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enitiObanke:
This happened less than 1hr ago. Left NNPC Super Mega station around gwarinpa Abuja at abt 4.10pm,....on my to sokoto. Am held up in traffic in Kaduna, b4 Mando, 5.45pm,....got to Kaduna ard 5.25pm. Took this snap shot abt 30km to Kaduna on d Kaduna - Abuja express.....

.....this isn't my fastest oh. I have clocked 185km/hr (I should have a pix of that sonewhere) and 190km/hr in this Benz 190E,.....and 175km/hr in a Nissan Primera GT hatch back (sports trim).

This happened less than 1hr ago. Left NNPC Super Mega station around gwarinpa Abuja at abt 4.10pm,....on my to sokoto. Am held up in traffic in Kaduna, b4 Mando, 5.45pm,....got to Kaduna ard 5.25pm. Took this snap shot abt 30km to Kaduna on d Kaduna - Abuja express.....

Bekwarra:
Enough of this misinformation everywhere. The institution is owned by Isiaka Adeleke, a senator and former governor of Osun state and not Davido's father. Isiaka Adeleke is his uncle.

Guy you are absolutely wrong......
Deji Adeleke, a 7th Day Adventist solely owns Adeleke University,.....he is also the Chancellor of the University, while his younger brother is the Pro-Chancellor. At every turn in his life, esp in his political career, Deji has been the sole financier of Isiaka's expenditures in politics, even his guber campaign back in the days.
Am typing this from Ede, Osun state. These things are known in this sleepy town by even a 5yr old,.....the lives of the Adelekes here is an open book, read by all and sundry. One last thing, Deji Adeleke is a benefactor to most families here......

Israel5:
His father shld be probed too. I hear he was a senator. #Quote me and see

His father, Deji Adeleke isn't a politician, and has never been. The dad's younger bro, Isiaka Adeleke is the politician cum senator

pretydiva:
The rich r getting richer. Never knew his dad own a university. May God bless their hustle

His family (the Adeleke family) literally owns Ede, in Osun state. His dad's younger brother is a serving senator of the Federal Republic, I think it's his 2nd or 3rd term sef,..... Senator Isaika Adeleke (aka Serubawon jawonlaya), a former governor of Osun state (infact the first civilian governor of osun).
Davido is certainly from a rich and made lineage.....

Feeling taller than a tree, Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta said last week: "Our young people have once again shown that they are as good as the world's best and brightest."

He was celebrating Kenya’s achievements at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, where they topped the overall medals table for the first time in history.

Kenya’s feat is even more remarkable when you look at the nations below them on that table: the United States, Jamaica and Great Britain, in that order.

No less impressive in Beijing was second-placed Jamaica. Once a nation whose coaches came to Nigeria to learn of our athletic prowess, Jamaica is now rewriting the world’s sprints story.

While Kenya’s athletes were arriving in Nairobi with seven gold, six silver and three bronze medals, their Nigerian counterparts returned empty-handed. Beyond not being good enough at anything, we were not good, period.

This is what comes of decades of mismanagement and neglect of Nigerian sport outside of soccer and, perhaps, table tennis. Soccer has some success in Nigeria because it is everyone’s favourite sport. Table tennis has some success because of its stronghold in the southwest, not because it has a federal identity.

Then there is Track and Field, which has collapsed because there is no short-cut to success, and Nigeria has failed to put in place the kind of persistent, long-term and rigorous system that spots talents early, and nurtures them. Instead, we now wait for competitions to be announced, and then we scout the world for athletes we barely know.

In my view, we should revamp the National Sports Commission, as currently constituted, and start all over. Our sports should incorporate the private sector and our army of knowledgeable former athletes, and institutionalize a plan that centres on developing our athletes.

Speaking of starting over, Ministers of the Goodluck Jonathan government have issued a statement in which they warned President Muhammadu Buhari to give Mr. Jonathan “due respect.”

They accused the Buhari administration and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of condemning, ridiculing and undermining their administration, and of rubbishing the integrity of its individual members.

I think those Ministers are working with the wrong calendar. To the winner go the spoils, which is why the time for raising your voice is when you are in charge. That is when you demonstrate integrity and goodwill, fulfill campaign and administration promises, and record the achievements that speak for you after your tenure.

