Those making comments here against Bruce haven't asked the senator representing them a question. Ben is a senator and needs majority to achieve anything. I join him to ask everyone here to mount pressure on the senator representing him.
Igbos are so self absorbed that that they cannot even see that all these do not really matter anymore. Your state governors have been given state allocations and money. Where is it? What does a war that happened decades ago have to do with the corruption of state governors in the area? What did Ojukwu himself do to stop the war?
Can such be said of the North? For instance, let the Governors of the Boko Haram affected states continue to collect state allocation. Whatever action we take or fail to take, in the end, we will give account to our creator. We will be judged with what we say not only what we do.
You are screaming and carrying a self-imposed pain in your heart forgetting that all black people on earth have had to live centuries of dying, poverty, racism and discrimination. The black people in America can explain their pain to you. People might accuse me of hating igbos, i do not hate any. I only speak the truth. All the allocations that have been to all states in Nigeria to develop, where r they.
If you know any state that have not utilised the fund given to them, you can join the ICPC and expose them.
These politicians and elites make pple believe that our problem is tribal or religious when it has absolutely nothing to do with that. This Akpabio that is even speaking is emphasing on the financial gains rather than the psychological trauma the igbo had to endure. Was it about the £20 pounds or about the feeling and scar that may have remained? While we are here screaming and killing ourselves,
Ali Modu Sherrif: Has looted and made enough money to last his 10 generations a life time.
Akpabio himself: Same as above
Saraki, Mark, PMB, Fayose, Wike, Ameachi, Iman of North, Emir of north, Pastors in the west, Tinubu, Senate members, Ministers. They are all getting richer and robbing us blind, then giving us a distraction (Saraki) to hide their own corruption.
Fact is northern leader will gladly take holy communion if it got them billions in their account and southern leaders would gladly kiss the koran and accept Jihad if u tell them they will get trillions of dollars. We at the bottom remain deprived and exploited and used as political tools expendable to death.
This what is happening. And it has nothing to do with political parties, religon or tribe. It is that 165 Central banks in the world is owned by one man. That our economy is becoming capitalized and we are being turned into cheap expendible labour. That 80% of Nigeria's wealth belong to less than 1% of the population. That 90% of the world's wealth belongs to 1% of the world. The politicians and Americans screaming BIAFRA, CHIBOOK, HUMAN RIGHTS, do not care about Biafra. Biafrans have wanted freedom since 1967, nobody cared, why now? That Nnamdi Kanu, Tompolo, Mohammed Yusuf who are the closest things in society to giving their own people a voice can be classed as terrorists and jailed but there is no trial for Panama looters, and we have to wait 1 year to send Saraki to jail.
So their continued theft and enslavement is dependnt on how effectively they can manipulate populations. All these propaganda has absolutely nothing to do with biafra and if the Biafra was being driven truly for the interest of biafrans i would be at the fore-front. I myself is tired of northern oppression. But this is all about selfish interest.
There are only two sides to this war: THE POLITICIANS/ELITE VS THE PEOPLE. The earlier we realize this and begin to demand our rights, the better for us. Biafrans/ Boko/ can divide, that will not stop the political/elite class from exploiting us. Even if we go and they still continue their corruption across borders nko? SMH
SaintHephzibah: In as much as i totally detest the violence upheaval unleashed by the northern radicals like fulani herdsmen, boko haram, shiites etc. Though their catastrophic and cataclysmic violence to the southerners is egregiously apalling and its on the increase daily as many casualties are recorded through mass slaughter, rape, abduction destruction of lives and properties, etc. In as much as its grievious. Does this still justify Namdu Kanu's propagation of IPOB? I have seen many nairalanders justifying Namdu Kanu's actions for the agitation of the Bia fra republic for self government. This is an unwelcomed development. The Federal Government indeed has bored such burdens and in this time the igbos should place their support to the Federal Government. Nigeria is your country. Both in good and bad times. Segregating and withdrawing away from Nigeria at this point of crisis is totally unacceptable. To all igbos i'll advice you to think deeply and consider your options before you take the laws into your hands and regret later. In times of distress like this the Government need our support through prayers and vice versa. Withdrawing from Nigeria is uncalled for and unacceptable. GOD BLESS NIGERIA ONE NIGERIA
I like the use of " In as much as" to cover sins of certain group and your boldness to tell IPOB how they will regret their action. It sound so hypothetical to me that you can cover up such atrocities with "In as much as" well, we have decided, whatever becomes of it is for us to bear.
