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HealthRe: Hong Kong Baby Born Pregnant With Her Own Twins by nicflame(op): 12:48pm On Feb 12, 2015
Yet, one of the numerous miracles of the Most High
HealthHong Kong Baby Born Pregnant With Her Own Twins by nicflame(op): 12:47pm On Feb 12, 2015
A baby born in Hong Kong was pregnant with her own siblings at the time of her birth, according to a new report of the infant’s case.

The baby’s condition, known as fetus-in-fetus, is incredibly rare, occurring in only about 1 in every 500,000 births. It’s not clear exactly why it happens.

“Weird things happen early, early in the pregnancy that we just don’t understand,” said Dr. Draion Burch, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Pittsburgh, who goes by Dr. Drai. “This is one of those medical mysteries.”

The World Health Organization considers a tiny fetus found within an infant to be a kind of teratoma, or tumor, rather than a normally developing fetus.

But the doctors who treated the baby girl wrote that rather than a teratoma, the tiny fetuses may instead be the remains of sibling twins that were absorbed during the pregnancy.

The newborn baby was referred to Dr. Yu Kai-man, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong, because the baby was suspected to have a tumor, according to the case report. The mother’s prenatal ultrasound had revealed an unusual mass within the infant, but it was unclear to the doctors exactly what the mass was. During surgery, which was done when the girl was about 3 weeks old, the surgeons discovered two fetuses between her liver and her kidney.

One fetus weighed 0.3 ounces (9.3 grams) and the other 0.5 ounces (14.2 grams) — corresponding to about 8 and 10 weeks’ gestation, the case report said.

Each of the babies had an umbilical cord that linked to a placenta-like mass in the girl’s belly.

The baby girl was obviously too young to have conceived the fetuses herself. Instead, it’s likely that the girl was once one of triplets, the researchers said. Then, for some mysterious reason, the two smaller fetuses were absorbed into the body of the remaining child.

The fetuses would likely have still been alive and growing when they were absorbed into the surviving baby’s body. Once there, however, their development couldn’t proceed normally, Burch said.

“They need placental flow and all that other stuff to really grow,” Burch told Live Science.

Fetus-in-fetu may, in fact, be similar to a surprisingly common phenomenon: vanishing twin syndrome, Burch said. In many twin pregnancies, one of the twins is completely absorbed and “vanishes” into the body of the other.

“When you do a delivery and you see an extra placenta and a cord, you say, ‘Oh, it must have been a twin,'” Burch said.

Fetus-in-fetus has been reported in about 200 cases in the medical literature. In 2006, doctors in Pakistan removed two fetuses from a 2-month-old girl named Nazia, according to NBC News. And in 2011, an 18-year-old boy had his retained twin removed in a major surgery, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.

In rare instances, fetuses that die in utero can become calcified and turn into stone. In August 2014, doctors in India removed a lithopedion, orstone baby, that a 60-year-old woman had carried in her body for 36 years. She went to the doctor complaining of abdominal pain and a lump in her lower belly.

http://www.punchng.com/news/hong-kong-baby-born-pregnant-with-her-own-twins/
FamilyRe: When You Shift Your Wedding Date Because Of Elections... by nicflame(m): 11:30am On Feb 10, 2015
I wouldn't say it is. Sometimes things just happen in such a funny way
PoliticsRe: Buhari's Speech At The Delegates Conference Of The NLC, Abuja by nicflame(m): 9:26pm On Feb 09, 2015
Sai Baba... May you deliver well during your tenure and disappoint the enemies of progress.. March4Buhari
PoliticsRe: Fayose Woos Hausa Community For Jonathan by nicflame(op): 11:50am On Feb 04, 2015
I don't even know how to reply this man anymore


All I can see is that this man is trying hard, day and night, not to be incarcerated when we gain power. Anyway...


Goodluck to Buhari
PoliticsFayose Woos Hausa Community For Jonathan by nicflame(op): 11:50am On Feb 04, 2015
Fayose woos Hausa community for Jonathan
16 hours ago


Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, on Tuesday met with leaders of the Hausa community in Ekiti State urging them to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in the February 14 presidential election.

