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This is a counter thread to this news earlier about Senator Abdulfatai Buhari

https://www.nairaland.com/6619634/amcon-takes-over-sen-abdulfatai

Henry Okosun, Managing director of Abadat Ventures, the company belonging to Dr. AbdulFatai Buhari, senator representing Oyo North senatorial district, has reacted to the reported seizure of some of his Abuja properties by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON.

According to him, AMCON was wrong, neither him nor his company sought any loan.

In statement, Okosun said it was an attempt to blackmail his boss as what really happened was a tripartite agreement between Abadat, Guaranty Trust Bank and Peugeot entered into in 2007.

According to him, “I am privy to this case from the beginning. Abadat, Peugeot and GTB entered into a tripartite agreement whereby Abadat as a dealer with Peugeot would collect a vehicle on credit and GTB would guarantee the credit for one month at 18 per cent. Abadat did not take a loan from GTB as widely reported.

“And when we discovered that GTB was clandestinely charging us 30 per cent, we requested for our statements which they refused to give to us in 2009. When we eventually got the statements through AMCON ‘s intervention, we discovered a lot of foul play through the forensic audit that was carried out. GTB is the one owing Abadat according to the audit report. And we went to court and the case is still in court with AMCON and GTB still sending their lawyers anytime there is a court sitting. What AMCON did was a blackmail against the senator,” he explained.

Also speaking, lawyer to the Ogbomoso-born politician, Ahmed Raji, SAN, said his client’s assets have not been taken over by AMCON.

“It is not correct that AMCON has taken over Senator Buhari’s assets in Abuja. There is a subsisting suit on the matter since 2013 and no judgement has been rendered. Self help is not allowed just as suppression of facts is deprecated in our judicial system. The court will very shortly reaffirm its sacred authority over all persons and authorities. We are all under the law,” he explained.


Source: https://oyoinsight.com/senator-buhari-is-being-blackmailed-gtb-owing-his-company-henry-okosun-abadat-md/

The mods should please do the needful and push this news to front page for proper information. lalasticlala, mynd44

abdulazeez1002:
106 graduating students still struggling with 100Level maths. Haba, you now. Think nah

I said they all had issue with the course, I never said they all failed the course.

They didn't offer the Math in 100 level but the course was added to their courses on the portal and results are being printed from the portal, this was just some database error. It would have been corrected by now I'm sure and those students would be doing clearance by now.

StrikeBack:
Ode!!!

No difference between you and a religious ignoramus

"an ABUSITE is naturally ahead of you"

Too bad

Alaye, faraburuku e bale.

That's our saying, don't just come here with your frustrating soul to insult people.

Before you people start insulting my school, this is actually Computer Science Education results not Computer Science department.

The MATH there is an 100 level course that the whole Science Education department students had issue with and that's why the results are actually like that.

Ahmadu Bello University is one of the prestigious schools in this country presently, and as a computer science student of this great school, I find this post misleading and the mods should probably do something about it because it's on front page already.

Just so you know, an ABUSITE is naturally ahead of you. �

Boss, I didn't get any text message due to the fact that I don't have access to the number I used during registration, I applied NTech and I was preselected, if the physical verification has started today, is there any way I can know whether my name is on the list or not?

Please add me on this 09055897989

npowerng:
If you are yet to be onboarded kindly use your Bvn/phone number to log on your NPVN profile via www.npower.gov.ng

Kindly use to help And support option to make your complaints on change of details

I sent a mail to apply2017@npower.gov.ng but the mail bounced back and that's the only mail on npower.gov.ng. What else can you do for me to get this done, I've been trying hard to solve this problem since. Please help out Boss.

I think I need help.

My name is Yekeen Jelili Adebayo with email address hardebtech@gmail.com, I applied for NTech is 2016 and I saw it here that the preselection was on, I login with BVN and I was preselected and I took the required test, I was told an sms would be sent to me to know when we would go for physical verification.

