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i thought they say he never sat for any exams why are they now comparing

madridguy:
This won't stop PDP from wailing.

hisgrace090:
They should've transported buhari through portharcourt aba road so that he can test what people go through over there.

He's working on it, contractors are on site. Or haven't you passed there lately?

What are you doing on my mention? Busybody take your money go to mile one market and buy sense Fool

yomi962:
Oga keep kwayet. .. if you have
nothing to say.. take a mirror in
your room and tell yourself I
DON'T HAVE SENSE.. repeat 3
times and thank me later

Ebios:
U and l know that it's not from his mind. He just said it to give life to the lifeless man.

you know, me I don't know the only thing I know the man is painfully accepting the reality

After four years of spadework, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated the new international terminal of Port Harcourt Airport, in Omagwa, Rivers State.

The terminal was built by the Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Company Nigeria Limited as part of the $500 million concessional loan from the Export – Import Bank of China.

Buhari landed about 12.30 pm and was driven in a convoy to the location of the new terminal.

Speaking at the ceremony Buhari said the Port Harcourt International Airport terminal will play a significant role in promoting economic prosperity of Rivers State.

He said the new terminal will increase passenger growth as well as facilitate the movement of cargo.

He said the facility will bring the airport to international standard to create economic growth for Rivers State as well as the country.

He said the concession of four international airport terminals in Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt will improve infrastructure in Nigeria.

He said the construction of new terminals will be linked to the Warri Rail Line.

Buhari said government is making deliberate efforts to increase handling capacities and infrastructure of the nation’s transport sector which was not taken care of since the 70s and 80s when they were built.

He said it was part of his promises to upgrade Nigeria’s transport infrastructure in all geo political zones of the country.

The president said:” Today’s commissioning is a significant landmark for international travellers especially those in the South South region.

“Not much was done after these airports were built in the 70s and 80s to increase handling capacity of the airports and so we needed to take decisive steps to ensure that our terminals meet the minimum international global standards.

“In the 2017 budget, I promised to upgrade Nigeria’s transport and complete a number projects that will be beneficiary to the nation economically and these include construction of new terminals, railways and power projects.

“Today’s commissioning is a direct policy to sustain economic growth in all geo political zones of the country,” the president said.

In his remarks, Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika said the project commenced in 2014 and was inherited from the previous administration at 30 per cent completion in 2015.

He said despite the inherent challenges associated with the project, Buhari gave approval for the lapses to be corrected.

He listed the challenges to include: inadequate power supply, litigation, lack of apron space which have been addressed.

Speaking earlier, Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike assured the president that the people of Rivers State and indeed the South South are happy with the project stating that it would foster further investment in the state.

Wike said; “I can tell you this today that the people of Rivers State and the Niger Delta are happy with you Mr. President. This terminal here will help the drive of the state to grow the economy and it will attract investment to the state. What has happened here shows that Rivers State is safe, Rivers State is secured and if it was not CCECC will not have been here to construct this.”[color=#000099][/color][/i][i][b][/b]

Vote still been counted Atiku wins PDP primaries despite $10000 shared by Wine

Why would you say cancelled when the latter says suspended indefinitely what are you trying to achieve by misleading people. [quote author=AAA593 post=70402217]read below[/quo

I hope you remember this.

modelmike7:
Short rogue!
This country must be sanitize from rogue and killers called politicians
This is only a process, not the end.

I can't believe he did a hat without the consent of his principal

HajimeSaito:
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja

The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has sacked the Director-General of the Department of State Service, Lawal Daura.

Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, disclosed this on his Twitter handle, @akandeoj.

