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How Daniel diverted MDG’s funds, by Ogun Assembly
By Ernest Nwokolo, Abeokuta 17 hours 39 minutes ago
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The Ogun State House of Assembly yesterday said it has evidence showing how the cash meant for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was diverted by the past administration of Governor Gbenga Daniel.

Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, Abiodun Akovoyan, said the Committee found out that N500 million was diverted in form of loan to one of its contractors, Messrs Aron Nig. Ltd, out of which it repaid only N75 million.

Akovoyan noted that N250 million was also deposited in an account maintained in a branch of the FinBank for investment.

The revelation was made during the Committee’s meeting with relevant government agencies and contractors who handled projects under the MDGs scheme.

Akovoyan directed the Bureau of Project Monitoring and Evaluation to submit a detailed report of all projects implemented under the MDGs from 2008 to date.

The committee discovered that N1.6 billion was paid into the Conditional Grant Scheme (CGS) account of the programme which was executed on a 50 per cent counterpart funding between the Federal Government and the state.

But defending the N500million released to Aron, the former Secretary to the State Government, Mr Odugbemi Onakoya, who appeared before the Committee said that exigencies of the time made the release of the said sum inevitable.

According to him, the fund was released for the completion of a Youth Centre at Sagamu and hostel facilities at the Tai Solarin University, handled by ARON.

He said the major chunk of the fund as of the time it was used was deposited by the government, adding that the Federal Government delayed in releasing its own share.

Onakoya however pleaded with the Committee to show understanding, saying the government at the time, acted in the best interest of the state.

Also, in his defence on the N250million investment with FinBank, Mr Kayode Sunmola, former Director-General, Budget and Planning, said the state in its wisdom reckoned that part of the fund should be invested so that proceeds from it could be used to pay consultant’s fees.

He said the interest of N30 million generated from the investment as well as N200 million of the principal had been paid back to the CGS account.

The committee also learnt that the remaining N50million was deducted by FinBank to offset the N50 million that the state owed the bank.

Akovoyan criticised the arguments of the two former government officials, saying no approval was gotten for using the MDG fund for purposes outside its scope.


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What status are you talking about?

Beaf has been one of the most outstanding contributors on issues on Nairaland who I doff my hat for due to his sagacity, tenacity, steadfastness and stance on issues but unfortunately he is becoming another Becomrich with some of his posts of N/L lately.

Beaf, as much as I always look forward to your post on salient issues, I would have expected you to have outgrown post like this because it doesn't add value to you but rather belittle your status on Nairaland.

COLONEL Gaddafi's body has been buried in a secret grave in the Libyan desert.

The hated tyrant's corpse had been on show in a meat storage warehouse in Misrata since his death.

But last night officials moved his body, and the bodies of his son Mutassim and a top aide from the room, where crowds of civilians had clamoured for a view of their former leader.

A few relatives and officials were in attendance at the burial early today.

Ibrahim Beitalmal, a spokesman for the ruling National Transitional Council, said: "The burial took place at 5am Tuesday.

"Islamic prayers were read over the bodies.

"The burial site will remain secret to prevent vandalism."

Gaddafi was captured near his hometown of Sirte on Thursday by rebels hunting the former leader.

He died within hours of his capture, with rebel fighter Sanad al-Sadek al-Ureibi claiming he fired the two shots that killed him.

Libya's leaders have promised an investigation into the exact circumstances of how he died.

News of the dictator's death prompted wild celebrations among the Libyan people.

Extraordinary scenes were beamed around the world from Martyrs Square, in capital Tripoli, as the country revelled in its liberation from his grip.



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Why House opposes N98b virement, by Tambuwal
By Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja 9 hours 49 minutes ago
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The House of Representatives has not taken a position on the planned removal of subsidy on petroleum products, Speaker Aminu Tambuwal said yesterday.

He also spoke on why the lawmakers rejected President Goodluck Jonathan’s N98.4 billion virement request.

Tambuwal spoke to reporters at the Presidential Villa in Abuja after the inauguration of the committee on the composition of the boards of government agencies. He said the subsidy issue has not been tabled before the House.

“The matter has not been formally presented to the House, so no position has been taken. I am a presiding officer and my position always aligns with that of the House, so, I cannot have my own position,” he said.

