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How did you sit in your parlour and deduce that Dele has no facts to back up his case?

Reading your entire writeup it's clear you are a supporter of our bastardised system.

Probably,you are a beneficiary or someone close to you is benefiting.

Burna Boy's security details shot a man in the club for warning Burna to stay away from his wife. To avoid arrest, Burna flew out within 24hrs and stayed away for a while.

He came back and the press and police have moved on. No doubt he settled the police and nothing came of the matter.

What if that was your brother?

The same Burna arrested Speed Darlington and they dragged him to Abuja.

I'm sure you like abuse of power...

That is, until it is used against you

Be guided

SendoSendal:
But, if he is not able to substantiate his claim, even if he is jailed, it won't still do much to redeem Afe Babalola's image as thousands of people globally have bought the book. A lot of them won't even get to hear about the judgment. It is so easy to immortalize falsehood.

All of us have personal reservations about a lot of our public leaders. But to publish such in a book is taking it to a whole new level. It becomes irredeemable. If it was published as an online article on some blogs, he can be made to remove the link from the web. But in a book that has been sold globally, it is irretrievable. It means Afe Babalola might have his reputation permanently damaged before some people, no matter how the tide of justice flows in this case.

Like I said again, if we are in Afe Babalola's shoes, we would be pained. He is inhuman Afterall.
We shouldn't allow people to hide under activism to damage people's reputation irretrievably without concrete facts, other than hearsays.

You wrote like an intelligent person but your content reveals that you lack comprehension of what made this case blow up.

It's not really about about the accusations made, it's about the way Dele was arrested and taken to Ekiti like Speed Darlington was arrested amd taken to Abuja.

Everybody is shocked that Afe behaved like a local champion by arresting a lawyer and carting him off to jail.

The legal process is to invite the accused and if he refuses to come, only then you arrest him.

No summons, just a Gestapo style operation is wrong.

This was what illiterate Buhari did to Judges back then and everyone rose up against it.

SendoSendal:
How many of us will accept what Dele Farotimi did to Afe Babalola? Most of us just join the bandwagon.

He made terrible accusation about the man and published them in his book that has now gone global. That means, if those details are false, how will he retrieve the book from the thousands that have bought it globally

If we are in Afe Babalola’s shoes, and someone wrote terrible things to destroy our hard earned reputation, and have the effrontery to publish them in a book that would be read by children that are not yet born, am not sure we would take it likely. I don’t know Afe Babalola and I don’t know Dele Farotimi. I just took my time to digest the information objectively and dispassionately. I will advise us to do the same

It's a chatGPT write up.

You know the AI doesn't know anything that happened less than 2 yrs ago.

Aust1n:
I don’t think so.. some of the countries that you mentioned has been toppled by the military. How do they remit tax to colonial masters?

So is Tinubu.

From SDP to AD to ACN to APC

They that live in glass houses should not throw stones

Flangelo12:
Obi na defector na.

This is a lie.

Igbo men are generally over confident and behave as though they can get another job anytime. This attitude usually gets them in trouble sooner or later

They are not known to greet their bosses "good morning" three times before noon

yuzjet:
I'm not tribalistic, but trust me. Igbo people are more prone to eye service in workplace than any other counterpart I've ever worked with.

Whenever you open your mouth...

....Rubbish comes out.

Trump is vindictive yet he has done nothing YET

Biden is not vindictive but he has sent a number of Trump allies to jail over the past 4 yrs and did EVERYTHING humanly possible to send Trump to jail over the past 4 yrs.

You are such a bloody hypocrite!

God1000:
In a sane and lawful society, none of those people would be in danger for stating honest views, US has become something else, None committed a crime like their accusers, Donald trump is too vindictive, he's on a witch-hunt this time

They will soon pick your loved one like they picked Dele.

Remember this your post then and go beg the Plaintiff without making noise

ERockson:
This Laolu wants to teach Afe how to deal with his issues. If defamation is not a criminal offence Nigerians will not stop defaming people especially people with names. This Dele of a man did not expect the arrest but he was ready for court case and he knew the man is very old with over 60years of legal practice which means the case might be dragged to the last existence of the old man. Dele should prove his case against Afe or go to jail for it.

You are wicked oo.

How do you expect Helinues to comprehend this type of writeup?

Helinues' grammar and sentence construction are so poor that it's obvious he went to a mushroom primary and secondary school in some backwater.

Pls try and communicate at a primary 5 level to him next time.

Be guided

MadamVanessa:


It is utterly surprising how frequently you label others as trolls, while exemplifying the very behavior you condemn. Similarly, your propensity to accuse others of tribalism is glaringly hypocritical, given your own evident biases. This duplicity is lamentable.

