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Politics / Re: See State House Press Release on Buhari London Trip by amachuk(m): 6:54pm On May 10, 2017
CEOJAMIENAIJA:
Rot?

yes, rot! teacher rot.
Politics / Re: 30 Years Remembrance Of Obafemi Awolowo, An Icon by amachuk(m): 10:00pm On May 09, 2017
lilytender:


Yes, the man that used over three million stubborn goats for pepper soup and suya between 1967 and 1970. Several years after the children and grandchildren of the stubborn goats of yester-years are still being used for suya by Fulani herdsmen.
and later died shamefully by drinking ota pia pia.

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Politics / Re: See State House Press Release on Buhari London Trip by amachuk(m): 9:06pm On May 07, 2017
may his soul rot in hell.
Politics / Re: Drop Your Wishes For My Guy Ipobexposed by amachuk(m): 12:11pm On May 07, 2017
he has to die to fully fulfil his promise, I wish him a permanent place on wheel chair.

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Politics / Re: APC Promises ‘igbo Presidency’, Vows To Bury PDP by amachuk(m): 10:50pm On May 06, 2017
OrestesDante:


Hahaha!!! See this brother o. Shebi na promise? And na from APC?
E no fit reach una side! Forget am!
Make presidency turn to rain. Make e dey fall from sky.. Make Ipob dey inside the rain, one drop no fit reach una body. cheesy
Die if you like, but we don't need your president, what we need is Biafra, like it or hate it.
Politics / Re: The Demystification And Decanonization Of Nnamdi Kanu by amachuk(m): 2:37pm On May 06, 2017
yes, there are stringent conditions attached to kanu's bail, but there are no stringent strategies to achieving freedom, he must not do it the Mandela's way, this is NNAMDI kanu for Biafra struggle and not Mandela or south Africa. Times are different, KANU even before his arrest was a wanted man, but today he is free to move about and propagate his ideas, his arrest and the attendant awareness it created has broadened his reach, he can now meet the right people. Again if I may ask, is the OP so daft to know that obeying the so called stringent conditions is optional? there is nothing Nigeria can do than arrest him again thereby piling more pressure on the already fractured contraption. Nnamdi doesn't the crowd around him, its even dangerous, he only need their support, before his arrest, most people never had the opportunity to see him, still they gather in such intimidating numbers under his command. he had always promoted Judaism, he in fact criticised if not condemned Christianity still he commands the greatest loyalty amongst Biafrans. Finally he came under pressure from his colleagues in prison to embrace freedom, his time in prison has achieved its purpose, more disappointments are coming for the OP and his wicked collaborators who wishes KANU a life time in prison.

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Politics / Re: Igbos Bu Igbo. Use Your Teeth And Count Your Tongue. This Is Real by amachuk(m): 10:05am On May 02, 2017
Pierocash:
Pastoral forms is always available for interested persons,hw many ibos pick those forms?Pastoral enlistment is a divine calling and not a career.Every tribe have their area of calling,the Yorubas have more ministerial calling than any tribe in the world,u come to business,the Ibos doninate that field than yorubas,almst every ibo man is naturally a business man so stop twisting facts to suite ur narrative.Evn in sports,The Ibos dominate that field than Yorubas especially football, their was a time in this country almost all the whole national team players whr ibos evn up til nw.
So, every tribe has their area of calling and Yorubas dominates priesthood.And aside frm that,those churches u mentioned have more yoruba followership than ibos u can't take that away frm them,jst the same way in catholic churches have more ibo followership than yorubas.Catholic churches have more ibos as reverend fathers than yorubas because ibos are more catholics than yorubas so i see no logic in ur Submission
your question is how many igbos are interested, and I will say very many, but they will always be placed far under some unqualified Yoruba pastors just to make sure that they don't influence any decision there.
Politics / Re: Igbos Bu Igbo. Use Your Teeth And Count Your Tongue. This Is Real by amachuk(m): 10:05pm On May 01, 2017
Pierocash:
I disagree with ur writeup Op,evn though i believe the issue of no Bishops of igbo tribe in winners chapel and other churches u mentioned bt that has nothing to do abt tribe.
Hw many yorubas are senior pastors in Salvation Ministries,Dunamis,Lords Chosen, Dominion City,Gateway christian center,Christ Embassy etc.
Bishop Ebhoghinme was the most Senior pastor in winners after Bishop David Oyedepo and Bishop Abioye he wasn't a yoruba,so tell me,hw does that mean tribalism?
how many Yoruba people go to those churches headed by Igbo people? they don't, so you don't expect them to be anything in those churches. on the other hand, Ndigbo constitutes nearly over 50% of the congregation of those yoruba churches and makes huge financial commitments still they are not recognized.

