shortgun:
Tinubu should be impeached for Nigerians to recover simple

Kukutente23:

Maybe we should rate them with like and share too. What do you think?

I'm thinking of writing a piece on the hypocrisy of agbadorians and the president's 1 year anniversary.

You know, ever since the 1900s, every administration all over the world, be it civil or military have always had its scorecard unveiled after its 1st year in office. The president of that govt will use that occasion to give account of his stewardship in the past year and what is expected going forward.

But as the first anniversary of this govt nears, supporters of this govt have been working overtime to shift attention from the man who got the votes to his appointees. Instead of the usual rate this administration in this or that sector poll, what we're seeing is polls on ministers!

Mind you except for the Minister for petroleum, none of the ministers will be up to a year in office by May 29th. Same mouth Agbadorians used to tell us to wait and rate the president after a year is the same mouth they now use to tell us to rate ministers who are less than a year in office.

This barefaced hypocrisy being masked as public engagement is a tacit admission of the failure of their godfather in his first year in office. So to save face, they turn it to a gladiatorial contest in which the crowd is asked which minister is to be fed to the lions.

Nigerians must be aware of those who are destroying the nation on the altar of lies, hypocrisy and sycophantic worship.

Some Canadian provinces have logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, with next of kin citing funeral costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones' remains.

The phenomenon has prompted at least one province to build a new storage facility. Demand for memorial fundraisers has surged. The overall cost of a funeral in Canada at the top end has increased to about $8,800 from about $6,000 in 1998, according to industry trade group estimates.

In Ontario, Canada's most populous province, the number of unclaimed dead bodies rose to 1,183 in 2023 from 242 in 2013, said Dirk Huyer, the province's chief coroner.

In most of those cases, next of kin were identified but unable to claim the body for a variety of reasons, the most common being money. Finances went from being the reason for 20% of the total unclaimed bodies in 2022 to 24% in 2023.

"It's distressing because it's a person who has passed and there's nobody – family, friends, or others – that are in a position to be able to provide instructions or plans for that person after their death," Huyer said.

Officially, in Ontario, a body is deemed unclaimed after 24 hours. But the coroner's office staff may spend weeks trying to locate next of kin, he said. If the relatives confirm they are unable to claim a body, the local municipality works with a funeral home to provide a simple burial.

In the meantime the body is kept in a morgue or temperature-controlled storage facility.
"There's always been families that are in need of additional assistance. (But) I've never seen the number of unclaimed remains that currently exist," said Allan Cole, owner of the Toronto-based funeral home MacKinnon and Bowes.

In Quebec, the number of unclaimed bodies grew to 183 in 2023 from 66 in 2013. In Alberta, the number of bodies for whom no next of kin could be located to claim them rose to 200 in 2023 from 80 in 2016.

Historically, the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador did not encounter enough unclaimed remains to warrant long-term storage, a spokesperson for Newfoundland Health Services told Reuters.
Now, in the wake of an uproar over unclaimed bodies kept in freezers outside the hospital, the province is constructing a permanent storage unit to hold remains.

"People weren't claiming bodies because they realized they couldn't afford to bury them," said Jim Dinn, leader of the province's opposition New Democratic Party. "It's not about building a bigger storage unit: It's about addressing the underlying cause causing the accumulation of bodies and removing the barriers so people can have a dignified burial."

An adult single grave with the Mount Pleasant Group on average costs $2,800, but the price in midtown Toronto was $34,000 as of April 1, according to the website of the cemetery, funeral and cremation provider across the Greater Toronto Area. The price excludes opening and closing of the grave, funeral, tombstone, taxes and other items.

A funeral can cost C$2,000 to C$12,000, said Funeral Services Association of Canada President Jeff Weafer, up from about C$1,800 to C$8,000 in 1998.

The number of memorial fundraisers on crowdfunding site GoFundMe has ballooned to 10,257 in 2023 from 36 in 2013, a spokesperson for the site said.
Government support for funerals has failed to keep pace with rising funeral costs, advocates have said. The federal government announced a C$2,500 top-up to the C$2,500 death benefit in the Canada Pension Plan in the April budget.

"Losing your life partner or spouse is devastating for a senior. It can also be an immense financial burden after a lifetime of hard work," Katherine Cuplinskas, press secretary for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, wrote in an email.
"That is why we are strengthening the Canada Pension Plan to provide a top-up to the death benefit."

That is not enough, Weafer said.
"This is not a respectful end for Canadians," he said. "The reason deceased individuals are going unclaimed by their families is about affordability."

Following the appointment of Baba Agba as Special Adviser to the President on Creativity and Sadiq Munir Isyaku Rabiu as Special Assistant to the president on Capacity Development, we take a look at some of the president's and Vice president's advisers and assistants so far...

