WASSCE: Stakeholders kick against WAEC over increase in fees, penalties


Stakeholders have continued to oppose what they describe as arbitrary increment in the fees for this year’s West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) by candidates being organized by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

It was gathered from some private school owners and parents that WAEC’s decision to increase the examination fees was not communicated to schools and parents in good time.

And while many schools and parents were still struggling to pay the new fees, the examination body announced the closure of registration and subsequently imposed N5, 000 as penalty for late registration.

Against school proprietor’s claim that WAEC had set March 28 deadline for the 2022 WASCCE, a letter signed by Dr Adunola Osoba, the Deputy Registrar/Zonal Coordinator, WAEC, dated March 23, school proprietors were told that the registration, which closed midnight March 20, would be reopened on March 21 and closed April 3, with N5000 as penalty for late registration for each candidate.

“However, late registration with a penalty of five thousand naira (N5000) only per candidate commenced on Monday, 21st March, 2022, and will run till midnight of Sunday, 3rd April, 2022", the letter read.

“Those who have purchased pins but failed to upload will also be required to pay the penalty fee”, the letter added.

It was gathered the Lagos State Chapter of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), had formally appeal to WAEC to drop the penalty charges, stating that the registrations exercise was slowed down because most parents and schools were not prepared for the increment in fees.

Many of the parents said that their children and wards may end up not writing the examinations this year because they found it difficult raising the examination fees and the N5,000 penalty slammed on each student whose school for late registration.

His generosity and philanthropy are without equivalence, but some prefer to loathe him for these good virtues and in his usual self still remains a man that cannot be ignored from the consciousness of those who have drunk from his fountain of knowledge, wisdom, wealth and political clout.


For the former two-term governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, they can hate him or detest him for frivolous reasons in their wildest thoughts; but his admirers are swelling in uncountable numbers, much to the chagrin of his loathers.
In their vitriolic of Bola Tinubu, he still stands tall and grandstands as a political titan, but try as they have continued in their accusations and counter accusations; they are not making any headway in their unjustified grievances against him and his big status in the political terrain.

The Jagaban Borgu has been called so many names and variously accused of so many things that many are now wondering his offence is. Even with the recent public outcries informed by the now-disbanded Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS,) arm of the Nigerian Police Force, they targeted him and every member of his household as being the sole bankroller of the crises, which later degenerated into unrests, chaos across the country.

Their prime allegation is that amongst many, Tinubu is the owner of Oriental Hotels, which is the most-talked about topic for some time now; even when some are claiming the 5-Star hotel, which has been put up for sale since 2017, belongs to the former governor of Lagos State. Going further, the real owners came out to categorically debunk the story on various news sites, but this set of people still continued in their quest to pin every highbrow property to him just to fit their narratives, in their campaign of calumny.

In their unbridled pull-him-down campaign, they still go ahead to allege that Tinubu is the owner of Lekki Toll gate which has never been set straight by those in authority. Wherever they got their information on Tinubu’s ownership of these plum properties will be left in their imagination and concocted allegations without solid facts and evidences to verify their claims.

By all instances, Lekki Toll Gate is currently owned authoritatively by the Lagos State Government after the Lekki Concession Company, (LCC,) was acquired and conceded as the rightful owners. Even as PDP chieftain, Chief Olabode George recent statement and that of others, linking Bola Tinubu to the ownership of the LCC is coming to nothing but lies and premeditated fabrications and should therefore be ignored in their entirety.

The Cable, published in June 13, 2018 a news story under the headline REVEALED: Lagos acquired LCC years before Lekki-Epe toll fare hike, how Lagos State Government under the current Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Raji Fashola had approached the State House of Assembly for funds to buy back the concessioned toll.

In their wake of unsolicited allegations against Asiwaju Tinubu, they are even making sure that LIRS coming redundant on the matter, because they believed in error that Alpha-Beta Consulting is collecting all IGRs in Lagos State.

For matter of fact, Alpha-Beta is known to many as a consulting firm handling the computation, tracking and reconciliation of Internally Generated Revenues, (IGRs,) in Lagos State; in return for a commission, this was on record as it started helping Lagos State with aggressive revenue mobilization and generation in 2000; until 2006 when LIRS was created to compliment the works started six years earlier by Alpha-Beta which eventually raised the Lagos IGRs from N22.2bn in 1999 to N79.7bn in 2005, before the two organizations now moved the state’s IGRs to the present enviable level it is at the moment.

Still in their unfounded allegations they are still going ahead to claim that Tinubu is the owner of Alpha-Beta and that he collects 15% of the money coming into the State. It is however suffice to say that, though there have been so many claims linking Tinubu to the company like they did with Oriental Hotels and other establishments nobody can be bold enough to present any document to attest to these.

It is to note here that the company’s former MD, Mr. Dapo Apara, recent name-throwing, may be as a result of the financial misappropriation probe launched against him by the organization’s management. Findings also show that there are many areas where Alpha-Beta Consulting only takes 10% commission in the areas it mobilizes and helps generate IGRs from, as it was made known that areas that were not discovered by the company are usually off-commission for it.
It is equally on record that Tinubu personally pioneered many developmental things in the country, all of which are being built on by subsequent governors in the state, and being copied by other states in and Nigeria.

