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Apcshit:
Iwobi is too lackadaisical for my liking

Sincerely I've never been a fan of this guy. He's never been good and I wonder why he has a place in that team

Ikaeniyan0:
PDP died in 2014 when the likes of Atiku and Saraki left the party. Atiku should have fully supported Jonathan in 2015. I don't see him and Saraki recovering from that mistake. El-rufai will also regret leaving the APC.

That exactly was his undoing. He had a better chance of becoming president in 2019 if he had supported Jonathan as president in 2015.
But now, I don't see him ever becoming Nigeria's president. That mistake was a fatal one.

Why didn't she apply and get a confirmed visa to all these countries before embarking on the journey, so the whole process would be smoother

Edith was only 16 when Chukwudubem Eze came for her hand in marriage. Both from neighbouring communities in Imo State, their families had built a strong bond over the years.
“Her father and my father had been friends for more than 20 years. I had always seen her as part of the family since she was born,” said Eze, who was 26 at the time.
Both families welcomed the decision, but Edith’s parents had one condition: Eze must fund her education up to a bachelor’s degree. She had always dreamed of becoming a nurse, and Eze promised to support her.

The young man was already planning a perilous journey through the desert to Europe and felt it necessary to pay Edith’s bride price and move the teenager to his family home before his departure.
“I didn’t touch her, not even once, because my trip was the next month. She was always with my mother, who was teaching her how to cook and be a good wife. She was very beautiful, I must say, but to say that I touched her is a lie,” he stressed.
A few weeks later, he set off on his journey. He travelled by road through several African countries, including Niger and Mali, before arriving in Libya.
Once in Libya, Eze was arrested and imprisoned for two weeks.
“I lost all communication with my family. They kept asking me to pay for my release and call home. I did everything I could, but I barely had anything. Eventually, I was sold into slavery and forced to work for months before the man’s son helped me get to the Mediterranean Sea for the crossing to Italy,” he said.
His journey took a detour, forcing him to pass through Algeria before finally making it to Italy. From there, he moved to Spain and then France, where he sought asylum but was denied.
“While in France, I finally managed to reach Edith and told her everything I had been through. I had contracted tuberculosis, and parts of my lungs were almost destroyed due to overcrowding and the horrific conditions in the Libyan prison.
“Edith prayed for me and told me that her father had passed away. The family was preparing for his burial, which was to take place in four months because he was a titled man. I worked like a camel and sent her money to contribute to the funeral expenses.
“I also paid her school fees and sent her stipends every month. Bear in mind, I did all this as an illegal immigrant. I was constantly afraid of being caught and deported,” he said.

