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germanized:
Keep quiet! Most of you do not even know your tenses, yet you just come online and start blaming one politician and praising the other, whereas they've all contributed to the sorry state we've found ourselves in as a nation.

Unai Emry is not fluent in English language but he's better than you and all the English profs you have. So leave that guy alone. He's made his point

See what the years of PDP has done to your brain..
Wake u, this is era of Change

germanized:
70 million pounds that's not even enough for some of our politicians to buy private jets

Theresa May, if you're reading this, do not hand over any money to the Nigerian government! They will loot a substantial part of the money and the little opportunities they create, they will share job slots within their political party.

Please make sure you have a strong oversight. APC/PDP, same old people recycling themselves since 1960. I pity the youths taking sides with polithiefcians. . . Keep selling your future for a plate of beans.

The UK Government has announced a new £70-million programme to create 100,000 jobs in Nigeria, says the Minister of State for Africa, Harriett Baldwin.

Baldwin said this during a business event as part of the activities for Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to Nigeria on Wednesday.

Baldwin, who led a business delegation to the event, said that the programme would raise the income of three million people from the poorest parts of Nigeria.

“We are here today to talk about technology links between the UK Fintech (financial technology) sector and the Nigerian Fintech sector and will bring inward investment in terms of this important sector of technology.

“Today, it is all about celebrating those links through technology and I am very excited that the Prime Minister is announcing today a new £70 million programme that will create some 100,000 jobs in Nigeria and will also raise the income of three million people from the poorest parts of Nigeria.”

The minister said that the event was celebrating the role of growing businesses and entrepreneurs and also highlighted the partnerships of both countries in the area of technological development.

She added that the delegation consisted of various UK businesses were willing to invest “the kind of capital that creates jobs”.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Ministers of Finance and Power, Works and Housing, Kemi Adeosun and Babatunde Fashola respectively, attended the event.

Mr Osinbajo said that the federal government was keen on driving technology development in the country in support of the government’s economic growth plan.

The vice president said there was the need to create the right environment for technology companies to thrive and further gave an assurance of the government’s commitment to support innovation in the country.


“I think just looking at some of the start-ups that we see today, many of them started while the recession was on and they proved, by just a number of jobs, value and wealth created, that this is the future starting today.

“This is why we have started up first with the creativity and technology advisory group; many of these start-ups are members of this group where they help to formulate policies with federal government policy makers especially in fintech, which are some of the new areas we need to formulate policies.”

NAN also reports that the event, held at Ventures Park, an innovation hub and co-working space for entrepreneurs, showcased a number products from start-up entrepreneurs.

The founder of Ventures Park, Kola Aina, said that the government’s `ease of doing business’ policy had been “relatively helpful” to the growth of small and medium-scale business in the country.

“There is also a lot of talk about incentives like the pioneer start-ups programmes that we are looking to see how start-ups can begin to benefit from.

“More than ever before, we are starting to see a lot of support from the government.”

The event simultaneously held a panel discussion highlighting opportunities for doing business among businessmen of both countries.

The panel included Messrs Fashola, Adeosun and other key government representatives.

The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Charles Bowman, was also part of the discussions alongside several other UK businessmen.

Ms May’s visit to Nigeria is part of her tour of some African countries.


She is expected in Nairobi on Thursday, where she will meet President Uhuru Kenyatta and see British soldiers from Kenya and other African countries on the techniques needed to identify and destroy improvised explosive devices before they go to fight Al-Shabaab in Somalia.

The prime minister is on a trade mission in an attempt to bolster Britain’s post-Brexit fortunes. This is her first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since she became prime minister in 2016.

She is accompanied by a 30-member business delegation as part of her efforts to “deepen and strengthen” partnerships around the world as the UK prepares to leave the European Union next year.

(NAN)

hurify147:
MAY NO ALLOW LIFELESS RAPE YOU...

Your life full Father, how far?

SolutionMee:
Honestly, if Nigerian citizens are as wise as American citizens, they won't even think it twice before voting in Saraki

Because of all the presidential candidates that can move Nigeria forward, he's the only leader that won't govern our country by privilege, nepotism and emotions but by insight, optimism and intelligence

Quote me a billion times about his performance in Kwara State and I will state to you the obvious difference between national politics and state politics

His performance in office as the Senate President is not just a proof but a verifiable one

Let's drop our ego, sentiments, regional differences and political affiliation and for once strive for the progress and betterment of this nation.