He wrote, “AgP Yemi Osinbajo has directed the termination of the appointment of the DG of the DSS, Mr. Lawal Musa Daura.”

https://punchng.com/breaking-acting-president-osinbajo-sacks-dss-boss-lawal-daura/

This is just the creation of the British as they did to what we now know as Nigeria

biafranation:
http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/ehrafe/citation.do?method=citation&forward=browseAuthorsFullContext&id=ff26-005

you are absolutely right, that's my Toyin Loye he even design the cover for Ken Saro wiwa's book. He is from the Royal family of Oba Loye Adimula of Atiba of Ijebu Jesa in Osun State and he is my uncle. [quote author=Eagleman007 post=69436405][/quote]

thats not a curator, he is a renowned Nigerian Artist Toyin loye

emekabros2:
Toyin Loye, an art curator based in Netherlands, presented his work, a beautiful art piece, to President Buhari after their meeting earlier today in Hague.

cc; Lalasticlala, mynd44

Source: http://9jaggist..com/2018/07/see-gift-art-curator-give-to-buhari-in.html

BREAKING: NBC Shuts Down Ekiti Broadcast Service



The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has ordered the immediate closure of the Ekiti Broadcast Service (EBS) for breaching provisions of the Broadcasting Code.

According to the NBC, the Ekiti Broadcast Service breached the Electoral Act and Broadcasting Code by allowing the governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose to announce results in favour of his deputy and candidate of the PDP, Kolapo Olusola, and declare him the winner of the governorship election in the state.

Details later…

Please the place the criminals where caught is not Afam but Umuosi community. I take exemption to that
false representation

dainformant:
The police today shared pictures showing the moment some notorious kidnappers were nabbed by the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the IGP Monitoring Unit last month. The suspected criminals were responsible for the death of a staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, John Iheanacho.

Despite collecting a ransom of N6million from his family, the kidnappers held the victim hostage in their camp in Afam, a community in the Oyingbo area of the state, until he died from a gunshot wound.

His demise was hidden from the family about three months after his abduction, when his corpse was found in a shallow grave at the camp by the police.

It was learnt that the seven-man gang had trailed a man in a Toyota Camry to an estate in Irebe, a suburb of Port Harcourt, on March 20, 2018 but missed their target.

While returning from the operation in the night, they saw Iheanacho driving into the estate and went after him in their car. The man was in front of his house when they intercepted him.

They were said to have shot him in the leg and whisked him away in his car to their camp.

It was gathered that they subsequently contacted the deceased’s wife and demanded a N50m ransom, which was later reduced to N6m.

It was gathered that the family reported the case to the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team as the gang failed to release the man after the ransom was paid.

The operatives subsequently tracked down the suspects, who led them to the camp, and Iheanacho’s body was exhumed.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/07/the-moment-abductors-and-killers-of-nnpc-staff-were-apprehended.html

Report Reaching us is that the Imo state APC party secretariat is on fire. details later
https://twitter.com/tvcnewsng/status/995005631747772422

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A former Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, was on Thursday re-arraigned alongside a former police commissioner, John Obaniyi, on a six-count charge for alleged fraud.

The defendants were arraigned at an Apo District High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

They were accused of misusing N578 million (N557,995,065) donated by the Bayelsa State Government for the purchase of arms.

According to the charge, the fund was diverted into separate accounts owned by the defendants, where it generated an interest of N16,412,315.

The generated interest was allegedly used for the defendant’s personal objectives.

The charge also alleged that the defendants lied to officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, when they told two of the commission’s staff upon enquiry about the diverted funds, that the generated interest was used for official purposes.

The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Messrs Ehindero and Obaniyi were first arraigned in 2012 by the ICPC for the alleged offences.

They, however, filed a preliminary objection, challenging the competence of the charge against them and asked the trial court to suspend their trial pending the determination of the appeal at the higher court.

Following an order of the Supreme Court in December, however, the defendants were told to return to the trial court and face the charge against them.

After taking their pleas, the court admitted the defendants on bail, based on the previous conditions and adjourned the matter to June 19.

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lonelydora apost=65254758:
Oyigbo has been an outcast for years now. Not only in Wike's administration. We told you guys to join us in Abia State but you refused. Enjoy your Oyigbo instead of Obigbo.

you are talking trash, dont you ever mention Abia in this matter, how is the towns in Abia? a responsible govt will develop towns he is collecting tax. Amaechi build health centers, skools. send our children to skool free home and abroad. let wike do his own bit instead of lying to him self.

