One4me: Thank God an Osu like you cannot hold it back any longer, unlike that pretentious Fred Nwabufo. Stop hating on PYO, while pretending that you are rebuffing the rubbish written by Garba Shehu.
PYO is destined to rule Nigeria come 2023, as the most eminently qualified Westerner from Southenr Nigeria.
You must be a winch or wizard to know who is osu like you on nairaland. When you are ready you will factually rebut the hideous rogue lawyer & fake pastor you are defending. Abi you were Tinubu's Attorney General when his bogus pension law was done and the Alpha Beta Company tax collection fraud?
ZombieNation: The canker worm Tinubu was the first governor to turn state house of assemblies to rubber stamps.
The Lagos state national assembly passed a pension bill for elected officials which included Tinubu.
Under the bill, Lagos is saddled with maintaining Tinubu for the rest of his life on the prevailing full salary a sitting governor is entitled to.
The pension bill for Tinubu also includes choice properties bought and paid for by the state in Abuja, Lagos and abroad.
Tinubu also has the choice of 5 executive cars to be replaced every 5yrs.
Recall also that Tinubu is on record to be the only elected governor in the history of modern democracy to have had 4 deputies in 8yrs!
The man is a rotten egg who spear headed corruption in Nigeria to new levels and the financial bankruptcy of acn states under his leprosy grip is evidence of his systematic kleptomaniac.
FreeGlobe: In Lagos, Alpha Beta, as consultants, gets 10 percent of whatever Lagos State generates monthly. If this statement confuses you, you are not alone. There are just a few things you need to keep in mind though: Lagos State generates roughly 31 billion Naira a month. Ten percent of that is going to a consultancy firm owned by the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu. 75% of the revenue generated by Lagos State comes from taxes.
If you need to read the paragraph again, you are not alone. However, the truth of the matter is that Alpha Beta Company has been the tax consultant to the Lagos State government since 1999, when the former governor Tinubu began his tenure.
That year, Alpha Beta Company had definitely succeeded by delivering a dramatic rise in monthly state revenue from about 600 million Naira to 7.7 billion Naira. A laudable achievement indeed, but it would have been less so if the citizens of Lagos State knew what they had traded it in for. Alpha Beta Company had charged the state of Lagos a whopping one billion Naira a month for their services.
Now, just to reiterate, Tinubu owns Alpha Beta Company. Tinubu was also at the time, the Governor of Lagos State. Alpha Beta Company became the tax consultant for Lagos State in 1999, and they charged roughly 13% of the entire state revenue.
Today, Alpha Beta Company is still the tax consultant for the state. They now charge roughly 10% of the entire state revenue and Tinubu still owns it. The only thing that has changed is that Tinubu is no longer the Governor of Lagos State, or so it says on paper. With utmost respect to the office of State Governor, Tinubu is still very much in control of the state’s affairs, or at the very least, its revenue.
Despite all feelings of being scandalized here, one must look at the big picture. Governor Fashola is still working for Bola Tinubu. If he was not, things might have changed. New relationships would have been forged with the State Government and interest groups. However, the standings beg the question: what has really changed since then?
Undisclosed sources claim that Tinubu’s role in installing Fashola as Governor of the State is the biggest hindrance for the present regime. An agreement between Fashola and Tinubu over the duration of the tenure of governorship, as well as the selection of certain cabinet members paints a vivid picture on the sort of bind Fashola is in. At the moment however, one wonders whether or not he finds it at convenient as he used to, or if he ever did.
What is clear, however, is that there appears to be a lot of money changing hands, and the masses are still bewildered over the fate of roughly 31 billion Naira in revenue per month. There are a number of allegations regarding Fashola’s spending penchants. Here are just a few of them that beg to be disproved:
1. That in 2009, Fashola gave N250 million to the Rotimi Akeredolu-led executive of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) for the NBA conference held in Lagos, at a time when Lagos teachers and doctors were on strike for improved welfare package.
2. The Babatunde Raji Fashola Government within six months, January to June 2009, spent N420 million on the hiring of private security – to guard who? – despite his heavy investment in the Police Force through the State Security Trust Fund.
3. Babatunde Raji Fashola spent N1.5 billion to demolish the Bank of Industry (BOI) building, paying a company introduced by one Tunji Olowolafe in cash transfer, only for him and his cronies to claim the land adjacent to it.
4. The Babatunde Raji Fashola Government awarded a part of Western Avenue (Funsho Williams Road), about two kilometres road for N7.7 billion, just between Abalti Barracks and Costain. And without the construction of any bridge, the project was carried out by Julius Berger. This project must certainly be investigated.
