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nationwide1:
But these were the people who said they can survive without oil.


I always advise anything that can be done to have a peaceful and indivisible Nigeria should be taken very seriously, but some ignorant folks for reasons best known to them would be saying let "Biafra go".



Now him don confess. Ok, mek una go help Gov Ajimobi pay him workers now.

Ucheosefoh:
The worst I can get is this

Ucheosefoh:
Random picturs taken when I visit my village ogidi nkpor and ogbunike few months ago

By Mohammed Shosanya - September 3, 2015

Lagos — Leventis Motors, a division of A.G Leventis Nigeria Plc has announced the completion of its auto assembly plant in Ibadan, Oyo State.

The new plant can assemble Foton close to 1,000 capacity,according to the company's Head of Commercial Vehicles, Nikos Giannousas

He disclosed this in Lagos at the launch of five models of brand new light duty trucks namely; BJ1020, BJ 1039, BJ1049, BJ 1069 and BJ 1151.

He explained that the launch of the new models was in line with the company's desire to serve its increasing number of customers in the country with quality and affordable products that can stand the test of time.

He said the launch was not just another customers' event but one designed to build robust partnership.

He said it is not enough to stay with customers alone, adding that Leventis Motors is working to build partnership with stakeholders in the auto sector.

He said that Leventis Motors has already built an assembly plant in Ibadan and can assemble Foton vehicles up to 1, 000 capacity.

He also pointed out that there are provisions for financial options through Leventis Motors and some designated banks such as Stanbic IBTC bank.

Speaking,Head of After-Sales, Leventis Motors, Chris Thornton, said Leventis Motors is known for sales of reputable and genuine auto products, adding that the company has had the privilege of maintaining trucks for Nigerian companies such as Nigerian Bottling Company Limited.

The company's Brand Manager, Temitope Falode ,who spoke on the characteristics of the models,said the BJ 1020, exhibits 1990 GVw, 45 litres fuel capacity,950 pay load with 2500 wheel base.

By Anayo Okoli

UMUAHIA—Abia State Police Command, Tuesday, paraded a 71-year-old man, said to be a retired pastor, for allegedly stealing a year-old baby.
The suspect was arrested alongside his wife by the police, following an alarm said to have been raised by the mother of the baby.
Abia State Police Commissioner, Mr. Joshak Habila, who paraded the suspects, said the arrests were part of the achievements of his command for the month of August.

He said a month ago, a 21-year-old pregnant mother reported that she lost her 11 months old baby to a supposed friend under the pretence of offering help to her.

The police boss said luck, however, ran out on the supposed friend, when the anti- robbery squad of the command intercepted him at Owerrinta and arrested him for allegedly trafficking pregnant girls to Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.

He said the arrest led to the discovery of a child, who was previously stolen in Aba and allegedly sold to the retired pastors’ wife, who was said to have kept the deal away from her husband.

According to Habila, the suspect sold the baby for N500,000 to the wife of a pastor who allegedly lied to her husband that she went through the normal process of adoption for the baby.

The wife of the pastor, the commissioner explained, admitted to have paid for the baby in the premises of Federal Medical Centre, FMC, in Umuahia, through her friend, one Maria Mba, said to a senior civil servant in Bende Local Government Area.
But her pastor husband denied knowledge of the illegal adoption of the baby, saying he had been requesting from his wife the adoption documents which he claimed he never saw till date.

The other suspects, Maria Mba and Ekwutosi, also explained their role in the transaction, with Ekwutosi saying he connected Maria to the illegal deal.

He claimed that Mba approached him and requested for baby girl which he arranged for and procured, after which he invited them to the FMC where the deal was finally sealed.

Though Mba said she collected the money and gave to Ekwutosi N400,000 and kept N100,000 as part of her share of the deal, Ekwutosi denied receiving the money from her

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/pastor-wifeothers-accused-of-child-trafficking-in-abia/

doublewisdom:
High twitter usage? Kano? Ibadan? Why not Ife and Modekeke?

Lagos, Ibadan and Kano among most active African cities on Twitter

By Chrysanthus Ikeh

Lagos, Ibadan and Kano have been named among the most active African cities on social networking site, Twitter.

