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O boy see goal-post shifter. Always rationalising thiefocracy when their ally is involved.

So because it's in budget, its no longer stealing. Don't worry wait until when these mad men called Governors follow in line to appropriate our money to themselves to build houses in Abuja for their so called royal fathers through the bugdet. I bet you will clap for them also.

StOla:
You only need half a gram of rational thought.

If everyone is emotional and irrational in thought, there would be no society or civilization, as everyone would be incapable of social interaction.

The news report itself has identified the man interrogated as an official of the sultanate. Even EFCC released him on bail based on self recognition. The state government has also declared that the funds were officially transferred and even captured in the 2017 budget.

The amount is not jaw dropping for a residential abode in high brow Abuja. Only illiterates, rural dwellers and the wretched poor would find it informative that N700m can only buy a residential house and not a stadium in certain parts of this country.

Kudos to EFCC for being vigilant. What should be investigated further is whether the sultanate has used these funds already to fulfil the budgeted goal or the funds legally received has been shared out without the property purchase accomplished. Continued monitoring if still lodged in the bank account, would ensure it would be used as budgeted.

Do I think the funds have already been wasted by being budgeted for such in the midst of unavailable basic necessities in Sokoto state? Certainly yes, but EFCC needs to show me at the end of their ongoing investigations, what crime has been committed before I can join the mob to shout crucify! crucify!

Bro you spoke truth there. A debtor who does not want to pay back what he owes a lender SHALL in future have need to borrow money and he would find no one to help out, even in the direst of situations. Then he would blame people for not showing kindness. He failed to recall that it is he who placed the curse of unkindness towards him.

I learnt this the hard way though that "do not loan out money you cannot write off as bad debt". I don't blame people who don't loan out money to friends or family members, they have been poked in the eye.

I lent a friend 15k to complete her funds for a business transaction, for over 3 years she had refused to pay and went on a technical in communicado. It got to a point I sent her a message that I could write it off as a bad debt, but that nature/creation will design a way to forcefully take it from her and give to me. It's a fact.

The other one, I was to make a deposit into my account in the bank, an old colleague told me he had been owing house rent for months, and pleaded I should help. I lent him 30k. He paid 5k almost 3 years later. Till date shishi I have not seen, he tells one story after another. They all fail to realise the money does not make me less wealthy, rather trust has been eroded.

gemale:
I seriously pity that person who doesn't want to pay that money back. He is very myopic. He doesn't realize that another problem even bigger that the last 1 might take him back to that person again. In exchange for mere 11k that mostly likely can't last him for a month, he has traded integrity, friendship, trust, goodwill & even a portion of his soul. It seems he lacks the fear of God & is ignorant of the fact that there is a special curse 1 attracts when 1 rewards good for evil. Call it karma or whatever, a man shall reap what he sows. Do you know the fearful part of this law? It is the fact that 1 reaps way more than 1 sows sometimes in 10s, 100 or even 1000 folds. 1 seed of corn if sown would bring forth at least 1 cob that contains more than 50 seeds of corn.

After all this pushing further and clearance from Sambisa, some abducted Chibok girls will be realesed from heaven knows where.
So where are the girls being housed? Our government does not want to tell us the abracadabra involved.

I am tempted to call you names, but I wouldn't do that.
The power company has NO right or authority whatsoever to take away the cable connecting his house to the electric pole. That is his property.
This wrong happens because of ignorance and intimidation. So much for you insulting a man standing for his rights. In all your wisdom and knowledge tell us which country in the world uses the military to collect utility bills? Your 'wisdom' must be very classical.

MrBrownJay1:
Next time this foolish man should let the electricity company do their jobs... This is not a race issue, it's a COMMON SENSE one.

Oga, there is nothing disrespectul about telling her not to touch your phone.
Tell her not to touch your phone. If she is sensible she would know her actions are very wrong.
Next change your phone lock.
You are the man of the home and you are here complaining like a child. The sooner you deal with this and draw the line, or one day you would wake up and find her directing and supervising your home.
Will your own mother do this to you?

