plaetton:

Don't mind them.
They are soooo blinded by their delusions that fail to see that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has ALREADY SUCCEEDED , even if he does or says absolutely nothing else for the rest of his life.

Obi1kenobi:


Interesting. May I know when you took a poll to determine who are the "tiny few" and who are the "overwhelming majority". You expect productive, enterprising, busy Igbos all across the country who are opposed or indifferent to the agitations of unruly mobs to gather on the streets making empty noise?

Nigeria’s House of Representatives is presently considering what perhaps qualifies as the most dangerous piece of legislation to come before the National Assembly since the return of civilian rule in 1999. It is the NGO Regulation Bill sponsored by the Deputy Majority Leader of the House, Hon. Umar Buba Jibril. The Bill is stunning in its audacity, far reaching in its scope and a danger to elective government in Nigeria. It should not be allowed to pass.

There is a context to this NGO Regulation Bill which is important. It comes at a time when the Federal Government, led by the same party whose parliamentary caucus Hon. Jibril leads in the House, has signaled enthusiasm and desire to establish a commission to regulate social media content. This, despite the fact that a similar measure previously sponsored by Hon. Jibril’s counterpart as the Deputy Majority Leader in the Senate, Bala Ibn Na’Allah, had earlier failed to pass muster. Around many states of the country, social media activists are routinely persecuted. With the active encouragement of the Federal Government and the ruling party, free expression is being chilled and dissent criminalized.

The NGO Regulation Bill is the latest among these measures to constrain the civic space and destroy dissent. It comprises 58 sections of extraordinarily bad drafting, jumbled thinking and un-concealed ill-will. The Bill proposes to create an NGO Regulatory Commission, which will be headed by an Executive Secretary appointed by the President for five years and a 17-member Governing Board, led by a Chairman, all of whom shall also be appointed by the President.

The Board will have powers to license all NGOs. Without the license of the Board, no NGO can operate. The license of the NGO Board alone (not registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission) will confer legal personality and perpetual succession on NGOs. However, such a license must be renewed every 24 months. If not, legal personality is lost. (Clearly, no one told Hon Jibril that the idea of renewing legal personality defeats the entire purpose of corporate personality).

The Board can refuse renewal for no reason. It can also capriciously waive all the requirements of the law, including registration. The Minister (of Interior) can direct the Board at his whim as he deems fit, including, presumably, to register or de-register any NGO.

All NGOs must submit reports to the Board of their money, where they get it from and how much. Before an NGO spends any money received, it must secure the permission of the NGO Board. If it does not, it violates the law. That’s a crime under the Bill.

The Board will also license NGOs on co-operation with international bodies. The Bill requires NGOs to comply not merely with all laws but also with “all national and foreign policies”, whatever that means. Any violation of the Bill when passed into law is a crime punishable with up to 18 months in prison. The Board will enjoy substantial immunities under law and from process and any judgement against it cannot be enforced except with the express permission of the serving Attorney-General of the Federation.

As if these were not enough confusion, the Bill proposes that the Board will also oversee a Voluntary Code of conduct for NGOs to be adopted by “the first one hundred NGOs to be registered by the Board.” The Code will be operated by a National Council for Voluntary Agencies.

The flaws in the Bill are too many to be covered in the space available. Seven deserve to be highlighted.

1) First, the Bill will governmentalize NGOs in Nigeria.

2) Second, it will suffocate NGOs with exponential bureaucratization at a time when official government policy is to ease transaction costs for small entities.

3) Third, filled with a cocktail of whim and caprice, the bill is a boon to official corruption.

4) Fourth, it will militarise the civic space and make it impossible for anyone who harbours views different from those of the government to organize with legal protection around those views.

5) Fifth, the bill interferes with constitutionally protected rights to freedoms of expression, association and assembly in a profoundly partisan and impermissible manner. When he introduced the Bill in 2016, Deputy Majority Leader, Jibril, claimed that there was no existing framework “to supervise the mode of operations” of NGOs. This was deliberately misleading, wrong and inaccurate. It is plainly obtuse.