*Below is a list of the many good things which Senator Tinubu has left in his trail:*

1. Tinubu instituted a reform plan that greatly improved the welfare of judicial officers including magistrates.

2. He revamped the civil and criminal procedure rule as well as creation of the Citizens Mediation Centre; a well-staffed and independent Office of the Public Defender, offering legal services for the poor.

3. He established additional five (5) general hospitals in Lagos state

4. He upgraded facilities at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital, (LASUTH.)

5. He provided free healthcare services including free ante-natal care for women, free eye treatments and free glasses, popularly called 'JIGI BOLA.'

6. He pioneered the Bus Rapid Transit System and LAGBUS.

7. He established the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, (LASTMA.)

8. Reference of at least 13 matters related to the principle of federalism to be tested by the Supreme Court

9. He created 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs against all odds.

10. He established the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, to clear mini hills of refuses all around the State.

https://www.societygazetteng.com/bola-tinubu-a-man-hated-for-loving-his-people/

His generosity and philanthropy are without equivalence, but some prefer to loathe him for these good virtues and in his usual self still remains a man that cannot be ignored from the consciousness of those who have drunk from his fountain of knowledge, wisdom, wealth and political clout.


For the former two-term governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, they can hate him or detest him for frivolous reasons in their wildest thoughts; but his admirers are swelling in uncountable numbers, much to the chagrin of his loathers.
In their vitriolic of Bola Tinubu, he still stands tall and grandstands as a political titan, but try as they have continued in their accusations and counter accusations; they are not making any headway in their unjustified grievances against him and his big status in the political terrain.

The Jagaban Borgu has been called so many names and variously accused of so many things that many are now wondering his offence is. Even with the recent public outcries informed by the now-disbanded Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS,) arm of the Nigerian Police Force, they targeted him and every member of his household as being the sole bankroller of the crises, which later degenerated into unrests, chaos across the country.

Their prime allegation is that amongst many, Tinubu is the owner of Oriental Hotels, which is the most-talked about topic for some time now; even when some are claiming the 5-Star hotel, which has been put up for sale since 2017, belongs to the former governor of Lagos State. Going further, the real owners came out to categorically debunk the story on various news sites, but this set of people still continued in their quest to pin every highbrow property to him just to fit their narratives, in their campaign of calumny.

In their unbridled pull-him-down campaign, they still go ahead to allege that Tinubu is the owner of Lekki Toll gate which has never been set straight by those in authority. Wherever they got their information on Tinubu’s ownership of these plum properties will be left in their imagination and concocted allegations without solid facts and evidences to verify their claims.

By all instances, Lekki Toll Gate is currently owned authoritatively by the Lagos State Government after the Lekki Concession Company, (LCC,) was acquired and conceded as the rightful owners. Even as PDP chieftain, Chief Olabode George recent statement and that of others, linking Bola Tinubu to the ownership of the LCC is coming to nothing but lies and premeditated fabrications and should therefore be ignored in their entirety.

The Cable, published in June 13, 2018 a news story under the headline REVEALED: Lagos acquired LCC years before Lekki-Epe toll fare hike, how Lagos State Government under the current Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Raji Fashola had approached the State House of Assembly for funds to buy back the concessioned toll.

In their wake of unsolicited allegations against Asiwaju Tinubu, they are even making sure that LIRS coming redundant on the matter, because they believed in error that Alpha-Beta Consulting is collecting all IGRs in Lagos State.

For matter of fact, Alpha-Beta is known to many as a consulting firm handling the computation, tracking and reconciliation of Internally Generated Revenues, (IGRs,) in Lagos State; in return for a commission, this was on record as it started helping Lagos State with aggressive revenue mobilization and generation in 2000; until 2006 when LIRS was created to compliment the works started six years earlier by Alpha-Beta which eventually raised the Lagos IGRs from N22.2bn in 1999 to N79.7bn in 2005, before the two organizations now moved the state’s IGRs to the present enviable level it is at the moment.

Still in their unfounded allegations they are still going ahead to claim that Tinubu is the owner of Alpha-Beta and that he collects 15% of the money coming into the State. It is however suffice to say that, though there have been so many claims linking Tinubu to the company like they did with Oriental Hotels and other establishments nobody can be bold enough to present any document to attest to these.

It is to note here that the company’s former MD, Mr. Dapo Apara, recent name-throwing, may be as a result of the financial misappropriation probe launched against him by the organization’s management. Findings also show that there are many areas where Alpha-Beta Consulting only takes 10% commission in the areas it mobilizes and helps generate IGRs from, as it was made known that areas that were not discovered by the company are usually off-commission for it.
It is equally on record that Tinubu personally pioneered many developmental things in the country, all of which are being built on by subsequent governors in the state, and being copied by other states in and Nigeria.

*Below is a list of the many good things which Senator Tinubu has left in his trail:*

1. Tinubu instituted a reform plan that greatly improved the welfare of judicial officers including magistrates.

2. He revamped the civil and criminal procedure rule as well as creation of the Citizens Mediation Centre; a well-staffed and independent Office of the Public Defender, offering legal services for the poor.

