nairavsdollars:
Nehemiah... when many thought he will be an aboki?

I feel so relieved that non of those connected to the unfortunate death of this young lady is a Muslim, shame unto those conspiracy theorists especially Yinka Odumakin, Gani Adams and co. RIP Tolu.

I feel so relieved that non of those connected to the unfortunate death of this young lady is a Muslim, shame unto those conspiracy theorists especially Yinka Odumakin, Gani Adams and co. RIP Tolu.

IduNaOba:
Funny.
People can own stuff indirectly.

But we can always check ownership online with the corporate affairs commission.

Xposed2020:
No matter how long the night is, day must surely break.

True words.

IamWonderful:
Knowledge is power

Many Nigerians are still ignorant of the fact that more than 80% of oil block owners are southerners, we keep believing lies dished to us on social media that 99% of oil blocks are owned by the northerners.

So, who sold the lies to us that most of the oil blocks belongs to the northerners?

Contrary to the claim by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Business and Rules, Senator Ita Enang, last week that 83 per cent of oil blocks in the country are owned by northerners, investigations by THISDAY have revealed that 88 per cent of the oil blocks are owned by multinational oil companies.

BY SEGUN ADENIYIMAR 14, 2013

 

Contrary to the claim by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Business and Rules, Senator Ita Enang, last week that 83 per cent of oil blocks in the country are owned by northerners, investigations by THISDAY have revealed that 88 per cent of the oil blocks are owned by multinational oil companies.

On the other hand, indigenous oil operators or Nigerian companies control only about 11 per cent, confirming the assertion by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, last week that oil majors control and manage the lion’s share of the Nigerian oil and gas industry.

THISDAY had also pointedly observed that Enang’s allegation referred to only indigenous oil operations, not total oil output in the country.
Investigations also revealed that even among indigenous oil operators, northern shareholders/directors do not account/own 83 per cent of local oil output, as Enang’s list left out several oil blocks that had been awarded over the years to Nigerian companies and failed to include oil concessions awarded from 1999 to date.

A breakdown of oil leases granted operators showed that the total number of Oil Mining Leases (OMLs) in operation by December ending 2012 was 109, while Oil Prospecting Leases (OPLs) stood at 92.

The Federal Government had in 2012 set a production target of 2.48 million barrels per day (mbpd), of which 1.5 million barrels of oil per day (mbpd) were expected from the onshore and shallower water terrain, while deepwater concessions accounted for 900,800 bpd, which are currently controlled by the multinational companies.

Of the 2.48 mbpd produced last year, the entire production by indigenous companies totalled 276,000 bpd, accounting for about 11 per cent of Nigeria’s production.

Among the IOCs, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) produced 605,539 bpd, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (Exxon Mobil) - 528,000 bpd, Chevron Nigeria - 489,999 bpd, Total Elf - 400,134 bpd, Agip – 98,284 bpd; and Addax  - 90,489 bpd respectively.

In comparison, local oil companies led by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), the exploration and production arm of the NNPC produced 125,828 bpd in 2012, Seplat Petroleum - 40,033 bpd, Pan Ocean - 7,387 bpd, while others described as independent marginals produced 102,797bpd.

A detailed breakdown of indigenous concessions and their directors/shareholders are shown in the table below:

Indigenous Operators

S/No

Name of Operator

LicenCe

Year of Award

Names of Directors/shareholders

1. Alfred James Petroleum OPL 302 1991

Adewunmi Sijuade, Goke Sijuade, Adedeji Sijuade, Olayinka Sijude, Adeyemi Osiyemi and Femisola Awosika, with A.O Adeyinka as Chairman

2. Soglas Nigeria Limited OPL 226 1991

Oscar P. Udoji, P.E Udoji, E.E. Nwosu, with J.O. Udoji as Chairman

3 NorthEast Petroleum OPL 215, 840 &902 1991

Kommer Complex Limited, Nwokema Ngozi Mbu, Abubakar Jubril and Ashiru B. Aliu, A. Ayankoya with Saleh Jambo as Chairman

4. Optimum Petroleum OPL 310 1992

R.D. Adelu, Yusuf N'jie and O.A. Aremu with Ibrahim Bunu as Chairman

5. Sunlink Petroleum OPL 238 & OPL 311 1993

Olaniyi Olumide, Hayford Alile, Samuel Bolarinde, Richard Adelu, Martins Olisa, John Brunner and Emmanuel Ojei

6. Express Petroleum OPL 108 & 227 1995

Ahmade Rufai, Tajudeen Dantata, Dalhatu Gwarzo, Lawan Omar with Aminu Alhassan Dantata as Chairman

7. Dubril Oil Co. Nigeria OPL 96 1987

B.N. Itsueli, C.A. Itsueli, O.O. Itsueli, A.E. Ihuegbu with U.J. Itsueli as Chairman.

8. Amni Int. Petroleum OPL 112 &117 1998 &1999

E.C Edozien, Tunde Afolabi with Sanni Bello as Chairman

9. Atlas Petroleum Int. Nig Ltd OPL 109 1996

Umaru Ndanusa, Ikechukwu Joseph, Mohammadu Murtala with Arthur Eze as Chairman

10. Consolidated Oil OPL 103, 458, 136 1993, 1998 &2006

O. Adenuga and Ebi Omatsola with Mike Adenuga as Chairman

11. Oriental Energy Resources OPL 115 1999

Usman Danburan, Jibril Mohammed Indimi with Senior Mohammed Indimi as Chairman

12. Cavendish Petroleum Nig. Ltd OPL 110 1996

Gambo Gubio with Mai Deribe as Chairman

13. Allied Energy Resources Nig. Ltd OPL 120 & 121 2001

Mickey Lawal  as Director with Kase Lawal as Chairman

14. Peak Petroleum OPL 122 2001

Adekunle Olumide, W. Bolaji, Florence D. Oluokun and Ayodeji Oluokun with M.A. Oluokun as Chairman

15. Summit Oil Nig. Limited OPL 205 and 206 1990

L.K.O Abiola, Radio Communications Nig. Ltd with M.K.O Abiola as Chairman

16. Crownwell Petroleum Ltd OPL 305 AND 306 1993

S.K Adejumo with Sair Kuashi as Chairman

17. Famfa Oil Ltd OPL 216 (OML 127) 1993

Folorunso Alakija wit Modupe Alakija as Chairman

18. MoniPulo OPL 114, 239, 234, 231 1999, 2008, 2008, 2007

F.A. Agama with O.B. Lulu Briggs as Chairman

19. Yinka Folawiyo Pet. Company OPL 113 1998

S.T. Folawiyo, T.B Folawiyo with W.I Folawiyo as Chairman

20. Zebbra Energy Limited OPL 248 2004

S.A. Oloko, Boni Madubunyi, Zimako O. Zimako with A.B.C. Orjiako as Chairman

21. Oil and Gas Limited OPL 249 and 140 2003, 2006

M.O. I drisu with Reggie Uduhim as Chairman

22. Continental Oil and Gas Limited OPL 59 1998

Agbolade Paddy, Subair Shefiu with Mike Adenuga as Chairman

23. Emerald Energy Resources OML 141 2001

J.O. Amaefule, P.L. Caldwell, A.C. Uzoigwe, Amos NUR, C.N. Chieri, Femi Akingbe, F.A. Njoku with Emmanuel Egbogah as Chairman