Eloquence is not explaining half-truths and dubious intentions; eloquence is when your achievements silence your critics for you.

In other words, speaking on behalf of a cabinet which had up to five years to nail its name to the mast of history but failed to do so is foolhardy. The reality is that there is no longer a Jonathan government. It is now every man for himself, and the prayer of every member of that era should be this: “Lord, let them open my folder early, so that the world will see my achievements and integrity, and honour my family.”

A few words about achievements: Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari finally declared his assets.

He should not be celebrated for it. His declaration was supposed to be an easy entry-point into governance, undertaken as soon as he came into office. He should be criticized for doing it as late as he has. No excuse or explanation is good enough. Sometimes, the letter of the law is far inferior to the spirit.

Finally, President Buhari’s first 100 days in power is attracting close scrutiny, sadly for what he has failed to do rather than what he has done.

For those who do not know me, I was one of the first proponents of General Muhammadu Buhari for President. I did not just support him, I endorsed his candidature.

That was not in 2015, but in 2011, when some of the people who would turn out to be his handlers and confidants four years later were among his fiercest critics.

For my trouble, I was called a lot of names, but given that, four years later—or just seven months ago—he was indeed elected to that post, I feel a certain validation.

In other words, there aren’t many people more qualified to tell Buhari to stop being a politician and do the right thing. His administration is suddenly on the defensive, claiming it did not make 100-day promises to the electorate. It disowns campaign documents that, having helped erect his candidature for office, are being made to look as though they were crafted by aliens.

The truth is that Mr. Buhari cannot have it both ways: having benefitted from that “subterranean” help as he battled for votes, he cannot now disown them. At the very least, he should have addressed this subject as soon as he took office, knowing that this day would come. His team is overflowing now with explanations, justifications and caveats that should not be.

Personally, I believe that Buhari will honour his mission, and change the Nigeria narrative. The question is: when?

To that, I guess his response would be: “someday.”

Someday is not good enough. The time to serve, and the only time he can guarantee, is NOW.

That is why I consider the profile of Buhari’s appointments so far to be an insult of his mandate. Anyone who claims that his persistent and overwhelming appointment of Northerners to critical positions is justifiable as long as they are merely “qualified” gives the president a mandate he neither requested nor earned on March 28.

Mr. Buhari promised to be the president of all Nigerians. His appointments so far do no justice to this. He reminds me of our history of public officials who, when they arrive in a privileged position, convert it into a personal buffet. And they tell the starving and the malnourished, day after day, “Wait, just you wait…you will see how much I will feed you!”

The truth about right and wrong is that the right thing cannot wait. If Buhari must appoint, he must appoint with a conscious, consistent effort to reflect the nation he took charge of on May 29. There ought to be no ifs and buts. He cannot sow doubt and fear, yet tell those who gasp that they are over-reacting.

Nigeria’s best and brightest—in athletics as in politics—come from everywhere. If Buhari is seeing them only under one hut, he is not looking. He can ask for help, but he should not tell those who challenge him to be patient or to like it.

The reason he won the presidency is this: people had reached the conclusion that the right thing could not wait until tomorrow.

sonala.olumhense@gmail.com
Twitter: @SonalaOlumhense

Source; http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/06/mixed-metaphors-buhari%E2%80%99s-disappointments-and-other-stories-sonala-olumhense

pedel:
The Holy Spirit will never contradict the written word. There is no face of God to be sought on this. God hates divorce.

Yea, God hates divorce, but he hates sin too, doesn't He? Yet we sin from time to time, ask for His forgiveness and then we move on enjoying His grace daily.
Truth is, we have this strong anti-divorce sentiments here because of our cultural bias. My question is, most of us who claim divorce is so so wrong, and that a divorcee mustn't remarry, would we have the same belief if we were resident in countries like UK, USA, Canada, Japan etc......
Are we more spiritual in the true sense of the word than people from developed countries? Do we truly please God better than they do?

staymore:
No investigations whatsoever was done, the whole thing was arranged from the Presidency to nail this woman that is fearlessly dedicated to her service.

We are watching.

