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@least she's better than u in all ramification

Child marriage: Tonto Dike curses at Senators
on July 29, 2013 at 11:41 am in Home Video People

*Tonto
The actress wrote on her Facebook page…
‘Is so shameful that our so called st*pid OgaAtDtop ar trying to bring back Under age marriage to our gra8 country Nigeria, how can u sit ur stupid a** in dat God 4saken chair calling ur selves Senators and u talkin like bounce on idi*ts, ya kw me i dnt hide ma feelings, u al ar f**ls aka ol*do, m*mu, if u dnt kw youth ar the light of the world make their light shine n stop talking abt teen marriages, n start talking abt better things like (Good roads, electricity, good schools, etc) pals let’s join hands 2geda n support Mrs Stella Damasus on dis campaign SayNoToChild Slavery! My name is Tonto Charity Dikeh I’m a true Nigerian n I’m not scared to say my mind #‎poko’
Tonto joins a growing number of celebrities protesting the bill.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/child-marriage-tonto-dike-curses-at-senators/

PStylish: Most of the farmers are non-Yorubas.

Fact!

See Ode

Barcelona have told Manchester
United that Cesc Fabregas is not
for sale.
United confirmed on Monday
that they had submitted an
improved bid - understood to be
£30m plus add-ons for the
midfielder - but reports in
Spain claim that has been
turned down.
"Fabregas is not for sale," a
Barcelona source said on
Monday. "The president
(Sandro Rosell) has been very
clear with Man United."
Old Trafford boss David Moyes
earlier said he may be forced to
admit defeat.
Fabregas facts
He became Arsenal's
youngest player aged 16 years
and 177 days against
Rotherham United in League
Cup in October 2003
He was part of the Arsenal
team which beat Manchester
United on penalties in the
2005 FA Cup final - their last
trophy
When asked whether he would
give up on Fabregas were the
deal to drag on, Moyes said: "I
think a point does come but I
think when you are interested in
good players you want to give it
every opportunity to
materialise. And I'll do that.
"I'll hope that things can
continue to try to move
forward.
"At this moment I can only tell
you that Ed Woodward
(United's executive vice-
chairman) is working hard to
make the deals happen and
we're hoping some of them will
fall into place shortly."
United confirmed they had
made a £25m offer for the 26-
year-old midfielder last
Monday, with Woodward
leading the negotiations.
"As I understand it, Ed had a
response [to the first bid]," said
Moyes at a news conference in
Yokohama, Japan.
"We have made a second offer,
but Ed is dealing with it rather
than me."
Two days after United's initial
offer was confirmed, Woodward
returned from the Australia leg
of their pre-season tour to
attend to urgent transfer
business.
Barcelona have not made any
official comment, but the
situation has reportedly been
complicated
by the managerial vacancy
created at the Nou Camp by
Tito Vilanova's decision to
step down because of ill health.
It is not clear whether
Chelsea's pursuit of United
striker Wayne Rooney
has any bearing on the club's
attempts to sign Fabregas.
The Spaniard came through
Barcelona's La Masia academy
before Arsenal signed him as a
16-year-old in 2003.
He developed as one of the
Gunners' key players under
manager Arsene Wenger before
taking over the captaincy in
November 2008.
Fabregas spent eight years with
Arsenal, playing 303 games and
scoring 57 goals, but returned to
Barcelona in a five-year deal
worth £25.4m in 2011 and has
helped them win the Copa del
Rey in 2011-12 and La Liga last
season.
Man Utd's biggest signings
Dimitar Berbatov
(Tottenham) £30.75m
Rio Ferdinand (Leeds) £30m
Juan Sebastian Veron
(Lazio) £28.1m
Wayne Rooney (Everton)
£27m
Robin van Persie (Arsenal)
£24m
He has played 96 times in total
for Barcelona, including 60
league games, but has rarely
featured in his preferred
midfield role, with Xavi, 33, and
Andres Iniesta, 29, ahead of
him in the pecking order.
He has made 83 appearances
for Spain, winning the 2010
World Cup and the European
Championship twice.
In addition to Fabregas, United
have a reported interest in Real
Madrid forward Cristiano
Ronaldo and Tottenham
attacker Gareth Bale.
Left-back Leighton Baines and
midfielder Marouane Fellaini,
both of whom worked under
Moyes at Everton, have also
been linked with moves to Old
Trafford - where the transfer
record remains the £30.75m
they paid Tottenham for striker
Dimitar Berbatov in 2008.
But none of those moves have
materialised as yet and when
asked if he appreciated why
some United fans were
becoming anxious, Moyes
replied: "I can understand that
feeling.
"But there have been quite a few
changes. Other managers have
changed their clubs, too, and
everybody thought this might
be the summer when transfers
are done later in the month.
"That was always the thought I
had when I came into the club.
You have to remember I only
started on 1 July, so in truth I
have only been in the job three
weeks at this present time."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23404946

