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The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)Thursday in Abuja passed a voteof confidence on President Goodluck Jonathan, declaring that it was evident that Nigeria has made significant progress in many sectors under his leadership.
In the confidence motion moved by Senator Ibrahim Mantu and unanimously adopted by all members of the committee at Thursday s PDP NEC meeting, the party commended President Jonathan’s “resolute and decisive tackling” of Nigeria’s security challenges which, it said, had curbed terrorism and insurgency in Nigeria, particularly in the North-East geo-political zone.
The PDP also applauded ongoing reforms and development in the country, especially those in the agricultural, aviation, transportation, and education sectors, saying that it was apparent that President Jonathan’s Agenda for National Transformation is being diligently implemented and thatNigerians are better for it.
The party also commended President Jonathan’s strict adherence to the rule of law as well as his protection and defense of the constitution.
“The President is discharging hismandate to the appreciation of Nigerians that overwhelmingly voted for him in the 2011 general elections.
“It is therefore in view of the above that members of the National Executive Committee of our great party do hereby pass a vote of confidence in the President, Commander-In-Chief, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR,” the motion stated
http://www.vanguardngr.com/category/national-news/

hillsate: Guys, one of the serious problems affecting Ndigbo is that they are never united, and that is why it will be difficult for an Igbo person to be president. They do not even accept their own. Just imagine how they are attacking their leader. How many northerners do you see attacking their own or even the westerners?
Ndibgo, you have a long way to go.

Shot it!!!
Did southwest support Obasanjo in 1999, did they vote for him? But he still win in the North and eastern region.
If APC so much like Rochas let them do the same to him

wetin this okorocha de smoke self?
See him face nah

BY NDAHI MARAMA
Maiduguri — Traders at Gamboru market in Maiduguri, Borno State, Wednesday, rounded up six suspected Boko Haram gunmen and handed them over to soldiers of the Joint Task Force, JTF, eyewitnesses said.

This is even as suspected sect members, yesterday evening, detonated an Improvised Explosive Devise, EID, in the metropolis, targeting the patrol vehicle of the JTF, in spite of the emergency rule imposed on Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, and the total ban on the use of GSM and Thuraya Satellite cell phones in the troubled states.

The gunmen, according to eyewitnesses, entered the market and were spotted by a trader that saw weapons hidden under their garments.

A 36-year-old grocery merchant in Maiduguri, Babagana Aji, said: “It was a trader that alerted us when he saw them and we immediately trailed and rounded them up.

“We caught them before they could bring out their guns. After we succeeded in disarming them, we beat them blue and black before handing them over to the soldiers.”

Another trader, Sanusi Dantakai, said Gamboru traders had had it up their neck and were forced to take the bull by the horns.

He said: “This Gamboru market had suffered several attacks. Boko Haram has set it on fire twice and killed several traders and an orange vendor, among others.

“We are tired of the losses we incur at every attack carried out by Boko Haram. That was why we summoned courage to catch them today.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/traders-arrest-6-suspected-boko-haram-members-in-borno/
Meanwhile, the sound of the explosion, which occurred at 6:30pm in the metropolis forced residents and traders to rush back to their houses to avoid being caught in the 6pm to 9pm curfew imposed on the state.

Due to the total network black out, spokesman of the JTF, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa and the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Gideon Jubrin, could not be reached for confirmation at the time of going to press.

Nigeria 1-2 Uruguay: Veteran Forlan smashes home winner
The Internacional forward proved decisive as he guided la Celeste to a vital victory over the Super Eagles in his 100th appearance for the national team
By Tom Webber
21 Jun 2013 00:58:00

Diego Forlan, Nigeria - Uruguay (Confederations Cup)
Uruguay picked up a hugely important three points in Group B of the Confederations Cup as they defeated Nigeria 2-1 at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador.

The South Americans started impressively and Diego Lugano, who will miss the next game after picking up his second yellow card of the tournament, soon broke the deadlock.

John Obi Mikel equalised with a fine finish but in the second half Diego Forlan marked his 100th cap for the national team with the winning goal, as Stephen Keshi's men paid the price for failing to test Fernando Muslera for much of the game.

Uruguay began brightly but were unable to take control of the game during the early stages as Nigeria proved a threat on the counterattack.

La Celeste lost momentum but still opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Forlan's deflected cross was unintentionally dummied by Edinson Cavani at the near post and an unmarked Lugano scuffed the ball into the back of the net.

Some last-ditch defending from Maxi Pereira stopped Brown Ideye from getting a shot away on goal moments later while, at the other end, Forlan was unable to squeeze a Luis Suarez cross in at the near post with 26 minutes played.

The game had gone flat after Oscar Tabarez's side had taken the lead, but the crowd were sparked back into life eight minutes before the break when the Super Eagles restored parity.

Ideye fed Mikel at the top of the box and the Chelsea midfielder jinked past the static Lugano and bent a fine left-footed finish into the top corner.

Nigeria narrowly missed out on taking an advantage into the interval as a scrambling Muslera did brilliantly to stop Diego Godin from putting through his own goal with a looping header in first-half stoppage time.