Zejie:
seems you forgot you guys in oyigbo are the main cause of your problems. Right from Odili's, Amaechi and now Wike government, Oyigbo has been backwards. You guys would request for marching ground when govt wants to repair your roads, Your chiefs always request to be at the helm of any contract awarded for fixing infrastructure and they always squander the money. It is in Oyigbo that the indigines are always happy when their road is bad because another govt contract for road is coming hence more money to share. Its now a yearly for roads to be repaired in Oyigbo. Elections are coming and I am sure Wike would come and give out contracts for roads and the chiefs and indigines would squander the money . Abeg don't blame Wike for anything, just thank God for the presence of Shell in Oyigbo.

look at this hypocrite, the most friendly, accomodating and peaceful LGA in the state. your excuse is as lame as the man you are defended. who started matching ground? is not wike?

pinardave:
You must be from Daura. Wike is the best governor in Nigeria.

now i know you are not a rivers man, you are an impostor

lonelydora:
You have never been to Rivers State.

i wonder how much you've been paid. i am from Rivers State Oyigbo to be precise. this governor is the worse in the history of the state. he is a motor park tout.

INEC reject claim of children voting in the recently concluded elections in Kaduna and Kastina state respectively, the commission issued a statement below:

INEC DISSASSOCIATES SELF FROM PURPORTED IMAGES OF UNDER-AGED VOTING: ASSURES CREDIBLE 2019 POLLS

The attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been drawn to videos and pictures purportedly showing some underaged thumb printing ballot papers in a recent election. These images have been circulating online since Saturday. The Commission wishes to inform the public that the images do not relate in any way to any election organised, conducted or superintended by INEC. As far as the Commission can ascertain, they relate to a Local Government election conducted at the weekend, and over which we have no legal control or responsibility whatsoever. While the Commission remains resolute in our commitment to sanitize the nation's electoral process and deliver free, fair and credible elections, we cannot be held directly or vicariously liable for an exercise outside our legal purview. It should be pointed out here that Local Government elections are exclusively the constitutional responsibility of the respective State Electoral Commissions, who are in no way under the control or supervision of INEC. On our part, INEC assures the public that we are doing all we can to ensure a credible election as was once again demonstrated in the Mashi/Dutsi Federal Constituency election in Katsina State on Saturday.

With regard to the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, the Commission is not unaware of challenges some citizens have encountered in trying to get registered at some of the centres. Steps have been taken to ameliorate these, including the deployment of additional Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines for registration, with the more populated centres getting priority attention. In addition, the number of registration centres have been increased to 1,446 nationwide. While thanking Nigerians for their patience and understanding, we believe that with the measures taken so far, the queues and other identified challenges will soon abate.

We once again appeal to those who registered in the previous exercises not to do so again. This is not a fresh registration exercise but an opportunity for those who turned 18 years and those who didn't register in the past to register as voters.

Oluwole Osaze Uzzi
Director, Voter Education & Publicity.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1900517913300922&id=188127847873279

ignis:
The environment and economic policies in Nigeria has been made unsuitable for business by Buhari and his team.
Potential investors are taking their investment abroad, thereby improving the economy and creating employments for other countries at the expense of Nigerians.

did he leave Nigeria to china unders this regime?

show us pictures of what he did in the north or shut your mouth

mightyhaze:
jonathan worked more in the north, in spite of the profuse hatred they haboured for him there.. and ur here making noise abt 4 ministers that is supposed to be based on federal character

Danmas:
What about ur region bro ? Best of luck…

south south

518 CD points

you quote bible verse that said you should not celebrate the birth of christ

Horlufemi:
Quote Bible, Stop Assertions!

