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Romance › Re: Rants Of A Single Lady Part 3 by anonimi: 9:27am On Jul 29, 2019
Duggedised12:
must be 32 years and above , must not be a Muslim, must not be a northerner,must have a source of livelihood that can two people can comfortably live on.
You don't plan to bring anything to the table or the two people is to anticipate for your babyhuh
Politics › Re: APC Matters In Pictures by anonimi(op):
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PhockPhockMan:
It was on 13 October 2000, when words went round that General Muhammadu Buhari was leading the Arewa team to the governor’s office to confront the state over alleged killings of Fulani cattle rearers in Saki, Oke Ogun Area of the state. Buhari did actually telephone the governor that he was leading a team to his office.

In less than 30 minutes after the general informed the governor of his visit, we noticed that the entire secretariat was already filled with lorry loads of our brothers from the North. This created some tension but we kept our calm. At about 2 p.m., Buhari arrived in a long convoy at the governor’s office in company of the former governor of Lagos State, General Buba Marwa, Alhaji Aliko Muhammed, Alhaji Abdulrazak and Alhaji Hassan. They all wore long faces. In fact, the anger in them was palpable as all pleasantries extended to them were ignored. “This is trouble” was the expression on the faces of all of us in the governor’s office.
Shortly afterwards, the state Director of State Security Service (SSS) and Commissioner of Police arrived. But their presence did not change anything particular on the fears that had already gripped majority of us. The two security chiefs did not come with any operatives, they came almost alone.

The meeting was called to order after Lam walked into the Executive Chambers. Introductions over, Buhari spoke on their mission to the governor’s office. Emitting fire, the general accused Lam and the government of Oyo State of complicity in the killing of over 68 Fulani people in Oke Ogun area and perversion of justice.
His words: “Your Excellency, our visit here is to discuss with you and your government our displeasure about the incident of clashes between two peoples… the Fulani cattle rearers and merchants are today being harassed , attacked and killed like in Saki. In the month of May, 2000, 68 bodies of Fulani cattle rearers were recovered and buried under the supervision and protection from a team of Mobile Police from Oyo State Command.
“ That some arrests were made by Oyo State Police Command in the massacre with their immediate release without court trial. This was said to have been ordered by Oyo State authorities and they were so released to their amazement. The release of the arrested suspects gave the clear impression that the authorities are backing and protecting them to continue the unjust and illegal killings of Fulani cattle rearers…”
According to the general, they therefore wanted immediate stoppage of the killings, justice and compensation to the Fulanis.

As weighty and indicting as Buhari’s allegations were, Lam remained unperturbed. He fired back with his own well coordinated arsenals.
Lam identified all the points raised by Buhari and simply asked the heads of the organizations directly involved to respond to the allegations.
First to speak was the Commissioner of Police who debunked all the claims. Instead of the allegation that the natives were killing Fulanis, the commissioner said pointedly that the opposite was the case.
“ The killing of the natives by the Fulanis was duly reported to the police and, of course, we can’t make arrest because, as soon as they kill, they migrate to other areas. Who are you going to arrest? That is the problem”. On the killing of Fulanis, which he said was as result of “piled up anger”, the commissioner disclosed that arrests had been made and the suspects were in police custody.
Next was the Director of SSS, who equally debuked the allegations by Buhari. “The natives don’t have problem with the Fulanis who are resident but those who are coming in, they don’t care about anybody. They just go ahead and when they graze the natives farms, whoever cares to challenge them runs into trouble. You said 68 people were killed , and people driven away. I am not saying there were no killings but they cannot be more than five.
The petition is on the harsh side, there is nothing like that.”
Not done yet, Lam called in his Deputy, Barrister Iyiola Oladokun; his SSG, Chief Michael Koleoso, both from Oke Ogun, and the chairman of one of the affected local government areas, Mr Ademola Alalade. They stated the true position of things, corroborating the submissions of the security chiefs. At this point, all the tensions and apprehensions evaporated.

