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stephenduru:
Bola Tinubu's son Seyi is set to wed Layal, the woman of his dreams. The journey up the boulevard of matrimony began on Friday, November 6, 2015 in faraway Ghana. Seyi, in the Aburi town of Akuapim South Municipal District, in the Eastern region of South Ghana and about 45 minutes from Accra the nation’s capital, proposed to Layal over a candlelit dinner at Lansdown Resort. Seyi allegedly went on one knee and asked the very surprised but highly elated Layal to marry him.As per the actual date of events and preferred venue, deliberations are still on.

Brief history of the intending couple:Seyi acquired his LLB degree from the prestigious University of Buckingham, United Kingdom. He acquired his Masters in Corporate & Commercial Law at the same university where he came out on merit. Layal on the other hand, is of Lebanese and Nigerian descent. She is said to be a brilliant consultant at foremost auditing firm, PriceWaterhouseCooper (PWC). The 25-year-old is a graduate of Political Science and African Studies at the SOAS (School of Oriental Studies) University of London. She also has a Masters in Entrepreneurship & Business Management from the University of Surrey.

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/04/seyi-tinubu-lawal-holm-release.html

Na waooooo. Nigeria girls should protest. Ghana girls are marginalizing our girls................ they collect our rich guys and give our girls some gerigeri men like Charly

auntysimbiat:
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On Saturday the 23rd of April, in Antioch, California, President Goodluck Jonathan was honoured by the cities of Antioch and Lathrop for promoting peace and democracy in Africa.
At the award ceremony, the mayor of the city of Antioch, Mayor Wade Harper, expressed his admiration for Jonathan and declared that the city of Antioch, California was proud of his legacies, especially his act of overseeing free, fair and conclusive elections and leaving the scene when the ovation was loudest.


He recommended Dr. Goodluck Jonathan's behavior to other leaders. Former President Jonathan, who was represented by Mr. Reno Omokri, gave a goodwill message to the two cities that had gathered to honor him as well as to the Nigerian community in the Bay Area of California. Dr. Jonathan said he was "proud of Nigerians in the diaspora and more so of Nigerians in the US and even more so of the Nigerian diaspora in California."

Continuing, the former President said Nigerians in the diaspora were an asset to Nigeria who remitted over $20 billion home annually, "much more than the World Bank, IMF and foreign direct investment."

Dr. Jonathan ended by saying he was proud of diaspora Nigerians and tried to show his appreciation for their support of Nigeria by ensuring that during his time in office at least three direct flights were initiated between America and Nigeria to ease travel and reduce costs for travelers to Nigeria.

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(Representative of former President Jonathan, Reno Omokri, receiving an award from Mayor of Antioch, Wade Harper)

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(Representative of former President Jonathan, Reno Omokri, presenting Dr. Jonathan's goodwill message)


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(Representative of former President Jonathan, Reno Omokri, receiving an award from the rep. of the mayor of the city of Lathrop, Council man Paul Akinjo)

Jonathan;s Goodwill message to the Cities of Antioch and Lathrop
I send this message of goodwill to the Nigerian community in the Bay Area of California who have gathered at Open Heavens Community church to celebrate with me as I am honored by the cities of Antioch and Lathrop. I had planned to be there. Indeed I had concluded travel plans. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control I could not make the trip.

I have always been proud of Nigerians in the diaspora and more so of Nigerians in the US and even more so of the Nigerian diaspora in California. Some of you may recall that upon my ascension to the office of President on May 6th, 2010, one of my first acts was to open up a Facebook page to personally interact with Nigerians.

In June 2010, a diaspora Nigerian from the Bay Area of California informed me on my Facebook page of an abandoned building belonging to Nigeria in San Francisco and I dispatched our then ambassador to that city to claim the property and renovate it.

Hopefully, the building may again host a consulate as it once did in the 80s. The point I am trying to make is that I have been communicating with you and I see you as an asset to Nigeria that makes me proud. Elsewhere, I have mentioned that aside from oil, diaspora Nigerians are the single largest source of capital inflow into Nigeria. In my last year as President you remitted $21 billion home. Much more than the World Bank, IMF and foreign direct investment. My people, you are an asset to your fatherland.

Because of the importance with which I held you, my administration facilitated direct flights to Nigeria from the US to Nigeria. We ensured no less than three airlines fly direct between Nigeria and the US including one from Houston to Lagos for the benefit of those of you from the West Coast.

We also ensured that Enugu airport was upgraded to an international airport and I recall that a number of diaspora Nigerians from the US boarded the inaugural Ethiopian airlines flight that landed there in August of 2013. Again let me say that I appreciate the Nigerian community in the Bay Area.

I would also want like to thank Mayor Wade Harper and the council members of the city of Antioch for choosing to honor me for my efforts in promoting democracy. I am indeed humbled by their thoughtfulness in recognizing our modest efforts. I also wish to express my gratitude to the city of Lathrop and its mayor and council for also deeming it fit to recognize our efforts.

