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EARLY reports of military operations in the three
North-East states under emergency rule, on
Thursday, indicated that Nigerian soldiers had
recaptured three of the local government areas
where insurgents had been in control in northern
Borno.
The names of the recaptured councils could not be
confirmed out of the lot in possession of the violent
Islamic sect, Boko Haram. The areas where the
insurgents were said to have been in total control
before the military operation launched on Thursday
were Marte, Magumeri, Mobbar, Gubio, Guzamala,
Abadamin, Kukawa, Kaga, Nganzai and Monguno.
Also, the troops reportedly invaded and took over a
training camp of the violent Islamic sect, Boko
Haram, known as Sambisa on the outskirts of
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, in the early hours
of Thursday.
Borno as well as Adamawa and Yobe states fell
under emergency rule by presidential proclamation
on Tuesday.
President Goodluck Jonathan said all efforts to bring
the violence in the area under control had failed
hence the need to use force to force insurgents out of
the states, especially Borno where the President said
insurgents had taken control of the northern part.
A soldier who spoke to one of our correspondents
from Maiduguri, on the condition of anonymity,
said, "We have succeeded in taking over Sambisa
Games Reserve, which the sect had been using as its
camp. Scores of people found in the camp were
arrested.
"We will interrogate them and those who are not
members of the sect will be set free. The operation is
being carried out in such a way that there is no
harassment. The innocent should not be afraid."
The source however declined to comment on the
number of casualties already recorded and the
number of persons arrested.
The PUNCH learnt that troops on Thursday shut
down almost half of the state as they attacked
suspected Boko Haram enclaves.
A man who spoke to one of our correspondents on
the telephone from Maiduguri narrated that the
military operation in the city had disrupted normal
life.
He said the number of roadblocks had increased and
that "farmers are no longer going to the farm, only a
few traders are venturing out to the market.
"Shop owners who sell provisions are finding it
difficult to replenish their stock."
The source further explained that even residents of
Maiduguri, considered safe were living in fear.
This, he explained, was because they feared that the
insurgents could sneak into town. The Boko Haram
insurgency began in Maiduguri in 2009 and Borno
State is seen as the operational base of the sect that
has killed at least 2,500 persons in attacks on military
and police facilities, drinking joints, worship houses
and markets.
Director of Defence Information, Brig.- Gen. Chris
Olukolade, said in a telephone interview with one of
our correspondents that more troops had been
deployed in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.
He declined to comment on the number of troops
that were billed to participate in the major military
operations planned to flush out the insurgents from
the area.
Olukolade said that it was not strategic to disclose
the number of soldiers or security personnel that
would be used for the operation.
"All I can say is that more soldiers have been
deployed today; that I can confirm to you. On the
issue of the numbers that are being quoted, they are
not from the DHQ. We are not quoting any number.
"The operation is continuing satisfactorily. Details
will be made available to the public at the
appropriate time."
Another source in the besieged area said, "We now
have more soldiers and weapons than I have ever
seen in my life. Although some of them are moving
towards the north, some are remaining here in
Maiduguri.
"I have no idea what is going on in places like Bama,
Marte, Magumeri, and Monguno where the Boko
Haram people have taken control of some towns and
villages. But movement in-and-out of these areas has
been restricted."
The Nigerian Army on Thursday announced an
indefinite dusk-to-dawn curfew in Adamawa State.
Public Relations Officer of 23rd Brigade of the
Nigerian Army, Yola, Lt. Ja'afaru Nuhu, in a
statement on Thursday said the curfew would be
between 6 pm and 6 am until further notice.
He said, "Sequel to the Presidential declaration of
state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa
states by the President and Commander-in-Chief of
the armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
President Goodluck Jonathan, a 6pm to 6am curfew
has been imposed on Adamawa State.
"All law-abiding citizens are advised to abide by the
curfew," the statement said.
There are reports that business and other activities
are going on as usual in Yola in spite of the heavy
deployment of soldiers and policemen in strategic
places.
The BBC reports on Thursday indicated that mobile
phone networks were not functioning in many parts
of North-East states, though the reporter said it was
not clear if the situation was related to the current
military offensive.
The insurgents had previously attacked mobile
phone masts in the area in an effort to disrupt
communications.
The State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Inuwa
Bwala, and the Director of Press, Mallam Isa Gusau,
could not be reached as of the time of this report.


