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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
in Rivers State yesterday warned
Governor Rotimi Amaechi to stop
insulting President Goodluck
Jonathan and his wife, Dame
Patience.
The party accused Amaechi of
resorting to cheap blackmail and
mischief in his fight with the first
couple.
Chairman of the PDP in the state,
Chief Felix Obuah, labelled the
governor’s action as irresponsible
and vowed that further insults on the
president and his wife will no longer
be tolerated.
Obuah was reacting to the statement
by the governor in Abuja last Friday to
the effect that Dame Patience
influenced the posting of the Rivers
Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph
Mbu, in February, from the Oyo State
Command.
The NGF chairman also insisted that
Mbu must be redeployed for taking
sides in the Rivers political crisis and
behaving like a politician, while
declaring that the national dialogue
initiated by President Jonathan was
a waste of time.
Obuah said the party has had enough
of Amaechi’s penchant for insulting
and dragging the names of President
Jonathan and the First Lady, Dame
(Dr.) Patience Jonathan, in the mud.
“This untoward attitude of Amaechi,
which has become his tradition, with
no other aim than to lower the
reputation and personality of the
President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria and son of the Niger Delta in
the estimation of the right-thinking
members of the society, has
continued to be fired and given undue
impetus by Governor Amaechi and a
few of his friends on this satanic
mission, against all wise counsel and
good conscience.
“We wonder what Amaechi further
intends to achieve by repeatedly
maligning the president and his
family and linking them to any
predicament that befalls him.”
The party chieftain said the PDP is
“not happy with this public
opprobrium from Amaechi. We will no
longer condone this irresponsible,
irrational and malicious disrespect
for our dear president and his wife, by
a paranoid Amaechi.”
“It is regrettable that rather than
admit that he is confused and has
lost focus, Governor Amaechi deludes
himself into believing that the only
thing he can do to gain back the
confidence and trust of the
disappointed Rivers people is to
accuse President Jonathan of being
responsible for his non-performance.”
But responding to the PDP’s
statement, the Chief of Staff,
Government House, Port Harcourt,
Chief Tony Okocha, dismissed
Obuah’s outbursts as arrant
nonsense.
He said on phone that it was a
statement of fact that the First Lady
influenced the posting of Mbu Joseph
Mbu to RiversSstate from Oyo State
in February this year as
Commissioner of Police, to do some
dirty jobs, which his predecessor,
Mohammed Indabawa, now in Oyo
Command, refused to do.
He insisted that at no point did the
governor insult President Jonathan
and his wife.
Okocha said: “Governor Amaechi was
elected to serve the people of Rivers
State. He has the mandate of Rivers
people till 2015 by God’s grace.
Confusion and loss of focus exist in
the imagination of Obuah and his
confused supporters.
“Rivers people know that Governor
Amaechi has been performing well
and delivering the dividends of
democracy. The developmental
strides of Governor Amaechi in Rivers
State are unprecedented. No Rivers
Governor has done one tenth of what
Governor Amaechi has done.
“Nothing good can come from the
enemies of progress. Obuah and his
cohorts have constituted themselves
into enemies of the focused
Amaechi’s administration. They do
not represent Rivers people.”
source: http://thenationonlineng.net/new/amaechi-must-stop-insulting-jonathan-wife-rivers-pdp/

