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The petitioner and litigant should amend the charge to include Civilian JTF in the case. Amotekun is actually parallel to Civilian JTF in that they have the same set objective of combating crime and protecting lives and property.

Therefore the case should be amended to demand the disbandment of Civilian JTF in the North and the stopping of its being funded by public funds.

Let them chew on that.

legendhayor:
They said this baba died in the crash, crappy journalists

Will the guy in this picture please speak up and save us all this confusion? Are you dead or alive?

*Sadly we lost a Nigerian in that plane crash in Iran.*
Dauda Onoruoiza who worked with Boeing was on a three months training in Ukraine�

He was on a three months training by Boeing in Ukraine and he was attached with the Boeing 737-800 to fly with and study the Mechanical noise and report back to the company because the said plane was scheduled for maintenance on Monday. 13th January 2020 in Ukraine.

A Ukrainian airliner with at least 170 people on board crashed on Wednesday due to technical problems soon after taking off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported.

Rescue teams have been sent to an area near the airport where the Boeing 737 belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed, Reza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, told state television.

"The plane is on fire but we have sent crews ... and we may be able to save some passengers."

Pirhossein Koulivand, head of Iran's emergency services, told the television.

He later said: "The fire is so heavy that we cannot (do) any rescue... we have 22 ambulances, four bus ambulances and a helicopter at the site." Jafarzadeh put the number of passengers on board the flight at 170.

According to air tracking service FlightRadar24, the plane that crashed was on Flight PS 752. IRNA said according to preliminary information "the plane was bound for Kiev ... and had 180 passengers and crew."

Boeing said the company was aware of media reports of a plane crash in Iran and was gathering more information.

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MORE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE NATIONAL STADIUM....

GENDER: Male

LOCATION: National Stadium, Lagos.

TIME: 8.25 am

DISTANCE COVERED: Zero

I could not do roadwork today because I had to drop off an in-law's family holidaying with us before 8am at Ojota Garage. They were returning to Ondo State. A church programme was to start at 9am in Surulere, meaning I had time to kill.

So I decided to visit the National Stadium. I used to be a stadium regular growing up in the 80s. Getting there this Saturday, I am wowed.

I was like Alice in Wonderland! Everywhere was filled with fitness freaks. Men and women, boys and girls of all ages and shapes in their thousands played in different angles and sites of the main bowl. Jogging. Walking. Football. Boxing. Karate. Dancing. Hopping Press-Ups. Cycling. Tennis. Skipping. And more.

G007:
Good thing you started this! Here is mine

GENDER: MALE

LOCATION: Arab Road, Kubwa, Abuja

TIME: 6.00am

KIT: Juventus Shorts and Tshirt

DAY: 28/12/19

DISTANCE COVERED: About 13km, to and fro :Arab Junction to Goshen Montessori.

My alarm goes off at 5.30am, but I am always too lazy, so I snooze till 5.45am. Quickly brush my teeth cos I might meet Miss. Right on my path .

The Harmattan seem to be on steriods but I know it will be for a time before warmth kicks in. I've got an arm band where I stash my key and phone. Also got my bluetooth earpiece because I just can't do without music. I hit shuffle on Spotify and it landed on 'Gbas Gbos' by Fireboy, lol, the song fired me up.

I usually start my slow with hip movements, followed by the swinging of my arms back and forth. Arab Road is usually dead at this time, just a few early risers and runners. 15 minutes into the run, I see 'Mr. Green Shirt' (he always wears that shirt) - very consistent guy. He recognizes me too, I guess he calls me 'Mr Ash shirt' cos I always wear an ash shirt . We do the ceremonial double-clap always and today was no exception.

I was thinking off turning right from Liberty junction towards the train station but I decided to stick to my normal route. I continued to Dantata Estate as the day began to brighten and other runners were trooping out. I saw another consistent guy 'Mr. Tight Pants', this guy wears a black tight which is kind off disgusting for man. I do not wish to see any male buttocks and I know other runners feel thesame way. He recognizes me but we do not double-clap - I guess we do not like each other.

