According to this projection, Nigeria has the capacity to become the fifth biggest economy in the world within the next fifty years.

Personally, I believe that we have the potential to achieve the feat within the next thirty years but we may never achieve our potential as long as we keep allowing our very worst to be in the driver's seat of the country's leadership.

To achieve this, we will have to put in place successive leaderships that have a growth mindset and prioritizes developing our human capital to be able to effectively harness the huge resources our country has been blessed with.

We need to continually promote policies that will stimulate productivity within the economy and by so doing, we will not only be creating jobs for our people but we will be creating wealth for the generations coming after us.

Nigeria is truly blessed, it is up to us to unlock the huge potentials that is inherent in the country.

yarimo:
Losers and silly excuses are like 5 and 6

Election riggers and their ass lickers are also like 5 and 6.

PRESS RELEASE

There’s a sinister plot to undermine Nigeria's judiciary, democracy - Atiku

*Calls on Nigerians to be vigilant, puts international community on alert

Since the conclusion of the presidential election in February of this year and the attendant controversies in its trail, there have been unfortunate developments that are saddening to many Nigerians.

It is needless to say that the election that brought the current government into office is the worst in the annals of democratic politics in our country, even though it was promised to be the best ever.

Consequently, the outcome of that election and the arbitrariness of the electoral umpire to declare a winner against the requirement of the law has been the reason Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of Nigeria (1999-2007) and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and other parties in the election have chosen the patriotic path to challenge the outcome of that election.

It is a truism that the judiciary is the only reasonable option in the quest for justice. As a matter of fact, our judiciary and the interpretations that they have given to our laws have been a major building block in our democratic journey so far.

Our laws are very clear about the prerequisite of separation of powers as a guarantee of an independent judiciary.

The idea behind that concept of an independent judiciary is to insulate that branch of government from unholy fraternity between its hallowed members and the rest of the society - especially the political actors.

But as proceedings on the controversial February 25 election continues at the court, there have been threats from the ruling party that aim to intimidate the judiciary from serving the duty of justice.

It is regrettable that the APC and, indeed, agents of President Bola Tinubu have ceaselessly chosen to stand in the way of justice by making catastrophic threats to anarchy if justice is not served according to their whims.

These and reports in the media about some heinous plots to harass justices sitting on the petition are ominous to peace and the security of our nation.

Our democracy gives the people of Nigeria the powers to choose their leaders, and our laws demand that our judiciary must be allowed to act independently without harassment and intimidation by the government or powerful interests.

To compromise the workings of our democracy and seeking to compromise the workings of our judiciary is an open call for anarchy.

As a party in the litigation that is currently reviewing the outcome of the last presidential election, we wish to express our intentions to do all that is within the law in resisting any attempt to undermine our fragile democracy.

Indeed, we are using this channel to call on the international community to be alerted.

Nigeria’s democracy should not be undermined by using the judiciary to serve the interest of the ruling party.

Sadly, this has become the stock in trade of the All Progressives Congress to intimidate the judiciary.

Recall that in 2019, the APC-led Federal Government similarly removed the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, when it was obvious that he would not bend to their will.

The Department of State Services similarly stormed the homes of judges in 2016 and 2017, all in a bid to beat the judiciary into submission.

“The plot of the APC is simple: intimidate the judiciary, threaten judges with arrest so that they will bow to their will. This is a playbook from 2019 when they removed the CJN and then replaced him with Tanko Muhammad, who himself was later accused of corruption by his colleagues at the Supreme Court and resigned shamefully.

“However, the APC government never went after Tanko Muhammad as they did in Onnoghen's case because it was never about corruption but election. The APC has, over the years, built a reputation of judiciary intimidation. They accused about 10 judges of corruption, stormed their homes, and got them suspended and yet could not convict a single one of them. Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court could not recover from the embarrassment that he ended up dying in office.

“Now, they have initiated a new plot. This time around, they want to intimidate the judges into delivering favourable judgments for them at the election tribunal. We draw the attention of the international community and, indeed, Nigerians to this fresh plot to steal the mandate of over 200 million people.”

We are also urging Nigerians to abide by the golden rule of eternal vigilance being the price of liberty.

On this note, we appeal to all security agencies in the country to remain professional in the discharge of their duties and resist being used as an instrument of oppression and intimidation against the judiciary.

