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Nairaland General › A Day In The Life Of... A Lagos Street Sweeper by emamos(op): 11:38am On Sep 25, 2015

As she cleans the dust and grime off the city’s roads, 40-year-old Kafayat Badru dreams of a brighter future
It is drizzling as we approach the team of orange jumpsuit-clad street sweepers busily removing the damp sand from Lagos' bustling Opebi Link Road. One of them looks up for just long enough to point out Kafayat Badru, a sweeper a little further down the road.
Crouched over to scoop up sand, she seems oblivious to the speeding traffic and our approach. When she notices us, she stands tall, but holds on to her broomstick as though life itself emanates from it.
"I'm strong," she says, by way of introduction. But her grimace suggests otherwise.
In fact, the 40-year-old street sweeper has malaria.
Such declarations of wellbeing in the face of adversity aren't uncommon in Nigeria, particularly among Evangelical Christians. It's an expression of faith inspired by a Bible passage: "Let the weak say, I'm strong" (Joel 3:10). But Kafayat isn't a Christian. She is a Muslim who punctuates many of her statements with 'Alhamdulillah', the Arabic for 'all thanks are due to Allah'.
This isn't an aberration. In the south of the country, it is usual for Christians and Muslims to borrow from one another's faiths and to share in one another's celebrations and religious services.
She is feverish, but neither the rain nor the malaria are sufficient excuse to stay away from work. So, this morning, she reported for work at 6am with her dustpan, broom and bucket, just as she does six days a week. The alternative is too grim for this mother of four to contemplate.
The dust and sand can cause respiratory problems and eye infections for the street sweepers [Abiodun Omotosho/Al Jazeera]
At work
When she first became a street sweeper, Kafayat says people would taunt and make fun of her for doing such a "dirty and lowly paid job". But for her, the choice was between street sweeping and hunger.
She speaks softly and avoids making eye contact as she explains: "I was shy and was worried about how people would view me."
"In fact some of my friends were angry that I decided to take up this kind of job. But I told them since they cannot meet my needs, and are unable to get me a better job, I have to do this …."
"My husband has three wives but his business isn't doing well lately," she continues as she sweeps sand into the open gutter. "So I'm left to cater for my children from what I earn here and from my small store at home."
But the work is physically crushing. Bending over for hours at a time as they sweep thick layers of sand and dust off the asphalt with a straw broom leaves many of the sweepers with debilitating aches and pains.
"It is not an easy job," Kafayat admits.
"Most times my body aches, but I am not fazed by that because this is the only employment I have and I have responsibilities to meet, like to take care of my children."
She scoops two mounds of sand into her bucket. "So I have to come here and work despite the challenges."
But the pains in her muscles and joints, which heavy doses of pain killers have done little to suppress, are not the only side effect of this work. She says she constantly suffers from respiratory problems and eye infections as a result of the constant exposure to dust. Her face mask, rubber shoes and long, thick socks provide only minimal protection.
"As you can see I'm wearing a long sock and plastic shoes to protect my feet and legs," she explains. "But dust still gets into my toenails and sometimes causes whitlow. Dust also gets into our eyes. We are not issued protective glasses."
By about 11:30am, Kafayat has finished sweeping her section of the road. She removes a bottle of energy drink from the bag she keeps by the gutter and quickly consumes half of its contents. Then she washes her arms, legs and face at a nearby tap, before taking a plastic bowl to a food seller a further down the road. It is noon, and she is just about to have breakfast.
Kafayat takes a quick break from sweeping the streets [Abiodun Omotosho/Al Jazeera]
But her work is not done for the day. Kafayat's shift ends at 1:30pm, and she must wait by the side of the road until another street sweeper arrives to take over from her.
For this, she earns just 12,000 naira ($60) a month, which is less than Nigeria's minimum wage of 18,000 naira ($91). And even this is rarely paid on time.
