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SARAKI’S HIJACK

RIGHT FROM THE DAY SARAKI WAS ELECTED SENATE PRESIDENT HE WAS MARKED OUT AS ENEMY NUMBER ONE BY THE LEADERS OF THE PARTY WHOSE FLAG HE FLIES. SARAKI DREW THE IRE OF THE LEADERS BECAUSE HE STAGED A CIVILIAN COUP BY BEING SMART ENOUGH TO HIJACK THE SEAT DAVID MARK WILL SO LOVE TO HAVE. A DECISION THE LIKES OF AHMED LAWAN MAY NEVER BE HAPPY WITH. SINCE SARAKI HIJACKED THE SENATE SEAT HE’S STORY HAS BEEN MORE LIKE THAT OF A CHILD WHO SAYS HIS MOTHER WILL NOT SLEEP, OF COURSE THAT CHILD WILL ALSO BE COMPELLED TO KEEP VIGIL AS LONG AS THE MOTHER PLEASES BUT IN AS MUCH AS SARAKI IS YET TO GET SOME SLEEP, IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT HIS ENEMIES CAN ONLY RELY ON THE CODE OF CONDUCT BUREAU AND IT’S SUDDEN REALISATION THAT SARAKI DECLARED FALSE ASSETS IN 2003.

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THE DEATH OF ALAMS

IT IS BELIEVED THAT IT IS AS WE LAY OUR BED THAT WE LIE ON IT.
THIS WAS THE FAITH OF A FORMER GOVENOR WHO DIED AFTER REQUESTS BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO HAVE HIM EXTRADITED TO. BEFORE HIS DEATH, ALAMIEYESEIGHA (GFX ALAMMIEYESEIGHA) WAS WANTED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ON ACCOUNTS OF MONEY LAUNDERING. BACK IN 2005 THE FORMER GOVERNOR WAS CAUGHT WITH 1 MILLION POUNDS (GFX: POUNDS STASH) CASH BY THE METROPOLITAN POLICE(GFX MET POLICE) BUT WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE BEAT SECURITY PROTOCOLS BY DISGUISING AS A WOMAN. THE MET POLICE ALSO DISCOVERED THAT “ALAMS”, AS HE IS FONDLY CALLED, ALSO HAD I.8 MILLION POUNDS STASHED IN A BRITISH BANK ACCOUNT AND OWNED A REAL ESTATE PROPERTY IN LONDON WORTH TEN MILLION POUNDS. AFTER FLEEING LONDON TO NIGERIA, HE WAS IMPEACHED ON THE 9TH OF DEC 2005 ON GROUNDS OF CORRUPTION AND JAILED FOR CORRUPT PRACTICES BUT ON MARCH 12, 2013, THE FORMER GOVERNOR WAS GIVEN A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN. UNFORTUNATELY, SHORTLY AFTER THE WIND OF CHANGE BLEW AND SIGNS OF EXTRADITION CONTINUED TO DANCE LIKE A DETERMINED MASQUERADE, ALAMIEYESEIGHA WAS REPORTED TO HAVE DIED OF CARDIAC ARREST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT TEACHING HOSPITAL, AGED 63.

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DIEZANI ALLISON MADUEKE SCANDAL

DIEZANI ALLISON MADUEKE HAS HELD THREE SIGNIFICANT POSITIONS IN THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT CABINET. SHE WAS APPOINTED TRANSPORT MINISTER IN JULY 2007. ON 23 DECEMBER 2008, SHE WAS NAMED AS MINISTER OF MINES AND STEEL DEVELOPMENT. AFTER VICE-PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN BECAME ACTING PRESIDENT IN FEBRUARY 2010, HE DISSOLVED THE CABINET ON 17 MARCH 2010, AND SWORE IN A NEW CABINET ON 6 APRIL 2010 WITH ALISON-MADUEKE AS MINISTER FOR PETROLEUM RESOURCES.
AS MINISTER OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES, ALISON-MADUEKE PLEDGED TO TRANSFORM NIGERIA'S OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY SO THAT ALL NIGERIANS WILL BENEFIT BUT HER LAST DAYS IN OFFICE WERE MARRED WITH ALLEGATIONS OF ALL SORTS RANGING FROM CORRUPTION TO GRACING ANOTHER MAN’S BED.
ON OCTOBER 2, 2015, REUTERS REPORTED THAT ALISON-MADUEKE HAD BEEN ARRESTED BY THE NATIONAL CRIME AGENCY ALONG WITH FIVE OTHER PEOPLE ON SUSPICION OF BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION OFFENCES. HER FAMILY CONFIRMED SHE HAD BEEN ARRESTED IN LONDON.
ALSO, HER HOME IN ASOKORO, ABUJA WAS RAIDED AND SEALED BY ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENTS OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION, SOON AFTER HER ALLEGED ARREST IN LONDON.
THERE ARE ALSO ALLEGATIONS OF FINANCIAL IMPROPRIETY LEVELLED AGAINST HER, ESPECIALLY THE ALLEGED DISAPPEARANCE OF $20BILLION, BUT ALISON MADUEKE HAS DESCRIBED THIS AS A LIE INTENDED TO CAST ASPERSIONS ON HER PERSON.
SHE RESPONDED BY SAYING, “HOW CAN $20BILLION DISAPPEAR JUST LIKE THAT? WHERE DID IT DISAPPEAR TO? IS IT POSSIBLE THAT SUCH AN AMOUNT WOULD NOT BE TRACEABLE?
WELL, WHETHER THE 20 BILLION IS MISSING OR NOT, ALLISON’S ARREST IN THE UK QUALIFIES HER TO BE ON OUR 2015 CONTROVERSIAL MOMENTS.

