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The big Nigerian’s quality has always been in great
doubt owing to his inability to command regular
first team action with the Blues, how about his
unassailable trophy haul?
On Sunday evening, John Obi Mikel picked up his
ninth professional title in England as Chelsea lifted
the Premier League trophy at Stamford Bridge.
No other player in Nigeria’s football history has
generated so much attention in the international
market than Mikel. In fact, considering him as the
most successful Nigerian footballer of this era will
never be moot.
At a time when many had predicted his time was
up in west London, Hope – as his igbo name
‘Nchekwube’ implies, waxed stronger and kept
adding laurels to his trophy cabinet.
Truth be told, Nigeria has produced many brilliant
players over the years; the likes of Kanu Nwankwo,
Sunday Oliseh, Jay-Jay Okocha, Daniel Amokachi
and Finidi George. But perhaps none of these icons
have consistently the success that Mikel has whilst
featuring in Chelsea’s route to major honours.
In nine seasons with the Blues, Mikel has enjoyed
unparalleled success boasting of nine domestic
silverwares plus two on the big European stage. In
a season or two, chances are that he would
eclipse Kanu’s record of 13 (in club football), yet
his disparagers feel that his inability to tie down
regular first team action with the Pensioners
means that he should not be seen as one of
Africa's greatest exports to Europe.
Permit me to ask here that if ‘the Catalyst’ is as
bad as many suggest, why has he always won the
hearts of managers who have been employed and
thrown out of Stamford Bridge? Why has he not
been shipped out to other teams like others
considered as surplus to requirement in the Roman
Army?
Attesting to Obi’s eminence, former Nigeria
international Mutiu Adepoju told Goal that it would
be unfair and sheer a caustic exercise to tag him
as a swashbuckler who picks up medals from the
bench.
An overall record of one goal in 20 games for Jose
Mourinho’s men in an injury-plagued season may
not be great, but it is quite commendable, and a
tally of just two cautions is appalling for a man of
his purported brilliance in terms of defensive
ability.
But assertions made on purely a statistical basis
are often unwise, instead it’s his performance in
such games of importance which continue to fuel
the notion that he’s nothing more than a bully
who fails to deliver when pressure and expectation
is at its maximum.
There is no doubt that Mikel has often been the
man for the big occasion – his goal against
Sporting Lisbon is a perfect example. His strike
increased his side’s lead as they went ahead to
win 3-1 – and also ensured he was named man of
the match.
Benched by Mourinho in late 2014, injured on his
return and then Nemanja Matic in the pecking
order at the Bridge, even now Mikel is still
recovering his friable confidence.
The naysayers would always forget that aside his
defensive ability, he has been a fantastic asset
when it comes to ball passing. His successful pass
rate of 90.4 % in all competitions [ 87.5% in the
Champions League and 90.7% on the domestic
scene] is worthy of praise, especially when you
compare with Mourinho’s preferred option Matic’s
87.1%.
Let’s make no mistake about it, Mikel is a living
legend of the game and his never say die attitude
must be commended.
Any way it is looked at, his achievement is
prodigious – and remarkably it is getting better.
To suggest he is overprized is impertinent, naïve
and simply laughable.
Viva, Africa’s unsung hero

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Lushcream:
This is the reason why NIgeria is backward .... Politicians going dirty and clean on one another ..... E.g If Akpabio should be found wanting now in the future, Amaechi won't be able to crucify him so as not to spoil recently found amelioration.

This is the reason why cross carpeting is so easy in Nigeria, because these people court themselves unnecessarily......

Why can't PDP Governors forum stand on their own and implement PDP's Ideology across various PDP controlled state while APC Governors Forum also do the same in their sphere.

National Executive Council Meeting is enough for both teams to converge ..........

We remembered the brouhaha Governor's forum caused our nation and insulted our democracy where 16 was greater than 19.

but before now there was nothing like pdp n apc Gov forum so they may feel it time to come back home.

this is how it should be. let build together

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WAKE UP

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MUCH EXPECTED, INSTEAD OF APC CAMPAIGNING THEY WERE BUSY LOOKING FOR WHO TO BLACKMAIL

mrsqueen:
The State elections in Akwa Ibom today turned out to be war. Innocent voters who went out to exercise their franchise had to scamper for safety when some political thugs unleashed mayhem on the voters. Some were maimed, injured, or killed outright.

Graphic pics pls.


Source: #AKSAPCSITUATIONROOM#

were did this happen ? which LGA in Akwa Ibom

this is one of the reason why senator mark has made it his permanent house against all odd.

