ChiefOloye: Sign of a broken home and a family in disarray...
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wman: A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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Yukov: That means your children do not even have faith in you to lead Nigeria. How do you now want us that do not know you like your children does to have faith in you?
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So how has Tinubu fared in Lagos and Nigeria since his children obviously have faith in him
Lanrelagboi: Lagos has now crossed the 3 Trillion Naira annual budget mark. Crossed 2 Trillion in 2024.
Memory Lane: the first full-year Lagos State budget (Year 2000) in the 4th Republic was in the region of 40-something billion Naira. And it was described as “unprecedented” back then.
Eriokanmi: Expected. Tinubu's threats are too much on them, with lots of efcc cases hanging on their necks as if he's a saint himself.
People would think apc is sp much loved by the defectors, not knowing they're only trying to escape his efcc's hook. His own time would come, no matter how smart he thinks he is. Nigerians are taking note
You truly understand how APC is Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals.
chisomkachy: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn the alleged money laundering suit it filed at the Federal High Court against Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa.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.”
JASONjnr: You're very confused and should stop discussing anything about economics please
How is he more confused about economics than the mannequin in Aso Rock that is borrowing more than other presidents before his tenure, even though they did not get $84 billion in savings from subsidy removal
I hope there is no lost of life... food don set for PO, he go drag them tire.
Why should this be about food being set for a politician and why should it be about dragging leaders looters who fail to deliver the basic services of government
Is that how you contribute your own quota to the development of your local, state and federal governments accountability?
chukslawrence: Well, Odogunyan, odonla are in Lagos State while Odokekere is in Ogun State
Are both states not ruined by APC progreThieves who have failed to deliver free education for all children despite PDP’s federal matching funds through UBEC, established 27 years ago?
What are the governors doing with the trillions obtained from the public and on their behalf, if they can’t provide free education for all children in good schools with adequate teachers and other staff who are well paid
ImoleNaija: Unfortunately, enemies of progress wouldn't see anything good about this.
They are determined to criticize him out of Aso rock.
Who else is a greater enemy of progress in Nigeria than Tinubu
SenatorCharles1: REPUBLISHED: Tinubu’s 2013 Article Opposing Jonathan’s State of Emergency Order in the Northeast
At the time Boko Haram insurgents were taking control of some parts of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in Nigeria’s northeast in 2013, former president Goodluck Jonathan proclaimed a state of emergency that allowed his administration to bypass the elected governments in dealing with the terrorists and restore the territorial integrity of Nigeria.
That decision generated national debates as some political parties and opposition leaders strongly disagreed with it.
One such political leader was Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who was the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). He accused Jonathan of weaponising insecurity in the affected region to dislodge elected governments because of his re-election ambition.
Jonathan Bares His Fangs, By Bola Ahmed Tinubu
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.
Terrorist acts are perpetrated routinely and the government at the centre appears incapable of stemming the tide of the horrendous crimes unleashed on the hapless populace. The considerable ease, with which lives and property are destroyed on a daily basis, should excite deep introspection on the part of a government truly desirous of finding a lasting solution.
The Constitution provides that the safety and welfare of citizens shall be the primary purpose of having that structure of any political leadership in the first instance. This Government, through acts of omission and commission, has fallen far short of expectation. It actively encourages schisms and all manner of divisive tendencies for parochial expediency. Ethnicity and religion become handy weapons of domination. Things have never been this bad.
The response to the pervasive chaos in the Northern region of the country has been militarisation, mass arrests and extra judicial killings by the Joint Task Force, JTF, a convenient euphemism for an army of occupation seemingly set loose on the people of the localities concerned. The tenor of the State of Emergency declared by the Federal Government yesterday portends danger for the polity. The full militarisation of security operations in these states will compound the already tense situation.
Both local and international media are awash with news of reckless attitudes of the invading forces. The fact that security operatives are killed cheaply and reprisals from the state find expressions in organised pogroms in the immediate communities is sure evidence of a government, which lacks basic understanding to appreciate the enormity of the current security challenges. If development is about the people, all measures put in place for the sustenance and maintenance of the super-structure of the society must take into cognisance local contents.
It is evident from the grim experiences in recent times that this government has failed, or does not know that it is necessary for it to avail itself of the benefits accruable from exchange of ideas and notes on the latest in terms of technology and human resources among nations of the modern world, especially those which have been fighting terrorist organisations over the years, on the most effective mode of combating this menace. Technologically advanced countries of the world will never discard the idea on the need for the establishment of an effective local intelligence outfit.
