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I can’t help but wonder how dumb and without any form of memory the Nigerian politicians feel the populace are.

Because if they do not think little about us, what are the likes of some renowned Rotten Eggs think they are doing running for the highest office in the land. These are men who have made utmost ridicule of the people they are seeking for their votes and the constitution they are vying to uphold.

These posts I intend to make a weekly series if time permits, looking at certain politicians who in my opinion shouldn’t even get their Party’s nod.


AHMED BOLA TINUBU

1. Firstly Tinubu is not a true democrat; imposing his will on Lagos electorates year after year and for those who opposes his will or the candidate of his choice, he takes-out or disenfranchise, even at the expense of their life.
Ambode A.D (2018)

https://dailypost.ng/2019/01/02/real-reason-ambode-fell-tinubu-pdp/

OLUOMO M.C et al (2019) Okota. oshodi.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/guardian.ng/news/police-harass-the-guardian-reporter-in-lagos/amp


2. Secondly Tinubu is all about Self-enrichment; and this wouldn’t have been seen as bad if only it was done right. Quoting the words of the erstwhile minister of works Dayo Adeyeye, “Tinubu is Corruption-Personified”. His die-hard supporters and promoters have always used Lagos as an example to showcase his vision and leadership qualities but in the same Lagos therein lies the numerous tales of the epitome of corruption named Bola Ahmed Tinubu. From Alpha-Beta, to Lekki Concession Company, to Oriental Hotel, The nation Newspaper and others too numerous to mention.

Tinubu Lagos (since 1999) Unconfirmed

https://m.facebook.com/ezeorjivoicenews/photos/bola-tinubu-net-worth-327-billion-and-biographybola-ahmed-tinubu-aka-jagaban-a-f/620282565095585/

Apara Oladapo (2020) Alpha Beta

https://www.thecable.ng/alpha-beta-crisis-gets-messier-as-ex-md-alleges-fraud-tax-evasion-in-lawsuit/amp

3. Election fraud/ Vote Buying: it’s so sad that in today’s Nigeria vote buying has gradually become a norm, that the sight of it at a polling unit wouldn’t cause anyone to blink. But being openly promoted by a national figure vying for the office of the presidency in itself is a stigma to the nation. An era led by such an individual who moves money used for vote buying in bullion vans would obviously dwarf IBB’s corruption index.
Bullion Van et al (2019)

https://www.thecable.ng/magu-ignores-question-on-tinubus-bullion-van/amp


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/314317-tinubu-denies-allegation-of-vote-buying-says-leaked-audio-handiwork-of-mischief-makers.html

Reno Omokori asked Nigerians on Instagram their opinion of having the former Lagos state governor and APC chieftain as their President come 2023. And here are some of the answers they gave.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPlYEwGD40Y/?utm_medium=copy_link

Nigeria, A great nation. There’s no limit to what we can achieve, if only we put our mind to it.

At the end of the day it’s a merry go round, same old crooks. We as a people keep on applying the same method and expecting different results.

We need to make critical decisions, devoid of sentiments and nepotism for the good of generation unborn (because it’s becoming obvious we don’t care about ourselves).

dru23:
dru23@hotmail.com

Hello Dru23, I sent you an e-mail.

OmodavidoX:
Good evening house,

Please I need on procedure of joining Uber and bolt

Currently have 900k. Hoping to save to 2M and get a good car to kickstart this Uber business

You almost there, if you are still interested, send me a message let’s talk.

Yujin:
Lol. Onyeara. He's not albino... Albinos have cream coloured hair as opposed to what he has. Igbos have a good number of such complexioned people. We don't call them albinos.

Nwanne, This guy is a first class Albino, no sugarcoating. Call a spade, a spade.

To be honest, in my opinion there’s no need for all the triumphant entry with cameras and paid vigilantes... coming out of the roof of the car to wave to the crowd. HE WASNT MOBBED, THIS IS A WELL REHEARSED PLAY FROM SOMEONE TRYING TO MAKE A STATEMENT.


