₦airaland Forum

That's why some places in nigeria will still remain under-developed.








Our friends frm the SE now vote based on party and ignore individual capabilities.

Ngige and soludo still remain the best candidates for Anambra.
But I still believe Ngige is stronger politically than Soludo.

Anambrarians.......yours fate lies in your hands

Frm d coments above, it is easy 2 deduc d performance of govnors frm difrent zones of d country.
Sw: almost all d gov here are xcelent perfomers cnsidern reports frm ppl residn in thr states.
SE: only few lik enugu, anambra, imo re truly workn. D rest re figurehead.
SS: rivers nd akwa ibom re d only performn gov here
NORTH
almost all GOV here are under-performin.

Foolish people.
I no get lite since 3days ago now 4 my area in ogun state.
Smh 4 naija

OP is jobless........


Comparing songs with different genres

Davido all the way

Pastor TB Joshua

Prof Wole Soyinka

MKO Abiola

Pat Utomi

Babatunde fashola

Secret Meetings With OBJ : Jonathan, 4
northern govs play hide and seek

*Ex-leader is my father – President

*’He’s the most accomplished Nigerian alive’

BY DAUD OLATUNJI,ABEOKUTA

President Goodluck Jonathan and four northern
governors, yesterday, engaged in a dramatic hide
and seek game of politics in Abeokuta, Ogun State
capital, where they did not only hold separate secret
meetings with former President Olusegun Obasanjo
but also avoided one another.

The drama began when Jonathan paid an
unscheduled visit to his estranged godfather in his
mansion on Osoba Hilltop, Abeokuta, after the four
northern governors had arrived Abeokuta but,
reportedly, hid in an undisclosed location
apparently to avoid the President.
File photo: Obasanjo and President Jonathan,
putting heads together during a PDP
convention.

There has been no love lost between Jonathan and
some northern governors who have been
clamouring that the presidency should revert to the
North in 2015 to compensate for the death of former
President Umaru Musa Yar ‘Adua mid-way to his
tenure in 2010 .

The President, who was on his way from Togo,
arrived Abeokuta at 11:52am and, reportedly,
ordered some members of his advance party to
proceed to the house of his Special Adviser on Media
and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, while he drove into
Obasanjo’s expanse compound where he
immediately held a closed-door meeting with the
former Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for about one and a
half hours.

Sunday Vanguard gathered that Jonathan was
originally billed to visit Abati in his private house at
Asero
Estate in Abeokuta to commiserate with him over
the death of his mother, Madam Maria Taiwo Abati,
who was buried on Friday before he decided to
see Obasanjo.

It was learnt that the quartet of the PDP northern
governors – Murtala Nyako(Adamawa State), Alhaji.
Sule Lamido(Jigawa State), Alhaji Aliu Wammako
(Sokoto State) and Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano
State)- were to meet with Obasanjo at about the
same time but decided to delay their arrival in the
former President’s residence by stopping at an
undisclosed location in Abeokuta ostensibly to avoid
meeting Jonathan.
The governors arrived Obasanjo’s compound
minutes after Jonathan left the place around
1:25pm.
Jonathan’s mission to Obasanjo’s home was
unknown ,but a source said it may not be
unconnected with his purported 2015 re–election
bid which the former President is reportedly
opposing.
It is widely believed that Lamido is being subtly
supported by the former President as the person to
fly the PDP presidential ticket in the next general
elections in a bid to return power to the North.
It was not also immediately known why the four
northern governors visited Obasanjo and the
content of the secret meeting , but when they
emerged about an hour later, Nyako told reporters
that they were in Abeokuta for “consultation” with
the former President on “very important matters.”
Nyako said, “We have come to greet the most
accomplished Nigerian ever and would remain so for
a very long time and to consult with him on very
important matters.”
Meanwhile, Jonathan arrived Abati’s house at 1:
43 pm, and went into a closed-door meeting with the
family and later addressed newsmen on what took
him to Abeokuta.
President Jonathan during his condolence visit
to the Abatis in Abeokuta, yesterday.
When asked about his mission to Obasanjo’s house,
the President said: “Of course, you know that
Reuben’s house and Obasanjo’s house are just
about 10 minutes drive to each other. It would not
be proper if I’m coming to Ogun State to see Reuben
who is just at Obasanjo’s backyard and I would not
stop over to greet him (Obasanjo).