A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti, quoted Fayose as saying, “We want peace and stability in this country. The problem of insurgency is a creation of the All Progressives Congress so as to destabilise Jonathan and discredit his administration.

“How would Buhari, who on many occasions turned down offer to lead the committee on dialogue with Boko Haram, now say he has the solution to Boko Haram activities in the country?

“Is that not a clear indication of APC being in the know ‎of Boko Haram and other gunmen attacks in the North? It is very logical for the North to wait till 2019 to present a candidate belonging to its first eleven who are credible, young, healthy and sound,” he said.

The statement stated that the leaders of the group, Alhaji Musa Kanga and Mrs Hadisa Garba, said the people were ready to vote for the PDP and its candidate.

“We will vote for Jonathan because of you. You are always with us, you have not discriminated against us. As we voted for you in the June 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State, we will vote for Jonathan.

“When a certain president removed you unjustly from office, Jonathan came to the stadium to raise up your hand. Therefore, for your sake, we will vote for Jonathan,” the statement quoted the leaders as saying.

http://www.punchng.com/news/fayose-woos-hausa-community-for-jonathan/
PoliticsVp’s Office Under APC Not A Spare Tyre -osinbajo by nicflame(op): 11:29am On Feb 02, 2015
The Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said the office of the Vice President under an APC governmenr will not be a “spare tyre.”

A statement issued by the APC Presidential Campaign organisation and signed by the media director, Alhaji Garba Shehu, quoted Osinbajo as saying this at a parley with health care professionals under the auspices of the Health Care Federation of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.

Osinbajo said that the party had made adequate plans to ensure that the National Economic Council, which is under the office of the Vice President, was made a vibrant body in line with the provisions of the constitution.

The statement also quoted Osinbajo as saying that an APC government would partner with the private sector for effective healthcare delivery.

He said the party would also ensure the lowering of the cost of funds to provide easy access to capital, to address the crisis in the power sector and expend a minimum of one billion dollars on health insurance.

The APC Vice Presidential candidate said that corruption would be tackled head-on as a first step to tackling the nation’s myriad of problems.

“We have to deal with corruption very seriously,” he said.

He said that the party’s free education policy would, in the first instance, be available at primary and secondary school levels, and later extended to tertiary levels but limited to science, technology, engineering, maths and education


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PoliticsNEDG Vice Presidential Debate 2015 Live! by nicflame(op): 12:40pm On Feb 01, 2015
The Debate is live on NTA.. Join me fellow Nairalanders, its getting interesting

Sai PYO
PoliticsRe: Buhari/osinbajo Campaign Plane In Lagos by nicflame(op): 4:56pm On Jan 30, 2015
The plane of change is already flying over us.

Click like if you really like The People's General, and share if you don't
PoliticsBuhari/osinbajo Campaign Plane In Lagos by nicflame(op): 4:53pm On Jan 30, 2015
A plane with 'I've Decided To Vote For Buhari/Osinbajo' attached to its tail has been flying over my head for a while now, here in Bariga Lagos. Have you seen this in your area too?
PoliticsRe: Tompolo Replies Danjuma, Accuses Him Of Ignoring Apc’s Tirades by nicflame(m): 9:21am On Jan 30, 2015
Tompolo should just enjoy his wealth while it lasts, cos his incarceration is near.

Click like for the people's general
CelebritiesRe: Fans Blast Picture Of Bovi 'smiling & Holding Hands' With President Jonathan by nicflame(m): 7:38am On Jan 26, 2015
I don't know why some people always hide the truth in the face of money and fame
PoliticsRe: JUSUN Suspends Strike In Federal Courts by nicflame(m): 7:28am On Jan 26, 2015
Its a thing of joy
CelebritiesRe: Mcsmith Ochendo Comes After Muna Obiekwe's Godmother by nicflame(m): 6:21pm On Jan 25, 2015
The truth is always bitter anyways
NYSCRe: Minister Advocates Increase In Corps Members’ Allowances by nicflame(m): 7:44pm On Jan 21, 2015
Ok, another strategy to win the heart of The General's lovers. As an impending corper, this is a good new, nonetheless......


