Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, and other Nigerians have dared Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, over his claim of innocence on corruption allegations peddled against him.
In daring the Mr Osinbajo, Nigerians are asking the former to resign his position and give way for probe rather than promise to waive away his constitutional immunity.
The vice president was alleged to have misused about N90billion given to him for the prosecution of the last general election and this is said to be responsible for the recent redeployment of agencies under him in a bit to whittle down his powers politically.
While denying the allegation, the number two citizen promised to waive his immunity from prosecution in a bid to prove his innocence.
Some Nigerians are however not satisfied with the reaction of the vice president, calling on him to step down from office to give way for proper investigation.
Some are of the opinion that should he be found innocent, President Muhammadu Buhari should renominate him as his vice.
“If you are really a man don’t just waive your immunity to sue Timi Frank but RESIGN from your position and take him on man to man,” Fani-Kayode said in a tweet while reacting.
“He will eat you for breakfast. I know that young man: he is a real Ijaw! Deeply courageous and tough as nails. U cannot intimidate him or break him,” he added.
“If Osinbajo truly wants to waive his immunity, he should resign and submit himself to ICPC tomorrow morning for investigation,” said Deji Adeyanju.
“There’s nothing to fear. After investigation, Buhari will re-nominate him to National Assembly if he is corruption free,” the political activist said in reaction.
“Osinbajo is being disingenuous when he said he’d waive his “constitutional immunity” to allow for a fair probe of allegations of corruption against him,” tweets Farooq Kperogi.
“He can’t legally waive his immunity while still in office.That’s unconstitutional. Resign & d immunity will be gone by default!” Mr Kperogi added.
In his reaction, former deputy national publicity secretary of the ruling party, Timi Frank, who is one of those who made the allegation and has been sued by the vice president, also asked the latter to step down and give room for thorough investigation and unbiased prosecution in court.
“This is important so as not to influence the judiciary as well as use public funds to pursue the case as a sitting Vice President,” Mr Frank partly said in a statement.
A self-acclaimed Nigerian evangelist and author, A.F Funmilayo has reportedly published a book where she claimed she served Satan for 990 years.
This shocking revelation began to trend on social media after a Twitter user shared excerpts from the book on his page on Tuesday, September 23.
Excerpts from the pages of a Christian book written by Evangelist A.F Funmilayo is trending on social media after the author criticized the game of football calling it ‘Anti-Christ’ and Satanic.
A male Twitter user was shocked after he tried to make friends with his new “born again” neighbours by asking what football club they support only for him to receive a Christian book demonizing football.
Alex Oluwatobi tweeted:
“My new neighbour seems not to like me, but I greet them anyways.
In a bid to be a little friendly, I asked their 2 sons yesterday the football club they support.
They smiled, shook their heads & pelted upstairs. Got home this evening, Dad & Mum knocked & gave me this book.”
BBNaija most controversial housemate, Tacha, who refers to herself as Port Harcourt’s First Daughter, is currently being trolled on Twitter over her inability to spell Port Harcourt and Daughter in the painting she made.
Beside the drawing she made of her face, she wrote Port Harcort first Daugter, missing the U and H in Harcourt and Daughter respectively. This has led to severe trolling online even as she attempted to fix the spelling if daughter by adding an H.
Soccer Football - The Best FIFA Football Awards - Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy - September 23, 2019 FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi speaks after winning the Best FIFA Men's player award as FIFA President Gianni Infantino, presenter's Ilaria D’Amico and Ruud Gullit look on REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
Lionel Messi beat Virgil van Dijk and Cristiano Ronaldo to win the best men’s player award at the Best FIFA awards.
The Barcelona star scored more league goals than anyone else in Europe last season, registering 36 times as he helped the Spanish side win another La Liga title.
It is also the sixth time the 32-year-old has scooped the award, now seeing him move one ahead of rival Cristiano Ronaldo.
The duo have dominated the award since 2008, with their string of victories only interrupted by Luka Modric last year.
It was the second award of the night for the Argentinean forward, who was also included in the men’s team of the 2018-19 season – as voted for by their fellow professionals.
A businesswoman, Nkeiruka Cynthia Kamalu, has told a Federal High Court in Lagos that she was raped by a federal lawmaker, Uju Kingsley Chima, on August 9, 2015.
Mrs Kamalu told Justice Nicholas Oweibo that following an incestuous relationship with Chima, the lawmaker offered to pay her N20 million if she was divorced by her husband, Mr Gabriel Igbibi.
