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Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja

Elder statesman, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, says the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), deserves no praise for pardoning former Governor of the old Bendel State, Prof. Ambrose Alli, who was jailed by a military tribunal set up by the Buhari junta in 1984.

The 92-year-old Afenifere chieftain said this during a chat with The PUNCH on Friday.



The President had announced the pardon of 2, 600 prisoners in a bid to decongest the prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Buhari, however, seized the opportunity to also pardon some deceased statesmen like Alli and a few others who were convicted decades ago.

Reacting to the pardon of Alli, however, Adebanjo said Buhari unjustly convicted the former governor like many others on trumped-up charges of corruption.

The Afenifere chieftain said the pardon could be an attempt by Buhari to make peace with God.

Adebanjo, who was a close associate of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, and a member of the party which Alli belonged to, said Buhari deserved no praise for the pardon.

He said, “We always knew that Ambrose Alli never deserved to be sent to jail. He was convicted by an autocratic government led by Buhari. I cannot thank Buhari for the pardon because he punished Alli for a crime that was never committed. He gave them a punishment they never deserved.

“If he has a change of conscience and says Alli is no longer a convict, that is his business with God. He was never convicted by the constitution of the people but by Buhari’s autocratic standards. If he has a change of heart, that is his business.”

The PUNCH reports that Alli was arraigned on Decree 3 of 1984 before the Special Military tribunal set up by Buhari for diverting N983, 000 (over $1m at the time) from the treasury of Bendel State (now Edo and Delta states).



He was accused of diverting public funds to the Unity Party of Nigeria led by Awolowo.

The military tribunal did not find evidence that he gave money to the party but a campaign contribution given to the party treasurer by a contractor.

Alli had no legal representation because the Nigerian Bar Association had boycotted all tribunals set up by the Buhari government, describing them as unconstitutional.

While serving his jail term at Kirikiri prison, Lagos, Alli’s health deteriorated and he was almost going blind. He was transferred to Jos prison and then Agodi prison, Ibadan from where he was released.

He died shortly after he was released from prison on his 60th birthday on September 22, 1989.

The Edo State University was renamed Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, in honour of the late ex-governor.

https://punchng.com/buhari-deserves-no-praise-for-pardoning-ambrose-alli-adebanjo/

Days after testing positive for coronavirus, the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, has spoken from his sickbed over his status.

He disclosed this in a personal statement signed by him and made available to journalists on Sunday evening.

Mr. Kyari said would be transferred from Abuja to Lagos on Sunday for further tests.

"I am writing to let you know that on medical advice, I will transfer to Lagos later today for additional tests and observation. This is a precautionary measure: I feel well, but last week, I tested positive for coronavirus, the pandemic that is sweeping the world. I have followed all the protocols government has announced to self-isolate and quarantine."

"I have made my own care arrangements to avoid further burdening the public health system, which faces so many pressures. Like many others that will test also positive, I have not experienced high fever or other symptoms associated with this new virus and have been working from home. I hope to be back at my desk very soon. I have a team of young, professional, knowledgeable and patriotic colleagues, whose dedication has been beyond the call of duty, who continue to work seven days a week, with no time of the day spared. We will continue to serve the President and people of Nigeria, as we have for the past five years."

Mr. Kyari also thanked health workers as he advised every Nigerian to be calm and diligent.

"We should be calm, measured and diligent - be meticulous in your hygiene, especially with cleaning hands, if possible stay at home or keep your distance. Listen to good advice from the proper authorities: pay no heed to quack cures or fake news from social media. President Buhari will do whatever it takes to protect the health and safety of our people and get the country back on its feet as soon as possible."

"Like the whole world, we are dealing with a new disease. Our experts are learning more all the time about coronavirus, what it does and how we can combat it. What we do know is that while some may become very sick, many others who contract the virus will not, and may have no symptoms at all. This is a disease that recognises no difference between north and south, men or women, rich or poor. We are all in this together," he said.

