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Na achievement

James Ibori, former Delta state governor, has replied the ex-boss of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu on his claim that the ex governor bribed him with $15m to stop his investigation, Dailypost reports. Mallam Nuhu Ribadu The former chairman of EFCC, in a recent interview, insisted that Ibori pressurized him with several billions to sweep his case under the carpet. Ibori in reaction to the claim through a statement by Tony Eluemunor, his media assistant, described Ribadu’s claim as horrible, revolting, nasty and totally untrue. The statement reads: “As the Senate and some security agencies appear to be asking questions about some unwholesome events at the EFCC, including the mismanagement and criminal diversion of funds from the sale of confiscated properties into personal pockets, Ribadu may have a need to attempt to burnish his fading image, fearing the investigations may ask questions about events during his tenure. But he should be told that lying, against even an enemy, just to gain some unearned applause and perhaps fence off some approaching investigation and image disaster,must have a limit.” “This nonsensical statement has remained in the public domain only because some people have suspended their sense of disbelief and condemned themselves to every hogwash that Ribadu invents in the attempt spruce himself up in borrowed plums.” “It is on record that Ribadu has made at least five statements over this same claim, and no single one agreed with another. Also both Ibrahim Lamorde (the immediate past EFCC Chairman) and one James Garba, a CBN staff then seconded to the EFCC, made police statements which contradicted Ribadu’s,” the statement added.
Just last month, Strive Masiyiwa, the chairman of telecommunications company, Econet, described the former Delta state governor, and some other politicians as very corrupt. In a series of expository Facebook posts, the Econet boss who is also the richest man in Zimbabwe narrated how the Nigerian politician who is presently serving jail term in UK allegedly demanded a $4.5 million bribe from him. https://www.naij.com/659749-read-iboris-response-ribadus-15m-bribe-claim.html Lalasticlala

Seems Love is departing the earth

Ah! Jonathan sef

Blame Buhari

Buhari must explain this!

The king liar is talking!

Oh! Uwa Mebi

Listening in 3d

Do you expect the same system to be in place? Its all part of the E fi see shangee!

Kogi election is now nollywood season film

Person wife, person mama na hin una dey see oo! E af spoil

E haf happin
APC never had a bond, their only cause of coming together was to take power from PDP. Since that has been achieved it has become everyone on his own agenda.
Politics: no permanent friends but only permanent interest!

fitzmayowa:
My brother if you are waiting for this, you are on a long thing, this what the oyinbo's call "building castle in the air"

Sorry I forgot to mention that my waiting is in nollywood movie!

Ghanaian president, John Mahama
and former Nigerian president,
Olusegun Obasanjo have allegedly
fought dirty over Goodluck
Jonathan, the immediate past
president of Nigeria.
L-R: Obasanjo, Mahama
According to The Whistle, the two
spat on each other, with the
Ghanaian president lashing out at
Obasanjo at the African Investment
Forum in Westminister, London
which held the December 1 and 2.
The exchange of words degenerated
to insults and name calling as John
Mahama openly called Olusegun
Obasanjo “an idiot” and a “stupid
buffoon”.
Obasanjo had openly accused the
Ghanaian President and his
government of financially
contributing $12m to Goodluck
Jonathan’s campaign. He also
accused President Mahama of
blackmailing and collecting bribes
from Nigerian businessmen in
Ghana, buying numerous properties
in Nigeria and South Africa.
It however took the prompt
intervention of Ugandan President,
Yoweri Museveni to calm down their
tempers and usher President
Mahama to a nearby room to prevent
the insult degenerating to a boxing
war.
The forum was attended by African
heads of states including like
Malawian president, Matata Ponyo
Mapon, the prime minister
Democratic Republic of Congo, Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, H.E.
Thomas Boni Yayi of the Republic of
Benin, H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
of Republic of Uganda and H.E.
Charles Gaëtan Xavier-Luc Duval,
deputy Prime-Minister Republic of
Mauritius among others.
Ministers, private equity firms and
investors were also at the forum to
discuss opportunities for investment
and development in African
economy.
https://www.naij.com/657683-ghanaian-president-insults-obasanjo-london-calls-names.html

Abeg make una leave virginity alone

Hope the pictures will not turn out to be lies tomorrow! I fear naija o

Ooni blink blink!

