Buhari's Government Was A Disaster - Soyinka

https://www.nairaland.com/8104287/buharis-government-disaster-soyinka

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has described the government of former President, Muhammadu Buhari as a disaster.

Soyinka said he made very pungent criticisms of Buhari when he was in power and even gave him ultimatum when banditry, fundamentalists, kidnappings, the raiding of farmlands, and the creation of a new nation of displaced persons were the order of the day.

In his words: Buhari, of course, was a disaster. I made very pungent criticisms of Buhari when he was in power. For instance, I gave him an ultimatum when this banditry, fundamentalists, kidnappings, the raiding of farmlands, and the creation of a new nation of displaced persons were the order of the day.

“I told him that as Commander-in-Chief, he should give those insurgents 48 hours to quit all the lands that they had illegally acquired, and after that, it is maximum force. I watched him, but nothing happened. I merely cite this as one.

“This exposes the nature of Nigeria’s vociferous critics for who they are – liars. It is either they are liars or deliberate ignoramuses for them to say that when critical issues that attacked the core of our nation were being discussed, Wole Soyinka kept quiet.”

He said from that, all kinds of disgusting insinuations were made, saying some even said he had been bought.

Soyinka added that after that, “we gave up on Buhari completely and began a do-it-yourself mission. Don’t let us flog this horse. Anybody who wants my answer should go and read ‘Baiting Igbophobia’ which is my last in the intervention series.

“I already made up my mind that anybody who wanted to know certain issues and the truth behind certain truths that I share should go read those interventions and come and meet me on any public forum for a debate. Otherwise, it is just talking to the ignorant who take pride in their ignorance.”


https://guardian.ng/news/buhari-was-a-disaster-soyinka/

Just a year ago, someone @ilynem on X predicted exactly how Tinubu's tenure would go and reading this, there's no part of it that went wrong. We all know he would fail but a few evils decided to force him on us for their selfish gains.


Let me tell you people how Tinubu's tenure will go. It's so easy to predict.
1. In June, subsidy will be removed. This will trigger inflation never seen in Nigeria before. I see people refer to transportation costs (for humans), but it's a lot more than that.

2. Goods also travel. The cost of transporting goods will rise and sellers will transfer this to the prices of their goods. So expect everyday goods to rise
sharply.

3. Cost of production will also rise. Companies that run on generators will raise their prices to break even.

4. This means demand will drop drastically and once demand starts to drop, companies will begin to pack up and fail. But this is not the sad part. I
know! It gets worse.

5. If companies are failing that means government taxes are falling too (let's forget unemployment first).

6. For a man like Tinubu that measures his success through IGR (which is a pretty dumb way though) he cannot stand and watch IGR fall. What will he
do? Increase taxes because that's always his first instinct which will further drive a lot of businesses to fail.

7. Let's not forget he has spent so much in this election, he has to make his money back. Plus he's no Peter Obi that can manage resources. Those
presidential aircrafts will not fly themselves. We are in for the toughest time in our history.

I see people making tweets like "Nigeria must work." It's like standing in front of a moving train and declaring that the train will stop. Keep your
prayer for yourself. You will need it if this man stays in office in the next 4 years.

you guys should channel your energy in voting competent persons in govt.
Stop all all this barbaric acts.

Thank you Dangote.
All our past & present leaders especially past presidents & head of state should bury their head in shame.
A country of over 220 million people depends on one man to solve the country's problems.

Dangote may God continue to increase & bless you.

Political mafias captured Nigeria’s election, government under Mahmood Yakubu; Citizens must rise now: Attahiru Jega

Professor Attahiru Jega on Saturday sounded a five-alarm warning to Nigerians, saying the country’s fundamental governing instruments have been hijacked by a pack of reckless political actors.

Mr Jega rallied Nigerians to immediately rise and recover control of the country or risk farming out their collective destiny to a clique of selfish individuals who lacked the requisite aptitude to salvage the country’s descent into a failed entity.

