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Juliet11111: I'm watching the event live on NTA right now. That's EXACTLY what the apc chairman said. He said that should pdp win next year, nigeria would not survive. Op is right.

Your statement isn't Same as the OP.

Indeed, there was a country

chino24: Anambra the light of the entire black nation..

You r very empty to say the above. Pls get a life.

EMERITUS85: hater watch your mouth
he is not an ordinary MOG you can insult and go free

ask others who have tried

Exactly ohakim style. Operation kidnap and beat anyone that insults him. Smh.

EMERITUS85: watch your mouth dude

i guess you're a Pentecostal or Muslim

do your research well and tell me how mbaka worships money and how he turned numerous juicy gifts from Chimaraoke which i guess non of your pastor/imam can turn down also tell me how many fleets of cars he has jets and estates tell me were all his money is going to tell me has he ever or have you ever hear him preaching thithe like other MOG

also tell me how he collected gift from Ohakim

if these are not explained then obviously you are a hater

A fake and changed man of God can only defend ohakim for all the atrocities and looting he did in imo state. Hear him and his deluded thots of bringing hardship (ohakim) upon imolites. He should be ashamed of himself and humbly remove that priest veil/robe and face his calling which is politics ohakimstyle.

EMERITUS85: chai rochas don finish be that hmmmm mbaka opening his chapter and remembering his atrocity ok ooo lets see how it will all end.

fr Mbaka remains one of the true and genuine man of God in the world today and also untouchable.

Rochas should learn from ex gov Chimaraoke

Total falsehood. Mbaka is a confirmed money worshipper. Guess I hakim has given him some stipends. That fake priest too like money.

Fake priest.

Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State, Friday in a
sudden twist seen as a big surprise, dismissed the
planned national dialogue being promoted by
President Goodluck Jonathan as “a big joke and
waste of time.”
He further said the planned dialogue was a
distraction to Jonathan as the general elections
approaches, adding that he would not participate in
the exercise.
Elechi, who is seen as one of President Jonathan’s
main backers in the South East, made his position
known in Ikwo when founding fathers of the state
paid him Christmas homage.
The Ebonyi governor had earlier in October lauded
the planned dialogue when Jonathan announced it
and urged Nigerians to avail themselves of the
opportunity of contributing meaningfully during the
dialogue “so that all grievances would be
addressed.”
The founding fathers of the state who visited him
yesterday wanted to know the modalities for
selecting delegates from states and issues that
should form their collective stand during the
dialogue.
But they were shocked by the governor’s dramatic
change of mind, when he wrote off the planned
dialogue and stated further that he would not
participate.
Elechi said he was sceptical about the dialogue as it
would not achieve anything “since the constitution
has conferred on the National Assembly the power
to make laws for the country.”
The governor noted that the dialogue could not
supersede the deliberations of the National
Assembly and referred its advocates to revisit the
colloquium by former President Olusegun Obasanjo
in 2005. “We should revisit that colloquium and the
recommendations reached,” he suggested.
Elechi noted that at the colloquium, far- reaching
decisions were reached “but the National Assembly
overrode it because of the third term ambition of
Obasanjo.”
Though Elechi said he would still consult his
constituency to deliberate on whether or not to
participate in the planned national diologue, he
noted that if they eventually chose to participate,
he would distance himself and be an onlooker.
"The National conference to me is a big joke, waste
of time and a distraction to Goodluck Jonathan. I'm
sceptical about it. It will not achieve anything.
I will still consult my people but if at the end of the
day, they decide to participate, I will not stop
anybody but I will distance myself,” he said.
President Jonathan inaugurated a 13-man Advisory
Committee for the planned dialogue on October 7,
after approving the membership and terms of
reference of the committee.
The Committee has Dr. Femi Okurunmu as
Chairman while Dr. Akilu Indabawa will act as
Secretary.
The committee’s terms of reference include: To
consult expeditiously with all relevant stakeholders
with a view to drawing up a feasible agenda for the
proposed national dialogue and to make
recommendations to government on structure and
modalities of the proposed national dialogue.
It was also directed to make recommendations to
government on how representation of various
interest groups at the national dialogue/conference
will be determined.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/national-dialogue-a-huge-joke-says-elechi/167436/

Choi!!! This man can lie.

Portharcourt, an old city with new clean roads springing up daily.

