₦airaland Forum

Blue3k:
Your points are wrong and fly in face of logic. If there's no urgency for loans why is government making it their policy to provide such. There's no urgency for higher interest loans from banks. Unlike the government the bank wont lend below the inflation rate.

They're incentivized to produce more with higher prices but if the productivity issues aren't addressed they wont meet demand. Nigerian farmers are simply unproductive compared to Asian counterparts. I've already listed reasons.

The import ban wont correct the issues I mentioned. The previous import bans didn't accomplish anything close. All the did is cause high spike in prices and reduce investment in other areas. One example is high cost of cement makes home buildings more expensive.

Thanks for your brilliant submission.

ahiboilandgas:
notting but sensational ,streotyping gagons written by paid agent of rice smugglers and their collorabotors ,using the weak link(ethnicity ) in our nation to stire up emotions ....why wouldn't the thai companies bring in fdi and set up process mills and sell their rice within Nigeria ...employing people and repatrating profit ...u are either a rice smugglers,or agents of rice merchant (foriegn)or their employee or an ethnic bigot ....if u want come to nassarawa I will give 5 hectares of land to farm rice ,Take to mill and sell...i know about rice more than u think we run 3 bothers rice our warehouse is in iddo ...

I like your type. Now answer me, do you consider continous rice ban a worthy policy on the long run for a consuming economy as ours? How many metric tonnes of rice are we producing as a nation and how many metric tonnes do we consume annually as a nation? While at that, tell us why rice is this costly despite boasting on national TV by the VP Osinbajo that we now grow about 90% of our rice. Why is it that many rice mills are more concentrated up North despite the fact that we have big hectares of arable lands down south to grow rice and why are northern rice millers funded
heavily why are our southern rice millers neglected and poorly funded.

ednut1:
I am with buhari on this. I am yoruba and the op was yarning nonsense. Rice importation is detrimental . Lets find something else to eat.

Like what are you suggesting we should look for to eat? You fail to pick the lessons in this article just hold on a little bit it will start unfolding before your very eyes

ahiboilandgas:
ethnic intellectual...with a poorly research write up...no research data to back up your imaginary claims ...the north has about 65 percent of land mass of Nigeria ...so by natural selection the arable farming land is there .....stallion rice owned by Indians and hold large farm in nassarawa state and several southerner work there as accountant,farm manager etc ....choscharis also own a farm and a mill ,and Anambra and ebony state .....so u want rice to grow in the gully erosion in south east or what ? THEN university of Nigeria can do a research on it ....u don't want in land port up north but to jam pack Lagos then logistic cost goes up...no body stops a southerner to buy farm in nassarawa state to produce rice ....u need to describ a northerner teeth in your crude ethnic driven research write up ( academic don't reason like that) Nigeria will not be a dumping ground get this inside your head

You still have a lot to learn buddy. The politics in this rice business is what this article is all about go back and read the article again and learn for once.

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The Rice Ban: The Conspiracy You Need To Know About It!

So I decided to pay a visit to one of Nigeria's raw food business hub, the Iddo market where they sell rice in bulk at the depot. Iddo has a rail terminus built way back into time and it is also close to the Lagoon which makes it a market that attracts every living souls in the commerce industry of food trading in Nigeria and neighboring African countries. It is a place you don't want to miss when it comes to buying your grains (especially rice) in bulk and resell or supply other little suppliers and make good profits. Iddo depot as it is popularly called is a place to be. A very dirty place not minding the revenues it generates to the state and country, you see littered cooked foods all over the place, open drainage systems (the one popularly called gutters here) are being used as port of defecation. The bridge between the rice warehouses (terminus area and G'Cappa area) are occupied by food vendors and the deranged ones with young Mallams and commuter drivers as place of cohabiting whenever the need arises.

I choose to give this broad intro before I delve into the subject of discussion to prove a point. Iddo can be likened to Apapa too, a seaport area of Lagos that is supposed to be more beautiful than Victoria Island, Lekki Peninsula, Ikoyi etc if you ask me, Apapa should be like Nigeria's New York because what this place generates into the coffers of the nation is mind boggling. Alas, Apapa is so badly planned that you think it is one giant ghetto. You see dirty drainage systems all round, pot holes all over the roads and huge trucks with big containers packed by the road sides and in the process causing traffic logjam.

