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HughWilliams: Wish both of them good luck. Dr. Shem would have been the governor now after serving as deputy governor for 8years (1999-2007) but what denied the ticket because of his religion-christianity and he still refuse to decamp. Shem is humble and modest as he is a choir member in his church. Umaru too, a fellow christian is a grassroot politician and love by his people!! That is why I love the Gwari people, just like the yorubas, religion is not a factor when presenting candidates for election. Imagine them present two Christians for senator in an area where almost 65% of the senatorial district populations are muslims..
Both of them are good and may the people's will prevail.

The gwari are a spectacular set in the middle belt. They have the same mind set as the Yorubas. I don't know why hausas tend to be very intolerant. Niger state is one of the few places in the north you hardly hear stories of religious crisis.

Good one! way to go!

Congrats gal! just a little rest and you will b back wining first and second!!!

Eurasia, the global political risk and consulting firm, has upgraded
its short-term trajectory on Nigeria from negative to neutral, as it
projects that President Goodluck Jonathan has a 75-percent chance
of re-election in February 2015.
Eurasia says this is likely to put a floor on downside risks to the
economy as the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) steadily
consolidates under the president.
According to Philippe de Pontet, Africa director at New York-based
Eurasia Group, “Nigeria will muddle through after all, without too
much investment-relevant risk.”
Eurasia notes in a new report that the next six months in Nigeria will
be tense, however.
“This will not resolve Nigeria’s structural vulnerabilities, but reduces
the likelihood that the campaign season will completely upend the
investment climate or reverse the country’s economic momentum.
Over the next six months, we envision policy stagnation, but not
sharp backsliding,” it further says.
A Jonathan win could feed political unrest in the north, but makes it
less likely that rebels in the Niger Delta re-ignite their attacks on oil
infrastructure and personnel, according to Eurasia.
“Political risks are already elevated so our neutral forecast starts
from a high-risk baseline. Downside pressures that could push our
trajectory back in a negative direction would include some
combination of an oil shock (price or production), a disorderly
response to Fed tapering, a new wave of defections from the PDP, a
sharp escalation (and southern creep) by Boko Haram and a
prolonged rise of sectarian or political violence,” the report says.
De Pontet states that the upgrade is based on Eurasia’s
methodology for assessing political risk trajectory (six months out
and two years out).
It is expected by Eurasia that the pre-election period will be marked
by patronage politics, constant politicking, and attacks by Boko
Haram, oil theft, and policy stagnation, but they are not expected to
undermine national stability or derail Jonathan’s candidacy.
Furthermore, the risk of fiscal or monetary policy upheaval under
Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala or CBN Governor Godwin
Emefiele is relatively low, limiting downside risk.
Nigeria has in the last year seen dramatic events in the lead to the
general elections that have spelt a political quandary at times for the
two leading political parties, APC and PDP, as they both engaged in
an intense contest of political checkmate.
APC emerged as a political game changer after scoring high profile
defections from the PDP, soon after the controversial merger of its
parties, ACN and CPC.
However, the political storm it raised has started to settle with the
loss of an election in Ekiti State where it previously won the election,
the impeachment of one of its governors Murtala Nyako of
Adamawa State, a governor who defected from the PDP to the APC,
on charges of misconduct and violation of the constitution, and as
high profile defections from the opposition APC to the ruling PDP
occurred.
Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s former anti-corruption chief, Buba
Mohammed Marwa, a former military governor of Lagos, and
Ibrahim Shekarau, a one-time opposition governor of Kano State
and founding member of APC, have all defected from APC to PDP.
Jonathan has faced criticism from the opposition and citizens for
failing to check corruption, contain a raging Islamist insurgency in
the country’s north and deliver on promises of economic reform. All
these have hurt Jonathan’s standing in the run-up to the elections.
However, Ribadu’s defection has been seen as a boost for the PDP.
Ribadu “helps boost confidence in the PDP because it’s a
demonstration of their current political strength”, says Thomas Horn
Hansen, senior Africa analyst at London-based Control Risks.
“It’s a political coup for the PDP over the APC,” he says.
“Ribadu’s defection to the PDP is a blow to the opposition on
multiple fronts,” de Pontet said. “It’s a setback for the APC’s self-
promoted brand as a true alternative to the ruling party.”
YINKA ABRAHAM

businessdayonline.com/2014/08/eurasia-upgrades-nigeria-to-neutral-on-jonathan-re-election-prospects/

