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May her soul continue to rest in peace. Amen.

ceo4eva: Pls dear, I never wrote 'massive crowd'. Just admit you were in a haste to comment or you didn't notice. Thank You!

Don't mind the dat supporter of APC Berem. She wan use her illiteracy and mistake shine on top ur head.
That's the trademark of APC.

ANAMBRA11: APC really lost a weapon after loosing diz man but wait oo why did ffk thread stop making front page since he defected?

because seun and mukina2 are not interested...

Bombshell!!!
Liar Mohammed remains one of their Chief Sponsors.

That's the sign of a good leader.
God Bless President Jonathan!

Jonathan is such a nice man with a good heart.
He remains a Perfect Gentleman.
God Bless President Jonathan!

Where is Oby Ezekwesili? She ran to
London a day before GEJ met with the girls and the parents! Shame on her. She allowed herself to be used and encouraged by political opportunists.

OtunbaJega: ^ Mad people on rampage. Click like if you think those that commented before me are olofos and Jonathan butt lickers

Click 'LIKE' If you think this guy I quoted is Myopic, Irrational and Daft in reasoning.

APC remains a Party of Destruction

This is Serious!

HisSexcellency: So gej had to cook up a scholarship scheme he never plannd and made provisions for, just to please malala. What happens to the millions of innocent boys and girls in the north or they need to be kidnapped too before government would act.
I listened to one of the girls interviewed by cnn, she couldnt speak english. Some one had to interprete in english, and i was wondering how she got to ss3 cus i know that economics, maths, agric, chemistry, etc are written in english.

Too bad!

Donmarrius: And thunder will fire whosoever that will opens his/her mouth,to question the rationale behind this demand,or even spew trash as regards this,without first questioning the impectus/audacity,with which the Northeast,in conspiracy with its other northern appendages,is rooting to coner 5% of fund acrueing to the federation account,in the pretext of 'National intervantion fund',for boko haram ravages,in their abode,despite being the architect of their own misfortune.

Let me say this,Igbos never declared war on Nigeria,Nigeria under the leadership of a kakistomoboplutocrat called Gowon declared war against Igbos.
Ojukwu didnt fire any shot,until Gowom did.hence,Igbos merely fought to defend themselves from Gowons onslaught,which was hijacked by ethnic chauvinists from the southwest and north,to commit organised pogrom/genocide,against Igbos.
Therefore,Nigeria must also reconciliate,reconstruct,and rehabilitate,Igboland.

guys dey vex..

OrlandoOwoh: These people are by default senseless. Imagine the senseless demand.

And u believe u have more sense?
Get a life!

Interesting!
Let's see how it goes!

APC are full of hypocrites.
Let them continue wasting their time. They'll still lose at the Tribunal!

I'll only say 'God Bless Jonathan'

God Bless President Jonathan!

God Bless President Jonathan!

God Bless President Jonathan!

It's getting more interesting by the day...

PDP Offers Tambuwal Sokoto Governorship Ticket

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) whose membership is fast being depleted by the defection of party bigwigs to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has launched a bid to keep the House of Representatives Speaker, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, under its umbrella.

The party is dangling before the speaker, a key ally of Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, who is one of the five PDP governors that have defected to APC, the ticket to fly the flag of the ruling party in the 2016 governorship election in the state.

To demonstrate its sincerity, the party Thursday cancelled the planned inauguration of the caretaker committee for the state chapter of the PDP to enable Tambuwal nominate candidates who will protect his interest in the party's affairs in Sokoto.

However, the PDP inaugurated the caretaker committee for Kwara State, another state where the PDP has lost a large number of members, including the Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, and his predecessor who is now a senator, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to APC.
PDP's bid to discourage Tambuwal from defecting to APC came against the backdrop of the defection of nearly all top political officer holders in Sokoto State, including House members from the state, 27 lawmakers from the state House of Assembly, cabinet members, local government chairmen and councillors who followed Wamakko to APC.

