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Source: www.webometrics.info/en/Africa/Nigeria

1 Obafemi Awolowo University

2 Covenant University Ota

3 University of Ibadan

4 University of Lagos

5 University of Ilorin

6 Ahmadu Bello University

7 University of Agriculture, Abeokuta

8 Landmark University

9 Federal University of Technology Akure

10 University of Nigeria

11 University of Benin

12 Madonna University Nigeria

13 Federal University of Technology Minna

14 University of Jos

15 University of Port Harcourt

16 Auchi Polytechnic

17 Federal University Oye Ekiti Ekiti State

18 University of Calabar

19 Yaba College of Technology

20 National Open University of Nigeria

21 Federal University of Technology Owerri

22 Lagos Business School

23 Bayero University Kano

24 University of Uyo

25 Ladoke Akintola University of Technology

26 Nnamdi Azikiwe University

27 University of Maiduguri

28 Bingham University New Karu

29 Osun State University

30 Babcock University

31 American University of Nigeria

32 Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti Ekiti State

33 Redeemer’s University

34 Benue State University

35 Pan African University Lagos

36 Kwara State University

37 Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike

38 Federal University Ndufu Alike Ebonyi State

39 Olabisi Onabanjo University (Ogun State University)

40 Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma

41 Usmanu Danfodiyo University

42 Rivers State University of Science & Technology

43 Caritas University Enugu

44 Adekunle Ajasin University

45 Joseph Ayo Babalola University

46 Ekiti State University Ado Ekiti (University of Ado Ekiti)

47 Bowen University

48 Lagos State University

49 Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University

50 Tai Solarin University of Education.

Source: www.webometrics.info/en/Africa/Nigeria

Strong indications have emerged that some second term governors, elected on the platform of the PDP who are eyeing the Senate in 2015, may have some hurdles to cross ahead of nomination.
A meeting between the PDP national chairman, Dr Adamu Mu’azu, and governors elected on the platform of the party, which took place on Wednesday night at his residence, failed to reach a consensus on the vexed issue of endorsement and automatic tickets for first term governors, Senate-bound governors and their preferred successors.
They are expected to reconvene over the weekend, but a party source said ‘acceptable conditions’ are likely to be given to the outgoing governors who want the PDP ticket to
go to the Senate.
“They cannot have everything they want,” the source, a member of the party’s National Working Committee told a team of journalists in Abuja over the weekend.
According to him, the party was worried that even though it desired that some its ranking senators returned to the Senate in 2015, the activities of some of the governors had become
‘big constraints on the way of the party’s desire.’
As the party tries to manage this development, a south- south governor (names withheld) and the senator representing his senatorial district openly confronted themselves before President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa last week over the Senate ticket for the zone.
According to Leadership, aside confirming that there were indeed pressures from the outgoing governors on Mu’azu and President Jonathan over the issue of automatic senatorial tickets for the two-term governors, the NWC member disclosed that the national leadership of the party had concluded plans to meet with the governors to reel certain conditions.

“The truth is that the pressure has always been there since the issue of the president’s endorsement was concluded at our last NEC meeting.
It has taken a very dangerous dimension because of our desire to strengthen our National Assembly, especially the Senate, so that the polity could benefit from their wealth of experience, but the governors and their desire
to all go to the Senate is setting a big constraint on our desire for this.
“While we believe that the governors are our field commanders, we cannot say in the same breath that our senators are no more useful and should be discarded; so we have outlined some acceptable conditions that will guide both the governors and the senators; because, especially the governors, they cannot have everything
for themselves without consideration for others.
“We are going to tell them politely that if a governor wishes to go to the Senate, fine, but such one cannot be the one to anoint his successor; and, if at all, let the senator any governor wishes to replace also take the governorship slot,” he explained.

The disclosure by the NWC member came on the heels of the report that a south-south governor had lured the senator representing his (the governor’s) zone to Aso Villa to see the president. According to him, as soon as they settled for discussions, the governor told President Jonathan to ‘look for something for the senator’ after the elections because he (the governor) was already set to supplant the senator at the National Assembly.
“It was very embarrassing that the senator had to pointedly tell the governor that if he wanted to go the Senate, he (senator) was ready to be governor. It took the intervention of the president to calm frayed nerves because it was becoming a heated argument between them in the presence of Mr President,” he said

It has emerged that in Enugu State, Governor Sullivan Chime is set to replace Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu.
In Delta, it is Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan versus Senator James Manager even as Cross River State governor Liyel Imoke has not hidden his plans to replace Senator Ndoma-Egba with Hon John Eno.
Akwa Ibom State governor Godswill Akpabio is trying to displace Senator Aloysius Etok just as Benue State governor Gabriel Suswam is battle ready to upstage former PDP national chairman, Senator Barnabas Gemade.
In Niger State, Senator Nuhu Zagbayi’s stay in the Senate might be abridged as Governor Babangida Aliyu has indicated an interest to take it over…



PDP, please ensure there is a level playing field for all aspirants

Am sure u mean 32nd!

since2005:
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Its to early to start booking space
NLders booking space since when Judas betrayed Jesus Christ

Zupremo13:
Congratulations to them, atleast this would increase our Super Eagle's chances of qualification for the AFCONS...

