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The present trials of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the colossus of the South-West is not surprising to those who have vision. I saw it coming and that was why over two years ago, precisely on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, I wrote a back page op-ed in ThisDay newspaper titled “From Battleground to Common Ground” and in that piece, I said: “A comrade is not for what you are for, neither does he share the same interests as you. A comrade is simply one who is against what you are against. In other words, you are bound by a common enemy. The All Progressives Congress, is a party founded on this premise. Those who are enemies of the president (Goodluck Jonathan) and the PDP gathered together to form a party whose foundation is their common enemy. They share no ideological connection, neither are they friends. In actual fact, they may even hate each other, only that they hate the president and the PDP more and are wiling to temporarily suppress their hatred for each other in other to gang up against their common enemy. In my experience, it is better to have a party built on common interests than to have one built on a common enemy. This is because as even a political novice will tell you, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies only permanent interests. Now, if the above is true, what would happen to a party that is built on a common enemy? Parties built on this foundation last only as long as the enemy is in power. Once their enemy is no longer in power the party disintegrates.” It does not matter if you hate Reno Omokri’s guts, but ask yourself if what I said has not turned out to be the truth. In the space of just a month, Bola Tinubu has been deliberately demystified and treated with such contempt that even those who he considered his worst enemies find themselves feeling sorry for him. But he should have seen it coming! The unraveling of Bola Tinubu actually began on the June 3, 2016, when President Muhammadu Buhari publicly and right in Tinubu’s face told him at a reception the president held for members of the National Assembly at the Presidential Villa that the All Progressives Congress had no such position as a National Leader. I know this because a Senator who attended the function called me almost immediately after the event and told me about how the hall descended into almost pin drop silence after the president made that assertion. I can assure my readers that President Muhammadu Buhari would never have made such a remark prior to the 2015 elections. But who needs a piece of toilet paper after it has done its job! That remark was the signal that sleeper agents within the APC were waiting for to begin the unraveling of the masquerade. Teaching him a lesson in Ondo State is only the beginning. Bola Tinubu’s comeuppance is not yet complete in the eyes of his traducers. And then look at the way he is portrayed in Professor John Paden’s biography of the president. Paden portrays Tinubu as a desperate power monger who kept throwing himself at Buhari only to be rejected at each instance. Tinubu, see how low you have fallen! I do not know why Bola Tinubu is angry at Paden. Did he not read that this is an official biography? Paden was not there during the horse trading. The book was written with the cooperation of President Buhari. The things he wrote about Tinubu were the accounts he was given by the president. So Tinubu should call a spade a spade. President Buhari merely told the world what he really thinks of Tinubu. And look at all the men around President Buhari who got to where they are on the back of Tinubu. Has anyone of them come out to speak in his defense? Where is Vice President Osinbajo? He can blame Jonathan but cannot defend his benefactor. Where is Fashola? He can come up with excuses for giving Nigerians darkness but cannot speak up for his Oga? Lai Mohammed is nowhere to be found. Perhaps he is too busy dressing up masquerades or looking for a parastatal under him to loan him some money! At the end of the day, after all the terrible things the propaganda wing of APC said and did to Ayo Fayose and Femi Fani Kayode, who came to the help of Tinubu but the two men demonised by the very same propaganda machinery that Tinubu helped set up? And as for Tinubu, I cannot imagine why someone will write a book and insult you in it and still invite you to the launch and you agreed to go simply because he is a president. Even worse, they asked you to write a review for the book and you did! Is this the same Tinubu that was so mouthy under Jonathan? Look at how he has become a chihuahua today. Lord have mercy! Tinubu! Your brand of Afonja is too much! Did you not see what ex-President Goodluck Jonathan did with the so called Leadership Award. You do not honour a gathering designed to reduce you with your presence. As the late kakanfo MKO