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You best chance to stay alive is not to alow yourself to be kidnapped. RESIST. If you die, it's better than to follow criminals into there den, only to suffer hash conditions and die in the end. We must now confront these criminals with a mindset of "Being prepared to die".
It doesn't make sense anymore to follow kidnappers into their den.

How about putting measures in place to defend yourself instead of lamenting all the time?
Would it be a crime to defend yourselves since this is something you should always expect as far as Nigeria politics is concern?

I have seing all this complains.

Can anybody tell me the difference between voting for APC and accepting this idiot? Eranko jatijati.

LAGOS IS JUST A BIG SCAM AT PRESENT!!![i][/i][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]

Gladiator

kokomilala:
" They told me your son squealed like a girl when they nailed him to the cross, and your wife moaned like a LovePeddler when they ravished her again and again...and again."

Matrix joor!

Asu015:
That's the sound of inevitability! Mr Anderson.
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I bet no one will get this

"I have long feared that my sins will visit me, and the cost is more than i can bear" - this is worth 10k

Drone! Drone! Drone!

There are lots of wealthy people in a Nigeria.
whit this level of insecurity, how come we still do not see drones flying over our heads in big cities? . so if you have some little money and you think of securing your perimeter alone, am sure by now everyone have come to realize that's not enough.

I think individuals should consider buying drones, I believe this will scale down criminal activities a bit.

I believe most criminals want to remain unnoticed but if images of there hide outs and criminalities are put out continuously this may serve as a heads up to potential victims.

Please if you can afford a drone get one fly it around your neighborhood see what's going on around the shanties at the major bus stops, make videos of characters you see, put the videos online.

I am sure we have a lot of smart people on here, I may not be that intelligent to discuss this idea, but can someone else do justice to it ?
You get the idea!

Let's just try to use technology to our advantage.
OPINION.

Please when will they visit Lagos Badagry express way (Iyano Iba, Alaba Rago, Okokomaiko, Agbara, Ojo Alaba Mkt) the places are insanity of the highest order.

Asari, are you scared?

Toothless bulldog!

the criminality of the NURTW is untold

before my very eyes at Iyano Isashi bus stop (along Lagos Badagry Exp Way), one of the NURTW guy matched the side
of a Toyota bus with a rod and when driver a conductor came to challenge them, they came out in numbers to mug them.

i left without seeing the end of the incident.

Remanding for 30 days is actually a slap on the wrist!

That former Lagos State governor, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, is the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a close confidante of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) is widely-known.

As 2021 draws to a close, leading to the year in which prospective successors will emerge, it is now also quite clear that Tinubu would like to substitute the title of “National Leader” with “President of Nigeria.”

Last Tuesday, he seemed to bite his tongue. “I am not going to turn (Nigerians) down,” he said in response to a question, “but I will still […] widely consult, particularly brainstorm with my friends and find a date to come out openly and tell Nigerians.”

There is good reason to believe he was referring to a date on which to announce to Nigerians that he would like to become the APC standard bearer. If a politician is not running, there is usually nothing to “come out openly” to announce.

As often happens in these things, however, there was another important figure who was not paying attention to Tinubu’s political consultations on Tuesday.

That man: Ayo Adebanjo.

Chief Adebanjo is the current leader of the Yoruba interest group, Afenifere. In Bisi Akande’s “My Participation,” a book launched recently, he is alleged to have written that Adebanjo’s prized home in Lekki was built for him by Tinubu.

That would appear to be why the Afenifere leader must have missed Tinubu’s announcement on Tuesday as he worked on a response. On Thursday, he offered a detailed account of how he built his Lekki home.

Adebanjo then offered a declaration, before setting a bait for Akande and the man who wants-to-be-president.

“The Lekki property, the house in my village, Isanya Ogbo, and a three-bedroom flat in a town house, at Omorinre Street in Lekki are the properties I have in the whole world.

“I hereby authorise the EFCC to verify the above facts.

“It is alleged that Chief Bisi Akande’s building at Ila-Orogun, which I understand is more than double in expanse of my house in Lekki and some other properties he has in Lagos and abroad, were financed by Bola Tinubu. His house in Ibadan was also alleged to have been built by the contractor that built the secretariat in Osogbo, when he was the Governor of Osun State.

