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As the calls for resignation on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) continues, the embattled national chairman of the party, Adamu Muazu, on Tuesday appealed to stakeholders and members of the party across the country to put behind them the disappointment of defeat, rest all misunderstandings and put the survival and stability of the party ahead of all other considerations.

Mu’azu, who said he was out of the country on medical treatment as a result of the rigorous campaigns during the recent elections, said though the party’s defeat in the last general election was painful, members should key into the intervention by President Goodluck Jonathan and not allow the situation to further divide the party.

Governors of the party are spearheading calls for the resignation of Mu’azu-led NWC over the loss of the presidential and other elections. The Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, had severally accused Mu’azu of selling out the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Recently, governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, also called for the resignation of the NWC.

While Mu’azu and members of his NWC, have exonerated themselves from the electoral losses of the party, they have also insisted on finishing their tenure in office next year.

However in a statement personally signed by Mu’azu, he pleaded for peace, noting that he appreciated the reactions of Governor Ayo Fayose.

He said “In the last few weeks, the media has been fishing on these reactions with a section even blowing it out of proportion to a level that has become a threat to our oneness as a family.

“As the National Chairman and a key stakeholder in this party in the last 16 years, I quite understand and appreciate the concern, pain and frustrations of our members regarding our defeat.

“I am also deeply worried about the division the development has generated within the PDP family especially regarding whether or not the national leadership should be dissolved as a direct consequence of our collective challenge.

“In the course of events, there have been reactions and counter-reactions among party members; mistakes have been made, some of them avoidable, but this is the time to put all of them behind us and move ahead as our party and its interest remain paramount and overriding.

“Expectedly, our party has had a share of media bashing and misrepresentations, which contributed immensely to the misunderstanding we are facing in our fold.

“For instance, in one of the press reactions from my office, the media quoted one of my aides as saying that our party will be “buried’ without the National Chairman, a clear deviation from what was actually said. Such misrepresentations of our party leaders also abound in the social media and we must be wary of them.

“However, I have already issued a strong warning to all my aides to henceforth desist from making comments on matters of party administration in the media or any other forum whatsoever.

“Having been a state governor on the platform of this party for eight years and having the grace of being a committed member for the past 16 years, I very much appreciate the reactions of some of our members like Governor Ayo Fayose, whose victory in Ekiti in June last year helped to strengthen our party, particularly in the southwest region.

“Nevertheless, in the larger interest of our party, we all must resolve to bury the hatchet, pick our pieces and move on to rebuild our party and return to our winning ways.

“In the wisdom of leadership of the party, we have set the machinery in motion by the constitution and inauguration of the Post Election Assessment Committee headed by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. The needful thing to do at the moment is for all hands to be on the deck with this committee to come up with meaningful report that will provide answers to our challenges and roadmap for the future.

“Furthermore, my absence from the country lately has led to some apprehensions within the party resulting in various public interpretations, but the fact is, following the rigorous campaigns and its attendant toll on my health, I had to yield to the advice of my doctor to take a two weeks bed rest for proper checks and recuperations. I am happy to inform all our members that I have been responding to care and will soon return to the country.

“Finally, I wish to charge all members that though we have had our setback, we are not down and out. The PDP remains the largest political party in this country. What we need now more than ever before is to unite as therein lies our strength as a family. Fighting ourselves will not yield anyone any good. Our members therefore must remain focused and join forces with their leaders at all levels to actualize our collective quest to rebuild the PDP and repositioning it to regain power in 2019”.

”Mans inhumanity humanity to man”, best describes the incident that occurred at the Utako mechanic workshop, behind Beggar Yard, in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as a young man identified as Murphy left his apprentice with an unimaginable cut on his head for looking away while a car was being fixed at his workshop.

The incident which happened on Monday resulted into rushing the apprentice identified as Joseph Pam to a nearby clinic with his head severely broken.

An eyewitness told DAILY POST that Murphy who is known to be highly temperamental broke Joseph’s head with a chain after he looked away while work was ongoing.

Pam, who hails from Jos, Plateau State told DAILY POST that he had been an apprentice under Murphy for one year and ten months. He said, ” I did not do anything to my Oga. While he was working on a vehicle, I turned to look elsewhere. This infuriated him, and out of anger, he attack me with a chain, leaving me with severe cut on my head.”