And with our undivided love, we can always bring out the best in it

God Bless Nigeria
God Bless the Most Populous Black Nation
God Bless Saraki (the face of modern day Democracy)
God Bless Jonathan (the father of modern day democracy)
God Bless all lovers of Democracy in Nigeria

As a Senate President he has a killer squad, what would happen if he's President?

He who lives by the sword will die by the sword. God is not mocked, what ever a man sow, that's what he will reap

What ever happens, kindly help someone today.
God bless Wenger for giving a helping hand to George
God bless George Weah for at least looking back to say "Thank you"

Ayatullah:
My dear brother you will never find an answer to this question, just as you will not find answer to what happened eventually to those who were said to have ressurected from the sepulchre in the bible (Mathew 27:51-53) and visited their people: Do they go back to the sepulchre or live with their people and die again?

For the sincere Christian searcher there are lots of observed confusion and errors in the bible, but some christians are willing to have ready answers to everything no matter how unreasonable their submission is. I don't blame such people, because I have tread this path before as a Christian until the Almighty God guided me to the English Qur'an which explains the secret of this world and the hereafter and the truth about God and Jesus the son of Mary.

I advise you to pick up a copy of the holy Qur'an in English and read it with an open mind, I assure you, you will find satisfactory answers to your questions about God, beloved Jesus and the mystery of this world and the hereafter.

Good luck brother.

Thanks for the referral. I am a believer and a believer of the gospel of Christ. It's the Holy Spirit that teaches to all understanding. I will search with the help of the Holy Spirit. He will direct. EIDUL KABIR TO YOU N YOUR FRIENDS

Op you forgot these pictures. The road that leads to the stadium

chinjo:
But you have money to send your children to school abroad, your girlfriends travels to Dubai for shopping. God go punish all the Governors and Buhari if they say they can't pay salaries.

You are of all most reasonable

VULCAN:
As sad as this is...

...It is no different from almost all states in Nigeria now

A state with the highest location n they have money to sponsor rallies

Emelcee:
Women today are in the best position to shape their future. Akwa Ibom women are no longer interested in hollow jargons. Governor Udom Emmanuel's Dakkada mindset has moved Akwa Ibom women from THE OTHER ROOM to THE BOARDROOM. This is why they march in solidarity today, for MR INTERGRITY, Governor Udom Emmanuel. #UdomTill2023 #IStandWithUdom

ORDEAL OF RETIRED PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN AKWA IBOM STATE

Independent findings show that;

1. 2014 retired primary school teachers are owed 5 months pension

2. 2015 retired primary school teachers are owed 10 months pension arrears

3. 2016 retired primary school teachers are owed 2 months pension arrears

4. 2017 retired primary school teachers are owed 1 month pension arrears

5. 2011 to 2017 retired primary school teachers are not paid gratuities

6. There are left over and unpaid retired primary school teachers gratuities of 2009 to 2010

7. 2011 to 2012 arrears of promotions are unpaid to retired primary school teachers

8. Incomplete payment of 7.5% pension deductions to retired primary school teachers

9. 2013 and 2014 leave grants are unpaid to retired primary school teachers

10. Death benefit to next of kin of retired primary school teachrrs are not paid

11. There is no harmonization of pension

12. 2012 and 2013 arrears of pension on promoting are unpaid to retired primary school teachers

13. Some retirees have received May pension but retired primary school teachers are a month behind

These retirees are living on drugs but no money to buy their routine drugs, they are tenants and cannot pay their rents, they cannot feed their families, their children are dropped out of schools because fees are not paid and they are facing untimely death!

bedspread:
Thanks for the Correction bro...

You are welcome but stop hating PMB

bedspread:
Liers again!!

There is Serious Pressure from Physical and Spiritual Quaters ...

APC is an IRRedeemable Disater!!

Is that why u can't spell ordinary "liars"?

Justice

At the end, no good and reliable answer. Some even came to quarrel. Na wow Church goers and Choir masters n Pastors. Isokay!!! I will keep searching

Shelumiel:
You are talking OP. How does Hitler fit in to this discussion. ..

He said there was no record of death

Shelumiel:
He maybe ; because there is no account of him being killed or dying at a good old age .