Abugab: No tribe hates the Igbo as the Igbo have been accommodated in every part of the nation more than any other tribe. The Igbo hates themselves and the fight should be targeted at themselves rather than engaging a non existing enemy. The problem of the Igbo is Igbo and not with any other tribe
Am a typical Igbo man and I like all Igbos, Nigerians and everyone in the world but we can't be one. One Nigeria will not end injustice. Do you think there's no injustice? Can you look down to the treatments mated upon my people, infrastural decay, abandonment of my region. We can continue as friends but not as one in a country. Thank you.
Nigeria has a generation capacity of 7,000MW but does not have the capacity to supply gas reliably to all plants. The singular reason for improved power during Buhari's early months was improved gas supply.
Did he channel more gas supply to the plants or was he sabotaging the effort of the past government?
Donald Trump built and joined networks. In Nigeria here, we tend to remain with our traditional mindset instead of change as things changes. I have learnt this by reading his books, listening to his podcast.
I have also started replicating what he is doing and am ready to share my experience to those that want to make money.
Hundreds of millions of pounds of British foreign aid given to Nigeria to help combat Boko Haram terrorists is instead being used to fund a witch-hunt against opposition politicians, it is being claimed.
Britain has committed to spending £860 million in foreign aid to Nigeria, which now boasts Africa’s largest economy, to help support the country’s efforts to crush Boko Haram terror group, which has been responsible for a spate of outrages, including the kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls.
But Western officials are now raising concerns that the government of the country’s recently elected leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, is misusing the funds to persecute political opponents.
Since Mr Buhari came to power last July, a number of prominent members of the former ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have been arrested and imprisoned without charge. Among those detained was the party’s official spokesperson.
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Most of the arrests have been sanctioned by the government-controlled Economic and Financial Crime Commission, which was set up to tackle corruption and receives funding from the Department for International Development.
But while Mr Buhari’s government continues to use British aid money to target his political opponents, it is proving less effective at tackling the Islamist-run Boko Haram terrorist group.
Much of the aid Britain provides to Nigeria is aimed at helping the country’s security forces to become more effective at tackling Boko Haram, which boasts of its links with Islamic State (Isil) and achieved international notoriety two years ago after kidnapping 276 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria two years ago.
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Scores of British military personnel – including members of the Special Forces – are based in Nigeria helping to train the military to tackle Boko Haram. But despite Mr Buhari’s pledge during last year’s general election campaign that he would make tackling Boko Haram one of his top priorities, there is growing concern among Western officials that the Nigerian military is failing to take effective action against the terrorists.
This has resulted in Boko Haram now being regarded as the world’s deadliest terrorist organisation, responsible for more deaths than Isil. There are now reports that the group is trying to train kidnapped children to act as suicide bombers.
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently on a visit to China CREDIT: WANG ZHAO/AFP “This is a scandal in the making," explained a senior U.S. official. "There is no doubt the growing strength of Boko Haram is because President Buhari is far more interested in settling scores with his political opponents that concentrating his energy on defeating terrorists,” “The result is that Nigeria is starting to look more and more like a police state while Boko Haram just goes from strength to strength.”
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Another Western diplomat added: “If Buhari was serious about fighting corruption he would be focusing all of his efforts on targeting corruption that is impeding Nigeria’s ability to focus its efforts on tackling Boko Haram.”
Accusations that Nigeria is abusing British aid will add to the growing controversy over Downing Street’s commitment to spend 0.7 percent of GDP on the foreign aid budget. Last week the Telegraph reported that DFID was under pressure to cancel £200 million of foreign aid to Tanzania following concerns over a widely condemned election.
This resulted in Dr Liam Fox, the former Defence Secretary, accusing the government of “spraying money around” simply to achieve the 0.7 per cent target.
Western officials have expressed concern about Mr Buhari’s increasingly autocratic style of government since he came to power last year. A retired major-general, Mr Buhari, 73, previously headed a brutal military dictatorship following a coup in December 1983, which lasted until he was overthrown by another coup in 1985.
Now political opponents claim he is returning to his old dictatorial ways, abusing British aid meant to improve Nigeria’s ability to tackle Boko Haram to consolidate his hold on power.
Apart from the concerns over British aid, American officials are also angry that $2.1 billion of aid given to the Nigerian military to tackle Boko Haram has not been properly accounted for.