Tambuwwal also denied that the leadership of the National Assembly was invited to the Presidential Villa to be lobbied into supporting the deregulation plan. He said stressing that the meeting was on the economy including deregulation.

He said it was not out of place for the executive to “market” its programmes to the legislative arm.
“On allegation that the leadership of NASS were lobbied to tow government’s line, there was a meeting of the leadership of the national assembly and chairmen of committees with the executive arm on economic issues and of course deregulation is just one of them. So, it is not about lobbying,“ he said.

Tambuwa, who also spoke on the reason for stepping down President Jonathan’s N98.4 billion virement bid by the House, explained that the request was more of an amendment than of virement.

“Well, some members of the House felt very strongly that some provisions in the virement were actually amendments and not just virement. You do virement if you are moving money from one subhead to another subhead in the same ministry and not moving from one ministry to another”.

The President, in a September 27 letter, sent a request to the House, seeking to move the money originally budgeted in the 2011 budget for nine Ministries, Departments and Agencies to other sub-headings.

The President said certain difficulties in the implementation of the 2011 budget made the request imperative.
When the letter was debated last Thursday, majority of the lawmakers opposed it and sought to have it thrown out on the grounds that it lacks details.

The lawmakers also argued that it did not make sense for Jonathan to be asking to move funds three months to the end of the financial year.
The debate became rowdy, forcing Deputy Speaker Emeka Ihediora, who presided, to step down the proposal.


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AMERICAN Wesley Warren Jr has told how he needs a $1million operation to remove his SEVEN STONE testicles.

The 47-year-old has suffered in silence with the enormous growth on his scrotum but is now pleading for help so he can get life-changing surgery.

His testicles have grown so large that he cannot wear jeans or trousers anymore and lives on a diet of antibiotics and medications.

Instead Wesley, from Las Vegas, US, has to wear a hoodie - placing his legs in the arms and using the hood to support the growth.

Wesley said: "It's not easy to get around, it makes me stay in most of the time."

But he refuses to let his unfortunate condition get him down, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

He added: "I want to have real friends and a relationship with a woman.


"But I'm not suicidal. I'm too strong for that."


Doctors told him he was suffering from scrotal lymphedema — a condition that has made his lymph nodes in his scrotum swell up with watery fluid.

Wesley believes he was struck down by the embarrassing deformity when he squashed his privates while asleep in 2008.

Incredibly his testicles then started swelling up and the next morning they were "the size of a soccer ball", said Wesley

He said: "I never felt such pain. It was like a shooting pain through my entire body.

"When it stopped, it was like a huge tractor trailer went off the top of me. I think it ruined my lymph nodes down there."
Surgeons said Wesley - who is 6ft tall and weighed 21stone before the growth took hold - would need a seven figure operation to correct the problem but that his medical insurance would not cover it.

The desperate American then went on the radio show of US shock jock Howard Stern to beg for help raising funds

"But I figured that the Stern show is listened to by millions of people and they might want to help me. I hope some millionaire or billionaire will want to help me."

He has not revealed exactly how much he has raised but tearfully said: "What I've got is a start.

"I really would like to have a relationship with a woman. I should be in the prime of my life right now."



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OSLO, Norway (AP) — Africa's first democratically elected female president, a Liberian peace activist and a woman who stood up to Yemen's authoritarian regime won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to secure women's rights, which the prize committee described as fundamental to advancing world peace.
The 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award was split three ways between Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, peace activist Leyma Gbowee from the same African country and democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen — the first Arab woman to win the prize.
By citing Karman, the committee also appeared to be acknowledging the effects of the Arab Spring, which has challenged authoritarian regimes across the region.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the three women "for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."
"We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society," the prize committee said.
Committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said he hoped the prize would bring more attention to rape and other violence against women as well as women's role in promoting democracy in Africa and the Arab and Muslim world.
Karman is a 32-year-old mother of three who heads the human rights group Women Journalists without Chains. She has been a leading figure in organizing protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh that kicked off in late January as part of a wave of anti-authoritarian revolts that have convulsed the Arab world.
"I am very very happy about this prize," Karman told The Associated Press. "I give the prize to the youth of revolution in Yemen and the Yemeni people."
Citing the Arab Spring alone could have been problematic for the committee. The unrest toppled authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. But Libya descended into civil war that led to NATO military intervention. Egypt and Tunisia are still in turmoil. Hardliners are holding onto power in Yemen and Syria and a Saudi-led force crushed the uprising in Bahrain, leaving an uncertain record for the Arab protest movement.
Jagland said it was difficult to find a leader of the Arab Spring revolts, especially among the many bloggers who played a role in energizing the protests, and noted that Kamran's work started before the Arab uprisings.
"Many years before the revolutions started she stood up against one of the most authoritarian and autocratic regimes in the world," he told reporters.
Liberia was ravaged by civil wars for years until 2003. The drawn-out conflict that began in 1989 left about 200,000 people dead and displaced half the country's population of 3 million. The country — created to settle freed American slaves in 1847 — is still struggling to maintain a fragile peace with the help of U.N. peacekeepers.
Sirleaf, 72, has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University and has held top regional jobs at the World Bank, the United Nations and within the Liberian government.
In elections in 1997, she ran second to warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor, who many claimed was voted into power by a fearful electorate. Though she lost by a landslide, she rose to national prominence and earned the nickname, "Iron Lady." She went on to became Africa's first democratically elected female leader in 2005.

