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TO ALL LADIES...
1.Success is not sexually transmitted, so stop sleeping with successful men and work hard.
2. Please do not wear the same weave for nine months, its
not pregnancy.
3. Half naked girls are hot, well dressed girls are beautiful,
hell is hot, heaven is beautiful.
4. Stop saying you cannot date a man who lives with his
mother yet you're dating a man who lives with his wife.
5. Do not look at what a guy drives but what drives him.
6. Before You call a guy ugly, remember 95% of Your beauty
can be removed by a towel.
7. When you were in campus you dated married men, when
you get married you say you cant share a man, relax ma
sister its pay time.
8. Lastly learn to call and consult God and not your
neighbor.
Compliment of the season to you all.

Editor’s note: President Muhammadu Buhari is continuing to keep silent over the incident involving a Shiite group and the Nigerian army in Zaria, Kaduna state on December 12-13.

Mustafa Yahaya on a Facebook page of Loud Mouthed Nigerian shares his views on why there are no differences between Buhari’s regime and Goodluck Jonathan’s.
Is it because it is Buhari?

I marvel at the way and manner we think in this country, worst of it the way we think in the north.
It is just a few months ago that we all continually lambasted President Jonathan’s cluelessness, I referred to him as the “drunken master of Otuoke”, and nobody harassed me, and now because they fear the power of the media that brought them to power they want to castrate the social media, with Buhari firing the first shot in an interview with Sahara reporters’ Adeola in New York, why, is it because it is Buhari?

Buhari wants us to swallow the same pill

We demonstrated against pump price increment for petrol, government of President Buhari wants us to swallow the same pill we rejected a few months ago, yet some of my northern compatriots see nothing wrong with that, is it because it is Buhari?

When three sons of Sheik Zakzaky were murdered during the Jonathan administration, El-Rufai called it genocide by the Jonathanian army, now under Buhari more than 200 are killed, their mosque and houses destroyed under El-Rufai’s nose as Governor of the same state, he has not called it genocide by the Buharian army, is it because it is Buhari?

Under the Jonathan administration subsidy payments were termed as fraud, and there were hues and cries to crucify oil marketers, Buhari even called it a fraud himself, we also thought so. Six months later the same Buhari is paying for subsidy yet nobody is calling it a fraud, why, is it because it is Buhari?

We criticized Jonathan for keeping a large fleet in the presidential fleet and wasting monies on maintenance, only recently President Buhari’s spokesman admitted 2 billion Naira was spent on their maintenance, when other presidents are even doing away with their jets, yet we sit down and watch helplessly, is it because it Buhari?
Fuel scarcity is biting harder, value of the Naira is going rock bottom, inflation is now on auto pilot, while profits are dropping, purchasing powers are becoming weaker, yet we are asked not to query them, is it because it is Buhari?

Nigeria matters and not whether Jonathan is a Southerner or Buhari is a Northerner

If we criticized Jonathan for cluelessness, we will also criticize Buhari for helplessness. While tribal and regional jingoist sees nothing because it is Buhari, what I see first is Nigeria and not whether Jonathan is a Southerner or Buhari is a Northerner. We cannot continue to be trapped in the closet of tribalism, regionalism and religious bigotry yet expect our country to remain one and grow.

Yes! We might be of different orientation and background but what is good is good anywhere any time and what is bad is bad, I cannot be suffering and keep smiling because “my brother” is the president.
Source: naiji.com

A School in Ghana where pupils sit and write on arranged blocks. Our leaders in Africa are so shameless, they want the Western World to respect and treat us like kings, yet they our leaders treats us like slaves. SAY NO TO CHILD ABUSE.

Do you know this? Do you miss your childhood days?

By Prisca Sam-Duru
LAGOS — ELDER statesman and President of Ndigbo Lagos, Professor Anya O. Anya, yesterday, declared that Nigeria is not yet a nation but that a nation will emerge out of her soon.
Anya made the statement at Sam Ohuabunwa’s Outreach, in Lagos, to mark the 65th birthday of Ohuabunwa, former chairman of Neimeth Pharmaceuticals.
The event was also to launch Ohuabunwa’s books, Sam Ohuabunwa’s Paradigm: Thoughts on Contemporary National Issues and The Port Harcourt Volunteer.
The professor, who chaired the occasion, said it was sad that Nigerians are not learning from history, averring that the much-criticized immediate past administration of Dr Goodluck Jonathan was better than that of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He said Ohuabunwa is one personality that embodies true stewardship and recognizes the values of a Christian, saying the country will be a better place if we learn the importance of true stewardship from people like the celebrant.
His words: “Sam has done an important thing by writing the books. I was privileged to write the foreword of Sam’s previous books. But the unique thing about today is that one of the books we are launching captures his experience during a particular time in our nation’s history.
“Unfortunately, we don’t write books enough and because of this, our nation does not have the opportunity to reflect on what has happened in the past and learn lessons from it. It is out of a people’s experience that you can write history. A nation that cannot learn from history cannot make the kind of progress that we expect.
“Once upon a time, history was a very important subject in the Nigerian education system, it got to a point when history is no longer there. If we don’t learn to stand on the shoulders of those who went before us, we cannot build as an individual, you cannot build as a community and as a nation.
“When you listen to our people, especially the politicians, it is as if we have learned nothing. God has been very kind to this country. It is not easy to see whether there is any common value that Nigerian leaders have which is why today you hear one thing and the next day, you hear the opposite.
We don’t have a nation
“The problem now is that we are now trying to build a nation. We don’t have a nation but whether we like it or not, a nation is going to emerge out of Nigeria. And it is going to be from the contributions of Sam and all of us putting our individual experiences on the table and drawing lessons and teaching the lessons to others.
“When people put down their experiences, it keeps others informed and when you collect them, it gives you an idea of the society’s experience and from there, you can write the history of that nation. A nation without a history cannot learn lessons and build on those lessons, and the nation will be in trouble.
“This is what is happening to Nigeria today. A great nation is built by succession of generation of giants. Each generation of giants stand on the shoulders of past giants and the nation moves forward.
“Unfortunately in Nigeria, we are all in a haste to pronounce opinion and we take opinion as if it is the truth. The past government has been heavily criticized but this past government was not worse than the government before it. In fact, the immediate past government was better than the one before it. Sadly, those criticizing past government are those who were in Obasanjo’s government.”
The review
In his review of The Port Harcourt Volunteer, Prof Jemie Onwuchekwa said the “book encapsulates the two and half years story of horror, told by a teenage soldier on the Biafran side. When we see pictures of child soldiers with machine guns, in war-torn countries in the continent, we usually think of Sudan, Sierra Loene etc, we fail to remember that it also happened right here in Nigeria. The author was a teenage soldier that witnessed all the gun fires, starvation and explosions that consumed over two million people but survived and toiled through to living a very successful life.”
He described the book as a material that is hard to put down, adding that “the author believes that the war could have been avoided if Gowon had stood firm on the Aburi Accord, which could have dismantled Aguiyi Ironsi’s military command…”
Prof Ayo Olukotun while reviewing Sam Ohuabunwa’s Paradigm: Thoughts on Contemporary National Issues, said that the book collates 55 chapters of weekly interventions published in newspapers by the author, which brings us to the author’s dream of a reinvented Nigeria. He congratulated him for serving Nigerians and posterity.
Former Governor of Anambra State, Sir Peter Obi, described the author as “someone who has lived a life worthy of emulation and contributed in building a better society.
He said: “The problem with Nigeria is that those who have not created wealth manage the wealth of the people who created it. If you have to allow some people to manage public resources, then we ought to know whether they have been able to manage their own resources. It is a global thing. People who manage resources must have created or managed their own otherwise there will be problem.’’
I write to send a message—Author
Responding, Ohuabunwa said: “I write because God gives me the inspiration to do so and I write to send a message. Every book I write has an audience.
“The Port Harcourt Volunteer is about my experience during the Biafran war and I thought that I should write on this because with the way the nation is going, it looks like we have forgotten about the war. And so much mistakes have been made.
“So, this is to remind ourselves that we have passed through this path, lost almost three million people, national wealth and we do not want to walk through that road again. We need to speak about what to do to strengthen Nigeria’s unity.
“Every four years it looks like we will break up. We must make our contributions now that we have a new government, to learn from what has happened, make our contributions so that Nigerians and the government can be guided.
“The major problem is that we are running a country in which everybody does not feel like they belong to, some people are marginalized deliberately or inadvertently, maltreated and there is injustice.”
Those at the event included Prof Adebayo Williams, Dr Christopher Kolade, Mrs Stella Okoli, Jimi Agbaje, Prof. Ibidapo Obe, Jimoh Ibrahim, Bishop James Odedeji, Arch Bishop of Lagos West Anglican Church, members of Pharmaceutical Associations, captains of industry.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/jonathans-govt-better-than-obasanjos-anya/

