Don’t betray North in 2015 elections, Bauchi PDP tells Tukur

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The Peoples Democratic Party in Bauchi State has advised the National Chairman of the Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, not to betray the northern part of the country in 2015.

The Assistant Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Alhaji Bashir Bukar Rimin Zayam, disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Bauchi.

He said: “Bamanga Tukur is from the north and he is a well respected leader. The region has suffered neglect and setback in the past and this time around he should not betray his constituency in the 2015 elections.

“Tukur should be fair enough to help the region get what belongs to them. He must be committed to see that power comes back to the northern part of the country in 2015.

“Even though nobody knows the president of Nigeria the way things are going. Since the region was denied the opportunity to produce the country’s president in 2011. I think 2015 would be the time to compensate the northern Nigeria and we the people in the region must unite and close ranks to achieve this desire,” he added.

ChannelsTV just announced that twin bombs just went off this evening around 7:30pm near the main Nigerian Customs Barracks in maiduguri metropolis in one of the LGAs under the state of emergency.

This security guys deployed to these sites have been compromised or incompetent!I am beginning to think boko haram has defeated our security apparatus!
Who says the threat given to southerners is a joke?

^^^it seems you fail to understand that my angst is significantly directed at how shallow the directive is.

since you have lived the experience and yet you are still alive,pls tell me the capacity of massob to protect igbos in the north in the case of vicious attack from BH?

Olodostein:

Lets say Nigeria is pregnant. The igbo man is neutral in this Nigeria menace. When a sleeping lion is awoken. Then Nigeria might give a birth to a MONSTER. Just pray for this madness not to continue.

In what way has this provided education to the misguided northern elements who have made prey out of igbo beings?

The cheapest life in the north is Igbo life!!They consider the life of igbos fair game!!

Igbo leaders must,for once,be wise.If Nigerians can take the assurances from the IGP with a pinch of salt,how much more a colourless Uwazuruike!They must start encouraging their kith and kins to work out an exit plan in case casala burst.The first step is to move their loved ones and most valuable possessions down south or close to the south like ilorin.It is not funny.The igbos,as currently constituted,lack the capacity to protect their kith and kin in the north!

^^the man dey enugu,dey enjoy his wife's isi-ewu,dey see his own children,yet left 'his' followers in the north,when 'kasala' burst,the man will take off just like Ojukwu did.Instead of the yeye man to advise igbos to send down their wards and wives down south while they 'stay put'.Most of these semi-literate self-acclaimed igbo leaders are as dull as GEJ!even AMERICA WITH HER IMPERIAL military majesty will never advice Americans to remain in the north in the face of such serious threat to the lives of their citizens.Stupid igboman.Serious igbo leaders should make a pronouncement ASAP,most of these illiterate northern trouble makers will ride on the oil-subsidy removal protest to inflict untold consequences on the unweary igbo person,burn down their properties and kill as many igbos as possible.Just like they did after the presidential election.

Boko Haram: Remain in the North, MASSOB tells Ndigbo
, Igbo groups too
From CHIDI NNADI, Enugu and PETRUS OBI, Enugu
Wednesday, January 04, 2012


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Following the three-day ultimatum given by the Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, for all Southerners to quit the North or face its wrath, the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has urged Ndigbo in the North not to panic and to remain wherever they are.

Uwazuruike, who gave the directive in a text message he circulated to newsmen yesterday disclosed that his group had sent out its intelligence group to the North to weigh the strength of the threat and order by the Boko Haram sect.
He, therefore, advised the Igbo in the North to remain calm and wait for the outcome of the intelligence group’s visit and further directives from MASSOB.

The MASSOB leader regretted that this challenge was coming at a time Ndigbo lost their leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and were preparing for the burial of the former Biafran warlord.
The full text read: “I urge Ndigbo wherever they are to stay calm and be vigilant. We are aware of the present challenges confronting our people now that our leader Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu has passed on.

“However, we are watching events as they unfold and will inform Ndigbo at the appropriate time.”
Also, some Igbo groups rose from their meeting in Enugu yesterday warning that no group or organisation in the country had monopoly for violence. They said they would not submit to any form of threat by any organisation, stressing that the quiet position in the face of various provocations against her people should not be taken for a ride.

