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Things be happening 😅

Something for the night

Pro Max

DesChyko:
Let's see. I've had this Nairaland account since 2014 and I average 3 posts per day on Nairaland with about 10k+ posts in over 9 years.

You created this account just February this year. You already have 2k+ posts in less than 6 months, averaging 12 posts per day on Nairaland.

It is clear one of us is doubling their hustle in real life and someone is wailing on Nairaland, truthfully 😎

Abeg don’t derail the thread as a result of baseless animosity

DKM123:
He was like a father to me.
Please bring him back. We prefer shege to shege banza!

😂😂😂 or shege promax

DKM123:
Thunder faya all of una!

God bless you, we love you bro 😎

Chief Yoruba Ronu influencer

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What changed so fast?

LOVEALAIGBO:
.......You mean there's more?

Seriously am tired of picking the tweets, go on twitter and search for renewed hope or renewed shege you will see a lot of tweets from agbadorians wailing

More….

More wailing

Translation m: Better our brother to be in power than any bastard

Gworo eating agbado from Kano followed them also.

A lot of tweets loading

More wailing….

More….

Continuation…..

As seen on twitter by the “it shall favour me and my family crew”

No need to talk we all know what this picture means.
It shall favour me and……

The latest increase came less than two months after the price of petrol moved from N195 to over N500/litre, an increase of more than 200.
Petrol price Tuesday jumped to N617 from N539 per litre, with an immediate ripple effect on cost of transportation and other goods amid complaints by millions of Nigerians that survival is increasingly becoming difficult.

The latest increase came less than two months after the price of petrol moved from N195 to over N500/litre, an increase of more than 200 per cent and at a time when rising inflation was eating deep into the income of citizens.

Daily Trust reports that it was tough for many Nigerians commuting around due to the latest hike even as some motorists who could afford it thronged filling stations to buy the product for fear of the unknown.

Mass trekking was observed at the close of work in major cities across the country. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Ltd had on Tuesday confirmed the adjustment of pump prices from N539 to N617 per litre citing market forces.

We’ll resort to self-help – Labour

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said Tuesday that it was appalled by the latest hike in pump price of petrol.

Its president, Comrade Joe Ajaero who said this in a statement, said they restrained themselves from making further comments publicly on the “Vexatious issues around the recent but unfortunate unilateral hike in the price of PMS in the guise of the so-called subsidy withdrawal, which has unleashed predictably as we had earlier warned unimaginable and unprecedented hardship, sorrow, anguish and suffering upon Nigerian workers and masses.”

He said while their patience was anchored on their strong and abiding faith in the outcomes of the processes of social dialogue and its mechanisms, especially within a democratic setting, “The government of Nigeria seems to have been misled into believing that resorting to impunity and imperiousness in governance in a democracy is a beneficial option as it pursues its stated and unstated objectives.

“It is this belief that we are sure has continued shaping the actions of this government since its inauguration on the 29th day of May, 2023 to continue inflicting mindless and heartless pains on the populace one after the other without the decency of embracing the tenets of democracy, which requires wide and deep stakeholder consultation on weighty matters of state.

“As it stands, rather than reciprocate the goodwill of Nigerian workers, the federal government has insisted on threading the path of dictatorship and seeking to impoverish the people further by taking steps that can only be described as robbing the people of Nigeria to pay and feed the rich.

“It is on this basis that the NLC strongly condemns the decision of the Tinubu led administration to seek the approval of the National Assembly to obtain another tranche of external loans worth N500b from the World Bank for the purposes of carrying out a phantom palliative measure to cushion the effect of its poorly thought-out hike in the prices of Premium Motor Spirit. Remember that the U$800m, which was already proposed before the devaluation of the Naira by this government was worth about N400b then but is now worth about N650b after devaluation. It is from this, it proposes to bring out N500b for distribution.

“The proposal to pay N8,000 to each of the so-called 12 million poorest Nigerian households for a period of six months insults our collective intelligence and makes a mockery of our patience and abiding faith in social dialogue, which the government may have alluded to albeit pretentiously,” he said.

The labour leader also frowned at the proposal to pay National Assembly members the sum of N70 billion and the judiciary N36 billion, among others, saying “This is the most insensitive, reckless and brazen diversion of our collective patrimony into the pockets of public officers whose sworn responsibility it is to protect our nation’s treasury.”

He added that it appeared the federal government was only deceiving Nigerians on how to manage the subsidy removal for the benefit of all.

