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We can all go home, knowing nobody was kidnapped. This movie has finally reached, its political end.

Did APC not foresee this political move, by the SW PDP

President Goodluck Jonathan has re-appointed the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Safety and Administration Agency, Mr. Ziakede Akpobolokemi, for another four-year term.

A statement by the Deputy Director and Head of Public Relations, Mr. Isichei Osamgbi, said the re-appointment, was conveyed in a letter dated October 13, 2014 and signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim. The re-appointment is expected to become effective from December 23, 2014.

It read, “Akpobolokemi’s re-appointment has been widely acclaimed as a recognition of his outstanding performance as the DG/CEO of NIMASA in the past four years.

“In his first term, he has repositioned the maritime sector and made it an important pillar in the nation’s economy. This has resulted in a new wave of improved maritime safety and security, creating an enabling environment for maritime business as a great contributor to the nation’s economy to thrive, a remarkable development that has been widely acknowledged by the International Maritime Organisation.

“Under his leadership, NIMASA achieved full maritime domain awareness through enhanced surveillance of the maritime environment with the introduction of a satellite surveillance system which covers the entire Gulf of Guinea and beyond.”

The statement said the agency had procured various platforms and electronic surveillance equipment through a Public Private Partnership arrangement for a round-the-clock monitoring of the Nigerian maritime domain.

As the nodal agency for the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security code, NIMASA is also said to have successfully ensured adequate compliance towards safe and secure port facilities in the country.

http://www.punchng.com/business/nimasa-dg-gets-second-term-appointment

Tambuwal is finally getting off his opium high. Reality is now setting in. The federal government and PDP are locked and loaded for you. Anyhow you play this, it will only end bad for you. You people in APC need to get some fucccking common sense in this country.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and his new party All Progressive Congress (APC) have filed a suit against the Federal Government and six others over attempt to declare his seat vacant and withdrawal of his security aides.



The suit was filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday.

Tambuwal in the suit filed at the registry of the court through his counsel, Jubrin Okutepa asked the court to declare that the attempt to declare his seat vacant as a member and Honorable speaker is unlawful and unconstitutional.

Cited as defendants in the suit are Peoples Democratic Party, its National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Inspector General of Police, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Attorney General of the Federation AGF as first to seventh.

He asked the court to declare “that he remains a member and the speaker of the House of Representatives until the expiration of his current term of office on June 5, 2015″.

Tambuwal asked the court to declare that withdrawal of his security details when he has not been removed from office as speaker and member of the House was illegal and unconstitutional.

He, however, prayed for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from taking any steps to interfere or infringe on his rights and privileges as the speaker of the House of Representatives and as a member of the House before the expiration of his term.

He asked the court to give an order of perpetual injunction, restraining INEC from accepting any nomination of candidates or organising a bye-election for the purpose of replacing him.

Tambuwal asked for an order of mandatory injunction compelling the IGP and the AGF to restore his security details and all other rights, benefits and privileges appurtenant to members of/and the office of the Honorable Speaker.

In a separate suit filed by one Dr. Tunji Abayomi on behalf of Tambuwal, Abayomi prays for a temporary order of court directing the return of the security aides of the speaker pending the determination of the suit.

Abayomi prayed the court for an order restraining the defendants from interfering with the rights and privileges whatsoever attached to the office of the speaker, pending the determination of the suit.

http://www.channelstv.com/2014/10/31/tambawal-apc-drag-fg-court-removal-security-aides

FIFTEEN Generals have been retired from the Nigerian Army School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (NASEME) Auchi, Edo state.

Ten out of the 15 are Brigadier Generals while five are Major Generals. The Major Generals are Edem Ekwo, Thompson Oliomoghe, Richard duegbunam, Friday Airende and Abass Adekanye, while the Brigadier Generals includes Idi Adamu, Patrick Oviaghase, Samuel Ayo, Peter Aremu, Jacob Amao, Joshua Ibilaye, Ibrahim Alawode, Samuel Adesogan, Chukwuka Ani and Abel Okpeki.

Speaking at a pulling out parade held in honour of the retiring Generals in Auchi yesterday, the Corps Commander of NASEME, Major General S Labaran said that the retired officers served the country meritoriously.

