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CaptainAyub:
Why do you muslims always lie bare -facedly?
The US clearly said "WE WILL NOT DENY OR ACCEPT HE IS ON OUR WATCHLIST" which is the usual practice especially when the person is actually guilty but they don't want to compromise investigations.

Hahahahahaha

"You muslims" again?


Read this https://www.nairaland.com/6504071/fact-check-isa-pantami-not

Wickedfacts:
Has the US Government denied that Pantami is not on the list?

I won't return your insult. I presume you're an elderly person and I expect you to have the decency to behave better. You're not a kid, don't behave like one.

As to these comments about killing Christians, did Pantami make these comments or not?

A report came out that Pantami was on a US terror watchlist. I looked at the report and it was wishy washy. There was no interview with anyone, there was no document to back the claim, all that was in it was "alleged".

Then one of the mediums that published it published a reaction when they realised that the article was fake.

Dr Pantami threatened to sue and the medium that originally published the article retracted it an apologised.

Another medium, Pulse NG, called the US Embassy, the CIA, FBI, etc and they all denied that he was on any watchlist

Nobody has provided any source for the allegations. It's not on any foreign medium or any US Government website.

Now you are giving me a statement that he allegedly made in 2000.

Please, think, maybe my brain is not working but explain to me how the hell does that prove that he is on any terror watchlist?? Is that the watchlist??

naptu2:



You see, this thread should be a great opportunity for truth to be exposed.

It's not a platform for bigotry. You have not contributed anything to the thread if you post bigoted statements.


It's not a thread for insults. Those are completely meaningless.

Emotional outbursts add nothing to the thread.


Now, if you say that Isa Ali Pantami is on a US terrorist watchlist all you have to do is post the watchlist from a credible source and we'll all learn.

Anything else is absolute nonsense.

More

It was reported that several Nigerian influencers were hired by Venezuelans to wage a Twitter war on behalf of Alex Saab. Many of these influencers had their Twitter accounts suspended. See previous threads here.
https://www.nairaland.com/6493809/twitter-suspends-nigerian-influencers-accounts

https://www.nairaland.com/6494505/venezuela-using-nigerian-influencers-wage

Buzzfeed later released an article in which they claimed that several influencers including Japhet Joshua Omojuwa, Pamilerin Adegoke and Tonto Dikeh were approached to take part in the Venezuelan campaign. See here https://www.nairaland.com/6498745/nigerian-social-media-influencers-paid

Some Twitter users subsequently searched for directors of Omojuwa's company (as listed by the CAC) and they discovered that Dr Oby Ezekwesili and Mallam Nasir El-Rufai were listed as directors.

Dr Ezekwesili's son tweeted that his mother was not aware that she was listed as a director in Alpha Reach (Omojuwa's company). Dr Ezekwesili's lawyers asked the CAC and Omojuwa to explain the listing. https://www.nairaland.com/6499248/oby-ezekwesili-asks-omujuwa-cac


Omojuwa has now replied through his lawyers.





JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa

Pastor @obyezeks, you served me legal notice publicly, so I was left with no choice but to serve you publicly too. PS: I won’t react to the unwarranted provocation from you, your sons & allies. You betrayed my loyalty, service & respect to you, for reasons I don’t understand. xx

https://mobile.twitter.com/Omojuwa/status/1382299020215918592

B&C
Babalakin&Co.
14" April 2021
The Head of Chambers Feta. & Falana's Chambers 22 Mediterranean Street Imani Estate Off Shehu Shagari Way Maitama District Abuja

ATTENTION: MARSHAL ABUBAKAR LP
Dear Sir,
RE: DEMAND FOR FULL DISCLOSURE AND PUBLIC APOLOGY BY MRS OBIAGELI EZEKWESILI IN RESPECT OF ALPHA REACH LTD.

