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He was very popular in the army then. Surprisingly he did not seem to be deeply involved in politics. He played a huge role during the failed coup of Gideon Orkah. Babangida was brought into and secured in the guest house in Ikoyi by Chris Alli. Abacha also was secured by him during the coup. May God grant his family the strength to bear the loss. |
No shame at all. First time visit to your future in-laws and you gave them biscuits and juice? They welcomed you, generously giving you food to feed your stomach. They gave you bread to take home and share with your people. You rejected it. 1. Your shortcake and juice showed you as a stingy husband to be. 2. Your shortcake showed you as a hungry man. 3. The lady was very correct. 4. You brought your very personal matter and failure to the social media. 5. Maybe you want to be a social media husband. 6. To you bread was the wrongest gift. Your holier than thou attitude did not let you know that shortcake and juice on the first day was the wrongest ever gift. Did you think you were going to visit school friends? 7. Na people like you dey buy okrika clothes give woman as first gift. You never ready to marry wife. |
DaddyYankee:Even fraudsters are better than you. It has never ever been well with you. 1. Shishi you no get. Na owu be your name. 2. Rice you no fit buy. 3. Beans and garri don pass your level. 4. Transport na hang you dey hang for danfo. 5. Dem still dey pay your school fees. Obidients no send you message. Hypocrisy no let you tell yourself the truth say your master na complete failure. Your master tell you say “efokan bale”, yet nothing for your belle. Hypocrisy no let you admit say hunger don dey run package for your life. Continue until your case no get remedy for life again. |
Correctly say APC branch of LP. “ Reacting via a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday, spokesman foe the LP faction, Abayomi Arabambi, disclosed that both Weah and Boakai have proven that election is neither a do or die affair nor a war that must be won at all cost”. It is not a do or die affair, yet Apapa and Arabambi have failed to move on. They show that without Obi, they have no lives to live. Obi’s name made the public know the Apapa and Arabambi. Finally they will disgrace themselves. |
TopBanter:First leave your one room with a tiny window to see what happens around your own community and state. Maybe you do not know how the present state of the Shagamu interchange, or you do not even know the situation at the Benin bypass where vehicles presently spend days to navigate. If it were so easy why would the likes of Tinubu, Adenuga, Otedola, not use their personal wealth to either build or fix roads. Or are they not billionaires in US dollars? Remove the log in your eye before talking about the speck in another’s. Talk of your own area and get the attention of the FG to make life better for you there. |
NOETHNICITY:Oga please if you are not able to reason appropriately, get off comments, listen and learn. Had common sense not told you that it was inappropriate for the same INEC who fixed the deadline, turn around to accept forms after the dates? Is it not enough for a right thinking person to wonder what’s wrong with our nation and the electoral body? For you not turning them down which was the appropriate thing, became normal. Your likes lend credence to Buhari’s assertion that Nigerian youths are lazy. |
Hm. “ And because they desperately wanted a governor in Kano State, the party gave them a ticket to contest. But they made a serious blunder because when they joined the party, INEC had closed submission of nomination forms. But they were blind and uneducated. They went into the ring without making careful observation of this”. Disgraceful comment by Ganduje. Since INEC had closed submission of forms, why did the same INEC accept the form from the man and his party? This gives us more insight into the collusion of INEC with political parties, who try all they can to subvert democracy. |
JASONjnr:Poor minded citizens, horrible leaders. You must be an APC supporter. See how una keep everyone in misery in Nigeria with una very horrible thinking? Kuku go carry baba Ijebu run na. |
casualobserver:At this point, there is absolutely nothing to hide anymore. When they say “minority will have their say, but majority will have their way”, expect the minority to have their say using social media. We must no longer pretend that all is well. Our judiciary was described by their own, Datti. When it is difficult to get justice and a few money to oppress, do not expect to get away with it, in these times. We need those who will speak truth to power. Decent Nigerians are tired of the irresponsible leadership they daily face. If your father is a killer, do you need to pretend? Wil you wait until he kills you before saying it tbe way it is? The judiciary is supposed to be the final bus stop and the hope of the oppressed. The man as an insider has said it that the system is a complete disgrace. I believe that his likes have said it several times privately, but those within the with more powers, wealth and connection fail to change. |
DeLaRue:What is there to hide about your country? Is there a secret that is not known to the whole world? Is it the stealing, or the corruption? Your leaders pack the common patrimony to those countries. Or is it no the drug and certificate issues that have finished whatever image previously remained? Bros, the man said the truth, no matter where. All citizens who want better societies talk about their countries everywhere. Go and check. |
