₦airaland Forum

Kyase:
Ole is going
If not this night against Liverpool
Because I know say Liverpool go use us get enough goal aggregate

abc115:
Ole is not the problem... signing of Ronaldo displaced the team spirit

Kyase:
Ole must go this night

DigitB:
I remove the green skin of the Aloe before blending it. When I wanna drink it, I pour all the content straight into my mouth without waiting for it to make long contact with my tongue.

DigitB:
Lol.

I have a way of taking it and I don't feel the bitterness much.

Nutritionists call Aloe Vera "Super Food". I don't take it just because I have ulcer. It's my other source of obtaining nutrients. I'm not good at taking fruits.

thundafire:
me I get boil close to my anus that refuse to go after taking all medications,so what do u suggest cs i heard it was abcess

Tess24:
Are you high

winterlover:
No be Juju be that?

DigitB:
Very effective.

I wash mine with salt and blend it with a blender. Very bitter.
And I don't feel much hunger each day I take Aloe Vera.
I also get that feeling I get whenever I take coffee

aktolly54:
sir anything for joint pain(left knee) sometimes pain me but I can still walk very well

The acting Comptroller General of Immigration (Ag. CGI), Isah Idris, has discovered a high prevalence of touts and subsequent hike in passport fees at Lagos passport offices during a personal sting operation.

A statement on Tuesday by the spokesman of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Amos Okpu, said the Ag. CGI paid an unscheduled visit to the Alausa and Ikoyi Passport Offices in Lagos as part of sting operations to assess the quality of service delivery to the members of the public at the centres.

He said Idris arrived the Alausa Passport Office, Ikeja at about 1100 hours and presented himself as a potential passport applicant, adding that he moved round the premises unnoticed, was even attended to by some personnel and also met with some touts within and around the premises who made entreaties to assist him to procure a passport.

He said both the touts and some of the NIS personnel, who offered to assist him, gave exorbitant fees far beyond the official rates, with acting CGI playing along with them and indeed some affirmed their readiness to assist him procure the passport within reasonable time provided he met their charges.

Okpu said determined to have a good understanding of the extent of touting in the area, the acting CGI opted to follow one of the touts to her business centre located not far away from the passport office, and while there, the tout produced all manner of forms and requested the acting CGI to complete same so that the process could begin.

Okpu said the acting CGI chose to see the process through by completing the forms and was thereafter asked to transfer the sum for the charges given him to an account number supplied by the tout if he could not make cash payment.

He said Idris, satisfied with his findings at the Alausa Office, proceeded to the Ikoyi Passport Centre where the same experience played out, adding that he afterwards left the premises unnoticed and proceeded to the Office of the Lagos State Command Comptroller at Alagbon Close, Ikoyi.

Speaking at Ikoyi, the acting CGI noted that the visit was very insightful.

He said: “It has enabled me to assess the quality of service delivery at the centres especially against the backdrop of some public complaints about poor service delivery in some passport office locations. We shall use this experience to deepen our reforms very urgently. I have seen some gaps that must be quickly addressed. I think that the passport appointment system we are about to introduce will take care of some of the gaps, while a huge emphasis on consequence management shall be vigorously pursued.”

He said that none of the personnel found to have acted below expectation during the visit shall go unpunished, assuring Nigerians that appropriate sanctions shall be applied.

Idris, upon assumption of office as the acting CGI, has promised to deepen passport reform efforts, improve border security efforts, as well as emplace measures for enhanced staff welfare.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

abdelrahman:
how much are those useless states that u mentioned making Nigeria?

kollinzgee:
If only the zoo can be this serious in building the economy and fighting terrorism the country would have being paradise by now..

The internal crises in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) following last weekend’s congresses across the country have continued to deepen.

In Osun State, the crack widened, yesterday, between loyalists of former governor Rauf Aregbesola and supporters of Governor Gboyega Oyetola over control of the party. Aregbesola’s loyalists had dragged leadership of the party to the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo over the ward congress held on July 31, 2021, and to challenge the outcome of last Saturday’s congress in the state.

The aggrieved members, who belong to The Osun Progressive (TOP), a group loyal to the Minister of Interior, Aregbesola, had held a parallel congress its congress at Ogo-Oluwa area in Osogbo while the other faction
held at the Osogbo City Stadium where the chairman of the party, Prince Adegboyega Famodun, was re-elected for a second term.

But a death knell was handed to the group on Sunday when the party stated that it would only recognise executive councils supported by incumbent governors in the states controlled by APC.

On Monday, the group dragged the Chairman of Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Committee of the party, Governor Mai Mala Buni and the Chairman of Osun State Ward Congress Committee, Gbenga Elegbeleye, to the Federal High Court in Osogbo over the manner the Congress were conducted.

The plaintiffs, Yusuf Asifat Makanjuola and 2,516 others said they paid the stipulated amount and obtained forms to participate in the congresses of the party but were sidelined by the committee.