Like Adolf Hitler with no account of death, do you say he's still alive?

orisa37:
Those like Peter, James, John and Paul who are not dead but are in Eternity Now.
I shall make Heaven in Jesus Name Amen!!!

Amen. But wasn't he talking about physical death?

bjayx:
Soyinka talks too much.
Is he on z vendetta mission or what
Definitely not speaking for the masses.
Someone privately romancing APC is a no no for me

Everything moral is a No No for you. You lost it when you lost your senses to Mr Cownu

Shelumiel:
It could be John the beloved .

Didn't they taste of dead?

In trying to understand this, I have never seen a clear explanation to this gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the account of Matthew and Luke, who were those He was referring to as though will not taste of death till his kingdom comes? Let the theologians, Pastors in the house have a say

Matthew 16:28 "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

Luke 9:27 says, "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God."

President Buhari polling unit result for today's senatorial election ��

Clearing every reasonable doubt that APC is in charge in Katsina State.

Bethel4Life:
Osho is officially mad

While you are officially moronic

Daviddson:
Saraki outsmarted APC to becoming the Senate President. 95% of APC senators were in a conference hall for a meeting while PDP senators were electing him, fraudulently,as Adams pointed out here. APC should also use a similar trick on him and boot him out quickly, because as it stands now it's a shame and a travesty for the minority to be holding positions of president and deputy president of the Senate.

Absolutely

sayemma:
The 498 million us dollar used by buhari govt to buy FIGHTER JET from USA, to be delivered to Nigeria in 2020 but has been paid for, did it go through the national assembly, so why is oshomole cry as if he care about National Assembly if not because saraki hit them so hard.

Saraki hit them hard by sponsoring bank robbery! U are a genius

We decided to call for this press conference basically to respond to issues raised by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki during his press conference. It is important that we respond to some of the issues he canvassed, so that the public is not misled into turning villains into heroes and twisting the facts that are not hidden to the Nigerian public. It is important that we help the Nigerian public by refreshing their memories.

The Senate President raised the issues of the fact that he has always acted not on the basis of his own personal interest, but that he has always acted on the basis of national interest. The truth is that it is doubtful if the Senate President has ever acted either in the National interest or in the interest of his own political party before his defection recently. Without going back to ancient history, it is important to look at how Senator Bukola Saraki became the President of the Senate. He decided, clearly, against the party position to enter into a deal with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and got a faction of the PDP, taking advantage of the fact that majority of the APC senators were holding a meeting at the International Conference Centre to resolve the issue of leadership of the senate and other principal officers that are expected to be produced by the ruling party with majority senators. Because he has put his personal interest over and above the interest of the party, he went into alliance with the PDP and conceded the position of Deputy Senate President to the opposition in other to obtain their support for him to become the Senate President. So, for the first time in our democratic history in Nigeria, we had a situation whereby, whereas the APC had majority of Senators, it went on to elect a PDP person as Deputy Senate President. This action alone portray Senator Saraki for who he is and that his personal interest come before any other interest, including national interest and that of his political party.

Having gone into this unholy alliance with the opposition and mortgaging the rights of the ruling party, he appointed opposition senators to head sensitive and strategic committees whose activities can affect either for good or for bad, the working of government and the relationship between the government and the legislature. Senator Saraki did that in other to continue to protect himself against the wishes of his party as Senate President. That showed that the only thing that was constant in his mind was to cling on to the position of Senate President even if it is at the expense of his own party and the country.

Even the media has consistently drawn attention to how Senator Saraki is managing the Senate to the extent that questions have been raised as to whose interest the Senate was serving.

You do not have to be a partisan politician to appreciate that in an election year, every democratic government around the world would do everything possible to ensure that it is seen to be working for the people of the country. Like any other political party in government, Nigerians expected the APC government under President Muhammadu Buhari to do everything possible this year to make up for lost time in terms of budget implementation and addressing critical infrastructures without which sustainable development is impossible. The Senate under Senator Saraki chose to delay the budget up to the end of the first half of the year and to coincide with the period of the rainy season such that those aspects of infrastructure such as roads cannot be constructed during the rainy season. These were not errors under his leadership, but clearly designed to frustrate the capacity of the government to address critical infrastructural deficit without which the ordinary man cannot feel the impact of government.

