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THE State Executive Committee (SEC) of Imo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expelled a hitherto governorship aspirant of the party in the December 2014 primaries, and a two-time senator in the past, Ifeanyi Godwin Ararume and 19 others.
Their expulsion, according to the party, was due to their alleged anti-party roles before, during and after the just-concluded general elections in the state.

In a statement issued at the weekend in Owerri and signed by the state chairman of the party, Nnamdi Anyaehie and 12 others, which was made available to journalists, the SEC of the party also named others expelled as Jerry Chukwueke, Humphrey Anumudu, Gibson A. Njemanze (Oyiga), C. Y. Amako, Azubuike Ekwegh, J.I.J Njoku and Stan Nzekwe.
Others are Kingsley Ononuju, Ethelbert Okere, Jones Uzoka, Nkem Nwankwo, Independence Ogunewe, Prof. Nnamdi Obiaraeri, Bethel Zimako, a Lawyer, Ogbuagu Celestine Uwakwe, Dr. J. C. N. Harcourt, Sunny Heart Ibe and Jephy Ojinika.

According to the statement, the decision to expel them from the party was taken at a meeting of the SEC held on May 4, 2015, adding, “After a full and exhaustive deliberation on the reports of the activities of the underlisted persons against the interest of our great party in the just-concluded general elections whose actions openly evidenced gross anti-party activities, the state executive committee at its meeting of Monday, May 24, 2015 accepts the report and recommendations and accordingly expels the under-listed from the party.”


Source: http://scannewsnigeria.com/news/pdp-expels-ararume-19-others-for-alleged-anti-party-activities/

The Bali Nine is the name given to a group of nine Australians arrested on 17 April 2005 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, for planning to smuggle 8.3 kg (18 lb) of heroin valued at around A$4 million (3.1 million US dollars) from Indonesia to Australia. Andrew Chan, Si Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj, Renae Lawrence, Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, Matthew Norman, Scott Rush, Martin Stephens and Myuran Sukumaran, faced the death penalty or life in prison if convicted. Australian authorities contacted their Indonesian counterparts with the tip-off that precipitated these arrests.

The final Bali execution countdown: This shows how the Bali 9 executions will take place – With just several hours until the Bali 9 pair are due to be executed, this is how the proceedings will take place.

11pm-11.30pm (2am-2.30pm AEST)

• Team of 12 specially-trained policemen assemble at the execution site.
• They take position five to 10 metres from where the condemned inmates will be positioned and lay out their rifles.
• The commander loads each rifle with one round.
• Only three of the rounds are live.

11.30-11.59pm (2.30am-2.59am AEST)

• 4 Nigerians and fellow inmates continue to make their final mental and spiritual preparations.
• They will be marched from their cells to a clearing.
• Their hands and feet will be bound.
• They will be placed in front of individual posts and given the option of sitting, kneeling or standing.
• Blindfolds will be offered.
• The prisoners have a final three minutes with a religious counsellor.
• The commander draws a black mark on the inmate’s clothing over the heart.

11.59pm-0000am (2.59-3am Wednesday)

• The commander raises a sword.
• The marksmen take aim and fire when he swishes the blade down.
After midnight (3am Wednesday)
• If a doctor determines a prisoner has survived, an officer will fire a single shot to the head with a handgun.
• All prisoners are pronounced dead.
• The bodies will then be cleaned and put in temporary, lightweight coffins and returned to the mainland.
• The bodies will then be placed into heavy duty coffins for repatriation to Australia.


Source: http://www.hopefornigeriaonline.com/the-final-bali-execution-countdown-this-shows-how-the-bali-9-executions-will-take-place/

Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Mujahid Dokubo Asari, has said that if Nigerian president-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, wants to be a Pharaoh, then he will find a Moses in him (Asari).

According to Mr. Dokubo, the general has no power to jail anyone.

Taking to his Facebook page, the former President of Ijaw Youth Council, said: “Mohammed Kabir Ibrahim, your Buhari does not have that power to send any body to prison….get that into your piggy skull and nobody is afraid of him….We are waiting for him….following the example of GEAJ does not make us cowards….If he Buhari wants to be a Pharaoh….then he will find a Moses in me.”


Source: http://africanspotlight.com/2015/04/26/asari-dokubo-threatens-buhari-says-he-has-no-power-to-jail-anyone/

Despite a decline in military spending since 2010, U.S. defense expenditures are still 45 percent higher than they were before the 9/11 terror attacks put the country on a seemingly permanent war footing.

And despite massive regional buildups spurred by conflict in the Ukraine and the Middle East, the U.S. spends more on its military than the next seven top-spending countries combined, according to new figures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

That’s nearly three times as much as China, and more than seven times as much as Russia.

Saudi Arabia is now the fourth-biggest military spender on the globe, which in its case means spending nearly $80 billion last year buying weapons, mostly from the U.S., and most notably including fistfuls of F-15 fighters and top-of-the-line attack helicopters.

As Mark Mazzetti and Helene Cooper reported for The New York Times over the weekend, the new arms race in the Middle East has resulted in a “boom” for American defense contractors.

U.S. military spending has now fallen by 20 percent since its peak in 2010. But overall, the world’s arms bazaar is doing just fine, reports SIPRI, as “reductions in the United States and Western Europe were largely matched by increases in Asia and Oceania, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa.”

China, Russia and Saudi Arabia all “substantially increased their military expenditures,” with the Saudis now spending a staggering 10 percent of their GDP on military expenditures — although it’s doubtful they can even feel it.

In a supplemental report, SIPRI reports on how the crisis in the Ukraine has led to “a renewed commitment by NATO members to spend at least 2 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) on the military.” The U.S. is spending 3.5 percent of its GDP on military expenditures.


Source: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/20/u-s-military-still-spending-45-911-much-next-7-top-spending-countries-combined/

WITH a month to the inauguration of an All Progressives Congress (APC) federal government, the street partying to celebrate the sweeping success of the nation’s most successful opposition party in history is winding down. Now is the time to tackle the challenges of success.
The question on our lips today is: can the APC survive the two tests of its manhood which lie in wait for it? Between May 29th 2015 and May 28th 2019, the incoming ruling party will be sorely tested with two challenges: (1) power sharing at the outset of its reign and (2) the struggle for the party’s tickets towards the end of the tenure. How will the APC fare?

