₦airaland Forum

Golan007:
Kemi Olunloyo is telling the truth

The hatred for your country would never allow you be objective.

All Kemi Olunloyo is saying are just words of mouth without verifiable references or sources. To claim she is stating the truth based on those words simply shows bias on your part.

Some who talk about love or hatred for country seem not to realize that the country is the people. The country is not Buhari, APC or the Federal Government. So whenever you want to label an action in relation to the country you need to evaluate its goodness or badness for the people in general.

The brutality of the Police can never be labelled as good for the people. The drafting of armed military men to quell a peaceful and unarmed protest can never be good for the people. It is a violation of the law and the constitutional rights of the citizens to protest. It is the brutal action of the Government at the Toll Gate that is the direct cause of the looting and destruction witnessed in Lagos thereafter. The protesters have carried about their protest peacefully for several days without any destruction.

Without any ambiguity it is impossible for anyone to exonerate the Government in the Lekki Toll Gate disaster. All the people that were killed in the resulting EndSars riots in Lagos died as a result of the direct or consequent actions of the military at the Gate that night.

People who talk about love or hatred for the country here seem to equate country with the Federal or State Governments or Buhari and completely miss the point.

AlhajiNatty:
Inukwa m!
This man's death keeps emerging with new twist with each passing day.
Why is the Police coming up with sketchy details as to how this man got brutally murdered.

The Vanguard for Truth Foundation spokesman and sole operator Mr Adewale Aderibigbe should be arrested and locked up for trying to interfer with Police investigations. Will the Police not know if it buried anyone? Why is he trying to put words in their mouth?

lasthero:
Total cost:

Battery : 85k
Solar panel : 30k
Inverter : 35k

Total: 150,000 naira.

I bought wires 2k

Making 152,000.

My observations so far
It takes 5 to 8 hours of sunshine to charge the battery from 0 to 100% depending on the sunlight intensity.

And guess what guys. When all the house load are on it, it lasted me up to 8 hours to use up a single charge. But when I put of the fridge, the 45watt fan and when my laptop isn't in use, it takes more than 12 hours and that's exactly what I needed.

Burning 8 to 12 hours on petrol daily will send me back to my village.


Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

Nice job but if you want your battery to last, don't discharge it more than 20% to 30% between recharges. Draining the battery everyday will kill it in no time.

Seun:
As reported on Nairaland in 2017, the Federal University Of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) banned the niqab, which is an Islamic dress that covers the entire body of a woman except her eyes. The reason for this was obviously to ensure that people on campus could be identified. They didn't ban the hijab, which covers a woman's face and neck, or the chador, which covers a woman's entire body except her face.

Recently, a former student of FUNAAB came to the university dressed in a the niqab. The security men insisted that she must remove her face-covering veil before she could enter university. Subsequently, the university confirmed that the niqab is banned at FUNAAB.

Now the Muslim Rights Concern, a very important muslim rights organization headed by Professor Ishaq Akintola, is challenging the niqab ban at FUNAAB. According to him, the niqab ban violates the freedom of religion guaranteed by the constitution, which says "Every person shall be entitled to freedom of ... religion ... to manifest and propagate his religion or belief", so it's illegal.

He said, "No institution of learning, from primary to tertiary, whether federal, state, or even private, has the right to prohibit the use of hijab or niqab. It is a contravention of the provisions of Section 38(i) & (ii) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended. To that extent, therefore, all anti-niqab pronouncements, memos, circulars, posters, etc issued by FUNAAB are null, void and of no legal effect whatsoever. Same goes for all such declarations and actions in other academic institutions throughout Yorubaland."

He provided a possible compromise to address the security concerns: "if the authorities are not just keen on profiling Muslims, all they need to do is to ensure that Muslim women wearing niqab or hijab are checked by female security personnel. Their identities can also be verified by female officials who will take them to one side and take a look at their faces and cross-check on their identity cards."

He called for muslim students to take action against the niqab ban, saying, "FUNAAB has crossed the red line. This oppression must stop and Muslim students have to take their destiny in their hands or the humiliation will continue ad infinitum. From now on, any institution in the South West that messes up with Allah-given fundamental human rights of Muslim students will face the wrath of the students." (peacefully)

Source: https://www.muricnigeria.com/funaab-ban-on-niqab-is-illegal-muric/

The hijab, niqab, chador and what have you are all cultural and not religious practices. The Quran never even mentioned hijab and only recommended modesty in dressing for women. Whatever is not mandatory to and inevitable for the practice of any religion cannot qualify under Section 38 of the Nigerian Constitution.

