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MEGAWATCH:
Why was Lagos state government complaining when NPA was diverting goods to Warri port?

You built an artificial system and you are clapping for yourself for building that system.

One thing I love with telling lies is that the person telling the lies knows that he is Lying.


🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

A parasite will always lead.

mercysamuelson:
Lagos have always been leading

Ha ha! lie Mohammed doing what he knows how to do best!

viqSmallz:
Lol. You are not a minister again, please stop lying. Ahn ahn

Ojukwu didn’t pull East out under a democratic and constitutional-based government. He pulled the East out under an illegitimate and illegal military dictatorship that governed by decrees m. My Q:

So under what constitution was Ojukwu’s action illegal?

chinchum:
could it be that you don't have the intelligence to correctly analyse the circumstances surrounding the wish of Awolowo or you are deliberately twisting facts?

Awolowo was not asking for succession, but that a succession clause be added to the constitution. What that would have guaranteed is providing a legal framework for any part of the country to make a case if they strongly want to leave Nigeria. In other words, it could have been enshrined in the constitution how succession can be actualized, possibly through a referendum of the people.
It is treason for anyone to simply declare succession, which is what Ojukwu did.
Awolowo was the greatest visionary Nigeria ever had.

None and redundant. East didn’t secedes under a legal government. East seceded under an illegitimate military dictatorship that has ruled by decree, not constitution so the entire premise of your point is weak.

JAMO84:
So which of your legislators has moved the motion or submitted a bill to the effect of changing the Constitution to let Biafra go?

You blame everyone for your own misery except your leaders. You want Biafra but it's others that must help you get it, you can't do it yourself.

How was Ojukwu committing treason?

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JAMO84:
So as at the time Ojukwu was trying to remove Biafra from Nigeria, he was commiting treason and actually deserved to be shot dead at bar Beach.


Azikwe made sure Nigeria is indivisible, but his children are crying all over social media today, telling ordinary citizens like me to let them go, as if I used rope to tie them.

You said it all!

Armaggedon:
Zik stood for regionalism and federalism with financial and legislative autonomy where the regions developed in their own pace. No contradictions.

One of the most confusing figures in Nigeria's history was Awolowo. He claimed he wanted secession and zik rejected. But when the opportunity presented itself during Biafra, the same Awolowo made a complete U-turn and and started fighting for a unitary one Nigeria as championed by gowon. His attitude justified Zik's opinions about him.

For those who claim his demand was in good faith, his demand was rediculous and he knew it. He was neither here no there. There is no sovereign state in the world that has secession in it's constitution. If he truly wanted his region to be alone he should have demanded a pre-independence referendum like southern Cameroon or pre-independence partitioning as in British India. Opting for a secession clause instead of pre-independence referendum clearly indicated lack of commitment to specific ideology from Awolowo. You can't officially keep one leg in the country and keeping one outside. A snake he was.

Totally agree with you

Karlovich:
The drug baron from Iragbiji must suffer for all the evil things he has done to innocent people.

This I have seen!

Totally ageee with you. I have never liked him.

DadaEleniyan:
Olusegun Obasanjo is the worst President in the history of Nigeria 🇳🇬 and I will explain why…..

1. He is the architect of Terrorism in Nigeria 🇳🇬 as it was in his regime that permitted the full scale practice of Sharia Law. He gave Ahmad Sani Yerima approval to practice Sharia in Zamfara and it was eventually accepted to run in 12 Northern States. He was an incompetent President who said “I approved it because it will die a natural death.”

2. Nigeria officially lost the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon following a 2002 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling and a subsequent agreement in 2006 under his nose because he was busy pursuing a selfish agenda of second term at the time and a place in AU

3. This criminal violated human rights rights severally using military force in a democratic dispensation:

Odi massacre: The military operation in Odi, Bayelsa State, which involved the razing of the town and the killing of hundreds (possibly thousands) of civilians, occurred in November 1999.
Zaki Biam massacre: The killing of more than 200 unarmed civilians by the army in several communities in Benue State (often collectively referred to as the Zaki Biam massacre) occurred in October 2001. 

