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chuna1985:
there is no untold hardship in Nigeria..

ramalot:
Can you please expatiate on the difference between this and the fundamental make-up of the APC?

Aren't almost all APC members former PDP members who decamped? Not as a matter of "principle," but a matter of having better political chances.

Practically every prominent APC member has been in power at varying capacities. Practically every one of them has made promises in the past, and delivered nothing short of looted treasuries of their jurisdictions. Now, they return with a new mask - talking about change.

Nigerians need to wake up to the fact that party alliance is just a smoke screen to hide behind. Hold these thieves individually accountable.

It was learnt by our correspondent on Sunday that the EFCC authorities decided to step up the investigation at the twilight of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration whose disposition towards the subsidy fraud and other corruption cases, sources said, did not encourage the prosecution of the suspects.

The Peoples Democratic Party has said that it is not contemplating a change of identity, noting that the vision of its founding fathers remains timeless.

The party also said it was open to merging with other political parties and associations that shared its ideals.

The party insisted that it was still a national political party with the strength and spread to regain pre-eminence, despite losing control of the Federal Government and some states in the last general elections.

A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, in Abuja on Sunday, said that “having been the guardian of Nigerian democracy for 16 years during which it nurtured and blossomed democratic governance as well as etched its name in the pantheon of good governance, the PDP will not in the circumstance of ephemeral loss of power change its identity or its time-honoured characteristic values.”

The party said though it was committed to its present structures, it would not close its doors to other political parties wishing to be assimilated into its fold as the best vehicle for the fulfillment of political aspirations of all Nigerians regardless of tribe and religion.

It said, “We have a name, tradition and values. Sixteen fruitful years as the guardian of Nigerian democracy cannot be nullified by the reason of a temporary setback. We shall rise beyond all and regain our rhythm.

“Our colour remains green, white and red and power still belongs to the people. And to assert that we are proud of the successes of our successive leaders in taking Nigeria to its present height is an understatement, which the passage of the next four years under the All Progressives Congress will certainly prove.”

The party added that the fact that it was going into opposition would not mitigate its ability as the flagship of democracy, maintaining that it would soar higher in providing credible alternative as a constructive opposition, “far removed from the wrathful destruction that the APC lived thus far.”

anigold:
Am sure the SW will generate 15m votes all alone and produce a western president...
The west never learn at all, also playing political errand boys to the North..
Since 1960 the same story...
Hmmm lets keep on watching the drama...

Port Harcourt – Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers said on Sunday that the president-elect had respect for rule-of-law and due process as a democrat.

Amaechi disclosed this at a thanksgiving service in Port Harcourt organised by the campaign organisation of Dr Dakuku Peterside, Rivers gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just-concluded general elections.

The service was to celebrate God’s faithfulness throughout the election period.

He urged supporters of the APC to prepare their petitions against those that compromised the elections in the state and perpetrated different forms of malpractices.

According to Amaechi, the president-elect is a man of rule of law who will not punish anybody without due process.

“The only thing you have to do is to ask officially as a party, as an individual for a proper investigation of what happened in the state.

“I am very hopeful that everybody involved in one electoral malpractice or the other will be brought to book so that people will have respect for the law,” he said.

Amaechi urged members and supporters of the APC in the state not to be distracted by the temporary setback but to remain focused on God to deliver the state.

He thanked God for giving victory to the president-elect in the presidential election.

Also speaking, Peterside recalled his ordeal and thanked God for his faithfulness.

He urged his supporters to thank God for sparing their lives all through the elections as his ambition to be governor was not worth the life of any human being.

Apostle George Izunwa of the Gateway International Church in Port Harcourt said God remained the same when man mistook temporary setback as the end.

Izunwa said that the will of God would always stand no matter the time the trial would take.

He urged the supporters of APC to put their hope in God and pray for the party, state and the nation.

crixtex:
lol.. hey! stop calling gej mr corruption.. election ti pari... Obj is d cause of everything...

Godjone:
And the beat goes on........


A day will come when the yorubas will cry had i know. The hausas used the yorubas to accomplish the promise their fore father usman dan fodio made in the past.

Yorubas are fools and can easily be deceived. A fool at this computer age will remain a fool till thy kingdom come.

