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Prof Rhoda Gumus is INEC electoral commissioner in charge of South-South.

She is a card carrying member of APC who was nominated by Buhari and confirmed by the Nigerian house of assembly despite widespread condemnation by civil society groups.

It's a given that Buhari may be unreasonable to have nominated a card carrying member of a party for a role as an electoral umpire; but it is totally irresponsible for the House of assembly to have confirmed such person despite genuine petitions written against her nomination.

I mean the house of assembly is expected to comprise of APC, PDP and other parties' representatives ; the question is why will a PDP, YPP Senator or reps vote for the confirmation of an APC member as INEC commissioner? Don't these people think about the implications of their actions while doing rubber stamp duty?

I think the legalislature is one of the most useless arm of government in this country. As far as Nigeria is concerned, checks and balances is dead!

Amigoss:
APC arming thugs with guns caught by soldiers

APC thugs caught and arrested by Police and Army pic.twitter.com/19LN7TOGsl

— Edo Updates (@EdoUpdates) September 20, 2024

The kind war wey go happen for that Edo state tomorrow ehn....

Today I watched a video of man who claimed he was attacked by APC thugs. He's a transporter who was wearing PDP colors when the APC thugs accosted him.

He said they asked why he's wearing PDP branded cloth and he answered that PDP was his party. They asked why he was supporting PDP and he told them no reasonable person will support APC when they are buying fuel for over 1k per liter.

The APC thugs were not pleased with his answer, so they shot his tyre's, shot at his vehicle and shot at him as well. He was showing the interviewer the bullet holes in his car and what appears to be bullet somewhere in his chest and belly...

The man said he was saved by GRACE OF GOD, but people in the comment section say make he talk true no be God no make the bullet no enter ; na him know where dem Don cook am 😂

Ballzproblem2:
yeah the new second in command after Israel killed the first one , LMAO.

Everybody go dey fear to take the second in command position now 🤦‍♂️

izzou:
[color=royalblue]This Ellexy get serious problem

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The kind form wey Ellexy dey ehn....😂

iamoyindamola:
Naso
Till next year the boy time will come😂😂
Can it get worse than this if the boy play?

When u don get ur UEFA coaching license , please do the exact opposite 👍

Spy360:
Calm down. No sane manager will throw Nwaneri into a tough schedule in three tough teams away outside his plan. Do you want to destroy the boy's mentality? Assuming that one of those games was at home then he can try but these are away games where your fans voices won't be the loudest.

You saw how an experienced Jorginho or Sterling struggled how much more Nwaneri. He may be at the same talent level with them Jamal and Musiala but he is not there yet mentally and that will take a proper planned process.

Arteta himself admitted that all his plans for this week were scattered with those series of injuries during the international break

I also believe that Odegaard injury must be enough for Arteta to hasten that process.

Yesterday’s match got a lot of fans emotional (maybe because of the taunt of rival fans sha ) , but like u rightly said ; It will irresponsible for Arteta to throw the young boy into a match of such nature .

I believe the boy’s time will come and he will do well in view of his talent.

That being said , it is important to state that Arteta goofed allowing Martinelli playing 90 minutes with nothing to show for it attack-wise . Arteta should also have realized by now that Havertz is ineffective as a midfielder , he just keeps ghosting on that left side of midfield . These are the issues .

izzou:
[color=royalblue]So what has he done to improve the security in the state?

Abi who doesn't know that Matawalle is the Islamic translation for Insecurity?

As a governor, what has he done? Person wey buy 2025 BMW despite the poverty wey dey ground.

All these stories na just to excite the people.
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While u are within ur rights as a citizen to be angry with the governor for buying a 2025 BMW in the midst of hunger and hardship being experienced in the country ; I must say that it’s almost impossible for a governor to improve the security situation of his state when the defense minister is “allegedly” behind insecurity in the state .

I mean if a federal minster who is in charge of defence ministry is behind insecurity , what security apparatus can the state governor deploy to combat insecurity ? 🤷‍♂️

The only thing we can hope is that the allegations are not true but just mere political bickering between the immediate past governor and his successor .

nihilistjnr:
Surgical.

This is a different level of precision, but more importantly Hezbollah must be reeling...cos IDF seem to have at least one top level mole in their organisation.

Hezbollah commanders now dey fear to pick call, to use walkie talkie, even to attend Hezbollah town hall meeting

What kind of pressure is this?

