LMAO: By Next Year Igbos Will Take Over From Fashola – APGA Leader Umeh

<strong>In a brave and controversial statement, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) leader Chief <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">Victor</span> Umeh told reporters that come 2015, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Lagos</span> will be under the APGA flag.</strong><br /><br /><br /> <img alt="APGA Chief Victor Umeh" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/00/9/apga-chief-victor-umeh.jpg" data-zoom="1" height="320" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/00/9/apga-chief-victor-umeh.jpg" vspace="5" width="586" /><br /><br /><br /> <strong>APGA Chief Victor Umeh </strong><br /> Umeh, who gave an interview to The Punch <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">reporters</span>, said in 2015 Lagos <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">elections</span> only 2 million votes are needed to gain the gubernatorial position, and, with over 10 million Igbos and half that number sympathetic with the APGA cause, there is more than a high chance of this becoming a reality.<br /> More excerpts of the discussion are below:<br /><a name='more'></a>POLI<br /> <br />You talk about capacity; how many supporters does APGA have in Lagos?<br /> <em>If democracy is about the electorate, APGA has what it takes to <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">win</span> elections in Lagos. The Igbo in Lagos today are more than 10 million, not to talk of other non-indigenes, who are not loyal to the APC. Although not every Igbo man will vote for APGA, but those who we know as our potential supporters and sympathisers are more than five million. If what is required to get to Alausa is about two million votes, which no one has surpassed, APGA will get it. Election is not about the elite; it’s about the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">ordinary people</span> who will go out and cast their votes.</em><br /><div id="article_end"><br />Do the victories of APGA in Anambra and Imo states automatically translate into victory for the party in Lagos?<br /> <br /><em>I’ve told you that the population of the Igbo in Lagos is more than the population of any state in the South-East because they are combined here. But this is not an Igbo agenda; I’m only saying it because every party has its sympathy base. The APC has Yoruba sympathy. However, a Yoruba man can also run on the platform of APGA. We also have the sympathy of those who believe that one man cannot control Lagos because it’s a cosmopolitan state.</em><br /> <br />Do you really believe an Igbo man can become a governor in Lagos State?<br /> <br /><em>I believe it 100 per cent. I was born and raised in Lagos. If you are born and bred in a place and you see that the place is not well run, what do you do? You go for the government. That was why I ran in 2003. It was my candidacy that made them pick two Igbo people to be part of the government in Lagos – Ben Akabueze and Joe Igbokwe. It was just to deceive novices that Igbo people are in government. Except the Awori, nobody owns Lagos. Most of the people claiming Lagos came from nearby Yoruba states.</em><br /> </div>

LMAO: By Next Year Igbos Will Take Over From Fashola – APGA Leader Umeh

In a brave and controversial statement, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) leader Chief Victor Umeh told reporters that come 2015, Lagos will be under the APGA flag. APGA Chief Victor Umeh  Umeh,…

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Mikel Obi To Rescue Kidnapped Chibok Girls If He Knows Where They Are

<strong>Footballer Mikel Obi says his <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">thoughts</span> are with the families of abducted <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">Chibok</span> girls who have been held by <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Boko Haram</span> for more than three months in the Sambisa Forest.</strong><br /> <br /><br />According to Nigeria midfielder Mikel Obi, he is praying for the release and <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">safe return</span> of the kidnapped girls.<br /> <br />In May, the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">Chelsea star</span> joined #BringBackOurGirls campaign by posting his picture where he carries a cardboard with the popular #BringBackOurGirls hash tag, but he spoke about the issue publicly for the first time on Monday, July 14.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br />"I wish I knew where those girls are, I would go there, pick them up and bring them back but it’s out of my hands," Mikel said, while <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_17">responding</span> to a question at a soiree by Amstel Malta in Lagos.<br /> In August 2011, Mikel’s dad was <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">kidnapped</span> in Jos but released after about 10 days in captivity. Thus, he hopes the same will happen to the girls of Chibok.<br /> <br />"We will keep praying and keep hoping that [the girls] are all safe and they will return to their <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">families</span>," said the midfielder.<br /> <br />The 27-year-old helped Nigeria reach the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">second round</span> of the World Cup in Brazil before losing 2-0 to France.<br /> <br />He was named man of the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_13">match</span> in their <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">first game</span> against Iran but came under criticism after the final match against France where he struggled to impose himself on the encounter.

Mikel Obi To Rescue Kidnapped Chibok Girls If He Knows Where They Are

Footballer Mikel Obi says his thoughts are with the families of abducted Chibok girls who have been held by Boko Haram for more than three months in the Sambisa Forest. According to Nigeria midfielder…

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Why Boko Haram May Never End

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <b>With the current insecurity in the country and the </b><b>incessant</b><b> attacks by <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Boko Haram</span> sect, there are different opinions on when there would be an end to the violence. A behavioural analyst, Olokode, has written the article below from Ibadan, sharing his opinion on why Boko Haram insurgency may never end.</b><br /> <br /> Read more on his <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">point of view</span> below:<br /> <br /> <br /> Truth is bitter. The piece I am set to write already gives me a foretaste of bitterness. A signal of the sure surge of fury, resentment and provocation its caption is likely to provoke in most readers, at least, at first sight. This seemingly pessimistic and, probably, outwardly ill-wishing title may even, compel some, in a rage of rashness, to cast me off as a Boko Haram apologist or even an outright Boko Haramite. Whatever name you call me, I patriotically acquiesce.<br /> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6589160015449763735" name="more"></a><br /> <br /> And, before I get crucified, let me quickly reiterate that my seeming hopelessness came from the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">n*ked</span> dehumanisation of the masses I sighted as this overloaded six-<span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">passenger bus</span> sn*ked its way through some city-based ‘villages’ on a domestic journey. Nothing in all I saw, left and right, suggested the presence of a government, monarchy or leadership of any sort that cared for the basic human needs that would ensure that natural humans get nurtured into social humans.<br /> <br /> The adage, man is a product of his environment, thus, asked me a painful rhetorical question: Can these hostile-living conditions produce socially-responsible masses filled with blood of love for fellow citizens of ‘strange’ origin, religion, education<br /> and exposure?</div>

Why Boko Haram May Never End

With the current insecurity in the country and the incessant attacks by Boko Haram sect, there are different opinions on when there would be an end to the violence. A behavioural analyst, Olokode, h…

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#REAL: Three-Year-Old Girl Rises From Dead At Her Own Funeral

<img alt="Photo - MIRACLE: 3-Year-Old Girl Rises From Dead At Her Own Funeral" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/0b/2/3-year-old-girl-awakened-at-her-own-funeral-zamboanga-620x315.png" data-zoom="1" height="254" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/0b/2/3-year-old-girl-awakened-at-her-own-funeral-zamboanga-620x315.png" vspace="5" width="500" /><br /> <strong>A three-year-old <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">girl</span>, who was pronounced dead on Saturday after being taken to <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">hospital</span> the day before suffering from a fever for several days, woke up during preparations for her own funeral.</strong><br /> <em>Scroll down for the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_2">video</span></em><br /> <br /><br /><br />This incredible moment was captured on video. When the girl started breathing again, her father <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_16">lifted</span> her out of the coffin in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">church</span> in Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, in the Philippines, and took her to hospital.<br /> According to <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">Inspector</span> Heidil Teelan,<em> "the attending <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">clinic</span> personnel and physician confirmed that the young patient had no more pulse and was clinically dead last <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">Saturday morning</span> about 9am."</em><br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br />When one of her parents’ neighbours removed the lid of the coffin to arrange the girl’s remains, she saw the three-year-old move.<br /> <br />Teelan added: <em>"We really cannot make confirmation on the status of the girl but based on the observation of the police <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">personnel</span> I deployed it appeared the girl remained in a state of comatose in their house."</em><br /> \<br />After being lifted out of the coffin she was given <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">water</span> and taken to the hospital before returning home with her parents.<br />

#REAL: Three-Year-Old Girl Rises From Dead At Her Own Funeral

A three-year-old girl, who was pronounced dead on Saturday after being taken to hospital the day before suffering from a fever for several days, woke up during preparations for her own funeral. Scrol…

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#Brazil 2014: Arsenal Manager Reveals Why Super Eagles Failed

<div><strong><span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Arsenal</span> Football Club manager, Arsene Wenger, at the weekend revealed what, in his opinion, caused the Super Eagles’ failure at the just concluded FIFA World Cup hosted by Brazil. </strong></div><div> </div><div><span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">Speaking</span> to Beinsport, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">Wenger</span>, who revealed he has been doing an examination of the African champions’ display in <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">Brazil</span>, stated that it was <em>“not <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_17">lack</span> of <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_16">talent</span>”</em> that affected the team but rather, it was <em>“<span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">poor</span> organisation”</em>.</div><div> </div>He said the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">Super Eagles</span> would have gone beyond the round of 16 in the competition, if conditions were ideal. <div> </div><div><em>“Nigeria had no solidarity. They showed the whole world the problems they had before the World Cup and it was the same with Cameroun. The problem was not lack of talent but with poor organization,” </em>Wenger said.<a name='more'></a></div><div> </div><div>The Arsenal manger, however, commended the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">Eagles</span>’ first half display against eventual victors, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">France</span>.</div><div> </div><div><strong> </strong></div><div> </div><div><em>“Nigeria was not too bad against France. They had a good first half but could not maintain the momentum in the second half,” </em>he said.</div><div> </div><div>Meanwhile, the Super Eagles have never been able to go beyond the round of 16 in any of the previous <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">World Cups</span>. The attempts were made in 1994, 1998 and 2014.</div>

#Brazil 2014: Arsenal Manager Reveals Why Super Eagles Failed

Arsenal Football Club manager, Arsene Wenger, at the weekend revealed what, in his opinion, caused the Super Eagles’ failure at the just concluded FIFA World Cup hosted by Brazil.  Speaking to Beins…

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LMAO: Suarez To Lose N830,000,000 From His Wages If He Bites Again