The party’s supporters and enthusiasts will answer right away by saying the APC has already conquered the biggest obstacles of forging a successful merger of parties and unseating the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). But it needs to be noted here that capturing power is one thing, keeping it is yet another.

PDP collapsed because it could no longer maintain the internal cohesion necessary for continuation as a ruling party. It had little or no problem with power sharing, but the integrity could no longer be maintained in the struggle for its tickets in 2015. If the APC wishes to last long as a ruling party, these two elements must be satisfied, in addition to good governance, of course.
There are some danger signals that, once you see them manifesting within the APC, then you can start a mental countdown to the end of its reign. One of them is political greed.

That was one of the factors that led PDP to failure. The Party thought that the larger its size the more invincible it would be at the polls. This was the factor that made former President Olusegun Obasanjo to ensure that the opposition was not allowed to stand on a firm footing. Eventually, many opposition party leaders dumped their parties, jumped into PDP and some of them even got prestigious posts at all levels. PDP was reduced to a free-for-all bazaar.
The upshot was that there were too many interests, and once they could not be satisfied, they automatically turned around to constitute internal opposition in the PDP.

If you check the history of the PDP as a ruling party, especially at the Centre, it was the PDP National Assembly members that stood in the forefront of opposition against the Executive Branch. The Presidency under Obasanjo fought and changed the leadership of the National Assembly led by its party men. It was PDP Senators that prevented President Obasanjo from using the constitution amendment of 2004/2006 to grab an extra term of office. The APC only became a living threat to PDP when five states controlled by the Party moved over to APC. All these were traced to internal power struggles occasioned by too many selfish interests clashing against one another.

Preying on PDP’s remains

The APC is large enough to stand in the same danger, unless it opts to learn from the foibles of its predecessor in the presidential seat, the PDP. It must resist the temptation of preying on what remains of the PDP. It must also ensure it does not interfere in the affairs of the party.
Though a political party is like a church which never rejects new members, it must not give away coveted posts to opportunistic newcomers. In fact, the party should place all newcomers on probation for at least four years to prove their genuine commitment to the APC before they qualify for its privileges. Giving away plum positions to newcomers will create ill feelings among those who fought and endured for the APC to become the ruling party.
Rather than putting emphasis on increasing its size, the APC will do itself – and our democracy – a favour by firming up party principles and policies and keeping members within its ideological bounds through discipline and internal democracy. The PDP should also pay attention to creating a new ideological character for itself. What we need within the next four years is to able to choose between the party of the Progressives and the Democrats. Solid ideological grounding, not mere ephemeral size, is the only thing that will ensure the longevity of both the APC and PDP.

The second issue that will determine APC’s fate as a ruling party is how it manages its ethno-regional differences. Put it in another way, how it handles the political interests of its principal leaders: President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, and its erstwhile National Leader, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu. That these two gents were able to forge an alliance that successfully saw off the mighty PDP is a great feat which has become a milestone in the nation’s political history. However, that is where the problem starts.

Right now, the APC is still a gang-up of seventeen states of the old Northern Region and four states of the old West Region, with one vassal state each from the old Eastern Region (Imo, whose fate is still hanging) and old Mid-West (Edo). The PDP has been completely shut down in Northern Nigeria, save for Gombe (and Taraba, which is still hanging).
The APC revolution in Northern Nigeria even put away the issue of “Middle Belt”. The Minorities of the North went with their Hausa/Fulani Majorities, just as the Southern Minorities (except Edo) went with their Igbo Majority neighbours. How will four states of the South West cope under the deadweight of seventeen states of the North in the APC? It is more like a master-servant partnership – what a partnership!

How will Tinubu continue to be the “National Leader” of the APC with his power bloc forming such a miserable minority in the partnership? Though it is agreed that Tinubu’s South West made Buhari’s victory possible (just as the South East did for President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011) how will that stand when an all-out power struggle ensues? This question becomes even more germane when we realise that under our presidential system, the president is the Leader of the ruling party. Buhari is now the Leader of the APC. What becomes of Tinubu, since two captains cannot command one boat?

Buhari and regional supporters

A lot will depend on the mental attitude that Buhari and his regional supporters are coming into this dispensation with. If they are coming with the old mindset of Northern domination and Southern dependency, then we are in for a rough ride, just as I have always warned. Will Buhari and his Northern support group resist the temptation of seeing this as a dispensation of the North having “snatched” their power back with their might?
Or have they learned from the history of their past attitude which made the idea of the North’s return to power unpopular in the South in the past sixteen years? Has Buhari put aside the mentality of North’s alliance with the West with which he once ran this country along with the late retired Major General Tunde Idiagbon, whereby the entire East and its Minorities were virtually shut out of national relevance? That was why they refused to vote for him, apart from the President Jonathan factor.
Buhari can still surprise many of his critics by seeing himself not just as Muslim/Arewa president or even as a president of a North and West alliance against the rest of the country. If he is able to carry every section of the country along, not only in the selection of top government officials but also in the distribution of the benefits of good governance, the entire nation will embrace him. His Party will also benefit. Everything now depends on Buhari.



Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/can-buhari-tinubu-share-power/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook#sthash.wQuFWqDp.dpuf

hahahahahahaha $84 million ke?



Chai, some people always take advantage of every situation.

A newly-elected member of the House of Representatives, Mr Mike Etaba, said the 8th National Assembly must facilitate Bills and oversight activities that would lead to drastic reduction in cost of running government.
Etaba, who was elected on March 28, to represent Obubra/Etung Federal Constituency of Cross River, stated this on Sunday in Abuja.
He was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“The 8th Assembly must, as a matter of priority, facilitate Bills and oversight activities that will lead to drastic reduction in the cost of running government.
This, the new lawmaker said, was necessary to enable government have the resources to revamp the education sector and undertake massive infrastructure development across the country.
“The education sector needs to be reviewed to address the current challenges of the 21st century,’’ he said.
Etaba also expressed the need for the 8th Assembly to focus on providing legislation that would facilitate national unity, particularly with regards to the issues of state of origin, place of birth and residence.
According to him, such clauses, in official forms and documents, do not portray the nation as one indivisible entity.


Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/pdp-lawmaker-wants-8th-assembly-to-reduce-cost-of-governance/

Former Kogi State Governor, Abubakar Audu has said that President Goodluck Jonathan deserves the prestigious Nobel peace prize following his acceptance of electoral defeat and subsequent congratulatory call to the president-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari.
He stated that Jonathan’s action even before the official announcement of the winner of the March 28 presidential election saved Nigeria from crisis.