Corroborating what Pam said, a fellow apprentice under Murphy who identified himself as David, said “Pam and Murphy were working on a car together and at a point, the victim lost concentration, and before anybody knew what was happening, oga hit Pam with a chain on his head, leaving him with a very deep cut, and he was not even sorry about it”

David further added that when Murphy attacked Pam, he rushed the victim to a nearby pharmacy where he was treated.

“We were asked to pay N1,500. I had just a thousand naira on me, but another customer in the pharmacy completed the money, Oga Murphy was not concerned about the health condition of his apprentice. Funny enough, Pam has served with him for one year and ten months.” David said.

When DAILY POST correspondent visited the scene of the attack, some people were seen in groups discussing what transpired.

A food vendor, Bisi who condemned the act noted that the culprit should be brought to book, as nothing should warrant attacking his apprentice with a chain.

Murphy, while talking with Daily POST showed no remorse for his action. He simply said he attacked his apprentice with a chain out of anger, adding that Pam was was very stubborn and never listens.

Lamenting his inability to contact the police, Pam said he could not report the case to the police because he had nobody here in Abuja to fight his course but pleaded with our reporter to help bring Murphy to justice.

gebest:
We are use to your lies since 1999.

Renowned political economist and former presidential aspirant, Professor Pat Utomi has described Federal Government’s subsidy programme as a scam that has only enriched few people.
Utomi said this during the National Forum of Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) organised by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) in collaboration with FRC, yesterday in Abuja.
“For me once there is discipline and honest service to the people we shouldn’t be talking about subsidy. Most of what we call subsidy is just a scam that a few people got rich on,” he said.
Speaking further, Utomi narrated that on one of his trips from Abuja, a Senior Executive of the NNPC who was seated beside him in the plane pointed at some of the Private jets at the airport and said, “that’s Kerosene subsidy sitting there.”
While commenting on the recently released NNPC Audit report and the calls from some quarters for another audit on NNPC, Prof. Utomi said, “as we go into value for money, auditing as a way of looking at how the word is structured, there has to be necessarily series of new audits, but whatever value it provides those who are responsible should look at it and take whatever benefit we can take from it”.
While berating some state government for their Fiscal recklessness and imprudent management of resources, he advocated for the establishment of a special fund by the Federal government.
“I think that one way to bring in discipline, because there is a great deal of indiscipline in the state, is for the Federal government to perhaps create a kind of fund that will enable the states payoff some critical debts like salaries, which will also help inflate the economy, people can spend money and others can sell to others and consumption will all lead to some growth spots.
“Just like the International Monetary Fund has some conditionalities for countries, there should be conditionalities for state governments that are being bailed out and these should include very strict Fiscal discipline.
Any Governor from those states that charters an aeroplane to go anywhere will have to account to somebody.
Any of those misuse of resources with a certain amount going into abusive recurrent expenditures rather than on creating enabling environment for growth, infrastructure will attract a certain consequence. Consequence management should be in this kind of lending program,” he said.

The first son of Nigeria’s First President, Late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chukwuma Bamidele, is dead.

He died on Sunday at the age of 75.
A family source, who claimed anonymity, said on Monday that the deceased had been battling with respiratory ailment for years now.

The source said Bamidele, as he was called by friends and associates, died at Borromeo Hospital in the commercial city of Onitsha.

Before his death, he was addressed in Onitsha as the Owelle, replacing his late father in 1996.

A 32-year-old housewife identified as Maureen (surname withheld), resident at Ambassador Leo Okogwu Street, west end area Asaba Delta State, on Friday allegedly confessed to have bewitched her co-wife’s son, an undergraduate of UNIZIK, Awka, causing him to consistently fail his exams.

The woman was said to have once confessed she was a witch in her village in Atumaga while she was 12 years old and was taken to a medicine man who claimed to have cleansed her of the witchcraft spirit before men started asking her hand in marriage.

Last Friday, the woman was said to have sat on the ground at the junction of Ambassador Leo Okogwu Street on the and was surrounded by a group of boys with her hair looking disheveled when the drama over alleged witchcraft started unfolding.

