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helinues:
40%

How dare you give 40% to the man whose master plan made Lagos the 4th economy?

A Chicago trained accountant from almighty America who made Lagos a 1st world metropolis from the 3rd world place it was under Marwa, Jakande, Mobolaji Johnson and Awolowo?

Why are you so unserious with the accomplishments of our president

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.
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The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city. More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then complied into a weighted score between one and 100.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

Akbil:
Negative zero.

Do you mean Too Low for Zero, TLFZ, like the name of a boys’ band in the late eighties or early nineties

WannaHowzit:
Lol, you gonna ignore the black government considerably increased power generation and supply, despite current challenges? 😂👎🏾 Give full facts, not just white worshipping stats - makes you look foolish in public.

Can you please point out where ANC claimed to have considerably increased power GENERATION?

Are you not confusing increased number of buildings supplied with power generation

Macphenson:
I am going to speak from a professional point of view as an Engineer and somebody that has been building in Lagos State for the past 15 years.

The Lagos State regulatory Laws for buildings are more of extortionary than regulatory, this is the reason why people keep finding ways to bypass the laws.

There is a reason why developers keep avoiding the buidling permits and other permits in Lagos not because they dont want to be compliant but because of the tedious process, the bureaucasis and the unnecessary protocols involved.

First and formost building permits should be done by the Local governments as it is done in sane climes and not by one office in Alausa. It takes about a year before your building permits will be out that is if you "bribe" very well. Thats not good enough for businesses. Building permit should be out max three months. Some developers take bank loan to build, imagine taking loan for a project and the interest running for a year before commencement of the project.

You definitely know what you’re talking about sir.
Many thanks for sharing your insights.

immortalcrown:
No fixing of plumbing issues without government approval?

This one is too much abeg. Why not include replacement of electric bulbs?

Jẹun soke jẹun sapo, squeeze more IGR from the masses to steal into your pockets.

ThiefNuibu’s modus operandi since 1999 for political relevance that has been elevated to federal level widening of the tax base.

O ti dojú ẹ nsẹyin

helinues:
With all the Isreal gra gra since Oct 7, they are yet to secure all the abducted people...

With all the APC gragra since May 2015, they have failed to secure the change they promised. Rather they have changed their promise to clueless 200 million mumus in the geographical area called Nigeria.

Nigeria gets worst TI corruption perception rating under Buhari

Nigeria has dropped five places on the 2021 corruption perception index published by Transparency International (TI).

In the 2021 index released on Tuesday, the country scored 24 out of 100 points — ranking 154 out of 180 countries.

In the 2020 index, Nigeria had scored 25 out of 100 points, ranking 149 out of the 180 countries surveyed.

The development means that Nigeria dropped to 154 — five places down — out of the 180 countries surveyed, in comparison with the 2020 rating.

It also scored 25 out of 100 points — less than the 24 points obtained in the 2020 CPI.

This is the worst ranking the country has got under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

In 2015, Nigeria was ranked 136th; 136th in 2016; 148th in 2017; 144th in 2018; 146th in 2019, and 149th in 2020.

https://www.thecable.ng/nigeria-gets-worst-ti-corruption-perception-rating-under-buhari/amp/#

AllenSpencer:
💯💯💯💯

History will never forget how Spain, Ireland and South Africa stood for humanity.

Please how are South Africans standing for humanity in sub Saharan Africa, instead of improving the social services and utilities left behind by the whites 30 years ago

Misplaced priorities by clueless blacks as usual?

South Africa’s electricity crisis: what political parties say in their election manifestos about solving it

South Africa is in the middle of a deep electricity crisis. In 2023 the public, many of whom are voters, experienced the worst loadshedding to date, losing power for an average of five hours a day.

https://theconversation.com/south-africas-electricity-crisis-what-political-parties-say-in-their-election-manifestos-about-solving-it-226518#:~:text=South%20Africa%20is%20in%20the,of%20five%20hours%20a%20day.

