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Enugu art

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I take one ear hear say na Okocha get this hotel.

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Still using the old govt house in 2009?. That's very nice after all US is still using the white house built centuries ago.

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This one looks like Onitsha

babapupa:
Ekulu Estate


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Another problem with the govt. How can you waste money and build this when a greater percentage of the population cannot afford to live in this type of house?. Those who can afford to live here can as well afford to build their own house.

naijatoday:
Is that not snow I am seeing? Enugu now has snow?

That thing must be a reflection. I don't know how a gas sttion made that list especially when they have bigger ones at Aba. That is the only thing Aba people know how to do.

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Tiny roads tho

















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Typical Enugu style architecture. I think they need to make some architectural  changes because we are in 21st century.

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The current Enugu governor is trying and I am sure Chimaroke Nnamani will be too ashamed to lift a face in the public.

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Look at this:
Expensive building but bad architecture, design/painting and bad raw materials.

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Why do we still use block and cement to build in Nigeria. Its very expensive and the structures do not look exceptionally rounded on the eye.

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Enugu women

Economy being great doesn't mean he didn't embezzle money.

sjeezy8:
Of course -but people should just let Obasanjo go, if they want to keep Nigeria one! Look at the Bushes, Nixon, Cheney etc in America, Obama cannot spend time trying to bring charges against them. Every society has corruption atleast with Obj adminstration there was development and US relations were better.

Nigerians should learn to settle for the best instead of dreaming unrealistically.

and with Obj,Atiku,Buhari, behind ribadu or a northern candidate for pres coming 2011, Northern Nigerian WILL NOT SECEDE.

Bushes, Nixon and Cheney did not embezzle money from the US coffers and they did not exterminate a village in America. Obasanjo's action in Odi will always haunt him and his generation.

I am sure our steps are ordered by the lord; Only if Arewa gets mad and break away I will be made whole and I promise you no single shot will be fired to resist them. As a matter of fact, there will be a big ofala in igboland over that.

ibkaye:
Kudos to her

Generally speaking though, no other genre in Nollywood besides romance? No?

Drama, science fiction[juju] always rated PG 5.

I think so too. May be this is the lords making and Nigeria can finally break up in peace although Jonathan may sacrifice his blood for it.

Even his blood sister love money and power so much that she doesn't know her brothers life is in severe danger?

Gbawe:
Indeed !!! The North chose OBJ despite the fact that he was vehemently rejected by his own SW region. They simply installed an individual they knew could be trusted to keep it business as usual. Afterall , and historically , has OBJ not always shown his turncoat readiness to work for the North against the rest of Nigeria ? Did OBJ not produce Shagari when it should have been Awolowo? Certainly the North thought they could trust OBJ to work for their interest.

Now he has left them with Yar Adua. It seems they will probably have to concede power to Jonathan . They should just accept their lot , learn their lesson and field a competent candidate in 2010 . All this would not be happening if a few idiots did not feel they must impose their candidate on an entire nation of 150 million individuals. I don't support zoning of the Presidency but Nigeria may not be ready for anything else. Assuming that the  the Presidency must be zoned why not choose , through a transparent procees that involves Nigerians, the best candidate , physically and mentally, for the number one job from the region the Presidency has been zoned to ?

Cunny man die cunny man buryam. I am sure this is the lord's making like the death of Abacha. You forced Obasanjo down the throat of Southerners, God struck Yaradua with acute malaria.

Nigerian hospital 'overwhelmed by corpses from police'

By Caroline Duffield
BBC News, Lagos
Tuesday, 8 December 2009

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A hospital in Nigeria has told the BBC it is overwhelmed by the number of corpses being bought to them by police.
The Chief Medical Director at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital in Enugu says his staff are being forced to carry out mass burials.
He says that another mass burial is planned to take place soon.
Nigeria's police have faced strong criticism from human rights groups for carrying out extrajudicial and arbitrary killings.
The BBC has visited the morgue and taken photographs. The images are disturbing.
They show piles of young men, lying on top of one another and strewn about on tables and floors.
In places the corpses are stacked four or five deep.
Records show 75 corpses were delivered to the morgue by police between June and 26 November this year.


