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The sacred door.

The oldest Cathedral in Cologne Germany, Kölner Dom, with Igbo language inscript on the floor (photo)

Wow! The igbos should be proud of themselves because they are recognized in every part of the world

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The Cologne Cathedral is the second highest building in Cologne after the telecommunications tower.

The Cathedral was completed in 1880, in accordance with the plan originating from the Middle Ages, in a record time of just 38 years. It is nothing short of a miracle that, although badly damaged, Cologne Cathedral survived the Second World War in spite of extensive bombing. Nowadays the main factors affecting the Cathedral are weather and environmental influences. Over 80 stonemasons, glaziers, roofers and other specialists are constantly at work on the maintenance and restoration of the Cathedral building. On the floor was inscripted in many lanuages including Igbo…Onu Uzo Di Aso.

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Ọnụ ụzọ dị wara wara.

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Debe igodo/key ahụ na okpuru akwa dị n’ọnụ ụzọ dị n’aka nri gị.

Ụzọ dị mma.

Asọ.

Ana asọ ya nsọ.

Asụ.

Ọ bụrụ ya asụ n’ihu.

Akara na asọ mụ ụsọ.

Ana mụ asọ eso asọ.

Idide na asọ mụ oyi.

Igbo nwere nsọ ala ha   na asọ asọ,kpọm kwem!

Ana asọ Nwanyị ukwu ukwu anya, ọbụ ya ga alụ onwe ya?

Ihe ndị ọzọ na asọ nsọ, ndị ọzọ na eri ya.

Ya kpọtụba!

Ya gazie.

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Where's the photo?

Are you just demonstrating NwereNmadu Craziness again?

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IKOLO: State Govt. Signs 30 Million Dollar MOU For Construction Of Housing Units

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Hola, 

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You can upload your own comments or add it directly to the survey!  

Answer ques about why the cops should or shouldnt wear them and when thry should or shouldnt turn it off. 

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IKOLO: Hope Rises for Sensible Opposition in Anambra as Emeakayi, PDP Chairman Lauds Obiano

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*Editorial*

Buhari’s parochial appointments

August 1, 2016.

President Muhammadu Buhari

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CARRIED to power on a groundswell of goodwill and disgust at the thoroughly corrupt Goodluck Jonathan administration, Muhammadu Buhari appears bent on political self-immolation. While he received massive support from across the country to become President, he is by his appointments, presenting himself as a parochial, sectional leader. For the sake of the country’s corporate survival, he should rise above primordial instincts and become a father to all Nigerians.

In his inaugural speech just over a year ago, Buhari promised Nigerians that “having just a few minutes ago sworn on the Holy Book, I intend to keep my oath and serve as President to all Nigerians. I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.”  But too often, the pledge has been honoured in the breach. Buhari’s sectionalism is not only unprecedented, it could not have come at a worse time. The reality today is that Nigerians are deeply divided. Seventeen years of dashed hopes of progress under a democratic dispensation have reopened the deep fissures in the polity and polarised the populace into mutually suspicious camps. Sectarianism and ethnicity have been rearing their poisonous heads. The presidential election of 2015 was particularly divisive, with some major actors openly deploying base religious and regional sentiments. Add to this the terrible state of the economy that Buhari inherited, headlined by a collapse in global crude oil prices, our main export earner, and the rapacious emptying of the national treasury by previous governments, and you have a seething, discontented people.

It is a sad reality of the Nigerian experience that when crisis − political or economic − hits, segments of the populace retreat into ethnic and sectarian cocoons. It is in this combustible mix that Buhari stubbornly presses ahead with appointments that weigh heavily in favour of his northern regional base.

He struck again last month when he removed Ibe Kachikwu as head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to put a Northerner; named another, Hadiza Bala-Usman, as managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority along with three executive directors, two of whom are also Northerners. Before then, he had ring-fenced himself with appointees from his northern constituency at the Presidency, thereby deepening the long-held fears of many Southerners that he has not overcome his well-known insularity.

But the 1999 Constitution explicitly stipulates in Chapter 14 subsection 3 that the “composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct of its affairs shall…reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few states or from a few ethnic or other sectional groups…” Buhari is breaching this with impunity in his appointments. Apart from this, Nigeria’s plural setting demands that no group or ethnic nationality is seen as too domineering in critical areas of governance. 

Among his first appointments, even while he dithered on assembling a cabinet: he recalled a retired officer to man the Department of State Services; a former army officer to head the Nigeria Customs Service; a personal acquaintance as Chief of Staff, and loaded the other security and law enforcement agencies heavily in favour of Northerners. While the DSS head is from his hometown, Daura, the others are also almost all Northerners and overwhelmingly Muslims. In spite of public opinion, he replaced the immediate past Inspector-General of Police, a Southerner, with a Northerner, an assistant inspector-general whose ascension induced the retirement in one fell swoop of 21 DIGs and AIGs who were senior to him. This is beyond absurdity. 

We declare emphatically that this is corruption. It is wrong to view stealing of government funds as the only form of corruption. A former member of the House of Representatives, Junaid Muhammed, alleges that not only is Buhari sectional in his appointments, several appointees are actually his relatives. Nigerians did not vote against the Jonathan administration’s impunity for corruption, only to be assaulted with another pernicious impunity for cronyism. 

Buhari should be told that sectionalism and nepotism are also acts of corruption. You do not wage war against financial corruption while indulging in sectional and sectarian favouritism. It is self-defeating; a veritable weak link that the formidable ranks of those fighting back furiously to preserve the existing corrupt order are already capitalising on. The President simply does not need this. Many are willing to concede that he is only demonstrating political naiveté; now, however, is the time to radically change tactics.

The country is in a bad shape, compelling that all efforts be made to rally all segments of the polity behind measures to reverse economic recession, defeat terrorism in the North-East, renewed militancy and sabotage in the South-South zone, Fulani herdsmen’s terrorism in the North-Central and general insecurity across the country. The government admitted that the country is technically in recession last week, while Bloomberg reported that foreign reserves fell to just over $26 billion in June; oil production also fell to about 1.6 million barrels per day, while over 4,440 megawatts of power were lost last week, both due to sabotage of crude and gas facilities by criminals in the Niger Delta region. Meanwhile, though seriously degraded, Boko Haram terrorists are recovering their ability to ambush and inflict casualties on Nigerian troops.

More importantly, the South-East and South-South zones voted massively against Buhari, who is deepening their alienation from his government by his lopsided appointments. But in truly democratic societies, elected leaders go all out to unite their people after elections.  Apart from meeting the constitutional requirement that a minister be appointed from each of the 36 states, the two zones are sparsely represented in the Federal Government. 

If some past presidents indulged in primitive sectionalism, Buhari should not. Olusegun Obasanjo, alone among our last four presidents, significantly sought to rise above such primordial instincts. Buhari, also a former military head of state, and senior citizen, ought to do better, having tried and failed thrice before to win the Presidency exclusively with Northern votes. His party, the All Progressives Congress, the National Assembly and civil society groups should be more vigorous in resisting this trend.

            It is time to put an end to this provincial inclination. Nigeria has over 250 ethnic nationalities and wide disparities in culture. If, as Buhari wrongly repeats that Nigeria’s unity is inviolable, why then does he alienate many Nigerians with appointments? Until we take the right, inevitable step of restructuring the country, the minimum expected of a Nigerian president is to ensure equity in federal appointments.

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IKOLO: Public Service Announcement : Gov . Willie Obiano celebrates his birthday , Monday 8th of August, 2016.

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We've been saying it that if Jibrin is not careful, he may be arrested by the DSS and EFCC. Now the hunter (whistle blower) has become ‎the hunted. Lol. 

Padding blues in Nigeria.

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Budget Padding: Abdulmumin Seeks Court Protection from Arrest
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Wants House restrained from suspending him They want to destroy the evidence
Damilola Oyedele in Abuja

In a dramatic twist to the row over the 2016 budget padding allegations causing disharmony in the House of Representatives, the hunter now appears to be the hunted, going by emerging development.

The erstwhile Chairman of the Committee on Appropriation, Jibrin Abdulmumin, who made the budget-padding allegation, has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order to restrain the Nigerian Police from arresting him.



The respondents in the suit are the Nigeria Police, the Inspector-General of Police, the Commissioner of Police (FCT), Hon. Yakubu Dogara, Hon. Yusuf Lasun, Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, Hon. Leo Ogor and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.
The lawmaker, in his tweets and statements had given the impression that he was enjoying the cooperation of the police, over the allegations against Dogara and others.

But Abdulmumin, in the suit filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja with No: FHC/ABJ/CS/595, said there was a police siege on his home and that up till the time of filing the suit on August 9, 2016, the siege was still in force.

The affidavit deposed on his behalf by his legislative aide, Mr. Bashir Bello said this was “in a bid to arrest him unlawfully and achieve their pre-determined aim of tampering with his fundamental human rights.”

Abdulmumin, in the suit, accused the police of plotting to “nab him and also put him out of circulation and so as to lay their hands on the said documents and destroy the evidence therein, and avoid a leakage of their roles in the budget issue.”
The embattled lawmaker, in a separate suit, also sued Dogara, the Clerk of the House and others, to restrain the lower chamber from suspending him.

Others listed in the suit filed at the Federal High Court Abuja on August 9, 2016, include the Lasun, Doguwa, Ogor and the eight chairmen of standing committees.
The House is set to resume from its summer recess on September 13, 2016.
Abdulmumini in suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/595, said Dogara and others had perfected plans to ensure his indefinite suspension from the House, after his petition to the EFCC, ICPC and the police.

“That if the reliefs of the Plaintiff are not granted, the Plaintiff would be suspended as a member of the House of Representatives and this would greatly prejudice him and thousands of his constituents who rely on him to afford them their due representation in the Federal legislature,” his affidavit read.

Sources however told THISDAY that Abdulmumin’s fears may not be unconnected with alleged plans by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to revive and re-arraign him over a N15 billion money laundering case in October 2011.

Abdulmumin and his firm, Green Forest Investment Ltd, had been charged alongside a former Governor of Nasarawa State, Aliyu Akwe Doma, for laundering stolen state funds totaling N15 billion. In Dec 2012, the EFCC removed his name from its amended charges. THISDAY, however, could not get EFCC’s confirmation on plans to re-arrange Abdulmumin on the money laundering charges. Efforts to also reach Abdmumin by phone calls and text messages proved abortive, as his phone repeatedly rang out unanswered.

The House has been embroiled in crises following the removal of the Abdulmumin by Dogara.
After his ouster, Abdulmumin, accused Dogara, Lasun, Doguwa and Ogor of allocating N40 billion to themselves out of the N100 billion appropriated for the National Assembly, and making “senseless’ insertions into the 2016 budget”.

He also petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC), and the Nigeria Police, demanding the arrest and prosecution of the speaker, three principal officers, and 10 committee chairmen for corruption and abuse of office.



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IKOLO: Mrs. Obiano’s Support Excites Igboezunu Anglican Women

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"..But today, ironically, both the North and the West have become the home of President Buhari’s most loquacious critics. Were many not held back by self-censorship and fear of reprisal, by now, the sound of condemnation would be deafening. "

You can say that again!

The Parable Of The Husband’s Cane  

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Reuben Abati 

 

 

One other outcome of our democratic experience since 1999 is how demanding and insatiable the Nigerian voter has become, and because political office holders and the professional political class are yet to fully decipher and understand the implications of this, they continue to make similar mistakes and draw the same responses from the same public that voted them into power.     

       I have no better illustration of this than the manner in which the critics of the incumbent administration at the centre are beginning to sound exactly the same way they sounded about two years ago under the Jonathan administration. Check the social media, some newspapers, and listen to the conversation on the streets. The personnel in power have changed, there is a new party in charge at the top, but public conversation has gone back to its old ways. Questions are being asked about the meaning of change and the dividends it has brought to the people. 

      Some commentators are openly apologizing for voting President Goodluck Jonathan and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) out of power.  Some fierce supporters of change and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are openly voicing their regrets. And as was the case under President Jonathan, there are hilarious skits online, mixing song, drama and dance, making fun of the new dispensation and its architects. More than one pro-change and anti-PDP newspapers have had cause to do scathing editorials, including the very newspaper that was the anchor-point for change in 2015. 

       Many of the affirmations are relatively the same: the President is a good man but he is surrounded by incompetent people who have their own agenda, so they say, or that the Ministers are not doing their job and right now, there is a loud protest against the ability of one Minister to manage something as simple as taking a sports delegation to the Olympics. The number of people calling for the man’s job is growing. Oftentimes, it is also said that communication is the problem. 

       I used to hear that a lot. And it was always as follows: The President’s team is not communicating his policies properly and in one year, while a lot has been achieved, nobody is show-casing those achievements (!), as if communication is a bullet. But these are the same stories that we used to hear. All kinds of experts are all over the airwaves voicing opinions about how best to run Nigeria, and promises that have not been fulfilled and an economy that is causing raw pain.  Not even the President’s wife has been spared: her wrist-watch, her handbag, and even her grammar (!) - this formed the substance of a pedantic attack by a self-confessed Buharideen. It really looks as if there is now a formula for criticizing the Nigerian government. 

      Every excuse that is given by government is met with the riposte that the government is burning its goodwill with the people, or that someone should just help and change the narrative.  Jonathan-bashing is fast becoming unfashionable, the critical mass including those who marched for change are asking for new tunes.  And I am far from gloating. But certainly, this love-them-today-despise-them-tomorrow did not start with the Buhari government. I am actually trying to make what I hope will be considered an essential point about the burden that Nigerian politicians have to bear. In a number of public interviews and interactions recently, I have argued that it is not easy to rule Nigeria or any part of it.  

       When President Olusegun Obasanjo assumed office in 1999, he was the messiah who helped to stabilize the country after many years of abuse by military dictators, and in terms of policies, persona, focus and drive, he rescued the country. But the moment he picked up fights with his Vice President, and later got embroiled in the politics of third term self-succession, his support base began to grow apart, and he became the target of vitriolic criticism from even his most ardent supporters and benefactors.  

      We dismissed President Umaru Yar’Adua who succeeded him very quickly as “Baba Go Slow” even if his failings were excused on the grounds of ill-health and the shenanigans of an Aso Rock cabal. President Goodluck Jonathan’s ascendancy in 2010 was driven by the activism of the civil society and both genuine and bathroom constitutional experts who insisted that the Constitutional rule on succession in the event of the death of the incumbent must be respected. Thus, he became Acting President and he later won an election, on his own steam in 2011, to become President of Nigeria. For many Nigerians, his coming to power helped to make one point: that Aso Villa is not the birthright of any ethnic group, that the rule of law is superior to the rule of men, and that the final decision about who rules this country at any particular period rests with the people.  It didn’t take long before the same people began to attack the Jonathan Presidency, goaded on by a vicious opposition at first, until the people themselves took ownership of the rebellion against their own revolution. 

      In 2015, they supported President Muhammadu Buhari, whom they had voted against in three previous elections. Somehow, there has been a touch of melodrama to the Nigerian Presidency since 1999, and it was on that score that President Buhari became the stone that was once rejected emerging as the cornerstone of the building. In the North, his political base, and the South West, which embraced him, he became the messiah that Nigeria needed. Only the South East and the South South looked away.  But today, ironically, both the North and the West have become the home of President Buhari’s most loquacious critics. Were many not held back by self-censorship and fear of reprisal, by now, the sound of condemnation would be deafening. I have described the scenario long enough, what are the specific takeaways? 

       One, the same point I mentioned earlier, that indeed, it is not easy to rule Nigeria. It does not matter how well-meaning and principled you may be, there would be people who would put you under enormous pressure and in trying to please one group and not the other, you would end up creating a basis for criticism and attacks. These pressures come from ethnic groups, family members, old school mates, close friends, party members, political godfathers, old benefactors, the wife’s family, or wives, in-laws, the business community, international agents, investors, existing and prospective: they all want your ears, they want access and they will mount the pressure in every way possible. Pleasing every constituency is not possible. 

      No matter how hard you try to balance the pressures, you’d still be left with people and constituencies perpetually banging on the door, and they just don’t do that, they run down others who are competing for your time and attention, and before long, as President of Nigeria, you could be held hostage by one or two groups, and when that happens, you displease others who in due course, become critics. Everybody is with you because of what they can get: they are investors not supporters, not even family members. The loneliest job in the world is to be President of a developing and dispossessed country like Nigeria. It presents a great opportunity to make a difference and make history, but it also comes with too many IOUs that may never be satisfactorily repaid. 

        Two, be careful how you demonize the opposition. If you are in power seeking to retain it, be careful how you wield the axe against the power-seekers at the gate. If they seize that axe from you, they could behead you without mercy. Your pleas when you are at their mercy later, could fall on deaf ears. And if you are seeking power and you get it, with the people hailing you, beware, the same people could turn against youtomorrow. Their loyalty is not guaranteed for too long, at most it comes with a one-year warranty! And never ever forget this folk wisdom: the husband’s cane that was used to beat the senior wife is right there on the rafters, to be recalled for the junior wife. No domestic violence intended (far from it) but if it sounds like a metaphor, well, you figure it out. 

        Three, don’t you ever over-promise. There is a tendency for power-seekers in Nigeria to promise heaven and earth. They design fanciful phrases, programmes, agenda, blueprints and road maps in which they assure the people, together with timelines, how they will turn Somalia into paradise within 100 days and if not, six months, but at most, one year. These are usually from persons who have no idea how Nigeria works. They know nothing either about the complexities of governance and power politics. They make the fanciful promises, anchored on an even more fanciful phrase, and as soon as the election is won, they return to their consulting firms with their bags of profit, in search of the next client and victim. It is amazing how in Nigeria, most of the leading experts on government and governance are persons who have never spent a day in a government department and have never managed anything complex in their lives. 

       They arrive in a dollar-driven parachute in the middle of the campaign and they invent slogan after slogan, and strategies that leave potential disaster behind. Let’s say their candidate wins, but as soon as he gets into office, he has to deal with the many lies that have been told in his name, and he finds himself at the crossroads. If he says all promises cancelled, let’s be realistic, he is accused of deceit. If he says anything else, he is reminded that in the United States, where the heart of many Nigerians is, including the intelligentsia, he is told that promises have to be kept. The same people have forgotten that in the United States, politicians talk more about people-focussed policies, and not about such elementary details as the provision of boreholes, food, electricity, and roads. In a developing country, you better watch what you promise. 

       Four: don’t rely on your political party. The same political party that brought you to power can disappoint you.  Incidentally, we are not running a parliamentary system of government.  Your own party members have Macbeth-like ambitions and that makes them disloyal. They don’t quite want you to succeed except if that will make them look like potential successors. Your constituency is the Nigerian people. Difficult as they are to please, and habitually angry as many of them are, it always pays in the long run to listen to them. And when you don’t feel like listening, provide leadership that inspires trust, and you won’t fail.