Sometimes MURIC goes about the Section 38 as if it is only for a particular religion. Have you envisaged a situation where Traditional Worshipper students want to come to school with amulets, head bands, body paintings and other regalia recommended by their religion?

Muslims want people to believe Islam is a religion of peace and yet forment trouble and disrespect to constituted authority in the name of the same religion. Can you imagine how it would be if our female miliary officers insist on hijab and niqab as part of military uniform and the men insist on wearing long bushy beards? And then other religions join in with their own attires and practices in the name of Section 38 and religious freedom? Would it not lead to chaos and disorder everywhere?

Section 38 of the Nigerian Constitution is not a call to disorder and rebellion and MURIC should stop trying to use it to support Hijab! Every single case that has been won by Muslims on the hijab issue in Nigerian Courts is based on the erroneous and unchallenged assumption taken as fact that hijab is mandatory to Islamic practice.

References:

https://www.quora.com/Does-it-say-in-the-Quran-that-hijab-is-not-mandatory-Some-people-say-it-s-not-that-important-to-wear-headscarf

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-wearing-a-hijab-mandatory-for-women-in-Islam

Officialgarri:
Are we sure this is the incident?

The CCTV footage is not conclusive. Where did the talk of electrocution, which was not disputed by the club from initial reports, come from? Why is the narrative now different?

MHBNeiman:
Nice one. If Osinbajo could be vice-president/second in command and Nigeria is like this, it's gonna be a huge mistake for the nation to vote this man to the number one position. Take it or leave it.


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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ2IFmntSIU

I can understand the reasons given by Sabinus and they are valid.

However, your assertuon about Osinbajo is not valid because a Vice President is just a spare tyre without any constitutional powers or duties except what the President assigns to him.

The one time Buhari handed over to Osinbajo while on a medical trip, Osinbajo was able to make a difference and that is on record.

rakabuba001:
Nigerian politicians will never

Nigerian Politicians seek positions to accumulate wealth and wield power for selfish reasons; not to serve. That kind of mindset can't allow them to act honourably.

ignis:
This guy should be sacked from the Navy. Let more serious person get the job.

Social media comedian or skit maker doesn't look like a good choice of side hustle to a Military career in present day Nigeria. I have watched one of his skits where a supposed female officer had him manhandled by her military boys for admiring her big behind and following her around. That is bad PR for the Nigerian Military because it is portraying them negatively.
Cute Abiola should either resign or find another more suitable side hustle.

Penguin2:
I think First Bank hierarchy doesn’t like Otedola’s face.

That’s why they are issuing statements in favor of Odukale.

I wonder the issue they have with Otedola.

Otedola is also not a banker or someone with experience in the Financial Sector and for him to announce he had become the major shareholder to the public may bring back memories of the UBA experience with Hakeem Bello-Osagie. The motive for making a public announcement in itself is suspect and smacks of a desire to control.

Secondly, compared to Odukale who is also major shareholder in Leadway Group which is into Insurance and Pension Management, Otedola may not be brining much to the table for First Bank.

triple996:
Christianity is a big joke .
Can you imagine, the same religion that criticize Islam for marring multiple wives is also doing so. Religion of jokers

That a certain self-appointed Apostle Udofia married a second wife and someone thinks that makes Christianity a joke is utterly absurd.

Islam recommends multiple wives and can be rightly criticized for it. Christianity recommends only one wife and so anyone professing to be a Christian but marrying multiple wives should ideally be the object of criticism and not the religion. Except the critic is biased anyway.

Odewaleadesoye:
https://punchng.com/breaking-lagos-endsars-report-is-fake-tales-by-moonlight-lai-mohammed/#Echobox=1637660563

All these attempts at damage control by Lai and his co-travellers in their journey of infamy is just watwe under the bridge. The Report of a Judicial Panel cannot be countered by press releases and their haphazard attempts to discredit the report through online and social media channels.

When Atiku was indicted by an Investigatove Panel, what he did was approach a Court to overturn his indictment because no amount of propaganda would overturn it in the eyes of the law.

The best they can do is attempt to bury the Report becauae the Whitepaper cannot manufacture anything outside the report. The Whitepaper is only expected to give concise summary of the Report and its recommendations for action. So they are in a fix. Hence all the noise on the issue.