Hit the like button if you like this news but still will vote for The General come FeBuhari
PoliticsRe: Picture Of A Woman Clad In APC'S T-SHIRT And PDP'S Wrapper! by nicflame(m): 1:36pm On Jan 19, 2015
She be like 'if one no pay, the other go pay'
PoliticsRe: One Dead, 11 Injured In APC Campaign Auto Crash In Edo by nicflame(m): 6:06pm On Jan 18, 2015
May the soul rest in peace...
PoliticsRe: Amaechi Bars Jonathan From Using State's Stadium by nicflame(m): 8:38pm On Jan 17, 2015
Buhahahahahahahahahahaha
sad Amechi Abeg just permit them make them no turn this one to another case against us.. Even though the rally is a failure already.

THE PEOPLE'S GENERAL ON MY MIND
RomanceRe: Reasons Ladies In Diaspora Should Marry African Men by nicflame(m): 8:35pm On Jan 17, 2015
I hope they heed
AgricultureRe: Groundnut Pyramid In Nigeria In 1970 (Photo) by nicflame(m): 7:33am On Jan 12, 2015
When our Agric sector was skyrocketing.. I wish we can turn back the hands of time, I wish oil was never found..

Meanwhile GMB come FeBuhari..
PoliticsRe: 2015: Apc’ll Win On First Ballot – Ngige by nicflame(op): 8:35am On Jan 09, 2015
Already feeling the breath of fresh air of change. The people's General all the way

Politics2015: Apc’ll Win On First Ballot – Ngige by nicflame(op): 8:34am On Jan 09, 2015
Awka—THE senator representing Anambra Central and the South East zonal coordinator of All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Chris Ngige, said yesterday that the party would win the February 14, 2015 presidential election on the first ballot, going by a well-researched poll conducted by an international organization.
Chris Ngige
Chris Ngige
Addressing reporters in Awka as part of the preparations for the launching of the APC campaign in the South East, which kicks off in Ebonyi State today with the presentation of the party’s flag to the governorship candidate in the state, Senator Julius Ucha, Ngige said the signs were there that APC will win in 28 states with majority of votes to be cast.
According to him, APC commissioned seasoned professionals who analyzed the situation and with the voters spread and collection of permanent voter cards done, as well as the voting strength of the six geo-political zones in the country, there were indications that APC would coast to victory on the first ballot on February 14.
Ngige advised eligible voters in the South East to read the handwriting on the wall, saying: ‘I have been preaching against Igbo pushing themselves into marginalization, but our people preferred to put their eggs in one basket. While many states in other zones have embraced APC, it is only Imo that is governed by the party. That is political short-sightedness and that was why we lost out during the consideration for the vice presidential slot. How can we expect to produce the vice president when we have only one governor?
“Some of us from the South East argued that giving us the vice presidential slot could help to strengthen the party in the zone, but as you know, politics is a game of numbers as we were seen as weaklings in the party. Unless there is a change of attitude by the Igbo political merchants, it will continue to be difficult for us to be given the kind of position we desire.”
On the presidential campaign in the South East, Ngige said the train would move from Abakaliki to Aba in Abia State today, where the party’s governorship flag bearer, Mr. Anyim Nyerere and other candidates would be presented to the people.


- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/2015-apcll-win-first-ballot-ngige/#sthash.J7sBRKXY.dpuf

PoliticsRe: Buhari Takes Campaign To Jonathan’s Home Base by nicflame(op): 7:43am On Jan 09, 2015
Vote The People's general come Febuhari..