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With the North one would theirs was a stand on principle but that cannot be said about the West because the Yoruba are a finicky as a teenage girl. There is actually for the behavior of the Yoruba, Area boy politics. Quoting SLS, the problem with Nigeria is the Area Boy Politics of the Yoruba as written by Balarabe Musa. 

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DEAR EDITOR.

 

PLEASE, DO CONSIDER FOR PUBLICATION. THANK YOU AND REMAIN BLESSED ALWAYS. 

 

Is it really good night for PDP?

By Muhammad Ajah

 

In mathematics, especially in geometry, Pythagorean Theorem is a fantastic numerical combustion that I found very interesting. It is quite long experiences in the secondary classes. There, our mathematics teacher pronounced theorem so fast in such manner that once he started to solve any, all the students would await was Q.E.D. which are initials of the Latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum, meaning “which is what had to be proved.”

  

The theorem of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has to be proved in context of the geometric reality of Nigeria today. For a party that super-powered the affairs of the largest population of the black race on earth for nearly two decades, to accept a parting handshaking cannot be as easy as ABC. But with the happenings in the party and predictions by the key founders of the party, is its swan song nearby?

  

For 16 years, the PDP, founded on the premises of military-civilian partnership by prominent Nigerian patriots maneuvered the leadership of the country, inconsequentially, on the twisted scale of popularity and sympathy. There was quite no better option for Nigeria by that time as all of us and the world needed our return to democracy. A lot of Nigerians then were meek political animals being told what to do even against their own will. Nigerians were dragged from 1999 to 2003, until: “Like a loyal child; Feeling the pain of torture and denial; We staggered and stood on our feet; And looked into the eyes of the master; And shouted, freedom, freedom, freedom! This is culled from my poetic book on Nigeria titled: Sing to me, Nigeria.

         

The crisis rocking the PDP, some analysts hold, reveals of a group of persons who have never believed or practiced democracy; a cluster of kleptomaniac marauders who sucked Nigeria without recourse to reckoning and a bunch of opportunists whose intents were selfish, parochial and self-centered. Recall 60 years was a projected span for its leadership. And throughout the 16 years, much filth, official abuses and intellectual fallacies weakened and rendered it unpopular. This is to the extent that almost all the erstwhile political bulldozers are on the run; either openly bidding the party farewell or covertly disassociating themselves from it.  

 

To some other analysts, PDP is still leading. Diehard could be a mild abstraction. Within the 16 year race or match against Nigeria, it defeated Nigerians 4-0. In March 2015 or to be precise on May 29, 2015 the results changed to 4-1 with difficulties and uncertainty. Its strength remains in power energy – money. They are still heavy with stolen commonwealth. Most of the PDP elders were contractors who collected money and never delivered a tinge. The few other contractors who probably were not full-card carrying members had to get below 30% of the contract amount after the figures have been mutilated or padded. The 10% contract discount used to appease those who cooperated in the contract approval was no longer a reality. Who cared and who checked who? The national assembly was dominated by its members who padded the nation’s wealth into their pockets. The executives were demigods who distributed, at freewill, resources meant for security, infrastructure, et al. Large chunk of those monies is still with them and still the reservoir they recline on. In just five years, the exact whereabouts of 51 trillion US dollars is unknown. Yet, “We borrowed 473 billions to pay salary every month”, revealed former Minister of Finance and economic coordinator, Dr. Ngozi Iweala. Though popularity and pedigree played serious role in the last general polls, politics remains capital intensive. And that has been the gunner for the PDP.

 

An option heaped upon the party is to change its nomenclature. A known criminal cannot change his clothes and expect acceptance by the neighbourhoods. The truth is that Nigerians are tired of the faces in the party, not on the grounds of esthetic. The faces have become gloomy, dummy, fussy and filthy for concerned Nigerians to glance at with awe as before. At least for the repentant ones who are now associating with reality, Nigerians are humans who believe that to forgive is divine. But most politicians are chameleons.

 

Otherwise, by 2019, 2023 and 2027, if the equalizer is scored to make it 4-4, the PDP will accept defeat. For now, the fight continues. The deceit increases. And its hanged hope and surprises thicken. After all they are Nigerians and still constitute certain percentage of the incumbent government tagged: “Go-slow administration”. They have helped in slowing the government the more, though slow and steady wins the race.

 

The PDP has fallen apart and the founders have lost interest in it. Former Governor, Modu Sheriff and former Senator, Ahmed Makarfi are at their jugulars over the leadership of the party, dancing the tunes by the courts. What equation the Sheriff versus Makarfi faceoff will produce is palpable. The zoning formula of the party has ever been a case study. Grouping and regrouping have become the party’s resort. The party’s failed August 17, 2016 convention in Port Harcourt cannot write a report of progressive people. Comments from the party’s current and former leaders are revealing.

 

Troubled National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh, at a press conference on Monday, May 4, 2015 declared that some members of PDP including ambitious aides and associates of President Goodluck Jonathan used their perceived closeness to him to further their heinous agenda of injecting crisis in the party with a view to highjacking the structure for their selfish interests. Part of the agenda, he claimed, was to create an impression of division and crisis and pave the way for members’ decamp to other parties in view of the Supreme Court ruling on defection in the event of leadership crisis at their party’s national level.

 

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo noted that the party’s crisis heralds its end. “You cannot say ‘good night’ and come to say ‘good evening’ in the same place. So for me, it is good night for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and that’s all,” he said. This is the one time Chairman, Board of Trustees of the party who tore his membership certificate before the 2015 elections in the presence of party loyalists.  

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A backbone of the party, Bode George fumed after the failed convention. He sees an already divided party subsumed by disintegrated blocs within. To him, the Yoruba equalizing strength is threatened. The marriage between Rivers and Ekiti governors to him is a betrayal of the Yoruba interest. “Wike will now tell Yoruba people who should represent them? That is madness. I think he is under a spell or something. Yoruba will never go to Port Harcourt for any convention again. Quote me, Wike is too small to summon Yoruba leaders. We will not allow him to rubbish us. We will not leave the PDP for him. It is now crystal clear to us exactly what Sheriff suffered in their hands. May God forgive us, Sheriff is a saint compared to Wike or Fayose. Sheriff understands exactly their antics. Fayose told us he burnt his fingers the first time, now he has burnt his whole body”, Bode squealed.  

 

To former president Jonathan, the party is merely running after his shadows.  He rejected PDP’s offer to chair its Board of Trustees, a seat that is supposed to be occupied by ex-president of the party. The party’s former BoT chairman, Tony Anenih, seems to be chewing his words. He claimed to have resigned his position to pave way for Jonathan before Haliru Muhammad Bello, a former defence minister and acting chairman of the party took the full mantle.  

 

Others like Jerry Gana and Ibrahim Mantu as well as Raymond Dekposi are carefully sorting on the murky waves of the party. Sources said the former Borno governor rescued the party from its financial difficulty and used his personal funds to run the party, yet some founding fathers regrouped to disband him in favour of Makarfi. These two groups, and probably a third unpronounced one, will revive the party or bury it by 2019. Let the game continue.

 

Muhammad Ajah is an advocate of humanity, peace and good governance in Abuja. E-mail mobah...@yahoo.co.uk.

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[muhammad ajah]

DEAR EDITOR.

 

PLEASE, DO CONSIDER TO USE. GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS. 

 

Who owns Islam in Nigeria?

By Muhammad Ajah

 

I am grateful to God Almighty for making me a follower of the Islamic faith before I was thrown into the repugnant strings of claims and counter claims of its owners, forerunners or custodians in Nigeria. Islam will remain what it is and some Muslims will remain what they are. As parochial as this topic may seem to be, it may give an insight on why the supremacy of who lords over Islam in Nigeria should not have risen in the first place. Whether it be true or measly flippant imagination, there is struggle uncalled in the handling of Islamic matters in Nigeria. And this has endangered the Ummah in the face of international Muslim community.

 

When I was young, I used to think that there is no division amongst Muslims. That is how it should be. At least I was correct in my belief because that is what Islam says: Muslims can disagree as human beings but not in affairs affecting the Ummah. I was not born into a full-fledged Muslim family. My father was a Muslim before the civil war and he dedicated his life for the religion and fought with the Igbo Muslim preacher, Sheikh Ibrahim Nwagui to establish Islam in my village in particular and Igboland in general. In fact, he was imprisoned for several months for accepting Islam and for supporting the spread of Islam in those days. He believed in the strength of his chaplet which he used to glorify Allah to the best he could.

 

My dear mother, though very religiously liberal and tolerant, did not accept Islam till she died. Both of them lived and tolerated each other. But something was always a trouble: the path to follow by the children. And it manifested that the children at maturity were left to choose their religions of choice: Christianity, Islam and paganism. It is such a difficult circumstance to keep these three defiantly conflicting beliefs under one roof. In our own case, it was managed carefully and though our parents are no more, we can still look at the faces of one another and smile, especially when religious discussions are not entertained. 

 

My teachers, then, because I attended a Christian missionary primary school which though became a community school, would tell me to accept Christianity because Islam is cultism; Islamic preaches killings; Islam is for Hausas; Islam is this and that. I was moderately stubborn and would tell the teachers: “I will tell my father.” Unfortunately my father was late before I was six and my elder brother who lived outside my village took care of me and simply I thought he was my father even at ten. One of my teachers I could remember called me out of the assembly for not shouting “amen” after the assembly conductor had concluded his prayers and said “In Jesus name”. Unaware of his presence behind me, I had kept silent. He knew that I was a Muslim but what did I know then. 

 

He tapped me from behind and asked me to go out of the line. It was a public disgrace and that is why it cannot easily escape my memory though I often prefer not to sing it everywhere. He said to me: “This small boy, what is wrong with you. You claim that you are Muhammad. In short from today, your name is Michael. If I catch you silent next time, you will be in soup.” Being in soup was a common language for threat or punishment by teachers then. “Who owns this your religion self. Nonsense!” he proclaimed.

 

That day I went home with the question: who owns this your religion? And I did not know who owns Islam by then, neither could I get a soothing answer than the talk that it was the Hausas because they were the people practicing it around the vicinities. This was manifest too when we were told that Sheikh Ibrahim Nwagui conquered my village with the Hausa mallams. During the civil war, it was widely believed within the vicinities that the Hausa soldiers took control of the Islamic center established by the late Sheikh to defend one Nigeria.

 

Till the early 80s when I joined the School of Arabic and Islamic Studies situated right in my own village, no better explanation could be offered against the general belief on the ownership of Islam in Nigeria. However, the Yoruba who were playing key roles in spreading Islam in other parts of the region began to pronounce their presence. So, it has been the show of strength and prominence between the two major ethnic nationalities in Nigeria on who really owns Islam.

 

Islam, as I know today is not supposed to be owned by individuals or ethnic groups. It is a universal creed brought to all mankind by Prophet Muhammad who was an Arab by nationality. And it has steadily spread across the world, really not by mere efforts of mankind, but by the divine support of Allah Who has decreed that the message will spread even against the strong opposition by the non-Muslims. Yet, both the Qur’an and the tradition of Prophet Muhammad warned against complacency by Muslims. Here, although, is not an avenue to talk about which point Islam entered Nigerian first, my concern is how Islam has fared.        

 

Unfortunately, Islam has become a tool through which forces of oppression and ego are displayed. We can recall how the Jama’tu Nasril Islam (JNI) used to operate and the allegation on how the northern oligarchy maneuvered its operations. The leadership of the organization most times reechoed the superiority complex of the two giant tribes of Nigeria. Then late super and fearless jihadist, Dr. Abdullateef Adegbite, with efforts of few individuals gave birth to the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA). Many people believed the formation was primarily to counter the domineering grip of JNI on Islamic affairs at the national level. To some, JNI is of the north while NSCIA is of the Southwest. By further explanation JNI is for Hausas; NSCIA is for Yorubas.

 

That struggle for supremacy is still alive, though Justice Abdulqadir Orire once the general scribe of the JNI was said to be a Yoruba. And in NSCIA today, the leadership speaks for itself. As for the National Conference of Muslim Youth Organizations (NACOMYO), the tussle continues. And when you come to the Federation of Muslim Women Associations of Nigeria (FOMWAN), no much difference in this context is palpable. Though often said than done: “We are one”, has always been the resort by Muslim leaders.

 

In all these, where are other Muslims of Nigeria especially the Igbo Muslims that are supposed to be the third largest Muslim ethic group in Nigeria? Nowhere! Conferences are held on their behalves in their own states but one wonders of what benefit the conferences have been. In their states, the Hausas and Yorubas lord over the Islamic affairs. Why will the Igbo not continue to prove right that Islam belongs to the Hausas and Yorubas, despite the fact that the Igbo leaderships do not in any way want Islam to thrive in Igboland.

 

According to an interview published by Bende Analyst newspapers, Sheikh Adam Idoko explained that Islam was older than Christianity in Igboland. If this fact was anything to go by, then Muslims of the north and the west are responsible for the misfortunes of Islam in Igboland. It is either they got Islam and have been economical in spreading it in Igboland or they got it and hoarded it for private aggrandizement. Whichever way, the plight of Islam in Igboland cannot be unconnected with the complacency of the Muslims in these majority areas as well as the height of levity with which Muslim affairs are handled in the region.

 

Another interview with the Weekly Trust newspapers in March 2009 by Ustaz Dr. Amin Igwegbe asserted that the Igbo have been Muslims as far back as 1900. “Islam is not new in Igboland. I know we have over two million Igbo Muslims today though the number is not much. We have learned Muslim scholars. My concern is not even the number but the quality of the Igbo Muslims. Afikpo is a model Islamic community. If you are there, you will think you are in the North”, he said.

 

“My experience as a Director of Administration for an Apex Islamic Organization in Nigeria (NSCIA) for 13 solid years has proven to me that the acclaimed custodians of Islam are actually working against the propagation of the religion in Igboland; they are simply using Islamic propagation in the area for their own selfish interest and Allah is watching!! The Igbo proverb says: “the water from snail is used in cooking snail. Let them ponder over this. Even the Arabs can never claim to be the custodians of Islam as it is done in Nigeria today, it is ONLY Allah that is the Custodian and Protector of His Holy Book, the Qur’an, and His Religion, Islam”

 

Furthermore, Daily Trust in July 2012 spoke with Sheikh Usman Anaga who blew hot on the challenges faced by the Igbo Muslims. “The perception is that if you are an Igbo man and you decide to become a Muslim, then you are not a normal human being. This perception of Islam in the east came about largely due to inadequate publicity and awareness campaigns”, he rattled.

 

And so many other interviews, statements, communiqués and situation reports by prominent Igbo Muslim scholars, all pointing to the ingenuity in strengthening Islam in their area by themselves were there enough religious spirit cum will towards that by the Islamic leadership in Nigeria. Rather than actions, lip services have remained the friendship defence.

 

Hitherto, some things remain worrisome. Why do these Muslims fear to empower the Igbo Muslims to carry out the spread of Islam in their areas? Are the Igbo Muslims being treated fairly in the Islamic affairs in Nigeria? In all the above mentioned organizations, where are the Igbo Muslims in the leadership? How do they respond to issues concerning the Igbo Muslims who are merely looked down upon as beggars and tagged “Yamiri” or “ajaokuta mamamiri”. Despite the presence of insignificant efforts by individuals, no one has been man enough to do the needful; rather they back on ancestral immunity to cause more harm and disunity amongst the Igbo Muslims in the east.            

 

This calls for deep reflection. It is always a difficult task to aid people who are nobody. Igbo Muslims are definitely not “nobody” because being a Muslim is already enough heavenly empowerment. What more favours does a man require if guided to be a Muslim! Nonetheless, in Islam, aids to people chiefly a presumed category of “nobody” is immeasurable. The truth is always bitter. But if there is any sense in this message, let it manifest. If, howbeit, there is nothing reasonable to reckon, let it go as normal to the bin but let me be. And lest the day continues to revolve unnoticed, what Allah has decreed, no man can change. He is not a man who reclines on mere ancestral proclivity; he is a man who treads the odds for a difference. All of us are mere tools under the Overpowering Hands of Allah.

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Folks,

Please read an address by a former US ambassador to Nigeria back in 2009 and see how it is playing out. 

Joe

Princeton N. Lyman, the former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa,

delivered a very poignant speech on the panel titled "The Nigerian State and

U.S. Strategic Interests" at the Achebe Colloquium at Brown University on

December 11, 2009. Lyman suggests that rather than continually emphasize

Nigeria's strategic importance, it would behoove us to consider elements

that might eventually lead to Nigeria's irrelevance on the international

stage.

Princeton N. Lyman, Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa,

speaks on the panel "The Nigerian State and U.S. Strategic Interests" at the

Achebe Colloquium at Brown University on December 11, 2009. 

TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH (TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM THE VIDEO SPEECH)

Thank you very much Prof. Keller and thanks to the organizers of this

conference. It is such a privilege to be here in a conference in honor of

Prof. Achebe, an inspiration and teacher to all of us.

I have a long connection to Nigeria. Not only was I Ambassador there, I

have travelled to and from Nigeria for a number of years and have a deep and

abiding vital emotional attachment to the Nigerian people, their

magnificence, their courage, artistic brilliance, their irony, sense of

humor in the face of challenges etc.

And I hope that we keep that in mind when I say some things that I think

are counter to what we normally say about Nigeria. And I say that with all

due respect to Eric Silla who is doing a magnificent work at

State Department and to our good friend from the legislature, because I

have a feeling that we both Nigerians and Americans may be doing Nigeria

and Nigerians no favor by stressing Nigeria's strategic importance.

I know all the arguments: it is a major oil producer, it is the most

populous country in Africa, it has made major contributions to Africa in

peacekeeping, and of course negatively if Nigeria were to fall apart the

ripple effects would be tremendous, etc.. But I wonder if all this emphasis

on Nigeria's importance creates a tendency of inflate Nigeria's opinion of

its own invulnerability.

Among much of the elite today, I have the feeling that there is a belief

that Nigeria is too big to fail, too important to be ignored, and that

Nigerians can go on ignoring some of the most fundamental challenges they

have many of which we have talked about: disgraceful lack of

infrastructure, the growing problems of unemployment, the failure to deal

with the underlying problems in the Niger-Delta, the failure to consolidate

democracy and somehow feel will remain important to everybody because of all

those reasons that are strategically important.

And I am not sure that that is helpful.

Let me sort of deconstruct those elements of Nigeria's importance, and ask

whether they are as relevant as they have been.

