nairavsdollars:
Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos


https://www.independent.ng/british-parliament-cant-summon-queen-sagay-tells-nass/

Are we really sure this man authored some of those law books that we read at both the University and during the Law school? I can't imagine that he could spew out this trash.. Comparing Queen to Buhari.. It seems old age is telling on him so seriously

Funny indeed... Many cultists are on this thread, reading through and still making comments. They go with the believe that come what may, this kind of woes would never befall them

krumking:
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Hi Guys, has anyone gone to VFS lately, is it still by walk ins or appointment

Can someone help confirm this....

Queenslander:
Oga tell them to return home if living abroad isn't good for them.. As long as they're abroad, we will continue to call them..

And must you be a liability to them?

A plane Friday ran into the fence at Muritala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. The jet was said to have developed brake failures. The aircraft belonging to Jet Air sustained substantial damage and was said to be re-parking when it rammed into the fence. According to an eyewitness, “The accident happened around 10:00 am at a tarmac beside Bristow Helicopter Hanger 3. The brake of the jet was not functioning which led to the collision of the jet with the fence of Bristow Helicopter hanger.Officials of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA have visited the scene of the incident to ascertain the cause of the accident. The King Air 200 jet with registration number 5N-HIS is being operated by Mobil Oil Nigeria-Wings Aviation. Vanguard News Nigeria


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/plane-crashes-into-fence-at-lagos-airport/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

illicit:
Na so some ATM machine go dey shock person

I thought that I am the only one that used to have this feeling.. Several times I have had such effect

ogododo:


https://punchng.com/hushpuppi-is-into-real-estate-not-a-fraudster-lawyer/

No please.. Hushpuppi made his money through gold mining, having inherited the largest gold deposit in the world from his uncle, King Solomon.. The owner of.. King solomon's mine

MATURELION:
yes but you see internet laws are still porous so he might get a way around so long as his lawyer knows what he's doing but if the evidence is pronounced and the guy did not cover his tracks well..... let's just be watching

I can bet this with you, everything about him, his activities, mails and all transactions are already with FBI.. I see him pleading guilty in no distance time. The internet laws may still be porous..But America hardly let go any cybercrime that involves business email compromise.. Let's see how it goes.. What put him into this final mess was over confidence and greediness, he had enough grace to have retired from this illegit business and possibly use proceeds from is ill-gotten wealth to build business empire for himself..

adonainana:
Let the legal battle begin,

But the thing is FBI already hacked his instagram, gmail, and i cloud accounts based on the affidavit the FBI agent first submitted

Google and Gmail are both American companies, they easily snitch on you and dont tell you to change your password or anything so in your end you just keep logging in and logging out like nothing is happening.

Also his phone records appeared to have been compromised

Even the affidavit the FBI guy submitted had his passport in it ( they could only get that from going into somewhere private in your email )

Then from his bank accounts, large transfers would have been deposited into it someway somehow.

Then the large cash found on him ( any amount more than £10,000 is money laundering on the spot )

The only evidence they probably would tell the jury probably be based on either a conspiracy to defraud.

Based on my experience there wont be much oral evidence, just documentary evidence from the big tech companies saying what was going on in his email accounts and his bank accounts

Conviction easy to secure on this alone without anyone testifying to say he defrauded them and vice versa

Most things the jury would see would just be reports of him discussing wire transfers and how it eventually landed in his account.

Normally the only way to defend a case like this is to argue perhaps a bank learnt you the money or you had a very rich portfolio to start with.

If huspuppi lawyer is smart, he can always start a defence all the tech reports here and there had nothing to do with his client and perhaps a blackmail by the prosecution to make his client pay for unexplained losses elsewhere.

He could also use jusridiction, hush was always in dubai all the time, so hence no connection.

But the hush guy too no go school so im sure he wont be able to even communicate his defence to his lawyer, all he was busy doing was stealing money and buying gucci up and down.