Furthermore, I contend that platforms like Nairaland inadvertently enable individuals like yourself by providing a soapbox for unfettered expression. Your grievances, which have grown stale through repetition, would benefit from a more nuanced and introspective approach.

I suggest that, rather than casting aspersions on others, you should strive to elevate the tenor of your discourse. If you find yourself bereft of constructive commentary, it would be prudent to refrain from posting altogether, thereby avoiding the appearance of hypocrisy.

If this is coming from you who is ALWAYS on the wrong side of honour and integrity...


....Afe must be the one who is guilty.

You have no history of being a teller of Truth.

helinues:
Is it today Dele has been writing rubbish about others?

Someone must teach him a bitter lessons as he refused to separate emotions from his own journalism

Instead of insulting his academic accomplishments - we should insult your own.

If you were more exposed you should have known that Ports are a National Remit.

No state can wake up and establish a port without getting permission from Aso Rock, permission that may take 20yrs to approve.

SonofLagos:
I hope you lettered enough to read the part that the private sector is collaborating with the FG on this? When you chase investors from your region with insecurity and hostility, this is the result you get

Keep putting the blame on Tinubu and not hold the failures you elect in your shitty region responsible. Day never break for that region…he remain small

So Kunle Afolayan is Igbo?.

That last place you took in class throughout your secondary school is still troubling you!!

Confirmedzombie:
Yebos like anything bad news and they keep spreading fake news.

The truth is that they will never near the seat of power.

The pipol are terrible

Shame on Ipob

How much do you pay for your Real debrid Premium?

YeyeGbami:
Android box
Kodi (Xenon build+Real debrid Premium)
Unlimited Internet


You're gucci.

And how many countries in Africa have strong and independent institutions?

Hopez456:
Running a country is a different ball game from running a business. In as much there are strong and independent institutions, even a zombie will successfully run govt but same can't apply to business.

The UK and the US were founded on Christian principles.

You can't change that.

The rise of Europe cannot be divorced from the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg, his first printed book notably being The Bible.

With all your claims of knowledge of the Church, you are blissfully unaware of the impact of Martin Luther's "Justification By Faith", that formed the bedrock of morals, ethics, legal systems and the Constitutions of most of continental Europe.

This led to the Reformation which later evolved into the First Industrial Revolution.

That Christianity preached in Africa is mostly warped by selfish motives, in no way
Invalidates the impact

Although you give the impression that you are a Christian by quoting Scriptures copiously, your constant attacks against the Church of Christ gives you away.

You have NEVER ignored any bad news that involves the Church.

Indeed here you are: first to comment.

Kobojunkie:
So, what is stopping this priest from closing up shop so there is will be at least one less religious billboard in that country? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

When myopia is at work.

Is it Tax reform that took China to the top?

Is it taxation that made US the primary economic superpower?

Is it changing tax laws that took Singapore economy to where it is?

Abi was it Tax Bill that made UAE a reference point?

You know nothing!

Any govt that cannot boast of creating an environment where it's SME's can thrive but is claiming future growth is just a joker!

Ritchiee:
Watching channels now.
Nassarawa governor(virtually), former speaker,Hon. Yakubu Dogara etc present.All supported the bill after a lengthy explanation from Mr Taiwo Oloyede.
Lagos takes more than 80% vat now but the proposed new Lagos vat will be 15% while Kano receiving 0.86% will now be 6.something% and all states except Lagos and Rivers will be collecting more vat in the proposed tax bill.
I think the people who generated these tax bills are geniuses.
Within a year or two,Nigeria will be a real success.

No one as gullible as Africans.

Was disgusted reading what those two said after getting a free ride.

How many commuters will 15 buses carry?

Why are most Africans so dumb and short sighted?

Even 200 buses cannot carry all commuters in Abuja.

I bet any urc..n here N10k that this free ride will not last a year

It's irritating when you are reminded that most females consistently show an complete inability to deliver balanced judgement on relationship cases.

From the time frame it's obvious that this lady broke up with her husband not long after relocating to the UK and likely did so believing that she would get her papers by herself.

The breakup was successful but the papers didn't come through and she was left to fend for herself.

Instead of you to speculate that like most women who feel that they no longer need their husbands, she probably didn't tell the ex that she needed help with their daughter and tried to go it alone as indeed modern feminism teaches.

You spared no thought for the man who must have scrimped amd saved to get his wife and daughter over only for her to break up with him and leave with the kids or her with the daughter and the pregnancy.

I am assuming the boy is his although I may be proven wrong as who knows whether his paternity led to the break up?

