Its a trekking things...

Another "travelers " has been reported to be on his own legendary trek from Yola, the Adamawa state capital to Abuja, to commemorate with the President Elect Gen Mohammed Buhari (Rtd) and to present to the president elect more than 70 letters of request from the people of the North East.
According to report the new travelers Mallam Abubakar Umar has already arrived Gombe and has been greeted by fans and praise singers.

It could be recalled that a man by name Hashimu Suleiman allegedly trekked from Lagos to Abuja as a fulfillment of a pledge he made two years ago should the President Elect GMB win the 2015 elections. An action  that fetched him many mouth watering rewards and treatments.

Already lots of eye brows have began to raise over the authenticity of the claim of Hashimu Suleiman of having walked from lagos to abuja. . Many have based their doubts on the fact that there were only evidence of him being seen in Ibadan and then he suddenly appeared in Minna. Some said he took okada from Ibadan to Minna. Lol.

So now it's a trekking things oh! Me one don talk say if GMB will really make 1 dollar equal to one naira, and implement the recommendations of the National CONFAB within his 1st term in office, I will trek from Abuja to Ghana.

One of my guy say he go frog jump from Abuja to South Africa. Hope him no Xenophobia
Wetin you go do if wetin you want happen?

So you can get a refund for a bad wife.

It's common knowledge that one can get a refund for material items bought like clothing, Cell phones, electronics etc should they for any reason that is cogent be dissatisfied with the performance and/ or quality of the item.
But the situation of getting a refund for a wife married when you become dissatisfied with her qualities is not just a strange but ridiculous and hilariously weird.
I once said that I will get a receipt for the wife I marry so that if she messes up, it's straight to her dad for refund. I said that as a joke and thought it so until I heard of this man.
Mr Collins Nduka, a resident of Lagos state. The aforementioned speaking on a case in the Ojo customary court prayed the court to dissolve his marriage of 3 years with his wife Sefinat Nduka and order her to refund to him the sum of ñ1,400,000 he allegedly spent on marrying her.  Among the allegations against his wife, Mr Nduka listed infidelity, abandonment of her matrimonial home and  carting away of his properties and business goods worth N750,000,000. In the words of Mr Nduka

“I would want a refund of the amount that I spent as marriage and dowry expenses because she has become unfaithful.
“My wife is not faithful to the marriage because she has other relationships apart from me and I no more love her. After all, she has not given birth to any child for me.
“The most painful thing is that she has parked all my belongings in my house to an unknown place in addition to her emptying my shop which I stocked with over N750,000,” he said.
According to him, the three-year-old marriage is being threatened and every bit of her action portrays her as someone no longer interested in the union.
“I invited my friends from outside the country to make the marriage an expensive one and after it, she wants to leave me for another man, I need my dowry so she can be free,” Nduka said.
He pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage and order Sefinat to return his belongings which she allegedly parked away and money to him so that he could continue with his life.

I hope the man has his receipt for the wife purchased 

Austerity only for the Masses - Mouth watering Severance Pay for GEJ, Sambo and other political office holders.

According to information obtainable from the Punch newspaper this morning, President Goodluck Johnathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo and many others non-returning federal lawmakers, ministers and their aides are to receive a whooping N3.24bn in severance allowances.
The severance allowances are contained in the remuneration package put together by the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).
The allowance consist 300 percent of the basic salaries of all beneficiaries. Consequently, the President, after the May 29th hand over date will receive and allowance amounting to N10,544,115. This amount is said to be outside his constitutional entitlements as a former head of government. Vice President Namadi will be pocketing N9,094,717.50 as severance allowance. Similarly, the total allowance that will accrue to the 76 non-returning Senators was put at N462,019,200, at N6,079,200 per head. In same vain, 290 non-returning House of Representatives members will receive N5,955,637.50 as severance allowance amounting to a total of N1,727,134,875.
The same gesture of 300 percent basic salary severance allowance will be extended to all Ministers, Special advisers to the president, vice president and first lady. Making up a total severance allowance budget of N3.24bn.

