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For staying out of office for more than 42 days within 12 calendar months on health grounds, President Umaru Yar’Adua is believed to have violated a section of the Federal Government Public Service Rules. According to Paragraph 070316, Chapter Seven of the Federal Government Public Service Rules 2006, any officer on sick leave for more than 42 days within 12 months must face a medical board to ascertain his physical suitability to remain in office. Prominent Nigerians qualified to be members of the medical board that could determine the President‘s suitability for office may include the following:

Dr. Salisu Banye,

Yar’Adua’s personal physician. The Katsina State-born consultant came to the limelight recently when he disclosed that the president was suffering from acute pericarditis. Banye was born and raised in Katsina, where he has been practising medicine for more than 25 years.

Prof. Oladipo Akinkugbe, a neurologist and former university vice-chancellor. Akinkugbe, at different times, attended the Government College, Ibadan, Oyo State, University College, Ibadan, now University of Ibadan, University of Liverpool, London and University of Oxford, England. He began his career at the Department of Medicine, UI, between 1964 and 1974, where he rose to the position of head of department. He was visiting professor of medicine, Harvard University, United States of America, 1974 to 1975 and visiting Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford, 1981 to 1982 and VC, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, between 1977 and 1978.

Prof. Ayodele Falase, a consultant cardiologist is another expert of repute that could serve on the medical board.

Falase began his career as a House Officer at the University College Hospital, Ibadan and later became Head of Department, Department of Medicine, UI, Oyo State, between 2001 and 2005. He also served as Chairman, Committee of Deans, at the institution.

Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, Minister of Health, a pathologist, was once a Chief Medical Director at the University College, Ibadan and a former Director-General, National Action Committee on Aids.

Prof. Jibril Aminu, a cardiologist of repute who was once a federal minister. Aminu received many prizes as a medical student, including the best commonwealth student award in the United Kingdom.

He was at the Middle School, Yola, Adamawa State, 1950 to 1951, Barewa College, Zaria, Kaduna State, 1952 to 1957 and the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1960 to 1965. The gifted medical student later proceeded to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, UK, 1967 to 1968 and the Royal Post-Graduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London and later, the National Heart Hospital and the London Hospital College, London, 1969 to 1972.

Dr. Ebun Ladipo Bamgboye, a Consultant Physician/Nephrologist and currently Head, Dialysis/Transplant Unit of St. Nicholas Hospital in Lagos.

Prof. David Adewale Oke, consultant cardiologist and head, Department of Medicine, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos.

Prof. Remi Ajekigbe, consultant radiotherapist and oncologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.

Prof. Francis Durosimi-Etti, a consultant radiotherapist and oncologist, and a former Chief Medical Director, National Hospital, Abuja.

he will speak to BBC not NTA because it will be easy for Nigerians to tell that the voice is that of Esau but the body of Jacob.
To the BBC reporter, all northerners sound alike.
Did BBC play the audio on their radio station?

church giving out cars?
shows you where our priorities as a people are.

Stakeholders in some of the banks that were taken over by the Central Bank of Nigeria last year on grounds of gross mismanagement and capital erosion are beginning to raise concerns over the way some of the banks are currently being run by the new managements.

A few of the CBN-appointed managing directors and executive directors are being accused of indulging in the same excesses for which the former chief executives were fired.

Some of the ”excesses” include unilateral policy changes and board appointments, indiscriminate purchases of luxury cars and drawing huge allowances in spite of the fact that some of the banks have negative capital, according to information gathered by our correspondent.

For example, in one of the banks, which fired hundreds of workers last year, one of the newly-appointed executive directors allegedly applied for and got a N150m loan without a repayment schedule. The same director also got a N20m personal loan in the same week.

Also, the CBN appointed Managing Director of BankPHB, Mr. Cyril Chukwuma, who assumed office in October, is alleged to have demanded for and collected $120,000 as overseas vacation allowance for a recent three-week holiday after spending just three months in office.

This, according to insiders, was a clear violation of the bank‘s policy, which provides that workers must have spent a minimum of six months before qualifying for leave while in the case of senior executives, they must have spent at least a year in office.

Insiders told our correspondent that having spent less then three months in office, the MD should have collected a pro-rated amount based on the time spent in office so far.

The same managing director was also said to have published the bank‘s third quarter 2009 results in the newspapers without the approval of the board and in defiance of a court order restraining him from publishing the accounts.