AngelicBeing:
The Holy book says that if you don't work, you will not eat, so we are all commanded to work but if for some reasons either due to unemployment and some folks cannot work, the government should provide some kind of support to the unemployed pending when they can ge back to work but you might say that the government is doing that already but it is not enough because most of the programs directed at supporting the poor masses have been rendered useless due to your egunje, saboteurs and your criminal politicians managing such programs eg Your Big Sister Edu / Humanitarian affairs minister

Should the government not employ people and pay them to a comparable wage to politicians, for the enabling environment to be created for private entrepreneurs and big investors to employ more people in factories and services sectors

Enabling environment of law and order, security, well maintained roads, water, electricity, education, health care, research etc?

Houseontherock1:
I'm sure nobody will refuse to pay taxes if things are working well...but when you can't even feed your family, the last thing on your mind is tax

How is government supposed to feed your family if you don’t work

Orobadmeat:
The problem is not the tax burden, but failure to utilise tax payers money for the benefit the people,even the citizens knocking the government are cupable, you go to motor parks and markets, people pay daily taxes to parks and markets but this places always looking like shit hole,in sane countries, taxes are paid and the impact felt by the people

You are a wiseman who has identified the problem- horrifying low expectations of the masses.

How do we solve this problem

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.
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The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city. More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then complied into a weighted score between one and 100.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

helinues:
Sebi we no want make government dey borrow unnecessarily right, then the other options na to increase the tax

The taxes that ThiefNuibu has been increasing for Lagosians in the past 25 years have yielded what government services and utilities compared with Jakande’s 4 years

Can you please let us know.

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.

LordofNaija:
“If we reduce the purchasing power of the people, we can further slow down the economy. Let’s widen the tax net. Those who are not paying now, even if it is inclusive of Bola Tinubu, let the net get bigger and we take in more taxes, and that is what we must do in the country."

Zacheus will be envious of Tinubu if he was born in this era. Let the tinibulation continue

Is Zaccheus not ThiefNuibu’s taxman in FIRS

egidi:
This is beautiful. One year in office is more than enough to start seeing good projects like this

How many of these schools did he build in the 12 months?
How many classrooms did he build in various schools?
How many teachers did he employ?
How many more children are enrolled in free schools?

Should you not reflect on these statistics and other related statistics before you decide whether this is beautiful or not, given all the revenue that the governor managed on behalf of the masses in one year

Risingblue008:
Brave men
Men with GUTS
MEN that make things happen

At the mentioning of RUSSIO

All western countries shivers

Russia,here i come

Country without racism

You have no clue what you’re talking about.
No clue whatsoever!!!

Russian hypocrisy and the death of a Zambian student in Ukraine

Lemekhani Nyirenda’s life and death expose the fallacy of Russian anti-imperialist rhetoric on Africa.

On December 11, the remains of 23-year-old Zambian citizen Lemekhani Nyirenda finally made it back home to his family. A month earlier, the Zambian government had released a statement on his death in Ukraine, which raised more questions than answers.

Subsequently, it became clear that Nyirenda, who studied in Russia before being imprisoned on drug charges, had signed up for the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary company, to fight in Ukraine in a bid to get a reduced sentence.

In a November 29 post on the Russian social media platform VKontakte, Wagner founder Evgeny Prigozhin claimed he spoke to Nyirenda, who allegedly told him he had volunteered because: “You, Russian, helped us Africans gain independence. When it was difficult for us, you stretched out a hand to us and continue to do this now. Wagner is saving thousands of Africans; going to war with you is paying back for at least some of our debt to you.”
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It is quite ironic that Prigozhin alleges Nyirenda saw the Wagner Group as a source for good given that it has been at the forefront of Moscow’s extractive policies in Africa. Wagner has become infamous in Sudan and the Central African Republic for both its hired guns and its involvement in illicit mining operations.

The group has also had a hand in military conflicts plaguing Libya, the Central African Republic, Mali and Mozambique. The United Nations has accused the Russian mercenaries of committing a host of human rights abuses, including harassment of civilians, wrongful detainment, torture and summary executions.

