₦airaland Forum

Gombe;

apc: 361,245
pdp: 96,873

boardmem:
ma formal v.c

they should withdraw your certificate.

MAYOWAAK:
Orubebe has a long standing negative reputation of being an errand boy for GEJ.I remember in 2010 he was the sent by GEJ to offer a bribe of 50,000 dollars to Pastor Tunde Bakare and his Save Nigeria Group.

Tunde Bakare must be laughing his head off right now.
Saying "I recognize this clown"

lloydpras:
No surprise this guy is being colossally stupid. He's wearing a GEJ hat.

He is GEJ lapdog.

who is Bello Fadile?

Harbosede02:
Shey security no fit carry dis man ni??

now you will realise how compromised the security apparatus has become.

EMEKA1MILLION:
Where are the security officials?

compromised security officials

This is how the violence will start.
Unless God intervenes.

I blame Jega.
He should have ended this drama last night.

Orubebe is yarning dust

ChinemeOkpan:
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news to Jonathanians

Bauchi Results

APC 931, 958
PDP 86, 085

try and add a source

luvmijeje:
I'm waiting for the mother of all rigging in Delta state

Done and dusted.

demelza:
Some of y'all need Jesus!

I have Jesus. Just speaking truth in a respectful way :-)

londongal03:
Are you thinking in same direction.....Jonathan has proven that election in Nigeria can be free and fair. I just hope tinubu and buhari if they win will improve on that

Buhari and Tinubu have a mountain awaiting them.
The people finally know the power in their hands.
Rigging has a limit.
The pic in my profile has never been more apt.

Jega is an incorrigible late comer.
I hope he has the same tendency in bed?

falconey:
then why are we here?..........what are we doing here?

For Jega to announce them officially at the national level.
Don't you see the figures being announced by collating officers in states before they appear before Jega?
How do you think the Rivers and Bayelsa figures have been indicated online before the collating officers appear before Jega?
as we speak 95% of votes are already announced.

falconey:
the way PDP supporters reason is preposterous, we have 9states in the north not collated and announced yet and you are depending on 2 states to win and buhari is currently leading....

All states have been collated and announced at state level by now.

I am struggling to understand why this thing is going into a 3rd day.
We already have these results at the state level, why are we unable to complete the remaining states this night?

That's the arrangement

slimmy05:
We already have 1.4million from Rivers, remaining 4.6million. It will dawn on you in a couple of hours

And you think Apc will be standing still?
How do you plan to arrange kebbi,yobe,sokoto and lagos?

Pvin:
If Buhari scales through this night, 22nd April still awaits him. Ka ima nka, ima nko ozo

Whoever wins the popular vote this night is in for good.
Any Judicial process that tampers with it will be lighting a bomb.

Why the hell are they not using a screen?

The level of impunity in the polity is worrying.
How can a governor declare curfew and the police will denounce it?

buygala:
It's only a total fool, or someone who has deliberately set out to insanely delude himself, who will think that this election will be decided by PVC-holders, secret ballot, unemcumbered franchise, and other similar bullshiit



Both front-line Presidential candidates are murderously desperate to win, cost and collateral damage immaterial...

GEJ wont just sit, mope stupiddly, and watch himself rigged out of power .. He will and is already throwing all the weight and powers of his office into winning this election, because if APC were in his shoes, going by their notorious antecedents, they would have done much worse

THIS IS NIGERIA

THE BEST RIGGER ALWAYS WINS

You are blessed.
Our only hopes that somehow God and citizen power will find a way to frustrate the devices of the crafty riggers.
Else, Jega is on a very long thing. No amount of technology will save this selectuon.

Very apt piece.
Okotie has spoken a salient truth.
Whatever happens tomorrow, change is imminent.

This democracy was purchased at a very high price, essentially because aside the blood of sevBYl innocent Nigerians that were shed, we sacrificed a popular mandate: the June 12, 1993 Presidential election, still adjudged the freest and the best ever. That historic mandate was scuttled and the man who secured it, Bashorun M. K. O. Abiola, was killed. We must always remember that.