1. We act as counsel to Japheth Omojuwa ("our client", on whose instructions we are responding to your letter dated 9th April 2021 that you sent to him and which was widely shared on social media by your client and her family members.

2. In the letter, you alleged that in 2012, our client registered a company known as Alpha Reach Company Limited (the "company" - which you incorrectly referred to as Alpha Beta Limited - listing your client, Pastor !qrs. Obiageli Ezekw.ili as a Director without lier consent and approval. You further claimed that sometime in 2017, our client caused the name of your client to be removed from the company's list of directors.

3. The company was indeed registered in 2012; our client however unequivocally denies your allegations that consent of your client was not sought before she was listed as a Director. Our client sought and obtained your client's consent before listing her as a Director of the company, based on their close relationship, which you curiously omitted to mention in your letter.

4. In the interest of completeness and the full disclosure that you requested in your letter, we have set below the basis upon which our client sought and obtained your client's consent to be listed as a Director of the company to begin with.

5. Our client has a 10-year relationship with your client dating back to 2011. Our client had just completed the mandatory National Youth Service when he met your client, who took him under her wings and even assisted in paying part of his rent in Abuja in 2012. The relationship began when our client visited your client's house in Abuja in the company of Mallam Nash El-Rufai, upon her request. Our client enjoyed a triangular relationship with your client and Mallam EI-Rufai, whom your client used to refer to as her "brother". Both Mallam El-Rufai and your client were listed as Directors of Alpha Reach Company Limited when it was registered in 2012, with their full consent. Likewise, our client recalls being seated at the suite of a respected man of God at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja, trusting your client with some very personal and painful stories. At a point in our client's life, your client was his most trusted person and confidant. Some people can attest to this fact, and they will, at the appropriate time and forum.

6. In addition, there are correspondence between both parties (on vario. platforms, including Yahoo.com, Aol.com, WorldBank.org, iCloud.com, gmail.com, BlackBerry chats, WhatsApp chats, and Twitter Direct Messages) that demonstrate the extent and strength of their relationship in the period leading to and after the registratipn of the company. For instance, on:
• 6 April 2012 at 21:23, your client sent a message to our client stating as follow: "pull in your brother[s], Chine and Chuba [her biological sons] into what you do from tote". She made similar comments on 6 October 2012, a month after the incorporation of Alpha Reach Company Limited;

• 11 November 2013 at 13:57, over a year after the incorporation of Alpha Reach Company Limited, your client exchanged messages with our client calling him "dear son", and requested social media favours;

• 16 February 2016 at 08:12, long after the incorporation Alpha Reach Company Limited and her removal as a Director, your client exchanged messages with our client wherein she praised and described him as 'exceptional'.

7. Your client shared not only personal information but also her uncomplimentary opinions about other prominent people and former colleagues, with our client that she ordinarily would not share publicly, as she did 00 16 April 2012 between 18:56 - 19:04 and 19 April 2013 at 10:13. These actions define the extent of the shared trust between both of them.

8. Our client has similar documentary proof regarding the period leading to the removal of your client as a Director of Alpha Reach Company Limited. The relationship was not one-sided, and our client assisted your client in promoting various causes and engagements, as well as defending your client against perceived attacks on social media, often times on her request. Our client is prepared to provide documentary evidence to support the above claims and many more at the appropriate time and forum if the need arises.

9. Clearly, your client is a successful public figure with whom our client had a close relationship. It is reasonable that our client wanted to leverage her reputation to advance the company he promoted. It was not until 2015 when it was certain that HE Mallam El-Rufai ,was going to become the Governor of Kaduna State and the likelihood that your client could be appointed a Minister by the then President-elect Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, that they both were removed as Directors of the company. You might recall that your client honoured the ruling party's invitation to deliver a keynote speech at a public forum in Abuja in 2014, and there was a general expectation that she would play a role in President Buhari's government. Indeed, your client leaned on our client to publish and distribute her speech at the APC forum.

