Two candidates, the first talks about and sometimes, magnifies problem in a system, then compares and criticises, without offering viable solutions nor paying reference to how he tackled similar problems when confronted. The only track records that are bring emphasised are how he acted a perfect gentleman and being Mr Nice guy.

The second only talks about track records and how they remain unmatched. He emphasises how he tackled problems and how it can be replicated at the national level. He references human capitals that he has built and how he was able to put round peg in the round hole. Unfortunately, the second appears to be weaker but surprisingly been much more active and at a level that has been unmatched infact. He also sarcastically referred to the fact that he has, rightly so paid his dues and arguably the most deserving.

The informed Nigerians who know what's at stake and wish well for the country are fortunately the majority and will decide with their vote and will not make noise nor respond to propaganda online. They do not take argue with mad men, not to talk of talking to mad men, talkless of taking advice from mad men.

'Na five they seat for first roll'

Upworkwriter007:


Tinubu should join Kwankwaso in NNPP.

If things doesn't go well in APC for Tinubu, I foresee a merger of Tinubu's ACN, NNPP and SDP, with Tinubu, Kwankwaso on the presidential ticket and vice respectively.

https://www.nairaland.com/1177732/el-rufai-apologizes-jesus-joke-twitter

El Rufai's comment on the careless 'joke' he retweeted, though he didn't post it.

foreshore:



If na Moslem, dem for don carry dagger and swords. I S L A M - A - B A D!

Can you give an instance that the Muslims reacted violently to the many provocations of the non Muslims, especially the Christians, towards them? All we ever hear is, if it was the Muslims, they would have have overreacted, amongst your overreaction. Call for the resignation or the CEO because he is a Muslim is a senseless overreaction from CAN.

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India ‘overtakes’ Nigeria as world’s poverty capital
World Bank: High prices pushed 7m Nigerians into poverty in 2020
AUTHOR:
Desmond Okon
MARCH 9, 2022 7:44 PM

India has surpassed Nigeria as the nation with the highest number of extremely poor people.

The World Poverty Clock (WPC) said this in its recent update, considering the COVID-19 pandemic economic effect.

The World Poverty Clock is an online tool that monitors the progress against poverty globally and regionally and provides real-time poverty data across countries.

According to its data, extremely poor people are those living on N800 per day (less than $2 per day).

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In 2018, Nigeria held the position with about 87 million people in extreme poverty, compared with India’s 73 million.

According to the new data, about 83 million Indians have been plunged into extreme poverty in 2022, representing 6 percent of the country’s population which stands at 1.3 billion.

For Nigeria, WPC said 70 million people are living in extreme poverty, representing 33 percent of Nigeria’s over 200 million people.

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In 2020, the National Bureau Of Statistics (NBS) said more than 80 million Nigerians live in extreme poverty (on a dollar per day).


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Kingozymandias:
It's not the turn of the Southsouth, it's the turn of the southeast.
The silence of the Southeast should worry everyone .. rightfully it's our turn to elad this great nation.. we are not more bedeviled with problems than any other tribe yet we are being denied our rightful shot at the fixing this nation .
Some people have asked me have we fixed the southeast ? I laugh because other regions have ruled yet they are still battling myriad problems so why are my people being denied our turn?

Salty suddenly zoning that has been used by every region to secure the slot has been jettisoned now it's the turn of my people and it Futher makes us feel disenfranchised and and marginalized.

Then tomorrow you turn around and wonder why sesssionists had such a willing ear in the people to listen?

You can't deny a people their rights and make them feel less and expect them to willingly want to stay in Nigeria .. that is wrong and tantamount to bullying.

Who in his or her right conscience can say it's not the turn of the Igbos ? Please who can in good honest faith say this ?

Why push a people so hard to the point just telling yourself they can do nothing ? Really ? A nation can never be built by brute force but by inter Corporations and unity. Let me tell you my fellow NIGERIANS , IPOB didn't have up to 10% of the Igbo people support forget those iliterate touts and their social media propaganda. But to deny my people our right this time around for whatever reason is telling the remaining 90% of us who rejected ipob that maybe just maybe those touts have a point.

Yes power isn't given ,yes I agree but as ever other region had it zoned to them and a consensus picked so should it be done for the Southeast. To deny us our right is to do what Chinese is doing to Taiwan, to do what Israel doing to Palestine, to do what ImUAE is doing to shites..

