ivolt:
@ mathinips
What the commissioner did is horrible enough, did you have to add a fake headline to it?
Now, people won't take you seriously since the content does not support the headline

Fake headline?
I don't get you
Please listen to the girl in the video. She said she was beaten and taken to an hotel and raped.

Kogi Commissioner beats, strips naked Elizabeth over Facebook post.

It has gotten to my knowledge that the Kogi state’s Commissioner for Water Resources Mr. Abdulmumuni Danga physically and sexually assaulted Ms Elizabeth (going by the Facebook profile Queen NiNa) for a post she made on Facebook days ago.

This despicable commissioner went as far as stripping Elizabeth naked and making a video which he threatened would be leaked to the public if she failed to tender an apology; which she did under duress.

All these was done in the presence of her 3 year old son.

Mr. Danga has without a doubt not only caused graved grave emotional trauma to Elizabeth but has committed crimes of battery, assault and infringed upon her fundamental rights to dignity as provided for by chapter IV of the Nigerian constitution.

I hereby call on all good people of Kogi state and Nigeria at large especially women; to join forces to seek justice for Elizabeth and her 3 year old son.

The accomplices to this crime are:

1. Nasir Muhammed Ameer ( whose phone was used to record Elizabeth’s unclothedness).

2. Anaks Nikitand

3. Ozi_anty (a local commedian)

The Nigeria Police Force , Human Rights Watch , Human Rights and every other organisation charged with the protection of human rights and criminal violations of such are hereby appealed to intervene, arrest and punish all those implicated in this offence.

Thank you
Natasha H Akpoti
SDP Gubernatorial Candidate
Kogi state

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=235658067818819&id=112946530089974

Video interview
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=236881491029810&id=112946530089974

ASUU Education Support Initiative

Academic Staff Union ASUU Lokoja branch, meeting not to declare strike but to assist students who are facing challenges with their finances.

Idea which started in 2018, is aimed at assisting students and to benefit the students need to pass through some levels of tests.

This is to change the wrong narrative of the public about ASUU, who believe all ASUU know is strike. This is a social responsibility from members of ASUU. The source of funding is from contributions deducted from member's salary every month.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY2hS7_-Tsc

Hon. Leke Abejide mourns late Hajiya Hauwau, mother of Gov Yahaya Bello

The Member Representing Yagba Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Leke Abejide has sent his condolences to the Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello, over the home calling of his beloved mother Hajia Hauwau Bello.

In a statement made available to newsmen, the lawmaker described the late Hajiya as a wonderful woman who lived a life of dignity and honor.

The statement reads: “I am deeply saddened to hear about the death of the mother of our Governor. She was a wonderful woman, who lived a life of honour and dignity.

“My heartfelt condolences to His Excellency Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello, the Executive Governor of Kogi State on the demise of the mother Hajia Hawa Bello.

“She has left a big vacuum in the family and the society at large. At this trying time, I pray that the family she left behind will be consoled by Allah who gives and take at his will.

“My condolences to the Governor and his family, she will surely be missed by family and loved ones; May her memories bring comfort to you and may Allah grant her Aljanah Firdausi.”

“Accept my heartfelt consolations.” he said.

http://bignews.insidestoryng.com/2020/03/15/hon-leke-abejide-mourns-late-hajiya-hauwau-mother-of-gov-yahaya-bello/

AGF, Amaechi, Kebbi, Yobe governors visit Bello over mother's death

Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, Yobe State Governor, Mai-Mala Buni and his Kebbi State counterpart, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu have paid a condolence visit to Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello over the death of his mother.

Governor Bello's mother, Hajia Hauwau Oziohu Bello died on Sunday at the age of 101 after a brief illness.

The four personalities were amongst the early dignitaries that visited the governor at the hospital following the death.
The governor had earlier announced the death of his mother in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen by his Chief Press Secretary, Onogwu Muhammed.
"With total submission to the will of Allah, on behalf of the family of Alhaji Bello Ipemida Ochi, We regret to announce the passing away of our matriarch ,Hajia Hauwau Oziohu Bello who answered the call of Allah this evening after a brief illness.

"We are relieved that her passing was peaceful and painless. Her funeral will be held on Monday, 16th of March, 2020 by 10am at her residence in Nagazi, Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State in accordance with Islamic rites.
"Until her death, she was aged 101 and survived by children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and many adopted children", Bello said in the statement.

