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Yoruba Man, 35, Commits Suicide Over Mounting Debt

A 35-year old aluminium fabricator committed suicide on Monday in the Ajara Vetho area of the ancient town of Badagry. Residents of the area told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Azeez Ibrahim hanged himself and his remains were found dangling from the hook of the ceiling fan in his living room. Mr Jayeoba Joseph, spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, who confirmed the incident, told NAN on phone that the deceased left a suicide note.

Joseph said in his suicide note entitled “Iku ya ju esin”, meaning (Death is better than humiliation), the deceased said that he was indebted to many people, hence his decision to commit suicide.

``Please forgive me for committing suicide, but it is due to debt I owe people which I find difficult to pay,” said the father of three in the suicide note he left for his wife.

NAN reports that the family of the deceased had reported the incident at Badagry Police Station and had asked the police to release the corpse for burial, in accordance with Islamic rites.

It is not about tenure elongation because it will not definitely scale through, it is about the constitutional rights of GEJ to contest 2015 presidential election. Though he earlier stated during his campaign of his one term ambition not knowing that ASO ROCK is not a place to leave willingly. the stage is now set to start politricking.


FRESH AIR!!

The stage is set for the presidency to test the ground, to know the perception of the power brokers in other political zones regarding his constitutional rights to contest 2015 presidency.

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27 Mar 2012
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President Goodluck Jonathan


By Adebiyi Adedapo

Can President Goodluck Jonathan seek re-election in the 2015 presidential race, having already been sworn in twice into the same office?

This question, coming on the heels of a recent pronouncement by presidential spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, that Jonathan is just spending his first term in office, is now the subject of a legal battle.

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Cypriacus Njoku, has dragged the president, his party and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Abuja, seeking to stop Jonathan from contesting the election.

Njoku wants the court to determine whether the president, having sworn to the Oath of Allegiance and Oath of Office as president for the second time on May 29, 2011 after the first on May 6, 2010 is eligible to contest the 2015 election.

He prayed the court to declare that Jonathan cannot take the Oath of Allegiance and Oath Office as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria more than two times, thereby restricting him from contesting the race.

The party stalwart, through his counsel, Osuagwu Ugochukwu, observed that President Jonathan would be swearing to the Oath of Office and Oath of Allegiance for the third time should he be allowed to contest (and win) the next presidential election in 2015.

He also urged the court to grant an order of injunction restraining Jonathan from further contesting or attempting to contest the 2015 presidential election.

According to the court process obtained by THISDAY, Njoku prayed the court to interpret Section 137 (1)(b) and 135 (2)of the 1999 constitution.

The process reads: “Whether Section 135 (2) of the constitution which specifies a period of four years in office for the president is only available or applicable to a person elected on the basis of an actual election or includes one in which a person assumes position of a president by operation of law as in the case of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan i.e. the 1st defendant.

"Whether Section 137(1) (b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, which provides that a person shall not be qualified for election to the office of the president if he has been elected to such office at any two previous elections applies to the 1st defendant who first took Oath of Office as substantive President on May 6 2010 and took a second Oath of Office as President on May 29 2011.”

Njoku, in a two-page affidavit filed in support of the originating summons, described as erroneous, the statement credited to Abati that Jonathan was currently spending his first term in office, “which implies that Jonathan can contest in 2015”.

The suit, with number PV/2749/12, has not been slated for hearing yet.
There has been opposition from some Northern politicians over alleged plans by Jonathan to stay beyond 2015.

It was alleged that the president’s proposal of a single, seven-year tenure was aimed at making him stay in office, while accusing the Justice Alfa Belgore-led Presidential Committee on the Review of Outstanding Constitutional Issues of trying to keep Jonathan in office “for a third term

