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And I opened the thread to read the story only to see another link. Gerraha here men!

clockwise:
Nigerians atimes dnt read to understand, many of the newspapers reporeted dat Saraki's lawayers used the word 'judicial racality' during d court session, buh accoring to d video, he only used dat wen adressing d journalists, nd moreover we are all aware dat u can say whatever u like cos u re entitled to ur opinion.

Oga, how about this part of the statement

“It has also been reported in the aforesaid media that the defence described the actions of the Honourable Tribunal as; “Judicial Rascality”.

So park well.

A picture of her in her current state would have gone a long way in getting to our emotion than this long story. When GEJ was in power and even during election, no story of cancer not even a rumour. GEJ lost and they are playing the cancer game now. Gerrraha here men!

SenseiX:
So Jagaban is actually a community college alumni , no wonder he's so street.
Community colleges are like vocational training schools for dropouts and never do wells who couldn't finish High school and whose highest qualification is a GED. Nigerian Polytechnics are even better.
Doesn't change the fact he is an effective politician albeit a very corrupt one at that.
Just Saying

just googled his name now. If going to comm. school will generate the number of pages am seeing, then I need to enrol in that school sharply. O ga havard who sabi you?

nnafather:
The woman might be unemployed. Since she heard the broken promises of APC, she might have left with no choice than to dump the baby because she saw no hope since APC took over. She got pregnant during GEJ administration, probably, with the hope that things might continue to be better. Bam..old men took over and things got bad.

Biko who get chain? this one kolo don pass wailing. wetin concern konji and politics?

Atlantian:
If I was to marry that girl, I would have renovated the father's compound before the traditional marriage.

But you are not him, so keep your thought to yourself since e no fit buy foot mat.

Snapped with gionee m2

ejibaba:
Why?

But e don land for front page. # Godwin

This statement by DSS is a response to alleged siege of residence of Ex- NSA Sambo Dasuki by security operative today. PRNigeria
DSS PRESS RELEASE
1. The attention of the Department of State Services (DSS) has been brought to the report making rounds that its operatives illegally blocked the residence of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo DASUKI (Col/Rtd), in violation of a subsisting court order granting him a relief to travel oversea for medical services. This is to say the least that such report is not only unfounded and malicious but aimed at tarnishing the good image of the Service.
2. It may be recalled that SAMBO was initially arrested and charged to court for unlawful possession of firearms and money laundering, for which reason his international passport was seized and on the order of the court, returned to the registrar for custody. What has however brought the seeming standoff between SAMBO and the Service, despite the court-ordered release of his international passport on 4th November, 2015, is his refusal to appear before a Committee undertaking the investigation of an entirely different case.
3. The public may wish to note that the government set up the Committee to investigate procurement processes relating to a two billion dollar ($2billion) arms transaction by the last administration, under which SAMBO was the NSA. It was on this premise that he was invited by the Committee to shed more light on his involvement in the deal. It, therefore, remains surprising and shocking that SAMBO has refused to honour invitations of the Committee but instead resorts to grandstanding and subtle blackmail of the Service. His refusal to appear before the Committee has left the Service with no option than to adopt legal means to ensure his attendance.
4. Therefore, without doubt, SAMBO is pulling all strings available to him to evade justice and put the Service in bad light. The simple fact is that the DSS is not persecuting him. Nigerians are therefore enjoined to disregard the impression being created by him. This Service wishes to re-emphasise its commitment to the rule of law and strict adherence to democratic ideals. However, any person or group, no matter how highly placed, that may wish to test the will of the present democratic dispensation, will definitely be checked through the legal provisions of the law.
Tony OPUIYO
Department of State Services,