“They have served the nation meritoriously and they deserve our respect. The Nigerian Army will always fulfil its commitment in the defence of our fatherland. Your services are well appreciated and I want to wish you well in your various future endeavours” he stated.
One of the retired Generals, Thompson Oliomoghe who spoke on behalf of others thanked the Nigerian Army for the opportunity to serve the nation.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/nigerian-army-retires-15-generals/

MichaelSokoto:
Na lie u talk!
Anybody wey dey tif our con3 money plus dey make katakata dey go on 4 dis con3, MAKE ALL OF DEM FALL DOWN DIE!

AMEN!


If u no say "Amen", then thunda iz firin u as u read d below sentence letter by letter...


T.H.U.N.D.A. F.I.R.E. U. P.L.E.N.T.Y

Your prayers have been answered already.

MichaelSokoto:
No, buh atleast u should be happy

Yeye dey smell

The smelling yeye is coming from your picture. The boko haram General himself.

Are you expecting our sympathy

Those agents of corruption have Alhaji Abubakar Tsav on the top of their list. Sanctimonious Alamjiris, you people need to back off in this country.

A steady shift from the development of residential to hotel apartments in Dubai, riding on the back of the huge tourist and business traffic, is likewise seeing a significant paradigm shift in the investment portfolio of Nigerian property investors who today account for 60 percent of hotel apartment purchases in the burgeoning Dubai hospitality market.

During the property market boom which suffered a crash in the world economic recession of late 2008 to 2010, Nigerian investors accounted for well over 40 percent of Dubai’s residential market, such that a significant number of houses on Palm Jumaireh—one of Dubai’s exclusive locations—belong to Nigerian home buyers.

Investing in hotel apartments in Dubai is fast becoming a new investment lifestyle, particularly for Nigerians and Arabs, and this, according to close watchers of the market, is driven by the United Arab Emirate’s (UAE’s) duty free environment and increasing demand for hotel rooms and apartments in the city touted as the cynosure of the Arab world.

Abdulraham Kadiri, the CEO of Ark Gold Properties, a Dubai-based property vendor, had explained to BusinessDay that the attraction to this market also arises from the country’s land policy, which allows non-citizens to own properties without much encumbrances from native laws.

Kadiri added that the market was mature and offering levels of return on investment hard to ome by in other markets. “Again, property transfer processes here are done in less than 72 hours”, he stressed.

“Dubai, like Nigeria, is a trading economy, but unlike our dear country, it is the biggest tourism market in the world, with its tallest building in the world, the only 7-Star hotel in the world, among many other monuments”, Johnson Chukwuma, a real estate consultant, explained to BusinessDay.

Chukwuma added that this accounts for the huge influx of tourists and businessmen to the country and the corresponding huge demand for hotel rooms, which is growing steadily.

The Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) data obtained by BusinessDay shows that in 2013, 11.01 million guests lodged in hotel establishments, compared to the guest number of 9.96 million in 2012.

The data estimates that with the rising guest figures, by 2020, when Dubai will host the World Expo , it will indeed achieve its target of attracting up to 20 million hotel guests.

Riding on this growing demand and the expected guest explosion that would go along with the World Expo in 2020, Dubai property developers, notably, First Group, the British property development company based in Dubai, are undertaking hotel apartment projects.

An official of the company who did not want to be named, told BusinessDay that investor-contributions towards owning a one-bedroom apartment, range from $350,000 to $600,000 spread over a two-year period, advising that forward-looking investors should tap into the growing opportunities.

Investment in the Dubai property market by Nigerians is not an isolated case, as a recent report by the Daily Mail Online—an online property portal anchored by Olufemi Babalola—reveals that Nigerians dominate the list of Wealthy Africans spending almost four million pounds on London property every week.

According to the report, these super-rich Africans look to buy luxury property in the ‘platinum triangle’ made up of Mayfair, Belgravia and Knightsbridge, quoting Gary Hersham, the managing director of Beauchamp Estates—a London-based real estate firm—as saying that he had had three super-rich Nigerians enquiring about homes in just one week.

“While war, disease and terrorism in West Africa grab media headlines, actually, for super-rich Africans, its domestic wealth, cultural ties to London, general safety and education for their children are the key attractions for buying homes in central London”, the report submitted.

The report estimates that 80 per cent of these super-rich spend between £15 million to £25 million on a residential property, with 10 per cent of them spending more than £30 million, pointing out that “if they are not buying, they are renting luxury homes for up to £15,000-per-week and staying for between six weeks and three months per year”.