Forget whatever we tell ourselves, each and every one of you my fellow country men and women know it's the turn of my people. I would have taught the great Asiwaju a defender of justice would have picked an Igbo man as his chosen candidate, that would have sent the message that he recodnizes that's it's rightfully our turn and that he stands for justice.

Anyways it's his right to run for office but like I said, to deny us is going to send a very strong message to every single Igbo man, woman ,boy and girl child that we are not recodnized and wanted in this country and I am afraid that would have a very dire repercussions in inter ethnic relations . I don't think buhari is in support of it not being an Igbo person infact I am shocked to admit from his a tions one can deduce he feels rightly it should be an Igbo person..

Alas time will tell

Let us assume APGA formed coalition with some northern parties and they emerged with the Northern party producing the President and a South eastern vice. Then comes another general election and the south westerners somehow remember that it's their turn. While you do not dispute that fact, will you be of this same opinion or you will understand that zoning is in fact a party's internal affairs, irrespective of the national sequence?

*Vacancy* .
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Zahzahzah:
I must answer question before I can post.. What a shame!!

This declaration became necessary because non Muslims, especially some Christians and atheists are so intolerance and hostile and will never respect other people's faith. Take this tread for instance, they don't mind giving false declarations just to abuse and curse other's faith, Prophet and God. Why not embrace peace, live and let us live. You will never see a Muslim do such in a non Muslim's trend, hence no need for such restrictions. Emulate the Muslims who do not misbehave even without being caged out. Is it until you are chained out?

PlanktonX:
Trying to clean up their pile of shits before the 2023 election commences....

Now it is a fake general that shot Lekki protesters.

Piles of rubbish meant for their low IQ children.

Get sense na. Is Abule Egba the same as Lekki ni?

womenareapess:
they have finally got who to put the blame on because election is fast approaching

Useless governors

EndSars protest didn't begin and end at Lekki tailgate. His own shooting happened at Abule Egba and the video was everywhere, including Nairaland.

So, if you see someone on N300,000 per month driving a N2,500,000 car, you will question his wealth because his monthly salary isn't commensurate?

BY ABUBAKRI YEKINI

On November 15, 2021, the judicial panel of inquiry (JPI) delivered its report to the governor of Lagos state. Upon submission of the report, the governor set up a four-man committee chaired by the attorney-general of the state. The committee had two weeks to review the report after which government will issue a White Paper in accordance with the provisions of the Tribunal of Inquiry Law 2015.

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However, before the ink had dried on the submitted report, a member or members of the JPI leaked an unsigned copy of the report in social media space in total breach of trust and the law setting up the JPI. This was in tandem with a threat issued by a panel member Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, who had in a Facebook post threatened to release the report of the panel if the government fails to publish the findings and recommendations.

After the leakage social and news media was awash with various seemingly damning quotes from the JPI report.

Sadly, the commentaries, even from otherwise respected members of society show that most commentators had not even read leaked the report. I must first confess that even one death is bad enough and this write-up should not be seen as justifying the death of anyone, be they protesters, security agents, or anyone for that matter.

On page 283 paragraph 3 (A) and page 284 (C), the findings against the deployment of the military overlook the complete breakdown of law and order all over Lagos which led to the imposition of a curfew by the state government on 20/10/20. Uncontroverted evidence before the panel was that the military deployed all over Lagos and not just to Lekki tollgate (LTG) because the police had clearly become overwhelmed and could no longer maintain law and order.

Page 286 (D): Panel held that it recovered bullet casings/shells at LTG when it visited the toll gate on 30/10/20. This contradicts the finding of the same panel on page 296, paragraphs 13 & 14: “Three trucks with brushes underneath were brought to LTG on the morning of October 21st 2020 to clean up the scene of bloodstains and other evidence.” This finding, the JPI stated amounts to evidence of a cover-up, yet it still found 2 bullet casings at the same cover-up scene 10 days after the incident.

Page 287 (H): The medical evidence before the panel from hospitals who treated protesters said only 2 deaths were recorded in their facilities. This is contrary to the evidence of Doctor Lawson contained on pages 56 – 68 and Dr. Aromolate contained on pages 109-115 respectively.