In fact, scores of street sweepers recently protested in front of the state's parliament over the failure of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) to pay their salaries for five months.
And, despite the risks to their health as a result of their work and the danger inherent in working so close to fast-moving vehicles, the sweepers receive neither health nor life insurance. According to LAWMA, between 2007 and 2010, 57 street sweepers were killed in car accidents while carrying out their work. Several others have been maimed for life.
Kafayat says she trusts in God to protect her from such a fate. But she does worry about what would happen to her children if she was severely injured or killed in an accident.
It is the end of the morning shift now and the sweepers have gathered inside a makeshift kiosk to say a short prayer together. It is a brief opportunity to talk and laugh among themselves, and special prayers are recited and songs sung for a colleague who is celebrating her 50th birthday.
Despite wearing long socks and a face mask, Kafayat still finds it difficult to get rid of the sand and dust [Abiodun Omotosho/Al Jazeera]
At home
But rain clouds are gathering overhead and it's clear that another downpour is on its way. Kafayat and the other street sweepers would prefer not to get caught in it.
She makes her way to the bus stop to catch a tricycle taxi, popularly known as a keke napep, but the rain is already falling heavily.
Olorunshogo, where Kafayat lives, is a cluster of dirty old brick houses on the outskirts of Oshodi. A cacophony of noise greats you there - pirated DVDS blaring from the speakers of their sellers, the clatter of old printing machines, the yells of street hawkers drawing attention to their wares.
The room she shares with her four children is on the ground floor of a building constructed in the style known as face-me-I-face-you. Such set-ups are common in Lagos, and basically feature two rows of rooms facing each other with just a passageway in between.
Kafayat’s shop is in an old shipping container. She has very little stock and has to use empty boxes to make the shelves appear more full [Abiodun Omotosho/Al Jazeera]
There are nine families living in Kafayat's building and they all share just one toilet and bathroom.
Her youngest child, six-year-old Abdulbarki, rushes to greet us as Kafayat shows us around the building. Cheerful and chatty, he didn't inherit his mother's shyness. Kafayat wants the best for him, she explains, which is why she has enrolled him in a private school. He is the only one of her children to attend one and the fees are 15,000 naira ($76) a semester. But to be able to afford this, sacrifices must be made elsewhere: the boy's lunch is just plain bread and water, and his mother must try to make the most of the small store she runs.
Made out of a shipping container, she makes dresses in there on an old sewing machine and sells groceries. But she doesn't have much stock at the moment. In fact, she has had to strategically arrange empty boxes on the otherwise bare shelves.
Kafayat augments her income from the shop by selling cold drinks from an old deep fridge kept in the passageway of the building where she lives.
Later that day, Kafayat has to get the last of her anti-malarial injections. It will be administered by a nurse in the space that she uses as both her bedroom and clinic. The building is in even worse condition than the one in which Kafayat lives.
Kafayat has just had her last anti-malarial injection and is feeling weak and exhausted. Still, the mother of four, her children aged between six and 18, must keep going [Abiodun Omotosho/Al Jazeera]
After getting the injection, Kafayat leaves the nurse's room and then immediately collapses on a concrete slab outside the door. She stays there for several minutes before she feels well enough to move.
The sweeper is clearly exhausted. But she has plans, she says, for a life away from the dust and grime of the streets.
"This is not the kind of job one should do for a very long time. It saps one's energy," she reflects. "…I plan to stop doing this as soon as possible. So, in another year, I hope to have saved enough money … to start my own business."
Kafayat does her family’s laundry.She says she has plans to leave her street sweeping job one day and to start her own business, but she just needs to save a little more money first [Abiodun Omotosho/Al Jazeera]http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/my-nigeria/2015/09/day-life-lagos-street-sweeper-150923161233447.html