The groups, however, urged Ndigbo in various parts of the country to remain calm and law-abiding in the face of the provocations, assuring that they were fully on the monitor of developments in the country and would not compromise on anything that could derail their security.
Briefing reporters shortly after the meeting, the convener and President, Igbo Youth Movement (IYM), Elliot Uko, said as much as Ndigbo was committed to the peace and progress of the country, it would not tolerate development that could jeopardise the security of her people.
He said the meeting took particular notice of the goings on in the country and would continue to call on the Igbo to remain calm and law-abiding.
Reacting to the quit order on Christians in the North by the Boko Haram sect, Uko said it was an offshoot of the state of emergency imposed on some councils in the North by the Federal Government and called on Nigerians to ignore them.
“It is merely a show by an aggrieved few over the state of emergency imposed on their area. But let them know that we are on the monitor of these events and will not compromise on the security of our people,” he said.

Our Human Development Index Best Ever – Jonathan
leadership newspaper 3-01-2012

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that in spite of the challenges that laced the preceding year, Nigeria has continued to make progress in some key areas.

Jonathan, in his New Year message posted on social media platform Facebook yesterday said that Nigeria’s investment in the health sector is yielding positive results.

According to him, Nigeria’s Human Development Index has improved appreciably.

“Also in the year 2011, the Human Development Index (HDI) released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) established that the life expectancy of the average Nigerian had grown from 47.56 years last year to 51.9 in 2011, representing a 10% increase, which itself is the largest ever increase of life expectancy in Nigeria since records were kept,” he said. “This increase is an affirmation of this administration’s investment in the health sector, especially towards reducing maternal and infant mortality. In fact, the International Social Security Association (ISSA) independently corroborated the UNDP’s findings by awarding Nigeria a prize for the best intervention in reducing infant and maternal mortality in Africa in 2011.”

Apart from the UNDP report in the health sector, there was a positive indication from other international ratings agency.

Jonathan said that, in 2011, government’s efforts to prudently manage scarce resources by engaging in economic reform brought Nigeria international recognition.
“While the credit ratings of many nations had been revised downwards, Nigeria’s ratings were revised upwards. First, in October of 2011, the Independent International Ratings Agency, Fitch, revised the country’s outlook to Stable from Negative.”

This was not manipulated considering that the Fitch ratings were affirmed at the year’s end by another upward review by internationally respected and independent ratings agency, Standard and Poor’s, which revised Nigeria’s ratings from Stable to Positive.

source:guardian newspaper

[b]Labour orders nationwide strike as new fuel price regime begins .


Tuesday, 03 January 2012 00:00
ALTHOUGH it is still early days, Nigerians yesterday got a taste of the full deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry as pump price differentiation was the order of the day in filling stations across the country.

Also, condemnation and commendation continued to trail the government’s decision to remove the subsidy on petrol.

Meanwhile, a coalition of Labour, civil society groups and others has said it would start a nationwide strike today over the removal of fuel subsidy that has pushed the price of petrol to at least N138 a litre from N65.

Apparently seeking a way to profit from the sudden inauguration of the regime, petroleum marketers in Lagos at first shut their outlets to motorists, which engendered queues at these stations.

Sensing a kill as exasperation kicked in on the public, the filling stations began to open one after the other, hiking their pump price to between N139 and N185 a litre.

However, if the filling stations had hoped to have a field day, they were mistaken as the queues soon dried up, with motorists choosing to buy products where the price was lowest. In what appears to be their reaction to this, price fluctuation kicked in as some of the stations brought their pump prices to retain patronage.

The roads in Lagos were free though, as residents kept indoors observing the holiday. Lagosians who ventured out contended with the expected hike in transportation cost of up 100 per cent. Curiously though, The Guardian noticed that some diesel-powered commercial vehicles tried to beat the competition by keeping to their usual fares.

Any fear of fuel scarcity was also doused as depot operators in Lagos continued to load products. The depot price for petrol ranged between N129 and N130.

Petrol price in Abuja yesterday hovered between N138 and N141. The development had caused a soaring of public transport costs. From Kubwa to the city centre, which hitherto attracted N100 now costs N200 while fare from Lugbe area on the airport road was N250 from N100.