“Citizens have an obligation in good or bad times,” Mr Jega said. “They have key roles to play in order to ensure their country survives and good things happen to ordinary citizens.”

The admonition came when the former INEC chairman delivered a convocation keynote at Sa’adu Zungur State University, Bauchi, on Saturday afternoon, which was themed: ‘Safeguarding Nigeria’s future: Prioritising citizen’s welfare and security amidst challenges’.

Mr Jega, who led INEC from June 8, 2010, to June 30, 2015, said the electoral office had been hijacked under his success Mahmood Yakubu, who has continued to face immense public criticism for alleged corruption and manipulation of results in favour of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress.

Mr Yakubu hurriedly declared Bola Tinubu the winner of Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election, despite well-documented evidence of electoral fraud and intimidation. A top INEC contractor said Mr Tinubu indicated readiness to bribe Mr Yakubu and other top electoral officers ahead of the election, according to audio obtained by Peoples Gazette, although it was unclear whether the arrangement was implemented and how steep it filtered through the agency’s personnel chain.

Mr Tinubu’s involvement in drug operations that led to his forfeiture of over $460,000 to the United States in the 1990s, as well as his presentation of a dubious academic certificate to back his candidacy, also significantly aggravated opposition concerns over the process that brought him to Nigeria’s highest office.

Mr Tinubu did not deny presenting a forged certificate to INEC but said his drug penalty case was a civil arrangement that carried no criminal implications for his reputation.

Although poverty has continued to ravage Nigerians since he assumed office, Mr Tinubu has announced key policy changes in fiscal administration that he said would help mollify the crisis for the nation’s 200 million population. Several states have received direct federal support to help relax runaway transportation and commodity costs, although a large section of the country said implementation has been painfully slow.

Still, Mr Jega’s statement, while entirely silent on mentioning Mr Tinubu by name, appeared to echo a key prong of the criticism the Nigerian president has faced since assuming office six months ago. A presidential spokesman was asked to comment on the matter Saturday evening.

“Ultimately, the best way to safeguard Nigeria’s future and secure the welfare of citizens devoid of massive security challenges is to have elections with integrity through an electoral process that is not captured,” Mr Jega said. “Unfortunately, now we are seeing that it is captured by reckless politicians.”

“An election that is not captured will bring out quality people, and as they become elected public officials and representatives who have positive value orientation in governance processes, the institutions will harness societal resources and deliver good quality services,” he continued. “If the reckless people are capturing the political process, the electoral process and government, and people just sit and watch, obviously they will destroy the future for everybody.”

Mr Jega said Nigerians should push to take back control of the country and steer it towards a more federal system, as against the current unitary arrangement.

“Only in this way can the state have the requisite legitimacy, stability, competence and capacity as well as resourcefulness to effectively address the needs of the people and safeguard the future of our country,” he said. “Any state that fails to do this in the modern context will be considered a failed state.”

https://gazettengr.com/political-mafias-captured-nigerias-election-government-under-mahmood-yakubu-citizens-must-rise-now-attahiru-jega/

Tinubu's Policies unsettle Northern support base.

"APC's quest for Kano, Plateau unravels party men.

* Lamido: Those who voted him, regretting now.

*We're losing critical support -S'west Party chieftain

INEC was quick to release everything to SDP in Kogi state,but frustrating LP in Imo.
If gov Bello of Kogi is not smart enough , the results in the central senatorial zone of Kogi will be cancelled & the SDP candidate will be declared winner.
You'll be surprised that Tinubu is in the know of this plot

Where is the Job to hunt?
Too many unlearned certificate holders chasing few blue collar jobs & non existing white collar jobs

yarimo:
2031 presidency is going back to north again

We don't mind as long as its not Fulani. The person must be a northern Christian.

Make hay while the sun shines

The Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has claimed that the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari printed over ₦22 Billion and poured the money into the system without backing the money up, noting that the country is grappling with high inflation as a result of what the past administration did.

