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Music/Radio / MI Abaga-the Chairman Cypher/martell Cypher LYRICS by hamzazayyad1: 7:38pm On Nov 19, 2015
[Intro] Yeah Fi-fight harder [Verse] Martell Cypher I’m live and hyper A lot of loose ends let me this tight aah This same little kid shit though I see that you brought a diaper And that’s alright sir Yo I think we need a rap revival That’s why I’m going in like a deep sea diver And y’all in the back like you got a driver Aint in my optics you’re like the fiber People say M should rap more I’m like huh That’s like say you wish 9ice is nicer That’s like Meek Mill talking bout Drake aint real No dude you should have find the right aah I’m the A to Z of P like I’m in the P.A. who use to work for Frizer So even when they say I’m bad They just do it for publicity yo Cause the boy is five star M dey write shall M dey try shall Anybody talking bad about me dey lie shall Jah come first I’m Elisha You see my first lady M get Aisha Goodluck to Goodluck It’s been real sir Enjoy Bayelsa I wish you well sir Twenty fifteen now we’ve gotten a real tour Yo we moving up and we sip Martel sir I’ll be combating All they cunny ass I’m all new pace Tell me congrats Just sign contract I rep up for the team I’m on in This is combat I already done what they do I’m like twelve miles ahead I left dudes in Ketu Anytime your girl around me It’s wetness day That’s why she call me Kweku I’m fresh till death like still birth Watch me kill verse and know my real worth I do work nigga I do real work Bentleys Bentys Ranges them just slow pokes I dont want titles Listen close this is vital I dont wanna be no Idol Cause idle hands are the devil workshop I wanna be the God of this rap Poseidus I’m still king out here I dont need bible If homie vex I aint homie rival Homie get mad let the homie try though They just make M.I. homicidal I dont even know how the hater feels I’m just making more paper than paper mills See I love cake and cheese I’m like baseball teams Signing major deals And dont ever get shit mix this ruins Compare M.I. to these nincompoops They asking Dre for tunes Well this is tune day like I get to kiss on Toolz yo Who the best let them bring the test piece Polish your work and then trump you besties How about eating holy, check please Nigga aint talking money, next please In submission Watch me make them Stop the bullshit Constipation What’s the new shit I’m cultivating CBN shii Chocboiz nation Martel Cypher World flow harder than river Niger Yo yaw yaw yaw niggas acting love like wish y’all own yeah [Outro] Really it’s a smooth one Yo
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Politics / Buhari’s 3 Achievements In Just 60 Days In Office by hamzazayyad1: 6:58am On Aug 11, 2015
It used to be a taboo before PMB came on board to have days of constant electricity. The simple reason why Buhari has achieved all these unprecedented feats is because he is a man who does not believe in rhetoric or empty academic dexterity. On the other, he is a man of few words and conspicuous results. President Muhammadu Buhari upon becoming the president Actions speak louder than words. The actions of President Muhammadu Buhari right from his inauguration on Saturday, May 29, 2015 show that fortune has indeed smiled on Nigerians. Upon his assumption into office, some unimaginable developments started happening across the length and breadth of Nigeria. The progress of Nigeria is what everyone yearns for, however, the behemoth called “corruption” and the cankerworm called the “Nigerian- factor” stagnated governance. Likewise, these have further decelerated the wheel of progress before Buhari came on board. A great number of doubting Thomas’s were of the view that PMB would fail woefully upon becoming the leader of the most populous black nation in the world. They nicknamed him “Baba-go-slow” and even postulated various theories to justify their claim. However, these individuals have now eaten the humble pie. They are currently at the forefront of those saying Buhari is the right man to cleanse the Augean stable left behind by the previous administration. They now sing his praises! The body language of the president shows that of a man who knows his onions. It depicts that of a man who is ready to pilot Nigeria and Nigerians to the Promise land despite his advanced age. With regards to the aforementioned, a cursory look is made into three of the achievements the president had so far made in his first 2 months in office. Stable power supply Nigerians would never have imagined that they would experience 24 hours power supply without outage. Nigerians were used to going to bed without light. They coined acronyms like; “Never Expect Power At Night” for NEPA and “Please Hold Candle at Night” for PHCN. Despite the various change of names and ownership of the power sector, electricity supply to Nigerians was abysmal. All various forms of untenable excuses were brought forward to justify the ineptitude nature of the power sector by some stakeholders. However, the reality was shielded from Nigerians. The reality was the endemic nature of corruption in the power sector through anti-people policies. The presence of a favourable environment for the generator importation by some cabals also denied Nigerians their right to uninterrupted electricity. However the triumphant entry of Buhari turned the table against these malevolent creatures. Steady power supply is no longer a treasure to be excavated for donkey years. Having days of constant electricity is no more a mirage. Nigerians from the six geo-political zones are singing the same song that the coming of Buhari is a blessing to all as far as the power sector is concerned. This is because they hardly remember they ever used generators or inverters or rechargeable lamps or candles. End to Boko Haram in sight The United Kingdom recently stated that it is ready to partner Nigeria in the fight against insurgency. The United States of America also said it is now willing to supply arms and ammunitions that would help Nigerian soldiers defeat Boko Haram. It should be noted that a few years ago, these two world powers were reluctant to go into partnership to end terrorism in Nigeria and its North-East borders. This was not because they loved the way hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and rendered homeless. Also, it was not that they enjoyed watching news of people being slaughtered like fowls. The main reason was that they never saw concerted efforts and genuine commitments from the previous administration to tackle insurgency headlong. In the same vein, the government of Cameroun recently pointed accusing fingers at the former government, saying it wanted to run a one-man show against Boko Haram that later backfired. The picture right now about ending Boko Haram by the Buhari-led government is crystal-clear. The renewed dedication and fruitful collaboration of Nigeria, its adjoining African countries and foreign countries strongly indicate that the days of Boko Haram are numbered in Nigeria. Huge foreign investment President Buhari has always showed the vigour that he just does not want Nigeria’s economy to remain number one in Africa, but to be among the top in the world. Prominent Nigerians and political analysts gave kudos to PMB regarding his recent visit to the United States. They said it was a right step in the right direction. Buhari did not just go to USA for a tea party or to look at the architectural design of the capitol building. He went there strictly for business and purposely to add to his blueprint and strategies to improving the standard of living of the average Nigerian. What does this imply? It means that as foreign investors inject their money into the nation’s economy, more jobs would be created. Thereby, people would in turn be employed and the final multiplier effect is that families are taken out of poverty. According to Daily Sun newspaper on Thursday, August 6, the senior special assistant on media and publicity to president Buhari, Garba Shehu, listed the benefits of PMB’s trip which included; a proposed $2.1 billion fund for re-development of the North-East; $5 billion from US investors in Nigeria’s agricultural sector; $1.5 billion investment in Nigeria’s health sector and another $5 billion in the country’s power sector. In addition, Buhari has demonstrated he is a pan-Nigerian leader as he recently approved the establishment of Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project (HYPREP). HYPREP is established to ensure that the cleaning up process of the devastated Ogoniland in Niger-Delta is fast tracked. The onus now lies on all citizens to continue to support and pray for this one in a million president and the darling of Nigerians as he continues to steadily steer the ship of Nigeria to a positive direction called change. It is a stated fact that slow and steady wins the race.

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Politics / Most Read: My Take On MESSI Visiting GABON. by hamzazayyad1: 12:42pm On Jul 22, 2015
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

1.WHY WOULD A SOUTH AMERICAN PLAYER BE MADE TO LAY STONE FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF A NEW STADIA FOR AN AFRICAN CUP OF NATION.

NO AFRICAN PLAYER WOULD BE MADE TO LAY A BLOCK FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF A STADIA FOR COPA AMERICA.

IS THE GABONESE PREISDENT TELLING THE WHOLE OF AFRICA THAT WE DONT HAVE FOOTBALL LEGEND'S IN OUR GREAT CONTENTS? WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE LIKE OF THESES PLAYERS, ETO, DROGBA,KALUSHA, WEAH,OKOCHA,ABEDI PELE etc?

SO WILL MESSI COME FOR THE OPENING CEREMONY IN 2017 AND EVENTUALLY DO THE KICK OFF?



2.WHY WOULD MESSI WEAR A SHORT AND T-SHIRT TO MEET A WHOLE PRESIDENT.

3.WHY WOULD A WHOLE PRESIDENT DRIVE A COMMON PLAYER.

4.WHY WOULD GABONESE PRESIDENT PAYS $3.5M TO MESSI, FOR WHAT

WE HAVE LOST OUR IDENTITY AS AFRICANS.
BECAUSE THIS STUPIDITY WILL NOT HAPPENS IN ANY CONTINENT APART FROM OUR OWN AFRICAN CONTINENT.