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Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu Will Continue Agitation For Igbo Nation – Wife by amachuk(m): 3:03pm On Apr 29, 2017
victorvezx:
Hahahahahahaha, resources from Biafra? Please can someone tell me what resources are in the south east. The south south is the only region feeding other regions. The road and school ur government build for u is as s result of the money from the south south oil. All the south east infrastructure is built by south south oil money. The south east provides Nigeria with nothing. This people are so delusional and entitled, because they think that the south south is part of their agitation, they now feel like they are being owed by Nigeria. Delusional people. Abeg Mynd44 take this to front page make we laugh
Nwokem why not make use the rat poison that has been made available for you, after fall your grand father awo used it, it kills quicker with no pains and leaves your corpse dry and odourless. people of SS are happily Biafrans, if you have any question ask Asari Dokubo or your can go to the streets of ugwuocha(porthacourt) and them there, I think the Ota piapia is cheaper and readily available there for zombies like you.

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Politics / Re: Please Who Knows Where Arthur Eze's Home Is Located At Enugu? by amachuk(m): 7:13pm On Apr 24, 2017
Fortune212:
I really need to meet him for some help, A friend recommended him to me though he don't know the address of his home at Enugu. Please someone who knows should tell me, it's urgent.
This is my email in case you don't want to post it to the public chukwunedum1@gamil.com
Thanks!!!
Ok, I can help you but before I do that, pls pay the sum #500.000 to this account number 0043851990, A/C name, Amaechi Nduka, UBA.
Politics / Re: PMB Will Not Hand Over To Igbo The Way North Stupidly Handed Over To GEJ- Junaid by amachuk(m): 4:04pm On Apr 22, 2017
successmatters:
The Igbo are not waiting for you to hand over an expired, ungovernable country to them.

We need resource control. Period.
my brother we don't need resource control, what we need is Biafra and Biafra we shall get, whether junaid Mohammad likes it or not is immaterial, when the chips are down they will know.

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Dating And Meet-up Zone / Re: Meet That Man/lady Of Ur Dream Here Drop Ur Number And Sex Drop by amachuk(m): 7:43am On Apr 18, 2017
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Politics / Re: Southeast: The Time Is Now! by amachuk(m): 6:27pm On Apr 15, 2017
nonsobaba:
Then you are not serious, my brother. Because if u are, you would know that the only way real development is achieved anywhere is by government-led policies and interventions. And in Nigeria nay south east, you can only get to government to influence these decisions on the platform of a political party, which in turn, influences your actions and inactions. So u are just an online noise-maker. Goodluck with ur 'Igbo-come-back-home' noisemaking.
You talk like a kid, I na eme nkwugheli, who does not know that our politicians with no exceptions are irresponsible, corrupt, wicked and selfish. who does not know that it is the same politicians hiding under different political parties that are driving our people away to strange lands where they pillaged at no provocation. the Op is trying to muster courageous minds who will help pressure our politicians to submission and also drive the think home philosophy and you are here talking about political affiliation. join APGA or APC they will dash you some money if that is what you need.
Politics / Re: Why Anambra People Hate Imo And Rochas by amachuk(m): 2:39pm On Apr 14, 2017
CentralIntels:
Imagine an ordinary imo state with its poor prostitution infested population. Just save ur breath and allow me clip this I.diots' win. Guy you sound stupid, you have zero ability to reason, except off course you are an afonja. I can forgive the OP but not you, NWAMKPI!!!

As at the time Anambra started producing leaders imo state was still busy carrying our bags, so how does he think it will change now. cheesy


Politics / Re: Children Hold Rally For Nnamdi Kanu's Release In Rivers (Photos) by amachuk(m): 4:54pm On Mar 19, 2017
zionmade2:

Am not an animal so which animal are u bro? I am a biafran but as long as my ID says nigeria, my country is not a zoo
I guess u will feel good wen u travel abroad people start calling u zoo monkey, because that is wat u call urself.shud be ashamed of being a chimpanzee next time u show anyonne ur id bearing nigeria
You are not a biafran haven accepted your nigerianess(zooness), that reduces you to not just an animal, but a wild beast. if they call you an animal because of your Nigerian passport accept it good faith because that is what you are.
Politics / Re: Children Hold Rally For Nnamdi Kanu's Release In Rivers (Photos) by amachuk(m): 7:48am On Mar 19, 2017
zionmade2:

And u carry a zoo id everywhere. So u can as well tell ur children d type of animal u were. So kindly choose one of d following option
Were u a
Chimpanzee or monkey or gorilla or hyena or giraffe or hippopotamus. Feel free to add which animal u were if i didnt call ur specie
Anybody living in this contraption(zoo) is worse than the wild animals you mentioned above, including you. the only humans living in the this zoo are the ones fight to be free.