I usually don't dignify such comment of yours with a reply. However, in this case I would grant you an exception.
Someone was right to call you a "two-faced lot"
Prior to the 2015 elections, your type filled our ears and eyes with cries of political and economic restructuring being the panacea for the countries woes. In fact it was a cardinal point for campaign by West and Tinubu as well as the APC.
Now a people clamour for self determination, and it has suddenly become in your eyes the vilest sin and crime on the face of the earth, because you now control the central government.
You don't want to let them go, but you want to unaturally take over their properties.

According to Gordons, "pecin wey say my eba water no go boil, dem no go sell stove for im town".

Nigeria must sit down and in "true faith" listen to the arguments of the regions else if it continues with this ' satanic' federalism, it will definitely implode one day politically or economically. It's a fact.

thesicilian:
We are going to jail him for his irrational talk and not because he's crying to go. Who cares if he goes to settle in the Sahara desert?
As for Igbo property, they'll most likely be burnt, demolished or repurposed as housing units for the less privileged.

It's not a back door acquisition. An investment of $500k or more in the US enables one to be granted a green card. Its like setting up a business there that contributes to the economy.

HenryHill:
Pheeew! Someone has more than half a million US Dollars and wants to obtain a green card through the back door?

Well, don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Your statement is wrong.
The new person ceases to be a member of the House of Representative, at the end of office of the current National Assembly. That's how it works.
So she would move out with those who currently are in the NASS.

NOC1:
our Judiciary hmmm..., as slow as a snail. some cases like this need speedy judgement, because of the delay the new guy will not vacate with his mates, this will lead to unbudgeted and avoidable expenses.

Lol. I believe she meant dual citizenship.

Tapout:
two nationalities?? what sort of English is that

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Is everything alright with you?

NwaAmaikpe:
Good things come in disguises.


With all these money she is getting...I'm sure she is grateful to God her husband was killed

Okupe is every thing all right with you?
What do you mean by unwritten agreement? That is purely an administrative convenience in political parties, it has nothing to do with the general elections.
Are you going to compel all the APC electorate to vote for a Northern candidate?
Are you also telling us that other political parties must permit only Northern candidates to run for their party primaries and thus general election.
Will you also tell the electorates to vote only for Northern candidates?
If Buhari resigns or dies, Osibanjo has every right to run for President in 2019 if he so wishes. The world will not end if he contests and wins. You are suggesting the North deals their usuall violence when they miss out from the position of President. Stop talking trash.

[quote ... He also called on the youths to wrestle for the country's leadership as the elders have run out of ideas, adding that "the solutions to the problems of our country and the future are all in the hands of our youths".

Source: http://www.cambellsblog.com/2017/06/nigerian-man-delivers-letter-of-quick.html[/quote]Please the elderly leadership you just mentioned, is President Buhari no longer an elder, or he suddenly has morphed into a youth with ideas?

I don't get it. How come the heading mentions CAN issuing the statement, meanwhile it is signed by Lagos State Ministry official.

It just doesn't add up.

So this is your understanding of how criminal justice system should? What a perverted view you have.

It is same you who would shout to high heavens that the Police is inept when it drags a common man to court merely on the suspicion of stealing a mobile phone; then ask the Judge to remand him in prison pending the conclusion of their investigations. The man may spend years in prison without being found guilty.

Do yourself great good and study how criminal justice operates.

PearlStreet:
No one is above the law. He has no immunity against criminal proceedings and he can be thrown into jail if he is suspected to try and pervert justice pending the determination of the case against him.

Did you at all read the part where it says the Deputy Defence Attache has a Filipino secretary, I suppose you know the security implications?
Agreed, embassies hire foreigners, but not into sensitive and security pisitions. Why must Nigeria's own be different? Thats the height of consular rascality and wickedness by the Nigerian Ambassador to Nigeria and Nigerians.

LionDeLeo:
You dey mind dem? Let them just be making noise, it won't change anything.

The embassies in Nigeria I have had business with so far, the stamped ppt were always handed over to me by Nigerians.

Infact, I talk with the officials of the country's origin ONLY during interview, all other encounters were with Nigerians in the embassies.

You mean it? You must be a millenial then. You can look up and watch the 007 movies he acted, you wouldn't regret it.

fastgyal:
RIP. Never watched the movie. don't even know him. only heard stories about him being a strong man.

What a sad news.
They have to run away from their homes and towns for their dear lives.
The camps they live in is in a squalid condition. Poor shelter, poor health-care.