The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Anthony Mbah, says his staff were forced to carry out a mass burial of between 70 and 80 bodies some weeks ago.
Officers killed
The BBC has established at least seven people were last seen alive in police custody.



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Dr Mbah said his staff had to carry out mass burials
They were arrested, accused of kidnapping, and paraded alive in the media in early September.
But their names appear in the morgue register - on 15 and 16 of September.


The Police Commissioner in Enugu State, Mohamed Zarewa, told the BBC he was unaware of the number of young men lying dead in the morgue.
He says his officers are forced to engage armed robbers in gunfights and that many police officers are also killed.
He insists that his police force operate within the law.
When asked about the seven men who disappeared in police custody, he told the BBC he was too busy to talk about it.


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Kanu wins MVP against Burnley
By Romanus Ugwu

Monday, December 7, 2009
Super Eagles captain, Nwankwo Kanu, was voted the Most Valuable Player (MVP) following his impressive performance in Portsmouth’s all-important first emphatic victory this season over visiting Burnley last weekend.



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Although the Nigerian international who came off the bench to provide the needed bite for the Fratton Park side did not score, he was however instrumental in Pompey’s victory, winning the coach’s praise.

According the report: “Portsmouth brought on Kanu to provide some authority at the other end of the pitch. Having been on the pitch for just six minutes, the impressive Nigerian stuck out one of his famous long legs and found Hreidarsson, overlapping into Burnley’s penalty area. The left-foot finish was far more convincing than his tumble in the first half.”

Expressing delight at the performances of the Nigerian forward, manager Avram Grant said: “Football has changed in the last 10 years and we need to look for intelligent players like Kanu. He may be 35 but he can come on and change a game with one move.”

Burnley manager, Coyle offered no excuses after seeing his team lose for the seventh time in eight away games this season. “We were here for points and we’re obviously leaving with none from a game we offered a lot to, but we can’t switch off as we did, particularly for the first goal,” he said. “It was a soft goal. From our point of view we had numerous chances to be in front, so we’re disappointed.

Meanwhile, it was a mixed feeling for Super Eagles duo of Onyekachi Apam and Taye Taiwo, as the former not only given a matching order but also watched his club, Nice fall to the more fire power of the Olympic de Marseille side parading the latter.

Meanwhile, Portsmouth director of football, Avram Grant, believes players with Kanu’s craft are a dying breed, after the Nigerian veteran’s cameo inspired his side to a 2-0 win over Burnley on Saturday.

The 33-year-old set up Hermann Hreidarsson to break the deadlock for Pompey at Fratton Park as his clever passes gave the Clarets defence a major headache when he came off the substitutes’ bench after 59 minutes.

Kanu has started just twice for the Premier League strugglers this term but his strong reputation as an impact substitute has seen him called into action from the dugout 13 times.

Asked why the former Arsenal man did not start against Burnley, Grant said: “It’s very easy — he’s 55 years old. He’s 60 next year.”

But the Israeli believes the ex-Inter Milan and Ajax star adds a dash of flare to Pompey’s play, which he feels a decreasing number of players possess in the modern game.

He said: “Football has changed a lot in the last 10 years — it has become more athletic and more aggressive.

“But I think we need to look for intelligent players like Kanu because in one move he can change the game, like he did for the first goal.

“He’s highly intelligent and thinking about the game and he’s very good for the team.”

While Grant sang Kanu’s praises after the game, Burnley boss Owen Coyle did not feel the Nigerian international was responsible for the south coast club, who failed to pay their players on time last month, taking the points.

The Scot said: “Kanu is a quality player and is obviously paid vast sums of money, but that’s a different topic.

“He gave everybody a lift but I don’t think he completely influenced the game. We lost concentration at the two goals and that is a disappointment for me.”

