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collynzo2: He was carried away by the passion he had for maintaining sanity in the environment. How many governors even go out to carry out inspections like that?
Oshimhole is a humble man, take it or leave it.

Not too far from the truth

collynzo2: He was carried away by the passion he had for maintaining sanity in the environment. How many governors even go out to carry out inspections like that?
Oshimhole is a humble man, take it or leave it.

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X-factoria:
Image laundering! Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

Apology or not, he is one of those leaders who get carried away with power, leaders who have no respect for the ruled just because they are "Lords"!

I know it is all politics, but many of our governors including people like Obi, Fasola etc cannot even show political remorse. The fact that he employed her - warts and all- as a campaigner against indiscipline spoke volume for me. The 2 million Naira is not that important because it is the people's money to be used for such politics

I hope the armed robbers will not visit her tonight. God forbid == Money straight to the bank, as advised by the Gov.

What the F is he doing toasting with a cup of tea? Bushman turned APC governor. Hahahahah!

Anyways, on another note:

Video of the event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jxNTHrMRdKg

I understood the Gov's anger and why he abused the woman which of course was inexcusable. However, watch the video and judge him in his show of remorse, without bias.

Caveat: I am not PDP, APGA or APC but I hate APC because of their hypocrisy. In this case, Oshiomhole has shown a difference from Fasola/Tinubu

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First it was Adeyemi Michael Winning Grierson British Documentary Award and now Akinwunmi Adeshina winning the Forbes Africa person of the year, thank you guys. I'm proud of you.

Keep repping odua nation.

GEJ-appointed man wins award. Without GEJ looking for him and engaging him he could not have made it. Congrats to Adesina and to GEJ

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/babangida-aliyu-i-remain-loyal-member-of-pdp/165276/

Babangida Aliyu: I Remain Loyal Member of PDP

26 Nov 2013

Gov Babangida Aliyu


By Chuks Okocha

Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has denied media reports purporting that he has dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying he remains a member of the PDP.


Governor Aliyu’s Chief Press Secretary, Danladi Ndayebo said on Tuesday in Abuja that his principal was shocked at the announcement of the merger of New PDP and APC even before a final decision was taken on the matter.


Ndayebo said in a statement that Governor Aliyu was not present at the meeting where the merger deal was sealed between the Baraje –led New PDP and APC leaders as widely reported by the media.


Governor Aliyu insisted that talks were still ongoing with the president and would await the outcome of the negotiation before taking a final decision.
Details to follow

APC people are a bunch of corrupt foxes. But the lion always defeats the fox, despite its slyness.

Aregbesola, Omisore disagree over 181 poll monitors in Anambra

on November 25, 2013 / in News 3:00 am / Comments

BY EMMANUEL AZIKEN
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of OsunState and Senator Iyiola Omisore were, yesterday, locked in a verbal war over the fate of the 181 election monitors deployed from Osun State to monitor the recent Anambra State gubernatorial election.

Senator Omisore, a gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, asserted that the election monitors now held by the Police in ImoState were fake election observers who should be diligently prosecuted.

He said the election monitors were being used to test-run alleged rigging schemes of Governor Aregbesola ahead of the forthcoming gubernatorial election in OsunState.

Omisore’s assertion was immediately rebuffed by Governor Aregbesola who accused his traducer of smelling election defeat in the face and resorting to all desperate means to ameliorate defeat.

Aregbesola also accused the police in Anambra and Imo states of working in cahoots with opponents of freedom to destabilise the work of the 181 election monitors, who, he said, were genuine observers working on the platform of the Justice and Equity Organisation.

While calling on the police and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to monitor Governor Aregbesola’s activities in the run-up to the OsunState gubernatorial election, Senator Omisore said:

“What Aregbesola did was to test-run and perfect his rigging plans towards next year election in Osun Sate having declared to his APC members that his second term ambition is a do-or-die affair.”

Accusing the election monitors arrested by the police in ImoState as fake election observers, Omisore called on the police to diligently prosecute them for the sake of equity.

Aregbesola in a riposte said:

“It is laughable for people like Iyiola Omisore to use the Anambra/Imo police chicanery as a premise to call on the Inspector General of Police, IGP, to monitor the movement of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.”

In the statement by Semiu Okanlawon, Director General, Bureau of Communications, the governor said:

“Omisore is smelling defeat already before he emerges the candidate of his party. Obviously, Omisore nurses the fear that Aregbesola’s influence transcends the shores of OsunState and thus wishes that the governor’s movement be monitored.