Russia does not treat Africans that much better within its own borders either. As Nyirenda’s case illustrates, Africans who come to Russia to study or work do not find the post-colonial, anti-imperialist paradise Moscow claims to be.

Africans have faced racism and anti-Black violence, which was particularly deadly in the 2000s and 2010s. In a 2006 report, Amnesty International said African students and asylum seekers they met in Russia “avoided going out after dark and one covered his face with a scarf so his skin colour was less conspicuous to passers-by”. They also detailed several murders of African students, including the 2004 stabbing of Bissau-Guinean student Amaru Antoniu Lima and the 2006 shooting of Senegalese student Lamsar Samba Sell.

The group has also had a hand in military conflicts plaguing Libya, the Central African Republic, Mali and Mozambique. The United Nations has accused the Russian mercenaries of committing a host of human rights abuses, including harassment of civilians, wrongful detainment, torture and summary executions.

Russia does not treat Africans that much better within its own borders either. As Nyirenda’s case illustrates, Africans who come to Russia to study or work do not find the post-colonial, anti-imperialist paradise Moscow claims to be.

Africans have faced racism and anti-Black violence, which was particularly deadly in the 2000s and 2010s. In a 2006 report, Amnesty International said African students and asylum seekers they met in Russia “avoided going out after dark and one covered his face with a scarf so his skin colour was less conspicuous to passers-by”. They also detailed several murders of African students, including the 2004 stabbing of Bissau-Guinean student Amaru Antoniu Lima and the 2006 shooting of Senegalese student Lamsar Samba Sell.

For more: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2023/1/3/is-russia-really-africas-friend

WriteerNg:
By one man squad you mean 32 NATO members squad?

Because the US have never fought a war on its own before.

The US always move with its NATO gang.

Did Americans not fight alongside Russians and the Chinese against Germans and the Japanese during WWII

helinues:


China and Russia are passing, see USA hiding

Where is Nigeria and Africa in the picture

ElevationD:
With your absolute lack of common sense, I advise you to get five bottles of BITTER OBI herbal mixture. Take it three times daily for two weeks. It will help you begin to reason properly, have common sense and talk properly. It will also help prevent you from talking about things that you know absolutely nothing about.

Since you know everything about gbajuẹ Peter Obi on public schools, why are you failing to tell us?

How many classrooms built?
How many schools built?
How many teachers recruited?
How many more children enrolled in free schools?
What changed in the students to teacher’s ratio?

If you fail to provide the statistics, then you need the bitter Obi urgently to reason properly, have common sense and talk properly.

phemray:
Agreed Jakande worked as of his time and others in South West at same time. But, Remember what he did then and match it with the level of buoyancy of the state with the population and patriotism level as of that time.

Are you saying that Sanwo Olu, Ambode, Fashola and Tinubu are not patriots?

How much was crude oil in Jakande’s four years compared to 1999 to 2024?
How much IGR did he raise during his time from the masses?
How much loans

Seunpapa65:
Rivers no be Lagos

Rivers people don't want a permanent godfather landlord like 20 million smart Lagosians have had since 1999.
25 years under the yoke of Ogbeni Ojuyobo. Na which kain juju be that

AllenSpencer:
Privatize those universities and give them full autonomy.

It’s glaring the government cannot fund tertiary education.

Using emotions to override high tuition fees will not help the educational sector.

The government should privatize sector and channel funds into primary and secondary education.

What can the government fund- primay education, vocational education, secondary education?
Or governments are funding feeder roads and gutters, electricity, mass transit, water & sanitation?
How about funding law & order, and security of lives and property

If government is not funding anything, then why pay taxes or why allow them to collect taxes on our behalf?
What is government useful for

otipoju:
O.A.U the school that formed us. It will be fixed in no time.

" Amphi- "a venue loaded with history of various kinds

This was where D-Banj performed his first major Nigerian show in 2005.