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Politics / Re: Why We Love Brown Roofs, by amachuk(m): 7:39am On Mar 19, 2017
MrSegunAdewole:
grin
we love it rusty
because it displays our cultures
cc
after1 attacker231 Chidozieude okolochyke FatIjeomaOkolie IheabunikeChuks ChukuAbiama grin
ok I now understand afonjas have brown culture

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Politics / Re: Children Hold Rally For Nnamdi Kanu's Release In Rivers (Photos) by amachuk(m): 6:11pm On Mar 18, 2017
zionmade2:
Please i beg my Ibo brodas, lets keep our children out of this Rubbish. I want kanu released but any parent who will allow his children listen to radio biafra is very irresponsible. Kanu is no role model, he had a right passion for a good fight but d words dat emanated from his mouth makes him a careless fellow.
thank God you are addressing your IBO brothers and not NDIGBO, our children must know the truth because they are the victims of this criminal arrangement called the zoo.

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Politics / Re: Igbo Jew Status Dna Test Is Pathetic And Treason To Igbo Race! by amachuk(m): 12:41am On Mar 18, 2017
ozoebuka1:
when will yorubas return to the sky where their forefather fell from?
Nwannem jubakwaha, you sentenced this trash to death with a simple and single question.

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Politics / Re: What Is The Contribution Of SOUTH EAST state To Fg Revenue? by amachuk(m): 9:18am On Mar 16, 2017
realjoker:


because they are not ready and matured enough to leave and they keep on lieing that they are the region that all other region feast on, nobody is stoping you from breaking away from nigerian, but the issue is that u guys are not ready to leave, the moment you choose to limit ur phantom countary to just your 5 South Eastern state and ur igboid brothers alone without attaching by force wih other non igboid tribe in SS and remove igalas and idomas from your pipe dream countary that is the moment we will start taking you serious and grant u referendum and your freedom. And please stop saying Nigeria dont want you to break away, we all know that you are only calling for referendum do to your greed to steal the most bleseed region in the whole of africa and world at large which SS away from other Nigerians.
You are parasites simple, it doesn't matter the arguments you try to put up. again we are not begging for freedom, we will arm twist you until you let go.

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Politics / Re: Re: Buratai, Biafra And The Guardians Of Empire Nigeria (part1) by amachuk(m): 11:03pm On Mar 12, 2017
jeremy85:
Re: Buratai, Biafra And The Guardians Of Empire Nigeria (Part1)

By Okanga Agila

There is the mistaken notion frequently bandied that Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, the Northern oligarchy or Nigeria’s Northern region and now, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt.Gen. Tukur Yusufu Buratai, are opposed to any clamour for self-determination by some sections of Nigeria. These days, it is further embellished with calls for Constitutional reforms and restructuring of the Nigerian federation, if breakaway is to be avoided.

The latest article on this discourse by Nigeria’s former Aviation minister, a questionable character and jailbird, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has espoused these emotions or pontificated this erroneous feeling.

To start, let it be known and indeed should sink in the skull of Fani-Kayode and his few apologists that none of the leaders, personalities, region and institutions in Nigeria is afraid, dreads or intends to prevent any section or group in this country from exercising its incontestable right to self-determination or secession. What is being detested by all and sundry, including the international community and the United Nations (UN) is the easy resort to criminality and blackmail of the Nigerian government, its leaders and other sections of the country by the so called self-determination agitators, as currently marketed by the groups the article has specified.

To this extent, it becomes the responsibility of government and leaders worth their salt, to protect innocent and law-abiding citizens of Nigeria, from the effects of the criminal instruments deployed against them by self- seeking separatism goons. It has been argued many times before that no section of Nigeria lacks the capacity to survive as an independent state.

The excuse of oil wealth and some other easily dissolvable reasons as well as barbaric actions , which some analysts like Fani-Kayode supports cannot and will not appeal to farsighted minds. The entire globe is currently more concerned about food security. The world has embraced the prosperity of nations in agriculture as against oil. Besides, what is even the worth of oil in the international market now? Peanuts!

