Nigeria's IGPs since 1999, with their states of origin:
Musiliu Smith (1999 - 2002) - Lagos (SW)
Mustafa Adebayo Balogun (2002 - 2005) - Osun (SW)
Sunday Ehindero (2005 - 2007) - Ondo (SW)
Mike Mbama Okiro (2007 - 2009) - Rivers (SS)
Solomon Arase (2015-2016) - Edo (SS)
Ibrahim Kpotun Idris (2016-2019) - Niger (NC)
Mohammed Adamu (2019-2021) - Nassarawa (NC)
Usman Alkali Baba (2021-) - Yobe (NE)
By this data, SW has produced 3 IGPs, all back to back when OBJ, from the SW, was president. NW has also produced 3 IGPs. SS and NC have produced 2 each, and SE 1. Until yesterday the NE had never produced an IGP.
So when someone tweets "Nigeria is done", because a geopolitical region that has never produced an IGP since 1999 finally produced 1, it begins to make you wonder what the rationale behind such a mindset is.
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So one of my guys had an interesting experience a few days ago.
He was driving with his wife into Abuja city on Kubwa expressway when a car overtook them. His wife screamed “follow that car” as her eyes caught its registration number.
My guy did not understand why she wanted him to follow the car. It was not as if they were driving in a convoy. So he ignored. She insisted, telling him the registration number looked familiar - like that of their car that was stolen early 2019.
That shook him to his senses and made him accelerate to catch up with the car. Lo and behold, it was his car. So he kept a safe distance behind the car, hoping they will pass through a police checkpoint. Luckily, the car exited the Berger bridge into the road going to Zone 6
Arab sheik and Nigerian politician both have $2bn to work with. This is how they use it:
Arab sheik builds metro, world class hospital, world class roads and bridges for $1.8bn, keeps $200m for himself and his family.
Nigerian politician builds “gather”, grades 10km of road, buys a few dying buses, transfers some coins to a few guys who are ready to die at short notice. Everything $100m. He keeps $1.9bn for himself and his family.
Trump’s decision to ban Nigerians from being able to settle in the US is the height of his hatred for whatever reason. For a country with statistics that shows it makes up the most educated immigrant group,one would have expected that those are the kind of people America attracts
Those “evangelical” Nigerians who support Trump must be doing it because they are citizens of Zion, because your support for somebody must be because he benefits your or your family. Trump does not tick any of these boxes. So what is your excuse?
This particular visa restriction was not because of people overstaying, he would have restricted us from B1/B2. He chose a visa category that will stop any Nigerian from legitimately settling in the US for as long as he is president.
There are people who believe that Nigeria’s new visa policy will make Africans flood Nigeria without control.
Nothing is farther from the truth than this. It is also not a chance to bring in Fulani herders😏
The policy is a visa-on-arrival policy.
It just removes the need for Africans who want to visit Nigeria going to an embassy or high commission to apply for a visa. They now just need to apply for a visa online, stating their airport of entry. They then wait for 48hrs to get an approval.
Once they get approval, they can then get on a plane and head to Nigeria. When they arrive at the international airport they specified in their online application, they will report at the visa-on-arrival desk where they will be issued a visa before going on their merry way.
I have every reason to believe a gang of online scam artists built factsdontlieng.com, the website that the PDP petitioners sited as the basis of their belief in an INEC server. I shall try to explain in this thread.
Go to factsdontlieng.com and view the page source. You will see a slew of commented out information. Copy the one I have highlighted and google it.
It should bring you result with pages made up of mostly "charity organizations" asking for money for about the same cause. Open each of them. Some of gone offline, others still there.
Ruga is a project that is geared towards ending the herdsmen/farmers crisis. It is a means of stopping open grazing. It Ruga settlements will be set up only in states that agree to voluntarily provide land for it. So far 12 states, all in the North, have volunteered land.
We asked for a lasting solution to the age long crisis between herdsmen and farmers, somebody has shown the political will to give it a try. Ruga will keep herdsmen within locations were they can rear their livestock, get professional agric service and send their kids toi school
You don't want to see cows roaming our streets anymore, this Ruga initiative is geared towards that. You have always asked for cows to be kept in a place. That is what Ruga is for.