Golan007: I thought you said her husband is a drug lord?
Keyamo knows better.
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.’’
Judolisco: Every body no fit say u fine na..... Oyibo talk say beauty is in d eyes of d beholder.... Na why some people go still vote tinubu bdat despite the shege wey he dey currently show Nigerians
T-Pain matter tire me o. I imagine that all the Lagos beggarly people in this video will vote him despite his lack of governance skills that has worsened their situation in extreme poverty since 2015, when APC was given the opportunity to change things for the better.
Glimpsetv: A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
Anither563: Leadership is sacrifice. He is not making the sacrifice for himself but for the greater good of the nation. May God continue to bless Nigeria for ever!
Softmirror: He was poisoned by his enemies but God Almighty always being on his side saved him. He made his testimony publicly, one which Fubara tried to mock him with.
Are all Rivers people his enemies for stealing money that should have employed them to make water available to every building and free basic education for all children
strangest: Ever since Wike joined Tulumbu... He started acting like one... Imagine sending boys to burn down office.... The local government chairmen needs to be protected at all cost... Drug dealers are worse
You are a smart chap for seeing the drug connection. Bravo! Kudos!!
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.’’
descarado: And you want to export foodstuffs to China. You that is import dependant.
And yes, I know China import food but that does not stop them from being the world's number one food exporter, sometimes alternating with us.
What will lagos state government export to China. Baseless argument you lots love to indulge in.
Common exporting food that will cater for Nigerians in diaspora, una no fit do. Thanks to Ghana and some other countries that feed Nigerian diasporians that crave home food. Na China una wan go. Na the same lagos state that said they have started rice farming few yrs ago. We know how it ended. Abeg shift as you make no sense.
If you know that China imports food, why your question about food exports to them?
By the way, how is Anambra’s food export going since it was launched and lauded several years ago
pacodas: The talk of diversifying the economy has been agog for a long time, while many states are still depending on the federal government for it's funding, some states like Anambra state is making serious inroads in economy diversification.
Governor of Anambra state Chief Willy Obiano has disclosed that in January this year, Anambra became the first state in Nigeria to export vegetables (Ugu and Onugbu) valued at $5million to Europe.
Chief Willy Obiano seem to understand the value of diversifying the economy and attracting more industries to Anambra state and has been working very hard towards this. Recently He confirmed that his concise Economic Blueprint, made up of The Four Pillars of Development; including Agriculture, Industrialization, Trade and Commerce and Oil and Gas he developed on assumption of office has started yielding dividends.
Anambra State Investment Agency, ANSIPPA, charged with the mandate of attracting and fast-tracking investments in the state has so far attracted over $4.2 billion deals to the state. The latest investment according to the governor was sealed on Tuesday last week with Zolt Energy Limited to build a 40 megawatts Embedded Power Generating Plant in Ogbaru. When completed in the next 18 months as scheduled, all the power generated from it will be distributed mainly in Anambra State.
descarado: Since I'm babbling, do tell me what lagos state government will export to China as food that they produce? Since you don't know that this is a smokescreen, you my dear is the one blabbing. You know nothing about government modus operandi in Nigeria.
Why are you shifting the goal post away from your comment that I replied to
descarado: China that exports tonnes of agric products all over the world, you want export to. These governors sef.
I showed you that China imports food, and can import food from Lagos/Nigeria as well.
Atuero: Now Wike is not only confused but also tired, disorganized, frustrated and depressed from the shock of his godson attitude
Is that why he is on a publicity blitz to show that he is working with the FCT revenue that Tinubu exempted from the TSA account
Dannupawa: …Contractor assures of timely completion of projects
1. Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, inspected the ongoing construction of Kugbo and Mabushi bus terminals in Abuja.
2. Addressing journalists shortly after the inspection, Barrister Wike expressed satisfaction with the pace and quality of work on the projects, stressing that the contractor has also assured of their timely completion.
3. The Minister said the projects will change Abuja’s landscape and improve transportation in the nation’s capital when completed.
4. He said, “I’m so excited. This site (Mabushi bus terminal) was flagged off in July of this year, and within three months, you can see what they’ve been able to do.
5. “The time given to them is 15 months to complete the project, but with the speed the contractor is going, I believe it will be completed before the 15 months. He (the contractor) even told us that by January, he would be able to hand over this project to us, this Mabushi, and the one at Kugbo.
6. “The quality of work, you can see for yourself. If you were here when we flagged off the two, you would know that they’ve really done very well.
7. “I’m happy that at the end of the day, the residents of Abuja would see that we have changed the landscape of the area; we have given them different transportation systems, which they have been yearning for but lacked for years. So, we are very happy with what we have seen”.
