Well, I read the whole write-up. The heading of this post is just one topic amongst many others raised by Mr Galadima.

Please invest your time in reading through this to deduce the mindset of the Northerners concerning the state of the nation and particularly Buhari's successor.

We all know their game plan. He's a strong contender for the office of the President FRN from the Southeast Zone.

So they are making every possible effort to discredit him from contesting.

Etuagievin:
. So he has turn to God now. Please be careful

That's your business!

Messi is the football legacy �✅

If goals and assists are the main reasons for winning Ballon D'or, then Messi deserves 9 Ballon D'or.

We all know Messi is the best player and we all enjoy his football.

The only playmaker with 700+ goals.�
The only goalscorer with 300+ assists.�

It's simple:
1- if he doesn't score, he'll assist u
2- if he doesn't assist, he'll create chances for u
3- if he doesn't create chances for u, he'll create spaces for u with his sensational dribbling
4- if he doesn't dribble, he'll help u in the team build up.

That's why he is the most entertaining footballer of all time.

Messi winning his 7th Ballon d'Or may never be repeated in many years to come.�

BTW, while haters mourn and cry over this, we r already looking forward to the G.O.A.T 8th and 9th Ballon d'Or.

Please remind me what Ighalo has contributed to this match.

He should be released as soon as possible.

Is it just me or did anyone else notice how he stylishly ommited Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa in his write-up?
What the hell are they smoking @ Asorock?

Fucklove:
In the spirit of sallah and the celebration of the righteous one Ibraheem, I will be sharing a large chunk of my cash to 10 brothers in the struggle. It's just simple. In a short sentence, tell me what you can do with a little token of #5000. Distribution of funds starts by 12pm tomorrow for the successful Beneficiaries. This is strictly for those in need of it.
Happy Eid-el-Kabeer to all the Muslim faithfuls, may the peace of Allah rest upon you

Do unto others what you'd like to be done to you.

Seems an overwhelming majority are rooting for our boy Lionel Messi. Thanks y'all he deserves it this time around.

Good riddance, let the mannequin also ban Facebook so the world can see what Nigerians are passing through.

I guess a majority of the commenters here didn't watch the video. In the video, she wasn't quite sure of the source of the car, perhaps it was meant to be a surprise. But you'll notice that along the line, one of the ladies in the video whispered the source of the car gift to her which is most likely a man and her friends are aware of the relationship between her and the supposed benefactor.

How about buying a Toyota Corolla for uber? And cons to it?

More suggestions needed, strictly following.

As a bolt or uber rider, is it possible living in the outskirts of the city and still meeting up with the demands?

nnennachiji:
Because he was on Medicaid government healthcare I didn’t pay any money
This is a government owned hospital
We really don’t have excuse in Nigeria

Ma'am, I'm happy for you and I thank God for your son's prompt intervention and recovery. Indeed being at the right place at the right time has made your narration seem like a miracle.
Furthermore, it exposes how far off Nigeria as a nation has been left behind by other nations. I think you should create a topic on this, which should be pushed to the frontpage for others to witness a system that actually works. Thanks.

Ochiagha Reagan Ufomba, former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA in Abia, was one of the founders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Ufomba, who returned to the PDP in 2017, in this interview spoke on the politics of Abia, and how Governor Okezie Ikpeazu is turning the fortunes of the state around. He also spoke on the state of the nation, how to save the country and why the Igbo should produce the President in 2023.

How do you look at governance in Abia State between 1999 and today given poor infrastructure, especially roads?

Abia is work in progress and to the best of my knowledge is making progress. We have had our ups and downs; it was the shortcomings that led me into contesting elections in 2011 so that we can better the lot of the people. Regrettably, we have not been able to actualise that.

You talked specifically about bad roads. Abia is the only state in the country that is bordered by seven states— Imo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu and Anambra— all of them linked by federal roads and these federal roads are abandoned, totally abandoned and neglected.

So, when people talk of bad roads in Abia, we need to delineate federal roads from state roads. The basic problem is that until the nation is restructured to give room for states to manage certain structures within their localities, we will continue to have the issue of abandonment of roads, infrastructure, and all property belonging to the Federal Government.

Most of the federal roads ought to be handed over to the states. The Federal Government has no business coming to repair roads or construct roads in Abia or Ebonyi or any other state for that matter.

How can you assess the present PDP government in Abia?

You don’t award marks to those who are still sitting in an exam hall; let the person finish first. We will be able to fully assess the performance of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu around 2022.

He is on the right direction, salaries were owed before he came; he is filling the gap. This is the only government, to the best of my knowledge, that has done great roads in Abia.

Until recently and I will tell you to the shock of many critics, when I rejoined the PDP in 2017, I discovered that the government was being sabotaged. One of the federal roads he wanted to embark on, he was stopped from doing it.

There are letters and documents to prove that he was stopped from working on those roads. The flyover he is doing at Osisioma, I had to personally intervene when the issue of design came up. The Federal Government refused to release the design. I had to discuss with the Arab contractors. I went to the Federal Controller of Works in Umuahia; I went to the governor because the whole place was a mess.

