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can this really be true

Is this for real

you mean to tell me, aside from Obi of Onitsha, SE have no highly respected King.

to me SE preserve and respect Culture and Tradition in this country.

I partially agree with your assertion, 20%

Their headache,
Everybody with his own problem

Afenifere chieftain, Senator Femi Okurounmu, says if the Igbo want the Eze Ndigbo title to be recognised in Yoruba land, they must also recognise the Oba title in the South-East.
Okurounmu said this during an interview with our correspondent on Thursday while reacting to the ban on the Eze Ndigbo title by the Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi.
The Akure monarch ordered the title to be reviewed and replaced with a non-controversial honorary one.
This is one of the conditions given by the monarch to end the crisis between him and the leader of the Igbo community in the town, Mr. Gregory Iloehike.
Subsequently, there have been calls by several Yoruba groups for the total ban of the Eze Ndigbo title in the entire South-West.
However, Okurounmu said the Yoruba would have no problem with the Igbo title as long as Yoruba titles were recognised in the South-East.
He said, “In all things, there must be reciprocity. If the Yoruba are allowed to have obas in Igbo land, then it will be in order for the Igbo to have ezes in Yoruba land. On the other hand, if Yoruba communities in Igbo land cannot have obas, then it will not be fair for the Igbo in Yoruba land to have ezes.”
In a separate statement, the Afenifere Renewal Group commended the Deji of Akure for banning the title of ‘Eze Ndi Igbo’ in Akure.
Commending the Akure monarch for his decision on Thursday, the ARG described him as a noble and wise king.
The ARG, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Kunle Famoriyo, said, “We want to say that this act will go down in the history of the Yoruba nation and among other nationalities as noble and needful.
“Contrary to what many, particularly the mischief makers, have been saying, this move has the potential to strengthen inter-ethnic relationship as it eliminates the friction points amongst nationalities, be it in Yoruba land or elsewhere.
“There is no gainsaying that the structure of the Eze Ndigbo outside Igbo land is deployed towards an expansionist end, with possible occupational intent.
“It is our conviction that the Igbo community in Yoruba land does not need to have a king, since by the Yoruba custom, two kings cannot coexist in a domain.”
The ARG said the Yoruba people were the most tolerant in Nigeria which was often taken for granted by other tribes.
The group encouraged Igbo trade associations and development unions to continue to carry out their activities.
It, however, urged all monarchs and governors in the South-West not to recognise the Ndigbo title as it was at variance with Yoruba customs.
“We therefore want to reiterate our proposition to the heads of executive governments in Yoruba land and other traditional rulers that the title of Eze Ndigbo, or any other monarchical title that is alien to Yoruba customs, be scrapped in all South-West states,” the statement added.



www.punchng.com/politics/igbo-should-permit-oba-title-in-their-land-okurounmu/?switch_display=mobile

Good onee

KemiJesus:
Hahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa you just made my night, laughing out loud! Funny you,Lol

Lolz

Sleep well

Jomrichy1:
Lucifer!!!,.
Dix is gona cme bk 2 u.

Please were you force to comment, or what bring about Lucifer here, if you cnt withstand my comment,

you simply ignore and move on.

Please be caution, i dnt like such

400billionman:
So she should poison him ?

Having sex eveyday is not the issue, but the duration is what is tiring. 5 to 10 minutes pleasure is not sex really.

Unless he wants the woman 1hr daily. Poster should work on herself. Marriage is NO HOLDS BARED.

It is very unintelligent always seeking advice from people outside your marriage. By the time we hear her husband's side of the story now, i guess we might stone this lady.

Starving her hubby to the point that he cannot concentrate well at home.

Sorry to say,
you mumu no be small.


what is the correlation between Sleeping tablet and Poison.

YBNL Boss, all the way

Baba Milliano

fadolak:
Nice one, if i were to be in her shoes; that is exactly wat i'll do but tnk God my hubby is not sex freak.