6) This adds a sixth to the problems with the Bill – overreach. With no hint of modesty, the Bill proposes to eviscerate the responsibilities of multiple Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), including the National Planning Commission; Corporate Affairs Commission; Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS); Customs Service; Immigration service; EFCC; National Planning Commission and even the National emergency Management Agency.


7) Above all, at a time of poor public finances, it seeks to create yet another pointless parastatal and add to government overheads.


As military ruler in 1984-85, President Buhari showed single-minded intolerance for dissent. When he ran again for the Presidency in 2015, he sold himself as a converted democrat. A President and ruling party already under considerable suspicion for intolerance do not need the distraction of this Bill. It has already passed first and second readings in the House and has been remitted to committee.

In September, the House of Representatives Committee on Civil Society will hold a public hearing on the Bill. If the Committee does not kill the Bill, it will label the President and his party as politically toxic [/s][s]at a time that neither of them needs that. This Bill deserves to die.

___
Odinkalu Chairs the Council of the Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/nigerias-toxic-ngo-regulation-bill/

Lakeside79:
Another post for the poor and frustrated

See work tools below

nwaanambra1:
paschu pls stop sounding like an ambulance!

....

irepnaija4eva:
SETTLING down to articulate
these thoughts through and
commit them into writing was
an herculean task.
Primarily, this was for the
swirling speculation in the
popular media that some
overzealous and unpatriotic
Presidency officials had in the
last few days convinced the
Acting President Professor
Yemi Osinbanjo to order the
re-arrest of the Director of
Radio Biafra and the leader
of the indigenous peoples of
Biafra -Mr.Nnamdi Kanu.
The interrogatory that
flashed through my mind is
what the motivational force is
that has pulled these so-called
presidential aides to seek to
railroad the Acting President
Professor Yemi Osinbajo into
ordering the re-arrest of the
pro-Biafra chief protagonist
if he insists on encouraging
the boycott of the November
18thAnambra governorship
poll.
This question becomes more
imperative and urgent given
that this same presidency
stood by, did practically
nothing by way of law
enforcement whilst a bunch
of unruly youth under the
aegis of Arewa Youth Forum
were busy dishing out illegal
quit notices to Igbo to exit
the 19 Northern States or face
the consequences of forced
removal by October 1st 2017.
Why are the aides of the
Acting President urging him
to go for another illegal arrest
and detention of Nnamdi Kanu
only because he exercised
his constitutional freedom
of expression by asking his
supporters to boycott the
Anambra governorship poll?
In the light of the above
emerging information that
filtered into the media recently,
it became even much more
difficult for patriotic writers to
formulate workable panaceas
to the ongoing heightened
state of agitations with specific
reference to the peaceful
agitations championed by
over 35 million registered
members of the Nnamdi
Kanu-led indigenous peoples
of Biafra Worldwide for self
determination.
That notwithstanding, whilst
advising the president to go
for dialogues constructively
and avoid the temptation of
unduly stoking another serial
street protests that could elicit
the brutal crackdown by the
military-the type that led to
the extra-legal executions
of over 500 peaceful IPOB
demonstrators last year as
documented by the London
based Amnesty International
and several other local human
rights groups. The rumoured
order or plots to clip the
wings of Nnamdi Kanu is
a toxic idea that is dead on
arrival unless the government
is programmed to instigate
extralegal killings because
the fanatical and die hard
supporters of Nnamdi Kanu will
surely embarked on sustained
mass actions which are bound to
create instability in the system.
If the government heeded the
so-called security reports given
to it by the Pro-North Security
hierarchies not to pick up the
bellicose Northern youth who
ordered for the eviction of Igbo
from the 19 Northern states why
then is it tinkering with the time
bomb of needlessly arresting
Nnamdi Kanu who is simply
exercising his constitutional
right to free speech and peaceful
assembly?However, this writer thinks
that one amongst the best
panacea towards reducing the
severity of the agitations is for