It is now about 16 years since the current democratic journey started but we are so far from the destination. Our hard-earned democracy is still a very slow work-in-progress. Notwithstanding, even before we cast our vote this weekend, God-willing, we have already won something significant: Our politicians now know that our mandate can no longer be taken for granted. Those seeking elective offices are being asked questions about their record of public service; about their integrity; about their competence or lack thereof and about some of the views they held in the past. It is a whole new ball game; a far cry from some previous elections when the outcomes were generally well known even before the first ballot was cast. Not anymore!

Therefore, as we head for the polls come Saturday, nobody can predict with any degree of certainty who our next president will be, and for me, that is the beauty of this election. Some pessimists have called it a make or break; I call it a breakthrough because, at last, politicians have suddenly realised that the power to make or break them down, now truly resides with the electorate.

Fellow Nigerians, what is left for you is to go out there and vote. If you believe in transformation, take your PVC and vote; if it is change you believe in, it doesn’t matter one bit; just go and vote. There can be no Transformation without Change anyway. But neither will it ever happen if we refuse to vote, or if the turnout is so low that the scale of apathy casts a shadow on the credibility of the outcome. That would be too bad as it would call to question our faith in this democracy.

Just three weeks ago, America marked the 50th anniversary of the historic first protest march organized by Black civil rights leaders to press for voting rights for African-Americans. Thank God, that great struggle led to the election of the first African-American (Black) President of the United States, in Mr. Barack Obama.

It was a fitting tribute to this noble cause that Obama, the 44th President stood there to give a commemorative speech in the little town of Selma, Alabama, near the bridge crossed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr. and other compatriots, as they headed for the protest march in the course of which some of them were felled by police bullets. It was okay if “Black Sunday” produced the first Black President, and forced the constitutional amendment that gave blacks the right to vote. At least, it ensured that African-Americans are now part of the American Dream! If our democracy succeeds, it means MKO and all the heroes and heroines of June 12, like those of Black Sunday, did not die for nothing. If we fail, God forbid, it will mean that the death of our heroes past has been in vain. We must not allow that to happen.

The message of the day is clear: Our politicians are only overheating the polity purely out of the fear of defeat. Yet, in every contest, there must be winners and losers. My charge therefore to all Nigerians, young and old, is to eschew violence, go out and vote, defend your vote; and to you politicians, you must grant your opponents the right to differ. For elections to be free and fair, we need not spill the blood of innocent citizens. The June 12, 1993 presidential poll did not consume the lives of Nigerians, yet it remains the benchmark for credible elections in our country.

With about 48 hours to the presidential poll, what particularly bothers me is the propensity of our politicians to set the country on the edge each time we have elections. I have written in previous essays that this is not acceptable, especially when nations like Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda, the population of which compare with that of some states in Nigeria, have conducted credible elections without major incidents.
The dire consequences of our inability to organize credible elections on the economic prospects of our country are painful enough to dissuade war-mongering politicians from blowing the opportunity that a peaceful transition offers. As the largest economy in Africa, based on the recent rebasing exercise, we cannot enjoy the benefits of our upgrade in the continent’s governance hierarchy, if the 2015 general elections fall below expectations. Foreign Direct Investment won’t flow in as expected; the economy may shrink, rather than expand and the nation’s GDP, projected at 5.8 percent this year, could remain a mirage.

Our GDP per head of $3,280 at Purchasing Power Parity is $6,350; but if we are able to diversify and create new drivers for the economy, rather than oil, these figures could improve. Much more than just figures, we must see impact-driven growth and the evidence of our rising economic profile on our citizens. What we demand from our politicians is how to revamp the economy to achieve a strong, private sector-led growth; not how they would tear the nation apart if the elections don’t go their way.

Certainly, that’s not the reason Nigerians will be trooping to the pooling booths to cast their vote this weekend. Millions are going to vote because they want their lives Changed or Transformed, not because they expect to die in the exercise. Therefore, in victory, our politicians must be magnanimous and in defeat, they should be gracious. Elections are not an end in themselves; they are a means to some meaningful end: a functional, all inclusive and truly representative democracy.

We demand no less from every single Nigerian involved in this process. From the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials to the security agencies to the political parties and the presidential candidates themselves, the interest of our country should be paramount. They must imbibe the spirit that every election comes with the redemption that there is almost always a tomorrow. So, no one should hit his head against the wall, or cause the nation to boil over because of a loss at an election. That is not the name of the game.
16 years of uninterrupted democracy is a record here in Nigeria, and we can proudly say we are making progress, regardless of what others think. We will therefore be doing ourselves a great disservice if we keep allowing external forces to determine the parameters of our success as a sovereign nation. We must set our own goals and try to achieve them at our own pace and in our own way.