4. So many corruption cases sprung up from 1999 - 2007 including the Obasanjo’s personal endless corrupt practices centred around building of his Obasanjo Presidential Library, Bells University among others.

5. Obasanjo practically installed his successor in an election that was noted for massive irregularities and malpractices. This administration he installed gave birth to the Boko Haram terrorists which he once went to visit in Borno state without any reasonable head way.

6. He had the opportunity to RESET Nigeria in the early stage of a new democracy, but he went about victimising oppositions, pursuing selfish agendas and looking for unnecessary international recognition at the detriment of Nigeria’s future.

I will stop here for now. Let’s not even talk about his tenure as military head of state.

This evil and corrupt man has no moral justification to go about dishing ideas and criticisms.

OLODO! Nothing is happening!

Felimax:
Lol! I see far!
I said it before. The North should brace up. Something is seriously cooking.

Hegemony is in serious trouble. Internal and external attacks...

He alive but dead!

saaron:
I have no regard for Gowon. The man is a typical USEFUL IDIOT.
Guilty conscience didn't allow him to stay in Nigeria. He will be ashame of today's shithole of a country he shed blood to maintain. That's why he makes himself comfortable in London.
DISINTEGRATION OF NIGERIA WILL SAVE MILLIONS OF LIVES FROM ISLAMIC TERRORISM! SUPPORT IT.

So true!

saaron:
Way to go!
The fulani terrorist attacks on Middle Belt is nothing but a direct fallout of her role in Nigeria's civil war, penance for past sins.
Middle Belt must NEVER allow herself to be used as USEFUL IDIOTS against Southern Nigeria again.
Better to join forces with people we have something in common - Southerners for the greater good of all especially in areas of security, economic cooperation and tourism than the other side who's stock in trade is Taqiyya and Terrorism.

DISINTEGRATION OF NIGERIA WILL SAVE MILLIONS OF LIVES FROM ISLAMIC TERRORISM! SUPPORT IT.

“Trash”

Nnamdipapa:
My final piece on the Nnamdi Kanu judgment and Peter Obi Statement situation:

On the 25th of July 2021, I and some family members drove from Lagos to Anambra to collect the bridal list from my in-laws, officially commencing the journey to my marriage. We arrived Nnewi around 5 pm and finished sometime past 8. My wife was in that blue Lexus 350 with us, likewise my uncle and brother, and the plan was that very early the next day, being Monday the 26th, we will drive into Nnewi to pick her and then be on our way back to Lagos.

We slept in my hometown, Azigbo, and around 5:30 the next morning, as planned, we started for Nnewi. We drove through Amichi. On getting somewhere around that market close to Igwe Orizu, we noticed that the vehicles going in the other direction were flashing their headlamps on us. We slowed down and soon a commercial bus driver revving his vehicle asked us while speaking at the top of his voice to go back because they were shooting somewhere ahead of us in Nnewi.

Who, we asked, and he said something about Biafra and IPOB and zoomed off. We reversed and join the procession of fleeing vehicles. Because of different engagements the people in the vehicle had back in Lagos the next day, we really needed to return to Lagos. So we tried again to drive into Nnewi through the inner roads in Awka-Etiti. The closer we got to Nnewi, the worse it became because we could now hear the gunshots. We drove back and decided to wait a bit. We phoned our in-laws and they confirmed it was hot that morning in Nnewi and that we should consider staying back, and/or leaving without their daughter. She would come back the next day using public transport.

We went back to Azigbo and decided to wait out the time. Later, because we hadn't planned on staying that long, we wanted to go find something we would eat, and also see if we could still travel back to Lagos, even if later than earlier. While on our way, a group of men intercepted us at Ichida Bus Stop.

“Who are you people”, one screamed at us, hitting the bonnet.

“Whine down the glasses”, another added, order coming from different angle as they surrounded our vehicle.

“Where are you going to”, the barking continued, with little time given to really answer their questions.