Mr Buhari’s claim that he is winning the war against Boko Haram - recently claimed the group no longer poses a serious threat - has been undermined by recent revelations the Nigerian authorities have tried to cover up the fact that hundreds more schoolchildren have been abducted by Boko Haram.
Human rights activists have no confirmed that around 400 women and children were abducted last year by militants from the Nigerian town of Damasak.
It is now believed that some of these children may have been trained as suicide bombers. U.S. counter-terrorism experts say at least 105 women and girls trained by Boko Haram have taken part in suicide attacks since June 2014.
otokx: The problem of Niger Delta is the greed of the leaders and the mental poverty of the followers.
Billion billions yet no singular world class project, the leaders send 90% of the funds overseas for their family and future, keep 9% to maintain their harem & associates, and share 1% to the populace as constituency projects.
This is the kind of picture we paint to justify the unjustifiable. Can you show me Lagos to Calabar rail in the budget proposal?
EazyMoh: Two wrongs never make a right! You are debunking DSS claim that IPOB killed them simply because no one saw when they were killed but you want me to believe DSS killed others and buried them in shallow graves, so we're you there yourself? Bottom line I will never support killing and burying a fellow human in a shallow grave by whichever group under whatever guise. I rest my case.
Well, I may not be there but have the DSS or FG carried out any investigation to disprove that?
Glad you are speaking out now. Your silent in the case of later shows your support just as your silent in the case of Kanu is showing support. When it happens to another person and I speak up, hope you won't come to condemn me?
EazyMoh: Nowhere in the post did it state that those five were herdsmen. They were referred only as Hausa-Fulani. They could be common shoe shiners. Also the grave contained about 50 other dead bodies. Even if you are happy about killing those 5 you shouldn't give the perps kudos for those other 50, unless you are that hopelessly cruel.
This report said buried in shallow grave by IPOB how pls? Did they see them burying those bodies? Remember "News: How military,DSS buried IPOB members in shallow graves, dumps others in undisclosed morgues"
What have DSS done to forestor peace in AGATU?
Don't you think DSS is shifting blames of their action to IPOB?
aresa: He failed because his less than a year old governor did not build the refineries the past 16 years corrupt and incompetent PDP did not build to prevent the problems we are having now?
He failed because he did not maintain the 4 rotten and decayed refineries that the PDP neglected?
He failed because he's responsible for the $20 billion power funds the PDP stole and mismanaged hence Nigerian in darkness.
You IPoDs no dey even bother to make sense anymore, you just open your mouth and spew whatever ignorant and unintelligent nonsense..
You obviously saw illiteracy after looking ion the mirror.
Speaking as if you died when APC governors sued FG to share external reserve and resurrected when the effect is paying back on Nigerian. Did you also forget his delayed policy and diametrically opposed sensible policies that drove away investors?
I don't have much to say to you but remember $4.2billion was stollen under his watch in NNPC
Am glad the writer said one sided. This is one of the most foolish writeup I wasted my mb and time to read. Start drawing balance judgement before arriving at conclusions next time.
Did you apprehend the culprit and investigate to confirm that they are affiliates of IPOB? Well, I give kudos to the perpetrators. Fulani herdsmen are on rampage and need something much worst than this.
amaechi1: One thing I have come to terms with on PMB frequent trips is his "no response or un movable" body posture. It take a strong willed man to have that attitude. He is more convinced that in his set motion and nothing any man can do about it. Some may call it arrogance or I don't attitude. To me, I call courage.
Time may not be good for us now, but I have always ask myself, why do we have to import fuel in the first place? Why have we not built refineries before now or better still maintain the one we have before? Why have we not develop our infrastructure when there was oil boom? Why are our leader so wicked and derive pleasure in looting the our common wealth?
Now the bubble has burst, nigeria energy and water. But we have not ask ourself how do we here.
I do not reason along the same line with you. Do you know that illiteracy is stubborn? Is he not moved as Fulani Herders are on rampage? Queue for fuel is on the increase and you call that courage?
dulux07: We all know the last govt didnt handle security the way it should. In this present govt security is been taken serious, vandals r been arrested day by day. Even one of their leader is on the run. N besides, the lagos idol has not spent six months in office.
Very serious indeed. How many lives was saved or have been saved in AGATU? don't they also deserve security? You had better be a solution than problems to this Nation.
Politics › Re: Identify Your Senator- Ben Murray-Bruce To Ezekwesili by xelly: 7:12am On Apr 23, 2016
....Nnamdi Kanu will be tried and sentenced to death...nothing will happen... 