Onogwu Muhammed
CPS to the Governor

ANNOUNCEMENT!
INNA LILLAHI WAINNA ILLAIHI RAJI’UN



With total submission to the will of Allah, on behalf of the family of Alhaji Bello Ipemida Ochi, We regret to announce the passing away of our matriarch ,Hajia Hauwau Oziohu Bello who answered the call of Allah this evening after a brief illness.

We are relieved that her passing was peaceful and painless. Her funeral will be held on Monday, 16th of March,2020 by 10am at Her resident in Nagazi, OKENE Local Government Area of Kogi State in accordance with Islamic rites.

Until her death, she was aged 101 and survived by children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and many adopted children.

Signed:
Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello (Son)
Executive Governor, Kogi State
For the family

It saddens my heart when I go through any Christian related post and find out we have more Christian commenting or posting degenerative word about a faith they profess to believe in.

Other religions don't wash their dirty linen outside like Christians. We are missing it or let me say we really missed it in the last decade. We became enemy of the faith within.

I pray in the year 2020's we will come to a round table and focus on soul winning rather than Christian faith and personality assassination.

May God guide us all

miniziter:
I can't praise any governor in his first tenure.

You better appreciate him. If you have a governor like Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, you will appreciate a governor that choose to perform in any of the terms.

You should understand that in Nigeria way of government if they decide not to perform there is less you can do. You can only grumble, come next election the power to elect is not in your hand, because they will go ahead and rig and nothing will happen

Yoruba said in the land of the blind a one eye person is the king

When we lack good leaders, all we get in Nigeria is selfish bigot as leaders. So if we have one who is not we should be happy, there is hope for future Nigeria.

Kudos GSM. I pray God sustain you till the end of your terms

Gaddafithe2nd:
For paying salaries and wages. Paying workers' salaries is not an achievement.

yarimo:
in your dreams abi?

That's why Nigeria will still be far from being good, when you people's selfishness will never allow a good person with antecedent to rule Nigeria

Zoo indeed

Things that didn’t exist 20 years ago:
iPhone
Facebook
YouTube
Twitter
Instagram
Android
iPad
Gmail
Netflix streaming
Wikipedia
Google Maps
Amazon Prime
App Store
SpaceX
Reddit
Snapchat
Skype
Spotify
Airbnb
Uber
Xbox
Waze
iTunes
Hashtag
Chrome
Tesla
Bitcoin
LinkedIn
I wonder what will come into existence in the next 20 years.
As we move into 2020, think of bridging the generational gap, and innovative ideas that could localise global trends or policies.

Add innovative things you wish to see in the next 20 years

Forwarded:
SAHEED ADEKILEKUN:
I have read this and feel the piece is very educative on the subject of ASUU and IPPIS. Please read to the end.

THE MISCONCEPTION OF ASUUS POSITION ON IPPIS

It is no longer news that there is a brewing war between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Academic Staff Union of Universities on IPPIS. The former insists that the latters members must be captured on the platform of the IPPIS if they wish to receive salaries henceforth. ASUU says no based on some fundamental issues while the FGN believes that ASUU is guilty of insubordination. The stage is thus set for a clash of the titans.
In view of the above scenario, I wish to explain certain things the way I understand them. First and foremost, I wish to explain Academic Freedom and University Autonomy based on the proceedings of the International Conference on Academic Freedom and University Autonomy held in Sinaia, Romania, from 5 to 7 May 1992. The Conference was organized by CEPES, the UNESCO European Center for Higher Education, the Standing Conference of Rectors, Presidents, and Vice-Chancellors of the European Universities (CRE), the National Rectors' Conference of Romania (NRCR), and the Romanian National Commission for UNESCO, in cooperation with the Council of Europe. The conference brought together some 180 distinguished scholars, including representatives of international organizations, from about 30 countries.