“Don't you know that today is sit-at-home; where do you think you are going when our leader Nnamdi Kanu is held prisoner in Abuja and is going to court?”

One of them tried to open the door.

“Oga come down; all of you should come down, we are driving this car to Abuja today. We are going to see Kanu. It is either you join us or you give us this car”.

We begged, cajoled, and agreed with them on the spot about the injustice meted out against us Ndigbo, Kanu, and the southeast in Nigeria. After a lot of parley led by my uncle who was in his late seventies, we gave them money, saying we supported the cause, and they allowed us to go. We went to the popular nwanyi ocha place in Ichida, ate, and decided not to go back that way, rather risk our way to Onitsha, away from Anambra, and then to Lagos.

The question I have asked myself all these years was, if that experience had happened sometime between 2022-2024 when tensions had stiffened and the group, with their spin-offs, more militarized and armed, what would have been our fate that mid-morning? Your guess is as good as mine as we have all seen similar events reported in the news and on social media and how they ended up.

Two months later, proceeding to the next stage of our marriage, my wife and I had to go to the headquarters of the Nnewi South local government in Ukpor to register our marriage and fufil other requirements like getting the documentation we would eventually hand the church. A local government wedding per se, which can be done in lieu of court wedding. Everything went well and while we were about leaving, we met a guy from my village, Iruokpala, who worked at the LG HQand he helped us take pictures.

A few months later, however, I met again with the guy in Azigbo. Amid conversation, he asked me to refer him to any job, building gig, or just about anything that he was no longer working at the LG HQ. On further enquiry, he narrated to me how sometime after we met at the HQ, unknown gunmen paid a visit and shot and ‘keed’ people, tagging them saboteurs working for the zoo government (or something to that effect).

“Nwanna, I escaped narrowly; small thing and I would have been a dead person today”.

I made some posts yesterday and a horde descended on them. Worse, my disagreement with the statement Peter Obi put out further inflamed many. I still stand by that condemnation.

Almost every social upheaval has a complex history, their evolution traced to various events. In 2019 or thereabouts, Obi was interviewed in the run-up to the election where he was vice to Atiku, and about IPOB he said something to the effect that they were harmless freedom fighters with valid grievances who could be dialogued with and things handled better, instead of the blanket proscription, nailing them as terrorists.

I agreed with Obi at that time. Even today, when situated in that context and time, I still agree. During the 2023 elections, when his detractors were everywhere whipping the video up in the face of worsening violent activities ascribed to IPON or its spin-off groups, attempting to utilize it in their bid to tag him a terrorist apologist, I was everywhere too erecting context to the video and arguing unremittingly in support of what Obi really meant there. This is a different case.

To be clear, I categorize the evolution of the agitation under Kanu and IPOB into two broad categories: Pre-2019 and Post-2019. If Obi’s statement verbatim dropped 22nd November 2019, I will agree verbatim with him. But this is 2025 and we have stood witness to the events of 2020 to this day. And, at this juncture, I will be fair to stop using the taxonomy, IPOB, as historically things began to be more complex somewhere around 2021/22 and it wasn't clear which group was behind the things that happened as we saw the proliferation of splinter groups, personalities, and units who carried activities that the ‘official’ IPOB themselves publicly denounced, or so it seems.

Staying relevant to Kanu, we all listened to broadcasts where he incited, ordered, and even took responsibility of some unspeakable things. These broadcast speeches are still out here on the internet. Kanu nailed himself with every broadcast, making it hard for anyone on earth to truly defend him with deep honesty.

I remember the 2020 EndSARS protest that was going on smoothly as disillusioned Nigerian youths vs incompetent government thing, and out of nowhere Kanu inserted himself in it. I remember listening to that broadcast in utter shock. It was too nerve-wracking that till today I still remember where I was, mouth agape, eyes popped in disbelief, and soon we were making calls amongst our young Igbo links and asking everyone to stay away from the protest or going out as Kanu’s speech might turn things on its head and set us against the Yoruba. Unfortunately, this happened towards or after a group of disgruntled younglings looted the palace of a Lagos Oba. It wasn't long and the propaganda machine went into work trying to leverage Kanu speech to say it was the Igbo youth burning down Lagos and desecrating traditional heritage. They also said the BRT inferno was set up by the Igbo.

