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Rhema04:
I just got this type of loan officer job here in Kwara. I am not sure I want to do it because I am scared of running into debt.. Can anyone Share his or her experience with this job?

1. Don't be a guarantor to any client no matter how desperate you are.
2. Make sure your client are shop owners.
3. Confirm your clients guarantor's.
4. Don't postpone meeting your clients for loan repayments.
5. Don't overlook a day breach of loan repayment.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Loan Officer.

Slot: 5

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
• Market loan products and process loan applications for a small enterprise.
• Interview loan applicants to determine financial eligibility and feasibility of repayment of loans
• Presenting loan proposals to the credit units and informing the client about the decision of the credit units
• Ensuring punctual repayments of acquired loans from clients, contacting and visiting all parties based on needs
• Ability to meet and exceed targets while actively working to increasing business portfolio and client base.
• Complete loan contracts and counsel clients on policies and restrictions
• Opening loan applications Conducting loan analysis by visiting the business and household of clients
• Visiting the business /employer of guarantors and preparing a complete loan assessment according to the bank’s credit procedures

Key Requirements
• BSC, HND, OND, in Marketing or related field.
• Ability to disburse Microloans in large volumes without default
• Experienced in repayment tracking and loan collection without a day default
• Minimum of 2 – 3 years cognate experience from a Microfinance Bank.
• Sound Risk Management experience.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: tayomartins82@gmail.com using the “Loan Officer” as the subject of the email.

Note: Applicants should reside around Ile-Epo, Abule Egba, Ijaiye or Alakuko.

Application Deadline

26th August, 2021

The site is true and the address is as same as on the invite.
Just use Google Map to view the area.

To do that pinpoint on the street in Google Map, a picture of the street will pop up. You can view the area.

Go for the teaching job.
Real Estate? If it's a rented apartment, good but selling land in an area that in the next 10 years won't get developed is a tough job.

Never.
Na double check sure pass.

Contact me for Newspapers placements such as
*Advert
*Public notice
*Press Release
*Congratulations
*Obituary
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08066259209, 08180394944
tayomartins82@gmail.com.

2019 taught me that
Holding on is good,
Letting go is better,
Moving on is best.

Winners don't quit also Winners should know when to quit.

By not adding to her problem, not involve in any illegal or shady deals

The woman who brought her grabbed the girl after certified dead and run with the corpse. What if it was the woman who beat her to death?

Searching for what I need to take along to NYSC camp and was directed to Nairaland. That was 2011.

Mothers, we are sorry! Unreserved apologies to the innocent mothers who had shamefully and wrongfully been accused of infidelity on account of any of their children whose DNA tests failed to match with that of their ‘fathers.’ Most of these women did not only lose their homes as a result of the embarrassing outcome, unfortunately, they lost their dignity, decency and good image. They lost every alibi in the court of public opinion.



Their voices become irritating just as their sight evoke anger and disrepute due to no fault of their own. What a world! Some of these women had died miserable deaths. They were viewed as a bunch of disgraceful elements to their respective families. Even the children in dispute had become daylight orphans and they were completely ostracized from the rest members of the family. The lucky ones had travelled out and had severed relationship with their supposed families forever.

The shame and agony of the dramatis personae involved here: the dad, the mom and the affected child could best be imagined than expressed. The bewildering confession of a dying Zambian matron who owned up to swapping about 5,000 children for a period of 12 years opened another vista of reasons why DNA tests that portray innocent women as being unfaithful are on the increase.



This bizarre confession had earlier been given as one of the reasons genetic discrepancies are on the rise as about 50 per cent of DNA tests carried out in a Lagos laboratory show that a number of children are being fathered by men who are not their biological fathers. According to the dying Zambian matron, it was fun for her to swap new born babies.

“I had developed a habit of swapping new born babies just for fun,” she said, while acknowledging her dastardly act had ruined many homes and had tagged many innocent mothers as unfaithful and adulterous. She accepted her evil deeds are irreversible. She then asked for forgiveness from parents who fell victim to her expensive “fun.

” “I know I (have) sinned against God and may He forgive me for that. I am also asking Zambians to forgive me for the evil things I was doing to innocent children. I have caused some faithful couples to divorce after going for DNA tests. It’s now that I have realized I was being used by a demon to do that. I have caused many mothers to breastfeed children that are not theirs biologically.

I don’t want to go to hell for that. I’m really sorry I have sinned a lot. Please forgive me,” she pleaded on her sick bed. The nurse, Elizabeth Bwalya Mwewa, is one among many callous nurses who perpetrate such a nefarious activity in many public and private hospitals across the world. Mwewa did her evil between 1983 and 1995 while working at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka. She is now down with cancer, a terminal sickness hence she confessed her evil because “I know I will be dying soon.”



The situation is worse in Zimbabwe. It was reported that about 70 per cent of men in the country are probably not the biological fathers of children they thought were theirs. According to a paternity test outfit, Global DNA Zimbabwe, which released its finding, in the last 16 months, most of the results were negative. Global DNA principal consultant, Tinashe Mugabe, confirmed the revelations, adding “that as many as 60 couples come for testing every month nationwide, with the majority testing negative. Of the couples that went for DNA tests in January this year, for example, 84 per cent of the men proved not to be the fathers of the children involved.”

