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Abuloma80:
THERE WAS ONE MUMU IN OPERA-NEWS THAT WAS TALKING RUBBISH - THAT SHOULD ANYTHING HAPPEN TO TINUBU, THEN A NORTHERNER WILL RULE THE COUNTRY, WHICH MUST NOT BE ALLOWED. I TOOK MY TIME TO ANSWER OR EXPRESS MY THOUGHTS ON HIS RUBBISH WRITE-UP. SO I FELT TO SHARE TO MY THOUGHTS TO TOPICS THAT TALKS ABOUT TINUBU FALL OR SLIP...........

l am not praying too! But why the Anger and Frustration against a Northerner becoming a President Which part of the constitution that says so? When Yar'Aduwa's died there was no issue against Ebele Goodluck Jonathan becoming a President. It was a Smooth and peaceful handing over the Presidency to him. So why your dislike and hatred on a Northerner. Please be matured and see things rationally and objectively. Drop this your hatred aside and wish Tinubu well in his tenure as the President. It was a do or die affair for him to become the President. We all saw the desperation in him to be a President. We all saw how he brought in the word "EMILOKAN" it was an unfamiliar word to most of Nigerians! So disabuse your mind and keep Northerner out of this. Northerners (Atiku and others) were very sympathetic to what happened to him and many others (who don't have access to media) felt the same way!!! Please no offense intended, l am only expressing my personal view and thoughts, so l beg no insults nor attacks on me. l am only telling you how to be objective and unbiased on national issues like this. So l wish and pray for him well. Such a fall on an Old, Aged and Unhealthy person like Tinubu can be very painful and may have unwanted bad consequences!!!

Half truths don't do justice.
There was not peaceful and smooth handing over to GEJ when Yar'adua passed away. We were all witness to the drama put up by the northerners. After all the hassles GEJ was made president out of an infamous doctrine of necessity agreed upon by the legislative house and the judiciary supporting it.
It is to this that they have amended the constitution to include if a sitting president dies , that person will be replaced with another from the same geographic zone.

paulwelj:
Social media was sent into a frenzy on Wednesday after President Bola Tinubu, slipped while boarding the parade vehicle at the venue of the 2024 Democracy Day celebration.
The President, however, quickly regained his balance and continued with the proceedings without further issues.

In this article, 10 other world leaders aside from Tinubu, who had a momentary fall during a public ceremony have been highlighted.

1. President Joe Biden: In March 2021, United States President, Joe Biden tripped on Air Force One stairs while scaling the steps to Air Force One to Atlanta to meet with Asian-American community leaders on a massacre.

2. Robert Mugabe: In February 2015, Zimbabwe’s 90-year-old President Robert Mugabe fell down a staircase as he walked off a podium after addressing supporters at Harare International Airport.

3. President Gerald Ford: Former President of the United States, Gerald Ford, slipped on Air Force One in 1975 while visiting Vienna in Austria for talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sada.

4. Cuba leader, Fidel Castro: Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, in October 2004, fell off the stage in Santa Clara, Cuba. Castro broke his knee and arm in the fall.

5. Barack Obama: In March 2015, former US President, Barack Obama came close to falling down the steps of Air Force One. Obama was returning to Washington DC from a golfing trip in Florida when he bounded from the plane door only to lose his footing. He recovered and continued across the tarmac with the same spring in his step.

6. Mike Pence: In June 2020, Vice President Mike Pence had a moment remarkably similar to President Biden’s upward slip. Pence was filmed running, then tripping, up the staircase of Air Force Two.

7. Tommy Tuberville: In October 2023, Senator Tommy Tuberville, who has previously criticised President Joe Biden for falling in public view, was mocked online after a video showing him falling down a flight of plane stairs himself went viral.

8. Hillary Clinton: The then-Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in 2011, was boarding a plane to Yemen when she slipped to her knees at the doorway and was only saved from further embarrassment when an aide gave her a helping hand.

9. Vladimir Putin: The Russian leader who loves to display his aura, saw himself on the floor during a 2019 hockey game he played in. He was doing a victory lap around Sochi’s Bolshoy Ice Dome and applauding fans when he slammed on the floor.