“No amount of such dubious and devious moves will earn Omisore a place in the hearts of Osun electorate and, in fact, every right-thinking person. For more than a week now, Nigerians have been entertained with a drama of the absurd by the Nigeria Police.”

Defending the mission of the 181 election observers to AnambraState, he said.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/aregbesola-omisore-disagree-181-poll-monitors-anambra/#sthash.Rg2HDqkf.u347jRsg.dpuf

http://www.modernghana.com/news/504840/1/nigerians-boo-obasanjo-on-emirates-flight.html

Nigerians Boo Obasanjo On Emirates Flight
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Former Nigerian three-term president, Olusegun Obasanjo was booed on an Emirates flight 783 from Dubai to Lagos on 14 November 2013.

Obasanjo was returning from a business trip in Dubai when his countrymen gave him an unfriendly welcome on the flight with boos and invective.

The Nigerians had been waiting on the cue to board when they were asked to make way for the First Class premium passenger. Eager to board “sharp sharp” (hurriedly) the Nigerian way, the Economy class passengers protested that after Obasanjo took them hostage for over 10 years as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, they were not so ready to step aside to make way for him, to control them from the “passenger seat”.

Obasanjo first came to power in Nigeria through a military Coup d’Etat on 13 February 1976. He handed over power to Shehu Shagari on 1 October 1979 following democratic elections after two years in power. He went into private life as a farmer and traditional chief in Ogun State. He came back from retirement and contested elections winning twice to become civilian President from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007.

Nigerians blame him for most of their woes as they claim he is the Godfather of all Nigerian Presidents since the 1980s. They see his weight behind most past and present presidents of Nigeria. They have not also forgiven him for raiding and burning down the house of Fela Kuti, the late popular highlife musician. Fela and his family were beaten and raped and his mother, political activist Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was thrown out of a window to her death.

Ikechuku, one of the passengers from Enugu, returning from a business trip to India, said Nigeria needed to fight a war before democracy; human rights and governance would come to the country. He said the three regional divide of the country represented in a Y is a bane that could only be corrected by a war. Merit will only be respected in Nigeria when that happens.

Nkechi, another passenger on the Emirates flight touted him that Nigeria has been undergoing a perennial warfare since the Biafra war. Ikechuku waived her aside and said that was a political war with just one region, Biafra fighting the rest of the country.

Obasanjo did not settle on his seat in the First Class. He stood up and went round the plane as if to test his popularity.

Nobody stood up to challenge the political juggernaut of Nigerian politics, nor did they try to stop him.

I asked Obasanjo, from my seat, if he was not afraid of being assaulted by an irate passenger. He was leaning over me screening my face as if looking for a lost friend.

He showed me a Rastafarian walking behind him saying, “He takes care of me.” He also added that he is a survivor of many attempts on his life and was not scared of a few boos.

Obasanjo escaped death on 13 February 1976 when Army Colonel Dimka targeted him and General Murtala Muhammed in a Coup d’Etat. Murtala was killed but Obasanjo and Theophilus Danjuma, chief of army staff survived. Obasanjo was appointed Head of State by the Supreme Military Council.

Obasanjo spoke out against human rights abuses during the dictatorship of Sani Abacha between 1993 and 1998. He was arrested and imprisoned for his participation in an aborted coup. He was only released when Abacha died suddenly on 8 June 1998.

Obasanjo believed since he became a born-again Christian in prison, no weapon fashioned against him shall prosper. The bodyguard with the looks of a joker was a resolute buffer between the former President and any attacker. A middle aged man stood up to follow the former president and he was promptly barred from getting too close.

Former African presidents usually feel uneasy going around on commercial carriers. Some retired with private jets, and if allowed the luxury of a retirement flew on them. For most, contemplating retirement and returning to civilian life was unnerving. Such presidents will prefer to die in power than deprive themselves of the luxuries attached to the presidency.

Probably conscious of the uneasiness of a former president in retirement, Obasanjo provoked a controversy when he planned to revise the constitution to allow him to run for a third and fourth term. Obasanjo is credited to have ushered in democracy with the 1979 Constitution of the Second Republic styled after the Constitution of the United States of America. Yet the trappings of absolute power blinded this visionary of Nigerian politics to want more than two terms in office and probably a life presidency.

Nkechi intimated that if Obasanjo had appeared like that in an airport in Nigeria, he would have been pelted with rotten eggs.

Emirates flight 783 from Dubai landed at Murtala Mohammed airport in Lagos Nigeria at 12:15 p.m. Obasanjo checked out without any further booing or pelting with rotten eggs as Nkechi had suggested will happen on the Nigerian soi

ROSSIKE: 47%... Wow... I'm impressed! No wonder they have the self dignity and confidence to ban Islam.

