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Abeokuta, – Nigeria’s former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has described the late Nelson Madela as a man who raised the beacon of human struggle to lofty heights of nobility. Obasanjo, who addressed journalists in his home in Abeokuta on Friday, said Mandela’s life was an example of what people should all aspire for. “In all situations, he lived nobly and died in nobility. Let us bear in mind that we all have the opportunity to act nobly in whatever position we find ourselves,” he added.
Obasanjo He described Mandela’s death as a monumental loss to all human races and called on all to emulate the life and times of the great leader. “His demise is a loss to his family who will miss a caring patriarch; the people of South Africa who will miss a guide, Africa who will miss a role model and the world who will miss a leader. “When we teach our children lessons for tomorrow, let us remember lessons Mandela gave the world in forgiveness and forbearance,’’ Obasanjo said. Obasanjo, who eulogising Mandela, recalled the times when he was voted to become South-Africa’s post-apartheid president. “During the first non-racial democratic elections in 1994, I was on election observation assignment in South Africa and was there for his campaign and when he cast his vote. “He was devoid of bitterness or anger against anybody except the hated apartheid system. “He went on to win the election and more importantly led South Africa to the extent that the country was able to cast aside its apartheid legacy and take its place in comity of nations. “Certain that his task was completed, Mandela modestly refused to seek re-election after his first term in office as his presidency elapsed. “I still recall his pragmatic words when he said to me ‘Olu, show me a place in the world where a man of 80 years is running the affairs of his country. “This, to me, reflects an unequalled sense of modesty for a man who spent 27 of the prime years of his life in prison for a just cause. “Yet he still kept a calm and peaceful disposition to those who took away his freedom for all those years of his life,’’ he explained. (NAN)

This is interesting. The woman has become a beautiful political bride. It was the PDP that reportedly offered her N250,000 to be paid intalmentally before the Governor swung into action. Expectedly she has gone with the higher bidder. Now a millionaire, she is speaking like a millionaire! Now that she has publicly rejected the offer by PDP, she may have to employ a political adviser from her new found wealth to be able to navigate the murky waters of Edo state politics unscathed. That aside, I hope the government would ensure security around her in a state infested with a nest of kidnappers! I wish her more good luck!

ilugunboy: Cheap.....

You've been posting the same craps for eons here and nobody is taking you serious anymore...

Truth is bitter. You peeps need deli

Cmfrt001: I have a dream, one day Lagos will be free of street hawker, one day Lagos will be free from commercial bikes(okadas), that one day, Lagos will be the envy of other states.

I had the same dream, one day Lagos will be of agbero

Ms Nas: Must everything have tribal undertones? Grow up! Oponu Ayirada

Look at her ratchet looking Aba Made self. Everything about you screams Knockoff!! Pot calling kettle black. Nairaland has given this hoodrat a voice! Smh

I don see you

Desola: IMUNIZATION LOMO!

tHAT NOSE NA ONE IN TOWN! Na dat design dem take build tunnels for London.

Desola on rampage here

olaric: Maybe you should place your picture side by side the governor's own as a child so we can know are qualified to judge if he is ugly or not.

Only if you will place your too

femogbangba: Really? Compared to who? You care to put your "real" picture up or that of your brothers up?

Let see your picture when you were kid

He's ugly shah

President Goodluck Jonathan summoned an emergency security meeting following an attack by suspected members of Boko Haram sect in some parts of Maiduguri on Monday. Those in attendance at the meeting were the National Security Adviser, retired Col. Sambo Dasuki, and the Chief of Defence Staff , Admiral Ola Ibrahim. The others are the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that there was no official statement at the end of the meeting held in the office of the President at the State House. The CDS, who emerged from the meeting at about 3.40 p.m., declined interview with the State House correspondents. On the situation in Maiduguri, he said “it is being managed’’. The Chief of Air Staff also declined to comments, saying “please ask the CDS, it is only the CDS that can talks for all of us’’. NAN reports that following the attack by the suspected Boko Haram sect, the Borno government had imposed a 24-hour curfew on Maiduguri metropolis. The Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Ahmed Jidda, had announced the decision in a statement released to newsmen in Maiduguri. The statement said the curfew was imposed in consultation with the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri. “During the period of curfew, government pleads with all citizens to remain calm. “Only vehicles on emergency calls and essential services are allowed to move while the curfew will be lifted as soon as situation improves,’’ it added.
http://www.punchng.com/news/maiduguri-attack-jonathan-summons-emergency-security-meeting/