Meanwhile in Nigeria, according to available data, in 2012, three out of 10 men are not the biological fathers of their children, whereas in 2015, a report says four out of 10 men are not the fathers of the beloved children. Lagos-based DNA expert, Dr. Oyinwola Oni, confirmed that “records have shown that 40 per cent of men do not know that they are not the biological fathers of their first child.” Oyinwola added that currently, “the global statistics is 100,000 out of every 300,000 men. But what we have foundisthatthesituationishigher in Nigeria than other places. For example in our laboratory here, 50 percentof thecasescomesoutnegative. Andwealso realisedthat majorityof thefirst-bornsareaffected. You only need to be here to see big men cry like little kids and watch childrenweepinagony. Ithasbeen thatbad. AndIdaresayitisbecoming somethingeveryhome mustdo and you may be quite surprised at the level of dastard revelation.

“Now, the general statistics by the American Association of BloodBanksisthatglobally, 100,000 out of 300,000 men are not the actual fathers of their presumed children. AndlikeIsaidearlier, the Nigerian situation is even alarming. Also, Duress International,the condom manufacturers, once noted that Nigeria has the most reckless sexual life. So, you can then imagine what the outcome would be like if we say okay, let’s start taking statistics one-by-one.” NDA experts agreed that apart from cases of infidelity or reckless sexual lifestyle of the affected women, child swapping is one major issue that has been responsible for this problem.

With the emerging facts and revelations about swapping of children at birth in the hospitals, men, husbands and fathers who had sent their trusted, faithful wives packing over allegations of adultery or infidelity as proven by DNA should have a rethink and make peace with their estranged women. Coming together as husbands and wives might not be possible again but the word ‘sorry’ will go a long way to heal the hurt of an innocent soul. This peace idea does not extend to the women involved in the proven cases of outright infidelity.



We can’t shy away from the fact that we have reported cases of stolen or missing babies in our various hospitals, including swopping of babies by paid nurses. Let there be severe punishment for the erring nurses who engage in such illicit deals for whatever reasons. There should be CCTV installed in all the wards, labour rooms and every nook and cranny of public and private hospitals to track compromised nurses, matrons including their external accomplices involved in outright sales of new babies.


https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2019/04/dna-innocent-moms-on-trial/

There is still an uncertainty over the leadership position in the Lagos Police Command as the much expected change of guards did not take place today.


In a short press briefing at the Command, the incumbent Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal in the presence of CP Kayode Egbetokun announced that there is no change of guard promising to update the press if the need be later.

Mr. Imohimi Edgal was expected to vacate the position for Kayode Egbetokun, the former Chief Security Officer to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC National Leader.



Although the replacement was marred with controversies, but the media was invited for a not-to-be change of guards on Tuesday.

https://casefileng.com/2019/01/15/no-change-of-guard-says-lagos-police-boss-edgal/

#10yearschallenge

People around that area will be aware of their activity and no one try to report them.

Go to court for affidavit then publish in newspaper(not all paper will accept it because you're changing all your name, I'm sure of Punch and New Telegraph will reject it, it's their policy. Some newspaper will ask you for police report, to be sure you haven't commit crime with former name).
You can still retain a name to be easier, may be your surname. There are lot of Pastor Sani, Evangelist Lateef, etc.
If you need more explanation or help in publishing chat me up on 08180394944(Whatsaap).

TechCapon:


This lady's wedding finger is about to be amputated any moment from now. The wedding ring refuse to come off and the finger is swelling everyday. Any hope?

Go to Youtube to and learn how to remove stuck ring. Saw a video of removing it with a thread.

kehinde1588:
All the appointees are Christians. No single Muslim among them.

Those stupid IPOB terrorists won't see this as Christianization. But if its other way round they will start shouting the yorubas are ruled by Muslims.

Idiotic pigs always attempting to cause division and spreading hatred

Have you been to Ekiti before? 90% of Muslims there are either Hausa or Ebira people.

Thanks for this....

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SARAKI, R-APC AND DEFECTION TO PDP