5. Between January and June 2009, the Babatunde Raji Fashola Government claimed to have fuelled 225 vehicles in his office alone with N135 million. These figures amount to about N800,000 per day at a time that petrol was sold for N65 per litre. The Government always got fuel cheaper, but Babatunde Raji Fashola claimed to have bought it at N85 per litre.
6. Between January and June 2009, Babatunde Raji Fashola’s Chief of Staff and Personal Assistants expended N290 million in sending text messages and phone calls on their lines.
7. It is also very sad to know that the Babatunde Raji Fashola Government awarded the construction of a road and drains inside Gbagada General Hospital for over N1.8 billion to the same Tunji Olowolafe’s company (DEUX Projects Limited).
8. The sum of N1.5 billion of un-appropriated funds, without approval, was claimed to have been spent on the demolition of Oshodi.
9. The Helicopter Deal was a big fraud. The helicopter was not built for any kind of emergency evacuation, rescue or to even combat urban fire. Over N5 billion has been spent on the two helicopters. And the seal of Lagos State is not on it, and it is not even in Lagos but in the Niger Delta making money for some private people in Government. The whole helicopter deal stinks to high heavens; it constitutes the biggest governmental fraud of all times and confirms the rot in the State. See THISDAY December 19, 2009.
10. The Senior Special Assistant, SSA (Media) to Babatunde Raji Fashola spent N183 million in six months on press coverage and editors outside the approved budget but funded directly from the Governor’s Office.
11. In a State where children are sitting on the floor in classrooms, where unemployment is rampant and poverty pervasive, Babatunde Raji Fashola paid the wife of a controversial pastor over N600 million in two years for Christmas decorations for about six streets in Lagos.
12. In six months, between January and June 2009, Babatunde Raji Fashola spent monies on several faceless organisations, subventions, grants and donations such that they quickly pocketed N2 billion.
three: The erstwhile Managing Director of AlphaBeta, the Lagos State consultant on IGR took to twitter to share his petition to the EFCC via the law firm Adetunji Shoyoye and Associates.
He Accuses the firm among other things of corruption and money Laundering.
festacman: If dark-hearted insults from the the likes of FFK and destructive fake news from the likes of Timi Frank did not rattle VP Osinbajo, an empty article can't. He is not a Senior of Nigeria and Professor of law for nothing.
And by the way, Pastor Adeboye is merely the General Overseer of the Church he belongs to and not his personal Lord and redeemed.
Yea, corruption and looting does not rattle the Mere Commissioner and Tinubu's phone career. Only a yegeyege helicopter rattles him. Orisirisi oshisko loyal supporters.
joshchisimdi: Yesterday we reported that the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo's helicopter crashed in Kogi State, and the Caverton group has released a statement revealing why the incident occurred.
Josiah Choms, an executive at Caverton who confirmed the incident which occurred at about 3:00 p.m. in Kabba, Kogi State, said the accident was due to “unusual weather conditions." According to Mr. Choms, there were no injuries to the passengers or crew members as they were all quickly and safely evacuated
“The relevant authorities have been duly informed and an investigation into the incident has commenced. We will, of course, support the authorities as required,” the statement added.
Recall that Laolu Akande, a presidential spokesperson, said 12 people including the minister of state for labour and productivity, Stephen Ocheni, senior presidential aides, security officials were on board the helicopter.
lalasticlala: Here is the controversial video of President Buhari's daughter, Hanan Buhari, waving from the Presidential Jet which caused uproar on social media.
joshchisimdi: Yesterday we reported that the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo's helicopter crashed in Kogi State, and the Caverton group has released a statement revealing why the incident occurred.
Josiah Choms, an executive at Caverton who confirmed the incident which occurred at about 3:00 p.m. in Kabba, Kogi State, said the accident was due to “unusual weather conditions." According to Mr. Choms, there were no injuries to the passengers or crew members as they were all quickly and safely evacuated
“The relevant authorities have been duly informed and an investigation into the incident has commenced. We will, of course, support the authorities as required,” the statement added.
Recall that Laolu Akande, a presidential spokesperson, said 12 people including the minister of state for labour and productivity, Stephen Ocheni, senior presidential aides, security officials were on board the helicopter.
Gloriouspa: That's why we are lack behind in everything an African man do. How many football pitch in Europe are demof turf grass. They use natural grass and feel the nature, here we copy anything whether useful to us or not. The turf you will still need to change after about 5 years.