According to Vanguard Newspaper report, the former CBN Governor made this disclosure when he was being interviewed on Channels Television on Friday, noting that Bola Tinubu inherited a stagnant economy from the past administration.

Professor Soludo said: "The past administration printed over N22 trillion and poured it into the system without backing it up. Now we have to grapple with high inflation and the impact of the exchange rate."

Furthermore, the Anambra State governor noted that he is glad that President Tinubu has taken courageous step to remove the obnoxious scam that has festered over the years called petrol subsidy, and now dealing with the exchange rate.

In addition, Soludo noted that he is willing to give President Tinubu and his government the benefit of the doubt, noting that he believes that the newly set-up economic team will solve the economy problems. He went on and urged Nigerians to support Tinubu's administration, so that he will be able to achieve his plans.

https://ng.opera.news/ng/en/politics/88a89bf7701f1615cb339edc53c6ae08

So it is the raw rice from India they mill in Nigeria and brand it locally produced rice.
please someone needs to throw more light on this

AuschwitzPrefec:
William Norris of the London Times who visited Biafra, reported an eye- witness account in which some men of Ibibio ethnic origin were beaten to death at Umuahia on April 2, 1968. These Ibibios who included old men and young men were apparently suspected of collaborating with advancing Nigerian troops. They were reportedly frog-marched across an open space while the local people attacked them with sticks and clubs.

In a related account, B. J. Ikpeme, a member of a minority group and retired Senior Medical Officer in the then Eastern Region revealed atrocities perpetrated by Biafran soldiers against the minorities in some towns in the present-day Cross River and Akwa- Ibom States. Ikpeme argued that Ojukwu’s declaration of the Republic of Biafra had been issued against the wishes of the majority of the people of Calabar, Ogoja, and Rivers Provinces, who for many years had agitated for a separate state of their own.

According to Ikpeme, the Igbo leadership, who did not like the minority agitation, decided either to force the five million non-Igbo minorities into the new republic or eliminate them. It was on this basis, claims Ikpeme, that Biafran soldiers were quickly sent to the minority areas to “keep down the people, detain or even kill all who dared raise a voice in protest against the idea of Biafra.” It was during this period that the non-Igbos started experiencing different forms of inhumane treatment, ranging from torture, detention, to killing.

Ikpeme himself was detained in what he described as a “concentration camp” and was later transferred to a prison cell where he was given urine to drink when he demanded water. Ikpeme described instances where the Biafra soldiers allegedly perpetrated atrocities against some members of non-Igbo groups. In Asang town in Enyong, from where Ikpeme originated, about four hundred people were carried away to an unknown destination. Another town called Attan Onoyon in the same Enyong was burnt down with many people killed by the Biafran soldiers.

In Ikot Ekpenyong in the present day Akwa Ibom State, Biafra soldiers were said to have shot many villagers. Ikpeme also recounted that similar killings carried out by Biafra soldiers took place in places like Ikot Okpot and Idoro. He equally alleged that when the Nigerian troops landed in Calabar on October 18, 1967, about 169 civilians in detention were lined up and shöt by Biafran soldiers. This same allegation had also been published in The New York Times as an informational advertisement by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in New York. These two accounts, given by the survivor-victim of Ikun and Dr. Ikpeme, portray similar pictures of gross atrocities but with different underlying objectives.

The last President of Biafra was Philip Effiong, an Akwa Ibom man.
don't forget to add it to your narrative.

jconsulting:


This one has allowed devil to use him, if your wife provokes you to the extreme just leave the house and camp with your side chick......

I lie?

Camp for like 3 weeks.
blessings to all the reasonable side chicks that always come to the rescue to calm the tensions.
Your soothing words & comfort has helped to keep things in shape & properly.

