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So when these headless duo lost their lives in ghastly accident they will be writing RIP upandan!

justtoodark:
what do you mean with that....??

do you mean men attracted to such women are violent, angry and short-term DicKs...?

Yes especially when they know there's nothing else left with them

Adefemiaderoju1:
Never again in my life would I vote for Hausa Fulani

That's why Atiku., a staunch Anglican from aguleri in anambra is contesting!
Directionless!

milemimi93:
This is what most women don't know.

Your beauty can't keep a man. Beauty fades.

Your brain is what holds a man down.

You are not entirely right. Beauty (what they erroneously call big booty and rest) do attract violent, angry and short-term DicKs!

SolutionMee:


A whole Vice President for that matter. It is expected of him to be in his office performing his executive functions and not rallying around in Osun State. Our problem in this country is that we love begging the truth and deceiving ourselves. If not, why should a midget be leading a rally? It's like someone telling you that you can make heaven by following the devil. That's deceitful.

it's so sure you don't know what is midget.
All your fatty and useless giants apportioned to your clan together haven't reached 10% of what the VP has achieved prior to this government.
In your stewpid stewpidIty, you're querying what a president or VP is doing at a rally meant to support a governorship candidate?
I really shake my head at your lowliness

Firefire:
Mr Osunbade should stop this long story and advise his principal & party to begin the process of restructuring immediately.

On restructuring we stand, either geographical or by fiscal Federalism.

Politically blind one, what has your councillor done for you since he or she assumed office?
I don't you don't even know him not to mention what he has done. And strangely you don't care.
Here's someone who insists there must be fiscal restructuring first and you are here ranting about getting more states and local government.
How viable and beneficial to you the existing ones?
Just be following them like dundee!

"Aurprisingly, Alhaji Atiku leaves out the elephant in the room – corruption" -Osinbajo

Prof Osinbajo responds to Atiku.

"LETTER TO THE EDITOR, PREMIUM TIMES, BY PROFESSOR YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (Sept 4, 2018)

RE: OSINBAJO GOT IT WRONG ON RESTRUCTURING - ATIKU

Dear Editor,

Kindly permit me a response to a piece in your publication, titled “Osinbajo got it wrong on Restructuring,” written, we are told, by my illustrious predecessor in office, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

First, let me say that I really would have expected Alhaji Abubakar to at least get the full text of my comments before his public refutal of my views. But I understand; we are in that season where everything is seen as fair game! He quoted me as saying that “the problem with our country is not a matter of restructuring… and we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into the argument that our problems stem from some geographic re-structuring”.

Yes, I said so.

As the quote shows, I rejected the notion that geographical restructuring was a solution to our national problems. Geographical restructuring is either taking us back to regional governments or increasing the number of States that make up the Nigerian federation.

As we all may recall, the 2014 National Conference actually recommended the creation of 18 more States. And I argued that, with several States struggling or unable to pay salaries, any further tinkering with our geographical structure would not benefit us.

We should rather ask ourselves why the States are underperforming, revenue and development wise. I gave the example of the Western Region (comprising even more than what is now known as the South West Zone), where, without oil money, and using capitation tax and revenues from agriculture and mining, the government funded free education for over 800,000 pupils in 1955, built several roads, farm settlements, industrial estates, the first TV station in Africa, and the tallest building in Nigeria, while still giving up fifty percent of its earnings from mining and minerals for allocation to the Federal Government and other regions.

I then argued that what we required now was not geographical restructuring but good governance, honest management of public resources, deeper fiscal Federalism, and a clear vision for development.

On the issue of deeper fiscal Federalism or restructuring, I explained how the then Lagos State Government, led by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, decided to fight for greater autonomy of States.

As Attorney-General at the time, it was my duty and privilege to lead the legal team against the then Federal government, in our arguments at the Supreme Court. I am sure that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar would remember these cases on greater autonomy for States that I cite below, as he was Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the time.

At the Supreme Court, we won several landmark decisions on restructuring Nigeria through deeper fiscal federalism, some of which our late converts to the concept, now wish to score political points on.

It was our counter-claims alongside those of other littoral States, that first addressed so comprehensively the issue of resource control. We agreed with the oil producing States that they had a right to control their resources. We argued, though unsuccessfully, that the Ports of Lagos were also a resource, which should enable Lagos State, in the worst case, to be paid the derivation percentage for proceeds of its natural resources. Years later, we also filed an action at the Supreme Court arguing that the Value Added Tax, being a consumption tax, should exclusively belong to the States.

