Very empty response. If they didn't burst them now, they would have kept the money.

The reason we are seeing better cash distribution now, is because most banks were called out and banks that were dispensing are gaining the customers.

modath:
No one fights corruption in 3mths... But let's watch where this will end..
Politicians already have this money... It's too late to assume this anti people policy will stop vote sales... It will be easier now... 1-2k per vote..
Buhari and Emefiele may have devised a sound idea but flawed execution will ensure its sure FAILURE..

No politician has as much money as they had with the old notes. Including Tinubu.

When you have a partisan INEC rec. It's not possible to dissociate MC Oluomo from Lagos Parks and garages.

Which business is he running that gave him 100 million naira that he throws around

Tinubu as a chancellor of LAUTEC allowed the school to go on strike for a long time, despite answering "National Leader" of the two state governors.

Is that the kind of person that will resolve ASSU strike?

Nonsense Balablu and shiitt.

Who what's them in Aso rock

hopexter:


Who should step down for each other. Tinubu should step down for someone who’s living with him I’m his house? What contribution has obi made to deserve that or does Anambra looks like a state govern by your almighty Obi to deserve stepping down for.

How has the country be fair to him? He was only a governor of Lagos just like Obi? If you say he’s greedy of reaching the top of his career, isn’t obi greedy for having such ambition?

You are wicked and God hates the wicked. If you are not a card carrying member of APC, then you are a bigot to support Tinubu. Only bigotry will make you do so.

We can't have a president who blabs and gaff up and down. "Church rat eating poisoned Holy communion"

Balablu bulaba etc come on.. Please stop this wicked support.

I and the people I know can't vote and won't vote APC.

I'm not from the South East, but Obi has repeatedly said he lives in Onitcha. There are videos of those who visited him in his house at Onitcha.

So forget these stories of he living in Lagos. Tinubu didn't build house for him in Lagos.

I couldn't pick out anything specific. It's neither here nor there. BB

hopexter:


It’s only zombiediot like yourself that can’t see they want the power to remain in the North. Except Obi is planning on going back to PDP.

Then Tinubu should step down for Obi.

He can't say this country hasn't been fair to him. Unless he's greedy and we know what happens to greedy people.

Jafar Jafar wants a Mu Mu ticket.

We know his advocacy. If you know Jafar, you'd ignore the crap he writes.

LegendHero:
See how the foolish Emefiele set trap for himself.

You and your sponsors think by descending the nation to chaos, you can go through the back door to hurt Asiwaju’s chances.

Now Asiwaju understood the game and spoke loudly in Ogun and now few people drag Asiwaju into the blame and he is being insulated from the outburst.

If not that Emefiele or his cabal friends are dull, don’t they know that this policy will even aid vote buying rather than stop it?

Someone should think of this scenario. If you have 100k new naira note cash at the ATM stand, will people not rush you to exchange it? Now if a politician take new note to the election ground, some people will run to them because of the new note especially those that won’t on a normal day sell their vote because there is crazy scarcity currently. But politicians already got the new note and are storing it.

If this scarcity continue to the second week of February, the below scenario is what will play out.

You and Tinubu don't have that kind of money in the new currency. So go and rest.

Yes politicians have the new notes. But not like the old note. Agbado don't have so much of it.

If i have 500M in cash that i cant take to the bank because its money from dubious means, i may say the same thing and join the bank to frustrate the process.

I don't care about your party APC. In fact i don't want APC to win. Does Elrufai not have new naira notes in his house in millions?

Suddenly, Agbado people and Mikano guys see the masses suffering.

Recall that these people have been defending this government all these years. All what they are doing is fighting back using the masses as cannon.

austinvsb:


You are very slow if you think the banks will hoard cash from customers if they actually have enough from the CBN. Very very slow!

You have to make your response insulting because you are in a faceless forum? Stop it so you don't get cursed.

You don't need that negative energy. Also people who are really stronger than you are also here.

I wouldn't have responded to you but something forced me to warn you and it may be your guiding angel.

Don't attract negative energy to yourself.

Peace.

JASONjnr:
This isn funny anymore....


Nobody is asking Emefiele to give accounts of the money he claim he printed ....


Why are we having shortage of money?

Who's hoarding the currencies down?


How can a country be facing fuel crisis and money crisis?


Isn't this foolishness?

If this is an indirect move to push the country into a cashless policy, then this is wrong because we're not technically mature for cashless policy..

The banks should tell people how much they have received from CBN.

Do okpekpe people buy fuel cheap?

