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I took my vehicle for a computerized vehicle inspection at the Computerized Vehicle Inspection located along Kubwa Express, Abuja, operated by the F.C.T Vehicle Inspection Office (V.I.O) and attached, is the result of the inspection.

I need someone to kindly explain the "defects detected during the inspection", as contained in the attached report to me, to enable me do the needful.

ArmedRobber:
who has more electoral worth

oyegun that lost his ward during election or oshomole that took power from incumbency??

A poser to every curious mind.

FortifiedCity:
Being a 'lawyer' can't save one from being an illiterate

Define illiteracy, pls

lestat:
Oshiomole will not get it, Oyegun will win it again

Neither of them will get it, but a neutral person entirely.

FortifiedCity:
The foreign wife importer and the illiterate grammarian should keep dreaming of resurrecting a dead Association of Present Criminals (APC)

For your information, Patrick Obahiangbon is a lawyer and of course a Bini man like Oyegun.

I take my cue for this write-up from THISDAY newspaper’s lead story of Friday, April 6, 2018 with the banner headline: “Jostling for APC Chairmanship Begins, Oyegun,
Oshiomhole, Ebri Emerge Contenders…”

My intervention is not a confirmation of any sort that my boss, Adams Oshiomhole, whom I served as Chief of Staff from 2012 to 2016 when he was in the saddle as governor of Edo state is interested in the position of national chair of our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). On the other hand, it is not a repudiation of his possible interest in the top party position.

My intervention, therefore, in this circumstance, just in case he is being tapped for the task of leading the party, is to present a testimonial of a man that has forcefully defined his eon in the socio-political cosmos of our nation and cut a niche for himself as a dependable, charismatic and emblematic leader in the topsy-turvy trajectory of labour politics and the realpolitik of our nation state. Oshiomhole is an enigmatic labour activist cum leader, an inimitable realpolitiker who is persistently very pragmatic and passionate about the crystallization of tangible results in all of his utilitarian engagements.

It is against the backdrop of the adumbration supra that I set out, in a staccato-like fashion, as the portrait painter of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1688) did, to paint the portrait of the ebullient and sagacious Comrade Adams Aliu Oshiomhole, “pimples, warts and all” as I see him. This exertion does not present any impossibility. Validation: Oshiomhole’s persona is an open book. What I intend to do is to populate each chapter of this fascinating manuscript and present necessary finer details in much bolder relief for public approbation.

First, Oshiomhole as a labour union leader broke the glass ceiling in providing sharply-focused leadership for the period he was in the saddle as president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). He showed courage. He demonstrated very rare guts. He led the NLC to challenge anti-people policies of the Federal Government especially under Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. In doing so, he found and assumed a place in the hearts of the Nigerian workers. His worthy stewardship would thereafter open the way in Edo for his political canonization that resulted in his emergence as governor of the state in November 2008.

A summation of his era as NLC president could not have, understandably, escaped essential indictment of Oshiomhole by the Obasanjo administration as a labour union “gadfly”. To the administration, he was a nuisance, a pest, an irritant; but to the mass of the people, he was a patron saint. His leadership of the labour movement did not verge on extremism. It was moderated by patriotic zeal and nationalistic temper.

He was a leader who was committed to the national interests over and above insular, egocentric and unsophisticated interests. He gave the task his best such that he could say “Veni, vidi, vici”, meaning ‘I came, I saw, I conquered.”

But Oshiomhole, whose life exemplifies the labour struggle, has continued to identify with and energise the struggle. There is no retirement for him in the struggle. While in the saddle in Edo state, he maintained a close-knit relationship with his labour union constituency. Little wonder, mutual respect preponderated government-workers’ interactions in Edo for all of eight years from 2008 to 2016. Even now that he is out of office, he continues to appropriate the gregarious spirit that defines the struggle and its essence; that can-do and never-say-die spirit of an avatar.

With an expansively vast mind in the labour movement, I am not in doubt that Oshiomhole will keep marching with the movement till he breathes his last. That commitment is not fugacious; rather it is the diktat of his spirit, permanently etched therein, and against which he has no power to submerge in the mundane or the inane that obviously assailed him while in office as governor.

