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fippycbk:
You say "remove" like he will be replaced with uche Nwosu. It will be a run off and Uche will still lose.

Uche does not qualify to participate in a rerun, he came third in the elections.

jlinkd78:
Go to court. He has already been returned elected. For those that have little knowledge of Imo State political configuration; what played out dat consummated in PDP Ihedioha victory can be explained out in different ways. First, Imo are politically very conscious people that have overtime learned to guard their vote as they did against Ohakim then to usher in Rochas who deceived them with APGA party . The main point was to ensure that Rochas dynasty was decimated as they all saw d candidate of AA, Uche Nwosu who is Rochas son in law as an extension of Okorocha grip on power. To add salt to d injury Nwosu is from same Orlu zone like his father in law and Orlu zone has had 16yrs at Douglas house (8yrs Achike Udenwa and 8yrs Rochas). Rochas greed and pride coupled with his underperformance was dia4 d vehicle for his downfall. Both Uzodinma and Ararume are seen in d eyes of d public as people of very questionable character and 419ners that are also perceived to belong to d occult world. The APC too taught Okorocha a bigger lesson and with his senatorial seat hanging in d balance, d Iberiberism ambassador will go down very soon just d way Nnamdi Kalu has always warned him that his romance with d Caliphate will be his undoing one day. Just remembered d video of d IPOB man humiliating Rochas in London and u will know that d hatred against d Mr Statues was deep rooted. Ihedioha benefited from all these and being from Owerri zone and having garnered experience as former Deputy Speaker it was easy for a consensus to be built around him. MNK ideology has ensured that no more APC in d entire South East

With all you wrote, you failed to answer the question, Did Ihedioha meet the constitutional requirement of 25% in 2/3 LGAs? This has nothing to do with Rochas, Nnamdi kanu, Caliphate or any other issue.

From your write up, you are insinuating that all infringements on our constitution is justified as long as it benefits you or your position, but becomes a crime when the it does not favour you.

hammerFC:
U want to prove that u are Albert Einstein to people that graduated from Universities in UK and US?


Go ahead, but my advice is that, u will be dealt with traitorously.

You don't have to be Einstein to calculate 25% in 2/3 in 27 LGAs.
A primary school student can do that.
It's 25% votes in 18 LGAs

dokyOloye:
Looks like Kwarans have another airhead on their hands as a governor.
Som1 help me ask that abokki if he's now a law court that jails ppl.

So much ignorance is being exhibited here.
It is the state that has the power to prosecute criminal cases, under the advice of the state's director of public prosecution, under the office of the attorney general of the state, who is an appointee of the governor.
Get some education here; - https://www.lawyard.ng/6879-2/

If a governor is not interested in a case under the state's jurisdiction , the case will not make it to trial.

Joshmodest:
Did buhari not raise ganduje's hand in the presidential campaign, in Kano...what else do we call that if not endorsement , abi u no see the picshure..
His deputy governor's arrest , has nothing to do with buhari , it's the effort of the CP, who is interested in the goodwill of the people...if buhari had his way he would rig it like he did with the presidential election..

You people can turn logic on its head in order to justify your point.
If Buhari wanted to rig an election especially with an incumbent governor, there is nothing anyone can do. He controls the police, the army, the Civil defence and most importantly INEC.
Jonathan showed that the way he installed Fayose in Ekiti using the army.
There is no way the deputy governor will be arrested if Buhari orders the IG to leave him alone.

Buhari had to raise Ganduje's hands because he was the person the state APC produced and there was no controversy in the primaries as it was in some other states.

sammyj:
She is definitely reading her statement which I believe is a script meant to save her head.

I know you have your head too deep into the pastors behind that you cannot reason straight. I am sure you are ready to strap a bomb and blow yourself up to defend your pastor, but attempt to reason just a little bit;
She meant to save her head from who or what? You expect her to keep quiet and accept all pastor Iginla's accusations?
How can the pastor make such a grave allegation that their child is not his without proof. Can't the pastor afford a DNA test?
Are you not seeing the physiological effects of the pastors denial on the poor child who look up to the pastor as his father?

Do you have any evidence to debunk all the allegations presented by the pastor's wife?

ThinkSmarter:
With the way the North are voting for PDP's candidates this year 2019, it only shows that they deserted PDP in 2015 cuz of Jonathan.

