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fernandez1:
U people think we are still in 1948..... same war he his fighting in Gaza with more superior power and still couldn't win for 11 months..... hazbollah isn't hamas..... Israel will learn the hard way that the propaganda he has been using in Gaza isn't going to work with Lebanese!


And don't forget he was defeated by this same hazbollah in 2006.



Mumu people quoting me below.... brainwashed educated cowards.

Mumu people quoting me below.... I'm not Muslim neither Christians.... but the Jews know even like una wey be Christians, as a Christians in Israel you can't work without been harassed.

Follow bbc,cnn and other media houses at your peril.... same way you're been lied to about covid19

When someone says I just want YES or NO answers, know that he is trying to play around with the truth. ChatGPT and any other AI bots have been known to make several mistakes and can never be quoted in any academic article as evidence.

Please use Google and other more credible sources on the internet no matter how lazy you are if you want to engage in conversation with intelligent people.

I have extracted portions here for your education and provided references.


The 1978 South Lebanon conflict, also called the First Israeli invasion of Lebanon and codenamed Operation Litani by Israel, began when Israel invaded southern Lebanon up to the Litani River in March 1978. It was in response to the Coastal Road massacre near Tel Aviv by Lebanon-based Palestinian militants.

The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon and the Israeli military that had caused civilian casualties on both sides of the border.

The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948.

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_South_Lebanon_conflict

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/arab-israeli-war

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestine_war

Vyreell:
So it’s easier to sentence one for stealing 3 tubers of yam because of hunger to those that loot in billions and rip the public off good standard of living….

A first time offender stealing 3 tubers of yam worth 3,000 Naira and who couldn't even afford a lawyer should at best be given a suspended sentence or community service. Sentencing him to 6 months imprisonment or 25,000 Naira fine may end up not benefiting the community because he is more likely to be imprisoned and learn from hardened criminals in the prison. Did the judge consider that the State will be feeding the man with N 126,000.00 at the rate of N 700 per day for 6 months? And at the end of that period you are more likely to get a newly minted criminal rather than a reformed man?

A man desperate enough to steal 3 tubers of yam is a man with very limited options and on the verge of plunging into crime and sending him to prison is just giving him free schooling and motivation to begin a life of crime. And in all these, the community loses more.

TheMostComplex1:
What of if he has impregnated a woman as alleged & instead of the wife suing his for BIGAMY & that will be the consideration?

That cannot qualify at all. Impregnating another woman aside your wife is not a crime in Southern Nigeria. It is only in the North that adultery if proven, is a crime. Impregnating another woman does not equate to marrying more than one woman legally, so there is not bigamy charge at all.

The consideration must be a thing of value and must not be under coercion. Saying someone committed an offense of bigamy and rather than report to law enforcement, you want to divest him of his shares may assume a criminal colouration of blackmail or extortion.

Emmy3:
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Babatunde Gbadamosi voluntarily relinquished his entire shareholding interest in Redbricks and Ashlead and resigned his directorship in these companies as far back as July 2021 under a notarised legal instrument.



I don’t know the genesis of this issue but is this even a thing?
Someone in his right senses will ‘voluntarily’ relinquish his assets.
Why didn’t the legal instrument just order confiscation.


Please lawyers in the house; can I voluntarily relinquish my obligatory liabilities too?

The law generally requires that there must be sufficient consideration in exchange for the shares. Saying that he voluntarily relinquished his shares without any valuable consideration for him is suspect.
The wife may actually have given the shares to him as a gift for which he paid nothing and then get him to resign his directorship and forfeit his shares "voluntarily" since it was a gift in the first instance. However that may not be a clean arrangement before the law because there is need for consideration to be given in exchange, no matter how small. The consideration need not be adequate but it must be sufficient before the law. The absence of consideration may invalidate the purported relinquishing of the shares.

MEEVEET:
Majority of Nigerians are really ignorant little wonder why we produce the type of leaders we produce

Dangote refinery buys crude at international price, and you expect him to sale below international price for you because?

Average price of petrol is around 0.8 to 1.1 dollars internationally

Say 0.8 dollars thsts ₦1300 minimum

Nnpc would buy from him at 1300 and sale to you at ₦750... Paying a subsidy of ₦500 per litre while u buy at ₦850 to ₦8950

Gasoline or Petrol World prices vary from USD 0.02 (Venezuela) to USD 3.27 (Hong Kong). That means in Venezuela it costs as.low as N 32.50 and in Egypt it is N 455.00

When Dangote was building his refinery, he was focused on selling the benefits of low Petrol and Diesel prices to Nigerians and was rewarded with preference by CBN for dollars at the lowest rate and even investment of over USD 1 Billion by NNPC. However I doubt that Dangote, who is a businessman after all, will prioritize any benefits to the masses.