Thank God he is not,

but sorry madam, do you know maybe he is getting it outside,

That why he is not disturbing you at home.

Just asking

is he a sex machine.

introduce sleeping tablet in his dinner every night

Ladies are guilty most,
Ladies are still the one that dig guys phone looking for wetin no lose.

Plot To Quash Saraki’s Code Of Conduct Trial At The Court of Appeal - Sahara Reporters

The justices of the Court of Appeal in Abuja have concluded plans to order a stop to the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, two judicial sources have told SaharaReporters. One of the sources disclosed that the appellate court justices would deliver a judgment as early as 2 p.m. today ordering immediate discontinuation of Mr. Saraki’s trial for corruption.

One of our two sources stated that a former Justice of the Supreme Court, Alfa Belgore, had been working behind the scenes to arrange a verdict by the Court of Appeal to the effect that Mr. Saraki’s trial by the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja was irregular and a violation of the senator’s fundamental rights, and must cease.

Last Friday, Justices M.A.A. Adumien, J.E. Ekanem and M. Mustapha adjourned ruling in the matter till today. Mr. Saraki’s lawyers had asked the justices to determine that the tribunal lacked jurisdiction to try former Governor Saraki for failure to declare his assets as provided for by the Code of Conduct law for public officers.

Mr. Saraki was arraigned on September 22, 2015 after he tried unsuccessfully to use the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal to thwart his arraignment. Our sources stated that retired Justice Belgore has had success as the embattled senator’s emissary in persuading the Appeal Court to scuttle the trial.

“The haste with which the Court of Appeal justices have handled Dr. Saraki’s case is surprising since the Code of Conduct Tribunal has not even begun his trial,” said a lawyer familiar with the drama surrounding the widely watched case.

Mr. Saraki is scheduled to return to the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Wednesday to face federal prosecutors who maintain that they have overwhelming evidence against him.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/19/plot-quash-saraki%E2%80%99s-code-conduct-trial-court-appeal

What did he twit

APC also lost one sit in Kogi.
Saraki have to restartegize now on the next move.

homerac7:
You missed the news.

The last part explains it all: There's no job! Presidency was trying to dump the new recruits on the ministry with connivance of the minister, while the PS had no way of finding salaries to pay them hence his refusal to expressly accept them.

I laught in Spanish.

hope you read what you type again and again.

is it the PS that source for funds to pay workers in the ministry salary.
it was made clear «BLAME TRADING AND BUCK PASSING» cnt you read between the lines, that the PS is only trying to cover up and exonerate himself.

The PS and the ministry refuse to work with the presidential committee that was set up.

hence the refuser to absorb those recommended by the committee into the NIS, we all know FG is responsible for their salary after their appointment is regularise

is the PS using his own personal money to pay them.

See gobe.

In a country with President and minister.

one PS from nowhere says he douth the authenticity of a presidential directive, that was made public.

thereby making the president look lik a jester, president deceiving the masses.

and the fools is still holding on to his job.

Me I no wan be lik that president, too dull for my liking, I cnt imagine my employee ridicule me to this extends and I still keep him there, finally I left the coy while him still there.

Lubish..

Alihkizito:
yea, besides the picx just got me thinking since last nite

You mumuness na grade one.
she bleach her hair join.

I have tried delaying the writing of this piece in the honest expectation that someone probably misquoted Chief E.K. Clark, when he reportedly publicly disowned former President Goodluck Jonathan. I had hoped that our dear father, E.K. Clark, would issue a counter-statement and say the usual things politicians say: “they quoted me out of context!” “Jonathan is my son”. That has not happened; rather, some other Ijaw voices, including one Joseph Evah, have come to the defence of the old man, to join hands in rubbishing a man they once defended to the hilt and used as a bargaining chip for the Ijaw interest in the larger Nigerian geo-politics.

