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Interference with LGA funds will be checked- president Buhari

Command centre/Defense headquarters shall be relocated to Maiduguri until Boko Haram is checked- President Buhari

He acknowledged the social media as part of his election victory.

In Nigeria, stealing is now corruption.

One day Nigeria will dispense with the culture of starting public programs with one Christian one Muslim opening prayer. It seems to me more political than spiritual.
We will one day learn to pray neutral - that is, we will actually believe in the one God that we profess and we will pray to Him or Her without dividing this God into pieces of our political anxieties.

He should fulfill his campaign promises or get ready to be voted out in 2019.

Even the unborn are excited.

shachris03:
you are brain dead.

Thank you so much for the compliment.Remember that the man that was once called brain dead is now the President elect.

anonimi:
Valid question to which you may NEVER get an answer as it proves the LIE about it being taken during the Justice Reform in Lagos whatever.








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That picture is of a man in his late 20s or early 30s and NOT someone of over 42 years old (his age when he became Attorney General of Lagos state 1999-1957)





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I can't authoritatively state the year the picture was taken but an intelligent guess would be between 1999-2003(first term of BAT as governor of Lagos State.To further buttress my conjecture,please find attached another picture of FRA and BAT at the same occasion.

Prof Yemi Osinbajo SAN, (Vice President - elect), the Attorney General of Lagos State(as he then was) and Chief FRA Williams SAN (The Doyen of the Nigerian Bar),at a conference on Justice Reforms in Lagos State.

The Reforms in the Justice Sector was so successful that virtually all that was done was copied by both the Federal Government, and all states across the Federation. Judicial Officers renumeration was increased by 300%; both Civil and Criminal Procedure Rules were reformed; organs to take care of the poor like the Office of the Public Defender, and Citizen Mediation Centre were established. Today, every state in Nigeria including the Federal government have replicated the Lagos example.
A tip of what to expect from May 29 , 2015.

This story is about one of the biggest things one will ever read this year except the reporting sucks. The journalist leaves many gaping holes in the account, misused figures in order to make a subjective point and generally wrote a shoddy account.
How can products worth N1bn fit into six vans and buses? And how were the products valued anyway?
Even more curiously, only this online blog, The City Reporters, has the story. The account says that the tip off to NAFDAC was given by the Editor of The City Reporters.
So did NAFDAC exchange the tip off for exclusivity for this reporter? Can they please address a general press conference so that we can have a better insight into what actually transpired?
What kind of food products were seized? There was no example in the story.
How is it possible to prepare confectionary with products, some of which have been expired for 11 years without the food taste giving any indication? How did they do it? And did it make economic sense? Consider the cost of running a cold room for those products all these years!

The glory days shall return in our lifetime.

AN armed robbery suspect, who has been on the run from the police for many months, has been arrested on his wedding day. And what would have been the happiest day for his bride in Ibadan, Oyo State, turned out to be her day of sorrow as the state Police Command swooped on the venue of the wedding to arrest the groom who turned out to be a wanted notorious armed robber.

According to the police, the 42-year-old robbery suspect, Olumide Asiyanbi, was arrested just as he was about signing the dotted lines with his bride by policemen attached to the state task force team that has been on his trail for months.

The police alleged that Asiyanbi was a member of a deadly six-man robbery gang that had been terrorising the people of Ibadan and other neighbouring states, pulse.ng reports.

Confessing his involvement in over 10 different robbery attacks before he was arrested, Asiyanbi believed it was nemesis that caught up with him on the day he wanted to walk down the aisle. Asinyanbi said: “I was arrested on my wedding day.

I met the gang leader, James Agba, last year. He told me he knew how we could be getting regular money. He then initiated me into the gang.

I was arrested on my wedding day. I met the gang leader, James Agba, last year. He told me he knew how we could be getting regular money. He then initiated me into the gang. I have taken part in, at leas,t 10 operations since I joined themI have taken part in at least 10 operations since I joined them.”

“We used guns but I don’t know where James was buying them.

Sulaimon and Alhaji, who are also in the gang, knew how the guns were bought for our operations. I have fired shots at our targets but nobody was killed.”

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/05/notorious-armed-robbery-suspect-arrested-at-his-wedding/

One of the biggest take away from this Fuel scarcity thing is "My Mercedes is bigger than yours" mentality of Nigerians when it comes to how much you purchased your fuel

Nigerians are now competing whose fuel is more expensive, the price is not the problem any more

Check out this scenario

Me: Funke, how much did you buy fuel?