• Alleges govt traded her mother
• Says family might take case to
S’Court
From FRED ITUA, Abuja
The last is yet to be heard about
the recent acquittal of Major
Hamza Al Mustapha, former
Chief Security Officer (CSO) to
the late Sani Abacha by the
Appeal Court in Lagos, over his
alleged role in the assassination
of Kudirat Abiola.
Daughter of the late Kudirat and
human rights advocate, Hafsat
Abiola has fingered the Nigerian
Government, alleging that the
release of Al Mustapha was in
exchange for something she
could not identify.
The founder of Kudirat
Initiative for Democracy
(KIND) said: “We don’t know
what justice for Kudirat was
traded for, but we know it was
traded for something. Things
are meant to be traded, people
are not meant to be traded.
Nigerian lives are not to be
traded. Our government should
be accountable to us, not
negotiating away our rights in
political negotiations.”
Hafsat, whose interview was
monitored on Sahara TV at the
weekend, by Daily Sun, hinted
that her family might take the
case to the Supreme Court. “We
have to see if there were any
political negotiations that
impacted the judgment. I think
it is important for us to take this
case to the Supreme Court. We
have to give maximum
opportunity for the Nigerian
government to do the right
thing, we should give the
institutions of Nigeria the
chance to do the right thing. It
doesn’t mean that they will,”
she stated.
Hasfat said the controversial
judgment handed down by the
Court of Appeal was the last
thing her family expected after
the High Court judgment of
2012. “We were shocked, we
were angry, it was the last thing
we were expecting after the
judgment in 2012. Over the
years, everybody became quite
lax. We were not as attentive as
we ought to have been. This
trial has been going on for 10
years. At every point, Al-
Mustapha and Shofolahan
would request a stay in the
proceedings.
“Because of the delays, the
ballistics expert in the case had
died, so many of the witnesses
had passed on. The defense
team was counting on things
like these. They knew we had a
really strong case. I wonder
what was really going on behind
the scenes in terms of the
judges.
“It’s safe to say that we feel
betrayed by the political system
in Nigeria. But we’re joining a
very long queue of people, who
would feel betrayed by the
Nigerian political system. The
system expects you to give up,
to just accept that this is the
way things are.
“There is no change in any
society that comes from sitting
down and accepting the way
things are. If my siblings and I
cannot challenge the
wrongdoing on behalf of my
mother, I really don’t know who
in Nigeria can. Justice is
difficult for the common man
and now it is difficult for the
uncommon man,” she said.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/appeal-court-judgment-kudirats-daughter-hafsat-opens-up/

Governor Peter Obi on
Thursday said he did not
celebrate his 50th birthday
because of the parlous state of
affairs in the country.
He spoke to journalists after the
state executive council meeting
in Awka, Anambra State.
The governor turned 50 on
Wednesday.
He said, "Everybody knows my
position on celebrations not to
talk about now when the mood
of the country is that of
despondency due to
unemployment, lack of
infrastructure, threats of strike,
among others.
"As Nigeria is today, we do not
need to celebrate because that
will be insensitive to the plight
of our people. Rather, what the
mood of the time seeks is for
those in authority to think of
how to tackle the issue of
minimum wage and reduce the
tension in the land. It is about
time we told ourselves the
truth."
The governor said he escaped
an ambush celebration by his
commissioners as he had told
them ahead about his position
on celebration of birthdays.
He added, "I mean the business
of governing a state is a serious
one to start discussing birthday
celebration when a serious state
business of how to provide
dividends of democracy to over
five million Anambrarians are
discussed."
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/gov-obi-clocks-50-declines-to-celebrate/