What on earth made them to go gunting for food? I tell you. Even the treacherous State and Federal Government wouldn't provide something as basic and cheap as food. These people even deserve some kind of stipend.

It is only a hearts full of wickedness, that will treat the IDPs this way.
If they are not bombed, their women are raped, or funds meant for them is used for grass cutting contract. How low can wickedness descend?

Did you take a good look ay her name?

Mouthgag:
Yoruba lady

Please answer this questin truthfully.
Did you ever attend a Senior Secondary school, or you stopped schooling after your junior WAEC ecams?

It is very clear you do not have an inkling of governance, or constitutional law, if you do, I believe you are willfully telling yourself what is not possible.

Why do you think a President of a nation hands over power to his VP to become Acting-President? The position of the President and C-in-C should never be vacant hence the VP is empowered to act in full presidential powers when the President is unavailabe (due to annual leave, medical leave, or suddenly becomes incapacitated without the opportuinity to write to the NASS).

Like someone said, UNTIL Buhari writes to the Senate that he has RESUMED office, he CANNOT assent to the bill.

If by any dubious means, Kyari's cabal gets Buhari who is on leave to sign it, a flood gate of litigations will arise. Why? His signature would have made the bill so assented to by him to be as worthless as the paper used in printing it. Its as simple as that.

It's sad that we always find a way to complicate so very simple things.

linuxuser:
Buhari is the substantive president. Osibanjo is simply a coordinator. Buhari must sign the budget if he so wishes. An acting does not translate to the real. Osibanjoo only acts for his master and the master can decide what he wants his subordinate to do as long as he is in the right frame of mind. The constitution did not say Buhari must sign the budget in Nigeria. He can sign it wherever he is except in the grave. Buhari is still alive and as long as he is alive, Osibanjo has a limited remit. We should stop polarising the country and needs to call a spade a spade.

I never knew that.
Please do you mean that all those Almajiri schools he built up North, that their governors later complained it's too mordern, are actually for criminals.

sarrki:
Point of correction

He pleased criminals across all ethnic tribe in Nigeria

Trully a kid, or was denied the opportunity to learn Business Studies and Economics in Secondary school.
Let's offer our sympathy to him/her. Its a terrible thing either way.

ithink7:
This kid, you know nothing about banking. Have you ever work to earn money in your life. What hapen to the interest the banks make when they use your money for business.

If you borrow 1m from a bank to do business, you pay back at least 1.24m. That's 240,000 naira interest the bank collect from a borrower on your money you keep with them.

Question: Are they suppose to share that profit with you "the owner of the money"?
Answer: Yes

But instead, they want to steal from your 1m and return 900k to you. That's the evil we are talking about.

A well crafted and approved criminally-minded way to steal from depositors.
Is CBN telling us that accounts having T-alert and a depositor's fund is fraudulently taken, means that the bank must compensate the owner?
Or,
How does refusing a T-alert on one's account free the bank from its responsibility to a customer whose funds are stolen?

This is purely a move by the CBN management to:
- helps the banks make more money while customers loose theirs through phoney charges.
- Remove any and all liability whatsoever from the banks on defrauded customers. There is no correlation between SMS charges and preventing a fraud, because if one gets an alert it means he/she has been hit already. Moreso, in Nigeria its 1 in a million chances that the bank will claim liability, it will always find a way to say you were careless with your account security profile. I have withnessed it firsthand.
- help a directionless and inept FG scoop money from Nigerians through VAT charges on such revenues.

Madness incorporated!
Imagine this man still defending use of landmass as basis for budgetary allocation. What a height of fiscal misdirection and foolishness.

The only preliminaries bloody beauty contest organizers know is height, skin colour, front and back side. That is why you get dummies who become beauty queen.

majekdom2:
Now, This is one problem with Nigeria. Many will insult the girl bla bla, but they don't address/ insult the root cause and medium by which the girl got to that platform. Now, what I mean is this.. were there no preliminaries, were there no judges or screening agents. Obviously, she either slept her way through or bribed her way through. Thats the case with many situation/ opportunities/ sectors of the Nigerian economy. Mediocrity is preferred to "meritocracy" as long as one can bribe/ pay a way through. This is why Nigeria is never too far from embarassment. I believe many will remember the Miss Anambra case.
For the lady, I have heard some say she answered the question the way she understood it. When one answers a question different from the answer an examiner expect, one is said to have failed. She failed. She should go back to school and learn English. Modelling and beauty peagants is for the classy and not trashy. Ladies as this should focus on local/ community volunteering skills. Thats where their prowess has created a niche. If she is thinking she will become miss Nigeria one day, he dream is dead before birth.