Still wailing over Jonathan's loss, get over it.
Even though both the northern and southern elites are highly corrupt, the average poor masses abhor corruption and dishonesty, meanwhile, the southern masses support and condone corruption and dishonesty.

The northern electorate rejected Jonathan mainly because of the corruption tag, same reason they rejected Atiku and Saraki.


The main reason why Buhari is popular in the north is because of the "integrity" and "incorruptible" (whether rightly or wrongly) toga he carries.

mysticwarrior:
hmm I would love to see him fly that drone above a hard surface area and to a greater height?

This drone is obviously a prototype, it has zero safety measures, that's was why the builder flew it over water and very low. You see that when it failed in the end, the surfer simply fell into the water, unhurt.

This drone only proves that a drone that can carry a person over a 7 foot wall is not that difficult.

See another interesting drone here that a person can surf on.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFw3tJuFj4w

Koralords:
I want to ask a simple question why do ibos hate Tinubu ,I don't see them condemning theodore Orji that guy is one of the worst gov ever in the history of Nigeria ,only ebonyi state gov and Peter Obi I worth celebrating

Even though I am not a fan of Tinubu, I am perplexed that lots of igbos are more obsessed with Tinubu than their own politicians. You will never catch them criticising their governors, senators ministers, but they cannot survive 16 waking hours and 8 dreaming hours without Tinubu on their minds.

mekaboy:
Petty traders, yet 99% of electronics used in the entire Lagos was imported by igbos.

Even the phone or laptop you are using to type this rubbish was imported by igbos.

All car parts in Lagos are igbos.

In this era of Jumia, alibaba, aliexpress, Konga, jiji, etc, someone is saying 99% of electronics, phones and laptop used in the entire Lagos was imported by igbos.

Can't remember the last time I bought a phone or laptop in a shop.

I warned a igbo neighbour of mine that about 5 years ago, that if they don't change their business model of selling imported items like clothes and electronics in cluster shops, they would become bankrupt as most people have started buying their items online. He had a shop on Lagos island selling ladies clothes. This my neighbour has since relocated his family back to the village.

persius555:
The wall will serve its immediate purpose which is to prevent massive movement of aliens across the Mexico-US border. As for the drones which would most likely be positioned anywhere close to the walls, the united states will go after them from the Mexico side of the wall. Drones would be deployed to pick out the positioning of these human carrying drones.
I see a war of drones brewing after the walls are erected.

I like the ring to it - war of the drones. I believe that as drones becomes more sophisticated and available, they would play an increasing important role in war. I forsee an army of small drones with all sorts of weapons, guns, bombs, etc, attacking enemy territory and soldiers.

persius555:
The United States will eventually have to invest more in human intelligence and skill which will eventually skyrocket the price it will pay to make the wall relevant. I see human traffickers investing heavily in these machines. But trust the US to counter this technology.

The wall will be useless. It's too long. It will take enormous cost and man power to police a 2000 mile long wall.

It will be difficult to for technology to identify a small flying object made of non metal (radars signals reflect only metals), flying at almost tree level for a few minutes.

mysticwarrior:
they don't need to put security agents along the wall, the airforce is monitoring the US airspace from all sides, any flying objects crossing the US border would be easily detected by radar, the radar send's signals to the control unit of the exact position, direction and possible destination of the drone, they would even send a faster drone to counter the intruding drone, and it should be noted that even without shooting the drone, they could magnet it with a powerful magnet attached to a bigger drone.

As you have no understanding of scientific principles governing drones, radar and avionics in generals, you are making science fiction assumptions.

How do you expect radar to pick up an object made of fibreglass measuring no more than 3 square metres and flying not more than 20 metres from the ground? (Trump's wall is less than 7 metres)

The drone is not expected to fly across the US or even across a county, just a couple of minutes flight of a distance less than a couple of km on either sides of the border.


Preventing drones from flying into airports (which is an aviation hazard) is difficult, and you are talking about a 2000 mile length.

Read this report from CNN of how difficult it is to stop drones from flying into airports, which happens to have the best and most effective radar coverage;

How can drones be stopped?
"The technology to counter these machines is in its infancy," Matthew Whitfield, instructor at drone training company Flyby Technology and a former Royal Navy fighter pilot, told CNN.