Travel › Re: Nigerian Migrants Trying To Enter Kiev Under Guise Of Football Team Detained At by emamos(op): 11:35am On Sep 25, 2015

ProphetUdeme:
dont be a hypocrite. Even you, you would do same.

soro niyen,you particularly would do same doesnt mean everybody would do likewise

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Travel › Re: Nigerian Migrants Trying To Enter Kiev Under Guise Of Football Team Detained At by emamos(op): 11:17am On Sep 25, 2015

Good people,great nation.. disgracing us everywhere

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Travel › Nigerian Migrants Trying To Enter Kiev Under Guise Of Football Team Detained At by emamos(op): 11:17am On Sep 25, 2015

The men said they arrived in Ukraine to play in a match that would take place in the Transсarpathian region, however nobody was waiting for them and no competitions were scheduled on their arrival day

Ukrainian border guards have detained at Kiev’s Boryspil International Airport "a football team" from Nigeria, the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service reported on Friday.

"Officers of the Kiev independent checkpoint detained a ‘football team’ at Boryspil airport yesterday [on Thursday, September 24]," said the State Border Guard Service, adding that the 12 detained Nigerians arrived by an Istanbul-Kiev flight. "The citizens said they arrived in Ukraine to play in a match that would take place in the Trans-Carpathian region," the agency added.

The border guards’ suspicion was raised by the information provided by the passengers. "Nobody was waiting for this ‘team’ to arrive in Ukraine and no competitions were scheduled on their arrival day. It also turned out that the men from Nigeria had no means of subsistence for staying in Ukraine," the service said. The fake footballers also failed to give the true reasons for their trip to Western Ukraine.

As a result, the Ukrainian side denied entry to the Nigerian citizens through the state border. "The trespassers will be sent back by a return flight," the State Border Guard Service said.

http://tass.ru/en/world/823599

Crime › Re: Police Arrest 46 Suspected Cultists In Edo by emamos(op): 11:06am On Sep 25, 2015

why cultist dey plenty for Edo state..

Crime › Police Arrest 46 Suspected Cultists In Edo by emamos(op): 11:04am On Sep 25, 2015

The Police in Edo arrested 46 suspected cultists ‎in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State on Thursday.
The Commissioner of Police in Edo, Mr Chris Ezike, who confirmed the arrest to newsmen, said it was part of the efforts by the command to maintain law and order in the state.
According to the police, the suspects were arrested during a raid in Ekpoma, following recent cult clashes recorded in the town, which also hosts the Ambrose Alli University.
Ezike noted that the suspects were being screened by intelligence officers from the command.
He recalled that the command had vowed to make Edo uncomfortable for criminals when he ‎read the riot act to senior officers and the rank and file of the command on Sept. 14.
He said, “Cultists are criminals; I will not allow them to operate in Edo. You know there was a cult war in Ekpoma recently. So, I directed that the situation must be brought under control.
“And since the raid which lasted for two days, Ekpoma is now calm. We arrested 46 suspects. Pump action and AK47 rifles and ammunition were recovered from them; we are screening them,’’ he said. (NAN)http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/25/police-arrest-46-suspected-cultists-in-edo/

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Politics › Re: Buhari Is Not A Nigerian - Professor Soremekun by emamos(op): 10:06am On Sep 25, 2015

lakaplonto:
Hi every one..what's up in naija?

Naija s cool...tot you are back frm Syria

Politics › Re: Buhari Is Not A Nigerian - Professor Soremekun by emamos(op): 10:01am On Sep 25, 2015

chuna1985:
We igbos don't look for jobs. We are not Yorubas n we are definitely not from the Northern illiterate section.

^^^

den what are WE looking for?

Politics › Buhari Is Not A Nigerian - Professor Soremekun by emamos(op): 7:34am On Sep 25, 2015

As I contemplate the Nigerian condition or non-condition, I continue to marvel at contemporary happenings. The nirvana is certainly not here yet. Still, it is possible to discern new ozone in public life. Suddenly, public officials are more responsive. The refineries appear to be working. Petrol queues, for now at least, are gone. Electricity supply seems to have improved. And therefore one is tempted to ask: What has happened? Have we really had any novel policy thrusts since Muhammadu Buhari assumed the Presidency of the country? As a student of public affairs, it is possible to answer this question in the negative. Yet, there is a new ozone in public life. It does not take much to appreciate that, what has happened so far is that the President’s reputation and sheer force of personal example have probably struck the fear of God in people who run our institutions. The upshot is that a novel and positive lease of life seems to pervade the land One striking instance here is President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent public declaration of his assets. As we all know by now, these assets are now in the public space. And if those details are true, then what has been declared should sear the conscience of all past and present public officers, particularly at the highest of levels. Here is a man, who has been in control of vast resources as a military governor, minister of petroleum and a former Head of State. Yet, all that he could claim to own are houses and lands in places like Port Harcourt, Kaduna and Abuja as well as N30n in his bank account. To be sure, by the general Nigerian standards, Buhari is not a poor man. But by the jaded and conscienceless standards of his peers, he certainly comes up short-at least in materialistic terms. Some people with warped values are even likely to snigger and ask: Is this the entire worth of this man? Probably yes. But on the platform of morality, very few of his peers can really hold up the candle to him. And this is partly why, I have dared to state here that, Buhari is not a Nigerian. If he was the typical Nigerian in public life, he would be in possession of trillions, cash wise and non-cash equivalents in other areas like properties and jets ownership.