[b]WHEN A RENOWNED
PROFESSOR TELLS LIES
(Professor Akinwande
Oluwole Soyinka Lied) – By
Segun Melchizedek Edward
II
If there was one disease the
human race ought to dread
most, it is the twin-disease of
arrogance and ignorance spurn
from knowing one is famous
and wrapping outright
falsehood in finely crafted
language. Unfortunately, people
infected with the disease are so
sure many would not take the
pains to research their
assertions and authenticate
what they put forth what with
the excruciating economic
conditions many a Nigerian
contends with on a daily basis –
too busy seeking a means of
self-sustenance to have time for
academic research and critical
thinking.
Professor Akinwande Oluwole
Soyinka, grandson of the Rev.
Canon J. J. Ransome-Kuti, his
maternal grandfather, was dead
wrong on so many counts in his
essay on Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari.
Please, do not get it wrong. I
have utmost respect for the
Nobel Laureate, a playwright
and prolific author of “The
Interpreters”, “You Must Set
Forth at Dawn”, “The Swamp
Dwellers”, “The Lion and the
Jewel” and so many more
classical works and one of the
leading lights of Nigerian
authors of the second
generation of the nation’s
literary giants.
I feel so pained one with such
outstanding achievements on
many fronts would fail to
research what he puts forth in
the public domain, knowing
many would run with it without
verifying the issues raised
therein. I admit though that
man, in his present fallen state,
is subject to making mistakes –
sometimes very costly ones too
and our illustrious professor is
not immune.
Soyinka is not in a position to
castigate Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari. While he talks about
alleged human rights abuses, he
plays the blind man to the
excesses of the present civilian
administration. Soyinka made
no comment when a governor
whipped a PHCN official in this
dispensation. He made no
comment when a critic of the
Bauchi State Governor was
hounded into detention for
speaking the truth. Soyinka was
so audibly silent when a
governor summoned a
Reverend Father to Government
House and flogged him
mercilessly. I can go on and on.
All over the world leaders, in
their zeal to deliver on their
mandates, might commit one
infraction or the other and they
do step on toes. It does not
make sense to play down on the
weight of circumstantial
evidence at the time and to seek
to malign Gen. Buhari, even
when the same respected
professor demonstrated in his
treatise that he does not know
the reasons for the decisions or
he chose to feign ignorance.
Let us examine for ourselves the
veracity of the professor’s
claims. You have a right to
know the truth and many alive
today will testify to the facts
that I present herein. I focus on
three major outright false
allegations leveled by Professor
Wole Soyinka against Gen.
Buhari.
A Mere Hoax: The 53 Suitcases
It is obvious that Prof. Wole
Soyinka chose to pander to
baseless sentiments founded on
outright lies. First, Atiku
Abubakar whom he had
referred to as the Customs
Officer in question is still alive
and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
had since asked Atiku to speak
up. For the records, Buhari was
not at the airport. What was
reported to the then Head of
State was that an Emir had
returned to the country with his
retinue of 15 wives and so many
children and someone had
mischievously counted all the
luggage they had returned with,
claiming they had contained
foreign currencies. One of the
Emirs that returned was the
father of then Major Jokolo.
Courtesy demands that he goes
to welcome his father and he
had gone there to do so. Even
Atiku Abubakar never reported
seeing foreign currencies in any
of the luggage. He is still alive
and I believe Professor Wole
Soyinka could so easily have
reached him. I still want to
throw the challenge to any
journalist who had seen foreign
currencies in any of the luggage
should step forward and say so.
It is interesting that none of the
media outfits that spread the
rumors reported sighting even a
cent. If, as Atiku Abubakar
claims, the military boys rudely
whisked the items away, how
then did he or anyone see
foreign currencies in the
suitcases?
Buhari’s Refusal to Appear
before The Oputa Panel
The Oputa Panel set up by Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo was not a
constitutional body neither
could its findings be said to be
binding on anyone. It is critical
to note that the Oputa Panel
never indicted Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari. It did not
even have the mandate to do so.
What Gen. Obasanjo tried to do
with the Oputa Panel was akin
to the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission in South Africa
with a view to calming frayed
nerves and to foster unity what
with the pent up anger built up
over the botched June 12, 1993
Presidential Election won by
Chief Moshood Kashimawo
Olawale Abiola a free and fair
process that was scuttled by
Prof. Wole Soyinka’s friend
whose evil action he did not
condemn: Gen. Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida. The only
straw Prof. Wole Soyinka could
clutch onto in a sea of lies he
amazingly peddles is that the
former Head of State did not
appear before the panel,
forgetting that the Head of State
had immunity for his actions
while in office and as at the time
the panel was set up and until
this very second, the immunity
clause has not been expunged
from our laws. Legally, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari was under
no obligation to appear before
the panel. I really would not
know why the renowned
professor would overlook these
established facts and run to the
public with half-truths and
outright lies. Until this day, I
have not heard or seen Prof.
Wole Soyinka clamour for the
removal of that vexatious clause
from our laws.
Alleged Human Rights Abuses
Professor Wole Soyinka was
already an elder states man
when Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
became Head of State. He,
therefore, cannot feign
ignorance of the compelling
circumstances that brought in
the military. Those
circumstances required drastic
measures to tackle with a view
to lifting off the nation her
pariah status in the comity of
nations. The prevalent
circumstances at the time
include:
Widespread corruption that
crippled the economy;
Nigeria had assumed the
notorious status of a major drug
trafficking hub;
Excessive violence due to
