mohbadliveson:
We calculate number of units per items we have (tv, fan, iron, etc) and bill each tenants. We contribute money and ask Papi Ebuka to go and pay at NEPA office

In the 1980s, guys like Papi Ebuka would spend the contributed NEPA bill and would give excuses for not producing the receipts for payments until the following week when NEPA officials would come to disconnect the power supply and cart away the wire, throwing the whole house into darkness. Then fight would start and everybody would start complaining against Papi Ebuka especially when they return home after a hard day at work , to sleep in mosquito infested rooms in darkness.

When NEPA restore light to the street ,with neighbours shouting up NEPA, but this house still in darkness, some younger co-tenants would become restless and start cursing Papi Ebuka. The following morning, Papi Ebuka would go to Nonso or Baba Muri's Shop to borrow #500 to pay the NEPA bill.
After this payment, NEPA would request for #50 reconnection fees (which was a huge amount of money in 1988) but the tenants would start arguing that it is Papi Ebuka that should pay but the guy man would turn a deaf ear and this may make angry and rude co-tenant like Ismaila or Broda Mike, to want to fight Papi Ebuka.


And tenants from the surrounding buildings would come to the compound to settle quarrel.

In the process, Chief Sylvester who lives opposite the house but has two shops at Idumota , may offer to pay the #50 reconnection fees.

The following week, while Papi Ebuka is yet to return from his chemist shop, Chief Sylvester would be making gestures at Mama Ebuka and trying to convince her, on how he could take better care of her than Papi Ebuka.Because there wasn't Hand phones then, these kinds of discussions were often done physically but in the process, Iya Amina ,the operate grinding machine at the next house would see the Chief talking with bedroom voice with Mama Ebuka a cross the road and boom, she would leave her house which doubled as her shop to trek 30 mins to Papi Ebuka's chemist shop to gossip with him about the brewing illicit relationship between Chief Sylvester and Mama Ebuka.

Papi Ebuka, would thank Iya Amina. Who would sit down to relax and used the opportunity to explain her backache medical conditions to Chemist Papi Ebuka. Then ,Papi Ebuka would say that 'this na serious condition o,but I fit give you ogbonge injection for inner room to cure it one time' and encourage Iya Amina to enter the inner cubicle in his Chemist shop which also doubles as his 'injection room'

As soon Iya Amina enter the inner cubicle, remove her wrapper to take the injection, the Devil would come into the play and one thing would lead to another, such that Papi Ebuka's diick would mistakenly enter the Pussy of Iya Amina ,in the inner cubicle. After 5mins, both would come out with Iya Aminat frowning her face as if unhappy about the 'mistake' that just happened but Papi Ebuka would console her , offer her a bottle of chilled 7-up or Mirinda with #20 to use as transport fare back home. And at that time ,i was a small boy sent on errand by Uncle Timo Shenko to buy amala at the junctiin and branch at Papi Ebuka's chemist to buy Tetracycline (commonly used to treat diarrhoea in those days), i was waiting at the counter for Papi Ebuka to come out and sell medicinesfor me ,when my preying eyes saw the two of them coming out from the inner cubicle in awkard positions.
Papi Ebuka would offer me 'condensed' which was a kind of home made ice cream tied in small bulbs of transparent nylon bags,in subtled attempts to bribe me because he knew that I saw what just transpired . He would also tell me that he has just bought a new football for Ebuka(his son who is my play and primary school classmate) and that I should be coming more frequently to their compound to play football. And this subtle bribes often worked because I wouldn't disclose the matter to anyone until over 30 years later, by which time the viscitudes of life has made me to understands that sometimes, shit happens amd what happens in Vegas ,still in Vegas.



...This was a typical 'trenches life' of Lagos in the 1980s.

MadPolitician:


In our schools, especially in the universities, where we are skilled into different professionals in life, English is the language used.

If he is so terrible in that language, how can you vouch for his academic abilities, which are solidly essential for him to operate as a chief executive of a state

If you go to Lagos or Onitsha, you will see many houses built by people who can't speak good English Grammar while University graduates who can speak Queens English are their tenants.

