₦airaland Forum

Mikecold:
Stop disturbing us with Northern problems

Don't you have government or is it only ransom payment Bala Mohamed does

My friend, it's "Nigerian problem", not " Northern problem" as the road in question is a Federal Government Road, not state road. Bala Mohammed is trying in himself as a governor... His people love him so much that they are ready to vote for him again come 2023. Remember, that same road whether Federal or State is being used by all, not only northerners...

God help us oooh!

It was such a heavy rain today in Bauchi. This is Bara in Kirfi LGA of Bauchi State. The road leading to Gombe from Bauchi was totally cut off at the Bara Bridge keeping motorists stranded. Watch the video. . .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqB3k_EUQr4

READ WHAT FEMI ADESINA WROTE ABOUT OJUKWU AND NIGERIA.

THE QUESTION IS, CAN HE STILL BOLDLY WRITE THE SAME ARTICLE NOW OR ADVICE HIS PRINCIPAL ON WHAT HE WROTE?
Femi Adesina wrote in 2012:

In December 2009, I was at Aburi, while holidaying in Ghana. We Nigerians call it A-b-u-r-i, but the Ghanaians pronounce it as E-b-r-i. For those who have read widely about the civil war that we fought between 1967 and 1970, Aburi is a significant place. This was what I wrote about Aburi, after returning from that journey:

“Aburi. Beautiful, serene Aburi, set daintily atop a hill. It is home to a botanical garden that is 119 years old. But for us in Nigeria, Aburi goes beyond just nature and its preservation. It is the town where General Yakubu Gowon and Odumegwu Ojukwu met, to try and avert the Nigerian Civil War that lasted between 1967 and 1970. They came out with Aburi Accord, which later broke down. And a shooting war started. You could see the Presidential Lodge on a hill, where the Nigerian leaders had parleyed at the behest of Ghanaian leaders. It all ended in futility.”

As one of the key parties to the Aburi Accord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, returns to mother earth today, it is also apposite to return to Aburi, and look at the letter and the spirit of the accord once again, an agreement that was violated by the Federal side, and which made a bloody internecine war inevitable.

For most part of 1966, the northern part of Nigeria, particularly, had been turned to killing fields. Non-natives, especially Igbos, were killed in thousands. Many fled, many others were displaced. There was complete anarchy in the land. The average Igbo looked up to Lt. Col Odumegwu Ojukwu, military governor of the Eastern Region, to provide leadership and direction. He did not fail. He picked the gauntlet and championed the cause of his people.

By January 1967, the drums of war were loud and clear, reverberating across the length and breadth of Nigeria. But there was a last ditch effort to prevent what was imminent. There was a peace meeting hosted at Aburi, in Ghana, by the then Ghanaian head of state, Gen J. A. Ankrah. At the meeting were Gowon, Ojukwu, all the military governors of the regions, and some top civil servants, both from the Federal side and the Eastern region. The meeting held on January 4 and 5, 1967, and came out with what is popularly known today as the Aburi Accord.

The agenda of the meeting consisted of three crucial issues: (i) Reorganization of the Armed Forces (ii) Constitutional agreement (iii) Issues of displaced persons within Nigeria.

The two-day meeting reached consensus that were acceptable to both sides. Among others, it was resolved that legislative and executive authority of the Federal Military Government was to remain in the Supreme Military Council (SMC), to which any decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination provided it is possible for a meeting to be held, and the matter requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their comment and concurrence. What does this mean in simple language? The SMC would run the affairs of the country, but not without consulting the regions as represented by the military governors. This was something akin to federalism, even under a military government.

Other terms of the agreement include that appointments to senior ranks in the police, diplomatic and consular services as well as appointment to superscale posts in the federal civil service and the equivalent posts in the statutory corporations must be approved by the SMC. What does this mean again in simple language? Equity, fairness, true federalism.

