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jmoore: Story! Stop bothering yourself. No western court will extradite any Biafran activist to a Government that kidnapped the movements leader, and a supreme Court that does not uphold international law on kidnapping in the guise of extradition. Simon knows this. Nnamdi Kanu's detention has closed the chapter on any Biafran activist being extradited to Nigeria. It establishes Nefarious intention and intimidation by the Nigerian State actors, which can always be prooved in court. The worst that can happen is the Foreign country will choose to try such a person by their own law. Even that Cannadian paid actor will not come to Nigeria. Nigeria does not have the capacity to take out anyone outside the usual intimidation, and mind you the day you even try that and fail, the other side will start hiring international assassins to take out yourside. That will start a cold civil war, so becareful, those who live in glass houses do not throw stones. |
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Another sophisticated reason for setting a new precident in barefaced tribalism by a sitting president. It's an unbelievable time to be alive. It's just for another 6 years. But do not forget that what ever you invent will sooner than later be applied to you by new political actors. It's now acceptable for a Federal Government to be openly Tribalist and Petty. Where in the law for Nelfund was it stated that inclusion or access depended on institutions application or lack of it? |
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You know, Southern Cameroon did same thing you are doing in the 1960s, today they are fighting a war for the same natural choice they had in a referendum. You are at the border of Igbo land. You main interest for not joining the southeast is cause its marginalised and underdeveloped according to your write up. You are assuming this will remain so, and Nigeria will remain as is. Any wise man will tell you Nigeria sooner or later must breakdown, as the business owner Britain is done with oil extraction. When that happens, write up such as these will lead to your outright rejection by the greater Igbo congress, cause we will see you as Non Igbo and a symbol of our past trauma. Then you will truly be a second class citizen in whatever political setup Edo people end up in. And no, you are too small to be left independent, the other side will assimilate you once rejected. Your population and voices will be too insignificant for the world to care. So keep shouting how you are not Igbo up and down without any real political intelligence of the future consequence. I hope the Igbos in Delta State can quickly expunge you guys from their Anioma State and move on. 2 Likes |
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Kemetian: Developing is a diplomatic way of saying " those who can't get their shit together" . It means backwardness. In fact, the developing nations is categorised into emerging economies- "sluggish but moving foward" and others - "who are marching backwards". You all know which one you are! |
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OLAADEGBU:They should also include bars and entertainment centers playing loud music |
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Since when did it become a crime to make a foreign country's flag. Its the user that matters, not the maker. He should get a lawyer. |
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JagabanB: Better ask other peeps in the East |
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JagabanB: Yeah right. Maybe I should just commit suicide |
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JagabanB: Oga, I did not say soldiers mounted checkpoints. I said, there are a company( that means at least 5) of Soldiers at every Road Junction inside the cities in the south east. Not on expressways, but on streets, trunk roads and alleyways. They look like they are preparing for urban war. |
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JagabanB: That you said so, does not make it true. There are Soldiers here, unlike other parts of the country. Its like they are preparing for civil war, not protest. |
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There are soldiers in the East. Every road Junction in Enugu has a company of soldiers, not even policemen. How can we protest with Soldiers that have been killing peeps long before this protest. Our hope tomorrow is that the soldiers are begging for money to eat. Its like no provision was made for their feeding. So maybe they will join the protest themselves tomorrow. 3 Likes |
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Why is South East not protesting? It's because Soldiers, not police men have been deployed in all South East Cities. They are armed with live bullets, and at every Road Junction. Let's save our lives first 10 Likes 2 Shares |
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@OP You got a couple of things wrong, but yes, you are sniffing something, but Dangote is also not innocent. 1. Upstream oil production has no direct link to Downstream retail of petroleum products. So do not link Agip to petrol import, even though we know the acquisition by Oando might not have sailed through without Tinubu as president. But big oil companies are looking to leave Nigeria, all of them. Not just because of electric vehicles in future, but because Nigeria has constantly been annually forecasted for implosion since Niger Delta militancy in 2008. 