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All hail Senator Ben Bruce, the twitter senate president

Buchoalfa:
E carry journalist go self. publicity stunts

he has a social media team naa

Trailblazer1:
When JIMI AGBAJE floored AMBODE at the debate, showing how intellectually incompetent Ambode is, you all choosed to ignore the handwriting on the wall but instead you deceitefully shouted "see his CV", kindly carry his CV and share to people on traffic

Ode shut up
Why is Jimi Agabjes intellect Not helping his pharmacy?
Its like saying FFk will be a better president than obasanjo was because he can speak

lawflec:
The recent statements from the chief executive of the fedration of Nigeria that he would not be assigning portfolios to all the nominees has stired the political atmosphere, I decided to take a holistic, moralistic and constitutional look at the whole thing.

First, constitutional speaking : section 147 sub(1) states that There shall be such offices as ministers of the government of the fedration as may be established by the president
. Sub2:Any appointment to the OFFICE OF THE MINISTER of the fedration shall, If the appointment is approved by the senate be made by the president
Sub3:any appointment under subsection 2 of this section shall be in conformity with section 14 of this constitution. With the caveat in keeping to the provision that a minister be appointed from. Each state of the fedration.

Subsection 1 as seen above established an OFFICE and not a ministerial slot. Subsection 2 consequently mandated that such appointment be confirmed by the senate, however it clearly stated that such appointment is into an OFFICE and into a cabinet with a ministerial office and not just to serve as a cabinet sitter. According to the president such ministers who would be having no portfolio would merely be cabinet members. Being a member of cabinet is one without an office, he is merely sitting to deliberate with others and is not going to partake in executing government functions, his position is less than that of a special adviser.

Morally speaking.. If such supposed cabinet members should all come from the south then it definitely would speak tribal of the present administration. The South East presently has no federal appointee (Real Igbo) If any of the prospective ministers from the East central should have no portfolio then Section 14(3) will equally be violated again.
Section 14(3) states that the composition. Of the government of Nigeria. Or its agencies shall reflect the federal character so as to promote national unity and command loyalty. If after December and easterners and southerners are yet to be fully accommodated then the government would be tribal and morally deprave.

The quick explanation given by Femi Adesina would have doused the tension and would have been a panacea to the seemingly lack of fund by government but the recent rebuttal. From the president speaks volume to the fact that he is really determined to humiliate the clear constitutional provisions and he is gladly supported by the chief legislator of the country.





Cc :lalasticlala.

You just beat around the bush, anyway can you grant me the permission to use your article elsewhere ?

lastpage:
Well, he fired Arabamen for being "too docile"?
What was Ambode expecting from a LASTMA chief? A THUG or Area Boy who will be flogging drivers and boxing them in the public?
This Ambode is turning out to be a Disaster, as the day goes by!


For the records, "Police/LASTMA" work is not Gra-Gra or exhibiting thuggery .... but sheer intelligence-led work.
No wonder our enforcement agencies behave like THUGS..... Ambode's type!


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what are you saying??
The LASTMA of today no dey do gra gra, na because dem no dey do gra gra na why the traffic worse .....

But kogi is not owing 50 billion naira

kokoA:
NSC should report directly to presidency.

The minister is part of the presidency.....

cricifixo:
It's a nice move since wehave the national sports commission

who controls the NSC.....is the president directly or.......it just floats like None... Every Parastatal has a ministry it reports to

himkers:
CBN and Finance ministry cannot even be compared..

They re totally different from each other

Its the same difference between the Police and the Ministry of Police affairs

The trent PD Paper......

kemback2220003:
Where is culture & national orientation.

Information, Communication Technology Lai Mohammed (Kwara)
maybe Aisha Alhassan (taraba)

Mrjangaweed, tonyebarcanista, firefire, descartes, hinwazaka, dearpreye, mizmycoli, severussnape, cr77, bettercreature Beremx ngeneukwenu, kestolove, kazmanbanjoko thisbuhari nigerianvenom truckpusher

Source done land

una never see anything Come and see Ile-Epo Bus-stop
Lagos Abeokuta express way

Firefire:
Lagosians dehumanized by 'Tunde Fashola. - Ajomale

How do you reason ...