Other matters like the holding of an ad hoc constitutional conference, fate of soldiers involved in the January 15, 1966 coup, rehabilitation of displaced persons, etc, were also amicably resolved, and the conferees returned happily to Nigeria. Only for the Federal side to deliver a blow to the solar plexus: the Aburi Accord, Gowon said, was unworkable, and he reneged on all the agreements.

Using the Eastern Nigerian Broadcasting Service, Ojukwu played the tape recording of the proceedings at Aburi repeatedly, to educate the populace on who was playing Judas. Later, he made a broadcast in which he said: “we in the East are anxious to see that our differences are resolved by peaceful means and that Nigeria is preserved as a unit, but it is doubtful, and the world must judge whether Lt. Col Gowon’s attitudes and other exhibitions of his insincerity are something which can lead to a return of normalcy and confidence in the country.

“I must warn all Easterners once again to remain vigilant. The East will never be intimidated, nor will she acquiesce to any form of dictation. It is not our intention to play the aggressor. Nonetheless, it is not our intention to be slaughtered in our beds. We are ready to defend our homeland.”

In a piece I did last December, shortly after Ojukwu passed away, I said he was virtually pushed into war by the infidelity of the Federal side to the Aburi Accord. I still stand by that position. Ojukwu was called ‘warlord’ for many decades, but he was by no means a warmonger. He only did what he needed to do for his people–and for the country.

As his earthly remains are interred today, it is tragic that Nigeria is still submerged in the morass that Ojukwu already identified about 45 years ago. Today, bombs go off like firecrackers in the country. There is agitation for the review of the revenue allocation formula. There are strident calls for the convocation of a sovereign national conference. Even some component parts are threatening to pull out of the federation if anything happened to their ‘son’ who is now in power. Didn’t Ojukwu warn of these landmines ahead? Were all these issues not already settled at Aburi? Foremost journalist and media administrator, Akogun Tola Adeniyi, in a recent media interview, explained the Aburi Accord this way: “Let every region be semi-autonomous and develop at its own level.” Yes, that was the spirit and letter of Aburi, but which sadly became a road not taken. And is that not why we are still suffering today, living in a rickety and decrepit country that can burst at the seams any moment? I tell you, Ojukwu was a prophet, and like most prophets, he had no honour in his own country. Pity. But whether we like it or not, there’s no way we won’t return to Aburi. Willy-nilly. I only hope it will be sooner than later, before Nigeria goes to grief. On Aburi I stand.

Federal Government was perfidious and duplicitous on Aburi. It is still the same way today. That is why as Nigerians, we are most times disillusioned, dismayed, dispirited, dejected and depressed. When will change come to this land? Our hearts are getting weary.

Last December, I wrote that Ojukwu should be buried like a hero. I’m glad at the rites of passage so far, culminating in the interment today. Yes, bury him like a true hero. An icon, an avatar, deserves no less. This generation will surely not see another like Ojukwu. He fought not only for his own people, but for a true federation founded on justice, fair play, equity and rectitude. Unfortunately, he did not see the Nigeria of his dreams. Will we? Adieu the Ikemba, the Eze Igbo Gburugburu. May your soul rest in peace. Ka nkpur’obi gi zue ike n’adukwa.

By Femi Adesina
Friday March 02, 2012

SHOPPERS:
These people are not ethical. Your data has been logged into their systems forever bayen.

I don't think there's any way to remove it.

You mean they are not under regulations?;

biomyke:
Go and destroy the ATM card card with which you registered with them and visit your bank for another card

Nice one, thanks

Stephenmoka4:
Which online loan platform is that?

Sorry, the name is not necessary here. I only needed some kind of advice from people...

garfield1:
Okonjo iweala also made him campaign msnager

Even at that, you don't need certificate to be a campaign manager. Even an illiterate can do such a job...

Some people are saying that Buhari met an empty purse... Hmmmm, how deeply empty was that purse that all the borrowings of the past 6years cannot fill?