At 7.45am, I arrived home and took a hot shower. Emeka, the guy next door is up too, cos Oliver de Coque is blasting from his angle.

A good Saturday Morning!

Wow, 13 kilometres! You are out of my league. Or did you mean 1.3 kilometres?

Good to see the double-clap is a universal language.

I know Kubwa. I sometimes lodge in Algos Hotel owned by Senator Smart Adeyemi. I know the train station too, which is virtually opposite the hotel.

By the way, funny and witty narrative you have put together.

GENDER: Male

LOCATION: Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos.

TIME: 6.05 am

KIT: Shorts and T-Shirt

DISTANCE COVERED: To and fro, about 2 miles

As soon as I stepped outside the door, today’s Harmattan breeze felt and sounded like it would freeze anyone who dared to venture outside. It nearly discouraged me. Or should I just do the skipping rope?

But dressed in my usual pedal-pusher shorts and t-shirt, I walked up the street to Liasu Road. On Liasu Road, I walked and flung my arms past my head and down to the butts region. I intermixed with waist flexing right and left. I jogged for five minutes. I walked for another 5. I jogged again. I no dey deceive myself. I can’t run straight long distances.

By 15 minutes time, I lost the chill. Warmth flowed through my veins. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Thank God I dared and conquered. I continued jogging, walking, arms flexing and waist twisting.

Back home within one hour.

I usually keep N50 to N100 in my pocket, for Keke Marwa or Okada, just in case of fatigue or any other emergency. These past two years sha, I never used it. But that small cash remains in my shorts pocket.

I usually carry my lightweight “palasa” phone (never an android or iPhone), just in case of emergencies. Sometimes when I leave before 6am, I call wifey to wake up and prepare the children for school.

We pray when I return.

I saw not one of the usual school buses picking pupils. Holiday is still on in Lagos.

Those road sweepers were already out. Someone should tell their employers to give them reflective strips on their uniforms.

I met 2 fellow joggers going. When returning, I saw about 6 total. None of them double-clapped me. I was walking, not running, when they ran past me.

Do joggers in your area give the double-clap salute? Share.

Jewessgratitude:
Will call you on that number so you can send the details to me.
Might not be using this moniker again

Why would you change your moniker?

The Christmas Day celebration has done more evangelism than any church's efforts put together.

czarina:
Depends on what "knowing" means to you.

Been seeing you on many threads. I understand what you're doing though. Don't ask me what, just know that I know.

Good luck.

Reveal

uzohrome:
There was a country... Karma is a bitch and irresistible. Sowore enjoy the change you propagated.

To Sahara Reporters.....

This is so sad...

The wife of Gildas Tohouo, the Managing Director of Maersk line, one of the biggest maritime companies in Nigeria, was stabbed to death during an attack at their home in Lugard road, Ikoyi, Lagos state on Sunday December 8th.

According to reports, Tuhouo was at home with his family when men who disguised as armed robbers, invaded their home. During the attack, the armed men stabbed his wife to death and also stabbed Mr Tohouo leaving him with serious stab wounds.

A police source who confirmed the report to LIB, said two staff of Maersk have been arrested in connection with the attack.

Update: Maersk Shipping line MD and his wife were attacked by his estate electrician and an accomplice; forced to drink acid before being stabbed

More facts have emerged from the unfortunate incident involving the MD of Maersk shipping company, Gildas Tohouo.

Information from the police states that Mr Tohouo, a native of Cameroon and his wife a Bulgarian reside at the Cul De Sac Compound, the same as former Head of State Ernest Shonekan which is off Oba Adeyinka Oyekan in Ikoyi, a highbrow area in the state. According to the police, the estate electrician had gone to the couple's home under the guise of coming to fix an electrical fault. He came in with one of his friend.