“I hereby challenge Chief Bisi Akande to clear the air by disclosing the source of financing these properties as I have done above.

“Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the great philanthropist, should also disclose the source of his wealth with which he bankrolled the elections of APC in the South-West and that of General Muhammad Buhari and his various properties in Lagos.

“He should also authorise the EFCC to verify such details as I have done above.”

As of the time of writing, nothing had been heard from either of those camps. My focus here is on Tinubu.

What kind of man is he? Last April, as it began to emerge that Tinubu was indeed eyeing a presidential run, I said he might be the first man to win the presidency of any country despite obstacles and doubts about who he really is, where he has been, what he has achieved, and what he owns.

“Think about it: there are questions about how old Tinubu is, where he was born, and where and whether he went to school in Nigeria and abroad,” I wrote. “The Jagaban, as he is called, has parlayed all of that into political and economic “success” at home, seizing control of Lagos State, Nigeria’s richest, and manipulating its politics and processes into a ‘Democracy of One.’”

In a remarkable four-part portraiture of Tinubu, “Portrait of the tiger Ambode rode,” written by the late Yinka Odumakin four years ago on the basis of his experience of Tinubu beginning in 1999 when he became governor, the presidential hopeful was profiled as a conniving and ruthless anti-democrat to whom only his interests and desires matter.

For those who argued that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s fate might have been different had be played his cards differently, Odumakin explained that they simply did not understand “the tiger” he mistook for a horse.

“Towards the end of his first term as governor, Tinubu impeached his first deputy, Senator Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele,” he explained. “An Afenifere panel of Chief C.O. Adebayo, Mr Jimi Agbaje and my humble self were asked to look into the feud between them. After talking to both of them, our verdict was that they could no longer work together. It should have really been no deputy with a mind of his own can work with Tinubu. He replaced her with Chief Femi Pedro. You would think Pedro dropped from the sky the day he introduced him to me in Bourdillon before he nominated him. He impeached him also before the end of his second tenure and replaced him with Chief Abiodun Ogunleye, who stayed for a very brief period to suffer impeachment. Let the Tiger make [Mrs] Oluremi Tinubu governor, they will fall out!”

In the final part of that series, in which Odumakin pledged “10 bombs of truth” for every lie the Tinubu camp aimed at him, he questioned every aspect of the life of a man whom, he said, “people know under different identities depending on where they met you in your about 80 years on earth. Yes, 80!”

Sadly, Odumakin is dead. But Adebanjo is not, and last week, his press statement provided the opportunity for Tinubu to win the ultimate lottery of his life in one move: educate the world about himself, and win the presidency of Nigeria in the process.

The two-part challenge is not complicated. In the first, Tinubu would provide a foretaste of what his eventual assets declaration would look like by disclosing “the source of his wealth…and his various properties in Lagos.”

In the second, he would authorise the EFCC to verify the details of his claims.

This is a remarkable opportunity not simply for Tinubu to clear all the cobwebs concerning his character as well as reassure his supporters, but to win the presidency easily. Should he accept this challenge — and I see no reason why not — he would have mapped out the future of Nigeria and of its leadership: a nation of men who lead by the strength of personal example, not preachments; men who are afraid of neither men nor facts nor detail; men who have nothing to hide.

Adebanjo provides a template. His account was loaded with specifics he has publicly invited the EFCC to verify addresses, sums, dates, names, locations, architects, contractors, surveyors, measurements, all aimed at setting the records straight.

Although Nigeria has been overrun by filth and decay, this is always how we measure a man. It is what a father proudly tells his children. It is still how a man might convert the entire country into his own private constituency just because he is who he says he is, or a politician win an election without rigging the vote.

Tinubu should do the press conference and take questions. It is his best political move. Somewhere in Lekki, Adebanjo is probably betting everyone that the president-in-waiting is not man enough.

Tinubu are you man enough !

UEFA will redo the Champions League last 16 draw after a series of errors during the original draw brought about a number of complaints from teams involved.

