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Joshugee:
tried following the link but giving me error

Try again as its very correct.

alabosian:
I never knew we still have good hearted Nigeria. OP post the decoder pix when u receive the package. I love the spirit of giving.

The spirit is that givers never lack. I personally delivered a fairly used strong 4663 decoder with a brand new remote control to the op and he appreciated:
( https://www.nairaland.com/2962976/how-nairaland-helped-me#43352980)
I reaped a lot of invaluable knowledge/information from Nairaland which has directly and indirectly empowered me to achieve a lot. So giving little a bit of it to a Nairalander in need is joyful. God bless Nairaland and all Nairalanders.

femiranking28:
sir I wanted to ask if the dish is part of it.

You are bringing dish issue rather too late. Unless if you'll come to Bonny to pick it. I can't carry dish and travel anyway. With 2k you can get a dish at Ilaobuchi. Am in PH and coming towards your location.

femiranking28:
okay sir my drop point is oil mill sir. My contact is 08134242732

OK. Expect me in the morning say from 9 to 10. I'll call you as I approach.

hotobo:
is there any need to use 50db rf booster after the 2nd step or the 3 step will serve without having a booster after the combiner. Will 20db booster work well after 100m

Thanks

Check your mail.

hotobo:
is there any need to use 50db rf booster after the 2nd step or the 3 step will serve without having a booster after the combiner. Will 20db booster work well after 100m

Thanks

Supply your email address for further advanced advice.

femiranking28:
wow my God strong 4663 please. Am already rolling and shouting please help me sir. I will forever appreciate.

Sorry for my delay. It's due to my busy schedule. I'll be coming to Port Harcourt Monday morning enroute Oyigbo. Give me any dropping point along Aba road. A used strong 4663 decoder is yours.

Sports 24 is on a satellite called mtnworldwide. A selfless Nairalander and satellite guru named yenum10 has given extensive guidance on how to track this bird. Visit his blog here and your challenge will be over.
http://www.yenum.info/2016/02/useful-tips-for-tracking-mtnworldwide.html?m=1
Goodluck.

amtaken:
So it's no longer GEJ alone?

Military intervention in Nigeria's politics was the harbinger of corruption. It kept growing over time and become the monster it is today. Under Jonathan it only evolved to a statecraft sophistication.

Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Monday announced the suspension of three local government caretaker committee chairmen for failing to attend scheduled security town hall meeting.

The governor announced the suspension at Omoku, headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni council area of the state.

He listed the affected chairmen to include those of Abua/Odual, Ahoada West and Ahoada East council areas.

It would be recalled that the governor had scheduled a town hall meeting following recent cult clashes, killings and a near breakdown of law and order in the Orashi region of the state.

The Orashi region is made up of four area councils of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, Abua/Odual, Ahoada West and Ahoada East.

The governor said that the chairmen’s failure to attend the meeting showed that they were insensitive to the current issues of violence and crime that had recently enveloped the areas.

Wike used the forum to urge security agencies to clampdown on cult activities and all forms of crimes in the four local government areas.

He said the meeting was to enable government to empathise with the communities affected by the state of insecurity that had engulfed the area.

“It is our duty to protect the lives and property of our people; I must tell you that we are also prepared to do so.

“We have directed security agencies to do the needful to ensure that calm returns to the affected communities,’’ he added. (NAN)