My main problem now is that I don't have access to the phone number I used during the registration, the numbers I used during the registration was 08155026736 or 09028798128 which I don't have access to neither of the two again, the only phone number I have access to right now is 09074033943 and I don't know how can I update this my new number with the lost ones, I've been trying to visit npvn.npower.gov.ng to see if I can get it done there but the site has not been opening. I would be glad if there's anything you can do for me.

@ npowerng sir, what can you do for me Boss?

AljazeeraBCH:
pls why can't we create whatsapp group for easy communication？

It would be cool bro, how do we go about it, which state are you?

npowerng:
Are you a beneficiary?

Boss, check my comment up here and see how you can help me.

I think I need help.

My name is Yekeen Jelili Adebayo with email address hardebtech@gmail.com, I applied for NTech is 2016 and I saw it here that the preselection was on, I login with BVN and I was preselected and I took the required test, I was told an sms would be sent to me to know when we would go for physical verification.

My main problem now is that I don't have access to the phone number I used during the registration, the numbers I used during the registration was 08155026736 or 09028798128 which I don't have access to neither of the two again, the only phone number I have access to right now is 09074033943 and I don't know how can I update this my new number with the lost ones, I've been trying to visit npvn.npower.gov.ng to see if I can get it done there but the site has not been opening. I would be glad if there's anything you can do for me.

@ npowerng sir, what can you do for me Boss?

surgical:
oga forget that large fan base its fable like buhari have integrity, it is simply not true , they are working on two wrong assumptions 1 that nigerians who have suffered his misrule are fools who don't know what is good for them and don't deserve a good life 2 that he will rigg successfully and if he losses will not relinquish power easily like Jonathan, that is a big lie Nigeria is bigger than him and his gang of sycophants , come 2019 Nigeria will move forward without buhari,and that's a fact, he could not hold on to power as a military dictator ,he can't as a civilian with so many contending forces

You're not getting my point of view here brother.

All these things you say don't always count when the elections come. I base in North and I can tell you he's loved here by his people, so if he decided to contest in 2019, he will get more than 70% of North's votes no matter who his opponent is.

The thing is this man is just spitting the bitter truth, if Buhari decides to run cum 2019, forget all the outcries and online polls, he will win not because he has performed well though but because he has a fan base and I've not seen who will challenge that fan base yet in 2019 struggles.

Hi Nairaland FAM,

I'm a student of a Nigerian university in Northern part of the country and my school put out this competition for students to embark on an ICT-based research.

I have been thinking on a research to embark on that would benefit the institution but I have not really established any which prompt me to bring this to Nairalanders to help suggest any ICT-based research work I can embark on.

I saw a friend planning on creating an app that would be linked to school portal, that immediately any update is dropped on the portal, it reflects on the app for all students to read.

So I need more ideas from good computer scientists in here.

Thanks.

Last year's Iftar was very nice, I was there and the lecture was essential. I will be there this year too Inshaa Allah.

Expecting your pictures bathing unclad cos the poo has already reached FP...

PissedOffWeed:
End time publicity stunt
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If this poo reaches FP, I will bath naked!

That's how 5 out of 5 Nigerians would recommend beheading as the best way to kill Boko boys..

Zionists are like Boko Haram to Palestinians.

One thing is common between Zionists and Boko Haram (US funding both of them)...

If at all they even think at all....

God help him.....

FTC!!!

This Oyo State Chapter of APC are very funny and selfish, I'm from Saki where Adebayo Shittu hailed from, our region (Oke-Ogun) has been marginalized for a very long time, no any major development in the whole Saki, the town is the same thing all this while and it's the third largest town in Oyo State, Imagine!!!

This issue is being championed by Ibadan people who think it's an insult to them for a minister from Oyo State to come from Saki not Ibadan, the greediness is too much which is unfair to people of Oke-Ogun.