Manchester United were mistakenly drawn against Villarreal, despite not being eligible to face them after qualifying from the same group, and they were then not replaced as possible opponents for Atletico Madrid.

Villarreal's draw also featured seven possible opponents, despite only five being legitimate.

"Following a technical problem with the software of an external service provider that instructs the officials as to which teams are eligible to play each other, a material error occurred in the draw for the UEFA Champions League Round of 16," a UEFA statement read.

"As a result of this, the draw has been declared void and will be entirely redone at 1500 CET."

Real Madrid had argued that their draw against Benfica should have been allowed to stand, given it was first off the line and before any mistakes had been made, but UEFA have decided to redo the entire draw.

Fellow Spaniards Atletico Madrid went public in their attempt to get the draw redone, but you can decide whether that was simply because they drew Bayern Munich or not.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/sport/american-football/uefa-to-redo-champions-league-last-16-draw/ar-AARLwrG?ocid=entnewsntp

UEFA to redo Champions League last 16 draw

UEFA will redo the Champions League last 16 draw after a series of errors during the original draw brought about a number of complaints from teams involved.

Manchester United were mistakenly drawn against Villarreal, despite not being eligible to face them after qualifying from the same group, and they were then not replaced as possible opponents for Atletico Madrid.

Villarreal's draw also featured seven possible opponents, despite only five being legitimate.

"Following a technical problem with the software of an external service provider that instructs the officials as to which teams are eligible to play each other, a material error occurred in the draw for the UEFA Champions League Round of 16," a UEFA statement read.

"As a result of this, the draw has been declared void and will be entirely redone at 1500 CET."

Real Madrid had argued that their draw against Benfica should have been allowed to stand, given it was first off the line and before any mistakes had been made, but UEFA have decided to redo the entire draw.

Fellow Spaniards Atletico Madrid went public in their attempt to get the draw redone, but you can decide whether that was simply because they drew Bayern Munich or not.


https://www.msn.com/en-xl/sport/american-football/uefa-to-redo-champions-league-last-16-draw/ar-AARLwrG?ocid=entnewsntp

tutudesz:
International Bush Meat Banga soup and Starch Loading

why e be say na soss food table FFK de always show?

when will that dream not come to pass now?

An unorthodox union and an unregulated transport system leave many Nigerian bus drivers vulnerable to poverty and abuse.

Buses queue by the side of the road to pick up passengers in Oshodi, one of the largest motor parks in Lagos [Anthony Obayomi/Al Jazeera]
Buses queue by the side of the road to pick up passengers in Oshodi, one of the largest motor parks in Lagos [Anthony Obayomi/Al Jazeera]
By Ope Adetayo

14 Oct 2020

Lagos, Nigeria – It is 7pm on a Wednesday in late September. Afeez* has just left a bus park at Iyana Isolo, a small busy road near the popular Ojuwoye street market in the district of Mushin.

In a leased danfo – the privately run yellow and white minibuses that serve as unofficial public transport in Nigerian cities – the 32-year-old plies through the busy streets, breaking off before traffic signals, in a rush to get his passengers to the nearby suburb of Oyingbo.

“I am in a hurry to return to the park and do more trips,” the driver explained. His conversations with passengers are terse; he has no time to listen to their complaints. “I have to deliver [the rental fee] to the owner of the bus tonight.”

The only thing momentarily slowing him down along his route are the agberos – the motor park touts he hands 100 naira ($0.27) bills to every time he passes their junctions. Some run after the bus, demanding their due.

In Yoruba, agbero means “to carry passengers”, but this does not connote what the agberos do. These men, mostly clad in white and green uniforms but sometimes in plain clothes and carrying sticks or canes, collect dues from motorcycle, tricycle, and danfo bus drivers on behalf of the drivers’ union – a toll that allows them to pick up passengers.

The cost of dues can vary. But drivers say they generally pay three types: “booking” is paid so they can start work at the motor parks every morning; before each trip, they pay a “loading” fee, which is usually a sum equal to the fare of two passengers; and “tickets” are undefined charges which are paid once or twice a day depending on the parks they use.

