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Mogidi:
They should be asked if they want to return to Nigeria, majority of them may not want to return to a Nigeria ruled by olodo Buhari.

I hope you put your money where your mouth is and relocate as well coz Buhari is the President of Nigeria whether he's an olodo to you or not. I recall you and your ilk making stup.id statements like "Mark my words, Buhari can never rule a united Nigeria". Well, your worst nightmare has become reality so oya, dis-unite Nigeria

The Goodluck Jonathan-government has approved the evacuation of Nigerians from South Africa as xenophobic attacks linger.

The Nigerian Commission in South Africa will commence the evacuation of Nigerians, Monday, in a bid to save them from the spread of the attack.

Following xenophobic attacks by South Africans against foreigners, particularly those of African descent, Nigerians have been counting their losses with the Nigerian Consul-General, Ambassador Uche Ajulu-Okeke saying the loss by Nigerians included looted shops, burnt shops, two burnt mechanic workshops, 11 burnt cars and two stolen cars, among others.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/xenophobic-attacks-nigeria-starts-evacuation-of-citizens-from-south-africa/

Mogidi:
Fashola is too elitist, make Fashola power minister and watch as Nigeria gets 24hrs power supply but only to the rich folks willing to pay through their noses.

He should be made foreign minister, this would help keep him overseas to harness his odious thought process.

In M.I's voice: "Bad belle ...is allowed"

Emmaowolabia:
If there threat to send foreigner(blacks) out of their country become successful, nigerian alone will share not less than 65% of the burden. Talk of investment, number of people going to be affected etc.

You must be an Igbo guy, coz they are the ones that throw around figures the way you just did. 65% my a$$. There are at least 4-million Zimbabweans in SA who are by far the largest group of foreign nationals in that country. If naijas were anywhere near that they would have sent us packing long since.

Also, the Ghana-must-go of early '83 was in a way a retaliation against an earlier mass expulsion of naijas from Ghana back in the '70s.

Gone are the days...

shachris03:
you do not need to know How to read or write in order to be enlightened.

Exactly. E.g. Most of our forefathers had some degree of enlightenment prior to the advent of the white man, even though they weren't necessarily literate in the strict sense of the word.

Howmon:
I want to suggest that this new administration should please make former Lagos state governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, the minister for power. He is well known for his dynamism and unfettered dedication to work. I will advice that he be utilised for this function as to experience meaningful change and progress in the power sector. I stand to be corrected!!!

I concur. And I'm sure he'll deliver.

RoyalRoy:
[color=#000033] An illiterate to me is someone with a closed Mind.

Whether you passed through a school or not can't define you as an educated or an illiterate fellow.

The mind is capable of achieving a lot of things if you are willing to learn.

Our forefathers weren't educated in the western ways, yet they made farming equipments, weapons for hunting and built their own huts!!!

Without some measure of deep thinking they can't come up with such ideas!!!

So, illiteracy is a thing of the mind. [/color]

But you don't have the prerogative to alter the true meaning of the word as the English defined it, your entitlement to your opinion notwithstanding. You are not Webster nor Oxford -- abi you don author your own dictionary?

Webster's dictionary definition -- illiterate: A person unable to read or write.

Oxford dictionary definition -- illiterate: Unable to read or write.

Technically, it doesn't matter in what language one can read or write in. Anything beyond that becomes highly subjective.

Didn't GEJ pardon Alamo his kinsman? What is gud for the goose.... You know the rest.

GEJ the corruption cheerleader numero uno.

Wella. Jagaban the PDP slayer - he slayed PDP one state at a time, from SW to Federal level.

ionsman:
They blamed it on Apc den. ....
Maybe this time around they will blame it on Jega.

P.s: If they could blame it on Apc before which was meaningless,we shouldn't be surprised if they blame it on Jega.

Indeed, it will be very interesting to know who they will put the blame on this time around.

Wow! It seems this gov't is broke o. Fuel Scarcity again? I thought Okojo Iweala went on National T.V to assure Nigerians, right before the Presidential Elections, that the marketers have been settled?