Source: mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/borno-troops-capture-boko-harams-camp/

blink182: Guy I beg go school go learn english.

Birds of same feather...
You both need english lesson!

The Muslim Students' Society of Nigeria, Lagos State
chapter, on Wednesday said it was not part of any
decision on the use of Hijab in Lagos State public
schools as claimed by the government.
Commissioner for Education, Mrs Olayinka
Oladunjoye, was reported in the media to have said
the decision not to allow the use of Hijab, except for
prayers, was a consensus reached at a meeting
chaired by the Commissioner for Home Affairs and
Culture Mr Oyinlomo Danmole and attended by
stakeholders, including MSSN.
However, in a statement by the group's Public
Relations Officer, Sulaimon Alamutu, the MSSN said
the claim by the government was tantamount to
obstructing the course of justice.
The group said, "How can MSSN be part of the so-
called stakeholders' meeting where the decision on
the use of Hijab was taken? This is ridiculous.
"How can we be demanding that the right of
Muslims to use Hijab in schools be given them and at
the same time consent to a 'consensus' that is
antithetical to our demand? We were never invited
for any meeting at any point in time!"
The society said it had dragged the government to
the court on the issue.
It said, "Justice Oyewole of the State High Court had
fixed May 27, 2013 for hearing of our suit. So, we
wonder why the commissioner, who we believe,
knows the position of the law, would come out to
make such irresponsible pronouncement. Her action
makes us to question her professional integrity as a
lawyer!
"We therefore advise governor Babatunde Fashola to caution this woman before she destroy the integrity left in the government."
"As we have stated in our previous positions, we will
employ all legal and peaceful means to ensure our
rights are not denied us. The constitution of Nigeria
recognises the right to use Hijab in schools and
nobody can take it away from us."

Source: mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/metro/muslim-students-fault-lagos-on-hijab/