After thorough debates, the participants in the Conference all agreed that:
a university is the repository of truth, be it historical, cultural, or scientific; it is the place where minds, embarking on the quest for truth, meet and clash in pursuit of this ideal. Minds so-fashioned are the individual carriers and transmitters of past and future thought, of tradition, and of innovation. The university, by its very nature, is the collective mind that bears the truth of all who pass through it, continuously revising and improving scientific knowledge and concepts in a climate of and according to the principle of truthfulness. It is the place where the scholarly elite, the critical intellectual mind of a society, takes shape, discards obsolete findings, and affirms and reassesses other interpretations of truth. In order to function as a hotbed of knowledge, a university must benefit from and respect a number of basic norms of conduct. Although not a fundamental human right; academic freedom is a basic university right. Academics must be free to choose what they will put forward in their teaching, research, or publications. Academic freedom is the freedom of individual academics to follow a particular path of intellectual conception and activity within particular higher education institutions. The second crucial institutional right of a higher education institution is university autonomy. It is the right to fully exercise and practice academic freedom and self-government with regard to internal activities. It is the right of a university to be free of interference by the state and by any other external power as regards its operations and affairs. (https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000092770 accessed 28 November, 2019)

Back home in Nigeria, there are provisions guiding the operations of universities. There is the Principle of University Autonomy as enshrined in section 2AA of the Universities Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Act 2003 which states that:

"The powers of the Council shall be exercised, as in the law and statutes of each university and to that extent, establishment circulars that are inconsistent with the laws and statutes of the university shall not apply to the universities.
Section 2AAA of the same Act states:
“(1) The Governing Council of a university shall be free in the discharge of its functions and exercise of its responsibilities for the common management, growth and development of the university.
"(2) The council of a university in the discharge of its functions shall ensure that disbursement of funds of the university complies

the approved budgetary ratio for:
(a) Personnel costs;
(b) Overhead costs;
(c) Research and development;
(d) library development; and
(e) The balance in expenditure between academic vis-à-vis non-academic activities.

"For example, the 1992 Act of the University of Abuja expressly states in Section 6: Functions of the Council and its Finance and General Purposes Committee:
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act relating to the Visitor, the Council shall be the governing body of each university and shall be charged with the general control and superintendence of the policy, finance and property of the university including its public relations. There shall be a committee of the Council to be known as the Finance and General Purposes Committee, which shall, subject to the directions of the Council, exercise control over the property and expenditure of the university and perform such other functions of the Council as the Council may, from time to time, delegate to it".

Going through the above objectively will make any unbiased reader understand the position of ASUU better. It is said that people will revolt when they have nothing to lose but their chains. There are peculiarities in universities and that is why it is called the ivory tower. We should look beyond ethnic, political and religious affiliations in this issue. It is a procedural as well as systemic issue. Let us look beyond PMB. The resistance is never against him.

Some people say that ASUU is selfish. I do not understand what they mean by that. In 1992, when Professor Jega was the ASUU president, he took on IBB on the funding of university education. IBB said that there was no money and Jega and his team came up with a proposal that multi-national companies and industries should be made to pay a percentage of their yearly profits for the development of education. It was called education trust fund. The government implemented the proposal and she realised a lot of money which she distributed to primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in the country. It is now called TETfund. No public university can survive in Nigeria today if we remove TETfund. The major thing the government does for universities now is the payment of salaries. Apart from this, you can talk of Needs Assessment which may not be more than two buildings per university.

Some other people ask, How can employees tell their employers how they should be paid? This is having a misconception about governance. No Dangotes employee can tell him how he is to be paid. The government oversees our collective wealth. Nigeria is not a company. We should stop seeing those who manage our collective wealth as people doing us a favour. It is a very wrong mentality. That is why we always send emissaries to our Governors to thank them whenever they perform duties they promise to perform during campaigns and are elected to perform. This makes them have a false sense of grandeur instead of seeing us as their employers.

Others say that in the developed world, where universities enjoy autonomy, the universities generate the money with which they run the universities. That is why they believe that ASUU should not talk about autonomy. I wish to ask them these questions: Doesnt National Assembly have autonomy? Do they generate their own money? What about the Judiciary and the likes? Moreover, education is a social service which government renders. If we say universities must become income generating institutions I wonder how many children will have access to university education.

As you read this, the National Assembly is neither on TSA nor being captured on IPPIS platform. Let us forget the fact that some of them may not meet our expectations but their autonomy is sacrosanct for the growth of our democracy. If the autonomy is taken away we will become a banana republic.

The Army is not on IPPIS. The Navy is not on it. The DIC is not there. NDDC is not there. Why the hues and cries about those who need autonomy most? When they talk of the cream of any society they talk about universities and other

institutions. Some may say what about other professionals? Other professionals are equally produced by the same institutions whose autonomy ASUU is fighting to protect.