Nigerian police and shooting of civilians! The should send the man to sambisa where he can exhibit his talent to the fullest.

omololu2020: trash,so we should let aboki to b bombin d south west jst bcox we wanna b nigerian abi,use ur brain guy,dey can keep bombing dia sef in d north,but dey shouldnt com to d south

When BH bomb lagos fuel depot i didn't see you holding placard on the street or calling for the division of the country. But here you are typing in the comfort of your room issuing empty threats about dividing the country. Wake up from your dream joker!

theoctopus: Why are some of you become propaganda tools for BH. BH is a cowardly group that attack innocent citizens on border towns and you come here to celebrate them. Why are you promoting their propaganda

I don't understand this kind of argument. You want a situation where nobody reports when BH capture Nigerian towns and villages or we should just keep quiet while the whole country is sinking. Have the Nigerian Army capture territories and nobody reported? We are in a state of war, both our success and failures will be reported. Its left to us to either wake up or go down!

eaglechild: Why does our national assembly building look like a mosque

Why most everything be view with religious bigotry?

IGBOSON1: Some of those pics are not of Nigeria! And how come the Federal High Court is placed above the Supreme Court of the Federation?

which of the pics are not of Nigeria?

op change your title. The people in the pic are Asians definitely not Jos. And a primary 6 pupil will be bigger than whatever is inside the belly of that python.

daniellle: is that their way to make ppl follow u - with extreme religious beliefs??
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I don't think those guys are interested in people following their warp idea of Islam willingly. The are more interested in conquering territories and forcing people to accept their rule and crazy believes, extorting taxes from those helpless individuals as seem in those villages the are controlling in the north east. It's just unfortunate!

atlwireles: Intervene to do what? You are blessed with the gift of thinking, try and stop him from bringing his ar.se back. Let's see the difference you can make.

Bros don't take it personal, I am not the one saddle with all the security apparatus such as SSS, Nigerian Army, Navy, Airforce, Nigerian police, special forces, Civil defence, Paramilitary units and even civilian JTF to defeat just a group of less than 3 thousand ragtag thugs with trillions of naira as defence budget for support over four years now. But here we are with the country gradually loosing territory to those thugs. If that's not clueslessness then what is? I have supported GEJ but I don't do blind support unlike you, if the guy is messing up, i criticise with venomous ferocity period!

Ibnsultan01: these Fat Abuja Generals don't give a damn about the NE or Nigeria just there pockets. Gej should use his PAC and bring his blacck ass bak to Nigeria. We are at WAR. Gentlemen and our COAS is a Cheerleader

Unfortunately the C in C hasn't been bless with the gift of thinking! Bringing is ar.se back probably wouldn't make much of a difference. Our civil war veterans and past generals would have to intervene period!

Ibnsultan01: defence ministers as well as NSA should go. We have Good intellectual officers capable of bringing an offensive military tactics to chase,terminate,eliminate these bandits.

When you employ a group of pot belly generals in times of war, what do you expect. These pretenders would rather be in their cozy airconditioned offices than out there in the trenches giving orders. Imagine how clueless they appear even on camera. Oh by the way the commander in chief is popping champagne somewhere in Germany!!!

Ibnsultan01: serious big problem ISIL and BH using similar tactics. Capture grounds along side weapons from the fleeing federal troops. Est Area of command. Declare caliph. We refuse to stop this bandits in time allowed them to grow into a force. Gej should pls come back home and take command from the cheerleader COAS

Goodluck should sack that Minimah of a thing with immediate effect! If it means bringing back ihejirika all well and good. Better half bread than that toad minimah and comedian Alex Badeh. The same weapon ihejirika used to send this bastards out of Maiduguri, gwoza, etc are the weapons this joker is complaining about. Sometimes it's not the quality of the weapon that counts but that of the shot!

There's problm! I mean big problem!!

goodfriend: "To the pure all things are pure, but to the scammer all things are scam"
Sometimes i wonder how we got this kind of sensless breed in nigeria.... Will everyone be a scam like you.
why do you always see darkness. we are talking about responsible issues and you pop out of your den to distract responsible people.
Do you think we are joking here?

You know what you will do?
give us the name of the device, better still snap it and post the picture here, send your full traceable home address, and contacts with ID card of where you wrk, then maybe, just maybe we'll start taking you serious.....joker!!!!