3. He established additional five (5) general hospitals in Lagos state

4. He upgraded facilities at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital, (LASUTH.)

5. He provided free healthcare services including free ante-natal care for women, free eye treatments and free glasses, popularly called 'JIGI BOLA.'

6. He pioneered the Bus Rapid Transit System and LAGBUS.

7. He established the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, (LASTMA.)

8. Reference of at least 13 matters related to the principle of federalism to be tested by the Supreme Court

9. He created 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs against all odds.

10. He established the Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, to clear mini hills of refuses all around the State.

https://www.societygazetteng.com/bola-tinubu-a-man-hated-for-loving-his-people/

BODE GEORGE: THE UNREPENTANT CON ARTIST
BY Kareem Adeduntan

Events of the past few weeks have been tumultuous. Unfortunate things have happened. Lives have been lost. Property damaged. Essential institutions such as the police force and army are under justifiable scrutiny. Protests call for needed reform. Taking advantage of the situation, less noble actors have pressed forward, either to steal the hard-earned property of others or to prosecute selfish political objectives not germane to the protests at hand.

Even with many people taking undue license to press cases that would otherwise be tossed from the court of public opinion, one would think certain people would keep their mouths shut and hide their pens even during this period. Bode George is one such person. In commenting on the protests and trying to fault Bola Tinubu for every human imperfection ranging from the original sin in the Garden of Eden to the cost of tomatoes in the local market, George is either one of the world’s most bulbous hypocrites or the victim of the worst bout of amnesia ever recorded in the journals of medical science. In that this gruff, indelicate man well remembers the sound of his own name and responds to the ruffle of fresh naira with the pounce of a hungry jackal, one may fairly assume that his particular diathesis points more to the former moral decrepitude than to any medical infirmity that might affect his memory.

In his recent article published by NEW DAWN entitled “Lagos State THE Anger, The Rage”, Bode George huffs and puffs in contrived indignation at recent events in Lagos. He misrepresents himself as a storm for change and justice. He is nothing of the sort. For all of his blowing and the grand noise he thinks himself to make, he barely manufactures an audible moment. He is but a rickety, broken tea kettle trying futilely with all its waning might to bring a tiny pot of water to boil.

Try as it might, the rickety kettle is unstable and cannot hold itself upright. In the end, the only noteworthy sound it can muster is the sound of its falling to the floor after toppling from the counter top.

Inept as he is loquacious, the former naval commander, once again, has proven that he cannot successfully navigate a toy boat from one end of a bathtub to the other. He would make a wreck of even this simple assignment. Everything he has touched ends up being worse off, if not in complete ruins, than when he first happened upon it. His coming into a room is a cause for sorrow and his exit a cue for celebration. The man is an albatross around his own neck.

Yet, he had the audacity to write that all conscientious men must stand with the righteous at this hour and the he had “chosen to identify with the voiceless...” It seems that George discovered morality a bit late in the game of life and over a decade after the time when even a fiber of morality on his part would have amounted to something. George squeals about the deaths and destruction that have occurred in Lagos and then lays the trouble at the foot of one man who happens to be his political nemesis. Such as assignment of guilt by George is based on political convenience and con games rather than fact. George says Tinubu has questions to answer about the incident at Lekki but he offers no proof as to why Tinubu should be on the spot.

If George were really interested in justice, how come he did not jump at his master Obasanjo when the latter was commander in chief? As commander in chief, Obasanjo presided over the slaughter of several hundreds and perhaps thousands of unarmed innocent men, women and children in separate incidents in Zaki Biam and Odi. In each case, people were burned alive in their homes or dragged away and butchered. George voiced no indignation at these large massacres although they cost a hundred fold more lives than even all the precious lives lost everywhere in Lagos, not just Lekki during this period. Unjust death anywhere is a tragedy and must be condemned. But George’s background tells us that he is not crying because he cares about those who died or were wounded during events in Lagos but because the moment conveniently serves his political interest.

If he had morality, he would have chastised Obasanjo for killing innocent women and children and ransacking whole towns. Instead, George kept publicly quiet while in private endorsing the carnage set down by his boss who would eventually reveal himself to be a turncoat friend and master who would shuffled George off to prison. George talks of people being brought before the ICC in the Hague for what has happened in Lagos. His lawyer should advise him to be circumspect. Should some diligent human rights attorney take a good look at his role in the Obasanjo government and his endorsement of the confirmed large-scale massacres at Zaki Biam and Odi, that lawyer might take a very keen interest in Mr. George. George would surely quake in his boots upon finding on his doorstep one morning a mysterious brochure saying that he just won an all-expenses paid holiday to the Hague.

George is infamous for his meanness of personality and mercenary outlook toward policy – give him an official position and he will do any number of ugly things to keep it. In his writing, he called himself a elder statesman. However, one cannot award that title to oneself. It must be earned not unilaterally expropriated lest it be taken away by those who can rightly bestow it. George is no more a statesman than a mosquito is an eagle.

George claims Lagos to be an awful place yet he still lives here even after vowing to move away forever should the APC win the 2019 election. George will not move because, deep in his heart, he knows Lagos is the best that Nigeria has. It is the best not because of anything George did. It is the best despite George for he tried to thwart every major constructive initiative the state’s progressive governors have attempted since 1999.