Is it not incredible that poor country of many unemployed people will prefer imported grass to local grass to be maintained scrupulously by workers to circulate the money in their economy?
ednut1: they are all scammers. Sowore and aac wont participate in state elections, edo, kogi, ondo we no go see them. Later he will come in 2023 deceive abroad people to donate for presidential elections. Chop the money waka.
If na you people want take do mumu, to chest out and lead them without being fully engaged themselves, won't you shave their heads completely and even wash it with soda? People who don't invest themselves in the political arena and governance issues will wail forever. Their choice. Their consequences.
Cheat2Win: It beats my imagination why Nigerians prefer to elect ugly and visionless criminals over good looking ,visionary .educated,and eloquent leaders. Someone said on another thread that it might take Nigeria decades to develop, but I say with the likes of Tinubu ,Atiku ,etc seemingly next in line of succession,we're looking at centuries.
Nigeria is just a joke and a game . imagine they're just rotating the thing among themselves. Tinubu is already positioning himself as next president . that means they signed a pact and the votes won't count.
Can you please tell us what you have done, are doing, and will continue to do so that votes count in your local government, state and federal elections for the executive and legislative branches?
tiger28: Oga Charlie has gone QUIET after collecting his 100M Bribe......All these Activists are just after their stomachs Including Sowore and Kanu abeg!
President Muhammadu Buhari has berated Nigerian youths for being 'uneducated' and 'not ready to work'.
President Buhari, while speaking during a panel discussion at the Commonwealth business forum in Westminster, London, expressed displeasure with youths in Nigeria because they were dependent on revenue from oil to survive.
He said the youths, who make up 60 percent of the population, were waiting to get social amenities free without doing anything.
"And then the economy. We have a very young population and our population is estimated conservatively to be 180 million. The 60 percent of the population is below the age of 30. A lot of them have not been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria has been an oil producing country and therefore they should sit and do nothing and get housing, healthcare and education free,"
The moderator had asked Buhari to give his final thoughts on the issues discussed. The President said he had fulfilled his campaign promises by improving on the nation’s security and the economy.
White007: This is Yusuf. He doesn't like to work. He stays in a free house, eats free meals and rides a power bike all day long. When sick, he flies a chartered or presidential plane to some of the finest hospitals to treat himself all for free. Yusuf is a #LazyNigerianYouths Don't be like Yusuf
Jafar1: it's not gonna work that way... There is no way u expect a citizen to stop armed men from searching him/her... No go fight SARS becos IGP say make dem no search u oo. Those people don't care whether it's ur right or not.. Life no get part 2..
Canvass: Don't bother yourself. They are talking about another heaven here. They're talking about Rockers' Heaven. IIf you must know this kind of heaven, then you must listen to the intro of Hell's Belll' and 'Highway to Hell''by AC/DC. I understand him 'breaking on through to the other side' as the Doors put it but I don't know which Jimi he's supposed to be jamming with! Hendrix or Page? As for Michael, he always preferred Slash to any other guitarist as shown at 1995 MTV Awards. They just sync seamlessly. Rock and Roll is the genre that takes music from the blues into the black. Be wary of it.
THE controversy trailing the aborted establishment of RUGA settlements for Fulani herders in parts of the country may be far from over.
Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, on Friday said that the apprehension being expressed over the plan by the Federal Government to create Fulani settlements for herders under the acronym name of RUGA was misplaced.
He told reporters in Abuja that he established a successful RUGA settlement in Abia State when he was governor of the state in 2001.
The controversial cattle market, he said, is located in Lokpanta, Umunneochi Local Government Area, along Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway.
jaybenugo: Similarly, the Chairman Ejigbo LCDA, Hon Oloyede Monsuru Obe, donated two Toyota Siena Buses to Ejigbo Division to boost its operational engagements and provide adequate security for all residents in the Local Government Area.
Apart from this police donation, what is the score of the LCDA on the functions of the local government below?
CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA 1999
Fourth Schedule Functions of a Local Government Council
1. The main functions of a local government council are as follows:
(a) the consideration and the making of recommendations to a State commission on economic planning or any similar body on - (i) the economic development of the State, particularly in so far as the areas of authority of the council and of the State are affected, and (ii) proposals made by the said commission or body; (b) collection of rates, radio and television licences; (c) establishment and maintenance of cemeteries, burial grounds and homes for the destitute or infirm; (d) licensing of bicycles, trucks (other than mechanically propelled trucks), canoes, wheel barrows and carts; (e) establishment, maintenance and regulation of slaughter houses, slaughter slabs, markets, motor parks and public conveniences; (f) construction and maintenance of roads, streets, street lightings, drains and other public highways, parks, gardens, open spaces, or such public facilities as may be prescribed from time to time by the House of Assembly of a State; (g) naming of roads and streets and numbering of houses; (h) provision and maintenance of public conveniences, sewage and refuse disposal; (i) registration of all births, deaths and marriages;
(j) assessment of privately owned houses or tenements for the purpose of levying such rates as may be prescribed by the House of Assembly of a State; and
(k) control and regulation of -
(i) out-door advertising and hoarding, (ii) movement and keeping of pets of all description, (iii) shops and kiosks, (iv) restaurants, bakeries and other places for sale of food to the public, (v) laundries, and (vi) licensing, regulation and control of the sale of liquor.
2. The functions of a local government council shall include participation of such council in the Government of a State as respects the following matters -
the provision and maintenance of primary, adult and vocational education; (b) the development of agriculture and natural resources, other than the exploitation of materials (c) the provision and maintenance of health services; and (d) such other functions as may be conferred on a local government council by the House of Assembly of the State.
Sonnobax15: . They even had to say "heaven would be electric tonight" well, that one na Oga Righteousness business...na Dem be heaven bound personnels abi na candidates self..
It seems you don't know what Jesus Christ said about heaven's eligibility criteria. Let me see if I can remind you.
Matthew 25 KJV
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
kingy1: When some persons do say this country need GOD some others will be attacking them. Imagine using immorality and indecency to represent the most sensitive and fragile population of a country or state, over those who have burn their candle, and brain. Someone with the fear of GOD will never do that. This country does not only need GOD; this country needs the lenght, breadth and the volume of GOD. This country is FINISHED without GOD.
efemena5050: GOD WILL PUNISH THIS GOVERNOR.....nigeria na scam only rubbish is celebrated over and against decency nd handwork no wonder the countries continue to retrogres bcus of useless leaders go to this same ogun u ll find technocrats artisans educationist innovotive minds crying for help but no......instead they ll always celebrate flivorities
Jeromejnr: That's the problem I have with shallow thinking youths in this country. I don't know what you guys have to do to be deep analytical thinkers. Were people watching BBN when America was being built as a nation? How can a child who hasn't even finished his exams be playing instead of reading. For you Nigerians is time to play or build your country? Imagine a child comparing himself with a working adult and giving reasons why he should be playing instead of reading. Besides, if BBN is currently showing in America, not up to 5 percent (that is even too much) will even know about the show. But in your country that over 90 percent know about the show and are glued to the TV, tell me how your country will grow. Even the most popular reality TV show in America, (Keeping up with the Kardashians) how many Americans watch it much less know about it? Most of the proceeds of BBN isn't even going to Nigeria but South Africa. You guys are not ready.
Our youths are not ready, neither are our leaders ready for their responsibility to the youths. This na real logjam we dey so.
President Muhammadu Buhari has berated Nigerian youths for being 'uneducated' and 'not ready to work'.
President Buhari, while speaking during a panel discussion at the Commonwealth business forum in Westminster, London, expressed displeasure with youths in Nigeria because they were dependent on revenue from oil to survive.
He said the youths, who make up 60 percent of the population, were waiting to get social amenities free without doing anything.
"And then the economy. We have a very young population and our population is estimated conservatively to be 180 million. The 60 percent of the population is below the age of 30. A lot of them have not been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria has been an oil producing country and therefore they should sit and do nothing and get housing, healthcare and education free,"
The moderator had asked Buhari to give his final thoughts on the issues discussed. The President said he had fulfilled his campaign promises by improving on the nation’s security and the economy.
White007: This is Yusuf. He doesn't like to work. He stays in a free house, eats free meals and rides a power bike all day long. When sick, he flies a chartered or presidential plane to some of the finest hospitals to treat himself all for free. Yusuf is a #LazyNigerianYouths Don't be like Yusuf
Acidosis: Governments sign celebrities all over the world. If you like, run to Canada or Sahara, you will meet the same trend. Stop wasting your time. Focus on your personal dreams and quit complaining about those things that do not affect your peace.
You forgot to include how much she is being paid by her country? Is that because it is ZERO? Unlike the prodigal son in Abeokuta who is confused about what his job is, but is praised by the sufferhead people?
Politics › Re: Garba Shehu’s ‘Attack’ On Adeboye Was To Rebuke Osinbajo - By Fredrick Nwabufo by anonimi: 12:40pm On Oct 07, 2020
This small house wen be like hut .. 