2. How Wale Tinubu got to own Oando is another story altogether, but in 2016 he sold the down stream part of Oando to Vitol and Helios, cause of his poor forcast of oil prices in buying ConocoPhillips oil assets between 2013 and 2015. So Wale Tinubu has little or nothing to do with those Oando filling stations that NNPC just bought since 2016. Infact, one might say he was fighting to get them back since Tinubu became president. If you check House of Reps, supended the sale of OVH Energy assets by Vitol and Helios to NNPC, after money has been paid. 3. However, MRS and Oando have been long term competitors since 2010 or 2012, not sure of exact date. I can also tell you the Dangote Refinery as built by Dangote, was originally an Oando Refinery Proposal. How Dangote got them and implemented them is a mystery. So I expect there is a lot of bad blood between the two sides, especially if Wale Tinubu is watching a competitor implementing his pet Project which was botched from inside, by his own executives around 2011. 4. Monopolization of Petroleum products import was not started by Tinubu, but by Buhari, with northern business interests. Sometime early in his second term, he claimed to suspend subsidy payment, and them proceeded to run an arrangement where only NNPC could recieve subsidy for petroleum import. So since 2016 only NNPC has been importing petroleum products because any other person that does will make a loss. That is precisely why global petroleum Giant like Vitol, became desperate to sell Oando Marketing(OVH Energy), even though they could drown Nigeria in petrol and diesel without any forex problems. Infact that was why they entered Nigerian Market initially. But someone was buying all those petroleum products for NNPC. Who? I think that's where Dangote comes in. Buhari's daughter even became a director in NNPC. I do not have a clear line of what went on, but one person has been importing petroleum products for all of Nigeria since 2016, that person or persons got so comfortable with it, that they invested in Dangote Refinery, after monopolising the industry. To get the magnitude, That single entity has been making the annually profits of Sahara Energy, OVH Energy, MRS, Forte Oil, Mobil (Retail Nigeria), Aiteo, Total, NIPCO, and all independent marketers, alone since 2016. All these companies became its indirect subsidiaries cause they could not import on their own and get subsidy. Let's not forget that this kind of monopolization of imports by NNPC was first executed using Ifeanyi Uba's Capital Oil around 2010. Buhari's Govt. took it to a new level. This is the main origin, back yard nepotism. Dangote Refinery at its size and complexity, should not cost more than 5 billion USD, but its tagged at 20 billion USD. With Nigeria's FG originally owning 20% stake. 20% of 20 billion is 4 billion USD. It seems based on real value, Dangote Refinery was built entirely with funds from Nigeria's Federal Government. This seems like a typical pattern of a certain former CBN Governor, who is romoured to have facilitated the use of a banks depositors fund to enable the acquisition of same bank. 5. NNPC is still monopolizing petroleum products imports. Probabky as revealed, Only the new Zar is doing the import for NNPC. While Dangote is telling you this, he might not be telling how he might have benefitted from same monopoly under Buhari. Why do you think Otedola sold forte oil and invested in Dangote Refinery? Maybe the time of oil terminals has come to end for a new type of monopoly. 6. The Malta import angle is just an opportunity that arose for WaleTinubu, if its true. It can not be the long term plan. Why? Dangote Refinery execution strategy, was based on the execution strategy in the original Oando Refinery plan. This was based on the Jamanagar Refinery owned by Reliance Industry India. It was built in 3 years using multiple contractor's and top notch project management which focused on keeping the battery limits between the contractor coherent and clean with the overall design. Dangote took same approach, using multiple Indian contractors, without the top notch project management for the battery limits. Jamanagar Refinery costed just about 5.6 billion USD in 2008 with highest complexity index of 12 for heavy crude. Dangote's cost 20 billion USD and is still not running more than the atmospheric distillation towers, which makes it only as complex as those drum refineries in Niger Delta bushes with complexity index of 2. So Dangote still cannot replace imports, until he is able to produce high octane petrol. Wale Tinubu had every opportunity to build this Refinery since 2010, the plan was Oando's, there is no way he can compete with a Refinery using a Blending plant. To compete, he needs another Refinery. So competition cannot be his long term plan. Dangote on the other hand is drowning in the cost of a refinery that has a 400% cost over run. He needs special access to crude, and monopolistic access to sell whatever the Refinery is producing in order to survive. The question here is who is right- Dangote and the mis-managed Oando Refinery Plan, or Oando and Buharis' oil monopoly. You tell me. 2 Likes |
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pazienza: You made partial sense in your first thread, this one is totally paid campaign for the Govt. Rules of Power - Power is taken and never Given. Inactivity will always deny you power. However, there are other aspects to power, Opportunity and Timing. In the past, because Igbos do not practice centralised leadership, one or two individuals takes initiative, but early action only creates opportunities for other political players, unless you are dominating the arena. When, Ahamadu Bello launched his plan to subsume other regions, with sabotage planned for the West, and Violence Planned for the east after the fall of the west. Muritala Mohamed was already visiting London as reported by Edwin Clark, meaning the military action was blessed by part of Westminister. The intelligence, led to the 1966 coup which nipped him in the bud, saving Awolowo from Bello's plan. Yet, same Awolowo whose region was already facing Bello's onslaught, mainly saw the events ((with the intelligence) as opportunity to grab power which had been denied him by the prowess of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. The average Igbo till today finds it perplexing and an incomprehensible. He took no initiative, but mate he'd the timing with the opportunity. Nzeogwu, and Ironsi created the Opportunity, especially by acting too early without the necessary political opoortunity. Can you imagine how things would have turned out if they had waited for the demise of Awolowo before their own military action. Even allowing the Jan 17th coup to go on. Similarly, Ironsi created opportunities for the North to recover their leaked military action, by embarking on Unification, at the wrong timing. Gowon and Co were close to him only because he wanted to be perceived as a unifier. As Igbos, We must refrain from acting alone, so that we must also 1. Refrain from Acting too Early 2. Match the political opportunity to the right timing In simple terms, in this case of protest, 1. Igbo's must not start a protest, they will only be created an opportunity for others. 