The days are ticking by. Lets wait and see what will happen. The truth is that ASUU is divided and some will resume while those noise makers in the south west will stick to their grand standing till 2015 when their hopes will be dashed again and they will die hungry out of job. By the way, it is not by force to remain in an employment if the work environment is not codusive. Lets see what the state govt of the state owned universities will do. APC is controlling some of these states, they can go ahead and pay the arrears of these stricking lecturers to demonstrate to Nigerians that they can do better than the PDP.
BTW, The threat from that lecturer seems to be like that from an illiterate gangster. He should be investigated without delay

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday advised parents not to endanger the lives of their children and wards by sending them to their university campuses. ASUU which also told its members not to sign attendance registers in their institutions, lashed out at the Federal Government for lack of consistency in its statements on the ongoing strike. The Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, had at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday, warned that any ASUU member that failed to resume on or before Wednesday would be sacked. Wike also directed vice- chancellors to advertise vacancies (internal and external) in their institutions. He told the vice-chancellors to open attendance registers for lecturers that resumed in their universities. The Federal Government then directed the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, to deploy policemen in all the federal universities. On Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan, who described the strike by the university teachers as a “subversive action,” added that ASUU had ceased to be a trade union. But the Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of ASUU, Dr. Segun Ajiboye, said parents should keep their children and wards at home as no academic activity would resume until the five-month-old strike was called off. Ajiboye added, “Don’t risk the lives of your children and wards. Keep them at home because ASUU will not teach. Soldiers and the police deployed by the Federal Government will not teach. Wike can come and teach in the universities. It is a huge joke to sack lecturers. Our strike must not be in vain. Our students must see the results. “It is funny. We thought we are in a democracy. I assure Nigerians that we know what the law says about the strike. Our job is statue backed. We are not threatened. “We do not trust the government. The record of the government is clear. This government is dishonouring agreements. Our members are resolved to pursue this to a logical conclusion.” Ajiboye also said that the Federal Government’s stance was from a script that was played out by the military administration of Ibrahim Babangida in the 1990s. He stated, “Dear members, stay calm and remain resolute. There is nothing wrong in asking government to do what it says it will do immediately. ASUU is not making any new demands as the supervising minister is propagating. Government is only repeating a ‘one act play’ scripted by the IBB dictatorship in early 90s. It didn’t work then, and, it won’t work now. All branches are intact. We cannot be intimidated. “If ASUU could withstand Babangida, this government cannot threaten us. We have worked this road before, the only thing that will work is peaceful resolution. It is sad that government wants to sack us because we are asking for the resolutions. We are ready to be sacked but government should learn from the University of Ilorin experience. We are going to stay the course.” ASUU President, Dr. Nassir Fagge, urged university teachers on Sunday not to sign any attendance register. Fagge, in a message to the UI chapter , urged the lecturers to be resolute in their demands despite the threat of insecurity to their jobs. He said, “Comrades, can you see the unfolding drama? Now Jonathan says they didn’t give ultimatum. That the vice - chancellors did and Wike became their trumpet. But NUC’s (National Universities Commission) ultimatum is by the Federal Government to us to resume or get sacked. “Wike’s press address says ‘FG has directed’ not ‘VCs have directed.’ Be calm, stay resolute. By God’s grace, we are on course.” The Chairman, University of Lagos chapter of the union, Dr. Karol Ogbinaka, said Jonathan’s description of the strike as a “subversive action,” was unfortunate. “How can our action be subversive when we do not have arms and ammunition? We take exception to that. We are academics not coup plotters. I have a feeling he was misquoted. I wish to deny this on his behalf because it is an extreme statement,” Ogbinaka said. He also faulted the buck passing on the directive to reopen universities, saying it pointed to the fact that the government was “somersaulting.” According to him, the Federal Government is now shifting the blame among the pro- chancellors, Committee of Vice- Chancellors and Wike. But the Presidency on Sunday insisted that those behind the strike were enemies of the state. It said this could be the reason why the ASUU leadership refused to call off the strike even when 42 out of its 61 chapters voted against its continuation. The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, stated these at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday. He wondered why the leadership of the union also refused to call off the strike even after its 13-hour meeting with the President. Okupe described the strike as an evil programme motivated by selfish political interest. He said, “The ASUU leadership refused to accede to the wishes of 42 of its 61 chapters nationwide, who voted in favour of the agreement with the President and the calling off of the strike; but in a surprise volte face presented government again with a new set of demands and considerations outside the terms agreed at the presidential intervention. “From all indications therefore and other information available to government, it has become obvious that this is no longer an altruistic strike borne out of good intentions and aimed at improving the welfare of students and staff of the universities and the standard of our educational institutions. “Rather it is an evil programme motivated by selfish political interests and motivations within the polity. These are, quoting late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, ‘the enemies of state operating from within’”. While Okupe was talking tough in Abuja, the All Progressives Congress slammed the government for issuing the sack threat against the university teachers. In a statement in Lagos, the APC said the resort to military tactics reflected government’s poverty of ideas in resolving the prolonged strike. The statement by the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also criticised Wike for the way he talked down on the striking teachers, while issuing the threat. APC stated, ‘’Wike’s language was crude, his presentation was rude and his threat was demeaning and counter- productive. We believe his lack of finesse and the inability to think out of the box in handling the whole strike issue will not bode well for a quick resolution of the crisis.” Meanwhile, the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress will on Monday(today) meet with the ASUU leadership as part of its efforts to resolve the crisis between the union and the Federal Government.
http://www.punchng.com/news/ASUU-to-parents-keep-your-children-at-home/