irresponsible politics on the
part of the civilians who had
held sway leading to
unprecedented carnage and
wanton bloodshed and we
witness a repeat of it right now;
Hoarding of essential food
items, petroleum products and
the essentials for daily living by
an unscrupulous few who
created artificial scarcity to sell
their stock at cut-throat prices;
Excessive dependence on
import and abuse of foreign
exchange allocations as well as
import licensing in such a
manner that encouraged
nepotism, tribalism and
excessive fraud;
All of the foregoing put
excessive pressure on the
economy and created galloping
inflation and the Naira began to
be worthless in terms of its
exchange value with other
major world currencies;
There was a general abysmal
slide in the educational sector
and the nation experienced the
horror of unbridled examination
malpractices and our
institutions were producing
some idiots and imbeciles who
presently ruin everything in the
nation;
Workers were receiving wages
for work not done; Public
servants stayed away from their
work places for days and would
come to work late; Head
teachers and principals in
schools introduced all sorts of
illegal levies on students;
Students were found loitering
aimlessly on the streets during
school hours and indulging in
all forms of crime;
The nation was generating a lot
of revenues from various
sources that were not
judiciously and productively
managed and public
infrastructure were in a state of
total disrepair while state funds
that could have been properly
channeled by vision went into
private pockets; and
There are many more.
It is obvious from all the
foregoing that drastic measures
were required to restore the
image of Nigeria and to put her
on the path of true growth and
development on all fronts.
Though some measures were
truly drastic, they were
inevitable. They were simply
sine qua non to turning around
the fortunes of the nation for
the good of all. There were
instantaneous results in
economic rebound from a
comatose state to a healthy
status. The nation made
massive savings. Inflationary
pressure ebbed. Nigerians
learned to do things in an
orderly fashion. The state of
heightened insecurity was
managed competently and with
drastic measures and the
unending violence was curbed.
Nigerians caught on with the
can – do spirit. The exchange
rate of the Naira to
international currencies
improved. There were massive
investments in infrastructure
within a short time. The
country’s image improved
instantly and we did not borrow
a dime to do any of those
things. Is Prof. Wole Soyinka
feigning ignorance of those
things? He obviously is doing so
for reasons best known to him.
He was a living witness at the
time. Let his conscience be his
judge.
It is, however, not surprising
that those who were the major
beneficiaries of the rot prior to
the Buhari administration and
whose nefarious activities were
cut short in the interest of all
Nigerians are not happy and
still have an axe to grind with
the man who was fair, just and
impartial who also chose to
channel the nation’s wealth
towards productive ends to oil
the engine of growth and true
development, rather than
participate in cornering the
nation’s wealth. Quite a number
of them infused massive funds
into some media houses and
dictate to the editors what to
write and whose image to
destroy. Their common enemy
is Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
who stands with the people
anytime and all the time in an
unflinching manner and no
matter whose Ox was gored.
It beats me that Prof Wole
Soyinka could ignore all these
facts that were extant at the
time to play on the English
Language to tell polished lies
which remain what they are no
matter the finesse that went
into crafting them: pure and
unadulterated and highly
concentrated lies from the pits
of hell.
What the professor did not tell
us is that he was also ashamed
of the status of Nigeria in the
comity of nations at the time.
He did not tell us that he was
disappointed at the turn of
events years after a hard-won
independence from the nation’s
colonial master. He did not
mention salient piercing
questions his peers asked about
the state of affairs in his country
and how ashamed he was.
It is also significant that Prof.
Wole Soyinka did not tell us
what he would have done if he
were in Gen. Buhari’s shoes at
the time. There was this
urgency to stem the tide of gross
indiscipline on all fronts that
made the nation a laughing
stock.
I also find it hard to believe that
Prof. Wole Soyinka chose to
ignore the roles of civilians who
were always serving in every
shade of government who added
the negative image to various
administrations with their
notorious activities.
It is also shocking that he chose
to ignore the realities of the
working of the military
administration under the
leadership of Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari. The decisions were
jointly made at the Supreme
Military Council with many
civilians as advisers at federal
and state levels. He also forgot
or he deliberately chose to
ignore the fact that the laws that
were termed draconian, though
necessary at the time, were all
drafted by civilians who were
lawyers some of whom are
Senior Advocates of Nigeria
today with inputs from civilian
directors and heads of MDAs.
There was no time we really ran
a pure military government in
Nigeria. Civilians ran the
business as Permanent
Secretaries and advisers and
offered their services as drafts
men to the soldiers.
It is interesting – quite
interesting – that Prof. Wole
Soyinka who believes
everything military was evil
accepted to serve in the most
corrupt of all the military
regimes in Nigeria headed by
Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi
Babangida. He was the pioneer
Chairman of the Federal Roads
Safety Commission. I had
actually thought that a man of
principle should never have
accepted to serve under such a
government. Could that be the
reason he was silent at the
atrocities of his good friend and
benefactor, Gen. Ibrahim
Babangida?
I can go on and on. The father
of secret cults on Nigerian
campuses goofed in so many
ways in that cheap essay
written in fine English. It is so
unfortunate that he succeeded
in convincing anyone at all who
also runs with unfounded
rumors just because a revered
Professor of Letters uttered
them.
Facts are truly sacred and even
lies told in the finest language
cannot become truth. It will be
announced from the rooftop.
[/b]