Well, Buhari deserves no pity. Like the man who wept for failing election, he was compensated and elected on sympathy ground, yet he failed more than the people he was insulting for "mismanaging" Nigeria.

Jonathan's government was busy creating jobs, giving grants to Nigerian businesses and moving the nation forward. Some witches and wizards took offence and beast their chests that that can no longer happen. They put up their plans, spread their tentacles and unruly bought over all Nigerian jobless youths. Jonathan was removed from office and a supposed Messiah brought in.

Nigerians expected the Messiah to hit the road and keep things moving.... It took him over 7months to constitute his cabinet of looters. It was shameful. Nigerians cried, and were told to calm down that they were trying to clean some leftover mess by the past administration. Fast forward to 2019. We were told to vote for Next Level when the Change we earlier voted for refused to occur...

Nigerians have suffered enough... In the Next Level, what we are seeing cannot be written down. Where did Jonathan get the money he was using to run the country then and was even giving grants to Nigerian businesses? You may say that price of oil was a bit high... Okay, but Buhari rejected the oil and told Nigerians he was developing non-oil sector... They were only busy mining those minerals for themselves... They said they build infrastructures, can someone point at one of those infrastructures for us to see? Railway was almost completed by Jonathan. Show us the standard road network to see... What we see on the highways is FERMA doing patch works!

Where is our money? You have borrowed enough nah! Borrow Borrow government. He even brought us those Chinese Online Loan Givers that cut our throat with 7days loan with high interests!!! Buhari has turned Nigeria into a country of debt slaves... God, please deliver your children!!!

winningwinner:
Dear Nairalanders,
I was once pressed financially and could not see who to help me out. I approached an online loan scheme through their App and was given N5000 for 7days and a pseudo organ that landed me into this App debited my account for N4500. I notified my bank about this and they bluntly told me that I authorized the withdrawal.
I parted with N4500 and was lent N5000 for 7days with N2800 interest. Because I was in need and has lost my money, I went ahead to borrow the money at least to cover what I have just lost.
Two days on, I started receiving calls urging me to pay and get a higher loan and limit extension. I paid the loan of 7days in two days. When I logged in through the App, I discovered that nothing changed from the initial N5000. I tried to call them to no avail. I angrily took the loan as presented. In two days as usual, calls started coming. I picked and a lady introduced herself urging me to pay early for a better offer from them, but I refused.
I purposely allowed the loan to exceed the 7days limit and I started seeing addition on N1000 daily as surcharge with threats of calling all my contacts to disgrace me and report me to the Credit Bureau, I dared them. They only called one of my referees. I ended up paying a loan of N5000 with an interest of N10,000.
I have issues here. Does it mean that borrowers do not have right? If they do, in the face of such extortion, what will they do? If CBN is the one that registered and approved these people, whose interest is CBN representing if they can allow such dubious activities going on without taking action? Again, does the law punish someone termed "an offender" without hearing from him/her? Why should Credit Bureau listen to these people without first hearing from the borrowers before blacklisting them?
Again, when I felt deceived and used, I wrote them a mail requesting that my account be deleted from their platform, but they ignored me. Three months on, I decided to check my details and discovered that they did not remove my account as I instructed. I am not happy about this... So, how then do I remove my account from such a platform?

Please, I need to hear from people on this. You can be of great help to me. I equally solicit help from the Mods... Thanks so much in anticipation.

