The Imeobi Igbo Forum, a pan Igbo grassroots sociocultural organization, has asked the newly elected Comrade Joseph Ajjaero-led leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC to declare their support for any of the presidential candidates of the foremost political parties contesting the 2023 presidential election in the country.
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Imeobi Igbo said having just been elected at recently concluded 13th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of the NLC in Abuja on Tuesday 7th February, it is high time the new NLC leadership declare their stand for any of the presidential candidates to enable the entire labour workforce cheer such a candidate to victory.
National President of Imeobi Igbo, Dr. Mike Ikegulu who stated this in a press statement he issued to newsmen yesterday, via SMS, said it is worrisome that after listening to his lengthy acceptance speech, Ajaero did not make any mention of Labor Party or Peter Obi.
According to Imeobi Igbo, “Ajaero’s stand on the candidate to support was vague and non committal. If anything, his plan for the next government, hopefully Labour Party’s Peter Obi, is confrontational and as such,
Imeobi Igbo Forum is asking whether the rumored divorce between the Labour Party and NLC is now official?”
“Days to the 2023 general elections, IIF enquires of when the labour movement in Nigeria will come for Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of LP.
In July 2022, the former NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, in an interview, said that workers have recovered the LP and have activated their political commission in all the 36 states of Nigeria in preparation for the 2023 general elections. Wabba said that the Nigeria workers were conscientized to actively participate in the democratic dispensation, after the NLC political summit”
The LP is a party registered and promoted by the NLC. In fact statutorily, NLC & TUC are Central Executive Committee CEC members of LP. They have offices in 774 LGAs of Nigeria’s 36 States. The labour movement can fill the structure gap that the discredited parties are boasting about as there are workers in every nooks and crannies of Nigeria”.
“We are yet to feel the impact of the labour movement on the fortunes of LP. More worrisome is the continued flirtation with other political parties. Let NLC and TUC show up now and join the movement, if they still believe in birthing a new Nigeria or forever remain silent and obscure. It’s not a time to pander to ethnic, religious and monetary considerations but to mobilize the Nigeria work force in both NLC and TUC to go get their PVCs and vote Peter Obi to change the narrative in Nigeria”.
“Peter Obi, not only belongs to the labour movement, but is the best of all the leading candidates for President”.
…. Insists that Rivers Governor Must Match Word with Action, Appear at the APC Presidential Campaign Ground to Affirm his Support
…Says Using Rivers Money to Secretly Secure Political Space within the APC is inconsequential, deceitful and Unacceptable
Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chkwuemeka Eze has described as improbable, claims by Gov. Nyesom Wike that his support in the February 25 Presidential election is for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
In a statement made available to media houses in Port Harcourt, the party Chief said the statement though unfathomable, is a patently ridiculous and vengeful display of treachery against the People’s Democratic Party for frustrating his selfish and inordinate presidential aspiration. This perfidy is egregiously targeted at balking the presidential bid of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Governor Nyesom Wike was quoted as stating, “Yes it is true that I have directed all Local Government Chairmen, Commissioners, Board Chairmen, Senior Special Advisers, Special Advisers, Senior Special Assistants, DGs, Board Members and all my Aides to work for Bola Tinubu and I owe no one any Apology”.
As a matter of fact, the statement signals the drowning of an intolerant and unapologetically self-seeking bigot who has never entertained any new thought in the recent aside from the pursuit of a personal vendetta against those who rivaled his awkwardly maleficent political pursuit.
Senator Bola Tinubu is the APC Presidential Torch-Bearer and thus, Gov Wike cannot claim to be supporting him whereas on daily basis he deploys thugs to threaten and unleash mayhem on APC campaigners in Rivers State.
Eze wonders the basis on which Wike is claiming to be supporting the APC Presidential Candidate when he is yet to make any resort to the Chairman of the Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State, Pastor Tonye Cole and asking his partner in crime, a corruption-infested customer of the EFCC and guber candidate of the PDP, Siminialayi Fubara, to withdraw from the race to validate their seeming inconsequential support for the APC and make it total.
Furthermore, if Gov. Wike has truly resolved to support Tinubu’s presidential project, Eze said he must appear at APC Presidential rally ground in person to Campaign for Tinubu, noting that a hide and seek politicking is a no-no in seeking relevance in politics.