Lagos was ranked 11th, Kano 13th while Ibadan occupied the 14th position on the list compiled in a report titled ‘How Africa Tweets’, conducted by Portland Communication.

The report named Johannesburg in South Africa the most active city in Africa, with 344,215 geo-located tweets during Q4 2013.

Below is the list of the most active African cities on Twitter:

1.Johannesburg – 344,215
2.Ekurhuleni – 264,172
3.Cairo – 227,509
4.Durban – 163,019
5.Alexandria – 159,534
6.Nairobi – 123,078
7.Cape Town – 83,818
8.Accra – 78,575
9.Abidjan – 56,054
10.Douala – 51,441
11.Lagos – 44,392
12.Dar es Salaam – 22,581
13.Kano – 19,023
14.Ibadan – 13,703
15.Algiers – 12,317
16.Kinshasa – 10,201
17.Luanda – 7,312
18.Addis Ababa – 3,307
19.Dakar – 788


http://thenet.ng/2014/03/lagos-ibadan-and-kano-among-most-active-african-cities-on-twitter/

ON Monday this week, Bukola Saraki led a team of his closest senate collaborators on a visit to Maiduguri. Any rookie political analyst could have seen through the stage-managed trip, given the near-presidential halo around it, with hands pumping, photo ops with IDPs and a visit to the Shehu of Borno. On Tuesday morning, most newspapers carried a syndicated picture of the ‘august visitor’ waving to the IDPs. Never before in the history of Nigeria’s transition to civil rule since 1999, have we had a senate president determined to seize the public space like Bukola Saraki.

Soon after he controversially snubbed his party to emerge, he began to hold court, receiving visitors, issuing statements and for all intents and purposes, wrestling limelight with Muhammadu Buhari, elected as President, with the executive powers that go with it. But determined to defy the controversy around his emergence, Bukola Saraki is seizing political territory and desperately attempting to control the space of public perception as much as possible.

His ultimate goal remains presidency and he can’t even wait for 2019 before beginning to show his hands. The Maiduguri visit is the first attempt at testing the waters with a toe, and more such visits will come in the near future.

But there are serious problems that Bukola Saraki continues confronting from the moment he opened the Pandora’s Box and in a manner of speaking, letting the genie out of the bottle, that morning of June 9th, 2015. He is fighting a battle against public perception because in many quarters in Nigeria, he has not been able to live down the feeling that he betrayed his party.

Bukola Saraki remains defiant and continues to ignore the APC and PMB’s openly expressed preference that APC senators bow to party supremacy; he fills positions with members of his own group, daring the party and PMB to do the worst!

Yet, he is deeply worried that so far, he has not been able to secure an audience with President Muhammadu Buhari. He took desperacy to a ridiculous height on Sallah day; refused to go for prayers in Ilorin, but rushed to Abuja Eid praying ground for a photo opportunity with PMB. He got a short shrift by being publicly ignored! The depth of his despair was made clear in an article published by many newspapers at the weekend, and written by Saraki’s Media Special Adviser, Yusuph Olaniyonu.

Titled “Let the lawmakers move on and work for Nigeria”, Olaniyonu expressing his principal’s troubled mind, stated that: “The President should maintain his earlier position not to get involved in legislative politics…

A way to send the right signal that he is ready to help the National Assembly build on the new found unity is for the President to now OPENLY MEET AND RELATE WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF BOTH CHAMBERS (my emphasis)”. So as is his wont, Bukola Saraki defied the APC, blatantly ignored PMB’s perspective but expects that this issue be resolved in his favour as a fait accompli.

And the fact that he was not allowed on the presidential entourage to the US visit also hurt him deeply and this was expressly stated by Olaniyonu: “We need to put behind us the past experience in which the President travelled to the United States for crucial bi-lateral discussion on several issues without any member of the legislature. That was an opportunity missed to give legislative backing to executive engagements”. But we know better. Angst was being directed at the fact that Bukola Saraki missed the photo-op with President Barack Obama.

