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| Politics › Re: Ipob Lagos Tanker Explosion: Believe Sarrki At Your Own Peril by deomelo: 1:36am On Jul 02, 2018 |
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| Politics › Re: Akwa Ibom Spends Billions On White Elephant Projects, While Its Education System by deomelo(op): 12:15am On Jul 02, 2018 |
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| Politics › Re: Akwa Ibom Spends Billions On White Elephant Projects, While Its Education System by deomelo(op): 12:00am On Jul 02, 2018 |
kelib:
There's no state with a good public school system/sector, though m not supporting Udom but personally d issue of public school is dead in Nigeria, even some private schools. Udom dint start d ibom tropicana center or the hotel in ikot ekpene. All these posts are paid post n it's too much. kelib:
There's no state with a good public school system/sector, though m not supporting Udom but personally d issue of public school is dead in Nigeria, even some private schools. Udom dint start d ibom tropicana center or the hotel in ikot ekpene. All these posts are paid post n it's too much. 1. The thread is about Akwa Ibom, not Udom your paymaster, role model and idol. 2. Governance is continuum so past and present leaders are all equally responsible for their collective victories and failures. 3. One thing you are right about is the death of the public school system in akwa Ibom because all the elutes and public officials in Akwa Ibom neglected public schools and instead built their own private schools to cater to their own children and the children of their fellow elites. 4' Akpabio is the governor of Akwa Ibom for 8 years did not build one single classroom, but he did build St. John Paul II School, in Shelter Afrique, Uyo, a private school with his own wife as a form to cater to the elites and his cronies in akwa Ibom. 5. Udom is another useless and clueless governor with zero sense of priority and just like the clown before him, he's wasting funds on white elephant rubbish like spending N10 billion on a common church? We both know N10 billion can build hundreds of schools and thousands of classrooms and even hundreds of skills centers to create employment ready workforce. It's just sad that people like you just defend on cue without thinking, without facts, without any kind of concern for the common folks shouldering the burden created by these thoughtless, clueless, incompetent and corrupt leaders. |
| Politics › Akwa Ibom Spends Billions On White Elephant Projects, While Its Education System by deomelo(op): 9:09pm On Jul 01, 2018 |
Akwa Ibom spends billions on white elephant projects, while its education system rots awayIn 2008, the Akwa Ibom State government embarked on the construction of a multi-billion naira massive leisure and business complex, with the hope of turning the oil-rich Nigerian state into ‘Dubai’.
The complex, named Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Centre, sits atop 168 hectres of land in Uyo, the state capital.
It has a 14-floor storey building, the tallest in the state, meant for a 258-room five-star hotel, a Cineplex (six cinema halls), shopping mall, 5,000-seat convention centre, and a theme park, comprising wet and dry parks.
“My vision is to produce a small Dubai within the Niger Delta (region of Nigeria),” the then governor of the state, Godswill Akpabio, who initiated the project, said in early 2012.
By then the cinema was already open to the public, while the other components of the ambitious project were still under construction.
“I have given them Dubai standard Cineplex,” Mr Akpabio had boasted in a government-sponsored TV programme aired on Africa Independent Television (AIT). “So, you walk in there to watch films and you think you are sitting down in Dubai.”
The complex was scheduled to open for business by the end of 2012.
But 10 years after take-off, and three years after Mr Akpabio left office, the Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Centre, remains unfinished, despite the huge money sunk into it; except for the Cineplex and the bar close to it, the rest of the complex has been abandoned. The tall building and the area meant for the theme park look desolate.
A popular retail business, Shoprite, in August 2015, laid a foundation stone for the building of its mall at the Tropicana. After a long lull, Shoprite just started work on its proposed mall in June, 2018, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.
The Akpabio administration had said its construction would cost the state N33 billion, but three people familiar with the project said the cost was later reviewed upward to N120 billion.
Aerial view of Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Ikot Ekpene _Photo credit_Skyscrapercity.com
But while the government shelled out such humongous amounts on white elephant projects, it left its schools decrepit.