If President Jonathan had returned to power on May 29, 2015, these same persons would have remained in the corridors of power, displaying all forms of ethnic triumphalism. It is the reason in case they do not realize it, why the existent power blocs that consider themselves most fit to rule, continue to believe that those whose ancestors never ran empires can never be trusted with power, hence they can only be admitted as other people’s agents or as merchants of their own interests which may even be defined for them as is deemed convenient. Mercantilism may bring profit, but in power politics, it destroys integrity and compromises otherwise sacred values.

President Jonathan being publicly condemned by his own Ijaw brothers, particularly those who were once staunch supporters of his government further serves the purpose of exposing the limits of the politics of proximity. Politics in Africa is driven by this particular factor; it is at the root of all the other evils: prebendalism, clientelism and what Matthew Kukah has famously described as the “myownisation of power”. It is both positive and negative, but obviously, more of the latter than the former. It is considered positive only when it is beneficial to all parties concerned, and when the template changes, the ground also shifts. As in that song, the solid rock of proximity is soon replaced by shifting sands. Old worship becomes new opportunism. And the observant public is left confounded.

Chief E.K. Clark? Who would ever think, Chief E.K. Clark would publicly disown President Jonathan? He says Jonathan was a weak President. At what point did he come to that realization? Yet, throughout the five years (not six, please) of the Jonathan Presidency, he spoke loudly against anyone who opposed the President. He was so combative he was once quoted as suggesting that Nigeria could have problems if Jonathan was not allowed to return to office. Today, he is the one helping President Jonathan’s successor to quench the fires. He always openly said President Jonathan is “his son”. Today, he is not just turning against his own son, he is telling the world his son as President lacked the political will to fight corruption. He has also accused his son of being too much of a gentleman. Really? Gentlemanliness would be considered honourable in refined circles. Is Pa E.K. Clark recommending something else in order to prove that he is no longer a politician but a statesman as he says?

As someone who was a member of the Jonathan administration, and who interacted often with the old man, I can only say that I am shocked. This is the equivalent of the old man deleting President Jonathan’s phone number and ensuring that calls from his phone no longer ring at the Jonathan end. During the Jonathan years, Chief E. K. Clark was arguably the most vocal Ijaw leader defending the government. He called the President “my son”, and both father and son remained in constant touch.

There is something about having the President’s ears in a Presidential system, elevated to the level of a fetish in the clientilist Nigerian political system. Persons in the corridors of power who have the President’s ear- be they cook, valet, inlaws, wife, cousin, former school mates, priests, or whatever, enjoy special privileges. They have access to the President and they can whisper into his ears. That’s all they have as power: the power to whisper and run a whispering campaign that can translate into opportunities or losses for those outside that informal power loop around every Presidency, that tends to be really influential.

Every President must beware of those persons who come around calling them “Daddy”, “Uncle”, na my brother dey there”, “my son”, “our in-law”: emotional blackmailers relying on old connections. They are courted, patronized and given more attention and honour than they deserve by those looking for access to the President or government. Even when the power and authority of the whispering exploiters of the politics of proximity is contrived, they go out of their way to exaggerate it. They acquire so much from being seen to be in a position to make things happen.

Chief E. K. Clark had the President’s ears. He had unfettered access to his son. He was invited to most state events. And he looked out for the man he called “my son”, in whom he was well pleased. Chief Clark’s energy level in the service of the Jonathan administration was impressive. Fearless and outspoken, he deployed his enormous talents in the service of the Jonathan government. If a press statement was tame, he drew attention to it and urged a more robust defence of “your boss”. If any invective from the APC was overlooked, he urged prompt rebuttal. If the party was tardy in defending “his son”, he weighed in.

If anyone had accused the President of lacking “the political will to fight corruption” at that time, he, E.K. Clark, would have called a press conference to draw attention to the Jonathan administration’s institutional reforms and preventive measures, his commitment to electoral integrity to check political corruption, and the hundreds of convictions secured by both the ICPC and EFCC under his son’s watch. So prominent and influential was he, that ministers, political jobbers etc etc trooped to his house to pay homage.