The Northern region of Nigeria which is often vilified and violently circumcised by separatism campaigners is rich in agriculture. It has fertile lands, mineral resources and hard working population. There are also crude oil deposits in the Lake Chad Basin in commercial quantities, which is currently being stolen by Nigeria’s neighbours in connivance with France because of insecurity in the areas necessitated by Boko Haram insurgency.

Also, the Benue Trough in the North has crude oil deposits. So, it is infantile and absolute trash to posture or postulate that Northern Nigeria and its leaders dread secession because of the innate poverty associated with the region and the desire to cling unto the oil wealth from the South.

Sections of Nigeria, ethnicities or individuals who feel compelled to secede cannot just wake-up any day and violently seal up any location in the pretense of agitating for self-determination. It becomes barefaced affront on the powers of the state to protect lives and property of the citizenry. Fani-Kayode and his soulmates are supposedly and sufficiently civilized or exposed enough to know the decently civilized approaches and procedures to the current aberration they exhibit in the guise of separatism.

In his article, Fani-Kayode argued that Afenifere, the apex Yoruba socio-cultural organization, through its number two man, Chief Ayo Adebanjo has proclaimed backing for an Oduduwa republic in the event of the failure of Nigeria to embark on constitutional reforms and re-structuring of the federation. It is possibly his personal and restricted thinking about the issue because Nigerians are yet to see the consultations of interest groups in Yoruba land who have not only deliberated over this matter, but endorsed such agenda.

But fairly, Adebanjo’s treatise could be perceived as the intellectual and lawful approach to such issues. It however, does not obliterate the lacunas in the quest for self-determination by these groups. The claim of backing by the Dr. Frederick Fasheun and the Gani Adams-led factions of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) and the Oodua Liberation Movement (OLM) are also enmeshed in similar fate.

It sounds more like a desperate recruitment drive. But whatever it is, the Yoruba race have representatives at all levels in the parliament to set the ball rolling. And no government of Nigeria, to say the least, under President Buhari would either interfare or reject the aspirations of the generality of the people.

As always maintained, deployment of legitimate and lawful means to pursue issues of interest from any group will not attract the ire of anybody. But dubiousness in such quests in Nigeria overshadows the genuineness of such aspirations. Even the canvasser and propagandist, Fani-Kayode, who is conscientizing the people to rise up to demand for secession has laced it in deceit.

It is wrong for him to drag Middle Belt or North Central Nigeria into the unfounded quests for separatism just because the argument must be coloured to appear thick, convincing and widespread. So, every step is infused by fraudulence in the “project” self-determination.

Anyway, no one doubts the age-long, but feeble quest for a Biafran state, which Ojukwu started in 1967, but abandoned midway and opted for the cowardly action of absconding into exile.

The trumpets of Biafra today being blown by the twin organizations-Nnamdi Kanu’s Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) and Ralph Uwazuirike’s Movement For The Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) negates sanity and anything near the aspirations of self-determination by a collective- the Igbo nation. First, these organizations are not registered and therefore are unlawful entities and ordinarily, ought not to be allowed to operate under the banner. Secondly, majority of Ndi’gbo are opposed to it. It is thoughtless madness to seek legitimacy on the altar of illegitimacy as the carriage of MASSOB and IPOB have indicated.

But both organizations are peopled by few self-seekers. For example, these two groups threatened to disrupt the pro-Buhari rally slated for March 10, 2017 in Awka, Anambra state. The rally was organized in support of the Buhari Presidency by Igbo politicians in the APC fold. In the estimation of the pro-Biafranists, it insults the cause of Biafra to host President Buhari on Igboland.

But while they perfected their crooked machinations, thousands of Igbo youths opposed to the idea of MASSOB and IPOB stormed the Dr. Alex Ekwueme Square,Awka, the Anambra State capital , the same day to identify with the Buhari administration, with the hashtag #WeStandForBuhari#.

It is therefore an extended fraud when Fani-Kayode alludes that Chief John Nnia Nwodo-led Ohanaeze Ndi’gbo, the highest Igbo socio-cultural organisation , “which represent and speak for the elders and leaders of the Igbo nation,” also back the dubious Biafran aspirations of MASSOB and IPOB. Nwodo’s leadership of Ohanaeze Ndi’gbo is still being contested by another faction in Igboland. That is their internal problem anyway. But a person standing on a contested throne cannot be honoured with the veneration and grandeur of speaking for all. Where has he got the franchise to speak for the entire Igbos?

