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simple250:
Even the whites came out to join the protest . .. Here in Nija Youruba man go say wating concern me nor be for east them for kill erm why I go protest .... Our biggest problem in Nigeria is the different ethnic groups

No sir, our problem is not the ethnic group, it's our lack of realization that we're suffering the same problem. The three major ethnic groups and the minorities suffer from a leadership problem that only favours a few of their respective identities while the rest live a hungry, incapacitated life. Yet everyone of the groups beliefs the other is the problem. The day we realize that we have synonymity of suffering is the day we all neglect our ethnic divide though up North, rekgirel has made some to believe that they have to keep looking for crumbs to eat.

Imagine having at least 50 industrialists of this type in Nigeria whose product will become household names like Emzor Paracetamol, Dangote cement etc. States really need to stand up to more responsibilities, rear up people with favourable policies in their various regions and see whether Nigeria wouldn't become a threat to the US in terms of economic growth.

ednut1:
someone who gets 6 to 8m per show NFA You are clearly a joker

We define NFA differently. I guess his definition of NFA doesn't have to do with how much someone makes.

peterangelo:
See fyn damsel turn baby mama at the age of 23


Where d girl fada dey self chioma at the other hnd

You don't know how proud she is to have Zlatan's baby. Later they will say we're promoting patriarchy...

theenchanter:
just imagine the level of enlightenment of their numerical strength( people ) and wonder the quagmire we find ourselves in this country.

When illiterates that don't have a mind of their own votes, they vote for whoever they're asked to vote for without thinking.

To make northerners shiver..... Let the southeners work together. like starting with southern governors forum "SGF". thats when u'll know they have no numerical strength cos MB will seamlessly work with Southerners.

Southern Governors Forum... How I wish some of those governors are reading this. It's really a miracle we're expecting Nigeria to be great with her current system of government. The differences between the two regions are just too much.

seguntijan:
FACTS ARE STUBBORN

the Muhammadu Buhari administration is exactly five years in office. Four full years of a first term, and one year accomplished in the second term of four years.

In five years, President Buhari has touched Nigeria in diverse ways, despite myriad of challenges; economic, security, political, social, and many more.

The fact sheet will be unfolded few days hence, but today, as build up to the anniversary season, let’s dwell on some unassailable truths that can never be swept away. As Sir Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister said; “Truth is incontrovertible. Ignorance may deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.”

The President and his team are steadily and painstakingly retooling Nigeria. Out of sheer and deliberate ignorance, some people deride it, saying we see nothing, we hear nothing. Yes. When you have become deliberately blind, you can see nothing, even when it is thrust before your very eyes. You won’t see it. When you have become willfully deaf, when it is noised to your hearing daily, you won’t hear.

Some other people do theirs out of panic. Shall it be said that what Napoleon couldn’t do, has been done by that simple, unassuming man from Daura? Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Daura of all places. That small place. Not a man from a major city. And he wants to be recorded in history as the man who turned Nigeria right side up. They resent it out of panic.
Yet some others operate out of malice. He is not of my ethnic stock. Nor of my religion, language, political party. Why must Nigeria work under him? It won’t happen. We won’t see anything, nor hear anything. In fact, he is doing nothing. The country is even worse off than he met it five years ago.

There is a quote often attributed to John Adams, a former American President, though some people claim it was not original to him. It goes thus: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

A number of times, I have written about a private journey I took to Onitsha, in Anambra State, last December. I was on the same flight with the Obi of Onitsha, His Royal Highness Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe. When we landed at Asaba, and I had paid him royal courtesies, he asked me to give the thanks and appreciation of his people to the President on the Second Niger Bridge, currently under construction. For many years, many administrations had made unfulfilled political promises on the project.

“As you drive on the Niger Bridge, just look to your right, and you will see the new bridge coming up,” the revered monarch had said. “Please tell Mr President that we are very happy, and we thank him.”

I saw the Second Niger Bridge, and it kindled the joy kiln in my heart. But you know what? Some people pass on the 1965 Niger Bridge, see the new one in the works, and just pretend not to. Some others see it, and they are angry. Will this Daura man succeed where others have failed? But facts are stubborn things. “Truth is incontrovertible. Ignorance may deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.”