This was exactly what I was saying the other day. The whole back-to-back knacking of Hezbollah by Mossad has a top level mole handwriting written all over it.

They have someone on the inside that has high level clearance . Someone who is highly ranked , has years of dedication to the Jihadist cause and nobody knows who he is. That person has certainly been doing the Lords work for the Jews.

Wahala just Dey Lagos

liveLongNprospa:
The reasons I will never do a conversion are simple.
1) I get no trunk space in my car.
2) Reduced power to my engine. I can't have my car moving slower biko.


Another measure concern is the fact that we are not safety conscious and alot of people will go for conversions that are involve bypass just to save money or use even cheaper parts.

Imagine being stuck in traffic with cars that did such conversion😅.

This is exactly my own concern too.

Imagine being on third mainland bridge and one weyrey wey go do bypass conversion , his vehicle explodes on high speed 🤦‍♂️

Ibunkun1:

afrodoc2:


I lost it when he got to the part of "I go buy me a plane".

The guy na weyrey .

If that guy lives anywhere near Nigeria, he will definitely get a visit from DSS

obainojazz:
Wait… I think its LPG

Be sure Mr. Man!

Dijita:
Abiola get condition DNA. If you don't have valid DNA, you may not be able to approach Westminster.

All those ones have already done DNA already. Below is an excerpt of Kola Abiola's comments on the DNA saga.

[b]“Not after death, and they know themselves. They have done it in his lifetime. Their mothers knew they did in his lifetime so why would I want to forge that – to the point that he wrote in his will specifically that [/b]a lady has two kids for him but only one (the lady had taken him to court in England) is his. How would I have known that. I can go on and on. But you see, leadership requires objectivity even at your own expense.

They did the DNA test while Abiola was alive sef. So my question is why can't they approach Westminister ?

ShoeGetSize:
The pain will be felt by the child who has been deceived and the long term consequences on the child's mental health and psychological make up could be very damaging.



I agree that the woman is entirely to blame. But the institution of polygamy makes the occurrence of those things easier than monogamy. In fact, I'll go as far as saying that the more polygamous the situation is, the greater the likelihood that there may be a few illegitimate offspring among the huge brood of children. And polygamy is created by the man, not the woman.
If I were the Alaafin of Oyo's family, I would insist on DNA Paternity tests for all his children, particularly those of the newer wives he married when he was in his 80s.


I'm aware of that and I was looking at it from the perspective of the child who was referred to in Paragraph 6(b) (2) of the Will, who may have been disinherited because of the blood test they failed. The only lesson to be drawn from a comparison between the Abiola and Williams case is that polygamy tends to magnify and multiply trust issues in a way that monogamy does not.

I agree with ur last paragraph that polygamy magnifies trust issues.

You are also right that a man creates polygamy but most women in polygamous marriages are willing accomplices as well. Except for the first wife, nobody forces the other women into polygamy.

ShoeGetSize:
And guess what? Whatever the F.R.A Williams children are going through will be child's play compared to what the M.K.O Abiola children are going through.

Are any of the F.R.A children fighting over which one of them is a "qualifying child" or an "excluded child"? Can you imagine the pain of going through life only to discover that your birth was unwanted and even rejected by the man you believed to be your father?

There’s no pain anywhere . All the mothers know whom the father of their child was .

If a woman decides to lie to her child that he’s Abiola’s when he’s not, then the blame goes to the woman and that’s not on Abiola .

For your information , the bone of contention here is not whether these kids are Abiola’s . Everyone u see dragging Kola and Wuraola are already confirmed Abiola’s kids. What they are fighting for is that the aforementioned duo should not be the ones administering the assets .

As for the F.R.A children , it’s just a case of where love dies signings will go to any length to deny each other of any benefit due to each other .

Theflint1:
Abraham Boakye, don use sweet mouth carry dem enter journey of no return.

The grass is not always greener on the other side.

Imagine going to look for greener pastures in a country that is actively engaged in a war. Smh.🤦‍♂️

Some people are just destined to learn bitter lessons by experience .

🎵"I'm in plane, you're in pain/
Wetin you go do na to just complain" 🎶🎶

@prospa when did u people officially change Tinubu’s name to T-pain on twitter ? 😂

T-Pain - Nigeria’s newest super-star pic.twitter.com/1AXlLQlX4H

— Dan Bello (@BelloGaladanchi) September 20, 2024

ShoeGetSize:
Polygamy is such a mess, yuck. See the trouble that one man left behind which has been plaguing his family for years after his death. Just because he could not control his libido.