Funke: I bought 500 Naira per liter, 2,500 for 5 liters . You nko?

Me: Your own small, I bought 700 Naira for one liter, 3,500 for 5 Liters"

We are no longer complaining how expensive our fuel is, rather we are comparing prices, reminding our neigbours and friends that our Mercedes is bigger than yours in case if he/she has forgotten

kamber:
Na today? Albert Okumagba and his fellow journey men in the industry have simply been taking the porousness of our Regulatory bodies and systems, the gullibility of Nigerians and and the lack of checks and balances in the financial sector of Nigeria for granted. These boys have simply been doing yahoo yahoo business with investors money for such a long time and stealing investors blind! The only difference between them is their registered corporate names, offices and fancy image. They are all criminals i tell you.

my worry is that as it is common here, Albert Okumagba will only get a slap on the wrist for his crimes and afterwards he will relocate his family abroad to go and enjoy the money he has been stashing away all the while. Does Nigeria really know how to look for stolen funds stashed away abroad?

If Buhari is serious about reducing the external debt burden of Nigeria, he should simply investigate the finances of Bank and MDs, past and current serving politicians and oil marketers. He will find more than enough money to repay our debts and still have change to buy sufficient koboko to flog all those corrupt Nigerians @ 50 kobokos to 1 person.

So here are the top ten places GMB can get N1 trillion naira.

1.) Go to the 36 governors that served with Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 - 2007. Offer them immunity from prosecution if they will all return N2.5 billion naira each for every four years in power. Those who spent eight years in office should return N5 billion each. After all, most of them were facing charges totaling over N100 billion before their files disappeared from the EFCC. That will give President Buhari N180 billion naira.

2.) Go to the 36 governors that served with Umaru Ya’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan from 2007 - 2015. Offer them immunity from prosecution if they will all return N5 billion naira each for every four years in power. Those who spent eight years in office should return N10 billion each. After all, most of them collected over N2.5 bn each year as security votes. That will give President Buhari N360 billion naira.

3. Get all former Directors of the NNPC in the last 16 years. Offer them immunity from prosecution if they will all return N1billion for every year they were directors. Having been part of an agency of the government that does not know how much oil the multinational corporations are drilling out each day and cannot account for the crude oil dedicated for domestic consumption, and have failed to report revenues from natural gas sales in years, they should each give the government N1 billion and we let bygone be bygone. This will give Buhari at least N100 billion.

3.) President Buhari should cancel all import waivers given to religious leaders in Nigeria for 2015. Nigeria lost billions of naira just on the waivers given to Pastors Adeboye, Oyedepo, Oritsejafor and their likes under the Obasanjo-Jonathan administration - waivers they used to import expensive cars and luxury goods. Who knows what the big Imams get in waivers? Right there, another N50 billion will be readily available.

4.) A 50% cut in the salaries and allowances of members of the Nigerian House of Representative. At $1.4 million each for 360 members, Buhari can easily get $252 million dollars, which is over N40 billion. In the senate, with 109 senators each making $1.7 million, a 50% cut in their pay package will give President Buhari over N14.8 billion naira.

5.) President Buhari should audit the record books of the government with oil importers. A good auditing firm will easily unearth stolen wealth of the nation. Past audits have shown substantial stealing on their part. In a 2012 audit conducted by Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede of the subsidy claims of 2011, discovered that the Federal Government had overpaid importers and marketers of petrol by a whopping N430 billion naira. Of this amount, less than N30 billion was ever recovered. Since these so-called cabals are friends of every government in power, the president should just ask them to refund N300 billion and we will let bygones be bygone.

6.) The president should, as a matter of urgency, investigate and evaluate all workers associated with the importation of fuel into Nigeria. Those found wanting should be prosecuted and fired. A good investigation of their assets and accounts will recover at least N10 billion. The same thing should be done with staff of the NNPC, both those serving and the retired staff. A good investigation will net over N10 billion.

7.) Go to all the ministers who served from 1999-2015. Depending on the ministry they manned, how long they manned the ministry and the budget of each ministry, each minister would be assessed. A special surcharge of each minister could net the government another N50 billion.

8.) The security votes of all state governors should be cut by 50%. At an average of N300 million a month, it runs up to N3.6 billion for a year each. For the 36 state governors, that amount is N129.6 billion naira. A 50% cut will give President Buhari N64.8 billion a year.

9.) The president should close half of Nigerian missions abroad in a major scale back and find other countries to manage Nigeria’s consular affairs. That will save at least N10 billion.