Have you seen the Owerri Interchange lately? It is the 1.6 kilometers bridge and 10.3 kilometers highway being built by Julius Berger, at Onitsha/Owerri road, Obosi junction. It will lead to the Second Nigeria Bridge.

In March, before the COVID-19 pandemic caused national emergency and halted the project, Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) visited. Very impressive. Now, here’s the news:

As part of the Phase 1 of the easing of lockdown occasioned by Coronavirus in the country, work is restarting on 53 infrastructure projects in 26 states, across the country. Despite the crash in revenue due to the collapse of oil prices in the international market, 11 contractors have been mobilized back to site in 26 states. And the Owerri Interchange is one of the scenes of action.

The Second Niger Bridge is projected to be completed in the lifetime of this administration, in fact by February 2022. The man from Daura will go into records as the person that did it, with Fashola as the midwife. Facts are stubborn things.

In Phase 2 of the easing of the lockdown, you know what will happen? The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) will roll out 92 repair works across 24 states in the country. That will be different from the 53 projects in 26 states. Nigeria will be one huge construction site, at a time the economy is down, and revenue has shrunk considerably. That is the hallmark of a government out to serve the people, come rain or shine. Minister Fashola says the objective “is to get all those depending on daily living back to work, when the COVID-19 is finally contained.”
Strides in agriculture will not stop. Nigeria is on the verge of food self-sufficiency. Rice, beans, maize, millet, all grains, we import none, unlike in the past. What if President Buhari had not invested in agriculture right from 2015? How would we have survived at a time like this? Where would we run to? We run to the sea, the sea would be boiling. We run to the bush, the bush would be burning. We run to the rocks, the rocks would be cracking. Where would we have run to? Yet some people say: we can’t even see what the government is doing. Yes, willfully blind people won’t see. But facts are stubborn things.

What of railway lines criss-crossing the country? Lagos to Ibadan is ready.
Abuja to Kaduna had been in operation.
Ibadan to Kano is in the works.
Roads? Lagos/Ibadan Expressway is 61% completed.
Abuja/Kano is bursting forth.
Enugu/Port Harcourt. And many others. In fact, there is a federal road project ongoing in almost every state in the country.

Airports. New terminals at Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt. Many others under construction
Solid minerals? Contribution to Federation Account In 2015 was N700 million. In 2016, it went up to N2 billion,and N5 billion in 2017. It hasn’t stopped growing since then..

We have a Social Investment Programme that is the biggest and most ambitious in Africa. President Buhari recently directed that those on the social security register be increased from 2.6 million households to 3.6 million. Yet, all that some people can do is pick holes. They forget that there was a time in recent history that the country didn’t have a social security register at all. They won’t even let the one that has been established grow.

Corruption is being fought to a standstill. The same with insecurity in different parts of the country. External reserves are growing at a time of economic crisis. Yet some people don’t see what the government is doing. But those who see, and hear, are full of appreciation.
True, facts are stubborn things. “Truth is incontrovertible. Ignorance may deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.”

Oyaaaa....bravo.... No wonder I noticed Nigeria has suddenly become an eldorado . Is it the dollar that is now 50 Kobo or the 27 hours electricity we were promised. Let me not even go to the 10k being given to the 23.1% unemployed people and the over 3 million jobs created within the past 5 years. How much more all the testimonies you quoted above. Is the present administration not a good one?

Bluffly:
Quite appaling that with the worth of education in this country and those that have studied outside and the bunch of professors we have, administrators, accountants, consultants we can't but do nothing or make something work ourselves. Imagine the worth of our wealth that will patronize the Germans

Is a black man's world a dooms day?

Sad....really sad. We can't pull our resources together though we have them plentifully in our polytechnics and universities, heads whose ideas have not been tapped. They only publish and publish papers, churn out graduates whose potentials no one is interested in tapping. CCECC, JB, Haliburton, Calpa D'Alberto, Siemens, American Government etc. These are all we know while technocrats are roaming the streets looking for employment. It's a shame, a real big shame.

