senatordave1:


Sorry,I suppose tag you.you are an intellectual.but I don't think a book written by njoku should be the only reasonable explanation.mind you,he also went to a course abroad so I don't see why his juniors should overtake him.sounds funny

The answer provided to you was a perfectly reasonable explanation but seems like you already have your own theory before you even asked the question.

Okay tell us what you feel the reason was

35824L:
Land grabbers. Always aiming to steal Nigerdelta land and oil so that they will no longer be landlocked in their gully erosion ravaged region. This unending greed is why 3 million of their ancestors died for nothing.

You hide behind a keyboard and monitor and keep spewing trash daily .

Throwback:


So now NigerDelta or South South are fools?

Must he decide for everyone what they are or how they should be addressed?

Why is it that this dude has no home training.

Why is he so angry and uncouth?

Was he abused as a child?

Use your faculty properly to analyze the entire context in which that statement was made .

seunmsg:
Onu is Igbo so I’m not surprised. This is the same country where Adeosun was hounded out of office because of an irrelevant NYSC certificate.

Chima Igwe forged a PHD attestation to get rapidly promoted since 2002. He did not complete the PhD program until 2020, 18 years later. Demoting him shouldn’t even be an option in the first place, he should have been dismissed outrightly. But no, his Igbo brother want to keep him in office as DG of a federal research agency. The same people who cry about merit everyday are the ones doing everything to destroy merit in the public service .

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What exactly do you mean by the bolded comment ? Are you saying tribalism is synonymous with Igbo?

Why are you making this about tribe and not the party ?

I have never seen you type such a long epistle to call out cases of corruption pervasive under this administration perpetuated by members of other ethnic groups especially the northerners

Everyday we’re inundated by numerous documented cases of fraud by northerners in this government. Recently we’ve started hearing revelations of the corrupt tendencies of the speaker of the Lagos state house of assembly. I have not read any such similar epistle by you. Where’s your righteous indignation?

In this case, you decided to comment but then placed the blame solely at the feet of a particular tribe. You ended your write up with this : The same people who cry about merit everyday are the ones doing everything to destroy merit in the public service

You deliberately ignored the fact that under this lack lustre government and very much in contrary to what we were promised , corruption has found a place to reside. Instead as an unapologetic bigot that you are , you made it about ethnicity and tribe.

If this government is what it claimed to be, why are senior members of the administration comfortable with these corrupt acts and practices . That is the question you should’ve been asking if your reasoning wasn’t completely clouded by bigotry.

It’s not okay to turn a blind eye when other tribes in Nigeria from THE SAME PARTY steal and then hurry to social media when it’s convenient to show some activism

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Neef2018:
I am fully based in Dubai and even despite been a church boy, I think the Islamic banking system needs to be accepted globally.
Or better still, maybe our pastors can fear God and use their billions to create something better than this...which I totally DOUBT
Nearly all the projects excuted in Dubai came from money borrowed from ADIB, RAK, and the Islamic development bank.
These banks don't charge interest! They only partner with you and collect their money back while maintaining about 1-10% of the ownership of the business depending on how much loan you want. THIS MEANS, they will ONLY borrow you money if your business is feasible and they can benefit on the long run from part of the profit you make for a limited amount of time.
My father has a business in Eleme, and he's paying an interest of 25% to a microfinance bank! This microfinance is owned by one of the strong church leaders he attends oh!
Simply because of covid19, his account is now showing debit, because he couldn't pay...I mean, this bank owned by a Christain didnt even care that my father's business was shut down, they kept texting, calling and even visited him at home. They have been eyeing his Pathfinder Jeep, and discussing its value right there infront of my father. Meaning my father wont be paying 2.5million for the 2 million naira he borrowed, if care is not taken he will have to pay roughly 2.75million or 3million by the end of the year. And he has already paid 1 million before the pandemic! Can you imagine!!! The parasitic banks in Nigeria are destroying the economy by killing small businesses! They prefer giving money out to government and politicians. Anyways, kudos to Umahi for seeing beyond the religious BS. Since the church is ONLY interested in reopening so they can continue doing magic shows and collecting tithes from their members, I think a serious leader won't mind engaging a far more sincere and positive religious institution even if it isnt christain-based.
I think i will open an account with one of this islamic bank sef once im around. I don't give a damn what any Christain thinks or say about Islamic banking, it is the most humane financial institution in the world!

