If Tinubu is looking for money to finance his coastal highway of fraud linking Bourdillon with Lebanon, he should take money from these bullion vans and execute the project.
Otherwise he can draw down his druggie stash to fund the infrastructure instead of accumulating debts with nothing to show for it like Lagos since 1999.
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.’’
Can you mention just one state, and your own state that is not backward in this country that has the most extreme poverty paupers with the highest number of children out of school and has its citizens praying and fasting to japa to neocolonial countries that they cluelessly blame for all our developmental woes.
Some even sell their inheritance prematurely like that prodigal son in the Bible just to be voluntary slaves underemployed in cold Britain, Canada, America etc killing their partners in the frustration of being second class citizens in countries where their contributions are hardly recognised
ShoeGetSize: A jealous husband who beat his wife to death with their son's skateboard in a 'ruthless and cold-blooded' attack has been jailed for a least 17 years.
Olubunmi Abodunde wielded the toy with such force on his wife Taiwo that a pathologist was unable to establish how many blows she had sustained.
However, police officers — who stood outside for 35 minutes while waiting for permission from superiors to enter — described hearing nearly 50 'bangs' coming from inside the property.
When they finally entered, Mrs Abodunde, 41, was found with her 'skull smashed in'.
Jailing the defendant for life with a minimum 17 years behind bars, Judge Martyn Levett told him he was 'ferocious, ruthless, cold-blooded, callous and savage'.
Abodunde had said very little about what happened and gave 'no comment' responses during a police interview.
But the judge added: 'The simple fact is that you strangled your wife and then beat her to death and used one of the children's skateboards to batter her skull.'
Abodunde was jealous and suspicious throughout his marriage and accused his wife of having affairs.
Police had been involved with the couple several times over alleged domestic violence incidents before mother-of-three Mrs Abodunde's death on November 28 last year.
The day before, Abodunde was arrested after officers arrived at the couple's home in Newmarket, Suffolk, and found his wife with a split lip.
He was freed on police bail later the same day with a condition to stay away from the marital home and not to approach his wife.
But he went home the following morning after working a night shift at Tesco, claiming he wanted his mobile phone.
Two police officers arrived at 9.20am to take a statement about the previous day's incident but didn't enter the property until 9.55am – despite the commotion inside - after permission was granted. They immediately confirmed she was 'obviously dead'.
A post-mortem examination found she had been throttled until she fell unconscious, then stamped on until her ribs were broken.
Her husband used the skateboard to finish off the care home worker with blows that were so violent it was damaged in the process.
Prosecutor Simon Spence KC told a previous hearing, where the defendant admitted murder after a jury had been sworn in, that the banging the police officers heard was likely to have been Abodunde continuing the attack after his wife was unconscious or dead.
The family arrived in the UK from Nigeria in 2022 but clashed over money issues as well as the alleged affairs.
Abodunde was a trained civil engineer but had been unable to find work in the sector since relocating here and took shifts at supermarkets and DIY stores.
Following his arrest for murder, he told police he had acted in self-defence, saying: 'My wife has subjected me to physical abuse for a number of years.
'On November 28, we got into an argument. She ran at me with a knife. I grabbed the knife and cut my hand. I was defending myself.'
But Ipswich Crown Court heard while he did have an injury to his hand, there wasn't a knife near his wife's body.
Nneka Akudolu KC, defending, said the level of violence was 'completely out of character' for her client and might have been affected by medication he was taking. However, no medical evidence was provided to support the claim.
Three Suffolk Constabulary officers are under investigation for misconduct after the force referred itself to the Independent Office of Police Conduct. Two face action for potential gross misconduct.
Speaking after Abodunde's conviction, Detective Inspector Dan Connick said: 'This was an awful attack on a woman that has had a lasting impact on the community and, most importantly, on the victim's family.'
davidtemi: You read me turning your screen upside down.
I don't know you, but with what you typed I am sure I'm not your mate, I probably have been into politics/government before u were born. So pls learn to caution your keypad sometimes.
Many thanks for letting us know that you have a great role in how the state and our country is such a basket case of misplaced priorities and reckless looting since the return to democracy a quarter of a century ago.
