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kelvinreality:
What will we not read on nairaland? How On earth will you allege aregbe to be from kogi state?

Are you from Osun state?

His real state is Kogi
He was born in ilesa

Ilesa pple doesn't bear Aregbesola

decomaniaboss:
choi ,u wicked hoooo so u mean say our oga mouth the smell

Naso we see am

[quote author=quid post=46609696][/quote]Hmm Na 9ja we dey

Biodun37:
You this hopeless person, toying with an issue that is this delicate & playing politics with religion & presenting your personal opinions as facts. Something must be wrong with your brain

What an idiot

This is happening in my state and your stupid-never-do-well self think I don't know what is going on




Idiot goan tell that bastard Aregbe not to destroy osun State he should go to his real state Kogi and destroy it

I have read tons of comments 'bout the Hijab issue on NL but most don't know the genesis of this debacle

Let me quickly summarize what led us to the state we are today (not a fan of long epistle)

After Aregbe SALAMICALLY sent Oyinlola parking,he embarked on borrowing spree

He took loans from both local and international financial institutions

He patronized Islamic financial institutions e.g Islamic bank of Nigeria some of his supporters told me it's because of their next to nothing interest rate, JAIZ BANK among others

JAIZ BANK loaned him a larger percentage of the money he's using to build schools across the state(many in the state are still wondering how he was able to build schools without paying the workers and those working in the schools)


Part of the agreement with JAIZ BANK was that the schools are Islamic institutions

Aregbe in his 1st term in office started merging public schools together so as to be able to build 1 standard school for 2 (in some cases 3 or more) schools

These sees the likes of FAKUNLE (a very popular public school destroyed)

Aregbe directly introduced HIJAB in his 1st term before he shed the idea after meeting a strong barricade from the Christians in the state


The issue of Hijab or no Hijab died a natural death till weeks ago.infact most people in the state doesn't know there is any case in court pertaining to this issue

When CAN alleged that Aregbe is the unseen man toiling with a delicate issue like this definitely they know what they are saying


Hijab issue has been on ground for a while


Cc Lalatisclala

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain, Germany and the United States advanced plans on Tuesday to spearhead a new NATO force on Russia's border from next year, and Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered snap checks on combat readiness across his armed forces.

Weeks before a critical NATO summit in Warsaw, three of NATO's biggest military powers said they would each command a battalion across the eastern flank to help deter any show of force such as that deployed by Moscow in Crimea in 2014.

"Britain will lead one of the battalions," British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said at a meeting of NATO defense ministers, adding London will send up to 700 troops to the Baltics and Poland.

"That should send a very strong signal of our determination to defend the Baltic states and Poland in the face of continued Russian aggression," he said.

In a reminder of Russia's efforts to bolster its military readiness, its armed forces started carrying out spot checks on its units, as well of weapon and equipment depots.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the goal of the June 14-22 drill was to ensure the ability of his military to "carry out planned activities, including mobilization."

NATO's battalions are part of a wider deterrent to be approved at the Warsaw summit on July 8. It will involve troops on rotation, warehoused equipment and a highly mobile force backed by NATO's 40,000-strong rapid reaction unit.

NATO hopes the complex plan can discourage Russia from orchestrating the kind of campaign used to annex Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in February 2014 and which has left eastern allies nervous of their former Soviet overlord.

Berlin and Washington also said that they would send troops to the new force, which is expected to total about 4,000 soldiers, with contributions from other allies. France is sending a company of about 250 troops to Britain's battalion.

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Germany is likely to deploy to Lithuania, the United States to Poland and Britain to Estonia, on a six- to nine-month rotating basis. Other NATO nations will eventually take command responsibilities, diplomats told Reuters.

CANADA ANNOUNCEMENT SOON?

Western officials also acknowledged discussions in Canada to lead a fourth battalion, with a British official saying a decision could come as early as Wednesday. Reuters first reported on Canada's possible role last week.

Canada's battalion was expected to be based in Latvia, diplomats say, although Ottawa has yet to comment publicly.

The new deployments are apart from U.S. plans to provide an armored brigade, typically around 5,000 troops, plus extra equipment in Europe.

"There will be a continually present armored brigade combat team, which will bring in its own equipment with each rotation," said U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter. He said that on top of that, the United States would bring "a pre-positioned set of equipment for yet an additional armored brigade combat team which troops could fall in upon in a crisis."

While eastern allies welcome the deployments in NATO's biggest military build-up since the end of the Cold War, they want more support to defend against Russia's powerful arsenal.