When they gained entrance, the eletrician and his friend overpowered the couple and locked them in separate rooms. Mrs Tohouo was said to have been forced to transfer some money to her attackers after which she was forced to drink acid, stabbed and suffocated with a pillow. The assailants then moved to Mr Tohouo who they forced to drink acid and also stabbed. He was however able to send a distress call to his company's Chief Security Officer (CSO) who in turn contacted the Lagos state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu.

Bala Elkana, the state police command's spokesperson, said those who carried out the attack are currently in police custody.

“We have an incident on someone who was attacked with his wife. Both of them were stabbed. The wife died and he is still alive and responding to treatment. Those who carried it out are in our custody. One of them is an electrician in the estate, who was assisted by his friend. Their aim was to steal from the man. They were there to rob'' he said

https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2019/12/wife-of-md-of-maersk-maritime-company-stabbed-to-death-in-her-ikoyi-lagos-husband-in-critical-condition-police-arrest-two-staff-in-connection-with-the-attack.html

TzuClausewitz:
She was the first wife of Kofi Annan,the former Secretary-General of the United Nations.

She is different from TITI ALAKAJA whom Kofi Annan married from 1965 to 1983.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Special Adviser on Women Affairs, Mrs. Titilayo Ajanaku, is dead.

Ajanaku, a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, died in the early hours of Thursday at the age of 73.

Our Correspondent learnt that the politician reportedly died after a battle with a terminal illness that had lasted for years.

Until her death, the late Ajanaku was the Otun Iyalode of Egbaland.

She was the chairman of old Abeokuta Local Government in Ogun State and, indeed, the first woman to be elected as a local government chairman in Nigeria.

Ajanaku, who was born on January 25, 1946 at Ago-Odo Quarters in Abeokuta, Ogun State, was a trained nurse, administrator and women leader.

She was also one of the top politicians arrested in 1995 over a phantom coup and later arraigned before the Patrick Aziza-led military panel.

In 2015, Ajanaku dumped the PDP and joined the Peoples Democratic Movement (a support group of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar) ahead of that year’s election.

She attended the Nawair-Ud-Deen Secondary School, Abeokuta; and trained in Nursing at Stobhill General Hospital, Nether-Edge City General Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom, between 1964 and 1965.

https://punchng.com/ex-president-obasanjos-adviser-titi-ajanaku-dies-at-73/

The notice on the Lagos State old secretariat says you are not to pay to collect your Driving Licence. But actually you do.

For renewal, someone had to cough out N2,900 that he did not bargain for because he had undertaken online processing and paid all the required fee of N8,500 or so in the bank.

FRSC prepares Driver's Licences but when he got to the pickup point, there the contradictions played out.

If you go to the Road Safety office at the place, you will be directed to the opposite side where Lagos officials process your pickup. There are two offices on the Lagos side
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The first collects N500.

The second collects N2,400.

In view of the notice, are these payments regular?

ARE LAGOS OFFICIALS VIOLATING THEIR OWN RULE?

The notice on the Lagos State old secretariat says you are not to pay to collect your Driving Licence. But actually you do.

For renewal, someone had to cough out N2,900 that he did not bargain for because he had undertaken online processing and paid all the required fee of N8,500 or so in the bank.

FRSC prepares Driver's Licences but when he got to the pickup point, there the contradictions played out.

If you go to the Road Safety office at the place, you will be directed to the opposite side where Lagos officials process your pickup. There are two offices on the Lagos side
.
The first collects N500.

The second collects N2,400.

In view of the notice, are these payments regular?

seun!
lalasticlala!
Dominique! grin
Mynd44!