In 2011, I voted in Saki and I've been in Lagos since then, because of my strong believe in President Muhammad Buhari agenda; I traveled home from Lagos just to go and vote and I can assure you that GEJ didn't even win in any polling unit not even talk of a ward in Saki West L.G, go check details of election results from Oyo State, PMB got highest vote in Saki West L.G out of all L.Gs in Oyo State with more than 27,000 votes and someone is here releasing a statement saying nonsense.

Adebayo Shittu is a technocrat, an incorruptible man like PMB, he has been with PMB since the life of CPC, he contested against Ajimobi in 2011 and lost, he was with PMB during the merger, he contested against Ajimobi again in 2015 APC Governorship Primary and lost, he didn't leave or work against the party and now, APC in Oyo State is out with their mischievous allegations against someone ordained by God. God is watching you people.

All I know is the man will be making some decisions for her in the bedroom if the guy is a sharp G

I pray He gets 30% during the poll..... That state is full PDP..... As said by GEJ......


FTC for the first time

One thing I like PMB for........ He's always know what he's doing.... So no cause for alarm Bro

.........Wailer man.... I'm quoting you here now, you should provide me with enough evidence so I can quote you anywhere as you wish.......#yeyenatu

OZAOEKPE:
"PMB is a terrorist", quote me anywhere.

So What's your net worth

makingsense:
DECLARATION OF ASSETS.
Since our president and his vice have declared their assets, it is very important that l also declare mine too as a good citizen... and it goes thus:
1. Four pencil trousers.
2. 9 T-shirts.
3. No wife
4.No Son, and no daughter.
5. One bathroom slippers.
6. Three shoes.
7. Two ties.
8. Half bag of pure water.
9. One drum of rain water.
10. One bottle of Oil as a cream (ororo eran dindin).
11. Two GSM (1 Nokia & 1 BB-).
12. Three kongo of Black yam flour (elubọ iṣu).
13. Six ankara.
14. 3 pots and one kettle.
15. One set of spoons and a set of plates.
16. One lantern.
17. One stove.
18. One gallon for buying kerosine.
19. One carpet and one Mouka foam.
20. 32 inch LG Plasma Tv.
21. Seven and a half girlfriends (2 in Lagos, 2 in Abuja, 2 in Ibadan, 1 in Port Harcourt, 1/2 in Calabar).
22. Four boxerṣ and Three undies.
23. N1,010 @ GTbank, and N1,005 @First Bank .

This will be my first post on NL cos I thought this should be beneficial to some quarters....... I do read comments here though......... and the Wailing Wailers

Without ever knowing or meeting me, Buhari gave me a chance. As I now write, I have never met him one-on-one. We have never spoken to each other. It is an extraordinary experience of an unusual man.

I was sitting on my desk in the Ministry of External Affairs, 40 Marina Lagos in 1984, when I received a letter appointing me Ambassador to the United States of America. My place of origin did not matter. Incidentally, I am from Ibusa, a famous town now in Delta State; then, in Bendel State. My religion did not matter either. I had no worthwhile contacts with Dodan Barracks. All I knew, and had always known, was to work hard and to express my views as candidly and as courageously as I could, regardless of the consequences; provided I was convinced they were right. It was never easy or smooth-sailing. Of course, that had its bitter consequences; but at the end, now at 83, looking back, it worked out just right.

Of all the Nigerian leaders, with the possible exception of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, Buhari has been the one that has most approximated my dream of what a Nigerian leader should be. Without any attempt at self-advertisement, but simply as a matter of fact, I knew and had worked and interacted with most, if not all of our leaders. I worked with Sir James Robertson, the last colonial Governor-General of Nigeria, after graduating from the University College, Ibadan in 1957. I served as Clerk to the Privy Council and as Assistant Secretary (Administrative Officer) in charge of Security. I worked up to my immediate boss, Mr. C. O. Lawson, the then respected Secretary to the Cabinet in the Governor-General’s office. As part of my schedule of duties as officer in charge of security, I had the privilege and honour of being a member of a 3-man-panel, two of them British, which interviewed and recruited the first batch of Nigerian military officers into the Nigerian army in 1958. This batch included Olusegun Obasanjo.