I believe that you can still work for your people without being in government. So, I took out time and went to the governor, met the contractors, met the Federal Controller of Works and we worked to ensure that the design was released. It was released sometime this year.

So, when people say there is a centre table in Osisioma that has taken ages to complete, we also to have refer them to the cause of the delay, which was the design of the area. They did not know where to step down. You know what design the government was coming down with; you know Enugu Expressway is being reconstructed so he had been able to do that and work is in progress there.

Generally, we have asked the governor to do most of over nine federal roads in Aba alone – the Port Harcourt road, the Ngwa road, Aba-Owerri road, Okpara road, and so many of such roads.

What we have done is to ask the governor, go ahead and rebuild these roads. Whether you are refunded or not, whether you have the permission or not, go ahead and build these roads for the benefit of the people.

So, if you go to Abia today, you will notice that over 60 roads are under construction. That is why I said let us not assess Okezie by yesterday or today. Let’s give him time to run the new initiative and mandate we have given to him to move into federal roads and rebuild them.

Some leaders are clamouring for a president of Igbo extraction in 2023. What’s your position?

For me, 2023 is Igbo President or nothing. We don’t even need to debate it. When we returned to democratic rule in 1999, we had Chief Olusegun Obasanjo; all the parties gave their tickets to South-West. The South-West has had its turn.

After that, it went to late President Musa Ya Adua, from the North-West. After Yar’ Adua it went to South-South through President Goodluck Jonathan. So every other component using the tripod formula of North, West and East, have had their fill. It’s no longer debatable that the President should come from the South-East in 2023.

South-East leaders are clamouring for the presidency, the youths are clamouring for Biafra. How do you reconcile that?

Where there is inequity you have a lot of agitations. Even people like us are agitating. Should we clamour for Igbo presidency? We shouldn’t where you have a system that works. Since it’s zoned, should a component unit that fought for Nigeria’s independence clamour for the presidency? We shouldn’t, and I don’t want to go into immodest areas.

Anything you give to an Igbo man he turns to gold. Give Igbo man the presidency and Nigeria would work. If we want Nigeria to work, do we need to beg and say give it to a competent hand to manage?

Now, if you come to a country where your kin cannot be president, vice president, chief of staff to the President, secretary to government, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Naval Staff, Chief of Air Staff, IG of police, head Customs, head Immigration, head the EFCC, head the NNPC , head of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, why won’t the youths agitate?

So, you see the injustice meted on our people. So the agitations are justified. Political patronage is where Nigeria is today. If you don’t know anybody you don’t get appointed, you don’t get employed.

Commerce has been destroyed in the South-East. Tariff is high up there. I was in the cement sector, we used to pay 10% today it’s 50%. So, instead of employment our brothers and sisters are now sacking, so there is unemployment all over the South-East. Why won’t there be agitation? There is hunger, poverty, and unemployment. The people are bound to react to the very hostile environment they have found themselves.

Fears about the future of the country

The fears are well founded and as long as we continue to treat one part of the country as kings and untouchables and the other as slaves and people who do not matter, people who cannot attain their destiny in their own country, the people are bound to react and you don’t beat a child and tell him how to cry.

Few days after a prominent Emir was kidnapped about eight people were shot dead. The other time it as Chibok school girls, the other day 40+ people who went to farm were slaughtered. So, why won’t there be fear?

We allow herdsmen to come into the country to slaughter Nigerians. Who grants them access? You can’t even have accurate information from those entrusted with leadership. So why won’t there be fear?

The way out is simple. Let’s go back to where we were; let every component unit return to regional government and stop these wastages.

Having 109 senators and the humongous number representing us in Abuja and then back home we have another set of people running affairs is killing us. We must restructure this country to the extent that it becomes efficient and productive. If we don’t we would be crying every day.

You are back in PDP. What is the assurance that you will not leave again?

People like us have conscience. We are driven by our conscience and by what is right. I’m a founding member of the PDP and I served in that government in 1999. There was a dislocation caused by Orji Uzor Kalu leaving the party with quite a number of people.

We remained to rebuild the party, and I did say myself Vincebt Ogbulafor, and Adolphus Wabara, we contributed the first money that was used in building the party. I personally continued to fund the party and support the party, up to the point of going to court to stop the party from dismantling the state until they brought somebody to say we will give him automatic ticket.

That was not right as far as I’m concerned and the only way I protested was to go to court. I didn’t leave the party; I complained to the leadership of the party they didn’t listen, I went to court in Abuja to stop them but they didn’t listen.

Then the option I had was to temporarily leave in protest. In 2017 the leadership of the party appealed to me to come back, and I’m back to the house I built.

You were once governor candidate in Abia, in 2023. Do you want to contest that position?

To be the governor of Abia, yes. My vision remains the same, but I will take that decision in 2021-2022.


Is Abia charter of equity in favour of your anticipated aspiration?

Well, it does. In 1999, the governorship was in Abia North and the governor then was Orji Uzor Kalu. From Abia North, it came to Abia Central and then an Umuahia man by name TA Orji contested and won. Now, it is in Abia South.

In 2023 it would be returning through Abia Central. Power does not fly. It does not have wings; it has to walk back.