Nigeria has recorded 111 cases of COVID-19 including one death.

Mr. Kyari is among several top officials who have tested positive for the disease. Others include Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna and Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi.

http://community.thenationonlineng.net/forum/covid-19-abba-kyari-speaks-from-sickbed

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has claimed that 90% of COVID-19 patients recover without any intervention.

Ihekweazu revealed this during a media briefing on Wednesday.

He made the remarks while responding to a question on how the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, recovered in less than one week.

According to him, someone infected with coronavirus, usually required support for the body to recover by itself.

“We should remember that 90 per cent of these patients recover without any intervention. So, if you take something and say you recovered and that something is why you recovered, it doesn’t quite add up.

“There are very few viruses with a cure. So, you go to a hospital and for COVID-19, you’re given oxygen. Oxygen is not really a treatment; it’s to keep you alive for long enough for you to recover yourself,” he said.

As at Wednesday night, Nigeria had recorded 276 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 44 patients have been discharged.



https://dailypost.ng/2020/04/09/covid-19-ncdc-reveals-how-90-percent-of-coronavirus-patients-recovered/

BENUE MEN BURN EKITI CHIEF ALIVE INSIDE BUSH

A Tiv man, identified simply as Sunday, and three others have allegedly burnt to death in a bush the Onibedo of Ilotin Ekiti, Chief Sola Fatunla.

It was gathered that Sunday, who deals in charcoal, had earlier accused Fatunla of having a love affair with his wife, identified simply as Tadeni, but the matter was said to have been resolved as it was realised that the chief and his wife were mere family friends and Sunday was said to have apologised for his behaviour.


But events took a tragic turn on Sunday when Fatunla followed the man to the bush.

Sunday had allegedly begged Fatunla to use his influence as a chief in Ikole Ekiti to plead with some people he claimed had seized his charcoal in the bush.

A source said, “While accompanying him and Tadeni to where the charcoal was allegedly seized, three others, who Sunday had allegedly connived with to abduct Fatunla and Tadeni, appeared from the bush around Iyemero Ekiti in the Ikole Local Government Area of the state and manhandled the chief and the lady.

“Both Fatunla and Tadeni were tied to trees. The men beat Fatunla with their cutlasses. Later, they poured petrol on him and set him ablaze. It was when they came back to mete punishment out to Tadeni that they realised that she had escaped.

“When Sunday and his accomplices could not find Tadeni, they decided to escape through Patigi in Kwara State to Benue State with the aid of Fatunla’s motorcycle. Unfortunately for them, they were apprehended by vigilantes in Patigi, who queried their mission at that time of the night.

“When the vigilantes stopped Sunday and his accomplices to question them as to their mission in the area, especially during the lockdown, Fatunla’s phone that was in Sunday’s pocket exposed them, following which they were arrested and handed over to the police in Kwara State.”

According to the source, Fatunla’s remains have been deposited in the morgue, while the suspects have been taken to the Ikole Ekiti Police Division for transfer to the police headquarters in Ado Ekiti.

The Police Public Relations Officer in Ekiti State, Sunday Abutu, confirmed the incident saying, “There was a murder case; one of the chiefs in Ikole Ekiti was murdered on a farm. We are still trying to investigate the matter. I will get back to you on the details.”

https://punchng.com/benue-men-burn-ekiti-chief-alive-inside-bush/

unmask:
but in this same passage you quoted, she said "speak to David he will not withhold me from thee" which meant it wasn't wrong.....she only wanted it to be done the right way

She was trying to buy time

anonimi:
Are you saying that the voice of the people is the voice of (their) God?
Vox Populi, Vox Dei

This is for the deep. We are staying home today in Lagos and several other parts of Nigeria because the authorities so ruled. An act which you performed just last week suddenly becomes criminalised and even the religious bodies had to bow.

Psalm 82:6 says, "Ye are gods...."

