₦airaland Forum

34webers:
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The thug was not the only senator that booed the president, so why is he hiding? Keep making noise on nairaland, the thug will be treated for his fvck up.

abdulazeez1002:
The Office of former President Jonathan has dismissed as
a blatant lie, the claim by the running mate to the All
Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in
Lagos State, Mr. Obafemi Hamzat, that he rejected a
$5million bribe from former President Goodluck Jonathan
during the 2015 elections.
In a statement issued on Sunday, Ikechukwu Eze, media
adviser to the former President stressed that Jonathan had
never met Mr. Hamzat who he said was not relevant in the
politics of 2015 elections.

Describing Hamzat as a compulsive liar, Eze stated that
Hamzat does not possess the character for the office he
now seeks.

Below is the full statement:
Re: $5m bribe claim: Hamzat’s blatant lie against ex-
President Jonathan


Our attention has been drawn to a claim by the running
mate to the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship
candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Obafemi Hamzat, that he
rejected a $5million bribe from former President Goodluck
Jonathan during the 2015 elections.

There is no better way to respond to this frivolous claim
than to quickly dismiss it as a blatant lie apparently
concocted by a wannabe politician desperate for votes in a
campaign season.

In the first place this character is an obscure individual who
in 2015 had neither a recognizable name nor political clout.
The point has to be clearly made that former President
Jonathan has never met this man who was obviously not
relevant in the national politics of 2015, let alone seek to
offer him bribe.

If the former President did not offer anyone bribe, having
clearly acquitted himself as a man who does not believe in
desperate politics, how on earth could he have sought to
compromise an individual he didn’t even know and who
obviously had no means of helping him politically?

Assuming anybody had $5 million dollars to spend to better
his political fortune as Mr. Hamzat claimed, why seek to
waste it on man who was just a commissioner prior to
2015, and whose best outing so far is to function as a hand-
picked running mate to a governorship candidate in the
forthcoming 2019 elections?

His is obviously the antics of a desperate and dishonest
politician seeking to apply subterfuge and outright lies,
believing that such could boost his lowly image, win for him
public sympathy and possibly, votes. It is the action of
people like Hamzat that conjures up in the minds of
Nigerians the Biblical ‘Mark of the Beast’ to the effect that
to be accepted in his party, one must be adept at telling
lies.

If this is how Mr. Hamzat wishes to anchor his own political
doctrine on lies and name dropping, he should be reminded
that those who follow this route do not go far either in
politics or personal growth. This definitely should not be the
character and colour of a person who wants to become a
governor or deputy governor of a state, lest we lose all
hope in the expectation that we have all it takes to rescue
our country from the bleak future that stares it in the face.

What we know about liars is that they always leave a loose
end which readily exposes them for who they are.
Otherwise, Mr. Hamzat should have been bold enough to
tell Nigerians where the money was presented to him and in
whose presence the offer was made. We have always made
the point that there should be a limit to these lies, if we
must make progress as a democratic nation. Nigerians are
not fools. It is high time those in positions of responsibility
stopped running this country on lies.



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/hamzat-is-a-compulsive-liar-who-has-no-character-for-public-office-says-jonathan-aide/

JubiGold:
cos ur system is bad..
Atiku can easily go to court with1000 SANS to stop prosecution.
judges are very corrupt in Nigeria

bantudra:
wetin...??

bantudra:
stfu...the situation was much worser under jonathan....

BabaO2:
Are they Nigerian owned properties? Why the noise everywhere from PDP apologists. Inferiority complex is so endemic in some people.

TheGreenLand:
I will never condemn any man of God.
God forbid!
Maybe you did!

...and they just explained their position to you right now, but seems you got your mind made up already!

TheGreenLand:
They have their right personally.
They are in the advisory committee to give their advice to the President on how to keep moving the nation forward

PMBNG:
Source: https://politicstimesng.com/siege-must-get-you-police-melaye/
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abiaumo:
I have lost confidence in the nigerian police force so anything they say na 95% scam.

ripplesnewsroom:
KEYAMO: If the system worked, Atiku should be in jail by now, not contesting for president

For the Spokesperson of the Buhari Campaign Organization, Festus Keyamo, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar should be in jail rather than contesting for the office of the President, if Nigeria had a working system.

