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Lagosians are tired of ACN -PDP
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party
has accused the Action Congress of Nigeria, Lagos
chapter, of failing the people of the state.
Chairman of Lagos state PDP, Mr. Olatunji Shelle, said
this while addressing journalists at the state secretariat
in Lagos, on Monday.
Shelle said the ACN was a disappointment to the people.
He added that the PDP was determined to make a
difference in Lagos during the forthcoming 2015
elections, which he described as "a date with history."
The chairman said the people would be looking up to the
PDP as an alternative because they had been long tired
of the policies the ACN-led government, had been
implementing in the state.
He said, "The Lagos PDP would change the tide of
electoral performance in 2015, and we are resolute to
achieving this goal. Actually, no one should be surprised
about this because we have the people looking up to us
as a viable alternative.
"The people had consistently said they were tired of the
ACN government in the state and we certainly have a
date with history in 2015. Opinion poll, as at today,
indicates that the ACN government in Lagos State has
been a disappointment to the people.
"For a long time now, the ACN government has made life
unbearable for Lagosians through obnoxious and anti-
people policies, which have pauperised the vast majority
of the people.
"We sympathise with the feelings and frustration of the
poor citizens of Lagos as they continually suffer trauma
and hardship of all sorts under the ACN government in
Lagos State."

Source: mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/lagosians-are-tired-of-acn-pdp/

Why showing us 2010 picture?

This OP must be high on H2SO4

Suspected Boko Haram members at the weekend shot
dead more than 20 civilians in northern Borno State, a
military spokesman said yesterday.
“The suspected sect members came armed and fired
sporadic shots that killed over 20 innocent civilians,” Lt.
Haruna Mohammed Sani, spokesman for the
Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) said.
The violence took place on Saturday in Dawashe village,
the army lieutenant said in a statement.
He said men from the Civilian Joint Task Force, a
vigilance group formed in Boko Haram’s bastion
Maiduguri, to combat the Islamist gunmen who have
been terrorising the region for many years, entered
Dawashe to search for suspects.
The suspected Boko Haram members subsequently
opened fire in the village, the spokesman said, adding
that the 20 victims were mostly fishermen and traders.
Sani said a dozen other civilians sustained gunshot
wounds during the incident but provided no information
on casualties among the belligerents.
The toll and circumstances of the incident could not be
immediately verified independently.
Among those killed were five members of the “Civilian
JTF” who were on a manhunt for Boko Haram in Mainok
town, 58km west of Maiduguri.
The attack on the “Civilian JTF” was the first since the
group took courage to hunt down Boko Haram in the
state in the last two months.
It was also confirmed that a heavily armed Quick
Reaction Squad from MNJTF had been deployed to
ensure the safety of lives and property in the area.
Dawashi, Daban-Masara and Malan karanti villages are
believed to be the stronghold of the insurgent.
The MNJTF said: “As part of the excellent Civil-Military
Relations and humanitarian gesture demonstrated by
Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), a dozen of Boko
Haram victims affected by the attack in Dawashe District
of Kukawa Local Government, got medical treatment in
the Headquarters Field Ambulance in Baga town”.
Some members of the “Civilian JTF” also confirmed to
reporters in Maiduguri that five of their members who
were killed are from Ajilari, Ngomari Airport and
Bulumkutu Ward of Maiduguri Metropolitan.
A member, Aliko Musa said: “it was a huge loss to us,
some of our brave colleagues were killed yesterday by
the outlawed Boko Haram; they paid the supreme price
when we visited Mainok village in search of the terrorists
but we shall not relent”, he added.
Spokesman for the JTF, Lt Col Sagir Musa however
denied the figure even as he confirmed the Mainok
attack. According to him, only one of the Youth
Volunteers died while another sustained injuries.
The MNJTF, a joint military force set up in 1998 to
combat border crimes, consists of troops from Nigeria,
Chad and Niger.