"The President appointed people who betrayed others and hoping that they will be “faithful,Loyal and Honest” to him;And that they “will serve Nigeria with all their strength”.
-Shehu Sani

They are no longer just taking political positions, they are now sharing it among their children. Nigeria is completely finished.

Speaker Tajudeen Abbas announced the composition of 134 standing committees on Thursday.

Children of former governors serving in the House of Representatives have been named as heads of major standing committees of the lower chamber.

Bello el-Rufai, the son of Nasir El-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna State; Olumide Osoba, the son of Segun Osoba, the former Governor of Ogun State and Suenu Ibori, daughter of James Ibori, former governor of Delta State were among the 134 chairpersons of committees announced by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas on Thursday.

Others are Adegboyega Adefarati, the son of Adebayo Adefarati, a former governor of Ondo State and Olamiju Akala, the son of Alao Akala, a former governor of Oyo State.

The junior El-Rufai, a first-timer who represents the Kaduna North Federal Constituency of Kaduna State, was appointed to serve as the chairman of the House Committee on Banking Regulation.

His father served as the Kaduna governor from 2015 to 2023 and was on Thursday nominated to serve as a minister by President Bola Tinubu.

Mr Abbas appointed Ms Ibori as the new Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Despite Mr Ibori’s conviction and jail time in the United Kingdom, Mr Ibori still controls a large part of the political structure in Delta State.

And lately, Mr Ibori appears to be back in the power corridor as he is a frequent guest of President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa.

Mr Adefarati, who represents the Akoko South-East/South-West Federal Constituency, is the chairperson of the House Committee on Labour, Employment and Productivity.

He served as commissioner for local government and chieftaincy affairs in Ondo State. The senior Adefarati served as the governor of Ondo State from 1999 to 2003. He died in 2007 while preparing to run for president.

Olumide Osoba is the chair of the House Committee on Justice. Although, unlike other children of former governors, the junior Osoba is a ranking member, having served in the Ninth House.

He represents the Obafemi/Owode Federal Constituency of Ogun State. In the last assembly, he served as the committee chairman on Youths and Sports. His father served as the governor of Ogun State, first from 1992 to 1993 and later from 1999 to 2003.

Olamiju Akala, though a first-timer, is the chairman House Committee on Youths in Parliament. He represents the Ogbomosho Federal Constituency of Oyo State.

His father served as the governor of Oyo State from 2006 to 2011. The senior Akala died in January last year.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/612379-ex-governors-ibori-el-rufai-akalas-children-named-reps-committee-chairpersons.html

abi na eye dey pain me. I no see Kogi state

Governor Alex Otti’s government says an innovation park and a modular refinery will be established in Abia to accelerate economic development.

Information commissioner Okey Kanu stated that plans were underway to build the park and refinery. Mr Kanu disclosed this during a news conference on the outcome of the State Executive Council at the Government House, Umuahia.

He said the decision to embark on the project was informed by the resolve of Mr Otti to fulfil his campaign promises to the people of Abia. The commissioner added that the initiative would provide an avenue for the Abia government to address the issue of youth unemployment.

“A lot of investors are showing strong interest to partner government to establish the innovation park. The park will house an incubation centre. Those involved in manufacturing, logistics, power, modular refinery will form part of this park,” the commissioner explained.

On payment of pensions, he said that the government was committed to resolving all hitches. Mr Kanu added that the Abia government was making efforts to ensure payment of 100 per cent pension to pensioners. He, however, apologised to pensioners over the shortfall in the June payment and attributed the shortfall to the historical method adopted by the past administration.

Mr Kanu said the method was being reviewed to ensure that pensioners would be paid 100 per cent of their pension and, subsequently, their outstanding before the end of the year.

The commissioner for petroleum and mineral resources, Joel Ogbonna, said efforts were ongoing to rehabilitate the road leading to the Osisioma depot to make the facility functional and accessible to oil marketers.