What a pity

Samuel Eluyefa Esq

If Jurisdiction can be used as part of his defence.. Then you will have to tell us, why the founder/owner of Liberty reserve, (the then digital currency) is still with American Government, cooling his head in one of their notorious prisons. To remind you, he is a Costa Rican by nationality, was latter arrested in Madrid Spain and extradited from there to the United States of America since more than 6years ago. If you believe that Hushpuppi can get fair hearing with all the evidences against him.. Then you shld be able to believe everything.. We are talking of FBI here and not EFCC.. Before FBI carried out any of thier operations, they must have gotten adequate facts and evidence to prosecute and nail the culprit.... My opinion sir

CHIDINMALOVE:


https://punchng.com/demolition-reps-fault-onyeama-urge-retaliation-against-ghana/

If Ghana goes with this, surely they will go with anything. Meaning more of this assault will be launched against Nigeria in future. This is a big slap to Nigeria and by now, I expected Nigeria to have reacted. Our retaliation attack shouldn't be by touching or destroying any of their properties here, we are more matured than taking such a step, except we wanna go on a full-blown war with them.
Every diplomatic relationship and ties need to have cut off with Ghana and trade embargoes placed on them.
This attack like Femi said is not on Nigeria property, is an attack on Nigeria and this is an act of war. If we fail to react this time.. More insults will be done, even from lesser Africa countries

IboHausaYoruba:
Hmmn...let the police do their proper investigation but don't hesitate to release and tender apology if he's indeed innocent.

No apologies required if finally found innocent, it's a standard procedures and cannot be exonerated until autopsy reports .. Take note, the event happened at his premises.

By Atiku Abubakar

How to pull Nigeria from the brink.

ON Monday, April 27, 2020, British oil and gas giant, BP, became the latest in a growing number of energy firms to declare a massive quarterly loss. Their loss was in the region of $4.4 billion. Bear in mind that this was a conglomerate that posted a $2.6 billion profit in the corresponding quarter of 2019.

The challenges that are already engulfing the oil and gas sector will continue to plague that industry for at least the rest of the year, and may reach apocalyptic levels sooner than we expect. As I write this, there are hundreds of crude oil-laden ships, all filled up, with nowhere to berth, and accruing daily charges of an average of $30,000.

We have also seen crude oil prices plunge to record lows, to the extent that some variants of the product have been given out for free, or worse still, producers have paid storage facilities to take their products. As at today, Nigeria is pricing its very low sulphur sweet crude at $10 per barrel, yet buyers are balking. Our sweet crude is becoming a little bitter.

I had earlier warned that Nigeria needs a Strategic Reserve to store unsold crude. Now, we have so much crude and no one to buy it, nowhere to store it, and little idea what to do with it. Barely three years ago, I had also alerted that the “crude thinking” promoted by our dependence on crude oil will lead to a rude shock.

“If you are still talking about oil, you are in the past. As far as I am concerned, the era of oil is gone. If you want to believe it, believe it. If you do not want to believe it, you will see it. It is crude thinking to continue to talk and base development projections on crude oil,” I had said at a public event in the nation’s capital.

We must face the fact that reliance on crude oil is failing Nigeria and other mono product economy crude oil exporters. Now is the time for Nigeria and her contemporaries to cure their addiction to sweet crude. For far too long we have grown high on our own supply, to the extent that we have neglected almost every other sector of our economy.

This present rude awakening should be seen as a blessing in disguise – a blessing that compels us to take those drastic actions that will free us from the crude oil trap. We need to diversify our economy, and yes, it is easier said than done, but that does not mean it is an impossible task.

Prior to Nigeria’s October 1, 1960 independence from Great Britain, not only were we a nation self-reliant in food production, but we also exported food to other countries, earning precious foreign exchange in the process. Who can forget the great groundnut pyramids in Northern Nigeria? For example, in 1957, agriculture formed a whopping 86% of our export revenue. By 1977, agricultural exports had dwindled to 6%, and today, the figure is less than 3%

How did our country go from being a net exporter of agricultural products to a net importer of food products? How did we go from a country that could feed itself to one that desperately depends on foreign imports for survival? The answer to these questions is leadership focus.

During elections, Nigerian politicians spend a significant amount of their campaign time discussing how they will manage the nation’s resources. However, the fundamental difference between a leader and a manager is that while a manager focuses on managing existing resources, a leader sets out a creative vision which the country must follow to chart a course to political and socio-economic greatness.

Certainly, what is abundantly clear is that Nigeria is never going to become an industrialised nation by selling more oil, even if the oil market recovers. The lessons from Venezuela’s current predicament come to mind. If oil and gas could have saved any nation, that nation would be Venezuela. Unfortunately, Venezuela is bankrupt and insolvent.

Saudi Arabia, despite its huge reserves and a highly publicised listing of Saudi Aramco, is feeling the pinch and working rapidly towards its Vision 2030, which requires Saudi Arabia to diversify from its dependence on oil. Other prudent countries facing the same predicament are doing the same. Oil economies need to learn a thing or two about economic diversification from the United Arab Emirates. Despite being a young nation, the leadership of the UAE has managed to diversify the economy of this country from an almost complete reliance on oil in the 1970s, to a country where 72% of the GDP comes from the non-oil sectors of the economy such as aviation, tourism and services sectors.