Soon after the Offa robbery saga began, Alhaji Abubakar, an acolyte of the Senate President, issued a letter to the leadership of the APC, on behalf of Saraki’s group in the party, the nPDP. It was a letter of complaint and an ultimatum to sit down with the group to review their positions for the forthcoming general polls. The letter came after the APC congresses that were marred by factionalisation in almost all the states. “When you look at the letter, the advice we gave to the party was that within seven days, because of the time to the congresses that were imminent, we were warning in that letter that we had no time for the party to be able to win and plan towards the forthcoming elections. “I have counted about 21 states where we had parallel congresses. My number may not be sacrosanct but I counted 21 states. And I was asking myself, how many states does APC control? You can imagine that. I have had the opportunity of chairing the PDP and the impression people have is that you don’t have internal democracy. As bad as people thought it was then, we never had 21 where we were having parallel congresses. As a matter of fact, there are three traditional parallel congresses or election areas when we were in PDP and we were always prepare for them.” From the letter, to discussions with party big wigs, including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Adams Oshiomole, the RAPC members eventually left the APC to rejoin the PDP. Explaining his rationale for taking another plunge at a political battle, Saraki said: “This is not a decision that I have made lightly. If anything at all, I have tarried for so long and did all that was humanly possible, even in the face of great provocation, ridicule and flagrant persecution, to give an opportunity for peace, reconciliation and harmonious existence. “Perhaps, more significantly, I am mindful of the fact that I carry on my shoulder a great responsibility for thousands of my supporters, political associates and friends, who have trusted in my leadership and have attached their political fortunes to mine. “However, it is after an extensive consultation with all the important stakeholders that we have come to this difficult but inevitable decision to pitch our political tent elsewhere; where we could enjoy a greater sense of belonging and where the interests of the greatest number of our Nigerians would be best served. “While I take full responsibility for this decision, I will like to emphasise that it is a decision that has been inescapably imposed on me by certain elements and forces within the APC who have ensured that the minimum conditions for peace, cooperation, inclusion and a general sense of belonging did not exist. “In retrospect, it is now evident that the PDP has learnt more from its defeat than the APC has learnt from its victory. The PDP that we return to is now a party that has learnt its lessons the hard way and have realized that no member of the party should be taken for granted; a party that has realized that inclusion, justice and equity are basic preconditions for peace; a party that has realized that never again can the people of Nigeria be taken for granted. What the experience of the last three years has taught us is that the most important task that we face as a country is how to reunite our people. Never before had so many people in so many parts of our country felt so alienated from their Nigerianness. Therefore, we understand that the greatest task before us is to reunite the county and give everyone a sense of belonging regardless of region or religion.”

RISING OPPOSITION AGAINST SARAKI AT HOME

But all these are not enough to stop the opposition from agitating against his leadership at home as Lai Mohammed seems to be taking the battle to the lion’s den. On Wednesday, members of a collation of politicians loyal to Mohammed and opposed to the Senate President, under the umbrella of Kwara Liberation Group in their hundreds marched around major parts of Ilorin, the state capital, alleging bad political leadership and calling for a change of guard. The peaceful rally, tagged a mega rally of 300,000 Kwarans in three Kilometres, three hours three minutes and three seconds, was aimed at mobilising residents to effect what they described needed change from current situation in the state to a progressive change. The rally took off from the Geri Alimi area and went through Surulere/Oja Oba, Emir’s Road before terminating at the popular Post Office area. The protestors who were escorted by the police and other security agencies, sang various songs and carried placards with diverse inscriptions. A statement by the chairman of the organisation, Dr. Amuda Aluko, a member of the defunct National Reconciliation Committee (NARECO), alleged that Kwarans had for long been deprived and denied basic benefits expected from a functional representative government who enjoyed goodwill of the people to get to power. “We should collectively put a stop to the unholy use of both our capital and human resources to a more meaningful and masses oriented options”, he said. Although the group claimed to be non partisan, members openly canvassed support for the APC, particularly when they heard that the former chairman of the PDP in the state, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo had asked them to defect to the APC. Secretary of Save Kwara Group, Comrade John Adegboye, called for change in political leadership of the state, saying that people are now more enlightened on what they want for the state and for themselves. “The essence of the rally is to show the whole of the country that Kwara State political terrain has changed. We have matured as a people, we are now more enlightened. We are more exposed and sound in what we want. The political sphere of the state has been turned into hegemonic, dynastic kind of thing. That has been stunting the state’s progress and development. We want a complete overhaul of the political system of the state. “Kwara is going to 52 years. Majority of the states that started 20, 30 years after the state are beginning to catch up with us, some have even overtaken us. I was speechless when I traveled to Jigawa State and saw the kind of development that has taken place there. These are the things that made us to come together to sensitise people on the way we can change governance to what we want. “For the point of emphasis, we are saying that Kwara does not belong to Bukola Saraki, we are saying enough is enough. We are saying it is unacceptable for only one person to negotiate the future of three million people. It is an offence. It is criminal”, he said. With the latest oppositions in the multifacted war, it is pertinent to wait and see whether Saraki will also win this new war? The world is waiting. But in the meantime, the new Waziri Ngeri of Ilorin is back in the trenches, battle ready; an habitat seemingly becoming his political abode.

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/08/saraki-and-his-unending-political-battles/

SARAKI AND HIS UNENDING POLITICAL BATTLES

The President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Bukola Saraki has gone through many hurdles in his political career, but like a cat with nine lives, he has scaled through every one. However his current travails since he emerged as the head of the 8th legislative assembly seems one too many. BIODUN OYELEYE examines the latest noose around the man some of his admirers call oloye, wondering whether there is a way out of the present logjam.







