Defending the indefensible.

It's better to state that "it is what it is"

The appointment/installation/selection/imposition of a market women's leader is a controversial one and this one is equally controversial. Consistency?

In the spirit of transparency:
- will the accounts of the contribution from each market woman's stall be made available for inspection?
- will market stalls be closed at will or arbitrarily for "real or imagined"?
- is there a looong line of Tinubus being lined up to replace other Tinubus?
- shall we just crown Tinubu KING of all YorubaLand now?

NONESENSE!!!

Desola:

Aso ekun ma ya o! O ma faya patapata ni!

Ìgbà kan ńlọ ìgbà kan ńbọ̀; ẹnìkan ò lo ilé ayé gbó

Tí nǹkan bá rújú, ajá a máa fa aṣọ ẹkùn ya.

This will not end well. A hand stretched too far .........

Jonathan in Secret Meeting With Danjuma After Criticism


The meeting came a day after the retired general said the nation's problem remains leadership.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday held a closed door meeting with former Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja a day after the retired general said Nigeria's problem had to do with its poor leadership.

Mr. Danjuma had on Saturday said one of Nigeria's greatest problems remained the failure of its leadership and that the nation and the economy were in tatters.

He spoke in Zaria, Kaduna State, after he was turbaned the Jarmai Zazzau by the Emir of Zazzau, His Royal Highness, Shehu Idris.

According to the former General, "there cannot be peace and harmony in the country where there is wide disparity between the few rich and a multitude of the poor".

Gen. Danjuma told the gathering that he had taken "several risks in his lifetime for the sake of Nigeria's unity and progress".

"What has been in short supply are patriotic elder statesmen who would use their experience and wisdom to give the country a clear sense of purpose and direction."

"When elders become decadent, the youth are bound to become delinquent," he said, adding that "Nigerians are rather confused and are like flocks scattered on many hills without a shepherd, which is a clear indication of leadership failure."

Mr. Danjuma, a retired general who served at the highest level of government while in service and after retirement, is now reputed amongst the nation's richest men, owning an oil bloc.

A source who disclosed the meeting with the president, could not however give more details on the discussions held behind closed door.

Our source said although he was not privy to the subject of their discussion, the parley did not look like one between a president and a man who a day earlier had lashed out at his administration and leadership.

The source said Mr. Danjuma was the last visitor received by the President shortly before leaving for Yaounde, Cameroun where he is expected to take part in the summit of Heads of States and governments of the Economic Community of Central African States, the Economic Community of West African States and the Gulf of Guinea Commission, which kicks off on Monday with a focus on maritime safety and security in the Gulf of Guinea.

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201306240493.html

Is he after another oil block?

take dat: Dame runs a parallel government, contemptuous of the constitution and act as though the nation is her fiefdom. Who will call "Madam Lazarus" to order? Is it an husband who doesn't "give a damn"? Members of the hallowed chambers of corruption? Or her handlers, who earn their livelihood by being "political bag-carriers"?

The office of the first lady in the state house(Aso Rock) website is listed as an organ of the FRN, and it is number three in the hierarchy of the organs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
1) The President
2) Vice President
3) Office of the first lady
4) Federal executive council
5) State house
http://nigeriafirst.org/

That means an unconstitutional office of first lady wields more power and influence than the constitutionally recognized, decision-making Federal Executive council. Shamefully, Nigeria is a nation governed by impunity!

What happened to:
Executive, Legislature and Judiciary. And her damn husband will be questioning core values!!!

Madam Humblella is now elevated past her station!

So she came on private business......

I wonder if the good people, and tax payers of Rivers state will chase her with invoices and bills for expenses incurred..... that would have been avoided had she not visited.

@ ilugunboy

There is no revisionism here.

Danjuma and his cohort of counter coupist could have resigned their commission formed a new force and rebelled. But he kept his uniform on and rebelled against his CIC.

That's disloyal. And no, I'm not Igbo if you're thinking that's colouring my views.

He has also kept the billions questionably acquired: is that loyalty to the people of Nigeria or even to his village?

A spade is a spade and Danjuma has no right or credibility to make this point given his past and questionably acquired wealth.

Danjuma's loyalty was tested on 28 and 29 July 1966 and was found wanting. He should sit down amidst his "billions" and stop insulting us all.

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Ex-Lagos Deputy Governor Denies Fraud Allegation, States Facts



Following reports that the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police has declared a former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, wanted for allegedly defrauding a land buyer of N130m, her lawyer has responded with facts to debunk the allegations.