Dream on Joseph.........

This thing ain't working! Pple been blasting dia horns since I woke up @ 5am. Nothing works in Nigeria

Hello fellow NLders,
Lagos State Govt declared today Oct 15th, 1014 as horn free day(no horn on our roads). This is aimed at reducing the noise pollution caused by horn on our roads, and to also respect other road users.........
How are motorists observing the Lagos horn free day in your area?
My own is area is zero compliance with the directive, its over polluted with noise. As if dem dey vex wit the LASG

Please report

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria is not
interested in running for reelection in
February 2015. Instead, Mr. Jonathan and his
most trusted associates are surreptitiously
plotting to build a consensus for a two-year
tenure elongation for the president and other
public office holders across the country.
SaharaReporters first learned about this
presidential design two months ago. Our
investigations since then reveal that Mr. Jonathan and his most trusted associates have been working underground to sell the plan to some lawmakers, governors, and political office holders tagged “key stakeholders.”
Our investigation indicates that the president and his trusted allies are still playing the card close to their chests, ensuring that they sound out only those political actors deemed likely to be sympathetic to the plan. One strategy, according to one source, is to seek support from governors who are already in their second and terminal term as well as senators and members of the House of Representatives who may be vulnerable to challenge in an election. Among the political personalities identified as tacitly backing the elongation plan are Senate President David Mark, Governors Martin Elechi of Ebonyi, Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta, and Segun Mimiko of Ondo, former minister Kema Chikwe, the chairman of the PDP’s board of trustees, Tony Anenih, and Ijaw political figure, Edwin Clark. At various times, both Mr. Mark and Governor Elechi have insinuated that the 2015 elections may not hold, hinting at severe security challenges.
Sources who spoke to us on the plan included
several legislators in Abuja and aides to two PDP
governors. They disclosed that President
Jonathan intends to defend the politically
explosive scheme on two grounds.
One is that a general extension of tenure, for a
minimum of eighteen months, would be
necessary to enable Mr. Jonathan to shepherd the creation of a new constitution. This argument rests on the need for Nigeria to fashion a constitution that incorporates some of the important recommendations of the national
confab convoked by President Jonathan and
chaired by retired Chief Justice Idris Kutigi.
According to several of our sources, the Jonathan administration plans to contend that the task of writing a new constitution should be resolved before Nigeria is subjected to another potentially volatile general elections.
“We should not see this as a matter of Mr.
President trying to stay longer in power. The fact
of the matter is that we should address the
constitutional issues first before talking about
another election,” said a source who is a
confidant of Governor Elechi.
The source added that the sheer task of going
through the voluminous report submitted by the
national confab on August 21, 2014 would require “almost a year of hard work.” According to him, it would be politically suicidal for Nigeria to go through another election and transition on the basis of the current constitution “which most
Nigerians are dissatisfied with.” He added: “If
elections happen next year and President
Jonathan wins, he may no longer feel the need to push for constitutional reforms. If another person wins, then that new president may not make a new constitution a priority. That means that this country will be back to square one. It will also mean that all the efforts we made in the confab would be in vain.”
President Jonathan’s other argument for tenure
elongation is that he needs about two years more In office to stabilize Nigeria by finally handling the security crisis posed by Boko Haram. A few sources disclosed that the president intends to make a strong case to potential critics in the US and European Union that the situation in Nigeria’s northeast zone is so dangerous that it would be impossible to hold elections in the area. He would pledge to devote the extra time in office to a decisive plan aimed at dislodging Boko Haram from all parts of Nigeria. Mr. Jonathan is expected to cite the recent string of successes by the Nigerian military against insurgents as proof that
he has a formula for defeating Boko Haram.
Nigeria’s political calendar sets aside next
February 2015 for the next set of elections, but
President Jonathan has not formally declared his
intention to run. Our investigations revealed that the president’s silence is deliberate, part of his strategy for pursuing tenure elongation. Mr.
Jonathan is reluctant to ratchet up the rhetoric of elections because he wants more time to quietly fine-tune and sell the option of a two-year tenure elongation.
Opponents of any form of tenure elongation
contend that President Jonathan wants to avoid
an election because he is scared of losing to the
opposition. “He has had six years to fix the
security problems and also advance a new
constitution, but failed,” said an Abuja-based
activist. The activist added; “President Jonathan
may also be afraid of a possible constitutional
crisis. The Nigerian constitution forbids anyone
running more than two terms in office. The
president has been sworn in twice already, once
to complete the tenure of [the] late President
Umaru Yar’Adua and then as substantive
president in 2011. There is likely to be a legal
challenge seeking clarification on whether he can run and possibly rule Nigeria again.”
A source at the Presidency stated that Mr.
Jonathan had sounded out some members of
national confab about the idea of the body
declaring that he should be given extra time to
complete a constitutional process, but the
response was not encouraging. “Those who were
consulted in the confab felt that any talk of
elongation would have divided the confab. So
they asked us to try alternative ways.” Our
investigation also revealed that the Presidency
considered the idea of using the Boko Haram
insurgency as a pretext to declare a state of war,
thereby shelving elections. That plan also fell
apart.
Mr. Jonathan’s current approach is to send his
associates to approach potentially sympathetic
senators and members of the House of
Representatives with the proposal of a new
constitution as justification for tenure elongation.
Our investigation disclosed that the latest
approach has met with mixed reactions.
Several senators who spoke anonymously with
SaharaReporters disclosed that Mr. Jonathan’s
emissaries spoke about postponing the elections
for two years in the interest of “Nigeria’s unity.”
The sources said legislators who are most likely to lose elections seemed enthusiastic about the
prospect of elongation. Two senators also
admitted that the president’s associates are likely to win over some legislators because of their ability to offer hefty sums to bribe those willing to support the elongation agenda.
A political adviser to former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar said he had heard speculations about
extending the tenure, but said he had no
independent confirmation of it. However, he
stated that Mr. Jonathan must be scared of
running in an election in which most northern
voters will be against him along with a significant
number of southerners voters disenchanted by
the president’s non-performance.
He said that Mr. Jonathan’s electoral fortunes
would be precarious in all the northern states
because of the divisive nature of the president’s
governance style.
“Apart from Benue and Plateau states and a
section of Southern Kaduna Christians, the
president has little chance of campaigning let
alone winning in the north,” said one of the critics of tenure elongation.
A strong opposition also looms in the southwest,
except in Ondo state where Governor Olusegun
Mimiko might help sway voters. But Mr. Mimiko’s
electoral boost may have fizzled with the
governor’s mismanagement of state resources
that has led to the non-payment of workers
salaries for at least four months.
Mr. Jonathan will likely win easily in the five
eastern states as well as the Niger Delta zone, but votes from the two areas would be insufficient to steer him back to Aso Rock. Besides, the enthusiastic welcome received in Imo State over the weekend by Muhammadu Buhari, a former military head of state and opposition presidential aspirant, suggest that some parts of the southeast may not wholly back Mr. Jonathan.
The president also faces considerable political
threat in Rivers State. Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s opposition to Jonathan’s candidacy suggests that the electoral victory figures cannot simply be written.
Several political sources, activists and pundits
who spoke to us predicted that Mr. Jonathan’s
tenure elongation plan would be doomed in the
same way that other such plans, hatched by
retired General Ibrahim Babangida, late
maximum dictator, Sanni Abacha and former
President Olusegun Obasanjo, also collapsed.