AFRICANS STILL UNDER MENTAL SLAVERY.
Politics / Nigeria: President Buhari Endorses Lawan For Senate Presidency by hamzazayyad1: 4:42pm On Jun 03, 2015
According to SAHARA REPORTERS,
President Buhari declared his preference
for Senator Lawan as the new Senate
President during a meeting between the
president and members of the National
Working Committee of the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC).
An anonymous source who was present
at the meeting said, ''The president
explained to us that the North Central
part of Nigeria has held the Senate
Presidency for long enough. He therefore
disclosed that the post should be allowed
to move to another geo-political zone''.
APC leaders are expected to meet this
week and finalize on whether or not to go
with President Buhari's chosen candidate.
#Buhari #APC
Politics / Speech By Gej On The Occasion Of The Presentation Of Hand Over Notes To Gmb by hamzazayyad1: 6:23pm On May 28, 2015
PROTOCOLS
1. I welcome you all to this occasion of the
formal presentation of the Hand-over notes
of my Administration to the in-coming
Administration of the President-Elect,
General Muhammadu Buhari.
1. This event and tomorrow’s inauguration of
a new administration are truly historic as it
is the first time in the history of our nation
that we are witnessing the democratic and
orderly transfer of power at the Federal
level from one political party to another.
1. The Hand-over notes which we now
present, contain the governance philosophy,
strategies, policies, programmes and
activities of my Administration for the
period – 2011-2015. Also to be found in the
notes are the objectives, targets and
implementation strategies, achievements
and challenges of our key policies,
schemes, initiatives as well as the status
of commitments and liabilities of the
various MDAs.
1. As we hand over the affairs of the nation,
it is appropriate to recall that at inception,
in May 2011, we committed ourselves to
consolidating national unity through
democratization and good governance. Our
assessment then, and our firm belief ever
since, is that the unity of Nigeria, the
security, well-being, greater freedoms and
opportunities for all citizens must remain
the primary objectives of government.
1. The Agenda for National Transformation
which we did our best to implement
consisted of clear and consistent
governance strategies, policies, plans,
programmes and projects, in all facets of
our national life. Emphasis was placed on
human and state security, democratization,
sound economic management, as well as
structural and institutional reforms.
1. Our foremost concern was the unity of
Nigeria.In keeping with that concern, we
engineered a process that began with a
review of issues outstanding from previous
Constitutional Conferences by the Belgore
Committee. After that, we widened political
consultations through a National Dialogue
that was orchestrated through the
Okurounmu Committee. These culminated
in the all-inclusive National Conference
which unanimously reaffirmed that Nigeria
must remain united and indivisible.
1. The Conference also made resolutions and
recommendations for serious constitutional,
political and governance reforms, which we
have forwarded to the National Assembly
for appropriate legislative action. It is our
hope that the incoming Government will
accord the Report of the National
Conference the very high priority that it
deserves, as a genuine expression of the
will of our people.
1. The recognition that the starting point for
good governance is the legitimacy of the
government itself informed our
commitment to promoting free and fair
elections.
1. It also motivated innovations in the
management and conduct of elections
which we undertook. Hopefully, in the
years ahead, those innovations will be
properly and fully implemented so that
Nigerians will be even more assured of the
integrity of the electoral system and the
legitimacy of any government that it
produces.
1. To strengthen the social contract between
the government and the governed, we
institutionalized the rule of law as well as
the independence of the legislature and the
judiciary. We also promoted group and
individual freedoms. As a result, there is
vast expansion in democratic, social and
economic space for all citizens.
11.Our nation and citizens faced many new
challenges over the past four years but the
greatest was the vastly increased menace of
Boko Haram with their mindless terror, mass
killings, utter ruthlessness, kidnapping of
innocent children and other unspeakable acts of
brutality.
1. We should all remember that Boko Haram’s
emergence predated our administration
going as far back as 2002. The group
however became extremely malignant with
the killing of its leader, Mohammed Yusuf
in July 2009.
1. It therefore became an urgent task for us
to effectively confront the great threat
Boko Haram posed to the security and
well-being of our people. To do so, we
overhauled and virtually reinvented our
security architecture to confront Boko
Haram and its insurgency. We re-organized
our security apparatus. We re-equipped and
fully motivated our forces.
1. Victory is now in sight and within our
reach. However, the cost in blood of
citizens and heroes; and the diversion of
national treasure from urgent needs for
development have been very high. While
more than 500 women and children have
been rescued from the clutches of Boko
Haram thus far by our security forces, it
remains my sincere hope and prayer that
our beloved daughters from Chibok will
soon be reunited with us.
1. I wish to thank the Nigerian people for
their resilience and patience. I also wish to
pay very special and personal tribute to all
the men and women of our valiant armed
forces and security agencies. Their
sacrifice and dedication have brought us
thus far.
1. While striving to overcome our national
security challenges, we still gave necessary
attention to economic development. Our
goal was to achieve long-term economic
growth and stability, improve the quality
and quantum of infrastructure and enhance
human capital development.
1. Our financial system reforms included the
Treasury Single Account [TSA] that unified
the structure of government accounts for
all MDAs and thereby brought order to
cash flow management; and Government
Integrated Financial Management
Information System [GIFMIS] was
introduced to plug leakages and waste of
resources. The Integrated Payroll and
Personnel Information System [IPPIS]
weeded out 60,450 ghost workers in 359
out of 425 MDAs, yielding N185.4 billion in
savings to the Federal government.
1. Improved Revenue Mobilization was
achieved through improvements in the laws
and compliance measures. In 2013 alone,
these measures resulted in a 69% rise in
Federal tax revenues from N2.8 trillion to
N4.8 trillion. Also, Waiver Policy and Trade
Facilitation were reformed to create a
more rational regime. Our emphasis shifted
to granting waivers to specific sectors
instead of individual companies and the
Sovereign Wealth Fund was established to
provide stabilization from external shocks,
provide funding for critical infrastructure
and savings for future generations.
1. Our Financial Sector reforms addressed the
issues of inefficiencies in the coordination
and monitoring of the financial system. Our
policies promoted transparency, better risk
management, new banking models and
payment systems. We established the
Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria
as a resolution mechanism for toxic
banking assets. We strengthened banking
supervision and enhanced public
confidence in Nigerian Banks.
1. To address this, my administration made
job creation a key consideration for all
programmes in the Transformation Agenda.
Emphasis was also shifted towards
empowering youths to become
entrepreneurs rather than job seekers,
through such initiatives as Youth Enterprise
with Innovation in Nigeria (YOU-WIN),
Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS), the
SURE-P Technical Vocational Education
and Training Programme (TVET) and the
Youth Employment in Agriculture
Programme (YEAP).
1. Manufacturing in Nigeria faces many
challenges, including poor power supply,
high cost of input, high cost of doing
business, multiple taxation, poor
infrastructure and lack of synergy with the
labour market. To address these problems,
we launched several programmes and
initiatives including the National Industrial
Revolution Plan and a new National
Automobile Policy designed to boost
domestic car production and expand
existing capacity. Since then, five new
private vehicle assembly plants have been
established.
1. Agriculture is critical to national survival
and yet the sector was besieged with many
problems. By year 2010, Nigeria was the
second largest importer of food in the
world, spending about N 1.3 trillion on the
importation of fish, rice and sugar alone.
1. The reforms we introduced in agriculture
dramatically increased local production of
staple food and saved us vast amounts of
money that we would have spent on the
importation of food items.
1. To address the glaring inadequacy of
critical national infrastructure, we focused
on the Power Sector, Roads, Railways,
Aviation, Ports and Harbours as well as on
Water and Sanitation, Information and
Communication Technology.
1. My government introduced the Power
Sector Roadmap in 2010.Since then, we
have privatized the generation and
distribution aspects in a most transparent
process. Obstacles to the private sector
investments in power supply were removed
and we developed cost effective electricity
tariff to make the sector more attractive. It
remains our hope that the successor
companies to PHCN and also the private
sector will step forward with the necessary
investment to make the power reform
work.
1. The major challenge in the road sector in
Nigeria is the high cost of building roads
and it continues to rise. The other
challenge is the fact that because of
regular use, roads are one of the fastest
depreciating assets in developing countries.
1. To address this, Government has developed
the required legal and regulatory framework
and created opportunities for Private Public
Partnership (PPP) in road construction and
maintenance.
1. From Ore/Benin Road, Lagos/Ibadan
Expressway to the Kano/Maiduguri
dualisation projects, we made concerted
efforts to address age-long problems of
delays in construction, design defect,
neglect and ineffective maintenance. The
construction of the historic Second Niger
Bridge has also commenced, and on
completion, it will open new and far-
reaching opportunities for greater trade and
interaction among our people.
1. In the Aviation Sector, our government
developed a Master Plan to institutionalise
safety and security, and to develop
infrastructure at the airports and local
airlines. We embarked on the
reconstruction and rehabilitation of 22
airports nationwide. Construction work on
five new international terminals in Lagos,
Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu are
also on-going.
1. There has been a revolution in rail
transportation. We rehabilitated the old
narrow gauge network and ensured that it
has served our people steadily for three
years running with new coaches and
improved expanded services nationwide.
1. We are in the construction stages of a new
national network for standard gauge speed-
train services, with the new rail line
segment, from Abuja to Kaduna,
successfully completed. In addition, we
have initiated the process for the
construction of an ultramodern coastal rail
line that will run from Lagos to Calabar,
with a link to Onitsha.
1. We have also successfully completed the
dredging of River Niger, from Warri in Delta
State to Baro in Niger State, and completed
construction works for the Onitsha River
Port. Other River Ports at Baro, Lokoja and
Oguta, are at advanced construction
stages. Working with the states and
development partners, we have facilitated
the process towards the development of
two new deep sea ports at Lekki in Lagos,
and Ibaka in Akwa Ibom. We have also
implemented reforms to streamline the
clearing regime in existing ports, increasing
cargo turnover time and easing business for
all users.
1. In the oil and gas sector, our local content
policy has continued to empower Nigerian
companies, particularly in technical and
engineering projects. The Gas Revolution
Industrial Park in Delta State is
unprecedented in the subsector, and will
not only deliver Africa’s biggest industrial
park, but all the accompanying benefits to
local industry and job creation.
1. We recognized Human Capital as the most
important agent for transformational
development. Our reforms in this sector
focused on Health, Education and Social
Development and also on Women and
Youth Empowerment and Social Safety
Nets.
1. In the Health sector, the comprehensive
National Strategic Health Development Plan
(NSHDP) of 2011 laid the foundation for
widening access and improving the quality
of healthcare with lower infant mortality
rates and higher life expectancy for the
populace.Our effective curtailment of the
Ebola epidemic has continued to receive
worldwide acclaim as an example in prompt
and effective national disease
management. On our watch, guinea-worm
has been eradicated from Nigeria and we
are on the verge of wiping out polio
entirely.
1. In the Education sector, our objectives are
clear and precise. They emphasise
expansion of access and the upgrade of
quality. I am proud that we have widened
access by establishing 18 more Federal
Universities and other specialized
polytechnics. We strengthened TETFUND
and used it to boldly address the problems
of inadequate infrastructure in the existing
institutions.
1. I am particularly proud of our efforts with
regards to Early Childhood Education and
Out-of-School Children. We provided
modern hybrid Almajiri Education
Programme in the North, attended to
schooling needs of boys in the South-East
and ensured the construction of special
girls’ schools in 13 States of the Federation
to improve girl-child education. We
expanded opportunities for open and
distance learning and provided scholarships
at all levels to help improve access to
quality education for bright and promising
Nigerians.
1. We have promoted gender-mainstreaming
with commensurate priority and
opportunities for our womenfolk, beginning
with ensuring that not less than 30 per
cent of key Federal appointments go to
women. Other initiatives that we have
taken include: the National Gender Policy,
Establishment of Gender Units in Federal
MDAs, Women Empowerment Training
Programmes, Micro-Credit for Women,
Social Safety Net Programmes and the
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Scheme.
1. My Administration has emphasized giving a
free hand to our Anti-corruption agencies
such as the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the
Independent Corrupt Practices Commission
(ICPC). We preferred that they mature into
strong institutions instead of being the
images, the hammer and the anvil of a
strong man. We must encourage them to
abide by the rule of law and due process
instead of resorting to dramatic or illegal
actions orchestrated for cheap applause.
1. Beyond the very impressive records of
enhanced convictions by statutory anti-
corruption agencies like the EFCC and
ICPC, our other strategy has been to
fashion economic policies that deliver
higher deterrence and frustrate
concealment. In this regard, the Bureau of
Public Procurement has played a central
role and impacted strongly on the fight
against corruption.
1. In Sports, we have improved our national
performance in team and individual events.
The disappointment of not qualifying to
defend our African Football Championship
was cushioned by a decent FIFA World Cup
appearance, an Under-17 World Cup win in
addition to other victories in other
international football tournaments and the
Paralympics. We have also encouraged
excellence in other sports, apart from
football, resulting in exceptional
performance in international sporting
events, especially in athletics.
1. Our foreign policy position remains strong.
In October 2013, Nigeria was elected as a
non-permanent member of the United
Nations Security Council for the second
time on our watch. Our country had only
served in that capacity thrice before 2011,
since independence in 1960. Our
Administration also played a leading role in
the resolution of security and political
challenges in our sub-region, particularly in
Niger, Cote D’Ivoire, Mali, Guinea-Bissau
and Burkina Faso.
1. In addition, we increased engagement with
Nigerians in the diaspora who contribute so
much in remittances to their fatherland.
Our Administration successfully encouraged
more of them to invest in Nigeria and
others to return home and join in the task
of nation-building.
1. In summary, Your Excellency, distinguished
ladies and gentlemen, our administration
has done its best to intervene robustly and
impact positively on key aspects of our
national life.
1. There is no doubt that challenges still
abound, but they are surmountable and
overwhelming national transformation
remains realisable, with continuity,
commitment and consistency.
1. Nigeria is blessed with citizens that will
always remain faithful, firmly committed to
national unity, accelerated political, social
and economic development.
1. As we hand over the reins of government, I
believe that our nation is secure, our
democracy is stable, and the future is
bright. Let us all work together, and with
greater resolve, continue to build a stronger
and more prosperous nation.
1. May God Almighty continue to bless our
dear country, Nigeria.
Politics / Another Buhari’s Supporter Starts Walk From Yola To Abuja by hamzazayyad1: 1:42pm On Apr 25, 2015
A supporter of President-elect
Muhammadu Buhari, identified as
Abubakar Duduwale , has set for a walk
from Yola in Adamawa to Abuja.
He told newsmen in Yola on Saturday at
the onset of the walk that the adventure
was to express his joy over the
emergence of Buhari as president-elect.
Duduwale, from Yola North Local
Government Area of Adamawa and
Chamba by tribe, reportedly began the
journey at Yola Gate on Yola-Numan
highway at about 6:30 a.m.
He said he had wanted to start the
journey a day after the Independent
National Electoral Commission announced
Buhari as a winner but somebody from
Lagos pre-empted him.
“The reason why I am trekking from Yola
to Abuja is to express my joy and
solidarity with President -elect
Muhammadu Buhari.
“I want to trek from Yola to Abuja to
witness the inauguration ceremony of
President elect, Duduwale said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
recalls that Suleiman Hashimu, a
supporter of Buhari had earlier
undertaken such walk from Lagos to
Abuja which he concluded recently.
(NAN)
Politics / Saraki, Akume, Ahmad Lawan ,who Should Be Next Senate President ? Poll by hamzazayyad1: 9:47am On Apr 23, 2015
There has been much talk about who should
be the next Senate President since David
Mark who was elected Senate President in
June 6, 2007 looks likely to be the Minority
Leader with his party, the Peoples Democratic
Party playing second fiddle to the All
Progressives Congress , in terms of seat won
at the just concluded elections .
In the driving seat is Bukola Saraki, former
Kwara state governor , who is representing
Kwara central in the senate . Going head to
head with his George Akume , first executive
governor of Benue. He now represents Benue
North West in the senate .
Also in the contest is Ahmed Lawan
representing Yobe North constituency