The Action Congress of Nigeria has advised the
National Assembly to reject President Goodluck
Jonathan's declaration of a state of emergency in
Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.
The opposition party, in a statement in Abuja on
Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described the President's
decision as "lacking in original thinking."
It said the Boko Haram crisis would have ended a
long time ago if the use of force was capable of
ending it.
"We hereby reject the declaration of emergency rule
in the three states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, and
we call on the National Assembly to also reject it and
not allow itself to be used to rubber-stamp a
declaration that is largely cosmetic," the ACN stated.
One of ACN's partners in the merger deal, the
Congress for Progressive Change, had on Tuesday
hailed the emergency rule declared in the three
states by Jonathan and asked for support for the
measure.
National Publicity of the CPC, Rotimi Fashakin,
shortly after the proclamation, said, "We need to
rally round the President in this trying period. We
pray that with this action, peace will eventually
return to the states.
"However, it is gratifying that the President did not
behave like a former President who removed the
political structures when he declared a state of
emergency in some states.
"The action of President Jonathan has shown that the
choice made by the people through the ballot would
not be denied them. May God help our country."
The ACN said while the President was right in
expressing outrage over the killings and wanton
destruction by the insurgents, he was wrong in
proposing the same measures that had failed to yield
results.
It asked, ''If the medicine given to a patient has not
cured his or her illness, is it not futile to prescribe
more of the same medicine for the patient?
"If the declaration of a state of emergency in 15 local
government areas in four states in 2011 has not
curbed the activities of the insurgents, why extend
such measure to other areas?
"If the use of force in the affected states has failed to
curtail the activities of the insurgents, why send in
more troops?"
The party said that there was nothing new in the
President's action, adding that it involved
deployment of more troops in the affected states and
the use of "tougher, scorched-earth tactics against the
insurgents."
It further said, "The President should go ahead and
disband the committee he recently inaugurated and
saddled with reaching out to the insurgents, because
by opting to flood the states with more troops under
an ill-advised emergency rule, he has succeeded in
pulling the carpet from under the committee's feet.
Who negotiates genuinely with a gun to his head?
The committee's job is over; the members can as well
pack up and go home."
The party said that it hoped that the President's
action was not linked to the politics of 2015.
It stated, "With the three states militarised, there can
neither be electioneering nor voting there. We had
warned earlier that as 2015 approaches, the
Jonathan administration will increasingly take
measures that will make it impossible to hold
election in many states.
"The over militarisation of some states in the north,
the plan to destabilise the South-West, using slush
funds from the so-called oil pipeline protection
contract and the infantile threats from some Niger
Delta militants seem to be part of this plan."
It wondered what the President would do if the
declaration of emergency rule failed to stem the
violence.
But the Peoples Democratic Party accused the ACN
and others in the opposition as being behind the
insurgents in the country.
The ruling party, in a statement issued by its
National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in
Abuja on Wednesday, wondered why the ACN would
condemn the state of emergency declared in Borno,
Yobe and Adamawa states by the President.
Metuh said that the ACN had thought that the
President would also remove the governors of the
affected states.
The statement read, "Few things are possible. The
ACN and their cohorts in the opposition are behind
insurgents and therefore must subvert every
measure taken by government to tackle escalating
insurgency.
"We recall that the opposition boasted recently that
they would end the Boko Haram scourge within two
months of their presidency. There is no smoke
without fire."
He described the reaction of the ACN to the
declaration of state of emergency as that of a
political party speaking from either "a diseased or
confused state of mind: a blackmailer who doesn't
mind doing the trifle to remain relevant, or a
political party actively conniving at this mindless
war on Nigeria."
"Yesterday, the ACN, the sole repository of Solomonic
wisdom, who was against amnesty to insurgents,
who indeed described the Federal Government in
unprintable words has today turned a proselyte of
amnesty and dialogue," he added.
He alleged that the statements of the leaders of the
opposition on the eve of 2011 presidential election
gave birth to violence which he said had snowballed
into terrorism.
"We therefore call on the leaders of the opposition to
remove the mask on their faces and publicly declare
their stance," Metuh said.
A former Minority Leader in the House of
Representatives, Mr. AdamuAliyu, said the President
was playing politics with people's lives.
Although he described the state of emergency as a
right step in the right direction, he, however faulted
the inclusion of Adamawa State.
"It is a good step in the right direction. But Mr.
President is playing politics with people's lives. If he
did not impose state of emergency in Plateau, I can
see the hand of the National Chairman of the PDP in
the state of emergency in Adamawa State.
"If he did not declare the state of emergency in a
state where policemen were killed and he declared it
in Adamawa, the whole exercise is political."
The Christian Association Nigeria called for the sack
of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and
Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the
North.
The association's President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor,
made the call in Abuja in a statement by his Special
Assistant (Media and Public Affairs), Mr. Kenny
Ashaka.
Oritsejafor, who was commenting on the state of
emergency declared in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa
states commended the President for the decision.
He, however, called for the dissolution of the
presidential committee, which had been saddled
with the responsibility of entering into dialogue with
the Boko Haram insurgents.
The CAN president said the committee was "no
longer relevant."

Source: mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/reject-emergency-rule-acn-urges-nassembly/

Shugamania:

Something really happened on dis thread.
Op, i hope u've learnt not to post stuffs like this anymore.

You said?

bukatyne: I wonder what the OP's motive was for opening this thread.

If a 'matured' man like the OP still thinks that all women should have been married by 25 despite all odds, then we have a serious problem in our society.

Another 30+ frustrated lady.
Abi what is your age?
Mtshewwwww!!!

Is the picture the source of the news?

kulyie: hahahaha ase oro ma'n dun e. o nta e lara abi that is exactly my aim and yes i need to be rude to people like you so that you can make use of your number 6 properly and if you were the one who gave birth to me,then you are right about my age and if you are not my father,shut your disgusting mouth.its reeking of gross folly. Anyway,its not a suggestion,plea,appeal or request,it is an order,yes i said so,kulyie said so 8-)

What are you saying?

kulyie: the one wey you dey beg customers make dem follow you buy.you know say your wares (drugs) dey for one uncompleted building for one street like that in ijora where you and your gang they sniff your lives away.no dey lie for here,you sef know wetin you dey sell

Hum!
I smell a foul play here.