PapiWata:
Irrational and superstitious minds like yours will GUARANTEE that Africa will remain at least 100 years behind the industrialized world, in terms of development.

Sadly, brain-dead humanoids of your type constitute a huge MAJORITY in much of Africa, Nigeria inclusive, so there really is NO hope that the continent will emerge into the light for at least another generation.

Must u dispay ur foolish to the whole world too see?
Nitwit

Mod, pls move this thread to FP

The pictures has been added now..... It was network dt didn't let it to upload before











Mod, do the needful please. This is good news
It means this weekend will be great even if NYSC neva pay my september allawe

This is really surprising as a bird fell down from a power line & become a woman @ Cappa, Oshodi this afternoon........



I guess the Lagos Air Immigration arrested her because she didn't have the visa to Lagos to perform her evil work
May God help us

This is really surprising as a bird fell down from a power line & become a woman @ Cappa, Oshodi this afternoon........



I guess the Lagos Air Immigration arrested her because she didn't have the visa to Lagos to perform her evil work
May God help us

The richestlifestyle.com has come up with a list of the richest
African presidents and our dear President Jonathan is No. 6 on
the list.
Here’s how they reported it on their website.
Africa is the second largest continent in the world. It is also
world’s second most populous continent and regarded as the
poorest continent. There are 47 nations in Africa, led by
different leaders who have been ruling for several decades.
Some of these leaders and their families are very rich and
their wealth are considered ill-gotten. They make their wealth
from natural resources of these nations through the creation of
companies under the names of their families. Here is a brief
overview of the richest Presidents in Africa. Continue below...