Trust Lam any day, he must rub it in. He spoke for about 20 minutes and the generals were at the edge of their seats for the entire period. They were like chicken that had just been thoroughly beaten by the rain.
Lam said: “ Before I thank you for this visit, you have come to tell me something. I also want to tell you something and that something is to make an appeal. General Buhari has been a former Head of State, Brigadier Marwa has governed Lagos for some time and with credibility… so you are national leaders of this country. Even though, by accident of birth, you are from the North, you can be born anywhere; may be next time when I am coming to the world, I will be born in the North or the South-South.
“My appeal will be that effort must be made to unite this country and that will be ïn the best interest of all Nigerians. I am appealing to the Arewa Consultative Forum, under which auspices our distinguished Nigerians are here; in recent times, they have been sending wrong signals to a number of us who believe in the unity and peace of Nigeria; you have been too critical of the efforts of the Federal Government. I am saying this because Nigeria, at this point, cannot afford to break and the words you northern leaders utter are very weighty, at the South here, we normally analyze them critically”.

On all the allegations, he said: “From what they have written in the petition, this government is completely blameless because we don’t interfere either with the judiciary or with the police functions. I always preach peaceful co-existence in Oyo State and Nigeria as a whole. We are all Nigerians and that is what we have been preaching all along and we shall continue to be Nigerians , no matter the present or immediate problems which will be solved by the grace of Allah.
“I want to say also that we really have to appeal to our people, the itinerant Bororo people, that they should observe less aggression. It is not good , it is not right just coming from somewhere then you just pass through farm lands cultivated may be with the person’s life savings and then over night everything is gone. That is not right, even Allah does not approve of that.

We even wonder when they talk about this people carrying dangerous weapons, I say do they really believe in Allah? When you just take life like that and go away! Are we not forbidden not to take human life? So I think General Buhari, General Marwa, you have to be educating them… It is my pleasure to inform you that at the Presidential Lodge, we have made some arrangements for refreshments so that before you go we can refresh together”.

Buhari and his team did not wait for any refreshments. They came in angry and left bewildered.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/day-lam-adesina-clashed-with-buhari-marwa-others/
Politics › Re: We won’t attend meeting with Miyetti Allah- Southern, Middle Belt Leaders by anonimi: 9:09am On Jul 29, 2019
kponkedenge:
How do you expect citizens to attend security meeting with foreign terrorists.... Of course is an insult to them.
Foreigners dictating for citizens? Only in Naijeriya of CowMander bubu.


cuvox:
Kaduna state Governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has said his government has traced some violent,aggrieved Fulani to their countries and paid them to stop the killings of Southern Kaduna natives and the destruction of their communities saying that the renewed violence is carried out by bandits.

El-Rufai made this known while fielding questions from some select Journalists in his office in Kaduna.

He said: “For southern Kaduna, we didn’t understand what was going on and we decided to set up a committee under Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (rtd) to find out what was going on there. What was established was that the root of the problem has a history starting from the 2011 post election violence.

“Fulani herdsmen from across Africa bring their cattle down towards Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria. The moment the rains starts around March, April, they start moving them up to go back to their various communities and countries.

“Unfortunately, it was when they were moving up with their cattle across Southern Kaduna that the elections of 2011 took place and the crisis trapped some of them.

“Some of them were from Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Senegal. Fulanis are in 14 African countries and they traverse this country with the cattle.“So many of these people were killed, cattle lost and they organised themselves and came back to revenge.

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Politics › Re: We won’t attend meeting with Miyetti Allah- Southern, Middle Belt Leaders by anonimi: 9:02am On Jul 29, 2019
kponkedenge:
How do you expect citizens to attend security meeting with foreign terrorists.... Of course is an insult to them.
Terrible insult on the intelligence of the citizens of this potentially great country that has been held hostage for too long by cattle rearers. cry


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Politics › Re: We won’t attend meeting with Miyetti Allah- Southern, Middle Belt Leaders by anonimi: 8:58am On Jul 29, 2019
Ruggedniggaone:
that good let them go and have their meeting with ISWAP and bokoharam in sambisa they should not forget to go with bullhari the real Osama bin laden of Nigeria and garbage sheu their spokesperson
Sad but true. undecided


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Buhari faults crackdown on Boko Haram
JUNE 3, 2013

Presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 Presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has frowned on the emergency rule in parts of the North. He alleged that innocent civilians were being killed in the states.

