₦airaland Forum

fukara:
Before the emergence of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as president, the likes of Ankio Briggs, Asari Dokubo, Opunabo Nkot 'Tariah, Ledum Metee, Edwin Clark etc were always on Television telling Nigerians and
the world how the South-South has been marginalized by the North and the West despite her oil.
By divine and metaphysical error,
Goodluck Jonathan from the South-South, the presumed Nazareth of Nigeria became the president of Nigeria after President Umaru Yaradua's death in 2009.
His emergence came as a joyous daybreak to end our age-long
marginalization .
There was a beacon light of hope for my region. Immediately, the Niger Delta struggle stumbled and died or gone Comatose.
The Niger Delta activists mentioned above became Jonathan's spokespersons and abandoned the struggle.
In 2011, Nigerians, Hausa,
Yoruba, Igbo, Christians and muslims voted massively for Jonathan.
Thereafter, administrative thieves were appointed Ministers and head of federal institutions...
Convicted criminals received presidential pardon.
Militants were given contracts running into billions of Naira.
Impunity and corruption
became the norm.
All these and many more
replaced the Niger Delta struggle for resource control.
The need for constant electricity, portable water, good health facilities, good road network, massive manpower development etc went into oblivion.
Even the recent Ogoni UNEP report that would have changed the live of an average Ogoni man was not implemented by their regional brother - president.
Recall that NDDC was established by Olusegun Obasanjo a Yoruba man.
Ministry of Niger and Amnesty Office was established by Late,
President Umaru Musa Yaradua, a Northerner.
Regrettably, this two federal agencies including NIMASA and NNPC became conduit pipes for
Jonathan's Wife, Nyesom Wike, Deziani Allison, Godswill Akpabio and many cronies of Jonathan to rape and siphon funds meant for the development of the Niger Delta region.
Credibility died. Equity died. Competence died. Due process died. Conscience died. And the Niger Delta struggle died in their son's hand.
Former Governor Rotimi
Amaechi, knowing that the South - South may not have the opportunity of Producing the President of Nigeria again cried out and they called him a betrayer.
They fought him with federal might and pushed him out of PDP, a replicate of what Joseph's brothers did when they sold him to the Ishmelites. But today Amaechi is laughing because they pushed him to stardom.
Even the East/ West road that was awarded by former President Obasanjo and inherited by Yaradua and later Jonathan is still not completed.
Bayelsa State today does not have an airport or a strong federal government institution that can generate employment opportunities for Bayelsa youths. Even the 31 industries promised the Akwa Ibom people, none was built.
Few months to the Presidential election, Ankio Briggs, Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark, Nyesom Wike, Godswills Obot Akpabio,Tompolo Government, Kingsley Kuku, etc awaken the Niger Delta struggle.
What a shame?
What an irony? For five years nobody heard them because they were swimming and sleeping on money.
When Goodluck Ebele Jonathan eventually contested and lost the 2015 Presidential election to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the APC,
the House of Assembly of all South-South states became a compensation point for militants ( Former and Active).
Everything was done with the police and INEC to ensure that cronies of Jonathan and his wife were declared winners of the governorship and House of Assembly elections in the South-South especially Rivers State, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa.
And if Jonathan had won the last election and ruled for another ten years, there won't be any hope for the actualization of the Niger Delta Struggle.
Go to Calabar Itu road, Oloibiri and other villages in Ijaw land and see the level of environmental degradation yet their son was president of Nigeria for six years.
People are living a stone-age life over there, no land to build a house, no pipe burn water, no hospital, no school and no road yet some people will seat in Abuja and Portharcourt collecting billions of Naira as Champions of the Niger Delta struggle.
As I pen down my thought, I know that we have eaten our cake and we may not have it back.
We had the opportunity but we messed it up.
If President Buhari remembers us, good, but if he forgets us, I will not complain.
And those who has decided to go back to the creeks and mangroves of Niger Delta to resume the armed struggle and hostilities; should know that President Buhari has enough shoes to match them unlike Jonathan who had no shoes.
Niger Delta will not boil, Tompolo should do the needful by making himself available for interrogation, if he is clean he would be left alone.

successmatters:
Grace to grass

Sorry Akpabio

Dirkcoyt:
Is there c n s church in imo? I've never seen an igbo white garment

kettykin:
President Muhammadu Buhari vowed, yesterday, in his home state of Katsina, to use all resources at his disposal to crush any agitation for the division of Nigeria.