George has the nerve to lament about the poor state of infrastructure and blame Tinubu and others. George drips with a double dose of highly toxic hypocrisy here. George well knows he encouraged Obasanjo to illegally withhold Lagos state funds when Tinubu was governor. George did this because he was afraid Tinubu would gain political support if allowed access to those funds to do projects in the state. Thus, George cared nothing that his antics might hurt Lagosians. He is captained by the perverse logic that rules all people who crave public office but are inherently unfit for the roles they seek. He believes the best way for him to gain the support of the people is to make them suffer. This is the way his mind worked then and the manner it malfunctions now. He is more interested in inveigling support than in duly enhancing the public welfare.

As governor, Tinubu brought power generator barges to Lagos to provide 300MW of power to the state and give residents and businesses more, cheaper power. What did George do? He did not applaud the initiative as a boon for Lagosians. He connived with Obasanjo to stop this. Again, he decided that he would rather see Lagosians suffer than Tinubu succeed at doing something new and needed for the people

Like he did in the past, George today is happy about the events that have befallen Lagos. He only feigns concern. He now is possessed of that cruel happiness that specially effects the mean at heart. They are only truly happy when misfortune comes to others. George now gloats the evildoer’s gloat and dances the wicked man’s dance. He is in this deformed way because he knows he cannot gain political traction by outperforming anyone. He cannot win by doing something positive because there is essentially noting positive in him. He is a bundle of negative impulses and actions. Thus, his only avenue of political pleasure and success is to tear down that which others have built. George is a breaker not maker of things.

His career has been monstrous. As military governor in Ondo, he was known to be corrupt to the utmost. He plundered the state’s treasury describing himself, by way of explanation, as a ‘Lagos Boy' – giving the state a bad name. There was no part of the state treasure his sticky hand did not explore. As NPA chairman, he allowed the port to deteriorate. He is thus partly responsible for the economic bottleneck that is the port and all the harm and higher costs it brings to us. Worse, he was caught artificially segmenting large contracts into smaller ones so as to bypass procurement requirements and oversight. In this manner, he bilked the nation much like he did Ondo state as its governor. If nothing else, one can say that as a thief he has shown remarkable consistency if a coarseness of approach that always seems to get him caught.

As an operative of the PDP in Lagos and the SW, he has been the APC’s best friend for the division and antipathy he foments within his own party makes him one of the APC’s top recruiters.

Last, there is not a truly original thought that ever came from him. Toward the end of his piece, he asserts that the Lekki toll gate should be closed. George is a day late like most plagiarizers are. Tinubu made a similar recommendation the day before. George would not have made his copycat gesture but for having read Tinubu's earlier statement.

Like the thief he is, George steals someone’s idea then foments hate against the other man for having had the idea first.

George is not a leader, a statesman or a visionary. His is a criminal mind and a cold hearted and an amoral personality. Bode, don’t forget there are still people old enough to remember where you are truly from.

At the end of the statement, George signs off “CON.” For most people that would mean Commander of the Niger. Yet, to get the perfect description of him, one must simply use this word before writing the word “artist” who can’t even identify the grave of his father in Ogun State… WHAT A “LAGOSIAN”.

Adeduntan, a public activist and a true son of Lagos State

BODE GEORGE: THE UNREPENTANT CON ARTIST
BY Kareem Adeduntan

Events of the past few weeks have been tumultuous. Unfortunate things have happened. Lives have been lost. Property damaged. Essential institutions such as the police force and army are under justifiable scrutiny. Protests call for needed reform. Taking advantage of the situation, less noble actors have pressed forward, either to steal the hard-earned property of others or to prosecute selfish political objectives not germane to the protests at hand.

Even with many people taking undue license to press cases that would otherwise be tossed from the court of public opinion, one would think certain people would keep their mouths shut and hide their pens even during this period. Bode George is one such person. In commenting on the protests and trying to fault Bola Tinubu for every human imperfection ranging from the original sin in the Garden of Eden to the cost of tomatoes in the local market, George is either one of the world’s most bulbous hypocrites or the victim of the worst bout of amnesia ever recorded in the journals of medical science. In that this gruff, indelicate man well remembers the sound of his own name and responds to the ruffle of fresh naira with the pounce of a hungry jackal, one may fairly assume that his particular diathesis points more to the former moral decrepitude than to any medical infirmity that might affect his memory.

In his recent article published by NEW DAWN entitled “Lagos State THE Anger, The Rage”, Bode George huffs and puffs in contrived indignation at recent events in Lagos. He misrepresents himself as a storm for change and justice. He is nothing of the sort. For all of his blowing and the grand noise he thinks himself to make, he barely manufactures an audible moment. He is but a rickety, broken tea kettle trying futilely with all its waning might to bring a tiny pot of water to boil.

Try as it might, the rickety kettle is unstable and cannot hold itself upright. In the end, the only noteworthy sound it can muster is the sound of its falling to the floor after toppling from the counter top.

Inept as he is loquacious, the former naval commander, once again, has proven that he cannot successfully navigate a toy boat from one end of a bathtub to the other. He would make a wreck of even this simple assignment. Everything he has touched ends up being worse off, if not in complete ruins, than when he first happened upon it. His coming into a room is a cause for sorrow and his exit a cue for celebration. The man is an albatross around his own neck.