The match up between Saraki and Akume is
similar to that of Floyd Mayweather and
Manny Pacquiao . The pendulum has swung
back and forth but who do you think deserves
to be the next senate president ?
Who Should Be Next Senate President ?
George Akume from Benue State.
Bukola Saraki from Kwara state.
Ahmed Lawan from Yobe state.
…. David Mark from Benue state.
Politics / ‘jonathan Is On Mission Impossible In South-west’ by hamzazayyad1: 12:50pm On Mar 22, 2015
The political foray of President Goodluck
Jonathan into the South-West geopolitical
zone of the country has been described
as an exercise in futility. This came from
Chief Abiodun Oyebode, an All
Progressives Congress (APC) South-West
zonal leader. He spoke with George
Okojie.
How do you see the renewed efforts of
President Jonathan in the past few weeks
to gain victory in the South-West?
I have watched his activities, even if the
president relocates to the South-West
zone in his eleventh hour desperation to
remain in power, he cannot win 25
percent votes in the region in the forth
coming polls.
What he is aiming at in the South-West is
very impossible. He is wasting our
national resources and time. The South-
West zone has the strongest inclination to
our presidential candidate, General
Muhammadu Buhari than the three other
geopolitical zones in the southern part of
the country.
Many South-West first class traditional
rulers have endorsed the president for a
second term. What does this suggest?
Quite honestly, the Yorubas are positively
opinionated people that have moral values
and integrity. They will not vote for
President Goodluck Jonathan because a
traditional ruler advised them in that
direction. It is unfortunate that few
respected Yoruba monarchs may have
compromised their stand but I am not so
convinced about that. I know my rulers,
majority of them are very credible leaders.
So they cannot fall to this last minute
antics of the President Jonathan.
President Jonathan disappointed
everybody in the South-West. Any Oba,
who is saying he is endorsing him, is self
serving and had damaged his reputation.
We are proud of the Awujale and
paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru
Kayode Adetona- Ogbagba who told him
to his face, ‘I can’t ask my people to vote
for you.’ That is a respected monarch. We
are proud of him.
But Afenifere, the Yoruba apex socio-
cultural umbrella group has also pitched
its tent with President Jonathan?
Though anybody has the right to support
whichever party they want, but I can tell
you it is very few of them in Afenifere that
are pushing for Jonathan. They are not
talking for the others. Despite the
financial settlements and dollar rain in the
south-west, many members of that group
are very honest people with integrity.
Those doing otherwise are self-serving. It
is unfortunate that Afenifere, which is
occupying exalted position in the history
of Nigeria is being rubbished. Afenifere
has been in the forefront in the fight for
the welfare of the people but because of
animosity for one man they are
misleading the group. Look at what the
youths in the south-west are saying-they
are disappointed with the president.
Majority are with Buhari. They are all
yearning for positive change. You can
now understand that the frantic efforts
by Jonathan and PDP to woo the people
of the region will be in vain. By and large
it is very clear that the PDP is jittery and
are afraid of losing the South-West.
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Politics / Buhari’s Speech At Chatham House –(transcript) by hamzazayyad1: 2:57pm On Feb 26, 2015
APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu
Buhari (rtd) delivered a speech at the Chatham
House, United Kingtom today February 26th. His
speech was titled ‘Prospects for democratic
consolidation in Africa: Nigeria’s transition, his
full speech below
Permit me to start by thanking Chatham House
for the invitation to talk about this important
topic at this crucial time. When speaking about
Nigeria overseas, I normally prefer to be my
country’s public relations and marketing officer,
extolling her virtues and hoping to attract
investments and tourists. But as we all know,
Nigeria is now battling with many challenges, and
if I refer to them, I do so only to impress on
our friends in the United Kingdom that we are
quite aware of our shortcomings and are doing
our best to address them.
The 2015 general election in Nigeria is
generating a lot of interests within and outside
the country. This is understandable. Nigeria,
Africa’s most populous country and largest
economy, is at a defining moment, a moment
that has great implications beyond the
democratic project and beyond the borders of
my dear country.
So let me say upfront that the global interest in
Nigeria’s landmark election is not misplaced at
all and indeed should be commended; for this is
an election that has serious import for the
world. I urge the international community to
continue to focus on Nigeria at this very critical
moment. Given increasing global linkages, it is in
our collective interests that the postponed
elections should hold on the rescheduled dates;
that they should be free and fair; that their
outcomes should be respected by all parties; and
that any form of extension, under whichever
guise, is unconstitutional and will not be
tolerated.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the
dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the collapse of
communism and the end of the Cold War,
democracy became the dominant and most
preferred system of government across the
globe. That global transition has been aptly
captured as the triumph of democracy and the
‘most pre-eminent political idea of our time.’ On
a personal note, the phased end of the USSR
was a turning point for me. It convinced me that
change can be brought about without firing a
single shot.
As you all know, I had been a military head of
state in Nigeria for twenty months. We
intervened because we were unhappy with the
state of affairs in our country. We wanted to
arrest the drift. Driven by patriotism, influenced
by the prevalence and popularity of such drastic
measures all over Africa and elsewhere, we
fought our way to power. But the global triumph
of democracy has shown that another and a
preferable path to change is possible. It is an
important lesson I have carried with me since,
and a lesson that is not lost on the African
continent.
In the last two decades, democracy has grown
strong roots in Africa. Elections, once so rare,
are now so commonplace. As at the time I was a
military head of state between 1983 and 1985,
only four African countries held regular multi-
party elections. But the number of electoral
democracies in Africa, according to Freedom
House, jumped to 10 in 1992/1993 then to 18
in 1994/1995 and to 24 in 2005/2006.
According to the New York Times, 42 of the 48
countries in Sub-Saharan Africa conducted multi-
party elections between 1990 and 2002.
The newspaper also reported that between 2000
and 2002, ruling parties in four African countries
(Senegal, Mauritius, Ghana and Mali) peacefully
handed over power to victorious opposition
parties. In addition, the proportion of African
countries categorized as not free by Freedom
House declined from 59% in 1983 to 35% in
2003. Without doubt, Africa has been part of the
current global wave of democratisation.
But the growth of democracy on the continent
has been uneven. According to Freedom House,
the number of electoral democracies in Africa
slipped from 24 in 2007/2008 to 19 in
2011/2012; while the percentage of countries
categorised as ‘not free’ assuming for the sake
of argument that we accept their definition of
“free” increased from 35% in 2003 to 41% in
2013. Also, there have been some reversals at
different times in Burkina Faso, Central African
Republic, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,
Lesotho, Mali, Madagascar, Mauritania and Togo.
We can choose to look at the glass of
democracy in Africa as either half full or half
empty.
While you can’t have representative democracy
without elections, it is equally important to look
at the quality of the elections and to remember
that mere elections do not democracy make. It
is globally agreed that democracy is not an
event, but a journey. And that the destination of
that journey is democratic consolidation – that
state where democracy has become so rooted
and so routine and widely accepted by all actors.
With this important destination in mind, it is
clear that though many African countries now
hold regular elections, very few of them have
consolidated the practice of democracy. It is
important to also state at this point that just as
with elections, a consolidated democracy cannot
be an end by itself. I will argue that it is not
enough to hold a series of elections or even to
peacefully alternate power among parties.
It is much more important that the promise of
democracy goes beyond just allowing people to
freely choose their leaders. It is much more
important that democracy should deliver on the
promise of choice, of freedoms, of security of
lives and property, of transparency and
accountability, of rule of law, of good
governance and of shared prosperity. It is very
important that the promise embedded in the
concept of democracy, the promise of a better
life for the generality of the people, is not
delivered in the breach.
Now, let me quickly turn to Nigeria. As you all
know, Nigeria’s fourth republic is in its 16th year
and this general election will be the fifth in a
row. This is a major sign of progress for us,
given that our first republic lasted five years and
three months, the second republic ended after
four years and two months and the third republic
was a still-birth. However, longevity is not the
only reason why everyone is so interested in this
election.
The major difference this time around is that for
the very first time since transition to civil rule in
1999, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
is facing its stiffest opposition so far from our
party the All Progressives Congress (APC). We
once had about 50 political parties, but with no
real competition. Now Nigeria is transitioning
from a dominant party system to a competitive
electoral polity, which is a major marker on the
road to democratic consolidation. As you know,
peaceful alternation of power through
competitive elections have happened in Ghana,
Senegal, Malawi and Mauritius in recent times.
The prospects of democratic consolidation in
