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A NATION IS NOT SAVED BY THE MAJORITY, BUT BY THE FEW WHO DECIDE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. In 1985, IBB was the President of Nigeria, and students then were told that they were the leaders of tomorrow. Twenty-five years later, the same man said unequivocally in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service that the youths are not prepared to take political leadership in the country. This is the unfortunate mindset of the ‘Baby Boomers’ of Nigeria (those presently in their 60s and 70s), and it is what has informed the pattern of leadership succession in the ruling party, so much so that a 60-year old is the national youth leader of the party. But don’t they have the right to think this way? Why would this not be so, when the future of the youths has been mortgaged for personal gain; when their minds have been denied the advantages of instruction and enlightenment because of the wreckage, neglect and rape of the education sector for almost three decades? When their value system has bee...

Hon. Member House Of Representatives Hon. Lado Suleja Representing Suleja, Gurara And Tafa Federal Constituency On Saturday 15th July, 2017 Received The North-Central Of All Progressive Congress (APC) Youth Award Amidst A Commendation Of His Antecedents, Exemplary Leadership Qualities With Track Record In Service Of His Electorates, The State, Party And Country At Large.  Others Who Also Received The Award At The Award Ceremony Chaired By Senator Ahmad Bola Tinubu, The Father Of APC Includes : The Executive Governor Of Niger State Abubakar Sani Bello (Lolo), Chief Audu Ogbeh Minister Of Agriculture, Alh. Tanko Almakura Of Nasarawa State Etc..  : Also Speaking At The Event, The Chairman Of The Occasion Bola Tinubu Described Hon. Lado Suleja As A "Remarkable Servant Of The People, Selfless Individual" And Someone Who Is Irrevocable Committed To The Development Of His Constituency And State In General.  Tinubu Lauded And Expressed Confidence That If A Legislatu...

Kaduna Restoration Group (KRG) on a courtesy visit to Senator (Dr) Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Senator representing Kano Central Senatorial Zone where matters of State and National interest were explicitly discussed Copyright: IKE' BLOG.       All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this Blog Page, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from IKE'S BLOG. CONTACT: okoroikechukwu031@gmail.com

To all my Brothers out there Agitating for Biafra, i want to urge you  to visit the National War Museum Umuahia, Abia State so you can learn more about the civil war if your parents have not really told the whole story. Over a million innocent citizens mostly children, were killed because  their leader made them embark on a journey of no return. Visit National War Museum and see for selves pictures of dying biafra children, weapons used during the war and pictures of innocent emaciated children who died of kwashiokor. My question is simple; What if Ojukwu had listened to  advice and decided not to start the war? what if Gen Gowon had acted on the allegations  of the pogrom initiated by Ndigbo? TO all Biafra agitators please; Note that Nigerians cannot afford to go through another civil war, for it was a very bad experience thanks to those who lived to tell the story.... The holy book tells us that though we thread upon snakes and scorpions ...

Despite receiving only limited funds from international organisations, Uganda has given a warm welcome to refugees. At just 37 years of age, Joyce has seen it all. She's stared into the abyss of human cruelty and lived to tell the story. In September 2016, soldiers stormed her home in Kajo Keji, South Sudan, which she shared with her husband and their children. They tied her husband's arms behind his back and stabbed him multiple times until he lay dead. A single mother with nine children to feed, Joyce decided to run away - to escape the violence in her native land. So she joined the hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese people fleeing southwards to Uganda. But although the trek to Uganda by foot has reduced her risk of being shot dead or raped by soldiers or rebels, her life is still a painful daily struggle. She still lacks basic supplies, including food, water or shelter. And she's not alone, thousands upon thousands of South Sudanese refugees in U...

On the 50th anniversary of its bloody civil war, Nigeria is struggling to prevent another. On August 1, 1966, after the collapse of last-ditch attempts by Nigeria's power brokers to prevent the impending civil war, Lieutenant Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu said only one thing would make the rebels cease fire: "that the Republic of Nigeria be split into its component parts; and all southerners in the North be repatriated to the South and that Northerners resident in the South be repatriated to the North". On May 30, 1967, Oxford-educated Ojukwu declared Biafra an independent state in the southeast of the country. On July 6, 1967, civil war broke out in Nigeria, which claimed more than a million lives in just three years. Fast-forward to June 2017. Irked by renewed secessionist calls from the same Igbo ethnic group, a coalition of northern groups issued a notice, demanding "all Igbo currently residing in any part of Northern Nigeria to relocate within three mo...