So yes, God allows society to determine morality when it flows with His will and for the proper conduct of society when the man-made rules do not clash with His laws.

In the great march of time and eras, some things permissible became outlawed.

For example, Abraham married his father's daughter, his stepsister (Genesis 20:12).

When Amnon attempted to do sex with Tamar (his stepsister, i.e. his father David's daughter by another woman), it was described as a thing of shame.

2 Samuel 13:12-13 "And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee."

Amnon eventually had carnal knowledge of Tamar and his indiscretion unleashed a series of events that eventually took his life.

Funaki:
I just quoted a passage that clearly said some ladies in the bible married their cousins or you didn't see it or it's not in your own Bible?

It is a common practice for ladies in a family of only females (if there's no male child) to marry their cousins so they can keep their father's inheritance in the same family since females weren't entitled to inheritance in the past. Another example is 1Chronicles 23:21,22

1 Chronicles 23:21-22 NKJV
21 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli were Eleazar and Kish. 22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but only daughters; and their brethren, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.

It is okay to have your personal opinion about it. But according to the bible, cousin marriage isn't a taboo.

Actually, the principle is that of societal condemnation or approval. If the society comes together to rule a conduct as wrong, Heaven sanctions that rule and .

Mt 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Mt 18:18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Mt 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

And in some communities, some spiritual forces, demons or angels, have been invoked to enforce the rules and punish violators. This is only for the deep!

Thegoodone13:
The solution for it is simple

Share it joor, stop hoarding information.

Sunday Ani

Residents of Abule-Ado in Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area, Lagos State and its surroundings are counting their losses even as hundreds have been rendered homeless and jobless following tremor-like explosion that rocked the place on Sunday morning.

In what appeared like a gas explosion, hundreds of buildings that dot the entire Abule-Ado were destroyed. While some went up in flames, others had their roofs squeezed, shrunk and broken in bits with parts of the buildings caving in.

However, residents have refused to accept claims in some quarters that it was a gas explosion. They said it was a clear case of a bomb explosion, but who planted the bomb remained unknown as at the time of this report.

A resident who identified herself as Mama Divine buttressed residents’ assumption with information they got from soldiers guarding the pipeline as well as the effect of the explosion.



She said: “My brother, that is a bomb explosion. My street is very far from the scene of the explosion but all the storey buildings on that street lost their PVCs ceilings to the explosion. The whole buildings shook and their PVCs all fell off.

“Again, according the security personnel who were guarding the pipeline, the thing came like a rocket and hit the pipeline and the next thing was that smoke starting billowing before the deafening sound, which was followed by the destruction.”

Another resident, Mr Mike corroborated Mama Divine’s assertion, insisting that the perpetrators must have targeted the Lagos Trade Fair Complex, which is only separated from Abule-Ado by a fence, or the Bethlehem College, owned by the Catholic Church.

“The Bethlehem College was badly affected, with many boarding students sustaining injuries. In fact, nobody can say the exact number of persons that died at the college, but information so far indicates that a Reverend Sister is still missing since the explosion occurred. Her phone is ringing but she is not taking her calls and nobody has seen her. Another sister, a female worker at the college was roasted beyond recognition.

“Many of the students are currently in different nearby hospitals receiving treatments, while so many others are yet to be found. That’s why I said that nobody can give accurate casualty figure at the college for now,” Mike said.

There is also an unconfirmed report from some residents that the principal of the college is dead. While some attributed the principal’s death to shock, others said she might have died of suffocation from the thick smoke that engulfed the school.

“The owner of a hotel, located on Garden Resort Street, Off Gani Adams Way, Abule-Ado, is currently in hospital receiving treatment.

According his wife, who spoke to Daily Sun, the incident which happened between 8am and 9am left a lot of their workers, including her husband seriously wounded.