Will the Senate President, Bukola Saraki win the current battle he is fighting? Will the son of the late political giant, Olusola Saraki, go into political irrelevance? What would be the next phase for the Saraki political dynasty? Will Saraki quit the statge for his sisters? Is the Saraki family hegemony about to end in Kwara State? These are some of the questions begging for answers as the Senate President recently dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rejoin his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Before the defection of Saraki, indications had emerged that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC had meant to humiliate Saraki on Tuesday July 31, 2018. The body, led by National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomole, had issued a query, asking Saraki to explain his involvement in ‘anti-party activities’. Believing that the man was already on his way out of the ruling party, the query would have served as a catalyst to the dismissal of the Senate President from the party. But Saraki got the ploy hours before the letter could be served; he issued a lengthy statement announcing his defection from the APC. Expectedly, the news went viral and drowned whatever effect the NWC query could have had on his political profile. It was to be his last battle within the APC as it had been with every of the battles that confronted him while in the party. He won that battle. A week earlier, he had outsmarted the security system designed to make it impossible for him to attend senate plenary simultaneously with his deputy, Ike Ekweremandu. But once aware if the plot, Saraki sold his enemies a dummy and the police wasted valuable time ‘arresting ‘an empty official convoy of the Senate President.

LOSING KWARA APC BATTLE

The only time Saraki seemed to have lost in the battle of wits that pervaded his days in the APC was the sudden dissolution of the executive committee of the party in Kwara State, two days before his defection. The dissolution came on the same day his protégé in the executive committee were maintaining the legal line of being in the APC, still being loyal to its leadership and ready to win Kwara for APC in 2019. Insiders confirmed to Saturday Telegraph that it was a strategy by the Saraki camp to stall the other faction loyal to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed as well as make it difficult for elements in the hitherto existing PDP in the state who are likely to move back to the APC in anger, from being able to do so until it would have been too late. They never bargained for the NWC wielding its big stick on them. Thus, in that game of political chess, many believed that Saraki lost. “Saraki is someone who understands only results; he drives himself selflessly, he has a tunnel vision and a singular commitment to getting results”, was how a former National Publicity Secretary of the APC and one of his acolytes, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, once described the Senate President.

FORAY INTO POLITICS



Since his entry into politics in year 2000, some years after he qualified as a medical doctor from Rush Green Hospital in London, Saraki has had to fight battles, almost consistently. Even those 11 years before he ventured into politics, which he spent working at his father’s establishment; Societe Generale Bank, has been brought into the political battles that faced him. His first real battle was the decision by his late father to field him as a replacement for the then governor, Mohammed Lawal. That battle, which raged for the better part of 2002 until 2003, has remained a landmark in the political history of the North Central state. It was a battle that left many dead, several wounded or maimed, while properties were lost. Lawal had been a loyal follower of the elder Saraki and had been picked ahead of other notable contestants in the Saraki political structure, among them Alhaji Shaaba Lafiagi, who had spent only one year in office as governor of the state before the military putsch of 1993 converted him to the rank of ‘former governor’.

EARLY CLASH

The first two years of their relationship was so rosy that the political godfather had began to speak about a second term for his ‘governor’ before the end of his first year in office. But soon after, things fell apart between the duo to the extent that they had to go their separate ways. While the Sarakis went to the PDP, Lawal stayed with the then All Peoples Party (APP) which later became the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP). Lawal, a retired Rear Admiral and former military governor of Ogun State, was said to have boasted that he was in possession of the party’s certificate of registration; hence Saraki had no option than to leave him with the documents. It was a battle of wits, much as it was a battle of deep pockets. The election proper was like war, but the Sarakis won a n d Bukola became the governor. He was sworn into office on May 29, 2003 and became the first child of their legendary father to occupy such an exalted position despite his years of political engagements in the state. He would go on to become the first in that lineage and indeed in the state, to win a second term election and complete his constitutional mandate. When he was about to complete the tenure, Baba gave a verdict about his son: “I am very proud of what he has done. I am very, very proud of him because for so many years, for so many, for 30, 40 years for what I have been shouting for, for what I have been clamouring for is progress in Kwara State. Take for example, Baruten in the northern part of Kwara. In 1979 I remember when I went to campaign in Baruten I slept outside because there was no room for me to sleep in. No where comfortable that I could sleep. I had to sleep when everybody else had gone to bed. They gave me mattress and I had to sleep on the tar outside at the veranda; I slept outside there. And by 6am, I hurriedly got up, washed my face, dressed up and got going. “At that time, Baruten was not part of Kwara. I was looking for anybody that wants to be governor to make sure that Baruten is part of Kwara. In other words, develop the place so that people can go there and come to Ilorin without problem. Today, my son has made the road costing more than N6 to N7 billion in that local government. I am very, very proud of him for what he has done in the zone.”



BATTLE OF THE SARAKIS

But the beautiful lines were not enough to stave off the aftermath. Indeed as at the time Baba spoke those words, there had been rumours of a rumble within the Saraki dynasty. A younger sister to Bukola and a Senator representing Kwara Central, Gbemisola, had her eyes on the governor’s seat. She could not persuade her brother to support her ambition but her father agreed with the dream. However, both could not dissuade Bukola and thus came the emergence of the Okere group; reference to the squirrel used as one of the symbols of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), the new party floated by Baba to put his daughter into the Government House.