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The joy of a marital life is fulfilled when a man and his wife live together in harmony, building their homes and raising children of their own.

But for Chidi Odiah, a Nigerian professional footballer who currently plays for CSKA Moscow and his wife Uju Uzuegbunam, the story is different. Both of them no longer live together as husband and wife. And what seems to be a blissful period of their lifetime has suddenly become a night-mare.


Chidi and Uju during their marriage

Speaking to Saturday Vanguard, Uju said their courtship lasted for four years while their marriage lasted for eight months.

However, the marriage produced a bouncing baby boy, Kenzo Chidi-Odiah, who just clocked three months. According to Uju, the baby was two months old when the problem started.

Uju who narrated her story said, “I have known Chidi for four years although we have been married for just eight months. We met at a salon in Port-Harcourt. He was too shy to walk up to me and so, he asked my hair stylist to get him my phone number.

Uju and her son Kenzo

It started off as a normal relationship every couple would want. After a while, he became biased and felt a little bit threatened by my illustrious personality. He became verbally abusive and on couple of times, he smacked me hard on the face during an argument.

I felt it was normal for any man dating an educated and smart lady like myself but it suddenly turned into lots of accusations and harassment. However, before our marriage, we would occasionally have quarrels and take breaks from the relationship which I did not consider such an abnormal occurrence with lovers who are in courtship and getting to know each other.

We were never together. He was in Russia keeping up with his career and I had to go to the United States to stay with my elder brother and his wife for a little vacation after the marriage. Unfortunately, I became so ill during the US visit that I couldn’t travel back home.I had our baby boy Kenzo in Portland, United States.

Throughout my stay in the United States, my husband visited us three times. The first time was for a meeting concerning his investment/property which my elder brother helped him to purchase. The second time was the day after our son was born but that was another terrible moment of my life. Instead of the love from a husband and a father, it was harassment at every slightest opportunity.

As if he didn’t know that he has a baby boy, he didn’t have any sense of responsibility for both the child and I. But, I wasn’t moved. I was praying that God would touch his heart. He would come home drunk and for the next few days ,all he did was going shopping for himself.


I cried throughout his stay in America and had a terrible post- partum depression that caused me to take anti depressants. My husband has shown me no love since our marriage and my stay in the States. I didn’t know what to do and so two months after Kenzo’s birth, I was happy to come back home to Nigeria where I have my family and in-laws waiting to take care of me and our son.

l believed my struggle of being a new and inexperienced mother was over, as I had managed my new born baby alone with my brother’s wife who is also inexperienced. I was settling down after my return when 11 days later, in my husband’s house in Port Harcourt, my father was invited over by my husband’s family members for an impromptu and unusual family meeting. After that meeting, I was asked to leave the house indefinitely with my mother and my two months old baby. They said Chidi instructed them to do so, on the basis that I was rude to him during my pregnancy.



I keep asking myself what Kenzo and I have done to deserve such a treatment from my husband. He hasn’t contacted me since our return from US despite efforts I make frequently to get to him and verify issues with him. He wouldn’t pick my calls and when he did, all he said was that he wants be alone for now and that he is not enjoying being married to me.