Congratulations to IVM. More wins, more markets for every industrialist pushing us forward.

krokronyash:
Proudly Otedola's side Chichi

Don't tell me you're the one I saw yesterday with Otedola at mama Banke's Buka?

Op, how many books have you read on Nigeria since the pandemic began? Go and get one now. You're be more profitable to your country and yourself that way.

McWordsworth:
You spoke well but i must highlight the 2nd part of your 3rd paragraph about Abraham listening to Sarah "and did her wish and then that balanced it."

If I get you correctly, you're trying to draw a parallel of obedience between Abraham and his wife, Sarah using the incident where Sarah asked Abraham to send the concubine and her son away.

Firstly, Sarah knew she doesn't have the authority to send them away, just like she knew she couldnt send the concubine away when she was scornful of her after she realized she was pregnant. She complained bitterly to Abraham that her slave woman whom she gave to Abraham has become rude. Abraham then transferred the authority to her by saying "she's your servant, do to her what you wish". Only then did Sarah had the power to exert authority over Hagar.

So she asked Abraham to send them away which Abraham refused until GOD intervened by asking Abraham to listen to Sarah. Sarah at that point was an instrument in conveying GOD's directive of which HE can use anybody, eveb a child in similar regard. It can never be attributed to Abraham and Sarah sharing authority in the affairs of their home.

You analysis is correct though I wasn't drawing a balance of obedience now. I was corroborating what Paul said in Ephesians 5. When a man loves his wife, it becomes easier to do what she wants but however, when there is a clash of interests, the husband's wish must prevail because he is the Lord of his house. God telling Abraham what to do here has his reasons though Abraham was only sad because of what Sarah demanded, he hadn't outrightly refused. The wife owes her husband obedience and in return, the husband owes his wife love. If one is obedient and the other treats his partner with love, then there's a balance.

If only African countries would rise up and become an enviable place where Blacks in America would want to go and see their roots. Imagine Blacks who have face racism saying to themselves "Africa is as good as the US, why not go and see what it feels like to live among the people of your skin". But how can that happen when we're still here. Igbo vs Yoruba vs Hausa-Fulani vs Southsoutherners, black South Africans vs other nationalities from Africa especially Nigerians.

But to the rest of the world, if you're black, you're black and no one care how nuch of blackness you have.

From the University of Ibadan to the world! I just can't wait to see Nigeria or it's consitituents becoming who they're meant to be.
This is despite the decay in the infrastuctural facilities of our universities.

So sad people have committed atrocious activities using the Bible. Anyways, Satan used the Bible against Jesus so it depends on how you use it.

Whether you're religious or not, misogyny will find a way to express itself but if you want to use the Bible as your backing of misogyny, I'm here to burst your bubble.

Nowhere in the Bible did God or anybody told men to treat their wives in husband-servant relationship. Sarah treated Abraham as her master but the same Abraham listened to his wife and did her wish, then that balanced it.

Finally, while women are told to submit to their husbands as if they're submitting to Jesus, husbands are also told to love their wives to the extent of giving their lives for their wives (as Christ love the church and gave himself for it Ephesians 5 vs 25).

So if anyone says that the Bible supports misogyny, then they're looking for somewhere to hide.

For men and women, life is simple if you see it as such. You're who you are not because somebody told you this is what you are but because you discover who you are. No one can feel what you feel except you. Then why should your life be gauged by those who don't experience the wind and the sun the way you do?

Live your life, live your dream and don't be deterred by social or gender constructs. Just be you but be warned, there are consequences for every action so in every thing we do, be moderate.

If everyone will turn a blind eye to the society and live their lives as individuals who have responsibilities to themselves and to how they live this life, most of our problems will be half solved. A man and a woman both have souls and are both responsible and limited. One is linited in some areas, the other is limited in other areas. Neither of the gender should feel proud or down because of what they've been told.

We made them gods when we keep celebrating them even in mediocrity.

