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Jr Pope was primarily responsible for his safety, he is not a novice. He took his safety for granted because as an A-list actor, if he says he is not going without a life jacket, he will be provided one by force

immortalcrown:
Many contradictory claims.

1.
If jackets were freely available and Junior Pope and some other passengers of the boat rejected the jackets, why did AGN suspend Adamma?

2.
TC said marine police said, "You people refused to come and hire jackets from us". But you now claim jackets were freely available. So, even the other dead victims and the missing ones rejected the free jackets?

3.
TC never said anybody provided free jackets and anybody rejected the jackets. Consider his claim about the marine police saying the passenges refused to hire jackets. I suspect a connivance by the police and the movie producers against TC. Recall that the TC said the police wanted to take him to a police station. And if the AGN does not defend (justify) its suspension of Adamma, I suspect that the AGN has been bribed to support the conspiracy. How can the AGN suspend Adamma and keep quiet after seeing the statement from Adamma? Think about it.

4.
I earlier saw a post on this same Nairaland. In the post, the boat driver claims that Junior Pope refused to pay for a life jacket. One says free jackets were provided while another one says Junior Pope refused to pay for a jacket. Think about it.

5.
According to TC, the boat driver who was not concentrating on the boat movement was trying to show his face on video when the boat hit another boat. No other person has claimed another boat was hit. The same TC is accused of standing. If TC was standing, did anyone confront him and what was his response? I don't believe the accusation against TC. Other survivors should stand by the truth to counter the accusation being leveled against TC.

6.
TC never said Junior Pope was alive to say anything after the boat accident. But now, this producer is saying Junior Pope was asking if everything is okay. TC didn't mention that a gallon was thrown for Junior Pope.

NOTE:
My own question is, did Adamma even present these her claims to the AGN before getting suspended by the AGN? The claims by TC do not contradict each other. But the claims by the producer do not support one another. And the claim by the boat driver contradicts those of the producer. This case is like that of Mohbad. There is even another claim that the producer denied the responsibility of the boat transportation.

The highest blame goes to boat drivers who don't enforce the use of jackets. The government should be blamed for collecting levies from the boat drivers without enforcement of safety measures to the boat transportation. Or, doesn't the government collect levies from the drivers? AGN should be blamed because other producers acted like Adamma. The AGN has not been proactive. Then, the passengers should be blamed for not being security conscious. No sensible adult will travel by boat without insisting on using a life jacket. Adamma is not totally innocent. She should have made an attempt to get the crew members adhere to necessary safety measures.

Nope, the SW and North perceived Jonathan as Igbo, thats why the campaign of calumny against him

Wainey:
because kidnappings has become normal, when a particular crime becomes too much, it's becomes normal.
Cultism, cybercrime, agbero has become a normal thing

Clearly, you have no counter

thesicilian:
Guy relax yourself
It is more logical to engage a fish in a swimming contest than to try and reason with an obidient.

To want it and to say it openly are two different things

PureFace1:
You know many of you want Tinubu Dead too

Is this what you'd have said if the reverse was the case?

thesicilian:
Obidient politics is the most vindictive kind of politics I've ever witnessed. Everyday I'm just happy that they didn't win the election, otherwise all their "enemies" would have suffered

Love is reciprocal

madridguy:
R. I.. P. Fawaz. Everybody will die someday. Na just time.

I have live in Lagos and its environs for about 6yrs, Lagos is not doing well. Lagos is not VI and Lekki alone, majority of the places like Badagry, Egbeda, Amuwo Dofin, Orile, Fagba,Abule Egba, Agbado Ijaye etc are just ordinary.

Comparing Lagos with other states in Nigeria is a very unambitious thing to do. You can't have the 6th largest economy in Africa and compare yourself with state with economy you're 15 times bigger than.

A city running on borehole can never be called a developed city, not even in a 1000yrs. Emergency response? Can you be in your house, having a medical emergency and call 911 or a robbery attack and call 911 and expect a response within 10mins?

If you remove the infrastructures built before 1999 from Lagos, the successive state govts have done little with huge funds

tollyboy5:
Yes and he doesn't have a choice. After his 8 years or four years he won't come back here if he doesn't address most challenges we're facing here.

Nigeria is one nation, so Lagos state government is not responsible for the large poverty in the state.
Many measures has been taken to restrict people from constituting nuisance and creating shanties.
Nigerians abroad are living shanties, go check places where Nigeria lives in italy, usa etc.


Yes we do complain about the electricity issues alot. Alot has been done to improve power in the state but it's more of a federal government issue. As you can see the blue line metro is running on electricity.
Not all area has constant light tho. We're giving then the opportunity to fix that once and for all.
If light is fixed in Lagos, many Nigerians living in Lagos will benefit, the best person to fix light bt tinubu and obi in Lagos is tinubu.
So we're watching.

