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our secondary school students don't read, always pressing phone. Teachers beg students these days to enter class to learn.

Yoruba pastors what are they doing to stop this ritual killings in name making money

how can you deny your beautiful family because of money?? no matter what, u should not ve said that they are all dead , that was why u were evicted .

how can you deny your beautiful family because of money?? no matter what, u should not ve said that they are all them, that was why u were evicted

thank God no life was lost and the bus didn't catch fire.

thank no life was lost and the bus didn't catch fire.

we don't want strike now, we have suffered enough.

sheriff's does not mean well for PDP, I think they should leave the party for him and form a new party

Post YOU GUYS ALWAYS LIKE TO ARGUE. MOST TIMES U HAVE TO APPLY COMMON SENSE. LET ME ASK YOU IN UR LOCAL LANGUAGE, WHAT IS THE NAME OF GOD BEFORE EUROPEANS BRING CHRISTIANITY ? IF NOT THE NAME OF IDLE god. BUT NOW U ARE A CHRISTIAN U STILL CALL THAT SAME NAME(idle god ) As THE MOST HIGH GOD. BUT THE DIFFERENCE IS WHAT YOU HAVE IN MIND ,YOUR BELIEVE AND FAITH WHY CALLING SUCH NAME. EXAMPLE ODUDUWA WAS IT THE NAME OF GOD BEFORE EUROPEANS CAME BUT NOW WHEN U CALL SUCH NAME U KW WHAT MEAN. EVERY INSTRUMENT OR OBJECT USED IN WORSHIPPING GOD IS MADE BY MAN EXAMPLE THE BIBLE, WINE, BREAD ETC. YOU READ THE BIBLE BECAUSE U BELIEVE ITS THE WORD OF GOD SOME READ AND SAY IT IS A STORY BOOK. YOU EAT N DRINK BLESSED BREAD AND WINE AND SAY IT IS THE BODY N BLOOD OF CHRIST. WHO TOLD YOU, BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE? CATHOLICS GO TO A CRUCIFIX BOW , MEDITATE AND SEE THEMSELVES STANDING WHERE CHRIST IS CRUCIFIED AT CALVARY BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE AND HAVE FAITH. WHAT IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE AND HAVE FAITH IN THE BIBLE? PENTECOSTAL ANSWER.

YOU GUYS ALWAYS LIKE TO ARGUE. MOST TIMES U HAVE TO APPLY COMMON SENSE. LET ME ASK YOU IN UR LOCAL LANGUAGE, WHAT IS THE NAME OF GOD BEFORE EUROPEANS BRING CHRISTIANITY ? IF NOT THE NAME OF IDLE god. BUT NOW U ARE A CHRISTIAN U STILL CALL THAT SAME NAME(idle god ) As THE MOST HIGH GOD. BUT THE DIFFERENCE IS WHAT YOU HAVE IN MIND ,YOUR BELIEVE AND FAITH WHY CALLING SUCH NAME. EXAMPLE ODUDUWA WAS IT THE NAME OF GOD BEFORE EUROPEANS CAME BUT NOW WHEN U CALL SUCH NAME U KW WHAT MEAN. EVERY INSTRUMENT OR OBJECT USED IN WORSHIPPING GOD IS MADE BY MAN EXAMPLE THE BIBLE, WINE, BREAD ETC. YOU READ THE BIBLE BECAUSE U BELIEVE ITS THE WORD OF GOD SOME READ AND SAY IT IS A STORY BOOK. YOU EAT N DRINK BLESSED BREAD AND WINE AND SAY IT IS THE BODY N BLOOD OF CHRIST. WHO TOLD YOU, BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE? CATHOLICS GO TO A CRUCIFIX BOW , MEDITATE AND SEE THEMSELVES STANDING WHERE CHRIST IS CRUCIFIED AT CALVARY BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE AND HAVE FAITH. WHAT IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE AND HAVE FAITH IN THE BIBLE? PENTECOSTAL ANSWER.