“London’s reputation for having a residential property market, which is secure and a stable investment, is one of the main reasons wealthy Africans are buying”, Hersham notes, adding that historic cultural and community ties are other reasons.

IKENNA OBI & CHUKA UROKO

http://businessdayonline.com/2014/10/nigerians-account-for-60-dubai-apartment-sales

This is how politics is played. The Nigeria business community will soon have their own public fundraiser for team Goodluck.

Dmacaw:
That's the lies they sell only to the gullible and those who refused to look beyond party affiliation, ethnicity and religion. History would accord him well.

Jonathan biggest problem was transparency, trying to make the activities of government open for all to see.

According to the naysayers Nigeria was a corruption free country till Goodluck showed up. Just ask them about their own states and most will start speaking in tongues.

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muktarmtt:
NwHahahaha PDP never see anything o dey ting pain dem rily bad keep showing ur true colour nd ur arogancy we will neal u down to PDP, u hahaha never see anything up APC who all k this time us dfrnt bro u can even see it happening daz why he gone crazy messing it up cos all d infotn figures r leaven him for APC he will left alone wit his media dogs sayin shi*t jst wait nd see bro i dnt wanna spoil d fun

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MORNDEW:
you quoted me in less than one minute, is here ur office?
Sorry i forgot i ve asked to avoid ppl like you who call black white. We ar not heading in the same direction.

So, how many mins did wait before you replied? Most of you are amateurs, stop coming to a gun fight with a knife.

MORNDEW:
amaechi did nd is waxing stronger. Besides so this is all your brain can tell you. In democracy everyone is free to express him or herself. Why did they not remove mimiko's name as the governoe of Ondo state. Shame to many of you.

Amaechi is waxing strong Mimiko got the same treatment other govs got, when they decamped. I hope you know what happened to them.

muktarmtt:
D crying is for u bro wen d hausa fulani kick GEJ out aso rock to Atouke village den we will start dey shi*t on ur ass

You have been kicking him out since 2010. Just don't kill innocent Nigerians in 2015, after you are disgraced again.

eye4eye:
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Look at punk Ijaw guy with a little over 4% of the population threatening me. You are like an ant that is threatening a lizard. You are about to be crushed like tomato can

It will not stop you from crying till 2019. You will cry me a river and then some.

eye4eye:
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Tells us what you know saTAN ambassador a.k.a PDP.

One thing I know for a fact, is you crying me a river till 2019. Almajiris and akobata foolanis like you, will learn a bitter lesson in this country. You have not started crying yet.

eye4eye:
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Let me let you enjoy your foolery. Sokoto State is 95% in the hand of APC. The only PDP supporters in the entire Sokoto State are the member of Sagari family

That has always been your problem in APC, always thinking you know something, when in reality, you people know jackshit.

eye4eye:


Says the saTAN ambassador and PDP.

You can only cry as Tambuwal returns home to Tambuwal village. He played right into the hands of his opponents, mostly in Sokoto.

Tambuwal has no where to go but down. The political consensus in Abuja and Sokoto is to strip him bare. You don't pick a fight with the federal government, when you depend on them for survival.

It is a lie, Tompolo’s media aide
Dismissing Keyamo’s allegation, Tompolo’s media aide Mr. Bebenimibo said: “Tompolo called him to ask him why he is dragging him into a matter that he had no hand in because Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is a political party and anything concerning the party should be discussed with the governor, who is the leader of party.”
He confirmed that Keyamo had called Tompolo several times in the past, requesting him to buy some property, but his boss told him he had no money to buy property.
Bebenimibo said: “Why should Tompolo threaten Keyamo? What for? Tompolo only told him to stop dragging his name into what he knows nothing about.”

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/delta-lg-polls-fallout-tompolo-threatening-life-keyamo/#sthash.B7dnbEOW.dpuf

The wait is finally over.

Utuama joins Delta governorship race

Abuja — DEPUTY governor of Delta State, Professor Amos Utuama, yesterday, joined the governorship race in Delta State after the purchase of nomination form for him by The Peoples Network” for Prof. Amos Agbe Utuama for Governor 2015.
Addressing journalists after picking the form, chairman of the group, Rev. Fr. Christopher Ekabo, said having served for eight years under James Ibori and another eight years as deputy to Emmanuel Uduaghan, Utuama was better prepared knowledgeable and experienced to continue on the projects and development of the state.