[quote author=emmydeep]Why are Yo.rub.a's INGRATES? They are verry ungrateful tribe. I am speaking from experience. They are also cowards of the highest order.
What is wrong with the president humbling himself to commission a faculty of a school? What is wrong for a president to humble himself to beg ASSU and PHCN WORKERS?
The south westerners should ask themselves these questions.
1. Who killed Delegiwa?
2. Who killed Abiolla?
3. Who killed Kudirat?
Infact the list is endless.
Was any body frm the land of the rissing sun involved in the assercination of any Yoruba ?
Yoruba's pls learn to appreciatte good done to you.
RIP ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The confusion that followed the
takeover of Capital Oil and Gas
Industries Ltd by the Asset
Management Corporation of Nigeria
(AMCON) has been laid to rest with
the clarification on the issue by
Mustafa Chike-Obi, the Managing
Director/CEO of AMCON.
The AMCON MD “AMCON has not
taken over Capital Oil but is
managing it for a two-year period.”
According to Chike-Obi, when Ifeanyi
Ubah decided to run for the
governorship position of Anambra
State, “We gave him two choices;
complete breakaway from the
company for two years while he runs
or he agrees not to leave for two
years. He chose to run. So, we will
appoint MD, CFO and another ED to
run the company. He still owns it, but
he cannot write any cheque or sign
any money out of the company for
two years.”
Chike-Obi stated further: “We told
him not to run for governorship, but if
he runs for governor, he cannot run
his company because we do not want
to be seen as sponsoring a
governorship candidate. So he
agreed. He is gone to run for
governorship. We have taken over the
management of his company. When
he finishes running, he can come
back to the company, but he can’t do
it for less than two years.”
The clarifications made by Chike-Obi
obviously became necessary based
on various insinuations that Ubah
opted for politics because the
business of Capital Oil failed and was
seized by AMCON. A legal luminary,
Barr. Uchechi Oleka, pointed out that
AMCON cannot seize Capital Oil and
Gas Industries Ltd because it does
not have the statutory powers to do
so. According to him, the AMCON Act
in Section 6(1) (0), amongst other
things, says: “The Corporation shall
have powers to give security for any
debt, obligation or liability of any
company…”
Chike-Obi’s explanation is timely
because it sets the record straight on
the misinformation that Capital Oil
and Gas Industries Ltd is a failed
business and that the takeover of any
business by AMCON is something
extra-ordinary. While it is obvious
that the problem of Capital Oil and
Gas Industries Ltd began with the
non-implementation of a fully
deregulated oil regime, the AMCON
boss said that without the setting up
of AMCON, most of the banks, most
of the manufacturing companies, and
all the airlines would have folded up.
He cited the case of an airline that is
owing AMCON N70 billion but the
aircrafts they have are worth about
N75 billion. “We could take the
aircrafts tomorrow; sell them in order
to get our money back. But what will
that do to Nigeria? The airline in
question does about 65 percent of the
domestic air travel,” Mr. Chike-Obi
stated.
He added, “In the manufacturing
sector, of the 15 biggest
manufacturing companies, AMCON is
involved in 10 of them. In the
downstream petroleum industry, of
the 10 biggest depots, we are
involved in eight of them. Of the
performing loans bought over by
AMCON, the first one was Femi
Otedola’s N191 billion owed 10
banks. If those loans ever went bad,
assuming we ignored them and they
went bad, everything we had done
would have been wasted because we
would have had another banking
crisis.”
Reacting to the issue, the Deputy
Director Media, Ifeanyi Ubah
Campaign Organisation, Emmanuel
Chijioke Ibeleme, said, “the furore
over whether or not Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah
is owing AMCON would not have
arisen, in the first instance, If the
downstream sector of the oil industry
had been totally deregulated. Ifeanyi
Ubah had built up the capacity of
Capital Oil to a level where for it to
effectively service its loans, it must
import and distribute much more
petroleum products in the country
than the current partial deregulation
policy would allow it. The
insinuation, therefore, that Capital Oil
business has failed, and has been
seized by AMCON, is unfounded and
baseless.”
source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/seize-capital-oil-amcon/

President Goodluck Jonathan has
pleaded with the striking members of
the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) to call-off their
four-month old industrial action.
Jonathan made the plea while
commissioning the Faculty of
Engineering Complex building of Afe
Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti
yesterday. Jonathan urged ASUU
members to review their industrial
action and go back to class. The
president said his regime was
working assiduously to meet the
lecturers’ demands.
Jonathan, who was the special guest
of honor at the first convocation
ceremony at the University,
acknowledged that the country is
facing a lot of challenges, assuring
that his government was poised to
solving the problem confronting the
education sector.
”Even to those of us holding political
offices, those in the health sector, the
police, the army, the Department of
State Service(DSS), the thinking out
there is that we are operating in the
best environment. This is not true.
’If we all decide to embark on long
strike ,definitely, we will all ground
the nation.”
The president reasoned that if ASUU
members have genuine and patriotic
mind towards pressing home their
demands, four months was enough in
achieving this.
”I urge every patriotic Nigerian to
plead with ASUU to suspend their
strike action and resume class.
”I promise to work with all
Nigerians,what ever inadequacies we
have with education,we are seriously
working towards solving it.
”ASUU should temper their anger with
patriotism.
”Long strike will definitely ground our
educational sector.
”If you are talking to government and
government is not listening, or
government is not cooperating with
you, that is a different thing entirely.
The president promised that his
government was steadily trying to
solve the problems confronting other
sectors of the economy ,including
education by providing infrastructural
facilities.
He commended the founder of Afe
Babalola University for establishing a
first class privately owned university.
On the demand of the state
government on the establishment of
airport and federal secretariat,
Jonathan said N400million had been
earmarked in this year’s budget for
the airport.
Speaking earlier, Ekiti State Governor,
Kayode Fayemi, made a plea on the
establishment of an airport in the
state.
Fayemi noted that the state
government had paid part of the
N320million counterpart funding for
the establishment of the airport.
The governor noted that Ekiti was the
only state out of those created in
1996 that is yet to have a federal
secretariat.
He disclosed that Ekiti was yet to be
fully reimbursed on the N13billion
spent on the construction of federal
roads in the state, noting that only
N2billion was paid to the state by the
Federal Government.
Speaking earlier,the founder of the
university, Are Afe Babalola(SAN)
said he decided to establish the
N60billion university because of his
love and concern for qualitative
education.
Babalola claimed that the institution
was rated as the second best private
university and number 16 in the
country, saying his motive was to
provide a world class university.
He appealed to the Federal
Government to come to the
assistance of private universities in
the country, especially in the area of
research.
Plea to PHCN workers
Meanwhile, the President has urged
workers of recently privatised PHCN
to shelve their plan to go on strike on
the grounds of non-payment of their
entitlements. According to him,
efforts were on to pay the
entitlements.
Jonathan also assured Nigerians that
electricity supply will reasonably
stabilise before the middle of next
year.
He spoke while commissioning the
National Integrated Power Project
NIPP 500MW Omotosho Phase II
power station in Okitipupa council
area of Ondo State.
The commissioning of the Omotosho
NIPP is coming 16 days after that of
Geregu power station.
Jonathan said Nigerians should
appreciate the efforts of his
administration in transforming the
power sector.
” I am not saying that electricity
supply will be total but I want to
assure that light will be reasonably
stabilised before the middle of next
year,” the President said.
According to him, by the time his
administration is through with
transformation in the power sector,
the results will be likened to the
reforms in the banking and
telecommunication sectors.
The President pointed out that all the
ten NIPP which will add 4700MW to
the national grid, will be completed
by the end of first quarter of next year
and be privatised.
He commended Governor Olusegun
Mimiko of Ondo State, traditional
rulers, and youths in the community
for their supportive role in the
realisation of the project.
Earlier, Mimiko said the project will
only have meaningful impact when
transmission projects are completed.
According to Mimiko, the state will
soon complete and invite the
President to come and commission a
30MW power station in Omotosho
which was initiated by his
administration.
He commended the untiring efforts of
Jonathan in transforming
infrastructure in the country, noting
that posterity will judge him
positively.
Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu
Nebo, lauded the political will of the
President in effecting change not only
in the power sector but also in all the
sectors.
The Omotosho Phase II power station
was initiated in 2006 as a follow up
to the existing 338MW Omotosho
Phase I power station which was
constructed with the financial and
technical assistance of the
government of China.
source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/jonathan-begs-ASUU-phcn-workers/