Signed:
Paul Ibe
Media Adviser to Atiku Abubakar
Vice President of Nigeria (1999-2007) and Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 election.
Abuja
22nd July, 2023.

Very fraudulent and manipulative news, Nigeria became the biggest economy in Africa when the economy was rebased during the Jonathan administration in 2013 and this was achieved as a result of the rapid economic growth rate experienced during the Obasanjo administration.

nairalandkachy1:


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/609586-just-in-tinubu-writes-senate-seeks-approval-for-800m-loan-requested-by-buhari-from-world-bank.html

Previous Thread:
https://www.nairaland.com/7684308/buhari-seeks-senate-approval-800m#123052951

This rodent wants to continue with Buhari's cluelessness and indiscriminate ways of borrowing money recklessly.

beerfraud:


https://twitter.com/renoomokri/status/1679397629954867200

Yet they make the most noise about being the biggest business operators in the whole of Nigeria.

CodeTemplar:
Hit the ground running and run the system aground. The hallmark of corky cluelessness.

He is not only clueless but also arrogant about his ignorance. You don't announce and implement such policies without proper planning.

*Fuel subsidy removal: The wrong ‘courage’ possessed Tinubu - Businessday NG*
https://businessday.ng/columnist/article/fuel-subsidy-removal-the-wrong-courage-possessed-tinubu/

Olu Fasan
July 10, 2023.

For over eight years, since I started writing a weekly column in this newspaper in 2014, I repeatedly called for the abolition of the fuel subsidy. It distorted the economy and fed massive corruption.

So, when, on his first day as president, Bola Tinubu scrapped the subsidy, I should be thrilled and excited. But, no, I wasn’t. Why?

Well, as a political economist, I know the dynamics and interplay between politics, economics, and institutions.

The right economic policy under the wrong political conditions or the wrong institutional process, will lack credibility and efficacy.

In policy making, there’s a distinction between substance and process: substance is “what to do”, that is, the nuts and bolts of a policy; process is “how to do it”.

How could Tinubu be “possessed with courage” to announce a policy with far-reaching consequences for ordinary citizens without adequate consultation, preparation and remedial measures?

Both must work in sync; otherwise, there’s a risk of failure. Tinubu broke the link between substance and process!

Tinubu went to his inauguration on May 29 without the intention to scrap the fuel subsidy from DAY ONE!

Rather, his prepared speech referred to “phasing out” the subsidy, in line with his manifesto, “Renewed Hope 2023”, which says on page 37: “We shall phase out the fuel subsidy.”

Indeed, the manifesto linked the removal of the oil subsidy to the Dangote refinery, saying: “By the time we took office, the Dangote refinery would have been fully operational, nullifying the need to import refined petroleum”, adding: “There will be no need for a subsidy because supply will come from local refineries.”

But, as at today, Nigeria is still importing refined petroleum. So, the preconditions set out in Tinubu’s manifesto for completing scrapping the fuel subsidy haven’t been met.

Yet, despite his prepared inauguration speech merely referring to “phasing out” the subsidy, Tinubu blurted out: “The fuel subsidy is gone.”

Later, during his recent trip to France, Tinubu told the Nigerian community in Paris what actually happened.

He said he did not discuss the automatic removal of the fuel subsidy with his aides before the inauguration and did not include it in his speech.

Then, he said: “When I got to the podium, I was possessed with courage, and I said subsidy is gone.”
Really? “Possessed with courage”?

What kind of courage possessed Tinubu to behave like an autocrat? In a democracy, the cause cannot simply excuse the leader and justify the means.

The fact that a cause is right doesn’t mean it can be pursued by just any means. How could Tinubu be “possessed with courage” to announce a policy with far-reaching consequences for ordinary citizens without adequate consultation, preparation and remedial measures? Such capriciousness is the stock-in-trade of dictatorships!

Now, let me repeat what I have said many times in this column. Even if the Supreme Court validates Tinubu’s election, his administration is a minority government.

He has the weakest mandate of any president since 1999, even ignoring the gaping credibility deficit of that mandate.

The overwhelming majority of the electorate, 63.39 per cent, did not vote for Tinubu. If he governs with arrogance, he will, sooner or later, find that merely satisfying constitutional technicalities are different from having a strong mandate and legitimacy.

In political economy, the mandate hypothesis says that a government has greater scope for big bang reforms if it won a strong mandate for change in an election.

