The President General of Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF), Yerima Shettima, has told those who care to listen not to expect the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prosecute the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), over the sighting of two bullion vans at his residence during the general elections.

Shettima was reacting to a petition tabled before the EFCC by the convener of Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju, on Friday to investigate Tinubu over the source of money allegedly conveyed in bullion vans to his residence during the 2019 Presidential elections.

He said that the EFCC may not go ahead to probe Tinubu because of his affiliation with the ruling party.

Shettima in a statement issued on Sunday said; “It’s an allegation and all Tinubu needs is to come forward and make clarifications and I just hope that the so called institution which is the EFCC would do the necessary thing by looking into the issue.

“There is nothing wrong if there is an allegation and somebody is petitioned and there is nothing wrong in Tinubu coming out to make clarifications, there is nothing extraordinary in this matter and I see nothing coming out from this petition especially coming from the quarter it’s coming from.

“Our position on this issue is that even if you are an APC member, nothing will come out of this issue but if you are an enemy, not part of them, then certainly something will come out of it,” he added.

President Muhammadu Buhari will be travelling to London, the United Kingdom, on a private visit after attending the Economic Forum of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on media and publicity made this known in a statement released on Monday, October 28.

According to the statement, the president will be leaving Nigeria today, October 28, for the economic forum in Saudi Arabia. Equity news gathers that President Buhari is scheduled to meet with King Salman and King Abdullah ll of Jordan during the trip.

The Nigerian president will on Wednesday, October 30, participate in an Africa-themed event alongside his counterparts from other African countries.

President Buhari will thereafter travel to the UK on a private visit on Saturday, November 2, and return to Nigeria on Thursday, November 17.

Danjuma babes fc central defender emmanuel kadiri have gone to Ni’ima fc of Niger republic for trails . we spoke to him on phone Emmanuel said I thank God for journey mercy. I am looking forward to the next challenge .

I want my colleague back home to pray for me to succeed on this journey . I appreciate the love and support everyone is giving me. Thank you.

Danjuma babes fc captain Junior pius and their  striker Lawal musa Ibrahim were invited to Malumfashi fc for trails . The duo were outstanding last season in Surulere Regional league . Equity news spoke with both players .

Junior pius said I want to appreciate malumfashi fc management that gave us this opportunity to come and try our luck here they welcomed us with open hands as u can see, todays training was good, we are giving  our best to make sure we will be retained in the team.

Lastly I want to thank danjuma babes fc president Alhaji lawal danjuma  for the support he has been giving us we will do our best to make him proud . thank you .

First and foremost, let me say I am writing this because all through last night (20^th-21 October 2019) I kept tossing around on my bed. The much needed sleep took a flight .

Why? Over the past two weeks I have been greatly disturbed because of emerging realities vis a vis my beloved state

More importantly I am disturbed because my comments again will be interpreted by those who need to earn more epaulettes o their shoulders using me and my comments as the basis, those with ebbing relevance, those who need attention boost, will have another substrate to feast on, i.e bimbo is attacking Governor fayemi, Bimbo is not in APC and all the Bimbo this, Bimbo that, a la carte meal will be served hot.

So to put this up, I had ro struggle with this and my conscience, I wrote this piece and deleted, started again and corrected severally so that it does not come as an attack on Governor Fayemi, his administration, and APC, because that is not my intention. Little minds discuss people.

I know the cheapest thing for the latter day “JKFtokantokan” people is to latch on everything and give it closet interpretation of, oh its sour grapes, he needs attention, oh he is sulking because he did not get ticket blab bla.. well does it bother me? For where! I don comot for that lane.. allow me to flex.

But I owe myself this obligation as a “small” opinion leader, but equal joint stakeholder with the same amount of equity and stake in Ekiti state development, wellbeing and wellness project  and so it is a duty call for me to at least bring up what I may feel need to be given a second look by the administrators of our state at this time

In any case, I was in the strategy group for 8 years anyway, member transition committee in 2010, and the Governor knows I will always say what I feel may be worthy of being considered without fear and not keep mute because I want to be loyal!

Real loyalty is telling the truth, not “all correct sir”

I hold no grudges and no beef

Governments and Governors will come and go but that entity, people and geographical expression known as Ekiti will remain, like St paul I think said..” on this foundation I have built, let everyone be careful how he builds on it

In whatever we do today, let us be moderated by today’s realities and future imperatives, indeed these twi indices are the basis on which modern developmental agenda are premised upon.

