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Lighting the torch 1992. Hope 2012 will be as good as this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSA9xUUXj6E

This opening ceremony = ok.

My favourite opening ceremonies = L.A '84, Seoul '88, Sydney 2000 (Best lighting of the torch = Barcelona '92).

Come together = The Beatles

Queen Sophia

Nigeria=nice

dominique: abeg wetin be independent olymplic athletes dont they belong to any country? see the? jumping about like crazed baboons.
ira and iran in the building!!! Irans flag bearer is soooo stunning

The Southern Sudanese have no passport.

Jakumo: Clearly you are enemies of frogress who have chosen not to appreciate and admire African Stealth Technology. You will both be invited for questioning over your blasphemous comments here, on Monday morning. Have your overnight bags and toothbrushes packed in anticipation of honoring this polite invitation that you will now be served by security operatives.

For your enlightenment, the high-tech device being unveiled by that proud military officer is a Mechanized Vehicle Interdiction Module, which has been developed by African witch-doctors and black-smiths, in collaboration with teams of muttering, white-coated scientists from MIT.

Ah! My ribs!

[quote author=ola_pluto]Opening ceremony. Flag was supposed to be carried by Mariam Usman, our brilliant female weightlifter(+75kg). However, for 'tactical reasons', Boltic (our flagship male wrestler, well ranked worldwide and olympian) will be carrying the flag. Boltic is from Bayelsa state...figure the rest.[/quote]

Dis Guy: FFS is Ebele the main sponsor of this outing or this is just a money making


what event does the five time Olympian compete in? he/she should have been the flag bearer!

The Team Nigeria ended its preparation for the ceremony on Thursday with the position of flag bearer changing hands. Instead of Usman Maryam, Boltic Sinivie – a 96kg freestyle wrestler-will carry Nigerian flag later today.

The change came after a meeting held Thursday afternoon at the Games Village. Deputy Chef de Mission for the country, Al-Hassan Yakmut, said the change became necessary after Maryam’s coach suggested that she was better off not playing that role in view of her early competition on Saturday following the opening event .

Yakmut said, “The opening ceremony is going to stretch into the early morning of Saturday and Maryam will be fighting soon after the ceremony. It is for strategic reasons. We don’t want to wear her out in the ceremonies.

“Boltic is not new to events like this. He has been around and has won several medals for Nigeria at international events’’ he said.

The change is limited to that of the flag bearer for the march past. Team Captain remains the same as the Beijing Olympics bronze medallist, Chika Chukwumerije.

http://www.punchng.com/sports/olympics-games-start-today/

[size=14pt]PDP vows to sort out grievances over Jonathan’s impeachment[/size]

The deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Sam Jaja has revealed plans by the party to commence inquiry into the planned impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan by members of the House of Representatives.

Addressing journalists in Abuja, on Thursday, Mr Jaja said that the party will fashion out modalities to know what the grievances of the members are as well as take urgent steps to address it.

He noted that what was going on is normal for a democracy and that the party’s concern will be to resolve the concerns of the two arms without overruling the grievances of any party.

“It is not a fluke that they are not making any sense, it is not also a fluke that the president is making error that requires impeachment,” Mr. Jaja said.

“At times we over bloat these things, but the party has setup machineries to look into all the grievances of the members of the National Assembly and what is the position of the President.”

“There must be an area for the two parties to meet and this thing should be resolved for the interest of democracy in this country. So there is no threat actually, as it were it is the usual thing that happens in any democratic process” he added.

He also stated that the National Working Committee of the ruling party is working assiduously to win more seats in states where the party has lost their grip in the last general election.

The House of Representatives, last Thursday, threatened to commence impeachment move on the President over what it described as poor implementation of the 2012 budget.

Meanwhile, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday , confirmed that the implementation of the 2012 budget has reached 56% from 39% as at the end of May.

Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the council meeting, the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, stressed that “there is nowhere in the world where budget is implemented 100% by September” insisting that from her experience the least any country has done is 80%.”

 

 

Posted by Channels Television on July 26, 2012.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/07/26/pdp-vows-to-sort-out-grievances-over-jonathans-impeachment/

[size=14pt]PDP Sets Up Committee to Address Impeachment Threat[/size]

27 Jul 2012



Chuks Okocha


The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a committee to study the grievances of the House of Representatives, which is threatening to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan for poor implementation of the 2012 Appropriation Act.

