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NANS passes vote of no confidence on
Jonathan
on August 17, 2013 at 12:30 am in News
*’We’re disappointed over Okonjo-Iweala’s
comments’
National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS,
through a statement made available and signed by
the National P.R.O. Comrade Victor Olaogun, has
passed a vote of no confidence on President Goodluck
Jonathan over what they called his “ineptitude to
handle and resolve the ongoing impasse between the
Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU.”
While berating the lackadaisical attitude of the
Nigerian President towards the development of the
youth and his insensitivity and inattentiveness to the
pains and demands of Nigerian students and
university lecturers, the Association called for
instantaneous declaration of state of emergency on
Nigeria’s education sector, saying “we can no longer
condone his ineffectiveness, whereupon we pass a
VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE on him.
“Also we pass VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE on the
Minister for Education, for not having the interest of
Nigerian students at heart. We also condemn the
Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck
Jonathan on Students and Youth Matters, Comr. Jude
Imagwe over his lukewarm attitude to the plights of
the Nigerian students.
“As a former president of NANS, (though factional)
we expect Comr. Jude Imagwe to use his good office
to press for the demands of the students and even
protect the interest of undergraduates who at this
time are facing huge challenges as a result of the
lingering strike action embarked on by the Academic
Staff Union of Universities”
However the Association pleaded with ASUU to return
to the classes while deliberation continues or drag FG
to court. “we urge ASUU to drag the Federal
Government to court since nobody is above the law.
We call for immediate allocation of Special
Intervention Fund to Primary, Secondary, and
Tertiary education in Nigeria. We remained
indifferent on ASUU strike because we thought the
two parties could use pragmatic approaches to settle
their rift.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/nans-passes-vote-of-no-confidence-on-jonathan/

tankoemmanuel: [/b][b]

Soludo [hasb][/neverb] been a candidate...

Soludo was never a candidate...

Going by your grammar and your deviant construction, you have said absolutely nothing.

Have is a plural verb. In verb conjugation, it follows -
I have
You have
We have
They have

Soludo is one person and he is a third person singular subject in this case. Your construction should have read:

Soludo has/had never been a candidate...

Apart from being grammatically wrong, you are also culpable of being semantically incongruous. You told a blatant lie.

Soludo was a candidate in 2010. He has contested an election before.

So what exactly were you trying to say?

Team Grammarians
UNN.

Na waoooo! U wikedoooo I tot u are brodas.....y wuld u castigate and expose d guy naaaa? Dat was hash!

ferdimako: You don't know the meaning of a liar...I said I heard what appeared believable and you are preparing to die of it. You will die again when NOUN doesn't start exams Sep 30. For the meantime, go and register your courses...sharp! sharp! newbie!

Are u not tired? Well as d bigger BOSS here, I throw in my white towlel! U win, xams desnt start sept! U are happy nw, isn't it? I knw u have helped a lot of guyz here so keep on d gud work and let dis fly.

OBJ My guy......................I bet u guys, OBJ will 4ever be remembered for dis speech in d history of Nigeria! He just said d bitter truth!

ferdimako: The guy doesn't want to believe that possibility. I was a student and I saw it all. I don't change any timetable and I don't think exams will start Sep 30. If he likes,let him go and hang.

U are so dumb not to take ppls advice and let dis fly, u will prabably hang ursef wen d proof comes dat u are a liar

Anambra politics is not like die-hard south-western states dat vote wit high afinity to party affiliations. I trust Anambrarians will vote based on credibilty. The points to look out for come november elections are:

1. Gov. Peter Obi will play a major role in who succeeds him. He have strategically took Ngige out of bizness, Soludo's fate lies in his barehands and PDP is as confused as ever xcept there is an off-record agreement btween Peter Obi and PDP considering his romance with presidency as of late.

2. If APGA fields Peter Obi's anointed(Obaze), they maybe struggling to win on a 50-50 give or take. That will also give Ngige a plus considering his popularity.

3. Assuming Andy Uba gets PDP ticket and Obaze gets APGA, the job will be muchly easier for Ngige. I don't really see any face coming out from PDP. Obi made sure he wreck Ngige's chances by planting a political propagander wit Lagos rehab programme for destitutes. Except Obi makes a ''MISTAKE'' Ngige have no chance or if Ngige makes a great come back, his chances will be good.

4. We have only three top contenders if we base on party politics......APGA the favourite, PDP, the old timers and APC, the ruckies(I mean ruckies in Anambra) and a lot could change after primaries.

5. GEJ can care less if APGA wins, but worried if APC wins. He will get it all if PDP takes over. Either way, the fight is APGA and PDP vs APC, the common enemy!