Keyamo said Atiku would have been in jail for different acts of alleged corruption and abuse of power, including tax evasion.

He was responding to a statement by Atiku where he disagreed with President Muhammadu Buhari that the system in Nigeria allows corruption to thrive because it is slow in tackling corruption.

Atiku also said Buhari had failed to address cases of “corrupt practices” under his watch.

But Keyamo reminded Atiku that he was one of the “greatest beneficiaries of the failed system in tackling corruption that was in place before President Muhammadu Buhari took over in 2015”.

He claimed the former Vice-President robbed the Nigerian people of their wealth by acquiring substantial shares in INTELS as a customs officers when he was in power, thereby creating a monopolistic company which had been broken by President Buhari.

Keyamo who dragged former President Olusegun Obasanjo into the argument said “there was a competition for corruption between himself (Atiku), his boss and public officers”

For reasons why Atiku should be in jail, Keyamo explains, “For himself and his boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, granting themselves licenses to build universities as President and Vice President whilst in office in clear breach of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers.

“Those Universities would have been probed, seized and transferred to the Nigerian State and the Nigerian people by now.

“Laundering slush funds to the United States of America using phony companies, part of which was used to fund his present American University in Adamawa State through which he is also extorting Nigerians through exorbitant fees. It is public knowledge that this indictment is contained in a US Congressional Report that has led to the prosecution and conviction of his accomplices in the US, which are William Jefferson and Siemens.

Full details: https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/keyamo-if-the-system-worked-atiku-should-be-in-jail-by-now-not-contesting-for-president/

overall90:
the writer should have written against Ortom's second term bid purely on his non performance(i am sure he will not run out of materials) but trying to juxtapose it with the tragedy of fulani herdsmen killings and trying to exonerate the killers while making Ortom appear bad is very quite unfortunate.

ImperialYoruba:
Saraki is a fo0l!

The top lawmaker in the country begging securoty agents to abide by the law.

Can you imagine? The person that presides over what becomes law and what doesnt is begging those who are supposed to enforce it to please act right and obey law.

What the heck! What is he waiting on? The law gives him right to invite the Chief Law Enforcement Officer, the AG of the Federation to come to Senate and answer why citizens rights are being flouted by security agencies. He should never write Buhari. He cant bring the President to the assembly for questioning. He should write Attorney General to come assembly and answer.

Saraki has fall my hand! . They have taken power from Saraki and rendered him useless in his own chambers. Chineke God!

PStacks:
So d Police should Free a murder suspect

PStacks:
Saraki is Going mad SMALL small

post=74145531:
Buhari is the President of Nigeria and nobody can restrain him from using any facility anywhere in the country. The President has been fair, kind and generous to Akwa Ibom people.”
Wow!
This is so emotional now.
Every sane and honest Nigerians love President MUHAMMADU BUHARI.

Acknowledging that Udom had some measure of immunity, Enang said such immunity should stop where the right of the people started and where the collective sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was involved.

END OF DISCUSSION
Baba Carry go!

Philistine:
Saraki is foolish

Binikingdowm:
Any Christian that follow him do the sign even though you are a buhari supporter will never know peace, ignorance is bad shaa.

Just like celebs flaunt their Illuminati sign so are Muslims flaunting their jihad symbol.

Buhari and his herdsmen gangs have killed thousands of Christians and he said he's going to make sure we will our lands to them.


It's better the country break up than we southerners been govern by the jihad Sharia law.

The Constitution is Christians we don't want Sharia.

