zoba88: The corpse of Ochanya left mortuary today for her hometown in Ogene-Amejo Okpokwu Local Government where she will be laid to rest.There was obvious tears as her corpse arrived home.It should be recalled that Ochanya died from complications of VVF after she was continuously raped by her uncle and son in Benue.
Modarun: Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, was spotted on Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, where the former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu resides.
Obi, in a widely circulated photograph, was spotted with a friend walking along the Bourdillon Road, without any security detail attached to him, like other politicians would have.
Mixed reactions however, trailed the photos, as at that time, cos the reports that Obi, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Tinubu were forming alliance to float a new Mega Political party ahead of the 2019 Presidential election.
sarrki: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has hired Brian Ballard, a top US lobbyist, ahead of the 2019 elections.
The influential lobbyist has President Donald Trump as one of his clients. Politico Magazine, a top publication in the US, says Ballard is closer to the US president than perhaps any other lobbyist in town.
“He’s parlayed that relationship into a booming business helping clients get their way with the Trump administration — and his clients and even some of his rivals say his firm has a better grasp of what’s going on in the West Wing than almost anyone else,” the magazine said in a report.
“Ballard was one of the top fundraisers in the country for Trump’s campaign and continues to raise millions for his reelection campaign. Wiles, one of his top lieutenants, ran Trump’s campaign in Florida and delivered the nation’s biggest swing state to the president.”
Documents seen by TheCable showed that Nigeria’s main opposition party has agreed to pay $90,000 (N31.5m) to Ballard on a monthly basis throughout the duration of the contract.
TheCable understands that the contract which was signed on September 21, 2018 is for a year, meaning Ballard would rake in close to N400 million from the deal.
Ballard with Trump at a fundraising ceremony “This contract is entered into between the Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria (“the Client”), Plot l970 Michael Okpara Street, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja, and Ballard Partners, Inc. (“the F irm”), 601 13th Street NW, Suite 450N, Washington, D. C. 20005,” the agreement read.
“This agreement shall automatically renew for successive one-year periods on the anniversary of the effective date of the agreement unless either party terminates the agreement. Upon renewal this agreement may be terminated within thirty (30) days written notice by either party.
“Duties of the firm. It shall be the Firm’s duty to consult with the Client and advocate on its behalf those issues the client deems necessary and appropriate before the US Federal government. Issues and objectives may include, but not be limited to, enhancement of US Nigerian relations; strengthening and advancing democratic values and the rule of law in Nigeria, with a special focus in the coming months on maintaining political and security conditions free of intimidation and interference in order to ensure the success and fairness of Nigeria’s national election for president in 2019. It shall further be the Firm’s duty to inform the Client of developments in legislation and policy relevant to the Client’s issues and objectives.
The master strategist “It shall be the Client’s duty to provide the Firm the information necessary to best represent the Client. It shall also be the Client’s duty to timely compensate the Firm for its services.
“Compensation. The Firm shall receive from the Client $90,000 a month, payable in quarterly installments for this agreement, plus the reasonable costs associated with the representation, including but not limited to, necessary registration fees; and travel expenses.”
Osita Chidoka, a former minister of aviation, signed the contract on behalf of the PDP.
This report comes two weeks after Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the party, led PDP stalwarts to Dubai for a strategy meeting.
nairavsdollars: It emerged on Thursday that President Muhammadu Buhari decided to sacrifice his long standing relationship with Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State as part of strategies to clear all obstacles to his re-election in 2019.
Amosun, hitherto a strong ally of President Buhari since the days of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), is currently at loggerheads with the national leadership of the party over the outcome of the governorship primaries in the state which did not go in his favour.
While the governor is insisting on handing over to his anointed candidate, Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade, the National Working Committee (NWC) of his party, led by its National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has submitted the name of oil mogul, Dapo Abiodun, as the Ogun State governorship candidate.
Abiodun is reportedly being backed by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, one of the party’s national leaders and head of its reconciliation team; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, a former governor of Ogun State, and other leaders in the South-West loyal to Tinubu.
Despite his perceived closeness to President Buhari, several efforts by Amosun to upturn the decision has proved unsuccessful.
He recently led a delegation of Ogun monarchs and leaders to the president but that also failed to yield the desired result.
Apparently frustrated over the issue, the governor last week accused Oshiomhole of allegedly conniving with some people to foist Abiodun on the party in the state, as its governorship candidate in the 2019 election.
Amosun alleged that Oshiomhole, with the support of Tinubu and Osoba, wrote a fake result showing Abiodun as the winner of the party’s primary election and thus its governorship candidate.
He also alleged that the duo of Tinubu and Osoba had played roles in what he termed “electoral fraud”, adding that their silence over the matter smacked of complicity.
The governor insisted that the NWC of the party sent to the state didn’t conduct a genuine primary election.