On the issue of who, between the Federal and State governments, should have authority to grant building permits and other development control permits, the Supreme Court, by a slim majority, ruled in our favour. It held that, even with respect to federal land, States had exclusive authority to grant building or other developments control permits.

In 2004, we created 37 new local governments in Lagos State. We believed that we had a Constitutional right to do so and that in any event, a State should have a right to create its own administrative units. Several other States joined us and created theirs.

The Federal government’s response was to seize the funds meant for our local governments, thus strangulating States like Lagos, which had created new local governments. We challenged this at the Supreme Court. The court held that the President had no right under the Constitution to withhold or seize funds meant for the States. The allocations were not a gift of the Federal Government to the States. They were the Constitutional right of the States and local governments.

The court also agreed that States had a Constitutional right to create local governments, pursuant to section 8 of the Constitution, but that the creation remained inchoate until the National Assembly, by resolution, amended the existing list of local governments to capture the newly created LGs.

In response, we created by State Law, Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs), to accommodate the newly created Local Government Councils until such a time as the National Assembly would complete the process. But the Lagos State Government took up the challenge to re-engineer its revenue service, making it autonomous. With innovative management, tax collection in Lagos became more efficient, and tax revenues continued to grow geometrically. Today, the State earns more IGR than 30 States of Nigeria put together!

Further, we contested the attempts of the then Federal Government to create supervisory authority over the Finances of Local Governments by the signing into law of the Monitoring of Revenue Allocation to Local Governments Act, 2005. The Supreme Court also ruled in our favour, striking down many provisions of the law that sought to give the Federal government control over local government funding.

I have been an advocate, both in court and outside, of fiscal Federalism and stronger State Governments. I have argued in favour of State Police, for the simple reason that policing is a local function. You simply cannot effectively police Nigeria from Abuja. Only recently, in my speech at the Anniversary of the Lagos State House of Assembly, I made the point that stronger, more autonomous States would more efficiently eradicate poverty. So I do not believe that geographical restructuring is an answer to Nigeria’s socio economic circumstances. That would only result in greater administrative costs. But there can be no doubt that we need deeper fiscal Federalism and good governance.

Alhaji Atiku’s concept of restructuring is understandably vague, because he seeks to cover every aspect of human existence in that definition. He says it means a “cultural revolution”. Of course, he does not bother to unravel this concept. He says we need a structure that gives everyone an opportunity to work, a private sector driven economy. Yes, I agree. These are critical pillars of our Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), including our Ease of Doing Business Programme.

If, however, this is what he describes as restructuring, then it is clear that he has mixed up all the issues of good governance and diversification of the economy with the argument on restructuring.

Good governance involves, inter alia, transparency and prudence in public finance. It involves social justice, investing in the poor, and jobs for young people; which explains our School Feeding Programme, providing a meal a day to over 9 million public school children in 25 States as of today. Our NPower is now employing 500,000 graduates; our TraderMoni that will be giving microcredit to 2 million petty traders; our Conditional Cash Transfers giving monthly grants to over 400,000 of the poorest in Nigeria. The plan is to cover a million households.

Surprisingly, Alhaji Atiku leaves out the elephant in the room – corruption. And how grand corruption, fueled by a rentier economic structure that benefits those who can use political positions or access to either loot the treasury or get favorable concessions to enrich themselves. This was a main part of my presentations the Minnesota Town Hall meeting.

In arguing for good governance, I made the point that our greatest problem was corruption. I pointed out that grand corruption, namely the unbelievable looting of the treasury by simply making huge cash withdrawals in local and foreign currency, was the first travesty that President Buhari stopped.

I showed the OPEC figures from oil revenues since 1990. In four years from 2010 to 2014 the PDP government earned the highest oil revenues in Nigeria’s history, USD381.9billion. By contrast the Buhari Administration has earned USD121 billion from May 2015 to June 2018, less than 1/3 of what Jonathan Administration earned at the same period in that administration’s life. Despite earning so much less, we are still able to invest more in infrastructure than any government in Nigeria’s history. The difference is good governance, and fiscal prudence.

In the final analysis, restructuring in whatever shape or form, will not mean much if our political leaders see public resources as an extension of their bank accounts.

This, I believe, is the real issue."

gunuvi:
Please tell Falana that he is one of the thieves that cornered our Commonwealth. Nonsense

How?

Butterflyleo:
Wrong!

Sokoto has always been APC even before the governor defected to PDP.