The court order was consequent upon a suit brought by the bank‘s vice-chairman, Prof. Pat Utomi who challenged the action on the grounds that the board had not approved the publication of the result.

The results were also not approved by the Nigeria Stock Exchange, which queried the bank and later imposed a hefty fine for the infraction.

Insiders are also concerned that the CEO, just weeks after assuming office, allegedly unilaterally changed the bank‘s policy on official vehicles for bank executives to monetisation. This means that the CEO now collects N2m monthly in lieu of official cars.

Under normal banking rules, the value of the official cars should have been amortised over a period of four years.

Documents sighted by THE PUNCH over the weekend also indicated that Chukwumah approved the appointment of himself and the bank‘s General Manager, International Banking, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo as new directors of BankPHB (UK) Limited, the bank‘s offshore subsidiary, which is yet to commence operations without the approval of the board. The MD has also allegedly approved the replacement of Utomi and Mr. Akin Kekere-Ekun as directors of the UK firm.

Some members of the banks management are also concerned about the approval of a N60m mortgage loan for a certain un-confirmed staff, which is only staff mortgage loan as a ”reward” for the key role he played in preparing the controversial third quarter report.

The said staff was said to have spent less than one year as at the time the loan was approved in November 2009, though workers on the level of assistant general manger to general manager need to spend two years in office and must have been confirmed to qualify for a loan.

Worried by apparent leaks of developments in the banks to third parties, some of the rescued banks have barred staff from dislosing company information.

To this end, all staff of the bank were forced to sign an ”Information Confidentiality Letter of Undertaking,” in November in 2009, which forbids any staff to disclose information to an external party, with corresponding severe sanctions for any staff violating this directive.

An official of the bank confirmed on Sunday that the MD went on leave during the Christmas period.

She said, “The MD went on leave for about two weeks but I am not aware that he collected $120,000.”

the minister said an immediate initiative was embraced within hours of the incident as he invited the American Ambassador in Nigeria, Robin Renee Sanders, for talks and expressed the country’s disappointment at the development.
“Within hours that this notice was given, I invited the US Ambassador in Nigeria to express the strong disappointment both the government and people of Nigeria feel about this matter. I explained to her that we are two friendly countries and there are ways to treat a friend and this is an unacceptable New Year gift to a country in the year of her Golden Jubilee.


this old man is a comedian.
who takes this charlatan serious?
America does not toy with the lives of its citizen like you and your vegetative president toy with yours.
take your jokes somewhere else.maybe a nite of a 1000 laffs.

US Action Contradicts Their Word, Says Maduekwe
By Funke Aboyade and Olawale Olaleye, 01.11.2010

Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, has said the blacklisting of Nigeria by the US following the attempted bombing of an American airliner by a Nigerian, Farouk Umar AbdulMutallab, is in clear contradiction of assurances from the US that the development will not affect bilateral relations between both countries.

He told THISDAY in an interview: “I spoke with the Assistant Secretary of State in charge of Africa, Ambassador Johnnie Carson - he reports directly to President Obama, in addition, of course to reporting to the Secretary of State.

“This was within two days of the incident. We had a good conversation and he assured me that this would not affect relations between Nigeria and the US and that they didn’t see this isolated incident as something representative of Nigeria.”
Maduekwe, who described the US action against Nigeria as "unacceptable", said his chat with Carson did not give any such indication and that the action was particularly surprising given the assurances he received.

“He talked, as he always has done, glowingly about the strength of Nigeria in Africa. He’s never been apologetic about that. He keeps saying Nigeria is the most important country in Africa and he repeated that to me two days after the incident and that we’ll keep working on the things in our bilateral agreement that are already in place.

“We’ve engaged them diplomatically and are satisfied we are honouring our pledge to ensure that there’s full cooperation between the US and the Nigerian authorities in the investigation,” he said.

The minister said an immediate initiative was embraced within hours of the incident as he invited the American Ambassador in Nigeria, Robin Renee Sanders, for talks and expressed the country’s disappointment at the development.
“Within hours that this notice was given, I invited the US Ambassador in Nigeria to express the strong disappointment both the government and people of Nigeria feel about this matter. I explained to her that we are two friendly countries and there are ways to treat a friend and this is an unacceptable New Year gift to a country in the year of her Golden Jubilee.