He added that given his status as Governor, Wike must understand the rudiments of politics and what it takes to be a party member and follow the rules. He has to register with the party from his Ward and pay homage to his benefactor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who is the leader of the party in the region to show genuine commitment to the Tinubu/APC project.
The party Chief said failure to comply with the prerequisite conditions highlighted above, Wike’s claim of supporting APC’s Bola Tinubu remains a mirage, inconsequential and farce and should be taken as such regardless of whatever secret contributions and financial commitments he has allegedly made for the party’s campaign rally scheduled for February 15, adding that it is deceitful for the Governor to claim to have released the General Yakubu Gowon stadium for the APC Presidential rally free of charge when the party has already paid the requisite fee for the use of the facility.
As Nigerians celebrate the life and times of the first Republic minister for Aviation and the last of the Nationalist Chief Mbazuruike Amaechi the Ohaneze Ndigbo has expressed it’s unhappiness over the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to grant him his last wish of releasing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to him.
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This is coming as Gov Charles Soludo announced his confidence that Nnamdi Kanu would surely be released very soon contending that it is the only way to separate the criminals from those that are actually doing the job of freedom fighting.
At the Day Of Tribute in honor of late Amaechi the National Vice President of Ohaneze Ndigbo Chief Damian Okeke Ogene recalled how Buhari refused to grant the last request of the old man who fought for the unity and independence of Nigeria.
“Amaechi sees me as his adopted son and I accepted it and I have always been with him all through because I remember that he organized for the payment of pension for the wounded Biafran solders at some point ”
“But what is indeed disappointing was that on two occasions Mbazuruike Amaechi demanded for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu which was his last wish and the President turned him down and I wonder what other requests can we the living can grant to a father figure like Mbazuruike Amaechi that to release Nnamdi Kanu to him ?”he said
Soludo however expressed confidence that Nnamdi Kanu would soon be released adding that any discussion about insecurity in the South East cannot be meaningful without the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
” Our father Mbazuruike Amaechi made a passionate appeal to the federal government for the release of Nnamdi Kanu but he died without his request being granted and I shear in the same view with him that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu should be released”
“Yes not all agreed to it based on the means or where he should be but I want to make it clear here that the issue about Nigeria must be talked about and must be discussed”
*I led a team to visit Nnamdi Kanu when he was in Kuje prison and I visited him again at the DSS facility and he made it clear that it is an abomination for one to take another”s life and that it was against the ideology “behind the struggle”
“Now the entire South East is under insecurity and under siege because every criminal that you catch will tell you that he is a member of the liberation struggle”
“And 100 percent of those that had so far been arrested and those in the bush are Igbos and they had taken over the hometown of Mbazuruike Amaechi in Ukpor and the hoodlums had three camps and it took us about five hours to dislodge them ”
“That is why we want Nnamdi Kanu released so that we can distinguish the criminals from the real liberators and separating the wheat from the chaff”
“We know that is would not be an end to criminality but it would be far reaching and I want to reassure everyone that certainly Nnamdi Kanu would be released very soon and would be seen to have been released” he said.
Speaking earlier the Chairman of the occasion who also represented Engr Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu who is the Chairman of the Funeral Committee Sen Ben Obi described Amaechi as a great Zikist adding that he (Amaechi) is a symbol of a true Nigerian who with his colleagues laid their lives for the country.
First Nigerian female governor and former governor of Anambra state Dame Virgy Etiaba said that Igbos should hold their heads and shoulder high wherever they to had had a brother and father in Amaechi.
The Presidential candidate that was at the function Justice Peter Umeadi rtd of the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA noted that Igbos should not be discouraged in the Nigerian politics noting that late Amaechi would be better honoured when come this year’s general election the South East would take their pride of place in the country.
Former Director General of Mass Mobilization For Social Reorientation Agency MAMSA Prof Elochukwu Amaucheazi admonished the Igbos to remain resolute in their struggle as he expressed hopes that following the steps of Mbazuruike Amaechi would take the race to it’s destination.
“He remains a father and when he gets there he would meet the likes of late Dr Michael Okpara and tell them the way we are in this country which is against what they fought for” he said.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has adjourned ruling on the bail application filed by Ali Bello, nephew of the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, and four others in a N3 billion money laundering trial to Monday, February 20, 2023.