We often hear that one in five Africans is a Nigerian. What does it mean? Do

we ever say one in five Asians is a Chinese? Chinese power comes not just

for the fact that it has a lot of people but it has harnessed the

enterpreneurial talent and economic capacity and all the other talents of

China to make her a major economic force and political force.

What does it mean that one in five Africans is Nigeria? It does not mean

anything to a Namibian or a South African. It is a kind of conceit. What

makes it important is what is happening to the people of Nigerian. Are their

talents being tapped? Are they becoming an economic force? Is all that

potential being used?

And the answer is "Not really."

And oil, yes, Nigeria is a major oil producer, but Brazil is now launching

a 10-year program that is going to make it one of the major oil producers

in the world. And every other country in Africa is now beginning to

produce oil.

And Angola is rivalling Nigeria in oil production, and the United States has

just discovered a huge gas reserve which is going to replace some of our

dependence on imported energy.

So if you look ahead ten years, is Nigeria really going to be that relevant

as a major oil producer, or just another of another of the many oil

producers while the world moves on to alternative sources of energy and

other sources of supply.

And what about its influence, its contributions to the continent? As our

representative from the parliament talked about, there is a great history

of those contributions. But that is history.

Is Nigeria really playing a major role today in the crisis in Niger on its

border, or in Guinea, or in Darfur, or after many many promises making any

contributions to Somalia?

The answer is no, Nigeria is today NOT making a major impact, on its region,

or on the African Union or on the big problems of Africa that it was making

before.

What about its economic influence?

Well, as we have talked about earlier, there is a de-industrialization going

on in Nigeria a lack of infrastructure, a lack of power means that with

imported goods under globalization, Nigerian factories are closing, more

and more people are becoming unemployed. and Nigeria is becoming a kind of

society that imports and exports and lives off the oil, which does not

make it a significant economic entity.

Now, of course, on the negative side, the collapse of Nigeria would be

enormous, but is that a point to make Nigeria strategically important?

Years ago, I worked for an Assistant Secretary of State who had the longest

tenure in that job in the 1980s and I remember in one meeting a minister

from a country not very friendly to the United States came in and was

berating the Assistant Secretary on all the evils of the United States and

all its dire plots and in things in Africa and was going on and on and

finally the Assistant Secretary cut him off and said: "You know, the biggest

danger for your relationship with the United States is not our oppostion

but that we will find you irrelevant."

The point is that Nigeria can become much less relevant to the United

States. We have already seen evidence of it. When President Obama went to

Ghana and not to Nigeria, he was sending a message, that Ghana symbolized

more of the significant trends, issues and importance that one wants to put

on Africa than Nigeria.

And when I was asked by journalists why President Obama did not go to

Nigeria, I said "what would he gain from going? Would Nigeria be a good

model for democracy, would it be a model for good governance, would he

obtain new commitments on Darfur or Somalia or strengthen the African Union

or in Niger or elsewhere?"

No he would not, so he did not go.

And when Secretary Clinton did go, indeed but she also went to Angola and

who would have thought years ago that Angola would be the most stable

country in the Gulf of Guinea and establish a binational commission in

Angola.

So the handwriting may already be on the wall, and that is a sad commentary.

Because what it means is that Nigeria's most important strategic importance

in the end could be that it has failed.

And that is a sad sad conclusion. It does not have to happen, but I think

that we ought to stop talking about what a great country it is, and how

terribly important it is to us and talk about what it would take for Nigeria

to be that important and great.

And that takes an enormous amount of commitment. And you don't need saints,

you don't need leaders like Nelson Mandela in every state, because you are

not going to get them.

I served in South Korea in the middle of the 1960s and it was time when

South Korea was poor and considered hopeless, but it was becoming to turn

around, later to become to every person's amazement then the eleventh

largest economy in the world. And I remember the economist in my mission

saying, you know it did not bother him that the leading elites in the

government of South Korea were taking 15 - 20 percent off the top of every

project, as long as every project was a good one, and that was the

difference. The leadership at the time was determined to solve the

fundamental economic issues of South Korea economy and turn its economy

around.

It has not happened in Nigeria today. You don't need saints. It needs

leaders who say "You know we could be becoming irrelevant, and we got to do

something about it."

Thank you

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[Wharf A. Snake]

Folks this man had captured the decay that is Nigeria. No one takes serious the dying country and soon it will be dismembered. A country where a majority of the people depend on looting the treasury and the rest are incompetent buffoons in government must fail.

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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[ishola williams]

 

PEOPLE,LET NIGERIA DO SAME .A LOT OF MONEY WILL BE RECOVERED.

THE SAs IN THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE,ARE YOU ON THE SAME PAGE?iw

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/denmark-first-country-pay-out-1m-panama-papers-files-expose-tax-evaders-1580159?utm_source=email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_content=read_more&spMailingID=750285&spUserID=MTU0OTkxOTI3NDcS1&spJobID=630086008&spReportId=NjMwMDg2MDA4S0

[ishola williams]

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-thing-about-Norway/answer/Michel-Verheughe

[ishola williams]

IS THERE ANY LOCAL CURRENCY IN AFRICA?Curious mind wants to know.iw

http://m.en.rfi.fr/economy/20160904-paris-considers-launch-local-currency

[Joe Attueyi]

Hmmm! The vultures are gathering......

Bamidele Ademola-Olateju

The Saraki and Dogara Meeting In France

The information filtered in immediately Dogara got to London. I was told he will be meeting with Atiku and they were up to no good. My laser was focused on Atiku and word got to me that he was in Dubai at the time. Sources in the Gulf States were contacted and they confirmed his stay. We kept tabs on him. He stayed in Dubai and did not leave. Dogara went to Dorchester Hotel to meet the Zamfara governor. While we were on Atiku watch, Saraki crept into Paris and he met with Dogara. I was alerted but it was too late to deploy. Dogara did not alert the embassy. They wanted their clandestine meeting under wraps but hey, we will always know.  Here is the plan:

Buhari must NOT have a second term

An Atiku/Fayemi ticket

An El-Rufai/Fashola ticket

Destruction of Magu 

Attacks must begin on Obasanjo from their new and social media platforms

Deliberate sabotage from within to make Buhari unelectable

The battle for 2019 is here. Buhari can only blame himself. (More on this some day). When the tree you want to lean on is full of thorns, you know you are on your own. Bamidele! Is this war worth going into? Is it worth fighting? Can you and other patriots have the Nigeria you desire? These questions plaques my mind at every turn. 

I am confused, I am worried but I am resolute this morning. Even if it means that this generation of fighters can only plant the seed. We will plant the seed. I have adopted the slogan of my daughter's school. LEAD THE WAY!

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[Wilson Iguade]

I cannot tell who wrote this "An Atiku/Fayemi ticket

An El-Rufai/Fashola ticket"

No matter who wrote it, it is Total bullshit! 

Listen ya'all I did not grew up with the mentality that the average Nigerian has that some sectors of the country are born-to-rule. I learned of this junk while in the DIASPORA. My point, APC cannot in its wildest dream field a ticket again with the NORTH on top of the ticket, not fucking happening, awright!!!

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Switzerland Must not Return Unsupervised Loot to Nigeria.

By Pius Adesanmi.

I don't know waz gwan with Uncle Femi Falana these days. Whenever we are talking this, he is always talking that. Now he is complaining about Switzerland and how that country is handling the latest tranche of the Abacha loot that is due for repatriation to Nigeria. 

We are talking USD 321 million. The Swiss are insisting that the World Bank supervise the repatriation and monitor the spending of the money. Uncle Femi Falana is crying foul, citing Nigeria's sovereignty and all sorts of conventions from the Geneva Convention to the Talata Mafara Convention.

Me I say the Nigerian people must cite the layman's convention in this matter. And the layman's convention states that where a state has been receiving looted funds since OBJ and immediately relooting it, somebody somewhere has to help her break a corruption cycle she has neither the moral inclination nor political will to break.

All the arguments about the Swiss being corrupt receivers of stolen goods and property are valid. The Swiss have never hidden the fact that they are the world's most corrupt facilitators of African loot, constantly advertising their vaults as a safe and dependable home of loot.

But when the Swiss thieves sit down jejely in Switzerland, and your Nigerian thieves ferry loot to them constantly for safekeeping, it is the fault of your thieves. And where one set of thieves has shown some remorse, repatriating funds in tranches since Obasanjo, only for the funds to be immediately relooted and returned to them by your own remorseless thieves, you do not blame the remorseful thieves for finally insisting on supervised repatriation.

To put it bluntly, I am not in support of an unsupervised return of USD 321 million to Nigerian officials at this time. The Nigerian state does not inspire confidence and has egregiously mismanaged and relooted previously returned loot. We cannot account for one kobo of returned loot since OBJ. 

The case of the management of those funds under Okonjo Iweala is legendary. She gave constantly shifting accounts and explanations depending on which audience she was addressing. In the end, it all boiled down to the repatriated funds having been recycled into Nigeria's architecture of corruption. Not one sisi was spent on the Nigerian people. 

But Okonjo even tried. At least she offered a million shifting and contradictory explanations. None of those who managed repatriated funds before her have ever even bothered to dignify the Nigerian people with true or false explanations.

You cannot return unsupervised funds to Nigerian officials. These are desperate times and all the talk of sovereignty is trumped by the era of globalization and the IT knowledge economy marked by the ability of actors to bypass the state and reach peoples directly. Bypassing the state has proven very necessary in Africa because the postcolonial state in Africa is corrupt, dysfunctional, bogged down by all kinds of self-imposed strictures which prevent actionable agency from reaching the people.

What is wrong is for the remorseful thieves in Switzerland to have insisted on the World Bank. How can you bring Bretton Woods - another set of thieves - into the picture?

I say get UNESCO into the picture. Let them set up an international trust fund for Nigerian primary education with the money - to be accessed directly as grants by Nigerian public elementary schools in rural areas for infrastructural renewal, teacher training, and curriculum development in civics. Of course there will be all kind of obstacles erected by the Nigerian state. Laws will suddenly be passed preventing schools from accessing "foreign funds and grants" without the approval of the federal and state ministries of education, etc. But strictures can always be overcome.

If you return this money to the Nigerian state unsupervised, you have just given APC and President Buhari the seed money to prosecute the 2019 election. The closest any part of that money will get to the Nigerian people will be via stomach infrastructure when bags of rice, salt, beans, knorr, ajinomoto, and garawas of ororo and palm oil are distributed in the 2019 election cycle.

And, I must say that every President since OBJ has added a brand new plane to the Presidential fleet. President Buhari is yet to expand the fleet. USD 321 million is an excellent fleet expansion incentive...

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[John Ebohon]

My brother Joe,

 

I can understand the moral argument for wishing the money to be spent wisely and for the good of the country. Falana is right to highlight Nigeria’s sovereignty, which cannot be negotiated. If the Swiss are looking for an excuse not to return the money, let them keep it. That the World Bank should supervise the money being returned that should not have been received by the Swiss in the first place, should be hard for us to swallow, as a people. I would let them keep the money than accede to this ridiculous condition.  

OJ

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[Joe Attueyi]

I would let them keep the money than accede to this ridiculous condition.  

Ha! Bro John. 

In this recession when $ is N420?

$321 million is a LOT of naira o. 

You cannot bring ant infested logs into your house and turn around and complain that Lizards are invading your sovereignty is my view. 

Joe
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[Joe Attueyi]

The People Lead, The President Follows Behind.

By Pius Adesanmi.

On this plagiarism thing, I don't know why people are blaming President Buhari for following the people's example.

Come with me.

The President has made it clear that in certain areas of the Nigerian experience, the philosophy that he and APC will follow is that of the cart traveling before the horse. Or leadership from behind.

The people must do everything first. President Buhari and his people in government will "follow behind" as we say in Nigeria.

They started with sacrifice. They screamed and screamed and screamed about sacrifice. They wanted sacrifice to start with the people. At the time they were screaming sacrifice from the roof tops,  the National Assembly was buying new jeeps for everybody and the Presidency was allocating funds to the state house clinic in excess of the combined allocation to all University teaching hospitals. Even what was allocated for newspapers for the Vice President was superior to the book budget of Federal Universities.

And the harem of planes in the presidential fleet did not change. At the time, we  told the administration that sacrifice must begin with them and not with the people.

Instead of listening to that advice, they quietly withdrew the sacrifice mantra and rolled over to change that must begin with the people. There is indeed an aspect of change that must begin with you, with me, with all of us, and I will address that in a later essay. 

However, the overall diseased framework of asking the people to be the change that you are not ready to be is what detains me here. Like sacrifice, you want the people to lead that change so that you can "follow behind."

And the first example of change you have elected to emulate from the people is the culture of plagiarism. Nobody would disagree with the fact that the age of social media is the age that has witnessed deep changes in how the Nigerian people, especially the youth, perceive the integrity of intellectual property.

We moved from frowning on plagiarism and intellectual property theft to wearing it like a badge of honour. People go to other people's walls and just lift updates. You will steal an update from Facebook, put your name on it, and take it to whatsapp, snapchat, instagram, etc, and bask in glory as people celebrate your brilliance. Regular newspapers will steal social media updates without attribution.

I live in a world where people send me my essays - bearing different authorial names - and claiming they saw them circulating on whatsapp. There are more than 100 of us claiming authorship of my essay, "Bode Tibi Nko?". Farooq Kperogi's eyes saw pepper a few years ago when a fellow plagiarized, lifted, stole, and even started serializing his articles and threatened to sue him to boot! What has Moses Ochonu's eyes not seen? Bamidele Ademola-Olateju nko?

These days, I don't even bother. A few years ago, somebody even sent me an essay of mine he had encountered on whatsapp, claiming that he had just written it and wanted my opinion before sending it out for publication. If Linda Ikeji lifts or pirates people's essays, her victims must not talk. People will descend on them for being "envious" and "trying to bring her down". "Are you the only person whose work she has plagiarised", they'd ask the victim.

So, a presidency that is determined not to lead by example but to "follow behind" as the people show the way has correctly sensed that the people changed from frowning on plagiarism to approving of it and normalizing it and decided to follow the people's change example by lifting from Obama.

In twisted logic Nigeriana, I won't be surprised to encounter defenders, explainers, justifiers, and rationalizers (there is no conceivable travesty of the Nigerian ruling class that is not defended by a fragment of the populace) of the latest instance of presidential plagiarism who would upbraid us, saying: "at least he copied Obama and not any of Africa's olodo Presidents. We should be grateful."

The only Babalawo capable of correcting Nigeria's twisted moral universe died yesterday...

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[Joe Attueyi]

There maybe hope yet for Africa!

Obed Okyere: Millennial, African, Farmer

By Pius Adesanmi

I had barely settled down at work on Monday, Sept 19, 2016, when the young man breezed into my office. It was an African visit:  I was not expecting him; he walked in like he owned the space; his decibel level was above the standards officially approved for social interaction by the West. 

I tell myself that taking ownership of the oxygen in a space into which you have walked in uninvited and operating at a high decibel level are golden markers of being Nigerian but I could allow the Ghanaian self of my visitor appropriate those attributes in the interest of pan-African sharing.

Truth be told, I was pleased by it all. After all, this was the Institute of African Studies and we are very particular about letting “the African thing” define that space and our modes of interaction. I was also extremely happy to see Obed Okyere. In the academic session, 2011-2012, Obed had made history here at Carleton University by becoming President of CUSA, Carleton Undergraduate Students Association: the first African student to be President of the students’ union. 

His rise to undergraduate stardom meant that he became a ubiquitous presence on campus. I saw Obed everywhere. Then I went to Ghana for my sabbatical in 2014 and we lost contact. When I returned from Ghana, I naturally assumed that he had graduated and moved on from Carleton to greater things in life. I was therefore pleasantly surprised when I bumped into him on campus a few weeks ago. We did the usual African screaming on seeing each other, exchanged addresses, and he told me he’d email me to set up a meeting to explore scenarios at the Institute of African Studies. I assumed he was back for graduate studies and wanted to get into our collaborative masters program in African studies. After an initial admission into other programs, it is not unusual for African students to want to work with us at the Institute.

I never got the email to set up a meeting. Obed preferred an African walk-in. I liked it too. We got talking.

“So, Obed, which of our collaborative masters programs were you thinking of joining?”

“Masters? Prof, I am still an undergraduate. I have not graduated. But I do want to take courses in African Studies.”

My visitor could tell that I was getting confused. His undergraduate timeline wasn’t working for me. Besides, I had not seen him since I returned from sabbatical over two years ago.

“Obed, what’s going on o? Abi you took time off?”

“Yes, Prof, I took time off but I am back now to finish my final year of undergraduate studies.”

“Eeyah, Obed, why now? What happened? Did you need time to cool off after all the stress and pressure and politics of having been a student union leader for a year?”

“It was partly because of that, Prof. However, the main reason is that an opportunity arose for me to go and farm in Ghana and I needed to take it at the time.”

“Obed, I am not following you. You took time off to go and farm in Ghana?”

Now he was smiling. He knew I wasn’t imagining the scale of what he was talking about.

“Prof, I am not saying that I went to use hoe and cutlass in a small village farm o. I went back to establish a major farming project. My family is royalty and I came into substantial land. So, I tried to mobilize to use the land for large-scale farming. I spent my time in Ghana establishing a farm which now boasts one hundred acres of cashew trees and thirty-tree acres of pineapple.”

By now, the young man has my full attention. Here is an African millennial in his late twenties who has spent much of his life in the West, whose accent is fully Canadian, who returned to farm in Ghana! I grabbed my note pad and started to jot as he spoke.

“Ah, Prof, you are taking notes?”

“Obed, you don’t know anything at all you this boy. You imagine you are going to tell me such an inspirational story and I am going to keep it to myself? Your story is going to Facebook and Twitter. Your story is going to my columns. It is going to be read far and wide.”

“Really? Prof, you mean it? I have an inspirational story?”

“This boy, you don’t know anything. At your age, you have nearly one hundred and fifty acres of farm in Ghana and you are here asking me if your story is inspirational or not? Anyway, tell me more and I will tell you why your story is going public in my networks. I hope you don’t mind my taking pictures of you to accompany what I am going to write about you o?”

He poses for the camera. I ask him questions about his motivation, his support structure, how he got seed funding for the farm, where he intends to go with the whole thing. He is answering me brilliantly, his enthusiasm is boundless, his belief that there is no future for the African continent outside of modern 21st-century large scale farming powered by apps and innovation is infectious.

“So, Obed, basically you are telling me that whereas your peers in their 20s and 30s all over Africa and the African diaspora see apps and innovation in the context of glossy offices and spaces in modern skyscrapers in cool chic neighbourhoods in the city, you see apps and innovation in the farm lands in the villages of the continent? And you are still asking me why I need to tell your story?”

I’m not sure he heard me. He was too far gone talking about the opportunities he foresees for his farm; his ambition to export pineapple juice; a million things that could come from his 100-acre cashew plantation; other cash crops he could expand into, etc.