“I had 15 lodgers and about eight workers, who were here before the incident. As I speak to you now, I don’t know their whereabouts. A member of my church even died in this incident. The principal of Bethlehem College is already dead. A lot of children in that school also died. What happened here is more than a pipeline explosion; it looks like a bomb explosion,’ she narrated.

Another resident who identified himself Joseph Ejindu said his son also landed in hospital. Ejindu, who lives on Garden Resort, said he lost everything to the incident.

“The person who planted this bomb is even sympathetic to have done it on Sunday. If it were on Monday, the death figure could have been more devastating,” volunteered a sympathetic onlooker.

There is also insinuation by some residents that the bomb might have been planted in a tipper truck, which was also burnt beyond recognition.

According the resident who refused to give his name, “E be like say na that tipper carry the bomb. People wey dey around that moment said as soon as the tipper stopped, the person wet drive am just pack and disappeared. And, soon after that, the explosion happened and the tipper too got burn. So, e be like say na the tipper carry the bomb come.”

Right now, hundreds of residents are moving what remains of their property out of the area. While many are seeking refuge in their relatives’ homes, others are stranded even as many others are moving into their shops.

Abule-Ado is majorly populated by traders at the old Lagos Trade Fair, along Badagry Expressway.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/abule-ado-disaster-caused-by-bomb-not-pipeline-explosion-residents-claim/

mankan2k7:
Anybody that reads the epistle above before reading this comment are the patient dogs that eat no bone.

People like you are those they are referring to when they say all you need to do to hide something from a Black man is just hide it in a book.

Fasehun: 'Sanusi Neither Considers The Economy Nor Banks' Shareholders'

* Being the text of a speech delivered by Founder and President of the Oodu'a People's Congress (OPC) during a press conference at Century Hotel, Okota, Lagos, at the weekend.

I called this Press conference to review the Central Bank of Nigeria's recent action against some prominent banks, bank executives and their investors. Of the 25 banks that survived the mandatory N25 billion recapitalisation, the CBN Governor has declared five insolvent and incompetently managed. They are Union Bank, Afribank, Finland Bank, Oceanic Bank and Intercontinental Bank. The banks were said to have been owed bad loans totalling about N747 billion (about $5.1 billion).

Governor of the Central Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, said he has injected N420 billion (about $2.6 billion) to bail out the affected financial institutions.

But many Nigerians like me cannot forget the fact that just last March, Vanguard Newspapers exclusively reported that some faceless interests planned to take over five banks. Initially, we took the story with a pinch of salt. But the benefit of hindsight has bestowed upon that Vanguard's report an uncanny degree of accuracy, because not only did it pinpoint the five target banks to be disgraced, it also identified the future CBN Governor that would undertake the job.

Now that the newspaper's prediction has materialised, the public will like to know if this whole affair were not a carefully scripted secret agenda. In the light of the newspaper's accurate prediction five months ahead, can we resist the urge to say that these banks and their executives were simply sitting ducks for a well-schemed frame-up."?

Apparently, this insinuates that the CBN has not told us the whole story. Our private investigations, for example, showed that the Federal Government itself owes Nigerian banks about N3.2 trillion (about $220 billion). These uncleared government debts certainly compounded the problems of the banks. The Government also owed local contractors over N1.5 trillion; many of these represent loan obligations these contractors have been unable to discharge.

So, does the government really have the moral right to cast stones? It would be wiser for the Federal Government to lead by example and first liquidate its own debts before pointing fingers at "fellows partners in debt." Maybe for all these unpaid government debts, the CBN should go ahead and hand over the Accountant-General, the Auditor-General of the Federation and the Minister for Finance to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as well.

Curiously too, all the loans that the CBN has taken to the cleaners are private loans. What about the various bonds and loans that State Governments sourced from the capital market and the banks, why has the CBN not addressed them?