BigBlackPreek:Look, this mindset must stop. Politicians have no business giving gifts to people with the sole purpose of buying their consciences. Until Nigerians stop accepting such Greek gifts, they will continue to live at the mercy of our irresponsible leaders. The only reason they give the gifts is to assure their victory at the elections. Our business is to single out good and reliable leaders, vote for them without demanding or getting bribes. The responsibility of the leaders is to get into positions of power and make the nation better for all. What is the rationale behind giving 2000 pieces of mobile phones to the citizens in a state grossly underdeveloped by the leaders elected? He uses his position in government to amass wealth mercilessly while impoverishing the same people daily. As we speak, the country faces unprecedented hunger with Tinubu telling the people to calm down. For the first time in the history of this country, a bag of rice prices beyond the reach of the common man. You all must elect accounts leaders who will make living beatific for all. |
BigBlackPreek:How is it commendable please? |
Great footballers know greater footballers. Thank you Mbappe. Hopefully you get one too. Thank you for your efforts CR7. However undisputably Messi is greater. |
43Ronin:Don’t mind the ode. No wonder they are easily pushed over. The same fight over palliatives, with nothing to eat daily. |
Antoeni:BAT also promised “efokan ba le” untop of rice @60k a bag! |
Gboom:Mr. IQ, your ignorance here exposes you. |
Gboom:You cannot even make an attempt, as you do not understand what IQs are. If you understood IQs, you’d not stand with people who know what decent societies are, talking and justifying the gross mismanagement of the nation by APC. |
Gboom:Words of consolation! At least you cannot deny your people who have been all over social media lamenting the misery and hard times Tinubu has plunged them all into. You cannot deny the too many family men and women who daily lament that they can no longer afford the normal cup of rice. You cannot deny how they were hoodwinked to avoid voting Obi because of his tribe. You zannot say you did not hear them crying “emi lo kan” now on hunger. Have you heard one man or woman from the same Obi’s Anambra state lamenting of hunger? You all are victims of the APC ruination of this country. Your mind is thinking of survival only and not a better country. You are not able to query the leaders who make life miserable for you. You focus only on how to survive on the peanuts distributed to you by your horrible political leaders. They have weaponized poverty, reducing you to rats, reduced to beggars and scrapping food from the streets. Open your eyes and think. |
*FAROOQ KPEROGI* SATURDAY TRIBUNE President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really having a ball—at the expense of the rest of Nigeria. He has become so comfortable in his presidential self-indulgence that he now wants to wring water from stones and deposit it into an ocean. Our stone-broke universities are the stones. The presidency is the ocean to which Tinubu wants to pour the water he wants to extract from stones. It wasn’t enough that he signed a N2.176 trillion Supplementary Appropriation Act on Wednesday in Abuja mostly to fund decadent presidential pleasures, such as $38 million for the presidential air fleet,$6.1 million for a presidential yacht, and even more millions of dollars for presidential “repairs,” presidential feeding, foreign SUVs for the First Lady’s office and for legislators, etc. Now, he wants struggling, cash-strapped federal universities that are barely surviving to turn over 40 percent of all their internally generated revenue to the federal coffers to fund more presidential sybaritism and elite indulgence. I didn’t believe it when someone first called my attention to it. The LEADERSHIP newspaper reported this week that the Accountant-General of the Federation by the name of Mrs Oluwatoyin Madein sent a memo to all federal universities titled “Implementation of 40% Automatic Deduction from Internally Generated Revenue of Partially Funded Federal Government Institutions.” Signed on her behalf by Felix Ore-ofe Ogundairo, the director of Revenue & Investment in the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, the memo said, “I am directed to inform you that the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy (HMF&CME) has approved the implementation of a 40% auto deduction from the Gross Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of all Partially Funded Federal Government Institutions in line with the Provision of Section 62 of Finance Act, 2020 with effect from November, 2023. “Agencies/parastatals to not more than 50% of their gross IGR and the remittance of 100% (hundred percent) of the remaining 50% (fifty percent) to the Sub-recurrent Account. While all statutory revenue lines like Tender Fees, Contractor’s Registration Fees, Disposal of Fixed Assets, Rent on Quarters, etc shall be remitted 100% (hundred percent) to the Sub-recurrent Account. “Consequently, all partially funded Agencies/Parastatals must align their budget requirements and ensure total compliance with the provision of Section 62 of Finance Act, 2020 and Finance Circular, 2021.” This makes absolutely no sense at all. I am not talking of the blindingly poor grammar of the memo. The memo concedes that federal universities are merely “partially funded” by the federal government. That’s an acknowledgement of their financial precarity since they are supposed to be fully funded by the federal government, which established them. In order to survive and live up to the demands of their mandate in spite of progressively vanishing support from the federal government that set them up, many universities devised creative and not so creative strategies to generate funds to stay afloat, which aren’t even sufficient. Now a government that has beaten every known record for eyewatering presidential profligacy wants to share in whatever little money financially distressed universities were able to raise to keep them from going under. This is a wantonly cruel suffocation of federal universities that are barely hanging on! It betrays not just a profound poverty of imagination but a studied design to snuff out the last evidence of life in our universities. Since children of the elite no longer