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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ango Abdullahi is a liar from the pit of hell for saying that the Igbo should quit the North and that Northern money was used to develop Southern Nigeria. This is a direct quote from Ango, “I mean none of the Western and Eastern regions had the money to effectively run the affairs of its region until they get financial support from the Northern region.”   How can a nation progress with dishonest and tribalistic elders as Ango? The British author and historian, Colin Newbury has detailed in his 2004 book, Accounting for Power in Northern Nigeria, that for years before the amalgamation, Britain had been subsidizing Northern Nigeria because of the deficit in her budget. Northern Nigeria could not sustain herself financially talk less of supporting the South. If you are from the North this is a fact, not an insult. Do not blame me. Blame history. In 1913, Lord Harcourt agreed to a proposal from Lord Lugard to amalgamate Southern Nigeria and Northern Nigeria so ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Says Nigerians are living at the gates of hell Our governors are indolent, lack vision — Femi Okunnu SAN We don’t need restructuring, there’s nothing to restructure By Ishola Balogun The picture that was painted last weekend of the looming catastrophe that could engulf the nation was  frightening. The venue was the Yoruba Tennis Club, Onikan, Lagos and the event was the 2017 Ramadan lecture organized by the Club. The Guest Lecturer, Mr Ibrahim Babatunde Jose saw in the near future, fracas between the elites and the masses. He believed the yawning gap between the rich and the poor has reached such an alarming level that it is already threatening peace in the land. According to him, “there is too much injustice in the land; people are dispossessed and impoverished as a result of the inequitable distribution of benefits which accrue from our God-given resources. The hungry poor will soon have nothing to eat and will begin to devour the rich. Then the fight w...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South FORMER National Chairman of the Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals  Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON and paramount ruler of Seimbiri Kingdom, Delta State, His Majesty Charles Ayemi-Botu, has advised the Presidency not to stoke fresh fire in the oil-rich Niger Delta region with the marginalization of Niger Deltans in the issuance of licenses for the establishment of Modular Refineries. His Majesty Ayemi-Botu, aka Lion of Niger, spoke to Saturday Vanguard on the backdrop of  a recent revelation    by Hon Christian Ahiakwe representing Omoku Constituency, Rivers state in the House of Representatives, that President Muhammadu    Buhari hurriedly approved 56 licenses for modular refinery with no single Niger Deltan benefiting. The obviously dismayed    monarch said:    “If President Buhari hastily approved 56 modular refinery licenses sequel to nine days of assum...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A BA —The Court of Appeal, Owerri Division, has fixed  June 15  to hear an appeal, CA/OW/190/ 2016, filed by Sir  Friday  Nwosu against the July 8, 2016 judgment of the Federal High Court, Owerri which cleared Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of alleged submission of false information and forged tax documents. A  hearing notice signed by the Court of Appeal registry, Owerri Division, sighted by Vanguard, read;   “In the Court of Appeal, Owerri Judicial Division, Suit http://ift.tt/2rb7CBy , Appeal No.CA/OW/190/2016, between Sir  Friday  Nwanozie  Nwosu (Appellant) and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and three others (Respondents). “Take note that the above mentioned appeal has been fixed for hearing before the Court of Appeal sitting at Port Harcourt road, Owerri,  on Thursday  15th  day of June, 2017.” Nwosu, who contested the December 8, 2014 PDP governorship primaries had accused Ikpeazu of submitting false tax in...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Donu Kobgara A n article written by Douglas Murray, a British think-tank director, was published on this page last week. Titled “Who Will Protect Nigeria’s Northern Christians?”, the article claimed that Northern Christians are enduring terrible suffering at the hands of Muslims and accused various groups of actively colluding with the herdsmen or of simply ignoring their embattled victims. An excerpt: The international community pretends that this situation is a tit-for-tat problem, rather than a one-sided slaughter. Meanwhile, in Nigeria, the press fails to report or actively obscures the situation. Christians in the south of the country feel little solidarity with their co-religionists suffering from this Islamic revivalism and territorial conquest in the north. And worst of all, the plight of these people is of no interest to their own government. In fact, this ethnic and religious cleansing appears to be taking place with that government’s complicity or...