“So, Obed, why are you back at Carleton?” I asked him that question knowing that I would never encourage a millennial’s dreams, no matter how brilliant, if it did not include a minimum of a first degree.

“Well, Prof, after establishing the farm, I also told myself that I needed a knowledge base to feed my dreams. In fact, that is part of the reason I wanted to come and see you. I want to take courses in African studies. I want to expand my knowledge of the continent. I want to…”

By now, I was no longer listening. I was having difficulty restraining myself from hugging the young man.

“Obed, do you really want to know why I am jotting down your story like a student?”

“Prof, I’m still surprised by your excitement. I came to you for guidance and you are taking notes and I am doing all the talking.”

“Obed, such is life. The mentor is inspired by the story of his mentee. I’m afraid you are the teacher now and I am the student but this is one role reversal that I am grateful for. You just don’t have any idea, do you? You see, I have a huge followership among your generation in Nigeria. I mentor so many of them. And because of frequent trips and talks and teaching in Ghana and South Africa, I have also built a millennial followership in those countries. Useless politicians and visionless leadership have created a situation in which your generation across Africa sees success only when they are hired by politicians.”

“Ah, Prof!”

“Yes o, Obed. The situation is particularly terrible in Nigeria. Hardly any member of your generation can look into his or her future and see farming or talk about farming in such a knowledgeable, innovative, 21st-century app ecology as you have done here today. The future, for too many of your peers in Nigeria, is about being Personal Assistants to dirty politicians. It is not really their fault for such is the value system handed down to them by useless politicians and irresponsible public office holders. In fact, two months ago, I was in a situation where I saw a millennial like you in Abuja, a full-blooded Nigerian man with a proper penis between his legs, carrying the handbag of a female senator. You think I can tell that fellow that there is a future in farming without a story like yours as proof? You think I can tell him that farming is better than carrying the handbag or hand sets of a Senator?”

“Of course I know that this problem is also pervasive in Ghana, South Africa, Kenya and all over Africa where farming is still conceptualized as the synonym of “ peasant,” “ village,” “dirt,” “poverty.” No millennial with even a secondary school certificate wants to be associated with farming in Africa. From Kenya to Ghana, they’d rather hanker after useless politicans. Then, you, with all the opportunities you have here in Canada, with all your Canadian accent, your good looks, your cosmopolitanism, your looking every part the modern, 21st-century snapchatting, instagramming, and nightclubbing millennial, you just stood up and went back to Ghana to farm? And you are here in my office beating your chest, so proud of that choice in life? Obed, I must tell your story to motivate my young followers in Nigeria.”

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[ishola williams]

Global Africans,Greetings from Lagos.All to please read the attached.

With its parliamentary powers,East African Lesgislative Assembly(EALA) has made greater progress than the PanAfrican Parliaments and other Regional Parliaments.

Why are AU Heads of States at Continental and Regional Levels afraid to follow the Integrationist path of  EALA at Regional Levels?

There can be no economic integration with out parliamentary support.

This will strenghten the Global African Parliamentary Forum which has to be more active on Global Africa Issues.iw

 

 Ishola Williams Maj-Gen. (Rtd): E-mail: isholaw...@yahoo.com:        isholaw...@gmail.com: panafstragi...@yahoo.com:08056210960 website: www.panafstrag.org

On Monday, September 26, 2016 5:18 AM, 'G.Dada' via OkonkwoNetworks <okonkwo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

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[Joe Attueyi]

Moses Ochonu 

"THE PEOPLE AROUND BUHARI" EXCUSE

First, they said it was too early to criticize PMB for non-performance. Why not wait a year before criticizing, they said. Thankfully, a year has since passed and things have worsened, so that excuse has expired. 

With "too early to criticize" worn thin, the Buharists transitioned to another excuse: 16 years of PDP damage cannot be fixed in a year, they said; never mind that at least 40 percent of the people in the current administration have origins in the PDP and participated extensively in this 16 year destruction they speak of.

 It is September 2016, and the economy lies comatose, rendered dysfunctional by a combination of outmoded economic thinking, arbitrary statism, and panicky policy flip-flops. It is increasingly clear now that it's not the 16 year PDP plague or the low oil price, or Niger Delta Avengers, that has taken Nigerian into recession. Rather, It is key decisions taken in the early days of this administration and stubbornly maintained against wise expert counsel. These foundational knee jerk measures are responsible for the recession as Emir Sanusi of Kano correctly stated. Although some of these policies have been reversed, their debilitating aftermaths persist, deepening the recession. 

Even the current hyper-inflationary trend, which is epitomized by the almost tripping of the price of rice between May 2015 and now, has been clearly shown to be partly the result of the arbitrary and thoughtless banning of rice importation before mechanisms have been established to ensure adequate and competitive domestic rice production. We have Feyi Fawehinmi to thank for his clear-eyed analysis of the rice price debacle and the administrations culpability in it. 

With these developments, the "16 years of PDP damage" excuse is no longer credible. Predictably, the Buhari propaganda machine has unveiled yet another excuse for our bumbling president. The latest excuse is what I call "the people around Buhari" alibi. 

Everywhere you go in Buhariland, that is what Buharists say incestuously to one other. Buhari means well and has great plans for the country, they say, without outlining what those hidden plans are. It is the people around him that are selfishly sabotaging his efforts, they add. 

Belief in this fiction is proportional to the depth of support for Buhari. It is no surprise then that Buhari's northern base is the cradle of this excuse. The north is where you will encounter it with the greatest fervor and vehemence, and in its various iterations. Even in the north, this belief that the current calamity is not Buhari's fault but that of "the  people around him" is held most doggedly by the talakawa and non-elites, who retain their near-deifying admiration for Buhari and still see a messiah in him, despite the evidence of his incompetence and apparent ignorance  of enlightened principles of governance, statecraft, and problem solving. 

This excuse is the easiest to demolish. It is irrational, lacking any logic. The so-called people around Buhari are people that Buhari himself appointed and chose to surround himself with. They serve at his wish. No one held a gun to his head to force him to appoint them. Conversely, no one is forcing him to keep them if they are not doing the job for which they were appointed. He could fire 

them today, but he chooses to keep them. That's entirely on him. 

If this administration were performing, I doubt that Buharists would be saying "ahh look at how the people around Buhari are performing." No. They would say "ahh, Baba is performing." So, like all the previous excuses that have gone out of circulation, this one too was cooked up by rabid, secretly embarrassed and disappointed supporters of the president who do not want to publicly acknowledge that we have been scammed and are now saddled with an intellectually incurious president who cavalierly parceled out functions to random party men and women and then withdrew into Aso Rock's inner recess to enjoy the perks and aura of the office of president. 

The Buharists cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the truth of Buhari's incompetence and cluelessness, hence they would rather blame everyone and everything but the president himself for the economic collapse he and the APC brought on Nigeria.

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By this time next year, and if things don't improve, Moses Ochonu shall have been a seer with his current conclusion about Buhari and his presidency. Let's wait awhile

Nebu

Hope maketh not ashamed. Hope is what keeps us Nigerians going. 

However if you want to give a vehicle enough time to get to its desired destination the vehicle must at least be going in the right direction. If I intend to go to VI , come out of my house and turn left , 'waiting a while' or giving me time will not get me to VI. The faster or longer I go the farther away from VI I will be. 

Time is not Baba's problem. He is clueless about what to do with the economy. And unfortunately the voices nearest to his ears are either clueless or have their own agenda. If that fundamental issue is not changed you don't need to be a seer to know where we are heading!

Joe

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On 28 Sep 2016, at 7:32 AM, 'Nebukadineze Adiele' via NaijaEvent <naija...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Let it be on record that Moses Ochonu is not Igbo (he is Igala or thereabout) and that he was with us in supporting Buhari over Jonathan. Those of us whose motive for supporting Buhari is nothing but the best interest of Nigeria are not shy about criticizing his shortcomings, but those who are after political appointments and hero worshiping are the ones who make stupid excuses for him.

I still think that it is not too late for the president to turn things around, so I cannot totally agree with Ochonu's categorization of president Buhari as "an intellectually incurious president" whose incompetence and being clueless as to how to run the country has brought the country's economic collapse. The president's failures deserve criticism but Ochonu's conclusion is too drastic and subjective to be drawn over a man who has just been in office for slightly more than a year. By this time next year, and if things don't improve, Moses Ochonu shall have been a seer with his current conclusion about Buhari and his presidency. Let's wait awhile. 

Nebukadineze Adiele
Organized religion sired irrationality.

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[Wharf A. Snake]

Nebu,

These are not shortcomings but crass incompetence of the highest magnitude. Naira is exchanging for 452 to the USD today. This is total calamity and anarchy will soon follow. You cannot continue to placate people with mere rhetorics when they are dying of hunger.

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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[Joe Attueyi]

As we watch Mama P's movie na so we dey watch Jibrin and Dogara padding wahala. Fighting kwaraption 

Joe

Whistle blowing 101

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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ABUJA

My dear Colleagues,

BURDEN OF PROOF OF EVIDENCE: RUNNING COST OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

I wish to draw your attention to the fact that since you suspended me yesterday and the suggestion of the Ethics Committee report that my allegations were generalized and without proof, I have come under intense public scrutiny and pressure to prove that there exists systemic corruption in the House. I have taken it as a responsibility to prove to the public that the House is a den of systemic corruption. As colleagues, I have bound with many of you and built a life long friendship.

I have some of you that I hold in high esteem. If you end up at the receiving end of the actions I will be taking up in the next few days, I want you to know there is nothing personal but commitment and fervent desire to ensure that corruption is wiped out of the House and reforms that will restore the battered image of the House and take back the House to the Nigerian people is implemented.

Consequent upon the above and before I proceed with the aggressive steps I intend to take, I hereby DEMAND that if you have illegally taken or stolen any money meant for the RUNNING COST OF YOUR OFFICES FOR YOUR ENTIRE STAY IN THE HOUSE, YOU SHOULD RETURN THE MONEY WITHIN ONE WEEK TO THE CLERK OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARITY, I AM REFERRING TO ABOUT 10MILLION NAIRA YOU COLLECT FROM TAX PAYERS' MONEY MONTHLY. THE CLERK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT DETAILS, FAILURE OF WHICH I WILL TAKE NECESSARY ACTION TO ENSURE THAT YOU RETURN ANY MONEY STOLEN AND STAND WITNESS AGAINST YOU IN CASE OF PROSECUTION.

I have written to the Clerk of the National Assembly to stand by in anticipation. In the face of the revenue challenges and biting hardship the country is currently facing, there is no better time the country needs such money than now.

In the case of the Presiding and Principal Officers, in addition to my demand in this letter which applies to them too, I have written them yesterday and gave them 72 hours ULTIMATUM to make public the total amount they have received as running cost in their entire stay in the House, failure of which I will proceed with necessary legal action to compel them to make the total amount each of them have received public.

There are other issues of monumental corruption in the House that I will be raising in the following weeks which we must all deal with, but first lets get done with this one.

Thank you.

God bless.

Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin PhD MBA

APC-Kano

Kiru-Bebeji Federal Constituency

Kano

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[Tajudeen]

It would be great, really great if the Jibrin person can truly expose the rot in house of assembly and bring about the prosecution of all those found guilty. He should be debriefed about what he knows and can prove. If he is found to be credible, he and his family should be protected and given immunity. And then proceed from there with the important work of cleansing our young democracy by arresting and prosecuting the rotten members.

Thanks,

Tajudeen Raji 

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 1, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Joe Attueyi topc...@yahoo.com [NigerianID] <NigerianI...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

As we watch Mama P's movie na so we dey watch Jibrin and Dogara padding wahala. Fighting kwaraption 

Joe

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TO ALL HONOURABLE MEMBERS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

ABUJA

My dear Colleagues,

BURDEN OF PROOF OF EVIDENCE: RUNNING COST OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

I wish to draw your attention to the fact that since you suspended me ye sterday and the suggestion of the Ethics Committee report that my allegations were generalized and without proof, I have come under intense public scrutiny and pressure to prove that there exists systemic corruption in the House. I have taken it as a responsibility to prove to the public that the House is a den of systemic corruption. As colleagues, I have bound with many of you and built a life long friendship.

I have some of you that I hold in high esteem. If you end up at the receiving end of the actions I will be taking up in the next few days, I want you to know there is nothing personal but commitment and fervent desire to ensure that corruption is wiped out of the House and reforms that will restore the battered image of the House and take back the House to the Nigerian people is implemented.

Consequent upon the above and be fore I proceed with the aggressive steps I intend to take, I hereby DEMAND that if you have illegally taken or stolen any money meant for the RUNNING COST OF YOUR OFFICES FOR YOUR ENTIRE STAY IN THE HOUSE, YOU SHOULD RETURN THE MONEY WITHIN ONE WEEK TO THE CLERK OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARITY, I AM REFERRING TO ABOUT 10MILLION NAIRA YOU COLLECT FROM TAX PAYERS' MONEY MONTHLY. THE CLERK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT DETAILS, FAILURE OF WHICH I WILL TAKE NECESSARY ACTION TO ENSURE THAT YOU RETURN ANY MONEY STOLEN AND STAND WITNESS AGAINST YOU IN CASE OF PROSECUTION.

I have written to the Clerk of the National Assembly to stand by in anticipation. In the face of the revenue challenges and biting hardship the country is currently facing, there is no better time the country needs such money than now.

In the case of the Presiding and Principal Officers, in addition to my demand in this letter which applies to them too, I have written them yesterday and gave them 72 hours ULTIMATUM to make public the total amount they have received as running cost in their entire stay in the House, failure of which I will proceed with necessary legal action to compel them to make the total amount each of them have received public.

There are other issues of monumental corruption in the House that I will be raising in the following weeks which we must all deal with, but first lets get done with this one.

Thank you.

God bless.

Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin PhD MBA

APC-Kano

Kiru-Bebeji Federal Constituency

Kano

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"If he is found to be credible, he and his family should be protected and given immunity. And then proceed from there with the important work of cleansing our young democracy by arresting and prosecuting the rotten members." - Taju

 

Taju,

 

Prosecuted with what? 

 

As of now, no amount of evidence is sufficient for the corrupt judges of the Judiciary to find guilt. Remember how Ibori wasn't found guilty on a singer count of over 70 charges by a Federal judge in As...@yahoogroups.com? Why do you think Dasuki and others have other been tried yet after almost a whole year in spite of his own a missions and his co-conspirator?

 

Pres. Buhari is just a one-man team. His VP, who is a SAN, should be in charge of these things with EFCC and the courts, but he is as spent and inactive as a medieval grave!

 

Meanwhile, Nigerians are only interested in being f ed by father Buhari because they are hungry!

 

Shades of Dr. James Watson!

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

 

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Tajudeen tr...@aol.com [NaijaPolitics]

<NaijaP...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

 

It would be great, really great if the Jibrin person can truly expose the rot in house of assembly and bring about the prosecution of all those found guilty. He should be debriefed about what he knows and can prove. If he is found to be credible, he and his family should be protected and given immunity. And then proceed from there with the important work of cleansing our young democracy by arresting and prosecuting the rotten members.

 

Thanks,

Tajudeen Raji 

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 1, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Joe Attueyi topc...@yahoo.com [NigerianID] <NigerianI...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

As we watch Mama P's movie na so we dey watch Jibrin and Dogara padding wahala. Fighting kwaraption 

 

Joe

 

Whistle blowing 101

 

TO ALL HONOURABLE MEMBERS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

ABUJA

 

My dear Colleagues,

 

BURDEN OF PROOF OF EVIDENCE: RUNNING COST OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

I wish to draw your attention to the fact that since you suspended me ye sterday and the suggestion of the Ethics Committee report that my allegations were generalized and without proof, I have come under intense public scrutiny and pressure to prove that there exists systemic corruption in the House. I have taken it as a responsibility to prove to the public that the House is a den of systemic corruption. As colleagues, I have bound with many of you and built a life long friendship.

 

I have some of you that I hold in high esteem. If you end up at the receiving end of the actions I will be taking up in the next few days, I want you to know there is nothing personal but commitment and fervent desire to ensure that corruption is wiped out of the House and reforms that will restore the battered image of the House and take back the House to the Nigerian people is implemented.

 

Consequent upo n the above and be fore I proceed with the aggressive steps I intend to take, I hereby DEMAND that if you have illegally taken or stolen any money meant for the RUNNING COST OF YOUR OFFICES FOR YOUR ENTIRE STAY IN THE HOUSE, YOU SHOULD RETURN THE MONEY WITHIN ONE WEEK TO THE CLERK OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARITY, I AM REFERRING TO ABOUT 10MILLION NAIRA YOU COLLECT FROM TAX PAYERS' MONEY MONTHLY. THE CLERK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT DETAILS, FAILURE OF WHICH I WILL TAKE NECESSARY ACTION TO ENSURE THAT YOU RETURN ANY MONEY STOLEN AND STAND WITNESS AGAINST YOU IN CASE OF PROSECUTION.

 

I have written to the Clerk of the National Assembly to stand by in anticipation. In the face of the revenue challenges and biting hardship the country is currently facing, there is no better time the country needs such money than now.

 

In the case of the Presiding and Principal Officers, in addition to my demand in this letter which applies to them too, I have written them yesterday and gave them 72 hours ULTIMATUM to make public the total amount they have received as running cost in their entire stay in the House, failure of which I will proceed with necessary legal action to compel them to make the total amount each of them have received public.

There are other issues of monumental corruption in the House that I will be raising in the following weeks which we must all deal with, but first lets get done with this one.

 

Thank you.

God bless.

 

Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin PhD MBA

APC-Kano

Kiru-Bebeji Federa l Constituency

Kano

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SteveK,

Based on Nigeria's history, you are most likely going to be correct with your believe that the whole thing would be, when it's all said and done, swept under the rug. 

God help us all. 

Thanks,

Tajudeen Raji 

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On Oct 1, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Stevek stev...@yahoo.com [NIgerianWorldForum] <NIgerianW...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

"If he is found to be credible, he and his family should be protected and given immunity. And then proceed from there with the important work of cleansing our young democracy by arresting and prosecuting the rotten members." - Taju

Taju,

Prosecuted with what? 

As of now, no amount of evidence is sufficient for the corrupt judges of the Judiciary to find guilt. Remember how Ibori wasn't found guilty on a singer count of over 70 charges by a Federal judge in As...@yahoogroups.com? Why do you think Dasuki and others have other been tried yet after almost a whole year in spite of his own a missions and his co-conspirator?

Pres. Buhari is just a one-man team. His VP, who is a SAN, should be in charge of these things with EFCC and the courts, but he is as spent and inactive as a medieval grave!

