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To Nigeria's new Minister of Power, Works And Housing

It is because we are lagging behind by decades that I write you in all 
urgency. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We 
have no time to waste.

There are just a few matters I will like to press. I am certain you have
 the capacity to deliver; I just wish to emphasize and stress what we 
need delivered.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">N<strong>igeria Has Always Been For The Rich</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nigeria
 has for the past 30 years, 14 years of PDP godfathers (IBB, Gusau, 
Abdulsalami, Dangote and co) and 16 of PDP sons (OBJ, GEJ, Dangote and 
co) served to provide what facilities and infrastructure it may, for the
 advantage of the rich and cabal and to the extortion of the poor. We 
have highways built by the state planned to have toll gates to tax the 
poor commuters. We have phone companies provided by the Obasanjo regime 
that tax Nigerian customers triple what their peers pay abroad. We 
created a cement monopoly that charges triple per bag than the world 
average, making it impossible for us to own our own homes. Our new cars 
in Nigeria are sold at above the costs in all neighboring African countries and in the West. I can go on and on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If They Will Extort Us, We Don't Want Them</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One
 thing is providing facilities and the other is extorting the masses 
with these provisions. Indeed you can provide all the infrastructure of 
modernity, but if these are provided as a means to covet state fiances 
and set traps and siphons to eternally extort the masses, then in truth 
the masses would rather be in darkness and without homes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is 
not poverty or the lack of power and houses that is behind Boko Haram, 
MEND, Ombatse and Radio Biafra and other terror organisations, no, as I 
have written expansively on in the past, it is Institutional Disenfranchisement:
 the robbing of poor Paul to feed rich peter, the impoverishing and 
deportation of the poor to pave wealth and comfortable accommodation for
 the rich that is behind the unrest. Maiduguri peoples lived in huts 
without power and were satisfied. Their problem did not come from the 
lack of, but the wickedness of the extortionist cabal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What I am 
saying is; please build with 90% of the money allocated, for the poor, 
by the poor, with the poor and for the poor; who are the majority of 
Nigerians. Create opportunities for local and small business entry-level
 power generation so Nigerians do not have to bow to the Cabal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>How Come There Is No Public Housing In Nigeria's Large Cities?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It
 is a shame that across Nigeria you do not have housing for the poor. 
This is called "Projects," Poor or Public Housing in the US. I wrote 
about this in early 2014 and again to you in August of this year.
 Public housing is NOT "affordable housing." I am not aware of any 
public housing complexes in the entire large states of Nigeria like 
Lagos, Kano, Port Harcourt and Abuja where these are most critically 
needed. I may be wrong. That last such public housing complex I knew of 
was 1004, built decades ago.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The idea of humanity and 
civilization is that you cannot keep the poor far away from the centers 
of big cities and force them to commute for miles to wealthy paradises, 
to work to clean and cook and back without expecting social instability 
and terror. The poor must have areas where they too are accommodated in 
all cities for equality and fairness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In America, in the middle of
 Manhattan, you have Projects. Projects are public housing complexes 
with government stabilized and substituted rents. You only pay rent 
based on your reported earnings and even live for free if you earn 
nothing. This is not done in the civilized world because they are 
wealthy, but because they understand the ABCs of society and prevention 
of more costly crime and terror.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Giving an example, I am not sure 
where the menial earners who will be working in Eko Atlantic city will 
reside? Are there poor housing complexes there? If not, do we plan for 
them to commute from out of the city to and from work every day? This 
would be criminally wrong. We must demolish houses within Eko Atlantic 
if so and raise a few Public housing complexes for moral and social 
progress. In Abuja and Lagos, we must demolish within rich neighborhoods
 to erect Public housing for the poor, otherwise our CHANGE tenure would
 come to an end with us only succeeding in further expanding the 
financial and physical distance between the wealthy and the poor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>I Don't Think There Is Anywhere To Deport Nigeria's Poor To</strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This
 is Nigeria now. There will always be poor...and there is no where to 
deport the poor to, unless Togo and Ghana, so we have no choice but to 
embrace them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We must treat the rich and poor equally or else we are destroyed. <i>Leviticus <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_776927472" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">19:15</span></span> "'Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.</i><em> </em><br /><em>"...Those
 who came before you were destroyed because if a rich man among them 
stole, they would let him off, but if a lowly person stole, they would 
carry out the punishment on him. By Allaah, if Faatimah Bint (daughter 
of) Muhammad were to steal, I would cut off her hand.</em>” [Al-Bukhaari]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Think
 about the real reason why the Chibok girls have lived so `long in 
Sambisa; and think about the Boko Harm dead and may the Lord lead you. 
We will watch you and help you make Nigeria the best it can be for us 
all.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As you build Nigeria, please think of the poor and utilize 
the poor who voted for Buhari and created your path to this position. 
Please do not use contractors who have in the passed for instance, used 
200xs the money, lets say $900,000 to build two boreholes that should 
not cost more than $3000.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Again, "even though you are not an engineer," I trust your capacity to deliver. Nigeria will not spoil.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">God bless you and grant you success.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Peregrino Brimah; <a href="http://ends.ng/" target="_blank">http://ENDS.ng</a> [Every Nigerian Do Something] Email: drbrimah@ends.ng </span></span><wbr></wbr><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Twitter: @EveryNigerian</span></span></div>
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To Nigeria's new Minister of Power, Works And Housing