What is their to brag about in being such a failure
Nothing to kuku gain from FTC sef. I rest my case o @Seun
What is better about the government failing to employ workers for the provision of common facilities, utilities and services but instead asking contractors to employ Ekiti people
Since you are concerned with what you can gain from FYC, it’s understandable that you have no clue whatsoever about government responsibilities.
Usmanovic95: Talk less and let your success do the talking. Until then,we still don't trust you.
Tinubu has failed to earn our trust with his too many propaganda lies.
More than 7 months after the immediate, immediate announcement below, nothing to show.
nlfpmod: President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, on Monday in Abu Dhabi, have finalized a historic agreement, which has resulted in the immediate cessation of the visa ban placed on Nigerian travellers.
Furthermore, by this historic agreement, both Etihad Airlines and Emirates Airlines are to immediately resume flight schedules into and out of Nigeria, without any further delay.
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As negotiated between the two Heads of State, this immediate restoration of flight activity, through these two airlines and between the two countries, does not involve any immediate payment by the Nigerian government.
In recognition of President Tinubu’s economic development diplomacy drive and proposals today presented by President Tinubu to his counterpart, an agreed framework has been established, which will involve several billions of U.S. dollars worth of new investments into the Nigerian economy across multiple sectors, including defence, agriculture and others, by the investment arms of the Government of the United Arab Emirates.
Additionally, President Tinubu is pleased to have successfully negotiated a joint, new foreign exchange liquidity programme between the two Governments, which will be announced in detail in the coming weeks.
The President wishes to commend the UAE President, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, for his unalloyed friendship and his determined effort to join hands with him to fully normalize and reset to excellence, the standard of relations between the two important countries.
Very drunk lootocrat who should start by telling us what development he achieved in Ogun for eight years for basic services and utilities plus facilities to everyone.
Malroux: The east will be home to 90% Nigerians in the next ten years.
The East that is sending people all over Lagos and other parts of the country to develop there while their own region is ravaged by erosion and ESN/IPOB terrorists due to unemployment and starvation
hoilhuzshi: The monies at stake for looting is not plenty in Benue, in Rivers it is gargantuan
And Wike needs all that money to add to his FCT stash for executing ThiefNuibu's hideous plan of eliminating opposition at the national level as he has done for Lagos since 1999.
If this is allowed to happen, are we not all finished and completely finished like 20 million smart, educated, sophisticated and exposed plus enlightened (SESEE) Lagosians
You na wiseman. You too much bro.
ijustdey: President Bola Tinubu has pulled the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, out of the Treasury Single Account, TSA, effectively paving way for the Nyesom Wike-led FCTA to utilize the territory’s Internally Generated Revenue IGR for the development of the nation’s capital.
At a news conference Friday in Abuja, Wike also disclosed that the President has approved the creation of the FCT Civil Service Commission to allow for staff career progression.
ppogba: Your list is incomplete without the mention of PAUL OGWUMA, a former CBN Governor who died like a chicken abroad in exile.
Paul Ogwuma is still very much alive. You should find out.
ijustdey: Paul Ogwuma, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and his wife have acquired property worth £33 million (N15.6 billion), a UK investigative journalism magazine has revealed.
According to the magazine, Private Eye, Ogwuma, who served as CBN governor for six years has “amassed a £33m British property empire”.
In its report titled “Abuja on Thames” the paper said it “has identified a network of 15 British companies owned or controlled by Anna Ogwuma,” wife of the governor, adding that her husband “looted his country under 1990s military dictatorship”.
“Paul Ogwuma, 86, was governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria during the brutal and kleptocratic rule of General Sani Abacha, when the bank was the latter’s personal piggy-bank. Some estimates suggest looting under Abacha ran to billions of dollars,” the report read.
“Under his successor for one year, retired general Abdulsalami Abubakar, Ogwuma oversaw a depletion in Nigeria’s foreign currency reserves of around $3bn, or 40%”.
“Between 2002 and 2017, her companies were used for 20 separate property purchases. They ranged from commercial sites in the north of England to luxury apartments in west London.
“Among them are townhouses in Kensington and Paddington, a couple of apartments in Mayfair, and premises in Bishop’s Stortford town centre that currently house a branch of Greggs.”
