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Goodmarlian:
biafran soldier my ass how old is he? If he truly fought in the war he should be older than this even the child soldiers should be in their 70s or 80s freedom is coming. a war that was fought 60 years ago...oga collect your bride and go once we get independence we shall put you all in your place...

i don't know if he was a soldier but he's old enough to have been one as a teen.

My war experience – Okoro, ex-Biafran teenage soldier
Reveals 30 months of horror and how they’re recruited as under-aged soldiers

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/my-war-experience-okoro-ex-biafran-teenage-soldier/

Sallah is complete.

Any updates on this investigation or has it been quietly swept under the rug?

maxjax:
when will they start parading corrupt high profile politicianzzzz ?

dem do but AGF Malami frees dem to loot again with his corrupt bleep.

Please don’t handcuff me – Orji Uzor Kalu begs after being sentenced

https://dailypost.ng/2019/12/05/please-dont-handcuff-me-orji-uzor-kalu-begs-after-being-sentenced/


EFCC I’m Here, Fayose announces arrival at agency’s office

https://punchng.com/efcc-im-here-fayose-announces-arrival-at-agencys-office/

Bossontop:

This is So rich coming from a chronic palm wine drunkard well known for abusing people left, right and center.....mtcheewww

good one boss, i was hoping someone posted that popular pic.

For 16 yrs. ppl in power were helping to build up Dubai, the UK, and US instead of investing in the region. look it up!

Many say the broda is a scammer but this 6 minute video is interesting.

Offerings to the Iyami/Egungun/Egbe/Orisha for good luck during Garvey School Renovations

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https://www.instagram.com/tv/CDcDnaPBt6K/?utm_source=ig_embed

Kanu tingz again? I had to pray the evil demons away for once having a crush on and wanting to bleep his beautiful wife.

him not leaving the uk or germany anytime soon to return to 9ja

movie scene, conservative and liberal oyinbos discuss racial politics in front of an half-caste con man seated at the dinner table with dem. only one minute

Trick Baby 1974 Dinner Scene


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQ-YPjasGc

A very good and lucid analysis of pressing political affairs.


Malami’s gaffe and invincible war against corruption

By Rilwan Balogun
03 August 2020

https://guardian.ng/opinion/malamis-gaffe-and-invincible-war-against-corruption/

In the course of the past few weeks, our collective responsibility was again enraged and reduced to the popular Nollywood comic blockbuster, when we watched the theatrical theatre laden with allegations of corruption that were premiered and clothed with the title “fight against corruption” and perhaps, corruption fighting back.

Before delving into the farcical events, it is apposite to cast our despair minds back to the 29th of May 2015, when the newly elected President Buhari was sworn in as the 5th democratically elected president in Nigeria. His cardinal- cum foremost agenda was to tackle, frontally, the scourge of corruption.

However, 5 years after, the rays of hope given by his emergence seems to be a pipe dream and the initial sanctimonious impression instilled in Nigerians by the Buhari led government as regard the fight against corruption is fast evanescing. As a matter of fact, it is palpably believed that the massive corruption allegations that characterised the former president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration from 2010-2015 prompted then newly elected President Buhari to declare in his inaugural speech that “he belongs to nobody and he belongs to everybody”, thus, the APC led government seems hell-bent to eradicate rustic corruption, regardless of whose ox is gored.

But 5 years down the memory lane, it is becoming glaring that the scourge called corruption is becoming permanently intractable and its damaging effect can never be compared with the deadly coronavirus pandemic. One is utterly bemused, that Ibrahim Magu, who headed the anti corruption crusade is enmeshed in alleged multiple financial misappropriations. To further give credence to the allegations, the law was set in motion against Magu by the Chief Law Officer of the country-the Attorney General, Malami SAN.

As expected, this indictment on Magu, caused by Malami has stirred the heart of every political observer and niggling divergent opinions, chiefly of which it’s a smoke screen battle that is meant to entrench the cliché “nobody” is above the law or that it is a clear cut indictment on the Buhari’s government.