6. And lastly the end result maybe shocking! Don't count Ngige out yet, that guy is not a cake walk!

ferdimako: I understand you want to get done and I'm not against it.Bros,I was talking about exams not being feasible to be held or start by Sep 30. What's wrong with you? Is English language a problem here?

English man ur language is not my problem, u didn't just say xams are not feasible by 30th sept, u said u called ur contact @ head qtrs and he told u xams will be jan. My problem wit dat is dat u want to claim VC's spokesman here.

ferdimako: Hello All, clearance for new students has started,course registration has started too. If you're for first semester,pay your compulsory fee (N15,500-ur course registration link doesn't get activated even if you have N20,000 in your wallet) if you're for your second semester NOUN takes the N2,500 alongside your selected courses' charges.All the best,people!

I thought u were the one spreading rumours dat the timetable is not reliable? Am glad u are d one announcing it ursef d timely kick-off of course registration as proposed according to plan. NOUNITES hurry up with ur registeration, TMAs will soon start, followed by xams dis year. All the best guyz!

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THURSDAY, 8 AUGUST 2013
Xclusive: Lady Raped And Killed Two Days Before Her Wedding


The young lady on the picture above was said to have died in Aba, Abia State. She was making preparations for her wedding and went out with a friend of hers to share invitation cards but unfortunately for her as she was coming back home she was stalked and raped by some group of men as if that was not enough, they killed and dumped her body on the road side. May her soul rest in perfect peace...
Xclusive Pikin

http://www.naijaxclusive.com/2013/08/xclusive-lady-raped-and-killed-two-days.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook&m=1

THURSDAY, 8 AUGUST 2013
Xclusive: Lady Raped And Killed Two Days Before Her Wedding


The young lady on the picture above was said to have died in Aba, Abia State. She was making preparations for her wedding and went out with a friend of hers to share invitation cards but unfortunately for her as she was coming back home she was stalked and raped by some group of men as if that was not enough, they killed and dumped her body on the road side. May her soul rest in perfect peace...
Xclusive Pikin

We have reports coming in a the NEC of
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in a
meeting in Abuja today has resolved to suspend the
on-going strike action.
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in a
meeting in Abuja today has resolved to suspend the
on-going strike action.
The Federal Government and ASUU seem to have
reached an agreement on the demands made by the
Union which includes better funding of Nigerian
Universities.

ASUU NIGERIA tweeted this:
“We want to thank you all for the understanding
thus far. All lecturers are to resume immediately.
ASUU will not relent on her efforts to rescue the
educational system by pressing home the demands
necessary at all times.”

www.omg.com.ng/2012/02/ASUU-calls-off-strike-today/

Really no love lost, but really Ibos in Nigeria, that occupy mainly the South Eastern part of the country are the most tribalised, complaining and selfish people I have ever seen on the face of the earth, here are the facts and points to buttress my view:

1. From the onset, they had the chance of been a major bloc in Nigerian politics, they have the honor of producing the first president of the country, even the first coup was carried out by the Ibos successfully, they had the power......but because of greed, tribalism, selfishness and kindred evil, they rose from grace to grass, today, they don't count in Nigerian politics.

2. The Ibos cannot survive on their own. There is no place in Nigeria an Igbo man will not build a house, an igbo man will rather betray his own brother for a piece of land elsewhere. There is no unity and focus, no political vision, but yet they will always cry like baby that they want an Igbo presidency.

3. On the isue of Ngige and Igbokwe's stance on Fashola's rehab programme, the reaction of Anambra state govt is typical of an Igbo man, this is a break in communication caused by Peter Obi who received two unreplied memo from Lagos state govt. Eventhough it is very glaring, because the isue have involved a Yoruba man, the Ibos will tribalise it as the Yorubas against the Ibos, nowonder they want to crucify two of their own for being on the side of truth.

4. Curruption is deeply routed in Igbo land, if all the Ibos should go back to their respective states, you will see that the wheat have been separated from the tarse, look at the edifice of one man, a former governor, Uzor kalu, who have amased wealth to the detriment of the masses, MASOB or any organised Ibo group will never see any wrong about it, but they will chose to attack Fashola's rehab programme because he is a Yoruba man.

5. Check all the instruments of coarse in this country, almost all of them is from Ibo land. If PDP or any powerful individual want to cause instability for any political gain, they will use an Igbo man, take for example, the ghost rival APC, african people's congress is headed by an Igbo man. Instead of standing up for their own cause, just like the Hausa's and the Yoruba's, they will end up been the instrument of havoc in the hands of political lords just because of greed, selfishness, and hatred. That is why an igbo man will never be the president of Nigeria ever again!

