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For Fairness, Justice and Equity, the next governor of Edo state should come from Esan land. Lucky Igbinedion (Edo South) Oshiomole (Edo North) and Obaseki (Edo South). The only time Edo central got there, it was only for 18months and he was removed for Oshiomole. So, it is their turn to produce the next governor.

At Least three men have been arrested in connection with the murder of rapper Kiernan Forbes, known as AKA.

Police made the breakthrough on Sunday after monitoring the suspects during the course of the week.

According to a source close to the investigation into the rapper’s killing, the suspects were arrested in Cape Town and were in police custody.

They will be brought to Durban where they are expected to be charged.

Western Cape police spokesperson Colonel André Traut, when contacted for comment, referred questions about the arrest to the KwaZulu-Natal police.

“It is a KZN case, should we get any information, it will be sent to them. You should contact them for information,” he said. He would not confirm if the men were arrested in Cape Town.

KZN police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda also would not confirm the arrest.

“We have not received any update on the AKA case,” he said.

AKA and his friend Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane were gunned down in February on Florida Road in Durban.

The rapper was standing outside the Wish restaurant when a gunman walked up to him and shot him in the head. The rapper died instantly.

His assassination was captured on video and has been widely shared.

https://www.arise.tv/suspects-in-akas-shooting-reportedly-arrested-in-cape-town/

The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has claimed that Lagos State is not part of Yoruba land.

Akiolu’s statement is coming barely a week after he publicly humiliated the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi at an event.

In a statement from Akiolu’s palace, the monarch traced the historical background of the state and why it should not be regarded as part of Yoruba land.

The statement reads: “Coming from the palace, with what I was told by my late paternal grandmother who is a descendant of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi and also reading from factual Historical books, let me share this Knowledge with you all on Eko/Lagos.

“Modern day Lagos was founded by Prince Ado, the son of the Oba of Benin, Prince Ado was the first Oba of Lagos, the son of the Bini King, Prince Ado, named the town Eko until the Portuguese explorer Ruy de Segueira changed the Maritime town to Lagos, which at that time from 1942 was Portuguese expedition center down the African Coast.

“It was a major centre of the slave trade until 1851. Lagos was annexed by Britain via the Lagos treaty of cession in 1861, ending the consular period and starting the British Colonial Period. The remainder of modern day Nigeria was seized in 1886 when the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was established in 1914 Lagos was declared its capital due to the struggle of the Bini King.

“Lagos experienced growth prior to the British Colonial rule and even more rapid growth during the Colonial rule throughout the 1960s, 70s, continued through the 80s and 90s till date. Thanks to the Awori’s, Bini’s, Yoruba’s, migrants across the nation and world at large, as no particular group of people can take the glory alone.

“Lagos is made up of Lagoons and creeks. The Lagos lagoon, Lagos Harbour, five cowne creeks, Ebute-Metta creeks, Porto-Novo creeks, New canal, Badagry creeks, Kuramo waters and Light house creeks.

“The Awori’s and Bini’s are known to be the first settlers of the Eko land. The Awori’s are speakers of a distinct dialect close to that of the Yoruba language with a rich Bini mixture. Traditionally, Awori’s were found in Ile-Ife, they were known to be the Bini’s who followed their self-exiled Prince, the first son of the Ogiso (now called Oba) of Benin Kingdom, whose step-mother was after his head.

“The exiled Benin Prince Izoduwa known to the Yorubas as Ooduwa (Oduduwa) was made ruler of the Ife people due to his powers and followers from the Great Benin-Kingdom.

“Izoduwa (Ooduwa) was made the first King of Ile-Ife in 1230 AD. His followers from his father’s Kingdom in Benin are the today’s Awori people who settled in Eko now called Lagos.

“In the 1300, the King of Benin-Empire heard from one of his traders who was a settler in Eko on how the Bini’s were treated by the Awori’s who lived in their area. Upon hearing this, the King of Benin commanded the assembling of a war expedition, led by his son, Prince Ado, which headed the settlement of the Awori’s and demanded explanation.

“On arriving Eko, Prince Ado and his Army were more than received. The Aworis asked the Bini Prince to stay and become their leader. Ado agreed on the condition that they surrender their sovereignty to the Oba of Benin, to which the people agreed. Hearing this, the King of Benin gave his permission for Prince Ado and the expedition to remain in Eko.