Our journalists are gradually living up to expectations. We still need more thorough investigation on this issue. I hope this issue will not be swept under the carpet at last. But wait......Is massive looting and endemic corruption part of the transformation agenda of Mr President? I doubt if GEJ can provide a comprehensive answer to this question!

Confusion ensued yesterday in Jol, a village in Riyom local government area of Plateau State, as a Mobile Policeman, attached to the Special Task Force (STF) keeping the peace in the state, shot to death one of his colleagues.

It was gathered that two children, between the ages of eight and 12, were wounded in the shooting .

The kids were said to be receiving treatment at the Vom Christian Hospital in Jos South local government area of the state.

Spokesman for STF, Captain Salisu Mustapha, confirmed the incident, saying, “It is true that a Mobile Policeman attached to STF shot dead his colleague in Jol, Riyom local government area.

”Two children were seriously wounded in the shooting and are receiving treatment in Vom Christian Hospital”.

Mustapha added it was not clear what informed the shooting and killing of the policeman, explaining that the officer had been arrested and was being investigated to ascertain his motive.

source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/policeman-kills-colleague-plateau/

Should the strike be an excuse for moral ineptitude? May God help this country.

Why didn't the journalists demand to
see the cars themselves? Where is
investigative journalism or were they
bribed? For God's sake, this is a
sensitive issue that requires thorough
investigation. Those disgruntled
journalists who were there for the
media briefing should be relieved of
their duties for sheer incompetence,
unprofessional conduct and
deliberate compromise. Wish Sahara
Reporters were there.

Why didn't the journalists demand to see the cars themselves? Where is investigative journalism or were they bribed? For God's sake, this is a sensitive issue that requires thorough investigation. Those disgruntled journalists who were there for the media briefing should be relieved of their duties for sheer incompetence, unprofessional conduct and deliberate compromise. Wish Sahara Reporters were there.

Peoples Democratic Party, Rivers
State chapter, led by Chief Felix
Obuah, said the party is only
interested in removing Governor
Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, from office
legally, and not illegally, as alleged
on Thursday by a pro-Amaechi group,
Rivers People Forum (RPF).
Speaking to Saturday Sun in a
telephone interview on Friday, the
state secretary of the party, Prince
Ibibia Walter, said the Obuah–led
state PDP is a legal entity and does
not associate itself with illegality.
But, he quickly added that the party
welcomes any legal means of
removing the governor from office. “If
the removal of the governor from
office is legal, fair and square, then
there is no problem. But Rivers PDP
led by Obuah, does not subscribe to
anything illegal,” he said
He, therefore, described the alarm of
fresh plot to remove Amaechi from
office, as unfounded. Rivers People
Forum (RPF) had raised the alarm
that it had uncovered a fresh plot to
illegally remove the governor from
office.
The fresh plot, according to the group,
is to use blackmail and threat to force
him to resign from office. The
allegation, which was contained in a
press statement by its President,
Charles Bekwele, explained that the
plan, which he said, was being
spearheaded by a former legislator in
the state whose identity could not be
disclosed, was to give the Chairman
of Nigeria Governors’ Forum Chris
Ngige treatment.
The statement reads: “This fresh plot
to illegally remove Governor Amaechi
from office is another desperate move
by the Abuja cabal that is so
desperate to remove the governor
from office by ‘all means possible’.
This Abuja cabal has hatched a four-
part sinister plot that is planned to
end with the governor being
blackmailed and threatened to resign
from office.”
“Incontrovertible information at our
disposal indicates that the Abuja
cabal working with some expired
politicians in the state has planned to
execute this plot within three weeks.
The hatchet man of the expired
politicians is a former Rivers State
legislator who was recently involved
in the failed plot to remove the state
Speaker, Otelemaba Amachree, which
led to the fracas in the state
Assembly.
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/national/well-remove-amaechi-legal-means-rivers-pdp/