“ Even if he hears that, they would think that I, as
Obasanjo’s son, and my father (as he is)probably
have some
differences. So, I said that before coming to greet
the family, let us stop over and greet Obasanjo and
we did that. We stopped over there.
“Even our helicopters are there in the Government
House, we drove down here,” Jonathan said.
In his remarks on the death of Abati’s mother, the
President said, “The death of Madam Maria Taiwo
Abati touches all of us and we must collectively play
our role. Since we were unable to be here for the
church programme, we said
that this morning we have to be here”.
The President continued: “We must come and greet
our brothers and sisters to express our condolence
and to encourage the family. Those of us who are
Christians, the Bible says that we are supposed to
live three scores and 10. So any number of years
above that three scores and 10 is a blessing.
“ So, for her to have lived to that ripe age, her
departure should be celebrated and not mourned.
So, our being here is to encourage them and to
reassure the family that we are together and we’ll
continue to be together”.
Addressing newsmen after Jonathan left his house,
Abati disclosed that he did not expect the President
to come in person following his financial assistance
towards his mother’s funeral ceremony.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/secret-meetings-with-obj-jonathan-4-northern-govs-play-hide-and-seek/

PDP is only making Amaechi powerful.




The fact that the party finds it difficult to handle Amaechi up till now should tell them that it won't be an easy task for them to oust Amaechi from office.


Amaechi understands the game of politics and he knows fully well whom he must romance.

That's why the attempt by pro-gej lawmakers to impeach him failed.

It can be deduce that the stake of Amaechi in Rivers PDP is a great one and it will be hard for him to be removed from office by the PDP without strong backing of the legislators which Amaechi has almost total control over.

Instead of crying over spilled milk, what the PDP need badly is to infilterate the house of assembly and sway legislators to their side.
They should also look within the party and root out all loyalists of Amaechi, even in the so-called Wike's faction.

Amaechi can't survive till this moment if truly the party is against him.

It means there are loyalists of Amaechi even within the Wike's faction.
Untill all these are identified, Amaechi will be waxing stronger while ridiculing the PDP and making them seem powerless.
It will be a slap on PDP if Amaechi should survive all these hurdles and completes his tenure.
It will tag the party as powerless and lacking control over its members.

I love Amaechi......he understands his game even more than the acclaimed clueless GEJ.

BTW, the pro-Amaechi lawmakers, are they not member of the PDP?

If they are members of the PDP, then the PDP in rivers state is doomed.

It means the party doesnot even have control over honorables under its umbrella.

So how then do they want to discipline Amaechi even if He is expelled from the party eventually?

This is what a reasonable person should ruminate upon, rather than taking sides.

The OP is jobless......



Find the lapses in ur pathetic life rather than wastin ur time onDbanj...........who doesn't even give a shyte about u

OP is a fool.........

Lmao..


Smart one from you

Eko o ni baje ooooo


SW ko ni baje oooo

I will still vote
Aregbesola for 2nd term

Bleep.u.sexkills:
Say what say what?

Anything can happen!

I sight you from afar

Useless governor.......



All these so-called projects sum 2geda by TA Orji in 8 years will not amount to the achievements of AREGBESOLA in less than 4 years.



Osun A Dara oo

Eja nla himself.....




May u walk and never stumble

Nigeria....



Smh for this shit-hole called naija....

Unserious set of people......

See all of them with big bellies....filled with stipends from politicians.

Joblesness @ its peak.

These fools are not protesting for efficient delivery of democracy dividends, but rather basing their protests on APC/PDP


This tells us they are sponsored politically.

They are not demanding quality education, infrastructures, good road networks etc.

They are mortgaging their future because of peanuts they will receive.

Tomorrow, they will go to shell and complain of unemployment.

If these are the sets of youths nigeria can boast of, then I weep for the future of nigeria.

Good one from wizzy...




Dunno if Davido could also prostrate...

I eventually left the registration centre @ 5pm since 11am


It was so tiring but am glas that its all over now.


Although we are just developing, we have a very long way to go in nigeria.