He then threatened that if anything happens to our son, he will teach me a lesson. I still do not understand his reasons for rejecting us (I and Kenzo). If there was a problem, we should have sat down and talked it over like we usually did in the past but instead, he sent his family against me to do his wicked and unfair bidding.

I was made to understand that a man can wake up any day and decide to reject his wife but would want his children and nothing would be done to stop him. My husband has always said he doesn’t believe in court marriage and so, we didn’t have one.

When asked the kind of marriage they had, she said they only had traditional marriage.

When this reporter tried Chidi’s Russia number, it rang several times but he didn’t pick it. Perhaps, he didn’t know the number calling him. A text was sent to him but he has not yet responded to that either.




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The Nigerian entertainment industry was once again thrown into mourning yesterday as promising singer, Obiajuru Nwozo, popularly known as MC Loph, 38, died in an auto crash along the Benin-Ore road yesterday.

The Osondi Owendi Remix crooner, who was driving the vehicle, died alongside his elder sister, Chinwe, while his fiancée who was also in the car is currently in a critical condition.

He was on his way to Anambra State to conclude preparations for his traditional marriage scheduled to hold this Saturday, 17 September, 2011.

The death of LOPH (meaning Lord of Pure Hip-Hop) is still a huge shock to his colleagues, who described him as a wonderful personality and one of those with great potentials of giving Nigerian Hip-Hop a new face. Some of his colleagues even said they can’t find the right word to describe him because he was just too down-to-earth.

Peter Okoye of P-Square fame said “he was a wonderful person. It is so sad because we communicated some months ago about working on a song together, and now he is no more. May his soul rest in peace.”

•MC Loph inside the wrecked SUV.

In his own reaction, music producer and singer, Solomon Oyeniyi, popularly known as K-Solo, blamed the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government for the death of Loph.

“It is another great loss to the industry. He was a very hard-working and skilled man. I want to see what the president (Jonathan) will do because the government’s bad roads caused his death. Even if he had survived that accident, I doubt if he would be able to get adequate treatment here because we don’t have good hospitals as well,” K-Solo fumed.

P.M NEWS gathered that the deceased was the only son of his parents. A native of Umunze in Anambra State, MC Loph lost his father some years ago, but his aged mother, who is said to be hypertensive, is still alive.

Loph rose to limelight with his second album, entitled Hands Up. The album contained the remix of the late Osita Osadebe’s evergreen song, Osondi Owendi, which he did with rising singer, Flavour. This eventually gave him the needed attention in the industry. Though the deceased was taken to court by Premier Music over copyright infingements of the song, the case is still in court and yet to be decided until his untimely death.

Versatile singer, Emmanuel ‘Kaha’ Nzemeke, said “I had known MC Loph since 1995 and as a very gentle and kind-hearted individual. He was a jolly fellow who loves to be at peace with everyone around him. He would crack a joke to make a sad person laugh. He was known to be a humble and straight forward fellow.”

Justice Okey Martins, otherwise know as J Martins told P.M NEWS that he is yet to come to terms with the fact that MC Loph is gone.

“This is extremely sad. But I believe he has only gone to rest in the bosom of our Lord because even if he is not here again in flesh, he would always be remembered for whom he was and his works are there to immortalise him,” said J Martins.

Tywo Akintoye of Twin-X fame also had this to say about Loph: “I have always believed in making your music speak of who you are and the culture of where you come from. MC Loph did that successfully. He was one of the major artistes who brought much attention to the new Eastern part of this country. It takes great talent to remix a legendary hit like Osondi Owendi and score another hit with it. His death is a great loss, not just to the music industry but to the entire country. May his soul rest in peace.”

The sad accident that claimed the life of the musician occurred yesterday when his car ran into a bump on the bad Benin-Ore road. He lost control and the vehicle somersaulted several times before landing inside a ditch.

He and his sister died on the spot while his fiancée, who suffered a broken arm, is still in the hospital.

His untimely death has further heightened the death scare that has been rocking the Nigerian entertainment industry for sometime now. This year alone, the industry has lost icons like Comedian CD John, Kokolete Chidinma, Yemisi Eleto, Ishola Durojaiye, a.k.a. Alasari, Ashley Nwosu, Sam Loco and acclaimed Lady of Songs, Christy Essien-Igbokwe.

