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Bamgbose who disclosed this in a statement said that the cabal running the current Presidency does not favour Tinubu that is why he is switching to his Plan B which according to him, is to throw his weight behind a popular candidate probably Osinbajo.

Speaking in a statement, Bamgbose said, “The battle of who becomes the next President of Nigeria come 2023, has assumed a new dimension, as Tinubu considers pulling out of the Presidential race.

“In order not to be politically stranded and thereby become irrelevant, he has decided to come up with his plan B. Plan B is to support a candidate that will be acceptable to all Nigerians, be it from the South or the North.

“The APC National leader has come to realize that his presidential ambition may mark the end of his political career if he does not play the card well enough.

“He has come to embrace the reality that his political fortune can end abruptly, should he make a wrong decision.

“The general feeling among the top notchers in APC is that Tinubu has had enough, having produced the President and Vice President in 2015. They are not very comfortable with his ambition to take over from Buhari.”

https://independent.ng/2023-tinubu-is-consideringpulling-out-opresidential-race-bamgbose/

with Tax-Payers money!!

Information minister, Lai Mohammed said the Muhammadu Buhari regime is fronting the quest to regulate social media around the world.

His comments came hours after a video depicting Bola Tinubu‘s soaked dress and probable odour dominated discussion across social media on Sunday. The minister also noted the regime’s engagement with Twitter after the government blocked Nigerians‘ access to the microblogging site in June 2021.

“In this area, I can confidently say we are far ahead of most countries in the world, who have now realised that social media must be regulated in the interest of their own people,” he said to a group of reporters.

Mohammed said the successful negotiation with Twitter on measures to ensure a responsible use of the platform had placed Nigeria as a global trailblazer in efforts to prevent harmful content from social media platforms.

He reassured that the conditions and measures agreed upon for lifting the ban on Twitter would also be applied to other social media platforms operating in the country.
https://nationaldailyng.com/tinubu-video-buhari-leading-global-effort-to-regulate-social-media-lai-mohammed/

Rodgers is leaving Leicester

TFLASHOGEE:
Osimehn score today I dey see osigoal everywhere even people wey de wait make he know score so dey can troll self follow shout goal to cover face I dey wait make nacho score na FA cup today na him preferred competition

Nacho nah second half man

BigYash:
Doctor real nigga.. Postinor get side effect o... Condoms are still better.. Remember those things you mentioned, except the antibiotics no go save them from STDs.. That girl want belle. Op run,if you are not ready yet.

OK sir

Godspihighlife:
Tell her parents

What?

Rastaramsey:
You are dating a LovePeddler

That's an insult... Truth is most girls hate condom cos it hurts their vag wall

ok

Me and my gf have been dating for almost a year. We are often active in sex but i always used a condom anytime we have sex. I love her a lot and i dont want her to get pregnant because both of us are still young & am still serving... But recently whenever we are making out in bed she wants me to put it in without a condom even if it is just for a few seconds, but i always said no because i really do not want her to get pregnant because i know all the precum and stuff. It has happened quite a few times recently but i kept on saying no and we end up using a condom.

I'm afraid i can not satisfy her satisfaction in terms of sex and she may want to break up with me.. ( is there a chance that she would get pregnant if i put it in without a condom just for a few seconds just to satisfy her??

Kaduna based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has denied an online media report saying his brother was kidnapped by bandits.


He described the news as fake.

In a statement issued by his media consultant, Tukur Mamu, issued in Kaduna on Sunday, the cleric described the news as mischievous and misleading to Nigerians.

He enjoined the public to disregard the fake news, saying that it is not impossible in today’s Nigeria to even kidnap him or even those in authority.

According to the statement, the story by some sections of the media was deliberately misquoting the cleric in order to give a picture “that the brother of the person supporting the bandits has also been kidnapped” is mischievous, misleading and diversionary.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/12/13/report-of-my-brothers-kidnap-mischievous-misleading-sheikh-gumi/

baralatie:
They are not milling anything
Only debating imported rice

Lols

.......And finally sold back to Nigerians at exorbitant prices!!!

Awkabigboy:
yes, the existence is still of the funding from USA, as soon USA designates it as a terror group which will happen soon with the video evidence over the Internet then is game over . Meaning the guys abroad will be arrested immediately and their accounts blocked. Ipob is a terrorist group of frustrated imolites

Go prove your case in court! Why are you running since you claim to have all the evidence you need to nail them

Oyibo and udele is one person that is using two different Monika..
Pls take note.

The Islamisation/ fulanisation agenda of the the janghaweeds unites them, irrespective of their party affiliation....
Hope those saying that Ipob is PDP sponsored can now desist from spewing that trash henceforth...

