I just came across this video of Ayo Adeyemi online issuing a stern warning to the APC Led Government. I am suspecting that Nigerian’s are starting to wake up and will soon lunch a full scale nationwide protest demanding the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Watch the video to get the full gist!…Its really insightful and amazing!
https://youtu.be/CztKuCCMtDU
He lamented that the incessant killings and destruction of lives and property in the Benue had created a 25 year retrogression of development in the state. The Governor made this known when he received the All Progressives Congress, APC Governors’ Forum led by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state, who paid him condolence visit over the invasion of Agatu and other parts of Benue by the herdsmen. According to him, “the fulani herdsmen invaded my village, killed over 50 persons and destroyed over 200 hectares of my rice farm.
As I am sitting here, I have no ancestral home, they killed children, old men and women in my community.” “The fulani herdsmen come to Benue not just to graze but to steal, kill and destroy the livelihood of the agrarian people after which they take possession of the land knowing fully well that all we have here are our farms.”
“The truth is that these attacks have brought a major setback to the people especially with our declining revenue from the federal allocation which was about N7 billion before I assumed office but this month stood at N1.3billion while our monthly wage bill stands at close to N4billion. The Governor lamented that even after President Buhari had directed that soldiers and mobile police men should be deployed to the state, there had not been any reports of the arrest of people behind the heinous crime.
It is obvious that Governor Ambode of Lagos State is committed to driving progress in the bid to providing adequate security to Lagos residents by going out of his way to purchase these patrol vehicles and motorcycles.
These are good gestures form this State Government. I have seen these pictures and the ones of LASEMA. The state government should have agreement with mechanics across the state for prompt maintenance and repairs of these auto-mobiles.
My only reservation is that Nigeria government needs to start buying patrol vehicles for security agencies from Nigerian car manufacturers.
The Nigeria Police in a statement yesterday said intelligence at the disposal of the Force leadership indicated that some aggrieved factional leaders and members of the party had perfected plans to engage thugs from across the country to join them in threatening public peace and security in Abuja.
Sequel to the on-going intra-party leadership crisis in the party and further fallout of the recent political engagements of the Party.
The plan of the brains behind the PDP Crisis was to infiltrate Abuja and attack the Headquarters of the PDP with intent to forcefully occupy the facility.
Police sources confirm that the actors will mobilise into Abuja with effect from Monday 23rd May 2016 and they intend to march through major streets in Abuja before proceeding to the PDP Secretariat to manifest their intention.
“Consequently, the Inspector-General of Police has directed the deployment of Police assets to secure the PDP Secretariat and protect the staff until the threat to internal security that is being occasioned by the pdp crisis within the PDP is stabilised.
“The police action is a proactive initiative which is being placed in furtherance to the statutory mandate of the Nigeria Police to prevent breakdown in law and order and protect lives and property.”
Arase, however, warned all actors in the crisis as well as their loyalists to refrain from any act that may threaten public order as the police shall deal promptly, firmly and decisively with such persons or group in line with their legal obligations.
A young lady who claims to have graduated with a Second Class Upper – Bachelor of Science in Computer Studies, took to the streets in Lekki Phase 1 to look for a Job. At a point in life, your brain will fail you. A computer student looking for work.. That’s cool. A lesson to all those killing themselves on jamb and those in school waiting to be lashed on NYSC orientation camp. This is almost the result. Be creative, the government don’t care about us. Don’t work hard…. Just work and think smart.
In this I.T age, a computer science graduate shouldn’t be looking for a Job. The problem is that most people just go to school just to graduate, forgetting that every lecture they receive is another means of livelihood. Most of our so called computer graduate can not even design a basic website and yes I have to say this, its pathetic!
This current “CHANGE” in the country is actually resetting people’s brains back to default setting. That’s a first sign of recession, unemployment, high cost of living which leads to desperation. I don’t blame the little angel anyway, If she was in Abuja I did offer her a secretary job and get her out of unemployment, at least she will manage till she gets a better job.
music possess a potent force for creating conscious change in the hearts and minds of a people hence the need to be conscious of the content of the message we send across to the heterogenous audience out there. You speak to the mic because you belief someone out there is going to listen to it. Make sense out of everything you say in your lyrics. If it doesn’t sound right in your ears, there’s practocally no need to send it out there. What if bob Marley, fela, 2face et al were less emphatic about what they churned out, we would still be in the dark side of things. Our industry in rapidly growing, what better time to state the need for general consciousness. God bless the industry
It is not a surprise to to see millions of people chasing a job that only have 10,000 job openings in a country where the unemployment index is over 60%. Ever since the Nigeria Police Force pasted their posters for police recruitment earlier on in this year the staggering figures of Nigerian youths clamouring for the job has been soaring higher by the day. Few of our young people will voluntarily join the Police Force if they have the luxury of choice. It was an irony of sorts when the Police Service Commission recently invited applications from qualified Nigerians for recruitment into the Force based on President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval for the recruitment of 10,000 policemen.