TIMELINE OF AIR CRASHES

- November 20, 1969: Nigeria Airways BAC VC10 crashes on landing killing 87 on board.
- January 22, 1973: Royal Jordanian Airlines flight 707 carrying 171 Nigerian Muslims returning from Mecca and 5 crewmen died in crash in Kano, Nigeria.
- March 1, 1978: Nigeria Airways F28-1000 crashes in Kano killing 16.
- November 28, 1983: Nigeria Airways F28-1000 crashes on approach in Enugu killing 53 on board.
- December 1988: Skypower Brandeironte aircraft overshot Ilorin Airport runway All the passengers died.
- 26 Jun 1991; Okada Air BAC-111; Sokoto, Nigeria: Fuel starvation during holding pattern over Sokoto due to heavy rain. Flight from Benin City diverted from Kano due to heavey rain. None of the three-crew members and three of the 52 passengers sustained fatal injuries.
- February 24, 1991: British Helicopter crashed in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, killing all nine people on board.
- May 21, 1991: A Cessna Citation 550 of Ashaka Cement, Hombe, crashed, killing all on board.
- June 26, 1991: An Okada Air Bac-11 crashed in Sokoto, three people died.
- July 11, 1991: Nigeria Airways DC-8-61 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from system failure killing 261 on board.
- September 26, 1992: Nigerian Air Force A C-130 plane crashes minutes after take-off from Lagos. All 200 on board killed.
- June 24, 1995: Harka Air Services Tupolev 34 crashes on landing in Lagos killing 16.
- November 13, 1995: Nigeria Airways Boeing 737-2F9 crashes on landing in Kaduna killing 9.
- January 17, 1996: Ibrahim Abacha, son of Sani Abacha, was killed in a plane crash. The group "United Front for Nigeria's Liberation" (UFNL) claimed responsibility for the crash.
- November 7, 1996: A Nigerian ADC (Aviation Development Corporation) Airline Boeing 727-231 flying from Port Harcourt to Lagos with 142 passengers and 9 crew members crashed on landing, plunging into a lagoon with all on board killed.
- January 31, 1997: SkyPower Express Airways Embraer 110PIA crashes on landing in Yola killing 5.
- September 12, 1997: A NAF Dornier 228-212 in Nguru, Bornu State ran into a ditch during the take off, none of the 10 people died.
- January 5, 2000: SkyPower Express Airways Bandeirante 110P1A crashes on landing in Abuja killing 17.
- October 26, 2000: Dornier aircraft plunged into a thick bush near the Niger Delta, 6 occupants injured.
- May 4, 2002: EAS Airlines’ BAC 1-11-500 with 105 people on board crashed and burst into flames in a poor, densely populated suburb of Kano. 76 on board killed, including 72 on the ground bringing it to a total 148 dead.
- November 30, 2003, a Cargo aircraft of Hydro Cargo, Brussels, Belgium, crash landed.
- March 6, 2004: An aenail spray aircraft with registration number 5NBEF belonging to Berfieex Nigeria Ltd, crashed at the Bauchi Airport.
- July 26, 2004: Pan African Airlines’ helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in Eacraros, Delta State, 4 people on board died.
- December 29, 2004: A Boeing 727 of Chanchangi Airlines belly- landed at the MMA.
- December 29, 2004: A Kenya Airlines aircraft crashed- landed at the MMA due to gear fault.
- January 28, 2005: A Nigeria Air Force fighter plane crashed into a farmland in Yar Kanya, Kano State.
- February 25, 2005: ADC's B73 aircraft had its tyre burnt while landing at Yola airport.
- March 27, 2005: A Boeing 737 of Bellview had one of its engines caught fire.
- June 11/12, 2005: Lagos: a Boeing 727-200 aircraft belonging to the domestic Chachangi Airlines overshot the runway at Murtala Muhammed airport, while yet another overshot the runway at the airport in Jos in central Nigeria a day earlier
- June 24, 2005: A Russian aircraft belonging to Harka Air crash- landed at the MMA, all the people on board died
- July 6, 2005, Port Harcourt: an Air France A330 plane crashed into a herd of cattle at Port Harcourt airport sustaining serious damage and killing many of the cows. The airport had no perimeter fence and herdsmen usually take their cattle across the tarmac, sometimes abandoning them there.
- July 23, 2005, a Lufthansa aircraft crash-landed at Lagos airport and was badly damaged, but no life was lost.
- October 22, 2005: A Bellview Airlines Boeing 737 airl iner with 117 people on board crashes and disintegrates in flames shortly after take-off from Lagos. All on board killed.
- December 10, 2005: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in Port Harcourt, killing all 103 on board. Most on board were for schoolchildren going home for Christmas.
- September 17, 2006: A 18-seater Dornier 228 Air Force transport plane, carrying 15 senior army officers and three crew members crashed leaving only three survivors that sustained serious injuries. The plane with registration number 228-212 crashed in northern part of the country at Oko village in Vandeikya local government area of Benue State at about 10:30 a.m.
- October 29, 2006: Aviation Development Corporation Airline Boeing 737 with 104 on board crashes minutes after take-off from Abuja’s airport during a rain storm. All but 6 perished in the disaster. The spiritual leader of Nigeria’s Sunni Muslims, His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido was among the dead.
- November 10, 2006: OAS Service Helicopter crashed in Warri, Delta state killing 4 on board.
- August 2, 2007: Bristow-owned helicopter crashed inside ExxonMobil facility in Port Harcout.
- March 15, 2008: Beechcraft 1900D plane marked 5N-JAH, belonging to Wing Aviation crashed in the mountainous forest of Busi in Cross River State on its way to Obudu airstrip. The wreakage was not found until 6 months after the disappearance of the aircraft. All 4 man crew on board died.
- March 14, 2012: A Helicopter belonging to the Joint Task Force (JTF) crashes in Kabong, Jos, killing all members onboard including 4 senior Police officers.
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Wonders they say shall never end, Innoson, ur ingenuity cannot be hidden, i have entered ur Coal city shuttle, city bus from subsidy palliates made by TATA and also Photon buses.the difference is awesome, Why can't we rejoice for the succes of our countryman Nawa Oh. O di' kwa egwu!