10. The relationship between your client and our client deteriorated became our client is no longer the impressionable boy who had just completed his NYSC in 2011. He is a man who has earned his stripes and is no longer willing to fight proxy wars or be used to fight perceived enemies by a benefactor. He is tired of your client's constant efforts to control his public views and tweets.

11. In your letter, you requested a full disclosure of documents. Our client is very much willing to disclose documents relating to the period between September 2012 and April 2015, when your client was a Director of the company. However, given how your client and her family shared the letter under reference on social media (in clear demonstration of bad faith) after our client had already acknowledged receiving it, your client and her family could not be trusted not to disclose the company's sensitive corporate information if it is made available to her. Our client would only make those documents available to your client upon a written undertaking that the documents would be treated with utmost confidentiality.

12. While he remains grateful for your client's past contributions to his growth and development and is sad about the recent turn of events, our client is ready to use every piece of information at his disposal to defend himself and his future against your client's ungodly allegations.

We thank you for your kind courtesies.
Yours faithfully
I/ Ira Boonyameen Babajide Lawal, Notary Public Head, Abuja Office BABALAKIN & CO.

descarado:
Naptu2, how come your torchlight didn't beam on this one?

GorillaApp:
Naptu2 oya come o, food don don


I knew quite all along when dat first news broke that this man supports terrorism. There is no smoke without fire.

For bihari to pick this one. It means he is a terrorist too and supports their ideology.

Wickedfacts:
Naptu2, come here. Your attention is needed.

emmyN:
Oga naptu2, they are calling your name here o

Common sense is not common. Is that the CIA watchlist??

MejiLoyon:
We don't need their validation to accept that sir Oliver is a legend. Before Google we celebrated him our way. If they want to celebrate him let it be known worldwide. For one thing I was fooled until I saw a similar thread honouring someone only to open Google with my friends to see Abe Lincoln or one person like that. Due to where I was. It pained my soul. My own is if they want to honor anyone it should be worldwide. For others to know who the person is. For we know our heroes. And they don't.

But then again our arguments here will as usual have no effect on their decisions. Just an eye opener. Good morning

Of course we don't need their validation, but that doesn't mean that they cannot celebrate him.

Think about this, you said that you saw a Google doole celebrating a Nigerian, then you opened Google and saw Abraham Lincoln. That means that the Abraham Lincoln doodle was also not shown worldwide because it was not shown here.

Google is a global company and some of their workers and customers are Nigerian and there's absolutely nothing wrong if they celebrate a Nigerian.

Many of their doodles are not global because tastes and interests differ. For example, you might not see a Google doodle celebrating Easter in Saudi Arabia or Israel. Events clash and while a doodle might be celebrating something in one part of the world, there might be another doodle celebrating something else in another part of the world. That's the way of the world.

Right now there might be a doodle in another country celebrating a music star from that country, but in Nigeria the doodle is celebrating Oliver De Coque.

That doesn't mean that they are trying to fool us.

I listened to shortwave radio in the 1980s and I discovered that what was being broadcast on BBC Americas was different from what was on BBC South Asia and that was different from what was on BBC Africa and so on and so forth.

MejiLoyon:
Sman anthem composer

Funfact. That doodle only shows in Africa...if possible Nigeria. I don't know about other countries but in Yankee E no dey show. Na another thing dey show. Google just dey make una happy . The day I knew this fact na that day I realise say them dey use us catch Cruise

kingsleefolli:
Google dey fool us.only naija google oooo.use better VPN.you won't see anything.see proof here.this oyinbo know what we want.tweeter coming to africa to do what,to fool us.let wise up.next abeg.no data to check rubbish.

kingsleefolli:
See it here.france today.OP please don't allow this people to fool us.next

Many websites have specific versions for specific regions and they tailor their content for that specific region.


This doodle appears on Google.com.ng, that is, Google Nigeria. There's also specific content that's tailor made for Spain on Google.es. How does that mean that they are fooling us??