6. The Ibos are always divided against each other against their own who find grace with other tribes. Ngige is one of the best Governors Anambra have ever seen, but because he is alighned with APC, which only the Ibos see as a Hausa/Yoruba party, they have thrown him away as a betrayal, Obasanjo, who is a former president of Nigerian never played a tribal politics, but yet his people never brandished him as a betrayal, that's maturity on the part of Yorubas, if OBJ were an Igbo man, MASOB or Aka Ikenga must have bannished him from Igbo land! That's how tribalised the Ibos are!

Bottomline is, the survive in a country like Nigeria, one need to think beyond tribal lines, its not that there is no tribalism in other ethnic groupings in Nigeria, but it is worst with our south eastern brother!

I think some NOUN students are geting lazy, d zeal is going down! Why would some students want d skul calender shifted? If u know dat in 7wks time there wud be an xam, y wunt u get prepared? Let's wait and watch if registeration will be open dis wk, and if TMA also start dis month and xam reg commence dis month, there is no way xams will be shifted to january. I really want to get over wit dis xam b4 january.

I met her in a brutel home

Ok agreed, fashola's actions is condemnable, Ngige erred by covering the truth........so what is Peter Obi going to do? Abandon d destitutes like Fash did? Or accomodate the 14 Anambrarians and deport the rest like Fashola did? If he end up not making the life of those destitutes and the ones roaming around Anambra state better, he has don notin. Atleast Fashola did somtin about destitutes! So let's watch if Peter Obi and the other state govts will do somtin about less previleged ppl, if nobody comes up wit a better idea, Fashola remains the man with wisdom!

ferdimako: Forget that calender...how many semesters have you done? So u believe a semester that has not started,will start exams Sep.30? Haha.I call Lagos people myself.Whichever way,am out of that system.

Hey stop spreading rumor and lies based on unfounded speculation. NOUN hav followed dis calendar 100% of a time since it was released, so y are u effecting a change based on a cheap call u made to an unimformed informant?

Dmanky: OKupe or wateva He calls himself is jus bluffing, I dnt blame him, He is only using his bigmouth wrongly,mind u,ws He nt d 1 dt said he wl change his father's name,if APC wl b registered! Shame on Him! His only Job dia is using,his bogus mouth 2 forment troubles 4d president,funy enuf GEJ cn nt call him 2 order.

Okukpe never said he will change from his father's name if APC is registered.....here is what he said:
Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck
Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has
described the merger of opposition political parties
on the platform of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) as a weak association that would crumble and
disappear before the end of 2014.
Doyin, the son of Okupe, said he is so sure that APC
will crumble that bet with his father's name...
“If they don’t crumble and disappear by 2014, don’t
call me Okupe,” he bragged during a courtesy visit to
Thisday corporate offices in Lagos on Tuesday.
The self-described “attack lion” of President
Goodluck Jonathan dismissed insinuations that the
merger party would defeat the PDP in the next
election.
Hear him: “Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Maj-Gen.
Mohammadu Buhari are not serious-minded people;
they are going round like people dancing in a market
place. I expect that when you post an aggregate of
people of that calibre who want to run government,
by now they must have a policy statement on power,
agriculture and employment and not just talking
about PDP leaving.
"Is it by mouth that they will run the nation? These
are not serious-minded people. Can someone get
your vote by using word of mouth that PDP should
leave without a policy?”
Okupe said Jonathan is performing well and
Nigerians can see it everywhere, especially in the
area of electricity.

ujchief: No one is responding to your clarion call! No one wants to waste his etisalat free MB trying to defend a corrupt leader. Use yours wisely; ask the Mods to delete this useless thread!

See ya in the other side.

Ok I get ur point, but pls tell me: on whose side are u? U are not a Gejite, fine by me but pls tell us who is ur candidate? I want to knw becos if u av no candidate or a party it means u av no ideology or any bases as to wat u want or wat ur political leanings are!

ujchief: Seriously!! Is this the best you can come up with? Rome was not built in a day Is that your best shot at defending a 'shoe-less' man that is on a mission to wreck havoc on this country by looting us dry?
You need to apologize for starting this thread and request the Moderators to delete it ASAP!

Rome was not built in a day my a-r-s-e!!

Fellow Gejites, for how long are we going to tolerate dis man? Someone gat 2 place him where he belongs, he out of control!