The Commission had advertised for the recruitment of 500 Cadet ASPs, 500 Cadet Inspectors, 1,500 Specialist Officers and 7, 500 Constables. Within a few days of the advertisement of the police recruitment, officials of the PSC were astounded, if not shocked, by the response from applicants. According to Ikechukwu Ani, Head, Press and Public Relations of the Commission, between April 24 and May 2, 2016 no fewer than 843,008 applications had been received. A breakdown of this showed that 243,327 applications were received for ASP cadre, while 197,990 and 401,691 applied for the Inspector and Police Constable cadres, respectively. Soon after, the figure rose to over one million applicants, leaving many wondering if the Police was indeed as unpopular as generally held. Even the Inspector General of Police could not help but exclaim that he “never knew Nigerians liked the police this much that such a gargantuan number wants to join the Force.” It is, however, obvious that the stampede for police jobs has little to do with “popularity”. With an unemployment rate of 60.8 per cent of Nigeria’s over 170 million people, jobless Nigerians certainly cannot be too choosy when positions are advertised by any organisation.
This was what informed the response by 6.5 million applicants to the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment in March 2014, which ended tragically with the death of 23 job seekers during a recruitment test. The Police authorities have to exercise extreme care in this police recruitment drive, ensuring that only people who are suitably qualified with impeccable characters and backgrounds will be brought on board. The process of ascertaining this must be very painstaking to keep out bad eggs. The large number of applicants for every job opening, is an enduring warning bell over the worrisome unemployment situation.
We urge governments at all levels to come up with radical ideas to put more of our idle youth to work and reduce the social consequences of high unemployment.
culled from: Vanguard
Land grabbing has been a menacing issue for millions of would be land owners and house owners in Lagos over the ages. Many people have suffered from the hands of thugs who go about parading themselves as “Omo Onile” in the violent land grabbing spree from the rightful owners of the lands.
Omo Onile, Ajagungbale, Land Grabbers, whatever else they are called have also been a menace to Land Owners for several decades. They range from family members of the original land owner, members of the community or plain Opportunistic Thugs.
Their modus operandi is to disrupt activities of Land Owners, or forcefully infringe themselves on other people’s Lands. They are usuaully armed with weapons and sometimes work with Enforcement agencies. In more affulent areas like the Lekki-axis, these thugs are more dangerous and powerful, riding around in luxury SUV vehicles, demanding for outrageous amounts.
Unfortunately, I have been involved with these groups of individuals in my personal land endeavours. The “Ajagungbales” are a group that forcefully collect other people’s lands. Openly confronting them can lead to violent, deadly encounters (remember the issue of the death of Lekki Free Trade Zone Managing Director, Bola Disu when called to resolve some land dispute). These Guys have “confisticated” large parcels of Land in Ikorodu, include mine. These Gang of about 200 people are armed with weaponry to the teeth, so visiting is not even an option.
Seems like the Lagos state government are ready to implement a Bill to curtail the activities of these scourge. Unfortunately, [b]the punishment upon successful conviction – only N300,000 fine.[b]
Even the traditional leader of Ikorodu, the Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Kabir Adewale Shotobi, called the fine “too meagre”. Enforcement of the Bill is another project on its own.
So it looks like Land grabbing by these devilish land grabbers is not going to end in Lagos anytime soon…
this is the update on Nigerian news in the newspaper for today at this hour
Check out the photos of the Amina, one of the missing Chibok girls and her child that was rescued by JTF earlier today. The man in the photo is her husband who was also a boko haram commander up until the time of his arrest.
Hoodlums at Fadeyi in Lagos state have taken advantage of the tense situation surrounding the proposed labour strike to wreck havoc on Lagosians.
The hoodlums are reported to have created a blockade at the Fadeyi axis of the popular Ikorodu Express way.
It is not clear if the blockade was initially created by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) which says it would embark on an indefinite strike over the federal government’s decision to increase the pump price of petrol from N86.50 to N145.
Those going to work, Wednesday, said hoodlums were hurling stones and other dangerous objects at vehicles.