10. Boris Johnson: The former United Kingdom prime minister, was a victim of an epic fall after he tripped and landed on the floor during a charity tug-of-war game at a World War I commemoration event with Britain’s armed forces in 2015.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/tinubu-biden-other-world-leaders-who-have-slipped-on-occasions/%3famp

So quick to mention US and the POTUS to justify this kind of fall but so lazy to pick up any of their tactics to raise Nigerian economic standard.

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casualobserver:
No we are here because we have a population of daft citizens like you.

Congratulations.
Congratulations.

casualobserver:
If the people didn’t want pilgrimages they would reject govt spending money on pilgrimages. Just like you would reject schools if you don’t want schools. Disavow yourself of the mindset that you have a right to determine what is anybody’s priority service from government. It’s called tolerance.

One could also argue It is also equally abnormal for government to deploy valuable government resources to quell self inflicted instability and insecurity in certain regions. I am sure the money spent on insecurity in the SE every year exceeds the money spent on pilgrimages. You could say if you want to go on pilgrimage pay for it yourself just as you could say if you caused insecurity in your region fix it yourself. You see you are not in a position to dictate what should be a priority service to me, neither me to you. This is why the old national anthem is needed to ram home that tribe and tongues differ and stop looking at things as if everyone must share our views on life.

I see, I guess that's the reason we are where we are as a country because of the old national anthem where tribe and tongues differ not in corruption.

casualobserver:
Pilgrimage is a social service, that’s the function of government to provide social services. I don’t agree with it but for a section of the population that is what they want from the government. Government exists to provide social services for 200+m people not to use half of the whole income to pay the salaries of 1.2m largely indolent civil servants .

The point still stands the output of the average Nigerian worker is only N150k a month. It is from output one is paid. If you have a business you cannot pay your staff more than your income from sales…so also a country cannot pay it’s workers more that the output of the country. Nigeria has been unproductive and entitled for too long, now the chickens have come home to roost.

How did pilgrimage now become a social service?
How many countries offer such as a social service or we just like doing abnormal things because we don't know what to do with money and since it's government money?

Image123:
Big fat lie

It can never be as fat a big lie as that the FG and the Governors want us to believe, swallow and digest.

ijustdey:
https://punchng.com/minimum-wage-accept-offer-that-wont-lead-to-job-losses-fg-tells-labour/?amp

Any body supporting this statement made by this Minister is mischievous. He can walk in the shoes of his predecessor.
What happened to the savings they got from the removal of subsidy?
Why don't the government offer certain services to certain categories of the civil servants and pay them what that meagre amount they want and let's see how long the government can render such services!!!

Obi1kenobi:
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Government employment is not "slavery". It's a privilege. A privilege that many Nigerians earn by bribery, or by nepotism and tribalism (what we call "connect". Most government employees are lucky to be there at all when there are far more deserving people who don't have those jobs because they don't have a "connect". Do you understand that it is the Nigerian taxpayers who are struggling in a very harsh economy who will be paying the ridiculous salary demands of those government workers? Why should we subsidize the struggles of government employees when we're also having our struggles?

I am sure government workers are paying taxes as well or are they not?
So ridiculous as it may, we are all paying taxes directly and indirectly no matter the ridiculousity.

Obi1kenobi:
Lol, making people smile is not the primary responsibility of government at all. It's like saying a parent's primary responsibility is making their children smile even if what would make their children smile would be destructive to the family. Almost 60% of Nigeria's revenue is going to debt servicing and you think that instead of stabilizing the economy, bringing down inflation (increasing minimum wage has further inflationary effects), stabilizing our very unstable currency with more forex intervention etc we should be focused on making workers smile. You have your priorities backwards.

You don't have the right to resist your landlady's rent demand because its her house and if you can't afford it, you should leave. Workers who aren't fulfilled by their pay have the right to leave as well. It shouldn't be up to a struggling employer to pay workers money that he doesn't have when he's trying to keep his business afloat and survive.

I'll conclude by saying if the President and Governors can't pay a reasonable minimum living wage, they can as well resign from office. They were not elected be it by hook or by crook to enslave the people.

Image123:
LoLz, i thought the whole gra gra and protest was for the masses. So it's for civil service and politicians, so why disturbing the whole country about it? Why shutting down schools, hospitals, airports and national grid when you will pay your staff what and when you want?

It works both ways.
Whatever the NLC does works directly for all Civil Servants and Public Servants and indirectly for the rest of the populace. It's as simple as that.