Edith moves to the UK
Edith eventually sat her Senior School Certificate Examinations and expressed her desire to attend nursing school. Eze said he was aware of her plans and was prepared to cover the costs.
“I was sending her money for education so that, even if I was deported, she would have something to fall back on. I really loved this girl. It was in her final year in nursing school that I decided to try my luck at moving to the United Kingdom,” he said.
A friend introduced Eze to an immigration lawyer in France, who claimed it was possible to secure legal entry into the UK, even for his family.
After extensive consultations, the lawyer suggested that Edith, now a qualified nurse, apply to work in the UK. Eze could then join her later.
Eze embraced the idea and shared it with Edith, but she was initially hesitant.
“She insisted I get her a visa to join me in France. She didn’t understand that I was undocumented. Any day, I could be deported. I explained repeatedly, but she wouldn’t listen.
“We proceeded with the UK process without her full enthusiasm. I spent money. I worked four jobs, surviving on only seven hours of sleep a week. I worked at a factory at night, then another during the day. I was paid in cash because of my status, and sometimes, I was short-changed. I couldn’t even complain because they threatened to report me to immigration. I endured all of this until Edith arrived in the United Kingdom.
“A few months later, she invited me to join her. The lawyer instructed me to return to Nigeria first before travelling to the UK legally. I followed the plan.
“It was back in Nigeria that I learnt Edith had a child with another man and had taken the child with her to the UK. I refused to believe it. But to my greatest shock, when I arrived in the UK, there was a four-year-old in the picture. Even my immigration lawyer knew but kept it from me,” he said.
Devastated, Eze spent his first few weeks in the UK embroiled in endless arguments with Edith over her betrayal.
“Remember, I married this girl. I paid her bride price. I did everything the proper way. She even bears my surname. I couldn’t understand how she could do this to me. I called her mother, who admitted they didn’t know how to tell me.
“My own mother had passed away two years before I returned. My father is a reserved man, and I doubt he would have broken the news to me. My siblings tried to hint at it whenever I called, but they weren’t explicit. Even if they had told me, I probably wouldn’t have believed them. The reason I went to the village to find a wife instead of marrying a city girl in Lagos was because I wanted someone decent. I couldn’t believe she had done that to me,” Eze said.
Weeks passed, but the arguments persisted. One night, Edith left the house and didn’t return for two days, leaving the four-year-old in Eze’s care. He was utterly unprepared for the responsibility.
He was still unemployed, as they had yet to arrange childcare—a requirement under UK Child Protection Law. Both parents could not simply leave the child unattended.
“I took her inside and laid her on the bed. The child was crying and throwing a tantrum. She had eaten nothing but a burger and some leftover macaroni and cheese. There was no food in the house. I wasn’t working, so I depended entirely on Edith, who never failed to remind me that I owed my presence in the UK to her generosity,” he said.

‘He abuses me and my daughter’

A few days after the incident, Eze claimed Edith brought up the issue of hiring a nanny so he could go out and work.
According to him, Edith began lamenting about how ungrateful he was and threatened to send him back to Nigeria. This was the first time she made such a statement, Eze confirmed.
It took her only four weeks to make good on her threats.
A few police officers arrived one evening and invited Eze to the station to respond to allegations of “physical and sexual abuse, battery, and assault” against both Edith and the minor.
“It felt like a dream. I had never touched that girl. I admit that sometimes Edith made me angry, and we argued, but nothing that warranted this level of betrayal. Apparently, every fight we had, she recorded and submitted to the police, who built a complete case against me.
“It wasn’t even two months before I was asked to leave the house voluntarily or be forcibly evicted. I called Edith’s family, pleading with them endlessly, but it was all to no avail. Then, one Thursday, law enforcement officers arrived, and I was ordered to vacate the house.
“When I explained that I had nowhere else to go, they told me to return to Nigeria,” he said.
For nearly five months, Eze said he lived on street corners, in churches, and at community centres, relying on charity and begging to survive.
One day, in desperation, he decided to go to the hospital where Edith worked, only to find out that she had taken out a restraining order against him and labelled him ‘dangerous’.
“I wasn’t dangerous when I was putting her through school. I wasn’t dangerous when she cheated on me and brought a four-year-old into the country I paid every dime for her to enter. Now that she’s meant to support me, I’ve suddenly become dangerous,” he lamented.

Life on standstill

Under UK immigration law, an individual’s right to remain in the country on a spouse or partner visa is contingent upon the continuation of their relationship.
If the relationship ends due to separation or divorce, the visa holder is typically required to inform the Home Office, which may curtail their visa, often to a 60-day period, after which they must either apply for a different visa category or leave the UK.
In Eze’s case, his immigration status was dependent on his relationship with Edith. Following their separation, he said his right to remain in the UK was reassessed, and without an alternative basis to stay, he was required to leave the country.
After returning to Nigeria, Eze made several attempts to re-enter the UK but faced rejections.
UK immigration rules impose re-entry bans on individuals who have breached immigration laws. The duration of these bans vary, according to the UK Home Office website.

For those who leave the UK voluntarily at their own expense within six months of being given a removal notice, they may get a two-year ban.
Individuals who leave voluntarily but at the expense of the Secretary of State, either within six months of a removal notice or after their appeal rights were exhausted may get a five-year ban. Those who are deported or removed from the UK, or used deception in their application may get a 10-year ban.
According to www.gov.uk, given that Eze was required to leave the UK following the end of his relationship and did not overstay or breach other conditions, he may not have been subject to a mandatory re-entry ban. However, any new visa application would be rigorously assessed, and his previous immigration history could influence the decision, our correspondent learnt.