But Buhari na bad guy sha, the guy go play away for GEJ.. grin
The success of Buhari in the South South is the beginning of failure for GEJ

PoliticsBuhari Takes Campaign To Jonathan’s Home Base by nicflame(op): 7:41am On Jan 09, 2015
PORT HARCOURT — All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), yesterday, took his campaign to the home base of President Goodluck Jonathan in Bayelsa and Rivers States with a promise to frontally address environmental concerns and degraded infrastructure, if elected.
buhari
Buhari’s promise to implement the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report on Ogoniland was elatedly received by Ogoni traditional rulers who through the president, Supreme Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers, King Godwin Biniwa, handed him a sword to wipe out their tears when he emerges president.
General Buhari and his entourage, following the stop at Ogoniland, followed up with campaigns in Yenogoa, Bayelsa State the home base of the president and his main rival for the presidency.
Meanwhile, his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, in Benin City, Edo State, said the country would be unrecognisable in one year of an APC government.
His position came as Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State regretted that President Goodluck Jonathan was blaming his predecessors in office when his six years in office has only brought agony and poverty to Nigerians.
At an interactive session with students, traditional rulers, market women and professionals in Benin City, yesterday, Osinbajo said an APC government would within one year solve the power problem, free health care and free food for school children.
He added that though the nation was rich, “we lack the leadership to harness our resources,” just as he noted that insurgency and corruption had thrived because President Jonathan lacks the political will to fight them.

Buhari urges Ogonis to vote APC

Speaking in Saakpenwa, headquarters of Tai Local Government Area during a meeting with Ogoni people, Buhari appealed to the people to vote for the APC and urged them to get their Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs.
Flaying the neglect of the region, Buhari put the blame squarely on President Jonathan saying: “The decision of the Federal Government to abandon the Bodo-Bonny road project is a clear case of incompetence and social injustice. It amounts to neglect at the highest level.
A lot is taken from Ogoniland and relatively little is brought back in return. I assure you that an APC-led Federal Government will fulfil all its promises in Ogoniland.”
Senator Magnus Abe, who hails from the area, was absent during the visit. In a statement read on his behalf, he lamented the pains the Ogoni had suffered in the nation.
Magnus, who represents the Rivers South-East senatorial district in the National Assembly, further appealed to the people to vote the APC.
He said: “Our position as a people concerning resumption of oil exploration in Ogoni is that, there should be adequate consultation with and participation of the Ogonis in the process leading to their eventual operation.
“As a deprived people, we have consistently placed in the domains of all governments, the Ogoni Bill of Rights (OBR) that seeks for equal representation of Ogonis in the affairs of the nation. These demands include appointment of Ogoni sons and daughters in government, provision of live sustainable infrastructures, such as good roads, water and development institutions.”
On his part, Director General, Buhari Presidential Campaign Organisation, Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, urged the people to vote for the APC, saying the Ogoni had suffered neglect in the country.
President, Supreme Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers, King Godwin Biniwa, later handed a copy of the UNEP report and a sword to Buhari, urging him to wipe out their tears when he emerges president.

Buhari identifies bane of nation’s march to greatness

Buhari repeated the same vow of dealing with environmental problems in Bayelsa where he was received by thousands of supporters who had defied the scorching sun and long delay to receive him at the Samson Siasia Stadium.
The stadium was filled to capacity as at 3 p.m. five hours after his scheduled arrival as party supporters busied themselves with entertainments provided by dance troupes and other entertainers.
Speaking at the event, Buhari identified corruption, insecurity and incompetent leadership as bane of the nation’s march to greatness even as he promised to tackle environmental pollution ravaging the Niger Delta region.
He also promised to revive agriculture and fishing in the region to boost food production and reduce the rate of unemployment in the country.
He lamented that the PDP neglected agriculture with the result that the nation is dependent on imports to feed her population.
He also noted with sadness that the people of the Niger Delta can no longer fish in their troubled water due to pollution and promised to work with the United Nations to remediate the environment if voted into office.
Also speaking, Governor Amaechi in his speech at the occasion assured that the party would create jobs, tackle poverty, unemployment and insecurity in the country of voted into power.

A bad brother is not as good as a good friend—Sylva

Earlier, the immediate past governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva, urged Bayelsans to vote out Jonathan, saying: “A bad brother is not as good as a good friend.”
He said: “Vote APC and welcome prosperity, good governance into your homes. I have gone to the West, East, North and South, I have one assurance that Buhari has won the 2015 poll.”

Highlight of the occasion was the presentation of flags to the party senatorial candidates in the forthcoming National Assembly polls. They include, Chief Timipre Sylva for Bayelsa East, Eddie Julius, Bayelsa West and Preye Aganaba, Bayelsa Central.


- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/buhari-takes-campaign-jonathans-home-base/#sthash.gbG4rRnx.dpuf
PoliticsRe: My Generation Has Failed – Jonathan by nicflame(op): 7:26am On Jan 09, 2015
Always forming humbleness.. grin
PoliticsMy Generation Has Failed – Jonathan by nicflame(op): 7:25am On Jan 09, 2015
LAGOS—President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, flagged off his campaign for re-election with a declaration that his generation has failed Nigeria.
While addressing youths at the campaign ground, the President told them to work for the future of Nigeria, through hard work and dedication, adding that the youths are the ones to take the country to the moon.
He vowed not to resort to crude tactics to combat the major challenges of corruption and insecurity that have plagued the country.
He also said that voting for the opposition APC was like returning Nigerians to prison. Speaking before an impressive crowd at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, the president directed his address mainly to the youths who he said were not privy to the rules of the jungle which his challengers were aiming to return the country to.
CAMPAIGN—From left: Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Ahmadu Ali; Vice-President Namadi Sambo, President Goodluck Jonathan and National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu at the flag off of PDP presidential campaign at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, yesterday. Photo: Kehinde Gbadamosi.
CAMPAIGN—From left: Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Ahmadu Ali; Vice-President Namadi Sambo, President Goodluck Jonathan and National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu at the flag off of PDP presidential campaign at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, yesterday. Photo: Kehinde Gbadamosi.
The president who had all serving governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and some principal officials of the National Assembly in attendance, repeatedly flayed the campaign agenda and endorsements received by his All Progressives Congress, APC, challenger, General Muhammadu Buhari.
President Jonathan, however, did not once mention Buhari by name in his nearly 30 minutes speech.
The president, for the first time, also disclosed that the October 1, 2010 attack by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, on the Eagles Square, Abuja was an assassination attempt directed at him. Shortly after the attack the president had, however, absolved MEND from culpability. But yesterday, he firmly blamed the body which has recently endorsed Buhari for the attack.