Policemen and some officials of the Federal
Road Safety Corps (FRSC) yesterday clashed
in Wuse Zone 2 in the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT). The incident involved plain
clothes and FRSC officials who were on the
road to clear it for the convoy of President
Goodluck Jonathan.
In the ensuing melee, an official of the FRSC
was shot while another was injured.
An eyewitness told LEADERSHIP Weekend
that trouble started when officials of the
FRSC were ordered by the police to leave
their duty post around the Central Area
where President Jonathan’s convoy always
pass to the presidential villa from the
Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport.
It was gathered that the policemen and FRSC
officials of the FRSC were mobilised to the
area ahead of the president’s convoy from
the airport.
The alleged refusal of the FRSC officials to
leave the area which they claimed to be their
duty post to ensure traffic flow angered the
policemen who were led by a divisional
police officer (DPO).
The angry policemen allegedly seized the
Hilux van belonging to the FRSC and arrested
its occupants.
But other officials of the FRSC who got wind
of the news blocked the road at the
intersection of Sultan Abubakar Way and
Olusegun Obasanjo Way at Wuse Zone 2
insisting that their officials and vehicle be
released by the policemen.
“As they were arguing, a senior police officer
used his gun to hit an officer of the FRSC on
the head and another policeman started
shooting into the air and suddenly I saw one
official of FRSC down. That is when we
started running for our lives,” the eyewitness
told LEADERSHIP Weekend.
Another eyewitness said the police were
another shot the official four times. “They
came from Bolingo Hotel area where the
president’s usually pass from the airport and
started shouting at the FRSC men who
barricaded the road with their trucks and
then shot one of the FRSC men four times
but I don’t know if he is still alive, he said”.
At the scene of the clash, officials of FRSC
were seen taking the victims to hospital
while men of the Nigeria police wearing
bullet-proof vests were leaving the area.
LEADERSHIP Weekend learnt that the
operation was carried out by men of the
Abuja Crimes Control Squad 44 (ACCOS 44).
Attempt to speak to the most senior officer
of FRSC at the scene yielded no result as he
declined to comment on the matter. One of
the FRSC officials later said that since the
appointment of the new FCT police
commissioner, Femi Ogunbayode, a directive
was given to the FRSC by the police to leave
the streets of Abuja for the highways outside
the Federal Capital City for their operations.
The police high command refused to respond
to enquiries by our correspondent on the
matter.


http://leadership.ng/news/141213/jonathan-s-convoy-police-shoot-frsc-officer

Circle-Of-Wilis:
taaaaaaaa!

Most likely they have held the pdp presidential primaries. Cos in tukur's pdp anything is possible.

Socrates05: guy, am just laugh @ u. The reasons is dat u think u av spoken well, but absolutely No. Did u remember that peoples perish cos of lack of knowledge. I continues to say these dat we Youth are problem of this country but people didnt believe me. I served my Nysc in River State @ Etche LG, just passed out in Oct 10 dis year. Did u know lagos can survive without Federal Allocation, all those roads u are sayin dat Ameachi did is not my cup of tea. I did see a new road project in dat stuff abuloma place.
Rivers state is the highest rate of allocation in dis country, guy wise up. Let me talk on what i saw, in d community i served can u imagined dat Rivers State Govt only av 1 principal & 2 V.P and just 4 teachers in SS class b4 they just brought new recruited teachers come in october b4 i left and naughty peoples are praising d same clown called Amaechi as their Meshial. Go to Ondo, Edo State and see how many teachers in primary & secondary Schol. The same thing happen to schol it built dat una wen blind dey praised him. Go ondo state n see Mimiko project with Mega Primary Schol wit Air Condition & good fans in d classroom, go see Mother & Child Care hospital with free medical bills no wonder World Health Organisation gave him award. To cut the story short, Amaechi refused to recruit teachers all dis y, and he was using Corpers as a tool to teach his students with the aims he will paid them their State alawi but now the man stil owed Batch A, B, C last year. Enugu state never owed their Corpers once with 10k per month. Guy i believed dat u will among those peoples across the local govt Amaechi just recruited to pay 20k per month. Yes or No. If No buttress ur points with fact, am waiting.

Am shocked to learn from you that you did nysc. Wondering which school gave u degree with such poor english. Pls go back to secondary school.

4Wilywily: Speaker River state House of Assembly Hon Evans Bipi should go back to work immediately.

Otelemaba Amachree is the speaker of Rivers state house of assembly.

talk2s: Abeg who dey deh. Wish obasanjo be dis?
Na de one were bin try to carve our composition, sori, constitution so e-go allow am run for 3rd term?

