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eepeepook:
Shove your fake news where the sun doesn’t shine. I read the real article.

Why were both of them sentenced to jail if there was only one offender? Please try and use a little grey matter in life. It was given to you for a reason.

eepeepook:
This poster is fond of posting fake news. The original article claimed it was only one person who physically abused the child. Nairaland should ensure to ban posters recognized for spreading misinformation. Sha, all na cruise and engagement for this pulp fiction.

This is possibly the worst crime in modern history.
Two men "adopted" a baby.

"A post mortem examination identified more than 30 external bruises, as well as internal bruising to his mouth and throat, internal bruising to his anus, bowel and bladder, lacerations to his anorectum, and a perforated bowel."

"One medical expert gave evidence that a bruise on the baby’s bottom appeared to be a human bite mark."

Think what this poor baby went through. The men who did this should be put to death.

Gay men should not be able to buy babies. Period.

Seems your self esteem has always been measured by how others accept you. The whole "black and proud" nonsense has always been a shallow joke. The Japanese who are ACTUALLY proud of their culture, wouldn't even give a damn if you don't like or accept them.

TheMensch:
I can't even imagine the stereotype this guy has faced (will still face) in his life. Japan people are the worst racists.

The 25 pupils and 7 teachers abducted from schools in the Ogbomoso area of Oyo State remain in captivity as of June 15, 2026.

●The victims have now spent 27 days in the bush following their abduction on May 15, 2026.

●Security forces have pinned down the kidnappers inside the Old Oyo National Park, but the children and staff have not yet been rescued.

Here are the latest updates on the situation:

## Location and Security Operations

* Cornered in the Park: The Oyo State Police Command confirmed that joint security forces have surrounded the kidnappers inside the
Old Oyo National Park

* Escape Routes Blocked: Security teams have blocked routes leading into neighboring Kwara State to keep the bandits from escaping.

* Arrests Made: Security operatives have arrested six suspects and three local informants accused of helping the bandits with logistics and information.

* No Military Force: An Ogbomoso monarch, Ghandi Olaoye, warned that a full military assault could endanger the lives of the children.

## Bandits' Demands and Rumours

* Negotiation Openings: Governor Seyi Makinde stated that while the state will not give in to terror, his administration is willing to negotiate if it ensures the safe return of the children.

* Demand Confusions: Rumours spread that the bandits demanded a ₦1 billion ransom and Sharia law. However, a video released by the abductors showed the kidnapped school principal, Mrs. Rachael Alamu, denying the Sharia law demands.


She pleaded with President Tinubu and Governor Makinde to negotiate for their release as they are suffering in the rain and cold.

* Casualties: Public anger remains high following a viral video showing that the bandits killed a mathematics teacher, Michael Oyedokun, while in captivity. Another teacher was killed during the initial school raid.

## Community Reaction and Protests

* Street Protests: Distressed parents and residents took to the streets of Ogbomoso again to demand faster action from the government.

* Teacher Strikes: The [Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) launched an indefinite strike that has closed primary and secondary schools across Oyo State to protest the unsafe conditions.


https://www.facebook.com/GazetteNGR/posts/a-month-after-the-mass-abduction-of-46-oyo-schoolchildren-and-teachers-by-terror/1704005941727464/


https://www.facebook.com/OfficialSeyiMakinde/posts/grateful-to-my-brother-his-excellency-bala-mohammed-who-led-the-leadership-of-th/1541978643949986/

https://punchng.com/oyo-abduction-kidnapped-principal-denies-bandits-sharia-demand/

https://www.facebook.com/ReportYourself/posts/abducted-oyo-schoolchildren-teachers-being-held-in-old-oyo-national-park-says-go/1571002971047(880/)

A decomposing body was found in the trunk of a car parked near the stadium where Iran’s World Cup football team is training in Mexico, AFP journalists at the scene reported Friday.

The gruesome discovery came with games underway in the tournament, which is being jointly hosted by Mexico, the US and Canada.