Chief F.R.A Williams (SAN) was a monogamous man who had 4 children from the same woman; his children are still in court till date fighting each other over the assets he left behind .

Guess what ? The man was a SAN, two of the four children are SANs as well.


Be it polygamy or monogamy , when u leave behind enough assets and children who are not united in love , they will always fight each other for the assets

GloriousGbola:
japanese cars were a joke until the 70s opec oil crisis
americans were not interested in them
then they became the standard because they are fuel efficient
today they are the preferred cars all over the world

we are in an energy crisis that is partly due to the fact that we have made petrol our primary source of energy.
so should we continue doing things as we have , seeing as we are not making any headway or should we explore alternatives?
incidentally, this is how fortunes are made.

don't join others in complaining about the noise when opportunity is knocking

I never said we should keep doing things the way they are. If u read through the link I posted about the FG delegation’s visit to the scene of the Ogun explosion; u will see the minister raised concerns which are genuine and fair.

If we want millions of road users to move to CNG , then we must cross our t’s and dot our i’s . We are not a people known not to cut corners even in the most sacred of situations.

[quote author=Theflint1 post=132084999]African recruits in the army of Mother Russia are going through hell

14 Ghanaian men were promised security and agricultural jobs in Russia, but instead find themselves at the frontlines of the Ukrainian war.@GodwinAsediba has more in this news report.#3NewsGH pic.twitter.com/S3K7NzLTfA

— #TV3GH (@tv3_ghana) September 19, 2024

is this video screaming Okpa’s name ? 😂

GloriousGbola:
as an aside,

this is what you should be focusing on
and the fact that it is likely far cheaper to process CNG than refine PMS

LPG was once a cheaper alternative to Kerosene .

When we all moved to LPG for cooking, today LPG and Kerosene are almost the same price.

iamoyindamola:
Are you talking about CNG powered trucks or tankers that transport CNG?

I’m talking about CNG powered trucks . We have them but they are few in circulation compared to PMS/Diesel powered trucks .

GloriousGbola:
thank you

for blueray who says they dont use cng in the west

Why are u deliberately misquoting me despite the fact that I’ve clarified my statement up there ?

Is something not being popular the same thing as not being in use at all. 🤷‍♂️

iamoyindamola:
Actually LPG tankers ply our road well well
Haven't seen what CNG tankers look like though

Yes there are CNG tankers in Nigeria but they are still a handful compared to Diesel and PMS trucks. I know a company that has a fleet of trucks, they only have a handful of CNG trucks while the rest are normal PMS/Diesel trucks.

Note that those CNG trucks are quite safer than converting ur PMS car to CNG o. The location of the CNG cylinder is somewhat safer unlike with cars when ur cylinder will be in ur booth.

GloriousGbola:
Do you not see cng and lpg trucks on the same bad roads? So how come the accidents are mainly limited to petrol tankers?

For starters, how many CNG trucks do we have in this country sef before u start comparing the rate of accident of PMS tanker and CNG tanker?

Anyways, below is link to a CNG truck explosion as recent as June 2024

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2024/06/04/four-dead-as-cng-truck-explodes-in-rivers/

One had earlier happened in Ogun state and below was the excerpts of the FG delegation's visit to the scene:

Speaking during the visit, the minister said the country was transiting to the use of CNG as an alternative fuel and that anything that might hurt the confidence of the people or make people begin to feel that CNG was not safe to use with the type of accident that happened in Abeokuta and Port Harcourt involving CNG trucks was a source of concern.

Ekpo said, “Nigeria’s gas resources are up to 208 trillion cubic feet and we have to make use of it in the way that it should be to drive the economy of this nation.

“So, what we are emphasing is maintaining safety standards because anything that falls beyond this won’t be appreciated.

“Like the Deputy Governor was talking when we visited where the cylinders were kept, we saw a crack on it which suggested that it was not up to standard, maybe that was why the force or friction on it made the cylinder to open and if this is not checked and we let our people install this in their vehicles without ascertaining the standards, it will pose a danger to all involved.

“So, this is a wake-up call to each of us, that we should rise to the challenge of the day.

“We must involve the Standard Organisation of Nigeria and the regulators to ensure that whatever is used in our vehicles is up to standard, so that we don’t have a reoccurrence of this type of accident.”

https://punchng.com/fg-delegate-visits-ogun-gas-explosion-scene/

Between me and u, does this inspire any confidence?