In due course, those who opposed President Jonathan did not spare Chief E. K. Clark either. He was accused of making inflammatory and unstatesman-like statements. An old war-horse, nobody could intimidate him. He was not President Olusegun Obasanjo’s fan in particular. He believed Obasanjo wanted to sabotage his son, and he wanted Obasanjo put in his place. Beneath all of that, was an unmistaken rivalry between the two old men, seeking to control the levers of Nigerian politics.

Every President probably needs a strong, passionate ally like Chief E. K. Clark. But what happened? What went wrong? Don’t get me wrong. I am not necessarily saying that the Ijaw leader should have remained loyal to and defend Goodluck Jonathan because they are both Ijaws, patriotism definitely could be stronger than ethnic affinities, nonetheless that E. K. Clark tale about leaving politics and becoming a statesman is nothing but sheer crap. If Jonathan had returned to office, he would still be a card-carrying member of the PDP and the “father of the President” and we would still have been hearing that famous phrase, “my son”. Chief E. K. Clark, five months after, has practically told the world that President Buhari is better than “his own son”.

It is the worst form of humiliation that President Jonathan has received since he left office. It is also the finest compliment that President Buhari has received since he assumed office. The timing is also auspicious: just when the public is beginning to worry about the direction of the Buhari government, E. K. Clark shows up to lend a hand of support and endorsement. Only one phrase was missing in his statement, and it should have been added: “my son, Buhari.” It probably won’t be too long before we hear the old man saying “I am a statesman, Buhari is my son.” I can imagine President Obasanjo grinning with delight. If he really wants to be kind, he could invite E.K. Clark to his home in Ota or Abeokuta to come and do the needful by publicly tearing his PDP membership card and join him in that exclusive club of Nigerian statesmen! The only problem with that club these days is that you can become a member by just saying so or by retiring from partisan politics. We are more or less being told that there are no statesmen in any of the political parties.

It is not funny. Julius Ceasar asked Brutus in one of the famous lines in written literature: “Et tu Brutus?” President Jonathan should ask Chief E. K. Clark: “Et tu Papa?” To which the father will probably tell the son: “Ces’t la vie, mon cher garcon.” And really, that is life. In the face of other considerations, loyalties vanish; synergies collapse. The wisdom of the tribe is overturned; the politics of proximity dissolves; loyalties remain in a perpetual process of construction. Thus, individual interests and transactions drive the political game in Nigeria, with time and context as key determinants.

These are teachable moments for President Jonathan. Power attracts men and women like bees to nectar, the state of powerlessness ends as a journey to the island of loneliness. However, the greatest defender of our work in office is not our ethnic “fathers and “brothers” but rather our legacy. The real loss is that President Jonathan’s heroism, his messianic sacrifice in the face of defeat, is being swept under the carpet and his own brothers who used to say that the Ijaws are driven by a principle of “one for all and all for another”, have become agent-architects of his pain. The Ijaw platform having seemingly been de-centered, Chief E.K. Clark and others are seeking assimilation in the new power structure. It is a telling reconstruction of the politics of proximity and mimicry.

Chief E.K. Clark once defended the rights of ethnic minorities to aspire to the highest offices in the land, his latest declaration about his son reaffirms the existing stereotype at the heart of Nigeria’s hegemonic politics. The same hegemons and their agents whom Clark used to fight furiously will no doubt find him eminently quotable now that he has proclaimed that it is wrong to be a “gentleman”, and that his son lacks “the political will to fight corruption”. There is more to this than we may ever know. Chief Clark can insist from now till 2019, that he has spoken as a statesman and as a matter of principle. His re-alignment, is curious nonetheless.


http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/16/clark-father-jonathan-son-reuben-abati

mightyokwy:
Did I hear you say turn by turn, this is unbelievable, bcs he is a norther . If he is from SE/SS you would have been asking for his head. God have mercy

EFCC chair is been investigated, is it a southerner,

if all the corrupt politician are all taking to court at once, including Amaechi, Atiku BAT, and Obasonjo, i swear they will all floor FG.

if it taking one after the other, if one of them floor FG, then the FG will learn one or two mistake from their side, which will prevent the others from using same to win FG as well,
from there, it will boost the moral of our justice system.


and the hard truth is everybody cant face TRIAL at once, my pple let be sincere with ourselves.


am not a northerner bros, make una take am easy,

with PMB, corruption will be reduce to the barest minimum in this country.