Before the president spoke, yesterday, the party chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu‘azu had presented the party’s governorship flag bearers with the party’s flag.
Jonathan is a builder — Mimiko
The party leader in the Southwest, Governor Olusegun Mimiko had earlier welcomed the president to the Southwest praising him for his efforts in office, particularly, the rehabilitation of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and the revival of the railways as he affirmed Dr. Jonathan to be a true democrat and unlike some born-again democrats.
In an apparent reference to Buhari, Mimiko had said: “We can remember the anti-human decision to terminate the Lagos metro line project by some other government. That project into which the Jakande-led administration had committed a whopping sum of N70 million (about $75 million at that time) was meant to put an end to the traffic nightmare in Lagos metropolis through the installation of a circuit of rail lines that would have stretched from Agege to Marina, Ikorodu in the north and Badagry in the east, ferrying nearly a million people a day, 31-years ago. While some chose to destroy, you have chosen to build,” Mimiko had said.
The campaign flag off paralysed movements around the TBS as many roads including the one adjoining the official residence of the Lagos State Governor were shut to traffic by security men. Yesterday’s flag off did not formally start until 12.30 pm shortly after the president arrived and took a tour round the square to greet party supporters.
Supporters of the party’s governorship candidates, who were bussed in for the function, also seized the opportunity to show off their candidates on poster boards. One exception was Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Ms Jumoke Akinjide, whose posters with the depiction “Jumoke for Jonathan” were conspicuously carried by many women in the arena.
Vice-President Namadi Sambo in his remarks also urged the people to reject the message of the opposition in Lagos.
Following speeches by PDP Governors Forum Chairman, Governor Godswill Akpabio and the National Chairman, the president delivered his speech which he said would be mainly directed at the youths on the claim that his generation was a failure.
Our generation has failed — Jonathan
“I believe that the young Nigerians are the future, we are finished. We believe that the youths will be the ones that will take us to the moon, my generation has failed because we could not take Nigeria to the moon.”
He continued: “I don’t want to address old people like me because we (his generation) are spent already. I am going to dwell on three things because those, who said they are going to take over from the PDP have been telling a lot of lies. They have hired people all over the world and are feeding people with lies on the social media. They are painting all sorts of colours and giving you all sorts of claims that they cannot defend.”
He listed the three points as his administration’s attitude towards corruption; alleged weakness of his government and the perceptions of lack of planning.
Noting the challenge from Buhari on the administration’s alleged failure to address the insecurity in the land, the President said: “They talked about insecurity. They said they will fight insecurity. And I ask, are our armed forces weak? If we have problems, what is the cause? Equipment. Somebody who told young people that he is going to fight insecurity, ask him if he bought one riffle for Nigerian soldiers when he was the Head of State. These people did not buy anything for the Nigerian soldiers. They refused to equip them. Ask them what they did with their defense budget.
“They said my government is corrupt and that we are not fighting corruption. Only yesterday, I addressed anti-corruption agencies and told them that people are deceiving young Nigerians. I said that they must tell Nigerians what they are doing.
“We have arrested more people and done more convictions. Let me apologise to some Nigerian federal civil servants who did not receive their December salaries early enough and I will tell you what happened. I apologise to those families that suffered because we believe and I believe that for you to fight corruption, we must take measures. If they had succeeded in fighting corruption, corruption would not have been with us today. If they had set up structures especially with the days of modern science and technology using ICT, to manage resources, we would not have been talking about corruption today.
Fight against corruption
“What happened in December was because of a software that is used for processing salary packages. Sometimes, people steal through salaries and some federal government agencies, including some ministries try to divert funds to try and pay for some allowances and the system is scientific. It is not a human being. Once money meant to pay salaries is diverted, it shuts you down and those departments of government were shut down.
This is the only way you can prevent corruption.”
The president also noted the administration’s success in combating corruption in the agriculture sector especially through fertiliser distribution. Affirming that brutal responses would not end corruption, the president said: “If somebody tells you that the best way to fight corruption is to come and arrest your uncle and father and show him on television and jail him, it won’t stop corruption. It even encourages corruption. Armed robbery is still with us, we are shooting armed robbers, is that stopping armed robbery?
“So, arresting people and showing them on television will not stop it; we must set up institutions and strengthen them to prevent people from touching the money and that is what we are working on and we are succeeding.”
The president also noted the administration’s success in effective distribution of petroleum products affirming that Nigerians do not have to sleep in petrol stations to buy fuel.
Arms procurement
Alluding to issues that haunted the administration arising from the procurement of arms, he said: “We talked about corruption and they say that the military is corrupt. When this crisis of insecurity came up, we had nothing, so to get these equipment quickly, we had to use vendors to procure them; but now, what we are doing is government to government transaction. Any new procurement we are doing whether for the Air Force, Navy or Army, is government to government. There is nothing like corruption any more even if we had some issues. Is that not the way to fight corruption?
“You must prevent people from touching your money and this is what government is doing and succeeding in a number of areas especially in the procurement area. If you look at it, we are reducing corruption.”