Coyle’s side have taken just one point from eight matches on the road this term and are only being kept in 13th spot by their record of five wins, one draw and one defeat at Turf Moor.

Given that Portsmouth went into the weekend bottom of the Premier League and seven points adrift of safety, this was a game the Clarets would have expected much more from.

But Coyle is confident his team’s rotten luck on the road will turn, as they prepare for trips to Wolves and Everton over the festive period.

He said: “Again, there were a lot of positives to take, but it was another game away from home we haven’t won and it just adds fuel to the fire.

“They’ve made a rod for their own backs but the only way to sort that out is through hard work.

“They have to keep producing the level of performances they have and keep passing the ball. The chances will come and hopefully, we can take them.

“I’m disappointed because I thought we deserved something from the match.

“But we have to continue picking up points at home and looking to get points on the road to go with that.”




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Kill Jonathan, face break up - Pastor Bakare explodes - Advises Yar’Adua to resign - My brother will not resign - Yar’Adua’s sister
From Seyi Gesinde and Hassan Ibrahim
Monday, December 7, 2009

THE Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that for Nigeria to remain an indissoluble entity, ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua should honourably resign from office and hand over to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan.




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Delivering his message to the nation in a sermon entitled “Beginning of the End,” Bakare warned politicians not to manipulate the Constitution, saying, “If Yar’Adua refuses to leave office, the office will leave him.

Quoting from 1 King 22:47, which states that “there was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king,” he said that it was divine and in Nigeria’s case, constitutional, for Jonathan to become the president after Yar’Adua’s exit. “Long live King Jonathan,” Bakare said.

Speaking to the congregation at his Ikeja Church on Sunday, the pastor said the political schemings over whether or not the president should resign and who should succeed him were uncalled for.

“Now as I’m speaking, we don’t have a functioning president and the vice-president we have is a lame duck.

“So if you cannot empower the vice-president to function for whatever reason, then you are left with only two options. One, step down or resign and hand over for your deputy to function, that is what the constitution says. But except you kill him and if you make a mistake of killing him, all the weapons that are hidden in the Niger Delta, plus those owned by people in other parts of the nation will be brought out and this will lead to the disintegration of Nigeria.

“Also, the Western power will move into this country and this will give rise to forming of seperate nations in the country by ethnic nationalities in Nigeria.

“The current state of health of the president warrants an immediate resignation from office as his patriotic duty to the country,” Bakare said.

He cautioned the politicians calling for Jonathan’s resignation to beware of the consequences of their actions.

Bakare said the only way out was for President Yar’Adua to hand over to Vice-President Jonathan, and to forestall a situation like this in future, Nigeria must have a full, functional and effective deputy that will discharge the duties of the president when he is not around.

He said such a deputy must be “someone that will always stand in place of the president when he cannot perform his duty.

“It is an insult upon our collective integrity for the president to travel and go for treatment under presidential fleet, whether in coma or not in coma, without a proper handing over, thereby creating a vacuum,” Bakare said.

Sympatising with President Yar’Adua over his predicament, Bakare said it was not his fault to be sick, saying, those who wished the president dead may even die before him.

“God sees my heart; only wicked people will wish others dead. Since it is not his fault that he is sick, we will not wish him dead.

“But since this is the situation, Jonathan must take over.”

According to him, “if politicians knew beforehand that Jonathan could not preside over the country because he will turn Nigeria into a zoo because he is a zoologist, why did they put him there?

“If you think Jonathan will treat the nation like a zoo because he studied zoology, you should have probed him first before you put him there, so if you see the whole country as monkeys, then you need a zoologist to treat it.

“Now at the presidential lodge you have created this mess, you better give him power to function or else, others will rise up and wipe all of you out of office.”

However, in what appears to be the first reaction of President Yar’Adua’s family on the current controversy surrounding his health, the president’s younger sister and former women leader of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Hajiya Binta Kuraye, has dismissed the calls on her brother to resign, insisting that her brother will continue to be president by the will of Allah.

“Those calling for the resignation of the president on his ill-health should have the fear of God for the sustenance of democracy of the country,” she said.

