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In a saner clime, the cjn would have resigned honorably and save us from this needless crises.

Having admitted to committing the error in writing, the only sensible and dignified move for him would have been resignation.

But unfortunately we are in Nigeria and resignation is not in our lexicon.

He is a goner.

This is a very sad development for the whole country. It will continue to leave a very sour taste in our mouths.

Both the argument for and against the cjn will continue to portray us as a laughing stock in the eyes of the entire world.

BOLA TINUBU To OBJ

"Greatness is not in Aso Rock but PMB took greatness there. You weren't great because you are President, you're President because you're great. Just like Awo, Zik, Ahmadu Bello, Aminu Kano, Uncle Bola Ige, Mko, they were great without being President. OBASANJO had been President three times, yet, he is still in desperate search for greatness....

He didn't write Buhari until Buhari honored MKO and June 12. He saw that as wickedness to his person. He said to himself "How can another man from the SW be greater than me?"...but the truth is even in death AWOLOWO and ABIOLA are by far greater than OBASANJO even if he lives for the next one thousand years....

OBASANJO has no conscience. He is the only President that disobeyed the Judgement of the SUPREME COURT on LAGOS Allocation. But today, he said he's fighting for the judiciary. What is he smoking

From 1999 to 2007, Obasanjo didn't want to hear June 12 or ABIOLA. He never supported JUNE 12! And within 3 years of PMB Government, he recognized June 12, apologized to the Abiola Family, Yorubas, Nigerians for the annulment of June 12 and death of MKO. He went ahead to honor him and declared June 12 as Democracy Day.....Now tell me, who is a Democrat between OBASANJO and BUHARI?

According to Obasanjo, Abiola was not the messiah, Abacha was terrible, Yaradua was ineffective, Jonathan was worse, Buhari is awful & Atiku he once attacked viciously but now supporting is untrustworthy & a thief".

Baba has gotten more than he bargained for.

With due respect to obj's age, I will like to advise him to go and enjoy his retirement and loots in peace.

You that wanted 3rd term by force is here telling us what to do with Buhari that is seeking 2nd term in office.

Am an Egba man, and throughout baba's eight years in office, I want him to come and points at 1 single project that was initiated and completed by him. Except his presidential library that we thought would be a public project, only to discover that it is among his personal property.

We are still suffering from his inability to do anything meaningful on Lagos -Ibadan and Lagos-Abeokuta express road.

Even the overhead/ flyover bridge at Sango Ota he couldn't complete during his tenure.

There was high level of executive recklessness during Baba's day too. We can recall how you forced senate presidents and pdp chairmen to resign their appointment at gunpoint.

Am of the opinion that you all contributed in one way or the other to put us in this mess today.

PHILipu1:
Lol.
The truth is that the CJN was part of PDP and Atiku Dubai plan.

They were hoping to bribe him and other judges through Wike if the 2019 election petition get to the supreme Court.

Confusion now in PDP and Atiku camp.

Buhari camp had an insider in their Dubai meeting.

I think there is a sensible point in that your theory that there was a Buhari's mole in that Dubai meeting.

The leaked plan and this move against the cjn is the aftermath effect of the suspension of the pdp national vice chairman for anti-party activities recently. the man later defected to the apc.

politics na whaooo

One of the most staunch supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari, Festus Keyamo SAN, has just given a reaction to the massive condemnation that has trailed the appointment of former INEC Acting Chairman, Amina Zakari as the chairperson of the 2019 presidential election collation center.

There have been widespread reports across the country that Amina Zakari is related to the President Muhammadu Buhari as she is reported to be his niece.

A lot of politicians in the opposition Peoples Democratic party, PDP, including Fayose, and other politicians such as Oby Ezekwesili, and many other Nigerians have been at the fore front of condemnation of her appointment on the grounds that she is President Buhari’s niece.

Amina Bala Zakari (nee Husaini Adamu) was the former Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Nigerian electoral body. Her appointment took effect from the directive of the President Muhammadu Buhari following the expiration of the tenure of her predecessor, Attahiru Jega on July 30, 2015.