Yet, he had the audacity to write that all conscientious men must stand with the righteous at this hour and the he had “chosen to identify with the voiceless...” It seems that George discovered morality a bit late in the game of life and over a decade after the time when even a fiber of morality on his part would have amounted to something. George squeals about the deaths and destruction that have occurred in Lagos and then lays the trouble at the foot of one man who happens to be his political nemesis. Such as assignment of guilt by George is based on political convenience and con games rather than fact. George says Tinubu has questions to answer about the incident at Lekki but he offers no proof as to why Tinubu should be on the spot.

If George were really interested in justice, how come he did not jump at his master Obasanjo when the latter was commander in chief? As commander in chief, Obasanjo presided over the slaughter of several hundreds and perhaps thousands of unarmed innocent men, women and children in separate incidents in Zaki Biam and Odi. In each case, people were burned alive in their homes or dragged away and butchered. George voiced no indignation at these large massacres although they cost a hundred fold more lives than even all the precious lives lost everywhere in Lagos, not just Lekki during this period. Unjust death anywhere is a tragedy and must be condemned. But George’s background tells us that he is not crying because he cares about those who died or were wounded during events in Lagos but because the moment conveniently serves his political interest.

If he had morality, he would have chastised Obasanjo for killing innocent women and children and ransacking whole towns. Instead, George kept publicly quiet while in private endorsing the carnage set down by his boss who would eventually reveal himself to be a turncoat friend and master who would shuffled George off to prison. George talks of people being brought before the ICC in the Hague for what has happened in Lagos. His lawyer should advise him to be circumspect. Should some diligent human rights attorney take a good look at his role in the Obasanjo government and his endorsement of the confirmed large-scale massacres at Zaki Biam and Odi, that lawyer might take a very keen interest in Mr. George. George would surely quake in his boots upon finding on his doorstep one morning a mysterious brochure saying that he just won an all-expenses paid holiday to the Hague.

George is infamous for his meanness of personality and mercenary outlook toward policy – give him an official position and he will do any number of ugly things to keep it. In his writing, he called himself a elder statesman. However, one cannot award that title to oneself. It must be earned not unilaterally expropriated lest it be taken away by those who can rightly bestow it. George is no more a statesman than a mosquito is an eagle.

George claims Lagos to be an awful place yet he still lives here even after vowing to move away forever should the APC win the 2019 election. George will not move because, deep in his heart, he knows Lagos is the best that Nigeria has. It is the best not because of anything George did. It is the best despite George for he tried to thwart every major constructive initiative the state’s progressive governors have attempted since 1999.

George has the nerve to lament about the poor state of infrastructure and blame Tinubu and others. George drips with a double dose of highly toxic hypocrisy here. George well knows he encouraged Obasanjo to illegally withhold Lagos state funds when Tinubu was governor. George did this because he was afraid Tinubu would gain political support if allowed access to those funds to do projects in the state. Thus, George cared nothing that his antics might hurt Lagosians. He is captained by the perverse logic that rules all people who crave public office but are inherently unfit for the roles they seek. He believes the best way for him to gain the support of the people is to make them suffer. This is the way his mind worked then and the manner it malfunctions now. He is more interested in inveigling support than in duly enhancing the public welfare.

As governor, Tinubu brought power generator barges to Lagos to provide 300MW of power to the state and give residents and businesses more, cheaper power. What did George do? He did not applaud the initiative as a boon for Lagosians. He connived with Obasanjo to stop this. Again, he decided that he would rather see Lagosians suffer than Tinubu succeed at doing something new and needed for the people

Like he did in the past, George today is happy about the events that have befallen Lagos. He only feigns concern. He now is possessed of that cruel happiness that specially effects the mean at heart. They are only truly happy when misfortune comes to others. George now gloats the evildoer’s gloat and dances the wicked man’s dance. He is in this deformed way because he knows he cannot gain political traction by outperforming anyone. He cannot win by doing something positive because there is essentially noting positive in him. He is a bundle of negative impulses and actions. Thus, his only avenue of political pleasure and success is to tear down that which others have built. George is a breaker not maker of things.

His career has been monstrous. As military governor in Ondo, he was known to be corrupt to the utmost. He plundered the state’s treasury describing himself, by way of explanation, as a ‘Lagos Boy' – giving the state a bad name. There was no part of the state treasure his sticky hand did not explore. As NPA chairman, he allowed the port to deteriorate. He is thus partly responsible for the economic bottleneck that is the port and all the harm and higher costs it brings to us. Worse, he was caught artificially segmenting large contracts into smaller ones so as to bypass procurement requirements and oversight. In this manner, he bilked the nation much like he did Ondo state as its governor. If nothing else, one can say that as a thief he has shown remarkable consistency if a coarseness of approach that always seems to get him caught.

As an operative of the PDP in Lagos and the SW, he has been the APC’s best friend for the division and antipathy he foments within his own party makes him one of the APC’s top recruiters.

Last, there is not a truly original thought that ever came from him. Toward the end of his piece, he asserts that the Lekki toll gate should be closed. George is a day late like most plagiarizers are. Tinubu made a similar recommendation the day before. George would not have made his copycat gesture but for having read Tinubu's earlier statement.