Indications emerged yesterday that
the two leading anti-corruption
agencies in the country, the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences
Commission (ICPC) may soon begin
investigations and a possible
prosecution of the Minister of
Aviation, Stella Oduah over the
purchase of two bullet-proof BMW
cars worth N255 million. Already,
Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana has sent a
petition to the EFCC with a seven-day
ultimatum to investigate the
allegation.
The leading anti-corruption agencies
yesterday told Saturday Sun that
they’re following the events, but
maintained that it was too early for
them to respond. They, however,
didn’t disclose when an investigation
or prosecution will be carried out.
The two bullet-proof BMW cars were
reportedly bought for the embattled
minister in August at the cost of
N255 million by the Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority (NCAA).
In separate interviews with Saturday
Sun , the spokesmen of EFCC and
ICPC, Wilson Uwujaren and Folu
Olamiti said the anti-corruption
agencies are not in the habit of
reacting to events such as this.
“I know what you’re talking about,
but we’ve no comment yet. We are
following the events,” ICPC
spokesman, Olamiti told Saturday
Sun during a phone chat.
In the same vein, the Anti-Corruption
Network, a civil society group in
Abuja, has threatened to drag the
minister before a competent court
next week if she fails to resign or
explain to Nigerians the source of the
money used in purchasing the cars.
The group’s executive secretary and
former member of the House of
Representatives, Dino Melaye further
warned that if she fails to heed their
demands after 72 hours, his group
will mobilise Nigerians and stage a
massive protest against her.
He said: “We are surprised that at a
time when the Federal Government
cannot pay ASUU, a minister under
President Goodluck Jonathan is
buying a car of that amount. The first
question to ask is this: is the money
spent in buying the cars appropriated
by the National Assembly? Our
preliminary investigation shows that
it was not budgeted for.
“It is either her agency is under-
declaring the IGR she generates or a
kick-back from the remodelling of the
airports. We want to know where she
got the money from.
“If it were to be during Obasanjo or
Yar’Adua, the minister would have
been fired. We are waiting to see
what the president will do as well as
the National Assembly.
“We are giving the minister 72 hours
to resign and refund the money spent
to the government coffers. Failure to
do so, we will mobilise Nigerians to
protest against this abuse of office.
Meanwhile, the NCAA at a press
conference addressed by its MD, Fola
Akinkiotu said that the cars were not
meant for the minister alone but for
other official use by her ministry and
other foreign aviation experts.
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/n255m-bulletproof-cars-efcc-icpc-may-step/

Patiently waiting for APC sycophants to infiltrate this thread

No be person wey see job fit prepare for interview?
Person never see job and you are
talking of questions not to ask.

Seventy-two hours after the kidnap
of Mrs Augusta Douglas Ayam, elder
sister of Mr. Oronto Douglas, Special
Adviser to the President on Research
and Documentation, her abductors
have contacted the family and
demanded N500 million as ransom.
This is coming at a time when the
Movement for the Emancipation of
Niger Delta (MEND) has appealed to
the kidnappers to release their victim,
revealing that it had made contacts
with them.
According to a family source, the
kidnappers called early yesterday and
introduced themselves as the people
holding Mrs. Ayam.
The source said they demanded a
ransom of N500 million to be paid
before today, boasting that they were
not willing to negotiate.
The family member told Daily Sun
that immediately the kidnappers
called and made their demands, they
switched off the phone as all
attempts to reach, to know about the
health of Mrs. Ayam proved abortive.
The source added that the family
members have contacted security
agencies over the new development,
as they not willing to pay ransom.
“They contacted us this morning
(yesterday) and asked for a ransom of
N500 million. It is laughable because
we don’t even have that kind of
money. They told us to pay before
Friday (today), as they would not
negotiate. We have already contacted
security agencies to intimate them
about the development.”
The Police Public Relations Officer
(PPRO), Mr Alex Akhigbe, who
confirmed that the demand of N500
million had been made, said no
ransom would be paid to secure the
freedom of Mrs. Augusta.
“Yes I have just heard that the
demand of N500 million has been
made. The family does not have that
money and of course, the Bayelsa
State Police Command would not
allow any ransom to be paid to those
bad boys. We have our strategy and
we are on their trail. Our ultimate goal
is to secure her freedom and arrest
the kidnappers,” he said.
A reliable security source said
investigation into the incident was
well advanced and some headway
had been made.
Also the spokesman of the Joint Task
Force (JTF), Operation Pulo Shield, Lt
Col Onyema Nwachukwu, said the
JTF was on top of the search for the
kidnappers in the creeks.
According to him, the search has
been intensified in the last 24 hours,
as the gunboats have penetrated the
creeks.
He expressed confidence that the
woman would soon be rescued and
her abductors arrested without
payment of any ransom.
Meanwhile, the Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta
(MEND) has appealed to the
kidnappers to release Mrs. Ayam.
MEND, in a statement by Jomo
Gbomo, said it had established
contact with the abductors.
According to the group, the abductors
were aggrieved over certain issues
during the burial of Oronto Douglas’
father last year.
MEND said it had declined to act as
intermediary between the kidnappers
and the family and pleaded with the
abductors to release the woman.
The statement reads in part: “The
Movement for the Emancipation of
the Niger Delta (MEND) has made
accidental contact with the abductors
of the sister of Mr. Oronto Douglas,
Special Adviser to President
Goodluck Jonathan on Research and
Strategy.
“The gang, in addition to seeking
ransom wants to use the kidnap to
express their disgust due to the
ostentation they witnessed during the
burial of Pa Douglas, which included
the abuse of military helicopters,
which were used as a social shuttle
service to ferry guests, when such
could have been put to better use. As
we do not wish to be dragged into
playing the role of an intermediary
with kidnapers, we have declined
their request to get involved based on
principles.
“We however appealed to them to
release the victim who was last seen
looking well but harassed unharmed
at the earliest.”
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/kidnappers-presidents-aides-sister-demand-n500m-ransom/