<br /><img alt="Photo - Suarez To Lose N830,000 From His Barcelona Wages If He Bites Again" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/04/0/luis_suarez_0923.jpg" data-zoom="1" height="347" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/04/0/luis_suarez_0923.jpg" vspace="5" width="500" /><br /><br /><br /> <span style="color: grey;"><span style="font-size: smaller;"><span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">Luis Suarez</span></span></span><br /> <strong>Footballer Luis <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">Suarez</span> will see his £10million-a-year (about N3billion) <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Barcelona</span> pay packet slashed by up to £3m (N830,000,000) if he tries to bite another opponent.</strong><br /> <br /><br />The Uruguayan became the most expensive signing in the Catalan giants’ history when he <br /><div data-cid="2378" data-kw="completed" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">completed</div>his move from <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">Liverpool</span> on Friday, agreeing a £200,000-a-week (N55m), five-year deal at the Nou Camp.<a name='more'></a><br />Liverpool say Barcelona paid the £75m (over N20billion) they wanted for the 27-year-old, but the La Liga side claim the figure was 80m Euros.<br /> <br /><br />His <em><strong>salary makes Suarez the fourth highest-paid player</strong></em><em><strong> at the club</strong></em> behind <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">Lionel Messi</span>, Neymar and Andres Iniesta, but he will drop a long way behind if there is any repeat of the shameful biting antics that have landed him in hot water three times.<br /> <br />Suarez’s contract at Barca is littered with clauses which will hit him hard if he errs again and, according to Sunday People <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">Sport</span>, he could be docked as much as 15 to 30 per cent of his wages.<br /> <br />The club intend to pursue an appeal to have his four-month ban from all <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">football</span>-related activities reduced and are hopeful they will succeed.<br /> <br />Suarez is expected in Barcelona on July 15, 2014, Tuesday, and is set to be <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_16">unveiled</span> on Wednesday at the city’s L’Auditori <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">building</span> before going on <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">holiday</span>.<br /> <br />Sources close to the Catalan giants briefed <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_2">local</span> media that they were delighted to have landed Suarez for less than the 100m Euro – N22billion – they would have had to pay under normal circumstances.

LMAO: Suarez To Lose N830,000,000 From His Wages If He Bites Again

Luis Suarez Footballer Luis Suarez will see his £10million-a-year (about N3billion) Barcelona pay packet slashed by up to £3m (N830,000,000) if he tries to bite anothe…

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CAN THIS BE TRUE? :Meet Cheerful 17-Months-Old Baby Girl Born Without A Nose (PHOTOS)

<strong>Meet an <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">adorable</span> 17-month-<span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">old baby</span>, Tessa Evans, who was born with a rare congenital disorder, arhinia, which means the girl does not have a nose.</strong><br /><br /><br /> <strong><img alt=" Meet Cheerful 17-Months-Old Baby Girl Born Without A Nose" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/00/a/tessa_evans_girl_with_no_nose4.jpg" data-zoom="1" height="269" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/00/a/tessa_evans_girl_with_no_nose4.jpg" vspace="5" width="500" /></strong><br /><strong><br /></strong><strong><br /></strong> Arihnia could lead to a partial or complete absence of the nose at birth. It is an extremely rare condition, with few reported cases in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">history of modern</span> medicine. Tessa’s parents were notified about their baby’s condition during the 20-week scan which showed an abnormally flat facial profile. However, the next several tests revealed stable development of the healthy fetus.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br /> <img alt=" Meet Cheerful 17-Months-Old Baby Girl Born Without A Nose" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/08/d/tessa_evans_girl_with_no_nose1.jpg" data-zoom="1" height="333" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/08/d/tessa_evans_girl_with_no_nose1.jpg" vspace="5" width="500" /><br /><br /> While talking to journalist, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">baby mother</span>, Gráinne Evans, said she had no idea about Tessa’s problem until the girl draw the first breath. She said: <em> </em><br /><br /><br /><em>"I was so excited to have a <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">natural birth</span> for the first time, but as soon as I saw her face I knew something was wrong. I was in shock and I just froze. The midwife cut the cord before I could even say anything and whisked her away from me. There were <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">alarm bells</span> ringing and I was so frightened I couldn’t stand without fainting."</em>

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CAN THIS BE TRUE? :Meet Cheerful 17-Months-Old Baby Girl Born Without A Nose (PHOTOS)

Meet an adorable 17-month-old baby, Tessa Evans, who was born with a rare congenital disorder, arhinia, which means the girl does not have a nose. Arihnia could lead to a partial or complete absence …

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READ Atiku Reacts To Governor Nyako's Impeachment

<strong>Following the impeachment Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">former</span> Vice President <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">Atiku Abubakar</span> has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led federal government against excessive use of power.</strong><br /><br /> <strong><img alt="Atiku Abubakar" border="0" data-x-src="http://img.naij.com/n/05/e/atiku-abubakar-71.jpg" data-zoom="1" height="330" hspace="5" src="http://img.naij.com/n/05/e/atiku-abubakar-71.jpg" vspace="5" width="495" /> </strong><br /><br /><br /> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br /> In a statement by his media <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">office</span> in <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">Abuja</span>, Atiku said impeaching elected public office holders to settle scores would only build tension in the country.<br /> <br />He explained that the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_18">excessive</span> use of power is not good for decent democratic practice, saying triumphalism in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_16">suppression</span> of opponents is a bad omen for democracy.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br />According to PM report, Atiku decried the use of <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">impeachment</span> to settle scores by the PDP-led <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">federal government</span>, saying the the frequency with which elected officials were being removed from office by impeachment would destroy the whole purpose of inserting the impeachment clause in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">Constitution</span>, adding that it could not have been the intention of the framers of the 1999 Constitution.<br /> <br />He said the impeachment clause in the constitution was not put there to provide ammo to anybody to harass and humiliate opponents or <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_15">force</span> them out of office.<span class="open-news__jsreadmore">Continue <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">reading</span></span>

READ Atiku Reacts To Governor Nyako's Impeachment

Following the impeachment Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led federal government against excessive use of po…

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BIG TROUBLE: President Jonathan Playing With Serious Fire

<br /><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwR535okqOoZRrgkxqELPEoGvQ05gQpvG0sjUxnM2LGzHcndd_oVXljY_yZBQSZS9as1EgVWNs48gpcO_a_pCmV8DyuKu-s2Ej12jYSUVw_vHbOGnOS8Tt5KhpfMvNoQZCnaQ46z6so4zX/s1600/1+a+made+in+naija+by+Innoson+Group+1.jpg" width="400" /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>Early this year, the newly selected National Chairman of the Peoples <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">Democratic Party</span>, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, described his party as master poachers. What he meant then is crystallizing: instigate (read bribe) troublemakers to pester the opposition, induce opposition members to cross over to the ruling party, and suborn state lawmakers to remove opposition governors and install PDP governors. The steamroller is on.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">It seems most strange that a government that has failed on all fronts and buffeted by terrorists is opening up more war fronts. Has it come to this? Has the destruction of Nigeria become state policy? </blockquote><div>This madness must stop...<a name='more'></a>POLIT</div><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a>The world should see the hand of tyranny in the impeachment of Adamawa State governor Murtala Nyako and the forced resignation of his deputy Bala James Ngilari yesterday. Only on Monday, the Nasarawa State House of Assembly began impeachment proceedings against Governor Tanko Al-Makura. Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole has been in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_1">line of fire</span> because some APC House members have been bought over and the minority PDP members are said to be dangling the impeachment threat. Rivers State governor Chibuike Amaechi knows that some of the state’s lawmakers are ganging up against him. Rochas Okorocha of Imo State is also facing a benign threat of impeachment. These five governors have one thing in common: they are APC members. There are fears that Kano, another APC state, may also have its governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, dragged to the execution range soon.<br /><br />Anyone who doubts the motive behind the destabilisation plot should consider that the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_24">governors</span> have six months to face the electorate again or about a year to leave <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_19">office</span> after <div data-cid="2378" data-kw="completing" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">completing</div>two terms. Which impeachment offences remained hidden for seven years but were discovered only towards the end of their tenure?<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">And why is it that vestiges of trouble only begin to emerge in non-PDP states after their governors <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_25">defect</span></span>? Is it a coincidence that terrorists <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_20">discover</span> a state only when its governor leaves the PDP and joins the opposition party? And why is it that whenever a scandal is about to be unearthed – like the missing $20billion and the chartered jet saga – terrorist activities intensify to divert the people’s attention? It is about time these questions are answered.<br /><br />But <span style="color: #cc0000;">those who seek to destroy Nigeria through non-tolerance of the opposition should read the handwriting on the wall of history</span>. There is no doubt that a good number of the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">evil people</span> that have held the nation hostage operate freely under the umbrella of the ruling party. It is the same <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">kind of people</span> that wrecked the First, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_2">Second and Third</span> republics. And, after the first round of elections in the Fourth Republic, they all found shelter under one umbrella, because they couldn’t play or stand opposition politics.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">The <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_18">Jonathan</span> government is jittery because a mega party that could defeat the PDP in next year’s elections has been formed</span>. Apparently unable to stop the wind of change and acting in desperation, the government has found a leeway by destroying everything and everyone associated with the APC.<br /><br />Left to the PDP government, there should be no elections in 2015. After eliminating all the APC governors and replacing them with PDP stooges, for instance, the coast would be clear for a repeat of the Ekiti “magic” in other states.<br /><br />Yet, there is nothing strange about what has happened in Adamawa, <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">what is happening</span> in Nasarawa and what could happen in Edo, Rivers, Imo and Kwara states. Party stalwarts are directed to dip their hands into nest-bags of money stolen from public funds; they gather members of a state assembly and haul scores of millions of naira on those willing to swear to an oath of trust. After Ghana-must-go bags have changed hands, it is time to gather impeachment offences.<br /><br />Can the lawmakers in Adamawa look the public straight in the eye and swear that the impeachment of Nyako was done in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">best interest</span> of the state; that it was an altruistic exercise?<br /><br />As the steamroller turns to Nasarawa, the lawmakers may find it convenient to argue that in a democracy the majority must have its way. But we know that their action is hardly in defence of democracy. Is there a relationship between the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_17">bond</span> that the Nasarawa State governor has raised and the impeachment threat? At a time of serious national crisis brought on by the incompetence of the Jonathan-led government, politicians must stop <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">playing with fire</span>. They must stop playing with the future of the country. The madness must stop.<br /><br />From the missing Chibok girls to the general insecurity in the country and from the unaccounted for $20billion to the troves of unattended reports on stolen funds, there’s more than enough serious work to be done. It beggars belief that at a time when the government should double-down on <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_22">retrieving</span> the country from the jaws of terrorists and thieves, it is very busy plotting to silence the opposition.<br /><br />And we must say that we are worried by the deafening silence of elder statesmen, who only on July 8, 2014, met Jonathan on the state of the nation. Their continuous silence not only emboldens this government it gives the impression that the unfolding tragedy carries their stamp of approval.<br /><br />It was Adamawa yesterday, Nasarawa today, where next? If we are serious about keeping this country together – as we believe we should – then it’s time to pay more than <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_13">lip service</span> to the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">ties that bind</span> us.<br /><br />We must stop the bull in the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_14">china shop</span> now, or risk losing the shop, the wares and the bull as well. We advise the Presidency and the PDP against starting another fire. Nobody knows how it will end.</div><div><br /><b>By Leadership Editors</b></div></div>