Even if that wasn't the case,do you know how acrimonious their split may have been?

Now you want to blame the man for not being around when she might have even moved away from the city where they lived together.

The UK is very hard for a single mother of two who is an illegal alien.

Of course, she is unlikely to accept responsibility for her bad choices as just like you did, it's easier to blame the man.

Firefly2017:
No one is asking where the child's father was? At a time when one child is having open heart surgery, and the other needs to be taken care of, the father is nowhere to be found?? Even if they are separated isn't this a a time where they put their differences aside and be there for the kids no matter how busy they both are At least they mention there that her partner is a UK resident.

Urch..s are coming.

Wait for it!!

Read an article by a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry yesterday.

He said a human cell is more complex than a city.

If you require me to explain the implications of that...

...I won't.

budaatum:
Enlighten the atheists by telling them the name of the God that created the God that created the heavens and the earth so they fully understand that Gods do not come from nothingness.

What's hilarious about this is that the opportunity to leave may come to his GF or one or two of his close friends within a year or two and they will leave.

He will wake up then.

Episode22:
Hello Nairalanders, I'm not here to brag, I just need advice before I get lost.

I have two relatives living abroad (UK), both are from my mothers side, same father and same mother...

Just few days ago, I was called and told that they are making plans to send me to the UK early next year to go and stay with my uncle and find something doing there... they already communicated with my uncle abroad, and they just wanted to surprise me.

I'm 29 years old now, I graduated from school last two years as a petroleum engineering. Though, I'm not doing any work for now. My girlfriend is pregnant for me, and I have not disclosed it to anybody yet.

But the truth is that my mind doesn't want to go, I'm not ready and I have told them. They have already started telling me this is a one time opportunity, and that if I miss it, I won't see it again, but I have made up my mind that I don't want to go.

I just can't leave my friends here, I just don't know but I can't..

I need advice,

Why should I go, when my self and my mind is not ready...

Tribalist spotted!

theophorus:
This is Good Atleast from the Reports.

If this was happening in some region, they probably will have overhype it.

Well Done Mallo.

Thank God you have finally confessed that you are not a part of this religion.

Your efforts to react to every single Christian doctrinal issue that crops up on Nairaland has been a pain to watch.

Mostly because you have a surplus of Christian knowledge but no shred of insight into Christianity and what it is all about. That's why you are limited to seeing things from your narrow perspective. Peter was talking about you In 2 Peter 3:16, where he said:

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

I notice you strenuously avoid directly condemning Islam which is par for the course of those of your type. Taking cheap shots at Christianity while lowering your voice when it comes to Islam.

Nevertheless, I'm happy that ministers are shifting their focus towards the welfare of their members and not just the lining of church bank accounts. That is a most welcome development

Kobojunkie:
This religion thrives on the mental and physical poverty of the gullible sheeple! 😣😣😣

Nos 2,3 are false. Part of the costs paid for foodstuff are the direct and indirect taxes paid by the transporters for the goods. Also the high cost of fuel contributes to the cost.
That will not change.

No 6. Who do you identify as the rich? Is it a person earning N2m a month who has to gather his 7 months salary to buy an 11yr old Camry at N14m? Tell us who the Bill identifies as "the rich"

No 11 is a deceit. Customs doesn't collect Tax, rather they collect duties.

No. 12 is a future probability. Tell me how a law should be passed based on a wild guess about what it may lead to

Let me stop there. Most of these promises are unworkable fairytales and I'm tired of this deceit. No need to continue stating the obvious

Meerahbel:
WHAT IS IN THE TAX REFORM...
1. Any business with less than N50million turnover are exempted from tax payment.
2. over 90% of workers in public and private sector will no longer pay income tax
3. Over 82% of what low income persons consume will be VAT free.
4. scrapping over 50 nuisance tax suffered by local businesses
5. VAT will no longer be calculated base on where the companies have their headquarters but where their goods are consume
6. the rich to pay more tax while the poor will stop paying taxes..
7. Consumption tax collected by states will be eliminated completely
8. FG share of VAT to reduce from 15% to 10% as states and LGAs now get 90%
9. Those earning less than N1.7m monthly will now pay less income tax
10. Customs, NUPRC and other govt agencies will no longer collect tax as only one Agency will be responsible for collection of all taxes in NGR
11. Those receiving less than N9million per anum could have their income tax cut by half
12. The bill could lead to abolition of other multiple tax laws like the stamp duty act
13. Over 90% of small business would no longer pay profit tax
14. Gradual increase of VAT from 10% in 2025 to 15% in 2030... With almost every goods consume by low income earners exempted from VAT
15. Many NGR companies pay over 60 types of different tax & levies... The bill seeks to end this factor killing NGR industries.

