IyaebeTheGreat:
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IyaebeTheGreat:
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“I most heartily congratulate King Charles III and Queen Camilla on their coronation today. As one who is honoured to have personally met and discussed with you, especially on your campaigns for development and climate issues, I am confident in your desire to champion the protection of our global environment for good.

“I believe that your reign will foster greater peace and security in the United Kingdom, and other Commonwealth nations to which Nigeria belongs.

“By your ascension to the throne, I do hope that the richer commonwealth countries will give better support to poorer ones, especially in Africa, on a broad range of economic issues.

“May God grant you health and wisdom to function in your new position.”

PO

Locked in foreign countries: Ekweremadu joins infamous list of Hushpuppi, Buruji, Invictus

Ekweremadu was on Friday sentenced to about 10 years imprisonment, alongside his wife, Beatrice on the charge of conspiracy to traffic organs.

A former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has joined the list of notable Nigerians that have either been locked up in foreign jails in the past or are still serving jail terms.

The Nigerian longest-serving deputy senate president is now in the company of notable Nigerians that have tested or still testing prisons on foreign soil.

He is in the company of fraudsters, politicians, and even acclaimed “freedom fighters”.

Obinwanne Okeke

Okeke was on the cover of the prestigious Forbes Magazine, where he was listed as one of the 30 under 30. A special editorial that highlights people under 30 that have accomplished significant feats.

Months later, he was nabbed for $11 million fraud and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a District Court of Eastern District of Virginia, USA. Okeke, popularly known as Invictus Obi, is still serving his prison term.

Hushpuppy

Rahman Abbas, a popular Instagram celebrity, known as Hushpuppy is serving a sentence of 11 years in the US.

Hushpuppy, now convicted as a notorious fraudster, was sentenced by United States District Judge Otis Wright II, who also ordered him to pay $1,732,841 in restitution to two fraud victims.

James Ibori

The former Governor of Delta State, has a record of being convicted twice by the UK government.

He was reportedly convicted in 1991 for stealing from a store where he was working.

Ibori, who served as governor of Delta State from 1999 to 2007, was arrested in Dubai in 2010 and extradited to the UK.

He was convicted in the UK and was later released in 2016, from where he subsequently returned to Nigeria with a heroic welcome.

Diepreye Alamieyeseigha

The former Bayelsa State governor was arrested by the Metropolitan police in September 2005.

Alamieyeseigha, who was governor of the oil-rich state from 1999 until his impeachment in 2005, was being arraigned by the UK government but he subsequently jumped bail.

UK authorities seized $1.5million cash stashed in his London home.

They also seized $2.7 million in a bank account at the Royal Bank of Scotland and $15 million in London real estate.

He was subsequently jailed in Nigeria but was later granted a presidential pardon by ex-president Goodluck Jonathan.

Mr Alamieyeseigha died in 2015.

Sunday Adeyemo

The self-acclaimed leader of the Yoruba Nation also served a considerable amount of time in prison in the Benin Republic.

Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, fled Nigeria following a raid of his House by the Nigerian secret police, the DSS.

He was reportedly arrested by the Republican police while trying to move to Germany. He was arrested at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport in Cotonou in 2021.

He was released in 2022 on the condition that he must not leave Cotonou and must not hold any rallies.

Kashamu Buruji

Kashamu, who served as a senator in the 8th Assembly, was reportedly arrested in the UK in 1998 after trying to enter the country with $230,000 in cash.

In 2003, a British court refused a US request to extradite Kashamu, citing uncertainty about his identity. He was then freed from prison where he had been for five years after being found carrying $230,000 when he was arrested.

The late senator spent years fighting against an attempt to extradite him to the US.

Henry Okah

Henry, the younger brother of the leader of MEND, Charles Okah, has been in prison in South Africa since 2013.

He was handed a 24-year prison term in connection with the 2010 Independence Day bombing.

The South African court convicted Okah on 13 charges of terrorism.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu has described the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections in Nigeria as proof of the performance of the Buhari administration.

Garba Shehu made this assertion on Thursday in his office in Abuja when he was appointed Grand Patron of the Arewa Young Lawyers’ Forum (AYLF).

Shehu asserted that the triumph of President-elect Bola Tinubu, Vice President- elect Kashim Shettima and governorship candidates had established the APC as a “dominant national party.”

He noted that an opposition victory in February and March would have been a career-ending moment for many APC leaders.