Audu who spoke to Journalists in Abuja at the weekend further said that even though he would not preempt Buhari’s decision, he would urge him to nominate Jonathan for the award.
Unlike other African leaders, Audu, also a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said that Jonathan by his action has proven to the world that Nigeria would not fall a victim of disintegration as predicted by the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, stressing that the president demonstrated unusual maturity and love for his country.

He said “I don’t want to pre-empt what Buhari can do but as far as I am concerned, President Jonathan deserves to be recommended for a noble prize for peace. You know what has been happening around Africa countries that once a leader is in position, he wants to stay put. They won’t like to relinquish position.


Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/jonathan-deserves-nobel-peace-prize-says-audu/#sthash.MNKv6CsF.dpuf

Based on close analysis of unofficial election results, Sahara Reporters projects that incumbent Governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha has secured victory after today’s supplementary polls to conclude the inconclusive governorship election in the state.

Okorocha, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), appears to have easily beaten Emeka Ihedioha, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The projected loser, Ihedioha, served as deputy speaker of the House of Representatives.
As the collation process nears completion, Oru East constituency has become a battleground local government area with six remaining wards and 24,990 registered voters.

An analyst who spoke to Sahara Reporters said that the power of incumbency proved a significant factor in Governor Okorocha’s path to reelection.
There were also allegations of mismanagement by INEC officials during the March 28 gubernatorial elections that held nation-wide. The problems prompted INEC chairman Attahiru Jega to deploy Mike Igini, the Resident Election Commissioner of Edo State, to Imo State to run the supplementary elections.
The Imo state governorship election on April 11 experienced some systemic snags, with both major parties exchanging allegations of widespread rigging, ballot box snatching, violence, and sundry other electoral offenses.
Governor Okorocha was already leading by at least 80,000 votes before the elections were declared inconclusive.


Source: http://www.naij.com/427993-imo-decides-okorocha-finally-wins-guber-polls.html

Long Distance relationship is not a joke.

Chisos!!!

According to Wikipedia, Leadership has been described as "a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task"

a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task

Buhari can not do it alone, he needs our help to build this nation. Let us join hand together and be part of the history of those who build a better Nigeria.

To I don't care people, remember you have no other country than Nigeria at the moment. If you do not support her cause towards a better nation, you are one of the enemy of the nation.

Whether PDP, APC, Christian, Muslims, Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba we are all Nigerian. Let us build the nation together.

Agbajo owo ni a fi n soya.

God bless Nigeria

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Opeyemi Bamidele, has said the absence of a provision for fuel subsidy in the 2015 Appropriation Act is a booby trap for the incoming administration of the President-elect, Maj. Gen.Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

Bamidele, in a statement on Thursday, said Buhari and the All Progressives Congress should understand the full implications of this and take immediate steps to let Nigerians know where they stand on the matter.

“The truth and reality of the situation is that the outgoing PDP administration has, through the 2015 budget, removed oil subsidy and it must be made to accept responsibility for it rather than for the incoming APC administration to bask in the euphoria of having won an election without realising the booby trap into which they and the Nigerian people are walking into,” he said.

The lawmaker, who contested the governorship seat in Ekiti State on the platform of the Labour Party in June last year, said apart from the reduced amount of N21bn provided in the Act for the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme, no other provision was made in the budget for subsidised welfare services.

Bamidele warned that the absence of the provision for continued fuel subsidy portended grave implications for the Buhari administration.

The statement read, “To me, this is definitely a booby trap for the incoming administration. Those who were suggesting within the APC that its incoming administration might withdraw fuel subsidy must be educated that they would be sending Nigerians a wrong signal capable of creating the impression that the APC either deceived Nigerians to get their votes or had reneged on its electoral promise as a progressive party.

“This is a serious development and a defining moment that calls for the attention of all well-meaning Nigerians at home and abroad. This is the first time in the last 16 years of our civilian rule that a new political party will be taking over to form a government and if care is not taken, this matter is capable of making the incoming government morally dead on arrival.

“For the record and for posterity purposes, I am opposed to this sudden removal of fuel subsidy and I implore Nigerian patriots to be aware.”


Source: http://www.punchng.com/politics/oil-subsidy-removal-booby-trap-for-buhari-bamidele/

At it stands, the Taraba runoff election scheduled for Saturday, April 25, may hardly change the current reality.
Already signed, sealed and delivered in the INEC book is PDP’s Darius Ishaku polling 317,198 votes against Aisha Alhassan’s 262,386. A difference of 54,812 votes. But the canceled votes totaled 127,125.

The major reason the election was declared inconclusive was the cancellation of the whole Donga Local Government votes. Donga has a total 95,657 registered voters.

What caused the cancellation of Donga votes was some cases of election malpractices recorded in five units in the local government. Donga is unarguably a PDP stronghold. Should APC’s hopes remain alive because of Donga? No. It’s like PDP raising hope to win where they are less popular. For instance, had there any cause for runoff ballotage in the last presidential election, say because of the cancellation of Kano votes, it’ll be quite unlikely for PDP to win the runoff. Kano is APC stronghold, while Donga, nay Taraba is PDP stronghold.

Apart from 95,657 Donga votes, there are still pockets of polling units cancelled in places where Aisha Alhassan is not the favourite, findings show. The votes totaled 31,468. If you sum up the numbers, you will arrive at 127,125 registered voters.
It’s unlikely that voter turnout will be above 50 percent after accreditation. At 50 percent voter turnout, the disputed votes will shrink to about 65,000. Remember, Mama is going to the poll with a burden of 54,812 to first level the tally and then increase the tally against her rival at a battleground where her rival stands in pole position.

But some political analysts would argue that APC bigwigs in Donga, like the former deputy governor, Uba Maigari, may give APC a ray of hope. But Maigari, who recently defected from PDP to APC, lost his polling unit to PDP in the April 11 polls.
I lost hope for Mama in the election when I hear APC calling for the cancellation of the whole Taraba election, seeking fresh election as precondition for participation in the run-off.

To me, INEC only forced Mama to be the proverbial donkey resting with the burden of load on its back. Mama has given a good fight, and her outing was really radiant, but the odds are clearly against her.


Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/181958-analysis-can-mama-taraba-make-it-by-jaafar-jaafar.html

Former Ekiti state Governor, Dr. Fayemi Kayode, pictured carrying the travelling bag of Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido. They were spotted at the airport's departure hall following the emir’s visit to President–elect, Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja yesterday April 21.