OBJ had his issues while in office
and is partly responsible for putting GEJ in
office (another big mistake on his part), I
agree. But please let us address issues in
Nigeria, and not personalities, otherwise, we
will never move forward as a country. The
key question you should have asked is, Has
OBJ lied in this letter? The answer is clearly
NO.
Nigeria is seriously bleeding, and if you
have not seen it, then please tell us what
you are smoking. The corruption we are
seeing today is at least 250% worse than
whatever we have experienced under any
other previous administration in Nigeria's
history. The Yar'Adua administration has
paid about N285Billion for oil subsidy in
2010, yet GEJ ballooned it to over N2Trillion
within about one year - A growth in costs of
more than 600% within 1 year! And not a
single person is in jail. Yet you say there is
no problem? Are you okay, bro?
The oil and gas industry is almost comatose.
His administration cannot fund a 2013
budget based on a crude oil price of $79/
barrel, yet crude oil prices have been at an
average of over $102/barrel thus far in 2013.
This is largely because oga GEJ's
administration has been unable to stop
bunkering by rogues on the one part, and
collect the taxes and royalties due to the
Federal Government from many of his
friends that bought the assets sold by the
International Oil Companies.
Nigeria has fallen on almost every index of
human development since GEJ came into
office - life expectancy, unemployment,
infant mortality, security, suicide rate and
even polio! Ask the UNDP, ask Transparency
International, ask The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation.
Yet, rather than look at these FACTS
dispassionately, many of us adopt knee-jerk
atavistic sentiments that do us no good. It
seems most of us have not linked the future
of our children to the misadventures of the
current set of jokers in power.
So, if I do not blame GEJ when things go
wrong in Nigeria, who should I blame? God?
That is why the man is the C-In-C. The buck
stops on his table.

Pls has anyone entered any of the 1100 luxury buses inaugurated by Mr President at the eagle square abuja? am yet to see anyone here in benin. Abi they have gone to the usual corrupt drainage pipe?

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/01/09/presidency-inaugurates-palliative-measure-to-cushion-effects-of-fuel-subsidy/

figment232: The OP is a big FOOL dat doesnt understand english.

instead of raining abuses, i expected you to explain to nairalanders what u understand. that way we would actually know who understands simple english better.

hardywaltz: @ op is it that u can't read or just trying to get noticed. The highest authourity been reffered to is Mr President.

"Authorities" is more than one person. The president didn't say "authority".

While commenting on the ASUU strike the president said "What was expected having met with the highest authorities in the land for long hours, was for ASUU to immediately issue statement within 12 or latest 24 hours , to state their position whether they were accepting government’s offer or not. And if they are not accepting they should state the reason for that.”
"After that meeting they didn’t meet until one week, despite the fact that you met with the highest authority. It was unfortunate one of them, Prof. Iyayi died."

Those at the President’s side at the last meeting, were Vice President
Namadi Sambo; Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim; Chief of Staff
to the President, Chief Mike Oghiadhome, Ministers
of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; her counterparts in
the Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu and
the Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom
Wike; Permanent Secretary FME, Dr. MacJohn
Nwaobiala; Executive Secretary National
Universities Commission (NUC), Prof Julius Okojie;
and Director Tertiary Education (DTE), Dr. Hindatu
Abdullahi.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/didnt-give-ASUU-ultimatum-jonathan/

Abu-Maryam:
Very soon state of Emergency will be declared in Anambra, the calculations keep going 36-4 bad eggs=

Inec should just do the needful. Its that simple.

the warrior72: Useless women, they will die for nothing, I don't know how much ngige gave them that they are risking they life

Your disrespect for the female gender makes you so disgusting. Those r people's mothers.

gbanikiti: Ok.

I heard the protesters were from Katsina state. How true is it?

Ann Ifesi is hausa names according to Gov Obi.

AKUNWATA1: LEMME USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO CONGRATULATE HIS EXCELLENCY DR WILLIE MMADUABUCHI OBIANO

U r congratulating Mr obiano for the death of the women?

Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi and the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in last Saturday's governorship election in the state, Senator Chris Ngige, yesterday squabbled over the alleged killing of two female protesters in Awka.

Ngige's spokesman, Mr. Okelo Madukaife, had in a statement claimed that the two women met their death when policemen shot into a crowd of women protesting the conduct of the election.
However, Obi's Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, disputed the claim, saying it was a figment of Ngige's imagination.

Also, the crisis of confidence between the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the party's governorship candidate, Mr. Tony Nwoye, over the election remained unresolved following their different positions on the outcome of the poll.

According to the Ngige camp, the two women, identified as Anne Ifesi and Hannah Njiko, were feared dead when a contingent of policemen tried to disperse the protesters who were marching on the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Awka, to demand the cancellation of the governorship election.

In addition, it said 19 others who sustained varying degree of injuries from beatings and the inhalation of teargas were rushed to a private hospital in Awka for treatment.

It added that some 700 women, ranging from ages 25 to 70 and drawn from the 21 local government areas of the state, were on their way to the INEC headquarters when policemen manning various points at the INEC office intercepted them and engaged them in an argument.