UTUAMA According to him, it took the group a day to the deadline to purchase the form because the individual concerned had to raise the funds, explaining that a state like Delta with various tribes and interest needed a man neutral and unassuming.
According to him, “Prof. Utuama is a rare breed, an industrious, trustworthy, accomplished legal colossus with great insight and strong organisation ability. He is a man of integrity, an epitome of humility, a lover of peace, gentle as a dove, a dynamic, meticulous, reliable and versatile administrator, whose interpersonal relationship is second to none. This, perhaps, explains why he has been in the corridors of power without any known record of clashes with those above or below him. He is a beneficent and philanthropic administrator.
“As a party man, Prof. Utuama’s sense of loyalty, steadfastness and dedication is second to none. He is unlike others, who are notorious for dumping their parties at the least opportunity when the weather looks unfavourable and jumps back in when it serves their interest. He is a honourable and illustrious son of Delta State whose drive for excellence, selfless service and exemplary leadership are laudable colorants to his professional, political, administrative and scholarly success..

“We believe that Delta State needs a governor with proven ability to perform and a vision to transform, a governor who will accelerate to new frontiers the ground breaking works of Chief James Ibori and the developmental strides of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan. The state needs a governor who has every corner of the State in his heart and can pursue a broad epicenter development dynamics that will resound in all areas of the State. We are convinced that Prof. Utuama fits the bill of the kind of governor Delta State desires at this moment” he said.:

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/utuama-joins-delta-governorship-race/#sthash.Gsswbwfg.dpuf

By Emma Amaize
WARRI— THE Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, Chief Boro Opudu, yesterday, said the replace-ment of the party’s candidate, Mr. Weyimi Omadeli, with Mr. George Ekpemupolo in last Saturday’s local government election in the state, was to avoid a looming ethnic crisis in Warri.
Chief Opudu, who spoke to Vanguard in Warri, said: “I am the chairman of the party in Warri South-West. The insults being thrown at Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan is uncalled for and grossly unnecessary.
“The fact and events that led to the replacement of Omadeli with Ekemupolo was done in the best interest, not only of the party, but the entire local government.
“This is to avoid ethnic crisis that was imminent as a result of some political imbalances that were not taken into cognizance at the time of the primaries conducted by our great party.
“However, if there is any grievance resulting from this decision of our great party, the Itsekiri and Ijaw leaders will meet again to take a decision as it concerns that earlier decision. We will not allow external body or bodies to truncate the existing peace in the local government area.
“The Ijaw and Itsekiri must continue to live in peace. It is on this note that I appeal for calm and urge everyone to stand by the decision of the party.
“As a party, we do have issues, especially in this period of elections. But all such issues were resolved in the best interest of the party and the local government area. It is on this note that I must say that any claim by any person or group of persons as to conflict in the party is non- existent.
“We shall not allow any external influence from any-where to cause a breach of the peace in the local government area, be it legal or political.
“It must also be noted that the governor of the state is the leader of PDP in the state and the three Warri Local Government areas and he had taken certain decisions as it affects Warri South-West Local Government.
“We believe that the decision is in the best interest of the local government.”
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/opudu-explains-pdp-changed-warri-south-west-chairmanship-

For all those complaining about fayose, expect politicians seeking office in 2015, to visit several beer palours in their area, eat in roadside bukas, travel around with Okada or keke and finally buy akara/corn from the roadside sellers.

Fayose has redefined Nigerian politics. It is real.

phemmyjohnson:
I sense ur ignorance..
If at this stage, u can't still know the right from the left, its left for you continue fooling urself..

I keep telling you is not personal, yet, you will not stop, pissing all over your thread. Your life might be miserable and poverty stricken, not all Nigerians feel that way. I also don't hold any government responsible for my failures or success.

phemmyjohnson:
Prepare ur speech on what you will tell ur future kids on how u help accompany ur country to doom..
Well, you might be Shoeless like ur daft president by then...

I sense your frustration. Is not personal, just politics.

ayukdaboss:
In your wildest dreams, this is a lost battle for the PDP.

I don't dream, after what played out last year, I was hoping some of you, might have learnt something about Nigerian politics. The house always wins in a casino.