Also, hitherto comatose filling stations in Dutse, Jigawa State yesterday opened up and dispensed petrol at between N140 and N150 a litre.

Some of filling the stations opened in the early hours of yesterday and sold the product at N140 but changed the prices to N150 a litre after realising that the National National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) mega station was selling at N138 a litre. At Dutse’s motor parks, transportation fares jumped up by 120 per cent.

Passengers from Dutse to Kano paid N1,000 as against N400. Many of them were stranded following this development.

One of them, Dantiye Dauda, said: “It is really unfortunate that the current administration is not sensitive to the plight of the common man.”

In Markudi, Benue State, the few filling stations that opened for business sold petrol at N150 per litre while black marketers sold the product at N200. Several out-of-pocket travellers making for their stations preparatory to today’s work were stranded as transport fares went up at all the motor parks.
Bus drivers who usually collected N30 per drop charged N50. At the Pleasure Travels Park, a trip to Abuja now costs N3,000 as against N1,200 before now while a trip to Lagos now costs N5000 instead of N2500.

Also, a trip to Otukpo now costs N800 as against N350 while Gboko by bus which used to cost N200 now goes for between N500 and N600.

Some commuters who spoke with The Guardian decried the sudden removal of subsidy on fuel and urged the Federal Government to have a rethink and rescind its decision on the issue.

In Plateau, filling stations sold a litre of petrol for N145. In the popular black market, the price of a quarter of a litre of the commodity ranges from N400 to N700.

As a result, transport fares shot up in Jos. For example, from Angwan Rukuba to Jos Terminus, which used to be N50 is now N100, which was a common development across the city.

Opinions were divided though on the appropriateness or otherwise of the petrol subsidy removal.

“Government’s decision is very hasty and callous. Government does not have the feelings of the masses at heart. Government is just wicked,” says Martin Gijo, a taxi driver.

But the National President of Indigbo Democratic Forum (IDF), Chidi Ndu, welcomed the removal saying that the removal will boost the industries.

Petrol has suddenly disappeared from most filling stations in Benin City, Edo State while those opened for business sold the product at between N138 and N145 a litre.

The NNPC Mega Stations, which were the only stations selling for N138 in the state capital suddenly stopped selling the product at about 1 p.m. and this led to long queues building in the few that were selling.

Filling Stations in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital that hurriedly stopped selling and locked up their station on Sunday afternoon yesterday opened for business with new price regime, selling petrol at between N146 and N150 per litre.

But the NNPC Mega station and its subsidiary stations yesterday sold at N138 a litre.

The pump price hike has increased the cost of transportation in the state by 100 per cent. The commercial motorcyclist that charged N40 per drop yesterday charged N80.

Chaos broke out in Awka, the Anambra State capital yesterday when it dawned on residents that a 131 per cent increase in the price of petrol had crept on them.

Commercial bus drivers and their customers engage themselves in bitter arguments, and even fisticuffs before the situation sunk in as the day wore on, the commuters realised that the situation was the same everywhere.

A survey of the situation in Onitsha, Nnewi, Ekwulobia, Awka and even Enugu revealed that the pump price petrol was between N150 and N180 a litre. Many commuters were forced back home, as short distances that hitherto cost N30 became N50, and destinations that were before now N100 turned N300. Awka to Enugu, which used to be N250 is now N1,000.

Also, most filling stations within the Enugu metropolis refused to open for business, while the very few that opened sold at between N180 and N200 a litre.

Transport operators at the busy Old Park, Market Road and Holy Ghost areas made brisk business as they increased transport fares. Travellers from Enugu to Lagos paid N5,000 as against the usual N1,800 during the Yuletide celebrations. Also, transport fares to nearby places like Enugu to Onitsha, Enugu to Umuahia, Aba, or Port-Harcourt tripled.

Most of the travellers, some of who were trying to return to their bases in order to be at work today but could not afford to part with the high fares, had to return home, hoping that the costs might crash soon.

Residents of Kaduna State woke up yesterday to the increase in pump price of fuel in most of the filling stations that had locked their doors the previous day. Pump price of petrol ranged from N138 to N145 a litre.

At the black market where motorists bought petrol for convenience before the removal of the subsidy, a litre was N250 yesterday.

Cost of intra-state and inter-state transportation has also gone up by between 50 and 100 per cent in the state.