Edith denied allegations
After two emails were sent to Edith to respond to the allegations levelled against her by Eze, on Friday afternoon, she called this reporter with her UK number on WhatsApp, denying any wrongdoing.
“I don’t want to go back in time to start peeling off old wounds, but Dubem and I ended things a long time ago, and it was mutual. His former lawyer (name withheld) is aware. I wonder why he is now coming to the media to complain,” she said.
When asked about having a child for another man while still in the marriage with Eze, she said, “I have nothing to say to that. You have heard his own side. You don’t want me to state my own side.”
Further questions were met with silence before the line went dead.

The UK and domestic violence
In the United Kingdom, domestic abuse, encompassing physical violence, emotional manipulation, psychological intimidation, sexual coercion, and financial control, is unequivocally condemned and addressed through comprehensive legal frameworks.
These protections extend to all individuals within the UK, irrespective of their immigration status or nationality.
However, there have been cases, like that of Eze, where this law has been strategically used to hound and chase husbands away from their homes. Although some of these cases have turned out to be true, there has been a trend of calculated manipulation to oust immigrant husbands from their homes and even from the UK.
One such sad cases was relayed by a Nigerian lawyer, Dele Olawanle, who, in October 2023, shared a story of a Nigerian woman in the UK who falsely accused her husband and father of her three kids of raping and abusing her for over 12 years.
Eze, where this law has been strategically used to hound and chase husbands away from their homes. Although some of these cases have turned out to be true, there has been a trend of calculated manipulation to oust immigrant husbands from their homes and even from the UK.

One such sad cases was relayed by a Nigerian lawyer, Dele Olawanle, who, in October 2023, shared a story of a Nigerian woman in the UK who falsely accused her husband and father of her three kids of raping and abusing her for over 12 years.
According to Olawanle, the man had relocated his wife and three children to the UK as dependents, only for the woman to turn against him in a bid to secure independent residency.
In a shocking twist, she alleged that her husband had subjected her to 12 years of rape and domestic abuse, leading to his arrest.
“The husband was shocked when he got to the police station and the officers told him his wife had accused him of raping and abusing her for 12 years. He was devastated and cried throughout his time in custody,” Olawanle recounted.
However, a senior police officer took a special interest in the case and decided to conduct a deeper investigation.
Upon seizing the woman’s mobile phone, they discovered text messages from third parties instructing her on what to tell the authorities in order to secure indefinite leave to remain in the UK without her husband.
“The investigation exposed that she had been receiving messages advising her on how to frame her husband, ensuring he would be out of the picture while she remained in the UK with the children,” Olawanle stated.
With this revelation, the woman was subsequently arrested in October 2023 and detained.
Olawanle used the case to caution Nigerians considering relocation abroad, urging them to think beyond economic gains and consider whether their marriages and family structures could withstand the pressures of living in a different legal and cultural system.
“Before you decide to relocate to the UK, do not only think of the money you will make or the qualifications you will get. Think also of whether your marriage will survive and whether your children will not be taken away by social services or turned against you,” he warned.
He emphasised that many Nigerian men were now facing similar ordeals, where their wives manipulated Western legal systems to their advantage, often at the expense of their husbands.
“This applies to both men and women. Many people who lose their families abroad never considered the consequences before moving. Are you sure you are ready for it?” he questioned.

People don't understand that this whole thing is not even about Fubara. If the president can unconstitutionally remove a sitting governor and bribe lawmakers to illegally approve it (through voice vote which is not recognized by the constitution), the danger is that he can wake up and artificially cause a crises in a state he wants to capture and declare a state of emergency there and get his rubber-stamp lawmakers to approve it. There must be a limitation to all this madness. It is Rivers state today, tomorrow it'd be your state. He did it and people kept quiet. He'd look at it and laugh. And next time, have the guts to implement it on another state.