Out of lack of adequate information, some say ASUU is selfish. According to such people, they are selfish because they want to be visiting two universities and be collecting double salary! They say further that ASUU members go on sabbatical when they collect more money for doing nothing. Some others say that instead of those Professors working up to 70 years they should retire normally at 35 or 60 on the account of service and age respectively.

I wish to explain the above misconceptions to a layman. Visiting other universities means that you go and teach there at least twice a month. You are paid 50% of the basic salary you receive in your place of primary employment. You cannot visit if your rank is below Senior Lecturer. And to become a senior lecturer you must have gone through the ranks of a GA, AL, L2& L1. So how many lecturers do you think can partake in the so called visiting?

Sabbatical is almost always for the Associate Professors and Professors and sometimes Senior Lecturers. This is because of the fact that it is the professorial cadre that is in short supply. Moreover, you can only go on sabbatical once in seven years. How many seven years do you think we can get in the service years of someone who is a Senior Lecturer or a Professor?

On the retirement age, tertiary institutions are not like where they deal with files and the stuff like that. They are places where people do specialised intellectual work. You can compare them to lawyers who have to read till they drop dead. They are not places where you retire people whose places can hardly be filled at the age of 60. They are the people who carry out researches to better the lots of the society. In fact, in developed world, university Dons rarely retire. It is not because they like money but because they are not tired of moulding the young minds. We say lecturers should retire at 60 but they can be senator at 80! It is very funny. For our information, Nigerian lecturers are the least paid and the least remunerated in the world. You can take this claim to the bank. Outside Nigeria, even in African universities, the templates they use are straightforward. Each cadre has a number of hours to teach per session. Anything above that is calculated as excess work load. However, it is not calculated like that in Nigeria. That is why we have brain drain in the country. And our politicians are the highest paid in the world. What an irony! A professor in Nigeria, after many years of reading and research, does not go home with ₦500,000!

The IPPIS does not make provisions for external examiners for PhD and other postgraduate students. It does not make provision for the payment of External assessors for promotions to the ranks of associate professors and professors. There is no provision for casual staff such as cleaners and gardeners who keep the environment clean. There is no provision for adjunct and part time lecturers who are professionals in their field but could not take full time appointment because they are already working elsewhere. There is no provision for international experts who would want to come from world recognised universities to come and establish new programs in our universities and share their wealth of experience with us. There is no provision for post graduate supervision which has been completely removed from the IPPIS platform. All these are against the norms in universities world over. The government insists that the universities use internally generated revenues to cater for all the above. That means the universities are to increase fees that are already difficult for many students to afford except children of those who have access to free money.
ASUU is not asking for total autonomy as it is. The universities are administered by Governing Councils constituted by the President. The members are appointed by the President with Vice Chancellors and Registrars as members

d secretaries respectively. ASUU has just two people representing it through the senate of a university. This is to show that the control of universities is still in the hand of the President who is the Visitor to those universities. What ASUU is asking for is a template that captures the peculiarities of universitys operations and to be so controlled by the organs stipulated and recognised for the purpose by the relevant act and not by the office of a civil servant. If we claim that we do not think that ASUU has a case it means we are not being fair and objective.

The university is the only constituency in this country whose members do not defend wrong things. When a staff violates a rule, he or she is shown the way out. ASUU will never defend erring members. ASUU condemns whatever sane people condemn. University Professors have been serving as Returning Officers during elections. We always say look at this professor who is expected to be independent! What do you think will happen if their salaries are to be paid from a single platform being controlled by the office of a civil servant? Think about it.

It is good to fight corruption and a greater percentage of workers in our universities are in support of the fight against corruption. If not for the fight against corruption the salaries we are talking about now wouldnt have been there anymore. However, we cannot cut our nose to spite our face. We should not look at ASUU from a greedy perspective. It is the only voice we have now. It is the only union that has refused to allow ethnicity, politics and religion to polarize it. If it allows ethnicity, politics or religion to polarize it the northern universities should be supporting the enrolment by now. When we talk about them we should do so with consideration. We should not have pictures of only the bad eggs. We should have pictures of those whom God used to make us what we are, and to some extent, make us who we are. We should note that many of them are parts of the struggle to liberate Nigeria and Nigerians and they are here with us even on this Ayo Ojeniyis wall.

Thank you and do have a wonderful week.

THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE TO ALL OF US, Senator Dino Melaye!


Today is, indeed, a sad day for me and for lovers of true democracy in Nigeria. I have just lost the biggest voice at the National Assembly through the combination of evil collaboration and conspiracy.