IfnobeGod20:
This your submission make no shred of sense at all. Are you insinuating that those claimed to have been killed are artisans and young chaps from Shanty. Meaning as the soldiers were shooting, they were also telling the bullets to target those groups you mentioned. Come to think of it, for a while year round, no single person could rise up in the same shanty to say we have lost this person or this person at the Lekki tollgate. Mr. Man, all business hubs in Nigeria those doing businesses in those places know themselves. If a single soul doesn't come in a day, they know.
However, the names published as dead Bodies are not people from Shanty as you may want us to believe.
If the terms of reference was generally on Endsars while did the panel headline the published names as Lekki tollgate massacre rather than deaths due to SARS brutality.
You people are not just comfortable because the lie of massacre doesn't really gel.
If I may ask you, if you have a relative that died or killed at the tollgate, are you going to keep mum or be bold enough to revolt his death?
Please don't allow political inclination or ethnic bias overwhelm your brain and not use common sense please.

What about the various witnesses that appeared before the Panel to talk and give tesimony about their missing or killed relatives?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxabR4n6K4

You may also wish to go through the news report below and try to debunk it in your "wisdom":

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/423823-investigation-bullets-blood-death-untold-story-of-what-happened-at-lekki-toll-gate.html

I am often surprised about the fallacies you are trying to project as sound logical reasoning. A Judicial Panel sat, listened to witnesses and experts and reviewed evidence along with legal representations. The sittings were recorded and properly documented and not a single lawyer objected or faulted the proceedings and processes.

Their Report is out and an online keyboard warrior on a faceless forum who never reviewed half as much evidence and materials presented to the Panel, who never diligently followed their proceedings and whose credibility cannot be ascertained wants us to give priority to his or her opinions? Sorry to burst your bubble, life in a sane world doesn't work like that.

ba7man:
The Nigerian army must have used the special "Anti-people with family and friends" bullets and the "shanty dwelling artisans without relative" seeking bullets to ensure there's no tangible evidence available apart from hearsay and NOBODY (Not even 1) is bold enough to come out to report their deaths........ except liars that keep getting their allegations busted by any ramdom person with a brain.

The proceedings of the EndSars Panel are almost equivalent to that of a Court of Justice with lawyers, witnesses and evidence present. The Panel is headed by a Judge and has members that the Lagos State Government deemed competent and credible to be on the panel. The weight of their Report and Findings cannot be compared to the opinions of any individual on a faceless online forum.

Trying to discredit such Report by faceless online posts is equivalent to trying to overturn a Court Judgment by posts on Nairaland. It never happens.

If a Panel with credible people funded by a Government can come out with such indicting report and not one to please the Government, then I salute their courage.

GamalNasser:
the entire phone call reveals nothing interesting other than they are trying to bail some lady from EFCC

You are right. And the motive for recording and publishing it needs to be explained. Someone seems to be trying so hard to convince the public that Ogundipe is guilty and not being witch-hunted

However the general public also want to know what serious fraud allegations Ogundipe has against Onyema that would warrant him to ask for US$300k hush money!

Blackmail and extortion should ideally be handled by the Police and whoever has been arrested should be granted bail or charged to Court in the timeframe prescribed by the law.

plaindealer:
Artisans and people in the shanties don't have mobile phones, they don't have names, they don't have family members?

How come the only dead people are artisans and people in the shanties with no name, no family members and no identities?

Many artisans are people with money in their pockets, many are middle class, many living in the shanties are there for countless reasons, not only because they are poor or not well-to-do, maybe they sell akara on the side of the road, but their children are in universities, they look like the kids from VI, they have cell phones, they are on social media and so on.

You are hypocritically generalizing while throwing the same accusation at other people.

Your post is definitely the dumbest and the most disheartening in this thread.

I can see from your previous posts and topics that you seem to be a paid hand to discredit the EndSars Panel in a strategy that involves making disparaging posts without care for factual evidence. When I read your post that claimed without supporting evidence that someone bribed the Panel with N5million to get a N10million damage award, I knew you were already cast in your ways!

It is therefore not surprising that you are so desperate to project your aims that you claim artisans living in shanties are not poor in a country where 45% of the populatuon live on less than N1,000 (one thousand naira) per day! Haba!!!

According to statistics, there are about 28 million social media users in Nigeria by 2020 out of a population of over 200 million. Now someone wants us to believe that searching through that roughly 10% of the population should account for 100% of the people and believes he or she is wise!