A suspected terrorist was on Tuesday arrested at President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Gatundu home.

The suspect, Said Mirre Siyad, is alleged to have been carrying out surveillance in preparation for a “terrorist attack”.

Mr Said was produced in court Wednesday and police applied to detain him for further investigations.

Prosecutor Daniel Karuri told the court that the suspect did not explain what he was doing at the President's residence.

He said further investigations were being carried out as he is believed to have associates who were yet to be arrested.

Mr Karuri said investigators needed more time to extract call data from the suspect’s mobile phone and this might require them to travel to West Pokot.

He said Mr Siyad was arrested on Tuesday and handed to the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit on Wednesday.

The court granted the application to detain him pending investigations.

Mr Siyad is among eight terrorism suspects who appeared in court on Tuesday, including three detained by the public at Gikomba Market.


Source: http://www.nation.co.ke/news/terrorist-arrested-Uhuru-Gatundu-home/-/1056/2693756/-/12rragiz/-/index.html

THE recent verbal threat against Ndigbo in Lagos by the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, has brought to fore, once again, the endangered position of Igbos in Nigeria. It is foolhardy for anyone to pretend about this.

For the Igbos themselves, it is self-deception not to face the reality of this precarious situation. From the North, and now down to the West, hangs the foreboding cloud of hostility against them. It has always loomed, hence they are made scape goats at the slightest displeasure of their fellow Nigerians.

I am not an ethnic jingoist or apologist. I do not believe in ethnicism, as a matter of fact. I am not writing this article because I am an Igbo, not even because I am a Nigerian. I am writing it because I am a civilized human being who understand and believe in the ethos of a civilized society. The records of the victimization of Ndigbo since after the independence of Nigeria is very glaring.

From the holocaust against them in Northern Nigeria preceding the civil war and during the war to the abandoned property saga in Port Harcourt; from the infamous twenty pounds to every bank account holder irrespective of how much was in the account before the war to the post war intermittent riots and ensuing massacre and destruction of properties in the North, the Igbo man has been the sacrificial lamb of Nigeria. Count all that the Igbos have gone through in Nigeria and it will be surprising to many that they are still existing and surviving.

The only thing strange about the appalling utterances of the Oba is that it came in a democratic era and bothers on the inalienable rights of the people to vote according to their conscience. Voters are wooed by every legitimate means to vote for candidates in election but not by threat. A ruler at his level and in a cosmopolitan city like Lagos is expected to be up to date with prevailing social realities.

There is nothing wrong for him to summon Igbo leaders and solicit for their votes for his candidate, but to resort to threat belies all civilized norms. It smacks of primitivism for anyone, no matter how highly placed, to arrogate to himself the power of life and death. It is also shameful when a despot announces to the whole world that he single handedly picked a candidate for a position as big as a state governor. It makes mockery of APC’s internal democracy.

The so-called power brokers, it does not matter in what guise they operate, are the problems of Nigeria. They pretend to be benefactors but they are rather destroyers. What message was the Oba sending across to Nigerians with his unguarded utterances against a section of the country? He thought he was helping his candidate, but he was unknowingly hurting him, creating enemies for him, robbing him of some valuable votes. Some decent Lagosians who would have voted for him might have had a rethink. When a person in authority refuses to recognize the limit of his power, he becomes a nuisance to himself and others.

There are some questions that should beckon on us at this time. What happens to the polity if Sultan of Sokoto, Emir of Kano, Obi of Onitsha, Oba of Benin, Obong of Calabar and all notable traditional rulers in Nigeria issue the same threats to non-indigenes in their domain? War drums will sound everywhere and our democracy will become a charade.

Those who should be guardians to all Nigerians in their domain should not succumb to divisive tendencies to denigrate their offices. Covert partisanship is not known to traditional institutions like obaship.

The conspiracy of silence that has followed the threat of the Oba is quite worrisome. Since the hate speech was made last Sunday, I have been following Nigerian papers to see the reactions of people. Apart from Lagos state chapter of PDP, Femi Fani-Kayode, Ohaneze Youth Council and a section of the Catholic Church, no notable Nigerian or organisation said anything about it.

Newspapers and columnists have not commented on it. Shallow minds may give political or ethnic interpretation to it, but discerning minds will give realistic perspective to it. If Lagosians from other ethnic groups are silent because they are not involved, they are living in a fool’s paradise. It can be their turn tomorrow. If all Nigerians had read, or rather understood, the hand writing on the wall in 1966, the country wouldn’t have been at the crossroads it is today.

The ever loquacious APC media team is quiet because the Oba campaigned for them. Self-delusion, isn’t it? The bane of Nigerian politicians who think about themselves only and not about the country. They are insincere at keeping quiet about evil when it benefits them, forgetting that they may be at the receiving end in future.

This hate speech is not about Ndigbo, it is not about politics; it is about a Nazist, a Hitler endangering the rest of the world because of his obsession for superiority. This is about the tyranny of one man which can compromise our electoral process and the unity of the country. Nigerians should arise to condemn it so that it does not happen again.

I just imagine if this threat had emanated from an emir in the North or an Eze from the East,by now the papers would have been awash with reactions and calls for the arrest of the Emir or Eze. Where are the Lagos based human rights activists and lawyers? Where are the newspapers and their columnists? Where are the commentators on public affairs? Are the Igbos not part of Nigeria?

This conspiracy of silence over this “verbal holocaust” as someone called it, is a grim reminder of how endangered Ndigbo are in Nigeria. Sadly enough, they do not seem to realise this. The Oba feels threatened by a people that have come to own more than half of Lagos. It is only a blind man that stumbles twice over the same stone.

Sunday John a social critic, wrote from Cheenai, India.


Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/who-will-help-ndigbo/#sthash.KzhXnyoY.dpuf

The convoy of the Deputy Governor of Ondo State‎, Alhaji Ali Olanusi has been attacked by hoodlums, SaharaReporters can authoritatively report.

The hoodlums were thugs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) working under the instructions of Governor Olusegun Mimiko.

One vehicle of the Deputy Governor was stoned and fired upon with guns, while the windscreen was also attacked during the process.

"They shot the convoy of Baba [Alhaji Ali Olanusi)] at the Fiwaseye roundabout and broke the windscreen of one of his vehicle,” an eyewitness told SaharaReportrs.