Yesterday Wednesday February 29, 2012, University of Maryland Police investigators arrested and charged Oluwafemi T. Charles, 28, of Silver Spring for his involvement in the burglary of a 7th floor Cumberland Hall residence on the University of Maryland College Park campus which occurred in the early morning hours of February 26, 2012.

During the incident, Charles entered the residence of an 18 year old female student in an attempt to steal property. While he was in the room he touched the student without her consent.



“I am very impressed with the excellent work and quick arrest made in this case by our detectives”, stated David Mitchell, Chief of Police. “Their dedication and commitment in identifying and apprehending dangerous suspects should send a strong message to those preying upon our community of this agencies vigilance.

Charles is charged with the following criminal offenses:
1st Degree Burglary
3rd Degree Burglary
4th Degree Burglary
Theft $1,000- $10,000
Theft less than $100
4th Degree Sex Offense
2nd Degree Assault

INCIDENT: Burglary
OCCURRED: February 26, 2012 / 3:50 a.m.
REPORTED: February 26, 2012 / 4:23 a.m.
LOCATION: Cumberland Hall / 7th Floor
UMDPS CASE #: 2012-11752

BRIEF DETAILS:
On February 26, 2012 at approximately 3:50 a.m. a female resident of Cumberland Hall was asleep in her bed when she awoke to find a male in her room touching her thigh. Her roommate entered the room and confronted the male. The male stated he entered the room by mistake and then left. It was noticed that the resident’s laptop had been moved and packed in an apparent attempt to steal the laptop. It was learned that the male entered the room through an unlocked door. Officers spoke with other 7th floor residents and learned that other residents had heard the sound of someone trying their door knobs. One resident looked through her peephole and noticed two males who didn’t appear to belong in the building.

The victim and roommate witness provided the following description to police of the first suspect who was involved in the burglary:

5’08” tall, African American male wearing blue jeans, a grey hooded sweatshirt and grey baseball hat.

The second suspect observed through a peephole by a witness could only be described as an African American male who, along with the subject described above, did not appear to belong in the residence hall.

Individuals with any information regarding this incident or who may have seen this individual at the time of the incident are encouraged to contact police (911 or 301-405-3555). You may also email any information to investigations@umpd.umd.edu.

When available for release, additional information, including descriptions of the suspect(s), may be obtained by accessing the "Crime Alerts" portion of our web site: http://www.umdps.umd.edu/police_support_services_public_crime_alert.cfm
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O my God, this is a delibrate ploy by the ruling class to deny the people from eastern region the so much need political and economic emancipation. The presence of oil in commercial quantities in Nsukka/ isi uzo/ Eha ndiagu/ Ezeagu and Udi is not just a hear say arguments but recorded facts. SMH, the so much talked about second niger bridge and dredging of river niger is still being toyed with. Well kudos to people from Anambra state, the likes of Emeka Anyaoku through Orient Petroleum for their efforts.

OVER the weekend, Nigerian newspapers reproduced the interview given to the Financial Times (FT) of London, by Andrew Owoye Azazi, President Goodluck Jonathan’s National Security Adviser (NSA).

In that interview, Azazi re-iterated a position he has long canvassed about the Boko Haram insurgency; that the group has received professional training and it has links with militant organizations abroad.

Azazi told his interviewers that Nigerian security forces recovered training manuals “written in Arabic,” training videos and “martyr videos recorded by Boko Haram bombers (assertions obviously made to resonate with the experiences of British and Western readers!)” Azazi added that: “I watched videos of their weapons training, which is very professional. They are also innovative in making IEDS (improvised explosive devises)”.