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I’ll rather pay interest than let you own 1-10% of my investment . If you don’t know that is another form of capitalism then you need more education. Eventually when they sell the 10% , are they going to make a profit or not ? Have you heard of venture capitalists? How is Islamic banking system different from venture capitalism. They simply adopt a system that already exists and give it a different name to push their agenda.

Capitalism is capitalism regardless of whether it’s practised in a Muslim or Christian country. Turkey is a Muslim country yet they practise capitalism. The state religion of Russia is orthodox Christianity yet they practised socialism and communism where no body could be richer that his fellow man .

By the way here in Canada , the mortgage rate now is around 2%.

You may have been a church boy but it’s clearly a meaningless nomenclature.

Tissaia:
Climate change: soon the region will be under water. I hope Lamidi cownu will secure them a higher ground.

You have an IQ of less than 1

TonyeBarcanista:
THE BRAZEN ACT OF MARGINALISATION OF CHRISTIANS IN KADUNA STATE BY GOVERNOR ELRUFAI

By Tamunotonye Inioribo @TonyeBarcanista

Kaduna state, a beautiful state located in the heart of the northwest, is popularly referred to as a miniature Nigeria. This is because the state has a sharp religious demographical spread of Islam and Christianity adherents between the northern and southern zones of the respectively similar to what is obtained in Nigeria.

Muslim-Christian Demography
Kaduna has 23 local government areas spread across the northern senatorial zone, central senatorial zone and southern senatorial zone. Twelve of these 23 local government areas are predominantly Muslims while eleven are predominantly Christians. The state is also constitutionally divided into three senatorial zones, namely; northern, central and southern zones.

The northern senatorial zone, also called zone 1, consists of eight local government areas namely; Ikara, Kudan, Kubau, Lere, Makarfi , Sabon-Gari, Soba and Zaria local government areas. Of the eight local government areas in this zone, only Lere local government area is predominantly Christian, while the other seven are predominantly Muslims.

The central senatorial district, also called zone 2, is made up of seven local government areas namely; Birnin-Gwari, Chikun, Giwa, Igabi, Kaduna north, Kaduna south and Kajuru local government areas. All of these seven local government areas are predominantly Muslims except Chikun and Kajuru local government areas that are predominantly Christians.

The southern senatorial zone, also called zone 3, is made up of eight local government areas. They are; Jaba, Jama'a, Kachia, Kagarko, Kaura, Kauru, Sanga and Zango-Kataf local government areas. All these eight local government areas in this zone are predominantly Christian.

The official population of Kaduna state was put at 6,113,503 with spread as follows;
Northern Zone (Zone 1)
Ikara LGA -194,723
Kubau LGA - 280,704
Kudan LGA - 138,956
Lere LGA - 339,740
Makarfi LGA - 146,574
Sabon-Gari LGA - 291,358
Soba LGA - 291,173
Zaria LGA - 406,990
Total: 2,090,218
Central Zone (Zone two)
Birnin-Gwari LGA 258,581
Chikun LGA - 372,272
Giwa LGA - 292,384
Igabi LGA - 430,753
Kaduna North LGA - 364,575
Kaduna South LGA - 402,731)
Kajuru LGA - 109,810
Total: 2,231,106
Southern Zone (Zone three)
Jaba LGA - 155,973
Jama’a LGA - 278,202
Kachia LGA - 252,568
Kagarko LGA - 239,058
Kaura LGA - 174,626
Kauru LGA - 221,276
Sanga LGA - 151,485
Zangon-Kataf LGA - 318,991
Total: 1,792,179