O boy look at trouble.
Her case reminds me of my NYSC days, my platoon member who is a Mr Macho contestant was asked "what is the full meaning of W.H.O."
The guy said "women health...", before he could speak further the hall burst into laughter. Infact the moderator was shocked and had to ask the question again. He said "women health organization".

O boy come and see nickname throughout the rest of camp days.

Are you telling us it is wrong for the world to get to hear the girls' side of the story in an issue as grave as Chibok Girls which became a national bane?

If your answer is yes, how then do we know the true story, its dynamics, the role played by state and non-state actors? How do we tell there was no conspiracy and the level of involvement? How does the nation learn?

mrvitalis:
Question girls that have been in captivity for 1000 days??

I disagree with you. They shall not "waste innocent Nigerian lives." Rather, any evil that is planned shall revolve on their heads, cos the angel of the LORD will be waiting with a blazing sword to cut them and their families down. Amen.

Pecin no go fear dog, come chop dog shit.

TheFreeOne:
Some idiots are hellbound on setting the country on war path.

I stopped to buy a newspaper 2 days ago somewhere in lagos same story was peddled by some idiots and I almost had a fight with a man at the newspaper stand.

Buhari needs to resign cos if he died in power his northern followers will cause chaos and waste innocent Nigerian lives.

No way.
Coordinating is not stronger.
'Acting-President' means that he is vested with the full powers to exercise the duties and responsibilities of the office of President. It also puts him as C-IN-C.

'Coordinating activities' does not vest upon him the powers and duties of the President. It merely gives Osibanjo some administrative powers. Any Minister or Federal Officer can decide to go over his head to the President, or simply disobey Osibanjo, or conduct FG affairs without regard to the VP and claim the President ordered it. This is Nigeria.

They may appear same but they are not. A good lawyer can argue definitely in court that Buhari never intended to see the VP act as an 'Acting-President' it would have being clearly spelt out in the letter, and he would win the case.

Those who drew up the letter know what they did. It's a clever letter.

Basic123:
coordinating is even stronger to me than acting.

The very disease the writer spoke about, is what you are displaying the symptoms. So someone should use their intellect for you who has chosen to lazy.

Elnino4ladies:
Summary pls

Too long

I disagree with folks here who still blame Apos. Suleiman for speaking up. False accusation is a great sin and crime (especially under oath).

False accusation is considered almost as taking the life of a human, even greater, since the reputation and name of the victim is difficult to restore. You would agree with me that, to this day there exist some who argue that Jesus Christ never rose from the grave, instead that his body was stolen. Ask how stealing came into the picture. Some authorities tell that, the Chief Priest and Pharisees bribed the Roman soldiers keeping guard over Jesus' tomb to say the body was stolen. Imagine.

That is what a false accusation can do. It has sent some to jail, some to death, some loosing spouse, work or other things. Some victims get restoration, but some never get it till death.

In as much as she claims to have repented (I doubt if she knows how repetance and forgiveness works) it behoves her to tell us Suleiman is innocent of the numerous accusations. This would be her penance since the evidences she claimed to have, she never made public. I hold that Apos. Suleiman was lied against.

Ok you ended up arguing against the use of Bawo oni, and clearly failed to tell us the proper greeting. So how then do u expect us to know it?

mbhs139:
@OP, you need to be told, in case you don't know, that you don't use Bawo ni! just for anybody and at any place or time. For instance, in Yoruba land, you can't greet your seniors saying Bawo ni!, it is wrong. You actually use Bawo ni! for a much younger person than you or to your pal. I think that is clear. Just like telling your dad's elder brother that how far!, you know that's wrong, at least in the Yoruba context.

How interesting that they condone the use of NEPA Bill as WAEC certificate when it suits them, but accuse a man of forgery for spending 5 years on a course.
The political class and its circle of strange bed fellows is one funny lot.