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At the resumed proceedings on the case on Tuesday, February 14, defence counsel, Ahmed Raji, SAN, informed the court of two motions filed on February 7, 2023, seeking the withdrawal and replacement of the initial applications of January26, 2023 on behalf of the defendants.
In the supporting affidavits, Raji prayed the court to grant the first defendant and others bail “on the most liberal terms”, stating that the defendants are law -abiding citizens.
“My lord, it has been more than a year since the EFCC has been investigating them and they were admitted to bail which they have not jumped, even once. In fact, the fourth defendant at a time, got his passport back and was permitted by the EFCC to travel to Mecca and he came back,” he said.
However, prosecution counsel, Kabiru Hussini, relying on a seven- paragraph counter affidavit, faulted Raji’s claims. “My lord, our written addresses oppose the application for bail, because we believe that in the interest of this case, the defendants have every tendency to jump bail, because they have all the influence, resources and power to intimidate our witnesses and tamper with evidence in this case”, he said.
Justice Egwuatu adjourned to February, 20 2023, for ruling on the bail application.
Bello and four others, were docked on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 on 18 count charges bordering on criminal misappropriation and money laundering to the tune of N3,081,804,654.00( Three Billion, Eighty One Million, Eight Hundred and Four Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Four Naira). The other four defendants are Abba Adauda, Yakubu Siyaka Adabenege, Iyada Sadat and Rashida Bello( at large).
Count one of the charge reads “That you, ALI BELLO, ABBA ADAUDU, YAKUBU SIYAKA ADABENEGE, IYADA SADAT, RASHIDA BELLO (at large) sometime in June, 2020 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court procured E- Traders International Limited to retain the aggregate sum of N3,081,804,654.00 (Three Billion, Eighty One Million, Eight Hundred and Four Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Four Naira) which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of proceeds of unlawful activity to wit: criminal misappropriation, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to sections 18(a), 15(20)(d) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011 as amended and punishable under section 15 (3) of the same Act”.
Count 3 reads, “That you, ALI BELLO, ABBA ADAUDU, RASHIDA BELLO (at large) sometime in November, 2021 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court procured E-Traders International Limited to transfer the aggregate sum of $570,330 (Five Hundred and Seventy Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty United States Dollars) to account number no; 426-6644272 domiciled in TD Bank, United States of America, which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of proceeds of unlawful activity to with: criminal misappropriation, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 15(2)(d) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011 as amended and punishable under section 15 (3) of the same Act”.
Count 17 reads, “That you, ALI BELLO, ABBA ADAUDU, RASHIDA BELLO(at large) between 26th July, 2021-6th April, 2022 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court procured E-Traders International Limited to remove from the jurisdiction of the Honourable Court to account no. 426-664-4272 domiciled in TD Bank, United States of America, the aggregate sum of $570,330 (Five Hundred and Seventy Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty United States Dollars) which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of unlawful activity to wit; criminal misappropriation, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 15(2) ( c ) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011 as amended and punishable under section 15 ( 3 )of the same Act.”
Count 18 reads, “That you, ALI BELLO, ABBA ADAUDU, RASHIDA BELLO(at large) between 26th July 2021 -6th April, 2022 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court procured E-Traders International Limited to remove from the jurisdiction of the Honourable Court to account no. 426-664-4272 domiciled in TD Bank, United States of America, the aggregate sum of $845,852.84 (Eight Hundred and Forty-five Thousand, Eight Hundred and Fifty-two United States Dollars) which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of unlawful activity to wit; criminal misappropriation, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 15(2)(c ) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011 as amended and punishable under section 15 ( 3 ) of the same Act.”
The lawmaker representing the Nnewi North/Nnewi South/Ekwusigo Federal Constituency, Hon. Chris Azubogu has laid claim on a bill sponsored by former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, as one of the 13 bills he has sponsored in his 12 years in the Green Chamber.
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Hon. Azubogu made the claim on Monday through his Media Assistant, Hon. Ikechukwu Onyia during an online interactive session with the people of Nnewi South Local Government Area who hosted him to a media chat to hear his achievements in the House and his plans for the people as one of the candidates vying for the Anambra South Senatorial seat.
