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Trial should continue to determine if guilty or innocent. RIP victims of delayed justice as a result of a failed judicial system

One administration here diverted £16Billion for power project, but nothing to show.

India is currently bigger than China? I doubt if China would decline by nearly half their current population.

Ballon D'or for UEFA champions winner and what award is for African, Asia, South-America
champions league winner?

Ronaldo should recall number of times he won the award without winning champions league.

Five-time Ballon d’Or winner, Cristiano Ronaldo, said on Saturday that the individual honour should be awarded to a player who won the Champions League.
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‎Speaking ahead of Sunday’s Nations League final in Munich between Portugal and Spain, the veteran said “trophies” should determine who wins the Ballon d’Or.
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‎“In my opinion, whoever wins it should be on a team that has won trophies. The Ballon d’Or winner should be in a team that has won the Champions League,” the 40-year-old forward told reporters.
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‎Paris Saint-Germain’s 5-0 thumping of Inter Milan in the Champions League final last Saturday led to growing calls for Ousmane Dembele to win this season’s gong.
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‎Spain starlet, Lamine Yamal’s superb display in Thursday’s 5-4 Nations League semi-final win over France, however, had some arguing the teenager should be awarded the Ballon d’Or, which would make the 17-year-old the youngest winner in its history.
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‎France coach, Didier Deschamps, backed Dembele for the award, saying “considering the season Ousmane is having, he deserves it and that’s all I wish for him”.
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‎At a press conference in Stuttgart on Saturday, France captain Kylian Mbappe told reporters he backed Dembele.
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‎“Does anyone really need me to explain? Right now, we’re talking about Lamine Yamal and Ousmane Dembele, but I’m voting for Dembele.”
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‎Ronaldo said he “cannot tell you who deserves it” this season.
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‎Ronaldo’s five wins is bettered only by Argentinian Lionel Messi, who has won the award eight times.
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‎Paris Saint-Germain’s Argentine forward Lionel Messi poses after being awarded the the Ballon d’Or award during the 2021 Ballon d’Or France Football award ceremony at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris on November 29, 2021. FRANCK FIFE / AFP
‎The duo had a monopoly on the award for a decade from Ronaldo’s first win in 2008 to his last in 2017.
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‎The current holder is Spain and Manchester City midfielder Rodri.
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‎Manchester City’s Spanish midfielder Rodri receives the Ballon d’Or award during the 2024 Ballon d’Or France Football award ceremony at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris on October 28, 2024.
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‎Ballon d’Or Award Ceremony Set For September 22 In Paris
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‎Ronaldo Slams ‘Unfair’ Ballon d’Or Result After Vinicius Snub
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Gratuity? Last heard of it for more than 25yrs in Enugu State. This Governor want to restore public service.

This issue between Akpabio and Natasha is trivial matter that shouldn't take the legislative functions backwards considering the enormity of the issues at stake in this country.

I remember Ken Sarowiwa

If government succeeded in lowering fuel price by this gesture, what of other components that keep on rising in prices , example vehicle spare parts etc

A lovely piece of poem by a blunt and courageous poet that will make your day....
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*“My Lord, Tell me Where to Keep your Bribe.*

A poem by Prof. Niyi Osundare.

Do I drop it in your venerable chambers

Or carry the heavy booty to your immaculate mansion

Shall I bury it in the capacious water tank

In your well laundered backyard

Or will it breathe better in the septic tank

Since money can deodorize the smelliest crime

Shall I haul it up the attic

Between the ceiling and your lofty roof

Or shall I conjure the walls to open up

And swallow this sudden bounty from your honest labour

Shall I give a billion to each of your paramours

The black, the light, the Fanta-yellow

They will surely know how to keep the loot

In places too remote for the sniffing dog

Or shall I use the particulars

Of your anonymous maidservants and manservants

With their names on overflowing bank accounts

While they famish like ownerless dogs

Shall I haul it all to your village

In the valley behind seven mountains

Where potholes swallow up the hugest jeep

And Penury leaves a scar on every house

My Lord

It will take the fastest machine

Many, many days to count this booty; and lucky bank bosses

May help themselves to a fraction of the loot

My Lord

Tell me where to keep your bribe?

My Lord

Tell me where to keep your bribe?

The “last hope of the common man”

Has become the last bastion of the criminally rich

A terrible plague bestrides the land

Besieged by rapacious judges and venal lawyers

Behind the antiquated wig

And the slavish glove

The penguin gown and the obfuscating jargon

Is a rot and riot whose stench is choking the land

Behind the rituals and roted rigmaroles

Old antics connive with new tricks

Behind the prim-and-proper costumes of masquerades

Corruption stands, naked, in its insolent impunity

For sale to the highest bidder

Interlocutory and perpetual injunctions

Opulent criminals shop for pliant judges

Protect the criminal, enshrine the crime

And Election Petition Tribunals

Ah, bless those goldmines and bottomless booties!