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THE HAJJ ATAMPEDE

IN TIMES PAST, PEOPLE HAVE DIED DURING THE HAJJ BUT ON 24TH OF SEPTEMBER 2015, THE DEADLIEST HAJJ DISASTER IN HISTORY TOOK PLACE KILLING ABOUT 2,431 PEOPLE WITH NIGERIA HAVING IT’S OWN SHARE OF CASUALTIES AS ABOUT 274 NIGERIANS WERE KILLED AND 44 WENT MISSING LEAVING THE COUNTRY WITH THE THIRD LARGEST AMOUNT OF DAMAGES OUT OF THE FORTY-TWO COUNTRIES AFFECTED.
PROMINENT NIGERIANS THAT DIED INCLUDE: MUSA HASSAN ALKALI—JUSTICE, NIGERIAN COURT OF APPEAL, BELLO GIDAN HAMMA—CHAIRMAN,ILLELA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ABDULKADIR JEGA—JUSTICE, NIGERIAN COURT OF APPEAL, SHEHU KONTAGORA—NIGER STATE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL, FAISAL MUSA—MEMBER, KATSINA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, ABBAS IBAHIM SAMBO, EMIR OF ZING, ABDULLAHI T. YELDU- MEMBER, KEBBI STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, ADEOLA MAURUFUDEEN ADEFOLABI—ONE TERM HONOURABLE MEMBER REPRESENTING IFAKO IJAIYE IN THE LOWER CHAMBER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND FORMER CHAIRMAN OF IFAKO IJAIYE AND OJOKORO LOCL GOVERNMENT AREAS, TIJANI EL-MISKIN—PROFESSOR OF ISLAMIC STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI,FORMER HEAD OF SPECIAL TRAINING COURSE FOR THE STUDENTS OF ARABIC STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI IN GAMBORU,CHAIRMAN OF THE BORNO STATE PILGRIM BOARD. HAJIYA BILIKISU YUSUF—FIRST FEMALE EDITOR FROM NOTHERN PART OF NIGERIA, SHE STUDIED POLITICAL SCIENCE IN NIGERIA AND THE USA AND JOURNALISM IN RUSSIA.AFTER THAT BILIKISU YUSUF PURSUED A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN JOURNALISM IN NIGERIA, WORKING FOR DAILY TRUST AND LEADERSHIP NEWSPAPERS AND SEVERAL LOCAL EDITIONS IN KANO AND KADUNA STATES.
WE AT *** PRAY THAT WE WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE SUCH A CONTROVERSIAL MOMENT AGAIN.