10.) Along with that, the government will impose a significant luxury tax on people who own private jets, luxury boats and those who own houses worth over N0.5 billion naira. If you may, just call it one-time tax to help feed Nigerian public school children. Let us see the billionaire that will grumble about giving a little back to help educate the disadvantaged. That will bring in another N100 billion.

Putting the savings together, we have N1.19 trillion for the President. That will be enough seed money to give the incoming government a breathing room to assess the damage done to the economy in the last 16 years.

Alternatively, President Buhari could move in security forces to the Niger Delta and stop crude oil theft. Since 2009, crude oil thieves have been increasing the amount of Nigeria’s oil that they steal. According to the 2012 Ribadu Report, crude oil thieves steal over 100,000 barrels a day. That is over $3.6 billion dollars a year. Some foreign sources put the figure of oil theft at 250,000 barrels a day. Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala in 2013 told the Vanguard newspaper that the loss to oil theft could be up to $12 billion.

Now, that is over a trillion naira. QED!

[quote author=kamber post=33962977]Na today? Albert Okumagba and his fellow journey men in the industry have simply been taking the porousness of our Regulatory bodies and systems, the gullibility of Nigerians and and the lack of checks and balances in the financial sector of Nigeria for granted. These boys have simply been doing yahoo yahoo business with investors money for such a long time and stealing investors blind! The only difference between them is their registered corporate names, offices and fancy image. They are all criminals i tell you.

my worry is that as it is common here, Albert Okumagba will only get a slap on the wrist for his crimes and afterwards he will relocate his family abroad to go and enjoy the money he has been stashing away all the while. Does Nigeria really know how to look for stolen funds stashed away abroad?

Thank you all for your outpouring of affection and concern through calls, messages, and prayers.

Please be assured that Pastor 'Tunde Bakare is hale, hearty and in good spirits, though in need of rest.

We therefore ask everyone to please remain calm and give him the space and time to fully recuperate over the next few days.

Thank you all once again,

Executive Council of The Latter Rain Assembly

Source:https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTundeBakare/posts/852587024777928?notif_t=notify_me

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This worrisome incident happened at the Abuja Airport today.A flight that was scheduled to leave Abuja for Lagos by 3pm finally took off after a four(4) hours delay and trust Nigerians who appears too docile to ask questions ran to the tarmac and started struggling with one another to gain entry into the aircraft.

The Miracle Of Numbers..
OBASANJO left office in 1979, and was elected as President in 1999, 20years later.
BUHARI was removed out of office in 1985 and has just been voted back to office in 2015, after 30years.
GEJ has just been voted out of office in 2015, should we expect him back again by 2055, after 40years?

You guys are completely confusing issues. Let me clarify a bit so you'll understand better.

1. Killing an unfavourable story
2. Arresting, detaining or harassing pressmen for publishing a story
3. Enacting laws that restrict the powers of the press

All of the above = clamping down on press freedom

1. Refusing to be interviewed by a particular media house
2. Not allowing a media house access to certain events or buildings on the basis of security, confidentiality or safety
3. Deciding which media houses to release a press statement to

All of the above do not constitute clamping down on press freedom.

You guys weren't up in arms when AIT was daily airing that disparaging documentary peppered with falsehood and wickedness designed to tarnish the image of GMB. Where was your indignation then?

Always be detailed.

This is a very sad situation. The man has disenfranchised the woman for 9 years due to his faulty card reader. It was out of frustration that the woman resorted to manual accreditation and allowed under aged voters to be ''voting at her polling unit''. The woman was kind enough to have asked her husband to obtain an original PVC so that his card reader will function very well.. Now that they have gone to elction petition tribunal, INEC should intervene and let the two parties be proscribed since they have not won any election for 9 years. May be the woman may merge with the political parties she has been meeting secretly and win the presidency at the end.

I am aware that the common narrative, especially by his critics, is that Dangote is a creation of the Nigerian government. Such notion is not without foundation when you look at the quantum of his wealth and how close he has been to the seat of power, especially in the last two decades. However, such a simplistic way of looking at the Dangote phenomenon is rather lazy. For me, the Dangote story can be explained within the context of the Biblical parable of talents as told by our Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 25: 14-30 which centred on a certain rich man who, before embarking on a journey, entrusted his assets to three of his servants. To one servant was given five talents; another two talents; and the last servant was given one talent. The master in this parable obviously knew that his servants did not have equal abilities but the way each deployed the asset and the eventual outcome is a study in faithfulness and industry.

