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honestly very angry with the way and manner at which you guys uprate this rail transportation, they have never been anything as annoying as this. Each a customer wants to travel the person must result to
Buying the ticket at an outragious price, meaning someone is manipulating the system for only the agents. I have been staying awake for 3nights now just to get the ticket directly but, it always impossible, just because you have agents who buy from the app and resale. This is
Steps President Tinubu Could Take To Bring Relief To Borno State Immediately.
First of all, my condolences to the government and people of Borno State over the devastating and unprecedented floods that have devastated the state and led to the loss of lives and property. May God bring succour to the state.
Because of the sheer scale of the disaster, President Tinubu should consider declaring a national emergency. This will provide the legal framework to appropriate funds to resolve the emergency without requiring a lengthy legislative process.
It will also trigger the United Nations and the international community to donate cash, food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies to the victims.
And because of the number of people who died and the scale of infrastructural damage, the President ought to have ordered the Nigerian Army Corp of Engineers to mobilise there and start salvaging dams and levees, as well as rebuilding damaged infrastructure.
Simultaneously, the medical corps of all three service arms (Army, Navy and Air Force) ought to be deployed in Borno by now to provide life-saving medical assistance to the affected communities.
We recently saw a similar scenario in Sokoto, where the service chiefs were literally on the ground to coordinate the routing of bandits. In terms of scale, what is happening right now in Borno and environs, is more urgent and widespread than what occurred in Sokoto. Let us not give the impression that Sokoto is important, but Borno is not.
Just as Sokoto is the seat of the Caliphate, so is Borno the seat of the Kanem-Borno empire, one of the oldest monarchies in Africa. The Tinubu government should not underestimate the type of undercurrents these things can cause.
We should be seeing military helicopters hovering over these flooded areas, with trained personnel rescuing Borno residents via ropes and ladders hanging from these aircraft.
It would have been a poignantly powerful image with the capacity to stir national pride and unleash patriotism across Nigeria. And it would be good PR if it had been beamed on global TV networks.
Then, the President may consider setting up a Borno Disaster Management Committee to be peopled and led by the private sector. Following that, he could host a charity candlelight event at the Presidential Villa, where Corporate Nigeria and the IOCs would be invited and encouraged to donate funds to the Borno Disaster Management Committee for direct intervention to provide relief for the affected communities and rebuild damaged infrastructure.
Philanthropists like Dr. Mike Adenuga, Femi Otedola, General TY Danjuma, Aliko Dangote, Folorunsho Alakija, and Chief Arthur Eze, should be encouraged to attend.
We need to see what the National Emergency Management Agency is doing. Perhaps they are already doing something. But why are there no visuals? This is not good for both NEMA and the Tinubu administration. Visuals are important. Especially when the disaster is in the North, and the President is from the South. This is Nigeria, after all!
Finally, President Tinubu should consider going to Borno himself, even though he mandated that the vice president visit. His physical presence there will go a long way.
It will convince the people of the state that they are of the highest value to the government and that the President cares about them. That alone would give them some relief.
Of course, none of the above suggestions would solve every issue arising from this flooding. However, it will go a long way, especially if done speedily and empathetically.
Reno Omokri
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@AKakanfo@lagospedia Infact my major line of defeating them is,,,, your leaders are coward, Nnamdi Azikiwe ran away, Ojukwu ran away when his people needed him most and the latest person Nnamdi Kalu
@AKakanfo Honestly i don't think 2s b4 i give it to them, a senior colleague once tried to ridicule me by telling me how poor Yoruba people are compare to their Igbo counterparts, by the time i started pointing how is Igbo brothers not 1 not 2 calls me for urgent money, omoh my guy relax
@EkeDavid01 You see all this religious leader will be acting like God, have so much respect for this man but he fall my hands on this one, he inspire me a lot, but on this i think he is wrong. You dont have to call any pastor or Imam to pray for your child for the child to be a good chil
@Dollar_Kerry@pamilerin I dont think it has anything to do with generation, the answer to me is opportunity, which as well called grace. We have people who are of the same parents, had same exposure, and educational background, and some still do better than others, so opportunity do more in this situatn
TIMELINE OF PDP CHAIRMANSHIP POST 2015: THE ROLE OF NYESOM WIKE (PART 2)
9. May 24, 2016 - Justice Mohammed Liman of FHC Portharcourt issued an order stopping legitimising the Makarfi led Caretaker Committee, and barred Sheriff group from parading themselves as NWC members. Sheriff also obtained an injunction to bar the Caretaker Committee from a FHC (Lagos division). The Lagos division of FHC cited an order it earlier issued barring PDP from holding the Convention. This order was mischievous because nobody was in the know of that order except Sheriff - who sought the order in his capacity as Ali Modu Sheriff and was the respondent in his Capacity as PDP National Chairman. This opened floodgate of back and forth court orders in favor of and against both groups.