Page 287 (K): Panel claimed it relied on evidence of one of the protesters who was shot and taken for dead, but escaped and stated that 11 corpses were in a van where he had been put in and presumed dead. However, Olalekan Sanusi, the protester in question was never stated to have testified before the panel. This crucial finding made by the panel was based merely on video footage of Olalekan Sanusi played by another witness Serah Ibrahim on page 165.

On page 288 paragraph (M), the panel crucially held: “The evidence of the pathologist Prof Obafunwa that only 3 of the bodies that they conducted post mortem examination on were from Lekki and only one had Gunshot injury and this was not debunked. We deem it credible as the contrary was not presented before the panel.”

However, in a complete turnaround from the above finding on page 288 paragraph M, the same panel went on to find that more (9) people died of gunshots wounds than what the pathologist who conducted autopsies on all the bodies picked up during the entire #EndSARS protest said. This is despite the panel saying that there was no contrary evidence to that of Prof Obafunwa before it. So page 288, paragraphs O and P are contradictory to the finding on page 288, paragraph M.

On page 289, paragraph T, the evidence of the ballistic expert called by Lagos state, Dieye-Tonye Wille-Harry, testified that from the evidence which he reviewed was that no one died from military-grade bullets at LTG.

Page 292, paragraph J, although the panel held that the police were present at LTG and shot sporadically and killed protesters, the evidence established before the panel was that only one officer ASP Ayodele Olabode with one rifle was assigned to Lekki patrol on 19th October. Furthermore, no one identified or mentioned this officer as being responsible for any deaths at LTG and the panel made no such finding either.

On page 293, paragraph N, the panel found that one protester was killed by the police around LTG. However, curiously, neither the name of the protester nor that of the alleged police shooter was provided. Even though in this paragraph no further details of this shooting were supplied, this is evidence of the levity with which the panel arrived at its findings. This finding is not backed up by any iota of evidence. It is unbelievable that a finding of death can be made in such a cavalier manner.

On page 295, paragraph 9, the panel rejected the evidence of experts who relied on science to compile their report/testimonies and preferred anecdotal stories from so-called eyewitness accounts of protesters.

On page 296, paragraph 12, the panel stated that picking of dead corpses by the Lagos State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (LASEHMU) statewide and depositing them at mortuaries after the protests were evidence of a cover-up? Should the government have allowed corpses to rot on the streets to show there was no cover-up? How can the exercise of its ministerial mandate by LASEHMU be deemed as a cover-up? The corpses according to the panel were taken to mortuaries and in fact, this act accounted for the number of corpses for which autopsies were performed across the state during the crucial period.

The panel relied on the testimony of protesters that the Army prevented ambulances from ferrying away injured protestors. This was an uncorroborated piece of evidence. No single picture or footage of any ambulance being turned away was said to have been tendered before the panel. This is on page 296 paragraph 15. Furthermore, there is no evidence of any ambulance personnel being invited to testify before the panel to this effect.

On page 296 paragraph 17, the panel speculated when it stated that #EndSARS protesters and victims of LTG were “largely unwillingly” to be identified in public for fear of prosecution and harassment. There was no evidence before the panel to this effect. One thing the protesters could not be accused of was shyness or fear of being identified. Protestors took hundreds/thousands of pictures and video footage during the protest and even during the panel sittings. This finding flies in the face of the reality of the character of the protesters and what their protests represent.

On pages 296 -297, the panel set out a list of what it called casualties at the toll gate incident of 20/10/21. This list contains 48 names. No explanation was offered for how the panel arrived at this list, neither was any evidence provided as to how they became casualties. And that is why for example it has come to light that one Nathaniel Solomon listed at No46 on the list of casualties as deceased has been proven to be alive.

On page 298, paragraph B, the JPI accused LCC of removing cameras to cover up. However, the unchallenged evidence of LCC was that the cameras which were removed were number plate reading cameras.

On page 301, paragraph C, the panel rejected the evidence of Lagos state’s ballistic expert because he didn’t speak to witnesses, pathologists, petitioners, protesters or doctors. The ballistic expert didn’t need to speak to these people as his evidence was concentrated on whether military-grade ammunition was used at LTG on 20/10/20. The expert said his team simply examined medical records, X-rays, pictures and footage of events at LTG and of the shell casings allegedly picked up at the LTG, this did not require him to talk to the persons mentioned by the panel. He also compared the bullet casings/shells found allegedly picked up at LTG with bullet casings or shells from military-grade weapons and locally made guns or pistols.