2. Should the prolific North start a protest, Igbos should take advantage of it, to further their goals for Nationalisim and power. The case of being Dormant and inactivity, does not pay. Just do not be the first to act! |
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Assuming Toyota land Cruzer Manufacturer mileage is 11 km per liter For actual Road Conditions we use 50%, 5.5km per liter Abuja to Awka is 469km by road To and Fro is 938km, at 5.5km per liter, you need 170.54 liters For six cars, that's 1023.3 liters At N720 per liter that's N736,756.00 Meaning, 1.5million was double the cost, unless the trip had major detours. Public Officials should maintain strict accountability when using public funds. |
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First, your callers or scammers are in Nigeria not Zimbabwe Second, your phone number is in some target list, probably circulating through the dark Web Third, stop responding to scammers. Do not give either a positive or negative response to a phishing scammer. It only gives them feedback that they have your attention, which to them is an achievement with potentials. Stop banning the number, do not pick the number or respond to them at all. 1 Like |
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dre11: @OP Yes, I read the whole thing, and yes you are deluded, in trying to shift the blame from a failing economy to GSK long term strategy. You fail to acknowledge the known fact, that the more you devalue your currency, the less it is useful to any one or company operating from a healthy economy. This is the simple reason why companies like apple do not bother selling their products in African countries with subjugated currencies. Their desired profit alone is several annual earnings of the average consumer, so their product is affordable only to a few. Currency devaluation started mildly under Jonathan, exacerbated to illogical levels under buhari, and became outrightly ridiculous under Tinubu. So any company that is moving its products into Nigeria, has been contemplating its Nigerian Fortunes since 2012. Even locally owned companies. To see the third man with even unbelievable naivity on his inauguration day will definitely solidify the resolve of any business concern that has been contemplating JAPA from illogical economic sommer saults. If individuals are doing JAPA, you do not think it applies to companies and businesses as well? The third thing, is your nauseating sense of entitlement, buried into a false national sentiment which could not be deployed to earn us good governance. GSK is a business, some people started it with their own resources. They do not even owe you any explanation when they stop providing their services due profitability issues. If you cannot work for an employer free of salary, businesses cannot operate as charities, else innovation dies. Fourth, when giants leave local economies, like in Russia, Local Companies see this as opportunity to fill the gap. Your Governance, and economy are so lost, that this substitution is not even being discussed, rather you are writing to weep up stupid sentiments. 2 Likes 1 Share |
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ChumzyOma: Is this not the same man IPOB accused of Ochestrating the kidnapping of Nnamdi Kanu. They said he funded the jet used to bring Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria. If that's true, how does he think he can Govern anybody anywhere in Igboland? Or its another supreme Court Governor in the makng? 1 Like |
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adams123: Same, it's not a democracy , but a pseudo Monarchy. For all the noise Britain makes about installing democracy around the world. And it's not even just the King. More than half of the Prime Ministers of Britain are selected by a privileged few, and not voted in through elections, including the current Sunak, and the previously deposed two after Cameron. And i believe people should choose what they want, be consistent and stick with it. The current arrangement in Nigeria served and continues to serve the interest of Britain without any proper definition. If the North wants Monarchy, thats fine for them, but means separation because the warrant Chiefs called Igwe in the east are British inventions, and have nothing to do with traditions. If Nigeria, should be a democratic single country, all monarchies must be scrapped. |
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Nigeria is a democracy, every leader leaves office at a fixed tenure. So the so called traditional institutions are monarchies, which can never align with a democratic government. So you either scrap them or recognised them in the process of unbundling Nigeria into its seperate ethnic groups. No man is born solely to rule in these modern times. 10 Likes 2 Shares |
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officialwdhtv:That's probably her Dad, married to her NigerianMum from Anambra State. |