Dear Nairalanders,
I was once pressed financially and could not see who to help me out. I approached an online loan scheme through their App and was given N5000 for 7days and a pseudo organ that landed me into this App debited my account for N4500. I notified my bank about this and they bluntly told me that I authorized the withdrawal.
I parted with N4500 and was lent N5000 for 7days with N2800 interest. Because I was in need and has lost my money, I went ahead to borrow the money at least to cover what I have just lost.
Two days on, I started receiving calls urging me to pay and get a higher loan and limit extension. I paid the loan of 7days in two days. When I logged in through the App, I discovered that nothing changed from the initial N5000. I tried to call them to no avail. I angrily took the loan as presented. In two days as usual, calls started coming. I picked and a lady introduced herself urging me to pay early for a better offer from them, but I refused.
I purposely allowed the loan to exceed the 7days limit and I started seeing addition on N1000 daily as surcharge with threats of calling all my contacts to disgrace me and report me to the Credit Bureau, I dared them. They only called one of my referees. I ended up paying a loan of N5000 with an interest of N10,000.
I have issues here. Does it mean that borrowers do not have right? If they do, in the face of such extortion, what will they do? If CBN is the one that registered and approved these people, whose interest is CBN representing if they can allow such dubious activities going on without taking action? Again, does the law punish someone termed "an offender" without hearing from him/her? Why should Credit Bureau listen to these people without first hearing from the borrowers before blacklisting them?
Again, when I felt deceived and used, I wrote them a mail requesting that my account be deleted from their platform, but they ignored me. Three months on, I decided to check my details and discovered that they did not remove my account as I instructed. I am not happy about this... So, how then do I remove my account from such a platform?

I pity these mumu coalition that cannot boast of 3-square meals a day placing N100m bounty... How many of them has ever seen N1m before in their lives? One thing I know is that any bow that is shot by a child, was fashioned by an elder... Northern governors after shouting foul over the Asaba Declaration have not let the sleeping dog lie... They are still kicking using a nonexistent Northern Coalition to make political noise... Anyway, the last time I checked, I discovered that revenue allocations have not been shared for this month... Poor minds with myriads of problems hiding under an infamous coalition... I am still laughing in Tangale language...!

The Senate has passed the Nigerian Postal Service (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill, 2021, which now bars the agency from collecting Stamp Duties.

The development has ended about three years of fight between NIPOST and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in charge of revenue collection.

During the launch of Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary Commemorative Postage Stamps held at the Digital Economy Complex, Mbora Abuja, NIPOST had reclaimed the collection of stamp duty from the FIRS.

“Our efforts regarding the issue of stamp duty collection with other government Institutions have yielded positive results.

“NIPOST has been recognised as a government agency with statutory and historical authority to be the producer of stamps and recognised for the collection of stamp duties for validation of financial transactions in the country,” said Isah Pantami, C&DE Minister on 11th March, 2021.

But the bill passed on Tuesday by the country’s highest legislative body nullifies the claim by the Minister. It was presented to the Senate by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Communications, Senator Oluremi Tinubu (Lagos Central).

The power over the Stamp Duty is now conferred to the FIRS based on the provisions of Section 2 subsection 1-3.

The section provides that “There is hereby established a body to be known as the Nigerian Postal Service (hereby designated as the Public Postal Operator) which (a) shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.

“The Postal Operator shall be charged with the responsibility of providing Universal Postal Service in Nigeria.

“In carrying out its Universal Postal Service Obligations, the provisions of any enactment, law or regulation relating to taxation of companies, agencies or trusts funds shall not apply to the Public Postal Operator save for its obligation as a collecting agent of Government.”

During the session, Tinubu explained that sub-clause (1)(b) was removed as the Board cannot borrow or raise funds for the entity while sub-clause (1)(c) was amended to conform with existing legislation.

She revealed that clause 5(2) was introduced to specify the minimum qualifications for the appointment of the Postmaster-General.

The senate however amended sub-clause 3 so that “the Minister may, with the approval of the President, at any time remove any member of the Board from office on the grounds of misconduct, conviction, infirmity or disease of the mind.”

It also adjusted clause 5(1) to make the appointment of the Postmaster General the exclusive prerogative of the President as against the recommendation of the Minister.

Coldshisha:
Abi oo, while okotie was changing rolls Royce , body guards and spending on Presidential aspirantion, TB Joshua was helping the needy and living a simple life

It's a pity you didn't answer your name when the book that recorded those TB Joshua helped was opened...