Surely, running a minority government with a weak mandate, Tinubu must govern with humility and build genuine consultation and national consensus around critical reforms.

Ideally, he should form a broad-based national unity government. Unfortunately, he’s pursuing a Machiavellian, divide-and-rule strategy with Nyesom Wike’s fringe group, whose dubious contributions to his “victory” did not extend his votes beyond the disputed 8.8million out of 23.4million valid votes, meaning that 14.6 million, or 63.39 per cent, of the voters rejected him!

Yet, there’s another damaging political context. Recently, former President Muhammadu Buhari said he amended the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 and delayed the fuel subsidy removal “to allow Tinubu to win the election.”

Buhari said that if he had withdrawn the fuel subsidy, the “social consequences” would have lost Tinubu the election. “Polls after polls showed that the party would have been thrown out of office if the decision as envisaged by the new Petroleum Industry Act was made,” he said.

So, Buhari manipulated the law and policy on fuel subsidy removal to “allow Tinubu to win the election”. But once Tinubu “won”, he was “possessed with courage” and spontaneously scrapped the subsidy, ignoring the social consequences that Buhari said would have cost him victory.

Essentially, if Buhari must be believed, Tinubu “won” the election on a deception, on a lie. That makes the whimsical arbitrariness of his autocratic decision to remove the fuel subsidy on his first day in office even more politically unacceptable. It’s a political fraud!

What about the crass hypocrisy? In her book Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Finance Minister, and current Director-General of the WTO, describes the visceral opposition to President Goodluck Jonathan’s plan to phase out the oil subsidies in 2012.

The opposition was led by Tinubu’s then party, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. In a recent article titled “Fuel subsidy and the God of Jonathan”, Dr Reuben Abati, then President Jonathan’s spokesperson, also described the viciousness the opposition, and referred to an article written by Tinubu in 2012 titled “Removal of oil subsidy: President Jonathan breaks social contract the people.”

In the article, published in his newspaper, The Nation, on January 11, 2012, Tinubu took a stance against the phasing out of the oil subsidies.

Yet now that Tinubu is in power and needs money for his administration, he’s consumed by a latter-day zeal to tackle the fuel subsidy. Such dishonesty, hypocrisy and opportunism would undermine the credibility of any policy, even the right economic policy.

But how far can Tinubu go? The fuel subsidy fraud became acutely endemic under the administration of President Buhari, who was the Minister of Petroleum during his two terms in office. Buhari certainly knew, but did nothing, about the subsidy scam.

In his recent widely publicised interview on Channels TV, former Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State said that a friend of his in the oil industry told him that he told the president: “Mr President, please remove this subsidy. We are tired of making money!”

So, how far can Tinubu go? Can he go beyond scrapping the fuel subsidy and probe the subsidy racket to recover money from the oil scammers?

Unfortunately, Tinubu won’t be possessed with such courage! For, as David Pilling, Africa Editor of the Financial Times, wrote recently, “Tinubu has appeared to epitomise all that is wrong with Nigeria’s governing class.”

Recently, Tinubu said: “I could have asked for my share of the fuel subsidy, but that’s not why you elected me.” Consider his words: “My share of the fuel subsidy”.

Tinubu said he wasn’t elected president to benefit from the fuel subsidy, but was he elected governor to enrich himself from the resources of Lagos State through Alpha Beta, as alleged?

Even former President Olusegun Obasanjo couldn’t help asking recently: “Why did he set up Alpha Beta?”

Truth is, Tinubu simply lacks the credibility to be sanctimonious, and Nigerians must be watchful!

So, here’s the question: how would Tinubu account for the $10bn annual savings from the subsidy removal?

Recently, the World Bank said that “inflation has driven 4million Nigerians into poverty”. That’s in addition to the nearly 100million already in extreme poverty.

How would Tinubu tackle the social consequences of the subsidy removal? Surely, if he was possessed with courage to scrap the subsidy, he must be possessed with courage to deal with the social fallout!

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Demosdewi:
Please, how much do I get to oven bake Corolla 2003 ?. And how long to complete the job. Urgent pls. Thanks

Thanks so much for the inquiry, I guess you are the same person that chatted with me this morning.

It will definitely be another massive looting spree, you can trust Tinubu for that.

I eat all of them, they are actually tastier than the meatier parts of chicken that are more popular.