"Immediately they shot at the convoy as they entered into the Secretariat of the PDP after our own security details tried to shoot at them,” a security aide told SaharaReporters.

The Deputy Governor has been speaking with our correspondent how he was targeted by the thugs, and how he managed to escape with his life.

SaharaReporters will report the latest details as they become available.


Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/04/13/ondo-deputy-governors-convoy-attacked-mimiko-sponsored-thugs

Senator-elect and current governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said that the Almajiri votes were responsible for kicking President Goodluck Jonathan out of the presidential villa in Abuja.
Kwankwaso who spoke on a live interview on Channels Television in Abuja on Monday, decried the political play in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying it has divided Nigerians along religious and ethnic lines.

“It is unfortunate, in the last couple of years, we have seen a polarisation situation, this issue of Christianity, Islam, north and south, and even the issue of tribalism being promoted.
“It was not good for the system – it was not even good for my friend in the villa, so we are happy, we have seen the end of it now,” the governor said.

The governor said the president did well for himself; his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC); and the nation at large by conceding election.He advise that the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration must be willing to correct the ills and unite the nation to keep peace and stability.
“We encourage Buhari to be what a president should be; to carry along all the Christians, the Muslims and other people of other faiths in this country.
“Ensure peace and stability, take everybody as his own; even the PDP guys should be carried along by the president. The president is the father of all.
“We hope that people around him should be people who are experienced, who should not be talking of Hausas who are thrown away as Almajiris. That is completely wrong, and it has gone a long way in galvanising people in the north to ensure that this Almajiri votes were used to kick them out of the villa,” Gov. Kwankwaso said.


Source: http://newmail-ng.com/new/almajiri-votes-kicked-jonathan-out-of-aso-rock-say-kwankwaso/

Rivers State Governor-Elect, Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the only winner for the governorship election is Rivers State, noting that no candidate lost the election.

Speaking on Monday during a victory Thanksgiving service in Port Harcourt, Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike stated that with the release of the results, all attachments to party affiliations will be obliterated across the state.

He said : “ With the release of the governorship election results, there is no loser in the election because Rivers State has won. I want to appeal to all our members to set aside all political differences and embrace all Rivers people irrespective of their political leaning.

“We are members of the Rivers family. We have no indigene or non indigenes as long as you reside here and contribute to the development of the state. We have a lot of work to do and we must start very early to revive this state.

“This incoming administration will not witch hunt anyone. I make this pledge in the presence of men of God. We have a lot of work to do, therefore we will waste no time witch hunting people. What is important to us is to build a prosperous Rivers State anchored on development and opportunities for all”.

The Rivers State Governor-Elect reiterated his call to all the other contestants who vied for the position with him to join hands with him to develop the state for the good of everyone.

He particularly thanked God for making the victory possible, saying that based on the permutations of political analysts, he stood no chance.


The Thanksgiving Service which was organised by the Rivers State Christian Association of Nigeria ( CAN) was attended by Rivers State Deputy Governor, Engr Tele Ikuru, Former Rivers State Governors, Dr Peter Odili and Sir Celestine Omehia alongside eminent leaders of the PDP in the state.

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Source: http://dailypost.ng/2015/04/13/my-administration-will-not-witch-hunt-anyone-wike/

With the outcome of both governorship and house assembly results released so far, it is something obvious that APC won majority of the election.

I was able to learn something about the outcome of the March 28th and April 11th election results. ' You can never run away from reality'.

Moreover, you do not need to tell a blind man is raining. To both APC and PDP that contested for the election, everybody is a winner. Cos contesting means they wish to serve their nation.

To the winners, do not think you worth it, you are just been fortunate. Remember the situation majority of the masses are presently going through, you witnessed it at past. Let us feel your impact when you get to the power. The people that voted you in have confident you that you will bring change to them.

Nigeria belongs to all. Betterment for everybody not betterment for paddy paddy.

God bless Nigeria

Nothing wey person no go see for 9ja.

DESPITE the shortcomings of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the South East geo-political zone has always viewed the party as its own.

The zone has not only embraced the party in totality; it has also ensured that no other political party survives there besides the PDP.

Although the return to democracy has given room for a multiple party system, making it possible for politicians of Igbo extraction to own and fund political parties, such development has not in any way changed the belief the Igbo have in the PDP.

They have always used their votes and support for the party to propagate virtues of the PDP. For instance, in 1999, the South East was among zones of the country that gave their total votes to former President Olusegun Obasanjo (then of the PDP), enabling him win the presidential election.

It is on record that that same year, PDP controlled the entire South East states, as candidates of the party won the governorship elections of their various states.

The development was the same for the party in the zone in 2003, 2007 and 2011. In fact, in 2011, the zone posted one of the highest votes it has put forth in history.

Although the voting pattern of the country changed in 2015, making it impossible for bloc votes from the zone to salvage President Jonathan, the candidate of the PDP at the election, the voting pattern that determined the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the centre does not appear in the reckoning of the South East as political miscalculation.

Pundits see the defeat of the PDP by the APC even after the South East massively voted for the party as a “temporary setback”, which should be overcome with time. Sounding rather unperturbed by the development, apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said the voting pattern adopted by Ndigbo since the inception of democracy, some 15 years ago, was borne out of deep love for the PDP, as well as a desire to deepen democracy.

“It has nothing to do with the occupant to the office, as we believe that we are a part and parcel of the PDP. It is our duty to propagate the party to enable it serve the purpose for which certain best brain of Nigerians gathered to ensure it came on board in 1998,” Ohanaeze said.

Secretary General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr Joe Nworgu, told The Guardian that it was misleading for anybody to think that the voting pattern, which incidentally failed to vindicate the South East will launch the zone into political oblivion. He said: “There is nothing wrong with the voting pattern adopted by Ndigbo since 1999.

We have decided to put all our eggs in one basket, as part of effort to grow democracy and sustain the overall development of the country. All we wanted is the presidency of this country, as well as play the big role, which we are known for in politics.

It is the PDP that has offered the platform for Ndigbo to achieve their dreams.” Going memory lane and explaining why Ndigbo will not abandon the PDP, Nworgu said the Igbo presidency dream became a reality when former Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme, ran in the primary of the PDP that eventually was won by Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999, after he (Ekwueme) had midwifed the G-34 group that eventually metamorphosed into the PDP.