I SMELL END OF THE ROAD FOR THAT OPPORTUNIST AND CALAMITY GOVERNOR

The electoral act 2010 as amended stipulates that electioneering must start 90 days to voting However what is happening in Osun State negates this provision with billboards of Governor Rauf Aregbesola erected in every nook and cranny of the state as well as numerous jingles extolling the virtues of Ogbeni in clear contravention of the electoral act. What is more disturbing is that the Independent National Electoral Commission that All Progressives Congress is condemning over Anambra election seems to be indifferent to what is happening in Osun State. Regrettably, there is a resident electoral commissioner who cannot bark nor bite, thereby projecting INEC as a lame duck This is indeed a bad omen for 2015 election.
http://www.punchng.com/opinion/letters/aregbesolas-billboards/

Chris Okotie? I never hear that name before.
Though the piece sound like a "rant of a drowning man"

Obiano, if you are not ready to govern give it to PDP. Why invite cankerworm to the people’s government. Check through from Adamawa, Sokoto, Kano, etc, the governors were not originally in PDP, their acceptance into PDP and being entrusted to positions in the state made them mad, and they have since gone back after destroying the fabric of PDP. Allow him to go and take up appointment in Kano state or remain irrelevant to whittle the APC madness. Does Britain appoint opposition?

Opom Imo is a big fraud

BY FEMI MAKINDE, OSOGBO
One of the frontline industrialists in Osun State, Mrs. Olayinka Obaleye, popularly known as Yinka Oba, was on Tuesday night abducted by some gunmen in Ilesa. Our correspondent gathered that the septugenarian had closed at her factory, which produces mattresses, while her captors, who had apparently been hanging around, swooped on her. Obaleye’s driver, whose name was not immediately known, was said to have been shot and killed by the gunmen before they drove away their target. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, who confirmed the kidnap, said the police were on the trail of the abductors.  

http://www.punchng.com/news/gunmen-kidnap-industrialist-kill-driver-in-osun/

Those rented clowns should be arrested and delt seriously with!
The empty vessels are delusional. Boko Haram can NEVER rule in any SE/SS state. Let Rauf and Oshio turn themselves to willing tools of anarchist. See Alhaji Rochas! The boko haram governor allowed 181 aliens to be imported from boko haram stronghold to cause chaos in Anambra and Hell-Rufai was there to direct them. COME LET’S TALK and they say NO, we want free & fair elections; how can you have free & fair elections when we have falsified census figures. APC will set this country on fire come 2015. El-Rufai is now calling Anambra Biafra on his FB, go to APC fan page and all you see is shout for revolution; turn Nigeria into Egypt?. Just yesterday a French captive was set free in Buhari’s backyard, and if you make a role-call: Buhari advocated for boko haram amnesty, so did El-Rufai, Tinubu etc. What kind of leaders advocate that an FTO should be forgiven and paid off? May God bless the people of Anambra for boldly rejecting boko haram infiltrated party