8. On the bus terminal for the Abuja Central Business District, the Minister said the issues surrounding the project have been resolved, paving the way for work to commence.
9. He said, “We had some problems there, but we have been able to sort them out. There are a lot of underground facilities that they’ve tried to settle with the FCDA. I’m sure that very soon, work will seriously start there.”
L 10.Barrister Wike further disclosed that commercial buses and taxis in the FCT must operate from the bus terminals when the projects are fully completed.
11.Earlier while conducting the Minister round the Kugbo and Mabushi bus terminals, the CEO, Planet Projects, the construction company handling the projects, Engr. Abiola Otunola, disclosed that a substantial part of the work on the bus terminals has been achieved, adding that the company was working round the clock to ensure the completion of the project by January of 2025
12..On the inspection visit with the Minister were, the Mandate Secretary, Transportation Secretariat, Dr. Chinedum Elechi, Permanent Secretary, Transportation, Mrs. Okonkwo Nonubari and other senior officials of the FCTA.
ANTHONY OGUNLEYE
DIRECTOR, PRESS
(OFFICE OF THE HON. MINISTER)
08/10/2024
FCTA/ODP/PR/590
PHOTO CAPTION
1. L-R: Secretary, Transportation Secretariat, FCTA, Hon Chinedu Elechi, FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike and MD Planet Projects Ltd, Engr Abiola Otuonla during the Minister's inspection of construction wrks on the Kugbo and Mabushi bus terminals on Tuesday, 08/10/2024
2. MD Planet Projects Ltd, Engr Abiola Otuonla (2nd left) conducting the FCT Minister, Barrister Nyesom Wike (middle) round the construction site of the Kugbo bus terminal in Abuja on Tuesday, 08/10/2024
descarado: China that exports tonnes of agric products all over the world, you want export to. These governors sef.
Why are you so ignorant and blabbing about it in public, instead of hiding in shame.
China has become the world's largest food importer, and the country's total amount of food imports is expected to reach $140 billion in 2023, according to an industry report recently issued by the China Chamber of Commerce of Import and Export of Foodstuffs, Native Produce and Animal By-Products.
Augustine2244: Anything to aid economic development and growth is highly welcome. Among developed countries, Russia and China are the only ones that would not precondition economic aid to cash strapped developing nations, with legalization of LGBTQ, promotion of LGBTQ rights and other filth. Let's stand with the two global powers for the sustenance of a MULTIPOLAR WORLD ORDER.
Why are you cash strapped and developing, when you also have 24 hours daily and are equally intelligent as the Russians and Chinese as well as other developed countries
ipobcannibals: I knew it….to catch a developer like a rat, just say Lagos or Fulani herdsmen, then watch the brainless ipob tellolists come rushing out
Did he tell lies about hungry and starved Lagosians queuing for bread since 25 years plus of Tinubu's master plan has made them jobless, extreme poverty paupers?
Glimpsetv: A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
How is it nice to steal billions that should provide free education for every Ogun child, then turn around to give some millions to a few as support for their education? Is this not the same agbalọwọmeri formula for Tinubu hiking tertiary school fees for every student, then giving a few of them loans
fuckJones: (A case study of Nigeria citizens & their elected oppressors).
During the Soviet dictatorship of Joseph stalin. He was a brutal dictator with mind of his own. On one fateful day, stalin came to Politburo meeting with a live chicken. Standing in front of audience, He started to pluck the feathers of the live chicken off one by one. The chicken trembled in pain, blood tricking out of its pores. It gave out grievous cries, but stalin being a cruel dictator continued without remorse plucking the feathers out until the chicken was completely Unclad. After which, he threw the chicken on the ground. The Unclad chicken was staggering in pain. stalin goes into his pocket and from his pockets, he took out some chicken food and started to throw it at the poor & hapless creature. The poor chicken in pain started eating and stalin started walking towards his seat. As he walked away, he kept dropping some feeds on the floor & the chicken followed him and sat feeding from his feet.
Joseph stalin then turned to members of his political party leadership. He said, "This chicken represents the people". "You must disempower them, brutalise them, beat them up, starve them and then leave them". "If you do this, go into your pocket & give them peanuts when they are in that helpless and desperate situation, they will blindly follow you for the rest of their life, worshiping you". "They will think you are a hero forever. They will forget that, you're responsible for their sorrowful situation in the first place." Breath taking, isn't it ?