AntiNigerian:
Former Aviation Minister, Mr Femi Fani- Kayode has said that the threat of the Fulani socio-cultural association, Kautal-Hore Miyetti Allah, to leave the country, was a welcome development. This was in reaction to a recent statement by the leadership of the group during an interview with a Nigerian newspaper.President of the group, Alhaji Bello Abdullahi Bodejo, in a recent interview with Sunday Tribune declared that the Nigerian economy, will definitely collapse, if the Fulani herdsmen leave the country.According to Bodejo, the attitude of governments towards the plights of the Fulani Herdsmen, despite their huge contribution to the Nigerian economy, could push them to leave the country.“if we direct our members to move out of the country, I can assure you that the economy of this country will collapse.”In his reaction, the former Aviation Minister said the Fulani herders could leave, if they so pleased – Accusing them of killing a huge number of innocent Nigerians.“If we move out of the country the economy will collapse”-Miyetti AllahFor God sake pack your bags and go. Nigerians are disgusted and appalled by the number of innocent people that your members have subjected to mass murder,ethnic cleansing and genocide over the last 3 years."If we move out of the country the economy will collapse"-Miyetti AllahFor God sake pack your bags and go. Nigerians are disgusted and appauled by the number of innocent people that your members have subjected to mass murder,ethnic cleansing and genocide over the last 3 years.— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK)December 23, 2018

Source: http://www.informationng.com/2018/12/nigerian-economy-will-col

gloria34:
Thats what i've tried doing but everyone is acting like something is wrong with me. Maybe i do see him as a friend as someone pointed out. I feel like i'm d only weird one

mushystuff:
And the maker of these threats will go freely without so much as an invitation or arrest. Let Nnamdi Kanu say he will destroy the zoo with the truth now they will remember hate speech and treason then send armoured tanks to do show of force with cowardly soldiers that can only attack unarmed civilians.

webcalculator:
The difference is in the mind of an illiterate Nigerian. How one is dressed shouldn't be used against him. Zuckerberg is richer than many presidents but chose to dress in simple T-shirt and jeans. Focus on achievements and I'll listen to you. Nigerian youth

Agritech:
If the Igbos are asked to vote PDP because of Obi and a chance to have an Igbo president, is isn't tribalism. But if the Yorubas are asked to vote APC because of Osibanjo and a chance to have a Yoruba president, it becomes tribalism.

PoliticsNigeria:
@POLITICSNGR

The Chairman, Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Chief Okoi Obono Obla on Friday dismissed calls by the House of Representatives for his dismissal as a ploy to derail investigations into corrupt practices.

Obla said recent attacks against him, over an alleged forged WAEC certificate since he commenced investigations into the activities and finances of some senators and members of the House of Representatives, were premeditated.

He said: “The call by the House of Representatives on Mr President to sack me for alleged certificate forgery is hogwash, balderdash and absolute rubbish!

“It is a hatchet job by agents and merchants of corruption and graft that have looted the country for the past 19 years to intimidate, hound and harass me.

“They are agents of looters that I have investigated. Is the house of representatives the police?” he queried in a statement in Lagos.

On the allegation of certificate forgery, Obla stated that he graduated from the university over 30 years ago.

“I left university 30 years ago. I graduated and went to law school. I left Law School in 1990 and was called to Bar in June 1991.

“The university screened me and awarded me a degree after deeming me worthy and after fulfilling the entry requirements.

“I wrote JAMB and scored excellent grades in all the subjects I wrote.

“It is a blackmail contrived by looters and their agents using the House of Representatives,” he said.

PoliticsNGR gathered that Obla has also filed a lawsuit against the House of Representatives over the matter.



According to him, the call for his sack was a reaction to the information released by his panel forwarding the names of those under its investigation to the Nigeria Immigration Service.

He said the information required the Service to implement the travel ban stipulated by the Executive Order No 6 of 2018 for those under trial and investigation for corruption and abuse of office.

“I must be a genius to pass through University and Law School, practice law for more than two decades without a school certificate.

“The whole issue is really laughable but it is sad the extent to which corruption can fight back,” he said.

https://politicsngr.com/hatchet-job-obono-obla-reacts-house-reps-call-sack/

PoliticsNigeria:
@POLITICSNGR

Information reaching the PoliticsNGR newsdesk on Friday afternoon reveals that activist, Deji Adeyanju has been remanded in prison custody till February 6th, 2019.

