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Crime / Re: N 1 Million Burial Levy In Eziowelle, Idemili Anambra: Community Members Cry Out by higherpower: 6:19pm On Jul 03, 2018 |
aminusodiq: Which people said that n which people' event affairmed that? 1 Like |
Phones / Re: Which Network Offers Best Night Plan? by higherpower: 8:35am On Jun 30, 2018 |
LilSmith55: See the stress you go through so you can curse Buhari on facebook n Nairaland 1 Like |
Phones / Re: Which Network Offers Best Night Plan? by higherpower: 8:29am On Jun 30, 2018 |
Poverty is bad 1 Like |
Politics / Re: PDP, Ohaneze Ndigbo Demand Immediate Release Of Senator Abaribe by higherpower: 12:36pm On Jun 23, 2018 |
authehighness: You mean the man who was impeached as deputy Governor for stealing park tickets? 1 Like |
Sports / Re: Ahmed Musa Pays Tribute To PMB, Wears His Favorite Cap (Photos) by higherpower: 8:37pm On Jun 22, 2018 |
Jochabed:I don't know what Musy means but I guess it's a nice thought. So I gave u a like 2 Likes |
Sports / Ahmed Musa Pays Tribute To PMB, Wears His Favorite Cap (Photos) by higherpower: 8:33pm On Jun 22, 2018 |
After a moment of individual brilliance by Ahmed Musa, he paid respect to PMB by wearing his favorite cap. 3 Likes
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Politics / Re: Preparation In Top Gear For APC National Convention In Abuja (Photos) by higherpower: 11:05pm On Jun 21, 2018 |
SadiqBabaSani: What will be your gain? |
Politics / Re: President Buhari On A Condolence Visit To Bauchi (Photos) by higherpower: 9:24pm On Jun 21, 2018 |
ChiefAzubuike1: I thought you were being foolish but as I tried to understand your trash, I then realized your foolishness has gone into insanity. And I believe it's hereditary 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Dino Melaye And His 2 Sons Rock Stylish Super Eagles Jersey (Photo) by higherpower: 8:58pm On Jun 16, 2018 |
dapsin999: He gave them jerseys and gave you guns � see how logical you are |
Politics / Apostle Suleiman’s Father Gives Son “final Warning” Over Buhari by higherpower: 10:13am On Jun 14, 2018 |
Hon. Imoudu Sule, father of controversial preacher, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, has publicly warned his son to stop criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari. Sule, who is the current All Progressives Congress (APC) Leader in Auchi as well as the APC Deputy Leader, Etsako West, Edo State, Nigeria, told the fiery cleric to “leave politics for politicians”. He stated this while speaking with select journalists in Lagos. “This is a man I love, respect and hold in high esteem for being a person of integrity over the years. “Each time I hear people criticize my party, the (APC), my heart bleeds. Apostle Johnson Suleiman who’s my biological son and a renowned preacher of the gospel is seemingly becoming a consistent critic of the ruling party lately. “And I am seriously concerned about it as numerous well-wishers are now urging me to call my son to order. “I hereby speak out to let Nigerians know that I have warned my son (Apostle Johnson Suleiman) to immediately leave politics to politicians and focus on his calling as a priest. “Being a retired Army officer, PMB is my commander in chief and the overall leader of my party, the APC. Hence, I will do anything in my capacity as a stakeholder to support Mr. President for his noble repositioning of our dear country Nigeria. “Consequently, anybody who is not supporting the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is an enemy of the nation,” Sule said. http://dailypost.ng/2018/06/14/apostle-suleimans-father-gives-final-warning-buhari/ |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Another Ex-nigerian Governor Joshua Dariye Convicted Of Fraud by higherpower: 4:26pm On Jun 12, 2018 |
Born2Breed: But I now believe it wasn't anemia but hereditary foolishness that is disturbing you |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Another Ex-nigerian Governor Joshua Dariye Convicted Of Fraud by higherpower: 3:38pm On Jun 12, 2018 |
Born2Breed: 9 months to elections, you still never said who you will vote in. Are you sure you are not suffering from anemia? 1 Like |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Another Ex-nigerian Governor Joshua Dariye Convicted Of Fraud by higherpower: 3:31pm On Jun 12, 2018 |
CodeTemplar: One way or the other you must wail. 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Another Ex-nigerian Governor Joshua Dariye Convicted Of Fraud by higherpower: 2:44pm On Jun 12, 2018 |
kennygee: I thought you said they were all saints... One way or the other you must wail 32 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Another Ex-nigerian Governor Joshua Dariye Convicted Of Fraud by higherpower: 2:33pm On Jun 12, 2018 |
Mutemenot:Please laugh out loud 2 Likes |
Politics / BREAKING: Another Ex-nigerian Governor Joshua Dariye Convicted Of Fraud by higherpower: 2:24pm On Jun 12, 2018 |
Few weeks after a former Taraba governor, Jolly Nyame, was jailed 14 years for fraud, the Federal Capital Territory High Court has found former Plateau State governor, Joshua Dariye, guilty of fraud. Mr Dariye was charged for allegedly diverting N1. 161.9 billion while he served as governor of the North-central state. He was brought to court on a 23-count charge for the alleged offence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in 2007. Although Mr Dariye’s lawyer, Kanu Agabi, questioned the authenticity of evidence adduced in court against his client, the court said the evidences clearly indicate a case of diversion. The judge, Adebukola Banjoko, found him guilty of diverting funds to the Peoples Democratic Party in the state among other groups. Mrs Banjoko who was still reading the judgement at the time of this report found Mr Dariye guilty of counts 1, 2, 4, and 7. The counts relate to the diversion of N80 million to the PDP, N100 million to a company, Marine flow and other sums through the All State Bank. The same judge jailed Mr Nyame. BACKGROUND Mr Dariye, a serving senator, was first elected governor of the state in 1999 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. He was