Disabling a drone would require jamming the frequency between the controller and the drone itself. But the electromagnetic disturbance used to jam that signal would be nearly impossible to use at airports, as it would interfere with aircraft and communication systems.

While geofencing for sensitive locations, such as prisons, is already in operation it doesn't always work -- not all drones need GPS or Wi-Fi, and some can work using artificial intelligence.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/12/20/uk/drone-gatwick-airport-explainer-gbr-intl/index.html

Reference:
Now you are fighting corruption and have an incorruptible leader are you developing....continue in self delusion... as to what the real problem of Nigeria is.

The no. 1 problem of Nigeria and black Africa as a whole is corruption. It is corruption that made us have bed roads, bed education, bad healthcare, bad security and bad reputation. Trying to develop along side corruption is like trying to fill a leaking bucket with plenty holes.

mysticwarrior:
Flying an unidentified drone across that wall without authorization is a violation of the US airspace and a treat to its internal security, American security Agents will happily bring it down.

Same way walking across the border is a violation of US landspace. Same as digging under the wall or climbing over the wall. But then, the US would need to man security agents all along the 2000 mile wall 24/7.

amaniro:
I actually know this man. He's from Abia state,Ngwa to be precise. His brother is in Umuahia now leaving like a peasant while his wife is buying a house of 15.6.What a life.



Ngwa man. Go and take care of your brother in Umuahia. You think I don't know how ill your brother is. This man wicked ooh.

That's what's "it's our turn to be President" or "my tribesman must be minister" crew does not understand. Even if your blood brother becomes President, your situation might not change, only the man's wife, children and probably wife's family would enjoy the largesse of the office.
I have seen many big men, political bigwigs and business moguls whose direct brothers and sisters live in penury.

cnwamo:
The Senate is supposed to put the Executive in check but rather some people want to be ass lickers for what? Why should a President get to choose the next senate president? Where in the world does that happen?
This defeats the concept of Separation of power, President Buhari has been given way too much leverage, He wields too much and does not respect the rule of law, A man that does not respect the Constitution of the country that he presides over and now you’re giving him power over the Senate too? God help us all

The keyword is supposed. In reality it does not work that way. OBJ was changing senate presidents at will.
If the national assembly and the executive is at loggerheads, the country would be at a standstill or at best move slowly. This had been the situation in the last 4 years.
It is very difficult for the president's party to be in majority at the national assembly and not have the president's input in choosing its leaders. Even in the US, the republican leadership of the Congress are always carrying out the wishes of Donald Trump. Since the Democrats has taken over the house, very few progress has been made as regards actual governance.

frosbel2:
Bottom line ; For small to medium businesses to thrive in Nigeria , especially as it pertains to the leveraging of IT to achieve growth and success, our Infrastructure has to be repaired / rebuilt, security improved and education revamped.

Many companies will not invest in Nigeria because these things are lacking quite badly

I agree that we need to revamp our educational sector and critical infrastructure to grow our economy, but these are not the main reasons companies (top world companies) are not investing in Nigeria.

The main reason western big names are running from Nigeria is corruption. Western nationals involved in corrupt practices including bribery and book tampering will go to jail in their home countries. Companies like Siemens and Halliburton had been burnt. And it's almost impossible to do business in Nigeria without one former of bribery or the other.
Richard Branson was frustrated out of Nigeria.

Nationals that thrive in Nigeria are from countries that do not care about corruption, like China, India, Lebanon, South Africa and Israel. These country's national still thrive well despite these challenges.

grandstar:
Why shouldn't I compare Nigeria to Russia? The stats you provide even confirm the fact that Russia is over reliant on crude oil for economic growth.

Also, the devaluation of the Ruble was caused by a loss of confidence by foreign investors and they took out their investments enmasse. There was no option but to devalue. A mass outflow of dollars by frightened investors is very destabilizing.

Russia had gone through similar in 2009 when oil prices collapsed to $35. Then their Central Bank spent $200b defending the Ruble. They were better prepared this time.

Had they not allowed the Ruble to devalue, they would have blown all the forex in their reserves and plunged the economy into a very severe recession that would last for several quarters.