Mr Ogbonna said that the Abia government was making efforts to effect repairs on the vandalised Port Harcourt-Osisioma pipeline damaged by suspected vandals. He added that plans were underway to set up a modular refinery in Ukwa West through public-private partnership as part of the government’s efforts to address the high cost of petroleum products.

https://gazettengr.com/gov-otti-to-build-innovation-park-modular-refinery-in-abia/

A group in the All Progressives Congress from the Southwest zone, South West APC Support Groups (SASG), has expressed concern over what it described as a wrong sense of entitlement by chieftains of the ruling party from Lagos State.

The National Coordinator of the group, Otunba Tunde Filani, in a statement alleged that only chieftains of the party from Lagos, whom he described as “Lagos boys,” are cornering appointments from the Tinubu administration.

In his statement entitled, “Dangers of ‘Lagosizing’ Southwest,” the South West stakeholders cited the case of the 20 aides that were recently appointed by the president, stating that at least 13 of them are Lagos-based politicians.

The SASG Coordinator recalled the contributions of other states in the zone to the victory of President Bola Tinubu, submitting that the erstwhile APC presidential candidate did not win Lagos compared to his electoral feat in Ondo, Ekiti, and Oyo states.

“We have observed, with utmost dismay, the ongoing unpleasant development at the presidency whereby most appointments are being filled with ‘Lagos boys’.

“We, the Southwest APC Support groups, are constrained to say that this trend, if not checked, might make the Southwest the first boiling point of the Tinubu administration.

The SASG Coordinator recalled the contributions of other states in the zone to the victory of President Bola Tinubu, submitting that the erstwhile APC presidential candidate did not win Lagos compared to his electoral feat in Ondo, Ekiti, and Oyo states.

“We have observed, with utmost dismay, the ongoing unpleasant development at the presidency whereby most appointments are being filled with ‘Lagos boys’.

“We, the Southwest APC Support groups, are constrained to say that this trend, if not checked, might make the Southwest the first boiling point of the Tinubu administration.

“We hereby wish to call the attention of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to this ugly development and to state that a situation whereby politicians from Lagos State are seen to be the ones taking all the benefits that accrue to the entire Southwest is totally unacceptable to other States in the region as Lagos is not the only State in Southwest.

“A cursory look at the appointments made so far under this administration showed that the majority of the people around Mr President are all Lagos politicians.

While they may not all be indigenes of Lagos, these are politicians based in Lagos, who have played all their politics in Lagos, lived in Lagos, and as a matter of fact, made Lagos their immediate constituency.

“Looking at the appointments of 20 aides that were recently made by Mr President, we can categorically count on our fingers about 13 of them who are Lagos based.

“The arrival of former Lagos Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, into the fray as one of the ministerial hopefuls is another fact in this direction.

“Another scenario is that if you look at Tinubu’s first trip to France as president, those who accompanied him on that journey are those from Lagos despite the fact that most of them are without official portfolios or capacity.

“This is uncalled for. This administration shouldn’t be made an all-Lagos affair. It doesn’t project Mr President well as a nationalist and a pan-Nigerian leader.

“Recently, the president constituted a committee that will constitute boards of Ministries Departments and Agencies, MDAs, and went ahead to make his Chief of Staff, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the chairman while the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator George Akume, was made the Secretary.

This is wrong. Going by hierarchy and order of protocol, Akume’s position supersedes that of the chief of staff. Gbaja is only an aide to President Tinubu while Akume is the SGF.

The president should do the reverse, Gbajabiamila should be the secretary, and then a representative of the party should be part of the committee because the party knows who worked for the president during the election.

More read:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/rumblings-in-south-west-as-group-accuses-tinubu-of-lagosizing-appointments/

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Fuel Price: Radio caller in Ondo breaks down in tears, describes hardship as ‘satanic’

Radio caller in Ondo breaks down in tears, describes hardship as ‘satanic’
“This hardship is just too much. We’re in pain,” he cried, as the anchor begged him to control his tears on radio.