He has obviously gone to recharge his failing batteries, staying back in France where he normally recharges would have been too obvious so he arranged to get it done in London.

There is no doubt that the Nigerian economy is in dire straits and in desperate need of reforms especially after eight years of cluelessness and retrogression under the immediate past administration whose extremely poor handling of the economy made it seem as if they were on a mission to completely obliterate the Nigerian economy.

Under the administration, our National debt moved from about N12 trillion in 2015 to about N77 trillion by the time Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief at the end of their maladministration last month. Not only was there very little
to show for the massive debt accumulated in terms of infrastructure and capital expenditure, most of the debts had gone into financing the excesses of an over bloated civil service and political class, private pockets and
funding unsustainable subsidies that were detrimental to the economy.

As a result of this extremely poor management of our economic resources, Nigeria found itself in a position in which over 97% of government revenues were being used to service unproductive debts while the country was
moving rapidly towards an economic crisis as the administration
didn’t care about the financial health of the country neither did they seem to
understand the grave implications of their fiscal irresponsibility on the economy of the country.

The reality is that they had plunged the country into a situation that the country was not only borrowing money to pay salaries, we were also borrowing
money to pay subsidies, repay other loans, pay for the limited capital
expenditure being executed and every other expenditure needed to run
government since virtually everything that the government was making was being used to service debts to prevent the country from being declared
insolvent which will trigger off an even worse economic crisis for the country.

It was thus a no brainer for any incoming administration to understand that the cost of governance must be brought down significantly while all efforts

are made to increase government revenue generation if the country is
to stay afloat.

In the last three weeks of the current administration (which incidentally is
still struggling for legitimacy), the government has made three major policy
decisions which are aimed at improving the finances of the federal government. The first being the fuel subsidy removal which will save the
federal government about N4.8 trillion per annum, the next being the
unification of the exchange rate of the Naira which means that at least N6
trillion in additional Naira revenue will accrue to the government per annum, and thirdly the removal of the subsidy on power supply the figures of which are more opaque than the other two mentioned above.

While the logic of these policy decisions cannot be faulted given the precarious state in which the previous APC administration had left the
economy, we have to understand that the ultimate aim of economic policies are to improve the welfare of the people and as such they must come with a human face. Effectively speaking, the policies should have been
implemented in such a way that the negative impact on the generality of the masses will be minimized.

Talking of policy decisions, a more responsible and people orientated
government would have looked inwards and the first thing that should have been done to address the economic problem would have been to cut down on the over bloated cost of running the government. An analytical
review of our 2023 budget reveals that government can easily save at least
N2 trillion by cutting down on the over bloated costs in the budget along with other unnecessary items that were padded into the budget.

Government can also increase revenue accruing to it through the Customs
and Federal Inland Revenues Services(FIRS) by at least N3 trillion by
blocking the leakages in the system that causes the government to lose trillions of Naira in revenue every year while also making efforts to stop crude oil theft through which the government loses billions of dollars every year. It is only when these house cleaning
exercises have been done that the government will have the moral authority to ask already impoverished Nigerians to sacrifice more through the removal of various subsidies as they have been quick to do.

With government having taken steps to cut down on expenditure while blocking leakages in the system, they must bear in mind that economic
reforms are about improving the welfare of the people and not just for
government to have more money to spend. As such, in my opinion the
subsidy removal should have come with at least 100% increment in
salaries of civil servants while the financial system is energized to provide
more credit to the productive sector of the economy to stimulate economic
activities and recalibrate the economy for growth in the private sector.

Sadly it is only the over fed political office holders that we are hearing that
their remuneration has been reviewed upwards by a whopping 114% while the people that really need the wage increase to survive are being ignored.

It is not enough for a government to implement economic policies that are supposedly right without considering the negative effect that it will have on the overwhelming majority of the people that it will impact and taking steps to mitigate against it. Our government must be made to understand that governance is firstly about the welfare of the people before their own
personal aggrandisement and a situation in which the masses are being made to bear the brunt of poorly implemented economic reforms while
political office holders are rewarded with undeserved huge salary increases is nothing short of economic rascality.

Kunle Oshobi

A development economist writes from Lagos

BleedingPen:

https://metrowatchxtra.com/2023/06/17/tinubu-ll-be-best-president-nigeria-ever-had-says-matawalle-metrowatch/

Some lunatics said the same thing about Buhari, he ended up being by far the worst president in the history of the country. That said, nothing good can come out of the presidency of a notoriously corrupt drug baron who is using a stolen mandate and failed woefully as governor of Lagos state.