Like the thief he is, George steals someone’s idea then foments hate against the other man for having had the idea first.

George is not a leader, a statesman or a visionary. His is a criminal mind and a cold hearted and an amoral personality. Bode, don’t forget there are still people old enough to remember where you are truly from.

At the end of the statement, George signs off “CON.” For most people that would mean Commander of the Niger. Yet, to get the perfect description of him, one must simply use this word before writing the word “artist” who can’t even identify the grave of his father in Ogun State… WHAT A “LAGOSIAN”.

Adeduntan, a public activist and a true son of Lagos State

Earlier today, Nigerian music star Sodiq Abubakar Yusuf, popularly known by his stage name CDQ, took to his twitter handle to drag Seyi Tinubu the Chairman of Laotsad Promomedia over an incident that happened a day before when they met at a friend's place, the musician addressed as David in the tweet.

The message was of a tone that portrays it as if CDQ was disrespected by the IT enthusiast over an incident that happens where the two were hanging out.

We can however reliably tell you all that happen at the said David’s house, according to our source who is also present at the scene the situation between the familiar two was normal man to man talk about substituting ones children education to designer wears.

Our source revealed that in the course of the discuss, Seyi was of the opinion that one’s children’s education supercedes everything else and that designers wears cannot be compared to educating your children and that the two are far apart, the source continues that in other to buttress his belief and his theory, Seyi took CDQ’s designer cap which incidentally is the only designer ware around, and he put it on the ground to explained that anybody can step on it without knowing it is a designer cap but that children’s education and wellbeing cannot and should not be trampled on.

The source who is close to both Seyi and CDQ, expressed surprise that CDQ decided to tweet such guys talk even when he did not raise any objection when they were together and the fact that he can easily and always call Seyi to tell him how he felt since they are that close but will rather choose to air his anger on twitter and not to his supposed friend leave much to answer.

Though the source claimed Seyi meant no harm but the way CDQ took the issue the whole thing is not too good owning to the fact that it is a talk amongst friends who have unlimited access to themselves. It was gathered that Seyi had on several occasions render one sort of help or the other to him.

Meanwhile, other present at the scene also express their disappointment over the way CDQ push something he can easily call Seyi to settle with him to the public domain stating that all he is doing now is to chase clout or trend because of the fact that he knows he can get publicity using Seyi’s father political position not minding the fact that he has enjoyed the success that comes with his association with the son.

Findings shows CDQ had enjoyed many privileges that comes with his friendship with Seyi as his shows has at one time or the other give his show prominence on his billboard for free, Seyi has also be said to have helped him with shows and many more in the past. He had always made himself available, only for him to now decided to take something that can be described as an in-house issue to the twitter.

Though CDQ has said he’s writing an article over Seyi, we can only wait to see what he’s going to write and how different it is going to be from what people around during the incident said.

Two limited liability companies Sunlek Investment Limited and Sunsteel Industries Limited have slammed N7billion suit on First City Monument bank Plc FCMB over alleged breach of contract.

In a 126 paragraphs of statement of claim accompanied by another 27 paragraphs of a witness sworn to on oath and filed before a Federal high court sitting in Lagos south west Nigeria by a Lagos lawyer Mr. John Olusegun Odubela SAN, the two companies alleged that they operated loan accounts with First City Monument Bank upon which disbursement was made for all letters of credit /loan facility granted to them by the bank for the importation of raw materials.

However, since 23rd May, 2013 when the bank entered into an agreement to grant them loan, and open a loan facility account for them till date, they have not been given the particulars of the loan facility account neither has any statements of account of this loan account been made available to them.


http://www.societygazetteng.com/2020/02/10/adam-nuru-led-fcmb-slammed-with-n7billion-breach-of-contract-suit/

This is definitely good news as help has finally come for the complete operations of former Nigerian youth international Sani Shehu also known as Sani Emmanuel, you will recall we reported earlier that the 2009 FIFA U17 tournament Golden Ball winner has been down with leg injury (Achilles Tendonitis), and Evangelist Bisola Hephzi-bah Johnson’s Bisola Johnson’s Foundation has been at the forefront of those trying to raise money for his treatment.
It was also well covered when former teammate and friend Ogenyi Onazi, decided to foot part of the bill to the tune of N1.4million which he had already paid into a Lagos based hospital that is supposed to carry-out the operation sometimes last week. However, help has come from a new direction has one of those who were reached by the social media campaign seeking help for him, later reached-out to the anchor of Brekete Family on Human Right Radio 101.1 FM Abuja, who in turn brought the young boy to the live programme where he was promised an all-expense paid proper treatment in Germany.
This information was made known to us be the convener of Bisola Johnson’s Foundation, who while appreciating the Brekete Family also frown at role of religious leaders who turned blind eye to his plight, the statement on her Facebook account states “Brekete Family is taking up Sani Emmanuel’s case. Shame to religious people. I bless God for this.”

http://www.societygazetteng.com/2019/11/29/succor-at-last-injured-nigerian-football-sani-emmanuel-get-help-for-treatment-abroad/

Just like the proverbial cat of many lives, corruption in Nigeria seems to possess several lives as it will not just die despite the current administration’s claim that it has reduced the despicable act to the barest minimum. It was reliably gathered that the Civil Servants saddle with the responsibility of employing and confirming workers has turned their position to money making venture, to the chagrin of many Nigerians that truly deserve the job.