A caller on a radio programme on Fresh FM, 102.9 Akure, on Thursday, broke down in tears as reactions continue to trail the steep increase in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol, by President Bola Tinubu-led federal government.

Identifying himself as ‘Awilo’, the radio caller, who described the increase of petrol to N500 to N617 per litre as “satanic”, said the development has made life unbearable for his family and many other poor Nigerians.

“How do they want us to survive this hardship with this increment again? It’s satanic and this is also unfair, it’s a big punishment for the Nigerian masses. What exactly is our offence? Did we vote for this man (Tinubu) to suffer us? Why always the poor? We can’t cope any longer. Honestly, we cannot cope. This hardship is just too much. We’re in pain,” he cried, as the anchor begged him to control his tears on radio.

He explained that with the increase in the pump price, the living standards of the people would now nosedive even as the government was yet to provide the necessary palliatives to the citizens to mitigate the effect of the subsidy removal.

As Nigerians continue to suffer the consequential effect unleashed on them by the fuel subsidy removal, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), on Tuesday, jerked up the pump prices of petrol to N617 per litre from N500 per litre.

Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPCL, had attributed the rise in petrol pump rice in the country to market forces, saying that the increase was not based on a short supply of fuel.

Mr Kyari said, “They are just prices depending on the market realities. This is the meaning of making sure that the market regulates itself. Prices will go up and sometimes they will come down also.

“No, there is no supply issue. It is not a supply issue. When you go to the market, you buy the product, you come to the market and sell it at its prevailing market price. It has nothing to do with supply. We don’t have supply issues.”

But many Nigerians have refused to buy into the explanation of Mr Kyari on the new petrol price as many have continued to kick against the government of Mr Tinubu, who announced the removal of fuel subsidy on May 29, without providing palliatives to cushion the effect.

https://gazettengr.com/fuel-price-radio-caller-in-ondo-breaks-down-in-tears-describes-hardship-as-satanic/

Justice Boloukuoromo M. UGO of the Presidential Elections Petition Tribunal is yet to resign despite pressure being mounted for him and two others to do so, according to new information available this morning.
Tinubu and his team are working hard to threaten them to get one or two to resign so that the panel will be bereft of jurisdiction at this stage. This will lead to replacement and retrieval denovo. In which case, it will be statute barred outside the 180 days stipulated by the constitution and the end of the matter because the Supreme Court cannot extend the time. This is what they are working on to achieve.

https://twitter.com/jacksonpbn/status/1681960280429940739?t=iQ59afamAC016HXutZVNmQ&s=01

SSS arrests Senator Yari for ignoring Bola Tinubu’s phone call amidst tussle for Senate President
The senator defied the president in a high-wire quest to lead the 10th National Assembly. But federal authorities may also have a separate axe to grind.

Senator Abdulaziz Yari has spent two nights languishing in the dungeon of Nigeria’s iron-fisted State Security Service, Peoples Gazette was told by two officials familiar, after multiple telephone calls to his lines from President Bola Tinubu rang through last month.

One senior security officer and a State House aide told The Gazette in separate disclosures on Friday that the SSS arrested Mr Yari on Thursday morning and detained him for “thinking the president is a joke,” as one official put it. Both sources obtained The Gazette’s commitment to keeping them anonymous to bounce potential backlash from Mr Tinubu, who seemed to be shaping up to be a ruthless and vindictive leader after barely five weeks in office.

“He was asked why he ignored the president’s phone calls during the Senate leadership battle,” an official said. “He started arguing that he has every right to contest for the position and decisions about his political career moves should not come from the president.”

“The president was trying to appeal to him to stand down his ambition to make sure any fate similar to how Bukola Saraki became Senate President in 2015 won’t be repeated,” the official said. “We all knew that Saraki’s emergence back then was the first error President Buhari made, and it crippled his first four years in office.”