the Nigerian State to introduce
a Marshall rebuilding and
reconstruction plan for the
former Eastern region so as to
fix the broken and devastated
public and private assets which
characterized the 30-Months
persistent bombardments by the
then Federal Forces.
This is asides the urgent
need to balance the systemic
imbalances in the governance
styles of the current government
which are adversarial to the
South East of Nigeria.
It is a well-known post-war
reality that rebuilding and
reconstruction process are
integral aspects of ending any
civil war.
But in the case of the
Nigeria/ Biafra War, the
region which suffered almost
98% of the destruction during
the 30-Months War period –
Eastern region was left without
reconstruction. Was it no longer
a civil war or was it a war of
conquest?
The deliberate failure of the
then General Yakubu Gowonled
dictatorship to rebuild the
Eastern region after so much
damage was unleashed on it
amounts to a war crime.
A critical look at the history of
Warfare globally shows that war
ravaged entities have always
received special reconstruction
projects from both within the
polity and the international
community.
The examples of Palestine,
Iraq, and Afghanistan suffices to
demonstrate the validity of the
aforementioned claim.
Cory Doctorow wrote that the
government of the United States
of America has spent more in
rebuilding Afghanistan than it
spent rebuilding Europe under
the marshall plan.
“The US spent $120 billion
which lifted the war stricken
European nations out of disaster
and launched them into postwar
prosperity. But the USA
spent $70 billion in rebuilding
Afghanistan’s security forces
and $8.5 billion to battle
narcotics”.
Coming closer home, the
North East of Nigeria has in the
last five years faced unrelenting
bombing campaign by the
home- bred Islamic terror group
known as boko haram.
In the devastation that has
followed this needless war by
these terror gangsters, both
the indigenous communities
and persons from the South
resident in those places have
lost their entire assets. The
Federal Government has
however championed the
advocacy for the comprehensive
reconstruction of the devastated
North Eastof Nigeria. There
is however no mention of any
compensation packages for
Southerners displaced from their
settlements in the North East of
Nigeria by armed boko haram
terrorists. However, the central
government is going ahead with
the rebuilding agenda for North
East.So with the reduction of
attacks and the seeming victory
or so we are told, of government
over the terrorists, the Nigerian
government has only just rolled
out a Marshall plan to rebuild
that region.
The question to ask is why was
the old Eastern region which
suffered a worst fate with over
3 million fatalities criminally
neglected, but the North East
has just bagged preferential
treatment which in any case is
in line with global best practices.
Acting President Yemi
Osinbajo on Monday this week
met with service chiefs, Borno
State Governor, Kassim Shettima
and notable citizens in the State
House on federal government’s
reconstruction agenda for
North-east destroyed by Boko
Haram insurgency.
A statement by Osinbajo’s
media aide, Laolu Akande, said
although the agenda would
be implemented in the entire
region, it would be kick-started
in Bama Local Government Area
of Borno State.
According to him, the initiative
would involve the construction
of 3,000 housing units, 10
police stations, 18 primary
and secondary schools, health
centers, creation of Special Bama
Squad for security operations
and the recruitment of 1,500
local hunters to be known as
Agro Rangers, among others.
Under the arrangement,
Akande added that the federal
government would contribute
67 per cent of the funds while
Borno State would provide the
balance of 33 per cent.
“Under the Bama Initiative,
covering towns such as Bama,
Banki, Gulumba Gara and
others, the federal government
in partnership with the Borno
State government is expected to
carry out actual re-construction
of houses for the return of
Internally Displaced Persons
(IDPs) as well as provide
infrastructure such as roads
for Bama town and adjoining
communities.
“The initiative will also see to
the kitting and deployment of
thousands of police officers and
officers of the national security,
civil Defence corps who are
expected to be trained for the
special task.
“Equally, 20 doctors, 100
nurses and other relevant health
officers are to be recruited to
provide essential health services
for the town, in addition to
employment of teachers who
will be deployed to 18 new
schools to be constructed in the
areas.
“Road re-construction projects