Taxi fare from Kaduna to Abuja now cost N1,500 from N1,000; Kaduna-Kano is now N1,200 from N800; Kaduna to Jos is now N2,000 as against N1,300.

A market woman, Mrs. Hannah Mark, said a crate of soft drinks that used to be N1,000 now cost N1,300.

Commuters in most cities and towns in Osun State yesterday experienced hardship due to increase in the prices of petrol and withdrawal of commercial vehicles from the roads by transporters.

When The Guardian visited filling stations in Osogbo, and some other major towns, it was discovered that few petrol stations that had fuel sold a litre of filling at between N140 and N150.

The development engendered sharp increase in transport fares. For example intra-bus fare within Osogbo, which was N30 per drop, has been increased to between N50 and N70.

Also transport fare from Osogbo to other parts of the country has gone up. Osogbo to Ikirun was N250 yesterday instead of N150, while Osogbo to Ile-Ife, which used to cost N200 attracted N400.

Most of the filling stations in Osogbo, Ikirun, Ikire, Ede, Iwo, Ilesa, Ile-Ife and other major towns in the state were closed to customers.

And, residents of Ilorin the Kwara State capital yesterday received with mixed feelings the withdrawal of subsidy on petrol.

The development led to over 120 per cent increment in transport fares. Apart from the filling stations operated by the NNPC all other stations closed their gates to customers.

A motorist told The Guardian yesterday that he had to sleep at the filling station in Itire area of Lagos, in other to get petrol immediately they opened gate in the morning. But he claimed to have bought the product at N185 per litre.

However, the depot operators are now sell the product at about N129 and N130 a litre. The Guardian’s visit to Apapa Jetty showed that loading is in progress at most of the petroleum depots.

Motorists have berated the unjust hike in the price of petrol by the marketers, noting that they were not expected to increase the price yet, because most of them were selling the existing stock, while the PPPRA directive only indicated that subsidy would not be paid on any imported products from January 1, 2011.

The letter that announced the policy by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory agency (PPPRA) had assured that the selling process would be duly monitored while prices would be non-exploitative.

It said: “Consumers are assured of adequate supply of quality products at prices that are competitive and non-exploitative and so there is no need for anyone to engage in panic buying or product hoarding.

“The PPPRA in conjunction with the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) will ensure that consumers are not taken advantage of in any form or in any way. The DPR will ensure that the interest of the consumer in terms of quality of products is guaranteed at all times and in line with international best practice,” it assured.

Reacting to the eventually exploitation, the DPR said they are on top of the situation, as it has deployed its officials to monitor the situation in filling stations across the country.

A top official of the DPR, Mrs. Bimbo Ogan, told The Guardian in a telephone chart yesterday that the DPR would soon come out with its official statement on the issue, but noted that it has deployed its personnel to monitor fuel distribution chains critically.

Also speaking yesterday, a reliable source from the NNPC, told The Guardian that there are sufficient products in the market attributing the scarcity to adjusting of pump prices in the filling stations from the previous ones to the current price by the marketers.

According to him, “NNPC stations sell at N138 per litre while other marketers sell between N140 and N145. We can as well relate the scarcity issue to panic buying and security threat as Labour has threatened a mass industrial action soon.”

However, the National Publicity Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Zaid Kolawole, in a statement yesterday, said that the association rejects as totally unacceptable and a crass display of bad faith the unilateral increase in the pump price of petrol by the government in the guise of ‘subsidy removal.

He emphasised that it is a reinforcement of the government’s huge credibility deficit that only a few days after the Minister of Finance, Okonjo Iweala stated publicly that no date had been fixed for the so-called ‘subsidy removal’ and that government would further consult with all stakeholders, the same government through the PPPRA could turn around on new year’s day and increase petrol prices stating unashamedly that this latest round of fuel price increase “follows extensive consultation with stakeholders”.

According to Ogun, “the PPPRA Executive Secretary should tell Nigerians when the Board of the agency of which we are a statutory member met to decide on this policy knowing fully well that the board is yet to be reconstituted

“It is very unfortunate that the only ‘gift’ government can give to long-suffering Nigerians in this new year and season of goodwill is the poisoned chalice of fuel price increase.

