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Bestmanfornow:
The governor of Anambra state Prof Charles Soludo has completed 510 shops in Ekwulobia for petty traders and those loading under the newly constructed Ekwulobia flyover has been completed.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BSjCmskLb/

Watch the full coverage through the link below 👇


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUZHikHgOd8

DONFRANSKID:
Who ever believe Natasha is very sick. And need to be checked.

helinues:
Natasha might be suspended if she continues in this manner.

She too like unnecessary clout chasing

sailor2011:
Nonsense talk....I know say na the only thing she go talk be this ..😄😄😄

MadamExcellency:
When you present yourself as someone available, men will price your commodity.

Adult's business, No receipt. He priced and you didn't sell.

OviaTheGreat:
Why she no talk all this one since... Yeye woman

Ojuntana:
I don't get
Is Trump saying he can't get all these except he engages in tariff brickbats with these countries?

This looks much more like empty showboating to me

Okete001:
God bless president Tinubu.

Nigeria is my fatherland and I just want to see the country grow.

Expect more of this.

Biafrâns are coming to flood this place with their negative energy now

ibechris:
*🇳🇬 BRT CORRUPTION OF GOVERNOR SANWAOLU EXPOSED BY BRITISH THESIS RESEARCHER*

The shameful corruption cesspool called Nigeria.

*MY STORY*
_By Bola Oyewole_

Europe passed through bitter wars due to corruption and mismanagement. We need not pass through the same path if only our leaders have a deep sense of history.
Listen, Nigerians, a major crisis can happen in this country. There can be war. We all have the responsibility to prevent war.

I came into Nigeria to do a report on corruption in the public sector being part of my doctoral thesis. Let me tell you how it started.

Each time we discussed corruption Africa in my class, my classmates and even my teacher would point towards Nigeria as an example of where, according to him, ‘nothing works without bribery.’ The first day he used the word, I accused him of the fallacy of over generalisation. He was soon to come out with proofs including clips he collected right from the Murtala Mohammed Airport on his arrival and on departure through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

The clips, to say the list, were horrible. Officials in uniforms were asking him for money. One even seized his camera asking him to pay $100 to have it back.

On the highways, even with a hired escort, police asked him for money. One searched him thoroughly and demanded for his passport which he briefly seized as ransom for cash.

In government offices, he was asked to pay ‘roja’ by security and even members of the Civil Defence Corps. In one instance where he posed as a philanthropist coming to eliminate malaria in a South West state, a top government official asked for N20m as commission telling him to stop malaria, he needed to grease the palms of ministry of health officials who obtain regular bribe from pharmaceutical companies that manufacture anti-malaria medicine.

In another instance, he met two officials who said they would help him to book an appointment with a Minister. The officials asked for N50m. When he asked to see the Chief of Staff, the officials asked for N60m. In both instances, they requested for dollars in cash and then introduced him to a BDC official. The irony is that he has all these on tape with visual records.

I know there is corruption in Nigeria but never knew the extent of the shame. I felt thoroughly embarrassed as he brought his visual presentation which he had promised. He is Caucasian, brilliant, pro-Africa and a very diligent academic.

He is currently working on a documentary on corruption in Nigeria. He then told me that the worst part of the problem with Nigeria is that decent people are unofficially barred from the political space that he said has been taken over by ‘vampires.’ It was this debate that prompted my choosing to embark on official Corruption in Nigeria as the focal point of my Phd thesis.

Corruption and my experience with Lagos BRT Officials

As part of the chain of corruption in Nigeria, I found out that BRT officials in Lagos pocket no less than N1billion naira every month in an organised crime supported by the police and some top notch politicians.
It involves the use of Police BRT enforcement Unit, armed thugs and some officials of Lagos State Transport Management Authority, LASTMA. I will explain my findings.

As part of my research, my cousin, a Phd student at the Obafemi Awolowo University suggested to me to include corruption in Lagos focusing on BRT officials. At first, I didn’t see the merit until I ventured into what turned out to be far more embarrassing than what my lecturer experienced while in Nigeria.