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor & Olasunkanmi Akoni
LAGOS— Apprehension yesterday gripped political stakeholders in Lagos State ahead of today’s launch of three books chronicling the stewardship of Mr. Babatunde Fashola as governor of Lagos State between 2007 and 2015.

The apprehension follows the perceived political rivalry between the camp of Fashola and his erstwhile political godfather, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, himself, also a former governor of the state. The political unease was compounded upon last week’s assertion b
y Fashola that he would not allow himself to be dragged into the mud by those who want to fight like pigs.
However, a third force within the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC it was gathered yesterday has pushed the leadership of the party to convene an emergency state caucus meeting tomorrow where the unfolding issue between the camps of the two former governors is expected to be discussed.
Ahead of today’s book launch it was learnt that activists in the two camps were working to use the occasion to score political points. While some were working to frustrate the book launch as a way of projecting what they claim as Fashola’s political incapacity in the state, the former governor’s loyalists were working to counter the move.
“They are planning but they will not succeed,” an associate of the immediate past governor told Vanguard on telephone yesterday.
Associates of Tinubu were, however, indignant yesterday that they would not honour the book launch, alleging that the immediate past governor had not shown enough respect to his erstwhile political benefactor.
“A man that has not seen it as wise to visit or thank his master since he stepped down from office, why should we be there,” a close associate of Tinubu said yesterday.
His assertion was, however, countered by a Fashola associate who disclosed yesterday that Fashola’s repeated efforts to speak with Tinubu since the handover had been impossible.
“Tinubu is not picking his calls, so those people saying that Fashola has not visited Tinubu simply do not know what they are talking about, they just don’t know,” the Fashola associate said.
Meanwhile, the frosty relationship between the two camps is set to worsen upon assertions of imminent plans by the new authorities in Lagos to prosecute those involved in alleged hike of contract figures during the immediate past administration.
Normally dependable sources told Vanguard yesterday that officials involved in the award of the contract of the N78 million upgrade of the website of the former governor are among those to be prosecuted.
The three books to be launched today include The Great Leap, a book written by Mr. Hakeem Bello, who served as Special Adviser on Media to Fashola and two others co-authored by Dapo Adeniyi.
The other two are: In Bold Prints: Thoughts of Babatunde Fashola and Lagos Blow Down: West Africa’s First Controlled Demolition.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/tinubu-vs-fashola-apprehension-as-ex-gov-launches-books/