The Niger Deltans desire for resource control and self-determination has followed the same path of infamy. The groups clamoring for such niceties for themselves need not to be elusive; what Fani-Kayode calls “hard-hitting and elusive (Niger Delta) Avengers.” Any organization or individual with a genuine aspiration and intends to pursue it legitimately stand boldly to make his case to the world. There is no cause to be elusive. But when it is contrived and designed as evil, evasiveness takes the place of honour and when it becomes too lawless, the state has an onerous responsibility to limit the excesses.

The reference to the people of Southern Kaduna under aegis of Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU) follows the same trend of deception. What they are demanding is protection of their lives and properties by the government of Nigeria from constant attacks by suspected militias and other criminal gangs. And the government has responded with the establishment of a military barracks in the area to facilitate quick responses to crisis emergencies. Northern minorities may have issues with the government of Nigeria or Northern leaders, which is not strange altogether with people in nations. But it is not on record where they demanded for self-determination, much more with a dubious tinge like MASSOB or IPOB as insinuated.

The unwritten creed of the North, which their antagonists like Fani-Kayode have failed to know is their vow to indivisibility and unity, while they amicably resolve occasional problems.

Sheik Ibraheem El Zakzaky – led Shiite Muslims of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) belong to the same category of lawless organizations, whose only lexicon is violence. This much was revealed by the Kaduna State Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate the Shiites clash with Nigerian Army in December 2015. How does curtailing the unlawful excesses of a violent Islamic sect, with publicized affinity to ISIS in Iran amounts to the desire for self-determination?

Sometimes, it becomes difficult to discern the focus of the arguments. The moment you think, Kayode is talking about the religious persecution of Christians in the North because Buhari, a Muslim is President of Nigeria; he deviates into the issue of Shiites Muslims subjected to the same fate under the same Buhari. Where does he really stand? No matter the extent falsehood is elevated, it cannot replace truth. What is happening is expression of government’s intolerance for lawlessness.

So, when the COAS Lt. Gen. Buratai counseled these spineless agitators on March 6, 2017 to bury the idea and campaigns for separatism, it was in good faith. It stemmed from the noticeable shortcomings and loopholes such campaigns have imbibed overtime and the resort to criminality in pursuit of these indefinable missions.

It is neither arrogance nor self-serving, as Fani-Kayode puts it. But it is a worthy advice from a professional soldier and security expert who has sighted the effects of the dubiousness in the actions and the security implications on the country. And from his vintage insight, it behooves on him to caution these campaigners of whatever hue to either do what is right or perish the idea.

And Fani-Kayode did not conceal his real intentions far before exploding to divulge his real plot – the destabilization of Nigeria, which would be rocked into another civil war, as he declared, “no country in the history of the world has ever survived two civil wars.” Buratai knew these evil intentions from the outset and his declaration was a tacit caution that Nigeria would not be compromised by these vested, demonic interests and forces.

Again, no one would stop genuine, lawful aspirations of any kind. But when it derails into lawlessness, the state would not feast over deliberate breach of security. Fani-Kayode postulates as if the defunct republics he cited around the world, which have separated, some for as much as six or more times, either automatically found solutions to their mirage of problems or adopted the offensive approaches these groups in Nigeria find worthy.

Has the crisis in Sudan ended because South Sudan emerged? What about Pakistan? Or has the breakaway of Syria from Egypt resolved crisis in these countries? The examples are inexhaustible from the list he tendered. So, it means much more than separatism to resolve issues of conflict between nationalities co-habitating together.

Perhaps, Fani-Kayode has sensed the prospects of jail over the various corruption charges he is facing in courts and thinks, a speedy break-up of Nigeria would stop his trials and extricate him from the possibility of jail. But it’s hardly the route to his escape.

Okanga writes from Agila, Benue State.
what a poor argument from a willing slave. nobody can right agenda for Ipob, so keep wasting your time.

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Politics / Re: The Fate Of Igboland Without Igbos by amachuk(m): 7:20pm On Mar 05, 2017
edoboy33:
your quest for freedom don't generalise pls
if buhari decides to hold a poll today the number of Igbo's that will reject Biafra will be more than those that will accept it
Why then are you so scared, every mention of Biafra sends shivers down your spine, the most honorable thing Nigerian can and should do is organise a referendum for to determine their fate and not resort to violence, torture and killing of armless youths.

