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 Politics › Re: 10 African Leaders Who Died In Office Between 2005 & 2012 by WIZGUY69(m): 11:30pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
englishmart:[size=24]YOU JUST SPOKE MY MIND[/size] |
| Politics › Re: If Nigeria Were 2 Practice A 2 Party Sys, Btw Atiku Nd Buhari Who Wuld U Vote by WIZGUY69(m): 11:27pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
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| Romance › Re: The First Time You Sleep At A New Guy's Place (9 things that happen) by WIZGUY69(m): 11:22pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
[size=24]gaskiya. I don't understand.[/size] |
| Politics › Re: 6 APC Members Decamp To PDP In Ekiti Before Fayose`s Inaguration by WIZGUY69(m): 10:33pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
gaskiya.  |
| Education › Re: How many of the Nigerian Universities do You Know Or Been To (Pictures)! by WIZGUY69(m): 5:09pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
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| Education › Re: Covenant University Is The Best In Nigeria-pics by WIZGUY69(m): 4:01pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
kulkatty:have you seen [size=24] FUTA [/size] |
| Education › Re: Covenant University Is The Best In Nigeria-pics by WIZGUY69(m): 3:42pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
kulkatty:have you seen [size=24pt] FUTA [/size] |
| Politics › Re: Peter Obi Is A Saboteur, He Betrayed My Father – Ojukwu Jnr by WIZGUY69(m): 11:06am On Oct 15, 2014 |
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| Politics › Re: Peter Obi Is A Saboteur, He Betrayed My Father – Ojukwu Jnr by WIZGUY69(m): 11:01am On Oct 15, 2014 |
backtosender:oboy. I Don even tired for your matter sef. dem wan buy okpa. … |
| Politics › Nigeria's Unity, Not Negotiable - Gowon. by WIZGUY69(op): 10:59am On Oct 15, 2014 |
********-[ FORMER head of state, General Yakubu Gowon, on Tuesday, urged Nigerians to continue to work for the unity and progress of the country, saying that Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable. To this end, the former head of state said Nigeria remained a nation and asked those who felt that the country is not a nation to look for another nation of their own. This is coming just as the Delta State governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, stole the show in Abuja, when it was his turn to receive Leadership Governor of the Year award, for his vision and development of his home state and Nigeria at large. Uduaghan, who paraded majority of well wishers at the award ceremony, dedicated his award to God and the hard working Delta people. “I thank God once more for this award which I am dedicating to every hard- working Deltan. “Whatever we have set up to achieve today can only be achieved if we all, as Deltans, put up a right attitude and the right frame of mind to achieve our goal, which is Delta Beyond Oil.” The former head of state, in his short speech, said “let us not doubt that Nigeria is a nation, whenever I hear that, it really makes me feel sad and I would say to such people that if Nigeria is not a nation, get out of it and go and choose a nation or live in a nation of your own.” He tasked citizens of the country, saying “you can do your best, some will accept it, some will reject it, but let us love our country, let us accept our country as a nation and put things right.” SOURCE : www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/18705-nigeria-s-unity-not-negotiable-gowon |
| Politics › Re: South West Rated High In Internally Generated Revenue. by WIZGUY69(op): 10:47am On Oct 15, 2014 |
RareDiamonds: .Guy. I swear you no get sense. |
| Politics › Re: Peter Obi Is A Saboteur, He Betrayed My Father – Ojukwu Jnr by WIZGUY69(m): 10:39am On Oct 15, 2014 |
backtosender:PDP is gini?? . The fact is that. ibos are irrelevant. when. it comes to politics in Nigeria. |
| Politics › Re: Updates On Buhari's Declaration Today At Eagles Square. by WIZGUY69(m): 10:36am On Oct 15, 2014 |
in eagle square presently. |
| Education › Re: How many of the Nigerian Universities do You Know Or Been To (Pictures)! by WIZGUY69(m): 10:33am On Oct 15, 2014 |
have been to all. because am a staff on NUC. 1 Like |
| Education › Re: Covenant University Is The Best In Nigeria-pics by WIZGUY69(m): 10:26am On Oct 15, 2014 |
where is the school located  1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: Peter Obi Is A Saboteur, He Betrayed My Father – Ojukwu Jnr by WIZGUY69(m): 10:23am On Oct 15, 2014 |
backtosender:you have been posting gibberish since, must you type? 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Peter Obi Is A Saboteur, He Betrayed My Father – Ojukwu Jnr by WIZGUY69(m): 10:22am On Oct 15, 2014 |
