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Eriokanmi:
See as atiku came, hijacked the candidature and dabaru the party. He will still run back to dubai after the 2023 polls

The PDP sold her soul to the devil in a thief cool about stealing.

Saved the fellow from a beheading!

Pathetic human! Mystery of Iniquity things!!

He needn’t have to say that. The thing speaks for itself!

More reason we shouldn’t vote for Tinubu. The signs are clear that he is another Buhari. Abuse and criticism on social media shouldn’t irritate a leader worth calling one. Rather, in the 21st Century they are seen as a veritable source of feedback. Reject Tinubu!

You did Nigeria evil. But for God, by now Nigeria would have been overrun by The Fulani from Futa Jallon and Boko Haram with Buhari standing by! He has grossly failed to secure the realm which is his number one duty under the Constitution. You should be ashamed of yourself. Posterity will judge you and The NASS you were part of harshly!!

You will have to prove that for us to be convinced that you are not “NEPA”!

Elizabeth Holmes, Hushpuppy The Doggy and The Perspiring Invictus Obi are fellows in fraud. The West must know that fraud knows no skin colour and geographical location. Fraudsters are found www and not just in Nigeria.

When you are the baby we know is strapped, feeding bottle in mouth, to the back of Bode George! How can you join APC! You can’t even stand on your feet!!

chokekachy:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-repatriates-over-20-million-assets-stolen-former-nigerian-dictator

And public institutions are still named after Abacha The Thief!

fredoooooo:
Not until you start playing common sense politics and not Nzogbu Nzogbu politics ... in Soludo voice

One can’t help thinking that’s how the Igbo is wired to play politics. Baba Chinua Achebe implied that much when, in criticism of his Igbo stock, he famously said “Contemporary Igbo behaviour can offend by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness, hubris, overweening pride and thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or even worse that can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness.” That, for me, is the problem the typical Igbo have everywhere they go. The Igbo will find it difficult to be trusted with the Presidency: for that reason.

They can donate their blood for all anyone cares! Who says Soludo was wrong to say the Igbo are not ready to produce a President!!

expatinmalay:
Singapore is such a beautiful country

TRACEABLE TO RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP. NIGERIA IS THE WAY IT IS BECAUSE OUR POLITICAL LEADERS ARE LARGELY IRRESPONSIBLE!

GO BUY MORE COWS. PUT YOUR MONEY IN POTS BACK INTO YOUR BUSINESS. IN TRYING TO CHANGE THEM INTO THE CURRENCY YOU WILL LOSE THEM TO GREEDY AND HUNGRY BANKERS!

gasparpisciotta:
Igbos have been betraying themselves since 1600AD

They are politically where the Yorubas were several centuries ago, only the Hausa/Fulani learnt well from the inventors of “dem all cracy”

“Them” as an English language word usually refers to a group of people or groups of persons.

Mayng01:
Wasted by a drunk driver. Are you sure the driver was drunk or they had a score to settle? Hmmm, smh. Rip to the deceased. Life goes on

Soldiers don’t settle scores that way. It is done by a gunshot and he stands by his victim. Soldiers ain’t cowards.

Arotile was killed in similar circumstances on a military base. About time the Nig Armed Forces do something.

Like you did ALSCON et al. I don’t blame Atiku. Obasanjo stopped the teaching of History as a subject in Nigeria so we won’t remember the evils that they did.

Let’s also see how you sold ALSCON! A Thief Ku!

Buhari makes a case for you then you are cased up!

abc115:
It was his initiative and memorandum forwarded to President Buhari for approval that concessioned the facility

Is this a Lai!
Lai has lied so much it should be about time to change the spelling to “Lai”.

Mintum:
Smart talk by Biden because confirming it came from Russia and hit a NATO member will mean that NATO must go to war with Russia and nobody wants that.

Then Russia like Hitler will attempt to rule the world. We must FIGHT to WIN the PEACE the www needs!

Great! All the transgender smell of Obamatics will clear up.