Some drivers told Al Jazeera they hand over about half their daily earnings to the agberos, and altercations sometimes occur if dues are not paid.

A bus conductor and an agbero engaged in an aggressive tussle over payments, in Sabo [Anthony Obayomi/Al Jazeera]
“I have had countless fights with them, we fight often,” Afeez said. “It is trouble if you don’t give them money.”
Early in August, he was involved in a brawl with some agberos at Fadeyi, a bus stop along the route he was taking to Oyingbo.

“It was close to noon that day and the particular agbero was asking for afternoon due,” he recalled. “My conductor said it was not afternoon yet … and that we needed to work more before paying.

“I was at the steering wheel and I heard their argument. I told him when we go on one more trip, we would pay. The argument continued and all of a sudden he stabbed my conductor in the face with a key. He wounded him and I could not take it; I came down from the driver’s seat and we fought each other.”

The agbero was joined by his friends and a big fight broke out until they were all separated by other drivers, Afeez explained. “In the end, nothing happened because the chairman … did not get involved, it was just me and their boys,” he added, expressing relief that he did not encounter a union boss at the bus park.

The union
The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) is an independent union that oversees all danfo bus drivers, commercial motorcycle drivers, and tricycle drivers.

In its own words, it “serves the interests of transport workers in the road transport sector”. But according to many drivers, the union only serves itself.

Unlike regular unions, NURTW is amorphous and without a defined and transparent structure. Its membership mainly comprises people who are not drivers, but rather motor park attendants. They started off as touts, canvassing passengers onto buses and maintaining order at motor parks. But over the years they have assumed total control of Nigeria’s informal transport sector.

The union has now become exclusively for “outsiders who have no business in driving”, drivers told Al Jazeera, at least in part because of what some say is a troubling alliance between union leaders and state officials. One driver who identified himself as only Tunde said the top echelons of the union are people who are rewarded by politicians for their service.

The problems with the union have long been a point of national discussion. In Oyo, another state in southwest Nigeria, Governor Seyi Makinde banned NURTW “to maintain peace and tranquillity in the state in order to engender commercial and human development” following “alleged security breaches and factional clashes of the union member in some areas of Ibadan, the state capital”. Since then, the state government has taken control of the bus parks in Oyo.

Some analysts say the challenges in the transport industry are rooted in the evolution of Nigeria’s socioeconomic landscape, and that the steady rise in unemployment after the country’s gradual economic downturn in the 1980s led to the birth of the agbero phenomenon.

Agbero originally grew out of “area boys”, a slang term usually used to refer to loosely organised groups of teen street gangs. These young male residents of a particular area would casually lay claim to “ownership” of that location, extorting money from passersby and serving as informal security in the hope of some compensation. In later years, the area boys, who were already mostly unemployed, found refuge within the largely unregulated transports system, economists and public policy analysts have said. They have grown into the more sophisticated association known as agbero today.

Nigeria as a whole has no policy that guides the transport sector and in high population density cities like Lagos, with a rising scourge of unemployment and consistent migration from other states, the transport system has become a mine of quick, daily cash for young people without work.

According to Professor Gbadebo Odewumi, the dean of the school of transport at Lagos State University, the public transport system in Lagos has been infiltrated by unskilled, illiterate youths ready to do the bidding of well-known thugs at the helm of the union because the state government has refused to implement standard policy guides that have been drafted by various commissions.

“First of all, there is no policy framework. Sanity can only begin with policies. Without policies, nothing can work,” Odewumi told Al Jazeera. “That is why there is this level of extortion and violence. Do you know how much the government makes per day? There is serious money in transportation. I mean billions.”

Although not formally connected with the government, the union has become one of Lagos’s – and much of the southwest’s – social mainstays as they are a visible presence in the daily experience of millions of commuters.
A Premium Times report in 2019 said that most of the money being generated on the street is disbursed into the pockets of union leaders owing to the informal structure of the financial relations between the union and the government.

Al Jazeera approached some of the union leaders at Oshodi, a transport hub in the state, for their response to these and other claims, but they refused to comment.