Now, let's face it, Senator Dino may not be liked by Nigerians who do not have a good knowledge of Parliament in a democracy and the notion of separation of powers, but easily condemned from the angle of partisanship and the fact that he stood up to challenge executive despotism at all times. That's a slap on the face of their idol.

Dino may be flashy, may be flamboyant, and may not dress as 'distinguished' as you expected at a time he was actually supposed to be casual, sporty and 'swaggy' BUT he operates within the ambit of his rights. That's his personal life to live.

His duties in the Senate of Federal Republic of Nigeria are exactly what is expected of any true lawmaker anywhere in the world: Lawmaking, Representation and Oversight. In all these, he performed more than the best Senator of any of his traducers. He sponsored several Bills and moved the most result yielding Motions in the Senate.

Senator Dino has positively touched the lives of EVERY Nigerian with his gallant carriage in the conduct of his parliamentary obligations of REPRESENTATION & OVERSIGHT. He scored an average of distinction. He spoke for me, he spoke for you and for your family, whether one loved him or hate him.

When Benue was ravaged by the incursion of herdsmen killings, he spoke first. His voice was so resonant in the House that the floor of the Senate was vibrating. The Motion was passed and the executive reacted. He did this even before National Assembly members of Benue state decided to follow suit. That's clean representation.

Year in year out, it was Senator Dino who always drew our attention to the abnormalities of the budget proposed by the Executive where bags of rice, cutlery, diesel, generators and building of gate house are pegged at the rates higher than the cost price of limousines. That's perfect oversight.

When CG of Customs proposed a new Customs policy that threatened to impose custom duties on ALL cars in Nigeria bought from car dealers, it was the Motion moved by Senator Dino that struck down that tyranny by reminding the Customs that Nigerians cannot be held responsible for the irresponsibility of their officers who took bribe to allow these millions of vehicles in.

When the Federal Road Safety Commission issued a controversial directives in respect of double charges for issuing number plates, Senator Dino stood up and spoke for all of us, and the matter was rested.

When Mr. President was mouthing integrity as the catchword of his government, it was Senator Dino who discovered that the former SGF Babachir Lawal, was cornering hundreds of millions under a phantom contract garnished with beautiful English: MANUAL REMOVAL OF EVASIVE PLANT SPECIE. Just to weed out grass by hand in a small portion of an IDP camp oo! It was also Senator Dino who discovered the hundreds of billions expended on NNPC contracts indicting the former NNPC GMD, the president's chief of staff and other cronies, in a contract that was not appropriated by the National Assembly.

For his constituency projects, Dino has a huge number of hospitals, schools, electric power projects, roads, bridges, halls, solar water projects, spread all across his senatorial district. In the Senate, he doesn't miss a sitting. He had the highest number of attendance in plenary and committee sittings more than any other Senator.

In his core mandate of a Legislator, Senator Dino scored an untainted distinction. And that is his nature. Thus, if he was in the US Senate, British Parliament, Israeli Knesset, he would have invariably been the best and could have spent as long number of years as he wanted.

Cynics and traducers may laugh over the fall of Senator Dino by the combination of the menace of hate, evil and conspiracy. But truth is, it is not his fall. It is our fall. It is the fall of a loud voice for the people. It is the rise of robotics parliament. It is the fall of our institutions of government and the debauchery in the system as exemplified by INEC, Police, Military, NYSC, Academics, etc. And the rise of thuggery, malfeasance, killings, arson, rituals, evil manipulations and state gangsterism against individuals. It is a seed that we may all eat at our own time. It is the institutionalisation of Hobbesian principles as the minimum standard for our elections and statecraft.

To Senator Dino Daniel Melaye, all I pray and crave for is, may God give you the power, the grace, the candour and the wisdom to surmount these challenges. As I take my exit, I'd leave you with the concluding words of Fidel Castro while addressing the oppressive Cuban system at Santiago, Cuba, on October 16, 1953:
"I know that (it) will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear...as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of... my comrades. Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me!"