http://leadership.ng/news/503560/gov-wike-suspends-3-lg-chairmen

Many Nigerians would not know where Sao Tome is on the world map, given that the twin island country is of little, if any, strategic importance to Nigeria.
That however did not stop former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in 2004, from doling out $5 million as loan to that nation. Mr. Obasanjo also paid out $40 million as loan to Ghana same year.
Such were the frivolity and impulsiveness that characterized government spending since the return to democracy in 1999.
Between 2004 and 2014, a catalogue of fuzzy loans was indiscriminately granted in off-budget spending to government agencies in what appeared an attack on the nation’s oil savings.
Extra-budgetary sums were dispensed in the name of loans to the foreign countries, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Inspector General of Police (IGP), the National Security Adviser (NSA), the Ministry of Defence and other agencies.
Minutes of the December 2014 meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) Post-Mortem Subcommittee obtained by PREMIUM TIMES show that these funds were discretionary, off-budget loans paid out of the Reserve Accounts especially the 0.5% Statutory Stabilization Fund.
According to the report, the loans granted by Mr. Obasanjo to Ghana and Sao Tome came from the Statutory Stabilization Fund Account.
Over N18 billion was also taken from the reserve account as loan to the Federal Government for its Pioneer Consumer Car Scheme for public servants in paramilitary agencies.
In August 2006, the then President Obasanjo granted N4.58 billion as the first loan while the second and third tranches of N2.8 billion and N10.76 billion were granted in May and December 2007 respectively under the President Umaru Yar’Adua administration.
From the Statutory Stabilization Fund Account, Mr. Obasanjo had pulled out N300 million for IGP to purchase vehicles. In June of 2006 N242.6 million was paid out. Between June and October, two other loans were granted for the same purpose to purchase apparently another set of vehicles.
The amounts were N33.9 million and N32.6 million respectively. Separate loans of N4.57 billion and N1.6 billion, dated February 14 and April 3, 2007 were tagged “Loan granted to Fund for 2006 Virement”.
Notwithstanding provisions already made in the budget, INEC, on two occasions, was granted loans to fund the 2011 and 2015 general elections. In May 2007, over N66.7 billion was given to INEC to fund the 2011 General Election. In December 2013, N3 billion was withdrawn from the Statutory Stabilization Fund Account and given as loan to INEC to speed up its readiness for 2015.
Given that the Statutory Stabilization Fund is a special fund that requires constitutional mandate for its appropriation, the indiscriminate manner in which the loans were approved for these agencies showed a serial disdain for due process.
In September 2010 and February 2011, about N80 billion was taken from the Excess Revenue Domestic and Non-Oil Excess Revenue Accounts as amount borrowed to pay States’ London Club Debt Buy-back. The money was taken in three installments. While the first N48.44 billion was withdrawn from the Non-Oil Excess Revenue Account in September 2010, two other withdrawals of N28.7 billion and N2.83 billion were made from the Excess Revenue Domestic Account respectively.
While some of the withdrawals might be explained as prudent in terms of meeting exigencies associated with economic crisis, the manner they were done were underscored as weak resource governance and mere financial gaieties.
On the part of former President Jonathan, series of loans approved by him were to defence and security. They had the most impact in depleting the nation’s oil reserve. For instance; a loan of N5.5 billion was given to the Office of National Security Adviser in December 2013, for an undisclosed purpose. In the same manner, a loan of N2.56 billion was given to Chief of Naval Staff Coast Guard in December 2013 for equally undisclosed purpose.
In what could be said to be an emerging pattern, a loan of N2.56 billion was given to Chief of Naval Staff Coast Guard in 2013. Again the purpose was not declared. Two outstanding loans to the Nigerian Army for training and kitting of recruits were approved at a cost of N2.6 billion and N1.56 billion respectively.
Other loans given to the military in 2013 included a N7.3 billion loan to fund Military Pension Scheme, N8.48 billion loan to Fund Military Pension Scheme, N2.36 billion loan to the Army as Operation Internal Security and N10.8 billion loan to Ministry of Defence Headquarters.
In 2014, over N2.4 billion was also withdrawn as loan to Nigerian Air Force Operation to meet financial requirements under what was tagged as ‘Air Operation’. Another N2.36 billion was granted as Loan to Nigerian Army Quick Response Group and forward operating Bases.
The establishment of the Excess Crude Account (ECA) in 2004 and the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) in 2011 was essentially to save for the rainy day. These accounts were respectively populated with the excess dollar revenue that came in periods when oil prices became higher than budget benchmarks.
These excess funds would have come in handy for Nigeria as the world is hit by falling oil prices. At various times state governors insisted that these accounts be emptied and shared among the federating states.
Other loans granted between 2013 and 2014 included a N9.19 billion loan for subscription to Islamic Development Bank shares; N2.35 billion loan to the Department of Petroleum Resources as 4% Cost of Collection for month of September, 2014; N8.27 billion loan to the Federal Ministry of Power, another loan of N1 billion to the same Ministry of Power; N3.36 million to the Federal Ministry of Finance for verification of solid minerals and N350 million loan to Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Company Plc.
Yet, other loans were N1.99 billion purportedly released to Health Intervention Workplan/Budget on Ebola Virus Disease; N2.39 billion to Standard Alliance Assurance Ltd being 2013 Armed Forces Group Life Assurance Premium.
All the loans, which remained outstanding by October 31, 2015, violated Nigeria’s fiscal responsibility law and this has made the FAAC Post-mortem committee to recommend that the Office of Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) examine the loans and grants to ascertain those that need to be written off.
Details of the loans to NSA, MoD and other security agencies are shown in the table on the source link below:

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/198822-exclusive-3-nigerian-presidents-wasted-n247-billion-oil-savings-gave-illegal-loans-nsa-sao-tome.html

In the difficult moments of our history, looking precisely at the period of Nigeria's war of unity 1966-1971, Egypt proved to be a strategic partner from helping to train our military to support with equipment and aircraft maintenance.