Speculations are rife that the speaker is only bidding his time and may soon join other top politicians from the state in APC.

However, aware of the grave implications of allowing the House speaker to cross carpet, it was learnt Thursday that it had moved to make offers to the speaker to keep him in the party.

Notwithstanding the gale of defections from the ruling party, Senate President David Mark expressed optimism yesterday that this would not lead to the disintegration of PDP as party leaders were taking steps to arrest the situation.

Also, PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, described the defection of the 27 lawmakers from the Sokoto assembly as democracy in action.

It was gathered that the decision to lobby Tambuwal to remain in PDP, which prompted the party to shelve the inauguration of the caretaker committee members for Sokoto State, was reached at a meeting between Jonathan and Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio.

The meeting between the president and the governor, THISDAY learnt, came on the heels of Tambuwal’s visit to Akpabio in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, on Monday, during which the governor begged him to stop further defections of PDP House members to APC following the switch of political allegiance by 37 federal lawmakers.

The party had recently dissolved both the executive committees in its local chapters in Kwara and Sokoto States following the defection of their governors.

But while the members of the Sokoto State caretaker committee of the party were waiting to be inaugurated along with their Kwara State counterparts in Abuja yesterday, they were told that only those of Kwara would be sworn in.

Members of the Sokoto State PDP Caretaker Committee, including the nominated chairman, Hon. Abba Anas Adamu and the Secretary, Ahmadu Sulieman, were already seated at the national secretariat of PDP waiting to be inaugurated when word came from the presidency that the committee should not be inaugurated until further notice.
Sources said a list of new committee members, comprising loyalists to Tambuwal, was being complied and would be inaugurated later.

Inaugurating the Kwara State Caretaker Committee with Solomon Edoja as chairman and Jubril Bala Jos as secretary, Tukur charged them with the task of ensuring PDP wins next year's governorship election in the state.

Speaking later on the defection of 27 members of the Sokoto assembly to APC, he described it as democracy in action.

“This is democracy in action where freedom of choice is entrenched. Their defection is in line with their governor, Aliyu Wamakko, who had earlier defected.
When 27 people leave, 270,000 will come in; this is democracy by election. If few had left, many would come in,” he said.

Tukur who restated his belief in democracy said there would no longer be imposition of candidates as the era had gone in PDP.

Also yesterday, Mark expressed hope that PDP would overcome the challenges posed by the loss of its members to APC.

“We will arrest the current situation and save our party from further disintegration. Some Nigerians are talking about the tsunami in the PDP because of the defection by some members of our party holding elective and non-elective positions.

“But as leaders, we will not sit by and continue to allow this drift. We shall do the needful and ensure that we save our great party,” he said.

Mark, who spoke while hosting the British Parliamentary Undersecretary of States for Justice, Jeremy Wright, in Abuja, also called for a global approach to tackle terrorism and end the menace threatening world peace.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/pdp-offers-tambuwal-sokoto-governorship-ticket/168489/

The American National Centre for Education Statistics has told PREMIUM TIMES that the Pacific Christian University, Glendale, which Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, claimed awarded her a doctorate degree, does not exist, confirming this newspaper’s Wednesday’s report that the minister’s purported honorary Ph.D is fake.

The National Centre for Education Statistics is an agency under the U.S. Department of Education.

Responding to a PREMIUM TIMES’ inquiry, the spokesperson for the agency, which maintains a comprehensive and up-to-date database of all American public and private educational institutions, said, “Thank you for your inquiry. I do not see a university in our database that is Pacific Christian University in Glendale”.

She however suggested that the closest to Pacific Christian University in the database might be Hope International University in Fullerton which she believed used to be known as Pacific Christian College.

Contacted, Every Delarosa of the registrar’s office at Hope International University confirmed that the institution used to be known as Pacific Christian College and not Pacific Christian University as Mrs. Oduah indicated in her resume.

Even at that, Ms. Delarosa insisted Mrs. Oduah could not be referring to Hope University because the institution changed its name from Pacific Christian College in 1997 while Mrs Oduah claimed she was awarded a doctorate in Business Administration 1998.