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Photos: Two women who twerked against a man in a petrol station wanted by police for 3rd degree sexual abuse

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Two
 women are being hunted by DC Metropolitan Police Department for 
‘twerking’ against a man in a petrol station in Washington DC on October
 7.
In the YouTube video released by the police, the pair, who are accused 
of third degree sexual abuse, are seen touching and ‘twerking’ against 
the man. When he attempts to move away, one of the women continues to 
harass him.
Police are currently offering a reward of up to £1,000 for anyone able 
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Photos: Two women who twerked against a man in a petrol station wanted by police for 3rd degree sexual abuse

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Photos: Nigerian contingent to African Union standby force returns

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The Nigerian Contingent of the African Union Standby Force (ASF) 
consisting of 41 officers and soldiers arrived the country on today 
after a 2week intensive training in Peace-Keeping at the South African 
Army Combat Training Centre in Lohatlan. Receiving the contingent on 
behalf of the Chief of Defence Staff Major General Abayomi Gabriel 
Olonisakin, Commodore Uche Onyia explained that the ASF is a unifying 
and standing force that has the mandate to respond to insecurity and 
emergency situations in African continent. Continue to see more 
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I have no intention whatsoever to run for any office again in Nigeria -Babangida

In a statement released today, Babangida described the reports as 
ridiculous. The statement in part reads<br />
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"I have heard whispers from different political arenas that one of the 
rationales for the rebranding of PDP was to prepare me for future 
elections in 2019. How ridiculous! God’s willing; by 2019 I will be 78 
years old. If I called it quits in 2011, why would PDP contemplate 
fielding a 78 years old man in a presidential election in a country that
 parades very vibrant men and women of lesser age? I have no intention 
whatsoever to run for any office again in Nigeria. I will consistently 
pray to Almighty Allah to grant me good health and sound mind to watch 
my dearest beloved country grow from strength to strength during my 
lifetime and beyond. I wish to make some clarifications concerning the 
invitation extended to me on the scheduled PDP Rebranding Conference 
slated for Thursday, 12 November, 2015, aimed at repositioning the party
 after its poor outing at the last elections. While I welcome the 
invitation to the event as a mark of respect as one of the founding 
fathers, I want to be excused on the grounds that I have long bid bye to
 partisan politics. Four years ago at an elaborate event at the 
Transcorp Hilton Hotels Abuja, I announced my retirement from partisan 
politics after my failed attempt to contest for President and having 
attained the gracious age of 70, in a society where life expectancy 
stands at a ridiculous 47 years. In appreciating what Allah has done for
 me in life, seeing me through many challenges, stabilizing me during 
periods of tribulations, and safeguarding me through the thick and thin 
of political risks, I did state at that event that Journalists would not
 push me around again. Attaining the age of 70 in 2011 was to me a great
 accomplishment for which I remain eternally grateful to Almighty Allah 
and my family who have shown tremendous support and encouragement 
throughout my political trajectory. Since 2011 till date, I have been 
playing my role as an elder statesman and “consultant-in-chief” to 
political office seekers and other like-minds who want my input in their
 aspirations. At 74, I feel a deep sense of fulfillment in my new role 
as non-partisan elder statesman and a patriot; available to all 
categories of persons without the burgeoning label of any political 
party or affiliation. I have many friends and associates in the two 
dominant political parties; APC and PDP, and numerous other smaller 
political parties. At this stage of my political journey, I want to be 
able to interact and socialize with them without being branded 
“anti-party”. It is on the score of this that I have elected to turn 
down this request to participate in the rebranding conference of the PDP
 in a partisan manner. My fulfilment in life is further bolstered by the
 emerging scenario that is evident in our present political reality. 
First, the idea of a two-party system which has always been my desire; 
and the stack reality that, incumbents can be defeated at various levels
 of election as a function of growing awareness and consciousness on the
 part of the electorate. These to me, present interesting dimensions in 
our political evolution as a country grappling with so many challenges".</blockquote>
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