She told newsmen in Kaduna, at the weekend, that her family and their well wishers were not happy to hear the rumoured death of the president.

“The president wiIl soon bounce back, stronger than ever, to assume the leadership of the country. President Yar’Adua cannot be changed by anyone. If the president is given the chance, he has the ability and capacity to lead the country for another 16 years.

“Those clamouring for the death of the president or for his removal must know that death, itself, is inevitable; power belongs to Allah. Those calling for constitutional change of government are the real enemies of democracy in the country. They have vested selfish interest and ulterior motives calculated at creating disharmony and total disintegration of the Nigerian nation.

“Corrupt politicians in the country are not comfortable with the present administration’s pursuit of war against corruption. The leadership qualities of the president are those of the late Sir Ahmadu Bello, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Chief Obafemi Awolowo.”

She said wishing the president dead was an ugly development and bad omen for both Muslims and Christians, adding that what was expected at a moment like this is for all Nigerians, irrespective of their religions, to pray for the president.

Kuraye urged Nigerians to be their brothers’ keeper, just as she stressed the need to sustain the current peace initiatives by the president in the Niger Delta.

She described the current presidential roadmap in the Niger Delta and the 13 per cent derivation for the oil producing communities as unique and laudable, saying that this was a feat successive administrations in the country could not achieve.

“His rumoured death is the handiwork of corrupt politicians in the country, who are not comfortable with his style of administration. Those politicians have lost out of the struggle for power.

“These politicians calling for constitutional change of government are the real enemies of democracy in the country. They have selfish interest and ulterior motives calculated at creating disharmony and the total disintegration in the country.

“Why do you wish others dead, when you know that death is inevitable? Power is of Allah. So, nobody can change the president. We will soon bounce back in sha Allah.

Nigerians, she said, should have faith in God and the ability of the president to lead Nigeria on the right path.

Yar’Adua: Saudi hospital flies in experts from US, Europe • Plans to stabilise him for journey back home
Taiwo Adisa, Abuja
Monday, December 7, 2009


AS the experts from the United States and Europe to treat ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua arrived the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia, plans have been concluded to fly in the president into the country as soon as he picks up, to enable him to attend to pressing issues in the country.




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The authorities of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital, where President Yar’Adua is currently receiving treatment for an acute heart condition, flew in experts from the United States and Europe, sources said on Sunday.

It was gathered that the hospital called the experts to further ensure stability for the president after the ailment refused to show appreciable improvement in the first week of his admission.

According to sources, part of the plan to engage the services of medical doctors from Europe and the United States was to ensure the stability of the president for him to recover quickly and attend to national issues demanding his attention.

The development is coming on the heels of fears that government activities might be grounded to a halt this week, following the failure of the president to assent the supplementary budget aleready passed by the National Assembly.

Many government agencies, including the National Assembly, are relying on the supplementary budget to run the remainder of the 2009 fiscal year, but their inability to access the budget would mean that their activities would be on hold.

Not only that, it was also felt that the presence of President Yar’Adua in Nigeria would calm all frayed nerves and put to rest the clamour for his resignation.

“The plan is that as soon as he (president) picks up, he would be brought into the country through a chartered flight,” sources said.

Sources even added that even when the president returned, he would still need some days off to stabilise before he could be in a position to attend some events and state matters.

President Yar’Adua is suffering from acute pericarditis, which is regarded as one of the symptoms of the degenerative disease known as Churg Strauss Syndrome (CSS).

The presidency had, on November 26, admitted that the president was suffering from acute pericarditis - the inflammation of the sac-like covering of the heart- which is one of the symptoms of the advanced stage of the incurable degenerative disease, CSS.

Medical experts have said the disease is a rare one and only about 400 cases had been reported worldwide.

It was also gathered that the president’s health had been unpredictable in line with the symptoms of CSS.

A medical expert said the unpredictability of the state of the president was not strange because the syndrome attacked different sytems in the body at the same time.