I find it difficult to believe you are a female.
You sound too RUDE!

And if truly you are a lady, i guess you are 35+...

Frustration age!!!

Idowuogbo: Shattap! Baboon! Na wen dem dey reply ur dumb thread wiv fire u get mouth to dey cough nonsense. Ewu!

Who is this?
You said what?

Haba! And i told you not to miss your drug ooo...

kulyie: the one wey you give me :p

The one i saw you buying for yaba left gang-star market...

@Kulyie, how many KG of heroine you take? You just they hot for the past two days

By SaharaReporters, New York
The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has
expressed strong opposition plans by the
presidency to declare a State of emergency in
three states: Borno, Yobe and Nasarawa, which
have been embroiled waves of violence in recent
times, declaring that such an action would be the
wrong response.
In a statement signed by Rotimi Fashakin, the
party’s National Publicity Secretary, CPC said
today that instead, the President, as the Leader of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), should
consult within his Party for the panacea to
Nigeria’s security nightmare.
Condemning in strong terms the “orgies of
violence” in the three States and commiserating
with the families and servicemen and women that
have been affected by it, CPC questioned what an
emergency administrator will hope to achieve
given the present scenario of militarization in the
states.
“Should this not be interpreted as another knee-
jerk response of this administration to situations
that require out-of-the-box thinking?” the
statement asked. “Is this approach not to be
interpreted as a pre-meditated consequence of
ineptitude of this regime?”
Recalling that the late former National Security
Adviser, General Andrew Owoye Azazi, had
alerted the nation about the politics of the PDP
being the locus of the insecurity in Nigeria, CPC
asked: “What did the Federal Government do to
stymie the odiousness of the politics of the ruling
party other than merely sacking the messenger?”
The party also pointed out a “dangerous trend”:
that the states mainly embroiled in ongoing
insecurity are “mainly non-PDP states which
further fuels the notion that these insurgencies are
purposely orchestrated to create the ambience for
the declaration of emergency rule in the states.”
In an unprecedented speech at the South-South
Economic Summit in Asaba in April 2012, Azazi
blamed the escalating insecurity in the country,
particularly the growing activities of Boko Haram,
on “undemocratic practices” by the political
parties, especially the PDP.
“The issue of violence did not increase in Nigeria
until when there was a declaration by President
Goodluck Jonathan that he was going to contest,”
he said. “PDP got it wrong from the beginning.
The party started by saying Mr. A can rule, and
Mr. B cannot rule, according to PDP conventions,
rules and regulations and not according to the
constitution. That created the climate for what is
happening or manifesting itself in country.”
Azazi was killed in a helicopter crash in December
2012.

Source: mobile.saharareporters.com/news-page/cpc-rejects-declaring-emergency-northeast-says-answer-insecurity-within-pdp

By SaharaReporters, New York

A military source told Saharareporters that unknown gunmen have just carried out an attack in Southern Kaduna.

The attacks, according to the source occurred in Zangan-Attakar Chiefdom in troubled Southern Kaduna region.

The source said scores of people have been shot by the gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in the area. He stated that Nigerian soldiers have been drafted to end the attack.

Source: mobile.saharareporters.com/news-page/gunmen-attack-southern-kaduna-village

chelseabmw: Happy sunday

Welcome on board bro...
But please beware of the single ladies here!

Beync: when u finally find a girl who'll manage u as her husband, come l'll teach u some marriage lessons

Marriage lessons?
Hope you are not thinking what I'm thinking?
Hum Marriage LeSSoNs indeed!

190: Benyc is not married - stop defending her
She doesn't even have a boyfriend and she just wrote JAMB
am a 100% sure on this

And her jamb result was seized...

Double wahala!

190: Benyc is not married - stop defending her
She doesn't even have a boyfriend and she just wrote JAMB
am a 100% sure on this

And her jamb was seized

190: I can bet my left scro-sac that benyc is not married

Never - it can't be

That girl is just 15

Did i hear you saying 15yrs?