A female guard died in the August 26 bomb blast that rocked the United Nation building in Abuja because she was trying to render help to the suicide bomber.

It was learnt that the deceased, Mrs. Caroline Michael, had thought the suspected suicide bomber was an accident victim.

One of Mrs. Michael’s colleagues, identified as Eze, told our correspondent on Thursday during the memorial service organised for the victims of the incident.

Eze said 36-year-old Mrs. Michael was on foot patrol when the suspected suicide bomber crashed his bomb-laden vehicle into the exit gates of the UN building.

He said, “Everything happened so fast, within a flash, she thought the man had lost his way and was a victim of a freak accident. Instinctively, she ran towards the vehicle to offer assistance to a fellow human being in distress.”

Twenty-three persons reportedly died and 166 others sustained various degrees of injuries in the bomb attack which the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for.

Mrs. Michael, a mother of four, was not a direct employee of the UN, but a member of staff of a private security company, Kings Guards, providing professional services for the organisation.

Friends and members of staff of the UN, at the service, spoke of her diligence and heroism.

Eze, who spoke to our correspondent, said she was “punctual.”

Speaking at the event, the Resident Coordinator of the UN office in Nigeria, Mr. Douda Toure said, “Though we mourn, we also celebrate the virtues, and valour which our departed colleagues, friends and partners brought to their work.

“We are called upon to remember the heroics of a female security personnel who ran to the car that has crashed into the UN House thinking the driver has been involved in an accident and perhaps offering to help only to be blown apart by a man she had ran to in order to rescue.

“Such were the values and principles which drive our work as UN staff, service providers, contractors and partners.”

An Assistant Director of Nutrition at the Federal Ministry of Health, Mrs. Kate Demehin (51) was also one of those who lost their lives in the attack.

Rated as one of the most senior nutritionists at the ministry, Mrs. Demehin was reputed to be actively involved with UNICEF in developing community approaches to tackle acute malnutrition amongst under-five children in the North.

A 30-year-old Norwegian lawyer, Ms. Ingrid Midtgaard, specialist in Human Rights, Criminology and Criminal Procedure also died in the attack. She was said to have dedicated her life to working with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.



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Most suspects are known to blame the devil for crimes they committed. But not John Chinedu Akpangbo, who killed a co-worker, Emeka Odo in Kano on Tuesday. Akpanagbo, not only admitted doing it, but said he would do it again under similar circumstances, reports KOLADE ADEYEMI

THOSE feeling that John Chinedu Akpangbo was mentally unstable when he killed a co-worker and kinsman, Emeka Odo, early Tuesday got it all wrong.

The 22-year-old local restaurant attendant from Is-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu, Enugu State, is not blaming the incident on the devil.

Akpangbo, who has not shown any remorse over the murder of Odo, said his action gave him the fulfillment of his life. He has no regret killing the deceased at 30, Burma Road, Sabon Gari area of Kano, Kano State.

Akpangbo, who spoke with The Nation at the No-mansland Police Station, where he is being detained by detectives, narrated how he fed himself to satisfaction before going to bed on the fateful day.

According to him, before he and Odo went to bed, he had warned him never to threaten him again but he was adamant, so he was left with no choice than to eliminate him, “because I was fed up with his persistent threats.”

He woke up at about 12.30 am, smoked a stick of Benson & Hedges cigarette, relaxed for a moment and sneaked out of the restaurant to pick a digger inside the compound, then dashed back to the restaurant, where Udo was fast asleep and struck the deceased on the head once.

After the deadly strike, Akpangbo said he stood there to ascertain that Odo was dead before dashing out of the local eatery to collect the keys of the gate from a neighbour, whom he identified as Kaka, opened the gate and escaped.

His words: “I killed him because he threatened me when he was alive. We were working together. We were serving together in the local eatery. He threatened my life with a weapon. I warned him several times to desist from scolding me, which he resisted. From then on, I started nursing the animosity to eliminate him.

“Following persistent threats to kill me, that was when I made up my mind to kill him. So, that night, I got the digger inside the compound, raised it up and hit him once on his head and waited to ensure he died. It was about 12.30am.”

Responding to a question on how he felt after committing the crime, Akpangbo said: “I felt just like you are feeling.” He said he had no regret, boasting that if someone else threatened him the way Odo did, he would kill such a person.

