Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has assured Nigerians that if elected, the Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari-led government will slash tariffs on imported vehicles.
Osinbajo also said that the APC government would tackle the electricity problem confronting the people by decentralising power generation across the country.
At a town hall meeting of political stakeholders in Ondo on Tuesday, Osinbajo said Buhari would not Islamise Nigeria, contrary to the campaign smear of the Peoples Democratic Party.
He said, “We do not agree that there should be high tariffs on imported cars, whether new or old ones, because Nigeria is not producing cars for now.
“What we will do first is to fix power and encourage local production of cars. But before then we will reduce the high tariffs that Nigerians are paying to import vehicles into the country.”
He said that Nigerians should not find it difficult to purchase cars for their social and economic activities and that the APC government would ensure lower tariffs when voted into power.
On power, the vice presidential candidate said the problem of power in Nigeria was traceable to the lack of supply of gas to the power plants.
He promised that module power plants would be situated in neighbourhoods where power is needed while gas would be supplied to the plants, using trucks and other means besides pipelines.
He said the model had already been put to use in Lagos State where such plants supply power to designated neighbourhoods.
Osinbajo also debunked fears that the APC government would ban commercial motorcycles across the country, saying commercial motorcycles would be allowed provided riders obey laws and keep the rules in the states where they operate.
I pity any thug that will lay his immoral hands on my kids..
This is jungle justice and I have no sympathy for anyone who practice or encourage it.
Which kind sense you get? u think say na america be this
dont worry, the day your son fvcks the hell out of your daughter nobody will stop or correct them. Nonsense people that want to copy oyinbo lifestyle..mtchhheeew
OyinboPrincess: As I don dey try this Egusi - ehhh - e don sweet me well well ooo... I don kolo to taste am again, so na to learn the formula b the next thing ooo!!
I nor fit relax, I wan chop am, the feelin too much self... so, I don carry my Oyinbo self go one local Afro-Caribbean shop, full my basket with all ingredients wey I wan use cook am.
YouTube don help me sabi am na, so to cook am mysef b the next mata...
If u go follow this Oyinbo wey to cook am eh, e go sweet u wella
- Boil meat for one pot, add maggie cubes, thyme, paprika, small mixed seasoning, one chopped small onion for taste (you for use any meat wey u like sha, but me I dey use lamb & beef or chicken)
- As u don dey boil meat, use the time to take one tin plumb tomatoes, one chopped onion & pepper (na the small red pepper oo - two I dey use, u fit put any amount wey sweet u - if na hot u like am add three/four) put all inside ur food processor - blend am well
- The blended mixture u go now put for one small pot, no oil oo! Put am for high heat, make e cook well well... u go leave am for fire till the time e don reduce, don thick
- As the mixture don dey boil, take ur melon seeds wey u wan use (1 cup) and blend am for food processor. U for use small water to blend ooo, so e go make a smooth paste, put am for one bowl, so u go add am to ur soup later
- Check ur meat na, if e don soft (to the way u like am) take am off fire, leave am for the side, with the water... u go use small stock from this water to add to ur soup later. If e neva cook finish, reduce the heat small, keep checking until e don cook finish
- Collect another pot, add small palm oil, make sure e don cover the bottom of the pan, roughly 1cm high. Put am for fire
- The blended mixture wey dey another pot (tomatos, onion, pepper), check am - if e don reduce finish, turn off the heat/burner
- Check ur palm oil na, if e don hot well well, start to dey smoke - ehen, e don ready b that. Add the blended mixture of tomatoes, onion & pepper - careful ooo - e go spit die
- By this time I know say ur meat don cook, if u neva remove am from fire already, do so now
- Take this time as u don fry ur mixture to wash the pots wey u don use finish ooo - u not wan finish cook with plenty washing to do na
- Stir this ur frying mixture small ooo, make sure e nor go burn
- As u don leave am to fry, cut Spinach into strips (the fresh one na the best one ooo) u for use scissors - e easy sha
- Check ur mixture again ooo - if e don begin to dry small, add tiny stock from ur meat water, na dash u go dash am
- Use ur nose to smell the frying mixture na.... if e don smell like e pepper don cook small, e don ready for the melon seeds b that.... Use one small spoon drop the grounded melon seeds into the pot, ontop the tomatoes, onion and pepper... keep dropping spoonfuls around ontop, spread am well covering everywhere
- Let am fry small ontop the mixture for a few mins on high heat... after a few mins don pass, turn am well. These melon seeds dey stick, burn, well well, so now u wan turn am from the bottom regularly
- As ur soup don thick small, add more stock water from ur meat - people like their Egusi with different thickness's, so find the one wey u like
- Add two maggie cubes again to this ur soup
- After roughly ten mins, e don cook b that add the meat to the Egusi and keep turning for another ten mins, this one go allow the flavours to enter ur meat small
- Wen the ten mins don go, add the cut Spinach leaves and stir... after five more mins e don finish finally
To serve, u for use Gari or Pounded Yam to eat am, some people even take Semo chop - na ur choice b that
OMO THE THING SWEET DIE OOO - NOR B SAY ANYTHING... any help required, hunt me down
Omo, I just watch the video now..this lady dey blow pidgin as if na naija dem born am...@oyinboprincess, be ready for enough pm and disturbances from Nairaland guys..
