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The House of Representatives has urged the Nigerian Labour Congress to suspend its planned strike over the hike in the price of petrol.
The lawmakers, after their meeting with the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, during a special session on Monday, set up an ad hoc committee, comprising heads of relevant committees, including those of downstream, upstream and Navy, to meet with Labour and government.
The ad hoc committee is headed by the House Whip, Alhassan Doguwa (APC, Kano).
The motion urging workers to suspend the planned strike was moved by Nicholas Ossai (APC).
The committee has five days to conclude its assignment.
Although PDP members, who earlier opposed Mr. Kachikwu’s admittance to the green chamber, loudly opposed the motion by voicing “nay”, Speaker Yakubu Dogara ruled that the “ayes have it”.
Thereafter, PDP lawmakers from the House and the Senate went into a closed-door meeting, presided over by Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio.
The reason for the meeting remained unclear but some members said the lawmakers were discussing a robust opposition response to the fuel price hike.

In their dramatic opposition to Mr. Kachikwu’s admittance, several PDP lawmakers had waved Nigerian flag, singing “all we are saying…save Nigeria”, plunging the House into a rowdy session before order was restored.
The House then dissolved into a closed-door session and later resolved to interact with Mr. Kachikwu.
Briefing the lawmakers in plenary, Mr. Kachikwu said if fuel price was not increased, long queues would return fully, and that the Federation Account Allocations Committee would have no money to distribute to the federation units.

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They need to be dealt with! Imagine they said he should go do what he likes? They don't know the power of social media. Op abeg go twitter!! Them go help u promote am more

Waiting for NLC / TUC to come out for their useless protest! This people are not fighting for us, they are politically inclined! Imagine make we stockpile food at home? With Which Money? Shey make we send our account details?? Lol

WHY DO WE SUFFER FUEL SCARCITY IN NIGERIA?

1. We do not have enough refineries to satisfy our domestic need, so we depend on fuel importation

2. Fuel is bought at the international market with US dollars and importers need USD to buy and import fuel

3. There is variability up to N121 bewteen the official USD exchange rate and the parallel market rate in Nigeria.

4. The government determines the price for fuel because the CBN is the only source of US Dollars for Marketers who import fuel.

5. If marketers source for dollars themselves, they cannot sell the product at the government price because of the N121 difference.

6. When the CBN gives US dollars to importers to buy fuel and import, they opt to selling the US dollars in the parallel market since they will make more profit, say about 50 times more than buying fuel and importing.

7. Most of the few marketers and dealers who use the dollars they got from CBN to buy fuel and import, divert the fuel to neighbouring countries like Chad and Benin Republic etc because fuel costs more in these countries since their Petroleum Market is free, and they will sell at a higher price and make more gains.

8. The CBN as a result of over 60% decrease in the price of crude leading to a reduced foreign reserve cannot afford to give enough dollars to marketers and dealers to import enough quantity of fuel for domestic consumption in the midst of all the leakages

9. These factors combined with a few others always lead to a shortage in the quantity of fuel that will satisfy Nigerian domestic consumption.

WHAT HAS THE MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM DONE?

1. Stopped the CBN from giving USD to marketers and dealers and gave them freedom to source for foreign exchange in the parallel market

2. Allowed the pump price of fuel to reflect the international price of fuel using the foreign exchange at the parallel market

3. Given all marketers and dealers the right to buy and import fuel while sourcing for foreign exchange from the parallel market

WHAT WILL BE THE IMPACT OF THIS?

1. Marketers and dealers can no longer collect dollars from CBN and sell at the parallel market instead of importing fuel and then causing fuel shortage

2. Marketers and dealers can no longer divert fuel to Chad, Benin and other neighbouring countries since they will not make extra profit in doing so

3. Everyone can now buy fuel and import. There are no more cabals in the Petroleum industry. Anyone can join and do business.

4. More fuel will be brought to Nigeria and there will be competition among marketers that fuel stations will be begging and giving incentives to customers to buy their fuel

5. Competition will drive down the price of fuel as seen in the case of diesel.

6. Government will use its
resources and time to develop infrastructure.

This is the choice we have to make now that we have a Government that we can entrust our resources to and go to sleep.