Our suggestions along this path have always been met with suspicion and acerbic criticisms from both the informed and the ignorant alike. A government which stoutly defends its opposition to the decentralisation of the police force from its present over-centralised command structure is already experimenting with all manner of means patently extra-legal.
The massacres of local communities attendant upon the attacks on security agents by unknown elements will further alienate the people who should, ordinarily, partner with the government in securing their immediate environments. An army which invades a community maiming, raping and killing defenceless civilians will end up radicalising the youths whose parents and young ones have been wiped out most cowardly and recklessly.
This government should concentrate more on encouraging the development of local intelligence which will, inexorably, lead to the practice of true federalism. Adopting the use of excessive force against those perceived as harbouring terrorists does not portray this government as possessing the wherewithal to find abiding solutions to the lingering security challenges.
The President’s pronouncement, which seeks to abridge or has the potential of totally scuttling the constitutional functions of Governors and other elected representatives of the people, will be counterproductive in the long run. A State of Emergency already exists in the states where JTF operates. Residents of these communities live in constant fear. Their rights are violated with impunity under the guise of searching for terrorists in their respective domains.
Hiding under some nebulous claims which border on the intractability of the security challenges posed by Boko Haram or some acclaimed traditionalists who have killed some policemen to render ineffective the constitutional powers vested in elected Governors and other representatives of the people, perceived as not amenable to manipulation for the 2015 project amounts to reducing serious issues bordering on the survival of the country to partisan politics.
Let all those who love this country genuinely advise the federal government not to tinker with the mandates of these Governors under any guise. It is a potentially destructive path to take.
If security of a society is about the protection of lives and property of the citizenry, the involvement of the people is a sine qua non to effective intelligence gathering. Any measures put in place which alienate the people, in particular their elected representatives, should be considered as fundamentally defective by every right thinking person in the country.
Richtaiwo: Once again, your real struggle appears to be comprehension, rooted firmly in very basic English. This is exactly how you derailed the discussion and began wailing Buhari and, completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
To make matters worse, amnesia seems to be steadily settling into your system. You can no longer remember how you yourself dragged Buhari and Tinubu into this thread in the first place. Something of less than 2 hours ago? Quite impressive, really.
Anyway, it’s clear you need help, so let me be charitable. Kindly return to my very first reply to you on this thread. You will discover, slowly, if necessary, that Buhari and Tinubu formed the bulk of your contribution.
In short, the noise you’re making now is simply you arguing with your own comment.
Was that a response to YOUR comment
How was the Buhari/Tinubu reference irrelevant to the OTHER comment you are clinging to for justification of youer needless argument?
dawnomike: Importers will have no choice but to align eventually... We must support local production that fuels our economy and provides employment opportunities.
We can only hope Dangote will not turn up price on us later on.
There is no chance of Dangote's PDP-licenced refinery doing anything like that since APC propagandists have been running two NNPC refineries since 29015, and even exported fuel from the PH refinery in 2024. Is God not wonderful?
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.
Richtaiwo: I’m still waiting for enlightenment, though at this point, I suspect clarity is allergic to you. Perhaps switching to pidgin might help.
Abeg, wetin concern Buhari and Tinubu with criminals wey dem arrest for SA? Abi anything wey happen anywhere for this world, na Buhari and Tinubu you go first remember? Thunder fire coincidence, everything na dem fault. Na dem cause your wahala too? Even if na dem sef, learn where you suppose talk am, no be every junction be press conference, oga.
Where did you see Buhari and Tinubu in my response to your comment?
Is this a case of your guilty conscience recanting like a witch that was drenched in rain flying back from their coven meeting, even when no one has accused you of anything?
SadiqBabaSani: Anyone happy at this news is a terrorist sympathizer
.....................and Tinubu will invite Trump to bomb them all, even if it includes killing innocent civilians as collateral damage.
What a clueless balablu man he is.
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.
fasho01: These Libyans are heartless to black Africans. That's why I have no iota of remorse for them or other North Africans do why our loss to Morocco pained me
They feel superior to blacks and treat them as animals. If you hear peoples encounter you'll shudder in utter disbelief
otipoju: Killing people whose only crime is that they sought a better life for their selves and loved ones
It’s terrible the extent of APC destruction of our country in 11 years.