even in that bible verse no where did they say we should not celebrate the birth of a child there are countless bible verse that celebrate the birth of a child so stop misleading others

ndidibabe:
Why worry yourself about his birthday? The one you should be worried about is his death day which is relevant and he command that xtians should keep remembering him through the Lord's supper.

the church never said Jesus was born on the 25th of december neither do anybody know the actual day he was born even the Jehovah witnesses speculate its october sighting happenings around the time of his birth and that it self do not give credence to the date. the church only choose a date to celebrate him like you can choose a date to celebrate urs even when know when u are born. Gov. Wike celebrated his in december even though he was born in june, so kill youself if u like. if he wasn't born on dec. show us bible quotation on the day he was born. no body force you celebrate after all.

olihilistic:
Freeze my mannest man..
Tell em.
Xmas doesn't even correlate with Jesus birth.

How Fayose Robbed Ekiti PDP Delegates Of Secondus' $10,000 Convention Largesse

posted by Elizabeth Morgan
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Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State took his trademark fraudulent life to the nation's capital, Abuja, at the weekend at the convention of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) where he short-changed Ekiti State delegates by giving them a pittance instead of the convention largesse to other delegates from other states who voted for Uche Secondus as the National Chairman.

While delegates from other states were pocketing $10,000 (Ten Thousand Dollars) as their own share for voting Uche Secondus as PDP Chairman, Ekiti State delegates were very happy that they too would go back home with $10,000 richer.

But they were wrong. Their hopes were dashed by their greedy governor who collected the share for the 92 delegates from Ekiti State and gave them peanut of N50,000 (Fifty Thousand Naira) per delegate out of the huge sum.

By this, Fayose pocketed N3, 600, 000 per delegate and there were 92 delegates from Ekiti state (including the governor) whom he led to the convention.

Though notorious for a greedy life, which is not news to those who know him, that he could be so callous to treat his fellow human beings in such a depraved manner is something that baffled the closest of his men who were among the delegates.

Ekiti Periscope reliably learnt that the ordeals of the state delegates started right from the taking off of their trip from Ado Ekiti to Abuja as the buses conveying majority of the delegates broke down one after the other on the dangerous Lokoja-Abuja highway notorious for kidnappers den. Many of them spent hours on the road without a kobo in their pockets because they had not been paid in the last six months.

The delegates, who were mostly House of Assembly members and party executives at the state level, including the delegates from local governments, suffered hunger and deprivation on the road.

When they eventually made the trip to Abuja, Fayose treated them like goats as he didn't even ask them how they fared in their trip even though he was aware of their plights on their journey to Abuja.

The Friday night preceding the convention was when the Ekiti delegates realised that they were nothing more than slaves in the hands of Governor Fayose, who, instead of allowing them to collect their own largesse of $10,000 (ten thousand dollars) directly by themselves as delegates from other states did, he (Fayose) collected the dollars on behalf of the delegates.

Reports said a source close to Secondus quoted Fayose as saying that Ekiti delegates would run mad at the sight of such a huge amount of money which if changed to naira will amount to N3, 650,000. "What will an Ekiti man do with such an amount,"? Fayose was quoted as saying.

Therefore, Fayose collected the dollars and paid each of the delegates N50,000 and pocketed the rest amounting to N332,150,000 (Three Hundred And Thirty Two Million, One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira).

When Ekiti delegates received their pittance from Fayose and discovered that it was a far cry from what other delegates from other states received for voting Secondus, many of them burst into tears and wondered if they could ever enjoy any benefit from their leader, Governor Ayo Fayose, who has since graduated from Ebora to n je jollof rice to Ebora to n je bailout and now to Ebora to n je delegates dollars!

A magazine, The Class, had last week reported how Fayose traded off South West's interest for $1m in the PDP convention for the election of the national chairmanship election of the party that Nigerians thought would go in favour of Ekiti State aspirant, Prof Tunde Adeniran. But Fayose collected $1m from a South South governor to work against the interest of the South West in favour of Secondus from the South South, who eventually emerged the winner after Adeniran left the convention in anger over alleged votes buying in which the professor pointedly accused Fayose and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.