“We’ve been a responsible global player doing most of the heavy lifting on the continent, from our days in Congo through Liberia, Sierra Leone now we’re in Darfur - the largest contingent in Darfur and we are being asked to go to Somalia. Is it not incongruous that the country that is doing all these, making huge sacrifices - in Sierra Leone and Liberia alone, we put $10 billion spending a lot of our own lives, lives of our young men and women - should now be on the security list?

“It’s true we are not on the state sponsors of terrorism list, we cannot be because everything about us rejects terrorists, but even on the supposedly milder list with countries like Saudi Arabia, which is a great country, and Pakistan, it’s not right when you look at the fact that we don’t have all the challenges all the countries in that list are facing.

“Radical Islam has not taken root here in Nigeria; what you have - a large population of Muslims is one of our assets, about 70 million of them - have been described even by the Americans as an important asset of Nigeria and another 70 million Nigerians are Christians in a large population of 150 million people. The Muslims we have are very tolerant. Whatever may be religious extremism that has happened in the past, we are not anti-American religious extremists and government has been dealing with that.

“I conveyed that message and said that we don’t think we should be on that list and something should be done as quickly as possible to take us off that list. She said she’d convey this message to her government and get back a response to us as soon as possible. In the meantime, a process is in place for me to engage my US counterpart and clear this issue,” he explained.
Maduekwe also disagreed with certain positions that the absence of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua may be partly responsible for the treatment the US government meted out on Nigeria.

“If President Yar’Adua was here, what would he have done? That is left in the realm of speculation. But it shouldn’t be seen as automatic that he immediately would have called President Obama. Not that calling President Obama is not important but even that decision to call him will be a policy decision in which you factor in things like: what is likely to be President Obama’s response?

“You don’t want to put your President in a difficult position, and if we had no reasonable basis to think that a phone call to President Obama would mean Nigeria’s name being taken off the list following day, we would not have advised President Yar’Adua to call him. That doesn’t mean he would take our advice, the President will decide,” he said.

In matters like this, he said: “Often, you find so much can be achieved at the level of foreign ministers and you don’t want your President to make that kind of demand unless you are reasonably certain that the answer will be positive. The Vice-President has shown terrific leadership. Within hours, he put together an inter-agency committee which has been working day and night - the security agencies, Foreign Affairs, Information, Aviation and so on. I don’t see the President’s absence as one that has in any way affected the capacity of this government or indeed, the Nigerian state to react to this unfortunate development.”

Maduekwe then described as anti-Nigeria, views of Vice President, Centre for Global Development in Washington DC,  Ted Moss, who had questioned the absence of the Nigerian President at a time like this.
“I know Ted Moss quite well. He’s not in the Obama administration. He was one of the relatively junior officials in the State Department under the Bush administration and was known in the last few days of the Bush administration to be very anti-Nigeria. He said a lot of things even at that time that couldn’t be sustained by evidence. He did a lot to create problems which we tried to avoid.

“It is to the credit of the Obama administration that they’ve not allowed the likes of Ted Moss to imperil what is a very important relation between the largest economy and most powerful country in the world and the largest country in Africa. We go beyond what people like him are saying and say what is the present reality. The present reality of course is that our President, unfortunately, is not in the country for health reasons. But that has not created the power vacuum that is being rather recklessly referred to. Our Constitution is working; we have a Vice-President who is functioning fully, effectively, very efficiently to carry on the burden of leadership on behalf of the President.

“I do not in any way shy away from the fact that there is always something about having your President around- the majesty of that office, the power and grandeur of that office, the symbolism of that office is so important. But somebody once, in a manner of criticising us, said ‘The President’s absence means things are on autopilot’.

“I surprised the person by saying, ‘Yes of course that means things are working! You want it to be manual? Modern statecraft should be on autopilot!’ Even in America when this thing happened, President Obama didn’t immediately snap back to Washington. He continued with his vacation in Hawaii but he was in contact with what was going on,” Maduekwe said.

Gekko:
Absolutely not!! Trust me.

Gbawe:
Even as I don't agree with you , I have to commend your intelligent and well structured debate. If Duke were VP he would do exactly what he is asking Jonathan to do. This is why Duke , Ken Nnamani (former senate President) and others like them where schemed out of reckoning for roles in the Yar Adua government by OBJ and other Kingmakers. The likes of Duke have their own mind and they would be difficult to control. Do you not wonder why there is no place for PDP achievers like Duke in the Yar Adua Government ?