President Goodluck Jonathan has described
himself as one of the luckiest Nigerians alive,
saying having held principal positions in
government since 1999, he has had enough.
Speaking on Sunday when residents of the federal
capital territory (FCT), led by Namadi Sambo, the
outgoing vice-president, visited him at the
presidential villa in commemoration of Easter,
Jonathan expressed appreciation to Nigerians for
giving him the opportunity to serve. “I am one of
the luckiest Nigerians. I am yet to see somebody
luckier than me,” he said. “From 1999, I was in the
hands of government for 16 years. Not just in
government as a parliamentarian because if you
are a senator or house of representatives member,
you take care of yourself, you live in your own
house. “I was in a cage, being taken care of by the
government for 16 good years. I think it is enough
and I am happy; help me to thank God for that and
I will continue to thank Nigerians for giving me
that privilege. Wherever I will be, I will remain
grateful to this great country.” Jonathan urged
Nigerians to make sacrifices that would help in
transforming the country for the better. “I always
believe we should ask, ‘What sacrifice are you
making’? It is not about supporting Jonathan or
government, now Buhari is coming on board. It is
not about supporting Burhari or government, but
what sacrifice as individual are you willing to make
for government and for the nation?” he asked. “If
you are a businessman and you say you are
supporting government but you don’t pay tax, how
do you expect that government to survive?
“Whenever I travel to different countries and see
things work, those things didn’t fall down as
manner; people made sacrifice, therefore in
Nigeria, people must also be ready to make the
required sacrifice. “Nation-building depends on the
sacrifice of individuals and the patriotism of the
citizens. These are two key elements, we must be
ready to sacrifice for our nation.” Responding,
Sambo said Jonathan had contributed his own
quota to the development of the country, adding
that his name would be written in gold for
conceding defeat after losing the election. “With
the contributions and actions you took, your name
will be written in gold not only in Nigeria, but in
Africa and world,” he said. “I’m forever loyal. We
are a member of one family and will remain one
family.

That APC is leading in the federal stage, guarantee not APC in my state.













#I AND MY HOUSE WILL NEVER VOTE APC IN AKWA IBOM STATE (state wise)

it not gonna be sariki because he is a first timer

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Your Excellency Sir: Let me quickly jump in
front of the oncoming bandwagon in
offering my congratulations. I know you do
not have too much time for niceties
because much has been left on the Augean
Stables for you to clean up. Let me be one
of the first to offer my two kobo on how
you should begin the art (for, in Nigeria, it
is indeed an art) of governing us for the
next four years. My advice is neither in
chronological order nor even in any order
of preference. But most of it stems from lessons
learned in the huge fall from grace to grass of
your immediate predecessor, Mr. Goodluck
Jonathan.

