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“Ibrahim Khaldoon Hilmi is charged with one of the biggest Medicare scams in history - allegedly orchestrating a massive $3.7 BILLION scheme to defraud Medicare. He’s been on the run since May of 2025 - but we got him. Thanks to outstanding work from FBI Miami, the Justice Department, and our partners in Turkey, Hilmi was apprehended overseas and after a Foreign Transfer of Custody, he is back in the U.S. to face justice. This is yet another massive win for this FBI’s war on fraudsters with the White House Task Force led by VP Vance - and a monumental victory for the Trump administration showing that any criminal actor who steals from the American taxpayer will be caught, no matter where they try to hide. Special thanks to Ambassador Tom Barrack who continues to be an invaluable partner to us - this case could not have been accomplished without his tireless work.

"My boyfriend is probably wondering why i haven’t left him because he is broke" Whereas her and her father are equally broke. In her mind, she had to make a tweet about it just to tell everyone she's doing him a favor by still dating him despite being broke whereas she's equally broke. At the end of the day, she can spot the fact that he has a bright future which is why she's still staying. I can bet you while she's consoling him, she's talking to other guys at the same time and if it happens she sees a rich guy, she'll dump him immediately. Another day to remind you no woman is with you when you're broke because she genuinely loves you. She's only with you because she sees potential in your future. Always remember; no woman is doing you a favor standing by you when you're broke.

Once you experience a woman who involves her finances in the relationship and equally pays for shit, you can never go back.

@OreAkinde You dey think? Since when that one start?

Leo Messi met Jurgen Klopp and Thomas Muller after the game

𝗞𝗟𝗢𝗣𝗣 𝗜𝗦 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗢𝗙 𝗨𝗦 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗪 😅

😁👋🏼 Leo Messi and Jürgen Klopp.

2026 and some of you are still hate watching this footballing god

One idi00t who took 20k from APC to vote on saturday in Ekiti state was boasting how he spent the money. He said he cooked rice and kpomo stew on sunday, took bread and tea today, and also cooked watery soup today. By Thursday his brain will return to factory setting.

The average Roman didn’t know their empire collapsed they just noticed their roads stopped being repaired one day.

To identify as Yoruba is now Bigotry in Nigeria.

I won’t lie at this point, these lots are just jealous of Yoruba people and it’s becoming boring.🥱

This constant attack on Yoruba people is extremely weird You will think all the Yoruba people in tech have jobs or are funded founders. Attacking Yoruba people seems to gain traction these days. It's very weird. Movies, Music, now tech?

You can hate the president without transferring that hatred to Yoruba people. That's a tribal stretch. Curse the president. Insult him. But don't disguise bigotry as hatred for Tinubu. That won't be met with folded arms.

Exactly what I tweeted the last time during the ‘illbliss’ issue, the ‘analysts’ only come out selectively to talk about ‘bigotry’, they keep quiet when u are being attacked and pretend not to see things, they will rush out to quickly condemn and analyze when the favour is returned. It’s a direct bullying tactic for people that decide to fall for it.

How exactly is referring to someone by their given name an act of bigotry? That assertion is difficult to understand. Unfortunately, you saw every issue from your comedy prism and, worse still, misrepresentation of the facts. Public discourse is best served by accuracy, objectivity, and honesty, not by distortions designed to score cheap point for your social validation. That approach is both unhelpful and disappointing. Did you read the tweet to which the quoted response was directed?!

Dear Chinedu @GRVlagos I have no interest in descending into the mudslinging and distractions you appear to thrive on. My focus remains on the important work before us - supporting the efforts of the Lagos State Government to ensure the safety, well-being, and prosperity of Lagosians. If being committed to public service, good governance, and the protection of the interests and heritage of Lagosians is what you choose to describe as bigotry, then I make no apologies for standing firmly by those principles. Public service is not a tea party - but how can you know what it entails? Nemo dat quod non habet. For the sake of clarity, I would advise you, in your saner moments, to acquaint yourself with my record in public service - from my appointment as Special Adviser on Education to Mr. Governor in 2019 to my present tour of duty at the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources. The record is public, and it speaks for itself. As for the labels and accusations, I will leave others to judge them on their merits. I have no intention of engaging in personal attacks or trading insults with a political nomad driven by ignorance and needless hatred. I wish you all the best. TW

Dear Lagosians, I have directed an immediate scale-up of waste evacuation across Lagos following the recent build-up of refuse in some parts of our state. LAWMA, LASEPA, and the Ministry of Environment are currently working around the clock. We have deployed extra trucks and personnel to clear the backlogs across all affected neighbourhoods. You should already see progress on the streets and we will not stop until our city is completely clean again. Lagos generates over 13,000 tons of waste every single day. Managing this requires a massive effort but our determination to fix the current challenge is absolute. As we continue this cleanup, I ask for your partnership. Please bag your waste properly and avoid dumping refuse in drainage channels or on the roads. We are fully on top of this situation. Let us work together to keep Lagos clean and safe for everyone.

