................are way better and have more integrity than the clueless current tenant of Aso Rock.
The one who packaged Buhari as APC change messiah four years after calling him expired.
What aspect of Nigeria is better than when PDP deregulation and privatisation politicians gave us 16 years of widespread prosperity with hugh employment, low interest rates, low insecurity, low corruption etc
Prospect of a possible alliance between the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, was dashed yesterday in Kano as the leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu described CPC as parading “expired leadership.”
Tinubu told ACN supporters in Kano during the party’s Presidential rally that: “What Nigerians need now is a transformation in leadership” as obtained in the advanced economy.
The two-term Governor of Lagos State explained that the leadership of ACN was offering Nigeria the brilliance of Nuhu Ribadu who, he said, is in the class of Nicolas Sarkozi of France, David Cameron of Britain, Medvedev of Russia and Barack Obama of the United States of America.
“What has CPC got to offer? We certainly don’t need expired leadership as we are offering the best in terms of brilliance, courage and patriotism in the class of Sarkozi of France, David Cameron of Britain and Barack Obama of the USA.”
Tinubu’s position came on the heels of Ribadu’s declaration penultimate week in Kaduna when he hinted during a political rally of a joint ticket between the two opposition parties to confront the dominance of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The national leader of ACN criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for shying away from the national debate held last Friday, stressing that”that singular act exposed Jonathan as a coward who has nothing to offer.”
Delivering the promises he made before Nigerians allowed him to continue APC extreme poverty shege, started in 2015 by his expired Buhari.
God is indeed wonderful, innit
anonimi: World Bank offers Nigeria forex rate advice, as Tinubu eyes N200/Dollar rate
April 23, 2023
The President-elect said he would work with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to *bring down the exchange rate to N200 in his first term.*
“My administration will collaborate with the Central Bank to harmonize the fiscal and monetary policy to achieve immediate stabilization of the value of the naira against the US dollars and other currencies and in the short term, strengthen the naira by boosting the supply of foreign currency and moderating demand.
“The short-term goal is to achieve a naira/dollar rate of 300 naira/US$ and gradually achieve a less than 200 naira rate over the next four years, Tinubu stated.
Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has promised to ensure that the naira would be equal to the dollar in value if voted into office.
NAN reports that Buhari said this on Monday during the south-east presidential rally of the party at Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri.
“It is sad that the value of the naira has dropped to more than N230 to one dollar. This does not speak well for the nation’s economy,” he said.
He urged the people to vote for APC, noting that he would ensure that corruption was tackled headlong if elected.
geoworldedu: I laugh when I here people talk about minimum wage. Minimum wage applies to less than 5% of companies and organisations in Nigeria.
Majority of salary payers still pay 20k to 30 k as salaries and their are millions of such workers. Factory workers, majority of teachers, etc still earn below that minimum wage. It only applies to government workers who are less than 5% of the populace.
What were YOUR majority of salary payers giving your millions of workers in 1999? What were they paying the workers 16 years later when Tinubu and APC used Buhari to replace PDP high employment widespread prosperity
amaridigital: And same Rice was #1500 before PDP took over in 1999. That's over 400% increase.
What was the minimum wage in 1999, and what was it 16 years later when PDP’s deregulation and privatisation policies grew the economy multiple times to be the biggest in Africa
Your point will ONLY be valid IF Subsidy wasn’t removed.
ALL Presidential candidates in last election AGREED to remove the CANCER choking our economy (subsidy)
Why are you telling propaganda lies against Tinubu
Tinubu did not say he was going to break the Social Contract with 200 million Nigerians at any time.
adenigga: Interestingly, Tinubu, as the national leader of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), condemned the removal of petrol subsidy by the administration of Goodluck Jonathan in January 2012.
He called it “Jonathan tax” and accused the then president of breaching his social contract with the people.
In a piece titled, ‘Removal of oil subsidy: President Jonathan breaks social contract with the people’, he noted that with the subsidy removal, the people would become “enslaved to greater misery.”