www. This statement by DSS is a response to alleged siege of residence of Ex- NSA Sambo Dasuki by security operative today. PRNigeria DSS PRESS RELEASE 1. The attention of the Department of State Services (DSS) has been brought to the report making rounds that its operatives illegally blocked the residence of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo DASUKI (Col/Rtd), in violation of a subsisting court order granting him a relief to travel oversea for medical services. This is to say the least that such report is not only unfounded and malicious but aimed at tarnishing the good image of the Service. 2. It may be recalled that SAMBO was initially arrested and charged to court for unlawful possession of firearms and money laundering, for which reason his international passport was seized and on the order of the court, returned to the registrar for custody. What has however brought the seeming standoff between SAMBO and the Service, despite the court-ordered release of his international passport on 4th November, 2015, is his refusal to appear before a Committee undertaking the investigation of an entirely different case. 3. The public may wish to note that the government set up the Committee to investigate procurement processes relating to a two billion dollar ($2billion) arms transaction by the last administration, under which SAMBO was the NSA. It was on this premise that he was invited by the Committee to shed more light on his involvement in the deal. It, therefore, remains surprising and shocking that SAMBO has refused to honour invitations of the Committee but instead resorts to grandstanding and subtle blackmail of the Service. His refusal to appear before the Committee has left the Service with no option than to adopt legal means to ensure his attendance. 4. Therefore, without doubt, SAMBO is pulling all strings available to him to evade justice and put the Service in bad light. The simple fact is that the DSS is not persecuting him. Nigerians are therefore enjoined to disregard the impression being created by him. This Service wishes to re-emphasise its commitment to the rule of law and strict adherence to democratic ideals. However, any person or group, no matter how highly placed, that may wish to test the will of the present democratic dispensation, will definitely be checked through the legal provisions of the law.

Tony OPUIYO Department of State Services, Abuja. 4th November, 2015

www.saharareporters.com/2015/11/05/dss-statement-sambo-dasuki
4th November, 2015
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NOBODYY:
Nigeria Will Be Livable If All State Capitals Can Be
Like Enugu-pictures
YeYe dey worry una!

Something dey worry you for head I swear. So you go search for pic for internet , come post pic of road way ugwanyi don attend to. Na your type go bring 2007 pic of Onitsha head bridge road for 2015 dey shout say e bad.

If GEJ represents just 20% of how you guys are painting him, you guys won't struggle to shove it down our throat. GEJ met everything working well and ended up sinking them. If you doubt me, ask our economy and PDP for details

Do you know any Customs officer? Check their standard of living. Most of them live well above their incomes. Yes, they are relatively well-paid. But they are still living too much above their incomes. Maybe if they just stole government money directly from government like their politician friends do, things would be different. But stealing directly from innocent people is too cruel. I know that all those Customs officers who were part of the reason I paid over N2 million extra for my container will never know peace.
Actually, I got this title from a friend whose close relative is a Customs officer. He would list all the atrocities of Customs officers in the presence of the close relative and end his spiel with “Customs o ni ku’re” – Customs officers will not die well. In fact, he believes that nobody should trust Customs officers no matter how close they are. “Customs and police officers will sell their mother and children if it would lead to acquisition of illicit money for them”, he often says. I became fully converted last year when I shipped a 40-footer container to Lagos from California, USA.

My shipment had contained all of my household goods – furniture, electronics, kitchen utensils, books, clothes and one SUV - as I was planning to relocate to Nigeria upon my retirement. My shipping agent in California had requested an itemized list of the contents of my shipment, which I duly provided. The clearing agent in Lagos also requested the same thing, and, of course, I obliged.

Upon the arrival of my container in Lagos, the agent informed me that the DSS inspector asked for N10,000 in order for him to not inspect the container and just give it a “pass”. I told him that if it was the practice for the security people to inspect the container, he should let him do so because I did not want the container to be detained by any other agency on the approval chain. We did not give the DSS guy the N10,000 bribe.