Haba! She will be 31yrs tomorrow.

So she is there for you without any bride price... Lolz

This thread really shows that the truth is BITTER...

@Vikin et:al, i beg you in the name of God, please pardon me.

I will continue praying along with you. But i believe you will surely get married before vision 20:20:20...

God time is the best!

@190, please watch your back ooo...

Agrika: Nonsense! Anytime i see such threads i weep for Nigerian girls, must a lady be married before the society sees her as a complete woman? The funniest thing is that you will see half-baked, broke arse loosers opening threads like these to make fun of them, some of these women are seasoned professionals in thier areas of specialization and through thier effort have catered for members of thier family, some are not even attracted to the institution of marriage at all, some just want to be free and live thier life the way they please and you are here typing rubbish! Ewu Gambia!

Bro stop crying!

The North on Friday vowed to oppose any plan to
impose a state of emergency in any of the region's
crisis torn states.
Borno, Yobe and a few northern states have
experienced sporadic violence in the past few
weeks.
Over 55 people including policemen and prison
officials were killed in Bama, Borno State, last week,
after suspected Boko Haram insurgents launched
several attacks on the town. A few days later, over
185 people were killed in the Baga area of the state
with thousands of houses destroyed.
There were reports that President Goodluck
Jonathan, who cut short a foreign trip to tackle the
insecurity challenge, might declare a state of
emergency in some of the troubled states.
The Presidency on Saturday said the Federal
Government was studying the situation in the
affected states.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and
Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, said, "The Federal
Government is studying the situations in the affected
states and would take decisions that would be in the
overall interest of the security of not just the people
of the states affected but also of the country.
Declaration of state of emergency is a serious thing
that should not be speculated about."
However, the Arewa Consultative Forum, the
Northern Elders' Forum and other stakeholders, who
spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH, said they would resist
attempts by the Federal Government to apply more
force in the bid to quell the insurgency of the region.
They insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan
should stick to the plan to grant total amnesty to
members of the sect, just the way it was granted to
Niger Delta militants.
The ACF said the recent aggressiveness in attacks by
Boko Haram members should not warrant a
declaration of a state of emergency.
ACF spokesman, Mr. Anthony Sani, said the forum,
which is the apex socio-cultural group in the North,
had resolved that the recurring violence in region
could only be halted by dialogue, thus its opposition
to emergency rule.
He said, "I believe the hike in attacks recently, if by
the sect, is their own way of playing hard (to get), so
that they can secure the best of terms in the ensuing
dialogue. You seem to forget what brought about the
hankering for dialogue: It was because the use of
force had not delivered the desired results. If
military might were successful in campaigns against
terrorism, nobody would talk about dialogue.
"I want to appeal to Nigerians of all religions,
political colorations and of all regions to please give
the government and the amnesty a chance."
Similarly, the Northern Elders' Forum described
speculations about emergency rule in parts of the
North as wrongheaded.
The northern elders advised the Federal Government
to follow through with the plan to grant amnesty to
Boko Haram, which has claimed responsibility for
most of the violent attacks in the region.
The spokesman of NEF, Dr. Paul Unongo, said the
Federal Government could not justify a state of
emergency in the North, since such a measure wasn't
introduced in the South-South states at the peak of
the violence unleashed on the region by Niger Delta
militants.
He said, "Government did not declare a state of
emergency in the states in Niger Delta. General
amnesty was declared and those who wanted to take
advantage of it were asked to come out and lay
down their arms and get some booties.
"Anybody calling for the declaration of a state of
emergency in the North will not be able to justify it.
Amnesty has worked in Nigeria. It can still work."
The National Coordinator, Coalition of Northern
Politicians, Academics, Professionals and
Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, also warned
the Federal Government not to declare a state of
emergency in any part of the North.
He said, "Some people in the Peoples Democratic
Party that are talking about state of emergency are
just playing politics because most of the states
affected are not PDP states. Borno, Yobe and
Nasarawa are not PDP states, only Taraba is. Any
declaration now will be nothing but a political
manoeuvre to impose the unpopular PDP mandate