re-elected in 2003, but later impeached by the state’s house of assembly in November 2006. Following judgements of the Appeal and Supreme Courts nullifying his impeachment however, Mr Dariye was ordered to complete his tenure in 2007. The prosecution, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, arraigned the defendant on a 21-count for the alleged offence shortly after the expiration of his tenure in May 2007. According to the anti-graft agency, Mr Dariye used his office to siphon money out of the country, through various accounts. Mr Dariye fought a seemingly endless battle to prevent his trial, from the lower court to the Supreme Court. Ahead of his arraignment in 2007, Mr Dariye challenged the competence of the charges against him, but failed at the trial court. Subsequently the ex-governor approached the Court of Appeal where he also failed in his attempt to stop the trial. Mr Dariye who had secured an order for the suspension of his trial at the lower court, also proceeded to the Supreme Court with his appeal. He was, however, made to continue the trial following an order of the apex court in 2015, after stalling the case for over seven years. The former governor controversially employed the services of a former Attorney General of the federation, Kanu Agabi, who headed Nigeria’s justice ministry when the charge against the defendant was first brought. He is currently a senator on the platform of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, to which he decamped in 2016. He was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. The judge, Olasumbo Banjoko, slated Tuesday for judgement after entertaining the final address of counsel. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/272050-breaking-another-ex-nigerian-governor-convicted-of-fraud.html 11 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Mohammed Fawehinmi Extol PMB For Recognizing June 12 by higherpower: 1:01pm On Jun 12, 2018 |
This is the remark made by the son of the late Sage Chief Gani Fawehimi SAN on the occasion of the Special National Investiture organised in honor of late Chief MKO Abiola, Babagana Kingibe n Chief Gani "Mr President, you are the sensitive and reasonable President of Nigeria" ~Mohammed Gani Fawehinmi What is your thought, to me he has stated the obvious. Let the response by matured or you pass. Thanks |
Politics / Re: Donald Duke Releases 2019 Campaign Posters For Presidential Election by higherpower: 2:46am On Jun 10, 2018 |
N0favors: How long will you cry for GJ? Can you see you are sliding into hypertension by the day? 1 Like |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 12:50am On Jun 09, 2018 |
escodotman: What more change than seeing an ex president being jittery of probe? Did it happen before? That's the Change. Unless you are blind |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 6:22pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
escodotman: Hope you know that the only thing PMB was "where's the power? " |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 4:15pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
benzion72: But Obj has stated in his book that he would prefer to be jailed by PMB than allow GEJ ruin the country 1 Like |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 4:12pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
escodotman: Your own stupidity is hereditary so it's understood. Nothing can be done. Feel free to flaunt it |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 4:11pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
zombieHUNTER: PMB only asked, where is the power? |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 4:08pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Johnnyessence: I also propose we have a public holiday onbtge day Aberibe was impeached for stealing park tickets |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 3:26pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Nateben: Is your fooooolishness hereditary? 1 Like |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 3:24pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Mogidi:What is this one saying? 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 3:17pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
kaorama: Both are BABAS |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 3:16pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Gloriousgud:Obj is arrestable but not on false charges |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 3:15pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Daviddson: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/ |
Politics / Re: BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 3:14pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
yudee233:The fear of PMB is the beginning of wisdom |
Politics / BREAKING: Obasanjo Raises Alarm, Accuses Buhari Of Plotting His Arrest On False by higherpower: 3:08pm On Jun 08, 2018 |
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has accused the Buhari administration of plotting to slam false charges on him, to pave the way for his indefinite detention. The former leader said the government was planning to use fake documents and witnesses against him. Mr Obasanjo said this in a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Friday. The claim is the latest twist after weeks of bitter exchanges between the two leaders, who fell apart after Mr Obasanjo accused Mr Buhari or ineptitude and corruption, and advised him not to seek reelection. Mr Buhari responded recently by accusing his predecessor of frittering away $16 billion on phoney electricity projects. Mr Obasanjo hit back at the “ignorant” claim. Speaking via his aide on Friday, the former president said plans to silence him were in two fold, among which is a plot to cause the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to reopen investigation into the activities of his administration. He said the Buhari administration had also perfected a plan to use fake documents and witnesses against him. He said this will be a re-enactment of the Abacha era in which he ( Obasanjo) was detained on trumped up charges. The presidency could