Let us tell ourselves the basic truth. I have always insisted that , at this stage , virtually all Nigerian politicians are corrupt. It is the system. What we must pragmatically look for are 'enablers' who will facilitate national progress alongside their 'shennanigans'. Jonathan and Yar Adua are not in that mould. Duke, Nnamani and Fashola are .The likes of Yar Adua and Jonathan will aid the cabals 100% to the detriment of Nigeria. Yar Adua , for example , will not dare to contemplate the deregulation of the power sector because he is a hostage to the diesel and generator mafia !!!!  Do you now get my drift? I.e whatever cross Duke has to bear, he will still do things that will improve Nigeria if he is ever in a position to do so  . Fashola is bearing his own cross (Tinubu) with pragmatism while he continues to be an enabler who is delivering.

I do not believe DD is a hypocrite . I don't think Duke is telling Jonathan to do what he will not do if similarly placed.

As regards the constitution, please read the article again to note that Duke is not asking Jonathan to defy the constitution or usurp Yar Adua's powers. He is only asking Jonathan to be an effective deputy rather than a totally invisible and impotent Vice President

therein lies our salvation.

is this a subtle campaign for Goodluck's vice president?

bibiking1:
Very funny posts guys!,,,couldn't stop laughing at the prospect of Jonathan acting differently, he'did be like a fish outta water. Its not his nature, he has never been proactive. A pig cannot fly for two reasons: you'll annoy the pig with your undue insistence, and a PIG CANNOT FLY!

gbam!!

sjeezy8:
Beaf you are foool, maybe he should siddon and look waiting for a military coup.  Did Abiola siddon and look or did he die in prison?
If he fears the "hawks" he should be vocal before he dies, so we can know those who are behind holding Nigeria back. He should seek advice from America or "run" there like ribadu.

That ode no get tongue he should die. spineless rat.

but he is not spineless when it comes to corruption

princekevo:
What a statement?  So he is there to siddon look, abi? Or is he waiting his ground fathers to come and tell him what do? To me Goodluck is nothing but a coward, he has failed us, Infact he has fail Nigeria as a whole. In a situation like this many are waiting for him to jst make a move as the No2 man and they will throw their support on him. Sadly, he has not shown any courage, but cowardice.

The man has never gotten anything on merit.
it always falls on his lap.
i hope his luck runs out soon.
This country deserves better.

Beaf:
The way Goodluck Jonathan is playing it is best. If he does it the gra gra way, how many of us will be ready to pour out on the streets in support?
I can bet you that if push comes to shove, the average Nigerian will see it as Jonathans problem; in any normal country, the people would have been on the streets weeks ago.

As a Nigerian, Goodluck Jonathan should play his cards in the right order, because he is on his own in a nation of cowards.

Beaf, like i have said previously, i disagree with you.
The man Jonathan is a combination of docility and ineptitude (and clueless to boot!!)
all this native intelligence you are claiming on his behalf is masking the guy's lack of a clue.
i agree with Duke.

julian,
you don fall my hand.

Beaf:
One word keeps ringing through the article, "trust". Dyed in the wool politicians do not trust Jonathan, I wonder why?

With all the intrigue flying around, Jonathans head is really on his shoulders. I am beginning to wonder if there really isn't Devine providence; here is a man who doesn't fit into Nigeria's politics, but seems to have the wisdom to see long range dirty tricks and treachery before they manisfest; more than anything, he seems destined for the presidency. I am beginning to believe that this man will bring the fundamental and beneficial changes we all crave to the country.

impossible!!
the man is no different from his boss.
inept, dull and clueless on issues that matter.
he only possess native wisdom that serves him in entrenching his selfish interests.
most of all,like most ofthe ruling thieves, he has no ideology nor principle.

Beaf:
It is standard practice for the press all over the World to quote unnamed "sources" for a variety of reasons. There are a few examples in the following "reputable" news pages;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/08/mark-thompson-row-bbc-council
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8449953.stm
http://www.dailytech.com/CES+Kicks+Out+Vendors+Who+Try+to+Display+Carry+Out+Business+in+Hotel+Suites/article17354.htm

It is the reasons for keeping sources secret that might differ in very telling ways. While the likes of the BBC would mostly do it to protect the source, or rarely because the UK govt is breathing down their collars; in Nigeria, it is usually because of very real danger to lives and jobs in the news house.
The best thing to do is place news houses on a weighted integrity scale based on experience, hidden sources will never go away.