EDGIN OUT GBEMISOLA



Saraki’s argument for refusing his sister’s proposal then was that it would have amounted to cheating other parts of the state if after four years of Lawal, an Ilorin indigene, and eight years of himself, also coming from the same zone, to have another governor also from Ilorin. Besides, he was quoted to have once quipped, “is the governor’s seat meant for our family alone?” This much was revealed through Islamic clerics who came to speak at the then governor’s birthday ceremony in the early morning of December 19, 2009. Led by the Chief Imam of Ilorin, Alhaji Imam Bashir, the clerics said Saraki was fighting to protect the integrity of his family name over the matter and warned their colleagues across the state against taking money to preach heresies. “The governor is fighting for the integrity of his father’s house, he believes another Saraki should not be in Government House”, Shehu had said to wide acclamation by the crowd of well wishers. The governor is saying that we have been governor for eight years, we have been Senator for eight years and been in the House of Representatives for four years. Haba, there are many other notable sons of Ilorin”. The argument by Baba Saraki however was that there was no need for zoning in the state once he, as the leader, could find someone to do the right thing with administration. The late Waziri of Ilorin while addressing newsmen on the controversy said: “I want somebody to continue from where Bukola stopped, we can’t say we are pursuing justice and equity at the expense of good performance. Zoning as far as I am concerned does not exist in Kwara. Now, I don’t want to gamble just as I had done in the past. I don’t want to pick just anybody that will turn around to be my greatest undoing that is why I have endorsed Gbemi, my daughter.” Unable to reconcile their differences, both father and son parted ways; Bukola in the PDP, and his father and sister in the ACPN. There was not much violence as was witnessed in the 2003 edition, but many argued that the battle was worse at the home front for the family. Athough Bukola won the election, with his candidate, AbdulFattah Ahmed, he told newsmen to credit the victory to his father. The father eventually died in 2012, although not before the duo had reconciled along with their respective group leaders. In summary, Bukola won that family war too.

THE TRIUMPH OVER OYINKAN

While serving as governor, Saraki also had to battle another of his siblings; Oyinkansola, who appeared in forefront of those who didn’t want Bukola to win a re-election in 2007 when she picked the gubernatorial ticket of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA). Although she lost at the poll, Oyinkansola headed for the Tribunal to argue that her brother won in dubious ways, and that she was excluded from the poll unduly. At the initial stage, the Governorship and Legislative Elections Tribunal struck out her case but she pursued it to the Court of Appeal which on November 2, 2007, directed the Tribunal to listen to her. They did and on January 23, 2009, the Tribunal gave her verdict, unanimously dismissing the petition, citing inconsistencies in the choice of names for the petitioner and her party in documents used for the proceeding.The party complaining was not the one before the court, the judges declared. The Chairman of the reconstituted tribunal, Justice Ayuba Garuba Kwajafa agreed with Saraki’s counsel that Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) the party filled by Oyinkansola, was not known to law. The tribunal held that only the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) was the registered political party known to the law. The tribunal held that since law did not know the party that filed the petition, the petitioner had lost any locus standi to prosecute her cause since an unknown party cannot sponsor a candidate. Besides, the tribunal also agreed with Bukola that the name presented on the nomination paper with INEC was Oyinkansola Aminat Oluseun and not Aminat Oyinkansola Saraki, which was used to challenge the result. The tribunal also established that Oyinkansola presented two running mates, Julius Abiola and Sunday Owolabi, but that none of them appeared before INEC screening committee and although the tribunal took cognisance of the letter of nomination of Oyinkansola dated January 18, 2007, it agreed with arguments by INEC that she was validly nominated but deemed to have abandoned her candidacy by the none appearance of her running mates for screening. The tribunal thus declared that the petition was frivolous and therefore upheld the election of Saraki as the undisputed winner of the April 14, 2007 governorship election in the state.

SARAKI VS JONATHAN



When Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan contested for the Presidency in 2011, he had Saraki as an ally. Very close sources to the duo revealed how an elated Jonathan had told his wife, Dame Patience, not to bother campaigning in Kwara, having seen by himself the kind of massive crowd Saraki assembled to attend a rally he took part in the state capital. But before his four years in office lapsed, the duo had become enemies. Saraki, in the National Assembly as a Senator, had moved a motion for the investigation of fuel subsidy regime in the country. He also wanted to succeed Jonathan as President. Narrating his experience on the two issues on December 1, 2017, during the launch of a book, ‘On A Platter Of Gold: How Jonathan Won and Lost Nigeria’, written by Bolaji Abdullahi, the immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Saraki recalled: “I like to share one or two things that will probably summarise the former President Jonathan. I remember when I was a floor member and I came across this issue of fuel subsidy and the way the country was losing close to about N1.3 trillion. In the history of this country,I don’t think of any singular kind of corruption as huge as that. “I had a motion already, I wanted to present on the floor of the Senate. I felt as a member of the ruling party at that time, it was only proper I discussed it with the President. I booked an appointment to see Mr. President, I went with my paper. “I started with the background of how people brought in petroleum products. I said Mr President, in the past, people used to get award letters from NNPC to bring in PMS, DPK, and make 10, 20 per cent profit. I said Sir, they’ve taken it to another level. Now, they get an order to bring in products. They don’t want to make 10, 20 per cent any more. They will get an offer to bring in a cargo of 20,000 litres, they will bring in 5,000 to be stamped for 20,000. “Instead of making 10 per cent, they make ten times the amount. I was telling the President, thinking the President will get very agitated. He said, ‘Senator Saraki, you know this oil business is very oily.’ I was stunned and taken aback but in a way, that was Jonathan, in a sad way that was who he is.” “And if you look at the second encounter, I will recollect the day I decided I am going to contest to be President. I felt that I didn’t want Jonathan to hear it as news. I booked an appointment to go and see him. I didn’t know what I was thinking that day.I went to the Villa, he said ‘come in, come in, how can I help you? I looked at the President of a third world country and said Mr President, I came to tell you that I am going to be contesting your seat. Jonathan looked at me and said, ‘oh, okay, good luck, good luck.’ If it were any other person, may be, I would not have left the Villa but that again sums up Goodluck Jonathan. I think it is us Nigerians that produce the kind of leaders we get. No matter what you say about him, I don’t think he was someone who was desperate for power.” But whether Jonathan was desperate or not, Saraki would eventually lead five state governors and several members of the National Assembly away from the PDP into a merger with the APC. That merger led to the emergence of President Muhammad Buhari as President. Saraki won again.