Na here we pursue Bukina that year too as a fallout of that Dean of Student Affairs man wey dey like play students against each other in divide and conquer format

Dr Jingo , Dr 3A's , Maxwell,( the political parties -Pacesetter and DSM), Iginla Subomi, Lanre Legacy, U-Fit, Have-You -Eaten , Saburi, Femi Freedom, Afin Roger's ,Sobotiano, Tony Fash, Energy, Professor Jembe, and a host of other personalities all made my time in this school memorable.

Places like white house, yellow house, spider house, old buka, new buka, power house, road 7, road 1, Awo cafe , cofee room and aluta market.

Foods like Risky Burger , Sobo , Awo beans and Iyan Iya Egin at Old buka .

Will never forget Iya Israel one of the elderly women who used to do laundry. " You wash ? " was all the English the could most of them solicit customers with.

How are those formed by the university paying back, to ensure its legacy gets better by government paying lecturers well and administrators using funds judiciously

Amotolongbo:
The beautiful structures in OAU are now dilapidating 😭😭😭

Like everything else about our society, due to our self-centred nature

southsouthking:
APC becoming to desperate in my state.
First they tried to turn the people of Edo against Obaseki using the case of the Oba in court which Obaseki has no hand in it.
Now they're shooting themselves on the feet with this video posted by Monday Okpebholo the APC gubernatorial candidate.

Some one should tell Monday Okpebholo that he needs a good adviser at this critical time.

Oshiomole diverted the 30 billion world trade funds for himself and his estranged wife, and used part of it to build a paradise in his home town Iyamu.

APC is dead and buried in Edo State, no amount of cheap blackmail can stop Asue Ighodalo AI.

Do you mean that Edo no be Lagos is still alive and well

phemray:
Hypocrisy of the highest order. is keeping state fund in personal business to make undeclared profit while he was a governor amount to doing the right thing? This man Really show that his getting 3rd class in university was not by error. his selective sentimental ideology can't take him anywhere.

Tinubu is a philanthropist and passionate at helping millions of people to grow over years, Obi is not.and he is only do all these to get sympathy for future elections but thank God right thinking Nigerians knows the truth.

Helping millions grow but failed to match Jakande's record on free education for all children in Lagos despite huge growth in Lagos budgets since 1999?
Are you kidding

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.

ElevationD:
Not just the boy did he surprise. He surprised the whole of Corona schools. That was a massive and unforgettable deed. A lasting impression in the heart of the boy and other children; an encouragement to the school. That was one dream come through for the child.

By the way, Corona since 1955, is one of the oldest private schools in Nigeria.

Thank you Mr. Peter Obi.

Thank you gbajue master for showing your true colour as someone who hates the masses.
Are private schools for masses or a sign of Gbajue Obi's failure to enroll all Anambra children in free public schools when he was governor?
Like El Rufai, like Gbajue Obi.

envoymedia:
Reno Omokri Blasts Governor El-Rufai For Withdrawing His Son From Nigerian Public School (Photo)

Former Presidential Aide, Reno Omokri has blasted the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai for withdrawing his son from Nigerian public school, IgbereTV reports.

Governor Nasir El-Rufai said that he withdrew his seven-year-old son, Abubakar Al-Sadiq El-Rufai, from Kaduna Capital school, after bandits attempted to kidnap him twice.

Taking to Instagram, Reno Omokri wrote;

"So, Nasir @NElRufai can withdraw his son from school because bandits and killer herdsmen want to kill him, yet he condemns Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu for wanting to withdraw from Nigeria when the same bandits and killer herdsmen kill their people. Is this not hypocrisy?

Seeing as El-Rufai said he withdrew his son from a public school because bandits and kidnappers were targeting him, it is time we question his sanity. Does he have Multiple Personality Disorder? Was he not the same man defending bandits on BBC News Pidgin saying they are just doing “business” and are not a threat to one Nigeria? So let him leave his son in that school since they are only doing their business.

Yoruba say oni iranu!