Certainly a lot of dudes on NL are faceless teenagers, or adult who can't reason objectively.
Premium Times broke the Ogar DPK scandal way bak in March, while her mentor and lord, GEJ was still d occupant at Aso Rock. So pls educate us more,....which Presidency arranged d whole thing to nail Ogar?

I have put a couple of mature, serious stuff threads up on Nairaland, but none of them ever sees the light of day called Nairaland Front page. Usually articles by Prof. Pius Adesanmi, Mr Sonala Olumhense and a few others.
If we won't expose our youths to the writings of sound Nigerians like these then we do our generation a great disservice. Instead, it's mumu threads which add no intellectual value to our youths that make front page at the drop of a hat, daily.

Sept. 2nd 2015. By Pius Adesanmi
(This note was first posted on my Facebook Wall on August 18 – before the primaries that tragically produced Audu. I am using it my column for wider circulation and to warn the people of Kogi state with the weapon of memory)

The greatest thing that Abubakar Audu has going for him in his bid to return as Governor of Kogi state is the decibel of a large youth demographic. So many Kogi folks, 25 years and below, are all over the airwaves telling the rest of Nigeria that they don't know what they are missing by not having somebody like Abubakar Audu. The love they are professing for Abubakar Audu is greater than the love story between Ekiti and Fayose. Audu, they assure us, must "capture power" again in Kogi. Via APC. Of course!

Now, if your instinct is to blame these kids and land koboko on their post-pubescent asses, you are wrong. What is happening is that they are confused. They are mistaking weed for spinach because they do not know the difference. What “elaloro” in Yoruba philosophy asks you to do is to hold spinach in one hand, weed in the other, and say to them: “children, here is weed and here is spinach.” Once you have done that, you can ask for water, wash your hands like Pontius Pilate, and sing owo mi ma re o funfun nene...

You must remember that if there is something the Nigerian detests more than fellow Nigerians of a different ethnicity or religion, it is memory. The Nigerian who witnessed yesterday deliberately erases it for the convenience of today. The Nigerian who was too young to witness yesterday will never dig to find out what happened, laziness and ignorance being preferable to the inconvenience of memory and remembering.

Many of Abubakar Audu's vuvuzelas were in Primary and Secondary school when he stole US$1,719,954 from the treasury of Kogi state to purchase the mansion pictured here on March 15, 2001. The mansion is located at 12301 Glen Road, Potomac, Maryland 20854, USA. He initially denied owning the property but later confessed after a scandal. Nigerian political thieves have no relationship with mortgage in Europe and America. They buy their multi-million-dollar homes cash. Just like that.

Many of Audu's young supporters are not intellectually equipped enough to make the connection between this mansion in America and their own abjection in Kogi; the connection between this mansion and the poverty of their parents in Kogi. You will likely hear that others have stolen more than Audu and even with his own stealing, we ought to be grateful to him for building a University, a Polytechnic, clinics, etc. It will take several modules in civics to help them see that they do not owe anybody spending their tax money on routine infrastructure any gratitude.

So the purpose of this post is to bring memory to these youths since they will not go to memory.

A final word to these young Kogi people: in 2014, Potomac, where Audu's mansion is located, was Number 3 on the list of the most affluent neighbourhoods in the entire United States of America.

Of course, you know that a Nigerian politician would consider it an insult that his property is not located in the most expensive neighbourhood in America. When you are done electing him in November 2015, his next mansion in America will be located in The Golden Triangle, Greenwich, Connecticut.

I have shown you weed.

I have shown you spinach.

My work is done.

Follow me on Twitter: @pius_adesanmi

Source;
http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/02/abubakar-audu-bonanza-youth-ignorance-pius-adesanmi

Abeg which one is 'newsofthepeople' again? I seriously doubt the credibility of these source.
Until I see this news item on either saharareporters.com or premiumtimesng.com I simply won't believe it

Pls where is d location of this car?

Op please what's the odometer reading/mileage of this ride. And where is it located?

Fearnot am compeled to bring this other Peugeot 407 thread to your notice,.......tokunbo 2007 407, with nav/dvd all for less than N1.4mill.

https://www.nairaland.com/2570491/foreign-used-peugeot-407-2007

Between himself, his Chief Security Officer and the former Petroluem Minister, former President Goodluck Jonathan spent in just one deal a whopping $6.9 million to buy three 40-feet mobile stages for use during mass public speaking events, investigations have now revealed.