Abiola would say “a man who allows his head to be used to break a coconut may not live to eat it”! Even the well respected Pastor Osinbajo cannot even publicly come to your defense and tell the truth of how you helped him secure his exalted office. Yet he is the chief beneficiary of your generosity. My advise to you, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is this: a woman who continues to make herself available to a man that only remembers her when he needs her services to satisfy his lustfulness should not be surprised when her own children deny that she is their mother! Finally, going forward, before labeling people like Ayo Fayose and Femi Fani-Kayode as enemies, remember that it is better to be insulted with the truth than flattered with a lie. http://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2016/10/08/175242/ |
DSS discovers £13B in Diezani's House DSS discovers $30B in Maku's Farm DSS discovers $20M in Judges House DSS discovers your MUMU Button. |
sarrki:You insult Egypt by comparing it to this hell you are living in |
duni04:Let's use our brains? Do you really have one? ![]() |
gretblue:Did you not hear it from the finance minister? The hunger go soon give you sense. E remain small! ![]() |
So says the president who took $6 million to go treat his ear in London Buhari and his zombies are only deceiving themselves. Most of them are now recanting due to serious hunger! The few left on NL here will soon vanish completely. ![]() |
The naira fell further to 363 against the dollar at the parallel market on Thursday, as the scarcity of foreign exchange continued to weigh on the value of the local currency at the interbank and parallel markets. The naira had closed at 360 to the dollar at the parallel market on Wednesday. The local currency also dropped against the greenback at the interbank official market to 284 per dollar on Thursday. The naira has fallen consistently at the interbank market this week, a development that is reflected in the volatility it has recorded at the parallel market. The currency depreciated at the interbank market to 282.5, 283.25, 283.75 against the dollar between Monday and Thursday. Foreign exchange dealers told our correspondent on Thursday that a huge volume of demand was moving from the interbank market to the parallel market due to the forex supply gap at the interbank market. “It is a supply and demand market. A lot of demand is being pushed to the parallel market due to the shortage at the interbank market; it appears that the interbank market is being rigged,” the National President, Association of Bureau De Change Operators, Aminu Gwadabe, said, adding, “There is the need to really douse the tension.” Currency analysts said they believed the spike would continue next week unless the CBN took action to address the supply gap at the interbank market A top player at the interbank market, who spoke under condition of anonymity, said, “The flexible exchange rate policy that commenced a few weeks ago is a good move by the CBN. However, the N280/dollar level where it started was not a true reflection of the value of the naira. “This is why the foreign portfolio investors, who can bring forex liquidity to the interbank market, are not coming into that market. The CBN should have allowed the market to start around N300/dollar.” The naira, which closed at 348 against the greenback at the parallel market last Friday, dropped to 351 on Monday before plunging further to 354 and 360 on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. Meanwhile, the naira was reported to have taken a dive on Thursday at both the parallel and official markets, becoming the worst performing currency in Africa in 2016, according to Bloomberg data. The currency, which began trading at around 283 to the dollar at the interbank market on Thursday, depreciated to 284 to become the third worst performing currency in the world for 2016. The naira, according to Bloomberg data, came ahead of only two currencies in the world – Venezuela’s bolivar and Surinam’s dollar. http://punchng.com/naira-falls-363-dollar-scarcity-continues/ |
SeverusSnape:It is so so bad! |
MSF says "a catastrophic humanitarian emergency" is unfolding at a camp in Bama, where 24,000 people have taken refuge. Nearly 200 refugees who fled Boko Haram attacks have died of starvation and dehydration in the northeastern Nigerian city of Bama in the past month, Doctors Without Borders said on Wednesday. The refugees "speak of children dying of hunger and digging new graves every day", according to a statement from the global medical charity group, also known by its French acronym MSF. "A catastrophic humanitarian emergency" is unfolding at a makeshift camp on a hospital compound where 24,000 people have taken refuge, it said. The doctors referred 16 emaciated children at risk of dying to their special feeding centre in Maiduguri. One in five of the 15,000 children