Hundreds of schools – primary and secondary – received little attention, a year-long investigation by PREMIUM TIMES revealed.
In some terrible situations, pupils and students sit on bare floor to learn in roofless classrooms.
Kids between the ages of three and four have been found sleeping on bare floor, in at least two schools in the state.
The science colleges in the state are in ruin too. Same with the technical colleges. In one particular case, a top multi-billion naira technical college in the state have been closed down, strangely, and left for several years to rot away.
Poorly-motivated teachers in the state, who sometimes go for several months without salary, are known to have resorted to corrupt practices, including collecting money to allow students cheat in examinations.
Meanwhile, government officials and elites in the state send their kids to world-class private schools owned by one of them.
The current administration of Governor Emmanuel, just like his predecessor, is yet to tell the Akwa Ibom people how much has been spent so far on the Tropicana project.
The Commissioner for Housing and Special Duties, Akan Okon, whose ministry supervises the Tropicana, did not respond to calls and text messages sent to his phone line by this reporter.
Mr Okon served for one year between May 2014 and May 2015, as commissioner for finance in the Akpabio administration. He continued briefly as finance commissioner under Governor Emmanuel before he was posted to the ministry of housing and special duties.
The former governor, Mr Akpabio, who is the Senate Minority Leader, declined PREMIUM TIMES’ request for interview.
Silverbird Showtime Ltd, a company owned by a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator from Bayelsa State, Ben Murray-Bruce, was awarded contract for the construction of the Tropicana. (This was before Mr Murray-Bruce was elected senator in 2015).
Mr Murray-Bruce said during the flag-off of the construction in 2008 that the Tropicana would create up to 5,000 jobs in Akwa Ibom State when completed.
For now, only about 45 persons, including casual workers, are employed at the Cineplex and the bar, which is far less than the 5,000 envisaged, a top-level administrative worker at the Cineplex told PREMIUM TIMES.
Former Gov. Godswill Akpabi and the present Gov. Emmanuel Udom Having lunch with an associate
An average worker in the two sections earns about N25, 000 ($69) as monthly salary, this newspaper learnt.
Both the cinema and the bar are also run by Mr Murray-Bruce’s Silverbird.
The company has not made returns to the Akwa Ibom State government since the Cineplex was open for business in 2011, according to sources within the Akwa Ibom government.
The top-level worker at the Tropicana said lack of formal agreement between the government and Silverbird is the reason the latter has not been making returns.
“Silverbird isn’t paying anything to government yet until there is a formal contract,” says the worker who did not want his name mentioned because he was not authorised to speak on the matter.
The worker said Silverbird wants to “recoup millions of naira” they claimed they spent on fixing lightings in the Cineplex.
He said Silverbird has been spending money to maintain the facility, as well as buy diesel to power it (the Tropicana was not connected to electrical grid, until May 2018).
In addition, PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the state government would not want Silverbird to run the cinema in a businesslike manner, so as not to hurt the locals who may not have the money to pay for the services.
Akwa Ibom, rich in oil and gas deposits, is among Nigeria’s richest states. But poverty and unemployment levels in the state are amongst the highest in Nigeria, largely due to corruption and mismanagement of public funds.
The state occupies the second position among the states with the highest unemployment rate in Nigeria, according to 2018 data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
It is a low-income economy, where most working class people earn moderate salary working as government employees.
At Silverbird cinemas in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and in Lagos and Abuja, moviegoers pay about N2, 000 for a single movie on weekdays, and N2, 500 on weekends.
But at the Tropicana, Uyo, ticket is sold at N1,500 for foreign movies and N1,000 for Nollywood movies.
Front view of Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Centre, Uyo_ Photo credit_Skycrapercity.com
In the past, a movie ticket was sold for as low as N250 and N500 at the Tropicana.
With billions of naira coming into the state coffers as oil derivation fund from the nation’s Federation Account every month, it seems, clearly, that Akwa Ibom’s development challenge, unlike most other Nigerian states, is not really about paucity of fund, but how to judiciously spend the much they have.
