₦airaland Forum

The coach knows better. Me personally, i would start benzema ahead of giroud because of his workrate on and off the ball. Giroud is a stationary forward unlike benzema who is dogged and hardworking

1Sharon:
Then you'd get bored...

how

Quite sad. The govt should look into this

1Sharon:
It's nothing to do with sex, men are just greedy

I'm different. Give me great sex in all positions and i'm all yours

Nkitara:
Ned the Igbo Muslim turtled-head old man with a pedophilic behaviour.

lol

In Nigeria’s chaotic job market, the experience of Mr Alabi, Ms Ashade, and others in the hands of fly-by-night recruitment firms appears commonplace, a PREMIUM TIMES’ investigation showed.

In late 2019, months after PREMIUM TIMES’
reporter submitted data across recruitment
platforms while posing as a job applicant, Gboyega
Alabi, an old friend and job applicant, sent in an
application from a recruitment agency called Primix
Consult. Located on Number 6, Remilekun Street,
off Ogunlana Drive, Surulere, Lagos, the company
claimed to be recruiting on behalf of banks and
other companies in Lagos and other parts of the
country.
Since this reporter did not get the invitation directly,
he was advised to “gate-crash” ––a popular
catchphrase among job seekers, which implores
one to attend a job interview even when uninvited
for such–– but declined. Many desperate job
seekers do ‘gate-crash’ quite often, and a few lucky
ones get picked for job opportunities.
Mr Alabi and one other job seeker who attended the
interview at Primix Consult office in Surulere told
this newspaper they paid N5,500 at the interview
venue and were given assurance of job placements.
They were also asked to enroll for “Empowerment
training scheme”, while anticipating their job calls.
Over a year after the ‘interview’ was conducted, they
never heard from Primix Consult, according to Mr
Alabi, who now works with an IT firm in Yaba. He
added that the telephone details given to them were
also no longer reachable after some months.
In February, PREMIUM TIMES’ reporter visited the
office address used by Primix Consult at No 6,
Remilekun Street, Surulere, but there was no trace
of any such company operating from the building. A
middle-aged man who sat in the only office space
inside the building told PREMIUM TIMES that such
company never operated from the building.
https://i0.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2021/06/Primix-Old-address-and-new-signboard-announcing-job-at-6-Remilekun-Street-Surulere-Lagos.jpeg
Primix Old address and new signboard announcing
job at 6, Remilekun Street, Surulere, Lagos
Surprisingly, at the front of the same building used
by Primix Consult, PREMIUM TIMES found yet
another signpost by an unnamed firm announcing
vacancies for different job positions. When this
reporter requested details of the new “unnamed”
firm from the man found inside the building, he
claimed to know nothing about it.
Meanwhile, further checks by PREMIUM TIMES
showed that Primix Consult has no digital footprint
whatsoever.
Musiliu Akande, an Ibadan-based career coach, told
PREMIUM TIMES in an interview that many of the
firms often change their location addresses and
corporate names over time, in order to defraud
unsuspecting job seekers.
“Many unsuspecting job seekers are likely to fall
victim to the antics of the same fraudulent
recruitment firm more than once,” he said.

“This is because the firms often change their
names and location address and other identities
with which people can trace them.”
Like Primix, like ONeal
Like Primix Consult, ONeal is one other recruitment
agency that suddenly disappeared from its old base
on the same Surulere axis of Lagos. Located on
Number 1, Babatunde Street, Off Ogunlana Drive,
Surulere, the company boasted of recruiting for top
firms in the country.
Biola Ibidapo, an applicant who got invitations from
the company when it operated from its Surulere
address told PREMIUM TIMES the firm suddenly
exited its office location, months after they had
been promised job.
They never heard anything about it afterwards, said
the applicant. Another applicant who does not want
her name in print said she declined to go for their
interviews after she heard complaints that ONeal
was recruiting for GNLD marketing.
When PREMIUM TIMES visited the office address
used by O’Neal in February, this reporter found that
the building had been abandoned and the gate shut.
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Number 1, Babatunde Street, Off Ogunlana Drive,
Surulere – Oneal former office
A trader who sold from a kiosk opposite the
building told this reporter nobody had any idea of
what went wrong with the company. She added that
they also had no clue about its new office address
or the whereabouts of its founders.
In Abeokuta, Ogun State, Deborah Ashade and two
other graduates of the National Open University
(NOUN) told PREMIUM TIMES of a similar ordeal in
the hands of one Best Consult, a recruitment firm
operating from the Adigbe end of the Ogun State
capital. According to Ms Ashade and her friends, in
2020, the company sent them invitations for job
interviews and they paid N5,000 on the day of the
said interviews. They never heard from the company
thereafter.
When PREMIUM TIMES visited the location of the
company in Abeokuta last March, residents said the
recruitment firm suddenly vacated the space and
nothing was heard of its founders’ whereabouts
afterwards.
In Nigeria’s chaotic job market, the experience of
Mr Alabi, Ms Ashade, and others in the hands of
fly-by-night recruitment firms appears
commonplace, as PREMIUM TIMES’ investigation
showed. Unscrupulous companies working as
recruitment firms often trick unsuspecting applicants
into paying “fees” for jobs they hardly get.