Even then, the declaration in itself has sparked off implicit and explicit comparisons, which seem to indicate that this man stands out. Indeed, some people with a dark sense of humour or out of sheer wonder and concern have pointed out that the average local government chairman in Nigeria (where else?) is richer than Buhari. And of course and as we all know, this may well be true. But, what is perhaps much more revealing especially in these times is that other public officials are refusing to be drawn into the ring of public asset declaration. Take our elected governors for instance. Either out of ignorance or mischief, they are saying that there are no statutory provisions which require them to do so. Very much the same bankrupt postures can be observed on the part of the senators and members of the House of Representatives who, by the way, are supposed to be distinguished and honourable.
Meanwhile, and as revealed in newspaper reports, Buhari appears to be exasperated by the fact that, despite his attempts to come clean with what he owns, he appears to have opened up another round of controversy on this issue. In a sense, this is only to be expected. Vultures as they are wont, have to feed on something. Which is why, the General’s contentions are very instructive. According to him, in the course of his public life, he has declared his assets four times since 1974. At the risk of being contradicted, I do not think that any Head of State or public official has come forth in this way.

However, for the records, as well as balance, it is relevant to state here that in the recent past, former President Umaru Yar’Adua, and his then deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, respectively declared their assets. But when the latter mounted the saddle as the point-man of our system, and the self-same issue came up, he pointedly and memorably remarked: I do not give a damn! Which is just as well. For in a rather Freudian and self-indicting way, Jonathan was known to declare in another context that some of our leaders behave like motor park touts!

But even then, before I am done, since Buhari has bitten the bullet, it may be useful for other public officials to do the same. I am referring here to governors, ministers, and the invisible army of invincible permanent secretaries. And to President Buhari, he should take heart. After all, my ancestral folk, in their eternal wisdom, have always said that if you indict someone for cooking a bad soup, what will you do to the person who has cooked none?
Last line: I am sure that the hidden dimensions of Buhari’s assets would have been exposed by now if such information was available.

*.Soremekun is a Professor of Political Science at the National Open University of Nigeria

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/buhari-is-not-a-nigerian/

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Crime › Re: Student Caught At Lagos Airport With 10.255kg Of Drugs Hidden In Garri by emamos(op): 8:33pm On Sep 24, 2015

make dem ban me for a month if d topic no reach fp..

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Crime › Re: Student Caught At Lagos Airport With 10.255kg Of Drugs Hidden In Garri by emamos(op): 8:29pm On Sep 24, 2015

ab1x:
hmmmmm

speechless

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Crime › Student Caught At Lagos Airport With 10.255kg Of Drugs Hidden In Garri by emamos(op): 8:20pm On Sep 24, 2015

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Thursday arrested a student and four other suspected drug traffickers with 10.255 kilogrammes of narcotics at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Lagos.

Speaking on the arrest, NDLEA Airport Commander, Mr. Ahmadu Garba said that the suspects were apprehended for their involvement in smuggling drug hidden in garri adding that two of the drug suspects were coming from Brazil with cocaine while three others were going to South Africa, Dubai and Pakistan when they were arrested.

Mr. Garba further gave the names of those apprehended as “26 year old student Okonkwo Daniel Anagor, was caught with 2.810kgs of Tramadol on his way to Dubai, Lawal Monsuru Ademola, 33 year old trader was arrested with 3.310kgs of methamphetamine on his way to South Africa while Ogbonna Donatus Chigozie was caught attempting to smuggle 610 grammes of cocaine to Pakistan. Two other suspects, Okoro Chibueze Augustine and Okpue Ernest Ifeanyi were caught with 2.575kgs and 950 grammes of cocaine from Brazil”.