It was therefore no surprise, when reports emerged this week that a very worried Bukola Saraki, unable to secure an audience with PMB, was corralling the Emir of Ilorin to service to find every opportunity for him to get to see the president.

There are also relatedly desperate efforts to press other traditional rulers into the same engagement. What should not be lost to Nigerians in all the developments is that while desperate to get a presidential audience, he nevertheless continues to defy the same president and party in respect of the extant problems arising from his demarche on June 9th.

Presidential election
The positions playing out are very complex but there is a consistent pattern. Firstly, for all intents and purposes, Bukola Saraki has finished with the APC. But he will stay in the party for as long as possible to suck into his camp as many members as he can before finally returning to the PDP, where he hopes to become the candidate for the 2019 presidential election. Does this sound farfetched? It does not! Last week, in the wake of the invitation issued to Toyin, Bukola Saraki’s wife by the EFCC, it was revealed that petition acted upon, had been filed by the PDP branch in Kwara state.

What followed next was that the national PDP leadership through Olisah Metuh directed Kwara PDP to disown the petition, because, according to Metuh, they were working for Bukola Saraki’s return to the PDP! It could not be any clearer. And the logic of Bukola Saraki’s defiance of APC and President Muhammadu Buhari, makes it impossible for him to stay inside the APC in the long run. Consumed by his presidential ambition, that logic will lead to a denouement that will eventually arrive, as political events unfold in the next couple of months and years in the country.

Chapter of a personal agenda
When he entered into the agreement that returned Ike Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President, he consciously chose to trade away the Nigerian people’s desire for change on the platform of the APC. He had finished using SAK and the slogan of CHANGE and was now embarking on the next chapter of his own personal agenda for presidency, as early as in 2019. Bukola Saraki and his followers deliberately reduced calls for party supremacy, to Bola Tinubu’s ambition to control everything in the APC. So many of those who used that platform to win positions that they would ordinarily NEVER have, became foot soldiers of Bukola Saraki’s ambition within the APC, especially in the North.

So instead of working to further enhance the North-Southwest alliance, these shortsighted and opportunistic Northern politicians who bought into Bukola Saraki’s anti-Tinubu propaganda endanger PMB’s CHANGE Agenda and willy-nilly, have become as disruptive as Bukola Saraki and are working for his personal agenda NOT the interest of Northern Nigeria or those of our country, in the long run. The vicious propaganda onslaught against Bola Tinubu was actually an onslaught at the individual who played the most vital role in building an alliance with PMB and who together became the champions of a North-Southwest accord that won power for the first time in our nation’s political history.

In the long run, their agenda is really not against Bola Tinubu, but it is just the opening salvo in a targeted onslaught by Bukola Saraki and his political tendency within the APC, against President Muhammadu Buhari. That will come to the fore as we approach 2019!

By getting Ike Ekweremadu into the loop as Deputy Senate President, and contrary to the norms of Senate in respect of ranking, also making Godswill Akpabio Minority leader, Bukola Saraki will claim his political IOU in 2019.

He will posture as having given the Southeast and the South-South recognition and platforms of relevance, when they ordinarily would have lost out in 2015, for voting against the APC and PMB. Secondly, he would calculate that his chances are very bright as PDP’s presidential candidate in 2019, because given the current political reality, the PDP will most likely be obliged to present a Northern candidate to run against PMB.

Appointment of legislative aides
That is why Bukola Saraki has been appointing legislative aides from different parts of the North and beyond who would easily and seamlessly make the transition into becoming his campaign coordinators in different parts of the North and beyond! This is the most logical background that puts his various steps into context: defiance of the party to run against the party’s candidate; entering into an alliance with the PDP, and thus bringing it back into the loop of legislative leadership even when Nigerians had rejected the party at the polls and had expressly accepted the slogan of CHANGE; continuing to make appointments that suit his own personal agenda not those of the party; ignoring President Muhammadu Buhari and doing everything to contest the space of public visibility with PMB and carrying on as if he is an alternative president of Nigeria, based in the senate!