The leader of the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram denied that it entered into a cease-fire agreement with the government and endorsed an attack last week on a school in northeast Yobe state.

Abubakar Shekau, in a video message sent to reporters today, denied claims by Nigerian Minister of Special Duties Kabiru Turaki this week that a cease-fire was reached on July 8 after talks with the group's deputy leader, Mohammed Marwan.

"Let me assure you that we will not enter into any truce with these infidels," Shekau said. "We will not enter into any truce with the Nigerian government."

The purported cease-fire came in effect two days after 20 students and a teacher were killed in an attack on a secondary school in the northeastern state of Yobe. Eli Lazarus, a spokesman for the joint military and police task force in Yobe, said the attack was probably carried out by Boko Haram.

"We believe in the massacre inflicted on the secondary school in Mamudo and Damaturu and other schools; we earlier warned that we are going to burn all schools," Shekau said. "They are schools purposely built to fight Islam."

http://leadership.ng/news/130713/boko-haram-denies-cease-fire-agreement-fg

The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants said he supported a July 6 attack on a government owned school in Yobe, that killed 42 people, but did not claim responsibility for the massacre, in a video obtained by a news agency.

“We fully support the attack on this Western education school in Mamudo,” in northern Yobe state, Abubakar Shekau said in the 10-minute video speech.
The mostly Hausa language message shows Shekau, designated a global terrorist by the United States, kneeling on mat with a Kalashnikov resting on his left shoulder.
He speaks in English for several seconds towards the end of the video, something he has not done in recent public messages.

The early morning gun and bomb attack at a boarding school in the Mamudo district of Yobe saw assailants round up students and staff in a dormitory before throwing explosives inside and opening fire, according to witnesses.

Almost all of those killed were students. It was the third school attack in recent weeks and the second in Yobe.

On June 16, gunmen opened fire on a secondary school in Damaturu, Yobe’s capital, killing seven students and two teachers.

Shekau voiced similar support of the Damaturu attack, describing all “Western education schools” as a “plot against Islam”.

He however stopped short of claiming to have ordered the killings.

“We don’t attack students,” he said in the video that was delivered to AFP in a manner consistent with previous statements from the Islamist leader.

Roughly translated, Boko Haram means “Western education is sin,” and the insurgents have been blamed for previous raids on schools, with some analysts suggesting the group has selected shocking targets to generate attention.

Yobe state was one of three areas placed under a state of emergency in May ahead of a sweeping military offensive against Boko Haram.

The military has claimed significant gains in the two-month-old offensive, but such boasts have been difficult to verify and Boko Haram attacks have continued in some places.

Shekau, in the message, also denied reports that the Islamist extremists had entered into ceasefire negotiations with the government.

This week, a federal cabinet minister and head of a panel tasked with talking to the insurgents claimed he was negotiating with a legitimate Shekau deputy and that a ceasefire deal was at hand.

“The claim that we have entered into a truce with the government of Nigeria is not true,” the wanted Islamist leader said.

Nigeria’s Minister for Special Duties Kabiru Tanimu Turaki told journalists that he was negotiating with Shekau’s “second in command”, and reports of a looming ceasefire filled the front pages of Nigeria’s newspapers.

“We don’t know Kabiru Turaki. We have never spoken with him. He is lying,” Shekau said.

Nigeria’s government and military have regularly been accused of spreading false information regarding the insurgency.

Boko Haram has said it is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria and Shekau restated the demand for a nation governed by sharia (Islamic law) in his latest message.

Last month the United States placed a $7.0 million (5.3 million euros) bounty on Shekau.

He is believed to be the leader of Boko Haram’s hardline Islamist faction, but most analysts believe the group is made up of various camps.

The insurgency has cost 3,600 lives since 2009, including killings by the security services.

Nigeria’s is Africa’s most populous country and top oil producer, where acute poverty remains rampant despite the massive oil wealth.

Local and Western analysts have long argued that improving living conditions in the mainly Muslim north is key to curbing the insurgency.

http://.mobi/output.php?id=10351

nairaman66: Good and bad News!!

The good news is, The supplier is a local manufacturer! The Bad News? Has anyone ascertained the durability of these INNOSON vehicles? Gone are the days when PENNY is WISE and POUND so foolish!!

Folks, just a personal viewpoint!!

This are your opinion ryt?

is the answer

Nice move by Peter Obi @ least for procuring them from indigenous company

Abagworo: Little do these people know that if Soyinka calls for a mass action and demands for Jonathan to step down for his role in the various bombings, oil bunkering, subsidy fraud and Rivers State crisis, this regime will end.

Like fuel subsidy protest abi?
Ode!

may God help Nigeria
From the people of southwest perspective wole Soyinka is now God and have monopoly to insult anybody, even the wife of erected president without been challenged?