Meanwhile, Nigerians are onl y interested in being fed by father Buhari because they are hungry!

Shades of Dr. James Watson!

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

It would be great, really great if the Jibrin person can truly expose the rot in house of assembly and bring about the prosecution of all those found guilty. He should be debriefed about what he knows and can prove. If he is found to be credible, he and his family should be protected and given immunity. And then proceed from there with the important work of cleansing our young democracy by arresting and prosecuting the rotten members.

Thanks,

Tajudeen Raji 

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 1, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Joe Attueyi topc...@yahoo.com [NigerianID] <NigerianI...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

As we watch Mama P's movie na so we dey watch Jibrin and Dogara padding wahala. Fighting kwaraption 

Joe

Whistle blowing 101

TO ALL HONOURABLE MEMBERS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

ABUJA

My dear Colleagues,

BURDEN OF PROOF OF EVIDENCE: RUNNING COST OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

I wish to draw your attention to the fact that since you suspended me ye sterday and the suggestion of the Ethics Committee report that my allegations were generalized and without proof, I have come under intense public scrutiny and pressure to prove that there exists systemic corruption in the House. I have taken it as a responsibility to prove to the public that the House is a den of systemic corruption. As colleagues, I have bound with many of you and built a life long friendship.

I have some of you that I hold in high esteem. If you end up at the receiving end of the actions I will be taking up in the next few days, I want you to know there is nothing personal but commitment and fervent desire to ensure that corruption is wiped out of the House and reforms that will restore the battered image of the House and take back the House to the Nigerian people is implemented.

Conseq uent upon the above and be fore I proceed with the aggressive steps I intend to take, I hereby DEMAND that if you have illegally taken or stolen any money meant for the RUNNING COST OF YOUR OFFICES FOR YOUR ENTIRE STAY IN THE HOUSE, YOU SHOULD RETURN THE MONEY WITHIN ONE WEEK TO THE CLERK OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARITY, I AM REFERRING TO ABOUT 10MILLION NAIRA YOU COLLECT FROM TAX PAYERS' MONEY MONTHLY. THE CLERK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT DETAILS, FAILURE OF WHICH I WILL TAKE NECESSARY ACTION TO ENSURE THAT YOU RETURN ANY MONEY STOLEN AND STAND WITNESS AGAINST YOU IN CASE OF PROSECUTION.

I have written to the Clerk of the National Assembly to stand by in anticipation. In the face of the revenue challenges and biting hardship the country is currently facing, there is no better time the country needs such money than now.

In the case of the Presiding and Principal Officers, in addition to my demand in this letter which applies to them too, I have written them yesterday and gave them 72 hours ULTIMATUM to make public the total amount they have received as running cost in their entire stay in the House, failure of which I will proceed with necessary legal action to compel them to make the total amount each of them have received public.

There are other issues of monumental corruption in the House that I will be raising in the following weeks which we must all deal with, but first lets get done with this one.

Thank you.

God bless.

Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin PhD MBA

APC-Kano

Kiru-Bebej i Federal Constituency

Kano

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​<b>2015 A'Ibom Guber polls: Fear grips Akpabio over arrest of Supreme Court Justices​</b>


...Spare me, I'll return Akpabio's $3 million bribe- Justice Okoro begs Buhari


... Akwa Ibom Elders snub Justice Okoro as Supreme Court Judge beg APC chieftains for intervention


Former Akwa Ibom State Governor and Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio was gripped with fear upon hearing the news of the arrest of two Supreme Court judges and some High Court judges over allegations of corruption and financial inducement to compromise the 2015 Akwa Ibom State Governorship Election Petition.


One of the Justices arrested in the early hours of Saturday morning by a team of Special Forces from the Department of State Services (DSS), Abuja, is Hon Justice Inyang Okoro who hails from Akwa Ibom State. Akpabio was instrumental to Okoro's elevation to the Court of Appeal as a judge and later to the Supreme Court. He hails from Ikono LGA of Akwa Ibom State.


A frightened Akpabio is alleged to have been battling in vain to reach out to the detained Supreme Court judge at the DSS headquarters Saturday morning in an attempt to extract a commitment that he (Akpabio) will not be implicated during interrogation in custody by the detained Judge in relation to allegation of bribery and corruption which led to the compromising of the 2015 Akwa Ibom State Governorship Petition.


Read:

http://www.apcnewsalert.tv/2016/10/08/breakingnews-2015-aibom-guber-polls-fear-grips-akpabio-arrest-supreme-court-justices/

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[BUSKA OLADOSU]

Okoi,that a member of the revered temple of justice like you will be supporting the desecration of the judiciary just because your bread is being buttered by the crumb thereof   is quite alarming ,never  knew you are this daft
What makes you think anybody will fall for your usual devilish propaganda of cash discovery in people's house, cash that have never been tendered before the public at any point
Just mark my word some of you will surely have your day before the international Court of Justice very soon
Continue to delude yourselves thinking Nigeria is the end of the earth and Buhari the only emperor

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were the stream of northerners who were foisted on us for the past 20 years one after the other the more competent???

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THE NEXT CHIEF JUSTICE OF NIGERIA MUST BE THE MOST COMPETENT TO BE AT THAT OFFICE. PERIOD.

Yaya Fanusie, ONE NIGERIA TODAY ONE FOR EVER GROUP

On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Imperial imperi...@yahoo.com [YanArewa] <YanA...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

The Judicial arm of our government  is extremely corrupt. I don't think the country can move an inch forward without sanctioning some rogues on our bench .

If Justice Walter Onnoghen is incompetent or found to be a rogue, I recommend that  he should be retired, dismissed  or heavily sanctioned .  I will however object to making another northerner or even a south westerner the next Chief Justice of Nigeria , 

The next CJ must come from the SS or at least SE in the interest of National Unity. 

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YF is right but not in our own situation cos of ethnic balance or federal character and the system of appointment according to seniority on the bench.
MD is wrong by using the words "foistered on us".Who foistered the system of federal character and appointment by seniority on us?What did your elders do to prevent foistering or what is your generation doing to introduce a new system for competence?
If it is Constitutional,then amend it .
It is funny that the SW/SE give the North especially the Hausas and Fulanis collaboration ,the political clout and opportunity to strategize in short and medium term to get what they want.
When it is convenient,the SW and SE will beg for alliance for short term benefits.
As it is becoming obvious daily,there is no strategic thinking and thinkers in this Regime.
STOP THE BLAME GAME,MAKE A CHANGE,HEAD HUNT NOT LOBBY.iw

[Joe Attueyi]

I really don't see anything wrong with what Madam A said in this interview. She is vocalizing the views of many of her husband's supporters. If Baba had some grey matter he would have realized that as an educated woman she was doing him a Favour by playing 'good-cop-bad-cop" for him. 

If Baba had kept quiet Madam would , by this interview, have had some clout to help calm disgruntled party members like BAT. Now she is a fellow wailer!

Joe

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PREMIUM TIMES has obtained from the BBC, an audio of the interview. Mrs. Buhari spoke in Hausa and English languages. This version was conducted in Hausa, and was translated by PREMIUM TIMES’ Sani Tukur.

BBC: Almost two years after President Muhammadu Buhari was elected into this government; it appears as if things are not going well, the people are complaining; where do you think the problem is?

Aisha Buhari: From my own observation, being a housewife, I think security wise; we have relatively achieved more than 100 percent. Being someone that comes from the North east, I knew when almost nobody sleeps in his or her house. But now, people sleep with their two eyes closed.

The hardship that people are going through now was anticipated, knowing what we inherited. It is not going to be a smooth journey; but I think so far so good. The only thing that almost everybody is not happy with, including myself, is on those that really suffered for this journey and now people who do not even have registration cards are guiding us, which is so unfair and unfortunate for the journey that we started more than 13 years ago.

BBC: But some will say whenever you are elected into government, you have to bring in professionals, experts who know how to do the job and not just politicians?

Aisha Buhari: Yeah; but if you look at the journey that we had; after the merger, we didn’t call it merger or APC again, we called it a movement because it was a collective effort of millions of people, only for us to find out that the government is being operated by a few people.  Very few, in the sense that we have may be four to six people that really started the journey with us in the system.

Unfortunately, the people that are occupying the seats, I don’t think they have any expertise that our supporters in APC do not have. We have supporters all over the world. Those who really supported APC and felt that enough is enough, let us have sanity in the society; it was a real collective effort.

Nobody will say that ‘it was as a result of my hard work that I brought this government’; it was a real team work and we wish that the team work should continue.

Everybody knows what my husband wants to achieve in four years. But having new set of people on board that were not part of us, they don’t really know what we promised Nigerians and that is the thing we are facing now.

BBC: Who are these 4 to 5 people you are talking about?

Aisha Buhari: People like Ogbonnaya Onu, Amaechi, Fashola, after the merger it was a huge group that came together and started the struggle again.  It is sad that very few are in the system now. Though I heard that they are about to announce like 3000 names as Board members; we feel that those that have started the struggle should not be limited to Board members; they should be in positions like heading agencies that will impact positively on the lives of Nigerians.

Knowing what we have campaigned for, only for us to bring people that are busy telling people that they are not politicians but they are occupying seats that were brought in by politicians. This is a huge disrespect for politicians. Knowing that we are just starting, we have not got to 2017, talk less of 2018 and then 2019 for us to go back to the polls; you understand what I mean?

BBC: Who are these very few people as you said surrounding President Muhammadu Buhari, and have you spoken to him about this?

Aisha Buhari: Yeah. Not only me in person, because after receiving complaints upon complaints, I decided to tell him. But all the same, a lot of people have been coming on their own and also collectively to tell him that things are not going the way it should when it comes to putting people in certain positions. Because most of those that are occupying positions in agencies, nobody knows them and they themselves don’t know our party manifesto; what we campaigned for; they were not part of us completely. People were sitting down in their houses, folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position. They don’t have a mission or vision of our APC, you understand what I mean?

BBC: Whose fault is this?

Aisha Buhari: It’s the fault of 15.429 million people because they are the ones that brought in the government. It’s their fault!

BBC: But theirs is just to elect APC and President Muhammadu Buhari and he is the one that is supposed to be in charge; is he not?

Aisha Buhari: Because they elected him; that’s why he is here. If they can stand firm and strengthen the party and tell everybody that ‘No! We can’t take this; we can’t take you because you are not a card carrying member, you don’t know what we want to achieve within so and so time’. Fifteen point something million people is a huge number that can control a country.

BBC: Somebody listening to this will feel like President Muhammadu Buhari is not in charge of this government?

Aisha Buhari: It is left for the people to decide whether he is in charge or he is not in charge. People actually accepted his ideology and decided to follow him for the past 13 years. That is what brought him to this current position.

BBC: As his wife, what will be your advice to him going forward?

Aisha Buhari: My advice is to the whole people that voted for him. They should strengthen the party and whoever is not part of the party should not have control over fifteen point something million people. We are in a democracy and not military era, so we have to play it well and leave a legacy.

BBC: What you are saying is that if things continue like this, you will not leave any legacy?

Aisha Buhari: As a person, I have my right to say how I feel about something. If it continues like this, me I am not going to be part of any movement again, because I need to work with the people that we started the journey with collectively so that we can achieve what we want to achieve, so that he would leave a legacy.

BBC: Have you told your husband all this?

Aisha Buhari: Yeah! He knows! At my own level, I have done it personally. I have also listened to people’s complaints and I tried to tell him what they are coming to tell me so that if there is anything to be corrected; it can be corrected.

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[Wharfery Snake]

According to Peter Claver Opara, she is a Jonathan supporter whose gravy train has terminated and now she is wailing wailer. According to Peter Claver Opara, all of these wailers are blind to the tremendous accomplishments of the Buhari regime. Peter Claver Opara is the only one blessed with the capability to see it all.

WS - A revered prince of Mushin.

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[afis 'Deinde]

Keep lying to yourself, Joe Attueyi, that she's  betraying her husband for Tinubu. Only your mouth that one sweet for.  

WATCH THIS WOMAN MY PEOPLE, IF SHE COULD BETRAY HER HUSBAND, SHE IS A VICIOUS ONE TO WATCH, SHE WOULD BETRAY ANYONE.

Can anyone mention any instance a president's wife in USA flew to Africa or Europe and got interviewed by BBC and told the world her husband doesn't know 40 of 50 members of his cabinet.

Now let's check out that statement:

Most of you guys blamed Buhari for putting his "people" in govt. That is now a lie according to Aisha.

If Buhari doesn't know 40 of the people working for him, could those 40 be partly Southerners?  Or middle-belt Nigerians?

I tell you my peoples, this woman is looking out for "numero uno", herself.

Aisha Buhari is fighting for Aisha Buhari.

She's not fighting for Yoruba, Igbo or any tribe.

She wants POWER!

If Buhari should die in office, this woman may be worse than the combination of Yar Adua's wife and Patience!

Even in the US, no wife has ever done what she did.

It is the utmost betrayal.

If a wife as the president, done that to Afis, even with my pro-feminine, I will bar her out of Aso Rock. She's toxic and dangerous.

Buhari was elected not Aisha. Buhari tersely asked if Aisha is a member of any party......is she a leader of any party?

She said she won't campaign for Buhari......who knows monkey if not because of Buhari?

Watch out Nigerians, this woman may be "worser" than Patience Jonathan.

A president's wife is to seen not to be heard.

Though the president sounded misogynistic like George Kerley pointed out, I think Buhari is on the right path.

I am staying with Buhari on this one.

Aisha wants power, she didn't get it, she went to a foreign country to embarrass and betray her husband.

That ain't African, not British, not American, not any culture!

Hilary Clinton once made her husband lost second term election just because she refused to play the role of a wife. Before next election she changed her last name from Rodham to Clinton, and accepted the traditional role of the First Lady of Arkansas, and they won the Gubernatorial election.

Buhari did not explain himself and spoke like a true African with no diplomatic language just pure husband's fury!
Shikena 

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[Mobolaji Aluko]

Afis:

You are absolutely right: Aisha was unwise in speaking her wifely fears aloud, and PMB's politically-incocrect "joke" rightly opens him to opprobrium.

One of my abiding concerns about Nigerian elite is that they do not know how to handle the Press, particularly how to say "No Comment" to loaded questions..Foreign press is particularly difficult to handle, because of their nuance of language and deceptively friendly disposition.

Nevertheless, both PNB and the First Lady should learn a lesson from this event: that he should not discount his wife's instinct on the matter, and that while her husband is in government,  she should stay closer home (in mouth) on political matters of state.

I know that it will be very difficult for our professional wailers who are happy to smell any blood, but we should move on.

And there you have it.


Bolaji Aluko

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[Abraham Madu]

 

All those African Copy Cats Male with western Feminism inclination to please read this from a well-known African Womanist DR OO, that I had earlier mentioned in one of my postings.

Thanks to Oluwatoyin A and Abraham A.

 

Ishola Williams Maj-Gen. (Rtd): E-mail: isholaw...@yahoo.com:  

Thank you Maj-Gen. (Rtd) Ishola Williams for being one of all those African COPY Cats Male with African Womanist Dr O.O.

Ya kpotuba!

Ya gazie.

A.A.Madu

[Ishola Williams]

AA,I AM AN AFRICAN.HOW DO I BECOME A COPY CAT OF MY SELF.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR RECOGNITION OF AN OLD AFRICAN SOLDIER WHO STAND BY HIS OWN WOMANIISM.
WHAT IS FEMINISM IN ANY AFRICAN LANGUAGE?
Inquiring mind at work.
BE OF GOOD CHEER SIR.iw

[Abraham Madu]

"WHAT IS FEMINISM IN ANY AFRICAN LANGUAGE?

Inquiring mind at work." by Williams Maj-Gen.(Rtd).

See why you are a retired General. Old soldier never die!

How do I know? I speak Igbo language, not English a language of lies. Dr. Adeniran Adeboye might know what it is in Yoruba language.

Ya kpọtụba!

Ya gazie.

Ụmụ nne Abrahamụọgụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.

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[Okoi Ofem Obono-Obla]

INTERVIEW: Nigeria's judiciary stinks of corruption and must be purged – Buhari's adviser

The Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, a lawyer, in this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Festus Owete and Hassan Adebayo, speaks on how the judiciary has frustrated the corruption war of the Buhari administration and steps being taken to purge it.

PT: Nigerians have expressed different views on the arrest and detention and even the release of some judges. Some persons have said the SSS does not have the powers to effect the arrest. What is your take?

Obono-Obla: The arrest of the judges is lawful, legitimate and constitutional. In the first place, judges are not above the law; judges in Nigerian do not have immunity. The issue of immunity is purely spelt out in the constitution. The president, vice president, governors and deputy governors are the only categories of politicians who have immunity. If the framers of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) intended that the members of the judicial branch of government should have immunity, they would have clearly spelt it out in the constitution. Nigerians are confounded, surprised and amazed because this type of a thing has never happened in Nigeria. It is unprecedented. So the assumption that judges are above the law has been there. It was a perception but it is not true in reality. And this is a reformist government that will ensure that the rule of law is obeyed by everybody and that is why I can see that Nigerians are surprised that these things are happening. Even Ghana, 22 judges were arrested, arraigned and dismissed from service. In Italy recently 16 judges were arrested by police and 1 billion Euros recovered from them. In the U.S. that is supposedly the bastion of constitutional and liberal democracy, judges have been arrested and jailed by FBI. In the U.K., judges have been arrested, tried and jailed. In India that is very similar to Nigeria in terms of socio-economic development, judges have been arrested and jailed. But in Nigeria, judges have never been arrested because there has been no will in Nigeria to enforce the rule of law. And then this mentality – the Nigerian big man has this mindset that ‘I am above the law’ and then the thing has trickled down to the ordinary people who have the perception that big men should not be answerable for their crimes. That is why each time a big man is arrested in Nigeria, it will generate controversy. It has happened in Dasuki’s case and so many other high profile cases. They just generate controversy so that government is discredited and distracted. So, do we want two standards of justice in Nigeria – one for the rich people and one for the poor people? When the police break into the homes of the poor people and arrest them, nobody says anything. Go to the prisons and see how poor people who allegedly stole maybe N1 or N5 are being treated. So all said and done, judges are ordinary people. They are subjected to the law just as you and me. It is only when a judge is sitting in the courtroom that he has immunity just like the legislators when they are inside the parliament they have immunity. If a judge comes out of chambers and he commits a crime he is liable to the law.  On the legality of DSS’ action, DSS was a branch of the Nigerian police. It was known as the Intelligence and Investigation Unit of the Nigerian Police. That is the historical background. But later on it was severed from the Nigerian Police to form the Nigerian Security Organisation. Then in the 1990s when Babangida was president, he had to change it to SSS. If you look at Section 2 (3) (A) of the National Security Agency Act, the SSS has the power of prevention and detection of any crime within Nigeria against the internal security of Nigeria. If a judge collects bribe to pervert the cause of justice in an election matter, don’t you think that can lead to a threat to national security? It is a threat to national security because there is a tendency towards impunity and lawlessness by Nigeria. There is a serious propensity of Nigerians taking laws into their hands. Why? It is because they no longer have faith in the judicial system because judges collect bribe. Is that not a threat to national security? It is. What is the goal of judicial branch of government? The role is to interprete the law, maintain social equilibrium, social harmony so that Nigerians live together. If they have disagreement, they should go to court and have justice. The court will make a pronouncement that Mr. B is right and Mr. B is wrong to prevent Nigerians from taking laws into their hands. If there is a crisis between the executive and legislature, its own is to interpret and resolve their crisis on conflict. So if we have a judiciary that is collecting bribe to subvert the course of justice, is that not a threat to national security? So DSS or SSS by virtue of section 2 (3) (A) of the National Security Act, has the power to also investigate corruption cases, financial and economic crimes, terrorism, etc. If you also look at section 2 (3) (c), of the Act, it gives the president the discretion to assign any role to SSS in so far as the national interest or security is involved. A lot of people do not know that in 1999, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, when he was head of state, made an executive order pursuant to section 2 (3) (c) of the Act vesting the power on SSS to investigate financial and economic crimes. So what are they talking about? It is just the Nigerian thing that when a big man is involved there is propaganda in the media to distract government and discredit the process. We must do away with that mindset that big men are not subject to the law.