Having impoverished many of the delegates who are House of Assembly members by deliberately denying them of their salary for the past six months, their hope of cushioning the effects of the poverty at the convention was also dashed by Fayose who loves money than his children.

Several of former and present aides and political allies of Fayose said that the governor does not joke with money and that he hates to see his allies making progress in form of building houses or buying cars. They said he hates to see his aides having money in their pockets. They added and except they (aides) steal from him, no aide, no matter how close is he to Fayose, can get any financial assistance from him and if he succeeds in stealing from him, that aide dare not do anything visible from the money, such as buying cars or building houses because the moment Fayose knows, he will sack such an aide.

Periscope learnt that while Fayose, his son Rogba, wife Feyi and his mother Prophetess Oluwayose are the contractors for all Ekiti jobs through their many proxies, members of his cabinet and House of Assembly are wallowing in abject poverty as they have not been paid for months and they dare not complain but can only cry in silence. Some of his commissioners don't even attend Exco meetings again because of frustration.

Ekiti delegates have since returned home licking their wounds. One of them who spoke to our reporter, said: "I don't know what this man wants to do with all the money he is amassing. I never knew Fayose is this heartless! Imagine what we went through on that dangerous Abuja road leaving our family behind.

"We could have been kidnapped or even be involved in an accident, but despite all that, this wicked man collected our share of the money for delegates and gave us peanuts. We may be powerless to ask him questions but God will ask him and judge him accordingly."

This is not the first time Fayose shortchanged members of his party in his administration.

One of his sacked commissioners had stories to tell about Fayose's greed in approving cash for them for government's assignments.

For instance, a former commissioner approached Fayose to approve money for him for official assignment in Abuja for two days. Fayose asked how much he needed and the commissioner quoted N500,000. The governor agreed and asked him to prepare his request in a memo. The commissioner did and Fayose approved.

But as the commissioner left the governor's office, Fayose called his agent in the Accountant's Office to bring the cash to his office instead of paying it directly to the commissioner.

After Fayose received the cash from the Accountant's office, he called the commissioner to his office and asked him how much he said he needed to make Abuja trip. The commissioner said N500,000.

Furious, Fayose, who had already collected N500,000 on behalf of the commissioner, rose on his feet and started harassing the commissioner. Has asked him why he needed that much for two days and whether he was going to Abuja with all the staff in his office or whether he was taking a battalion of security agents along with him.

Fayose therefore declared: "Ekiti State is broke. You can only get N150,000."

The shocked commissioner was transfixed, unable to reconcile himself with the information at his disposal from the Accountant's office that his trip cash of N500,000 had been taken to the governor for collection.

While N500,000 was recorded against the commissioner in official file, he got only N150,000 while Fayose kept N350,000 to himself.

Another instance is the duping of an hotelier from Ibadan who was engaged by the governor's hotelier brother, Bimbo Fayose, owner of Bimdok Hotel along Bank Road, Ado-Ekiti, on a lease term of four years to manage the hotel.

Sources said when Fayose visited the hotel, he inquired from the man whether he could also take a job to fix his banners and that of PDP on electricity poles along Ado-Ekiti road and few other routes at the cost of N1, 550,000.

At a time, the man complained that there was no way he could make profit with the money approved for the job that would take him days to carry out.

Reluctantly, the man managed to carry out the job by skipping poles instead of fixing the banners on all poles along the routes. At last, he carried out the job leaving a balance of N22,500 balance, which the man delivered back to the governor.

To the man's shock, Fayose declared to him that the N22,500 was his profit for the job done in two weeks.

More shock awaited the man after discovering that Fayose officially processed N250m for the job. Boldly and angrily, the man went to the governor complaining that he could not take N22,500 for a job the governor processed for N250m and for which barely N1m was spent.

In his usual foxy manner, Fayose plotted to exit the man from Ekiti State to halt him from embarrassing him by suborning officials of the State Internal Revenue to seal off Bindok Hotel over alleged tax payment default to render the man jobless. The hotel was subsequently sealed off after the man spent barely six months out of a four-year lease agreement.