Buhari speaking during a Liberty FM Hausa Service Programme, Guest of the Week, on Sunday in Kaduna said that Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished unlike the “special treatment” given to the Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government.

More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/joining-apc-not-about-2015-presidency-buhari/
Politics › Re: Bola Tinubu Campaign Signboard “Vote BAT 2023’’ Spotted In Lagos by anonimi: 8:30am On Jul 29, 2019
aremuforlife:
and that will be under their beloved party PDP
Were you alive in 1999huh
Properties › Re: Building Collapses In Bariga, Lagos by anonimi: 8:26am On Jul 29, 2019
oluseyioba:
If you don't give bribe nobody will collect it.....no sane person will even collect bribe for a distressed building......I think the pple should be educated more,they should vacate buildings marked distressed and the time it takes for distressed buildings to be brought down should be reduced drastically......
Great idea and suggestion.
Who is going to do it- the more education/sensitisation/enlightenmenthuh
Two out of three is good but three out of three is 100% excellent.


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Properties › Re: Building Collapses In Bariga, Lagos by anonimi: 8:24am On Jul 29, 2019
skukimania:
To you now, you have made sense? Una welldone oh, child of Europe. So, you think people in the advanced countries don't believe in the existence of evil forces? They call it black magic Mr. Know it all.
A minor irritant this Monday morning undecided
It is because they believe in the existence of evil forces that many Nigerians and other Africans are leaving their countries in droves to go and enjoy the rigorous methodical work the Europeans have done for centuries to continuously analyse past, current and even future problems and act on the options for sustainable development.
Enjoy your irritation for the week.


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Career › Re: My Heart Felt Message To GRADUATES Teaching In Private Primary/secondary Schoo by anonimi: 6:31am On Jul 29, 2019
SirWhiteFish:
I looked back at the beginning of this year, precisely 14th January 2019 when I started working at a private primary school. Three weeks later, I was told that I had to be taking two primary five students extra lessons after closing (3pm), and the pay was 1k each. With my monthly salary which was 13,000 added to the "1k" each makes 15 thousand.

You would think I earned 13k for three months abi! No I didn't. The first salary I got was the half of 13k. The woman just called the staff on the 28th of January and gave me 6.5k. I had no idea what was going on and I thought she was going to balance up at the beginning of February just like she said while addressing us but it was a lie. it was at the end of the term, the third month April, that I got to know I am being ripped off. She said she was going to pay 5000 naira at the end of the term as salary because school opened for just 10 days. It was the greatest shock of my life. A graduate, a grown up man like me, taking 5000 naira home!!
I wanted to leave but I couldn't because I wouldn't be paid for the common entrance lesson and I had not gotten any other opportunities elsewhere.

Sometimes in early February, She called me that I would be handling primary 5 Common entrance lessons which is meant to hold every Saturday and at the end of the third term the money will be shared between Me, a staff that partners me and the proprietress. She said the money will be shared 60%(I and another man) to 40%(the proprietress). The formula was very unfair and strange to me. The sharing formula seemed very strange to me and I challenged it but she enforced it.

Fast forward to early this month, precisely 3rd of July, the proprietress started acting strange and insulting all the workers and all that. The following week she sent one of the oldest staff by to inquire what will be the staff reaction if they are not paid at the end if the term. The staff said they won't agree to such and some even threaten various actions. Fast forward to Thursday 25th of July, vacation day. the woman started up a plethora of complaints deliberately she said she was going to pay 4000 as July salary. The same thing she did at the end of second term. At the end she ended up not paying a dime. She didn't pay any of us. Not even the common entrance lesson which made me stay.

