₦airaland Forum

This is really sad.
The question is what was the nature of the blasphemy to warrant the killing and destruction of lives and property?
The muslim faithfuls are simply following their islamic doctrine...i wonder if they kill everyone, who would be alive to worship their 'demon-blood seeking god' - Allah.
As usual there won't be any arrest for this criminal acts, still now, nobody has been arrested in the case of the RCCG lady who was killed last month.

The SS region have no reason to shout marginalisation.
The people ought to hold their leaders to question starting from GEJ, to the governors, senators and house of reps and ministers who have had the opportunity to bring the change to the region.
If all these funds are allocated effectively, there would be no need for all the vilolence that are taking place.

The weather will be cold during the period of Ooni's visit in October...hope he's well prepared?

If PDP can get their acts together, Ondo State is a winning state for them...the question is which faction of PDP will be allowed to contest the governorship election?

I put the blame on the gang of PDP governors...they are the ones who are planning of taking over the party structure for their own selfish means, especially, the trio of Wike, Fayose and Mimiko.

They think this will be like the election of the PDP governors' forum where 16 is greater than 19 to force Amaechi out of PDP.

Ali Modu Sheriff is one tough cookie, he's the 'tsetsefly' who have landed on the on PDP scrotum - either to kill it with a sledge hammer or leave to fester on PDP's lifeblood.

The best thing that can happen is for those PDP faction under Markafi to realign with APGA, LP to form a credible opposition party and be prepared to fight the election in 2019.

Doyin Okupe, aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to put its house in order, and not to blame President Muhammadu Buhari for its botched convention in Port Harcourt.

In a statement on his Facebook page, entitled ‘Failed PDP convention: APC, Buhari not to blame”, Okupe traced the crisis in the party to the impunity of its leadership over the years.

“The failed PDP convention cannot and should not be blamed on our political adversaries. Rather, the blame should rest squarely on the failure of internal conflict resolution machinery of the PDP, the surprising naivety and desperation of many to seize power and control the party, and the gullibility of majority of the followership, who have become entrenched in the cesspool of pervasive impunity of our leadership over the years,” he said.

“However, it is commendable that the NEC threw sentiments aside and extended the tenure of the controversial caretaker committee by one year and allowed for future expansion of the membership of the committee.

“The import of this is that the party has now officially jettisoned the ‘microwave strategy’, hitherto employed by the leadership, and allowed for ample time to address all issues.

“By allowing for new inclusions into the members of the caretaker committee, the leadership obviously has made room for possible reasonable negotiation with Senator Amodu Sheriff ‘s group, which is inevitable and a political imperative, if the party must remain united.

“Again, this is neither the time for victory songs nor a season for political vendetta. This is time for seeking lasting and honest peace, time to rebuild from the current ashes of flames of the inferno of political opportunism, greed, selfishness and blatant brigandage and impunity.

“There may just be another chance to do it again especially now that our adversaries are burning their political access card.”

On Wednesday, the PDP convention was cancelled after the police sealed off the venue of the event.

However, the tenure of the caretaker committee of the party led by Ahmed Makarfi was extended by 12 months, after which a fresh convention will be held.

https://www.thecable.ng/pdp-to-blame-for-failed-convention-says-okupe

With all these uncertainties now, which faction of PDP will people vote for in the forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states respectively?

...and so the drama continues...

This is a village square meeting.

How times have change, the same PDP that used to hold conventions in the most popular square in the country (Eagle Square) is now been reduced to holding meeting in a dingy venue which resembles a primary school hall.

EXCLUSIVE: Shortly after Hillary Clinton left the Obama administration, the State Department quietly took steps to purchase real estate in Nigeria from a firm whose parent company is owned by a major donor to the Clinton Foundation, records obtained by Fox News show.

On March 20, 2013, William P. Franklin, an “international realty specialist” at the State Department, emailed Mary E. Davis, an American diplomat stationed in Africa, instructing her to “put on Post letterhead” an “expression of interest” by the department in purchasing property at Eko Atlantic, a massive real estate development off the coast of Lagos. Franklin further instructed that the signed letter was to be “delivered to Ronald Chagoury.”