Read more: http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-sambo-others-to-get-n3-24bn-severance-pay/

This outrageous, senseless, and unwholesome expenditure by the RMAFC is coming on the heels of calls on Nigerians by several government officials including the President himself, to make adjustments, sacrifices and preparation in view of imminent austerity measures to be witnessed in the economic handling following the crash in government revenue occasioned by the plunge in the price of crude oil.
But contrary to their own callings and admonition of the people, while the masses are expected to be on the receiving end of the backlash of austerity measures, while they gear up to make "sacrifices" which is expected to include a cut in remuneration and emoluments of the common man and a decline in government expenditure on infrastructure, capital projects, subsidies and other government incentives beneficial to the common man, these political juggernaut continue to feed fat in the face of economic famine and bankruptcy. Austerity is the rain that drops only on the roofs of the masses.
What is the sense in giving severance allowances to people who has been spoon fed from state resource for years? People who have amassed enough wealth surplus for themselves and obtrusive enough to cater for their children's children to the 5th generation? Nigeria's political offices are the most lucrative ventures when placed vis-a-vis other countries of the world. The funding of government, that is, the payment of government officials in Nigeria is the costliest compared to even America where things are done more sanely and government officials carry out their constitution mandate with more dedication, patriotism and sense of responsibility.
But in Nigeria, the case is different. People who sleep in the Senate and house of Representatives, barely saying a word throughout the entire session winds up going home with "Ghana must Go" full of money as sitting allowance. When a police inspector who stands in the sun all day, risking his life and the well being of his family barely get enough to get through a month. And after 35 years of service to his father land, he winds up collapsing on long queues waiting for a meager pension that's not enough to cater for his basic need.
This is happening in the same country where governors, State and National assembly, and House of Representatives heads who are de jure not civil servants has mischievously, selfishly and senselessly promulgated laws that will see to it that they continue to get pensions almost tantamount to a sitting office holder of their pertinent offices after they might have vacated office. So a state governor who after 8 years of looting and siphoning state resources, vacates his seat and becomes a senator, and still collects pensions on the same scale as the incumbent governor's salary, pensions that are package with other bogus entitlements, while still receiving the mouth watering emoluments of being a senator; in the same country where a teacher, a doctor, a police man, a civil servant has to make "sacrifices" and bear the brunt of austerity measures.
Austerity measures in Nigeria are deliberate and precise strategies, measures and legislative structures put in place by a once profligate government, in order to ensures that the elites and political class continue to maintain their economic, social and financial status quo at the detriment of the economy and the masses. This brings to mind the Biblical analogy where it is said that, to him that does not have, even that which he had will be taken away from him and given to another (who already has plenty) . Like the dream of Pharaoh in which the fat, healthy cows fed on the slim, malnutrited and flaccid cows. That is the Nigerian situation.  The rich get richer, the power get screwed (according to M.I).
It is a pity.

Isa Yuguda - Gov'nor with Over 2,000 political aides.

The Bauchi State Governor Mallam Isa Yuguda, monday, sacked over 2,000 of his political aids.
This was contained in a statement by the Permanent secretary, political affairs, government house, Hashimu Yakubu, on behalf of the Secretary to the state government. Affected are Special assistants, senior special assistants and personal assistants. The sack is with immediate effect.
Although the actual number of affected persons was not mentioned in the government statement but sources close to the government revealed that they might be well over 2,000.