Moreover, what is wrong with borrowing? The United States is the world's biggest debtor with trillions of dollars indebtedness to virtually every institution including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and even the United Nations. Its whole economy, like those of other developed nations is built on credit. This is because no nation develops or industrialises with 'cash-at-hand'. There is no way young men like Jimoh Ibrahim, Femi Otedola, Pat Utomi and Aliko Dangote employ the great number of people they have employed without solid bank backings.

Curiously too, we find that the five indicted banks are headed by Southerners. In view of this, we will caution the CBN to refrain from fanning the embers of Northernisation, which the Umaru Yar'Adua's administration appears to be pursuing since inception.

Sanusi has remained unapologetic and unrepentant of his ethic chauvinism. In the past, he has said of the Igbos, in a newspaper article titled, "Issues in Restructuring Corporate Nigeria," that: "The Igbos themselves must acknowledge that they have a large part of the blame for shattering the unity of this country."

Having said that this nation must realise that Igbos have more than paid for their foolishness, he said in the same piece: "The Yorubas, , the greatest obstacles to nation-building, are the Yoruba Bourgeoisie, I say this also to underscore my point that until they change in this attitude, no conference can solve the problems of Nigeria. The country cannot move forward if the leadership of one of the largest ethnic group continues to operate, not like statesmen, but like common areas boys."

And on Afenifere he declared: "A Syllabus of Errors, , the problems of this country have a lot to do with the shift in power away from the Fulani to individuals like Babangida and Abacha, products of lower cultures. The Fulani of the North, proud of the history of the establishment in Nigeria - Ahmadu Bello, Murtala Mohammed, Aminu Kano, Shehu Yar'Adua, Shehu Shagari, Jibril Aminu. They are sad that other Nigerians do not know the difference in ethnic background between say, Murtala Mohammed and Ibrahim Babangida."

Information at my disposal also showed that the between January and April this year, all the banks borrowed N8.7 trillion from the CBN, the country's lender of last resort. That makes all the banks equally liable.

So, if the five banks under investigation borrowed only N800 billion out of the gross N8.7 trillion released by the CBN, which other banks owed or borrowed the balance of about N7.9 trillion? Why have they been spared? And why should the CBN deal with a general problem instalmentally? Let the CBN tell the whole world where its N8.7 trillion went.

The CBN Governor should have handled the present scandal administratively and internally. Financial markets are naturally fragile and sensitive and require the apex bank's reinforcement, and not erode confidence.

The CBN Governor should be temperate and mild, and his first line of action should have been to give the affected persons the benefit of doubt. After all, these executives have not been accused of personally embezzling the funds in question. It is rather unfortunate that the CBN is criminalising routine commercial transactions.

Granted that the Central Bank carried out an independent audit of the banks, it should have followed due process by inviting the bank executives to defend themselves about the result of such auditing. CBN should never have gone public ab initio.

Moreover, the steps taken so far raise fundamental questions. As the Federal Government has released N420 billion to the ailing banks, do we regard the injected fund as a loan to be repaid or a grant to prepare them for the government's virtual take-over? Where does all this leave the shareholders? Who protects the shareholders and their interest especially in a situation where the Federal Government goes ahead to fulfill its threat to bring foreign investors to buy the concerned banks? Would it not make more sense to accord shareholders first-line bids? Or is the Government saying that the country, with nationals in leadership positions at the World Bank and IMF, cannot get suitable Nigerians capable to run the banks profitably? Moreover, we wrested our economic independence from foreigners through such policies as the Indigenisation Act, is it wise now to sell ourselves back through the backdoor to new foreign interests? Or could it be that the foreign interests are masquerading for faceless Nigerians? The shareholders have been completely ignored in the whole process, when they should have been called to an emergency meeting where they would have democratically elected another Board.

Well-meaning Nigerians like me hope that the Federal Government does not produce a paradoxical result from this unilateral bank regularisation scheme. The entire episode smacks of an exercise designed to cut the nose in order to spite the face and this is dangerous.