He said: “For the Igbo man, Ekwueme was the hero of that struggle that brought democracy in 1998 through the G-34. It was natural for him to emerge the presidential candidate of PDP, and that gave Ndigbo hope that they have come back fully into Nigerian politics.

They supported Ekwueme’s bid for presidency, when non-believers in equity and Nigerian unity truncated Ekwueme’s bid by dusting up an ex-prisoner whom they hoisted on the nation as PDP presidential candidate.

Ndigbo went back to square one. But at that point in time, the Igbo states had already voted for the governors of the PDP.

The gubernatorial election of that year came before the presidential election. This means that anybody from PDP became governor riding on Ekwueme’s back.” Although the turn of events has pushed the PDP into opposition, Nworgu said notwithstanding the development, the party is the only veritable platform that could offer Ndigbo opportunity for their presidential aspiration.

As such, he said Ndigbo will present a candidate for the presidency of the country in 2019 through the PDP and would rely on the strength of the party in the South East, South South and Middle Belt, and progressives in the South West to make it happen.

“Ndigbo still have love for PDP, in spite of gaining nothing from Obansanjo’s eight years. We are PDP, and we will remain in PDP because it is our party.

Opportunists will disembark, but men of character will stay put. PDP lost a contest not a war; there are sufficient principled persons in the PDP family that can regenerate it into a formidable party. Ndigbo must not allow the party to be hijacked by other interest groups.

They should firm up solidarity with the South South, Middle Belt and progressive elements from the South West, led by the Afenifere. The slogan must be restructuring of the country for progress. So, those who believe this must stand up and be counted.

The beauty of democracy is that there must be vibrant opposition political parties,” he said. Nworgu said: “Ndigbo have no regret that PDP lost and it is not a miscalculation. We will come home and re-strategize in the next four years. There must be an Igbo presidential candidate in 2019 in the PDP.

Ndigbo must be in the PDP to build the party through which they will vie for presidency in 2019. The Igbo are not factored at all in the APC contraption and that is why they will not vote the party. “Given the same scenario, Ndigbo will vote PDP again and again.

If it means putting our eggs in one basket, so be it. The truth is that our future lies with the PDP. People should just understand it the way it is and play the politics the way it should be.

Nobody should further our pain as a people by the vocation we have decided to play in politics.” Reminded that the PDP has not made much impact in Igbo land, even with all the support the zone has shown, Nworgu said:

“The real people that formed the party were edged out for sojourners,” adding: “The top brass Igbo people that gave Nigeria PDP have been edged out after Obasanjo’s exit, and those who have taken over seem not to know why the party was formed, and the brains behind it.

That is why we must stay put and discountenance what has happened at the centre in the present election as a temporary setback, to enable us recover the PDP again.”

Former Director General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Prof Elo Amucheazi, said he did not understand how the voting pattern adopted by the South East since 1999 should elicit interest to the point that other Nigerians will want the zone to pay dearly because of the victory of the APC at the presidential election.

Like Nworgu, he noted that PDP had dominated in South East, South South the Middle Belt and other parts of the country, stressing that the party has become the “identity of the people of this area”.

He said: “South East and South South have always voted PDP. They have always remained in PDP. North West was ANPP and now APC.

Others were a kind of mixed grill. There has been this alliance in the past between the West and North; this had been the case even with the Action Group, the NCNC and others, whereby no single party that has won in an election formed the government.

“The South East has willingly expressed their wish by the way they voted. The South South has done the same, the South West, Middle Belt and North Central and others have also expressed their wish through their votes.

What I think has happened here is that religion and ethnicity, among other factors, came into play by the pattern of the voting. It really shows the sympathy each region holds for one another.

“Having observed this, to forge a country that should be appreciated by all, there is need for the incoming government to form a government of national unity embracing all shades of opinion, irrespective of party affiliation, to enable us deepen our democracy and move forward.

“It is not a question of South East not voting for APC or South South rejecting the APC. A good politician is one that sees every part of the country as his constituency.

Come to think of it, if there was the rejection of APC here by the South East, it means that whoever is the leader of the party must work hard to convince the people of the zone on why they should accept the party and own it the way they have done for the PDP.”

Amucheazi noted that irrespective of his defeat at the election, President Jonathan has preserved the unity of the country, stressing that he did not do it by creating a divide between the PDP and others.

He said that Nigeria is not a country of two nations, and as such, every leader must work to have the best brains in his administration.

A Political Scientist and university lecturer, Dr Jonas Okwukwe, said the South East’s voting pattern could be used to negotiate for the political future of the zone, if it is sustained.

Tracing the dynamics of politics in the country, he said the implication is that the PDP has a strong support base in the zone. He said: “I do not think it should be a matter of the principle of federal character, which I know has been seriously violated in the country.

We know that each state is required to contribute at least one minister to the cabinet, but it is the prerogative of the President to issue their appropriate ministries.

He might decide to allocate to them portfolios that may belittle the zone. However, for him to woo Igbo support, he will like to allocate to them juicy ministries.

“I have also heard about the fact that the zone did not produce a senator in the election, which could automatically have given it the presidency of the senate.

That, to me, is a loss. But since it did not happen, the APC should now concede and compensate the zone with other equivalent positions in the government. The truth is that the South East is an integral part of the country and has contributed its quota to the growth and development of our democracy. It should be compensated adequately.”


Source: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/04/ndigbo-no-regrets-over-march-28-polls/

Lagos State...........

Result at Kosofe polling unit 16:
Gov: APC 213 PDP 45

PU 004, ikeja by shoprite,=Total vote Governor=
APC 82, PDP 21

Opebi pollin unit 31.
Gubernatorial.
APC-70 PDP-41

Polling boot 056 Araromi saw mill ifako gbagada
APC - 104 PDP - 84

Surulere Ogunlana/ Shitta:
(Asembly) PU 11 APC-73, PDP-45!
Gov APC-68, PDP-49!

Onigbongbo Unit 029
Assembly APC 111. PDP 60.
Governor APC 107. Pdp 63

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AGEGE LGA ISALE IDIMANGORO WARD PU 029 TOTAL 197 APC 123 PDP 50 ‪#‎sitroom15‬

Alimosho LG.Ward A P.U 021 PDP:99; APC: 133; PPA 1;AA 1

(Gov)Ifako Ijaye ward 8, unit 006 gov apc 129, PDP 84, PU 006, APC 121, PDP 78...