Image123:
Many ignorant and young people here. Most of them did not watch the video to get the point. Can your church or mosque pay the least staff the minimum wage that you want to be law? Can the schools and farms around you pay minimum wage to their lowest staff when passed into law? Or you believe minimum wage is only for Tinubu to pay? How many MSMES can pay minimum wage to their least staff? Can you pay minimum wage to your cleaner or house maid and shop assistant?

Your statement is a well in ignorance.



The government at all levels can't use that as a basis not to increase the wage of civil servants.
Every private employer will have to increase their employees wages accordingly to the revenue generated from their businesses.

Emeskhalifa:
Let me ask, are you a business owner? Do you have employees on your payroll? My guess is no else u for know say no be everybody go fit pay that minimum wage.

The government at all levels can't use that as a basis not to increase the wage of civil servants.
Every private employer will have to increase their employees wages accordingly to the revenue generated from their businesses.
There are private schools whose school fees are even high but they pay one of the lowest in the nation.
My landlady increased rental on her property and told me God will provide for me to pay the increment. Do I have a right to argue with her?
In governance policy making is about ensuring the people are made to smile and not to keep them in slavery telling them it's for a little time.

raskymonojendor:
Like Soludo like Otti and Peter Obi. Birds of a feather.

They are all the same. They speak of downsizing the civil service but they will never agree to cut short on aides, cut short on expenditure, cut short on over bloated budgets for roads and other infrastructure. They will never cut short on irrelevant oversea trips that has never brought relevant investors into their States.

EmperorCaesar:
As a former CBN Gov, He knows best and I'm sure PBAT share same ideology too

They wouldnt approve what State Gov would struggle to pay in the long run

If you disagree with this, just remember than you arent smarter than Soludo

If a former CBN governor and now a State Governor is making such statement it's just a proof that he's not smart whatsoever. He is among the elites who contributed to the destruction of the nation's economy. He is amongst those who says petrol subsidy should be removed and they did not think about the ripple effects it will cause.
As a governor he should be looking for ways to ensure that the economy and economic activity in Anambra State through intentional government participation is on the increase, approachable and friendly. He is amongst those who measure the Dollar to the Naira, comparing our low priced petroleum products, etc, etc to that of other European countries but they have never measured same when it comes to wages.
If before 2015 the minimum wage is around $100 corresponding to about #15,000 to #18,000, why will the present administration at all levels pay anything less given the current exchange rate.
Governance and administration is not all about the construction of roads, bridges and buildings without putting the wholesome welfare of the common man and in this case the civil servant. You don't need intelligence for infrastructure to be in place.

Can Solido justify his wage as a governor and compare it with his counterparts in the USA?
The pension formers governors collect is it also sustainable and why will they be paid such for doing nothing 4 to 8 years while those who have put in 35 years still receive crumbs?!!!!!

DeepsightX:
One of the amazing things in this age is to recall the ferocity with which this crew (BAT/APC) hounded GEJ and screamed blue murder at his every step. Only to turn up with a million times worse than the man made available.

When the man only partially removed subsidy, they all went into a frenzy and national protests followed. They have removed it fully (they claim) and the silence of the grave yard follows. The man, as you have pointed out, was offering 100 USD as minimum wage. They refuse to do even a third of that. In every way, they make that man look like a genius and saint sent from heaven.

And yet they screamed and screamed to take over, only to deliver sorrow tears and blood.

Yeah, Yea, Yeah.
Nothing stops us from doing same as they did to GEJ. It's not like a pay back thing.
Evil only triumphs because good keeps quiet and only speak in their closet.
Let's all walk the talk and keep praying.

jumper524:
I don't think this men are ready, I don't think these men sit down, discuss and strategize on how to make life better for Nigeria at all.
I think they sit down, strategize on how to keep us calm while dey rip us even further.
At least we were paid a $100 during Jonathan reign as minimum wage.
The wage you all criticised him for, you made it so unbearable for him.
Today your paying less than $25 as minimum wage.
If this was what Nigerians bargain, we would have begged Jonathan to stay forever.

Why are these men so evil?

They are evil because good, righteous and upright men in heart have refused to match their words on the earth. We have all succumbed to fear or everyone is living for self.