No state or nation state can run on knee jerk approach rather  coordinated, realistic and factual, steady and well thought out steps

I am an Ekiti man first and foremost before becoming a politically conscious person, and a member of a political party, and of course political parties will always come and go, where are UPNs, NPNs, SDPs, NRCs, CAN today? But Ekiti is still there

The political party is therefore a vehicle to access power and power not for the sake of it but to impact lives of people.

I have bothered to say all these so my motive for pointing out these will not be misconstrued, though I know it will still, but after all said and done I have my conscience to please and almighty God to account to for my actions and inactions.

This is the backdrop against which I measure my present actions and measured all my actions when I had the opportunity to serve my constituency as member house of representatives and I did my little bit

So being out of government regardless of circumstance will not dim the obligation to show care and concern for what I believe may be  good or worthy of being looked at again, after all our state anthem say OHUN A BA JO RO NI .. OHUN A JO RO NI LEYE.

Ekiti we are informed has a huge debt overhang which is not exclusively from the present administration, and this is reality that has stunted development of infrastructure and manpower

I am scared and attempting further exposure to more loans regardless of how soft the conditions may be, may put us further in a dire strait

I appreciate the efforts of the present administration to turn around the  fortunes of the states in quick turn around time but realistically limited, nut any exposure to any loan that is not tied to short term regenerative projects will be counter productive, my thought.

I honestly think the idea of the Ekiti Airport may be good in the long term but in short  run and granted our parlous and perilous financial situation need a second look, particularly when it does not appear like things will change anytime soon

Airports are great investments! He prospect, but there must be justification in tangible terms, either for cargo or human, today I am not too sure that there us any compelling business consideration that will sustain the investment into an airport in ekiti. At least as at now and in minimum of five years, no airline will fly empty planes to appeal to sentiments

How many airlines fly into Akure today? Most times flying with a quarter of the capacity and today the cost of ticket, th passengers are complaining aloud at about 50 thousand naira

When Overland started, it was being subsidized by ondo and Ekiti states to sustain it, and today I think arrangement has collapsed, are we going to do that to keep the proposed airport with our present economic reality in the state?

No doubts I will like to fly into Ado Ekiti on my personal trips home, just as it will be for other Ekiti sons and daughters, coming home, and parents and students of our prized institution, ABUAD. (A big congratulations to Baba Afe and ABUAD on the occasion of her tenth convocation) but this goes beyond my preferred and personal guarantees of comfort and convenience but what is the short, medium and long term implication on the financial situation of my state.

I am inclined to think the present administration will be commended and saluted for wanting to pick up the  gauntlet to fix the road from Ado Ekiti – Akure (ondo state ) I really do not think Dr fayemi alone shoud fix it, his counterpart Governor of ondo state both of the APC extraction should come together as a matter of priority and fix that road in the interest of all

Ado –Ekiti to akure can be returned to 30 -40 minutes trip that it used to be growing up

If a little investment is put into fixing this road and turned into a good dual carriage we would have spent less compared to having to go borrow to fund and finance an Ekiti Airport.

If we do this we will be killing two birds with one stone , we would have saved our state additional debt over hang that will become a huge albatross on the neck of succeeding administrators of our states when the present one would have taken a bow, two the airport that we want to borrow to fund will serve less than 18 percent of our very rural population, but fixing the ADO-AKURE ROAD will serve more of our people commuting between that route on daily basis for economic and social activities.

What the privileged class will have to bear is 40 minutes driving time  and sharing the good road with us the  less privileged, in any case they will be in their lexus 450s ! So not much scenic view, appreciate our picturesque landscape dotted by the Olosuntas driving through ikere Ekiti.

Now I must also commend the Governor for signing into law the projects continuity bill,  though I have not seen the fine prints, the intention is noble to prevent abandoned projects, but the projects that will be passed over must be projects well thought out and not phantom, that will do us a great  deal of good in turning around the fortunes of our dear state.

With this law in place the stage is set for this administration to start thinking of a long term development agenda for the state, a plan that will be robust , coordinated, intergrated, systemic and pragmatic.