Despite the agressive National ID enrollment campaign across the country, only 56 million Nigerians have been registered as at end of May 2021 which is just about 25% of the population when not counting those in diaspora. The NIN is the largest database of Nigerians and it still doesn't account for 30% of the population.

So anyone trying to make authoritative statements on missing persons in Nigeria by doing Google searches is just being plain stupid.

Sources:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1176101/leading-social-media-platforms-nigeria/

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/05/nimc-captures-15m-enrollees-in-7-months-dg/amp/

https://theconversation.com/amp/nigerias-poverty-profile-is-grim-its-time-to-move-beyond-handouts-163302

Iyaebe:
She's right on this.

To assume that everyone that was at Lekki Tollgate for EndSars had a smartphone with internet access and online social media profiles is a wrong and fallacious premise. To now build conclusions on that faulty foundation and project it as intelligent research is plain ludicrous.

There were several artisans and young people from shanty dwellings around Lekki that came for the free food on offer and the fun of socializing with others in the EndSars cause. How many of those fall into Aunty Kemi's wild generalizations?

It is also important to note that the terms of reference of the Panel goes beyond just the Tollgate incidence and extends to other EndSars incidences in Lagos as well as victims of Police brutality over the years. To therefore read the puerile rantings of some people that simply Googled the names on the list and then try to make public pronouncements is just plain disgusting particularly in a matter involving the loss of lives as serious as Police brutality.

Aunty Kemi should spend more time analyzing beer parlour gossips rather than making shallow remarks on the report of a Judicial Panel.

aljharem:
Even at that, he need an alibi to support his claim.

Honestly people like that student, we should not be wasting state resources on him

Prison straight !!!!

He claimed he was wrongfully imprisoned for 2 months in Lagos which led to him missing the SIWES that he now wanted the lecturer to waive for him. As a student, if he didn't have any psychiatric problem, he should know that SiWES cannot be waived by any lecturer. SIWES is mandatory.

One lesson I think the University community should take away from this is that once a Lecturer observes any student behaving erratically, it is better to apply caution and maybe refer such student for psychiatric evaluation. If the woman had been stabbed and killed by the student, no punishment would bring back the dead. No one has a duplicate life.

Insidenaija:
https://newspremises.com.ng/court-remands-unilorin-student-who-assaulted-female-lecturer/

His only defence is to plead that he was under the influence of hard drugs with emerging psychiatric problem so he can be sent to a psychiatric hospital instead of doing jail time. He is in a very bad position already having beglen rusticated from school at 400L and now facing criminal charges.

Baawaa:
Is very simple, the lady can go to Arabic school

Some of these hijab issues are just means of formenting trouble. Hijab is not universally agreed by Muslims as compulsory religious requirement. Some scholars argue that the Quran does not mandate hijab for women. It is more or less rooted in cultural practices.

The argument canvassed and accepted in Nigerian Court cases involving the use of hijab that hijab is mandatory for Muslim women is controversial and not a fact. If the argument is dismissd then it is clear that no case can be won for hijab based on the Nigerian Consitution Section 38(1) allowing for freedom of religion because hijab wearing is not a religous but cultural practice.

Our Military, Police and other paramilitary do not allow women to wear hijab and no one has taken them to court on the matter, not even by the loquacious MURIC.

It is only in Educational Institutions that some students try to use it to forment trouble and muscle-flexing by some Muslims. Why not simply go to an Islamic University? You are not painting a good picture for a religion labelled as the Religion of Peace when you are more interested in formenting trouble and flexing ego. Islam also preaches submission to authority. So when you get somewhere and start flouting the rules, are you then practicing Islam honestly?

References:

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/hijab/print/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333203109_The_wearing_of_hijab_in_public_educational_institutions_in_Nigeria_A_call_for_alternative_dispute_resolution

http://www.asma-lamrabet.com/articles/how-does-the-qur-an-address-the-issue-of-muslim-woman-s-veil-or-hijab/

Morenikeji090:
What's bad for him to appoint his son in government.... Wake up bad folks...

It is called nepotism. That is why if you are an interviewer in a panel and one of the candidates is your relative, you have to recuse yourself, not to talk of being chairman of the panel and voting for your relative.

Tenshades:
Lives have been wasted because of negligence of selfish contractors who were trying to cut costs while jeopardizing safety measures.