ASUU denies plan to call off strike
on July 29, 2013 at 12:48 am in News
By JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU

ABUJA — ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities,
ASUU, has described as speculative reports that the
strike embarked upon by the union over the inability
of the Federal Government to implement the 2009
agreement it willingly entered into with the union
would be called off this Thursday.
National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, told
Vanguard that he was surprised to hear that the
union was going to call off the strike on Thursday
when the issues tabled before government had not
been resolved.
Faggae said: “There is nothing like that (suspending
the strike). I am also surprised to hear people say
that we are going to call off the strike.
He said: “Our members have made it categorically
clear what they want. This meeting we had with
government on Friday at the office of the Secretary to
the Government of the Federation, SGF, is just
exploratory.
“We are trying to look at issues holistically and see
how we are going to address them. So assignments
were given to various people that attended the
meeting and the expectation is that we will meet
tomorrow (today), Monday and look at the
assignment given and also look at it on Thursday
again.
“So, that is why I’m surprised to hear people say that
we are going to suspend strike on Thursday. The
mandate of our members is very clear. So, we will
wait and see what the Monday and Thursday
meetings unfold and then we report back to our
members.”
On how long it would take ASUU leaders to convene a
meeting with its members after the meeting with
government on Thursday, the ASUU boss said “we
are in constant consultation with our members, we
don’t really have problems with that.
“After the meeting, we will decide when to link up
with our members depending upon what is placed on
table on Thursday.”
Commenting on the speculation that the union might
suspend the strike if the government met up to 50
per cent of the agreement, Faggae said the union
would prefer to get to the bridge before crossing it.
He commended the positive disposition of the Joint
Senate and House of Representatives Committee on
Education towards the resolution of the crisis.
Fagge added: “For us, the interaction we have had
with the Joint Committee clearly indicates that they
are concerned like other Nigerians”.
“This is expected of the representatives of people.
You see the problem has always been that the
executive arm of government does not really hearken
to advise that are given on how best to address the
problems on education in this country.
“We are convinced as a union that the only thing the
government can really do for Nigerians is to avail
them of education.
“Once you are able to do that, you will see that
people will be able to generate jobs and they will be
able to take care of themselves and contribute to
nation building. So that is the argument we are
placing on the table.”

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/ASUU-denies-plan-to-call-off-strike-on-thursday/

Lordlexy: Chief, please, show them mercy now. You have disconfiscated them to a point of no repair. They think we are fools. This desperate move to have things fix at this 9th hourt is simply an attempt to lure sympathy. All the good will the President has been soiled for sheer greed. Right thinking ppl perceive and appreciate progress if they see one, but what we have is nothing short of wastage and mediocraty. The President had everything at his disposal to stage an obvious change but failed to capitalise on it. The resources entrusted him with does not commeserate with the dev on ground. The health sector is in shambo, the transportation is chaotic, the over hyped agriculture is obviously not felt in the open market, unemployment is still all time high, education is relegated, except for power with some measure of improvement, may be in my area, but obviously not enough to revamp the economy. The question begging for answer is whether the electionnery promises have been fulfiled, if not, then this campaign is dead on arrival.

My broda Rome was not built in a day! Gej gat vision, take 4 example the power sector, his programmes have provided a viable hope 4 constant power supply in the very near future.

U just have to give fresh air a chance!

basisop: TeamGEJ all the way. Abeg,how can I actively support big boss?

@basisop, u can support the big boss by posting his ever positive and innovative achievements here, a lot of anti-gejs have invaded this thread, we must fight 2geda as a team either to make them Gejites or remove them from poluting the fresh air.

Up to six persons were confirmed dead on Sunday by
military and local government officials in central
north Nigeria's Plateau State, following an attack by
unknown gunmen on a village in the state.
Chairman of Wase Local Government Council
Muhamadu Zakari told reporters in Jos, the state
capital, that five villagers and one assailant were
killed in an attack on Kumbur village on Saturday.
Zakari said the attackers also injured several others.
Spokesperson for the Special Task Force (STF) Capt.
Salisu Mustapha, who also confirmed the attack, said
the STF personnel, who rushed to the scene of the
attack, killed one of the fleeing assailants.
Mustapha said the attackers had wanted to use the
village route to launch a heavy raid on Wase, adding
that they were, however, repelled by the men of the
STF.
He said peace had been restored to the affected area.
Plateau State is situated in Nigeria's middle belt
where the Muslim-dominated north and the
Christian-majority south meet. The state capital Jos
was plunged in a pool of blood on March 7, 2010,
when members of local Muslim and Christian
communities fought each other in revenge for
previous killings.
The state has witnessed some bomb blasts and
constant rifts between Berom and Fulani herdsmen,
with many, especially women and children, murdered
in cold blood in the state.

www.china.org.cn/world/2013-07/29/content_29555489.htm

Some folks, and so called christians have invested so much in lies, fear and hatred for the truth......as I went through those hurrible picstories, I was really terrified with fear. The fear I got was not that am scared of going there because it doesn't exist, but am fearful for the fact that the heart of man has gone this desperately wicked, for som1 to come up with this tells how depraved and dark inside of his heart is, as I looked at those worms tearing and piersing the fictional hell bounds, I realised that how deeply these worms and dread have got a permanent place in the hearts of people who beliv and preach a physical torment in hell. I consider some humans more evil than demons, all these horrible stories personifies how the hearts of these hell preachers are!