Source: thenationonlineng.net/new/boko-haram-kills-20/

Anxiety has enveloped Ajakurama in Ovia South West
Local Government of Edo State as operatives of the Joint
Task Force in the Niger Delta stormed the community
demanding the whereabouts of a repentant militant,
Ojuemi Perediseghabofa.
The security operatives, who reportedly stormed the
community at about 1am on July 18, 2013, took away
Perediseghabofa's wife when they could not locate the
ex-militant.
Counsel for the ex-militant, Mr. Famous Maka, stated this
in a petition to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike
Ihejirika.
In the petition obtained on Sunday, Maka said the
Ajakurama people had been in fear since the soldiers
visited the community and left behind a message that
they would again storm the area if the ex-militant did not
report to their base at Ajide.
Maka, who urged the Army chief to stop any further
invasion of the community, said the JTF operatives could
have used the Amnesty Office to invite the ex-militant for
interrogation if he did anything wrong.
He said, "During this unexpected invasion, virtually all
Ajakurama people slept in the bush. Consequently, one
Mr. Bewo Itiphan died due to psychological shock.
"All the ex-militant's rooms were searched, the window
glass were shattered and his 32 inches flat screen
television and many other things destroyed. Before they
left the community, they left a warning that if the
community, within 24 hours, does not produce the ex-
militant, they will burn down the community.
"Sir, what is baffling in the whole matter is that the ex-
militant leader is one of the persons that embraced the
Federal Government Amnesty programme. He can be
officially invited by any government agencies to answer
any allegation against him."
Meanwhile, Maka said the soldiers later released the ex-
militant's wife.
When our correspondent contacted the Public Relations
Officer in charge of the '4' Brigade Benin, Captain
Rosalyn Managbe, she said she was not aware of the
invasion.

Source: mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/tension-in-edo-as-jtf-invades-ex-militants-home/

The members of the Christian Association of Nigerian-
Americans (CANAN) has embarked on a rally in the
United States of America to demand that the Boko
Haram group be designated as a Foreign Terrorist
Organisation (FTO).
The members, who were led by the Chairman of the
association, Pastor James Fadele, and its Executive
Director, Mr Laolu Akande, embarked on the rally outside
the White House in Washington.
The group wondered why the United State’s State
Department had refused to pronounce the entire Boko
Haram as a terrorist group instead of referring only to its
leader.
Earlier at a news conference held at the National Press
Club, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria
(CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, also faulted the U.S.
government over its delay to classify the group as
terrorist body.
Oritsejafor added that in addition to non-recognition of
the plight of Nigerians, the U.S. has not offered
humanitarian assistance to victims of Boko Haram.
“America’s ambivalence over the terrorist challenges in
Nigeria is a stunning betrayal. After 9/11, Nigeria was
amongst nations that cooperated with global efforts on
tracing terrorist financing to the point that a designated
foreign financier was uncovered running a cereal factory
in Northern Nigeria.
“FTO designation will kick off the tracking of terror-
financing and arms shipments in Nigeria and elsewhere.
“It is now one year since I testified before the U.S.
Congress and still the U.S. has not designated Boko
Haram a foreign terrorist organisation even though it has
killed citizens of over a dozen of countries and attacked
American citizens too.
“Every week, I get text messages that a church has been
burnt or that a pastor has just been murdered or that
Christians were randomly rounded up on a roadside and
summarily executed,” he said.
He also pleaded with rich churches in the country to
come to the aid of victims of Boko Haram insurgency as
well as in supporting CAN financially.

Source: www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/item/17684-can,-us-chapter,-holds-anti-boko-haram-rally-outside-white-house.html

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Release!!!

GBOOOOM!


May there souls rest in peace...

spongeback: RIP

Who died in your family?

