₦airaland Forum

some 'northern elders' must be missing the loot from the good ole looting days.

dem can always put dere name in the hat and contest to see if dem can perform better in government.

oh, but wait honourable professor done already served the FG

https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/abdullahi-prof-ango/

hmmm, fast tracking Amotekun, but slow to pay minimum wage and civil servants back salaries. what could go wrong if newly armed Amotekun security ppl don't get dere pay on time and in full?


Minimum Wage: Oyo, Lagos Lead In South West – The Source

https://thesourceng.com/minimum-wage-oyo-lagos-lead-in-south-west/


NLC: 20 states not paying minimum wage

https://thenationonlineng.net/nlc-20-states-not-paying-minimum-wage/

where are the grownups?

Ekiti PDP sacks Fayose’s loyalist

February 7, 2020 in News, News Update

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From Rasaq Ibrahim, Ado-Ekiti
The internal crisis rocking the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) worsened yesterday as the party hierarchy sacked a die-hard loyalist of former governor Ayodele Fayose, Mr. Dare Olomofe.

The party also suspended two ward chairmen, Messrs Remigious Ogunmoriye and Tope Makanjuola, for allegedly conducting elections to fill vacancies in their wards without authorisation from the State Working Committee.

The PDP in the state has for some time been polarised over the leadership issue between Fayose and Senator Biodun Olujimi, with the party State Working Committee divided.

Olomofe, who was the party’s acting chairman of Ado Local Government, was removed from office for alleged involvement in anti-party activities capable of sinking the PDP.

According to a statement signed by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Jackson Adebayo, Olomofe was appointed by the State Working Committee, led by its state Chairman, Gbogega Oguntuase, to act in the place of the Chairman of the party, Mr. Akintunde Osadeyi, who had been suspended from the party.

Adebayo added: “The State Executive Committee, after considering the report of the committee set up to review the suspension of Mr. Akintunde Osadeyi, he was reinstated to his office as the substantive chairman of PDP, Ado-Ekiti Local Government.”

Ogunmoriye and Makanjuola, according to Adebayo, were given three months suspension, in line with Section 58(1) of the constitution of the party, while their vice chairmen would act in acting capacity pending the expiration of the punishment.

Adebayo appealed to members of the party to respect the constitution of the PDP and the leaders for internal cohesion that would position the party to reclaim Ekiti in 2023.

https://thenationonlineng.net/ekiti-pdp-sacks-fayoses-loyalist-2/

Revelation 18:2 seems to describe this market area

24 Bible Verses about Unclean Spirits

https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Unclean-Spirits

Trina & Trick Daddy-Pull over dat yansh is too fat

https://www./video/x1g79o

South South stand up and enjoy the fruits of the repatriated loot, and efforts of the EFCC to stem the looting industry.
Ppl always ask where did the confiscated/seized money go? open thine bright eyes and brains my friends.

his money and no hate but mr popular entertainer could have provided solar energy units to a 9ja factory or a few villages/schools instead if sending it off to Switzerland na. recently he was in Dubai spending millions. this spending money offshore on material tingz mentality (not just him) needs to end for development to happen.


"Patek Philippe SA is a Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer founded in 1839, located in Canton of Geneva and the Vallée de Joux. Since 1932, it has been owned by the Stern family in Switzerland.
Founded: May 1, 1839, Geneva, Switzerland"

him should have gifted the masses some new Innoson Motors buses and created some driving and public transportation management jobs with all that money.

i always thought dat these were criminals, foreign mercenaries, and paid drug addicts leaving devices in churches and mosques to create fear and division and not suicidal religious zealots.

suicide b omber this and dat always dominated the headlines rapidly.

today Fulani herdsmen are allegedly creating all the diversionary havoc.

dat was quite da drama last night.

home training at it's best, na.

I thought as much. Every other day Osho dis and Osho dat coming out of his mouth to deflect from the heat of his alleged looting. Now it is out in the open.

The APC must deal with one of dere own promptly or this governor will boast and prance until immunity done finish just like the others convicted or being tried.

The constitution needs to be updated immediately on the immunity thing for seated politicians.

new news from papa samuel

Father of suspected suicide bomber caught in Winners Chapel speaks, reveals his true name

Posted by Abiolapaul on February 5, 2020 at 12:01pm


The father of Nathaniel Samuel, the man who was arrested for trying to bomb a Living Faith Church, a.k.a Winners’ Chapel, in Kaduna, has confirmed that his son is a Christian, and not a Muslim as being speculated on social media.