Lagos has the best emergency response in Nigeria sofar. Have you happened to see how those firefighters swiftly attend fire accident?
If you tell me Lagos don't have the best emergency response team then I'll know you just want to tell lies.

As far as im concerned, we've settled for individuals drilling their borehole and we're satisfied with that.
It's left for who is not satisfied with such condition to decide where is best to live in.

Lagos is improving massively and we're not sleeping on it.
Those cities you mention you need to see their budget.
Naira has to stabilize to at least ₦500 to a dollar and Lagos state budget need to start from 3trillion to achieve such feat.
It will happen by 2025 budget.

I recently complained on Twitter to the governor about some issues in badagry, like two days later the governor visited badagry base on the things I said.
Many road still need to be reconstructed in Lagos but I believe Lagos has one of the best roads in Nigeria.

You only see what your eyes wanna see. You can't also wake a man pretending to be asleep he has answered your question severally but you're pretending to be asleep

TermsAC:
ok dude, lemme know when you are ready to answer the question let me know when you are ready to lecture me like a baby.

Floating of the naira made it rise

TermsAC:
What policy made it rise?

What changes in economic activities made the demand for dollars so high that the value of local currency dipped by 100% in just 2 months?

Did we start importing uranium from Pluto or something?

You haven't solved bokoharam and banditry for over a decade!

You need to conquer the enemies within before you can have the unity of purpose to plan for the enemies outside

Hisgrace0001:
What will happen to Nigeria if we are the one fired more than 100 missiles at.
Can you see how Isreali forces gallantly shot down those missiles!.

Do we have such facility in Nigeria?....If no, then there is fire on the mountain.

This is what the PDP was doing but you guys szid they were stealing all the monies. Now you know its not easy, you were criticising PDP ignorantly.

You'd say the did not save, has APC saved now? Or price of crude has been low for 9yrs?

DeLaRue:
So the baba should leave his office to go and farm cassava .

Cassava can grow well in many parts of the country.

What is stopping you from growing it and contributing your own quarter to bringing the price of garri down?

You want perpetually subsidised fuel.

You want subsidised University education

You want subsidised gas.

You want subsidised electricity.

You want government to subsidise everything.

You also want the government to make garri cheap for you.

Haba

Tinubu has borrowed over 15 trillions in one year. What an ignorant fellow!

DeLaRue:
Absolute nonsense.

This is the most accomplished problem-solving administration we have had, probably for 50 years. Mr Babangida's administration also tried

From the early 70s when Nigeria was awash with petro-dollars as a result of Middle East crises, no Nigerian administration has faced the diversity, scope, depth and complexity of the challenges this administration met when it took over.

Nigeria was virtually on the verge of financial collapse, borrowing huge sum to pay fuel subsidy that mostly went into a few pockets. Stupid.

Since then, Mr Tinubu's administration has slowly but surely steadied the ship, and before our eyes, we are beginning to see results and recovery from what many citizens, including myself, feared was an irreversible situation.

However, and surprisingly, step by step, the CBN has been taking steps that are delivering results before our eyes. Something that Egypt and Argentina who were in a similar situation as Nigeria up till a few months ago have been unable to replicate.

Argentina has gotten worse. Likewise Egypt. Yet, Nigeria's CBN is quietly achieving the unthinkable.

We have not seen this type of result-oriented competence from any previous administration in Nigeria.

This is the most tested government in several decades and one by one they are facing up to the challenges.

Are you really from Lagos? You think the Tinubu dynasty is giving Lagos a fair deal?

Do you know Lagos is about the 6th Largest economy in Africa but among the poorest standard of living!

You do not have constant electricity, government provided pipe borne water,
good health facilities and insurance, emergency response like 911, good road networks, low crime rate etc but you're happy with the current Lagos. Have you reviewed places like Cairo, Kigali, Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Addis Ababa, Nairobi and see that Lagos has a lot of gaps to close?

Lagosians bask in mediocrity!

tollyboy5:
Wereiy with all the goodies coming to my state that will eventually favor Nigeria I should go against it?

It's very easy for many people to Cap because they're not native lagosian.
After voting obi we've moved on
All the best for LP tho.

So you don't insult Igbos, its just one-sided from the Igbos?

Stop being a sissy

ObiPandora:
You don't want him to defend Gowon so you Igbos can have filled today ruining his reputation n maligning his character while you praise criminals like Peter Pandora Obi that was caught red handed looting ₦250 million monthly from state as saint.

Isn't that how you insult Awolowo Fashola Akpabio Amechi etc today but elect the like of Orji Kalu Theodore Orji Abaribe Ekweremadu Peter Pandora Obi Ikpeazu etc

Why did you avoid the Fulani question? What sins have the Igbos committed that you think is worse than the Fulanis so much so that you feel indifferent against the Fulanis?

payaseriy:
That's your problem. You think people are unjustly criticizing you.

