After winning the acronym war, APC was faced with another battle of selecting interim executives, with the merging political parties (Action Congress of Nigeria, All Nigeria Peoples Party, the Congress for Progressive Change, and a faction of the All Progressive Grand Alliance) insisting on holding the “juicy” leadership positions. Again, the party successfully weathered the storm.
A third war soon broke out when some erstwhile leaders of the parties felt they were short-changed as the APC eventually decided to hold its first national convention to elect party executives, with Tom Ikimi, who was one of the forerunners of the merger plan schemed out of becoming the party’s first elected national chairman. Nasir El Rufai, who made it clear that he wanted the position of the national secretary of the party was also shortchanged by the party. Another formidable member of the party, Ismail Ahmed was also schemed out. Again, the Lion of Bourdillon intervened and ensured that the battle within was dealt with. Now the APC and the Lion of Bourdillon have been called to what is being considered in many ranks as the mother of all battles, the Armageddon. The Lion of Bourdillon has been pitched against the tiger of Ilorin. It is said that when two lions are fighting, it is the forest that suffers. Is this the “Change” Nigeria needs at this time?
As a political party, doesn’t APC have a constitution? What does the constitution say about party disloyalty and insubordination? The impression some of us have is that all principal officers of APC would be people without any taint of corruption or scandal surrounding them. In line with change and zero tolerance for corruption manifesto, however, Saraki doesn’t seem to buy into the ideas of the party and has decided to form alliances with opposition parties and got elected as senate president. How does one define anti-party actions? If the number three citizen of the country is disloyal to his party’s wishes and the party fails to take disciplinary action, doesn’t that spell weakness? If strength of character is the primary ingredient we need to turn the fortunes of this country around, then it raises question whether the party leader, President Buhari and the APC can really steer us on the right path. As a political party, APC has too many lions from different parties in its den and as a result stands the risk of having these lions enforce their personal agenda over party interest.
Saraki’s fervent ambition which can be seen as a form of desperation could have been dealt with immediately if APC is serious in curbing future insubordination within the ranks of the party. Could it be that Saraki sees the senate presidency as a necessary step towards achieving his ultimate ambition of becoming the president of Nigeria in 2019, seeing as we have been made to believe, that president Buhari will only be a one term president? With all this, should he still be allowed to use the same party machinery to fulfil that ambition? Won’t it be safe to assume that Senator Saraki has set a precedent for his defection back to the PDP? After all, former Vice President Atiku defected from the PDP twice. How do you punish a soldier that has handed power back to the enemy or opposition? What kind of message do you send to other members of the party with this? I don’t see a way out here that won’t end up in the expulsion of Senator Saraki from the APC, because the bad blood has been set and damage already done. Sometimes, failing to take disciplinary action can be worse than taking a drastic action. Won’t it be better for APC to expel him now and save itself from future embarrassment?
It is becoming clear as the days go by that the only thing that united APC as a political party was the battle against Goodluck Jonathan. And if this son of Otuoke has placed a curse on APC, then this is only the beginning.
Two teenage lovers and students of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU) Kelly and Gerald were found dead in a hostel room recently.
Nation newspaper reports that they were found dead in a room at Diamond Lodge, an off-campus hostel. The late Kelly, who was a student of the entrepreneurship department, was said to have visited her boyfriend, simply identified as Gerald, a 200-level public administration student, in his hostel for the weekend. https://streetgist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/teeneager-lovers-streetgist.png
However, three days after they had been together, the love birds were brought out of the room dead. Other occupants reported the matter to the nearby Oyi Police Station. When the door was forced opened by the police, Kelly’s body was found beside Gerald, who was said to be unconscious at the time. They were almost naked.
The police rushed the unconscious Gerald to the university’s teaching hospital in Amaku, where he died. Other occupants, who spoke to journalists described the incident as mysterious, saying the hostel was not attacked by either armed robbers or cultists. Other students living in the hostel and a nearby building, Gift Lodge, fled in fear. Some attributed the mystery death to generator fumes or some poisoned food; others said they could have been attacked by cultists.