“If I go back to my place of work, I will have some peace of mind, because Emeka is no more,” he said.

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Superintendent Shu’aibu Bello, who gave details of how the assailant was arrested, said the police arrived the scene of the incident at about 6.30am, inspected the area, asked questions and with the help of intelligence, traced Akpangbo to Gazawa and arrested him in the home of his relative within two hours.

The owner of the restaurant, Mrs Caroline Chukwulobe told The Nation that she was still in shock.

Akpangbo was at his sister’s place at Gazawa when he was arrested.





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American rap star, Curtis Jackson, aka 50Cent has been forced to drop the title of his soon-to-be-released multi-million dollar movie, Things Fall Apart.

Showbiz Trends gathered that the foundation managing the works of renowned literary icon, ​Professor Chinua Achebe,​ won a fierce battle with the producers of the biopic, written and acted by ​50Cent​, over intellectual infringement.

It is learnt that when the news about the movie came out, the foundation had written the movie producers to intimate them of an infringement bothering on a novel written by Achebe. But the producers took it with levity and scornfully offered to pay a paltry $1million (N150million) to the literary giant because “50Cent would rather want to keep the title,” a source said.​

However, the foundation’s lawyers categorically declined the offer and informed the producers that “​the novel with the said title was first produced in 1958 (17 years before 50Cent was born), listed as the mostly widely read book in modern African literature, and will not be sold for even $1billion”.

Given the tough stance of Achebe’s legal representatives, the movie producers and the marketing company distributing the movie, ​Image Entertainment​, convinced 50Cent to change the title to ​All Things Fall Apart​, to avoid a potential huge loss if they have to settle for another title altogether.

—Funsho Arogundade

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Ex-SSG, lawmaker exchange blows at PDP peace meeting
By Sunday Aborisade, Akure
Wednesday, 14 Sep 2011

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The peace moves in the Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party suffered a setback on Tuesday as two of its leaders exchanged blows at a stakeholders’ meeting in Akure.

The two leaders were a former Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Isaac Kekemeke, and the only PDP member in the state House of Assembly, Mr. Akpoebi Lubi.

Trouble started when the National Legal Adviser of the party and convener of the meeting, Chief Olusola Oke, asked Kekemeke to address the gathering.

Lubi, who had been complaining since the leaders of the party began the series of reconciliation meetings, that the peace moves were one sided, rushed to the podium just as Kekemeke was about to make his speech.

The lawmaker insisted that Kekemeke had no right to address the gathering because he allegedly worked against his interest during the April elections in the state.

Irked by Lubi’s action, Kekemeke landed heavy punches on him.The lawmaker responded with a slap on Kekemeke and a serious fight ensued between the two.

It took the intervention of policemen, soldiers, officials of the State Security Services and civil defence corps before the Ijaw chiefs of the PDP stopped the fight.

The development stalled the meeting which had in attendance a former governor of the state, Dr. Olusegun Agagu; Ambassador Olu Agbi, Otunba Oyewole Fasawe, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, Mr. Adetokunbo Kayode (SAN) and Dr. Omotayo Dairo, for about one hour.

When the meeting reconvened, leaders like Agagu, Oke, Fasawe, Agbi, Dairo and Mrs. Oladunni Odu, among others urged members to shun any form of bitterness and support the reconciliation efforts in order to move the PDP forward.

The forum also agreed to dissolve the state executive of the party headed by Dairo and the interim caretaker committee led by Agbi.

A caretaker committee is to be set up to lead the party until when its congress.

Lubi had consistently been drawing the attention of the PDP leadership to the reconciliation process in the last three weeks.





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I have been watching Star Game Show anchored by Gbenga Adeyinka the 1st on NTA, AIT, Silverbird and other stations. Its a lovely game show seeing Star customers winning millions of Naira by participating in the game show. Often times I will always encourage myself that if I could but have the opportunity of appearing on the game show, I would win the ultimate price which N1M.

However my aspiration to playing on the game show could not materialize having sent several sms to required codes. One day as I was watching I saw a friend playing the game show and eventually won N1M. I picked my phone and congratulated him immediately but his response could not be said of someone who was just made a millionaire by playing the game. So I visited him and he explain his ordeal.