He stated that the association reiterates its resolution at its last NEC meeting in Warri, Delta State on November 30th, 2011 that government puts in place certain irreducible minimums and reduce its recurrent expenditure by at least 25 per cent before contemplating any removal of subsidy.

“We insist that government exists for the people and their welfare and security should be its paramount concern. Our government should therefore work for us and not the IMF and World Bank as the organs of the association will be meeting soon to finalise plans and strategies to ensure that government reverses this patently anti-people policy.

“We therefore urge all Nigerians to gird their loins and begin immediate mobilisation for the struggle ahead aimed at ensuring that this exploitative policy designed to further impoverish Nigerian workers and masses does not stand,” he said.

Also, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has flayed the Federal Government’s removal of the subsidy on petrol, describing the decision as “complete insensitivity” to the articulated views of the Nigerian masses.

ERA/FoEN, in a statement yesterday, insisted that the subsidy removal, which the PPPRA dubbed national consultation on which it based the decision to remove the so-called subsidy, was a crude smokescreen to usher in a new era of impoverishment for Nigerians.

ERA/FoEN Executive Director, Nnimmo Bassey stated: “This new year slap on the faces of Nigerians is totally objectionable and smacks of insensitivity to the genuine needs of the Nigerian masses. It shows a government that would rather punish the poor than confront the cabal they say exists in the petroleum sector.”

Countering government’s argument that the central purse subsidises the cost of petroleum products import, Bassey insisted that, on the contrary, it is community people living side-by-side the oil fields and the Nigerian environment that actually subsidize the cost of crude and refined products.

He noted: “Enough is enough! The poor and the environment have sufficiently subsidised resource corruption and through environmental impacts and loss of livelihoods. Ninety-nine per cent of the population is again being forced to bear the brunt of corrupt practices enjoyed by the one per cent.”



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our 'own' enfant terrible',the CHUCKKY of nairaland,demonic RENO OMOKRI(a.k.a[b] Beaf[/b] )!

The guy has taken his own part of the shared 'saving' from subsidy removal.All of una go vomit the money one day!

Giving that the budget has already proposed how the total budget would be spent,so where is the fraudulent 'savings'

Commonsense dictates that the budget should be accompanied with an estimate of possible savings that may arise if oil subsidy is removed and a statement of palliative projects that would be possibly financed from such savings or such palliative projects jettisoned in the event that the subsidy is retained.As a matter of fact,the palliative projects,if well thought,could possibly be used to persuade 'moderates' in the opposition camp.
So far,GEJ handlers have not presented clear roadmap of economic safety nets for Nigerians.This is clear arrogance!!Clearly this govt has taken its disdain for nigerians way too far.

The savings have so far,being 'consumed' in

973million naira for food/entertainment

278 million for fuelling generators

1.2billion naira on travels

Almost 1 trillion on securities!
Add it to the lie that subsidy removal had been postponed to aprill 2012,then you come to the conclusion,


This govt is deceitful,wicked and unpatriotic!

very silly thread!This is the best response you can give to the calamity the GEJ's presidency has inflicted on nigeria and nigerians-that GEJ IS A VICTIM!!
A man who will
spend almost a billion on food
half a billion naira on bullet proof SUVs
almost a trillion on security for the same parasitic nigerian elites
while nigerians prepare to face the imminent untold socio-economic crisis his intended subsidy removal will bring nigerians.
is not a victim,
he is plainly INCOMPETENT!!


The propaganda to make GEJ appear as a victim has failed.
We aint fools!!He should just resign,he does not have answers to nigeria's problems!

it is not unexpected,UNN and uniben should cover their heads in shame,this is what happens when ignorami are in charge of academic affairs.


UNIBEN's greatest export to uk is James Onanaefe IBORI,the man even at the height of his controversial criminal antecedents,the school went on to humour him with the privilege of invitation to deliver a CONVOCATION SPEECH!
This uniben school is so infantile and stupidly-run to the extent that the appointment of the university VC was done in the Oba of Benin's palace based purely on a silly 'benin son of the soil' criteria instead of tested scholarship and administrative/leadership competence.Imagine a university VC appointed on such puerile criteria.