Nigerians, please I am just being concerned and no harm meant; where on earth is Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad CFR, the Nigerian Jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and the incumbent Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN?
It's been a long while I heard of him and what he represents...

The question is, where is the money...?

Dear Nairalanders,

My sister applied for the Nigerian Immigration recruitment and later received this mail talking about test and there was no date on the letter for the said test.

Help her if anyone has received such a mail and the way forward. Effort has been made to reach the Immigration authorities but there has been no reply.

She needs help and guidance.

That University still have lecturers and students who are alive that witnessed the event, the world wants to hear the truth of what happened, no matter whose ox is gored.

Students' Union riot or Pantami's sects on rampage? Let's hear....

Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha is a Nigerian philanthropist and politician of Igbo extraction from Imo State. He has ruled as governor of Imo State before being elected a senator representing Imo West Senatorial District. Love him or hate him, Owelle Rochas Anayo Ethelbert Okorocha is a man that has so much respect from the people of IMO State. Their love for him is immeasurable.

Though we see how his critics paint him with unfair colours many at times, yet in reality, Rochas is the personality every Imo person and beyond needs to behold.

One of the local government areas that make up Imo State, is Isu, with its headquarters at Umundugba. In a community function at the local government headquarters, Owelle was spotted by Imolites and every attention was diverted to him, with the whole whole attendees welcoming his arrival. The unannounced visit brought out almost the whole communities that make up the local government area to people's surprise. With all the smear campaigns against the personality of Owelle Rochas Anayo Ethelbert Okorocha, no one will ever believe that he can freely walk on Imo soil without being stoned.

Instead of the stones, we only saw a free being walking cheerfully and acknowledging greetings from his people. Personally, I see Rochas rising higher despite the ugly campaigns against his person.

Come to think of it, Rochas did not start as a politician. He was a philanthropist, who gave scholarships to people of different backgrounds not minding their religion or language. Rochas took his time out to build a personality around himself. His intention to join politics was greeted with fanfares across Africa and beyond. Rochas is a man that never hides his ambition. Since he joined politics, he has never hidden his intention of becoming Nigeria's president. Even when he was governor of Imo State, he was building himself for the presidency.

Could this be the reason why he is being fought right, left and centre by his political enemies? Do you see that the only standing personality in Imo State political atmosphere is Rochas? Rochas left Douglas House Owerri with so many footprints that succeeding governments have found it difficult to move on with governance without touching any of Rochas' legacies?

An old adage has it that if an enemy never know what to tell a beauty queen, he tells her to go and bath. Did you read any meaning from all this Hullabaloos that greet Rochas in the land he has sacrificed so much for, and the people that he cherish so much about? Your guess is as good as mine. But the people in the grassroots know better. They are speaking with one voice against voices of oppression. They say, "it's Rochas or nobody!" In fact, he was declared the next Nigerian president by the people.

Watch the video: https://www.facebook.com/100000492722397/posts/4494668357226211/?app=fbl

Dons Eze, PhD takes a critical look at the incessant kidnappings of school children in the northern Nigeria and came up with a finger pointing to an ugly age long reality that besets Nigeria and stares her at the face.

It is of his opinion that what is holding Nigeria at a standstill is an age long tradition and culture that does no one any good. Having done with the identification, Dons advocates a little shift back to allow each federating unit in Nigeria a little autonomy so as to develop at its own pace and realize its potential.

Excerpts:
Our brothers in the northern part of the country have told us that they do not want western education, that western education is evil (Boko Haram). Yet, we would not leave them alone. We would not listen to them. We would continue to force western education on them. We would insist that the people go to school, to learn about developments in modem world. That would be unfair.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan made that mistake. He insisted that northern children must go to school, and started building Almajiri schools across the length and breadth of Northern Nigeria. He followed this up by establishing some universities in the area, all in a bid to please the North. But the people were not happy with him. They were angry with him.

