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It just painful the way these guys move shamelessly and think media trial is the best way to get victory over any perceived adversary. This man was said to have 55 houses and millions of foreign currency in his account, but during the star witness' account during the CCT trial, he was shown to have 5 houses, out of which one was gifted to him by the government. Today now EFCC has said he made multiple deposits of $10,000 totalling millions, meanwhile we saw the figures found in his numerous bank accounts. I for one would love to see how this ends and know who will end up apologising to who at the end. Only time will tell

Wiziman:
It was doctored. check the date, he erased the white chalk and inserted his preferred coulor.. you nigaass just wanna tarnish the teachers image

I don't think it was, both writings are same despite different chalk colours.

You are in a very tricky situation but my advise to you is this, i believe you have genuinely repented of this evil. If a catholic please go confess to your priest and get spiritual restitution for your wrong. Now once this is spiritually settled, i do not see the need for you to confess to your brother and wife. One, you have already seen how he is unable to handle the break of trust from a once trusted partner, think of what such will do to him from a blood, i assure you he might breakdown and eventually commit suicide but not before telling everyone especially his kids how you betrayed him and you will be shocked even the one u believe is your child might hate you for life and that's how generational seed of discord is sown cos your children will grow to inherit the bitterness for you. As for your wife, this happened way into your past and once she hears this, be rest assured the whole family will hear it and the love and bond will forever be broken. Like someone advised earlier, take ur wife to the hospital when next she is pregnant, most ladies with such history always have similar cause and the solution is always a simple surgical procedure where i think the passage to the uterus is reduced so the baby can comfortably stay and develop. May God help you

PDP killed this country for 16years yet at the slightest opportunity, APC always measuring itself with those failed years and yet you argue you are a better party? You all need help seriously

The nairaland moderator that pushed this utter trash to front page should bury his or her face in shame. If you call this thing i am seeing as evidence, it only goes to show your knowledge depth with PCs. Unfortunately, the dumb OP asides not knowing that he/she is addressing people more knowledgeable than him /her, didn't even cover the file location completely as the user account he/she used to create the document still partly shows OLUW, maybe Oluwaseun if i may complete the name. So much for ambassador Otto Reich. Such a dumb attempt!

specter:
Have you considered the fact that Nigeria might be the one seeking emerging market for her agricultural products just like the market woman at oyingbo or mile 12 market who goes to interior market to buy wares to resell at the aforesaid said Lagos market.

Perhaps it was us who is forcing it and who is creating the demand for the product and not Vietnam who needs and craves for the product per say.

Hence we took it to them and not them coming here to get it which is the angle you are seeing things from cos that's how it ought to be.

But then again who be Nigeria when fit muscle such power when we have a shity economy when when we have good products.

International commerce doesn't play like that sir. Sometimes in international commerce, your responsibility to your buyer may even end at your own end where you make the agreed product in the agreed quantity available for the buyer to load(example of how our crude oil is sold). Again, at those points, nobody is discussing prices anymore. No international trade will you ship your wares first before you start your price negotiations with your buyer.

Mcreloaded:
Before the cashew left Nigeria for Vietnam did the supplier and buyer not negotiate the price.
This is the first time in my life I am hearing that a product is being rejected by a buyer after being supplied because if high price.
Or is it me that did not read the post well?

My dear sometimes the things our journalists put out there for people to read begs the question if they at all went to the most basic of schools. How on earth does one export a product without agreeing financial terms before hand? If they had cited health inspection as reason, it would have even made some sense maybe the cashews got bad in transit but no, they said its price like Nigeria took the cashews to go hawk in "international market". anyway, this is election year so a lot of stupid write ups will always flood everywhere

PHILipu1:
So,you mean all this elections so far under APC,we don't have PDP chieftains from other states moving around to monitor elections?

I will be glad if you can show me any opposition party member you have seen roaming around on election day in a state he is alien to. In Nigeria, movement on election day is highly restricted. Only accredited election observers and party agents for the state are allowed free movement. Don't let partisanship make you see what is wrong as right.

Oga El Rufai why don't you give them the full gist and quit revising the narrative to curry sympathy. I could still remember vividly it was the eve of governorship elections in Anambra state and you and a handful of APC big wigs poured into Anambra, the SSS restrained you from leaving your hotel on the election day till after the elections and Peter Obi said yes that is proper as you had no business in Anambra State. And i still ask you till today, what was your business coming to Anambra to move around on elections day?

