Parachoko: No other Government in the history of Nigeria has fought Corruption like Asiwaju Government is doing
Yeah right.
Is this how your master strategist leader looter of Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC is fighting corruption
chisomkachy: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn the alleged money laundering suit it filed at the Federal High Court against Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa.
Naija News understands that the anti-graft did not give any particular reason for its application for withdrawal.
Following the application to withdraw, Justice Nicholas Oweibo discharged the ‘lien/Post No Debit’ placed on Obasa’s three accounts in Standard Chartered Bank.
The accounts are (US Dollars) 0001852063; (Current) 0001852056 and (Saving) 5002309624.
The judge also set aside the ex-parte orders he made on September 15, 2020, which led to the freezing of the accounts.
Recall that the court on September 15, 2020, granted an interim order freezing Obasa’s accounts following the EFCC’s application in a suit marked FHC/LCS/1064/2020.
The agency had said it was investigating the Speaker for the alleged offences of conspiracy, diversion of funds, abuse of office and money laundering.
But Justice Oweibo, on August 16, 2023, heard the application to unfreeze the accounts in his chamber.
During the hearing, the EFCC was represented by Mr. Sulaiman I. Sulaiman, while Obasa was represented by Mr. Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN).
The EFCC lawyer told the court that the application to unfreeze the accounts was pursuant to Section 44(2)(K) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Sections 26, 29 and 34 (1) of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004, and under the court’s inherent jurisdiction.
Section 44 of the Constitution concerns constitutional rights to property.
Justice Oweibo held: “It is hereby ordered that an order is hereby granted to the respondent/applicant setting aside the ex-parte orders of this court made on the 15th day of September 2020 upon the ex-parte motion of the Applicant/ Respondent in relation the funds of the Respondent/Applicant domiciled in the accounts stated in the following schedule:
“ACCOUNT NAME, FINANCIAL ACCOUNT INSTITUTIONS, TYPE OF ACCOUNT, 1. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered, (US Dollars) 0001852063 2. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Current) 0001852056 3. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Saving) 5002309624.
“Issued at Lagos, under the seal of this Honourable Court and by the hands of the Presiding Judge this 16th day of August 2023.”
Odobaone: Stoop-eeeeed government. Everything about Nigerian leaders are lyys
If they are not like the people who allow them to emerge into public office, then why would they be OUR leaders
Is everything about 200 million Nigerians not lyys, which we use to rationalise our tribalistic rotation and zoning of power in local, state and federal governments to share the national cake of corruption?
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has announced that the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have been successfully re-streamed after a nine-month rehabilitation exercise conducted by its in-house engineers and technicians.
The corporation, in a statement, noted that both plants commenced preliminary production of petroleum products after successful test-runs, adding that while PHRC was ramping up its operation to about 60 per cent of its 210,000 barrels per day capacity, WRPC production was projected to hit 80 per cent of its installed 125,000bpd capacity.
The NNPC said the Port Harcourt refinery was projected to boost the nation’s local refining capacity with a product yield of five million litres of petrol per day, while Warri refinery would contribute 3.5 million litres of petrol.
Providing insight into the rehabilitation exercise, the NNPC noted that it had to adopt the phased rehabilitation strategy after the Original Refinery Builders, who were initially contacted for the project came up with unfavorable terms.
It said, “Though a decision was taken in 2011 to rehabilitate all the refineries using the ORB of each of the refineries, we were impelled to switch strategy after the ORBs declined participation and nominated some partners in their stead who came up with outrageously unfavorable terms.”
The NNPC stated that the nominated partners, as sole-bidders, came up with humongous price offers after two years of thorough and exhaustive scope of work definition and price negotiations.
It added that the proxies were also unwilling to provide post rehabilitation performance guarantees.
The corporation said, “The phased rehabilitation strategy which entailed phased and simultaneous rehabilitation of all the refineries using in-house and locally available resources in line with the spirit and letter of the Nigerian Content Law, also involved the use of Original Equipment Manufacturer representatives to effect major equipment overhaul and rehabilitation.”