attend public universities in Nigeria, it’s easy to see why the government wants to kill them by stealth. It’s a continuation of the conservative, right-wing, anti-people, neoliberal orthodoxy that is obviously the governing philosophy of the Tinubu administration. It’s probably also a pre-emptive move against legitimate demands for the funding of federal universities since the administration has said it has now saved trillions of naira from the removal of petroleum subsidies. The initial argument was that money saved from the removal of petrol subsidies would be invested in education and infrastructure. That has turned out, at least so far, to be a big fat lie, as some of us had predicted. The money is instead being used to pay for the hedonic thrills and delights of people in power while the majority of the population sinks irrecoverably into the abyss of misery and deprivation. But someone needs to tell honchos of the Tinubu administration that universities are not money-making enterprises. They are social services. Social services are an investment in the people, not revenue-generating ventures to fund the government. It’s sad that this needs to be pointed out. Every single country on earth that transitioned from backwardness and stagnancy to success and progress has had to invest enormously in its universities. For example, Singapore’s transition from a Third World to a First World was enabled by its investments in its universities. Singapore has now become a hub for education in Asia, and is known for its world-class faculty, cutting-edge research facilities, and strong emphasis on innovation. It didn’t happen overnight or by mere wishes. It happened because the government of Singapore has consistently invested in its universities. South African universities are world-class and drive the country’s development because the central government there has committed massive resources to the higher education sector. Public universities receive substantial funding from the government, which is responsible for their high academic reputation,significant research output, and impressive contribution to national growth. India, the world’s most populous country, with its large and diverse higher education system, has several well-funded public universities that are the drivers of the country’s match to greatness. Institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) receive substantial government support, which enables them to excel in technology, management, and research. China has the second largest economy in the world after the United States. One of the secrets for its transition from dingy deprivation a few decades ago to gleaming prosperity now is the significant increase it made over time in its investment in its higher education sector. Top public universities like Tsinghua University and Peking University receive substantial government funding, which arms them with the arsenal to compete globally in terms of research output and academic excellence. It speaks to the lack of foresight and self-interestedness of the ruling elites in Nigeria that instead of investing in our universities with an eye to the future, they want to squeeze money out of them—and with it the last vestige of life in them. This is governance by banditry. How do you ask institutions you should fund but that you have starved of funds for decades to turn around to fund you? Where in the world does that happen? The government is, in other words, asking federal universities to self-annihilate, to self-immolate, in order to feed an already overfed and overpampered federal government whose only reason for existence seems to be to indulge in hedonistic frivolities amid widening existential torment brought about by its own incompetence and cruelty. (Courtesy: Saturday Tribune) |
netpro:Oh so you did not notice that he had nothing to fear. He had his first school leaving certificate, along with pictures of his classmates. He had his WASC result along with pictures of his classmates. He had his university degree along with pictures of his classmates. Did you not read that the law simply required his secondary school leaving certificate? Did INEC dispute that? I wonder why you did not bother to go to Nsukka to verify, since you knew that he had a degree from them. Abi no t/fare? He did not have to go to Chicago, neither did he have to look for his WAEC in a Federal government school that the date of establishment did not tally with his claim of attendance. Did you not notice that your baba had several names and no one was sure anymore who he was? As we speak, the baba suffers identity crisis. Did you not notice that rather than tell us his exact state and home, the baba chooses Lagos. Is it that he abandoned Iragbiji? Or he does not know his village anymore? And you are also not aware that Obi has been traveling to London, where he has a property and holds a passport? Why has your baba been denying his Guinean nationality please? Did your baba not polarize the church? Or you are not aware that GOs of the SW Pentecostal churches instructed their members to vote for your baba? You are also not aware that Muslims had instructions to vote for your baba. Abi the Muslim/Muslim ticket of your baba has not caused enough division nationwide? If you do not know, go and find out. You are not from Anambra, so you do not know what happens among Christians there. With “yess daddy”, you have seen integrity. Una greatest fear is an Obi Presidency where illegal money no go reach una hand again. By the way, how far with the baba who we all saw the licking the microphone? |