Lol!
PEJ said they should stone people shouting change. Guess its becoming obvious she made small sense by saying that

Democracy watchers and the human
rights community, at the weekend in
Lagos were in agreement that public
accountability in Nigeria was still a
far cry from what it should be.
Besides, they asserted that the
promised change b y the ruling All
Progressive Congress (APC) was a
mirage as there has not been any
difference from what obtained in the
previous administration of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
At the 13th Annual Democracy
Lecture of the Centre for
Constitutionalism and
Demilitarisation (CENCOD),
stakeholders were unanimous that
the citizenry has to be mobilized and
sensitized, to act in self preservation
in other to achieve the desired
change that would bring about public
accountability in the country’s polity.
Chairman, Board of Trustees of
CENCOD, Dr. Sylvester Odion
Akhaine set the ball rolling when in
his introductory remarks, he said
that no substantial change has taken
place because elements of the same
ruling clique had only shuffled
themselves in the last electoral
exercise. According to him, change
involves not a modification of
existing reality but its
transformation.
The question is: what has changed
since May 29? Your answer is as
good as mine. The same old wine in
the same old bottle, apologies to Prof.
Issa Shivji. A cabinet that is solely
dictated by political expediency is in
place; the value of the naira is dipping
with no end in sight; fuel queues are
back; Boko haram insurgents are
free-riding; the legislators are fighting
for juicy committees; macro-
indicators for the economy are not
looking good.”
The government must be ready to
commit class suicide and root with
the masses of people many of whom
marched from Kano to Lagos and
Lagos to Abuja to celebrate ‘change’.
The change that will be meaningful
will entail the negation of the old
order,” he added in the remarks
tagged ‘This Change Must Be
Meaningful’.
Furthermore, he said: “There has to
be structural transformation of the
structure of state and of government.
It will involve strategic
infrastructural development; it will
involve a re-articulation of a
development ideology and the
mentoring of a new elite that will
help unleash the productive capacity
of Nigerians.”
Akhaine suggested among others, the
re-federalisation of the units of the
Nigerian state for self-determination
that entails fiscal autonomy;
Downsize the legislative chambers to
one, a massive ideological orientation
programme to steer the populace in
the desired direction.
To Comrade Wale Abideen of the
Security Watch, there is no difference
between the APC and the PDP arguing
that the problem is not the parties per
se but the politicians because they do
not operate any ideology.
Renowned poet and polemicist, Mr.
Odia Ofeimun, who chaired the
occasion was also of the view that
nothing has changed in the country
between May 29, to date and stressed
the need for the populace to be
properly organized to effect the
desired change.
He lamented that Nigeria has not had
a proper electoral system in
operation saying that “you can not
exclude one third of the electorate
who could not get their permanent
voters’ cards (PVC) and at the same
time you claim to have a free and fair
election”.
Similarly, he queried the rationale
behind the arguments that the
country’s laws are responsible for the
inability of the Buhari’s
administration to deliver, “ I do not
believe that a political party that has
a proper programme should have
anything to worry about the law in
terms of whether it is empowered or
not because everything is provided
for in our laws.“
According to him, “there is nothing in
the way of Mr. President if he wishes
to fight corruption or even to
transform the economy for the good
of all. A man who wishes to fight
corruption must start from the
basics. There is no corrupt Nigerian
today that the law can not handle”.
He said that the elites and the ruling
class were incapable of the task
presently, and advocated an action
on the part of the people. “If we are to
be the ones to respond, how do we
make that possible? … All of us need
to work hard and it means being
prepared to make personal
sacrifices”.
Furthermore he said: “Anybody who
tells you that goodness (for the good
of all) is not possible is actually
asking you to join the evil ones and
this will worsen your predicament”
Ofeimun also argued that poverty
was not responsible for the inability
of the citizenry to be organized for
positive change saying, “organization
is possible but it will require sleepless
nights”.
On his part, the guest lecturer, Dr
Remi Aiyede of the Department of
Political Science, University of Ibadan,
in a paper titled “Institutional Design,
Public Accountability: Nigeria’s
Parliament in Perspective”, said that
it is actually impossible to say who is
responsible for the problem the
country is passing through presently.
According to him, “there is likely to be
no significant change in the mess
Nigeria is presently in essentially
because there has been no difference
between the political party that was
in government before now and the
party that is in power now.”
Besides, he said that the problem is
compounded by the contradictions
within the citizenship as well as by
the issue of poverty in the society.
This, he noted would certainly be a
challenge in mobilizing the citizenry
to ensure public accountability.
In particular, he stressed the need for
ordinary Nigerians to play key roles
to enhance the value of
accountability in the parliament
saying, “These are challenges for all
stakeholders to rise to the occasion …
to ensure the rights of the citizens to
know and intervene. Until this is
done, we can not have the envisaged
public accountability especially in the
parliament.”
Aiyede explained that this is
imperative because the legislature
performs critical functions in
representation, public education,
policy-making and executive
oversight in which it exercises
legitimating and decision influence
that make it stand out as one of the
most significant agent of public
accountability.
He argued that the Nigerian
parliament has not been quite strong
as an institution of political
accountability, but admitted that this
was not caused by the “weak
legislative powers but the character
of politics, the underdevelopment of
parliament due to prolonged military
rule, executive dominance that
renders Nigeria a de facto delegative
democracy for some years after the
country returned to democratic rule.”
Continuing, he said: “Ultimately,
parliament has been able to
guarantee its financial independence
and asserted its oversight powers due
to the elaborate constitutional
provision guaranteeing its
independence and competence. Yet
constitutional provisions that ensure
the powers and independence of
parliament are not sufficient to
ensure performance that can lead to
improvement of public welfare.”
Consequently, he called for the
strengthening of the infrastructure of
parliament and the skills and
competence of members of
parliament to carry out performance
and programme audit, adding that a
lot needed to be done in terms of
constituency representation and
strong commitment to development
that can effectively reduce the
tendency to predation.
The university don opined that
because accountability was central to
the exercise of democratic power,
those who exercise political power
must be answerable for the exercise
of that power. “In democracy
accountability means that the
citizens are to be able to punish those
in public office when they fail to do
their bidding … indeed, exercises of
accountability that exposes misdeeds
but fail to punish misdeeds are mere
acts of window dressing. Violation of
rules do not only need to be detected
they must be punished for
institutions to become strong.”
However, he admitted that the
political environment of politics in
Nigeria was not friendly for
accountability, noting that this is
essentially because politics was not
about the welfare of the people.