From official population as seen above, the Muslim predominant north has 2,090,218, the central zone has 2,231,106 population and the Christian predominant south zone has 1,792,179 population, but there is no official fact to ascertain the true population of Christians and Muslims in the state. Nonetheless, the state governor, mallam Nasir Elrufai, a Muslim from the northern senatorial district, argued that the religious demography in the state is 70-30 in favor of the Muslims. The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), the umbrella body of the predominately Christian southern Kaduna people, put the religious demography at 50-50. While neutral observers posited that the religious demography in Kaduna state should be between an evenly 50-50 spread, or a 55-45 spread favor of the Muslims.

Political Marginalization Under Governor Nasir Elrufai
Despite the predominance of the Christian population in eleven out of the twenty three local government areas, the Kaduna state government under Governor Nasir Elrufai, a Muslim, chose to perpetuate a brazen act of marginalisation by excluding the state's Christian population from participating in the affairs of the government since the commencement of his second term. For the first time in the history of Kaduna state, no Christian is found in any of the principal positions across the three arms of government and the civil service.

Governor Nasir Elrufai started the marginalisation in 2018 when he broke the traditional Muslim-Christian ticket or Christian-Muslim ticket in any gubernatorial contests to nominate Hajiyya Hadiza Sabuwa Balarabe, a fellow Muslim as his running mate for the 2019 gubernatorial election after his former deputy, Arc Bala Bantex, a Christian, opted to run for the Senate to represent the people of Kaduna south senatorial district under the platform of All Progressive Congress.

After his victory at the hotly contested Kaduna state 2019 gubernatorial election against Honourable Ashiru Kudan of Peoples Democratic Party, Governor Elrufai shut out Christians in the state from the running of government. This he did by ensuring that only Muslims are appointed as senior principal officers in the government. This is aside the fact that himself and the deputy governor are Muslims.

The principal government officers are;
Secretary to the State Government - Mallam Balarabe Abbas Lawal
Chief of Staff to the Governor - Muhammad Sani Abdullah
Kaduna state Head of Service - Hajiyya Bariatu Yusuf Mohammed
Principal Private Secretary - Dr. Salisu Suleiman.

No Christian Among The Entire Presiding And Principal Officers In Kaduna House of Assembly
The marginalisation continues in the legislative arm of government with no single Christian as a member of any of the presiding and principal offices . The Speaker of the House, Honourable Yusuf Tanimu Zailani, the Deputy Speaker Honourable Muktar Isa Hazo, the Majority Leader Alhaji Haruna M A Inuwa, the Chief Whip, Alhaji Idris Abdullahi, the Deputy Majority Leader Alhaji Shehu Yunusa and Deputy Chief Whip Alhaji Salisu Isah, are all Muslims. Meanwhile, the clerk of the Kaduna state House of Assembly, Bello Zubairu is also a Muslim.
Also The Judiciary...
The head of Kaduna state judicial arm of government and Chief Judge of the state, Justice Muhammad Lawal Bello, is also a Muslim.
As if that is not enough, the only two ministers from Kaduna state in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari, Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, and Muhammad Mahmoud, the minister of environment were chosen from the Muslim population.

The development in Kaduna state is indeed a bad omen. It is bad that a state with significant Christian population that are predominant in eleven out of the state's twenty three local government areas, has no senior principal government official across all the three arms of government of the state. What is more disturbing is that Governor Nasir Elrufai, the perpetrator of this brazen act of religious marginalization in Kaduna state, is aspiring to run as presidential candidate at the Nigeria's Presidential election at the termination of his second term in 2023.

Written by Tamunotonye Inioribo|| I can be reached at tonyebarcanista@gmail.com

Excellent write up. We need more voices to speak up about the things happening in Nigeria.