They were smashing windscreens thereby forcing buses, cars, and other vehicles from turning back from the axis.
They also were not sparing BRT buses. One twitter user tweeted he “almost got hurt trying to jump off a BRT buses”
But it seems security personnel have taken control of the situation to quell the violence.
Please avoid that route for now please…
I just found this video online and felt it would be worth sharing with you….Where is Nigeria heading to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s0elLghhRE
The National Industrial Court has granted an interim order restraining the Nigeria Labor Congress and all its allies from embarking on any strike action. The Federal government this morning approached the court asking the court to stop the proposed strike action by NLC.
NLC had given the federal government till midnight today May 17th to revert to the old pump price or face total strike action slated for tomorrow Wednesday May 18th.
President of the Industrial Court, Justice Babatunde Adeniran Ademjumo, granted the interim order of injunction restraining the Defendants/Respondents, their agents, privies, employees, workmen, or servants from embarking on industrial action, demonstrating or engaging in any action that may disrupt the economic activities of Nigeria pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
The Federal Government was represented by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN; Okoi Obono Obla, Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution, and Dayo Apata, Director of Civil Litigation at the Federal Ministry of Justice.
Prof Wole Soyinka has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan as birds of the same feather with regards to impunity.
The literary icon also revisited the controversial Obasanjo Presidential library, saying it was acquired through ‘executive extortionism’ just as President Goodluck Jonathan recently got over N21bn at a dinner/fund-raiser last Saturday.
He noted that both Jonathan and Obasanjo were leaders known for impunity.
Soyinka said, “That obscene proceeding (Obasanjo’s Library Fund-raising) has certainly set a competitive precedent for impunity in President Jonathan’s recent fund-raising shindig, as Impunity taken too far.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Principal Private Secretary, Hassan Tukur has been arrested by operatives of the EFCC at his home in Abuja yesterday night. Tukur was still at the headquarters of the anti-graft commission as at this morning.
The reasons for his arrest has not yet been made known to the public.
A news headline caught my attention a couple of days ago about a statement credited to Nigeria’s Minister of Interior Abdulrahman Dambazau in which he claimed that Nigeria spends N14,000 to feed each prisoner daily. My jaws dropped as I read the contents of the news with shocking disbelief.
In 2015, statistics shows that the Nigerian government increased the daily feeding allowance of prisoners from N2.50k to N3.50k then how in the devil’s name did N3.50k suddenly jumped to N14,000 in just a year?
Before I continue, recall that Abdulrahman Dambazau was the same character caught on tape using an officer of Nigeria’s State Security Service to clean his shoes in public…
Let us take a look at this as well:
14,000 to feed a single prisoner daily
N18,000 is Nigeria’s monthly minimum wage
That means a typical Nigerian prisoner earns N420,000 monthly for just being in prison. If that is the case, why don’t we all migrate to the prisons.
Nigeria’s prison population is estimated at about 57,000 inmates with more than 70% of that number still awaiting trial and our government spends N10 billion every year on feeding prisoners.
It is now clear to us how all the money the government is getting back from yesterday’s looters is making its way into the hands of today’s silent looters.
We now know why there has been increasing economic hardship in the country ever since this government came into power.
Our government should not keep pretending that they are fighting corruption by turning a blind eye on the corruption that is busy eating its intestines.
The youth lacks employment, 5 pieces of tomatoes now cost N500 in our markets today. The other day at the petrol station, I had to act violent just to make sure the pump attendant doesn’t rip me off my money by selling incomplete fuel to me at N145 per liter. Nigerians are tired of leaving their beds at 2am just to be early enough to be in the front line of never ending fuel queues.
How can Nigeria be feeding a prisoner with N14,000 daily when most of its prestigious universities across the country are either locked up or on strike?
The government of the day needs to wake up from its slumber and start acting right. It is already too late to pass a nation’s budget half way into the year.
Crime, terrorism and militancy has been on the high rise for the past couple of months due to the incessant economic gag placed on our necks by the same people we AFFECTIONATELY voted into power.
It is not a surprise for me when I heard the British Prime Minister labeling my country as a “FANTASTICALLY CORRUPT NATION”
Well, the head of our government didn’t demand an apology from Britain. This applies to us as well, WE DO NOT NEED THE GOVERNMENT’S APOLOGY, WE DON’T NEED THEM TO TELL US THAT THEY ARE IN TOUCH WITH OUR PAINS.