In Nigeria it is also because the story is completely cooked up and the 'sources' only exist in the imagination of the writer.

very insightful.
i hope it has not been posted before


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzkB5DuveDE

of course you will find the time.

monkeyleg:
seek change, get a credible opposition together and kick pdp out. Simple solution

not as simple as you think.

^^^

Maryam Ibrahim Babangida
By Augustus Aikhomu

REMEMBERING and paying tributes to our late friend of excellence and wife of my professional and political boss, Her Excellency, Hajia Dr. Mrs. Maryam Ibrahim Babangida cannot be too many or too much. Many weeks, many months and many years ahead, she will continue to be remembered and be praised for what she was and still is to humanity, to friends, acquaintances, the womenfolk and children, and indeed to most if not all Nigerians. It is highly likely that when some of us who have been close to the Babangida phenomenon begin to think through and put into print our memoirs, Maryam Babangida would certainly feature in many and varied respects of our thoughts and reflections.

For me and my family, it has not been easy to grapple with the reality that this phenomenal lady has left us in body but obviously not in spirit and memory. She was and continues to be an epitome of goodness, fellowship, and integrity. I became close to her initially as wife of a professional colleague in the days when she became the chairperson of the Nigerian Army Officers Wives Association just as my own wife Rebecca Aikhomu became the chairperson of the Nigerian Navy Officers Wives Association. From then forward, the roads and linkages of our relationship began to take shape and deepen. Both ladies worked devotedly and closely to uplift the two institutions which comprise the wives of military officers; and they left important legacies for the associations to continue to flourish. That was the early time that I personally spotted the inner strength of character and integrity in Maryam Babangida.

And then the opportunities emerged by the good twists of history when Gen. Ibrahim Babangida assumed the unique responsibilities of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; and not too long I also assumed the role of IBB's primary assistant, initially as Chief of General Staff in the hierarchy of authority for close to four years, and later as Vice President. It is in this unique role performance that the quality of the human person with which Maryam Babangida was made began to surge and be nourished and to flourish.

Not many people would know the way Maryam Babangida set out to transform an otherwise only ceremonial role of the First Lady of Nigeria into a store house of knowledge and intelligence-gathering for development of complementary public policy and programmes in the work of the Presidency. Always and ever focused, always and ever mindful of the sensitivity and sensibility of her husband as President, and, accordingly, always conscious about what she did so as to impact society and culture positively, Mrs. Babangida assembled a core of highly public spirited ladies to begin to build the institution of the First Lady of the country. In the meantime, as personalities of credibility, benevolence and integrity came to grip with the essence of Mrs. Babangida's focus and grasp of her role in the theatre of the public sphere, it became easy, contrary to what certain critics then of the Babangida Presidency imagined, to attract and generate resources, to prosecute and sustain the programme of the Better Life for Rural Women (BLP).

I personally got to know more about the BLP programme in addition to my own position as Vice President by the fact that Mrs. Babangida, in a sense very much like her husband, performed and prosecuted the BLP with a team of dedicated women (The M. Team), and my own wife was duly acknowledged as the deputy chairperson. I am not in a position to provide the register or roll call of the highly spirited Nigerian women, and even including a few good men who helped to fashion the BLP programme with all the successes it achieved. With the BLP, Mrs. Babangida engineered and provided tremendous support base and architecture for the mobilisation of women for political office.

Above all, her BLP programme became a forum for critical political consciousness. It also became an institutional complement to many other government projects and programmes such as MAMSER, the Peoples Bank which was really targeted at the eradication of poverty among rural women folk. The same is true of the programme of DFRRI which targeted rural infrastructure particularly roads leading from semi-urban settlements to the remotest farmlands in this country. Nigerians may forget some of these things too soon but the creation of wealth or at least the addition to wealth by Mrs. Babangida's projects and programmes was a limitless experience. In all these spheres, the BLP was an institutional precursor of even the socio-cultural dimensions of the so-called NEEDS and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

One other thing which I cannot forget easily because I was involved is the deep concern which Mrs. Babangida had for what became the title of her book The Home Front. She was a builder and a very humane and kind-hearted mother who believed very strongly, even if I can say so, with Christian values although a devoted Muslim she was, of the family as the major plank upon which father, mother, children and siblings revolve. She was a powerful influence on the Nigerian society, relying upon the role of the family in the upbringing of the young ones. Many people will remember that not only because she was blessed with four children, very proportionately two handsome young men and two beautiful ladies, Mrs. Babangida tried to influence the public policy of population growth in Nigeria.

