igbokwesampson:
I get super excited when ever I read of a sitting governor probing the activities of his predecessors. This is simply because I seriously believe that the reason behind the continuous embezzlement of our comon resources is largely due to the fact that there are no consequences for out actions. Even the person probing should know that one day, he too will be probed.
I wish that our leaders will understand this and as a result undertake a a holistic probe of the activities of their predecessor devoid of political whitch hunting..



Modified

Guam! This is better for the common mass. Let them probe each other

bigiyaro:
this is one of the reasons why I said "baby factories" should be legalized and regulated. no doubt this girl will gladly sell her baby, she's happy, the person adopting (buying) is also happy, life goes on.

I don't know what to say to you. There are many motherless home where you can go drop the baby if you ain't interested

flyca:


Do you know that it possible to live in China for one complete year without touching a single bank note? Go figure.

Leave him. He doesn't know that even petty traders in China have fully embraced epayment. You hardly see people using cash in china.....

Once one comes in contact with the virus on the bank note, if he scratches his eyes for instance, that's all

tsephanyah:

In the study published Feb. 18 in the China CDC Weekly, researchers found a death rate from COVID-19 to be around 2.3% in mainland China. That's much higher than the death rate linked to flu, which is typically around 0.1% in the U.S., according to The New York Times.

Ishilove:

I am astounded anyone actually took that story serious. Even when it was shared to me, I laughed and ignored it, but to my surprise the person who shared it believed the story completely.

I've been on social media long enough to intuit when a story is false. The government needs to take a tough stand on fake news before it causes serious damage.

And don't know if it's low IQ or something else. There are some headlines or news you take one look at and quickly discern to be fake but then you'll see people sharing It on whatsapp and then you begin to wonder how they reason

emmabest2000:
Nigerians keep playing with everything


The virus is not a play play disease oooo
See what Chinese are doing on their roads and streets to kick this virus out of their country

Stewpid people. They should watch ewhat they eat. They are responsible for all the death and panic
They even have restaurants for eating babies

KayceeBanks:
Wikipedia updated their Sarr page

Fake

Daniel058:
My happiness be say the virus no know president , senator or Governor ,if you try nonsense you go Collect..

Lol

NextD18:
One funny thing about this Coronavirus is that it doesn't check your political position, your level in the society or your account balance before infecting.

So if the Govt want, they should act, if they want, they shouldn't. Na fear everybody dey!

Including Dangote and Pepper sellers.

He could fly out though

tsephanyah:
Bifrans soldiers- hid in a cave when the war ended, waiting for the slaughter to begin. As an officer in the short-lived West African nation called Biafra, he had every reason to expect death.

Nwankwo had heard rumors that the victorious Nigerian federal forces, having fought for three years to win back the southeastern corner of their country, had a secret plan to kill every male of the secessionist Ibo tribe. After a tribal war, tradition was on the side of vengeance.

Yet, after four days in his cave, it dawned on Nwankwo that something else was going on. "We sent out a scout to see if the Nigerians were killing people," Nwankwo recalled. "They were not."

Like tens of thousands of Ibos, the young officer then walked out of the bush and surrendered. He accepted the death of Biafra, an Ibo nation, and resumed life in the fractious, tribal amalgam called Nigeria. Now the president of a profitable publishing house in this city that once was Biafra's capital, Nwankwo argues that if Nigeria had done the expected, the 1967-70 war never would have ended.

"If there had been mass killings," he said, "there would be a guerrilla movement in Biafra today."

In the calculated act of not wiping out a rebellious people, Nigeria brought a full stop to the bloodiest conflict in the history of independent Africa. The government invited the Ibos, an industrious people who now number about 30 million, back into the country's economy. Nigeria laid to rest the cycle of tribal violence that continues to torment much of the African continent from Ethiopia to Angola, from Liberia to Uganda.

"I believe that Nigeria as a result of the war has learned that an ethnocentric political movement, no matter where, would not be viable," said Chukwueeka O. Ojukwu, the man who led the Biafra revolt, in a recent interview in Lagos.