The lesson of the parable, as one commentator put it, is that while we all begin from different starting points in life, it is not always what we are given that determines our success or failure but rather how we deploy such talents. The point is that if we take the Nigerian rentier state as the distributor of talents, and we agree that Dangote started off with five talents, the fact also remains that there are several others who received one “talent” each and I am not even talking of those who (by virtue of holding public offices), gave themselves multiple ill-gotten “talents”. The challenge of our country is that majority of those people (and they are probably in hundreds of thousands) “buried” their own talents in pursuit of personal pleasure without adding any value to themselves or our society. By investing his own “talents” very wisely and taking calculated risks, Dangote has done good for himself and our society and that then explains why he has moved from making money to creating wealth. Besides, the symbolism of Dangote as Africa’s response to the rise of wealth ambassadors in different regions of the world should ordinarily compel a feeling of pride in us as Nigerians.

MY TAKE

No allocation for fuel subsidy could mean:

1) Buhari will remove the subsidy entirely
2) He'll source the funds for subsidy elsewhere (where?)
3) Local production will be ramped up to meet domestic demand (impossible in the short term)

The economic consequences of total removal of subsidy is:

1) Fuel prices will shoot up very dramatically to well above N200/litre. The Naira - Dollar exchange rate will make fuel prices fluctuate skywards real crazily.
2) Prices of EVERYTHING, food, transport etc will equally skyrocket. Salaried workers will be worst hit.
3) There will be the Abacharesque unending fuel queues.
4) There will be market distortions as companies adjust their profit and loss margins.
5) In the absence of steady electricity, manufacturing companies will struggle to stay afloat with increased cost of production.
6) Many Small and Medium enterprises will be wiped out thereby increasing the unemployment situation.
7) The most important (positive) consequence is that private refineries will have the necessary price incentive to go into production.

The political consequences of total subsidy removal is:

1) Hypocrisy
2) More hypocrisy
3) Even more hypocrisy
4) Hyper hypocrisy
5) Political brainwash will set in with super-hyper-hypocrisy.

But you know what? Even with the lingering, apparent and latent hypocrisy, I support subsidy removal!

I won't be kind to Gen. Buhari and his loudmouthed hypocritical supporters but on point of principle, subsidy of fuel is an economically unsustainable policy.

If not for the confounded conspiracy against Jonathan's govt coupled with his tepid, indeterminate leadership style, Nigeria should have transited to a full blown deregulation tay-tay.

If the formal announcement of subsidy removal is made, I will be very uncharitable to the Buhari govt but I'll also tell anyone who cares to listen that it is the right step in the right direction.

HISTORY 101
DID YOU KNOW THAT LATE UCHE CHUKWUMERIJIE WAS OFFERED ADMISSION INTO THE NIGERIAN ARMY BUT REJECTED IT ?
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I was enlisted into the Nigerian Army on November 1, 1961…………..In this instance, only two of us came from the outside (university graduates as against others who were cadets and already been in the Nigerian Military Training College),namely, Uche Chukwumerije and myself. It was actually this selection board meeting that brought us together for the first time, but we took to each other at once, as if we had grown up together…………There was an officer who was quick to get in touch with us and introduced us to other officers. That officer was Lieutenant Emmanuel Ifeajuna.It was my first time of meeting him.He graduated in Science at the University of Ibadan, joined the Army in 1960, and was commissioned the same year.

Uche also graduated in Economics at the University of Ibadan and both of them had earlier met at that premier institution.Ifeajuna received Uche and me particularly well. We discussed the political turn of events in Nigeria and unanimously came to the conclusion that the military was likely to be the only situation. We later spoke to other officers including Captain Okwechime, who encouraged us to come into the Army.

Later on, when I was alone with Uche, he expressed some misgivings about Ifeajuna being already in the Army. He explained that, during a planned agitation in their days together at the University of Ibadan,Ifeajuna deserted their group in the moment of action. He was, therefore apprehensive that he (Ifeajuna) might do the same thing again, in the event of a planned military action. “But he is already in the Army,” I replied. “And if such a behavior should show again, it would have to be taken care of,” I concluded. Uche seemed to have agreed with me with some reservations. He kept quiet.