A chief magistrate court in Kano state remanded Adeyanju in prison custody after taking his plea

The police arrested Mr Adeyanju on December 13, accusing him of being complicit in a murder case in 2000.Adeyanju was discharged and acquitted by the Kano State High Court after a trial that lasted between 2005 and 2009.

Adeyanju was arraigned before Justice Hassan Fagge early Friday morning. He stated that he lacked the power to hear the murder charges brought against the political activist by the police but ordered that he remains in prison until February 6 when a higher court will be available for a hearing into the matter.

Adeyanju has been moved to Kano Prisons.

https://politicsngr.com/breaking-deji-adeyanju-remanded-prison-till-february/

HumphreyGspot:
The House of Representatives has called for the sacking of Chief Okoi Obono - Obla as the Special Adviser on Prosecutions and Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel .

While asking the Inspector - General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to investigate and prosecute Obono -Obla, the lower chamber of the National Assembly urged the schools the presidential aide claimed to have attended to withdraw his certificates .

The lawmakers alleged that Obono -Obla’ s Law degree was allegedly “ obtained fraudulently and should be withdrawn by the University of Jos. ”

These were part of the recommendations in a report by the Houses’ Ad Hoc Committee on ‘ The Need to Investigate the Legality and Modus Operandi of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel . ’

The report was unanimously adopted at the plenary on Thursday .

The recommendations as approved were that “ the President should be urged to dissolve the panel in view of the arbitrary use of powers and abuse of office by the chairman ( Obono- Obla). ”
Other recommendations included, “ That the Code of Conduct Bureau should be utilised to perform the functions that the panel sought to perform in the current anti -corruption drive.

Read More: https://www.hgsmediaplus.com.ng/2018/12/certificate-scam-reps-call-for-obono.html?m=1

PrettyCrystal:
There was a big celebration at the police office after a notorious Boko Haram Commander was arrested yesterday in Lagos. Top police officers and their subordinates popped bottles of champagne to rejoice over the arrest of the suspect, Abdulmalik Umar, said to have been responsible for the deaths of more than 200 people.

According to police report, the suspect said to be the gang-leader which allegedly killed seven police officers at Galadimawa roundabout, some police officers in Lugbe and Gwagwalada areas in Abuja as well as leading several bank robberies in Ondo, Edo and other southern states.

It was gathered that 39-year-old Umar was the grand commander of the attack and rescue operations of the Prison in Niger State early this year where he lost one of his eyes during the operation which led to the escape of over 100 prisoners.

Umar, was arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IG) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) around Mowe at a nurse’s house where he was receiving treatment for the bullet wounds he sustained during a recent gun battle with the police in Abuja.

He had fled Abuja three weeks ago when some of his gang members were apprehended.

He was arrested along with four of his Gang members as the police recovered 4 AK-47 rifles and hundreds of ammunition.

Watch video of their massive jubilation below.

See more; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/12/boko-haram-commander-arrested-in-lagos-as-police-officers-jubilate.html

PrettyCrystal:
There was a big celebration at the police office after a notorious Boko Haram Commander was arrested yesterday in Lagos. Top police officers and their subordinates popped bottles of champagne to rejoice over the arrest of the suspect, Abdulmalik Umar, said to have been responsible for the deaths of more than 200 people.

According to police report, the suspect said to be the gang-leader which allegedly killed seven police officers at Galadimawa roundabout, some police officers in Lugbe and Gwagwalada areas in Abuja as well as leading several bank robberies in Ondo, Edo and other southern states.

It was gathered that 39-year-old Umar was the grand commander of the attack and rescue operations of the Prison in Niger State early this year where he lost one of his eyes during the operation which led to the escape of over 100 prisoners.

Umar, was arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IG) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) around Mowe at a nurse’s house where he was receiving treatment for the bullet wounds he sustained during a recent gun battle with the police in Abuja.

He had fled Abuja three weeks ago when some of his gang members were apprehended.