Reporters watched as police in Tijuana opened the trunk of the gray Toyota SUV, which had California plates, in the parking lot of a supermarket directly across from the Caliente Stadium, where Team Melli is training as it prepares for three games in the United States.

Specialists in white protective suits worked around the vehicle to examine the corpse before removing it.

The prosecutor’s office in Tijuana said the body had been discovered by a patrol unit.

“Upon inspecting the vehicle, they found a person wrapped in a black bag in the trunk, showing signs of violence,” a spokesman said, adding the car was believed to have been abandoned on Wednesday.

Temperatures in the city have reached up to 28 degrees Celsius in recent days, with hot sunshine beating down for hours every day.

Mexico is plagued by powerful drug gangs and has one of the world’s highest murder rates.

Tijuana, which sits on the border with the United States, is notoriously dangerous, with more than 1,200 homicides recorded there in 2025, according to official statistics.

The Iranian national team, whose participation in FIFA’s football extravaganza had been clouded by war with the United States, had planned to have their training camp in Arizona, but moved to Mexico amid ongoing hostilities.

Since its arrival, the team has been under heavy security and is escorted between the hotel and the stadium by armed soldiers.

On Friday, the convoy left the stadium just minutes after the body had been removed.

There was no immediate response from the team to AFP queries regarding security arrangements.

https://www.thecable.ng/decomposing-body-found-near-irans-world-cup-training-camp-in-mexico/

Mynd44 lalasticlala nlfpmod

🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Marcelo on Ancelotti starting Igor Thiago ahead of Matheus Cunha for Brazil against Morocco:

“I don’t understand it. Maybe Carlo sees something in training that the rest of us don’t, but if you’re asking me who gives Brazil the better chance of hurting Morocco, it’s Cunha every day of the week.”

Cunha has played at the highest level, he’s faced elite defenders week after week, and he gives you unpredictability. With Igor Thiago, I keep hearing about potential, physicality, and work rate. That’s great, but this is Brazil, not a development program.”

Morocco are organized, aggressive, and tactically disciplined. This isn’t the type of game where you hand out opportunities because someone had a good spell at club level.

If Cunha was left out because he’s not in form, fine. But if he’s sitting on the bench while Brazil struggle to create chances, people will ask questions. And they should.

Maybe Igor Thiago proves me wrong tonight, but if Brazil drop points, this decision will be the first thing everyone talks about.”

—gqmexico

I wonder why anyone is surprised by this news.

Until he clears his name from the multiple charges against him by several women, he can expect to face many more such treatments.

On the one hand, I admire the fact that they take gender based violence seriously.

Statisense:

🇳🇬 HOW THE REGIONS VOTED: MKO ABIOLA vs BASHIR TOFA — 1993 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION


🟠 NORTH CENTRAL
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 1,315,743 (56.08%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 1,031,387 (43.92%)
Winner — MKO Abiola
Total Votes — 2,347,130

⚫ NORTH EAST
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 847,484 (47.18%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 948,821 (52.82%)
Winner — Bashir Tofa
Total Votes — 1,796,305

🔴 NORTH WEST
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 1,036,991 (42.73%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 1,389,640 (57.27%)
Winner — Bashir Tofa
Total Votes — 2,426,631

🟢 SOUTH EAST
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 739,748 (48.34%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 790,371 (51.66%)
Winner — Bashir Tofa
Total Votes — 1,530,119

🟤 SOUTH SOUTH
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 1,307,352 (51.24%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 1,242,340 (48.76%)
Winner — MKO Abiola
Total Votes — 2,549,692

🟣 SOUTH WEST
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 3,093,991 (84.94%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 549,528 (15.06%)
Winner — MKO Abiola
Total Votes — 3,643,519

🇳🇬 NATIONAL RESULT
MKO Abiola (SDP) — 8,341,309 (58.36%)
Bashir Tofa (NRC) — 5,952,087 (41.64%)
Winner — MKO Abiola
Total Votes — 14,293,396

#Statisense

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Didn't Nigeria deport 2 million Ghanaians in the early 1980s?

