The Nigeria of today is in a very chaotic state, with many questions left unanswered. The people are feeling the heat and many are ready to go beyond sitting back and watching events unfold.
Below are 21 quotes that tell a great deal of how critical the situation in Nigeria is.
1. "Extremely rich churches must pay tax"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
The Chief Missioner Ansar-ud-Deen Nigeria, Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Ahmad, has said that religious leaders in churches and mosques are answerable to God and the government.
2. "If Buhari allows Rivers state to explode, Nigeria will be destroyed"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Senator Lee Meaba represented Rivers South-East in the 6th Senate has urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) must desist from trying to take over Rivers state by force.
3. “You are free to join any political party, we need to be involved so that we can bring light into the darkness"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
The Spiritual Leader of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has stated that members are free to join any political party of their choice.
4. "Buhari can’t secure lives and properties of Nigerians"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
With continued killings in Southern Kaduna killings, Fulani herdsmen attacks and kidnapping in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said the Federal Government has not been able to live up to its primary responsibility of securing lives and property.
5. "In the new Nigeria we shall name streets, buildings and airports after you"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Chief Fani-Kayode said on Sunday, January 15, that Major Kaduna Nzeogwu a junior army officer of mainly of Igbo extraction who led a coup in 1966 is a martyr and that his death he will not forget.
6. "In another 20 to 30 years, our oil won’t be as precious as it is today"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said Nigeria must move fast to diversity its economy as the nation cannot continue to depend on oil for income.
7. "We will shine for other nations to follow"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Words said by Donald Trump at his innauguration, as 45th President of America.
8. "All the villages that have suffered these attacks are villages that are either 100 or 90 per cent Christians"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Catholic diocese of Kafancha, Kaduna state has reiterated the Catholic church's statement that the ongoing killings in Southern Kaduna is a form of religious cleansing by the Fulani herdsmen.
9. "Any Fulani herdsman that just entered by mistake, Kill him, Kill Him. Cut his head. If they are busy killing Christians and nothing is happening, we will kill them and nothing will happen”
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Fiery senior pastor of the Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has emerged in which he asked his church members to deal ruthlessly with any Fulani herdsman whose mission is to attack him or the church.
10. "To the best of my knowledge, there was no casualty as the police merely employed minimal action"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
The Nigerian police have reacted to the claim that 11 pro-Biafra protesters were killed during the solidarity march for Donald Trump in Port Harcourt, River state.
11. "What’s wrong with going on vacation? Didn’t I go last year at the same time?”
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
The presidency has said there was nothing to worry over as he proceeds on a medical trip to the United Kingdom.
12. "Buhari lacks moral justification to send troops to Gambia"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
A lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra has said that President Muhammadu Buhari lack the justification to deploy Nigerian troops to Gambia.
https://www.naij.com/1083577-buhari-lacks-moral-justification-send-troops-gambia-nnamdi-kanus-lawyer.html
13. "Hello Mavrodi, you can't eat my money and go like that
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Nzu Treasure, an investor in the scheme has written to the support arm of MMM threatening to kill the founder of the Ponzi scheme, Sergey Mavrodi.
14. "There is no doubt that Buhari is not in the good books of the incoming US government"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Governor Fayose, has described the non-extension of invitation to Buhari to attend United States of America President-Elect, Donald Trump's inauguration as a clear signal that Buhari does not enjoy international relevance any more.
15. "Buhari, people are dying in your hands"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
The spiritual director of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, has said the change in Nigeria now under President Buhari-led administration was not the change the people bargained for.
16. "If a nobody contests against Buhari in 2019, Buhari will lose"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Ekiti state governor Ayodele Fayose has said that Nigerians do not need counselling to reject President Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2019 general elections.
17. “We agreed to remain within Nigeria but to demand and work for self-government and resource control for the Ijaw people"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Oweikeye Endoro a leading Ijaw activist has said the struggle for Ijaw advancement which was being driven by the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), is not about secession from Nigeria.
18. "The bombs were dropped on us thrice and there was no way a mistake could be made thrice"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Survivors of the IDP camp bombing, it was not a mistake as the Nigerian army claims.
19. "Buhari is our enemy"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau releasing an audio recording taking responsibility for the bomb attacks on University of Maiduguri in Borno state on Monday, January 16.
20. "Police has no right to check your phone"
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Dolapo Badmos who is the public relations officer of the Lagos state police command has said that no police has a right to go through an individual’s phone as it is a private property.
21. "A government that can not make any impression in the first two years, I am afraid, may not be able to make any at all."
Pressure in Nigeria: Christians, IPOB rage at Buhari, as Nigeria faces grave danger
Fayose, faulting the federal government’s claims that the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists have been technically defeated.
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