He was arrested along with four of his Gang members as the police recovered 4 AK-47 rifles and hundreds of ammunition.

Watch video of their massive jubilation below.

See more; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/12/boko-haram-commander-arrested-in-lagos-as-police-officers-jubilate.html

StateNews:
This Is Show Of Shame.You Cannot Justify Disrespecting The President – Ayogu Eze To PDP lawmakers

A ranking Nigerian senator and the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2019 election in Enugu Sate, Sen. Ayogu Eze has condemned what transpired in the National Assembly when President Muhammad Buhari presented the 2019 appropriation to a joint sitting of the assembly.

Sen. Eze said that it was unprecedented for members of the National Assembly who pride themselves as the true representatives of the people to descend to a level where they left Nigerians with the difficult task of distinguishing between them and kindergarten delinquents, arguing that their actions had portrayed our hallowed assembly as a place where people serve only their selfish interest.

“These are fathers and mothers of adults and children who were probably sitting in front of their television sets watching these unguarded conducts. How would they explain their behavior on live television to their spouses and children? What examples were they setting for a nation that looks up to them for leadership”, Sen. Eze asked.

The APC guber candidate said that legislators are usually allowed their idiosyncrasies but not in a manner that would desecrate the very institution whose integrity they’re elected to protect.

Sen. Eze said the National Assembly owes the people of Nigeria an apology for “this show of shame”, adding that nothing on earth can justify disrespecting the “president while performing one of his most sacred constitutional responsibilities of charting a course of how the ship of state would be moved in the next 12 months.”

He said the unfortunate thing is that the same people who are expected to process and pass this budget for the benefit of Nigerians were too preoccupied with their noisy chants to be able to listen to the details of the budget, arguing that “the net effect of this disruptive conduct will show during the budget defense and passage when the items in the budget would appear completely alien to most of them.”

He commended the president for his statesmanship and for not losing his cool even in the face of the uninvited provocation. He said: “The President’s poise and carriage portrayed him as a mature statesman, who even in the face of a very unfortunate situation did not lose his composure and confidence. It showed him as the leader Nigeria needs to navigate these turbulent times.”

Urging the President not to lose focus in his determination to reposition Nigeria to continue to play her leading role of serving as the engine of growth on the African continent, Sen. Eze tasked his fellow lawmakers to always resist the temptation of allowing personal issues to becloud their sense of patriotism and nationalism, arguing that budget presentation is a solemn national assignment that no Nigerian should toy with.

“We know the legislature as the amphitheater of debate and reasoning but certainly not an arena to play to the gallery in the hope of hoodwinking the electorate into electing or re-electing us to our desired offices “, Sen. Eze said, adding: “We as legislators must always resist the temptation to descend to theatrics on the floor of the National Assembly no matter how hotly we feel about the issues in the polity.”

Sen. Eze also said it was worrisome for the legislators to disrespect their own leadership to the extend of disallowing them to speak on such an important occasion, even after disobeying the best efforts of the presiding officers to call them to order throughout the entire budget presentation, arguing that what they did was an indirect vote of no confidence in the leadership of both chambers of the National Assembly.

source :
StateReporters news

http://www.statereporters.com/2018/12/20/sen-ayogu-eze-has-condemned-what-transpired-in-the-national-assembly-when-president-muhammad-buhari-presented-the-2019/

Pentolution:
petty trading, akara selling, cobbling business. hope you know that the value of 10k in Lagos is much higher that of some parts of the country e.g remote villages, North. I know what am saying cos I served in a village where akara that is sold for N50 per one, is sold for N5.

besides as you are able to pay back, you are entitled to more and higher loans.

Pentolution:
what is this one writing??. I guess you are among the few 10% who has never experienced real lack and poverty. 10k is a lot of money to many people. just because you are privileged does not mean others are like you. it is a good initiative anyway. as a trained economist. I can tell you that over 80% of the Nigerian labour force are engaged in urban informal activities e.g petty trading. this will vastly reduce unemployment.