Some of the boys were said to have pulled her hair while others, armed with sticks, occasionally beat her to extract more confessions from her.

In the midst of the uproar, the woman alleged blurted out: “Please don’t be angry with me. I didn’t know my wicked acts on my step son, Nduka, will be revealed oh. Na God just dey punish me so. I work in a private company in this Asaba, but my mate teaches in one of the primary schools nearby, close to FMC. I think you know the primary school.

“My husband married me as a second wife. I have two children for him for now, but my mate who is the first wife has five children. I have been trying to level up with her, but no way; each time I took in, it always go out through excessive bleeding, so I felt she was the one responsible and I decided to pay her back through making her first son who is at UNIZIK to be having carryover and later, by making his answer sheets in the covens. Though I did not go to school, I mark his scripts spiritually.”

jazinogold:
na APC journalist be this?

For asking the visiting Chadian President a question aides of President Goodluck Jonathan considered embarrassing, the state House Correspondent of Deutsche Welle, a German Radio state, Ubale Musa had his accreditation withdrawn and ordered out of the Presidential Villa.

The comment by the president-elect has caused disquiet in the APC, especially among governors, who often regard themselves as kingmakers.

Since 1999, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), made it a custom of sort to call for names for ministerial appointments from governors.

Usually, PDP Governors forward three names from their respective states to the president, with the most preferred listed as number one.

By Emeka Anaeto, Economy Editor
Emerging economies of Nigeria, Indonesia and Mexico could push the UK and France out of the top ten economies of the world by 2050 provided they are able to build their institutions to global standards, diversify their economies and sustain growth friendly policies. This is one of the key findings of the global report from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) economists titled ‘‘The World in 2050:

Will the shift in global economic power continue?’’ This presents long-term projections of potential GDP growth up to 2050 for 32 of the largest economies in the world, covering 84 per cent of total global GDP.
According to the report, the current global economic power shift away from the established advanced economies in North America, Western Europe and Japan will continue over the next 35 years, despite a projected slowdown in Chinese growth after around 2020.
The world economy is projected to grow at an average of just over 3 per cent per annum from 2014-50, doubling in size by 2037 and nearly tripling by 2050. But there’s likely to be a slowdown in global growth after 2020, as the rate of expansion in China and some other major emerging economies moderates to a more sustainable long-term rate, and as working age population growth slows in many large economies.
Nigeria, Vietnam and the Philippines are notable risers in the global GDP rankings in the long term, reflecting relatively high projected average growth rates of around 4.5-5.5 per cent per annum over the period to 2050. According to Mr Andrew S. Nevin, PwC Nigeria’s Chief Economist and co-author of the report, “Over the past decade, Nigeria has boasted superior economic growth and, with the right reforms and investments, Nigeria could become one of the world’s leading economies by 2030, with further progress by 2050.
Nigeria’s potential advantages for future growth include a large consumer market, a strategic geographic location, and a young and highly entrepreneurial population’’. He continued, ‘‘however, at the same time, we are all aware of the significant headwinds (adverse trends) created by the rapid drop in the oil price, putting pressure on the fiscal and monetary systems, as well as reducing economic growth in the short term.
To achieve its long-term economic potential, Nigeria will need to manage the oil price decline effectively at all levels of government and create a sustainable platform for diversification into the sectors that we know will drive the economy in the future – including power, agriculture, manufacturing, telecoms, hospitality and real estate’’.
Nevin concludes, “according to our long term projections, Nigeria could sustain average growth of around 5-6 per cent per annum in the long run, following projected growth of around 6-7 per cent in the rest of this decade, assuming broadly growth-friendly policies are pursued. While foreign investment has in absolute terms long been focused on the oil sector, portfolios are becoming increasingly diversified, moving towards the power, agriculture and mining areas of the economy that have demonstrated a comparative advantage in emerging markets vis-à-vis the West’’.
Recent experience has however underlined that relatively rapid growth is not guaranteed for emerging economies, as indicated by recent problems in Russia and Brazil. It requires sustained and effective investment in infrastructure and improving political, economic, legal and social institutions. Overdependence on natural resources, according to the analyst, could impede long-term growth in countries such as Nigeria, Russia, and Saudi Arabia unless they can diversify their economies over time.
Nevin further concludes that ‘‘while our analysis confirms that emerging markets have huge potential, they can also be an institutional minefield – both managers and investors need to tread carefully. Overall, Nigeria continues to be an attractive place to invest not because it is an oil producer, but because of the immense size of its domestic market and the extraordinary commercial energy of its people, which remains largely untapped.”
Beyond Nigeria, the PwC Report projects that China will be the largest economy by 2030 on any measure. However, it also expects its growth rate to slow markedly after around 2020 as its population ages, its high investment rate runs into diminishing marginal returns and it needs to rely more on innovation than copying....