1. Mr. Yau Darazo; Special Adviser, Political and Intergovernmental Affairs.

2. Mrs. Olu Verheijen; Special Adviser, Energy.

3. Mr. John Ugochukwu Uwajumogu; Special Adviser, Industry, Trade and Investment.

4. Dr (Mrs.) Salma Ibrahim Anas; Special Adviser, Health.

5. Abdullahi Tanko Yakasai – SSA Community Engagement (North-West).

6. Chioma Nweze – SSA Community Engagement (South-East).

7. Abiodun Essiet – SSA Community Engagement (North-Central).

8. Moremi Ojudu – SSA Community Engagement (South-West).

9. Abdulhamid Yahaya Abba – SSA Community Engagement (North-East).

10. Gift John Bull - SSA Community Engagement (South-South).

11. Tope Kolade Fasua – Special Adviser Economy.

12. Stanley Nkwocha – SSA Media (Vice President's Office).

13. Sadiq S Jambo – SA Economy (Vice President’s Office).

14. Dr. Muhammad Bulama – SSA Special Duty (Vice President’s Office).

15. Mahmud Muhammad – Personal Assistant Domestic North-East (Vice President’s Office).

16. Ahmed Ningi – SSA Digital Media and Emergency Management (Vice President’s Office)

17. Musa Amshi Muhammad Al-Amin – SSA Special Duties (Vice President’s Office).

17. Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola – PPS (Personal Physician to the President).

19. Usman Dabban – PA Catering.

20. Elijah Adeniyi – PA Teleprompter.

21. Barr. Yejide Ogundipe – SSA Food Security.

22. Abiodun Arogundade – SSA Technical Vocational and Entrepreneurship Education.

23. Emmanuella Eduozor – SA Multimedia Content Production.

24. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire – SSA Sustainable Development Goal.

25. Princess Atika – Senior Special Advisor to the President on Social Events.

26. Yetunde Adeniji – SSA on School Feeding.

27. Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye – Board member of the National Population Commission.

27. Jide Obanikoro – SA Education.

28. Yetunde Adeniji – Special Assistant on Women Affairs.

30. Dr. Aliyu Modibbo – SA General Duties.

31. Hon. Abiodun Yunusa – SA Agriculture.

32. Ajuri Ngelale - Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity.

33. Mr Fela Durotoye Senior Special Assistant to the President — National Values & Social Justice.

34. Mr Fredrick Nwabufo, Senior Special Assistant to the President — Public Engagement.

35. Mrs Linda Nwabuwa Akhigbe, Senior Special Assistant to the President — Strategic Communications.

36. Mr Aliyu Audu, Special Assistant to the President — Public Affairs.

37. Mr Francis Adah Abah Personal Assistant to the President — Special Duties.

38. Hadiza Bala Usman, special adviser on policy coordination.

38. Abdullahi Abubakar Gumel, senior special assistant, national assembly matters.

40. Toyin Subair - Special Assistant on Special Duties and Domestic Affairs.

41. Bayo Onanuga - SA on Information and Strategy.

42. Delu Yakubu - Senior Special Assistant on Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.

43. Tunde Rahman, SSA (Media).

44. Abdulaziz Abdulaziz (SSA Print Media); and Ibrahim Masari (SSA Political).

45. Adekunle Tinubu – Personal Physician.

46. Damilotun Aderemi – Senior Special Assistant (Private Secretary).

47. O'tega Ogra – Senior Special Assistant (Digital/New Media).

48. Demola Oshodi – Senior Special Assistant (Protocol).

49. Tope Ajayi – Senior Special Assistant (Media & Public Affairs).

50. Yetunde Sekoni – Senior Special Assistant.

51. Motunrayo Jinadu – Senior Special Assistant.

52. Segun Dada – Special Assistant (Social Media).

53. Paul Adekanye – Special Assistant (Logistics).

54. Friday Soton – Special Assistant (Housekeeping).

55. Shitta-Bey Akande – Special Assistant (Catering).

56. Nosa Asemota – Special Assistant (Visual Communication) Personal Photographer.

57. Kamal Yusuf – Personal Assistant (Special Duties).

58. Wale Fadairo – Personal Assistant (General Duties).

59. Sunday Moses – Personal Assistant (Videography).

60. Taiwo Okanlawon – Personal Assistant (State Photographer).

61. Mr. Mohammed Abba Isa - Senior Special Assistant to the President on Disability Matters.

62. Hon. (Barr) Olarewaju Kunle Ibrahim -Senior Special Assistant, National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives).

63. Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser.

64. Baba Agba - Special Assistant to the President on Creativity.

65. Sadiq Munir Isyaku Rabiu - Special Assistant to the president on Capacity Development.

Not included are those who were later appointed ministers or leading some agencies.