Marizu: Your assessment is very wrong. How could a man go through all these in the hands of a wayward woman, and you expect him to keep quiet? For him to come out like this, it has got up to his neck and is about swallowing him. Ofcourse the marriage has scattered.he that is down need fear no fall...so what the hell...baby124, i sincerely hope you dont behave like this Rosemary.
baby124 and several other ladies on Nairaland are even worse than this nurse lady if given the chance..when the man cheats they blame him, when the woman cheats they still blame the man...they hardly blame the women for wrong doings...
guys should better wake up and be careful. all these biitches are selfish and want everything you worked for for themselves.
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Sunday expressed disappointment at the rescheduling of the general elections from February 14 to March 28 by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
He told journalists after collecting his Permanent Voter Card at his ward in Surulere Local Government Area that the change in date for the elections lacked merit. Fashola said the claim by the security agencies that they could not guarantee security for the elections as initially scheduled indicated lack of preparedness for the polls on the part of the election management body. While describing the rescheduling as “a low point in governance,” the governor said the shift was capable of undermining the nation’s democracy and investment. “I think Nigerians must be disappointed by the postponement of the polls from February to March because it seems as if INEC was ambushed to take that decision.
“The shift will have consequences for us as a nation; the credibility of our governance is regrettably diminished. I do not know of any serious democracy that has set election dates then change them. “I think when a country sets a process in motion like this, it ought to know that there would be political and economic consequences. “Investors watch what is going on. It is really disappointing and when you hear the Federal Government saying they cannot guarantee security, it is more disappointing. “Security is the primary responsibility of the government and whether the nation holds election or not, it is the duty of government to provide security. “If countries like Afghanistan and Syria where there is war, internal conflicts still had elections ,I do not see why we can’t,” he said.
Fashola added that, “Again, we had elections in 2011 and some of these terror acts had started in 2010. So where was the ability to guarantee security then ?” he said. Fashola, however, appealed to Nigerians to remain calm over the development, stressing the need for them to shun anything that could breach peace.
He noted that the postponement of the polls from Febuary to March is only a matter of time, saying that eligible voters will eventually exercise their franchise.
The governor however said that he was glad to collect his PVC at last and enjoined residents who had not collected theirs to do so. He appealed to INEC to extend the PVC collection deadline to enable more Nigerians pick up their voter card. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the governor had earlier addressed a crowd of Arewa APC supporters at the Tafawa Balewa Square, where he urged them to eschew violence.
He said no matter how much they were provoked by supporters of the other political parties, they should stay out of trouble. Fashola urged members to step up campaigns to ensure victory for the party.
cescky: If ur not a bible student do not make unessecry fuss. Am sure if u saw me in person ud probably call me sir and its no age thing...this one ur telling me to shut up.
Not good at quoting chapters verses etc, but I believe its in romans where paul speaks about love being the greatest gift.....he mentiones that christians should run after these phrophecys, tongues, love. Howvere he says love is the perfect gift cos tongues,phrophesy, can, may fade...,and
we don't always extacly get the perfect picture when God shows us the vision.
Simply the reason why Jesus in condeming the pharisees say "well did isaiah prophesy".
If there's an evil prophys and vice versa why are people told to pray concerning such?
The wise will see and increase in understanding, them that go down to perdition will always mock like their fathers in times past.