BeeBeeOoh:
https://punchng.com/shutting-down-national-grid-criminal-police-warn-protesters/

Is this the same police that asks hospitals and doctors to request for police statement before treating gun shot and accident victims and even when the law says otherwise. And even when this foul practice has been abolished by the IGP, hospitals and doctors still go the old ways. So where is the enforcer?

Omooba77:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/06/lgs-full-autonomy-will-further-improverish-downtrodden-kwara-govt/

The governor did not say how making the LGA autonomous will further impoverish the those who are already downtrodden.

Who in the first instance made those who are downtrodden to be impoverish?

ManirBK:
https://dailytrust.com/sallah-ado-bayero-invites-district-heads-to-durbar-amid-emirship-crisis/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR04gnhCLaSV2PXjOShHtv2R7c7UcZMguNRvHyvjFolWVIO_sktwy8k06n0_aem_Ab2zFDAT1EHGSP0Wp_Nj-4IaWyoyu7Pmeha3bEqtvNOI73RMcaeJP1nBbPmZXjldXBh1tvrtELMcQiqB3CkWHsbX

Very good and interesting.

Omooba77:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/06/lgs-full-autonomy-will-further-improverish-downtrodden-kwara-govt/

Kwara State is one of the old States plagued with governors who lack ideas in governance and administration. An ancient State with no meaningful infrastructural development.

aswani:
I beg your pardon, Dennis is in his second term.

If Inegbineki was that useless, why did Akpakomezer run to meet him to try and change his mind?

There is more to being a stalwart than winning a polling unit.

A stalwart who does not win his/her polling unit should ask self certain questions!!!

Another thing to check even if such person losses his/her unit. Such loss is by how many votes compared to who won!!!!

Any stalwart who claims to be on ground and his party loses in 2 elections within 8 years in his/her unit then he/her needs to be asked questions.

Abbeyme:
You want me to explain?
With or without evidence..

Both.
Thank you.

Abbeyme:
He is most likely the best suitable person for the seat.

He is more visible and is seen to be nearest to the President and perceived to weild some kind of influence around the presidency.

Please kindly explain in simple english the bolded . Thanks .

ORACULUM:
Kindly state your option with reasons to help a brother make a decision on what to choose from?
Lessons in the comment please.

Your question is opened based.
But I'll pick the £2000 because of the exchange rate when converting to Naira.


I'll use this analogy.
A family friend some years ago inquired from a group of friends about having to work in the Nigerian Railway which likely is a permanent job, career driven, and pensionable or take a contract work working directly under the wing of the CEO of company who has a running contract with one of the oil majors in the country.
We told him to go with the contract job.
Within the years the contract was in, he was able to purchase a land and build a befitting house for himself both in the tuwnship and in his village, have a little side investment that brings in good earnings being managed by the wife he married afterwards. Though the CEO is late and the current has been given to another person but he is not doing bad after many years.
Those of his colleagues who who are working in the Nigerian Railway are been paid less than #100k. This happened more than 7 years ago. Note these are university graduates.
So if you're business inclined and love investment portfolios kindly go for the bigger one. It would take light years for the Nigerian economy to beat the UK or it would take forever for the Naira to be stronger than the Pounds.

phantom:
Let them impeach him na. Then you go know say Rivers no be Lagos! Is Tinubu ready to burn down Rivers because of one man? We shall see... e be like una no know who Rivers people be.

I am sure we would see Rivers people what they are capable of doing when it gets to that time and if it gets to that time.

We are sure Rivers State money will be used to mobilize people to come walk the streets for protests.

Jorussia:
If state high court has no jurisdiction over this matter,why has fubara been using court others from rivers high court to claim validity for his 3 member house? Was it not the same high court the governor used two weeks ago to issue court claiming the seats of the 26 lawmakers have been declared vacant?where u not among the people who were rejoicing over that court order 2 weeks ago?

Don't mind them. They are all hallucinating on nothing.

Oghene86:
What he said is self understanding, because it doesn't fits what you want to hear, you claim he deceived you 😂

It doesn't have to fit my understanding. The bottom line is we wait till all of it plays out and we would see which court injunction they would be getting and from which judge.

ReubenE:
He did not say Wike was forced on Ijaws. He said Wike was forced on Rivers people by an Ijaw man. You are accusing a whole ethnic group of telling lies and that shows exactly the kind of person you are. Should people tag the whole Ikwerre liars because of Wike caught lying severally.