I am thinking Dangote is in this to maximize what he can get from Nigerians and not interested in any benefits for the masses. What has he done with cement and any of his commodities ever to benefit the masses?

I only foresee him mending fences with NNPC to collaborate and keep Petrol and Diesel prices high at maximum benefit to both of them regardless.of the pain of the masses. For those trying to argue his pricing with international rates, is he paying international rate wages and salaries to his staff? Does he incur the two way transportation costs associated with fuel imports (i.e. absolutely no landing costs)? If he would be honest, at least his pricing should be 20% to 35% cheaper than the imported fuel cost.

Sources:

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/gasoline-prices?continent=world

Ishilove:
I read stories like this, and I weep for this country and how terrible we are to one another.



https://web.facebook.com/beyondintimacyofficial


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Getting a Lawyer is the best option and may even be far cheaper than dashing 400K to thieves and extortionists. If you cannot afford a lawyer, go to the Ogu State Ministry of Justice at Abeokuta and ask for the Legal Aid Unit. Explain your case to them and the Legal Aid will provide a Lawyer FREE of Charge to handle your father's case ane get him out of the Police net. The Police really have no case against your father and are just collaborators with the dead man's family to extort your father.

nikky5:
Recently, I have heard a few of our fathers of faith in Nigeria preach that tithe defaulters will not make it to heaven when they die.

I will need further clarification on this because I have stopped paying my tithes for about three years now. I also believe in tithing as an old testament law. Well, I may be wrong in some ways. Can anyone throw more light on this please. I am a born again Christian.

Thanks.

It is not your tithes that take you to heaven. It is salvation through Jesus Christ that takes you to heaven. If you do not tithe as an act of rebellion towards God, you can very well be on your way to Hell. If you give 20% to God, technically you are a Non-Tither because tithe is strictly 10%. So are you bound for Hell then?

Bendeco2020:
He worked against him by not supporting his rigging strategy or what?

If he was truly determined to work against him, he would have achieved it by just replacing INEC chairman with someone loyal to only him.

Buhari just tried to make the peoples vote count but APC governors fought and worked against it

Just like Jonathan could have replaced Jega the INEC Chairman with Orubebe or someone loyal to him if he was determined to win the 2015 election?

immortalcrown:
1200 Naira in 1976 was 1,935 Dollars. That is 3,076,553.25 Naira today.

Flawed computation that didn't take into consideration inflation and purchasing power. 2,000 dollars in 1976 is worth 11,000 dollars in 2024 based on purchasing power and inflation. Average home prices in the USA in 1976 was between 48,000 to 50,000 dollars while it is currently 362,000 dollars. A brand new car on average in 1976 cost between 3,500 to 4,000 Naira. Today, brand new car in Nigeria on average costs between 40 to 50 Million Naira.

See the cost of a brand new Peugeot 404 in 1977 in the post link below:
https://www.nairaland.com/2745847/see-how-much-brand-new

Newlymarried:
https://guardian.ng/news/nigeria/metro/god-told-me-to-sleep-with-my-stepdaughter-abort-her-pregnancy-pastor/

Since when do we have alternative dispute resolution for a criminal action? This is not a dispute matter but a criminal one. The Police have either been compromised or they do not know their job. Charge the idiot paedophile to court. He even has the temerity to say it is God that told him to commit the crime!!!

CyrusVI:
No be dribble NNPC wan dribble FG so?

I dont know how these things work, But I know for sure that KPMG audits FG account

To be honest, FG needs to hire special investigators for NNPC like they it did with CBN

The fact that almost all their financial claims are never verified makes me wonder if FG really knows how bad that group is

It is only a military or revolutionary government that can probe and end the scan in petrol subsidy and the NNPC as a whole. When you a making such mad money as some are making via petrol subsidy and crude oil thefts in NNPC, it is only the stark reality and not just the fear of death that can get you to stop or run. When you see a few people executed for their crimes, that is stark reality. If people can risk carrying hard drugs to countries with death penalties just for millions of naira, what do you think they would do for billions?