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Politics / Re: Ipop Pls Fear God Oo! by amachuk(m): 2:45pm On Mar 05, 2017
oyinkinola:

...am not saying you be careful, I said you be fearful ok?
then for all these issues of your concern I've worked out a political solution that will satisfy every one of us, so give your support to the Idea;
instead of zoning Nigeria North and south, I zone it West and East to obey the nature:
West is from North west through mid west to south west!
East is from North east through mid east to south east!
power we be from either West or East that will laid to rest the religious conflict, ethinics conflict and regional conflict and Nigeria will move on!
Stop wasting your, we are a determined people, Biafra shall come hate it or like it, believe it or not.

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Politics / Re: The Fate Of Igboland Without Igbos by amachuk(m): 1:55pm On Mar 05, 2017
edoboy33:
A bright Igbo son Prof Ozodi Osuji has described
Igbo mentality these days as one saddled with a
childish sense of superiority and paranoid
grandiosity, but we can do better than this. Igbo are
not the best God ever created in Nigeria. Every
ethnic group in Nigeria has its champions and
stars. The North of Hausa-Fulani feeds the South.
This is huge power, SIMPLICITA. The people of
Southern Nigeria have their own prodigious power
too. This is the power of diversity.
Ndigbo and by extension all biafrans are not bothered by the trash some of you spew here on nairaland in an attempt to blackmail or cajole our people into abandoning our legitimate quest for freedom, we know you are simply been greedy and hypocritical as well, you speak hate about us in the night and in the morning you bring us gifts. Any Igbo man or biafran who is stupid enough to take a position against Ndigbo or biafrans to you is a patriot and learend. before Nigeria, Biafra was, Biafra has the capacity to be among the worlds super powers, biafra shall come, hate it or love it.

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Politics / Re: Obafemi Awolowo's Resignation Letter From The Federal Executive Council In 1971 by amachuk(m): 11:46am On Feb 17, 2017
Awolowo is in hell now, paying his dues like every genocidist would, so will his descendants pay for the sins of Awolowo, while their onetime victims continues to be victorious.
Politics / Re: Rejoinder: The Sorry State Of The Nation Under Buhari by amachuk(m): 11:27am On Feb 17, 2017
PassingShot:
Only if there was honor among thieves!

In response to the thread by TonyeBarcanista, it is important to constantly remind him and those like him who have demonstrated to be gifted with short memory, how and why we are in the sorry state we are.

Without wasting time, let’s liken Nigeria to a young family man who worked for sixteen years on very decent monthly salary of N1,000,000. In the sixteen years he earned N1M monthly, the said man has acquired taste for luxury life, living in a duplex in Ajah Estate with all the good things life could offer. This man was living large and had little or nothing in savings. Then one day, he lost his high-paying job and could only manage to secure another one which offers a third of what he used to earn. His new job only pays N300,000 monthly!

Without being told or advised by anyone, the man must realize that he can no longer house his family in the Ajah duplex they’d lived for sixteen years even if there was savings let alone when there is no reasonable savings. He must therefore scale down on EVERYTHING about his living and that of his family. He will need to change his children’s school. He will need to move into a 2 or 3 bedroom flat in Ikorodu or Agege. He will need to ride a smaller car. If his family used to go on weekly/monthly picnic, that also must stop. His and his family choice of food will change. In fact, he must engage more in DIY (Do It Yourself) than ever before for some tasks. Such man will have no one to blame for needing to scale down on his living except himself!

If we all agree that the man in the example above must cut back on his spending with a lot of sacrifices, there should be no reason why any reasonable person will fail to understand why Nigeria is in the current economic mess or what sacrifices Nigeria must make to weather the storm.

OBJ, with all his flaws, managed to build decent external reserves ($45bn ), created and built the excess crude account (above $20bn) for rainy days and was able to hand over good economy to Yar’Adua. Yar’Adua was on the same trajectory before his creator decided to take him away.

GEJ inherited $47bn in foreign reserves plus another $20bn+ in ECA. During the over five years he spent as president, crude oil which is the major source of income to Nigeria (responsible for more than 90% or our dollar earnings) sold for an average of $100 per barrel, yet the hugely incompetent man from Otuoke found a way to plunge the reserves to an abysmal level of $29bn as at the time of his exit and went on borrowing spree (which was also looted) even when there was no need to. In fact, GEJ and his gang r@ped Nigeria without mercy such that the FG had to borrow money to pay its workers in Nov 2014 and March 2015 just because crude price crashed from $100 to $76 a barrel. Sane minds can only imagine how such regime could have fared, or how much we would have suffered, if they were in charge of our affairs when crude crashed further to $27 a barrel.