Street sweeping is another big part of the work. Lagos has thousands of sweepers working across hundreds of routes, including highways, medians and major public corridors. This work starts very early, and it is not easy work. Some areas are swept daily, but once people keep littering from vehicles, markets, shops and buses, the same routes look dirty again within hours. That is why the long-term answer cannot be sweeping alone. We need better behaviour, stronger enforcement, more mechanised sweeping on strategic roads, and safer working conditions for the sweepers. The bigger reform is infrastructure. Lagos cannot continue with the old collect-and-dump model. That is why construction is ongoing for Transfer Loading Stations to replace the old landfill operations at Olusosun in Ojota and Solous III in Igando. These will be supported by Material Recovery Facilities in Ikorodu and Badagry, so waste can be moved out of the centre of the city to modern facilities where it can be sorted, recovered, recycled and repurposed. The Olusosun system is expected to move about 2,500 tonnes of waste daily to the Ikorodu MRF, while the Solous III side is expected to move about 1,500 tonnes daily to the Badagry recovery facility. The target for this transition is 6 months. Once completed, it should reduce pressure on the old dumpsites, improve the flow of waste evacuation, reduce congestion around disposal points and give Lagos a more serious recovery and recycling platform. There is also the organic waste side, which is very important because a large part of Lagos waste is food and market waste. The Ikosi Fruit Market Biodigester has now been launched to treat organic waste closer to source and convert it into useful outputs like biogas, electricity and fertiliser. The plan is to replicate that model in other markets that generate high volumes of organic waste, instead of moving everything across the city to landfill. So yes, the complaints are valid. Some backlogs should not have happened. Some residents have not received the service they deserve. Some operators have disappointed. There is no need to deny any of that. But the fuller picture is that waste is being evacuated daily, black spots are being cleared daily, operators are being monitored, weak routes are being reviewed, illegal dumping is being prosecuted, street sweeping is ongoing, and new infrastructure is being built to change the system from the ground up. Government has a duty to keep improving the system. Residents, markets, estates and businesses also have a duty to use the system properly and stop illegal dumping. Both things are true. Lagos is not where it should be yet. But it is not standing still either. The work now is to clear what has built up, fix the routes that are failing, hold operators accountable, and complete the infrastructure that will move Lagos from dumping to sorting, recovery, recycling, energy and circular economy. So, for your nomadic self to jump on the Governor’s release for your political agenda without talking solutions speaks to who you really are.

Dear Gbadebo @GRVlagos A lot of people are genuinely concerned about the waste situation in parts of Lagos, and that concern is understandable. Waste is not something you can talk around. If refuse is sitting on your street, beside your market, close to your bus stop, or inside the drainage near your house, the only thing that matters to you is that it should be removed. And that is fair. But it may also help to explain the scale of what is being managed, and what is actually being done. Lagos generates about 13,000 tonnes of waste every day. Not weekly. Every day. In May alone, LAWMA and PSP operators evacuated about 418,500 tonnes of waste across the state, which comes to an average of about 13,200 tonnes daily. That is not a small operation. It involves hundreds of PSP operators, public waste teams, transfer and disposal operations, street sweepers, enforcement teams, customer service staff, drivers, loaders, supervisors and monitoring officers working across a very large and difficult city. Just to mention, during the 2026 Hajj, Saudi Sanitation Authorities announced that a total of over 472 tons of waste were generated from Mina and Muzdalifah. This is total waste generated by pilgrims all over the world in 5 days. Still, nobody is pretending that everything is fine everywhere. Some communities have had delays. Some PSP operators have not performed well. Some routes have grown beyond the capacity that was originally assigned to them. In some areas, road access is poor. During the rains, movement into disposal sites can become slower. Trucks break down. Diesel and spare parts are expensive. Payment compliance is also weak in many places, and when people do not pay for waste service, the operators struggle to maintain trucks, pay crews and keep to schedule. These are not excuses but the harsh realities that have to be fixed. That is why LAWMA has been reviewing weak routes, replacing and sanctioning underperforming operators, increasing monitoring, and deploying evacuation teams to pressure points. As of last month (May), 442 PSP operators were active across Lagos while 27 routes were under review for service improvement. LAWMA also received 474 complaints and service requests that month, which are now part of how the agency is identifying weak spots and following up on operator performance. There is also a daily blackspot operation that many people do not see unless it is happening near them. LAWMA clears 3,000 black spots every day across 57 routes. These are the road medians, market edges, illegal dumping points, bus stops, setbacks and open spaces where people keep dropping waste outside the normal collection system. Some are cleared in the morning and abused again by night. That is one of the hardest parts of the job. This is why enforcement has become more serious. In 2025, LAWMA recorded 1,023 incidents of illegal dumping and other waste violations across the state. Out of these, 447 cases were referred for prosecution. The surveillance teams also identified 431 scavengers and reconciled 145 properties with their assigned PSP operators. The data showed that much of the illegal dumping happens between midnight and early morning, and the waste is not only household refuse. It includes construction debris and even hazardous waste in some cases. So when people say “just clear it,” we agree. It must be cleared. But we also have to stop the same locations from being turned back into dumpsites again and again. 1/2