[quote author=fergie001 post=131576083][/quote]The allegation is that NNPC has not remitted revenues to the Federal Government since January but you come out with a response stating that NNPC paid taxes to the FIRS. Since when did CIT and other taxes paid by NNPC to FIRS become the oil revenues that NNPC is supposed to remit to the FG?

It is clear from the NNPC response that they have not remitted revenues to the FG since January as alleged.

Fareke:
The Niger State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has congratulated former Military President General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida as he turns 83, describing him as an elder statesman, leader, patriot, and a shining example of service to the nation.

https://dailypost.ng/2024/08/17/ibb-at-83-a-shining-example-of-service-niger-can/

Babangida is not only an elder statesman but a leader, patriot, and a shining example of service to the nation? If Sani Abacha was to be alive, I doubt if the same thing will not be said of him.

We all agree military government foisted on us by coupists and earlier republics of thieving and incompetent politicians plunged us into this down trail of suffering and disaster. Yet the coupists and politicians who wrestled or misused leadership positions are all elder statesmen, patriots and shining examples of leadership? Hmm... Interesting.

Pepperdemisback:
What planet are you from? Where did I mention his name. I said Believe in God's Prophet cos he made the quote. Go and highlights wherever I justified him.

Your response to Ayed44 clearly implied that in Fufeyin's claim, you only disagreed with the act of selling. And you promptly supported him with a Bible verse (2 Chronicles 20:20) regarding his claim for loving him before the spiritual items would work.

Pepperdemisback:
Go and summarize your useless epistle. Are you blind to see my last statement that the Apostles didn't sell the items they used for miracles?

You claim Fufeyin is justified by 2 Chronicles 20:20 except for the fact that he was selling the spiritual items. And my position is that Fufeyin's claim that he needs to be loved for the spiritual items to work is not supported by 2 Chronicles 20:20 contrary to what you said.

Unfortunately you, the man quoting the Bible responds with insult rather than knowledge. However, I am not insulted because Jesus has said by their fruits you shall know them.An unbeliever pretending to be a Christian and lacking in the fruit of the Spirit.

Pepperdemisback:
2 Chronicles 20: 20.
Act 19: 11_12
But the items were not sold.

Stop quoting the Bible wrongly in an attempt to support an in biblical and erroneous concept.

Fufeyin said you must love him for his spiritual items to work for you. Love is quite different from Faith and believing in someone does not equate to loving that person.

For clarity sake let me quote the portion of the text from 2 Chronicles 20:20 that you are trying to use to justify Fufeyon's in biblical statement wrongly. It says:

"Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper."

Firstly, what is there is believe and not love his prophets.
Secondly, the "believe his prophets" statement, coming after an admonition to believe in God simply translates to believing and having faith in the message of God relayed through his prophets. Can you honestly say the message being passed across by Fufeyin selling spiritual items is Biblical and comes from God to warrant believing it?
Thirdly, note that the Bible in that verse did not say "believe IN the prophets" because the focus is on God and not the prophets. The prophets are just messengers.

Suffice to say, there is nowhere in the Bible supporting the sale of holy water and spiritual items as a Christian or mandating the love of the prophet for the items to work.

The fact that Fufeyin never stated to his buyers that the working or effectiveness of the spiritual items he was selling was conditional upon loving him shows such thinking was only an afterthought and excuse for the failure of his claims. All his actions and utterances simply reveal to any keen observer that they are not motivated by genuine Christianity, sound Biblical Principles and the love of Christ. He is a charlatan that genuine Christians should avoid by all means.

OnionBandit:
Imagine the damage done already..A sore loser like Carini who couldn't take a punch from a fellow woman and resorted to cheap propaganda is now apologising. Apologise for what? The same person she accused of being biological male has lost around 9 games in the past.

Khelif is not exactly a "fellow woman" as you claim and what is contained in that post does not qualify as an apology. Having XY Chromosomes and high testosterone levels clearly confer unfair advantages on Khelif to warrant being disqualified from female boxing. It is noteworthy that the International Boxing Association (IBA) disqualified Khelif and Lin Yu-ting from the IBA World Championships in Delhi 17 months ago for not meeting the eligibility criteria for women boxing.

Testosterone is a sex hormone that is essential for sperm production, new red blood cells, bone mass and muscle strength in men. A purported woman having high testosterone levels will develop better bone mass and muscle strength than her fellow women and that confers serious unfair advantage in a sport like women boxing.