“The Oba of Benin sent some of his chiefs including the Eletu, Odibo, Obanikoro and others to assist his son, Oba Ado in the running of Eko.

“From the crowing of Prince Ado as the first Oba of Lagos (then called Eko), Lagos served as a major center for slave trade from which the Aworis, the Oba of Benin and his son the Oba of Lagos and all the children/descendants who took over as his successors for over four centuries supported the trade.

“The Oba of Benin was the head of the Benin Empire which are the present day Western, Southern and Eastern modern day Nigeria. The King never obliged anyone to speak the Bini language as he believed everyone was entitled to their own choice of language.

“The name Eko was given to it by the first king of Lagos, Oba Ado, the young and vibrant Prince from Benin. Eko was the land now known as Lagos Island, where the king palace was built.

“The palace is called Idugaran meaning “palace built on pepper farm” Oba Ado and the warriors from Benin together with the early Bini’s settlers in Eko and the Awori people settled in the southern part of Eko called “Isale Eko”. “Isale literally means bottom “. Must have been used to indicate downtown (as in down town Lagos)

“Until the coming in of the Benin’s 1300AD , Lagos geographical boundary was Lagos mainland, Lagos Island, the seat of the Oba of Lagos then consisted of a pepper farm and fishing post. No one was living there.

“About 1450 AD some Yorubas who hailed from Isheri in Ogun-state and Ekiti were allowed by the King to settle in Eko during a war, they came in a very large numbers thereby surpassing the numbers of the Awori’s and Bini’s. (Hence Yorubas claim to own Eko due to their numbers).

“Oba Ado fell in love with a beautiful woman whose father was Awori and mother a daughter to one of the chief; they had two sons and also a daughter Erelu Kuti, who begot Ologun Kutere who later became King.”

The three states are seeking an interim injunction stopping the CBN from ending the timeframe within which the old notes will cease to be legal tender.
The Governments of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara have dragged the Federal Government to court over the Naira Redesign Policy that has led to biting cash crunch in the country.

What is happening: The three states are seeking an interim injunction stopping the CBN from ending the timeframe within which the old N200, N500, and N1000 notes will cease to be legal tender.

What they are saying: The plaintiffs said since the announcement of the policy, there has been an acute shortage in the supply of the new naira notes in Kaduna, Kogi, and Zamfara states, adding that citizens who have dutifully deposited their old currency notes have increasingly found it difficult and sometimes next to impossible to access the new notes for their daily activities.

What you should know: This development is coming after President Buhari met with APC Governors in Aso-rock last week demanding a 7 day period to find a solution to the cash crunch.

https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/breaking-el-rufai-matawalle-bello-drag-fg-to-court-over-new-naira/w7c89kh?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-2023-02-06

What is Kassim Afegbua saying? is Pat Utomi contesting for any position That guy is a political jobber.

There was a country........

Why will you tell him to keep quiet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ_HXfIKeX0



An average worker in Lagos spends at least 4 hours in traffic every day (e.g Ajah Traffic). This amounts to 20 hours a week and about 1,000 hrs in a year. That’s a lot of hours that could be invested. Thus, my question is how much of this time are you investing?

During the construction of the Jubilee Bridge at Ajah, there was a provision for alternative route through Ikota, I need to know what went wrong.....

Bello Bodejo, national president of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, says the association will not support a southern candidate for the presidency in 2023.

In an interview with The Sun, Bodejo said northerners manage the country better than their counterparts in the south.

“Even though Nigeria is one, we are not going to support a southerner as president. A president from the north is better because northerners are better managers of the nation than southerners,” he said.

“The north has demonstrated that there is no difference among them in the region. They don’t show this is Fulani, this is Hausa, and this is this and that, unlike in the south. Northern people have managed the country better than southerners.
“If your enemy asks you to join him to scatter your father’s house, can you support him to break your father’s house? You shouldn’t do that. But if he overshadows you and you help him to accomplish that, you would cry later.

“It will be very difficult for a southerner to manage Nigeria the way a northerner would. The northerners that are ruling or governing were trained by our leaders that ruled the country before.”

Bodejo also spoke on the grazing routes, adding that states should return areas earlier marked for reserves to herders.
RUGA is politicians’ language of politicians, while cattle colony is the language of people who want to eat government money. We have grazing reserves,” he said.

“All these governors, before they were born, we had these grazing reserves. Some were gazetted, while others were not.