President Muhammadu Buhari has shown a high level of uprightness, prudence, determination to kill corruption and develop Nigeria.

Let us support him...

Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti, is demonstrating more and more that he is a true son of his father, by not letting the government off the hook so easily when they execute unpopular programmes or make unfriendly policies.

The singer, in an Instagram post has called on Nigerians to say no to imported petrol and hike in petrol pump price.

He reasoned that since NNPC gets its own fuel locally there shouldn’t be any increase in their own pump price.

“NNPC gets its dollars directly from crude sales, so it doesn’t have to source from secondary sources. NNPC refines it’s petrol locally, so why are they increasing their pump price if this is just deregulation and subsidy removal?

This is a price hike or NNPC has been getting subsidy also? #saynotoimportedpetrol. How much will NNPC sell petroleum since they source locally?

It has to be at the old prices, right?

Dear Nigerians, this is our chance to fight back without the NLC or any trade union. It’s simple. #saynotoimportedpetrol. Let’s all buy from NNPC stations only. We have already been queuing for months” he wrote.

He further reasoned that anyone who wants to sell fuel in Nigeria should refine it in Nigeria, while challenging the marketers to build their own refineries and shun importation of the product entirely.

“Anyone that wants to sell fuel in Nigeria should refine it in Nigeria. This will boost the economy and provide plenty of jobs and also plenty of petrol.

- See more at: http://www..ng/2016/05/15/seun-kuti-calls-protest-petrol-pump-price-hike/#sthash.xLTrI2vu.dpuf

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says one million poor Nigerians will be paid N5000 monthly as it has been appropriated for in the recently passed 2016 budget.

In a statement released by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo said N68.7 billion has been budget for this purpose.

The statement also adds that more than 8 million Nigerians will benefit from palliatives and incentives planned out for by the Federal Government this year to help cushion the effect of our harsh economic realities.

“Altogether, the Federal Government would be directly impacting the lives of more than eight million Nigerians in different social investment 2016 budget spending that would provide succor and be a ready-made palliative to ordinary Nigerians.

The direct payment of N5000 monthly to one million extremely poor Nigerians for 12 months as provided for in the 2016 budget for which N68.7B has been appropriated.

There is also a direct provision of very soft loan -cash for market women, men and traders, including artisans and agric workers.

This would be for a total of 1.76m Nigerians, without the requirement for conventional collateral. Some of the traders will likely get about N60,000. A total sum of N140.3b has already been appropriated for this in the budget.”

According to him, there will also be payment of between N23,000 to N30,000 per month to 500,000 unemployed graduates who would be trained, paid and deployed to work as volunteer teachers, public health officers and extension service workers, among other responsibilities.

“They would also be given electronic devices to empower them technologically both for their assignments and beyond,” the statement added According to Osinbajo, N191.5 billion has been set aside by the Federal government to train and pay 100,000 artisans.

“At least 5.5 million Nigerian primary school children –i.e. starting first in 18 states-three per geopolitical zones-would be fed for 200 school days under the free Homegrown School Feeding Programme.

N93.1B has been appropriated for this in the 2016 budget. 100,000 tertiary students in Science Technology Engineering & Maths-STEM, plus Education will partake in the N5.8b already provided for this education grant in the budget.

This payment would also be paid directly to the students.”the statement adds

- See more at: http://www..ng/2016/05/16/one-million-poor-nigerians-paid-n5000-monthly-2016-osinbajo/#sthash.Tb0uSNSh.dpuf

All hail Olatuson is back!! Let all the pwetty babe's take cover. Baba is back to demonise hearts lol

Wizzy!!

kraftsta:
U are just a caword...u probably can't differentiate between ur left to ur right hand....ratar.d

Thank you! May God bless you

Na this kind man go kill hin wife claim na devil hand work, you wey be senior officer. There are better ways to punish them. You fit even seize something in their possession and them go still come back come beg u.

Regardless of the fact that we believe some vulcanizers are hungry and needs to get food on their table, we should try either get this electronic device meant to pump air into tyres ourselves and be guided. This guy's are not interested in the aftermath of your journey except their 100 naira.