Vacora:
Migration is a historical fact. Take your pathetic and weak argument elsewhere. You guys are like the kid with lice on the playground, no one wants to play with you

North Africans are representing the Arab world

Rayjay45:
Our North African reps nko?

You can watch it on sportytv on YouTube. Their live feed is the best because there's no buffering or endless loading

Goo0dHardDick:
So nobody get live link to watch the match here?

Quinones is originally from Colombia

seppuku:
That African boy for mexico wan show them.

Mexicans are xenophobic too

MyAmericandream:
Goal to my Hispanic brothers. SA don’t know how to play shiiiii, they only know how to be xenophobic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBpBcVXJCMA?si=53cfX85WA2_AzMQi

Senior Putin general blown up in car bombing in Moscow after bungling son ‘posted his number plate on social media’

A SENIOR Russian general was blown up after the war chief’s bungling son reportedly exposed his whereabouts by posting a picture of his dad’s car registration on social media.

The car, thought to contain Lieutenant General Damir Davydov, was firebombed in Moscow on Tuesday, killing the 57-year-old Vladimir Putin crony instantly.

War boss Davydov was reportedly pulled from the flaming wreckage of a BMW X3 before being pronounced dead at the site of the huge explosion.

His identity has not yet been officially confirmed.

Davydov was thought not to own a BMW, but a social media post, reportedly from the general’s son Rafael, shows the war chief’s son posing next to that exact car.

It seems to match the vehicle in the video of the dramatic explosion.

The social media post may have betrayed the general’s location to those who wanted him dead.

Reports suggest that assassins targeting Davydov used the car numberplate, clearly visible in his son’s social media post, to track him down.

Initial reports said the dead war chief was 62, but Davydov is thought to be 57.

He headed up the Kremlin’s defence ministry’s missile and artillery wing.

Davydov supplied deadly weapons to the flailing Russian forces on the front lines.

The huge explosion rocked the Moscow suburb of Balashikha on Tuesday morning reportedly had the power equivalent of up to 500 grams of TNT.

Dramatic video showed the vehicle bursting into flames from its boot and back seats, before rolling into a parked car.

Another car bomb was reportedly found and destroyed in south-west Moscow by Russian authorities.

An investigation has been launched into the suspected assassination.

Ukrainian authorities have yet to comment on the attack.

The blast was less than a mile from where Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a car bombing last year.

The top Putin war chief, 59, was taken out by a remote-controlled car bomb as he walked towards a Volkswagen near Moscow.

The embarrassing security slip-up comes as paranoid Putin moved his daughters into his fortress palace, fearing assassination attempts.

Maria Vorontsova, 41, and Katerina Tikhonova, 39, are hunkering down in Mad Vlad’s highly guarded forest palace complex with their dictator dad.

The Valdai complex on the Black Sea is guarded by dozens of air defence systems, making it one of the most secure locations in Russia.

The ageing tyrant also ordered urgent checks on Russia‘s complex web of surveillance cameras, fearing it could be hacked by his enemies and betray his movements.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/16477835/putin-general-blown-up-moscow-car-bombing/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sunyoutubestories

India’s population will soon be falling—probably quite fast

IN THE SPRAWLING slum in Delhi where Parul Gayen lived in the 1970s, children were everywhere. It was not unusual then that her mother had been one of six, or her grandfather one of 11. Swapan, the handsome boy whom she often saw cycling to work, and later married at 16, had six siblings—the seventh did not survive infancy. But times have changed, says Ms Gayen, who is now 58 and lives with Swapan in a one-bedroom flat nearby. Of the couple’s three grown-up kids, only two decided to have children of their own. Both stopped at one. “One child feels lonely,” she says.

In 1950 India’s population was 360m. The average woman had six children—roughly the same as an American woman a century earlier. Today, with a population of 1.45bn, India accounts for a sixth of humanity. It surpassed China as the world’s most populous country in 2023 and has kept growing. But its total fertility rate (TFR), the number of births a typical woman has over her lifetime, has fallen to 1.9 (see chart 1), below the level needed to keep the population stable in the long run.

