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If I were you I would ask this question before dabbling into the right or wrong of impeaching ex-governor Nyako.

Did Adamawa state people give their mandate to APC or PDP?

Accordimg to pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/apc-hires-another-foreign-pr-firm-for-1-2m-over-boko-haman-tag/

Few weeks after castigating the Federal Government for allegedly hiring a foreign Public Relations firm, the All progressive Congress, APC, has hired Burson-Marsteller, a London based Public Relations and Public Affairs for an annual fee of $ 1.2 Million, approximately N200 Million.

Perception and narratives that its members are Boko Haram sympathizers, trail the APC, an appendage that may likely affect the APC’s electoral fortunes in 2015. One of the main focuses of the P.R firm would be to change the narrative using the media among others.

lakpalakpa:

lolxxxx @ lakpalakpa cause that photo could be very scary at first glance.

I know we have good hacker on NL so please can you guys educate us on how this embarrasment happened to The Sun and step they could take to forestall a repeat.

I just visited www.sunnewsonline.com as part of my daily routine on nigerian papers online and what I saw was not funny at all.
The hackers are I think drawing the attention of Sun management and nigerians to "the bring back our girls" campaign and corruption.
They also say that security is an illusion.
They go by the name TeamNCA. This is very serious.

source :
www.nigerianeye.com/2014/07/sunday-dare-and-pathetic-mission-to.html?m=1