Realtruth2023:


Oga stop talking and stoking tribal hatred. People said parts landmark was demolished. Stop this stupidity.

No parts of Landmark was demolished.
They had time to remove their tents at the coastline and water front, which belong to the Government.

aalangel:


Landmark Beach was demolished and remains demolished. I did an extensive report on it.
I stood at the same place Sanwolu was standing to do my outro. You can see the place from Landmark HQ.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tkRb7v8vf8

Landmark has no beach.
The water front and the coastline belong to Government.

Landmark bought land (not beach) from the Oniru Family.

Tareq1105:


And how much can you donate from now to 2027 that would make the party financially okay for the ever growing campaign expenses minus the one that leadership would embezzle?

I am not a member of the Labour Party but if Labour Party wish to make a difference in Nigerian politics, they need to do things differently.
There should be a level playing field for all members regardless of their financial status and reduction of the negative effects of monetization in the electoral process

OgbeniOja1:
but LP is dieing. Obi needs to leave and create a brand new party he has better control of.

The Labour Party need to intensify in their campaigns to attract new members.
They should target the ordinary people like NURTW members, Farmers, Okada riders, University students, Musicians, Clerics and make their tickets Cheapest.

Funding of the party should be by donations and monthly contributions from members.

Chetas81:
not necessary as you the Nigerian citizen failed to remove mele kyari and the other man destroye the nnpc

Dangote does NOT need Mele Kyari or NNPC or FG to sell petrol to marketers/consumers just as he doesn't need Federal Ministry of Works before selling his cements to the consumers.

maxiuc:
Every Yoruba man is from Lagos

I use am the yab my guy that year

All Yorubas are proud of their towns and ancestries, that is why Yoruba have OKIKI, that talk about their ancestries, the exploits of their forebears and hometowns.

As a matter of fact, the ORIKIs of many prominent Families in Lagos show that their origins are from the hinterland e.g The ORIKI of the Oniru Royal Family ,(on whose land ,Victoria Island was built) point to Mahin (Ilaje) ancenstries while the Onikoyi points to Oyo ancestries.

As a matter of fact, anywhere you see IKOYI ,either in Lagos State, Osun, Kogi State or Benin Republic, just know that there are from the Old Oyo Empire because the 'The Ikoyi Esho' were the Royal Battalion that used to protect the Alaafin in the Old Oyo Empire.

By becoming more sophisticated in our productivities.
There is need to adopt the latest technology in the ways we produce foods, garments, shoes with better organization for storage, distribution and marketing.

shaboti:
And that's exactly what you Yoruba people want. For someone that cannot coherently complete a sentence to be forced on the good people of Edo.

It can't be well with you and your folk.

Edo State is not Yoruba, so leave Yoruba out of your madness.
Asue Ighodalo, Olumide Akpata and Monday Okpebholo are Edo men.

aswani:


An excellent write up sir but I must challenge you on this paragraph.

Western region started at Mushin and Jibowu, both of which are much further outwards, from a Western region point of view, than the Ikeja and Maryland you stated.

Of course, foolish Obidients don't think Epe, Badagry and Ikorodu people are not "real" Lagosians and shouldn't be allowed to be part of it's governance.

Na only God know wetin concern dem sef.

The Obidients and GRV are trying to refine who is an indigene of Lagos State by narrowing it down to only descendants of returned slaves from Sierra Leone or Brazil.

Shawarmagirl:
Among the four none is Lagosian. Migrants ruling their host.

The fact that you think the former speaker and a scion of the Gbajabiamila dynasty, a prominent Lagos noble Family is a migrant in Lagos State shows that your ignorance is top notch.

Femi Gbajabiamila and Muri-Okunola are from L/Island.

Tokunbo Abiru is from Ikorodu.

Obasa, is an Awori man from Agege.

johannu:


You made a lot of sense which is to say the IREV is nonsense. How possibly could one go through thousands of sheets shits trying to collate and tally the results‽ Nonsense!

IREV is similar to score boards at stadiums during foot ball matches.

During elections, scan copies of the official results from each polling unit are uploaded.
It is not for collation

Lipscomb:
Imagine if its someone from other tribe become a president and the country in disarray like this all the Yoruba would have come out to do protest and shut everywhere down.

