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see as I dey hit fp anyhow since morning, it must be a signof good things coming my direction

my take on this is that , Nigerian politicians are the same PDP or APC , they have the same tendencies . Lets just hope God 'll give us better leaders some day

Rivers Rerun: Violence, Killings Barbaric,

In a swift response to bashing he got on the social media for his prompt reaction to the Brussels twin terror attacks on Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari has said the killing of a youth corps member and others during the Rivers State rerun elections on Saturday are “barbaric and unacceptable”.

Speaking for the first time about the violence which marred the polls, Buhari in his tweet post via his Twitter handle @NGRPresident on Wednesday said he has ordered security agencies to deal decisively with those involved irrespective of their party affiliation.
The president also condoled with the families of the deseased.

The tweets reads, “My condolences to the families of all who lost their lives during the elections in Rivers at the weekend.”

“The violence in Rivers, and the tragic killings of Youth Corper Samuel Okonta and other victims, are barbaric & unacceptable.”

“I have given the security services clear directives to deal decisively with all agents of violence, regardless of party affiliation.”


http://leadership.ng/news/511789/rivers-rerun-violence-killings-barbaric-unacceptable-pmb

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor & Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA — There will be no vacancy in the Presidency in 2019, members of the National Caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, declared on Tuesday night in a seeming lure to President Muhammadu Buhari to seek a second term.

The national caucus, comprising serving and former governors, the National Assembly leadership, and selected members of the national executive of the party, at the meeting said the endorsement of President Buhari for a second term would help to stabilise the polity in the face of what members described as the 16-year rot inherited from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Meanwhile, the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has dismissed insinuations of a threat against his position, just as the caucus, Tuesday night, constituted a committee to resolve all pending issues in the party.

One of the issues agreed on at the meeting, Vanguard learned yesterday, was that President Buhari should be given opportunity to seek a second term. Though the issue of a second term for the President was generally agreed, caucus members, however, also agreed that it would be too early in the day to kick start a second term campaign for the President.
Vanguard learned that the issue was brought up as a way of resting restiveness among some party leaders, who have been divided over their various aspirations for 2019.

The positioning by different party leaders on 2019 has been blamed for the problems that led to the crisis in the National Assembly and also the inability of the party to inaugurate its Board of Trustees, BoT, till date.

“With Buhari contesting in 2019, those who have been squabbling will now have to queue up behind him and put the interest of the party ahead,” a source privy to the development revealed yesterday.

Remarkably, leading senators in the party on Tuesday night met in Abuja where they also pledged to unify themselves in the face of the prospect of losing their influence to the more united PDP caucus.

Odigie-Oyegun dismisses threat to his office
Meanwhile, Odigie-Oyegun speaking to reporters at the end of the caucus meeting on Tuesday night dismissed reports of pressures on him to resign his office.

He said: “I am not aware that my office is under threat. I led the party to the State House. It amazes me, occasionally it annoys me. That is one of the things you have to endure when you are in a position like mine."

Noting the trend of the meeting, Odigie-Oyegun said that a committee had been constituted to resolve all the crises in the party.

Speaking on the performance of his party’s government almost one year after taking over power, the national chairman pleaded for time on the part of Nigerians. He said the government would come on full stream when the 2016 budget is passed.

www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/presidency-no-vacancy-2019-apc/

Yeah , I made frontpage , the last time I did was also an election day. mod why una no allow me modify my post na.

anyway thanks to the Election holiday and absence of voters card . My take on this electioneering exercise is that we need new breed of leader with new and a different mind set . Most of all the contestants of today's election from both side of the divide are the same , it's primarily about what they we get and not about welfare of tthose Vick voted for them . They promise so much and only do a little of those promises.. We pray for these new sets of leaders that will not see election as do or d die because they are not Goghhere for their gains but that of the peopl

Few hours to the commencement of the Rivers rerun elections, a chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, Elyon Ntiro Elijah and the Rivers State Commissioner for Water Resources, Chief Ibibia Walter have been reportedly kidnapped by some unknown gunmen in Rivers State.
Elijah who was a former leader of Andoni local Government legislative Assembly was said to have been kidnapped at Asarama waterside in Andoni local Government area of the state late last night.
Similarly, the People’s Democratic Party revealed on its Twitter handle, @pdpnigeria that Chief Ibibia Walter, Rivers State Commissioner for Water Resources was also abducted by unknown gunmen.
Elijah who was a former leader of Andoni local Government legislative Assembly was said to have been kidnapped at Asarama waterside in Andoni local Government area of the state late last night.
Similarly, the People’s Democratic Party revealed on its Twitter handle, @pdpnigeria that Chief Ibibia Walter, Rivers State Commissioner for Water Resources was also abducted by unknown gunm
www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/rivers-rerun-apc-chieftain-rivers-commissioner-kidnapped/

BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME
PORT HARCOURT - Soldiers are on major roads in Port Harcourt. As early as 4am they had taken over GRA junction on Aba road. The soldiers were seen questioning motorists before allowing them drive through mounted barricades.