SARAKI VS CCT

But that victory also led Saraki into another battle.This is still current. With his emergence as President of the Senate against the preparations of a section of his party, Saraki had swum into troubled water again and was to be arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on allegations that he had not declared his full assets as required by law for political office holders. It was a trial his opponents claimed would last a matter of weeks, after which he would be removed as Senate President, indeed removed as a senator upon conviction and made to abstain from politics for at least 10 years, as stipulated by the law. His traditional opponents at home, most of whom allegedly provided the documents to nail him, hoped so much this would be the end of ‘Leader’ as Saraki is called by his followers. His followers were jittery but after three years in the dock, the Supreme Court freed him. He won again. Reacting to the verdict of the apex court, Saraki said: “At the end of a tortuous journey of 1018 days counting from September 22, 2015 when the case began at the Tribunal, I am happy that I have been vindicated. “As I said in my first appearance at the CCT, this is a politically motivated case. The case was trumped up in the first instance because of my emergence as the President of the Senate against the wishes of certain forces. Ordinarily, I doubt anyone would be interested in the asset declaration form I filled over 15 years ago.”



OFFA ROBBERY

But while the CCT trial was ongoing, on April 5, 2018, tragedy struck in Offa, one of the three major commercial communities in Kwara State.

Some daredevil armed robbers invaded the town, killed nine policemen and about 21 civilians and went away with undisclosed amount of money. It was bloody and caught the attention of the global audience. Saraki went to commiserate with the community and facilitated the deployment of armoured personnel carrier to restore confidence. But two months after, the police came out with a bombshell: some of the suspects arrested over the robbery claimed they were political thugs working for the Senate President. One of them, Ayodele Akinnibosun aka AY, told newsmen this much when he said: “I am the chairman of Liberation Youths Movement in Kwara South. I work for the Senate President and Governor Ahmed as political mobilising youth and we have been working for long time since he was governor. “We mobilise and do political arrangement for him in Kwara south. Where we can’t win, we make arrangement there; we scatter elections if we don’t win.” However, Saraki asked the Nigerian public to disregard the “baseless allegation” and ploy by the police to implicate him by all means, insisting consistently that the police was on a revenge mission following the running battle between the Senate and the IGP. “When the Offa robbery incident happened, I was the first top public official to pay a visit to the place and right there in the palace of the traditional ruler, I put a call through to this same Mr. Ibrahim Idris, the IGP, requesting him to make certain specific security arrangements as demanded by the people. “Members of the public will remember that on May 16, 2018, I alerted the Senate about the information passed on to me by my State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatai Ahmed, over a ploy by the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to frame me up by getting some suspected cultists arrested in Ilorin to implicate me. It is believed that the timely leakage of the plot in that case aborted the use of the suspected cultists to implicate me. Now, it is the Offa bank robbery suspects that are about to be used. “This plot is concocted to embarrass me and, in the mind of the IGP, it is his own response after his refusal to honour the invitation by the National Assembly, headed me, for him to come and offer explanations on the rampant killings and violence across the country. “Like the earlier one, this frameup will also fail as I hereby state categorically that I have no link with any band of criminals. “It is however sad that this abuse of the criminal investigation process aimed at intimidating and over-overawing the legislature, thereby obstructing it from doing its work, is a big threat to our democracy”.

A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has raised the alarm over alleged impending plot by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to frame him up for phantom crimes.

Obasanjo said, already, impeccable security sources have informed him that his name is on their watch list and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed.

In a press statement signed by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, and made available to reporters in Abeokuta, the former president claimed that the two-fold beastly designs against him included plot to seize international passport and clamp him into detention.



Obasanjo declared that the grand plot to deal with him came after his state-of-the-nation special statement on January 23, 2018.

The ex-president said though he would not have dignified the plot with a response, he had to act in view of how the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, are being harangued within the same government they serve.