#Tableshaker"

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ3vbMDjjP9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Lizzysamuel:
Nice one

The man with an impeccable record. An embodiment of humility. Thank you so much for inspiring the younger generation 👋👋👋

When did ObiDeens change the meaning of impeccable for their gbajue looter

Biodun556:
Pandora Paper: How Peter Obi Used His Daughter’s Name For Fraud

Published 8 months ago on October 4, 2021By Tunde Osunfemi

A former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has been named in a global tax evasion scandal and investigative reporting carried out by more than 600 journalists in 117 countries.

The investigation is called Pandora Papers.

The BBC writes that the “Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents that reveal hidden wealth, tax avoidance and, in some cases, money laundering by some of the world’s rich and powerful.”

The Pandora Papers details how rich and powerful individuals from across the world– including more than 330 politicians from 90 countries–launder money by setting up businesses in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, as well as in countries like Switzerland and Singapore.

These places are called ‘tax havens’ because it is easy to set up companies there, there have laws that make it difficult to identify owners of companies and there is low or no corporation tax within their jurisdictions.

Peter Obi used his daughter’s name
According to Premium Times, a Nigerian publication that was part of the global investigation under the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) umbrella in Washington DC, Obi discreetly set up a company called Gabriella Investments Limited, in the British Virgin Island.

He named the company Gabriella Investments Limited, after his daughter Gabriella Nwamaka.

Obi, the online newspaper reports, first approached Acces International, a secrecy enabler in Monaco, France, to help him incorporate an offshore entity in one of the world’s most notorious tax-havens.

Acces International then contracted a local registered agent – Aleman Cordero Galindo & Lee Trust (BVI) Limited (Alcogal) — to set up Gabriella Investments Limited for Obi.

Gabriella Investment Limited was born on November 17, 2010.

On the same day the company was incorporated, the nominee directors met and issued 50,000 shares of Gabriella Investment in favour of Hill International Holding Corporation, a shell International Business Company operating under the laws of Belize, another tax haven.

The director of the company is Mr. Van Vuuren, who is also one of the directors of Gabriella Investment.

Change of name and breaking Nigeria’s laws

Gabriella Investment is now known as PMGG Investments Limited in what is a combination of the first letters of the first names of Obi’s nuclear family: P for Peter (ex-governor), M for Margaret (the ex-governor’s wife), G for Gabriella (the ex-governor’s daughter) and G for Gregory (the ex-governor’s son).

Obi has also created a trust known as The Gabriella Settlement, an entity also registered in the BVI.

The Gabriella Settlement is the sole shareholder of PMGG Investments.

Obi also incorporated another company called Next International (UK) Limited on May 16, 1996, in London.

Investigations show that Obi continued to act as director of Next International (UK) Limited for 14 months after becoming Governor of Anambra State, thereby breaking Nigeria’s laws.

In Nigeria, a person is statutorily obligated to withdraw from engaging in or directing a private business, upon becoming a public officer, as stipulated in Section Six (6) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act.

Obi resigned from Next International on May 16, 2008, 14 months after he assumed duties as Anambra Governor.

Obi also contravened Section 11 of the 1999 constitution (as amended) which stipulates that public officers are required to declare “immediately after taking office and thereafter all” their properties, assets, and liabilities and those of his (or her) unmarried children under the age of eighteen years.

Investigations have revealed that Obi did not declare the companies he tucked away in offshore secrecy havens to the Code of Conduct Bureau.

Asked about his offshore assets and shell companies, Obi told Premium Times that: “I am sure you too will not like to pay inheritance tax if you can avoid it.”

Obi, 60, was PDP’s vice presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections.

He often preaches frugality, parsimony, anti-corruption, lean governments, and probity every other day on prime-time television.

He also once told the world that he owns only one wristwatch, even though images of him at different events showed him wearing different brands of pricey wristwatches.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/newsrand.com/2021/10/04/pandora-paper-how-peter-obi-used-his-daughters-name-for-fraud/amp/

SoNature:
Alex Otti should name a big project after Professor Barth Nnaji! That man has to be the most patriotic Igbo man in this generation!