BIG TROUBLE: President Jonathan Playing With Serious Fire

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A MUST READ: Ugly Girls, Who Will Pay Your Bride Price?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjloOYOwMnhs_6RK9r6Pa3e7_f8FHXCP4h6zPypSZ73KmC4BFZ63f8qn4k9kqbdCmHdbf_riJF6Obfnc1EsIati1R8Xx1AW7W1MqQnavXTwxpS6cxG36uv79VFup4BdmVttY7qshJKAs0TD/s1600/JONATHAN+Dancing.jpg" /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <b>#Nigeria2015: Ugly Girls, Who Will Pay Your Bride Price?</b><br /> This is not a rumor, it’s been verified by numerous personal contacts who are current ‘opposition’ Party law makers in Nigeria. The ruling Party is paying out sums of at least N50 million to purchase any law maker they can, most especially in opposition states. Kwara, Edo, Rivers, Nasarawa and the like.<br /> <div> </div> <div> People are being bought for $380,000, one of the tallest sums ever widely offered to buy people. These are people being bought to help frustrate the opposition states and Party. Also, every sharp opposition Party youth who possibly does not have a spot in the highly competitive opposition is being offered sweet sums to be bought by the ruling Party and contest on their platform.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6589160015449763735" name="more"></a>POI<br /> <br /> There is a lot of money flowing around...</div> <div> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a></div> <div> At the rate of N50 million per head, just $1 billion of the missing $20-127 billion buys 2000! Of course some more stubborn lawmakers will be bought for larger sums, N100 million plus. That considered, 1-2 billion of the missing billions, or the amount Diezani still makes per year – as tolerated and permitted by our senators – from the kerosene subsidy scam, can buy over 1000 law makers and ‘opponents’ in different states.<br /> <br /> Those mentioned above, being bought for these delicious sums of stolen money, are the ‘fine girls.’ These are their bride prices. Notice the numbers quoted – 1000-2000 to be bought for sure. But who are the ‘ugly girls?’ You guessed right: me and you. Who will pay our bride price? Will we be offered $380,000 too? Of course not, the most they will use to try to get our hand in marriage will be a 10kg bag of branded rice. Intelligent and progressive people in Ekiti wouldn’t be bothered to waste their vote and thus with the billions to spare, the accused, indicted thief won. This is the risk Nigeria faces. To rescue and restore hope to Nigerian(s), we need a bigger commitment.<br /> <br /> So wetin we go do? Ugly girls, are we going to unite and harvest the collective wealth of our numbers? Over 168 million of us, versus the 2-3,000 max, total number of fine girls (senators, Reps, chiefs, authors and tabloids) who are buying and selling themselves with the ‘missing’ or as Bab-angida’s David Mark rebranded it, ‘unaccounted-for’ billions($)?<br /> <br /> Are we going to band together and coordinate ourselves behind some well known, tested and trusted open activist youth leaders and altruistic, idealistic patriots, the likes of Omojuwa, the Kuti’s, Oby Ezekwesili and Sowore or the progressive, fearless, incorruptible northern Sheikhs, the Gumi’s and Jingir’s, and work together on open web and social media platforms to defend our dignity and salvage our nation made up of great nations and kingdoms that deserve our nobility and sacrifice?<br /> <br /> If we band together we will be wealthier than those who stole and steal our billions and buy and sell each other. This is our only chance, any other thing and we will be fools forever in continuation of the the fools we have been for most of 53 years.<br /> <br /> Fellow ugly girls, do you remember 1993 and how we banded together and kicked out Bab-angida? How we prayed together 5 years later and Abacha died? Now we have those who celebrate Abacha and free his thieving, laundering children to empower them over us. We have those who gather us in millions in immigration job scams and kill us. We have those in power now who sponsor terror over us and leave our daughters at the mercy of ‘Shekau’ who they arm and give cover for in his convoy operations in which he uses our army vehicles they have given him on our own people. We have those who rather buy senators, or rather, sinators for hundreds of thousands of dollars, than spend a few hundred to assist with our nation’s security and with the securing the freedom and better life of our abducted daughters and their families. These are perilous times, the devil is awake all night and very busy plotting our death. Ugly girls, shall we band together or continue to perish?<br /> <br /> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Peregrino Brimah</span></b></div> </div>

A MUST READ: Ugly Girls, Who Will Pay Your Bride Price?

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EXPOSED: Jonathan's Secret Agenda Against 5 APC Governors

<img border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82dQ77BFrNL4Zt9xU94L0RBBC-pLINFzfyFbFaVlTzfTyezh6WqudtxkyGrLTj1GqweF-yDjFNdPs-mL2EWXhxDVLwRaP9UG_tuKFmnxkrCzQ4stf85RAjXJ40CDFMaw4pe3WRUayRcR_/s1600/jonathan-ny.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">The Presidency and PDP <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_9">leadership</span> have concluded that the only way President Goodluck Jonathan could make any appreciable impact against Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, if he emerges as the APC candidate, is for the government to use federal power to remove about 5 APC <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_4">governors</span> from office at all cost.<br /><br /><span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_6">Former</span> Minister of Federal Capital Territory and key member of the APC, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has revealed that the Presidency <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_3">indeed</span> orchestrated the impeachment of Governor Murtala Nyako.<br /><br />Fuming few minutes after the <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_11">news</span> of Nyako’s removal by the Adamawa State House of <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_10">Assembly</span> <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_7">filtered</span> in, El-Rufai stated that the development was capable of “endangering the nation.”<a name='more'></a><br /><br />Nasarawa, Edo, Borno and <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_12">Rivers</span> are next on the Jonathan <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_8">roadmap</span>...<br /><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a></div><div>Writing on his Facebook page on Tuesday, the former minister said the scheming by the Presidency to <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_5">deal</span> with the APC was not over. He said they have uncovered plots by the Presidency to perfect the impeachment of three more governors from the opposition party.<br /><br />He listed the governors as:</div><div>Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State; Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa.<br /><br />“Jonathan’s impunity is endangering the nation. Adamawa APC governor Murtala Nyako was impeached to pave the way for a PDP man to become governor. Nasarawa is next. Then, Rivers and Edo. And President Jonathan thinks that all will be well while he violates the constitution and the law. We will see how it all ends. We have been there before!” he wrote in a post on his Facebook page.<br /><br />A message on the official Twitter page of a former Kwara State Governor, Bukola Saraki, stated that with the impeachment of Nyako, it seemed as if Nigeria was “<span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_13">heading</span> towards a one-party state.”<br /><br />Also, Rukaiya, a native of Adamawa State and daughter of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, blamed the impeached governor, Nyako, for his travails. She described Nyako as being “the worst of them all”, adding that it was unfortunate that he could not “handle” the members of the state <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_14">legislature</span><br /><br />“Nyako could not handle the legislators in his own state, he was never a politician in the first instance. <span class="fb49g17e7067" id="fb49g17e7067_2">Good riddance</span> to bad rubbish! Nyako has really been the worst of them all!” Rukaiya wrote on her Twitter page.</div></div>

EXPOSED: Jonathan's Secret Agenda Against 5 APC Governors

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OMG!!:Female Student of Babcock University Killed In A Hotel In Lagos

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"> <br /></h3> <div class="post-header"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaydubbsUNPIORta8py7QZnZoeos8Hmy2zylqOpIkP-mYohdh9PPnIW3srFqEGZdfS5aA_JcnMigjI1d8PaPDzPoujgIjPmZyiVINin4PRoNb7f1ovlFwPBQ0ITRYktcrLPeQZMQ4ssANN/s1600/1+a+made+in+naija+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaydubbsUNPIORta8py7QZnZoeos8Hmy2zylqOpIkP-mYohdh9PPnIW3srFqEGZdfS5aA_JcnMigjI1d8PaPDzPoujgIjPmZyiVINin4PRoNb7f1ovlFwPBQ0ITRYktcrLPeQZMQ4ssANN/s1600/1+a+made+in+naija+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> A female undergraduate of Babcock University, Ms Busayo Ogunkoya, has been killed by one Azeez Ibrahim during a birthday party in a hotel in  the Ikorodu area of Lagos. Immediately the incident happened, there was confusion in the vicinity as many of the invited guests fled the hotel.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> A source who was present during the unfortunate incident disclosed that Ibrahim was drunk. He said that “the incident happened on Saturday night when Busayo and her friends were having a party. </blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> “<b>She did not know the person celebrating, but she was invited to the party by her boyfriend</b>. The party was going on fine until...</blockquote> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> "Ibrahim, the security man, who was holding a gun which he claimed he had seized from some robbers, mishandled the gun and fired a bullet which hit Busayo. The guard was said to be drunk.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6589160015449763735" name="more"></a></blockquote> <br /> According to Punch, the incident took place on Saturday evening, July 5, 2014, at Mambillah Hotel, when the guard fired a shot that killed Busayo. The bullet lodged in the neck region of the victim.<br /> <br /> She was rushed to a private hospital in the area where she was confirmed dead. Policemen from the Owutu Police Division were said to have arrived at the scene and arrested the guard, the assistant manager of the hotel and the victim’s boyfriend.<br /> <br /> Mambillah, which is one of the popular hotels in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, bore a gloomy look all through. A resident confided in Punch that since the tragedy, the hotel had been shut to guests and no music had been played during the daytime as was the practice.<br /> <br /> A large number of security officials was also said to have been deployed in the hotel to prevent attack from some aggrieved youths in the area.<br /> <br /> A young boy, who did not identify himself for security reason, said the incident left a bl*ody trail. He said, “On Sunday morning when I wanted to do something in the hotel, I noticed bl*od on the ground. I cannot say exactly how the incident happened, but I learnt a lady was killed the previous night.”<br /> <br /> Ibrahim, the guard who fired the killer shot, owned a house in Ikorodu. Punch spoke with one of his tenants, who pleaded anonymity for security reasons. The tenant described Ibrahim as a caring landlord who was only a victim of some “forces.”<br /> <br /> She said, “He is such a nice and caring landlord. I have been living in his house for a long time and he has never made any trouble with me. I know he is just a victim of some forces beyond his control. He could not have deliberately killed the girl and I hope the police authorities would have mercy on him.”<br /> <br /> When contacted, the manager of the hotel said he had nothing to say.<br /> <br /> The Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Lelma Kolle, an ASP, however, confirmed the incident. The case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, for investigation.</div> </div>