With a warning last week from a senior U.S. commander that the alliance would have only 72 hours notice of a missile or ground attack, Baltic nations and Poland want a sophisticated anti-missile shield to deter Russia from gaining the upper hand.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said NATO was also considering a Romanian offer to command a multinational brigade which could coordinate alliance training and possibly play a deterrent role.

Russia sees NATO's deterrence plans as hostile. Moscow's envoy to the alliance has warned they threaten peace in central Europe. The Kremlin also says a U.S. ballistic missile shield, which Washington says is directed at protecting the alliance from Iran, is also escalating tensions.

The United States denies that. NATO says it is respecting a 1997 agreement with Moscow not to deploy substantial combat forces on Russia's borders.

"You don't invade with a few battalions, okay?" the U.S. envoy to NATO, Douglas Lute, told reporters. "But you can deter, and you can affect a potential aggressor's calculus in terms of cost, benefit and risks."




http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0Z01BC

They will fail

Zombies be lyk
Ipods sootdier

Nice
Just that most of this record owner are like Liverpool
Building their team around 1 player Later their player leave them and nothing will be left

ozoigbondu:
About to We shall They will Soon
Insert any other future tense

By this time
Hopefully by
On.....

kropotkin2:
Then our poor Ekiti children will go hungry while enugu and zamfara kids will be well fed in school. Ekiti people, why did you saddle yourselves with this nonsense?

Mehn
Just when you thought you have seen height of stupidity log in to NL and you be proved wrong

AgreatMan:
Why didn't he get the loan from the banks. Ohw! I forgot, no bank will borrow him.

it's still a loan

He will pay back

AgreatMan:
Fayose and noise making. How come he accepted the bailout funds from the FG? If the feeding program was an APC arrangement and he wouldn't participate; the bailout is equally an APC initiative and he shouldn't hv taken part in the money sharing.

They show their face when it's time to eat and go into hiding when it's time to take responsibility.

Stupendous ignoramus

Bailout is a loan

greatiyk4u:
Dodging responsibility as usual, we understand u can't even pay salaries talk more of paying part of the feeding program


Na fear dey catch you oga Gofano

What of Buhari
Fearless?

Leopard2A7:
But omenka Benue state is about to be occupied by fulani for grazing their cattle so I wonder why he still supports the demonic herdsman in Aso Rock with all his might. Smh.

His stomach

Sweetlemon:
Seems like the West, Britain actually is really angry with Buhari. I am yet to figure out exactly why though. Could it be because of Buhari's determination to recover loots from them? Because ever since Buhari announced his visit to the UK to recover looted funds, UK has just been giving Baba bad eye up and down.
America started beefing Buhari after he turned down IMF offer.
If I got the information correctly, the bulk of the funds for the clean-up is not meant to come from FG but from the polluters. FG just flagged off the program last week, definitely perhaps when Buhari is back or when work implementation of the budget really kicks off, FG will source for their own part of the funds. Then again we all know how Buhari likes to take his time while doing sensitive things involving serious cash so why the hullabaloo from Shell? Why the hurry? Something is def wrong somewhere.
Hmmm. Baba God help us o.

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:oThe Federal government on Wednesday confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari was on medical vacation and also three other Ministers are sick.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal disclosed this while saying the opening prayer at the beginning of a meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

LEADERSHIP recalls that Buhari is currently in London on a 10-day vacation during which he is scheduled to see Ear, Nose and Throat doctors while his spokesman, Femi Adesina had insisted that the president is as fit as fiddle.

At the beginning of the FEC meeting Osinbajo had asked the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to offer Islamic prayer while he asked Lawal to say the Christian prayer.

On his part, Mohammed asked God to grant the cabinet members wisdom as they make national decisions at the meeting.

However the SGF saying the Christian prayer asked God to be with the President who he said was on “medical vacation.”

Lawal now prayed for the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Aisha Alhassan, who he said “is recuperating in US after a surgery and also the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who he said “is down with back pain.”

He also prayed for the Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jibrin but did not disclose his sickness.


Cc Lalasticlala

Source http://www.leadership.ng/news/534386/fg-confirms-pmb-three-ministers-sick

mohemos:
I need to download a 1.7GB Rom for my phone but to save cost, I'll like to use a night browsing plan since they are cheaper but I don't know which among the network provide the cheapest data plan.
Please advice me on the network to use and the subscription code.
Thanks in advance.

If airtel is good in ur area go for airtel

1h for 1hr unlimited

2h for 2hrs unlimited

Dial *312#

Then go for trybe midnight den ur choice


With 450kb(at least) in my area I use 4gb last night with 2hrs sub

And itz from 11pm

President Muhammadu Buhari will begin a 10-day vacation to the United Kingdom on Monday.