“It is important to inform Nigerians that despite having shown our readiness to commence work in the committees, the federal government, which convenes the meetings, is yet to inaugurate the National Steering Committee thus stalling the work of the proposed committees.

“We do not want to provide a cover for the government to get away with the hardship it has imposed on the people. We do not want to legitimise impunity.

“As a result, if the government does not want to stop these fortuitous actions that it is pursuing in the name of palliatives, we will be forced to constructively review our engagement with the government on this vexatious issue and take matters into our own hands,” the NLC president said.



No longer at ease

In the FCT, the increase in the pump price of petrol created a sharp increase in transport fares with the commercial cab operators claiming they were finding it difficult to remain in business.

For instance, one Mr Sunday, who plies the Gwarinpa to Wuse Market route with his commercial vehicle, said the operators have increased the rate from N300 to N700 to cover the cost of petrol while saying that he may opt out of the business entirely.

“I am also going to join my colleagues tomorrow (today) in parking my vehicle. I can’t afford to buy fuel at N630; the price is too much. We endured it when they removed the subsidy. This morning we woke up to new prices,” he said.

A keke rider, Aminu Isah, said he had to increase the transport fare he charges due to the high cost of fuel.

“Fuel is expensive. I had to buy the black market at N850 per litre because the filling station I visited was shut. It’s hard for everybody, it’s the government’s fault not my fault.”

Government workers and ordinary Nigerians also bemoaned their plight in the biting economic hardship in the country.

A civil servant, Amina Abba lamented how the new price regime is taking a toll on her meagre salary as she paid N800 from Area 11 to Jabi Park in Abuja.

“After the first increase in May, I was paying N500 to go and another N500 to come back but now I would have to pay N1, 600 just on transport and how much is my salary?” she asked.

“Nigerians are the strongest people I have ever seen in this world. You won’t try it in many countries,” she said.

An IT student at Utako, FCT, Suleiman Bature, told our reporter that due to the recent rise in pump price, he abandoned his vehicle and resorted to trekking and boarding a cab.

“I live in Wuse and come to Utako five days a week; it’s practically not feasible as an IT student. Even staff members who are on payroll are finding it difficult to cope with the situation,” he said.

In Bauchi State, petrol prices increased from N540 to N630 per litre as many filling stations were shut down in the state.

Earlier on Tuesday, queues were also observed at filling stations along Bauchi-Jos Road, especially at Kaisan and Alyusra stations that were selling at the former price of N539 and N540 per litre.

Our correspondent also observed that many filling stations had closed down earlier in the day until late afternoon when some adjusted the price to N630 per litre and continued selling.

In Ogun State, our correspondent observed the return of fuel queues in Abeokuta following increase in fuel price as petrol were sold at between N617, N620 and N650 per litre depending on the station.

Places visited included NNPC at Oke-Mosan, Goldzek at Ibara Housing Estate, NIPCO on Abiola Way, and Itoku, all in Abeokuta, where customers were seen in long queues struggling to buy petrol.

However, Kaslat at Oke Lantoro, Mao at Olorunsogo, Kaab as well as Sunny Yinka at Leme, shut down their operations.

A taxi driver, Usman Adeola, expressed his frustration over the fuel price increase, saying “It’s not good; Nigerians are just being made to suffer every day. Our children are in school, we have not paid their tuition fees, rent has not been paid and even to feed ourselves is a huge challenge.

“I swear to God Almighty, I have never eaten anything today. I am a cab driver, and here on the queue. The car owner is waiting for daily return,” he said.

On his part, Shope Leoso said, “This is inhumane treatment by the government. They removed fuel subsidies without putting in the necessary palliatives.

“The first thing should be palliative like increasing salary, subsidising food and ensuring security of lives before you remove subsidy.”

In Kano, Ibrahim Saleh, who owns a chain of cold water stores said it was naïve for the federal government to leave Nigerians to the vagaries of international market forces.

“I am seriously disappointed in President Tinubu for thinking that removing subsidy will solve our problem. He ought to have blocked leakages first, fixed our refineries, arrested bunkerers, provided palliative measures and then removed the subsidy.

“It is wrong to say Nigerians must buy petrol at the same price as people in Niger, Chad, or Ghana. The crude is ours, we deserve empathy…I am truly disappointed because it appears the new government is also at a loss like the Buhari administration it succeeded,” he said.