Fly-by-night
One clammy evening in January 2015, Subomi
Samuel said he received a text message from a
certain recruitment firm called ‘CEO Resource’
directing him to come for a job interview. Mr
Samuel, a 2012 Engineering graduate of The
Polytechnic Ibadan, had spent two years of post-
NYSC life seeking employment across Lagos and
different parts of the South-west.
“I thought that was the end of my unemployment
frustration,” he quipped, “But I was wrong!”
Mr Samuel recalled that the first sign of danger he
noticed was the poor grammatical structure of the
invite message. But he was too desperate to care,
he admitted.
Upon getting to the venue of the “interview” at Pen
Cinema, Agege, he noticed yet again that the
interviewers looked quite “haggard and hungry.”
“But they spoke eloquently and were able to
convince many of us to part with our money,” he
said.
By the time the company was done, Mr Samuel
said he and numerous other young people had
parted with N10, 500 each, to secure employment
in various organisations.
Their ordeals began two months after they attended
the ‘interview’ and nothing was heard from the
‘organisers’. Mr Samuel said whenever he placed a
call through to demand clarification, he was assured
that they would help him secure a job.
“Since I was teaching at the time, and I had some
money to survive, I had hope that things could
indeed get better,” he said. “But few months after
the interview, I could no longer reach them on
phone.”
Mr Samuel said when he finally visited the
company’s office at Pen Cinema, Agege, they had
vacated the place.
“I was devastated,” he told PREMIUM TIMES. “But
luckily for me, I got another job shortly after.”
In December 2019, four years after Mr Samuel’s
ordeal, PREMIUM TIMES’ got details of yet another
company named Fad Consult which had many
graduates pay for job placement using the same
address as ‘CEO Resource’ at Pen Cinema, Agege.
Two graduates who fell victim told this reporter that
they were fleeced of N10,000 each and never got
any job.
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Plaza Opposite Oando, Pen Cinema, Agege, Lagos
Located opposite Oando fuel station on the ever-
busy Pen Cinema axis of Agege in Lagos, the
company was able to convince many job seekers
with its strategic office address.
But when this newspaper visited the office location,
shop owners said the firm had vacated the
building. A trader told this newspaper that many
disappointed job seekers had visited the plaza to
lament the disappearance of the phony companies
in the past.
GNLD ‘Marketing’
Apart from fly-by-night recruitment firms, PREMIUM
TIMES’ findings showed that many job seekers have
also fallen victim of being lured into different forms
of ‘marketing’ jobs, notably for GNLD products.
Golden Neo-Life Diamite International ( GNLD) says
it is a pioneer in whole food nutrition
supplementation, with a commitment to end the
trend of poor wellness and poverty. It has footprint
in different parts of the world.

In Nigeria, however, promoters of the brand rely
heavily on marketers to sell their products.
PREMIUM TIMES’ findings revealed that they recruit
young unemployed people and convince them to
become distributors who would then purchase the
products on discounted rates. The young marketers
would share these products and earn profits from
them, while the income realized is determined by
the number of products sold.
“Too many fraudulent recruitment firms latch on
Nigeria’s unemployment situation to lure desperate
job seekers into the GNLD network,” says Charles
Ike, a job seeker who claimed to have paid
N10,000 at a recruitment agency in Ogba before
being lured into the ‘GNLD marketing’ scheme. Mr
Ike said there was nothing wrong with the GNLD
marketing scheme itself, but many fraudulent
companies deceive young graduates with promises
of ‘lucrative’ jobs only to lure them into the
marketing scheme.
“I never wanted to participate in GNLD because I
find it very stressful. But these guys (recruitment
firms) would not tell you the job invitation is for
GNLD product marketing. You’d only know this
when you get to the interview venue, and often after
making payment,” he lamented.
Another job seeker told this reporter that he had a
similar experience at a recruitment firm in Isolo area
of Lagos after paying N8,500 for “license” and
“certification” as a nutritionist. The payment, he
was told, was to certify him as an eligible marketer
of GNLD products.
At least two other applicants told this newspaper of
their experience at ONeal recruitment firm wherein
many job seekers were lured into marketing of
different nutrition products.
Checks by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that ONeal
has no known physical address and no functional
website, since its old office at Surulere is now
abandoned and under lock.
In May, PREMIUM TIMES called a telephone number
listed by the recruitment firm in its job invitation
messages to some young job seekers but it was
received by a lady who claimed to have left the
company since 2016. She also claimed she knew
nothing about the company or its founders’
whereabouts.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/467711-job-scam-2-how-fly-by-night-firms-fleece-unemployed-graduates-lure-them-into-marketing.html

Two parallel elections were held in Kebbi
and Abuja on Monday to elect leaders
for the Athletics Federation of Nigeria
(AFN).

One of the elections produced Ibrahim
Gusau as president while the other
produced Tonobok Okowa as AFN
president.

Mr Gusau was re-elected as AFN
President at the 2021 Elective Congress
of his faction in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi
State, on Monday, June 14.

According to a statement issued by the
Gusau-led AFN, he polled 20 votes while
Uche Muoma got just two votes from
the 22 delegates present at the venue.
For the position of 1st Vice President,
North West Zonal Representative
Sunday Adeleye got 15 votes to emerge
the winner ahead of Solomon Abari who
had four votes and Patrick Estate with
three votes.