God is love. Christ died for love. Christ preached the love of God. Love is the only thing that we know today that will live for eternity. But some people have no love in them. All they have in their heart is horror, fear, hatred, evil, calamity, vengeance, and all kinds of dreadful feelings as shown in this demonic picture hell stories!

Lagos: Deportation is lawless, vexatious
on July 28, 2013

By Obi Nwakanma

Once again, the Lagos state government deported
Nigerians from a Nigerian state; an action that is as
lawless as it is vexatious. Newspaper reports last
week indicated that the Lagos authorities out of
possibly excessive enthusiasm, and certainly out of
pitiable ignorance and overreach, rounded up all
manners of the city poor from the streets, sixty-
seven of them, put them in a vehicle, and
transported them across the bridge to Onitsha,
Anambra state.

The Lagos state government crossed two state lines
to dump its human cargo. The question of course is,
why Onitsha? It is provocative, both as a question
and as an action. It underlines that the Lagos state
government is in the care of those who think the
immigrant poor should not be seen, and who
promote an active policy of xenophobia. These
deportations have become a ridiculous challenge by
the government of Lagos on the validity of the
federation as shared national space; the powers of
the federal government, and the rights conferred on
the Nigerian citizen by the constitution of the
federation of Nigeria.

It challenges the core principle of nation and
national-belonging. Never mind that the constitution
that the Lagos state government flouts so cavalierly
is the very same document or authority from which
the entity of Lagos also derives its own legitimacy.
The Fashola administration, in embarking on these
illegalities; in threading this route in solving a clearly
sensitive social problem, subverts a key or cardinal
provision of the constitution of this republic that
guarantees every citizen of Nigeria protection and
equal residency in any part of the federation.

*Sranded persons numbering about 70
allegedly dumped at the upper axis of
Onitsha, Anambra State at about 3:20 a.m. by
unknown persons, yesterday. PHOTO: NAN.
lSee story on page 14.
The forced deportation of Nigerians from any part of
Nigeria denies Nigerian citizens their right of
domicile, and threatens or questions the very
existence of Nigeria as a commonwealth. By its
action, the government of Lagos ethnicizes the
residency rights of Nigerians, and makes those who
choose to pursue their constitutional rights to live in
any part of the federation insecure and potential
targets of xenophobic violence and official
discrimination.

It also usurps the power of the federal government
and disregards the constitution of the Federal
Republic in a willful and egregious manner. It is as
though Raji Fashola’s administration is challenging
the Federal government under whose protective
power lives every Nigerian citizen, by saying, “what
can the federal government do? Lagos state can act
above the laws of the republic and nothing can
happen!” Something ought to happen, and very
quickly to forestall this extremely discriminatory and
narrow-minded action against Nigerian citizens by its
constituent part.

The federal government must restore the rights of
these Nigerians deported from Lagos, and enjoin
these rights, even if it takes the deployment of
federal troops to enforce their recall and
rehabilitation. It has happened in a different clime:
when the state of Mississippi, in disdain of the laws
of the United States sought to maintain
discriminatory laws, it took the Kennedy
administration to enforce the rights of American
citizens by deploying th
e National Guard. It might have to come to that in
Lagos.

This is the second time that the administration in
Lagos is conducting this ritual of mass deportation of
Nigerian citizens from Lagos, on the rather
scandalous claim that people migrate from other
states to Lagos. Duh! Migration is the oldest human
pastime: people seek new pastures; new dwellings;
new economic and social life. Intra-national migration
is the reality of shared nationhood, and the
constitution of the Federal Republic guarantees that
Nigerians shall have the right to live anywhere it so
pleases them in this republic.

There is no abridgement to that right in the letters of
the law. For the avoidance of doubt, let me cite the
very words of the Nigerian constitution to which the
Lagos state government pays very scant regard:
“Every citizen of Nigeria is entitled to move freely
throughout Nigeria and to reside in any part thereof,
and no citizen shall be expelled from Nigeria or
refused entry thereby, or exit therefrom.”
There is no part of the laws of Nigeria that empowers
a state – its governor, or its state Assembly, or any of
their agents – to forcefully remove any Nigerian,
against their will, to another state. Chapter 2 of the
Nigerian constitution that spells out the fundamental
objectives and principles of state policy holds that
“…national integration shall be actively encouraged,
whilst discrimination on the grounds of place of
origin, sex, religion, status, ethnic or linguistic
association shall be prohibited.” 3(a) in fact notes
unambiguously that the state is obliged to “provide
adequate facilities for, and encourage free mobility of
people, goods, and services throughout the
federation.”

The Lagos governor, who apparently ordered such a
deportation has therefore acted with utter malice and
in utter disdain of the laws of the federation. We are
told, that he is to boot, a senior advocate of Nigeria
even though he is busy advocating and applying a
Third Reich solution to urban poverty. The Lagos
state government is indeed creating a very
dangerous precedent that not only questions the
sovereign basis of the Federal Republic, but
threatens its very meaning.

