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Some Lagosians living in Victoria Island have never been to Ikeja - Buhari



Some Lagosians living in Victoria Island have never been to Ikeja - Buhari

President Buhari while receiving delegates of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) at the presidential villa in Abuja on Thursday February 6, stated that some Lagosians living in Victoria Island have never visited Ikeja.

 

The corps members who were led by Minister of youth and sports development, Sunday Dare and the director-general of the NYSC Ibrahim Shehu, came to thank the president for increasing their monthly allowance from N19,800 to N33,000.

 

In the statement released by President Buhari's spokesperson Femi Adesina, the Nigerian leader commended former Head of State Yakubu Gowon for introducing the scheme which he said has made youths to know the country better and understand other cultures. 

 

He said; 

 

“People come from far and wide; some from Victoria Island in Lagos have not even been to Ikeja. They now find themselves in Daura and other parts of the country. Whenever I go to my town, I get in touch with members; some of them from Lagos, some from Port Harcourt

“Whenever I meet General Gowon up till today, I thank him for initiating the NYSC. It is a nationalist and patriotic thinking that led to the development of the scheme."

by Linda Ikeji at 08/02/2020 12:36 AM
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GK about 4 years ago

Oga turn your dodo.

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

Isn’t the airport in Ikeja? How do the rich ones in VI fly then? Mumu

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

They should cancel the NYSC shit, a lot of young lives has been lost on it. What a nonsense talk.

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

nationalism and patriotism are just some in a bunch of other mental poison to the human mind and psych. These notions just like religion andanwere racism were invented to control goat sheeple like some in the comments.

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

Don’t know about now but growing up in surulere had family that lived on the island that never visited the mainland unless they were traveling out

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

Correct, just like some people living in Daura have never been to Katsina State. Same for some people living in Ibadan have never been to Oyo State. Next level joor.

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Emmanuel Kachi about 4 years ago

What's the relevance of his message. Please liBers of APC supporters please school me. #kachi

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Annie about 4 years ago

@kachi, go to school, you need it.

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

That is not possible... how do they go for hajj?

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

Dem this one dey craze ni. Airport dey banana island ni. Are we sure this ppl are not Malian corper

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The END about 4 years ago

🤣🤣🤣😂😆😭.. Marlian corpers.

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Samuel about 4 years ago

When you meet a mumu president and a dullard graduate. Wat becomes of the country?

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

so how that one take concern you?

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Aminu Abdulraman about 4 years ago

I think dey just showing mafuski stuffs

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Eriba ola about 4 years ago

This story shouldn't be over flogged, the president 's statement is an 'oxymoron'. He was trying to lay an emphasis on the fact that NYSC has made a lot of youth to travel far beyond their imagination. If not For the scheme, a lot of youth wouldn't have travelled out if Lagos. I remembered there was once a corp member that was posted to Bauchi, he used his 'allawee' to settle someone and decided to run back to Lagos. Also, the other day I met a youth staying at Shomolu that confessed that he has never been to Ajah. So either way the President is correct.

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The END about 4 years ago

Thanks for schooling us Eriba. Now I understand.

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Akinola Gbeminiyi about 4 years ago

.... Even when making examples, still be right

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

Thank you for this. What you've said is exactly what i understood from the statement but as usual, Nigerians don't read to understand. They read to respond. Thank you for educating them

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Crush about 4 years ago

What is oxymoron on this? The statement has nothing to do with oxymoron. Though I know it's a figure of speech.

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Ok about 4 years ago

I am lost... What was he driving at? #Poor corpers that had to sit through this brain draining speech.

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John about 4 years ago

Mumu President no be Ikeja International Airport Dey?

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

You are wrong. It's in Western Germany. Lazy youth.

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

So it is everyone that goes to airport, right? I'm sure you sef never use airport.

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

What exactly is the basis for this premise?? 🤔

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

International Airport and Local Airport are in ikeja,Lagos State capital city?..this fulani President self..lol

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

So na every body dey go airport there.