For the position of 2nd Vice President,
Nneka Ikem polled 13 votes ahead of
Esther Mallim who scored eight votes
while Janet Wilson managed one vote.
Patrick Estate (South-east), Paul
Wakama (South-south), Solomon Abari
(North-east) and Vitalis Lashimi (North-
central) all emerged from their zones as
representatives.

Other members of the board include Olu
Sule who is a representative of the
Technical Officials and Coaches
alongside Moses Suleiman as Athletes
Representative.

In his acceptance speech, Mr Gusau
reportedly thanked the delegates for
their support in making his first-term a
success while counting on their
continued support for the next four
years.

Abuja Election

In Abuja, Tonobok Okowa Of Delta State
also emerged as the AFN President at
the Elective Congress of the AFN faction
recognised by Nigeria’s sports ministry.
The congress took place at the
Moshood Abiola National Stadium Abuja
on Monday.

The congress was attended by 35 state
chairpersons of the AFN, who had
converged in Abuja since Saturday for
the congress and elections.

The election was held following the
sports ministry’s invocation of section
10.4 of the 2017 AFN Constitution
which led to the controversial
dissolution of the Gusau-led board
citing the expiration of its term.

According to a statement received from
the sports minister’s office, the
ministry’s representatives, the Nigeria
Olympics Committee (NOC) and
Nigeria’s Ambassador-designate to
South Africa amongst others were
observers at Monday’s election in
Abuja.

It is expected that the World Athletics
(WA) and the Confederation of African
Athletics (CAA) will, in the coming days,
make categorical statements on which
of the rival factions is legitimate.

Genesis of crisis

Though the AFN has had its fair share of
crisis in the past, this current crisis
began shortly after the Gusau-led board
was inaugurated in 2017 by former
sports minister, Solomon Dalung.

While Mr Gusau’s emergence as
president was in itself widely
challenged, the situation got worse with
some of his early decisions termed as
unpopular by his fellow board members.

Mr Gusau showed he was not
comfortable with Olamide George as
vice-president, and thus made his ally,
Sunday Adeleye, the unofficial vice-
president and technical director.

Messrs Gusau and Adeleye were also
accused of diverting funds from a
sponsorship deal entered into with
PUMA. That allegation has not be
proven.

In the heat of the crisis, a board meeting
of AFN was called and Mr Gusau was
removed as president and Mr George
named the acting president. Since then,
athletics and athletes in Nigeria have
not known peace.

Mr Gusau went to court to challenge his
removal and he was pronounced as the
legal president but the sports ministry is
challenging that ruling at the Supreme
court.

After a series of interventions by the
World and Africa athletics governing
bodies (WA and CAA), it was agreed
that a fresh election that will unify the
warring factions be held on Monday,
June 14, in line with the 2017
constitution of the AFN to bring lasting
peace.

Rather than bringing peace to the
bleeding sports, Monday’s factional
elections appear to have opened
another round of crisis in the athletics
body.

Another twist

Interestingly, Mr George, who headed
the rival faction before now, appears to
have been schemed out and is now
realigning with the Gusau board.

Mr George complained about the
guidelines for the Abuja election;
alleging it was doctored to favour the
anointed candidate of the sports
ministry.

According to the statement issued on
Monday, Mr George congratulated Mr
Gusau for his ‘re-election’
“I congratulate my brother and friend
Engr Ibrahim Shehu Gusau on his re-
election as President of the Athletics
Federation of Nigeria and also rejoice
with the newly elected board.

“I am happy that illegitimacy was not
allowed to marr the Kebbi Elections. I
promise to join hands with the Gusau
led Board to continue the development
of Athletics in Nigeria. I am with you all
the way,” Mr George was quoted as
saying in the statement by the Gusau-
led AFN.

Why the two rival factions are laying
claims to their legitimacy, the WA and
the CAA would have to make their
stance known in the days ahead.

Only the Court of Arbitration for Sports,
CAS, can take a legally binding stance
different to those taken by the two
bodies.
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Collage: Engr Ibrahim Shehu Gusau/
Tonobok Okowa

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CryptoRepublic1:
I totally agree with you.
Especially for men,there's nothing in it for men.

sex

Kaybae:
. Are es we have small percentage that are, but why is it that it's only women peopled for almost 10years, my husband is not staying where I stay, being faithful, loyal, sincere, respectful, just name it, going through each pregnancy all alone, but despite all this he is still cheating, always on his phone chatting with different girls, he will leave me alone, pretending to be tired and go to his room to sleep but check on him later, u will meet him on the phone. When he wakes up, he will first send good morning massages to all his girlfriends, and always behaving like an innocent. This is the only man I use as pray point whenever I pray, sometimes, I don't even pray for my children and myself........ This is the man that will always tell me, he doesn't understand his health so we should stop having sex, which I agree cos

sorry. Thing is, he doesn't find you attractive anymore after yrs eating the same nkwobi. Which is sad tho but that's the truth.

