Check out the photos of the Amina, one of the missing Chibok girls and her child that was rescued by JTF earlier today. The man in the photo is her husband who was also a boko haram commander up until the time of his arrest.
Hoodlums at Fadeyi in Lagos state have taken advantage of the tense situation surrounding the proposed labour strike to wreck havoc on Lagosians.
The hoodlums are reported to have created a blockade at the Fadeyi axis of the popular Ikorodu Express way.
It is not clear if the blockade was initially created by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) which says it would embark on an indefinite strike over the federal government’s decision to increase the pump price of petrol from N86.50 to N145.
Those going to work, Wednesday, said hoodlums were hurling stones and other dangerous objects at vehicles.
They were smashing windscreens thereby forcing buses, cars, and other vehicles from turning back from the axis.
They also were not sparing BRT buses. One twitter user tweeted he “almost got hurt trying to jump off a BRT buses”
But it seems security personnel have taken control of the situation to quell the violence.
Please avoid that route for now please…
I just found this video online and felt it would be worth sharing with you….Where is Nigeria heading to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s0elLghhRE
The National Industrial Court has granted an interim order restraining the Nigeria Labor Congress and all its allies from embarking on any strike action. The Federal government this morning approached the court asking the court to stop the proposed strike action by NLC.
NLC had given the federal government till midnight today May 17th to revert to the old pump price or face total strike action slated for tomorrow Wednesday May 18th.
President of the Industrial Court, Justice Babatunde Adeniran Ademjumo, granted the interim order of injunction restraining the Defendants/Respondents, their agents, privies, employees, workmen, or servants from embarking on industrial action, demonstrating or engaging in any action that may disrupt the economic activities of Nigeria pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.
The Federal Government was represented by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN; Okoi Obono Obla, Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution, and Dayo Apata, Director of Civil Litigation at the Federal Ministry of Justice.
Prof Wole Soyinka has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan as birds of the same feather with regards to impunity.
The literary icon also revisited the controversial Obasanjo Presidential library, saying it was acquired through ‘executive extortionism’ just as President Goodluck Jonathan recently got over N21bn at a dinner/fund-raiser last Saturday.
He noted that both Jonathan and Obasanjo were leaders known for impunity.
Soyinka said, “That obscene proceeding (Obasanjo’s Library Fund-raising) has certainly set a competitive precedent for impunity in President Jonathan’s recent fund-raising shindig, as Impunity taken too far.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Principal Private Secretary, Hassan Tukur has been arrested by operatives of the EFCC at his home in Abuja yesterday night. Tukur was still at the headquarters of the anti-graft commission as at this morning.
The reasons for his arrest has not yet been made known to the public.
A news headline caught my attention a couple of days ago about a statement credited to Nigeria’s Minister of Interior Abdulrahman Dambazau in which he claimed that Nigeria spends N14,000 to feed each prisoner daily. My jaws dropped as I read the contents of the news with shocking disbelief.
In 2015, statistics shows that the Nigerian government increased the daily feeding allowance of prisoners from N2.50k to N3.50k then how in the devil’s name did N3.50k suddenly jumped to N14,000 in just a year?
Before I continue, recall that Abdulrahman Dambazau was the same character caught on tape using an officer of Nigeria’s State Security Service to clean his shoes in public…
Let us take a look at this as well:
14,000 to feed a single prisoner daily
N18,000 is Nigeria’s monthly minimum wage
That means a typical Nigerian prisoner earns N420,000 monthly for just being in prison. If that is the case, why don’t we all migrate to the prisons.
Nigeria’s prison population is estimated at about 57,000 inmates with more than 70% of that number still awaiting trial and our government spends N10 billion every year on feeding prisoners.
It is now clear to us how all the money the government is getting back from yesterday’s looters is making its way into the hands of today’s silent looters.
We now know why there has been increasing economic hardship in the country ever since this government came into power.
Our government should not keep pretending that they are fighting corruption by turning a blind eye on the corruption that is busy eating its intestines.
The youth lacks employment, 5 pieces of tomatoes now cost N500 in our markets today. The other day at the petrol station, I had to act violent just to make sure the pump attendant doesn’t rip me off my money by selling incomplete fuel to me at N145 per liter. Nigerians are tired of leaving their beds at 2am just to be early enough to be in the front line of never ending fuel queues.
How can Nigeria be feeding a prisoner with N14,000 daily when most of its prestigious universities across the country are either locked up or on strike?
The government of the day needs to wake up from its slumber and start acting right. It is already too late to pass a nation’s budget half way into the year.
Crime, terrorism and militancy has been on the high rise for the past couple of months due to the incessant economic gag placed on our necks by the same people we AFFECTIONATELY voted into power.
It is not a surprise for me when I heard the British Prime Minister labeling my country as a “FANTASTICALLY CORRUPT NATION”
Well, the head of our government didn’t demand an apology from Britain. This applies to us as well, WE DO NOT NEED THE GOVERNMENT’S APOLOGY, WE DON’T NEED THEM TO TELL US THAT THEY ARE IN TOUCH WITH OUR PAINS.
THEY SHOULD JUST START ACTING RIGHT BEFORE THEY PUSH US TO THE WALL, TERMINATE THE APPOINTMENTS OF CROOKS LIKE THE MINISTER OF INTERIOR ABDULRAHMAN DAMBAZAU, PUMP MONEY INTO THE ECONOMY BEFORE THEY LEAD US DOWN THE ROAD TO SOMALIA, MEXICO OR WORSE KIGALI.
My name is Ayo Adeyemi, You can download more of my videos and read my articles on www.mysocialnaija.com and I am just trying to “Say It As It Is”
Where is Nigeria’s Minister of Education now that the country needs him most? We are all overlooking the massive crises going on in the education sector of our wailing nation because the bad eggs in the ministry of education are working hard to muzzle the effects of the dilapidating standard of education in Nigeria.