“No! Not even for a single day has he been a Muslim,” Nathaniel’s father, Mr. Samuel Ezekiel, said in his Marabar Demishi village in Kaduna.

The alleged bomber’s true identity has become a controversy in the social media, with some accusing the police of changing his name to deflect anger against Boko Haram or the Muslim community.

Some reports said Samuel had told the Christian leaders who arrested him at the Winners Chapel branch in Kaduna that he was Mohammed Sani, only for the police to parade him as Nathaniel Samuel.

However, a Daily Trust reporter, who visited the father along with the Kaduna state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Joseph Hayab, found otherwise.

Nathaniel was born in 1991 and schooled in the state, his father said. His mother is from Nasarawa state even though she no longer lives with them.

Mr. Ezekiel said his son has been a Christian and not a Muslim even for a single day. He denied that his son bears Mohammed Sani.

Ezekiel also said he was shocked when he was told that his son carried a bomb into a church because he wondered what would have happened to the lives of people in the church.

“If he was alone, I don’t care but for the lives that are in the church, I begin to wonder. I shed tears,” he said.

Reverend Hayab Joseph said he knew the father of the suspect for many years, noting that it’s just that he didn’t know that Nathaniel was the son of Mr. Ezekiel until he visited the house.

He said CAN is not concerned about Nathaniel’s name or religion but the act of criminality that he would have committed which should be addressed.

He also expressed disappointment over the failure of the Police to do a thorough check on the suspect’s background, saying that would have saved Nigerians a lot of stress on the identity of the suspect





http://community.thenationonlineng.net/forum/father-of-suspected-suicide-bomber-caught-in-winners-chapel-speak?xg_source=twitter

(DailyTrust)

osuofia2:
AUDIO, WHAT OF THE OSBORNE TOWER CASH, NIGERIANS ARE GULLIBLE FALLING FOR SAME SCRIPT DIFFERENT ACTORS KIND OF MOVIES,

i remember reading the whistleblower had to hire a lawyer to get his fee. sorry i don't have FP NL link.

IKOYI CASH: Whistleblower gets N421m, jets out of Nigeria

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/12/ikoyi-cash-whistleblower-gets-n421m-jets-nigeria/

Things are looking up in Naija

African Economic Outlook 2020

https://www.afdb.org/en/documents/african-economic-outlook-2020

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Africa’s economic outlook continues to brighten. Its real GDP growth, estimated at 3.4 percent for 2019, is projected to accelerate to 3.9 percent in 2020 and to 4.1 percent in 2021.
--- AFDB


E. Africa’s contribution has shrunk, from more than 32% in 2016 to less than 20% in 2019, as has S. Africa’s, from 6% to 4%. W. Africa’s contribution has increased over the last few years from below 7% to more than 28 %, primarily as a result of Nigeria’s recovery from recession

Many ppl are already very upset and angry with this new visa policy. Thousands have made plans for family unification or earn specialized degrees. Many more send billions of dollars back to Africa to care for loved ones. Stay tuned folks!


New U.S. Travel Ban Shuts Door on Africa’s Biggest Economy, Nigeria
The visa rules will affect nearly a quarter of the people on the African continent, including many hoping to join loved ones already in the U.S.

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A street in Kano, Nigeria. Nigeria is one of four African countries that President Trump added to his travel ban on Friday.Credit...KC Nwakalor for The New York Times

By Ruth Maclean and Abdi Latif Dahir
Published Feb. 2, 2020
Updated Feb. 3, 2020, 6:54 a.m. ET

The newlyweds had already been apart for half their yearlong marriage. Miriam Nwegbe was in Nigeria. Her husband was in Baltimore, and until she could join him, everything was on hold: finding a home together, trying for their first baby, becoming an American family.

Then, on Friday, their lives were thrown into disarray by the expansion of President Trump’s ban on immigration to include six new countries, including four in Africa. Nigeria, the continent’s most populous nation, was one of them.

“America has killed me,” Ms. Nwegbe’s husband, Ikenna, an optometrist, texted her when he heard. “We are finished.”

A year after the Trump administration announced that a major pillar of its new strategy for Africa was to counter the growing influence of China and Russia by expanding economic ties to the continent, it slammed the door shut on Nigeria, the continent’s biggest economy.

The travel restrictions also apply to three other African countries — Sudan, Tanzania, and Eritrea — as well as to Myanmar, which is accused of genocide against its Muslim population, and Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet state.