The Federal lawmaker who hails from Nnewi in Nnewi North Local Government Area, is the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, as well as the candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) for the Anambra South Senatorial Zone in the forthcoming general election.
While fielding questions from the constituents, Hon. Azubogu, who personally answered some of the questions himself, reeled out some of his achievements in the National Assembly, especially as they relate to the Nnewi South Local Government Area, and also highlighted some of his plans for the people of elected a senator come February 25, 2023. He, however, left his Media Assistant, Mr. Onyia, along after about an hour, to continue attending to some of the remaining questions, while he (Azubogu) tried to catch up with some other time-bound engagements also dunning for his attention.
Be it as it may, some questions were also not satisfactorily answered by the lawmaker before his circumstantial and understandable withdrawal from the engagement. These include questions bordering on the poor execution, abandonment or outright non-execution of some capital projects in the area after over a billion naira had been budget for them, as were covered in the 2017 appropriation bill.
Some of the projects, as were highlighted by a constituent, include the Okija-Ihembosi-Afor Ukpor-Ebenator-Ezinifite Road, for which a total of N512,840,000.00 (five hundred and twelve million, eight hundred and forty thousand naira) was budgeted; erosion control in Ebenator, Nnewi South, for which a total of two hundred million naira was budgeted, among other capital intensive projects in different parts of the Constituency, which were covered in the 2017 budget, but were not executed.
While responding to the question said, Hon. Azubogu, who himself is the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, said “Some of these projects were budgeted for, but how sure are you that the fund was released…?”.
To many, the response was seen as a technical means by which the lawmaker dodged and diverted to the constituents, his oversight function of finding out if those budgeted funds were actually released to the contractors, and what stalled the execution of those projects; despite being the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation.
On his achievements in the House in the last eleven and half years now and still counting, the lawmaker listed some of the projects he has successfully executed in the area, to include: 6.7km Ebe—Afor—Agwuria Ukpor Road, Nnewi South; Ukwu-Ofor Nnewi, Nnewi North Inter LGA Road with drainage; Bridge over Ubu Agwuria (constructed from scratch); CSS Ukpor—St. Andrew’s Umuohama Road, Ukpor; Ndodoro Umunuko Ukpor Road; Ezengwu Ebe Road connecting Dispensary/Ahiankwu, Ukpor; Oriogodo Ebe Ukpor Road connecting Ebe Community Secondary School; ICT Center at Community Girls Secondary School (formerly Ukpor Girls); Mini Grid and Brand New 20KVA Generator at Osigbu, Ukpor; Solar Powered Borehole at Ukpor Town Hall, Ukpor, among others.
It was, however, surprising to some of the constituents when, after Hon. Azubogu had handed over the engagement to his his aide to attend to other things, he (the aide) posted the list of thirteen bills he said the lawmaker has sponsored in the Green Chamber, in response to a question asked by a concerned constituent who asked how many bills he has sponsored in the House and how many of them have been passed.
The constituents became more surprise when it was observed that the lawmaker posted only 13 bills, in his about 12 years in the House.
The surprise further heightened when it was also observed that some of the bills he listed were actually not sponsored by him, but by other lawmakers. Cynosural among such bills is the Data Protection Bill, which was a bill sponsored by the current Speaker of the House of Reps, Rt. Hon. Dogara.
The session also became more dramatic when the federal lawmaker, also through his media aide, attempted to justify his construction of some quick-to-spoil and shoddy roads he has so far reportedly executed in the area. According to the him, some of those inferior roads “were the only projects available in the agency at the time the lawmaker attracted them.”
His words: “Some of these roads you’re talking about here are done as rural access roads. If you go to where they are sharing projects at the federal government level, there are some agencies where Azubogu would go to attract road from, and the only thing they have there are rural access roads (the inferior roads). So, in such situation, he won’t tell them that he doesn’t need the road. Rather, he will attract them, instead of waiting till when they have Truck A road or Truck B road…
“And some of these roads…, you would notice that there are some classes of cars that may ply on them, and they will spoil. But Azubogu had to bring them home first and execute them, while also still pushing for the category of roads he is looking for. That is what Azubogu has been doing…
“So, it is not as if he deliberately brought and executed those inferior roads. They are the ones that are available at the time he attracted them. And that is why he is trying to partner with the state government, the Anambra Road Maintenance Agency, the local government and the community leaderships, so that they will be maintaining these roads as they get spoilt.”