And on top of all these woes befalling Nigeria’s education, major universities across the country has either been locked or on strike. See list below:
Unilag (locked)
Uniport (locked)
AAUA. (locked)
Unibadan(locked)
Funaab (strike)
IMSU (strike)
UNIJOS (locked)
Please who is the minister for Education? Is he asleep or dead?
There are 8 main reasons why I will join ISIS like the son of former Chief Justice of Nigeria Ibrahim Uwais and they are listed below:
If I have all these reasons, I will instantly jump on the next available flight to Syria and follow the same route that Ibrahim Uwais son of Nigeria’s former Chief Justice Mohammed Uwais followed via Turkey or Dubai. Or go to Yemen to receive terrorism training before crossing the border into Iraq the same way that Farouk Abdulmutallab the son of former chairman of First Bank Dr. Umar Abdulmuttalab.
Have you been bothered lately about the interest of foreign governments in Nigeria? Have thought about why some Telecoms companies have eventually shifted their Headquarters to Nigeria due to increasing demand and market?
By now, you probably are thinking about the popular ‘oil’ riches we are endowed with. You will be partly correct if you share that school of thought. However I am not alluding to oil cruise is this piece.
A Senate Committee after inspecting works at the millennium tower in CBD, Abuja discovered less than 10% of the construction work was given to Nigerian citizens. Most of the works were contracted to foreign firms. Even at the level of sub-contracting and local hires, the figures were extremely dismal. The idea is for a huge capital to emigrate from Nigeria in the name of consultancies and expatriate involvements at the expense of the growth and development of local content. Thus, you have an expatriate taking up to 80% of project costs in the name of consultancies, and then does local hires for extremely cheap labour, the kind of work he would never let his children with same level of education do.
The idea of capital flight in exchange for expertise and consultancy engagements is not new. If you check the budget of most ministries, you will discover most of the consultancy works have little local involvements. These guys take our money in knowledge world to use against us in the power world. So you want to ask how this works?
They(foreign countries) reserve their fuel deposits and import our own fuel (as a cheap raw material) and then give us back cars and technologies at the price of a finished product.
Again, Nigeria has become the home (some people call –“dumping ground”) of many products because of our huge population(projected as 160 million). The more we buy these imported products, the more we give some under-aged boy or girl in china a job; at least something to keep up body and soul. The more we continue these importations, the more we drive their economy and de-energise ours. Simply put, we disengage more workers by more imports, and that justifies the high rate of unemployment we have in our country.
Still on the capital flight and local content deliberate extinction by government, we have senior officials travel for all manners of medical ‘tourism’ in the name of treating an ailment that either never existed, or that could be treated by our own facilities in Nigeria. Of course some treatments are out of reach, but you cannot contribute to a system you do not draw or derive ownership from. If you are going for a yellow fever test and sundry travel medical requirements, it will be clearly stated that it must be from a government hospital (depending on your destination). Why then can’t we have all political or elective office holders present an evidence of local treatment in Nigeria for them to have access to the ‘uncapped’, open-ended medical claims and allowances. Of course, you might want to say that will be worse owing to pervading corruption and power influence. However, It would be a case of a better devil if the stolen or manipulated medical claims are distributed at mean within Nigerian medical officers, not a foreign. Having realized the awareness of how huge the medical tourism industry is, you get calls from marketers from india, lobbying you to refer cases to their hospitals abroad. Of course, that is unethical in the medical profession. Of course, Nigerian doctors too have not helped. There are bits of compromised doctors who do that with a percentage ‘referral fee’ attached. I am not against that, provided most of the medical cases referred are done with true intents of treatment, which the patients have not been able to access in Nigeria. However, most referrals are done not based on integrity but marketing models.
Some of these hospitals are aware of an imminent clampdown on their activities so they have decided to shift base. “If mountain does not go to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to mountain”
Suffice to say that some of them have shifted base to Nigeria and have collaborated with these foreign telecoms operating in Nigeria to send bulk-messaging of their presence in Nigeria directly to our phone numbers without our permission. I find such messaging very offensive as you have no option of unsubscribing. This again is a sham or shame to the regulatory agencies in charge of consumer’s telecoms right.
While all of this is going on, my fellow Nigerians are perhaps not thinking deeper as to why most foreign countries are interested in us apart from the oil surge. The most veritable of them being our population growth which skyrockets by the day. My population dynamics study revealed that Nigeria’s population (50 million) was almost at par with UK (55 million) at independence. The question I ask myself is; where did we get this high baby-giving race? It is as though we have baby factories.
While I understand that the surge in population contributes a huge burden on our little facilities, resources and economy, the overall impact would have been mitigated if we have increasing creative economy to correspond with our increasing population. In other words, we have a more dependent population than a productive or creative one. Because the population of unproductive dependants increases, there is apparently more consumer markets for products from china, india and the US. My fellow youths are obviously oblivious of this when they become crazy about schooling in the US or UK. While those guys population have saturated their economy, they are looking for power broking and bilateral agreements that will expand their direct investments in populous countries like Nigeria. For the records, Nigeria’s population is about the size of UK, France and Netherlands put together.
So we keep producing the babies, and spending on them(not to educate but spoil them to rot), creating a more dependent population altogether. If the UK has enough money coming in locally, they wouldn’t have a thorough 4-6hrs call following up on their prospective masters student from Nigeria.
So how does all of this connect to leadership gaps?