Adamu Salihu, another Kano resident who said he and his family members voted for President Tinubu in the last election, lamented the hike in the pump price of fuel.

Salihu, who said he hails from Bichi LGA of the state, said he might be forced to take to crime.

He said, “Honestly this new price has hit us very hard. This is not what we voted for. My children and I voted for the current government in power. What we are being served is contrary to what we asked for.

“I am a Nigerian; I deserve to be treated right. I am no longer a youth, I have children and they also go out and vote. Very soon if there is no change, I will ask them to stop voting because they are no longer going to school and have started hawking ‘Awara’.

“I took them out of school and they are now selling ‘Awara’. How can they be denied education and start hawking? I have been in politics since the time of NRC and SDP. If things continue to go like this, we can retaliate. If our lawmakers and representatives will not do anything about it. We can take the law into our hands despite being law-abiding citizens.



Increase caused by market forces – NNPCL

Responding to the development, the Group Chief Executive Officer NNPCL, Mele Kyari, attributed the increase in petrol pump prices to market forces.

He spoke with State House reporters on Tuesday after a meeting with Vice President Kashim Shettima at the Presidential Villa Abuja.

Kyari said the increase was not based on a short supply of petrol.

Asked to explain the current situation as Nigerians were wondering why there was an increase in the price of PMS from N540/l to N617/l, Kyari said, “I don’t have the details at this moment. We have the marketing wing of our company. They adjust prices depending on the market realities. This is really what is happening; this is the meaning of making sure that the market regulates itself so that prices will go up and sometimes they will come down also. This is what we have seen and in reality this is how the market works”.

On his part, the Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed, said the price increase arose from rising crude prices. He also cited changes in freight prices alongside other ancillary costs importers incur during distribution.



Increase minimum wage to N100, 000 – Civil society

Meanwhile, the ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) and Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) have urged the federal government to review the minimum wage N100, 000 per month to reduce the hardship being faced by Nigerians.

They made the call on Tuesday in Abuja at a joint media conference on the state of the nation.

The Lead Director of CSJ, Barrister Eze Onyekpere and AAN Country Director, Ene Obi, observed that the proposed cash transfers to the poorest of the poor on the National Social Register (NSR) is not a bad idea provided the funds are not from borrowed money but from savings.

Onyekpere who read the statement of the meeting said the federal government should engage the organised labour, the private sector, professionals and women groups to fashion out programmes that would cushion the hardship being faced by Nigerians especially in respect to transportation, agriculture and health.

‘Bring Back Buhari’, Twitter users knock Tinubu

Tweeting via @Waspapping, a social media user posted the picture of Buhari and captioned it: “’Bring this man back!”

@Frankech777: “Palliative announced when fuel was N540 per litre. Palliative is yet to be paid and fuel is already N617 per litre.”

@afekhadeh: “This is outrageous! The ever increasing prices of essential goods and services in Nigeria are putting so much pressure on us the masses finances. The government needs to do something about it fast.”

@AbRaheemmuhd: “You voted because of tribe and religion. Now both you and I are buying fuel at the same price because the only language and religion the fuel attendants understand is money. I know tomorrow you will still repeat the same mistake because you are a Nigerian anyways!”

It was stated just Buhari left that we will miss him but I laughed at the statement.
Fact is we all miss Buhari’s time because when he was the president we could buy a litre of fuel for 195, we could exchange 1 dollar for N650.
Don’t come for me, I don’t support PDP, APC or even LP. I didn’t vote the last time, cause I felt all Nigerian politicians are the same.
The fact that Tinibu is the president of Nigeria means we all have to respect that office as Nigerians till any court says otherwise.
So all the three top presidential candidates were for the motion that fuel subsidy should be removed. But is it wise to put the carriage before the horse? Why not putting things like buses in major states at least in Nigeria before doing that?
We talk about sacrifices that Nigerians have to make everyday, are the politicians making the same sacrifices also?

I totally agree with you that fuel subsidy and borrowing to pay salaries is not sustainable and idiotic.
But I will be very happy if you can answer this small question. Why was the south-west so against Jonathan when he wanted to remove subsidy, but they are happy with Tinibu now, even in the face of extreme hardship and penury.

ArcFresky:
It's economics, stupid.

Buhari was taking loans to support the naira.
So was Goodluck.

Interms of economics, Goodluck was the worst.

Goodluck was borrowing when Crude oil, our main source of income was selling at $120\ barrel.