So many protests have been held in Lagos, Abeokuta, Ibadan and Oshogbo apart from the protests in Kano,Kaduna ,Minna, Port Harcourt and other places.

The Northerners engaged in violent protests destroying their cities with resultant loss of lives, which solutions did it bring?

Can protests solve economic problems?

Nigeria has deep seated accumulated problems and

the current problems we are facing now are the problems we didn't solve 10-15 years ago.

Iamanoited:
DANGOTE SHOULD FIX N450 PER LITER AS WHOLESALE PRICE AND N500 PER LITER AS RETAIL PRICE FOR PETROL.
A MARGIN OF N50 PER LITER IS ENOUGH DISCOUNT TO OPERATE WITHIN.

How would Dangote recoup running cost and enough profit to repay $Billion loans he took to build the Refinery?

bigpicture001:


Who told u so...? Study the structure of economies in macro economics 1 in skl, u will understand that when there is either just one supplier or just one buyer..it's called a monopoly....


The FG is fixing the price still...they bought over Dangote into the cabal...

The President is NO longer the determinant of pump price

engrchykae:
if God fail to punish you,then God is partial.
When gej removed fuel subsidy, tinubu led protest "occupy Nigeria"with soyinka, John adigie oyegun,buhari,tam David West etc.
Today he has done all the things he criticized gej for.

The topic is beyond your level of education, exposure and intelligence.
Look for your mate in such petty banters

Afonja44:
You can't make this shit up

So we are supposed to troop out and celebrate N800 Dangote fuel which is actually the real fuel price before Tinubu, NNPC, Marketers & Dangote connived to take it up to N1,300 just 2 weeks ago. A 700% hike!

Tinubu timed the hike perfectly to rhyme with his trip & the reduction with his return expecting a hero's welcome. A very dumb move by a very dumb, senile, old fool.

This same Tinubu trooped out enmasse with his horde of dumb followers just 10 years ago to protest against N85 per litre.


I say it without stuttering
Tinubu is the most useless president in the world

Take it or you leave it



cc: Mynd44 the coward I await your next ban

Very ignorant write-up.

The downstream sector has been deregulated and the President is no longer the determinant of petrol pump prices.

BitterTruth0001:
The indefatigable will of the people . He backed it with the natural God given entrepreneurial spirit of the great Igbo race and its sister tribes

He knew it was a matter of time before Biafra would become the powerhouse and pioneer of Industrial Revolution.

At the time the igbos ran everything, the entire federal civil service and private industry , stock exchange stc

Even the local civil service in other regions were controlled by the great Igbos


Case in point : since 1he war ended , Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani have ruled and see the wonderful job they’ve done to Nigeria . See the wonderful job the Yoruba man there now is doing 🤣🤣🤣🤣

What God has not given you naturally , you will never have . Know this and know peace

Ojukwu never backed Biafran pound with anything, he just printed his currency in Portugal on colourful papers ,asked Biafrans to submit their Nigerian Pounds and gave them Biafran , worthless pieces papers that no one outside Biafra recognised or willing to accept

Biodun556:



Surulere people I learnt were displaced from Lagos island due to town planning.

Some Lagos Island people came to resettle in the town of Surulere, a very old Awori Town where a diety called ELEGBA is worshipped.

The alter of the deity was called 'Oju bo Elegbe ti Ilu Surulere ' which was shortened to 'Oju Elegba'

Biodun556:


Ikeja is abbreviation for ikorodu and Epe Joint Administration

It is not a word

False.

Ikeja is far from Ikorodu and Epe.

Ikeja is a traditional Awori Town and the name , Ikeja was originally named after Awori diety

madridguy:
What about Ikeja people, Surulere, Ilupeju to mention few?

They are mostly awori people.
Ikeja was named after an Awori diety.
Agege , Akowonjo, Egbeda, Ikotun, Idimu are all Awori

Yampotatocarrot:

Thanks

Meaning he was able to physically get a location to install his ATM, put CCTV, connect it to power so that it'll constantly be on, got security to guard it, and the authorities didn't know for two years (or just left him)

Well sha, any how wey he do am, na him know, I guess the crime was, not getting registered then... If not, does that mean crypto trading is a crime?