Both of us were accepted by the Board, but Uche did not turn up for enlistment into the Army. His place remained vacant both on the plane from Kano to London, and at the Mons Officer Cadet School, where we were to be trained for six months. Some months later, I met Uche on the streets of Lagos. “Why didn’t you turn up?” I asked.Uche explained to me that he told a British professor at the University of Ibadan that he was going to join the Army for revolutionary reasons, but the professor warned him that the Army was the most conservative and least revolutionary of national institutions. This meant that Uche would be better advised to find a much more revolutionary movement outside the Army. And that did it for Uche.

Excerpts from: WHY WE STRUCK:THE STORY OF THE FIRST NIGERIAN COUP
BY:ADEWALE ADEMOYEGA

HISTORY 101
DID YOU KNOW THAT LATE UCHE CHUKWUMERIJIE WAS OFFERED ADMISSION INTO THE NIGERIAN ARMY BUT REJECTED IT ?
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I was enlisted into the Nigerian Army on November 1, 1961…………..In this instance, only two of us came from the outside (university graduates as against others who were cadets and already been in the Nigerian Military Training College),namely, Uche Chukwumerije and myself. It was actually this selection board meeting that brought us together for the first time, but we took to each other at once, as if we had grown up together…………There was an officer who was quick to get in touch with us and introduced us to other officers. That officer was Lieutenant Emmanuel Ifeajuna.It was my first time of meeting him.He graduated in Science at the University of Ibadan, joined the Army in 1960, and was commissioned the same year.

Uche also graduated in Economics at the University of Ibadan and both of them had earlier met at that premier institution.Ifeajuna received Uche and me particularly well. We discussed the political turn of events in Nigeria and unanimously came to the conclusion that the military was likely to be the only situation. We later spoke to other officers including Captain Okwechime, who encouraged us to come into the Army.

Later on, when I was alone with Uche, he expressed some misgivings about Ifeajuna being already in the Army. He explained that, during a planned agitation in their days together at the University of Ibadan,Ifeajuna deserted their group in the moment of action. He was, therefore apprehensive that he (Ifeajuna) might do the same thing again, in the event of a planned military action. “But he is already in the Army,” I replied. “And if such a behavior should show again, it would have to be taken care of,” I concluded. Uche seemed to have agreed with me with some reservations. He kept quiet.

Both of us were accepted by the Board, but Uche did not turn up for enlistment into the Army. His place remained vacant both on the plane from Kano to London, and at the Mons Officer Cadet School, where we were to be trained for six months. Some months later, I met Uche on the streets of Lagos. “Why didn’t you turn up?” I asked.Uche explained to me that he told a British professor at the University of Ibadan that he was going to join the Army for revolutionary reasons, but the professor warned him that the Army was the most conservative and least revolutionary of national institutions. This meant that Uche would be better advised to find a much more revolutionary movement outside the Army. And that did it for Uche.

Excerpts from: WHY WE STRUCK:THE STORY OF THE FIRST NIGERIAN COUP
BY:ADEWALE ADEMOYEGA

Obasanjo has a history. I used to be fooled by his "patriotic" interventions in national politics. The earliest I can recall was in the days of President Shehu Shagari. In 1979, Obasanjo conducted a transition to civil rule and handed over power to him at a time of oil boom. But oil prices began to take a tumble in 1982. As Nigerians began to experience the economic crunch, Obasanjo started attacking Shagari in the newspapers on a regular basis. The criticisms were timely, ahead of the 1983 elections, and the opposition parties were over the moon. Obasanjo knows the direction of the wind.

In his memoir, Beckoned to Serve, Shagari said of the coup that overthrew him: "Some public statements by General Obasanjo severely criticising the administration seemed to point to at least a tacit incitement of the military against the government." He said he tried endlessly to invite Obasanjo for discussion on the situation, especially on the national economy about which he showed some concern, but the general avoided him. He later discovered why Obasanjo had become very hostile to him. "I understand from someone close to him, however, that he had expected me to be constantly consulting him on all matters of government since he had an obsession of being a super-administrator, super-diplomat and of course a military genius," Shagari wrote.

In fairness, Obasanjo loves to savage his successors. He always packaged this obsession as patriotism. Ironically, he was quite quiet during the regime of Buhari from 1983-85. Why? Was it because, as Shagari insinuated, he knew about the coup? Or was it because Buhari ran a no-nonsense government that took no prisoners? We may never know. But Obasanjo was back in full swing when Gen. Ibrahim Babangida came to power and began to implement economic reforms that made life pretty difficult for Nigerians. It was a good opportunity for Obasanjo to jump on the stage for more theatrics. He reads the wind very well.