Dare is so confident I would not be allowed to
respond to his broadsides, he titled his second
rejoinder: “The Beginning of the End of Aribisala’s Fiction.” However, he is greatly mistaken. I reserve the right to continue expressing my views.
Nevertheless, I understand the basis of Dare’s confidence. My views are now unlikely to continue to find true and frank expression in Vanguard.
Therefore, I have decided to resign my
appointment with Vanguard in order to protect my independence and integrity. Dare celebrates his paymaster, Bola Tinubu, as a
great democrat. Indeed, Olorunpomi says:
“Nobody has contributed more to the sustenance of democracy than him.”
But a democrat, who is also the leader of the opposition in Nigeria, does not try to stifle opposition to his own positions. He does not muscle the press into carrying only those
views and perspectives that promote his interests.
As for me, I will not be intimidated or silenced.
Nigeria does not only belong to the rich and the powerful. Death sentence Dare starts his rejoinder with a quotation saying: “Femi Aribisala sounds like Nigeria’s Salman
Rushdie.” This, in itself, is the height of mischief.
Salman Rushdie denigrated the Muslim faith and a fatwa or death-sentence was passed on him ensuring that, till date, he lives in hiding. I have never denigrated the Muslim faith. Indeed, my beloved grandmother was a Muslim.
All I have written is that a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket is inappropriate in Nigeria, in this season of rampant Boko Haram killings of Christians and the bombing of churches in the North. For this reason, a paid hack of Bola Tinubu is implying that a death-sentence should be passed on me. And yet, this
same man insists his boss is a democrat. Are death sentences now to be passed on people
who don’t support the political views and
ambitions of Bola Tinubu?
Is this the progressive politics that is being touted by the APC? There is nothing progressive about this. It is the same old-
time politics of threats and blackmail that has been the bane of Nigeria. This is getting devious. The stakes here are apparently very high for Dare and his gang.
The 2015 election sounds like a matter of life and death to them. But I have no interest whatsoever in dying over who will be the next Muslim vice-president of Nigeria. My kingdom is not Nigeria. My kingdom is the kingdom of God.
The righteousness of God does not come through political elections. Jesus has no interest in changing Nigeria for the better. He is only interested in changing Nigerians. Tissue of lies Dare made a number of insinuations in his
vituperation and diatribe against me. He is
mistaken in presuming that my motives are the
same as his. I am not in the pay of Goodluck
Jonathan or the PDP. But Dare is in the pay of Bola
Tinubu and the APC. I would never work for any politician or government. But Dare is a “gofer” for
Bola Tinubu. The organization I was working for
was Vanguard. In any case, I only worked for
Vanguard part-time. Having now left Vanguard, I
am not looking for a job: I already have a job. I
have been essentially self-employed for the past seventeen years. In order to defend his pied piper, Dare littered his
rejoinders with outright lies. He says I started my
piece with a purported quotation from Tinubu that
never occurred. That is a lie. This is the quote and I
repeat it. Tinubu said: “Nobody, no one under the
sun, under the United Nations Human Rights Charter, can stop Bola Tinubu’s ambition.” If this is
a false quote, Dare should advise his boss to sue
me for libel. Dare is a liar. He is the one that attributes to me
things I never said. He says: “Aribisala claims
Asiwaju wants to be another Awolowo.” That is a
lie. I never said so. He says: “Aribisala accuses
(Tinubu) of trying to supplant Awolowo.” That is
another lie. I said nothing of the sort. He says I failed to acknowledge the “enormous
contribution” Tinubu made in ensuring that the
PDP did not hijack all the South-West states “by any
means necessary.” That is also a lie. I
acknowledged this in my writing. Hack writer He says: “This hack writer asserts that Tinubu
seeks a dynasty. He cannot be more incorrect.”
Sorry, Dare, I cannot be more correct. Placing
single-handed your yes-men, friends and relations
in key positions in the South-West is tantamount to
trying to establish a dynasty. There is no point in lying against the truth. Everybody knows Tinubu
has never been committed to true democracy. He is
committed to what he calls “god-fatherism.”
Unfortunately for him, that is a term usually applied
to the Mafia. Dare says: “Aribisala wishes he were Tinubu.
Instead, Aribisala is relegated to being the Asiwaju
of his own imagination.” That is balderdash. The
last thing I would aspire to be is the highfalutin
leader of a bogus political party or, indeed, the
Special Assistant Media of Bola Tinubu. Tinubu is a politician and I despise politicians. They are the
problem with Nigeria. Politicians are bought and
sold. But, by the grace of God, I cannot be bought. Dare should be more fastidious by first doing a
little homework before rushing to make false
allegations. In a recent interview with Jide
Akintunde of Financial Nigeria magazine, I put this
on public record: “I am a student of politics.
However, I hate politics. It is ungodly, it is false, and it is practiced with deceit. You cannot be a
successful politician and, at the same time, be
committed to the truth. Therefore, my interest in
politics does not go beyond the academic. I write
about politics primarily to expose the deceit of
politicians. I could never be a politician. Neither can I ever be interested in accepting a political
appointment.” Selfish politics Dare says: “Until Nigerians stop thinking of politics
as an avenue for self-aggrandizement instead of
selfless service to the state we would not make
meaningful progress.” This is strange coming from
him to me. I am not and will never be a politician
and I am a man of very modest means. But Bola Tinubu is a politician who is now rolling in wealth.
In the interest of transparency, he owes the
Nigerian public an explanation for his sudden
stupendous wealth. For example, it is reported that
Tinubu has recently bought a mint Global Express
aircraft costing upward of $30 million. There are also reports that he has taken over the former
Secretariat of Ikoyi Local Government in Lagos,
where he is said to be putting up a spanking 14-
storey building. I live in Lagos and have done so for over thirty
years. So I know what Lagosians think of the
privatization of their economy. I know what they
think about the mortgaging of their tax-collection
to Alpha Beta. I know how disgusted they are with
the rip-off of the Lekki/Ajah Express-way and the Tollgate. Dare is wasting his time if he really thinks
he can pull the wool over our eyes simply because
he has to earn his keep as Tinubu’s bulldog. I hold no brief for Tom Ikimi. But I am amused that,
now that he has fallen out with Tinubu, Dare refers
to him as “an unprincipled politician (who) pitches
his tent wherever he feels the grass is greener.”
The hypocrisy here is incredible. Tinubu it was
who led a delegation of APC bigwigs to Obasanjo’s Otta home begging the former president to be an
unprincipled politician by moving over to pitch his
tent with APC as their “navigator.” That shows how
unscrupulous he is. What then are we to call the
other PDP turncoats that now populate APC, from
Rabiu Kwankwaso to Murtala Nyako to Atiku Abubakar? It would appear that, as long as they
don’t fall out with Dare’s oga-at-the-top, they are
principled. Dare’s messiah Olorunpomi went as far as present Tinubu in the
same bracket as Jesus and Mohammed. Dare
describes Tinubu as a man with a “messianic
mission.” Nevertheless, Tinubu’s ACN was beaten
to third place in the 2012 gubernatorial election in
Ondo. Chris Ngige, a very popular former governor of Anambra State, came a distant third in the 2013
gubernatorial election in the state because he was
foolish enough to run on Tinubu’s APC platform.
Kayode Fayemi, Tinubu’s APC governor in Ekiti,
was recently defeated by a landslide by PDP’s Ayo
Fayose. It would appear that the train of this so- called messiah is fast running out of petrol and
spare-parts. I know what really irks these praise-singers is my blowing the whistle on Tinubu’s vice-presidential ambitions.
Dare writes about his oga: “That he is from the South-West or a Muslim should not matter, should it?
Of course not!” Okay, my brother! Go
right ahead. Let the APC field Tinubu in a Muslim/ Muslim presidential ticket. Then they will really see the political disaster that awaits them. One thing is certain.
In the full wake of that disaster, Dare is
likely to lose his job as a highfalutin Special Media Assistant for not being worthy of his handsome paycheck.