Wait a minute. 2,000 advisers and assistants to one man alone and he is not Caesar Augustus nor Alexander the great or Pharaoh. Just a governor of a state. 2,000 special advisers and the state is not yet a blurry replica of Hong Kong or Las Vegas??
What are they advising and assisting?  How many economic sectors does a state have? And going by the report, these are just political advisers oh!
Also going by the information obtained, the sack does not include the special Adviser Due process and other aides working directly with the governor and his deputy. So who were these 2,000 plus extraneous aides working for?
This has further revealed the extent of profligacy  and recklessness of our so called public servants in handling of states funds and government. The creation and assignment of offices and appointments  has become a medium of settlement, of favor reciprocation and reward for loyalty to the "oga at the top". It has become tradition  for government executives to create and disburse offices just for the purpose of rewarding, compensating,  accommodating, fixing, settling and recompensing certain individuals within there family, social and political circle. We are in an era where, someone does me a favor, or worked for me as the governor of the state and want to pay him back on a permanent long term basis, all I have to do is create a useless office and appoint the said person to oversee it,
They create these offices which are often unnecessary and extraneous, and strap the burden of funding them on the government. Little wonder the step preponderance of the cost of funding government over the cost of funding capital projects in the country as elucidated by the Oronsaye report which revealed that the government uses 70 percent of the yearly budget to fund governance / recurrent expenditure while just 30 percent is used for funding of capital projects. How then can there be enough money to build schools, hospitals, roads, provide water, health facilities and improve the epileptic power generation which has been like a malnourished infant since independence.
Only the money that the president spends on his kitchen combined with the inundated flow of monies transversing the national assembly, both the upper and lower house in a year is enough money to build two refineries and solve the energy need of the country once and for all.
But how can we achieve that when a governor has 2,000 aides, when governors and senate/rep leaders who are not civil servants gets to receive pensions for life, with packages tantamount of being a governor for life. To think that the Bauchi state governor is carrying out this sack just barely a month to the expiration of his spell as governor of the state calls for suspension and questioning. Is it that one month to the end of his spell as governor of the state he suddenly realize that he doesn't need these more than necessary counselors or he just found out the uselessness of their office? Or is he just venting frustration over his defeat at the just concluded senatorial elections on his political team mates who failed to handle their wings, deliver their jurisdiction, hence the lose?
One will only wonder.

CHIBOK GIRLS FINALLY RESCUED?

Information just reaching me indicates that the abducted Chibok girls MAY have been rescued from the so called dreaded Sambisa forest by the Nigerian troops.

The news posted on the official twitter handle of the Nigerian Defense Headquarters states that troops raided the forest and rescued 200 girls and 93 women. Although it has not be officially confirmed if the rescued girls are the famous Chibok girls but according to the information, the Army is carrying out profiling of the rescued girls to ascertain whether or not they are the abducted Chibok girls.

It can be recalled that over 200 girls where kidnapped from a school in the village of Chibok in April 2014 by the dreaded Bokoharam terrorist group. The unfortunate incidence has sparked global condemnations and outcry as well as mounted so much pressure on the Jonathan led government to act and ensure the freedom of the girls. The #BringBackOurGirls went viral in no time and has been trending for over a year now.

Below are the tweets from the Defense Headquarters

Read more;
  http://www.theheraldng.com/breaking-news-troops-invade-sambisa-forest-rescue-200-girls-93-women/

Ever wondered how crocodiles smile?
Wonder no more. Have a look.

I will trek to Ghana.

                                          

Suleiman Hashimu on red track suit. 

So the man trekked from Lagos to Abuja to commemorate with Gen Mohammed Buhari on his victory at the march 28th presidential poll. 

It's feels good to see an Nigerian who is concerned about setting a record and creating history especially as it has to do with keeping his words. Thumbs up and big ups to Suleiman Hashimu of this legendary and historic event.

But for what I have in mind eh! I bet you, the record set by Suleiman is but a child's play.  

If the President Elect Gen Mohammed Buhari (rtd) will fulfill his campaign promises of making 1 dollar equal to 1 naira, stabilizing crude oil price and if he should  meet the wishes of the Nigerians by implementing the recommendations of the national confab, within his 1st term in office, I will trek from Abuja to Ghana.

David Mark maps out plans to retain Senate Presidency - My reaction.