Femi Adesina, Special adviser to the president on Media and publicity, confirmed this in a statement issued on Sunday.

This is coming barely three days after news cropped up that the president was seriously ill.

The presidency, however, insisted that Buhari was hale and hearty.

With this, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo would step in as the Acting President within the period of the President’s absence.

The statement reads: “President Muhammadu Buhari will take 10 days off and travel to London on Monday June 6th to rest.

“During the holiday, he will see an E.N.T. specialist for a persistent ear infection. The President was examined by his Personal Physician and an E.N.T Specialist in Abuja and was treated.

“Both Nigerian doctors recommended further evaluation purely as a precaution.”



http://dailypost.ng/2016/06/05/buhari-takes-10-days-off-to-london/




Cc Lalasticlala

Simon Utebor, Yenagoa

Following attacks by a militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, two oil majors – the Nigerian Agip Oil Company and Aiteo Oil have lost about 140,000 barrels of crude oil per day from their oilfields in Bayelsa State, it was learnt.

At about $48 per barrel, an estimated $6.72m daily is lost by the two operators due to attacks on oil export pipelines operated by the Agip and Aiteo alone.

Eni, Italian energy firm and parent company of Agip said the oil firm’s production had been cut by 65,000 barrels per day following last Friday’s attack on its pipeline in Bayelsa.

Earlier attacks in the oilfield on May 18 and May 24, 2016 had resulted in a shutdown of some 5,200 barrels of the Eni’s equity share of oil output.

An Eni spokesperson, who craved anonymity, confirmed the development in an electronic mail on Sunday.

The spokesman said, “The total deferred production due to the attack is 65,000 barrels of oil equivalent daily.

“I can confirm that. There is no further impact on production, since all production from the swamp area has already been stopped days ago.”

Also Aiteo, operator of the Nembe Creek trunkline which came under attack by Niger Delta Avengers on May 28, 2016 according to its spokesman, Mr. Shola Omole, said the line which conveys crude to Bonny export terminal had been shut.

Omole said some 75,000 barrels daily production was deferred as the line remained out of service.

Although figures from Shell Petroleum Development Company could not be obtained, the oil firm had placed its oil exports from Bonny export terminal under force majeure.

Force Majeure is a legal clause that frees a company from liabilities arising from its inability to meet contractual obligations due to reasons beyond its control.

SPDC, which in 2014, sold the 100 km Nembe Creek trunkline to Aiteo still relies on the line to lift crude produced from onshore oilfields in Bayelsa to the Bonny terminal in Rivers State.

The Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, was quoted on Thursday as saying that Nigeria was producing 1.6 million barrels per day which excludes further production outages due to attack on Agip, Chevron and Shell recently.

Observers believe that the development is likely to affect the implementation of the 2016 budget premised on a daily crude oil production of 2.2 million barrels of crude.


http://www.punchng.com/militants-attack-agip-aiteo-lose-140000-bpd-production-bayelsa/

Our Correspondents

Several groups and individuals across Nigeria have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to fulfil his promise of naming those who stole from the country’s treasury.

Those who spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH in reaction to the list of recovered funds and assets published by the Federal Government on Saturday insisted that the names of those who returned their loot must be published to make the loot recovery process more transparent.

President Buhari had on May 13, 2016, in an interview he granted some journalists before he departed from London where he attended an Anti-Corruption Summit organised by the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, promised to disclose to Nigerians the amount his government had so far recovered from those who looted the nation’s treasury and their names on May 29.

The date, being Democracy Day, was when his administration clocked one.

Buhari said, “So far, what has come out; what has been recovered in whatever currency from each ministry, department and individual; I intend on the 29th to speak on these. This is because of all what Nigerians are getting from the mass media; because of the number of people arrested either by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission or Department of State Services. But we want to make a comprehensive report on the 29th.”

When asked whether he would also publish the names of the looters, Buhari replied, “Yes, eventually, it has to be done because we want to successfully prosecute them. But you know you cannot go to the courts unless you have documents for prosecution. People signed for these monies into their personal accounts.”

When the Federal Government released the list on Saturday, it had only the details of funds and assets recovered and those pending locally and internationally. No name of any of those from whom the funds and assets were recovered was mentioned.

The failure to name the looters had generated widespread reactions from members of the public on Saturday.

The Nigerian Bar Association urged the President to keep his promise by releasing the names of looters.

According to the President of the NBA, Mr. Augustine Alegeh (SAN), the revelation is important for citizens to gain closure.