The report added that “although the Abacha era and its excesses are receding into history, banks that were often complicit at the time might be expected to know some of this history.
“Yet Mrs Ogwuma’s most valuable properties were either bought or remortgaged with loans from Barclays Bank (which handled $170m of Abacha’s ill-gotten wealth) and Lloyds Bank in the years after 2015.
“While times have moved on, so has the law on money laundering, and Mrs Ogwuma’s lavish property buying should have prompted questions about the origin of her money. The looting of Africa has a long legacy on the streets of Britain”.
Ogwuma served as the managing director/CEO of Union Bank of Nigeria prior to his appointment as the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria in September, 1993.
KnowAll: Deinde Fernandez did not loot. Some of you Nigerians are on autopilot anytime you heard someone is rich he or she are looters. Of course 98% of d time u are correct but know some made their money genuinely.
If he did not loot, then why is Mozambique, Angola and CAR not in the league of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and other Arabian Peninsular countries with their resources
Svoboda: This woman obviously is a garrulous liability to her husband.
Thats why he is always pitching tents with mushroom parties to flatter himself as contesting for president. Adelabu and soludo are his mates fa. The only thing notable about him is to grace your breakfast shows, blowing grammar.
Like that Mama Peace domestic appendage shepopotamus wife of Jonathan
OldBeer: This 2023 elections really did Nigeria bad. Everything is now about tribe. When I said the government/president should succeed, wahala. Look before you leap with your investment. Wahala. Is it only Igbos that own property there? Mad people everywhere. On both sides.
SpartaOfLagos: Oyo state is one of the worst state in South west after Ogun state. But it's good that the governor is beginning to do something that will benefit the people there
How is it good that the governor is ignorant of the extensive application of:
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What % of Oyo state primary, vocational and secondary schools are owned by government compared with private schools? How has that ratio changed since 2019?
tym92: Hope this will make Naira appreciate against Dollar...
Unfortunately not. It is work by 200 million Nigerians who constantly eat less than we produce that will save the Naira ultimately.
David Hundeyin May 4, 2022
I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.
The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.
He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.
Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world
Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.
Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.
With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.
When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.
The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.
Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.
Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.
Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?
Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?
That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’
Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.
Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!
This is not about being a Killjoy Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.
His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.
Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.
Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.
Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?
The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.
While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.
For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.
Ceejay94: I don't know why Nigerians are fond of honouring and idolising foreigners like this. As if he has anything to offer Nigerians
You should find out how much UK aids is part of our budget and what else we rely on Britain to live comfortably since we are too lazy to educate ourselves and fund researches for scientific breakthroughs to be adopted and commercialised by private companies.
akosanwafo: Meghan says her DNA ancestry test reveals she is 40-60% Nigerian. Welcome home our sister
Success has thousands of family members and friends famzing while failure is an orphan.
How is Meghan your sister? What did you contribute to her existence apart from selling her ancestors as slaves to oyingos for ogogoro, tobacco, aumbrellas, fabrics, mirrors etc?
Nairaland not entertaining as it used to be before I started as guests on nairaland in 2011 and I registered as member in 2014 nairaland was lit sweet and educating
From 2015 till date nothing meaningful again on nairaland
I don't know why everything lost value in Nigeria since 2015 APC Rule everything in Nigeria has been retrogressing to stone age
You can say retrogressing again.
PDP's Jonathan added more megawatts in his 5 years than Buhari and eBOLA BATeria have added in 9 years put together, as per their own admission below.
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) on Sunday promised to provide Nigerians with 20,000 megawatts (mw) of electricity within the first four years it takes over governance at the federal level. It maintained that its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) will improve the nation’s power situation significantly, if elected.
The proposed 20,000mw of electricity to be generated by the party in four years time will surpass Nigeria’s present consumption rate of around 15,000mw, the party had said.
Disclosing this in a statement issued by its spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, APCPCO expressed disappointment that the federal government under President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration has only succeeded in adding 1.400mw to the national grid in four years
State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said the only way the country can have stable electricity is to vote out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in next year’s general election.
Fashola, who gave the counsel while marking his 2,600 days in office at an elaborate ceremony held at the Blue Roof of the Lagos Television premises, said electricity crisis in the country is caused by lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of Federal Government.