We should actually put the blame squarely at the doorstep of the Government and the Regulatory Agencies that refuse to do their job or are compromised. How can the Governmemt which is the sovereign in the State and Country be complaining about contractors msconduct as if nothing could be done with all the executive powers of the Government. Does that mean the contractors are bigger than the Government?

yusfatedeeprof:
The man was a religious fanatic who believed his faith in Jesus will hold the building together. Because no one in his or her right mind, who works with professionalism, diligence, logic and reality of things would allow a building that was initially designed for 6 floors to be taken all the way up to 21 floors!!!

They were asking him how he was able to achieve the projects, instead of him quoting his experience, skill and expertise he said it's Grace of God, it's faith in God, God this, God that. Religious fanatics are the worse to work with...

There is no evidence that Femi Osibona was a religious fanatic and that his fanaticism was responsible for the collapse of the building. Please check the dictionary meaning of a fanatic.
You need to deal with facts and not allow yourself to be driven by preconceived notions.

To claim Femi never made references to his records and expertise and relied only on his faith to execute building projects is a blatant lie. In all his interviews and reportage on him, his building expertise from UK to South Africa where he build Fourscore Mansion were mentioned.
He always talked about being the first African developer to construct a seven-storey building, located at 113, Albion Drive, London Fields, E8, 4LZ, in East London.

Before he died, he in lived in a flat at Shalom Apartments, Ikoyi which consisted of 36 Flats and which he built in 2010 more than ten years ago.

What happened at the collapsed building is a structural issue and disregard for professionalism and not driven by any religious fanaticism. This is not the first building in Lagos to collapse due to such reasons and the Government and its Regulatory Agencies bear as much blame as the developers.

Please get your facts right and not use this opportunity fo pollute the public space and cast aspersions on Femi's religion.

Below is a link to an interview quoted here as far back as 2015.
https://www.nairaland.com/2488236/interview-mr-femi-osibona-lagos

pretydiva:
She his child couldn't attend the University where he's a vice chancellor? . Anyways congratulations to him

I do not see any reason to vilify the Professor. He became VC in 2019 and his son graduated from Oxford University in 2021. Except the son went for a Masters, it means he was already in Oxford before his father became VC at EKSU.

Furthermore, the son could have been on scholarship. We do not know enough of the story to say the man has done any wrong morally or otherwise.

wonder233:
Spot on! These are my thoughts exactly. By the afternoon of that 20th October, blood curdling videos of policement being hacked to death surfaced online, only for the twitter influencers to quickly pass info round for the youths to stop circulating them. Now, all of them claim amnesia about that.
Who were the people the military engaged at the tollgate that night? Certainly not law abiding citizens who had heeded govt curfew. They were hoodlums happy there was breakdown of law and order so they can attack and rob like they were already doing since the protest degenerated. Do you know how many people hoodlums killed?

The people at Lekki Toll Gate were not breaking any curfew as long as the time for the curfew was yet to start. The law does not allow speculations and extrapolations particularly on the intentions of people.

Furthermore, if time reaches 9pm and they are still there, the law has prescribed punishment for curfew breakers. The Police are the right arm of the law enforcement to arrest them and take them to court within 24 hours. That is the law and no single Nigerian including Buhari is greater than the law. So you cannot order the Nigerian Army to start shooting them even if they had broken the curfew, much less when they haven't.

Anyone trying to defend what the Nigerian Army did either doesn't understand the law or has selfish motives and does not have value for human life. And I believe that lack of value for human life should extend to his or her own life as well.

If the Nigerian Army were proud of what they did they would not be issuing denials and lieing up and down about it including the FG. They would have come out with your reasons but they know more than you that such reasons in any community of sane human beings including the international community would be stupid and indicting.

MRDEE01:
Senator Omo-agege isnot convinced,so am I.

It doesn't make logical sense to me.
The should provide more explanations to us.

The story just does not add up:

1. Where was the body for more than a month? If it was a hit and run the body would have been found the next day.

2. How did they know there was a crime and traced it to the claimed "hit and run driver" more than a month later when there was no dead body and the man didn't come to Police to confess when he committed the crime.

3. Why was the body suddenly found after more than a month and the hit and run driver apprehended about the same time when there were no witnesses and CCTV at the crime scene?

The Police is not sincere and I suspect a lot of cover-up just to do something when the NASS kept asking for the reporter. He was most likely killed by the Police or DSS.

Biodun556:
This is rubbish!