The plaintiffs also joined the Osun State chapter of the APC, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the chairman of the Osun State Ward Congress Appeal Committee, Ambassador Obed Wadzani as defendants.

There were parallel APC state congresses in most of the states of the federation, with the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) mocking the ruling party for its inability to conduct free and fair state congresses across the country, saying it is a reflection of what the party stands for.

IN Kwara State, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, one of the most prominent members of the ‘Otoge’ political movement in the state, has described as “an empty threat” a statement credited to the Kwara State governor, AbdulRahaman AbdulRazak, that the national body of the APC would not recognise results of the parallel congress conducted in in the state.

Oyedepo, a member of the group loyal to Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, in a chat with The Guardian in Ilorin said his group is looking beyond the outcome of the congress, noting that neither of the two factions can exclusively win any election in the state.

He said the governor should cut short his joy over his belief that he has the control of the APC machinery in the state just as he asked him to dig into the political history of the state.

According to him, “in 1983, former governor of Kwara, Adamu Atta, thought he would coast home to victory because he was in firm control of party machinery, yet he lost the election.

“Mohammed Lawal in 2003 was also carried away with the false belief that once he had the control of the party, he would win the election. He instead lost woefully to Bukola Saraki.”

Oyedepo warned against any attempt to field AbdulRazak as the APC candidate in the 2023 polls “if the party intends to win the elections.”

THE Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has, however, said at the appropriate time and forum, he will respond to the false allegations levelled against him by AbdulRazaq. The Minister stated this yesterday when he featured on a phone-in programme of TV Continental, ‘This Morning’.

Recall that the governor alleged that the minister dehumanised him during the campaign and other preparations towards the 2019 governorship election in the state. AbdulRazaq also alleged that the minister did not remit some funds raised for the electioneering campaign.

Responding to a question from the anchor of the programme on the allegations and the crisis in the APC in the state, the minister said at the fullest of time, he would give his response.

“I read the article and I also read the response of some people. I believe that issues of national importance I have come here to discuss are more important than the personal disagreement between me and the governor. At the appropriate time and forum, I will respond to the false allegations,” he said.

The minister also declined response to questions on the parallel congresses held by the APC in some states. According to him, the party executives appointed or elected as spokespersons and other officers are in better position to respond to such issues.

“As a federal minister, I am not supposed to be partisan in the discharge of my duties, whether on intra-party or inter-party matters,’’ he said.

THERE are insinuations that the lawmaker representing Ogun Central, Senator Ibikunle Amosun; Mohammed, Aregbesola and other aggrieved Southwest members of APC, who were said to have fallen apart with the National Leader, Bola Tinubu, were the brains behind the parallel congresses that held in some states.

To buttress their arguments, a group in Oyo State chapter of APC, The United Front (TUF), in a statement, yesterday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the party to resist moves by Amosun to hijack the party structure in the state.

The group alleged that Amosun is the one sponsoring members of Unity Forum within Oyo APC, which consists Prof. Adeolu Akande, Alhaji Fatai Ibikunle, Barr. Bayo Shittu, Dr. Ismail Adewusi, among others, to divide the party into intractable fragments.

According to the group, “Amosun takes absolute delight in the fragmentation of Oyo APC for the purpose of extending the web of schism he established in the party to other parts of the Southwest. His divisive ego-trip in Oyo can be traced to the build up to the 2019 elections when he extensively bankrolled Unity Forum to tear the fabric of the party’s wholeness apart, a move that triggered the inevitable lacklustre performance of the party in the gubernatorial polls.
“It is on record that he channelled a large junk of Ogun State resources to finance the mobilisation and campaigns of African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Senator Femi Lanlehin. However, his dream to glide ADC to power was built on illusionary hopes, as the party fell flat in the senatorial election, which made Amosun’s camp to become completely rattled. With no other options up his sleeve, he lent a formidable support to the PDP gubernatorial candidate, Seyi Makinde,” part of the statement read.

The group, while recalling the role played by the former governor during the 2019 general elections in Ogun, said, “Amosun has consistently showed, with his divisive inclination and high-handedness that he lacks the requisites expected of managing a party even at the ward level. We can’t forget in a hurry how he almost succeeded in ruining Ogun APC into a state of inoperable rigidity, as he openly backed Adekunle Akinlade of Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in the 2019 gubernatorial polls. He is bent on devising the same template in Oyo.”

The group also urged the CECPC to investigate alleged forgery of sensitive documents by some party chieftains in Oyo State, which led to the postponement of the October 16th state congress in the state.

But when contacted, chairman Caretaker Committee of Oyo APC, Chief Akin Oke, said, “at my level and age, to comment on allegation that I don’t have facts relating to it is difficult. I am aware that in the last election he (Amosun) didn’t support us, but for me to now accuse him where I don’t have the facts, would be unfair.