I recall a friend of mine narrating how a popular construction company bargained the construction of Abuja roads in exchange for crude oil (very cheap and less profitable for Nigeria) and our leaders agreed. That’s smartness. Few years into the construction, they had exhausted their running expense and needed to downsize – so it was Nigerian hustlers with them that had to bear the brunt. Consequently, they resorted to shoddy construction which was grossly rejected by the Senate Committee in charge. So they needed a serious ‘contract ‘ to compensate for the cash-down. They approached the then president and proposed to construct a railway line from the north down south via the River Niger. They proposed to construct this free (service only) but with another condition; that any resource found on the River Niger waterways while constructing the railway will be theirs. That’s bargaining for you. Interestingly, the president turned that down. That is real leadership; when you cannot trade your local content for immediate gratification; when you cannot trade an unestimated resources for a quantifiable product or service. There has to be balance, and effective leaders know how to create this. It happened sometime ago when the South African Government raised a discriminatory move against Nigerian citizens and we ‘threatened’ to return suit. They withdrew because their core investments in Nigeria would be affected, especially in the telecoms sector. The balance of trade and power exchange is the responsibility of true leaders.
Let me end by saying this; if subserve your people and territory in the name of global recognition and acceptance you will return with nothing!
Nigeria is evolving, and she seeks the change in you first, by your faulty paradigms, personal leadership and then corporate leadership.
Have a productive weekend.
T; @akinolaakinwumi
E; akinwumi03@yahoo.com
In as much as it is good news that the President Buhari has signed the 2016 budget into law and Nigerians are expected to start seeing some changes in the tight financial constraint that has bedevilled the nation for many months so far. It is also so bad that the national budget of the most populous black nation on earth and the giant of Africa just came into law in the fifth month of the year when we have just a meagre seven months to pack up this year.
How can we be certain that the budget will be fully implemented and no part of it shall be stolen and kept aside due to under utilisation? Although the Federal Government has made it clear that it wants a transparent and corruption free budget. It has in turn forgotten that by failing to pass the budget as at when due has created many loop holes for criminal minded politicians and civil servants to exploit the budget and steal money aside for themselves. the Federal Government has also forgotten that justice delayed is justice denied. Proper implementation and financial tracking can not be accorded to the budget anymore because the various arms and parastatals of government that has been starved so far of funds will be in a rush to quickly disburse the resources allocated to them as can be likened to a very tasty man who is offered a glass of chilled water….we all know he will demand for more.
It is a big wonder what our dear Federal Government which has been operating under the change mantra spend the whole of 2015 on given the fact that they couldn’t work and plan on the successful implementation of 2016 budget and they had to wait until 2016 to start discussing the budget for the year.
In my own opinion, I opine that our Federal Government lacks a sense of responsibility and has been busy placing the cart before the horse hence they have succeeded in putting the nation through months of peril and torture.
Our Federal Government has been busy carrying out its daily business like a man high on hard substances, they have already failed the nation many times over especially in the areas of electricity generation, fuel availability, adequate security, proper governance and to cap it up, its most recent disastrous achievement: passing of the 2016 budget in the middle of the year signifies it is really charting the waters for the ship called Nigeria like a drunken sailor!
May God help us in this nation. AMEN!
Margaret Daniels is a year older today! The amazing sweetheart of facebookers wrote this on her facebook timeline this morning:
Wow! Isn’t she a beauty queen? See more of her pictures after the cut…
Celebrate with her guys and you can also add her up via her facebook profile HERE
The African continent is home to many traditions and cultures which span across various ethnic tribes, languages, social norms and customs. Nigeria is not alien to these African qualities being the most populous black nation on earth, the giant of Africa with an estimated 250 ethnic tribes and over 521 languages. Nigeria has over the decades found a way to somehow maintain its people’s traditions and customs by fusing them into the evolution of the nation through giving special powers to traditional rulers. In view of all these it is no longer news that the traditional events and celebrations of Nigeria ethnic tribes do not go unnoticed as some of them usually host guests who come to attend the events from all over the world. Good examples of such Nigerian traditional events are the famous Osun Osogbo Festival which takes place in Osun State, Eyo Festival of Lagos State, Argungu Fishing Festival in Kebbi State and the ever popular Calabar Carnival.
All these festivals sure have many things in common ranging from the soaring crowds, electric atmospheres, traditional dance and acrobatic displays etc among which the Masquerades are also usually prominently featured. Which brings us to the question of how to earn a living through dressing up of masquerades for the various important traditional events.
Well it is an established fact that there are people who make money as wedding planners, event organisers, event caterers, event venue designers and so on. So why can’t we have masquerade outfitters among these categories of people that contribute their skills and talents to the eventual success of events held across Nigeria.
The masquerade outfitting industry in Nigeria is largely unexplored and only a tiny fraction of Nigerians are making a living from this industry while the majority of Nigerians see them as diabolic and unnatural persons. When these people are actually not different from their more common counterparts known as make-up artists.
The culture and tourism industry in Nigeria as it is today is still largely underdeveloped and under-utilised. There are so many benefits that Nigerians can gain from the promotion of culture and tourism but sadly, only a few people are enjoying those benefits.
As odd as it may sound, dressing masquerades up for social events in a big money spinner and there is nothing supernatural or diabolical about it! Do you know that all the materials that go into the costumes of a masquerade are professionally sourced and crafted by people already in the business. A finished masquerade costume is a complete artistic masterpiece judging by the colourful fabrics that make up the clothings and the little pieces of traditional jewellery that dots them. Think about the professionally crafted wooden images they have on their heads and their beautifully designed footwears and also not forgetting the designs on their entourages and assistants as well.
Looking at the above, it is high time for Nigerian youth to start applying to the ministry of culture and tourism for licenses to outfit masquerades and become bosses of their own businesses.
On a final note, Nigerians need to start looking inward in order to boost the development of the nation which will in turn boost the producing strength of our great father land. This approach will encourage export and minimise reliance on import in other to take the country to its rightfully deserved place among the respected league of nations.