Igbo nma nma nuo

fergie001:
He is Ebira...I think Okehi....

His elder brother is the current Chief Imam of Ebira-land



dansuqi come o

This is trash. We are talking about valid points and all you think of writing is this?

My brother you need you ask yourself some important questions.

Hello gurus in the house, My crs score alone is 478 and I am about to get married. Is it advised to apply alone then when I receive ITA to include my spouse?

philaw:
Wow, congrats. What's your Centre? And did you use headphone?

We did use headphones.

Checked this today, thanks to the gurus on this thread for their guidance

The president of Tanzania, John Magufuli, is sending a plane to Madagascar to fetch a herbal tonic touted as a cure for Covid-19 even as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned there was no proof of any cure.
Congo-Brazzaville's president has also promised to import the drink.
It is produced from the artemisia plant - the source of an ingredient used in a malaria treatment.
The WHO also advised people against self-medicating.

The drink was launched as Covid-Organics and was being marketed after being tested on fewer than 20 people over a period of three weeks, the Tanzanian president's chief of staff Lova Hasinirina Ranoromaro told the BBC.
In response to the launch of Covid-Organics, the WHO said in a statement sent to the BBC that the global organisation did not recommend "self-medication with any medicines... as a prevention or cure for Covid-19".
It reiterated earlier comments by WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that there were "no short-cuts" to finding effective mediation to fight coronarvirus.
International trials were under way to find an effective treatment, the WHO added.
In March, the US-based National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health warned against purported coronavirus remedies, including herbal therapies and teas - saying the best way to prevent infection was to avoid exposure to the virus.

The drink has been picked up in other African countries.
On Saturday Madagascar delivered a shipment to Guinea-Bissau.
The Malagasy president also tweeted that the special envoy to Equatorial Guinea picked up a shipment of the drink.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52519853

Sempumping:
I doubt this

Hello. Hope you got the APL?

rottennaija:
Wow, that was fast, I mean damn fast.
Discovered vaccine within 3 hours of getting the virus DNA sequence, stock jumps to 5 dollars after the company was announced to be a part of the exercise, the company is partnering with Beijing Advaccine in China, planning to beat their earlier records...

Well, well, well, why not just tell us you had the vaccine stocked in your lap the whole time waiting to be used?

I swear, I really thought of that. This whole thing is just a biological weapon.


MOD Front Page Pls!!!

An American biotech company says it created a coronavirus vaccine three hours after getting access to the virus' genetic sequence in mid-January, and now scientists are racing to get the vaccine on the market in record time.

Inovio Pharmaceuticals is based in Pennsylvania, but scientists in its laboratory in San Diego made the discovery.

"We were able to rapidly construct our vaccine in a matter of about three hours once we had the DNA sequence from the virus available because of the power of our DNA medicine platform," Dr. J. Joseph Kim, Inovio's president and CEO, told FOX Business. "Our goal is to start phase one human testing in the U.S. early this summer."

China has reported 254 new daily deaths and a spike in new daily virus cases of 15,152, after new methodology was applied in the hardest-hit province of Hubei as to how cases are categorized.

Inovio's stock jumped to $5.32 a share a few days after the company announced it was selected to work on a coronavirus vaccine.

The American company is partnering with Beijing Advaccine, a Chinese company, to work on the vaccine. Inovio also received $9 million to work on the vaccine from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which is backed by billionaire Bill Gates

"We’ve done this many, many times before. The most relevant was building our vaccine against MERS virus, which is a coronavirus in the same family as COVID-19," Kim said.

Inovio took a vaccine for Zika virus from construct design to human testing in the U.S. in less than seven months, Kim said.

"We’re planning to beat our own record," he said. "Maybe we could do that in close to half that time."

Inovio is building a coalition for the "war" against COVID-19 that will require scaling up to thousands upon thousands of doses, Kim said.