And so, during inspection, he found six pairs of my old military uniforms in the container. My itemized list had included clothing as a general item but not specifically “six pairs of used military uniforms” which bore my name, service and rank. The security guy now detained the whole container on suspicion of connection to “Boko Haram”. I would be so stupid as to send six pairs of uniforms with my name and rank on them to Boko Haram in Borno via the port in Lagos. And Boko Haram was really in such a bad shape that it was waiting for my used uniforms. I sent a photocopy of my international passport, military ID card and other documents that proved I was duly authorized to possess those uniforms. The DSS released my container to Customs after about two weeks. But that was when my ordeal really started.

Customs now said since the DSS had to get approval from its headquarters in Abuja before releasing my container, they too had referred my case to their headquarters in Abuja and I would have to wait for approval from there. One month, two months, three months, four months and five months went by and they still had not gotten approval from Abuja. I engaged a couple of my friends in Lagos who knew the terrain and what I heard was that plans by some of the senior officers were already afoot to confiscate my container, “auction” its contents off to themselves and declare the case closed. Outraged, I flew to Lagos from California to see with my own eyes which Customs officer would have the temerity to confiscate a container that did not contain any brand new item; any item of commercial value or any contraband item. I met a very senior officer at one of their Apapa offices. He sympathized with me and gave me all the assurances in the world that if he could help, he would; but the case was out of his hands and my file was on the desk of the Comptroller-General – Dikko Inde Andullahi. And only he could authorize the release of my container. What! What had I gotten myself into? I couldn’t believe it. The whole CG had to approve the release of one container that did not carry nuclear bomb?

The DSS found forks and knives in my container but did not detain it for those. It detained it for six pairs of military uniforms. It was as if you found syringes in a container shipped by a medical doctor, or books shipped by a professor and you seized the container. No guns, no drugs, no explosives, no “dangerous” manuals were found in my container. Yet, the Comptroller-General had my file! And he was all the way in Abuja. Each time I went to the Lagos office from Ibadan, I was told the CG in Abuja had not “treated” my file because he was on tour of this zone or that zone. At one point, he even went on the lesser Hajj while my container kept incurring an unbelievable amount of demurrage charges at the port.

Finally, a friend introduced me to another senior Customs officer who got the CG’s office to release my container. So, indeed, the CG had to personally approve the release of my container! How not-so-busy could he be!

Now, I had to deal with the Apapa Ports management and that of Maersk - owners of the container, who’s combined demurrage/rent charges were in excess of N3.5 million! This did not include the N1.2 million I already paid the clearing agent as regular clearing fees and ports charges. The same Customs officer was able to talk to both the Ports and Maersk people and got my charges down to a little over N2 million. I paid it and took possession of my container. (Please note that neither the DSS nor the Customs removed any of the uniforms from the container.) I was allowed to keep them. Basically, I was made to pay over N2 million that I should never have paid. And if the uniforms were meant for Boko Haram, I could go ahead and send them. Wow!

So, how do you think I felt when CG Dikko Abdullahi, the face of indolence, ineptness and corruption at Customs, was fired by President Buhari in August? Ecstatic! The man was a piece of human feces. How do you think I felt when the new CG, Col (rtd) Hameed Alli, fired those Deputy Comptrollers-General - John Atte (Finance, Administration & Technical Services); Adewuyi Akinade (Tariff & Trade); Austin Nwosu (Strategic Research & Policy); Musa Tafir (Enforcement, Investigation & Inspection) and Ibrahim Mera (Human Resource Development)? Jubilant! All five of them shamelessly “resigned” on one piece of paper as if they were all hired on the same day. They were all pieces of raw garbage. And how do you think I feel knowing that 29 other officers, including three Assistant Comptrollers-General - Madu Mohammed (Secretary to the Nigeria Customs Board); Victor Gbemudu (Zonal Coordinator Zone ‘A’) and Bello Liman (Assistant Comptroller-General, Headquarters) are going to kiss the dust with many more to follow? Of course, I am so exited I will throw a party! They will not and should not die well if they ever contributed to the grief of any innocent customer of Customs.