24. Oranto Petr. Limited OPL 320 2002

Arthur Eze as Chairman

25. Dajo Oil Limited OPL 320 2004

R.B. Domingo, M.O. Domingo, U.R. Domingo with Domingo Obande as Chairman

26. Malabu OPL 245

 

Dan Etete as Chairman

27. Orient Energy OPL 915, 916

 

N. Nwawka with Emeka Anyaoku as Chairman

28. Sahara Energy Exploration OPL 284, 228, 332 2005, 2006

Buba Lawal, Cole Tonye, Odunsi Ade as Diectors

29. Enageed Resources Limited OPL 274 2007

Buba Lawal, Cole Tonye, Odunsi Ade as Diectors

30. Seplat OPL 4, 38, 41 2010

A.B.C. Orjiako and Austin Avuru

31. Ekcrest E & P Limited OPL 40 2012

Emeka Offor as Chairman

32. First Hydrocarbon OPL 26 2011

O.A Azazi as Chairman

33. Neconde OPL 42 2011

Amesi Azudialu, John Umeh, Nnenna Obijesi

34. Niger Delta Western OPL 34 2012

Olayiwola Fatona, David Richards, P.O. Balogun, T. Omisore

35. Transcorp OPL 281 2011

Jim Ovia, Tony Elumelu, Femi Otedola, Funso Lawal, Jacob Ajekigbe, Tony Ezenna, Ndi Onyiuke Okereke, Fola Adeola and Nicholas Okoye

36. Starcrest, Cross River Energy & NPDC OPL 242 2011

Emeka Offor, Chris Garuba

37. Starcrest OPL 291

 

Emeka Offor, Gidado Idris, Yzoni Yaw

38. South Atlantic (SAPETRO) OPL 264 (130) 1998

Miguel Guerrero, Joy Ikiebe, Guerrrero, with T.Y. Danjuma as Chairman

39. Oando OPL 278, 236 2005, 2006

Magoro, J.A. Tinubu, O. Boyo, M.O. Osunsanya, O. Adeyemo, O. Akpata, Oba Gbadebo, A. Peppe and Appiah Korang

40. Ashbert OPL 325

 

Albert Esiri, Ifeoma Esiri

41. Oil World OPL 241 2007

Gbenga Olawapo, Adekunle Akintola, Ibukun Olawepo, Rachael Akintola

42. Pan Ocean OPL 98, 275 1976, 2007

F.A. Fadeyi, M.D. Yuduf, S.D. Adeniyi

43. Cleanwater Consortium OPL 289 2007

Arumeni-Ikhide Joseph, Okey Nzenwa, Abu Ibrahim

44. Afren Global Resources OPL 907, 917 2005, 2008

Rilwan Lukman, Osmah Shahenshah, Evert Jan Mulder, Peter Bingham, Guy Pass, Bet Cooper, Constantine, Egbert Imomoh

45. Centrica/CCC/All Bright Consortium OPL 276, 283 2005, 2006

Jake Mirica, John Sheers

46. Gas Transmission & Power Ltd OPL 905 2005

Ahmed Joda, Babangida Hassan Katsina, Makoji Aduku, Abubakar Joda

Awujale Adetona was deposed by Chief Bisi Onabanjo, he was only reinstated by the Court on the 4th of May, 1984 and also courtesy of Gen. Oladipo Diya whose government refused to appeal the judgement:

O N I G E G E W U R A
"History Is Not Was, It Is"

The Inside Story of Oba Sikiru Adetona’s Deposition as Awujale - His Imperial Majesty versus His Excellency

A dashing young king, the paramount ruler of his land. A beautiful young lady, daughter of the premier. A prolific parrot who became a governor. A storyline from a Kunle Afolayan movie? Nah!!!

That’s the cast of a drama that was more dramatic than any Nollywood film. The cast of a historical battle, an epic battle between tradition and constitution, between royalty and power, and between royal court and the court of law.

The news hit Ijebuland like a thunderbolt. In the twinkle of an eye, it had reverberated across the length and breadth of the nation. That was decades before twitter, instagram and Facebook. That however did not stop the news from spreading like harmattan fire.

His Excellency, Governor Victor Olabisi Onabanjo, the Governor of Ogun State had removed His Imperial Majesty, Oba Sikiru Adetona as Awujale of Ijebuland! It was unheard of! An Ijebu son, an Awujale subject removing his own king! Could Ayekooto remove the Crown?

Ayekooto (Parrot) was the pen name of Chief Olabisi Onabanjo. He was a London-trained journalist, publisher, parliamentarian, and statesman. As Ayeekoto, he wrote more than 476 published articles.

Could it be true? People wondered. Those who knew the close relationship between His Majesty and His Excellency doubted the veracity of the news. Years before Onabanjo became the Governor of Ogun State, he had fallen ill and needed to travel abroad for medical check up. It was Awujale that secured the flat of Afolabi Kuku for Ayekooto’s use whilst in the United Kingdom. Oba Adetona also arranged for his brother’s wife who lived in the same building to prepare his meals.

So what went wrong? What you are about to read is the intriguing saga of the deposition of a Monarch. It didn’t start in the Second Republic however. It however didn’t start in the Second Republic. Let’s travel back in time. Let’s go back to the First Republic.

The young Sikiru Adetona became the Awujale on April 3, 1960. That was in the tempestuous days of the First Republic. It was the period when Western Region was polarized sharply along political line. The Awujale was a young man, suave, urbane, cosmopolitan and handsome.

The premier, Sir Ladoke Akintola, the Are-Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland had a beautiful daughter. Modele Akintola was beautiful, graceful, brainy and ebullient – a chip off the old block. Modele was very close to the Awujale. It was not hidden that His Majesty had a personal relationship with Ms. Omodele! According to Oba Adetona: “Many in the Awolowo camp were uncomfortable about this relationship!” Olabisi Onabanjo was in the Awolowo Camp. Count One!

If anything, Awujale was and is still passionate about the issues affecting Ijebuland and Ijebu sons (and of course, Ijebu daughters) When the premier awarded an Ijebu son a contract for importation of pipes, the entire Ijebuland was excited. Then news filtered out that Awolowo had asked Akintola to cancel the contract. This was not done. The Ijebu son, Chief Okunowo, was incensed.

For purpose of fair hearing, let me tell you Chief Awolowo’s account of the contract saga. Before Awolowo relinquished office in the Western Region, the government had approved the purchase of a large quantity of asbestos pipes for water supply. The government had to decide whether to import the pipes or to manufacture them locally. Awolowo preferred the local option, as it would contribute to local technology, provide employment and would have fewer cracks. It was on this basis that Awolowo advised the premier to consider the local option.

People took sides. Some supported Awolowo. Others supported Chief Okunowo. Awujale stood in support of his Chief. Count Two!

Following his release from prison by Yakubu Gowon, Awolowo was appointed the Minister of Finance. One of the agencies under his superintendence was the Customs and Excise Department.

It was around this time that another Ijebu son was planning to open a bicycle and inner tubes factory in Ijebu-Ode. Out of the blues, the Government imposed an additional excise duty on tyres and inner tube parts. The Ijebu business was no longer competitive. It could not compete with giants like Dunlop and Michelin. Rightly or wrongly, it was concluded that Awolowo was to blame!

Count Three!