Kanu never cared about Igbo people in Lagos and what could have happened to them if the spin caught on. And from thereon things went further downhill. Kanu will make a broadcast saying, k*ll security operatives, police, soldiers, etc and take their weapon. Soon, mostly days after, security operatives are indeed murdered and weapons taken. Some of them were Igbo and they were dealt harshly with regardless for continuing to work in the Nigerian force. This happened in many places in the southeast. Today, people want to revise this recent history gaslight us for pointing these out, trying to divorce bloody effect from its clear cause.

To some others, it isn't that Kanu is innocent and blameless, rather that a case of calling out the apparent hypocrisy of the federal government and the equalizing of approach to insurgent groups. Fair point and a solid argument to be had there. However, I as an individual do not care about other regions of Nigeria pampering violent group that have now held them hostage, and I do not want that model replicated in my region.

There used to be a time, just as recent as 2014-16 when, right here on social media, we brag to other Nigerians that nothing will ever make an Igbo person resort to terrorist activities. We bragged that an average Igbo will rather man a kiosk from Igba Oso-Afia, and gradually grow it to a business empire, than take up arms. We said these things and believed it. How wrong we were.

Look at Ihiala, Iseke, and environs today. Our own people did those things, and to their very own folks. Some people have attempted to counter these occurrences with the conspiratorial claims that the violence and the violent groups were planted by ‘the evil federal government to destabilize our region and implicate Nnamdi Kanu’. To this, I will say nothing.

People like Asoegwu are receiving death threats by folks here just because he is calling out these maladies, complete with video proof. Such utter radicalization. Yesterday, someone whom I spent six years with in a boarding secondary school threatened me too right there in the comment section. This is the last I will say about this matter and I end it by reiterating the popular saying that those who feed and ride a tiger will someday end up in its belly. For years people have fetched ant-infested firewood and now the lizards are here, and it will take some time to get rid of them, if we ever.

Which Southerner? Say a Yorubaman in power. A Yoruba man played an active role in the rigging out of Jonathan. So don’t put the entire blame on Northerners

Eminent2025:
This man that is now being vocal was mute during Buhari's terrible Era. The politics of tribalism and religion is what made this country like this. Despite the rate Johnathan Build schools,Roads and other infrastructure in the North and abondon the South including his state, he was rigged out for Not being a Northerner and a Muslim.

This one now suddenly found his voice because a Southerner is there

This is in preparation for 2027 so that they could fool some stupid Southerners to support another Northerner probably Atiku

I can only take this people serious when all of them support another Southerner for 2027

Or passengers in the front seat that drive with their mouth 👄 !

CodeTemplarr:
Tinubu na football enthusiast now. They always score from the bench/stands more than on the pitch. Idan versus Idanwo.

Naija!

sirchim:
And their lives today has absolutely endless struggles as a result of this evil govt they brought.

So true!

The Biafran soldiers moved towards the West because Lagos was Nigeria's capital and the war was being planned and prosecuted from there. The aim was to capture Lagos from the Northerners and secure the state thereafter launch an offensive up north.

It was not about annexing Lagos or the West like most Yorubas think today.

So true!

chiagozien:
Nobody is attacking them, telling them to go back to their Yoruba land to do their Oba thing, just like children of perdition always do.




Nobody see them celebrating their Yoruba day as disrespecting their host.

But he praised the achievement of third class philosophy during his campaign for governorship of Anambra State.

BENEAMATA:
He said you should make it make sense and you think professor of Economics and central bank governor can convince an Alaba " business mogul " to change his mind about a third class philosophy barely qualified being the best thing since nkwobi and cold beer ?

When will he resign?

sleek214:
Trump, please come and help your people in Nigeria ooo...

Do you even have healthcare how much more affordable?