I cried and stayed inside throughout Friday. I had a deep thinking, with my academic background! Was it that I didn't know my worth? with all my struggles to be successful academically I am now slaving in one private school for a paltry sum of 15k, money wey I no fit cope with as an undergraduate! Money wey be say no reach my NYSC allawe!
I really feel for graduates going through phases like this. I really feel for graduates teaching at private schools. I pray better days finds you and I soon.
If you have no strong network to almost guarantee you a good job, why bother going to university for four years (+ strike time etc) and spend so much money to end up with a bizarre job?
Is it not better to go to a technical school or vocational centre/college to get quality City & Guilds level skills that are scarce in a technical area such as precision welding, masonry, woodworking, electrical/wiring, mechanical engineering, refrigeration etc? Will getting a job not be easier and even been an employer in due coursehuh
Until more people learn to make informed choices instead of just following the crowd they will continue to shortchange themselves like this your story.

Meanwhile, is there no law about working and not being paidhuh


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TV/Movies › Re: What Movie Are You Watching Now? by anonimi: 6:21am On Jul 29, 2019
KoiceReloaded:
In life there are no definites. A Lion is expected to kill a Zebra easily enough, but then, sometimes, you'll have a situation as was documented in this YouTube video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8rOmvwFfEk
Maybe it was about entertainment and no logic.
@Ishilovehuh


ornicus:
Yall arguing about movie logic? Movie where one soldier will kill a whole battalion? We watch most movies for entertainment, not logic.
Crime › Re: Maiduguri: Death toll in Boko Haram attack at funeral up to sixty-five by anonimi: 5:44am On Jul 29, 2019
eli3d:
When they voted him they never had in mind that the Boko Haram attack will stop anytime soon
Do you know what you are talking abouthuh


Firefire:
I am really worried about the increasing death toll... cry

Buhari said: “If you elect me as the President of Nigeria on February 14 (now March 28), I am assuring you that our government will chase Boko Haram out of Nigeria within two months because it is the responsibility of any reasonable government to secure the lives and property of its citizens.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/polls-campaign-promises-great-expectations/
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Crime › Re: Maiduguri: Death toll in Boko Haram attack at funeral up to sixty-five by anonimi: 5:41am On Jul 29, 2019
InaNla:
RIP
Barawo bubu and his Alliance of Past/Present Crooks, APC took us to the cleaners with their scam undecided embarassed


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Art, Graphics & Video › Re: NL Pictures Album by anonimi(op): 5:25am On Jul 29, 2019
Foreign Affairs › Re: President Putin Dives To Bottom Of Sea In A Submersible To Explore Sunk Sub by anonimi: 5:20am On Jul 29, 2019
seguno2:
What do we Nigerians know except to eat, feast and fcvk?
What else do we know? Science? Mathematics? Adventure? Why should we expect a president who is different from who we are and how we are?
Does that make any sense to youhuh
undecided embarassed


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Properties › Re: Building Collapses In Bariga, Lagos by anonimi: 5:15am On Jul 29, 2019
skukimania:
I am beginning to feel there is something more to these buildings collapse.
What else can there be beyond people and their own government not doing the right thing concerning building plans compliance, testing and monitoring?
What elsehuh
Is it so difficult to think through issues exhaustively in order to identify the root causes and fix them in a sustainable manner?


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Properties › Re: Building Collapses In Bariga, Lagos by anonimi: 5:08am On Jul 29, 2019
Emanodimo:
Nothing much has been done by those agencies set up as regulators.

What's NAFDAC regulating much that paracetamol of then is totally different in size and weight in this country till Abia becomes a home to fake drugs and food items?

What has SON standardizing much that COASTER BISCUIT of 25grm doesn't weigh thesame?

What has Consumer Protection Council doing on substandard to food items esp Milk, other product, equipment?


In one words, no efficiency in any sector, there will always be loopholes... CBN to commercial banks, NHIS to Health Centres, Ministry of Education to schools virtually every facet of Nigerian life

So the solutions lies with the citizen to be a problem solver within their capacity to make things work.
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Properties › Re: Building Collapses In Bariga, Lagos by anonimi: 5:06am On Jul 29, 2019
Lovelyn451:
Lagos and their old ancestral houses everywhere...tchew.
In Kano where you are located, don't they have old ancestral houses?
Is it anyone's fault that you want to disconnect from your root as a tree so you can wither away or disconnect as a river from your source so you can dry up?
Why would you want that for yourselfhuh
Do you know how much money Italy, Greece etc make from their ancestral ruins?