“At least, in the present scenario that would not be fair. But now that it has been raised, I will start doing my investigation too because by now, he (Amosun) ought to have seen the handwriting on the wall and leave us alone.

A close aide of Amosun who was contacted yesterday, but pleaded his name should not be disclosed, dismissed the allegation with a wave of hand, saying, “if those alleging have done the right thing they wouldn’t have been jittery.”

IN Lagos State, a member of the incumbent executive told The Guardian that the issue of parallel congresses or not is immaterial because the CECPC has said it would not recognise any congress it didn’t monitor or send its committee to coordinate.

The source also dismissed the allegation that Aregbesola is the brain behind parallel congress in Lagos, saying, “on what basis and what would the Minister aim to achieve?”
IN Imo State, the former governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has described the APC congress in the state as a birthday party and not a congress. Okorocha, while reacting through his media aide, Sam Onwuemeodo, said already, there was a substantive Appeal Court judgment bordering on the executives of the party in the state.

Okorocha said that in addition to the substantive Appeal Court judgment, there was an appeal pending in the Supreme Court over the issue.

“An appeal is pending in the Supreme Court and the case has not been decided and somebody said he is conducting a congress,” he added.

The former governor said he would not waste time reacting to such an issue, “when governor, Uzodimma, is aware and everyone knows that nothing happened.”

MEANWHILE, attempts by the PDP to pick a consensus candidate for the position of national secretary from the Southeast may have suffered a setback as another aspirant emerged yesterday to challenge Senator Sam Anyanwu, who had earlier been picked as the consensus candidate.

Although governors of the PDP and other leaders in the zone settled for Anyanwu last week in Enugu State as the consensus candidate, Chief Okey Muo-Aroh, a member of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), has also submitted his expression of interest and nomination forms for same position.

Speaking with newsmen shortly after submitting his forms for the position of National Secretary, Muo-Aroh dismissed claims of consensus arrangement, arguing that the practice of imposition “is the bane of the party in the Southeast.”

Count one:

That you Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu lbeku Umahia North Local Government Area of Abia State being the leader of the Indigenous People of Bialra (IPOB) on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in London, United Kingdom, did broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu and other areas within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, preparations made by you and others now at large for states in the South-East and South-South zones and other communities in Kogi and Benue States to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into the Republic of Biafra and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 41(c) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP. C77, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.


Count two:

That you Nnamdi Kanu, male, adult, of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area ot Abia State, on or about the 28th April, 2015 in London, United Kingdom did broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu, Enugu State and other parts of Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, referred to Major General Muhammadu Buhari, GCON, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a paedophile, a terrorist, an idiot and an embodiment of evil, knowing same to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 375 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap C. 77, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.


Count Three:

That you Nnamdi Kanu, male adult of Afaraukwu lbeku Umahia North Local Government Area of Abia State between the month of March and April 2015 imported into Nigeria and kept in Ubulusiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra state within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court , a Radio transmitter known as TRAM 50L concealed in a container of used household which you declared as used household items and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 47 (2) of the Criminal Code of Act ,Cap C45, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

Count four

That you Nnamdi Kanu, male, adult. of Afaraukwu iIbeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State in London, United Kingdom between 2018 and 2021 Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu, Enugu State and FCT, Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, professed to be a member of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a proscribed organisation in Nigeria and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 16 Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013.

Count five:

That you Nnamdi Kanu, male, adult, of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State on the 22th of April, 2021 in London, United Kingdom on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu, Enugu State and other parts of Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did an act of terrorism in that you incite the other members (followers) of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB}, a proscribed organisation in Nigeria, to look for security personnel, their family members through a Radio Biafra on 102.1FM monitored through the IPOB Community Radio and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 1 (2) (h) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act.

Count six:

That you Nnamdi Kanu, male, adult, of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia Stale on the 16thh of May, 2021, in London, United Kingdom within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did commit an act in furtherance of an act of terrorism by making a broadcast that “In 2 weeks’ time, what will happen will shake the world, people will die, the whole world will stand still, mark my word” and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 1 (2) (b) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013.

Count seven:

That you Nnamdi Kanu, male, adult, of Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State on the 31st of May, 2021, in London, United Kingdom within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did an act in furtherance of an act of terrorism by issuing a deadly threat that anyone who flouted your sit-at-home order should “write his/her will,” as a result banks, schools, markets, shopping malls, fuel stations were not opened for businesses and vehicular movements grounded and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 1 (2) (b) of the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act, 2013.

jully29:
Some guys are actually blessed with a loyal,peaceful,submissive , independent and God fearing lady,but they disqualified her becos of material things that can fade away any time.

Shellsploit:
Same hair someone will barb for N300 in Aguileri junction anambra, another will barb it for N58,000 in USA



Is God not wonderful...?

Sleyk:
Point of corrections, Suspected armed terrorist...