I read this article on border closure and found the writer captured the sentiments of many Nigerians

https://guardian.ng/opinion/dear-president-buhari-give-us-our-daily-bread/

Your Excellency,
On behalf of our voiceless compatriots, we feel the need to apprise you with the unpalatable result of this subsisting shutdown of our borders. Sir, the effect is killing! Resuming from your Sallah holiday in Daura, you made good your avowed plan to ban the importation of some food items by shutting the Nigerian borders. Following this shutdown, the CBN Governor announced that more items had been piled upon the list of 41 items already prohibited from accessing foreign exchange officially.

Nigerian Customs quickly clamped shut our borders with Benin, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Apparently, you intended those policy changes to help shore up our forex, stabilise the Naira and encourage local food production. Have they told you that these summary moves have unleashed an economic Tsunami threatening to sink the common man? Currently, commoners gasp under the wavy spectre of inflation. Thanks (or no thanks) to the border closure, food prices have shot crazily sky-high. The shelf price of parboiled rice, one yardstick for gauging domestic inflation, has skyrocketed outrageously from N15,000 per bag to N18,500 for the cheapest brands. Need you reminding, Your Excellency, that your predecessor left the price of a bag of rice at N8,000, which under your regime spiralled to N30,000 before it miraculously dropped to N12,000? This happens in a country whose government prevaricates on inking a N30,000 minimum wage bill, a country with an unemployed population of over 60 percent and a country presently crowned the poverty capital of the world. A carton of chicken has shot from N8,000 per carton to N15,000.

What about revenue lost? I cannot immediately lay my hands on the comprehensive figure of revenue generated at the official borders, but between January and mid-March this year, Customs reported that at the Seme border alone, it generated N1.26 billion. Only two-and-a-half months! Only one border! So compute how much income the closure has dammed off. Someone must have forgotten that several lines in the overland import chain solely depend on the trans-border relationship with our neighbours –from transporters, to clearing and forwarding agents, to maikaya on-loaders and off-loaders. Frustration and reduced employment in such informal and formal sectors threaten to drive up crime, acute poverty and other negative metrics. And since rice’s price shot through the roof, it created a domino effect that has seen the price of staples like yam and beans inevitably following in the same direction. Inevitably too, the value of money has decreased. Undoubtedly, you had noble intentions. And this, Nigerians appreciate. You want us to eat local –Nigerians should eat what they produce. Great vision! But Permit me to borrow only the premise of this famous quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882): “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight….” In other words, will we attain self-sufficiency by the snap of a finger? Will food flood our tables by executive orders and CBN knee-jack programmes? More importantly, has this border policy (the third closure by your regime) put the commoner at the centre piece of conception and implementation? Can we afford this laissez faire liberalisation we propose for local food merchants? Does this not amount to throwing citizens into the jaw of Shylock lions?

Back in the day, faced with shortage in local supplies, General Murtala Mohammed brought Nigerians beef from Argentina. And your military regime introduced a price-control mechanism to tame mercantile greed. Shehu Shagari forced prices down by opening import licences principally for rice and primary food items. Those were the hallmarks of empathetic governance. Your new-fangled policy kills that sympathetic spirit. Ask around, a 180-million population squares off as a gargantuan market. But can local production meet local demand today? Local farmers are blessed with this 180 million-market on a platter of gold, but they have simply failed to court patronage. Up till today, they have refused to implement competitive pricing. Or how do you explain that the prices of local and imported agricultural products are the same, and sometimes the local is more expensive? Furthermore, is this border closure premised on self-sufficiency? Look around, no country is self-sufficient.

Neither do they completely abandon their citizens’ stomachs to the vagaries of rapacious market forces. Many countries subsidise food –heavily. China, despite its rice sufficiency, still imports Thailand and Vietnamese rice, purely to tame the prices of local ones. Donald Trump may be battling Chinese business for the selfish interest of American business, but food is off limits in the raging Sino-US trade war. The US government sits as a major off-taker of farm produce, buying excess stuff off American farmers for dumping into the ocean sometimes, and sometimes as donations to drought-flogged nations. This strategy, part of a deliberate US agricultural policy that sees the country yearly plough $20 billion (N7.2 trillion) public fund as subsidy into foods, guarantees that foods sell at rock-bottom cheap in America. Do you know that every cow in the EU gets a subsidy of $2.20 per day? Did they tell you too that Japan doles out subsidies for its estimated 60,000 cow breeders to bridge the gap between market prices and recommended standard prices?