Edo state governor Adams Oshiomhole has warned
that there is so much evil in the land that he
currently feels like going on protest against the
system.
He spoke when the national executive members
of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)
visited him in Benin yesterday.
“Right now many of us are worried about the
goings on in the country, I cannot stage a
protest now because I will be misunderstood,
but my heart is in the mood of protesting, so
that my own children will not inherit the
iniquities of the evil we see every day”, he said.
He added, “We are in very challenging times
and we are buffeted with a good number of elite
entrusted with state powers at various levels
privatising those powers and behaving as if they
are gods and dealing ruthlessly with those who
are powerless and applying the resources in a
manner that is offensive to the poor.”
Oshiomhole said Nigeria is treading a dangerous
ground that might threaten the foundation of its
existence. “Things happening around, for me,
represent very dangerous signals. There are
people who do not wish the country well and
unfortunately there are men and women who
cannot claim to have a future and messing up
the future for everybody else.
“It is the lot of the Christian community to speak
out where it matters, so that those who are deaf
can hear and those who are blind may have
their sight restored so that together we will
build a nation that is God fearing and where the
people will benefit from the resources that God
so generously endowed us with.
“We need a lot of activism as we approach
2015, that a nation is not like a private
enterprise, that only the people are permanent,
leaders will necessary come and go and that is
the promise of democracy, we need you to help
all of us.
“So I want CAN having shown courage, having
spoken out even in the days of military
dictatorship, now in a democracy, we need
more of that courage.”
He urged Christians to continue to pray for the
continued existence of the nation, saying “it is
the prayers of our Christian brothers and Muslim
brothers that keep Nigeria going.”
Earlier, CAN General-Secretary Rev Musa Asake,
representing the President Pastor Ayo
Oritsejafor, said, “We in the CAN are happy
with what you are doing in Edo State, our men
and women continue to give us pleasant reports
of you great support for the church and your
delivery of democracy dividends and people
oriented projects in Educatiion, Health, youth
empowerment and infrastructural
development.”

Source: dailytrust.info/index.php/top-stories/1407-state-of-the-nation-i-feel-like-staging-protest-says-oshiomhole

What can you say about this mystery?

What can you say about this mystery?

Mohdadutse: Why do people misinterperete bills just to creat commotions

Is it compulsory you speak English?

Why not speak in your mothers dialect?

Please don't cause commotion with your English on Nairaland...

The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, Mr Makanjuola Ogundipe, resurfaced in the state capital on Tuesday and announced the suspension of a governorship aspirant of the party, Mr Ayo Fayose, and three members of the state executive committee of the party.

The members of the state executive whose suspensions were also announced by Mr Ogundipe are the secretary of the party, Mr Tope Aluko; the publicity secretary, Mr Kola Oluwawole and the women leader, Mrs Busola Oyebode.

Ogundipe, who addressed newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, expressed regret over the invasion of the party secretariat, describing it as “unfortunate and highly regretted,” and added that the state working committee of the party “after a careful study and thorough investigation” decided to suspend the people.

He said: “The transformation agenda of the Federal Government under our leader, President Goodluck Jonathan, will not be allowed to be rubbished by anybody, no matter how highly placed. The PDP is a disciplined party, therefore we will not tolerate insubordination from any individual for whatever reason.”

But Fayose, in a reaction described his suspension as “ignorable,” saying “you don’t suspend from the top, you suspend from the ward.”

“Suspending Fayose is like suspending PDP in Ekiti. Ogundipe should learn from the past. Fayose is an institution.”

Fayose, who spoke through the Director of Media of his campaign organisation, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, said: “It is an ignorable news. Ogundipe is not from Fayose’s ward. You don’t suspend from the top, you suspend from the ward.”

Also reacting, the publicity secretary of the party, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, described his suspension as an aberration, saying Ogundipe, who had earlier been suspended, could not suspend him.

Oluwawole said “Ogundipe would have to face a disciplinary committee after he had been suspended and he must clear himself of complicity in bribery.”

Speaking on his earlier suspension announced by Oluwawole last week, Ogundipe said: “We are a law-abiding people and the constitution of our party is very clear on who can suspend and who you can suspend. Article 21 (9) of our party specifies who members of the national executive committee of our party are. All state chairmen are members of the national executive committee of our party. No organ of the party can suspend them unless the national executive committee.