Tinubuadvocate:
Igbo will feel disappointed and hated among the other ethnic groups in Nigeria after the 2023 general election If outcome of the election not favour peter obi.
As we are moving toward presidential election and campaigns still intensify both presidential candidates and their supporters continue to showcase their plans to people and each candidate believe that he/ she will come victoriously.

However among the contestants peter obi based his campaign on religious, institution and ethnicity. Talk on religious this man have been go round all the churches with hope that the Christians will vote him just because he is a catholic member. Another method peter obi adopted was institution. Peter obi go round all the institutions whenever he visit a state in order to make his candidature more look as a youth project or have the interest of youths in mind the [b]same man that ordered SARS to killed 15 people when he was a governor.[/b]He will make sure he talk to students before his campaign started In the state just to attend his campaign rally.

Another method he adopted is ethnicity peter obi believe that his tribe igbo are more enlighten than other tribes he believe that his tribe are more closer to minority people than other tribes.

However all these strategies has already failed this will really make his supporters more disappointed if peter come third distance just like many predicted

Nonsense and balablu...
You are writing like a tomatoes seller. Your reasoning on this thread, is even worse.

AyeMoJuba:
The ABC of Osun Case for Layman by Prof Misbau Alamu Lateef who is a Professor of Law.

Let me just explain what happened to you in the simplest of ways.

1) The BVAS is truly a game changer and should ordinarily be above manipulation.

2) The BVAS ascertains or validates voters' identity, and it is mandatory prior to voting. Every voter must be BVASed before they are issued with a ballot to vote. In short, BVAS accredits voters.

3) After elections, the results are then collated and entered manually on INEC form EC8As. However, the number of voters on INEC Form EC8A must never exceed the number of accredited voters on BVAS. That's over-voting and automatic cancellation under the EA 2022.

4) When a winner was declared by INEC in Osun elections, it was assumed by all that the BVAS and Form EC8As tallied. It was thought that Adeleke won and Oyetola lost.

5) APC applied for the BVAS report and Form EC8AS to file their petition days after the winner was declared.

6) APC in preparing their Petition found discrepancies between BVAS report and FORM EC8As in over 700 polling units. The votes recorded on Form EC8As literally exceeded what the BVAS accredited. There was over-voting by people who must have literally bypassed the BVAS either for not having PVCs or other dubious reasons.

7) Once INEC, PDP, and the Governor were served with the APC Petition, they all filed their responses and INEC added/pleaded another entirely different BVAS report, which INEC now DUBIOUSLY called a "SYNCHRONISED BVAS Report."

7) So, there were two BVAS reports before the Tribunal. The one issued to APC before they filled their petition and the one issued by INEC to self during the pendency of the petition.

At the Tribunal, each party strove hard to prove which BVAS was credible and which was not. The Tribunal then had to decide that....

Now, you please be the judge. Which of the two conflicting BVAS does your conscience, if functional, say is credible? The first one that was used to declare a winner on the elections day or the other "SYNCHRONISED BVAS" issued to self and pleaded by INEC almost 30 days after a winner was already declared and during the pendency of the Petition of the APC

What does your functional conscience say?

I think INEC National should be grateful to APC/Oyetola/Osun for helping them expose the manipulation that dubious INEC officials and politicians can subject the BVAS to.

Plus, voters must now know that bypassing the BVAS is not helpful. Everyone must be accredited by the BVAS to be eligible to vote.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria 🇳🇬 🇳🇬

Why and how did we have two BVAS report. That inconsistencies shows there could be fake BVAS out there or the BVAS is easily manipulated.

reenxtus001:
It is a welcome development by the President and the CBN chief. Although the deadline is a little to premature as most of the people would be scampering to return the old notes.

please look below 👇

People really started depositing their monies. From Monday last week. The only exchange going on was the backyard exchanges being done with bank managers . Those exchanges where so much that it will affect the system and it actually did.

Some banks sopped going to pick up the.new notes, hoping to frustrate process and extend the deadline. This cry for extension came just when information from the president, got to them that the date will not be postponed.

The establishment is fighting because of their illicit money. Left for me, it shouldn't be extended. But if they should, it must not be more than one week.

Aufbauh:


Stop being myopic as there's no nation which only saviour is one man.

Many of you guys his supporters hyped this man as if it's not this mediocre Obi that governed Anambra state for 8Yrs.

In all honesty, do we want Nigeria of today to be administered the way Obi governed Anambra state? If we want that then Nigeria and Nigerians has a long wait to get to the ideal destination we'd hope for.

Are you deliberately being funny? If not Obi at this time, then who.

Tinubu at his current state? Or Atiku with how Nigeria is now?


You must either be eating from the same plate from BAT or Atiku. If not, there is no wisdom in what you are saying.

All these are part of the equation to make Obi president.