Sources revealed to www.societygazetteng.com that employment into the Federal Civil Service Commission in Nigeria is no longer based best suited in terms of qualification, but on who you know and how much you can cough out, insiders squeak that you must know somebody well placed or ready to pay between N500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira) to N800,000 (Eight Hundred Thousand Naira) depending on who your link to the recruitment office is to get employment into the federal civil service in Nigeria.

http://www.societygazetteng.com/2019/11/15/corruption-allegation-trails-nigerian-civil-service-commission-employment-and-compulsory-confirmation-exams/

These are certainly not the best of times for members of staff of Samsung Electronics, Nigeria branch, as it has been uncovered that the staffs have been operating under a very harsh atmosphere which has forced many of them to exit the company as the only option available to them. The alleged unpleasant unfolding series, according to dependable sources, might get out of hand and result into bringing the company to her knees if the situation is not nipped in the bud.

Meanwhile, the source of the ugly development is alleged to have been traced to the door step of the company’s Managing Director, a Korean, David Suh whose actions is alleged to be behind the whole unbecoming events that is fast becoming rampant in the company. Mr. Suh is alleged to be fond of intimidating the staffs at every opportunity which sources alleged is due to his racial discrimination against them...

http://www.societygazetteng.com/exposed-david-suh-the-racist-boss-of-samsung-nigeria-and-his-reign-of-terror/

Multi-Billion Fraud: Lagos State Polytechnic Rector Boasts Nobody Can Remove Me, I Have the Backing of Tinubu and Akiolu
+ Details of his Many Financial Improprieties and Mal-Administration
…Save us from His Clutches: Staffs Appeal to Tinubu and Akiolu


There seems to be no visible end in sight to the current crisis bedeviling the Lagos State Polytechnic, it will be recalled that the staffs of the institution has for months now been at loggerhead with the rector of the Lagos State owned institution over issues that allegedly has to do with terrible administration of Mr. Oluyinka Sogunro, led school authority.

Sources within the school recently informed us that the Rector, who is having several allegation of financial improprieties leveled against him is recently in boastful mood, according to this source, Mr, Sogunro is allegedly telling whoever cares to hear that nothing will move him from his position because he’s having the backing of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Oba of Lagos.

He was also alleged to have openly declared that he’s untouchable for Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode or any members of the State Assembly.
It will be recalled that the whole thing became public knowledge months back immediately after the convocation of the school attended by the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, that the staffs decided to down tools for a couple of weeks after which they called it off for 21days to allow negotiation after days of protest by the 3 association in the institution on the premises of the governor’s office.

Effort by the leadership of NASU, SSANIP and ASUP in the institution to also make the legislative arm intervene in the whole situation is also not yielding any effort as the appearance of the bodies before the House committee of Education did not seems to be yielding any fruits, it was even after this that he allegedly boasted publicly that he’s untouchable because of his relationship with former Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu and Eleko of Eko, Oba Rilwan Akiolu.

The staff had in an earlier letter sent to the Governor of Lagos State, pleaded that he quickly intervene, investigate and liberate the staff , pensioners and students of Lagos State Polytechnic from constant security harassments at the instance of the rector, Mr Oluyinka Samuel Sogunro.

In the letter dated June 9, 2017, the rector was accused of harassing the staff and students with both internal and external security organizations. The letter reads “The staff and students have been at the mercy of the gun-toting security guards since the current administration assumed office. Students are always escorted out of the campuses with guns and siren like common criminals and equally molested in the name of dress code meant for adults of a tertiary institution ages.”

...Cites Lack of Transparency by Committee Members Handling Project

If feelers coming from the Center of Excellence as Lagos State is known is true, there may be a clog in the wheels of things as rumor has it that the Chairman of Lagos @ 50 anniversary planning committee in Noble Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka left his position over situation sources claim has to do with the way some members of the committee are running the supposedly epoch making event.

Sources close to the Lagos seat of power alleged that the Professor of Literature felt slighted by the fact that some members of the committee has turned the event to money making venture for themselves as virtually all contract that has to do with the activity is being issued to companies formed by members, and these are done without any form of transparency...

Prof. Wole Soyinka Allegedly Pull Out of Lagos @ 50 http://www.societygazetteng.com/?p=5320

Prophecy generally refers to a prediction which is supposed to be a vision from God to guide his people. It is always direct and easy to understand. Though Jesus talked in parables, prophecies in the Bible were straight to the point. A good example was the prediction of Jesus’ birth in Isaiah 7:14, hundreds of years before he was born. The prophecy of his birth was straight and it came to pass.
There are some predictions these days that bring ridicule to real prophecies. How to distinguish true prophecy was stated in 2 Peter 1:21: For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Prophets are expected to function as preachers, predictors and watchmen, but many prophets are only functioning as predictors. One prophet whose activities have been raising series of questions because of his prophecies and their predictability is Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, the founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church. He’s one prophet that talks yearly about his predictions for the country. He releases a book on yearly basis called the Book of Prophecy.
Over the years, there have been many questions raised about the authenticity of his predictions and the source. Many have argued that his predictions are too ordinary to come from God and that there is nothing divine about them. Below are some of his predictions for 2017 and the way people believe they were conceived...