The piece read partly: “By taking this step, the government has tossed the people into the depths of the midnight sea. Government demands the people swim to safety under their own power, claiming the attendant hardship will build character and add efficiency to the national economy.
“It is easy to make these claims when one is dry and on shore. Government would have us believe that every hardship it manufactures for the people to endure is a good thing. This is a lie. The hardships they thrust upon the poor often bear no other purpose than to keep them poor. This is such a time.
“I am not calling President Jonathan an evil man. I do not believe he is perverse. However, the economic ideas controlling him are so misguided that they have a perverse impact. Because he is slave to wrong-headed economics, the people will become enslaved to greater misery. This crisis will bear his name and will be his legacy.
“The people now pay a steep tax for voting him into office. The removal of the subsidy is the ‘Jonathan tax.’ This situation shows that ideas count more than personalities. People may occupy office but how that person performs depends on the ideas that occupy his mind.”
Richtaiwo: The only fuel powering their endless outbursts against Tinubu is pure, undiluted hatred, nothing more sophisticated than that.
Watch how they erupt on cue. The moment someone dares to express an opinion, they sprint out of their burrows like alarmed rodents, armed with curses, insults, and all types of unprintable names.
You have just done what you described others as doing.
Now you can crawl back into your burrow of hypocrisy.
dominique: Education is neither cheap nor free anywhere in the world
Primary education was free in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo as well as Edo and Delta states when progressive Awolowo and AG were in charge of the old Western region. There was no oil money from Niger Delta being shared monthly back then.
Progressive UPN governors of these states provided not just free primary and secondary education but also textbooks free. How much was oil revenue in the early eighties?
What developed countries do you know where less than 5% of their schools are owned by government like we have in Lagos after 27 years of squeezing IGR out of the masses in increasing tax burden? How many? Do you know of any state that has a higher or lower ratio of public schools to private schools?
Is it Britain, or Canada, or France, or America? Maybe Russia, or China, or where else
anonimi: Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner September 4, 2022
The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.
vislabraye: Nawa. This country don taya person. Gumi and co, including Katsina st. governor should be questioned
When are you going to question Tinubu also?
Abi, who are you waiting for to do this for you
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
When will the clueless balablu Aso Rock tenant resign and save us from all this mess and chaos
Maxymilliano: The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him. According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.
Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.
At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.
Adakintroy: He could be his passion for cooking drove him there
A lot of people are in the the wrong profession all for money. Do what you love money de love.
Why is he not practicing his love for cooking here in Tinubu and APC’s extreme poverty Nigeria
anonimi: The migrant crisis in Libya and the Nigeria experience
JUNE 24, 2019
The drive for survival and for greener pastures has continued to force millions of West African young men and women to gamble with death in attempts to cross over to Europe and other parts of the world. This quest to escape poverty, hunger, unemployment and insecurity, among other reasons, caused a major segment of Nigeria’s population to seek alternatives for better livelihood prospects for themselves and their families.
Those seeking economic survival see irregular migration as the best alternative, given the difficulty and resources involved in migrating through regular and legitimate routes. In many instances, very few of the original number who set out on these dangerous journeys live to tell their stories. While many regularly drown in the Mediterranean Sea, many also die in the deserts, and others are sold as slaves in a modern slave market.
Most of the victims of this trade are from West Africa. Many of them leave home with expectations of getting to Europe and other destinations perceived to have better economic prospects for them, but they end up in the slave merchant nets in North Africa. The victims are put in camps and sold in open markets in Libya, while the international community watches in silence. The geographical location of Libya renders it a transit route for migrants journeying to Italy and many other parts of Europe.
Nwaikpe: SStop aññ these trash talk. These guys are just dudes that even if they were doing better, they would have still flee to another country. Its called greed.
They worship money.
Do they worship money MORE than the leaders looters who are allowed on tribal basis to occupy public office in local, state and federal governments in both legislative and executive branches?