In five years alone, between 2013 and 2017, the state received N1.029 trillion (about $2.8 billion) from the country’s Federation Account.
This is beside the revenue it generates internally.
Comparatively, a state like Osun, South-West of Nigeria, receives less than one-tenth of what Akwa Ibom gets from the Federation Account.
While construction work was going on at the 258-room five-star hotel at the Tropicana, the state government was also building a 144-room four-star hotel at the nearby city of Ikot Ekpene which is about 20-minute drive from Uyo.
Besides these two, Akwa Ibom already has its premier 163-room five-star hotel, Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort, at Uruan which is about five-minute drive from Uyo.
A Turkish company, Ronesans Holdings, handled the construction contract for the four-star hotel in Ikot Ekpene whose value government insiders put at about N50 billion.
Photo showing the five-star hotel section of the Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Centre, Uyo _ Photo credit_ Mapio.net
The then governor, Mr Akpabio, said in January 2015 during an interview with AIT that he was “struggling to make sure” both hotels were finished and ready to host visitors expected in the state then for a friendly football match between Nigeria and Brazil.
The friendly, which was to take place on March 29, 2015 at the 30,000-seat stadium built newly then by the Akpabio administration, was later called off by Brazil.
“Akwa Ibom can’t afford to put additional money in Tropicana”
Governor Emmanuel is frustrated with the “mega” projects initiated by his predecessor, Mr Akpabio.
In a leaked audio clip of Mr Emmanuel’s meeting with some leaders in the state, the governor is heard explaining his frustration and what he intends to do with the Tropicana in Uyo and the Four Points by Sheraton hotel, in Ikot Ekpene.
The meeting most likely took place at the Government House, Uyo, but the date is, however, unknown.
“We are in recession, we can’t manage Tropicana,” the governor said, in the audio.
“I am going to lease out that place, people will run it, they will give me money and I will use that money to do something. Whenever they run it and take their money, we take back our asset in the future.”
Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State 3 _ Photo credit_ Mapio.net Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State 2
The governor said an incredible amount of money is needed to complete the Tropicana. “I can’t afford it,” he says.
He says of the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, “That building is not yet a hotel!”
Continuing, he says: “I can’t help it; we must still put in more money. I have heard a lot of people make noise that the governor has refused to open the hotel. Sorry, building is different from hotel. I need $7.2 million to turn that building into a hotel. As at today, I have paid a deposit of $4 million. It is remaining $3.2 million.”
Governor Emmanuel also talked about the premier five-star hotel in the state, Ibom Hotel & Golf Resort, which he said has not been making returns to the state government.
“Unfortunately, Le Meridien has not been audited in the past 10 years, and they don’t render account to the government. I have just discovered they don’t give even one naira to the government from all the money that is made in the hotel.
“At the same time they didn’t even remit their technical management fees to their home office, so they want me to come and pay those technical fees for 10 years.
“But in order to keep them, so they won’t leave, I just remitted $900,000 to them, so that they can stay for us to audit them,” Mr Emmanuel said.
The governor said he eventually insisted that Marriot, the managers of the hotel, must leave.
It’s not clear, however, if the state government claimed any money from Marriot.
Interestingly, building of white elephant projects in Akwa Ibom has become a relay race where one leader hands over the baton to another; Mr Emmanuel, taking off from where his predecessor stopped, is currently building a second Akwa Ibom governor’s lodge in Lagos, and an international worship centre in Uyo, despite huge opposition from the people.
The design of the International Worship Centre, Akwa Ibom State
Mr Emmanuel’s administration is also constructing a 21-storey office building project in Uyo. The cost of the project has not been made public by the government.
Some people in Uyo who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES said the administration is “strategically” preparing office accommodation for Mobil Producing Nigeria, in order to put pressure on the oil company to relocate from Lagos to Akwa Ibom State where it is drilling oil.
PREMIUM TIMES could not verify the information, as government officials in Uyo declined comment on the matter.