THEY SHOULD JUST START ACTING RIGHT BEFORE THEY PUSH US TO THE WALL, TERMINATE THE APPOINTMENTS OF CROOKS LIKE THE MINISTER OF INTERIOR ABDULRAHMAN DAMBAZAU, PUMP MONEY INTO THE ECONOMY BEFORE THEY LEAD US DOWN THE ROAD TO SOMALIA, MEXICO OR WORSE KIGALI.
My name is Ayo Adeyemi, You can download more of my videos and read my articles on www.mysocialnaija.com and I am just trying to “Say It As It Is”
Where is Nigeria’s Minister of Education now that the country needs him most? We are all overlooking the massive crises going on in the education sector of our wailing nation because the bad eggs in the ministry of education are working hard to muzzle the effects of the dilapidating standard of education in Nigeria.
And on top of all these woes befalling Nigeria’s education, major universities across the country has either been locked or on strike. See list below:
Unilag (locked)
Uniport (locked)
AAUA. (locked)
Unibadan(locked)
Funaab (strike)
IMSU (strike)
UNIJOS (locked)
Please who is the minister for Education? Is he asleep or dead?
There are 8 main reasons why I will join ISIS like the son of former Chief Justice of Nigeria Ibrahim Uwais and they are listed below:
If I have all these reasons, I will instantly jump on the next available flight to Syria and follow the same route that Ibrahim Uwais son of Nigeria’s former Chief Justice Mohammed Uwais followed via Turkey or Dubai. Or go to Yemen to receive terrorism training before crossing the border into Iraq the same way that Farouk Abdulmutallab the son of former chairman of First Bank Dr. Umar Abdulmuttalab.
Have you been bothered lately about the interest of foreign governments in Nigeria? Have thought about why some Telecoms companies have eventually shifted their Headquarters to Nigeria due to increasing demand and market?
By now, you probably are thinking about the popular ‘oil’ riches we are endowed with. You will be partly correct if you share that school of thought. However I am not alluding to oil cruise is this piece.
A Senate Committee after inspecting works at the millennium tower in CBD, Abuja discovered less than 10% of the construction work was given to Nigerian citizens. Most of the works were contracted to foreign firms. Even at the level of sub-contracting and local hires, the figures were extremely dismal. The idea is for a huge capital to emigrate from Nigeria in the name of consultancies and expatriate involvements at the expense of the growth and development of local content. Thus, you have an expatriate taking up to 80% of project costs in the name of consultancies, and then does local hires for extremely cheap labour, the kind of work he would never let his children with same level of education do.
The idea of capital flight in exchange for expertise and consultancy engagements is not new. If you check the budget of most ministries, you will discover most of the consultancy works have little local involvements. These guys take our money in knowledge world to use against us in the power world. So you want to ask how this works?
They(foreign countries) reserve their fuel deposits and import our own fuel (as a cheap raw material) and then give us back cars and technologies at the price of a finished product.
Again, Nigeria has become the home (some people call –“dumping ground”) of many products because of our huge population(projected as 160 million). The more we buy these imported products, the more we give some under-aged boy or girl in china a job; at least something to keep up body and soul. The more we continue these importations, the more we drive their economy and de-energise ours. Simply put, we disengage more workers by more imports, and that justifies the high rate of unemployment we have in our country.
Still on the capital flight and local content deliberate extinction by government, we have senior officials travel for all manners of medical ‘tourism’ in the name of treating an ailment that either never existed, or that could be treated by our own facilities in Nigeria. Of course some treatments are out of reach, but you cannot contribute to a system you do not draw or derive ownership from. If you are going for a yellow fever test and sundry travel medical requirements, it will be clearly stated that it must be from a government hospital (depending on your destination). Why then can’t we have all political or elective office holders present an evidence of local treatment in Nigeria for them to have access to the ‘uncapped’, open-ended medical claims and allowances. Of course, you might want to say that will be worse owing to pervading corruption and power influence. However, It would be a case of a better devil if the stolen or manipulated medical claims are distributed at mean within Nigerian medical officers, not a foreign. Having realized the awareness of how huge the medical tourism industry is, you get calls from marketers from india, lobbying you to refer cases to their hospitals abroad. Of course, that is unethical in the medical profession. Of course, Nigerian doctors too have not helped. There are bits of compromised doctors who do that with a percentage ‘referral fee’ attached. I am not against that, provided most of the medical cases referred are done with true intents of treatment, which the patients have not been able to access in Nigeria. However, most referrals are done not based on integrity but marketing models.