The statement partly read, “Since Chief Olusegun Obasanjo declared in his State-of-the-Nation Special Statement on January 23, 2018, the desperation to frustrate, intimidate and blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of the people to better life and living continued unabated and has even taken a bizarre dimension.

“Impeccable security sources have alleged Chief Obasanjo’s name is on their Watch List and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed.

“According to these informants, many of who are in the top echelon of the Nation’s security management and close to the corridors of power, the operatives are daily perfecting how to curtail the personal liberties of the former President and hang a crime on him.”

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/06/breaking-buhari-plotting-to-frame-me-seize-my-passport-obasanjo/

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Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday approved the construction of a flyover bridge at the Fagba intersection to ease the perennial traffic gridlock and reduce travel time within the axis.

Governor Ambode approved the construction of the Fagba Flyover Bridge after an inspection of the ongoing construction of Pen Cinema Flyover Bridge, where he observed the need to holistically address the traffic gridlock around Agege-Iju axis to make Pen Cinema Flyover Bridge more effective.

According to him, the development is in response to the various yearnings of the community in Fagba and several road users plying the Iju-Fagba axis and also in furtherance of his administration’s commitment in ensuring free flow of traffic and reducing man-hour loss across the State.



The Governor said, “Iju Road which is one of the major roads in Lagos State has over the years served as a strategic growth pole in the socio- economic landscape of the State has overgrown its present traffic carrying capacity resulting in the traffic challenges being experienced presently.

“The proposed flyover bridge at Fagba will be constructed concurrently with the ongoing Pen Cinema flyover and accelerated to minimize the inconvenience of the motoring and commuting public during the period of construction.

“The bridge which will have a dual carriageway separated by concrete median barrier will allow seamless flow of traffic into Jonathan Coker for vehicular movement from College Road/Pen Cinema and vice versa for traffic from Jonathan Coker Road that are Iju or College Road bound.”

Besides, Governor Ambode said the Fagba flyover bridge, on completion, would go a long way to improve socio-economic activities, enhance development and safety of the road users in the axis with consequent improve standard of living.
It will be recalled that while the present administration has completed several road projects totaling 130km recently including the network of 21 boundary roads in Alimosho Local Government, it also has other major road projects cumulating in 120km that are currently ongoing across the State.

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/05/ambode-okays-construction-of-fagba-flyover-bridge/

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Fake News

Already in every news.

I celebrate Bar. Banjo Ayenakin of Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti.

Dr Esa Onoja, a senior lecturer at the Nigerian Law School, Abuja, said on Wednesday that the nation’s two anti-graft agencies — EFCC and ICPC — have secured only 10 high profile convictions in 17 years.

Onoja said this in Lagos at the public presentation of a report entitled: “Letting the Big Fish Swim: How Those Accused of High-Level Corruption are Getting Away with their Crimes and Profiting from Nigeria’s Legacy of Impunity.’’

The report is published by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in partnership with Trust Africa.
Onoja, who teaches law, litigation and professional ethics, said: “The EFCC and ICPC between 2000 and 2017 secured an average of 100 convictions each year for low-level offenders.

“Within the same period, the EFCC and ICPC only got 10 high profile convictions for a total of 177 high profile prosecutions conducted.

“Of the 10 high profile convictions, three went to full trial, out of those three, two were advance fee fraud and the law right from the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Decree of 1995 up to the present law stipulates a mandatory minimum sentence.

“The two offenders that were convicted between seven and 10 years imprisonment one of them was Mrs Anajemba and the other one was Mr
Emmanuel Nwude.


https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/04/efcc-icpc-secure-only-10-high-profile-convictions-in-17-years-says-don/

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state, a critic of President Muhammadu Buhari has finally met the president.

Mr Fayose is among the governors who are attending the Council of State meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Other governors in attendance are those of Sokoto, Delta, Adamawa, Imo, Benue, Lagos, Nasarawa, Abia, Bauchi, Jigawa, Kebbi, Plateau, Kano, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Zamfara, Ogun, Niger and Ebonyi States.

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/02/finally-fayose-meets-buhari-photo/

Here are 17 quotes from the statement issued by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday criticising the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari.



State Of The Nation
“The lice of poor performance in government – poverty, insecurity, poor economic management, nepotism, gross dereliction of duty, condonation of misdeed – if not outright encouragement of it, lack of progress and hope for the future, lack of national cohesion and poor management of internal political dynamics and widening inequality – are very much with us today.”



“The situation that made Nigerians to vote massively to get my brother Jonathan off the horse is playing itself out again.”

Nigeria’s Role In Africa
“For Africa to move forward, Nigeria must be one of the anchor countries, if not the leading anchor country. It means that Nigeria must be good at home to be good outside. No doubt, our situation in the last decade or so had shown that we are not good enough at home; hence we are invariably absent at the table that we should be abroad.”

Likely Consequence Of His Statement
“I know that praise-singers and hired attackers may be raised up against me for verbal or even physical attack but if I can withstand undeserved imprisonment and was ready to shed my blood by standing for Nigeria, I will consider no sacrifice too great to make for the good of Nigeria at any time.”