Meanwhile Chairman of NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade while reacting to the recent arrests called on Nigerians to shun drug trafficking and promote peaceful coexistence.

“Some of the lessons of Eid el Kabir are obedience and love. Let us love one another and obey the laws of the land by avoiding drug trafficking and abuse. This way we can promote safety and peaceful coexistence”.

The NDLEA boss also advised the suspects to turn a new leaf and contribute to nation building stressing further that all the five suspects would soon be charged to court.

Narrating his ordeal, one of the suspects, Mr. Okonkwo David Anagor who was to board Rwand Air flight to Dubai told anti-graft investigators that he wanted to spend some time after his secondary school and further his education in Dubai.

According to him, “I was travelling to Dubai to spend holiday and further my studies but they called me from Dubai that somebody will give me garri in Lagos.

When I got to Lagos, the person called me and gave me the bag of garri. This is my first time of travelling outside the country. At the airport, the garri was searched and 445 sachets of Tramadol were found inside the bag. That was how I was arrested”.

Also, Mr. Lawal Monsuru Ademola, a trader selling clothes at Marina Lagos who holds a Diploma in Computer Installations and Repairs at the Lagos State Polytechnic was caught on his way to South Africa with 3.310kgs of crystalline substance which tested positive for methamphetamine that was neatly packed in 26 parcels in a false bottom of his luggage.

Similarly, Ogbonna Donatus Chigozie was nabbed with 610 grammes of cocaine while attempting to board an Emirate flight to Pakistan.

Okoro Chibueze Augustine who was expecting N2.5 million described his arrest as a bad luck.

In his words, “I have lived in Brazil for a year and six months. I have suffered trying to make ends meet in Brazil. I got involved in drug trafficking so as to start a legitimate business. I expected to have made N2.5 million from the deal.

Unfortunately, my partner who would have collected the drug in Dubai failed to show up so I had to come to Nigeria with the drug. That was not the original plan. This is a bad luck and I feel so sad”. He is single and hails from Imo State.

Okpue Ernest Ifeanyi who had lived in Brazil for a year said that he came to Nigeria for his traditional marriage ceremony. “I work in a restaurant in Brazil. I am 39 years old and I sincerely want to get married and have a family. In the process of trying to make more money, I was given 59 wraps of cocaine to take to Nigeria for N400,000 naira. Now I realized I have made a big mistake. I pray my woman will find a place in her heart to forgive me. I feel I am under a spell” he stated. He hails from Enugu./

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/student-caught-at-lagos-airport-with-10-255kg-of-drugs-hidden-in-garri/

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Politics › Re: Boko Haram Suspect Arrested In Lagos (Photo) by emamos: 9:21am On Sep 23, 2015

Sicozone:
but this guy doesn't look boko now..... Yaay! its me again and am back to thank all nairalanders for all the many many likes yesterday. Y'all really made my day worthwhile. Bless you

^^^

were you paid for d likes? Kd

Politics › Re: Boko Haram Suspect Arrested In Lagos (Photo) by emamos: 9:17am On Sep 23, 2015

Lilimax:
Has he been tried and proven to be a Bokoharam or is he just a mere suspect?

Politics › Re: Boko Haram Suspect Arrested In Lagos (Photo) by emamos: 9:12am On Sep 23, 2015

[quote author=anonimi post=38293205[s]]Meanwhile Buhari and his chaperon, Tinubu are busy chasing the shadows of Saraki while our nation burns in the hands of Boko Haram terrorists and the economy grinds to a halt towards a RECESSION[/s].

[s]How did we vote such non-entities on March 28[/s] huh

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Politics › Re: Names Of Senators Who Accompanied Saraki To CCT Yesterday....... [29 In All] by emamos: 8:36am On Sep 23, 2015

Imortal001:
English master thanks, but hope you got the message!

^^^

nobody is perfect,thanks.