The affected banks are employers of labour, having at least 5,000 branches and well over 100,000 people in their employ. In the light of this confusion, the employees' job security cannot be guaranteed. The agitated economy will provoke capital flight and inflict greater damage on the economy than whatever misdemeanours these bankers may have been accused of. Because many of these beleaguered bankers originally founded the concerned banks, their present travails can discourage future generations of investors.

Rather than sack the bank executives, CBN should have borrowed a leaf from other economies that have similarly bailed out their mortgage, stock-broking, banking and industrial institutions. President Barack Obama injected $700 billion into corporate America and allowed the executives to continue in office. The only debate was whether benefiting American executives should take a cut in their usual fat allowances in view of the injection of public funds. The debate is still going on. I entirely condemn the detention of the bank chiefs by the EFCC. They should be released to enable them work out creative and feasible modalities for revamping their banks and liquidating the offending loan facilities.

Banks may have problems but the CBN appears to have over-amplified the situation. The world over, financial institutions are going through a rough time. In Europe, Asia, America, Australia and other parts of Africa, banks have failed. This was what gave rise to the global economic meltdown. In fact, prior to the CBN exercise, the Nigerian economy was the envy of the world. And experts internationally commended the last administration and the banks for the foresight in recapitalising our banks. But if Nigerian banks fail now, the explanation may simply be that finally, the Economic Meltdown has caught up with our banking industry. How? Larger economies like USA, UK and Japan, most of whom have begun to look inwards for economic salvation, have forced their indigenes to reverse capital flight back home.

On the other hand, if this exercise was designed to please Mrs. Hillary Clinton, then we must point out that she has no way incited us against the rule of law. Like her, we all want an anti-corruption crusade, which we complained had become lukewarm and stale. But in hunting down these bankers, government has pointed the gun against wrong persons.

The CBN exercise is diversionary; it is insensitive; it is hasty, making respectable bankers and shareholders to become scapegoats unjustly. This is unacceptable.

Moreover, have we weighed the implications that this will have on our Re-Branding Project? Virtually, it has smeared the cr�me de cr�me of our economy - the Cecilia Ibrus, the Isyaku Umars, the Hyacinth Enuhas, the Raymond Obieris, the Chris Alabis, the Erastus Akingbolas, the Barth Ebongs and many more. This move indicts not just these bankers, but the public, the government, the shareholders, event he CBN. It tells the international community that even the best of us is a crook and a thief. And this is far from true.

Suffice to say that although some of these controverted loans are inexcusable, a lot of them would have performed if only government had delivered on key economic issues, including, stabilising the Naira, providing electricity supply, pushing through the amnesty deal to secure a viable bridgehead for profitable oil business in the Niger Delta, enhancing Nigerian's buying power by providing employment, ensuring good road networks, fighting corruption, resolving the crisis in the education sector, especially the ASUU strike and succeeding with the seven-point agenda.

On the part of the CBN, what needs its immediate attention are indices that will make the banking industry more attractive, more proactive and more productive, such as outlawing the use of young girls for marketing, taming the legal and administrative charges that usually balloon loans, establishing a regulatory framework for interests and stabilising the exchange rate.

In the present circumstances, the coercive organs of State should act independent of the CBN, which is wearing the toga of the aggrieved party. They way Sanusi speaks of confiscating assets, jailing people, etc, makes him the complainant, the investigator, the Judge and the enforcer. Such autocratic methods are strange to our democratic constitution.

The National Assembly, should as a matter of urgency, pass a motion requiring Sanusi to ensure that existing shareholders are given an opportunity to recapitalise the five banks within a timeframe of not less than 180 days. These banks are public companies owned by several Nigerians. They must not suffer double jeopardy. Their reemptive rights as existing shareholders, which is duly recognised by Companies and Allied Matters Act, Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act, Central Bank of Nigeria Act and the records of CBN must be protected and respected.