(Declaration of Assets) Even before your official
swearing in ceremony scheduled for May 29th, go
ahead and declare your assets as you promised.
Do it publicly. In fact, find some money and buy
space in a few national dailies and online media
outlets and declare your assets. I am sure your
Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, will follow suit.
Nigerians know both of you are not stupendously
rich, so no need to worry about having to explain
how you came about your assets. Then go ahead
and make it (in private, of course) a requirement
for all your ministerial, judicial and heads of MDA
appointees, to also declare their assets.
(Appointments) Please look beyond the APC for a
combination of brains and brawn. Make deliberate
efforts to find talents in other parties (believe it or
not, there are good people even in the PDP) and
appoint them to, not just inconsequential
positions, but key positions that will task their
intellect and vigor. Look beyond active politicians
for skilled people because many of them want to
serve and can serve very well but for myriad
reasons, could not participate in politics. Spread
your appointments across the nation as fairly as
possible. I know the southwest practically elected
you (the north had always been with you) and you
will be pulled by those of us from the southwest
to reward us and not marginalize us like Jonathan
did. But you are president for the whole country.
Beam your searchlight on the east, south-south
and all over the country and look for talents. If
you try hard, you will find talents in the states that
voted against you. You will find talents among
Nigerians living abroad. You have to demonstrate
the level of maturity that Jonathan lacked and
show the world that you are not vindictive. How
nice would it be if you could ask Nuhu Ribadu to
be Minister of Interior, in charge of the Police,
Immigrations, Prisons, Civil Defense and
Customs? These are parastatals that have become
cesspools of corruption and need someone of
Ribadu’s incorruptibility, energy, patriotism and
attention-to-detail to lead. How about Raji Fashola
for Ministry of Works or Ministry of Justice? You
get my drift?
(Corruption) Nigerians trust you and to some
degree, trust Osinbajo. But that is not the same
and will, of course, not be the same for your
appointees. You cannot single-handedly eradicate
corruption in Nigeria. In fact, no one can eradicate
corruption from any country. You can only do
your best to reduce it to the bare minimum. To
this end, you must return transparency and
independence to the EFCC and ICPC. Once
nominated by the President and confirmed by the
Senate to serve for a specified term, the
chairpersons of both organizations should only be
removable by (a simple majority) legislative
impeachment. This removes the EFCC from
Executive control and allows every political party
to have a say in how it does its job. Please ask
your political appointees to sign an undated
Resignation Letter before you appoint them. This
will serve you well in the future if they misbehave
and you need to sack them. All you would need to
do is put a date on their Resignation Letter and
ACCEPT their resignation. This letter serves to
keep them on their toes. I have heard other
members of your party (and specifically Prof.
Osinbajo) promise to not go after those who have
perpetrated corruption before your election. I hope
that is not true. Nigerians expect you to go after
those who stole the future of their children. No,
you should not allow this to consume you and
detract from more important things. Nonetheless,
we cannot afford to let them go scot-free. They
must pay, if only to serve as deterrence to future
thieves.
(Judiciary) You must overhaul the judiciary as a
matter of urgency. The process of litigation in
Nigeria is too long, too tedious, too expensive and
too prone to abuse that justice is often delayed
and thus often denied. Please embark on the
construction of more courtrooms, upgrade the
infrastructures of the existing ones, improve the
welfare of judiciary workers and build more
prisons to house those convicted in your new,
expedited process.
(Federal Budget) This is too fat. You have to
demonstrate to Nigerians that you are going to
live by example. All those billions of naira usually
allocated for food in Aso Rock need to be
drastically cut down. Everybody working in or
visiting Aso Rock is already being paid
handsomely. They can pay for their own food.
Make the cafeteria in Aso Rock a pay-for-your-
own-food establishment for everybody. Cut down
on the number of people traveling out of town and
out of country who collect estacodes and
allowances for doing practically nothing on such
trips. Then invite the Senate leader and the
Speaker of the House of Representatives and ask
them to lead their respective legislatures in taking
drastic cuts both in salaries and in other
emoluments. Nigerians find it unconscionable that
a Senator earns more than the President of the
United States. Your predecessor was too
compromised to have the moral authority to ask
the legislators to take a pay cut. You do not have
such a problem. They - the legislators - are
looking for motivation, direction and purpose. You
must provide that leadership.
(NNPC) I don’t need to tell you that this is the
nation’s jugular. Fortunately, you are probably the
most knowledgeable about this sector out of all
who have governed Nigeria. So, there is very little
anybody can tell you about this that you do not
already know. You must appoint persons of
absolutely unquestionable character to head this
Ministry and the various parastatals that support
our oil industry. Your Minister of Petroleum must
believe in refining our oil within our country. And
so that person must commence the construction
of new refineries and the repair of old ones. If you
have to borrow money to do anything, this is one
sector you must get going almost right away. By
the time your party comes to ask for our votes in
2019, we must be paying far less at the pumps
than we are currently paying and exporting
finished oil products to neighboring countries.
(Transportation) I take you at your word that you
will revive the moribund Nigeria Airways by first
deploying most of the aircraft in the currently
bloated Presidential fleet to the national carrier. It
has been a national embarrassment that the Giant
of Africa has been unable to manage its airline.
Remember that what killed Nigeria Airways was
corruption (from ticketing fraud to spare parts
fraud and) general poor maintenance record. Your
new Nigeria Airways must be peopled with crack
professionals and technicians – people who take
aviation safety and customer service seriously. On
the railways, you will agree with me that the
situation whereby people and merchandises
heading from Abuja to Ondo, Ile-Ife, Sokoto, Ado
Ekiti, Birnin Kebbi, Akure, Benin City, Ogbomosho,
Oyo, Jalingo, Yola, Damaturu, Dutse, Calabar, and
many more key towns cannot even contemplate
taking the train. Train tracks do not pass through