In a way... this spells the first steps towards the ban on all foreign religions in Africa. The decolonisation of the African is truly underway. Next stop: Christians.

You''d be surprised that 100% of Nigerians practice indigenous religions. We only mix it with church and mosque going. This is very rampant in southern Nigeria where Ifa, Ogun, Oraminyan (LOL), Amadioha, Ahiajoku and Egbesu, etc practices hold sway, in many cases clandestinely.

In a Biafra country, given what Muslims in Northern Nigeria have done and continue to do to Biafrans, Islam should be banned except for Yoruba Muslims, who are generally more sober than their northern counterparts.

Questions:

Are there any dire global political consequences for this action?
Is this a good or bad move?
Will it trigger similar or even reciprocal actions in other countries?

Answer: Good move

The question is whether other faiths are permitted to be practiced in the Islamic world. If not, then countries having other major religions are free to ban the practice of Islam as well.

Angola Bans Islam, Destroys Mosques

LUANDA – According to several Angolan newspapers, Angola has become the first country in the world to ban Islam and Muslims, taking first measures by destroying mosques in the country.

“The process of legalization of Islam has not been approved by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, their mosques would be closed until further notice,” Rosa Cruz e Silva, the Angolan Minister of Culture, was quoted by Agence Ecofin on Friday, November 22.
Silva comments were given during her visit last Tuesday to the 6th to the Commission of the National Assembly.

She asserted that the decision was the latest in increased efforts to fight against religious sects, including illegal ones.

According to the minister, the action was necessary to fight relentlessly against the emergence of congregations whose worship are contrary to the customs of the Angolan culture.

Same as Islam, other faiths which were not legalized will face closure of their houses of worship.

"All sects on the list published by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in the Angolan newspaper" “Jornal de Angola" are prohibited to conduct worship, so they should keep their doors closed," she said.

"In addition, we also have a long list of more than a thousand legalization applications,” she added.

Recurrent

The anti-Islam comments were not the first by Angolan officials after several hostile actions have been conducted in several cities across Angola.

"This is the final end of Islamic influence in our country", said the President, José Eduardo dos Santos.

Last October, Muslims from the urban municipality of Viana, Luanda, attended the destruction of the minaret of their mosque Zengo.

The provincial governor of Luanda, Bento Bento, said on the airwaves of local radio that "radical Muslims are not welcome in Angola and the Angolan government is not ready for the legalization of mosques."

He added that Muslims were not welcome in Angola and that the government would not legalize the presence of mosques in the country.

According to CIA Factbook, 47% of Angolans practice indigenous beliefs, 38% Roman Catholic and 15% Protestant.

http://www.onislam.net/english/news/africa/466297-angola-bans-islam-destroys-mosques.html

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Last October, Muslims from the urban municipality of Viana, Luanda, attended the destruction of the minaret of their mosque Zengo.

yibomustgo: Please do that immediately. Obasanjo withheld federal allocation to Lagos State for 18 months and there was no financial meldown. In fact, I want all Ibos to leave Lagos immediately and let's see who suffers.

But Fasola says most projects are grounded because of no fed allocation. Remove Igbos on top of that you lose 60% of your IGR. Wetin remain?

I have observed a lot of Yoruba's in real life and in cyberspace are seriously campaigning for Senator Chris Ngige to win the Anambra Gubernatorial election. I do not remember that the election is a national one. I am ignorant as to the reason they are very concerned with a local election happening 100s if not 1000s of kilometers away from Yorubaland. Can anyone tell me?

As we speak I am in the US and the Yorubas I have met here are all talking nothing but the Anambra election and the ''need'' for Ngige to win. Ask them the ''need'' they mean, but they have no answer.

Remove oil money and remove Igbos, Lagos is door-knob dead.

Chief Okafor is among the 1000s of Igbos enriching Lagos at the expense of Alaigbo. Hopefully he is not deported by APC

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Anambra governorship: Ngige seeks crisis talks with Obi of Onitsha over curse

By News Express on 10/10/2013

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All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for the November 16 election, Senator Chris Ngige, is seeking a meeting with the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, over the curse which the revered monarch placed on him on Tuesday during the annual Ofala festival in the famed commercial town.

News Express had broken the story Tuesday night after obtaining a video clip in which Igwe Achebe cursed Ngige and his party for holding his campaign in Onitsha on he same day the Ofala festival was taking place. Speaking in English and Igbo in the 53 seconds video clip in the possession of News Express the paramount ruler said: “Today, a political party has chosen to launch their campaign for governorship in Onitsha at the same time when the Ofala is going on . . . despite the long notice . . . the one-year notice about the Ofala, and he knew about it.” The Igwe added: “Aga m arapu ya otua. Onye mebie ani, ani emebie ya,” roughly translating: “I will stop here. He who desecrates the land, the land will also desecrate him.”