Amina Zakari is the first woman to be appointed to the position of the leadership of INEC and her tenure as substantive Chairman of INEC is subject to confirmation by the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


Let us know what you think of this reaction by Festus Keyamo to the whole Amina Zakari saga in the comment section below.


[img]One of the most staunch supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari, Festus Keyamo SAN, has just given a reaction to the massive condemnation that has trailed the appointment of former INEC Acting Chairman, Amina Zakari as the chairperson of the 2019 presidential election collation center.

There have been widespread reports across the country that Amina Zakari is related to the President Muhammadu Buhari as she is reported to be his niece.

A lot of politicians in the opposition Peoples Democratic party, PDP, including Fayose, and other politicians such as Oby Ezekwesili, and many other Nigerians have been at the fore front of condemnation of her appointment on the grounds that she is President Buhari’s niece.

Amina Bala Zakari (nee Husaini Adamu) was the former Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Nigerian electoral body. Her appointment took effect from the directive of the President Muhammadu Buhari following the expiration of the tenure of her predecessor, Attahiru Jega on July 30, 2015.

Amina Zakari is the first woman to be appointed to the position of the leadership of INEC and her tenure as substantive Chairman of INEC is subject to confirmation by the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


Let us know what you think of this reaction by Festus Keyamo to the whole Amina Zakari saga in the comment section below.

Workers in Ogun State yesterday threatened to shut down the state if the government does not take immediate steps to pay them arrears of unremitted contributory pension, gratuity and pensions due to retired civil servants.

Chairman of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC), Olakanmi Abiodun who spoke to journalists in Abeokuta, said all effort to get the government to meet their demands had not yielded any positive results hence, the planned strike.

They alleged that the state government failed to remit 106 months of contributory pension deductions and 14 months of global deductions covering Cooperatives Target Savings, Bank Repayment Loans and Assets Acquisition Repayment Fund.

Also, the state government failed to implement staff promotion for three years, as well as failed to pay four years gratuities of retired civil servants, four years of unpaid statutory leave allowances and six months of statutory trade unions check-off dues.

“The labour wishes to remind the general public that on assuming office in May 2011, the Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s administration was reluctant to pay inherited arrears, declaring that by his training, he is not bound to pay money that he did not owe.

“He promised that on his honour, he would not owe public servants at the expiration of his administration,” but regrettably, the governor has not honoured his words,” he said.

The workers are, therefore, demanding immediate restoration of payment of gross of workers’ salaries, resolution of all contributory pensions of public services and immediate refund of the money collected from workers on the sale of forms for housing and car loans.

Effort to get the Finance Commissioner, Wale Osinowo, to respond to the issues raised by the workers failed, as he did not take his calls nor replied a text message sent to his phone.

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A former Minister of State for Defence , Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, his wife and children have recovered three properties worth about N500 m from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt.

The properties include four terrace houses located at 44 Mamman Kotangora Crescent in the highbrow Katamkpe Extension area of Abuja ; a parcel of land in Guzape District and a duplex at Olori Mojisola Onikoyi Avenue , Ikoyi , Lagos .

Our correspondents , who visited the properties on Thursday , observed that the erstwhile red paint inscription , ‘EFCC, Keep Off!’ had been wiped off on the walls of the buildings .
Obanikoro, who defected to the All Progressives Congress from the Peoples Democratic Party about a year ago , was under investigation along with his two sons for alleged money laundering .
The ex- minister was accused of receiving N4 .7 bn from the Office of the National Security Adviser under the leadership of Col . Sambo Dasuki ( retd .) in 2014.
About N2 .2 bn out of the funds was allegedly handed over to the then governorship candidate of the PDP in Ekiti State , Governor Ayodele Fayose , while N 1 .3 bn was said to have been given to the then Osun State governorship candidate , Senator Iyiola Omisore .
Obanikoro has , however , been converted to a prosecution witness and is expected to testify against Fayose who he allegedly handed part of the money to .
The ex -minister and his wife , Moroophat, had , in 2016 , sued the EFCC for seizing the houses but lost as the court ruled that the EFCC had the right to seize properties of persons under investigation .
An FCT High Court sitting in Jabi had ordered the forfeiture of her property pending the outcome of investigations into her husband and children.
The court also rejected a prayer asking that the EFCC pay her the sum of N 200 m for violating her fundamental human rights.
Obanikoro’s wife had argued that she bought the property over seven years before the alleged arms scam took place.