HeRulesMen:
May be beyond copywriting, you can add "writing" in general as long as you offer related services. So how much are you making from copywriting or writing in general?

It seems the field is not for some of us, may be we are not doing it right.

Please be sincere with your responses. It will help direct and motivate struggling writers.

Who are target clients for copy writers?

mushroomFarm:
This is not my first time attending the church here in Yakutsk, Russia (world's coldest city where I study) but I have decided to share my experience about church service in Russia (Yakutsk) with you guys today.
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This city is 8 hours ahead of Nigeria which means we had concluded the service long before you guys woke up. But my university invited international students to a special program today so I couldn't post this until now.
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The service begins with songs.
Yakutians and Russians dance and wave flags.
For instance they wave the red flag to symbolize salvation, white to symbolize peace and the flag of Israel to show love for the birth place of Christ.
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After series of songs the bible is read and the junior pastor say a few things about the verse that is read.
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Then the senior pastor would preach the sermon.
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After which we hug each other now I love this part😘😘😘 and I try to avoid the men and hug the ladies...😍
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After this we go to the dinning room and eat.
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This is what I love most about the church here. There is nothing like offering and tithe. But we eat heavily every Sunday!
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The first time I arrived here in Yakutsk and went to church, there was this lady that came to me after service and asked me if I am not cold (I didn't have winter clothes yet) she told me even if I were not cold then, I would feel terribly cold when the winter gets tough. She took me to the stores in her car and bought me winter clothes, winter boots, mufflers, winter gloves, etc.
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This is the coldest city in the world and those clothes are needed for survival. Infact even with those clothes, at minus 63 degrees you must not stay outside for more than 30mins to an hour. You would be finished!! (So imagine not having those clothes)
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Her name is sister Natalia and she is so nice (and other people from church too) to the point that I was beginning to wonder if something else was not involved.
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One day I asked her why she does those things and how the church is able to finance feeding everyone every Sunday without taking offerings.
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She said some people in the church makes secret donations...to do those things. She said they are not rich, they are just reciprocation the love of Christ. She said a brother from church also give enough money to buy winter clothes for every new African student in the city! Those clothes cost about 250k in Nigerian money.
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I can say that 30% of our feeding here is financed by the church. They send us chickens and meat from time to time. Lots of cucumbers, vegetables, rice and potatoes...
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The church believes when people come to the presence of Christ, they should be physically blessed just like Christ fed his multitudes. They have up to 20 varieties of food and they often force us to pack food home. They say if we do not go with the food, they would get spoilt anyway. They make them in excess every Sunday so that no one would go without being filled.
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Sisters in church are very free with boys (including internationals like us) they hug us like we are truly brothers and the women often hug and give us kisses on the cheek (reciprocating the love of Christ)
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The preacher is a woman. She is Ukrainian. The church here does not preach hell at all. Quiet weird. They only talk about the love of Christ. Little wonder it really shows in everyone of them.
You could easily mistake the friendliness of everyone in church for 'love interests' they show that love tooooooo much.
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Women and men should leave their head uncovered in church. No one would send you out if you do otherwise. But that is the norm here.
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Korean girls in church wear very skimpy dresses. No one seems bothered about it.
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Below is a video of a choreography performed by some of the teenagers in church.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArvoUvgSbGc
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First picture is the preacher.
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Second picture is with me with my American classmate and a Korean girl(after church)
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Third picture is me with sister Natalia
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This is how the church should be unlike Nigerian churches that have now been turned into a money making venture.

nairalandkachy1:


https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-efcc-grills-ex-minister-pauline-tallen-over-diversion-of-n2bn/amp

Nothing will come out of the case, EFCC just want a cut out of her loot. Corruption is now the order of the day under this current useless administration.

I have always been an advocate for the removal of fuel subsidy and the deregulation of the downstream sector of our petroleum industry so I will not because of politics now condemn the policy the same way the hypocrites that are implementing it now did during the PDP years.

However given the direct impact that fuel prices has on all facets of our economy, a responsible government will address the human factor before going ahead to implement such a policy that will shake the very foundation of our economy and it is in thoughtless implementation that this new administration has failed Nigerians.