Life no get duplicate mhen

This is one of the most difficult articles I have ever written.

I now believe that the universe sought me out some months ago for an assignment, to bear witness and to testify in the unfolding events surrounding the life and death of Rashidi Yekini! But why me?

Within the football circle I believe I am one of a very few persons that Rashidi Yekini was comfortable with. Secondly, in the past three months I have had the closest interaction with the man up till the time I received the shocking information that he had died. I could not relate the news with the circumstances of his life during this period. Some things simply did not fit the picture being painted. And someone needed to testify, clarify and debunk the ugly and false stories being peddled around to justify Rashidi’s death.
Since I received a call from him three months ago, I have learnt a great deal more about him, the things that happened to him, why he lived his life the way he did, that he was not physically or mentally unstable, that he ran into some misfortune and that he needed support and help to get back on his feet. I have known Rashidi since our days together in the Shooting Stars FC team in Ibadan, when as twin strikers in the 1984 African Club championship we had terrorised defenders all over Africa, freely banging in goals on our way to that year’s finals where we lost! That was to be my last year with Shooting Stars and indeed with football. It was his first year!
Beyond that we had kept a good relationship from a distance. Through the years I had tried to understand his choices of the kind of life he lived without criticising or even counselling him. His decision to join Abiola Babes FC of Abeokuta, his choice of going to play in Cote D’Ivoire, moving to Europe, making the Chairman of Africa Sports FC of Abidjan, an Ivorien, his agent and manager throughout his career, all were totally of his own independent making. This clearly defined his character, that in spite of his obvious limitation in terms of academic capacity from the onset, he left no one in doubt that he was his own man and would choose his own path. He was very fiercely independent minded, never getting involved in the agitations, the politics, the power-play and the intrigues between officials and players, and even amongst the players themselves. All he cared about was to get on the field where he was extremely competitive and play football. He loved scoring goals and hardly ever exuberantly celebrated his goals. Thats why his first goal in the World Cup of 1994, against Bulgaria, and the manner he celebrated it remained the most memorable picture of that years’ championship.
As a player Rashidi was as reclusive as could possibly be. In camp players, that players had to share rooms in pairs, was the reason he lived with anyone. He was that kind of person. He would have preferred to be alone and enjoyed the solitude of his chosen way of life. Football gave him the only outlet to the rest of the world. Otherwise, you would find him sleeping, or saying his prayers, or playing pranks and cracking jokes with the players that visited his room.
Beyond football, Rashidi did not want anyone coming too close to him, to know too much and to meddle in his business. He kept his activities very close to his chest. So, even as we interacted as often as certain events brought us together I noticed his cautiousness. He was a very sensitive person. he tried never to hurt anyone, preferring to cut off any relationships that threatened his regimented sequestered lifestyle. One thing I was very sure of about him was that he never asked anything from anyone, and never wanted to depend on anyone for anything.
Football for him had provided all his needs. In short, for Rashidi Yekini, football was everything and the only thing in his life. It offered him the opportunity to escape from the pangs of poverty and he decided that the safest and best way to secure his future was not to fall victim to any smart Alecs, or scammers, or fraudsters, or business persons with sweet tongues that could talk him into parting with his hard-earned money. He did not want to be used or confused. So he built an impregnable wall around his existence, trusting only very few (he felt safer amongst the Hausa community, and did most of his very few business dealings with them). He worst fear was to lose his money. Thats why his celebrated one and only marriage crumbled after 3 months. He did not trust the motive of his wife for marrying him. So, he left the marriage before it even started. The same attitude underlined his relationship even with his family members. He took care of them, and provided for them, but from a safe distance.