OMG!!:Female Student of Babcock University Killed In A Hotel In Lagos

A female undergraduate of Babcock University, Ms Busayo Ogunkoya, has been killed by one Azeez Ibrahim during a birthday party in a hotel in  the Ikorodu area of Lagos. Immediately the incident hap…

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Atlast Gov. Nyako Impeached By Adamawa Assembly

<br /><br /><img alt="Adamawa State Governor, Alhaji Muritala Nyako" class="attachment-bigstoryimage" height="225" src="http://www.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Adamawa-State-Governor-Alhaji-Muritala-Nyako-360x225.jpg" width="360" /><br /><br />Embattled Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, has been impeached.<br /><blockquote><br />The governor was removed a while ago as the state House of Assembly deliberated on the report of an investigative panel that probed allegations of financial misconducts against him.<br /><br />Earlier, the state Deputy Governor, Bala Ngilari, resigned from office to avoid being impeached.<br /><br />Mr. Ngilari’s resignation letter was read at plenary by the speaker of the Assembly, Umaru Fintiri, after which the lawmakers approved it.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />The House is sitting today to consider the report of the seven-member investigative panel, appointed to probe allegations of financial impropriety against the governor and his deputy.<br /><br />The committee submitted its report to the House on Monday.<br /><br />There is high security presence on the road leading to the Assembly and inside the complex.<br /><br />A source, who works with the Assembly, told PREMIUM TIMES only staff and journalists are being allowed access into the Assembly.<br /><br />The source requested not to be named because he had no permission to speak to journalists on the matter.<br /></blockquote> Source: TV Gotel<br /><br />Details later….

Atlast Gov. Nyako Impeached By Adamawa Assembly

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Unilorin 2014 Post UTME Form Is Out, See Screening-Instructions & Eligiblity Info

<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="unilorin Unilorin 2014 Post UTME Form Is Out, See Screening Instructions & Eligiblity Info" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-22117" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/unilorin.jpg?resize=288%2C337" title="Unilorin 2014 Post UTME Form Is Out, See Screening Instructions & Eligiblity Info" /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>1. The University of Ilorin invites all candidates who have applied for admission into the University as First Choice either through UTME or Direct Entry, to visit the University of Ilorin website, <a href="http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/" target="_blank"><strong>www.unilorin.edu.ng</strong></a>, for details of the procedure for the Pre- Admission Screening Exercise.<br /> <br />2. Registration for the Pre-admission screening will commence on <strong>Sunday 13th</strong> July and end <strong>Wednesday 23rd July</strong>, 2014.<br /> <br />3. The Pre-admission Screening Exercise is scheduled to take place from <strong>Monday, 21st</strong> to <strong>Saturday 26th</strong> July, 2014 using Computer Based Test (CBT) platform at Ilorin and Lagos Centres.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br />4. The deadline for the online registration is <strong>23rd July, 2014</strong>. However, candidates awaiting results but who have registered on or before <strong>23rd July</strong>, 2014 have the opportunity to submit their results online on or before <strong>15th August</strong>, 2014 when the portal will be closed.<br /> <br />5. <strong>2013/2014 Remedial Students</strong> should await further instructions for their registrations.<br /> <h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>ELIGIBILITY</strong></span></h3>Candidates must have:<br /> <br />> Scored a minimum of 180 marks in the 2014 UTME for all courses except those for which higher cut off marks have been specified on the University website;<br /> <br />> Made the University of Ilorin their first choice either at UTME or Direct Entry (DE) and;<br /> <br />> Obtained Five (5) Credits in relevant ‘O ’ Level subjects, at not more than two sittings except in MB;BS where only one sitting is acceptable.<br /> <br />Eligible candidates should visit the University website <a href="http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/" target="_blank"><strong>www.unilorin.edu.ng</strong></a> to complete their registration online. Assessing the University website through any of search engines may lead to redirection to other websites not associated with the University.<br /> <br />For further enquiries, candidates should contact <a href="http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/2014/07/14/unilorin-2014-post-utme-form-see-screening-instructions-eligiblity-info/preadmission2014@unilorin.edu.ng%20" target="_blank">preadmission2014@unilorin.edu.ng</a>.<br /> The University charges N1,000.00 (One thousand Naira) only for the CBT exercise and N2,000.00 (Two thousand Naira) only for the University processing fee.<br /> <br />Details on the step- by- step registration procedure are available on the University website <a href="http://www.unilorin.edu.ng/" target="_blank">www.unilorin.edu.ng</a>.<br /> <h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>NOTE</strong></span></h3>> Candidates for the pre-admission screening exercise are advised to be decently dressed. Candidates with indecent dressing will not be allowed into the screening premises<br /> <br />> Phones and all other forms of mobile communication, electronic devices, bags and luggage are not allowed within the screening premises.<br /> <br />> Only registered candidates for the screening exercise will be allowed into the screening premises.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><strong><a href="http://uilugportal.unilorin.edu.ng/putme_instruction.php" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO START REGISTRATION</a></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>E. D. Obafemi<br />Registrar<br />

Unilorin 2014 Post UTME Form Is Out, See Screening-Instructions & Eligiblity Info

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Mourinho Defends Messi’s World Cup Performance – See What He Said here

  <br /><img alt="Mourinho defends Messi Unbelievable!!! Mourinho Defends Messi’s World Cup Performance See What He Said" class="size-full wp-image-22133 aligncenter" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Mourinho-defends-Messi.jpg?resize=600%2C350" title="Unbelievable!!! Mourinho Defends Messi’s World Cup Performance See What He Said" /><br /><br /> It is not news that people have defended Lionel Messi’s subdued performances at the 2014 World Cup that ended on Sunday with Germany beating Argentina 1-0.<br /> But when the name of Messi’s defender is Jose Mourinho – then it is news.<br /> <br />Mourinho, who was an ESPN analyst in Brazil said: “He [Messi] sacrificed himself for the good of the team.<br /> “He was more focused on winning the tournament than being its best player. I saw him playing in areas of the pitch where he doesn’t usually play. “He dropped deep and picked up the ball a long way from the opposition’s goal.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /> <br />It is baffling because almost all of the Portuguese’s career, he has called Barcelona players actors and not shown them any respect at all.<br /> <br />“Messi has my utmost respect for what he did at the World Cup”, Mourinho added.<br /> “Playing football for your country is different to playing for your club. If he’d wanted to show just how good he is he’d have played tucked in behind HiguaIn, waiting for that moment to change the game,” he concluded.

Mourinho Defends Messi’s World Cup Performance – See What He Said here

  It is not news that people have defended Lionel Messi’s subdued performances at the 2014 World Cup that ended on Sunday with Germany beating Argentina 1-0. But when the name of Messi’s defender …

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The Nigerian Health Sector; Just Before The Waterloo