Details later.

source
www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/rivers-rerun-heavy-military-presence-port-harcourt/

Heavy shooting reported at Oporoma headquarters of Southern Ijaw local government area has forced residents to stay indoors.
This is in spite of the ten gunboats deployed in the waterways to wade off would be trouble makers in the area.

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/bayelsa-guber-heavy-shooting-in-oporoma/

YEAH , THANK GOD.
Gone are the days of 'Tactical Maneuver'

S.E Governors to meet in Owerri over pro-Biafra protests
November 09, 2015 at 1:49 pm in News
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By Chidi Nkwopara, OWERRI.
Imo State Governor and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governors’ Forum, Chief Rochas Okorocha, is currently arranging a crucial meeting with other governors in the South-East, over the growing agitation by protagonists of Biafra.
According to a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, the leadership of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, and other stakeholders in the geo-political zone, were also being invited by the Governor, to talk and agree on how to check the activities of pro-Biafra groups in the area.
“The meeting is expected to take place this weekend in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Already the Governor has begun to make all the necessary contacts to ensure that all those expected to be at the meeting, would be in attendance”, Onwuemeodo said.
Vanguard recalls that Okorocha had earlier, while taking exception to the pro-Biafra violent protests in some of the South-East states and few other neighbouring states, disassociated the governors and leaders in the South-East states from the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, protest, describing the whole exercise as “embarrassing, disturbing, counter-productive and to a large extent, distracting”.
According to Governor Okorocha, the pro-Biafra protests could not be in the interest of the south-east people but were only sending wrong signals to the rest of Nigerians.
“It has become increasingly necessary for the governors in the zone, Ohaneze leaders and other stakeholders in the area to meet, to call a spade, a spade”, Okorocha said.
The Governor also said that “at the end of the Owerri meeting, the governors and other leaders will take a common position and will also invite the leaders of the pro-Biafra groups for a meeting, to let them know the socio-economic and political implications of their activities, including their demand for sovereignty in a united Nigeria”.
It was the considered opinion of Chief Okorocha that the governors and leaders in the zone could no longer sit and watch the whole situation degenerating, even as he also noted that the Igbos as a people cannot afford to have its own kind of Boko Haram.
He wondered why the pro-Biafra apologists kept quiet all these years only to resume their protests and activities this time and few months after the new administration in the country came on board.
Meanwhile, the Governor had also met with the security chiefs in the state on how to ensure that the pro-Biafra protests across the South-East states at the moment won’t be experienced in Imo state.
Similarly, the Governor has also been meeting with certain categories of the citizenry in the state that may have the temptation of joining the pro-Biafra protest to let them know the futility of such action.

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BY FRANCIS IGATA
ENUGU – Director of Radio Biafra and leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOD, Nnamdi Kanu,who was arrested at Golden Tulip Essential Hotel,Ikeja has been granted bail but is yet to fulfill his bail conditions.
According to the Indigenous People of Biafra’s lawyer,IPOD, Mr.Egechukwu Obetta, Nnamdi was in the same cell with terrorists. He has health challenges which is life threatening. He is selective to delicacies. He told us that he will never eat any food served by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
However, midway into the chat with his lawyer, a call came in, indicating that Kalu has been granted bail in the sum of

2 million Naira or with surety of N2 million with a civil servant of grade level 16.
“Last week,the Afenifere threatened to secede but nobody was vilified. I am talking about the recent Olu Falae’s kidnap case. The militants in the Niger Delta has done same.

The pastor in charge of this wedding I know will not see what d Lady is wearing . HE IS LOST IN THE SPIRIT

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We were lucky o , the protesting student almost stopped our post graduate exam , after they successfully stopped all classes . we had to lock up ourselves in the exam hall

Boko Haram recaptures Marte in
Borno
MAY 16, 2015 : KAYODE IDOWU
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The Boko Haram terrorist group on
Friday recaptured Marte, a border
town in the northern part of Borno
State.
Security sources said members of the
terrorist group, who fled Sambisa
forest, had now regrouped in Marte.
Borno State Deputy Governor, Alhaji
Zannah Mustapha, also confirmed the
recapture of the town by Boko Haram
terrorists during a press conference in
Maiduguri.
“It is sad as we have been made to
understand that Marte is today (Friday)
completely fallen under the control of
the insurgents, which to us is a very
huge setback,” he said.
Mustapha raised the alarm that 600
women and girls had been dispatched
by the terrorists as suicide bombers
with the aim of causing multiple
explosions in Maiduguri.
The deputy governor urged residents
to be patient with the security
agencies in spite of the attendant
hardships caused by the dusk to dawn
curfew imposed on Maiduguri.
He said, “It is unfortunate that we are
experiencing yet another attack in
Maiduguri at this time that we are
thinking that the insurgency should
have subsided following the taking
over of Sambisa forest by the military.
“Our thinking was that every other
place should have been blocked so
that the insurgency would be curtailed
to a restricted area, but that has not
been the case because the insurgents
have been fleeing to other
communities.
“Initially, we were opposed to the
suggestion by the military, but when
we received a security report that
about 600 women have been kitted as
suicide bombers and are to be
sneaked into Maiduguri during the
attack, couple with the gory pictures of
some of the women who detonated
themselves during the attacks, we had
no option than to okay the curfew.
“But the curfew has been relaxed from
noon to about 5pm to ease the
hardship and afterwards it may be
reviewed. Our government is going to
do everything possible by supporting
the military to ensure that Maiduguri
and other parts of Borno State are not
attacked or taken over by the
insurgents.”
The capture of Marte happened as
soldiers sustained the 24-hour curfew
imposed on Maiduguri, the Borno state
capital on Thursday after Boko Haram
terrorists attempted an invasion of the
city on Wednesday night.
Copyright PUNCH.
http://www.punchng.com/news/boko-haram-recaptures-marte-in-borno/