Botragelad:
You can be a pregnant woman and have XY chromosome. You know that right? So does it make them any less of a woman?
I can also tell you that sex chromosomes are not the sole determinant of a person's sex or gender. XY chromosomes don't automatically make someone "male". It's complex.

And what about individuals with variations like XXY, XYY, or Turner syndrome? Do they not fit into your "male" or "female" boxes? It's like you've never heard of intersex conditions or the nuances of human biology.

So please kindly explain to me how does not having XY chromosomes automatically disqualify someone from competing in women's sports. I await your response. Thanks!

Having an XY Chromosome with high levels of testosterone clearly confers an unfair advantage in women sport. XY Chromosome is a typical definitive feature of a biological male, but even more than thatnis that fact that is the contributing fcator of high testosterone levels. Testosterone is a sex hormone that regulate sex drive (libido), bone mass, fat distribution, muscle mass and strength, and the production of red blood cells and sperm in men. As such a competitor in a female sport with high testosterone has higher bone mass, muscle mass and strength than what you get in other females in the same sport. That clearly is unfair advantage in a sport like boxing where strength matters. The fact that Khelif lost a few matches to women is no excuse that the unfair advantages do not exist. Women have been known to best men physically in few cases. The fact that some wives beat their husbands fair and square is no excuse that men and women should be in the same sports!

nairalanda1:
TO some extent, it is true.

The fact is, not every state gets the same amount of money, and different states have different needs.

The concept of a National Minimum Wage is that it should be the minimum across all tiers of government because it is agreed that is the minimum for a decent living. States can choose to pay higher but not lower because the people in the States are also entitled to decent living.

In fact minimum wage should cut across all sectors including public and private to avoid exploitation of workers and citizens. That is what is obtainable in decent countries. Allowing capitalists to just pay any wage leads to enslavement and exploitation of workers who are generally hungry and cannot make any good wage bargains. It is better not to be employed than to have employment that leads deeper into penury.

mrvitalis:
Police, army and the rest Paramilitary

Are they not all on IPPIS? If they are on IPPIS, they are already captured in that number.

mrvitalis:
Honestly 6 trillion on wage bill for a country of 220 million people is a miracle

6 Trillion Naira wage bill for [b]720K Federal Workers[\b] out of a total workforce of 60M (Public and Private Sector) in the country of 220 million people? Yes. You read it right. 720K is the total number of Federal Civil Service personnel on IPPIS and that number may well nclude some ghost workers. What percentage of the national budget are we spending to pay the salaries of less than 2% of the total workforce in the country? 20% of the Nations budget to pay salaries for 2% of the Nations workforce and yet many of these civil servants are actually living even above these salaries due to corruption! The country is serving the civil servants appears more to be the situation.


References:

https://leadership.ng/ippis-fg-trims-civil-servants-to-720000/

https://dailypost.ng/2022/06/23/ippis-720000-public-servants-working-at-federal-level-bpsr/

Dcaliphate:
APC listens to no criticism, every complain against them is termed 'the workings of opposition'... see, this type of leadership is occultic and needs to be challenged en masse with the true force of the suffering people

Unfortunately it is not limited to only APC, that is the way of Nigerian Politicians and their Political Parties when they are in power. How many of them have you seen listening to criticism? From Federal to State to Local Government levels, they rarely if ever value criticism, rather they will attack the critic.

yarimo:
One agulu fraudster will soon condemn labour union for accepting #70,000

Nigeria is full sycophants and selfish individuals. It is not just even about accepting the FG offer of 70K, but to now be talking of other incentives that are not made public and be heaping praises on the same FG that you negotiated with while purportedly representaing the interest of workers? Common, that smells bad. How can the workers trust that you acted throughout in their best interest and got them the best deal?

fergie001:
SOURCE

There is no need for any other agency to conduct Local Government elections when there is INEC. At a time when we need to keep expenses low, these people are looking at avenues for wastage and cronyism to fix their relatives and cronies to the national feeding bottle. Elections are not done on a monthly or annual basis. Most of even INEC staff are redunywhen there are no elections. To imagine such a stupid bill is being pushed by someone with oversight in Finance, who should know the financial situation of the country.

helinues:
Corruption everywhere

Till date Nigeria has been unable to release the list of school children fed during COVID-19 and cash support beneficiaries, an affair involving hundreds of billions of Naira.

If you see a situation where verifiable names of beneficiaries are released, then that alone is so encouraging because transparency is an enemy of corruption.