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Properties › Re: Building Collapses In Bariga, Lagos by anonimi: 5:03am On Jul 29, 2019
Politics › Re: Sowore Gives Account Of How Publicly-raised Campaign Funds Were Spent by anonimi: 4:59am On Jul 29, 2019
Politics › Re: AAC Reaffirms Sowore As National Chairman by anonimi: 4:58am On Jul 29, 2019
CioAngels:
This Sowore boy did not see it necessary to say thank you to those who privately campaigned for him and queued behind him to vote him win or loose. Nigerians at the top are wickedly tin gods. To them, a derica of rice, they will scamper and die for them. A time will come No Nigerian poor will go out to vote because they are the real voters. Wicked leaders.
I believe that he did that and even shared the breakdown of the campaign finances after the elections.
Unbelievable transparency in a country led by barawo bubu.
Can there be a better thank you gesture than thathuh


sowore2019:
Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the just concluded general election, has given detailed account of expenditure from public funds he solicited to fund his presidential ambition.

In a detailed infograph released on Sunday, the Sowore 2019 Campaign Organisation revealed that it had spent a grand total of N157,884,936.98 for its campaign activities.

The campaign, which spanned 50 weeks, and cut across 36 states in over 15 countries detailed its expenses to include townhall rentals, which gulped N9.8million for event centres and N3.2million for accessories.

PHOTONEWS: Sowore Releases Account Statement Detailing Campaign Spending Of Publicly Raised Funds
Others include caravan rentals for N8.1million, travel costs N5.5million, mobilisation of attendees N20.2million, refreshment for attendees N3.3million, accommodation of candidate and team members N4.2million, and security and Intellegence N740,000.

Sowore raised monies publicly through a GoFundMe account and a Zenith Bank Account.

http://saharareporters.com/2019/04/07/sowore-gives-account-how-publicly-raised-campaign-funds-were-spent/



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Politics › Re: AAC Reaffirms Sowore As National Chairman by anonimi: 4:38am On Jul 29, 2019
almajiri101:
Keep deceiving yourself and be wasting money all in the name of donation to take back Nigeria. Una case go be like that of biafra and Nnamdi kanu.
Naysayers must have told MLK Jr and other civil rights activists the same thing. Thankfully they did not listen. Otherwise blacks like you would still be lynched and hung on trees for simply being dark skinned.
Enjoy your disillusion.


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Politics › Re: AAC Reaffirms Sowore As National Chairman by anonimi: 9:33am On Jul 28, 2019
AngelicBeing:
Chop I chop party cheesy
...................since too many people are nonchalant about their own society, community and governance that is the prerequisite for accountabilityhuh



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Politics › Re: AAC Reaffirms Sowore As National Chairman by anonimi: 9:31am On Jul 28, 2019
Politics › Re: AAC Reaffirms Sowore As National Chairman by anonimi: 9:30am On Jul 28, 2019
almajiri101:
Who be diz guy sef? Some people like to dey waste time and money... Not in this life someone like this nonentity would become the president of Nigeria
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Politics › Re: Bala Mohammed Weds Natasha Mariana, His Lebanese 2nd Wife (Photos, Video) by anonimi: 9:20am On Jul 28, 2019
seunH:
Can you imagine!!!, And they are the ones marrying these women at the age of 15-18, effectively stopping their education thereby turning them to semi illiterates. Years later, they would start complaining that the woman is an illiterate and the need to marry a lettered/presentable lady. I'm going to tag this story and your comment and show my female students who are already having the intention to drop out for the sake of marriage, that the above fate awaits them!!!!!
Please do.
Thanks.


