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The GOP presidential field grew by two
Monday as retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson
and former technology executive Carly Fiorina
both announced they are running for
president.
The two new candidates enter a quickly
expanding GOP field as Democrats get off to
a relatively slow start, with another
Republican -- former Arkansas Gov. Mike
Huckabee -- set to make his announcement on
Tuesday. Together, Carson and Fiorina add to
the diversity on the Republican side; Fiorina is
the first, and possibly only, female Republican
in the race, while Carson is the first black
candidate of either party to enter the
campaign.
Carson formally launched his campaign in his
hometown of Detroit on Monday.
"I'm Ben Carson, and I'm a candidate for
president of the United States," Carson said,
after being introduced with a series of musical
acts.
In his soft-spoken tone, Carson blasted big
government -- and the Affordable Care Act --
while also acknowledging his history of
controversial comments. He described his
candor, however, as an asset.
"I'm not politically correct," he said, to
applause. "I'm probably never going to be
politically correct, because I'm not a politician.
I don't want to be a politician. ... Politicians do
what is politically expedient. And I want to do
what's right."
Carson tipped his hand a day earlier, also
telling Ohio's WKRC-TV that he was
announcing his campaign for the White House.

Ojukwu is a very great man...

Great men do not die... They only take rest from active life... Ojukwu lives on...

Source http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0NN09V20150502?irpc=932

By Stephen Addison
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Duchess of
Cambridge, the wife of Prince William, gave birth
to a girl on Saturday, the couple's second child and
a great grand-daughter to Queen Elizabeth.
The royal family's newest member was born at 8:34
a.m., some 2-1/2 hours after Kate Middleton was
admitted in the early stages of labor to St Mary's
Hospital, West London, the couple's Kensington
Palace residence said in a statement.
The couple emerged later the same day with the
baby wrapped in a white woolen shawl and bonnet
to pose for photographs on the steps of the
hospital, a little over 12 hours after Kate arrived.
Kate cradled the sleeping princess in her arms as
the couple waved to the cheering crowd, although
they made no comment.
A few minutes later, Prince William carried the
baby in a car seat to a waiting vehicle, and then
drove his wife and new daughter the short distance
to Kensington Palace.
The baby princess will be fourth in line to the
throne behind her brother Prince George, father
William and grandfather Prince Charles, pushing her
uncle Prince Harry down a place in the royal
hierarchy.
The baby, whose name has yet to be announced,
weighed 8 lbs 3 oz and William was present at the
birth, the palace said.
"Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing
well," it added.
Both families of the couple had been informed,
including the new baby's great-grandparents Queen
Elizabeth and Prince Philip. She becomes the 89-
year-old queen's fifth great-grandchild.
William left the hospital later in the afternoon and
soon returned with young George to introduce him
to his new sister.
"I'm very happy," he told reporters and the large
crowd of royal fans, some of whom have been
camping outside for days.
The birth will provide a welcome distraction for
many Britons from the country's knife-edge general
election campaign, which comes to a head with the
vote next Thursday.
Britain's leading politicians took time out from the
election trail to send their best wishes.
Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted:
"Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge on the birth of their baby girl. I'm
absolutely delighted for them," while Labour leader
Ed Miliband said the news was fantastic and added
"I know the whole country will be wishing them
well.”
The birth has also provided a boon to the country's
bookmakers who having first offered odds on the
child's likely sex, now turn their attention to names,
with Charlotte, Alice, Victoria and Elizabeth the
current favorites.
Slightly longer odds are available on Diana, Eleanor
and Alexandra.
William, 32, was born at the same hospital to the
late Princess Diana in 1982.
He and Kate, 33, met as students at St Andrews
University in Scotland, married in a spectacular
ceremony at Westminster Abbey in April 2011.
Their first child, George, was born in July 2013.
When Kate leaves hospital, the couple will return
to Kensington Palace in central London for a
couple of days before heading to Anmer Hall, their
country mansion on the queen's Sandringham
estate in Norfolk, eastern England.
(Reporting by Stephen Addison and Paul Sandle;
Editing by Angus MacSwan/Hugh Lawson)

jpphilips:
You live in Ngige's senatorial district yet your state has no DISCO while Ngige sat on the committee that approved it, shame on you! !
Obviously you have no clue how that malady will affect you in the future.
Dumb leaders of tomorrow.

i dont really understand your point.
I dont understand understand why are calling me names.