These steps are carefully thought out and that is the way he will continue to act in the lead to 2019! So when the APC leadership insists that the senate leadership toes the party line and PMB appeals to the morality and conscience of the Bukola Saraki group in senate, we can only wonder where their naivety comes from.

There is no moral suasion that will take Bukola Saraki’s eye off the ball of his personal agenda. For him, senate presidency is merely a stepping-stone to Nigeria’s presidency. If they doubt this, they should visit my hometown Ilorin, where this has been regularly drummed into the heads of the local people:”Bukola is not interested in the ‘Number Three’ position; he wants Presidency”! That is the propaganda in Ilorin. So when Bukola Saraki entered Maiduguri this week, he was taking the first tentative step into the very muddy and murky waters on the route to the 2019 presidential elections.

Humanitarian trip for succour
Of course, that was not the way that the trip was presented; on the contrary, it was supposedly a humanitarian trip to give succour to people displaced as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency.

He will lull his opponents to underestimating the essence of his scheming until it becomes too late for them to effectively respond. One of Bukola Saraki’s greatest strengths is a single-minded and ruthless devotion to anything that confers him advantage.

There are very few real politicians on the Nigerian political scene today, but in his total commitment to his personal agendas, no one can trump Bukola Saraki today in Nigerian politics. That is what makes him formidable and a danger at the same time! So when PMB and his advisers analyse the political space, they must reckon with Bukola Saraki’s unrelenting and formidable ambition to become president as soon as 2019.
If they treat that challenge with levity, they would certainly have another thing coming! They will become easy prey for a calculating and politically astute Bukola Saraki!

kaycid77:
And you think it will be passed , Northerners dont care about what party wants but what will benefit them first as a Northern unit, this is the area SS and SE need to adjust and think since SW has decided to be South spoilers. There are more languages in the North than the south but they have manage to unit while dividing South South and South East using South west as the joker

Chiaka:
Until Buhari & Tinubu implement true federalism as they faked to support during the campaign, APC means nothing to me but fraud!

menesheh:
You curiously continue attacking organised religion while your own belief is the worst ever, look at the reason you gave above (BOLDED) for believing that an entity must exist somewhere in the cosmos. Not only that, you are 100% certain that it is plausible. Still on-top you quoted an external article. Ok. Freedom of believe.

Now as you said, explain why you said so?

Life coming from life don't require special scientific prove, you see it happen everyday and everywhere. Your mother gave birth to you and you see other animals replicate itself, it is a demonstrable proof.

Or are you saying that there is life somewhere that gave birth to the first life on earth right? If.... Is it dark or white, where is the place we can find it, who created it or how did it form?

Bro, you don't have to invent any inexplicable deity from your brain because it seems to you that there must be a higher being that is capable of creating the immensity of everything without explanation of how the stuff is, the mechanisms it employed in creating things. It is illusionary and and delusional.

You never proven any thing, start the remaining more 3.
Your proves must have demonstrable mechanisms or explanations that another person can see through it and do the same thing if you ever care whether or not your belief is a fact and not a delusion.

menesheh:
This is kinda deistic ideology.

BOLDED. On what bases and mechanisms did you employed to evaluate and substantiate the possibility of a hidden god, then arriving to an absolute conclusion of such a weird idea without any contentions?


#Skepticism
#Logic absolutism

People believed for thousands of years that live maggots could be spawned from dead
meat. In 1665, Francesco Redi (1626–1697) put meat in three jars, one open, one closed with
gauze and the third closed with paper. Flies laid their eggs on the meat in the open jar. The eggs
hatched to maggots, then young flies. Unable to reach the meat, flies laid their eggs on the gauze
of the second jar and the maggots hatched on the gauze, not on the meat. No eggs were laid on the
paper or the meat of the third jar, so it remained free of maggots. With this repeatable experiment,
Redi proved scientifically that life, the maggots, comes from life, the flies, and not from non life,
the dead meat.

tevinsolt:
your argument are not new, in fact I used to spill similar nonsense when I was searching for the truth, and it was as a result of my shallow understanding. based on my research and dive into knowledge I have come to the conclusion theism makes more sense to me than agnosticism and or atheism. The situation of Africa is a reflection of the culture and tradition that has passed down that also kept those who came before us grounded so to say, and for this reason more technologically advanced religious Europeans were able to conquer them.

iamrealdeji:
so,some people hate Murtala? I've always been told he's the best leader ever in Nigeria

italo:
Firstly, can you show where the Catholic Church says the bold?