The Lagos State APC chairman, Chief Henry Ajomale has reacted to insinuations the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode is weak and unable to handle Lagos like his predecessor. In an interview with Saturday Sun, he said
"I don’t agree. I believe Ambode is on track. What I can say is that the blame should be put on some Lagosians who are abusing the good nature of the governor. Ambode wanted to treat Lagosians like real human beings, and that is why it appears as if he has been taking it easy with Lagosians. His own belief is that Lagosians are mature people, and that government needs not to be too strict with them.
He thought that Lago­sians must have imbibed a new spirit, and a new reawakening carried over from Fasho­la’s era which would have ensured that ex­cellence put in place by Fashola continued, but most Lagosians through their actions have betrayed Ambode.
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Akinwunmi Ambode
"Speaking futher he said "this is very disappointing. See okada riders, they are back in large number going beyond where they were restricted to. They are now virtually everywhere, constituting an eyesore. What about the BRT lanes? The lanes have now become an all-comer affairs with danfo drivers, okada riders and even military officers in uniform shamelessly driving on BRT lanes.
Ambode wanted to be civil with Lago­sians, but now that some Lagosians have betrayed that trust, Lagosians will soon see a new Ambode. They will see the other side of him. Our party, APC, is not happy with these few misguided unpatriotic elements that are violating the laws.
Now with the cabinet in place, sanity will be restored. We will not fold our hands while hoodlums and other dubious elements constitute themselves into a nuisance.
Ambode has assured us about his inten­tion to deal with this problem. If you say you want to treat people as mature and adult men and women, but they prefer to be treat­ed like animals, then you apply the law on them. Lagos will continue to remain centre of excellence as it was under Tinubu and Fashola. Ambode will take Lagos to greater heights."

Henry Ajomale added that the governor will not turn Lagos into a jungle. In the next few weeks, Lago­sians will see a change.
http://www.mustardpressng.com/blog/akinwunmi-ambode-is-not-weak-he-wanted-to-treat-lagosians-like-humans-chief-henry-ajomale/

APC should give its ticket to the runner up of the Primaries

APC should simply disqualify audu and give the runner up its ticket

Sourced from Premium Times

Documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES have shown how the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, wrote to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, seeking the disqualification of the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Abubakar Audu, from contesting the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

Mr. Audu won the primary election of the APC on August 30 amidst calls by some Nigerians that fielding him as candidate was a negation of the ruling party’s anti-graft war.

In a letter dated September 21, 2015, with reference number EFCC/EC/SGF/03/59, and titled “F.R.N Vs Abubakar Audu & 1 other Charge No: FCT/CR/115/ 2013”, the EFCC chairman wrote to the secretary to the government of the federation reminding him that Mr. Audu was standing trial for corruption.

“The candidate was arraigned by the Commission for abuse of office, theft of public funds and money laundering during his tenure as Executive Governor of Kogi State between 1999 and 2003 at both Kogi High Court, Lokoja in 2006 and the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo Abuja in 2013,” Mr. Lamorde wrote.

“The Lokoja case was stalled for six years on the account of frivolous interlocutory applications by the accused person, which has taken us twice to the Supreme Court and eventually decided in the commission’s favour on 23rd November 2012.

“The trial effectively continued in 2013 with the filing of fresh charges in Abuja. Eight prosecution witnesses have so far given evidence and 166 exhibits tendered at the proceedings, while the case adjourned till 14th October 2015 for continuation of trial.

“We are genuinely concerned that the trial will be suspended for another four years if Prince Audu emerges as Kogi State Governor, similar to the situation of Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State.

“While not being unmindful of the constitutional presumption of innocence of all accused persons until proven guilty, we are nevertheless greatly concerned that swearing in of another accused person as Executive Governor in Nigeria may not be in consonance with the current anti-corruption policy of the new administration.”

In conclusion, Mr. Lamorde cautioned that allowing Mr. Audu to contest on the ruling party’s ticket might undermine the administration’s fight against corruption, especially in the eyes of the world.

“This may negatively impact our perception by the international community and give rise to scepticism and even cynicism,” the EFCC boss wrote.

Mr. Lamorde’s letter appeared a re-enactment of former EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu’s advisory letter to political parties in 2007, seeking the disqualification of some political office seekers for their involvement in corruption.

But upon receipt of Mr. Lamorde’s advisory letter, the SGF, Babachir Lawan, immediately wrote to the national secretariat of the APC the following day, urging it to take “necessary action”.

In a letter dated September 22, 2015, referenced SGF.30/S.11/T, the SGF said “I wish to forward the attached document from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on the above subject matter for your information and action”.

OBASANJO CAUTIONED AUDU ON ACQUISITION OF PROPERTIES

In a similar charge on corruption against the Kogi APC governorship candidate, former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote to Mr. Audu on October 5, 2001, cautioning him on some acquisitions of prime landed properties abroad while in office as governor.

Mr. Obasanjo confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES on Friday that he actually wrote the letter to Mr. Audu, and that the copy of the letter obtained by this newspaper was genuine.

PREMIUM TIMES reliably gathered that the former president also wrote to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission, and the then National Security Adviser, NSA, Aliyu Gusau, directing them to investigate Mr. Audu in relation to foreign assets acquisition as a sitting governor.