Furthermore, the NSA pursued the line that runs through practically all his recent statements about the insurgency; that of an international link: “I want to believe very strongly that there is outside assistance. We are thinking of al-Qaeda in the Maghreb.” Azazi gave as reason for the so far, incompetent handling of the Boko Haram insurgency, the fact that “crimes we were used to are armed robbery and car snatching (obviously various acts of banditry by criminal gangs in the Niger Delta do not approximate to ‘crimes we are used to’!)

Suicide bombers
But Boko Haram has suicide bombers with explosives”. Andrew Azazi’s real intention for the interview was clear: there was not going to be any dialogue with Boko Haram. As he told FT, he forecloses any dialogue with Boko Haram, because the group ‘is still faceless’. Azazi gave his FT interview on February 10, 2012, much after PresidentGoodluck Jonathan’s interview with Reuters, on January 26, 2012.

President Jonathan had unambiguously stated, that his administration was willing to dialogue with Boko Haram: “If they clearly identify themselves now and say this is the reason why we are resisting, this is the reason why we are confronting government or this is the reason why we are destroying some innocent people and their properties…then there will be a basis for a dialogue…

We will dialogue, let us know your problems and we will solve your problem but if they don’t identify themselves, who will you dialogue with?” President Jonathan also saw the need to go beyond the strong-armed tactics of the military in the bid to resolve the crisis: “military confrontation alone will not eliminate terror attacks;” an “enabling environment for young people to find jobs”, is also needed. The president added that: “our commitment is to make sure our irrigation programmes are all revitalised so most of these young people are engaged in productive agriculture and…will not be free for them to recruit.”

These are the words of an elected president, attempting to appreciate the deeper issues latent to the rebellion. A Reuters’ report on Monday, February 13, 2012, corroborated Jonathan’s more nuanced position. It said poverty in Nigeria is rising with almost 100 million people living on less than $1 a day; in 2010 60.9 per cent of Nigerians live in absolute poverty, compared with 54.7 percent in 2004, quoting the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS. The NBS estimates the trend may have increased further, in 2011. The Report added that the North is poorest, feeding the Boko Haram insurgency.
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What is frightening is the fact that an unelected National Security Adviser, Andrew Azazi, seemed to be countermanding the Commander-in-Chief! The president stretches a hand of dialogue in an interview with Reuters on January 26, while Azazi in FT on February 10 forecloses dialogue. Now who is the boss here, Jonathan or Azazi?

This question is not altogether a flight of fancy, because it follows a pattern of behaviour by the NSA. On January 2nd, 2011, the long-time Nigeria watcher, American Professor Jean Heskovits, wrote an article for the famous New York Times newspaper, warning the United States government against getting sucked into a Nigerian variant of the controversial “War on Terror”, for a host of reasons; chiefly, the professor had argued that “the root cause of violence and anger in both the north and south of Nigeria is endemic poverty and hopelessness”.

Two days later, on January 4, Andrew Azazi, chose the rightwing rag, Washington Times, to stoke hysteria in America, arguing that “terrorists from Nigeria have again turned the joyful celebrations of Christmas into a D-Day for premeditated mass murder…America is at risk from this type of violence”. He subsequently sought for a “strategic security relationship” with the Americans; a euphemism for AFRICOM, which is essentially an American imperialist platform to secure oil and fight Islam!

What might explain Azazi’s tendency to push a security doomsday scenario in almost frontal opposition to President Jonathan’s desire for dialogue? What is the basis of his temerity to countermand the president of our country as he has clearly done, with the FT interview? In the first place, as I have argued in an earlier piece on this page (“Between Herskovits, Azazi and Jonathan” on January 12, 2012), Azazi as NSA must continuously justify the near-trillion Naira that the regime in power allocated for security in the 2012 budget.

He sits atop the security apparatus that is set to consume that huge pile of money! Therefore, it is not in his interest for the dialogue, which the president seems to increasingly prefer, to get started or succeed. There is a lot of money for international security contractors and their Nigerian collaborators to cream off, so the party of war and security will not be happy with a movement for dialogue and reconciliation. Andrew Azazi is the head of this unelected clan of securicratsand his position has been influenced within this general context.

Conspiracy theories
There is also the fear, especially in many circles in Northern Nigeria, that Andrew Azazi has a strong anti-North and anti-Islam bias. That explains why conspiracy theories have emerged, that there is a Fifth Column, with links to the security apparatus, which is responsible for a number of the bombings; especially those that appear to target non-Muslim communities, because of a hidden agenda to set the nation’s different groups against each other.

