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WAZOBIA AND THE NEW NIGERIA -Lauretta Onochie

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🇳🇬 "Wa" is the Yoruba word for "Come" "Zo" is the Hausa word for "Come" "Bia" is the Igbo word for "Come" 🇳🇬 Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo are the three dominant cultures and languages in the former three geo-political zones of Nigeria, namely, Western, Northern and Eastern Nigeria.  🇳🇬 The word "Come" in this context, denotes invitation to friendship and brotherliness. Invitation to share. Invitation to work together as a people.  🇳🇬 This explains the reason why our founding fathers had mutual respect for one another. They were selfless in their pursuit of National development as they saw the whole of Nigeria as their constituency.  🇳🇬 Nigerians moved freely to other parts of Nigeria to settle without fear of being attacked. My grand father who was the Hospital Administrator in Zaria told me that when they first arrived in the North, many southerners could not cope with the intense heat of

BRIEF ON WAI BRIGADE VOLUNTEERS

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Background On March 20, 1984, the then Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Major-General Babatunde Idiagbon launched a campaign on ‘National Consciousness and Enlightenment’  at the National Theatre, Igamu, Lagos which lifted the nation into a sphere of national awareness and prepared ground for the then Head of State, Commander-in-Chief, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari’s clarion call that we are all Nigerians and we must fight indiscipline. This formed the basis for the nationalism and patriotism campaign, the third phase of National Consciousness and Enlightenment – the WAI crusade which was launched in Jos, Plateau State, on Monday, August 27, 1984 with emphasis on the National Symbols – the Flag, the National Anthem, the Pledge and the Coat-of-Arms. The War Against Indiscipline (WAI) Brigade was formed therefore to give practical effect to the campaign against indiscipline. It is a uniformed voluntary association of able-bodied young men and women trained and ex

HOW NIGER DELTANS UNDER DEVELOPED NIGER DELTA - Lauretta Onochie

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People are asking where this money went to. I mean, the budgetary Allocation for the Ministry of Niger Delta for 8 years. With no completed project to show for it? New mansion in Abuja and overseas.  Additional wives Guns for small thinking Militants.  Ostentatious living Fat bank accounts Pot bellies  Other vices. Now, before you accuse other Nigerians of marginalising Niger Delta, ask Niger Delta raiders, oops, looters, sorry leaders, who presided over this Ministry. You can start with Chief Godsday Orubebe.  You can also ask ex Pres. Jonathan, why he looked the other way while projects, earmarked for the development of the area were either abandoned or not started at all.  Another question you can ask is why their children are studying overseas while all they have given you from the money they stole from you is a deadly weapon and bomb-detonating skills. While they live in their lavish homes in Abuja, you are crawling from one creek to anothe

CHRIS AGBOBU: BETWEEN FALSEHOOD AND STATESMANSHIP

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Chief Agbobu It beggars belief that at a time, the PDP is apologising to Nigerians for ruining the nation, chief Chris Agbobu of Delta state PDP and a former Minister of defence has chosen the path  of a lap dog at his age. What people do, especially as elder statesmen is to declare the truth. But not chief Agbobu. He has shirked his responsibilities to not only his local government, Aniocha South, but to Anioma nation and the whole of Delta state by taking a swipe at the well respected Chief Hyacinth Enuha who merely exercised his rights to free speech by holding to account the lack-lustre government in Delta state. Every citizen, both young and old, has the constitutional mandate to speak as they deem fit, regarding the services or lack of it, from those they have elected or as the custom is in Delta state, those that imposed themselves on the people of the state. That's all Chief Hyacinth Enuha did. Chief Enuha is a noble man, brave and courageous. It takes

NIGER DELTA LEADERS' STANCE POINTS TO CULPABILITY, CONNIVANCE AND GUILT - Lauretta Onochie

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💠 In the hey days of the insurgence of Boko Haram, under the morbidly corrupt and ineffective administration of Pres. Goodluck Jonathan, young Nigerians from the North East, formed themselves into what later came to be known as the Civilian Joint Task Force, JTF. 💠 They were propelled by the desire to be safe and patriotism drove them. At the time, they felt the Nigerian Army wasn't doing a great job. But today we now know why the Nigerian Army, that has now decapitated Boko Haram failed under Jonathan. 💠 President Jonathan and his more than forty thieves had presided over the looting of the defence funds meant to equip our Army to effectively fight the Boko Haram insurgents. 💠 The Civilian Joint Task Force were mostly farmers and hunters but other professionals whose towns and villages had been sacked, soon joined them and as they were more familiar with the terrain, they became an important part of the defeat of the Boko Haram under the more capable and dedicated Pre

HARDSHIP? YES. PRESIDENT BUHARI? YES PLEASE! - Lauretta Onochie

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👎🏼 Nearly a year ago, we said that we were in possession of information to the effect that ex President Jonathan, Diezani Madueke and many of their cohorts and PDP looters had allegedly budgeted an obscene amount of money for a media war on the trusted government of President Muhammadu Buhari. 👎🏼 A few months ago, the first shot was fired. It began from the North. Dr. Junaid Mohammed may not be part of this sinister orchestrated plan, but he played into their hands so they jumped on his tail. 👎🏼 After Dr. Junaid Mohammed's attack, came the Northern Christian Association of Nigeria. They ignorantly opined that all appointees of the President from the north were Moslems. It was a dead giveaway that the writer was not from the North. A Northerner would know most names in the north are common to both Christians and Moslems. It was a sponsored piece of nonsense that the leadership of Northern CAN took credit for. 👎🏼 They then employed the services of foreign medi

MILITARY BOMBARDS LAGOS, OGUN CREEKS. SCORES FEARED DEAD - Lauretta Onochie

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📛 35 thousand barrels a day. That's all we now get from oil.  We think we are punishing Pres. Buhari for daring to wage war against Corruption.  📛 Well, Human Rights organs across the world and even the Anmesty International, can attest to the fact, that for a Military man, President Buhari has exercised the patience of a saint by continually calling for dialogue. 📛 President Buhari has not only begged the Militants to down hostilities, he has appealed to them to embrace dialogue.  President Buhari has gone ahead to set up various avenues for dialogue and many militant groups took advantage of it to dialogue. 📛 In the month of June, in spite of the continued economic crimes by the Militants against our nation, the Federal government, States and Local Governments, shared ₦559.032. 70% of that June allocation was from non-oil sector –  📛 "We are proud of the development and we tell ourselves that this is the time to fund the budget of the Federal