Do you know the meaning of what you said? How can you say that not all prophesy will come to past? Show me an example of a prophet or a man of God in the bible who genuinely gave a prophesy from God and it didn't come true?
Any prophet that gives a fake prophesy is a false prophet..and don't forget that even the bible warned us that there will be false prophets coming out with false prophesy..So the OP still has a point..
A motor mechanic, who simply identified himself as Nuru, said he was part of those who registered twice in different locations in the state.
He further explained that a politician whose name he did not mention came to his workshop at Gada Biu area and begged him and his colleagues to go and collect their PVCs.
This, according to him, was after the politicians had confirmed at the collection points that their names were on display and their PVCs ready for collection.
Nuhu said, “When he came and we told him that we did not have transport fare, he gave us money to transport ourselves to the registration centre. He also gave us extra money to buy soft drinks.”
Another resident of the state, who gave his name as John Tarus, confirmed that a political party’s local government executive member had mobilised some youths to register in multiple locations in the state.
The politician, he said, came to his house early in the week to lobby them with money to go ahead and collect the two PVCs.
Asked if he had succeeded in collecting the PVCs, Tarus said he was able to collect one, but promised to go for the other one before the February 8 deadline.
Saturday PUNCH also learnt that some politicians in Ogun State mobilised their supporters and other voters with food and token amount of money ranging from N2, 000 to N3, 000 to go and collect their PVCs.
One of the voters, who only gave his alias as Shadow, said he registered both in Lagos and Ogun states, but with different names.
But another voter, Ismaila Amodu, said he registered in two different senatorial districts of the state with the same name.
Also in Osun State, politicians have been luring voters with gifts to encourage them to collect their PVCs.
Saturday PUNCH learnt that the politicians have been moving from house to house distributing gifts such as bags and cloths to voters.
The politicians, according to findings by one of our correspondents, are also keeping contact with those who have already got the PVCs promising to reward them more if they vote for their parties in the forthcoming elections.
Our correspondent in Osogbo gathered that many politicians now give their freebies only to those who have PVCs because they know that these are the categories of people who are useful to their ambitions.
A prospective female voter who said she was not in the state during the last governorship poll held on August 9, 2014, confided in one of our correspondents that a politician who knew that she had yet to collect her PVC had promised to pay her N2, 000.00 if she did so.
The lady said, “The man knows that I was away during the last election but he had promised to pay me N2, 000 if I collect the voter card. He also said he would buy drinks for some of the guys and even for some who he knew would surely vote for him.”
Mr. Saheed Sumonu of Ward 3, Egbedore Local Government Area in Osun State told Saturday PUNCH that politicians had been going from house to house mobilising prospective voters who had yet to collect their PVCs to go and do so.
He explained that the party leaders went to the collection units to ascertain the owners of the unclaimed PVCs and went after them to encourage them to collect the cards with the aim of enhancing their parties’ fortune in the coming elections.
“They gave me N1,000 as transport fare to encourage me to collect my PVCs,” he added.
The INEC Public Relations Officer in Osun State, Mrs. Adenike Tadese, told one of our correspondents that some registered voters were complaining that they could not find their PVCs because some of them registered more than once.
She said, “Some registered in two or more places and if this is detected, INEC will cancel two and leave one. The problem now is that since we don’t tell them the one we left; most of them do not know the unit and ward where the one that is not deleted is. “Some of them will never say the truth. But we are working to ensure that every registered voter gets their PVCs.” The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti State, Mr. Sam Olumekun, denied cases of double registration in the state. Speaking through the PRO, Alhaji Taiwo Gbedegesin, he said INEC had eliminated cases of multiple registrations while clearing its data base during the registration period. He said, “If one registered more than once, the system will recognise only the last one whether it favours the person or not. “Even if you have two PVCs, with the system in place you can’t use it because of the smart card reader. It is also a waste of time because voting takes place simultaneously.” The INEC spokesperson in Akwa-Ibom State, Mr. David Edak, said having two or more PVCs would not serve any useful purpose. He said since all the PVCs would pass through card readers for accreditation of voters, the device would only accept one card.
Desperate politicians have resorted to bribing and luring voters with gifts to encourage them to collect their Permanent Voter Cards for next week’s election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday had said that it had distributed 43,098,000 PVCs representing 65.5 per cent of total voters registered for the February general elections.