To show, or to demonstrate their annoyance with Goodluck Jonathan, they arranged for the kidnap of over 300 students from a girls' secondary school in Chibok, Borno State. The former President thought they were joking, but the girls would not be found, till he left office. They further gave Jonathan a bitter pill to swallow, by massively voting him out when he sought to come back to office after his first tenure.

After Jonathan left office, the Almajiri Schools in the North became the abode for rodents and reptiles. Nobody goes there anymore for the purpose of acquiring western education.

Since after the Chibok kidnap saga in 2014, kidnap or abduction of children attending western education in different parts of the North has assumed alarming dimension, and become a regular occurrence, a pastime for Northerners. We see it happen almost everyday in most parts of the North.

In a commando style, hundreds of children would be collected from inside their school unchallenged. They would be taken to one secluded area of the town, inside a bush. A negotiator would emerge, who would be dialoguing or negotiating with the abductors about how much to be paid as ransom before the abducted children would be released. The government would be on hand to play the necessary ball, and the children released.

After the release, the children would be showcased on television, beautifully dressed. We would clap and hail the government for the wonderful work they did in securing the release of the children. The next day, another group, or even the same group of kidnappers would surface, to repeat the same game, and the circuit would continue.

Kidnapping or abduction of school children attending western education has become a lucrative business in many parts of Northern Nigeria, and the government would dole out billions of naira as ransom to the kidnappers. Who would think of wasting his time going to school to acquire western education so far he would be making it through kidnapping?

Interestingly, so far as we know, kidnapping had never taken place in any Arabic or Islamic school. It is only in secondary schools, where western education is taught that it takes place. As recently reported, about 618 schools in different parts of Northern Nigeria are under lock and key, due to the activities of kidnappers. This shows that the region does not cherish western education.

When the white men came to Nigeria, they studied the psychology of the people of Northern Nigeria and found out that they were not interested in western education. Accordingly, they decided to play along with them, to leave all traditional institutions in the North, their cultures, and all that, intact.

They therefore adopted a differential policy for the development of the country. While the wind of change was blowing incessantly in the South and all her institutions opened to western culture and civilization, the North was preserved from being "contaminated" with foreign culture. This accounts for differences in social mobilization and awareness, between the North and the South.

In 1953, Chief Anthony Enahoro, an Action Group member of the House of Representatives, moved a motion proposing internal self-rule for Nigeria in 1956. This was stoutly opposed by Northern delegates in the House, and later sparked off riots in many cities in Northern Nigeria, on the ground that the North was not ready for self-rule.

That was why, Nigeria, which started the process of decolonization along with Ghana, had to wait for four more years before she could get political independence in 1960, while Ghana got her own independence in 1957.

Successive regimes since after the creation of the political entity called Nigeria, have been trying to manage this fragile relationship between the North and the South, all to no avail. There have been hiccups here and there.

The tragedy of it all is that instead of the country making progress, it continues to regress; instead of better appreciation among different groups in the country, each group continues to view the other with suspicion and hatred.

Worse still, those with progressive minds arising from aculturation, from cultural interaction, are held back by those who still live in the past, who stuck to their old culture, and who prefer to live wild life with their cattle inside the forests, rather than embrace modern way of rearing cattle, which is ranching. That's why Nigeria continues to be in a mess.

Nigeria would have been a great country if all the elements that make it had operated on the same level, on the same frequency, if they had understood each other, if they had viewed reality the same way, and if they had worked together as one people. But due to their myopic views of the country, they would not come together to build a strong and virile nation.

Since it has proved very difficult for the people to unite, to come together as one family, we propose that it would be better if each group shifts back a little and begins to develop at its own pace, rather than continue to be entangled in an amorphous union where none was able to realize its potential.

Dr. Dons Eze, KSJI

JaneYave:
Delibrately done

But why, if I may ask?

I CAN HELP THE FG PROCURE CORONAVIRUS VACCINES FOR N150bn, THE N400bn BUDGETED FOR THE VACCINES IS IN EXCESS.
- Peter Obi.