Ojukwu, now 54, once said that "whilst I live, Biafra lives." The Oxford-educated son of a millionaire Ibo businessman, he was the stony heart and strategic brain behind the long refusal of Biafra to surrender to an army far larger and better-equipped. Historians and Ibos who fought along with him accuse Ojukwu of pointlessly prolonging the war as tens of thousands of Ibos starved.

Ojukwu fled Biafra two days before the war ended and spent 13 years in exile. After a pardon in 1982, he returned home and served as a vice president in a civilian government. Now, as a private citizen, he says he has "every political ambition that a citizen of Nigeria legitimately has."

"I do believe the nation has benefited from this rather painful education," he said. "I believe that any leader of any group in Nigeria today should be seeking greater integration. I believe the name of the game is nation-building."

Like most conflicts in modern Africa, the origins of the Biafran war lie in the colonial era. A British invention called Nigeria roped together three of the most highly developed ethnic groups on the continent: the Ibo, the Hausa-Fulani and the Yoruba.

Of the three, the Ibo were the quickest to adapt to the English language and English ways. The Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, himself an Ibo, writes that "unlike the Hausa-Fulani, Ibo man was unhindered by a wary {Moslem} religion and unlike the Yoruba {he was} unhampered by traditional hierarchies.

"This kind of creature, fearing not God nor man, was custom-made to grasp the opportunities . . . of the white man's dispensation."

From the 1930s to the mid-1960s, Ibos settled across Nigeria. They were prosperous traders and they excelled in medicine and the law. Ibos accounted for 60 percent of officer ranks in the Army, and they were dominant in the civil service. Their often ostentatious prosperity was particularly resented in the north, home of the Hausa-Fulani.

An abortive but bloody coup attempt in 1966 gave the Hausa an opportunity to cash in on their resentment. The coup plotters were mostly Ibo officers. Their victims were mostly non-Ibos. The notion of an Ibo conspiracy to dominate political power in Nigeria seized the imagination of Hausa mobs. Riots and mass killings of Ibo began in the north.

More than 1 million Ibo were forced to flee eastward to their homeland. A year later, Biafra was born and civil war broke out. Before the war ended, an estimated 1 million people died.

The "painful education" that Nigeria underwent does not appear to have taught much to the rest of black Africa. The continent continues to harbor more civil wars and generate more refugees than any region on earth. Tribal violence continues in the blood-stained soil of old conflicts.

The governments of Uganda and Sudan are struggling to end civil wars that have their origin, in large measure, in the failure of the current leaderships to value national unity and individual human rights above tribal and regional loyalties.

Three years ago in the small West African nation of Liberia, an abortive coup again demonstrated the enduring power of tribal logic.

Soldiers in the government of President Samuel K. Doe, after putting down the ill-organized military operation, savagely turned on both the coup makers and innocent members of the tribes suspected of backing them.

The coup leader, Thomas Quiwompka, was killed, mutilated and eaten by government soldiers, according to witnesses. Hundreds of members of Quiwompka's tribe also were killed, many of them publicly dismembered. Doe's government never punished the soldiers responsible nor did it publicly condemn the savagery. Several soldiers involved received promotions.

The legacy of the killings in Liberia is tribal rage directed at Doe and his tribe, the Krahn. If Doe's government were to fall, many western observers say that the Krahn could be exterminated.

It turned out differently here in Nigeria, according to Ojukwu and other insiders in the Biafran cause, because of Gen. Yakubu Gowon, commander of the military government that crushed Biafra. He was feared by the Ibo people as a leader with "genocidal" tendencies.

That fear had been planted by Biafra's Directorate of Propaganda to motivate Ibos to fight on. Fear of Gowon sent well-educated men such as Nwankwo to hide in caves.

On the day the war ended, however, Gowon delivered a nationwide radio address that Ibos still point to as the main reason they are alive.

"I solemnly repeat our guarantees of a general amnesty for those misled into rebellion. We guarantee the personal safety of everyone who submits to federal authority," Gowon said. The general insisted that the war had produced "no victor and no vanquished."