The National Assembly should pass a motion requiring Sanusi to follow due process and immediately revoke the removal order on any of the Executives who are not personally culpable. It is wrong to punish people who have not committed any offence. It is repugnant to equity, natural justice and good conscience to dismiss over 30 officers in one stroke without establishing individual responsibilities.

The National Assembly should compel Sanusi to exercise due care in all subsequent actions. The unnecessary drama and bravado accompanying the "reform" has caused a downgrade in Nigeria's credit rating and slowed down economic activity. We have seen other economies, which recently handle more complex and larger interventions in their banks in a more mature manner, without unnecessary costs on their economies.

Conclusion

In conclusion, let us remember that many of these bankers are well known locally and internationally by many institutions and many of them are advisors and consultants to nations and world financial establishments. Nigeria needs them for her own good. They may have made some erroneous judgements, but they do not deserve to be so summarily destroyed; for one experienced horse rider who falls is more valuable than a tenderfoot just learning the ropes. Consequently, we detest the rubbishing of these first-class bankers and we demand their immediate release.

If politicians have been allowed to learn from their own mistakes, bankers and the managers of our economy should not be crucified for making sincere errors in corporate governance.

https://www.nairaland.com/319894/fasheuns-response-sanusi-must-read

Culled from the Guardian online: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/business/article01/indexn2_html?

In April 1963, Emir Mohammed Sanusi I of Kano was dethroned.

In 1950s, he had plotted the dethronement of the then Atta of Igala Ameh Oboni (Agaba Idu).

The Atta’s offense was his refusal to bow before the Sultan of Sokoto, Chairman of Northern Nigeria Council of Chiefs during the Council’s meeting in Kaduna, capital of Northern Nigeria. Ameh Oboni was given the option to remove his crown and bow or be removed from office.

But the Atta was a god and could not bow to any human being. Ameh Oboni knew that by the Igala tradition, the implication of his dethronement was that none of his descendants would ever be allowed to be crowned Atta after him. So he accepted to remove his crown and bow.

But the moment he removed his crown, a swam of bees rushed out of his head and chased the chiefs out of their chamber. That ended the plot for that day.

Oboni then walked up to Emir Sanusi and told him that, for attempting to remove him from office, he Sanusi would lose his throne and that any of his descendants that ever ascended the throne would be dethroned.

So In April 1963, as Mohammed Sanusi was chauffeured from Kaduna to his palace in Kano after a council meeting, he heard on the car radio of his own dethronement by the Government of Northern Nigeria.

Today about 57 years after, Emir Mohammed Sanusi’s grand son, Emir Lamido Sanusi II has been dethroned. The curse of Agaba Idu must be cleansed

http://kogireports.com/deposed-emir-sanusi-and-the-curse-of-attah-igala/

Sodiq Oyeleke

The Lagos State House of Assembly has sacked two principal officers and suspended two other lawmakers indefinitely.

This was made known in the official Twitter handle of the Lagos Assembly on Monday.



Those removed are the Deputy Majority Leader, Olumuyiwa Jimoh; and the Chief Whip, Rotimi Abiru.

The lawmakers suspended are Lanre Oshun representing Lagos Mainland 11 and Raheem Adewale representing Ibeju-Lekki 11.

“This House has removed two Principal Officers; Olumuyiwa Jimoh (the Deputy Majority Leader); and Rotimi Abiru (the Chief whip). And further suspends Olanrewaju Moshood Oshun and Adewale Kazeem on grounds of misconduct,” the tweet read.

https://punchng.com/breaking-lagos-assembly-sacks-two-principal-officers-suspends-others/

myrates:
Bankers in the house should educate us without bias. He was issued letters of credit, the letter wasn't honoured by any supplier hence no value exchanged hands with respect to the transaction, aside normal bank charges that should ordinarily accrue, I need to know how this man owes 900million for a 170million loan request that wasn't utilized.

Plus, the Court of Appeal vindicated him. And Government has not contested that ruling at the Supreme Court.