[b]Just to speak at an event in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, a Nigerian company paid the former American President, Bill Clinton, $700,000 (over N100 million), the New York Times disclosed on Thursday.
The New York Times did not disclose the name of the company which handed Clinton the huge sum of money.
Clinton, since he left office, has visited Nigeria many times, the last two being a guest speaker at the launch of Eko Atlantic City and Thisday Awards.
America’s influential newspaper did not also disclose when the money was paid but said Bill Clinton made $17 million (N2.5 billion) from speeches last year alone.
The disclosure was made as the newspaper revealed also that Hillary Clinton will be paid $200,000 to offer pithy reflections and Mitch Albom-style lessons from her time as the nation’s top diplomat.
“The $200,000 she commands appears to be comparable to what Bill Clinton receives for speeches delivered in this country, though Mr. Clinton — who earned $17 million from speeches last year — has collected much more outside the United States, including the $700,000 he was paid when he spoke to a company in Lagos, Nigeria,” The New York Times said.
Some of the businessmen who had invited Bill Clinton to Nigeria include Nduka Obaigbena, publisher of ThisDay newspaper whose workers protested in May 2013 for being owed months of unpaid salaries.
As for Hillary Clinton, the newspaper said next month, Mrs. Clinton will speak at a meeting of the Global Business Travel Association in San Diego (a convention her husband addressed for $250,000 last June), and in the fall she will deliver speeches at the conference of the American Society of Travel Agents in Miami.
Nigeria is Africa’s second richest country, but the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said last year that 100 million out about 160 million Nigerians live in abject poverty.
-—Simon Ateba [/b]
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/07/12/nigerian-company-pays-clinton-n100m-to-speak/

I no understand this judgment @ all

omonori1: Don't impose information. Just let non-Muslim guests ask questions, if they want to. As well, be ready for questions about Islam and violence/terrorism, the oppression of women, etc. Give neighbors the benefit of the doubt and clarify their misunderstanding in a calm, gentle manner.

Hmmmm! Make i ask?

A Nigerian student in the UK,
Jayeola Abiola, has been jailed
for arranging fake marriage
between him and a Portuguese,
Vania Pinheiro-Fernandes.
Abiola and his fake wife were
jailed 12 and eight months each. The duo met in a dance
rehearsal and Abiola could
barely pronounce her name, but he gave her $ 245 (N39,561) to
get the things she needed for the wedding, while another
Nigerian, Ayodeji Abbis, was
paid £1,000 (N244,787) to act
as the best man.
The wedding plans, however,
went bad when the registrar at
Hull Registry alerted the UK
Border Agency that the couple
about to get married barely
know themselves when they
were interviewed.
The border agency then secretly filmed the wedding videos of the cars, groom, bride and best man as they were leaving the hall before arresting them.
Gurdial Singh of the Hull Crown Court: said: “It is often said that sham marriages are too prevalent and strike at the heart of the country’s immigration system.”
Abiola, a 29 year old law
student at Hull University and
Pinheiro-Fernandes, also 29,
appeared for sentence after
pleading guilty to conspiracy to
breach immigration law by
arranging a marriage so Abiola
could remain in the UK.
Crown barrister David
Bradshaw said Abiola’s visa was due to expire in January 2013, few weeks after the marriage, scheduled for last November and knowing this he made a payment to one Abiola Kumoye to arrange a sham marriage.
“The marriage was fake because he was not in love with her. He didn’t want to set up a loving family unit. He did it because he wanted to stay in the UK,” the
prosecution said.
The bride and organiser stood
to gain because they were being paid for their services, he noted. The total cost of the wedding was £5,000 (N1,223,935) and
about £2,500 (N611,968) had
been paid in advance while the
rest was to be paid on
completion.
Bradshaw said that the registrar became suspicious of the marriage when the bride gave a fake name and didn’t look like her picture in the passport and they were not convincing in answering questions.
Abiola Kumoye, 34, pleaded
guilty to conspiracy to breach
immigration law and acquiring
criminal property (£2,650: the
first part of the fee for the sham marriage).
The judge adjourned the
sentence on the best man
Ayodeji Abbis, 25, who was also found guilty of conspiracy.
Andy Norris of the UK Border
Agency said that sham
marriages have grown
considerably in the country and that they are working to tackle this head on.
“We will find and arrest anyone carrying out these crimes no matter where they are in the country,” he said.
http://nigerianews.disnaija.com/pm-news/nigerian-student-jailed-for-fake-marriage-in-uk/

No fewer than two persons were allegedly killed while over 20 others sustained serious injuries when youths suspected to be Obosi youths attacked some motor parks in the early hours of yesterday.

It was gathered that the youths, armed with dangerous weapons, stormed the park where they allegedly apprehended some people including passengers traveling to various parts of the state.

The agent in charge of the park, Lutas Collections, managed by Sir Ifeanyi Okafor narrowly escaped death in the hands of the youths who invaded the park and started collecting money from the motorists operating in the park.

One of the victims, who spoke to our reporter on the condition of anonymity said, “the youths, who were wielding dangerous weapons including dane guns, matchetes, and axes chanted war songs and over powered over 50 policemen drafted to maintain peace and order in the park.”

He further disclosed that some of the victims of the attack were rushed to Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi, Orlu Teaching Hospital and Anambra State University Teaching Hospital, Awka as at the time of filing this report.

Sir Okafor said he was in the park at the time of the invasion to direct his workers on what to do for the day, when he suddenly noticed some rowdy movements and saw some boys beating and maiming people with all kinds of dangerous weapons. he said he decided to run for dear life.

He urged the Anambra State Government to come to their aid as the menace of the hoodlums, who invade parks and extort money from the managers was becoming unbearable. He said the presence of the policemen, who also helped to take some of the victims to the hospitals saved the lives of the victims, whose injuries were serious.