I wish I could be there in person, however, I have asked Reno Omokri to represent and I am with you in spirit. Thank you and may God bless Nigeria, may God bless California, may He bless the cities of Antioch and Lathrop and my God bless you.

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
President, Federal Republic of Nigeria 2010-2015





Source: http://www.nairanaijanews.com/2016/04/former-president-jonathan-honored-by.html

This is like a local govt. black neighborhood

THESE PEOPLE SHOULD STOP EMBARRASSING GEJ BY USING HIM TO PRACTICE HOW TO GIVE AWARD.
This is an embarrassment. They should stop embarrassing Nigeria with this crappy awards.

Can they name any world leader or prominent human being that is a past winner or recipient of the so called award? .

989900B:
President Muhammadu Buhari has made good his threat to deal with those blowing up oil installations in the Niger Delta like Boko Haram terrorists are being dealt as he has dispatched the nation’s service chiefs to the oil-rich region to confront the resurgent militancy and secure the area from economic sabotage and other acts of criminality.
It would be recalled that Buhari had while in China, warned those behind unlawful activities in the region to either desist from any criminal acts and economic sabotage or be ready to be treated like terrorists operating in Nigeria’s North-east.

In line with a presidential directive, a team, led by the Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Gen. Gabriel Olanisakin, accompanied by the Chief of Naval Staff, CNS, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ette Ibas yesterday stormed the headquarters of the Operation Pulo Shield in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.


Speaking on the inspection tour, Olonisakin pledged the resolve of the Nigerian Armed Forces to deal with pipeline vandals, oil thieves, kidnappers, cultists and sundry crimes in the Niger Delta region, even as the team identified 10 security threats in the region.

The CDS, who was conducted round by Commander of Operation Pulo Shield, Maj-Gen Alani Okunlola, explained that: “The visit followed the strategic directive of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Muhammad Buhari, to deal with identified security threats in the Niger Delta,” adding that the visits was to access the challenges of the troops with a view to addressing them to ensure operational effectiveness in dealing with the threats.

According to him, “I am in Yenagoa on operational visit to Operation Pulo Shield as well as the Boat House vessel we have in Akassa.

“It is such that we can understand the challenges they are facing here and address these challenges to enhance their operational effectiveness and efficiency.”


http://dailypost.ng/2016/04/24/buhari-deploys-service-chiefs-to-niger-delta-over-rising-militancy/?utm_source=nnd&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nnd

They have been given amnesty. what else do they want? . These militants are cheating hard working niger deltans. They fighting for your pocket.

makzeze:
There is No Such Plan – Deputy Senate President

We’re Watching Developments at Senate – APC

Ten senators who are members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have concluded a deal with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to support its candidate for the Senate Presidency if Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki is forced to resign at the end of his on-going Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) trial, Daily Trust on Sunday learnt from impeccable political sources at the weekend. Senate President Saraki’s trial at CCT was accelerated by the tribunal’s chairman Justice Danladi Umar last week and he could lose his exalted position if he is convicted of the charges brought against him by the Federal Government.

Daily Trust on Sunday learnt that the 10 diehard pro-Saraki APC senators held a meeting with their PDP counterparts and discussed their next line of action if the Senate President is forced to step down. At the end of the meeting, they agreed that Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu would be put forward to replace Saraki. The 10 APC senators pledged to join hands with the 50 PDP senators to elect Ekweremadu as Saraki’s replacement if it comes to that.
According to our sources, the APC senators who signed the deal include two senators from Kwara, one from Kogi, three from Niger, one from Adamawa, one from Sokoto and two senators from Bauchi State. The 10 assured PDP senators that if Saraki is forced out, they will stand by them to elect Ekweremadu “no matter what their party does to persuade them.” They also promised that they will shun overtures even from President Muhammadu Buhari and team up with their PDP colleagues. At present, the Senate has 58 APC and 44 PDP senators with six vacancies. A switch of sides by eight APC senators is enough to turn PDP into a majority in the chamber.