It was a dangerous mixture – to be rich and famous and to be reclusive. Stories were bound to regale such an existence and with Rashidi they came in torrents. Yet, I fully I respected his choice of life and how he chose to live it, even though my every instinct wanted to support and guide him through the turbulences that I knew he would have to face managing unprecedented fame and fortune for a young man coming from his background.
No one knew this whole scenario would become the apparatus for his tragic end.
Rashidi’s death now raises many questions with no answers. The stories about his state of mind have clouded the circumstances of his death that should have been thoroughly investigated to show how, where, why he died the way he did.
I know a mad man when I see one. I can testify unequivocally along with some others that knew Rashidi from close-up that there was nothing wrong with him at the time he was abducted and died. Indeed, he was hale and hearty. Rashidi was not ill. He was fit and sound of mind and body. He even trained on the day he was forcefully taken away by people that have not come out to tell the world why they took him, where they took him, what happened there, who treated him for what ailment, what he died of, and so on. I can also testify that it was the misfortune that befell him a few years ago, that caused him great distress to the extent that he almost lost his life and his mind when his partner was killed and he lost most of his investment in their joint venture. That period was what some of his family members are saying to justify their wicked action in forcefully leading him to his death.
Rashidi was very so much into himself. He had very few close friends and kept even them in the dark about his plight and pains, preferring to deal with the issues himself. So, he did some ‘irrational’ things. So what?. Who would not do irrational things if they lost almost their entire fortune in one fell swoop? It took Rashidi a while to get over it (some two years or so). Playing his football daily, watching movies at his closest friend’s video shop, seeking some spiritual help, avoiding the public and public places, and bearing his own grief alone gradually eased the pain.

Thats where his life was when from out of the blues he rang me up. Rashidi had never done that in all our relationship. I was the one who always did the initial contacting. But some three months ago, he called me himself, and so started a new relationship that was going to bring Rashidi Yekini back to the game he loved with uncommon passion. I had assured him, after he had assured me he would fully cooperate, that he would never be far away from the game again. I assured him that the game could still help restore his lost fortunes. That he had to play it differently this time with kids as his instruments of change. He would help to nurture them, by showing and teaching them how to do the things he did best – position himself at the right place at the right time, evade tackles, and shoot accurately and powerfully with both feet, and score goals on the field of play. He was excited and raring to go. We had started discussing with companies and organisations in Lagos that would provide funds and logistical support.
Then everything came to a shuddering halt. The light of our great dreams was extinguished last week. The news came that a hale and hearty Rashidi, who finished training one evening, and had driven himself home, had been abducted by some family members, taken to an unknown destination for medical purposes, kept there for weeks without anyone’s knowledge but the perpetrators of the act, had died under circumstances that no one has been able to explain to the public.
Again let me emphasise: Rashidi was not sick at the time he was abducted. Rashidi was never mad. He could have had periods of some depression but those were in the distant past. The Rashidi that I saw, drove in his car, sat with for over one hour planning for the future, that called me up several times after that, that met with my emissaries after that, that kept in touch even with my office, that I wrote about in my column some 5 weeks ago, was not sick, or ill, or suffering illusions, or delusions, or hallucinations.
I am here testifying that Rashidi must have been ‘killed’ either ignorantly, deliberately or even inadvertently by those that did not understand what was going on with him, that had their own motivation for doing what they did by forcefully taking him away to an unknown destination for some kind of unclear, unauthorised spiritual or medical intervention that eventually killed him. That neighbours even witnessed the abduction and described it in gory detail requires that the law enforcement agencies should take up the matter immediately, to investigate what exactly happened and why Nigeria’s national hero and treasure, an African football legend in the true sense, should die the way he did.
Rashidi will not rest properly until justice is done.
Rashidi’s death must not be swept under the carpet. He died under circumstances that reek of conspiracy and murder!
Thats why the police must step in..today!
Culled from Mathematical 7 (Segun Odegbami’s blog)

Whether its in Mushin, Bariga, Iju or Ajegunle, the trend is pretty much the same for parties in these areas.

There is no need to buy the celebrant any present as all that matters is your presence.

People who live in Lekki, Ikoyi, Magodo or any other part of Nigeria and have had no reason to attend a party in one of these aforementioned areas would be wondering what a birthday party in these areas might look like.


See the 7 Common Things That Happens At A Birthday Party In This Areas, See below:-

1. Hemp smoking:- This is like the holy grail of ghetto parties. There is always weed smoking happening everywhere and anywhere at the party venue.

2. No food:- In a typical Mushin party, there is usually like 2 precent food and 198 percent booze as against what obtains else where. The party organizer only has to provide small amount of food and fill everywhere with alcohol.