Iyan ogun odun, a ma jo ni lowo is a Yoruba proverb. Pounded yam of two decades might not be cold. That was what Awujale discovered in the Second Republic. The yam pounded years earlier was still oven fresh when Ayekooto emerged as the Governor of Ogun State.

The first salvo was fired when it was time to constitute the National Council of State. Under the 1979 Constitution, a person appointed by a State’s Council of Chiefs “from among themselves” was a member of the Council. Awujale expected the Ogun State Council of Chiefs to nominate one of its members. The Council was therefore surprised when the Governor unilaterally selected a relatively junior Oba to represent Ogun State.

Awujale picked his pen and wrote to the Governor resigning from the activities of the Council. The Governor responded. His Excellency asked His Majesty to withdraw his letter of resignation. His Majesty refused. Clouds began to gather!

One fateful day, the Chief Imam of Ijebu Ode received a special letter. The letter had the Seal of Office of the Governor. His Excellency informed His Eminence, the Imam of his intention to attend Jumat prayers for thanksgiving. The Muslim Community was excited. A response was dispatched to Abeokuta with dispatch assuring His Excellency of a warm welcome.

His Majesty was soon informed of the preparation to receive His Excellency by His Eminence in the mosque. Awujale invited the Chief Imam to the Palace to show him where in the Quran, Christians could come to the mosque for thanksgiving. The Chief Imam must have searched frantically for a relevant verse or an apposite tradition. He found none.

When His Excellency received a second letter from His Eminence. He thought it was to inform him of advanced plans for his reception. It was with shock that Ayekooto read the letter asking him not to come to the mosque. Though the letter was signed by the mosque leadership, Onabanjo clearly saw the invisible signature of Awujale on the document.

The gathering clouds became heavier.

To go or not to go! That was the question the wordsmith Governor must have been pondering as he put down the letter. Of course, he decided to go. He informed the Muslim community that he was going to attend the Jumat Service as scheduled.

The Chief Imam was in a quandary. Torn between His Excellency and His Highness, His Eminence looked unto Almighty Allah. On the scheduled Friday, those who had not attended mosques in decades found their way to the Central Mosque. When a siren was heard from a distance, the elders of the mosque looked at the Imam. It was however a police car passing by. His Excellency did not turn up.

The gathering clouds became heavier and darker.

The governor was not Ayekooto for nothing. addition to being a smart bird, parrot can also be patient. The governor waited. He waited for his chance. After all he was the Executive Governor.

And his chance came! It came by way of an innocuous letter from palace. Like a starved hawk, Ayekooto pounced!

Awujale had written to inform the Governor of his plans to go to the UK for medical attention. The letter contained information about the Oba’s itinerary and contact details. The Governor read the letter. Finally! He responded. He responded by asking for further and better particulars about Kabiyesi’s health and the planned trip to enable him decide whether or not to approve the request.

Request? Awujale picked up his pen and explained that his initial letter was not a request for approval, but information about his journey.

Information? The governor fired another letter. “Your Majesty is hereby requested to comply with His Excellency’s earlier letter.” Oba Adetona filed away the letter and instead of picking his pen, it was his passport that he picked. Off to London!

The gathering clouds became ominous!

The governor was waiting patiently to receive Awujale’s response. He waited and waited. When the news came, it was not the letter he was expecting. Instead the news he got was that the Ogbagba II, Commander of the Federal Republic had left for London.

Onabanjo weighed carefully his options. He was an Ijebu son. He was Awujale’s subject. But he was also the Executive Governor of the State, the first citizen of the State by virtue of office. What was he to do? Should he call the Awujale and order him to return? He picked the phone. He hesitated. No, he won’t call. Instead, he called some prominent Obas in Ogun State.

Awujale had hardly settled down in London when his phone began to ring. ‘Kabiyesi, Gomina n binu o. E ma pada bo o!” It was a First Class Oba calling from Nigeria. The phone rang again, another Kabiyesi, with the same message. Another call. Another call. Another call. Another call. Alake of Egba called. Akarigbo called. The husband of Olori Iyabo Adetona refused. They pleaded with the husband of Olori Kemi Adetona. The Ogbagba II maintained his stand. When it appeared that the phone would not stop ringing, Kabiyesi changed his telephone number.

The Governor was waiting to hear that Awujale had returned to the country. If he heard anything, it was to be informed that Awujale was still in London.

The ominous gathering cloud became a bit too heavy!

On November 23, 1981, the people of Ogun State woke up to receive the first shock! “Oba Sikiru Adetona is hereby suspended from office as the Awujale of Ijebuland in the Ijebu-Ode Local Government area until further notice!”

Suspended ke? Suspension bawo? From Abeokuta to Ota, from Ifo to Ilaro, from Ijebu Ode to Sagamu, from Mowe to Idiroko, the question was the same. Could Awujale be suspended by his ‘son’, the Governor?

The second shock came almost immediately. The Government set up a Commission of Enquiry to probe the affairs of the suspended Oba Sikiru Adetona as the Awujale of Ijebuland. The commission was headed by Hon. Justice S. O. Sogbetun who became a Judge of the State on June 1, 1977.

Awujale picked his phone. He called two leading lawyers of the time; Chief FRA Williams and Omooba Sina Odedina. Timi the Law advised his client not to appear personally before the Commission, as it was not constituted properly. A case was promptly filed challenging the constitutionality of the Sogbetun Commission.

Well, Awujale or no Awujale, case in court or no case in court, Sogbetun Commission sat. Things became tense in Ijebuland whilst the Commission met. At the end of the day, the Commission submitted its report. The Awujale was found guilty.

It was in the evening that the report of the Commission was submitted to the government. Overnight, government read the report, government reviewed the report, government digested the report. All in the course of one night.

By the following morning, having carefully reviewed and painstakingly considered the report, the Government announced the deposition of Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, CFR, as the Awujale of Ijebuland.

Ha! From suspension to deposition! But Kabiyesi had a case in court! People speculated. What could have happened? It was one speculation after another.

Off to court again! The now deposed Kabiyei went to court. The case of His Royal Highness Oba S. K. Adetona v. Governor of Ogun State and Others was assigned to Hon. Justice Owolabi Kolawole. You remember him? His Lordship was the trial judge in the case of AYINLA OMOWURA.

On Friday, May 4, 1984, Justice Kolawole delivered his judgment. His Lordship found that there was: “so much indecent haste on the part of Government to depose the plaintiff that it overlooked so many fundamental issues…in its haste to have the plaintiff deposed, it overlooked to give any reason for the plaintiff’s deposition.” His Lordship therefore declared that the decision of His Excellency to depose His Royal Majesty was null and void.

Now something happened while the case was going on. A military coup occurred. His Excellency, Chief Olabisi Onabanjo was removed from office as a result of the coup. It was therefore the lot of the new military governor COL. OLADIPO DIYA to restore Oba Sikiru Adetona to the throne of his fathers. Coincidentally Col Oladipo Diya is another Son of Ijebuland! The saga continues……………

Thanks for your time!

Razram:
This is not the first time a non Muslim/Fulani will be caught in an acts of terrorism

(1) Mr. John Alaku Akpavan, the man
arrested in attempting to bomb Radio House Abuja on 5th June 2011 was a christian.

(2) Lydia Joseph (the failed bomber of St. John Catholic Cathedral) of Bauchi State who attempted to bomb a church on September 12, 2011 was a christian.