God bless MNK

Maxymilliano:
'Bandits didn't kill 20 police officers in Zamfara' - Vanguard News

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/10/zamfara-police-denies-killing-of-20-operatives-by-bandits/

Zamfara police refute killing of 20 ... - Punch Newspapers

https://punchng.com/zamfara-police-refute-killing-of-20-security-personnel-by-bandits/

Government always deny! Then they go behind to compensate the families of the victims... ..nah normal thing as they don't want to be seen as weak

It's just the pure truth.

Click like, if you believe that IPOB have the best advisors

Zainab Isah, the North-West Area Director, National Youth Service Corps,says corps members cannot relocate for any reason except for marriage and life-threatening ailment.

Ms Isah said this while addressing corps members for the 2021 Batch ‘C’ Stream One Orientation Camp on Thursday at Dakingari in Suru Local Government of the state.

She reminded the corps members that their posting to Kebbi was part of their academic journey, which they should actively participate in.

According to the NYSC director, posting corps members to places of primary assignment was based on merit and the needs of the state government.

She also urged corps members not to travel out of their place of primary assignment without the consent of the appropriate authorities during the period of their service year.

Stressing the importance of the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Programme (SAED), Ms Isah asked corpers to participate in camp activities.

“You should identify the immediate needs of your host communities with a view to contributing your quota to the development of the community,” she said.

https://gazettengr.com/nysc-denies-corpers-relocation-except-for-marriage-life-threatening-sickness/

Juliusmalema:
Efcc should quickly release our Obi for us

No joke this time around

If Bawa or Waba is tired of been efcc chairman be should resign and go home.

Release Obi for us and go after the politicians.

President Buhari should call that small boy Bawa to order.

The harm has been done already! Even if you release him

Sheikh Gumi pampered beyond measure

Islamic scholar Ahmad Gumi warned that such a declaration would come at a price. He scathingly described those pressuring the Muhammadu Buhari administration to equate banditry with terrorism as arm-chair critics and “semi-illiterates and half-baked tribal heroes who have nothing to offer besides promoting tribal xenophobia”. He argued his case so forcefully and with philosophical undertones, not to say searing abuse, that it is hard to see the administration caving in to general pressures to expand its list of terrorist groups in Nigeria.

According to Sheikh Gumi, “…The acts the bandits are committing now in the Northwest have gradually, over time, become tantamount to terrorism because wherever innocent people are fatal victims, it’s pure terrorism. Yet, innocence, these days, is relative. We agreed if their children and women are also killed, they are guilty by association or collateral damage; so also the bandits may think the same way…However, the moment they are termed terrorists – Islamic for that matter – the direct foreign Jihadist movements will set in in force. And many teeming unemployed youths may find it palatable and attractive. Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ plus AK-47 against a ‘secular’ immoral society where impunity reigns are the magnets for extremists and downtrodden – the majority of our youth…”

It is hard to place the argument of the Islamic scholar. On the one hand he agrees that the bandits’ actions are terroristic in nature, and their victims unfortunate collateral damage. But he concludes, despite the logical premise of his argument, that labeling bandits as terrorists was inadvisable and would worsen the attacks. The sole plank of his argument against the reclassification, in fact proper classification, of bandits is that the word terrorism has a magical, seductive and sanguinary impact on the bandits and their vicious trade. Once banditry is described as terrorism, said the scholar, particularly of the Islamic hue, it would serve as a magnet to terror adventurists from everywhere. Sheikh Gumi has a strange mind.

Not only have bandits dissociated themselves from religion, making it known that their animus is against those – particularly Hausa vigilantes and farmers – threatening their existence, they have also subscribed absolutely to no religious objectives. They will be amused that Sheikh Gumi, who has befriended them and offered himself as their intermediary, is investing their largely ethnic and existential struggle with religious colouration. Indeed, they will be bewildered. The scholar abuses everyone who disagrees with his point of view. He claims inalienable right to hold on to his self-serving arguments, but denies the same right to those who disagree with his definitions and aggressive suppositions.

Last Monday too, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State stated unequivocally during the Nigerian Economic Summit (NES) in Abuja that there were no ambiguities in defining what constitutes terrorism. Blowing up railway tracks and bombing communities and massacring farmers and traders are nothing but terrorism, he said. On the same podium was Kaduna State governor Nasir el-Rufai who only recently became converted to the terrorism label after initially appeasing the so-called bandits in the early years of his governorship. He needed the intensification of the attacks and killings to appreciate the terroristic evil constituted by the armed militias claiming to resist genocide against the Fulani. But Sheikh Gumi will not be persuaded. He empathises more with the ‘bandits’ than with the victims. It is not even clear whether wholesale genocide will persuade him to relent in his obtuse classifications.