In an essay titled ”A Virus Called Ebola and the Secret Club From
Hell” (Premium Times, 17th August 2014) I wrote that Patrick
Sawyer, the American/Liberian that brought the ebola virus to
Nigeria ”was an evil man with an evil intention and purpose”. I went
further by writing that: ”worst still he was not working alone. Some
people, and I mean rich, powerful and well-connected people, were
working with him. As a matter of fact they sent him on the
mission”.
I stand by those words and I maintain, as I argued in that essay, that
there is an ”Illuminati” connection to the whole ebola episode. I urge
those that are skeptical about this and that have not read that write-
up to google it and do so. This short contribution is something of
an addendum to that essay. I was compelled to write it for two
reasons. Firstly because the sheer depth, complexity and audacity
of the conspiracy is so utterly appauling and mind-boggling that I
believe that a little more detail is required to make the case.
Secondly because Nigeria has just lost a woman of substance and
one of her brightest and best, who happens to be a medical
practitioner, to the ebola virus as a direct consequence of Sawyer’s
sinister and nefarious activities.
Those that refuse to accept the fact that there is a hidden agenda
unfolding here and that refuse to believe that there is a mysterious
and diabolical force working behind the scenes ought to attempt to
explain to us why it was that the Liberian Deputy Finance Minister,
Mr. Sebastian Omar, gave Sawyer permission to travel to Nigeria
even though he knew that he was infected with ebola and even
though he knew that his sister had just died from the same disease.
Sawyer was an ECOWAS official who had sought permission to
travel to Nigeria for an ECOWAS summit. He knew that he had ebola
and according to his wife’s testimony he avoided contact with as
many people as possible in Liberia before he came to Nigeria. Yet
when he got to Nigeria he told the medical authorities that he simply
had a fever and attempted to hide the fact that he had a highly
contagious terminal disease which was capable of spreading
throughout our nation and killing as many people as the infamous
and dreaded bubonic plague that wiped out 60 per cent of Europe’s
population between 1346 and1363. Those that doubt this thesis
should explain away the contradictions and inexplicable behaviour
of this strange and demented Liberian whose string was obviously
being pulled from elsewhere.
Worse still they ought to explain to us why it was that after the
demon landed in our shores, after the affliction was unleashed, after
the damage had been done and after a number of our people had
been infected with the virus as a consequence of their direct
interaction with Sawyer, why the Liberian Minister boastfully and
arrogantly told the world that he ”refused to apologise to Nigeria”
for his error of judgement even though that error had led to panic,
fear, disease and numerous deaths in our country. What a beast of a
Minister this horrible little man called Sebastien Omar is. His words
are not only unacceptable but they are also utterly outrageous. He is
a harbinger of death and destruction and he ought to be held
directly responsible for the evil and tragedy that has befallen our
people. How I wish that the Federal Government and specifically our
Minister of Health and Minister of Foreign Affairs had mustered the
courage to give him an earful for his sheer insensitivity and
wickedness.
The truth is that Sawyer, with the full backing of those that sent him,
arrived in Nigeria with a clear understanding about what he intended
to do. His deadly mission was simple and clear. Had it not been for
the efforts of a very brave woman by the name of Dr. Ameyo
Adadevoh, who refused to release him from the hospital in which he
had been admitted, despite the enormous pressure that was brought
to bear upon her to do so by the Liberian Ambassador and a few
Nigerians in high places, Sawyer would have spread the virus, with
it’s lethal package of death, to many other people in Lagos. This
would undoubtedly have resulted in an uncontrollable and deadly
epidemic and many lives would have been lost. Worse still this
terrible plague would have also ended up in Calabar which was
Sawyer’s ultimate destination. I suspect that after spreading his
deadly load in Calabar he would also have touched Abuja as well.
That way he would have ”covered” and ”treated” both of Nigeria’s
two old capital cities and the new in a spectacular triangle and
pyramid of death. What better way to effect his purpose? If he had
succeeded in this monstrous venture Nigeria would have never been
the same again.
Sawyer’s behaviour at the hospital was instructive and revealing.
When he was told that he would not be allowed to leave, in a fit of
rage and frustration, he removed the drip that was used to
transfuse blood into his veins and he sprayed his blood all over
Adadevoh and some of her nursing staff. He also poured his urine
all over them. Such was his resolve to conclude his mission and kill