“The situation degenerated when one of the riot policemen shot live ammunition twice on the ground burrowing the tarred road, before his colleagues acting on a telephone clearance from what one officer later described as order from above, dispersed nine teargas canisters into the crowd, in quick succession.
“This led to a stampede that left five women unconscious and 19 injured. But undeterred, the women regrouped at the Arroma Junction, where they were intercepted by men of the State Security Service (SSS) who tried to seize their placards, but the women engaged them in a physical combat, recovering all the placards

“Some of the placards read: ‘Jonathan, leave Anambra Alone’, 'Free and fair election is a must!’, 'Jega is worse than Iwu', ‘Sack Onukogu Now’ and  ‘No fresh election, No governor,’” the statement from Ngige’s aide added.

It explained that of the five unconscious women who were rushed to the private hospital, three regained consciousness while the two others were feared dead.

But Obi disputed the claim, saying it was concocted by the Ngige camp to draw sympathy from the public following his loss in the governorship election.

Obienyem, in a statement yesterday, said: “Journalists in Awka brought to my attention the news being circulated by Dr. Chris Ngige's Media Assistant, Mr. Okelo Madukaife, alleging that two protesting women where shot at Awka.

“I was later informed that Dr. Chris Ngige personally sent text messages to them as he did when the Uke tragedy occurred begging them to use the story.
“The story is completely fabricated and the names mentioned are non-existent, otherwise let them mention the name of the hospital.

“How can a former governor, illegal though, and now a serving senator, be an embodiment of fraud? He is desperately trying to convince people that if the election is not cancelled, there will be violence.” 
The election has also caused a disagreement in the camp of the PDP as the state leadership of the party and Nwoye maintained different positions yesterday on its outcome.

The state party Chairman, Mr. Ken Emeakayi, at a press conference in Awka, while commending party members and the people of Anambra State for their peaceful and orderly conduct during the election also thanked President Goodluck Jonathan for providing adequate security and the enabling environment that made the “hitch-free election” possible.

He also condemned the attempt by the APC to discredit the governorship election.
He expressed the readiness of the PDP to participate in the supplementary election whenever INEC is ready for it.

Emeakayi said the state PDP was aligning itself with the stand of the national leadership of the party on the election and its outcome while asking INEC to complete the election and announce the winner.
He feigned ignorance that Nwoye had distanced himself from the supplementary election because of its shoddy conduct.  

“I am not aware that the candidate of the party has disagreed with the outcome of the election and distanced himself from the supplementary election when INEC fixes it.
“I am not aware he said so. I am not the party. The party is the NWC and it has said we will participate in the supplementary election. The state working committee of the party met today (yesterday) towards ensuring that we participate. The candidate is not the party,” he said.

But the campaign organisation of Nwoye, faulted the party's chairman, saying it was wrong for the party not to see anything wrong with an election that was declared inconclusive, and adjudged to be marred by malpractices and irregularities.

The Director General of the campaign organisation, Mr. Osita Ezenwa, at a press conference in Awka yesterday, said their candidate had earlier pointed out that the election was flawed and should be cancelled.

“The election has been poorly conducted and what remains to be done is to cancel it and conduct a fresh election. If PDP loses from the fresh process, we will congratulate the winner; no problem, but to foist the result of a gravely flawed election on us is unacceptable,” he said.

He flayed some party officials, especially PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, for congratulating APGA in an inconclusive election when a winner was yet to emerge and wondered why he was in a hurry to do so.

“Nwoye’s name was not in the register of voters for the election. He was our candidate in the election. We call for the total cancellation of the election. Prof. Jega is a forthright person and we hope he will do what is right,” he said.

According to him, since Nwoye is the party’s candidate in the election, it will be wrong to shave his head behind his back by making pronouncements on whether he will participate in the supplementary election without consulting him.

“Before somebody makes that kind of a pronouncement, you need to consult the candidate and no consultation took place. So they are on their own. The only person who has the power to determine what step to take is the candidate.

“The election is still on ongoing and until the chief returning officer declares the results, the INEC can still cancel the election because it is a sham. It was marred by irregularities and malpractices across board.
“We don’t agree with the INEC when it said it lacked the power to cancel the election and start a fresh one,” he added.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/obi-ngige-bicker-over-alleged-killing-of-two-protesters/164856/

Portharcourt light is courtesy of the state govt not fg. Be guided.

tosin2013: Bros its bight not bite.

Thanks

Demdem: Chai, these ibos are smarts ooo.
They tactically added Akwa Ibom as part of Biafra.

Rivers and bayelsa are d main biafra. Cos the bight of biafra is located offshore bayelsa/rivers states. And that's where d name biafra originated from. D south-eastern states are not even biafra so to speak.

ebucha: keep dreaming. I'll advice u to stop dreaming of a Biafra containing the Niger-Delta.

Imo state and Abia state are nigerdelta states

Senator Ngige