“Those planning to return the president to the country are mindful of the fact that his absence has been causing a lot of hues and cries, but they are also being careful not to return him to the country through air ambulance, which could further raise anxiety,” a source said.

Information reaching the Nigerian Tribune on Sunday also indicated that some groups had started mounting pressure on Katsina indigenes who recently joined members of the G53 to canvass for Yar’Adua’s resignation.

A source in Abuja said plots against the G53 members by some groups in Katsina include attack on their properties.

Ini Edo, The Latest Producer In Town!
Monday, December 07, 2009 - Bola Aduwo
   
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This has certainly been a year of innovation and growth for Nollywood. Oprah, the most influential woman on television mentioned Genevieve Nnaji on her show as one of the 20 most popular people in the world, Stephanie Okereke directed and produced a film ‘Through the Glass’, racking in millions at the box office. Emem Isong’s ‘Guilty Pleasures’ continues to thrill and pull crowds of people to the cinemas to mention a few.

It seems Nollywood is not quite done with surprises… reports just reaching nigeriafilms.com tell us that sexy screen siren, Ini Edo has joined the ranks as the latest producer in town! She has just co-produced and starred in a film, ‘Memories of my Heart’ which is set to hit our screens soon. nigeriafilms.com caught up with the pretty actress and she confirmed the story. ‘Yes, I have just co-produced a film with my good friend and big sister, Emem Isong.

It stars Ramsey, Desmond Elliot, Uche Jombo, Mona Lisa Chinda, Nse Ikpe-Etim and myself. It’s a romantic comedy and I’m sure people will like it’. Hmm…very star-studded I see,  so who are the love interests in the movie? Hear her; ‘I think I’ll be giving away the story if I answered that, so I wouldn’t like to say that for now, but what I will say is that it’s a love story and I had a lot of fun shooting it and working with my colleagues both as an actress and as an executive producer’.

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So, when should we expect to see this frothy confection of a movie that is already giving me toothache! (it sounds so sweet!) ‘Before the end of the 1st quarter of next year’ she quipped. Ha! Will it be possible for viewers to wait that long? She smiles and decides to soothe my restive soul with some lovely location shots… Enjoy all! This has certainly been a year of innovation and growth for Nollywood.
Oprah, the most influential woman on television mentioned Genevieve Nnaji on her show as one of the 20 most popular people in the world, Stephanie Okereke directed and produced a film ‘Through the Glass’, racking in millions at the box office.

Emem Isong’s ‘Guilty Pleasures’ continues to thrill and pull crowds of people to the cinemas to mention a few.

It seems Nollywood is not quite done with surprises… reports just reaching nigeriafilm tell us that sexy screen siren, Ini Edo has joined the ranks as the latest producer in town!

She has just co-produced and starred in a film, ‘Memories of my Heart’ which is set to hit our screens soon. nigeriafilms caught up with the pretty actress and she confirmed the story. ‘Yes, I have just co-produced a film with my good friend and big sister, Emem Isong.

It stars Ramsey, Desmond Elliot, Uche Jombo, Mona Lisa Chinda, Nse Ikpe-Etim and myself. It’s a romantic comedy and I’m sure people will like it’.


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Hmm…very star-studded I see,  so who are the love interests in the movie? Hear her;

‘I think I’ll be giving away the story if I answered that, so I wouldn’t like to say that for now, but what I will say is that it’s a love story and I had a lot of fun shooting it and working with my colleagues both as an actress and as an executive producer’.

So, when should we expect to see this frothy confection of a movie that is already giving me toothache! (it sounds so sweet!)

‘Before the end of the 1st quarter of next year’ she quipped.

Ha! Will it be possible for viewers to wait that long?

She smiles and decides to soothe my restive soul with some lovely location shots…

Enjoy all!

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sjeezy8:
shes a freaking yoruba sl.ut jk
dis guy fumbled he should have kept her on the side

Must you add Yoruba in your comment?. Everything with you guys must be tribal.

Egbegbe!; What goes around comes around.