Some of these hospitals are aware of an imminent clampdown on their activities so they have decided to shift base. “If mountain does not go to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to mountain”
Suffice to say that some of them have shifted base to Nigeria and have collaborated with these foreign telecoms operating in Nigeria to send bulk-messaging of their presence in Nigeria directly to our phone numbers without our permission. I find such messaging very offensive as you have no option of unsubscribing. This again is a sham or shame to the regulatory agencies in charge of consumer’s telecoms right.
While all of this is going on, my fellow Nigerians are perhaps not thinking deeper as to why most foreign countries are interested in us apart from the oil surge. The most veritable of them being our population growth which skyrockets by the day. My population dynamics study revealed that Nigeria’s population (50 million) was almost at par with UK (55 million) at independence. The question I ask myself is; where did we get this high baby-giving race? It is as though we have baby factories.
While I understand that the surge in population contributes a huge burden on our little facilities, resources and economy, the overall impact would have been mitigated if we have increasing creative economy to correspond with our increasing population. In other words, we have a more dependent population than a productive or creative one. Because the population of unproductive dependants increases, there is apparently more consumer markets for products from china, india and the US. My fellow youths are obviously oblivious of this when they become crazy about schooling in the US or UK. While those guys population have saturated their economy, they are looking for power broking and bilateral agreements that will expand their direct investments in populous countries like Nigeria. For the records, Nigeria’s population is about the size of UK, France and Netherlands put together.
So we keep producing the babies, and spending on them(not to educate but spoil them to rot), creating a more dependent population altogether. If the UK has enough money coming in locally, they wouldn’t have a thorough 4-6hrs call following up on their prospective masters student from Nigeria.
So how does all of this connect to leadership gaps?
I recall a friend of mine narrating how a popular construction company bargained the construction of Abuja roads in exchange for crude oil (very cheap and less profitable for Nigeria) and our leaders agreed. That’s smartness. Few years into the construction, they had exhausted their running expense and needed to downsize – so it was Nigerian hustlers with them that had to bear the brunt. Consequently, they resorted to shoddy construction which was grossly rejected by the Senate Committee in charge. So they needed a serious ‘contract ‘ to compensate for the cash-down. They approached the then president and proposed to construct a railway line from the north down south via the River Niger. They proposed to construct this free (service only) but with another condition; that any resource found on the River Niger waterways while constructing the railway will be theirs. That’s bargaining for you. Interestingly, the president turned that down. That is real leadership; when you cannot trade your local content for immediate gratification; when you cannot trade an unestimated resources for a quantifiable product or service. There has to be balance, and effective leaders know how to create this. It happened sometime ago when the South African Government raised a discriminatory move against Nigerian citizens and we ‘threatened’ to return suit. They withdrew because their core investments in Nigeria would be affected, especially in the telecoms sector. The balance of trade and power exchange is the responsibility of true leaders.
Let me end by saying this; if subserve your people and territory in the name of global recognition and acceptance you will return with nothing!
Nigeria is evolving, and she seeks the change in you first, by your faulty paradigms, personal leadership and then corporate leadership.
Have a productive weekend.
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In as much as it is good news that the President Buhari has signed the 2016 budget into law and Nigerians are expected to start seeing some changes in the tight financial constraint that has bedevilled the nation for many months so far. It is also so bad that the national budget of the most populous black nation on earth and the giant of Africa just came into law in the fifth month of the year when we have just a meagre seven months to pack up this year.
How can we be certain that the budget will be fully implemented and no part of it shall be stolen and kept aside due to under utilisation? Although the Federal Government has made it clear that it wants a transparent and corruption free budget. It has in turn forgotten that by failing to pass the budget as at when due has created many loop holes for criminal minded politicians and civil servants to exploit the budget and steal money aside for themselves. the Federal Government has also forgotten that justice delayed is justice denied. Proper implementation and financial tracking can not be accorded to the budget anymore because the various arms and parastatals of government that has been starved so far of funds will be in a rush to quickly disburse the resources allocated to them as can be likened to a very tasty man who is offered a glass of chilled water….we all know he will demand for more.
It is a big wonder what our dear Federal Government which has been operating under the change mantra spend the whole of 2015 on given the fact that they couldn’t work and plan on the successful implementation of 2016 budget and they had to wait until 2016 to start discussing the budget for the year.
In my own opinion, I opine that our Federal Government lacks a sense of responsibility and has been busy placing the cart before the horse hence they have succeeded in putting the nation through months of peril and torture.