Secondly, I'm Catholic, and I don't fear death or afterlife. I don't submit my individuality on the altar of religious coercion and mind control.

I individually and freely choose to cling to God who created me and the world. I know that if I die physically while in communion with him, I will be with him in the next life. So no fear.

" There is but one universal ["Catholic" means universal] Church of the faithful, outside which NO ONE at all is saved. (Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215.)

" We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff. (Pope Boniface VIII, the Bull, Unam Sanctum, 1302.)

Pope Gregory XVI (A.D. 1831 - 1846):

"It is not possible to worship God truly except in Her; all who are outside Her will not be saved." (Encyclical, Summo Jugiter)

italo:
False. I belong to Catholicism, an organized religion, and it doesn't have the features you described above.

You're speaking out of ignorance.

chibecanglobal:
Let us all go back to reason to regain our glory as a people.
That is the true salvation we need as a people.
That is the emancipation every living soul needs.
That is the sure way of meeting "God".

House eviction and divorce rumours: It must be Ibinabo at work – Emeka Ike

July 25, 2015

In the past few days the blogosphere has been awash with news of Nollywood actor, Emeka Ike’s wife filing for divorce. Several reports claimed that she decided to call it quits on allegation of series of batteries. As if that was not enough, another gist that Emeka Ike had been thrown out of his Magodo residence also crept into the Internet with bloggers feeding off it like it was really news.

Though, Emeka in a chat with one of our reporters, had discounted the divorce rumour, saying his marriage was intact. “I have not received any divorce notice. Nothing like that happened. I have not received any letter from anybody. I am a Christian, we don’t divorce” he said.

But immediately the news broke, when Potpourri took it to him but he dismissed it as nothing but a distraction from Ibinabo Fiberesima, who at that time, and up till now, is on vacation abroad.

“Ibinabo will upload her distraction on the internet and you will quickly rush to celebrate it. Did you speak with her? Did she tell you that? This rumour (eviction rumour) is over two years old now on the net. No thanks to Ibinabo” he said in a WhatsApp chat.

“Please speak to her to hear if that’s what she has to say. Who’s reporting? Who’s asked? If she never came to you please treat all that as trash and wait till she comes to you, then you can ask my side of her own story, not these Ibinabo’s distractions.

Please I am not a party to this, not now that she has legal issues all over her” he added, obviously referring to his long standing legal tussle with Ibinabo over the presidency of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN. Emeka Ike, in March this year, obtained a court ruling that sacked Ibinabo Fiberesima as President of the guild and the board of trustees. Ibinabo and AGN BoT have filed an appeal yet to be trashed in court.

What’s my business with Emeka Ike? – Ibinabo Fiberesima Ebuka

Ibinabo Fiberesima Ebuka is currently holidaying abroad. But thanks to the social media which provided Potpourri a platform to talk to her through Blackberry Messenger. When Emeka Ike’s accusation that she was behind the rumours currently making round about him was her making, her first reaction was shock, then disbelief.

“Haa, that boy has gone mad. Me Ke? What is my business with him?” she fired back. “I thought he lives in a hotel. He must definitely be on very cheap drugs. I don’t know why he keeps referring to me. The case is between him and the Board of Trustees. He called me to help him push them over it, then he went to the press to curse me over it. He must be truly demented.”

But who is really the president of Actors Guild of Nigeria? We asked her. “ He is not a president of anything. He has never contested for the position in his life. So, how is he the president? There is an application in court for stay of execution pending the outcome of the appeal by the Board of Trustees,” she replied.

FowlYansh:
you said if Buhari do 50% out of 100% work he was paid to do you will congratulate him on a job well done. how would you react if your business is run in that manner?

for your information my husband is the big disgrace to your parents not me.