Inibehe Effiong, a Lagos-based lawyer from Akwa Ibom, travelled to the state to lead a street protest in March 2017 against the building of the new Akwa Ibom governor’s lodge in Lagos.
“Mr Governor, you took an oath of office as the governor of Akwa Ibom State. You did not take an oath of office as the governor of Lagos State,” Mr Effiong said to the crowd.
“You took an oath of office to protect Akwa Ibom people, not Lagos State. Mr Governor, you do not need another lodge in Lagos!” he said.
In the tension that ensued, several government officials were dissing out conflicting figures as the project cost. One senior government official said then that N10 billion was budgeted for the new lodge, while another said it was “less than N10 billion”.
In responding to the criticism, Mr Emmanuel said the government was going to spend a “paltry” N1.6 billion for the new lodge which he said is meant to host people who would want to invest in Akwa Ibom. The old lodge in Lagos is dilapidated, he claimed.
“Will Akwa Ibom people feel proud for me to host so many consular-generals, investors in those kinds of dilapidated buildings?” Mr Emmanuel said.
Akwa Ibom State also has a governor’s lodge, said to be one of the most sophisticated, in the nation’s capital, Abuja.
“Lagos State is a commercial capital of Nigeria, no doubt. But it is not the only entry point into Nigeria. It is also not a mandatory stop-over for potential investors, especially the ones who are interested in investing in Akwa Ibom State,” said Uyo-based lawyer, Imo Akpan, who was among those who protested against the building of the new lodge in Lagos.
“The best place to receive an Akwa Ibom bound investor is Akwa Ibom. This is where to exhibit our rich cultural background; this is where to showcase our potentials; this is where to discuss and negotiate hands-on the deals that will move this state forward.
“If you have investors who are attracted to the Lagos skyline, chances are that they will not invest in Akwa Ibom.
“But if you have serious-minded entities that are committed to genuine business and must be hosted in Lagos, the best place will be to welcome them into the existing state government-owned Liaison offices in Lagos,” says Mr Akpan.
How Funds Sunk Into Tropicana, Other Projects Would Have Helped Education
[b]N120 billion Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Centre, Uyo
Ibom Tropicana Entertaiment Centre, Uyo _Photo credit_ Ubong Ephraim
The Akwa Ibom government could have used N69 billion, from the Tropicana money, to construct three classroom blocks, at the unit cost of N20 million, in each of the 1160 public primary schools in the state.
Similarly, at a unit cost of N20 million, government could have used N20 billion to construct four classroom blocks in each of the 250 public secondary schools in the state.
Also, N17.78 billion from the fund would have constructed and equipped science laboratories in all the 1160 primary schools, at a unit cost of N15.5 million, while N3.88 billion would have constructed same in all the 250 secondary schools.
Three billion, forty-eight million naira (N3.48 Billion) would have been used to purchase instructional materials and equipment for one year for the 1160 primary schools, at the cost of N3 million per school, while N2.25 billion would have done same for the 250 secondary schools for three years.[/b]
N50 billion Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Ikot Ekpene
From the fund spent on the hotel at Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom government could have used N10 billion to construct four hostels, at the unit cost of N10 million, for each of the 250 secondary schools in the state.
With N7.5 billion, libraries would have been constructed, furnished and equipped, at the unit cost of N30 million, in each of the 250 secondary schools in the state.
Instead of using it to build hotel, the government would have used N11.6 billion from the fund to construct borehole water project in all the 1160 primary schools, at the unit cost of N10 million. Also, with N2.5 billion, each of the 250 secondary schools would have had potable water.
From the money, N2.25 billion would have been used for drug and medical supplies for two years for each of the 1160 primary schools, at the cost of N1.1 million per year for each school, while N550 million would have used also for drug and medical supplies for two years in each of the 250 secondary schools.
The government would have tackled open defecation in schools, by using N10.21 billion to construct a block of six modern toilets in each of the 1160 primary schools, at the cost of N4.4 million per school. A block of nine toilets would have been constructed in each of the 250 secondary schools, using N3.3 billion.