UNN is the most foolish of the first generation unis,imagine the controversial way the school has been doling out professorship apointment.First was Dora Akunyili,who while still holding a political appointment,almost a decade away from scholarly works and the university,got 'promoted' to rank of professor!This same silly school embarrased itself and its alumni by 'dashing' professorship to Mrs Ndi Onyuike-okereke,former NSE-DG,this silly school 'sold' the title to a woman who was never in the employ of the schoolnever lectured or carried out any research work as an academic staff member of the institution and this stupid school never bothered to investigate the authenticity of the Phd being bandied by the woman,events later confirmed that the phd can not be substantiated.Yet,the senate of the school kept mum over this serious issue!!
What Late Prof. Jelili Omotola did in UNILAG did not even come close to this,yet all hell was let loose!Even the UNILAG Korean study centre he facilitated was shut down permanently by the University Senate and his tenure technically ended.The man was seriously dealt with by the University senate!This is how matured Universities are run!Nobody will come to UNILAG,OAU or UI and say he is the 'palace candidate for VC' and anybody will take him serious.

The other schools are just remedial centres,they should just keep quiet,that they ve been busy producing killer-doctors all the while did not escape serious nations like UK.

it is not unexpected,UNN and uniben should cover their heads in shame,this is what happens when ignorami are in charge of academic affairs.


UNIBEN's greatest export to uk is James Onanaefe IBORI,the man even at the height of his controversial criminal antecedents,the school went on to humour him with the privilege of invitation to deliver a CONVOCATION SPEECH!
This uniben school is so infantile and stupidly-run to the extent that the appointment of the university VC was done in the Oba of Benin's palace based purely on a silly 'benin son of the soil' criteria instead of tested scholarship and administrative/leadership competence.Imagine a university VC appointed on such puerile criteria.


UNN is the most foolish of the first generation unis,imagine the controversial way the school has been doling out professorship apointment.First was Dora Akunyili,who while still holding a political appointment,almost a decade away from scholarly works and the university,got 'promoted' to rank of professor!This same silly school embarrased itself and its alumni by 'dashing' professorship to Mrs Ndi Onyuike-okereke,former NSE-DG,this silly school 'sold' the title to a woman who was never in the employ of the schoolnever lectured or carried out any research work as an academic staff member of the institution and this stupid school never bothered to investigate the authenticity of the Phd being bandied by the woman,events later confirmed that the phd can not be substantiated.Yet,the senate of the school kept mum over this serious issue!!
What Late Prof. Jelili Omotola did in UNILAG did not even come close to this,yet all hell was let loose!Even the UNILAG Korean study centre he facilitated was shut down permanently by the University Senate and his tenure technically ended.The man was seriously dealt with by the University senate!This is how matured Universities are run!Nobody will come to UNILAG,OAU or UI and say he is the 'palace candidate for VC' and anybody will take him serious.

The other schools are just remedial centres,they should just keep quiet,that they ve been busy producing killer-doctors all the while did not escape serious nations like UK.

i know women lead and plan wars in iboland!
Women representation in war is usually low in most serious wars,however,i dont pray for war in my dear country-nigeria
asha is actually transexual,she was aisha until he became asha,stupid pervert!

^^^u are a female,this is strictly for the men,we are talking war not ten-ten.wen kasala burst,women and babies are in the same class.

@ EMANY,I like you,at least,ur comment confirm you are not a malfunctioning aba-made autoresponder software.You just gave me cold water,thanks brov.
You are actually pre-empting the OPC war strategy,if you know the yoruba culture of war,you will know that ,definitely,the Yorubas wont allow their land to be used as war zone!

I dont think opc should apologise for using the perception strategy to make demands from your potential enemy.It is simple and straight-forward-we dont want your war in our land,if you do,we will retaliate.

I am sure the BH guys are extremely smart,they read the MEND-war strategy script very well and just like mend had collaborators within the FG so do BH,the ultimate loser is Nigeria.
The igbos,as currently constituted,are war paper-weight and mincemeat for mallam's suya!!

Though all hope is not lost.if only the ibos can stop acting like defeated or subdued race,work hard to revamp and promote values that unify them and raise their perception index value.

@ AK47mann,ibos are already selling guns to boko haram to kill/harvest cheap ibo souls already!Abeg,wake up!