The African champions picked up where they left off following the restart but it was Uruguay who struck next with 51 minutes on the clock.

Suarez and Cavani combined to set up Forlan on the left of the area and he capped a century of appearances for La Celeste with an unstoppable, first-time finish beating Vincent Enyeama at his near post.

The goal came as a blow to the Super Eagles and the South Americans made it difficult for Keshi's men to break them down by bolstering their numbers behind the ball when not in possession.

With 20 minutes remaining Cavani wasted a glorious opportunity to wrap up the three points as, after springing the offside trap, he snatched at the ball and sliced his effort well off target.

The Napoli striker then ailed to hit the target again with a free header shortly after but Tabarez's team retained their single-goal advantage up to the final whistle.

Although they stay in third position, Uruguay will have the upper hand heading into the final round of fixtures in Group B as they take on Tahiti while Nigeria will face world champions Spain.

Muslins are hypo if you put *crisy* na you sabi

Who's this bigot calling him self moderator?
Islam..................... No comment yet

Oya! Mountain of fires begin to call down fire on Sanusi.........
.
That's why i don't believe this new generation church's (paintcostals) and their holy ghost fire antics.
You have power to kill devil which believe to be spirit but you can not use it on ordinary human being like Sanusi
All na fallacy

MADRID  (AFP) – Barcelona star Lionel Messi has been named as a suspect in a tax fraud probe and summoned to appear in court, a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Barcelona said Thursday.

The 25-year-old four-time World Player of the Year and his father Jorge Horacio are accused of defrauding the Spanish tax authorities of more than four million euros ($5 million, £3.4 million).

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/judge-summons-messi-over-3-4m-tax-fraud/


Spanish financial crimes prosecutors filed papers with a court in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, on June 12 accusing Messi and his father of cheating on income related to the use of his image from 2006-2009.

Messi and his father aimed to deceive the state by ceding Messi’s image rights to companies based in tax havens such as Belize and Uruguay so they would pay no tax in Spain, according to the prosecutor’s complaint.

“The judge today accepted this complaint and has summoned Messi and his father to appear in court on September 17. They are considered suspects,” the spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Barcelona, Jose Miguel Company, told AFP.

The striker and his father have fiercely denied any wrongdoing and Barcelona president Sandro Rosell has said the club has no doubt that the superstar was innocent of tax avoidance.

“We have always fulfilled all our tax obligations, following the advice of our tax consultants who will take care of clarifying this situation,” Messi said in an English-language statement released on his Facebook account the day prosecutors filed their complaint.

The accusations of tax fraud are a huge blow to the prestige of Messi, who has long been seen as a more humble figure than most top-class footballers — in particular his fierce Real Madrid rival Cristiano Ronaldo.

The prosecutor’s complaint also alleged Messi and his father drew up deals related to his image rights in Britain and Switzerland, ensuring that the income went straight to the tax havens without any tax being paid.

They acted with “total opaqueness” towards the Spanish authorities, it added.

The complaint lodged with the court in Gava, near Barcelona, accused them of defrauding the state of 1.06 million euros in 2007, 1.57 million euros in 2008, and 1.53 million euros in 2009.

The father was accused of being the brains behind the scheme, allegedly setting it up in 2005 before his son turned 18 on June 24 of that year.

The prosecutor said Messi later agreed with his father’s tactics so that he would avoid any taxes on income from the use of his image rights during the period.

The income related to his image rights included contracts with FC Barcelona, Banco Sabadell, Danone, Adidas, Pepsi-Cola, Procter & Gamble and Kuwait Food Company.

Messi’s net income from image rights amounted to 2.56 million euros in 2007, 3.82 million euros in 2008 and 3.80 million euros in 2009, the complaint said.

Messi’s achievements on the field have made him one of the most marketable sportsmen in the world.

He was ranked 10th amongst Forbes’ list of sports stars’ incomes this month with an annual $21m from endorsements alone.

180/150 lol
Imagine an Hausa woman definitely from Yobe or Jigawa state with zero cut-off mark in common entrance exam be our minister of education...smh

In a civilized country you don't see kind of thing

Shalek: and where will they be used? after all this motorcycle banning spree in the country. rubbish

My friend shut that gutter

idupaul: I have always said the problem in Nigeria is caused by desperate Low IQ or how do U explain the part the failed ritualist comes back the next day to pick up his Bus .

Lol

PDP to win Lagos is easy and simply but tribal different and sentiment will never allow them
Yoruba Governor
Igbo Deputy.... what else do you want?
We all know the population of Igbos in Lagos with 40% yoruba supporters
ACN will become history in Lagos

Billyonaire: It is high time Lagos is taken away from the ACN clan, First time I went to Mile 2, Trade Fair areas of Lagos last couple of weeks. I never knew that living in VI/Ikoyi/Lekki sections gave me an illusion that Lagos is perfectly okay, until I arrived the other part of the town. This mainland is a perfect dustbin, ACN lost my respect there and then. How can we be building Atlantic city for the elites and putting toll on the only good road but leave the masses to suffer at the mainland. Mainland lagos is disgusting and I hate to say I pity the people there. The policemen are mostly drunk and the roads are terrible. PDP will be better for these people.