Now! Take a look at all the people some Nigerians are busy defending on social media. Take a look at those they call their heroes. They are the same people who plunged Nigeria into the situation she is. They are the same people who are responsible for their predicaments. Did you see the numbers of people that throng to Saraki's House during this Sallah period to go collect peanuts? People trooping to Bola Ahmed Tinubu Foundation offices to collect branded One kilo bag of Rice & Noddles. Did you see the number of people of all ages who troop out to welcome Ex- convict James Ibori to South South! Do you see the number of handle mop following obi as if he is a seat? what of the one following dino malaye?
Your guess is as good as mine. Nigerians kill those they should defend and defend those they should kill! Pass to all your contacts & let your Political & Religion Leaders read, understand & digest.
Lanrelagboi: Yesterday, the Gbemiga Abiodun Memorial Education Support Program awarded over Ninety Million Naira to students in Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Institutions across Ogun State.
The program awarded-:
-₦39,750,000 to 159 students from nine tertiary institutions in Ogun State.
-₦14,700,000 to 294 primary school pupils in Ogun State
-₦36,600,000 to 366 secondary school students in Ogun State.
This initiative, founded in memory of Governor @DapoAbiodunCON's son Gbemiga, is dedicated to empowering deserving students through educational support.
Would the support have been necessary if progressive governor Eleyi had done what Awolowo and Onabanjo did for the free education of all children in schools with enough professional teachers and other workers as well as adequate classrooms, libraries, playgrounds, laboraties etc
Babasessy: The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
oskylabs: SWAGA don lose Swagger. Too difficult to maintain swagger with hunger. What they came together for has been put asunder. Because they now realize T-Pain is a big blunder.
Love your rhymes bro. As e dey sweet us e dey pain them. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. The olodo tribesmen are wailing for their error now but it won't make them have enough sense to reject Tinubu and his pseudo-progressive APC bandits next elections, especially since PDP can't get its own acts together to be a formidable opposition and alternative.
Baba40: It was a successful launching at the Ogun Central Chapter of SWAGA.... SENATOR OBADARA and others from the national were part of guests that grace the event.
Almost three years later, how far with the swaga in this ebilokan shege continuity of APC cluelessly incompetent management of our economy
bhella10: Itesiwaju ni ile Yoruba lapapo lo je wa l'ogun.
Itẹsiwaju àwọn gbewiri láti 1999?
eluquenson: REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE
* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.
* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.
* His government built the Lagos State Television
* His government built the Lagos Radio
* His government built Lagos State University
* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.
* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.
* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.
* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.
* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.
* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.
* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.
* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.
* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.
* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.
* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.
* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.
* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.
* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).
* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.
* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.
* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980
* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).
* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.
*His government established LASACO Insurance.
*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.
*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.
WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?
IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.
tundegan: APC is a party that listens. With Sanwo Eko at the helm in the SW, I have no doubt that the region will continue to thrive.
Thrive with school na scam looters who are hailed as leaders?
If they don’t see school as scam then why do they fail to make primary, vocational and secondary schools free for every single child? Any idea why they are such failures
Gerrylyndon: Someone gave a gift to Bishop, with his own money, and some people are angry, spewing trash.
Vent that frustration on the government you voted for and leave Bishop and his church pls.
So a pastor should not have anything good because he is a pastor abi.
Hypocrites.
You and your gods of men are the hypocrites here.
The bishop has not only FAILED in his responsibility for shaping our morals generally, he has also failed specifically in receiving money stolen by people he anointed to become VIPs in the public and private sectors.
Oyedepo prayed for me to become minister – Betta Edu
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, has revealed that Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church, also known as Winners’ Chapel, had prayed for her to become a minister in Nigeria.
The minister, who was appointed by President Bola Tinubu in August, said this while recounting her 2022 experience of the yearly Shiloh programme held the first week of December.
Speaking on Friday, she had introduced herself earlier while sharing, saying, “Church praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!! My name is Dr. Betta Edu and I came to thank God.
“Last year at Shiloh 2022, I prayed and told God that by the next time I come for the next year’s Shiloh, I want to be a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”
She continued, “On the last day of Shiloh, just as I was walking out, I saw Papa, Bishop David Oyedepo, and I went to greet him and meet him as usual and I whispered to him, ‘Papa, I need you to pray for me. I have just one prayer request now’. And he said, ‘What is it?’ I said, ‘I want to come back to Shiloh 2023 as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’. He put his hand on my head and he said, ‘It is done’. I stood up and I left.”
While appreciating God, Edu said, “I came today to return all glory to God that in spite of all odds, today I’m a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. One of the youngest in the Fourth Republic.
“People of my age are not at the Federal Executive Council of Nigeria in this Fourth Republic. But today, I can boldly stand here to say, ‘God did it’. I came to return all glory to God.”
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