US Senate okays soldiers to Be Intimate with horses

Written by Friday, 09 December 2011


THE United States Senate, on Thursday evening, voted 93-7 to approve a defence authorisation bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, it also repeals the military ban on sex with animals – or bestiality.

On November 15, the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved S. 1867, the National Defense Authorisation Act, which includes a provision to repeal Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Article 125 of the UCMJ makes it illegal to engage in both sodomy with humans and sex with animals.

It states: "(a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in unnatural carnal Reproduction with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy. Penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offence. (b) Any person found guilty of sodomy shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”

Family Research Council President, Tony Perkins, said the effort to remove sodomy from military law stemmed from liberal Senate Democrats’ and President Barack Obama’s support for removing the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy.

“It’s all about using the military to advance this administration’s radical social agenda,” Perkins told CNSNews.com. “Not only did they overturn Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, but they had another problem, and that is, under military law, sodomy is illegal, just as adultery is illegal, so they had to remove that prohibition against sodomy.”

Perkins said removing the bestiality provision may have been intentional--or just “collateral damage.”

“Well, whether it was inadvertent or not, they have also taken out the provision against bestiality,” he said. “So now, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), there’s nothing there to prosecute bestiality."

Former Army Colonel Bob Maginnis said some military lawyers had indicated that bestiality might be prosecutable under another section of the military code of justice – the “catch-all” Article 134 for offences against “good military order and discipline.”

“But don't count on that,” he said.

“If we have a soldier who engages in sodomy with an animal – whether a government animal or a non-government animal – is in fact, a chargeable offence under the Uniform Code? I think that’s in question,” Maginnis told CNSNews.com.



“When the reader stops laughing, the reader needs to ask the question whether or not this is in the best interests of the government, in the best interests of the military and the best interests of the country? I think not.

He added: “Soldiers, unfortunately, like it or not, have engaged in this type of behaviour in the past. Will they in the future, if they remove this statute? I don’t know.”

Perkins said there was no attempt to remove the UCMJ repeal provision from the bill, which Perkins had expected the Senate to approve.

Now that it has passed, however, the Senate version will have to go to a conference committee, and Perkins predicts there will be several sticking points with the House.

“The House, in their version of the defence authorisation, reinforced the Defence of Marriage Act, saying that there is a military DOMA as well, prohibiting same-sex marriage on military bases —something the Department of Defence is pushing for,” he said.

“And now this is an added concern, that sodomy has been removed, and as we have discovered, that bestiality — the prohibition against it — has been removed from the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So yes, the House will have problems with this bill.”


http://cnsnews.com/news/article/senate-approves-bill-legalizes-sodomy-and-bestiality-us-military

in the science of war,perception is the key.That the land is being fumigated to depopulate ibos is due to the perception of other nigerians,particularly northerners, that the ibos are vanquished,lacking in capable courageous leadership,to worsen it all,in a mossad style assassination plan,their supposed leader -ikemba,allegedly, was killed heartbroken by stroke and HIV.What better time to finish them all?.massob or whatever is a group of violent businessmen ,so forget massob.The alternative would have been the demutualisation and lethal war commissioning of the cowardly e-igbo warriors on nairaland.but that,just like ojukwu's burial date,will become serious economical issues!


OPC apparently understand this perception strategy in war,it reminds ur opponent they might be in for a long haul of potential losses,the OPC actually reminded the BH that in war,any hausa/fulani domiciled in the sw is game.They should just stick to killing their fellow targeted northerners and harvest cheap ibo lives continously.

@ lucenzo,you remind me OF THAT news that ur ezeigbo-ojukwu was killed by HIV/aids

^^^I voted Ribadu and thank God I did not vote a drunken fisherman.When a northerner was d president,it made sense for beaf et al to label the NDelta criminals freedom fighters,now they are executive ex-mililants globetrotting the world in the name of sham skill acquisition trainning while GEJ expects the youths from other region to look on and do nothing!.Now that a nigerdeltan is on seat as Pressy,the northerners are giving the same dose of the medicine the Ndelta militants gave their own son while he was the president.This is nothing but non-developmental crude African politics.The northerners are not dumb they understand power dynamics and I am sure when a northerner takes over in 2015,the NDELTA hostilities will resume.