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The North/Southwest alliance will always dominate Nigeria
By Samuel Oyadonga
Former Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, who is the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Elders Committee in his native Bayelsa State in this interview, reviews contemporary political developments in the state and affirms that the alliance between the North and Southwest will never benefit his Ijaw people. He also narrates how late President Umaru Yar’Adua saved his (Alamieyeseigha’s) life among other issues. Excerpts.
Do you think recent defections will affect the PDP during the forthcoming governorship election?
Again, I think our people need to be educated, I can tell you that I was one of them in 2003 that formed Action Congress. At that time, it was becoming clear that President Olusegun Obasanjo, was going to chase most of us out of PDP, so we came together. About 18 of us. We said let us register a party and keep it in case President Obasanjo pushed us out of the party. We can have a platform to actualize our dream.
Also at that time, Obasanjo had cajoled the Southwest governors out of their seats. He deceived them. Bola Tinubu was very clever, he foresaw what Obasanjo was trying to do, so he was the only one that survived because the agreement was that all the Southwest governors should all support him so that he will return them as governors for second term.
Obasanjo’s election came first and he deceived them. Obasanjo himself, very cunning, formed Accord Party. When you hear of Accord, it’s Obasanjo’s party.
Severance allowance
Tinubu provided the secretariat for the Action Congress, I, Alamieyeseigha, attached my Special Adviser on Political Matters, Chief T.K.O Okorotie, to that secretariat to put papers together. We invited Chief Tom Ikimi, to be the arrow head and he registered that party for us. It is that AC that transformed into ACN and the present APC.
So, there is nothing happening in APC today that I don’t know and they are the same people that are being recycled. So, my people should not be deceived. Politics is local.
And the whole thing is about self-interest. It is either they have not been given appointment, their severance allowance during Timipre Sylva administration has not been paid or they were not picked as candidates in the last general elections. Then I asked the question, must it always be you?
It is not right. Leadership is a relay race. You complete your assignment you hand over to another person. It cannot always be you alone every time. There is time for everything, so basically that is the problem. By the time we go into the party primaries all the noise you are hearing will die down, because it is only one candidate that the party will present. APC will present one candidate. APGA will present one candidate. By then, they will better appreciate the political environment.
The expectations are high because we don’t have any industry in the state. Even the market woman at Swali Market will tell you how much is coming into the state every month. So the only industry we have in Bayelsa state is Government House. If you are shut out of Government House for four years, of course, I am sure your guess will be as good as mine. So, the struggle here is to always to be in government.
But what about the aggrieved PDP members that were expelled?
Now as long as you are a product of a party, the party is supreme. If you are a product of that system, you must respect that party. If you sabotage the party, the party has a mechanism to discipline erring members.
There should be no sentiment about this. Some of them that were expelled did not do well. From evidence available, they sponsored opposition parties against their own party and no party will accept that. Again as elders, we have intervened and those decisions have to be reviewed, and very shortly, too.
Working committee
We shall review them, the working committee will sit down and review it on individual basis. Some of them will be reprimanded, while some will be admonished. And at the end of the day, I think the matter will be resolved amicably.
Would you say Governor Dickson has done enough to deserve a second term?
Governor Dickson, has done well, what I have seen on ground in the last three years in the state is very encouraging. Our problems has been the continuation of policies and programme of government. I served this state for six and a half years, Goodluck came in, served one year, the remaining six months he was campaigning for the office of the Vice President, Governor Timipre Sylva came in.
Of course I didn’t see anything visible on ground, I am not castigating him, but you could walk from Igbogene to Swali Market, I did not see anything that was added to what I left behind, even to complete the project I started was a problem. I feel very bitter when you come to government with good intention, you start a project for the good of the people and that project is abandoned.
So that period I think was a setback. Dickson has come in, we can now drive to places that were impossible before and we can see changes.
Are you worried by the strong followership the APC is drawing from the youths?
This state is a PDP state, we the elders will not allow foreign bedfellows take over this state. An Ijaw man has never been conquered, we would not allow it to happen. You can call it any name. Weather they come from the Southwest, whether they come from the North to conquer us.
If anybody tells you as an Ijaw man that these people love you, it’s a lie. I know them and they know me too.
The South-west and the North if they come together they will continue to produce the president of this country for life. We have no hope, so we must consolidate on what we have here.
We cannot afford to fall into that trap. We will perpetually be slaves to the bigger tribes. We should protect what belongs to us, we shall not allow our young men to be brainwashed.
This country must be restructured. We must practice true federalism, otherwise these people will continue to exploit us. We had a President from here. They just decided to take it back, and they took it. Is that the system the young people want to run into? What will even the Federal Government do to you if you decide to stay where you are.
You are receiving allocation from the federation account, the federal government is equally receiving its share, what do you expect from them? Is it not better to utilize what you have received and be able to be ingenious enough to attract investors to develop your local economy, than depending on the federal government?
The whole thing is deceptive. What they did not get from the 13% derivation, they are getting through the back door through the local government system? There is no federation in the world where local government is a federating unit.
Don’t be afraid, this youth population you are talking about. They have leaders that control them. It is like my humble self, going to Amassoma and I say this is the direction we are going, which of my children will stand up and say no? They will follow my direction.
How has it been since you left office almost 10 years ago?
The Lord, Almighty God is Holy and has sustained me and my family effortlessly. Though the challenges are always there, but if you are serving God you don’t need to be worried about tomorrow. He has always sustained me. I am not doing anything that is income generating per se. I am also, not begging anybody for help. I am contented with the little pension I receive. I am a man with a contented heart. I am always happy. My family has not also complaining.
Little pension
This earth, where we are is a workshop. So, it is expected we must pass through certain experiences in life. I have learnt my lessons for good, a leader must also be capable of enduring pains when it comes. You can never have comfort all the time. If what happened to me, if it were today I would have known how to handle it better.
So many things happened anytime I sit down and recollect some of these things I laugh over them. I thank God, I would not have been here talking to you, I would have been a dead man because several attempts were made to eliminate me. But thank God I am alive today and I also thank late President Umaru Yar’Adua, who saw it coming and called as a president and saved my life.
He said “Ganuwa Katsina” they will kill you, if you think anything will happen, nothing will happen. He said weeks after your death, your people will make noise. After, it is the same your people that will send CV’s for appointment and that will be the end of you.
This Nigeria, don’t argue with any body, if it requires removing your dress so to set your self free come out of it. I did not sign any paper that set me free, they signed everything by themselves, they took everything I had, I came out of detention with only N500. Everything I had since I was born was taken away from me.
Even this house we are in now, if it were located outside Bayelsa State it would have been taken away from me. They couldn’t try it because they would not have been comfortable in it, my people were ready to protect it. It is good, we are alive to be telling these stories so that the younger ones who have not experience these things will learn from our experience.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/obasanjo-very-cunning-tinubu-very-clever-alamieyeseigha/