N10 billion International Worship Centre, Uyo
The N10 billion would have served the state better if it was used to offset six years unpaid salary of more than 400 teachers who were teaching in six community secondary schools before the state government took over the schools in 2012, while part of the money would have been used to settle gratuities of primary school teachers who died while still serving the state, as well as pension for retired teachers in the state.
N9.5 billion New Akwa Ibom Governor’s Lodge, Lagos State
About N5.31 billion from the money used in building the controversial governor’s lodge in Lagos State would have bought school desks (at the unit cost of N5,000) for 1,061,353 pupils which is the enrollment in primary schools across the state as at September 2017.
For secondary schools, N2.93 billion would have been spent to buy desks for 585,180 students.
This is the sixth and the concluding part of a six-part series on how corruption, poor budget planning and implementation, and outright neglect has led to the near-collapse of public education in Akwa Ibom, one of Nigeria’s richest states.
This investigation is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the International Centre for Investigative Reporting.
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| Politics › Re: Ike Ekweremadu Appointed Honorary Mayor-president Of The City Of Baton Rouge,usa by deomelo: 8:56pm On Jul 01, 2018 |
RuthlessLeader:
Sorry for that statement.
I'm just tired of all the useless tribalism. The Enemies of our nation are the northern elite and we are busy insulting ourselves instead of planning how to get rid of this government Preferred excuse and boogieman scapegoat for people with incompetent and useless elected local and public officials. Most of your problems are local and the people you voted for and put in office in your state and the ones you sent to Abuja are responsible for your life, they are the ones you put in office to look out for you, to make your life better and to fight for your rights. No need to blame people from the North just because they do a better and more competent job when it comes to looking out for their own people and their region. They are not entitled to anything special because just like the North, you collect taxes and allocations, you hate reps and senators, you have ministers and agency directors so if there are inadequacies in your life, face your own leaders and ask them the necessary questions. What have your own leaders done to address the issues facing you and your region? This Senate VP from Enugu with no known business outside public service owning mansions and plots of land in Enugu, several mansions in Abuja, mansions in Londo and the USA, but you care less, you just care about the North and Northern leaders. You can point fingers and blame the north till eternity, but at the end of the day, the North is not responsible for your life, your own leaders are. |
| Politics › Re: Ike Ekweremadu Appointed Honorary Mayor-president Of The City Of Baton Rouge,usa by deomelo: 7:56pm On Jul 01, 2018 |
Daviddson:
Is the US not just a perfect game player? They know that our politicians will never cease to throw their stolen billions into their country. So to encourage you to continue to do that and grow their economy, they give you fictional awards, Key to a City award, honorary mayoral awards like this one, and the rest. And when it's time for the mighty Department of Justice to cease your wealth, they'll overlook all those awards they've given you and carry away your stolen wealth notwithstanding. Like they say in America, nothing goes for nothing. Why are they even recognizing another crooked and corrupt Nigerian politician? Louisiana is the most corrupt state in America, they have governors, mayors and other public officials in Jail because of corruption as we speak so it's like corruption sabi corruption. Imagine a public official with no known business outside public service owning mansions and plots of land in Enugu, several mansions in Abuja, mansions in Londo and the USA. Btw, this trash was written and put together by a paid ipob blog, it's full of tales, deceptions, and dishonesty. The crooked and corrupt senator was not welcomed by the Mayor herself (Sharon Weston Broome) because welcoming and taking pictures with a known corrupt Nigerian official is bad optics and needless ammunition for Opposition research. The crooked and corrupt senator received the meaningless paper from the assistant administrative official and not from the Mayor herself. |
| Politics › Re: We've Paid June Salaries Without Federal Allocation, Says Ugwuanyi by deomelo: 5:39pm On Jul 01, 2018 |
Another silly and pointless thread.
Nearly all the states in Nigeria including the one in this thread are broke and they all borrow money from the banks to pay salaries and pay it back when they get their money from Abuja. |
| Politics › Re: Jubilation As Okezie Ikpeazu Attracts Licensing Of Electricity Generation by deomelo: 7:45am On Jul 01, 2018 |
nuti:
Buhari you see your life What is this one talking about?