Mr Exxell: Bro, walahi, that party is his undoing... He was warned oo... People love him to death!! But the state government thru animated robots like Controversy, spread lies and propaganda about him... Lies that the Ngige I know too well will never stoop
So low to!!

Pele! Oga adi mma

Mr Exxell: [b] Ashawo... You are really living upto your username. Confused Clown... Y are you bringing up the case of Edo state to in this talk? What has APC got to do with the love people has for Ngige? Am telling you that no voting took place in the whole of Idemmili. All over Anambra, names were boldly missing in the register... They brought new registers with the names of people they already know that will vote for APGA and accredited only them for the voting exercise... You are happy because it is not you right? Do you know how painful it is to come out and stand in the sunlight for hours without voting or people telling you that you cannot vote because they brought a new register? Nne, your punishment should be far more than electrocution... Rapeiing you from the anus for over six hours non stop should even be a light punishment for your likes!!!! JUST IMAGINE!! IDEMMILI OF ALL PLACES... With a voting power of over 100,000!! NGIGES STRONGHOLD!!! But accreditation started in Aguleri as early as 8am in the morning... Even JEGA ADMITTED THAT AN OFFICER MESSED UP IDEMMILI NORTH!! Why then should a maggot infested pusssy like you be here blabbing?[/b]

Lol........ I tot you have a point
You were not ashamed of the charade in Osun, Oyo, Ogun and Ekiti even when the then President of the court of appeal was dishing out judgement on “carry go” basis. You are not ashamed of those Osun riggers caught in Owerri? you are not ashamed that those Osun riggers were caught with AK47 and the govt of that state defended that they are election monitoring team even with fake ID cards, Guns and fake accreditation cards? You are not ashamed of other riggers imported from all APC and nPDP states? You are not ahamed that mallam elrufai who cannot monitor election in his restive state will move to Anambra state to monitor election? You are not ashamed that the Governor of Anambra state who is the chief security officer was restricted from moving around? Now you are ashamed of the one in Anambra state. mind your business. We know who we want. Obiano is the person we want. UP Willy Obiano!!!! UP APGA!!!

Mr Exxell: Mods, please do understand me for being so raw... I feel pained at heart. Kai... Thousands disenfranchised!!! When they really know that who people wanted was Ngige

Are you from Anambra State? please mind your business. We are talking about Governor of Anambra State and not Lagos or Ogun state. When you elect Governors in your place we don’t fvcking care but you always meddle into our affairs and this is what is causing the hatred we have for you thinking you can undermine all our affairs.
Let your adopted son Ngige cry or complain ,do not complain for him because Tinubu or Fashola is not one of the candidates. All the candidates are Brothers and they will settle any dispute arising from the election. You want Ngige to win but you people destroyed the election for him by deporting Igbo people to Anambra State dead in the night due to your inherited virtue of wickedness.