Every state wont have DISCO. But for your information, Enugu Distribution Company (DISCO) that controls south east is owned by Sir Emeka Offor is ANAMBRA man. I dont know why you are firing on this DISCO since...

I am not a fan of ngige sir. He is a failure.

Lier like you...
Habinger of a BAD news...
Nonsense...
I will read this story after you i v been quoted...

A very sad news. Accept my condolence Feddy.

fabulousdora:
actually apga candidate won the election clearly but that nite ekwunife manipulated a lot...went as far as arresting victor that nite...thou with top pdp leaders backing her up and victor couldn't do anything, is it this one he ll do sometin, if ekwunife agrees victor can't be an obstacle

i dont believe u sir because victor umeh cant beat uche in anambra central election when the whole anaocha has already conspired again him prior to the election but lets leave that one.

What of INEC? What reason will they give to nigerians that made them to throw up ngige?

arbitter:
'She's' not, 'she' is actually a made up name used by an ldiot 'not from the North' to tell us his opinions.

@ topic

Da abinci mu dafa shi ga Jonathan a yanzu dole mu ci shi. Classic Southerners trying to write Hausa

Im sure we all remember how you all cried like little bltches on this forum because Jonathan was called a retar.d , the Admin had to even censor the damn word because of how pathetic you were. Well, I promise you that we give zero shlts about what you call Buhari. Why should we anyway? Does your insults stop him from being President ? Or does it somehow affect his life in anyway? You have been insulting him since 2003 so what exactly is new here? why do you feel the need to keep telling us stories about why you insult Buhari ?

What i think is that you are so disappointed no one is giving a shlt about your 'insults' so you have now resorted to doing stuff like this to draw peoples attention and it still wont work.

Let me not get carried away here, no need to write an epistle over something so irrelevant.

the name calling is yet to start and you are already this angry.

Funny world.

The BBB sounds so good though i wont be amongst those that will him names at all.

But the opposition messed up the office of the presidency in the name of politicking.

Too bad though. Let GMB learn to bottle his anger because names will fall on his feet soon.

I mean enough names...

fabulousdora:
this news is 100%very true...

okay i believe you but if the person that took first position steps down, is it the person that took 3rd that step up or the person that took 2nd position?

Again dont you think it will throw up lots of credibility question on the activities of INEC?

What do you think that will be the reaction of APGA whose candidate Victor Umeh took 2nd position?

Let us reason...

liberty300:
Yeap. Igbos chased out the British. The yorubas hated it. The Hausas were given power because they welcome the Brits with open arms and obeyed every command without any question

the british up until now is still afraid of the people of lower niger. Remember king jaja of opobo.

They gave power to the north because they can easily manipulate them to their favour then. I dont know about now. I just hope buhari will not do their will as gej rejected their will.

FreeGlobe:
hehe... who is relevant today in Nigeria politics between Obi and Ngige? Who just lost his so much desired ministerial ambition?

nne gini bu nsogbu gi hia? Disi posutu isi notu abawutu mista pita obi biko.

Ihe ana ekwu hia bu abawutu uche ekwunife na chris ngige.

Lekwagi ka iga anwu n‘oge gi elughi maka mista pita obi. Rapu nwamadi ahu aka na onweghi ife omeregi. Biko

Edusouls:
i too know and too much sense is the worse disease the people of anambra is suffering from, they didnt vote for ngige earlier, too clinch this advantage, now they have seen that they were fools who shot themselves on the leg..now they are pressuring the winner to step down for ngige,and they think it is possible and an easy thing to do,when they were voting a woman into that hot and very important place in nigeria, what were they thinking?

bros take it easy. This news is a lie.

In that election. Uche got over 100000 votes followed by victor umeh (apga) with over 70000 votes & ngige came 3rd with a little over 20000votes, so tell me the rationale in telling uche to step down for the person that came 3rd. What do you think the person that came second will do?

Abeg when we read, we should also reason.

DjAndroid:
It's obvious you didn't read the post before writing this thrash.

which part of the news do you think i didnt read?