Who is talking trash now
anonimi: “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.
He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
― Bertolt Brecht
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Racoon: The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria is the second country in the world with the lowest voter turnout, worse than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Libya, a new ranking by Picodi has shown.
The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria also ranked worst in Africa. Nigeria’s low voter turnout
PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Nigeria recorded a new low in voter turnout during the last general elections. With a national turnout of 29 per cent, a Premium Times analysis showed that the last election had the lowest participation rate in the country’s six decades of independence.
It further revealed that of the 93.4 million registered voters this year, 87.2 million people collected their Permanent Voters Card and the total number of actual voters on election day was only 24.9 million..The winner of the election, Bola Tinubu, had less than nine million votes, roughly 10 per cent of the total eligible voters.
Another analysis by this newspaper revealed that all the 18 candidates in Nigeria’s February elections received only 27.55 per cent of the total eligible votes.
Sonnobax15: Even government school teachers dey suffer for here,how much more you wey be private school teacher
Na so o.
Even those leaders looters who call themselves progreThief in Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC.
Imagine how Tinubu’s TAX monster plan has raised Lagos budget and IGR 100 times but he has failed to improve free education for all children in a similar manner, with adequate number of well paid professional teachers.
anonimi: Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner September 4, 2022
The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.
viyon02: There is nothing like entrepreneurship mindset.
If everyone in Britain is an entrepreneur, then who would be employed in their well paid civil service to ensure that suya sellers don’t sell dead meat to make people sick and die
We are talking about global recognition you're talking saxophone . Saxophone that 7yrs old kids play this days.
Wizkid won Grammy and has been featured by the likes of Beyonce and Justin Bieber. Which major artist featured fela in his prime days ?
Oga I take God beg you to stop showing your blissful ignorance with so much arrogance in public.
Do you know about the Fela show on Broadway some years ago
Fela's song are being sampled decades after he died, because his musical GENIUS was not limited to his prime days but is a BENCHMARK for eternal reference.
Kuti is remembered as an influential icon who voiced his opinions on matters that affected the nation through his music. Since 1998, the Felabration festival, an idea pioneered by his daughter Yeni Kuti,[70] is held each year at the New Afrika Shrine to celebrate the life of this music legend and his birthday. Since Kuti's death in 1997, there has been a revival of his influence in music and popular culture, culminating in another re-release of his catalog controlled by UMG, Broadway, and off-Broadway shows, and new bands, such as Antibalas, who carry the Afrobeat banner to a new generation of listeners.
In 1999, Universal Music France, under Francis Kertekian, remastered the 45 albums that it owned and released them on 26 compact discs. These titles were licensed globally, except in Nigeria and Japan, where other companies owned Kuti's music. In 2005, the American operations of UMG licensed all of its world-music titles to the UK-based label Wrasse Records, which repackaged the same 26 discs for distribution in the United States (where they replaced the titles issues by MCA) and the UK. In 2009, Universal created a new deal for the US and Europe, with Knitting Factory Records and PIAS respectively, which included the release of the Broadway cast recording of the musical Fela! In 2013, FKO Ltd., the entity that owned the rights to all of Kuti's compositions, was acquired by BMG Rights Management.
In 2003, the Black President exhibition debuted at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, and featured concerts, symposia, films, and 39 international artists' works.[71][64][72]
American singer Bilal recorded a remake of Kuti's 1977 song "Sorrow Tears and Blood" for his second album, Love for Sale, featuring a guest rap by Common. Bilal cited Kuti's mix of jazz and folk tastes as an influence on his music.[73]
The 2007 film The Visitor, directed by Thomas McCarthy, depicted a disconnected professor (Richard Jenkins) who wanted to play the djembe; he learns from a young Syrian (Haaz Sleiman) who tells the professor he will never truly understand African music unless he listens to Fela. The film features clips of Kuti's "Open and Close" and "Je'nwi Temi (Don't Gag Me)".
