Tinubu behaves like the Lannisters: he always pays his debt, good or bad. Rewarding those that went through the struggles with him under the military regime. Indeed, it's your turn.
benuejosh:
Tell me why you won't love Mr President.
Don't forget the INEC chairman during June 12 was also Honoured with national honors.
This man is so strategic. By so doing, much noise will reduce. The man keeps making people quiet just a step at a time.
More like one bread at a time for Yorubalokan folks in Isalẹ Èkó.
If ebilokan is too clueless to create the jobs promised, then we will have to console ourselves with the bread of sorrow and pray for safety from stampede deaths.
Glimpsetv:
A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
Ebeano49:
Another giveaway to his Yoruba kinsmen and women. Anthony Enahoro, Dan Suleiman, Balarabe Musa, Bagauda Kaltho, Ndubuisi Kanu, Margaret Ekpo, Frank Kokori, Alfred Rewane, and many others fought hard for this democracy but he chose to reward only his kinsmen, and Sani who recently declared for his 2027 ambition.
BAT is bad for Nigeria!
Apart from Margarett Ekpo and Frank Kokori, all the names you mentioned are on the list of those honored by Mr. President.
ZACHIE:
Pardoning Ken Saro Wíwà and conferring national honours on him and the Ogoni9 is quite thoughtful
Bro head swell sef with pride listening to Tinubu today. Sharp brain he used to do justice to all deserving Nigerians from all ethnic groups.
The consideration for the Ogoni 9 was wonderful and special. They were unjustly persecuted by unjust military dictators in a very unjust time in Nigeria's history.
I was especially please Frank Kokori deservedly recieved a posthumous national honour.
May he continue to rest in peace especially as he is vindicated today about Tinubu's bravery and will to tackle the biggest monsters on behalf of Nigeria and Nigerians.
chisomkachy:
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn the alleged money laundering suit it filed at the Federal High Court against Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa.
Naija News understands that the anti-graft did not give any particular reason for its application for withdrawal.
Following the application to withdraw, Justice Nicholas Oweibo discharged the ‘lien/Post No Debit’ placed on Obasa’s three s in Standard Chartered Bank.
The s are (US Dollars) 0001852063; (Current) 0001852056 and (Saving) 5002309624.
The judge also set aside the ex-parte orders he made on September 15, 2020, which led to the freezing of the s.
Recall that the court on September 15, 2020, granted an interim order freezing Obasa’s s following the EFCC’s application in a suit marked FHC/LCS/1064/2020.
The agency had said it was investigating the Speaker for the alleged offences of conspiracy, diversion of funds, abuse of office and money laundering.
But Justice Oweibo, on August 16, 2023, heard the application to unfreeze the s in his chamber.
During the hearing, the EFCC was represented by Mr. Sulaiman I. Sulaiman, while Obasa was represented by Mr. Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN).
The EFCC lawyer told the court that the application to unfreeze the s was pursuant to Section 44(2)(K) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Sections 26, 29 and 34 (1) of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004, and under the court’s inherent jurisdiction.
Section 44 of the Constitution concerns constitutional rights to property.
Justice Oweibo held: “It is hereby ordered that an order is hereby granted to the respondent/applicant setting aside the ex-parte orders of this court made on the 15th day of September 2020 upon the ex-parte motion of the Applicant/ Respondent in relation the funds of the Respondent/Applicant domiciled in the s stated in the following schedule:
“ NAME, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, TYPE OF , 1. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered, (US Dollars) 0001852063 2. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Current) 0001852056 3. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Saving) 5002309624.
“Issued at Lagos, under the seal of this Honourable Court and by the hands of the Presiding Judge this 16th day of August 2023.”
Bro head swell sef with pride listening to Tinubu today. Sharp brain he used to do justice to all deserving Nigerians from all ethnic groups.
The consideration for the Ogoni 9 was wonderful and special. They were unjustly persecuted by unjustly dictators in a very unjust time in Nigeria's history.
I was especially please Frank Kokori deservedly recieved a posthumous national honour.
May he continue to rest in peace especially as he is vindicated today about Tinubu's bravery and will to tackle the biggest monsters on behalf of Nigeria and Nigerians.
How does it feel to be violated constantly by the person who rescues you from kidnappers?
Is that a form of Stockholm syndrome?
chisomkachy:
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.
The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.
Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.
The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.
Ebeano49:
Another giveaway to his Yoruba kinsmen and women. Anthony Enahoro, Dan Suleiman, Balarabe Musa, Bagauda Kaltho, Ndubuisi Kanu, Margaret Ekpo, Frank Kokori, Alfred Rewane, and many others fought hard for this democracy but he chose to reward only his kinsmen, and Sani who recently declared for his 2027 ambition.
BAT is bad for Nigeria!
Desist from this blind, wicked and evil hatred of others. It will bring you nothing but the wrath of God, karma or whatever spiritual higher power or essence you believe in.