Please tell me...

Leadership newspaper is owned by Nda Isa Isaiah of APC, and they like punch trive in falacy.

The point i raised in my post is that, no sane person will tell someone to relenquish a post for someone that came third. If Uche steps down it means victor umeh who came second will be the one that will go to the senate. Ngige came a DISTANT 3rd that is my point.

Point to me that part of the news you think i didnt read... Am waiting

Yeske2:
And what have we gained under Ekwunife in the HOR? Hausas and yorubas controlling their regions but Ndigbo hiding behind a minority Ijaw. Were Igbos and yorubas not slaughtered by the Fulani too? Not until we Igbos get our act together, Ndigbo umunnem will never rule this country.

well my brother i doubt if understand how the house is ran. Go to the constituency that Uche represents at the house & you will see numerous things including road projects she attracted to them.

Check house of assembly records and see how many motions Uche moved.

I live in Anambra central senotorial district which Ngige represents at the senate, ngige has failed us.

FreeGlobe:
Ngige is a failure... So what is Peter obi

is Peter Obi contesting for senate presidency?

Is it not time you wake up from this your bad dream?

The issue here is between Uche Ekwunife & Ngige...

I was thinking by now after a year plus you still have not suvived Mr Peter Obi‘s trashing of Ngige... Tooooooo baaaaad

PassingShot:
Personally I do not want Tinubu to have his way at the Senate.

I do not have any problems with Saraki as the president of the senate either.

Trust me, APC has proved to be more matured in handling crisis than PDP if we judge by what APC has passed through in its short life history.

lolzzzz

APC have never been faced with single problem, not even one... Or remind me that problem they faced.

You dont have problem with saraki becoming the senate president but i tell you, ACN (tinubus APC) have a problem with that.

PassingShot:
After all is said and done, APC will emerge from this dilemma stronger and more united as they have demonstrated on many occasions in the past.

this is what PDP always say until recently.


Well all i know is that many people in the house of assembly who are none yorubas detest tinubu & will do everything to spite him.

Saraki is likely going to be the new senate president or PDP takes it back.

Tinubu is only afraid of sarakis ambition of becoming the president of nigeria in 2019

cozy7:
Yeah, hold him tight and don't let go. I'm sure my president-elect will not disappoint. HE'S A MAN OF HIS WORDS!

as much as i loveyour believe, faith & trust in buhari. Please i have a question to ask: you claimed that buhari is a man of his words. My question is, where & when has buhari made any promise in the past or has he said anything and live up to it that gave you this strong convidence in him?

omonnakoda:
55. The business of the National Assembly shall be conducted in English, and in Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba when adequate arrangements have been made therefor.
http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm#Composition_and_Staff_National_Assembly

So can you please give us a break and stop heating up the polity

first of all the constitution was prepered by hausa/fulani soldiers not by the Nigerian people.

Secondly: ibo is represented there as a language not as a people (eg: english is the language of the people of england).

We are IGBO & our languge is also IGBO.

These and many other reasons are why many Nigerians believe that our constitution does not represent the will of the Nigerian people.

We need a new constitution with contribution from all Nigerians. 2014 national Conferrence should adopted.

This news cant be true. Leadership like all APC news outlet likes to lie so much.

How can someone ask Uche Ekwunife the performer to step down for none perfomer. Ngige is a failure. He failed us that live in senatorial district.

Uche did so well FOR the 3 local governments under her constituency as a house of rep member.

Another thing that made this news riduculous is that Ngige came a distant 3rd in that election with about 20000votes. Victor Ume came second with about 70000votes.

So if Uche steps down APGA (victor ume) would jump in to take the position, therefore Ngige has nothing in this matter.

Conclusion: this news is a BIG FAT LIE.

jpphilips:
Ngige is too hopeless to assume any office, his senatorial district is still waiting anxiously for his first bill after sleeping 4yrs in the senate.

Deputy senate chair on power yet his senatorial district doesn't have a DISCO, Ngige is just a nincompoop living on past glory.

dear you are wrong here.

I live in his senatorial district, what we are waiting for is his first constituency project.

Alor civic centre (his town) can not be accepted as a constituency project.