It is also not clear what scale of attacks ‘bandits’ have to deploy to persuade the federal government that bandits are in fact terrorists. Mallam el-Rufai suggests that a new classification was needed to enable the government go all out against the bandits as well as use all means without running foul of international law. As an aside, what stops the government from using all legitimate means to quash the attacks laying many communities in the Northwest waste? Is Mallam el-Rufai suggesting unrestrained and illegitimate force for a problem that has its roots in socio-economic grievances but has lately become somewhat ethnic, a problem that can in fact be also partially and successfully handled by political means and other economic interventions? What is clear in all the back and forth arguments is the poverty of national leadership. Sheikh Gumi, contrary to the impression he gives, is prejudiced. The dithering federal government is inept and complicit, hiding behind definitional confusion to avoid coming to tactical and nomenclatural grip with the festering problem in the Northwest. And the governors themselves, whose decades-old misrule encouraged the breakdown of law and order in their states, have been criminally negligent and unimaginative in dealing with the nightmare.

Whether it declared ‘bandit’ attacks as terrorism or not, the federal government should have dealt with what was a largely socio-economic problem before it morphed into ethnic conflict. The government should be pressured into living up to its responsibility, a duty it sadly repeatedly disavows when the pressures become intolerable. Alarmingly, Sheikh Gumi is trying to indirectly invest the conflict with religious overtones. They should also not let him. Terrorism is a wave of violent attack, or waves of violent attacks, often to achieve political objectives. Bandits do not have to wave self-determination flags before they qualify to be labeled as terrorists, as the federal government erroneously thinks. Their indiscriminate violence qualifies them. Flags of self-determination, on the other hand, do not constitute terrorism, again as the Nigerian government ignorantly presumes.

Both the administration and Sheikh Gumi will not allow facts, science and truths to inconvenience them. They have chosen not to apply terrorism label against bandits. They are unlikely to shift ground, regardless of the ethnic and religious connotations many disappointed Nigerians read into that failure. The public should, however, pressure their government into dealing with the menace destroying the Northwest, however they choose to do it. They should not hide behind definitional fog to be indifferent to or pull their punches in dealing with the bloodletting going on in the zone. If labeling the menace banditry will salve their conscience, let them embrace that label. What is not an option is to let banditry live on. It is cruel and shortsighted.

I give up on Nigeria

Good

The North have proven to be the real owners of Nigeria... the rest ends on social media.

Yoruba Young Professionals Network (YYPN) a socio-cultural group has canvassed support for the emergence of Nigerian president from the South-East geo-political zone come 2023 general election.

National president of YYPN, Segun Lawal made this known in a press conference in Akure, Ondo State.

Lawal stressed the importance of an Igbo presidency to national unity and development, according to him, this waking call cannot be overemphasized because the region that has never produced a president before will feel the sense of inclusion, especially in the wake of the incessant agitation currently going on in and around the country, adding that, it is imperative to support the emergence of a Nigerian president of the south-east extraction in 2023 in the spirit of one Nigeria.

He said the group is eager to support the vision of the United Better Nigeria initiative (UBNi); a national advocacy group canvassing support for the actualisation of South East Presidency in 2023, also pledged their unwavering support to the national coordinator, Mrs Nkolika Mkparu Okeke, as the group continue to carry out public awareness, sensitization and advocacy for a South-East Presidency 2023.

https://leadership.ng/2023-yoruba-group-backs-south-east-presidency/

Former Central Bank of Nigeria’s Governor, Muhammadu Sanusi, has stated that the constitution allows President Muhammadu Buhari to be impeached for paying millions of dollars on fuel subsidies without appropriation.

Sanusi stated this while speaking virtually as a panelist on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the just concluded Nigerian Economic Summit held in Abuja.


“Every year, the government spends millions upon millions of dollars on fuel subsidies without appropriation. Under the constitution, this is enough ground to impeach the President.

“But nobody is holding them to account. The National Assembly is not holding them to account,” he said.

The former CBN governor said the federal government’s populist approach was hurting the nation massively.

“We are pursuing a populist policy: we want to have cheap fuel, cheap electricity, a strong Naira. That is populism. At the end of the day, what price are we paying by taking money out of education in order to subsidise petroleum products?” he said.

“This money coming from petrol belongs to the federation account, and the federal government doesn’t have the constitutional right to pay subsidy on behalf of the federation.

“So it is a fundamental constitutional issue because this is money that should go to the federal, states and local governments. Yet money that belongs to the federation is carried out as federal government expenditure. So, there are so many complex issues, legal and economic issues. We need to stop these issues” he said.

“I have said this before even as a CBN Governor under the previous government. What I say is not of a particular government. Take petroleum subsidy. In 2015 or 2016, Minister Ibe Kachukwu said Nigerian was importing 30 million litres of PMS per day after eliminating corruption. In 2019, the NNPC said we are importing 59 million litres per day after oil prices have gone up. And I have been asking the question, what happened between 2015 and 2019 that our oil consumption has almost double?” he asked.