In the course of his bilateral meeting with the Egyptian leader, Abdul Fattah El-Sisi, President Muhammadu Buhari recalled that in the course of his service in the army, he too received military training in Egypt.

This 24-hour visit to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Shaikh was not just a ‘trip to Egypt’ as it has been wrongly portrayed, as if it were primarily bilateral in nature or a ritual courtesy call on President Sisi. The purpose was to promote investment and job creation in Nigeria and throughout West, Central and East Africa, together with other African leaders.

The Sharm el-Sheikh ‘Africa 2016’ conference aimed at tearing down trade barriers between North and sub-Saharan Africa – a partnership anchored by the continent’s biggest and third-biggest economies (i.e., Nigeria and Egypt) by the injection of life into a 26-nation free-trade pact signed by half the number of countries on the continent a year ago.

The organizers brought together more than 1200 delegates to Sharm el-Sheikh, included among these the eight Presidents and Prime Ministers, ministers of trade and investment, representatives of global financial institutions, businessmen and investment executives.

It is expected that this new pan-African initiative will directly benefit Nigeria in its efforts to expand and diversify jobs and exports beyond the oil industry – a core component of President Buhari’s economic vision for the country. Knocking down trade barriers within Africa will create new markets for Nigerian farmers, manufacturers and other businesses.



In his opening remarks, Egypt's President El-Sisi said that the forum aimed at "pushing forward trade and investment in our continent to strengthen Africa's place in the world economy."

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari who touted an extensive economic agenda said that this is not without challenges.

"The new problem affecting investment is international terrorism...lots of resources that could be used for development are being diverted to address security issues."

As he and many others noted, the only way this can be redressed is by widening the participation of the private sector in African economies, the very idea behind the conference in Egypt.

One shining example of how this could be done came from the African Development Bank (ADB) which announced through its President, Nigeria's Akinwumi Adesina that the bank would be investing 12 billion Dollars in the energy sector in the coming five years to provide access to electricity.

There are 645 million Africans without access to electricity.

President Buhari's visit to Egypt wasn't limited to the business of "Africa 2016" in its success, as it turned out to be one that is a remarkable watershed in bilateral ties between the two states.

While it was not surprising that El-Sisi rolled out the red carpet for President Buhari in line with what many say is a plan by Egypt to rebuild the country's money-spinning tourism industry in tatters since the mid-air bombing in October of a Russian plane, killing all 223 tourists and crew, the truth is also that these two of Africa's three biggest economies had been too far apart when it comes to trade. The two leaders also bonded well with each other at their first meeting in Addis Ababa early in the new year.

By the last count, bilateral trade between the two states amounts to a meager USD 100 million, with Egypt drawing about 80 percent of the benefit.

Egyptian pharmaceutical companies are making good sales in Nigeria. Egypt is Nigerians' preferred destination for medical tourism.

Linked to this is their successful airline business trade in Nigeria. Egypt Air makes seven weekly flights to Lagos, and six each to Abuja and Kano.

There is little or nothing to show from the Nigerian side and this one of the things President Buhari wants to change.

In welcoming our President to the bilateral discussion, the Egyptian leader did not hide his joy at the acceptance of the Nigerian leader to visit.

The two leaders agreed to strengthen ties between their two states, to reestablish that historical closeness which helped Nigeria remain a single country decades ago.

They talked about doing this through enhanced partnership and cooperation in the areas of trade, security and defense.

President Buhari welcomed Egypt's decision to strengthen strategic cooperation and intelligence sharing with Nigeria and from this, a framework for dealing with terrorism would emerge. For this, he gave instructions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to follow up with a meeting. Further progress is expected to follow on security and trade issues. In addition, the President requested El-Sisi to promote Egyptian investment in education in Nigeria.

The two leaders also discussed a range of regional and global issues. As to be expected, terrorism topped them all.

They both expressed concern that the anarchy in Libya, a disturbing situation that had provided a great impetus to terrorism in areas far and around the failed state.

The leaders also emphasized their cooperation on climate change and energy issues.

Experts in the field of diplomacy say that personal bond between two leaders can help pave the way for better relations among states.

