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BleedingPen:
http://igberetvnews.com/975205/breaking-atiku-vs-buhari-tribunal-announces-date-for-final-judgment/

NwaOhafia:
A.Y don go far o, I remember demonstration days in zaria

tegafej:
Please why is Abba Kyari always in pics of meetings?. Does he contribute to those meetings or does his job as CoS entails writing minutes of meetings?

Please I need enlightenment.

Kind regards.

eTECTIV:
U watching what ppl tweet about Kaduna but I can't see or hear what kidnappers have been doing Abi... Dis kidnapping trend has d midgets hands all over it

realstars:
Few days from now we will forget about this segment.
And I will save my data for something els

StillX10:
Seriously if the court rules this case in favour of Buhari that's where I will know for sure that this country is gone forever

simonlee:
How many Kaduna people are even on tweeter sef?
last time i checked, only Shehu Sani could afford the time, device and data bundle!

Here are some facts you didn't know of late Robert Mugabe and his rule in Zimbabwe, as compiled by Igbere TV, on Friday.

1. Late Mr Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February, 1924, to a poor Shona family in a small village known as Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

2. Following an education at Kutama College (Zimbabwe), University of Fort Hare, South Africa; and University of London, he worked as a school teacher in Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Ghana.

3. Mugabe served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017.

4. He chaired the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) group from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017.

5. Mugabe got married to Grace (second wife), after his first wife and then Zimbabwean first lady, Sally, died in 1992.

6. Late Mugabe has four (4) children, including the famous Bona Mugabe (only daughter).

7. He began his political career as a leader in the quest for the independence of Zimbabwe - then known as Rhodesia - and was regularly compared to South Africa's freedom fighter Nelson Mandela.

8. As a revolutionary leader, late Mugabe fought white-minority rule and spent years in jail as a political prisoner.

9. After 10 years in prison, he earned university degrees in education, economics and law from the University of London, before assuming leadership of ZANU-PF, a militant liberation movement based in Mozambique, in mid-70s.

10. From there, he helped orchestrate an armed resistance against white rule, emerging as a war hero both at home and abroad when the conflict ended in 1979.

11. He became the first prime minister of the newly independent Zimbabwe after elections in February 1980.

12. Articulate and smartly dressed, Mugabe came to power commanding the respect of a nation. He had a strong head start, inheriting a country with a stable economy, solid infrastructure and vast natural resources. But the descent into tyranny didn't take long.

13. His hard-line policies drove the country's flourishing economy to disintegrate, after he seized and redistributed land from 6,000 white farmers to 245,000 black farmers, which led to sanctions that led to inflation and crashed Zimbabwe's economy.

14. By 1983, it became clear that Mugabe's administration would be merciless to anyone opposing his rule. He presided over forces that carried out massacres in opposition strongholds, and the country's Fifth Brigade is believed to have killed up to 20,000 people, mostly supporters of Mugabe’s main political rival.

15. As the country was plunged into economic ruin, Mugabe and his wife (Grace) faced fierce criticism for leading lavish lifestyles.

16. He celebrated his 85th birthday with a lavish party that cost a reported $250,000, even as the country remained in an economic and health crisis.

17. He continued to hold such birthday events annually, last year spending a reported $800,000 and celebrating in a region suffering drought and food shortages.

18. He repeatedly rebuffed repeated calls to step down, insisting he would only leave office when his "revolution" was complete.

19. Mugabe - who infamously claimed that "only God" could ever remove him from office - was deposed in a coup in 2017, when members of his own party turned against him after he dismissed then vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa to make way for his wife, Grace.

20. Robert Mugabe was the World's Most Educated President with 7 degrees (2 Master's), he died at 95 in Singapore, having served as Prime Minister and President for 37 years.

The death of former Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, has been announced, he was aged 95, Igbere TV reports.

Igbere TV had earlier reported that the former leader passed away in Singapore, where he was undergoing treatment.

President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, confirmed the death of the first post-independent president of the country.