News reaching us lately is that the incumbent senate president Senator D. Mark is putting finishing touches on a master plan to retain his sit as the number one man in the upper chamber despite the depletion in the number of PDP senators in the house and the relegation of his party, the PDP to the status of the minority opposition. And for this purpose according to the source, the senate president has prepared a war chest of a whooping 10 billion naira.
You can get more on that story from the link. http://thenationonlineng.net/new/mark-plots-return-as-senate-president/

                               David Mark

I am more concerned with the consequences of the acts behind the intention on the well being of the nation.  10 billion naira just to become the senate president?
You know, before I thought of writing this piece, I was in a dilemma about whether to talk or just hold my peace, do the sign of the cross, take a deep breath and say "Baba God na your hand we dey". But e get how the thing take hold me for throat, so I just have to cough.
Are these people alright? 10 billion naira is 10,000 million naira. Ok relax and let's use our imagination here. I will like us to imagine just how many hospitals that money can build in your village and my village to take government closer to the people and better the lot of those rural dwellers where these same politicians carry old the bulk of their electoral manipulations. Then imagine how many automated boreholes that that money will build for the people of Kango in Kuje that comes to my farm to fetch drinking water from a well which I can't even use the water in it to wash my clothe. That money will build some kilometers of road that will give some respite to road users, and equally save some lives. Yet someone brought out that money for a gamble to retain a sit. 10 billion naira will empower 10,000 graduates with one million naira each to start up a small enterprise and ease the burden off the labour market. Where else does he (D. Mark) intend to get back the money or will I say capital investment injected into this political project? If not from the national moimoi. Now imagine if a man is able to dole out such amount of money for a project he is not very sure will pull through, one can only but imagine the amount of money owned by such a man. 10 billion naira is enough money to settle the salary budget of some states.
You know I think this men really need to have their head checked. Cos the level of stealing and corruption in this country has gone past the human rhelm. Its has gone spiritual. Its unthinkable. Its outrageous. I was reading in the news the other day where it was stated that President GEJ have been prevailing on some government official to "refund" monies given them concerning the just concluded Presidential and gubernatorial elections in which he lost. I gathered that ministers were given some 20 billion naira each. Another war chest to deliver their jurisdiction to the president. Wait first. 20 billion naira each. Only God knows how many ministers, senators and governors got that money. Five of them will amount to 100 billion naira. That is, 100,000 million naira. With that money,one hundred thousand young entrepreneurs given 1 million naira each will establish a good fish farm and that will be 100,000 less unemployed youths. The money large enough to free 100,000 people and consequently their families from poverty lies in the coffers of just 5 people and they haven't ran mad yet. I meant, they haven't pulled their clothes and ran into the market yet, cos this is madness.
Our leaders has been made mindless by their enslavement to the god and worship of money. Their brain has been blocked with the jaundice of senseless greed and selflessness, that they now act so irrationally insane in the embezzlement of public funds. How can you sit on money due to 10,000 people. You no dey fear something? When there are many civil servants that will never touch one million naira at a go till they die. Yet one man sat on 20 billion and he is not Bill Gate. Only God can save us in this country oh! In fact, me I can't wait for Buhari to come on board and do that abracadabra that will salvage this nation to be sincere.  The kind of money these men clean their anus with has made me loose value for money walahi.

Xenophobia; The irony of human inhumanity

Barely two decades ago, the world was still faced with the shock and bewilderment accompanying the gruesome brutality and savagery of racism and apartheid meted on the people of South Africa by their then colonial task masters. Many world leaders and influential figure especially African leaders lent words and actions against what was described as mans inhumanity to mankind. The people of South Africa spearheaded by their legendary leader Nelson Madiba Mandela fought with their last blood and cried to the rest of the world, drawing attention to the atrocities of apartheid and soliciting for assistance in the battle against the injustice and wickedness of racism and apartheid. finally in 1994 apartheid in South Africa came to an end. Thanks to the efforts and pressure especially from other African countries, most especially from Nigeria, who gave and spent a great deal, physical and financialy to assist the libearation of South Africa.

