatives towards achieving higher levels of trust among Northern communities which is vital for the imperatives of peace and justice.

INSISTS that the routine denial of the rights of the North to its fair share of budgetary allocations by the federal government must cease from the 2018 budget. Northern representatives in the National Assembly must live up to their oaths to protect the rights of their constituencies to equity in the allocation of national resources.

WARNS that no Northern politician should expect to be voted for in the next general election unless they demonstrate a willingness to champion a massive assault on poverty and underdevelopment in the North. In this regard, most political office holders from the North are hereby served notice that they have failed the test to lead the region towards economic recovery and growth.

ASSERTS the rights of all Northerners to examine all options in political choices they will make in 2019. The leadership selection process must be critically interrogated to present the best leader to Nigeria as a whole. No one should take the North for granted, and it is not for sale. It will resist shedding its blood for any candidate, and will critically scrutinize all politicians who will seek our mandate. At this stage, all options are on the table, and politicians who have betrayed the hopes and mandates of our people should be prepared to suffer rejection, in the same manner the votes of the North rejected the attempt to continue with impunity, corruption and indifference of the previous regime.

ADVISES all Northerners to be alert to plans to weaken the region through the manipulation of our fears and vulnerability and our ethno-religious differences. There must be vigilant scrutiny of opportunities for manipulation by outsiders of our present challenges. We must stand up and unite against those who kill villagers in Kogi, in Zamfara, in Benue, in Adamawa, in Borno, in Kaduna, in Taraba and in every village or town. No Northern blood is more precious than others, and we can only heal if we adopt common positions to finding solutions to our problems.

INVITES attention of the rest of Nigeria that the North knows its interests and place and will defend them in the context of Nigeria. Our people are willing and eager to put our union as a nation on the table and discuss with other Nigerians the relative values of ALL options and negotiate them with responsibility and respect.

CAUTIONS the Presidency and members of the National Assembly and Governors to resist the temptation to abuse the political process in pursuit of their personal ambitions.

COMMITS to sustaining the strong interests behind this Summit through other activities and actions which will strengthen Northern unity and prepare it to extract the maximum benefits from the 2019 elections.

The Summit welcomes the release of the Dapchi girls, and urges the government to intensify efforts to secure the release of all other abducted Nigerians. It calls on the government to ensure that no abductions occur again, and all communities are sufficiently protected and young Nigerians are free to acquire education without fear.

Kaduna

24th March, 2018

Signed

Professor Ango Abdullahi, CON (Chairman ACF Political Committee and Convener, Northern Elders Forum)
Dr. Yima Sen (Northern Elders Forum, NEF)
Amb. Ibrahim Mai Sule (Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF)
Engr. Bello Suleiman (CODE Group)
Mataimaki Tom Maiyashi (Arewa Research Development Project, ARDP)
Zannah Hassan Boguma (Borno Elders Forum)
Nafiu Baba-Ahmed (Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria)
Dr. Ibrahim Yakubu Lame (Northern Union)
Yerima Shettima (Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF)
Alh. Mohammed Bello Kirfi, CON (North East Forum for Unity and Development)
Pastor Aminchi Habu (United Christian Leaders Eagle Eye Forum (UCLEEF)
Balarabe Rufai (Coalition of Northern Groups)
Isa Tijjani (Labour Veterans Association)
Rev. Bitrus Dangiwa (CAN Northern Chapter)
Umar Ahmed Zaria (Jama’atu Nasiril Islam (JNI)
Alh. Buba Adamah (Arewa People Unity Association)
Bilkisu Oniyang (Arewa Initiative For Good Governance)
Abdul-Azeez Suleiman (Northern Emancipation Network)


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You getting 70 units for 1k? Then that means the tarrif are not uniformed across the different Discos.
The PHED sells 31.6 units for 1k.... OK ooo

I feel like hitting this op real hard.... Suddenly, igbos are the ones hating. You guys insulted GEJ, insulted Igbos for voting GEJ.
I have 4 Yoruba guys in my team in the office. At a point I stopped engaging with any discussion that had to do with politics. They were mocking igbos anyhow.
Now, instead of to accept your mistakes in voting a failure, you're looking for who to push the blames to.

Please, Yorubas can go ahead to vote Buhari again. We for de cry if Na only Igbos de suffer the whole thing.

modelmike7:
Atleast the stolen money was used to invest in the country and not abroad......

Very soon, EFCC will come and close down the school. I can't forget what EFCC did to one time Cosmo FM radio in Enugu then. That station was so popular in the East. EFCC closed down that station just because they want to recover money from chimaroke. Where them de do that kind thing? Why not take over the company, auction it or hand over to the state government. Now, the money, they no recover, station, they shut down.

And who are going to be the members of the 3rd force? Is it not the same set of of the old order or is he getting the members from heaven?

It's quite unfortunate that at this stage in Nigeria, we are still using road, bridge construction as a political tool. And seeing some educated fools applauding this even make sad. A government does its work in a particular region, it's says it's doing it for that tribe.
Please, let me understand, it's any particular road exclusively to be used by a particular tribe?

The suspension is not because she's taking selfies but because she's a professional photographer as her side work.
She chose to keep her self busy after sitting or when not in sitting but I don't know how it's a problem as it doesn't come inbetween her duties.