not be immediately reached for comments. The former president said he had been told that his name was on the government’s “watch list”, and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed. He however said no amount of campaign of calumny, no matter how well contrived, orchestrated or marketed would deter him from speaking out. “Since Chief Olusegun Obasanjo declared in his State-of-the-Nation Special Statement on January 23, 2018, the desperation to frustrate, intimidate and blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of the people to better life and living continued unabated and has even taken a bizarre dimension,” the statement said. The statement said the first option to silence him was to seize his international passport and clamp him into detention indefinitely, in order to prevent him from further expressing angst on the “pervasive mediocrity in the quality of governance, economic management and in the protection of lives and property by the Government”. Part of statement is below: ‘Impeccable security sources have alleged Chief Obasanjo’s name is on their Watch List and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed. According to these informants, many of who are in the top echelon of the Nation’s security management and close to the corridors of power, the operatives are daily perfecting how to curtail the personal liberties of the former President and hang a crime on him’. ‘Ordinarily, we would not have dignified these reports with a response but for the fact that many of these informants are not known for flippant and frivolous talks. Secondly, this Government has demonstrably exhibited apathy, and in some cases, encouraged by its conduct, daily loss of lives and property in many States of the country, the office cannot be indifferent. “We are currently in a nation where the Number Three citizen is currently being harangued and the Number Four citizen is facing similar threat within the same Government they serve. There is a groundswell of our nationals that live in fear that they could be hounded, harassed, maimed or even killed as the battle for 2019 takes this worrisome dimension. “For Chief Obasanjo, this is a joke carried too far and being someone who do not act on unofficial information, he had cautioned all informants and adopted a wait-and-see attitude to the bestial propositions allegedly being contemplated to cow, cage and embarrass him. “The content of the alleged beastly designs, it was learnt are two-fold for now. One, to seize his International Passport and clamp him into detention indefinitely, in order to prevent him from further expressing angst on the pervasive mediocrity in the quality of governance, economic management and in the protection of lives and property by the Government. “But, since that could expose the Government to a swath of international condemnation, embarrassment and outrage, it is said that another plot being hatched is to cause the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to re-open investigation into the activities of Chief Obasanjo’s administration using false witnesses and documents. This will be a re-enactment of the Abacha era in which Chief Obasanjo was one of the principal victims’. ‘The same EFCC that had conducted a clinical investigation on the activities of Obasanjo in and out of Government, it was said, would now be made to stand down the existing report that gave Chief Obasanjo a clean bill of health on the probes are now to get him indicted, fair or foul for possible prosecution and persecution like it is being done to real and perceived opponents, enemies and critics of this Government’. ‘Dissent is a fundamental principle on which liberal democracy is predicated. A true democrat must be ready to live with and accommodate dissent and opposition. While it is regrettable how the Government has sunk in its shameless desperation to cow opposition, a resort to blackmail, despotism and Gestapo-tactics being employed by the goons of this Government would not hold water. And no government ever remains in power forever. ‘For the record, Chief Obasanjo reiterates his readiness to face probe again after that of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the ICPC, and the EFCC, but before an independent, objective and credible panel of enquiry to account for his stewardship in Government and beyond’. ‘Chief Obasanjo reiterates that he has taken a principled position to ensure that the ship of the Nigerian State does not capsize and he remains steadfast in his resolve to turn the tide of maladministration, poor economic management and rudderless governance model that has tore Nigerians apart on account of religion and ethnicity which is a great threat to our democracy’. ‘We would like the Government and its supporters to understand that no amount of campaign of calumny, no matter how well contrived, orchestrated or marketed would deter Chief Obasanjo from calling a spade by its name. Chief Obasanjo is a patriot whose sole agenda is to ensure that the country’s unity, progress and democracy are not negotiated on the altar of incompetence and provincialism and mediocrity. ‘It is important to point out that Chief Obasanjo is one former President and Head of State who has engaged the current administration privately and in a bilateral manner on several issues of direct interest to the government and other matters of national concern. That channel of private engagement remains open and continues. However, should there be the need for public engagement, the right to free speech will always be exercised and jealously guarded, again in the best interest of Nigeria and the government. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/271621-breaking-obasanjo-raises-alarm-accuses-buhari-of-plotting-his-arrest-on-false-charges.html All content is Copyrighted © 2018 The Premium Times, Nigeria. 1 Like
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Politics / Re: Is Buhari's June 12 Declaration Targeted At Obasanjo? by higherpower: 6:12pm On Jun 07, 2018 |
talk2archy: Give igbos money and they will be fighting till the elections are over 2 Likes |
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