A breakdown of the existing vacancies shows Rivers having three slots, while Kogi, Anambra and Imo have one slot each.
Explaining the reason for the APC senators’ planned action, sources said the pro-Saraki group is convinced that his on-going trial at the CCT is a political witch-hunt orchestrated by the Presidency. They cited as evidence the “haughty tenacity” of CCT’s chairman Justice Danladi Umar who last week refused to answer summons to appear before a Senate committee. The senators planned to order the police to arrest Umar and bring him to the committee, though they said they expected the Presidency to tell the police not to comply with the order even though it is constitutional.
Sources also told Daily Trust on Sunday that five senators who are former state governors have constituted themselves into a “peace group” to try to broker a deal with the presidency that will end Saraki’s current travails. Members of the group, our sources said, are Senators Rabi’u Kwankwaso of Kano, Ahmed Sani of Zamfara, Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto and Muhammadu Danjuma Goje of Gombe. Observers believe these five are also pro-Saraki senators, all of them being recent defectors from the PDP to APC. Their fear is that Saraki’s travails may one day be extended to other PDP defectors by the original APC leaders.
However, other sources told Daily Trust on Sunday that efforts to broker a truce appeared to be making headway as last week ended. They cite as evidence the CCT chairman’s sudden decision to postpone Saraki’s trial until May despite his initial insistence that it will continue daily until it is concluded. In return, sources said, Saraki prevailed on the Senate committee that summoned Justice Umar to revoke the summons. The long postponement is expected to be used to broker a deal between the two warring APC camps.
Already, their conflict has made it difficult to resolve the controversy over the 2016 federal budget, which the National Assembly passed last month but which the president did not assent to even though he refrained from formally vetoing it. Daily Trust on Sunday learnt that Presidency officials told House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara that they were relying on him to break the logjam but Dogara reportedly told them that they must deal with Saraki who is the overall leader of the National Assembly.
When contacted, Ekweremadu’s media, Alhaji Ismail Omipidan, denied there was such bid.
“And if there is no such bid, there cannot be any such pact. It’s another hot lie from the pit of hell in the series of futile attempts to divide and rule the Senate, inject bad blood, and polarize the solid support and solidarity, which the Senate President enjoys among his colleagues. Why are some people trying to bury a man who is not dead?
“The Senate President is having his day at the CCT and we have no doubt that the truth will prevail. There should be a limit to propaganda, unless we have tacitly reversed the age-long tenet of justice in a democracy from innocence until proven guilty to guilty until proven innocent. Peddlers of such blatant lies are, therefore, authors of confusion and instability and must not be taken seriously,” he said.
On his part, the deputy national vice chairman of the party (North-West), Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir, said the party was watching the unfolding events with keen interest.
“Of course, we know that for some time there have meetings by various groups in the Senate. They’ve the right to do their meetings because the constitution has given them that right. However, from the partisan perspective in the Senate. There is no single member that went there on his own. He rose to that position under the platform of a political party. For us as leaders, we’re telling them all the time to be mindful of any action they would take.
“Similarly, as a political party, we don’t want to mix up things. We want the CCT case to be decided on its merit first before we would take our formal position. In the meantime, we know we’re in the majority in the Senate and we would remain as such. We’re talking to our senators and they know what the party did for them,” he said.
But the Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, said he was not aware of the pact, adding that “we are united and no APC senator will vote against his or her party.
“Mark my words, no APC senator will vote against his party. We are together and we are working for the actualisation of our party campaign promises.
“Do you want to bury a living person alive? Saraki is still in court and his case is still ongoing, so all this noise is unnecessary,” he said in a phone interview.
Also in his reaction, the national legal adviser of the party, Dr Muiz Banire, said there was no way the position of the Senate president can be taken over by the opposition PDP in the event Saraki leaves.
When contacted last night in a telephone interview, a national officer of the PDP who craved anonymity told Daily Trust on Sunday that the party was aware of the development and that the PDP would be happy to take over the Senate Presidency.
“We have been in alliance for long because Saraki was a PDP member. When he was in the New PDP, which later merged with other parties to form the APC, we were still with him and him with us, even at the level of his Senate Presidency. So we will be happy to take over the Senate because the APC never wanted to recognise the New PDP in its fold,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, declined comment on the issue.


http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/10-apc-senators-pledge-votes-for-ekweremadu/143801.html#CWao1WujKwmmR9Va.99

Nigerians are so gullible. Talking about 10 APC senators that pledge to vote for Ekweremadu, what about PDP senators don't would not vote for him? what about PDP senators that will decamp?
Besides, the so called 10 senators are from the north. Don't believe them. They will change their mind after Friday prayer unless Ekwemadu become Muslim and Buhari become Christian before this plan can work.

PDP will have a better chance if they project another Senator. Ekweredu has been deputy senate president for 9 years now. Some old senators including PDP senators must have grudge or envy for Ekweremadu.
Politics is like confra. Being an exco member for so long creates rebellion.

hollandis:
The sons fore head though [color=#990000][/color]

The baby's name is "Isika", no wonder she was hiding the baby after birth............... Fake man-made beauty will always tell on children.
why waste millions on cosmetics if it will not add beauty to your kids?.

Chriswazo:
Stupid and baseless speculation. Get a life!

Kemi is some how right perhaps not 100%. People close to Ojukwu will confirm Bianca infidelity. I heard similar story about Bianca in 2011 from a reliable eye witness.

Ebay14:
Please what kind of handshake is this?... Meanwhile is that not Dakuku and another APC chieftain wearing white cap?
Guess this was when Amaechi was governor.
All these people are one and the same only foolish people keep dying for them.

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