As governor, he shunned the luxury of office and would, with his trademark aluta khaki outfit, hit the street to receive workers on protest for better welfare package. Oshiomhole enjoys the credit of increasing workers’ minimum wage from N18,000 to N25,000.

Second, Oshiomhole’s governance model enjoyed the buy-in of those of us who worked with him. He was an archetypical team leader. He ran the administration in the team leadership spirit where every appointee had a role to play and there was a performance measuring index that was available to determine how governance and policies had impacted positively on the mass of the people in the nooks and crannies of the state.

The comrade dismantled the behemoth of godfatherism that had held the state prostrate before he stepped in the saddle and the result was his manifest imprimatur in the pervasive infrastructure development in the state, especially in the building and renovation of classrooms, roads and health centres. The list is endless.

His political savoir-faire is amazing. Blessed with the capacity and the legerdemain to sidestep political thalidomide, Oshiomhole has become a master of the game of brinkmanship. He did that with the opposition in 2008 at the outset of his governorship in Edo when he upstaged the then ruling party from power through the instrumentality of the court. The Election Petition Tribunal and the Court of Appeal ruled that Oshiomhole won the highest number of validly cast votes in the election against Professor Oserhiemen Osunbor of the PDP.

Initially, there was political accommodation of the PDP elements in his government because the party was in the majority in the State House of Assembly, but when the elements started to overstep their boundaries; he strategically decided to take no prisoners. He ensured they were sacked. That paved the way for Oshiomhole to espouse the philosophical underpinnings of his administration and to defend their ramifications.

For instance, the mantra of “one man, one vote” was a writ-large enlightenment campaign to sensitise the Edo electorate on the purity of the electoral process. In other words, it was a strategy to condemn elections that brought the previous administrations of the PDP to power as manipulated and unconscionably rigged. That effectively de-marketed the PDP and rendered it unpopular in Edo.
Third, Oshiomhole assumed the role of a salesman for his government and his party. He was able to articulate and defend his actions and inactions.

There was no disconnection between government and the people; and between policy formulations and policy implementations. Essentially,Oshiomhole rambunctiously seized the public space of Edo state to appropriate the people’s minds in a cultic grassroots followership. The people became fanatical supporters of the Oshiomhole prodigy. That is what it means to be the people’s governor.
Sans docility, timidity and tardiness in response to people’s agitations, et al, Oshiomhole redefined governance in Edo.

He reworked the political party architecture of the APC in the state such that there was a synergy between government and party in the rationalization of government policies that were anchored on the party manifestoes. The Godwin Obaseki-led administration has continued the process of consolidating the Oshiomhole legacies and he enjoys the support of all of us.

Therefore, permit me, at this intersection, to recommend the Oshiomhole therapy and panacea for the APC at the national level in the arduous and committed task by President Muhammadu Buhari of rebuilding and strengthening the party. Oshiomhole is an avatar whose political philosophies, exertions, modus operandi, modus vivendi and joie de vivre will be salutary to the president’s endeavor at APC’s “Risorgimento”.

He has the profound intellectual rampart to provide requisite support for the president’s visions, socio-economic and political ideals and programmes. It will be a productive combination of a taciturn and sharply focused president and rambunctious,utilitarian,energetic,audacious public space national chair to achieve national redemption and APC’s resurgence.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/adams-oshiomhole-avatar-apcs-resurgence/

In Ibadan, Old Bodija is the place; in Lagos, it's Oshodi

BoneBlogger:
The corpse of Pastor Pius Oromusele was brought to Edo state government house (Osadebe Avenue) today by his family members. The pastor was reportedly killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in his farm at odigie community in the Ovia North -East Local Government Area of Edo State.

It was gathered that Eromosele was abducted by the gunmen while working on his farm at Odighi community on March 29.

The body of the deceased and that of another person were discovered in the bush by a search team comprising hunters and vigilantes on April 3.

According to the son of the deceased, Dr. Richard Eromosele, the killers had earlier demanded a ransom of N4m before the decomposing body was found.