Igeme:
These boys are daring the federal might

If Obasanjo a military general could not handle these guys with all his brute force then who is Tinubu? I'm laughing in Spanish. There are some issues that use of force would only complicate, and the Niger Delta issue is one of it

Dannyset:
I understand the court is in Rivers State, but I am very sure the Judge is fully aware of the Supreme Court pronouncement on this issue.

Any Judge whatsoever that gives a judgement contrary to the SP judgement will be thoroughly sanctioned.

Did you read the supreme court judgment? The supreme court DID NOT address the issue of whether they left the PDP but addressed the fact that they didn't join APC. These are two very different things. And that's why there has been calls for the supreme court to definitively put this matter to rest by addressing the first point. So the matter isn't finished yet sir

Voice of Wike, hand of Tinubu. The plan is to impeach the governor and deputy and organize another gubernatorial elections where they will rig in an APC candidate as governor. The end game is to make Rivers an APC state which would be beneficial for Tinubu in 2027.

I'm not a fan of Tinubu but truth be told, if Tinubu is placed side by side with El rufai, I'd pick Tinubu a thousand times over. El rufai is a hypocrite and a worse option. In fact anyone El rufai supports I'd personally work against that person.

concho:
God abeg

Sorry man, such is football ⚽

Zulu11zulu:
Ok but you can never be our president he is still better than a terrorist wee don't want what happens to southern kaduna to happens in Nigeria,

El-Rufai and his family will hand Nigeria over to his fulani terrorist brothers

El-Rufai is coming for revenge not to better Nigeria.

Your son will be emperor he will be a dictator in aso rock, so go and sit your ass somewhere. 😜

Exactly you get the point
If I'm to choose between him and tinubu, I'd choose tinubu a thousand times over

RevDesm0ndJuju:
And the constitution states that only a court of law can declare a sit vacant over defection.

Why did Fubara jump the gun by declaring their seats vacant instead of going to court and securing a verdict in that regards?


Now the court up to the supreme Court has affirmed that the lawmakers never defected so all you are spewing is trash.

Fubara has nothing but himself to blame.

Sir you're wrong there. Fubara never declared their seats vacant. The lawmakers who didn't defect did so by their new speaker, not the governor.
Secondly, the constitution is self activating. When lawmakers defect, they automatically lose their seats. It's clearly stated in the constitution so you don't need any court to interpret that

RevDesm0ndJuju:
Fubara's impeachment was evident to all since the day he decided to demolish the Rivers state assembly complex and have the 27 man faction forcibly removed from their sits .


If you were part of that 27 man faction will you let Fubara's madness slide ?

I am even surprised that Fubara's crase even has limits . I thought he will disobey and disregard the Supreme Court ruling and run the state under Executive Orders as he has been doing ever since he chased duly elected representatives of the Rivers people from holding plenary in the now demolished state assembly complex .


What level of madness was Fubara operating on that he thought it was wise to commit such executive rascality ?


If Tinubu did the same and had the MASS demolished to the ground and had a a handful of Federal senators and representatives doing his bidding while preventing the remaining from sitting , how would you react to such madness ?

Fubara is a fool who thought as civilian elected governor he was akin to an emperor .


If he has any sense left he should shed himself of all the idiots who have been giving him terrible legal advice alongside the retinue of sychophants that were urging him on.

If he escapes impeachment , he must be made to undergo a training course on what the limits of his office as governor are as dictated by the constitution he swore to uphold.

What do you mean by he forcibly removed the 27 lawmakers? The constitution already did that the moment they swore an affidavit and left the party that brought them to power. So a governor who follows the constitution will automatically know that these guys are no longer part of the assembly and shouldn't do business with them. It's that simple. You can only argue for the fact that he was wrong by demolishing the quarters but regarding the 27 lawmakers they removed themselves from the assembly not the governor. If you respect the constitution then you should have known this for sure

OBIDIENTNAIJA:
It's free nah. CNF sport. It's free bro

It's not free to access. I saw $42 per month payment to access

OBIDIENTNAIJA:
Omo the match is so intense. Go download CNF sport. It's so good. Try it.