Federal government investigators and security agencies say this is just one of the countless allegedly corrupt practices frequently engaged and condoned during the immediate past president.

Besides the fact that the sum for the stages have been incredibly inflated according to mobile stages industry experts, government investigators say there is no evidence as yet that any stage was purchased at all.

While the cost of mobile stages range in size and designs, only outlandish rock star musicians in Europe and the US spend hundreds of thousands on their huge stages way bigger than the 40-feet stages. Even then, those musicians and super stars, would not pay over $2m per stage, according to industry sources.

The process of procurement of the three mobile stages was neither known to extant Nigerian laws and due process regulations, nor were the offices of the Auditor-General and the Accountant-General in the know, according to the investigators.

"There are no records of this purchase which was carried out late 2011," says an authoritative source. This purchase was carried out only few months after Dr. Jonathan won a general election for a full term after having completed the term of late President Umaru Yar'Adua.

A competent source said that at the center of the fraudulent financial ring was the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to President Goodluck Jonathan, O.J. Obuah, who initiated a memo to the former president on October 17, 2011, asking for the purchase of three mobile stages.

He said in that memo to the former president that this is regarding "my earlier discussion with Your Excellency on the security implication of your public appearances and your subsequent directive on the need to procure a secured presidential platform."

And on the same day, without any financial advise or purchase order reviews, the former president minuted an approval of the request to buy the three stages to the then Minister for Petroleum Resources, Diezani Maduekwe. In his minute, the president said "we have discussed this, please deal." He then initialed the memo.

Right after the go-ahead from the president, on the same October 17, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Administrative Matters, Matt Aikhionbere, did another letter on the strength of the president's approval, requesting the Petroluem Minister to take action on the request to purchase the stages for $6.9m.

By the next month, an NNPC payment voucher number 3840336 was already in place, revealing that the money was released. NNPC directed that the money be taken from one of its accounts in New York CITIBANK with sort code CITIUS 33, and Routing number 021000089.

It was first routed from the US bank to an NNPC account in Zenith Bank account number 5000026593, Maitama branch in Abuja, from where the money was sent to a private account. The sum of $6.9m was then credited to a Sterling Bank account of one J. Marine Logistics Limited, Abuja, a company investigators say was registered by Mr. Obuah.

The CSO himself, according to investigators, has not been able to show proof of the purchase, and his bosses at the SSS were irked that he took the initiative to write the memo requesting the stages, an action which officials say was way above his pay grade.

Said an official of one of the security agencies conducting the investigation, "It is not the duty or responsibility of the CSO to make the determination on that purchase. He was meant to have informed the service, which will then review the situation and act accordingly."

The source continued: "What has happened here is that the former president and the former minister with the collusion of the CSO decided to dip their hands into the public till and steal public funds for other purposes since no one has found the stages as we speak."

The source said specifically that the $6.9 million in question was promptly paid on Nov. 29, 2011, into a private account belonging to the former CSO.

"The former president approved the procurement of the mobile platforms without due process and bye-passing the Procurement Act. Neither was there an appropriation in the 2011 budget for such facility," investigators disclosed over the weekend.

The source added that neither the Minister of Finance nor the Director-General of the Budget Office was aware of the deal.

Investigators say this is just one of the several instances where the Jonathan administration used secret NNPC accounts to fund many questionable projects and for alleged personal financial aggrandizements.

Already, the CSO has been questioned over his role and activities in the Jonathan presidency. It would be recalled that he was arrested, detained, questioned, and later released.

There has been considerable pressure mounted on the Buhari administration regarding its determination to probe allegations of corruption in the past, including from the National Peace Committee headed by the former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar.

A member of that committee, Bishop Mathew Kukah is also known alongside Abubakar and others in the Committee to have been involved in attempts to mellow-out the resolve of President Buhari in his determination to probe and deal decisively with tremendous corrupt practices especially during the last 6-8 years.

It would be recalled that at the June 29th meeting of the National Economic Council at the state House, the council had raised questions over the non-remittance of the finances generated by the NNPC into the Federation Account.

NEC found out that whereas the NNPC claimed to have earned about N8.1 trillion in the last two years, what NNPC paid into the Federation Account in the same period was about N4.3 trillion, keeping the balance in its several secret accounts, allowing the former president and his cronies access to such unknown account to do as they please.