CHoccolaTE:
My advice is to the ladies,


Marriage to the modern crop of Nigerian men is crap.
80 percent of them are selfish and self centered and don't want to provide for their wives but they expect her to be obedient, submissive, to answer their surname, to ruin her beauty and physical appearance with childbirth and the children will also answer their papa surname too.
You will literally spend the rest of your life cooking and cleaning and keeping his damn house in order but they don't want to give back anything in return to their wives. If they do it's with reluctance and they want to be praised and worshiped for it.


You girls reading this, better open your eyes and don't be deluded, majority of males are selfish and all your romance fantasies you watched on your Zee world and Korean drama can never work in real life marriage. Don't expect too much from men, many of them

coming from a man hater and bloody misadrist. Pls don't succumb to this crap

ubola:
It's 2 different things. Dating her as a single dude and marrying her. As a single guy you can take unilateral decisions, manage 1k for 2days and stay at your lane to avoid trouble. Whereas in marriage, your spouse may decide to originate problem either by using abusive words on you, comparing you to her ex who's doing better and even calling you a lazy ass, thereby facilitating your death unconsciously. If you don't have a good shock absorber, you may have High Bp and die young. As a man, always hustle hard so as to call the shots, don't depend on her money to avoid tantrums. Also examine her libido level, if it's higher than yours, just run away cuz you'll die trying to satisfy her in bed. This is one of the reasons we have more widows than widowers. Be guided!

no wahala. I'm up to the task. I be horse eshi for bed

gregyboy:
Me i go cheat for marraoge women are scum

All of them olosho fucking men for money.....

what if your wife dey give u beta style plus bj. Wetin u go do

i will establish state police.
I will increase minimum wage.
I will remove fuel subsidy.
I will crush iswap
I will reduce cost of governance
I will lift half a million out of poverty
I will ban open grazing and send Fulani herdmens to their village.
I will tackle insecurity
I will grant local govt autonomy
finally, I will move for a parliamentary system of govt and make mariahangel my prime minister

CSTRR:
I know a few women that have carried their husbands to Canada permanently on the back of their certificates and training.

That is what we call WIFE.

No be just to fucckkk and born.

if the sex is great and the soil is fertile, I don't mind

this govt and lies

vannessa7:
Lol, he didn't do anything to me but I have met people he destroyed their lives, then when I was a christian minister I was very close to many pastors and none of them ever said anything good about him, many of them have evidence both physical and spiritual that he was satanic. Apart from this I hate everything that has to do with the devil or appear to be so, I know what devil can do because I have experienced too much evil, the bible say devil is a lier and the father of all lies, he can pretend to be good and deceive many. Its also not possible for the many people with testimonies of TB Joshua evil ways to just decide to lie on him when they are not related,

he was a good man, he was a bad man. I'm confused. I don't know who to believe again

what a goal

vannessa7:
I'm surprised at peoples opinion on this thread, for the youth to make such request it's a big compliment and a sign of appreciation for his impact in their community. Is it because of a plate of food they will make such request? They want to give him a tourist attracting burial, a carnival like burial. Only a Yoruba will understand

you seem to not like the man. what did he do to you

A review of land documents and
investigative reports by relevant
authorities has confirmed that a former
lawmaker, Ned Nwoko, duly acquired the land on which he is building a golf
course and a university in his hometown
in Delta State.
Ned Nwoko’s acquisition of 90 hectares
of land for a golf course and another two
miles by two miles parcel of land for a
university had sparked controversy at
his native Idumuje-Ugboko in Aniocha
North Local Government Area of Delta
State.
While all palace chiefs, the town
development union and a majority of
residents, local and state governments
authorities, as well as law enforcement
agencies, are queueing behind the
former lawmaker, saying he acquired the
land legitimately, a camp led by
Chukwunonso Nwoko, the first son of
the late king of the community, has
continued to battle the businessman
over the property.
The land crisis soon became linked to a
kingship succession tussle in the
community after the death of the king,
Albert Nwoko, culminating in a violent
clash in May 2017.
A motorcycle taxi operator identified as
Cyprian Kumaroun was allegedly killed
in the clash during which some leaders
of the community, believed to be
backing Ned Nwoko, were also beaten
up and their properties vandalised.
Following the violent clash, the police
charged some suspects to court but the
case was thrown out after some of the
suspects had spent about three years in
police and prison custody.
The Ned Nwoko Land Acquisition
Ned Nwoko was a member of the House
of Representatives from 1999 to 2003.
On March 16, 2015, he applied to the
then king of the town, Albert Nwoko, for
allocation of 90 hectares from the land
set aside by the community for
development projects.
In the application he made through his
company, Linas International Ltd, Ned
Nwoko, who is also a member of the
ruling family of the community, said he
wanted to build a golf course on the
land.
He also requested another two miles by
two miles parcel of land to build the
permanent site of his private university.
The former lawmaker has started
developing the temporary site of the
STAR University on a part of 33 hectares
of land the community had earlier
allocated to him in 2001 to start a dairy
farm.