Barely two decades later, when most of the people who experienced the cruelty of racism first hand are still alive, the world's attention is again turned to South Africa. But this time the prey has become the hunter. Hunting down, destroying, attacking and killing its own kind, their own race, fellow Africans. South Africans perpetuating racism on other Africans in the guise of Xenophobia. Xenophobia as it is, is just a coverup mask for the madness currently going on in South Africa. From dictionary definition, Xenophobia is an intense or irrational fear and/or dislike for people from other countries or stranger. But a situation - as witnessed in South Africa- where only black foreigners are been singled out and attacked while foreigner from other races (Whites) are spared, one will begin to wonder if the term xenophobia is really appropriate for the situation at hand. Personally I think it isn't. The callous display of vicious madness currently prevailing in South Africa can be more appropriately christened an Intra-racial racism or Homo-racial phobia/aggression.

To think that it is this same South Africans who barely two decades ago were under the brunt and weight of mans inhumanity to mankind, that are now turning around to inflict same inhuman treatment on another human, worst off, on fellow Africans, is totally unthinkable, unfortunate and unforgivable. It is too much to swallow whether with a pinch of salt or a jar of honey. This is a shame and reproach on the nation and people of South Africa. A smear of faeces on the travails and legacy of the legendary Nelson Madiba Mandela. I perceive he must be turning in discomfort and indignation in his grave now. With this reprehensible and noxious act, South Africa spits on the grave of Mandela. With every assault, every attack, every wanton destruction of lives and properties of other African bothers, they spit pungent, odorous spittle on the grave of Madiba and all he ever fought, lived and died for.

                                                   Late Nelson Mandela

This actions by South Africa is beginning to leave residue of doubts in the minds of many, including myself,  if truly there was racism and racial abuse in South Africa during the apartheid era. It is begining to seem like a case in which the South Africans in their usual inherent hostility and intolerance to foreigner tried attacking the British but instead met a superior power and began crying fowl amist crocodile tears. The whites, in the face of aggressions and hostility from the South Africans then had to engage in a battle of survival by using any means possible, includinng but not limited to the apartheid law to suppress and tame the locals least they rise up and consume them in their barbaric savagery gestured towards visitors.

The rest of Africa must rise up to this inhumanity of South Africa. It is also very disheartening the reality that the government of South Africa is giving a silent approval to this attacks. It could be favorably argued that the government are surreptitiously behind the ember fanning the flames of xenophobia. Needless to say that the fire was ignited by the authorities themselves in the person of the king of Zulu Chief Godswill (or rather Devils will) Zwelithili and the son of the South African president himself. The recent intra-racial hostility was spawn from the corridors of powers and influence and from the home of the president of South Africa himself. Do we need a second sun to see the finger prints of the government on this? The rest of Africa must hence seize hoping on and expecting the government of South Africa to conscientiously bring an end to this menace. We must act and enact necessary measures and sanctions on South Africa, with every might possible to force her hands to action. From cutting of diplomatic ties, to shutting down every business and relationship with the country, to frustrating South African business concerns around the continent, to placing of bans on the nation of South Africa. Words of condemnation alone are not enough. We condemned the initial case of xenophobia in South Africa in 2008 in which more than 60 foreigners were killed and thousands displaced. Yet the weed sprouted again, seven years later, threatening to be  even the more calamitous this time even to the scale of the Rwandan genocide. The effrontery for this second rising emanates from the fact that they did it before and got away with it. This time we must nip the weed from the stem to the roots.

THE MADNESS OF XENOPHOBIA DISEASE HAS TO STOP.