Although the population will keep growing for a spell, as the generation that are currently children themselves become parents, a future contraction is inevitable unless the fertility rate rises back above 2.15. In practice, it is likely to keep falling, accelerating the impending shrinkage. In Delhi, for instance, the TFR is 1.2.

Baby blues

The rich world and many middle-income countries are awash with anxiety about declining fertility, shrinking workforces and impending or intensifying falls in population. Politicians often badger or bribe parents to have more children, with little success. Now India, once a source of angst about exponential population growth, is joining the same club. New school textbooks, to be published this summer, will warn of the perils of too few, rather than too many, children. In May Chandrababu Naidu, the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, a southern state of about 55m, announced a 30,000 rupee ($315) payout for couples who have a third child.

As recently as 2019 Narendra Modi, the prime minister, warned of a “population explosion”. But the government’s thinking has flipped, says Sanjeev Sanyal, an adviser to Mr Modi. Today officials worry that India is on a similar path to China, whose population has been shrinking since 2021. Fertility has fallen much further and faster than expected, says Neelkanth Mishra, chief economist of Axis Bank. In both Tamil Nadu, a state of roughly 77m, and West Bengal (100m) the TFR stands at 1.3, the same as in Finland (see chart 2).

The average for urban India is 1.5. For a long time demographers thought poor northern states would delay India’s demographic transition. Now they seem to be converging with wealthier, less teeming parts of the country.

Some might see a shrinking population as a blessing. After all, India’s infrastructure often seems inadequate: think of commuters cramming themselves into Mumbai’s local trains, for instance. Yet the prospect of an India with fewer children is not an entirely comforting one, either. It would get old before it gets rich, making for a difficult demographic transition. The effects would ripple through its society, its economy and its politics.

India’s extraordinarily fertile land and largely reliable monsoon help explain why it accounts for 2.4% of the world’s land mass but 18% of its people. Its population was given a further boost by the medical advances of the late 20th century. In 1950 a quarter of children did not survive to their fifth birthday; by 2000 only a tenth died young. India went through this transition in mortality at an unusually early stage of development, when its birth rates remained very high, says Sonalde Desai of the University of Maryland.

That combination made India exhibit A for population alarmists. It was a visit to a “hellish” slum in Delhi in the 1960s that inspired Paul Ehrlich, an American biologist, to write “The Population Bomb”. He warned that the battle to feed humanity was lost and that India was bound to starve. He was completely wrong, but extremely influential. His work informed a shameful drive in the 1970s to curb population growth, in which Indira Gandhi’s government forcibly sterilised some 10m men.

Subsequent governments, whether led by Gandhi’s party, Congress, or the Hindu nationalists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have largely enacted policies that enable family planning and reproductive choice, says Poonam Muttreja of the Population Foundation of India, a think-tank. In the 1990s the decline in fertility accelerated, as more girls went to school and the country got richer. Kerala, a southern state of 36m where the TFR is 1.3, has been closing schools and importing workers for decades. Other places are catching up.

The UN still forecasts that India’s population will keep growing until the 2060s and then fall slowly. This is based on a giant assumption: that fertility rates will stabilise, starting tomorrow. But there are only a handful of countries in the world in which fertility has fallen and then rebounded. “There is nothing natural or inevitable about a rate of two,” says Dean Spears, an economist. “There is no sign of stabilisation yet,” notes Rukmini S. of Data for India, a think-tank.

Demographers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) have produced a more plausible forecast. It shows India’s population peaking in 21 years and then falling as sharply as it has risen. By the end of the century India’s population would be just over a billion—a contraction of nearly half a billion. (The UN also produces high- and low-growth forecasts; the low one is similar.) Another model, by S. Irudaya Rajan, an Indian demographer, foresees India’s population peaking in the 2050s—a little later than IHME, but much sooner than the UN—before declining rapidly.

