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ChappyChase:
I no even know why them no arrest justice abang self

ORACLE1975:
too bad

DrRasheed:
Bunch of idiots looting the nation per second. I recommend military rule for the dying nation.

maryjan8:
While people are suffering,
Non payment of salary everywhere

Progressive01:
Tired of reading news about the scandalous amount these layabouts, who's work goes beyond nothing but tweeting, sitting in the chambers and reading newspapers while others sleep and snore, collect.

What I wanna see is a bell around the cat's neck.

Next!

jeffizy:
Getting out of recession will be faster if only the national assembly budget can be cut down to just sitting allowance.

I wonder if those making laws for the country ever think of how the common citizens are faring and how people feel when they read about all these payouts.

The real 'Alpha House': Yes, this is where some Senators actually live

Paint peeling off the walls. Sheets for curtains. Broken blinds. A mangled wicker chair made settable with a board. An ancient stove with a giant hole. And there's also the pile of underwear in the living room.
What looks and feels like the most rundown frat house on campus is actually the Capitol Hill home of some of the most powerful men in Washington.
"Welcome to the Omega House," joked Dick Durbin, who is the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate.
"This is where I've lived for 31 years," boasted Chuck Schumer, the Senate's third-ranking Democrat.
It's hard to believe half the Senate Democratic leadership lives in these conditions, together. But they have for decades.
When Rep. George Miller, D-California, the third roommate and landlord, came in the door, he immediately ribbed the Senators as deadbeats.
"You guys get the rent from them?" asked Miller.
The house is so legendary that it inspired the new television series "Alpha House" on Amazon.com.
'How can this work?'
None of the real "Alpha House" members has seen the show, so they said. But they were all quick to say the characters -- who are Republicans -- are nothing like them.
"How can this work?" asked Durbin. "Republican Senators trying to make out they would live in a place like this."
They have a point, which may be why the creators of "Alpha House" cleaned up the fictitious home.
Maybe it's that life is stranger than fiction. Or, more likely, no one would believe prominent politicians would live the way they do in the real Alpha House.
"Wait a minute!" exclaimed Miller, the owner, when we pointed that out.
But he was feigning offense. Thirty seconds with the three and it is clear they revel in the notoriety of their living conditions.
Still, it has been years since they all gathered for this kind of interview and tour of the Capitol Hill row house.
The odd living arrangement began in the early '80s -- when Miller's family decided they no longer wanted to live in D.C., and moved back to the California district he represents.
Miller was living in the house alone until one night when there was a snowstorm and former Democratic Rep. Marty Russo of Illinois stayed over so he could walk to the Capitol.
They decided to make it permanent since it was convenient. They soon convinced Schumer, a House member at the time, to move in.
They had other roommates over the years that have since retired or been defeated, including former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, when he was in Congress.
But what is most striking about the place, aside from the mess, is that it's a time warp. They've done virtually nothing to update since Miller's family left three decades ago.
Jackson Browne and the Beatles
Records -- real vinyl -- line the bookshelf. One of them was Jackson Browne's "The Pretender," which came out in 1976. Another was an old Beatles album.
"The same exact records are there now as the day I moved in, 1982, 31 years ago," Schumer said.
Then there are the dust-covered books that were bestsellers in the early '80s.
The furniture is a hodgepodge of what the lawmakers salvaged from various relatives and other parts of their lives.
Durbin took one of the couches from his son, who was about to throw it out.
"He put it out in the trash -- it had to be 12, 14 years ago -- and I said it's better than anything we have. So we reclaimed it," Durbin recalled.
He said the coffee table is 46 years old -- the first piece of furniture Durbin and his wife bought when they were married.
"We're not afraid of the burglars," Miller said, "because we've been burgled twice and they took nothing."
The living room, virtually the only room on the first floor of the house, also serves as Schumer's bedroom. But "bedroom" is a generous term.
He sleeps on a mattress next to the kitchen. He half-made his bed for our visit, which Durbin said was a lot more effort than Schumer usually makes.
"I spruced it up for your coming here," joked Schumer.