#Yorubas are mumus

anigold:
Hahahahahhaha I was expecting this cunny man will always bury cunny.
The marriage of the North and the West has never worked since 1960 ,ask awolowo and abiola.
But the west never learn from past mistakes..
We in the south will only watch the drama..
Who ever loses from the battle must never run to us ooo..

oyb:
I thought the tanoids called punch an APC mouthpiece?

A former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bayero Nafada has warned against imposition of leaders in the National Assembly.

He told Leadership Newspaper in an interview that past experiences, particularly in the House of Representatives, had shown that leaders imposed on legislators never lasted and that such leaders brought about rancour in the legislature.

“The House of Representatives is the more vibrant chamber of the legislature,” the Senator-elect said.

“What I think they should do is try to elect those that are capable; those that can manage the House. They should forget about sentiments. When they elect a speaker that is capable, there won’t be any rancour in the House.

“But if the leadership is imposed on the House, then there will be rancour. If you notice, from 1999 up until today, any leadership that was imposed by other quarters did not last. It is the House that ends up determining who will become what.

“They must get those who can manage the members- presiding on the floor is one thing- but managing members is another. If you cannot manage people, then it is a problem.

“If you look at the present Speaker, he is one of the most active speakers that we have ever had in Nigeria. If you cannot manage the members, then you cannot lead the House,” he noted.

Speaking on the upper chamber, Nafada noted that the number of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senators meant that they may make or mar the election of a new Senate President.

He said unless the All Progressives Congress (APC) made a categorical pronouncement on its preferred candidate, the party may lose the Senate leadership to the PDP.

His words: “I think it is the responsibility of the party to zone the senate presidency. If it’s being zoned by the party, I want to believe that the senators will adhere to the party’s decision”.

Jambsupport:
Stop all this definition search. Under what situation did that happened. To who and by who? If all she got to present is her husband raped her, thats no case.

oyin17:
Na punching bag?

By Emman Ovuakporie
THE African Peer Review Mechanism, APRM, has rated the President Goodluck Jonathan administration below average saying that the 2011-2015 development plan initiated by the administration had failed to improve the nation’s economy and the well-being of Nigerians.
The five-year development plan specifically focused on three key areas, Strong, inclusive and non-inflationary growth; Employment generation and poverty alleviation, and Value re-orientation of the citizenry.
But the APRM, in a statement in Abuja, said, “While the plan looked good on paper, it has not succeeded in producing significant
improvement. Indeed, corruption has worsened over the past five years.”

APRM was inaugurated on 9 March, 2003 by African leaders within the context of their initiative – the New Partnership for Africa’s Development – as an instrument for self-monitoring for good governance.
The body has, at its fulcrum, the deepening of democratic and development practices and covers four themes: Democracy and Good Political Governance, Economic Governance and Management, Corporate Governance and Socio-Economic Development.
In a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, National Steering Committee of the Second Peer Review of Nigeria, Senator Ken Nnamani and Senior Fellow, Centre for Democracy and Development, Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim, the APRM described the country as “having a paradox of extreme riches as well as mass poverty.”
It added that stakeholders, mainly from the third tier of government in both private and the public sectors across the country, agreed after the exercise in Abuja on Friday that inspite of its abundant rich natural resources, the country’s over-reliance on its rich oil resource base has had an adverse effect on its economy.
It noted that the development had resulted in the neglect of other sectors, leading to high levels of corruption, poverty, high unemployment rates, poor infrastructure, low growth rates, and widespread insecurity and crime.
The validation meeting emphasised that it was imperative that Nigeria consolidates its efforts towards diversification of the economy to reduce the impact of external shocks, and encourage private sector-led development.

Jambsupport:
nope
but d term rape applies not in d context of an existing marriage.

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration perpetrated against a person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion , abuse of authority or against a person who is incapable of valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, or below the legal age

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape

chillybrandy:
These people don't have the fear of God.Haba this is too much.

NZEGWUAGU:
Stupid pros titute! How can your husband rape you? It is clear you have been sleeping with other men who have instructed you not to let your husband touch you again. I am sure he was not responsible for that pregnancy in the first place.