The ban will prevent thousands of people from being able to move to the United States.

The initial ban, which was put into effect in 2017, restricted travel from some Muslim-majority countries as part of Mr. Trump’s plan to keep out “radical Islamic terrorists.” It has already affected more than 135 million people — many of them Christians — from seven countries.

With the new expansion, the ban will affect nearly a quarter of the 1.2 billion people on the African continent, according to W. Gyude Moore, a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, a research group, potentially taking a heavy toll on African economies — and on America’s image in the region.

“Chinese, Turkish, Russian, and British firms, backed by their governments, are staking positions on a continent that will define the global economy’s future,” he said, adding, “One hopes that the United States would follow suit and fully engage with the continent — but that hope fades.”

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Protesters denouncing President Trump’s travel ban in New York in 2017.Credit...Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The rationale for the new restrictions varies depending on country, but the White House announcement said that most of the six countries added to the list did not comply with identity-verification and information-sharing rules.

And Nigeria, it said, posed a risk of harboring terrorists who may seek to enter the United States. The country has been hit brutally by the Islamist group Boko Haram, though the extremists have shown little sign that they have the capability to export their fight overseas.

Critics, many of whom also denounced the initial ban, saw something far more venal at play.

“Trump’s travel bans have never been rooted in national security — they’re about discriminating against people of color,” Senator Kamala Harris, the former Democratic presidential candidate, declared on Sunday. “They are, without a doubt, rooted in anti-immigrant, white supremacist ideologies."

Two Democrats still in the race also weighed in. Elizabeth Warren described the measure as a “racist, xenophobic Muslim ban.” Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called it “a disgrace.”

And Nancy Pelosi, the house speaker, said Democratic lawmakers would push ahead with a measure to forbid religious discrimination in immigration policy.

Beyond those people who may now never make it across American borders, the new ban could also affect millions who have no plans to travel to the United States themselves but may have benefited from the billions of dollars in remittances visa holders send home each year.

The United States may also emerge a loser, studies suggest. Nigerians are among the most successful and highly educated immigrants to America. (Mr. Trump, demanding to know why immigration policies did not favor people from countries like Norway, once disparaged those from Africa and Haiti, and said Nigerians would never go back to their “huts” if they were allowed in.)

Hadiza Aliyu lives in Borno, the Nigerian state at the epicenter of the Boko Haram crisis that has left tens of thousands dead. But she thought she had found a way out.

Ms. Aliyu was preparing to apply to move to the United States, where she once studied and where her two brothers live.

She was furious when she heard about the extended ban.

“Trump has been looking for a way to get at us Africans for a very long time, and finally got us,” Ms. Aliyu said. “To hell with Republicans and their supremacist ideas.”

Mika Moses moved to Minnesota from Nigeria nine years ago to join his mother and siblings, who were allowed entry after the family was attacked in religious riots in their northern city of Kaduna in 1991. His wife, Juliet, and their daughter were planning to join him, but are stuck in Kaduna, where Ms. Moses sells soda in a small store.

She said they were heartbroken by the news that the move would now be impossible.

“I have been struggling to raise our daughter alone,” she said. “Why would Trump do this to us, after we have waited for nine years?”

Nigerians already living in the United States have been calling lawyers to try to figure out whether they will have to leave. Marilyn Eshikena, a biomedical research ethicist, has lived in the United States for the past seven years, but her visa expires this year. Her employer sponsored her application for a green card.

“If it turns out that everything needs to stop, they will feel cheated, because they spent a lot of money on this process,” Ms. Eshikena said. “I will also feel cheated, because all the time that I spent working here will ultimately be for nothing. I can’t even imagine what packing up and leaving will mean for me.”

Her departure may also have serious consequences for her brother, who is studying in Canada. Ms. Eshikena has been sending part of her earnings to help pay his rent.

Some Nigerians praised Mr. Trump for his decision, arguing it might make it more difficult for those responsible for stealing government money back home to find cover in the United States, and force the country’s leaders to be more honest and work harder to develop Nigeria.

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Mr. Trump with President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria at the White House in 2018.Credit...Tom Brenner

In 2018, 7,922 immigrant visas were issued to Nigerians. Of these, 4,525 went to the immediate relatives of American citizens, and another 2,820 to other family members. An estimated 345,000 people born in Nigeria were living in the United States in 2017, according to the census bureau.