are also featured under the
Bama Initiative which is now
under exploration, including the
re-habilitation of Maiduguri-
Bama-Daral Jamal-Banki road
network.
“The welfare of returnees
is also a major priority of the
plan, ensuring a comprehensive
support programme for IDPs
as they return. It is expected
that the implementation of the
plan will kick-off in weeks,” the
statement stated.
Besides service chiefs and
Shettima, also present at the
meeting were the Inspector-
General of Police, Ibrahim Idris;
Ministers of Defence, Mansur
Dan-Ali; Interior, Abdulrahman
Dambazau; Budget and National
Planning (State), Zainab Ahmed
and the Power, Works and
Housing (State), Mustapha Baba
Shehuri.
Also present were the Chief
of Staff to the President, Abba
Kyari, National Security Adviser
(NSA), Baba Munguno and
Director-General of National
Emergency Management
Agency (NEMA.)It must be noted that in the
last three years the billions
of public fund voted and
released to National Emergency
Management Agency have been
swallowed by humanitarian
crises in the North East. This
preferential treatment is
offensive to natural law and
justice except the Nigerian
government can work out a
distinct reconstruction plan for
the devastated infrastructures of
old Eastern region.
The National Assembly seems
to be more proactive in this
aspective much more than the
Executive arm of government
which seems more consumed by
the passion to rebuild the North
East.
Although the attempt by the
legislators isn’t far reaching
enough.
The National Assembly
has introduced the South
East Development Bill which
seeks the establishment of a
commission that would handle
the development of the states of
the region through a joint states’
plan.
But there is an aspect of the bill
that many people have not seen
or refuse to look at, according to
Senator Enyinaya Abaribe from
Aba.
He stated that the bill which
was shot down at the Federal
House of Representatives
never provided that the federal
government should fund the
plan. The funding will come
from the allocations given
to the states from which a
certain percentage goes into
the commission to handle
development plans of common
interest to the region so that,
if you have to develop, for
instance, a river basin scheme
that flows across some states
in the region, there should be
a commission to handle the
By Emmanuel Onwubiko
Marshall plan to end Biafra agitation
project without waiting for
the individual states.
Abaribe spoke more thus: “It
also wants to start from where
the ‘three Rs’ pronounced
at the end of the civil war
in 1970 stopped. According
to that proclamation,
there was supposed to be
Reconstruction, Rehabilitation
and Reconciliation.
Reconciliation was done but
not the two other Rs and they
need to be done because that
gap is what has been causing
the South East to lag behind
others and there is the need to
bridge it and make the people
feel that they belong to this
country. The intention is to
complete the full reintegration
of the South East to Nigeria.”
“Regarding the position of
the South East senators on
the government of Buhari, the
Deputy Senate President and I
led the Senate Caucus to meet
the President in September
2016 and we explained to
him the fears of our people
because they are being
rejected by him, sidelined
by his administration and
also the fears that the feeling
is compounded every day
by the lopsidedness of his
appointments. We also
brought to his attention the
moves by President Yar’Adua
to assuage the feelings of the
Niger Delta region and how
successful they were”.
“It is just sad that today,
close to a year after that visit,
we haven’t got the benefit of
any response in action and
rather an insistence by the
government that what it does
is right. They are the reasons
for the problems we face
today.”
The Senator shared the
similar opinion being
expressed in this piece that
nobody in the South East
wants to leave Nigeria because
he thinks there is a better
country somewhere. The
entire situation is expression
of hopelessness at someone
that never wanted to treat our
people like part of the nation
and the youths express it in
agitation. We have every need
to review things and give
justice to all. Restructuring is
the surest way to that.”
It is the submission of this
writer that aside the Soutg
East Development bill the
Nigerian state owes the old
Eastern region the obligations
of rebuilding the public
infrastructures which were
destroyed by the federal
forces during the war. If this
is implemented i believe the
heightened state of agitation
for self determination would
be mitigated meaningfully.