All the economics they practiced were unsustainable. For God's sake, we were borrowing to pay salary, borrowing to subsidize fuel?

Obi, the proposed messiah, doesn't even export. His main business is based on importing.

I know this economics pass your assimilation levels, but try to reason. This is now a market economy, what I would expect Tinubu to do, is to support the poorest.

Now, people will find cheaper alternative to imported goods, it's better to export now, than to import, it's our preference for imported goods that's killing the economy.

What would Obi even have done differently?
Borrow more?

A massive vessel, “MT Tura 11”, laden with 150 metric tonnes of stolen crude oil has been intercepted on Escravos sea in Delta State by operatives of Tantita Security Services Limited, the pipeline surveillance security outfit owned by the former militant leader, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo a.k.a. Tompolo.

PUNCH gathered that the private security operatives apprehended the vessel, with a 500 metric tonnes capacity, in the early hours of Friday while on an illegal operation on the high sea around the Ondo State axis of the Niger Delta creeks.

It was gathered that the operatives of the pipeline surveillance firm succeeded in effecting the vessel’s arrest after a weeklong monitoring of its movements.

The vessel was said to have once been arrested with its contents delivered to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) while it was also handed over to the security agencies from where it allegedly escaped miraculously.
The Executive Director, Technical and Operations of Tantita Security Services, Captain Warredi Enisuoh while addressing journalists on Monday during an inspection of the intercepted vessel, anchored at Oporoza in Gbaramatu kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, stated that the ship was arrested with 13 crew members during a sting operation.

Captain Enisuoh disclosed that the pipeline surveillance firm had deployed both human and technical intelligence in monitoring the movements of the vessel until it was finally caught on Friday.

“Unknown to the perpetrators, we have been monitoring the movements of the vessel until we finally apprehend her off the coast in Ondo State”, he said.
According to Captain Enisuoh, “The original name of the vessel was Ali-Riza-Bey but it was altered to ‘MT Tura 11’ to evade the eagle eyes of security agencies”.

While noting that the vessel had once been arrested for the same crude theft, but disappeared in mysterious circumstances, Captain Enisuoh affirmed to newsmen saying “We are here with the same vessel committing the same atrocity”.

He then commended the security agencies for their cooperation in the task to rid the maritime domain free of criminal activities.

Consequently, the vessel was handed over to the troops of the military Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Delta Safe which has the mandate to rid Niger Delta of all criminal acts.

Speaking, the Commander, JTF Operation Delta Safe (OPDS), Rear Admiral Olusegun Ferreira, who led other service chiefs to the scene, told newsmen that an investigation is ongoing to unravel the perpetrators of the act just as he warned criminals to steer clear of the maritime domain.

Ferreira assured that the long arms of the law will catch up with the hoodlums.

Hmmm my brother if I shout who go hear me. Even if I am not in Nigeria am feeling the fuel subsidy removal

abhosts:
Sometimes it appears as if APC people wake up every morning and pray to satan for ideas on how to inflict hardship on the populace. Just when we thought nobody can be as heartless as Buhari, Tinubu ups the ante. He was telling the truth when he said he wanted to continue where Buhari stopped.

There is lamentation among civil servants across the country as the hardship unleashed by the removal of fuel subsidy deepens the pains of workers, who were already agonising over their inability to meet essential needs.
This is as governors in several states had left office with two or three tranches of their humongous annual retirement benefits paid in one lump sum while they also left several months of unpaid salaries and pension benefits of retired civil servants.
While the hapless civil servants were still weeping over the salaries the departing governor heartlessly did not pay them in addition to the mind-blowing loans they left for their successors to content with, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced the removal of fuel subsidy during his inauguration on May 29.

Since that pronouncement, the prices of every item in the country, from sachet water to processed goods and even vegetables cultivated in open spaces in the country, have shot up astronomically.

Reports from across the country, paint a gloomy picture of how civil servants are struggling to survive.


ABUJA

At the Federal Ministry of Education, fewer persons turn up for work on daily basis since the effect of the fuel subsidy removal began to bite harder.
It was, however, gathered that there was a verbal agreement among workers, perhaps, with the approval of their supervisors, to skip some days due to the sudden hike in the cost of transportation and other services.

A staff of one of the ministries who pleaded anonymity confirmed to Sunday Sun that some departments have worked out “clean” arrangements among the workers on which days to show up in the office.
The staff said: “There was no memo from the Office of Head of Service of the Federation to the effect that workers should skip days. However, there was such agreement among the staff within their departments. It was being done in a particular manner and neatly because there was no official circular to support the arrangement.