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Richard about 4 years ago

Speculation, something this administration u Is always against is uses frequently by buhari. Hypocritical bastards

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

Laugh wan kill person here. Infact, l tire. Another one coming from Addis Ababa...... loading, keep watching...

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

It is an exploitative scheme used by the retrogressive, lethargic, far less educated and backward north to develop itself at the expense of the rest of the country. It was purposed to enslave the vibrant youth of the country. If it was the rest of Nigeria benefiting, aboki president would not have been so thankful. #BreakUsAwayFromTheUselessNorth.

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

So they don't fly international wing? Old man ur mumu na eternity

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

Please what does this message have to do with the economy or insecurity of this nation?

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Joshua about 4 years ago

Nigeria's biggest failure is Buhari

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

THE FULANI AS THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA: I have lived in the UK for more than 10 years and during my years of sojourn here, I have been privileged to meet people from different ethnic groups in Nigeria hustling for survival on the streets of London but I am yet to meet one Fulani man hustling like other Nigerians on the streets of London. I have met Yorubas, Angas, Itsekiris, Ijaws, Biroms, Tivs, Igbos, Urhobos, Ibibios etc but yet to meet one person from one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria hustling for survival like ordinary Nigerians in London. Those that managed to come here to study, came through government scholarship and went back to Nigeria to become "big men" in their states or Abuja. It had appeared that they can't flourish outside Nigeria. The only place I was privileged to meet not one but many of them was inside the Nigerian High Commission in London where they are surviving on state funds and corruption. A female friend probably reading this post recently asked me why I always focus on the Fulani tribe in Nigeria and I told her I am focused on them because they are the major problem with Nigeria. They are the major reason why Nigeria refused to move forward. For instance, they are the ones that claim to be disadvantaged in education and needed special concession like quota to leverage on other Nigerians in education. However, on graduation, the same quota deficient graduate that barely made it through school would be found heading important government parastatals or accelerated promotion in the police or military at the expense of better qualified Nigerians from other ethnic groups. This is rewarding mediocrity. Secondly, everyone knows that the reason why Nigerians have continued to suffer under this contraption is because of the laziness and wittiness of the Fulani man who swore that Nigeria must remain as one at their level even when there is a consensus with most of the ethnic nationalities that Nigeria can fare better as separate nations. Thirdly, we had the National Political Reform under OBJ and the National Conference under GEJ. It may interest you to know that the only tribe that kicked against its implementation is the Fulani ethnic group because it will no longer give them access to the Niger Delta oil where they get free money to fund their lazy and almajiri lifestyles. In other words their selfishness is the reason why we can't move forward. Furthermore, it was the total reliance and unalloyed hope the Fulanis have on the Niger Delta oil where they get free and illegal monies to fund their lifestyles that pushed Nigeria into the dark waters of poverty, under development and now they have added terrorism into our national lexicon, thus Nigeria has become the most terrorised country in the world at present. Can anyone be confident enough to tell me what the Fulanis brought to the table of nation building except pain, disaster, religious fundamentalism since 1914. All the worst riots we have witnessed in Nigeria took place in Northern Nigeria. Terrorism came from Northern Nigeria. Fulani herdsmen mainly from Futa Toro causing havoc all over the nation came from Northern Nigeria. Religious riots that wasted thousands of Nigerians came from Northern Nigeria. We can't conduct a reliable census today because the North under the control of the Fulani always came up with disputed figure so as to keep rigging elections to her favour. We don't have a reliable national data to keep tab of crimes and everyone coming into Nigeria because the Fulanis have open border policy in the North where their brothers flock into Nigeria unperturbed, undisturbed, unmolested and undocumented. What exactly did these people bring to the table of nationbuilding except pain, destruction, starvation, murder and darkness? The only way Nigeria can make progress is as divided components and sub nations. This is the truth everybody knows yet only few embrace it out of fear of the unknown. The black man has proven to be the laziest ethnic group in the world because of our refusal to engage the future positively and embrace change. We work with our hands not with our brains. There is an Igbo Proverb that says that "It is better to look for a black goat while it is day for the night comes when no one can see". Jesus Christ also commands us to "Work while it is day for the night comes when no one should work". The Fulanis have succeeded in pushing our people overseas while taking up the available spaces in our public and civil service where they continued to replicate corruption, mediocrity, stagnation and unproductivity. More than 100 years experiment is enough to convince us that we are in the wrong marriage yet our people think that we will overthrow the Fulani ideology and religious worldview through prayer. Where has it happened in any part of the world? No where have I seen foolishness like in the Nigerian prayer industry populated by ignorant black folks who refused to seek knowledge and embrace the challenge of nation-building. The ascendency of mediocrity in our body politics is what is enabling murderous elements like Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen and a notorious killer named BUHARI phenomena to be unleashed on the innocent Nigerian victims as we know it today