If you look up the definition of Corruption in any modern dictionary, it will be illustrated with the uniform of the Nigeria Customs. That organization needs to be turned upside down and inside out. The pervasiveness of corruption in that place makes every single officer look like a thief…even those who are not. And there could very well be some who are not corrupt in that place. In my odyssey with that organization, I came across three officers who struck me as decent people. But I keep remembering what my friend says about them; do not trust them past how far you can throw them. He has one of them in his family and has dealt with many of them in the past. He should know.

With my container experience, you can imagine my irritation this past July as I drove through the Idi Iroko border on my way to Benin Republic when a female Customs officer, slouching on a chair as if she was in her bedroom, tried to delay my passage because I refused to pay N10,000 to cross with my family. Something about N10,000 with these people! Not until I asked her to show justification for such a fee did she let me go. A European friend of mine who is a diplomat later told me he had to pay N10,000 at the same border even after showing his diplomatic credentials and after threatening to report the illegal charge to his country. They just don’t care anymore. The impunity with which they fleece people and carry out other kinds of nefarious activities now knows no bounds.

Another friend based in Texas, USA, told the story of how he was levied N400,000 at one of the Apapa Customs offices before he was allowed to clear some vehicles he had shipped legally into Nigeria. “They pointed to a cardboard box in one corner of the office and told me to drop my money in there. The box was full of raw cash. One of them told me the money was meant for their senior bosses and whether I liked it or not, I had to pay; or else my vehicles would go into demurrage”, he told me. Right there in the Departure and Arrival halls of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, in full glare of everybody, Customs officers demand and receive “levies” for taking (non-commercial quantity) foodstuff out of the country and for bringing (non-commercial quantity) gift items into the country. Only in Nigeria would a family of six visit home and on their way out, they cannot take with them two bowls of Gari or yam flour without being surcharged by those useless Customs people at the airport. Only in Nigeria would you be coming home from overseas and you can’t bring shoes and dresses and wristwatches as gifts for your nieces and nephews without those useless Customs officers taking their cut. I can’t begin to list here all the countries I have been; but none….none…either in Europe or America nor even in the rest of Africa was I ever questioned about food in my luggage, except Nigeria. Only in Nigeria would you have Customs officer deep in towns and cities, several hundred kilometers from borders, collecting “levies” from motorists and farmers. What went on at Customs was no longer corruption. It was rape…rape with unlubricated hot rods (Please pardon the language. It is the way you feel after encountering these beasts).

So, for me, it is celebration time knowing that the axe is falling on all those officers who have made life miserable for innocent Nigerians. May their roads forever be rough. And may they lose all they have illicitly acquired.

Do you know any Customs officer? Check their standard of living. Most of them live well above their incomes. Yes, they are relatively well-paid. But they are still living too much above their incomes. Maybe if they just stole government money directly from government like their politician friends do, things would be different. But stealing directly from innocent people is too cruel. I know that all those Customs officers who were part of the reason I paid over N2 million extra for my container will never know peace.

My friend, the one who gave me the title for this piece, once asked me to research the lives of Customs officers; that I would find they always wore tattered clothes in the twilight of their lives. He was speaking in the presence of the family member who was a Customs officer. I hope that is the fate of all Customs officers who make life difficult for innocent people. If I had not resolved to get my container out no matter what; or had not known somebody who knew somebody; or did not have the financial wherewithal to pay the demurrage, those useless people would have stolen the fruits of my hard labor, especially some items to which I have sentimental attachment. For that, they will wear tattered clothes at the twilight of their lives. And when they die, it will not be near their valuables.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/11/02/customs-officers-no-go-die-well-abiodun-ladepo

Wailers can be so f**king irritating. Who is to be blamed for our current economic woes, GEJ( in charge for 5 years of oil boom) or PMB ( inherited a messed up economy as price of oil crash)? If the once acclaimed biggest economy in Africa can crash within few months, then something is definitely wrong with NOI & GEJ.

crixtech:
That's a problem with the power jack, you have to take it to a technician for repairs

thanks bro. I appreciate. like how much will it cost? Am low on cash and don't want these guys to over bill me.

otil1:
Unemadu!