In Nigeria, our diversification should embrace agriculture as the primary sector earmarked for development because agriculture is a low hanging fruit, is key to ensuring food subsistence, and with the recent signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement, AFCTA, which favours Nigeria’s economy greatly, Nigeria can take advantage of this to become an agricultural powerhouse in Africa.

For example, Africa has the lowest intra-regional trade amongst the seven continents. Indeed, 68% of Europe’s trade is within the continent. However, Africa does more trade with non-African nations than we do amongst each other. Our intra-continental trade is an abysmal 18%. This must change and Nigeria is key to altering this sad state of affairs.

Within the Agricultural sector, the African continent in 2014, earned $2.4 billion from the export of coffee to Europe. That sounds impressive. However, one country alone, Germany, made $3.8 billion from re-exporting Africa’s coffee in 2014. This trend continued into 2015, 2016 and has not changed to date. What is it that Germany does to add value to the coffee, cocoa, and other produce that they buy from Africa that we cannot do in Nigeria? Nigeria can easily become a value-added re-exporter of African coffee to the world.

Ditto for tea, cocoa, wheat, sugar cane and other cash crops. There are none of these products that I have mentioned that Nigeria cannot either grow in commercial quantities or add value to, in the same way other industrialised economies are doing. I should know because I am already practicing what I am advocating. I have multiple profitable farms and other businesses in the agricultural value chain.

With about 60% of its land assessed as arable, I truly believe that Nigeria is capable of becoming the food basket of the rest of Africa, and in the process, it can capture a sizable portion of the $48 billion that goes towards food imports in Africa. That money should be circulating within Africa, strengthening our currencies, growing our GDPs and enriching our people.

I was in Benin Republic recently and I was informed by one of the most successful industrialists in the country that Benin buys its cement from China. Why should a country that shares land borders with Nigeria have to import cement from China 7000 miles away, when Dangote cement is perfectly able, and I am sure willing, to provide the same product at a competitive price? Is this not what the AFCTA agreement is meant to promote? Why would Nigeria maintain an insane policy of border closures at a time it desperately needs them open to promote trade? Now is the time for Nigeria to make those hard decisions it has postponed for far too long otherwise the alternative is an apocalyptic scenario we would rather not entertain.

We must, as nation, begin to invest our resources wisely in order to maximize dividends. We must liberalise our land tenure system to make it possible and easy for some of the 27 million unemployed Nigerians to become farmers, even as sharecroppers. Last year, Ethiopia mobilised its 100 million strong population to plant 350 million trees in 12 hours (a world record). Nigeria can similarly mobilise its population of twice that number to plant billions of cash crops through the planting season. It is possible. I have repeatedly charged my farm associates to sow seeds and they have done so successfully. When the huge opportunities of agriculture are combined with a rejuvenated manufacturing and MSMEs sectors, then a new era of sustainability and prosperity beckons for Africa.

. We have over-indulged on seemingly cheap loans and have quadrupled our foreign debt in just four years. Taking more of such loans will just sink our country deeper and deeper into a quagmire. What is certain is that we can not continue with things the way they are now, except we want to ensure an implosion of our dearly beloved nation. We must cut our coat, not according to our size, but according to our cloth. Our Presidential Air Fleet of almost 10 planes should go. Our jumbo budgets for our legislature must go. The planned $100 million renovation of our Parliament must be cancelled. We cannot be funding non-necessities with debt and not expect our economy to collapse. Our civil servants must come to the realisation that Nigeria cannot sustain its size and profligacy. The same cost saving measures must be adopted by the states and councils government. From henceforth, our energies, resources and focus, must be on how we can diversify our economy, not on how we can increase our expenditure.

Atiku Abubakar is a former Vice President of Nigeria and presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 election.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/how-to-pull-nigeria-from-the-brink/

By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo A sixty-eight-year-old woman from Akwa Ibom State has died of Coronavirus otherwise known as COVID-19 ravaging the world. The state Governor, Mr.Udom Emmanuel announced the death on Thursday while giving an update on Covid-19 in the state at Government House, Uyo. According to Emmanuel, the new death brings to two, the number of COVID-19 death recorded so far in Akwa Ibom state.