Africa will be further brightened when that
eventually happens in Nigeria.
But there are other reasons why Nigerians and
the whole world are intensely focussed on this
year’s elections, chief of which is that the
elections are holding in the shadow of huge
security, economic and social uncertainties in
Africa’s most populous country and largest
economy. On insecurity, there is a genuine
cause for worry, both within and outside Nigeria.
Apart from the civil war era, at no other time in
our history has Nigeria been this insecure.
Boko Haram has sadly put Nigeria on the
terrorism map, killing more than 13,000 of our
nationals, displacing millions internally and
externally, and at a time holding on to portions
of our territory the size of Belgium. What has
been consistently lacking is the required
leadership in our battle against insurgency. I, as
a retired general and a former head of state,
have always known about our soldiers: they are
capable, well trained, patriotic, brave and always
ready to do their duty in the service of our
country.
You all can bear witness to the gallant role of
our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic
of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and in
many other peacekeeping operations in several
parts of the world. But in the matter of this
insurgency, our soldiers have neither received
the necessary support nor the required
incentives to tackle this problem. The
government has also failed in any effort towards
a multi-dimensional response to this problem
leading to a situation in which we have now
become dependent on our neighbours to come
to our rescue.
Let me assure you that if I am elected president,
the world will have no cause to worry about
Nigeria as it has had to recently; that Nigeria will
return to its stabilising role in West Africa; and
that no inch of Nigerian territory will ever be
lost to the enemy because we will pay special
attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and
out of service, we will give them adequate and
modern arms and ammunitions to work with, we
will improve intelligence gathering and border
controls to choke Boko Haram’s financial and
equipment channels, we will be tough on
terrorism and tough on its root causes by
initiating a comprehensive economic
development plan promoting infrastructural
development, job creation, agriculture and
industry in the affected areas. We will always act
on time and not allow problems to irresponsibly
fester, and I, Muhammadu Buhari, will always
lead from the front and return Nigeria to its
leadership role in regional and international
efforts to combat terrorism.
On the economy, the fall in prices of oil has
brought our economic and social stress into full
relief. After the rebasing exercise in April 2014,
Nigeria overtook South Africa as Africa’s largest
economy. Our GDP is now valued at $510 billion
and our economy rated 26th in the world. Also
on the bright side, inflation has been kept at
single digit for a while and our economy has
grown at an average of 7% for about a decade.
But it is more of paper growth, a growth that,
on account of mismanagement, profligacy and
corruption, has not translated to human
development or shared prosperity. A
development economist once said three
questions should be asked about a country’s
development: one, what is happening to
poverty? Two, what is happening to
unemployment? And three, what is happening to
inequality?
The answers to these questions in Nigeria show
that the current administration has created two
economies in one country, a sorry tale of two
nations: one economy for a few who have so
much in their tiny island of prosperity; and the
other economy for the many who have so little
in their vast ocean of misery.
Even by official figures, 33.1% of Nigerians live
in extreme poverty. That’s at almost 60 million,
almost the population of the United Kingdom.
There is also the unemployment crisis
simmering beneath the surface, ready to explode
at the slightest stress, with officially 23.9% of
our adult population and almost 60% of our
youth unemployed. We also have one of the
highest rates of inequalities in the world.
With all these, it is not surprising that our
performance on most governance and
development indicators (like Mo Ibrahim Index on
African Governance and UNDP’s Human
Development Index.) are unflattering. With fall in
the prices of oil, which accounts for more than
70% of government revenues, and lack of
savings from more than a decade of oil boom,
the poor will be disproportionately impacted.
In the face of dwindling revenues, a good place
to start the repositioning of Nigeria’s economy
is to swiftly tackle two ills that have ballooned
under the present administration: waste and
corruption. And in doing this, I will, if elected,
lead the way, with the force of personal
example.
On corruption, there will be no confusion as to
where I stand. Corruption will have no place and
the corrupt will not be appointed into my
administration. First and foremost, we will plug
the holes in the budgetary process. Revenue
producing entities such as NNPC and Customs
and Excise will have one set of books only. Their
revenues will be publicly disclosed and regularly
audited. The institutions of state dedicated to
fighting corruption will be given independence
and prosecutorial authority without political
interference.
But I must emphasise that any war waged on
corruption should not be misconstrued as
settling old scores or a witch-hunt. I’m running
for President to lead Nigeria to prosperity and
not adversity.
In reforming the economy, we will use savings
that arise from blocking these leakages and the
proceeds recovered from corruption to fund our
party’s social investments programmes in
education, health, and safety nets such as free
school meals for children, emergency public
works for unemployed youth and pensions for
the elderly.
As a progressive party, we must reform our
political economy to unleash the pent-up
ingenuity and productivity of the Nigerian people
thus freeing them from the curse of poverty. We
will run a private sector-led economy but
maintain an active role for government through
strong regulatory oversight and deliberate
interventions and incentives to diversify the
base of our economy, strengthen productive
sectors, improve the productive capacities of
our people and create jobs for our teeming
youths.
In short, we will run a functional economy driven
by a worldview that sees growth not as an end
by itself, but as a tool to create a society that
works for all, rich and poor alike. On March 28,
Nigeria has a decision to make. To vote for the
continuity of failure or to elect progressive
change. I believe the people will choose wisely.
In sum, I think that given its strategic
importance, Nigeria can trigger a wave of
democratic consolidation in Africa. But as a
starting point we need to get this critical
election right by ensuring that they go ahead,
and depriving those who want to scuttle it the
benefit of derailing our fledgling democracy.
That way, we will all see democracy and
democratic consolidation as tools for solving
pressing problems in a sustainable way, not as
ends in themselves.
Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in
Africa: Nigeria’s Transition
Permit me to close this discussion on a personal
note. I have heard and read references to me as
a former dictator in many respected British
newspapers including the well regarded
Economist. Let me say without sounding
defensive that dictatorship goes with military
rule, though some might be less dictatorial than
others. I take responsibility for whatever
happened under my watch.
I cannot change the past. But I can change the
present and the future. So before you is a
former military ruler and a converted democrat
who is ready to operate under democratic
norms and is subjecting himself to the rigours of
democratic elections for the fourth time.
You may ask: why is he doing this? This is a
question I ask myself all the time too. And here
is my humble answer: because the work of
making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I
still believe that change is possible, this time
through the ballot, and most importantly,
because I still have the capacity and the passion
to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be
respected again in the comity of nations and that
all Nigerians will be proud of.
I thank you for listening.
Politics / I Met Buhari Saturday — Tony Blair; by hamzazayyad1: 3:58pm On Feb 23, 2015
A former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has
confirmed that he held a private meeting with
the candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
Muhammadu Buhari, in London on Saturday.
There has been speculations in Nigeria that a
picture showing Messrs. Blair, Buhari and
Governor Amosun as well as a former Kwara
state governor, Bukola Saraki, was
photoshopped.
Mr. Buhari’s campaign office had stated that the
former head of state was in the U.K. on a
working visit.
However, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state and
supporters of the ruling Peoples Democratic
Party, are claiming that Mr. Buhari is in the UK
for medical treatment.
To buttress their claim, some of the critics
claimed Mr. Blair was not in the U.K. on Saturday
and could therefore not have met Mr. Buhari.
PREMIUM TIMES Monday contacted the office of
Mr. Blair for confirmation and we got a response
that the meeting actually held.
“Mr. Blair had a private meeting with General
Muhammadu Buhari in London,” said Rianne
Buter in an email response to PREMIUM TIMES’
inquiry.
Ms. Buter also said Mr. Blair “hopes to visit
Nigeria shortly when he will see the President”.
Mr. Buhari’s campaign office also issued a
statement saying the APC candidate “would
hopefully give a talk at the prestigious foreign
policy hub, the Royal Institute of International
Affairs, Chatham House, in London.”
Chatham House has now confirmed that Mr.
Buhari will speak Thursday on the topic:
“Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in
Africa: Nigeria’s Transition”.
Details of the event as posted on the website of
Chatham House also revealed that Mr. Buhari
would speak for one hour between 10 and
11a.m. and the event would be chaired by
Richard Gozney, the British High Commissioner
to Nigeria between 2004 and 2007.
Chatham House encourages interested persons
to send questions to Mr. Buhari via Twitter.
“Send questions for the speaker by using #
CHAfrica on Twitter. A selection will be put to
him during the event,” it said