I lost respect for the man a very long time ago. When jonathan tried to save nigerians from oil subsidy cancer, this man took up pages in national dailies where he argued on the legality of the president's actions and how it is unconstitutional to unilaterally remove oil subsidy. Fastforward to when Buhari with guts did same subsidy removal, the same multi-tongued femi put up write ups on how Buhari is saving nigerians. A representative for surulere constituency that resides in banana island suddenly is talking about constituents and constituency. Typical naija politician

One minute Keyamo ruled off the PDP coalition, calling them parties of 'husband and wife', the next minute APC is raising its own coalition to counter the 'husband and wife' coalition? 2019 will just be one very funny and interesting year politically

obi58:
Some of you just don't have a conscience. The monorail project that is yet to be completed has cost Rivers people 400m dollars so far....

Do you know 400 million dollars is 144 billion naira??

Do you know how many schools, roads and hospitals can be refurbished for that amount?

Is it not just plain wickedness to divert that money into a 5.4km status symbol

I repeat some people are just plain shameless and have no conscience.

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Do you have a difficulty understanding what i typed or did you just quote me so you can appear in my mention?

As for some of us up comparing this to Lagos rail lines, it still boils down to that sincerity of purpose i am talking about. You can not in all honesty compare these two projects. While the Lagos own will allow one to live in badagry and still get to work at marina early, can you say the same about PH mono rail? For an infrastructure deficient nation / state, as a good leader you ought to prioritise. Start with infrastructures that will impart more on the people and economy not aesthetics which to me PH monorail was about. How is that 2.1km stretch supposed to even payback that project and or even sustain its continuous ooerations?

Anytime i see this project i weep deep within cos this is one of those the more you look the less you see type of political project. After sinking billions into it and inundating us with videos of the monorail 'working' towards the last elections, one would question the sincerity of purpose of this project. Spending $400 million dollars on a 2.1km stretch of road and now being allowed to rot away, there is really a special accommodation in hell reserved for Nigerian politicians

Exactly what you get from an insincere government that has more media crew than economic managers. To them it's all about the camera.

LouisVanGaal:
Don't say what you don't know!
Only 3 Republican senators that didn't support the bill.. reason being that their states would be highly affected, and can cause them failure in this year's mid-term re-elections.
Also, the bill was crafted behind closed doors and had NO inputs by female senators..
the senators that didn't support it include : Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susanne Collins (Maine) and John McCain (Arizona).
besides it was Mc Cain that nailed the coffin

After all you wrote here you only ended up advertising your stupidity. I said republicans shot it down, you ended up affirming that 3 republican senators killed the bill including McCain who left his hospital bed just to come ensure he voted on the bill. I said the senators' loyalties lies with their people which was why they voted down the bill, you confirmed same thing that they voted down the bill because their states will be affected and can cause them failure in mid term elections. Yet after all these you want me to get into a senseless argument with you based on your opening sentence? I have better things to do with my time bro, enjoy!

Ovamboland:
You don't understand the presidential system.
A veto from the president means after due considerations the law will not be in the best interest of the country. And it is expected that he would have consulted with his party members in the legislature comprising other party members.

For a legislature in which his party members constitute majority it's a major failure and a big insult to the ruling party and the president for it's members to join opposition to override a presidential veto

With this kind of statement there is no doubt we have a very long way to go in our national politics. People like you ascribe an infallible status to an elected president. If your president is all knowing why then exists other checks and balances to the executive powers of which the senate is one of such checks? Incase you do not know, in the American presidential system which we copy, last year it was Republican senators that shot down one of President Trump's major electoral promises (removing obamacare) and nobody saw it as an insult to Trump. Till you know that as a representative your first loyalty lies with your people whom you represent and not to your party nor your president, only then can things get better in this country.

KwoiZabo:
He is the one. NTA News just aired it. Except NTA came up with the wrong picture

My dear NTA's incompetence is on a different level. I tuned in and saw them airing the obituary and just when i was about heaving a huge sigh of relief that maybe the president will be himself after all, the newscaster came back apologising that they used the wrong picture. I angrily changed the channel. For your own sanity i will advise, never ever take NTA news serious

enomakos:
pls do kaduna have a seaport?where will the containers come from?