The people are not the governor and the people have since distanced themselves from Tambuwal and have stood with wamakko and APC

Tell the political dumb

kaen1317:
Igbo amaka. afonja will not see this one now

So there are still blind Nigerians on this platform. Igbo ko, Ijebu ni

thaoriginator:
Igbos will soon invade this thread

I am flabbergasted when a Nigerian like you cannot identify a name so natural and exclusive to certain people in Nigeria.
That name, by design, is restricted to one state in Nigeria - EDO!

PUSSYBBQGRILLS:
. " Kembe originator Kunle afolayan."




Lies!!

Kembe is a very very very old Yoruba design.

Kembe don dey exist before dem born kunle Afolayan.

Before him great great grand parents

pawesome:
The most active VP after Atiku

Can you tell us how Atiku 8 years best Osinbajo 3 and a half years?
Please itemise it. we don't want generalisation.
Osinbajo remains the most active VP in Nigeria's history! You can take that to World Bank

*IF THE BIBLE WERE TO BE WRITTEN IN OUR TIME, THE STORY OF ATIKU COULD HAVE BEEN THUS*

AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIALS OF ATIKU THE SON OF ABUBAKAR

1. In the seventh year that king Obasanjo reigned over the kingdom, a great trouble broke out in the land. For when his time was come nigh that he may descend from the throne that he called unto himself noble men in the land.

2. And he declared unto them saying: "Now that my days on the throne are few, allow me therefore to rule over thee for another four years".

3. And he gathered together of them that maketh laws in the Red Chamber in the city of the king, and even unto they in the Green Chamber, that they may amend the books of the law to favour him.

4. But this thing grieved Atiku the son of Abubakar who was the king's deputy. And he said unto his master, "howbeit seekest thou to rule over the people for another term? sweareth not thou by the name of thy god to set me upon the throne after thee?

5. Practice thou not this great evil against me and against the kingdom for it is written in the books of the law that a king may not reign but for two terms which equal eight years''. But these words changeth not the heart of the king.

6. And Atiku conspired with the Governors of the provinces and of the men who maketh laws in the city of the great king and they rejected king Obasanjo that he may continually reign over the kingdom.

7. And the king was wrought with grave anger and he declared according to these words to Atiku the son of Abubakar saying, "because thou hath done this great evil unto me, thou shall no longer sit upon the throne of this kingdom even unto thy death".

8. When the son of Abubakar saw that the king favoureth him not, that he departed from the camp of the king by the name PDP, and pitched his tent in the camp of the king's adversaries by the name ACN that he may contend the throne of the kingdom.

9. And it came to pass that Governor Yaradua who ruleth over the province of Katsina found favour in the sight of king Obasanjo. And when the time was come for the appointment of the king that he defeated Atiku and was appointed and anointed king over the kingdom. And king Yaradua ruleth the kingdom with the fear of God. But his days as king was full of affliction.

10. And when king Yaradua gave up the ghost that Goodluck the son of Jonathan who siteth by his side as the deputy reigned after him. But when the time was come nigh that the son of Jonathan be appointed again that Atiku departed from the camp of the king's adversaries and entered into the king's camp that he may be appointed.

11 . But the son of Jonathan defeated Atiku again for he spake according to these words unto the people, "I feel thy pains brethren for I was once like thee. I wore no sandals on the soul of my feet in the years of my youth when seeketh I knowledge, for my parents were of little means". And the people loved him and appointed him.

12. And the host of the other camps were vexed with a great vexation. For sixteen years they made battle against the king's camp and hath not prevailed against it.

13. And a certain noble man by the name Audu the son of Ogbe declared unto the leaders of the camps that contended the throne with the king's camp saying: "howbeit thinkest thou in thy heart to prevail against the king's camp if comest thou not together as one?

14. Harken to my voice this day, come let us reason together that we may enlarge our coast and verily, verily I say unto thee, the throne of the kingdom shall be delivered into our hands.

15. Of the camps that came together that to form the APC were ACN from the west, ANPP from the North and a part of APGA from the East of the kingdom. Even the unhappy in the camp of PDP crossed over into the camp too.

16. And Atiku the son of Abubakar departed again from the king's camp by the name PDP and entered into the camp of the king's adversaries that he may contend the throne.

17. But Mohammed the son of Buhari was favoured among them that seeketh the throne from the camp of the APC for he swore unto the leaders of the camp saying, "Behold brethren, I am full of age and my eyes are becoming dim, suffer me to ascend unto the throne for I shall only reign for four years". And Buhari was anointed king over the kingdom.