Does the fact that we have BBC Pidgin or BBC Africa mean that the BBC is fooling us or does the fact that there's an MTV Europe mean that MTV is fooling Europeans?

My favourite song by Oliver de Coque is undoubtedly Identity.

naptu2:
Phenomenal guitar playing, with wisdom filled lyrics.


Oliver De Coque - Identity (1980)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_gG1A_7M6U

naptu2:
Another reading from the book of wisdom. I have posted the audio from the album many times, so this time I'm going to post a video of a live performance.


Oliver de Coque - Identity.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZnyFVK_Ag0

King (Dr.) Chief Oliver De Coque (1947-2008)

Oliver Sunday Akanite was a Nigerian guitarist and one of Africa's most prolific recording artists.

Birth name: Oliver Sunday Akanite

Born: April 14, 1947

Origin: Ezinifite, Nnewi South, Anambra State.

Died: June 20, 2008 (aged 61)

Genres: Igbo highlife

Occupation(s): Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Lead Guitarist

Years active: 1965–2008

Labels: Olumo Records Nigeria Limited



Early life and career

Since releasing his debut album Messiah Messiah in 1977, Coque had recorded no fewer than 93 albums in his homeland. His dance-inspiring "Ogene" style of Nigerian high life, which blends modern high life and traditional Igbo music, has produced such hits as "People's Club of Nigeria",“nempi social club”, "Biri Ka Mbiri," "Ana Enwe," "Nnukwu Mmanwu," and "Identity," which remained on Radio Nigeria 2's Top Ten throughout most of 1981.

Playing music since the age of 11, Coque was taught to play the guitar by Piccolo, a Congolese guitarist living in Nigeria. Serving an apprenticeship with juju stars Sunny Agaga and Jacob Oluwale, he was a star by his late teens. Oliver is also considered as the most flamboyant Igbo musician. Attracting international attention with a London performance in 1973, he played on Prince Nico Mbarga's album Sweet Mother four years later. Coque was often backed by his brother Eugene's Igede International Band. Oliver's sons Edu de Coque, Safin de Coque and Solar de Coque are also musicians. He died at the age of 61 in 2008. Oliver de coque married four wives and he is a father of twelve children.

Later life and death.

Oliver de coque died on 20 june 2008.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_De_Coque


Here is the Google doodle.

There are people who you could be standing with them out in the hot sun and they will insist that it is midnight. You can argue with them for hours, but they will still insist that it is midnight.

You see, facts and truth do not mean anything to them. They believe that the fact that they can talk and be negative is enough. Who cares about facts and common sense.

Most of them on Nairaland are fuelled by hatred and bigotry.


What is the point of arguing with such people?

I only argue with people on the basis of common sense and logic, not emotions and pigheadedness.

He thinks he is so important that anyone will try to impress him.

He actually thinks his opinion matters.

He thinks he can command me to show him a specific story that he picked out of thin air.

He thinks I live to write stories for him.


Hahahahahahaha


He must be a clown.


The clown that has been chasing me for months, desperate to get my attention.


Besides, he is one of those people with an agenda that I wrote about. An agenda steeped in bigotry. He sees truth and proclaims it a lie because of bigotry. He sees a lie and proclaims it truth because of bigotry.

Why will I want to engage such a clown?

hecomeshome:
I do hope you said all these when Buhari, El-rufai and co were busy spewing all manners of lies against GEJ? If you didn't, better hold your peace and let Nigerians air their opinions.

I have been debunking lies on Nairaland for a long time. When people lied that GEJ did not receive a proper welcome in China in 2013, I debunked the lie. The thread is still there.

https://www.nairaland.com/1353918/gej-received-china-chinese-asst

https://www.nairaland.com/1354229/welcoming-ceremony-president-jonathan-china

A lie is a lie regardless of who said it.

Stop supporting lies because of your partisan agenda