The national oil firm said the phased rehabilitation programme, which started in October 2014 after the required funding stream was established, created a 70 per cent reduction in costs which helped largely in mitigating the financing challenges of refinery rehabilitation.
It observed that with the successful re-streaming of the PHRC and WRPC, attention has now moved to the 110,000 barrels per day Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company which was billed to come on stream soon.
saintopus: Dec 06, 2024 The PH Refinery ships its first export of petroleum products to Dubai.
The company is expected to load the cargo in the coming days onboard the Wonder Star MR1 ship, signalling the commencement of operations at the plant and the exportation of petroleum products.
The ship will load 15,000 metric tons of the product, which translates to about 13.6 million litres.
Although the volume coming from the NNPC into the global market is still small, the development has the potential to impact the Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) benchmarks in the future while changing the market realities for Atlantic Basin exporters into Nigeria and other regions.
The sulfur content of the export by NNPC stands at 0.26 per cent per wt and a 0.918 g/ml density at 15°C, according to Kpler, a data and analysis company.
The cargo was reportedly sold at an $8.50/t discount to the NWE 0.5 per cent benchmark on a Free on Board (FOB) basis.
Kpler reported that the development would help displace imports from traditional suppliers in Africa and Europe, as Nigeria’s falling clean product (CPP) imports are already decreasing, dragging imports into the wider West Africa region lower as well.
Mariangeles: With the amount of chips I got with just three plantains, I'd say it's worth it to make your own plantain chips when you feel like having some, or just keeping for snacking.
So, would you make your own plantain chips, or would you rather buy?
Instead of frying them, why not bake or air fry them to reduce cholesterol and obesity
MarketDispatch: It is actually big business that can be be started small
How much taxes can be raised from akara sellers to pay for Remi Tinubu’s luxury lifestyle and repay the loans of her balablu, bulaba clueless husband? The husband who said he was not borrowing because he hit a higher revenue target in August.
chisomkachy: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.
The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.
Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.
The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.
How many teachers and civil servants have been employed by Soludo to make education free for all Anambra children and make water available to all households?
Abi Anambra people are happy to drink water from shitty boreholes like in other parts of Nigeria
The federal government is not responsible for water supply in cities and towns. This is the responsibility of states.
500 gallons of water go for N20k. Multiply by 4 in a month, that's N80k. By extrapolation, that's N960k in a year on water alone. Why? Because the governor believes that clean and accessible water is the least of his worries. Yet they prance around like Enugu is Abuja even though the red muddy soil will have residents looking like they went tomb-raiding at night.
But then, considering where it was before Peter Mba, one can understand the accolades being that he moved the town from 16th Century to 17th Century but not anywhere near 20th Century. 21st Century is a stretch. EEDC? The worst of all.
The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”
While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.
He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’
phemray: Most people underated those business because they have degrees but not knowing that there are a lot of opportunities in those businesses called poverty line business.
Most of them have house of Thier own wether Mini flat or 2bed and eating well than a salary earners with 250k, 300k per month raising shoulders.
If everyone is selling akara, as Remi Tinubu advised because her husband failed to create jobs, then who will buy the oversupplied akara?
Putinofrussia: Oga Sukueku,have you pondered on whether the budget allocation can get to everybody. Is it not proper that she gives the downtrodden whom the allocated budget would never flow down to.
Are akara sellers demons that some of you are disparaging them. I have heard some akara sellers using this low level business to send their children to Universities. Most people disparaging akara sellers because of politics should cover their faces with soiled clothes because they have erred. The world is all about the rich,not rich and the downtrodden and these three levels are in all the nations of the world. Should we only cater and talk about the first two and leave the third?
Akara sellers are not demons.
The agbero wife of your master strategist identified those who are demons in her message below of several years ago.
joy4news: The Redeemed Christian Church of God has reacted to social media comments questioning its ordination of Senator Remi Tinubu as a pastor.
Quest Times understands this is coming after a video showing the Senator representing Lagos Central at the National Assembly talking about the ]b]Igbo and their alleged refusal to align with Lagos’ local politics[/b], resurfaced on social media.