masterchi:
wiked wike,lol

confirmed if he owns that face in the picture posted above

rhukky01:
All dese re lies no local govt lik ethiope north and south in delta state ooooooooooooo

no. mind am. when did he create
Ethiope north and south. we only have
West and east

n

So my thread eventually made frontpage for the firsttime. and am getting to know 5 days later and this place is already dry.

I Remember opening several threads timely on that election day, in other to achieve this. well if it can happen ones. it can happen again.

Some unindentified soldiers on
Saturday impounded the official car of
the Delta Commissioner of
Information, Mr Chike Ogeah, at a
polling station where he went to be
accredited to vote. Ogeah told
newsmen at St. John Bosco’s Catholic
Church, Ward 6, Oshimili South Local
Government Area, his polling station,
that some armed soldiers in three
vehicles accosted him.
The commissioner said that he had
been accredited and was leaving the
polling station when the armed
soldiers swooped on him.
“One of the soldiers ordered me to
stop at the centre of the road and
surrender my car key to him. He
insisted that if I did not obey him he
would shoot me.
“I even identified myself and he
wouldn’t listen and I decided to give
him the key to stop further
harassment,” he said. Other residents
complained of such harassment by
soldiers on their way to and from
polling stations.
Mrs Bridget Anyafulu, the Executive
Director of International Centre for
Women Empowerment and Child
Development, an NGO, corroborated
Ogeah’s complaint.
Anyafulu said that she was harassed
along Summit Road Asaba on her way
to the polling station, at Umuadaike
Ward 8, Oshimili South . She noted
that the soldiers’ action discouraged
some voters from casting their votes.
When contacted, the Police Public
Relations (PPRO) in the state, Mrs
Celestina Kalu, confirmed the incident.
Kalu told pressmen that the
commissioner had informed her about
the incident and added that the
situation in the polling station had
been put under control and his car
released to him.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/election-soldiers-impound-delta-information-commissioners-car/

Davies Iheamnachor
At least one person has been feared
dead in a gun battle alleged to have
involved thugs from the two political
parties in the state at Omuawa
community in Ikwerre LGA.
The shooting which occurred at the
Omuawa-Ubima road, the way that
leads to Amaechi’s community started
around 10am as the residents of the
area fled for safety.
It has not been confirmed what the
cause of the gun battle was, but one
person is feared killed.
As at the tme of this report the corps
was still lying by the road side.
Meanwhile, Channels TV camera man,
Mr. Maurice Bassey has been beaten
up at the Rumumasi area in Obio/
Akpor LGA by some political thugs. He
sustained some bruises.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/one-feared-dead-in-rivers-as-thugs-exchange-bullet/

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Lagos state House of Assembly
hopeful and All Progressives Congress
chieftain, Desmond Olusola Elliot, was
allegedly caught sharing money to
woo voters in Lagos state, according
to an image by a citizen reporter.
In the said image, the Nollywood star
who wore a native attire with his
initial DOE boldly written on his cap,
was surrounded by policemen and
others.
However, he has denied the allegation,
arguing that he did not need to bribe
anyone. He didn’t give further
information on why he shared the
money.
“Please remain focused and prayerful,
I didn’t bribe my way to where God
has placed me, is it now that I will
start.. and what am I bribing them for
again?” he said in a tweet.

Commissioner’s house, INEC RAC
Centre , Police vehicle burnt in Rivers
on april 11, 2015 at 9:51 am in news
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By Jimitota Onoyume
Port Harcourt – The House belonging
to the Commissioner for Women
Affairs in Rivers state, Mrs Joeba
West was reportedly set ablaze in
Buguma.
Vanguard gathered that INEC RAC
Centre in Kalabari National College,
KNC, Buguma was also set on fire in
the orgy in violence in the ongoing
election in Rivers State.
A Police patrol vehicle was also burnt
in Buguma.
Details later.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/commissioners-house-inec-rac-centre-police-vehicle-burnt-in-rivers/

mods. front page pls. it worked for me. even when I Ve not loaded this line. for almost a year now.,

that's what am using to post this