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YINKA ODUMAKIN BOMBS APC LEADER BOLA AHMED TINUBU. SAYS HE IS 80 YEARS OLD, A SERIAL FORGER WITH MULTIPLE IDENTITIES AND A SHADY PAST Dear Chief Tinubu, The backpage of your The Nation of Tuesday 12 March where one of your Rottweilers under the FORGED name “Segun Ibirogba” wrote “Odumakin’s anxiety over vanishing feeding-bottles” has un-paused the button on this serial. I have always wondered why these intellectual almajiris around you always attack me under fake names.It is either they are afraid of me or they don’t believe in you to risk their names doing the dirty job for you . Well,we know many of them hold worst views about you than us but for the free money they have been accustomed to from a Robbin Hood. The piece referenced was a rehash of same old silly lies and freshly minted ones.In keeping faith with my resolve that for every dart of lie you guys throw in my direction ,I will return 10 bombs of truth I make this response.And for every line I wri...

The first witness (PW2), an ex director of the Code of ,Conduct Bureau amongst other things, testified that Onnoghen has only 5 houses as against the 55 he is accused of. He also stated that Onnoghen assets declaration form has not been VERIFIED. Today, I was at the Code of Conduct Tribunal for the trial of the suspended CJN Walter Onnoghen. Two prosecution witnesses testified. The first witness (PW2), an ex director of the Code of ,Conduct Bureau amongst other things, testified that Onnoghen has only 5 houses as against the 55 he is accused of. He also stated that Onnoghen assets declaration form has not been VERIFIED. The second witness (PW3), a staff of Standard Chartered bank gave account balance of Onnoghen as: (1) 10,000 Euros (2) 12,852,580 Naira   (3) 13,730 Pounds   (4) 2,656,019 Naira (5) 56,878 Dollars. These are against the alleged $3million in the media. The witness also testified that the account in hard currency are domicili...

Without a doubt, the checkered 2019 general elections represents a new low in the country’s electoral process, as well as a pointer that the country is still eons away from getting that aspect of national life right. This lack of progress is not a function of lack of adequate human capital or resources, but a clear illustration of how governments/ruling parties are unable to separate their ambitions from the running of institutions such as the military. The over militarisation of the electoral process has resulted in unnecessary deaths, some of which are yet to be accounted for. RIVERS State probably recorded the highest number of election-related deaths in the country in the last three weeks, even though the electoral umpire has suspended the announcement of the result of the gubernatorial/state assembly elections. Unfortunately, whichever way the impasse is resolved, over 40 families that lost their loved ones during the polls would remain sore for long, if not menta...

IN line with precedents established by his predecessors, President Muhammadu Buhari ignored court rulings (including the verdict by Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos in March 2015) that presidents lack the power to deploy the military for electoral duties as it negates democratic practice. Shortly before the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly elections, Buhari deployed the military and ordered them to be ruthless with ballot box snatchers and ensure election riggers “paid with their lives”. Responding, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen Tukur Buratai, affirmed that the Army would carry out the President’s order in line with constitutional injunctions If the Army and other armed state agencies had restricted themselves to safeguarding the election materials, electoral officials, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, facilities and the electorate , few Nigerians would have reasons to complain. The sanctity and integrity of th...

By Joe Adiorho There is rumbling in the seat of the Caliphate in Sokoto State. On Tuesday hundreds of women were on the streets on peaceful demonstration. Their grouse? They said INEC’s declaration of the governorship election of March 9 as “inconclusive” was unacceptable. The state governor, Mallam Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, a lawyer and former Speaker of the House of Representatives is also spoiling for a big legal war. Tambuwal has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately declare him the winner of the just concluded gubernatorial election in the state. According to him, “We have met the stipulated condition to be declared the winner. We got the highest number of votes. We also got 25 per cent in virtually all the 23 local government councils. So, what is left is for INEC to come back and uphold the prevision of the constitution.” But INEC will not hear such as it has declared the election in the state inconclusive since the sum tot...

Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe wrote this beautiful piece, read and learn. Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation, and a successor power to the old principalities who were subdued and who ceded their sovereignty for the new commonwealth of Nigeria. It was pragmatic. The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its major port. The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settled in good number in a place we now call “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade. The arrival of Dr. Namdi Azikiwe to Lagos in 1937 from Accra after his studies in the United States, stimulated the political and cultural environment of Lagos as no other has before or after ...

Unless the citizens resolve to prosecute an urgent rescue agenda, the nation’s hard-won democracy would collapse at the hands of President Muhammadu Buhari. And above the rubble would be autocracy and anarchy. These are not far-fetched. We already have their precursor in the now burgeoning militocracy whose chief promoter is Buhari. Ever since Buhari succeeded in conning the citizens with his pretensions to being a born-again democrat, he has never hidden his contempt for the obligations of his newly-found calling. Yet, the citizens make allowance for the blossoming of the democrat in him. But the more they expect him to demonstrate the readiness to abide by the tenets of democracy, the more they are disappointed. Instead of the democrat in Buhari unfolding, the passage of each day witnesses the manifestation of his autocratic excesses. Buhari obviously draws inspiration from the success of one dictatorial action to perpetrate a worse one. Now, he feels secure in the ...