The SFU alleged in a statement on Wednesday that the suspect and her son, Samson, obtained money from the victim by false representation.
The Commissioner of Police for the command, Tunde Ogunsakin, said, “The victim alleged that in September 2011, the suspects conspired and sold a parcel of land at Plot 24 Block 4 situated at Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos for N130m which he paid into the first suspect’s account with the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.

However, below is her lawyer’s response to the report:

RE: COMPLAINT AGAINST ALHAJA SINATU ADEROJU OJIKUTU AND SAMSON ADEBISI OJIKUTU
1. We act for Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu and Samson Adebisi Ojikutu (Jnr), “Our Clients”.

2. Our clients’ brief is that, further to a contract of sale executed between them and one Mr. Cajetan Okekearu (“the Complainant”) in respect of Plot 24 Block 4, Lekki Residential Scheme, Phase 1, said Mr Cajetan Okekearu laid a complaint of obtaining by false pretences against them at your Police Station.

3. Our Client also informed us that despite making a statement essentially detailing the facts in 6 i. – xviii. below to them, said Police Officers of the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police have continued to contact Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu about monies alleged to be due from our clients to Mr. Cajetan Okekearu.

4. Our Client, Alhaja Ojikutu has also made herself available to the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria police anytime her attention was required on the matter. That is why it has come as a surprise to us that the Police are planning to make a publication declaring our Client wanted.

5. In view of the foregoing events, our clients have instructed us to state the facts of the case to the general members of the public as follows:


i. Sometime in 1984 Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu and her late husband, Mr Sampson Adebisi Ojikutu (“said late husband”) contributed money towards the application for and acquisition of a plot of land in the Lekki Residential Scheme, Phase 1 on which property they intended to build a new matrimonial home.

ii Further to Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu’s aforesaid agreement with her said late husband, her said late husband (whose initials are ‘S. A. Ojikutu’), applied for and on the 2nd of January, 1985 the Governor of Lagos State allocated the land known and described as PLOT 24 BLOCK 4 LEKKI RESIDENTIAL SCHEME PHASE `1, MEASURING 1379.50 SQUARE METERS (‘the said land’) to Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu’s said late husband who acquired said land for himself and for Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu, which land is numbered ‘24’ and verged blue in the survey plan No.LS/D/LA366.

iii. That on the 6th of June, 1991 the Governor of Lagos State issued a Lagos State Certificate-of-Occupancy in respect of said land to our her later husband, Mr. Sampson Adebisi Ojikutu, which Certificate-of-Occupancy was registered at the Lagos State Land Registry Office, Ikeja as NUMBER 28 AT PAGE 28 IN VOLUME 1991Z on the 6th of June, 1991.

iv. Immediately after the Governor of Lagos State granted the said land to Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu’s said late husband, preparatory to starting construction work thereon, Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu and her said late husband entered into the said land and deposited tons of sand and concrete and corrugated roofing sheets on the said land and never at any time and in any manner whatsoever removed said building materials.

v. Our Clients know for a fact and believe that from the time the Lagos State Government granted said land to Mr. Sampson Adebisi Ojikutu to the time of his death, Mr. Sampson Adebisi Ojikutu and/or Mrs. Aderoju Sinatu Ojikutu never at any sold, alienated or in any manner whatsoever charged or encumbered Mr. Sampson Adebisi Ojikutu’s interests on the said land.

vi. That Sampson Adebisi Ojikutu died intestate in the United States of America on the 29th of August, 2008, leaving Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu, his wife and joint owner of the said land, as the survivor to the title thereof. Enclosed herewith is the death Certificate issued in the United States of America following our Client’s late husband’s death.

vii. That sometime in 2010 the Probate Registry of the Lagos State High Court granted a Letter of Administration (without a will) in respect of the estate of the late Mr. Sampson Adebisi Ojikutu with reference no PHC/2114/2010 pursuant to which my aforesaid son and me are the administrators of my aforesaid late husband’s estate which includes the said land.

viii. That it was on the authority of the aforesaid Letter of Administration issued by the Lagos State High Court that our clients dealt with Mr. Cajetan Okekearu in respect of the land known and described as PLOT 24 BLOCK 4 LEKKI RESIDENTIAL SCHEME PHASE 1, measuring 1379.50 SQUARE METERS, the same land in respect of which the Governor of Lagos State granted a Certificate-of-Occupancy in favour of Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu’s said late husband and in respect of which the High of Lagos State granted the aforesaid Letter of Administration to our clients.