I'm an ardent Obi supporter, you can go through my previous trends

Some of ur folks are terrible people, so also in every ethnic group, but certain traits are perculiar to some ethnic group. The perculiar traits is what we point out.

But you must realise that i don't hate your ethnic group and wont advise anyone to hate them too. Go through all my comments.

To me, discrimination based on ethnic group is similar to racism, bt that doesnt stop me from pointing out what i see, or from experience my view.

Good speed and stay blessed

I agree with the woman that not agreeing to protest against Tinubu is tribalism

tollyboy5:
Let's learn how to live together. My uncle use to tell me, when people say nonsense you give it back to them.
Let them know they're saying nonsense!
But my mum said I should always avoid trouble.
I chose that of my mum. When I grew older I took the advice of my uncle and both worked for me in different time.
At a younger age I will always here trashy talk and might not want to fire back.

Like for instance one lovely igbo woman that use to give me alot of goodies told me to do my research well, that my ancestors were from Ogun state not Lagos Epe.
She said many of this Yoruba are not from Lagos that Lagos is a mixed state.
I fired back immediately that she should not tell me my history and what I know.
The whole Epe territory is Ijebu land before Lagos state and Ogun state came to be.
So this is our land and we're majorly ijebu.
She had to keep quiet.

Another day we were talking about bad government and I said it clearly that I don't like tinubu but I can't join a protest against his government now, I'm optimistic and besides Lagos will benefit alot.

She said that's tribalism, I said it's personal interest.

Our different view doesn't mean we should stop being friends you know.

Once I enter alaba and someone drags my hand, "oga game, laptop, candle, aeroplane etc I get am 4 my store".
Sometimes I just laugh and pass, sometimes if I'm pissed I'll tell him "I go comot yah teeth now".

I understand igbos very well, they are nice people but if you don't call them to order they will ride you.
One of my neighbor that I use to play with daughter and buy things for her. Despite all this my good jesture, this woman will always spoil my parol with any babe wey i wan knack!

Once she sees me with uju, the next thing I'll see is her advising the girl
She did that with chibuzor and Ada too.
I no later see those babes knack!
I just laugh 4 my mind, I would have applied pressure but I reserve my pressure for better things.
I stop buying anything for her which reduce how I buy stuff for her daughter
But we're still friends.
Those are my experience with igbos sofar.

Its envy of the fact that they cannot compete and win. If it was what was actually done to them, they would hate the Fulanis more for killing across Nigeria

blacknp:
Fulani herdsmen are killing them you claim, but they other tribes all seem to detest you still, then you ought to know that something is definitely wrong with you.

All I see is hatred from you towards the Igbos disguised as caution/advice.

What is the real purpose of your thread? Seems to me its to denigrate the Igbos because I don't see why one Igbo man and woman will be the reason for mentioning the entire Igbo.

You said you wonder why many tribe hates the Igbos? Its because its difficult to compete against the Igbos and win. So, what you see is envy!

I'm happy they called you Igbo in Lagos because in the South, if you're not Yoruba,
the Yorubas see you as Igbo and in war situations, you'll be hurt without asking if you're really Igbo so if you think you're doing Igbos, you're doing yourself

payaseriy:
First and foremost. I am from the Niger Delta and the Igbos are the closest relatives we have but the truth must be said without bias or favouritism.

Growing up, i never truly understood why people in Warri(Agbarho) would say "no one should sell land to Igbo man'. It was not hate, but something the Urhobo observed about the nature of the Igbo men wanting to snatch their lands and impose dominance.

My people don't really like the Igbos. I didnt know why at first until i was a victim of an Igbo man. We had a striving business until an Igbo man came close and opened a shop next to ours. Within few weeks, he would stand close to the road and whenever someone wanted to enter our shop, he would call them and lure them over. It was a very annoying character, some of these people would later inform us that the igbo man was saying our products are substandard and that our price are way too higher.

I didn't stay enough to tolerate the nonsense because i later stopped going to the shop and left the business to my younger brother. Months later, i went to the shop and was surprised how the Igbo man would draw people away and even have the audacity to come to our shop to collect goods for them.

My stupid brother allowed this to happened. It was a very difficult times for our business. His desperation to make money would drive him to even kill a man.

They actually did something that led to the death of my father, that's a story for another time.

I had a girlfriend at home before i gained admission into the university. Then one holiday, my girlfriend told me that same igbo man came to her and told her i wont marry her and that am promiscuous and was only using her, and so much more. The igbo man was troubling the little girl and because of her incessant complain of what the Igbo man was saying to her, i decided to stay off. I left the girl.

Barely six months later, she was pregnant and abadoned. How time flies!