as many Nigerians as possible. The only thing that stood in his way
and stopped him from achieving it was the due diligence and
professionalism of the First Consultants Hospital where he was
admitted and where he was diagnosed as having ebola and the
sheer courage, determination, fortitude and pure spirit of Dr.
Adadevoh who understood the implications of releasing him and
who stood her ground and refused to do so.
By that single act alone this noble lady saved the lives of thousands
of Nigerians. Unlike others in her profession she did not go on
strike, she did not abandon her post and she did not desert her
staff, her hospital or her patients. I sincerely hope that she will be
honored by the Nigerian people and by our government for her
efforts and her gallant contribution. I am not in the least bit
surprised by the remarkable role she played simply because she
comes from excellent stock and she is the product of a noble and
illustrious lineage.
She was the maternal great grandaughter of Herbert Macauly, the
founder of Nigerian nationalism, a great and courageous nationalist,
the scourge of the British colonialists, the founder of the first
Nigerian political party the Nigerian National Democratic Party
(NNDP), the founder of the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) and
the founder of one the most formidable political parties in our
history, the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC).
She was also the maternal great, great grandaughter of Thomas
Babington Macauly, the founder of the first secondry school in
Nigeria, Christian Missionary Grammar School, Lagos (CMS
Grammar School). She was also the maternal great, great, great
grandaughter of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the first African
Bishop of the Anglican Church, the man who first translated the
Holy Bible to yoruba, the man who first translated the Book of
Common Prayer to yoruba, the first Nigerian to be awarded a
Doctorate of Divinity from Oxford University in 1864 and the man
who introduced christianity to the Lagos Colony (as it then was)
and to most of south-western Nigeria. In terms of heritage, excellent
blood lines and good stock you can’t do much better than that. She
inherited this rich and illustrious ancestry from her mother who was
a Macauly.
Her paternal bloodlines were no less distinguished. Her father
Professor Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh was the former Vice
Chancellor of the University of Lagos. He was a well respected,
internationally-acclaimed and very successful metabollic physician
and medical consultant. His father (Ameyo’s paternal grandfather)
was a leading member of one of the Royal houses in Ghana whilst
his mother (Ameyo’s paternal grandmother) was a distinguished
Nigerian. Ameyo’s paternal grandmother was actually Dr. Nnamdi
Azikiwe’s father’s sister. That makes Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the
Owelle of Onitsha, the first President of Nigeria, the great nationalist
and one of the most revered statesmen and respected politicians in
our history her blood uncle.
Sadly Ameyo Adedovoh paid for her courage and fortitude with her
life because she contracted the virus from Sawyer and she died a
couple of weeks later. This was a lady of class and distinction and it
reflected in all that she did till the very end. This explains why it was
that when she discovered that she had been infected with the virus
she insisted on keeping herself in total isolation in her home so that
she would not infect anyone else until she contacted the officials of
the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Federal Ministry of Health
and they came to pick her up. Right up until the end she was
thinking about the safety of others rather than herself.
Such commitment, valour and fortitude is rarely seen. The truth is
that she gave her life so that others may live. If there was ever a
Nigerian heroine that was worthy of adulation and adoration it was
this this deeply courageous and selfless lady. In her, her family
members and son have everything to be proud of and so do the
Nigerian people. I join millions of others in praying that her beautiful
and noble soul rests in perfect peace as she joins her illustrious
forefathers in the great beyond.
Permit me to take this opportunity to also commend the courage of
Justina Obi Ejelonu who was a junior colleague of Adadevoh at First
Consultants and who had helped to check Sawyer in and place him
in proper care the day that he was brought to the hospital from
Murtala Mohammed Airport with a fever. Like Ameyo Adadevoh,
Justina Obi Ejelonu has since passed away as a result of being
infected by Sawyer with the ebola virus. T here are no words to
describe the courage and the great sacrifice that these two ladies
have made for their fatherland and for their people. May they and all
that is their’s be blessed from generation to generation.
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waiting to see the idi0ts that would fall for this obvious scam!