ix. That at all times when our clients dealt with Mr. Cajetan Okekearu the only land in contemplation between the parties was the land mentioned above which at all material times our clients knew for a fact, believed and still believe that they (our clients) are beneficially entitled to. The Contract of Sale executed between our clients and said Mr. Cajetan Okekearu shows the land in contemplation as Block 4 Plot 24, Lekki Peninsula Residential Scheme. The receipt dated 6th October, 2011 also shows that our client only received money from Mr. Cajetan Okekearu in respect of the said land further to the aforesaid contract of sale and in their capacity as administrators of the estate of Sampson Adebisi Ojikutu which estate includes the said land.


x. That at no time whatsoever did our client either directly or through any agent of theirs represent to Mr. Cajetan Okekearu or agent for said Mr. Cajetan Okekearu that our clients were selling any land anywhere other than the land known and described as Block 4 Plot 24 Lekki Peninsula Residential Scheme 1 to Mr. Cajetan Okekearu.

xi. Whether directly or indirectly, our clients and each of them never at anytime whatsoever showed Mr. Cajetan Okekearu any land but dealt with said Mr. Cajetan Okekearu on the basis that, as intending prudent purchaser of the said land, Mr. Cajetan Okekearu has taken steps to do a due diligence and satisfy himself as to the identity of Block 4 Plot 24 Lekki Peninsula Residential Scheme.

xii. That subsequently Mr. Cajetan Okekearu commenced construction on Block 4 Plot 23 Lekki Residential Scheme Phase1, the land adjoining Block 4 Plot 24, Lekki Residential Scheme Phase 1 whereupon one Afolabi A. A. Coker successfully challenged Mr. Cajetan Okekearu’s entry onto Block 4 Plot 23 Lekki Residential Scheme Phase 1.

xiii. That it was after the events above that our clients discovered for the first time that Mr. Cajetan Okekearu had built on Block 4 Plot 23 Lekki Residential Scheme Phase 1instead Block 4 Plot 24 Lekki Residential Scheme Phase 1.

xiv. Further to our clients’ discovery of the facts in paragraph xiii above Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu volunteered to refund Mr Cajetan Okekearu the sum of =N=130,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Thirty Million naira) which agreement was evidenced in a ‘Terms of Settlement’ dated 25th July, 2013 executed in for our clients by Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu.

xv. That the aforesaid ‘Terms of Settlement’ which Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu executed in favour of Mr. Cajetan Okekearu was inaccurate in so far as it stated that our clients or anyone else on their behalf showed Plot 23 Block 4 of the Lekki Residental Scheme Phase 1 or any other land to Mr. Cajetan Okekearu. Our letter of 14th March, 2013 written on our clients’ behalf pointed out clearly to Mr Cajetan Okekearu’s Solicitors that, whether directly or indirectly, our clients and each of them never at any time showed any land to Mr. Cajetan Okekearu.


xv. That the aforesaid ‘Terms of Settlement’ which Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu executed in favour of Mr. Cajetan Okekearu was inaccurate in so far as it stated that our clients or anyone else on their behalf showed Plot 23 Block 4 of the Lekki Residental Scheme Phase 1 or any other land to Mr. Cajetan Okekearu. Our letter of 14th March, 2013 written on our clients’ behalf pointed out clearly to Mr Cajetan Okekearu’s Solicitors that, whether directly or indirectly, our clients and each of them never at any time showed any land to Mr. Cajetan Okekearu.

xvi. The alleged Bond instrument upon which the Mr. Cajetan Okekearu alleges that Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu and her husband sold or charged the said land in favour of one Mr. Phillips Abumere before agreeing to sell the said land to Mr Cajetan Okekearu is a forgery because Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu never signed any such document as a witnesses or in any capacity and do not know and have never at any time dealt with any Mr. Phillips Abumere in respect of anything.
xvii. Acting promptly upon her voluntary undertaking, Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu has refunded the sum of =N=50,000000.00 (Fifty-Five Million Naira Only) out of the =N=130,000000.00 (‘Contract Sum’) she received from Mr. Cajetan Okekearu pursuant to the aforesaid contract of sale of the said land.

xviii. At the time they dealt with Mr. Cajetan Okekearu in respect of the said land our clients did not know that third-parties had trespassed onto the said land, dealing fraudulently thereto. Alhaja Sinatu Aderoju Ojikutu has since challenged the trespassers reporting the matter to the Lagos State Lands Registry.