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /> </h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzSUF8HgngrNOY9h9V8huP93PvcswoNQwRmAfyZ1RvIDShLGliQDIiMaSLIhmBI_KUe8tY4kAnR4PrFew6Tn7ShLdJ1PhHiLzncFZG5ZHHky0a0YuWrwRqk7l_pCV6wGdV4OAwzDcikuEP/s1600/DOCTORS+STRIKE.jpg" width="400" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><b>By Dr. Tque Majolagbe</b><br />It’s been over two weeks now since the Nigerian Medical Association pulled her members away from work throughout the country making a lot of the common Nigerians groan under the agony of seeing their loved ones suffer from illnesses without getting proper care and some even loosing precious lives in the process. <br /><br />Much as many may feel that the worst has come, it is instructive that we take a critical look of the present predicament and understand that the worst is yet to come. Judging by the facts of the issues that has led to the present action of the NMA, it is clear to me that if urgent and decisive steps are not taken then the Nigerian Health sector is just about to meet its waterloo.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />No doubt NMA and her doctors have received the worst bashing from the general public; which has been fueled by the support of the Union of the Joint health workers under the aegis of an amorphous body called JOHESU. This situation is so because people lack dept into the issues that has caused the present action of the doctors and of course the fact that they cannot phantom why the doctors would appear so callous as to abandon their patients.<br /><br />If we must avoid impending doom it is imperative that we take a critical impartial analysis of the present issues, so that we can take decisive steps to avoid the worst coming to being...<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a><br />Rather than just always criticize the doctors for withdrawing services, it is better to first understand the issues dispassionately; next we can then query the decision of the doctors to have taken withdrawal of service as the option to pursue their agitation.<br /><br />For all those who have good knowledge of the goings-on in the health sector of Nigeria, it would be clear that whatever crisis we are witnessing now is a result of conflict that has long bedeviled the sector and has been brewing for over two decades ago.<br /><br />Without prejudice to any of the disputing sides, i make bold to say that health service requires the collaborative efforts of various professionals and other allied workers whose only goal is to come to a positive outcome of patient care. Every part of this whole has its integral role that it plays and one part may not claim superiority over the others.<br /><br />However, in any scenario where we have different people coming together to achieve a single goal, there must be direction and this direction must be provided by leadership. The problem in the Nigerian health sector is that leadership has been misconstrued as superiority and as noted earlier, this problem has been on for decades. I also make bold to say that both sides are guilty of this misnomer.<br /><br />Much as we try to have a clear understanding of the distinction between leadership and superiority, we must however also have a clear mind as to who to Captain the ship. It is commonsensical that only one captain is needed to direct this Ship, and anything other than that leads to chaos; which is exactly what we must avoid.<br /><br />It is also commonsensical that the best person to captain the ship is the most knowledgeable person about the entire process and without doubt that positions falls to the doctor. That the doctor is the one with the most knowledge of the patient is what the other health professionals find discordant to their ears and this has been the bane of the long standing conflict. But no one gets annoyed or argue when the lawyer says that he is the only learned person. Why should this concept be a problem within the health sector.<br /><br />The common man may however find it petty that such issues should be taken so seriously by the doctors and more so resulting in such serious action as withdrawal of services. I must however paint the full implication of the issues as it affects the medical profession and ultimately how it affects the care of the patients too.<br /><br />What the other health workers are asking for is not just a name, but to use and be accorded what is due to the term consultant. Other than that they also believe that it is their right to also head the health team. (Using the term health team gives a clearer implication of this request.)<br /><br />Let us all be clear that the term consultant may refer simply to an advisory role between a professional and its client. Within the hospital setting however this is not so. The term consultant refers to a specific role which describes a relationship between a patient and a physician who has <div data-cid="2378" data-kw="completed" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">completed</div>his specialization in a particular part of medicine. It is a position of responsibility as well as authority.<br /><br />The implication is that if a doctor does not become a specialist, irrespective of many years of practice or getting to the highest position in service, it still does not confer on him the title consultant. What do we then make of a Nurse or pharmacist who wants to attain the same status. It has been believed that because these other health workers now pursue postgraduate degrees up to attaining a PhD it is therefore expected that it is okay for them to receive such status. But pursuing an academic career is completely different from specialization. Even a medical doctor who decided to attain a PhD does not get the title consultant.<br /><br />The implication of having other health workers attain the status and role of consultant is that it provides more than one captain to direct the ship. For instance the consultant pharmacist may believe that he is a specialist in the field of drugs and therefore may decide on what drug a patient may or may not be given. Everyone else including nurses and laboratory scientist may decide on themselves what they want or do not want for the patient. There exists no other word for this other than chaos!!<br /><br />How would a patient get well with conflicting orders? Indeed who would be ready to get on board a ship with more than one captain. Well I wouldn’t, even if the ride is for free. Let it be clear that the scenarios painted above are not just suppositions, they are realities that already exist even before the conferment of this title. The doctors have however been able to save the situations in the past by referring the other team members to their specific roles and responsibilities. Now that the title has been conferred on other health workers it has been impossible to get proper direction for patients’ care in places where this happened and patients have been at the receiving end of it all.<br /><br />With respect to the issue of headship, a clear distinction must be made between the head of administration of a hospital and the Chief Operating Officer. The position of the head of administration of the hospital has been occupied by people other than medical doctors. The NMA has no issue with anyone with the requisite skills to occupy that position. But when it comes to the chief operation officer of the hospital; by whatever name it is called, Medical Director, CMD, CEO of CFO, that position we maintain should be headed by a Medical doctor.<br /><br />This is a position of high responsibility and one in which the officer has to make judgment call that is not based on just administrative matters but that is based on the clinical responsibility of the hospital. We must have at the back of us our minds that the goal of the hospital is patient centered. It is ONLY (note emphasis) the doctor that has the COMPLETE knowledge of the patient and can take most responsibility regarding patient care. It is therefore a desideratum that the doctor only can occupy this position in other to deliver on the expected goal of the hospital and health systems.<br /><br />One cannot but be puzzled and amazed at the rate at which other health workers have jostled for the top post. These are people who are indeed very protective of their position and roles. Would the pharmacist allow the pharmacy department to he headed by a pharmacy technician? Would the laboratory scientist prefer to take instruction form the technicians? We know the answer to these questions. I also know as a matter of fact that there is a law in this country that bars non radiographers from using radiological equipments even the technician within that department is not allowed.<br /><br />It is dismal that while these group of health officials are highly engaged in professional territorial protection, they are also agitating for the job, authority and responsibility of the doctor. This and the chaos that may arise from it is what the doctors are protecting for engaging in the current industrial action.<br /><br />Haven understood the basis of the industrial disharmony one must still ponder why the option of withdrawal of services has been taken by the doctors; especially when the grave consequences are well known.<br /><br />In any reasonable society doctors are not to be allowed to go on strike under whatever condition. The onus however is not left to the doctors alone but also to the government and the general public. We must remember that the doctors are also a part of the society and become subjected to the same factors affecting everyone. The physician oath indeed recognizes this fact and provides that a physician should be well treated by the society as long as he plays the role of dedicating his time to patients care.<br /><br />While one cannot take away the option of the doctors to agitating for their well being amongst other things, it is a terrible thing for doctors to withdraw services especially in a large scale. I believe that other methods must be available for the NMA to pursue its demands. We know that dialogue do fail but even when pushed to the wall the option of strike is very grave.<br /><br />The organized labor NLC, TUC, etc and civil society groups should rather come to the aid of the doctors and serve as pressure groups to pursue the clear demands and aspirations of the doctors. But what would you have NMA do when those who we believe are supposed to be the intercessors are the ones who actually worked against the NMA.<br /><br />As a matter of fact, while JOHESU had gone on strike a couple of times over this issue in the last one year, NMA has averted the same course by postponing an industrial action at least four times last year alone. NMA had continued to embrace the part of dialogue to pursue its demands. The game changer was the point when the Nigerian Labour Congress teamed up with the other health workers and threatened the federal government to sign the agreement with JOHESU even without prior fair hearing from NMA.<br /><br />With the Federal government haven signed an agreement with JOHESU which is the complete reverse of the understanding with the doctors, NMA is left with no other choice than to take her destiny into her own hands. This is the reason for the current action of NMA and I sincerely await a dispassionate suggestion as to what other methods NMA could have adopted. The ultimatum given to the Federal government was a public document which was put on the pages of the news paper, Nigerians; including the civil society group did not deem it wise to intercede during that time frame and we all allowed the NMA to proceed on the withdrawal of services.<br /><br />We all have a blame in this. The NLC, TUC and civil society groups have failed the country. We do not just claim to be a sane society without living up to such responsibilities. Up till today members of the civil society groups have not deem it fit to come into this present imbroglio.<br /><br />As noted earlier, worse times are coming. How do we expect to achieve the team spirit with so much passion and acrimony. This is only a forbearer to unending disharmony. There is no team that can deliver without harmony, and there is no way the health sector can deliver on its goals without a team spirit. We must not wait to get to the end of the line. We must all act fast and decisively to forestall this grave consequence.<br /><br />In other to move forward, the government must first find a way for the NMA to suspend its industrial action. One way is to ask that the whole team return to status quo ante. It is clear that only in settled waters do things mirror themselves, undistorted. Only in settled waters can we find a lasting solution to the problem at hand. No half measures.<br /><br />The NMA as the rightful leader of the health sector must understand what leadership truly confers. It is a responsibility not only to the doctors but to everyone within the health sector. This is a role NMA has not truly delivered over the years. Only when the NMA assume this rightful responsibility can the other members of the team be ready to follow her leadership.<br /><br />NMA and other health workers must come to a round table with a no winner no vanquish spirit. Together they can plot a future for the health system of this country. A future that cater for the needs and responsibilities of every member of the team, a future that is patient centered, geared towards improving quality in health care and elevation of the various professionals and allied groups within the health workforce.<br /><br />This is the only dream that is truly positive. The only vision that can be pursued and lead to a positive future. Lets all swallow our pride and act wisely. Posterity be our judge.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Tque Majolagbe</span></b>

The Nigerian Health Sector; Just Before The Waterloo

  By Dr. Tque MajolagbeIt’s been over two weeks now since the Nigerian Medical Association pulled her members away from work throughout the country making a lot of the common Nigerians groan under…

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GBAM : This Is The Solution To The Madness---- Boko Haram