But many voters have expressed fears that they might not be able to vote since 35 per cent of PVCs are still with the electoral body. Besides, a lot of voter cards issued by INEC are yet to be collected.
Saturday PUNCH investigation also revealed that Politicians have been bribing voters, who registered more than once, to encourage them to get multiple permanent voter cards so as to enable them to win more votes for their parties in the next general elections.
The politicians are offering between N3, 000 and N5, 000 as “mobilisation money” to each of the eligible voters to persuade them to either get multiple PVCs or collect their PVCs.
Saturday PUNCH also learnt that the politicians are using money to encourage voters collected their PVCs and ignore the inconveniences they might encounter in the process of doing so.
It was learnt that the politicians adopted the strategy after the Independent National Electoral Commission insisted that the temporary voter cards would not be allowed for voting in the forthcoming elections.
Some of the voters, who spoke with our correspondents, confirmed that the politicians also gave them transport fare to the registration centres to facilitate the collection.
One of them, Alhaja Modinat Ibrahim, an indigene of Kwara State, said she did registration twice after she was offered money by a politician whose name she refused to mention.
“I was approached by a politician in my area (Baruten Local Government Area) to do double registration, but I initially declined. After much persuasion and gift of N5, 000, I finally agreed to his request,” she said.
According to her, she first registered in Baruten LGA of Kwara State where she lives and later went to Balogun Fulani Ward 1 in Ilorin for the second registration.
Ibrahim said, “I registered in both places at different times. I wore hijab while registering in Baruten, but I did not wear it in Ilorin. I robbed a particular concoction on my hands and fingers so that I could beat being detected by the INEC biometric machine.”
Another person, Alhaja Aishat Iyiola, said she was also encouraged by a politician who promised to give her N3, 000 to register twice.
Iyiola told one of our correspondents that she first registered in Offa without wearing hijab and did the second registration at Alanamu Ward in Ilorin with her hijab.
According to her, she lives with her relatives in Offa and has her family home at Ilorin and her registrations in the two places on different days did not raise any suspicion.
Ibrahim and Iyiola told Saturday PUNCH that the politicians had been keeping contact with them with promises of financial reward if they collected their PVCs.
According to them, they have collected the first PVCs and hope to collect the other as of the time they spoke with Saturday PUNCH.
The Director of Media, the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State, Chief Rex Olawoye, said though he would not accuse any political party of instigating people to do double registration, there were reports that some electorate registered more than once. In Akwa Ibom State, voters who registered in places called “Zero Unit” (units with less than 50 voters) were said to have got double PVCs.
An INEC official, who did not want his name mentioned, said that political parties ward chairmen in the state collected the PVCs on proxies for members of their communities.
According to him, few of the owners of the PVCs are dead and the ward chairmen did not bother to return the deceased’s cards.
An eligible voter, who simply gave his name as Etim, confirmed to one of our correspondents that he had two PVCs. He said he first registered at Ikot Ekpene and later did the second registration at Ibesikpo Asutan.
According to him, he was urged by one of the party leaders in his ward to register twice to test if the INEC biometric machine could detect double fingerprints.
Emmanuel, another voter who has two PVCs, said he registered in two places – Uda ward 1 in Oron and Uyo.
Emmanuel said he engaged in double registrations after receiving commitment from a politician in his ward in Oron that he would be financially rewarded for doing so and collecting the PVCs for the forthcoming elections.
There are also cases of voters with multiple PVCs in Ekiti State. A public servant, who refused to mention his name, told Saturday PUNCH that he had two PVCs.
The public servant said he collected the first PVC in his home town which he also refused to name and collected the second one in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.
He said, “I did the first registration in my home town and also did another registration in Ado Ekiti.
“I have collected the PVC in Ado Ekiti when I received telephone call that the second PVC was ready for collection in my home town.”
One of our correspondents also gathered that some politicians in Plateau State discreetly induced their supporters to register twice in order to collect double PVCs.
Fhemmmy: OK, Sir . . . Glad you no vex and for the ladies around me, nice one too . . . Again, if you have a direct question to ask me go ahead, else, it was nice reading your mind too.
I will free you this time as I have no intentions of ridiculing you any further...However just know that when you try to be biased I will be right in front of you to put you back in track...
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add the meat to the Egusi and keep turning for another ten mins, this one go allow the flavours to enter ur meat small