Between 1999 and 2003 when the late Lamidi Adesina was governor of Oyo State, some farmers in the Saki area dealt with some Fulani herdsmen for devouring their crops, killing some farmers, committing theft and rape. That was when it came to light that Gen Muhammadu Buhari is a patron of the Fulani herdsmen; he went to Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to query Adesina. Thus, nobody can be better placed than Buhari to resolve the age-long Fulani herdsmen versus crop farmers’ clashes.
My message to President Buhari is this: We are in a modern civilisation in which ambulant animal rearing is primitive and archaic. Animal husbandry is sedentary in today’s civilised societies. People don’t go into a business unless they have what it takes. A crop farmer must have a piece of land, whether inherited, purchased, leased, or permitted. Ditto poultry, fish, snail, and rabbit farmers. That of Fulani herdsmen should not be different, if equity is to be the order of the day.
Does it even make sense for herdsmen to be roaming with their animals in agrarian areas? Let’s apply reason rather than emotion and sentiment. Crops and animals cannot cohabit without danger to crops. A person should rear the number of animals for which he or she has provision of garden, feeds, including water, and veterinary services. Buhari should let the change mantra of his political party reflect in Nigeria’s approach to animal rearing.
The presence of Fulani herdsmen all over Nigeria is not the problem. The problem is their roaming with animals and devouring crops. The solution is to outlaw roaming of animals. Then, security operatives should begin to enforce the law. Will ethnic and religious considerations allow Buhari to do the right thing? It is up to other Nigerians to fold their arms and allow Fulani herdsmen to endanger crop farming and deepen food and poverty crises.
Fulani herdsmen had regard for farmers when many farmers doubled as hunters and had charms. There was a kind of balance of force with the Fulani herdsmen who are always armed with weapons and charms. But Christian demonisation of charms forced many Africans to abandon them. So, many farmers are reaping the fruit of disorientation. But, the situation will degenerate into a full blown war between Fulani herdsmen and their sympathisers versus farmers and their sympathisers.
culled from punchng.com
written by Prof. Pius Oyeniran Abioje, University of Ilorin
This twins are not different from millions of Nigerian youths. They were both born into the same generations of Nigerian youths lamenting about unemployment today and they gave it their all!
They walked the long and treacherous road to fame. They sacrificed comfort for success because they were hungry for it. Well we all know their story today!
They now live ontop of their dreams and looks a lot better from how they used to look. The above pictures prove that nothing is impossible for anyone to achieve once we set our hearts on achieving it!
All our dreams can come true only if we have enough courage to pursue them!
I AM SAYING IT AS IT IS!
Nigeria of today can be likened to a company that requires a competent managing director to oversee its smooth running.
If a company is not doing well in terms of sales, production and profit, the staff will be the ones that bear the brunt as a result of unpaid salaries and allowances. The best course of action is for the Board of Directors to fire the entire management team and bring competent hands on board.
We Nigerians saw our former president as incapable and incompetent to administer Nigeria so we went after a man we perceived can bring about the much needed change we needed to lift our nation out of the mud.
Lo and behold, we brought President Muhammadu Buhari on board with HIGH hopes that all our miseries will soon become history but UNFORTUNATELY, our national situation is not turning out as we thought it would be under the new MANAGEMENT team because the new Managing Director been busy laying all the reasons for things not working out well in his administration on the feet of the former management team that was sacked about 11 months ago.
Nigeria’s current Managing Director has all the RESOURCES he needs to turn the nation around for good but RATHER it is becoming more obvious that we have hired a GROSSLY incompetent man to oversee us.
THIS IS MY TAKE:
If Nigeria was a company and President Buhari is the managing director who was hired to make the company better but has been busy blaming his predecessor for his failure 11 months on. HE SHOULD BE FIRED!
The Fulani herdsmen are afterall not invincible as I had thought earlier on. It has been reported that some youths from Agatu in Benue state crossed over into Nassarawa state and killed 20 Fulani herdsmen and 83 cows in an attack that was suspected to be a reprisal for the killings of over 300 Agatu tribes people in Benue.
This doesn’t have to happen if the government have played its role as the chief security agent of the country but instead it has been busy politicising the killings by Fulani herdsmen.
I fear we are now seeing the beginning of a new trend in reprisal attacks on the Fulanis for every evil act they take and this should not see the light of the day in a country where there is law and order.
A signal has been sent all over the nation that the best way to deal with the Fulani is to attack them back once they come attacking. It is high time that the government steps up its bid to provide adequate ranches for the Fulanis if they want to put a definite end to these incessant killings of innocent Nigerian souls.
I pray for the peace of Nigeria.
Before you continue doing whatever you have on your hand today. Please take a short break to say a #PrayerForSyria. Aleppo is a city in Syria and it has been under constant shelling for the past one week with fatal casualties totalling almost 300 lives lost.
Please pray for the departed souls of the innocent children there, pray for the sorrowful mothers and the helpless fathers. Pray for #Alepo and Pray for #Syria!
God bless you as you do that.
Courtesy of MySocialNaija community.
#SayingItAsItIs
“The woman with the calabash nudged her, then motioned to some other people close
by. ‘Bianu, come,’ she said. ‘Come and take a look.’ She opened the calabash. ‘Take a
look,’ she said again. Olanna looked into the bowl. She saw the little girl’s head with
the ashy-grey skin and plaited hair and rolled-back eyes and open mouth. She stared at
it for a while before she looked away. Somebody screamed. The woman closed the
calabash. ‘Do you know,’ she said, ‘it took me so long to plait this hair? She had such
thick hair,”
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Adichie
Wail! Nigeria wail! your sons and daughters are dying by the coming of each new day! Your streets are unsafe to walk in, your markets and garages are now abattoirs and your highways are reliable death traps!