"I believe that Gowon is personally responsible for the way the war ended," said Nwankwo. "It must be said for Gowon that he had the integrity to keep his word."

Under Gowon's orders, no war reparations were demanded of the Ibos, nor were any medals granted for war service. Many Ibos returned to the national Army or the civil service, and much of their property in the north and west of Nigeria was restored to them.

"In the history of warfare," noted John de St. Jorre, author of what is regarded as the foremost history of the Biafran war, "there can rarely have been such a bloodless end and such a merciful aftermath."

Ben Gbulie, a military engineer trained at the Sandhurst Royal Military Academy in England, was a senior officer on the Biafran side. For his role in the 1966 coup attempt that helped spark the conflict, he was jailed by Gowon's government.

The five years he spent in prison have left him bitter and he shares little of the admiration that other Ibos express toward Gowon. But he acknowledges that the Nigerian general did what he himself would not have done. "Gowon had every right to shoot us," said Gbulie, now a businessman here in Enugu. "Probably if we had won the war, we would have shot him."

While Gowon's vow to ensure the personal safety of the Ibos was kept, many Ibos argue that his promise of "reconciliation, reconstruction and rehabilitation" was not.

Many middle-class Ibos became paupers when the Nigerian government, in the immediate aftermath of the war, confiscated their bank accounts. Two years later, when the government ordered all foreign companies to sell out to Nigerian nationals, the Ibos had no money to invest. Accordingly, they had little chance to move into senior positions in industry and business.

Ibos make up nearly a quarter of Nigeria's 112 million people. But their votes control only two of the federal government's 21 states. Gerrymandering, the Ibos grumble, has slashed their fair share of political power in half.

Ibos claim they are consistently shortchanged. They point to quotas that limit Ibo access to the country's best universities. They complain that tribal prejudice keeps major federal projects outside of Ibo land.

"Because we are now one polity, these inequities strike us as unfair," said Ojukwu, the former Biafran leader who continues to command a wide following among the Ibo. "We are constantly asking ourselves, are we being treated as the underdog?"

The answer to that question, according to a number of influential Ibo businessmen and war veterans, is yes. But those same influential Ibos maintain that postwar Nigeria allows ambitious people from any tribe to succeed.

"Let's face it, Nigeria is one of the freest African countries," said Nwankwo, the book publisher who once hid in a cave. "You can speak out. You can get ahead. We Ibo don't feel hopeless. We are self-reliant. The country needs our skills to grow."

OK.
Check your DM please

Talknochip:
A very effective and proactive move! It is scary and saddening to know that while the likes of Japan and others are taking all those proactive measures, the authorities in Nigeria are still looking for money to buy glooves and reagent. Only the mercies of God can deliver us if this virus find its way here!

It has

Tjayelbee:
Some of you are very funny and myopic!

Most of our institutions in the North are embodiment of character and learning. I pray you get into this same NNPC that you’re bitter about and see the representation of the Northerners that you think were ‘favored’ by federal character. You’d be shocked to the bones. Most of the high-fliers in most of the sets either in DPR or NNPC and her subsidiaries are of northern extraction. This is mostly simply because they have matched capacity with character. It is not by gra-gra or ‘baffing up’ or your so called exposure or even sharp practices. Noise as we know it, is made by empty drums. This same arrogance and low self confidence you display at every opportunity and instance will be your downcast identity if you ever get into the corporation.
We don’t buy certificates, we equally don’t forge it. Its either we have it or we don’t. We hold our 2.2s and 3s with pride because it’s the result of our input. So do we our 2.1s and 1st. It’s not a do or die thing for us.
Some years back, I remember an NNPC recruitment that the panelists discovered most 2.1 graduates of Geology from University of Maiduguri and ABU performed better than the very many 1st class graduates that came from the south, especially east! Not to boast or anything, in my masters class in the UK, there were instances we helped a lecturer with the Geology aspect of his course because he wasn’t a Geologist. Our colleagues from other parts had this same mentality you all are displaying at the very beginning of the programme year.. “these malo guys no sabi anything”. I promise you by the end of that program the difference was beyond clear. We had five DPR staff, 3 from the north, 2 from the west. Boy ol’boy, those guys were top notch. Even after so many years in the field, the Engineering that was still in them was just awesome. Aliyu was not very outspoken, perhaps you’d laugh at his accent, but that man was an all-rounder, damn. Abu was eloquent and top notch, those in the industry may know him because of unionism. Tola was quiet but he knew virtually everything. Great guys I tell you. I concluded that year that there really was merit in DPR recruitments.