Umaru Dikko’s abduction
Referring to the aborted kidnap of Alhaji Umaru Dikko from Britain by the Buhari administration in 1984, Dr. Jonathan said: “They say we are weak but we know that there were some people who, while they were abroad, some people drugged them and put them in crates and attempted to fly them to Nigeria but they were intercepted by superior powers. That blocked Nigerians from even going to Britain; the whole world isolated Nigeria. They say that is the best way to fight corruption. Is that the way to stop corruption? Not to follow due process? So, immediately I suspect your uncle, I just go and crate him and put him in Kirikiri (Kirikiri Prison). Is that the way to stop corruption?”
Noting that Buhari’s anti-corruption stance was a posture to deal with enemies, he said: “They want power at all cost, all they want to use power for is to lock up and imprison their enemies. I have no enemies to fight. I won’t stop corruption by arresting people and putting them in jail. You cannot stop corruption that way.”
Empowerment of youths
Lamenting the failures of his generation, the president said his administration decided to motivate the younger generation with sharp ideas. “Government feels that Nigerians are very dynamic people, creative and industrious people and, as you know, we are over 200 million people but we cannot touch everybody the same day.
“We came up with the concept of YOUWIN to give grants and not loans to young Nigerians that have ideas. We have done that and some of them are already manufacturing things. In the next five years or so, some of them will be exporting things out of the country. Can you do that without planning? And they say we have no plans for the youths, let them come and tell us the plans they have for the youths. Look at what India is doing, look at what countries that we were at par at independence are doing. Do you want to go back to those days where they had no plans for the youths?”
In a throw back to the military era, he referred to the Buhari regime which he said had no single woman in cabinet. In a shocker before he concluded, the president who had earlier in 2010 defended MEND of allegations of orchestrating the 2010 Independence Day bomb attack at the Eagle Square, Abuja reversed himself, yesterday, saying the attack was an assassination attempt on him, the president.
He said: “Let me say one thing and conclude. I read in a paper recently where it said ‘MEND dumps Jonathan’. I am from the Niger Delta, the leader of MEND is one Okar. Okar is in a South African prison because on October 1, 2010, when we were to celebrate our 50th Independence anniversary, Okar was hired by some Nigerians to assassinate me.
“Okar bombed Abuja and the attempt was to assassinate me but intelligence report from South Africa hinted me on the plan to assassinate me. He is now in jail in South Africa and they said MEND dumped Jonathan. Okar that wanted to assassinate Jonathan, will he support Jonathan? I am told that Okar is supporting some people.”
ROLL CALL
Notable PDP stalwarts present included among others: Vice-President Namadi Sambo, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, Senator President, David Mark; Emeka Ihedioha, Governors Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Theodore Orji (Abia), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Lyel Imoke (Cross River), Ayodele Fayose (Ekiti), Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo), Jonah Jang (Plateau), Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina) Idris Wada (Kogi) Aliyu Babangida (Niger) Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo (Gombe), Alhaji Jelili Adesiyan, Minister for Police Affairs; Mrs Deziani Allison Madueke, Minister for Petroleum Resources; Kem Achikwe, Sen Modu Sheriff, former Governor of Borno State; Sen Bala Mohammed, FCT Minister; Mrs Olajumoke Akinjide, Minister of State for FCT; Musiliu Obanikoro, former Minister of State for Defence; Tom Ikimi, former Foreign Affairs Minister; Nuhu Ribadu, former EFCC Chairman and Senator Iyiola Omisore.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/generation-failed-jonathan/#sthash.zQz4bo7E.dpuf
PoliticsRe: No Signs Nigeria Will Disintegrate In 2015 –US by nicflame(m): 7:21am On Jan 09, 2015
Disintegrate of not, who gives a damn about what US thinks, it the likes of them that brought us to where we are right now, Solomakindes
PoliticsRe: Why Obasanjo’s At War With Jonathan: By Owie by nicflame(op): 7:06am On Jan 09, 2015
OBJ been acting like a God sent to Nigeria, i think his regime is tantamount to the present, rigging was OBJ regime's hallmark, he rigged with passion
PoliticsWhy Obasanjo’s At War With Jonathan: By Owie by nicflame(op): 7:04am On Jan 09, 2015
BENIN—FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, has alleged that the reason former President Olusegun Obasanjo was at war with the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was because the latter refused to be an errand boy to the former President.
President Jonathan and Chief Obasanjo
President Jonathan and Chief Obasanjo
He said that Nigerians were suffering today due to the faulty foundation laid by the former President.
He said: “The former president should apologize to Nigerians rather than blame the administration of President Jonathan which is doing very well for Nigerians.
“I am impressed that more and more Nigerians are getting to know that Obasanjo is not truthful and claims to be what he is not. Obasanjo ran the most corrupt government since the amalgamation of Nigeria. The revenue that Obasanjo got in only one year of his wasted eight years regime was almost the total revenue that Ibrahim Babangida’s regime got in eight years. While many legacies were left behind by IBB’s regime, there is nothing good that can be traced to Obasanjo’s regime.
“All Obasanjo was known for was election rigging both within the PDP and the general elections. Obasanjo openly rigged out late Sunday Awoniyi at the PDP national convention in 2000 at Eagle Square in favour of colourless opponents. He used the police to invade the Apo Mansion, all in his bid to ruin the independence of the National Assembly. Obasanjo is worse than Hitler. Obasanjo is like a poisonous crop that germinated on Nigerian soil.
“He should hide his head in shame as he is the forerunner of the anti-Christ. In the Benin Kingdom before the arrival of the whites, a man like Obasdanjo who failed woefully in public administration would have been banished. The problem between Jonathan and Obasanjo is that Jonathan refused to be his errand boy.
“There is no President of Nigeria that Obasanjo has not fought. Even the late Musa Yar’Adua, whom he brought without the consent of the North, he fought, even after the latter’s death.”