dre11:
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and repent. – Revelation 3:19.



http://www.punchng.com/columnists/etcetera/the-church-is-leading-you-to-hell/

kullozone:
etc,are you saved

there are some truth in what you wrote...but I can swear you're also going to hell,considering the level of ur bad belle.

The Catholic Archbishop Emeritus, Anthony Okogie, on Sunday urged Nigerians not to expect too much from the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, saying change is a gradual process.
“Nigeria seems to be on a collision course with destiny and the hopes of many are hanging in the balance. I can understand the sense of urgency and expediency in the expectations of Nigerians,” he said in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
“Yet sincerely, I think we are expecting too much too soon. Change will come but it will be gradual but surely.
“It will amount to putting the cart before the horse to expect radical revolution from the General.
“We must exercise patience and give him chance to deliver on his promises. What he needs more than anything is our support, cooperation, collaboration and goodwill,” he said.
The cleric urged Mr. Buhari to focus on providing quality governance on assuming office, and pay less attention to distractions.
He advised the President-elect to adhere to the blueprint and road-map of his party that had brought about growth and development in the states where they had been implemented.
“It is heartening to know that he has made anti-corruption campaign the meter of his administration.
“In order for this not to run out of steam, he must build institutions, both formal and informal, that will fight corruption and ensure Nigeria becomes a society of law abiding citizens.
“His transition team and board of advisers should shun the temptation to secure their selfish interest and come up with pragmatic action plan that will help the president-elect realise his goal,” he said.
The cleric said that the task ahead of the President-elect was enormous and appealed to him to explore available economic and social opportunities in rebuilding the nation.
“More than anything, the Gen. Buhari-led government must run an inclusive government of credible people with requisite competence that will ensure that no part of the country is left behind,’’ he said.
According to him, Buhari must do so bearing in mind the fact that he will preside over a nation that comprises people who voted for him, people who did not vote for him and people who did not vote at all.
“He must ensure that no group, class, gender or religion is discriminated against politically, economically, socially and infrastructurally.

According to him, Buhari must do so bearing in mind the fact that he will preside over a nation that comprises people who voted for him, people who did not vote for him and people who did not vote at all.
“He must ensure that no group, class, gender or religion is discriminated against politically, economically, socially and infrastructurally.
“This is the watershed moment to break the walls of ethnicity, elitism and religious bigotry that has continued to polarise the fragile unity of our nation.
“He has a duty to turn the nation into a bridge in which every person, irrespective of his background and orientation, would see the state as a collaborator and an ally through which his dreams and ambitions can be realised,” he said.
The cleric assured the President-elect of continuous prayers and support where necessary.
“I reassure the President- elect of our prayers and spiritual solicitude, we look forward to seeing a President that will be the Nelson Mandela and the Le Kuan Yew of Nigeria.
“A President that will deliver the dividends of democracy, a President that will respect the rule of law and follow due processes in prosecuting his agenda.
“A President that will be a father to all Nigerians, irrespective of their colour, tongue, tribe, class or political party; a president who will be a statesman to the core.
“A President that will be a comfort of the afflicted, hope of the despondent and the symbol of unity of the divergent Nigeria. That is the President that Nigeria needs and deserves,’’ he said.
(NAN)

He told the court that his wife whom he married 36 years ago, was the one that destroyed his son’s life by not cautioning him anytime he erred

drealtruth:
Hmmmm, something Is definately wrong, some of these guys are mentally Unstable. I recommend psychiatric evaluation for law enforcement officers. They should report the case to The Police Service Commission(PSC) and he will be dealt with. Another animal giving Nigeria a bad Image.

ifydadiva:
RIP Please can anybody help me out? Am new on nairaland, how can I post a topic?

psalmsjob:
...Inshort they/he or Whomever did it is a Living-Dead! Nemesis will catch-up with them one way or another.

