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peckhamboi:U get badt mouth. I can't just stop laffin |
Otenestbestyaho:Is dis d way u reason? Grow up nigga |
The only two we know are PDP & APC. The others r just dere to share money... No Fresh Party... Lolz, National Conscience Party, wetin I no go hear for Naija |
Dis is madness at its peak |
DancingSkeleton:Confirm |
DancingSkeleton:Hmm... U re killing dat stick small small. No dey disturb am, allow am make e rest |
DancingSkeleton:Dis boy!!! Wetin u b dey use vaseline do? |
GooseBaba:Seems u sabi choke ur chicken wella |
This world... See wetin oshofree wey dis woman dey find din cause... RIP to d dead |
Crocz:Hmm |
Read dis few years bk on vanguard |
lacreamieboie:Plus hardwork |
lacreamieboie:Congratz bro. U shd b very intelligent |
Y shd guys b running after her? She no even fine seff. Bt hw wud she successfully kill seven men bt cutting off deir manliness n dey wud nt shout for help |
D record signing of West Brom n sits on d bench full-time. Dats y he doesn't know hw to score again |
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So he fathered dis boy at age 15... At my age, wat M I still waiting for? Need to father my own child |
Some human rights activists have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to restore sanity in the nation’s electoral system by disqualifying President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party from participating in the February 2014 general elections. The activists argued on Thursday that since the President and the PDP knowingly flouted the Electoral Act which prescribes N1bn as the maximum amount a presidential candidate could incur on electioneering, they deserved to be sanctioned. The rights activists – Debo Adeniran, Lanre Suraj, Femi Aborisade, Malachy Ugwummadu and Wale Ogunade, also slammed the police authorities for their indifference to the open breach of the Act. Section 91(9) of the Act reads, “An individual or other entity shall not donate more than N1m to any candidate.” Sub-section 10 of the same section adds that a presidential candidate “who knowingly acts in contravention of this section commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a maximum fine of N1m or imprisonment for a term of 12 months or both.” Section 91(2) of the same Act states that, “The maximum election expenses to be incurred by a candidate at a presidential election shall be N1bn.” Adeniran, who is the Chairman of Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, said in an interview with The PUNCH on Thursday, that the donation by PDP governors government agencies and public agencies to the Jonathan campaign war chest was distasteful. According to him, their action ran contrary to the call by the Federal Government on Nigerians to brace for austerity measures. The anti-corruption campaigner also pointed out that the donation by players in the power sector amounted to forcing Nigerians who had been made to pay for electricity they were not provided with, to donate to Jonathan’s re-election bid. He said, “The donation of over N21bn is a demonstration of immorality in government. This is a clear violation of the Electoral Act that specifies just N1bn for expenditure in campaigns. Then that many of those who donated are government agencies accentuates the recklessness and impunity that governs the minds of our rulers. “In a country where the government is asking the people to tighten their belts, its agencies are donating several millions of naira. “These also included the people in the power sector who have not been able to supply electricity which the people have paid for. This is to say that people are being forced to contribute to the campaign of the incumbent regime and that is another level of immorality. “INEC needs to bar Jonathan and his party from participating in the general elections next year because they knowingly contravened the law governing elections in the country.” He also challenged the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other-Related Offences Commission to investigate the breach. “It is not direct robbery that the police can intervene without being invited. It is the duty of the ICPC to set up the Anti- Corruption and Transparency Unit that has the mandate to call to question, all the authorities that are violating transaction and procurement rules like it is being perpetrated by Jonathan and his political party. “We expect the ICPC to move to check these financial shenanigans. The ICPC does not need a petition before they could act.” On his part, Aborisade argued that since the police authorities were fully represented at the PDP dinner/fund-raiser on Saturday, they did not require any report or invitation from any quarter to commence investigation. He said the police “should not give us the impression that they are only