He said, “For us, it is always important that the promises our leaders make to the people are kept. I believe that if there is any legal impediment that prevents the President, who is a forthright person, from keeping a promise he has made to the Nigerian people, he should let Nigerians know.

“It is also important that we know the quantum of recoveries made from various persons so that it will be something that is known to every Nigerian and there would be no challenge. How did you arrive at the figures that are out there if you don’t put not just names but reasons (to the recovered loots)?

“Tomorrow, you could hear that (after) all the amounts that Mr. ‘A’ or Mr. ‘B’ looted, nothing was done. You could also start to hear that the loot recovery was only targeted at those who weren’t supporting the president.”

Alegeh noted that the only instance where the President could withhold the names was if there was a legal obstacle.

According to him, there are certain transactions with confidentiality clauses, which make it impossible for government to release the names. He said, should the government find itself in such an instance, it should say so clearly.

The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Saturday also told SUNDAY PUNCH that there was nothing revealing in the information the government published.

The Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, told one of our correspondents that the amount released as recovered loot was less than the total amount of figures bandied about by the Federal Government and its agencies since the anti-corruption campaign began.

He said, “As far as we are concerned, there is nothing new on the list shown to Nigerians. Anybody can just put figures together. Where are the particulars of the recovery? From who were they (the loot) recovered?

“In the last one year, different rumours have been flying about with regard to those who refunded billions of naira and dollars. The figure they have released now is too opaque; it is not transparent and does not lend credence to their claims. Anybody can just write anything and throw it out (to the public).

“We need the particulars; from who were the monies recovered? If they don’t do that, then, they are just wasting our time; they are just making a mockery of the whole process. They talked about naming and shaming, let them release the names. As it is now, there is no revelation yet before Nigerians.”

Also, the Ijaw National Congress on Saturday said the inability of Buhari to mention the names of the country’s treasury looters was an indication that the President had succumbed to pressure from the looters.

The spokesman for the INC, Mr. Victor Burubo, who described the development as an anti-climax, stated that it was not the first time the President would be, doing so to Nigerians.

He said, “This is not the first time they are doing this to Nigerians. In the appointment of ministers, the President said he wanted to appoint spectacular people and this took him six months. But he ended up appointing run-of-the-mill ministers.

“On the amount recovered as loot, many figures were mentioned but we have virtually nothing. If the President promised to name the looters and at the end, he could not do so, it means he has succumbed to the pressure from the looters.”

Similarly, the Ohanaeze Youth Council, the youth wing of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, faulted the government’s failure to disclose the identity of those that the sums were recovered from.

The President of the OYC, Mr. Okechukwu Isiguzoro, demanded full disclosure of the names of looters.

He said, “Nigerians have been anticipating the release of the looters’ list for a while now; it is disappointing that the government only came out with figures. Inasmuch as the people need to know the amount that was recovered, they should also know the identity of persons that stole the money.

“In fact, if the Federal Government is sincerely fighting corruption, it should disclose the identity of those that stole and returned money. It appears that there is a deliberate attempt to shield looters and that is totally unacceptable. Nigerian youths are not impressed.”

In the same vein, a member of the Federal Parliament in the Second Republic and Convener of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, stated that he had a “conflicted attitude towards the funds.”

He said, “I don’t believe what is being said to have been recovered was what was actually recovered. What was stolen was more than what was recovered. If the government is sincere about recovering the remaining money, they have to redouble their efforts in recovering, as much as possible, all that was stolen and is returned to the national treasury.

“I am not a lawyer, so I wouldn’t want to venture into a legal opinion of the status of those who have stolen the money. But if the law makes it difficult to disclose the names of those who stole the money, their identities and their names will be endangering the case itself. But, please, let the names be disclosed.”

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, dismissed the amount the government said it had recovered as far less than the true amount.

He said, “Let me tell you this: That list is not correct. I know that the EFCC has recovered about $3.1bn. I think this is just the report from a department; it is not a comprehensive one.

“The figure announced has not taken cognizance of the totality of the fund that has been recovered by all the anti-graft agencies. From the information at my disposal, the figure announced by the information minister is a fraction of what the EFCC has recovered and deposited in the Central Bank of Nigeria.”

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria noted that in order not to discourage more looters from returning stolen funds, the Federal Government might not want to name the looters yet.

“In fact, some of the looters who have stolen the bulk of the missing money, who are on the run, are being pursued in different jurisdictions in the world,” Falana added.

In his submission, the Executive Chairman, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, Mr. Debo Adeniran, told SUNDAY PUNCH that those who had returned stolen money or from whom assets were recovered should be named, shamed and prosecuted.