Back to my intention, I had visited Iddo market to confirm some things about the mad increase in prices of local rice triggered by the closure of border against importation of foreign rice (Thailand, India, Brazil, Taiwan etc) knowing fully well that our annual local rice production (especially concentrated up North) is not sufficient enough to meet up with our annual local rice consumption. I prod further, why this closure of our borders and ban on rice? My first port of call was when iI was directed to see to see one Edo man who is into rice business at the terminus side of the market who on learning that I came purposely to buy rice in bulk especially the Thailand brand quickly changed towards me and said, "my brother there is no Thailand Rice anywhere and those who have it will not sell it to you because of fear it is better you go for the local ones" and I replied, "but I used to see the foreign ones around?" he just looked at me and said, "those ones are the ones they bought before the ban by Buhari". Many thoughts ran through my mind with the speed of light with each thought jostling for supremacy and justification but I did not budge to their attentions I only focused on one thing, which was "wrong timing". Oh yes, that is what it is and the truth and nothing but the truth. How can you close your border to a commodity you have not perfected ìts local production and profit maximization for the benefits of the nation and you expect a positive result?

After this assurance, another thought flashed through my mind immediately with a rider saying, "Rice Production Up North And The Futuristic Danger Of Pillaging The Agrarian Potentials Of The South", immediately, I got the memo as my mind asked me, copy that? What Nigerians must quickly get into their heads is this; President Buhari has proven beyond reasonable doubts that he is for a particular section of the country than for others and he is not pretending about it. The CBN Governor, Emefiele, is a classical example of a slavish Southerner being used by his Fulani overlords to plunder the wealth of this nation to forcefully develop the north. Right from the helipad at Katsina, the dry seaport at Kaduna, the directive from "above" to move seized containers from the south to up North with immediate effect, the billions of Naira donated by the CBN sometimes last month towards the north development and huge funds paid to rice millers who end up rebagging rice seized from Southern rice merchants in Lagos and down to opening of borders up north with little or no serious supervision like it was down south tells a lot.

My curiosity within prompted me to ask questions and I obeyed. I asked one young Alhaji from the North after exchanging pleasantries that I want to buy rice and it must be Thailand brand. The young man exclaimed, "aahhh Oga you no go fit see that one ooo because Baba (referring to Buhari) ordered the custom officers to even shoot anyone caught with a handful" to which I retorted, "are you saying custom are empowered to kill anyone with foreign rice?" and he said yes. I kept mute for a second and I continued, "but we no dey produce enough local rice now to meet up with wetin Nigeria dey consume every year", he replied, "kai my brother I just tire". He later introduced me to one of his friends, Kadiri, a very jovial and vocal dude, dark skinned with original dark brown teeth typical of Hausa chewing "goro constantly". He joined in the conversation and said, "walahi Baba no good here, he no suppose close the border because our people like the foreign rice better". I asked him why is he saying that, he replied, "the local rice is not too good because if you cook some, you will see it becoming white, full of stones, too dirty, tasteless and not rising but the foreign rice is sweeter and good to eat when you taste it". At this juncture I faced him and said, "but you vote for Buhari now so why you dey complain". He declined by saying he never did likewise his other friend, the young Alhaji, which made me to say, "but you be Fulani now" he said "babu Oga, I be Hausa ooo" this was echoed by the young Alhaji too.

After this lively discussions, I decided to move around the market to explore the wares within and I was shocked to notice that I couldn't set my eyes on any foreign rice except a 10kg pack of Rising Sun from Thailand out of the over 15 brands of local rice I saw at the market well displayed. I took time to ask questions ranging from prices (N15,000 to N16,000) to State of production (with Kano, Kebbi, Kaduna and Sokoto accounting for the States with the highest suppliers. It now dawned on me the conspiracy behind the over concentration of local rice milling factories up north when in actual fact rice paddies and plants can be encouraged and supported down south, a fact to this was the Ofada rice production plant and paddy grown and owned by Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, Senior Pastor, Kingsway International, in Ogun State not to mention the famous Abakaliki rice grown at Abakaliki in today's Ebonyi State way back in the late eighties not forgetting Anambra too and other fledgling rice milling plants down south neglected by federal government intervention funds under Buhari but only concentrated up North in order to make the north a force to rule over south in the areas of rice production without being challenged by the south rice potentials long neglected knowing fully well that we consume rice predominately as one of our popular foods in this part of the world.
Still on my findings, a lady trader of Yoruba extracts once narrated a sad tale that happened within the Iddo market complex on a certain day just last month (August) after the ban. She said that on that day, they had resumed like every other day only to meet with fierce looking soldiers and custom officers fully armed with sub machine guns blocking entrance to the market while some invaded the market forcing open locked shops without the owners in there and carting away sizable numbers of bags of rice and even went with trailer loads of rice only for this rice to be resold to some of the rice merchants of northern extraction at ridiculous prices, this was when the conspiracy to forcefully empower the north and consolidate the monopoly power of rice dominance within the country into their hands was further established within me. My research gave me the following local rice brands; Tomato King, Big Bull, Labana, NaijaSweetRice, Super Champion, Uncle Chef, Umza Classic Rice, Famous Rice, Lake Rice, Mama's Choice, Famco, Royal Stallion, Rising Sun (foreign), Mama Pride etc. Out of this, Tomato King, Big Bull, Lake Rice, Royal Stallion, Mama Pride and NaijaSweetRice were considered the best out of the packs.