“Why they don’t want to give us back the grazing reserves is what I don’t know. Last two weeks, the governor of Jigawa invited me to come and see the kind of grazing reserves they have and I spent five days visiting them.”

He also accused Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, of “playing politics with the Fulani”.


“Ortom wants to be a hero by force. After the end of his tenure, even to be a councillor in his village, he can’t get it. He is doing politics with the Fulani,” Bodejo said.

“He was the first person that called for the stoppage of Fulani from grazing their cattle, but we went to court to stop his evil plot and that is why he is running here and there, asking Buhari to declare Fulani organisations as terrorist groups.

“Which name has he not called Fulani? Nigerians should ignore him. He is a joker.”

https://www.thecable.ng/miyetti-allah-we-wont-support-southern-candidate-for-presidency-northerners-are-better-managers/amp

It's 3:pm not 4pm

What is this Gomina saying, does the ocean pass through Ogun state?

Na wa

Why is the federal government worried?? The masses are fine with the ban.

Very sad

Lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPG2JvrtJdQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxGkYBUCzx0

A federal capital territory (FCT) high court sitting in Apo, Abuja, has sentenced Farouk Lawan, former chairman of the federal house of representatives ad-hoc committee on fuel subsidy, to seven years imprisonment over the $3 million bribery charges preferred against him by the federal government.

Lawan was the chairman of the house of representatives ad hoc committee probing the multi-billion naira fuel subsidy fraud in 2012.

He was accused of demanding $3 million from Femi Otedola to remove Zenon Petroleum and Gas Limited (Otedola’s company) from the list of oil companies allegedly involved in the fuel subsidy fraud in 2012.

Lawan, who was arraigned on seven counts of bribery by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), was alleged to have collected $500,000 bribe from Otedola.

The charge was later amended to three counts.

Otedola, while giving evidence as the fifth prosecution witness, said the defendant had demanded $3 million from him with a threat to indict his company.

The businessman said he proceeded to report the issue to the DSS and was given $500,000 in marked notes. Also, the DSS had planted a camera in Otedola’s house.

https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-court-sentences-farouk-lawan-to-7-years-in-prison-over-3m-bribe