He argued that the only authentic primary was the one which produced Adekunle Akinlade as governorship candidate.
He said: “The president already knows there was no election in Ogun State. He knows that they just went to Lagos, wrote all results and that what they did is fraud.
“If the National Working Committee or the National Chairman said there was an election in Ogun State, it’s all fraud. That is what I said.”
He added, “Mr. President already knows, there was no election in Ogun State, other than the one we held.
“The issue of Chief Osoba and Asiwaju and co, what we said was that there was a definite silence from their end, and silence means consent.
“We have not heard one word from any of them. Was there any election in Ogun State? Yes or No? They should come out. People at this level should be courageous enough to take a position, to come out, to come and tell us whether there was an election.
“The one governorship election that we had, there was live telecast, people even witnessed it.”
Despite the governor’s claim that President Buhari knew that the result declared by the NWC was fake, the president refused to use his position to upturn the result in his favour.
Speaking exclusively with Daily Independent, a chieftain of the party and member of its NWC said President Buhari was in a dilemma over the issue owing to his relationship with Amosun and Tinubu and did his best to resolve the matter in a way that would be pleasing to all.
He said having weighed his options, President Buhari who was desirous of securing a second term in office, decided to pitch tent with Tinubu whom he believed held the key to delivering the South-West to him.
“It is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that are slugging it out with Governor Amosun on the Ogun governorship matter. They are backing Dapo Abiodun while Amosun is insisting on Adekunle Akinlade.
“It is not as if the president, as the national leader of the party, cannot wade in and ask that Amosun’s candidate be declared the winner, but the reality is that he doesn’t want to offend Tinubu and other South-West leaders such as Osinbajo and Aremo Segun Osoba.
“The president seriously needs the votes from the South-West and he believes these are the people holding the region.
“Here is a man who contested thrice and lost until Asiwaju partnered with him and he won. He can’t afford to toy with such a man.
“The president feels Amosun’s pain but he is not prepared to take any chances that will make him lose the South-West region, especially now that Atiku Abubakar is making inroads into the region with his promise of restructuring,” he said.
However, speaking with our correspondent, an aide to Governor Amosun said the governor had been unfairly treated despite his sacrifices for the party.
“To us in Ogun, the governor has been unfairly treated and it is unfortunate. Here is man who has sacrificed his all in making the party what it is today.
“He has led so many negotiations that have secured victory for the APC, the recent being in Ekiti and Osun. To us, we believe this is not the right way to pay him back,” the aide said.
On the rumour that the governor had already planted his key aides in the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) where his preferred candidate, Akinlade, may contest the governorship election, the aide said the report only existed in the realm of speculation, and that the governor was yet to brief them on his future plans.
He, however, assured that Amosun would not dump the APC, especially given his long standing relationship with the president.
Officialpdpnig: He actually shot himself in the head because recently he has been attacking this current FG as being the cause of the economic downturn.
This video shows he was a major reason for same economic downturn and that we were already recessed before this present FG came
The recession that happend was as a result of PDP mismanagement of the Nigeria's economy.
OEPHIUS: In a video interview with Channels Television, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the PDP says that the present problems of the Nigerian economy was NOT created by the present government but by Governors before 2015.
He said he remembers as a governor when the former Minister for Finance Okonjo Iweala asked the government to save and the governors and everyone else said no so why are you complaining when you created this problem yesterday
This might tally with the present government stance that they met a moribund economy and the problems were already present before they got in.
nditah: Hello Nairalanders, I am compelled to share my experience with Google and also find out if anyone has had a similar experience.
Friday, Sept 21st, Google invited me to participate in a remote User Research, with a promised of a $125 Perks gift.
On Oct. 5th I was ebullient to take part in assisting #Google in providing valuation information to improve the usability of its cloud technology. The meeting lasted for 60-minutes. I love #GCP.
Surprisingly, on Oct. 10th I got a gift code of $50 (instead of $125 as promised). I was curious so I sent an email to the Team.
The Team replied me, "How Google does it is they convert the perks amount to a 'localized' amount based on the buying power of that amount in particular countries."
Being more curious, I sent another email asking the Team: Since Google doesn't consider local purchasing power, and poor countries pay the same amount as wealthy countries for their products like GCP Exams, Cloud Services, etc, why would it be different when receiving benefits.
I didn’t get an answer again from the Google Research team. So I throw the question to you: Is it fair to give people less than you should simply because of where they come from?
Explorers: Canada is prioritizing the deportation of asylum seekers who walked across the border from the United States illegally.
More than 36,000 people have walked into Canada from the United States to file refugee claims since January 2017, many saying they feared U.S. President Donald Trump’s election promise and policy to crack down on illegal immigration.
The influx has thrown the Canadian asylum system into turmoil and caused a political uproar in a country accustomed to picking and choosing its newcomers.
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