For instance the PDP manifesto also planned to remove petroleum subsidy but to give a soft landing to the people, a drastic upwards review of the wage structure would have been implemented alongside the subsidy removal while $10 billion in soft loans would have been made available to SMEs to boost their businesses and cushion the effect of the removal of subsidy on the populace.

This will effectively recalibrate the economy from one focused on consumption to become one focused on productivity. This is also more far reaching than palliatives that are just temporary reliefs that are normally used to get the people to buy into draconian government policies.

Our government must learn to understand that governance is about the welfare of the people and not just making more money available in government coffers to spend as they please.

hisexcellency34:
With today's ruling by the Supreme Court dismissing PDP's suit, is there any hope for Labour Party and Peter Obi at the Supreme Court especially after Tinubu must have been sworn in as President?


Previous thread https://www.nairaland.com/7703882/court-dismisses-suit-seeking-stop#123380638

Obi is just a meddlesome interloper and is irrelevant in the scheme of things. If the stolen mandate is retrieved from Tinubu, it will rightly be given to Atiku who is the real winner of the election.

afariogunone1:
Yor phone number please?

0802-733-8500

afariogunone1:
Good day
Please how much will it cost to oven bake a corolla 2007 from black to metallic black

Thanks so much for the inquiry, it will cost 90k to get it done.

Antimandatethie:
The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has reiterated that he will explore all ways to ensure that he reclaim his alleged stolen mandate.

Obi stated this while speaking during a Labour Party stakeholders’ meeting in Awka.

The former Anambra state governor vowed to explore all legal options in ensuring he reclaims his mandate.

Recall that Obi came third in the February 25th presidential election.

The Labour Party presidential candidate was defeated by the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Since the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Obi had insisted he won the election, as headed to court to contest the outcome of the poll.

In a tweet via his verified Twitter about the meeting, Obi stated,



he stated.

Peter Obi Tweets

This clown should stop constituting himself into a nuisance, even though we all know that Tinubu rigged the elections, the real victim of the rigging was Atiku and not Peter Obi that was just a regional candidate.

hello66:
Seems 90k is the flat rate for all oven baked? No matter the paint quality?

It's the minimum for good quality paint, some brands of paint are even far more expensive to use.

adenigga:

Source: https://punchng.com/2023-elections-proudest-achievement-of-my-govt-Buhari

This dunce is a real specialist in failure.

toyowo:
How much is it to respray or bake Honda Civic 2002?

It will cost 90k to get it done.

Depressed101:
how much will it cost to repaint a lexus es 350 door and bumper ? just 1 door and front and back bumper

It will cost 30k to get it done, thanks.

Raysleek:
No need to disturb yourself na. Lagosians are happy with sanwo olu.

Is it the same Tinubu's stooge in Lagos that you are referring to? That charlatan that has failed to achieve anything in four years of licking Tinubu's filthy yansh.

According to INEC guidelines and regulations for the 2023 general
elections, only the names of candidates that emerged from the democratic
primaries as provided by section 84 of the Electoral Act 2022 shall be submitted to the commission. The deadline for the submission of
candidates for the presidential, senatorial and house of representative
elections was also set at Friday 17 June, 2022 while the deadline for
Governorship and House of Assembly elections was set at 6pm Friday 15th of July 2022.

It was then very amusing when rumours started circulating that Mr Gbadebo
Vivor-Rhodes (GRV) who didn’t participate in the official Labour Party
democratic primaries for the gubernatorial candidate of Lagos state within the deadline stipulated by INEC guidelines was being alleged to be the Labour Party governorship candidate for the state three weeks after the
INEC deadline had expired.

Many informed observers initially dismissed it as a joke because GRV was not even a member of the Labour Party in the register of INEC which had
given all parties a deadline of one month before their primaries to submit the list of their members that will be eligible to contest in their respective primaries. That asides, GRV was known to be an active card-carrying
member of the PDP who participated and lost the PDP gubernatorial
primaries just a month earlier. According to INEC register, GRV was a
member of PDP in the stipulated time thus not eligible to contest for the
Labour Party primaries.

That asides another faction of the dysfunctional Labour Party in Lagos had
conducted their primaries also under controversial circumstances and
declared Prof. Ifagbemi Awamaridi who doubled as the factional state
chairman as the gubernatorial candidate for Labour Party in Lagos state.