What made us swap 16 years of PDP deregulation and privatisation prosperity for APC change that is nothing but extreme poverty shege in 2015
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.
Putindbutt: Guidelines or not, the law itself has not been suspended and will never be suspended. The law has already taken effect. The NRS has begun effective operations while FIRS is gone forever.
At the end of the day, you must file your tax returns and at the end of the day, you must file your personal income tax, Employers must file PAYE remittances and Companies must file their corporate income tax under the new tax law. Them no born you not to file your taxes.
So, all these sensational headlines is just to make wailers unnecessarily happy over their ignorance.
Are you one of those school na scam Agbero ProgreThief Congress, APC people who have reading and/or comprehension challenges
ogododo: “They set up their committee, they did their own review, they did their own gazettes. They sent me a copy, soft copy. But that’s not what the Acts Authentication Act says.
“So, I sent my staff, go to the government printer and go and buy. They went there, but as of last week, they said it’s not ready. That they should wait.
“So, I also told everybody, the NRS, JRB, you too wait, because we cannot issue guidelines.
“We are not 100 per cent certain that this is the final official position. I called my staff this (yesterday) morning, I said go back there, follow up every day, go, go there, don’t call them, go and sit down there.
“And I got feedback as I was here that says that… I don’t even know whether I should say this or not because I don’t know what the press will report. But in the interest of accountability and transparency, my staff told me that they said everything that they printed, the National Assembly collected from them and said they shouldn’t sell to anyone; that they want to complete their review. While that is good, it also creates uncertainty again.”
Richtaiwo: What incoherent drivel is this one spraying all over this thread?
Criminals in South Africa were paraded with their weapons on display, simple and straightforward news. So by what acrobatic logic do Buhari and Tinubu suddenly enter the picture?
Or is it that idleness has reached such levels that every event anywhere on the planet must be forcibly squeezed through the Buhari–Tinubu lens? At this rate, if it rains in Tokyo, you’ll blame Buhari, and if the sun shines in Cape Town, Tinubu will be held responsible.
Are these leaders now personally accountable for every frustration, inconvenience, and bad day you’re experiencing, or have they also been appointed as the managers of your destiny?
Indeed politicians are managers of destinies in the countries they govern.
Is that simple and straightforward enough for your incoherent drivel logic
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.”
My peace and genuine understanding of Life only returned after I genuinely and completely dissociated myself from Politics.
How is your peace not impacted by the public policies and laws enacted by politicians who also supervise their implementation, whether you associate or dissociate yourself from politics
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.
slivertongue: We call it raban kafa! They are playing tinubu.
Even if the movement should join APC, northern masses have resolved to vote against tinubu and his tribulations administration
Their anti-Tinubu sentiment is understandable.
How could the clueless Lagos TAX monster planner invite Trump to kill innocent northerners, while pretending to be looking for Muslim terrorists committing genocide against Christians
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.
How else will Tinubu get enough money to bribe politicians to decamp to APC and make 2027 easy?
How else will he have money for his bullion vans to buy votes, as he has done for the past 27 years of holding 20 million Lagosians hostage
NaijaRoyalty: …Says Buhari doesn’t have my kind of money
However, Buhari doesn’t have the kind of money I can steal neither does he have the money I can collect. He doesn’t even have the money for Lagos votes. So, whatever I promise, it’s for real and is coming from my pocket. It’s not until I go to Alausa before I get money to give you.”
Addressing APC supporters on the need to deliver votes, Tinubu said handsome cash rewards await those who can deliver votes for the party.
He said he would not make mistakes of the past where people would collect money in advance and not deliver on election day.
Tinubu added, “Those of you that say you come to Bourdillon for mobilisation, it is mobilisation that we are doing here or don’t you understand? Definitely, if you know people in your neighbourhood, our members, how we used to do.
obagofizzy: Omo if this boys hold u for road ehhh ur own don finish
Even aboki no hold this kind daggers
According to Buhari, abokis only hold sticks to guide their cows.
According to Tinubu, abokis are never criminals. You should look eastwards to find Nigerian criminals.
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.
Richtaiwo: Street criminals are rarely a convincing advertisement for their chosen “career,” which makes one wonder what the attraction is supposed to be. A casual look at most arrested criminals tells a consistent story, permanently hungry expressions, faces that look like they lost a long argument with soap and water, clothes that seem to have survived several disasters, and an overall scruffy, unkempt presentation.