Mothers are still waiting, waiting for their wards that left the house and haven’t returned yet. The woman from across the street; her husband was a trader – he won’t be coming home tonight…he won’t be coming home ever again. Mr Adamu was about making his way through the traffic gridlock…alas!…he didn’t make it to the other side of the road!
Ibrahim just got an admission to study medicine at the University but…he was brought back home to us tied up in a mat with eyes rolled back into their sockets and pieces of his flesh stitched in a million ways so that we can recognise him as our former Ibrahim!
Now we are afraid to leave our house to seek ways of making a living. Even in our houses, our safety is not guaranteed…death still comes knocking. The other day, Emeka was stabbed in the throat in his sleep, he bled to death while trying to mumble his final words on earth. Oh Nigeria why?
We now watch out for every strange bags and objects around us, we don’t even trust people carrying knapsacks on their backs anymore. Our closest companion on the street is now our enemy. Who knows…he might be a suicide bomber…or to him…I might be a suicide bomber…a threat to his existence!
Nigeria! Your civil servants and office workers now leave their houses as early as 2:00AM in the morning in order to avoid traffic drags that might lead them to their early graves because you now have bombs on your roads!
Nigeria! your poor and downtrodden masses now live in fear even in their humble abodes. While your rich go about smiling and getting fat. The ghettos and slums are shortcuts to the grave while the opulence of your highbrow neighbourhoods swim with happy faces of the rich and powerful. They sit under air-conditioned living rooms to watch what you have become on CNN and BBC as they take off from your shores the next day to well developed nations where their average life expectancy is guaranteed!
BOOM! The bomb goes off and your ignorant masses rush down to the scene to witness the carnage and havoc created with their eyes as they happily upload pictures to the social media through their mobile phones with interesting taglines such as “First To SEE: Bomb Blast Claim 30 lives – Mukaila”, “Just NOW! Blood and Human Parts from Bomb Blasts! 🙂 – CindyBerry”…and while they are at it….BOOOOOM again…the second explosion was more deadlier than the first….Alas! the girl that just tweeted about 5 minutes ago is no more!
And when your children take to the streets, the tear gases and water cannons of the police will be waiting for them there with the koboko (horsewhip) of the soldiers waving ferociously in the air as it drink from the blood on the backs of your children. Your children are now been slapped and smacked around on the face by the same defenders of the nation…or better put – defenders of the government!
I pledge to Nigeria my country…to serve Nigeria with all my strength…to defend her unity….But how can I do this when I am scared to go into the streets?
To all the countless victims of terrorism in Nigeria…we say…REST IN PEACE!
God bless us all
God bless The Federal Republic of Nigeria!
There seems to be more trouble in paradise. Tunji Balogun aka Teebillz has caused such a frenzy on social media following his emotional
breakdown on instagram on Thursday morning. Here are 15 shocking quotes from Teebillz rant…
1. “Please just take care of JamJam. I sacrificed my life for you and put in work and my money to your success.”
2. “You are Tiwa Savage the super star now right. You will never have peace with that fame.”
3. “Your mother wants to turn me to what she turned your dad to? I will rather die. Ask her to confess what’s she’s done to me.”
4. ” I have been fighting this spiritual battle since I was a kid my mother and father can testify. Went from family battle to mother inlaws battle.”
5. “I have been mentally tortured by my the woman I gave everything to.
6. “You have thrown my clothes out of the house more than 5 times because of the love I have for you I still take it and because of Jamil.”
7. ” I should have done this 2 weeks ago but the joy of being around didn’t let me.”
8. “All she cares about is next single, her make up and hair, her brand and all that BS. Please tell the world – have you asked your husband in the last 3 years if he has eaten?”
9. “Thank you to Ani Idibia and Anita my neighbor that provides home cooked meal for me when I needed.”
10. “You will never have peace except my spirits forgives you. Tell your mother to confess what she mounted in the house for you to shine with my star.”
11. “Within what period of time did you Fuck jazzy and Dr Sid. And I didn’t care because the love I have for you. I looked at it that we all
have a past even when at this same fucking time you were fucking with 2face.”
12. “To you Mr Ibrahim Olatunji Balogun Snr, I tried my best not to be like you but instead of focusing on being a better person I was worried about not wanting to be like you.”
13. “I ended up having kids like you by multiple women and my first marriage and only marriage didn’t make it to 2 years just like the one you had with my mum. Why the Fuck did God Made you my father.
14. “I just didn’t have the strength to fight this battle any more. May God Forgive me and accept my soul in peace.”
15. ” I used my money, soul and everything I had for you and everyone knows how I hustled hard with passion for you to get to where you at today. You will never find peace with your career.”
Corporate Leadership Conference is a gathering of thought leaders who are curious about translating personal leadership into corporate effectiveness. Speakers are renowned professionals in the areas of Personal mastery, financial mastery, Effective Communication and Self Leadership.
Are you a business executive or Company CEO, does your staff rely on you for their decision making abilities or are you looking to be a successful leader at what you do?
Then this conference is specifically for you. And you must be there on the “D” Day! The conference details are as follows;
Date; 2nd May, 2016 (Public Holiday)
Time; 9am prompt
Venue; Excellence Centre, Ground floor, Anon Plaza, beside NNPC Filling station, Gudu District, Abuja
Admission is FREE but registration is compulsory to enable the organisers cater for attendees effectively.
Click here to register at http://corporateleader.eventbrite.com
Call this number for enquiries; 08066868276
The Corporate Leadership Conference is convened by : TEMPLE Academy in partnership with Excellence Christian Centre, Abuja.
I will be there and I will be expecting you there as well!
Before 1999, Bola Ahmed Tinubu (aka JAGABAN) had none of these of which 70% belongs to the government and the masses.