these places! And the tracks we have are single
tracks that force trains to wait for each other for
hours at trains stations. These were the tracks
betrothed to us by the colonial masters and we
are yet to improve on them. Please start building
new tracks and get rid of those archaic, used
locomotives with which your predecessor
“transformed” us back to the Stone Age.
Remember, a viable rail system will ease the
pressure on our roads as large goods such as
petroleum tanks and containers will find it cheaper
and faster to use the railways.
(Defense) Like NNPC, this is another sector about
which nobody can lecture you. As the Boko
Haram quagmire has shown us, there has been
gross corruption or negligence or incompetence
of all of the foregoing in the Ministry of Defense
dating back to before your predecessor. Things
just got past him more because he knew next to
nothing about this sector and he was too
incurious and too afraid to ask questions. Luckily
for us, you know what is going on and nobody
can accuse you of being too afraid to ask
questions. The ranks of our military leadership,
the officer corps, has been politicized and
bastardized to the point that they have lost
credibility with Nigerians. The respect and
adulation normally enjoyed by the military has
been erased and replaced with scorn and
derision. People now see the military as a bunch
of willing tools in the hands of politicians; a rag-
tag bunch who will scamper off the battlefield with
tails tucked between their legs at the sound of
Boko Haram’s Hilux trucks. You have to restore
the dignity of the Nigerian military. Heads have to
roll. In fact, heads that have left the service but
responsible for the rot in the military must be
recalled and set rolling. You must set up a panel
of former military officers, aided by a crack team
of accountants, to look into the books of the
military and find all the missing trillions – the
reason our military lacked weapons and other
equipment when called up to defend the country;
the reason why thousands of our citizens were
easily massacred by terrorists; the reason why we
lost parts of our country to a Boko Haram and the
reason why our country became the butt of jokes
in international military circles. You must reorient
the military to the path of professionalism –
training for war in peacetime as if they are at war;
training them in some of the best countries in the
world and with some of the best militaries in the
world; equipping them with the most modern war-
fighting equipment; taking care of their welfare
and that of their family and building for them
infrastructures that befit the status we want them
to occupy in the world. If you have to reduce the
size, please do so. Remember, size is not might.
Most advanced nations have moved away from
large, slower military to smaller and more mobile,
more nimble forces. That is the direction we
should be headed. We should be building a
smaller but more lethal force.
(Intelligence) There are too many unintelligent
personnel parading themselves as intelligence
operatives in our country. Like the military, they
too have been co-opted into serving the whims
and caprices of the government of the day. And
they do not know what they are doing. I make
this last statement boldly, confident that I know
what I am talking about. Our intelligence
organizations should complement the efforts of
the law enforcement agencies and the military. In
fact, they should be integral parts of those
organizations and should not, themselves, be
exempted from being scrutinized. You need to
infuse the DMI, the NSA, the DSS and all the
others with well-trained (internationally well-
trained) professionals who can teach basic and
advance intelligence gathering, packaging and
dissemination to the end user. The gun-toting,
sunglasses-wearing and suit-decked so-called
intelligence personnel are just collecting pay
checks. Where, for example, is the Boko Haram
leader? Where are the Chibok girls? How are
weapons getting inside Nigeria – and I mean
heavy weapons? How are fighters getting inside
Nigeria and how are they getting re-supplied?
You need to overhaul this sector.
(Medical) Please send a bill to the legislature
prohibiting all government officials from using
government money to fund any aspect of medical
care they receive abroad. They can exercise their
inalienable right of free movement, but Nigeria
should no longer pay for anybody to receive
treatment abroad. In the mean time and while the
bill snakes through the legislature, use your
executive powers to deny requests for overseas
medical travels that involve the use of government
funds.
Clearly, your biggest challenge is electricity. This
is the giant killer that has “killed” those before
you. If you fail in everything above and succeed in
stabilizing electricity supply, increasing its
generation and distributing it effectively, your
name will be written in gold. This will task your
brain and sap your energy the most. Every sinew
of your being must be engaged when you appoint
people to solve this very huge problem. With the
talents that abound within our country and
outside, with the resources at our disposal, you
can eradicate our dependence on all sorts of
generators. With stable electricity, you won’t need
to create too many jobs as Nigerians will create
jobs by themselves.
Your Excellency, I know you have a full plate and
you are no spring chicken. That is why
assembling a team of very qualified and able
people from across the country and the Diaspora
will make your job easier. All you need to do is
provide the motivation, purpose and direction and
they will execute. Begin, Sir, by appointing a
credible spokesperson who also has a strong
background in the media – a true professional. I
think Reuben Abati has proved to us that ability to
churn out bombast-laden articles does not make
an effective spokesperson. You need someone
who will command the professional respect of
members of his/her journalism constituency as
well as be able to articulate your programs and
actions without being condescending and
patronizing. Sir, please do not appoint someone
who will attack your political enemies. That job
should go to your party’s spokesperson.

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MISTA CHAIRMAN SIR WE R WAITING FOR U

AM SURE JEGA WILL ANNOUNCE BEFORE 12AM

THAT'S THE PEOPLE GENERAL

NA SO OOOOO

AM BEGINNING TO LIKE HIM

GOOD ONE

Who is Nigeria's President-elect? Mr Buhari, who's
seventy-two, was defeated in his previous three
attempts to win the presidency.
This time he stood as the candidate of several
opposition parties who came together to campaign
on a platform of tackling corruption and defeating
the Islamist militants of Boko Haram. A Muslim
general from northern Nigeria, he seized power in
a coup in nineteen-eighty-three.
His time in office was marked by the stifling of
dissent and what became known as a war against
indiscipline. He was himself ousted by a coup and
spent more than three years in prison.