Dem don spend all that money on election campaign. Chai!

Oil marketers, under the auspices of Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), have decried the government’s inability to disburse the outstanding payments due to its members for the import of petrol under the Petroleum Subsidy Fund scheme, warning that it could lead to another round of fuel scarcity if not promptly resolved.

It is understood that the purpose of the scheme is to ensure the reimbursement to marketers of agreed and verifiable costs of delivery of petrol to the consumer which are in excess of the market price (Under Recovery).

Similarly, the scheme ensures the repayment of any excess of the market price over the costs incurred by marketers whenever this occurs (Over Recovery).

In a letter addressed to the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and obtained by an online news medium, Freedom Online, the association, through its Executive Secretary, Mr. Thomas Olawore, stated despite previous assurance from the government to reimburse marketers the Under Recovery due to them as verified by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), the government has till date failed to honour its agreement.

The letter read: “At the previous meeting, you empathised with the marketers and committed to full restitution provided these were verified by the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA). You also assured marketers that they would be fully reimbursed for the interest (incurred due to the late payment) and foreign exchange (Forex) differential elements of their Under Recovery within 30 days of the meeting. Furthermore, you committed to immediately issuing Sovereign Debt Notes (SDNs) for the outstanding Under Recovery with full payment on or before the 28th of April, 2015.

“Regrettably, despite your above commitment and assurances, the industry to date has only received approximately N30billion in Forex differential claims out of the N100billion owed. In the same vein, only N345billion has been received in core subsidy payments covering payments up to Q2, 2014. Specifically only three companies out of the six MOMAN companies received payments for Forex differentials and no company, MOMAN or DAPPMA (Depot and Petroleum Products Marketing Association) has been paid interest charges on delayed payments.”

The letter noted that as at March 31, 2015, the total amount due to marketers based on all claims verified by the PPPRA is in the region of N270 billion but revealed that only N200 billion was earmarked for them in the 2015 budget, this according to MOMAN constituted a ”great cause of concern” for her members.

Similarly, MOMAN enumerated that the delays in the payment of the verified sums has ensured the marketers cannot fulfill their financial and non-financial obligations, notwithstanding this, they have continuously supplied adequate petroleum products into the country especially during the just concluded general elections. Olawore warned that the marketers who are currently experiencing “commercial hardship” as a result of cash flow constraints caused by these delayed payments and compounded by devaluation of the naira, higher inflation, and increase in lending rates might unfortunately down tools if this impasse is not resolved.

The consequences would include a significant scale down in petroleum products supply into the country and MOMAN members being left with no option but to streamline overhead costs and workforce “in the very immediate future.” Consequently, the body requested the federal government to urgently redeem the understanding that it had of about the plan to implement the terms of the petroleum subsidy fund scheme by doing the following:

• PSF outstanding receivables – that the Ministry of Finance issues authorised marketers whose cargoes have been cleared by PPPRA with Sovereign Debt Notes for immediate payment of outstanding principal sums.

• Additional Burdens - that all ancillary burdens such as interest and forex differentials incurred by the marketers as a result of the late payment be immediately reimbursed. • Sanctity of the PPPRA guidelines – that the relevant government agencies vested with the authority to administer the PSF scheme honor the sanctity of the Sovereign Debt Notes and the 45 days payment deadlines. It, however, pleaded that the minister should quickly intervene as the next five working days are crucial to members’ capacity to continue to operate.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fuel-scarcity-looms-over-fg-s-indebtedness-to-marketers/207290/

kay1one2:
70 billion. .. would you take that figure?

Ok, but how did you arrive at that figure and where did it come from? 2billion USD out of the missing $20billion is chump change.

stronger:
They are clowns na. . na TANoid I pity pass. GEJ share beta money. Their ogas dey give dem change. . LOOOLLL!!
Even FFK's girlfriend sef cash out with brand new RANGE ROVER!!