APC! With all the evil APC has done to Nigerians through the instrumentality of the misgovernance by their elected officials such as Buhari et al!!! What audacity! They take Nigerians for fools!!!

presidency:
TEXT OF PRESS BRIEFING ON THE TRANSFER OF MT HEROIC IDUN FROM EQUATORIAL GUINEA TO NIGERIA – November 15, 2022

1. You may recall that on Friday 19 August 2022 the Naval Headquarters briefed the Press on the arrest of Motor Tanker HEROIC IDUN by the Equatorial Guinean Navy. It was mentioned that the Very Large Crude oil Carrier (VLCC) had entered the Nigerian Maritime Environment (NME) on 7 August 2022 and headed for Akpo Field without any form of authorisation or clearance. For the avoidance of doubt, MT HEROIC IDUN (IMO: 9858058) is registered in Marshall Island with an overall length of 336-metres, 60 metres breadth and capacity of 3 million barrels. The vessel was spotted by the Nigerian Navy Maritime Domain Awareness facility and a Nigerian Navy (NN) Inshore Patrol Craft, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) GONGOLA probed the legitimacy of her presence in the Total Safe Anchorage operated Akpo Field. Following the interrogation, the Captain of MT HEROIC IDUN duly responded to NNS GONGOLA and further stated that his vessel was without relevant clearance to operate in the Field.

2. The vessel was therefore ordered to turn around and follow NNS GONGOLA to Bonny anchorage pending when she will be cleared for loading by NNPC Ltd. However, she bluntly declined on the claims that she had been told by her agent not to take directives from the Nigerian Navy Ship. Thereafter, she engaged full speed southwards towards the Sao Tome and Principe maritime area in a bid to evade arrest. Apart from refusing lawful arrest, the Captain of the vessel made a broadcast of false piracy attack call to International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre to mislead mariners that NNS GONGOLA was a pirate vessel and possibly concoct an alibi for her desperate action. On the piracy alert, the Nigerian Navy also through international collaboration alerted relevant piracy reporting centres through CRESMAO and ECOWAS ZONE F Cotonou headed by Nigerian Navy officers for the alert to be cancelled immediately which was done by IMB. Suffice to state that Nigeria has not recorded any piracy attack in its waters in over one year. Hence, this mischievous act by MT HEROIC IDUN was clearly aimed at tarnishing the good image of the maritime domain of Nigeria, which we have worked very hard to achieve and sustain.

3. The Nigerian Navy therefore invoked the collaboration of neighbouring Equatorial Guinea through the Yaoundé Architecture to arrest the vessel. With the aid of the Nigerian Navy surveillance facility, MT HEROIC IDUN was tracked and the Equatorial Guinea Amphibious Ship, CAPTAIN DAVID was therefore vectored to intercept and arrest the fleeing ship on 12 Aug 22. Pertinently, MT HEROIC IDUN was held at the Luba Anchorage in Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea while the country conducted her own investigations owing to some infractions the vessel had also committed in the country’s waters. Whilst these were ongoing, a formal request was made to transfer the vessel to Nigeria as mentioned during the Press Briefing on 19 August 2022. This was followed by diplomatic overtures and negotiations towards achieving the transfer of HEROIC IDUN to Nigeria. Suffice to add that both Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea are signatories to the Code of Conduct concerning the Repression of Piracy, Armed Robbery against Ships and Illicit Maritime Activity in West and Central Africa of 2013 commonly referred to as the ‘Yaounde Code of Conduct’. The Code is backed by appropriate UN Security Council Resolutions and provides the platform for information sharing as well as coordination amongst signatories. This includes handover of vessels or persons suspected to have committed offences in each other’s States. It was based on this therefore that MT HEROIC IDUN was brought back to Nigeria from Equatorial Guinea on 12 November 2022.