In 2008, an off-Broadway production about Kuti's life, entitled Fela! and inspired by the 1982 biography Fela, Fela! This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore,[74][75] began with a collaborative workshop between the Afrobeat band Antibalas and Tony award-winner Bill T. Jones. The production was a massive success, and sold-out performances during its run and gained critical acclaim. On 22 November 2009, Fela! began a run on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. Jim Lewis helped co-write the script (along with Jones) and obtained producer backing from Jay-Z and Will Smith, among others. On 4 May 2010, Fela! was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical for Bill T. Jones, Best Leading Actor in a Musical for Sahr Ngaujah, and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Lillias White.[76] In 2011, the London production of Fela! (staged at the Royal National Theatre) was filmed.[64] On 11 June 2012, it was announced that Fela! would return to Broadway for 32 performances.[77]
On 18 August 2009, DJ J.Period released a free mixtape to the general public, entitled The Messengers. It is a collaboration with Somali-born hip-hop artist K'naan paying tribute to Kuti, Bob Marley and Bob Dylan.
Two months later, Knitting Factory Records began re-releasing the 45 titles controlled by UMG, starting with yet another re-release in the US of the compilation The Best of the Black President, which was completed and released in 2013.[78]
Fela Son of Kuti: The Fall of Kalakuta is a stage play written by Onyekaba Cornel Best in 2010. It has had triumphant acclaim as part of that year's Felabration and returned in 2014 at the National Theatre and Freedom Park in Lagos. The play deals with events in a hideout, a day after the fall of Kalakuta.
The full-length documentary film Finding Fela, directed by Alex Gibney, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
A biographical film by Focus Features, directed by Steve McQueen and written by Biyi Bandele, was rumoured to be in production in 2010, with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the lead role.[79] However, by 2014, the proposal was no longer produced under Focus Features, and while he maintained his role as the main writer, McQueen was replaced by Andrew Dosunmu as the director. McQueen told The Hollywood Reporter that the film was "dead".[80]
The 2019 documentary film My Friend Fela (Meu amigo Fela) by Joel Zito Araújo, explores the complexity of Kuti's life "through the eyes and conversations" of his biographer Carlos Moore.[81]
The collaborative jazz/afrobeat album Rejoice by Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela, released in 2020, includes the track "Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be the Same)", a tribute to Kuti, through whom Allen and Masekela first met in the 1970s.[82][83]
Kuti's songs "Zombie" & "Sorrow Tears and Blood" has appeared in the video game Grand Theft Auto: IV, and he was posthumously nominated to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021.[84]
In 2021, Hulu released a six-episode documentary miniseries, McCartney 3,2,1, in which Paul McCartney is quoted as saying of a visit to see Fela Kuti at the African Shrine, Kuti's club outside of Lagos, in the early 1970s: "The music was so incredible that I wept. Hearing that was one of the greatest music moments of my life."[85]
On 1 November 2021, a blue plaque was unveiled by the Nubian Jak Community Trust at 12 Stanlake Road, Shepherd's Bush, where Kuti first lived when he came to London in 1958 and was studying music at Trinity College.[86][87] The event included tributes from Kuti's daughter Shalewa Ransome-Kuti, Resonance FM broadcaster Debbie Golt, Kuti's former manager Rikki Stein, cover artist Lemi Ghariokwu, and others.[88][89][90]
In 2022, Kuti was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.[91] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Kuti at number 188 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.[92]
The podcast series, Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, was released weekly throughout 2025. The show, hosted by Jad Abumrad, digs deep into Kuti's influence as a musician and activist.[93]
On 19 December 2025, Kuti was awarded the 2026 Posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award - the first African to be awarded with this honor.
Can it be that he smoked weed discreetly this morning
I wonder if he knows what Wizkid smokes secretly or even sniff to sing the largely meaningless songs he churns out to a soulless public.