Still i never hated an entire tribe because of the evil of some of the people. I can say more than hundred of evil that igbo men had done to me and my family in Warri. One of such time, an igbo woman poisoned our dog, yes, we know she did it because she was our tenant and when the dog was vomiting, it was same thing she had on her. Plus, she had often threatened to kill the dog for invading her rented space.

It was very painful because that dog was our first dog and my elder brother bought me that dog the day i was born. I was about 10 when the dog died. Same years as the dog, i cried and for the first time in my life, i saw tears on my Dad's face.

Alot happened since then bt let save them for later...

Many years later, i went to lagos to stay with a friend. And one of those days, my car got broken and i decided to take public transport.

I got into one and while the car was still in transit, a man(presumably a yoruba man), did something that got a lady pissed off in the cab. I interfered and told the man his wrong and the next thing he said to me was "These Igbo boys, we go deal with all of ona..." i could read the hate on his expression. But i was no Igbo boy, as a matter of fact, i am an Urhobo boy, a tribe so complex that wont even sell a piece of land to Igbo or yoruba man.



So many tribes Hate Igbo and i don't imagine why. They are full of themselves and think the entire country revolves around them, they forget they are just one out of 250 ethnic group in Nigeria.

The yoruba man feels threatened by the existence of the Igbo man. I don't blame them. Even i feel repugnant at the character of many of them, mostly my current Neighbor that defames me at all opportunity.

But we must learn to co exist. The bad eggs are many but that doesnt mean we should throw away the entire basket. The Igbo man has wronged me even more than many people attacking them, bt i can't hate an entire ethnic group because 100s of them stepped on my toes.

Fighing and hating on Nairaland is not the right way to express yourself. Like the Bible says" doing the right thing, is what makes a nation great".

Don't be a tribalist ( almost like Racist), let learn to tolerate and coexist, but don't sell your land to them o... Lol.

Anyways, please lets coexist

You can see that you're majoring on the minor. Thats why Nigeria is where she is today. Bye

Image123:
That's beyond what i plan to discuss on the thread, thanks.

I don't go to swimming pool or river. Last time i did, i wore life jacket

SweetDipBenny:
🤦
Ok. Don't learn how to swim

That is not the reason but using insults as excuse. Buhari's supporters killed about a thousand people when he lost in 2011. He is also from the Fulani with the Fulani herdsmen designated as the fourth deadliest terrorist groups globally, yet they voted for him.

The real reason is that Obi is an Igbo man!

FreedomfromtheT:
I have been reading this narrative of people saying that they are not supporting Peter Obi because of his supporters who are mostly insultiive and intolerant of
dissenting opinions.
The question is this: who has Peter Obi himself insulted?
Are you voting for Peter Obi to repair the damage done to the economy, the security, the health and psyche of our dear nation or are you voting for his supporters?
A lot of people insulted former president Goodluck Jonathan during his tenure. Did you back out from voting his opponent former Muhammadu Buhari because of his saucy supporters?
Would you rather allow a quack surgeon operate on you because you hate the relatives of the competent surgeon?

This is application but did they succeed in gaining admission, not really!

Slytiger:
Statistics can be very interesting. The bigger picture.

Swimmers also die

SweetDipBenny:
Just learn how to swim

Not a credible source

yommen:
2 time failure of a governor?

Anyway, I will not be tired of reposting this link. Anambra people complained of him bitterly even after he already spent 6 years as a governor.
How he is now the perfect candidate I don't understand.


https://www.nairaland.com/870945/what-exactly-peter-obi-doing

The incident happened on River Niger right?

helinues:
I am yet to read any news saying where the incident happened was in Anambra state. Even the boat guy is a typical Asaba guy

Avoid water!

Why was he not wearing life jacket? He is not a novice!

Ofunaofu:
Dead men tell no tales

Junior pope is not here to defend himself

The River Niger is the dividing lone btw Anambra and Asaba. Depending on the part of the river you are, its can be Anambra

helinues:
Anambra?

All this evening bloggers self

But you're defending the criminal drug baron and certificate forger! See how the common man hate themselves

SmileDance:
1. Being a first time offender does not mean he should go Scot free.
2. He pleaded guilty, this contributes to why the money laundering charge was ruled out.
3. Spraying cash and manhandling the naira became a crime less than 2 months ago.
4. He is not the first to be convicted.

Life itself is unfair

It's important for transparency!

"upgraded Shatta Bandle"

Guy you wicked o

Zonefree:
All these NBA dudes have ways of making anyone around them a dwarf.

See as Babe meji resemble upgraded Shatta Bandle.

They said they saw N170million so they prefer to collect the 170million or some part of it and drop the money laundering charge. Why do you think politicians have the audacity to steal billions? They can simply do a plea bargain and walk.

Image123:
In law, it's called a plea bargain. A plea bargain, also known as “negotiating a plea,” is an agreement between the prosecution and the defendant where the defendant agrees to plead guilty to the charges against them.