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Politics / Re: What's The Difference Between The Senate And House Of Representative? by hamzazayyad1: 7:00pm On Feb 20, 2015
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Politics / [finishing]soludo Ngozi Okonjo-iwealng And The Missing Trillions (3) by hamzazayyad1: 9:24am On Feb 05, 2015
Second, my earlier article stated that the
minimum forex reserves should have been at
least $90 billion by now and you did not
challenge it. Rather it is about $30 billion,
meaning that gross mismanagement has denied
the country some $60 billion or another N12.6
trillion.
Now add the ‘missing’ $20 billion from the
NNPC. You promised a forensic audit report
‘soon’, and more than a year later the Report
itself is still ‘missing’. This is over N4 trillion,
and we don’t know how much more has ‘missed’
since Sanusi cried out. How many trillions of
naira were paid for oil subsidy (unappropriated?).
How many trillions (in actual fact) have been
‘lost’ through customs duty waivers over the
last four years? As coordinator of the economy,
can you tell Nigerians why the price of
automotive gas oil (AGO), popularly called diesel,
has still not come down despite the crash in
global crude oil prices, and how much is being
appropriated by friends in the process? Be
honest: do you really know (as coordinator and
minister of finance) how many trillions of Naira,
self- financing government agencies earn and
spend? I have a long list but let me wait for
now. I do not want to talk about other ‘black
pots’ that impinge on national security. My
estimate, Madam, is that probably more than
N30 trillion has either been stolen or lost or
unaccounted for or simply mismanaged under
your watchful eyes in the past four years. Since
you claim to be in charge, Nigerians are right to
ask you to account. Think about what this
amount could mean for the 112 million poor
Nigerians or for our schools, hospitals, roads,
etc. Soon, you will start asking the citizens to
pay this or that tax, while some faceless
“thieves” were pocketing over $40 million per
day from oil alone.
You alluded to debt relief in your response and
tried to take credit. Well, your CV is honest
enough to admit that your two achievements in
office as Finance minister under Obasanjo were
that “you led the Nigerian team that struck a
deal with the Paris Club” and that you
“introduced the practice of publishing each
state’s monthly financial allocation in the
newspapers”. You are right about the two
achievements. Let me put on record that Nigeria
would have secured debt relief under anyone as
Minister of Finance. President Obasanjo secured
debt relief for Nigeria. Much of his first term
was used to get Nigeria back into the
international community and to campaign for
debt relief. Before you were sworn in as Minister
of Finance, President Bush visited Nigeria and
both of us accompanied President Obasanjo
during the meeting.
There, Mr. Bush promised to support Nigeria
with debt relief and asked our president to
ensure that he met the conditions of the Paris
Club. Obasanjo mobilized the global political
support and coordinated all of us We had a great
team at work and each member of the economic
team had specific aspects of the conditionalities
to deliver: Bode Agusto was in-charge of the
budget; Oby Ezekwesili held sway at Bureau of
Public Procurement and later Minister of Solid
Mineral, and Education (but specifically tasked
with delivering on EITI and procurement reforms)
; Nuhu Ribadu was at the EFCC fighting
corruption; I was at the Central Bank delivering
on monetary policy and banking reforms; Steve
Oronsaye worked hard to delist Nigeria from the
FATF; Nenadi Usman was in-charge of the
parastatals; El-Rufai held forth at FCT and in
charge of public sector reforms; privatization
programme went on, etc.
Did you know that the IMF wrote President
Obasanjo threatening that there would be no
debt relief if the CBN did not meet some
monetary targets, and do you know the magic
we performed to meet them? Can you tell
Nigerians which of the ‘conditionalities’ that you
personally implemented? With the groundswell of
political support and Nigeria meeting all the
‘conditionalities’, debt relief was assured.
Your major role as stated in your CV was to lead
the team to negotiate the specific terms of the
relief, having fulfilled the conditions. I still
believe that Nigeria should have gotten far
better terms than you negotiated. Of course,
with your eyes on returning to the World Bank
after office, I did not expect you to boldly stand
up to the donor community in defence of
Nigeria. Was there a conflict of interest on your
part?
By the way, can you tell Nigerians why you were
eased out as Finance Minister and you cried like
a baby begging OBJ to still allow you remain in
the Economic Management team — barely few
weeks after the debt relief? Why were you
eventually also removed from the economic
management team if you were so important?
Ironically, President Jonathan has recycled you,
with a bigger title and greater responsibilities.
But the difference is that the team that did the
actual work is no longer there, and the world
has seen that the king is naked.
You are brilliant Madam, but you need serious
help. Having spent all your life in the World Bank
bureaucracy largely in administration/operations,
no one will blame you if your economics has
become a bit rusty. There are firebrand
Nigerians all over the world to draft to service.
It is certainly embarrassing to Nigeria for you to
be bothering World Bank economists to help you
with most basic economic analysis.
Your response on the poverty issue is deeply
troubling. You accuse me of using “2011
statistics on poverty by the NBS to support his
argument, while ignoring more recent figures”.
At least you did not refute the NBS figure as
valid. In the next sentence, Madam went ahead
to note that “as stated in the Nigeria Economic
Report 2014 by the World Bank, poverty in
Nigeria has dropped from 35.2 percent of
population in 2010/2011 to 33.1 per cent in
2012/2013”. Did you notice that you have
quoted two figures for poverty for the same
year as being equally correct? So, for 2011, was
poverty 71% (according to NBS) or 35%
according to the World Bank? To the best of my
knowledge, the last published household survey
by NBS was in 2011. The World Bank does not
conduct household surveys in member states to
determine poverty incidence. So, when and by
whom was the survey that gave the World Bank
figures?
What worries me is that this government is the
first in our history to attempt to manipulate our
national statistics under Okonjo-Iweala. When
NBS published the poverty figures in 2011, she
felt indicted and incensed. She called upon the
World Bank to come and examine the
‘methodology’ and get NBS to ‘review’ its
numbers. Oby Ezekwesili (as VP Africa Region
rejected the call to try to tamper with a
country’s statistics). Once Oby left, the ‘World
Bank’ started talking about ‘new figures’,
without conducting any new surveys. I was told
about it by a World Bank economist, and I
cautioned that it was a dangerous gamble that
would damage the credibility of the NBS. If you
want to ‘review methodology’, you conduct
another survey but you can’t change
‘methodology’ because you don’t like the
published figures. No government in our history
has tried it: even Sani Abacha allowed a poverty
su
. Concluded
Politics / Re: Is Anybody Watching D Almost Empty Stadium In Pdp Presidential Campaign In Kogi? by hamzazayyad1: 2:35pm On Feb 03, 2015
alaoeri:

So you are relying on him to feed you with Photoshop abi? dey dia, the truth is that Jona has been rejected in the SW, NE, NC & NW the only place he's banking on is SS & SE yet APC will still gather reasonable votes in those area in short Jona is a gonna.
You forget say even in SE imo state is the state with the highest vote in the region.LAGOS STATE will balance other state in the region ...in SS u know cONFIRMED with the likes of AMEACHI AND OSHOMOLE Rivers and Edo is for APC.. While KANO Votes will balance the other states votes inthe REGION ...can even stop LAUGHING With stat like Delta with 400 &something thousand voters...
Politics / Full Facts About The People That Want Change And Continuous by hamzazayyad1: 9:49am On Feb 03, 2015
FACTUAL FACT
There are two kinds of people in nigeria today,
those who want CHANGE and those who want
CONTINUITY. If you want change you are
safe, if you want continuity there are two
things involved, is either you reside in LAGOS
or you are in PDP. If you are in lagos you are
safe, if you are in PDP there are two things
involved, is either you are jonathan's family
or you are naturally corrupt. If you are
jonathan's family you are safe but if you are
naturally corrupt, there are two things
involved, is either you leave this country
before Feb 14 or you remain. If you leave this
country you are save but if you remain, there
is ONLY one thing involved, YOU ROT IN JAIL.
Politics / Factual Facts About Does Who Want Change And Continuity by hamzazayyad1: 8:36am On Feb 03, 2015
[code][/code][b][/b]FACTUAL FACT
There are two kinds of people in nigeria today,
those who want CHANGE and those who want
CONTINUITY. If you want change you are
safe, if you want continuity there are two
things involved, is either you reside in LAGOS
or you are in PDP. If you are in lagos you are
safe, if you are in PDP there are two things
involved, is either you are jonathan's family
or you are naturally corrupt. If you are
jonathan's family you are safe but if you are
naturally corrupt, there are two things
involved, is either you leave this country
before Feb 14 or you remain. If you leave this
country you are save but if you remain, there
is ONLY one thing involved, YOU ROT IN JAIL.[b]FACTUAL FACT
There are two kinds of people in nigeria today,
those who want CHANGE and those who want
CONTINUITY. If you want change you are
safe, if you want continuity there are two
things involved, is either you reside in LAGOS
or you are in PDP. If you are in lagos you are
safe, if you are in PDP there are two things
involved, is either you are jonathan's family
or you are naturally corrupt. If you are
jonathan's family you are safe but if you are
naturally corrupt, there are two things
involved, is either you leave this country
before Feb 14 or you remain. If you leave this
country you are save but if you remain, there
is ONLY one thing involved, YOU ROT IN JAIL.[/b]FACTUAL FACT
There are two kinds of people in nigeria today,
those who want CHANGE and those who want
CONTINUITY. If you want change you are
safe, if you want continuity there are two
things involved, is either you reside in LAGOS
or you are in PDP. If you are in lagos you are
safe, if you are in PDP there are two things
involved, is either you are jonathan's family
or you are naturally corrupt. If you are
jonathan's family you are safe but if you are
naturally corrupt, there are two things
involved, is either you leave this country
before Feb 14 or you remain. If you leave this
country you are save but if you remain, there
is ONLY one thing involved, YOU ROT IN JAIL.
Politics / Attacks On Jonathan During Campaign Rally Fresh Fight Begins In The Party by hamzazayyad1: 10:51am On Feb 01, 2015
The increasing spate of attacks on President
Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign train in some
parts of the North is rattling the leadership of
the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.
Investigations by SUNDAY PUNCH in Abuja, on
Friday, showed that the grave situation were
made worse by allegations that the attacks had
been carried out by aggrieved members of the
party.
It was learnt that the situation had prompted the
President’s security team to take extra
measures to protect him as he prepared to visit
Gombe, Yobe and Niger states this week.
Our correspondents also gathered that the PDP
had been further unsettled by the hot exchange
of words between the Bauchi State Governor, Isa
Yuguda, and the Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory, Sen. Bala Mohammed, over the
stoning of the President’s convoy in Katsina
State.
The party and the Presidency were said to have
been stunned by Yuguda’s claim that the attack
on the President’s convey was arranged by the
members of the ruling party, under the
supervision of the minister.
In response, the minister accused the governor
of being an opposition mole within the ruling
party. However, the party and the Presidency
were said to have intervened and made the two
men to sheathe their swords.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr.
Olisa Metuh, said the party had asked its
members to be cautious of their comments on
the issue.
“It is curious and it is not a welcome
development if we have our leaders bickering in
the public. We have asked them to be wary of
their comments,” Metuh said.
A party leader from one of the northern states
confided in SUNDAY PUNCH on the level of
anxiety in the party.
He said, “I will be lying if I say we are not
disturbed. The truth is that some of our
brothers in the North consider loyalty and
support for General (Muhammadu) Buhari a
religious obligation.
“They have resorted to intimidation and threats,
when you see things differently they come after
you and your family and burn your house. If you
remember, in 2011 so many of us had our
houses burnt and some barely escaped with their
lives.
“Some have not recovered from their loss and it
may be difficult for some to take that kind of
risks this time around.”
The panic in the party, another source told
SUNDAY PUNCH informed the decision of the
party not to extend the suspension earlier
slammed on its estranged national chairman,
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. He said it was taken to
forestall bickering and further loss of
followership.
The party on Thursday lifted the one-month
suspension it placed on Tukur on December 4.
Metuh rose in defence of the party’s decision to
lift Tukur’s suspension.
He said, “Tukur’s suspension was for 30 days.
Since the suspension was not extended, we
needed to lift it and that was what we did.”
Also speaking on the issue, the Deputy National
Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Abdullahi
Jalo, said what was happening was a smear
campaign by the opposition.
He said, “To the best of my knowledge; no
member of the PDP was involved in stoning Mr.
President. Northerners, especially our youths,
respect elders. None of our members threw
stones at our President.”