Senator Ademola Adeleke ( a.k.a Dancing Senator) and four others were arraigned in court this morning for alleged exams fraud.

They all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The Court has granted them bail and the case adjourned to December 17, 18 and 19.

Details coming up later.

Dear sir,

LETTER OF APPEAL

We write to solicit on behalf of the entire workforce in our dear state,Ogun State,to use your highly esteemed office to salvage the lives of your engine room called WORKERS. Your Excellency, the release of our emoluments ie 4years of leave allowances, accumulation of your staff promotions, cooperative deductions of close to two years,check off dues of unions, various ileya/ Christmas savings, stoppage and remittance of accumulated pension funds, gratuity of pensioners to mention few.

For the record sir, the mortality rate among your workers is on the high side. Children school fees we hardly afford, to perform our roles as husbands or wives and even among relatives is now a great challenge. Sir, everything standstill!. Let me assure you sir, the immediate release of all these will douse the tension and also go a long way in the lives of your loved workers.

We will appreciate you the more sir, if our prayers can be answered in the next one week.

Thanking you for your understanding and unflinching support always.
Yours sincerely.

The Archbishop of Kampala , Cyprian Kizito Lwanga , has suggested that the government of Uganda deduct tithe from workers ’ salaries .
Speaking during a mass, the Catholic Archbishop said many Christians don’t tithe and this affects church projects, reports Citizen Kenya .
“Whenever we ask for tithe , everyone gives only what they have at that time . But the Bible says a tenth of whatever you earn belongs to the church ,” said Archbishop Lwanga .
“ Give me your support as I front this proposal because it is good for us . Aren ’t you tired of putting money in the baskets all the time ?”

Archbishop Lwanga said he wanted Uganda to go the German route , where Germans , who are registered as Catholics , Protestants or Jews have a church tax ( Kirchensteuer ) of 8- 9 per cent deducted from their annual income .

“I was told Germans made agreements with their government to deduct monthly tithe from their salaries and forward it to the church and this money they use to build and renovate their churches ,” he added .

The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun yesterday told workers demanding a new national minimum wage that governors are not miracle workers.

He said with the dwindling allocation state governments received from the Federal Government, it was difficult for them to implement a new minimum wage.

Amosun spoke at a town hall meeting held in Abeokuta on the 2019 budget.
The governor noted that many states were still struggling to pay the current N18, 000 minimum wage.

Amosun said that with the situation in the country, only seven or eight governors were paying full salaries.
He said: “The situation now is like an old woman with load walking gently, if she now adds more loads, she won’t walk at all. With 18,000 minimum wage, as we speak in this country, only seven or eight Governors are able to pay full salaries.
“We are not magicians or miracle workers that will turn things around, we only make to do with what we have, nobody has the money.”

On the All Progressives Congress governorship primaries in the state, Amosun insisted that his preferred candidate, Adekunle Abdulkabir Akinlade, would succeed him “to build on his legacy.”

He said: “we are going to win every local government in the state, even the local government where our enemies are we are ready for them, they should go and we shall meet them there”

Colonial masters and Europeans used religion to defraud, enslave, brainwash, kill our cultural heritage and and identity.

However, the greatest havoc is now being perpetrated by the religious leaders of African descent today.

With time and going by the way we are blindly following this religions, Africans will one day lose our identity completely.