*A CALL TO ALL STAFF AND STUDENTS OF KSU TO VOTE FOR ENGR. MUSA WADA*

*By: Mrs. Jamilat Oiza*

A section of graduates of Kogi State University, KSU, have called upon all graduates, students and staff of Kogi state University, Anyigba, to unanimously vote for Engr. Musa Wada in the Kogi state Gubernatorial election coming up on Saturday 16th of November, 2019.
The call was made at a well attended meeting of the Lokoja chapter of the members of the KSU Alminini association.
In a statement by the spokesperson for the Lokoja chapter of the association, Mrs Jamilat Oiza, listed several reasons why Governor Yahaya Bello must not be voted by any one that has the love of KSU at heart.
According to the Political science graduate, GYB has turned her almamata into a fertile ground for grooming notorious cultist the implication of which manifested with the killing of 13 young students and her cousin, a female student who was unfourtunate to be with her male friend at his lodge and died of Gun shot wound from the cultist last weekend.
According to the visibly angry Jamilat, "can you imagine my former lecturer, Dr. Usman Ogbo, going around grooming students as political thugs under the auspices of emerging leaders forum thereby abandoning his primary responsibilities of research, teaching and community service?
What was GYB thinking when he terminated the appointment of over 100 lecturers mainly Doctors and professors? Where has that ever happened before if his intention is not to close down the University.
Undergraduates are now forced to pay for marks even without writing a single word on their exam scripts. Was that the intention of late prince Audu who started the University or late Professor FS Idachaba who worked tirelessly then to place the name of the University on the world map?" At the mention of both names, she started shedding tears. She continued by saying, a graduate of KSU now have to wait for two years before being Mobilised for national youth service.
Female students are forced against their will to give their body to lecturers to pass exams and where reports with evidence are made, the authorities look the other way by saying they can't act without the go ahead from the Government represented by Dr. Usman Ogbo.
Instead of taking proper steps and actions to help redeem the image of the school, the students and we the Graduates, all GYB could do was to say he is renaming the University as if the problem of the KSU is with the name. It was at that point she ended by saying "we have resolved to ask all KSU students, graduates, parents and anybody who has anything to do with the university or have the love of KSU at heart to vote out GYB and vote in Dr. Engr. Musa Wada next Saturday. A press release will be made to that effect.

Like Osinbajo, like Gbajabiamila* - Lasisi Olagunju*

.....The tragedy of humans in power is that they ignore endgame signs and refuse to make quick amends. You have been reading or hearing stories about Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the picture of his today in the Villa. Are you asking questions about what tomorrow will bring for this principal and his beneficiaries? George Orwell answered that query a long time ago with his most haunting statement: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”

Last Friday, I read Speaker of the House of Representatives sulking that his words were not law before our service chiefs. His House of Representatives summoned the generals and those ones respectfully sent some guys to go listen to the House for them. The generals apparently knew where real power resides in this democracy – not in a House lacking rocky, steely stuffs. By now, the legislature is supposed to be educated well enough to know that no service chief would waste his precious time facing cold fires from a captured overlord. The parliament in a real democracy is the most powerful. We’ve seen it in action in Britain since the Brexit struggle started. You can’t sell the powers you have and still wield them. Mr Winston Churchill once deplored persons whose “insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.” A Sango priest who cannot ‘send down the rains’ with a full complement of lightening and thunder is a fake. Mr Mamman Vatsa at his 1986 trial said so many immortal things in a few words. One of those things I took away forever from his speech is: “The day you start mocking yourself, others will join you.”

Gbaja did not like the fact that the House enjoys very lean respect outside its chambers. With his rain-beaten colleagues around him, he felt very little and inadequate and wailed. He lamented and hit his egg head against the wall wailing that he would report the generals to the president. That sounded like some weak orphan whose bean cake (akara) had just been wantonly snatched by the village bully. He reminded me of the ‘I-will-tell-my-father’ stuff of those spineless days. If the speaker can’t speak and be respected, can’t he just fold his arms and hang them on his head? Or is he too Lagos and too removed from Yorubaness to know that a kite that is scared of chickens has no right or claim to that name?

............

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo interests me a lot. Since May 2015, he has been the very willing courier of all manner of menial messages and executor of curious tasks for his boss and his boys. He also enjoyed the smoothness of everything with his special caste of pious Pentecostals. Suddenly last week, his skies appeared rent and it has since been raining everything unpleasant on his office’s leaky roof. Then, he attended a burial in Ekiti on Friday and chose to talk about ‘saboteurs’ and ‘fifth columnists’ wrecking his boss’ government. When I read a sitting Vice President blaming ‘fifth columnists’ for his government’s success in entrenching failure, I said, yes, we are getting there. If that term “fifth columnist” had come from a failed school certificate holder, I would have said maybe he did not know that he was peeing right into his own bedroom. But it was a professor of law who used the term. He cannot, therefore, be heard pleading ignorance of the fact that the term refers to the mortal enemy within.