Barely 3 months after the sudden demise of Senator Isiaka Adeleke From Osun West Senatorial District, Hon Abdullahi Muhammadu Wamako Representing Kware/Wamakko Federal constituency also joins his Ancestors. The death has occurred of a House member representing Kware/Wamakko federal constituency in Sokoto state, Hon. Abdullahi Muhammadu Wamakko. A cousin to Sentor Aliyu Wamakko, the ‎50 year old member died in an Abuja hospital after a brief illness.  Wamakko was before his death, the vice chairman of House Committee on Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) and a member of several other committees.  He is survived by one wife and five children. C opyright: IKE' BLOG.       All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this Blog Page, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from IKE'S BLOG. CONTACT: okoroikechukwu031@gmail.com

Enugu State former Chief Judge, Innocent Umezuluike, was on Friday arraigned before Enugu High Court over alleged reception of N10 million in donations from a litigant in a pending and concluded civil matter he presided over. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned him before Justice Anthony Onovo on a one-count charge of using his office to confer corrupt and unfair advantage. The N10 million donations, EFCC said was made by Arthur Eze, the Chief Executive Officer of Oranto Petroleum Ltd in February 2014 at the launch of Mr. Umezuluike’s book titled, ‘ABC of Contemporary Land Law in Nigeria’. According to the EFCC, the said money was drawn from the account of Oranto Petroleum Ltd and paid into Mr. Umezuluike’s Zenith Bank Account. Arguing the matter in court, EFCC lawyer, Wahab Shittu, said that the action is contrary to Section 19 of the Independent and Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act (Laws of the Federation) 2000. Umezuluike pleade...

The sudden U-turn by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to halt action on efforts by voters in Kogi West to recall Senator Dino Melaye came as a result of the Senate’s decision to probe the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). After a meeting earlier today, INEC decided to freeze the recall effort, citing legal complications.  Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chairman The sudden U-turn by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to halt action on efforts by voters in Kogi West to recall Senator Dino Melaye came as a result of the Senate’s decision to probe the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). After a meeting earlier today, INEC decided to freeze the recall effort, citing legal complications. From 2007 to 2012, INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, served as TETFUND’s Executive Secretary. His time at the Fund was marked by a series of allegations of corruption against him. “It is not an accident that, once the Senate threatened to investigate TETFun...

MASSOB was responding to a letter by the northern youths to the UN asking the international body to brand the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) a terrorist group. The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has said that it was not going to blame northern youths for writing United Nations as it described many of them as “illiterates” and “charlatans” who cannot differentiate between terrorism and self-determination. MASSOB was responding to a letter by the northern youths to the UN asking the international body to brand the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) a terrorist group. MASSOB, who reacted in a statement by its national director of information, Comrade Edeson Samuel, further said that the letter by the Arewa youths is nothing it should concern itself with as it was made by confused and directionless people. The statement read in part, “MASSOB under the leadership of Mazi Uchenna Madu has condemned the utterances from Arewa youths aga...

National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), an association made up of retired military generals and other Christian elders on Thursday made alarming revelation, alleging that the real problem Nigeria presently faces is the launch of Jihad in the country. “The real problem with the country is that Jihad has been launched in Nigeria and Islamists that have been interfering in the governance of the country using ‘Taqiyya’ (approved deception) as ‘Stealth/Civilisation Jihad’ and Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen as violent Jihad, are relentless in their pursuit of eradicating democracy in Nigeria,” the group stated. NCEF made this claim following a meeting on Thursday in Abuja where it appraised unfolding events in the country. In attendance at the meeting were General Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), Elder Solomon Asemota, Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro (retd.), Gen. Zamani Lekwot (retd.), Elder Moses Ihonde, Elder Shyngle Wigwe, and Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, among others. According to NCEF, Nigeri...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has alleged that the British Government has concluded plans to have Kaduna State Governor Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has alleged that the British Government has concluded plans to have Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, become next Vice President when President Muhammadu Buhari is declared dead. The former minister made this claim in response to the visit of British former Prime Minister, Tony Blair to the Kaduna State Governor on Thursday, where he pledged to support the state deliver good governance. But Fani-Kayode, in a series of tweets on his twitter handle, alleged that Blair was in Kaduna State to convey British approval of the plan to have El-Rufai installed as the next VP and eventually become President at the expiration of their administration’s first tenure. He said, “When Buhari is declared dead the plan is for Osinbajo to appoint Nasir El-Rufai as his VP. Tony Blair has come to Kaduna to convey...