In between these polarised Nigerians is a school of thought. For example, a budding back page columnist, Farooq Kperogi described the whole insipid corruption galore as nothing but “dog-eats-dog food fight involving two dogged scammers, performing as corny dramatis personae. No error would be committed when one concludes that the ongoing charade called legislative oversight is basically for personal interest. Magu’s travail is a cascade of parody symbolising a case of the dog waging the tail. While Magu could not be legally exonerated from all the accusations, Malami SAN seems to have exercised his constitutional power not in accordance with the dictate and spirit of the law.

I was disappointedly discomforted when a special adviser to the president who works in the office of the Attorney General, Mr. Abiodun Aikomo, passionately defended the A.G’s prosecutorial power, wielded against Magu, under section 174 of 1999 CFRN. Mr. Aikomu stoutly averred on the popular Channels TV’s Politics Today that, by virtue of section 174 (1) of the 1999 constitution, the attorney general has enormous power to prosecute, undertake, discontinue or take over any criminal matter before any court in Nigeria. Giving this terse defence, I think some clarifications are imperative so as to safe our bastardized democratic practice from further degeneration.

However, while Mr Aikomo was making reference to the AGF’s power of nolle prosequi in respond to the allegation of non corporation alleged by prof. Itse Sagay SAN who is the chairman of Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption), it can be gleaned that it is believed that Malami’s power of setting law in motion against Magu is derived from section 174 of the constitution. Section 174(1)(a) of the 1999 CFRN says that the AGF shall have power to institute and undertake criminal proceedings against person before any court of law in Nigeria, other than a court marshal, in respect of any offence created by or under any Act of the National Assembly.

The wordings of that section is explicitly clear that, with exception of a court marshal, the constitutional power of the AG to prosecute should be exercised before any court of law in Nigeria and not before a panel of inquiry. Without conceding to the rightness or wrongness, guilt or innocence or malice or good faith behind the arrest, detaining and suspension of the former acting chairman of EFCC, Malami SAN could not have legally exercised his power to prosecute Magu under the section 174(1)(a) as claimed by Mr. Aikomo.

With due respect, I am of the firm view that the Justice Salami, RTA led panel does not have jurisdiction to entertain such matter, where the AG of the Federation is leveraging on his constitutional powers under section 174(1) (a) of the 1999 CFRN. The whole charade called prosecution is no doubt not in public interest- as dictated by section 174(1)(c) of the constitution, hence, is a mere fight of who gets what and disintegration among politricians.

Aside the above misnomer, there is no doubt that Nigeria’s wealth and resources have been egregiously mismanaged by small kleptocratic ruling elite, who have perpetrated and taken advantage of lack of key functional institutions, thus perpetrate every corrupt activity without fear of sanction, simply because there is not going to be any real sanction. The country has been abysmally reduced to the abyss of a banana republic where everybody does what he likes with impunity at the detriment of the masses. If not, what is the theatrical-annoying farce going on in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC that has generated unprecedented opprobrium. It is nothing worth more than a caricature of a failed government. This is another example of a pervasive corruption, in a society where all its appointees are incorrigibly corrupt.

The Senate had set up an Ad-hoc Committee probing the alleged financial misappropriation to the sum of 40 billion by the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the NCDC between January to March this year. Rather than giving convincing account of stewardship of the NCDC, what we got was an embarrassing show of shame far absurd than badly conjured Nollywood script. Despite accusations and counter accusations, there seems to be no touch of remorsefulness from any of these accused politicians, and it’s becoming a certainty that this can fade away just like every other corruption saga emanating from the political class in Nigeria.

The south-south region of Nigeria is the repository of major source of Nigeria’s income. It could have been developed like every other resource-dominated area in the world. Ironically, this region is the most bankrupt in terms of physical infrastructure and development. Take for example, Famigbe town, which is just a 4-min drive from Yenagoa, the capital city of Bayelsa state, the major road leading to it is wooden-made, couple with the absence of other social amenities.