Our Federal Government has been busy carrying out its daily business like a man high on hard substances, they have already failed the nation many times over especially in the areas of electricity generation, fuel availability, adequate security, proper governance and to cap it up, its most recent disastrous achievement: passing of the 2016 budget in the middle of the year signifies it is really charting the waters for the ship called Nigeria like a drunken sailor!
May God help us in this nation. AMEN!
Margaret Daniels is a year older today! The amazing sweetheart of facebookers wrote this on her facebook timeline this morning:
Wow! Isn’t she a beauty queen? See more of her pictures after the cut…
Celebrate with her guys and you can also add her up via her facebook profile HERE
The African continent is home to many traditions and cultures which span across various ethnic tribes, languages, social norms and customs. Nigeria is not alien to these African qualities being the most populous black nation on earth, the giant of Africa with an estimated 250 ethnic tribes and over 521 languages. Nigeria has over the decades found a way to somehow maintain its people’s traditions and customs by fusing them into the evolution of the nation through giving special powers to traditional rulers. In view of all these it is no longer news that the traditional events and celebrations of Nigeria ethnic tribes do not go unnoticed as some of them usually host guests who come to attend the events from all over the world. Good examples of such Nigerian traditional events are the famous Osun Osogbo Festival which takes place in Osun State, Eyo Festival of Lagos State, Argungu Fishing Festival in Kebbi State and the ever popular Calabar Carnival.
All these festivals sure have many things in common ranging from the soaring crowds, electric atmospheres, traditional dance and acrobatic displays etc among which the Masquerades are also usually prominently featured. Which brings us to the question of how to earn a living through dressing up of masquerades for the various important traditional events.
Well it is an established fact that there are people who make money as wedding planners, event organisers, event caterers, event venue designers and so on. So why can’t we have masquerade outfitters among these categories of people that contribute their skills and talents to the eventual success of events held across Nigeria.
The masquerade outfitting industry in Nigeria is largely unexplored and only a tiny fraction of Nigerians are making a living from this industry while the majority of Nigerians see them as diabolic and unnatural persons. When these people are actually not different from their more common counterparts known as make-up artists.
The culture and tourism industry in Nigeria as it is today is still largely underdeveloped and under-utilised. There are so many benefits that Nigerians can gain from the promotion of culture and tourism but sadly, only a few people are enjoying those benefits.
As odd as it may sound, dressing masquerades up for social events in a big money spinner and there is nothing supernatural or diabolical about it! Do you know that all the materials that go into the costumes of a masquerade are professionally sourced and crafted by people already in the business. A finished masquerade costume is a complete artistic masterpiece judging by the colourful fabrics that make up the clothings and the little pieces of traditional jewellery that dots them. Think about the professionally crafted wooden images they have on their heads and their beautifully designed footwears and also not forgetting the designs on their entourages and assistants as well.
Looking at the above, it is high time for Nigerian youth to start applying to the ministry of culture and tourism for licenses to outfit masquerades and become bosses of their own businesses.
On a final note, Nigerians need to start looking inward in order to boost the development of the nation which will in turn boost the producing strength of our great father land. This approach will encourage export and minimise reliance on import in other to take the country to its rightfully deserved place among the respected league of nations.
Between 1999 and 2003 when the late Lamidi Adesina was governor of Oyo State, some farmers in the Saki area dealt with some Fulani herdsmen for devouring their crops, killing some farmers, committing theft and rape. That was when it came to light that Gen Muhammadu Buhari is a patron of the Fulani herdsmen; he went to Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to query Adesina. Thus, nobody can be better placed than Buhari to resolve the age-long Fulani herdsmen versus crop farmers’ clashes.
My message to President Buhari is this: We are in a modern civilisation in which ambulant animal rearing is primitive and archaic. Animal husbandry is sedentary in today’s civilised societies. People don’t go into a business unless they have what it takes. A crop farmer must have a piece of land, whether inherited, purchased, leased, or permitted. Ditto poultry, fish, snail, and rabbit farmers. That of Fulani herdsmen should not be different, if equity is to be the order of the day.
Does it even make sense for herdsmen to be roaming with their animals in agrarian areas? Let’s apply reason rather than emotion and sentiment. Crops and animals cannot cohabit without danger to crops. A person should rear the number of animals for which he or she has provision of garden, feeds, including water, and veterinary services. Buhari should let the change mantra of his political party reflect in Nigeria’s approach to animal rearing.
The presence of Fulani herdsmen all over Nigeria is not the problem. The problem is their roaming with animals and devouring crops. The solution is to outlaw roaming of animals. Then, security operatives should begin to enforce the law. Will ethnic and religious considerations allow Buhari to do the right thing? It is up to other Nigerians to fold their arms and allow Fulani herdsmen to endanger crop farming and deepen food and poverty crises.