He said,” Yes I agree with you that it is possible to generate electricity and to make sure that everybody in this country has electricity, we have to do the right thing. But you know what, the only way that you and I will have electricity in this country will be to vote out the PDP.
Another nutjob of misplaced priorities in government house finding populist ways to swindle the masses.
What is the point in sending students to India for tertiary education when you have many children out of school and those lucky enough to be in school are in private establishments that are not adequately supervised? And the government schools are also in a shitty state.
How Nigeria’s Poor Education Infrastructures Increase the Rate of Out-of-School Children Abubakar Abdulrasheed and Peter Emmanuel, September 29, 2023
In Niger State, the lack of access to quality education and the regular invasion of communities by rampaging bandits in recent years has forced many children out of school.
Niger State contributes over 700,000 children to Nigeria’s 20 million out-of-school children. The data is based on children aged six to 18 years from primary one to senior secondary school three.
Kodo Primary School, also in the Bosso LGA, was once a citadel of high-quality learning, but the dilapidated classrooms forced many parents to withdraw their children from the school.
Its primary three and six nursery sections had ceased because their structures had collapsed. Only primary four and 5 were functional and merged into a single classroom.
While the school has never been renovated since its establishment in 1976, the pupils sit on bare floors under leaking roofs and cracked walls and endure learning under the terrible deplorable conditions in their classrooms.
While this is a valid, very calid claim, can he also say what Bayelsa has used its FAAC allocation that includes 13% derivation to achieve in common government services and utilities plus facilities for the people. Ordinary water & sanitation the governors since DSP Alams have failed to provide making cholera almost an annual palaver, despite so much surface water in the state.
Abi na to dey splash and shack everytime like Timi Dakolo showed in his music video below
NCDC Cholera Situation Report Monthly Epidemiological Report 3 Epi Week 9-12: (26 February 2024 - 24 March 2024)
# Bayelsa (356 cases) accounts for 64% of all suspected cases in the country of the 18 States that have reported cases of cholera
# Southern Ijaw LGA (133 cases) in Bayelsa State accounts for 24% of all suspected cases reported in the country
# Other States; Cross River (42 cases), Bauchi (38 cases), Delta (24 cases), Abia (24 cases), Nasarawa (19 cases), Ondo (11 cases), Katsina (9 cases), and Osun (8 cases) account for 31% of the suspected cases this year.
Bayelsa among states with highest out-of-school children ― FG by Ebiowei Lawal January 10, 2023
The Federal Ministry of Education has said that out of 20 million out-of-school children across Nigeria, Bayelsa State is among the states with the highest figures, in spite of a Compulsory Primary and Secondary Education Law the state enacted in 2018.
Stella Obasanjo was considered Olusegun's official wife A Spanish doctor has been sentenced to a year in prison, for his role in the death of the former first-lady of Nigeria, Stella Obasanjo.
The wife of Olusegun Obasanjo had visited a clinic in Marbella in October 2005 to undergo cosmetic surgery.
She underwent liposuction to reduce the size of her abdomen, but left the operating theatre with fatal injuries.
The judges said the surgeon had shown carelessness and neglect.
Mrs Obasanjo, 59, came to Spain in October 2005, checking in at the Molding Clinic - a discreet and luxury facility, specialising in cosmetic surgery.
The court heard that a tube used for removing fat had been placed by mistake into the patient's abdominal cavity - puncturing her colon and lacerating her liver.
Mrs Obasanjo became seriously ill the following day.
But prosecutors said the surgeon initially failed to answer his mobile phone, and then waited more than four hours before driving the patient in his own car to an intensive care unit, where she died an hour later.
The doctor - identified in court documents only by the initials AM - was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for causing homicide through negligence.
He was disqualified from practising medicine for three years, and ordered to pay $176,000 (£108,000) in compensation to Mrs Obasanjo's son.
The court said simple blood tests or an ultrasound procedure would have detected the internal injuries - which, with more time, could have been treated.
Politics › Re: ₦20 Trillion Pension Fund Safe – Wale Edun by anonimi: 7:52am On May 17, 2024