As I took my leave to my destination, I ponder on what brought me here and I shook my head at the mental madness exhibited by the so-called Southern leaders against their people even in their own geographical location all the way from the north, when they should be defending the interests and economic survival of their people like an average northerner would do for his or her people. I can only imagine the damaging effects this conspiracy of silence from our southern leaders in the face of oppression has in stock in the not - too - far - distance. Nigeria is my country for now but it is very certain that we have a president that wants to tell us that this is not "Nigeria but Northern Nigeria"!

Ratello!

Cc: Lalasticlala

This is deep!

The Supreme Court is back let's hope justice will be duly served.

Ikpeazukerosene:
Dino?
How can?
Was there no tree at the venue?

Iroko tree,
Okra tree,
Watermelon tree,
Bitterleaf tree,

Or na only banana tree you sabi climb?

The man in this picture will cry

Dear God what's going on under this useless govt of Buhari that other nations even in Africa no longer respects us

BOOOMNAIJA:
How will this news solve my present predicament now?

It is well

sonnie10:
I ton (20 of 50kg) of rice is $150 in Thailand and India
Dollar at 355; $150 is about 53k naira.
Meaning 20bags is 53k. Therefore one bag is #2650.

My question is, do Nigeria farmers use gold as fertilizer for for their own rice? With the huge difference in price, the temptation to continue to import is very high.

Much love to you my bro. I still don't know why 50kg bag of rice cost N18,000 under mr integrity in 2019

Bitterleafsoup:
Why is a blogger your problem. We are talking about the leader of a country with an ear infection that took 6 months to heal remember? Shame on you the country is in fire and your here pretending things are good.

Leave cough syrup alone, ur sense no be correct.

Ignore these clowns and watch as events unfold my brother

*Breaking: Buhari’s deteriorating health challenges, suffering from acute amnesia*

A source at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja has revealed that the protracted health challenges of President Muhammadu Buhari has worsened.

It was revealed that President Buhari barely remembers most of his discussions with people. The source says..., *”If you discuss anything with Mr. President now, within few minutes of that discussion, the President will not be able to remember anything”*

It was also revealed that, that was the main reason President Buhari had directed his Ministers to report to his Chief of Staff, Mr. Abba Kyari and has also directed the Secretary to Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha to handle most of government businesses.

The source also revealed that the President is always on steroid to keep him afloat and that a special clinic is being constructed in the President’s home town of Daura, Katsina state with some special doctors, imported to take care of the President’s deteriorating health.

It was rumored that the foreign doctors arrived Daura within the Sallah break and that was why the President extended his Sallah holidays in Daura. He was packaged for the Ministerial retreat and swearing in by the foreign doctors.

Part of the packaging was a special facial steroid injections, administered in order to inflate the face of Mr. President.

In addition to this, It was rumored that President Buhari collapsed during the recent Ministerial retreat in Abuja, but the news was carefully managed by the Nigeria’s security agents and his key staff.

His planed trip to Japan is another ploy by the cabal at the Presidency to smuggle the President for another round of medical treatment.

Nigeria is currently governed by a cabal at the Presidency and the entire affairs of the country is now in the hands of an unelected select few.

There is a deep division within the cabal as there are reports that the First Lady, Dr. Mrs Aisha Buhari has fled Nigeria due to threats to her life by other members of the cabal because of her opposition to their activities.

The current scenario at the Aso Rock Villa is similar to the situation in 2010, when certain cabinet ministers and some individuals at the Aso Rock Villa, hijacked government businesses during the period the late former President of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was sick before he eventually died in May.