Online registration is useless perhaps since one will still be required to fiil the form all again.

Jobless sets of illiterates....



Is shell the FG who must cater for their welfare?


After all, the first lady is from their state.

Instead of them to acquire quality education, they will be roaming the streets waiting for govt to spoon feed them.

Abeg, park well

ACN urges Lagos to appeal Al-Mustapha's release

2013-07-15 23:00:48

The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has urged Lagos State Government to contest the acquittal of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, of the conspiracy and murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola.

Al-Mustapha, a former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Sani Abacha, was discharged and acquitted last Friday by the Court of Appeal, sitting in Lagos.

In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, on Monday, the ACN said the judgment by the Appeal Court, was yet another indictment on the capacity of the nation's judiciary to avail Nigerians of justice.

"Al-Mustapha's acquittal is a shame and follows a pattern that has never punished high networth offenders for crimes they committed against the state or fellows Nigerians," the statement read.

The party said it was still in shock over Al- Mustapha's acquittal, given all evidence that had so far been tendered against him and his co-accused, Lateef Shofolahan.

It said, "Weighty evidence had been proferred against Al-Mustapha, including confessions of Sergeant Rogers, Maj. Muhammed Abdul, (the men that allegedly pulled the trigger that killed Mrs. Abiola) and Alhaji Lateef Shofolahun.

"Dismissing the case for lack of evidence seems to be a way of ensuring that Al-Mustapha escapes justice for the acts of crime and not in any way helping the soiled image of the Nigerian judiciary."

The party noted that the acquittal came a few days after a popular Internet news site did a detailed report of an extensive plan to free Al-Mustapha and ensure that he escaped punishment for Kudirat's death.

ACN said, "We believe that the judiciary, by this questionable verdict, is hoping to consign the killing of Kudirat Abiola to the long list of unsolved assassination cases that haunt the country today.

"While we align ourselves with the opinions of millions of Nigerians, who have called on the Lagos State Government to appeal the latest verdict and diligently pursue the course of justice for the slain Kudirat Abiola, we state that Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder if Nigerians could be killed at will and their killing shoved under the carpet."

http://mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/acn-urges-lagos-to-appeal-al-mustaphas-release/

I have now entered eventually.


No. 36....means 36 people will be attended to before me.

Anyway, anyhow, I must be registered today

Am presently @ the registration centre in osogbo, osun state.

Mehnnnnn, the experience is horrible.

About 100 people already on ground and there are still several people outside including me.

The nimc staffs don't allow anyone to enter again until they are through with those inside.


Poor arrangement and organization on the part of NIMC.

Few staffs available to attend to people.

Seems I will come back tomorrow.

It is unreasonable for the two governors of oyo and osun to appoint someone with a tainted image like prof wale omole as chairman, governing council of LAUTECH.

Wale Omole was indicted by the committee setup to look into the July 10 massacre @ OAU and was even removed from office due to his involvement in the saga then.

Ladokites (Lautech students) would not rest until this decision is reversed.

Also, the National Association of Nigerian Students NANS, should come to our aid and join us in this struggle.

We also implore fellow comrades from all instititutions in Nigeria to join our cause.

We say no to illegality,

We say no to the appointment of Prof Wale Omole as Chairman, Governing Council, Lautech.

Aluta Continua,

Victoria Asata,

Amala Awetu

No To The Appointment Of Prof. Wale
Omole As Pro-Chancellor Of LAUTECH-ERC

July 15, 2013 - 17:45 — siteadmin

By Hassan Taiwo Soweto

We Demand His Arrest for Alleged Sponsoring of
The Murder of 5 Union Leaders of OAU on July
10, 1999.