Sources said Mr Yari received a call from Yusuf Bichi, the director-general, to report at the SSS’ headquarters for an urgent discussion. Upon arrival, Mr Yari was asked to wait for Mr Bichi, who purportedly stepped out. But the senator was delayed throughout the day by a phalanx of armed SSS agents, only to be told at about 10:00 p.m. Thursday that he won’t be going home, The Gazette learnt. The senator’s planned visit with other Senate colleagues to former President Ibrahim Babangida on Friday was consequently aborted.

“His phones were confiscated, and he may be spending days, if not weeks, in custody,” the source added.

Mr Yari failed to garner enough votes for the position, but his Senate associates have alleged irregularities and may challenge the outcome in court. This could set him on a collision course with the president, with officials warning of dire consequences for Mr Yari’s political future should he proceed with the lawsuit.

Already, Mr Tinubu has detained Abdulrasheed Bawa without charges after firing him as the head of the federal anti-corruption office EFCC on June 14. Mr Bawa was looking into Mr Tinubu’s web of ill-gotten assets at some point in 2020, The Gazette previously reported. Mr Bawa’s detention has persisted after more than three weeks, even as he has neither been charged nor publicly accused of any wrongdoings.

Also held under a legally-dubious authority without charges is Godwin Emefiele, a Nigerian banker whom Mr Tinubu promptly fired from office as the central bank governor and subsequently ordered detained by the SSS, a national intelligence outfit whose illiberal manoeuvres have endured despite the country’s blistering journey from the tyranny of military juntas in the 1990s to the third decade of uninterrupted constitutional republic.

Officials said Mr Yari’s detention might also drag out if his colleagues at the National Assembly are not fierce enough in demanding his release, one of our sources said. Like Mr Tinubu, the former Zamfara governor is also a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress. But he poked the president’s ire last month when he declared plans to be Senate President at the resumption of the 10th National Assembly. Federal lawmakers, unlike the president and vice-president, have no constitutional immunity from arrest and criminal prosecution.

Mr Yari advanced his push to be Senate President even after party leaders publicly endorsed Godswill Akpabio for the position, largely on the account of Mr Akpabio’s southern Christian identity and second Senate term. Mr Yari, representing Zamfara West Senatorial District, is a Muslin from the North-West. The party sought to balance equity within its ranks by ceding the Senate presidency to a Christian from the South-South, since Mr Tinubu is a Muslim from the South-West and Vice-President Kashim Shettima is a Muslim from the North-East. House Speaker Tajudeen Abbas is a Muslim from Mr Yari’s region.

https://gazettengr.com/exclusive-sss-arrests-senator-yari-for-ignoring-bola-tinubus-phone-call-amidst-tussle-for-senate-president/

hisexcellency34:
Those VIO people are very wicked, especially in Lagos

VIO are mean, wicked & they're bitter souls. I detest them seriously

Muslim group storms Osun priestess’ house: if you love yourself don’t hold isese festival in Ilorin

A Muslim group, Majlisu Shabab li Ulamahu Society, in Ilorin, Kwara State has stormed the residence of a traditional religion priestess to impose a ban on any form of isese festival in five local governments in the state.

Isese, the Yoruba word for tradition, is used to denote different kinds of festivals held by adherents of the Yoruba traditional religion in Nigeria and Cuba, Brazil, the United States, Benin, and other countries.

The group listed four local governments in the state where any form of traditional religion is prohibited. The local governments are Ilorin West, Ilorin East, Ilorin South, and Asa.

https://punchng.com/muslim-group-storms-osun-priestess-house-if-you-love-yourself-dont-hold-isese-festival-in-ilorin/

This morning, I post a news of how Yorubas in Ilorin are being asked to go back to Osun, Ekiti Oyo and Ogun.
The mod deleted & remove it. but if the news was Igbo related by now it'll been pushed to front page.

The link to the news of how Yorubas are asked to leave Ilorin:
https://twitter.com/SavvyRinu/status/1672616257554726915?t=oS2hvHOW998W_d9abztAww&s=01