The finding on page 302, paragraphs V & VI is inconsistent with the earlier finding regarding Prof Obafunwa’s testimony that only 3 out of the 96 bodies he performed the autopsy for were from Lekki and that only one out of the three corpses from Lekki had gunshot wounds. See page 288 paragraph M.

The statement of the panel contained on page 302, paragraph VII is highly speculative.

To say that unidentified corpses in the 96 autopsies lend credence to the case of the #EndSARS protestors that shootings by security agencies resulted in mass deaths. Apart from being highly speculative, there is no direct evidence backing up this assertion. How many corpses amongst the 96 died as a result of gunshot wounds for example? And who in particular fired the alleged shots? Prof Obafunwa’s testimony that the corpses were picked up all over the State during the period of the protest, the Panel however ignored this to suit its unfounded decisions.

On page 302 paragraph X, the panel again rejects unchallenged and uncontroverted evidence about deaths in Ikoyi correctional centre to fit into its speculative narrative of deaths in LTG. The finding at para 4 page 14 of the executive summary which is supposed to be a summary of the main findings is not contained anywhere in the findings made by the panel.

Curiously and in line with its narrative to uphold the unsubstantiated claims of the #EndSARS protesters the panel awarded the sum of N10m to Serah Ibrahim who was called as a witness for the protesters. This is most curious because Serah Ibrahim was not a petitioner before the panel. She also did not seek any compensation whatsoever. The panel however standing logic on its head decided to award a compensation of N10m to her calling it “severe trauma award”. The question is of all the witnesses who testified before the panel what made Serah Ibrahim different for her to be singled out for this generous award and what disqualified the other witnesses from the panel’s generosity. This is one of the strongest evidence of bias demonstrated by the panel in favour of the protesters.

Evidence before the panel was that the 10th (Japhet) person on the victims’ list was shot at Ajah and presented at the hospital on 22/10/20. Yet the panel listed him as being shot at LTG (see evidence of Reddington Hospital at pages 54-60).

Similarly, Mabel NNAJI (No 7 on the victims’ list) was said to have been shot by pellets as established by the evidence before the panel yet the panel said she was shot by the Military. (see page 57). This high-powered panel obviously doesn’t know that military-grade weapons do not fire pellets.

Finally, throughout its 309 pages leaked report, not a single word of support or commiseration was offered by the panel to the several policemen slaughtered directly or indirectly as a result of the actions of the protestors nor to the thousands of innocent citizens whose property were looted, burnt or destroyed by protesters. The panel seemed to be too consumed by its bias for the protestors to recognize the “severe trauma” of these groups.

Abubakri Yekini writes from Lagos.


https://www.thecable.ng/missing-links-the-judicial-panel-of-inquiry-into-endsars-protest-and-lekki-tollgate-incident/amp

https://www.nairaland.com/6262808/received-fgn-survival-fund-alert

https://www.nairaland.com/6276783/fg-survival-fund-missed-call/3

These are some of the testimonies on Nairaland. This money wasn't distributed on the street. If you are not gainfully employed or an employee, you cannot get it, so, forget it.

I see this Primate calling for a dialogue with an accused terrorist and the so called Sheik calling for dialogue with the bandits as committing the same crime.

This woman got there around 5-6am and still met her son who was shot about 10 hours earlier alive.
This script is an embarrassment to all the previously written scripts on this matter. This director no deserve any payment.

BeeBeeOoh:


https://thenationonlineng.net/full-list-of-amended-charge-fg-filed-against-nnamdi-kanu/

The AGF should have come up with something better. These charges looks DOA. This is someone that was soliciting for arms on camera, instigating various attacks and kills. There was no mention of him jumping bail.

What if he is able to prove that he wasn't the voice behind the broadcast. This looks like the government's representatives are working against the government. I pray justice prevail.

Obi was invited based on his mention in the pandora paper. Any evidence that Tinubu was also mentioned? Should Tinubu be invited despite he wasn't mentioned? Yes or No?

This is a regular occurrence around U turn, Awori, Abule Egba bus stop. Same Seinna, same 5 men gang. At U turn bus stop, over 10 cases that we have heard of. If you don't have money in your account, you will be asked to call and ask for transfer, otherwise they will threaten to kill you. They usually drop them off around Olaniyi or Ekoro road after they would have been seriously brutalized within that short distance.