there to protect the interest of the ruling party at the centre.” “They are to investigate and prosecute crimes committed against the law of Nigeria. The 1999 Constitution and the electoral law have been breached and the police are empowered to so act,” Aborisade, who is also a lawyer added. While he made reference to section 4 of the Police Act to corroborate his stance, he advised INEC to go ahead and disqualify Jonathan and the PDP . He said, “They are part and parcel of the Nigerian society. They are fully aware. The police were well represented at the donation. They witnessed it and they do not require any other form of report from anybody. It is public knowledge and they ought to have acted appropriately. “But not only the police, even INEC ought to disqualify PDP from presenting a candidate and ought to disqualify the candidate of the PDP because they have flouted, in a very disgraceful and condemnable manner, the Electoral Act. “I think the INEC should introduce sanity into the Electoral process because with that kind of donation, they are merely saying they can induce every voter so that they can win the 2015 election. “Our elections should not be monetised; they should be based on issues or ideas that can uplift the lot of our people as contained in the constitution.” Also, Ugwummadu lamented that the donation had demonstrated that “Nigeria has now become a huge theatre of absurdity and one in which clear criminal actions and activities have now worn a garb of comedy.” He said, “On the day of the donation which was streamed live on the television, I personally called the leadership of several law enforcement agencies in this country to tell them that they don’t need a complainant to begin to arrest those people who were donating. “And the fact that the arrest didn’t happen, even as I knew it would not happen, clearly describes the poverty of the situation we find ourselves which is indeed hopeless. “We are now at the last bus stop before anarchy – that bus stop where 18-year-old girls are now enrolled as suicide bombers in legions; where crimes and criminalities are perpetrated with impunity and encouraged by the ruling political party.” The activist advised INEC to disqualify the PDP and Jonathan from participating in the elections as “they have been involved in a clear case of criminality.” http://www.punchng.com/news/n21bn-activists-ask-inec-to-disqualify-jonathan-pdp/ |
englishmart:Actuali. I see finishing second, runner up to Toure |
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The Super Eagles captain will compete with the reigning Africa’s best and Gabonese star for the 2014 Caf player of the year crown The Confederation of African Football has released the top three shortlists for the 2014 African Player of the Year with Nigeria’s Vincent Enyeama, Cote d’Ivoire’s Yaya Toure and Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang making the final cut. Twenty-five players were initially shortlisted some weeks ago before it was trimmed down to ten then later five through voting from members of the Technical & Development and the Media Committees. The Head Coaches of the National Associations affiliated to Caf will vote in their order of preference to decide on who the best player in Africa is. For the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa), Algerian duo, Akram Djahnit and El Hedi Belamieri are in contention with DR Congo forward Firmin Mubele Ndombe. The winners will be announced at the Glo-CAF Awards Gala scheduled for Thursday, January 8, 2015 in Lagos, Nigeria. FINAL SHORTLISTS Yaya Toure (Cote d'Ivoire , Manchester City) Vincent Enyeama ( Nigeria, LOSC Lille) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ( Gabon, Borussia Dortmund) African Player of the Year – Based in Africa Akram Djahnit (Algeria and ES Setif) El Hedi Belamieri (Algeria and ES Setif) Firmin Mubele Ndombe (DR Congo and AS Vita) Most Promising Talent Clinton N’jie (Cameroon and Olympique Lyon) Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon and Porto) Yacine Brahimi (Algeria and Porto) Coach of the Year Florent Ibenge (DR Congo) Kheireddine Madoui (ES Setif) Vahid Halilhodžić (Former coach of Algeria) National Team of the Year Algeria Libya Nigeria Club of the Year Al Ahly (Egypt) AS Vita (DR Congo) ES Setif (Algeria) Football Leader of the Year Moise Katumbi Chapwe - President of TP Mazembe (DR Congo) African Legend award Oryx Club (Cameroon) – winners of the maiden edition of CAF Champions League 1964 Stade Malien (Mali) - runner up of the maiden edition of CAF Champion’s League 1964 http://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/4065/africa/2014/12/25/7386262/vincent-enyeama-makes-african-player-of-the-year-final?ICID=HP_BN_1 |
And most of dis state govs donated 50m Naira each to PDP... I weep for dis nation |
lacasa:True talk |