xix. Continuing their belief in their right to deal in the property known and described as Block 4 Plot 24 Lekki Residential Scheme Phase 1, as recently as 18th October, 2011 our clients paid the sum =N=4,805,620.00 (Four Million And Thousand and Twenty Naira) to the Lagos Statement in respect of said land. A letter of the Government of Lagos State confirming the payment was enclosed issued.

xx. Paragraph xix and the letter mentioned there are confirms a recent act of the Lagos State Government confirming that our clients are beneficially entitled to Block 4 Plot 24 Lekki Residential Scheme Phase 1, the land in respect of which our said clients received the money subject matter of Mr Cajetan Okekearu’s aforesaid complaint.

6. In view of the easily verifiable facts above, we hope that all concerned will appreciate that the dispute between Mr Cajetan Okekearu and our clients is entirely civil and has no criminal dimensions whatsoever. It is therefore not something the Nigeria Police Force or anyone else is empowered to interfere with.

7. From the foregoing, it is clear that our Client, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu is not a Criminal and has not committed any fraudulent act to warrant a damaging publication being made against her.

Yours respectfully,

ADENRELE ADEGBORIOYE ESQ.
B. AYORINDE & CO.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS & NOTARIES PUBLIC.

Source: http://www.africanspotlight.com/2013/06/20/ex-lagos-deputy-governor-denies-fraud-allegation-states-facts/

A recent Bomb blast was in March 2013 so I don't know why the midget dancing..

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/19/nigeria-bomb-blasts-kill-least-25-boko-haram-suspe/

GEJ is mouth breather, a degenerate thief, a drunkard and a dullard. He and his kind (OBJ, IBB and Co) will get their comeuppance shaken, stirred, to the brim and delivered cold.

Henceforth and for evermore President GEJ shall be known as "Mr Bean"!

Or if you prefer: "Baba Suwe".

U.S. Tells Nigeria to Improve Port Security or Face Ships Ban

The U.S. may ban ships from entering Nigeria to protest insecurity in the ports and waterways of sub-Saharan Africa’s second-biggest economy.
U.S authorities gave Nigeria a 90-day ultimatum to improve security, Leke Oyewole, special adviser on maritime affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, said at a conference today in Lagos, the commercial capital, citing a letter from the U.S. government. The deadline expires in 45 days, he said.

Nigeria will “revive” its implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security code by August to secure ports and waterways against terrorism, piracy, smuggling and bunkering, Oyewole said. The country “is bound to act on the U.S. concerns to protect its source of revenue,” he said.

Economic growth in Africa’s largest oil producer slowed to 6.6 percent in the first quarter from 7 percent in the prior three months, the National Bureau of Statistics said on May 16. Total government revenue fell 2.4 percent to 2.4 trillion naira ($15 billion) in the period, compared with the previous three months, according to the statistics agency.

Bill Strassberger, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, the capital, said by phone he’s aware of the letter though he hasn’t seen it. The West African nation will automate controls on people moving inside the ports and enhance the exchange of data among regulatory and security agencies involved in maritime industries to address the concerns of the U.S., Oyewole said.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-10/u-s-tells-nigeria-to-improve-port-security-or-face-ships-ban.html

Nigeria finance minister rebuffs critics with cake


Nigeria's finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala brandished a sponge cake in Parliament as she sought to rebuff critics who say the country's strong economic growth has failed to lift millions out of poverty.

Using the cake to represent the GDP and likening Nigeria to a household, she urged the country to focus on the government's plan to become one of the world's top 20 economies by 2020, which she said would be crucial to solving its other problems like high unemployment and poverty. It would mean doubling the current growth rate to 13%, she said.

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Foreign bond and equity investors are taking a growing interest in Africa's second biggest economy, and President Goodluck Jonathan's decision to bring Okonjo-Iweala back to Nigeria from her world bank job in 2011 was well received.

But she has had a mixed reception at home, with some politicians complaining she is too aloof and technocratic.

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Despite a decade of 7% economic growth, poverty in Nigeria has worsened, official figures show, leading critics to say its oil dependent economy is merely enriching the few.


The minister is trying to win support for moves to increase Nigeria's external debt, tapping into markets that offer much cheaper funding than at home, where monetary policy is tight.

Source: http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/nigeria-finance-minister-rebuffs-critics-cake-5462611

The ruling party at the centre is PLEADING to debate with the opposition.