Too much information

There is no bathroom on the first floor, so Schumer has to use one on the second floor, where Miller and Durbin have actual bedrooms, with doors.
"When you're my age, at four in the morning to trudge up the stairs to the bathroom, it's no picnic," Schumer shared.
Next to his mattress is a door to the outside, with broken and bent blinds.
"I can see the weather without having to get out of bed," Schumer said. "It's a special effect."
His ties are strewn over an old couch, which serves as his makeshift closet.
And then, there's the kitchen.
The freezer doesn't work. The refrigerator is a sight to behold, but exactly what you would imagine based on the rest of the house: beer cans and old food, including a baguette so hard that Schumer grabbed it and demonstrated how you can use it as a weapon.
The stovetop has a giant hole, which Miller said, perhaps in jest, was made by the rats they've found in the house -- which they still have traps around to catch.
"I thought the rats were in the Senate. I didn't know they came to the House," Miller said without missing a beat.
Since the only visible cookware is a kettle so rusty and old that Miller joked it was a gift from Ben Franklin, the three men resort to the easiest meal possible: cold cereal.
The counter is covered with bulk boxes of Raisin Bran, Mini-Wheats and Kashi. And there is a giant plastic bag of sweetener, which looks like it has been swiped from various fundraisers along the way.
"I prefer Raisin Bran. But I like the Mini-Wheats," Durbin said.
"When you come home late at night and you have to still stay up to work, my incentive? Some people like a nice, you know, jigger of scotch. Mine is Raisin Bran. It keeps me up and I read the newspapers," Schumer said.

Early risers

What is a typical day in the house like?
Durbin is usually the first one up and out at 5:30 a.m. when he goes to the gym. Next is Miller, who usually takes a morning walk around the monuments.
"They leave while I'm sleeping. We do it by design. We hate each other," Schumer said, laughing.

In all seriousness, they don't do much hanging out together here. Unlike the "Alpha House" characters, the real lawmakers are rarely home at the same time.
"He comes in at 12 o'clock at night talking on his cell phone," Miller said of Schumer. "Half his staff must be in Hawaii for picking up the phone at midnight."
It is hard to believe such high-profile politicians live in these conditions.
"When my wife comes, she will not stay here," Schumer confessed.
What helps make it work is that [size=13pt]they're only in Washington about three nights a week.[/size]
And, Miller said, they're good friends.
"We all have different schedules. We all have different interests. You can come back here. You can catch up with one another. You can catch up with the House and the Senate. We know one another's families, so you know what the kids are doing. You know what the grandkids are doing," Miller said.
"I might add location, location, location," Durbin interjected. The house is just blocks from the Capitol.
"It is close to where we work. And it's easy to get back and forth, and I think that has spoiled us," Durbin said.
Durbin sums up another reason he's lived here for 21 years, and Schumer for 31, this way:
"We love it. It's home."

From: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/04/politics/real-alpha-house/

HungerBAD:
He, however expressed misgiving that most of the lawmakers do not have constituency offices thus, cutting them away from their constituents.
Some of the lawmakers contacted insisted that the money was part of their legitimate earnings but they declined further comment.

lielbree:
When will this govt focus on the change it promised??

FriendChoice:
Bola Tinubu Hails Withdrawal Of Forgery Charges Against Saraki & Ekweremadu

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/212357-tinubu-hails-withdrawal-forgery-charges-saraki-ekweremadu.html

jnizzle:
Which african president flys commerical? Do americans complain dat obama doesn't fly commercia? Let's just say aving a presidential jet comes wit d job!

Uganda's Museveni fumes with Kenya Airways. He's not the first; the story of African VIP run-ins with airlines


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AN incident where a commercial aircraft failed to cater for Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has threatened to blow into a diplomatic headache, as Kenyan legislators prepare a probe.

Private Kenyan daily The Standard reported that the fallout stems from an alleged request last month by Museveni to Kenyan flag carrier Kenya Airways to change its flight schedule to accommodate his intent to fly to Nairobi from his rural home for a high-profile heads of state summit.

Kenya Airways, known by its international designator code KQ, did not oblige, forcing Museveni to turn to Ethiopian Airlines on which he arrived for the meeting.

More from: http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-03-16-no-love-lost-in-the-air-african-vip-run-ins-with-airlines

TheFreeOne:
DSS has a penchant for dishing out lies.