nwaanambra1:



you even get time for the brain-dead mor0n!


See this very laudable plan by the federal government - THAT WHEN FULLY IMPLEMENTED WILL PROVIDE JOBS FOR MANY OF THEM JOBLESS WAILERS and instead of them appreciating and encouraging the governments effort they are busy saying trash!

nwaanambra1 post=44587650:

wishing him evil doesn't solve the problem on ground - remember, this problems have accumulated over time - he is just unfortunate to be the president at this critical time and u will not bliv me if i tell you that bubu is in a better position to solve these problem we are in now more than any other person for now.

nwaanambra1:


IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY??

IF I CURSE YOU BACK NOW WITH A DEEPER VENOM THEY WILL BAN ME - BUT NO WORRY, BEFORE TWO YEARS TIME, NA DEEP SHAME GO BE UNA PORTION FOR EVER INSULTING THE ONLY PATRIOTIC DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT THIS COUNTRY EVER PRODUCED!

nwaanambra1:
my greatest regrets is spending my hard earned money and wasting my precious time campaigning for this evil, wicked, liar, lawless, pretentious, bigoted, sly and divisive man! to think i was doing that for him since 2003!

if he hadn't succeeded in ruling this cursed country - i would av believed he was the best leader we never had!

can u imagine that i campaigned for a man who sees good people only among his kinsmen and his fellow Muslims! a man who looks the other way whn a crime is committed by his people! a man whose government supervised the greatest number of civilians murders in the history of Nigeria!

killing innocent people simply bc they are protesting for what they felt is their right! a man who supervised and is still supervising the murder of women and children simply bc they are not of the same faith with him! a man who threw people into jail and throw away the keys even the court insisted that they should be set free!a man who pretend to be a saint and against corruption and yet under his nose large scale looting and corruption of type never witnessed before in Nigeria is happening under his government!

THIS MAN IS EVIL PERSONIFIED!


my comfort thou is in the fact that he succeeded in deceiving NOT JUST ME BUT EVEN WITH HIS WIFE WHO NEVER EVER KNOW THAT THE MAN SHE IS LIVING WITH IS A SUPER DECEIVER! now we are all forced to eat the humble pie!

hajia is even so ashamed to show face in public these days - she has gone back to her normal quiet life and restarted her businesses which nearly collapsed bc she left it to campaign for her evil husband!

am glad nature is paying him back by incapacitating him! bloody evil man!

nwaanambra1:


light bearer in deed!



Mandela refused to leave prison unless his oppressors agrees to free all those incarcerated with him. unlike kanu who abandoned his fellow fighters in kuje and other prisons at the slightest opportunity!

now he is flexing and living large while his fellow Igbos are still languishing in kuje and various other prisons - no lawyer to even represent them - IS THAT THE KIND OF PERSON YOU CALL A LEADER??

TO ME THATS A SELF-SERVING SELFISH EGOCENTRIC MORAFUKA!



IF BIAFRAN STRUGGLE IS TO BE CHAMPIONED BY THE LIKES OF KANU, THEN I WILL RATHER STAY IN EGYPT!

Amarabae:
No. Its not fake.
Always live in reality, instead of fantasy.
Self determination is a noble movement in UN constitution but Ipob should not be shooting yourselves in the legs all the time by some of their methodologies.

Amarabae:
One of the greatest weakness of IPOB is lack of diplomacy.

stanech:


I would gladly accept the help.


Not an LGBT issue but a security issue. His generals adviced him to do it. So this is about the security of the country.

gberra:
Baba lau, whatzzupping .
We're on a thread created by war.ship questioning what resources the SW has. We led him & his fellow rouges on to the slaughter slab. nonaira, paschu & other fellow retards are only postponing their own judgement day but it shall come.

Baba lau, Go check the thread, we drove them to the slaughter house

laudate:

Did you even read what I wrote, before you jumped on your keyboard to hash out this ridiculous response? You just proved to everyone that you are the only one here who lacks basic comprehension skills.