Kaduna does NOT have a seaport. That is why i am correcting the youngman that the right name is Inland port or dry port. It is a port facility created in a hinterland for reception of imported /exported cargoes from where the necessary clearance /documentation is done. It is usually seen in landlocked countries/areas.

sarrki:
Mechonu

Seek knowledge young man

Someone just tried to correct you and there you are exhibiting crass ignorance. How can you have a dry land and a seaport at the same place? It is an inland port or 'dry port' - A portion of land designated inland where (for the purposes of decongestion and fast clearance of containers) container cargoes are routed to and cleared same way it would have been cleared as in a sea port.

omenkaLives:
@ Story :

I bet the marketers are finally satisfied making the abominable profits the set out to during the yuletide and are not ready to work with the government to stabilise the situation.

They understand the yuletide is the biggest holiday period in the country and would do whatever it takes to make a killing during such time. They understand even if the price at the pump is jacked up by a thousand percent, Nigerians would still patronise them!

The options being explored to resolve the lingering crisis today have always been on the table- tax holiday and special benchmark for fx. Why they make it sound as though they are novel intervention mechanisms is intended only to deflect blame from themselves.

It is a shame that a particular tribe and CAN tried to put an ethnic and religious colouration to the unfortunate situation which, ironically, didn't spare even the government itself (recall a governor purchasing at black market)!

It is well with Nigeria.

What happened during the yuletide was bound to happen as long as NNPC was the only entity importing PMS into the country. People travel more these periods and our daily consumption which we are not even so sure if it is 40 million litres will most likely double that period hence demand will most definitely exceed supply and scarcity will set in. This solution has always being proposed but the government said no as they are already granting special rates to marketers at #305/$ despite the marketers telling the govt that at that rate no one can sell at the regulated price of #145. Now lets wait and see the special rate that they will grant to marketers for PMS imports.

They finally stopped playing politics and are now interested in solutions

Just leaves me speechless. Waiting for the damage control

AshiwajuFoward:
Just a road o, not some monument. You people have serious issues. Na una sabi o.

Hope you know there is a major road in Owerri named Umaru Yaradua way? This is not about naming a road but about erasing part of a town's history to gain political grounds with your leader. There are many more major roads he would have renamed and nobody will bat an eyelid but not that road. His move is wrong on all sides.

ajl:
Then why did Dangote venture into building a refinery. Where are the others that were issued licenses. Truth is most Nigeria businessmen are rent seekers. Reason why the country import toothpicks and pencil.

Dangote ventured into his own refinery because not only did PMB announce/stated the withdrawal of subsidy, but he was also helped into setting up his private refinery(government via CBN gave him USD at special rates for his refinery). Most business owners in Nigeria might be rent seekers but i tell you one thing, any genuine business that can survive Nigeria's business clime can blossom anywhere else

Hayah:
Well said bro. . .


But won't the $15B-$20B be enough to build a refinery?

If the demons that politicised subsidy removal had allowed that move, we will by now not only have newer refineries but also a lot of privately owned ones (including modular) too but you see, no private biz will want to operate in such environment when you are subsidizing/regulating the price.

HtwoOw:
I wonder if you people's brains always leave you when you comment, Buhari ran a successful government for 2 years plus but nothing you people won't complain about


FYI there's been no subsidy for over a year and fuel was supplied at govt approved price , do not confuse greed with anything else


Other than allow these PDP fuckkkkers to hold Nigeria to hostage, it's better to merge marketers into 5 or more, anybody who can't cope with imports should be eliminated from the formula, Banks were merged and we got better service, I totally oppose paying subsidy because that'll be going back to the vomit we all complained about

Its better you go look for someone who is in the know to give you a detailed explanation of what is happening rather than hold on to the government's unending propaganda. For more than a year now, no marketer has been involved in importing PMS, reason - the landing cost was more than the government's approved ex-depot price(not to even talk of pump price). The cause of this is the high exchange rate and the gradual increase in crude prices. Now what most of them do is to buy invoices from NNPC and then load off NNPC imported cargoes and then retail. Now put it anyhow you like, there is still some form of subsidy being paif by the government on pms imports as NNPC either brings in these pms via their crude swap deals or theg access special rates from cbn to be able to meet the approved price. What the marketers has always insisted is simple, its either you allow us access forex at special rates via cbn or you take care of the difference between landing cost and the amount you want us retailing. That way we can join nnpc to import. Only time will tell what the government will do.

captainprogress:
My people, ordinary rice better pass stew. Be wise, which one Buhari don do.