Governor: PU 022 Alimosho Ward A .APC:70;PDP:68. Assembly APC:71 PDP:60

Amuwo Odofin LGA, Amuwo Odofin Housing Estate Mile Ward PU 016: Total Votes - 17
APC - 12
PDP - 5

Apapa LGA, Oniwaya Papa Uku Ward, PU 026: Total Votes - 62
APC - 47
PDP - 15

Niger diesel ojodu grammar school. ..
APC 111 PDP 108.

Amuwo Odofin LGA, Amuwo Odofin Housing Estate Mile Ward PU 005: Total Votes - 18 APC - 17 PDP - 1

Lekki PU 24-08-04-013 State HoAss: PDP 109 APC 191 Guber: PDP 112 APC 190

PU 053 Alimosho,Egbeda to APC: 244 PDP 176 Polling Unit, Governorship elections; APC 49, PDP 51, APGA 1, PPA 1

: Result @PU 017 Joseph St, off Opebi Road Governorship APC - 51 PDP - 50 HoA APC - 55 PDP - 44 APGA - 1

Apapa LGA, Oniwaya Papa Uku Ward, PU 018: Guber: APC - 170, PDP - 23

PU 044 Mende Kosofe LGA Lagos Governor: APC - 99 PDP - 81

Okunade/Salami PU 054, Governorship: APC 55 PDP 30. Assembly: APC 67 PDP 27

Ajidagan pu 033 GOV APC 103 PDP 85 HOA APC 94 PDP 85

Eredo ARAGA POLLING UNIT 016 GOVERNORSHGP APC=177 PDP=8 LP=1 PPA=1 ASSEMBLY APC=159 PDP=12 LP=16 VOID=4 ADEGBOLA, A.A

Agbowa p004. APC 268. PDP 101

Agbowa P010. APC 93. PDP 33

This is a compilation of results from polling units monitor by our reporters in Lagos state. However, only INEC has the power to declare winner.
Polling Unit 047, Sunday Adigun Street, Alausa, Ikeja, shows; APC poll 230 while PDP poll 62.
Results for the House of Assembly shows; APC poll 233, PDP 60

ward G3, Unit 002, State Senior Grammer Schoool, Itolo, Surulere, the result shows, APC governorship, 270, while PDP 132, and void vote is 11.
Ashogbon polling Unit 049 in Surulere, governorship, APC 55, PDP 38, Amuwo –Odofin, Unit 009, governorship, APC 49, PDP 51. Lekki polling unit 24, APC 190, PDP, 112.
Oworoshonki Unit 023, APC 121, PDP,106. Agege Unit 071, APC, 136, PDP,48. Mushin Unit 035, APC 102, PDP, 40. Alimosho Unit 053, APC 244, PDP 176, Unit 50,APC 180, PDP, 131. Unit 51, APC 183, PDP, 131, Unit 041, ward D, APC 243, PDP, 105. Agbado Oke-Odo Unit 075, APC 137, PDP, 48. Ojota, Unity Close, Unit 067, APC, 130, PDP,105.
Abidjan area of ibeju lekki house of assembly APC 314, PDP 325, GOV APC 316, PDP 339
Ikeja Unit 12, Ward 8
Gov: APC 76, PDP 93
Assembly: APC 89, PDP 81
Assembly APC:242 PDP:48
@PU 017 Joseph St, off Opebi Road,Lagos
Governorship
APC – 51
PDP – 50
HoA
APC – 55
PDP – 44
APGA – 1
PU013, Gerard/Alexander road, Ikoyi. Gov: PDP 50 APC 48. State Assembly: PDP 63 APC 33
APC: 82, PDP 6. Polling unit 019 idiaraba#governorship result
Assemby poll result for polling unit 019 Idiaraba mushin. APC 81: PDP 4, APGA 1
Ward 9, polling unit012 Onitolo/Ojora rd. Gov PDP66 APC59. Assembly PDP80 APC 43
Governorship: polling unit 005 ishaga rd Mushin, APC 84, PDP 67
Ward 09 PU34, Bourdillon
Gov APC99 PDP24 Assembly APC 91 PDP31
In awoyaya area of ibeju lekki ward E 006 house of assembly APC 500, PDP 454



Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/results-of-lagos-governorship-house-of-assembly-polls/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook#sthash.KsbFoAUu.dpuf

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has again won his polling unit for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the governorship and House of Assembly elections in Ogun State, western Nigeria.
Our correspondent reported that in the announced result at polling unit 22, Ward II in Abeokuta North Local Government area of the state, the APC governorship candidate, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun polled 95 votes to defeat his Peoples Democratic Party countetpart, Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka who scored just four votes.

The SDP candidate, Senator Akin Odunsi got II votes.

In the House Assembly results, the APC again got 85 votes, while the PDP and SDP got 8 and 14 votes respectively.

Meanwhile, the ruling party in the state is in clear lead in the former president’s local government area as at the time of filing this report.

The majority of the units results indicated that the APC had recorded more votes than other parties.
Counting of results was still on going in many parts of the state.


http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/04/11/obj-wins-unit-again-for-apc/

I was just at home thinking about how to raise money for the project am having. Suddenly, my phone rang. Alas, it was my girlfriend. After our normal conversation, she paused for some mins. I asked her baby, what is going on? She said she did not see her menses.
I laughed out loud cos it was so funny to me. My response to her was "Am I the one that has been helping you to keep it? please go and search for it jare".


She never picked my call up till this moment, please where do I go wrong?

A new document reveals a plot by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to influence the electorate, and elaborately rig Saturday’s Governorship and State House of Assembly elections in Kaduna State.

A document, entitled “The Task Before PDP and Governor Yero” obtained by Premium Times, detailed the “means, measures and ways” to be adopted by the party and its candidate, Governor Ramalan Yero, to win the election based on the voting behaviour of the electorate in the state.

It also recalled that in the previous analysis for the Presidential and National Assembly elections, almost all the projections came to pass and “therefore, the need to implement this very submissions becomes imperatives because all the findings contained herein are like gospel truth”.
Mr. Yero is the governorship candidate of the PDP in the state. He is facing a stiff challenge from the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Nasir El-Rufai.

According to the document, dated April 2, the first step to cornering illicit votes is for the handlers to avoid being detected or exposed, to avoid judicial proceedings or inimical response from agents of the opposition parties or Election Observers.
The document said since the All Progressives Congress has an advantage in Southern Kaduna, “election materials distribution should be delayed, the means of dividing of the minds of the electorate should be initiated (while) the ad-hoc staff should be reached out and compromised.”
The document also said in areas where the PDP has advantage, “efforts should be made for speedy accreditation of large number of voters, manipulation of figures should be exercised in a profound way and where possible, ballot boxes stuffing must be effectively ensured”.