Nigerians don't want to obey the laws in Nigeria regarding cryptocuredncy and they want to be repeating the same in 'saber climes'

helinues:
The Rwanda civil war was more recent yet they have moved on

1) Rwanda is a very small country compared to Nigeria.

2) Rwanda is fairly homogeneous.
The Rwandans, despite divisions into Twi, Hutu and Tutsi ,speak only one language called Banyarwanda and practice same culture.

3) Rwanda have abolished 'tribes' such that it is now illegal to call a Rwanda citizen Hutu or Tutsi, but you can simply call him a Rwandan

It is easier for Rwanda to move on and reconcile since they are more or less the same people.

guysbewise:


"before Ojuku declared the
republic of biafra in may 1967
Isaac Adaka Boro an Ijaw man had declared the
Niger delta republic in february 1966.
Boro had formed the niger delta
volunteer force an armed militia with
members consisting mainly of his fellow
ethnic group declared the niger delta
republic on february 23 1966 and fought
nigeria's federal forces for 12 days but
they were eventually defeated and then
jailed by the Ironsi an Igbo man federal
military government [and Ojuku an Igbo man eastern governor] for treason"

But it was Gowon from Kanke Local Government Area in Plateau State that later set Boro free and Boro later became a major in the Nigeria army and helped to tame the Biafra army.

The Igbos started the civil war because they wanted to take the lands of the Niger Delta from the people that own the Niger Delta, because the Europeans came and created Nigeria.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRx3RhN3XE

Irrespective of the past, if the Igbos or any other tribe want a separate country, they have the inalienable rights to do so.
However, I think it is best that their Representatives in the National and States Assemblies table this in Parliaments

I hope you know that it is both a sin and an offence to take advantages of dwarfs?

agadez007:
These tribes all despise themselves but their common hate for one ethnic group in Nigeria is what’s making them seem like they are United

This isn't true.

The Jihard and Islamic Emirates United Fulani, Hausa, Karekare, Kanuri and several other tribes under the banner of Islam especially in URBAN areas.

In the rural areas, peoples are less religious,poorer and sometimes fight for access to and the usage of Land and water bodies, which can sometimes take tribal colouration.


Because Nigeria practice a system of 'sharing the National cake' ,people who have similar backgrounds and worldviews (shaped by common ancestries, religions and/or history) tend to bond together against 'the others'

Kobojunkieee:
But what was the charge against him?

Security agencies can approach the court for an order to detain a suspect under investigation beyond 24hrs especially a suspect which high possibility of running away (Pidomn tried to hide under anonymity and described himself as a breeze).

paxonel:
Why is she bearing the name Kekere ,is she dwarf?

It is a prominent Lagos Family name.

She is a thorough bred Omo-Eko (Faniro-Ogundinmu-Savage-KekereEkun).

Remember her brother-in-Law, Architect Nosirudeen Kekere-Ekun was a Commisioner in Lagos under MB Marwa and contested against Bola Tinubu in 1999 gubernatorial election in Lagos state.

The family patriarch was nicknamed Kekere-Ekun ( meaning the younger Tiger in Yoruba language)

Kobojunkieee:
Section 373 which is stated does not prescribe an arrest before the courts have prescribed judgment on the matter.🤔
https://jurist.ng/criminal_code_act/sec-373

He was arrested based on court order obtained by the security agencies and has been granted bail but he hasn't met his bail conditions.

mrvitalis:

There are 6 zones in nigeria
Igbos occupy one zone alone so when people say igbos they mean South East

South East produce most lawyers according to recent stats

If you think South East not producing CJN is not injustice then it's ok

CJN is appointed based on seniority and not based on Tribes and Geo-political zones.

Justices Katsina-Alu ,Idris Kutigi and Alfa Belgore are all from minority Tribes in the North-Central Geo-political zone, yet they became CJN.



Overall, I think Southern lawyers first practice Law for years before joining the Judiciary, hence they clock retirement aga earlier so they don't serve long enough to reach the rank of CJN