Few experts anticipated this, for several reasons. One is a paucity of data. The last full census was carried out in 2011. A follow-up is now belatedly under way, but the wait has forced demographers to patch together data from other surveys, which may have obscured the speed of the decline.

Another factor befuddling demographers is India’s relative poverty. Its GDP per person at purchasing power parity was only $7,000 in 2020 when fertility fell to the replacement rate, the level at which the population will stop growing in the long run. That is much lower than in most countries that have passed the threshold (see chart 3). “In the past in demography 101 we used to teach that countries reach a certain per-capita income, women get educated and join the labour force, then you get low fertility,” says Jesús Fernández-Villaverde of the University of Pennsylvania. But fertility is now low in many poorer countries, too.

In some ways India’s trajectory reflects what the evidence has long shown: by far the most important factor for fertility is whether girls go to school, says Lant Pritchett of the London School of Economics. Those with at least some education have a greater degree of autonomy, and over time this leads to fewer children. Falling fertility in India now reflects a surge in girls’ enrolment in school since the 1990s. If a country is able to provide schooling for girls at an earlier stage of development than is typical, it seems, fertility will start falling earlier, too.

But India’s experience also flies in the face of some conventional wisdom about fertility. Conservatives in Western countries often blame falling fertility there on the decline of marriage and the high proportion of women who work. It is true that many Western women complain that they end up having fewer children than they would have liked, because the difficulty of balancing family and career (or of finding a suitable partner) means they start having children relatively late in life.

Trad wives, not trad mothers

Yet India, where more than 90% of women get married and only 33% work, is seeing fertility slump, too. Although childbearing happens a little later than in Ms Gayen’s day, the average Indian woman still ties the knot at 19 and has her first baby at 21 (see chart 4). In other words, age and career cannot be at fault, at least in India’s case. In fact, even as fertility has fallen, surveys suggest that Indian women would like even fewer babies. In many states desired fertility is around 1.5 children. The majority of women get sterilised once they have finished having kids, which suggests they are not hankering for more.
For women across the country, having fewer children has become a powerful cultural norm. A traditional Indian wedding blessing goes, “May you be the mother of a hundred sons.” But the attitude of modern Indian parents can be likened to an old story from the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic. The sage Agastya asks his wife Lopamudra whether she wants ten good sons or one super-son with the combined heroism of ten. Lopamudra chooses the super-son.

Three factors explain this shift. First is a change in the aspirations of modern Indian parents. A typical explanation comes from Sanjini Raman, a 42-year-old mother in Chennai. She says she and her husband decided, “All our resources should go to one because if it’s two it gets divided.” It costs around 3.5 lakh rupees ($3,650) to send her daughter to a private school and to pay for extra tutoring.
Demographers call this the “quantity-quality trade-off”, and it dominates conversations between Indian spouses. Ms Raman says that most of her daughter’s classmates are from one-child families, which is common in southern India.

The proportion of Indian children in fee-paying schools rose from 31.7% in 2015 to 38.8% in 2025. This trend is not confined to richer states. Surveys in Bihar (one of India’s poorest states, with 130m people) and Uttar Pradesh (the most populous, with 240m) suggest that many poor parents are choosing to have just one child so that they can afford at least some private tuition.

A second factor discouraging lots of children is the waning of the tradition of living in an extended family. As recently as 2001 around half of Indian families lived in houses with several generations—grandparents, parents, children, aunts, uncles, cousins—under one roof. Now 70% or so live in nuclear families, according to government data, owing to urbanisation and changes in the labour market. This makes child care a bigger burden and creates an incentive to limit family size. But most Indian men do not seem to have noticed. “My husband sometimes washes his own plate,” says Kavitha Kannan, a farmer and mother of two from Tamil Nadu.

Pink aye

In the past, as the old blessing suggests, another consideration motivated couples: a strong preference for boys. That helped to keep fertility higher, because couples would keep having children until they had a boy. But “boy preference” has fallen dramatically: the data show that many Indian parents are content with a girl.