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/01/obasanjos-war-jonathan-owie/#sthash.QWGGXyP7.dpuf

BusinessRe: Fed Govt: We Didn’t Squander External Reserve by nicflame(op):
..and the story belongs to the gods undecided

With the soaring popularity of The General in the South Western part of the country, i doubt GEJ will make a million vote for himself come FeBuhari.
Vote Change.. Vote The People's General
BusinessFed Govt: We Didn’t Squander External Reserve by nicflame(op): 12:23pm On Jan 08, 2015
The Federal Government has denied allegations by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that it squandered the country’s foreign reserve.

In a statement yesterday the federal ministry of finance said: “It is absolutely not true that the Administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has squandered the nation’s reserves.”

The ministry noted that “facts are clear and indisputable. At the end of May 2007, Nigeria’s gross reserves stood at $43.13 billion – comprising the CBN’s external reserves of $31.5 billion, $9.43 billion in the Excess Crude Account, and $2.18 billion in Federal Government’s savings.”

This fall in reserves, the ministry explained, “was largely a result of the vicissitudes of the global economy and oil market which caused the CBN to intervene, using some of the reserves, to defend the value of the Naira”.

The ministry said: “It is not correct to say that the nation’s external reserves were dipped into or misapplied by the Administration. Anyone familiar with foreign reserves management will be aware that the Federal Government cannot dip its hands into the external reserves. Like in other countries, the management of external reserves is one of the statutory mandates of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Section 2 sub-section (c) of the CBN Act (2007) states that the Bank shall “maintain external reserves to safeguard the international value of the legal tender” – in other words, to defend the value of the Naira. No President since the democratic dispensation has contravened this Act.”

The reserves it added was used to settle both public and private sector foreign currency obligations, “including the importation of goods such as equipment for power sector. Whenever an agency of government or a private individual/company needs to make a payment in foreign currency (e.g. payment of goods and services, settlement of external debt, etc) it must provide the naira equivalent to the CBN in exchange for the required foreign currency.

“The reality is that since May 2007, the reserves have fluctuated in line with developments in the international oil market, rising from $43.13 billion at that time, peaking at $62 billion in September 2008 during the Yar’adua/Jonathan Administration when oil prices reached a peak of $147 per barrel, and falling subsequently to a low of $31.7 billion in September 2011.

“Nigeria’s reserves during the period were not squandered but used appropriately in the course of normal transactions required for the development of the Nigerian economy.”

On the Excess Crude savings, the ministry said it is a component of the reserves, which “was largely used to cushion the economy at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. As a result, Nigeria was one of the few countries in the world that did not seek assistance from international financial institutions at that time.

“Similarly, savings in the ECA were also used to pay for fuel subsidies for the entire nation and that sharing continued after the crisis ended. Starting in 2012, such payments have been published each time they are made.

“The savings in the ECA would now have been higher but for the fact that a number of Governors, against strong professional advice, actively kicked against continuous building up of the ECA and, indeed, pushed for its sharing. It is on record that states even took the Federal Government to court on this matter, and the case is still pending at the Supreme Court.”

The ministry noted that the Jonathan administration built the first ever Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) for the nation in which savings are being made for future generations of Nigerians.
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/fed-govt-didnt-squander-external-reserve/
PoliticsRe: President GEJ Vs Governor Amaechi: Who Rocked The Headphone Better? (Photos) by nicflame(m): 8:29pm On Jan 07, 2015
Who's Jonathan pls, is he a farmer in Otuoke?

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