President Goodluck Jonathan has
given the National Identity
Management Commission (NIMC)
until December 31, 2014 to ensure
the enrolment of all eligible persons
into the National Identity Database,
as provided for in Section 16 of the
National Identity Management
Commission (NIMC) Act No. 23, of
2007.
He has also ordered that by the same
date, all 14 government agencies
requiring identity verification and
authentication services or involved in
data capture activities must align,
with a view to switching over to the
NIMC infrastructure.
The president noted: “If the work of
law enforcement officers is to be
enhanced; if consumer credit is to be
accessible; if we are to reduce the
cost of managing the Naira cash
component currently estimated at
N192 billion per annum; if we are to
reduce the amount of currency in
circulation currently put at N1.93
trillion; if we are to achieve a
multiple pronged approach to the
fight against corruption; and finally, if
we are to introduce social security or
welfare payments, then we must, first
and foremost, establish and verify
appropriately, the identities of
individuals.”
Jonathan gave the order yesterday at
the formal launch of the Enrolment
Exercise for the Issuance of the
National Identification Number (NIN)
at the Council Chambers of the State
House, Abuja.
He noted that Nigeria cannot be an
exception to the global trend towards
Identity Management and Centralised
National Identity Database. Also, he
noted that already, “there is a
growing quest for specific databases
and identity verification by several
government institutions and private
sector organizations in our country.”
President said: “Aside from being
unwieldy, the cost of operating
multiple discordant databases and
infrastructure is unsustainable.
Government cannot afford the
continued proliferation of data
capture activities. The proliferation
does not grant any advantage in
efficiency, neither does it make good
economic sense.
“The growing identity verification
needs, therefore, calls for
harmonisation and integration of
identity databases and the
development of a universal service
infrastructure.”
President Jonathan therefore, charged
the Secretary to the Government of
the Federation and the Federal
Ministry of Finance to “ensure that
these objectives, which are aimed at
streamlining biometrically-linked
databases and optimizing scarce
resources, are accomplished on
record time.”
He said while government remains
committed to the accelerated
development of the National Identity
Management System (NIMS), the
private sector must also rise up to its
role. “Corporate operators must seize
the unique opportunities provided by
the concession agreement, to make
investments in the scheme.
The Minister of Interior, Abba Moro,
cleared the air on the confusion that
other forms of registration will be
suspended. According to him, “there
is a scepticism in this country, of the
whole process of a national identity
card management system, viz-a-viz
the conduct of activities of some of
the MDAs that you are talking about.
The Nigerian Immigration Service
(NIS), for instance, does biometric
recording of travellers and people
who come into and out of Nigeria and
keeps the records and maintains the
database. The Federal Road Safety
Commission (FRSC), certainly has
registration exercise for drivers
licensees, but the National Identity
Management Commission takes
responsibility for the entirety of the
registration of Nigerians and so there
is no conflict in this situation.”
Speaking at the launch, the DG of the
NIMC, Chris Onyemenam, noted that
the main identification is the NIN
generated upon registration and is
not transferable. He added that the
issued identity card has multiple uses
and can be used for financial
operations linked to MasterCard,
Verve and Visa.
He noted that the new identification
system will help to eliminate identity
related fraud, and all forms of
deception, adding that by December
31, 2013, they would have mobilised
for registration to strategic places,
like military formations, university
campuses among others to fast-track
the enrolment.
Onyemenam said so far, 500 systems
have been deployed to 42 locations
nationwide, while over 2, 000 staff
have been engaged. He said the
commission records about 25,000
enrolment weekly in the 1, 750
enrolment units in the 774 local
government areas.
Chairman of the commission, Uche
Secondus, requested for full release of
N30.6 billion budget for the
commission to enable it carry out its
functions without hitches.
He also requested for an adoption of
same salary structure to ensure the
retention of skilled personnel that
have been acquired and trained by
the commission.
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/jonathan-sets-dec-2014-deadline-register-nigerians/