Group alleges Emmanuel who noted that the state now has six active cases explained that the three new positive cases were discovered in the course of the ongoing contact tracing exercise in the state. “On the last laboratory test we conducted on 44 suspected cases, three persons were confirmed positive, while we lost one. “The patient we lost was a 68-year-old woman who was transferred to the centre, totally unconscious. With multiple serious long outstanding comorbidity. “And I want to use this opportunity to appeal to doctors please, whether it is Covid-19 or not, once the illness is beyond what your experience and facility can carry, seek the help of your colleagues. “We would not accept cases of dumping any longer. A situation where you bring a patient with total unconsciousness, and a few hours later, the person just gives up the ghost, we won’t accept that any longer”. He asserted Governor Emmanuel, however, reported that the state has recorded remarkable successes in terms of treatment of minor symptoms, adding “Our recovery rate is remarkable. Only God can help the entire world

He stressed the determination of the state government to continue to provide the state with excellent medical care, while also encouraging Akwa Ibom people to continue to follow all necessary preventative measures. The Governor used the occasion to reiterate that passenger’s traffic remains embargoed, as ban on inter-state transport services has not been lifted and warned that anyone caught, would be detained for 14 days. “No passenger movement, nonmotor park should load or offload, else we would keep you for 14 days. Except for those on essential services such as Heath professionals, foodstuff, and the media”. He said

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/68-year-old-woman-dies-of-covid-19-in-a-ibom/

Bola146:
It's a good idea but you can still pray for them anywhere.

We should rather tell this man to pray for them from wherever he is... Prayers know no bounds, not necessarily he visits the center before God hears the prayers and heal the sick. For sure, naturally if 20 are in isolation center, without prayers more than half of them would be negative. He only wanna leverage on this..

fecundility:
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calculusx:
Nigerians are missing the main point (Interstate lockdown). This means FG will lift the lockdown on Monday and States will reopen and everyone get back to Normal life with compulsory wearing of facemask in Lagos when in the Public but NO INTERSTATE MOVEMENT
My fear is Police that will be Stationed at every State borders. Can they adhere to this? Don't also forget the invisible enemy is still out there.

Too bad, only few Nigerians understand the meaning of inter state-lockdown. Interstate lockdown is far different from lockdown that is currently been experienced in some states.. It's simply a restriction put in place, for people moving or traveling from one state to another, and this is done with the aim to avoid continuous spreading of the virus from one state to another. With this measure put in place each state will be able to manage the existing case of COVID-19 in their respective states

ignis:
The evil that men do lives after them.

Good name is better than riches. Kingibe can explain better.

The evil that men do now lives with them.. It's no longer after... It makes sense that way

Iyiataata92:
Good One. Muslims should play their part too,
We just can't be praying praying praying in religion. Time to do some works

This isn't a race or a competition, it's called willful and sacrificial commitment, with no strings attached.

oyekanwahab:
One of the reason for this is no payload to carry, hence less weigh to keep flying in the sir and more fuel to burn to keep the plane flying for a long tine

I won't celebrate this as an achievement, until I see the aircraft flying same distance, same hours direct flight with more than 150 passengers on board with plus cargoes.. Its then I will accept this to be another breakthrough for Nigeria aviation.. Nothing special with what they just do

Antoeni:
PHOTOS: Funke Akindele, husband in court over house party


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLn-5QPzP6s

Even ignorant of the laws is not an excuse, that's to those who are guilty of the law under an excuses of not knowing what the laws say. In funke Akindele's case, she knew what the laws say about this, due to her so called celebrities ego, she decided to flaunts it.. The law must takes it course.. If we are agitating for a better society, better governance.. It has to begin from every one of us.. And the law in this case should be no respecter of anybody..

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright

Marriage mehnnnnn
That shit scare the hell out of me.
How niggarrrz continue to get erection for a particular woman under one same roof baffles me

Can't forget last time i asked one girl to spend one week with me
After three days of her staying i was no longer comfortable and my dickk hardly gets excited.

Which means all these our married people are pretending
They don't love themselves anymore but they are just enduring and suffering.

No matter how they paint it.. No matter how they endure it.. No matter the love share.. It always look like a boundage... Living with the same person for the rest of one life isn't easy.. And for those who are already used to different ladies, or men, staying with one forever remains a big puzzle

effissyman:
Have been thinking of this since last month, no doubt about it that corona virus had cause series of deaths in many countries including USA, Spain, Italy, France, China, Australia, Canada , UK to mention few.

This had cause increase in Mortality rate of these countries which automatically means decrease in population of these countries.