PT: But in this matter, we understand the president has a hand in the arrest of the judges.

Obono-Obla: The president has no hand. This president is one man who does not interfere with the work of the various ministries, commissions etc. There are a lot of petitions against judges that were even sent to this office by civil society groups. There are a lot of petitions sent to the NJC and NJC could not investigate these petitions for whatever reason. So these petitions were forwarded to the relevant security agencies to investigate because they border on crime. You must know that NJC has no power to investigate crime. NJC has powers to investigate professional misconduct of judges. It is spelt out in Section 153 (1) (i) of the 1999 Constitution that created the NJC and then you go to the Third Schedule Section 21 is on the jurisdiction or the powers of the NJC, it vests the power on NJC to discipline judges and to take part in the nomination of judges etc. There is no criminal power vested on NJC. And most of the allegations against the judges border on crime – money laundry, abuse of office, official corruption etc.

PT: These issues of money laundry, abuse of office are things that happened in the course of their professional practice

Obono-Obla: Yes. The NJC has been accused of being half-hearted in fixing complaints filed by members of the public. If they are working, if a complaint is sent to NJC that borders on crime, what they are supposed to do is to refer that complaint to EFCC, ICPC for further investigation. There were insinuations that the SSS made efforts to NJC to react to these allegations made against all these judges that border on crime. Can you allow us have access to these judges? Can you allow us to investigate them and they were stonewalling.

PT: Now these judges have been released on bail, when will they be prosecuted? They were to be brought to court last Monday but it never happened.

Obono-Obla: It was speculative. We never made a categorical statement that the judges would be taken to court on Monday. For goodness, these judges were arrested on Saturday and investigations are still ongoing. The asset declaration forms have to be looked into and it will take a few days to verify the information on asset recovery. If these things were declared in the asset declaration form, it has to be established. So, let Nigerians allow the security agencies investigate this matter properly before taking these judges to court. If they are charged to court and there is no evidence and the matter is struck out there will be a backlash. So, SSS is investigating these judges. Let us give them time. The judges have been released on bail. Give us time, we will charge them to court. If we were not serious, we wouldn’t have gone on sting operation. It has to be done with a lot of deliberation and painstaking manner. You cannot just go and arrest judges and make headlines without charging them to court.

PT: What time are we looking at?

Obono-Obla: Maybe next week. But I am assuring you that definitely they will be charged to court. It takes time to investigate. For instance, some of the former governors have been under investigation for a very long time. If you want to us to do a wishy-washy investigation, then the matter will be thrown out and you will say government is not serious or we have compromised. But I can assure you that this matter will be dealt with because we have to clean up the judiciary. If we don’t clean up the judiciary no foreign investor will come to the country and then the country will be sliding into anarchy. We must clean up the judiciary because the judiciary is very, very important to the economy, to Nigerians living together, to the national unity, integration etc

PT: The executive is now of the view that in the judiciary there are bad eggs that have to be flushed out. But in the executive, there are certain individuals against whom the allegations of corruption have also been made.

 Obono-Obla: What are the grounds? Who are they? They have said there are some bad eggs in the executive. All what I see is a spate of speculative allegations. If you have anything against any member of the executive bring it out, concrete information on wrong doing or corruption. They always mention Rotimi Amaechi, Babatunde Fashola and the Minister of Interior, Dambazau. Let’s take the case of Amaechi. Amaechi was governor of Rivers State for eight years. If the Rivers State government truly believe that Amaechi committed a crime or was corrupt why can’t the attorney general of the state that is vested with the power to prosecute anybody in the state who has committed an offence against the laws of the state not prosecute Amaechi? Why is he passing the buck to the federal government? Where is the evidence that Amaechi was corrupt apart from the politics of maliciousness and vindictiveness? They simply drag the federal government into these things simply because some of them do not want Amaechi to be appointed. If anybody has concrete allegation against Amaechi let him send it to the EFCC and pursue it and ensure that EFCC does the right thing. The president is not EFCC or ICPC. Send these reports to EFCC or ICPC to take action and if the president is blocking these allegations then you can go home and say the president is selective or he is protecting Amaechi. The allegation against the minister of interior is that he has property abroad; it is not that he stole from this government. He was in government when the president was an opposition leader. So if the evidence is there that he bought the property let them come out with petition and bring to the ministry of justice and let them tell us where the property are and then we start investigating him. I can tell you that nobody is protecting anybody. But it is not just to make any allegation against somebody because you want to rope in somebody or because you want to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it.

PT: In clear terms, does the president believe the judiciary is corrupt?

Obono-Obla: I cannot say, but the president has made some statements that the judiciary is not forthcoming in the war against corruption, that the attitude of the judiciary, and cases are delayed just like Saraki’s case. I have been going to court since last year and we have not made any headway because of the attitude of the judges. And there is nothing you can do. He is the master of his court. That is why the president said the judiciary is not forthcoming. But he has not said the judiciary is corrupt. He has not told me that.

PT: Given this frustration from the court are you thinking of ways to make this corruption war faster and effective?

Obono-Obla: There is nothing we can do for now. We have to use the laws that are in place to fight the war against corruption. But we have done a lot of interventions to ensure that convictions are quickly secured. For instance, we have come out with some documents. We have designed some documents, strategic plans for prosecution between 2016 and 2019. We have also come out with a National Policy on Prosecution. We have also come out with guidelines on prosecution. We have also come out with Code of Conduct for prosecutors. We have also established the administration of criminal justice monitoring committee whose function is to ensure that criminal cases are speedily dealt with. The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption has also designed some documents which have been sent to the AGF for adoption. We have also designed a draft bill to create a special criminal court that will be vested with powers to deal with economic, corruption cases, terrorism etc. Meanwhile, because it will take a while to pass for this bill to be passed into law, we have set up a National Prosecution Coordinating Committee to complement the efforts of public prosecution in the federation. These are all the interventions we have made and we will keep on appealing to lawyers, the police and all those involved in the administration of justice to cooperate so that criminal justice system can work. I am also appealing to the judges to be firm because the attitude we see is that when big people have cases in court and they hire big lawyers, some of the judges are not firm. They indulge the big lawyers. Ironically they don’t indulge the young aspiring lawyers. If a poor man is facing trial and his lawyer makes an application for adjournment the judge will descend on that lawyer and tell him off. But you see senior lawyers making all these manoeuvres in court calculated to stall the hearing of a matter involving a big man. The judge looks the other way.

PT: Are these interventions capable of addressing these issues you are raising giving the extent of the rot in the system?

Obono-Obla: That is why the judiciary has to be cleaned up and that is what we are doing. There is a lot of quakes in the country, a lot of sensational headlines, a lot of making a mountain out of nothing. We are going to clean up the judiciary to have judges, who are committed, who are patriotic, who are knowledgeable about the law, who are firm, who have courage to interpret the law the way it is.

PT: What about the NJC? Are you also thinking of cleaning up the NJC?

Obono-Obla: Yes. It is one of the defects in the constitution. The defect is that NJC is 80 per cent made up of judges. So the question is – is that not a contradiction? Because this universal principle of justice which is also embedded in our constitution – you cannot be a judge in your own court. You have seen the NJC trying to protect some categories of judges. Let me give you an instance in the contradiction in the rulings of the NJC of recent. That is the case of Justice Mohammed Tsamiya of the Ilorin Division (of Appeal Court), one of the arrested judges. Somebody lodged a complaint, one Nnamdi Oji, against that judge for collecting bribe and four other members of the Election Petition Tribunal Appeal Panel that sat over election disputes. The NJC found that judge guilty and that he should return the N200 million in installments. And the complainant is very angry. He spoke with me on phone. He told me that he is very angry because he lodged a complaint and that he has evidence that all the five judges were involved. He told me that he is ready to appear in any court to testify against those judges. The NJC exonerated three judges and asked Justice Mohammed to pay N200 million he collected as bribe in installments. They did not say Justice Mohammed should appear before SSS, EFCC or ICPC. But a Kano State judge who allegedly collected N197 million from somebody, the NJC ruled that he should be dismissed and also lodged a complaint with the Assistant Inspector General of Police for his arrest and prosecution. But in Justice Mohammed’s case they did not say he should be prosecuted but instead he should pay this N200 million in instalments. What kind of justice is that? So you can see clearly that they are trying to protect Justice Mohammed. Maybe the judge in Kano is not a senior judge and is not well connected. They reported him to the police.  That also shows that NJC does not have power over criminal complaints against judges. All judges are screened by SSS and so why are they suggesting that the SSS has no power over judges? Before their appointments they are screened by the SSS. That is the practice which has been going on for the past 30 years in this country. So you can see that NJC is a toothless bulldog. If NJC is up and doing, all the rots we have in the judicial system will not be there.  So because it is made up of 80 per cent judges who want to protect themselves which is also against the principle of fair hearing. You are a judge in your own court. So there should be constitutional reform of the NJC. Maybe we should bring in outsiders that are not necessarily lawyers or judges, men of proven integrity who will judge judges. Judges should not judge themselves. If a member of the executive arm of government commits a crime, it is the judges who judge him and also in the legislature. But the judges don’t want another body to judge them. So there should be constitutional reforms.

PT: You people in the executive are angry that Sambo Dasuki has not been convicted after more than a year.

Obono-Obla: I will not say that. You are a Nigerian like me and you have been watching the proceedings. I cannot say it categorically because the matter is in court. You can just infer.

PT: The ECOWAS Court ruled that he should be released. When will that be effected?

Obono-Obla: It is an advisory opinion. The ECOWAS Court cannot enforce its judgements. So its rulings are advisory. The government is not obligated. That is why you see that Israel has flouted all the judgements of the ICJ. So also the so-called bastion of democracy, America, has flouted all the judgements of the ICJ against America. They even refused to join the ICC. So it is national interest and it is paramount. So the federal government is not obligated to obey an advisory opinion of ECOWAS Court of Justice. But we are studying the ruling and at the end of the day we will react.

PT: Many Nigerians feel that your office and indeed that of AGF is slow in prosecuting cases. Why? For instance the case involving Saraki you were slow in prosecuting him.

Obono-Obla: Which case are you talking about because we have a lot of prosecuting agencies? It is not only the office of the AGF that prosecutes. The police prosecute, the Customs Service, the Immigration Service, EFCC prosecute, ICPC. If you look at the EFCC Act, it gives the EFCC powers to prosecute. They are on their own.

PT: Will his release threaten Nigeria’s security?

Obono-Obla: Well he was a National Security Adviser. That’s a very powerful office; and he’s a prince. The president has not disobeyed any law regarding Dasuki. The first charge against Dasuki was unlawful possession of firearms. They brought application for his bail which was granted. As he was perfecting his bail conditions and before he was released, he was arrested for another offence. That’s it. If you are arrested for manslaughter, you asked for bail and the bail is granted. But as you are about to be released, the police come to say you are accused of killing another person two years ago, that has cancelled the first bail. There is no evidence that the federal government is in contempt of court.

INTERVIEW: Nigeria's judiciary stinks of corruption and must be purged – Buhari's adviser - Premium Times Nigeria
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/213289-interview-nigerias-judiciary-stinks-corruption-must-purged-buharis-adviser.html‎

[Wilson Iguade]

Below  interview is coming from someone vested with PROSECUTORIAL POWERS in a Regime that brands itself daily as FIGHTERS of CORRUPTIONS, ehn!

What happened to gathering evidences and prosecuting criminals? Instead, we have a self aggrandizement INTERVIEW. Tufiakwa! 

Buhari and his advisers are all CRIMINALS that is why they do not have the MORAL courage to prosecute thieves. Lord have mercy, the Messiah of DOOM is on a mission to destroy Nigeria in a prophetic manner, Sai "stinking" Baba!!!

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[Joe Attueyi]

Ouch!!!!!😟😠

By   Emmanuel Ogbeche

History has a record of writers that betrayed their calling. They never remembered to side with the people only with their paymasters.

To Niyi With Love
By EO
Prof. Niyi Ossundare like Brutus is a noble man
His exuberances are driven by pennies
When the people suffered
Niyi snored away
Because there was no bank notes.
When snake farms sprouted dollars
And mansions built in Dubai
Niyi’s midnight lamp was dim.
When boots and guns trampled and boomed
Shi’ites in hundreds fell
Women, children and the frail
Our own Niyi tendered not
To the crimson road
Alas, Niyi wakes as his master bids
Not the layman without the crisp notes
Oh, Niyi is an honourable man
He sees that which he is permitted to see
Ministers do not sin, because they are sure
To tend to Niyi’s farm.
Yes, Niyi is an honourable and noble man.

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[Joe Attueyi]

That is where we have found ourselves. An elite that have sold themselves for a piece of silver. Nigerians have been up the creek without a paddle practically since independence. Ultimately we will get the final straw that will break the camel's back. What that straw will be only God knows

Joe

Sex Will Outlive Nigeria.

By Pius Adesanmi.

There are very few places on earth and in the 21st century where an administration could announce casually, via a letter to the legislature, that she has decided to borrow $30 billion in foreign loans - from the IMF, the World Bank, China, etc - and not cause a record-breaking earthquake.

Where I live, a Federal Minister caused a Category 5 hurricane by spending $3,700 on transportation for twenty trips. Imagine if the government of such a country were to announce a borrowing agenda of $30 billion?

A decision that could mortgage the future of the next three generations deserves months and months of patriotic oppositional scrutiny and engagement. Every voice, every stakeholder, every fabric of such a society should have no other preoccupation until the aspiring borrowers in the Executive have been subjected to months and months of grueling national scrutiny and engagement.

I had thought that the National Assembly would treat that request like a bombshell and that would shake Abuja to its very roots. Nothing doing. The National Assembly's response was Saraki's Geneva hobnobbing and Dino Melaye's So You Think You Can Dance video.

I had thought that the opposition would robustly engage the proposition. But, heck, the opposition is Fayose and co. Translation: no cerebral opposition today in Nigeria.

I had thought that the Nigerian media would... for where?

I had thought that the Nigerian people would... for where?

How do people complain about despotism when, time after time, they facilitate the appearance of same with non-engagement or permanent engagement with trifle?

If President Buhari waltzes to $30 billion in loans, it would look despotic. But that would have been because at every level and in every sphere of our lives, his proposal has not been engaged.

Somebody says: I want to mortgage your future.

He doesn't hear from NASS.

He doesn't hear from the media.

He doesn't hear from the opposition.

He doesn't hear from Labour and other unions.

He doesn't hear from national associations.

He doesn't hear from you.

By, you, I mean you.

And the only reason he hasn't heard from you is because you have been busy with other national priorities:

The size of Miss Anambra's cucumber.

Who Bobrisky sleeps with - male or female.

How to send Rahama Sadau to join Isioma Daniel in exile.

Miss Anambra, Bobrisky, and Rahama Sadau are all millennials. Their future will be settled once President Buhari gets his $30 billion loan: no future. They will have no future in Nigeria.

My generation lost its future three decades ago when Babangida started his dalliance with the IMF and SAPs. We never recovered.

But, at least, thirty years after our future was mortgaged and ruined by foreign loans - and the domino effects therefrom - we are still able to contemplate and point at the ruins that is Nigeria. Some of us are pointing at the rubble from safe locations abroad. Many are sitting on top of the rubble at home and sending us selfies of rubble to warn against coming back home. Home and abroad, my generation has rubble evidence of Nigeria to show for dalliance with loans and SAPs.

I am not so sure that Miss Anambra, Bobrisky, and Rahama Sadau will be so lucky. President Buhari will get his loan. But thirty years from now, I am not so sure that today's millennials will have rubble to show as the report card of the loans. I think there will be nothing. I think there will be oblivion.

Therein lies some justification for the people's fascination with sex and sexuality in the shape of Miss Anambra, Bobrisky, and Rahama Sadau.

Maybe Nigerians are saying that nations pass away, sex never does.

Sex will outlive Nigeria.

After we have buried Nigeria under the pile of her insurmountable contradictions and self-inflicted wounds, 

people will still be banging.

North and south will pass away in Nigeria but sex will not pass away.

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“Somebody says: I want to mortgage your future…………………”  and no outrage?

 

Well, Nigerians need a little re-education to see that when the government borrows money, it is the present and future generations that will pay for it. 

 

The sad thing is if the president is given the permission and is successful in borrowing the $30 Billion,  the money in all likelihood will be stolen on arrival and Nigerians will be on the hook forever. 

 

Our kleptocrats, oligarchs, bourgeoisie, and stealers will stand up and distribute the money in broad daylight and that will be the end of it.  Next thing you know, the illuminati and sycophants will be killing themselves over who stole and who didn’t steal the money.  It seems Nigeria is hell-bent and until it gets there, reason will not prevail.

 

Good luck in getting Nigerians to understand the implications of going prodigal and borrowing $30 billion dollars. 

 

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[Afis Deinde]

"Where I live, a Federal Minister caused a Category 5 hurricane by spending $3,700 on transportation for twenty trips. Imagine if the government of such a country were to announce a borrowing agenda of $30 billion?"......Pius Adesanmi.

This guy wan start his yeye analysis again.

Is the $30bn loan for transportation?

How is it alike with his Fed minister's saga?

Wo ojare, na una sabi sef.

