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It is a big shame to the so called illustrious sons in the previous governments, particularly Chief Tony Anenih, who was a Federal minister of works for almost 4 years, Arch. Mike Onolememen, who was a Federal minister or over 2 years and Chris Ogiemweyin, who was a minister of State for works for about 2 years. More worrisome is that the worst of this road cut across the communities of these ministers. Why blaming the governor?

For many years , Nigerian entertainers have been enjoying favours from successive government. This extracts from Leadership newspaper reveals some salient reasons why entertainers must not back any governments for financial and selfish gains.

They are adorned in the make believe industry, showcasing a talent that’s is considered to be what the society depicts. Their oratory sometimes are fearsome, while their gaze could lure millions . They are the screen divas, they are Nigerian entertainers.

Their lives are filled with confusion, either due to what they act, or because of what they see in the European world. They marry and divorce, while some refused to even get hooked.

The sad story of the Goodluck Jonathan’s Administration broke the camels back as majority of the known Nigerian entertainers (Nollywood) in particularly put put all their energies in one basket, not because they love the ruler, then, but because it was easy to organise and get financial favours from him.

He was called the a supporter of the industry, and they came out in support of him. While during the campaign, they were on stage shouting and crying out loud, lampooning the incumbent , reigning all sort of abuses on him.

Some even called him a name that would be catastrophic putting it in print. It was a sad tale. Some entertainers gathered themselves after their palms have been greased to campaign for the ousted president not knowing that what God has written, no man can change.

Nobody knew that that would be the end the road for them visiting aso rock , as they have already soiled their names, even some entertainers appointed to head some directorates where also put to shame.

On the other side, the change entertainers, though young in their dealings, beloved that things would go well and didn’t fully support the past government nor the present, so they were like doing their profession in a realistic way.

Are Some entertainers still relevant?

No! They are not. They have already soiled their names by given all their energy to a particularly regime, forgetting that if that government is not in place, they should also work with the successive ones. They abused their fame, and shame their fans after the President Goodluck Jonathan, lost the Mohammadu Buhari.

A close associate hinted that they are confused and are wanting to close to the present administration, but are ashamed of what they have said against e current administration during the campaign period.

On Tuesday, the PMAN, Abuja , chapter visited one of the biggest supporter of entertainment not only in Abuja,but across the country. The GMD of Nanet Suites, Ini Akpabio in his office where he hosted the newly elected executives.

He raised some important issues when the association explained some of their objectives. He pointed out that entertainers must be careful the way they present themselves in public otherwise it would backfire and render them redundant.

“I will want this PMAN association to be non political group just like the AGN did during the President Goodluck Jonathan’s era.

“If you could remember, Immediately , after the President Goodluck government lost election, many of them have been embarrassed. They cannot come close to the present regime because they were political and supported a political party. So as a patron, I urge you to be neutral in your dealings so that we can move this association to a greater height.” He advised.

Some politicians are only there to use entertainers, and when they get what they want or did not, they dump them like a piece of rubbish. It is high time entertainers take their support as contracts and not opposition to avoid fadeout in the future.

Former French president, General Charles De Gaulle, must be smiling mockingly in his grave. Twice between 1961 and 1969, he opposed British membership of what was then the European Economic Commission for two reasons.

One, he argued that the British did not see themselves as “Europeans” and, two, he wanted to maintain French hegemony as the “Third Force” to the US and Soviet blocs at the height of the Cold War.

Out of resentment, Britain led six other European countries to form the rival European Free Trade Association. When the association collapsed, even before taking off, Britain tried to join the French-led EEC. De Gaulle vetoed the request twice, but it passed after his death.

He would be laughing now. At the heart of the anger that triggered the “Leave” vote last week is the futile attempt, even after many decades, by the British to see themselves as Europeans. Immigration is probably the next big issue. A flood of immigration, especially from EU countries, saw 185,000 net EU citizens move into the UK in 2015 alone, with over 40 percent of them citing jobs as the main reason.

That was the last straw.

The shock waves have been felt in markets around the world. If there has hardly been any dent in the Nigerian financial market, it’s a reflection of its poor footprint on the global financial system. But that does not mean that there aren’t areas of our lives where Brexit could take a toll.