The only difference is that, during the Yar’Adua era, his wife Turai Yar’Adua, seems to be the leader of the cabal but in this case of President Muhammadu Buhari, his wife Aisha Buhari is excluded from the cabal and chased out of the country.

ejimatic:
. Affjdavit is a legal document that covers every situation.. It is a representation of what is true....The copy of what he presented support the breakdown in the affidavit or its content .It is still in order in law.

Yes affidavit is a legal document recognized in law but what happens in a situation where what you swore to in your affidavit contradicts the original documents you are trying to defend with your affidavit? Are you now saying it will still make the content of the affidavit valid? This is the issue with Buhari here.

Cc: great job there engineerboat tuniski I am proud of you guys

Simplyleo:
[s][/s]
I strike out nonsense

That should be you then because you are full of it when your mates are making things happen on the foundation of good governance you are here still championing a useless party that had brought more woes to innocent lives. The energy around you needs to be quarantined for you to start living.

Simplyleo:
I disagree with Mr vice.

Let them remain in their party

Imagine Fayose, FFK and and host of other miscreants in APC

IMAGINE what this funny dude is saying what is in that APC if I may ask? Indeed the energy around you is so bad that evil looks like Shawarma to you now. So sad you are a human

The accused persons were like laelae kole happen do you know who we are and so they marched straight to the West African Court of Appeal (WACA) where they appealed the decision of the trial court. At WACA, they stood before the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice John Verity who presided with two other justices.

The appellate court listened to their pleas and reached the following conclusions:
Although the disappearance of the child was reported to the Oba early in the afternoon, he as the head of the town did nothing until twilight.Five days after the disappearance, the Oba sent for the constable to say he had information that the child will be found at the forest near CMS compound.Upon the arrest of Enoch Falayi, he ordered his release because he claimed that Falayi was his ‘doctor’.The cops found the mutilated body exactly where the Oba said the police would find it.

The court held that even though these findings were circumstantial, the statements of other accused persons, and the ones read to him by the police which he confirmed, have already proved his guilt. The court specifically quoted Gabriel Olabirinjo’s statement read to the Oba by Sergeant Agbabiaka which the Oba, the Alaaye of Efon-Alaaye did not deny. The statement went thus:
‘I was in the palace of Alaaye of Efon at night, I saw Enoch carry one girl under his gown into the palace. He placed the girl under the staircase in the palace…Enoch left to call Alaaye…Alaaye came and saw the girl. He said Enoch should do her as he said he would do her….He carried the cigarette tin (in which the eyes and tongue were contained) to Oba Alaaye…The following night Oba Alaaye asked whether the corpse of the girl had been cleared…’
Justice Verity then concluded:
‘With acceptance of that statement as evidence of tacit admission of the facts therein, there is not only ample corroboration of the evidence…it goes further and is evidence of admission of facts from which no other conclusion is possible than that the appellant counseled and procured the murder of this child and was rightly found guilty thereof.’

Upon this final pronouncement, Kabiyesi Oba Samuel Adeniran Asusumasa Atewogboye II, the 43rd Alaaye of Efon-Alaaye, his herbalist and one of his servants and Gabriel Olabirinjo, were all hanged to death.

After the bloody slashings, the king then brought out kolanuts and made everyone present to swear to an oath of secrecy. Anyone who leaked the secret was expected to die, according to the useless covenant they had. The corpse was then mutilated and dismembered, her eyes were gouged out of their sockets and put in a container carried by a first individual. Then her tongue was sliced off and put in another container held by a second individual. Both individuals then ferried these body parts through a door that led to the living quarters of the Oba To Ba Lori Ohun Gbogbo (king). What evil can be greater than a leader betraying his own people?

After completing this phase of their criminal operation, they took what remained of the lifeless body of the girl to the forest around the Christian Missionary Society (CMS) Church and buried it there.