Your comment is very unfortunate and portrays one who lacks milk of human kindness. Salary is not a priviledge, it is an ENTITLEMENT!

kokoA:
Lol. I miss opposition politics in Nigeria mehn. I remember the good old days of jibes like "drunken fisherman", “kindergarten president”, etc. You just have to give it Lai Mohammed the guy was good. Let's see what this guy can do. I wish him luck as he tries to fit into Lai's shoes.

Unfortunately that wasnt opposition. That was name calling and at some point denigrating the office of the president. Today Nigerians has taken cue from them and have developed more derogatory names for the president and guess what nobody sees anything wrong with it.

The military has denied the allegation of complicity in the reported killing of 29 persons, including women and children, in the Nkiedonwhro community of Plateau State. Rather, it said it was overwhelmed by the numerical strength and tactics of the attackers.

The spokesperson of Operation Safe Haven, Capt. Umar Adams, made the denial in an interview with The PUNCH in Jos on Wednesday.

The President of Rigwe Development Association, Sunday Abdu, had accused soldiers deployed in the area of complicity, saying, “The soldiers masterminded the killing; that was what happened. The people were at home when they heard gunshots. Some of them were assured by the soldiers of safety. Then, one of the soldiers told the ward head to follow them for protection. And he obliged, believing that the soldiers would give them safety.

“As this was going on, some young men, women and children were gathered in the classroom of a primary school. One of the young men refused to enter the classroom, insisting on staying with the soldiers. The person saw everything that happened.

“He saw some people in the bush giving signs with their hands to the soldiers. It was between 6:30 and 7:00 pm; he saw the hand as if it was calling some people. The boy told the soldiers, ‘See oo, there is somebody in the bush giving signals with his hands and he is a Fulani person.’’

‘‘He said that immediately after that, there was a gunshot and the soldiers advised residents to remain in the classroom while they (the soldiers) went for the attackers. He alleged that one of the soldiers signalled the assailants to attack.

 “That was how the execution was carried out,” he said.

But Adams disagreed with Abdu, insisting that the attackers were too many for them to curtail.

He said, “During the killings, there was gunshot exchange between our troops and the attackers. The attackers came en masse and they were shooting sporadically and the people in the village started running towards one of the bases where our men were deployed. That was when our men offered them safety in the classroom.

“But as those attackers were still advancing, our men had to repel them by engaging them in gunshots. But because it was dark and they were many in number, our men didn’t know that there were others who came from another direction. While our people were attacking those ones, others came from a different route and fired the people in the classroom. But to our greatest disappointment, people are pushing the blame on us.”

Adams claimed that the Fulani herdsmen wounded by the troops were assisted to escape by their colleagues after the exchange of gunfire.

 “When the attackers were firing at our people, our men were also firing back. Our people were able to shoot some of them; but because of their number, they were moving those who were wounded by our gunshots,” he said.

Adams also claimed that the base of OPSH in the area was destroyed because the soldiers tried to stop the protesting women from attacking the Fulani after the killing of a young man.

He said, “About two days earlier, there was tension the day some women in Rigwe community demonstrated because a boy was discovered dead. Out of their anger, they suspected that the Fulani people were responsible and decided to take a revenge on them.

“Our people intercepted them because our mandate is not to promote violence but to ensure that people live in peace. They wondered why soldiers stopped them from unleashing their anger on the suspects. When our boys were intercepting the ones trying to cause trouble, some of them moved out to scatter our checkpoints.”

http://punchng.com/plateau-killings-we-underestimated-number-of-attackers-says-military/

When you turn an instrument of state to a regional / personal tool, it's natural for the people to loose their confidence in it

Readonee35L:
That guy be talking trash.
He's updating this thread talking about the Good things he has done in helping the sick lady. I don't care if he is showing off as long he is doing something good.
There are lots of sick and mad people around you, which one have you helped today?
Humans are insatiable
If he didn't post about buying groceries for her, you guys will say he can't help the poor lady. But now he has and he's trying to let you know. Yet you call it show off.
U Wey no show off ? Who you help?

At the end you still miss the point cos you think it's a contest. I don't have to open a thread on nairaland and tell you how I went to woolworths and bought clothes to clothe the naked to prove to you am doing something for humanity, it's between me, my conscience and my creator. Growing up I was taught that when giving alms, do not let your right hand know what your left hand is doing, that is my guiding principle in alms giving.

You drove the dollar to #525 managed to bring it down to #360, which is still above what you met it at when you took over the reins of government and there you are, blowing your trumpet of achievement. Sometimes I loose the urge to criticise these guys and just feel pity for them