LagosOrigin: I wouldn't play fella video when kids are around . He sings in pigin, wears pant on stage and smokes weed openly and shamelessly in front of children.
Wizkid has sing songs that won't fade away in many years to come . Ojuelegba is one of them.
AustineE1: They will want you to believe that Yorubas respect elders, my ass! The social media has helped change the narratives used by Lagos Ibadan media to protect their tribe.
From insulting Obasanjo,Bode George etc by hirings,to Obas disgracing themselves,to Portable insulting his father,or late Mobad,to late 'Destiny boy' and their parents,the list is endless.
If not,how can Wizkid with his senseless music compare himself with an African legend like Fela,this people are disgusting,to think that some people are even supporting him.Please Fela is an highly respected institution and should be left out of these childishness.
Yorubas are cosmopolitan and republican simultaneously, such that respect is earned and not given.
While respect is the default mode, if the person to whom it is initially given shows that he does not deserve it, he will be thoroughly abused and disrespected to prevent others from misbehaving. Do you understand this
Nevertheless, there are people like Wizkid who are outliers and disrespect those who have earned their laurels, needlessly as he is doing now with Fela.
LagosOrigin: Fela was more of a political activist than a musical artist so yes, Wizkid is bigger.
I was around 9yrs old when fela passed and all his songs I've ever listened to was about "Obasanjo did this IBB did that".
Fella is not a musical artist.
You should expand your listening horizon to have a complete understanding of HOW Fela is a musical artist like no other, having created the Afrobeat genre from his jazz, classical and highlife background.
dequir: What surprises me about you is your continued naivety in believing that one party is better than another in Nigeria. And this after you have seen that the same set of political rogues and Nigeria economy saboteurs are the one moving from one party to another with the sole aim of capturing the wealth of the land for their private enjoyment.
Yet you continue to amplify the cause of PDP against the other crime prone parties. Whether Tinubu, or Atiku or Obi and their minions, they are all self aggrandizing crop of leaders which Nigeria has been cursed with from independence.
Why is there manslaughter and murder charges for the same offence of killing someone? Why is there 1st and 2nd degrees of murder charges? Why is there plea deal, for the small criminal to betray the big criminal?
Why do you see yourself as one of the 200 million cursed Nigerians, since the country is nothing but an abstract entity without the people who make it what it is? Is that because you don't want to put in the effort to make our country better for everyone?
Why do you allow self aggrandising leaders looters to emerge from among you and other Nigerians at the local, state and federal levels
anonimi: “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.
He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
― Bertolt Brecht
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Racoon: The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria is the second country in the world with the lowest voter turnout, worse than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Libya, a new ranking by Picodi has shown.
The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria also ranked worst in Africa. Nigeria’s low voter turnout
PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Nigeria recorded a new low in voter turnout during the last general elections. With a national turnout of 29 per cent, a Premium Times analysis showed that the last election had the lowest participation rate in the country’s six decades of independence.
It further revealed that of the 93.4 million registered voters this year, 87.2 million people collected their Permanent Voters Card and the total number of actual voters on election day was only 24.9 million..The winner of the election, Bola Tinubu, had less than nine million votes, roughly 10 per cent of the total eligible voters.
Another analysis by this newspaper revealed that all the 18 candidates in Nigeria’s February elections received only 27.55 per cent of the total eligible votes.
dequir: Well done PDP propaganda mercenary on Nairaland. Unfortunately your party power base has been whittled away by Tinubu's humongous allocations to the state governors, and his superior politrickery.
You should by now realise that you are supporting a lost cause, which your constant whining on Nairaland cannot help.
If it is propaganda, why have you failed to point what is untrue about it all this while
What aspect of life in our country is better now than in 2015?
How much improvement promised by the change merchants of 11 years ago has materialised?
Rather than improve, have they not made everything worse, including insecurity and 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.”
Lithiumite: Then why are you still poor since pdp 16 yrs brought prosperity to you.