In his response to the fresh application,
through a letter addressed to Mr Nwoko
and dated April 10, 2015, the king
conveyed his approval of the
application.
In the letter titled “Request for Additional
90 Hectares of Land for Golf Course
Development and Land for Sports
University”, the king said “the town will
go into partnership with your company
by investing the capitalized value of the
land at the appropriate rate in the golf
course. The land for the university will
be donated by the village.”
Ned Nwoko then paid one million naira
to the community to cover the
administrative cost of land cutting and
allocation, as confirmed by a
handwritten receipt signed by the
community secretary, Somanyina
Nwoko, and dated June 2, 2015.
This was followed on July 16, 2015, by a
“Letter of Allocation” also signed by the
community secretary.
Aniocha and the Customary Right of
Occupancy
On July 8, 2015, Mr Nwoko through his
said company applied to the Aniocha
North Local Government for a
Customary Right of Occupancy (CRO)
for the 90 hectares of land.
In line with the law, the local
government council published a Public
Notice on the application on December
14, 2015, seeking any objection that
might discourage it from granting the
CRO.
Seven months later on July 20, 2016,
the local government issued the CRO for
the land through a letter addressed to
Mr Nwoko.
Chuks Oseme, the chairman of the local
government at the time, said after
Prince Chukwunonso and his camp
raised objection over the allocation of
the land to Mr Nwoko, he made a fact-
finding visit to the late king.
“As a result of an objection, I decided to
pay the Obi a visit for further clarification
in which I discovered that Prince Ned’s
claims were genuine in which the then
Obi confirmed issuing the approval letter
following the recommendation by the
land allocation committee,” Mr Oseme
said. “The Right of Occupancy was
therefore issued with all the necessary
procedures followed.”
Chukwunonso Nwoko Vs Ned Nwoko:
The battles
Although several documents and palace
chiefs confirmed that Mr Nwoko duly
acquired the 90 hectares of land, the
acquisition is being challenged by the
Prince Chukwunonso camp which also
filed a civil suit on the matter.
According to the Memorandum of
Understanding between the community
and Mr Nwoko, the community would
take a 40 per cent share in the golf
course to be built on the 90 hectares of
land.
Although it was stated in the MoU that
the 90 hectares for the golf course is the
community’s land, Mr Nwoko said the
neighbouring town of Onicha-Ugbo later
established its ownership of about 80
per cent of the land and has taken
compensation from him.
Mr Nwoko also presented evidence of
compensation paid to some members of
the Idumuje-Ugboko community who
proved they had farms on portions of the
land.
However, all that could not avert the
dispute over the allocation of the land.
The crisis, which has now snowballed
into a dispute over the throne of the
community, flared a few months after
the king communicated the approval of
the application to Mr Nwoko.
This occurred after a letter dated August
12, 2015, was read in churches in the
community in which the late king was
quoted to have disproved the allocation
of the land. The letter was circulated by
Prince Chukwunonso and two other
princes.
Walters Eziashi, a former President of
the Idumuje-Ugboko Development Union
(IDU) and an ally of Ned Nwoko, said
efforts by prominent indigenes to clarify
the turn of event from the king were
frustrated by Prince Chukwunonso and
his brothers who blocked access to their
father. At that time, the king was 89,
weak and mostly kept indoors at the
palace. He died two years later in 2017.
On January 16, 2016, the princes filed a
civil suit at the Issele-Uku high court,
claiming the process for the land
allocation was improper. The
respondents in the suit were Aniocha
North Local Government council, Ned
Nwoko, and his company Linas
International Ltd.
The chief judge of the state later
reassigned Suit No. HCI/2/2016 to
another judge and it is still ongoing at
the Agbor High Court. But one of the
princes, Edwin Nwoko, has since
withdrawn from the suit.
While the princes accused Ned Nwoko
of forging their father’s signature on the
letter communicating the allocation of
the land, the former lawmaker on his
part accused the princes of forging the
signature of their father on the letter of
disproval.
The Police Wade In
The two sides then wrote petitions to
the police in which they traded
accusations of forgery of the signature
of the king. In the petition by Ned
Nwoko, his ally, Mr Eziashi, urged the
police to investigate the veracity of the
letter of disproval.
On their part, the three princes, through
their lawyer, Ezenwah and Ezenwah,
accused Ned Nwoko of forging the Obi’s
signature and of threatening the life of
Prince Chukwunonso. In another petition
of March 17, 2017, they accused Ned
Nwoko and others of harassment. They
also alleged that he forcefully entered
and desecrated the palace.
But the police have since issued an
investigative report, saying the signature
of the king on the two documents was
genuine. But the report also indicted the
princes of a criminal act and
recommended their prosecution. It
stated:
“The investigation further revealed that
Prince Justin (Chukwunonso) Nwoko
conspired with Ejimofor Nwoko,
Izehumo Nwoko and Richard Nwoko and
fraudulently used their relationship with
HRM A. O. Nwoko (JP) to procure him
to sign a document purporting to be
denying the above portion of land which
the community had earlier granted to the
owner of Linas International Limited
without the knowledge of the Izu-ani
members,” the police said.
“It is glaringly clear from the foregoing
findings that though His Royal Majesty,
Obi A.O. Nwoko 111 (JP) signed all the
documents in relation to Idumuje-
Ugboko community land but the discreet
investigation into the signing processes
by Obi A.O. Nwoko unequivocally
revealed that Prince Justin Nwoko
acting in concert with Ejimofor Nwoko,
Izehumo Nwoko and Richard Nwoko
fraudulently used their intimate
relationship and took advantage of Obi
A.O. Nwoko 111 who is currently
bedridden to procure him into signing a
document purporting to be denying the
land which the Idumuje-Ugboko
community had earlier granted to Prince
Ned Nwoko to build golf course
development and sport university after a
due consideration of the request by Izu-
ani members and it is on this premise
that we humbly recommend that Prince
Justin Nwoko and his cohorts should be
charged to court for the offences
provided in section 516,249 (D) and 471
of the Criminal Code Law of Delta State
as this will go a long way to ensure
peace and harmony in the said Idumuje-
Ugboko.
“The suspects will soon be charged to
court please.”
Reprieve for Ned Nwoko as Delta
Intervenes
On February 24, 2016, the police invited
the three princes, Chukwunonso,
Ejimofor and Richard; and the others
named in Mr Eziashi’s petition.
They were subsequently charged before
a magistrate court in the state capital,
Asaba, in Suit No SMC/420C/2016. The
court granted them bail but because
they could not meet the conditions
immediately, they spent some days in
police custody.
Four years on, the issues remain
unresolved and most of the cases are
still before the court.
Apart from the investigation carried out
by the Delta State Command of the
Police, the police headquarters in Abuja
also looked into the case based on a
complaint by Chris Alaigbe and a few
other individuals. The petitioners had
accused Ned Nwoko of unleashing
terror on their community and grabbing
land from peasant farmers.
But in its report dated November 23,
2020, the Inspector-General of Police
Monitoring Unit said its investigation
showed that the allegations against Ned
Nwoko were false and that the disputed
parcels of land were legitimately
acquired by the businessman.
PREMIUM TIMES also learnt that the
Delta State Command of the State
Security Service also investigated the
matter and came to the same
conclusion.
The Delta State government has also
conducted an inquiry into the matter,
with a team led by Edwin Uzor (the
special adviser to the governor on
peacebuilding and conflict resolution)
meeting with all parties to the crisis.
In a February 18, 2021 report, the
investigative team reached the following
conclusions:
– That the Chairman, Linas International
Limited of No. 4 Anambra River
Crescent, Maitama Abuja, Nigeria,
followed due process in procuring the
said land.
– That all the necessary documents
such as survey plan, university brochure,
His Royal Majesty Obi Albert Nwoko and
community approval of the entire land
were obtained.
– There was an MOU between Linas
International Limited and Idumuje-
Ugboko community.
– That the police investigation, as
signed by ACP Banmaminan,
recommended that Prince Justin
Chukwunonso Nwoko should be
charged to court of competent
jurisdiction for giving false information
to the police contrary to Section 125 (A)
of criminal code law as it is evidently
clear that his life was not threatened as
alleged.
The team then recommended that the
contentious parcels of land should
remain allocated to Ned Nwoko since a
police forensic investigation clearly
established that the land acquisition
documents in the possession of the
former lawmaker are authentic.
Having been cleared by law enforcement
and other authorities, Ned Nwoko has,
therefore, proceeded with the building of
the mini campus of the university and
the golf course. In May, the Minister of
State for Education, Chukwuemeka
Nwajiuba, visited the project in
connection with the processing of its
application for a licence from the
National Universities Commission (NUC)
.
When our reporters met Prince
Chukwunonso, he insisted his battle
with Ned Nwoko is far from over despite
the verdicts of several authorities on the
matter. “This fight will not end until
justice is done,” he said
On his part, Mr Nwoko said in spite of
the controversy and years-long attacks
on him by the Prince Chukwunonso
camp, he remained committed to
developing and entrenching peace in his
Idumuje-Ugboko community.
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Patrik Schick scored what could be
considered as one of the best goals of
the tournament as the Czech Republic
stunned Scotland 2-0 at Hampden Park
in Monday’s Euro 2020 fixture.
Schick was the hero in this exciting
Group D encounter with a brilliant brace,
which included a lob from the halfway
line.