so Nigerians do wear clothes in 1923... Thought they used leaves then |
davo90tico:Lolz |
espn:U re right |
Soyinka Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, offered President Olusegun Obasanjo an unusual Christmas gift Wednesday by way of a 1,788-word biting response to claims Mr. Obasanjo made in his new and controversial three-volume memoir, My Watch. Mr. Soyinka mockingly described the old general as “our Great Immortal, the Unparalleled Achiever, Divinely appointed Watchman”. “Okikiola, [Mr Obasanjo’s middle name] the overgrown child of circumstance,” was how Mr Soyinka called out at the former president whom he characterises as an individual with “capacity for infantile mischief, and for needless, mind-boggling provocations, such as his recent ‘literary’ intrusion…” Defining Mr. Obasanjo’s many public interventions as a “compulsive career of lying” and the former soldier as a “Master of Mendacity,” Mr. Soyinka promised a “full, frontal dissection of Obasanjo’s My Watch for later, most especially since the work itself is currently under legal restraint and is not readily accessible to a general readership.” However, he described Mr. Obasanjo as “a seasoned predator on others’ achievements – he preys on their names, their characters, their motivations, their true lives, preys on gossip and preys on facts, preys on contributions to collective undertakings…even preys on their identities, substituting his own where possible. Well, hopefully he may actually believe in the inevitable End to all vanities?” The two elder citizens have a long history of squabbles and public disagreements, but in his current comments, Mr. Soyinka is part-sarcastic, part-playful, but still broad- sweeping, from the personal to the policy ramifications of Mr. Obasanjo’s life story. He derisively described Mr. Obasanjo’s pet possession, the Presidential library at Abeokuta, as a “Presidential Laundromat,” pointing to the circumstances of the land acquisition as “morally dubious” and suggesting that it was “blatantly developed through a process that I denounced as ‘executive extortionism’.” The fund-raising event for the library drew intense public smack at the time, and now Mr. Soyinka likens it to the recent fund raising for Mr. Jonathan’s presidential election. “That obscene proceeding has certainly set a competitive precedent for impunity in President Jonathan’s recent fund-raising shindig,” Mr. Soyinka said, jeering at the relationship of the two presidents. Mr. Soyinka was at his most scathing humour when he drew presumed parallels between Mr. Obasanjo, whom he calls “our Owu retiree soldier and prolific author,” and an admonitory fictional character in Fagunwa’s famous Yoruba novel, Igbo Olodumare : “The seventh…. is not among those who set out to improve the world but rather to cause distress to its inhabitants. It was through manipulations that he attained a high position. “Having achieved this however, he constantly blocked the progress of those behind him, this being a most deplorable act in the eyes of God, and rank behaviour in the judgment of the dwellers of heaven – that anyone who has enjoyed upliftment in life should seek to be an obstacle for those who follow him. “This man forgot the beings of earth, forgot the beings of heaven, in turn, he forgot the presence of God. The worst kind of behaviour agitated his hands – greed occupied the centre of his heart, and he was a creature that walked in darkness. This man wallowed in bribery, he was chairman of the circle of scheming, head of the gang of double- dealing, field-marshal of those who crept about in the dark of night. “With his mouth, he ruined the work of others, while he used a big potsherd to cover the good works of some, that others might not see their attainments. He nosed around for secrets that would entrap his companions, and blew them up into monumental crimes in the eyes of the world. He who turns the world upside down, places the deceitful on the throne, casts the truthful down – because such is a being of base earth, he will never stand as equal among the uplifted.” “Chei! There is Death o!” Mr. Soyinka concludes his response, in biting reference to the First Lady’s famous dramatic torment in the wake of the abduction of 219 Chibok schoolgirls. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/173763-obasanjo-seasoned-predator-infantile-career-liar-soyinka.html |