Fulani herdsmen had regard for farmers when many farmers doubled as hunters and had charms. There was a kind of balance of force with the Fulani herdsmen who are always armed with weapons and charms. But Christian demonisation of charms forced many Africans to abandon them. So, many farmers are reaping the fruit of disorientation. But, the situation will degenerate into a full blown war between Fulani herdsmen and their sympathisers versus farmers and their sympathisers.
culled from punchng.com
written by Prof. Pius Oyeniran Abioje, University of Ilorin
This twins are not different from millions of Nigerian youths. They were both born into the same generations of Nigerian youths lamenting about unemployment today and they gave it their all!
They walked the long and treacherous road to fame. They sacrificed comfort for success because they were hungry for it. Well we all know their story today!
They now live ontop of their dreams and looks a lot better from how they used to look. The above pictures prove that nothing is impossible for anyone to achieve once we set our hearts on achieving it!
All our dreams can come true only if we have enough courage to pursue them!
I AM SAYING IT AS IT IS!
Nigeria of today can be likened to a company that requires a competent managing director to oversee its smooth running.
If a company is not doing well in terms of sales, production and profit, the staff will be the ones that bear the brunt as a result of unpaid salaries and allowances. The best course of action is for the Board of Directors to fire the entire management team and bring competent hands on board.
We Nigerians saw our former president as incapable and incompetent to administer Nigeria so we went after a man we perceived can bring about the much needed change we needed to lift our nation out of the mud.
Lo and behold, we brought President Muhammadu Buhari on board with HIGH hopes that all our miseries will soon become history but UNFORTUNATELY, our national situation is not turning out as we thought it would be under the new MANAGEMENT team because the new Managing Director been busy laying all the reasons for things not working out well in his administration on the feet of the former management team that was sacked about 11 months ago.
Nigeria’s current Managing Director has all the RESOURCES he needs to turn the nation around for good but RATHER it is becoming more obvious that we have hired a GROSSLY incompetent man to oversee us.
THIS IS MY TAKE:
If Nigeria was a company and President Buhari is the managing director who was hired to make the company better but has been busy blaming his predecessor for his failure 11 months on. HE SHOULD BE FIRED!
The Fulani herdsmen are afterall not invincible as I had thought earlier on. It has been reported that some youths from Agatu in Benue state crossed over into Nassarawa state and killed 20 Fulani herdsmen and 83 cows in an attack that was suspected to be a reprisal for the killings of over 300 Agatu tribes people in Benue.
This doesn’t have to happen if the government have played its role as the chief security agent of the country but instead it has been busy politicising the killings by Fulani herdsmen.
I fear we are now seeing the beginning of a new trend in reprisal attacks on the Fulanis for every evil act they take and this should not see the light of the day in a country where there is law and order.
A signal has been sent all over the nation that the best way to deal with the Fulani is to attack them back once they come attacking. It is high time that the government steps up its bid to provide adequate ranches for the Fulanis if they want to put a definite end to these incessant killings of innocent Nigerian souls.
I pray for the peace of Nigeria.
Before you continue doing whatever you have on your hand today. Please take a short break to say a #PrayerForSyria. Aleppo is a city in Syria and it has been under constant shelling for the past one week with fatal casualties totalling almost 300 lives lost.
Please pray for the departed souls of the innocent children there, pray for the sorrowful mothers and the helpless fathers. Pray for #Alepo and Pray for #Syria!
God bless you as you do that.
Courtesy of MySocialNaija community.
#SayingItAsItIs
“The woman with the calabash nudged her, then motioned to some other people close
by. ‘Bianu, come,’ she said. ‘Come and take a look.’ She opened the calabash. ‘Take a
look,’ she said again. Olanna looked into the bowl. She saw the little girl’s head with
the ashy-grey skin and plaited hair and rolled-back eyes and open mouth. She stared at
it for a while before she looked away. Somebody screamed. The woman closed the
calabash. ‘Do you know,’ she said, ‘it took me so long to plait this hair? She had such
thick hair,”
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Adichie
Wail! Nigeria wail! your sons and daughters are dying by the coming of each new day! Your streets are unsafe to walk in, your markets and garages are now abattoirs and your highways are reliable death traps!
Mothers are still waiting, waiting for their wards that left the house and haven’t returned yet. The woman from across the street; her husband was a trader – he won’t be coming home tonight…he won’t be coming home ever again. Mr Adamu was about making his way through the traffic gridlock…alas!…he didn’t make it to the other side of the road!