“The union leaders just reap from the chaos of the system and enrich themselves,” Odewumi said.

“The relationship is parasitic; each component is taking advantage of the other with the drivers at the base. The government takes advantage of the union and uses them for what they want, like using them to challenge political opponents during elections; the union takes advantage of the drivers.”

‘You are at their mercy’
“As a driver, I am in the union because the union is for those who are transport workers like me,” said Muyideen*, a danfo driver and father-of-three who ferries passengers from motor parks in Mushin and Oshodi every day.

“What is sad is what the union has become.”

The 61-year-old has a diploma in business administration but began working as a driver in 2001 after he could not find a job in his field. Now he is on the road from 5.30am to 9pm every day. But his income, he said, averages just 5,000 nairas ($13) a day.

“I am a father of three grown children and I need to struggle to make sure they don’t end up with this kind of job,” Muyideen said. “They need to go to school and be well-off; this is not what I want for them. Not all drivers are illiterates as people think, I am a graduate but due to unemployment, I found myself in this job.”

He has grown weary of the shady, unaccounted charges he pays the union for every trip he makes. The charges are not official and could be invented at any time, he lamented. And his inability to challenge the exorbitant levies, he said, lies in the free rein the government has given the union leadership to operate public transport in Lagos state.

“The union is mainly for thugs and the government is not doing anything about it. Nothing is being done with the dues we pay, we just pay,” he said.

Muyideen starts out every morning paying a 1,700 nairas ($4.59) booking fee at the motor park, and the dues pile up from there. Although he can make about 700 nairas ($1.89) from a single trip at full capacity, before he is able to pocket the cash, between 200 and 300 nairas ($0.54-0.81) – almost half – go to the agberos.
“Once you are driving [in public transport] in Lagos, you are at their mercy. Drivers are silently suffering because most of the reward of our labour goes to them,” he said, pointing to a union official lounging on a bench on the other side of the road.

“And you cannot do anything. They can do whatever they want at any time,” he said, dejectedly, before looking around to see if it was his turn in the queue. “If you fight them, you will suffer for it. You will either be beaten or be sent away from the park.”

To be continued...

nairavsdollars:
https://thenationonlineng.net/army-got-n1-08tr-in-28-months-finance-minister-tells-senate/

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Simplyleo:
Based on the population of Nigeria, the size of the Nigerian Army and the ongoing insurgency across the country, that is grossly insufficient by any standard. Nigeria is indeed poor, forget the hype. The dominant source of national income is crude oil, nothing else.


Oil alone cannot sustain this country with a population hovering around 200m. Any idiot can do the simple arithmetic and tell me what every soul is entitled to from the gross earning.

Nigeria's annual budget is still less than 15 trillion, pls what will that amount do for over 200m people? Infact, let's assume 15t is to be shared physically, that is around 75k per head per annum.

US with a population of about 250m has annual budget in the excess of $2 trillion.

No one should quote me because I don't respond to bunkum from illiterates.

Oga US is 400m, check ur figures!!!

Shame on Nigerian Gov. and its useless and clueless 1940s security forces. Shame! Shame! Shame!

Most people can talk and criticize Nigeria and the current situation anywhere. I mean u will hear people in the buss on the streets in market please openly criticize and even curse the government and government officials as much as they want.

I am just wondering if anyone that support the government can openly praise them in the public anywhere, Does this ever happen? or can it ever happen.

Apart from social media and TV do people argue in favor of this Nigerian government in public places?.

I am just wondering!

U should have lost control drive ur keke under tanker/trailer and die instead off killing this child.
U should be stoned to death
U killed to many peop , the little girl her parents her grandpa.

Sometimes I feel ashamed of being a man.

Me am just wondering about the road to get to badagry.

rottennaija:
Jehovah's Witnesses do and believe what their religious leaders tell them to do. It doesn't have to be what the bible says, as history of their religion has proven many times.

For Jehovah's Witnesses to marry or not to marry a fellow Christian (not denomination) is solely based on what their currently belief as set forth by their religious hierarchy. They can claim from now till tomorrow that it's the bible blablabla. But when all is done and dusted, it's based on the current edict of their religious leaders. If the leader changes their mind, 8m people also changes their mind.