The draft letter, also obtained by Fox News, was undated and addressed to Chagoury care of his firm South Energyx Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of the larger Chagoury Group that is spearheading the Eko Atlantic real estate venture. The State Department letter sought, among other things, to confirm that the department could proceed with “acquisition of the real property…[at] the asking price of $1,250 per square meter.”

Overtures to real estate developers from State Department officials scouting locations for embassies, consulates and other diplomatic facilities would ordinarily not arouse interest. But in this case, the budding transaction – never completed, the department now says – raised eyebrows because Ronald Chagoury is the brother and business partner, in the Chagoury Group, of Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese-born businessman whom federal records show has donated between $1 and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Indeed, Gilbert Chagoury’s friendship with the Clintons can be traced back to the Clinton presidency. In the mid-1990s, Chagoury donated nearly $500,000 to a voter-registration drive designed to help Democratic candidates, attended a White House dinner for premium donors, and met with high-ranking officials in the Clinton White House – including Susan Rice, now President Obama’s national security adviser – who were shaping U.S. policy toward Nigeria.

More recently, the Chagourys’ close ties to the Clintons generated headlines when a separate series of emails from 2009 – between Doug Band, an aide to former President Clinton and Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary Clinton – revealed the eagerness of the State Department to oblige a request for Chagoury to be granted access to senior officials working on Lebanon.

The State Department’s outreach to the Chagoury family, looking to buy property from the brothers, came less than a month after former President Clinton himself toured the Eko Atlantic project – for the second time. The first occasion was the ground breaking, in 2009, in which the former president participated. By all accounts, Eko Atlantic represents a staggeringly ambitious undertaking: the dredging of millions of tons of sand from the sea floor off Victoria Island and the creation of an estimated 3.5 square miles of new land, on which the Chagourys aim to establish what they call a “21st century city … for residential, commercial, financial and tourist development.”

Mr. Clinton toured the Eko Atlantic site for the second time on February 21, 2013 – twenty days after his wife left the State Department – to celebrate the Chagourys’ reclamation of 5 million square meters of land, a critical juncture in the project.

Smiling and animated, Mr. Clinton was photographed conferring with Gilbert Chagoury and Jeffrey J. Hawkins, the consul general for the State Department in Nigeria. Twenty-seven days later, when William P. Franklin would order aides to begin exploring the acquisition of land from South Energyx, the Chagoury-owned company, Hawkins would be one of four State Department officials copied on Franklin’s email.

“A month after Bill Clinton visits a Gilbert and Ronald Chagoury-run land project in Nigeria, the U.S. State Department wants to buy the same land,” said David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United, the conservative advocacy group whose litigation against the State Department pried loose the Franklin email and accompanying letter. “Who could be so lucky? A major donor to the Clinton Foundation, that’s who.”

Queried by Fox News about the matter, the State Department said its officials had “prioritized” the search for a new consulate location in Lagos back in 2011 – when Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state – and that an “independent international real estate firm” had identified Eko Atlantic as a potential site the following year.

“Our site search process … is managed by career real estate professionals in the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations, with input from independent real estate firms and other department stakeholders,” said Elizabeth Trudeau, a State Department spokeswoman, at a briefing for reporters on Monday. “The department has had conversations with multiple property owners and their representatives about the possibility of acquiring property for a new consulate in Lagos.”

Trudeau could not explain why a “prioritized” mission had dragged on for five years without success, noting only that “acquiring property that’s appropriate” for a diplomatic facility can be “a long process.” Asked if Secretary Clinton had been aware of her department’s identification of the Chagoury-owned land as a potential site for a consulate, Trudeau replied: “I’m not aware she was.”

The Clinton campaign did not respond to a request for comment. Mark Corallo, a Washington-based spokesman for Gilbert Chagoury, said in a statement that given the project’s “state-of-the-art urban design,” including advanced telecommunications and security features, “it should come as no surprise that the United States government and other governments from around the world are considering Eko Atlantic as a new opportunity for locating their offices that operate in Lagos.”