Suswam Where is our money?? Benue workers demand payments

With exactly 42 days to the expiration of the 8 years spell of the administration of the Benue state Governor,  Gabriel Suswam, the state workers headed by the state chapter of the NLC have come out to make a bold statement in demand for their salaries and benefits that has been owed them for months now. In a statement signed by the state NLC chairman, Comrade Simon Anchaver and Secretary, Comrade Jumpa Emmanuel, yesterday in Makurdi the state capital, the congress stated that “this decision was taken in consultation with the national secretariat which directed that the ultimatum commenced April 14 and expire on April 21.”
The statement read in part, “we demand that all outstanding salaries owed to all categories of core public servants including primary school teachers, local government staff as well as pensioners be paid forthwith within the time frame of this ultimatum.The NLC lamented that delayed and irregular salary payments had been the order of the day in the state for over eight months, leaving most staff in the ministries and parastatals with several months of arrears ranging from four to six months.The fall of the PDP in the state and subsequent take over by the APC is being attributed to the lackadaisical attitude of the Suswam administration and allegations of high level impunity, corruption and embezzlement of public fund. This resulted in the massive shift in the votes of the mostly civil servant state that occasioned not only the lose of the state to the APC during the last presidential elections but also the defeat of the PDP governorship candidate by the APC candidate as well as defeat of the incumbent governor in his bid for a senatorial sit. 
God no dey sleep. 
But one may be tempted to ask. Where have the workers been all these while and why wait till this die minutes to start taking fire brigade actions. Na now wey oga wan go una strike ba? 

For my breast not to fall, No breastfeeding for my kid - Coozy Orjiakor

The infamous breast hawking and brandishing self acclaimed Nollywood and music diva (only God knows what she sings) have once again declared to the world the love and adoration she has for her set of gigantic mammary organ resting obtrusively on her chest. stating that she wouldn't be breastfeeding her kids so as not deflate her over-gauged mammary ballon. Coosy took to her facebook page recently to tell her fans how grateful she was to God for given her the greatest asset of her life, her boobs. In her words: “ I am so grateful to God for this lovely boobs. Though sometimes they are such a burden. The load gets big but I love them” she says. “ In ten years my boobs will still be firm and good because I will use sucker to pull the milk for my kids. No direct sucking. No breastfeeding” Then as a teaser to her male fans she went further to say: “OMG My boobs fell out again yesterday at TBS.  I was so shy of myself as a guy helped package it for me “ I guess the guy must have used a crane or something to lift that weight. If she like make she use cow milk (nunu) feed her children. Na her go carry them when them turn imbeciles. Well, who go like make him business centre fall? I don't sha blame her.

See what Popular Mavin artist Reekado Banks was before Music saved him

Popular Mavin record star, Reekado Bank have revealed to the world who he was before the Mavin boss, Don Jazzy found him. Speaking during an interview for "my super star story", Solomon Ayoleyi Hanniel popularly known as Reekado Banks said he had hawked blenders in traffic and worked as a Brick layer so as to raise money to record a track. But things made a "U" turn for the better when he was picked out of over 5000 contenders in the Mavin audition. Hmmm, do not despise the days of little beginning indeed. Beggar today, king tomorrow. With God all things are possible.

Are the god's really to Blame? As strange sickness kills 14 people in Ondo almost instantly.

The people of Ode-Irele came under shock, fear and apprehension as 14 people recently died of " a strange illness" that hit the town on wednesday. 12 people died of the illness the same day it was noticed (Wednesday) . While 2 out of the four rushed to the hospital died later. The situation has already attracted the attention of the state government and the World health organization who according to report reaching us have already sent representatives to the affect area to appraise the situation. However the State Commissioner for health has dismissed fears that the disease could be the much dreaded Ebola virus disease that hit the country last year. According to the commissioner, while confirming the incident and death, Investigations did not reveal symptoms of Ebola. He also added that the state government had moved into the area to curtail spread of the strange disease. According to him, “there were no cases of diarrhoea, vomiting and haemorrhage that are usual symptoms of the dreaded EVD.” “Samples taken from the victims have been sent to Lagos for proper investigation, while government had been engaging in advocacy to ensure that new cases are reported,” adding that concealment could be devastating. The commissioner assured that government would do everything possible to control the strange ailment, adding that World Health Organization, WHO, and other partners were already involved in the matter. He further cautioned the locals on burying the victims of the disease close to the house. Asking them to use the cemetery. Already some locals of the area attributed the occurrence of the disease to the gods of the land. Saying the gods have been offended. But on who offended the gods and what was the offense remains a story for the gods.