According to the wife of the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, the Igbo residing in the state “were proving difficult despite the love shown to them”.
“We will entreat all the deities of Lagos to chase Igbo people out. Igbo who didn’t marry Yoruba, we will inherit them. Given how much we love Igbo, you now want to spoil everything.
Lithiumite: And who said the givt ministry or agency responsible for these things you mentioned aren't doing anything....if we were to rely only on govt,then why do we need NGOs and charity drives......why do you have foundations abroad when tbeir govts are so effective......are you reasonably hearing yourself.
Are you reasonable hearing yourself defend this indefensible balablu bulaba town hall BS.
Can you please share examples from your abroad where presidents fail to deliver 50 million jobs promised, and their First Lady advises the jobless people to do kulikuli business, while she and her husband blow billions on luxury items?
Are you really for real?
BeeBeeOoh: The First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu, has urged Nigerian youths to be hard-working, saying, “There is no food for lazy man.”
Mrs Tinubu said this during a courtesy visit to the palace of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, in Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Thursday.
She noted that while the Tinubu-led administration is working hard to provide sustainable solutions to the current challenges facing the country, Nigerians should also work hard to provide for themselves.
The first lady maintained that the government will do all it takes to ensure that Nigerians are not disappointed and called for patience with Tinubu’s administration.
Mrs Tinubu said: “There is no food for the lazy man; even God worked for six days and rested on the seventh day.
“Nigeria is a land that’s flowing with milk and honey, but we need to sustain it for generations to come.
“God has richly blessed my family before getting to the presidency and we are content with what we have.
“What is happening in the country, we are just two years into our administration, we are not the cause of the current situation. We are trying to fix and secure the future.
“I have embarked on several journeys but it seems that people are not seeing what God is doing in the land. Nations across the globe want to do business with us, legally, on the table. There is a government in power now that they know it is accountable.
“We are trying all our efforts to ensure that the economy is stabilised and the masses are living meaningful lives since the removal of fuel subsidy.”
Abcruz: If they came up with the idea and developed the drug with funding from US, I believe they will likely have a percentage ownership of 40-50%.
E be like say you no read the OP that includes this excerpt below.
The study, which is being conducted in collaboration with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami, USA, will enroll 20 women diagnosed with specific types of advanced ovarian cancer.
forexprophet: As long as USA is involved, it will be just maintenance drugs NOT CURATIVE. They will never allow CURATIVE drugs. Cos that will end their business. It's time Africa stands Alone to make drugs by African for African.
How will this ever happen when we allow the worst rogues to be our leaders looters
Are we not having the highest number of children out of school?
Are the ones who are lucky to be in school not mostly in private establishments that are hardly monitored, because governors and LGA chairmen steal money that should employ enough well paid teachers and other professionals for the education system? This is despite Obasanjo/Atiku administration’s UBEC matching federal funds to help states achieve nine years of free and compulsory education for all children.
So how can we do any meaningful research in Nigeria and Africa?
Dpsychologist: The study, which is being conducted in collaboration with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami, USA, will enroll 20 women diagnosed with specific types of advanced ovarian cancer.
The devil is in the details, truly.
The headline made me think the treatment was researched and developed by the Ahmadu Bello university.
1vandragon: You see the dingbat ehhh... he is the worse thing that has happened to this country in the last 26 years.
What is even more annoying is the arrogance he conducts himself. He knows he is lying and he knows that people know that he is lying, but he will continue lying and rubbing it in the face of the masses.
He must be relying on whatever magic charm his Iyaloja Oshodi mother gave him. The only thing is how the mom is called Mogaji and he is called Tinubu.
WorkTheTalk: Pray you don't have a drug lord fingered in certificates forgery as your president. Once that happens, your country becomes CORRUPTION UNLIMITED.
Since you know that prayer alone achieves nothing, why don’t you say:
TemporaryHansel: Knowing how Nigeria functions, it won't be surprising to find out only the VC and other senior lecturers, and folks from the private sector are allowed to make use of the ultra modern hospital donated by Mrs. Alalakija.