THE POLICE SWINGS IN AND A DRAMATIC TRIAL ENSUES
The parents remained traumatized and on the 10th of February, 1949, a team of police detectives (Chief Inspector Aruah, Sergeants Sule Agbabiaka and Olawaiye and Police Constable Ariyo) stormed Efon-Alaaye. They commenced work without wasting time and within 48 hours, they were able to establish that the cute Adediwura may have fallen a victim to the antics of ritual murderers.
On Monday 14th February, 1949 (a day of celebration of love), the Daily Times newspaper blew its trumpets as it reported the criminal case nationwide. The people of the British protectorate of Nigeria shuddered with terror and recoiled with shock at such brutality. But unknown to them, the worst was yet to come.
Not long after the detectives arrived, three suspects linked to the murder were rounded up and arrested. They were Enoch Falayi, Gabriel Olabirinjo and Daniel Ojo. Falayi was the native doctor and herbalist mentioned earlier, he was the personal spiritualist and consultant to the Alaaye (king), he was the one who kidnapped the girl as she was enjoying her play. The other two suspects were his messengers.
In early April, the coroner inquest to the murder opened at the Obokungbusi Hall in Ilesha under Magistrate WO Egbuna, he was the one in control of that particular jurisdiction.

But then, something very interesting happened. The case assumed a new twist when one of those in police custody decided to leak everything and damn the consequences of the covenant they had. He confessed and nailed the royal coffin as he mentioned the name of the king as being the brain behind the whole violent crime. Kabiyesi Oba Samuel Adeniran Asusumasa Atewogboye II was immediately arrested. I want to repeat here that at this time, there was no country called Nigeria, it was a protectorate of the British Empire under King George VI but the justice system was incredibly efficient and it was obvious no one was above the law – not even the king, the second-in-command to the gods. Representing the Crown at this trial was Mr. Lloyd Crow.

As the people of Efon-Alaaye were trying to recover from the shock that their arrested monarch could be the brain behind the most savage killing in the land, the case was then transferred to Akure High Court. The stage was set for the trial of the decade.

Justice NS Pollard was the trial judge and before him were 21 witnesses ready to vomit all forms of evidence. One of them was Aina Ola and she wasted no time in revealing that it was Enoch Falayi the herbalist who grabbed Adediwura and stuffed her under his agbada.

To make things worse for the ritualist masquerading as a herbalist and native doctor, his own wife, Owomobi, also provided further evidence saying the child was kept in their house and in the cover of darkness, she was forced to carry the child on her back to the residence of the second accused, Gabriel Olabirinjo.

In a testimony that added more nails to the royal casket, Ojo Olofa on his own testified that the child was taken to the palace the following day and it was in the presence of the king that the innocent kid was murdered with brutal cuts. He also gave further details of what happened to her body parts and subsequent burial, all mentioned earlier.

Once all the witnesses gave their evidence, the Crown counsel, Mr. Crow proceeded to submit that the statements of the three principal witnesses – Aina Ola, Owomobi and Ojo Olofa were more than enough for the conviction of Falayi, the crooked herbalist.
But the legal drama was just starting. The defence counsels launched their own counterattacks as they insisted that the three witnesses were accomplices and therefore, their evidence needs to be corroborated.

However, the trial judge, Justice Pollard, ruled that he was satisfied that Aina Ola could not be considered as an accomplice and as such, her evidence was enough corroboration of the concealment of Adediwura at Falayi’s house and the subsequent transfer of the child to the palace. Thus, Falayi was pronounced guilty. Gbagam!

That was not all, the Crown counsel Crow also submitted that the confessional statement provided by Gabriel Olabirinjo and Ojo Olofa’s evidence was a total corroboration of the second accused person’s guilt. And it gets more interesting as his lawyer, Bode Thomas, argued that his client made the statement under duress and so it should not be accepted as evidence. But again, Justice Pollard disagreed. He stated that he was satisfied that the accused evidence was made voluntarily and freely. And without wasting time, the judge slammed him with a guilty verdict too. But Daniel Ojo was lucky, he was acquitted for lack of substantial evidence again him.

So what happened to the criminal king? As for Kabiyesi Oba Adeniran, the Crown counsel submitted that the evidence revealed clearly that he did not only have the intention to kill but also took part in the ritual murder of baby Adediwura. He then directed the court to the evidence of Ojo Olofa and Owomobi. The prosecuting counsel further prayed to the court to take into consideration the countenance of the Oba which he said, already showed him as someone with guilty mind. Okay, now wait for this.

The lawyer to the king, Chief Obafemi Awolowo (yes the same African chief on the N100 naira note) fired back. He argued that since the king rendered helped the parents of the deceased and the parents by organizing a search part. Awolowo said that alone was enough to wash the royal robe clean of all blood. He did not stop there, he said as an Oba, it was possible that some of the enemies of the king wanted to deal with him by involving him in the gruesome killing. Awolowo dismissed all the evidence presented against his client: he branded them as circumstantial.