Adeniran asked, “Is there any attempt to cover up their atrocities? If we fight these looters and do not name them, we are allowing them to go away with the dignity they falsely acquired. They can still carry on with their lives as if nothing has ever happened to indicate that they are corrupt. People will still accord them respect. That is not fair; it does not augur well for honest, hard-working Nigerians.

“Anybody trying to cover up on this matter should be brought to book. Confessing to a crime is a first step in anti-corruption crusade; those involved should be named, shamed and prosecuted. Failure to do this will mean the government is conspiring against the society.”

Similarly, the National Association of Nigerian Students described the non-disclosure of looters’ names as a failure on the President’s part.

The President of NANS, Mr. Tijani Usman, said, “He (Buhari) has failed in his promise because he must be a man of his word and we are looking up to him as a leader that Nigerian students should emulate. If he has given us his word that on May 29, Democracy Day, he would bring out the list of looters and he has failed to do that, then where is his integrity?

“We have heard about his promise and Nigerian students are not happy with that. We are urging him to live up to his word and release the names of those looters who had stolen our country’s money.”

The presidential candidate of the KOWA Party in the 2015 election, Prof. Remi Sonaiya, also asked why the Federal Government should protect the identities of those who returned stolen funds and assets.

According to her, if the identities of suspected beneficiaries of slush funds from the Office of the National Security Adviser under Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) were not shielded, those whose loot has been recovered should not be shielded.

She said, “Just releasing a list is not sufficient, considering the suffering the entire nation has gone through. We demand more from the government. Making a list of recovered loot and stolen assets is not sufficient as a deterrent for criminals.”

A former Vice-President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr. Issa Aremu, described the release of the list by the Federal Government as significant and commendable.

But he said, “It is desirable to know who the looters that have returned stolen money and assets are. It will also be interesting to know those foreign government officials who aided looters to stash stolen money abroad so that Nigerians can march in protest at their embassies.”

On the list published by the Federal Government on Saturday, the administration said it had recovered a total of N115.7bn cash, while assets worth over N1.9tn had been frozen in one year.

In a statement by the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Lai Mohammed, the government said the recoveries were made between May 29, 2015 and May 25, 2016.

The government gave the breakdown of the loot as N78,325,354,631.82; $185,119,584.61; £3,508,355.46 and €11, 250.

A conversion of the funds using the official exchange rate of the Central Bank of Nigeria, showed that the amount adds up to N115,792,760,499.

The statement read in part, “The Federal Government made cash recoveries totalling N78,325,354,631.82; $185,119,584.61; £3,508,355.46 and €11,250 from May 29, 2015 to May 25, 2016.”
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The monies were said to have been recovered by the EFCC, the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation,the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission and the DSS.

The Muhammadu Buhari-led government added that a separate amount of cash and assets worth over N1.9tn had also been seized. However, the properties and cash are under legal contention.

The assets and cash seized under interim forfeiture totalled $9bn; N126bn; £2.4m and €303,399.

A conversion of the worth of assets and cash seized based on the official CBN exchange rate totalled: N1,918,113,864,063.

It added, “Recoveries under Interim Forfeiture (cash and assets) during the period totalled N126,563,481,095.43; $9,090,243,920.15; £2,484,447.55 and €303,399.17.”

The government added that funds awaiting return from foreign jurisdictions totalled $321,316,726.1; £6,900,000 and €11,826.11.

The statement added that 239 non-cash recoveries such as farmlands, plots of land, uncompleted buildings, completed buildings, vehicles and maritime vessels were also seized during the period.

Meanwhile, the Socio-Economic Right Accountability Project on Saturday said the Buhari-led administration should expedite legal action against all looters in a bid to make their identities known.

The Executive Director of SERAP, Mr. Adetokunbo Mumuni, noted that the government should prosecute those who had been investigated and found to have looted the nation’s treasury, in order to avoid political witch-hunting.

He said, “Investigations should have been concluded now. You cannot say you recovered money and since then, you have not done any investigation, such that their (looters’) arraignment in court will then be delayed. I don’t think that would be justice.

“What the President should do is direct the Attorney General to hasten the process for the looters to be prosecuted. It is when we start seeing convictions from the court that we know that they’ve actually committed the offence; that is what the Nigerian constitution demands.”




http://www.punchng.com/nigerians-tell-buhari-name-shame-looters-mere-figures-not-enough/



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MossadAgent:
Ab0ki, your spell checker is still on

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3797479_screenshot20160604013138_png7d406758d3476715359c9c6de47673c9

and your attempt at photoshoping a tweet is obvious

LOL
Don't be stupid

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