(3) Augustine Effiong akwa ibom indigent carried April 29th 2012 BUK
bomb attack as a christian.

(4) Emmanuel King arrested in attempt to bomb the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)
in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, while camouflaged in Islamic attire on December 28, 2011 was a Christian

(5) Igbo traders that gunned down a dozen fellow Igbo businessmen of the same non-Islamic faith inside the Christ Apostolic Church, in Adamawa State on Friday January 6,
2012 all claimed to be Christians

(6) Samson Mangai who was arrested in Plateau state attempting to bomb a church was a christian..

(7) Madam Ruth, who attempted to bomb the ECWA church, Kalaring Kaltingo, in Gombe State on 12 Mar 2012 was a Christian.

( Case of the arrest of about eight
Christians in Bauchi in an attempt to blast the COCIN church on Sunday, February 26, 2012.

(9) Case of the Christian bomber lynched while escaping after blasting the COCIN Church of Jos on Sunday, February 26, 2012.

(10) Mr Alex Danladi involved in COCIN HQ bombing was lynched by worshipers. He was a church member disguised in military
uniform.

(11) Jonathan Gyanet, police officer was arrested while attempting to bomb ERCC church in Akwanga Nasarawa state on Apri 20 2014 was also a Christian.

And many more including Nathaniel Samuel who attempted to bomb living faith Church in Kaduna yesterday 02 February 2020. And he is not a Muslim..

May God continue to expose our common enemies try to destabilizes our beloved country Nigeria..
Written by

Jimoh Sule

Wonderful, this is bookmarked.

Atouke:
What's is the basis of the judgment from the supreme court on the imo governorship election?

Is this what APC is about? Stealing elections from duely elected governors.

APC is a fraudulent party!
This evil party has corrupted the judiciary.

Below is the answer to your question if you care to read.

https://m.facebook.com/100003726052110/posts/1835717319895785/

post=85326997:
SOUTH EAST: IS IT NOT TOO LATE?

I have read the recent transmissions by Senator Bukola Saraki directed at my Igbo tribe. I have deliberately kept mum on this as I had earlier resolved to speak less on Igbos as regards the 2019 Elections and 2023 Presidency having said quite a bit. 

However seeing as some of my brethren have swallowed the cheap bait, I will chip this in just to keep the reality before us, at least for posterity sake. Truth is bitter but it's still the best medicine. 

My people say; 'He who does not remember where the rain started beating him, will not remember where it stopped'. 

REWIND TO 2014. 
A new National Party was being conceived. Political Parties, political players and Regions were being wooed to the new alliance. 

'We' Igbos (read South East) vehemently refused to touch it even with a long pole. We packaged, sold to ourselves and bought the baseless propaganda that it was an Islamic alliance that would birth an "Islamic" and "Hausa" Party. Simply because those our brethren heavily invested in the PDP at the time were afraid of losing their vested selfish interests.
Till today I'm still trying to fathom the basis for that wicked and twisted deceit especially as many of those Igbo elites who sold that dummy have since ported to the same APC.

We failed to even identify with that new Alliance. Hence the Party, APC was birthed without any remarkable input from us or presence. The few amongst us who aligned were called all kinds of names and abused to high heavens by us even when they were proven right afterall.

Thus the few Igbos who were part of it were at best fringe players as they didn't have the required clout to make serious demands and do the necessary political wheeling and dealing required in Politics to strike the hard bargains since politics is all about interests and numbers. They were even suspect, so much so that it was only their personal political sagacity that gave them whatever they got.

That Party went on to win the Presidential Election which in truth, most of us never believed it could or would, because of our half baked permutations and poor understanding of Nigerian politics. But it did. 

Curiously we turned up at the fore front of telling this same Party how it should share it's 'spoils of war'. We became hypocritical moral champions with an over bloated sense of entitlement. Who does that, in all political reality and practicality? But we did, even while vehemently and vociferously still refusing to shift our position, style and rhethoric.

We dug in. Supported every bad thing and person against the Party, the elected President and the Administration while denying any and every good done to and for our Region.

Fast forward to where we are today. Almost four years after the 2015 misadventure, we have stayed put at 2015, refusing to move forward, refusing to shift grounds, refusing to play pragmatic politics, telling ourselves the same lies we cooked and bought in 2015 and some more. 

Now after election, we have started again saying "APC cannot give Presidency to Igbos in 2023". "Buhari cannot hand over to an Igbo man because Buhari hates Igbos". "APC is deceiving you", bla bla bla.

Of course. We will believe Saraki, who has only but a fanthom dream of becoming President and whose only known record is selfishness but we can't believe Buhari who's already President and who has a record of voluntarily picking two great Igbo sons as running mates in the past? Chukwu aju.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of us still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma. 

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
Is power given to anyone? 
Is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

Make no mistake, I have always said, I do not blame us Igbos for the decision majority of us took in 2015. It's our right. But continuing to pretend that it was other regions, Buhari or the APC that made us do what we did then or remain where we are today is purely self deceit and I refuse to play that ostrich game. 

As far back as 2014, I and many others made that argument that Igbo Presidency was very feasible in 2023, ONLY under under the APC, ONLY IF we did a couple of things right politically. I personally continued to speak loudly on that even after the 2015 elections until when I realized that we were not ready to play the politics that was required and now I dare say it may be too late. Or is it not? Time will tell.

For now, we can continue to tell ourselves that we cannot hold the Presidency of Nigeria. We heard and read many of our brethren go from PDP to Biafra/seccesion (read IPOB) to Referendum to "Igbos do not need Presidency but Restructuring" etc forgetting that all that didn't lie squarely with us alone. We think other regions are not reading our body language?

We really don't care what Saraki writes or says because they've all come to realize that it's very easy to play us like a flute. So like Saraki, like Fani Kayode, like Fayose, like Atiku, even Jonah Jang of all people, they keep playing us.

We have learnt not to bother ourself anymore to avoid unnecessary arguements with nonentities
As some of us have said, it's good governance we want, even if only one village will be producing the Presidents. So be it..

Ka Chineke mezie okwu


Try to be jumping over our posts,
So you won't give yourself unnecessary headache.
It is only for reasonable and intelligent Nairalanders.
So swerve kiddo!

Wow, this surely is one of the best written opinion I have read this year.

Antoeni:
20 Questions For The Morons At The PUNCH NEWSPAPERS:

By Sharon Faliya Cham

1. What would you have called Buhari if it was under him that armed soldiers and armed DSS personnel invaded and sealed off The PUNCH, DAILY TRUST and LEADERSHIP newspapers for over a week in June 2014?

2. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one using 5 or 7 members of any State House of Assembly to impeach their governors unconstitutionally, as we saw happen severally during your ''democracy'' in 2001 to 2014?

3. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one impeaching Senate Presidents and House Speakers anyhow he liked, using every force and money available during your preferred ''democracy'' between 1999 and 2014?

4. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one that ordered armed DSS personnel and armed policemen to seal off the headquarters of the New PDP (nPDP) at Maitama, Abuja in 2014? Under him, a faction called rAPC emerged but he never molested them nor tamper with their offices. But what would you have called him if he treated them like nPDP was treated by your preferred ''democrats''?

5. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one that ordered a mere police DPO to go and disrupt the meeting of five nPDP state governors at the residence of one of them at Asokoro, Abuja, in flagrant violation of their immunity and constitutional rights to freedom of association and movements?

6. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one who ordered that aircrafts carrying opposition governors and other opposition politicians should not be permitted to fly or land, as it happened in 2013 to 2014 in this country?

7. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one who ordered a Captain of the Army to unlawfully block the road and prevent the convoy of Governor Rotimi Amaechi from entering Ekiti State for an election in 2014 with an express order to allow only PDP governors to enter the state for the same election?

8. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one ordering the withdrawal of security details from any elected politician that defected from his party to the opposition, as has been happening from 2002 to 2014 in this country?

9. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one that broke the Nigerian Governors Forum into two factions by recognizing the loser of their election with 16 votes over the winner with 19 votes as it happened in 2013?

10. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one who posted a police commissioner to Rivers State with the single instruction of harassing, intimidating and sabotaging the Governor, to the point that police armoured tanks and trucks will be used to block his official and private residences as well as block certain roads to curtail his movements as we saw happen from 2013 to 2014?

11. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one that used every unlawful methods to unlawfully and forcefully impeach Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State in 2013 because the Governor called the President as the sponsor of ''Boko Haram'', waging a clandestine war against the north? Is there any insult that President Buhari didn't receive from Governor Ayo Fayose, yet he simply ignored him?

12. What would you have called Buhari if he rounded up members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, move them to a hotel in Abuja, and coerce them to begin impeachment proceedings against the Governor like it was attempted against Governor Almakura of Nassarawa State in 2013?

13. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one under whom key opposition politicians and leaders were being assassinated anyhow, like it happened between 2001 to 2014?

14. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one who ordered armed DSS personnel to invade and cart away documents from the logistics office of the main opposition party, and even seal off the office for a number of days after unlawfully arresting some staff of the office as was done to the APC in 2013? Will Buhari drink water if he does that to the PDP?

15. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one who ordered armed soldiers to go and disrupt a peaceful street protest led by Wole Soyinka, Femi Falana, Itse Sagay, Gani Fawehinmi's widow and other notable elders like it happened in January 2012 in Lagos, so much that these old citizens were teargassed and scattered by force?

16. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one who shutdown the Maiduguri international airport, and ordered that not even the Borno State Governor could use it except only Ali Modu Shariff, as we saw happen between 2012 to early 2015?

17. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one who simply points a pistol at his party's national chairman and force him to resign or outrightly send people with an order demanding resignation whenever he gets tired of any of them, as we saw happen from 2001 to 2014?

18. What would you have called Buhari if he was the President who withheld the entire federal monthly allocations of all the Local Government Areas of Lagos State for years, and flagrantly disobeyed a Supreme Court ruling directing you to release the funds, as we saw happen in 2004 until Yar'Adua became President in 2007 and obeyed the ruling?

19. What would you have called Buhari if he was the one who kept cantankerous buffoons like Asari Dokubo and Tompolo in expensive hotel suites in Abuja to be insulting, threatening and denigrating all persons and ethnic groups they suspect as not favourably disposed to the President everyday on radio, television, newspapers and social media as we saw happen from 2010 to early 2015?

20. And what would you have called Buhari if he was the one who ordered armed DSS personnel and armed policemen to lock up the National Assembly and throw teargas at federal lawmakers in a bid to arrest the Honourable Speaker with no consequence on those involved, as we saw happen on November 20, 2014?

If it is not love for corruption and bigotry that have blinded The PUNCH newspapers and turned them into morons, they would have not forgotten too quickly that not even the military practiced the kind of dictatorship we saw unleashed on this country between 1999 and 2015 by ''democrats'', and they would have seen that the kind of nonsense tolerated by Major General Muhammadu Buhari from Nigeria's corrupt opposition and corrupt, hate mongering media would have been met with a death sentence if it were the 1999 - 2015 era!

In any case, we thank The PUNCH newspapers for bringing back to us our much beloved General Muhammadu Buhari, and when next they want to engage in another game of satanic human manipulations with lies and propaganda, they should be mindful of the fact that there are countless people like us without short memories. And if crushing enemies of state like Omoyele Sowore is what is called dictatorship, then we welcome and embrace that sort of dictatorship with wide, open arms.

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durangokid:
This was how they pushed my late father around from here to there, a sick man, claiming they want to conduct a biometric screening and registration for then, even after the biometric, Pam Pam Pam, this man died without receiving a dime from his pension till today, while somebody somewhere is using and enjoying the money and many other dead pensioners, you want to tell me it will be better for that person and his family here in Earth and in Hell, hmmmmm I doubt it.

Eeya, sorry for your loss, you're a direct victim of the Maina scandal. May your father's soul rest in peace.

I hope they will tighten security around this Maina, because he has so much to say.

Maina Miracle Maina Scandal: Ex-EFCC Chair, Ex-IGP, 2 Heads of Service implicated
Posted By: Yusuf Alli On: October 29, 2017
THE NATION
•N17 billion cash traced to fugitive Pensions boss •How he bought $2m house in cash in 2012 •19 standing trial as EFCC pursues 12 cases

About N17billion pension cash has been traced to the dismissed chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms Task Team, Mr. Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, with a long list of highly-placed beneficiaries.

The said cash was diverted by Maina from the N24billion budgeted by the Federal Government for payment of pension liabilities through the Presidential Pension Reforms Task Team headed by Maina.

The funds were stolen in five years from 2008 to 2013 in tranches of N2.7billion and N14.374billion respectively.


While the N2.7billion was converted to personal use through the connivance of banks and family members, N14.374billion was shared by Maina and those in the chain of pension management in different Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

Maina and his cohorts dipped their hands into the till under the guise of phantom biometric verification.

Those implicated in the pension funds bazaar in the Pension Task Force Payment Vouchers Include include a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), A former Acting Chairman of ICPC, a former Inspector-General of Police, two former Heads of Service, Permanent Secretary (State House) and top directors in the civil service, 18 slush companies, some operatives of the EFCC and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).

Other beneficiaries included some officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), bankers, Bureau de Change owners, family members, top officers in the Budget Office and the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF).

The EFCC has so far filed 12 cases against 19 of those implicated, including Maina; a former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Steve Oronsaye; Osarenkhoe Afe; Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited and others.

The list of the bigwigs who allegedly benefited from Maina’s benevolence was contained in a report submitted to the Attorney-General of the Federation by the EFCC and the PRTT Payment vouchers for the trial of Maina by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).


The report titled CR: 3000/EFCC/ABJ/FAFI/VOL.1/ 238 was dated August 1, 2016 and signed by the Acting Chairman of the anti-graft commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu.

According to the document, Maina perpetrated the fraud through the use of the Collective Allowance System; compilation of ghost pensioners; fictitious contracts at inflated prices to both registered and non-registered companies; and fake pension verification trips.

The breakdown of the stolen N14, 374,236,846.09 cash before the pension fraud was as follows: (I) Fictitious Contracts (N 5,761,150,608.44); (II) ghost pensioners (N829, 902, 260.40) ;( III) Collective Allowance (N1, 365,821,942.91) (IV) Payments to States Pension Boards& Others (N4, 192,825,310.99); (V) National Union of Pensioners (N 2,290,593,322.35) and VI. Association of Federal Public Service Retirees (AFPSR) N253, 390,300.