A Libyan court sentenced a son and eight aides of slain dictator Moamer Gaddafi to death for crimes during the 2011 uprising on Tuesday after a trial overshadowed by the country’s bloody division. Former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi and Gaddafi’s last prime minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi were among those sentenced to death along with Seif al-Islam, the dictator’s son and onetime heir apparent.
Seif al-Islam is beyond the reach of the court because he is held in the southwestern hill town of Zintan by militia opposed to the Tripoli authorities. But both Senussi and Mahmudi were in the dock and face possible execution although their death sentences can be appealed to the supreme court.
The trial, which opened in the Libyan capital in April last year, has been dogged by criticism from human rights watchdogs and an unresolved dispute with the International Criminal Court in The Hague over jurisdiction in the case of the Gaddafi son. The 37 defendants were charged with crimes including murder and complicity in incitement to rape during the 2011 uprising that toppled the dictatorship.
Twenty-nine defendants appeared in court for Tuesday’s sentencing. They were brought into the black cage in blue prison uniforms, some with their heads shaved. Most sat impassively in the dock. Senussi, the former spy chief, joked with his guards. After the verdicts were read out, one of his fellow defendants screamed out: “Criminals, bandits,” before being led away to the cells.
Senussi has been in custody since September 2012 when he was handed over by Mauritania, where he had sought refuge after the regime’s overthrow. His 17-year-old daughter Salma on Tuesday renewed the family’s longstanding criticism of the Mauritanian decision to surrender him for trial in a country with a widely criticized legal system.
“They kidnapped my father in front of my eyes. Is this justice?” she complained. “Even if my father did something wrong, I would ask them to put him in a real court in a place with rule of law,” she told AFP from her home in England. “We are just asking for justice and mercy. He’s not guilty.”
Seif beyond court’s reach
The militia holding Seif al-Islam is loyal to the internationally recognised government which fled to the remote east last August when a rival militia alliance seized the capital and set up its own administration. Seif al-Islam’s sole appearances before the court have been by video link and there have been none since May last year.
Other defendants are held in Libya’s third city Misrata which is loyal to the Tripoli authorities and have also appeared at previous hearings by video link. The UN Security Council referred the conflict in Libya to the ICC in February 2011 amid Gaddafi’s repression of the popular uprising against his decades-old regime at the height of the Arab Spring.
Seif al-Islam is wanted by the Hague-based court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. ICC prosecutors say that as part of his father’s “inner circle”, he “conceived and orchestrated a plan to deter and quell, by all means, the civilian demonstrations against Gaddafi’s regime”.
Three of Gaddafi’s sons died in the 2011 uprising. Another, Saadi, was extradited to Libya from Niger in March 2014. Moamer Gaddafi himself, who ruled Libya for four decades, was captured and killed by rebels in October 2011. Seif al-Islam has been held in Zintan since his capture in November the same year despite repeated ICC demands for Libya to hand him over for trial.
Prosecutor general Siddick al-Sour acknowledged that there was no prospect of Seif al-Islam facing the court’s sentence any time soon but said that was a matter for politicians. “The court pronounced sentence and has nothing to do with the political conflict,” Sour said. “Libya has one court and one prosecutor general.”
Charges before the Tripoli court also included kidnapping, plunder, sabotage and embezzlement of public funds. Eight defendants were sentenced to life in prison, seven to 12 years, four to 10, three to six and one to five. Four were acquitted and one was ordered confined to a psychiatric hospital. Human rights groups have expressed concerns about the trial, criticising the fact that the accused have had only limited access to lawyers and key documents.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/court-sentences-gadafis-son-eight-aides-to-death/

As Nigerians begin to await the result of President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to the US, feelers have emerged that the United States are far from pleased with the conduct of the president and his large contingent.

According to a report by The Focus, White House sources have revealed that the American government raised a lot of concerns bordering on the exorbitant cost of the trip, the lack of preparedness of President Buhari among others.

A White House source who spoke anonymously enthused thus: “May be we are not reading from the same script, but the overall message by Obama is that they should go get themselves together, then get back with us.

“We are just being polite about this because your President doesn’t seem to understand a whole lot about government”.

According to the report, Buhari fell short of expectation as he and his large contingent had no presentation as to how they planned for the United States to help the crumbling economy, stressing that it was appalling that Buhari visited the country without an economic crew especially as the Nigerian economy is solely dependent on crude oil and petroleum products.

The source at the White House also expressed bewilderment that President Buhari raised no concerns at America’s dwindling importation of Nigeria’s crude oil and petroleum products which hitherto rose from 24 billion dollars in 2005 to over 38 billion in 2008, but has sharply dropped as a result of America’s shale energy revolution.

Asides Buhari’s widely publicized statement that the US had aided and abetted Boko Haram by refusing to provide weapons to execute the war against terror which has angered the American government and raised concerns about Buhari’s seriousness in collaborating with them, the US says Buhari blew the chance to earn their assistance, especially as regards the kidnap of over 200 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok, Borno State.

A White House source said: “We informed them early enough and even asked to assist them to make considerable argument to earn exceptional U.S. support to the regime, especially in areas of security and commerce, but they blew it.”

The American government also highlighted yet another blunder on Buhari’s part, where in an article of his published in the Washington Post, the Nigerian President attempted to defend his delay in inaugurating his cabinet by saying that President Barack Obama has also delayed his cabinet selection after he was elected. A section of Buhari’s article read: “It is worth noting that Obama himself did not have his full Cabinet in place for several months after first taking office; the United States did not cease to function in the interim.”

Countering Buhari’s claim via an article, a Nigerian attorney and writer based in the United States Oshiokpekhai Utu-Orbih wrote: “I don’t know where he got that information. I am still trying to come in terms with the rationale of the above statement in the said article other than the fact that President Buhari has gone to press to lie against his host in a bid to justify his dictatorial rule over Nigeria.

“After the historic election of 2008, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20, 2009. On January 21, he appointed Hilary Clinton as Secretary of State; on February 2, 2009, he appointed Eric Holder as Attorney General, then Ken Salazar as Secretary of Interior on 20th January 20. Obama continued with Tom Vislack, Agriculture January 21; Ray LaHood , Transportation January 23; Stephen Chu, Energy, January 20, and Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, January 21. I can go on and on. Must Buhari rewrite the American history because of his disdain for constitutionality?”

It was also gathered that as against the 33-man contingent that reportedly joined President Buhari on his US trip, about 229 people were said to have joined him, the largest in Nigeria’s democratic history. The cost of catering for the contingent, as gathered, cost a total of about N2.2 billion.

More appalling is the fact that although Buhari’s entourage was so large, they were unable to articulate a clear proposal for America’s help on foreign policy and commerce, a position that had been buttressed by President Buhari’s poorly composed speech, which was lacking in substance and had no connection with his extremely expensive diplomatic trip.

President Obama, while addressing the Nigerian contingent said that the US “can be helpful in addressing some of the corruption issues that have held Nigeria back”.