Let’s not even talk about the ECA which his supporters will be quick to blame the governors for asking it to be shared. Though they will pretend not to know that the request of the governors made perfect sense for the fact that GEJ and Ngozi were fond of stealing from the account which jointly belonged to the FG and the states, they know in their mind that there argument lacks merit.

Is there anything happening in Nigeria today that was not foreseen, predicted or that we were not warned about? The answer is a resounding NO.

Let us refresh our memory with the warnings and predictions about today’s hardship and economic woes perhaps a few minds will be more objective and more reasonable.

1. OBJ warned Jonathan in Nov 2014: Extracts from the report:

"Sooner or later, the Naira will have to be drastically devalued without any advantage to our one commodity economy but with horrendous disadvantage to already impoverished Nigerians. We will all sink deeper in poverty except for those who have corruptly stashed money abroad and who will start to bring such illegal and illegitimate funds back home to harvest more Naira. All the economic gains of recent years and the rebuild of the middle class may be lost.”

“In the end, more businesses will close down, business men and women, entrepreneurs and investors will incur more debts. Foreign investors may temporarily stop investing in a downturn economy.
“Because of the Naira depreciation, workers, particularly in the public sector, will ask for pay increase, which may be justified but will sink us deeper in the swamp.
“The scenario, which may sound alarmist, is hard to imagine but the signs are there and it would appear that those who should act are dancing slow foxtrot while their trousers are catching fire”
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http://thenationonlineng.net/obasanjo-warns-jonathan-economy-is-in-big-trouble/


2. Sanusi, the then Governor of Central Bank warned too!

“Over 20 billion dollars unremitted to the federation account, and if nothing is done, by 2015 upward Nigeria will know what economic crisis is.”

When he was invited by the Senate to substantiate his claim, he said"

“It is established that out of the 67 billion dollars crude shipped by NNPC between January 2012 and July 2013, $47 billion was remitted to the Federation Account. It is now up to the NNPC to prove that $20 billion unremitted either did not belong to the federation or was legally and constitutionally spent. There is no dispute that $20 billion out of the $67 billion has not been paid into any account with the CBN,” he said.
http://icirnigeria.org/sanusi-insists-20-billion-is-missing-nnpc-denies-allegation/


We all know how Sanusi the whistle blower was sacked by the fisherman.


3. Oby Ezekwesili sounded the alarm bell in 2013: “Our reserve is depleted and our savings are squandered. Our nation is in trouble.”
She later stated: “The key FACT is that even by the time of that crisis when Soludo had to defend the Naira with our Foreign Reserve, he spent about $15b of it and still left behind about $45b when he departed as Central Bank Governor in 2009!!!
Now imagine that since that time oil prices have averaged between $95-$100 per barrel and we export an average of 750 million barrels per annum. How then can the Foreign Reserve only now be starting to grow back to the same size it was in 2009 after such hefty earnings of the last 4 years? The FG numbers do not add up at all and we need to know why!
The citizens need an explanation and that’s why I called for accountability. It is simply a patriotic call which should not result in the name calling by officials of government."


http://dailypost.ng/2013/03/08/oby-ezekwesili-now-that-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-has-admitted-fiscal-leakages/


4. Jonathan Lacked Political Will to Save – Ngozi Okonjo Iweala

And madam Gele finally agrees to her and her boss’ gross incompetence by saying:

The former finance minister and World Bank president, who spoke on “inequality, growth and resilience,” with Chile as an example of a country with a saving culture, said:

“We tried it in Nigeria, we put in an oil price based fiscal rule in 2004 and it worked very well. “We saved $22 billion because the political will to do it was there. And when the 2008 /2009 crisis came, we were able to draw on those savings precisely to issue about a five per cent of GDP fiscal stimulus to the economy, and we never had to come to the Bank or the Fund. “This time around and this is the key now, you need not only to have the instrument, but you also need the political will. In my second time as a finance minister, from 2011 to 2015, we had the instrument, we had the means, we had done it before, but zero political will. “So we were not able to save when we should have. That is why you find that Nigeria is now in the situation it is in, along with so many other countries.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/nigeria-had-no-political-will-to-save-under-jonathan-okonjo-iweala/
For the “video or Idontbelieve it” crew, it is available on YouTube as well.