APC and PDP won't dare over vote.

BAT has said worse things about his own election than Adewale.
So they should rest

What about the currency part of yesterday's speech. Is it PDP that's sabotaging BAT?

Nonsense.. The whole world knows Johnson suleman and his wife. So cut that crap. There's nothing to suggest their separation.

Make una rest jare.

But your government is in power na?

Obidients!!!!


Congratulations in ADVANCE, we have won the election. Obi is the Highest and most important factor in this election, after God almighty.

Obidients are always mentioned even when they are not involved.

This Adamu, had to call Obidients even when it's about PDP and APC.

did he mention NNPP, ADC PRP?

NO!

THEY ARE AFRAID.

OBIDIENTS, WE KEEP PUSHING.

safarigirl:
Bretheren, Nollywood has started their 2023 on Netflix with a bang.

No, I am not exaggerating. If you haven't seen this movie wake up and go and watch it, you're not bigger than peer pressure. If for nothing else, watch it for Chidi Mokeme, let him show you that class is permanent. Who God has endowed with a gift, never loses it.

Without further ado, let's get into the thick of things with this much anticipated (on my end) 6-episode series, Shanty Town


Title : Shanty Town

Producer: Chinenye Chichi Nworah

Writer(s): Xavier Ighorodje, Donald Tombia, ShirleyAnn Ede, Ayomikun Paseda
Director: Dimeji Ajibola

Cast: Ini Edo, Chidi Mokeme, Nse Ikpe-Etim, Nancy Isime, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Zubby Michael, Peter Okoye, Shaffy Bello, Shola Sobowale, Ali Nuhu, Mercy Eke.

Plot:

An undercover detective on a revenge mission, infiltrates a crime ring, and uncovers damning information on their activities and associates.


Review:

Yes, I know the plot is a bit thin and straight to the point, but that's basically the premise of the story. Now, let's get into it.

As earlier stated, Shanty Town is a crime drama, think of something along the lines of KOB, and you basically have it.

To be honest, I don't know where to start with the review of this movie, because everything was damn near perfect, but let me begin with the writing. I'm very particular with writing, because I find a lot of Nigerian productions have some underwhelming writing behind them, but the writers of this story did a GREAT job. There were quotable quotes, relatable lines, witty words, and perhaps my best part- a healthy exploration of Nigerian indigenous languages; there was Yoruba, Igbo and Ibibio, aside the usual pidgin. Na the Ibibio sweet me pass. It was so well written, there were no plotholes, nothing to make you go, "Na for Naija this one dey happen?", the suspense was suspensing, the drama dramad. Every event was interwoven to bring us to the climax and what a climax it was. It has been a long time since I watched something from Nollywood that didn't make me pause and scrounge my face a bit at how unrealistic it was for the setting (okay, I take this back because of The Wait). The writers crossed their T's and dotted their I's, but the dialogue, particularly for the character of Scar, was my favourite part of this series.


This leads me to my next favourite part- the acting. To be honest, I have this theory that where there is a Star cast, one of two things could happen; the performances will either be really good, or really bad. No in-between. So, when I saw the cast for Shanty Town, I was hopeful it would fall under the former. Thankfully, it did. Everybody brought their A-Game, so, I'll just be mentioning a few performances that made this series worth the watch. Perhaps my biggest concern was Mercy Eke, but she blew me away with her performance in the first 2 episodes. I didn't know she had it in her to be so good. You'd never believe this is her first proper movie. I hope she gets more roles in the industry. Nse and Ini Edo were their usual brilliant selves, and then when they were speaking Ibibio to each other, E sweet me die. The seamless movement through languages was a joy to watch. Shaffy Bello had what some would call a minor role in the movie, but her delivery in the scene she was introduced pleasantly surprised me. I knew she had it in her, but I was no less giddy with excitement at how well she delivered her character. RMD, always the epitome of charisma and carriage, killed his role as DaCosta Fernandez. The inspiration for the character, and to some extent, Scar, was a little too on the nose. At this point, the owner of Lagos should start collecting money from these movie makers for the inspiration. Nancy Isime also pulled off a stellar performance, I'm beginning to enjoy her in crime dramas, from Blood Sisters to this Shanty Town, she's always so good at them. PS, THAT scene was a body double, not Nancy. If you haven't watched it, when you get to THAT scene, you'll know. The body of the double was bodying .