Another U.S. company, Maryland-based Novavax, is aiming to make a coronavirus vaccine in as little as three months, although such vaccines can take years to develop. The company made an Ebola vaccine in 90 days.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/california-lab-coronavirus-vaccine-3-hours

Attah11:
Everyone will get the apl, remember the GMD once said that the NLNG train 7 will employ 40,000 applicants and 40,000 applicants were invited for oral interview. Just be calm and remain hopeful. God bless us all.

NLNG is ran independently of NNPC, Shell Gas B. v technically operates the facility (few people will understand this) and NLNG has its own board and it’s recruitment process is independent of any input or influence from NNPC. Not only are you wrong but the 40,000 direct and indirect job opportunities the train 7 project will provide will not be filled by this or any NNPC future recruitment.

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It is a good thing to be proud of one’s country, and I am – most of the time. But it would be impossible to scan the centuries of Britain’s history without coming across a few incidents that evoke not pride but shame. Among those I would list are the creation by British officialdom in South Africa of the concentration camp, to persecute the families of Boers. Add to that the Amritsar massacre of 1919 and the Hola camps set up and run during the struggle against Mau Mau.

But there is one truly disgusting policy practised by our officialdom during the lifetime of anyone over 50, and one word will suffice: BIAFRA.

This referred to the civil war in Nigeria that ended 50 years ago this month. It stemmed from the decision of the people of the eastern region of that already riot-racked country to strike for independence as the Republic of Biafra. As I learned when I got there as a BBC correspondent, the Biafrans, mostly of the Igbo people, had their reasons.

The federal government in Lagos was a brutal military dictatorship that came to power in 1966 in a bloodbath. During and following that coup, the northern and western regions were swept by a pogrom in which thousands of resident Igbo were slaughtered. The federal government lifted not a finger to help. It was led by an affable British-educated colonel, Yakubu Gowon. But he was a puppet. The true rulers were a group of northern Nigerian colonels. The crisis deepened, and in early 1967 eastern Nigeria, harbouring about 1.8 million refugees, sought restitution. A British-organised conference was held in Ghana and a concordat agreed. But Gowon, returning home, was flatly contradicted by the colonels, who tore up his terms and reneged on the lot. In April the Eastern Region formally seceded and on 7 July, the federal government declared war.

Biafra was led by the Eastern Region’s Oxford-educated former military governor, “Emeka” Ojukwu. London, ignoring all evidence that it was Lagos that reneged on the deal, denounced the secession, made no attempt to mediate and declared total support for Nigeria.

I arrived in the Biafra capital of Enugu on the third day of the war. In London I had been copiously briefed by Gerald Watrous, head of the BBC’s West Africa Service. What I did not know was that he was the obedient servant of the government’s Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO), which believed every word of its high commissioner in Lagos, David Hunt. It took two days in Enugu to realise that everything I had been told was utter garbage.

I had been briefed that the brilliant Nigerian army would suppress the rebellion in two weeks, four at the most. Fortunately the deputy high commissioner in Enugu, Jim Parker, told me what was really happening. It became clear that the rubbish believed by the CRO and the BBC stemmed from our high commissioner in Lagos. A racist and a snob, Hunt expected Africans to leap to attention when he entered the room – which Gowon did. At their single prewar meeting Ojukwu did not. Hunt loathed him at once.

My brief was to report the all-conquering march of the Nigerian army. It did not happen. Naively, I filed this. When my report was broadcast our high commissioner complained to the CRO in London, who passed it on to the BBC – which accused me of pro-rebel bias and recalled me to London. Six months later, in February 1968, fed up with the slavishness of the BBC to Whitehall, I walked out and flew back to west Africa. Ojukwu roared with laughter and allowed me to stay. My condition was that, having rejected British propaganda, I would not publish his either. He agreed.

But things had changed. British covert interference had become huge. Weapons and ammunition poured in quietly as Whitehall and the Harold Wilson government lied and denied it all. Much enlarged, with fresh weapons and secret advisory teams, the Nigerian army inched across Biafra as the defenders tried to fight back with a few bullets a day. Soviet Ilyushin bombers ranged overhead, dropping 1,000lb bombs on straw villages. But the transformation came in July.