“These arrangements within departments were made in such a way that the official work would not suffer. So far, the arrangement has been working well, and nobody can feel the low turnout of staff.

“My brother, it’s not easy for us at all. Cost of transportation, cost living and other services have gone beyond our reach, and nothing was added to our salary to cushion the effect, neither were palliatives provided for us.”

The same arrangements seem to have also been adopted in some agencies under the Federal Ministry of Education. Inquiries indicated that there was a drop in number of members of staff that come to work despite the fact that there was no official circular to back up the activities of the workers.

Commenting on measures by the Federal Government to cushion the hardship affecting its workers as result of steep rise in transport fares and cost of living, Director Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr Olamide Oshundun, said: “You know that President Tinubu has set up a committee, which has been meeting with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). My Permanent Secretary has been attending the meeting. I don’t have full information on what has been discussed, but I know that the NLC has made some demands.

“However, I don’t think we are doing anything at the Ministry level because you cannot plan anything without a budget and if you see the kind of budget released for 2023 it is like less than 20 per cent of what we had in 2022. So, there is no way any ministry can operate successfully with the budget of 2023. In fact, our own thinking is that the new administration of President Tinubu would revisit that budget. No ministry can function well with the kind of budget they left.
“So, I can tell you authoritatively that I don’t think the ministry is planning anything because what the ministry receives now is not even enough to meet the day-to-day activities of the ministry. So, for me, they cannot start thinking of cushioning effects. All of us are still coming to work every day. Although I can say the ministry is thinking along the line of buying more staff buses and other staff welfare. Like before they left, the consequential allowance is what civil servants have been able to get, but it is not enough and government itself is thinking of salary increase. Apart from buses, there is nothing the ministry can do on its own.”

Head of Corporate Affairs at the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mrs Hadiza Umar, on her part told Sunday Sun: “For now we encourage staff to work online from their homes which we have been doing since the COVID-19. So, for most of our activities, you can work online. I would still need to find out if there are other incentives asides working from home.”

Reuben Emeh, a civil servant who resides in Byazhin across one of the villages in Kubwa, said that he goes to work only on Wednesdays, based on an understanding reached with his colleagues.

“I used to spend N1,200 to and fro, but with the way things are now and I spend close to N3,000 to and fro. So, we had a meeting in the department and came up with a roster, which permits us to appear in the office once in a week. We all can only report to the office at once only when there is emergency. My salary is not up to N100,000. What will remain if I pay N3,000 for only transport daily? This is really frustrating. The government should try and look into it, or we will continue pretending why the economy is draining,” he said.

Another civil servant, Joy Emeka, said that the situation has turned her into a commercial taxi driver: “It has not been easy for me to report to work daily due to the increase in fuel price. I used not to carry passengers with my vehicle while going to work, but now I have to take passengers along, to enable me to fuel my tank. If I want to use my salary that means nothing will be left for me by the month end.”

Ameh Ede also confessed that the situation has turned him into a commercial taxi driver though he doesn’t go to work daily based on an agreement reached with other colleagues.

“In my office we agreed to be coming to work twice in a week. I carry passengers any time I’m going to work and on the free days I also use my car fully for taxi service, to be able to meet up with family needs,” he said.

ABIA

Like most citizens across the country, civil servants and workers in general in Abia State are groaning under the weight of sharp increase in transport fares occasioned by the increase in the fuel pump price without any measures to ameliorate the biting effect.

Since the sharp increase in transport fares happened, the state government has not come out with any clear-cut policy or programme to cushion the effect of the increase in transport fares.

For instance, prior to the chaotic transport fares, it had been government policy that local government workers must come to work for a certain number of days before they receive their salary.

To concretize this, the immediate past Governor Okezie Ikpeazu administration introduced the biometric system of signing in every morning they come to work and sign out through the same process at the end of work. Each Local Government worker was expected to thump-print for a certain number of days in a month before qualifying to receive that month’s salary. Although, this was to check truancy, but most of the workers never found it funny, as they would still not be paid at the end of the month.

Many had thought that Governor Alex Otti would abolish the ‘factory system’, especially in this period of high cost of transportation, to reduce the number of days workers show up and thereby cushion the impact of the high cost of transportation.

With the biometric system still in place, workers find it extremely difficult to devise means of cutting down on high cost of transportation to get to work in the state.