SLAP44:
Tonye, you are fighting a losing battle complaining about what the governor is doing in his state. Allow northerners to cry about that or remain silent if it suits them.

You should be more concerned about the serious marginalization of your own south south from the central government under Buharri. You should be concerned about the Ogoni clean up failure and the militarization of the south south on the excuse of fighting militancy and cultists while allowing the bandits up north determine their operating terms and conditions forcefully.

First remove the log in your own eyes before trying to remove the speck in the eyes of Kaduna people.

Very wrong mindset. And to think 100 people liked your post ? We have a serious problem in this country .

Going by your logic , EU, USA and the other major donor countries should mind their own business as their own countries are not problem free.

You need a paradigm shift.

Kingrexyl:
Lately I've been thinking of starting a business complex, 10 shops upstairs and 10 downstairs probably by January next year, so I want to ask if 30 million can do everything, including the roofing, tiles e.t.c, your advise will be appreciated.

Does this include the cost of acquiring the land or do you have the land already ?

Lead researcher Dr Vincent Munster said: "The rhesus macaque is pretty much the closest thing we have to humans."

This is not correct
Chimpanzees and Bonobos are the most closely related primates to humans.
Not only are they of the same genus (hominids) as us , they’re also of the same tribe (homininae) and sub tribe (hominini)
They were the last of the primates to separate from the homo species .

I’m not saying the learned professor is wrong . She might be referring to something else. Maybe the way the monkeys respond to treatment or something .

pricklewane:


I wonder when all the bastards that looted Igbo land will come out n donate a dime to save it people.

But what has igbos got to do with this ? Are you aware that the person you’re quoting is a Yoruba man ?

Afobear:



What's this drivel ?

PSG destroyed Real Madrid in the group dstahr and yet is not listed here .

In my opinion, there are only two clubs that can challenge Liverpool for the title

1. PSG
2. Real Madrid


Barcelona , Juve, Man City and Bayern are a step below . those two.

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DavidEsq:

How the pepper soup go even be sef? I envy Boko Haram right now

Are you okay ?

Hotfreez:


Ask your elders at home (if you have any)

Lagos had an airport as at 1947.
When was the first bank in Igboland established?

Go to Jstor.org and create a profile , then search for Currency in Colonial Southern Nigeria. Educate yourself on how developed the financial system even before the British forcefully introduced their own currency in early part of the century .

A side note : as at 1920 , the coal industry was already employing over 10,000 people . The British mining companies needed local banks to hold their currencies from which they used as operating expense. Paying labourers/workers etc .

Don’t spread falsehood or you’ll find yourself excommunicated from civilian discourse.

Hotfreez:


Lagos was built by your fathers na, they were the labourers that carried the bricks.

As at when Lagos had an airport, the entire SE didn't have a single bank. As at when Ibadan had a TV station, France didn't have a TV station.

As I said, when we are discussing leadership, no Igbo man should put mouth cos leadership has collapsed in the SE. You are incapable of electing sensible people to lead you, so you should shut up.

Are you okay ?

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seunmsg:
This is a very disgraceful press statement from Obaseki. Did he complain to anybody when Oshiomhole picked him from nowhere to become the governor? If they had agreement on how to make political appointments into his cabinet, why is he now blackmailing Oshiomhole? Why betray a cause you voluntarily signed up to?

Even if he’s going to fight the party national chairman, it should not get this low and embarrassing. I’m beginning to think that Obaseki is planning to decamp to PDP. He’s only trying to destroy the party from within before defecting. The president and the national leadership of the party should act fast. Obaseki should back down or be expelled from the party.

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Trash
He’s planning to decamp to PDP because he came out to refute a false statement that was publicly directed at him. Oshiomhole is lying against him on national TV and he should swallow it like a brainless zombie .
Not everyone is an irredeemable zombie.

cRobo:
Now she is forming love and support while I'm here

If Joshua was a nobody she won't even answer his greeting

Where she de when Joshua de struggle

But when she dated Davido’s manager , you people said she stooped too low .