He said they had gone to Awka with some of the victims of the attack to report at the police headquarters. Former special adviser to the Anambra State Government on Markets and Parks, Chief Sylvester Nwobualor, under whose administration the government gave out the parks, condemned the activities of the Obosi youths, who invade parks at will irrespective of the presence of the police and the army.

He warned that people should not take the peaceful nature of Governor Peter Obi for cowardice, inefficiency and inactivity, warning that enough was enough and that the government would not take the insult any longer.

He called on security agencies in the state to pay attention to government facilities in the state and protect the people working in such facilities to avoid blood shed, while commending the security agencies for taking control of the situation of things at the park.

However, bodies of the two victims had been deposited at the Onitsha General Hospital mortuary while police said they were investigating the cause of the incident. When contacted, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the area, Mr Emeka Ugwu said he had deployed his men to take control of the situation at the park and said the situation was under control.

http://nigeriannewspapers.disnaija.com/sun/mayhem-in-onitsha-two-dead-20-injured-as-youths-attack-parks/

I want to tell you that this is a shameful, disgraceful and regretful attitude toward our dear country Nigeria.
A country ruling by cultist whose aims is to kill, maim and destroy.
All those who fourth to keep this country as one are the biggest fouls ever existed in this planet

The question should be who allocate the pulling booths to the shrine and evil forest and why he/she did so?
As long as i made to believe the places was officially and corruptly allocated for erection rigging purpose and INEC can not denied knowing about it since 1999

By ORI MARTINS and CHUKS
ONUOHA BACKGROUND
It was almost impossible for
Education Review to ignore
what it discovered was a
pathetic condition of some
public schools in Aba, Abia
State. Moved by patriotic zeal,
even as it anchored the story in
the very best of professional
and ethical standards,
Education Review, devoid of
bias, reported the story as its
cover story a fortnight ago and
behold, hell was let loose.
First, a certain Ben Onyechere,
reacting to the story in the
Vanguard said the structures as
captured in the report never
existed despite the fact that the
names of the principals and
locations of the schools were
given. Next, there was another
reaction in the Daily
Independent, alleging that the
report was not balanced, even
when the government angle to
the story was well reported.
Again, the government took
advertorials in some national
dailies claiming that the
contracts to rehabilitate the
schools were awarded in 2003
to the mother of former
governor Orji Uzor Kalu.
However, the soundest
submission came from the
Deputy Chief of Staff to the
Deputy Governor, Chief Charles
Ogbonnaya, who argued that,
“we met a complete rot in Abia
public schools and we are doing
our best to better what we met
on ground.
You know very well that we
cannot solve all the problems at
the same time. The question is:
Are we making honest and
sincere effort to restore dignity
to Abia State public schools and
the answer is in the affirmative.
If it happens that because of
logistics or other related hiccups
some schools are not yet given
adequate attention, does that
mean that we are neglecting
public schools in the state and I
am sure the answer in this case
is an emphatic no.
No person can stop you, I mean
you as a reporter from doing
your job, but you must do it
with every sense of honesty,
dignity and professionalism”. In
view of the foregoing,
Education Review beamed
its searchlight towards the state
of public schools in Umuahia,
the capital of Abia State and the
revelation is quite instructive.
UMUAHIA CITY
Umuahia is a city with many
artefacts. Its importance
transcends tradition, politics,
commerce, religion, sports and
education. It is a city which
name invokes profound
memories of the Igbo heroics.
Politically, most South
Easterners still remember that
the Peoples General, the late
Dim Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu, relocated
to the city for safety in the heat
of the Nigeria – Biafra civil war.
If Umuahia was just like any
other city, Ojukwu would not
have sought refuge in this
ancient enclave. Commercially,
Umuahia was a gateway of sorts
as the railway terminus
strategically located in the heart
of the town served as a
mainstay of the economy of the
old Eastern Region. It has also
been stated that one great
treasure Umuahia bequeathed
to the Igbo nation and indeed
Nigeria, was the prestigious
institution called Government
College, Umuahia. It is public
knowledge that Umuahia, had
great influence on the education
of modern Nigerian and African
intellectuals. Take a look at this:
Chinua Achebe, Chris Okigbo,
Gabriel Okara, Elechi Amadi,
Aniebo, Chukwuemeka Ike,
Chike Momah, Saro-Wiwa (all
giants of literature); Laz
Ekwueme, Ben Enweonwu, Jaja
Wachukwu, N.U. Akpan, Okoi
Arikpo, Bede Okigbo, Endeley,
J.O.J. Okezie, Kelsey Harrison,
Chu Okongwu and lots of
others. Sadly, the story is no
longer the same as most public
schools in Umuahia are in a
state of dilapidation. Find out
how.
DRAMA OF IMPUNITY
Nothing dramatises the decay in
Abia public schools than the rot
in Government College,
Umuahia, Ohuhu Community
Secondary School Umuahia and
Secondary Technical School,
Ofeme, also in Umuahia.
The three schools are now
ghosts of their former selves. If
for any reason Fisher, the man
widely credited with the
establishment of Government
College Umuahia, should visit
the school he nurtured, the
missionary would be shocked at
the derelict state of the school
that many believed produced
scholars that pioneered African
literature.
The main gate, situated along
the ever boisterous Ikwuano –
Umuahia Road, had been under
lock and key for a long time
now. In fact, the Fisher bust,
erected in his memory, is a clear
manifestation of the ruination of
Government College Umuahia
as it has been buffeted by rain
and scorched by the sun. This
grotto that would have been a
witness to the academic
excellence of this great
institution looks abandoned and
forgotten. As Fisher’s cavern
looks finished, so also most of
the structures that qualified it as
a centre of excellence have
either collapsed or they are in
various state of decimation.
The principal’s residence,
students hostels, lavatories and
some classroom blocks are all
begging for attention. The
principal, High Chief Jerry
Okezie Onyemachi, regretted
that the school has lost its
charm and colour, but revealed
that the state government is
doing its best to re-fix it.
A visit to Ohuhu Community
Secondary School, whose
history of academic excellence
in the past was quite impressive
shows that the school is living
on past glory. Just like
Government College Umuahia,
most of the buildings in this
school are dilapidated even as
the entire premises is
overgrown by weeds.
It must be recorded that the
school which was once fenced is
today lying bare thereby giving
criminals access to use the place
as a hideout. Teachers and
students are usually harassed
and robbed on regular basis
with reckless abandon.
Some of the teachers who spoke
on the condition of anonymity
did not hide their feelings on the
poor state of the city. They
revealed that they were
occasionally harassed by snakes
and other dangerous animals
that had invaded the college a
couple of times. They urgedthe
relevant authorities to come to
their aid by fencing the school
to ward off activities of
criminals that operate around
the place unhindered.
One of the teachers narrated an
incident in which a teacher was
robbed at gun point by
hoodlums who strayed into the
school premises from the
express road. Education Review
learnt that such incident has
become a regular occurrence in
the school. As it is with
Government College, Ohuhu
Community Secondary School
so also it is with Secondary
Technical School Ofeme, a
college built and designed to
offer technical-based subjects.
Complete at inception with
workshops, laboratories, library
etc, the school established on an
expanse of land that can
accommodate a university or
polytechnic has decayed
irretrievably.
Most structures in the school
are decrepit while some others
are ramshackle. A teacher who
would not like his name to
appear in print revealed that on
several occasions the ceilings
had collapsed during classes,
almost putting the students’
lives in jeopardy.
Whenever it rains, nobody stays
inside any classroom for fear of
the dilapidated roofs falling on
them. The school which was
built to serve several
communities has just few
students in its attendance.