HacheNoire:
You called your country a disgrace all because you have challenges which you have not been able to solve. Can I say you have been mentally conquered?

Same time, you are here composing a lengthy gibberish to justify why the president of another nation is justified to call your country a shithole and disaster. Are you for real?

So if I go by your rhetoric, I think it will also be justifiable to call the US a disaster since it cannot protect its citizens who have died from terrorism without mentioning the figures of drug overdose.

Is it justifiable by your rhetoric that the US is also a shithole because it does not have affordable healthcare for all like its pairs, or that tertiary education is a luxury?

Hello, every country got his own problem and no sane president insults another nation based on their problems. Yes, their is room to assist and support other country, and shouldn’t be by degradation of our sovereignty.

We have our problems and we working on it and same time need assistance. It’s not a reason to insult our country and nationality, and same time fabricate false propaganda.

Shameless!

dawnomike:
Exactly my thoughts... Paying for what we had but chose to loose.

Na wa o!

DiamondsAreFore:
Tiny little Togo outperforming the "giant" of Africa.

Why are most Nigeria’s import and export traffic happens from one state while the rest ports in other states are under-used?

Abdul05:
Peter obi should just stop chasing headlines......

Development of lagos ports is not regional bias, it is economy sense...

That is where most nigeria's import and export traffic happens..

So true!

ariesbull:
I find them daft....

Their fathers fought to bring Igbo back to Nigeria
Their children are fighting and complaining about the Igbo

Yet the Igbo aren't the president,I wonder how the Igbo took over their thinking processes

The man you quoted never mentioned that Nwabueze was the author of Ironsi’s Decree 34. So where did you come up with your claim?

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Ha ha!

Emzedz:
This man is full of deceits n lies. Incompetent n weak..

But Yorubas align with them to get power.

LithiumSupplier:
Been hours and this isn't on the front page? What's happening?

The northern leaders should as matter of urgency tell their people to stop producing children en mass.

They should stop giving birth to children they know they cannot take care of.

These people doing okada, mai shara, shoemakers and all are about to overrun this country with crime.

Bandits — North
Terrorists — North
Arise TV staff killers and many armed robbers — North
Suicide bombers — North
Train bandits — North
Kidnappers — Mostly Fulanis (North)
Jihadists — North
Out of school children — North
Boko Haram — North
ISIS — North
Lakurawa — North
JAS — North
Deborah killers — North
Child marriages — North
WAEC, Jamb and NECO failures — North

These people are so weird that their normal is alien to the whole world.

I am tired 🤦🏼‍♂️

Good bless you!

Brendaniel:
Nonsense write up, questions we should ask are:

1. If Tinubu cared so much about a southern presidency, why did he connive with the north to remove a southern president?

2. If Tinubu really loved the south as this writer tries to portray, why did Tinubu support a northern president for 8 years while the southerners were being killed by northerners in their own land?

3. If Tinubu's presidency is actually a southern presidency as this writer tries to portray, why are northers still killing southerners in Tinubu's presidency and even gaining more grounds into the south ?

4. Under Tinubu's presidency, what benefit has the south gotten in terms of security, economy and so on that's different from when a northerner ruled?

What then is Tinubu's presidency for if both the north and south are complaining, the writer wants to make it look like a north vs south issue, but bad governance does not separate the north from the south, Tinubu just came for his selfish ambition and interest, he doesn't represent any south

What do you mean?

😭

simpleseyi:
This is hunger and starvation induced post. Beg for money and eat

Why merge? Restructure so that each state can control her resources.

Richtaiwo:
Some 5 villages should be merged as one, or highest 2. This method of revenue allocation is not fair. 2 states collecting allocation of 5 states, the worst system ever.

Imagine, Oyo state alone bigger than 5 states, yet the 5 states getting allocation for 5 states while Oyo still collects for one state. The military rulers kept changing local government areas to states, which kind of warped system is that?

Nigeria non-political elites are even worse than the political looters

kenben:
I refuse to believe that Mike Ozekhome SAN would cheapen himself to this abysmally low level. He should clear his name ASAP