This law just signed is visionary, and the next chapter is what are the developmental issues that must quickly be on the front burner infrastructure wise? Social? Economic etc.

Prime  Minister lee Kwan Yew  transformed Singapore from underdeveloped third word to first world because of a robust workable developmental agenda that has kept Singapore in reckoning till this day long after he has gone .

Pau kagame is fast doing that today with Rwanda. We can do that with Ekiti, there will be Ekiti after Governor Fayemi,, and that should be of interest to all.

About two weeks ago the flooding that took over parts of the states and leading to the loss of homes, properties and I am told a life, should not be allowed to happen In another year from today, with a short term developmental agenda that takes care of that reality, because flooding most likely will get worse in the years ahead with global warming realities.

So there must be a strategic mapping of flood plains and path that can be worked on with a ring round drain duct and channel and path way to avert that in future. This will feature in the developmental agenda.

The two bridges that were affected two weeks ago causing major discomfort need immediate attention than the airport so that our state capital does not get submerged in the future, indeed the road fro ijigbo to ijan can go into the same  consideration like the proposed thought for the ADO-Ekit _AKURE road , though federal road too, nut we cannot afford to continue to imperil the lives of our people, who commute daily on this road. This is a road that does not do great credit to our prized institution ABUAD, founded by our foremost patriot. This is a major imperative.

Lastly the present administration came into government to restore our values “ will also do well to take on that frugality part of our values, by ensuring that the little that is available is stretched for maximum value to the benefit of all in short, medium and long term and this can only be done where we are constrained to cut our cloth according to our peculiar realities and to put in place very quickly a systemic developmental plan to boost the local economy, this is a must do NOW, the promasidor -ikun diary is in the right direction, but a lot more opportunities sure do exist, the N100 revnues projection around each okada rider will definitely not fit the vision of Ekiti state  that we desire to compete and do well in the 21^st century

The time is rie for a more pragmatic review of the way into collective greater future as Ekitis

The stage is set for our own Lee Kwan Yew

A greater Ekiti is possible

#congressman #bimbo #Daramola

@23^rd October  2019

#Abuja Nigeria

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After both clubs rejected the option of switching the match to Santiago Bernabeu, the game will now be played later in the season

Following the decision to postpone Saturday’s meeting between Barcelona and Real Madrid, it has been confirmed that the first Clasico of the season will take place on December 18.

Riots in Barcelona over the past two weeks led to La Liga requesting that the game be moved from Camp Nou to Santiago Bernabeu, with the reverse fixture then to be played in Catalunya later in the season.

But with both clubs against such a switch, the match was instead rescheduled, with a final call on that date having been made by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).

“The decision of the competition committee has come after analysing in recent days the proposals of both clubs, which they invited to agree on a date and who agreed to signal on December 18 for the rescheduling of the postponed match,” an RFEF statement read.

Though both clubs suggested December 18 – a Wednesday – La Liga have confirmed that they will appeal the new date will stand given their hope of showcasing the biggest match in the competition to a wider audience.

The original fixture was set to kick-off at 12pm BST (7am ET) so as to allow fans in Asia as well as in the United States and South America to watch the match live, with the proposed new evening kick-off set to impact the former.

“La Liga does not share the resolution of the competition committee to settle on December 18 – following the agreement reached by FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, but La Liga’s refusal – as the new date of the previously postponed Clasico,” a statement from La Liga read.

“We are studying the documentation referring to this procedure to assess the possible legal actions to be taken, against the corresponding institutions and before the public bodies or jurisdictional bodies that it deems appropriate.”

The decision to move the original match on October 26 away from Camp Nou was taken following chaotic scenes in Barcelona in the aftermath of nine Catalan separatist leaders being jailed for between nine and 13 years.

Those sentences followed a referendum on Catalan independence that took place in October 2017 that was deemed to be unofficial by Spanish authorities.

Clashes between the public and police followed that vote, with Barca forced to play their Liga match against Las Palmas behind closed doors.

Similar clashes have taken place in recent days, causing Barcelona’s airport to be closed down at certain times while cars have been set on fire in the streets.

Given Real Madrid’s historical links to the Spanish government, sections of their own fans showing support for a united Spain and the size of the match itself, the decision was then taken that it would be too much of a security risk to play the game at Camp Nou at this time.