Also, look at the United Kingdom. One reason Britain abhors a No-Deal Brexit comes from the realisation that imposing restrictive Customs checks will mean that the number of trucks bringing supplies to Britain from Europe through the international routes would drop by up to 60 percent, thus unleashing disruptions in Britons’ access to certain fresh foods and essential medicines, with the spiral effect on prices. Against such civilised examples, can a Third World nation like Nigeria afford to leave her people’s daily bread to market forces? He that gives food gives life. Food is life. With industrial raw materials, big off-takers dictate commodity prices. But in the staple market chain, commoners battle the largely greed-propelled whims of farmers and middlemen. The Nigerian producer gloats in buy-it-or-go-and-die tyranny. This creates a disconnect, which your commodity price regulation policy bridged in the 1980s. Now, no such shield exists. Prices have risen… and will still rise, if this trajectory continues.

And according to the basic law of demand and supply, low supply will naturally produce inflation. Our non-Utopian reality today shows we are under-producing on food, the reason for the mercurial rise of prices. What should you do? First, work out a 10-year rolling plan that will phase out imports gradually, with little shocks to the average Nigerian’s life. Secondly, save foreign exchange by forcing local production of petroleum products. Imported fuel represents our single largest forex guzzler. Sir, if you redeemed your 2015 campaign promise to stop fuel importation, the Naira would by now have rallied.

Joggle your team. How can you keep a Minister of Agriculture who posits that the bourgeoisie orders pizza from London, and that affects the economy, and a Customs boss who describes rice from foreign silos as poisonous? Na wa o! Why are local food staples not attractive? Price! And to be fair, producers should not take all the blame.

Overheads suffocate the local supply chain. To get a basket of tomato from farm to market, several fees, a huge chunk illegal, must be coughed out. Freight trucks must pay anything from N25,000 to N100,000 annually for about 25 stickers and emblems, each owned by sundry local governments, agencies and associations. Lorries pay a sum for loading at food markets and also pay for offloading. Ascending Onitsha Bridge, for example, costs N1,500 and another N1,400 to descend. NURTW collects about 10 percent of goods’ value per trip. Running a trip between Ibadan and Abuja, for example, freighters must settle police, soldiers, commodity agents, NDLEA, up to the tune of N5,000 per trip. This excludes the cost of fuelling that can reach up to N30,000 and more. With over 70 percent of our population accessing less than $2 per day, Nigeria has been confirmed as the poverty capital of the world. Very hopeless situation for many!

And In this hopelessness, your citizens are sorting themselves out the easy way. Some embrace suicide. Some have thrown themselves into freezing deserts and boiling seas, just to escape hollow prospects at home.

Let me end with the words of the Lebanese writer, Kahlil Gibran’s classic poem in his 1933 book, The Garden of The Prophet: “Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, and farewells him with hooting.” Recall that Omoyele Sowore used his online news site, SaharaReporters, to trumpet you into government in 2015. But now, he hoots in anger, just like several Nigerians who initially spread palm fronds to serenade you as the expected Messiah. Make no mistake, Sir, the anti-xenophobic riots nationwide were not a spark of nationalism. They blazed from general anger and hunger of Nigerians who seized the opportunity to stock up pro bono. If you read between the lines, the riots meant: We are hungry; bring back our daily bread!

May you heed to their cries before the words of Kahlil Gibran turn prophetic. As always, Your Excellency, accept the assurances of my best regards.

FELIX OBOAGWINA, A JOURNALIST, WROTE FROM LAGOS

I beg delete Omoyele Sowore from that list. The former Presidential Candidate was arrested as a politician and member of the opposition.