Former governor of Anambra, Peter Obi has stated that the federal government's budget of N400bn for Coronavirus vaccines exceeds the amount that can be used to procure vaccines for 70 percent of the country's population if the National Vaccine Production Facility is operational.
 
The former Governor of Anambra who appeared on an Arise Television programme on February 2, 2021 also agreed to help the federal government broker a deal of N150bn that will help in vaccination of 70% of Nigeria's population. 
 
Obi said:
“The issue of vaccine is one that I feel a sense of pain.

Nigeria as a country in 1940 established what we called National Vaccine Production Facility domiciled in Yaba, and that was able to produce virtually all the vaccines we used in the days of smallpox, yellow fever, and that facility was shut down in 1991 to be refurbished and upgraded, there was nothing wrong with it. 

And till today that has been the case deliberately so that people can import vaccines and sell to the government.

Now I hear that we are looking for N400bn.
Well, I am at a loss. Our budget this year for health is N547bn.

I don’t know if they are going to take this vaccine procurement from it, because if they do, we are left with N147bn.

For the vaccine procurement also, we need to have transparency in the procurement.

Today, vaccine in India costs between
$2.25 cents and $3.

That is an average of $2.75 and if you say you are going to use N400 billion, that is about $1bn. If you divide $1bn by $2.75 cents each, that is about 350 million doses which is far in excess of what we need.

World Health Organisation said if you can inject 70 percent of your population, that’s it.

70 percent of Nigeria is about 140 million so we are actually looking for 140 million doses.
Considering that some other people are going to give us some free, we actually don’t need more than 120 million.

But even if we’re buying 140 million doses, we just need about three hundred and eighty-something million dollars which is about N150bn to buy it.

If they have a N400bn budget to buy the vaccine, my suggestion is they don’t need to award contracts in this vaccine, let them just call Serum institute in India and plead with them.

I am sure they will even give us discount.
If they want, I can go for the negotiation.
It won’t cost more than $2 each.”

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What is Nigeria waiting for?
Do we want to save or waste money?

What type of news report is this? What brought Damaturu and Gombe government house as the caption suggests? The writer and poster of this news must be cracy....

Nigeria’s Army chief, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has revealed that the Nigerian army will shame and disgrace the Boko Haram and the Islamic States for West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists in 2021.

Mr Buratai gave the motivational speech at a sit-out night to usher in the 2021 New Year at the TY Buratai Institute for War and Peace, Buratai in his native Biu Local Government Area of Borno.

He said the troops of Nigerian army had done a lot in the fight against insurgency in the North East in 2020, adding that they were committed to decisively deal with all forms of insecurity in the country.

Mr. Buratai urged the troops to dedicate themselves to the task of eradicating terrorism by maintaining the tempo in 2021 with more determination and action to end the insurgency in the country.

He also urged the troops to work with more discipline and courage, adding that the military had the responsibility to solve the nation’s problem of security.

According to him, they must work hard to win the confidence of Nigerians.

He said that the people trusted and believed in the Nigerian army to address the issues of insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and other forms of insecurity.

“I am very optimistic that 2021 will be different, totally different with a remarkable difference from 2020.

“I want you to see it as a challenge and a task that must be done because we are the one that can do it because Nigerians believe in us and believe that we can do it.

“You should go into the year with full conviction that we can do better to address the insecurity in our country,” he said.

Mr Buratai also promised that officers and men of the Nigerian army would enjoy a lot of welfare packages in 2021.

He commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his support for and confidence in the Nigerian army during the preceding year.

Upton:
Oh yeah. You think you are smart, maybe you are but you are a dirty tribalistic bigot. The group exists for the public good? Alright fine! Even though it does, no one would deny that there are several groups out there with selfish motives claiming to be speaking on behalf of people. I heard the name "Igbo"? The example I gave about indegenious people of Abuja are they Igbos? You are tribalistic and that's why you think everyone is like you.