Missionaries had noticed mothers emerging from the deep bush carrying children reduced to living skeletons yet with bloated bellies. Catholic priests recognised the symptoms – kwashiorkor or acute protein deficiency.

That same July the Daily Express cameraman David Cairns ran off a score of rolls of film and took them to London. Back then, the British public had never seen such heartrending images of starved and dying children. When the pictures hit the newsstands the story exploded. There were headlines, questions in the House of Commons, demonstrations, marches.

As the resident guide for foreign news teams I became somewhat overwhelmed. But at last the full secret involvement of the British government started to be exposed and the lies revealed. Wilson came under attack. The story swept Europe then the US.

Donations flooded in. The money could buy food – but how to get it there? Around year’s end the extraordinary Joint Church Aid was born.

The World Council of Churches helped to buy some clapped-out freighter aircraft and gained permission from Portugal to use the offshore island São Tomé as a base. Scandinavian pilots and crew, mostly airline pilots, offered to fly without pay. Joint Church Aid was quickly nicknamed Jesus Christ Airlines. And thus came into being the world’s only illegal mercy air bridge.

On a visit to London in spring 1969 I learned the efforts the British establishment will take to cover up its tracks. Every reporter, peer or parliamentarian who had visited Biafra and reported on what he had seen was smeared as a stooge of Biafra – even the utterly honourable John Hunt, leader of the Everest expedition.

Throughout 1969 the relief planes flew through the night, dodging Nigerian MiG fighters, to deliver their life-giving cargoes of reinforced milk powder to a jungle airstrip. From there trucks took the sacks to the missions, the nuns boiled up the nutriments and kept thousands of children alive.

Karl Jaggi, head of the Red Cross, estimated that up to a million children died, but that at least half a million were saved. As for me, sometimes in the wee small hours I see the stick-like children with the dull eyes and lolling heads, and hear their wails of hunger and the low moans as they died.

What is truly shameful is that this was not done by savages but aided and assisted at every stage by Oxbridge-educated British mandarins. Why? Did they love the corruption-riven, dictator-prone Nigeria? No. From start to finish, it was to cover up that the UK’s assessment of the Nigerian situation was an enormous judgmental screw-up. And, worse: with neutrality and diplomacy from London it could all have been avoided.


Biafra is little discussed in the UK these days – a conflict overshadowed geopolitically by the Vietnam war, which raged at the same time. Yet the sheer nastiness of the British establishment during those three years remains a source of deep shame that we should never forget.

•The author, Frederick Forsyth is a former war correspondent.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/21/buried-50-years-britain-shamesful-role-biafran-war-frederick-forsyth

Sempumping:
There is hope .you can start counting down .

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Sempumping:
Follow-up mails have been sent.This entails venue ,time ,prohibited materials and instructions.

Test is in 2sections(batches)

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Jarus:
Summary of what I gathered:

1. GMD promised to complete the recruitment

2. Offer likely to come before end of first quarter 2020 (could be as fast as end of this year - he/she mentioned this but I wish I didnt add it, dont want people to start mentioning my name by 31 Dec if nothing happens)

3. The guy that went to court is an attention seeker that has been ignored. This recruitment will be completed.

DISCLAIMER: While the source is close to top powers in the system, I cannot guarantee the accuracy of the info but what I’m most sure of is, the recruitment will not be canceled. GMD expressly mentioned that.

All the best, guys.

Smart Man. He had to shift the expected date to the end of the first quarter to avoid certain wonderful individuals calling for his head if the timeline falls through.

The fear of the contributors on this thread is the beginning of wisdom. My people, “think” before you type.

Jarus, thanks for all you do for the thread. I appreciate.

Thanks.

FYI

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TomDickandHarry:
sleek ko? something that one is not even sure when he's done reading one comment. The color tones are too close

LOL

Humans are hardly receptive to change. You will get use to it in time.

Friday........... Our APL major and minor prophets, what does the oracle say about today??

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