On the security situation in the country

I feel very embarrassed. Nobody believed that we could get to where we are today, where nobody can farm. People find it difficult to get to the farm; people find it difficult to do business of any kind due to insecurity.

Any nation where you have this level of insecurity, there can’t be foreign investment, and not even local investment. Nobody wants to invest in a hostile environment, and that is affecting employment.

Unfortunately, it’s happening under a retired general, somebody who vehemently opposed Jonathan for not doing enough. Today, people are now apologising to Jonathan as the best President we ever had. The man we thought was the Messiah has not lived up to expectation. It’s really unfortunate that we are where we are today.

What’s the way out

Nobody would have thought Buhari would fail to provide security because the fundamental, the cardinal objective of electing a President is for him to protect lives and properties which is enshrined in our constitution.

Some of us worked to bring him in in 2015. That was when he came in. For second term, I didn’t vote for him because already we have seen the style. If it’s not nepotism it’s a bad attitude. The way out is to vote out this government in 2023 and before then change the security chiefs.

We have all said this over and over again, control the herdsmen. Tackle terrorism. I don’t know why they are baptising terrorism by giving it another name, banditry.

The government knows those who are behind these acts, they know the bandits using their own words; they know them and their sponsors, they know those who have said we are behind this action here, they know those who are saying if you kill one of us we would kill 20 here and there. Why are they not being arrested?

It is simple. Sit up and get these people arrested; use them as an example to other people who may want to take up terrorism or banditry as a way of life.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/01/2023-its-igbo-presidency-or-nothing-ufomba/

Psalter:
We are to quick to react to reports/stories on this platform without verifying the source. In the instant case, the source of this report is not stated and yet we have taken the content hook line and sinker. Anyone can sit down and write rubbish and dump it on us knowing full well that some Nigerians are so gullible and believe anything. No doubt corruption is rife in Nigeria and all hands must be on deck to kill this monster before it kills us as a nation.

Please, this is my mobile number 08038903976.
Regarding the bank issue.

homesteady:
What is the letter of administration supposed to achieve?

Threaten them that you will take them to court. What they are doing is nonsense.

Thanks for your response, they're trying to make us spend needless money. I need more suggestions apart from just routine advice on consulting a lawyer.

Please fellow nairalanders, I need your opinions on this and if possible front page. It's quite personal and goes like this.
1. Mr Adam (my father) opens a fixed deposit account with X Bank. He subsequently submits his wife's details and makes her a co-signatory to the account with the *express mandate* that upon his demise, his wife exercises automatic access to the account and it's proceeds. Does this amount to a valid contract between him and the bank?.

2. Note that after his death the bank reneged on the primary provision of his directive, stating that a letter of administration must be procured (at an exorbitant cost).
Stated Reasons bothers on the fact that under banking laws and the principles of a valid contract, a contract between a depositor and the bank terminates upon the demise of the individual thus rendering the *mandate* unenforceable and invalid.
Please mods I need this on front page. Thanks.

I don't think these guys actually represent the average Nigerian youth out there.

Wow, countless amount of key passes from King Messi. Is there is a better Passer of the ball in the game than this man?

Not to care what anybody thinks about me cause that's their problem.
Stop being a people pleaser (financially), cause when you get broke, those same sets of individuals will be the first to mock you.
Stop spending more than you earn or its equivalent.
SAVE SAVE AND SAVE FOR RAINY DAYS!

Proud mofo

Nasir123:
This is how you play the real game.

After two years, the governor nominate another Chief to head the council.
The governor achieves all his aims and objectives true the legal process while trying to be nice.

Ganduje is a smart fellow.

And after 4 years, Ganduje leaves office and becomes as powerless as Kwankwaso while Sanusi remains Emir of Kano. Indeed, Power is transient.

Here to read lies...

Lol, this doesn't do justice to Cr7 cause he's not winning tonight..

SirBunky85:
don't mind him,tomorrow now,ngwa people will start shouting dat d post of the governor haven't come to dem.I'm sure dat after ikpeazu,no ngwa man will smell dat seat again

LOL 8+8

Hizzy:

You made sense but I don't know why I'm the only one to like your post

You do realise that 80-90% of Nigerians will take the money with there stereotypical ideas and fantasies of avenues to spend such amount of money, but I believe there are basic necessities we humans deserve, and that the Nigerian environment isn't quite conducive for an average human. The level of negativities even attached to the name Nigeria further highlights my opinion.

frowland:


Sound hopeless in the midst of plenty. Its obvious that many even when you hand them money, dont know what to do with it. Jeez!

Truth is that things are getting worse in this country, holistically speaking, nothing is working out and there's no end in sight to all the hardship and suffering of the citizenry.

#15m isn't really much due to our devalued currency, it's just $41k or there about. However, reasons like the economic meltdown being experienced (with no clear policies to mitigate the situation), coupled with the level of insecurity, corruption, decayed infrastructure, Power, education and even in the health sector, no one is safe in this country. Hence, I'll pick the later option cause I believe on the long run, there are better prospects for someone (educated or skilled) in a country like Canada than 1 with #15m in Nigeria.