Nigeria is not about to disintegrate as being speculated by those who misinterpret the global forecast of a document by the United States National Intelligence Council, which only presented its conclusions on our country like it did on other nations, based on certain probabilities. It is left for our politicians and policy formulators to heed the warnings contained in that document titled: “Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa’s Future”, so it does not become a self-fulfilling prophecy. That said, we must never be slaves to foreign thoughts or the opinions of International Policy Institutes.

My take is that, no matter who wins on Saturday, Nigeria will survive and ultimately thrive. But we must be wise in making our choice. We are generally a good people and there is an end time plan by God to preserve this country, in order for us to fulfill His purpose.
It is not for nothing that we are the most populous black nation on earth. And that point was most eloquently underscored by President Obama’s special message to Nigerians during the week. Despite sub-par economic performance over the years, the resilience of this nation is amazing. Our recovery rate from national crises is second to none. While the world panicked over Ebola, we overcame it as if it were a common cold, even with dilapidated health infrastructure. With world class facilities, imagine what we could accomplish.

However, for us to develop and achieve our full potential, we need an effective mechanism to change our leaders by constitutional means. No other means will be acceptable. Every Nigerian must therefore hear this loud and clear: go out and vote; and equally important, respect the outcome. Let the politicians receive this with equanimity and philosophical discernment.

Finally, to President Jonathan and General Buhari, you have done the best you possibly can and now I leave you with the immortal words of former American President Theodore Roosevelt which was quoted by another US President, Mr. Richard Nixon, both in his victory speech on November 6, 1968, as well as in his resignation address to the American people, following the Watergate scandal, on August 8, 1974. “Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed,” Nixon said, “but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena…”

According to Roosevelt, “it is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Regardless of who wins on Saturday, it shall be well with Nigeria.

•okotie@revchrisokotie.com, follow on twitter @Revchrisokotie, 08078421451 (sms only)

naijababe:
I have no words! Do you even know why he divorced his first wife?

Why are you wasting time with these clowns.
As if the fact that GEJ has a side kick who birthed kids for him while PEJ remains his official first wife is not exhibiting a character flaw.
At least Buhari is married to one woman at a time.

Riodiao:
A CALL ON THE CONSCIENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF RIVERS STATE


In the light of the above, I wish to urge all My Supporters, the Good People of Rivers State to join hands with other well meaning Nigerians to massively vote for President GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN (GCFR) and the Transformation Agenda that has brought so much relief and succor to the greatest number of Nigerians. I also urge allRivers People to vote for Chief Barr Nyesom Wike (CON), who has shown by his antecedents, track records and boundless capabilities that he will deliver good governance to the People of Rivers State.


Engr Tele Ikuru

I really do not care for which party anyone is in, as both parties are almost the same.
What worries me is when a man tells bare faced lies for the sake of crumbs from the table. That worries me a lot.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/mar/21/asisat-oshoala-liverpool-ladies-nigeria-wsl-africa

When Asisat Oshoala signed for Liverpool Ladies, the first African footballer to join the FA Women’s Super League, the story was not just huge in Nigeria but all over Africa. The 20-year-old Super Falcons striker laden with awards and accolades – from the Africa player of the year, to winner of the golden boot and player of the tournament at the Under-20 World Cup – had a sensational 2014. It included winning the Africa Cup of Nations, and narrowly missing out on the U20 World title. No wonder Liverpool’s manager, Matt Beard, was keen to sign her.

“The transfer made big headlines,” Oshoala says. “I never thought it would be as big a deal as that. When the news broke it went all over the African countries, I had journalists trying to contact me from all over.”

Beard believes “Superzee” or “Seedorf” – as she is nicknamed – is one of the top young talents in world football, and set to light up the Super League when the season kicks off on Wednesday. Rumours abound of multiple clubs having tried to sign her, but Oshoala prefers to emphasise how happy she is to have joined Liverpool.

“I liked the style of them,” she says of the club, whose matches she had followed online at home in Lagos. “It’s a team I’ve been longing to play for, I like to follow their games, and their league – the men as well. I also happen to be a Liverpool fan so it was easy for me to pick Liverpool.”