Abi no be PMB release the license in the first place?
PMB is doing what the useless PDP and Jona you followed for 16 years couldn't do.
These ipobs sef.. |
| Politics › Re: AKSG PAYS JUNE 2018 SALARY DESPITE FAAC MEETING ENDING IN DEADLOCK. by deomelo: 5:24am On Jul 01, 2018 |
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| Politics › Re: Octogenarian: Kayode Fayemi’s Social Security Scheme Has Won Ekiti Elders’ Heart by deomelo(op): 4:17am On Jul 01, 2018 |
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| Politics › Re: Octogenarian: Kayode Fayemi’s Social Security Scheme Has Won Ekiti Elders’ Heart by deomelo(op): 4:16am On Jul 01, 2018 |
I’ll strengthen social security scheme – Fayose
The Peoples Democratic Party ,PDP, Governorship Candidate in Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has pledged to strengthen the Social Security Scheme being implemented by the present government in the state
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/06/ill-strengthen-social-security-scheme-fayose/ Fayose the useless, worthless, crooked, corrupt and incompetent clown vowed to strengthen and continue Fayemi's social security program, but it was all lies, smoke and mirrors. The zero salary paying clown actually abolished the program. |
| Politics › Re: Gov. Aregbesola's Massive Transformation Of The State Of Osun. PICS. by deomelo: 3:35am On Jul 01, 2018 |
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| Politics › Re: Gov. Aregbesola's Massive Transformation Of The State Of Osun. PICS. by deomelo: 3:14am On Jul 01, 2018 |
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| Politics › Re: Gov. Aregbesola's Massive Transformation Of The State Of Osun. PICS. by deomelo: 3:11am On Jul 01, 2018 |
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| Politics › Re: Ben Bruce Slams Chude Jideonwo And Tolu Ogunlesi by deomelo: 1:41am On Jul 01, 2018 |
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| Politics › Re: The Future Face Of Lagos by deomelo: 1:33am On Jul 01, 2018 |
Why is it so hard to regulate threads and posting privileges on NL.?
Must every unintelligent, meaningless and thread with zero value end up on NL? |
| Politics › Re: Octogenarian: Kayode Fayemi’s Social Security Scheme Has Won Ekiti Elders’ Heart by deomelo(op): 11:32pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
sarrki:
I just pray Ekiti gets it right this time
They are holding us backwards I'm 100% sure they will. |
| Politics › Octogenarian: Kayode Fayemi’s Social Security Scheme Has Won Ekiti Elders’ Heart by deomelo(op): 11:28pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
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Octogenarian: Kayode Fayemi’s social security scheme has won Ekiti elders’ hearts
[b]For allegedly abolishing the social security scheme for elders initiated by the administration of former Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti State, an octogenarian, Mrs Funke Akinyemi, has said it would be difficult for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to get the votes of aged people across the state.
Akinyemi, a beneficiary of the scheme, advocated for the return of Fayemi’s All Progressives Congress to power in the July 14 governorship election.
Under the scheme, Fayemi gave N5,000 monthly stipends to 25,000 indigent elders above 65 years across the 16 local government areas of the state.
The aged woman said the N5,000 monthly stipends she received from the Fayemi administration changed her life and gave her a means of income with which she now sustains herself.
Speaking when Fayemi visited Ilasa-Ekiti, Ekiti East Local Government Area on Saturday, the old woman said she purchased a she-goat from the stipends Fayemi gave to her and now rears goats on commercial basis.
Mrs. Akinyemi urged voters in Ekiti State to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the July 14 election for others to enjoy good governance and for more aged people to be taken care of.
She said: “I am now a seller of goats, it was my father (Fayemi) that gave me the money from which I bought one goat which I got through the monthly N5,000 allowances to the aged people when he was governor.
“In fact, the last time he came to campaign in my community, I presented a goat to him (Fayemi) in appreciation of what he did for me and other aged people during his tenure.