Great news

Two priests, one spanish the other American serving the same God fell sick from the same type of illness, Ebola. Both where giving Zmapp, an experimental drug. One died after giving the drug and the other survived. The one that survived thank God for saving him, but an atheist claim it's the drug that saved him not God, forgetting another priest died after taking the same drug. Dr's only do their best, God is the ultimate healer!

torkaka: Who says they don't stand a chance? If they play their card well (which is what I have been saying), they'll get it. If David Mark had influenced a tiv minister, propped up some tiv people, sponsored atleast two tiv persons to win house of reps seat and a couple of assembly seats then we will be singing a different tune

okk, got your point.

torkaka: Like I said, nobody is going to give you the governorship on a platter of gold, it is not for the tivs to plot for an idoma governor, it is for the idomas to plot for an idoma governor! If they choose not to play their game well, they only have themselves to blame!!

But if politics is a game of NUMBERS as agreed, then the idomas don't stand a chance given present political climate in benue. Especially the sentiments.

OXYGEN01: [b][/b]You are very stupi.d .Who the f*ck do u think a stinking fool like u is? Who will even want to have a discussion with a mumugerian.And in ma entire life I will never see a boko haram pathetic fool like u.And besides why do u bring issues concerning Ghana here. Mumu. Isn't here a nigerian forum.FUCKOFF. RE.TARDED I
DIOT WHO ARE U?KWASIAAA. [b]You are very stupi.d .Who the f*ck do u think a stinking fool like u is? Who will even want to have a discussion with a mumugerian.And in ma entire life I will never see a boko haram pathetic fool like u.And besides why do u bring issues concerning Ghana here. Mumu. Isn't here a nigerian forum.FUCKOFF. RE.TARDED I
DIOT WHO ARE U?KWASIAAA. [/b]You are very stupi.d .Who the f*ck do u think a stinking fool like u is? Who will even want to have a discussion with a mumugerian.And in ma entire life I will never see a boko haram pathetic fool like u.And besides why do u bring issues concerning Ghana here. Mumu. Isn't here a nigerian forum.FUCKOFF. RE.TARDED I
DIOT WHO ARE U?KWASIAAA.

When you have a kid who is incapable of intellectual discuss, he or she result to insults to hide is inner insecurities. You left your Ghanaian forums, came to a Nigerian forum, jump on a thread that discusses outbreak of a disease in Congo and start howling insult on the posters cause Ghana is mention. You tell me the definition of a kid and I will tell you who is one!

torkaka: Chief, it's called politics, no one is going to give the idomas the governorship on a platter of gold. David Mark had the influence, benue has two ministers and he (mark) influenced the appointment of one. He could have easily influenced the appointment of the two if he had a game plan! This is democracy and plot to achieve, you need numbers,and you can only get numbers if something is in it for the multitude.

Agreed politics is a game of numbers. All the previous tiv governors were assisted with the help of idoma votes, some with more than 50% of their total votes, in being elected. why is it that such constituent who are prime beneficiaries of such votes can't reciprocate such when it comes to the turn of idomas?

AMINDA: You people keep stressing on the tribal card instead of demanding for visionary leaders. What have the tiv governors or idoma ministers done so far to better your lots?

Well if we should follow your logic, the tivs can swell be the governors, deputy, ministers, local government chairmen. For as long as competent men can be produce by the tivs, the can as well occupy every position in the state given the are in the majority. Even in the develop democracies theirs what the call "affirmative action" for minorities dear.

OXYGEN01: 85 deaths in Ghana? Provide the link n stop using ur dead brain.

My friend don't fc*king ever quote me again if you are incapable of engaging in intellectual discuss without howling insult at individuals you probably will never see in your entire pathetic life. If you have issues with the post simply ask for source and move on. I am not one of those to engage clowns like you in insults okk!
check where I saw the quote:
www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=235702

oderemo: The white man gave u guys penicillin so wait for them, they are busy now but surely coming.

Unfortunately our able president is in Germany for "medical check" while our hospitals are under lock and key! Africa needs psychological change for us to fight this onslaught.

Guinea: 406 death - Ebola

Liberia: 624 death - Ebola

Sierra Leone: 392 death - Ebola

Nigeria: 5 death - Ebola

Ghana: 85 death - Cholera

Congo: 70 death - Ebola?

All these deaths from a sudden outbreak of diseases which have been in Africa for thousand of years. I am not given to conspiracy theories but something just doesn't add up here. Just when everyone was celebrating Africa is rising, then all these!

WHO logo
(Reuters) - At least 70 people have died in northern Democratic
Republic of Congo from an outbreak of hemorrhagic gastroenteritis,
the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, denying
that the illness was Ebola.
"This is not Ebola," a WHO spokesman said in an email to Reuters
on Thursday. A WHO report dated Thursday and seen by Reuters
said that 592 people had contracted the disease, of whom 70 died,
reports Reuters.

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/70-die-of-hemorrhagic-illness-in-northern-congo-says-who/187014/

More action and less talk plssss!