It also said during collation, “Areas such as Zaria LGA, Igabi LGA, Kaduna – North LGA and Sabon – Gari LGA with Soba LGA should be collated and announced on time to allow for the assessment of their performance in relation to areas where we have advantages. It is also expedient to frustrate voters, if possible reduce their numerical advantage by either disenfranchising them or deploy other methods.”
The document suggested that effort should be made to set up a committee to immediately, identify, locate and discourage the members of PDP that are either aggrieved or not satisfied with the PDP and are ready to vote against the PDP or conduct anti- party activities during the election.
It said concerted efforts should be made to employ the services of ad-hoc staff to sabotage or compromise the performance of the Card reader.
The document warned that time is of essence and that three days before the elections, all feedback that are related to these steps, means and methodology should be analysed and appreciated for effective deployment.
“It was discovered that in Southern – Kaduna there will be tremendous voter’s apathy which will drastically reduce the numerical advantage of the PDP,” the document said.
“Efforts should be made to immediately correct this anomaly. By popular observation, it is understandable that crisis and flash points will be experienced during the gubernatorial elections which will truncate the entire process.
“Furthermore, we have started preparing for an update or a follow up to this submission immediately we finish our compilations.”
Efforts to reach officials of the Kaduna State chapter of the PDP were not successful. Its chairman, Gaiya Haruna, did not pick calls made to his mobile telephone.


Link for the document: http://media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2015/04/wmkYero-plan.pdf


Source: http://www.naij.com/418929-document-reveals-how-pdp-plans-to-rig-governorship-poll.html

The army said on Friday in Port Harcourt it arrested six suspected political thugs and recovered arms and ammunition from them after soldiers raided their hideout.

Brig.-Gen. Koko Essien, the Commander of 2 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, who told newsmen that the suspects were arrested after a prolonged exchange of gunfire, explained that the raid was part of efforts to make the environment safe for people to go out and vote.

He said that one suspect, who fled the scene of the shootout with multiple gunshot wounds would soon be apprehended as soldiers were currently on his trail.

“We want you (newsmen) to have a view of many things we have been doing in other to take out as much arms as possible from the streets and make the environment safe for people to go out and vote.

“Based on information available to us, we have been conducting series of raids in areas a concentration of hoodlums and political thugs.

“Yesterday (Thursday), we raided a location popularly known as Barracks in Mile 3 (Wimpey) area based on information we got and we recovered arms and ammunitions.

“We arrested six suspects – one was shot and he is in the military hospital receiving treatment.

“We recovered two AK 47 riffles with 176 rounds of (live) ammunitions, seven magazines, some (144) raps of Indian hemp, money (N298, 500.00), and 10 cell phones from the criminals.“

Essien said that troops had been deployed to flash points to tackle any form of electoral violence during and after the Governorship and House of Assembly elections on Saturday.

According to him, the military will stop at nothing to make sure that the streets, city, hinterlands and waterways are protected to enable people to go out and vote candidates of their choice.

Reacting, the suspected leader of the gang (names withheld), said he was not among the thugs who had engaged security agents in a shootout on March 28, the day the Presidential and National Assembly elections were held.

He denied ownership of the arms, saying that only 144 raps of Indian hemp were recovered at his apartment during his arrest.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that a soldier and two persons were shot dead during a shootout between security agents and suspected political thugs on March 28. (NAN)



Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/elections-army-raid-hideout-arrest-6-suspected-political-thugs-in-port-harcourt/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook#sthash.803FMiKX.dpuf

I have just been wondering where about of the former Adamawa governor, Murtala Nyako.. He went on exile after he was impeached.


Well may be he will returns back to the country after the hand over/

A head-on collision between a truck and a bus carrying a delegation of young athletes in southern Morocco has killed 31 people and injured nine, according to reports.
The crash took place just before sunrise at 7am in the district of Chbika, near the southern desert city of Tan-Tan, the state news agency quoted authorities as saying.
The bus hit a tanker truck which burst into flames, consuming both vehicles, according to the Le360.ma news site.
The site said the bus was carrying young athletes and officials from the ministry of youth and sports who were involved in a national sports competition.
The Les Ecos newspaper reported on its website that the bus was carrying a delegation of young athletes from the northern town of Bouznika and from Laayoune, a city further to the south in the annexed Western Sahara territory.


Source: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/crash-involving-bus-carrying-athletes-in-morocco-kills-31-1.2171401

Boko Haram again?

Is that for governorship election or what?

**Asks Buhari not to probe PDP

Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State and his Niger State counterpart, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, received a hard knock from the Kano State number one citizen, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, on Sunday, who said the duo committed political suicide by not defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In November 2013, five of the seven governors called G7 in the PDP – Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers), Ahmed Abdulfatah (Kwara), Kwankwaso (Kano), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) – defected to the APC.

Lamido and Aliyu refused to join them. Nyako was later impeached.

To Kwankwaso, if the duo had not been selfish, they would not have been embarrassed by voters in Jigawa and Niger States during the March 28 presidential and National Assembly elections.

The Kano State governor, who spoke in his office, according to an online news medium, Freedom Online, also said President Goodluck Jonathan “is a good man but misled by bad advisers.”

He said: “The problem of Lamido and Aliyu is that they made a mistake by not coming to APC with us. I am sure they are loved here more than in the PDP. The truth is that they are not trusted there, and the results of these elections have shown them that they made a huge political mistake.

“They went into parallel direction with their people. Thank God Sule didn’t contest any election; but the results have shown how unpopular their decision was. It would have been unthinkable for Aliyu to lose election on the platform of APC but see the kind of blow Nigerlites have given him. They would have been more important leaders if they had joined the APC”.
He advised the president-elect, Muhammadu

Buhari, not to waste his time in setting up probe panels against the PDP when he assumes office on May 29.

“Why should he be beating a dead horse? If I were Buhari, I will not worry myself beating a dead man. We should move forward because expectations in the country are too high. Honestly, President Goodluck Jonathan is a friend and a good man. He is also a friend of the progressives but he allowed himself to be misled by bad advisers.”


Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/kwankwaso-lamido-aliyu-committed-political-suicide-by-staying-in-pdp/206046/