Is he not the owner of Geometric that is providing uninterrupted and stable electricity to Aba for it to renew its industries and displace Lagos as the highest VAT contributor

Will that decongest Lagos and make Igbos stay in Abia state with Yorubas and other tribes flocking there as they are currently doing to Lagos for further development of the metropolis?

rotadeco27:
You see that is the issue! You can not work for the government or other organizations and really make it good in life. Iam a professional and yet never have any thought of working for anyone nor the government. Plan multiple streams of income ,no matter how little ,it will shock a financial need or some. Just look around you ,there is a challenge or some challenges facing people that u can provide solutions to and get paid as rewards.

The nation can not get any where by this our mentality of working and earn salary. One of the streams of business I was talking about is faming, do not be ashamed of any legitimate hustle that will put food on you table.

Should we then scrap the government altogether?
How should we organise the provision of common services like:

- basic education and healthcare,
- roads, gutters and their maintenance,
- electricity,
- law & order, security
- monitoring private businesses to prevent exploitation of the masses

How do you propose this should be done without local, state and federal governments employing enough professional workers for these tasks

SoNature:
I have repeatedly said that the federal government should ban ALL Nigerian males from travelling to Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Cyprus and Cambodia.

Those people just go there to push drugs. Those countries have no tangible opportunities for foreigners.

If you have any business with anyone from that country and you two have to meet, meet in an nearby country or the person should come down to Nigeria.

Our politicians, yahoo boys, drug dealers and prostitutes have sworn to totally tarnish the image of this country

Who do they share the money with for hailing and honours- the "innocent" masses

okoro:
The flatness of the head gave the culprit out

How flat is ThiefNuibu's head

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.’’

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/?.
 
U.S. court judgement indicts Tinubu for drug trafficking

https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/amp/news/article/u-s-court-judgement-indicts-tinubu-for-drug-trafficking/

US Court Releases Documents Linking Tinubu to Largescale Drug Peddling


https://fij.ng/article/us-court-releases-documents-linking-tinubu-to-largescale-drug-peddling/

helinues:
Then go and hustle, NL no dey put food on the members table

Hustle when ThiefNuibu and other politicians are looting money that should employ workers to create the environment for private businesses to flourish and employ even more workers?

Government workers that are paid the 360k minimum wage annually, instead of the shameful thing Zulum is doing in Borno.

Startcomm22:
The Labour Veterans and Trade Unionists Assembly has expressed outrage over the wages paid to workers in Borno State, revealing that many are receiving as little as N6,000 to N8,000 as minimum wage

Comrade Isa Tijani, National Interim Chairman of the Labour Veterans, condemned the situation in a statement on Tuesday.

The Labour Veterans also condemned arbitrary deductions from workers’ salaries, warning that if the issue is not addressed, workers in other states might face similar exploitation.

Tijani said, “It pains us to admit that, we now have it on clear record, that, in Borno state, workers in most of the local governments throughout the state, are presently being paid N6000 to N8000 only, as minimum wage. This is not only despicable, but an open case of inhuman slavery in the 21st century.

“We wish to call on the Governor to do the following: Ensure that all entitled workers are paid the prevailing agreed amount even before the new Minimum Wage comes into effect; Stop all forms of arbitrary deductions in the name of palliatives or purchase of cars to local Government Chairmen.

“Taking into cognizance the shameful act that is taking place in Borno state, we are afraid that workers in some states might be experiencing the same fate. Accordingly, it is of vital importance for the Labour Leaders and their members to successfully tackle the sticky and knotty issue of full wage agreements implementation across board, before the new National Minimum Wage regime comes into Law.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/05/minimum-wage-borno-workers-paid-as-low-as-n6000-to-n8000/

Tokskob2008:
I have always pondered on this too. Why can't FG make use of the available lands all around the country for massive agriculture, it's not like they don't have the funds to buy the equipments or whatever and doing this will create more jobs and also make food cheaper for the citizens, so what is really the problem with this our leaders

How many prosperous countries do you know that have their GDP mostly from farming and ranching agricultural activities?

Why should the government use the land for agriculture instead of private entrepreneurs, not peasant farmers o