Chima is the Member, Federal House of Representatives for Ohaji/Egbema, Oguta and Oru West Federal Constituency of Imo State.
She is seeking protection from Chima, who she alleged caused her to be arrested on 27th day of May, 2019 tortured, humiliated, detained for seven days by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and arraigned on a fictitious N40million theft charge.
Kamalu made the allegations in a fundamental rights suit marked FHC/L/CS/1458/19 which came up on September 11, 2019.
Her counsel, Chijioke Jiakponna, told the judge that Chima had been evading service. He alleged that when the bailiff called Chima on phone to inform him that he wanted to serve him, the lawmaker cut the call.
Justice Oweibo adjourned till yesterday to rule on whether to allow substituted service.
Monday, the court did not sit.
When The Nation phoned Chima on Saturday evening for his reaction to the rape and N20m allegations, he said “I’m inside a court now, can we talk later? I’m inside a court.”
Later that night and Monday, his number rang out.
In her August 22, 2019 Affidavit of Urgency, Kamalu said she filed the suit due to the “intimidation, mounting surveillance and or illegal oral invitation threat of life and annihilation of property.”
She said she had been living “in perpetual fear” of being further detained “indefinitely.”
Kamalu is seeking several reliefs including a declaration that her arrest and detention “by the respondent at the State CID Police Headquarters, Owerri, Imo State (SARS) for seven days was unconstitutional.”
Others include a declaration that her invitation by the police for another investigation while the case has been adjourned sine die at the Chief Magistrate Court, Owerri, violates her rights.
She also wants an order restraining the Respondents, from further arresting, pursuing and intimidating her.
“An order directing the 1st 2nd, 4th to 6th Respondents to release forthwith her Infinix Note 7 and lnfinix Note 8 illegally seized by the Respondents during the arrest and torture in Lagos.
“An order awarding damage in the sum of N50 Million to the Applicant for the unlawful arrest, torture, unlawful detention, insult, disgrace, intimidation and the embarrassing treatment meted out on the Applicant.”
In her August 22, 2019 Affidavit in support of her application, Kamalu averred that she and Chima began dating in 1993 while she was in secondary school.
“We dated for 10 years, after which he proposed marriage and we both agreed to settle down as husband and wife. Unfortunately, our parents kicked against our relationship on the ground that we are biologically related and that we were committing incest and could not get married, so I married another man called Gabriel Igbibi,” she said.
The applicant said she reconnected with the lawmaker when she needed assistance to execute a contract she secured and that after she refused his advances, “he raped me.”
“I lodged the case first at New Owerri Police Station wherein he influenced it and I wrote a Petition to the Inspector-General of Police, Force State Quarters, Abuja. The petition was assigned to Zone 9 Police Command, Umuahia, Abia State.
“The 1st Respondent settled the police and they brokered peace between the 1st Respondent and me, wherein he promised to take proper care of me because he cannot withdraw himself from me.
She said following their reconciliation, they resumed their incestuous relationship “fully again”.
Kamalu added: “My husband got wind of the relationship between the 1st respondent and myself,” following which he filed for divorce.
When she informed Chima he allegedly gave her money to hire a lawyer for the case.
“The 1st Respondent promised that if the divorce succeeds, he will be giving me N20 million every six months and also buy me a property in any designated place in Lagos.
“The marriage was dissolved at the Ikeja High Court, Lagos. After the divorce, the 1st Respondent told me that before he will take the relationship serious, I will have to bear a child for him.”
According to her, she took in for him, but had a miscarriage. He then asked her to adopt a baby which would be his and claim that the baby was born in Canada, but that the baby also died.
She further claimed that he made her swear to an oath of loyalty, but she eventually caught him with another woman.
“I became infuriated and he became furious and warned me never to visit him again, that he is no longer interested in the relationship. I reminded him of the oath he forced me to take that no man must have any relationship with me again and the promise to be giving N20m every six months, buy me a property in a choice area, buy a brand new car every six months, which he had never fulfilled.
“I told him that I would tell the whole world how he has ruined my life and deceived me out of my marriage where I had four children.”
She told the court that this was why the lawmaker used the police to arrest her on May 27, 2019 and detained for seven days.
Over 30 cows were over the weekend struck to death by thunder at Ijare community in Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State.