EFCC said: “The use of Collective allowance: Under this fraudulent tactic, which became very handy under Maina and the OHCSF, the Director would approve payment of purported staff of the office to one single individual. After the payment is made, the person whose account was used will withdraw 90% and hand over cash to the Director or whoever was responsible for the payment.

“Key officials of the HoCSF asked their staff and friends to purportedly register companies with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in which payments were made for contracts that were never executed; some contracts partly executed though grossly inflated and such payments diverted to the suspects.”

Some of the highly-placed public officers were also allegedly allocated estacodes for biometric verification trips without going anywhere.

Some of the fake trips covered foreign shuttles to the United States and the United Kingdom among others.

The wanted ex-PRTT doled out about N23million for a “phantom” trip to the United Kingdom as follows:

o The Inspector-General of Police (N2,386,000);

o A late Deputy Inspector-General of Police (N1,475,600)

o A former Head of Service (N2,386,000)

o Two EFCC operatives got N1,362,960 each

Also out of a N36million approved for a “fake” trip to the US by Maina’s PRTT, the following government officials were allocated estacodes:

o The Head of Service and the Permanent Secretary in the OHCSF, who received N3, 286,000 each

o A Director in the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (N2, 838,000)

o The Director General of the Budget Office (N4,854,000)

o A Director in the Budget Office (N2,895,000 )

o Assistant Director in Budget Office (N2,045,000)

The PRTT vouchers confirmed payment of another sum of N40.6 million to some top officials for a shuttle to Atlanta in the United States to screen Nigerian pensioners.

Those who benefited were the following:

o A former Head of Service (N4,854,000)

o Ex-EFCC Chairman (N4,854,000)

o Permanent Secretary State House (N4,086,000)

o Another N2,738,000 was paid to Ex-EFCC Chairman

o Two operatives of the EFCC got N1,482,960 and N2,638,000 respectively.

o A staff of the NIA (N 2,638,000).

The document showed a breakdown of how pension funds were shared to finance pension verification teams to ‘South Africa, ‘Ghana’, and the 36 states’ of the federation, ‘zonal levels’ and others to siphon different sums of public funds into their banks accounts in the name of biometric verification.

Out of the N18.4million released to Maina for a trip to South Africa, the Director -General of Budget was allocated N3,056,000 .

The per diem for the trip to Ghana cost N9.1 million out of which a former Director of Defence Intelligence received N1,388,000 through his First Bank account. Two female staff of EFCC got N1,275,000 each as part of the national cake.

While those who went round the 36 states, allegedly collected N160,471,200 from Maina, a few others were paid N15,477,900 for going round the six geo-political zones of the country

The report gave the details of how Maina allegedly collaborated with former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Steve Oronsaye, and two others in N2billion pension funds allegedly mismanaged for biometric contracts.

The N2billion was part of the looted N17billion cash.

The others are Osarenkhoe Afe and Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited suspected as fronts

The report added: “Mr. Oronsaye and Maina engaged the services of the following individuals to assist them in looting pension funds.

o Osarenkhoe Afe: (charged to court together with Mr. Maina & Oronsaye): He is an IT consultant who introduced Innovative Solutions to the OHCSF for biometric enrolment project. He stated that, Mr. Steven Oronsaye [former Head of Service) asked him to join the Pension Reform Committee headed by Mr. Abudulrasheed Maina.

o Robert Ikazoboh: (Prosecution witness) He is the CEO of Innovative Solutions & Projects Ltd – a company invited by OHCSF to offer services regarding biometric enrolment exercise. He stated that he was brought in to the project by Osa Afe.

He also stated that Mr. Afe verbally instructed him to work with 2 other companies namely Uptrach and Frederick Hamilton and further instructed him as to the amount to be paid to the companies whenever he received payments.

o Ahmed Mazangari: (Already charged to court): He is the owner of Xangees Technologies Ltd, an information technology consultancy firm and a friend of Maina’s brother, Khalid Biu. He was ‘engaged’ by the OHCSF through Maina based on ‘word of mouth’. He was tasked with the job of computerizing the pension payroll but in the process ironically ended up inserting his own 11 fake pensioners and was used by Maina to receive N153 million for non-existing biometric contract which was withdrawn and handed over to Maina in cash after converting same to dollars through his brother, Khalid. Ahmed, his mother and company are presently standing trial. He stole N230 million as ghost pensioners’ payment from the OHCSF (including the biometric contract).

“During the course of our investigation, the following facts emerged: That Mr. Osarenkhoe Afe (Osa Afe), the owner of Fredrick Hamilton Global Ltd introduced Innovative Solutions to the OHCSF where they were awarded the contract of biometric data capture.

“That the initial contract sum was N63 million as indicated in the award letter which was paid to Innovative Solution. However, Innovative Solution requested for a contract extension of the sum of N136 million which brings the total contract sum to N199 million (both initial and additional amount).

“That from the analysis of Innovative Solution’s bank statement, it was discovered that the total sum of N224.85million was fraudulently paid to them showing an excess payment of 25million against N199 million. Mr. Osa Afe confessed that, the contract sum was inflated at the instance of Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina and the inflated amount delivered to him.

“That Robert Ikazoboh was discovered to have transferred the total sum of N166.5million from his company Innovative Solution’s account to Frederick Hamilton Ltd, a company owned by Osarenkhoe Afe.

“A transfer of N35million was discovered from Innovative Solution to Uptrach Communication Ltd after which Robert Ikazoboh confirmed the payment as amount paid to the company that actually executed the contract of the biometric exercise.

“That Osarenkhoe Afe was also discovered to have been paid the sum of N l19.4 million as biometric enrolment exercise through his company Fredrick Hamilton. Investigation revealed that the company has no contract award letter from OHCSF nor did it carry out any contract.

“That including the amount remitted to Fredrick Hamilton from Innovative Solution, Fredrick Hamilton Ltd was discovered to have been fraudulently credited with the total sum of N 289.05 million out of which Mr. Osarehkhoe Afe confessed to have remitted over N250 million to Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina. Mr. Osa Afe admitted to have benefited N35million only and promised to refund same.

“Mr. Osa Afe confessed that, he issued blank cheques from his Skye Bank Account no. 1341770007353 to Mr. Maina which he used for making the withdrawals and sometimes he goes with Maina to Oceanic Bank to make the withdrawals and hand them over to him instantly. This has been confirmed by Oceanic Bank Fredrick Hamilton Ltd account officer.

“That one Salami Kareem Adesokan a storekeeper attached to the PRTT confessed that the total sum of N147,765,400.00 fraudulently paid through various banks from OHCSF to three different companies namely Fatidek Ventures, Jolance and Oblando Nigeria Ltd for fictitious Biometric contract were collected cash by him and delivered same to Mr. Maina through one Ann Igwe (Maina’s confidential secretary).

“That the total sum of N153,146,719 fraudulently paid to XangeTechnologies Limited from OHCSF for fictitious Biometric contract was transferred to a Bureau de Change, converted to U.S. dollars and then delivered to Mr. Maina through his relative, one Khalid Ali Biu.”

The report gave the details of how Maina had used some firms, individuals and many accounts to siphon pension funds.