On 24th June, 2014, I wrote an article entitled: “A Muslim/Muslim Presidential Disaster for the APC.”
This was followed on 1st June, 2014 with another article entitled: “The Beginning of the End of the Bola Tinubu Dynasty.” These articles have understandably elicited responses from the Tinubu brigade.
On 2nd July, Sunday Dare, Special Assistant Media to Bola Tinubu, wrote a rejoinder in Vanguard to the first article entitled “Re: A Muslim/Muslim Presidential Disaster for the APC by Femi Aribisala.”
On 3rd July, he wrote another rejoinder to the
second article. Both articles were presented as Vanguard Special Reports; including an old article written by Professor Sam Oyovbaire entitled: “The Government and the Media: Partners in Progress.”
This was followed on 5th July by yet another
article in Vanguard by Gbenga Olorunpomi
entitled: “History Will Be on Tinubu’s Side.”

ahaika23: Pls go back to the "wike weeps article" and read my comment. Some jobless nuisance was responsible for that trash.

ok will do

otokx: Brazil is weeping now in fact wailing.

lolxxxxx @otokx. Have you not weeped before in your life?

source :

www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/pdp-has-not-blocked-wikes-gubernatorial-ambition-official.83414/

source :
www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/pdp-has-not-blocked-wikes-gubernatorial-ambition-official.83414/

The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, says it’s not true that
it has shut its doors against any member of
the Party wishing to contest for the office of
Governor in the State in 2015.

The party through a statement issued by Jerry Needam, Special Adviser on Media to
the State Chairman, Bro Felix Obuah said
this in response to rumours in some section
of the media that the Party has stopped the
leader of the Party in the State, and
Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Barr. Nyesom Wike from contesting the
2015 governorship election.

But to the chagrin of most , Nyako Friday said
Jonathan had no interest in his removal. He made veiled reference to Atiku when he said some Abuja based politicians from his state are behind his problems.

Meanwhile the acting Chief Judge of
Adamawa State, Justice Ambrose Mammadi, late Friday announced the constitution of a seven-
man committee to investigate allegations of gross misconduct against the embattled governor of the state, Murtala Nyako and his deputy, Bala Ngilari.