backtosender:You even have the confidence and pride to be saying obi joined PDP in public? Why did he join PDP in the first place? What happened to Apga. that's pure BETRAYAL. more like selling your fathers house. dude. just go to bed. obi betrayed ojuku simple.  5 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Peter Obi Is A Saboteur, He Betrayed My Father – Ojukwu Jnr by WIZGUY69(m): 10:16am On Oct 15, 2014 |
 Ojukwu jnr.you don't need to tell me. Betrayal runs in IBO's blood. all because of money. and the worst part is that they won't have anything to show for it. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Peter Obi Is A Saboteur, He Betrayed My Father – Ojukwu Jnr by WIZGUY69(m): 10:13am On Oct 15, 2014 |
| [b]Ojukwu jnr. you don't need to tell me. Betrayal runs in IBO's blood. all be a cause of money. and the worst part is that they won't have anything to show for it.[/b] 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: South West Rated High In Internally Generated Revenue. by WIZGUY69(op): 10:04am On Oct 15, 2014 |
TOPIC OF THE DAY : SOUTH WEST RATED HIGH IN INTERNALLY GENERATED REVENUE. so which one is LAGOS is a no Mans land again oh! have forgotten that the name of the governor is EMEKA CHUKWU awon werey. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: South West Rated High In Internally Generated Revenue. by WIZGUY69(op): 12:27am On Oct 15, 2014 |
FreeGlobe:But that was what they said. ain't the one that typed it. the news is the IGR of s/west is higher than any region. "no be by mouth" "no be by hawking okpa. "no be by selling fake goods. "no be by kidnapping your fellow brothers. HARD WORK PAYS. EDUCATION WORKS. 14 Likes |
| Travel › Re: The 15 Types Of People You'll See At The Airport :D by WIZGUY69(m): 12:21am On Oct 15, 2014 |
| 16. the cocaine importer and exporter. |
| Politics › Re: South West Rated High In Internally Generated Revenue. by WIZGUY69(op): 12:15am On Oct 15, 2014 |
ANAMBRA11:will the brown roof change the fact that the IGR of the said Ibadan and Oshogbo is ×4 our Japan of Africa (Onitsha). 15 Likes |
| Politics › Re: South West Rated High In Internally Generated Revenue. by WIZGUY69(op): 12:12am On Oct 15, 2014 |
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| Politics › Re: South West Rated High In Internally Generated Revenue. by WIZGUY69(op): 12:00am On Oct 15, 2014 |
when we said we are the most developed and sophisticated region in Nigeria, some Hebrew men and women will be lamenting. 19 Likes 2 Shares |
| Politics › South West Rated High In Internally Generated Revenue. by WIZGUY69(op): 11:51pm On Oct 14, 2014 |
****** The South-West region of the country has been rated high in internally generated revenue collection, raking in a total of N926.7bn between 2009 and 2013 Regional Coordinator for the British Directorate for International Development in Nigeria, Dr. Adesina Fagbenro-Byron, made this known at the South-West regional conference on ‘Internally Generated Revenue’ in Akure on Tuesday. He said in respect of geo-political zones, the percentages of IGR to total revenue during the period 2009-2013 showed that South-West had 26 per cent; North-West, 11.6 per cent; South- East, 10.9 per cent; North-Central, 9.8 per cent; South-South 9.5 per cent and North-East, 6.9 per cent. He said, “The South-West accounted for 44.3per cent (N926.6bn) of the total internally generated revenue of all the geo- political zones. “The total internally generated revenue of the South-West between 2009 and 2013, which stood at N926.6b, was more than what the four zones of North-West, North-East, South-East and North-Central, which put together, had during the same period (N675.5b). “Specifically, Lagos State’s internally generated funds are more than that of North-West, North- East, North-Central and South-East geo- political zones put together (24 states). Fagbenro-Byron however, noted that while the picture might be rosy for the South-West, when compared with what should be the case and the potential for growth, it must be admitted that the region was not doing enough. He lamented that the IGR had taken the second position in sources of revenue, when Nigeria put heavy reliance on the single resource of oil. He said, “Many states and local governments depend on monthly statutorily allocations from the central vault to carry out their businesses. “Studies were carried out on the proportions of the IGR to total revenues of states for a five- year period (2009-2013). “Data sourced from the annual reports of Central Bank of Nigeria found that states getting additional revenue from the statutory allocations as derivation have lower proportions of IGR to their total revenues than some states.” He said states threatened by insurgency had the lowest IGR for the period, stressing that dependence on the statutory allocations by the states did not necessarily translate to good dividends on democracy. He argued that it was IGR, which further strengthened the social contract between the people and the citizens that could be used to bring real development to the states. “The purpose of the workshop is to undertake a review of the improvements on the IGR six south-western states since the last summit of 2012,” he said. *** m.dailytimes.com.ng/article/lagos-ogun-ondo-make-n9266bn-igr-five-years-–-dfid 2 Likes |
| Family › Re: What Name Do You Save Your Mum's Number With by WIZGUY69(m): 11:40pm On Oct 14, 2014 |