Tragedy struck yesterday in
Ilesa, Osun State as a 60-year-old
trader committed suicide in his house
located at Oke-Omiru area of the
townThe trader popularly called,
“Sunre,” who was a dealer of building
materials allegedly jumped into a
well located near his house.
It was gathered that the victim had,
last month, attempted to jump inside
a well in his house but was stopped
by his neighbours.
Dependable sources told Daily Sun
that the lifeless body of the trader was
later found inside the well some
hours after he took the deadly jump
According to eyewitness account, the
remains of the victim were discovered
at about 6 am by a resident who had
gone to draw water from the well and
consequently raised the alarm that
drew other members of the
neighbourhood to the scene.
Further investigation revealed that the
deceased had disclosed to some
people before his death, that he owed
someone in Abuja N350,000 and was
unable to pay.
It took the combined efforts of the
State Fire Services and the police to
recover the body of the deceased
which has been deposited at a
morgue in Ilesa.
Osun State Command of the Nigeria
Police confirmed the tragic incident
through its Police Public Relations
Officer, Mrs Folasade Odoro who said
that a team of detectives led by the
Divisional Police Officer (DPO) ,‘A’
Division in Ilesa quickly moved to the
scene where the corpse was removed.
She stated that investigation had
commenced on the circumstances
that led to the death of the trader,
adding that the family said they did
not suspect foul play as to the cause
of the death of the man.
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/man-60-commits-suicide-osun/

NIGERIANS are expected to witness
two major developments in the sky
within 17 days: a partial or rather
penumbral lunar eclipse around
midnight today, and a total solar
eclipse on Sunday.
According to reports from
Discovery.com and World Time and
Date, for the partial lunar eclipse,
what viewers can observe is the
slight darkening of the moon’s lower
part as it passes through the lighter
shadow right after it has risen.
The 2013 penumbral lunar eclipse
will be visible as well throughout the
Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Asia. A
report from Discovery.com says: “For
observers in Africa, Europe and
western Asia, the eclipse will occur in
the middle of the night when the
moon is high overhead. The partial
shading will be visible as the slight
reddish dimming of the normally
bright full moon.”
According to World Time and Date,
the world will experience a solar
eclipse on November 3, 2013. Most
parts of northern Nigeria, including
Kaduna, are expected to experience
total solar eclipse unlike other parts
of the country like Lagos, which will
experience only partial solar eclipse.
The last time Nigeria experienced a
total solar eclipse was on March 29,
2006, when most Nigerians watched
in amazement as the earth
experienced total darkness for a split
second.
According to Wikipedia, a lunar
eclipse occurs when the moon passes
directly behind the earth into its
umbra (shadow). This can occur only
when the sun, earth, and moon are
aligned (in ‘syzygy’) exactly, or very
closely so, with the earth in the
middle. Hence, a lunar eclipse can
only occur in the night of a full moon.
A partial lunar eclipse occurs when
only a portion of the moon enters the
umbra.
Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only
be viewed from a certain relatively
small area of the world, a lunar
eclipse may be viewed from anywhere
on the night side of the earth. A lunar
eclipse lasts for a few hours, whereas
a total solar eclipse lasts for only a
few minutes at any given place, due
to the smaller size of the moon’s
shadow. Also, unlike solar eclipses,
lunar eclipses are safe to view
without any eye protection or special
precautions, as they are no brighter
(indeed dimmer) than the full moon
itself.
The Guardian learnt that the partial
eclipse would be visible in most parts
of Nigeria between 10.53 p.m. today
and 2.48 a.m. October 19, 2013.
During the lunar eclipse today, part of
the moon will skirt through only the
outer edge of the earth’s shadow in
what scientists call a penumbral
lunar eclipse.
The experts stated in the Space.com
report: “Earth’s natural satellite will
pass through our planet’s faint outer
shadow, known as the penumbra, on
Friday, with the time of deepest
eclipse occurring at 7.50 p.m. EDT
(2350 GMT). The effect of such a
penumbral eclipse will be subtle
compared to the dramatic spectacle
of a total lunar eclipse, but it’s still
worth craning your neck skyward.”
According to Alan MacRobert of Sky
and Telescope, the unusual shading
on the lower part of the moon “should
be fairly plain.” MacRobert noted on
his report that viewers would be able
to notice lesser traces of the
penumbral shading for approximately
45 minutes before and after the mid-
eclipse if they looked for the
penumbral shadow “moving from
east to west across the disc.”
source: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/national-news/135986-nigerians-await-partial-lunar-eclipse-today

I think NEMA's flood prediction is part of the transformation agenda of Mr President. If it had happened, there wouldn't be a BREATH OF FRESH AIR. Don't ask me how because I don't know!