on these states, which did not vote for PDP in the last
election."
The Second Republic lawmaker said a declaration of
state of emergency was the reaction of a failing
government.
"There is something suspicious about declaring a
state of emergency. The people proposing a state of
emergency should give us good reasons. This is
because, clearly, government has failed in its
fundamental duty. This government has failed
woefully."
Junaid's view was also echoed by the National
Assembly on Friday. The Senate and the House of
Representatives ruled out a state of emergency as a
solution to the crises in some northern states.
They said an emergency rule would be "premature."
The Chairman, House Committee on Media and
Public Affairs, Mr. Zakari Mohammed, told SUNDAY
PUNCH that lawmakers would not be in a hurry to
initiate any call for a state of emergency.
He said it might heat up the polity the more and
compound the situation.
"While our committees are working, the House
cannot jump the gun to call for a state of emergency.
"We have to wait to receive the reports of our
committees, then we take it up from there.
"For now, a state of emergency is premature," he
added.
Leader of the Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba,
told one our correspondents on Friday on the phone,
that the violent killings in parts of the North were not
enough to warrant the declaration of a state of
emergency.
"A state of emergency is an extreme measure which
should be applied as a last resort. The security
agencies can handle it and I think they are already
on top of the situation," he said.
Also in opposition to emergency rule, the Congress
for Progressive Change, which is the ruling party in
Nassarawa State, warned the Federal Government
against declaring a state of emergency in the state.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr.
Rotimi Fashakin, said though the party condemned
the killings of policemen in the state by a militia
group, it would be wrong to use that as a pretext to
declare a state of emergency.
Meanwhile, the Governor of the state, Mr. Tanko Al-
Makura, has vowed that those behind the killings of
the policemen will be brought to book.
The governor, who spoke in a telephone interview
with one of our correspondents on Friday, assured
the families of the dead policemen that their
husbands would not die in vain.
"We would get those behind the killings of these
heroes. We would not stop at anything to get them.
Wherever they are hiding, we would get them," he
said.
On the possibility of declaring a state of emergency
in his state, he said, "Governance has not collapsed
in the state to warrant that."
Our correspondents also learnt that northern
governors had also vowed to resist attempts to
impose a state of emergency on any state in the
region.
An aide to one of the governors, who spoke to
SUNDAY PUNCH on Friday, said his boss and some of
his colleagues were aware of the plan.
He said, "We are aware that certain individuals will
want to profit politically from the current sad events
in parts of the North, but we will stop them.
"The solution to this problem is not the declaration of
a state of emergency but the implementation of the
various panel reports and government white papers
which government has not had the courage to
implement.
"When Governor Ahmed Makarfi issued a White
Paper and implemented the panel recommendations
on the Kaduna crisis, the problem in the state
stopped. We cannot continue to play the ostrich
when our house is on fire."
Meanwhile, the Army has set up a board of inquiry
to investigate the role of soldiers in the recent
killings in Bama and Baga.
SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that the investigation team
led by a Major General had started work.
However, our correspondents couldn't get the details
of the mandate of the new committee on Friday.
Efforts made to reach the Director of Army, Brig.-
Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, were not successful as calls
placed to his mobile telephone line did not go
through.
Also the Director, Defence Information, Brig.-Gen.
Chris Olukolade, could not be reached on his mobile
phone.

Source: mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/insecurity-north-opposes-emergency-rule/

tpacalipse: I can actually guess are age. She is so much into the topic. I think the Op touched a sensitive spot.

Bro, no mind Vikin jor.
She will be 36yrs by August 16th(according to her profile).
And she is the grand mother of single ladies on nairaland.

She attended GOD TIME IS THE BEST revival ministry...

GOVERNORS of the Southeast geo-political zone met in Enugu Saturday to articulate the position of the zone on the Southern Nigeria political leaders meeting holding today in Asaba, the Delta State capital.

Although there was no official confirmation to the positions reached by the governors, sources said the Enugu meeting, which lasted for over four hours, deliberated extensively on the role of Ndigbo in 2015 dispensation, stressing that such position would be presented today, when the leaders of the 17 southern states meet in Asaba.