18. And it troubled the son of Abubakar in his heart that he was rejected as king again. But he saith in his heart, I shall be of long suffering and remain in this camp for I shall ascend unto the throne after the fourth year of king Buhari.

19. But it came to pass that as the end of the fourth year of king Buhari's reign was at hand that the advisers in the king's court said unto him, be of good courage, gird thy loins and present thyself to be appointed again to reign over the kingdom for another four years.

20. And when Atiku heard of these words that he was vexed with anger and he repenteth that he joined the APC.

21. And he said, "I shall arise and go back to PDP which is the camp of my youth. And I shall declare unto them, “I have sinned against thee and against God. Accept me this day that I may once again contend the throne in thy bosom”.

22. And on the twenty fourth day of the eleventh month of the year before a new king is appointed that Atiku the son of Abubakar departed from the camp of APC and joined the camp of his youth.

23. And there was great jubilation in the camp of PDP that day for they said, “Verily, the prodigal son returneth.

24. But they forgot that Aremu, the son of Obasanjo, who still sees himself as the King maker, will not approve of it.

25. But behold, I say unto you, verily the spirit of the living God, when it returneth unto Aremu, the son of Obasanjo shall cause him to see the light and giveth his approval, and there shall be great jubilation in the camp of Atiku, the son of Abubakar.

Culled from the Facebook page of Obukowho Governor

Dannyset:
If PDP does not change its chairman, they will always be coming second in elections that matters .

Osun state is not a club house where dancers take the glory. The dancing senator is a clown that won't be tolerated in Osun.


PDP never again.

You mean they change SECONDus to FIRSTus?

As in that you didn't come to personally vote in Lagos so that your own ONE VOTE would have multiplied the total vote cast for pdp by one million?
Radarada!

WhoBeThisMan:
I may have considered employing you, but for this reason bolded you lost my attention.

If you have any help for that is not enough to stop it. Separating from her husband is not the same as divorcing him.
I think what she's trying to say is that it has got to the extent that her husband present location shouldn't be seen as a barrier

tripplephi:
get into importation business or cryptocurrency trading.
(if you feel you need my free help then PM me or send me a private mail.)

you are still early BUT I must commend you for the bravery it took for you to put up this thread and not die in silence. IT SHALL BE WELL WITH YOU HENCEFORTH..... dont give up.

But you don't have any contact seeable

evansvenus:
dakwambo should go and sit down!!

unseating the lifeless skunk in aso Rock is not child's play

we need someone with clout!

If unseating a "lifeless" is this herculean, then I conclude you lots are more lifeless
We need a better opposition not those who see a lifeless as eternal duty

CodeTemplar:
The church is already doing her bit 200%. Don't mosques too pay zakat ? Why is no one prying their eyes into their affair and demanding they take over governments responsibility also while govt collects tax and waste it ?

That's the work of satan. He has raised so many antichrists are. raised in that capacity (The main Antichrist will find a ready and massive army in his employ when he arrives). . My major concern are the useful idiots who are claiming to be Christians

omoowhe:
Someone should please give this man a slap

Even satan, who is urging you on cannot do it.. He knows your destruction is near and he's good at hastening it!

HigherEd:
Meanwhile, at Winners Chapel!

Technology Hub: Winners Chapel would be building her first Technology hub very soon. Although as usual it would be routed via her flagship university - CU. It would be housed in a twin mega structure with a bridge linking it. With over 2,000 systems.

Already, the Hebron startup lab which is an integral part of CUCRID - which is partly funded by David Oyedepo Foun. Initial 1 billion naira grant has nurtured about 43 start up businesses.

CUCRID on its core mission now has over 23 research clusters with massive year to year funding from both David Oyedepo foun and the school herself. The center now serves as the place with the highest activity in Multidisciplinary research with over 162 research publications(SCOPUS) and 20% of all Nigeria's multidisciplinary research as attested by Times Higher. It is also probably the largest indigenous private funder of research in Nigeria.

There is also plans for an agro - research institute at Landmark university later in the coming months. The church is also supporting LMU in her quest of putting the first Sattelite in space right here from inside Nigeria via a partnership with Kyushu Inst of Tech, Japan and NASDRA.

The Church is also providing 15,000 housing unit which would be transforming for Ota and would be a significant church led attempt in reducing the housing deficit of 17 million unit. I

So you see Churches are doing fairly great on the development side of things. Most of them just have PR issues.