In Nigeria and Egypt relations, there is a good chance of this working to the benefit of the two states.


Garba Shehu is Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) to President Muhammadu Buhari

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/opinion/seven-takeaways-from-president-buhari-s-visit-to-egypt/134757.html?platform=hootsuite

tomakint:
He was more like the mouthpiece of Buhari before the elections. He blasted the hell out of Jonathan for no just cause. He sees Buhari as his Lord and Saviour like many APC followers here. He was the one who said, there is nothing like oil subsidy that its all fraud. The icing on the cake was when he confidently said this...........loading........

You lie! See one of the reasons why he criticised your disgraced hero Jonathan:

jmichlins:
In case you do not know metro has no rights to air here. maybe dstv is now ready to crack down on them. north africa and middle east is their terrain

That's not true and not fair at all. On what authority are you making that allegation? He who alleges shall prove.

femiranking28:
any type bro any type I will appreciate you alot

Were u specific it would have been easier.
Chose one here and it's yours:
Consat
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Strong 4653,
Strong 4663

baddest095:
i have been hearing about FTA!!...pls wat does it mean..and wat do I need..in order to set it up...pls am a jjc

Click this link and read everything there. You'll not remain the same
https://www.nairaland.com/331903/newbie-satellite-installation-introduce-yourself

Happy birthday Mama Nigeria
The woman behind our president
An epitome of beauty and humility
May your reign be long
Wish you LLNP
Happy birthday ma.

Yampotatocarrot:
Sorry if this sounds biased, but z t that rivers in d north flow more than those in d south n other areas or what, cos they have d most number of dams n hydro power plants..... Ibere ni o

Water is not the sole determining factor in siting of a hydro electricity dam. It's constructed on young fast moving rivers that are at their valley stage. This is obtainable in mountains and highlands where rivers are dammed at waterfalls. It's the force produced by the steady sharp descent of the voluminous water that is directed onto rotor blades and through shafts to be turning a dynamo to produce electricity.
The rivers in the south are matured in the centre and dying in the mangrove swamps of the delta. The absence of waterfalls or sharp descents of rivers make it unsuitable for hydro electricity generation.
Niger state has the dams and that's why it's logo is " the power state". No politics.

Referee Shot Dead In Argentina After Showing Red Card
A referee has been murdered in Argentina by a young player for showing him the red card.

The incident happened in Cordoba, as a player shot the referee just minutes after being dismissed for hitting another player.

Another player, Walter Zarate, was also hit by a bullet and was taken to hospital, though he is not in critical condition.

The referee, Cesar Flores, 48, was killed after being shot three times – once in the head, neck and chest, according to police.

http://leadership.ng/sports/501681/referee-shot-dead-argentina-showing-red-card

Yes you can play chess with your chatmate on Facebook Messenger. Very simple.
1. Open/start a conversation with your would be chessmate.
2. Type "@fbchess play" and send.
You are good to go.

A food for thought.

Waiting for my Val.

Our money. Oga de chop am.
http://www.elombah.com/index.php/gallery/5128-see-photo-the-1million-cash-efcc-discovered-in-amosun-s-pit

Following growing allegations of corruption against some senior lawyers and their alleged complicity or facilitation of judicial corruption, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called “for tougher sanctions against those found to be involved if large scale political corruption is to be meaningfully combated and corruption-free judiciary is to become a reality.”
In a statement dated February 14, 2016 and signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni, the organisation said, “It’s not only professional misconduct but also a crime for a lawyer to knowingly assist or induce another to break, violate or attempt to violate the rules of professional conduct or commit a corrupt act and other action prejudicial to the administration of justice that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects.”
The statement reads in part: “Lawyers are officers in the temple of justice but improperly influencing a public official to achieve results by means that violate lawyers’ rules of professional conduct or knowingly assisting a judge or judicial officer in conduct that violates applicable rules of judicial conduct or other laws is a clear negation of this sacred duty.”
“Yet, corrupt lawyers and judges often get away with their misconduct and crime. This impunity has contributed to the spo­radic and lax prosecution and punishment of officials responsible for large-scale corruption, while, conversely, imposing severe sanctions for petty corruption and criminals, so as to give the impression of justice. This situation violates the underlying legal and moral assumptions that all persons will be treated equally, fairly, and with respect.”
“Any lawyer who acts in such a way as to be directly responsible for the act of corruption or acts as part of a conspiracy to corrupt should face liability as a “principal” offender.” Even where a lawyer is not directly responsible for the act of corruption but facilitates or otherwise provides assistance to a principal offender, he/she should be liable as an accessory or accomplice. This accountability mechanism for lawyers and judges must follow due process of law.”
“The obligation on lawyers not to engage in illegal activities is vital in upholding professional standards and obviously extends to the activities of bribery and corruption, as lawyers must not themselves breach, or facilitate a breach, of the law.”
“For the sake of the legal profession, the cause of justice and effective remedies for victims of large scale corruption such as the arms procurement scandal, appropriate authorities particularly the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) have to speak out strongly against corruption in the legal profession.”
“The NBA has to provide strong leadership including by strongly and publicly speaking out against corruption in the legal profession and the judiciary, promoting tougher sanctions against corrupt lawyers even if those involved are senior members of the bar including SANs, and judges and creating, developing and actively promoting anticorruption initiatives for the legal profession if it is to remain credible, relevant and add value to the ongoing fight against large scale corruption in the country.”
“The NBA in fact has an abiding responsibility to consistently and proactively promote and ensure lawyers’ compliance with anti-corruption and ethics rules, and to encourage lawyers to carry out their professional duties diligently and conscientiously and refrain from doing anything which would expose the legal profession to ridicule.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/198408-serap-calls-tougher-sanctions-corrupt-nigerian-lawyers.html