Source: www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/17412-ekiti-pdp-suspends-fayose-suspending-me-is-like-suspending-pdp-in-ekiti,-he-says

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor
Ayo Oritsejafor, on Tuesday said he would lead Nigerians
to protest against the Senate resolution to amend
Section 29 (4) (b) of the 1999 Constitution under which
married underage girls are deemed to be adults.
The association also frowned on the comment credited
to former Governor of Zamfara State Ahmed Yerima that
the proposal for the deletion of the section contravened
Islamic Law.
Oritsejafor, in a statement, described Yerima's
argument as offensive, saying, "It presupposes that
Nigeria, a secular state, is populated only by Muslims."
The CAN President, who urged the Senate to revisit the
child marriage issue, also called on Nigerians to reject
the resolution which he described as provocative and
dehumanising.
He said, "By the grace of God, I will, personally mobilise
Nigerians and lead the street protest against this
oppressive and dehumanising resolution. Why would the
Senate, after voting recoil, simply because of a point of
order premised on religious basis?
"We, Christians, also have Canon Law, which frowns on
marriage of girls who are not of age. Christianity abhors
such marriages. The protest will be soon.
"Finally, I urge the Yerimas in the Senate to toe the path
of the Holy Qur'an, which states that one who kills a
person unjustly in effect has killed everyone and one
who saves another has saved everyone. They should
save these girls and Nigerians the agony of having their
children married off at ages below 18 by unfavourable
legislations."
Oritsejafor noted that Yerima's latest comment would
stir up another controversy in the country.
Yerima as a governor introduced the controversial
Sharia, the Islamic Legal code, in Zamfara State.
According to Oritsejafor, people like Yerima are
approaching Qur'anic teachings from extremes and
disturbing the balance.
"It makes me wonder the source of the emotions and
thoughts that nurture them," he said.
The CAN President said as a Senator, whose case of
marrying a 13-year-old Egyptian girl was still fresh in the
memory of Nigerians, Yerima should "only be seen and
not heard in matters of this nature".
He added, "If now Yerima is commenting on a case in
which he has interest, it can only mean the action of a
man frenziedly trying to get himself out of the hook
through some undeserved legislations. I appeal to those
individuals who have been educated along this line in the
Senate not to use their rights as lawmakers to harm
children below the age of 18, but to choose the interest
of these children above their own.
"These girls should be allowed to develop, individually
because this resolution, if implemented, would hound
girls below 18 years into marriages they know nothing
about. This is only one dimension of this tragic
resolution.
"I feel that when individuals attain a certain way of
thinking and understanding and reach certain status in
life, they should be able to comprehend that it is
necessary to adhere to conventions in line with best
practices the world over and not harm other members of
society, no matter their ages within the same society."

Source: mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/child-marriage-oritsejafor-to-lead-protest-against-senators/

The National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS)
yesterday accused President Goodluck Jonathan of being
the brain behind the Rivers State crisis.
It described Jonathan’s earlier denial of involvement in
the crisis as false.
NANS said: “President Goodluck Jonathan must stop
distancing himself from the matter because, whether he
likes it or not, he is vicariously involved in it. The direct
involvement of the First Lady in the matter, which she
publicly admitted to when 16 Bishops from the
Southsouth paid her a visit at the Presidential Villa last
week, implies Mr. President’s tacit involvement in it.
Therefore, Mr. President cannot continue to feign
ignorance or indifference in this sensitive matter.”
According to a statement in Abuja by its Acting Senate
President, Comrade John Shima, NANS gave the
President and the Federal Government a 14-day
ultimatum to resolve the crisis.
Failure to heed to the ultimatum, the group said, “NANS
shall be left with no option than to convene its next
Senate Meeting at Port Harcourt, where it shall take a
more decisive position and action on the Rivers State
crisis”. “For the benefit of foresight, the action may
include taking over the city of Abuja and paralysing all
economic, social and political activities in the nation’s
capital.”
NANS demanded that “adequate security is provided for
the Rivers State House of Assembly, so that the
legislators can return to work”. “If that is done, then the
majority will have their way and progress will be made,
which is the true beauty of democracy.
NANS called for “the immediate redeployment of the
Rivers State Commissioner of Police (CP) Mr. Mbu Joseph
Mbu, who from every indication has gone political”.
“Since he has clearly shown that he cannot work
harmoniously with the governor, then the CP should be
redeployed immediately from the state. NANS hereby
declares a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government
of Nigeria and all its relevant organs to resolve the crisis
in Rivers State.”
The statement added: “The National Association of
Nigerian Students (NANS), in keeping up with its
traditional obligations as the bastion of democracy and
vanguard of the oppressed and downtrodden, hereby
condemns in its entirety, the show of ignominy unfolding
in Rivers State, which culminated in the ferocious
disruption of proceedings at the State’s House of
Assembly on Tuesday 9th July, 2013.
“We are, however, not oblivious of the fact that the
festering crisis in the state has its roots in the
acrimonious quest by the First Lady, Dame Patience
Jonathan, to practically dictate to the ‘obstinate’
Executive Governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Rt.
Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, how he should run certain affairs
in Rivers State.
“Even though President Goodluck Jonathan can also not
be said to be inculpable in the matter, he is also a
member of the PDP and from the neighbouring Bayelsa
State. So, we actually hope that the PDP would use its
internal mechanisms to bring this lingering problem to
end.
“We must bear in mind that the situation in Rivers State
depicts a huge threat to the security of the state and, by
extrapolation, the entire nation. The Executive Governor
of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, has since made
public, his own feelings of insecurity. There were reports
last week of the deployment of policemen to the Rivers
State Government House and the Rivers State Liaison
Office in Abuja respectively, without the knowledge and
approval of the state governor. That action by the police
authorities is highly condemnable.
“Mr. President should not forget that his cardinal
responsibility to the state and its citizens is the provision
of security for human lives and properties. This includes
the lives of state governors and other high-profile
individuals. Governor Amaechi has publicly declared that
he is not comfortable with the Commissioner of Police in
Rivers State, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu. We wonder why the
Inspector-General of Police is reluctant to redeploy Mr.
Mbu from the state. Mbu clearly gave a clue in an
interview with a national television station that he works
at cross-purposes with Governor Amaechi.
“The President’s thumbprint is firmly embedded in the
ongoing crisis in Rivers State.