The solution to urban poverty in Lagos is not to haul
the poor to other states, but to design and create
effective social programs, that require deeper
thinking, rather than abrasive, knee-jerk policies that
tend to perpetuate class and ethnic ostracism and
divisions. To put this very mildly: Lagos was built by
Nigerians with massive Nigerian resources, and it is a
migrants’ city. Fashola’s administration cannot hide
its dirt-poor under the carpet and by forced
deportations.


www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/lagos-deportation-is-lawless-vexatious/

HARARE (AFP) – Former Nigerian president
Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in the Zimbabwean
capital late Saturday to head African Union observers
to upcoming general elections in the southern
African country.
"We are here not to conduct an election, we are here
to observe the conduct of an election," Obasanjo told
reporters at Harare international airport.
He will head a team of 60 observers from the
continental body who are monitoring the July 31
election.

The vote is to end a troubled power-sharing
government formed four years ago by veteran
President Robert and long-time rival Prime Minister
Morgan Tsvangirai.

Brokered by South Africa, the government helped
prevent the country from tipping into full-scale
conflict after a bloody presidential run-off election
which Tsvangirai boycotted, citing the killing of
around 200 of his supporters.
Both Mugabe and Tsvangirai are eyeing the
presidency amid fears of another disputed poll after
chaotic preparations. Tsvangirai has already alleged
the vote will likely be rigged.
The lead-up to the July 31 election has been marred
by flawed voter registration, chaotic early polling for
security forces, and lopsided campaign coverage in
the state media.

The vote is being organised following the adoption of
a new constitution in a referendum last March.
Obasanjo arrived days after the AU Commission chief
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who met the presidential
candidates and poll organisers.
Members of the AU observers team have been
deploying in batches. The first group arrived six
weeks ago.

About 600 foreign election observers, mainly from
African bodies, have been accredited to watch the
polls in addition to 6,000 local observers.
Zimbabwe has not invited Western observer
missions because of sanctions imposed on Mugabe
and his top officials for rights abuses.

www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/27/head-au-vote-monitors-obasanjo-arrives-in-zimbabwe/

"Everyone that is living and exercises faith in
me will never die at all"

The world that is estranged from God scoffs at the
very thought of a resurrection of the dead, like the
Greeks in Athens to whom Paul preached. (Acts
17:31, 32) They do not know God, and therefore they
cannot appreciate his wonderful promises. And if the
resurrection seems too miraculous for them to
contemplate, well, Jehovah has something even more
amazing in store for his people that he protects
through the coming great tribulation. It is to them
that Jesus' words apply, when he said: "And everyone
that is living and exercises faith in me will never
die at all." (John 11:26) Having survived the
destruction of Satan's entire system of things, Jesus
will then "shepherd [the great crowd], and will guide
them to fountains of waters of life." (Matt. 24:21,22;
25:46; Rev. 7:9, 14-17; 19:19-21) The survivors of
"the great day of Jehovah" will have the unique
distinction and fame for all eternity of being the only
ones of mankind to never have experienced death,
and therefore never were in need of a resurrection!—
Zephaniah 1:14, 18; 2:2,3

These ones will be present when all God's faithful
servants, who Paul mentions in his letter to the
Hebrews, return in the resurrection of the righteous:
"All these people died having faith. They didn’t
receive the things that God had promised them, but
they saw these things coming in the distant future
and rejoiced." (Heb. 11:13, GW) Imagine the thrill of
actually meeting and inviting into your home your
favorite Bible characters; conversing with them face
to face and hear first hand their faith strengthening
experiences that you had only read about. Have you
wondered how Noah had room for all those many
animals in the ark? He'll tell you! You will be able to
get all your many questions answered, and be glad
that you didn't need all the details before then in
order to have believed them. You had put your trust
in Jehovah; you endured and waited on him for his
time to act; and it did not lead to disappointment.—
Romans 10:11; 5:3-5.

If these things fill you with eager anticipation,
consider yet another blessing that Jehovah has in
store uniquely for the great crowd, one that will make
the resurrection of "the righteous and the
unrighteous" seem anticlimactic. First, the great
crowd will witness "the revelation of the Lord Jesus
from heaven with his powerful angels in a flaming
fire," when he executes "the judicial punishment of
everlasting destruction" upon all those "who do not
know God and those who do not obey the good news
about our Lord Jesus." This is the foretold "great
tribulation" that the great crowd comes out of. Now
the long awaited time has arrived for Jesus to be
"glorified in connection with his holy ones and to be
regarded in that day with wonder in connection with
all those who exercised faith." (2 Thess. 1:7-10) What
will that mean for the great tribulation survivors, who
exercised faith? Paul writes that they will regard with
wonder the things that will follow next. In fact, Jesus
referred to this most joyous occasion in one of his
parables.
[b]"Everyone that is living and exercises faith in
me will never die at all"