At the meeting were Governors Peter Obi (Anambra), Martin Elechi (Ebonyi), Theordore Orji (Abia), Sullivan Chime (Enugu) and Deputy Governor of Imo state, Eze Mmadumere.

There were also others in the meeting including, Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha Senator Ayogu Eze,Senator Uche Chukwumerije, Minister of Power,Professor Chinedu Nebo, a representative of the traditional institution of the zone, the clergy led by Dr Amos Madu, the archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, Anglican communion, among others.

But Governor Obi, who is also the chairman of South East governors forum, who emerged after the closed door meeting told Journalists that the meeting discussed about the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan as well as the burial plans of literary icon, Late Professor Chinua Achebe.

Achebe, he restated would be buried on May 23, this year at his family compound in Ogidi, Anambra state, stressing that the meeting was basically the review plans already made by the burial committee and the governors.

President Goodluck Jonathan will be embarking on a working visit to the Southeast zone of the country within the week. Obi added that the visit formed the reason for the emergency meeting.

The governor, who failed to give the exact date of the President’s visit to the zone, also failed to entertain questions from newsmen on other discussions at the meeting.


Source: www.theguardianmobile.com/readNewsItem1.php?nid=13439

• Government Has Failed — Buhari
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 presidential
polls and former Head of State, Gen Muhammadu
Buhari(rtd), has said there is no more room for
“rigging, vote thievery and general impunity that
have become the norms and standard practices
during elections in the country.”
Buhari spoke Saturday at the national convention of
CPC, which held at the Eagles Square, Abuja.
He reiterated the opposition’s resolve not to allow
the mayhem government deliberately creates in
order to cover up guilt.
He said: “We have resolved that, henceforth, our
votes must all be counted… And we declare that this
nation has now resolved through its united
opposition that it will never, again, tolerate or allow
the mayhem the government deliberately creates in
order to cover up its guilt, obscure the issues and
blame the opposition in order to deceive gullible
folks. And we will no longer be intimidated by
anyone.”
Lamenting the rot in the polity, he assured that an
APC-led government would tackle the multi-faceted
problems besetting the country in the past 14 years
the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been
in power.
He noted: “The government has failed in almost
everything; it has proved it cannot secure the
country; there is insecurity everywhere. There is
spiralling lawlessness all over the country. There is
widespread and rising poverty and unemployment
across the length and breath of the country. There is
a complete and total decline in the quality of social
services and an irremediable dilapidation in the
nation’s socio-economic infrastructure across
board.”
Delegates at the convention unanimously endorsed
the party’s merger with other political parties to
form the All Progressive Congress (APC).
The decision followed adoption of a motion moved
by a member of the board of trustees, Alhaji Sule
Yahaya Hamma, and seconded by Chief Oskar Udoji.
Earlier, a motion moved by Vice Presidential
candidate of the party, Pastor Tunde Bakare, calling
for the dissolution of the CPC received the nod of
delegates.
Buhari, who particularly described the occasion as
historic, since several political parties have resolved
to come together to change Nigeria for the better,
assured that once the APC comes on board, the
yearnings and aspirations of Nigerians for good
governance would be achieved.

Source: www.theguardianmobile.com/readNewsItem1.php?nid=13440

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Doing the cooking?

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Vikin: For your info,

1.I don marry...
2. I was more than 25 before I got married.

3. I was busy making money and preparing my future.
4. I took my time not pressurized.

5. Even if I wasn't married, my single life will still be the bomb!


And 6. You don arrive?

Yes i don arrived...

But I'm still refreshing inside the airport... Just park outside, I'm coming...

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You sure say that dude doesn't have a secret with her?

How come the dude keep say SUGAR MUMMY?

God is watching!!!

Eze Promoe: [color=crimson]Nonsense! She's married with four kids though one look like me [/color]

Jesus!!!

With four kids?

How come she is always on nairaland spying your the young sexy dudes?

I need to call her 911...

@190, please how can you get me the cell digits of her oga @ the top...