Lol I should pay $42 per month just to stream matches? Nice try Diddy

Why is this man acting and talking so weak and beggarly? This is irritating

Whoever is advising this Trump man isn't wise at all. Even a fool can tell that his tariff policy would backfire on the American economy and destroy it. Can American economy survive sanctioned from all these nations? Why pick a fight with almost all nations of the world? That's not smart

Iykebest40:
Wow! So she made false child endangerment allegations against him. Ns wa o. If not for thorough police investigations, she would have landed him in jail. No wonder he is waiting for the children to turn eighteen before taking custody before she will accuse him again.

You guys are making this whole thing too obvious
The pattern of the whole crafted write up and attempts at defence is too obvious that even a fool can see through it. You're even exposing yourselves more. Really Embarrassing

D00msDay:
From the pattern of comments in the first page, it's obvious this is a sponsored and paid post. Seun u go use ur hand spoil ur site reputation because of peanut.

I was wondering if I was the only one that noticed. Their job was poorly done and concealed. It's nairaland I pity cos they're losing their reputation cos of stuffs like this. And we already know Reno is someone who steals people's identity

Bone147:
I swear. Reno Mockery dey nairaland. See as him dey hustle to defend himself. Olodo

Exactly! You're very smart to have noticed that too. He even registered using different fake monikers to comment on his own post to make it look like it's different people saying positive stuffs about and defending him. We know all these

We were expecting this counter accusations from Reno exactly as he had done it--he would either use one of his many monikers, or use one of his pay boys to post the stuff on nairaland in his defence, and then use some of his fake monikers or other pay boys to comment positively for him in the comments section that follows the post, so as to make it look like different people are posting or commenting in his favour etc.
It's only fools that are deceived by this man. I understood his modus operandi long long time ago. He's a very deceptive and immature individual.l, jokes apart.

Pregnancy is not a requirement to marry a girl. But you must take responsibility for the child if it's yours. On the part of marrying her, you must understand that this girl doesn't respect commitment and a time will come when the initial excitement and hype of her marriage to you will die, and see finish will enter, and then she'd start seeing you as nothing and cheat on you with different guys. Her character of sleeping with different men says it all. So it's up to you, if you can endure your wife and mother of your children cheating on you and possibly getting pregnant for another man and having you father that man's child, then go ahead. Wisdom is profitable to direct!

Usmanovic95:
I missed the part the doctor propose marriage. Marriage proposal could have been the icing on the cake. flaunting pregnancy out of wedlock isn't morally right.

Exactly my thoughts!

A lady is trending online after she took to social media to share the story of how she got pregnant. The Nigerian lady has said she got pregnant for a medical doctor who once chatted with her.
The lady who has given birth to a baby, shared her story on TikTok and it has gone viral. In a video she posted, Mrs A said there was a night she was having a fever and she decided to message a medical doctor.
She said there is a medical doctor in her contact list. She messaged him and the man did not reply the next day. She captioned the video:
"You messaged a random "Doctor" on your contact list at 12 am to prescribe a malaria drug for you. I was having high temperature then and his name was the first thing that popped up after one year."
In a follow-up post, she said she and the doctor knew each other in the past. Now, she has gotten pregnant and given birth to him after contacting him again for a medical prescription. She said: Okayy "Have known him for like 2 years, but just talk once in a while. That night I was really overheating, I had to just find his contact and was like "Hii" then he replied the next day if I was fine...and I was like ohh I was having a fever and I'm good now. We spoke and I got to know he's coming to my city soon. The rest they say is....."

AndroBlaze:
Based on the current constitution and the way it is worded, I believe you are right

Fubara's biggest sin was never allowing the House to function once he started quarrelling with Wike. People are conveniently choosing to forget that he started fighting the House way before they announced they were decamping. This was his error. He violated the constitution then and when they announced they were decamping as a result, it was never going to be enough for learned Judges not to want to punish him for doing so in the first place..... and obviously Wike is a favourite to them so that helped too.