On some routes in the state, the fares jumped by 100 per cent, but on other routes, fares went up by just 50 per cent. Short drops in some parts of Umuahia that used to be N50 before the increase in petrol price went up to N100 while in some other places the short drops cost N150. The same is applicable in Aba, the commercial hub of the state.

Though the government claims that it pays N40,000 minimum wage, but workers said what they receive monthly is a far cry from what the government actually pays.

Lamenting over the situation, a civil servant in Umuahia, who told Sunday Sun only her first name, Esther, claimed that the workers are paid less than the national minimum wage of N30,000 monthly.

To make matters worse, the present administration has barred workers from selling items in the offices. Proceeds from such sales would have helped the junior staff to cushion the high cost of transportation.

Another civil servant, Orji, who works in one of the local governments, said that it has been difficult for them to make ends meet as almost half of their salaries are spent on transportation.

“I desperately want the governor to do something to ameliorate the transportation hardship that state workers are going through, so that they can see something left of their salaries to take home to meet other needs,” Orji appealed.

PLATEAU

The Plateau State civil servants have been home for almost three months now following the industrial action embarked upon by the Labour union since May11, this year, when the past administration failed to meet their demands.

The state government under the current administration of Governor Caleb Mutfwang had announced the commencement of physical verification of all state workers and pensioners following series of engagement and understanding reached between the new administration and the labour leaders.

Some workers, who spoke to Sunday Sun at the Joseph Gomwalk State Secretariat while waiting patiently for the exercise, recounted how they got to the venue despite non-payment of salaries.

Source: https://sunnewsonline.com/fuel-subsidy-removal-civil-servants-across-the-federation-groan/

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 44-year-old businessman, Amara Kennedy, for circulating nude photos of his former lovers.

Kennedy was arrested on Friday in the Oshodi area of the state after one of his victims, Kester, agreed to meet him under the pretext of resolving their disagreement.

Our correspondent had reported in a special feature on Sunday that two women, Kester and Temi, met Kennedy separately on different WhatsApp and Facebook chat groups for singles.

Kester, who lost her husband about eight years ago in a car crash, said the banker turned businessman, after chatting her up, started showering her with monetary gifts.
However, after a disagreement, he sent her over 50 of her nude photos which he secretly took after their lovemaking in a hotel.

She said the Umunze, Anambra State indigene, demanded N100,000 from her as a condition to delete the photos.

The mother of two noted that after she sent the money and asked if the photos had been deleted, he demanded an additional N40,000 to delete them permanently, which she sent to him.

Despite the payments, the suspect went ahead to circulate the photos on Facebook.

Kester said she attempted suicide twice but failed, as some of those who saw the images started questioning her.

The second victim, Temi, said the suspect usually had marathon sex with her in hotels while under the influence of drugs, and afterwards gave her N1,000 as transport fares.

She noted that after she discovered that he was not serious about the relationship and was merely using her, she stopped talking to him.

However, Kennedy sent her several of her nude photos and demanded all the money he had spent on her in the relationship.

She said she borrowed N15,000, which she sent to him.

However, after she appealed to his sister on Facebook for help to talk to him, he started circulating the nude photos.

Temi said the businessman regularly called her to demand money.

After the report was published, the suspect on Monday threatened to continue to damage the reputation of the women for “spoiling my image.”

He then started sending the nude photos to their Facebook friends, family members, co-workers and church members.

Kennedy also sent the nude photos to Kester’s in-laws, vowing that “by the time I am done, suicide will be her only option.”

After a series of reports on his continued criminal act, the suspect on Thursday accused this reporter of being “a tribal bigot and an idiot”.

He poured expletives on the journalist, querying why he was “bent on destroying” him.

That night, Kester informed this reporter of a plan to lure Kennedy out of his hiding, saying she had agreed to resolve issues with him.

Source: https://punchng.com/arrest-how-widow-lured-lagos-bizman-circulating-ex-lovers-nudes/?amp

Source: https://trustradio.com.ng/en/how-my-utme-result-was-forged-mmesoma-makes-fresh-revelation

Ejikeme Mmesoma, the 19-year-old student of Anglican Girls’ Secondary School, Uruagu Nnewi, Anambra State, has narrated how she manipulated her result. Messoma has been in the news since the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) punctured her claim of being the highest scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB had said she Messoma has been in the news since the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) punctured her claim of being the highest scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

JAMB had said she scored 249 in the examination as against the 362 which she claimed, but the candidate released a video where she stood her ground.