3. More Guys Than Girls:- You are most likely to find more than two guys dancing with one girl on the dance floor and they taking turns to dance with the few girls available. Here there is nothing like monopolozing any girl except she’s your girlfriend.

4. Dry Gin Vendors Everywhere:- A party day in Mushin is a huge market day for ‘alomo’ sellers. These sellers troops to party venues with their wares and party goers would definitely buy from them because the organizers wouldn’t be able to provide all the drinks that would cater for both invited and uninvited guests.

5. No Invitation Necessary:- Party organizers don’t even bother to make some because people in Mushin don’t need one to appear at the party. A party organizer just only needs to inform one or two persons and he’s rest assured of having the whole community stop by.

6. Loud Music:- There is no limitation as to the volume of the music. Every early on the day of the party, residence of the area already know there would be a party on that day because the DJ comes with all his equipment and starts to thrill them with music from that time to when the party starts fully and when it closes at past mid night.

7. Never Ends Or Stoppage Time:- Unless of course, something bad happens to the DJ or his equipment or the generators or a fiasco erupts, the party is just going to go on endlessly.

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This is simply originality, creativity and talent at its finest!

An artist, Haneefah Adam, did this amazing drawings using Nigerian food ingredients such as Ogbono, Shaki, Onions, Crayfish, Okra, Jollof rice, Zobo leaves, ground pepper, etc.

The drawings were entered for a Pan-African creativity exhibition.

Courtesy@ms_hanie, @more

1. What is the benefit of the new price regime to Nigerians?

§  (a) End fuel scarcity by ensuring availability of products at all locations of the country
§  (b) Reduce hoarding, smuggling and diversion substantially and stabilise price at the actual product price
§  (c) Ensures market stability and improves fuel supply situation through private sector participation
§  (d) Creates Labour market stability (will potentially create additional 200,000 jobs through new investments in refineries and retails and prevent potential loss of nearly 400,000 jobs in existing investments).

2. Why the new price regime?
The rise in crude oil price and high cost of importation has brought back subsidy regime (at the price of N86.50). Due to decline in government income related to crude oil and output caused by vandalism in the Niger Delta, there is neither funding nor appropriation to cover this in the 2016 Budget.

3. What is the difference between this new price regime and previous price reviews?
All stakeholders including marketing companies and independent experts were consulted in arriving at the appropriate cost reflective regime. This is in furtherance of the Price modulation on framework rolled out in January 2016 which entails modulating prices down or up on a periodic basis to reflect actual prevailing costs.

4. Is this new price regime a deregulation?
While the Federal Government is not deregulating, this new price regime will ensure that the price of products ore monitored to ensure that citizens get a fair value for products they purchase.

5. What is the real cost of PMS to the Nigerian consumer?
The estimated “true” cost of PMS was valued to be 243.0SNGN per litre. This is factoring the estimated average mean spent to obtain PMS at the official price (86.SONGN), the estimated hourly wage of the average Nigerian, the average price of PMS on the black market and the estimated average volume bought per visit to the filling stations.

6. Why do we have scarcity?
There is no foreign currency and ways to open a new line of credit to bring in more products. This hos imposed over 90% supply on NNPC since October 2015 in contrast to the post where NNPC supplies -48% of the notional requirement. NNPC does not hove the resources for and is not designed to meet this increase in supply, this hos resulted in the current fuel situation across the country.

7. Will the new price regime ensure availability of petroleum products?
The new price regime will allow Marketers source their foreign exchange independently of CBN and ensure product supply in all locations of the country.

8. Will the new price regime positively impact the economy?
Clearly the continuation of subsidies in any form for PMS limits the ability of Government to deliver its statutory functions such as power generation, security, education, health etc. The new price regime will enable government focus on these critical sectors and free up our scarce foreign exchange to be used in other sectors.