According to White House sources, President Obama’s message meant a “no-deal” until the Nigerian president puts forward a credible request for America’s collaboration and assistance.
http://www.thetrentonline.com/us-disappointed-with-buharis-visit-white-house-source-details/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari was in the United States for a state visit. During this visit to Washington, the Nigerian president had bilateral meetings with President Barrack Obama of the United States in the White House.
The Nigerian media was full of it – that is, awash with the story of Buhari’s first diplomatic visit to the US. Aso Rock’s press secretary and Buhari’s senior media aide, Femi Adesina, tweeted enthusiastically from the White House. The thing however was that out here in the United States, the universe was indifferent. There was a serious news eclipse on Buhari’s presence in Washington DC. It was insignificant.
No major American news outlet covered it for a US audience; the newspapers, if they talked about it at all, buried it deep beneath everything else, like an afterthought. The Congressional Black caucus did not rollout a carpet. The serious leaders of the black community in America did not pay attention; nor did it seem to them like a great African head of state was in town.
The Nigerian community felt but a rustle. In the large scheme of things, the vast range of Nigeria’s Intellectual, professional and business community here in the US, which the president and his mission ought to have tapped into, were hardly involved, nor a serious outreach planned to get the president to meet with them. In a badly organized town-hall affair, some Nigerians who wanted a chance to meet with the president were locked out from the grounds of the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC. Two things felt immediately clear with Buhari’s visit to the US.
The reception was ordinary. It is clear that Nigeria no longer has sex appeal, or any more weight to pull, in this relationship with the United States. It is also an indication of the general sense of Africa, and the general treatment of Africa in the US media, that the head of state of Africa’s so-called “power-house” visits the United States, and it is as if nothing happened. It was all silent. Compare this with what would have happened had the US President visited Nigeria. All lights would be ablaze.
On the diplomatic level, it is also quite clear that Nigeria does not register on the great scale of countries the United States regards as important. We may be friends, but in this relationship Nigeria is the dog that wags its tail before America and is to be patronized. It brings to mind the statement by Nigeria’s former Consul-General to the United States, and former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Joe Keshi, that Nigeria’s relationship with the United States must be based on “mutual respect.”
That is as it should be, and one of the ways in which countries demonstrate their regard for other nations is in the diplomatic protocol, and in the gestures of fanfare. Buhari was received at the Andrews Airport, not even by the Vice-President of the United States, but by the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Entwistle. It was shabby reception, compared to what would have been done to say, the Prime Minister of Israel, or France, or the German Chancellor, or the UK premier, or the PM of India, or even Pakistan. Compare it even to America’s reception of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa in 1961, and I have here uploaded a visual link on Youtube for the readers of the “Orbit”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5m9Fn9RBg, and it should be quite clear that Nigeria has stepped down significantly on the American diplomatic totem pole.
To be fair, President Obama did say, “Nigeria is obviously one of the most important countries in the world, and one of the most important countries in the African continent.” But we worry that US foreign policy is taking Africa and African countries for granted, and treating Africa like the world’s footmat, and this in the long run is not an image, we Africans want to have of a US-Africa relationship. It must be based, as Ambassador Keshi said, on mutual respect; not on presumption.
Buhari’s US visit, I’m not quite certain accomplished much except as a public relations ploy. If anything it felt like a caretaker reporting to his absentee landlord. Buhari wants president Obama to help Nigeria track and repatriate its stolen money.
“The fact that I now seek Obama’s assistance in locating and returning $150 billion in funds stolen in the past decade and held in foreign bank accounts on behalf of former, corrupt officials is testament to how badly Nigeria has been run,” President Buhari wrote in a Washington Post article of July 21. The question Nigerians however must ask is: does Nigeria not have its own National Intelligence Agency?
If there is none, perhaps Buhari now has a chance to build a strong and efficient National Intelligence Services from the ground floor. When the US had its own problem, it created its Secret Service managed under the Treasury Department. Buhari wants the US to provide Nigeria with the arms and training to fight Boko Haram. Does Nigeria not have its own Engineers and Designers? Why does this president want to continue and perpetuate Nigeria’s culture of dependency? Why is Nigeria not producing its own arms for its own national defence and national security? Zimbabwe produces its own arms.
South Africa has a vast National Defence Production infrastructure. Nations that depend absolutely on other nations for the tools required for their own self-defence and national security become slave nations. Buhari’s National Security policy must now move towards a doctrine of autonomy and self-sufficiency. It must link itself to the epicenters of Nigeria’s knowledge production and awaken its technical capacity. But this president must stop quibbling if he wants to truly make a clean cut with the past, and with how “badly Nigeria has been run.”
And he did say that he prefers to be “slow and steady.” Steady is good. But it must be anchored on two important premises: that there is something to be steady about; and that there is an end to it. Right now, Buhari’s pace, raises many concerns. It is not so much that is slow as that it is threading waters. But let me place this on record: I personally like this president to succeed.
The enormity of the work does not escape one. However, Buhari’s statement in the Washington Post, that he wants to “first put new rules of conduct and good governance in place,” before appointing his minister in September is a lot of presidential hogwash. Rules of conduct and good governance are already inherent in Nigeria’s regulatory systems. What is absent is sanction and solid oversight. Besides, the president can walk and chew gum at the same time.
The executive council is sine qua non to the convening of executive authority; and for a president who talks up the storm about law, order, and the rules of conduct, the president has breached the constitution by authorizing the release of federation funds to states for bail out without the consent and authority of the National Assembly. The president does not have the power to do so.
It is a fact which would have been made clear to him had he in place, a Finance Minister and the Attorney-General. If the bail-out money as authorized by the president is released, and it is not going to be released, the issue is bound to crop up with devastating consequences for the presidency in the 8th National Assembly when it finally convenes.
President Buhari needs to step off his high-horse and understand both the range and the limits of presidential power. He no longer is a military head of state. There are new rules of conduct pertaining to his office. Better still, this president must stop campaigning and begin to govern.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/president-go-slow-in-america/#sthash.yeTerAFR.dpuf

All Progressives Congress, APC, has said it would vehemently oppose the choice of Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose as Deputy Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF.
The body is due to elect its deputy chairman on Wednesday in Abuja.
But source close to an APC governor in one of the North Central States said that the choice of Fayose has rattled APC governors who have vowed to frustrate PDP’s plan of fielding him for the position.
According to the source, the governors recalled the role against the election of President Mohammadu Buhari during the campaigns, resolving that such a sensitive position would not be left in the hands of some they tagged as having “diarrhea of the mouth”.
He said: “I wonder why the PDP thinks the Ekiti governor should be the choice for the Deputy Chairman of the Forum when they could not accept him as the chairman of their PDP Governors’ Forum. The choice is unacceptable to us and we would oppose it when we meet on Wednesday”.
According to him, the APC was not against the PDP fielding a level headed governor to deputise for the chairman of the forum, but “certainly not Governor Fayose that is given to reckless and inciting statements and actions.”
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/apc-govs-oppose-pdps-choice-of-fayose-as-govs-forum-deputy-chairman/#sthash.xJreKxNf.dpuf