The reality of South-East marginalization 2
BY OUR REPORTER ON JANUARY 8, 2016 OPINION
President Muhammadu Buhari’s first media chat since assumption of office on May 29, 2015, held on Wednesday, December 30 with its high and low points. The programme was well anchored and the president’s performance was somehow good. I commend the panelists for asking probing questions on security, economy and disobedience of court orders in the case of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra as well as the South-East marginalization by past and present Federal Government.
I would have been disappointed if the session had ended without a question on Kanu and South-East marginalization, which is also regarded as Igbo marginalization. I salute the esteemed members of the team for their professionalism, especially Ibang Isine of Premium Times, for asking questions that provoked the response that led to this article.
I want to take the president on his pretence of the legendary South-East marginalization since after the Nigeria-Biafra war in January 14, 1970. Buhari wants to know who is marginalizing the South-East (Igbo) and the extent of such marginalization. He also said that his administration has not marginalized the zone in appointments by naming some of his ministers from the South-East and South-South to justify his claim. This is my humble attempt to prove to him that past administrations, including his current one, have marginalized the South-East zone.
The history of South-East marginalization started with Gen. Yakubu Gowon’s creation of 12 states to weaken Gen. Emeka Ojukwu’s resistance to his regime in 1967 before the declaration of Biafra and the commencement of the bitter Nigeria-Biafra war that lasted from 1967-1970. Though Gowon’s 12 states structure had a sense of equity between the North and South of Nigeria at six states per zone, it denied the South-East majority states in the Eastern region as was the case for Hausa and Yoruba in the Northern and Western regions respectively.
At independence in 1960, the nation stood on three regional arrangement or tripod of the North, East and West. The North has Hausa as its major tribe, the East, Igbo, and the West, Yoruba. Upon attainment of Republican status in 1963, the Midwest region was created by Act of Parliament.
Nobody complained about the regional structure in which the entire North was one region while the South was divided into three regions probably because it was an era of true federalism where each region controls its resources and pays a stated proportion of its revenue to the central government.
The regions were almost semi-autonomous unlike the present unitary federalism, a hang-over of military despotism. While the Hausa remains the only major tribe that was in one region, the Yoruba and Igbo had the misfortune of having members of its stock in the North and Midwest regions respectively.
Even under the extant six geo-political zones structure, the Yoruba and the Igbo are the only major tribes with tentacles in North-Central and South-South. There are significant number of Yorubas in Kwara and Kogi States and Igbos in Rivers and Delta states.
Gowon’s 12 states ensured that the South-East, the heart of Biafran revolution, was lumped into one state called the East Central State, while the Eastern Region minorities were carved into two states of Rivers and South Eastern State. This was the beginning of the marginalization of the South-East (Igbo).
Gowon did not stop there. He ensured that some oil-bearing Igbo areas were ceded to Rivers State. When the late Gen. Murtala Muhammed carved Nigeria into 19 states in 1976, the South-East became two states of Imo and Anambra. Thus, Muhammed gave the South-East one out of the seven states he created. It was Gen. Ibrahim Babangida that rose to address the South-East marginalization by giving us additional two states of Enugu and Abia out of eleven states he created. At that time, the zone needed three states to level up with others. The late Gen. Sani Abacha also gave the zone one state, Ebonyi, when he created six states. Therefore, the South-East has suffered undue marginalization in the state creation structure of Nigeria because at each epoch, it will be less than the other zones. Under the present 36 states structure, which ought to give each zone six states apiece, only the South-East has five and the North-West seven.
In the arbitrary distribution of the nation’s 774 local governments, the South-East has the least. The entire North had 419 local governments while the South had 355. The zonal distribution of local governments is North-West (186); North-Central (115); North-East (112); FCT Abuja (six); South-West (137); South-South (123); and South-East (95). Why was the South-East given 95 when other zones got over one hundred?What is the name of this lopsided structure of Nigeria if not marginalization? Since appointment of ministers, recruitment into the civil service and security agencies and admission into unity schools, federal higher institutions and revenue sharing is based on states and local governments the South-East has been overtly marginalized due to having the least number of states and local governments in the federation. How many Police Commissioners and Military Commanders are from the zone?
Take a look of former heads of government of Nigeria and how many are from the South-East and for how long? If the 36 states structure is based on equity, the South-East would have six ministers from Buhari as constitutionally guaranteed. The South-East has no presence in Buhari’s other appointments despite promises of balancing. In fact, there is no South-East presence in Buhari’s government despite the fact that some of them staked their lives for his election.
The South-East is not in the security apparatus of the present government as represented by heads of security agencies. It is not among Buhari’s 39 appointments. If these do not represent marginalization, what else? Can the government name any industry or military institution that is located in the zone? The federal roads in the zone are in their worst state. The second Niger Bridge has been on the drawing board of all administrations since 1999. What has happened to the River Ports in Onitsha and Oguta? Can Buhari address the infrastructural lacuna in the zone? There is no way Nigeria can develop with the structural injustice against one zone. The 2014 national conference made far-reaching recommendations to address the South-East structural marginalization and others in the country.
That is the issue the Buhari administration should address and not the pretentious denial of South-East marginalization. The South-East marginalization is real. It is neither a myth nor a fiction. The zone’s 45 years of marginalization is behind the protests by MASSOB and IPOB. Keeping Kanu in detention despite court orders for his release will further fuel the agitation than quench it.
What will solve the nation’s myriad problems is the restructuring of the country and the need to run fiscal federalism and not the current unitary federalism. True federalism will take care of states and local government creation as well as population census that has always been problematic.
The South-East is not asking for any preferential treatment in Nigeria but for equity and a level playing ground for all the federating units. Nigeria can only develop and achieve its manifest destiny when merit is enthroned in its socio-economic spheres.

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Those afraid of division are lazy, so Nigeria is a lazy country

What ur work,can u keep d pregnancy ?

If they succeed in arresting Saraki , then all the senators will ve problem cos majority of them are corrupt and no immunity again

IGBOs Compete among themselves . We don't compete with any Tribe. Tribes that cannt Compete with d Igbos wil Only Hate .

What they are going to discus is GAY. PMB going to ve meeting with GAY countries.

What they going to discus is GAY

obasanjo ruled for 8th years ,i think yorubas ve gained enough and are still complaining. why?

Very easy to forget the amount of hatred South west and North have 4 for the IGBOS . I even heard some of you saying Igbos would nt be president again. South West n the North love themselves so they are one.

Agu Otu Aka ( one arm general)

S A girls de pursue men no be men de pursue de m

D banj don join them oooooooooo

This is
unfortunate.RIP

GMB did not any vote in South East ,is that what u saying .what makes One a president ,if He neglects any Zone in this 9ja He will fail.

Why are most news coming from south west? I ve not heard much about north cental ,east and south east

God is an uncreatable creator

Is fayose lying? He is saying d truth