“I purchased a goat from my own stipend and that goat gave birth to more goats as you can see them here. I sell goats to people who need them and I also kill from the flock for eating anytime I wish.
“If not for what Fayemi did for us, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity of selling goats to make money years after he had left office.
“I want to pray from the depth of my heart that Fayemi will win the next election. God will answer his prayers to become governor again for more people to benefit from the programmes he has for the state.
“I want people in my community to vote for Fayemi, they should support him to win the next election so that he will pay salaries to workers, teachers and pay stipends to the aged people again..
“We want him to return to government again to do these good things for the people. In fact if it is possible, goats will vote for Fayemi.”
https://www.today.ng/news/politics/octogenarian-kayode-fayemis-social-security-scheme-won-ekiti-elders-hearts-128030 |
| Politics › Re: Ben Bruce Slams Chude Jideonwo And Tolu Ogunlesi by deomelo: 9:50pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
[s] flames01:
Believe me, if you and IPOB are placed on the scale if stupidity and ignorance, you will weigh more.
I understand your ignorance about your own true state of lack of intelligence and ignorance; most dull peeps never realise their dullness until told so. [/s] flames01:
Yeah, bubu is working to turn all parts of Nigeria to a slaughter house. Very soon, herdsmen will bring their cows to graze right in your father's bedroom and there is nothing you can do about it. That will only signal that bubu is working. I'm sure you noticed I did not quote any ignorant and unintelligent ipob so please don't bother me with ignorant and unintelligent ipob nonsense.. |
| Politics › Re: Ben Bruce Slams Chude Jideonwo And Tolu Ogunlesi by deomelo: 9:32pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
[s] ehissi:
Ipob mean indigenous people of biafra. It is a group that has been sponsoring campaigns, protest and other forms of expression, calling for secession that will allow certain group of people of igbo speaking origin to form a independent nation, ruled by an igbo man/woman.
Neither Senator Ben bruce, Former President Goodluck nor myself are igbo.
If you cannot make an intelligent discuss, argument or comment without mentioning ipob (which I guess at this point may be giving you nightmares), then at least just stick to like and shares.
Seun, Mynd44, lalasticlala will not beat you if you don't comment.
Please, dont confuse the thunder.......  [/s] I'm sure you noticed I did not quote any ignorant and unintelligent ipob so please don't bother me with ignorant and unintelligent ipob nonsense.. |
| Travel › Re: Another Tragedy As Truck Kills Family Of Three In Benue. Graphic Photos by deomelo: 9:16pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
Paperwhite:
That was how Sarrki was adding to a bereaved family's grief by denying a report of someone losing his parents in the Jos killings earlier.I've lost relatives too.
No reasonable person shouldl joke with a matter of death. He's the reason why lazy, jobless, deceptive and crooked losers are littering NL with fake and source-less trash?
Too many unintelligent posts on top of fake news on NL. |
| Politics › Re: Ben Bruce Slams Chude Jideonwo And Tolu Ogunlesi by deomelo: 9:11pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
[s] ehissi:
Now that he has said hard truths, that doesnt market Buhari, you remember he is a crook.
What of a bigger crook that reinstated maina, that let the grass cutter off the hook, that has refused to abide by any court ruling his Fulani spirit doesn't like.
If you like, call him bob risky the second, call him anini, shina rambo, terminator, ojuju calabar, twitter senator, facebook local government chairman. When you are done calling him all the names you can come up with, at the end of the day, what he has said is true.
You dont like it? Go and break your phone or better yet, enter taxi and look for the nearest area that has light and huge a transformer. [/s] I'm sure you noticed I did not quote any ignorant and unintelligent ipob so please don't bother me with ignorant and unintelligent ipob nonsense.. |
| Travel › Re: Another Tragedy As Truck Kills Family Of Three In Benue. Graphic Photos by deomelo: 9:06pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
Fake news.
Different pictures from different and unrelated events.
Mods, delete and ban OP.