The Hope University official also explained that the institution, even when it was known as Pacific Christian College, had never had a campus in Glendale. She said the university was based in Long Beach city at the time.

“We do not have any records of any candidate by the name Stella Oduah or related names,” Ms. Delarosa said, after pouring through the university record. “Whether now that we are Hope University and in the past when we were Pacific Christian College, we did not give any such person a degree here.”

This newspaper had Wednesday reported that the aviation minister lied on oath to the Nigerian Senate, by claiming that a Pacific Christian University awarded her an honorary doctorate degree in 1998.

Mrs. Oduah had made the claim in a 7-page resume she distributed to Nigeria’s 109 senators during her confirmation hearing on July 2, 2011.
On page four of the document, the minister claimed the university, which she said was based in Glendale, awarded her an honorary doctorate in Business Administration.

It was based on this document that she was grilled and eventually confirmed by the lawmakers.

But investigations by PREMIUM TIMES had determined Wednesday that no university called Pacific Christian University existed in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Education, through its National Centre for Education Statistics, keeps an up-to-date database of all public libraries and educational institutions in the country – public, private and colleges.

PREMIUM TIMES reporters spent hours on Wednesday searching this database.

Our reporters searched by state (California), city (Glendale) and name of institution (Pacific Christian University). Yet, nothing came up in the name of the university Mrs. Oduah claimed gave her an honorary doctorate.

According to the database, there are six colleges (universities) in Glendale, a city of 191,719 inhabitants in Los Angeles County, in the state of California.

The colleges are American Medical Sciences Centre, Brand College, Glendale Career College, Glendale Community and North-West College.
There is no such university known as
Christian Pacific College as claimed
by the minister.
Efforts by PREMIUM TIMES to get the
spokespersons for the minister to
comment for this story were
unsuccessful.
Joe Obi, her special assistant on
media, did not answer or return calls.
Yakubu Datti, the spokesperson of the
aviation agencies, who usually speak
for her, answered our call but
immediately said he would call back.
He is yet to do so as at the time of
publishing this.
Mrs. Oduah, and her associates have
been cleaning up the minister’s
biographies on the Internet, following
allegations that she lied about her
academic qualifications.
The minister claimed she got
Bachelor and Masters degrees from
St. Paul’s College.
But after it became clear she might
not have earned a Masters from that
university, Mrs. Oduah edited her
biography on the website of the
Ministry of Aviation , with references
to St. Paul’s College removed.
The Wikipedia page of the minister
was also edited and it now has no
reference to the university Mrs.
Oduah attended. The last edit on the
Wikipedia page was done at 14:41
p.m. Nigerian time Tuesday.
All links and reference materials on
the Wikipedia page capable of linking
the minister to the university were
also deleted.
Even the minister’s personal website
was reviewed to remove any
reference to St. Paul’s College.
Mrs. Oduah had since October been
enmeshed in a a N255million
armoured cars scandal in which she
was accused of compelling an
agency under her supervision, the
Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority,
NCAA, to buy her two exotic bullet
cars at clearly inflated prices.
The purchase of the cars generated
outrage for weeks because its cost
was inflated, and it was neither listed
in the government-approved budget
nor did it comply with the Nigeria’s
public procurement law.
The House of Representatives has
since asked President Goodluck
Jonathan to sack the minister but the
president has failed to act.
http://premiumtimesng.com/news/152990-american-education-dept-university-confirm-stella-oduahs-honorary-ph-d-is-fake.html?wpmp_tp=1

It's really serious! These women must have been really provoked beyond control to go half-unclad. I don't fancy the sight at all...

ceo4eva: "If Real Madrid comes back against Borussia Dortmund and make it to the final of the Champions League, I will let my girlfriend sleep with all the players."
Mario Balotelli speaking ahead of a Champions League semi-final second-leg at the Bernabeu in 2013.

Balotelli is indeed a crazy guy