Consequently, NEC set up a four-man committee to investigate the missing money.

The committee, made up of the governors of Edo, Kaduna, Akwa Ibom and Gombe States, submitted an interim report to NEC, but in addition appointed financial experts to conduct a forensic audit of the accruals into the Federation Account and the withdrawals from the Excess Crude Account.

Also, President Buhari, in an attempt to plug some of the procedural loopholes that facilitate and encourage corruption, directed that all revenue-generating agencies of the government, including NNPC, should now pay all revenues to a Treasury Single Account (TSA). A TSA makes it rather difficult to hide government revenues from any agency, and procedurally discourages a situation where the president can be accessing a secret slush account without the knowledge of the entire public finance process, as was the case in this bogus $6.9m purchase of mobile stages.

Source; http://saharareporters.com/2015/08/29/how-former-president-used-unremitted-nnpc-funds-bogus-contracts

cc; Lalasticlala

cityhood:
Thanks for that
Actually some people thought it nt a good car because of the name vine
But honestly speaking

Its a car that I can beat my chest for.
You see my friend to be honest with you
Its even stronger than the toyota actually

Guys, Pontiac is an American brand. Vibe comes with a standard Toyota Corolla engine. Infact in most cases, a Pontiac Vibe's ignition key is branded Toyota. Someone early said Pontiac vibe to Toyota matrix is like Nissan to infinity,......dts so untrue. Infinity is simply d luxury brand/division of Nissan, just as Lexus is d luxury brand of Toyota.

Sincere9gerian:
It is no longer news that the work started on the Lagos-Ibadan road by the GEJ govt 2 years ago has come to a halt under the new govt of "change". However, what I find strange is the deafening silence of the Lagos-Ibadan press on this matter.

Anyway, at least the writer confirmed that portions done under the last govt are excellent

Abeg no be dis same you be the writer in question?

Anchor84:
who stopped u frm not going to Cotonou?...u can open a fresh thread for dose who want to buy Tokunbo Golf4 Shld contact u nd u'll even help dem get at 800k nd u'll make profit of 20-50k.i don't just know why Nigerian come to spoil ppl's market meanwhile they might not own one.i know d serious ones hv been calling.and for the Complain of dents,it only has by d Driver side whc most average Tokunbo has more dan dat but Repairs r always Done on it nd some r not as clean as dis.

I hear. I was just simply being a realist.
Happy sales......

danpaul1:
Falana, a true democratic.. A man of the people

Falana has goofed on this one!!!

Clueless Lalong. If he thinks d corrupt and compromised can be shielded from Buhari's scrutiny then this jjc governor got another think coming.

Unsad:
Excellent PMB always making giant strides everyday. How did we even wait this late to vote him in?

Imagine where Nigeria would have been if we had voted GMB in the 2003 general elections,..... 2003 to 2011.
For starters, GMB would have been 60yrs old at most.

A 1.6L Golf 4 won't cost more than N750k-N780k today, direct from cotonou. And that's for grade 'A' tokunbo.
You deceive yourself only by claiming this ride is 'almost tokunbo',....... I can clearly see dents on every fender on the driver' s side, from the rear of d car to its front. Passenger side nko?
Lastly, d day you register a car, that same day it's stops been tokunbo, it begins 2 lose value. If u doubt me, register a tokunbo ride 2day, and d next day take it to a car stand for sale, at least N200k will be knocked off your cost price that week alone. My point is, there is no such thing as 'almost tokunbo',....your ride is either tokunbo or registered/used.
Fair price,.... N450K-N470K.

Abeg remove fog lamp/light from yor list, this ride doesn't av it!

Bros though this your Rx350 neat inside out, 154,000miles is not low mileage by any standards abeg,......be a bit more honest in your dealings. If the mileage were 154,000km that do be better, but even 154,000km isn't low mileage, it's just ok on the average side. The mileage of yor Rx350 is 246,400km (154,000miles x 1.6), certainly by all standards that is high mileage.......
Personally, I won't touch even a year 2000 vehicle with mileage dt exceeds 70,000miles
to 80,000miles (ie 112,000km to 128,000km).