These African teams all ultimately lost to European teams after conceding at the 86th minute ๐ค
Unlucky timing for the Ivory Coast, DR Congo and Senegal ๐
I just read the statement issued by Bayo Onanuga on behalf of the Presidency, which supposedly trying to put a defence for the Chief of staff, Gbajabiamila.
However, I think the Presidency's statement was clearly intended to shut down public scrutiny. Ironically, it has achieved the exact opposite. It answered some questions, but in doing so, it exposed even bigger ones.
Let us assume, for a moment, that every allegation against Prince Adeyemi is true. Even then, the statement leaves glaring gaps that no amount of rhetoric can paper over.
You are asking Nigerians to believe that one private citizen woke up one morning, invented a presidential agency, forged his own appointment, secured office space inside the Federal Secretariat, recruited staff, held meetings with diplomats, corresponded with government institutions, allegedly opened a CBN account through official channels, and if the official budget documents are anything to go by, the same "non-existent" agency found its way into the Appropriation Act with an allocation running into billions.
If that is truly what happened, then this is no longer just the story of an alleged fraudster. It is also the story of spectacular institutional failure. Either government systems were astonishingly easy to deceive, or there are questions that still have not been answered.
The statement conveniently glosses over the budget issue. That silence is deafening.
How does a fictitious agency appear in the national budget? Budget allocations do not descend from heaven. They pass through ministries, the Budget Office, executive review and legislative approval. Who introduced the line item? Who processed it? Who signed off on it? Who failed to ask whether the agency even existed?
Those are not political questions. They are governance questions.
Then there is the issue of the Federal Secretariat office. Offices inside government complexes are not roadside kiosks. How was the space obtained? Under whose authority? How long did it operate? Who interacted with the occupants? Who looked the other way?
Again, silence.
Then comes the most curious part of the story.
The Presidency says the very person allegedly identified as the link between Adeyemi and the purported appointment, Dolapo Babatunde Tanimola, had died in a hotel fire just five days before Adeyemi's arrest.
That is an extraordinary detail. Yet we are given almost nothing beyond it.
Was there an autopsy? Was there a coroner's inquest? What did investigators conclude about the fire? Were his electronic devices, communications and financial records examined? If he was central enough to be named in the statement, why is the public expected not to ask what became of the investigation into his death?
These are not conspiracy theories. They are the obvious questions any serious investigator would ask.
The Presidency wants Nigerians to focus exclusively on whether Adeyemi is an impostor. Fair enough. The courts will determine that.
But the Presidency cannot ask the public to ignore the conduct of government institutions in the same breath.
This is bigger than one man.
If the council was fake, explain how it entered the budget.
If the appointment was forged, explain how government systems repeatedly interacted with the supposed beneficiary.
If official channels were deceived, explain where the safeguards failed.
If there was no insider involvement, show the documentary trail that proves it.
Accountability does not begin and end with charging one individual. It also requires explaining how the machinery of government appeared to validate, accommodate or fail to detect what is now described as a complete fabrication.
The public deserves more than a carefully written press statement. It deserves answers backed by records, timelines and evidence.
Until those answers are provided, this matter is far from settled.
*Barr. Solomon Dalung*
Ex Minister of Youths & Sports
The referee knew it was never a penalty, but he got pressured by that useless VAR. It genuinely felt like the Super Eagles were being eliminated.
I feel so bad for Senegal, but they only have themselves to blame. Belgium deserved absolutely nothing from this game.
A father left his son more than $10 million.
He left his two daughters nothing.
Now theyโre asking their brother to pay off their $300,000 in student loans.
Caller: โMy father left everything to meโฆ his house, his investments, his business. He didnโt give anything to my sisters.โ
George Kamel: โHe purposefully didnโt leave any money to your sisters?โ
Caller: โYes.โ
George Kamel: โAnd now theyโre resentful because they feel like they deserve a portion of this money.โ
Caller: โIt seems like it.โ
Jade Warshaw: โWhy did he cut them off?โ
Caller: โMy mother had an affair. My sisters sided with my mother because they liked the affair partner more. I sided with my father.โ
George Kamel: โI think youโre going to be resentful if you give this money. Iโd rather them be resentful towards you than you be resentful towards them.โ
โThereโs no easy answer here.โ
โTheyโre going to hate you.โ
As an Igbo man.....theres nothing an igbo woman will do , that i will be genuinely shocked at or angry about.
I have experienced Igbo women in their totality.
From the passionately affectionate ones that loves u more than your own mother , to the non-chalant and cold ones that will send you out of YOUR own house at 5am under the rain and still gaslight the living daylight out of you.
That been said.....gbadokwa anya !
Ije love ne gbukwe egbu.
Peter Obi had a rich and lovely outing in Abuja today. He did a PVC drive across communities in Apo.
Yet, the so-called NDC Media Head, Theo, didnโt post even once or retweet any post promoting that outing.
Heโs busy posting about Rotimi Amaechi and Femi Gbajabiamila. Lol.โ๏ธ
To show you how stupid this guy is, he said South Africa is rich enough to pay every citizen monthly salary, so they donโt have to work again for life, and they can start living like Saudi Indigenes, while foreigners can come to South Africa and be working for them.
Thatโs his vision. ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Just deep it that Senegal were winning 2-0 in the 85th minute. Belgium scored in the 86th minute & 89th minute, then in extra time Senegal conceded a penalty in the 120th minute.
That is honesty heart breaking man.
A teacher was beheaded and toddlers are currently being starved to death in kidnappersโ camps across the country in Oyo, Kwara, Borno etc.
And the only thing the church of God could do was come down from the fence and support Tinubu. Itโs very shameful.
Wait!
So the whole world has been screaming: End Christian Genocide in Nigeria.
Rev Ezekiel Dachomo has been crying as he goes from one Mass burial to the other.
Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo has been crying out as he moves from one mass burial to another.
Christian genocide.
Children killed, men beheaded, women slaughtered.โจVillages sacked. Towns levelled.
Many people blamed the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
Guess what?
Adeboye who is the leader of what of the biggest churches in Nigeria, went to America to dismiss all that by telling them that Tinubu has done his bit.
He has subtly dismissed the christian genocide conversation on a global stage.
Something he hasnโt publicly condemned before.
If you close your eye and refuse to see that man as a pastor that he claims, you will see a disgusting demon and unrepentant bigot adorning the full regalia of APC.
If not for nepotism and the evil of marginalisation,
how can a country that has the Igbo people be stranded economically?
Igbo men and women are the ones shaping the global economy.