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@OP, u didn't see it all, Obinoscopy's signature sent all the message u need. Btw, xclesia shared this thread with me. So, she has nothing to hide. All the best Obinoscopy and xcelsia!

patostation:
Very true. Government appologists have been sharing this idea that it is because the North does not want GEJ, that's why they are sponsoring Boko Haram. Nothing can be farther from the truth! Boko Haram started preparing their assault years before the Yar'Adua presidency. They only bared their fang when the Yar'Adua government murdered their leader, Mohamed Yusuf, extrajudicially. When Aljazeera aired the news of the murders, terrorist and muslim extremists saw that as an attack on muslims in Nigeria and decided to mobilize, finance and sponsor a brutal offensive against the Nigerian state

I think you're right, the killing of Muhammed Yusuf escalate the issue and let it get out of control.

ABUJA—Ahead of the December 10, 11 National
Convention of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the
party yesterday screened President Goodluck
Jonathan.

Also screened yesterday was the son of Nigeria’s late Prime Minister, Dr. Abdul Jelil Tafawa Balewa.
President Jonathan, who arrived the Wadata Plaza,
National Secretariat of the party, went to the National Working Committee, NWC, hall at 3.15p.m., where he was screened for one hour and came down at 4.15p.m.

Soon after he left, Dr. Balewa came for similar
screening.

Though wife of late Moshood Kashimawo Abiola,
Akasoba Duke-Abiola paid for the form, she was said not to have collected it and did not appear before the screening Panel.

Meanwhile, after Dr. Balewa had spent 90 minutes
with the screening committee, he came out and
declared: “I have decided to withdraw my aspiration
for the strength and well being of the party.
“I hope to see you all some other time. I am a strong PDP member.”

Balewa, who arrived the secretariat at about
4:32p.m., spent about two hours waiting at the
reception before he was ushered into the screening
hall.

Chairman of the screening committee and former
National Chairman of PDP, Dr. Ahmadu Ali, who had
earlier announced Balewa’s decision to withdraw
from the race, hailed the aspirant’s decision.

Ali said: “After going through 90 minutes that the
screening exercise lasted, he came to the conclusion that he wanted to withdraw from the race.

“He has promised to do everything to ensure the
success of the party at the poll. We commend him for the decision, although he chose to go through the entire process of screening before deciding to
withdraw.”

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh,
told newsmen that the leadership of the party would get the result of the exercise in the next 24 hours.




www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/2015-pdp-screens-jonathan-tafawa-balewa/

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obsasanjo has
said that the deadly Boko Haram terrorism was
growing beyond control because of the wrong
reading and imputation by President Goodluck
Jonathan that the sect was set out to frustrate his
political ambition.

Obasanjo who spoke in Abuja on Wednesday
insisted that it was application of stick and carrot
from government that can put an end to the
terror activities.

The former President spoke at the public
presentation of two books by former president of
Court of Appeal, Justice Mustapha Akanbi, held at
Sheraton Hotel, Abuja.

“Let me start with the issue of security. Boko
Haram is not simply a menace based on religion
or one directed to frustrate anybody’s political
ambition.

“It is essentially a socio-economic problem that is
tainted with religion. It is a gargantuan danger to
the nation and to all Nigerians”.

“Initially, President Jonathan understanding of
Boko Haram phenomenon suffered from wrong
reading and wrong imputation. That is what led
us to where we are today”.

“It took even the President more than three years
to appreciate and understand that it is a terrible
mix of poor education or lack of education,
misinterpretation of what Islam and the Quran
teach and stand for, poverty, unemployment,
injustice, drug, gun trafficking, human trafficking,
fallout from Libya, revenge, frustration, struggle
against inequality, imitation of international
terrorism leading to training and part absorption
by international terrorist group or groups and
general poor governance including corruption,”
he stated.

He also said: “I have always maintained that
solution to Boko Haram or any organisation like it
lies in application of stick and carrot.

“We must remember that there is nexus between
security and development. Those who say that
Boko Haram is a menace waiting to happen are
evidently correct.

“Some people have blamed the governments of
the zone at the State and Local Government
levels for the unacceptable socio-economic
situation in the North-East. Of course, they must
accept part of the responsibility.

“But, I would rather say it is a collective
responsibility and, collectively, the situation must
be addressed and redressed.

“The beginning of redressing the situation is
education. I appreciated the importance of
education in human development, state and
nation-building, national development,
employment generation, wealth creation, national
unity, security and stability.”



http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/11/jonathan-failing-boko-haram-battle-obasanjo/

In case!

THE Nigeria 2014/15 league season may likely kick
off in March to allow the majority of clubs in the top
flight access cash from their state governments.

Top officials informed that now that the NFF congress has endorsed the new governing structure of the League Management Company (LMC), the league is now on a better footing and what is now left is to decide on a kick-off date for the new season.

“We could all say we want to start the league next
week, but when the majority of the clubs are owned
by state governments, it is only reasonable we allow them access their funding from their states before they start the season,” an official disclosed.