The Muslim Community in Oyo State or rather the duo of Alhaji Ishaq Kunle Sanni and Alhaji Murisiku Siyanbade seem to have an axe to grind with the current Governor of Oyo State and the TESCOM Chairman simply because they are Christians.

I have copied heree below some of the links to their ppublic letters seem to come on a monthly basis complaining about marginalization of Muslims in one area or the others. They have complained about Political Appointments, Posting of Muslim Teachers, Use of Hijab in Schools and anything they can simply lay their hands on to complain. MURIC has also joined them in the game including labelling Governor Makinde as a serial mosque destroyer, divider of Muslims and all sorts of names. In fact I cannot copy all the links to their letters and distribes on social media. Lots of them are on the Inside Oyo website.

While they may have genuine complaints in some cases, the rate at which they complain about everything waters down the importance of their complaints.

There has been a Public response by organizers of the crusade apologizing for visiting a single Community School which is the Sasa School mentioned in the complaint despite the fact that there was no evidence that students were compelled or forced to listen to their team. Curiously the Muslim Community letter claimed several other schools were visited and students compelled to listen to preaching without supporting evidence. Such apparent lies further water down any seriousness that couod be attached to their claims.

My conclusion is to take their cries on social media with a pinch of salt because they apparently have an axe to grind with the Governor for being a Christian.

Some of the links:

https://www.insideoyo.com/oyo-muslim-community-writes-makinde-over-alleged-oppression-by-govt-officials/

https://www.insideoyo.com/ensure-religious-justice-in-your-new-appointment-muslim-community-tells-makinde/

https://www.insideoyo.com/stop-dividing-muslims-muric-warns-makinde-over-plans-to-demolish-olore-iwo-road-mosques/

https://www.insideoyo.com/makinde-is-not-sincere-with-oyo-muslims-he-appointed-1-muslim-as-chairman-out-of-6-muric/

https://www.insideoyo.com/makindes-governing-board-appointment-favours-christians-muric/

olaboy33:
It appears there are cliques within these "men of God".

I wonder why he didn't visit Late Tb Joshua Widow.

I will accept religion and become a pastor the day one of these " men of God " go the hospital and heal those who are truly sick rather than pay for hospital bills.

The Bible says can two walk together except they are in agreement? The English say birds of a feather flock together.

Oyedepo and TB Joshua are not of the same feather and they cannot be in agreement just like light cannot be in agreement with darkness.

If you wear a Police uniform and call yourself a Policeman without being one, you can be arrested and jailed. But if you are a devil worshipper but call yourself a "Man of God" or Pastor, it is not a criminal offense and no one arrests you. But the true and genuine Men of God know themselves and God knows them.

If you cannot go to Lagos and tell the Atlantic ocean to mix by force with the Lagoon, then keep your peace.

Finally, Men of God are not Doctors. The business of Pastors is to win and disciple souls for the Kingdom of God. Healing is only part of the signs to follow them in the conduct of their primary task. They cannot leave their major task of winning souls to go and major in the minor of healing because that is what you want!

fergie0o1:
The self-appointed mediator for bandits said only religion can be used to pacify bandits to embrace peace.



Peoples Gazette

The audacity of Gumi in the defense of these bandits is really insulting to the sensibilities of well meaning Nigerians. But it may only go to imply that he has support in the Government.

One plan seems to be materializing though: that of an Amnesty Program for Bandits similar to the one for Niger Delta militants. Now we are talking of hundreds of billions of naira that Gumi or his nominee would control as head of the program!

Bola146:
Sometimes I ask this question is there God at all? Does he read answers prayers because I wonder he would have prayed for his wife not to die or he wouldn't have prayed I don't understand. Maybe that is why He is call Unquestionable

It is we that have the priviledge of reading the book of Job in the Bible that knew why Job went through tribulations. The Bible didn't say God called Job and explained to him even after restoring back in multiples to Job what Job had lost. Now imagine someone seeking answers and explanations for Job?

Without faith it is impossible to walk with God. What we do know is that all things work out for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose. And the Lord is good all the time...

Abokii8:
Today's Saturday Tribune/Peoples Gazette column uses the story of one Adebowale Sikiru whom Foursquare MD Femi Osibona (who sadly died in the collapsed building) denied a job only because of his Muslim faith to call attention to time-honored casual bigotry and inferiorization of Yoruba Muslims by their own people in their own land.

I'm ready and loaded for bear for the predictable attacks from people who'd rather sweep this uncomfortable truth under the drug and attack the messenger.