However, to the disappointment of Awolowo, Justice Pollard did not agree with him. The judge said that saying some enemies in the town vowed to implicate the king in the murder was nothing but a baseless afterthought. In short, the judge gave Awolowo and legal park well. The worst was yet to come for Awolowo and his client. The stern trial judge dropped the bomb when he eventually found the king guilty. The king must have thought he was having a bad dream when Justice Pollard sentenced him to death. Also sentenced to the graves were the other accused persons.
NB: Also integrally involved in this case is a particular Mr. Oye, said to be a first-class criminal case investigator who made the success of the prosecution possible.

*THE FIRST OBA TO FACE PUBLIC EXECUTION 1949'Oba Samuel Adeniran the 43rd Alaaye of Efon Alaaye*

How Oba Samuel Adeniran Asusumasa Atewogboye II Was Sentenced To Death For Killing A Baby For Ritual In 1949
The 43rd Alaaye of Efon-Alaaye, Kabiyesi Oba Samuel Adeniran Asusumasa Atewogboye II, his herbalist and one of his servants and Gabriel Olabirinjo, were all hanged to death for The Ritual Murder of 15-Month-Old Baby Girl Named Adediwura In 1949

By M. Ogunshakin

On a Monday morning that started out like every other day, the 10th of January, 1949, something unbelievably nasty was to occur. An event so brutal it shook the helpless community to its very core. In the rustic compound of Mr. Ojo was a 15-month-old baby girl whom he and his adorable wife joyfully named Adediwura (meaning royalty or crown has turned to gold). Not bothered with any problem in the world, she was busy playing.

Unknown to the family, the crown of the Efon-Alaaye was soon going to turn their own crown into a calabash of blood. All of a sudden, someone noticed the little girl playing within the compound was nowhere to be found. It was as if she just vanished. Ha!

What type of a bad joke is this, the father must have mused. But it was no joke. After checking every plank and crevice in the compound, the parents knew something terrible was amiss. Their child was gone! Just like that!

By that moment, the mother was already on the edge of lunacy. As the sun became hotter and the day entered afternoon with her daughter nowhere to be found, the frenzied woman burst into full-scale madness. She just could not bear it anymore. She heaved her whole body in the air and landed on the ground, throwing herself all over the place several times with hot tears streaming down her face, her non-stop wailings attracted bystanders, neighbours and sympathizers. Who was playing this crazy joke with a child?
Her hormones boiled, the maternal instincts kicked in, she ran out of the house into the sun and she let out a piercing cry:
My child has been kidnapped!

Confused and equally worried, her husband and other concerned members of the compound and family quickly mobilized a small army, had a swift meeting and they all agreed the next thing was to approach the number one person in charge of their welfare, their beloved king – the Alaaye of Efon Alaaye. After all, the king is the father of everyone and if any child in the community is missing, it is the king’s child who was missing.

With the speed of light, the chaotic party was soon at the palace. With pitiful tears in their glassy eyes, hot mucus meandering down their nostrils and glistening sweat covering their dark tropical skins now utterly covered with dust and worry, they outlined exactly in weak voices what happened to the king. With the crown of his ancestors perched on his head, the Alaaye listened with rapt attention to the tragedy that was unfolding before his very throne. He told them to return home that the issue will be looked into.

After several hours, the Alaaye of Efon-Alaaye, Kabiyesi Oba Samuel Adeniran Asusumasa Atewogboye II, organized a search party to sniff out the missing child. But it was all a waste of time. They searched every nook and corner of the kingdom, called for help from the villagers and police but nothing that remotely resembled the child was even found. Exasperated, the colonial representatives and police messaged Lagos for further help from the Central Investigations Department (CID).

BUT WHERE WAS THE CHILD?

Well, you will recall that the girl was playing in the compound while her parents busied themselves with house chores. It was in an instant that an herbalist pounced on the girl and kidnapped her. He must have been surveying the compound to know precisely when to attack. He hid the tiny child under his a flowing traditional garb called an agbada (see photo) and whisked her off to his house.
At night, he then told his wife to carry the child on her back to the house of another person. The next day, while the parents of the child could not sleep, the kidnappers took the child straight to the palace. The girl was brought before the king, Kabiyesi Oba Samuel Adeniran Asusumasa Atewogboye II. With a wave of his authority, the poor girl was butchered right in his presence.