The National Assembly and the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) appear to have emerged as the new battlegrounds for high profile politicians jostling for the 2019 presidential contest.
The politicians bid, Sunday Vanguard learnt, is predicated on the assumption that President Muhammadu Buhari, on account of age (he is 72), may not run for second term at the next general elections.
Sources at the weekend linked the politicians ambition to the National Assembly leadership crisis.
The National Assembly came into the calculations because in the absence of a sitting President who is interested in seeking re-election and a Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who is a technocrat, leaders of the National Assembly are in vantage position to use their offices to mobilize support and gain political visibility.
The politicians, including governors, it was learnt, were, therefore, wary of allowing senators and Representatives with vast experience, huge resources, wide network and political visibility to emerge as Senate President, Speaker or occupy other principal offices.
Yusuf Dogara, House of Reps speaker and Bukola Saraki, Senate President
Yusuf Dogara, House of Reps speaker and Bukola Saraki, Senate President
The attacks launched by a North-West governor on the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, and Mr. Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives, are believed to be tied to the 2019 presidential race.
Analysts say the governor’s fear is that Saraki and Dogara, who are both northerners, may use their offices to traverse the country and build political network that may encourage them to seek the office of the President in 2019.
The governor is said to be using his closeness to Buhari to unsettle the political system, including the sharp division he allegedly caused in the NGF and the Northern Governors Forum.
Apart from staying away from the meetings of the NGF, sources said he has also refused to recognise the group’s leadership of Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar of Zamfara State. In the same way, it was gathered that he has made it known that he has nothing to do with the Northern Governors Forum led by the Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima.
Instead, the particular governor has reportedly encouraged the emergence of a group made up of himself and his counterparts in Katsina and Nasarawa States, Aminu Bello Masari and Umaru Tanko Al-Makura respectively. The trio are said to have labelled themselves as Buhari’s favourite governors.
Meanwhile, sources said the governor has been openly boasting that he has Buhari’s word to help him with his presidential ambition in 2019.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/2019-presidency-govs-forum-nass-are-new-battlegrounds/

Pandemonium as man, 44, dies during deliverance in Benin
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By Simon Ebegbulem
BENIN CITY—THERE was pandemonium Monday at Uselu quarters in Benin City as a 44 year-old man, identified as Osayande Ekhator, reportedly died during a deliverance in one of the new generation churches, Hope Ministries, also known as Holy Ghost Deliverance Centre. Vanguard gathered that the death of the man angered the youths in the area who stormed the church with dangerous weapons, destroying its properties, including musical instruments, electrical appliances and vehicles parked in the premises.
Father laments
The father of the deceased, Pa Erase Ekhator, lamented that the deceased visited him the previous day to inform him he was attending a deliverance in the church, that he quickly obliged him the request. He said confusion, however, enveloped the deliverance when he heard the deceased crying out for help.
“They forced him and tied both his legs and hands, carried a bucket full of water and poured it on his body. The mother asked why and they said that it is what they usually do to calm him down after struggling for five minutes, only for Osanyade to die in the church,’’ the deceased father said in anguish.
Sister of the deceased, Mrs Omoregie Osas, who suspected foul play in the death of his late brother, alleged that they beat him to death because the cloth he was putting on was pulled off and they wore him another one.” But reacting to the allegation, the resident Pastor of the Church, Mrs Isoken Okudaye, and a church member who claimed he witnessed what happened, said the victim who they claimed was violent during the deliverance, accidentally hit his head on a nearby generating set and died.
Pastor Okudaye said: “We have been taking care of his father without any money; we don’t kill, beat or destroy souls here. If they bring people with insanity here, we heal them.”
An eyewitness told newsmen: “When we heard that somebody died there, we all ran to the church to know what happened, but some angry youths started destroying the altar and everything in the church. We had to escape from the scene so that we won’t be attacked.”
Reacting to the development, Edo State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Steve Onwunchie, who confirmed the incident, said the police had commenced investigation into the matter, adding that the findings would be made public at the appropriate time.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/pandemonium-as-man-44-dies-during-deliverance-in-benin/

LAGOS — Ignorance of who Mr. Solomon Arase (Inspector General of Police) is gave out a 33-year-old man arrested for impersonating a Police Constable.
He told operatives of Lagos State Police Command X-Squad that his action was inspired by love for the profession.
The suspect, Godwin Akhenamen, who claimed to have been parading as a policeman for 12 years, was sighted in Ikeja, Monday, fully kitted in a SPY police uniform.
But the service number on the uniform reportedly gave him away, owing to its irregularity. When accosted by men of the X-Squad, he reportedly insisted he was a policeman.

He was reportedly asked if he knew the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase. But he claimed not to have any relative or friend who bore that name.
At that point, he was arrested and revealed during interrogation that he was not a policeman.
‘I love this job’
Akhenamen told Vanguard how he had on several occasions made attempts to join the Nigeria Police without luck.
According to him: “I love the Police profession and have always wanted to be a policeman. But several attempts made to join failed. The reason was based on the ground that I did not finish my primary school education.
“In 2003, I decided to join the SPY police training, but by the time I got to Ikeja, I was told that registration had closed. I went back to my private security job only to be sacked two weeks later.
“Living became difficult and I could not go out to look for job because I had no money to transport myself.
“So, I borrowed money to get black material with which I made this uniform; to enjoy free transportation to any destination of my choice.
“People also accorded me due respect because they thought I am a policeman. I swear I do not steal with it. Things were moving smoothly for me for 12 years until X-Squad men accosted me and asked if I knew Arase.
“I thought the person reported me to them and I asked them what offence the person levelled against me, not knowing he is the IG.”
Lagos State Command spokesman, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the incident and said that the suspect would soon be charged to court.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/i-dont-know-solomon-arase-fake-policeman/#sthash.mSolXfL5.dpuf

Music maverick, Charlie Boy, on Tuesday solicited the support of well meaning Nigerians for the rehabilitation of ailing musician, Majek Fashek, popularly known as the ‘Rain Maker’. Charlie Boy, who spoke to newsmen in Abuja said that Majek Fashek, was an iconic artiste who should not be left in his present condition. “The worst thing we can do is stand and watch when we see someone struggling in agony, especially when their pain is self inflicted. “It is no longer news that the rain maker is a sorry shadow of himself plagued by issues larger than his self discipline.

“Majek Fashek is our own; let’s see how we can heal our rain maker who needs all the love and understanding he can get right now. “I know quite a few well meaning Nigerians have contributed to his rehabilitation, but I still encourage others to help see the healing of this great musician become a reality.
“It is our collective effort to help rehabilitate him as a social responsibility of fighting this hard drug menace that is wasting so many of our youths,” he said. Charlie Boy told pressmen that he decided to drum support for the ailing artiste because he once worked with him and he was such a huge talent that should not be abandoned.