We despise our culture, we see our traditions as evil, we consider our ancestral religion as sinful and we are not teaching our young ones our history.

So sorry for my people.

OK, let's see how it goes and what will end this.

As the race for the Ogun State governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, continues to make the headline, tongues are wagging as to Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s bizarre insistence to impose Abiodun Akinlade, a member of the House of Representatives who is perceived as not possessing the fecundity or rigour to rule Ogun State, against the choice of successful businessman, Dr. Dapo Abiodun.

Since the party primary held weeks back and his candidate lost, Amosun has visited Aso Rock no less than four times to reportedly blackmail President Muhammadu Buhari into overturning the party’s decision. Amosun was leveraging on his presumed closeness to the President to have his way but, so far, has been unlucky.


On his recent visit last Sunday, he railroaded two royal fathers, the Alake of Egbaland and the Olu of Ilaro; and a former minister, Iyabo Anisulowo, to join him to prevail on President Buhari to have a rethink. Reports say he met a brick wall as the president pointedly told him he could not upturn the decision of the party’s National Working Committee which conducted the primary and presented Abiodun as the authentic winner.

Defiant and desperate, Amosun, in a chat with the media at the Ogun State Government House Monday morning, said, “The President already knows there was no election in Ogun State. He knows that they just went to Lagos, write all results, and that what they did is fraud. If the National Working Committee or the National Chairman said there was any election in Ogun State, it was all fraud.”

He went ahead to blame some leaders of the party, notably Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former governor of the state, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, saying, “We have not heard one word from any of them. Was there any election in Ogun State? Yes or no? They should come out and those that are hiding behind one finger, they cannot come out. People at this level should be courageous enough to take position, to come out, to come and tell us whether there was election.”


Now in the twilight of his two-term stewardship, Amosun has been repeatedly blamed for his brashness and imperious attitude, which pitted him against the party at both the state and national levels.  It was his choice of Akinlade that may have done him in eventually, say party leaders.

While Amosun could have had his way with a candidate with a good head on his shoulders, Akinlade does not cut it for stakeholders because of his gung-ho lifestyle and vacuity. Reportedly more popular in the Abuja social circuit than the National Assembly where he is a legislator, Akinlade’s major claim to fame is his marriage to Chinenye Ochuba, a former beauty queen. Akinlade rose to political prominence on the strength of Amosun’s characteristic style of imposition. First appointed a special assistant to the governor in 2011, his loyalty to Amosun largely paid off when he secured the House of Representatives ticket in 2015.

Why Governor Amosun would therefore insist on Akinlade at the expense of Abiodun, a blue blood from Iperu-Remo and one of the largest indigenous players in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria with his Heyden Petroleum Ltd, is what party stakeholders cannot reconcile with. “Here is a man with proven entrepreneurship skills that have catapulted him into the list of Nigeria’s wealthiest men which didn’t go unnoticed by President Buhari who appointed him Chairman, Corporate Affairs Commission.

He is also credited with Nigeria’s rising rank in the ‘Ease-of-doing-business’ index. That is the kind of governor Ogun State deserves not a yes man that would be going for tutorials in his master’s house every morning,” a party chieftain told The Capital.

Indeed, Abiodun is no lackey, what Amosun reportedly wants. Prince Abiodun was first elected a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the platform of the defunct United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP) before that transition programme was truncated by late General Sani Abacha. He was just 33years old then.


At the time, Amosun had not joined politics. While party members insist that the process that produced Abiodun was free and fair and should be upheld in spite of pressure from the governor, they averred that they have seen through Amosun’s hue and cry that he just wants a lackey in office to protect his interest, not the interest of Ogun people.

Tribune Online recalls that the party in the state had been unsettled since the announcement of Abiodun as the winner of the October 3 governorship primary in the state, while the State executive of the party, had declared the Hon Adekunle Akinlade, the winner of the governorship primary held on October 2.