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Politics › Re: Bala Mohammed Weds Natasha Mariana, His Lebanese 2nd Wife (Photos, Video) by anonimi: 9:15am On Jul 28, 2019
seguno2:
grin cheesy

Like fake comrade Oshiomhole who imported from Cape Verdehuh
Instead of reducing the number of Edo girls going to Italy to be oloshos.
Oloshi_omo_Ole scammed Edo people no be small. undecided
I just pity them.


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Politics › Re: PHOTOS: Buhari Rides Much More Expensive Car Than GEJ by anonimi: 9:09am On Jul 28, 2019
doctokwus:
I witnessed first hand one of the most if not the most parochial,nepotic and utterly incompetent rulers Nigeria may ever have.
I witnessed first hand as the nation descended into anarchy overseen by a man who claimed he could solve the security situation.I also saw the lies and corruption in him when he cleverly failed to publicly declare his assets or show proof he actually had a school certificate,he claimed was stolen.
But the worse was the fact that the man whose 2015 election victory was majorly based on his assumed ability to fight corruption,was not only as corrupt as they come,but in our faces,embraced and elevated known corrupt elements to positions of power,impunity and immunity from any kind of prosecution,something GEJ even in the midst of the corruption pervading his government tried,as little as he could to either hide from our faces or at least made some feeble attempt to make people account for,when exposed and public scrutiny became too loud and unbearable.
Just 2 years into his first tenure,I came to the conclusion that Buhari has no redeeming feature and is a disaster one should not wish on even one's enemies.
I started shouting since then and events since have more than proved to me my assertion from 2017 of him being a failed case,is more than accurate.
I don't support blindly or stupidly and my support for him prior 2015 has been one of the greatest errors I hope to have ever made.
Many thanks for taking time to respond honestly.
I hope that we all learn the lessons of his passage as we did with Abacha.
Cheers and happy Sunday.
Politics › Re: Industrialization Grandplan, Akeredolu’s Remarkable Strides In Ondo State by anonimi: 12:50pm On Jul 26, 2019
Sakamaje:
Sakamaje. One doesn't need to be told that most of those that have commented so far on this thread are on Akeredolu's payroll.
Na so o.
You know how the system rolls to ruin our societies.
For some miserable crumbs from their commonwealth the guy is stealing that should have created jobs and provided education, public services, utilities etc for their dignity.
It is pathetic what ignorance has turned many into.


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Politics › Re: House Of Representatives To Probe Obasanjo, Yar’Adua & Jonathan Power Contracts by anonimi: 10:49am On Jul 26, 2019
oz4real83:
Nice one if truely and thoroughly done. They should avoid being compromised. These past and current presidents killed and keeps killing Nigeria but pretend they did their best or still doing his best (in the case of pmb). Nigeria won't have been in this mess if these people really did what they claimed to have done.
Have you heard the name Elumelu before and all the drama and paparazzi noise about the same investigation in the House of Repshuh

Macteejay2:
After five days of hide and seek, N[b]dudi Elumelu, Committee Chairman on Power and Steel in the House of Representatives, his deputy, Mohammed Jibo and Committee Chairman on Rural Development, Paulinus Igwe reported to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday in connection with N6bn worth of contracts awarded by the Rural Electrification Agency (REA). [/b]

EFCC asked the lawmakers to appear before its investigators last Wednesday but they failed to honour its invitation. They will remain in the custody of the commission until they are arraigned in court tomorrow.

A top official in EFCC told Daily Trust that the anti-graft agency has wrapped up its investigations and tomorrow all the suspects fingered in the scam will be prosecuted. Initially, the anti-corruption agency planned to obtain a court warrant to declare the officials wanted if they fail to come and make official statements.

Opinion

I thought he was a clean man, but let me not be quick to judge him. Let us keep our fingers/legs crossed and see how this "drama" unfolds lipsrsealed

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200905123205721
http://www.nigeriaintel.com/2012/06/30/elumelu-power-probe-where-is-the-report/

IN 2007, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, announced to Nigerians that $16 billion have been invested into the power sector between April 1999 and June 2007 with no result, with the state of the country’s electricity supply getting worse.