Nigeria is far more reliant on crude oil than Russia. Only about 52% of Russian export is mineral oil (crude plus gas)
See Russia's top exports;

Mineral fuels including oil: US$237.6 billion (52.9% of total exports)
Iron, steel: $23.4 billion (5.2%)
Cereals: $10.5 billion (2.3%)
Gems, precious metals: $10.1 billion (2.2%)
Machinery including computers: $9.2 billion (2%)
Wood: $9 billion (2%)
Fertilizers: $8.2 billion (1.8%)
Aluminum: $6.6 billion (1.5%)
Copper: $5.4 billion (1.2%)
Electrical machinery, equipment: $4.9 billion (1.1%)
http://www.worldstopexports.com/russias-top-10-exports/

In the case of Nigeria mineral oil account for 96% of exports.
See Nigeria's top exports here;

Mineral fuels including oil: US$39.1 billion (96% of total exports)
Ships, boats: $253.5 million (0.6%)
Cocoa: $238.1 million (0.6%)
Oil seeds: $180.9 million (0.4%)
Fertilizers: $149.8 million (0.4%)
Tobacco, manufactured substitutes: $102.4 million (0.3%)
Plastics, plastic articles: $78.1 million (0.2%)
Fruits, nuts: $76.1 million (0.2%)
Raw hides, skins not furskins, leather: $67.9 million (0.2%)
Rubber, rubber articles: $55.4 million (0.1%)
http://www.worldstopexports.com/nigerias-top-10-exports/

So which country will be most affected by crude prices crash?

grandstar:
That is totally untrue.

The country closest to us economically is Russia which survives on it's commodities and massively imports lots of consumer goods.

The Rouble was allowed to float and has lost half it's value. Note that Russia's economic worse are worsened by sanctions imposed on it and also because Russia's unpredictable policies drives away foreign investors. Nigeria therefore has an edge.

The dooms day senario you painted would never have occurred.

This is not the first time oil prices have crashed.

Prior to Buhari's ascendency, the Naira started dropping from around 160 in July 2014 to around 200 when Buhari took over the hot seat. The price of oil had fallen from over $100 in July 2014 to about $50.

Emefiele's allowing the Naira to depreciate was very prudent. You can even see that despite the steep fall in oil prices, the Naira did not suffer a sickening crash.

Buhari halted all such depreciation and senselessly pegged it without considering market forces. The rest is history.

How can you compare the Russian economy to Nigeria's?
Russia is the second highest exporter of crude in the world with over 5million barrels a day, Nigeria barely exports 2 million.
Russia is the top gas exporter in the world. It pipes gas to the whole of Europe and it's Asian neighbours. (It's planning to pipe gas to China), Nigeria flares most of its gas.
Russia exports minerals, steel, aluminium and even agricultural products, Nigeria hardly export anything outside raw crude; and someone is saying " The country closest to us economically is Russia"

Read the effects of a sharp devaluation of the rubble here;

The financial crisis in Russia in 2014–2015 was the result of the sharp devaluation of the Russian ruble beginning in the second half of 2014.[1][2][3][4][5][6] A decline in confidence in the Russian economy caused investors to sell off their Russian assets, which led to a decline in the value of the Russian ruble and sparked fears of a Russian financial crisis. The lack of confidence in the Russian economy stemmed from at least two major sources. The first is the fall in the price of oil in 2014. Crude oil, a major export of Russia, declined in price by nearly 50% between its yearly high in June 2014 and 16 December 2014. The second is the result of international economic sanctions imposed on Russia following Russia's annexation of Crimea and the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_financial_crisis_(2014–2017)

The red quote is pure lie. Average crude prices for 2014 was $96. It even got as high as $112. It was only in the final month of the year it fell to about $60. Crude prices for July 2014 was $106.98

grandstar:
https://www.nairaland.com/4861949/lamido-sanusi-laments-buharis-economic

If you read the real import of the article, you will see that Sanusi is also speculating on the likely effect of each of the two directions.
This is what he said;

Noting that the president had been dealt an extraordinarily difficult hand, he added: “There are no easy options and devaluation is a bitter pill. ” During his own tenure as governor he had also resisted it but added that “I had reserves of over $40bn and an oil price at over $110,” he said.

He was of the opinion that devalution would be a lesser evil than pegging, but any of the options was bad and it was not of buhari's making.

At the time, there was a hinted debate between devaluation and pegging of the naira among top economists and the general public. The international financial organisations and some economists went for devalution, while some opted for holding out and pray crude prices improve.
Buhari went with pegging and luckily crude prices improved just in time.