Third, even if education and family structures shape parents’ thinking, it is reinforced by culture. Having fewer children has become aspirational, and that is being shaped by changes in technology and access to information. A study has found that the spread of cable television to villages in the 2000s led to a fall in the number of pregnancies, which the author put down to soap operas depicting urban, middle-class women with small families.

It is possible that smartphones—which are becoming ubiquitous, even in poor villages—are having a similar compounding effect. There is as yet scant evidence that their spread has accelerated fertility’s fall. But it is likely that smartphones help disseminate cultural norms more rapidly. In Nagepur, a village in Uttar Pradesh, women say they see lots of videos that depict small families and discuss how hard it is for youngsters to find jobs. Mr Rajan likens low fertility to a “contagion”: “What happens in Kerala ends up in Bihar,” he says.

That all this is already leading to smaller families and paving the way for a contraction in population is beyond dispute. The only question is how far fertility will fall. Some demographers suggest that strong marriage and childbearing norms will act as a floor, sparing India a baby drought as severe as, say, South Korea’s. Others flip this on its head, arguing that it is remarkable that fertility has already fallen so low despite such norms. They speculate that in the coming decades more Indian women will opt out of marriage and childbearing altogether.

Even if India does not become South Korea, the speed of its demographic transition will have far-reaching consequences. Most obviously, it will get old before it gets rich. In Kerala, where almost a fifth of the population is over 60, the government has just created a department for ageing. The state has the most comprehensive social-safety net in India but, even so, only 19.4% of the workforce belong to any kind of pension scheme (the national figure is 12%). Providing for the growing ranks of elderly Indians seems a remote prospect.

Yet the decline of the extended family undermines the assumption that children will care for parents in their old age. In south India rich-world-style care homes are popping up. In rural places more basic forms of care for the elderly are appearing, centred around yoga and gossip. But families unable to find or afford care, particularly for those with serious illnesses such as dementia, may be forced back together. Cases of elderly relatives abandoned at mass gatherings, such as the Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage, are on the rise.

The strains on family ties are exacerbated by another trend, a boom in internal migration. Southern states have long relied on labour from the North and East, particularly in hotels and restaurants. But the flows of migrants are increasing, to provide workers for factories and care homes, among other jobs. At the Athulya care facility in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, the staff are almost all young women from the state of Odisha. The pull of migration will see more elderly Indians left behind in the village. Some aggrieved parents are already taking to social media to castigate their absent children.

A more rapid demographic transition means that the share of India’s population that is of working age could peak as soon as 2030. India’s workforce can continue to grow even as its population ages because many working-age people are under-employed. In the long run the economy will need to make better use of women in particular, says Mr Mishra of Axis Bank.

Demographic concerns already infuse politics. Mr Modi’s BJP likes to stoke fears that Hindus (around 80% of the population) will be overrun by Muslims (around 15%). Although fertility among Muslims is indeed higher, it too is falling fast and the difference is mainly because Muslims are poorer. Nonetheless in February Mohan Bhagwat, the leader of the RSS, a huge Hindu-nationalist social organisation, exhorted patriotic Indians to have three children to help with “population stabilisation”.
Southern states, meanwhile, worry that Mr Modi will “punish” them for their lower birth rates by trimming their seats in parliament. There may also be tensions between internal migrants and their adoptive states. Most southern politicians realise that migrants boost the economy, but there is some griping about an influx of outsiders who do not speak the local language. It is easy to imagine the north-south divide becoming more fraught.

For now, expect politicians of all stripes to cast around for policies to promote baby-making, like Mr Naidu. Yet evidence from around the world suggests that exhortations and bungs will not work. Fertility seems to be driven by forces too powerful for states or religious leaders to control very easily. Mr Rajan points out that India’s fertility has been declining for 70 years. The odds of a sudden reversal are slim.

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/06/04/indias-population-will-soon-be-falling-probably-quite-fast

Mynd44 lalasticlala nlfpmod

Bro should just quietly retire before it's too late

The Federal High Court in Lagos has declared the National Assembly’s N110 billion plan to buy SUVs and pay allowances to lawmakers unlawful, ruling that the expenditure breached procurement laws, the Constitution, and public trust.