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday re-echoed his earlier advice to politicians to avoid sowing the seed of discord and hatred through their utterances ahead of the 2015 general elections. He also reminded opposition politicians that Nigeria does not belong to anyone and cannot be considered anybody’s personal estate. Speaking at a special Christmas service at St. Mathew’s Anglican Church in Maitama, Abuja, the president reminded politicians of the need to base their campaigns strictly on developmental issues and nothing more. The president said he was always embarrassed by divisive utterances made by some politicians, noting that those involved in such do not mean well for the country. “As a politician, you want people to elect you to perform your responsibilities. If you mean well for the country, you wouldn’t be fanning the embers of discord and hatred. “Nigeria is nobody’s personal estate, but you want to serve. If the people want you to serve, you serve. But if they say no, then leave. “So, I get embarrassed when we the politicians make provocative statements, statements that create division among Nigerians and that can set this country ablaze,” he said. He said further, “I don’t think that is what a leader should do; it is not the kind of seed a leader should sow “Those who take government by violence hardly end well; examples abound in some African countries. “So, if a politician is interested in power at any level, you don’t sow seed of discord and enmity because it will consume you if you try to.” Mr. Jonathan thanked religious leaders and followers for their continued prayers for peace and unity for the country especially during this period. He said the challenges facing the country could have been worse without their prayers. While describing the security and economic challenges facing the country as temporary, the president assured that “God will surely see the nation through them.” He urged Christians to continue to imbibe the virtues of peace, love, selflessness and tolerance which Christ epitomise. The president was accompanied by the First Lady, Patience Jonathan; his mother, Eunice, and members of the Federal Executive Council. The service, which was presided over by the Primate of the Anglican Church, Nicholas Okoh, was also attended by some past government officials including a former Minister of information, Jerry Gana. The first lady read the first lesson drawn from Isaiah 9: 2, 6 and 7, while the president took the second reading from Hebrews 1:1 to12. In a sermon titled “The Jewish Messianic Expectations and 2015 Elections”, Mr. Okoh cautioned that the 2015 election would be a critical period in the country. He reminded political office seekers at all levels that Nigerians have expectations, which border on peace, freedom, security and general prosperity. He, therefore, urged both serving and incoming leaders at all levels and arms of government, to be guided by the peoples’ expectations in their decisions. The clergy man also advised Nigerians to base their voting decisions on common good of all, noting that if they elect people that don’t care, their conditions would be worsened. On the security challenges facing the country, Mr. Okoh emphasised the need for Nigerians to pray and work together to put “an end to the reproach”. “We need to stop viewing security issues as politics. It is everyone’s duty to join in the fight against terrorism and rescue our nation,” he said. The cleric also cautioned vandals of power installations and other national economic saboteurs to desist or face the wrath of God and that of the people. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/173799-jonathan-opposition-politicians-nigeria-nobodys-personal-estate.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter |
blackCITIZEN:Very correct |
A Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President, Reuben Abati, published an abstract from secret documents in his Twitter, exposing the information from Wikileaks about Buhari’s 1983-84 governing years. Like President Obasanjo before the 1999 election, General Buhari’s political experience is limited to that of military Head of State. Buhari came to power as a result of a 1983 New Year’s Eve coup against the democratically elected Shehu Shagari. The eviction of Shagari came as a welcome relief as did Buhari’s promise to root out corruption. That relief, however, was short-lived as Nigerians watched despairingly as the Buhari regime’s promises to revive the economy and wipe out rampant corruption withered during 20 months of heavy-handed, largely ineffective rule. In May 1984, Buhari ordered the brutal expulsion of 700,000 illegal immigrants from neighboring African states, jailed hundreds of political opponents and muzzled a once aggressive press. His loyalty to the military also came into question as he dismissed 30,000 soldiers as a cost-cutting measure. Buhari also soured Nigeria’s relations with Britain, when he was accused of masterminding a clumsy and unsuccessful attempt in July 1984 to kidnap President Shagari’s brother-in-law, former Transport Minister Umaru Dikko. Moreover, Buhari undermined traditional rulers throughout Nigeria, slashing their benefits and questioning their authority.
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