“As a result, the new season will begin either in
February or March when these clubs would have
received some cash from their various governments.”

This month, Kano Pillars won a third straight league
title, while Shooting Stars, Gabros FC, Wikki Tourists
and Ranchers Bees will replace relegated Gombe
United, Kaduna United, Crown FC and Nembe City in the top flight.


www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/201415-npfl-season-start-early/

The Confederation of African Football
has appointed the President of Nigeria Football
Federation, Amaju Pinnick, as a member of the
Organising Committee for the Africa Cup of
Nations.

The Organising Committee for the Africa Cup of
Nations is CAF’s top organizing body.

In a letter signed by CAF President, Alhaji (Dr.)
Issa Hayatou, CAF invited the NFF President to
the opening ceremony of the 30th Africa Cup of
Nations in Malabo on January 17, 2015, and also
to coordinate one of the four centres during the
three –week, 16 –nation tournament.
The 30th Africa Cup of Nations will take place in
four Equatorial Guinea cities 17th January – 8th
February, 2015.




http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/11/caf-appoints-pinnick-nations-cup-organizing-body/

Ishilove? Don't panic, I have my reason for mentioning you.

Btw, the bible says my people perish because the lack knowledge. We can obviously see the difference btw this man (Soyinka) and others who is dead due to the same ailment.

I hope u rise to the level of the president at one point in your life.

chakula:
Vote out Mr Shoeless Clueless come 2015 for peace and justice.

Brb!

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I read sometimes back that NFF sacked Keshi to save is life.

Save Keshi's life once again.

#savekeshilife

What will it the impeachment of Mr President?

Political unrest,
Economic instability,
And a lot more havoc, why can't they wait till election period and synergies efforts to vote him out instead of impeachment.

SAN is on point. But, this man is very intelligent.

To call a spade a spade, what does it take the govt to fulfil the demands of this workers? Should we assume this is a plan to reduce the population of the nation?

I mean, it's really alarming that the govt can't satisfy the health workers, and the other public/civil servant, if the wife of the governor and wife of the speaker of house of assembly can be on govt payroll, then the public and civil servant deserves better treatment.

With all this happenings, I strongly hope and pray that the CIA prediction the Nigeria will split by 2015 won't come to reality.

I have grown to a level where nothing surprise me anymore.

JUST a couple of months after the Nigerian Medical
Association, NMA, arm of the public sector health
workers ended its protracted strike, the National
Union of Allied Health Professionals, NUAHP, and the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, again, withdrew their services. You have a right to wonder how often they are at work in a year. The fresh strike followed even after the Federal Government approved their demand to be allowed to become consultants, just as their peers, the medical doctors.

Felix Faniran, President of NUAHP, said other
demands including salary increment and upward
adjustment of retiring age for his members were not addressed. Patients in public hospitals are left to feel the pinch of the incessant downing of tools by a sector that has become notorious for abusing strikes as if it is at war with members of the public,
especially the poor who patronise government
hospitals.

The latest strike is coming in the last months of the
year, when increase in travels exert high demand for emergency medical services. It also coincides with the intensification of the war against insur-gency in the North East, where our gallant soldiers and thousands of internally displaced persons require urgent medical and emergency attention.

It is very unfortunate that health workers, in the
unbridled peer rivalry between medical doctors and
other professionals in the industry, have abandoned
their social responsibility and the core ethics of their professional calling, which place primary emphasis on saving lives and giving succour to the afflicted.

When the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, challenged the
nation, its defeat which received universal acclaim,
was without any input from the public sector medical doctors because they were also on strike in their perennial struggling to assert their superiority over health workers who were not doctors.The
government does not help matters much. Issues that appear pretty straightforward are allowed to fester for years.

What does it take for government to implement the
salary increase which is already being paid to
doctors? Why delay it as if baiting non-doctors strike first? What accounts for the delay in implementing the 33-year-old White Paper which recommen-ded that the condition of service in the universities should also apply to the uni-versity teaching hospitals?

The raise in the retirement age from 65 to 70 years,
one of the demands of NUAHP and JOHESU, was
made only for doc-tors.We again call on governments and all the arms of the health workers union to adopt the best practices in defining relations among peers, such that they would promote stability in the industry. We call for an end to these painful, recurring strikes that deal devastating blows on ordinary Nigerians.



www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/health-workers-strike/

By Dapo Akinrefon

LAGOS — ALL Progressives Congress (APC)
presidential aspirant, General Muhammadu Buhari
has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of being
determined to push Nigeria into anarchy in the
shortest possible time.

Reacting to the recent invasion of the APC Data
Centre in Lagos by security operatives, Buhari
alleged that the Jonathan presidency had “mastered the art of how to push a nation into chaos within the shortest time possible.”

Also, the APC leadership likened last week’s police
invasion of the National Assembly to a coup.
The party, however, called for an independent inquiry to determine who ordered the invasion and for what purpose “with a view to preventing a recurrence and also meting out the necessary punishment to those behind it.”