I set my driver to brush the BRT lane and then retreated swiftly on our way to Ikorodu on a Sunday morning. As soon as that happened, four police men jumped on the road led by Babaje. He is an ebony black person, average height and tall. His men already had their iron tyre buster stretched on the road. The first question they asked was ‘May I know you sir?’ I introduced myself as a student overseas, visiting Nigeria. If you are a big politician or influential figure, I later got to know, you would not be arrested.

Sure, I was a priced prey. Babaje collected the key of my car and then ordered me and my driver to enter. He drove recklessly along the Ikorodu Expressway, ignoring all traffic rules and above all, he drove on the BRT lane to a spot after the Ketu police station. I appealed to his morale, telling him the state of the economy and that I admitted I did what was wrong. I pleaded for leniency.
He told me a camera had picked my car plate number and that he was helpless. At the blue gate, he handed me over to a ‘professional thug’ who had red-shot eyes, brutal and savage. In my car was my inlaw who was five months pregnant.

I was actually taking her back to her parents for a shot visit.

On our way, I noticed at least three LASTMA officials signalled him victoriously. The thug wore BRT badge on his suit. He had no time for negotiation. My price was N70,000 not negotiable.
After pleading, he said I could pay N60 and would be allowed to go, but If I chose N70,000, I would pay and then be taken to a Court that may warn or jail me. No matter who you are, if offered these options, you would submit to corruption to pay N50,000, which was the minimum he later offered, and be let go. I opted for the N70,000 official rate to enhance my research.

N720million to corrupt officials in one month

He drove the car inside the building. In few minutes, the car was deflated. I was then kept waiting for three hours. During this time, I asked my driver to go outside and take note of what was happening with a chip camera while I monitored events inside the building. In three hours, I counted 150 individuals that came to the compound to pay money, mostly in cash and also in transfers through a standby POS. When it was my turn, I transferred the N70k. I then asked for the receipt. I was asked to ‘Go and ask Tinubu.’ I then asked what that meant. I was told that because I wanted to protest, I should protest at the highest level. I never got any receipt. Out of many of us charged for the 70k in three hours, none got any receipt.
The thugs prowled around, harassing, insulting and humiliating every prey.

They harassed married women and girls. Car owners, including breast feeding mothers came out and sat on the edges of the road, some young girls were pressed but no where to ease themselves. One particular elderly woman being fetched from the hospital with bandage on her head was bleeding as she sat in the sun. I saw exhausted and worn out women and children, on their knees begging the BRT officials.

There was no lecture on what the BRT lane was all about. No discussion with first offenders. Not explanation on why the BRT lanes were sacrosanct and why drivers should not use them. The focus was not on law or order, but on primitive profit and extortion from road users. When my driver and my cousin came, they had counted another 160 people who all paid minimum of N40k in cash to the agents of Babaje and his cohorts.

From my rough estimate, we saw 300 vehicles in three hours. This should actually mean at least 600 offenders in one day. At average of N40k per person translates to N24m in one day. Many others pay N70k. If you add up N24m in one month, the gross is N720m. We should not forget that this is just at one point. The BRT officials have many other points in Lagos. I interviewed some of the thugs. They told me their commission is 3% while the rest goes round the circle of police, LASTMA and a few State Officials. He said Babaje has no fewer than five porch cars and several buildings in Lagos.

In Europe, fines go into public treasury recycled to provide public needs. In Nigeria, fines are imposed to enrich government officials. The law itself that imposes 70k fine is an irresponsible law designed to nurture corruption. How many Nigerians would wish to pay 70k to Government purse when the option of 50k fine is there? Most of our laws are cruel and inhuman and automatically emboldens graft. Europe is rich because the government recycles wealth in a rotating machine that largely prevents lack drain pipes.

This little narrative experience sums up the paradox of poor leadership, ineffective institutions, corruption in public offices and the moribund form and character of leadership in Nigeria. On our return to Ikorodu, we stopped. Babaje was there again and in the brief pack-aside overview, four vehicles were arrested and taken away by agents of the BRT officials.

This is the country of my birth, this is the pain, anguish, and sorrow and depression Nigerians go through daily in the hands of state institutions designed to protect us but have turned our society into one huge furnace of the living dead.

I will be leaving Nigeria with a great stuff on corruption which will enrich my research, boost the position of my lecturer but at the same time leave me in tears all night as I reflect on this great country that has been placed on the altar to be sacrificed to greed, avarice, wickedness in high and low places amidst the unimaginable cruelty of principalities and powers in my fatherland. 😥😥😥

Cantonese:
What you all failed to know was the terrible state of the runway. Aircrafts could not manage with it, making the present governor to rebuild it.