are suffering severe acute malnutrition, the group found. "We see the trauma on the faces of our patients who have witnessed and survived many horrors," said Ghada Hatim, head of the Doctors Without Borders mission in Nigeria. Her team reached Bama on Tuesday following a military convoy from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital that is the headquarters of Nigeria's military campaign. Though Bama is just 70km southeast of Maiduguri, ongoing clashes between the rebels and government troops make travel unsafe and farmers have not planted crops for 18 months, Dr Christopher Mampula of MSF explained by telephone from Paris. Boko Haram fighters routinely burn down homes and destroy wells, leaving few water sources in an area where temperatures often soar above 40 degrees. The armed group seized Bama in September 2014 and Nigerian troops recaptured it in March 2015. Nigeria's military has greatly curtailed the seven-year-old armed rebellion that has killed some 20,000 people, but fighters still attack villages and deploy suicide bombers. Boko Haram has also staged attacks across Nigeria's borders in Chad, Niger and Cameroon. The refugees in Bama are among 1.8 million Nigerians forced from their homes and living inside the country, with another 155,000 in neighbouring countries, according to the UN. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/200-refugees-die-starvation-nigeria-camp-160622204348768.html |
wellmax:PMB did not complete it. How much did PMB allocate to it in his budget? GEJ commissioned it in 2014. It was just waiting for arrival of the cabins and test run. PMB did nothing in the project |
sarrki:It was started and completed by GEJ. NO need to push your lies! Sorry |
Amidst the stinging hardship occasioned by the present economic recession in the country, the spate of insecurity is rising and taking a tinge of the ridiculous by the day. In Kwara State, cooking a pot of soup is now an invitation to robbers, as cases of eagle-eyed hungry men absconding with cooked food still on the fire is now a daily occurrence. The incident is widespread in areas without perimeter fencing and among women who cook or have opted to cook with coal pots. At each of such areas such as Tanke, Basin, Sango, Offa Garage, and Kilanko, the incident according to The Guardian investigations occurred over five times in just a week. According to Alhaja Hamidalat Olawale at Sango, “I was cooking around 5.00p.m. in readiness for the breaking of the fast for the day. It was beans and I decided to use coal pot at the open backyard. I had added all the food condiments and was waiting for the broth to dry up. But to my greatest surprise, I did not see the pot of the beans again. “I was shocked discovering this. What amazed me was that the thief did not come for it before it was ready; he or she came when the food was ready and we were already salivating, meaning the person must have been closely monitoring me.” Another victim, an undergraduate of the University of Ilorin, Anita Bazuaye, said it was her pot of soup that disappeared beside her window. “It was painful because as a student, it was difficult for me to get money again for another soup. In fact, when I managed to start cooking again, I did not leave the place until I had securely packed the pot inside my room.” Reacting to the development, the Police spokesman, Ajayi Okasanmi (ASP), said no formal report to that effect had come to him or anyone within the state command, but warned that “it is a serious matter and we will not take it lightly with anyone caught in the act. The Penal Code frowns at theft and we will treat anyone in the act accordingly.” A former chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the state, Emmanuel Ayeoribe, said the development could not be divorced from the non-payment of workers’ salaries. “If nothing is urgently done to commence regular payment of salaries, very soon, people will start leaping over the fence to steal food, not just from unfenced quarters,” he warned. http://guardian.ng/news/theft-of-cooked-food-on-fire-becomes-widespread-in-ilorin/
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This cartoon explains Buhari's war on corruption so succintly