Scotland will now attempt to get its first
point in an international tournament for
the first time since 1998 on Friday when
it takes on England at Wembley Stadium
in Home Nations clash. The Czechs will
look to make it two straight wins when
they play Croatia, also on Friday.
England opened up Group C action on
Sunday with a 1-0 win over Croatia on a
goal from Raheem Sterling.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on
Saturday said his government has lifted
10.5 million Nigerians out of poverty in
the last two years.
In his speech delivered to mark the
nation’s Democracy Day on June 12, the
president said those the government
lifted out of poverty include farmers,
artisans, market women, and small-
scale traders.
“Our overall economic target of lifting
100 million Nigerians out of poverty in
10 years is our goal notwithstanding
COVID-19,” Mr Buhari said.
“In the last two years we lifted 10.5
million people out of poverty – farmers,
small-scale traders, artisans, market
women and the like.
“I am very convinced that this 100
million target can be met and this
informed the development of a National
Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy.
The specific details of this accelerated
strategy will be unveiled shortly.”
By referencing the last two years, Mr
Buhari refers to the period between June
2019 and June 2021.
Interestingly, the president made a
similar reference to the government’s
poverty alleviation plans in his
Democracy Day speech two years ago.
“In face of (these) challenges, our
Government elected by the people in
2015 and re-elected in March has been
mapping out policies, measures and
laws to maintain our unity and at the
same time lift the bulk of our people out
of poverty and onto the road to
prosperity,” Mr Buahri said in June
2019.
“This task is by no means unattainable.
China has done it. India has done it.
Indonesia has done it. Nigeria can do it.
These are all countries characterized by
huge burdens of population. China and
Indonesia succeeded under authoritarian
regimes. India succeeded in a
democratic setting. We can do it.