Only fools believes Daura Secret Service.

jnizzle:
I do understand bt to be honest.....I don't think our president is eva gonna fly a commercial air line even if its one of d best in d world

HungerBAD:
Man Of Steel.

About time somebody stood up to our very corrupt Judiciary. Buhari should not let it be business as usual,and those crying that Buhari is a dictator,will one day look back and thank him.

Guseh:
Member representing Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu federal constituency in Kogi state, Honorable , Paul Teejay Yusuf(PDP) published his monthly allowance.... about #10.58 million naira monthly
=about #127,000,000 annually.



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priceaction:
This will really dent his chances because his running mates and wife were not happy with that and they have voiced out against. That is what media can do to in an advanced countries. I am sure this is not the end. Another shocker will soon leak.

omohayek:
It's too bad this forum is full of cretins who are all too willing to automatically upvote any old nonsense you spew, simply out of juvenile partisan sympathy. How does Clinton winning over college-age white voters as well as white women translate into Nigerian-style tribalism? Are these white women not the wives, sisters and daughters of the white men who support Trump, and are these working-class white men not the same ones who backed Bill Clinton back when he ran for president? Isn't Hillary Clinton herself just as white as Donald Trump? Are you so mentally deficient that you haven't cottoned on to the ideological differences between Trump and Clinton on trade, immigration, NATO, etc.? What exactly do you think the debates are all about anyway? When was the last time any Nigerian politicians articulated their ideological differences, or had to defend any concrete policies before a questioning electorate?

Don't derail this discussion with your usual nonsensical pictures and irrelevant walls of text. You and reflexively partisan, transparently tribalistic nuisances like yourself are the reason why Nigerian politics is the cesspool that it is; don't try to pretend that the abysmally level of what passes for "politics" with you and so many Nigerians is the norm in better-run places.

awelekiti:
I'm half Ondo, half Ekiti and if you call me an indigene of old Ondo State, you're not wrong. Most of the Muslims in Ekiti are visitors from the neighbouring kwara and osun, who came to settle amongst us. There's no ancestral Muslim indigene in Ekiti. In Ondo state, the only area where you can find a handful of Muslim is Ondo town, especially the area where gov mimiko hails from. Most of his family members, including the governor are converted Muslims, except his brother who's professor. We have a few of them from owo too and the number cannot decide the outcome of election in ondo,even if the Muslim non-indigenes joined force with them. However, Christian or Muslim it doesn't matter because we're ever united in the state. The call for religious matter in political decision shouldn't arise in the first place. All we need is a good candidate that can serve us well.

Evangelical leaders stick with Trump, focus on defeating Clinton

Leaders of religious conservative groups largely stood behind Donald Trump on Saturday, the day after vulgar sexual comments he made about women surfaced online, but some expressed concern that the U.S. Republican presidential nominee's remarks could depress evangelical turnout on Election Day.

Most evangelical leaders did not condemn Trump, and instead pointed to an urgent need to prevent Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency, reshaping the Supreme Court and implementing liberal policies.

More from: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-evangelicals-idUSKCN1280WE

photoshoot:
No picture? Tired? You expected a blank link you would masturbatte to using your pictures as aid?

SuperS1Panther:
The powers of the SSS to arrest with or without warrant are both statutory and derivative. For the avoidance of doubt, section 3 (1) of the SSS instrument I of 1999 provides: "For the purpose of facilitating the discharge of its functions under these instrument, personnel of the State Security Services are hereby conferred with the powers of Superior Police officer in respect of searches and arrest". In simple terms, the law vests on the personnel of the SSS the same powers of arrest vested on officers of the NPF.

Mynd44:
http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=218192

Ovamboland:
Where is the resources to mount surveillance on ALL judges at the same time and arrest all at the same time?

anonimi:
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SuperS1Panther:
Section 2 of the Instrument provides that the SSS shall in pursuance of the above objective perform certain functions some of which include the prevention, detection and investigation of economic crimes of National security dimension, terrorist activities, inter-group conflicts, threats to law and order, provision of protective security, vetting etc

TonyeBarcanista:
Exactly!