If the visas are coveted in Nigeria, they are just as prized in African countries like Eritrea, where government repression is rampant and those who try to leave face obstacles and danger. With more than 500,000 refugees living outside the country, Eritrea was the ninth-largest source of refugees in the world in 2018, according to the United Nations, but fewer than 900 Eritreans received immigrant visas to the United States that year.

Abraham Zere, a journalist who moved to the United States from Eritrea in 2012, had dreamed of living in the same country as his mother since leaving home. On Saturday, he said his plans to bring her to the United States had been thrown into disarray. His family has been in constant communication on the messaging platform WhatsApp trying to understand what the ban will mean for them.

“This decision complicates everything and creates fear,” said Mr. Zere, 37, a doctoral candidate at the School of Media Arts and Studies at Ohio University.

Mr. Zere and other Eritreans say they can’t go back. They fear they will be punished for criticizing the government or leaving without approval.

“If I can’t be reunited with my mother,” Mr. Zere said, “it nullifies the whole notion of protection and punishes innocent citizens for reasons they had no slightest part in.”

With nine siblings scattered across Europe, Africa, and the United States, Mr. Zere said their family has never had a full family portrait taken.

The economic consequences of the ban could be far-reaching, experts said.

“Being cut off from the largest economy in the world systematically is problematic,” said Nonso Obikili, a Nigerian economist.

The biggest impact, he said, could be on remittances.

Nigerians abroad send home billions of dollars each year, $24 billion in 2018 alone, according to the accounting firm PwC. With Nigeria’s economy highly dependent on oil and its unemployment rate at 23 percent, this money provides a lifeline for millions of its citizens.

The new restrictions come at a time when the United States says it wants to jockey for power in Africa, particularly through its “Prosper Africa” initiative announced last summer, which aims to double two-way trade and investment.

“If on the one hand you’re trying to make a push into Africa, and on the other hand you’re barring the largest African country by population from moving to your country, then it does send mixed signals,” Mr. Obikili said.

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Two of the Somali refugees who had been bound for the U.S. in 2017 but were marooned in a transit center in Nairobi after Mr. Trump ordered a travel ban.Credit...Sven Torfinn

In January 2017, Mr. Trump’s travel ban targeted several other African nations, including Chad, Libya, and Somalia. Chad was later removed from that list, but the executive order halted the plans of thousands of Somali refugees living in camps in Kenya who were about to travel to the United States and start new lives.

According to the United States Department of Homeland Security, nearly 30,000 Nigerians overstayed their nonimmigrant visas in 2018. The number of Nigerians visiting the United States dropped sharply after the Trump administration made it harder for visitors to obtain visas last summer.

The new restrictions affect those who want to move to the United States, not visit it.

The six countries newly added to the immigration ban are not easily categorized together by religion. Nigeria, for example is thought to be home to more than 200 million people, roughly half of them Muslim and half Christian. Of the four African countries newly singled out, only Sudan has a significant majority of Muslims.

The United States has left Sudan on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, even as the country works to reverse decades of authoritarian rule under President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who was deposed in April.

“This ban contributes to the overall impression that Sudan remains a very fragile state,” said Cameron Hudson, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council, a research group.

Many people from the countries newly targeted by the ban said the uncertainty was the hardest thing to bear. Ms. Nwegbe, the newlywed, who works as the chief operating officer of a tourism company that tries to encourage people to visit Africa, said the ban came as she and her husband were building their future.

“We’re in limbo and our relationship is suffering,” she said. “This is unnecessary hardship.”

Reporting was contributed by Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Eromo Egbejule, Isaac Abrak, Ismail Alfa and Emmett Lindner.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/world/africa/trump-travel-ban.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

voltron14:
FFK knows him personally.

They sniff glue together.

glue or

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CollinsWeGlobe:
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Kudos and I envy you bro. God done abundantly blessed you with travel money, a peaceful vacation spot, and plenty of good food.
I have to step up my game. Cooking in my compound is getting monotonous but stomach is still happy.

@ SHTFguy

interesting thread and question from 2017! i noticed no one on NL could supply an intelligent answer, (including myself), and the Interpol search app is still blank.

If Nnamdi Kanu Is On The Run, Then Why Has Interpol Not Been Informed?

https://www.nairaland.com/4086685/nnamdi-kanu-run-then-why

the guy lived up to his word ...