In 1958, I transferred to the Ministry of External Affairs, making a career in the Diplomatic Service which lasted forty-two (42) years, from where I eventually rose as Foreign Minister, having served as Ambassador in Nine (9) countries, a few with concurrent accreditation, including Kenya under Jomo Kenyatta, Botswana under Sir Seretse Khama, Lesotho under King Moshoeshoe I, Spain, The Holy See under three Popes, (John Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II), the United States of America, Canada and, lastly, in Israel for six (6) years, a mission I established and rose to be Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps. In between, I was Chief of Protocol of the Federation to Zik and Balewa, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as Directing Staff in the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, for two years (1988/1989).

I am now a retired pensioner, carefully minding my own business and tending my personal affairs. I do not belong to any political party and have never belonged to any. In the best tradition of the colonial public service of my days, I have remained strictly anonymous and aloof; occasionally, making my views and opinion privately known to the appropriate authorities of the day on any issue I feel strongly about. I seek no office and no financial or material favours. All I am doing is to put on public record my private opinion, views and experience, which may not be available and known to many Nigerians.

Major General Muhammadu Buhari not only gave me the opportunity to serve Nigeria as Ambassador in the United States, he did even more than that. He entrusted to me the care and welfare of his family; still without our knowing or meeting each other. He sent his wife and two children to me in Washington D.C. for medical treatment. He took his chance and dealt with me strictly on a professional basis. His family were with me in Washington D.C. when the General was overthrown in a coup d’etat. We did the best we could and sent them back home safely under the trying and traumatic circumstances they found themselves- still, never a word from this unusual person. In 1988 after I returned as Ambassador from Washington D.C., I was assigned as a punitive measure as Directing Staff to the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, for two years.

The subject of our research in that year led the Syndicate I headed to visit Buhari’s State of origin. With the approval of government, members of the Syndicate visited Buhari who was then under house arrest in his home town, Daura. This most extra-ordinary man received us with warmth and courtesy. We found him living in a modest, sparsely furnished three or four bed-room bungalow which was his house. He still did not know who I was; nor did I disclose my identity to him. It was unbelievable, even in those days, that a former General in the Nigerian Army and a former Head of State could live in such a modest, spartan abode. What further struck me was a complete lack of bitterness; unless the Fulani in him, concealed and dissembled it!

What do all these tell me about this man, Buhari? Others may have a different opinion of him. I absolutely concede to them the right to hold their views. As far as I am personally concerned, four short phrases summarise my overall impression and opinion of Buhari. An incorruptible man. A patriotic Nigerian devoid of any trace of ethnicism and parochialism. A deeply religious man. Above all, a sterndisciplinarian.

We so often talk glibly of the giant strides Asian Tigers have taken to leap from the state of underdevelopment to developed nations. We refer tirelessly to the achievements of men like Lee Kuan Yew. I have, personally, met Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore. I did so in the company of General Yakubu Gowon when he returned from exile from the United Kingdom. Little do we know or appreciate the agonizing hardship, pains and sufferings all Singaporeans, Chinese, Malays, Indians and other ethnic nationalities, had to endure for Singapore to attain its present height as a respected nation. Gold must be smelted in hot burning furnaces before unleashing its shine and purity. Lee Kuan Yew was a benevolent democratic autocrat. He subjected his people to a good dose of rigorous healthy discipline. No country makes that type of progress Singapore made without an unwavering sense of disciplined direction. Moreover, Lee Kuan Yew was an inspirational leader of his people. He governed by example.