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THE DASUKI SCANDAL

THE DASUKI SCANDAL CAME LIKE A WHIRL WIND, WE WERE FIGHTING BOKO HARAM (GFX ARMED MILITANT) OR SO WE THOUGHT. WE WERE LOOKING FOR THE CHIBOK GIRLS (GFX CHIBOK GIRLS) OR SO WE THOUGHT. WE KNEW WE HAD ENOUGH FUNDS TO BEEF UP OUR ARMY BUT STILL IT SEEMED LIKE WE WERE LOOSING. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THE MONEY RECOVERED FROM THE ABACHA LOOT(GFX ABACHA) TO HELP FIGHT INSURGENTS WOULD BE RE-LOOTED BY THOSE IN WHOSE HANDS WE ENTRUSTED THE SECURITY OF OVER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY MILLION PEOPLE?(GFX : MAP OF NIGERIA) WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT ANYONE COULD SPEND 2.1 BILLION DOLLARS(GFX: STASH OF DOLLARS) ON MEDIA CAMPAIGNS, PRAYERS, AND INDUCEMENTS JUST SO AN ELECTION CAN BE WON BY THE SAME SET OF PEOPLE WHO CLAIM THAT WINNING AN ELECTION IS NOT A DO OR DIE AFFAIR? FOR THOSE WHO ARE YET TO REALISE THE MAGNITUDE OF THE LOOTED FUNDS; A BILLION DOLLARS IS THE SAME AS A MILLION DOLLARS IN A THOUSAND PLACES.(GFX OF PLENTY STASHES OF DOLLARS)
AS A COUNTRY, WE ALL AWAIT THE END OF THIS CASE


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THE DEATH OF AUDU ABUBAKAR

THE DEATH OF KOGI STATE GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE, AUDU ABUBAKAR, NEARLY BROUGHT HIS FAMILY TO ITS KNEES (SILENT FILM), AND AS IF THAT WASN’T ENOUGH, IT ALL BUT TORE THE APC INTO SHREDS AND THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION INTO A KINDERGARTEN HANDBOOK. FOR THE APC, THE TASK OF PRESENTING A NEW CANDIDATE PROVED TO BE BIGGER THAN THEIR UNITY AS MANY FELT THEIR HEADS WERE WORTHY OF THE CAP ONLY ONE OF THEM CAN WEAR, AND FOR THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION; THE DEATH OF THIS EX-GOVERNOR TURNED GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE WAS UNPRECEDENTED AND CONFUSING TO THE POINT WHERE EVEN THE SENATE HAS NOT THOUGHT OF PASSING A BILL TO TACKLE THE LOOP HOLE THIS DEATH BROUGHT JUST IN CASE IT RECURS…..OR MAYBE THEY HAVE BUT STILL DON’T CONSIDER IT RELEVANT ENOUGH FOR A MOTION TO BE MOVED SO THAT THE COUNTRY CAN BE SAVED FROM SUCH CHALLENGE IN FUTURE.


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THE EMERGENCE OF BUHARI/OSINBAJO

THE CHANGE MANTRA CAME LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT AND TOOK US ALL LIKE RAPTURE WOULD. BEFORE THE ELECTION MANY WONDERED HOW THE INCUMBENT WILL BE DEFEATED WITHOUT THROWING THE COUNTRY INTO A CIVIL WAR. SOME WROTE OPEN LETTERS AND SOME WERE SYCOPHANTS (GFX OBASANJO). SOME SWITCHED POLITICAL PARTIES AND SOME VISITED MEN OF GOD WITH HOPES OF GETTING THE SUPERNATURAL HELP THEY BELIEVE IS REQUIRED TO WIN AN ELECTION. SOME STEPPED ON TOES AND WERE NEVER FORGIVEN. SOME ELECTORAL CANDIDATES WERE ARM TWISTED AND SOME REFUSED TO COWER. SOME CITIZENS TOOK THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES OUT OF THE COUNTRY FOR FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN WHILE SOME STAYED BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED ALL WILL BE WELL. SOME MEN OF GOD MADE PREDICTIONS AND SOME FELT IT WAS BETTER TO KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT.AS RESULTS WERE COLLATED ,TEMPERS FLARED, WE EXPERIENCED THE “ORUBEBEIC RANTS” OF A CERTAIN FORMER MINISTER OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC(VIDEO OF ORUBEBE) AND HOW HE WAS SERVED A DOSAGE OF “JEGAMAICIN TABS” BY A CERTAIN INEC CHAIRMAN(VIDEO OF JEG’S RESPONSE).IN THE END, WE ALL EXPERIENCED A GESTURE WE COULD NEVER HAVE PREDICTED EVEN IF WE WERE RENOWNED SOOTHSAYER: THE INCUMBENT THREW IN THE TOWEL BEFORE RESULTS WERE EVEN ANNOUNCED AND LEFT THE OFFICE WITH HUGE ADMIRATION FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.(VIDEO OR AUDIO OF THE PHONE CALL).THE CHANGE MANTRA ENDED UP SWEEPING TWENTY-ONE STATES OUT OF 36 WITH A TOTAL NUMBER OF 15,424,921 VOTES AND LEFT THE INCUMBENT WITH FIFTEEN STATES AND THE FCT AFTER IT SECURED A TOTAL OF 12,853,162 VOTES.(GFX: TABLE)

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