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Nigerian leaders and promises. shay you de sleep during your first tenure while all the controversies are going on? Thank God you don wake up

The National Assembly of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Wednesday in Abuja re-elected Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as President of the association for another three years.

Oritsejafor was re-elected at the 9th session of the CAN National Assembly held at the National Christian Centre, Abuja.

The assembly also elected Mr. Olasupo Ayokunle as the new Deputy National President to replace the Most Rev. Daniel Okoh.


The major blocs that make up CAN were represented at the 9th session of the assembly that re-elected Oritsejafor.
He was first elected into the position in May 2010.

In his acceptance speech, Oritsejafor pledged to unite all Christian groups in the country and strengthen relations with Nigerians of other faith to achieve national development.

The CAN president said he would do everything possible to address some of the controversies that characterised the association during his first term as president.

“We must speak with one voice in line with our motto: “That they all may be one.”

“I want to dedicate my second term to bringing all Christians under one umbrella.

“I agree that there have been needless disagreements and controversies in our association in the past but I make a promise here today that I will be willing to bend over to bring about the much desired unity and to make the Church one,'' he said.

The president appealed to past presidents and leaders of CAN to support and assist him in uniting the Church and address some of the common problems confronting Christians in Nigeria.

He said: “CAN will now be more courageous in its defence of Christians in the hands of their persecutors within and outside the country.''

Fielding questions from newsmen on the re-election of Oritsejafor, the Chairman of CAN in the North-west, Bishop David Bakare, said the re-election was an indication of unity in the association.

Bakare said that the presence of the leaders of the five blocs that make up CAN was a good sign of togetherness and the growth of Christianity in the country.

The association would pursue genuine reconciliation and peaceful coexistence among people of different faith across the country, he noted.

The event was attended by state executives of CAN and other stakeholders.

http://.mobi/output.php?id=10257

Mod direct this thread to where it belong ie Education
@topic let them do best for the students

Yiboe_monkeys: although Sexkillz and Afam are siamese twins, sexkillz has been able to successfully display inexperience by banning fellas without reasoning.
i think he 's my choice.
AND YOU?

The person behind this moniker deserve a legendary ban
And op you must be such a stup.Id man

What a useless thread

Imagine going to mountain of fire with an empty stomach that 1 na die