Ngige failed us BIG TIME.

Assuming that GMB didnt win this (s)election this would have been his road to oblivion.

momentum85:
I think Ngige is fit for d position. he who suffer with Baba shall enjoy with him.

lolzzz how did Ngige suffer with buhari?

You are forgeting that out the three major political parties that make up APC, Ogbonny Onu is the leader of one them. That is ANPP.

If things are done right i think OO should be given the post.

To APC supporters everybody that didnt support Buhari is either seeking for asylum or looking for a way to avoid jail.

I think it is time to these guys (apc) that buhari is not going into aso rock as a “general“ in the army but as a civilian.

If all those that oppesed buhari are either jailed or go into exile it means that nigeria is really going back to the dack ages.

Abeg... You people should stop using all this your jail bruhaha to disturb us... No one is going into exile for anybody.

ShowYourCertificate:
Nice one!This is the first post-election speech of the general that makes sense. Maybe he's not BabaOneChance after all 

read it well... If it is true then it is a pre-election & a campaign promise...“that is if it is true.“ i couldnt access the link

Sirniyeh:
Pls prove your assertions! If he dares it, what will be will be. Nothing will happen. If you study APC manifesto well, the issue of Federalism can not be ruled out. However, the true changes we all clamour for begin only if we will all accept to what will be will be.

I know Buhari is more than able to effect Federalism in Nigeria and there is nothing Northerners can do for him.

I remember in 1985 when Northerners tried to instigate him to change constitution by making Fridays. Work free days. He ignored them, challenged them to prove it to him from the Quran. The Buhari I know can not be intimidated, not even Niger Delta Militants

well this beyond APC manifesto.

Remember this is democracy; nothing happens without going through the national assembly. Guess those who have majority in national assembly.

Do you know why PIB hs not been passed? Simply because it will remove feeding bottle from many mouths above the Niger.

In democracy many things comes into play when one makes none executive decision. GMB might honest but his honesty will have no effect if it runs contrary to the will of his people.

WisdomFlakes:
Chai! Obviously this SW and North collabo is giving bitter and mean-spirited Igbos like yourself serious headache. . Dey deceive yourself, you hear? Tinubu and the SW APC senators in concert with the NC and NE senators have already endorsed Lawan's Senate president candidacy. Lawan only needs at least 55 votes to clinch the position. Gbajabiamila is pretty much certain to become Speaker of the house of reps, so what else do you have to say, hater?

Straight to the point: i am not talking of house of reps but am talking about the senate.

Tinubu has his boys in the senate PDP will be the people to decide who becomes Senate president & not APC.

Lawan & David Mark are a little close but PDP senators detest Tinubu as a person. And he has made some statements lately that has placed him in a bad light amongst even some northern APC senators. Having said this:

Bukola Saraki will get PDP senators support if he makes his intention public even when it is known that Tinubu wont support him. The only thing that will stop Saraki of senate presidency is if he is convinced by APC leadership to shield his ambition & he agrees.

Let me also tell you this: if APC starts any form of infighting, PDP will take over senate president once again.

Politics is a game of wits. Tinubu is good but the north has started cutting him to size.

I wont respond to you again cos your brain is weak. Your level of thinking is poor & it will cause me much pain discusiing wit you...

Byeeeee happy workers day

fyneguy:
You are naive. For your info, Tinubu's boys will populate the National Assembly leadership.

if it is easy as you just said it, then APC would not have been placed in serious pause just to finalise their zoning.

Well for politics sake, PDP is waiting like an injured lion to strike if APC makes any single mistake.

Well i am not being naive & i will not call you names yet but take it or leave it: Saraki might recieve the backing of PDP senators.

Just watch & see Saraki play the same game Tambuwal played in 2011.

PapiWata:
Ha ha ha for some reason I am reminded of the old saying : "Your arms are too short to box with God".

GOD so much believe in nagotiation cos even GOD HIMSELF has always invited humans to a nagotiation table.

kcpragmatik:
I'm an Igbo man, but to be honest the Igbo drew the margin themselves.. NAIRA.

i wont doubt you being an Igbo. But please can you remind me your place & state of origin in Igboland.

Now tell me how the Igbos drew this your margin?