Fifth columnists, wherever they exist, are chinks in the armour of the king and all around him. Someone describes the fifth column as the “inner front.” The 1936 Siege of Madrid where that term came from is a story of war, death and preemption. Who was Osinbajo reporting the “saboteurs and fifth columnists” to? At what point did he become aware of their existence in the Buhari government? A leader is not enthroned to lament in supine helplessness. Bertolt Brecht wrote that a leader “cannot be arraigned for declaring a war…but only for running a war badly.” A sitting vice president has no business crying out about an enemy within. If he lacks the power to deal with that known foe, then let his eagle drop his feathers, talons and beak. They are useless to him and his tribe.

National politics in Nigeria is a deadly market of ravenous birds. Kites, vultures, hawks and eagles are the investors in blue chip Nigeria. If you would survive here, better be the eagle and perch at the very top, safe and deadly. The eagle is the worry of all other birds of danger – that is the wisdom the North has right from the beginning of Nigeria. There are talks down South that almost all southerners who served as number two to northern presidents had gory tales to tell. This appears to receive a nod from history. But is it also not true that these southern victims of northern power game had at the height of their glory sold their souls to alien gods? They always snub their sources thinking the sweet festival in Abuja would never end. They forget that puppeteers never really set free their toy to be man and manly. The North is the soaring hawkish eagle of power. It forever keeps what it has while cooing southern captives to use their indentured fingers to fetch, from infernal hell, chestnuts of power.

I take what a fan of this column from the Hausa Fulani North recently exchanged with me. He had reacted sharply to what he described as my tendency to see the North as Nigeria’s sole illness. We had a back-and-forth argument on this point, then he dropped this:

“Perhaps I should have told you of my appreciation of the tolerance level of southern Nigerians. There’s no doubt that the North treats the south like a ‘conquered territory’. Almost everything has to be on her terms. The insensitivity embedded in Buhari’s appointment would have resulted to a serious crisis in the country if any southern president dared it. I know much of your tolerance is due to your level of education, exposure and cosmopolitan orientation and also our (un)civil war experience. However, I think your docility in the South is giving armour to the northern elite for the brazen display of hubris, arrogance and lack of respect for Nigerian laws and the constitution. And if you don’t rise up and check it, it could snowball in total recolonisation of the South. I know that the South is fractured politically. The Yoruba vs Igbo; Igbo vs South South and so on. This serves well the northern elite.”

He spoke the truth and I knew. The North is the masquerade which spends others’ money; the chameleon that clads itself in others’ clothes. But it is also true that the northern political elite have succeeded this far because they do not sell their region while groveling before temporal power. They have their eyes on the ball all the time. Think 2023!

I enjoy reading social media posts of the Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai. His kite does not snatch chicks in secret; he does it right in the market place. He is not like the other so-called cabal in the Villa whose strength is in their voiceless anonymity. El-Rufai’s posts are windows to his mindset and his mind’s workings. With him, you know where you stand on any issue. He is definitely not a coward who shoots his arrows heavenwards and runs for cover. Two days ago, in the midst of the Osinbajo storm, he posted on Twitter and Facebook a stuff which he called Saturday Wisdom: “The moment the masquerade begins to think he is God, the masquerade will be unmasked and reduced to be a laughing stock that is lower than a human being.” The glove appears off; the fight looks set to be bare-knuckle. The governor added that what he posted was a “Yoruba Proverb.” Why el-Rufai chose a “Yoruba proverb” to teach wisdom on a wet, stormy Saturday morning, I do not know. The cold reason should be known to him alone and maybe to his Yoruba teachers. Proverbs in Yorubaland are used like Fulani sticks to beat the errant back home. Sometimes the sticks hit the market mud to soil anyone close enough to receive portions of the sticky stuff. That is what el-Rufai has done. He mentioned no one – named no names but the subject of his taunt and threat should take heed and prepare for the sacrifice of unclothedness. But did he look in the mirror as he typed those words?