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This why Igbos want to leave the he'll hole. Both Yorubas and Northerners, treat criticism of leaders and elders as a crime, infact its like committing treason to them. As an Igbo child you learn to expect criticism from fellow kids and even juniors for reason you maynot see and to defend your self. Sensibility is neither by age, nor by leadership appointment. Can you imagine a whole presidential jet funded with tax payers money being deployed cause Gaduje does not like what Sanusu said. That's pathetic and wasteful. |
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gidgiddy: A decree is unconstitutional. All we need to bring back the regions is to challenge the decree in court. The supreme Court cannot recognize a decree, cause that legalizes military counsel. So a case like this will nullify all the 36 states, and bring back both regionalism and resource control. |
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MrProlific95: None, None of them has any real authority. They are all below the Authority of a ward councillor. But, the fact that great majority of Nigerians are not learned, most peeps have no idea, and assume they have some power or authority. Their only influence is that politicians use them to sway locals for elections. |
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bennybuhari: I do not know why, but people always make the mistake of comparing currencies directly. You simply can't. Your rent in UK might be 1000 GBPs, but you earn on average 3000 pounds per month, meaning you rent is 30% of your earning. Back here, your average monthly rent will be N200k say you work in VI, and live in Ajah, your salary averages N500k per month, your rent is roughly 40% Meaning, neither place is better off. The only time you gain from relocation is whatever little savings you make, and decide to invest back home. Whenever you invest back home you take advantage of a colonial economic barrier created by first would countries, through IMF manipulating our usually economic illiterate leaders into thinking there is a fair market value for paper currencies without intrinsic value. This barrier only serves to create a filtration of best trained workforce from your country to theirs. Cheapen your raw materials, and exclude your local population from international business dominance, innovation and and new product development. You average citizen cannot even afford a local flight, talkless of your SMEs, Academics, and Youths traveling around to learn new things, attend conferences, and trade fares, or bid and compete for opportunities that will add value to your economy. Your country is essentially existing in its local bubble, and not an economic threat to the West or OECD. So any leader, like Buhari, that deliberately devalues her countries currency has been grossly foolled, and has questionable intellectual capacity. You do not deal with rising forex demand by devaluation, rather by import restriction, and import substitution. You do not measure you economic progress by forex earning, but by real production in your economy. Rather than give workers higher minimum wage, it's better to revalue your currency ( whesther by redenominating, fixing rates or gold backing) to be within same nominal value as major currencies, and ban import of anything that is being produced locally, or unnecessary luxury consumables such as branded chocolates, clothes, cookies. Focus your import on tools, Machinery and advanced technical materials that are not available locally. The worst thing that can happen to an economy is the loss of the cream of her work force, and the isolation of her business internationally, and these are the real goals of IMF currency devaluation. 9 Likes 1 Share |
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Love800:Talk to a dentist, they have other options like ozone treatment, ceramic implants. But tk be truthful, about a decade ago when mine started acting up, I got annoyed at some point and just pulled all the bad ones, like 3 molars on the whole. Had sinus issues for about a year or two, after and then peace. 1 Like |
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Sewasaunt: I see you are a medical Doctor, that's cute. You talk like my sister does. But the reality is that without a functional mandatory health insurance system, peeps are psychologically traumatised of what will be discovered in hospital. You never can tell. The diminished purchasing power is not helping matters too. |
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Sewasaunt:So I should take your word for it, without evidence ![]() You are such a clown. Go to the IG page, that Dentist you are trying to discredit has many posts on the subject, and she has references to studies, including one stat that says the success rate after 8 years is about 56%. She has made it her job to do the proving, so I do not need to, that's why I sent you her link. Especially as she is a Dentist, so more qualified and helps people rectify damages from root canal. |
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jude79:Yes, it's roughly 40 volts per panel |
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Love800:https://www.instagram.com/reel/C667buPSYmq/?igsh=MjVldWVjdHJtbGx2 |
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Sewasaunt: This is no longer a novel issue. Google will give you plenty of reviews,even from dentists. https://www.naturalandcosmeticdentistry.com/the-truth-about-root-canals-how-are-they-affecting-your-health/#:~:text=What%20are%20the%20dangers%3F,in%20the%20head%20or%20neck. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C667buPSYmq/?igsh=MjVldWVjdHJtbGx2 |
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Sheuns:Root Canal is well proven to cause internal rot, and consequently unexplainable routine inflammation. Do not do root canal, extract the tooth. Further for those of you who already have a root canal, better go for CT Scan check up, to ensure your Jaws and facial bones are not rotting internally. |
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