This reporter Izunna Okafor, was, however, not satisfied with the responses of the lawmaker’s aide, and, therefore decided to contact his principal, to directly hear his own side of the response.
When contacted, Hon. Azubogu himself also alluded to the fact that some of the thirteen bills his aide listed are owned by or credited to some lawmakers, particularly the Data Protection Bill, which owned by RlHon. Yakubu Dogara. He, however, said he was the first person to sponsor some of those bills but did not succeed in seeing them till passage, before some other lawmakers eventually picked them up, remodified them and re-sponsored them and saw to their passage.
When asked if any of his bills has been passed by the House, Hon. Azubogu, who is currently rounding up his third tenure in the House of Reps, said majority of his bills have passed second reading.
He said: “No one person takes claim of building a law… I participated in the Corporate Affairs Commission Bill, the National Orientation Agency Amendment Act, and all of that. I am also driving the Appropriation Bill for four years now; and they are saying that my bills have not been passed. How would they say that? Do you understand what is passing bill…?
“…You may propose a bill, but people who know how better to shape it may pick it up. So, it is not always about individual bill or how many bills someone sponsored that you should use to measure or rate him. I am a professional, and I am experienced in lawmaking. I know the kinds and quality of contributions I make in the floor, both during debate and when discussing bills. So, some of my bills have passed second reading, for your information. They have passed second reading. And they are there.”
Concerning the inferior roads allegedly being constructed by the lawmaker, he debunked the claims that all the roads he has constructed are inferior, but, however accepted that some of them may have been inferior or spoilt earlier than expected due to certain factors, such as human error, erosion, and topography of the soil, among others.
“If I have constructed five roads, and three among them are inferior, while two are still okay, will you say that all my roads are inferior?” he asked.
He also called on the residents and community leaders to always monitor, protect, and take ownership of the projects being executed for them.
“You can’t be waiting for me to leave what I’m doing in Abuja and come down to start monitoring or protecting road projects I am executing for you in your village. Or, is that the right thing to do? Communities should monitor, protect and take ownership of those projects. It is being done for them,” he concluded.
The operatives of the Anambra State Police Command has rescued a total of fifteen serving members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) abducted by gunmen in the state.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu confirmed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Tuesday, in which he also revealed that the Corps members were rescued unhurt.
According to him, the Corps members were abducted at the Total Junction in Ihiala on their way back to Lagos after having concluded their three-week orientation program ata the Eziama-Obaire NYSC Orientation Camp, Nkwerre Local Government Area of Imo State. He, however, said they were rescued along the Isseke—Ihiala-Orlu—Expressway by the gallant officers, following a distress call received by the Command at about 11:15am on Tuesday.
He said: “Information reveals that the corps members finished their three-week orientation program today and were en route to Lagos before their vehicle was intercepted at Total Junction Ihiala, by yet unidentified armed men in an unmarked Toyota Hilux.
“Their vehicle was diverted to Isseke—Ihiala-Orlu—Expressway where the gunmen kept them hostage. The armed men, when they noticed they were being followed by Police Operatives, abandoned the Corps members and zoomed off with the Toyota Hiace bus with Reg No.: EPE 353 YE conveying the corps members.
“Meanwhile, the Corps members were debriefed by police operatives, and necessary arrangements have been perfected to convey them back to their destinations.
Love is a beautiful thing, and one of the best gifts ever given to mankind. If this is true, love, therefore deserves to be feted in a most special and memorable way, even in everyday of one’s lifetime.
It is in pursuance of this that a group of heterogeneous poets and poetry lovers identified with the need to give the 2023 Valentine Day celebration a poetic taste and fragrance, with a view to making it a memorable one as well.
To actualise this view, each of these bards (ten in number) donated a tranche of poetic condiments, in response to a call for stanzas made to that effect.
It is the compilation of these dulcet lines eulogizing the beauty of love, as was edited by Izunna Okafor, that gave birth to this winsome collection —MY VAL, MY TONIC In this 5th edition of this annual collection, these poets, not only manifest their poetic prowess, but also thematically register what love holds for them and their inamoratos in every sense of it.
They also explored the tools of poetry to portray love as a tunic upon which mankind survives.