The committee, according to the party’s Deputy National Chairman, Dr. Sam Sam Jaja, will study the House’s grievances against the president and consider Jonathan’s position on the matter with a view to determining how it could amicably resolve the crisis, considered an embarrassment to the ruling party.

Jaja, briefing reporters in Abuja Thursday on the outcome of a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), also said the party would not come to the rescue of any member indicted in the fuel subsidy probe.

Some of the 12 individuals now facing trial for allegedly defrauding the Federal Government through the Petroleum Support Fund (PSF) have links to the party.

They include Mahmud Tukur, son of the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur; Mamman Nasir Ali, son of one of Tukur’s predecessor, Dr. Ahmadu Ali; as well as Abdullahi Alao, son of a patron of the party, Alhaji Abdulazeez Arisekola-Alao.

Jaja said the party was worried by the crisis of confidence between the House and Jonathan, adding that since majority of the lawmakers are from the same party as the president, the PDP considered it necessary to quickly mediate in the crisis before it festers.

He said: “The party has set up the machinery to look into all the grievances of the members of the National Assembly and what the position of the president is. There must be areas for the two parties to meet and to resolve this thing in the interest of democracy in this country.

“Of course, what the party is doing is taking up the process, because there is a process with which the party meets the people. Yes, many of them (members of the House of Representatives) are PDP people; I agree, but they have their grievances.

“We will not just say that they are PDP people and lord it over them. This thing must be handled diplomatically so that wherever anybody has gone wrong, it will be sorted out and eventually this storm will blow over.”

Before it went on recess last week, the House had given the president an ultimatum to ensure the full implementation of the budget by September, when it resumes, or face impeachment.
However, the presidency on Wednesday said the lawmakers’ expectations were unrealistic, explaining that the slow pace of the budget’s implementation was partly as a result of the inclusion of constituency projects in the budget, which must pass through due process.

The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who held a briefing on the state of the budget, said the original bill sent to the National Assembly for consideration was jettisoned and a new one crafted.

This, she stressed, had forced ministries to commence fresh procurement processes, a move described as procedural and lawful.

She also said that it was not possible to attain 100 per cent budget execution, as demanded by the House, adding that there was nowhere in the world where the budget is implemented 100 per cent.

She added that the budget had attained a 56-per-cent mark in implementation as at July 20.

Jaja, however, said there was no reason to panic over the impeachment threat against the president, adding that such a threat was a normal occurrence in a democracy.

“It is not the first time any president has been threatened with impeachment; not only in this our country, even in America where several presidents had been threatened with impeachment.

“It is not a fluke that they are not making any sense, it is also not a fluke that the president is making errors leading to the impeachment threat; and at times, we over blow these things. But there is no threat actually, as it were; it is the usual thing that happens in any democratic process,” he said.

Jaja, who also exonerated Bamanga Tukur from the fuel subsidy scandal, said: “On the issue of some PDP members being involved in the oil subsidy scam, these are individuals and everybody will bear his or her own cross.

“There are governors who are party members who are now facing prosecution because of their actions and inactions; so it is not a party thing.

“PDP did not send anybody to go and misbehave. Even if you mention my chairman’s son, he is of age. Assuming he is to go to jail, they will not come and jail the national chairman because he did not send him (his son).

“He is of age and he has a household; he has his family. Everybody will account for his own actions. And of course, it has been mentioned that until they are proven guilty, they still remain innocent. So the party cannot just get out and breathe down on them and begin to condemn them.

“They will be given equal opportunity to defend themselves in a competent court of law and until they are found guilty, then the party will come out and take a position.

“But for now, for the party to begin to condemn them, is absolutely premature and prejudicial,” he said.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/pdp-sets-up-committee-to-address-impeachment-threat/120946/

[size=14pt]PDP wades into impeachment threat on Jonathan[/size]

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Friday, 27 July 2012 08:40 TUNJI OLAWUNI

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The PDP says it has set in motion the machinery to look into the grievances of members of the House of Representatives necessitating their impeachment threat on President Goodluck Jonathan.