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Politics / Olamide-new CAMPAIGN Songs For (APC)CANDIDATE BUHARI/OSIBANJO by hamzazayyad1: 1:12pm On Jan 28, 2015
Listen: Olamide Badoo Drops Two Campaign Songs For Buhari/Osinbajo
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Politics / Re: Gej Will Use Portharcourt Stadium “over My Dead Body” – Gov. Amaechi by hamzazayyad1: 9:54pm On Jan 26, 2015
eighTHREAD:
TANoids are already urging violence. They don't know that it's all a trap to show the whole world how much of impunity GEJ wields when he forcefully tries to use that stadium. The news that that will generate alone will win APC more sympathy votes. When will PDP learn? GEJ coming out to announce that he won't use that stadium cos the state governor says it's under construction won't portray him as weak but a president that rules within the tenet of the law. The publicity from such act can win him more votes
U are ryt is a trap if he use soldier to get the stadium will be another fyt
Politics / Re: Who Is More Relaxed Here (GMB Or GEJ) In The Meeting With John Kerry by hamzazayyad1: 9:42pm On Jan 26, 2015
cycline404:
Who Is More Relaxed Here (GMB or GEJ) In the Meeting With John Kerry
GMb u guys shul watch international meetings now the dont sit in the same chair

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Politics / “osinbajo Is My Problem” – Jonathan Cries Out by hamzazayyad1: 4:04pm On Jan 19, 2015
Ruffled by the momentum generated by the
nomination of Pastor Yemi Osinbajo as General
Mohamadu Buhari’s running mate, President
Goodluck Jonathan is asking a group of
Pentecostal pastors to help him avert what he
fears could be an impending loss in next
month’s presidential polls.
Osinbajo, a prominent cleric with the Redeemed
Christian Church of God, law professor and
Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN emerged APC’s
presidential running mate last month giving
President Jonathan and the ruling party, PDP,
what is being described as sleepless nights, by
sources.
Specifically last Thursday, the President held a
meeting in Abuja, with a number of Pentecostal
pastors led by Bishop David Oyedepo of Winners
Chapel, with the main agenda being how to
fashion out ways to solve the “Osinbajo”
problem.
Sources at the meeting confirmed that President
Jonathan confessed in a rather rattled and
humbling manner that “Osinbajo is my problem.”
According to those at the meeting, the
President added that “everything was okay until
APC picked Osinbajo.”
This is coming against the background of wild
speculations that APC is an Islamist party and
that General Buhari is a religious fundamentalist-
which has become one of the main planks of the
PDP presidential campaign. While PDP chieftains
and supporters have continued to characterize
APC as an Islamist party, APC leaders have
consistently dismissed such as unfounded,
baseless and a scare tactic by the PDP.
Many observers say the nomination of a
prominent Pentecostal pastor from the fastest
growing church in Africa by the APC may have
effectively doused such speculations and the
attempt to label the party as one with an
islamization agenda.
There has been a rather conscious attempt to
make next month’s presidential polls a religious
one especially in the Southern part of the
country where there is a much larger Christian
population, observers say.
At the meeting organized by the Executive
Secretary of the National Christian Pilgrims
Commission (NCPC) John Kennedy Okpara,
President Jonathan poured out his mind that
running against a leading Pastor of the RCCG,
who is also known to be very close to the much
reverred General Overseer of the church, Pastor
E.A. Adeboye, is an uphill task.
Sources at the meeting, said Jonathan was
ruffled and much distracted as he confessed to
the challenge to him, of the APC naming such a
person as Osinbajo as General Buhari’s running
mate.
In response, the Pastors led by Bishop Oyedepo
assured the President at the meeting that they
would, “starting from today,” use every device
possible including social media, the pulpit and
influence peddling, to campaign in support of
President Jonathan and against the Buhari-
Osinbajo ticket.
Before the meeting with the President, sources
said the pastors held a meeting on the same day
to strategize and agree on how and what they
would present to the president.
At that pre-meeting, some Pentecostal pastors
suggested that they use the opportunity of the
meeting afforded by the President to express
their genuine fears on growing insecurity in the
North with Boko Haram killing and attacking
Christians and other innocent Nigerians.
But Bishop David Oyedepo, the most influential
pastor at the meeting interrupted the idea,
insisting that the meeting was to encourage and
strengthen President Jonathan ahead of the
elections and not to discuss compelling national
issues of concern to majority of Nigerians.
While some of the pastors were shocked and
disappointed that Bishop Oyedepo would not
allow them to raise important issues bothering
most Nigerians, they decided to keep silent not
to be seen as spoilsports.
And later after meeting the president, the
pastors gathered together again on the same
day to device strategies they will use to
campaign against Buhari/Osinbajo, with the main
scheme being to label the ticket as an Islamist
one.
Some of the pastors also suggested that they
can influence Christians that the position of Vice
President is not an effective one, and that
having a Christian hold it makes no difference,
although the Nigerian constitution and the order
of precedence makes the office the next in rank
to the president.
Indeed as if carrying out the resolve, members
of the Winners Chapel said Bishop Oyedepo has
already started using the pulpit to achieve the
goals set out at last Thursday meeting in Abuja.
Some of the members said yesterday Sunday
January 18, Bishop Oyedepo raised a prayer
point that an Islamist would not become the
President of Nigeria in the polls coming next
month to the chagrin of many of the church
attendants on Sunday.
Politics / Buhari Screamed ‘jesus Christ Of Nazareth!’ by hamzazayyad1: 11:46am On Jan 19, 2015
Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain
Assembly, in a new interview has revealed his
best moments with the presidential candidate of
the All Progressive Congress, Gen. Muhammad
Buhari.
In his testimony about Buhari, Tunde Bakare told
this amazing story:
“People say Buhari is an extremist but he is a
great personality. I have had the privilege of
working with him at a very close range especially
during and after the 2011 presidential election.
A lot of propaganda out there surrounding this
great man, some would see him as an extremist,
fundamentalist and who hates religion aside
from his, as someone so hard that he can’t
laugh or crack a joke, but I find none of these to
be true.
“These people fabricated all these lies against
him becuase they know that if he wins the
election, they would have to flee this country…
he is not a fundamentalist. I remember when his
driver asked me to pray for him on our way to
Kaduna in 2011, I told him straight away that I
couldn’t pray in Islam because I was no longer a
Muslim and that I could only use the name of
Jesus. The Driver said, I am a Christian, and I
realized that he is not the only worker that is a
Christian, his guards were Chrisitians, he has
Chrisitian workers around yet people say he is
an Islamic fundamentalist. I also remember when
we got back from a campaign and he was tired
and while going to him, he staggered and said,
Jesus Christ of Nazareth and I went ‘What”…I
said General, I thought it was a swear word and
he laughed and said ‘Pastor you don’t have the
monopoly of Jesus Christ, you don’t want to
hang around General for too long, his sense of
humour is out of this world, yet they say he
doesn’t laugh….one day, while I visited him, he
said, Pastor do you know we have three things in
common and said oh really and he said “you are
the last child of your father so I am, of all your
father’s children there are only two left and so
is mine, and but I beat in the third one, your
father had 22 children while mine had 23. And we
laughed and I told him, I beat you also, I was
born a Muslim but I am now a christian while you
are still a Muslim and he laughed so hard.”
Politics / Obasanjo Dumps Pdp Candidate .declares Support For Apc Candidate Amosun by hamzazayyad1: 10:52am On Jan 17, 2015
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on
Friday openly declared his support for the re-
election of the state governor, Senator Ibikunle
Amosun.
Also on the same day, constitutional lawyer and
human rights advocate, Chief Mike Ozekhome
(SAN), said the candidate of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, was
not qualified to contest the February 14
presidential election.
The former president explained that in spite of
being in a different political party with the
governor, his choice of Amosun was based on
merit and not that of any political party.
In a swift reaction to the support for Amosun,
the Ogun State Chapter of the party called on its
National Working Committee to sanction
Obasanjo for anti-party activities.
Obasanjo who spoke in his Abeokuta Hiltop
residence while receiving Igbo leaders from Ogun
and Lagos States declared his intention to vote
for the return of Amosun in next month general
election despite being in the PDP.
Obasanjo said: “In 2011, we were not together;
though we were together before and I
campaigned against him.
But, see what he has been able to do in the last
three and half years in the state.
I cannot sacrifice performance for party.”
Obasanjo subsequently sought the support of
the South-east indigenes residents in Ogun State
for Amosun in the February 28 governorship
election.
Obasanjo added: “I never dream of having a
bridge on dry land in Ogun State in my life time.
Yes, we have Ogun River, where there is a
bridge, but, on a dry land.
Go to Ijebu, Sagamu and Ota.
I am seeing bridges, not even one or two.
“This is a development that some of us in our
60s, 70s even 50s would have thought would be
a mirage during our life time.
Apart from this, it will bring development that
future governments shall be major beneficiaries.
“So, my people, I am not talking about other
elections.
I have come to tell you that in order to
appreciate what this personality has been able
to do in the last three and half years, let us give
him our votes.”
Obasanjo however emphasized that if the
situation changes, after the governor must have
been re-elected, he should be held responsible.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State PDP in a statement
said: “We think the appropriate organs of the
party (NWC) will have the courage to sanction
him (Obasanjo) for anti-party activities.
“We in the Ogun State PDP are not surprised at
his latest action but it really does not amount to
much.
For us, it means the beginning of APC’s failure.
What did his endorsement of Tunji Olurin
translate into in 2011 elections?
Ozekhome: Buhari is not qualified to contest…
Ozekhome, who spoke on Africa Independent
Television (AIT) Kakaaki programme, on General
Buhari’s raging certificate saga, stated that the
APC presidential candidate did not comply with
the provisions of the electoral law in filling the
nomination form he submitted to the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC)
According to him, “I know that Nigerians would
be curious about why this matter is just coming
up for the first time and that after all, this man
had contested the last three Presidential
elections.
“Well, I wish to state that I have done, by God’s
grace, a lot of election petition matters and I
know that up till 2011, INEC form simply
provides that candidates should state their
qualifications.
In other words, just say that I have O’Level; I
have B.Sc; I have BL etc; then, you go and sit
down.
“But right now, the rule has changed.
Form CF001, says apart from filling your
qualifications, you must attach them; you must
attach photocopies of your qualifications; and, to
attach means to bind; it means to glue-to.
As we are looking at your form that you have
filled, I have to see your NYSC certificate, all
your qualifications /certificates must be attached
to your form.
“So, if you do not attach them, you have not
satisfied the minimum requirements; it is
therefore not proper to refer INEC to go on a
wild goose chase, go and look elsewhere for my
qualifications.”
Ozekhome said that General Buhari’s decision to
refer INEC to the Secretary of the Military Board
for his credentials was like an applicant referring
the interviewer to the last place he or she
worked.
According to him, “It is like, as an applicant, you
want a job, you come before your interviewers;
your interviewers say, we have looked at the
form you filled for this job; we have not seen
your certificates; and you say, the last place I
worked, they have photocopy of my certificates,
go and ask them.
“That is wrong.
The military board we are talking about will also
be in possession of the document of the
respected general.
But, before he submitted the documents to the
military board, it is taken that he had possession
of his own documents; all he needs to do is to
attach the photocopy of his document to his
form; and, if there is any question to be asked,
you can refer to the places where you went to
school; mind you, not the military board.”
Ozekhome said that section 131 of the
constitution is very clear that the candidate
must have not below school certificate level, or
its equivalent, and its equivalent means GCE,
WASC, NECO, etc; those are its equivalents.
“Now, if you do not have any of these
qualifications, what you will do is to apply to
WAEC or NECO, and say my certificates are lost,
burnt or stolen by armed robbers; I will want
you to issue me a letter certifying that I have
this qualification.
“That was what happened in the case of the
Vice-President, Muhammadu Sambo, because I
have been following this case very seriously,
because it is very crucial to our democratic
norms and values.
I am interested in how we can expand the space,
deepen and widen the aptitude of democracy.”
Politics / Re: President Jonathan’s Achievements In Infographics by hamzazayyad1: 10:45am On Jan 17, 2015
obiZEAL:
Am I in Nigeria....?
Or is Nigeria 2
help me ask abeg woo.bt mayb Nigeria is 2[s]
obiZEAL:
Am I in Nigeria....?
Or is Nigeria 2
help me ask abeg woo.bt mayb Nigeria is 2[/s]
obiZEAL:
Am I in Nigeria....?
Or is Nigeria 2
help me ask abeg woo.bt mayb Nigeria is 2