Yes o, chasis o, not Tokunbo Shege Jonathan . I personally know of two Nollywood actor GEJ supporters who bought two chasis Ford Escapes during that campaign period.

kay1one2:
Punch has no credibility! !!

Ok, so exactly how much did Jonathan spend on his campaign and where did the money come from? I mean all the dollars he bribed ppl with? Give us the real scoop?

stronger:
Okay was this before or after PUNCH published Fayose's GMB death wish?
CLOWNS!!! When PUNCH published that advert, did you call them APC?

you dey mind Dem?

So how much did the Jonathan campaign really spend and where did those funds come from? Yimu. Who is Abati tryna fool?

LordCenturion:
This is a good move, SW deserve it, they haven't hold the position b4

Dimeji Bankole nko? He was former speaker of the House of Representatives under PDP.

MalcoImX:
There were other federal territories before Lagos and Abuja. Were they 'No man's land' too? And please don't start these things you're doing with Lagos to Abuja. Small small e go become argument as you don dey include Abuja in this 'no man's land' wahala.

I'll never forget an experience that occurred during my first ever visit to Abuja about 7yrs ago after my return from the U.S. The cab guy that drove me from the airport, an igbo guy, uttered the statement that "Abuja na no man's land o", during our conversation about the city. I didn't take it to mean anything at the time, but now I understand better.

pazienza:
I didn't see any where in that article, where Ikwerres were accused to have masterminded the abandoned property saga. They only looked the other way, while their Igbo brother's were dispossessed of the very land they( Ikwerre) sold to the hinterlands Igbos.

Any who keeps quiet in the face of oppression is either a coward or a traitor. In the case of Ikwerres, their silence built on their desire to please the Ijaws in order to become a part of the old Rivers state, was seen as betrayal by Ndiigbo.

At that moment, Ijaws actions hurt less than the Ikwerres, cos we considered them kin, hence most Igbos rather hold Ikwerres liable for the abandoned property saga, than the distant Ijaws, they felt betrayed.

Please tell me this, coz you sound reasonable. Why would ikwerre igbos in Rivers and Agbor igbos in Delta deny their igbo-ness? I have an Agbor igbo friend who denies being igbo (even though I know he is), he would rather claim affinity with Benins.

Personally i think it's coz they detest igbo domination and supremacist tendencies.

chamboy:
Y do Igbos always deceive demselves ehn... After Disgracing u ppl in polls una still dey talk

It follows them everywhere they go. They are the ONLY ethnic group in Nigeria that deliberately create crises with their neighbours.

wirinet:
Juveniles without any knowledge of History would come here and start spewing rubbish. It was the Ikwerres that lost land as a result of Abandoned property. The Ikwerres lost all their properties in Portharcout to the Ijaws. many fled into Imo state without any thing but the clothes on their backs. And some mofo would came back and accuse the Ikwerres of confiscating Igbo property

Liar. No amount of revisionist history will alter the truth. Here's what a militant igbo said about the subject:

During the war Ikwerre and other Rivers’ people were convinced that they would be better off if they disassociated themselves from the mainland Igbo and fought with Nigeria. They were promised that they would have the oil to themselves and would be the masters of PH. They bought into the idea, and after the war they appropriated Igbo property to the extent that not even the Yoruba or Hausa did with Igbo property in their parts of Nigeria.

They invented the term ‘Abandoned Property’.

The war is over now and the Igbo properties have now been converted into Delta property. A new day has dawned. It is time the Igbo moved on. If Ikwerre people do not want to be considered Igbo, they should be allowed to secede. So long as they do not start any thing that offends the Nigerian constitution, we should allow them be what they want to be.

Port Harcourt is growing and the percentage of Igbo in it is growing faster than the Ikwerre population. In the next 50 years a mainland Igbo would be elected as both the governor and mayor of Port Harcourt, Ikwerre’s feeling notwithstanding. At that time it would no longer matter from where one’s great, great, grand father came from for one would not know. Today a mainland Igbo son born and raised in PH can be classified as not Ikwerre. Two generations hence nobody would be able to tell.