You see, we are hardly the nagging or complaining type. We make do with what is at hand and forget what puts us in bewilderment. We don’t trouble our hearts. We have have alot of pointers to what we can say are our problems with the south and how they are also causing untoward hardship and embarrassments to the rest of Nigerians especially by their actions in the diaspora, but you don’t find us hampering on these things or castigating the whole region. Even in the north, we know that alot of easterners contribute to our woes.. kidnapping our children to the east, importing hard drugs and making fat cash in the north. The ones doing legitimate spare parts business have complete monopoly of the business, you dare not try to join in - we don’t any way cuz we’re happy with that balance. They easily own lands and mansions without any hassle because we believe they’re entitled to as long as they got the purchasing power. Can you dare do that in the east? Lot’s of you come for the 1 year NYSC and find it difficult to go back to your places, yet you insult us at the slightest instance. We have housed southern corpers in gov’t lodges, we have posted them to even the Government House, we have encouraged them to stay afterwards. Heck, we give appointments in Govt to southerners who have stayed with us for long. This is the kind of energy we expect in return, or at worst bear with us as we grow.
Now what will shock you the most is the South can only say they are educationally ahead of the North statistically i.e percentage-wise. But in terms of sheer numbers it’s insane to think that the North is behind. This is not unrelated to our population vis-a-viz the current aggressive drive for education, Although much more needs to done. We have issues, there’s no denying. The West is one and only region that is holistically education-driven, and they put it to good use. They form part of the network that salvage the image of the country in the diaspora.. y’know Professors in various fields and some even serve in foreign governments.
Economic status of the North and Northerners that is generally overlooked by mainstream statistical indices is a topic for another day.

In essence, let’s respect ourselves and our differences. I am sorry for derailing this thread but it’s a result of Newton’s 3rd law.

Peace!

Dope!

ThierryJay:
See performance. Pls wake me up when CR7 achieve this kind of performance in a single match. Just look at the sheer quality of the goals, something penaldo can never match. All his hattricks, na penalty and tap-ins. Nothing ingenious like Messi's output.

Messi has always been more than just goals. I have always said this. The goals are just the icing on the cake. It's the play, the dribble, that feint, the mesmerizing sprint, the subtle pass, nutmeg, the slalom, the precision, unparalleled vision, name it! That's what we are talking about. That's what we got with breathtaking Ronaldinho even though Eto'o was scoring more goals; with Zidane even though Raul was scoring more goals. That's pure football artistry which sadly is what CR7 fans can never understand.

The above notwithstanding, please note this below:

Messi!

Ok

ojaysam25:

what did he win as a team....am sure if it was Ronaldo who score the highest goal and won only laliga the title,the bal or d hor would have been given to VVD....all the time ronaldo won that award he also won club greatest competition as well(champions league)
but FIFA can give messi even in a trophyless season....
all ronaldo bal or dhor win were with no doubt...
can't your messi prove us wrong by accepting a new challenge...I'm done with you

So messi should seek transfer, as in change club just to prove to you that he is the best? Who are you? Should one leave his life to prove anything to anyone?
Mad oh

abbeyfel:
I lost my only brother to CKD (chronic kidney disease) just the 8th of December 2019. After spending over a million on dialysis and other treatments. If you visit dialysis centers, you will understand this is no jokes at all

I'm so sorry for your loss

GemUnique:
Much salt intake
Much protein diet ie meat
More than normal compumption of alchol Dehydration
And looking at the physiology of Kidney, water can reduce the effect of most of these
I don't wait till my body request before I drink water

I also drink copious amount of water daily albeit eating unhealthy foods (meat, biscuits etc). It's nice to hear that water can actually make a difference. Thanks

Mrfrank2001:
This is why I hate Nigeria politicians. they make the people so poor that they can even accept #1000 to do there bidding. ask some of them what was writing in the carbon, they can't even pronounce a single word in what they were given to protest with.