“With leadership and a sense of
purpose, we can lift 100 million
Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years.”
But how true is the new claim of lifting
10.5 million Nigerians out of poverty in
the last two years?
Poverty Data
The last poverty survey from the
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
showed that 40 percent of the Nigerian
population, or almost 83 million people,
live below the poverty line.
According to the NBS ‘2019 Poverty and
Inequality in Nigeria’ report , which was
based on data from the Nigerian Living
Standards Survey conducted in
2018-2019 with support from the World
Bank’s Poverty Global Practice, the
nation’s poverty line was put at 137,430
naira ($381.75) per year.
In 2019, however, the World Poverty
Clock put the number of people living in
extreme poverty in Nigeria at 77.9
million or 39 per cent of the population,
while the country’s total population
stood at 199 million. By 2020, the
number of people living in extreme
poverty had jumped to 84.8 million,
representing 41% of the population.
In June 2021, checks by PREMIUM
TIMES show that the number of
Nigerians living in extreme poverty
according to the World Poverty Clock
has increased slightly to 86.8 million,
representing 41% of the nation’s 209
million population.
In effect, the data from the World
Poverty Clock shows that within the two-
year period referenced by Mr Buhari, at
least 10 million Nigerians slipped into
extreme poverty, rather than come out of
it as the president claimed.
Earlier in June 2018, Nigeria overtook
India as the country with the largest
number of people living in extreme
poverty, as an estimated 87 million
Nigerians, or around half of the
country’s population, were reported to
be living on less than $1.90 a day.
In October 2018, in its second-ever
Commitment to Reducing Inequality
(CRI) index compiled by Development
Finance International (DFI) and Oxfam,
Nigeria placed bottom in a ranking of
157 nations. The CRI Index ranked the
commitment of national governments to
reducing the gap between rich and poor
citizens by measuring three factors
considered “critical” to reducing the gap,
including social spending, tax policies
and labor rights. At the time of the
report, Nigeria ranked bottom of the
index for the second consecutive year.
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Nigeria market street [PHOTO CREDIT:
Council on Foreign Relations]
Poverty Alleviation
In his new claim on June 12, President
Buhari specifically listed the 10 million
Nigerians the government lifted out of
poverty to include farmers, artisans,
market women and small-scale traders.
The two major programmes touted to
have lifted the farmers, artisans and
market women out of poverty are the
Anchors’ Borrowers Programme
(specifically for farmers) and the
National Social Investment Programme
(for others).
“In the Agricultural sector, for instance,
the Anchor Borrowers Programme
resulted in sharp decline in the nation’s
major food import bill from $2.23billion
in 2014 to US$0.59billion by the end of
2018,” the president said in his speech.
He added that his vision of pulling 100
million poor Nigerians out of poverty in
10 years has been put into action and
can be seen in the National Social
Investment Programme, “a first in Africa
and one of the largest in the world
where over 32.6m beneficiaries are
taking part.”
PREMIUM TIMES found that despite the
government’s exaggerated claim about
the impact of these poverty alleviation
initiatives, the two programmes
(Anchors Borrowers and SIP) have been
dogged by allegations of shoddy
practices, distrust, fraud, among others.
Anchors Borrower Programme (ABP)
The programme thrust of the ABP is the
provision of farm inputs in kind and
cash (for farm labour) to smallholder
farmers to boost production and
stabilise inputs supply to agro-
processors. Each farmer is given a loan
of N250,000 per hectare of rice for land
cultivation plus inputs such as herbicide,
fertilisers and water pumps. At harvest,
farmers are expected to sell their
produce to anchor or off-takers; the
anchor will then pay the cash equivalent
of the produce into the farmers’ bank
accounts.
But in 2018, a PREMIUM TIMES
investigation revealed that claims by the
Nigerian government that beneficiary
farmers who travelled to Hajj or married
additional wives had been lifted out of
poverty was misleading because the
farmers may not have done so from the
proceeds of actual farming but from
their share of the over N55 billion
disbursed by the government for the
Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP),
which the farmers thought was largesse
for voting in Mr Buhari.
There have also been reports of loan
default, distrust, apathy and
disagreement between the Nigerian
Central Bank and farmers, resulting in
litigations.
The SIP on its part has been riddled
with so much controversies and
allegations of fraud that the leadership
of the National Assembly in 2020 faulted
its implementation.
The senate specifically expressed
dissatisfaction with the model adopted
by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs,
particularly its claims that it used a
World Bank model to determine the
beneficiaries.
Related closely to the SIP among the
government’s poverty alleviation
programmes is the Cash Transfer
Scheme, which has equally been trailed
by issues of transparency in the
selection and disbursement of the funds
to the beneficiaries.
In essence, PREMIUM TIMES found that
although the poverty alleviation
initiatives of the government have been
commended in some quarters, the
implementation phases have been
riddled with allegations of fraud and
faulty models. The government,
therefore, may be having an
exaggerated estimation of their impact,
as available data do not support
government’s claims of poverty
reduction.
Conflicting Details
Despite the Nigerian government’s
claims of lifting 10.5 million out of
poverty in the last two years, the World
Bank said in January that the macro-
micro simulations showed that more
than 10 million Nigerians could be
pushed into poverty by the economic
effects of the COVID-19 crisis alone.
In its report , the bank emphasised that
were the Covid-19 crisis not to have hit,
“the poverty headcount rate—as per the
national poverty line—would remain
virtually unchanged at a little over 40%,
although the number of poor people
would be set to rise from 82.9 million in
2019 to 90.0 million in 2022 due to
natural population growth.”
“Yet with the economic effects of the
COVID-19 crisis, the national poverty
rate is instead forecast to jump from
40.1% in 2019 to 45.2% in 2022,
implying that 100.9 million Nigerians will
be living in poverty by 2022,” the report
said.
“Taking the difference between these
two scenarios shows that the COVID-19
crisis alone is forecast to drive an
additional 10.9 million people into
poverty by 2022.”
In his speech, Mr Buhari also identified
poverty and youth unemployment as
underlying drivers of insecurity in the
country. Nigeria’s unemployment rate
rose to 33.3% between 2018 and 2020,
according to the statistics bureau. The
nation also slipped into yet another
recession within the period, just as
inflation remains skyrocketed amid
sharp increases in food prices.
Earlier in 2019, a World Bank report
listed several African countries that
made impressive gains in reducing
poverty. The list included Tanzania,
Chad, Congo Rep., Burkina Faso, CongO
DRC, Ethipia, Namibia, Mozambique,
Rwanda and Uganda.
But Nigeria was never mentioned in the
list.
Conclusion
Given that Nigerians whom the Buhari
government claimed it purportedly lifted
out of poverty (farmers, traders, artisans
etc) operate in the informal sector, there
are no verifiable data from the nation’s
statistics bureau to support Mr Buhari’s
assertions.
Rather, a World Bank report said that
Nigeria’s poverty rate within the period,
which would have remained “virtually
unchanged” had the Covid-19 crisis not
occurred, would jump upwards due to
the effect of the pandemic.
Additionally, the World Poverty Clock
also showed a rise in the number of
Nigerians that slipped into extreme
poverty within the period.
Therefore, President Muhammadu
Buhari’s claim of lifting 10.5 million
people out of poverty is not supported
by data. It is grossly misleading.
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bolacode:
Deeperlife boys
U guys can't hide your ID lailai