If consensus Ikwerre people say they are not Igbo, let it be so. Let’s call them a different tribal group just as we have the Nupe, the Tiv, and Igalla. Let those who are proud to be Igbo be Igbo.

As for me and my family we shall answer Igbo when called.

Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba
Boston, Massachusetts
June 18, 2013

From the writer's quoted words, it's clear that Igbos haven't learned their lesson. The writer is therein bragging about Igbos dominating Rivers and one day outnumbering the indigenes. This sort of foolish supremacist attitude and tendency is what lands them into trouble with their hosts.

from: http://chatafrik.com/articles/nigerian-affairs/ikwerre-is-is-not-igbo#.VTNWm_SjqhY

pazienza:
Abandon property saga had nothing to do with the Ikwerres, infact the Ikwerres lost their ancestral lands to Ijaw, as a result of the abandoned property saga.

Liar! Ijaws and ikwerre land disputes notwithstanding, the fact remains that ikwerres were the brains behind the appropriation of igbo properties in PH after the civil war - they are the pre-dominant ethnic group in Rivers. In fact, they invented the term "Abandoned property". And they (ikwerres) are supposed to be igbos too. Smh.

Entchidodo:
[color=#9030BC] Machinery of government is pretty much useless without economic leverage to back it up....we just want to rub it in whenever the opportunity presents itself as it just did....Tis like old saying who pays the piper dictates the tune and we are saying Lagos is no man's land,deal with it.[/color].

Nigga pls! Which piper do you pay? Is it your petty trading, or your fake spare parts and pirated cd businesses or Okrika business that the Lagos gov't is depending on? Heck, we have our own big businesses, industries that employ thousands and contribute more to Lagos GDP than your petty trading. How many Yorubas do your petty trading at Alaba and Okrika bizness employ? Don't flatter yourself and GTFOH.

Entchidodo:
[color=#9030BC] Lagos is no man's land regardless if the language amongst government circle is yeriba as long as igbo is the major language spoken in economic hubs of Apapa port,Tin can Island,Alaba,Seme etc then we are good with our no man's land...No use holding on to state power to benefit a few yeribas than gobbling up massive economic opportunities to empower and service a large number of people far away from their homeland ahead of those who claim 'Lagos is yeriba land'.This leverage is an open indicator that Lagos is no man's land.[/color]

Lol. Bro, you can speak igbo in your various homes, enclaves, and to your customers for all I care (that happens everywhere in the world anyway), but as you rightly acknowledged it is what obtains in government circles and who controls the machinery of government that counts. We don't depend on Igbo petty trading and spare parts/okrika business to keep Lagos moving anyway coz we have our own industries. You are always welcome in our midst, as are other ethnic groups, just that I don't get why you all have to be meddlesome and can't just stick to your trading business rather than stirring up trouble wherever you find yourselves. As if you are the only non-indigenes in Lagos.

codedslayer:
So the underaged gala sellers, pirated Cd sellers, old smelling ashewos and yeeboe criminals in Lagos pay all the 90% Tax of Lagos. Go to Sars office and see many of your dead brothers there, or go to Ayinke Hospital in the evening, you will see many yeeboe criminals shot by the Police. Are those criminals the one that pay tax. I have never seen a shameless person like this before, you ran away from your cursed land and fighting over another place. Gosh! You develop Lagos but cant turn your erosion redmud land to Dubai, wow....You are bright.

Bro, you forgot to add Okada riders to their list of professions. They are so full of themselves, I tell you. Na other people things dey always enter their eyes. Na so Dem do sotay even Ghanaians don wise up begin chase dis people.

new2020:
Hope you know 80% of taxes and duties used to develop Lagos is paid by non yorubas...always keep that in mind whenever you see Fashola commissioning a project.

Examples of costs and projects funded by tax payers are government institutions, bridges, roads, e.t.c

Bit.ch pls! If I live and earn a living in Enugu the government is entitled to tax me and rightly so too, but that will never make me an igboman or Enugu indigene. That is the Nigerian reality.