 GOLDEN PENNY PASTA |
| Romance › Re: Why Do Girls Give Out Their Numbers Even When They Dont Want To Mingle by WIZGUY69(m): 11:35pm On Oct 14, 2014 |
ask me again. |
| Politics › Re: Igbo And Yoruba Can Save Nigeria If They Bury The Hatchet For Once. by WIZGUY69(op): 12:41am On Oct 14, 2014 |
•••••••• It was true that Tafawa Balewa spoke English with a nice accent. He was clearly an eloquent speaker but there was no way to compare his vision, his charisma, and ability with that of Kwame Nkrumah or Leopold Senghor. Balewa was clearly intimidated by some of those leaders just like Yakubu Gowon was outgunned and clearly intimidated by the Oxford-trained Odumegwu Ojukwu at the Aburi Summit in Ghana. Either Azikiwe or Awolowo would never have suffered from the same kind of inferiority complex that Tafawa Balewa had to confront. Azikiwe went with the NPC in 1959 because he knew that most of the powerful ministries that require a university education and some technical knowledge to run would naturally go to the Igbos in the NPC/NCNC government. If the Igbos had gone with the Action Group, the big advantage the Igbos thought they were going to get over the northerners would have been lost. The Igbos were thinking more about themselves than the best interest of the nation. “I before others,” which Sardauna Bello once used to describe them, definitely had some validity. The Action Group led by Awo could easily have joined the NPC to push the NCNC into the opposition because the Yorubas could claim they had more in common with the Hausa/Fulani/ Kanuri tribes, as a good number of Yorubas were Muslims like the Northerners. The Yorubas have hereditary monarchies and traditional institutions. The Igbos had none of those commonalities. Anybody could become an “Igwe” or “Eze Igbo” in Igboland. Not so in the North and Yorubaland. Awolowo could not get the Action Group to work with the Hausa/Fulani NPC because of their open disdain for education which is a major platform in the Action Group Manifesto. Awolowo would have had to abandon his free education and free medical coverage for all Nigerians, because the NPC, the senior partner in the coalition would have blocked such a policy. They saw Awolowo as a revolutionary who was going to instigate the “Talkawas” to throw off their yoke of Feudalism. Sardauna never forgave Awolowo for dragging him out of his Palace to go canvass for votes from the commoners. To Awolowo, free education was non-negotiable. Awolowo could not associate with a party with the NPC kind of mindset. That was why he preferred to go with the Igbos and was not ready to go into any coalition with the Hausa/Fulani. Azikiwe on the other hand was willing to play ball with the North because he figured it out that the Igbos were going to dominate their senior partner. If he had to choose between his peoples’ interest and the greater interest of Nigeria, the choice was clear for Zik. Most Igbos still share the same mindset till now. They would rather go with a party led and dominated by the northerners than the one dominated by the Yorubas. I don’t care what promises the Igbos make to the APC today, the great majority of them are going to vote for the PDP because they are scared of the Yorubas. In my opinion, they want the Yorubas to experience the same genocide they have endured but the Yorubas are too smart for that. It is not going to happen. Awolowo was misunderstood when he told Nigerians he could not be a good Nigerian if he was not first and foremost a good Yoruba man. What he was saying was that his “Yorubaness” is not necessarily in conflict with his idealism as a patriotic Nigerian. Azikiwe would tell you he was the first nationalist Nigeria has produced. If you believe that crap, you will believe anything. Azikiwe was only a nationalist in name. Many of his actions or behavior did not support that claim as I would show with the remaining segment of this article. When Awolowo and the Akinloyes of this world conspired to stop Azikiwe from becoming the first Premier of the Western Region in 1954, Azikiwe wasted no time rushing back to the East to force Eyo Ita from Calabar to shelve his ambition to become the first Premier of Eastern Region. If he had allowed Eyo Ita to have his wish, most Nigerians, myself included, would have been singing his praise today as the first nationalist in Nigeria and he would have been right to condemn Awolowo for stopping him from becoming the first Premier of Western Region. When Azikiwe had a chance to discourage Biafrans from breaking away from Nigeria, he did not do it because the move was very popular among the Igbos at the time. He not only encouraged Biafra to go for secession, he actually wrote the Biafran National Anthem. But when he realized that Biafra was