WAR AGAINST FAKE NEWS. |
| Politics › Re: Ben Bruce Slams Chude Jideonwo And Tolu Ogunlesi by deomelo: 8:30pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
Unpaid Debt: AMCON set to take over Ben Murray-Bruce’s companies, assets
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Except there is a last-minutes change in plans, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) will on Thursday morning take over the assets of three companies belonging to politician Ben Murray-Bruce and his brothers.
The assets are being seized following the failure of Senator Murray-Bruce and his brothers to settle an N11 billion loan owed Union Bank and acquired by AMCON.
AMCON was established on July 9, 2010, as a key stabilizing and re-vitalizing tool for stabilising the nation’s financial system.
Its enabling law empowers it to acquire non-performing loan assets of Nigerian banks at fair values and then put them to economic use in a profitable manner.
Mr. Murray Bruce and his brothers, using their companies, had between 2005 and 2007 borrowed various sums of money from Union Bank.
After they repeatedly defaulted in paying back, AMCON purchased the loan in 2011 to save the bank from collapsing.
AMCON is now seizing the assets belonging to the three companies used in securing the loan – Silverbird Productions Limited, Silverbird Showtime Limited and Silverbird Galleria Limited.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/205776-unpaid-debt-amcon-set-take-ben-murray-bruces-companies-assets.html Sadly, this crooked, corrupt, incompetent twitter constituency con man can not or remain a senator in a lawful environment like America where copiedied and borrowed democracy from.
Nigeria did not get to build many roads, bridges, schools, hospitals and create many jobs because of the N11 billion this crook and twitter clown stole from us all |
| Politics › Re: Breaking: Zahra Buhari Indimi Due To Have A Baby In Spain (see PHOTO) by deomelo: 4:45pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
[s] JoyBB:
She is the daughter of 9ja number 1 citizen. She deserve more than this.
If you want the lazy and jobless to break your own news, tells popsman make em be President ..Am in my room, Come and beat me. [/s] So, she's no longer a Nigerian with the same rights that you have to do whatever you want with your life just because she's the daughter of the president? Is she even collecting salary from you or any entity in Nigeria?
You people really need to find something better to you with your boring time.. |
| Politics › Re: Breaking: Zahra Buhari Indimi Due To Have A Baby In Spain (see PHOTO) by deomelo: 4:33pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
[s] resurgent2019:
I just hope you are rich enough to take your wife abroad to deliver your baby. If not, I can only pity you. [/s] Don't feel sorry for me, feel sorry for your evil wishing self. |
| Politics › Re: Breaking: Zahra Buhari Indimi Due To Have A Baby In Spain (see PHOTO) by deomelo: 3:40pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
fallout87:
Did GEJ condemn Nigerians for going on foreign medical tourism then allocated billions toward uphauling the country's hospitals including the lionshre going to his own personal hospital?
Buhari did.
Did GEJ ban government officials from medical tourism then proceed to spend over half a year in total doing medical tourism?
Buhari did.
You say others don't have sense but what is obvious is that it's you who lacks. Are the expecting parents public officials? Are the collecting salaries from you or any government entity in Nigeria? Jobless busy body people. Mind your own business for your own good. Besides, what's the meaning of your political and name calling headache sef? Is there a law banning private citizens in Nigeria or anywhere in the world from seeking medical treatments beyond their own borders? If you are going to lecture us about lack of medical facilities in Nigeria, you should start by explaining to us how 16 years of PDP and previous administrations before them since independence with huge resources gave us superb healthcare system. Funny how you suffered for 58 years and all of a sudden want and expect UTOPIA IN LESS THAN 3 YEARS. Funny people. |
| Politics › Re: Breaking: Zahra Buhari Indimi Due To Have A Baby In Spain (see PHOTO) by deomelo: 3:32pm On Jun 30, 2018 |
legitnow1:
WAT IS OUR BUSINESS WITH ZAHRA INDIMI>? Some lazy and jobless think it should always be your business she shit, when she scratch her yansh, when she eats akpu and even when she farts.
It's always breaking news and you must hear about it. |