In a judgment delivered Wednesday, May 6, 2026, the court, presided over by Justice Yellim Bogoro held that the National Assembly’s plan to spend N40 billion on 465 vehicles for lawmakers and N70 billion on support allowances for newly elected members was arbitrary, disproportionate and inconsistent with statutory procurement standards.

The court ordered the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio and House of Representatives Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas to ensure that all future procurements or expenditure of public funds by the National Assembly comply strictly with due process requirements and are guided by the principles of transparency, accountability and value for money.”

The suit, designated FHC/L/CS/1606/2023, was filed in August 2023 by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) against the National Assembly.

SERAP sued Akpabio and Abbas, for themselves and on behalf of members of both chambers, after reports emerged of plans to spend N40 billion on 465 vehicles at about N305 million each, and N70 billion in allowances for new lawmakers amid worsening economic hardship.

“The beneficiaries of the expenditure are the very officials approving it. This constitutes a case of self-dealing and conflict of interest.

“The allocation of N110 billion for the benefit of lawmakers demonstrates a failure to prioritise national interest and undermines the fiduciary duty owed to the Nigerian people.

“The spending breached Section 57(4) of the Public Procurement Act 2007, which mandates economy, efficiency, and public interest.

“The court found no evidence of competitive bidding or value-for-money assessment. The spending violated paragraph 1, Part 1, Fifth Schedule (Code of Conduct for Public Officers) and the Oath of Office under the Seventh Schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as amended),” the judge held.

The court dismissed the National Assembly’s arguments that the case was academic or that SERAP lacked standing.

Justice Bogoro held that “NGOs can institute actions to protect public interest and that the doctrine of separation of powers does not operate as a shield for illegality.”

The judge made a declaration that the N40 billion plan to buy 465 bullet-proof SUVs breached the Public Procurement Act, the Code of Conduct for Public Officers, and the Oath of Office, a declaration that the N70 billion support allowance breached lawmakers’ constitutional obligations and duty of care to Nigerians,

an order directing the National Assembly to ensure future spending complies with due process, transparency, accountability, and value for money.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/court-rules-n110bn-suv-allowance-schemes-for-nass-members-unlawful/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Mynd44 lalasticlala nlfpmod

These Americans sha. Imagine being a $12.7 billion company and not knowing that BAT will always fall your hand consistently.

If BAT human beings are always malfunctioning and breaking down, why will BAT Drone be different?

Nigerians could have given you this advice free of charge.

Unfortunately for him, Ghana has its own issues with his kind

See What A Nigerian Man Did To His Late Friend's Widow

A friend kept his 2m Naira with me for a long time before he died. He wanted to use it as a down payment for a land.

About 11 months later, his wife came to me. She needed help and requested for any amount as support as she wanted to start up a business.

I told her to come another day. And then, transferred to her 3m Naira.

She refused to be calmed as she was overwhelmed.

Then I told her, your husband gave me 2m Naira to keep. 750k is the interested generated for over 24 months in investment. 250k is from me.

I felt a lot of joy handing that money to her.

The interest? God whose orchestrated plan is mysterious, made me invest the money not knowing what the future holds. So, I was doing it for my friend’s wife and kids.

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I'm sure these are the same excuses people were making in Oyo state and now they are paying the price for their lack of wisdom

AbuAeesha:
Those Hunters never provoked anybody.they were ambushed and killed.
They weren't bandits.
And that wasn't the first time they were going to that axis for hunting...

I remember the incident that happened last year in Edo state when a group of Fulani "hunters" were caught and liquidated as they were trying to set up a base of operations in the forest around Uromi.

It is clear that if more people in the South West had been proactive like the people of Edo State, we wouldn't be facing this predicament.

Edit: Has anyone else noticed that the MURIC basket mouth has been strangely quiet in all this? He and his organisation haven’t condemned either the Ogbomosho or Ekiti kidnappings? That man should be picked up for questioning