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Another warns every masquerader to use the ancestral costume wisely and with modest wickedness. The masked one who whips the crowd beyond the borders of entertainment will soon become human once again. No egungun festival is perennial like River Niger; none is celebrated till eternity. That is why leaders are counseled to rule well and with milk of human kindness. But who is that el-Rufai masquerader who thinks himself God? And are we about to witness the unmasking of a masquerade, the removal of all “fragments of humanity” and humanness in the mythical? Or is the unmasking rite already unfolding before our very eyes? Most times it is a sacrilege to breach sacred groves; but sometimes it is expedient (and exciting) to smash the gourd of sacredness, violate the inviolable, make the wise very unwise. But in all situations, there is a price to pay – for all sides.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/like-osinbajo-like-gbajabiamila/

Igbo kwenu

All eyes on u

Obinna
Chima
Chioma
Chidi
Chijoike

Se ojora won?
Se ale fiku we orun

U can ask a yoruba man the meaning of ds if u dont understand

Southern Nigeria
1. Lagos
2. Anambra
3. Abia
4. Rivers
5. Ogun

Northern Nigeria
1. Kano

FCT

Observation: The policy is starting more down South. I guess the South is the Economic hub of Nigeria.

Southern Nigeria
1. Lagos
2. Anambra
3. Abia
4. Rivers
5. Ogun

Northern Nigeria
1. Kano

FCT

Kogi Guber 2019: 40 Aspirant from Kogi East reduced to 6 by Kogi East Elders

Kogi East Elders Council, KEEC, has pruned the number of aspirants from the zone for the November 16 governorship election in the state from 40 to six.

The Elders Council, which made this known after publishing the result of their screening of the aspirants weekend, said their decision was in a bid to reduce acrimony and brighten the chances of one of their own to win the Kogi governorship seat.

According to the result of the screening signed by nineteen selected leaders from Kogi East, one aspirant each was chosen to contest on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, tickets in each of the three federal constituencies of the senatorial district.

Prince Mohammed Audu, son of a former governor of the state, late Prince Abubakar Audu, was endorsed for the APC ticket in Idah Federal constituency; Prof. Seidu Ogah (Ankpa) and former Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Jibrin Usman for Dekina/Bassa.

For the PDP, the elders anointed former President, Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Idris Omede (Dekina/Bassa), Dr. Joseph Ameh (Ankpa) and Elder Ubolo Okpanachi (Idah).

With this development, immediate Governor Idris Wada and son of former Governor Ibrahim Idris, Abubakar Idris were dropped. The screening committee, headed by former deputy governor of old Benue State, Sule Iyaji, has representatives from each of the nine local governments in Kogi East, women groups, Ukomu Igala, Igala Cultural Development Association, ICD, Ojuju Agbadufu and two representatives each from both PDP and APC

https://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/77198

This is called swearing in not reading in, what are the others swearing by

wizzyrich:
These politicians don't care about religion, only the gullible followers carry it on their head.

BTW, these are the folks that'll nod their heads almost everyday in the public to deceive others, look at how they abandoned their Quran.

But for real they should be made to properly swear with their Holy Book, so anybody that fail to abide should receive the domination and judgement not just physically but spiritually as well.

I can now see why these politician don't really care much.

obiekunie2:
THAT IBN N'ALLAH DON TEY FOR SENATEOOO!!

I RAISE HAND FOR THIS OUR POLITICIANS AND GREED!



@TOPIC.

NON OF GOD CARES ABOUT GOD BC THEY KNOW THEY DON'T NEED GOD FOR THE KIND STEALING THEY HAVE IN MIND!


DINO DINO! MY GUY BEFORE BEFORE!

They really done mean what they are reading/swearing.
They are not going there to do the bidding of the masses, but that of their godfather.

Can somebody explain this, my observation is that only Senator Dino hold the holy Book while others dropped theirs.

Is this right or wrong

Till then.....God the giver of life will decide

Max8:
I tell you these guy sure know how to fool gullible mumu naija people with is comedy and theatrics, he did with the Senate in the 8th assembly he got away with it and still got re-elected by his gullible tribes people, now he is starting with this so as to claim popularity from the people. Dino the tricky chameleon,I just wish Nigerians should be more intelligent enough not to vote people like this clown and get more serious oriented people to represent them

What has your serious Senator done to better your life and the life of is people. You can show with picture and video for all to see. If not dont ever write rubuish about a man representing others

Kogi is Blessed

Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa reelected as the Speaker of the 9th Lagos State House of Assembly

For more click
https://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/76617

Unigrad:
The looting men

Okay oo

Well done Dino. The truth must be said