My friend told me he never sent any sms to whatever code that everything was arranged internally; a colleague's wife works there. The colleague my friends information to his wife and he was immediately called upon to come for the game show. For participating in the game show, he was giving N20,000 to cover his transport and inconvenience. My friend got to the final stage and won N1M. However a deal had been struck with the insiders on sharing formula which is 70/30 basis (insiders 70 and my friend 30).

What is this country turning to? The only language that is acceptable is corruption

Ali: Godsday, why did you prefer staging a music concert in the Niger Delta region to the 9 FREE OF CHARGE ESTABLISHMENT OF SPORTS ACADEMIES WITH OLYMPIC SIZED SWIMMING POOL AND A SPORTS MANUFACTURING FACTORY? Why do you hate to see development in our region? Why? April 23,2011. 03:34:22am

Orubebe: I think you need to examine your head and reason beyond your fake thoughts. April 23, 2011. 06:21:14am
Ali: Godsday, we included in the budget the fight and land cost for the 9 sports academies in Nigeria with 3 of your directors at the meeting. And I have always told you that this GWR fight must be done TRANSPARENTLY because apart from the honour and glory, that it will bring to Nigeria, there is a lot of PPV fight money which we can all benefit from. Is doing a TRANSPARENT business at your ministry a fake thought that calls for the examination of my head? What happened to the money that was included in the budget? Did you divert it?
Orubebe: I thought you were reasonable but had to withdraw because I realised you are not coordinated, you have a loose and porous mind set and living in the air. Sad that I met you. April 23, 2011. 07:17:12am
Ali: You withdrew and sent me back to the NSC because I insisted on a TRANSPARENT deal and now have the audacity to insult me. This is the second time you have said am living in the air for believing a TRANSPARENT deal can be done at your ministry in particular and Nigeria in general. Do you know that out of 150 million Nigerians, I am one out of less than 5,000 Nigerians that have a national honour. Do you know that I am an officer of the Order of the Niger, OON?
Orubebe: OON, a disgrace. I will ensure that you are removed from the honours’ list. I promise you that. End of story. April 24, 2011. 03:22:34am
Ali: That is an empty talk. I got my OON on merit, so a million Godsday can not take it away. Why are you preventing me from doing more great things for Nigeria and getting the highest national honour possible? Why? Must corruption always win? Do you know what this GWR fight, the 9 Sports Academies and the sports manufacturing factory will do for Nigeria?
Orubebe: Fool, you will die complaining. April 28, 2011. 06:13am
Ali: Did you not swear to do the right thing before you were made a minister? Do you know that you are a public servant and must at all times be respectful to the people? People like you do not deserve to be in government. I truly regret meeting you and above all feel sorry for Jonathan for appointing you
Orubebe: There will be no room for your apology and begging when we set up government without you. Big fool who could not plan his life. April 28, 2011. 11:12:27am
Ali: Godsday, it is you that must apologise and beg me to forgive you for being rude and talking trash. Set up government without me? What a joke!! If I am a fool for insisting that the boxing deal must be TRANSPARENT then I don’t want to be wise and above all, I gave Jonathan my mandate, not Godsday.
Orubebe: Just saw your text and am sorry for your family that, in all their efforts they ended up having a foolish idiot as a father, brother and a child. You will be shocked, I have started the process of withdrawing your wrongly given honour. May 4, 2011. 06:04:31am
Ali: My brother, it is a NEW DAWN for all Nigerians to come together and fight corruption. Let all of us say “NO” to corruption. Let us help Jonathan to move Nigeria forward, please. Because we are from the Niger Delta, does it mean we have to always talk like militants?
Orubebe: Big fool. Why can’t you stop deceiving yourself. Am sorry for your children and family for having a stupid father, who do not understand the times. July 9, 2011. 07:01:23pm
Ali: Godsday, does understanding the times mean you have to be corrupt? I was just thinking, must corruption always WIN? Why can’t we do a TRANSPARENT business where we can all come out WINNERS? Let us contribute our quota to make Nigeria great, please. Let us help our brother, Jonathan, to succeed, please.
Orubebe: Is like you are in love with Orubebe, Remove shame and come, I will forgive you and teach you to be a responsible man like me. July 10, 2011. 07:06:23am
Ali: I cannot be in love with a man who has an arid vision for Nigeria. What shame? And forgive me for insisting on a TRANSPARENT business? Does being corrupt make a man like you responsible? I feel sorry for Nigerians, Jonathan.
Orubebe: Your foolishness has made you not to know that this is the man that can bail you out of your blindness and frustration. Time is ticking. Don’t make me change my mind again. July10, 2011. 01:47:57pm
Ali: You are the foolish and blind man who wants to continue to steal from government because you are in power. I will never again deal with you unless I get instruction from Jonathan. You are right, time is ticking so very soon, I will lead a revolution that will remove corrupt people like you from government and if I die in the process, nothing can be more redemptive.
Orubebe: How can you be afraid to die when you have nothing to offer to Nigeria. July 10, 2011. 04:12:32pm
Ali: I have contributed more to the betterment of Nigeria than you. I have spent millions of naira to promote sports and NEVER asked government for a kobo despite being frustrated by a corrupt man like you.
Orubebe: Come and take one very small contract to survive July 13, 2011. 12:16:14pm
Ali: Give the very small contract to survive to your corrupt friends in government. A few hours ago while Jonathan was swearing in new executive council that included you, he said and I quote “Our task is to address the issues which preoccupy Nigerians. We must act quickly while at the same time, working on sustainable responses to long term changes. This is the debt we owe the electorate who turned out in large numbers in April 2011 elections to make a statement with their votes. I will therefore expect the best form of conduct in the discharge of your responsibilities” why are you doing the contrary?
Orubebe: If you are a fool at this age, am sorry for your children and family. I will tell your children to deny you. Big FOOL. July 15, 2011. 01:22:05pm
Ali: From your action and text messages, you have shown Jonathan that he made a big mistake by appointing an idiot like you as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. A revolution is coming and it will sweep you out of office, Mark my word, sir.
Orubebe: Is like you have no job. Would have taken you as an aide but you don’t have the brains. Sorry, too bad. Yours is a hopeless case. July 15, 2011. 01:38:06pm
Ali: I am a world boxing champion and a national honour holder but your corrupt government has made me jobless, frustrated and hopeless but my brain is intact for a REVOLUTION that would remove you from office. Mark my word, sir
Orubebe: Some fools get small sense but your own foolishness has no measure. Big fool who do not know that Orubebe is on top. July 30, 2011. 07:24:12 pm (Sent 3 times)
Ali: I don’t blame you. I blame Jonathan for bringing you into government to corrupt it. I will remove you from office if it is the last thing I do. Mark my word, sir
Ali: Godsday, the GEJ Transformation Agenda will be successful without you. Mark my word.
Orubebe: I thought your head was getting normal. Oh sorry, have volunteered to take you to Uselu at my own cost to bring you to normalcy. Poor you, all these on you, foolish man, stupid man, crazy man, nuisance to society, your children and family. Waste to our generation. Uselu is your rightful home. Sept 1, 2011: 02:56:25pm