Jambsupport:
If it's ur husband, it's not rape but lawful

ATMC:
#exhales
must she marry? Why did she marry him? The pain people go through...smh

jnrbayano:
I know bro, we are not kids but we are here to advice that 17year old to be calm and try to tarry well with his father's decision which at this point is irreversible.

The best piece of advice is given with the head and not the heart.

Ewuro4:
Had this discussion with a collegue recently.

Why is it so hard For men to wait & morn their wives for atleast 2years ? , I mean is it not weird and mind boggling how quickly they warm up to another woman? It is for me oh You lost your wife for God's sake not a pet. You already have children to raise. Get a maid to do all the cooking & other house chores. Have some Respect. Gosh.

Meanwhile, a wide percentage of widows will choose to wait & raise their children before inviting another man into their home permanently. It won't even cross their minds.


I just don't get it.

jnrbayano:
Assuming the man dated the secretary before the wife died what has it got to do with the advice the Op seek?

You people should be careful of the advice you dish out online...this suspicion can incite this boy to rebel the father.

By Levinus Nwabughiogu, Abuja
Anyone who thinks that the administration of the incoming president, General Mohammadu Buhari would tolerate the surveillance of oil pipelines and waterways by private individuals or groups should better think again as there are now plans to discard the practice and revert to the use of conventional security agencies.
Saturday Vanguard’s investigations during the week indicated that already some highly placed persons in Buhari’s camp with military and security backgrounds have begun to fashion out ways that would facilitate the process.
It was gathered that the man behind the process was a Director in the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Organisation.
His briefs included to liaise with experts in the sector and other people with rich legal background to work out the template for the new surveillance policy.
When this is completed, the incoming administration, we gathered, would further equip the Nigerian Armed Forces, especially the Army and Navy, as well as the police and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC and hand them over the job of protecting the oil pipelines and other installations both onshore and offshore.
The implication of this however, is that Buhari’s government would stop the contract with some former Niger-Delta militants or groups like the Odua People’s Congress, OPC in the South-west region which the Jonathan administration had awarded such contracts.
The contracts to ex-militants to police Nigeria’s waterways runs into billions of naira, the money, experts say should have been invested in the Navy to perform the role.

In the build up to the last general elections in the country, the media was awash with reports that the outgoing president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan awarded a surveillance contract estimated at about N9 billion to the OPC. OPC leader, Gani Adams severally thanked President Jonathan for the contract.
Buhari had Wednesday, during his meeting with Rivers State chieftains of APC in Abuja warned that his government will not tolerate”an army within the army or a police within the police” in the country.
He had also, at a forum in Abuja, told Nigerians that he would upon assumption of office reopen the books of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC for proper auditing in a bid to ensure transparency in the oil sector of the economy.
Speaking in exclusive interview with Vanguard, a member of the Board of Trustees of APC, Chief Sam Nkire said that Buhari would have to tinker with the contracts if they were not properly awarded.
According to Nkire, the outgoing government of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, had a lot of underhand deals with some groups.
“Well, once a government has been swept away, it ceases to exist. The new government takes charge and whatever it decides to do, becomes the law. If the government or presidency of Buhari thinks those contracts were not properly given out or were not given to qualified people, of course, the government will cancel those contracts.
“And from what I know of the incoming president, he will not waste a day to cancel those contracts because these are the reasons why Nigerians rejected the PDP government. Because, they did things that should not be done. They did things without recourse to the law.
“They did things with impunity and knowing Buhari as a man who abhors impunity; a man we can say is one of the incorruptible persons, I will be surprised if he does not revoke contracts that were wrongly awarded if he sees them”, Nkire said.
Other areas the incoming Buhari’s regime would look into according to Saturday Vanguard’s investigations include the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, an agency responsible for the regulation of the activities of Nigerian shipping, maritime, labour and coastal waters and the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS.
Sources who spoke to Saturday Vanguard said that the two agencies stink with corruption and financial improprieties.
“ Two other agencies Buhari must look into are NIMASA and FIRS. Stories of corruption in those organizations cannot be ignored. For the incoming president to be taken seriously in his pledge to fight and win the war against corruption, he must sanitize these places. They stink,” a reliable APC source added.

Iyayi, however, speaking on the wedding gown said, “I had sold the wedding gown when my father was sick and I could not raise money to offset his hospital bills.