No they are not; harsh economic realities make people behave like animals.

12 days without Mr President
Posted To The Web: Sunday, December 06, 2009 - WILLY EYA


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It is exactly twelve days since President Umaru Yar’Adua’s medical trip abroad and a cloud of uncertainty has engulfed the nation with more people getting apprehensive over the fate of Nigeria as a corporate entity.

The development is coming on the heels of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting last Wednesday with Vice President Goodluck Jonathan presiding amidst growing calls for Yar'Adua to resign from office on account of his failing health.
Our source, a PDP chieftain and former minister, on condition of anonymity, expressed fear that if the continued absence of the president is not handled with care, it may eventually lead to the disintegration of Nigeria as a corporate entity.

According to them, the nation is literally lying prostrate as a result of the lingering health crisis bedeviling Yar’Adua since the inauguration of his administration in 2007.
Sunday Sun learnt that major stakeholders in his party, the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), are apprehensive and confused on how to handle the fragile situation.
The Federal Executive Council stated unequivocally last Wednesday that it does not intend to do any thing to facilitate the removal of the ailing president.

The FEC had briefed the media after the meeting, hitting back at critics and opposition politicians by declaring their support for the President.
Sunday Sun investigation revealed that sentiment has already crept into the unfolding situation with various ethnic regions pitched against one another in the confusion surrounding the health condition of the former Katsina State governor.
President Yar’Adua is currently in Saudi Arabia where he is being treated for acute pericarditis, an inflammation of the membrane covering the heart.

But sources who spoke to Sunday Sun on condition of anonymity were emphatic that the lingering health crisis has polarised power brokers in major ethnic regions in Nigeria including the North, South West, South East and South South.


The sources were unanimous that stakeholders in the North are particularly upset with the immediate past president, Olusegun Obasanjo for literally imposing Yar’Adua on Nigerians even when it was obvious that his health condition was suspect before his nomination.


According to them, Obasanjo did it on purpose to spite the North believed to have played a key role in scuttling his third term ambition.
Their assumption is that the former president knew that Yar’Adua’s health status would not allow him to handle the enormity of work required to lead a volatile nation like Nigeria.

It was also revealed that the thinking in the North is that the game plan of Obasanjo was, among others, to field a weak leader who would fail so that Nigerians would perceive him (Obasanjo) as a hero for his pockets of achievements.
Sunday Sun learnt that power brokers of the northern extraction are presently confused on how to handle the precarious situation knowing the implications of any thing untoward happening to the president.

According to sources, the northerners who have dominated the nation’s power equation since the nation’s independence feel threatened that power is about to slip through their hands again.
“Obasanjo is evil and does not wish Nigeria well. Every thing he does is based on selfish interests. He selfishly imposed Yar’Adua on Nigeria to frustrate the North,” he said asking, “Are you telling me that there are no more competent people than Yar’Adua in the North”.
A source added, “ It is unfortunate that after the North brought him out from prison and made him president, this is the way he is paying them back.

“The constitution is clear that in the event of death or incapacitation of the president on the grounds of health, his vice automatically takes over”.
For the South West, sources also revealed that power brokers in the zone may have sympathy for Yar’Adua but on the other hand are happy with the development for several reasons.
Sunday Sun learnt that politicians of Yoruba extraction perceive the feeling in the North that Obasanjo imposed Yar’Adua on the nation as nemesis at work as the former president was also forced down the throat of the South West who obviously routed for Chief Olu Falae, the joint presidential candidate for the All Peoples Party (APP) and Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 1999.
According to sources, the subtle cry in the North that Yar’Adua in the 2007 presidential race was not a popular choice or the best they could offer is simply good riddance to bad rubbish for all that the Yorubas care.

According to a source, “It serves the North right. When they imposed Obasanjo on the Yorubas, they never thought that the same person who they used against the Yorubas would also choose a northerner that will not be their choice”.
Sunday Sun also learnt that the South East sees the lingering health crisis of Yar’Adua as a threat to the ambition of the zone to produce a president of Igbo extraction after eight years of power in the North.


