ObalaEmma:
Give it to Amaechi and Wike first.


You guys think we are stupid

The man identified as Samuel Onyemenam, 50, was stopped while carrying luggage as he entered the country on a flight from Nigeria via Germany last November.

Border Force officers x-rayed three of the suitcases and found that two of them were filled with 83,600 cigarettes, which would have carried duty worth £28,000.

Onyemenam, of Abbey Wood, London, was arrested and pleaded guilty to fraudulently evading duty when he appeared in the dock this week.

Onyemenam arrived at Newcastle International Airport on a flight from Nigeria via Germany on November 26 last year, Newcastle Magistrates' Court heard.

'He had three suitcases with him,' Rob Lawson, prosecuting said. 'Border Force officers informed him that they were going to X-ray his suitcases and two were found to contain a large quantity of cigarettes, 83,600. The duty evaded was £28,530.17.'

Onyemenam claimed that he had been transporting the cigarettes for his cousin and had made no financial gain from the scheme.
Paul Kennedy, defending, said Onyemenam, who has no past convictions, stood by his claim that he was transporting for his cousin and made no financial gain.

Mr. Kennedy continued: 'It was an opportunistic, one-off offence.'

However, the claims were not accepted by District Judge Jayne Bryan, who told Onyemenam: 'I don't accept what you're saying at face value.'

The judge continued: 'You're going to have to give evidence about what you're claiming. It's what we call a trial of issue and it will decide on what basis you will be sentenced on.

'You will have unconditional bail to return to this court on that date and time. If you don't attend, a warrant could be issued for your arrest.'

Onyemenam is due back in court on May 3.

Wainey:
The presidency might go to the south south, I do not think igbos are ready to stop politics of hatred.

Wainey:
I was rooting for Obi until I noticed his campaign is just using religion and tribal tension while using divide and conquer strategy while his supporters cheer him and do worse.
we are looking for a unifier and not a bigot.

Believe me, igbos would have had an easy ride to 2023 if they had played the politics very well.

Spicycat:
So someone from somewhere will just give order and people will comply without asking any question, this is very amazing and pitiable 🤔

Hoelujohn:

You are looking for easy prey to devour. Eyin werey

HIGHESTPOPORI:
When he contests, you will remember he is Igbo.Nigerians are wiser

squash47:
Cry me a river. One incompetent politician has been dethroned. Was it Peter Obi that voted or the masses ? Stop complaining, accept the fact that you failed to deliver and you have been kicked out as expected. Go home!

onuman:



Politics of Inclusivity has no meaning for Bola Tinubu.
If it has, Tinubu wouldn't have said it's his turn to become president of Nigeria after PMB, whereas he knows that if it's turn by turn, it's the turn of the Igbo to present a president for Nigeria after PMB. There were Igbos with presidential capability who formed APC with Tinubu and others.

Birdbyrde440:


Handing over will mar the electoral process.
Let obi and tinubu settle their matter first.

SmartProf:
A lawless process can't produce leaders...they produce tyrants who then want the people to be lawful...Nigeria is a shameless and backward nation.

helinues:


Imagine Seun being fed by the Obidients about El Rufai not until he Seun watched El Rufai himself before lamenting how they have brainwashed him about the man.

Seun na Sisi

Okoroawusa:
Seun, you chop palm kernel abi na the colour of your teeth be this?

You are talking like you have not been on the social media before this election...the harassment, the intimidation, the bullying, the curses, abuses and ethnic profiling?

Bro, abeg shift aside let's enjoy this moment .

Evaloyal2J:
ugm and blood sheds is not a culture in the se in, we value lives more here. Ugm is a political undoing and will feezle out with time just as it came. However, you just confirmed agberoism as your culture as well as state sponsored as they are instruments for revenue generation. So much for the sophistication indeed.

helinues:


Imagine Seun being fed by the Obidients about El Rufai not until he Seun watched El Rufai himself before lamenting how they have brainwashed him about the man.

Seun na Sisi

helinues:
Sisi Seun, stop hiding on tweeter, come and express your thoughts on your own forum.

If Tweeter did not make the platform standard, you won't be running there

inoki247:
Lol for where when dem dey du dere own he dey sweet dem....

DodadaKoKigbe:
If the tables were turned, obidenses would taunt till jesus comes....

the good book says no rest for the wicked.

APC agents should stop taunting Obidients.

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has promised to work with the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu when his government is finally inaugurated in May 29th.

Makinde made this promise in an interview with TVC on Sunday.

He said, “I will work with the President-elect. We will continue to work towards ensuring that Nigeria is united. We will make sure Nigeria is on the path of inclusivity. We will work with the passion to create value in our country Nigeria.”

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC had earlier officially declared Makinde winner of the governorship election in the state.

Makinde polled a total of 563,617 votes while his closest rival, Sen. Teslim Folarin scored 251,230. Adebayo Adelabu of the Accord came a distant third polling 38,757.

Makinde is the last of the PDP G5 or Integrity Group with an election. Already, Governors Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) and Samuel Ortom (Benue), who have been in office for eight years each, all lost their senatorial bid while Nyesom Wike (Rivers) who is also completing his second term as Governor didn’t run for any elective post.

With the defeat of three of his comrades, all eyes were on Makinde in the March 18 poll. With his declaration as the winner by INEC, Makinde survived the defeat suffered by other G5 members.

Governorship elections were held in 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states on Saturday. The governorship and state assembly elections were held a week later than initially scheduled after a court case forced INEC to move them forward.

Eight of the 36 states — Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Imo, Kogi, Osun, and Ondo — have governorship elections “off-season” due to litigations and court judgements.

In alphabetical order, the 28 states where governorship elections were on March 18 are Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara.

Of the 28 states, 11 serving governors including Makinde sought reelection while 17 outgoing governors are in the final weeks of their constitutional two-term limits of eight years, having been sworn in on May 29, 2015.