Nigeria will be great again.


I BELIVE.

Fayose,

FG will investigate, but the one on ground, pls let pursue It to somewhere reasonable first,

let take it turn by turn,

mind you, your own turn is coming as well, because we never forget your poultry wey your fowl no they sheet.

so get prepared.




Thank you

BRF said The minority leader Godswill Akpabio did same during his time as Akwa ibom state governor, and those that were brought to lagos, are not even lagosian, he have to take them to their various state again. and Akpabio is right there in the Hallowed chamber


Nobody make noise about this.

so why is BRF been crucified

bongolistik:
what is your own view about it?

Infatuation

Depend on your view and belief about it

Why should they go ahead and start work without concrete agreement with the villager, and farm owner that you are taking their land.

Even if compensation is not ready, their should be agreement first. you wan turn 5 village to IDP.

nawa for nigeria government, them no dey learn at all. this same nonsense keep reoccurring year in year out, in almost every state, government taking land by fire by force without adequate compensation.

Thanks for sharing

make them continue, I have mine to face

ISIS be clear once and for all

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

see question

[quote author=brilliant5 post=38765553][/quote]Morning bros, am not proving anything, it jst a matter of understanding.

jst the way you said Alam is not going anywhere, bcus na ur broda.

a yoruba man as well rise up and said Aluko as well shld be release immediately.

an hausa man stand on his feet that why should they investigate lamorde, lamorde should not summit himself for any investigation.

where will that take us.
it doing more harm than good to this country.

wen they are looting, did they know us, or share part of the loot with us.

but we choose to follow/defend them blindly, becus of tribalism which have eating dip down our mind.

and it does not worth it.


let everyone of them face/dance to their reggae blues.

SaharaReporters has confirmed from the Attorney General’s Office in Switzerland that the United Kingdom has requested Mutual Legal Assistance from Swiss authorities for the detention of Kola Aluko.

Mr. Aluko is the alleged money launderer for the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

SaharaReporters broke the news earlier today that Kola Aluko has holed himself up in his regal estate in southern Switzerland after learning of Alison-Madueke’s arrest in the United Kingdom. Alison-Madueke and four others are confirmed to have been arrested by agents attached to the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the UK for bribery and other financial crimes.

In an email to SaharaReporters, Nathalie Guth of the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland said, “I can give you the additional information, that the OAG has received a request for mutual assistance from England.” Mrs. Guth bolded ‘from England’ to emphasize that it was the UK, not Nigeria, requesting Mr. Aluko’s detention.

This communication from the Swiss Attorney General’s Office contradicts reports earlier from Reuters news that it was Nigeria which had requested the assistance from Switzerland.

SaharaReporters spoke with Femi Adesina, the Senior Special Adviser for Media and Publicity to President Buhari, who told SaharaReporters that he did not want to comment on whether Nigeria requested mutual assistance from the Swiss because he did not have all the information.

SaharaReporters also called Mr. Aluko’s home phone number, +41919402714, but it has been disconnected since our last communication with his employee yesterday.

A call to the Home Office department in charge of Mutual Legal Assistance did not yield any result, as the officer who answered our call said he could not provide information about MLAs but the office confirmed they knew of Mr. Aluko.

The request to the office of the Swiss Attorney General was necessitated by rumors earlier today that Mr. Aluko had been arrested by Swiss authorities.



http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/07/uk-asks-switzerland-arrest-kola-aluko-alison-madueke-proceedings