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZRNkY59onUC0RRySVd3Db2WTAAviDCdr86CUkUnHr1A2Q16zTZgIlnwSvpmaj0_5KEeGaE6NzZgSLfH_TknUaPk2CaLUuHmLjhAdNIZoRqWx3C8UQxtwwNDz0iuTgQ4GxtSzXeUgm99t/s1600/1+a+made+in+naija+1A.jpg" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><b>Terror: Arrest them or Arrest Anyone That Accuses Them, We’ve had Enough!</b><br />We are tired of hearing it. The world is tired of hearing this same pathetic song – that some elements against the current (in a series of many minority president’s Nigeria has had) ruler’s administration are behind Boko Haram terror. For God sake, enough already! Minister of (dis)information, Labran Maku repeated this pathetic narrative again this weekend.<br /><div></div><div>Since Abuja was bombed by MEND (as they admitted to ‘under directive to do so from Goodluck Jonathan, to accuse his opponents as a means to political victory’) in 2010, the presidency has concocted, encouraged and patronized terror as a means of political smearing and survival. It has been five harrowing years of this same song; will this ever get phased out like cassettes? <a name='more'></a><br /><br />Dear presidency, do you realize that it is your duty to arrest these so-called, anti-Jo terror elements? </div><div>You have had five years to do so, do you require more time to arrest a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_8">single</span> of these phantom elements who ‘continue to bomb and destroy us to bring you down?’ <span style="color: #cc0000;">Not one single one of them have you arrested, yet you do not know that it is to your shame that you keep repeating this lame <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_12">accusation</span> that these well known individuals are behind Boko Haram, yet with the 25% of the nation’s <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_11">budget</span> now allocated to supposedly combat terror and five years you have had, you cannot track their phones and spy on them to get a single ounce of credible evidence to arrest and disgrace them</span>? </div><div><br />Do you think we are a nation of drop-<span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_15">outs</span> and sophomoric’s?</div><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a></div><div>Where such retarded excuse can continue to be played and re-played, as you continue to permit and tolerate terror and a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_7">terrorist organization</span> that utilizes vehicles and ammunitions from the nation’s military – under your command – to terrorize the poor of Nigeria’s north? The only incontrovertible sponsors of Boko Haram today are the nation’s army under your minister of defense, office of <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_4"><div data-cid="2378" data-kw="national security" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">National Security</div></span>, oNSA, chief’s of the army and your <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_2">executive office</span>, who give Boko Haram the nation’s weapons, tanks, APC’s and $20 billion in fund reserves and provide them helicopter and air force jet cover to drive freely in 40 car convoy’s devastate local farming communities of the north for hours on end, displacing the third largest number in recent recorded history (3+million) while never being able to check their reign of limitless kidnapping, incendiarism, and extermination. <br /><br />Do you think that any other civilized or uncivilized nation on earth other than Nigeria the world BS capital you have made it, would tolerate this senseless excuse more than once with no follow-up <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_3">security service</span> arrest of the’ implicated’ individuals… talk less tolerate the rubbish for five full years? If it is Buhari, arrest him, if it is Tinubu, arrest him. Do you think we do not know that when Buhari dragged your behind to court, your spokesperson, Reuben Abati who first manufactured and launched this puerile libelous, lame excuse, was forced to apologize and together with Guardian where his demonic concoction was published, published an apology to Buhari’s person in the Guardian of Thursday 11th July, 2013, captioned ‘Re: For the attention of General Buhari?’ <br /><br />You are lucky the opposition ‘officials’ in Nigeria are nearly as hopeless as you, else you would have been in local and <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_5">international court</span> along with all your friends who keep terrorizing Nigeria with this garbage every day for the past five years. Arrest them or forever zip it. And if you want to know people, terrorist candidates with clear evidence who should be arrested already, look beside you at Abba Moro, the self confessed agent of Satan, who terrorized millions of your youths and killed two dozen. Why is he still walking free rather than in jail, and worse yet, still at the head of our ministry? And your beloved Bamanga Tukur, who openly promoted Boko Haram, stating that the sect was fighting for; your justice; and ‘another name for justice;’ why is he still free and employed by you to head the Nigerian Railway corporation? </div><div></div><div>To plant bombs in the tracks? And return al Mustapha to the jail you dug him out of. Now, these are real terrorists with open evidence against them. The only enemy you have is yourself. After all, when Boko Haram disturbed Yar’Adua, he dealt with them, no bickering, while simultaneously <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_14">dealing</span> with MEND. We are tired of a death riddled insane society. Do your <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_10">job</span>, stop <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_1">aiding and abetting</span> Boko Haram, stop financing them and giving them ammunition, arms and aerial cover to continue their genocide in the north, and please and please, put a ban on dim-witted excuses for Boko Haram from your friends. </div><div></div>It is not <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_13">selling</span>. We have had enough, seriously! We need some element of sanity and decency in this society, <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_9">haba</span>. Na from where this one waka come? <br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Peregrino Brimah</span></b>

GBAM : This Is The Solution To The Madness---- Boko Haram

   Terror: Arrest them or Arrest Anyone That Accuses Them, We’ve had Enough!We are tired of hearing it. The world is tired of hearing this same pathetic song – that some elements against the current…

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A MUST READ: Here's What The PDP Is Fighting Hard To Do To The APC

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /> </h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-DXH6CunVbaw3Y1WTjzE9DHgfCIoaAHG7QeLZo0rBB3_nRowIvnOTEsYa7UiVwpIlRMe7EdX8onRgKxl2H8VXzN3FFnEH-aXkgU3whFeEGiuQBcXS_oo4KbWzWxvXisPzagN8etqaIPH/s1600/APC+1.jpg" width="400" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div><b>APC: Giving A Dog A Bad Name, by Joe Igbokwe</b></div>In the cause of the presidential <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_21">campaigns</span> in 1992/1993 the handlers of Alhaji Bashir Tofa, the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_4">Presidential candidate</span> of the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_1">National Republican Convention</span>, NRC knew very well that Tofa was no match to Chief MKO Abiola, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP. These obvious and painful self-evident truths gave them goose pimples. At every angle the organization was dazed with the weighty and heavy credentials of Chief MKO Abiola. In every issue, Tofa could not get it and had no answer to any question thrown to him. Devastation, embarrassment and confusion hit the organization and there was no solution in sight. Suddenly an idea came to the campaign organization.<br /><br /><b> What did the campaign organization headed by Dr Doyin Okupe do? </b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">They told themselves that since they cannot match Abiola’s moving train on capacity, experience, boldness, wealth, education, character, charisma, local, national and international connections, intelligence, common sense etc the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_8">best thing</span> to do is to try as much as possible to pull down Chief MKO Abiola by any means possible from his towering height to Tofa’s Lilliputian level.<a name='more'></a></blockquote><div><b>But did they succeed?</b></div><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a></div><div>They never did. It was an <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_12">exercise</span> in futility, all noise and no substance, a tale told by some nitwits full of <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_2">sound and fury</span>, signifying nothing. Chief MKO Abiola won a land slide victory.<br /><br />22 years after, history is repeating itself in Nigeria. The All Progressives Congress, APC was formed last year to challenge the ruling Party PDP whose leaders had claimed that it will rule Nigeria for 60years. Realizing that if nothing tangible is done to stop Nigeria from becoming a one party state and consequently turning into a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_10">full blown</span> dictatorship, the ANPP, ACN, CPC and a faction of APGA came together to form APC after an excruciating and daunting exercise. Nigerians are living witnesses of how these legacy parties walked through the mines, drilled the deepest well, bite bullets, and faced many battles with bruises and pains to achieve this feat. From when the idea was mooted till when it held its successful national convention last month, the PDP and its supporters manufactured, sold and cultivated the notion that the APC will never come to be. To their chagrin, at every turn, the APC walks away intact, growing from strength to strength and buoyed each day by the support of Nigerians who are frustrated that in sixteen years of misrule. </div><div></div><div>PDP has ruled Nigeria for 16 awful years and what better report of its stewardship than that life has practically screeched to a halt as nothing works in a country of estimated 160 million which <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_7">international economic</span> experts project will have the largest number of poor people in 2015. Yes, Nigeria is being projected to have more poor people than India, with 1.1 billion people and China, with 1.3 billion people! These are the three top nations habouring the largest number of poor people globally. You can understand with China and India, with their over one billion people, but with Nigeria? It is a shame! This was the PDP legacy that informed the birth of APC.<br /><br />Despite the doomsday prophecies and wishes of the PDP and its supporters, APC was registered as a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_9">political Party</span> and it immediately became the biggest opposition party in Nigeria. Few months after registration some governors moved from PDP to APC and instantly took control of 16 states in Nigeria and PDP was left with 18 states. For a party that once controlled 33 states but now tentatively holding to 18 states, it was a real and potent danger and it had to fight back by every dirty means at its disposal. This is the straw that broke the camel’s back. Anxiety, panic, confusion, fear gripped PDP right, left and centre. Not knowing how to deal with the enormity of the challenges facing them and the imminent danger of collapse of the party the leaders of the party including President Dr Goodluck Jonathan have resorted to blackmail, intimidation, subterfuge, harassment, religious politics, propaganda, bribery, influence peddling, and <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_6">name calling</span>.<br /><br />First they said APC is made up of failed politicians and rascals. When APC began to wax stronger despite their gambit and lies, they started insinuating that APC has links with Boko Haram. Infact, they claim that APC is funding Boko Haram. Soon and in their own very eyes they tagged APC a Boko Haram party. Now this is the greatest danger. If you tell a lies a thousand times, some ignorant people will begin to see it as true. Now these lies must stop.<br /><br />Let us start with the history of kidnapping and hostage taking in Nigeria. It all started when PDP governors in the Niger <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_16">Delta</span> started arming gangs and cults to steal elections for them. After election, these gangsters used the guns to start a ferocious act of insecurity that blossomed into general insecurity that has crippled many states in Nigeria today.<br /><br />On Boko Haram, let us recall it started during the tenure of late President Yar’Adua when PDP boasted of having an unlimited control of the country with a vast number of states in its control. Then, there was no APC and PDP rumbled from one end of the country to another. As this became worrisome, Yar’Adua rounded up the leader of Boko Haram and killed and this led to a declaration of war by Boko Haram. Because Jonathan and his handlers believed that it can con sympathy from Nigerians, it did nothing and allowed Boko Haram to overwhelm the country’s <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_19">security</span>. Meanwhile, Nigerians still recall the advent of bombing in Abuja when an <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_11">Independence Day</span> bomb incidence shattered the peace of Abuja. Jonathan and his handlers, playing desperately to its deadly politics of benefitting from the woes of the country, blamed it on its opponents, even when MEND claimed responsibility for the incidence. Later, Raymond Dokpesi was alleged to be behind the bombing. Today, Nigerians still ask what happened to the investigation on that incidence or had it been buried in PDP’s deep labyrinth of conspiracy?<br /><br />The late General Azazi, <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_20">former</span> <div data-cid="2378" data-kw="national security" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">National Security</div>Adviser to the president told Nigerians at the beginning that Boko Haram was a product of PDP’s infighting and struggle for political <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_18">office</span> and supremacy. As the National Security Adviser and a kinsman of Jonathan and a retired five star General, the late Azazi knew his terrain and domain very well. He understood the game very well, he was familiar with this kind of movements and struggles, he understood the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_15">job</span> and he had information from above and below. So when he said that Boko Haram was a product of PDP’s craze for <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_14">power</span> was that accusation investigated? Did anybody take him serious? Was he given the chance to prove his case? No they did not. They sacked him as NSA and the man eventually died under questionable circumstances in a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_3">plane crash</span>.<br /><br />Have we recalled that Senator Ali Ndume a PDP senator was once quizzed for Boko Haram allegations and he swore to an affidavit that Vice President Namadi Sambo approved his contacts with Boko Haram. Pray what had a government that steals trillions of Naira every year on the guise of security votes but which believes that its opponents must carry its cross, do about this grievous allegation?<br /><br />We have seen this type of game plan before in the days of the locust. The late General Abacha threw bombs in Lagos and went ahead to arrest the Yoruba leaders and accused them of being responsible for the crime. When Alhaja Kudirat Abiola was murdered also by Abacha agents of death, the same Abacha gave orders that some prominent Yoruba leaders for the heinous crime. This is the way of dictators all over the world.<br /><br />The man died and so were his findings and reports. APC offered solutions but was ignored by the powers that be. Today a party that went through many troubles to be where it is now is being given a bad name in order to destroy it, and some Nigerians are ignorantly buying the idea hook, line and sinker. Initially when Boko Haram was targeting Churches, motor parks, government buildings many Nigerians including this writer thought the war was targeted on Southerners and Christians only until they started attacking everybody including their own brothers, sisters, school girls and even some traditional leaders in the North. Right now, nobody is safe anywhere in Nigeria. Everybody, every institution, every market, every school is now a target.<br /><br />Boko Haram is no longer a threat to Northern Nigeria only; it is now a threat to Nigeria. It is no longer a Northern affair because nobody is safe. To me I think it is now a global scourge. They came to Mali and France forced them out. They are in Kenya, they are in Cameroun etc. But what do the government ran by PDP do in the face of this ruinous threat on the entire Nigerian polity? It signs off trillions of Naira as security votes every year and makes a song of its opponents sponsoring Boko Haram. As a party in government, the onus falls on PDP to prove its case but it is not doing so because they want these to remain fables to be used to shore up their politics after failing woefully in governance. For a party that met 40 million <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_13">poor</span> people in 1999 and has grown the figure to 130 million (World Bank statistics), it is right and fitting to use Boko Haram to tarnish its opponents and rip off Nigerians with continued stay in power.<br /><br />I think APC leaders must roll-up their sleeves as it did when the legacy parties came together. They must fight as they did before the registration of the great party. <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_17">Yes</span> APC must fight back and those who know must also stand up to be counted. If APC and well informed Nigerians allow PDP to continue to sell this bad news to Nigeria and the world, then the real danger is here.<br /><br />The world must know also that President Goodluck Jonathan has not helped matters in the fight against Boko Haram. He spends more time in the Churches these days as if he is a president of Christians in Nigeria only. This is dangerous. He is the president of 150million Nigerians. He and his party have polarized Nigerians so badly along religious lines and this continues to conflate the Boko Haram crisis. Mr. President controls the Army, Navy, Police, Airforce, DMI, SSS, NDLEA, Mobile Police etc. but APC control nothing. Now if APC funds Boko Haram and the President and PDP that control all the machineries of law enforcement agencies cannot discover Boko Haram base and who are behind them, then something is wrong. </div><div></div><div>APC has invited the world to investigate Boko Haram activities and their sponsors in order to put to rest these allegations. We have called on credible international investigative agencies to dip deep and unravel the real sponsors of Boko Haram for the world to see that the suspicion that PDP is responsible for the origin of Boko Haram and tactically contributes to its present intractable nature because in its thinking, it will help its very bad electoral standing and it will give them enough grounds to continue pillaging security funds as we have seen in Nigeria today. </div><div></div><div>This is the way to go, and Nigerians need this investigation to unravel the misery of Boko Haram. We expect the PDP to take up this challenge and join us to call for credible international probe of Boko Haram origin, sponsors and sources of strength.</div></div>