Again on receipt of the budget, the President cried out that it was a clear distortion from the well thought proposal that he submitted to the National Assembly. He appreciated that while they can make alteration to the budget, he did not expect that it will be completely rewritten as to make far more provisions for recurrent expenditure with very little for capital projects. He said this budget will be difficult to implement.

So, when I said he has never put the interest of Nigeria first, I support this statement with reference to the deliberate delay of the budget and deliberate manipulation of the provisions in the budget in a way that will compromise the capacity of the government to address critical infrastructures.

It is no longer a secret that as Senate President, he tried to conspire with others to create a semblance of division within the ruling party having failed to truncate the National Convention, when they assembled a handful of people who were neither delegates nor contestants for any office at the National Convention. There is nothing for me to add to the illegality of this action and the false foundation that Senator Saraki tried to leave than to adopt the well thought out presentation of Femi Falana SAN.

Those things did not portray him as someone who is concerned about sustaining democracy because sustaining democracy also implies absolute commitment to the rule of law. If the rule of law is compromised and Nigeria is reduced to a banana republic where it will be survival of the fittest, he is probably not the strongest man in town to cling on to that office. So, each time he takes an action that constitute a breach of the constitution, he is, by his own action undermining the foundation and weakening the fabrics of our democracy.

However, upon his illegal defection, which he had to do hurriedly because the number of Senators he was playing on their fears that they will not be able to return to the Senate.

At a point, he had on his list, about 36 Senators who were about to defect. But consequent upon our election, we took pre-emptive steps to reassure some of those senators. The first meeting we held after our election was with Senator Saraki to try and listen to what I called negotiable and verifiable grievances and this I did in company of the Vice President and he acknowledged that those steps were taken when he was leaving. But however, his real grievances are not negotiable which is about ambition, value and his fundamental values and the values of the APC. When he defected, he went to Ilorin to tell the people part of the truth that he was leaving for two reasons. He alleged that President Buhari gave out over 200 juicy appointments without allocating some to him and he choose to speak for the Speaker of the House of Representatives that he was also not given. My question is, giving Saraki, the Senate President juicy position, does that coincide with the Nigerian project? Or the interest of the people of Kwara State of his Senatorial zone? At no time did he refer to the interest of the people of his constituency or the people of Nigeria.

The second reason he gave was that he was being persecuted. That is alleged persecution of his person and not his people. He never pretended that any of these actions had anything, to do with the people of Nigeria, but his person. I think the governor of Kwara State was more explicit in corroborating his claim when he said that he as governor and Saraki as Senate President were being linked to armed robbery cases. Again, that has nothing to do with the Nigerian project or the Kwara people. What is the truth? Who linked Senator Saraki to armed robbery? Was it the federal government or arrested armed robbers? It is the armed robbers that alleged that the weapons with which they carried out the operation were procured for them by the Senate President. This is contained in the police report which is no longer a secret. He has not denied knowledge of these people. So If armed robbers linked the name of the Senate President, is the APC or the government to blame? A crime that led to the killing of about 35 persons cannot be dismissed with a wave of hand and in any jurisdiction, when your name is linked to such heinous crime, people don’t clap for you. It is the duty of the security agents to investigate and establish whether they are valid or invalid. So, if he was linked to armed robbery, that cannot be an offense of the government or the APC. The best defense I have heard is that the robbers said that he did not ask them to use the weapon for armed robbery.

In support of my thesis that Saraki has never acted in the national interest, my final submission is on the way he adjourned the Senate. The senate calendar is not secret to the presiding officer and the calendar that was known was that the senate was going to adjourn on a Thursday. But by Monday night, Saraki used his guest house, wrote out names of Senators with provision for them to sign for senators to decamp from the APC to the PDP, but some of the senators refused to sign. That is what frustrated his calculations to turn the APC to a minority party in the senate. Is it a coincidence that as he was reading the names of defectors in the senate, his counterpart in the House was also doing same? So there was coordination for defection day. But happily, the pre-emptive measures we have taken to address genuine grievances frustrated their number such that from 36, he could not get more than 14 senators to decamp including one that subsequently overcame the manipulation.