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DRAMA recently ensued in Kano State when the father of a five year old boy abandoned his son at Singer Market in Fagge Local Government Area having exchanged him for a bag of rice he could not pay for. In the first such incident of its kind, a middle-aged man, identified as Mallam Yusuf Bala, left his son with a trader in the marker in exchange for a bag of rice. According to an eyewitness account, Bala approached the rice dealer, Alhaji Suleiman Bagudu, to buy a bag of rice, which he carried home but left his son behind, with a promise to rush home to bring the money for the foodstuff. This, he said, was because the money Bala had on him was not enough to pay for the bag of rice, which sold for N14,000 per 50kg bag. However, six hours afterwards, Bala failed to show up as promised to settle the rice dealer and collect his son, making the trader, Alhaji Bagudu, suspicious. Consequently, Alhaji Bagudu decided to interrogate the toddler, who then innocently led the rice dealer to their home, located at the abattoir area of Koki in Dala Local Government Area of the state. Despite expressing embarrassment when the rice dealer arrived his home, alongside his child, Bala openly confessed that he was financially handicapped, hence his unbecoming conduct by abandoning his son as a last resort. Shortly after listening to Bala’s explanation, the rice dealer donated the bag of rice to him and handed over the boy to his father. Kano State Police Command spokesman Musa Majia, said the incident had not been reported to him. http://www.thebreakingpostng.com/news/hungry-kano-father-exchanges-his-five-year-old-son-for-a-bag-of-rice/ |
Sadeik:That is not a video of his arrival on Sunday. That is an old video. The pictures of his arrival are all conflicting. Even his media aides and APC Nigeria posted different pictures. Don't you people ever get that people are fully aware of these things? Hope you realise this is not the first time he has gone for medical trip? I don't have anything against him going for a medical trip. But government should be transparent else the nation will suffer |
freeze001:The President of a country is a public figure and a property of the state. He cannot chose or not chose to perform his duties. He is compelled by law to perform them. That is why the constitution has a clause on "incapacitation". If he is no longer able to perform state functions, then he is incapacitated and the VP will have to step in. The problem is, our sectional and regional bias has reduced governance to this kind of circus. |
idupaul:When they chose to come out with headlines like those while the man is kept indoors, you don't need a rocket scientist to tell you something is wrong. If the man is sick, just say so. The country is stalled and will not make significant progress under this kind of cloud. There are many key policies that require presidential accent. If the state of the president is in doubt then we have a cabal ruling us already. That was how a cabal ruled for over six months during the Yaradua days while the president was "jogging" around Aso Villa! Like the certificate, like the health status! All you need to sort it out is just show up! |
I find the recent events surrounding president Buhari's health trip and return very disturbing. In 2016, the least one can expect from any government is a bit of transparency. It doesn't help a country when the health status of its President is shrouded in so much secrecy, not just for political reasons but for the day to day running of the country. The so called arrival of the president yesterday seems to have thrown more confusion in the whole mix. After over 10 days in the UK, the President was sneeked into the country on Sunday and what has followed is the exact same propaganda we witnessed during the Yaradua days. First, fake pictures where released for his arrival. Even the story of his arrival here on Nairaland had an old picture. Obviously, journalists were not allowed to cover the arrival, something that is totally unusual for a loud President who once organised Scottish dressed pipers to welcome him home. No videos have been made available either. Instead, we wake up this morning to headlines like, "I am fit and can wrestle with anyone". Seriously? This was exactly the kind of headlines we were bombarded with during the Yaradua days. I remember the infamous " I can even play squash with anyone" comment Yaradua was claimed to have made. Then we heard he was jogging up and down the stairs in Aso Rock. All this can be solved by a very simple move. Get the guy to appear in public! He is President. He is supposed to be going around performing presidential functions. If you claim he is so fit, why keep him inside Aso Rock like a prisoner? It doesn't make sense. Just get him out there to conduct his normal duties and there won't be any speculations or doubts. But keeping him inside Aso Rock and coming out with all kinds of press releases only means one thing: the man is not fine and is certainly not fit. It isn't rocket science! The very first doubts was even when people started "trooping" to go see him in London. Why would party leaders be going to see a President in London who was supposed to be on a vacation? I hope we are not back to the same old trenches. It is a simple case. If the President is fit and great, let him go about his normal duties and there won't be need for all the press statements or photo ops. It would become visible to the blind and audible to the deaf! |