It is the truth, Tomakint's signature clearly painted the clear picture abou this disaster called Buhari now we are all squirming but I pray may the Buharideens cry bitterly until this demonic being is forcefully removed before 2023

So so sad and shameful

Nigerian jailed 90 years in US for fathering six children with own daughters

An award-winning Nigerian music director, Aswad Ayinde, found guilty of fathering children with his daughters will spend the rest of his life in jail.
According to Mail Online, Ayinde, 55, of Paterson, New Jersey, United States, was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Friday after being found guilty in the second of five expected trials in which he is accused of repeatedly raping his six daughters, resulting in six children being fathered.
Mr. Ayinde was found guilty in his latest trial of having intercourse with his daughter when she was as young as eight-years-old. The second sentence adds to the 40 year sentence Mr Ayinde received in a 2011 trial for sexually assaulting a separate daughter.
Mr. Ayinde is known for directing the music video for the Fugees 1996 smash hit “Killing Me Softly.”
In a disturbing disclosure during his first trial, Mr. Ayinde’s former wife said he was trying to create a “pure family bloodline” by impregnating his daughters. He even claimed during a pre-trial hearing before the first trial that “the world was going to end, and it was just going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen.”
In this latest trial, it was revealed that Mr. Ayinde began having intercourse with his second daughter from the time she was eight-years-old, impregnating her four times.
The sexual assaults happened for almost 30 years until Mr. Ayinde and his wife separated, officials said. They occurred in numerous homes across Northern New Jersey, even while the family was under watch of State Child Welfare officials, according to NBC New York. Some of the rapes even took place in an abandoned funeral home.
The family moving as far away as Florida to avoid investigation, after case workers removed multiple children from the Ayinde household in 2000, resulting in Mr. Ayinde being arrested for kidnapping for trying to take them from State custody in a Medical Center, NBC New York reported.
He pleaded guilty to lesser charges and received a year’s probation – as he continued raping one daughter for at least another two years, according to officials.
The depraved father also beat and starved the girls using wooden boards and steel-toed boots for even “minor transgressions,” Ayinde’s wife testified at the first trial.
Some of the children Ayinde fathered with his daughters were born in the home, with at least two babies who died in the home having been buried without notifying authorities or obtaining birth certificates, NBC New York reported.
Ayinde’s tortured daughters were home Schooled and isolated from other children, so as to keep the family secrets hidden, the Station added.
With his wife, too afraid to confront him, Mr. Ayinde carried out his evil plan without hindrance even while directing the Music Video for the Fugees 1996 breakout hit ‘Killing Me Softly, for which he won ‘Best R&B Video’ at the 1996 MTV Music Video Awards. The Fugees are also originally from Northern New Jersey.
Source: Tribune

SillyMods:
Dull thing, how did you know a thing about me?

I am beginning to like you now at least judging from your signature

NwaliE01:
Like seriously. How is your mind wired?

You didn't even read through the body of the message before making your baseless and ineptic comment.
Atiku is a very Nigerian like you if you were one and I expect you should leave politics aside and express concern about the country's dysfunctional management.
Our future generations would soon ask us what we contributed during this era of massive killings and suffering.

My brother as in, these weird ones must have been created when God was angry you can tell they children of Belial always siding with evil and more of it. For crying out loud who in his right senses will compare an Atiku (entrepreneur par excellence) to a Buhari (a cattle rearer).

SillyMods:
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Buhari is the next best thing to happen to Nigeria after independence.

Argue with your ancestors.

Your hunger is eternal i am sure in your former life things were not rosy for you at least it is glaring from your current life.

HarunaWest:
what is written there is Mohamed Buhari not Muhammadu Buhari....My dad is Agematez with Buhari, they schooled same time, his name is still intact no difference. This was the same thing that Evans ewerem was thrown out for...But you all won't see this cos ur blindfolded by loyalty to the president instead of loyalty to the nation.
Just remember that in future,you all will regret your actions today.

You just said it all

VULCAN:
Is this the certificate that Buhari hasn't been able to provide for 4 and a half years?

The one that made him go to court with 30 SANS

My brother the matter just tire me

This is what I call technological advancement with futuristic gains

This is a good move in the right direction judging from the fact that MTN made the biggest cash throughout the whole continent from Nigeria. They should do more......

cescky:
God..in as much as this was wad a possibility .

This announcement shocked me to the core..what type of country and people are we? Sincerely wer not far from demons...




Animal may this be your portion next week

Amen