[b]Now that we have seen that today’s economic mess was created by GEJ and his thieving gang, it makes no sense for anyone to blame PMB for the current situation. If anything, PMB deserves commendations for being able to provide bailouts to states owing salaries before he came on board, for being able to provide additional budget support due to reduced allocation to state, for being able to increase our foreign reserves despite that crude price is still at around $50 per barrel, for being able to build roads that those who earned billions in dollars couldn’t touch, for being able to start N-Power project employing hundreds of thousands unemployed youths, for being able to complete abandoned Kaduna-Abuja rail project, for being able to restore life in the NE that was ravaged by Boko Haram due to GEJ’s incompetence, for being able to bring some past looters to justice (Dasuki, Andrew Yakbu, Diezani, Bafarawa, Akpobolokemi, etc), for being able to restore some sanity in our ultra-corrupt judiciary, for ending fuel subsidy scam, for working towards self-sustenance in rice and other staple food production, for working to make Nigeria refine her own crude locally by 2019, etc., etc.[/b]

GEJ and his gang of looters raped Nigeria without using condom or any form of protection. The product of such violation is today’s economic hardship.

Had PMB not become president, Nigeria would have completely failed. I have no doubt about that happening and it’s based on what have now been revealed in the numerous looting of our common wealth.


God Bless PMB/VPYO
God Bless Nigeria

your write up is emotion laden with little or no fact, this is just a vicious attempt to discredit the Jonathan's regime and make it look as if he is the root cause of Nigeria's problems. Meanwhile what we suffer today is a cumulative effects of over 40 years of pummeling, squandering and siphoning of our Commonwealth by both civilian and military regimes which buhari is part of. you said that oil provides for 90% of the country's revenue, still you praised Obansanjo, Yar-adua and even buhari who did nothing and is still doing nothing to diversify the economy. Buhari is simply an illiterate who doesn't have what it takes to lead even a local govt in at this information age, he is vindictive and a tyrant. I don't know if its Jonathan that is killing people all over the country for exercising their rights to peacefully organize and express their displeasure, you will soon realise that you employed the services of a town crier to do the job of a pilot.

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Politics / Re: The Onitsha Fire And The Mediocrity Of Governance In Anambra State by amachuk(m): 9:10pm On Feb 16, 2017
nonsobaba:
A
commission of enquiry should be set up to
ascertain the remote and immediate causes
of this fire incident which destroyed
hundreds of millions of naira worth of
property and all culprits should be severely
punished. That petrol station was given
approval by former governor Peter Obi to
be built in that densely populated residential
area against every norm of city planning
and i think Peter Obi should be invited first
to answer questions. I maintain that Peter
Obi is a crooked fellow who ran Anambra
state like a crooked enterprise. Little wonder
nemesis has caught up with him and he has
been decimated politically.
Story for the gods, all you do everyday is sit down and manufacture lies, born out of hatred and envy. for over 15 years, from 1991 I was resident in the street just beside the filling station "OBOLI Lane" no 9a to be precise. I met that mobil filling station there in 1991 but somebody here is telling us that peter Obi approved the construction of that station, you are a cheap propagandist from Aguleri.

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Politics / Re: Pro-Biafran Supporters Protest In Spain Over Nnamdi Kanu's Detention. PICS by amachuk(m): 8:20pm On Dec 27, 2016
PrettyCrystal:
and what is the aim of this protest again?
where is your brain?, may be its trapped in MMM.

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Politics / Re: Israel Bans Chrismas Celebration by amachuk(m): 1:25pm On Dec 25, 2016
chydon24:
Who is this serious idiot making up this as a topic? What has Xmas tree has to do with Christian worship & Xmas celebration? Did we tell u that we are worshipping Xmas tree for Xmas? Man grow up. We are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ the saviour of mankind. Keep on believing in ur Mohammed but I bet u, if u don't know Jesus & do not accept him as ur lord & personal saviour, u are already with a first class ticket to hell. JESUS is the only way.
Nwokem shut up!!, you can't even read with understanding. you are here shouting your head off with Jesus from an irreparable slump(Africa) when the people of isreal from ages never new who he was and they are making big progress, anything you do that doesn't progress you practically is utter rubbish.

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Politics / Re: "Because I' A Soldier, Born To Die" - Emotional Pic Shared By A Nigerian Soldier by amachuk(m): 5:09pm On Dec 08, 2016
Onyejemechimere:
Whatever you do always remember the Nigerian soldiers, pray that God should Bless them More for their countless sacrifices.

God bless the Nigerian soldiers.


http://otownloaded.com/see-emotional-photo-shared-nigerian-soldier

cc: ijebabe, MissyB3, Fynestboi, obinoscopy, lalasticlala
Pray me? who will now pray for those innocent lives they waste on a daily basis? who will compensate their families? Nigerian soldiers will continue to die as long as they keep killing innocent people.

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