The gung-ho position the NSA has consistently taken against dialogue, merely deepens suspicions about what his exact intentions are. But it must be made clear that the final authority in these matters must be the president and commander-in-chief! If President Goodluck Jonathan has clearly stated preference for dialogue, then it becomes unacceptable for an unelected Andrew Azazi to give another interview “foreclosing” dialogue with Boko Haram. He is not our president and cannot be the final word in such matters.By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu


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peckhamboi:
An ibo man sabotaging SNC

thunder strike you there for saying that, Ediooot

what He really need now is a conducive government policies to enable him extend his business enterprise beyond the east, Nigeria and then Africa, Thumbs up.

Right in önitsha, the unfortunate driver was shot in Main market, while aggrieved youths spread the riot to head bridge, where hausa peeps are many, at least one man has been sent beyönd with a 2 by 2 plank. Men from NA av bin deployed to calm the situation. SMH

As they have indicated its preparedness to enter into dialogue with the Federal Government, and has named Sheik Abubakar Gero, Dr. Shettima Ali Monguno and former governor of Yobe State, Senator Bukar Ibrahim, These are all members of the aforementioned Arewa consultative Forum. BTW The Fedeal gov. knows the sponsors, they are just looking for a lead.

CAN explained that its position was vindicated by the recent attempt by ACF to justify the ultimatum. Speaking through its Public Relations Officer, Mr Sunday Oibe yesterday in Kaduna, CAN said it was worrisome that an organisation comprising eminent persons from the north could come up with such a comment.

When I read the comment from the Arewa Consultative Forum saying that southerners are free to leave the north, I was worried because at this time when everybody is talking about the unity of this country, some careless individuals are making unguided statements in the name of ACF. This goes to show the kind of characters we have in ACF.

Who did ACF consult before making that kind of wild comment on behalf of their people? It is shameful to say southerners are free to leave north. “Yes, you are asking southerners to go, yet you are feeding fat on their oil. To me it is an unfortunate statement coming from ACF.

But ACF is speaking for itself and not for the north and we are calling on southerners to disregard its comments. “How can people who seem to be statesmen be saying that southerners are free to leave the north because of Boko Haram. If we dont weigh the import of our utterances we will inflame a bad situation in the country. It is not right for anybody to encourage any section of the country to leave, he said,, https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?action=post;board=20.0

Depends on the opposition and BTW GEJ is the only candidate that will sustain the sovereignty of this united entities called nigeria, if not Disintegration is in the offing.

diluminati:
Oh thaaaaaaaaaaaaaank the Lord through Papa Ofedepo! The Curse don dey worrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkk ohhhhhhhhhhhhh! Halelujahhhhhhhh!

Comment on the topic, SADIST

[quote author=Rhino.4dm link=topic=862653.msg10118271#msg10118271 date=1328348530]Looking for scape goatt?? Face the topic or scram!![/quote]Dude, people don't just become billionaires overnight, how did Dangote, Adenuga, Wale tinubu came into the lime light? They are being used by our former generals (IBB and OBJ ) and Tinubu to recycle their loot. Baba Iyabo used his wicked policies to witch hunt our brother Ibeto, leaving cement importation solely for D




angote,Looters


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@ ndi Ofemmanus,Bloody suckers.

The arrested Bokoharam spokes person is an Igala man from Kogi

Rascals

@ diluminati(Nigerians, if you want to survive the impending chaos, I advise we all strictly to stand against Jonathan and his incompetent government. He should go, he doesnt have Nigeria's best interest at heart. or is enough not enough? are you guys just so dumb?for how many years will you people stop being foolish? ) Psychophant.

This is another orchestrated plan from northern elites , having deprived their people from a good knowlegde of the benefits of education for ages, Holligans known as ALMAJIRIS now abound every where ,with know means of survival except been used as tools for political gains.Tambuwal is advocating for dialogue which is akin to Amnesty. It is another way to rehabilitate bunch of illiterates youths been used to propel the script they have written. We say no to it, Criminals must be exposed and punished.

Majority[url][color=#000099] of Nigerians now agree that electing Goodluck Jonathan was a mistake. The recent protests brought about by his poorly thought subsidy removal proves just how sad they are. But should mistakes be without reasonable remedy? I fail to see why Nigerians should let an incompetent regime remain four full years in the guise of patience. I propose a system where after two years, a referendum on any regime be held by an Electoral Colleg.Majority of Nigerians? I bet you it will start from your regime.