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The House of Representatives had before proceeding on its annual recess last week given Jonathan till September when it resumes to ensure that the 2012 budget implementation is upped to 100 percent or he will face impeachment.

Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, however, on Wednesday, after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting declared that it was not possible to implement the budget 100 percent.

Sam Jaja, the Deputy National Chairman of the party, while briefing newsmen in Abuja on Thursday said that impeachment threat was synonymous with democracy across the world, adding that “there is no threat actually as it were.”

“It is the usual thing that happens in any democratic process. It is not the first time a president will be threatened with impeachment,” he said.

Jaja observed that the development was not peculiar to Nigeria, adding that in America several presidents had been threatened with impeachment.

“What the party is doing is taking up the process because there is a process with which the party meets the people. This thing must be attended to diplomatically, so that wherever anybody has gone wrong will be sorted out and eventually this storm will definitely die down.”

The deputy national chairman said that though most members of the House were in PDP, they might have their grievances, adding that it would be wrong to lord over them.

He said that the party hoped to ascertain the position of the members and that of the president on the grievances through such machinery.

“There must be an area for the two parties to meet and this thing should be resolved in the interest of democracy in this country.”

Commenting on members of the party that were indicted by the fuel subsidy probe, Jaja said that the indicted members were “on their own.

“These are individuals, everybody bears its own cross, there are governors who are now facing prosecution as a result of their alleged actions and inactions and so it is not a party thing.

“PDP did not send anybody to go and misbehave. Even if you mention my chairman’s son, he is of age. Assuming he is to go to jail they will not come and jail the national chairman because he did not send him. The man is of age and he has household, he has his family, everybody accounts for his own position”.

He, however, stressed that the indicted members remained innocent until proved guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/111-politics/41880--pdp-wades-into-impeachment-threat-on-jonathan

If you read what's written and remove the words in brackets (which were inserted by Sahara Reporters) all the man is saying is neither GEJ nor The House of Reps are to blame, but the party will mediate in the matter.

“It is not [true] that they [Representatives] are not making any sense,” he admitted. “It is not also [untrue] that the President is making error that requires impeachment. At times we gloat [over] these things, but the party has set up machineries to look into all the grievances of the members of the National Assembly and what is the position of the President.”

Remove the words in bracket (particularly the "untrue" part) to get the real meaning of what was said.

“It is not [true] that they [Representatives] are not making any sense,” he admitted. “It is not also [untrue] that the President is making error that requires impeachment. At times we gloat [over] these things, but the party has set up machineries to look into all the grievances of the members of the National Assembly and what is the position of the President.”

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He is about to gain admission into JSS 1

ogbeche77: So how old are they now? Am curious to know.... Cos am having doubt about your stat... 6th Olympic ke? Except you are including the previous Commonwealth games which they were frequent

He is quite correct. I've been watching those guys on NTA Sportsworld since the early 1990s. Here's their dates of birth and olympic records.


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segun_Toriola


http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/os/funke-oshonaike-1.html

Lastly

Glory Alozie

Francis Obikwelu

Richard Igbineghu (Nig. in Blue) VS Roberto Balado (Cuba in Red). Final of the Super-Heavyweight (over 91 kilograms) Boxing event at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. Balado won.

Mary Onyali

Falilat Ogunkoya

Chioma Ajunwa

Chika Chukwumerije: Bronze medallist, Taekwondo Men's +80 kg, @ the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Mfon Udoka

Mactabene Amachree

Atanda Musa

Mary Onyali, Beatrice Utondu, Christy Opara-Thompson and Tina Iheagwam.

Beatrice Utondu, Christy Opara-Thompson and Tina Iheagwam

Sunday Bada

Emmanuel Peters Oghenejobo (silver medalist @ Taekwondo @ Barcelona '92)

Dream team
Davidson Ezenwa
Osmond Ezenwa
Chioma Ajunwa

A quick look back as the games are officially opened today. Nigeria's olympic athletes of the past.

Daniel Amokachi
Mary Onyali
Falilat Ogunkoya
Olapade Adeniken

Paddy Lo vs ? (Someone who posted caricatures of his pics)

umunnatim: Bros abeg put price make we still know nah,even if we nor fit buy am now.Thanks

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