Visa

Apart from the English Premier League, a number of Nigerians form their impression of Britain from their visa encounter with the High Commission. For those seeking non-immigrant visas, nothing has changed. A Schengen or EU-wide visa was not applicable to Britain even before the “Leave” vote. The potential problem area could be the issuance of work or immigrant visas. Although Britain has a points-based system, which tends to favour highly skilled, multi-talented professionals, the number of work visas issued to Nigerians has been declining in recent times. In 2014, for example, while India topped the number of UK work visas, followed by Australia and China, work visas to Nigerians, Ghanaians and Bangladesh declined. The “Leave” vote can only mean more work and immigrant visa misery.

Remittances

Globally, remittances by migrants are an increasingly important source of cash flow. Some sources suggest that migrants may have sent up to $500billion in remittances, with all migrants in the UK accounting for $3.2billion in 2011. But remittances from the UK, including transfers through formal and informal sources, according to a report by The Guardian of London, could be up to $23billion, with Nigeria accounting for $3.8billion. A “Leave” vote that undermines the UK economy and reduces the job prospects of Nigerians in the UK could potentially cut how much may be repatriated. Even before the vote kicked in, there had been growing reports of “reverse remittances,” a situation where family members in Nigeria have been forced to support relatives abroad as a result of unforeseen job and economic difficulties.

School fees

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Senator Binta Masi, said in February that Nigeria spends $2billion on education tourism. Ghana gets 50 percent of this amount and Britain comes second, followed by the US and Canada. For post-graduate studies, there was a forecast two years ago by The Guardian that Nigeria was set to overtake India as UK’s biggest source of post graduate students. Nigerians have built a raft of school enrolment related services, from exhibitions and tours to remedial schools and visa-assistance programmes, for those planning to study in the UK.

On face value, there’s no obvious connection between Brexit and UK schools. But it’s there, just beneath the surface. The question more and more students and potential students would be asking is whether an increasingly insular UK, with heightened xenophobic sensibilities, is a safe and vibrant place to study. The fallout is more than skin deep. Last year, for example, a shortage of UK teachers in key subjects, such as mathematics and physics, triggered interest in recruitment from the EU and beyond. The current uncertainty about work permits in Britain outside the EU may not only affect student enrolment, but could also affect capacity to strengthen faculty. In recent years, Poland and Ukraine – beneficiaries of the infrastructure of the old Soviet bloc – are becoming destinations of choice for Nigerian students in the sciences, especially medicine. It remains to be seen whether Brexit will spark an exodus.


Mortgage

Two years ago, the Mail Online reported that super-rich Africans had spent over £600million on property in London alone between 2011 and 2014. According to the newspaper, the oligarchs were spending an average of £4million weekly on property. This excludes mortgage payments by those at the lower end of the market across the UK. Nigerians top the spenders’ list, followed by Ghanaians, Congolese and Gabonese. What does Brexit mean? It depends on the nature of the property and its location. If a number of top financial services companies based in London make good their threat to relocate, for example, property prices in the financial capital could drop. Nigerian property owners in high EU-migrant neighbourhoods, or those planning to invest, may also be watching the market closely. A survey by KPMG earlier this year found that 66 per cent of real estate experts expressed worry that Brexit will have a negative impact on the market. It might be good news for speculators, but more conservative investors will be waiting to see which way the wind will blow.

Football

According to a joke trending on social media, Britain left the EU twice within one week. The first time was on Thursday when 52 per cent of its citizens voted ‘Leave’ with their hands; the second was on Tuesday when the English team “voted” leave with their feet, after crashing 1-2 to Iceland in the Euro 2016 Round of 16. But the first vote might have implications for sports, well beyond England. With Brexit, a clause in the work permit which limits the number of non-EU players in a team to a maximum of 17 could now potentially apply to all the remaining EU countries, putting them in the same basket with Nigerians and other Africans. Part of the work permit conditions also state that “a non-EU player applying for the permit must have played for his country in at least 75 percent of its competitive ‘A’ team matches for which he was available for selection during the previous two years, and his country must have averaged at least 70th place in the official FIFA world rankings over the previous two years.” The hope, however, is that players from the remaining EU region could still be accommodated under the free movement of labour rule of the European Economic Area, a cousin of the EU.


Poor David Cameron. Not even his fantastically fertile mind saw this coming. For all he has done to make Britain strong and great again, he will be remembered as the man who proved De Gaulle right.

cekhoe:
Whatever, I already know who I am voting for,if dem like make dem kwontinu, oshiomole the smart crook, its about the individual for me,not the party

Show me your voter's card

TippyTop:
No make me laugh, only God can remove Pastor Ize Iyamu, I repeat only God.
No human being can remove Osajie and if he is forcibly removed we will make sure there's no election in September, trust me on that.
Who born monkey?