Then in January 2008, House passed a resolution mandating its Power and Steel Committee, headed by Godwin Ndudi Elumelu, to probe the power sector over the alleged $16 billion investment.

The committee swiftly swung into action and opened investigation into the mess with a public hearing in March.

That was followed with a marathon tour of project sites across the country to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of the stupendous claims made by the contractors handling the Independent Power Projects (IPP).

That second phase was duly completed in May and the report promptly compiled by the committee and handed over to the leadership of the House.

It was at this point that suspense and high drama crept into the hitherto laudable initiative that had been hailed by majority of Nigerians, as allegation of N100 million bribe was levelled against the Elumelu Committee.

Consequently, The Ethics Committee of the House was ordered to investigate the allegation.

As a result, the House frittered away public enthusiasm over the probe by dissolving the committee and all its standing committees, including the Ethics and Privileges Committee to which the N100 million bribery allegations against Elumelu’s committee was referred.

Many Nigerians believed the last may have been heard of the probe, as the report had been consigned to the archives, where past probes reports had ended.
But due to public criticisms, the Ethics Committee was hurriedly reconstituted and after the investigation, Elumelu and his Committee members were cleared of any wrongdoing.

The Committee said in its report: “From the totality of the testimonies before the committee and from all the surrounding circumstances, the committee arrived at the following: that the allegation of N100 million bribery is unfounded and untrue.”

At last, the Elumelu committee submitted its report, which made some far-reaching recommendations that were uncomfortable to some powerful people in society.

Though it was never debated on the floor of the House or made public, but investigation revealed that the Committee recommended the interrogation of some former and serving public officials by the country’s anti-graft agencies for their roles in the power project contracts.

Among them are former President Olusegun Obasanjo; the then governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu; Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke; then governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof Charles Soludo; then Accountant General of the Federation and now Gombe State Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo, among others.


The committee, in the report, was convinced that the intervention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the matter would compel the indicted officials and institutions to account for their roles in the award and execution of the multi-billion naira contracts.

The Committee allegedly indicted the former boss of Power Holding Company of Nigeria ([PHCN) and Special Adviser to Obasanjo, Mr. Joseph Makoju and recommended a mass purge in PHCN to enhance its performance, as well as a review of all the power projects in the country.

Agagu and Imoke, both former ministers of Ministry of Power and Steel, according to the committee’s findings, awarded contracts to non-existing firms, and must be made to account for their actions.

The panel rejected their explanations on the role they played in the scandal as “unsatisfactory”.

It said that the indicted persons, if found guilty in the trial it recommended, should be barred from holding any public office in future.

In the case of Obasanjo and former Minister of State for Energy, Alhaji Abdulhamid Ahmed, the committee was unsparing in its condemnation of the contentious practice of approving waivers for some contractors and, in a damning indictment, observed that in view of their alleged roles in the entire projects, Obasanjo and Ahmed should be cited for economic sabotage.

The opportunity came when the report and its recommendation came up for consideration during House plenary session.

Curiously, but shockingly, virulent verbal attacks were launched against Elumelu. Nigerians were amazed at the effusive manner majority of members cursed the
recommendations, making many to wonder whether these were the same people that spoke so “patriotically” in praise of the report when it was submitted.

The clearly desperate attempt by a majority of members to cover up some of the principal characters indicted in the report might never be implemented.

When the debate got so emotional, the leadership stopped the House sitting in plenary from throwing away all the 88-recommndations.

It later emerged from an executive session that afternoon with a novel idea: It formed a seven-man committee, to be headed by Aminu Tambuwal, who is Deputy Chief Whip and now Speaker of the House.

That was how the report was cosigned into the dustbin, like the previous ones.

Elumelu was later arrested by the EFCC and charged to court for allegedly mismanaging N5.2 billion rural electrification contract funds, an allegation he was recently cleared of by a Federal High Court in Abuja.

Justice Garba Umar, however, declined to free former Senate Committee Chairman on Power and his then deputy, Nicholas Yahaya Ugbane and Jibo Mohammed, as well as six top officials of REA, who were equally fingered in the fraud, insisting they have a case to answer.