The 9 Richest African Presidents and Kings as of 2014:


9) Robert Mugabe – Net Worth: $10 Million
Country: Zimbabwe, Years in Power: 26
Robert Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. His net worth
is estimated to be around $10 million. The dictator’s family is
very wealthy. Mugabe has won many elections, although
frequently these have been criticized by outsiders for violating
various electoral procedures.


Idriss Deby – Net Worth: $50 Million
Country: Chad, Years in Power: 23
Idriss Deby has been the President of Chad since 1990. His
net worth is estimated to be $50 million. Towards the end of
August 2006, he made international news after calling for his
nation to have 60 percent stake in its output after receiving
crumbs from foreign companies running the industry.


6) Goodluck Jonathan – Net Worth: $100 Million
Country: Nigeria, Years in Power: 4
Goodluck Jonathan is the President of Nigeria. His net worth
is estimated to be around $100 million. He launched a
“Roadmap for Power Sector Reform”, launched the Youth
Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria and launched the
Transformation Agenda. He is a member of the ruling “People
Democratic Party”.


6) King Mswati III – Net Worth: $100 Million
Country: Swaziland, Years in Power: 28
The 15th richest royal in the world, according to Forbes
Magazine. Mswati III is the King of Swaziland. He is worth
more than $100 million; down $100 million of his 2012 ($200
million) fortune. The King has often been criticized for his
lavish spending. In 2009 summer, several of his 13 wives
reportedly spent over $6 million in a shopping spree. In the
2014 budget, parliament allocated $61 million for the King’s
annual household budget, while 63 percent of Swazis live on
less than $1.25 per day. His luxury car collection include a
$500,000 Daimler Chrysler’s flagship Maybach 62. And has
banned the photography of his cars.


5) Paul Biya – Net Worth: $200 Million
Country: Cameroon, Years in Power: 31
Paul Biya has been the President of Cameroon since
November 6 1982. His estimated net worth is around $200
million; this figure was published by the ForeignPolicy.com.
Around 48 percent of the citizens of Cameroon live below the
poverty line. Catholic Committee against Hunger and for
Development (CCFD) and several on-and-offline media has
placed him in the list of leaders with ill-gotten wealth. In
2009, French online newspaper, Rue 89, reported the
Cameroon President’s vacation was the top most expensive
among world leaders. More than that of the American
President. He was criticized for spending 30,000 euros
($40,000) per day on renting a villa.


4) Uhuru Kenyatta – Net Worth: $500 Million
Country: Kenya, Years in Power: 1
Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta is the President of Kenya and the son
of Kenya’s first President, Jomo Kenyatta. In 2011, Forbes
estimated his net worth at $500 million. Most of his wealth
comes from property. With his family, the President owns
stakes in Kenya’s largest dairy company Brookside Dairies,
media company Mediamax, Heritage Hotels, Commercial
Bank of Africa and hundreds of thousands of prime Kenyan
land. He is regarded as man of the people due to his
sociability. During his inaugural speech, he promised
economic transformation through Vision 2030, free maternal
care and unity among all Kenyans.


3) Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo – $600 Million Country: Equatorial Guinea, Years in Power: 34
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is the President of Equatorial Guinea. He came to power in August 1979 by ousting his uncle Francisco Macias Nguema in a military coup. He has overseen the emergence of the nation as an
important oil producer, beginning in 1990s. This President and his family literally own the economy, his personal fortune exceed $600 million, according to Forbes Magazine. In
October 2011, the United States government seized $70 million assets of his son, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue.
Though Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s second richest nation, majority of the population actually live under the poverty line.


2) Mohammed VI of Morocco – Net Worth: $2.5 Billion Country: Morocco, Years in Power: 15
Mohammed VI is the current King of Morocco. He is also the country’s leading businessman. He is worth more than $2.5 billion, according to Forbes. The King ascended to the throne following his father’s death in 1999 and he immediately set about improving upon his appalling human rights record and alleviating poverty.


1) Jose Eduardo dos Santos – Net Worth: $20 Billion Country: Angola, Years in Power: 34
Jose Eduardo dos Santos is the President of Angola. He has held on to this post since 1979. His personal estimated wealth exceed more than $20 billion, according to Cabinda Online. While around 70 percent of Angolans live on less than two dollars a day. His daughter, Isabel dos Santos is among the Forbes Africa’s billionaires with a net worth of $3.8 billion. She’s currently Africa’s richest woman and also the world’s richest black woman