going to lose and lose very badly, he gave an excuse he was going for medical check-up overseas. Instead of going overseas he headed straight to Dodan barracks to denounce Biafra and to pledge his loyalty to General Yakubu Gowon, who welcomed back to Nigeria with open arms. How could such a man tell us that Awolowo was wrong to stop him from becoming the first Premier of the Western Region? Biafra never recovered from the betrayal and that was one of the events that elevated Odumegwu Ojukwu as the reluctant successor to Azikiwe, even before Azikiwe died. If you ask most Igbos today who was their greatest leader, 7 out of 10 of them would tell you it was Ojukwu. The remaining three may still have some respect for Zik because the Igbos, as a rule, never disown their own which is good. They are far better than the Yorubas on that. Part II of this piece will address in some detail what the Yorubas have done to show that they do in fact love the Igbos more than the Igbos love them. It will explore in all its ramifications what Nigeria stands to gain from Igbo and Yoruba collaboration. It will make the case for why the Igbos and the Yorubas need to put the past behind them and to move forward for the sake of Nigeria. Now that Azikiwe, Ojukwu, Awolowo and Benjamin Adekunle have all been retired by death, it is time for the Igbos and the Yorubas to form a coalition to push the northerners to the opposition for once in our history. Democracy demands such a change because in politics, there is no permanent friend or enemy, there is only a permanent interest. A one-party dictatorship, however benevolent cannot serve the best interest of Nigeria. I urge Nigerians to throw the PDP out of power in 2015. Stay tuned for part II. •••••• |
| Politics › Re: Igbo And Yoruba Can Save Nigeria If They Bury The Hatchet For Once. by WIZGUY69(op): 12:39am On Oct 14, 2014 |
°°°° When two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. The grass in the metaphor is Nigeria and generations of Nigerians yet unborn. The Nigerian nation under the Hausa/Fulani and their Igbo coalition has always been one step forward and two steps backwards. The Igbos and the Yorubas working together may well have been the key to the nation’s steady progress, but the two tribes are ever so distrustful of each other. Nigeria at 54 is a nation kept alive on life support and compromise, which thrives on mediocrity rather than merit. The best candidate has never won a electios in Nigeria. We always vote for the worst candidate and because we are insane, we expect that weak choice to work miracles. We keep repeating the same mistake but expecting a different result. A chain is as strong as its weakest link. Nigerians for some strange reason always settle for that weakest link in our chain. Balewa or Azikiwe or Awolowo could have become Nigeria’s first Prime Minister after our independence. Nigeria ended up picking Tafawa Balewa the grade II teacher from Bauchi because the man belonged to the senior partner in the NPC/NCNC coalition government. Azikiwe and Awolowo knew Tafawa Balewa was the least qualified for the job, but since the predominantly Catholic Eastern Nigeria would rather go with the Muslim North than go with the predominantly-Christian Western Region, Nigeria lost out by picking Balewa. Awolowo actually offered to step down for Azikiwe to become Prime Minister, but Azikiwe and his kith and kin preferred the NPC. Azikiwe and his people believed that the Yorubas were too smart and too clever and sneaky. They were convinced the northerners could not out- maneuver them if the push came to shove. Azikiwe became ceremonial governor-general whose main function was to attend funerals of fellow heads of state around the world, while Tafawa Balewa became Prime Minister with all the power in his hands. Balewa as Prime Minister had to compete on the world stage with black leaders like Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Professor Leopold Senghor of Senegal, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, to mention a few. Nigeria immediately began to lose its focus and his leadership position among African nations because we had a leader who evidently suffered from an inferiority complex when he had to meet with his counterparts in other countries. How for goodness could a grade II teacher from Bauchi have competed with a Dr. Nkrumah or a Leopold Senghor or Sir Eric Williams of Trinidad and Tobago, or Dr. Burnam of Guyana, to mention a few of them who were all products of institutions like Cambridge, Oxford, and Lincoln University in the United States? I know education alone is not all that is needed in a good leader, but during Balewa’s time and even up till now education is something we cannot discount. It is true that Jonathan has a Ph.D. but can hardly compare himself with an Obama. However, the mere fact that he has a Ph.D. on merit from Port Harcourt is something Nigeria should be proud of. ′ |
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