President Goodluck Jonathan has come under intense pressure from close associates to “do something urgent” about the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bamanga Tukur, whose efforts to reconcile warring party members failed last week.

Although the national leadership of the PDP described the reconciliation initiative as “successful,” Presidential strategists are said to be uncomfortable with its outcome.
Our source, a close ally of Jonathan, described the Tukur-driven process as “poorly-managed and more worrisome.”

It was unclear as at press time if the President’s men would push for Tukur’s resignation, as a question in that direction was not answered directly.

“No one is bigger than the PDP; no sacrifice is too much to save PDP,” the source added.
But the Presidency denied on Wednesday that Jonathan was under pressure to tinker with the leadership of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.
This is coming just as the PDP also dismissed speculations that the Tukur-led NWC was jittery over the outcome of the reconciliation exercise.

Poor attendance, boycott and complacency on the part of majority of the PDP Governors marred the tour embarked upon by the NWC in the six zones.
The grand finale of the peace efforts at the International Conference Centre in Abuja was shunned by 20 PDP Governors.

The denial by both Tukur and Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Godswill Akpabio, notwithstanding, the source said the absence of majority of the Governors was troubling.”
“You should know that the PDP is a large family and everybody wants to be part of it; so to expect such a large house to continue without crisis is like asking for the moon. But to be honest with you, the last outing was poorly managed.

“Initially, we thought some of the Governors were merely stubborn and heady, but the last event, which they were all expected to attend but boycotted is worrisome and it cannot be allowed to continue like this; something will definitely be done to avert disaster.
“From what we have heard so far, they (Governors) are not fighting the President, they are only at loggerheads with the chairman; under such a situation, hope is not lost at all because it is easy to sort out,” the source said.

He added that feelers from the meetings between Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Tony Anenih, and some of the Governors indicated that all they wanted was for Tukur to convene a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party to iron out their differences.
Anenih has already met with Governors Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano).
The last time the PDP held its NEC meeting was in July last year.
All the same, Political Adviser to the President, Ahmed Ali Gulak, said the report of pressure on his boss was unfounded.

“It is an unfounded report; you should know that this is the time people peddle all manner of stories and rumours to cause confusion where there is none.
But National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, declined to talk on the issue.
However, Niger State Governor, Mua’zu Babangida Aliyu, who is also Chairman of the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) reiterated on Wednesday the commitment of PDP Governors to remain loyal to the ideals of the party, although he warned that he and some other party faithful should not be pushed out on the grounds of emerging trends.
He spoke during a visit to him by Anenih.

Aliyu has been at the forefront, agitating for power shift to the North in 2015, as he has repeatedly reminded Jonathan of alleged agreement between him and Governors not to re-contest.
Contrary to popular perception that some PDP Governors were planning to jump ship over the storm in the ruling party, Aliyu said “none of us is leaving the party.”

“It will be lousy for any Governor elected on the PDP platform to leave the party simply because of some emerging political challenges,” Aliyu told his guest.

Anenih, in his remarks, told his host that he and his team were in Niger State to consult with the PDP leaders and to discuss honestly with them on how to move the party forward, as according to him, “The PDP umbrella is large enough to give all enough shelter.”

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/03/jonathan-under-pressure-to-dump-tukur/

It’s no longer news that Jesse Jagz has bowed out from Chocolate City. He made this public weeks ago via his Facebook personal page.

Jesse stopped by at Hip Hop World studios today (March 27, 2013) and we cornered him for further comments on the issue – “It’s not like we’re fighting or anything. At this stage of my life, I would just rather do something for myself; make the sort of music I would like to make for myself; outside of opinions and business. Whether I was signed to Chocolate City or not, it’s something I would have decided to do”.

And so, Project ‘Jesse Jagz Nation’ begins, “Right now, I’m starting off my own thing, that doesn’t mean a record label. I’m not looking to sign artistes or to get signed to another label. It’s just for me to focus on me. I’m starting a movement. Me deciding to make music for me, put it out how I want to put it out. Having that 100% control over what to say”.

Even though he didn’t inform M.I or any of the other Choc executives, Jesse insists there’s no bad blood between either of the parties. “I still work with them. I’m still going to produce, when called on. M.I, Ice, Brymo are my brothers. We were Loopy before Choc Boys”

Fans can expect new material from ‘The Jagged One’ soonest. New singles should be released in about a fortnight, all leading towards the release of his sophomore album in July 2013.

http://hiphopworldmagazine.com/2013/03/27/im-starting-my-own-movement-jesse-jagz/

RUBBISH...KILL THEM, WHY SHUD THEY BE AT LARGE...POLICE STORY...MTCHEWWWWWWWWW...TRYING TO PROVE THAT THEY ARE WORKING

Mar. 21, 2013

I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq.

I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives.

I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.

I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries.

I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day.

I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all-the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.


You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans-my fellow veterans-whose future you stole.

I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power.

I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done.

Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character.

You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit.

Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.

I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens.

I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States.

I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East.

I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion.

I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes.


The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East.

On every level-moral, strategic, military and economic-Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.

I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love.

I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.

I have, like many other disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration.

I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned.

You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn’t lying a sin? Isn’t murder a sin? Aren’t theft and selfish ambition sins?

I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.

My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live.

I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.


Read more: http://newsrescue.com/dying-army-veteran-tomas-young-to-bush-dick-cheney-day-of-reckoning-is-coming/#ixzz2OkY1Wnjc

i m sure he has threaten to expose those he shared the money with

President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Alhaji Bukar Goni Aji, OON as the new Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.

Until his new appointment, Alhaji Goni who was the Permanent Secretary, Common Services Office, Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, will take over from Alhaji Isa Bello Sali who will attain the mandatory retirement age of 60 on Saturday, March 23, 2013.

Alhaji Goni, an indigene of Yobe State, was born on January 13, 1959. He attended Government College, Maiduguri, Borno College of Basic Studies, Maiduguri and graduated from the University of Maiduguri in 1984.



A career civil servant, Alhaji Goni has held several key positions at the state and federal levels including Chief Administrative Officer, Governor’s Office, Maiduguri (1989-1991), Principal Secretary to the Military Administrator of Yobe State (1991-1992), Principal Secretary to the First Civilian Governor of Yobe State (1992-1993) and Principal Secretary to the 2nd Military Administrator of Yobe State (1993-1995).

Alhaji Goni was appointed Director, Planning, Research and Statistics at the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs in 1995 and moved to the Federal Ministry of Defence in the year 2000 as Director of Personnel Management. He headed various departments in the Ministry of Defence until his posting to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in 2008 as Director, International Organisations.

He was appointed Permanent Secretary in 2009 and posted to the Ministry of Defence. He later served as Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Police Affairs (August, 2009 – August, 2010) and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Works (September, 2011 – November, 2012).

http://www.informationng.com/2013/03/jonathan-appoints-bukar-aji-as-new-head-of-civil-service-of-the-federation.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

but it is normal na, everywhere was calm for a while, Nigerians thought the fight had been won already, so we had no choice than to go abt our businesses without payin attention to those criminal boko boys...allthesame i hope this will arouse our security awarness again, but itz not easy o, something should be done fast to take this wicked guys out before it gets out of control.

even more than a corrupt mentality, it was so miscalculated

fittty: Umm. Did they ask her the name of her website?

very funny

but even if they did, she sounds very intelligent so she would have known what to say

so wot happens to his loyalty he pledged in some of his lines to chocolate city, i hope kelly handsome is watching, itz time for him to diss them too

grinding fresh pepper