According to him: “APC victory in the election is a watershed moment for the Buhari government, its orientation, its programmes and projects.

“In the hands of the opposition, many of the laudable programmes of the Buhari administration would have been sabotaged or unimplemented.”

Shehu added that Tinubu/Shettima’s victory not only ensures an orderly transfer of power but also the safety of the policies of the outgoing government.

Antimandatethie:
Bad Omen Sighted Gues Who

tunjiajayi:


Typical broke ass from the igbo land. Always looking for validation for failure, from not having sense to not being able to nack.

Dey there.

Antimandatethie:
Bad Omen Sighted Gues Who

tunjiajayi:


Typical broke ass from the igbo land. Always looking for validation for failure, from not having sense to not being able to nack.

Dey there.

Antimandatethie:
Bad Omen Sighted Gues Who

tunjiajayi:


Typical broke ass from the igbo land. Always looking for validation for failure, from not having sense to not being able to nack.

Dey there.

Antimandatethie:
Bad Omen Sighted Gues Who

tunjiajayi:


Typical broke ass from the igbo land. Always looking for validation for failure, from not having sense to not being able to nack.

Dey there.

tunjiajayi:


Typical broke ass from the igbo land. Always looking for validation for failure, from not having sense to not being able to nack.

Dey there.

President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu said his commissioning of flyover in Rivers State is a bridge building endeavour orchestrated by Nyesom Wike, the state governor.

The former governor of Lagos State, Tinubu billed for inauguration on May 29, disclosed this on Wednesday while commissioning the Rumuokwuta/Rumuola Flyover in Rivers state.

According to him, the contribution of Wike to his victory at the poll cannot be overemphasized.

“Outside the construction of the flyover, this is another way of building bridges which cannot be overstated. So, from the standpoint of your character, I stand to fulfil the promise I made during the campaign”, he said.

Earlier Wike said the flyover is the Twelfth commissioned by his administration while appreciating Tinubu for honouring his invitation.

Wike declared a Public Holiday to welcome Tinubu.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, says “the sense of entitlement syndrome in the country is too much”.

Ngige stated this on Monday while fielding questions on Arise Television’s Morning Show program.

The Minister’s statement is coming on the heels of threat by the health workers to embark on strike following a proposed bill in the National Assembly to curb brain drain in the health sector.

Recall that the House of Representatives, worried by the imminent threat of brain drain in the nation’s health sector, had proposed a bill to address the crisis.

Sponsored by Ganiyu Johnson, representing Oshodi-Isolo Federal Constituency 2 of Lagos State in the House of Representatives, it seeks to amend the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act to prevent Nigerian-trained medical or dental practitioners from being granted full licences until they have worked in the country for at least five years.

The bill has continued to attract opposition from healthcare practitioners.

However, Ngige said that people borrow money to study medical courses in most countries, which they pay back after graduation.

He claimed that it is the reason they don’t leave their countries unlike their counterparts in Nigeria.

Ngige said, “It’s left for the education ministry and universities to fashion out what they can do where we now train people free of charge because they pay N48,000 to N50,000 a session for medical training. Whereas their counterpart abroad pays $100,000 in the US and £78,000 in the UK.

“They borrowed the money from the bank and when they graduate as medical doctors, they are paying back. That’s why they’re not even leaving their country.

“And here we train you free.
I obtained that free training. In fact my own I was even on scholarship. Why won’t I be patriotic to serve my country?
“So you asked that the bill taken to the National Assembly by a member be removed that it is one of the reasons you want to go on strike?
“How can a government tell a member who has done a private member’s bill, it’s not even an executive bill, to withdraw it?
You now enlist it as one of the conditions to go on strike. That’s absurd.

The sense of entitlement syndrome is too much in this country..”

“Earlier, I interacted with the Anambra State Labour Party Stakeholders in Awka.

The meeting was quite animated and constructive.

Part of our discussions centred on the way forward for the party.

“I reassured them of my readiness to go all the way, explore every available legal option to ensure that we get our mandate back.

I appreciated all their support so far, as I assured them of mine.”

PO

Two months after the 2023 presidential election, the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party, LP, counterpart, Peter Obi are insisting they won the polls.

They are not left alone in the controversy, as the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is also dishing out media statements with counterclaims on the outcome of the polls.

The developments are viewed as troubling considering that the cases are subjects of litigation.