Nairaland General › . by emamos(op): 8:17am On Sep 23, 2015

Politics › Re: Names Of Senators Who Accompanied Saraki To CCT Yesterday....... [29 In All] by emamos: 8:09am On Sep 23, 2015

Imortal001:
They are all birds of thesame feather flying together with their shameless face.

birds of a feather flock together

Phones › Re: Seems MTN Is Rebranding. I Got This by emamos: 1:16pm On Sep 22, 2015

blackfase:
Competition sure does bring about positives. Its still far cry from what we hope for but I guess things r happening & can only get better. I see 3gb + talktime goin for #1k in d very near future

asuustrike2009:
i can not see 3g worth of data from your screenshot, secondly it is N600 not N1000 from your shot and lastly it is for selected sims

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Politics › Crude Language Reflects Metuh’s Personality, Says APC by emamos(op): 9:22am On Sep 22, 2015

The All Progressives Congress has admonished the NationalPublicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. OlisaMetuh, to show some decorum in his public statements and avoid the useof trench language in public discourse.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National PublicitySecretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Metuh’s increasingresort to the use of putrid language in his press statements is distracting from the message he might want to pass across, while at the same time sending a bad signal to the younger generation ofNigerians who look up to him and other politicians.
”Mr. Metuh, being the spokesman, first for a ruling party and now for the main opposition puts you on the rarefied level of being a role model and a pace setter. You denigrate your office and your party when you use that platform to spew out hate and abusive words.
”You might choose to be bombastic, sharply critical and evenaggressive in your statements, but you do not have to resort to theuse of crude language like calling your fellow spokesman a ‘renownedliar,’ a ‘master liar’ or a ‘shameless veteran,’ to make your point. Apart from distracting from the issues at stake, those words reflect more on your personality than on the man you have chosen toskewer, and their vulgarity is stomach-churning,” it said.
The APC said every statement being issued today will become a reference material in the weeks, months and years ahead, hence the need to keep them decent, polished and dignifying, even when they are hard-hitting.
The party said it has chosen to caution the PDP spokesman rather than reply him in kind, hoping he will see the reason for him not to continue on the path of profanity.
”After all, it was American religious leader Spencer W. Kimball whosaid ‘Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly,”’ it said.http://www.punchng.com/news/crude-language-reflects-metuhs-personality-says-apc/

Crime › House Maid Re-arraigned For Pouring Hot Water On Employer by emamos(op): 9:16am On Sep 22, 2015

Lagos—A 17-year-old house maid, Esther Abiodun, who was alleged to have poured hot water on her employer, Alhaja Dupe Iba Agba, while she was asleep, was yesterday re-arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court.
The defendant is standing trial on a two- count charge bordering, on unlawful pouring of hot water on her employer’s body and causing grievous bodily harm, preferred against her by the police.
The defendant, who was first arraigned on September 18, had pleaded guilty to the charges against her and Magistrate W. Balogun adjourned the matter to 21, for facts and sentence, but during the court proceedings yesterday, the defendant pleaded not guilty to the chargeshttp://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/house-maid-re-arraigned-for-pouring-hot-water-on-employer/

Politics › Re: Federal High Court Fixes Sept. 30 To Hear Saraki’s Case by emamos: 8:33pm On Sep 21, 2015

M4gunners:
It's unfortunate you don't know the difference between u and o.

unfortunate u dnt knw d difrnce btw GUNNER n GONER

Politics › Re: Federal High Court Fixes Sept. 30 To Hear Saraki’s Case by emamos: 7:36pm On Sep 21, 2015

nationwide1:
Wetin concern Fayose for APC Mata? Did you think before typing?

Is Saraki a PDP sir? Don’t you Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose is a mature and very intelligent politician?

intelligently donating okada to cripple man ryt

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Politics › Re: Federal High Court Fixes Sept. 30 To Hear Saraki’s Case by emamos: 7:17pm On Sep 21, 2015

M4gunners:
Saraki we know. APC just want is to spoil this Man name for nothing.

ur usrname s gunners n saraki s also goners if found guilty

Politics › Re: Federal High Court Fixes Sept. 30 To Hear Saraki’s Case by emamos: 7:11pm On Sep 21, 2015

seedorfg:
in PEJ voice "personally this is an a seasonally film, evelyborry go dey jos habatically for sara sarakically

u wicked. Lol

Politics › Re: Fear In Saraki’s Camp As Dino Melaye, Other Senators Keep Silent by emamos: 6:51pm On Sep 21, 2015

kahal29:
Have been wandering too about the unusual silence too oh.....