I am a focused poster and I wont embellish crime or injustice unlike you.If any man commits any crime,let him face the music,irrespective of the tribe.However,my emphasis is that Ojukwu lived long enough till old age but the poor felas killed in the war are being insulted by the praises being showered on ikemba,I think the ibo should be sensitive to the loss of families that lost their loved ones in that silly ojukwu war.

nigerians will resist the immortalisation of a murderer like Ikemba.

no loss suffered by the ojukwu is as great as the loss suffered by the members of the family of those killed in his senseless war.

All nairalanders who lost family members in that senseless war dont find the hypocritical praises on ojukwu funny.ori o ju ori.

[b]The story carried above has once been reported by punchnewspapers and attracted calls by Nigerians to do a thorough investigation.That this case got to this extent is gladenning but does not call for sensationalism
It is a serious case involving a wayward igbo girl (Blessing Ukeh) who got impregnated by another young igbo okada driver with no reliable means of livelihood.The girl ( Blessing) was delivered at the hospital and could not pay a dime after a successful delivery.The irresponsible igbo lad that imregnated her was no where to be found and the hospital workers failed to release her,according to them,the MD of the hospital was out of town and nobody wants his/her salary deducted to pay for the service rendered to blessing.
According to the punchnewspaper reporter,Blessing was not allowed to leave the hospital and when the hospital staff took pity on her,they gave her a room and asked her to work as a cleaner in the hospital.It was one of the nights that this silly girl fed her baby petrol,according to her,she took petrol to kill herself but mistakenly breastfed her baby and the baby died !
Immediately the hospital workers got wind of it and reported to the police and peole called for more investigation.The guys being arraigned are those unfortunate hospital staff that took pity on her and provided medical help to her only to find out she is completely indigent!As at the time punch reported the news,the silly igbolad that impregnated her was still nowhere to be found![/b]

ok,those that died on biafran side are guinea pigs to you.

ojukwu is not better than any dead person on either side of the war.

this madness must stop,why mortalise a murderer!

we will soon raise the debate to the national level.

ojukwu was indicted by the pogrom that led to the first military coup and still the lives lost still dont matter?

ojukwu may deserve anything from the igbos since you think their dead dont matter.
Nigerians must speak against immortalising a murderer.What If Effiong did not handover?imagine the number of ibos killed within jan 8th ,1970 when Ojukwu fled and jan 12th,1970 that Effiong surrendered!

wikipedia defines a coward as"Cowards are usually seen to have avoided or refused to engage in a confrontation or struggle "

meriam-webster defines coward as "one who shows disgraceful fear or timidity."


that record has it that Ojukwu fled means he 'avoided or refused to engage in a confrontation' and exhibits 'disgraceful fear or timidity'

therefore it is not historically correct but logically sound that Ojukwu is a coward' and lived a cowardly life.

case closed.

Hero for what?
getting nigerians or biafrans killed on both sides of the war while he is in a well protected enclave is heroism?

using funds kept in his care as the governor to procure bombs and firepower to kill your fellow man/woman/brother/sister is heroism/
If Fashola is using the money meant to build schools and hospital to procure firepower to prosecute a war,nobody will count him a hero!

Ikemba/gowon were alagbara ma m'ero(translation :all brawns and poor judgement!)

What I stand on is;
even in death,he and Gowon would take responsibility for their poor judgement and loss of those who lost their loved ones in that silly war!
Godknows,I would have handled the situation that led to the war differently.Would you handle it the Ojukwu/Gowon way?

^^^my keypads just messing up,

I knew it would get to these.ncase you dont understand ,the people saying Ojukwu this,Ojukwu should not attempt to pull wool over our eyes or rewrite history,both of them(Ojukwu/Gowon),technically destroyed and distracted the young nation.You want me to reward them with unmerited eulogies or stamp my imprimatur on the  daily showers of praises on the ikemba widely publicised by his generation of warmongers.Hell,N-O!

I never discounted his personal acheivement probabl[y as a father that made sure his kids are adequately provided for but on the account of taking the country through that gruelsome wars,yet both of them lived to old age!It is unfair to keep silent over the loss of other lesser mortals.

They were not fair on Nigeria and Nigerians of that time.Most died even in unmarked graves whereas the people who both caused the war are being 'celebrated'.It is unfair