Time to catch up into the 21st century

Some ppl call it 'Next Level'

Ooni Ogunwusi Launches Nigerian-Made Buses For Mass Transit

https://www.nairaland.com/2899001/ooni-ogunwusi-launches-nigerian-made-buses

Big blessings coming for the Chairman of Innoson Motors, Innocent Chukwuma and company!

Bad investment op, divorce amicably and move on.

thank goodness there's children involved, and hopefully u tapped that yansh for a good 5 years and two months to break-even.

and next time don't be a simp-simpleton. 'fear women'

donstan18:
I see nothing but a married lady who so much miss the magnifying great sex she was getting from her ex and scared she'll one day fall for him if he keeps on visiting.

gbam ...

Good story!

OFF-GRID SOLUTIONS
Affordable solar plan for rural home owners
In Summary
•The Kenya National Electrification Strategy recognizes the key role played by off-grid options, mini-grids and stand-alone solar systems in achieving universal access to electricity for all Kenyans by 2022.

https://www.the-star.co.ke/business/kenya/2020-02-02-affordable-solar-plan-for-rural-home-owners/

A very enlightening film about the sad and challenging conditions in the Kinshasa, DRC
Grab a box of tissues!

The Fighter and the love-vendor: Fighting for Congo's most vulnerable girls - BBC Africa Eye documentary

23,469 views•Jan 27, 2020


BBC News Africa

In the DRC’s capital city, wrestling has helped an extraordinary woman to escape the violent streets on which she grew up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26CWF7lQU40

It overwhelmingly seems like the same political policy with both of these two leaders when it comes to Sub-Saharan Africans.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/72e8e6b90d4a1ced3c179ad105dd45afe1f9675e/0_137_2465_1479/master/2465.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=231f5da179db18df7b688b822bfeebc1

" If you're white, it's all right -- If you're brown, stick around— But if you're black, Get back—get back—get back"

Babe done came a long way from the early Mavin Records days sha.

Tiwa Savage Shares Bikini Photos: "How Many Times Did You Zoom In?"

https://www.nairaland.com/5663278/tiwa-savage-shares-bikini-photos

abeg, why https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrump no answer/respond to Honourable former 9ja VP Atiku Abubakar?
@atiku https://twitter.com/atiku/status/1223548457128005632?s=08

him use @ several times oo.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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1h
Getting a little exercise this morning!

wise letter. he's given much thought to the security situation!

"But I refuse to use the word Fulani because I have Fulani friends that are so awesome and nice. But certain devils, some of which are foreigners, even like the Arewa group had rightly said last year, have infiltrated their ranks and fabrics and these foreign devil’s incarnate operate with audacity and temerity, without caring whose ox is gored. We must fish them out!"

Professor Ibrahim shares similar a viewpoint. And keep in mind that nearby border neighbor Cameroon is a modern day French colony. Ditto the Republics of Niger and the Benin.

Why France Kidnapped West Africa’s Eco Currency, By Jibrin Ibrahim

https://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2019/12/27/why-france-kidnapped-west-africas-eco-currency-by-jibrin-ibrahim/

" The third political motive for the Eco move is to ensure that Nigeria is permanently kept out of the currency. As Professor Ibrahim Gambari has always said, France has always defined itself as the main power block in Africa and so has always seen Nigeria’s self-definition as an African power as a threat to its interests. It is therefore surprising that Nigeria, which is the main target of this French action, has been quiet about what is going on. Meanwhile, the French are trying to woo Ghana to join the Eco, so as to completely isolate Nigeria. The fact that Nigeria has closed its borders with its three Francophone neighbours also created conditions to push the Francophone countries to join this plot against Nigeria. In this tenth year of the battle against Boko Haram, in which France is a major player with troops, planes and drones on the ground, understanding the French role in West Africa is very important and my hope is that we have a strong working group following the issues."

conspiracy theorists opine that the elite have designs to reduce the population of the planet.


Bill Gates predicted a coronavirus-like outbreak in 2019 Netflix documentary show 'The Next Pandemic'

https://www.ccn.com/bill-gates-predicted-coronavirus-like-outbreak-in-2019-netflix-documentary/


Royal Family
'I am rude but it's fun': Prince Philip in his own words

"On reincarnation
In 1988, he said: ‘In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.’"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/0/prince-philip-words/


Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity. Unite humanity with a living new language. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

Islie:
...as January 31 deadline ends

https://thenationonlineng.net/minimum-wage-labour-gears-for-war-with-15-governors/

i just read it, thanks for posting. i support labour 100%.