Little did we know the capacity for mischief of the Labour Party as the other faction which GRV joined after his defeat in the PDP primaries hastily
conducted a primaries on the 4th of August, 2022 almost three weeks after the deadline stipulated by INEC and GRV was declared winner in
contravention of the clearly stipulated guidelines by INEC.

They also somehow managed to smuggle his name into the INEC register of gubernatorial candidates leaving one to wonder how they accomplished
this electoral heist without compromising the integrity of INEC officials that are in charge of the register. The question arises, if a political party can
compromise INEC officials to smuggle in candidates after the stipulated
deadline, what is the guarantee that they will not compromise the same officials to manipulate the results of the elections in their favour?

Also coming from a political party that is promoting their presidential
candidate on the strength of his alleged integrity, one begins to wonder what manner of integrity will endorse this glaring subversion of due process by the factional gubernatorial candidate (GRV) of Labour Party in Lagos state.

What the Labour Party has done by smuggling GRV into the register of gubernatorial candidates for Lagos is the kind of impunity and subversion of due process that we routinely see being demonstrated by the ruling APC and this is one of the reasons why most Nigerians are tired of them and want to vote them out. It is really amusing that the same Labour Party that is promising to do things differently is now following the footsteps of APC in subverting the rule of law and compromising the system for their selfish
objectives.

Given the mess that Labour Party has made of itself in Lagos, it becomes inevitable that both their nominations for gubernatorial candidate for Lagos
state will not be able to pass the scrutiny of the court system or Election
Petition Tribunal as one factional candidate is not recognized by INEC and
the other factional candidate is in breach of clearly stipulated INEC
guidelines for the conduct of party primaries and submission of list of candidates. This means that if any Labour Party candidate emerges as the winner of the Lagos governorships elections, he will be easily removed by the Election Petition Tribunal.

Bearing the above facts in mind, and given that most Lagosians are fed-up of the twenty-four years of tyrannical hegemony by the APC led
government in the state, it becomes inevitable that the only viable choice of
defeating the incumbent APC in the state is to vote for the PDP as any vote for the Labour Party will eventually be voided and would help the failed APC government hold on to power longer.

The good news is that the PDP has the dynamic duo of Dr. Abdulazeez Olajide Adediran (JANDOR) and Funke Akindele who are best equipped and
prepared to rescue Lagos and take the state to greater heights as
governorship and deputy governorship candidates and we can be rest
assured that with both of them at the helm of affairs, we will certainly breathe a breath of fresh air in Lagos state.

Kunle Oshobi writes from Lagos.

GRV doesn't have a genuine LP gubernatorial ticket, rather he was imposed on the party by undemocratic elements within the the party. Voting for him will be a waste because he will still be removed by the supreme court even if he wins.

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BELOW ARE THE HIGHLIGHTED KEY POINTS THAT IS GERMANE TO THIS VIVOUR CANDIDACY AND WE CAN USE TO TALK AND CANVASS, *CHECK ITEM WITH 💥💥💥*
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Key Points In The Write Up👇🏽

*📌"It’s not just enough to blindly ride on the wave created by Mr Peter Obi’s Feb. 25th Election and waste this golden opportunity of rescuing Lagos."*

*📌"Let’s be wise and choose a better alternative with no constitutional land mines"*

*📌"it is my candid opinion that by the community reading of provisions of constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended; the Electoral Act 2022 & INEC Guidelines and Party Constitution; votes for Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of Labour Party in Lagos State would become wasted votes as he is not qualified to contest this election".*

*📌"This case is currently in court (Supreme court) and if we all know the principality called Lagos APC godfather, this is landmine that must be avoided. Don’t be shocked when Supreme Court will announce that Labour Party has no candidate in Lagos base on the aforementioned".*

💥💥💥📌 *Mr.Ifagbami Awamaridi emerged as its candidate. Having won the primaries, Mr. Awamaridi’s name and particulars were forwarded to the INEC by Labour Party. However, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour joined the party in July 2022 and on 10th August 2022 he was named LP candidate while Awamaridi’s name was wrongfully substituted.*

*"*As at the time the register of members of Labour Party was submitted to the INEC, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, Labour Party candidate for Lagos State was not a member of the LP. Indeed, he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he obtained nomination form, attended screening to contest for PDP Gubernatorial ticket which was later won by Jandor"*


*LET US AVOID SPLITTING VOTED & WASTED VOTES AGAIN!!!*

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