Buhari’s Weakness
“I knew President Buhari before he became President and said that he is weak in the knowledge and understanding of the economy but I thought that he could make use of good Nigerians in that area that could help.”



“I know his weakness in understanding and playing in the foreign affairs sector and again, there are many Nigerians that could be used in that area as well.”

Corruption Allegations Against Members Of Presidency
“There were serious allegations of round-tripping against some inner caucus of the Presidency which would seem to have been condoned. I wonder if such actions do not amount to corruption and financial crime, then what is it? Culture of condonation and turning blind eye will cover up rather than clean up.”

Anti-Corruption Fight
“I thought President Buhari would fight corruption and insurgency and he must be given some credit for his achievement so far in these two areas although it is not yet uhuru!”



Herdsmen-Farmers Crisis
“The herdsmen/crop farmers issue is being wittingly or unwittingly allowed to turn sour and messy. It is no credit to the Federal Government that the herdsmen rampage continues with careless abandon and without finding an effective solution to it.”

“The issue of herdsmen/crop farmers dichotomy should not be left on the political platform of blame game; the Federal Government must take the lead in bringing about solution that protects life and properties of herdsmen and crop farmers alike and for them to live amicably in the same community.”

Governors’ Endorsement Of Buhari
“It is a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness that some Governors, a day after 73 victims were being buried in a mass grave in Benue State without condolence, were jubilantly endorsing President Buhari for a second term! The timing was most unfortunate.”



Three Areas He Feels Buhari Failed
“One is nepotic deployment bordering on clannishness and inability to bring discipline to bear on errant members of his nepotic court. This has grave consequences on performance of his government to the detriment of the nation. It would appear that national interest was being sacrificed on the altar of nepotic interest.”

“The second is his poor understanding of the dynamics of internal politics. This has led to wittingly or unwittingly making the nation more divided and inequality has widened and become more pronounced. It also has effect on general national security.”

“The third is passing the buck. For instance, blaming the Governor of the Central Bank for devaluation of the naira by 70% or so and blaming past governments for it, is to say the least, not accepting one’s own responsibility. Let nobody deceive us, economy feeds on politics and because our politics is depressing, our economy is even more depressing today.”

The Case Of Maina
“What does one make of a case like that of Maina: collusion, condonation, ineptitude, incompetence, dereliction of responsibility or kinship and friendship on the part of those who should have taken visible and deterrent disciplinary action? How many similar cases are buried, ignored or covered up and not yet in the glare of the media and the public?”



Buhari’s Health, Pushing His Luck
“…Whatever may be the state of President Buhari’s health today, he should neither over-push his luck nor over-tax the patience and tolerance of Nigerians for him…”

A Dignified Exit From Power
President Buhari needs a dignified and honourable dismount from the horse. He needs to have time to reflect, refurbish physically and recoup and after appropriate rest, once again, join the stock of Nigerian leaders whose experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the sideline for the good of the country. His place in history is already assured.

‘Wobbling’ APC And PDP
“I have had occasion in the past to say that the two main political parties – APC and PDP – were wobbling. I must reiterate that nothing has happened to convince me otherwise. If anything, I am reinforced in my conviction.”



Déjà Vu
I believe the situation we are in today is akin to what and where we were in at the beginning of this democratic dispensation in 1999. The nation was tottering. People became hopeless and saw no bright future in the horizon.

Verdict
“Let the administration and its political party platform agree with the rest of us that what they have done and what they are capable of doing is not good enough for us. … To ask them to give more will be unrealistic and will only sentence Nigeria to a prison term of four years if not destroy it beyond the possibility of an early recovery and substantial growth.”

A Word For Citizens…
“If leadership fails, citizens must not fail and there lies the beauty and importance of democracy. We are challenged by the current situation; we must neither adopt spirit of cowardice nor timidity let alone impotence.”

A Movement To Save The Day
“We need a Coalition for Nigeria, CN. Such a Movement at this juncture needs not be a political party but one to which all well-meaning Nigerians can belong. That Movement must be a coalition for democracy, good governance, social and economic well-being and progress. Coalition to salvage and redeem our country. You can count me with such a Movement.”


https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/01/17-powerful-quotes-obasanjos-statement-criticising-buhari/

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has told President Muhammadu Buhari to forget running for a second term.

Mr Obasanjo stated this in a special statement titled “The Way Out: A clarion call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement”.

“I only appeal to brother Buhari to consider a deserved rest at this point in time and at this age. I continue to wish him robust health to enjoy his retirement from active public service. President Buhari does not necessarily need to heed my advice. But whether or not he heeds it, Nigeria needs to move on and move forward,” Obasanjo said.

https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/01/breaking-obasanjo-bombs-buhari-asks-president-to-go-and-rest/

BiafranBushBoy:
Nobody was misled. Not living without a T.V in a house isn't the end of life.

Not doing some other excessive things isn't the end of life.

So how were we misled?

My brother stops collecting and associating with the family because we're all sinners since we are not a member of Deeper Life, due to this he couldn't finish his education. At age 40 hasn't laid hands on any certificates.
He was mislead, even Jesus our Saviour associated with sinners.