4. The smear campaign put up by the ship in the Media space in a fierce attempt to rubbish the transfer process by falsely gaining international support/sympathy was thus bound to fail and perhaps an indication that the vessel has a case to answer. Accordingly, on 6 November 2022, the vessel was handed over to Nigeria by Equatorial Guinea. Subsequently, she cast off Equatorial Guinea waters under Nigerian Navy escort on 11 November and arrived off Bonny Offshore Terminal II on 12 November 2022. MT HEROIC IDUN is presently in the custody of the Nigerian Navy and based on legal opinion and analysis, the super-tanker could be said to have committed the following offences against the Nigerian State:

a. Attempt to deal in export crude oil without license or authorization.

b. Entering the Restricted Zone around an Oilfield without authorization and thus violating Nigeria’s Exclusive Economic Zone regulations.

c. Falsely accusing a Nigerian Navy Ship of piracy on International Maritime Reporting Platforms after having communicated with the Nigerian Navy Ship without ambiguity about her identity therefore violating sections of the Suppression of Piracy and Other Maritime Offences (SPOMO)Act 2019.

d. Violation of all lawful instructions at sea from Maritime Law Authorities as well as Nigeria’s Miscellaneous Act and other associated national and international laws ascribed to by Nigeria.

e. Violation of Custom and Immigration Laws as acceded by Nigeria regarding the operations of Akpo Oil Terminal being an Oil installation in the Nigerian Exclusive Economic Zone.

5. At this juncture, the NN wishes to enjoin the media, wellmeaning Nigerians and well-wishers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to note the actual occurrence regarding MT HEROIC IDUN for which she is now under the custody of the Navy for prosecution. Please disregard rumours, mischievous and fictitious articles being circulated by enemies of the State, in a bid to cause chaos and discredit efforts of the Nigerian Navy and indeed Nigeria. The Navy also acknowledges with immense gratitude the role played by the Government of Equatorial Guinea in the arrest and transfer of MV HEROIC IDUN to Nigeria. Equally, the NN acknowledges the untiring efforts of the Federal ministries of Defence, Foreign Affairs and Justice in the actualization of the transfer of this Vessel of Interest.

6. The Navy assures Nigerians that in accordance with its statutory responsibilities and drawing strength from the strategic directives of the CNS, Vice Admiral Auwal Zubairu Gambo CFR, the Service will maintain a posture of zero tolerance to crude oil theft and other criminal activities in our maritime domain. The Navy shall continue to work in synergy with other maritime stakeholders, Gulf of Guinea states’ navies and strategic partners to ensure that Nigeria derives maximum benefit from its natural maritime endowments.

7. Thank you for your attention.

SS GARBA Rear Admiral
for Chief of the Naval Staff
November 15, 2022

Thanks to NN for a job well done!

Directionless and Confused bunch! Pitiable!! The truth, indeed, can be bitter. Soludo just told Ndigbo the cold truth about the matter!!! Ohanaeze should have concentrated on pursuing the Igbo Presidency bid and left Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB to the FG. Now, they are drifting on waves taking them nowhere!!!

Directionless and Confused bunch! Pitiable!! The truth, indeed, can be bitter. Soludo just told Ndigbo the cold truth about the matter!!! Ohanaeze should have pursued an Igbo Presidency bid and left Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB to the FG. Now, they are drifting on waves taking them nowhere!!!

detectivejones:
Someone I'm following on twitter shared this. I really don't know how women who deceive men into believing they are the biological father of a child sleep at night.
The annoying thing is, these side men disrespect them while their husbands treat them as queen unknowingly that such wife belongs to the street.

Listen, but for the fact that the eyes of Eve became open Adam would have lived with Eve like forever without knowing she had eaten the forbidden fruit in his absence! The heart of man is desperately wicked! Same goes for the Husband who tells Wife in the evening he is broke and has no housekeeping money only to wail and bemoan his huge financial loss to the armed robbers who called at his residence few hours later while the family was in bed!

Pyrrhic victory.

Benz03:
How long can she keep the secret

Not how long but how well! Hmmmm! But for the early discovery those children would have lived in the same house with the groom like forever without their true identity being disclosed. But for the opening of her eyes Adam would have lived with Eve like forever without knowing she had eaten the forbidden fruit!

Who is the enemy. Double speak coming from an elder! You want to rule over and live with “the enemy” in country you refer to as a “zoo”.

That rude woman fouls up an already drugged campaign trail!