“I remember this very handsome man with a good heart and we had worked together a long time ago at the start of his beautiful but truncated music career. “He is a multi- talented artiste of international repute, whose hit rendition `Send down the Rain’ still does exactly that anytime it is played- sending the shivers down our spines.
“It used to be my favorite song from his album, and till today, I can sing his lyrics many years after. “He brewed that song right in my studio in Oguta, in the seven months he spent with me there as an in-house producer.

“He was so promising, so full of dreams that it breaks my heart to see him so degenerated and entirely disconnected today,” he lamented. Charlie Boy said that empathy would help someone better understand the present condition of the ‘rain maker’. “Looking at him now, I say to myself, it could have been me or any of us. “Some people are not so lucky to imbibe self discipline for things that are destructive to them, however, that doesn’t necessarily make those of us better human beings for being able to.

“I know it can be a huge heartache watching someone you love struggle with an addiction or have a mental illness but the good news is that it is curable. “When we show more love as parents, friends, associates, spouses, brothers or sisters, we help the people going through this struggle feel good about themselves,” he said.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/charlie-boy-rallies-support-for-ailing-musician-majek-fashek/#sthash.Ws9hCHGX.dpuf
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/charlie-boy-rallies-support-for-ailing-musician-majek-fashek/

Five Nigerian students have been arrested and detained in Malaysia over their alleged involvement in an internet fraud amounting to N125.2million (RM2.4 million) in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. The five students, aged between 20 and 30, and pursuing Information Technology courses in a leading private college in Kuala Lumpur, were arrested on June 30, 2015 at different areas in that country including Petaling Jaya, Cyberjaya, Damansara and Kuala Lumpur.
Following the arrest of the five students, police also detained the two local women, aged 40 and 55, who are the owners of the accounts used by the syndicate said Penang Commercial Crimes chief ACP Azmi Adam.
ACP Azmi said police also seized five laptops, 20 hand phones, ATM cards, SIM cards and documents believed to have been used to con their victims.
He said police launched ‘Ops Merpati’ after receiving a report from the owner of an ice producing factory owner in George Town who claimed he had been cheated by the syndicate. The 62-year-old victim said he had received an e-mail from the syndicate in March, informing him that he was among 50 recipients selected to receive RM15.9 million from the government of the United States.
“The e-mail requested the victim to follow certain procedures to ensure he did not miss the opportunity. Convinced by the contents of the e-mail, the victim carried out 51 transactions involving money, to accounts numbers given by the syndicate before realising it was a scam. He later lodged a police report,” he said.
Azmi said initial investigations revealed that the syndicate had conned several victims to a tune of RM2.4 million. Police have also found transactions involving up to RM1 million that were banked in from a neighbouring country.
Source: Vanguard.

Lagos—Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Southwest have vowed not to recognise the emergence of Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara until the crisis revolving around the National Assembly contest is sufficiently resolved by the party.
Chairman of the Ekiti State chapter of the party, Chief Jide Awe disclosed this yesterday as his counterpart in Oyo State, Chief Akin Oke insisted that the two presiding officers of the National Assembly should apologise to the party to avoid compounding their problems.
Dogara and Saraki
Dogara and Saraki
The duo spoke in the wake of assertions that the Southwest caucus of the party may have decided to boycott activities of the party upon the crisis provoked by the failure of Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila to win the leadership contest and the subsequent resistance to his emergence as Majority Leader of the House.
Speaking on the development, Awe said: “I was at the NEC meeting but I did not go and salute the Senate President and the Speaker. This is because there are issues on ground that have not been resolved by the leadership of the party. This crisis has to be resolved. We are a third party to this crisis and a third party should not contribute to an existing problem, rather he should look for solutions.”
Awe noted that the chairmen of the party from the region unanimously resolved not to congratulate Senator Saraki and Speaker Dogara.
His words: “All the Southwest chairmen have decided to allow the party solve the problems with the National Assembly before we start congratulating the winners.
When probed to know if the chairmen from the zone were acting the script of a national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, he said, “that is what they will think but they are wrong. People do not know the workings of the APC. For Asiwaju (Tinubu) not to be at the NEC meeting means that he is not a member.
Also speaking on the issue, chairman of the party in Oyo state, Chief Oke said the state chairmen of the party believe very strongly that party supremacy should be respected.
He also maintained that the state chairmen of the party visited the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki to ensure that he respects the position of the party.
Source: Vanguard.

A baby born in Hong Kong was pregnant with her own siblings at the time of her birth, according to a new report of the infant's case.
The baby's condition, known as fetus-in-fetu, is incredibly rare, occurring in only about 1 in every 500,000 births. It's not clear exactly why it happens.
"Weird things happen early, early in the pregnancy that we just don't understand," said Dr. Draion Burch, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Pittsburgh, who goes by Dr. Drai. "This is one of those medical mysteries."


The World Health Organization considers a tiny fetus found within an infant to be a kind of teratoma, or tumor, rather than a normally developing fetus. [Seeing Double: 8 Fascinating Facts About Twins]
But the doctors who treated the baby girl wrote that rather than a teratoma, the tiny fetuses may instead be the remains of sibling twins that were absorbed during the pregnancy.
Missed in check-up
The newborn baby was referred to Dr. Yu Kai-man, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong, because the baby was suspected to have a tumor, according to the case report. The mother's prenatal ultrasound had revealed an unusual mass within the infant, but it was unclear to the doctors exactly what the mass was. During surgery, which was done when the girl was about 3 weeks old, the surgeons discovered two fetuses between her liver and her kidney.
One fetus weighed 0.3 ounces (9.3 grams) and the other 0.5 ounces (14.2 grams) — corresponding to about 8 and 10 weeks' gestation, the case report said.
Each of the babies had an umbilical cord that linked to a placenta-like mass in the girl's belly.
The baby girl was obviously too young to have conceived the fetuses herself. Instead, it's likely that the girl was once one of triplets, the researchers said. Then, for some mysterious reason, the two smaller fetuses were absorbed into the body of the remaining child.
The fetuses would likely have still been alive and growing when they were absorbed into the surviving baby's body. Once there, however, their development couldn't proceed normally, Burch said.
"They need placental flow and all that other stuff to really grow," Burch told Live Science.
Vanishing twins?
Fetus-in-fetu may, in fact, be similar to a surprisingly common phenomenon: vanishing twin syndrome, Burch said. In many twin pregnancies, one of the twins is completely absorbed and "vanishes" into the body of the other.
"When you do a delivery and you see an extra placenta and a cord, you say, 'Oh, it must have been a twin,'" Burch said.
Fetus-in-fetu has been reported in about 200 cases in the medical literature. In 2006, doctors in Pakistan removed two fetuses from a 2-month-old girl named Nazia, according to NBC News. And in 2011, an 18-year-old boy had his retained twin removed in a major surgery, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
In rare instances, fetuses that die in utero can become calcified and turn into stone. In August 2014, doctors in India removed a lithopedion, orstone baby, that a 60-year-old woman had carried in her body for 36 years. She went to the doctor complaining of abdominal pain and a lump in her lower belly.
- See more at: http://fredrickaroro.com/blog/baby_born_pregnant_with_her_own_twins/#.dpuf

Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped Madam Martha Binabo, the wife of former Speaker of Bayelsa State House of Assembly and the state former Acting Governor, Rt. Hon Nestor Binabo.