1. Oriental Hotel
2. Falomo Shopping Complex
3. First Nation Airline
4. Lekki Concession Company
5. Apapa Amusement Park
6. Maiyegun Land Project
7. The Nation Newspaper
8. Renaissance Hotel
9. Tejuoso Market (Joint ownership)
10. Ikeja Shopping Mall
11. TV Continental
12. Converted Lagos Poly land for TVC
13. Owned NNPC Office building in Lagos
14. Radio Continental
15. Owned School of Nursing building in Lagos
16. Tax Collector of Lagos State (owns Alpha Beta, a company Prof. Osinbajo is a director)
17. Wife is a member of the National Assembly
18. Son-in-law is a member of the National Assembly
19. Daughter is the President-General of Market Women Association in Lagos
20. Two of his nephews given tickets to Lagos State House of Assembly
21. N4 billion government financed property for self at Queens Drive, Lagos.
22. Owned Royal Gardens Estate, Lekki and a host of others including choice Lagos State Lands he conered to himself, family members and cronnies.
23. He is supporting and Financing Buhari not because he loves him or Democracy but because he wants to expand his resource grabbing to the Federal level including oil blocs of the Niger Delta.
Beware of looters in ceremonial clothing, we know their type.
And Nigerians are not saying anything about him…WHERE IS OUR FOCUS AS NATION?
I just came across this picture online now and it got me thinking what has happened to the morals of Nigerian ladies of nowadays. Isn’t there no limit to the level of insanity and immorality they are willing to go to all in the name of fashion?
Does dressing like the lady in the picture fetch you the man of your dreams? that is a complete NO NO.
Just like the age old adage says “the way you dress is the way you will be addressed”, I also say if I come across a lady dressed like the lady in this picture, I will treat her the same way I’ll treat the insane man in the picture.
What’s your take on this, should we continue to allow this among our ladies?
The differences between both leaders are obvious…it needs no telling…
Funny but true
They are grabbing land by force
When they attacked Agatu, helicopters were dropping supplies for them
They are not just fulani herdsmen, they are being sponsored by unknown persons in high places
Is it normal for an ordinary cattle rearer to be going about with automatic rifles?
None of them has ever been caught when even the more vicious Boko Haram have no hiding place
Their attacks are always carefully planned and carried out
They are systematically penetrating into all the regions of Nigeria.
They are the only few that even the police can’t arrest for carrying automatic weapons
There are so many laws in Nigeria’s Constitution that protects them
They are the North’s Secret Army and they are very effective at that because they keep moving from place to place leaving desolation and horror in their wake.
The Nigerian Customs Service has decided to empty its warehouses of food items, soaps, footwears and tones of other relief materials to residents and victims of Boko Haram in Buni Yadi, Yobe State in North East Nigeria.
It is definitely obvious that a lot of hungry stomachs in Buni Yadi will not go hungry again for a long time to come because the shipments of rice, vegetable oil and others to their camps is so massive! – Well that’s if they government officials there don’t start diverting the bulk of these relief items to be sold in their wives’ shop.
#THISISNIGERIA
On the whole anyway, let’s give a big round of applause to the authorities of the Nigeria Customs Service for their foresight and generosity. Atleast they’ve finally realised that it will be fair game for the whole country to share in their massive loot at our nation’s borders.
But, when will they start giving out all the seized luxury cars they are selling at cheap prices to themselves. If anybody know when and where they’ll start doing that please alert me so that I can position myself for better Customs rain 🙂
#SAYINGITASITIS
Legendary artist Prince was found dead in the lift of his home in Minnesota on Thursday. He was 57.
While I had never met him, he has had such an indelible, lasting impact on the fashion industry. He created pop culture and what would style be without the former? He is one of the few music icons in history that has given music its identity, the first pop icon to wear a bikini on stage, the hard to categorise music legend who has over 39 studio albums to his credit.
He is iconic, a super star, his message spoke to the youth across many generations…
….But today, he is no more…
Today, we at My Social Naija (MSN Community) mourn the Prince of Pop, it is so sad to lose you at such a young age. You are not dead because your music will continue to be with us and your voice will continue to inspire us.
Rest in perfect peace until the day we meet in paradise.
Amen!
Isn’t it a shameless irony and reality of the way of life of the average Nigerian that he does not have full privilege and right over the commodities and services he purchases either from private or public arms of the the nation’s economy.
It is only in Nigeria that you have to beg for the services you are paying your hard earned money to get. If you don’t beg, you either lose that service, shuffled aside or molested by the provider of the service and to add salt to the injury the very arm of government that was instituted to protect consumer rights have either gone to sleep or are dead for good, even the security arms are tools of violence in the arms of these service providers.
It is only in Nigeria that you are pressured to pay exorbitant prices for epileptic services provided by the government to the people. Such is the case of our diabetic power sector and the forebearers of the former popularly known as NEPA aka PHCN (Please Hold Candle Nigerians). As an average Nigerian citizen, you are forced to cough out unbelievable amounts of money to pay for an electricity bill that was hardly provided to you.
The shout of the UP NEPA slogan first started shortly after the independence of Nigeria when the National Electricity Power Authority first made its historical debute of supplying electricity to Nigerians via the national grid. The electricity distribution was being provided on a state by state level as at that time. So indigents of states that are yet to receive electricity were eager to see the amazing wonders of NEPA. So whenever a state is lightened up on the national power grid for the first time, the Nigerian citizens will scream UP NEPA!.
But unfortunately, the reverse is the case today as that slogan has successfully found its way into our daily lives because of the unrepentant of NEPA and our government to ensure that we remain in total black out all across the nation for decades. The power sector that has once been a gigantic national pride has over the years reduced itself to a shameful object in our national history. Not excluding corruption and the insensible short-sightedness of our leaders, UP NEPA is now a shameful slogan in the ways of life of Nigerians who have no option than to keep shouting UP NEPA whenever the epileptic power comes around for a little while.