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

omo you vex. i have met them fulanis in london...yes but itis money that has kept them thus far.in the uk...the truth be told the yoruba have made the fulani's thrive successfully. it is time each man for himself.

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Adetola Odukoya about 4 years ago

Sincerly you have totally and articulated and properly diagnosed and summarized the Nigerian problem

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

So how does this issue solve d many problems Nigerians are passing through. Mtcheww.

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Hrm Paul about 4 years ago

Well said God bless you, u dey make sense simply put this people are animals and barbarians dat should be pushed to the desert to dwell we av noting in common with dem

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John about 4 years ago

You try with your elaboration. It won’t change the fact that Nigeria is a messed up country. That breaking apart will happen soon. They spent billions of dollar for oil exploration in the north and luckily enough they found it. So they can thrive and feed on that. Revolution is coming soon it will hit us like thunderstrike.

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

Summation- Monkey Dey work, FulaBAboon Dey chop! Dey no Dey hustle o, because they divide all of our revenue amongst themselves. They are lazy and self entitled.

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

You are one of the most brilliant minds I have read on this blog for long now. Please if you are from the East like me, I want to give you an assurance that Biafra is coming soon. We will be needing brilliant minds like you to help build our future nation. The Fulanis have drawn us back with them in this contraption called Nigeria. True, we may not have oil in the East, but God has given us one of the best minds amongst black Africans in the world. We will use our God given knowledge to propel accelerated development. They type no one has seen before. Yes, we can and we will do it. We will also seek no enermity with former Nigerian compatriots but build a mutually beneficial diplomatic structures. Thanks brother and may God bless your work.

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Don Squadron about 4 years ago

Increment of Salary is the good thing Buhari has done so far. Thank You Mr President for that, still step up Ur Promises.#umu Igbo fua onwe unu na anya#.

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Kenneth about 4 years ago

This increment that is making these youths behave abnormally, is the president paying it from his own pocket? You are given what belongs to you and behaving as if is news.

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Offor Stella about 4 years ago

What he saying again

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Oskirin about 4 years ago

I wonder how some dude here pass comprehension in waec,neco or jamb. Tank u PMB 4 re-echoing d Noble ideas of gowon.

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

This goat keeps talking off point

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

Why are we worshipping Bihari like small god..he is doing his job..this money belongs to Nigeria and not his money ,we are worshiping him why..we should not worship any Governments officials..this is our money

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

It’s true o, I have a relative in VI that has never been to Ikeja. She’s only one month old though ;)

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

Source Wikipedia quote "Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA)[3] (IATA: LOS, ICAO: DNMM) is an international airport located in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, and is the major airport serving the entire state. The airport was initially built during World War II and is named after Murtala Muhammed, the fourth military ruler of Nigeria." So rich VI residence who fly into MMA Ikeja have never been to ikeja? Lol..

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Anonymous about 4 years ago

He is using idea to bribe and soften the minds of the gullible and hungry coppers to vote for him if possible next time.

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