RushManni:


In your mind, these stats are the real stats; or the fabricated ?


In this country, I don't know if some of you are just mad or just set of Dumbos .....

AlanSugar:
All these una so called political calculations de tire me. Like una no know say in Nigeria, whoever pays the heaviest to inec gets selected?
Na question I ask mbok!

maestro299:


I don't understand this mindset.
How does this make you different from the so-called racists?

ogascomax:


Sometimes make we dey try dey reason for life. Knowledge shouldn't be too tough to acquire and knowing the right thing is easy. Just don't be emotional or sentimental.
So you expect PDP to abandoned their party to support Obi in Labour Party. Does that make sense to you. If you have said that PDP should give him the platform to contest, that should be better than saying, PDP should support Obi in LP.

aloma007:


My problem is why don't you read before commenting but only to rush to comment by targeting front page comment.

Anatolia:


I do not agree with you. We have to examine their accusations and if they are true, we should work on them. If they are not true, then we should discard them.

PortHarcourtcit:
I accept it, I know why you don't want to accept it because it's Allen onyema, had it been it was Tinubu or WIKE you would have been praising the foreign media, so there for I accept what they said about Allen onyema... Period...

SensualMan:
And a a cocaine and narcotics baron who forfeited $460,000 in the US is ruling you at the same time unleashing his dragon tail whip on ur stomachs and that of ur papa stomach.

You will learn a lesson and you will learn it in a hard way when u die of hunger.

historic:




As he said just tell Tinubu to make the 2027 election free and fair let's check something. If after he does that and he wins, then we will accord him the respect he deserves and sheath our swords. But I guess that would be too much to ask from him make presido no go collect heavy embarrassment.

DMerciful:
We're ready for APC to continue for 60yrs if Obi will not be the presidential candidate of any coalition.

We cannot have the structures of criminality under any form leading a coalition with Obi.

We need Obi to dismantle that structure of criminality

Brash7:
If you think Obi can't win on his own, tell the drug pusher to allow INEC conduct a free and fair elections ( Very impossible ) let's see what will happen.

All these talks doesn't make sense so long as Tinubu has INEC and the judiciary in his pocket.

If you think any of them is stronger than Obi, let there be a free, fair and credible election and if they win, we will respect them.

Until that is done all these talks are noise. Tinubu can't get up to 1.5m votes in an election against Obi and that is a fact.

He couldn't get up to 200k votes in Lagos while Obi pulled about a Million. The criminal had to run to INEC to close the margine to reduce the shame.

You all know the truth, but you can't say it.

As far as politics in Nigeria is concerned, PO is there daddy.

You lots were making noise about how Kwnakwaso is bigger than Obi, but the joker couldn't win beyond Kano and only managed to get 1M votes.

Bunch of jokers

emkz:
Peter Obi did gragra thinking he could go all the way alone.

He has learnt his lessons.

Atiku saw himself as the president and underestimated other persons like Obi, Kwankwaso, Wike and Tinubu. Atiku doesn't seem to have learnt a thing.

Historically, no one becomes Nigeria's president on his own. In 1999, Obasanjo was installed by the military. In 2007, Obasanjo helped Yar'adua. In 2011, Jonathan was helped by most Nigerians who did not appreciate the way he was treated. In 2015, Buhari was helped by Tinubu, Amaechi, et al. In 2023, Kwankwaso, Atiku and Obi helped Tinubu win by splitting their votes.

Now, some people are shouting themselves hoarse that Tinubu bribed INEC and never won the election.

If Obi or Atiku believe this, they would ensure no one bribes INEC and still try to win from different parties. That they want to align is an indication that they realized their disunity cost them the election.

It must be recalled that Atiku in his last ill-fated press conference had called on Obi and Kwankwaso to join him in opposition. Obi seems to be heeding the call.

Dear Obidients, has Peter Obi even explained to you people why he made that visit? Would you still support him if he deputizes Atiku?

LandMann:


Go back and read the last sentence in your moronic advice to a useless and irresponsible government that you support. I have reproduced it below in case you pretend not to see it



Stop selling fx to the public and stop selling fx to the public through BDC doesn't mean the same thing.

Your post clearly says stop selling fx to the public, and I'm telling you that if the government foolishly does it then Naira will crumble.

LandMann:


Mumu advise from a typical government propaganda zombié.

Dollar is gaining value because it is very scarce. There's not enough to go round to meet demand.

Asking the CBN to stop dollar sales to the public will create artificial scarcity. People will be desperate to pay any naira price to get their hands on the dollar to facilitate whatever transaction they need it for.

In the end, naira will further lose value.

Inflation has gone up again... Naira has dropped value again.

Do you still remember your moronic defense of Tinubu and Cardoso 8 weeks ago vis a vis where we are now?