He noted that “this is what also happened under the previous government. When oil prices go up, NNPC said they are importing more because of the arbitrage. Thus, when the oil prices go high, there is an incentive to inflate the number” he noted.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/10/27/fuel-subsidy-why-buhari-should-be-impeached-%E2%80%93-sanusi-lamido

Controversial Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has said bandits terrorising the country love those who show them respect and understanding.

According to People’s Gazette, Gumi said this while fielding questions from students during a lecture at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria on Wednesday.

The cleric who has been visiting the gunmen in the forest in an attempt to negotiate a peace deal with them says his interaction with them have been easy because he always “goes through the door.”

“I go through the door, not the window. If you go through the door, you will go in and come back safely,” he said.

Gumi said if the bandits were given a listening ear, their resolve would be softened and would become more easy to relate with them.

When asked why the bandits had not kidnapped him despite his numerous visits to their den, Gumi said, “When we meet them, we don’t speak, we give them the microphone to speak even for one hour.

The preacher said he had been able to gain the bandits’ sympathy because he “treats them well and respects them.”

http://saharareporters.com/2021/09/30/bandits-cannot-kidnap-me-because-we-preachers-listen-them-%E2%80%93-sheikh-gumi

PAN-Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo,
have taken a swipe at the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), over his allegation that the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, and his group were behind widespread killings and arsons in some parts of the country.

The body said it decided to cry out over the allegation because IPOB members “are our children and we owe them undiluted love, duty and responsibility” and “any unwarranted attack on IPOB is an attack on the entire Igbo.

This position was conveyed in a statement titled: ‘Malami has crossed the red line’ made available to the Nigerian Tribune by the national publicity secretary of the body, Chief Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia.

‌ Ohanaeze said all the remarks made by the AGF concerning IPOB were “very inelegant, imprudent, malicious, and fallacious,” accusing the minister of trying to play an ethnic card.

According to the organisation, the allegation that the IPOB vandalised and looted the palace of the Oba of Lagos and burnt more than 150 buses at the Lagos Bus Terminal were mere ethnic cards simply intended to play the Yoruba against the Igbo.

It added: “Malami should know that the Yoruba do not spill the Igbo blood and vice versa.

The likes of Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, who chose the supreme prize instead of betraying an Igbo in the person of General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi Ironsi, have been replicated across the board in millions. Perhaps, Malami does not know the historic role played by the current Oba of Lagos, as a police officer for the return from exile of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the Ikemba Nnewi in 1982.”

It described as crude and anachronistic all the alleged “game-plans” of the minister, stressing that the point of divergence between the Ohanaeze and IPOB was that while the former believed that the Igbo ingenuity would find full expression in a restructured Nigeria, the latter appeared to be tired of the age-long marginalisation of the Igbo in a country they have sacrificed so much to build. It declared that there was no Igbo name among all the suspects charged by the police to court in respect of the 2020 mayhem in Lagos.

The organisation alleged continued marginalisation of Ndigbo in the scheme of things, including federal appointments, allocation of projects and funds, as well as distribution of resources and maintenance of federal highways compared to the other five zones across the country.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/kanu-malami-has-crossed-the-red-line-ohanaeze-declares/

Kaduna-based popular Muslim cleric, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi has asked clerics of Igbo and Yoruba extractions not to be scared of the federal government but to broker truce with members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, as he does with bandits terrorising the North

The controversial cleric, had at different times mediated between the bandits and some state governments, a development condemned in some quarters.

The mission took him to Kaduna, Niger, Katsina, Sokoto and Zamfara where he attempted to broker peace between the governors and the bandits.

The cleric, who had some time called for amnesty for the bandits, was also reported to have said bandits cannot be declared terrorists.

“I hope another Igbo clergy goes into the IPOB structure likewise and talk sense into them, and another Pastor of Oduduwa land talks against the Igboho secessionist tribal movement by way of sensitising people to the values of a cohesive nationalism that will guaranty freedom, equality, and justice for all. Religious forces can permeate hardened hearts where secular forces cannot.

“Regrettably, people just sit down in the comfort of their rooms or parlours and make useless passing comments that only add fuel to the inferno of ethnic jingoism and bigotry. In the 21st century, Nigeria is hijacked by semi-illiterates and half-baked tribal heroes that have nothing to offer besides promoting tribal xenophobia.
https://punchng.com/clergymen-should-talk-to-igboho-ipob-like-i-do-to-bandits-says-gumi/

Personally I really like this girl I met online, we message and video chat pretty frequently and I think she likes me back. I want to ask her out but my family doesn't approve. They think that long distance doesn't work and said if I asked her out it would be cruel because I would be depriving her of a normal relationship. I see things online about happy long distance relationships so I was hoping nairalanders who have been in them before could give me some input.