Mr. Obasanjo based his advice to the ICPC and the NSA on a notification he got from the British Home Office.

While responding to PREMIUM TIMES’ question on his various corruption cases, Mr. Audu said in a recent interview that the matter was before the court, and that no case had so far been established against him.

“This is a matter that is already before the court, and it will therefore be a contempt of court for me to disclose what happened in the court.

“But as far as I am concerned, they have not established any prima facie case against me in the past 12 years,” Mr. Audu said.

When contacted, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Lai Mohammed, said he was not aware of the issue as the letter was not addressed to him.

He explained that he was not aware that the issue was discussed at any meeting of the National Working Committee.

The National Secretary of the APC, Mai Mala-Buni, neither answered several telephone calls made to him nor responded to a text message seeking to know the action his party took regarding the letter from the EFCC cautioning against fielding Mr. Audu as governorship candidate.
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http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/192409-how-apc-ignored-efccs-advice-not-to-field-audu-as-kogi-guber-candidate.html
http://www.mustardpressng.com/blog/pt-how-apc-ignored-efccs-advice-not-to-field-audu-as-kogi-guber-candidate/

globalresource:
Then i will have to get that strike back today...to cool off on my mini vacation

Better do after a while you will wonder "how come I have never watched/heard this film/of it before"

Has MTN bribed lalasticlala??
Oya move this to front page jare...........

EnigmaticEnigma:
I can bet you that not one motorist knew the number for police to dial, smh

Like why can't we get a "911" type number in Nigeria that every citizen would know Even if it where a 3 year old kid sef, his naija police car toy would have the number on the side, so he/she would already be growing up with the instinct to dial that number when in trouble.

Why does naija have to always lag behind Makes me want to become Governor or President someday men, to try to solve these common sense issues, or at least prop up someone with common sense to solve the common sense issues.

Ordinary electricity, we can't harness Do you guys know when electricity was discovered We are not even asking these leaders to setup high tech labs to re-discover electricity we're just asking them to simply import the technology and pay the cost without stealing the money.

Getting tired of waiting for naija to get common sense men, sigh

ever heard of 767 or 112 ?
it exists, i get tired of seeing the numbers being advertised.

Waiting for the Idiot to blame Ambode

hmm i always enjoy acidtlk .....

daremarvell:
guy you need to change your perception about the brand. Their devices are very good and durable

Did you understand what I typed

TechRez:
When people develop self-hatred over a brand, they tend to easily believe negative things about the brand which forms a a belief system that’s passed across to several persons.

No matter how you look at it, purchasing a Tecno smartphone doesn’t make you any less important than people who go for the big guns; the likes of iPhone, HTC and Samsung.

Despite this established fact, you begin to wonder why there are tens of thousands of people who will catch a cold at the mention of the brand Tecno.

[b]Short answer – It’s because they have fallen for the myth that Tecno smartphones are a ridiculous excuse for being a mobile phone.

Sadly, if you have fallen for any of these myths, then chances are you have missed a couple of things that users are enjoying.


So what exactly are these myths? Although there are pretty numerous , allow me to share with you 4 of the most common ones mobile lovers fall for.

1. Tecno Smartphones Are Bad Because There’re Made In CHINA!
No doubt, we hear this boring phrase every time and those who want to take a jab at users of the product shot them with the phrase – Tecno na chinko.


Ouch….

Don’t Miss: Tecno Is Loosing The Smartphone War In Nigeria To Gionee?

While it’s entirely true that Tecno is China based, it doesn’t make the product any less durable. It would shock you to know that most major mobile vendors, including Apple has manufacturing plants in China and most of the products coming to Africa especially Nigeria are made in China.

2. Tecno Smartphones Are Just “A Piece Of Cheap Plastic”

Again, Tecno products are entirely made of plastic, only recently did the Chinese OEM start producing smartphones with leather shell and metal casing, better late than never. However, Tecno’s decision to stick with “cheap plastic” in the past does makes a whole of sense considering the fact that they control a market whose users are predominantly “low budget earners.”

It is a known fact that the highly rated Samsung Galaxy S series (up to the Galaxy S5) are made with a “cheap” plastic shell. Also, two years ago, the World’s most valuable brand Apple designed a line of iPhone in Plastic casing and no one gave a hoot about it, though it was an embarrassing flop.
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This is also very wrong, when you look at the quality/premium placed on tecno phones by the tecno manufacturers; you will definitely know that they use lower end resources to make sure phone which would fail the pass grade if shipped to the USA/Canada where quality is placed over price
For Years now Tecno has consistently used the lower cadre of mobile phone processors to power its devices unless the canon C8 is not an MTK phone maybe tecno has finally gone premium.

TechRez:
When people develop self-hatred over a brand, they tend to easily believe negative things about the brand which forms a a belief system that’s passed across to several persons.