Get yourself a copy of full Tax reform proposal for full details on JobZoneNG on telegram

Be informed!

APC urch..s are here to defend the failure of their god.

Lollz.

What a thankless job!

Nigerians curse them everyday and Tinubu and his family are living lifestyles if the rich and famous and wouldn't even stop to appreciate them if their driver knocked them down.

Hahahahaha

You that work in the refinery tell us the truth.

Mtscheww!

APC urc..n

helinues:
The group is confused.

Are they not the same group dishing out so many fake details about PH refinery operation

Sometimes it's good to shut up so you don't expose your ignorance and lack of English comprehension.

Israel destroyed the weapons protecting Iran's oil installations.

That was all.

A man who does not read is equivalent to a man who cannot read.

Your grammar and sentence construction gives the impression you didn't pass through a good secondary school.

Emir01:
I think Zionist terrorist said they have destroyed Iranian weapons. Israel and US don't have capacity to stop weapon flowing into Lebanon. The border is wide.

The Tax bill is over 400 pages long.

99% of those who have assented to it haven't even read it.

If the lawmakers haven't even read it, one wonders how many of the resident Nairaland APC urch..s have read it?

But check out the strenuous efforts here to defend it.

Ask the urch..s which other Tinubu policy has led to a better life, that we should be fooled into believing that the Tax Bill will do so?

Not a single effort has been put into SME's which are the engine room of any economy but the urch..s are fine with that!

What catapulted US and China economically was the rise of their SME's first and not a focus on tax when the economy was grounded.

Interestingly enough, it was the resistance to excessive taxation that led the American colonialists to decide to break away from England and go to war.

So if the North wants to fight war because of Taxes, they will not be the first to do so.

Once again, economic growth does not happen by playing around with increased tax policy while ignoring businesses crashing due to excessive inflation.

One ignoramus above even said that how many business generate over N20m a year to be liable for tax?

In a country where an 11yr old Camry costs N13 - N14M. Is that person not daft and poverty stricken?

There are salary earners who earn much more than that

Mtschew

It's admirable that APC is preparing well for the many casualties it has created over the past 8 yrs.

One just hopes that it will be affordable, no scratch that, no service that APC provides is affordable

The fact that you carefully omitted WHAT SOLOMON DID to gain God's attention makes your post an exercise is falsehood.

Leave those who are tithing to tithe alone and leave those who refuse to title alone.

Whether one tithes or not, God will not stop loving you.

Whether a believer tithes or not, Heaven's gates are open.

There are much weightier matters on the mind of God than tithing.

Leave this stale issue alone.

jesusjnr2020:
When You Realize Tithing Didn't Make Solomon Or Elon Musk World Richest Men

The length to which the prosperity preachers were taking the matter of tithing, one would think tithing has made many tithers, themselves inclusive, the richest men in the world, however that couldn't be any further from the truth, because tithing has never made any man to become world's richest, not even one.

Even king Solomon, the only man the Bible called world's richest, it wasn't tithing that made him to become the richest man in history.

In fact God Himself (who made Solomon richer than all those who lived before and after him) said the reason He gave Solomon such an unprecedented amount of riches, was because Solomon didn't ask for riches for himself, but the things that mattered to God.

1 Kings 3:11-13 (KJV)

And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.

God bless.

Try and stick to the topic.

This is how people deluded themselves that they did well in an exam whereas they failed woefully because they were busy answering questions they were not asked

JASONjnr:
The tithes you'd taken to dash a man who's on suit and had fed properly, give it to your neighbour that is hungry and yet to eat.

Has anyone noticed the reason behind the constant reminder of tithing is because the 1/10th of the salary is really a thing to rely on?

Notice that lately, people pay 50naira to 100naira as offerings? That amount of offerings won't go along way to service the church needs and fueling the gen and so on.

Imagine a member of the church earning 1million bucks and others earning 100k monthly, by the time these people collect the tithes, they might be closing the Sunday with thousands of naira.

That's why they place no interest on the offerings but on the tithe because that's where the money is ...

Let's have some evidence on your first paragraph.

Your next two paragraphs are public knowledge but since one of the best ways to spread misinformation is to mix it up with truth- let's have links to credible sources of your information

nedu666:
Isreal created hamas to undermine plo,few years later they called them terrorist

America supported saddam to fight Iran, few years later they called him terrorist.

America supported Osama and the taliban to fight Russia, few years later they called them terrorist

Today America is backing the same isis that invaded Iraq and Syria, few years later they will call them terrorist, stage one terrorist attack on America soil and use it as pretense to invade Syria and Iraq again