President-elect, Bola Tinubu is set to be inaugurated as Nigeria’s new leader this May 29.

But his two major challengers, Atiku and Obi are not giving up on their claims that they, not Tinubu, won the election.

A few days ago, President Muhammadu Buhari said the opposition lost the election owing to overconfidence.

He was quoted as saying:
“They were already telling their foreign backers that they would defeat the APC.

Our Party blended confidence with caution, we worked hard and won. Now, their overconfidence is creating more problems for the opposition than anyone else.

They are finding it hard to convince those who supported them from outside why they are unable to beat us.

“A combination of over confidence, complacency and bad tactical moves made them lose, plain and clear.

This has created more problems in their camp. Why did they fail to remove us?” Also, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had charged the opposition to stop their endless groping over the last election because they lost woefully.

But the PDP has fired back, maintaining that Atiku won the election.

National Publicity Secretary of the opposition party, Debo Ologunagba, said results from polling units showed that Atiku won the presidential election, but the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced Tinubu as winner.

He said, “The PDP insists that its candidate, Atiku clearly won the February 25, 2023 Presidential election, as shown from the actual votes cast at the Polling Units across the country.

“The PDP describes the subjudice claims by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, that the opposition lost the election, as yet another in the series of attempts by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Executive to bully and blackmail the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.

“Nigerians are aware that by the authentic results obtained from the Polling Units, Atiku Abubakar and not the APC candidate met all the conditions stipulated for the winning of the Presidential election.”

Peter Obi of the Labour Party also used the opportunity of a stakeholders’ meeting of the party to re-echo his stand that he was the winner of the election.

Obi, who came third in the election, said he would use every available legal means to recover his alleged stolen mandate.

Obi wrote after the Awka meeting:
“Earlier, I interacted with the Anambra State Labour Party Stakeholders in Awka.

The meeting was quite animated and constructive.

Part of our discussions centred on the way forward for the party.

“I reassured them of my readiness to go all the way, explore every available legal option to ensure that we get our mandate back.

I appreciated all their support so far, as I assured them of mine. PO.”

With processes exchanged by all the parties, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal is expected to resume hearing of all the cases filed by the different political parties.

Five political parties are before the Tribunal seeking to invalidate Tinubu’s victory.

They include the PDP, the LP, the Allied People’s Movement, the Action Alliance and the Action People’s Party.

In the results declared by the INEC, Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes ahead of PDP’s Atiku who got 6,984,520 votes, while Peter Obi of the LP came third with 6,101,533 votes.

Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) finished fourth with 1,496,687 votes.

A legal luminary, Barr Olu Omotayo said the action of the politicians after the presidential election is alien.

The lawyer told DAILY POST that he had expected the Judiciary as well as the Nigerian Bar Association to take decisive action.

“What is happening now is very strange; we never saw it before, but this particular year is very different.

“People who have their matters pending before the court are still going to the press saying one thing or the other, to likely prejudice the outcome.

“When a matter is before the court, you don’t comment on it, so that you give the judges some free hand; you don’t put them under some form of fear.

“It is unfortunate and because of the weak institution, the court is not as active as in those days; if not, the office of the CJN would have been able to say something about it and warned them.

“The office of the CJN would have directed the political parties to stop all those things since their matter is in court.

But the courts are not saying anything.

The CJN who is supposed to be the protector of the courts is not taking action on this.

“Even the bar also, the Nigerian Bar Association, you see lawyers also who know how things are supposed to be, you see them making inflammatory statements, even making press statements on what is pending before the tribunal, very senior lawyers; so the lawyers have to be blamed; they are not advising their clients that this matter is pending.

“It is unfortunate that Senior Advocates, very senior lawyers are also making statements in a pending matter before the tribunal and it should stop,” Omotayo counselled.

iLoveYouToo:
From this posturing maybe it’s only Tinubu that’ll release MNK, obviously Buhari won’t


I wonder if MNK still thinks Buhari is a clone any update on this?

Haveyoueatentod:
The bullet must be very hörny to have landed on her clitobaris of all places.

YesDaddyTill203:
The defeated detained and deported Conman is a liar from the beginning hence everything he says has to be scrutinized over and over again. Yes Daddy vocalist is a born pathological liar, a religiuos and tribal fanatical IPOB loving sore loser.

Jostoman:
lets hear your view about the topic first.