CIA. Which church do you attend? You talk like a cherubim and seraphim member

maureensylvia:
T.B. Joshua daughter welcomes new son on her late father’s birthday.

My spiritual father is backkkk yeaaaa

a lot of people say he was fake, what do u have to say about that

igbowoman:
Nothing like ordination in the new covenant.
Who ordained Paul and Silas?
Who ordained Peter or Aquilla and Priscilla ?
What you call ordination is nothing but man made practice.It is not a new testament teaching

but the same tbj you accuse was disown for not being ordained

Kobojunkie:
The human mind is a powerful machine!

Another way to consider this is to ask whether you believe Jesus Christ a liar or the Truth of God which He claimed He is. If these tales told by the people you speak if is indeed true, then Jesus Christ is a liar!

are you saying people like Kenneth hagin were lying

donstan18:
Mount a young generational talent met a one time ballon d’or winner and won him.

I watched the match but was busy to be active here.

The same way Kane wasted most of the chances he created is the same way Werner has been wasting Mount’s balls last season.

For any successful creative midfielder, there’s a good striker ahead. Without Messi and Pedro.... Alves, Xavi and Inesta wouldn’t have reached the peak and hyped they were in terms of creativity. Without Aguero and inform Sterling, KDB no go dey the level he dey. Without Greenwood and Cavani, Bruno will be shiit with creativity.

Same with other midfielders with world class strikers. Ronaldo and Benzema made Cavajaj, Kroos and Marcelo look like gods in creative settings.

Same is applicable to Muller whom Lewandowski helped gave him assist. I can go on and on and on.

Again I will say with no atom of equivocation, anyone that dislikes Mount or sees him as a bad player is mentally unstable and pathetically stooopid to engage.

I hope we get a good striker next season. I just hope so.

Meanwhile, England has won and taken the 3 points against World Cup finalist. I no dey support nonesense team. We mooove!

that was a lucky goal scored by Sterling

time to port

Dtruthspeaker:
No He is not! He is "Gotten" from God hence the Bible said "Begotten".
Which means "Came Forth" From God.

I'm sorry I don't understand. You said no and went ahead to contradict yourself

Kobojunkie:
The dead are sleeping in their graves just as Jesus Christ said they would, waiting for Him to return to judge them.
Let no man decieve you with their lies... there are no souls currently in either Heaven or Hell. That will only happen after Jesus Christ returns.

but we hear out of body testimonies of people suffering in hellfire