Scoundrel vote-riggers romp to electoral victory

All hail our buyable Bench and conniving Bar

A million dollars in Their Lordship’s bedroom

A million euros in the parlor closet

Countless naira beneath the kitchen sink

Our courts are fast running out of Ghana-must-go’s*

The “Temple of Justice”

Is broken in every brick

The roof is roundly perforated

By termites of graft

My Lord

Tell me where to keep your bribe?

Judges doze in the courtroom

Having spent all night, counting money and various “gifts”

And the Chief Justice looks on with tired eyes

As Corruption usurps his gavel.

Crime pays in this country

Corruption has its handsome rewards

Just one judgement sold to the richest bidder

Will catapult Judge & Lawyer to the Billionaires’ Club

The Law, they say, is an ass

Sometimes fast, sometimes slow

But the Law in Nigeria is a vulture

Fat on the cash-and-carry carrion of murdered Conscience

Won gb’ebi f’alare

Won gb’are f’elebi**

They kill our trust in the common good

These Monsters of Mammon in their garish gowns

Unhappy the land

Where jobbers are judges

Where Impunity walks the streets

Like a large, invincible Demon

Come Sunday, they troop to the church

Friday, they mouth their mantra in pious mosques

But they pervert Justice all week long

And dig us deeper into the hellish hole

Nigeria is a huge corpse

With milling maggots on its wretched hulk

They prey every day, they prey every night

For the endless decomposition of our common soul

My Most Honourable Lord

Just tell me where to keep your bribe.

Large, extremely tough bags used for carrying heavy cash in Nigeria

They declare the innocent guilty

They pronounce the guilty innocent.”
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*Please let it go viral*

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Good we revert to old practices that are effective instead of feeding bottle system

The Lead Bishop of Worldwide Anglican Church, WAC, in Nigeria, Rt. Rev. Seun Adeoye has urged the National Assembly to make laws that will return Nigeria to regional and parliamentary systems of government.


The cleric explained that if the National Assembly found it worthy to replace an anthem jettisoned 46 years ago, nothing is wrong in restoring old orders that helped grow the nation in the past.


Adeoye, in a statement obtained by DAILY POST on Wednesday in Osogbo, said returning to the old orders was some of the restructuring many stakeholders in Nigeria have been clamouring for in the past 25 years.


“The old anthem came with Nigeria’s independence in 1960 but was changed in 1978. The other old orders we inherited were the parliamentary and the regional systems of governments.

“Successful military governments came on board and bastardized and balkanized the systems. They took away the regional governments until three regions became 36 states. They took away the parliamentary and gave us the unitary system in 1966 and the presidential system in 1979.

“Yes, the military who came through the barrels of guns took away ‘Nigeria, we hail thee”, a national anthem some of us grew to know and sing and in 1978 gave us ‘Arise oh compatriot’.

“If after 46 years of jettisoning the old anthem, we still found it worthy and necessary to restore it into our national life, I think nothing is wrong when we bring back the old systems that had worked for us in the past.

“For me, I think Nigeria’s economy as it stands today is not strong enough to successfully funds the present presidential system of government and even bring about the expected developmental projects across Nigeria. Therefore, I suggest that we return to the parliamentary system as inherited from the British at independence in 1960,” he said.

On regionalism, the cleric suggested that apart from cutting down the cost in the running of government businesses, “it will also encourage healthy competitions leading to fast economic growths and infrastructural developments among the regions as recorded in the early 60s”.

However, Adeoye suggested that instead of making it the three regions as it was before, it should be six geographical zones as is currently obtainable in Nigeria.

This means that EEDC will compete with other interested company to secure licences from Enugu state electricity regulatory authority for supply and distribution of electricity. Hopefully, geometric power owned by prof. Nnaji from Enugu state would outrun them and secure the licence. Thank God for eliminating monopoly

Contractor have spread their lobby very well so that they will continue with asphalt roads that quickly fails

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Karemarealty288:
This is minor damage that will not cost much to repair....why blackmailing the man that changed the face of Dust of the nation( Ebonyi state)

Forget the critics, Umahi never claim that cement roads can't be damaged but the damage can't be compared with asphalt roads.

Ironically, cement traders joins road contractors in the game of criticizing the minister , while the cement traders are suppose to be happy over that policy proposal.

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Is power supply in the exclusive list of the federal government? Very bad. Grid system should be abolished and allow organizations and levels of government to invest in power supply.

Lastly, nuclear power supply has recently being adjudged the best sustainable power supply by scientists. But what's Nigeria waiting to embrace it to tackle this century of epileptic electricity supply? High time concern citizens rise take away ethnicity and religion and push for a good policy that will liberate this nation.

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Good choice

UMAHI as works minister is a square peg in a square hole just like when prof. Nnaji was power minister that unfortunately short-lived

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Tomorrow Is Here , congratulations to the winner, mbah deserves it, tested and trusted. I remain obedient

Daylight robbery