Ikoyi Tragedy and Casual Bigotry Against Yoruba Muslims By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi

Sadly, Yoruba Muslims have no voice and seem to have accepted their fate with listless resignation. Not being a Yoruba myself, i know i will be viciously attacked by the people who lubricate and enjoy the current hegemonic high ground that puts Yoruba Muslims at the lower end of the totem pole, but i am not one to shy away from telling the truth because of fear of attacks, i resist injustice no matter who the victims or the perpetrators are.

The topic for this thread was mischeviously attributed to Kperogi by the OP. There was nowhere in the write up where Kperogi labelled Femi Osibona as an unrepentant religious bigot as there is no justification for such aside personal hatred. That for me, puts the integrity of the OP in serious question.

Secondly, Kperogi clearly knows in justice, you cannot arrive at any fair conclusion no matter your course of reasoning, without hearing from the other party. For him to try to make assumptions without hearing from a dead man and still talk about justice is laughable and distasteful.

Finally I am disappointed that Kperogi would make assumptions on Yoruba Christian and Muslim relationship that he is trying to foist on the public without adequate supporting examples or case studies.

What is the ratio of Yourba Christians to Yoruba Muslims in the political leadership (Governors, Senators and House of Rep members) from the region? Is it very much skewed in the fabour of Yoruba Christians? What of business leadership? How about Civil Service leadership? All do not support the claims by Kperogi. So where is he getting his statistics and data to make divisive assumptions from?

callthefred:
Isn't it crazy that after 5 days we are still searching and clearing at the Ikoyi collpased building. If Femi Osibona who was on 18th floor could be found after 4 days. What is the fate of those on the ground floor.

We have almost 11 military barracks in Lagos and we can't deploy battalion of soldiers there and even military choppers .(After all the military has been known to be more responsive in handling humanitarian disasters).

I drove pass the building 2 days ago and I left home totally hopeless. At 11pm I was surprised work was suspended to be resumed the next morning. What stops us from having 24 shifts of different teams and each team working 1 hour to ensure each team isn't overwhelmed?. These are all Nigerians struggling to survive, finding daily bread, most didn't fall for the temptation of Internet fraud and rather chose to earn a decent living. The least we could do was bring them home alive.

Are we really a nation at all?. I mean these kind of little details matters. Every human being has the potential to change the world and we can't simply allow people die of no oxygen. This rescue shouldn't have taken more than 24 hours max if only we could truly care about ourselves. The only useless news is how someone was denied employment because of their religion. That's a convenient story to tell because the other party is dead and can't speak up for themselves. What a nation indeed!

I am calling for a protest and seriously we need to do better than we are doing. This is the very least we can do.

In Nigeria, we have little value for life. And diligence at work is an aberration. There are so many things wrong with the rescue approach that would give a sane man a splitting headache. From the hours of delay before the arrival of the rescue team to their approach of digging through wreckage like an elephant in a China shop without regard for the people trapped underneath, to unwarranted breaks and closing hours. It is just terrible and saddening.

nairavsdollars:
Osibona’s company began its foray into real estate in the United Kingdom before branching out to South Africa and later Nigeria.

In 2009, when Brig-General Buba Marwa (rtd) was the Nigerian High Commissioner in South Africa, Fourscore Homes built six luxury units called Fourscore Mansions in Waterkloof, a very expensive neighbourhood in Pretoria.

Osibona was also the first African developer to develop a seven-storey building in the United Kingdom. The property called Fourscore Mansion is located at 113, Albion Drive London Fields, E8, 4LZ, East London. Not only that, he was the first black developer of African origin to build other projects in the UK. The company’s real estate business started in Hackney, London in 1997.

How come the other buildings in other parts of the world are still standing tall without collapsing ?

Because he listened to and worked with experts and professionals mandatorily in those countries!

In an interview Femi Osibona held with TVC months ago, at a point he talked about not listening to experts, he said:

"When I first came to Nigeria, I believed in consultants so much. If an architect tells me something, I will do whatever he tells me to do... I later realized that some people they only know book, they do not understand the practical aspect of the work..."

That is a recipe for disaster, to refer to professionals as knowing book only. That belief of listening to consultants and professionals that he brought into Nigeria was a belief he had when he built structures in the UK and South Africa and it yielded positive results. But getting to Nigeria after sometime he became "wiser than professionals" and the result is what happened.

Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MVsgzdEt9o