John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Fox News contributor, said the entire series of events involving the Clintons and the Chagourys appeared, at a minimum, poorly handled to insulate Secretary Clinton from conflict of interest charges.

“The impression left is that there’s favoritism involved,” Bolton said. “And it’s just very unusual in State Department real estate and housing transactions overseas to have this kind of focus on someone with such clear financial connections to even the departed secretary of state. Normally, there’s much more competitive activity involved, [of] which we haven’t seen any evidence from the State Department.”

Experts agreed the March 2013 email from William P. Franklin to Mary E. Davis, triggering the State Department’s letter to Ronald Chagoury for a possible real estate transaction, would likely have formed only one set of documents in a longer trail that would have dated back to 2012 – the year the State Department said Eko Atlantic had been identified as a potential site for a new consulate.

Such a trail would presumably include internal correspondence addressing the suitability of the Eko Atlantic site and, perhaps, flagging the potential conflict of interest that could be cited, given the longstanding ties between the Clintons and the Chagourys.

But Citizens United said no other documents on the consulate-scouting effort were turned over by the State Department. The group filed its initial Freedom of Information Act request with the State Department for records relating to Gilbert Chagoury back in 2014, and, receiving no reply, filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in April 2015.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/17/state-department-sought-land-deal-with-nigerian-firm-tied-to-clinton-foundation.html

Neither Mimiko's (PDP) nor Tinubu's (APC) will carry Ondo...it will be taken by an Independent candidate, not LP or APGA or Kowa.

I think it's time we start pelting these ministers with water sachets...they can lie to get gold at the olympics...people are seriously suffering...

Someone must have informed the UK Border about this alleged arrangement...

No wonder our undergraduates are unemployable.
Nothing, absolutely nothing to show for quality graduate education in most Nigerian universities.
Most of the lecturers have ported to private universities.

What is this...i don't see the man lasting until end of next year.

TonyeBarcanista:
This convention will put the final nail on PDP's coffin

I think the above statement by Tonye is not correct, I hope his details have not been hacked?

Like his master AMS...he can take his case to the Court of Appeal.

It's only a pity that I wasn't there when the funds are been shared....

They have just made EFCC job a lot easier with this comprehensive list.

It is not hygenic, there are better ways to do things or get noticed to pass a message.

By the way, does NIPOST still exist?

A non-denominational church eager to combat the stigma often associated with marijuana use plans to hold Sunday its first service that’s welcome to all. So there is a church that allows anything you just have to hunt and find it. Now there is a 4/20 church. Not sure if they will roll on up as part of the worship service or not, but they are up and running with a good amount of people in attendance.



https://obnoxioustelevision.com/2016/06/25/420-marijuana-church-holds-first-service-roll-one-and-pass-in-the-name-of-jesus/

A non-denominational church eager to combat the stigma often associated with marijuana use plans to hold Sunday its first service that’s welcome to all. So there is a church that allows anything you just have to hunt and find it. Now there is a 4/20 church. Not sure if they will roll on up as part of the worship service or not, but they are up and running with a good amount of people in attendance.



https://obnoxioustelevision.com/2016/06/25/420-marijuana-church-holds-first-service-roll-one-and-pass-in-the-name-of-jesus/

PMB is now speaking the language Nigerian politicians understand - it's all about the money!!!

Look at his visible 'adam's apple'...

I think more consulates and embassies should be permanently closed...a number of them are not performing any meaningful activities, just draining the government expenses.

Is Christ Embassy following the teachings of Jesus Christ or following the doctrine of men?

That the 'church' is full doesn't mean anything, what matters most is, the souls of people being led astray.

No wonder PMB took his time before signing the budget because he was aware of all these corrupt actions by our elected represententhives.

Since its inception in 1999, every Speaker of the HoR, has been tainited with one corrupt allegation too many.

When are we going to have 'real-dedicated-selfless-corrupt-free politicians in this country?

See the living conditions of that great institution, no wonder some undergraduates behave like 'animals'.

There goes the Igbos presidency until infinity.

Definetely, there will be a northern presidential candidate come 2019 for PDP.

See billions of dollars,only God knows how much has been plundered without sufficient documentations.