My first visit to Yenagoa erased the thought I had had of an oil rich state which I projected to be a city full of Eldorado. From Agudama Epie enroute Akenfa, Otiotio, Tombia et al all defy the status of cities which could be regarded as an integral part of the capital city of an oil-rich state. Sadly, all these towns are just stone throw to the state government secretariat. The decay and deficit of infrastructural facility is a model of the six states comprising the south-south region. One then wonders in utter disappointment what has happened to the 13% derivative funds, bogus FAAC Allocation, 3% IOC budget, 50% Ecology Funds. The frank truth is, the rots in the Niger Delta Ministry are just a modicum and very minute quantum of embezzlement that has permeated virtually every institution in Nigeria. To further exacerbate our plight, these abysses are majorly engineered by the 3 arms of government, tiers of government and down to the private sector.

Hitherto to the Magu-Malami and NDDC saga, there had been an uproar and confrontation between the Minister of state for labour and employment, Mr. Festus Kenyamo SAN and the NASS joint committee on labour on Federal Government initiative to create 774,000 jobs for the teaming unemployed youths cutting across all the 774,000 local governments in Nigeria. Rather than creating jobs for the unemployed youths and get them engaged, the initiative was seen as an avenue to hijack and create jobs for whoever gets the control and spearhead the program between NASS and the Minister. No doubt, that Nigerians are tactically aware that the face-off between the NASS and the Minister is not for the benefit of the subject; the roaming youths rather, either solely to enrich themselves by siphoning the ginormous amount involved or to build their political hegemonies, which is cynically inclined and merely for personal aggrandisement. They are all scrambling for the “succulent juice” from the job creation funds, which though is a charade like that of the NSCDC job scandals during the Jonathan’s government.

Watching Magu’s alleged malfeasance, Malami’s “malicious” prosecution and Akpabio inveterate disposition, all of which are APC government’s political appointees, it is doubly sure that corruption in Nigeria is a fait accompli, perpetrated by spins and spinners, dogged dogs who are incorrigibly corrupt. What still, this will surely die down just like every other malfeasance brought before the public glare in the past. In conclusion, with the recent concatenations comprising Malami’s gaffe, Magu’s mago mago or travails, Akpabio’s antics, Pondei’s corny scene and Kenyamo-NASS’ lairy and distasteful scrambling, I am cocksure that the whole corruption galore and charade public hearing in Nigeria is sibi sed non omnibus, no doubt not for the public (others) but for self interest, and perhaps, the scourge called corruption is becoming immortal in Nigeria, thus lives on!

Balogun wrote from Lagos.

top students read the entire article before posting unintelligent responses.

“Let me also re-echo my previous position with respect to the insurgency in Borno State. I have said several times (that) there is no doubt, the gravity of the insurgency cannot be compared with what has happened between 2011 – 2015 and from 2015 till date. The President has done well, but the most important thing is, it’s good also to say the right thing. There is sabotage in the system that will not allow the insurgency to end. The President has to know this important point."

News from the French colony next door

Boko Haram attacks Cameroon IDP camp, kills 16

https://www.today.ng/news/africa/boko-haram-attacks-cameroon-idp-camp-kills-16-310678

FrLukas:
I'm seriously suspecting the French government especially.

The UK and the US keep giving financial aid to Africa that they know will be embezzled but keep the continent poor.

They like it like that.

this 12 minute vid from last year shed a lot of light on that theory. most of the innocent killings occur a drive away from surrounding french colony countries.

How France maintains its grip on Africa
388,818 views•Jun 6, 2019


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42_-ALNwpUo

FrLukas:
Lol.

I won't be surprised if the British and French governments have a hand in the killings going on in Nigeria.

very few see the big picture.

I would gather that sHell takes more money out of Naija thru intricate NNPC schemes than the UK sends back to the FG.

circa 2017 UK news article ..... £50million is groundnuts, imagine, diezani alison-madueke jewelry alone was about equal to that figue.

Britain halves foreign aid money to Nigeria and urges country to 'step up' action against Boko Haram

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/31/britain-halves-foreign-aid-money-nigeria/

By Sophie Jamieson

31 AUGUST 2017 • 7:58AM

Britain has halved the amount of money given to Nigeria in humanitarian aid, saying the country's government must "step up and do more" to stop Boko Haram extremists.