Even his most rabid critics could not have imagined that he would reduce Nigeria to a failed state Six years Muhammadu Buhari has achieved the feat with outstanding ease, as the county has, literally and factually, become one whose defining dynamic is anarchy unbound in all its terrifying ramifications.
As the country steadily dissolves into unrelenting chaos, the president, who's really not a president, continues to channel Emperor Nero of the ancient Roman Empire, who cruelly fiddled while his beautiful capital city was burning.
Buhari has made our worst nightmare about him come true.
Those who really knew him had always readily bracketed his name with incompetence and parochialism. But none of them could have thought that Nigeria would become an expansive killing field, painted with the blood of thousands of innocent Nigerians, under his ill-starred, befuddled leadership.
Back in 2015 during his first inauguration as president he had declared that "l belong to no one, and I belong to everybody." That declaration was tangibly hollow even then, which made the inherent falsehood most galling.
Those were not his words because they never came from his heart. They sounded good and noble, and projected a false determination to be a leader of all Nigerians. They were woven into his address to reinforce the myth that he was truly a changed man. One whose notorious dictatorial instincts had morphed to some grudging acceptance, if not admiration of the beauty of democracy despite its inherent flaws.
But he has since been found out, not by those who knew him, but those who had elevated him to the status of a messiah who would come to rescue and regenerate Nigeria. They have lost patience with his unapologetic fealty to crude nepotism and extreme nativism, as he has presided over the diminution of the country in every respect.
To be fair to him, he never pretended to be, or pronounced himself a messiah. Those who sold his candidacy and swore that he was the answer to our problems, particularly insecurity and corruption, tagged him as the messiah. To every legitimate question about his capabilities and preparedness for the office, they had a robust riposte: “'Is that the issue? It doesn’t matter.”
What mattered more to them was ending the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan whom the then leading opposition party, APC, had, through brilliant propaganda, tarred as “clueless” and, therefore, didn't merit another term in office.
Nonetheless, Buhari basked in the glow of his elevation and celebration as a god. Even the man, who affects the air of asceticism, wasn't immune to the Irresistible draw of intoxicating flattery.
As we all now know, the god has been disrobed. Aso Rock has never hosted a messiah since May 29, 2015, and won't host any in the next two very challenging years of Buhari’s presidency. Ironically, as the country is drowning in despair and desperation and his star has dimmed considerably, that of the man he succeeded hasn’t stopped rising and glowing.
With his messianic complex stripped bare by his own catastrophic failings as president, the Buhari we see is irredeemably ugly. One who's mortgaged his presidency to the defense and protection of Fulani militants of all stripes. He speaks for them. He pampers them. He even bribes them with multi-billion naira schemes like RUGA (rural grazing areas) and National Livestock Transformation Plan.
He's proven beyond any doubt that those noble words he proclaimed at his first inauguration were alien to him. He's president of only those he identifies with, and who see him as exclusively their own. How else could Miyetti Allah be so emboldened to constantly stoke the fires of ethnic strife and threaten anyone who stands in their way without even a mild tap on the wrist by the presidency?
Just months after he uttered those words that excited the faithful and gave false hope to the borderline sceptics, he disowned them. At a media briefing during one of his foreign trips, he complained of the unfairness of being required to treat all Nigerians equally. He said he shouldn't be expected to treat 'those who gave me 97 percent support like those who gave five percent'. It was at that moment the real Buhari emerged again, and he's never looked back since then.
As more and more Nigerians, disgusted by his utter lack of leadership in any sense of the term, round up on him, he's retreated further and further into himself. Occasionally, he emerges from his cocoon for photo-ops with local and foreign dignitaries and to meet with some of his officials. He doesn't live with us or among us. He lives above us, splendidly ensconced in his intellectual and moral vacuity. No one can seriously argue anymore against the overwhelming evidence of his failure and unfitness for the office he had craved for so long. The country is being held hostage by viral insecurity to which the federal government has no solution. The economy is in complete shambles. And corruption is now flying supersonically. All we hear from the presidency are numbing platitudes about intention with no effective, remedial actions to stem the country's implosion on all fronts.
Buhari and his party promised 'change' in 2015 and 'next level' of the same change in 2019. But what we've got in the last six years is all-round regression and more of the president's debilitating inertia and deplorable incompetence. His lack of any serious engagement with the challenges that have powered the country to the valley of a failed state, has continued to plumb new embarrassing depths. And there's no reprieve in sight for a despoiled nation and his battered people.
"We're bleeped!", as one prominent Nigerian said in exasperation after he met with the president in 2017 and came out completely deflated and alarmed by his remoteness and poor mental capacity.
So as we assess the last six arid contemplate the next two years of the government Nigeria has ever had, we can only hope it survives all the mortal blows being ceaselessly inflicted on it.
And Nigerians don 't ever forget to learn useful lessons from the sad chronicles of the failed 'messiah'.
Any nation that has the misfortune of being led by an insular, mendacious president with a provincial mindset inevitably ends up in existential crises, as Nigeria has experienced in the past six years. President Barack Obama had warned, "elections have consequences." Nigeria is today a clear manifestation of that timeless maxim.

https://tell.ng/wikitell/the-sad-chronicles-of-a-failed-messiah/?amp

On the 14th of January 2020, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, gave a ruling that set aside Governorship of Emeka Ihedioha. The same ruling declared Hope Uzodinma as the Governor.

Indeed, many Imolites were unhappy about the Apex Court's decision, however, the ruling of the Supreme Court is irreversible and this fact was reiterated, when Honourable Emeka Ihedioha and his lawyers applied to the Supreme Court, for a review of it's decision.
You may recall that Uche Nwosu(Rochas In-law) was screened out of the APC gubernatorial primaries, but was reinstated by the Supreme Court as the legitimate APC candidate for the 2019 Governorship election. However, Uche Nwosu had already moved to Action Alliance(a new political party), where he was given the Governorship ticket. This situation is called dual candidacy, disqualifies the candidate.

According to the Electoral Act, dual candidacy is prohibited and in the eyes of the Law, both the APC and AA did not have a legitimate candidate for the elections.

In view of this fact, Barrister Philip Umeadi has gone to a Federal High Court, praying the Court to interpret the Supreme Court's ruling that declared Uche Nwosu as the legitimate representative of the APC, but later on declared Hope Uzodinma(another APC candidate)as governor.
The date for the hearing of this case is yet to be communicated to the public, however, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha's supporters remain hopeful that this court case will work in their favour, as the disqualification of the APC candidates by the Court, may automatically make the PDP candidate (Hon. Emeka) the next in line for governorship.

In the end, Justice will prevail.