Can people ever be pleased ? �

Teebilion:
Yigbo people will give cow chieftain title as long as the cow has money

Advise : Work hard so you can be relevant and recognized .

lahizak:
Truth but they really need to work on their pricing. I don't think any body will carry his 25million go buy that car, when there are better value for money. I guess dey havent heard of price penetration before.
For those of u shouting that we criticizing innoson, how many of u will carry 25m buy dat car wen dere is oda product like range, benz etc for same price. The company did not even consider d Nigerian market. I will actually prefer dey create affordable cars at lower prices so they can flood Nigeria. If they continue like dis dey re going nowhere. And im sure dey re only doing this to force d govt to buy dere cars all in d name of supporting home product.

Range Rover base price is $90,000 in the US . This is without cost of shipping to Nigeria and clearing . Remember that a levy of 35% and tarring of another 35% applies for a total import levy of 70% bringing the total base model price to $153,000 (55 million naira)

The higher end model costs $170,000. Add 70% to that and it comes to $289,000.

Do the maths to convert $289k to naira

AerialMapper:
Oh please shut up!!!

That isn't even the mandate of NITT. There is an agency under the ministry of Science and Technology; the Centre for Automotive Design and Development (CADD) that has this mandate which they have not even achieved

Please focus on your Ministry of Transport and leave car design alone


So this is old information

CADD and National Automative Council were merged to form National Automotive Design and Development Council and this is headed by the chap that designed the Chevrolet Volt; Jelili Aliyu. It is now a parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Industry, trade and Investment.

You nailed it.

Idaraesit98:
Y do I find this so funny but I do pity the elephant

How can you find something as tragic as this funny ? What’s the matter with these Africans ? Any wonder why you’re called the dark continent ?

Good job @autoreportNG.
Take it a step further with some undercover investigative reporting and then present the full picture.
Not an easy task though but I trust you’re up to the challenge.

Godons1:





We are not ready to give you Independence yet. The East is not ripe to stand by itself. This is why the North is training Joe Igbokwe on leadership skills. When we are done, we will give Biafra it's Independence and Joe Igbokwe will be installed (By fire and by force) as the first President of Biafra.

Be calm, the North will give Biafra it's Independence at the appropriate time.

Be careful and stop promoting intertribal hatred lest your sins find you out

Abbeyme:
Who will believe this report

Did you actually read it ?

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Since the images and videos of the maiming and killing of black foreigners in South Africa began to emerge on various social media platforms last week, Nigeria has been an emotionally frayed place. Tens of thousands of Nigerians live in South African cities and in recent years, they have become frequent targets of xenophobic attacks.

This time, anger in Nigeria boiled over and young Nigerians took to the streets protesting South African aggression and unleashing some of their own on South African-owned businesses.

The Nigerian government felt pressured to act and subsequently recalled its ambassador from Pretoria and announced it was pulling out of the World Economic Forum meeting on Africa which was held in Cape Town. While some Nigerians welcomed the move, others thought it was not enough and called on their government to intervene and rescue its citizens.

Examples abound of powerful countries going to great lengths to protect and repatriate their citizens who have faced danger abroad.

But Nigeria is not one of them. Indeed, in the past, the country has stood its ground on a number of occasions when defending its national interests. In the 1960s, for example, Nigeria had a face-off with France over the latter's continuous tests of nuclear weapons in the Sahara desert. The government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa acted decisively, breaking diplomatic relations with Paris, expelling the French ambassador and imposing a full embargo on French goods.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Nigeria led the international effort to isolate and pressure the apartheid regime in South Africa. It threatened economic action against Western powers for refusing to sanction the regime and supported the national liberation movements in Southern Africa, including the African Nation Congress (ANC), with millions of dollars annually.

In the 1990s, the country, under the leadership of military ruler Sani Abacha, defied international sanctions and welcomed a visit by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. It also directly intervened in the Liberian civil war, dispatching Nigerian troops to fight.