The EFCC said: “Investigation revealed that Mr. Maina fictitiously owned and operate the following accounts in the following names: Cluster Logistics, Drew Investment & Construction Ltd, Kongolo Dynamics Cleaning Ltd, “Dr” Abdullahi A. Faizal, Nafisatu Aliyu Yeldu and Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina,

“That analysis of the above listed accounts revealed a total turnover of more than N2.7 billion. It is important to note that 95% of deposits into the fraudulent accounts were cash deposits made by bankers in their own names and other fictitious names.

“Investigation revealed that Mr. Maina fraudulently opened and fictitiously operated all the accounts with the active connivance of bank staff namely: Danjuma Zubairu, Toyin Meseke (Account Officer to some of the accounts investigated), Khalid Ali Biu (Maina’s relation) and Abubakar Gombe (Account officer of one of the accounts investigated) in Kaduna Branch.

“Forensic analysis of Toyin Meseke telephone handsets revealed several text messages and email correspondences regarding specific instructions on running the accounts from Abdulrasheed Maina

“Investigation revealed that Danjuma Zubairu (Group Head of Private Banking) mostly approved those transactions via telephone and email instructions from Maina.

“That Toyin Meseke bought the sum of ($200,000) equivalent of N33,800,000 from one Bashir Mohammed Taura, a Bureau de Change operator, and instructed him to facilitate the delivery of same money to Abdulrasheed Maina in Dubai, U.A.E on 05/05/2014.

” Toyin Meseke also bought another sum of $250,000) equivalent of N42,500,000) from one Bashir Mohammed Taura, a bureau de Change operator and instructed him to facilitate the delivery of same money to Abdulrasheed Maina in Dubai U.A.E on 05/06/2014

“That Toyin Meseke facilitated the transfer of the total sum of N33,105,000 to ALNASRA BDC & JIEK BDC on behalf of Abdulrasheed Maina from Cluster Logistics account for the purpose of buying U.S. dollar on 10/03/2014

“That Toyin Meseke also facilitated the part liquidation of Maina’s fixed deposit of N100,850,000 and subsequent transfer to Neural Wax BDC on 07/07/2015 for buying U.S. dollars on behalf Abdulrasheed Maina and delivered same to one Mairo Bashir (Maina’s relation) of UBA Maitama Branch Abuja.

“That the total sum N26.5 million was paid to the Federal Housing Authority from Kongolo Dynamics Ltd and a balance of N4.4 Million was paid to Alhaji Tijjani Yusuf between 20/10/08 & 19/11/08 for the purpose of buying a property located at No.12, 11th Road Kado Estate Abuja owned by Abdulrasheed Maina.

“That four bank drafts totaling N30 million were issued same day (15/03/2010) in favour of one Titus Adeboye from Kongolo Dynamics Ltd account. Mr. Adeboye confirmed that the fund traced to him was for the purpose of acquiring a property for Mr. Maina (block of shops) located at C2 Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Kaduna.

“That Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina bought another property located at No. l0 Amisi Musa Street, Jabi Abuja FCT from one Alhaji Adamu Modibbo and paid the sum of $2m cash, equivalent of N340 million in June 2012.

“Finally investigation has established that all the accounts are linked to Mr. Maina either through his phone number, email address or transactions between the accounts and testimonies of the account officers/ bankers involved in this complex money laundering scheme.

“A total number of eight GSM lines have been traced by the EFCC as the ones used by Maina to give instructions to banks, cronies and associates to launder the huge amount under investigation.

The numbers were listed by the anti-graft agency as 08098887733, 08037872471, 08142277550, 07037900714, 08106842813, 08091501002, +971552717234 and +971526294678.

“Furthermore investigation also confirmed that the source of funds in the accounts could only be from those fictitious contracts and other bogus payments from government, particularly OHCSF Pension Department and CIPPO where Maina superintended at various times between 2008 and 2013, as no known existing and viable business was identified as source of funds into the account and the account officers confirmed same.

“It is also pertinent to note that the Special Audit conducted by the Auditor-General of the Federation also confirmed those violations investigated by the commission.”

As at press time, those standing trial for the pension fraud in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation are Oronsaye; Maina; the Director of Finance and Account, Dr. Sani Shuaibu Teidi, Mrs. Phina Ukamaka Chidi, Deputy Director, Aliyu Bello, Special Assistant to Director of Administration, Olanipekun Emmanuel, Head of Final Account, Abdul Mohammed, Assistant Cash Pay Officer, Garbo Tahir, Cashier and M.K. Ahmed, Assistant Director, Variation.

Others charged for abetting laundering are Osarenkhoe Afe; Fredrick Hamilton Global Services Limited; Franklin Nwankwo and Eric D. Omoefe; one Abdullahi Omeiza (charged for his role in operating 13 pension accounts in 13 different banks with 13 different names; Alhaji Ali Abatcha and Elder Actor Zal, former President and Secretary General of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners.”

Saraki is playing politics with the lives of school children but the people are wiser now. What was the state he left the schools after 16 years of being in control of the state.

A married United Arab Emirates woman reportedly is seeking a divorce — claiming her life is “hell” because she feels suffocated by her husband’s “extreme love,”according to reports.

The unnamed woman told a Shariah court in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, that she wants to divorce her spouse after one year of marriage due to his overwhelming adoration for her, the Khaleej Times reported on Friday, August 23.

“I was choked by extreme love and affection,” she griped to he court. “He even helped me clean

She claimed that his kindness turned her life to “hell” and made her long for marital conflict.

“I long for one day of dispute, but this seems impossible with my romantic husband who always forgave me and showered me with gifts,” she reportedly said.

“I need a real discussion, even an argument, not this hassle-free life of obedience.”

The case, however, was reportedly adjourned so the couple could attempt to reconcile after her husband pleaded with the judge.

“It’s not fair to judge a marriage from the first year, and everybody learns from their mistakes,” her husband reportedly said.

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Illigal Action. KWASU Governing Council Disassociate itself from Ag. VC appointment.

The Governing council of hereby dissociates itself from the recent appointment of Prof. Kenneth S. Adeyemi as the acting Vice-Chancellor of KWASU and the directive that the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Prof. AbdulRasheed NaAllah should proceed on terminal leave while he is yet to complete his tenure which expires on 27th July, 2019.
This directive is not in tune with the University's law and is going to lead to distraction from the Rain Semester examination and the process appointment of principal officers that are currently in progress.
This action of the state Government is illegal and the Governing Council of KWASU has no hand in the directive.

Professor Saka Nuru.
Chairman Governing Council, KWASU

Compare and contrast?

1. We have accepted our defeat by 342, we have called Aminu Tambuwal and congratulated him, he promised to come back home. . . SOKOTO APC

2. We are massing to Hadj Camp to make Kano ungovernable. .. . Kwankwaso

3. We have congratulated Ortom.
~ Benue APC

4. Since, we have congratulated Seyi Makinde, I have been making important decision about Oyo State with him, our transition will be the best in Nigeria.
~Ajimobi of APC

5. We are going to the tribunal, I will not take it, democracy is in danger.
~ Jerry Useni of PDP

Copied from #AyoOjeniyi

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This project was started in 2013 with an 18months completion time. PDP left the project at 30% completion, yet this shameless man is ranting PDP project here.