The Edo State Commissioner of Police, Johnson Kokumo, said one person has been arrested one suspect in connection with the killing.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/04/pastor-pius-oromusele-corpse-dumped-at-edo-government-house.html

Is that the Edo state Government house in your Village?

gimmehear:
Source: https://www.afp.com/en/news/717/night-owls-risk-dying-younger-should-sleep-study-doc-13y25o1

One thing must kill a man

DavidEsq:
Its "between"; not "among".

Am seeing more than two persons in those two pictures.

....Mr. teacher, don't teach me nonesense

Sorry, who is the man among them?

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Title: Certificate of Occupancy
Size: 3,500 sqm
Location: Wuse District
Purpose: Educational
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For sale, is a land within the heart of Abuja, for educational purpose or you can apply for conversion of same for other land use.
Title: Certificate of Occupancy
Size: 3,500 sqm
Location: Wuse District
Purpose: Educational
Price: Call 08025367696

Alistfan:
Oga, they are always on time. No unnecessary flight delay.

I don't think you board/use Dana Air. Because of their now common delays, at times without cogent reason(s) and without apologies to its waiting and anxious passengers, my organization and colleagues now fly Air Peace.

Has he cleared himself with the EFCC and apologized to Ms. Oteh?

Alistfan:
Yes o but yet still the airline with the best customer service and on time performance

On time performance! how?

Airline with the highest history and unending tales of flights delays, without apologies to it's passengers

Air line with unending tales of flights delays, yet no apology

AtikuNetwork:
Atiku's time has finally arrived and one million vindictive Obasanjos can't stop him. Atiku's only 'offense' to obasanjo was that he refused to support his third term agenda. Can you imagine? Obasanjo is overrated and his socalled third force which was created to split Atiku's votes has already failed.

So you think? "Sidon dey look"

Fogman:
Greetings sir, just N67k

How much will it cost to get to install on my Toyota Corolla S 2007, i.e all inclusive with DVD, GPS navigation, maps and Reverse camera?

Lovalt15:
Vehicle crime is an ever present problem in Nigeria. So it is important to protect your vehicle against theft & the inconviencies that come with vehicle theft.
In the event of vehicle theft, recover the vehicle yourself in three (3) easy steps.
1. Send a coded SMS to your vehicle's tracking device GSM number to automatically shut down the vehicle.
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3. Use google map search on the internet to view the real time location of the vehicle, up to the street level.
. Also ideal for fleet vehicle tracking and management.
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Do you have an office in Abuja? I need a tracker for my car

Fogman:
All my vehicles are on 3.5% comprehensive insurance from Law Union & Rock Insurance. Call Eddy 0802 839 4793 for assistance

Can one get it for a Tokunbo car?

gwng:
Depends on the car starting from 20K.

How much does it take to provide tracking for a Toyota Corolla sport?

ryms691:
I think your car is at risk of being stolen.
Go get a comprehensive motor insurance policy at 3.5% of the value of your car. This comes with free car tracker.
Only cars of 1M and above can get this policy.
Call or WhatsApp: +2348162809308

Not your private number, pls give details of where one can get comprehensive insurance cover @ 3.5%

FabioPeter:
Lagos State government will disband Danfo and bring more modern buses. This project is already ongoing.

Better, pls

I know say na Tivi girl

So, Oyegun is going soon? At least Tinubu will now laf

Has anything good come out these meetings?

For the same "kiiler" danfos called Buses?

fabienjoe:
Not correct. Cars for most developed parts of the world are still made in those countries. There are several car manufacturing companies in Europe and the Americas. Most Chinese built cars are used in China, not exported.

But this cloning of known brands is wrong. It kills innovation. It should not be allowed.

Oga, virtually every big manufacturing firms(auto firms inclusive) have shifted their core operations in manufacturing to China. The large market, cheap labour and the prevailing world's appetite for made in China products, made it so. No be me me do am so, but it's the trend. Almost all countries of the world look China now.

jerflakes:
There's a movie I watched
They said "the American dream is made in China "

Na so