have been WONDERING too

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Politics › The Cable Newspaper Misleads Nigerians With False Report On Saraki Trial by emamos(op): 6:15pm On Sep 21, 2015

The Cable, an online Nigerian newspaper on Monday misled the Nigerian public when it broke news that the Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja had stopped the CCT from enforcing the arrest of Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
According toThe Cable, “The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Monday stopped the proposed arrest of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, by the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The court ordered a stay of execution on the warrant of arrest issued against Saraki by the tribunal.”
The news, which was reported via their official Twitter handle and published on their website was published at about 11.30 am on Monday and some Nigerian online newspapers, picked up the story fromThe Cableas seen in the screenshot below.
The story which appears to be a pre-emptive move targeted at compromising the decision of the Abuja Appeal Court, suddenly disappeared from the Twitter handle and website ofThe Cablenewspaper following the Appeal Court’s decision on Monday evening to strike out Saraki’s request seeking the court to restrain the CCT from effecting his arrest over allegations of corruption bothering on the declaration of the Senate President’s assets.
The Cable was recently enmeshed in public controversy when it published an erroneous report alleging that Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka made derogatory remarks about Igbo people. The newspaper later apologized for the false report

http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/the-cable-newspaper-misleads-nigerians-with-false-report-on-saraki-trial/
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Politics › Cross River To Administer Aptitude Test On Would-be Commissioners, Board Members by emamos(op): 3:54pm On Sep 21, 2015

The Cross River state government may have pioneered a new standard owing to its resolve to administer aptitude and integrity test on all those nominated to serve as Commissioners.
A press release issued on Monday by the Special Assistant to Governor Ben Ayade on Media, Mr. Christian Ita, has it that the nominees would have to undergo the integrity and aptitude tests before their names would be forwarded to the state House of Assembly for confirmation.
Ita who doubles as the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary added that appointment of chairmen and members of boards, agencies and parastatals and even special advisers would follow the same routine.
According to him, “His Excellency, Senator Professor Ben Ayade wants all nominees for appointments as commissioners to undergo integrity test. Additionally, the nominees would also write an aptitude test”.
The statement further noted that the Governor believes that every would-be appointee in the state must be subjected to ethical measurement to ascertain whether or not they can function in the new order, where accountability and transparency are the watchwords.
In view of the foregoing, Governor Ayade set up a selection committee chaired by an Abuja-based lawyer, Mr. Paul Erokoro, to oversee the process.
Also in the committee are: a prominent woman leader and politician, Rev (Mrs.) Grace Ekanem and Chief of Staff to the governor, Mr. Martin Orim as members.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/21/cross-river-to-administer-aptitude-test-on-would-be-commissioners-board-members/
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Politics › Code Of Conduct Tribunal Adjourns For Ruling On Saraki’s Failure To Appear Befor by emamos(op): 12:43pm On Sep 21, 2015

The Code of Conduct Tribunal has adjourned for one hour to resume with a ruling on the propriety of Senate President Bukola Sarakifailing to appear before it despite the warrant of arrest on him authorized by the Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar, who directed the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, to effect the arrest of Saraki and produce him before the Tribunal on Monday.
Saraki failed to show up for the sitting of the Tribunal even as the Court of Appeal on Monday morning ruled ordering the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, to halt proceedings in the case of false assets declaration against the Senate President.http://dailypost.ng/2015/09/21/code-of-conduct-tribunal-adjourns-for-ruling-on-sarakis-failure-to-appear-before-it/

Politics › Re: British Passport Linked To Saraki Forged – UK Authority by emamos(op): 6:53am On Sep 21, 2015

Nigeria:good people,great nation

Politics › Re: British Passport Linked To Saraki Forged – UK Authority by emamos(op): 6:49am On Sep 21, 2015

Ilekeh:
I'm finding it hard to diagnose your problem, it's between mental retardation and ignorance and just plain laziness.

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