Pius Adesanmi should stay on his little tidbits and leave loans procurement to Buhari ojare!
I'm still waiting for his "oluwa loni ile part 3".

Wake me up when the sun is shining on the remotest part of Nigeria!

Shikena 

Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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[Abraham Madu]

The alternative to hell is purgatory,kpom kwem! by falsehood, Nigerians by  into Buhari change fortunately accepted any change. This is a totalitarian democrazy . The state of affairs in which Nigerian citizens have regimentation and conformity without respect for the needs of the individual .

Ya kpọtụba!

Ya gazie.

Ụmụ nne Abrahamụọgụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.

On Monday, October 31, 2016:

[Abraham Madu]

 

Unity and Division by race, culture, gender, class are united and divided according to the kind of unity and division which we have been considering, kpọm kwem! Politicians can use any to their advantage, HO! HA!

[Joe Attueyi]

The Dignity of an Honest Job

By Pius Adesanmi.

(excerpt from my Canada memoir in progress. Hint: Ayesha Pande)

After completing my doctoral comprehensives and having my dissertation proposal accepted and approved by my committee in 1999, I decided I needed a break from Vancouver. I needed to go somewhere to recharge my batteries and, if possible, write the first draft of my dissertation. 

That needed break came in the form of a research fellowship offer from the Institut Francais de Recherche en Afrique in Johannesburg. The French Institute of South Africa offered me a six-month research stay in Johannesburg, complete with speaking and networking opportunities at Wits.

My friend, Bayo Emm, and I were sharing the same flat in Vancouver. Bayo and few friends drove me to the airport. Six months later, Bayo was at the Vancouver airport to welcome me back. Then, a day after my arrival from Johannesburg, I needed to send money urgently to Nigeria to help out a distant relative who was an undergraduate.

Across the road from our apartment, there was a Money Mart outlet we used for Western Union transactions. Bayo and I strolled there. As soon as they saw me walk in, the ladies behind the counter grinned warmly. One of them exclaimed: "hey mister, long time no see! Did you travel or something?" I confirmed that, indeed, I had been "away in Africa" for six months. We did more small talk and I completed my transaction.

Bayo hadn't said a word. As we strolled back to our apartment, he was morose and thoughtful. 

Ol'boy, wetin dey worry you? I finally asked him.

Pius, those girls missed you. They actually noticed that you weren't around.

Which girls?

The Western Union girls.

Why won't they notice? We are regular customers. We have used that Money Mart almost weekly now in the last two years.

Yes, Pius, that is the problem. You and I go there almost once a week. The money you go there to send home, is it to buy land, build a house, or start a business back home?

No, Bayo, it's just the usual runs to help family, relatives, and friends.

Well, Pius, that is why those girls in Western Union got me thinking about our lives here. If you send money to help people out in Nigeria to the point that Western Union notices your absence, wahala wa o. Pius, when Western Union begins to tell us that "o ma t'ojo meta", when Western Union begins to tell you long time no see, and what turned you to a valued family member of Western Union is not money you are spending on yourself, it is time to start thinking. It is time to start putting some of that money we are sending into projects back home. Don't just be subsidizing people back home. After a few years, our culture will make the same people ask: after all the years abroad, what has he done for himself?

Bayo's opinion affected me deeply. For the first time, I realized that I had made weekly trips to Western Union without a break for nearly two years and none of those trips had been for myself. I thought about how I was scrapping together the crumbs I was sending home from Vancouver...

...life in Canada, in Vancouver precisely, had taught me a few rude and crude lessons about the dignity of labour and of all jobs. I was coming from Nigeria and from a sociology in which the first day of your University admission automatically separates you from certain spheres of life and certain socialities. Nigeria tells you that once you have anything to do with a University, certain jobs are beneath you, certain situations are beneath you and the people who do such jobs are inferior to you. The social apartheid between those who have been to the University and those have not been in Nigeria is the worst there is in Africa.

I had arrived in Vancouver as a fully-funded PhD student. I had a doctoral Fellowship. I also had a teaching assistantship. I had a first and second degree, obviously, from Ilorin and Ibadan. And I already had minimal recognition as a writer. I was a big man of some sorts in Nigeria.

My first pay check was a rude shock! I ran to financial services at UBC to complain that there had been an error with my pay. They laughed and explained all the deductions to me. After all the deductions, I still had to contend with rent and bills and feeding.

I did the math and discovered to my horror that after all the taxes and deductions and the bills, I was lucky to be left with even $20 of spare change every month.

And there was all that crowd in Nigeria waiting...

Waiting for Western Union to start to make deliveries from Canada...

It was at this point that other members of the Nigerian graduate student community, who had arrived years before me, had gone through the same eye-openers and were waiting for the Canadian system to introduce herself to me, stepped in with a dire verdict:

Pius, na so this system be o. There is no big man here. If you won't say that you are too big, I will talk to my supervisor where I work. There is vacancy for one more cleaner. There is vacancy for one more dish washer. There is vacancy for one more delivery boy. The cleaning job involves toilets o.

Jeez! Cleaner? Cleaning toilets? A whole Pius Adesanmi? With my first class degree from Ilorin? With my masters with distinction from Ibadan? Haba! And with my doctoral fellowship at UBC? I cursed and abused the Nigerians who were telling me such nonsense.

A few weeks later, I put one leg on top of another leg and went back to the same Nigerians: em, bros, please, is that cleaning job still available?

My first job was in a basement in the science faculty. It was a huge basement where the University kept thousands of live rats for science experiments. The rats were kept in cages and their cages were filled with bedding made of ground and dried and crushed corn cobs. This is where they shit and piss. It was our job to change the soiled bedding and wash the cages twice a day for the environment of the rats must always be airy and dry and fresh. The industrial washing machines we fed the cages to were like stuff you found in a bottling company. They emitted heat worse than hell.

I spent two years of my life in that hell hole in order to be able to afford just an extra hundred or two hundred dollars to send home. At the other end of the telephone line, when you called to announce how much you had sent, it wasn't uncommon to hear, "Uncle, just hundred dollars?". I would hang up in anger, cursing and yelling?

Just hundred dollars? That one extra job wasn't enough. That is how Bayo and I juggled jobs, cleaning, working a bakery...

For my first floor cleaning job, they asked if I had previous cleaning experience. Previous cleaning experience? I had to phone one of my Professors in Ibadan. Prof, there is an emergency here o. I am looking for work and I gave them your email. Please, if you receive an email asking if I had cleaning experience, please say that I was a part time cleaner in Ibadan o. 

Ha, Payooosi, cleaner bi ti bo ooo?

Prof, e fi yen nle sir. Just confirm my experience as a cleaner in Ibadan! 

I got that second cleaning job. I cleaned rat piss and shit in the morning and cleaned floors and toilets in between.

On a trip home, I discovered that many of the recipients of the proceeds of my cleaning jobs were able to afford things I couldn't dream of in Canada.

Yet, there was no time I really needed to do any of that. I started out with a University Graduate Fellowship and by my second year, I had won the Killam Doctoral Fellowship, the most prestigious doctoral fellowship in Canada. My scholarships would have been enough for me if I didn't have to carry communal and community load under cultural obligations back home. But I am grateful for that humbling experience. For that practical lesson in life that Canadian culture and Western culture taught me that every job has dignity if it is honest and there is nobody above any job.

Undergraduates in Canada and the United States juggle three or four menial jobs just to survive. Sometimes, in Nigeria, I see oyinbo undergraduate students doing study abroad in our Universities. 

And some of our foolish boys will be running after the Canadian and the American kids with marriage proposals. And I would tell such foolish boys: you think she can sponsor you to America or Canada abi? Kontinuu. Do you have any idea how many menial jobs - cleaning in Walmart and McDondald's - she combined to be able to save up and come here? These are jobs you will consider beneath you as an undergraduate in Nigeria. 

Can you take a part time job as a cleaner in Chicken Republic to supplement whatever your parents and Uncles are giving you for your undergraduate studies? Well, that is what your oyinbo undergraduate peers do in Canada and America. I agree it easier for them because nobody looks down on them: every job has dignity.

Today, the Governor of Lagos State is having trouble convincing graduates to believe in the dignity of certain kinds of honest jobs. Do not blame those kids. Blame the society which raised them to believe that they must start out in life as Dangote otherwise they are failures. Blame the society which trained them to look down on certain kinds of jobs as graduates.

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Samuel Ajayi wrote:

'BUHARI BOYS’, TINUBU AND ‘CASUALTIES’ OF THE ONDO ‘WAR’…

The more you look over the Ondo State coming election, the less you see. But the intrigues go beyond what is playing out. At the centre of it is the dress rehearsal for 2019. The target remains Tinubu. Quite unfortunately, there are so many collateral casualties that the battle will consume and has actually consumed. The first was Segun Abrahams, the man supported by Tinubu for the ruling APC ticket. The next was Eyitayo Jegede while the last will be Olusola Oke. And with the way things are going, Rotimi Akeredolu might be the only candidate for the November 26 election. 

Shortly after Tinubu made his preference for Abrahams known, Buhari Boys went to work. They adopted Akeredolu. The arrow-head of this is Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai. His foot soldiers are Babatunde Fashola and Kayode Fayemi. With massive financial war chest, the objective was to show Tinubu that APC can win election in any state in South-west without his input. Ekiti State election too will be coming up around one half years from now. Same with that of Osun. The same plan is afoot: checkmate Tinubu; capture those states and raise new political leaders in the South-west. 

However, there was a problem. 

Even with INEC effectively becoming an appendage of the Presidency, intelligence reports have shown that Akeredolu can never with a free and fair election with the political machinery of Rahman Mimiko, the Ondo State governor, working for Jegede. Buhari Boys got to work again. They got the Modu Sheriff faction of the PDP and Jimoh Ibrahim to go to court and challenge the emergence of Jegede and with Justice Okon Abang always ready to do his own part of the assignment, Ibrahim was quickly recognised as the ‘authentic’ candidate. And here is what the Publicity Secretary of the Sheriff faction, Yemi Akintomide, had to say about the judgement that gave the ticket to Ibrahim:

“This is victory for democracy, the triumph of truth over falsehood, godliness over godfatherism and a sweet beginning of a new dawn for the state.”

When Jegede went to court and the Boys saw the speed with which the judges were going, they got one Biyi Poroye to write a petition against the judges that they were biased. But in a bizarre turnout, Poroye disappeared when his petition was to be heard. The judges withdrew themselves. Sources told me yesterday they the judges were put under massive pressure to stand down because the hawks knew that before the case could be assigned to another set of judges, time would have gone. 

Let me make this clear: Modu Sheriff faction of PDP is EFFECTIVELY working for the Presidency!

With the fate of Jegede almost sealed, they moved to Olusola Oke, the man who contested with Akeredolu and moved to Alliance for Democracy, AD, to pick the party’s ticket. Sources said Buhari Boys were aware that it was the Tinubu group that asked him to move to AD with promise of logistic and financial backing. But if he felt the AD ticket would be his just like that, he was dead wrong.  The National Legal Adviser of AD, Kehinde Aworele, has said the party’s National Executive Committee of the party does not recognise Olusola Oke as its governorship candidate in Ondo State. You should ask yourself the last time the NEC of AD met as leaders of a functional political party. But when they needed to deal with Oke, the NEC came to life! 

If you think Aworele was speaking on his own, then you are living in Mars. In the days ahead, the confusion that statement was meant to cause in Oke’s camp will fester. He would have no time to campaign again and the next thing is that the ‘NEC’ of AD will bring another name as the “authentic” candidate of the party for the governorship election. That new candidate and Oke will start fighting over the ticket and they will be on that until election day! 

If you notice, the only candidate campaigning now is Akeredolu. And that is the only candidate that might likely contest the November 26, 2016 election. That is the candidate of the Presidency. The plan is to make the contest a walk in the park for him. 

And with the way things are going, it is almost a done deal. Unfortunately…

 

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AD, Oke’s rally shock APC,PDP

-          I will create new  jobs, industries and pay worker’s salaries

 

 Lean, emaciated and an unusual candidate, Mr Olusaola Oke has taken Ondo State by storm. Mr Oke, the candidate of the Alliance for Democracy, AD stirred up almost half a million local folks in what appeared one of the most astonishing political rallies held in the state in recent times. He is contesting for the November 26 governorship election after he left the All Progressives Congress, (APC) following allegations of widespread rigging.

Leaders of the APC and PDP were said to be in shock after watching the unimaginable crowd that thronged the event.

Oke is seen largely as an enigma, having demonstrated the rare feat of spinning surprises in past elections, inspite of his lack of any major cartel backing.

We are going to win. We are making history. Ondo State will be great again” he told an enthusiastic crowd whose fanatical show of solidarity caused traffic logjam and held the city in awe for several hours.

   Olusola Oke and his running mate, Ganny Dauda led the crowd at the Democracy Park, Oja-Oba, Akure. The mammoth crowd defied the scorching sun, trooped into the park as early as 8am.

The rally saw AD leaders, including the National leader, Senator Mojisoluwa Akinfenwa; National Chairman, Chief Joseph Avazi and National Legal Adviser, Kehinde Aworele, who had earlier challenged Oke’s emergence as the Party’s candidate, however, told the party’s supporter that there was no crisis or cracks in the party, as they have become one indivisible party.

The Party leaders presented Oke and Dauda with the party’s flag, which sent the vociferous crowd into a frenzy, cheering and singing with joy written all over their faces, with popular fuji musician, Saheed Osupa, entertaining the crowd.

In his acceptance speech, Oke assured that under his watch, Ondo will be better and the people will thrive. He stressed that some people have been out on campaigns of calumny against him that he will abandon most of the projects he meets on ground. “This is not true, he exclaimed”.

He added that “Today, Ondo state is undergoing difficult situation, all our industries are dead and there is poverty in the land. The priority of my government shall be the good of the people. We shall ensure we give life abundance to our mothers, we shall give you money to trade. Our workers shall receive their salaries and other entitlements as at when due”.

Oke, however, said that the youths shall be employed, with the dead industries revived, making them functional again for the benefit of the state and its people.

Meanwhile, hundreds of members of Oodua Nationalist Coalition, ONAC, also stormed the event from different parts of Yorubaland. The group wore clothes of different colours with posters, showing their solidarity to Oke.

The Coordinator, Deji Omotiyinbo told Irohin Oodua that the group was here to support Oke. “We are here to support the best candidate in Ondo State. He is honest, intelligent, down-to- earth and dedicated to the people’s cause. We want those who want to rig this election to think twice. Any attempt to rig this election has a potential of setting the entire country on fire. The historical responsibility of President Buhari in this game is ato allow a fre and fair ekection.

 

 Political observers in the state describe the turnout of people at the rally as big leap for Oke in his ambition of becoming the governor of the state, which could possibly change the political permutation and paradigm of the state.

During the All Progressive Congress governorship primary in the state that produced Rotimi Akeredolu as governorship candidate of the party, Oke came third in the primaries, despite not having the financial muscles like other aspirants who have the backing of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, APC Leader, he defied the odd.

In the last governorship election in the State in 2012, Oke came second behind the incumbent, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko. During this period, Mimiko was seeking re-election into office and he also has the Federal backing of the then President Goodluck Jonathan administration and also the financial muscle. So also was Rotimi Akeredolu, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, governorship candidate, who had the backing of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Oke remained a lone ranger and withered the storm to come second in the polls.

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Whither Obasanjo, Jonathan failed northern Christians

By Muhammad Ajah

 

The media has been awash with the postulation by the Northern Nigeria Christian Politicians (NNCP) that the former presidents of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan failed the northern Christians. This hypothesis puts me in a fix. I am sure that many free-minded socio-political and religious analysts would battle to find the implication of this accusation, or to best put it, blackmail. We must, however, not be in a hurry to forget that the two accused presidents who openly showed their strong attachment to Christianity, had the longest period of leadership of Nigeria since 1999 when Nigeria returned to democratic governance. Obasanjo had a good 8-year lordship over Nigeria. Jonathan cruised on the nation’s leadership for six years. Between both presidents was the ascertained ailing president, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua who battled for his life throughout a large period of his leadership.  Let us not stress our brains on the gains and pains of the northern Christians during the military regimes which were mostly headed by northern Muslims. What the condition of northern Christians was during those military eras is another topic for discussion.

 

The Chairman of NNCP, Keftin Amuga said at a press conference in Abuja that the duo failed to address peculiar challenges of northern Christians while in office. I do not know the best figure of speech that describes this claim. It is an irony or oxymoron or understatement. I am particularly flabbergasted by this claim because as a critical follower of socio-political development, sometime gang-ups in Nigeria, it is the veiling of truth in the broad day light. But it is clearer the import of this claim by the group’s appreciation of President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing northern Christians into key positions, not into ordinary positions. This assertion exposes the whole truth on what NNCP wants.  It is good for the minority to be encouraged in the political existence of Nigeria. But it has not been total.

 

The group however, unveiled some facts that I wholeheartedly appreciate. It recognized the northern Christians as a political factor and political force in Nigeria and that for the first time, a northern Muslim president has uplifted the northern Christians through very decisive political appointments. “This is a signal which could lead to the emergence of a truly united Northern Nigeria people, devoid of religious bigotry”, it opined.

 

Amuga said: “Since the third republic, the Christian North has variously given its support to our Southern Christian brothers, the likes of Obasanjo and Goodluck to be President of Nigeria, but unfortunately, because they have limited knowledge and do not appreciate our challenges, they have variously failed to address the peculiarity of the Northern Nigerian Christian population. This is in sharp contrast to what PMB promised and has done for the Christian North.” He lambasted some of the Northern Christian politicians who seek political relevance, but get involved in several political alliance without directional focus, which at the end achieve no tangible result. He said: “For more than half a century (56years) since Nigeria got her independence, the Northern Nigeria Christian politicians in spite of the demographic consideration never cultivated the required self confidence in the political activities of Nigeria.”

 

I do not know how best to describe these facts and assertions. While the Christian majority of the south is crying foul over alleged attempts by President Buhari to Christianize Nigeria, the minority of the north which is supposed to feel the alleged oppression more is eulogizing the president. The northern minority have peculiarities which the past democratic Christian Presidents failed to address, now a Muslim President is tactfully addressing them. The Christian North openly gave its support to their Southern Christian brothers, Obasanjo and Goodluck to be Presidents despite they knew that both “had limited knowledge and do not appreciate their challenges”.

 

Without mincing words, I salute the courage and conjecture of the NNCP. It is often said that who does not appreciate a small favour will not be thankful for a big one. President Buhari has shown that he belongs to all Nigerians, including the northern minority Christians. The question is: Does President Buhari also belong to the minority of the South especially the Igbo Muslims who have carried their own burdens of political exclusion since the birth of Nigeria? I know what my colleagues and I underwent from 2003 to 2015 in our own villages voting for him, not because of religion but on the account of our convictions that he was the best of all the contesting candidates to salvage Nigeria. Yet, the past presidents dealt with us mercilessly.      