All Progressives Congress, APC, has
accused the Federal Government of
employing “cheap and ludicrous
strategy” by using market women,
religious leaders and students to put
pressure on the Academic Staff Union
of Universities, ASUU, to call off its
strike.
APC, in a statement in Lagos,
yesterday, by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
said that the strike, which is now in
its fourth month, would have ended
by now if the Federal Government
had pursued its negotiations with
ASUU with half the energy it had been
using to rally various groups to
protest against the union.
The party said: ‘’This infantile
statement by the leader of the
apparently misguided market women
is the most irresponsible statement
that anyone has made on the long-
drawn ASUU strike, and it is a shame
that the government is the instigator
of such nonsense.
‘’While indeed there are millions of
jobless Nigerians, is it just any
jobless Nigerian that can be a
university teacher?
“How does President Goodluck
Jonathan, himself a former university
teacher, feel about those apparently
hired by his administration treating
university teachers with so much
disrespect?”
source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/apc-slams-fg-plot-break-ASUU/

It's because the victim is not 'their own'. This further highlights the insensitivity of our leaders to the plight of the common man. The concerned authorities should better act fast to salvage the situation.
Madam, our prayers are with you. Get well soon!
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It's ok. I don hear. No time to read all these economic jargons!
Now, can someone help summarize this writeup?

Kudos to Sahara Reporters for their investigative journalism!
Why is the minister afraid of threats to her life? I thought she so much believes in the 'ACT OF GOD'. She should have left her protection in the hands of 'her' God. With a multicoloured face like hers, why does she need a 'bullet-proof' vehicle? PUBLIC OFFICE HOLDERS AND WASTEFUL SPENDING! And where are those gullible people defending her that 'she's our sister'? Buying bullet-proof vehicles for N255m at the expense of Air safety, which is her primary responsibility. A woman who couldn't even prevent over 200 deaths because of her gross act of personal aggrandisement, unprofessional conduct, sheer incompetence and bureaucratic stupidity. Madam, those departed innocent souls will continue to haunt, disturb, frighten and torment you.
GEJ, OVER TO U!
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As the All Progressives Congress
(APC) kicks off its campaign in
Anambra State, Lagos State
Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola
(SAN), and the National Leader of the
party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
have called on people of the state to
vote enmasse for Ngige, saying he is
the most experienced of all the
candidates being fielded by political
parties for the governorship seat.
Speaking at a fund-raising dinner
organised by the party in Lagos,
Governor Fashola asserted that out of
all those, who had offered themselves
for the governorship of the state,
Ngige was the most experienced man
for the job, adding that experience
was key to the business of
governance.
The governor told the gathering of
prominent Igbo businessmen and
women at the Lagos House, Marina,
venue of the event that, “Experience is
very key in this business. So, if you
support him, things will happen
quickly because he has held that
office before and that is experience.
He has Federal Civil Service structure
experience; he served as a director in
the Federal Civil Service. The driver of
government is the public service. That
is experience”.
Citing his experience on being elected
governor in 2007 to emphasize the
importance of experience, Governor
Fashola said because he was in
government of the state for four years
as Chief of Staff to his immediate
predecessor, assuming duties as
governor was not stressful because
he already had the experience of
office modalities.
Giving other reasons why the choice
of Dr. Ngige is important, Governor
Fashola, who said he has travelled
severally to the East at various times,
expressed sadness that development
has largely eluded that part of the
country as a result of lack of the right
leadership.
In his opening remarks before
presenting the candidate, National
Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, described Dr. Ngige
as “a good man, very committed to
the welfare of the people and
committed to the progressive
calling”, adding that during his first
coming, there were serious
challenges which he was able to
handle in addition to the many
achievements of his administration.
Noting that Anambra is more or less
a Civil Service State, Asiwaju Tinubu
declared, “If you take away the
salaries from people, the ordinary
housewives and traders in the market
will not make money. Without
salaries, they could not sustain
families and if they could not sustain
families that would create greater
challenges such as insecurity. The
fact that he tackled it and solved it
was a sign of a committed individual
with good vision”.
Urging the people to vote for Dr.
Ngige, Asiwaju Tinubu pleaded, “I
appeal to you to accept Ngige as an
actualizer who could change
Anambra. If you give us Anambra and
you give us Imo in the Progressives,
you will see the entire East will
change. Go round the South West you
will see performances. All you need is
a catalyst, a good example that will
be now widespread”.
Addressing the well attended fund
raising dinner earlier, Dr. Ngige
debunked the notion that APC was a
Yoruba party saying, “The All
Progressives Congress is not Party for
any tribe. It is not a Yoruba Party and
Yorubas can never own it. It is not
Hausa party; the Hausas can never
own it. It is not Igbo Party. Igbos can
never own it. It is a Nigerian Party for
the progress of Nigeria. I say this
because of the propaganda being
peddled by the APGA government in
Anambra State only”.
Presenting his manifesto to the
people, Dr. Ngige declared, “It is not
about me. It is about our children and
the future of the State. We have the
human and financial resources to
make Anambra State a place
everyone would like to go to.
Statistics don’t lie. While I was there,
Anambra was the richest State in the
country, today we are the 20th in
poverty ranking in the country. We
must look at people based on who
they are and their ability to deliver.
The Party they belong to is
secondary”.
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/national/fashola-tinubu-drum-support-ngige/