It is not just the question of the number of kilometres of roads you build that elevates a nation. It is not a matter of the megawatts of power you generate nor the number of buildings you erect for the populace. Not even the refineries you build or the volume of agricultural products produced and exported. These are important. Any leader surrounded by brilliant experts, excellent technocrats and loyal advisers can achieve those basic and essential needs. Leadership calls for much greater attributes than the performance of those feats. A leader must have a strong, solid, moral and disciplined background, the inspirational ability to galvanize his people to higher, lofty and common purpose. These are not ordinary attributes available to every man. They are uncommon gifts and talents dispensed and bestowed only to a few. This makes the difference between one man and the other; one woman and the other. It is not often we have a Ghandi or a Mandela; an Ataturk, or a Winston Churchill, a Charles de Gaulle, or a Konrad Adenauer, who became one of the most respected Chancellors of Federal Republic of Germany at the ripe age of 81, a Margaret Thatcher, or even our own often quoted Obama. Nearer home, with all their imperfections, considering that a prophet is without honour in his own country, we must reckon with Azikiwe, the Sardauna, Awolowo, Aminu Kano and J.S. Tarka, the real and genuine ‘founding fathers’ of our nation.

Buhari, in my view, belongs to the last and passing generation of this group of Nigerian leaders. It was a pity that fate thrust him into leadership limelight at a period in time when military revolution and coups d’ etats were in vogue and held sway. In a democratic setting, as we now have, I believe that the real worth and essence of this man, encapsulated in an exemplary and enigmatic personal life, will blaze through and shine forth. It will soon be clear that those of his followers of questionable and dubious pedigree who think they can latch on to the reputation of this rare Nigerian would be the first to be highly disappointed.
I also believe that what is badly needed at this stage of our national life is a leadership that will turn the country around; and rescue us from the depth of chronic indiscipline, disorder and decadence we have, over the years, gradually descended and slided into. What I believe we need is a strong hand at the helm, with the support of our people, who will instil in us a much needed sense of order and discipline; inspire us into patriotic zeal and sacrifice; bring out the best in each one of us; and encourage in us the love of nation.

The nation’s sense of indiscipline and disorder is evident and all pervasive even in very simple things and matters of the day and moment. A road-side mechanic claims to be an Engineer (Engr) and insists on being so styled. A traditional herbalist insists he must be called and respected as a professional medical Doctor (Dr) and, indeed, hugs the appellation. An ordinary traditional village community leader who flamboyantly styles himself a Chief and clownishly attired in a self-designed robe, is addressed not only as “Your Highness”, but takes offence if he is not properly addressed as “Your Royal Highness”. A number of respected Kabiyesis no longer have regard for their beautiful traditional titles, unless we, their ‘subjects’, address them as “Your Majesty” or worse still, “Your Royal Majesty” The same applies to the ‘Ran kadades’, most of our Emirs and prominent men in authority revel in when interacting with the poor subservient so-called talakawas. May I also observe that the awkward title of ‘His Eminence’ is a misnomer which should be revisited and reconsidered.

Members of our legislative houses feel incomplete and uncomfortable until they are addressed as ‘Honourables’ or ‘Distinguished Senators’. They are no longer plain ‘Mister’ or ‘Madam’.

I believe it is time we became a little more creative and find suitable traditional and local substitutes for these foreign appellations which portray us as caricatures and ridicule us as people and nation in the outside world. What a pride and beauty to have one of the foremost traditional rulers of the land being regaled with the title Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Erediauwa! Why can we not start emulating and adopting this practice in most of our national institutions? It will give us a sense of pride and self-worth.

Ambitious pseudo-intellectual self-publicists cleverly thrust their mediocrity and opinions on us and flaunt their borrowed, half-baked, ill-digested ideas, concepts, jargons and clichés. Pages of our national newspapers are replete with lavishly self-serving advertisements of obituaries, weddings and birthday celebrations. Why not severely tax those who place these wasteful advertisements to rake in and release funds to charities or other good causes such as sporting and educational development of the country.