It follows a joint visit by Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, and Priti Patel, the International Development Secretary, to Nigeria to see the UK’s response to the humanitarian crisis, where they saw how British military had been training Nigerian soldiers to fight militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

Last night the Government announced £200million of aid funding for the four years from 2018 to 2022. It amounts to £50million per year, half the amount given for 2017.

abeg, how in the bleep did this killer go from being a woman to a lady? nl and dem penchant for bleach as the standard na.

"A 24-year-old woman"

The flight manifest and names of all the passengers goes under strict international travel/aviation laws. Will these rich ppl be identified by the Naija ministry of aviation? Will the media publish the names for all to see?
Gentleman, take your bets. I say/bet no.


Federal Minister of Aviation of Nigeria

Sirika Hadi

where's all my friendly Articulators? y'all have gone very silent.

enjoy mr governor.... but why the photo op? clothes and sandals are very clean ooo.

tell ur friend not to cheat. tell him to use this angle. take a picture of his wife's unclad body, blow it up big, hang it up in dere bedroom once in a while and self service himself in her presence. tell him to talk to the pic by calling her name and making love to her pic. when finish, fold the pic up and store it in a safe place out of reach of their twins for next time.

plan b .... take the pic into the bathroom and get off. she will hear him and get the message that she must perform her half of the matrimonial duties. lolz.

plan c ... go online and learn how to give his wife the massage of her life to relieve the stress and tension she's experiencing.

and screw what some man-made religious doctrine says about not m asturbating. God gave us two hands to help release that built up fluid.

i'd like to see dere fan Pastor Prince Dickson come to the house and perform service one Sunday morning.



Pastor Prince Dickson: 'Laycon Will Be BBNaija 2020 Winner' - TV/Movies - Nairaland

https://www.nairaland.com/6018662/pastor-prince-dickson-laycon-bbnaija

Corruption always fights back!

Arrested Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga freed

By Agencies -August 1, 2020

Zimbabwean top writer and Booker Prize nominee, Tsitsi Dangarembga, was freed on bail on Saturday following her arrest during anti-government protests a day earlier, an AFP journalist in court said.

Dangarembga, 61, was charged with incitement to commit violence and breaching anti-coronavirus health regulations after staging a two-women demonstration in Harare which coincided with the second anniversary of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s disputed election.

She was taken away from a street corner in the upmarket Harare suburb of Borrowdale alongside another protester and hauled into a truck full of police armed with AK-47 rifles and riot gear.

Police had banned the protests called by opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume, head of a small party called Transform Zimbabwe, against alleged state corruption and the country’s slumping economy.


The government had denounced the protests, calling them an “insurrection”.

The Cambridge-educated author’s arrest came days after her latest novel, “This Mournable Body,” entered the long list for the Booker Prize.

Eleven other people arrested on Friday, including Fadzayi Mahere, a lawyer and spokeswoman for the main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance, were also released on Saturday.

Mahere live-streamed via Facebook images of riot police scaling metal barriers into a suburban eatery where she had retreated after her protest, and arrested her.

A magistrate court sent them back home on ZW$5,000 (US$65) bail and ordered them to return to court on September 18.

https://www.today.ng/news/africa/arrested-zimbabwean-author-tsitsi-dangarembga-freed-310438

good gesture ... dem gonna eat gud for a while. hopefully dey have power and adequate refrigeration to store/freeze the meat as needed.


>>People also ask
How many servings of beef do you get from a cow?
Around 746 -12 ounce servings of beef , assuming a completely average cow.

man, i hate to see Naomi Campbell @NaomiCampbell name mixed up with these ghouls & goblins

abeg, yankee resident vs yankee resident.

one lives in california and the other in new jersey.

make dem call ufc and settle tingz in the ring. i go pay to watch the battle.

and a s/o to Champion Israel Adesanya

Sammy07:
Where is Patience Abeq.
I missed her "lost English".

probably in the kitchen where a woman belongs preparing the men ram meat, yam, and jollof

bleep feminism

baliyubla:
Old story, Buhari has been a walking corpse for 2 years now. Trump called him Lifeless for a reason.

now trump is on political life support. see karma visiting him and america now for spreading negative energy concerning someone's health?
trump didn't even give his buddy boris johnson a positive s/o when he was laid up in intensive care with corona.

allthingsgood:
U must be joking
Magu cleanlmao

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Magu had absolute powers

https://www./2020/07/31/suspended-efcc-boss-speaks-on-allegation-of-conspiracy-enrichment-and-abuse-of-public-office/

breeze thru the link when u have time. Magu meticulously checked in with PMB every step of the corruption battles. Malami has real big-time looters out on bond walking around free and one returning to the senate.