How can you hate to the extent you speak blindly and with wicked lies against others merely because you are obsessed always with demonizing those you hate malevolently?
Most of the names you claimed Tinubu ignored "to reward only his kinsmen" were conferred with national honour and many more even that are not PBAT's kinsmen.
What manner of hate rules the heart of you people from the SE that you cannot even do a few minutes of research before you rush online to lie against others?
Apart from Margarett Ekpo and Frank Kokori, all the names you mentioned are on the list of those honored by Mr. President.
Frank Kokori was posthumously honoured Sir. I watched Mr.President's speech live. See full list below. Frank Kokori is number eleven on the list. May he continue to rest in peace.
Ebeano49:
Another giveaway to his Yoruba kinsmen and women. Anthony Enahoro, Dan Suleiman, Balarabe Musa, Bagauda Kaltho, Ndubuisi Kanu, Margaret Ekpo, Frank Kokori, Alfred Rewane, and many others fought hard for this democracy but he chose to reward only his kinsmen, and Sani who recently declared for his 2027 ambition.
BAT is bad for Nigeria!
I am sure you haven't read the full list of the awardees all the name you listed here got the award, please take you time and read through the full list, these ones where singled out by the writer for the purpose of his personal tribute and recognition.
Ebeano49:
Another giveaway to his Yoruba kinsmen and women. Anthony Enahoro, Dan Suleiman, Balarabe Musa, Bagauda Kaltho, Ndubuisi Kanu, Margaret Ekpo, Frank Kokori, Alfred Rewane, and many others fought hard for this democracy but he chose to reward only his kinsmen, and Sani who recently declared for his 2027 ambition.
BAT is bad for Nigeria!
Check the full list all the aforementioned were there.
obonujoker:
So no Hausa man or SSouth man is deserving of such honour?
Even Peter Obi was busy working for Abacha as Chairman of Tin can , helping the military to cart away millions of dollars and and his kinsmen to bring in substandard product and drugs.
He was appointed in 1995 and bought a house in 1996, reason nam.
Desist from this blind, wicked and evil hatred of others. It will bring you nothing but the wrath of God, karma or whatever spiritual higher power or essence you believe in.
How can you hate to the extent you speak blindly and with wicked lies against others merely because you are obsessed always with demonizing those you hate malevolently?
Most of the names you claimed Tinubu ignored "to reward only his kinsmen" were conferred with national honour and many more even that are not PBAT's kinsmen.
What manner of hate rules the heart of you people from the SE that you cannot even do a few minutes of research before you rush online to lie against others?
This one pain am. . Publish the full list. I reacted to the names I saw on here. That's all I can do. Anything else is balderdash
STOP typing nonsense all over NL! A VERY childish and highly irritating behavior.
What Adams Oshiomole jocularly said towards the end of that video was NOT an encouragement of corruption but he was laying emphasis on the name Edo name "Iruobe" which means "I don't do bad." It's OBVIOUSLY CLEAR that Adams Oshiomole is one person who does NOT encourage corruption as an astute labor leader even though he is in politics like other labor union leaders from around the world. Period.
How you narcissistic and neurotic posters here on NL go about defaming people and putting negative labels on them simply because you don't like them or their political parties due to tribalism is confounding BUT NOT totally surprising at the same time.
Get a grip of your life and find something BETTER to do with it instead of always posting narcissistic comments here on NL.
STOP typing nonsense all over NL! A VERY childish and highly irritating behavior.
What Adams Oshiomole jocularly said towards the end of that video was NOT an encouragement of corruption but he was laying emphasis on the name Edo name "Iruobe" which means "I don't do bad." It's OBVIOUSLY CLEAR that Adams Oshiomole is one person who does NOT encourage corruption as an astute labor leader even though he is in politics like other labor union leaders from around the world. Period.
How you narcissistic and neurotic posters here on NL go about defaming people and putting negative labels on them simply because you don't like them or their political parties due to tribalism is confounding BUT NOT totally surprising at the same time.
Get a grip of your life and find something BETTER to do with it instead of always posting narcissistic comments here on NL.
If you and oshi-ọmọ-ole are not the narcissistic ones, you will share verifiable information about how many teachers he employed in his eight years of stewardship to Edo State, for all children to be in free primary and secondary schools.
The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
I hope you have seen the full list which shows that these people you mentioned are also honoured. Go and find it if you haven't before you die of hypertension.
Ebeano49:
Another giveaway to his Yoruba kinsmen and women. Anthony Enahoro, Dan Suleiman, Balarabe Musa, Bagauda Kaltho, Ndubuisi Kanu, Margaret Ekpo, Frank Kokori, Alfred Rewane, and many others fought hard for this democracy but he chose to reward only his kinsmen, and Sani who recently declared for his 2027 ambition.