The ERC strongly condemns the Osun and Oyo
States governments for appointing an alleged
murderer, Professor Wale Omole as the Pro-
Chancellor and Governing Council Chairman of
the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
(LAUTECH). This appointment is an insult to the
memory of the five Union leaders murdered in
cold blood on July 10, 1999 by cultists widely
believed to have been sponsored by Prof. Wale
Omole while he was the Vice Chancellor of the
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU). We call on
the two state governments to reverse themselves
on this ignoble and embarrassing appointment.
We do not for a moment believe the duo of
Governor Aregbesola and Ajimobi are ignorant of
Prof. Wale Omole's brutal, despotic and bloodied
antecedent as a university administrator.
However assuming they have forgotten, we
would endeavour to rejig their memory.
For 8 years he was the Vice Chancellor of OAU,
Prof. Wale Omole terrorised students and staff of
the University. Not only was he ever-ready to
impose any unpopular anti-poor education
policies of the military regimes, his own brutal
tenure became a sad testament of the
militarization of an ivory tower. Wale Omole
acting the script of the military regimes saw
independent unionism, especially the buoyant,
ideological-driven and radical unionism of OAU,
as an impediment to pro-market education
policies and from early on in his tenure strove to
clip the wings of radical students and staff
unions.
The OAU students union which was very active in
the mass struggle to end military rule naturally
became a target for clampdown. This was a
period when Abacha's gun men were ravaging
the pro-democracy camp killing activists and
clamping many, including journalists, into prison
without trial. Prof. Wale Omole became more than
a willing tool, more accurately a maniacal
enthusiast, for the Abacha military regime in its
bid to snuff life out of the students wing of the
pro-democracy struggle. He banned the OAU
students union several times during his tenure.
Tens of student activists and union leaders were
summarily expelled. In 1995, Prof. Wale Omole
expelled the then President of the Students
Union, Anthony Fasayo and many other leaders
and activists of the union. For the next seven
years, OAU students continued to fight for their
reinstatement thereby suffering more
victimisation in the process.
In 1999, a radical Union leadership emerged
under the leadership of Akinyemi Iwilade (a.ka.
Afrika) who was the secretary general and Lanre
Adeleke (a.k.a Legacy) who was the president.
Under their tenure, the struggle against the anti-
poor education policies of Wale Omole's
administration and for recall of victimised
activists received a new boost. Students protests,
boycotts and demonstrations against the
management and the military regime became the
order of the day. Many anti-poor policies of the
University administration including an attempt to
increase fees were defeated. Faced with a
determined Union leadership ready to fight it to a
standstill, Wale Omole's University administration
drew a line in the sand. As suspension and
expulsion no more frightened students, Prof. Wale
Omole placed his hope on cult groups which was
then becoming a menace in the University due to
the brutal attacks on independent unionism and
their encouragement by the management.
On March 7 1999, the Students' Union led by
Secretary General of the Union Akinyemi Iwilade
(Afrika) apprehended some cultists belonging to
confraternity with arms including guns
with several rounds of ammunition. They were
interrogated by students and then handed over to
university management who transferred them to
the police. Just as it is now, Universities then
claimed to have official zero-tolerance for cultism
which includes expulsion of any known cultist.
But lo and behold, these cultists apprehended by
students were freed by a corrupt magistrate who
later became a lecturer in the university for want
of evidence even though he ordered the
destruction the evidence presented which
included the regalia and other cult
paraphernalia and the transfer of their guns to
the police armory.
No doubt this was dome in connivance with the
police and university management. While the
case was on the university management refused
to produce witness while students had been sent
home as a result of struggle for reinstatement of
victimized student activities. By the time the
University re-opened, these cultists returned to
campus and were seen walking free on campus
and even sat for examination! All protests by the
Union to Prof. Wale Omole was ignored. As far as
he was concerned, gun-wielding cultists were
more tolerable on campus than student activists.
Four months after, on July 10, the same Black
Axe confraternity whose members were
apprehended in March struck, murdering in cold
blood the Secretary General of the Union
Akinyemi Iwilade (Afrika) who led students to
apprehend them and four other students.
Curiously they freely gained entry into the
University, killed their victims and freely exited
without any hindrance! Many other union
activists including the union president who were
to be killed escaped only by whiskers. No student
or member of the University community who
witnessed the gruesome murder can ever forget
nor forgive Professor Wale Omole. Statements of
members of the University management as well
as members of the University security unit to the
police showed that the University gate was
practically thrown wide open for the cultists.
However in the days that followed July 10, OAU
students mobilised from Ife to Ibadan, Lagos etc
and succeeded in arresting a few of the cult
members. In their statements, they
acknowledged Prof. Wale Omole as their sponsor.
Today all the arrested cultists have been
discharged and acquitted by Nigeria's corrupt
judicial system. Prof. Wale Omole himself
although chased out of campus by students did
not stand trial for a day. Every year since 1999,
OAU students commemorate the July 10 killings
crying repeatedly for justice. For this reason, the
decision of the Oyo and Osun State Government
to edify an alleged murderer like Prof. Wale
Omole by appointing him pro-chancellor of a
University is not just an insult to students, it is
equally a disservice to the parents and families of
the deceased who still feel pained and wronged
by the State and its corrupt judicial system.
It is all the more disheartening that the leader of
the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Bola
Tinubu who was also appointed Chancellor of
LAUTECH has no qualms in sitting with a known
persecutor of Pro-democracy activists like Prof.
Wale Omole in the University administration.
Where then, we ask, is Bola Tinubu's democratic
credentials and his alleged claim of being a pro-
democracy fighter during the dark days of
military despotism?
We are sure that there are a lot of credible
individuals who could be appointed as the pro-
chancellor of LAUTECH. Prof. Wale Omole is
certainly not fit for such office nor any credible
public office at all. There is nothing students and
staff of LAUTECH can benefit from his
appointment as Pro-Chancellor except a
continuation of his anti-poor education policies
and brutalities for which he was driven from OAU
in 1999. Rather he should be placed on trial to
answer for his roles in the July 10 murder.
We call on LAUTECH and OAU students to
protest this appointment. We call on the National
Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to
publicly reject the appointment and organise
protests and demonstrations to compel the Oyo
and Osun state governments to reverse the
appointment.
Most importantly, this whole scenario again
justifies ERC's persistent call for the
democratisation of Universities which should
include giving students and staff of every tertiary
institutions the right to decide through a
democratic vote appointments into any official
position of their schools. Without this, one can
only imagine what kind of ignoble characters
would be smuggled into the administration of our
tertiary institutions and educational system in the
future.
________________________
Hassan Taiwo Soweto
National Coordinator