Ibrahim just got an admission to study medicine at the University but…he was brought back home to us tied up in a mat with eyes rolled back into their sockets and pieces of his flesh stitched in a million ways so that we can recognise him as our former Ibrahim!
Now we are afraid to leave our house to seek ways of making a living. Even in our houses, our safety is not guaranteed…death still comes knocking. The other day, Emeka was stabbed in the throat in his sleep, he bled to death while trying to mumble his final words on earth. Oh Nigeria why?
We now watch out for every strange bags and objects around us, we don’t even trust people carrying knapsacks on their backs anymore. Our closest companion on the street is now our enemy. Who knows…he might be a suicide bomber…or to him…I might be a suicide bomber…a threat to his existence!
Nigeria! Your civil servants and office workers now leave their houses as early as 2:00AM in the morning in order to avoid traffic drags that might lead them to their early graves because you now have bombs on your roads!
Nigeria! your poor and downtrodden masses now live in fear even in their humble abodes. While your rich go about smiling and getting fat. The ghettos and slums are shortcuts to the grave while the opulence of your highbrow neighbourhoods swim with happy faces of the rich and powerful. They sit under air-conditioned living rooms to watch what you have become on CNN and BBC as they take off from your shores the next day to well developed nations where their average life expectancy is guaranteed!
BOOM! The bomb goes off and your ignorant masses rush down to the scene to witness the carnage and havoc created with their eyes as they happily upload pictures to the social media through their mobile phones with interesting taglines such as “First To SEE: Bomb Blast Claim 30 lives – Mukaila”, “Just NOW! Blood and Human Parts from Bomb Blasts! 🙂 – CindyBerry”…and while they are at it….BOOOOOM again…the second explosion was more deadlier than the first….Alas! the girl that just tweeted about 5 minutes ago is no more!
And when your children take to the streets, the tear gases and water cannons of the police will be waiting for them there with the koboko (horsewhip) of the soldiers waving ferociously in the air as it drink from the blood on the backs of your children. Your children are now been slapped and smacked around on the face by the same defenders of the nation…or better put – defenders of the government!
I pledge to Nigeria my country…to serve Nigeria with all my strength…to defend her unity….But how can I do this when I am scared to go into the streets?
To all the countless victims of terrorism in Nigeria…we say…REST IN PEACE!
God bless us all
God bless The Federal Republic of Nigeria!
There seems to be more trouble in paradise. Tunji Balogun aka Teebillz has caused such a frenzy on social media following his emotional
breakdown on instagram on Thursday morning. Here are 15 shocking quotes from Teebillz rant…
1. “Please just take care of JamJam. I sacrificed my life for you and put in work and my money to your success.”
2. “You are Tiwa Savage the super star now right. You will never have peace with that fame.”
3. “Your mother wants to turn me to what she turned your dad to? I will rather die. Ask her to confess what’s she’s done to me.”
4. ” I have been fighting this spiritual battle since I was a kid my mother and father can testify. Went from family battle to mother inlaws battle.”
5. “I have been mentally tortured by my the woman I gave everything to.
6. “You have thrown my clothes out of the house more than 5 times because of the love I have for you I still take it and because of Jamil.”
7. ” I should have done this 2 weeks ago but the joy of being around didn’t let me.”
8. “All she cares about is next single, her make up and hair, her brand and all that BS. Please tell the world – have you asked your husband in the last 3 years if he has eaten?”
9. “Thank you to Ani Idibia and Anita my neighbor that provides home cooked meal for me when I needed.”
10. “You will never have peace except my spirits forgives you. Tell your mother to confess what she mounted in the house for you to shine with my star.”
11. “Within what period of time did you Fuck jazzy and Dr Sid. And I didn’t care because the love I have for you. I looked at it that we all
have a past even when at this same fucking time you were fucking with 2face.”
12. “To you Mr Ibrahim Olatunji Balogun Snr, I tried my best not to be like you but instead of focusing on being a better person I was worried about not wanting to be like you.”
13. “I ended up having kids like you by multiple women and my first marriage and only marriage didn’t make it to 2 years just like the one you had with my mum. Why the Fuck did God Made you my father.
14. “I just didn’t have the strength to fight this battle any more. May God Forgive me and accept my soul in peace.”
15. ” I used my money, soul and everything I had for you and everyone knows how I hustled hard with passion for you to get to where you at today. You will never find peace with your career.”
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