It was learnt that the late Kelly had bruises around her shoulders, fuelling fears that she might have been raped to death. Some students believe the death was spiritual, because the victims were said to have attended a vigil together at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Otoko on Friday, where the preacher warned students on immorality and premature death.
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“After the vigil, we all came back home to sleep. The last time I saw Gerald was on Saturday morning after he had his bath. At that time, I knew the late Kelly was around. Gerald and I even exchanged pleasantries before he returned to his room.
“There was a downpour on Saturday and I saw Gerald pulling down his curtain and also shifting his generator. So nobody knows for certain what actually happened.”
Few days before she left for Houston Texas, Nollywood actress Doris Simeon joined other solution seekers at Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church Prayer city in Lagos.
According to eagle eyes at the event, the mother of one who has been denied access to her son since her colleague Stella Damasus snatched her husband from her reportedly raised a photo of her ex-hubby, Daniel Ademonikan and 7-year-old son, David during one of the prayer sessions.
greggles: If this is true, its wonderful, though expensive, but they will live to tell new stories and probably even go back someday to educate and mentally develop the younger ones who know nothing about the world out there. This is good for development!
On May 18, this year , an online media called Sahara reporter reported that , the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, collapsed while delivering a lecture in Lagos state and was rushed to the Reddington Hospital.
After weeks of keeping mum, the man of God Bakare has now addressed the issue.
According to him, his exhaustion was partly caused by his travels between Lagos, Abuja, London, and Atlanta, US, adding that he had ignored the warning signs in the days leading to his collapse.
He told members of his church that he was discharged with a clean bill of health and is now on compulsory medication of two liters of water per day.
The cleric also talked about a premonition he had during a dream.
He said:
“One afternoon I had a dream. It was an unusual dream. I saw a ring on my little finger. I don’t wear two rings, I only wear one. I looked up and coming from my left side was an unusual giant I’d never seen before. It was unusually humongous and wore an Igbo attire. I didn’t know its tribe. It was a giant and it was coming towards me. All that I knew to do was raise the ring up. As soon as I raised it, it laughed and went on. I went to the crowd addressed the crowd n woke up.” He however, could not explain what the giant could mean or why it wore Igbo attire.
Three of the abducted Chibok girls who were among the lucky few who escaped Boko Haram captivity, Mercy, Sarah and Deborah are now in High School at Canyonville Christian Academy, in Oregon,USA. The girls will be in Canyonville for two years,where it costs around $40,000 a girl per year for housing, tuition, and other expenses, Cosmopolitan reports.
“They said they were soldiers. They said they were there to protect us, “They told us all to stay together. They began shouting, “Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!” It means “God is great” in Arabic. They lit the office on fire. We realized they were impostors. They were not there to help us.” But it was too late to run, we were forced into trucks at gunpoint. I had a plan, i asked the men if I could go to the bathroom — in the bush. I decided I would rather die trying to escape than be killed by these men.”
She stuck to her plan, running for her life. As she crashed through the dense, thorny forest, she had no idea where she was going. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see other girls fleeing as well — shooting off in all directions.
In her narration,
Mercy said she jumped off a speeding truck as the terrorists drove the girls to the camp, taking the chance that she might break her legs when she slammed to the ground. She found her way back to Chibok, hiding in the bush along the way.
I pray to God to forgive them and cure their hearts,” she says in her native language. “I do not want revenge.”
The third girl, Sarah said she was staying with a friend nearby to help with a wedding, she woke in the night to the sound of men shouting as they torched the school. The next morning, she went to the charred grounds. “No one is there,” she says. “They are all gone.”
‘Where is Mercy? Where is Mercy?’ My grandmother, cry, cry, cry,” she says. She dissolves into tears. “I don’t like to talk about Boko Haram. They are bad people,” she says. “Sometimes when you sleep, you dream about them.
This story might initially make you sad, but after reading it, it won’t really make you sad anymore because the boy has gotten justice to an extent and will even get more. If every wicked parent/adults are dealt with like this, our society will be better. God bless NGO’s and only yes the Police too, but only the good ones among them. 