Between Tuesday and Thursday, the Senate was expected to discuss the supplementary budget for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). INEC requirements are not things that you buy from the shelf. You have to order them from the manufacturers and so, time is of the essence. But the senate under Saraki adjourned without considering the matters before it including the budget for INEC. So, if Saraki adjourned the Senate ahead of schedule to resume towards the end of nominations, can that act be said to coincide with national interest? If you decide to frustrate INEC by denying it the funds that it requires, can you be said to be a defender of democracy? If INEC don’t get their funds and therefore are unable to conduct t credible election, will that not lead to further consequences for our democracy?

So, I submit that Saraki’s actions were calculated to undermine democracy. Those who fought for democracy did not do it so that it can be at the mercies of a Senate President whose interest is clearly at variance with national interest. There was a request for virement which was also not considered.

A substantial part of the 2018 budget meant for capital project was supposed to be sourced through loans and under the constitution, you cannot borrow from foreign countries without the express endorsement of the National Assembly. Without those loans, the budget cannot be implemented. While this was pending, Senator Saraki put his personal interest above his office and choose to adjourn the Senate , leaving this huge national issues unattended to. So, for an officer that behaves like that, how can he argue that anything he did was not about himself? Everything he did has never been informed by national interest. There are also allegations of lack of transparency and we have seen Nigerians trying to demystify what they earn. We have an arm that is completely unaccountable because of the way he has presided.

Therefore, his attempt to use the incident at the National Assembly on Tuesday to portray himself as the conscience of the nation is to insult our collective intelligence as a people.

There is the futile attempt he has made to suggest that the Tuesday’s incidence was an attempt to carry out an illegal impeachment. How can a presiding office arrive at such a conclusion that there was a plan to carry out an illegal impeachment? Until an action takes place, you cannot determine the outcome, if impeachment itself is unlawful, then you can understand where he is coming from. It is lawful to impeach anyone, including the President the Senate and his deputy if the number required to do so is present. So, he cannot pre-empt that. From their own statement, they claimed to be aware that the Senate President was going to be illegally impeached and so mobilized thugs to the Senate. They told the world that they have adjourned till 25th September. But meanwhile, about 15 PDP Senators were in the Senate and imported thugs that molested two of our members they saw in the senate. If APC Senators were not in the Senate and it was PDP Senators that were there, what is the basis of the false claim that there was an attempt to carry out an illegal impeachment? In any case, Saraki is not going to be the first Senate President to be impeached and I doubt if he is going to be the last. But definitely, he will be impeached according to law and democratic norms. The only way he can avoid impeachment is for him to do what is honourable.

We saw Senator Godswill Akpabio who was the PDP leader in the Senate. Once he made up his mind to leave the PDP, he wrote to inform the PDP even before his defection that he was resigning. So, Senator Saraki has demonstrated neither character nor being a man of honour. I told him when we held a meeting that he came to join the APC as a Senator and it is on our platform that you became Senate President. Once you made up your mind to leave, the honourable thing to do is to resign as Senate President. If he does not resign, he will be impeached according to law and not by thuggery or by mob or anything that undemocratic. He cannot sustain a minority rule in the Senate and that is what is haunting him in the Senate.

When I say that the Senate President will be impeached, let me emphasise that he will be impeached properly according to law. The constitution is clear how a presiding officer can be impeached and because several impeachments has taken place, we are not about to witness what has not taken place before. We have enough precedent to fall back on. I have looked at the constitution which does not say that an impeachment is illegal. It is done, you cannot arrive at the conclusion that it is unlawful. How can we be accused of planning an illegal impeachment when it has not commenced. If he thinks that by saying that he will pre-empt the APC from having him impeached, he is deceiving himself. I think that the time of Saraki is over. The way he has manipulated the politics of Kwara state, he fails to understand that the Nigerian project is far more complicated than being at the mercy of his own dynasty. He will not only be impeached, we will work hard to have him defeated as a Senator in his own Senatorial zone come 2019 by the people of Kwara state who are fed up with Saraki. Go and check the results of the elections that made him a Senator and you will find out that the President got more votes from Kwara Central than Saraki got for himself. So, he can’t claim that the vote the APC got from his Senatorial zone was because of him. That is why his leaving is of no political consequences as far as electoral issues are concerned. We tried to talk to him, not out of fear, but out of conviction that as a presiding officer, there are rules of engagement.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/08/10/full-adams-oshiomhole’s-response-saraki’s-‘world-press-conference’

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