RED ALERT warning to GMB - RUN!!! from Obsanjor

Like the popular saying - "Advise no be curse", President elect Gen Mohammadu Buhari have been advised to RUN!! from former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjor. Senator Rowland Owie, former Chief whip of the senate gave the advice to Buhari in a statement in which he described Obasanjor as a man with a penchant to controlling the government of other president. Citing instances in former presidents of Nigeria, including the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, who Obsanjor have tried to control in the past, Senator Owie in his statement said failure by former president to control a government, makes him resort to fighting the government. The Senator described Chief Obsanjor as a man lacking in integrity of words, asking the president-elect never to discuss anything with Obsanjor without witnesses present. Hmmm, strong words I must say but quite convincing and apparent. Read excerpts below. “To Buhari,  I thank God for you, but you must deliver on your promises and also build on what President Goodluck Jonathan did.  Above all, you must run far from Obasanjo. If he can’t control your government, he will fight you. “He has done it to all former Presidents of Nigeria and even against MKO Abiola who was not sworn in.  Never discuss with Obasanjo unless you have at least two of your aides present. According to the senator, Obasanjo has a capacity for mischief to achieve his goal. “Half way into the tenure of President Goodluck Jonathan, a man who sees nothing good in anybody, except himself, Obasanjo, started trouble making by naming presidential and vice-presidential candidates. “First, it was Governor Sule Lamido as president and Governor Rotimi Amaechi as his Deputy! A respectable Lamido, a founding father of PDP, was being urged to fight PDP. “Obasanjo lured most PDP governors in the North into rebellion against the PDP to destroy the platform that gave all of them relevance, including himself. The hate mood in the North for this election against Jonathan was such that, any candidate from the North would have won the election. “The anger was that power must return to the North. Nigerians can see that rebellion against one’s own and betrayer of one’s party doesn’t pay. “Governor Aliyu Babangìda of Niger State, who led the rebellion against Jonathan and the PDP, lost his election to the Senate and also lost his state,” Owie said.

ON South Africa Xenophobia attacks: Actions not words

I recommend a Tit for tat action by the federal government in response to the xenophobia attacks on Nigerian citizens resident in South Africa. It is not enough to verbally condemn an attack that words alone can't stop. The Nigerian government should take necessary, exigent vendetta actions against the government and people of South Africa to send a strong note of warning that no attack on a single Nigerian in their country will be tolerated. This will deter the assailants and forestall future occurance. They have to give it a rethink anytime the thought of threatening the life and peaceful exists of a Nigerian cross their mind. I call for the detention and/or deportation of South Africans resident in Nigeria, sanctions on South African companies and businesses in Nigeria especially MTN and DSTV. Closure of South Africa embassy in Nigeria subsequent repatriation of its envoys and a possible military action against South Africa should this attacks continue. Can they (South Africa) try this on American citizens resident in SA? Why are they selective in perpetrating this senseless carnage. Why are they not attacking Americans, Russians or Brits? Because they know the consequence of such actions. They will feel the brunt. Not just words but punitive actions. A government should use any means possible including violence if necessary to protect its citizens both within and outside it's boarders. Situations like this makes me remember and miss the person of Late Gen Sani Abacha . But meanwhile, I propose that for the mean time, we Nigerians take the protest against Xenophobia to South African companies in Nigeria. I propose that from henceforth we refrain from patronizing MTN. No buying of their recharge cards and other services of theirs. Same gesture should be extended to DSTV. We have our own indigenous Telecommunication company in GLOBACOM. South Africa did this in 2008 and got away with it. That is why the still have the nerves to repeat it again in 2015. This time we shall reply them with the language they understand. They shall feel the wrath of the giant of Africa.