To crown it all, they usually appear painfully poor, both in appearance and, regrettably, in intellect. Nothing about the package suggests glamour, success, or even basic comfort. So one is left with a genuine puzzle, what exactly is so appealing about crime, when its most visible ambassadors look like walking warnings rather than role models?
Just look at how irritatingly weird these ones appear, like some scary characters in extremely horrible horror movies. Very dangerous species of creatures. Imagine coming across these demons on a lonely path.
You are very correct about street criminals been very different in appearance from the bosses who protect them and use them as political enforcers here.
How much are those lootocratic politicians responsible for their losing a long argument with soap and water, clothes that seem to have survived several disasters, and an overall scruffy, unkempt presentation?
Perhaps if our politicians stop stealing money that should employ technicians, engineers, administrators, billing clerks, lawyers etc to make water available to all households there would be less unemployed, idle, lazy youths attracted to street crime
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.’
At the Appeal Court, he authored and read the unanimous judgement affirming the decision of Justice Omotosho recognising Martin Amaewhule as the Rivers Assembly Speaker as well as voiding the ₦800bn 2024 Rivers budget passed by a faction of the RSHA during the feud between Governor Fubara and his benefactor, Wike.
Controversy Following the retirement of George Olaniyi Ojo as Osun CJ on 8/11/12, Governor Rauf Aregbesola nominated a then mid-level Judge of the Lagos High Court, Justice Oyewole as the Osun CJ, a decision that met serious opposition in the Osun Judiciary. It created a stand-off between the State Government together with the State House of Assembly on one hand and the Osun Judiciary and the NJC on the other. The NJC insisted that one of the most senior Judges, Oyebola Adepele-Ojo or Gloria Oladoke (both of them appointed Judges of the High Court of Osun State same day on 21/12/2000), be sworn-in.
The Osun Judiciary had no Chief Judge in acting or substantive capacity for 10 days before the Rauf-led Government bowed to NJC pressure,. Justice Oyewole later transferred his service from Lagos to Osun Judiciary on 4/12/2012.
Excellent profile to help Tinubu's reelection and subsequent 3rd term agenda for full fledged dictatorial life president as cameroonian Biya.
With the massive stealing to bribe politicians into decamping to APC, what else is going to stop Tinubu from succeeding where Obasanjo failed with his Ghana must go bags of bribe in 2007
Wickedtruths: All regions have Supreme Court Justices No region has more justices than the other.
How can someone call himself wicked truths and say something without providing details for verification of his claim that all the 6 regions have equal number of Supreme Court justices
SisterAnn: EFCC must conduct a thorough investigation and produce water tight evidence of terror financing and other alledged crimes.
Not when they get to court, their cases would be thrown out of the window due to lack of convincing evidence against these evil men.
With Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Crooks, APC progreThieves, the court does NOT even have to throw out the cae, it is the executive branch of the government that will WITHDRAW the case.
What happened to Okowa's case? What of Goje's case?
Did Buhari's APC make Omisore their National Secretary despite confessing to stealing Dasuki money?
Has Buhari and Tinubu not been more corrupt than PDP presidents who borrowed less money while giving us cheap petrol and better life without saving $84 billion from subsidy removal like APC's Tinubu and N1.4 trillion during Buhari/Osinbajo administration's removal of the same subsidy in 2016?
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.”
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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.
The lack of state-owned pipe-borne water in the homes of Lagos residents has continued to be a source of concern, a non-profit group, Corporate Accountability and Public Advocacy Africa (CAPPA) has said.
At a press event to mark this year’s World Water Day, the group said its monitoring team’s visit to state-owned waterworks showed that most of them are not operational.
The group said the waterworks it visited include the ones at Maryland, Mushin, Ikorodu, Obalende, Agbowa, Onikan, Ikoyi, and Amuwo Odofin.
Only the one in Ikoyi is producing water, according to CAPPA.
A 45-year-old resident and father of three, Mr.Fatai Lamide told PUNCH HealthWise that no building in the community has toilet facilities.
The Oyo State-born mechanic said, “We don’t have toilet in this area, including our compound. This canal that you see serves as toilet to all of us living in this area. We defecate inside nylon and throw it inside the canal.
“For people that don’t want to use nylon, they have a special bucket that they use after which they pour it inside the canal too.
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