Now that they've become gods, our eyes are open to their faults and they won't tolerate any criticism. This is why the gods are angry.

jlinkd78:
He is not mocking IPOB. Far from that. He is mocking all d hard working persons especially from Southern Nigeria who believe there is dignity in labour. He is mocking d entire Niger Delta by d mention of Oloibiri reminding us all dat d oil could have debuted it's exploration there but d lavish spending is up North by d political elites and their children. If any he has pushed IPOB agitation to d front burner such that every right thinking person should support Nnamdi Kanu in d total decimation of this contraption.

Keep increasing in wisdom sir! The pictures are to spite the South and the 80% of Nigeria's poor people residing in the North. It has very little to do with a single tribe, it's a way of shaming the rest of Nigerians who have no access to public funds.

Situations like this is what makes one ask for war. Imagine if there is an ongoing war, would we have time for all these?

Kudos to you op. I once met a marine engineer who was telling me what he has achieved so far and how short it took him to get there. What he told me "you seem like a serious guy. Be careful of women. They can be the deliverer or doom of men. But to be on a safe side, stay away unless you're getting hooked".

Men are biologically wired to chase women about and like beasts, we keep succumbing to this biological demand. Lack of self control is what made an 80 year old to be called 'baby' by a mate of his granddaughter. Men need to be more self controlled.

Seeing pictures like these with number plates with the inscriptions "POLICE, FG, Presidency" etc, and the op says 'they're not children of politicians'. I wonder what we'll be seeing if they're 'children of politicians'. While we have many billionaires whose money is pure, the pictures here only remind us that Nigeria is a very wicked country. No need euphemising it, the country is wicked. Why do we then keep cracking down of the G-boys and some other illegal money makers when all they wanna do is to ball just like these young people?

PS: I don't spend an unclean money and will never support anyone who does.

The figures that keep deceiving politicians that all is well. GDP growth or not, time will tell where Nigeria is heading.

I think there is a psychology behind making money illegally and flaunting it. Legit rich people rarely look for occasions to flaunt themselves compared to those who got it through luck or dirty means. Except you really have a high sense of discipline to stay low and be mute.

Politicians are the same everywhere in the world. You're only useful to them when they need to promote some propaganda or they need your vote. One group of politicians acting saint over another is just deception.

Op, are you sure you can manage an honest girl if you see one. Just curious though bevbeca I know men can't tolerate some honesty coming from women.

Benevento:
What is obtainable in the east?

You forgot the eastern part is the least populated place in Nigeria? South East is not productive, that's why the indigenes are running away, almost half of Igbos population are outside seeking refugee.

South East is the poorest region in southern Nigeria.

South East is now dragging igr with Boko Haram North east.

Stop deceiving yourself, igboland can't attract foreign investments, it a barren land with no access to sea and international border, no one want to leave there.

Show us something like this in igboland.

Hmmm...this skyscraper is so lonely, feeling the sky alone and for a long time at that. It's time we go back to the system that gave us this structure before the military came.

Tackling cuberbullying is why I like Dj Cuppy. If she's failed at everything, she's a pro at keeping bullies aside. You just have to see reactions of people like her to bullies and you'd know that ''nothing do you" in the face of bullies.
It takes deep sense of maturity to turn a deaf ear to what people say about you on the social media. If you can't cope, don't post your life there but if you post everything about you on the social media, be ready for criticism.

Psych412:
investigator

Thank you o...

That the Southwest was not recorded as the most ridden country by poverty does not mean it has no poor people and hungry people. There are millions of hungry people in every nook and cranny of Nigeria, the Southwest inclusive. It's only a matter of frequency...

This is where true federalism would have worked. How does a government treat a problem when there are vast cultural differences that'd definitely affect the approaches to dealing with the problems?

Is the lady in the picture there 13 years or was she 13 when she got deflowered? Just thinking of how the pic is related to the post...

Same reason some children turn out bad though their parents spend lavishly to take care of them. Money is something, giving time and attention is another. Love in itself is yet another thing.

Rather, it should be "why are some women this wicked?" Even if all women are really wicked and destructive like this, I know my mum and some women I know closely aren't.