She was the force behind the scene in the policy of attempting to make the Nigerian family, willingly and naturally, to limit the number of children to four. This was intended to create a relationship between population growth and economic growth rate of the country's development process. The policy caught on for a while, and I am convinced that the young men and young women of the 1987 to 1993 period saw themselves as positive instruments of the one family four children profile.

Mrs. Babangida was always engaged and as she was equally an engaging personality, friendly and mild, yet forceful internally and a tremendous influence not only on her husband but virtually on everyone who had had the opportunity to work with or be part of the larger IBB network.

What can one say with the loss and departure of a lady whose footprints would ever remain in the sands of time? Even those of us who are neither her husband, mother, daughter, sister, nor brother, the loss is deep and the pain is even deeper. But in the ways of God, who can predict the design and framework of life? It is God alone and a measure of time that can heal. The loss remains with us, but memories will ever be green. As for my friend and boss, and as for the children and grandchildren, may God continue to console them and strengthen them while we will continue to provide the little human support which we have been known to do. May her good soul Rest in Perfect Peace, and in the bossom of the Lord. Amen.

Admiral Aikhomu is former Vice President of Nigeria.

who be Ayeni Adekunle?
Is it the same Ayeni that is a publicist for Lagbaja?
The same Ayeni at PUNCH newspapers?

Amya:
too bad! i really had high hopes on those two. I didn't really think 9ice would be into all those arrangee girl thing. But i guess music corrupts!

now you know

there are two sides to every marriage story.
even after hearing from the two of them, you will never know the truth.
so they should choose to do whatever they desire and leave us in peace.

yeswecan:
And i can tell your definition of "sound mind" given your incessant support for Mallam Sanusi.

@ paddy_lo

So what's your take on the job loss?  and please don't tell me Chukwuma Soludo was a bad manager.

the truth is bitter but it shall set you free.

from the two arguments, i can tell who needs a  sound mind.

Dreamm:
i dnt ve such time 2waste wit u (mbuela. Try sum1 else. Am nt against him.

same to you.

semidaraeb:
How strategic? A beautiful charming woman who has the power of oratory, preach and be the co-pastor? I still dey siddon look whether she go become pastor for the Church.

i siddon with you on that.

Dreamm:
If u'r sincere enough 2urself mbuela, i guez u knw wat he meant by saying he doesn't wnt 2 comit sin. Am nt against him remaryin. So plz undstnd his statement nd mine.u'r jst convincin nd confusin urself by sayin that nonsense quote of urs.

after four years of  mourning his wife, a man tells you he chose to remarry because he does not want to commit fornication.
you ask me about being sincere with myself.
how much more sincerity do you need?
you are obviously jumping to conclusions without understanding the simple facts the man stated.
about a year ago, i heard him say he will remarry in the future,simply because he does not want to put himself in compromising situations.
The man knows how much temptation he can bear and has decided to apply God's wisdom in dealing with a potential temptation and you are talking crap here.
What is so difficult to understand?

Dreamm:
It's so sad dat a pastor as he claimed cn't evn mourn his wife 4 a long time b4 enjoyin d tins of d world again. If he was d 1 dat died d wife wld be critizd by nw 4 remaryin so soon.if he's real ,d lord wil sustain him 4sum tim b4 remaryin. He's nt evn ashmd 2say such.

utter crap!!
who told you that sex is a thing of the world?
his act of remarriage is the most realistic,mature and godly thing anyone in his position would have done.
throughout the period, there was no news of ogling sisters or any strange relationship.
he kept his dignity and when he was convinced it was the right time to remarry, he did so boldly and without drama.
i respect the man.
i just hope the woman will not be a co-pastor.enough of that family business mentality.

so because he wants to empower indigenes, he awards to contracts of 100s of millions to mediocre entities?
project is slow, quality is crap and we are meant to applaud?