The president said the country fought a civil war which claimed over two million lives in order to be united.

Buhari, who spoke at the palace of Emir of Katsina also urged Nigerians to be patient with his government as, according to him, the current hardship being experienced, may not be unconnected with efforts at laying a solid foundation for sustainable nation building.

Buhari was in Katsina to attend the state’s economic and investment forum which he will officially declare open this morning.

In a veiled reference to the current separatist agitation for Biafra being promoted by a group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Buhari warned it would be better for the entire country to commit mass suicide than to allow such campaign succeed.

He referred to the promoters of the agitation as “kids” who were not born during the civil war.  According to Buhari, “today, Nigeria is a strong and united sovereign entity because some people laid down their lives for the country.

At least two million people died during the civil war but, today, some people who were not born during the civil war are agitating for the division of the country. We will not let that happen.

For Nigeria to divide now, it is better for all of us to jump into the sea and get drowned

Buhari is too close to the Sea.

Speaking on the economy, Buhari regretted the fall of crude oil price in the international market and further noted that, at the inception of his administration on May 29, 2015, the price per barrel of oil crashed to as low as $30, contrary to what was obtainable during the 16 years of the immediate past Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government.

“We will not betray the trust Nigerians reposed in us and we will ensure officials of government also act in the national interest,” the President said.

In his remarks, the Emir, Alhaji Abdulmuminu Kabir Usman, urged the Federal Government to re-introduce boarding schools as well as teacher training colleges as part of efforts at producing quality teachers.

According to him, “teacher training colleges helped to groom quality teachers but these days, half-baked teachers teach in our schools.

“Also, in those days, boarding schools helped to maintain discipline among students and mould them into responsible adults.

http://sunnewsonline.com/no-biafra-under-me-buhari/

testimony2015:
UKABROTHER....LETS WAIT & SEE IF HE WILL WIN AGAIN NOW

fendorf:
tune to channelstv and check Sahara reporters twitter feed

Jibsmth:
God's own church. ESOCS

einsteino:
How come the screenshot I took says "until they are proven"?. Or did u edit urs

tuale4u:
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/12/2bn-arms-deal-sack-looms-over-emefiele

bomasek:
Na Elder Demuren dey that picture with Don J,na Mount Zion u dey worship

tuale4u:
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/12/2bn-arms-deal-sack-looms-over-emefiele

sugarbelly1:
Do you agree??



https://mobile.twitter.com/benmurraybruce/status/675941602699808768

raystar96:
yes...he looks like Obama and thinks like Obanikoro

thisisbankole:
http://thenationonlineng.net/saraki-what-would-he-do-next/

bomasek:
Guy na Mount Zion be this na

goodnessdara:
That is what u see when d church is mixed with d world......................U cannot find this act in d church of d almighty God. Light and darkness cannot work together.

DikSin:
White Garment Church.... The backbone of real hit makers in Nigeria since nineteen e don tey

Hit like if you're a Celestial, C&S, Church of The Lord, etc
sorry, OOO not welcome ooo


List of few in no particular order:
Sir Shina Peters & son, Clarence Peters
King Sunny Ade
Asa
9ice
ID Cabasa
etc

metronaija:
https://www.360nobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/don-1-e1442130470801.jpg
Legendary music producer Don Jazzy has been honored by the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim & Seraphim church.

The Mavins’ boss was honored as a worthy son of the church at the church’s headquarters in Tejuosho, Lagos.
https://www.360nobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/don2-e1442130423172.jpg

http://www.metroparrot.net/2015/09/cherubim-seraphim-church-honors-don.html