Can we still remember this scenario where job applicants were duped and no was given job ? History will never be kind to PDP 16 years of reign in Nigeria.
PDP == 2014 Immigration recruitment Application fee was N1000
Total money extorted: N676,675,000
No. of deaths: 20
Injuries: 17
No. of jobs given: 0
This people deceiving people, papa deceive pikin must not be allowed again in Nigeria again , they are more than hazardous to Nigerians .
Let's join hands together and endorse the continuity of revamping Nigeria.

This write up is in order. It is to remind people that the decision taken by OBJ and Atiku during their first coming led to massive job losses. Thousands of people thrown out of job were not even paid their gratuities and pension until recently when current government started paying.
I remember Oku iboku paper mill, Iwopin paper mill, Jebba paper mill and Bacita sugar factory. All were sold to incompetent friends of government who have not been able to run them at give away prices.
Atiku should stop presenting himself as one super job creator. These are hard facts but young people on this platform do not know and those who know but have forgotten should be reminded.

1. This news report says, "900 PENSIONERS OF FORMER NIGERIA AIRWAYS HAVE DIED WAITING FOR GRATUITIES." ATIKU & OBJ, out of desperation to achieve personal gains offloaded these people and many others without paying a dime as severance. https:///dlg2ZfbvLw via @Nigerdel Stars
2. Do you know these companies, partly or fully owned by the Federal Government of Nigeria before @ATIKU happened have thousands of Nigerians in its employment? Till date nobody is asking what became of them.
1. NIGER DOCK
2. FESTAC HOTEL, Now Golden Tulip
3. DURBAR HOTEL, KADUNA
4. Nigeria Re-Insurance
5. Nigeria Truck Manufacturing
6. Electricity Meter Zaria
7. Sheraton Hotel & Towers
8. Ashaka Cement
9. Iwopin Pulp & Paper
10. Lagos Intl Trade Fair
11. Stallion Properties & Devt
12. Anambra Motor Manufacturing
13. LEYLAND
14. Nigerian Machine Tools Ltd
15. Nigeria Romania Wood Industry
16. Nigeria Unity Line
17. Peugeot Automobile
18. Steyr Nigeria Ltd
I shall present specific cases of how thousands were thrown out of jobs to make a few billionaire. I encourage those who have contrary information to feel free to contradict me.
HOW ATIKU MADE NIGERIA THE POVERTY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD:
A. NigerDock is the largest ship fabrication yard in West Africa sub region. When it was sold, its Ex-MD Engr. Nkpubre Okon, openly stated how "Mr Job Creator" ignored the Transport Ministry then to Open bid for NigerDock.
The VP's camp preferred bidder, 'Global Energy' that agreed to increase NigerDock's workforce from 4,800 to 6,000 as part of privatization agreement dismissed 2,200 immediately it took ownership. Jagal Group that took over after Global Energy lost out on power play sacked 1,400.
B. Nigeria Port Authority reform was purely contrived to grab landed properties. 10,000 workers were sacked & 133 bids opened for NPA properties consisting of 68 properties in Apapa, 28 houses in Ikoyi. The highest reserves bid was for a property in Ikoyi fixed at N390.4 Million.
C. NIGERIA RAILWAY
Did @atiku forget how 7000 railway workers were sacked in 2005 without compensation to reduce its workforce to 6,300? Another 1,260 were fired in 2006. When ATIKU and his Headmaster were leaving in 2007, they left ~N5 Billion in unpaid Railway pension arrears.
D. FEDERAL SECRETARIAT IKOYI
In 2006, Babalakin's Resort Ltd acquired this 15 storeys prime asset overgrown with weeds from @atiku and OBJ through a Development Lease Agreement (DLA) for N7.2Billion. A Court has asked Buhari to pay N54 Billion to Babalakin for their blunder. https:///cD7bTBBD6f
The DLA, dated October 10, 2006, granted Resort Ltd a 99-years lease to redevelop the Federal Secretariat complex, that OBJ & ATIKU had abandoned for 7 years into 480 luxury apartments. This was at the eve of their departure from government. The transaction was one for the road.
The DLA hit the rocks when Lagos State Govt in the interest of the public indicated willingness in acquiring the Federal Secretariat complex. LASG insisted it should be accorded right of first refusal since LASG is the Issuing Authority of the C of O, coupled with other reasons.
Finally, lets compare OBJ & @atiku's first 3yrs in power to the first 3yrs of PMB that hasn't retrenched one civil servant, but has bailed out states on salaries. Lets not forget Atiku was in charge of the economy and OBJ gave him free hand until Galaxy Backbone scandal happened.
In 2002, first 3yrs of the ENDORSEE and the ENDORSER, manufacturing accounts for 6% of GDP. Nigeria's GDP fell by half for d first time in 20yrs. This was d year all textile factories in Nigeria closed down and unemployment was 28% within d formal sector alone; I repeat, alone!!
In 2002, UN estimated that 70% of Nigerians live below poverty line compared to 48.5% in 1998 under a military rule. Life expectancy fell from 54yrs to 51yrs. Two-fifth of every child below age 5 were malnourished and only 50% of d 128Million Nigerians have access to clean water.

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ANIOMADEI2018:
I accept Buhari has not done anything for Nigeria in the last 3yrs of his administratiovn, but come 2019, some of these will be on his CV.

- All salary arrears paid up

- All contractual debts paid up

- All Pension arrears paid up

- All money owed Biafran war veterans paid off

- Almost known treasury leakages sealed up

- Treasury thieves being investigated and prosecuted

- Recession overcome within one year

- The foreign reserve keeps growing despite low oil price

- Inflation is reducing

- The Capital market rated highest globally

- The ease of doing business rated high

- Greatly reduced food import bills

- Greatly increased Internal Revenue Generation drive

- Revamped and more effective tax regime

- More efficient and more responsible Civil Service

- All Federal roads being reconstructed across the Country

- Fast rails being constructed between the state capitals

- Gas pipeline being laid from South to Abuja, Kaduna and Kano

- 13 Modular Refineries being built in ND

- Private Financing for our three Refineries being negotiated

- Private Refineries to collocate with the existing Refineries being concluded

- Influx of foreign companies increasing

- Increased investments by domestic investors

- The Electricity Generating capacity at 7000 MW

- Transmission Capacity at 7000 MW

- Distribution capacity being restructured to inject more capital and expertise

- The economy of Nigeria being Restructured from oil based to Agric, Solid Mineral and Manufacture based

- Boko Haram now a distant ding in the orchestra of general quietude

- IPOB now a mute idea ready for discussions at the right time

- Niger Delta Avengers now reduced from a movement to Madam’s Patie military wing for retaining her loot.

- Military vehicles sourced from a Nigeria car manufacturer for the first time

These are not propositions; all these and more will be on the Curriculum Vitae of PMB in the 2019 Presidential Elections. And he did not achieve these by fluke, he was deliberate; the economy he inherited was dire. The country was running on one cylinder and the engine had just coughed its last, the engine was dead and the ”plane” was adrift.

I know all these achievements won’t make meaning to wailers because there are not putting money directly into your pockets. I know that is the only achievements Nigerians recognise. The amount of money individuals grab into their pockets.

Order is more vital than speed.

Wao,
The best I've read today. Well done.
"Order is more vital than speed" WORDS.

Resetting the economy, growing what we eat, making business work, doing more with less and plugging leakages.

Outlook of the Nigerian Economy.

Yes, we know, Buhari will never give you a dime, that's why you're inciting your gullible members against him.