The “UP NEPA” slogan was meant to be a stuff of legend in our history books, peacefully at rest for all eternity in our museums, libraries and national archives. My generation wasn’t supposed to shout the slogan long after my grandfather and father’s generation have shouted it. But shamefully, generations after me are now chew the slogan in their mouth like biscuit. I even saw a 2 year old child learning to talk screaming UP NEPA as the first words in mental vocal diary – isn’t that shameful?
Nigeria will soon mark its 56th birthday and shamefully, its citizens’ brains and minds has become the final resting place of the shameful “UP NEPA” slogan.
If this shameful act continues after our 56th birthday, our leaders should all go and cover their heads in the ashes of shame, the entire Nigerian governmental structure overhauled, the National Assembly scrapped, and brilliant minds brought on board once and for all to find an end to the evil monster called “UP NEPA” that has been living among us for ages or what do you think?
Nigerians, especially the youth has been groaning for the past few months since the APC presidential candidate ascended into the No. 1 seat of the nation. People complaining from the South West to the South East, from the North West to the North Central over the lack of basic amenities needed to live a proper life in Nigeria. Our national budget even went missing at a particular time and we started to fear it would end up on suya and akara stands but thankfully, it was recovered but yet to be passed sha.
Massive unemployment and job lay-off have taken their toll on the fabric of the nation. production industries are also rapidly grinding to a stop and the future looks somehow bleak for the nation.
Well, some well known personalities have these auspicious moments in our nation’s history to stage their beef by tendering it on the table of jobless and idle youths desperately searching for succour on social media while wasting away.
Linda Ikeji was the one that launched the assault by publishing a story of Wizkid being getting evicted by the landlord of the lekki mansion he claimed to have bought some years back…hmmm.
You can tell that the news does not go down well with our famous “Yaagaa” Star Boy Crony Musician as he fired back on Linda Ikeji and started calling her names…I even read somewhere that he called her a prostitute who shamelessly had sex with his manager in his hotel suite and that one left her there to go and rendezvous with his family at home. That’s not all, I also heard from somewhere that he rained abuses and curses on her mother and family and even threatened her life.
Well, aunt Linda Ikeji got scared out of her skin and quickly ran to the Lagos state commissioner of police for help (I guess rich people are so scared of dying anyway…all that stashed money in her account..hmmm)
Long and short of the story is that the CP has gotten Mr. Ayo Balogun aka Wizkid to sign an undertaking that nothing will happen to aunt Linda Ikeji’s life and he will be held responsible if anything happens to her…well, Wizkid will have to move his house to aunt Linda’s gate as security now because if anything should accidentally happen to our ageing aunty…hmmmm…he won’t be spared at all..
And to aunt Linda Ikeji, stop publishing personal articles for the purpose of the publicity you are ready to die for…another man may not threaten you verbally o….and we don’t want to lose you soon as well.
We Nigerians can drink a cup of chilled water and smile on this while we momentarily forget that the current economic situation of our nation does not favour us at all…and it doesn’t favour our data plans as well…
You can see more screen shots of their social media cannons in the gallery above
#SayingItAsItIs
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It is a total surprise that our Nigerian National Assembly will decide to opt for acquiring 108 Toyota Landcruiser SUVs valued at N35M naira each.
Nigeria is currently going through an historical financial and economic crises that is threatening the peace and sustainability of the nation. All our economic sectors are constantly recording poor turn over, inflation has soared to its highest, both government and private jobs are busy laying off workers and amidst all of these, the dollar is stifling the life-line of our fatherland.
Inspite of all these negative trends on our nation, the governmental arm of Nigeria has decided to spoil themselves with brand new toys they call cars. Yes, it is a shocker, the Nigerian National Assembly has procured 108 Toyota Landcruiser Jeeps. These vehicles are actually valued at N17M per vehicle on the dealer stand but our immaculate National Assembly procured each one for N35M from their mystery dealer. you sef shout EHN!?
Well that’s the truth, and this is coming just after our senators has pocketed all their transport allocations, received their official vehicles and all the other pecks associated with their office.
I even heard that the vehicles were purchased for the national assembly committees. So, these questions begged to be asked?
I also heard that the Jeeps were purchased because the Committees refused to used the buses that were purchased for them on the grounds that the buses are not fast enough to take them to where they have to work. Hmmmm….isn’t that funny abi?
So let’s conclude that the state-of-the-art buses procured for our National Assembly Committees are no longer fast enough to convey members to and from their destination. That also means that those buses are now useless, if so what will be the fate of the buses? they will be auctioned to committee members abi?
…I am just observing!…
The recent news making the rounds on social media is that the popular yoruba celebrity actress Funke Akindele has been wearing pyjamas in JJC’s house and she’s been cooking for the sensational hip hop artiste’s children as well.
I even heard that she has been trying so hard to keep their love affair a secret from the eyes of the public but JJC doesn’t seem to share that idea with her because he has been busy posting videos on snapchat that showed them in various romantic moods and especially one where his mother was praying fervently for the actress that she would bear fruit of the womb and give her good grandchildren of which Funke replied with a resounding AMEN!
Hmmmmm…I am happy for her anyway because she is not getting younger and she needs to settle down for good. I hope she finds joy in the house of JJC Skills and I wish them the best.
…but sha, should incase matters turn south…I would really love to propose to her because I am in love with her and would love to settle down with her…#fact
INEC got a chance at the spotlight due to the brilliant strategies it applied during the 2015 General Elections in Nigeria. the Commission was praised all over the world for the way it conducted the elections.
But judging from recent elections that the commission has conducted, do you think INEC is getting better or getting worse based on current realities…?