mobile.saharareporters.com/press-release/press-statement-no-appointment-prof-wale-omole-pro-chancellor-lautech-erc

sobaemma: Cnpp??na party be dat?nawa ride on at least they want to publish the name of their party and this is the best way,ride on o,no disrespect i see una o

CNPP is the umbrella body for all political parties in Nigeria.
So it is not a political party per say.


Candid and sincere advise to GEJ....if only he listens

sobaemma: Cnpp??na party be dat?nawa ride on at least they want to publish the name of their party and this is the best way,ride on o,no disrespect i see una o

CNPP is the umbrella body for all political parties in Nigeria.
So it is not a political pary per say.


Candid and sincere advise to GEJ....if only he listens

France returns stolen artefact to Nigeria

2013-07-15 01:25:11

France on Sunday night returned a stolen artefact to Nigeria.

The about 900-year-old statute was recovered by French customs at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris from the luggage of a man whose name was not mentioned.

French Ambassador, Mr. Jacques Champagne de Labriolle, handed over the statute of Kwara origin and the restitution documents to the Director General of the National Council for Museum and Monument, Dr. Abdalla Usman, at a reception to commemorate the French National Day in Abuja.

Labriolle described the statue as of great artistic and antropologic value.

He recalled that five items of Nok origin were returned to Nigeria in February this year by the French government.

Speaking on bilateral issues between Nigeria and France, the envoy explained that the trade volume between the two nations reached at least $6bn annually.

"French businessmen would visit Nigeria in October this year to access the potentials for their business. I have no doubt they will be interested provided the appropriate environment is guaranteed," he said.

Labriolle said no fewer than 200 African troops incluing 18 from Nigeria took part in the marching ceremony to mark the national day in Paris on Sunday.

http://mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/africa/france-returns-stolen-artefact-to-nigeria/

Kudos to ogbeni....


He's really trying despite the meagre resources osun is receiving from the FG

The man has suffered a lot .



Whether he's guilty or not....


Its is good that at last, he has been released.

God almighty will seek judgement for mko's family. They should forget all that has happened.

Sentencing al mustapha to death will not wake up kudirat nor will it benefit them.

However, releasing al mustapha is good for them as al mustapha himself will deem it necessary to repay the debt he owes abiola's family in whichever way.