The only thing that make some people abandon there sense to be part of this trash is poverty. I spit on Nigeria.

'Written'

Jerrick:
Mad o... Una see say Nigeria don mad finish? Person wey dey work wey dey catch kidnappers anyhow is now interferring in National security matters??
We sha hate anything called development

Abba kyari of SARS is different from Abba kyari (chief of staff)

ValCon888:
Tomorrow Lai Mohammed and the Ministry of Health will say Nigeria is capable of containing the virus.

If that is true, why did the House of Reps reject the proposal to bring back the Nigerians in China?

If China is having a hard time containing the virus then I wonder what will happen to Nigeria.

Comprehension is your problem

etibaba:
It will take extra effort for that baby to survive, babies immune system isn't strong enough to fight certain ailment. Doctors should do all they can to help that child.


Let's not forget some individuals have got a remedy to this virus yet they prefer to see others die just for financial gains.

Now be you I wan quote. Mistake

Please is the guy on green ned nwoko's brother?

Romanoff:
She always had anger issues as tiny as she is. I went to secondary school with her, FGGC bwari and we graduated in 2005.

Anyone who can put a check on their anger buys his or her self a longer life.

My sympathy goes out to her family, the family of her murdered husband and to her poor child.

True. Me I thought it's drugs that made her like this. She looks like someone on drugs.
I've always stated that I can't enter into a relationship or marry someone who is hot tempered and not gentle. I don't expect any man or woman to put up with such person

emeijeh:
Ara gha gba ndi ara nwa nnem

Frank Lampard should sign him as well, as he will make a good pair with Rudiger at the back

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True true he resemble tomori

TheOutlaw:
Did I hear these people say you can use stone to clean yourself after using the toilet?

The lining of the anus is one of the softest and most sensitive parts of the human body. If you use a stone to clean your anus after defecation, there is a high likelihood of cutting yourself and suffering a very painful infection if the fecal matter enters into the wound caused by your stone.

Why is it that NOTHING about this religion makes any sense?

If there is nothing that makes sense about the religion to you, then it means you have no sense.

Why do you people rush here to comment anyhow? You don't see Muslims doing this on Sunday

Ironi:
Backward laws , this laws don’t belong in the 21st century.

Islam is a relic religion which should not be practiced in today’s world.

You go take a dump and wash your nyash with ordinary water and walk out and go spread germs and you call that hygiene? You are all crazy.

everyone knows you have to wash your hands with soap or hand sanitizer after using the loo but as usual, anything to insult the religion

aycorporat:
I like the hygiene part but what happens if something forgets to enter with the left foot, would he have to.go back and revisit the poo?
Besides if the toilet is having stagnant water and the poo is.almost bursting my intestines nko?
A lot of Yoruba Muslims are guilty of these

There are things that are encouraged but not compulsory. If you forget to enter with the right nonoje expects you to come out and re-enter. When they say stagnant water, they don't mean in the WC. They are talking about river.

Sunnycliff:
This will have a negative toll on our oil dependent economy. However on the global scale, not much impact will be felt as there's an already subsisting supply glut in the oil market couple with the China virus potentially reducing oil usage.

hahaha how is it reducing it

zakir007:
Sheffield utd man city - 0-4

Chelsea vs Araenal -2-2

My prediction came to pass. Where is my money?
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MrMcJay:
Lagos PDP is a collection veteran losers. They are consultants on political failure. If you want a Masterclass on how to be a nonentity in politics, Lagos PDP are the industry experts on that.

Lagos PDP can lose an unopposed election with only 1 candidate.

Lmfao!

TheRedpillguy:

Which is paying for child support. Not marrying the woman

yes

Lenadiva:
The gunners seems likely to win this game. I would be surprise if Chelsea scared out with a draw. #COYG!

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