Ask your Tinubu who used his expired Buhari to wreck that widespread prosperity 11 years ago. Will you
anonimi: The eyesore on Bourdillon Road 2nd January 2025
Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.
If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.
That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.
ogaemma: Atiku, money miss road. I can't imagine the amount of money these man have wasted for elections.
Even his own son have given up on him. ADC must be wise not to fall for his money. Any attempt for ADC to give the tickets to Atiku, that will be their end.
Thankfully his daughter is solidly aligned with 200 million Nigerians who are keen to work for a return to PDP deregulation and privatisation policies that gave us 16 years of widespread prosperity.
Why are you still in Lagbaja’s 200 million mumus club, allowing tribal propagandist liars to mislead you
amoreobansu: Fatima Atiku Abubakar, first daughter of former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has officially joined the African Democratic Congress, ADC.
The former Commissioner of Health, Adamawa State was received into the party in Abuja on Monday.
The medical professional turned politician registered and received her party membership card at her ward in the Wuse area of the nation’s capital.
The FCT Chairman of ADC, Chief Clement Oba Ehigiator, AMAC chairman of the party and other stakeholders were present at the event.
She expressed excitement to join the party housing the coalition of opposition leaders plotting President Bola Tinubu’s removal in 2027.
Lithiumite: So atiku is your Messiah......kwantinue,goodluck in your delusion.
How is the brainbox of PDP’s deregulation and privatisation policies for 16 years of widespread prosperity, not a better candidate than the Lagos TAX monster?
The balablu empty barrel who has worsened APC’s extreme poverty shege that was fraudulently packaged as positive change in 2015!
Nemere2020: The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.
He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.
He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.
“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.
“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.”
LegendHero: Smartness and Obi should not be in the same sentence abeg.
I fully agree with you on this point about the airline toilet washer whose attempt to be Obiano’s godfather was rebuffed and he became a politically homeless IDP until Atiku rescued him from obscurity in 2019.
Your understanding of Obi and smartness is spot on.
newsbook: Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.
Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.
Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.
Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano administration at the end of his tenure.
But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.
He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.
Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.
These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.
The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never accounted for by the former governor.
On the actual sum the former Governor claimed he left behind, Governor Obiano made it clear that he inherited liability of about N127 billion debt from him in contracts awarded and other responsibilities, which he has been religiously undertaking in the spirit of continuity.
He said Obi flagged off several roads even on the day he was leaving office and saddled him with the burden of paying for it, but he assured the people that he has his eyes on the ball and will not allow anything to distract him from fulfilling his promises.
The Chairman of the Governor’s Re-election Campaign Committee, Chief Victor Umeh said APGA as the political spirit of Ndigbo, has in the past three and half years, availed Anambra good governance at its best, reminding the people that the upcoming guber election was not about Willie Obiano but about ensuring that the state remained free from political godfatherism.
A former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in his speech said that at this time, the State needs a tested hand like Governor Obiano who has the experience and expertise to effectively steer her affairs.
chiderablaze: Laughing in bulaba, last year Nigerians saw shege, this year na banza...
Will 200 million Nigerians stop being tribesmen mumus, and work together on returning us back to PDP widespread prosperity that was built on deregulation and privatisation policies?
Or will we remain divided tribesmen who allow the worst of A-looter Propaganda Congress, APC to continue their extreme poverty shege palliative sharing progreThief policies
Tareq1105: I want to ask you if the education you got in the university was to make you a dependant or independent?
Did you study Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba language?
Poor you if you study to become a dependant. The society expects you to be a job creator. Think outside the box and get some entrepreneurship. I'm into soap making since I lost my job and I'm doing better than my colleagues that I left in that company.
So how will local, state and federal governments provide common services and public utilities, including law and order to create the environment for entrepreneurs to thrive
Politics › Re: Democracy Not Built On Serial Defections, APC Tells Atiku, Obi by anonimi: 7:58am On Jan 22