The are two airports available to Anambra people. One right there in the state and the Asaba airport, which is 20 minutes to Onitsha.

The airlines are the problem and not the airports. Aside from Abuja and Lagos, eastern airports make more profits for the airlines and so they charge more. A passenger flying to Kano from Lagos pays less than another flying to Anambra. The complaints have not helped in anyway.

Anyhow dem do am, Christmas is a must for all easterners.

helinues:
Lesson for others even though I don't support child arrest for protesting

Those who incited those kids while hiding behind their keyboards are purely evil

psalmsjob:
Chai your own mumuness no get part 2...continue that's all I can say to you because where I want start to talk sense into your head when you no longer get head

psalmsjob:
Come again please you mean say your own mumudense never do must peter obi open his 32 teeth to acknowledge "our" vice president as you say? unto say dem go arrest am if him no laugh...make una no close una brain join na

Softmirror:
Only God knows how many ignorant fools have died because of these politicians who are all actually friends chasing their selfish interest.

There are those ones too who profit from inciting the poor masses to protest, to go on strike, while enriching themselves with donations from left and right. 🤗

See Peter Obi shaking hands with Shettima even smiling and almost kneeling down and his supporters have been killing themselves with hatred for Shettima. Hmmm .....who can believe this kind of picture, see Atiku too sef.🤔

DON'T BE A BIG FOOL FOR THESE PEOPLE.

Odingo1:
Hausa don’t cheat because of their religion there is no much freedom in Islam and their is high tendency of killing the woman according to sharia, make it free for them, the result maybe higher. For Yorubas, they still practice much polygamy thereby having high tendency of infidelity. For Igbos, some of their ladies will fall for money even in marriage.

Omoawoke:
302 years in jail!

This judge funny, why not a round figure like 300, why the extra 2 years?

Lol

LocalStandard1:
Black black bla bla! Oga you people should stop with the perpetual delusional argument! The ignorance is too showing! Why don't you tell me a single inch or corner of sector in Nigeria that is not corrupt? Tell one entity or person that is spotless and without "corruption"?!

Answer me then you can join this argument!

PressMyButton:
Zhongshan has released a statement saying the did what they did inorder to negotiate with FG in the dispute with Ogun state government. Only a slowpoke wailer with low I.Q would think presidential assests could be seized over a contractual dispute.

PressMyButton:
Illiterate, do you think the jets are abroad for official visits?, they are there for repairs and maintance pending when they would be sold off. And the new jet is coming home when transaction is completed, You want to seize presidential jets, who born you?, you wailers i no dey envy you at all.

Melagros:
COMRADES, on a serious note, we are in dare need of technocrats like him

Obrigardo:
New picture fresh off from his golfing like minutes ago this morning

blacknp:
Please Shut up, make you dey there dey wail Bola Tinubu, because you no wan prosper, shouldn’t stop others from prospering.

nathyx:
The coming of Dangote refinery, Porthacourt refinery and more has set these thieves running on their Heels. Companies like Total Energies are the reason why Millions of Nigerians are Languishing in abject poverty today and without jobs because they favoured Limiting our Crude, by taking our God's given resources to be refined Overseas and Ultimately resold back to us thereby creating Millons of Jobs for themselves and Billions of money for themselves. But all these wouldn't have been possible if and only if we Nigerians were not greedy. So long as overseas refining and importation favoured a few pockets, they were Ok! Fast-track to 2024 now everybody is feeling the Economic heat more even worse for the already poor man. African Man purely greedy and is what destroys him. The White man knows just how to ply on this by flinging a little bit of cash around the African Man, he gets access to the bigger cash. Let us Be Wise Fellow Nigerians. Develop your own, invest in your, Patronize your own.

efighter:
Whatever you just started smoking, stop it before it stops you

Christistruth00:
Nobel winners are paid handsomely to give speeches in institutions all over the world

Villa12:
My uncle is married to last born, my mum is the last born, my cousin got married to the baby of the house and their marriage is a blessing. They are all living happily. E no work for you no mean say e no go work for others.