Edo cannot go back into the hands of those that almost ruined it in the past. That is the bitter truth that some of us have refused to accept.

.....That elections would not hold in September? Na laf i dey laf

Eniolajay1519:
Gov Oshiomole made a grave mistake to have publicly announced that PDP has produced 'a more credible candidate'. This is an anti-party statement. APC leadership should sanction him severely.

Mind you, he was not referring to Pastor Osagie Iyamu, but Matthew of the Sheriff camp

TippyTop:
Has Oshiomhole just realised the PDP elected to use the formidable POI, dem don dey piss for bodi hehehe
Odubu and other defeated APC candidates have all hinted they'd be joining the unstoppable Pastor Iyamu.

Which POI? The one that a Federal High Court rejected in favour of Sheriff's candidate?

One of the several OBJ ' s legacy

Wahala dey o. Two Governors in one state

AtlanticBreeze:
This is unbelievable. This is illegal.. How can there be two governors in a state in a matter that is on appeal? I guess he has entered into a deal with APC.. APC will totally destroy this nation..

And it is APC's fault that you lack understanding, right?

The Court held that any action taken with the 2014 PDP amended constitution is void.

Does that mean that both Makarfi and Sheriff and their actions, including the Edo state governorship PDP primary elections conducted by by them, are void?

Read how Court nullified PDP 2014 amended constitution: http://guardian.ng/news/court-sacks-sheriff-nullifies-amended-pdp-constitution/

If not our political elites, Nigeria would have been greater than "yeye" Britain

Kindly advise a friend who walked up to me this morning wanting to know what it takes to renounce the citizenship of Nigeria. According to him, the present economic outlook and the lacklustre approach by the government to remedy the situation, coupled with the slow and ineffective governance in Nigeria today, means the future is bleak for the youth who has no connection to get a job, as well as the youth who has no collateral to secure a loan from a Nigerian bank to start up a business (product of his brain), means that the situation appear critically hopeless for him, as a result of which he wants to renounce his citizenship of Nigeria and probably look for "an organised and a well governed ". Please advise him.

How many times dem they arraign Amosu? Abi na another Amosu?

blazer234:
Big liar? How? Are you saying those students aren't sitting on the floor or you are saying the picture is photoshopped?

That picture predates Oshiomole 's assumption of office. Go back to that school now and take the right picture, come back here, post them and apologise, or else...

Drop your phone number here: talk2jhope@gmail.com Let us talk first.

Investigative journalism

You are a big liar

Who are you and of what significance is your rejection of the primarily election to the outcome? Get out of my sight, fool.

emmatony:
Your Buhari has done nothing. Once again God bless GEJ

Obasanjo started it, bro. You can say God bless PDP

Am proud of Gov. Oshiomole of Edo state. From a mere 3 billion Naira IGR generated annually, you came and by your courage, wisdom and a team of capable hands, including Mr. Godwin Obaseki, you took IGR of the State to almost 20 billion Naira per year, making the State one of the few viable states in Nigeria, yet some fools want Edo state to slip back into the hands of those that almost ruined it.

Which work NAN dey do sef?

Op. What do you hope to achieve from this? Ahead of Ondo elections? You missed road well, well

Are you sure of this allegation? It it is true, then na wa for Nigerian women

OBAFEMIawolowo:
I guess this is more beautiful

This looks like a private secondary school, jare

Looks great for a state university in that part of Nigeria. I can remember how sitting and former southern governors donated huge sums of money towards the establishment of this University and now it looks better than their own states' universities.n

a2personal2013:
Wahala dey ooooo. Everybody that has voiced against this government is now being pursued by one legality or the other. We are all watching in 3D googles where this will lead us to.

We have an unending list of debtors cutting across various Nigerian businesses. Why is BMB being singled out ?

Like we always say " whatever is good for Boniface should equally be good for boniyarnsh"

Can you see your myopic and ipobic reasoning? It really gives a good profile of yourself

Na wa! Only Aso Rock with this multitude of workers?

The senate has just started its boast to frustrate the president. Good for him though. He needs to wake up and start thinking Nigerian instead of putting on the Arewan cap in his appointments

This IG na really kpako! see he body?