I sincerely think he's clean.

I just read another news article on the subject. Too lengthy to copy and paste.


Suspended EFCC Boss Speaks On Allegation Of Conspiracy, Enrichment, And Abuse Of Public Office

Published 3 hours ago on 31.07.2020

By Enioluwa Adeniyi


https://www./2020/07/31/suspended-efcc-boss-speaks-on-allegation-of-conspiracy-enrichment-and-abuse-of-public-office/

@Tranglatar Thanks for posting all this very important information in detail. Chairman Magu handled himself well!

'Readers are Leaders'

potent news development!

BREAKING Jul 30, 2020 ,07:07pm EDT

Cofounder Of Conservative Federalist Society Calls For President Trump To Be Impeached

Matt Perez Forbes Staff
Innovation
I cover breaking news.

Steven Calabresi, cofounder of the conservative Federalist Society, called for a second impeachment inquiry into President Trump in a New York Times opinion piece on Thursday after a tweet earlier in the day from Trump where he falsely characterized mail-in voting and proposed the delay of the 2020 presidential election in November, which the executive branch cannot enact.

KEY FACTS
"Until recently, I had taken as political hyperbole the Democrats’ assertion that President Trump is a fascist," Calabresi said. "But this latest tweet is fascistic and is itself grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate."

Founded in 1982, the Federalist Society is a right-wing organization with 60,000 lawyers, law students and scholars that's been characterized as a "conservative pipeline to the Supreme Court" by the Atlantic, with the most recently confirmed judge Brett Kavanaugh joining the group while at Yale.

In his op-ed, Calabresi notes that he's voted Republican in the presidential election since 1980, opposed the investigation into Russian election interference by Robert Mueller and also was against the impeachment into Trump regarding withholding aid to the Ukraine.

"But I am frankly appalled by the president’s recent tweet seeking to postpone the November election," Calabresi writes, adding that doing so would be "illegal, unconstitutional and without precedent in American history."

Calabresi joins a chorus of both Democratic and Republican voices denouncing Trump's comments, with Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) saying, "We'll cope with whatever the situation is and have the election on November 3 as already scheduled."

Trump sent his tweet the same day it was announced that the U.S. gross domestic product dropped at an annual rate of nearly 33% and amid more and more polls putting presumptive Democratic candidate for president Joe Biden far ahead of Trump in the November election.

CRUCIAL QUOTE
"Election Day was fixed by a federal law passed in 1845, and the Constitution itself in the 20th Amendment specifies that the newly elected Congress meet at noon on Jan. 3, 2021, and that the terms of the president and vice president end at noon on Jan. 20, 2021," Calabresi said. "If no newly elected president is available, the Speaker of the House of Representatives becomes acting president." (Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is the current Speaker.)

TANGENT
While mail-in voting has risen substantially in primary elections held amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the practice dates back to the Civil War and has increasingly been adopted over the years, including for Trump's 2016 election win. While Trump purports widespread fraud through mail-in ballots, he has never shown evidence, and in fact, the Brennan Center for Justice in 2017 set the risk of fraud between 0.00004% to 0.0009%. Additionally, his repeated notion that mail-in voting hurts the chances for Republicans in elections goes against studies that show the practice doesn't help either party.

KEY BACKGROUND
Calabresi joins other conservatives in their vocal dismissal of Trump. The Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans, earned the ire of Trump in May when he called it "a disgrace to Honest Abe."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/07/30/cofounder-of-conservative-federalist-society-calls-for-president-trump-to-be-impeached/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Valerie/#65eb36292a01


WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 29: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as White House Chief of Staff Mark ... [+] GETTY IMAGES

non-witty political party switcher has nothing to say about improving the lives of the ppl of Edo.