God’s Work or Guess Work? Spirituality in Primate Ayodele’s Prophecies Faulted http://www.societygazetteng.com/?p=5316

Call Abiodun Ishiaq Akinlade a man destined for greatness, one certainly might not be wrong, that is owing to how the light skinned politician came about the status he presently enjoys as a former national assembly member and an average weight politician in his state, Ogun. However, there is a trend fast becoming synonymous with him and rubbing off negatively on him, which observers are of the opinion might be the major bane why he may not achieve his long standing governorship ambition that he’s earnestly started working on towards 2019.

Working as an employee in a car mart in Lagos metropolis, Akinlade was hoping for a better future and one of the avenues his gaze was fixed for a better life was to get compensated with any position the party deemed fit for his loyalty as a card carrying member of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, without knowing fate had something that was better in the pipeline for him.

http://bazenews.com/index.php/2017/04/06/real-reason-biodun-akinlade-may-not-achieve-his-governorship-ambition/

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Media Empire Goes Bankrupt
Unable to pay six months salaries
Angry staff lay siege on Church

After several months of internal dislocation involving staff of his two media outfits, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has finally joined the infamous league of extremely rich publishers who would not pay journalists their meager wages despite the huge wealth they flaunt around.

According to investigation, staff of the National Daily Newspaper and National Standard Magazine are being owed a backlog of up to six months salaries with no breather in sight.

When www.societygazetteng.com visited the Ikeja office of the two media houses, disgruntled journalists narrated how the fortunes of the organization have plunged over the years under Sylvester Ebodaghe, a deacon and one of Pastor Chris’s minions who runs the publishing business, despite huge funds the church pumps into it.


http://societygazetteng.com/pastor-chris-oyakhilome-media-empire-goes-bankrupt/

…The Reason the Church Headquarters still Remains in Ebute Metta
+ Why the Schemes against Daddy G.O. will always fail

In the scriptures according to the book of Mathew 11:12, Jesus said: “From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.” This was even when Jesus had, in the preceding verse, stated that there is no one born of woman greater than John the Baptist. That scenario serves as an appropriate background to the unsavoury activities of many so-called men of God today. Of particular interest, because of the phenomenal growth of the church globally, is how some people in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), through their gang-up against the General Overseer (G.O.) of the church, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, cost the church of having any stake in the ownership of ever-flourishing Redemption Camp.

So much has been said in recent times about the shenanigans of some pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), both within and outside the country, in their unwholesome bid to besmirch the hard-earned reputation of the G.O., Pastor Adeboye, and railroad him out of office so that they could have a free rein to pillage the church’s assets. Suffice it to add that such schemes only tend to validate the tongue-in-cheek remark by one land speculator (Omo Onile in local parlance), suggesting that the pastorate in Nigeria is something that is acquired by how deep one’s pocket is, and not by divine call...


http://societygazetteng.com/the-real-owner-of-rccgs-redemption-camp-exposed/

+ How the bank’s disregard for due process aided the monumental fraud
…Bank allegedly in distress

It has become pertinent to closely re-examine the way some banks entrusted with the safe-keeping of money belonging to hard-working Nigerians operate. This is with a view to stemming the virulent tide of fraudulent activities in the financial sector. True, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has laid down a procedure that institutions are supposed to follow, but some institution still give little or no regard, thereby exposing their customers to untold hardship when their hard-earned money is forfeited to fraudulent individuals.

Recently, Nigerians were rocked by news of how Wema Bank lost a huge sum of money to a supposed Indian businessman, Patrick Fernandez. The case, brought up for hearing by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before the Federal High Court in Lagos, showed complicity on the part of the financial institution towards the perpetration of the fraud.

According to testimony by the EFCC former investigator, Bashir Abdullahi, findings revealed cheque-kitting and round-tripping. In his words: “Our findings was that he was involved in cheque-kitting and round-tripping. It is also known as Lazy Susan, a business model.”


http://societygazetteng.com/depositors-beware-wema-bank-staff-help-indian-steal-n23-billion-from-the-bank/

Company from Hell! How Rosabon Financial Services Has Been Endangering Lives of Lagos Road Users
…The Many Illegal Activities of the Company and their Deals with Huawei Technologies Nigeria and other companies in Nigeria

The prayer of most Nigerians when leaving their homes every morning is not to walk into those who will implicate or put them in trouble. This prayer should be said with vigor by those who are likely to come in contact with drivers of Rosabon Financial Services, if the findings of the investigation about them is to put into consideration.

It began on February 13 at Oniru Estate, when in an incident that can be likened to the popular car race and stunt movie, the Fast & Furious, a Ford Edge belonging to Rosabon Financial Services with full speed ran into a parked Mercedes Benz GL 450 4matic, 2011 model, the impact was so severe that three airbags came out.


http://societygazetteng.com/company-from-hell-how-rosabond-financial-services-has-been-endangering-lives-of-lagos-road-users/