Police in Kogi on Friday shot and killed a suspected kidnapper and rescued three kidnap victims at a border area between Kogi and Edo States.

The Commissioner of police in Kogi, Mr Bansen Gwana, told newsmen in Lokoja that three other members of the four-man kidnap gang escaped with billet wounds.

Gwana urged orthodox and traditional hospitals in the state to report any patient with bullet wounds to the nearest police station.

He said policemen and local hunters were combing the bush to fish out the fleeing kidnappers who he said were in military camouflage.

Those rescued are Aliyu Akaba Mustapha, Adele Adeyemi and Musa Afegbua.

Mustapha said he was traveling to Ebiya village in Ajaokuta Local Government when his vehicle was flagged down by the suspects at a spot on Adogo-Okene road.

Mustapha added that said the suspects, who were all in military camouflage, stopped 11 other vehicles and started robbing passengers of money, handsets and other valuables one after the other.

According to Mustapha , the suspects later decided to kidnap him and three other persons and have trekked into the bush for about 30 minutes when the kidnappers asked one of them to go back.

“The man came back to Adogo and reported the matter at the Divisional Police Headquarters in the town.

“The police immediately responded and followed the same route to locate us at the boundary between Kogi and Edo”, he said.

Mustapha said they had trekked for five hours in the bush when the kidnappers decided to dig ground for water, saying it was in the process that the police team caught up with them.

On his part, Adeyemi said the police and the kidnappers engaged in a gun duel lasting over 45 minutes before they could be rescued.

The rescued victims commended police for their quick response and for rescuing them without sustaining any injury. (NAN)

http://leadership.ng/news/500641/police-kill-suspected-kidnapper-rescue-3-victims

* The fat kid was always the goalkeeper;
* The owner of the ball decides who plays;
* Penalties are awarded only if injured player curses a lot;
* The match only ends when everyone gets tired;
* No matter how many goals you score, the winner will be determined by the last team to score;
* No referee and linesmen. You could run with the ball even behind the goal post;
* If you don't participate in repairing the ball, you were given a match ban;
* If you are picked last, you are a loser;
* The guy who's never picked was to fetch the ball from the tree, when it got stuck, under the car or inside the gutter;
* When the owner of the ball gets angry, game over!
* You were allowed to change goalkeeper, in case of penalty;
* The most skillful player, gets automatic selection.

Drug trafficking : 132 Nigerians waiting to die
.120 on death row in China, 11 in Indonesia, 1 in Singapore

From AIDOGHIE PAULINUS, Abuja
Nigeria stands to lose no fewer than 132 citizens who are on death row in various prisons across Indonesia, China and Singapore.

While the Taiwan Embassy in Abuja denied knowledge of any Nigerian on death role in its country, the story is totally different in Indonesia who, last week, put four Nigerians to death by firing squad.

Sunday Sun investigation at the Indonesian Embassy, Abuja, revealed that 11 Nigerians are currently on death row, having been sentenced to death at various times by Indonesian courts.

They were sentenced to death on drug-related offences, which largely centered on being in possession of heroin and other narcotics.