“It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe's founding father and former President, Cde Robert Mugabe”, Mnangagwa wrote on Twitter.

Here are some of late Robert Mugabe's infamous quotes, as compiled by Igbere TV, Friday morning.

“Only God, who appointed me, will remove me - not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!” - Election rally, 2008.
* MDC is an opposition party.

“If President Barrack Obama wants me to allow same-sex marriage in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so I marry him first.”

“It's only in South Africa that an illiterate villager thinks a qualified medical doctor from another African country, is the reason for his unemployment.”

“South Africans will kick down the statue of a white man but won't even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he is a foreigner.”

“No African girl will chose six pack over six cars... So stop going to the gym and go to work!”

“If all women in the world decide to pause sex until the cure for aids is found, men would find the cure in 30 days.”

“Welcome to Africa, where you steal money from home and help them look for it.”

“It is hard to bewitch African girls these days. Each time you take a piece of their hair to a witch doctor, either an innocent Brazilian girl gets hurt, or a factory in India catches fire.”

“Our message is always: Today is our day and tomorrow, you the young people, is your day.”

“If you can shave your eyebrows completely and redraw them with an eye pencil, don't ask for money to do your hair, you can equally shave your head bald and draw the weave of your choice.”

“Nothing makes a woman more confused than being in a relationship with a broke man who is extremely good in bed.”

“Some of the girls today can't even jog for five minutes but expect a guy to last in bed for two hours. Your selfishness demands a one week crusade.”

“If you are a married man and find yourself attracted to schoolgirls, just buy yourself a school uniform.”

“God is the greatest inventor ever, he took the rib of a man and invented a loud speaker.”

"I have died many times - that's where I have beaten Christ. Christ died once and resurrected once." - To state radio on his 88th birthday.

“We are no longer going to ask for the land, we are going to take it without negotiating.” - To great Britain

“Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept, will seek to remove.” - Speech at Salisbury, 1962.

"Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity." - A plea to the white population of Zimbabwe at a rally in 1980.

"Our (political) party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy." - During a rally in 2002.

"We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality. John and John, no; Maria and Maria, no. They are worse than dogs and pigs. I keep pigs and the male pig knows the female one." - Interview on same-sex marriage in 2015.

"We equally reject attempts to prescribe 'new rights' that are contrary to our values, norms, traditions, and beliefs. We are not gays!" - UN General Assembly, 2015.

"Britain is a very cold, uninhabitable country with small houses." - Mutare rally, 2013.

"We are still exchanging blows with the British government. They are using gay gangsters. Each time I pass through London, the gangster regime of Blair 'expresses its dismay'." - Reference to an incident in which human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell attempted a citizens' arrest on Mugabe during a visit to London in October, 1999.

"We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood ... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe." - Earth Summit, South Africa, 2002.

"I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for." - State funeral of a cabinet minister, 2003.

"Our economy is a hundred times better than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? … What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all." - State broadcast, 2007.

"Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen."

"Let Mr (George) Bush read history correctly. Let him realise that both personally and in his representative capacity as the president of the United States, he stands for this 'civilisation', which occupied, which colonised, which incarcerated, which killed. He has much to atone for and very little to lecture us on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His hands drip with [the] innocent blood of many nationalities." - UN General Assembly, 2007.

"I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, DC, get down on my knee, and ask his hand." - State radio interview, 2015.

"Some of us were embarrassed, if not frightened, by what appeared to be the return of the biblical giant gold Goliath. Are we having a return of Goliath to our midst, who threatens the extinction of other countries?" - UN General Assembly, 2017.

"May I say to the United States President, Mr Trump, please blow your trumpet. Blow your trumpet in a musical way towards the values of unity, peace, cooperation, togetherness, dialogue, which we have always stood for." - UN General Assembly, 2017.

"Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people." - TV interview, 2016.

http://igberetvnews.com/966517/see-some-of-mugabes-infamous-quotes-before-his-death/

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