An artistic poem for my NFT pals.
In twilight's tender, whispered grace,
The canvas of the sky takes its place.
Stars, like diamonds, softly gleam,
A cosmic dance, a celestial dream.
Moonlight weaves its silver thread,
Painting shadows where dreams are bred.
@ruffydfire with CBN without them first confirming the agency through the CAC data base if it was a new agency there would have been a Constitutional backing that should enable them open an acct with the CBN and if you ask me, if they are not new how comes they're only opening an account
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
If all the unmarried older women will come out and tell the younger women the truth, about the mistakes they made in the past and their regrets.
It will go a long way to shaping the younger women. But because women don’t like each other, they’ll rather lie and deceive them so they end up the same way they did.
Some of you, the only time that you receive a call from your siblings or relatives, is when they want to ask you for financial help.
They don't just randomly call you, to say that they want to check on your wellbeing.
I will excuse your parents or guardians in this thread.
They're your parents, and you're supposed to be the one calling them, far more than they should be calling you.
As a young man or woman in a relationship.
This is something alot of you may be taking for granted, or have not paid close attention to.
It's not good to be emotionally lonely, when you're building your life or career.
You need that one person that you'd call to speak to, at least once a day or in few days.
Someone you can trust a great deal, & someone that is building with you.
Someone that you'd share your good news with, when you pass that professional exam, or you achieve a major task in your life.
Typically, this period is between the ages of 26 to 30.
I need every young legitimate hardworking man or woman to think critically about this.
Yesterday, I said that most married women who are happy in their marriage, are the ones that met their husbands when they had nothing significant to their name.
And it's true for the most part.
A lot of things can happen in marriage that, if your spouse is not someone that you started life with, & knew him or her to a very large extent, you'd not have patience, or you'd not be so kind to him or her.
Learn not to ruin your young relationship with greed, unnecessary pride or deceits.
Learn that the young girl that you're dating today, & you think she's not beautiful or classy enough for you, is also growing.
And that she will not be like that forever.
Diamonds are not shinny when they're first discovered.
As a young man living alone & working hard, you need a girlfriend.
She's mostly going to be the only one that would be buzzing your phones everyday, & waking you up with loving messages.
You also need someone that can quickly help you reach out to your family, should anything happen to you.
If you keep staying alone, & saying that you don't need a girlfriend because you're "chasing the bag", you'll not understand what it means to have a wife as soon as possible.
And before you know it, you're in your 30s, & now too busy to even date properly.
You'll find yourself doing what you should have done long ago.
And marriage will start to scare you, because almost every lady that you'd meet will want to leech on you, & you may not even be able to trust them.
For you young ladies, my honest prayer for you is that when you genuinely want to commit to a man, may God not bring a deceitful and greedy man your way.
Because some men do not even know what they want.
Just vibes and inshallah with coins in their pockets.
Thinking that they have arrived.
Once you sense that he is not leading you right, lies unprovoked, a bet addict, a fraudster & doesn't speak like someone who wants to marry a wife early, please stop wasting your time with him.
Leave his stupid life alone, & look for responsible men elsewhere.
Let oloshos deal with him.
End.
@tall_chilizzy One of the major reasons why a lady cheats is as a result of uncommunicated feelings. As a woman, you should understand that you are the home!
The big mistake ladies make most at times is to begin to pay back a man's infidelity by cheating.
@Amy_beke Everybody wan repost, even women wey dey unleadable. Ask yourself as a lady how well have I overtly submitted to positive masculine superiority first (for those who even know what it is), without protesting, you'd realise you might just be one of the problems of society 🤷.