These people are creating a Monster out of a human (Buhari) by encouraging him to do as he wishes, trampling our laws and exercise powers that isn't his. This is like what happened in Germany during the Hitler era until he became a "god".

Enabling Act of 1933

The Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) was a 1933 Weimar Constitution amendment that gave the German Cabinet – in effect, Chancellor Adolf Hitler – the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. It passed in both the Reichstag and Reichsrat on 24 March 1933, and was signed by President Paul von Hindenburg later that day. The act stated that it was to last four years unless renewed by the Reichstag, which occurred twice. The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers. It followed on the heels of the Reichstag Fire Decree, which abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the Reich government. The combined effect of the two laws was to transform Hitler's government into a de facto legal dictatorship.

The formal name of the Enabling Act was Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich ("Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich". It was enacted by the Reichstag (meeting at the Kroll Opera House), where non-Nazi members were surrounded and threatened by members of SA and SS. The Communists had already been repressed and were not able to vote, and some Social Democrats were kept away as well. In the end, nearly all of those present voted for the act, except for the Social Democrats, who voted against it.

More from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

SuperS1Panther:
PArt of the constitutional role of DSS is detection and investigation of economic crime against the State. Is corruption not part of economic crime? DSS is empowered Sir.

Mynd44:
http://wwwhttp://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id=218192

wwwhttp’s server DNS address could not be found.
Did you mean http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/es/text.jsp?
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Ryabcool:
you keep posting the same articles on different threads. I'm not against your opinion of him, but posting the same thing over and over only infuriates instead of attracting people to agree with your views.

vanbonattel:
The people that cause the problem are yorubas, they can never vote anyone who is not yoruba. Check the last presidential election.

omohayek:
Rubbish! Is that how Barack Obama got in the White House, or why London is now led by a Muslim with working-class Pakistani parents? You need to face facts:

Hillary Clinton is struggling to hold the Obama coalition together.

For the last few weeks, most of the attention has been on Clinton’s struggles with young voters. She’s currently polling significantly lower than Barack Obama did in 2008 and 2012 with voters under 30 and even lower than John “Mr. Windsurfing” Kerry in 2004. But young voters aren’t the only key demographic that Clinton is having difficulty reaching. According to Leslie Wimes, the president of the Florida-based Democratic African-American Women Caucus, the Clinton campaign “is in panic mode” over black voter turnout.
“They have a big problem because they thought Obama and Michelle saying, ‘Hey, go vote for Hillary’ would do it. But it’s not enough,” Wimes told Politico. “In the end, we don’t vote against somebody. We vote for somebody.” Clinton is polling in the low 80s with black voters in Florida. Trump is only at 5 percent (lol) but turnout, not voter share, is what’s keeping Clinton’s Florida team up at night.

Clinton’s strategy has largely been to make the case that Donald Trump is not fit for the presidency, rather than to explicitly argue why her policies make her the better choice. The Clinton campaign has been fixated on reaching college-educated white voters, who tend to lean Republican, because it expects to lose non-college-educated voters by a historic margin. There’s an O. Henry-ish dimension to Clinton’s strategy, though: By targeting one voting bloc—well-off Republicans—she’s turned off key cogs of the Obama coalition.

Panic or not, there aren’t really signs that Clinton is changing tactics, however. In the first debate, Clinton mostly stuck to her anti-Trump strategy. And, with 40 days until the election, she’s hoping that surrogates like Barack and Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders can lift her with Obama coalition voters. Still, there’s no reason why Clinton can’t take an all-of-the-above approach in the final month of the campaign, arguing that Trump is a threat to democracy, relying on popular surrogates, and making the case for why she would be the best president for black Americans.

From: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/137290/hillary-clinton-struggling-hold-obama-coalition-together

Ryabcool:
dude! Stop spamming!

Genius101:
e don tey wey naija don dey frustrate person unto sch matter

Mynd44:
See attached picture as regards a search warrant. Get your facts right please, this is really not cool

awelekiti:
They should know Ondo isn't like other states where you find Muslims everywhere. Their population in Ondo is less thank 5%.

babyfaceafrica:
when will Nigeria stop this tribal and religious voting pattern?...chai