My conclusion:

After this corona pandemic is over most of these countries will be lenient with their visa procedure and process and also allowing easy inflow of immigrants to their countries.

This is my observation which i see as a kind of Favour to some set of people that have been looking for opportunity to migrate.

Please kindly add your own observation of what the after effect of COVID 19 will be

What do you think?

At the end of this pandemics, the world will never remain the same again, and will take several years for her to be healed of this.

Ernesttoby30:
Way to go... But my prayer be say make hungry no kill some people before them lift the ban o

At the end of it all, hunger will kill more people than COVID-19,its so unfortunate that at this difficult time, no stimulus plans for the poor masses, and they keep encouraging them to stay at home

Sunday Aborisade, Abuja

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, frightened his colleagues with a sneeze during plenary on Tuesday.

Adamu represents Nasarawa West Senatorial District.



The PUNCH reports that Nigeria has recorded 44 confirmed cases of coronavirus; and cough, sneezes, and fatigue are among the symptoms of the disease.

Adamu, who did not wear his face mask properly before the involuntary action happened, quickly put the mask on immediately.

Senator Ibrahim Gobir from Sokoto State immediately stood up from his seat while other senators adjusted their face masks properly.

The development forced the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi, who was addressing the chamber to halt his speech as other senators burst into laughter.

Meanwhile, the Clerk to the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, has shut down all forms of activities in the complex until further notice.

Sani-Omolori, stated this in a circular marked, NASSICNAI46NOI 1/41 and dated March 24, 2020.

The letter was addressed to the presiding officers of both chambers.

The circular explained that the action was taken after a meeting between the management and the National Assembly leadership.
https://punchng.com/covid-19-senators-run-for-cover-as-colleague-sneezes-during-plenary/

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has gone into quarantine after being informed a doctor who administered a vaccine to her has tested positive for coronavirus.

Her spokesman said she was informed about the doctor's test shortly after holding a news conference on Sunday announcing new measures to curb the spread of the virus.

Steffen Seibert said Merkel had received a precautionary vaccine Friday against pneumococcal infection.

He said the 65-year-old will undergo "regular tests" in the coming days and continue with her work from home for the time being.

Merkel had earlier expressed her gratitude to Germans who were following rules on social distancing, saying it was important to remain at least 1.5 metres apart to reduce the likelihood of infection.

"I know that it means sacrifice," she said, citing the economic and social costs of the lockdown. "I'm moved by the fact that so many are abiding by these rules.

"This way we show care for older and sick people because the virus is most dangerous to them. In short - we are saving lives with this."

She added: "My life has also fundamentally changed and now consists largely of phone calls and video conferences."

The development illustrated how even world leaders are not free from the risk of infection.

"With a certain distance the risk of infections is reduced almost to zero," Merkel told reporters. "Whether you are half a metre apart or 1.5 metres apart makes a huge difference."

Shortly afterwards, she was informed her doctor had tested positive for Covid-19.

https://www.journalgazette.net/news/world/20200322/german-chancellor-merkel-goes-into-quarantine

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is to self-quarantine, her spokesman Steffen Seibert announced on Sunday evening, after coming into contact with a doctor with coronavirus.

After giving a press conference on Sunday she was informed that a doctor who had given her a preventative pneumococcal vaccine on Friday evening had since tested positive for the virus.

Subsequently, the chancellor had decided to go immediately into quarantine at home. Mr Seibert said that she would be tested regularly in the next few days, because a test at the present time would not be conclusive. He said she would carry out her duties while staying at home.
More details latter

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18325844.coronavirus-german-chancellor-angela-merkel-quarantined/


Remember Germany has also banned gatherings of more that 2 people

Public gatherings of more than two people will be banned. There will be exceptions for families and those living together.
General contact with others should be reduced to a minimum.
A 1.5-meter (4.9 feet) distance should be kept at all times when in public.
Gastronomy businesses must close. Businesses offering food delivery and collection will be allowed to remain open.
Service providers such as hair-dressers, cosmetic, massage and tattoo studios where a 2-meter distance between people is not possible must also close. Businesses and centers offering medical treatments may remain open.
Police and other law enforcement agencies will enforce any infractions of the new rules — Merkel did not state what the punishment would be for anyone not abiding by the new measures.
Hygiene regulations must be implemented for staff in the workplace, or for visitors.
Commuting to work, helping others and exercising alone outside will still be permissible, as long as the activities are carried out in abidance with the guidelines.
The measures will remain in place, initially for the next two weeks.

https://www.nairaland.com/5750210/germany-bans-gathering-more-than