“But no matter how much we apologized and begged, he refused to leave the road and the traffic continued. While this was going on, a motorbike rider rode past, he said if you people knew who you were dealing with you wouldn’t dare to argue or challenge him.

The Peoples Democratic Party said on Wednesday that the internal crisis rocking the party is caused by the shock over its first major election defeat ever.
Post-Election trauma.
The National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, said the party has overcome from Post-Election trauma caused by its historic fall from power.
After 16 years in power, PDP lost to the All Progressives Congress, a coalition of four opposition parties.
Some members blame the leadership of the party for the defeat and demand the resignation of the executive.
“We are aware that this unfortunate development is a consequence of post-election trauma arising from our first ever defeat. We however note with relief that we have now overcome this challenge,” Mr. Metuh said in a statement.
“The leadership of the PDP regrets any embarrassment the avoidable skirmishes may have caused the members of our great party, especially our founding fathers and teeming supporters across the country,” the party said.
It added that President Goodluck Jonathan had intervened in the crisis and that a Post-Election Review Committee had been inaugurated.
The party therefore commended Mr. Jonathan for his “mature and timely intervention in ending the bickering among leaders of the party as a result of the outcome of the 2015 general elections”.
Mr. Metuh said, “The National Working Committee will absolutely abide by the counsel and has instructed all the executives of the party at all levels to comply accordingly.
“The National Working Committee assures that in the new spirit of harmony in the PDP family, the reengineering process which began on Tuesday with the inauguration of the Post-Election Review Committee will be vigorously sustained to restore the lost glory of our great party.
“We therefore urge all our members to ensure that they henceforth guard their utterances and actions no matter the provocation and distortions in some section of the media while channelling their energies and ideas towards the rebuilding process.
“In this regard, all members who have reports, grievances and suggestions on the way forward should transmit same to the Post-Election Review Committee for an all-inclusive roadmap in the overall effort to regain power in 2019.
“Our members should be wary of the activities of some mischievous persons within and outside the PDP family who are bent on frustrating this peace effort. Such individuals and groups have found the social media a veritable tool for their mischief through distortion of facts, false allegations and fabrications against our party,” PDP added.

m1500:
My friend who is very gainfully employed also married a young woman; had a child with her but she left him for another man after few years into the marriage. Reasons for her flight best known to her because she was very well treated and there was no quarrel between the two.

gbengus17:
SAME THING IS HAPPENING TO ME. AN SSA TO KWARA STATE GOVT TOOK MY WIFE AND 3 CHILDREN ( 2 boys and 1 girl) AWAY SINCE 6/4/15 in llorin. AND I DONT KNOW WHERE MY CHILDREN ARE TILL TODAY. SCHOOLS HAVE RESUMED WITHOUT THEM. I WILL SOON GO TO COURT AND THE WHOLE WORLD WILL HEAR HOW POWERFUL PEOPLE BEHAVE THIS DAYS. ALL I WANT IS MY 3 CHILDREN.

A 19-year-old man, Tunde Ahmed, who allegedly defiled a six-year-old daughter of his neighbour was on Wednesday arraigned at an Apapa Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Ahmed, who resides at Abule Ado area of Lagos State, is standing trial on a two-count charge of indecent treatment of a child and child defilement.
The prosecutor, ASP Soji Ojaokomo, told the court that the accused committed the offences on April 7 at his residence. Ojaokomo said that the accused, who was living in the same building as the parents of the girl, lured her into his room, where he inserted one of his fingers into her private part.

“Ahmed also forcefully had an unlawful carnal knowledge of the child without her consent,” he said.
He said that the offences contravened Sections 135 and137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. Section 135 stipulates that any person who unlawfully and indecently deals with a child is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Section 137 prescribes that any person who has sexual intercourse with a child is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
Ahmed, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Senior Magistrate, Mr Patrick Adekomaiya, ordered that the case file should be duplicated and forwarded to the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPPs) for advice. The magistrate granted the accused bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties each in like sum and he adjourned the case to May 14.