netpro:And you have not concluded it. He has not been accused of forgery. He holds a second class lower, which certainly is better than what you have. They have searched through his university and nothing proved that his certificate is well earned. His documents are in the open. His parents are known. His family house in Onitsha is there. You can visit. His family house in his home town is there. You can visit it. We have pictures of his entire life. They are in the public domain. We know one baba whose life is shrouded in mystery. No papa, no mama, no primary school, no secondary school, no school mate. Haba! If Obi at his level is a feather weight, youths who get to that level cannot but thank God for lives very well spent. He has not been accused of peddling drugs, unlike one very popular baba like that. He has not been arrested or invited either by EFCC or ICPC over embezzlement of public funds. He challenged you all to bring evidence against him for taking what does not belong to him. As we speak, there is no evidence! |
Ola9ja23:So his leadership of NLC takes away his right to vote for his preferred candidate as a Nigerian? Why does that same leadership not take away the right of Uzodimma to vote in his state? As the NLC leader, he does not have the right to his own choice in his own state? And what is wrong if he openly displays his preference? What is wrong with swaying votes in favour of his own candidate? APC controls INEC and the security. Is there anything wrong with Tinubu supporting his own candidate and openly saying it, even as the President? |
Goodvibes007:And to you Ajaero is not one of the voters? To you Ajaero will not cast his vote in favour of his candidate in his own state? And to you Ajaero should not be part of demanding for good governance in his own state? To you, Tinubu should forget Lagos state because he is the President of Nigeria? So you expect Uzodimma to vote for himself while Ajaero should keep his voter’s card in his safe at home? The only people complaining and suddenly interested in the matters with Imo state politics are APC supporters. The reason is that Uzodimma represents APC in the state. Why not leave the people of Imo state, where Ajaero comes from to decide who they want as their governor? |
Taal17:Did you take your time to read through and completely understand what OP was saying? You may not the idea what goes on at airports please. Nigerians have behaved horribly abroad so much that immigration officials at the counter become apprehensive when they see the green passport. That may be one of the challenges of the officer. The officer may have determined that OP planned to settle in Canada with his family. Seeing that they have a visitors visa, the officer chose to be very strict and intimidating. On arrival, there are very racist immigration officers. There are immigration officers who act like tin gods. They determine your entry or exit. They ask questions from the logical to the illogical. The worst immigration officials to encounter are found in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Ensure that you comport yourself completely and your documents and finances are intact. You read the OP saying that he showed cash and money in his domiciliary account. How then do you expect such a person to ask for help. Even if he does, will you give, when you are on pocket money from family? Their passports were retained by immigration to ensure that they return for their hearing. Two things can happen. They can be denied entry and get deported instantly, or if confirmed can be allowed to remain for the rest of their holiday. Immigration can look through your phone and documents if the need arises. However some officers choose the path of intimidation. |
He must learn his lesson by force. With eleven years together and five children, he beats her? Now he is humiliated publicly. The lady is absolutely terrified and needs time to think. She needs to be on her own and confirm that the man’s public remorse is genuine. Again she might have made up her mind from the last time that if he ever laid his hands in het she would leave. The DPO must not force or oppress her. He must only appeal to her and not have a world view about women. Hopefully too couples can learn to live and love. Lastly the culture has ways of handling the matter. Her family may demand her return and refund the dowry, if all avenues at conflict resolution fail. |
Hmmm |
That bridge will open up communities and local governments within that area. The expanded road too is fantastic. It will help drive development. That bridge is long overdue. It should cut off time wasted in traffic at that former Ekwulobia roundabout. Aside from the shrine, Ekwulobia people were not happy that the motor garage would be removed. At least they see reason, as property prices have driven up and Nigerians can invest their. Because Ekwulobia is commercial town, other communities in the local government like Ekwulobia Akpo, Achina, Umuchu, Amesi, Nkpologu, Ndokpalaeze, as far as Uga, stretching to Imo state, etc, with plenty of farmers, can do business with much more ease. It is a very well thought out idea and project by the governor, who hails from that local government. If this is one achievement within his own local government, he has done very well. Hopefully the front of Aguata local government, which is accident prone, can finally be addressed. For the great people of Aguata, I say congratulations to you all. This Christmas may be uncomfortable because of the project being carried out, but please enjoy yourselves and be patient for a better next year in that axis. I hope also the governor can get to work on that Uga-Idemmili-Odiekpe-Atani-Ossamala road very soon. The navy outpost there just serves to trouble traffic on an already bad road. Ndi Anambra ekenem unu! |
JagabanB:Obidients are the ones facing the blackout? Bros get small shame and show some level of knowledge. Imo state is run by APC. The state house of assembly is mostly populated by APC members. How does it affect Obidients in a state where APC controls? Who then is at a loss? The governor runs generator, just like the members of the state assembly and his cabinet. What happens to the ordinary people on the street, who are expected to stand on the queue this Saturday to cast their votes? |
Angelfrost:Once again, that’s exactly it. |
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