Pot calling kettle black. It will pay you a lot if you can settle your dirty part. It's smellish!

Matthew Kukah, bishop of Sokoto Catholic diocese, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of nepotism.

In his Christmas message on Friday, the bishop said there could have been a coup if a non-northern Muslim president does a fraction of what Buhari did.

He accused the president of institutionalising northern hegemony by “reducing others in public life to second-class status”.

“This government owes the nation an explanation as to where it is headed as we seem to journey into darkness,” he said.

“The spilling of this blood must be related to a more sinister plot that is beyond our comprehension. Are we going to remain hogtied by these evil men or are they gradually becoming part of a larger plot to seal the fate of our country?

“President Buhari deliberately sacrificed the dreams of those who voted for him to what seemed like a programme to stratify and institutionalise northern hegemony. He has pursued this self-defeating and alienating policy at the expense of greater national cohesion.

“Every honest Nigerian knows that there is no way any non-Northern Muslim President could have done a fraction of what President Buhari has done by his nepotism and gotten away with it.

“There would have been a military coup a long time ago or we would have been at war. The President may have concluded that Christians will do nothing and will live with these actions.

“He may be right and we Christians cannot feel sorry that we have no pool of violence to draw from or threaten our country. However, God does not sleep. We can see from the inexplicable dilemma of his North.”

Upton:
Wahala. Some people will just form a group, sit down in a beer parlour and claim to be writing on behalf of millions of Nigerians.



Why didn't your own parents do it in their time? Or they loved the corruption?

Besides I deliberately didn't comment on the topic of the thread. I only chose to talk about the group claiming to write "on behalf of millions of Nigerians" when it is actually just few people that decided among themselves to write. This isn't the first time we are seeing such a thing, even unions that are politically motivated claim they do whatever they do "on behalf of millions of Nigerians". That's how a group of less than 30 people claimed to be protesting on behalf of the indigenous people of Abuja during the end SARS protest

You need to go back to school. Journalism practice is termed "pro bono publico". What you don't know is beyond you. You're jolted because you heard the name " Igbo" and decided that they must be writing from a beer parlour corner. Jealousy is a disease....!

This is why National Assembly deny you approval... Continue running your mouth the way you like. This government is just a year before another election...

adenigga:
Source:
https://m.punchng.com/News/New-COVID-19-measures-not-to-deny-churches-of-offerings-tithes

SilverNorGold:
So true.. PDP really destroyed Nigeria.. President Buhari is just like Jesus.. He's the one they always send to save Nigeria from the claws of saboteurs! Whenever things go south, and Nigeria in flames, they summon him from the North, to come and carry us on his shoulder to a place of safety..

Rebuilding the nation after rebuilding our lives... That's his mission in Nigeria... And he'll be hated... Persecuted by the same people that destroyed our glory.. But they'll fail because God is with him..

@Daddy, we will always remain grateful to you... God bless you..

God bless all patriotic Nigerians.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

I no blame you. PDP all the time as if the north were not PDP leaders even with YarAdua as PDP president. But before PDP came, Buhari, Babangida, Abacha and Abdulsalam ruled Nigeria as military leaders. They did not destroy Nigeria, but only PDP. Now that you have APC that is northern and Islamic, I hope you have succeeded in fixing Nigeria.
Do you know what you should have been saying by now had Buhari failed election? It would have been that the person that came to repair Nigeria, they did not allow him. Yea, the tribal Messiah has ascended the throne.... Let the miracle begin.... Why are you people crying again? Why has robbery taken center stage? Why the banditry, kidnappings, terrorism, killings, añd hunger? I weep for people like you....!

coolsegun2002:
Unless humanity Invents a vaccine that will make it impossible for our cellular process to be disease-proof and damage-proof, health professionals will always be needed...

Ddnt the pandemic teach u anything??

The bolded...

coolsegun2002:
If u are sick ... who will u go to

I only wanted to refer you to the construction of your grammar