www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/12/buharis-govt-no-sign-of-desired-change-say-democracy-watchers/
Lalalasticlala

Waiting for #1 = $1
Na nollywood movie e go first happen

Naija always having counter attack on any news! Which one we wan take now?

The new Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, will on Monday (today) be presented with the staff of office by the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. The ceremony which will hold at the Enuwa Square in front of the Ile Oodua (Ooni’s palace) is expected to have many dignitaries in attendance, among who are the Queen Elizabeth England; President Muhammadu Buhari; some governors; ministers and other important personalities from within and outside the country. Ogunwusi, who is the 51st Ooni of Ife, succeeded Oba Okunade Sijuwade, who joined his ancestors on July 28 in a London hospital at the age of 85. Ogunwusi was announced the new Ooni on October 26 and he started the installation rites on October 28 when he arrived in Ife. He proceeded to Ilofi (seclusion,) where he was initiated. A close ally of the new Ooni, Mr. Biyi Odunlade, told our correspondent that the new monarch was ready to impact his subjects positively with his wealth and influence. Odunlade said Ogunwusi had started the construction of a big resort along Ife-Ibadan Expressway. This, he said, would engage some people and would also attract people to the town. Ogunwusi had on Wednesday said he would establish a football academy which, according to him, would liberate some youths from the grip of unemployment. Meanwhile, the Osun State House of Assembly has urged Ogunwusi to work with other Obas and government at all levels in the interest of peace and development. The assembly gave the advice in a statement issued by the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Mr. Olatubosun Oyintiloye, a copy of which was made available to one of our correspondents in Osogbo on Sunday. The lawmakers urged Oba Ogunwusi to use his office to foster a peaceful coexistence not only in Ife and the Yorubaland but throughout the country and beyond. The statement read, “Ooni Ogunwusi should give an inimitable service and surpass the worthy legacies of his predecessors. “He was also admonished to work with other traditional rulers and government at all levels to inspire harmony, peace and development in the country. “The new Ooni should also use his position as the custodian of the cultural heritage and traditions of the Yorubaland for the service of the people,” the statement added. The lawmakers commended ruling houses in Ile-Ife for the manner in which they resolved their differences during the selection process. They also congratulated the Osun State Government, the state’s Council of Obas, and the people of the state, especially the descendants of Ife on the peaceful transition. “The spontaneous enthusiasm that greeted the announcement of the new monarch across Ile-Ife, the Osun State and the entire nation is a substantiation of the better days ahead,” the statement said. www.punchng.com/?p=13543 Cc: lalalasticlala

Congrat, good for him

richylee:
Rigging in Buhari era, addonbilivit.

You don't need to believe it, your belief is not important in this matter

All na the wind of change