The groups include Ogun Progressive Students, Ogun Youth Assembly, Coalition of Ogun Traders and some civil society bodies on Monday, staged a peaceful protest against the insistence of the State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, to hand over the reins of power to Akinlade.

The groups were led by Comrade Adeyemi Azeez, the convener of Ogun Progressive Youths and Students, Abdul Kabir Ayoola and the convener of Movement for Secured Nigeria and Secretary, in Arewa Council, Idris Muhammad respectively.

Addressing newsmen, Ayoola, said the groups are not in support of any consensus candidate against the collective decision of the people.

Please let us stand up and fight for our rights. The political class will not like to allow the 30k to be implemented except the workers force it down their throats.

ok

Its a win win situation for the party and the general public.
if you fit understand wetin I talk, you sabi be dat.

OK

KINGwax007:
u no well! U no dey read? Ogun state is not owing workers their basic salary... We're talking of gratuities and deductions here.

Stop this abusive and ignorant comment and let me educate you.

Deductions forms part of workers salaries that are being deducted monthly for onward transfer to their cooperative societies and unions.

Its deducted from the salary based on the instructions of the worker in order to service loans taken from the worker's cooperative societies or unions.

Sometimes, it may also be that such workers may want to save some of their salaries for the raining day with the cooperative, so in this case its called savings.

Head or tail, the government can't say it has paid salaries of workers if some fraction of it is seized for months without being paid.

So if the government tells you that they are not owing workers salaries, don't take that to the truth.

The most embarrassing and annoying thing is that, if you have finished servicing your loan with the cooperative and you want to stop further deduction of money from your salary they will tell you its not possible based on the instructions of the governor.

That is what is obtainable here in Ogun state and everybody knows.

May God help us.

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It would be recalled that the Buhari-led administration on Wednesday released the last tranche of Paris Club of N17.3 billion to the state.

Make hay while the sun shine Mr Governor?!

Do it NOW!

Ogun state indigenes are looking up to you.

Make them happy.

The waiting is already turning to frustration already. Since on the 19th of September 2018, that the promise was made, it is yet to be fulfilled.

emmie14:
What is Paris funds?

Its the Paris Club refund money

The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has promised to spend N7.3billion out of N17.3 billion the last tranche of Paris club refund paid by the federal government to improve the lives of over 7.5 million Ogun residents across the state.
Amosun who added that N10 billion would be spent on backlogs of gratuity, cooperative deductions, severance and furniture allowance of its workforce.
It would be recalled that the Buhari-led administration on Wednesday released the last tranche of Paris Club of N17.3 billion to the state.
The governor through his Commissioner for Finance, Adewale Oshinowo while speaking with newsmen said the balance of N7.3 billion will be spent on social services for the benefit of the state.
Oshinowo opined that the payment of the N10 billion will boost the morale of the public service workforce and enhance its productivity.
He however maintained that Ibikunle Amosun-led administration has been consistent in paying workers’ salaries since the inception of the administration.
He said, “The governor Ibikunle Amosun has directed that N10 billionwhich represents 60 percent of the total Paris Club Refund of N17.3billion, be used for the immediate payment of the backlog of cooperative deductions, gratuity, severance and furniture allowance of its workforce.
“This is in line with the commitment of the Ibikunle-led administration to the welfare of workers. While N10billion is to be expended on the workforce, the balance of N7.3 billion will go into social services for the benefit of the entire 7.5 million indigenes of the state.
“The Ibikunle Amosun administration as you all know is worker-friendly. This informed its decision to increase the salaries of workers in 2012 which doubted our monthly wage bill. It is a testament to the value this government places on its workforce that it pays the highest salaries in the entire federation.”

ok

But how on earth would the Governor receive that much and decided to sit on it?

To make the matter worst, he sent his aids to come and raise the hope of the workers by addressing a press conference where they told all the balderdash about the way the money would be shared.

Ever since then, all of them just entered silence mode and nobody seems to hear anything again.


How can the public office holders continue to treat people with disdain and disrespect and nobody is saying anything?

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Dominique,
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