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Jonathan Gets PDP Reps Members Endorsement For 2015; Speaker Tambuwal Absent

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /> </h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNe0CPjDSbWF_F-2Ge7lUdb6K_5eSsw2L7WGEPL_cHl2852TKkBakV_LKTQB28SR_RJquTAhFSGaLNKzM20OpIkofWK7kGrAjFeHR4i7UdfYWpfEQzbBBjwmLDunZO08-GIlk13GztCYF/s1600/jonadolf.jpg" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_14">Peoples</span> <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_6">Democratic Party</span> caucus in the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_1">House of Representatives</span> on Monday passed a vote-of-confidence in President Goodluck Jonathan. The lawmakers also endorsed him for second term in office come 2015.<br /><br />House Leader, Mrs. Mulikat Adeola-Akande, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting they had with <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_11">Jonathan</span> and some state governors elected on the party’s platform.<br /><br /><span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_10">Speaker</span> of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, was however absent at the meeting attended by his Deputy, Emeka Ihedioha.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />Adeola-Akande said, “We are PDP caucus of the House of Representatives. A meeting like this is not strange because we met with the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_17">President</span> who is our <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_8">party leader</span>. We deliberated on issues affecting our party. The House caucus on our own decided to pass a vote-of-confidence in Mr. President and also endorse him for <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_2">second term</span>.”<br /><br />When asked whether President Jonathan <div data-cid="2378" data-kw="accepted" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">accepted</div>the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_12">endorsement</span>, she said:<br /><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a><div>“We did the endorsement and we are urging him to run for second term.” Asked why Tambuwal was not at the meeting, the House Leader said the Speaker should speak for himself.<br /><br />“I am sure when you see Mr. Speaker, you will ask him, this is a PDP meeting, <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_13">obviously</span> he will have his reasons why he was not at the meeting,” she said.<br /><br />She said <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_4">security issues</span> were also discussed at the meeting and the government was commended for efforts to restore peace to parts of the country.<br /><br />The meeting started at 9:50pm with the arrival of the President at the new <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_5">Banquet Hall</span> of the Presidential Villa, Abuja venue of the meeting. Some senators who earlier turned up for the meeting were turned back. </div><div></div><div>Members of both <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_15">chambers</span> of the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_9">National Assembly</span> had earlier been conveyed to the venue of the meeting in Coaster buses.<br /><br />President of the Senate, <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_3">David Mark</span>, led his colleagues to the meeting before they left. Senator Hosea Agboola told Punch that senators were invited to the meeting in error, hence, the need for them to leave the venue shortly before the meeting started.</div></div></div>

Jonathan Gets PDP Reps Members Endorsement For 2015; Speaker Tambuwal Absent

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Bible Society of Nigeria Honours Bishop Chris Kwakpovwe

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></h3><div class="post-header"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjtW431WKLCAV0Pf43tTQSK2NEgs8TElOdb-HAuhUoXldlJtfbcZtVgLI2_NUmycqjvS6BaiBDzf19z4i02ORd70Ehyon_FyP9cIcdl5iJYvTwOaS5aPTRegvW40eqv2TYuLLJ0MTXktQ/s1600/bishop+Dr+Chris+Pix.jpg" width="400" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b><i>...As HE Plans JULY SPECIAL MID-YEAR WORLDWIDE ANOINTING SERVICE!</i></b><br /><span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_9">BISHOP</span> (DR.) CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE, the General Overseer of the Manna Prayer Mountain, and the publisher of Our Daily Manna <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_6">Christian devotional</span> book has been honored with an award for excellence, just as he plans a mid-year world-wide convention this July 2014.<br /><br />The <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_2">Bible Society</span> of Nigeria (BSN) award is in recognition of his exemplary and invaluable contributions to the development and support for Bible Society of Nigeria Lagos Area 1 and the establishment of the word of God.<br /><a name='more'></a> </div><div><br /><span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_11">Speaking</span> at the 4th Membership Day 2014, BSN said the honor was in recognition of Bishop Kwakpovwe’s “outstanding prowess as a devoted and committed <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_10">fishers</span> of men, uncommon philanthropist and refreshingly different innovator”. <br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a><br />“Over the years, our Daily Manna on one hand, and Bishop Dr Chris Kwakpovwe, the founder on the other, have sparkled immensely in terms of life-changing <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_4">daily devotional</span> write-ups and amazing conventions and programmes, uncommon <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_1">Corporate Social Responsibility</span>, and exemplary management methods.” The organizing committee said, “We are proud to honor this creative icon and visionary leader with this well-deserved award.”</div><div><br /><span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_8">Indeed</span>, our Daily Manna, from the little acorn it was many years ago, flourished into a mighty oak, with tentacles in different languages and nations. </div><div><br />Coincidentally, the very creative Preacher/Publisher, Bishop Dr. Chris Kwakpovwe, is planning ahead of the July Worldwide anointing service which will have lots of <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_14">international</span> men of God coming from virtually all the corners of the universe as guests. </div><div><br />The convention <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_7">programme</span>, with the theme; LORD, Change My Name is Organized by the Manna Prayer Mountain, an inter-denominational ministry at Orioke-Ogudu Lagos, holds on Saturday July 19, 2014, 7.30 am. You can log in for the LIVE SERVICE ON: www.ourdailymannaonline.org/live.html<br />Bishop (Dr.) Chris Kwakpovwe, assures that the service would usher <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_12">participants</span> into breakthrough and greatness.</div><div><br />He added that there would be <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_13">salvation</span>, healings, deliverance and miracles on <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_5">that day</span> by the God he calls: "JEHOVAH OVER-DO."</div></div>

Bible Society of Nigeria Honours Bishop Chris Kwakpovwe

 ...As HE Plans JULY SPECIAL MID-YEAR WORLDWIDE ANOINTING SERVICE!BISHOP (DR.) CHRIS E. KWAKPOVWE, the General Overseer of the Manna Prayer Mountain, and the publisher of Our Daily Manna Christian dev…

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Another APC Governor Faces Impeachment In Nasarawa State

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /></h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFUALQ8XPdPwUISo2yDleYCDdNy7p6DK2vbTQVDVvCILY4-oZhuoeiZV6f9BsoX1z_97K8XOgZyXEjDTwAZeYb1eyf9e2G7AyABOisawEdNcZ5OeyBHSa_XoshnCfWVrNKW1EHmGqhBTkP/s1600/Governor+Al+Makura.jpg" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>It seems the only way for President Goodluck Jonathan to make impact in the 2015 <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_3">presidential election</span> is for the PDP to take some states from APC which currently controls the 4 most populous states in Nigeria and the Presidency and its agents are doing everything possible to achieve this agenda.<br /><div></div><div>While the PDP-<span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_14">controlled</span> Adamawa State House of <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_9">Assembly</span> is working to impeach Gov Murtala Nyako, the Nasarawa State House of Assembly controlled by the same PDP has also commenced impeachment moves against the state <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_6">governor</span>, Umaru Al-Makura.<a name='more'></a><br /><div><blockquote class="tr_bq">The Assembly on Monday directed its Clerk‎, Ego Maikeffi, to serve Mr. Al-Makura with the impeachment notice for <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_10">alleged</span> <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_4">gross misconduct</span> and <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_1">misappropriation of funds</span>. The notice was signed by 20 of the 24 lawmakers in the state during a sitting presided over by the Speaker, Ahmed Mohammed.</blockquote>The 16-count charge <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_11">borders</span> on alleged extra-<span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_8">budgetary</span> <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_7">expenses</span> by the governor...</div><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a>Nasarawa has 20 PDP lawmakers and 4 APC lawmakers. The state governor is a member of the APC.<br /><br />The notice of impeachment was agreed few hours before the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to the state to <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_12">commission</span> a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_5">rice</span> farm in Doma. The political atmosphere in the state is combustible.</div></div></div>