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Politics / Facts About Umaru Musa Yar'adua by hamzazayyad1: 12:39pm On Sep 11, 2014
Dear Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, when you were
around we called you: The BAD one. The SLOW
ONE. The SICK ONE. Yes, you were sick, in fact,
sick all through your administration. We all
cried for your resignation at the height of your
sickness. Cursing you, your first lady and your
supporters (The first set of Cabals). Asking you
to die if you want to die and allow the man
with all the Goodluck in this world to lead us.
We forgot that even though you were sick, you
were the first Governor to have ever declared
his assets publicly and you remained the only
President in the history of Nigeria to have ever
declare his assets publicly. We conveniently
forgot that even though you were gravely sick
you were the first president to ever reduced the
price of petrol in Nigeria, (From N75 to N70 and
later from N70 to N65) and the economy did
not collapse like the present leaders are making
us believe. U even reversed d sale of our
refineries. We forgot that you didn't afflict
yourself with your sickness and so could do
very little about it. But we still insisted that you
just have to go, so that Nigeria can finally have
her chance with Goodluck. We forgot that even
though you were terminally ill, you still
succeeded in solving the Niger Delta crisis
which you didn't cause, but you found a
solution. And even crushed d first Boko Haram
uprising and caught its leader. You gave us rule
of Law,Ameachi reclaimed his mandate as PHC
governor, Andy Uba lost in court and was
removed as Anambra State's Governor. Oni lost
in Ekiti and was removed, Agagu lost in Ondo
and was removed, Osunbor lost in Edo and was
removed even though they are all members of
your party (PDP).Now we have seen what a
healthy president has done with the country.
His Excellency President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua,
may your soul rest in perfect peace. We will
forever remember you and your leadership.
Sincerely,share Around If U sincerely Care for d
New Change IN Nigeria

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