It was a tragic end for a father of four
and his lover who were found dead
naked in a room, at Ago-Iwoye, in
Ijebu North Local Government Area of
Ogun state yesterday. The man,
identified as Akeem, believed to be in
his 50s was a father of four children
living in his one room apartment with
his wife. His wife and three children
were said to have travelled to Imodi
Imosan to celebrate sallah with his
families and he used the opportunity
of their absence to invite his lover
home.
It was alleged that Akeem had
brought in the lady (whose identity
was unknown) on the night his wife
travelled with his children. In the
morning, both of them were found
dead in the room, with the man lying
naked on the bed, while the lady’s
body was on a two-seater couch.
According to investigation, Akeem
and his legal wife was both fashion
designer. They both own Alubarika
Fashions located at Atomotele
compound in Igan road, Ago Iwoye.
“Akeem brought his lover to come
and stay with him over the night,
since his wife and children were not
at home,” said a neighbour, who
identified himself as Idowu Odunsi.
According to him, when other tenants
did not see Akeem in the morning,
somebody hinted them that he saw
him with a lady inside the shop
previous night, prompting them to go
to his room.
Idowu said after several knock on the
door without any response, they
forced the door opened, only to
discover the dead bodies.
“We were shocked and dumbfounded
to see him naked on the bed and the
lady on the chair,” he stated, adding:
“We cannot say precisely what
caused his death and that of his
strange lover,” he stated.
Landlord of the house, where the late
Akeem was living, 70 years, Pa
Oluwakemi Odunsi, explained that
deceased had slaughtered his Eid -el
Kabir ram that day, after which he
informed him that he wanted to retire
to his shop.
He said: ‘’it was this morning
(Wednesday) around 10a.m. that I
ordered that his shop door be forced
opened, when we did not see him
throughout the previous night and we
behold the gory sight,:
Divisional Police Officer, Ago Iwoye
Mr. Peter Idenhe, who led police team
to the scene of the incident, said: “I
suspect generator fume because we
found some evidence of generator n
the same building where the
deceased were.”
He however stated also: “Though I
cannot categorically determine the
cause of the death until autopsy is
carried out, preliminary investigation
shows that they might have died
from inhalation of generator fumes.”
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/lover-found-dead-naked-ogun/

What's my business if she looks like a Tom boy?
I luv my girlfriend, datz my business, U may know her other boyfriends, datz ur business, Her friends may know who she flirts with, datz their business! Now, can we all mind our business.
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All Progressives Congress (APC) in
the North-East geopolitical zone
yesterday extended its hands of
fellowship to the aggrieved governors
of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) and their supporters, asking
them to join the political party.
Interim National Vice Chairman,
North-East, Alhaji Umaru Duhu, who,
along with APC stalwarts, paid a
Sallah homage to Governor Murtala
Nyako of Adamawa State, said as
progressive-minded politicians, they
needed to join other progressives in
APC to move the nation forward.
Other aggrieved PDP governors are
Sule Lamido, Jigawa State; Rabiu
Kwankwaso, Kano State; Aliyu
Wamakko, Sokoto State; Babangida
Aliyu, Niger State; Abdulfatah Ahmed,
Kwara State and Rotimi Amaechi,
Rivers State.
Duhu said the APC leadership was
not only in Government House to pay
the governor Sallah homage, but also
to extend the hands of fellowship to
him and the entire PDP G7.
According to him, the PDP G7 and
their supporters deserved to be
registered as members of the APC
because of their stance in the affairs
of the nation and the ideals they were
promoting for Nigeria to be given
recognition as one of the most
democratic nations of the world.
Duhu, described their visit as home-
coming, because Nyako was a
member of the defunct All Nigerian
People’s Party (ANPP), which is now
part of APC, before he decamped to
the PDP.
He saw the governor stance as an
indication that he still possessed the
progressive spirit, in line with the APC
ideals.
“Our coming to the Government
House is a home-coming.
It is a re-union of all progressive-
minded Nigerians of Adamawa
extraction,” he said.
He lauded the spirit of the northern
governors that formed the new PDP,
because the North, in his reasoning,
is the engine room of Nigeria and no
region of the country could afford to
relegate the zone in its political
calculation.
Nyako, who lauded the ideals of APC
and its membership, especially in the
North-East region, stated that the
new era of change should be
embraced by all Nigerians because
the country was yearning for the
desired change.
Although he said he was not a card-
carrying member of APC, he stated
that he admired the party’s
governors, especially in the South-
West, North-West and the North-
East.
According to him, APC had proved
itself as a formidable political party
that could deliver the goods to
Nigerians, because the members
were not mediocres. He appealed to
Nigerians to rise against mediocrity
in the country’s polity, while
mediocre politicians should not be
allowed to run the affairs of the
country.
According to him, Nigerians were
actually yearning for a change but
such desired change could only be
achieved if there were equity, justice
and fairness in the polity.
source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/apc-woos-amaechi-pdp-governors/

May God bless her for her service to the masses. Her humility, simplicity, ingenuity and proven integrity speak for her! Unlike most Governor's wives that only show off at public functions with heavy makeup and large security aides. If you attempt to get closer to them, it is considered a breach of security protocols and u'll be severely dealt with.
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YEP. I got a text from MTN to recharge #200 and win an aeroplane. I quickly dashed out and recharged my account. I called their customer care unit to book appointment for my aeroplane. To my greatest surprise, the female voice only responded, "Thank you for choosing MTN"

Nigerians are really doing great!

I'll be back