The world that is estranged from God scoffs at the
very thought of a resurrection of the dead, like the
Greeks in Athens to whom Paul preached. (Acts
17:31, 32) They do not know God, and therefore they
cannot appreciate his wonderful promises. And if the
resurrection seems too miraculous for them to
contemplate, well, Jehovah has something even more
amazing in store for his people that he protects
through the coming great tribulation. It is to them
that Jesus' words apply, when he said: "And everyone
that is living and exercises faith in me will never
die at all." (John 11:26) Having survived the
destruction of Satan's entire system of things, Jesus
will then "shepherd [the great crowd], and will guide
them to fountains of waters of life." (Matt. 24:21,22;
25:46; Rev. 7:9, 14-17; 19:19-21) The survivors of
"the great day of Jehovah" will have the unique
distinction and fame for all eternity of being the only
ones of mankind to never have experienced death,
and therefore never were in need of a resurrection!—
Zephaniah 1:14, 18; 2:2,3

These ones will be present when all God's faithful
servants, who Paul mentions in his letter to the
Hebrews, return in the resurrection of the righteous:
"All these people died having faith. They didn’t
receive the things that God had promised them, but
they saw these things coming in the distant future
and rejoiced." (Heb. 11:13, GW) Imagine the thrill of
actually meeting and inviting into your home your
favorite Bible characters; conversing with them face
to face and hear first hand their faith strengthening
experiences that you had only read about. Have you
wondered how Noah had room for all those many
animals in the ark? He'll tell you! You will be able to
get all your many questions answered, and be glad
that you didn't need all the details before then in
order to have believed them. You had put your trust
in Jehovah; you endured and waited on him for his
time to act; and it did not lead to disappointment.—
Romans 10:11; 5:3-5.

If these things fill you with eager anticipation,
consider yet another blessing that Jehovah has in
store uniquely for the great crowd, one that will make
the resurrection of "the righteous and the
unrighteous" seem anticlimactic. First, the great
crowd will witness "the revelation of the Lord Jesus
from heaven with his powerful angels in a flaming
fire," when he executes "the judicial punishment of
everlasting destruction" upon all those "who do not
know God and those who do not obey the good news
about our Lord Jesus." This is the foretold "great
tribulation" that the great crowd comes out of. Now
the long awaited time has arrived for Jesus to be
"glorified in connection with his holy ones and to be
regarded in that day with wonder in connection with
all those who exercised faith." (2 Thess. 1:7-10) What
will that mean for the great tribulation survivors, who
exercised faith? Paul writes that they will regard with
wonder the things that will follow next. In fact, Jesus
referred to this most joyous occasion in one of his
parables.

The First Resurrection
—and the Great Crowd

"Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first
resurrection; over these the second death has no
authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the. thousand years."
—Revelation 20:6.


"If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my
hard work I will wait for the time when you give me
new life. You will call out to me, and I will answer you.
Your hands created me. So you will long for
me." With those words Job expressed his strong faith
in the resurrection, when he cried out to God on
account of the tremendous suffering inflicted on him
by Satan, although at the time Job believed it was
from God. Therefore he begged God: "I wish you
would hide me in a grave! I wish you would cover me
up until your anger passes by! I wish you would set
the time for me to spend in the grave and then bring
me back up!" (Job 14:13-15, NIRV) Perhaps there
have been times in your own life when you pleaded
similarly as Job did. To know the truth about death,
and that the dead will one day live again, gives a
person courage and a positive outlook for the future,
no matter how bleak the present may be.—1
Thessalonians 4:13.
The hope of the resurrection, that is, being awakened
from "sleeping" in death at God's appointed future
time, has been the confidence of God's servants ever
since the death of righteous Abel. It is an integral
part of God's original promise which he made in the
Garden of Eden immediately after the rebellion,
namely, that he would raise up a seed who would
"bring to nothing the one having the means to cause
death, that is, the Devil." (Gen 3:15; John 5:28,29;
Heb. 2:14; 11:4, 13, 17-19) That hope is reliable, for
it is among the "things in which it is impossible for
God to lie."—Hebrews 6:18.

As Job noted, God actually "longs" to bring "back up"
from the grave all his faithful men and women who
have ever walked this earth, for he knows everyone
of them by name. (Matt. 10:29-31; 2 Tim. 2:19) To
him they are not dead, but simply asleep in the dust.
(John 11:11-14, 23-26; Rom. 14: When the
Sadducees, "those who say there is no resurrection,"
scoffed that the dead will live again, Jesus pointed to
Moses as one who believed in the resurrection,
saying: “But now, as to whether the dead will be
raised—even Moses proved this when he wrote about
the burning bush. Long after Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob had died, he referred to the Lord as ‘the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ So
he is the God of the living, not the dead, for they are
all alive to him.”—Luke 20:37, 38; NLT; Hebrews
11:17-19.