Weren't you the one whining about how people did not see the Igbos in the SS & NC, as part of the greater Igbo population who occupy the SE? Wasn't it just pointed out to you, that the reason was because of the sweeping generalisations your people often make, whenever they talk about the SS & NC, as they try to lump everyone in those regions, into their own group? Didn't Nnamdi Kanu claim that he was offered the 5 SE states, but he rejected it because Benue & Rivers were not included? Are all the ethnic groups in Benue & Rivers part of the larger Igbo ethnic group? Why couldn't he be specific?

Now kindly take your own advice & please shut up. We all know that when guys like you run out of constructive ideas, they resort to insults. No one is interested in carrying out a slanging match with you. Nobody is slinging a minority tag on the Igbo, so only God knows where you got the idea from!

gberra:
ikwerre?
The fact is you have no influence in the delta region. Enjoy your minority status.

gberra:
Yoruba should leave their ancestral lands of Kwara & Kogi?. Is this supposed to be a joke?

Is Rivers, Benue, Delta, or Calabar your ancestral land?.. Are they biafrans in language, culture, or historical heritage. Aside border affinity, you share Nothing in common.
Yorubas in the NC region are a completely different kettle of fish. Crackass Oloripelebe.

fumiswtpusy:

Untill he was bribed,same with asari and our governors
If south south is not biafra why did the war also get there.and can you tell me why philips effiong was their vice president.
Can an American be vice president in nigeria.
Because of their wealth you want to divide them.later I fell I say we yorubas are thieves and pretenders,they will say I am not a yoruba girl since I don't suppore injustice.
As for TonyeBarcanista he is useless,pdp today apc tomorrow apda next month looking for bribe and position

tuniski:

What is your problem with yoruba? If even jukuns in taraba says they are igbos and will go with Biafra how do you care if a yoruba says no?
You are just to petty!

Oblang:


Is it the yorubas that force those tribes in the SS to release statement denying Biafra..

freshest4live:

Delta state is multi ethnic, is kwara multi ethnic?

koladebrainiac:
you missing the whole point. It is we from Kwara that want to be united with our brothers. we deserve it we are part of them.

ESDKING:
Your daughter is beautiful, but I would advise you to face your kitchen because you don't know anything.

freshest4live:

OK tell me what are the Igboid states in the South South that should go with Biafra? There are igboid groups all over but how does it make the states Igbo state? I am from Delta state myself but not the lgboid Delta North, So is Delta Igbo state? Or ljaw, urhobo, etc. Which of these tribes should claim the state?

laudate:


I am not Yoruba, but I have heard so much about this issue from your people that it is starting to grate on everyone's nerves. I want to believe that you are being sarcastic, funny or maybe just trying to create mischief. Each time the issue of the South-South (SS), or North-Central (NC) comes up, you and your people are always the first to classify the entire region (i.e. SS) as Igbo. But each time your people do so, the ethnic minorities within those regions are the ones that make a fuss, telling you that their entire region is not Igbo, but only a few groups within it, have an Igbo identity or ethnic ties. And usually, it is members of those few groups, that even say they do not want to be classified with you. Or haven't you heard some Ikweres declining to be classified as Igbo?

I do not know why you or your people always make such sweeping generalisations. This issue has been debated endlessly on this forum. When talking about the SS, please be specific about the tribes you wish to classify as part of your ethnic group. Do not lump everyone together. There are many different ethnic groups in the SS, who are NOT Igbo. Why is that so difficult to understand? Same goes for the North-Central, too. Only the Umuezekoha group in a small part of Benue, share ties with your people. But when you guys write your disjointed epistles, you classify the entire Benue as your domain. Why??!

freshest4live:
There are igbos in South South, but are they the majority group in most of the South South? There are Yorubas and Fulani's in North Central, but are they the majority groups there and does that give them the right to claim those lands? Majority of the people in kwara are Yoruba's but are majority of people in Benue and Akwa lbom Igbo's?
Both Yoruba's and Hausa's also have no right to claim large parts of the North Central.
It's a simple sturvs( in falz' voice).

feelgoodInc:
This is the kind of thread where you can see me but I won't type anything..... Oops