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"SSS you are trying. This story looks like something to make us think the SSS is closing in on the perpetrators. Not only that the two images resemble facially, their names equally look alike. The two photographs were taken at a similar place as the background look alike. But that is not the issue; is it possible for these hungry-looking fellows to sponsor this calibre of crime? It is possible there are people sponsoring Boko Haram. Am sure if it were MASSOB several arrests would have been made. Why is Boko Haram still faceless"?

After this weekends round of games, your local satellite tv operator has rescheduled games for the rest of the season as follows:

1. for MAN UTD matches, pls tune in to skysports HD (the channel of champions).

2. for CHELSEA matches, pls tune in to the discovery channel (still trynna discover the right blend of winning formulae to sustain success).

3. for MAN CITY matches, pls tune in to the arabic channel.

4. for LIVERPOOL, tune in to your history channel (full of talk of history).

5. and now for ARSENAL, u can catch them live on [b]cartoon network [/b]every week ( full of kids and the biggest joke in the EPL at the moment).

Why was NJC quick to taken action over a case that is pending in the court of law? where were they in the case of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbe and Oyinlola when the Tribunal judge was found wanting, they kept mute.

I was watching Diplomatic Channels with Deji Badmus on Channels TV yesterday and Security Vote was discussed.

My question on Nairaland is what do we understand by that word because according to the guests there is no provision for security vote in the constitution and also it is also not accountable for.