10. July 4, 2016 - Sheriff's group lodged a suit before Justice Okon Abang of FHC Abuja seeking for an order to stop PDP from holding a fresh Convention in August 17 in Portharcourt. They argued that their tenure is to expire in March 2018. This prayer was laughable because that NWC assumed office on March 30, 2012, with the tenure elapsing March 30, 2016. Despite the irrationality of the suit, Justice Abang granted their prayers on August 16 - the eve of the planned Convention. Irrespective, PDP Mainstream obtained an order from a FHC Portharcourt to proceed with the planned Convention.
11. August 17, 2016 - The D-Day of the National Convention in Portharcourt, delegates already in Portharcourt, but men of Nigeria Police Force were deployed to condone off the venue to stop the Convention from holding. This was when PDP members became convinced that an unseen hand (allegedly the ruling APC FG) was behind Sheriff. To avoid a lacuna, PDP NEC held an emergency meeting to extend Makarfi Committee by 12 months. That is, the life of the Committee was to terminate on August 17, 2017.
NOTE: Wike was just a 1¼ month Governor. Himself, Governor Ayo Fayose (Ekiti) and Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta) were literally the most viscous voices against the Sheriff faction. As usual, Wike was very much responsible for most of the logistics to keep the PDP afloat. Mainstream PDP members were appreciative of Wike and queued behind him.
12. September 29, 2016 - Edo PDP and its candidate Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu became the first casualties of the crisis. It came about because Sheriff group fielded Mathew Iduoriyekemwem as factional candidate who was in real sense working for the APC at the State's governorship election. Despite this internal sabotage and distraction, the PDP led by Chief Dan Orbih gave a good showing by polling 253, 173 votes (66k votes short of victory).
13. November 26, 2016 - Ondo PDP and Eyitayo Jegede became the second to suffer from the internal crisis. Despite enjoying incumbency, PDP polled a meagre 150,380 votes. Though the performance was disappointing, it is understandable because PDP spent more time in the Court of Appeal against the Sheriff group which had Chief Jimoh Ibrahim as candidate than on the field. Like in the case or Edo, Jimoh Ibrahim was working for APC.
TIMELINE OF PDP CHAIRMANSHIP POST 2015: THE ROLE OF NYESOM WIKE
1. May 20, 2015 - Adamu Muazu resigned ad PDP Chairman after a disastrous outing at the 2015 General election. Prince Uche Secondus, the Deputy Chairman stepped up in acting capacity. He was supposed to act until August 20, 2015 at most, and pave way for a new Chairman from the Northeast to complete the tenure - he refused.
NOTE: As at that time, Nyesom Wike was not a Governor, neither was he a member of NEC.
2. December 15, 2015 - Alhaji Ahmed Gulak obtained a FCT High Court judgement sacking Uche Secondus and mandated the PDP to appoint a new Chairman from Northeast zone within 14 days. It orders Gulak to takeover PDP leadership if PDP flout the order.
3. January 28, 2016: Ultimatum expired, Gulak stormed PDP Secretariat in company of DOYIN OKUPE and some aides of former President Goodluck Jonathan to proclaim himself the new PDP National Chairman.
4. January 29, 2016 - PDP Governors led by Governor Olusegun Mimiko (PDP Governors Forum Chairman & Governor of Ondo State) stepped in. They chided Secondus for not abiding by the FCT court order. They asked to handover to Prof. Wale Oladipo, the National Secretary.
NOTE: That was the first time post-2015 that PDP Governors would be involved in the leadership process of the Party. Nyesom Wike was barely seven months in his first term as governor.
@abdullahayofel I think I will disagree with you on this one, Rufai never said anything insulting to Mr Jesutega, in my own opinion, I don't think I see anything that should warrant that man heating up the way he did
The only institution who has the power to declare a fake certificate is Chicago state university, not PDP or any court of law, or social media noisemakers it is what they confirmed to be authentic is what court will uphold, and they've confirmed Bola Tinubu's certificate to be authentic. Anything outside that is nonsense and mischief.
Retweet if you believe Tinubu will be the President of Nigeria till 2031.