You will meet four in the Seinna already at U turn, then the 5th will join at Awori pretending to be passenger. This usually occur between 5am - 5:30am. The most recent occurred just last week Wednesday. Each case reports to the Police and the police can see the identical pattern, still, nothing has been done or their effort hasn't yielded result so far.

CallmeGideon:
Over 12 luxurious buses came into Owerri yesterday night from the north to welcome Buhari. You can make your enquiry from Sun City Hotel cuz that's where they were packed. Buhari came to Owerri to commission ordinary Gotta (tunnel) at Dick Tiger road and other places. The man be looking like dry kpanla fish.

Buhari came to Owerri to commission ordinary 'gotta' and it's Buhari's fault that that was one of the projects your governor found worthy of commissioning?

Ortom has released his August edition of blame and incitement in place of salary. See him 25-30th next month.

Chamberlain and Kayode are actually hearing and reading about their arrest from you. But not to worry, so far it soothes your narrative.

Lai: I’ve no mission with Twitter in US
August 18, 2021
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Lai Mohammed

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the online media report that he “sneaked out of Nigeria to meet with Twitter executive’’ in the U.S. is fake.

In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Washington on Wednesday, the minister said his official visit to the U.S. has nothing to do with the microblogging and social networking platform.


Mohammed said he was in the U.S. to meet with international media organisations and think tanks on the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and efforts made so far in tackling insurgency, banditry and all forms of criminality.

He said the online report was an example of the danger fake news and unregulated social media portend for the country.

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“Can a minister sneak out of Nigeria without people knowing?



“When you say I sneaked out of Nigeria, are you saying I went to board at a terminal where nobody is or I travel to the Republic of Benin to fly out of the country?

“I was at an international airport, where I presented myself openly and I was checked in at the counter like every other traveller of the airline.

“I boarded and passed through the checks by the Immigration Service and Customs.


“How can you come and say I sneaked out of the country?’’.

The minister who had so far engaged with the BBC Radio and TV, Bloomberg and Polico during his visit to Washington DC, said he had no mission with Twitter on his trip.

“You and I have been here, have I met with any Twitter official­?


“When you talk about fake news and its danger, we need to take it seriously and I am happy that the entire world has now seen what we saw more than two years ago.

“I can assure you that we will not rest until we regulate the social media, otherwise, nobody will survive it,’’ he said.

The minister reiterated the position that the Federal Government suspended Twitter operations in the country not because it deleted the tweet by the President as being propagated in some section of the media.


He said the operation of the microblogging medium was suspended because of its persistent use of its platform for activities that were capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.

He also underscored the need for the organisation to register as a business entity and obtain a licence from the National Broadcasting Commission to carry out its activities.

Mohammed said the engagement between Twitter and the Federal Government on how to resolve the issue of the ban had reached an advanced stage.

Specifically, he said the end for the amicable settlement of the ban was in sight.

Northernblood3:


You mean that i may die because of a religion of female child pant snifers and rapists? Some people are just more daft than they appear

No, he meant that while you will waste away due to your hatred, Islam will continue to be the fastest growing religion despite your hypocrisy.

Northernblood3:

This is the same line terrorists people always use to change the narrative of a written fact.Breaking news, ur trick won't change the fact.

We are not filled with hate, but rather the global headslaming terrorists are.

Read your bible, Jesus also 'slammed' head in the bible. �

Aflix:
Most Christians on nairaland are filled with hate . Disgtusting.

This is not a Christian thing, rather this is the way of a particular terrorist group that had been proscribed in Nigeria. They spread hate and prophecise doom. The good thing is, they do not represent their tribe though they are the loudest. Also, they do not represent Nairaland though they usually occupy the whole first page. This is made possible because they are a very few population with a lot of different username who are physically in contact or electronically in touch.

It is good that you seeked for knowledge by asking. It is bad that you assumed that it's only in Nigeria without knowledge.

This is not a denial, it's a refutation. They are only helping those of you that chose to believe the previous report without a source.

So, if they host delegates from Saudi Arabia, they should fly Israeli flag because theirs contains Arabic inscriptions, so that you will not be agree abi?