9. What happens to the subsidy provision in the 2016 budget?
There is no provision for subsidy in the 2016 budget

10. Why should Nigerians not enjoy low petroleum prices as the nation is a Major Oil Producer?
Crude oil price is an internationally traded commodity, the prices ore not set by the countries that produce it. Neither do oil producing countries get a discount in the international market for producing this product. Furthermore, crude oil price accounts for about 80% of the final cost of fuel. Other costs include depot charges, transportation costs, chemicals, spore parts, raw materials etc are related to host of economic factors.
Therefore, at the current crude oil price of $40 per barrel, the finished domestic refined fuel sold to Nigerians cannot be priced lower than the cost of the crude.

11. How would the Government ensure that Petroleum Marketers sell within the price range?
The relevant regulatory institutions (DPR, PPPRA) will be further empowered to ensure level playing ground, strict compliance with market rules by all stakeholders and consumer protection.

12. How does petrol price in Nigeria compare with those of other countries?
Even with the new price regime, Nigeria would remain one of the cheapest fuel markets in Africa and this could even be lower once competition tokes effect. Likelihood of smuggling to neighbouring countries will also be significantly reduced with the new price regime.

13. When do we stop petroleum products importation?
Nigeria will only stop product importation when it attains local production sufficiency. The present administration is working assiduously on key initiatives towards boosting our local refining capacity.

Marriage is such beautiful thing when the people involved know how to make it work. But what if one gets married to the wrong partner.

These kinds of partners are notorious home breakers.

It is said that Love is blind but, should you get married to any of these people, it is likely to end in divorce.

1. Gold Digger

Being married to such a person will only last as long as you’re able to provide for his or her insatiable needs but if the niceties stop flowing, he or she is gone, leaving you to lick your wounds.

2. Drunkard

Many people can contain this for a while but if there is no solution to the problem, the likelihood it will end in divorce is very high.

3. Batterer

Any man or woman who abuse their partner is obviously getting them out as quick as possible

4. Drug Addict

Drug addiction is a very serious issue and marriages in this kind of situation can only last if both are addicted to drugs but if it’s just one party and the other is clean, the possibility of it ending in divorce is very high.

5. Narcissistic

Any person who does not care about others and is only concerned about themselves will only end up alone because marriage is about sharing and so if everything is centered on you, the likelihood of the other person leaving is very high. Usually, marriages to such persons do not work.

6. Overly Jealous

It is normal for every person to be jealous, from now and then but if you’re the kind of person who is overly jealous to the extent it clouds your judgment and you end up hurting others or fighting every now and then, then you should be prepared to end up alone.

7. Promiscuous

In marriage, if one is promiscuous, obviously the marriage is bound to fail because most people abhor it.

8. Controlling

Usually, the onus falls on women. One thing about men is that they all have an ego, that is how they were created and so in marriage, you have a woman who wants to always control the man, it doesn’t last.

9. Disrespectful

Respecting each other in a relationship is one of the foundations of a good marriage, but when disrespect is rife in a marriage, it is obviously going to end up in divorce.

10. Add Yours

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President Buhari is pictured shaking the Afghanistan President, Ashraf Ghani, at the Anti-corruption summit in London.

UK Prime Minister, David Cameron two days ago described Nigeria and Afghanistan as the most fantastically corrupt countries in the world.

So I just saw this FRSC verdict on impounding vehicles whose tyres are expired and am like this is a good project though but Nigerians are known to Abuse Everything.

I have always bought tyres as toks since I heard Michelin And Dunlop are no more in Nigeria and am not so cool with all this other brands of tyres. Since the FRSC have talked about this then you should all be prepared for them abusing it, you might buy a new tyre and they might tell you they don't recognise the brand coupled with safety measures because we will surely get influx of new tyres in the market which are fakes.

So this is my conclusion

Can we get an extensive and well detailed explanation on how we can order for about 4 good tyres from Dunlop and Michelin Online In Ghana And Get It Delivered so that we can at least be rest assured we won't have any problem with FRSC And As Well Safety Measures


Anyone with detailed explanations! Let's help Ourselves

Why u run

Ff

Just Saw this And I Can't Hold Back Laughing, Don't you think it's the truth lol

CC! Mynd44 Lalasticlala

A former Lagos State Sports Commissioner, Ademola Adeniji-Adele, has died, family sources told PREMIUM TIMES early Thursday.
Mr. Adeniji-Adele passed away in India where he had gone for a medical check-up after developing some complications, sources said. He was 60.
An official of Lagos State government confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES and said the state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, was preparing to announce it to the people of the state.
Mr. Adeniji-Adele served as commissioner between 2007 and 2011 during the first tenure of former Governor Tunde Fashola.
A pro-democracy campaigner, Mr. Adeniji-Adele’s struggle during the military regime of late dictator, Sani Abacha, saw Mr. Adeniji-Adele’s incarceration for months.