Most of the reactions to the violent attacks on Nigerians and other Africans in South Africa reflect a yearning for Abacha-style diplomacy. But as recent developments in its relations with the United States demonstrated, Nigeria can no longer wield such diplomatic power. Last month, the Nigerian government was spectacularly quick to react to the US's reciprocal rise in visa fees by reducing the charge for Americans applying for a visa to enter the country. And last year President Muhammadu Buhari decided to "keep quiet" on President Donald Trump's alleged "s***hole" remark about African nations.

At present, it is clear Nigeria does not have the military, the intelligence capability or the diplomatic clout to pursue a serious escalation against even a regional power, such as South Africa.

This diplomatic "standoff" with Pretoria has exposed the weakness Abuja has masked in parading itself as a self-styled "Giant of Africa". South Africa used to be a bully that Nigeria could restrain through its support for proxies inside the country and its neighbourhood. But since the end apartheid, this this relationship has evolved into a regional competition, which Pretoria is winning.

After the sanctions and international isolation were lifted, South Africa quickly became the continent's more favoured ally of developed economies and foreign investors. Pretoria emerged as the recipient of the largest share of foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa and in 2011 joined the BRIC countries in an economic pact formed to challenge the domination of Western economic policy.

It is also an important trading partner that Nigeria cannot afford to lose. South African businesses have major investments in the country, including the DSTV cable service, MTN telecom, the Shoprite supermarket chain and others. Nigeria exports $3.83bn worth of goods, mostly oil and oil products, to South Africa. By contrast, it imports just $514.3m of South African products, which accounts for less than one percent of total South African exports.

The more contrasting feature of the two economies, and which again highlights Nigeria's weakness is that while Abuja levers around a commodity-dependent economy, Pretoria has built a highly-diversified economy with a superior industrial structure. In other words, Nigeria needs South Africa economically, much more than South Africa needs Nigeria.

Nigeria's geopolitical power has also waned in recent years, while South Africa has remained a major regional power. Abuja has been battling with a rebellion in the north for years and has struggled to put a stop to flares of tribal violence regularly killing dozens of people. In its neighbourhood, Nigeria continues to feel largely insecure, surrounded by Francophone countries whose allegiances to France threaten the commitment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to stability and non-aggression in the region.

The Nigerian government has also been unable to muster enough influence in the West to become a trusted partner. In 2014, the Obama administration, for example, blocked the sale of arms to the Nigerian military. The Trump administration decided to proceed with it but under heavy conditions which Nigerian officials have deemed "unacceptable". Western reluctance to sell weapons to Abuja has pressed it to seek arms on the black market. South Africa has embarrassed it twice in recent years by intercepting large arms shipment bound for Nigeria.

In this sense, the Nigerian government cannot do anything about the violence against its citizens in South Africa beyond making a few symbolic diplomatic moves and bringing up once again the Nigerian role in liberating South Africans from its white oppressors. It is clear that in doing so it is addressing Pretoria from the position of weakness.

Indeed, using persistent references to sub-Saharan African commonality and solidarity as a result of shared history, race and geography is not an effective foreign policy tool.

The idea of One Africa is a farce taken too far, and successive Nigerian elites have pandered to this fantasy to the detriment of national interests. The legacy of this pan-African misadventure is a geopolitically weak Nigeria which cannot stand up to for itself and for its citizens

This very much has to do with mismanagement of the economy. The redemption Nigeria needs is one that moves the country away from dependence on oil exports, foreign imports and interventions and towards diversification and industrialisation. We cannot afford to glorify the idea of producing pencils in the age of artificial intelligence any more.

Only if the country becomes materially secure and industrially productive will it be able to regain its soft power and international clout and stand up to the old bullies in its neighbourhood.

Source :

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/nigeria-nigerians-xenophobic-attacks-south-africa-190908200649204.html