Aonkuuse:
Nigeria has started another useless thing..... There is hunger in the land, now look at what the Senate is debating on

The problem of Nigeria is corruption and lack of accountability. But instead of addressing that, we seem to have resigned to "the fact" that everyone is a looter and let us just reduce the period of looting. So instead of 8 years let us make it 6 years since almost all Governors whether performing or not, manage to get 2 terms. No need to strengthen accountability or eradicate corruption.

Ebigwei007:
Its finish already, nw the fed can nw becum lord of all, they will control the LGA's directly, leavinging the governors helpless

INEC conducting elections does not mean the LGAs are being controlled by the Federal Government. Is it not the same INEC that conduct State Governors and House of Assembly elections? Has the FG been controlling the States and Houses of Assembly as a result?

The good thing about INEC conducting elections for LGAs is that the elections are going to become mandatory and more credible and not just subject to the whims and caprices of the State Governors. It is a good development.

Racoon:
David Huyiden said it o. Berem made a thread on that scam yesterday. Now it has been confirmed to be truth. There is no evil the APC can not ocastrate.

These are the kind of things citizens should petition the National Assembly about and raise so much uproar so that the Minister can be investigated, removed and prosecuted. This is a clear attempt by the Minister and his cohorts to scam Nigerians. There are no two ways about it, it is fraud. This is worse that Betta Edu case. Imagine 640K on thousands of applicants? One just one thousand applicant that is 640M!!!

gidgiddy:
People forget that Ironsi was there just 6 months. Other coups that happened in Nigeria, it sometimes took a year to bring the coupist to book. It over a year to try people such as Oladipo Diya and even Dimka. So anyone who was expecting Ironsi to set up the logistics and military tribunal that woukd have sat and concluded justice with the coup plotters is someone who is not being fair to Ironsi.



You can't appointed garrison Commanders, this is not a political posting but a military posting. A Commanding officer can post a military personnel anywhere



This is another lie that has been thrashed completely on this thread. Page one of this thread has Gowons Decree 14 that 12 states were being created out of the 4 Regions. Gowons Decree 15 then ended resource control. Ironsi neither abolished the Region's nor denied them resource control



Another lie from the Lagos/Ibadan expressway media that didn't read the decree. Ironsi did not dissolve the civil service in one single National service. Ironsi's Decree made provision for all Region's to have their own civil service, how ever, he created a national service commission to oversee them. Not exactly the same as dissolving them into one body



The only laughable thing about this write up is this individual is trying so much to say that Igbos tried to dominate Nigeria. However, he has no problems with the Northern caliphate that has dominated Nigeria for the last 60 years

The Police Investigation Report on the coup was submitted in March 1966 and a Panel was constituted to look at the Report but Ironsi repeatedly truncated any attempt by the Panel to sit. Even the Supreme Military Council was aware of the foot dragging and it's implications such that Brigadier Ogundipe had to lie in trying to pacify the July 1966 coup plotters that he just received the Report from a panel that was denied sitting.

It is no news that Decree 34 promulgated by Ironsi in May 1966 abolished Regional Government in favour of a Unitary Government. Decree 13 promulgated by Gowon in 1970 shifted the bulk of federally collected revenue to the Federal Government. Decree 9 promulgated in 1971 gave total revenue to the offshore oil production to the central government. All these subsequent decrees find their root in Decree 34. They are just natural progressions of empowering the center. The Unitary Government existed for a purpose, if not Ironsi would not have created it. Ironsi let the genie out of the bottle. So trying to absolve him of the ripple and progressive effects of his action doesn't work.

In regard to Decree 34 and the National Public Service Commission, I think ghis vanguard report is more elaborate: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/07/abused-decree-no-34-and-demand-for-restructuring/amp/

That Igbos attempted dominating Nigeria is clearly established by the utterances and actions as historically cited. Is it not evidence of a domineering nature that Azikiwe was more interested in becoming the Premier of Western Region in 1952 while all other regions had premiers who were natives of the regions?

It is also documented that the Northerners historically favoured a loose Federation with secession clause in the Constitution and were willing to secede in the aftermath of the 1966 coups. To their credit and perhaps due to their own challenges as being the most backward of the regions, the Northern Region never entered into the Federation with ambitions to dominate.

No Region should dominate in a Federation. That instead of the Igbo, the Northerners (Hausa-Fulani) have dominated is no joy to anyone except some Northerners. However we cannot forget that the Igbos by their inordinate ambition created the platform for the Northerners to dominate.