In a statement made available to Vanguard, Buhari,
who decried the invasion of the party’s data centre
said “the desperation of the PDP grows by the hour.”
Condemning the abuse of power, he said there was
an attempt by the Jonathan administration to level
the opposition.

The former Head of State said “almost everyday, the Jonathan presidency seems intent on demonstrating for all to see that they have mastered the art of how to push a nation into chaos within the shortest time possible.

“The early morning attack by security operatives on
the APC data centre in Lagos on Saturday, November 22 is one such display in a growing chain of abuse and violation of the constitution and political rights of the people. It is a reckless act that must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.”

Faulting the invasion, he said the Jonathan
government could not claim ignorance, adding: “The security operatives conducting this illegal raid must have been ordered from Abuja. They would not have done what they did unless given the mandate from their high bosses in Abuja.

“Attempting to defend the indefensible, they
fabricate a story that the attack was necessary
because criminal activity was taking place at the
centre. These statements are such plain lies.”
Besides, the presidential hopeful expressed worry
that “these acts are but a foretaste of things to come.

From these attacks, this government is signalling to
the Nigerian people they have no intention of holding anything resembling free and fair elections. Their goal is not to create a level electoral playing field.
Their goal is to level the opposition into the dust
through the abuse of federal power.”

Police invasion of NASS a coup —APC

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said using weapons
to attack an arm of government and preventing it
from carrying out its functions are tantamount to a
coup, adding that the tear gas that was fired into the National Assembly by an invading force of policemen is a chemical weapon.

It said: “We are demanding the independent inquiry
in view of the seriousness of the armed attack on the National Assembly and the danger it poses to our democracy. We are also alerting the international community to the happenings in Nigeria and urging them to show interest because of their investment in the country’s democracy.”

The party said denial by the Presidency of its
involvement in the “senseless attack” is not enough
to stop the finger-pointing at it (Presidency),
“especially because no one, not even the Inspector
General of Police, will have the temerity to stop the
nation’s number four citizen from entering the
National Assembly without an express order from the President.”

According to the party, “this is why we have
continuously held the President responsible for last
week’s show of shame,” noting that the IG is just a
tool in the hands of a President that has perhaps
done more than any other President before him to
truncate the nation’s democracy.”





www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/invasion-apc-data-officejonathan-bent-pushing-nigeria-towards-anarchy-buhari/

By Rosemary Onuoha

Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has
said that individuals have a responsibility to manage risks for the betterment of their lives.

Fashola said that people should have the awareness
of the existence of risk as a natural phenomenon to
human existence.

He said, “We are often impervious to the risks we
face on a daily basis. Risk here is the probability or
the threat of damage, loss, injury or any other
negative occurrence that is caused by external or
internal vulnerabilities, the consequences of which
may be avoided through preemptive action.
“In other words, it can simply be described as the
probability of losing something of value for example
physical health, property or social status. Risk
management refers to the steps we take to mitigate
or eradicate the risk.”

Fashola said that as a government, they are
responsible for the wellbeing and welfare of the
people they serve, stating, “We have a responsibility to provide social security for both the young and the elderly; a responsibility to provide security of lives and property and also a responsibility to ensure that the infrastructures put in place are properly maintained in a way and manner that the State can be described as having a developed economy status.

According to him, where they fail to take pre-emptive steps to attend to the risks that come with the responsibilities that have been placed on them, they would be perceived as a failed Government.

Fashola said that the youths and the elderly are
exposed to social protection risks which if not
addressed could result in poverty, and a resultant
security hazard in the community, adding that risks
of danger to lives and property of the citizens exist
where, due to fraudulent practices on the part of
those involved in construction, substandard
materials are used in construction.

According to him, the business of insurance is to
ensure that full or partial financial compensation is
made for loss or damage caused by events beyond
the control of the insured.


www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/duty-manage-risks-fashola/

Let it be an exciting game!

Let it be an exciting game!

A 35 year old Nigerian man was sentenced to death today November 25th by a Malaysian High Court for trafficking in 251.66 gm of methapethamine.

Abuchi Ngwoke, was arrested in May 2012 at a Malaysian airport. He had swallowed the drugs.

The High court judge described Ngwoke's testimony about swallowing gemstones in Nigeria before traveling to Malaysia as absurd. A date is yet to be set for his execution.

Details to follow...


Source: http:///psL2c6oW8G
http://lindaikeji..com/2014/11/nigerian-sentenced-to-death-in-malaysia.html

He was once like us, soon we'll be like him.

RIP papa

Sorry about that Peter & Paul.

Wait a min!

I passionately hate thread like this!

Noted!

I will take time to read dis in d morning.

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I'm so pleased to have read this post. Thanks for sharing @OP.

Meanwhile, I will be hugely disappointed if this isn't on FP before the day runs out. Mods, do the needful.
Cc:
Seun
maclatunji
SuperModerator

Lemme check encyclopedia britannica

I'm not surprise.

I love to read before I comment.

Do you care to know whether is ex is in existence or not, move on with life. I passionately hate to hear about ex.

Air force and Navy personnel? Say wetin happen?