Just came across this online and thought its worth sharing to my dear readers…
it was captioned thus:
“In the land of no fuel⛽,in d time of no light💡,.the destiny of a great nation🇳🇬 rests on the shoulders of an old man👴🏾,..his name…😭”
Funny…what do you think…???
China has just offered a whopping sum of $6bn Infrastructure Loan to Nigeria and there are really no papers or agreements needed to get the funds down here…all that’s needed is for Nigeria to identify the infrastructure projects and the loan will be accessible straight!…hmmmm…smell something fishy?…
Don’t you think China is starting to treat Nigeria like its new found African baby…ever since it has decided to spread its world economic reach into Africa, Nigeria has been a high priority for China. In the words of the Chinese President Xi – “Nigeria will always have a special place in the affairs of China”…huh?
Its so strange that a China man with all his stingy and self centred traits would just give away $6bn just like that sha..
It is a known and well established fact that China is eyeing our oil, mineral resources, agriculture, infrastructure and production sectors and are ready to move in their big machines to commence work once the government gives the green light..
So this is very simple….they need the government to give them the permission to come and start making moves to reap bountiful harvest out of Nigeria so they are dangling a $6bn carrot in the eyes of President Buhari (the cap in the hand man) …a $6bn carrot project that will also be handled by same China man and the money repatriated back to their treasury…. either way…Nigeria will be stuck in between….
And we all know what dealing with a China man means sha…
I even heard somewhere that our mighty CBN has signed an agreement with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited to switch over our foreign reserve from dollar (Eurobonds) to Yuan-Bond…
I’m I the only one smelling an occupation/colonisation of Nigeria by China?
It is no longer news that foreigners especially the Europeans do not respect our laws at all. The sovereignty of our nation to them sounds like a joke and they come into Nigeria trotting about as if they are above the law but not this time because the tide is starting to turn against them.
Words on the street has it that the man in the photo is known as Mayooraz and he is the Swiss Ambassador that was posted to Nigeria last year to head the Swiss Mission and that among his many luggages he brought to Nigeria with him was his gay partner known simply as Carlos from Brazil.
So that white man thinks he can just come and be practising that rubbish in our father land ehn? So he is telling us that our anti-gay laws means nothing to him abi? okay we shall see….
….because as I am speaking now, our Federal Government is currently probing him and they have promised us that if it is indeed true that the man is in the country with his gay partner, he will be made to face the full wrath of our anti-gay laws here…
….I just hope politics of vested interests doesn’t come to play in this case…
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Just came across this online and I should say its a good development that Nigeria Army has joined the long list of oil prospeteers in Nigeria. The petrol station is an 8 pump filling station located around Bakungu bye-pass, Minna and it is licensed under Nigeria Army Properties Limited (NAPL). Why does everyone seem to be focused on the petroleum industry nowadays despite the massive scarcity of fuel currently rocking the nation?
Nigeria Army of all government arms should know that they are a leading figure and the eyes of the world are on them. I see no reason in why they didn’t choose to set up an agriculture based venture which I presume will go a long way in feeding the soldiers on the front line battling insurgency in the north. And such move would have also encouraged other government agencies to follow in their footsteps to continue building agricultural facilities and ventures which research has shown is the next viable alternative to oil for Nigeria’s prosperity and development.
Its a surprise that while we still can’t get enough oil from the already available petrol stations, Nigeria Army is building theirs!
22 years ago, a massive crises broke out between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda. About a million people (mostly tutsis) lost their lives over the course of 9 months. Sadly, this happened in a country where they speak only one language and have only one culture but the unity in tongue and culture was not enough to stop them from descending on each other.
Nigerians are currently playing with the helms of fire, our selfish politicians have been able to divide us by seeing our brothers from other regions of the country as enemies and possible suspects. The inferno is gradually rising to its destructive tempo, if allowed to continue unchecked, we might soon have to looking over our shoulders while walking on the streets.
Unity is our watchword in Nigeria and we must do all that is possible to ensure that our unity is not threatened by our diversity.
The International Community called the Rwanda crises many names; some call it Genocide, others, Massacre and others Crimes Against Humanity but I Ayo Adeyemi call it brothers turning on brothers.
Let us remember the Rwandan story so that we won’t miss our paths. LESSON FOR ALL
22 years ago, a massive crises broke out between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda. About a million people (mostly tutsis) lost their lives over the course of 9 months. Sadly, this happened in a country where they speak only one language and have only one culture but the unity in tongue and culture was not enough to stop them from descending on each other.
Nigerians are currently playing with the helms of fire, our selfish politicians have been able to divide us by seeing our brothers from other regions of the country as enemies and possible suspects. The inferno is gradually rising to its destructive tempo, if allowed to continue unchecked, we might soon have to looking over our shoulders while walking on the streets.
Unity is our watchword in Nigeria and we must do all that is possible to ensure that our unity is not threatened by our diversity.
The International Community called the Rwanda crises many names; some call it Genocide, others, Massacre and others Crimes Against Humanity but I Ayo Adeyemi call it brothers turning on brothers.
Let us remember the Rwandan story so that we won’t miss our paths. LESSON FOR ALL
A 25 year old man identified as Ajayi Kehinde, drowned on Monday April 4th after he parked his SUV close at the Oke Afa canal in Isolo and jumped into the canal. According to PM news, the identity of the man was known through the vehicle particulars in the SUV.
The reason for the bizarre action is not yet known as no relative of the deceased has been located. Also the body of the deceased has not been recovered because the Nigerian Police do not have the necessary equipment to do so.
The Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Dolapo Badmos confirmed the incident. She said the police were making efforts to recover his body and that investigation into the matter is ongoing.
Kwara State command of the NSCDC has arrested a fake military officer identified as Abdulkadir Bolaji, 41 years and two others for sequence ...