N73 billion to repair, not construct, a 32-kilometre road....

Do the maths. That works out at over N2.28 billion ($6,336,806) per kilometre

NA WA O!

Anti-Corruption, we hail thee!

Cc: lalasticlala
Cc: MissyB3
Cc: Fynestboi
Cc: Dominique
Cc: mynd44
Cc: seun

Please, can you see the utility in this thread and help to push so we can get widest contribution?

Blessings, guys

Breaststroke:
Oh damn, I laughed out loud at the last paragraph and sentence in particular. It seems like men are becoming even more desperate to have children than women.

Guy man pastor wants to fornicate and score goal first before he weds.

The funny thing is, as Christians we should know better than, pursuing ungodly ways to acquire the things we want, but we are the ones actively seeking solutions via ungodly means

I asked Ben one question - if God didn't give you a child within wedlock, coupled with years of you asking him and you doing your best via IVF, don't you think He knows what he's doing?

This route you want to take may bring you a shit load of misery you didn't anticipate o! Reason this matter well o! This child you want so badly may be your undoing in life.

Someone I know, after about five years of waiting with his wife, went to play away goal. He could not score. Las las, he returned home and now he is back together with the wife of his youth. We are still trusting God for them.

Meanwhile, the woman went for treatment and when, he would not follow her there, the "Doctor" (alternative therapy) asked her to try another man, she refused and stopped attending sessions there.

But there are women too who will do adultery just to try to confirm that the fault is not theirs. Life can be really twisted.

Breastroke, thanks for sharing. You are deep indeed. And I pray that God shall keep us in Him.

I know a sister who just walked away from the sort of offer you have just rejected. The man offering her a Baby Mama deal (that he said would lead to marriage as soon as he could divorce his wife) actually is supposedly a Pastor. He had been married for 20 years to his wife, without a child. His mother came hard on the woman and then one thing led to another and that one said she had nothing to fear as she had a pre-marital child somewhere, now 25 years old.

Her revelation brought the roof down and the Pastor's family pushed her out, although their divorce is yet to be formalised.

Someone connected Pastor-man with this spinster-sister, promising marriage after pregnancy, but she chose to walk away. The man is still hot in search of what he wants.

Last week, I attended a political meeting with some friends in Surulere area of Lagos. At the end, Honourable D, a young man who had been married for nine years shared his experience with barrenness as we took a ride together. His wife had serial miscarriages. They went for five IVFs, and Madam miscarried ALL! Sometimes, the pregnancy got deflated at the second trimester. Each IVF session cost about N3 million, not just in Nigeria but in US, UK and Germany. That was what Honourable D told me.

And then they stopped trying. They only continued in praying –coupled with love-making, of course. Early this year, Mrs. D was delivered of a baby girl! No IVF. No caesarean. Everything happened 100 percent naturally.

Barrenness remains a lingering mystery. Today, my family has five couples on our prayer list –some 10 years in marriage, 15 years in marriage, even 20 years in marriage.

How come married people fail to have children after having all the copulation necessary? After doing the neeeful, yet the babies just fail to materialise?

Visits to doctors would sometimes unearth a problem with the man or the woman, and sometimes there will be no known medical issue at all.

Please, let us share experiences. Sweet or bitter. Defeats and victories. Your experience, or that of someone you know, just might encourage those still waiting.

Puregold3:
Start by going to your SCH

What do you mean SCH please? If you mean school, she has gone there.

This lady I know processed her NYSC Exemption Certificate at a business centre. Unfortunately, at the point of presenting documents for employment, they discovered that the course recorded for her (B.Ed. Vocation Studies) by NYSC was different from the course contained in her Degree Certificate (B.Sc. Education Marketing) issued by the school.

The business centre washed its hands off the problem and blamed NYSC for the error.

Please, how should she go about rectifying the NYSC Exemption Certificate to reflect exactly what the Degree Certificate has?