Now, I have to take a special paragraph for this man, because walahi, na him get this Series. CHIDI MOKEME IS AN ACTOR!!!!! As in, HE DEY ACT. God will bless whoever cast him in the role of Scar and God bless Chidi for doing that role justice. My multi-lingual king reminded us of why he's called a veteran. If you no feel that performance, check yourself. I love a good villain, give me a villain I can root for, a villain I want to succeed, and Scar was that villain. Kudos to the writers once again, for writing a character that was so exciting to watch, but even more kudos to Chidi Mokeme for bringing their vision to life. Delivery is such an important part of production, it can either make or break a movie, and Chidi delivered Scar in ways I haven't seen a villain delivered since Shola in KOB. MC Oluomo would be proud, every agbero in Lagos would be proud. I don't want to downplay what the new generation Nollywood actors have achieved, but Chidi is their daddy. I could only think of 3 others that could give us a performance so good, and I doubt any of them would have chewed Yoruba and Igbo like Chidi did. I hope this performance does not go unrewarded. It was an award-winning performance, and I really hope he makes it to a second season.

Now, on to other things. Like, the action sequences. There were guns, fist fights, bloody murders and a yellow and black bus that was dispensable. The action scenes were well executed, I loved that they blew shit up, and had a bus in an accident. The goriness associated with hacking a person was well done. There was some NECESSARY nudity (because I know some of you will start asking "was it necessary?" Yes! Yes, it was), some of you don't realise that certain scenes can exist for viewers to learn more of a character. Trigger warning, there's also rape, so, if that's too heavy for you, be mindful. Overall, the action scenes were all well produced.

I liked the Setting. The series is set in Lagos, so, we see the ghetto side of things, as well as the more posh areas. Nothing is extravagant per say though, but every setting was put to good use.

With the music, I must commend the 2-for-1 deal some filmmakers are able to secure by casting a musician and then just using their music as part of the soundtrack. It's a good way to bypass intellectual property rights issues, and the producers applied this by using music from Peter Okoye (P-Square), who was already a cast member.

Technically speaking, the cinematography was great, the editing was good, and the sound was thankfully, good as well. At least I did not have my remote on hand to turn the volume up or down depending on the scene. The costumes were good, I liked that Nse's character had a steady choice of Ankara outfits, showcasing some Nigerian fits. I also liked Shaffy's fits. Whoever was in charge of Special Effects was equally brilliant, the body parts were very believable

The series explores themes of human trafficking, corruption, organised crime, there's a hint of spirituality etc.

As for criticisms, whole the fighting scenes were god, certain parts of it were subpar to be honest. It could have been better. Another teeny tiny one, at the early scenes where the wig of one of the characters partially slipped off, so, we could see her cornrows underneath. It's an insignificant gaffe, but a gaffe nonetheless.


Overall, this series was a work of brilliance. A well-thought out piece and I'm hopeful Season 2 will be in the works. Please please please, watch it if you haven't. And if you have, what are your thoughts on it?


Rating: 9/10

With your paid posts to over hype crappy movies.

After watching the last one you reviewed, I'll do my self good to ignore the movie.

Personally, I feel these invitations are no longer necessary.

Campaign has moved to the street. They invited them before. Unless the person who didn't attend the previous one is the one pushing for these second chances.

All of a sudden they are signing another peace accord.


Are all these repeated invites because of Tinubu?

Ttalk:
You just drop an idea that enters your mind and want us to take it as a reality.

Let me state it loud and clear, Obi will not win a single LG in Lagos state.

Tell me the indigenous people that are with Obi that LP can't present as a candidate in Federal and state elections. Was it all the Igbo that are contesting in LP in Lagos state that is indigenous people?

You have said that Lagosians are enlightened and they have already dug the record of Peter Obi as governor in Anambra and found out that he is not qualified to be a council Chairman in Lagos state.

Brief research here on Nairalsnd has shown what Anambra people think of Obi.

Should we begin to open up complaints from Igbo people against Peter Obi from Anambra1son who complained bitterly that there is no functioning primary school in his village or one Owobokiri that used to lament about the gross incompetence of Obi? All of them are now shouting Obi is the best Andrew liver Salt.

Your Obi will not even take second position in Lagos state.

Apart from Igbo residing in Lagos, no one will vote Obi. Take that and have peace of mind

You are talking Balablu!!!

Your Yoruba sentiment in Lagos, is not real.

rolams:


It better now. INEC the time for candidate's name change is over. If Atiku goes down, the will also go down. If Atiku succeed, their own don finish!

Atiku is not in the race jare... People are just forcing it.

Was it like this in 2019?

Some people can't read the room.

Felimax:


Go and make him loose na!
Did Buhari ever won Rivers State!
Was he your president for 8 years?


Fountain of tears awaits you people. Explosion nor va start for Rivers State o, na tsunami una go see!

So which other state did buhari win that Atiku will win. Particularly down south.


You think it's about Wike?