Hey, I am so glad to hear from you. Yea. Quite sometime bro.

I permanently follow Mej but I doubt he's in Enugu.

Enugu is fine. Gov. Gburus is reversing the evils visited on Enugu by Chime.

I know you may not agree, but Chime really cost Enugu a lot.

I remain the same, Sir.

Ekenee m.

E na ako bullshit. Compare Enugu of 2015 with that of 2007 before Chime. He did a lot and never show casted his achievements on tv; a rare virtue among Nigerian Politicians.

vickifeanyi47:
Hello @Wizpeter..It depends on the extent of damaged caused...might be serviced or completely changed....I can help you fix that for little amount.. cool cool cool

please am in uyo. I have the same issue too

My Asus hardly charge except when I press the tip of the charger firmly into the port but it stops charging if I release my hand. The plastic part of the tip of the charger is melting gradually and the metal part very hot after some hours of charging. Yesterday, I tried charging but its not working even after pressing it firmly to the port. My friend is saying its the mother board that spoilt. Please I need your urgent solution and a reliable technician in uyo that can assist

Oga Joseph the dreamer na malaria dey worry you. Go and take your drugs. Na only bad bad things una dey dream. Will heaven fall if you dream say boko end this month. Nonsense!

See as everybody dey hail Putin especially wailers yet they almost crucified Bubu when he told the Hassan guy to allow him answer a question he asked earlier.

I have always being an avid supporter of PMB since 2014. I will cease to support him if this case is swept under the carpet.

Op abeg no forget halla me when you use am buy mansion for banana island like Linda. E na apu ara there!!!

E don do abeg. You guys should stop shoving it down our throat.

I can sight Udom Emmanuel. fresh guy.

We should congratulate our soldiers especially when suicide attacks are foiled. These guys are putting their lives at risk on daily bases for our safety.

All these undergraduate way just dey type poo like say the school size don reduce the level of unemployment. Na person go remind you say you be graduate after searching for job for 5 yrs. My school do this my school do dat na for person way never sabi life after service.

After seeing how beautiful and fun life is outside this country, I begin to wonder if our politicians have conscience and human sympathy since most of them have only 50 or more years to live yet they keep stacking away billions while the masses suffer for it.

South South go cause trouble , Igbo man go carry am for head pass and end up being the victim that suffers most. Nzeogwu and GEJ comes to my mind yet my people no go learn.

I suffer from insomnia once it a while sha. As for cure, I usually pick my rosary and pray as a catholic and usually dozz off after few minutes into it. I have stopped that sha. The one I currently use is listen to a podcast especially boring ones. it works like magic.

I am understanding where the OP is coming from after seeing some of his replies. He sees a village as a rural area that is out of touch with civilization. But what he failed to understand is that most villages in the south east especially in Anambra, Imo and Abia are in the same league with some of the so called towns in South West in terms of infrastructure and modernisation. As for your impression of clothing made of leaves. Its funny I must say but how will you understand when most of you guys hardly leave south west to other places. Life and civilization does not stop and end in Lagos, Akure , Ibadan or oshogbo.

Na the same wailers go shout marginalization when baba begin take action based on the report especially my brothers from the east since Ihejirika name dey for am

In reply to your question, we all must agree that most Igbos (Nigerian) have two homes: their place of residence/ mostly in the big cities and their home town/ the village (usually the birth place of their parents). Majority of the Igbo that grew up in the west and other part of the country usually travel to their respective villages for events and return back to the cities when its over. So when you hear an Igbo man in Lagos talking about village, he is not talking of the big cities in the East. I used to have issues with my friends in festac when ever I visit Lagos back then because they assure I came from village. I almost remind them that I was born and breed in Enugu ; a state Capital that has everything just like Lagos.