No matter how you look at it, purchasing a Tecno smartphone doesn’t make you any less important than people who go for the big guns; the likes of iPhone, HTC and Samsung.

Despite this established fact, you begin to wonder why there are tens of thousands of people who will catch a cold at the mention of the brand Tecno.

[b]Short answer – It’s because they have fallen for the myth that Tecno smartphones are a ridiculous excuse for being a mobile phone.

Sadly, if you have fallen for any of these myths, then chances are you have missed a couple of things that users are enjoying.


So what exactly are these myths? Although there are pretty numerous , allow me to share with you 4 of the most common ones mobile lovers fall for.

1. Tecno Smartphones Are Bad Because There’re Made In CHINA!
No doubt, we hear this boring phrase every time and those who want to take a jab at users of the product shot them with the phrase – Tecno na chinko.


Ouch….

Don’t Miss: Tecno Is Loosing The Smartphone War In Nigeria To Gionee?

While it’s entirely true that Tecno is China based, it doesn’t make the product any less durable. It would shock you to know that most major mobile vendors, including Apple has manufacturing plants in China and most of the products coming to Africa especially Nigeria are made in China.

2. Tecno Smartphones Are Just “A Piece Of Cheap Plastic”

Again, Tecno products are entirely made of plastic, only recently did the Chinese OEM start producing smartphones with leather shell and metal casing, better late than never. However, Tecno’s decision to stick with “cheap plastic” in the past does makes a whole of sense considering the fact that they control a market whose users are predominantly “low budget earners.”

It is a known fact that the highly rated Samsung Galaxy S series (up to the Galaxy S5) are made with a “cheap” plastic shell. Also, two years ago, the World’s most valuable brand Apple designed a line of iPhone in Plastic casing and no one gave a hoot about it, though it was an embarrassing flop.
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Pundits where always right about the very low standard of tecno, when you look at the quality/premium placed on tecno phones by the tecno manufacturers; you will definitely know that they use lower end resources to make sure phone which would fail the pass grade if shipped to the USA/Canada where quality is placed over price.
For Years now Tecno has consistently used the lower cadre of mobile phone processors to power its devices and unless the canon C8 is not an MTK phone maybe tecno has finally gone premium.
I still wont recommend a tecno phone except its basically for calling and receiving
Why didnt you mention their low resale value ?

When is Mr Tonye Defecting back to APC?

erunz:
Justice Muazu Pindiga, the former chairman of the Rivers state governorship petitions tribunal who was removed under questionable circumstances has spoken up about the ordeal he went through just before he was dismissed as judge of the tribunal.

According to Premium Times, Pindiga availed that two weeks before he was dismissed, he was threatened.He also revealed that soon after, there was an attempt to bribe him and later on he was sacked.

He said: “Two weeks before I was removed as chairman of the Tribunal, I got a call from an unknown number, asking for an appointment for us to meet in Kaduna. And I asked, what for?

“And the caller said, it’s on a need to know basis. That the details of the meeting would be made known to me in Kaduna. And I declined.

“The next was a call from the DSS, saying they were all expecting me at meeting in Kaduna. And demanded why I turned down the appointment. And I said, I’m a chairman of a Tribunal, and do not have the luxury to attend meetings. Especially one without an agenda.

“And the caller from DSS said there was a petition of fraud against me, in a case I handled in Kaduna in 2009. And I asked him to charge me accordingly, in line with the extant laws.

“I was called again by another caller; who apologised to me, on behalf of the DSS. And offered to compensate me for the harassment I received from the DSS, and rescheduled another meeting, in Kaduna. And I declined again.

“And the next was a letter removing me as the Chairman of the Rivers State governorship petitions tribunal, and replacing me with Justice Ambrosa. As is the practice, I offered to brief Justice Ambrosa, on the proceedings so far, but he said that won’t be necessary that he has been following the case.

“Now, on the judgement delivered by Justice Ambrosa; it will be unethical and unprofessional to denigrate, or condemn the judgement of a contemporary colleague.

“However, the Supreme Court has said, that for an election to be annulled, the petitioner has to prove that elections didn’t hold at the polling units, where the winner was returned elected. And I’m not sure that the Ambrosa’s judgement arrived through that route.”

http://www.thetrentonline.com/i-was-bribed-and-threatened-then-sacked-as-rivers-tribunal-judge-justice-pindiga/

The Trent news agency does your editor know Judicial officers cannot speak to the press.
this is Media rascality

seunmsg:
I will like to see how kpmg will explain away their inability to detect the material mistatement contained in stanbic Ibtc's financial statement as highlighted by FRC. Kudos must be given to FRCN for taking on a big organisation like stanbic Ibtc bank and KPMG.

My point

KPMG engage in fraud
cc @lalasticala