CC Azeeza

Afeni Shakur Davis, the activist mother of slain rap legend Tupac Shakur who was the subject of his iconic "Dear Mama" song and controlled his estate, has died. She was 69 years old.

Marin County Sheriff's deputies and firefighters responded to Shakur's home in Sausalito, Calif., Monday night after she suffered a possible heart attack, the sheriff's office said Tuesday morning.

She was taken to a local hospital and died just before 10:30 p.m.

"At this point there is nothing to indicate to us that there was any foul play, nothing suspicious about this other than this being sadly a natural event that has occurred," Marin County Sheriff's Lt. Doug Pittman said Tuesday.

He said Shakur was in the company of a friend when she began to feel sick.

She was experiencing some type of physical discomfort," Pittman said.

“Attempts were made to try to remedy those problems at home, but when they got more severe, it was at that time the family friend called 911 and asked for medical help.”

Paramedics arrived around 9:30 p.m. and immediately began to provide CPR, he said.

She was rushed to Marin General Hospital, where she was treated for about an hour before she died, Pittman said.

The investigation has been turned over to the coroner's division, where officials will speak to family members about Shakur's recent health history and research her medical records to determine whether an autopsy is needed, he said.

"This is a tragic loss to this community," Pittman said.

Shakur, born Alice Faye Williams, changed her name when she moved to New York City and joined the Black Panther movement. She and other party members were arrested in 1969 and charged with conspiracy to bomb multiple busy city landmarks.

In May 1971, she was acquitted on all charges after she represented herself in court while heavily pregnant. She gave birth to Tupac just one month later.

She was the subject of his 1995 song "Dear Mama," in which Tupac detailed his childhood struggles and respect for his mother's battle back from addiction.

"There's no way I can pay you back/But the plan is to show you that I understand/You are appreciated," he rapped.

After her son's 1996 shooting death, Shakur took over the late rapper's estate, which reportedly earns about $900,000 each year.

Dina LaPolt, a California attorney who handled Tupac Shakur's estate for nearly 10 years, fought back tears as she described Shakur, who inspired the lawyer to open up her own firm in 2001.

"She's an advocate,” LaPolt told the Daily News. “She's an activist. She taught me never to compromise your values - to always fight for what you believe in."

LaPolt oversaw the legal work behind 11 posthumously released albums while she represented the estate between 2001 and 2010.

The lawyer developed a close professional relationship with Shakur, who LaPolt described as "one of the smartest people I've ever worked with."

Shakur also influenced LaPolt's personal life, she said.

"I met her when I was 91 days sober. Now I'm 18 years sober," she said. "She was very, very instrumental in my life. I carry her with me to this day."

Earlier this year, Shakur filed for divorce from her husband of 12 years, Gust Davis, and was in a legal battle over her son’s estate, TMZ reported.

Davis demanded half of the monthly $20,000 Shakur took home every month.

In 2014, Shakur co-produced "Holler If Ya Hear Me," a Broadway jukebox musical featuring her son's works.

A movie about Tupac's life, "All Eyez on Me," is set for release in November, with Danai Gurira cast as Shakur. Shakur served as an executive producer for the film.

Ever wondered?? No be me put Awa President O!! Heheh

Brb

nigeriancritic1:
SOCIALLY, HAVE WE NOT ALL AGREED THAT A PROBLEM SHARED IS A PROBLEM SOLVED?

Are u been personal? Or stance on the aforementioned topic

Pm me!! I have a better option for you

nigeriancritic1:
HAVE YOU BEEN BETRAYED BY ANYONE OR ANY ORGANIZATION BEFORE?

I won't give room for my entire world been known by 3rd party. And yes close friends has done unexpected shits! So I know better

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