My argument then and now is that if you float the naira in a one commodity and import oriented country like Nigeria, you will not know or have control of where the naira will eventually stop. We have no other exports to balance out imports (dollar demand), so we could fall into runaway inflation.

If Sanusi believes in liberalisation of the currency, he would have floated the naira when he was at the helms of affairs. Would it not have been easier then when crude was selling for over $100 and the country was awash with dollars?

Sanusi's main concern was the corruption by banks and speculators as as result of the disparity between the parallel market and official market.

grandstar:
Please learn to accept constructive criticism.

I wrote off this government within a month of his ascendency to power once he pegged the exchange rate. I knew the country was in the hands of someone with a lamentable understanding of economics.

Utomi, Soludo and especially Lamido Sanusi condemned his economic pilicies. Lamido said there's nowhere in the world these policies have worked!

Please Google Sanusi condemns Buhari's policies. Also do the same for Soludo and Utomi.

Buhari brought this upon himself. Growth in the next 4years will average at most 3.5% a year compared to the 6% prior to that.

Give me links where Utomi, Soludo and Lamido Sanusi advised Buhari to float the naira. Did Soludo or Lamido Sanusi float the naira when they were CBN governor?

All you wrote is predicated on false economics

grandstar:
The problem isn't the economic team but Buhari himself.

He was the one that pegged the exchange rate at 197 to a $ upon assumption of office. This was ludicrous as countries have fled pegged exchange rates because of their ability to cause serious economic turmoil. Within months, it plunged the country into a severe recession.

Pegging the exchange rate was a gamble that paid in the long run. If Buhari had not insisted on pegging the naira, I am sure the dollar would have been selling close to 1000 to the dollar by now.

Crude prices which our dollar supply almost exclusively depended on plummeted to $30, so dollars was in serious scarcity. In this environment, what do you think would have happened if the naira was floated? Remember that at a time the dollar rose to N500 on the parallel market.
Luckily crude prices partially recovered and the government was able to manage the exchange rate again.
At that time the whole world was telling Nigeria to float the narrative (the IMF has always demanded we devalue the naira), but luckily Buhari stood firm. Countries that floated their currencies lived to regret it as they have not recovered from the 2015 oil crash till date.

Wallade:
He had 4 years to do that, he didn't. Now you want him to do that in the remianing 4 years. That will be unbelievable.

In the 4 years, actual governance did not happen for more than 2 and a half years. The first 6 months was used to appoint cabinet members. The following one year was used to review old contracts and sign new ones. The following 6 months to a year was used to haggle with national assembly over budget approvals. Work did not actually start on projects until the last one year of the administration.
Hopefully, the next 4 years will be a huge departure from the last.

luluosas:
Oil is no longer the real deal, it is now agriculture and infrastructural development, that is the direction this government is seen going. No worries, Nigeria will not experience the Venezuela theory, but will outshine its predicted woes by those not in support of the present government in place. We shall overcome

I am also optimistic about the economic future under the Buhari government. The financial hemorrhaging has been reduced (not stopped). Infrastructural development is slowly picking up and we are likely to have a more friendly national assembly in the next 4 years

We are way off from the Venezuela model. I don't see Atiku and the political elite destroying our social and economic environment because of the questions for power. They have too much at stake.

myhotbrain:
Nigeria's economy has once again, surpassed that of South Africa with over $1.25 trillion.

Nigeria has also become the largest producer of rice, overtaking Egypt.

I don't know where this author is gettungits economic data from.

Wow!

From Radio Biafra.

otunbablacq:
This Aunty Ese issue, i dont know why bringing up this issue again. Some many events after this, like you getting married to Benny Ark, having a baby so i would have thought you have healed in this a whole time, apparently no. Please learn to heal even if the word sorry is not comikg forth. He has since moved on but that does not justify hes actions. I want to appeal to you to keep moving on as many wud think maybe u brought this issue up cos u are divorced. Heal urself and be free. I wish you well

It's not that easy to move on after being abused emotionally and spiritually by someone you hold in high degree of trust. The shame, guilt and confusion is killing.Lots of people go on to commit suicide or become disfunctional.

She needs counselling, support and understanding, not to further exasperate her problems by vilifying her or blaming her.
In Nigeria people are afraid of power and authority, and so always justified by the people in a their crimes.