The state House of Assembly had recently served Nyako and Ngilari with impeachment notices, and asked the Chief Judge to institute such panel. According to Nyako “ ‘some senior citizens’ of Adamawa based in Abuja are behind the political imbroglio bedeviling the state,..The presidency is not planning a plot to remove me from office contrary to speculations,” he said. “We know that
Adamawa state is full of intellectuals, when issues arise, we use different approaches to address it.

That is the cause of the political differences we
have, but no much outside interference.” Both
men went for each other’s jugular during the last congress in the state. But at the end of the day, Nyako’s men seized the structure of the APC in the state.

With that, Atiku who wanted the structure to
ensure his ambition to be President was intact,
decided to wrestle power from Nyako by hook or crook including masterminding his impeachment. Pointblanknews.com sources hinted that Atiku’s men advised that the only way he could get back the structure and also become the Kingmaker, and ensure the state supports his ambition is to remove Nyako.

Subsequently, it was learnt, Atiku mobilized funds , which he used to induce some key stakeholders, lawmakers and party executives. He also masterminded the defection of some Nyako’s men from the APC.

Before the Congress, Atiku had thrown his
political weight behind one of the spinster group led by Alhaji Abdulraman Namdaz who was the former Deputy Governorship candidate for the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011 general election in the state. During their political tour to the 21 Local Government Areas of the state, Namdaz group informed the APC members that they were sent by the former Vice President to mobilize the electorate ahead of the state congress.

The former Vice President instructed them to form the State Working Committee (SWC) of the party which informed their movement round the 21 Local Government Areas of the state to create awareness to the APC supporters that Atiku will form the party executive in the state with members of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change [CPC], new PDP and PDM. While Atiku group believe that Nyako should not
be entrusted with the party structure of APC
considering the humiliation Atiku suffered in the hand of Nyako during the PDP presidential
primaries when he was denied home support. But Nyako camp of are of the view that Atiku is
coming to take its own pound of flesh from
Nyako and they are making efforts to truncate
any of his move to take over the party structure from Nyako.

Political pundits believe that the former Vice
President’s ambition to vie for elective post may suffer another setback if he fails to form alliance with governor Nyako considering the fact that Nyako is not personally interested in any elective position.

The issue of who succeeds Nyako is another issue creating problems between the two gladiators.

Atiku and his men are insisting that Nyako must not impose his son, Navy Commander Abdul-Aziz Nyako, on the people. But some members of Nyako camp argued against it, stressing that Nyako’s son was a member of APC before Nyako and Atiku joined the party.

They said it is not a crime for him to aspire to be Governor. Said our source “ Atiku wants to be relevant in Adamawa APC.

Nyako had frustrated that and he feels
slighted that as a former VP he barely has a say in the APC leadership hierarchy in the state.” The source told Pointblanknews.com “ Atiku had been very unhappy after losing out in the party’s congress to Nyako. His Presidentila ambition is hanging in the balance because he has no complete control of the structure currently in the pocket of Nyako.
So his only option is to remove him at all cost”

Source: pointblanknews.com

Revealed : Atiku behind Nyako’s impeachment
nightmare Checks by Pointblanknews.com has revealed that a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar is behind the impeachment nightmare of Adamawa Governor, Murtala Nyako.

It has also been revealed that Atiku curiously masterminded the defection of some AllProgressive Congress (APC) APC members to thePeople’s Democratic Party (PDP), to whittle down the influence of Nyako and set the stage for his exit.

When trouble started in Yola for Nyako, some believed the mastermind was the PDP and
President Goodluck Jonathan. They had
speculated that Jonathan wanted him out
because of his very acerbic letter he wrote to his colleagues and the need for his party to seize the structure in the state.

larj: not bad buts its an advise i pray i neva make use of

yes oooh. Me too as we all look up to God for our day to day safety.