Not done, the man started receiving threat messages accusing him of confrontation with the government. The man has since fled the state to escape attacks by the governor's thugs.

Recently, Ekiti Periscope reported why Fayose sacked a Permanent Secretary over World Bank grant fraud while another was threatened with a sack over refusal to alter N4m payment approval to N45m.

In the report, Fayose removed the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Mr Alabi, and transferred him to the Department of Establishment in the state civil service.

Trouble started for Alabi after Fayose demanded in a memo for the release of N50m from $1m World Bank's grant (N360m) for Save-a-Life Health Project. The governor later approved a warrant for the release of N50m and was withdrawn from the World Bank's grant and taken to his office on the pretext of combating emergency health-related issues. Surprisingly, according to a Governor's Office source, a few days later, Fayose prepared another warrant for the same purpose but cleverly altered the date on the earlier memo. Other sources said Alabi noted the anomaly in the two memos based on the same head and ordered an audit query into the anomaly.

Fayose got wind of this and became angry and ordered immediate Alabi's dismissal from service for alleged insubordination. His dismissal letter was promptly prepared for onward delivery to him, but influential leaders intervened to save Alabi's head. Fayose allowed him to stay but transferred him to the Establishment Department (Estab) while the erstwhile Estab Permanent Secretary was moved to the Ministry of Finance.

Another permanent secretary also had a bitter taste of the governor's anger when Fayose allegedly asked her to alter a bill of N5m to N45m.

According to sources, the permanent secretary, a woman, was reportedly shivering before the governor when she was asked to add 4 before 5 in a N5m bill presented to the governor for approval to make N45m for services in the Government House.

The woman refused, explaining that she would be in trouble in Audit Department in future. A furious governor threatened her with immediate dismissal for insurbordination. Almost at the same time, Fayose applied clemency and reduced the punishment to immediate resignation.

The woman on her knees begged and begged for the governor to spare her to retain her job. The governor agreed but not before she appended her signature to change a bill of N5m to N45m.

Fayose had earlier hidden under projects commissioning to fleece the Government of Ekiti State to the tune of N30 million.

During his last projects commissioning, Fayose invited eight PDP governors to Ado-Ekiti for the commissioning of projects like the Bank Road project and expansion project on Awelede Road. Also commissioned were projects that Fayose spent no kobo but over which he was claiming credit. These projects include Funmi Olayinka Women Centre that cost a bank N600m and Ikere road that cost Wema Bank alone N400m among other private organisations that contributed money for projects but which Fayose personally collected.

Fayose raised a Projects Commissioning Committee that presented a budget of N20 million to him but which he jerked up to N42 million. The money was collected from Floating Account. Floating Account is "Fraud Account" by Fayose to steal Ekiti money without trace.

For the commissioning ceremony, after collecting cash, Fayose released only N10m for the committee, leaving N32 million to himself.

He shared part of the N10m to cronies and committee members, with each committee member getting N30,000. The Deputy Governor, Dr Kolapo Olusola, who is also a member of the Planning Committee, got N60,000.

It would be recalled that there was also a report of how Fayose cut the Deputy Governor's security vote and added it to his own security vote.

Fayose had called the deputy governor to his office and asked him how much was his security vote. The deputy governor responded: "N25 million."

Fayose then asked him whether he kept an army or a police force to require that much for the office of the deputy governor. Fayose then asked again: "How much was your running grant at the Obafemi Awolowo where you lectured before becoming the deputy governor?" The deputy governor was dumb-founded, but Fayose broke the silence, declaring: "Mr Deputy Governor, Ekiti State is broke. Government cannot afford more than N5 million for your security vote."

But when one would think that Fayose would return the balance of N20 million to the treasury, he never did, as he added it to his monthly security vote that was then N250m before recently jerking it up to N300m and another N90m monthly vote called "Sundry Expenses".