Whereas the lawmakers were accused of awarding the contract to fictitious companies, the civil servants were on the other hand, accused of using their various positions to facilitate the illicit withdrawal of funds provided for the project under the 2008 amended budget of the REA, with the proceed allegedly shared among them.

That was how nothing was heard about the report.

Elumelu won re-election to the House and now chairs the Committee on Health.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Climate Protesters Block Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister's Convoy by anonimi: 10:40am On Jul 26, 2019
Blackfire:
Come and try that in Nigeria with ordinary Councillor......
Is the INEC Chairman not bigger than a Councillor?
What are you saying sefhuh
Stop spoiling our country's name anyhow when your name is not Buhari who keeps insulting Nigerians at the slightest opportunity.

Anambra poll: Buhari, Tinubu, others protest at INEC headquarters
November 28, 2013

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Top leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari defied police and military barricade to march on the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in protest against the shoddy conduct of the governorship poll in Anambra State.

They demanded outright cancellation of the election by INEC.

They also called for the resignation of INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega and dissolution of the management of the electoral body.


Reminiscence of pro-democracy struggle between 1993 and 1998 during the dark days of military era, the leaders trekked for about five kilometers from APC National Secretariat in Blantyre Street in Wuse II part of Abuja to Zambezi Crescent in Maitama District where INEC is located.



The initial stage of the trek was piloted by Governors Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun State) and Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti State) and many members of the National Assembly.

The great trek was later coordinated by a former National Secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change, Engr. Buba Galadima.

But when the procession took off, Buhari and some top leaders of APC withstood the rigours of standing in an open lorry for the protest march.

Others tucked in the lorry were the National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande, the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; a former National Chairman of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu; a former National Chairman of the defunct All Peoples Party(APP), Alhaji Yusuf Ali; ex-Governor Ahmed Sani Yerima, ex-Governor Segun Osoba; ex-Governor Niyi Adebayo; Senator Nazif Suleiman; the Deputy National Secretary of APC, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, Senator Abu Ibrahim; and a former member of the House of Representatives, Comrade Dino Melaye.

Others who participated in the hectic protest were Senator Oluremi Tinubu; Senator (Prof.) Sola Adeyeye; Senator Domingo Obende; Senator Anthony Adeniyi; Senator Ahmed Lawan; Senator Gbenga Asafa; House Minority Leader, Hon. Femi Gbajiabiamila and the Chairman of the House Committee on the Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri.

Others were the Deputy Minority Chief Whip in the House, Hon. Garba Datti; Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Suleiman Kawu; Hon. Umar Bago; Hon. Adeola Solomon; Hon. Yakubu Balogun; Hon. Pally Iriase; Hon. Munir Hakeem; Hon. Abayomi Ayeola; Hon. Taiwo Adelekan; Hon. Adeyinka Ajayi; Hon. Gafar Akintayo; Hon. Sunday Adepoju; Hon. Ajibola Famurewa; the APC National Women Leader, Barrister Sharon Ikeazor, APC National Treasurer, and Hajiya Sadiat Umar Farouk,

Waving brooms amidst blare of revolutionary songs, traffic was brought to a standstill for about two hours along the ever busy Ademola Adetokunbo Street in Wuse II.


https://thenationonlineng.net/apc-leaders-protest-anambra-poll-inec/
Politics › Re: Presidency Reacts To Video Of Grace Taku, Abducted Aid Worker by anonimi: 10:29am On Jul 26, 2019
Johnkay01:
Hmmm

Bokoharam is about to receive another funds from Federal Government to buy more weapons.
Sharp guy cheesy cheesy
Collecting billions of dollars for terrorists that have been technically defeated since December 2015. shocked


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Politics › Re: Presidency Reacts To Video Of Grace Taku, Abducted Aid Worker by anonimi: 10:27am On Jul 26, 2019
yanabasee:
Buhari having a swell time on his next level.... Wailers should go hug tinubu's hairy axx!!
Are you the one in the middle with kwashiokorhuh

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