Do have a lovely read.
Izunna Okafor (The Editor)
CONTRIBUTORS:
Izunna Okafor Rahman Conteh John Chinaka Onyeche Chisimdi George Joel Oyeleke Valentine Muoma Nwokeabia, Ifeanyi John Ifeyinwa Gertie Uzoka Prince Ejike Agbata Charity Uzoagba.
They write:
MY VAL, MY TONIC
Red! Red! Red!
Is the colour I see
The colour that reinvigorates the weak
And gives life than waters of the sea.
The day is the colour
My Val is the day
The colour is love
My Val, my tonic.
What is love?
But you, my Val
I’m drowned in this ocean.
Yes, I’m dwelling just fine.
My love is here to stay
My Val is here to reignite
Hold my hands tonight
Walk with me into your bosom.
I was once a nomad here
But your love found me
You brought me to its home
I am here to live, eternal.
With everything I have
With everything I own
With my whole heart
With you I am complete.
The light that brightens me.
My Val, my tonic
You blossom as rose.
As our bond flows like ocean.
This bond that rejuvenates my unloving self
And turns me into an addicted lover
Love is me chasing the clouds
And hoping to find your beauty in them.
Be my Val, my tonic for good health
This our love can be a thing
Not just for February fourteen
But for love’s beam.
My Val, my tonic
Your presence around me rejuvenates my soul
Even from a distance, I feel your warm presence
That is why I call you “yori yori nwa”.
Your loving smiles sweep me off my feet
Your simplicity and humility overwhelm me
You’re my lover, companion,
Encyclopedia, inspiration, gist mate
My intercessor, counselor and therapist.
When we are together, going out is needless
For you’re sure to provide all I need—
My entertainment, health tips intellectual counsel and lots more
Honey pie, you’re one in a million.
Let us share a of wine
You, on the left, and I, on the right
Hands held on same cup
Pour down our throats
The sweetness of our love
Gently, gently, until nothing is left.
Let us roll our ecstasy together into one warm embrace
One cemented soul shall we become in faultless manner.
My Sweet Valentine!
My all-in-all
Where you are, I’ll always be
No distance can separate us
With you, everyday’s Valentine
With you, I am complete
My Sweet Valentine!
I’m right behind you
I may not be physical though
But I’m filled with your aura
That suits me better
Like love in a manger
It’s Valentine
Do I get to feel your cherries?
Or even fill your belly
With fluids like a jelly
Oh my Valentine!
Oh! I can the cool breeze of love
Blowing softly on a king and queen
Sitting side by side in a lawn
Like birds set to fly forever in a bit
Oh! Fly me to another realm of this experience
I know this tonic is rich enough to sustain me
All through this journey of love
Oh, be with me forever
In you I have found a perpetual companion
Cuddle and hold me tight baby
As we journey together
In this beautiful realm of love
My love, my Val, my tonic.
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged all Nigerians to keep supporting the party by voting for all APC candidates In the forthcoming elections in the continued efforts at turning around the country and sustaining its unity and pledge to make Gombe one of the richest State in Nigeria and Africa.
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Tinubu stated this at the Presidential Campaign rally of the party in Gombe,
He said If elected he will continue oil drilling in Kolmani for development and pledged to turn around the economy of the state create industries, employment opportunities to the teeming unemployed youths which will make the state one of the richest in the country and in Nigeria.
Tinubu storm the state with four serving Governors that included Simon Lalong of Plateau, Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa, Babagaba Zulum of Borno State and Mai Mala Buni Yobe,former Speaker Federal House of Representatives
Dimeji Bankole,Senator Ali Modu sheriff former Borno State Governor senate President Ahmed Lawal and Minister of communications Isa Ali Pantami.
Addressing crowd of party supporters that converged at Pantami Stadium Gombe where the rally was held Tinubu urged voters to vote APC to maintain the unity and progress of our nation”.
Gombe State Governor Muhammad inuwa Yahya described the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, himself and all other candidates of the party as the “most reliable, focused, trusted and viable options” to be voted for by all Nigerians for sustainable development.
He urged the people of the state to fulfill their promise and vote for APC in the general election, declaring that both the APC at the federal and state government’s levels have shown capacities to address most of the challenges facing the people.