While attack is on:
1. Be calm. You are the only one who can
help yourself.
2. Lay flat. Most explosives used by suicide bombers are designed to burst in a flower
bouquet pattern to throw the shrapnel
horizontally between two and six feet
above the ground. This pattern increases
the chances of hitting the human torso and
head by a shrapnel. Therefore, the best place to be in an event of an explosion is to
lay flat on the ground.
3. Keep your mouth open and breathe in
small intervals. The most lethal aspect in an
explosion is not shrapnel or heat, it is the
blast overpressure. The blast wave travels at supersonic velocity and severely affects
the air-filled organs like lungs, kidneys,
and bowels. We naturally tend to take a
deep breath and hold it in emergencies.
However, this proves lethal in a bombing
situation, since our lungs become like a pressurised balloon to be ruptured by the
blast wave. The majority of victims in a
typical suicide bombing die from internal
bleeding in the lungs. Only 6% on average
die from shrapnel wounds. Your chances of
injury with empty lungs are far smaller compared to holding your breath.
4. If things are falling around you, crawl
under a sturdy table or a solid object, and
remain there for at least one minute.
5. Be as far as possible from glass or
fixtures, like windows, mirrors, cabinets, and electrical equipments.
6. Adhere to instructions from security and
responders personnel. If an evacuation is
ordered, leave the building as soon as you
can.
7. Remember to assist the disabled around.
8. Do not move seriously injured persons
unless they are in obvious, immediate
danger, such as a building collapse or fire.
9. Once out, keep as far away from the
building as possible.
10. Reduce your lateral profile – while laying on the ground, try to lay on one side
and use your arms to protect the exposed
eye.

Under the debris:
1. Cover your mouth with a handkerchief
or clothing.
2. Tap over and over on a pipe or wall so
that rescuers can hear where you are.
3. Preserve your energy. Shout only if there
is no other choice. You inhale enormous
amount of dust when yelling.
4. Stay calm and think of things that relax you and make you happy.
5. Avoid unnecessary movement so you
don’t kick up dust.
6. If possible, use a whistle to signal rescuers.

After the attack:
1. One event can be followed by another,
so do not rush towards the blast scene.
2. Duck and cover.
3. Leave the building as quickly as possible.
Do not stop to retrieve personal
possessions or make phone calls.
4. Open doors carefully; watch for falling
objects.
5. Avoid using telephones, mobile phones
and hand radios. Electrical sparks or signals
could trigger other bombs.
6. Move away from side-walks or streets to be used by emergency officials or others
still exiting the building.
7. If you or others have life-threatening
injuries, such as severe bleeding, difficulty
breathing, chest pain or burns, provide or
seek first aid and get help from officials or others at the scene.
8. If you or someone else has minor
injuries, ttyseek first aid as a first step until
those more severely injured can be cared
for first. If possible, go to a hospital that is
not in the immediate area of the blast. Hospitals closest to the blast(s) will quickly
become crowded.
9. Listen to emergency officials at the scene.
If no one is near you to give instructions
and you are in the immediate area of the
blast(s), leave as soon as you can.
10. To keep safe, move away from the area.
Avoid crowds, unattended cars and trucks,
public transportation, and damaged
buildings.
Culled from Daily Post.

"Although there is no magic formula to
protect you from acts of terrorism, some
common sense steps could be taken to
reduce the risks."

“Based on experts’ analyses, interviews,
and basic science of blast waves and
explosions TIEMS Nigeria recommends
actions to be taken during and after an
explosion to make the horrible event less painful for you and for others around you”.
Some of the recommendations:
While attack is on:

Note that this list is for UNIPORT STUDENTS ONLY.

Check it here :

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Go to your dean student affairs for your award letter.

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I rep UNIPORT will also leave PH on tuesday. Studied GAS ENGRG 08069141982 wish tu leave as early as poss wen r u leaving?

pasqal09: Now that's a very silly thing

hahaha daazreally silly