Hmmm, No let Eko ile, Bluetooth, dayokanu and other Acn apologies hear this o or else you must park comot from Lagos today

This world is evil indeed.... God forbid bad thing

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/2015-200-s-west-pdp-chieftains-storm-lagos-today/
BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE
LAGOS — TO reclaim the six states of the South-West geo-political zone in the 2015 general elections, 200 leaders ofthe Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the zone will storm Lagos today to work out strategies on how to prosecute and win the electoral battles.
Currently, the party has returned to its post-1999 to 2003 scenario when it was not governing any of the states.
It reclaimed five states from the Alliance for Democracy, AD, later Action Congress, AC, and now Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, at the 2003 polls. So, before the 2007 elections, it wasin charge of five states except Lagos.
However, between 2007 and 2011, it lost all the states under its control through a combination of the ballot box and judicial pronouncements, which were worsened by recurring and protracted internal crises.
To the ACN, it lost Ogun and Oyo (through the ballot box) as well as Osun and Ekiti (through the law courts). It also lost Ondoto the Labour Party, first through the courts and now via elections.
The parley, which is being organised by the South-West PDP Caretaker Committee Chairman, Chief Ishola Filani, will be held at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja.
According the Chief Pegba Otemolu, zonal secretary, the South-West “elders and leaders of the party’ will at the stakeholders’ meeting, discuss “crucial issues about the progress of the party and the zone.”
Notable leaders among the 37 expected from Ekiti are Prof. Tunde Adeniran, Chief Ayo Fayose, Hon. Caleb Olubolade, Sen. C.K Awoyelu, Engr. Segun Oni, Sen. Gbenga Aluko, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, Sen. Bode Olowoporoku, Sen. Ayo Arise and Mrs.. Titi Oluwatuyi.
Among a 31-man delegation from Lagos are Chiefs Bode George, Dapo Sarumi, Dr. Abayomi Finnih, Alhaji Muritala Ashorobi, Alhaji Rafiu Jafojo, Sen. Adesye Ogunlewe, Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro, Gen. Tajudeen Olanrewaju, Mrs. Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, Mrs. Remi Adiukwu-Bakare, Capt. Tunji Shelle and Dr. Abiola Ogunkelu.
Expected from Ogun State are 31leaders including Sen. Jubril Martins Kuye, Chief Dayo Soremi, Hon. Titi Oseni, Sen. Lekan Mustapha and Dr. Adekoya Adedoyin.
Invitations were also extended to 35 PDP kingpins in Ondo State. They include Dr. Olusegun Agagu, Sen. Bode Olajumoke, Chief Olusola Oke, Dr. Bode Iwaloye, Mrs. MobolajiOsomo, and Sen. Gbenga Ogunniya.
Leading invitees from Osun are Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Erelu Olusola Obada, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, Olubunmi Etteh, Yinka Omilani, Iyiola Omisore and Isiaka Adeleke.
And from Oyo State are: Chief Lekan Balogun, Adebayo Alao-Akala, Yekeen Adeojo, Gen. Raji Rasaki, Sen. Teslim Folarin, Hon Mulikat Adeola-Akande, Sen Hosea Agboola andHon Muraina Ajibola among others.

Cannibalism is on rampage this days in yoruba land travelers beware

omoatata: It says Kwara state. What part of Kwara state don't you understand?

The last time i check, Ajadi Rafiu is still a name. so what's your point?

A friend of my told me that the economic activities in Lagos state will be shut down tomorrow in honor of late Mrs Tinubu.
May her soul rest in peace
So no bank, no school, no market... wow! this woman must be such a powerful woman
Lagosians ekun' enjoyment in advance!

The only alternative to PDP at the moment is the Labour Party, LP, which is presently in power in Ondo State; because the party has an ideology.
The merger should not be to prosecute selfish interests or to move presidency to the Northern part of Nigeria.
When you look at the constitution of APC you will discover that it took care of the age-long welfarism which believe that those that work must be able to eat. Anybody that believes in the welfare of the people will be able to tackle the problem of the masses.
The essence of merger should
be to meet the aspiration of the
people. I look forward to a
merger where people will come
together on the need to move
Nigeria forward, where we will
be able to tackle the energy
crisis, security challenges
infrastructural decay.
It is when people of like minds
come together and fashion out
the way forward that the masses would recognize and demand specific roles for the brains behind the progressive moves.
Today Tinubu and Buhari are not the change we need.
A case of shark and deep blue sea

Them never still register this their already failed party

[quote author= he failed woefully to address power problems, major road projects eg lagos ibadan, infrastructures, corruption among others. So,in response to ur question,i don't think it's hatred,rather SW people know Leadership when they see one. Fashola is one but Uncle Clueless is not.[/quote]How do you compare Bro Jona two and half year with OBJ a Southwesterner 8years in office