The incident, the latest in the series of high profile kidnaping in the state occurred at Agbura community in the outskirts of Yenagoa the state capital.

The victim, aged 48, was abducted Monday at about 11.30am by five armed men clad in military camouflage in front of a company where she is also the director.

The gunmen were said to have lured their victim outside the company’s gate for a talk only to force her into a waiting car and drove towards Otuokpoti sand dump.

The get away car was later abandoned and set ablaze at the Otuokpoti sand dump water front by the gunmen who escaped into the creek in a waiting speedboat with their victim.

: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/gunmen-abducts-former-bayelsa-govs-wife/#sthash.HOh02dqc.dpuf

AN Osun State judge, Justice Oloyede Folahanmi has called on the state House of Assembly to investigate the alleged mismanagement of the state’s financial resources by the governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola and his deputy in accordance with Sections 128 and 129 of the 1999 constitution, saying there is no moral justification for their continued stay in office.
Folahanmi, in a 30-page petition urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Amnesty International, Transparency International among others, to investigate any other person found to be responsible for what he described as ‘’ deliberate mismanagement of the economy of Osun State.’’
The petitioner further accused Aregbesola of acting in defiance of some sections of the constitution which bordered on the welfare of Osun indigenes.
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun celebrating his re-election in Osogbo on Sunday
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun celebrating his re-election in Osogbo on Sunday
The petition reads in part: ‘’I am propelled by the desire to see the pains of my fellow human beings ameliorated and to possibly, help take away the reproach of our state as “A bankrupt” and “A failed state” and the desire to join hands with other like minds to help salvage the sinking ship of Osun State.
‘’I declare that in addition to the media-hype of Osun’s parlous financial condition, I have firsthand experience which constitutes evidence of the unfortunate situation in which Osun currently finds herself.
‘’Even Mr. Governor has admitted publicly, the fact that Osun is in financial quagmire and that he is clueless on how to pull her out of the doldrums. Mr. Governor’s argument that salaries can only be paid from statutory allocations is also faulty, we demand that he substantiate his claim by giving the section of the law that so provides. In any event, all funds, all allocations and all expenditures are expected to be backed by legislation, and are statutory, otherwise, they are illegal.
‘’Consequently, the admitted inability of Mr. Governor and his deputy to pay pensions, salaries and allowances for periods ranging from eight to 11 months now, as a consequence of their own decision to accumulate debts beyond the capacity of the state’s internally generated revenue, whilst the very ‘ actors’ Mr. Governor and his deputy continue to enjoy their security allowances in hundreds of millions, is a violation of their oaths of office.
‘’Their action in this respect is as illegal as it is immoral and unconscionable. It is an evidence of their inability to discharge the functions of their office. There is therefore no legal or moral basis for their continued stay in office.
‘’Neglecting the welfare of members of the community under the guise of wanting to provide infrastructure, runs contrary to the teachings of Christ, the son of God, Jesus of Nazareth. The provision of infrastructures at the expense of human lives and the dignity of man is therefore repugnant to natural justice, equity, and good conscience and must be denounced as abominable. It contradicts Principle 1 of the Stockholm Conference.
‘’Instead of pursuing the noble ideals enshrined in our constitution, the ideals of social order, and “ensure a just world economic order” and “universal brotherhood” Mr. Governor and his deputy are assiduously working against it, as exemplified by the cruel, and harsh debasement of pensioners and civil servants by deliberately and maliciously withholding their salaries for months, in an attempt to brow beat, subjugate to take away their God given free will, and reduce them to mindless robots, with herd mentality, devoid of the ability to take any decision for themselves and unable to assert or actualize themselves!
‘’To this end and for this reason I am sure other well -meaning and concerned members of the Osun community are hereby calling on honourable members of the state House of Assembly to pick up the gauntlet and redeem themselves by giving effect to the provisions of Sections 128 and 129 of the Constitution, empowering them to investigate and bring to justice, all those who have
corruptly enriched themselves at the expense of Osun and her people.’’
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/unpaid-salaries-serving-osun-judge-calls-for-aregbesolas-impeachment/

Is this one fashion, art or...?

ABUJA – The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has just dismissed a 42-count criminal charge pending against the Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva.
Trial Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed ruled that the charge which was preferred against the erstwhile governor by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,‎ constituted an abuse of court process.
Sylva was in the charge, alleged to have used three separate companies and siphoned the sum of N19.2bn from the Bayelsa state treasury.
EFCC insisted that the fraud was perpetuated between 2009 and 2012 when Sylva held sway as governor of the state.
Sylva is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and was a member of the transition committee of President ‎Muhammadu Buhari.
The Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Mr. M.S Diri, had earlier withdrawn another six-court charge against Sylva, wherein he was ‎accused of involvement in the illegal diversion of N6.5billion also from the coffers of Bayelsa State.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/breaking-news-alleged-19-2bn-fraud-court-dismisses-charge-against-sylva/#sthash.BB7t7ffL.dpuf

Caption this.

okeke00:
i still doubt that story. OBJ knows much about his arrest.
He came back with a forged passport?
who released him from the captive?
was their any visa on the passport he came back with?
do you think you can just disguise like a woman and beat heathrow airport?

abeg, tell me another story jareh. i am no kid to believe that crap

I am 100% sure you didn't read the news, you just talking for talking sake, did you ever read where it was mention that he escaped through Heathrow Airport? And to answer your question: Yes passport could be arranged, people travel with resemblance.

EverestdeBliu:
Why digging up old sh!tt? Guess u're bent on marring him the more. Go get a job,its too early a morning to start with such.

Shot that hole you call mouth, do you think you have a job? If you think you know so much, they are people who needs the information. Records are not just kept for keeping sake, they are kept for re visitation and that is history. Don't tell people how to live their lives, we all have our opinions, by the way who invited you to read the post?