Now government goes to seal his premises -contrary to the ruling of the Court of Appeal.

The sealing is against the rule of law, an illegality -except there is an unknown issue.

nnaeyes6:
Thanks for the time. I hope u will learn more of what u don't know in the bible.
Line by line u should read ur bible for proper understanding and fix all the punctuation marks where they are.
God made the earth by separating the land from the sea and PLANTED a GARDEN called EDEN. God TOOK ADAM. the work TOOK should mean something to u by the way. Taken someone from Lagos to Aba where MALE AND FEMALE were created doesn't mean that life EXISTED only in ABA because stories were told only of ABA.

Genesis 3:20 ¶ And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Ramirezkhay:
I just dy read comments since, all those taboo no dy work on their own OP... Na pipu way dy warn you go hide under taboo dy pepper you!

Although voting neither for nor against OP marrying his girl, I am acknowledging that this response is the most matured and the most enlightened submission I have seen in all the postings to this matter. You have got native intelligence and you are street-wise.

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The Supreme court has spoken, which should be final, as it is all over the world.

It all depends on who the indigenes of Bayelsa want and not what the Hypocrites that have never stepped their feet on Bayelsa state are shouting about.

For those of us that are not card carrying members of any political party, but only vote for good men and women that we believe can move their immediate environment forward (same reason all of us @[/b] voted for our darling Daddy in the presidential election and voted for another candidate in another party in our state of residence, no apologies to Sanwo-Olu!)

[b]It is sad that the days intellectuals (from opposing and different political affiliations) discuss politics on the political threads on Nairaland is gone and now it has gone to kids, hypocrites and dirty agberos that curse and abuse their mothers and fathers with no reasonable and sensible posts to contribute)

Lastly......

It is a always good and refreshing to see that we have a President who does not intervene in the rule of law.

Elections In Nigeria now,
There is no need to fear.
Why? Because the will of Nigerians will not be subverted. Never! A President once told us in this country that the coming polls would be do or die.
Not with President Buhari. Fair is fair. No foul play. Under his watch, his political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lost gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa, Oyo State and Anambra states.
At the last Council of States meeting, Gov Willie Obiano publicly registered his appreciation to President Buhari, for the level playing ground he made available during the election in his state. With do or die apostles, and a certain political party in power, such would never happen. Not with their garrison mentality. All states are territories that must be conquered, willy-nilly.

APC has won gubernatorial positions under Buhari in Kogi, Ondo and Edo states. The victories were fair and square. The party lost in Bayelsa, Oyo, Anambra etc.
This President would never manipulate victory for anyone, not even his own party. And you ask us not to trust him?
We will, and no mistake.


God bless our darling Daddy President Muhammadu Buhari.
God bless Nigeria.


Lol
Just 3 mins ago sir!
All of us @[b][/b] love you too.....it's Valentine's Day.
Let's share the love around!
Stay blessed Chairman!

You should at least make a mild attempt at objectivity.

How do you say your Oga allowed the independence of the Judiciary and does not interfere with its workings with his single-handed removing of the CJN without recourse to the NJC as the Constitution and extant laws stipulate?

You accused a PDP regime of declaring elections as do or die, abi? But your Oga too said the blood of dogs and that of baboons would mix should he not win the 2015 polls, while his opponent said his own ambition was not worth the blood of Nigerians. And BH has continued to shed blood till today.

Do you remember what happened in Ekiti and Osun and Kwara where the services of MC Oluomo combined with soldiers and police to physically and violently deprive the people from voting their choices? Do you remember how under PMB in the last elections soldiers and police turned the state into a war zone with attendant loss of lives in their failed attempt to rob the people of their votes for Wike?

Under this regime was where the billions expended on training INEC officers on direct posting of results from the card-reader to the central server was rubbished just to clean up the perfidy of the presidential elections.

Old boy, you live in a glass house, stop trowing stones, abeg!