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Welcome to Lagos, but not really. It’s Accra or Dakar
All international flights bound for Lagos, Nigeria, have been diverted to Ghana following poor weather conditions. The government of Nigeria has claimed that the country has inadequate equipment to check visibility for incoming flights.
While some airlines like Qatar Airlines already applied to redirect their flights to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport in Abuja and got approval for it, other passengers especially customers of British Airways and Emirates Airlines were unable to land at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos and were instead rerouted to Ghana.
As of two days ago, there were over 1500 passengers to Nigeria that had not been airlifted back to Nigeria. The government of Nigeria purchased the new Instrument Landing System 3 to replace the old ones but had not calibrated them for use.
So, why did they buy them?
Boko Haram visited Maiduguri just after Buhari visited
In essence, you are your own President, because the one that’s currently there is offline.
Hours after President Muhammadu Buhari paid a condolence visit to the people of the state over the killing of 30 persons on Sunday, Boko Haram visited the state again.
Boko Haram is responsible for the killings of over 17,000 Nigerians, particularly in the North-East. As a part of his campaign strategy, the president of Nigeria - General Muhammadu Buhari promised to get rid of Boko Haram if he got elected. By December of 2015, he announced that the terrorist group had been technically defeated.
But even as the convoy of the president made its way through the streets of Borno as he visited the city to pay a condolence visit over the killing of the 30 people from last sunday, some residents shouted in Hausa: “Bama so!” “Bamayi!”, which translates to “We don’t want; we’re not interested”, apparently referring to his visit.
On January 20, the electric company serving Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, publicly stated that Boko Haram attacks on transmission lines and infrastructure had cut electricity service to the city on January 17, removing Maiduguri from the national grid.
But according to Garba Shehu, the people that lined the streets to boo the president as his convoy sped into the Borno capital city of Maiduguri, were miscreants paid to do so by politicians.
Apparently, you have to be paid to be upset that campaign promises were not kept.
After winning an award for best governor, the yet to be inaugurated governor of Bayelsa couldn’t get inaugurated
David Lyon, governor-elect of Bayelsa state, says he was awarded Nigeria's best governor in 2019 without taking oath of office. Lyon won the governorship election in Bayelsa in November, 2019 and he is yet to assume office.
According to the Supreme Court of Nigeria, he will not assume that office, at least for another four years.
The Supreme Court on Thursday nullified the election of Bayelsa State governor-elect, David Lyon, and his running mate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, who were already preparing to be inaugurated on Friday. It turns out that Degi-Eremienyo was the reason the elections were nullified.
In Primary school, he was Degi Biobara.
In Secondary school, he was Adegi Biobarakumo.
In University, he was Degi Biobarakuma.
In his MBA certificate, he was Degi Biobarakuma Wangaha and as deputy governor-elect, he was Degi-Eremienyo.
Justice Eko disqualified Degi-Eremienyo’s candidacy on the grounds that he presented false information about his educational qualifications in his Form CF001 submitted to INEC as a candidate for the 2019 election.
He noted that the “claims” by Degi-Eremienyo appeared to be “fraudulent”, pointing out to “several names he uses variously chameleonically to suit the changing environment.”
He ruled that Degi-Eremienyo’s disqualification on the basis of submitting false information to INEC had infected the joint ticket with which he and Lyon contested the election and emerged victorious.
Degi-Eremienyo previously served as Bayelsa State Commissioner for Local Government Affairs under former president Goodluck Jonathan's term as governor and was also Executive Director at the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA.
Here’s stuff we think you should check out:
"National efforts to strengthen food security have an impact far beyond any single country’s borders", write Melissa Chan and Heriberto Araujo for The Atlantic, on China Wants Food. Brazil Pays the Price.
This long read by Suchitra Vijayan for The Polis Project, aptly titled “Misogyny and Racism as Spectacle and Performance”, depicts the point where tone-deaf privilege, crisis porn, arrogance and superficiality meet. It’s about an Indian documentary photographer who made a mess of documenting the struggles Africans living in India face.
Meditation isn’t all paradisiacal. Sometimes, apparently more often than you’d imagine, it could lead to or dredge up old psychosis issues or disorders. Here, Michael Holden recounts an incident where an ambulance escorted by police had to take him to a psychiatric hospital after an episode.
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