In his answer, Jesus was not implying that Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, or anyone else for that matter, were
all alive to God because they were now in heaven
with him as angels. He made that clear when he told
Nicodemus: "Moreover, no man has ascended into
heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son
of man." (John 3:13) The apostle Peter likewise told
the crowd at Pentecost that, except for Jesus [the Son
of man], no man had gone to heaven upon his death,
not even faithful king David, saying: “Men, brothers,
it is allowable to speak with freeness of speech to you
concerning the family head David, that he both
deceased and was buried and his tomb is among us
to this day... Actually David did not ascend to the
heavens." (Acts 2:29-36; 13:36,37, TNIV) David too
became a "resident in the dust" when he "lay down
with his forefathers and was buried in the City of
David," from then on awaiting the day when he will
once again "stand up," for that is what the Greek
word anastasis (translated resurrection) literally
means.—1 Kings 2:10; Isaiah 26:19.
Jehovah made possible the future resurrection of all
who have died throughout the millennia, when he
ransomed mankind from death by means of his only-
begotten Son. (John 3:16) The apostle Paul explains:
"Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;
and he was buried, yes, he has been raised up the
third day according to the Scriptures... For since
death is through a man, resurrection of the dead is
also through a man. For just as in Adam all are dying,
so also in the Christ all will be made alive." (1 Cor.
15:3,4, 21,22) Jesus himself never doubted that his
Father would resurrect him on the third day,
according to his promise. This in turn is God's
guarantee that the time will come when "all those in
the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out,
those who did good things to a resurrection of life,
those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of
judgment."—John 5:25-28; 1 Corinthians 15:12-19.

Jesus provided irrefutable evidence that he had
received from his Father power over death by the
resurrections he performed. (Hosea 13:14) For
example, he brought back to life the twelve year old
daughter of Jairus, the presiding officer of the
synagogue. When Jesus comforted the grieving
relatives and neighbors, saying that the girl "did not
die but is sleeping," many scoffed. But their scorn
turned to amazement when Jesus "took her by the
hand and called, saying: 'Girl, get up!' And her spirit
returned, and she rose instantly, and he ordered
something to be given her to eat." We can well
imagine how her parents "were beside themselves"
with joy. (Luke 8:41,42, 49-56) And what about the
resurrection of Lazarus, who had been dead four
days? In consoling Martha and Mary, Lazarus' sisters,
Jesus had assured them: "I am the resurrection and
the life. He that exercises faith in me, even though he
dies, will come to life; and everyone that is living and
exercises faith in me will never die at all."—John
11:23-27, 38-44.
If you had been there and witnessed the occasion—
hearing Jesus call out to Lazarus and seeing the dead
man come out from the tomb, still bound in burial
wrappings—how might that have affected you and
your faith in the resurrection? Lazarus had not gone
to heaven during those four days, but rather he was
simply asleep in death, his mortal body already
having started to decay, as Martha noted. His spirit,
the life force that God had originally breathed into
Adam when he was created "out of the dust of the
ground"—and which has been passed on to all of us—
had "returned to God who gave it;" and God in turn
was able to restore it to Lazarus.—Ecclesiastes 12:7;
3:19-21; Genesis 2:7.

The resurrection of Lazarus, besides the many other
resurrections mentioned in the Scriptures, are
recorded for our hope and comfort; and they are
merely a fore glimpse, a token, of what God's
kingdom will accomplish on a much larger scale.
(Rom. 15:4) Whereas all those resurrected in the
past eventually died again, everyone returning in the
resurrection under Christ's rule has the prospect of
never dying again, yes, to live forever. (John
10:27,28; 1 Kings 17:20-23; 2 Kings 4:32-37; 13:21;
Acts 9:36-41; 20:9-12) It is this kingdom that Jesus
preached and taught us to pray for: "Let your
kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven,
also upon earth."—Matt. 4:17; 6:9,10; 10:5-8.

There is nothing that men have to offer that can even
remotely compare with what Jehovah has in store for
obedient mankind! Can you visualize the jubilation,
the songs of praise that will ascend to our Creator,
and the rivers of tears for joy when loved ones will
embrace each other once again, having been
awakened from their sleep in the dust by the
resurrection? (Psalms 104:29-31; 105:1-4; Rev.
5:13,14; 19:4-6) This is our Creator's promise! This is

what Jesus taught! When Jesus asked Martha: "Do
you believe this?" Martha replied: "Yes, Lord!" How
about you?

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