However, Ngige’s campaign office in a statement signed by Okelo Madukaife claimed that Igwe Achebe’s statement was misinterpreted but vowed not join issues over the issue “until we have had all the proposed discussions with his Royal Majesty.”

According to Madukaife in the statement issued yesterday, “We have read the comments attributed to the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Afred Achebe, as reported in some section of the print and social media, and have very strong reasons to believe that the message of our respected royalty has been lost in translation from Igbo to English as we are sure that Ofala prayers are not offered in any other language, but Igbo.”

Continuing, the statement said: “Since Ngige is in touch with the highly knowledgeable traditional ruler, he would take steps to communicate with him to clarify the ostensibly misinterpreted message, particularly as it relates to communications with the palace in the recent past by Senator Dr Chris Ngige.”

Madukaife claimed that the purported misinterpretation was a calculated move by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) government of Peter Obi to play politics with a matter of tradition in order to score cheap political points.

“Unlike those in the saddle of Anambra State Government who have again rushed to play politics with everything sacred, we will not dignify the message of hate from the citadel of power in Anambra State personified by those who point left when they mean to turn right,” Madukaife said.

He insited that both Ngige and APC have always held Igwe Achebe in high esteem, adding: “That esteem increased recently when he sought to and indeed distanced himself successfully from the grand deceit called zoning in Anambra State governorship elections by resigning his position as Chairman of Anambra State Council of Traditional Rulers, when certain unwarranted dictations were issued from Government House, Awka and beyond.

“It will therefore be out of tune for our candidate, who is grounded in traditional norms in Anigbo; our party which with the instrument of discipline has emerged the only frontline party with one candidate in the Anambra gubernatorial race to do anything that would hurt the Onitsha Traditional institution.”

Source News Express

Posted 10/10/2013 07:37:29 AM

Apart from being an Igwe, Achebe is a well educated man who rose to one of the highest ranks in Shell Petroleum before retiring. Socio-economically speaking, Ngige is beneath him, let alone adding the traditional stool he occupies, one of the most prominent in Nigeria. Fooolish Ngige, fooooolish APC.

Like Fasola like Ngige
Party of foooooooolish people doing things without giving them a thought, only to apologize later

From EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha

The All Progressives Congress, (APC) governorship candidate for November 16 election in Anambra State, Senator Chris Ngige has described as misleading, rumours that he stormed the commercial city of Onitsha with his party members to disrupt the Ofala festival of Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe.

Reacting to the news that he was cursed by the monarch for launching his governorship rally on the day mapped out for Ofala festival, Senator Ngige said he was not in any way trying to disrespect Igwe Achebe, whom he described as a role model to traditional institution in Igbo land and Nigeria in general.

Ngige said he received permission from the Palace of the Obi of Onitsha concerning the rally, adding that his Campaign Organisation even got permission to pay a courtesy call on Igwe Achebe before proceeding to the venue of the event.

He said what happened was that we received permission from the Palace, and the Palace Secretary even asked us to give him the protocol list of the governors and other dignitaries that will be coming, because we planned to pay a courtesy call on Obi of Onitsha.

“We were told at the middle of the rally because we could not pay a courtesy call on Obi of Onitsha, because our Director for Operation, Mr. Okonkwo Okom informed us on Tuesday morning that further communication will be after the Ofala some other time”

“There was never a time we came to disrupt the Ofala festival and we never intended to disrespect the revered traditional ruler of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe and Onitsha culture and tradition, as we hold him in high esteem just like we do to other traditional rulers in Igbo land. There was a communication gap and if that resulted in any embarrassment to the Igwe, our party, APC and myself apologise for that” he said.

He also called the Monarch to disregard all political gimmicks from opposition aimed at bringing un-existing crisis between him, APC and the Onitsha traditional institution and urged his supporters to remain calm as everything is under control.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/politics/didnt-disrepect-obi-onitsha-ngige/

Ewarrior: Tinubu wasn't broke b4 he became governor

Read up.. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bola_Tinubu

From wiki? Revised and edited by Tinubu
You are an illiterate. No reasonable person cites wiki for such things.

Fugly man with a fugly wife

Gayigaskia: the title should be Kalu massively looting eastern Nigeria.

Like Dangote, IBB and Abacha looted the entire north, leaving ya'll so poor that northern Nigeria is the poorest region in the world.