This had triggered a huge controversy. Amid the back and forth, Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra set up a committee to investigate the issue.

Mmesoma experience: Some lessons for JAMB

Mmesoma, JAMB and the metaphor of a Nigerian scandal

But few days into the sitting of the eight-man panel of inquiry, Mmesoma appeared on a television programme where she backed down on her claim of scoring 362.

In its report, the panel indicted the candidate and asked her to tender an apology to JAMB.

According to the report of the panel, Mmseoma was summoned alongside JAMB officials and those of the school Mmesoma attended.

“Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma admitted that she manipulated the fake results herself, using her phone.

“She owned up in the presence of her principal, and the Education Secretary that the narration by the JAMB officials was a true and correct description of what transpired. She also admitted to have given a manipulated result by herself unaided, using same phone Airtel Number.

“The Principal, Anglican Girls’ Secondary School — Mrs Edu Uche and the Education Secretary, Diocese of Nnewi (Anglican Communion) expressed dismay at the conduct of Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma.

“According to her, she proceeded to the cybercafe (Prisca Global Computers, Uruagu, Nnewi) where she printed the results she had manipulated,” the report read.

The report indicated that the candidate was well informed of her correct score, listing the multiple attempts she made to manipulate it.

“The result paraded by Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma with an aggregate score of 362 is fake as buttressed by the very significant and instructive variations in the registration number, date of birth, centre name and other infractions.

“JAMB officials led by Dr Fabian Benjamin, the Head of Public Affairs presented the detailed processes and procedures involved in JAMB admissions, the policy changes that have occurred in the release of UTME scores since 2021 and what specifically transpired between the candidate Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma with registration number: 20230639047FF in her quest to obtain her JAMB score.

“JAMB revealed the different times that Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma made several requests to the JAMB portal asking for her results at different hours, and each of these times (four in number), she received in her phone, same results from JAMB indicating candidate’s UTME Results to Wit: Eng: 64, Phy:54, Bio: 74, Che: 57 with a total aggregate score of 249.

“JAMB disclosed that the candidate was well informed of her correct score. Mmesoma had sent a request to JAMB with a different registration number showing a UTME result of an aggregate score of 362, with Eng: 98, Phy: 89, Bio: 94, and Che: 81. The results she sent differed substantially from the standard JAMB format where she got an appropriate rebuttal stating her real score of 249.

Despite budgetary allocations, promises, Abuja airport’s second runway still elusive.

There is uncertainty over the second runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja as it has remained a dream for the past five years, Daily Trust Saturday reports. Under the administration of former President Muhammad Buhari when Senator Hadi Sirika was the minister of aviation, the project saw budgetary provisions annually, to the tune Under the administration of former President Muhammad Buhari when Senator Hadi Sirika was the minister of aviation, the project saw budgetary provisions annually, to the tune of N64 billion, but it has been stalled despite its significance.

Although aviation experts are divided over the necessity of the second runway, it is generally believed that it would be a big relief for airline operators, who have had to contend with flight disruptions occasioned by Very Important Persons (VIP) movements in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), being Nigeria’s seat of power.

VIPs like the president, vice president and other prominent personalities usually pass through the airport, causing disruptions. The situation became worse in the buildup to the 2023 elections and after the exercise when the new government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was about to be inaugurated.

In April this year, airlines expressed concern over flight delays associated with VIP movement at the airport.

Daily Trust Saturday reports that during that period, for over an hour, domestic airlines practically grounded operations over VIP movements.

It was gathered that among the airlines affected were those already with fully boarded aircraft preparing to depart.

Confirming the situation, an airline operator said, “All flights have at least an hour delay, both in departure and arrival. Flights already boarded and about to depart were held down with passengers on board for 50 minutes.” He added that the cost of the delays could not be quantified.

The chief operating officer of Ibom Air, Mr George Uriesi, who confirmed the development, simply said, “It is too costly.”

Another operator said, “When flights are delayed, passengers do not have an idea of what we go through as airlines. We know the cost of any delay, so we try as much as possible to avoid it.”

Apart from VIP movements, runway incursions could also trigger unexpected disruption in airline operations at the airport. A case in point was the recent serious incident involving a Max Air plane, which had a burst tyre on landing at the airport. The implication was that the airport was shut for hours until the aircraft was towed away, while the runway was swept before it was reopened.