In the months leading to my awakening from the group, an elder in one of the congregations I attended said to members that when they are preaching to outsiders, they have to preach what is there in the bible, then enforces the point by saying, not just what they see in the bible but it has to harmonise with what the religion (they call it organisation) teaches.

This indoctrination crystallises their mind. That is why if you are talking with one of them, and what he is saying clearly contradicts what the bible says, its like a veil covers his eyes from seeing it. He will argue, jumped from one point to another so as not to see what is clearly stated there in. But to know his mindset, just ask him what he will do if his religion start teaching the same thing in the future, that's when you will realise the truth. That these people are men's followers. They are idolaters.

didn't know they have people the view as leaders.

please can you tell us the name of their leaders so we know @rottennaija

[quote author=demola21 post=88904266]While the rest of the world are trying figure out a practical way of combating the novel corona virus, Senegal has miraculously developed a covid19 test kit that cost approximately $1. Thats right! You read well, $1.

This is in line with their strategy of testing their total population and fishing out those who are infected. The test kit is conducting by taking blood and saliva samples of patients and due to its low cost of production there is plenty of kits to go round.

They've also created a ventilator that cost approximately $60 through the aid of 3d printing. It interesting to not that the average ventilator cost $15000.

Senegal has only 2 casualties from their over 600 cases and they've used a combinaton of antimalarial drugs to combat this illness.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXcxx0feIZ4

Senegal developed one of the world's most affordable Coronavirus testing kits, which costs $1 each, $60 3D printed ventilators.

Senegal has one of the highest Coronavirus recovery rates in the world. 283 of its 671 Coronavirus patients have recovered. pic.twitter.com/Dt8fUsr2q4

— Africa Facts Zone (@AfricaFactsZone) April 27, 2020

market for Nigerian polithiefians!

Yenefer:
It’s sad to see Nigerians making a Joke out of Abba Kyari’s death.

He was such a Visionary leader who changed the Life of the average Nigerian since his re-election, transformed our health sector and laid down his life for the greater good.

RIP Sir, your memory lives on.
Dear respected brothers & sisters in Islaam,

Please in honor of Malam Abba Kyari, do not engage anybody celebrating his death. Do not honor those that have no honor & worthiness or return their insult. Our consolation is, death is a debt & nobody is leaving this world alive.

NB: Even if they come to shower the insult under this post, don't respond to them please. Leave the insults there hanging. They will be useful one day. It is like a register. Leave it there. Don't honor people that have no honor.

PS they're SAD souls don't know how to respect themselves and their elders

Very sad to see how people have allowed bitterness and hate to over take them. It inhumane to rejoice when something bad happen to a fellow humans. They have become Psychologically unstable.

UdyOgwoUde:
It's high time the President addresed us publicly. A lot of questions we need to ask him, especially as it concerns security. He cannot just extend lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun without not first addressing hunger virus and crime virus rampaging the citizens of these 3 towns. He should come out and address us like his counterparts in other countries are doing so that press will ask him questions.
As things are now, I smell high rate of crime and revolution in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun before the next 14days

But bros u remember say oga President get ear scoring. So he can't have a press conference.

Amidst all the suffering Nigerians go through in the handlings of their polithiefians and legislooters, there are still those supporting the FG of Nigeria.
Na wa oo!

You see that s the problem you want people to do everything as its done everywhere.
That should not be the case. The Chadeans have done what they think will work for them and people that think they have a say have started to make unnecessary analysis. Please Nigerians should keep there analysis because chadeans are having a measure of success.
Since your government is presently unsuccessfully you should show some respect and be quiet if you are not sincere enough to applaud the chadeans.
You may be able to analyse but we do not care about your analysis we want action and a measure of success.

Total lockdown please ooooooooo!

Corona has confirmed the reliability of bible prophesies -

Luke 21:10, 11
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

10 Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation,+ and kingdom against kingdom.+ 11 There will be great earthquakes, and in one place after another food shortages and pestilences;+ and there will be fearful sights and from heaven great signs.