Obinna Nwajagu, Michael Titus Igwe, Hillary .K. Chimezie, Stephen Rasheed Akinyemi, Humphrey Ijike alias Doctor, Gap Nadi alias Papa, are some Nigerians whom the Indonesian government may execute any time from now.

Others awaiting death in Indonesia include, Eugene Ape alias Felixe, Ekfere Dike Ale Kamal alias Samuel, Seck Osmane/Cajetan Uchenna Onyenworo, Samuel Iwuchukwu Okoye and Hansen Anthony Nwaolisa.

Some human rights groups had sometime in April 2013, petitioned the National Assembly over the fate of 14 Nigerians awaiting death in Indonesia.

The groups, World Alliance for Against Terrorism, Violence and Inhuman Treatment and Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), also urged the federal government to wade into the matter.

But in spite of pleas for clemency by the Nigerian government, Indonesia known for its hard stance on drug offences, has never shied away from carrying out capital punishment on drug-related offences in its country.

For instance, prior to the execution of Messrs Martin Anderson, Okwudili Oyatanze, Jaminu Abashin and Sylvester Obiekwe by the Government of Indonesia for drug-related offences last week on the island of Nusakambangan, the Indonesian government had executed two Nigerians, Daniel Enemuo and Solomon Chibuike Oka-for on January 18 this year.

A helpless Nigerian Ambassador to Indonesia, Muhammad Suleiman, had in his recent correspondence to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali, following the execution of the four Nigerians, bemoaned the resurgence of drug crime in Indonesia.

He had in his report, told Wali that while pleas by President Goodluck Jonathan and Wali were being pursued, seven fresh cases had emerged, which made it impossible for something concrete to be done in the case of Nigerians involved in drug related-offences in Indonesia.

However, the case of China seems to be more alarming considering that execution of drug offenders by the Chinese government is done in a well-packaged manner which most times, does not draw the attention of the general public.

For instance, a check at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abuja, revealed that on December 19, 2014, one Obiora Ifekpolugwo was executed in China and this did not draw both local and international attention.

Similarly, Sunday Sun source at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that two Nigerians were also executed in China on April 24.

But in spite of this development, a total number of 120 Nigerians are still on death row in China for drug sales/drug smuggling offences.

When contacted on the number of Nigerians on death row in China, the Chinese Deputy Ambassador, Mr Zhang Bin, said the embassy does not have such figures, directing Sunday Sun to the Consular Department of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Checks at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that in Beijing Yancheng, three Nigerians are on death row (2012 statistics), while a correspondence by the Consulate-General of Nigeria in Guangzhou, China, dated January 7, 2015, showed that 74 Nigerians are currently on death row in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces.

Others include: Quingpu, Shanghai (1); Dongguan prison (3), with self-acclaimed Nigerians (9); Huizhou prison (7), with self-acclaimed Nigerians (3); and Yinde (19), with one self-acclaimed Nigerian (2012 statistics).

In Singapore, only one Nigerian is reported to be on death row, according to the Nigerian Ambassador to Singapore, Nonye Rajis-Okpara.

Speaking from Singapore, Rajis-Okpara said the Nigerian Embassy in Singapore applied about a year ago to the Singaporean president that the death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment and that the government was still looking into it.

“Because of this, I am not at liberty to release the name,” Rajis-Okpara told the Sunday Sun correspondent, even as she said five Nigerians were still in Singapore prisons for drug -offences.

Rajis-Okpara also added that due to the Singaporean laws, drug-related offences had gone down, while also noting that the Singaporean borders were not like others.

At the Taiwan Embassy in Abuja, an official of the embassy who pleaded anonymity told Sunday Sun that he was not sure if any Nigerian was on death row in country

He, however, added, “many years ago, there was one Nigerian who was caught doing drugs from Taiwan to China and sentenced to life imprisonment. But it was cut short due to his good behaviour in prison. That means that there is no one at the moment.”

Several efforts to get the numbers of Nigerians on death row in Malaysia were unsuccessful as an official of the embassy told Sunday Sun that the ambassador who is responsible for providing such information was unavailable.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/drug-trafficking-132-nigerians-waiting-to-die/

Governor Ayo Fayose was at Chief Afe Babalola's house in Ajilosun, Ado Ekiti. The legal luminary was heard warning Fayose not to take the matter ‪#‎Ekitigate‬ lightly or with mere levity. ..
He advised him to rally all traditional rulers in the state to go and beg first, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Buhari or see his power seized by the court.
http://www.nairanaijanews.com/2016/02/be-warned-go-beg-obasanjo-and-buhari.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook&m=1