The calculation among power brokers in the zone is that in the event that Vice President Goodluck Jonathan takes over the ship of state from the former Katsina State governor till the next general election in 2011, a northern president may likely emerge and could be tempted to stay for eight years on grounds that Yar’Adua’s tenure was botched.
Sources were unanimous that Ndigbo are afraid that such a development could further postpone their long awaited dream to occupy the nation’s presidential seat.

“You know Nigeria and how things work here. If any thing happens, Goodluck Jonathan would come in briefly until 2011 when a northerner would take over. As a Nigerian, he would like to stay for eight years. What it means is that Ndigbo would have to wait a long time”.
According to sources, the South South zone is not free from the ethnic sentiment that has enveloped the nation since Yar’Adua traveled abroad on Monday, November 23 for a medical check up.


Sunday Sun learnt that though power brokers of the ethnic region are not happy that the president is sick, they are however patiently waiting that if the development gets out of hand, Goodluck Jonathan, one of their own would succeed Yar’Adua.
Sources revealed that the zone does not want to be taken unawares and is banking on the constitutional provision that a Vice President takes over in case of death or incapacitation of the president that it had no plan to take action against ailing Yar'Adua.

Under the Nigerian constitution, the FEC, which consists mainly of appointees of the president, is empowered to send a request to Senate to appoint a medical committee to ascertain the fitness of the president in case he is ill and incapable of performing his constitutional duties.
Since a group of 55 notable Nigerians signed a document calling on Yar'Adua to resign, members of the FEC and security agencies have reportedly been harassing some of the signatories to the petition.

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[size=14pt]Killing: Residents desert streets in Ijebu-Ife[/size]

Ijebu-Ife, Ogun State, where Assistant Commissioner of Police Omoladun Opadokun was killed, wore a desolate look yesterday as residents deserted the streets.

Opadokun, the Area Commander, was killed on Saturday and his body set ablaze by yet to be identified persons following a violent clash between some youths and a vigilance group.

The vigilance group was accused of killing a middle-aged tailor on Saturday. A visit to the town showed the ancient town was a ghost of itself with the streets bare of residents. Armed mobile policemen, however, patrolled the streets.

Many residents had fled the town for fear of reprisal attack by the policemen who were drafted to the town in the wake of the incident.

The Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government, Mr Tunde Oladunjoye, confirmed the fears of the residents and appealed to officers and men of the Force not to avenge the killing.

He said Gov. Gbenga Daniel was deeply touched when he paid a visit to the town on Saturday, adding that his council would liaise with the state government in working out a form of compensation for victims of the crisis. Oladunjoye, who described the late police boss as a personal friend, vowed that `` everything will be done to fish out his killers.’’

He also called on fleeing residents to return home, assuring that the normalcy gaining ground would be sustained. “I can assure you that we will put occurrences such as these at bay.

“Normalcy has returned to town and I am in constant touch with the governor, the traditional ruler as well as the Commissioner of Police,’’ he added. “All we are trying to do now is to clear the debris. The losses are just too many.

“ Many houses were burnt and a market destroyed but we have given our word that the market will be put back as quickly as possible.

“This is to encourage people to return and start their normal life again. Also, the Press Officer to the Governor, Mr Kehinde Onasanya, urged fleeing residents to return home.

“The Police is a very responsible organ of government. Officers are trained to maintain law and order. “As such, they will not think of avenging an unfortunate incident like the one that happened on Saturday which claimed the life of our friend and very gallant officer.

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Alxmyr:
Since their master planner and rig-master-in-general Olusegun Mimiko, turned against them (especially against Ogunniya), Ogunniya's ride in politics have been troubled. He is not smart. What was he doing there?

Too much confidence. You know: I am a senator and na we get his area, so nothing can happen.

[quote author=Tudór link=topic=362783.msg5062801#msg5062801 date=1260170058]The ballot boxes were put there to frame him.[/quote] Typical Naija M.O in court.

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The thief could not even hide his face in shame.