Governor Inuwa Yahaya said track record of Tinubu and himself are unprecedented and are visible for all to see and because of their track records, we are very optimistic that the people are very, very enthusiastic in support of our government and Tinubu.
He said that APC candidates remain the most committed, reliable, focused, trusted and viable option for all Nigerians to vote for
Inuwa said that “Our gathering (today) is a clear proved that Gombe is APC and assured the success of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya and all other APC candidates in the coming 2023 elections”.
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Professsor Isa Ali Pantami who represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the occasion explained that Buhari is 100 percent in support of Tinubu and all other APC candidates.
National Chairman of APC Abdullahi Adamu gave the flag to Governor inuwa Yahaya and urged the electorates not to be deceived by Their Political opponents fake pledges because they have failed the country when the ruled for 16 years.
He said they introduced untold hardships, in security, hunger and poverty in Nigeria and urged voters not to accept them again.
Justice Abdul Dogo of the Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi, Benue State on Monday, February 13, 2023, convicted and sentenced one Abah Stephen to two year imprisonment for fraud.
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Stephen was arraigned on one count charge by the Makurdi Zonal Command of the EFCC for fraudulent impersonation.
The charge reads: “That you, Abah Stephen, sometime in 2022, at Makurdi, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, by deceit pretended to be Johnscot, an American Military Doctor on peacekeeping mission for the United Nations at Kabul, Afghanistan, by use of an email account – alexanderscot99@gmail.com induced and defrauded one Jana Bilkara Czech Republic Citizen who delivered to you the total sum of Three Thousand Euros, equivalent of N1,500,000.00, into your United Bank for Africa (UBA), Account No. 2115293731, in the guise of being in a romantic relationship with her and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 14(2) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015 and punishable under the same Section of the Act “.
Upon arraignment, the defendant pleaded guilty to the charge.
In view of his plea, the prosecution counsel, George Chai-Yakua prayed the court to convict and sentence the defendant accordingly. However, the defence counsel, C. C. Egbokwe pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy as defendant is a first time offender who has become remorseful for his action.
Justice Dogo convicted and sentenced the defendant to two years imprisonment and a fine of Five Hundred Thousand Naira.
The judge also ordered that the mobile phone recovered from the convict be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 13, 2023, arraigned an actress, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a two-count charge bordering on tampering with the redesigned Naira notes.
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One of the count reads: “That you, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, on the 28n day of January, 2023, at Monarch Event Centre Lekki, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, whilst dancing during a social occasion, tampered with the sum of N100, 000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by spraying same on the said occasion; and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 21 (1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.
The second count reads: “That you, Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, on the 28th day of January, 2023, at Monarch Event Centre, Lekki, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, whilst dancing during a social occasion, tampered with the sum of N100, 000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria by dancing on same on the said occasion; and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 21 (1) of the Central Bank Act, 2007.”
She pleaded “not guilty” to the offence.
In view of her plea, the prosecution counsel, S.I Sulaiman, asked the court for a trial date and also prayed that the defendant be remanded in the appropriate correctional facility.
Counsel to the defendant, Adenike Goncalves, prayed the court to admit the defendant to bail, pending the hearing and determination of the case.
The defence counsel also prayed that her client be remanded in the EFCC custody, pending the perfection of the bail terms, if so granted by the court.
While submitting that bail was at the discretion of the court, the prosecution counsel prayed that, in the event bail was granted, the conditions of the bail term should be such that would enable the defendant to be present during the trial.
Justice Aneke deferred ruling on the bail application to Wednesday, February 15, 2023 and remanded the defendant in Kirikiri correctional facility.
Omoseyin was arrested by operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Fraud Related Offences Commission, ICPC, on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 along Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, and was handed over to the EFCC for investigation.
The 31-year-old was arrested after the video of her spraying and stepping on the newly redesigned Naira notes at a party surfaced online.
In the viral video, she was also seen flaunting wads of the new Naira notes.
In her statement to the Commission, she claimed that she received the new Naira notes from her fans at the party and that she did not know the persons who gave her the money.
Items recovered from her at the point of arrest include a Range Rover and iPhone mobile devices.
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While responding to the question said, Hon. Azubogu, who himself is the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, said “Some of these projects were budgeted for, but how sure are you that the fund was released…?”.