 

The NNCP should have chosen an appropriate epithet. Failure was a too damning abstraction. It was an irony of failure that Obasanjo picked Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as his vice, tactfully to upgrade Boni Haruna to the high position of the governor of Adamawa state and still ensured (un)failingly that Boni had eight year leadership of the state. It was further an irony of failure that the same Obasanjo tactfully forced Namadi Sambo into Aso Rock as vice president to Goodluck Jonathan to pave way for the governorship of Ibrahim Yakowa in Kaduna state. Again, it was an irony of failure that of all northern clerics, Bishop Matthew Kuka was a “General” in Obasanjo’s government. Both of them gave the bargaining powers to many northern Christians in the national assembly. Nonetheless, the explicit connotation of failure by the NNCP is limitless to the aforementioned.

 

In the north of today, the effect of the two regimes of Obasanjo and Jonathan is crystal clear. The two did religiously put a mark for the recognition, empowerment and uplift of the Christians in the region. During their tenures, every state of the north that is highly dominated by Muslims was able to produce a Christian minister, director-general or chairmen/CEO of federal agencies and parastatals. The two made is possible that in most states of the north today, no Muslim-Muslim ticket wins an electoral position. That is the peculiar way both of them failed the northern Christians. I surmise that the only thing they failed, which was greatly a failure, was to impose a northern Christian president on Nigeria. Another great failure, which I noticed too, was that they failed to Christianize the northern Nigeria or Nigeria as a whole. But there is still a great chance to do that, especially with the unflinching support of the Southern Christian political blocs and the northern Muslim politicians. God is watching.   

 

The great thing about this minority religious group of Nigerians is the lack of stigmatization over their spiritual inclination. I doubt if I have heard any reference to a northern Christian as “Hausa Christian”, “Fulani Christian”, or something of such. Though as a minority they have limitations, they have gotten a stake in the Nigerian socio-economic and political existence. Their brethren from the South, excluding Obasanjo and Jonathan who allegedly sabotaged them, have them in their minds and plans. Yes, the apex Christian umbrella, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has a well-mapped out and thought-out short and long terms plan for them, gradually but steadily implemented. Yes, their brethren would utilize any slight opportunity to put a smile on their faces. Their brethren do understand the difficult situation they find themselves in the midst of Muslims. If it were possible to assemble them and create a place for them in the south, their brethren will do it. But nature has made them – the Christians of the north – Hausas, Fulanis, Gwaris, Katafs and so on. For the mere reason that they were created in the north by God, they must be recognized and cared for.

 

This is the opposition situation the Muslim minority of the south find themselves. They have been entirely left alone to carry the shame ascribed to them for being Muslims. They are “Igbo Muslims, Ijaw Muslims, Ikwerre Muslims” and so on. Their own brethren of the north are complacent with amassing all the wealth and positions. Their brethren do not want to associate with them openly, not to talk of supporting them to vie for political positions or appointing them in Nigeria’s federal organs. The key appointments which have been occupied by northern minority Christians are national taboos for the Muslim minority of the south. Who can tell when this political trend will change?  

 

In Nigeria, distribution or allocation of political positions are based on party, zonal, religious and tribal affiliations. The federal government which is made up of people from across the country would sit down and share the positions. Christians of the south would identify their brethren in the north and would insist that certain positions be given to them. In some cases, the president utilized his veto powers as enshrined in the constitution to pick a northern Christian from the homes of first class emirs to head a federal establishment, even against the will of the state governor. That was commonplace during the periods of Obasanjo and Jonathan. The northern minority has been largely blessed in this way. The southern minority has, on the other hand, been largely neglected. The governors, the traditional rulers and the religious leaders of the south make vibrant cases for their brethren in the north. The reality on ground portrays that it is not the same for the southern minority? If so, why the total neglect and oppression in the south?   

 

I am sure that if the NNCP would report both former presidents to God for their “failure” to the northern Christians, He (God) would have a different opinion as a Just God. God Who completely knew the intentions and actions of the two former presidents would have rebuked the NNCP and warned them not to castigate both on the accounts of seeking more favour from President Buhari. But in the real sense, the central point of the federal government is the office of the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF) which is occupied by a Christian minority of the north. The national assembly is another living witness.

 

Being a member of the southern minority, I want to congratulate my counterpart of the north for their political and economical growth. We have found ourselves where we are today, not by our choice. Changing faith at old age is God’s Desire and Plan. No man should accept a faith without inner conviction that it is the best to reach his God. Those who feel that a religion belongs to them should have a rethink and exorcise themselves from such parochial conception. All prevalent religions in Nigeria today were imported. The Almighty is watching and the phrase “if I (we) had known” is always an irredeemable remorse.        

 

Muhammad Ajah is an advocate of humanity, peace and good governance in Abuja. E-mail mobah...@yahoo.co.uk.

[Joe Attueyi]

I am sure WS has something to say about this!

Joe

Buhari and the Yoruba Nation

By Sunday Aniyi 

Buhari has only appointed 5 Special Advisers so far: They are:

 1. Femi Adesina,  Media and Publicity 

2. Femi Ojudu,  Political Affairs

3. Dr Oyeyemi Dipeolu, Economic  Affairs 

4. Mrs Mariam Nwais, Social Investments, 

5. Mr Tijani Abdulahi , National Planning. 

That's,  Yoruba 3,  Fulani 1 and Hausa 1.

Similarly, these are the Senior Special Assistants to the President appointed so far :

1. Garba Shehu, Media/publicity

2. Okoi Obla, Prosecution

3. Ita Enang, NASS

4. Suleiman Kawu Sumaila, NASS

5.Abike Dabiri, Diaspora 

6. Orelope Adefulure, MDG

Out of five SAs which are equivalent to Ministers, Yoruba has 3, Hausa 1 and Fulani 1.

Of the six SSAs, Yoruba has 2, Efik 1, Annang 1, Hausa 1and Fulani. 

All Yoruba Ministers but one, are senior ministers. All of them are manning important ministries: Works,  Housing and Power,  Solid Minerals, Finance,  Communication, Health, State for Niger Delta and of course, Information and Culture. In fact,  it is right to say Yoruba's are manning 10 ministries if we recall that Works,  Power,  Housing,  Information and Culture used to be separate ministries. 

Don't also forget that almost all the people personally working with Prof Osinbajo are all Yoruba's,  eg Ade Ipaye, Laolu Akande, late Ayodele Adu,  etc. 

The only serving General in the country today is a Yoruba from Ekiti. 

Yet,  a dangerous narrative is being wickedly sold to the public that a cabal has sidelined the south west as a result of which Buhari is being shut with darts of nepotism and an ingrate who abandoned those who helped him to power. 

The facts on ground do not support these unfounded lies.   And I insist that because a person could not get his minions as governors of other states should not be equated or reduced to an attack on Yoruba people or the Yoruba being shut out of relevance. Things must not be mixed up.  If a man, out of unhealthy  desire for control gets his fingers burnt in his enterprise, he should not use Samson complex to make us a collateral damage. One man's interest can't be our collective interest. 

My conclusion is that if the magical  cabal could not stop us from virtually occupying the most important positions in this government, it is arrant nonsense to continue to hold on to a faulty premise of a cabal having highjacked power, or working against the Yoruba people. 

If this government fails,  it is we who have failed. It is obvious Buhari is operating a division of labour:  the President mans security and foreign affairs while the VP mans the Economy and Social Investments.

Unfortunately, it is in the latter division that the government is perceived to be below average. We therefore, can't afford to mess Osinbajo up. We can't get him to Aso Rock only to ridicule him or dispose him off like a can. 

Those on a voyage on creating a one-man political dynasty and empire should not be allowed to deprive us of this glorious era in our history. We must give every support necessary to make sure this government succeeds. 

SAA.

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[DIPO ENIOLA]

The opinion of Wharf is not relevant and does not count? Why? Because he is an avowed Yoruba hater. He has serious problems with Yoruba people. He sees nothing good in any Yoruba man or woman. As things stand, he may be the worst Yoruba hater in the forum. It is unfortunate because the Oha 1 genuinely love wharf the Snake of Orlu. 

The Oha 1

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Ogbeni Dipo of  Olomi:

Yours below is blasphemous and I am materially offended by your obvious attempt to deface my sterling person. I demand from you an immediately retraction of this fallacy that you weave. Once again I maintain that as a Yoruba Prince I cannot hate my own people. I do dislike the actions of a few but I deplore the language you have deployed below.

Ogbeni Dipo you will agree with me that our people m, the Yoruba, are the most ungrateful people on the surface of this earth. Even when Yoruba occupies every position occupyable they will never be satisfied. We actually have a word for it and it is Oju Kokoro 

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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WAZOBIA bullshit reigns supreme as below. 

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[DIPO ENIOLA]

Wharf The Snake of Orlu:

I Stand solidly behind what I have written. Why do you think Joe Attueyi of Ututh Mbadike referenced you as someone likely to react negatively to the unflattering story about Yoruba people? It is purely because of your antecedent and penchant for such behavior. I disagree with you vehemently that Yoruba people are ungrateful people. As a matter of fact, Igbo could said to be the people that have such characteristic. You are unnecessarily too harsh on Yoruba people in general. That is the truth my friend.

By the way, you are not a a Yoruba man. Without a doubt, you are not a Yoruba prince either. Stop impersonating. I hope you enjoyed today's beautiful weather. Cheers.

Thae Oha 1

Ahu Nze Ebie Okwu

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On Saturday, November 19, 2016, 8:33 PM, 'Wharf A. Snake' via AfricanWorldForum <africanw...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Ogbeni Dipo of  Olomi:

Yours below is blasphemous and I am materially offended by your obvious attempt to deface my sterling person. I demand from you an immediately retraction of this fallacy that you weave. Once again I maintain that as a Yoruba Prince I cannot hate my own people. I do dislike the actions of a few but I deplore the language you have deployed below.

Ogbeni Dipo you will agree with me that our people m, the Yoruba, are the most ungrateful people on the surface of this earth. Even when Yoruba occupies every position occupyable they will never be satisfied. We actually have a word for it and it is Oju Kokoro 

Ejo ni Mushin - Prince 

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On Nov 19, 2016, at 7:29 PM, 'DIPO ENIOLA' via AfricanWorldForum <africanw...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

The opinion of Wharf is not relevant and does not count.  Why? Because he is an avowed Yoruba hater. He has serious problems with Yoruba people. He sees nothing good in any Yoruba man or woman. As things stand, he may be the worst Yoruba hater in the forum. It is unfortunate because the Oha 1 genuinely love wharf the Snake of Orlu. 

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[Wharfery Snake]

Ogbeni Dipo of Olomi, Ibadan:

You asked "Why do you think Joe Attueyi of Ututh Mbadike referenced you as someone likely to react negatively to the unflattering story about Yoruba people?"

Yours above is deceitful. You are very much aware that you have distorted an innocuous comment by Pastor Joe. Here it is again: "I am sure WS has something to say about this!"  Compare your paraphrase of this same comment to the reality and you will find that you are intentionally creating disharmony. Undoubtably there is no one here who is more Yoruba than me. I have demonstrated by my actions, words and deeds.

Yeah Ogbeni it was a fantastic day before this evening when it started snowing. I hope you enjoyed it before it turned nasty.

WS - A revered prince of Mushin.

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Why always Osun?---Ballotelli

Osun in trouble again, receives paltry N305m from federation account

by P.M. News

The problem of unpaid and half salaries in Osun State will persist as the state got only a paltry N305m from the Federation Account in October. 

None of the remaining 35 states of the federation got less than one billion naira.

The paltry amount received by Osun State was attributed to a dip in the oil revenue received by the federal government in October.

The 36 states of the federation shared N111.8 billion in October, less than the N143.6 billion shared in September from the Federation Account by N31.8 billion.

The breakdown forms part of a report obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) from a source at the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation in Abuja on Sunday.

Here is the break down of the revenue received by each state from the Federation Account:

Abia took N2.6 billlion, Adamawa N2.5 billion, Cross River N1.4 billion, Ekiti N1.6 billion, Edo N1.9 billion, Kaduna State N3.4 billion, Kano State N4.2 billion, Lagos State N5.9 billion, Rivers N7.6 billion, and Zamfara, N2 billion.

Delta N5.6 billion, Anambra N2.8 billion, Benue N2.7 billion, Borno N3.2 billion, Ebonyi N2.4 billion, Enugu State N2.6 billion, Gombe State N2.03 billion, Nassarawa State N2.3 billion, Imo N2.3 billion and Kogi N2.7 billion.

Yobe got N2.7 billion, Taraba N2.3 billion, Sokoto State N2.9 billion, Plateau N1.7 billion, Oyo State N2.79 billion, Osun N305 million, Ondo State N3.3 billion, Ogun N1.5 billion, Niger N2.7 billion and Kebbi N2.73 billion.

Also, Katsina State got N3.2 billion, Bayelsa N6.3 billion, Bauchi State N2.3 billion, Jigawa N3.1 billion, Akwa Ibom N8.7 billion and Kwara N2.2 billion.

The report also showed that the Federal Capital Territory had N3.9 billion from the Federal Government’s share of the distributable revenue in October.

The report showed that the revenue allocated for each state in October was less than what they got from the federation account in September.

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, at the last FAAC meeting, attributed the low revenue earnings of the month to several factors.

Adeosun attributed the decline to the loss of 45.5million dollars in Federation Export sales while shut-in and shut-down of pipelines for repairs and maintenance also contributed to the drop in revenue.

The decrease in volume of dutiable imports receipts from Joint Venture Cash Call, Foreign Companies Income Tax and Value Added Tax were other reasons given.

The federation funds are usually shared in arrears, so, revenue generated in January is shared in February; thus, the revenue shared was actually generated in September and shared in October.

The key agencies that remit funds into the federation account are the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Federal Inland Revenue Service and the Nigerian Customs Service.

During the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting in October, federal, states and local governments shared N455 billion as against the N516 billion that was shared

in September.

The revenue distributed included the Gross Statutory revenue, Value Added Tax, exchange gain, N63.3 billion excess Petroleum Profit Tax and 13 percent derivation to oil- producing states.

The oil-producing states are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers.

The report showed that before distribution, state liabilities were deducted.

The liabilities included an external debt of N2.9 billion, contractual obligations of N10.48 billion and other deductions amounting to N17.56 billion.

Other deductions covered National Water Rehabilitation Projects, National Agricultural Technology Support, Payment for Fertilizers, State Water Supply Projects, State Agriculture Projects and National Fadama Project.

However, the 36 states got their due shares after all deductions were made.

The FAAC committee is made up of Commissioners for Finance and Accountants- General from the 36 states; the Accountant-General of the Federation and representatives from the NNPC.

Others are representatives from the Federal Inland Revenue Service; the Nigerian Custom Service; Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission as well as the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The federation account is currently being managed on a legal framework that allows funds to be shared to the three tiers of government under three major components.

These components are the statutory allocation, Value Added Tax distribution and allocation made under the derivation principle.

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[ksonif]

Osun has over borrowed. No need to dress the truth.

AgbaAkin^

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[Joe Attueyi]

Lolu Akinwunmi

THE ECONOMY 

- MR. PRESIDENT, TIME TO PUT POLITICS AND THE POLITICIANS ASIDE

The painful verdict is finally out, and the prognosis is not looking good at all. The economy is not improving; it is in FURTHER decline. Investors are keeping away. Even the government’s own CBN has admitted via its Monetary Policy Committee that its MPC tool has run out of options and that this economy will slide and decline further except there is an urgent support from the effective implementation of fiscal policies.

I am not going to try and do what Teriba, Bismark Rewane, Pat Utomi and others more competent in these matters have done. Mine is an advise to Mr. President.

For months, many passionate Nigerians had a running battle with government spokesmen and other senior government and party apparatchiks. Anyone who dared to say that the handling of the economy was not impressive was labeled with all manner of vile descriptions. If you disagreed with the handling of the economy, then you were a PDP member and apologist!!!!

Initially the word was that the government needed time to sort out the problems it inherited and that Nigerians were in too much of a hurry. People who cared passionately about this nation disagreed and insisted that since governance was a continuum, there should not be such a big break and gap as to have this kind of effect on the entire economy.

There were all manner of excuses: corruption from the last administration, falling price of oil, saboteurs, Boko Haram, Niger Delta miscreants etc. But it was clear that the government had not really formulated a strong policy that would weather this storm and reflate the economy, such that today we are buying £1 Sterling for nearly N600. Bloomberg came up with its prognosis and it was also very poor for the nation’s economy. The poor lady, the Finance Minister, has been stumbling from one recipe to another! And yet one of the key Ministers who had said just two months ago that we didn’t have a recession, had also noisily retorted that by the end of the third quarter Nigerians would start smiling. Sadly the end of the third quarter has presented a worse report card. Nigerians are not smiling. In more decent climes, this Minister would have resigned. Or be fired!

Mr. President MUST literally bite the bullet. It is clear that his economic policy needs help and very urgently too. Something or some things are simply not working, and its time to start afresh and go back to the drawing board. Surely there has to be a solution that will help our situation! As of today, there is nothing from the managers of the economy that suggests that there will be light at the end of the tunnel soon; we get to hear a lot of faith pronouncements when even the Good Book says faith without works is dead faith. PMB MUST STOP LISTENING TO THESE PEOPLE; indeed he must stop them from speaking. They are causing more damage by their ill informed opinions. They are too political and self serving.

The President owes it to all Nigerians. If he must go to the end of the earth to get the right people to take charge of this economy, sans party affiliation, just as they do in places like the US, then he must do so. Today. We are tired of excuses; we are tired of faith messages; we are tired of spins; we are tired of double speak; we are tired of contradictions where members of the same government will be declaring conflicting messages. We are not politicians. We are simply passionate Nigerians with very high expectations from those who assured us they could do it.

Sadly, all the trumpeters, spinmeisters, excuse manufacturers and blame traders have now run out of steam. All of them are silent. It’s now left to President Buhari ALONE to explain to Nigerians why nearly two years later, virtually nothing he promised about this economy has been fulfilled. 

Mr. President, somewhere in this country, or even outside, there must be at least one Nigerian who must have a better idea on what to do to move this economy forward. Not someone who will experiment. Not someone who will give excuses. Not someone who will blame everyone else. Not someone who will announce a policy today and recant in one week. But someone who knows what to do and will diligently go about doing it. 

Mr. President, whatever it will cost you, please get this person. We cannot enter into 2017 carrying this same baggage. Too many people are suffering.

Thank you Mr. President.

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[Okwukwe Ibiam]

Blah Blah, what's up?

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