MRSALT:Actually Buhari has committed a criminal offence by lying under oath! He can go to jail for perjury. This case is more serious than many realise and even the President knows it. He might delay the process but it will not go away. For a start, it will disqualify him in 2019 if he decides to recontest or worst case, it will define his campaign and destroy it. |
billyG:You have broken rule 2. You should be banned! The guy you insulted should report you to the mods |
scholes0:Eya! I understand your pain seeing that the efcc is only fighting opposition. Have you ever seen GEJ mentioned in any theft before? Oh, I forgot! You only assume based on your APC cooked up propaganda. Like the cars inside bush... ![]() |
Is there anything this government does that isnt propaganda? Just anything please? |
Ten days after President Muhammad Buhari flagged off the cleanup of Ogoniland, the Federal Government is yet to put in place the requisite structures to commence the actual implementation of the United Nations Environment Programme report on Ogoniland. The delay is already causing anxiety in Ogoni, as groups like the Ogoni Solidarity Forum and the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) have called on government to, without further delay inaugurate the governance mechanisms for the implementation of the UNEP report. Vice President Yemi Osibanjo had on behalf of President Buhari flagged off the cleanup of Ogoni at Bodo, in Ogoniland, on Thursday, but didn’t announce the requisite governance structures for the implementation of the cleanup. The Federal Government is yet to establish two critical governance mechanisms, namely: the governing council and the board of trustees. Besides these two bodies, the government is also yet to advertise for the position of a project coordinator, who will oversee the day to day implementation of the cleanup. MOSOP had called on the Federal Government to take concrete post-launch steps relating to the implementation of the UNEP environmental assessment report on Ogoniland, by inaugurating the governance mechanisms (the Governing Council, Board of Trustees and the Trust Fund) of the reformed Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Programme (HYPREP), to underline its publicly declared commitment to remediating and restoring the hydrocarbon degraded Ogoni environment. The structures are supposed to be responsible for the co-ordination of activities and management of funds, hence the rejuvenation exercise cannot commence without these organs. The coordinator of Ogoni Solidarity Forum, Mr. Celestine Akpobari, who has been actively involved in the negotiations leading to the cleanup flag off, told The Guardian that a lot of Ogoni people had waited in anticipation of the next stage. “I was expecting they would have announced the governing council and board of trustee. It took long to ratify the list. The President and the Minister of Environment are committed to implementation of the Ogoni cleanup. The minister is a woman of integrity. She used to be a staff of the United Nations, and chairs lots of environmental groups in Africa. Her presence in government gives us hope of government’s commitment” he said. Akpobari explained that the clean up will be predominately funded by Shell Petroleum Development Company, as the policy of polluter pay principle will be applied. According to him, the Shell might pay as much as ninety percent of the fund required for the clean up, while the government and donor agencies will each contribute five percent of the funds required for the clean up. He revealed that save for the minister’s insistence, some vested groups opposed to the Ogoni clean up had mounted pressure on the government to commence the cleanup in other parts of the Niger Delta instead of Ogoni. The Guardian gathered that the committee on the centre of excellence to determine where the centre will be set up has already submitted its report to the government. The report recommended establishing three new institutions in Nigeria to support a comprehensive environmental restoration exercise. UNEP proposed Ogoniland Environmental Restoration Authority to oversee implementation of the study’s recommendations and should be set up during a Transition Phase, which UNEP suggests should begin as soon as possible. The Authority’s activities, UNEP recommended should be funded by an Environmental Restoration Fund for Ogoniland, to be set up with an initial capital injection of US$1b contributed by the oil industry and the government, to cover the first five years of the cleanup project. Government was asked to set up an Integrated Contaminated Soil Management Centre, to be built in Ogoniland and supported by potentially hundreds of mini treatment centres, to treat contaminated soil and provide hundreds of job opportunities. And finally, the report also recommends creating a Centre of Excellence in Environmental Restoration in Ogoniland to promote learning and benefit other communities impacted by oil contamination in the Niger Delta and elsewhere in the world. Source: http://guardian.ng/news/fg-yet-to-set-up-mechanism-for-ogoni-cleanup/ |