Source: thenationonlineng.net/new/nans-accuses-jonathan-of-complicity-in-rivers-crisis/

Satan and his agents are doing there best to pull down the church of God nowadays.
But they should try and bend there arrow towards another direction.

TB Joshua is a true man of God, and he won't do what God did not ask him to do...

Saharareporters!!! Your days are number with all your daily fake news... Don't let the prophet curse you!

GOD BLESS TB JOSHUA. The moses of our time!

The mother of the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan,
Dame Patience, Mrs. Iwarioba, popularly called Sisi, died
yesterday in a road crash. The accident occurred at Elele
in Rivers State. She was on her way to neighbouring
Bayelsa State.
The accident happened around 4 pm, source said, adding
that Mrs Iwarioba body was moved to Kpaima Mortuary
on Elechi Beach, Mile One, Diobu, Port Harcourt, the
Rivers State capital, around 6 pm, by the self-acclaimed
“Speaker” of Rivers House of Assembly, Evans Bipi,
accompanied by many policemen.
Bipi, who represents Ogu/Bolo Constituency, is a former
aide to the First Lady, who attended his marriage on June
15 at the St. Cyprian’s Anglican Church, Hospital Road,
Port Harcourt, shortly after which she buried her
grandfather at Okrika, during her 10-day visit to Rivers
State.
Dame Patience, an indigene of Okrika, the headquarters
of Okrika Local Government Area in Rivers State, in
Geneva, Switzerland, according to sources who said she
was immediately contacted.
Mrs. Jonathan expressed shock and she felt very bad
over her mother’s death, according to a family source,
who pleaded not to be named.
Details of the accident were sketchy last night, but a
security man at the gate of the Kpaima Mortuary, who
declined to give his name, said many armed policemen
accompanied a body to the private facility, presuming
that the deceased might be a prominent person.
The Rivers Sector Commander of the Federal Road
Safety Commission (FRSC), Dr. Kayode Olagunju, and the
Rivers police spokesperson, Mrs. Angela Agabe, could
not confirm the incident, stressing that they were yet to
get the details from their officers and men at the scene
of the accident.
A source said last night that the late Mrs Iwarioba was
Mrs Jonathan’s stepmother, but this could not be
immediately confirmed.

Source: thenationonlineng.net/new/jonathans-wifes-mum-dies-in-rivers-road-crash/

Omotola, please watch your weight.

I won't love to see you in hipopotiasics(PEJ) form!

This make no news to me.