All of these have justified the need for a second runway at the airport, which would serve as an alternative in case the main runway is experiencing VIP movements, or any VIP takeoff could be routed through the second runway.
The airport presently has five terminals, namely: domestic, international, pilgrims, cargo and VIP terminals, all using one runway.

The second runway was conceptualised to address these challenges and create an alternative departure zone for aircraft landing at the airport.

Daily Trust Saturday reports that the second runway, which was initially estimated to gulp N67bn, was last year revised to N92bn.

From 2017 to 2022, a total sum of N65bn was allocated to the project in the annual budget, but it could not be ascertained whether the money was released.

Our correspondent reports that in the 2017 budget, N10bn was voted for the project and in 2018, N8bn was proposed, while N13bn was voted for it in 2019 and N14bn in 2021.

Last year, the Federal Capital Territory allocated land for the construction of the second runway as Sirika disclosed that the contract had been awarded to China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) Nigeria Limited and would be delivered in 12 months.

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) also disclosed that 12,000 hectares of land had been made available for the project.

The proposed runway is expected to come with modern facilities, such as the category one Instrument Landing System (ILS) and other modern navigational aids.

It is also expected to be more rugged but may still measure 3,600 metres (3.6km), according to the design.

What has become of the project?

For the past five years that the Buhari administration pushed for the project, actualising it was a herculean task. Like Buhari, the previous government before him also mooted the idea of the project.

A former aviation minister, Stella Oduah, who served during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, was also quoted to have said that the airport would get a second runway, but it never saw the light of the day.

Would it be another failed project under the present administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu? Although the government is yet to fully take up as the cabinet is yet to be formed, stakeholders say the second runway should be a priority project for the government.

However, investigation by our correspondent revealed that despite the allocation of the land for the project, it has not taken off, owing to opposition from land owners, who were said to have stopped the contractor from going ahead with the work because “they have not been paid compensation.”

A source involved in the project who confirmed this to our correspondent said, “What you have there now is the contractor only building their yard at the project site and nothing has been done because of the issue with the locals. When the CCECC moved to the site, the locals challenged them that they have not been compensated. So the CCECC is only constructing their yard and workshop.

“Although the former minister said it would be ready this year, I don’t think that can happen. It is not realistic at all,” the source said.

Also, the immediate past FCT minister, Bello Muhammed, had said that the project would be delivered before May 29. He said there would be other facilities like hotels, cinemas, shopping malls etc. But this was never realised before the Buhari administration.

When contacted by our correspondent on the present state of the second runway, the head of the Press and Public Affairs Unit in the Ministry of Aviation, Odatayo Oluseyi, told our correspondent to wait till Tuesday for an update.

But if feelers from those that are privy to the project are anything to go by, it appears that airline operators would have to contend with the challenges associated with the single runway for a longer period.

Aviation stakeholders are, however, divided over the importance of the project, given the low traffic volume at the airport.

Reacting to a question on the state of the second runway, a former commandant of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Group Captain John Ojikutu said, “It is not too late or out of place to ask if none of the various budgetary provisions had been released; and if released, what have they been used for?

“We were told in 2010 that N64bn was approved for the same runway of 4km; that was a year to the 2011 elections. We are now being told that N92bn has been approved for the same 4km runway at N23bn/km or N23m per meter. Do we really need two runways in any of our airports?

“I have said repeatedly that none of our airports has the traffic to need a second runway. I said this to the Uzodinma Committee on Aviation, that neither Abuja nor Lagos has the traffic to be considered for a second runway.

“Heathrow Airport has over 40million traffic annually and Johannesburg in Africa has over 20m traffic annually, but the total traffic in the over 25 Nigerian airports is less than 20m, of which Lagos alone is only about 8m and Abuja about 6m: so what is the economic sense in building a second runway for any?

“Our problem is prodigal spending and lack of or neglect of periodic maintenance of airports and infrastructure. And runways are the most critical are part of airports. In short, none of our airports, whatever their traffic now, deserves a second runway.”

Also, an aviation analyst, Babatunde Adeniji, said the second runway was not needed, saying, “I don’t believe this is necessary.”

But an aviation stakeholder and the chairman, Nigeria Aviation (NIGAV) Centre, Fortune Idu said, “A second runway in Abuja is essential. It may not necessarily be justified now by traffic, but it is essential for safety needs and operational requirements. It will support the marketability of the airport to new international airlines.

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