The cows, which were 36 in number were said to had been moved by Fulani herdsmen into the community’s sacred groove located on the town’s mountain top when the disaster occurred.
The dead cows were seen scattered all over the mountain at the scene of the incident known as Oke-Owa. Following the mysterious death of cows at a ‘sacred land’ called Oke Owa in Ijare, Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State, the community was preparing to perform some traditional rites on the land and the dead cows.
Despite the supernatural interpretation by the traditionalists, police said the thunderstorm that killed the cows was a natural disaster.
It was gathered that the cows were struck dead at the rocky elevation said to be sacred to the community.
This government is sitting on a keg of gun powder. The Tunisian revolution that ignited other revolutions across other Muslim-African states wasn’t planned. The people just got tired; and some, bold enough, dared to challenge the status quo at whatever cost. They got something.
There’s a saying that people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat mistakes made in times past.
The Nigerian government may not know, but I’m certain there are persons who’d gladly lay down their lives to push the case of the common man. We are being daily deceived. We are being lied to. We are daily being milked.
The youths want the power; good to know. Yahaya Bello is in his forties. He’s the youngest governor we have at the moment in this country. Do we see how he rules? He rules, not lead.
We want leaders, not rulers. We want men of character who wouldn’t compromise and neglect the common man; no matter what.
Fayose was the closest to leader we ever got pre-2019; but, at best, he’s a comic character. He’s also a ruler, who disguises his evil deeds by a seeming closeness to the common man. This man is a good ‘deceiver’. The other day, I saw a video wherein he claimed governors during his first term were forced to make donations to Obasanjo’s Presidential Library. That admission alone is enough to get him prosecuted in saner climes.
Corruption does not have to do with age. I agree with the youths; we should be given a chance. But, at what? Truth be told, majority of Nigerian youths are more interested in cyber crimes than in governance. I don’t entirely blame them. If you hear some tales they have to tell, you will understand why some do what they do.
But, that is not the answer. The Nigerian problem has to be addressed right from the root(s). A right approach is needed.
Love. I believe love is everything. If love finds her way into the heart of governance, every other thing will fall in place. Love will make a leader abstain from stealing the commonwealth of all. Love will make a leader reach out to opposition(s), and extend a hand of fellowship. Love will make the Executive enforce the laws of the land without favouritism. Love will see to it that the Legislature make good laws. Love will ensure the Judiciary rightly interpret the nation’s laws.
The day Nigeria chooses the path of Love is the day things start to work. No one Nigerian should be greater than the other. We all should be equal before the law. That’s the only way to address the many ills of this country from it’s very root.
My prayers are with Seyi Makinde. I pray as he has started well, he ends well. He’s making Oyo State live up to her ‘Pace-Setter’ slogan.
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln.
Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufa’i, has enrolled his six-year-old son, Abubakar, in primary one of a public school in fulfilment of a promise he made in 2017. Abubakar is now a pupil of Capital School Malali, Kaduna State.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that El-Rufa’i had in a state broadcast in December 2017, promised to enroll his child in a public school when he turns six years.
“The move is part of reforms to revamp public schools in the state to make them more competitive.
“We are determined to fix public education and raise their standards so that private education will become only a luxury.
“As we make progress, we will require our senior officials to enroll their children in public schools.
“And I will by personal example ensure that my son that will be six years of age in 2019 will be enrolled in a public school in Kaduna State, by God’s grace,” El-Rufa’i had said.
Briefing newsmen shortly after he enrolled his six-years-old, El-Rufa’i affirmed it was a commitment that had been fulfilled.
“I made that commitment because I believe that it is only when all political leaders have their children in public schools that we will pay due attention to quality of public education.
“I went to a public school like this. In fact, the school I went to is not as good as this one, but here I am, because of the quality teaching I got.
“My intention is to ensure that all our public schools offer quality education, and so we are encouraging all our senior public servants to send their children to public schools.
“Once the public schools are improved to a point they are nearly as good or even better than private schools, no one will waste his money taking his child to private school,” he said.
Ummi El-Rufai, wife of the governor and mother of the child said: “l am glad that we are able to send a strong message to our leaders and the elites, that we need to start making things work from within our homes.
“By the time we start attending public hospitals and send our children to public schools, the system will get better. This is a very huge step,” she said.
On his part, the little child said: “I am sad that I will miss my old school, my friends and my teachers. But I have to help my father keep his promise.”