Another APC Governor Faces Impeachment In Nasarawa State

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PHOTOS: President Jonathan Welcomes Malala In Aso Rock

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /> </h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTXL95Tjn7XyMcyR77a8lud-15FnQC2jmv8cplL9xJdE0nLhmYYluUzdPLd88iYA42CsoqGxQAUKOPW71SarOmgArJ1AsrZY4Eqa6chU6J9VTXGnRmVhXAFgwlGR3SP_u4eqSYmp5Gita/s1600/MALALA+1.jpg" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>The 17yrs old girl rights activities met with President Jonathan over the plight of the Chibok girls. More pix...<a name='more'></a><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwvJlzm-Y1t81L_duz3BAh0kXX6KT2u7Lhxm6KbWTC3WscLCg2cpxCVNxpZxqfEjGelGhC_0KFnypgK4i4hZw8mDGNvpbQOTiwrMcjjTqpiaFImK673l_7rXfjt7PRF7ofvCpAPLwLDTty/s1600/MALALA+2.jpg" width="400" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh52k8LWqIIL7umEOfIzQPbDCUeKemC6jCgt8dea0xMuQvyYaiV8nq3RHkbM71X2lmRdgr2jDm9sTZdKJ07dFKwnZSl0ZT7AuFXjfTLlbtAqvLc2Hh31zAmCBnJHwBTRSPijJydg91LJQi/s1600/MALALA+3.PNG" width="400" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtlS6j52l99xfXEIoXDr7p6UJdpBMzlDlj8gsYLBG5z2zIioyHUHoZTrdYWg1QjaQjkj-dGMJGsBWg4zey-dRUzEMntBUxIJNQUS6AKqt8NMJkva9ysQp38M5rtkyvY5WDrJtz8CG51pSo/s1600/MALALA+4.jpg" width="400" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...Malala also donated $200,000 for the kidnapped girls.</div></div>

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PHOTOS: President Jonathan Welcomes Malala In Aso Rock

   The 17yrs old girl rights activities met with President Jonathan over the plight of the Chibok girls. More pix...      ...Malala also donated $200,000 for the kidnapped girls.…

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I Bombed Lagos, Stop Lying –Boko Haram Commander Shekau

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /> </h3><div class="post-header"></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-926389948930766712" itemprop="description articleBody"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNL4ZrfloqSUSk07NzFPBjMzOL1hzHGjGxPFzOSgiuorL80AKfNeU6IKE83HhdoQphCuMi0_gbGDe6ygamIZXlQvcGwrKf1r4r1eHgoVk6-8J0rcdj1aDUOMkkOFJ-bybxqvfRA_FAUBd/s1600/Boko+Haram+SHEKAU+1.jpg" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>If you hide it from people you can’t hide it from Allah. I ordered the bombing of Lagos; says Shekau. Leader of the deadly Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility for June 25 bomb <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_23">attacks</span> in Lagos and Abuja which claimed several lives and caused serious <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_18">damage</span>.<br /><br />Five persons died in the Lagos explosion which occurred very close to Folawiyo tank farm while that of Abuja which went off in a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_14">shopping mall</span> killed 22 persons.<br /><a name='more'></a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a 16-minute <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_2">video</span> obtained by AFP  also mocks the social media and protest campaign, #BringBackOurGirls, which emerged after the Islamists kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls on April 14 from Chibok. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The girls, whose abduction has drawn unprecedented attention to Boko Haram’s five-year rebellion, are not pictured in the video, which was given to AFP through similar channels as past messages...</blockquote><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a><br />One previous recording showed more than 100 of the hostages, some of whom are Christian, reciting Muslim prayers. Shekau also said his loyalists carried out twin car bombings in May in Jos and a June attack at a college in Kano.<br /><br /><b>Shekau claims Abuja, Lagos bomb attacks</b><br />“We were the ones who detonated the bomb in filthy Abuja,” Shekau said in the video referring to a June 25 attack on a popular shopping centre in Abuja that killed at least 22 people. Later <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_11">that day</span> a huge explosion also rocked the Apapa, which the authorities blamed on a cooking <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_6">gas explosion</span>, with no casualties.<br /><br />“A bomb went off in Lagos. I ordered the bomber who went and detonated it,” Shekau says in the video, which shows him flanked by at least 10 gunmen in front of two armoured personnel carriers and two pick-up trucks. “You said it was a <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_4">fire incident</span>,” he added. “Well, if you hide it from people you can’t hide it from Allah.”<br /><br />Shekau, in boasting about the Lagos attack, incorrectly identifies the Governor of Lagos State, taunting Adams Oshiomhole, who is in fact the Governor of Edo State. Lagos State is governed by Babatunde Fashola.<br /><br />Declared a global terrorist by the <span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_3">United States</span> and sanctioned by the UN Security Council, Shekau is thought to have previously claimed credit for attacks that he did not directly order.<br /><br />Near the beginning of the video, Shekau calls several of the world’s most prominent Islamist extremists his “brethren.”<br /><br />“May Allah protect you,” he said, listing IS chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri, Taliban leader Mullah Omar and several others.<br /><br /><span class="q81g0lm7" id="q81g0lm7_21">Speaking</span> in English, Shekau recited the BringBackOurGirls slogan used by activists to press for the release of schoolgirls.<br /><br />“BringBackOurGirls… bring back our army,” he says, in what may be reference to a previous offer that the hostages could be freed if the Goodluck Jonathan governor releases Boko Haram fighters held in custody.</div></div>

I Bombed Lagos, Stop Lying –Boko Haram Commander Shekau

 If you hide it from people you can’t hide it from Allah. I ordered the bombing of Lagos; says Shekau. Leader of the deadly Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility for June 25 bomb att…

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Lawyer Killed By Son At Redemption Camp Is Not Known By His Colleagues

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><br /> </h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVwhAS525HxxeMvQJ-S-mn1BQ6sKiEoLuHO3HqQmvr-M2mYf46xODXEoYBCtYHNa-zrQrn0No3MLefMs3pFRnNdqwoVXwIkwCJ3flhioIQIa8cXrXQVAyrvM6wOPWoa00Dg8tkxvtoqlps/s1600/ARRESTED+boy+kills+father.jpg" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>Until his gruesome murder in the hands of his 21-year-<span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_8">old son</span> Tolani, a 300-level <div data-cid="2378" data-kw="student" style="border-bottom: 1px solid; color: #f35b00; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: auto; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">student</div>of the Department of History and <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_4">International Relations</span> at Redeemer Univer­sity, RCCG Camp, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway last week, the name Charles Ajayi (SAN) did not ring a bell even in the legal profession where he was said to have risen to the highest rank in his career.<br /><br />Attempts by <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_9">Sunday Sun</span> to do a special report on his contributions to the legal profes­sion met a <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_7">brick wall</span> as most senior lawyers in Nigeria claimed not to know him or heard about him until his death.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />Not even the Nigerian <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_5">Bar Association</span> (NBA) could come out to identify him as a SAN. Surprisingly, when he was contacted, the President of the association, Okey Wali (SAN) had this to say:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">“<span style="color: #cc0000;">Honestly, I have not come across him or heard of his name before. There is nobody I have asked that seemed to know him</span>. I think we need to check the records because I <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_15">don</span>’t know him personally and you know the number of SANs in Nigeria is not much.</blockquote><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1273158107245326844" name="more"></a><blockquote class="tr_bq">"But we can’t come to conclusion because sometimes if you are not active on the Bar, not many people will know you.”</blockquote><br /><span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_2">Constitutional lawyer</span> and author, Sabastine Hon (SAN) just like NBA President said he has not come across the name Charles Ajayi (SAN) in the legal profession.<br /><br />“Frankly <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_14">speaking</span>, I have not heard of that name before or come across somebody that knows him. It is rather unfortunate that he died at a time his services are needed most. Death comes in several ways, unfortunately in his case, it came through his own son. My heart goes to the family and I pray <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_10">that God</span> should comfort them.”<br /><br />Also speaking, Lagos <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_12">lawyer</span>, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) said; “<span style="color: #cc0000;">No, I don’t know him</span>. Frankly speaking, I can’t figure out his name, but call me back in two hours, maybe I may find something about him.”<br /><br />Chief Chris Uche (<span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_18">SAN</span>) said, “I don’t know him and have not come across him or heard about him until the sad news of his death. I will find out about him and call you back.”<br /><br />Also speaking on the issue, <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_3">Senior Advocate</span> of Nigeria and a national delegate to the National Conference, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) had this to say; “In fact, I don’t even know him. I have never heard about him before now. You know the clan of SAN is small, I never heard of a name like that as SAN. <span style="color: #cc0000;">He could be a lawyer, but certainly not a SAN</span>.”<br /><br />To further compound the matter, nobody seems to know his Abuja <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_17">residence</span>.<br /><br />It would be recalled that the late Ajayi was <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_13">killed</span> by his son, Tolani, who reportedly chopped his <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_11">body</span> to pieces before dumping the remains in a bush near his <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_1">home</span> in Ogun State.<br /><div></div><div>The <span class="gqn50cx37t" id="gqn50cx37t_16">incident</span> occurred after an argument between Tolani and his father. He had reportedly questioned his son over his at­titude and refusal to follow Biblical teachings.</div></div>

Lawyer Killed By Son At Redemption Camp Is Not Known By His Colleagues

  Until his gruesome murder in the hands of his 21-year-old son Tolani, a 300-level studentof the Department of History and International Relations at Redeemer Univer­sity, RCCG Camp, Lagos-Ibadan E…

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