Obasanjo spoke eloquently about the need for the structural adjustment programme (SAP) to have a "human face". He accused Babangida's government of being "deficit" in everything: budget, finance, honour, credibility, honesty, truth. Obasanjo was at his best when June 12 election was annulled by Babangida in 1993. He read the wind and connected very well with popular sentiments. He lampooned Babangida for the annulment which plunged Nigeria into serious crisis. We all clapped for Obasanjo. But while he was giving the public a very good stage performance, we started hearing rumours that he was deeply involved in the establishment of an ING to effectively kill June 12.

A few weeks later, Obasanjo said, faraway in Zimbabwe, that the winner of the June 12 election, Bashorun MKO Abiola, was not the messiah. That was when I stopped clapping for him. I had seen enough drama. The ING was eventually installed, but it was a fictitious arrangement that allowed Gen. Sani Abacha to seize power in November 1993. Two years later, Abacha grabbed Obasanjo by the neck and dragged him to jail. To tame Obasanjo's tongue, Abacha had to concoct a coup allegation. Obasanjo himself couldn't believe that a "whole" him could be jailed in Nigeria. He would later become president in 1999 straight out of prison.

Obasanjo started his second outing by savaging his predecessor and benefactor, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, for "looting" the foreign reserves. Abubakar had, by the way, practically installed Obasanjo as president against the wishes of most pro-democracy campaigners. After spending eight years in government during which he hardly practised what he preaches, Obasanjo installed an apparently sick Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adau as president, and picked a virtually untested Jonathan as vice-president. All on Obasanjo's mind was that he would be using remote control from Ota to perpetuate himself in government, since he is Nigeria's messiah — unlike Abiola.

In his book, Accidental Public Servant, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai said Obasanjo told him and other members of his kitchen cabinet that they would be meeting regularly in Ota to define the policy direction of the Yar'Adau government. Having succeeded in amending the PDP constitution to make him the only person who could be chairman of the board of trustees (BoT), Obasanjo thought he had Yar'Adua in his pocket. The new position was designed to be superior to that of the president under the mantra of "party supremacy". It was a "mentoring" system adopted by Julius Nyerere, the late Tanzanian president, after he left power in 1985.

Writing in THISDAY under the title, "Obasanjo Goes for Nyerere Option", on December 17, 2006, I warned: "Something tells me that the whole thing about the 'coronation' of Yar’Adua is one contraption that may collapse on the heads of those who think they have found a weakling as the next president of Nigeria... anybody who thinks the man does not have a mind of his own may be making a big mistake." Not surprisingly, Yar'Adua reportedly stopped picking Obasanjo's calls barely two months after assuming power. Obasanjo hadn't learnt from his Shagari experience.

As Yar'Adua fell ill and was no longer able to function as president, Obasanjo read the wind and jumped on the stage for more theatrics. He began to openly attack Yar'Adua, apparently to deflect criticism from himself for picking a terminally ill man as president. Obasanjo hit Yar'Adua hard on his sick bed. Some people clapped for him. I did not. Rather, I wrote on January 24, 2010: "Now that he knows that the public mood is against Yar’Adua’s failure to allow Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan act in his absence, Obasanjo has 'aligned' with the public again, preaching honour and morality." The wind-reader is always at alert.

Meanwhile, Obasanjo worked day and night to install Jonathan as president. Obviously, he again thought he would be ruling Nigeria from Ota. But as Jonathan began to gain independence from him — even having the effrontery to revoke the PPP for the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway — Obasanjo returned to drama. He has openly flirted with the opposition ahead of the 2015 elections, and those who don't know him well or choose to ignore his antecedents are popping champagne. May I seize this opportunity to warn Buhari's supporters. If Buhari becomes president and does not take instructions from Obasanjo or worship at his shrine, it may end in tears.

BY:SIMON KOLAWOLE OF THISDAY BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

If David Luiz were a girl, and I am the daddy, I'd have a talk with her about closing her legs for guys. Even if they are as dazzling as Luis Suarez.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Saturday’s governorship election inconclusive.

INEC Returning Officer for the election, Professor Muhammad Kariey, said there has to be a supplementary election because the total number of votes rejected and cancelled were more than the total vote with which the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Darius Ishaku, led the runner-up, the All Progressive Congress’ Aisha Al-Hasan

According to the returning officer “the difference between the PDP and APC is 63,817, while the rejected votes from some troubled areas is over 100, 000 votes”.

He said a supplementary election must be held within 30 days.

PDP had scored a total of 317,198 votes to APC’s 262,386

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