Dapagun:
They, Kola and Wura should explain

Then it means the other children are not ready to fight for what they think is theirs.

If u have a will that says NATIONAL WESTMINISTER BANK PLC, UK is the executor of the will and u are a listed beneficiary, is it not common sense to approach the bank for ur share of the estate?

Have the other children approached the bank and they were refused their share?

If u are bringing such family issues to the public, then u should be ready to answer logical questions so people can really understand what exactly the issue is. No be everything be emotions.

GloriousGbola:
As an engineer I will never look to the west for solutions

I will look at what has been deployed in countries analogous to Nigeria. Indonesia, Pakistan india

You already know why third world countries don't go for electric cars. Because they require electricity. Westerners who have more energy than they can deal with and are energy hogs can go for evs. Also they are insulated from the big lie about evs that they are cleaner. All evs do is move the footprint.

And you are actually wrong there too, cng vehicles are used in the west. I know this because I had to research cng filling stations.

Also, Since cooking gas can explode, we may as well use firewood. Is that a better analogy?

For the Olodos who only learn from Twitter noisemakers,the fg is investing heavily in cng

https://statehouse.gov.ng/news/president-tinubu-directs-mandatory-procurement-of-cng-powered-vehicles/

Read my post again. I asked why is CNG powered vehicles not popular in the West, I never said it is not being used. Prior to advent of electric vehicles, CNG vehicles were not popular in the west. Since the advent of electric vehicles, CNG vehicles are still not as popular as Electric vehicles . Why?

Are u boldly saying India and Pakistan have deplorable roads like Nigeria? I listed factors that makes CNG seem unsafe in our clime and I mentioned bad roads as one of those factors. I was not making an argument for whether what works in Pakistan & India will or will not work in Nigeria. I mentioned factors peculiar to Nigeria.

@Op I don't really understand the issue here.

From the excerpt of the will you shared, the executor of the will and Abiola's appointed Trustee is NATIONAL WESTMINISTER BANK PLC, UK.

Shouldn't you be asking them why and how Kola & Wuraola became administrators of the will? I believe the family should be asking the will executors the right questions and not Nigerian authorities.

How is this EFCC, NFIU or Nigerian Police headache?

Except of course if Abiola has two different wills; one that is for his assets abroad and the other for his assets in Nigeria.

Theflint1:
I don see this post o, don't even know how I feel about it, on one hand CNG is some sort of reprieve to vehicle owners, but on the other hand Nigeria's anyhowness makes the risk he's suggesting especially dreadful.

Hope he's not scaremongering sha, I follow him, and I know he does have some DIY mechanic experience, don't know if that's enough to see him as an authority in stuffs like this.

I honestly don't see it as a reprieve for vehicle owners o. Like u rightly said, there's a risk of "Naija anyhowness" in play here; Nigerians are not known to be the most saftey conscious set of people. I've seen people smoking weed while driving before. Shey na people wey wan use gas power vehicle be that?

Our bad roads too are a serious concern here. Even in major cities like Lagos, Abuja, PHC, etc there are several bad roads here and there. There are countless times ur vehicle's bumper will hit the floor because of bad portion of the road. Have u ever wondered what could happen if u have CNG cylinder in ur booth when the backside of ur vehicle knack ground ?

Abeg o. All those Pakistan, India get good roads o; we no too get.

GloriousGbola:
Don't enter your car it is dangerous
Don't use electricity it is dangerous
Don't enter plane it is dangerous

CNG is a mature technology. Nothing new to see. They have been using it in India and Pakistan since the 90s.

It is actually electric vehicles we should be worried about imho, esp in Nigeria where people can cut out safety features

Everything u tryped up here is false equivalence.

Number 1 , converting original PMS powered vehicle to CNG is something that is new to us in this clime. The conversion definitely has its dangers which can be further exacerbated by the fact that some chances of error adopting a new technology can be extremely high.

Maybe if people were buying brand new CNG powered cars we wouldn't be much worried but doing conversion ? There are chances that the errors and omissions can be made during the conversion process which might spell danger not just for the car owner but other road users.

The CNG gas is a pressured gas. What do u think will happen when a car running on pressured gas meets bad roads like East-West road in rivers state or those roads in Edo state Obaseki has refused to repair because they are federal roads?

Finally, if CNG is that safe and cheap, why is it that CNG vehicles are not popular in countries in the West? Instead those countries go for electric vehicles that cost them more to recharge. Why?

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Dangers of CNG!

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