I keep asking :why are you people silent on what islam is doing in Naija
Don't tell me they are poor or in minority

SARS Operative Dismissed For Collecting N5,000 'Ransom'.

The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed an operative of the Federal Special Anti-Robery Squad (FSARS), Inspector Charles Omotosho, who extorted N5,000 from some road users in Ikorodu area of Lagos State.

A Twitter user, Princess Ife, had on May 16 claimed that Omotosho had threatened to shoot at them, except they paid a 'ransom' of N5000.

She tweeted: “With my encounter today, it is safe to say SARS are armed robbers. Was going for a shoot in Ikorodu today and armed member of SARS pulled us over and made us pay for no reason. Threatening they were going to waste our lives. I made a transfer so that they can be traced."

The Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU) of the Police Force, while responding to the allegation, promised to investigate the issue and make findings of the investigation public.

Almost three months after the incident, PCRRU announced the dismissal of Omotosho, following the police’s investigations.

A tweet via the handle of the PCCRU read: "UPDATE #PCRRU316356. The Assistant-Inspector General of Police Zone 2, Lagos, AIG Ibrahim Adamu has reviewed the Orderly Room proceedings and approved the punishment of dismissal of AP. No. 136207 Inspr. Charles Olusola Omotosho from @PoliceNG wef 16.07.2018.

“Omotosho attached to SARS Ikorodu, Lagos at the time was found guilty of Corrupt Practices and Discreditable Conduct contrary to Para. C (ii) and E (iii) of Police Act and Regulations CAP. P19 LFN 2004.

"Three other accomplices (names withheld) of the dismissed Inspector were awarded punishment of reduction in rank from Sergeant to Corporal by the AIG. All @PoliceNG items (uniforms & ID card) have since been retrieved from the dismissed Inspector."

http://saharareporters.com/2018/08/31/sars-operative-dismissed-collecting-n5000-ransom

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One thing you can't take away from the British is the preservation and celebration of their culture. No matter their political or economic height, British don't joke with respecting the tradition.

londonrivals:
The Sokoto State Government, has confirmed nine deaths due to what an official suspected to be cases of gastroenteritis in seven Local Government Areas of the state.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Mr Mustapha Ali, on Friday in Sokoto, listed six of the affected LGAs as: Illela, Sabon-Birni, Gada, Goronyo, Isa and Tureta.

Most of the LGAs border Republic of Niger.

Ali stated that the situation is under control, as the state and federal government officials had been deployed to the affected areas while medications and other aids had also been made available.

He, however, debunked the claims that it was an outbreak of cholera, noting that experts had since taken samples for laboratory test in line with standard practice.

According to the PS, preliminary investigations reveal that the deaths may be due to the consumption of contaminated water, as rain is at its peak in the affected areas.

Ali said 80 patients were hospitalised in Tureta town and its suburbs, adding that all the deaths are those recorded within theprimary health care centres and hospitals.

Nonetheless, he insisted that it was irrational to attribute other deaths to the gastroenteritis, as routine deaths occurred daily naturally at different places.

Ali also confirmed the death of one person, which occurred at Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Gandi village.

He cautioned people against unwholesome food and water consumption and urged hospital workers to be on the alert by living up to the expectation of their services.


http://www.metronaija.ng/suspected-gastroenteritis-outbreak-sokoto-govt-confirms-9-deaths/

Where is the presidential aspirant that's blaming everything in Nigeria on Buhari. His sister couldn't give birth on time, it was blamed on buhari

Letenwam:
https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/punchng.com/ill-support-female-aspirants-across-party-lines-aisha-buhari/amp/

South East women? Chai! These people can turn coat at any moment
See as dem dress like Fulani women

ChiefAzubuike:
It shows Nigeria is gradually developing and very soon , we'll catch up with the west economically and morally. Who said we couldn't get there?

So the level of neckedness determines your development. I guess some patients in Aro or Yaba left would have made such enclaves super developed!

AllTheWayUp:
The APC Governors and Senators have checkmated the ulterior motives of Oshiomole and Tinubu

You have to pray against reactive destiny! You need an original one.
If you understand what direct primary is, you won't write this way, but just that saliva must droop from your mouth

BlacSmit:
The team in charge of this BBC pidgin should be sacked!! They're doing a every horrible job!!

Even with your 'every', your own is VERY horrible. Just one line, you fumble
Shior!

dre11:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/281783-2019-more-senators-threaten-to-dump-apc.html

These political neophytes (legislators) suddenly realise that the only saving grace they have is Tinubu, the Jagaban (proponent of direct primaries)