Hitherto decent, pretty, confident young ladies on our television sets in order to make themselves more attractive and acceptable, bleach their skin to pale sickening white, with their veins thinly exposed; their bare knuckles and elbows still looking jet black. They should be reassigned to the back room offices, decorated with mirrors, left to rue their new look which has become an eyesore to many viewers. Our television channels have suddenly become a babel and cacophony of crude and embarrassing noise makers, reflecting the values of a sick society, drunk with democratic excesses.

Honorary degrees are sold, bought and conferred on underserving personalities by many of our Universities and these personalities shamelessly parade them at will. A few prominent church leaders have relocated their pulpits from their churches to the seats of secular power while a number of Imams have not been able to teach their adherents the purity of their religion which preaches respect for human lives.

Our youths need impeccable high level connections before gaining employment at any level, both decent or menial. Impunity freely reigns in the land more than ever before. The temples of justice are daily being desecrated. The Lady now has her eyes wide open; seductively beckoning and soliciting for favours.

More painful still, is the near-absolute control of our entire being and lives as a people by others. We appear helpless to cast off that yoke and burden even though we claim to be independent; helpless to govern ourselves with any modicum of self-respect and dignity and take our destiny into our hands.

The list is endless. Am I a part of this messy order? Certainly, yes. None of us can pretend not to be part of it, in one way or the other, in differing roles. Only that some exacerbate it more than others. This situation calls for a man who, by personal example, can firmly and fearlessly put an end to these vulgarities and inanities.

This is one side of the coin. There is another side of the coin to our national life for which we can proudly hold our heads very high. This is the side no other single country in the world I know can ever match. The list is inexhaustive and much longer than our shortcomings. We do not, however, necessarily need to dwell on them or spell them out here, as we search for positive measures and values that will enhance and edify our nation.

Buhari represents, in my opinion, the last opportunity we have to get things reasonably right before the baton passes permanently on to the next and coming generation. After him, the generation of the ‘founding fathers’ would have faded away; with their legacies, left behind, hopefully for good. He should be given the chance to restore and consolidate the disappearing values of that ‘golden age’ so sadly disrupted by the military, to which paradoxically and tragically, he and those in that generation, and that before him, were willy-nilly pressed into being a part of.

He carries on his frail, ageing but reliable shoulders a historic responsibility and burden of getting it right. He has a bounden duty to realign the nation towards achieving its manifest destiny. He has no excuses for failure. Otherwise, why should he be seeking power at his age? It makes absolutely no sense. Why not take a comfortable and relaxed back seat like most of us. History will judge him very harshly should he fail.

The immediate challenge before him, I feel convinced, is how to curb the excesses of the teaming mass of followers who, undoubtedly, adore him. The next, is to rein in the display of empty, hollow pompousness and offensive arrogance by a few of his elitist, lazy patronage-seeking associates; who, if victorious, will flock to him without discrimination. I had always instinctively recognised and resented this feeling at first hand, even from a distance.

I believe it is time for us to begin anew. Let us begin to lead our lives as normal human beings; and not in self-delusion and self-deceit. This is the real transformation needed. This is the revolution we yearn for at this point in time in our national life. I can now start understanding what drove past Chinese leaders into staging the “Cultural Revolution”. Nigeria is ripe; indeed, over ripe for a non-violent revolution which will shake us all up like a volcanic eruption from our present national stupor. Who will sweep out the quacks and charlatans in our midst? Who will guarantee us enduring values? Who will cleanse the cobwebs from our national home?

All said, let no one forget there is no better country than Nigeria in the whole world. I feel happiest when I am in Nigeria; despite the agonizing frustrations; despite the infuriating hardship; and even when I am being driven daily to the brink of desperation.

Ignatius C. Olisemeka
Ambassador

Mogidi:
Get your pen and paper ready, the West German president is about to throw another one. Waiting impatiently for the broadcast.

Meanwhile enjoy the first one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_BZO7zTjsM

I don't know what you guys gain in all these, go and watch Channels TV video report on this, Buhari never mentioned anything like party name, he only mention our party but you people went extra length to edit the video and claim some rash, only a fool will believe you....