It was natural for power to shift to the riverine after Ikwerre had done 16 years uninterrupted before Wike came in.
Like you said, they needed someone to match the madness (figuratively) of Amaechi in Rivers which was why they made another Ikwerre man Wike the flag bearer (making it 24 years for Ikwerre). What Clark is saying, the Ijaws of Rivers listened to that arrangement because it was an Ijaw son Jonathan that brought Wike.

So what is your problem in that that you are insulting Ijaw people with so much arrogance

I am very sure the entire post is written based on Rivers Ijaws and not of Rivers people in general.

Oghene86:
Who are you to question a SAN, he has told you and that is how it is, your jobless lawmakers are gone for good, even if there's no judgement this how the case will drag until 2027

He is not the first SAN.
We have had SANs who are AG of the country and we have been deceived by their interpretation.

IgbuduMonkey:
The problem of Rivers State is a lack of elder statemen and strong traditional leadership respected by the people. No wonder, I heard from someone that lived in Port Harcourt in the 50s and 60s that the area was completely controlled by the Eastern Igbos at that time. It is obvious that the vacuum of leadership still exists today and it has been exploited by Wike


...,...Meanwhile, Are FG and Labour still pricing minimum wage like crazy fish?

Who are the Eastern Igbos and what do you mean by that?
I would not be surprised who ever told you is of the Eastern Igbos?

InfoGuru118:
https://news360ng.com/breaking-reps-seek-6-year-single-tenure-for-president-and-govs-zonal-rotation/

The only thing worth considering is the 6 year single tenure for Presidents.

Where we already have 7 States within a zone, the other zones should have the balance to make 7 States.
Each State should be fully autonomous. The sharing formula should be looked into and each State should be given their due based on their resources.

There should be only one house, probably the House of Representatives and it should be part time and their wages and allowances should be commiserate with the work they do. A Commission should be set up and given the responsibility of Constituency projects funds and ensuring such funds are put into realistic projects that is value added and adds real value to the people and economy.

Full autonomy for all LGA(C), creation of more LGA and setting up of RDAs for effective development meeting the needs of each local community.
The judiciary should be rejigged from bottom to top. The Magistrate Court should be built and situated central to 4 to 7 tribal clans depending on each locality.

phantom:
TEXT OF PRESS BRIEFING BY DAGOGO IBOROMA, SAN, RIVERS STATE ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND COMMISSIONER FOR JUSTICE ON MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2024*

Gentlemen of the Press

• As Hon. Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and 3rd defendant in SUIT NO DHC/20/CS/2024, my attention has been drawn to a recent judgment. This suit did not seek to declare the seat of Martins Amaewhule and 26 others in Rivers State House of Assembly vacant.

• The suit of the claimants was struck out for want of locus standi and jurisdiction and also for being an abuse of court process which robbed the trial court of jurisdiction to adjudicate on the matter.

• There is misleading news circulating in social media, print and electronic media that Martins Amaewhule & 26 others are members of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Rivers State House of Assembly.

• As you all know, Martins Amaewhule and 26 others defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress on the 11th Day of December, 2023 and stated that much in affidavit evidence deposed to by Martins Amaewhule for himself and on behalf of 26 others in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/1681/CS/2023 before Hon. Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division. The Suit is still pending in court.

• By section 272(3) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, it is only the Federal High Court that can determine whether Martins Amaewhule and 26 others are still members of Peoples Democratic Party and also members of the Rivers State House of Assembly. This much was held by the trial court.

However, you will recall that these is a subsisting order of interlocutory injunction in Suit No.
PHC/512/CS/2024 restraining Martins Amaewhule and his co-travelers from further parading or presenting themselves as law makers in Rivers State pending the determination of the substantive suit, which has not been appealed against till date.

• We urge the public to disregard the news presently making rounds in social, print and electronic media to the effect that Martins Amaewhule and 26 others have been declared as members of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Rivers State House of Assembly.

This is very misleading to be honest.
At first we were made to believe that the Abuja High Court lacks jurisdiction on this matter. Now that the State High Court has given judgement, the AG of Rivers State is reminding us of the case in Abuja.
What makes him think that the judgement in Abuja will say otherwise!!!!
Governor SIM said he did not buy his SAN, I hope this will not his first case to lose as AG of the State?