 The police in Lagos have arrested a man, Sikiru Mustapha, who allegedly brutalised his four-year-old son, and abandoned him at a bus station in the Iwaya area of Yaba.
Punch Metro learnt that the boy, identified only as Lekan, reportedly had scars of the torture on his body. He was, however, picked up by a neighbour.
Our correspondent gathered that Lekan was reportedly handed over to a non-governmental organisation in the area, which took him to the Sabo Police Division.
It was gathered that the police subsequently arrested the father.
A resident of the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told PUNCH Metro that Lekan’s mother had been sent away by Sikiru, and he had married a new wife.
She said, “Lekan has a long history of torture from his father. He is poorly taken care of, beaten and left to wander in the area. As young as he is, the father beats him without mercy. On Tuesday, he was beaten up as usual. But this time, he was abandoned at a bus station.
“One of the residents of this area found him and took him to an NGO. He was then taken to the Sabo Police Division, and the police arrested the father.
“Sikiru has a new wife who is a nursing mother. She should have cautioned her husband against maltreating the boy, but she did not.”
Our correspondent learnt that Lekan was now recuperating in a hospital in the Surulere area.
When Punch Metro visited the hospital on Wednesday, it was gathered that some officials from the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender and the Domestic Sexual Violence Response Team, to whom Lekan’s torture was also reported, had visited and taken up the case of the boy.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the incident. He added that the suspect had been taken to court.
He said, “We arrested the suspect for maltreating his son.
“He has been taken to court in company with some personnel from the Lagos State Ministry of Justice.”
Senator Bukola Saraki from Kwara State has emerged the Senate President of the 8th Senate.He was returned unopposed by 57 Senators who attended the inauguration of the 8th Senate today.He was the only candidate that was nominated on the floor of the Senate as his contender, Senator Ahmad Lawan and some of his supporters were absent. https://streetgist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Bukola-Saraki-COR.jpg
However , popolular CAC pastor Prophet Christopher Owolabi predicted that senator bukola Saraki, Gbajabiamila will emerge Senate President, Speaker of the house of representative. 
Vanguard Nigera report on the 1st of june , 2015, that He made the prediction during a special prayer organised by the Church for peace, good governance, stability and national development for the country on Saturday.
Prophet Owolabi said what the president and its team needed most was the prayer, cooperation, perseverance and support of all stakeholders to achieve the desired change.
He urged Nigerians in all spheres of endeavour to learn from their past mistakes, misdeed and shortcomings by embracing righteousness and godliness.
“This second coming of the newly sworn-in President Muhammadu Buhari, no doubt, is clearly a divine intervention as revealed by God to salvage Nigeria’s battered socio-economic and security.
“It is only left for us as citizens and noncitizen alike to be alive to our responsibilities by giving the necessary supports needed by this administration to succeed,” he said.
cold: In Nigeria you can be anything you like,loot as much as like,get involved in all kinds of devious stuff. It doesn't matter,just throw god into the mix and it's all good. You can something like 'it's the lord's doing', 'god has been good' 'na god o' etc,etc. And you can get away with anything. After all,who wants to question god?
Responding to a question about if he has ever had a fight with a fellow celebrity, he replies
“I don’t get into fights, but maybe some altercations once in a while. Maybe somebody moved your verse on a song or someone didn’t release a song when they were supposed to, but we know how to find our way around it. There are so many years ahead for us to make music anyway.”
Speaking about the new show, Colette Otusheso, Head of Marketing and Communications, Viacom Africa remarked, “Real Talk is designed to go below the surface, to bring the real story of the superstars on the show to their fans. If you have ever wondered what your favourite celebrities get up to in their private lives, this is the show where you get that exclusive access to them and get them to answer questions of your own choosing.” Watch Ice prince talking about Maima here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4uwsngn62s
Crime › Re: Teenage Lovers Found Die Mysteriously After Attending Vigil by baseg25(op): 7:24am On Jun 14, 2015
then he is now a responsible guy.i pray niceness for him