After 14 years shouldn't their works and acts speak for them...... Instead Peeeee Deeeeee Peeeeeeee wants to do follow follow and plead for "debate"!

I dey laugh oh!

I dey laugh oh !

When I showed stats stating exactly the same thing, the 40 laptop crew descended. Now the World Bank has exposed the cluelessness of GEJ and goons on the World Stage...

Here you are!

https://www.nairaland.com/1309340/gejs-report-card-high-debt

Are there volume production stats publicly available covering the period where the 1.2m jobs were created and do we know what time period this 1.2m jobs covers? Is it 1 year, 2 years, 3 years etc?

I know the Trade and Investment minister, Aganga, has been making positive sounds about investment in mining. Are we able to verify this?

Nigeria has historically been robbed blind by illegal miners (including foreign and local) and if this practice can be curbed then that would be very good.

Gbawe:

LOL... Best response!!!!

The season finale should be good.

Tragic.

Ordinarily the debt to GDP ratio should not be an issue but we are borrowing in US$ and not Naira, and then spending the borrowings on recurrent expenditure!

Where are the capital projects?
Where are the public goods and infrastructure ?
Where is the improved healthcare, hospitals and social infrastructure?

Nothing, just more and more rent seekers!

Maku is laying his bed, one day he will have to lie in it.

Zo Lamido, are you poking her on tax payer's dime or not?

All that employee or secondee stuff is just noise!

TheRealYemi:


I wonder where the writer got the impression that Obama didnt go through the primaries last year this is complete fallacy check this up... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2012

Thank you oh!

Obama did primaries, and party members had the right to challenge and primary him but chose not to.

Gbawe:

Believe me, you are more correct than you think given what I see on the ground through my travels within Africa. GEJ is simply a very crude leader promoted far above his station. He is the sort no longer entertained by serious African Nations.

He is not even averagely effective and we see the fallout of this with how retrogressive and archaic practices, dismissed in seconds if Mr.President so desires, continue to typify how we do things.

Observers with the requisite clarity of thought to see what matter will note that GEJ's flagrant inactions, unnatural and unbelievably illogical as they may seem, are very much a deliberate effort to abet a patronage system benefiting a small minority while Nigeria at large remains underdeveloped. Tragic.

Oil, the key FX earner is expected to come down in price and value in the future as USA becomes energy independent. So this time period is crucial as development lost means more armies of unemployed youths, more kidnappers, more disadvantaged men and women who can be swayed by one clown or the other....

Investors are bypassing Nigeria to invest in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and elsewhere....

The millennium development goals nko, another set of development indicators and targets that we are projected to completely miss...

When people are facing armed robbers or collecting blows from illiterate policemen or wondering why that woman and child died during childbirth, they should place that blame squarely on the head of he that sought leadership but is failing to deliver!

@Jmaine

Your man is a failure and your comments demonstrate a complete lack of understanding, unawareness of the availability of precedent and current year data and a febrile attempt to distract from the issue at hand. That you will post the tripe you posted above is stunning but consistent with the cretinous behaviour of GEJ's lackeys!

The key indicators of economic development all point to a pathetic showing for GEJ.

You are free to accept that GEJ is failure based on this or you can take a walk as far as I'm concerned.

Gbawe:

Explicit proof of the failings of GEJ is not what folks want to discuss because it is too much for many here to digest. If it concerned the paranoia-led drivel of how "Yarobus" and "abokis" are plotting for GEJ to fail then your thread will already be on page ten.

GEJ is a monumental failure as far as the major headaches of Nigeria are concerned. Our major problems remain the same under him or worse as your submission generally supports.

Which is the annoying thing...

If GEj was simply benign and left things as he saw it, we can say "no better no worse"

But the clueless clown is making things very much worse in a period of immense opportunities for Africa !

jmaine: Mischievous OP and fans . .. Your thread is already dead on arrival cos your statistics is outdated.


why use an old stats specifically 2 yrs old to arrive at your faulty inference, considering his tenure is expected to elapse in 2 years time. . .

Even folks supported your mischievous charade here . . .

Produce your data and let's see!

You can tell where a man is heading from where he started his journey, and pointed his face to.

Produce 2012 and 2013 data from a reliable source supporting your rant or accept that GEj is an abject failure. Experiences from 2012 and 2013 (so far) suggests that things are even much worse!

nuclearboy:

By the way, he personally doesn't give a damn plus he doesn't lose sleep over criticism.

So whats this rubbish you wrote above?

Peee.Deee.Peeee "Not giving a damn since 1999"