I don't understand what error you mean? His fight with them actually started when they, under the influence of Wike, decided to commence impeachment proceedings against him. And with the fact that the chief judge as at then was a core Wike loyalist, appointed by Wike himself, Fubara would never have survived that impeachment move by just watching proceedings. So that prompted him to make that move against the house (using his four men then) and also moving against the chief judge then. Any sitting governor would have done same thing he did to save himself

The point is not whether they joined APC or another party,but about whether they left the party which sponsored them to their positions. That's the question that needs to be resolved. Whether they joined APC or not is irrelevant and is not the matter at hand but whether they resigned from the PDP which sponsored them.
So in essence, that clause in the supreme court judgment has not proven anything or answered the pertinent question.

Zonefree:
She's a thief and should be treated as one. I'm surprised she's still breathing...waste of oxygen! Ugly looking female Nigerian crook!

Yet you've never ranted openly like this or openly protested against your lawmakers and politicians who steal your Commonwealth in billions every blessed day! Stealing is wrong, but as long as a politician can steal billions and is protected by the law and even his constituents like you, then the poor lady should be freed!

Kh36:
Kindergarten politics and you think the house will seat idle watch him do all this? The truth is that Fubara is in a difficult position now, the time yo purse this had gone. It cannot take more than two weeks to impeach him.

You obviously don't know the processes involved in impeaching a sitting governor. There's a reason why Fubara changed the previous chief justice and put in his core loyalist as the chief justice. Please find out.

Wolexyoshi:
There is always someone who knows more than what you know, therefore seek to know more.

The SC will definitely not rule base on audio defection.

1. Do the Lawmakers tender a resignation letter to their party PDP?
2. Does the APC at the ward level accepted them into their party?

If the answer to the two questions above are NO, then the Lawmakers can claim and defend that they didn't defect to APC and win the case.

Number 2 is insignificant and doesn't matter. The most important point is whether they resigned from their party which sponsored their election. Whether they joined another party or not is completely irrelevant to the constitution.

FreeStuffsNG:
If Ukraine cannot hold on for ordinary one year against Russia then it's shame on them.

If a tiny Hamas army could hold on against the powerful, advanced hi-tech military forces of Isreal and US for 15 long months till US/Israel agreed to a cease-fire deal then Ukraine has no excuse holding out for 4 years against Russia till President Trump leaves office.

In fact, they will be tagged as lazy and cowardly when compared to Hamas.

Point is, why continue a war they know they would eventually lose? Is it worth it killing your citizens when you know the odds are against you? War in modern times is not just about bravery but about alliances. Ukraine's only major alliance left, the EU are already betraying them and backtracking. They're all alone now against the US and Russia. How do you expect them to win this? Yes they might bravely hold out for a while but they know it would come at the cost of innocent civilians and critical infrastructure in that country. So that's not wisdom. Zelensky should step down.

Why is this nonsense front page! When I read the headline I thought it meant naira is now #460 to the dollar like where the govt met it. Anything short of this is not news worthy but absolute rubbish!

Bobloco:
Tinubu still holds El-Rufai in high esteem because he knows the immense contributions El-Rufai made towards his emergence as the APC presidential candidate and subsequently the president of Nigeria.

El-Rufai is too strategic to ignore, especially in the context of northern Nigeria, and Tinubu understands this fact.

Forget the rantings of Reno Omokri and his fellow hordes of urchinstons, BATerians, Agbadorians and paid agents who do nothing but engage in frivolous rantings on social media, looking for likes. Tinubu no send them

El Rufai na Tinubu baba, Losing him to the opposition will be catastrophic come 2027

You obviously don't understand politics. The president can even wish his worst enemy the best felicitations. It doesn't mean he holds that person in high esteem. It's just part of the game of keeping your friends close but your enemies closer. Understand the 48 laws of power.