Last week the women’s team were invited to watch the men train at Melwood, and Oshoala’s Instagram account was peppered with selfies alongside Mario Balotelli, Daniel Sturridge and Kolo Touré.

Growing up in Lagos, Oshoala played football on sandy pitches with the boys at school; playing with the girls wasn’t an option. “I love football and I can’t be moving with people who maybe only want to talk about clothes and bags,” she says, of the school where girls rarely played sport. “I love football and that’s why I mingled with the boys, I didn’t really walk with the girls.”

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Initially Oshoala’s parents, running successful businesses in the fashion and gold industries, were concerned. “At the beginning they didn’t really appreciate me going into football. They wanted me to go to school. But I said: ‘It’s what I want. Football is what gives me happiness’. So they had no choice but to support me.”

Rebelling against her parents’ wishes made Oshoala focused. “I told myself if I’m leaving school for football then I have to give the best and make sure I get something good out of football. Today I’m not regretting it,” she says, with a grin.

While Nigerian women’s football may not have a high global profile, an established league – where the top matches are often televised – provided Oshoala with a career path, and a number of players in whose footsteps to follow. Performers such as the Sweden-based veteran striker Perpetua Nkwocha, who won the Africa player of the year four times, and the midfielder Mercy Akide, both now in their late thirties, blazed a trail for Oshoala.

Now it is Oshoala doing the trailblazing, as the first African player in top flight English women’s football. Already she has a strong sense of the responsibility that accompanies that tag. “Going to England is not just about me, it’s about Nigeria as well,” she says. “A lot of people wouldn’t have thought that a Nigerian player can go out to play for a team like Liverpool Ladies so I think it will have a big influence. Most people follow the Premier League, but they don’t really know much about the women’s league here; now, because I’ve joined, they’re going to start following the WSL.”

With the World Cup in Canada this summer, and an increase in African nations competing as the overall number of teams increases from 16 to 24, Oshoala hopes her talent will make an impact on the biggest stage. “People find it difficult to believe that there are good teams in Africa. We’re not just going there to complete the numbers, we’re going there to make sure people know African teams are not just pushover teams at the World Cup, we’re going there to fight.”

The Nigerian striker’s most treasured memory from last year was making it to the U20 World Cup final, where they narrowly missed out on the title, losing 1-0 to world No1’s Germany. Throughout the tournament Oshoala played a key role, defeating Mo Marley’s England side in the group stages and overpowering some of England’s best young talent in Sunderland’s prolific striker Beth Mead and the Arsenal and England youth player of the year, Leah Williamson.

Now Oshoala will face those same players week in, week out, starting with Birmingham City in the FA Cup on Sunday,before hosting promoted Sunderland, a game live on BT Sport, to kick off the WSL1 season on Wednesday.

Superzee leans back in her chair, with the confident aura of a superstar player who has bagged pretty much every award going over the last 12 months, and smiles. “This season, if everything goes well, which I think it will, I believe I will have another record-making year in 2015.”

Nothing we no go hear for this election season.
Every clown is summoning Jega.

Jega, me too want to meet you. I will ask my gateman to send you a text.
Jega needs to stop meeting everyone (including the president). Hold the damn election and let the best rigger have the day.
Afterwards, we want to return to a semblance of normal life. Enough of all this jingoism masquerading as political talk.

skentelelady:
if you help to pay the quarter, do you think he can afford to pay the subsequent school fees when he hasnt got a job?

I suggest he changes their school to the cheaper one he can afford for now. Then you can help him with that when the time comes.

My cents

If he decides to change school for them, let him still use what I will send to pay fees there.
All i care is that it is used for school fees.

fitzk:
Thanks a lot

1. Common entrance is 3,000
2. They are currently not in school because of outstanding of #100k from previous term. For term Three for the same school if they will be will be allowed to finish the session will be 52,750 for the four of them.

This is the school's phone number
08064587769 (HM)

I will send you the cost for the common entrance tomorrow morning.
At the end of the month, I will send you a quarter of the outstanding 100k fees.
Kindly use it for the specified purposes.
I will make case deposits as I wish to remain known by my username.
You have my best wishes and prayer remains that you will never be stranded.