Slitman:Did you not hear of YouWin? Use Google and educate yourself. Even the world bank was impressed with it! |
Its a very stupid program! It can only make sense if it is for those who have finished secondary schools. You cannot ask someone who has gone through university for 4 to 6 years to come out and earn the equivalent of a bag of rice a month. Its just stupid. Its not about criticising. Its just dumb! Someone even compared it to Lybia program? Are you kidding me? Lybians were giving a car for hire purchase for their own post graduate scheme and their salaries could conveniently pay for it. |
Very funny. No true Niger Delta Militant group will ever do this. If they are for peace, why are they militants in the first place? ![]() |
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has pulled out of the much publicized clean up of Ogoni Land, citing insincerity and lack of commitment on the side of the federal government. In a statement by its spokesman, Bamidele Odugbesan in Lagos on Wednesday, June 8, 2016. The oil giant stated that they noticed the government does not have a blue print yet for the exercise, also no fund has been approved by the government for clean-up. Odugbesan said they having been calling on the federal government to show commitment but all to no avail. He further said their own part of the money is ever ready and they won’t hesitate to return to the table whenever the the federal government deem fit to fully kick start the clean up because right now there is nothing concrete on ground, to be frank. Meanwhile, it was reported last week that ace singer and performer, Timi Dakolo, turned down a call by the FG to perform at the event to flag of the Ogoni cleanup. No reason was giving for the action and attempts to get a response from the singer were unfruitful. Mrs. Amina Mohammed, Minister of Environment, expressed her disappointment via her Twitter account while congratulating everyone who participated in the event. http://telegram.ng/post/187/Shell-Pulls-Out-Of-Ogoni-CleanUp-Accuses-FG-Of-Insincerity-And-Lack-Of-Commitment |
They went to Lukuru, they slaughtered 10 people in their sleep. When we tried to complain, they told you it was in retaliation, that the Gbagyi people killed one Fulani man once upon a time. You said yes. They were justified, why should the Gbagyi man killed any Fulani man wherever. It did not worry you that that tale had no basis. The Gbagyi man was at fault. Then they became Boko Haram and started killing Christians everywhere, you were quick to remind us of how the government under Late Umaru Yaradua killed their leader. The government was at fault. But how does the fault of Umaru Yaradua, became the fault of the Christians. To you they were right to be angry. The direction of their anger didn't bother you. Until they started killing everyone. Then they were dispersed and went to Agatu. They murdered many in cold blood. Ohhhhhh, you suddenly called them herdsmen, even though you didn't see them with the herds. And to you, why should Agatu men kill their 10,000 cows? 10,000? Can the entire people of Lagos kill 10,000 cows at once even if we all carry knife? I know some of you are slowpoke, but I can't understand if you are completely brainless. Now they murder a woman, you said they didn't behead her, they only stone her to death!!! Yeepa. Mogbe!! Are you now a zombie? They said she blaspheme, you said ahhhh. She got it coming. Why should she go to their land and start cursing their God. Wooo oriburuku ti bae tan. You are getting to a stage where if they say we kill him because he is iyanmiri banza or because he is Yorubawa masu kolokolo. You will say yes, why should he be born Igbos or Yoruba. Didn't he know that those ones are not wanted there. Just do one thing for us, write out their reason for killing you before they come. That way you would have served them to the best of your ability. "Useful Idiots" - Tijani Adisa Gadani |
seunny4lif:Who cares what they say or think? Did you not call them zombies? |
Nothing just adds up when it comes to this government. And they are so incompetent. See the way the report is presented like a sixth grade school assignment. ![]() |
I knew that the loot recovery was going to be another Telemundo show. This is so so boring and shameful now. What is VAT recovery? What his amount frozen in banks as recovery? What is royalty/tax payment to fgn as recovery? Its all become one big joke really and they only insult their gullible followers because only such dense followers will take this seriously Its obvious that this government is just desperate to shore up its media image and rating and that his what propels their actions |
Goke7:There is no better issue for a Niger deltan than resource control. Sorry! We won't stop agitating. |