TopBanter: It is the core North that is "bleeding" and this is because the people of the region and the leaders (religious, political, military, cultural etc) are allies of bandits and terrorists when they should be their nemesis.
Meaning banditry and terrorism has now become a way of life in the NE and NW.
What the core North don't understand is that they can never achieve a takeover of the South which is what I believe they want.
Simply impossible because the South has far more value and important people. Nigeria is heading for separation for sure. Like Sudan.
How can there be a bigger ally of terrorists, kidnappers, drug traffickers and other criminals than Jagaban of Borgu?
He and other Yoruba ACN leaders invited Fulanis to make Nigeria ungovernable for Jonathan, so he could package Buhari as APC messiah to end 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace and stability with cheap petrol, as well as cheap dollars with less debt burden.
anonimi: What group of politicians is more wicked than A-looter Propaganda Conmen, APC
How we brought In Fulani militias from Mali, Sierra Leone, Senegal, others to win 2015 election — Kawu Baraje - mailchi.mp/businessday.ng…
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EkoIle1: It is now abundantly clear that President Jonathan has finally bared his fangs confirming what was widely speculated. By declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, he has intimidated and emasculated the governors of these States. We are witnessing a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.
The body language of the Jonathan administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015.
Borno and Yobe states have been literally under armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.
Let me be quick to say that this administration will be setting in motion a chain of events the end of which nobody can predict. Experience has shown clearly that actions, such as this one under consideration, often give root to radical ideologies and extremist tendencies, a direct opposite of the intended outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness. The present scenario playing out in the country reminds one of the classical case of a mediocre craftsman who continually blames the tools of his trade for his serial failure but refuses to look at his pitiable state with a view to adjusting.
It has become crystal clear, even to the most incurable optimist, that the country is adrift. That the ship of the Nigerian state is rudderless is clearly evident in the consistent and continual attacks ferociously executed by elements often referred to as the insurgents in some northern states of the federation, particularly Borno and Yobe states respectively.
Indeed, no part of the country is immune from the virulent but easy attacks, veritable indices of a failing state. Unfortunately, the tenuous and uncoordinated approach adopted by this government betrays a grossly incompetent disposition which stands at variance with current realities in the country, nay the international community where acts of terrorism are engaged and contained. No Governor of a state in Nigeria is the Chief Security Officer. Putting the blame on the Governors, who have been effectively emasculated, for the abysmal performance of the government at the centre which controls all these security agencies, smacks of ignorance and mischief.
SixSeven: Most of the parties are not interested in building, the same fate that befell Labour Party after 2023.
They didn't even listen to Obi when there was suggestions they don't take the national assembly cars. Everyone is just waiting for their turn to take out of the pie.
Are you talking about this Obi, or there is another one
NLCreator: Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
And this woman is supposed to be an RCCG pastor for God's sake o.
Why does God allow demonic people like this to claim pastorship in His Kingdom
How is this akara business a replacement for the 50 million jobs promised by her balablu, bulaba town hall crier husband?
Wickedness of the hihest level.
chisomkachy: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.
The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.
Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.
The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.
ejieddy: Festus Keyamo is competent... I must confess.
I must confess that he is competent just as Stella Oduah was with the same portfolio.
The only difference is that Stella did not have to defend a drug dealer with balablu, bulaba town hall incoherent stories like Keyamo did below.
Racoon: Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.
Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.
His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.
The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993
It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.
Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.
He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy to be in that block of flats too.
“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account.’’
500 gallons of water go for N20k. Multiply by 4 in a month, that's N80k. By extrapolation, that's N960k in a year on water alone. Why? Because the governor believes that clean and accessible water is the least of his worries. Yet they prance around like Enugu is Abuja even though the red muddy soil will have residents looking like they went tomb-raiding at night.
But then, considering where it was before Peter Mba, one can understand the accolades being that he moved the town from 16th Century to 17th Century but not anywhere near 20th Century. 21st Century is a stretch. EEDC? The worst of all.
The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”
While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.
He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’
Politics › Re: Refinery Maintenance Fraud: EFCC Recovers ₦38.66 Billion, Other Properties by anonimi: 11:47am On Jun 28
