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Olufemiolaolu:
Dangote donated 100m,Femi otedola 50m PDP govs 300m. Talkless of numerous faceless donors, obj is d father of corruption.

You said donation, but not extortion, yet you call him father of corruption. Grow up guy

momentarylapse:
E be like say something dey pain fayose!

He was not invited

Hope they are aware that Sheriff has the right to sack anyone

Thanks, Mod. I can see your expertise here. Thumbs up for you

The Peoples Democratic Party PDP has said its was proud of Elder Statesman, Chief Obasanjo’s legacies and achievements in Nigeria. The PDP, Sunday, in a congratulatory message on the ex-president’s 80th birthday signed by Prince Dayo Adeyeye for PDP National Caretaker Committee said that Obasanjo was quintessential octogenarian and that they were proud of his legacies and achievements .

The statement read in part ‘Senator Ahmed Makarfi, CON, on behalf of all the PDP Organs and family nationwide, felicitates with the former Head of State and former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, as he joins the League of Octogenarians.

We wish this Quintessential Elder Statesman joyful cheer on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. ‘The 80th Birthday Anniversary of OBJ as he is popularly called is not only a celebration of his sojourn on earth but a combination of the series of his achievements and indelible legacies in various sectors of our political, economic and social lives in Nigeria and beyond as a Soldier, Head of State, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We Salute You Sir! ‘For us in the PDP, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo remains a leader and a President Nigerians will continue to remember for his unique style and quality of leadership, the fulcrum for his policy formulations and implementations; and the ingenuity at which he pioneered the affairs of the Country creditably on the Platform of the our great Party, the PDP from 1999 to 2007 and even after leaving office. We are proud of your heritage Your Excellency. ‘Once again, we congratulate His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Obasanjo on his 80th Birthday and for his services and dedication to his Country, Nigeria, the Continent Africa and globally. Your Excellency, we wish you good health, more happy and fruitful years ahead.’

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/proud-legacies-achievements-pdp-tells-obasanjo/

ABEOKUTA—The Retired Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr. Sunday Mbang has declared that former President Olusegun Obasanjo remains the best President Nigeria has ever had. Mbang insisted that no President since independence has been able to match Obasanjo’s achievements. The cleric also lamented that the country would have been better than it is currently, had successive governments implemented Obasanjo’s policies on agriculture. The retired Methodist Prelate, who was once President of Christians Association of Nigeria, CAN, stated this yesterday in a sermon titled; The quality of our gratitude to God, he delivered at the thanksgiving service organised to round off activities to mark the 80th birthday of Obasanjo.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/obasanjo-best-president-nigeria-ever-mbang/

lalasticlala:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olusegun_Obasanjo

I thought there was a similar thread before this one?

He was not deployed. He remains Agriculture minister, but to oversee the Environment Ministry pending an appointment of a substantive minister to the ministry

Weti divide for yonder so?

CROWNWEALTH019:
The thief that stole/used $16B to destroy our power sector

Did he really steal such a huge sum? Go back to your records

CROWNWEALTH019:
The thief that stole/used $16B to destroy our power sector

Don't make a false accusation. He was not said to have stole that money. The point was that the power projects for which the money was meant were not delivered to reflect the huge sums spent on same as at the time of that probe was conducted by the House of Rep.

Naijiant:
International Thief Thief that doesn't know his age, you should rot in jail.

Are you a saint?

Penalty for lawlessness

THIRD TERM AGENDA

Obasanjo was embroiled in controversy regarding his "Third Term Agenda," a plan to modify the constitution so he could serve a third, four-year term as President. This led to a political media uproar in Nigeria and the bill was not ratified by the National Assembly. Consequently, Obasanjo stepped down after the April 2007 general election. In an exclusive interview granted to Channels Television, Obasanjo denied involvement in what has been defined as "Third Term Agenda." He said that it was the National Assembly (Nigeria) that included tenure elongation amongst the other clauses of the Constitution of Nigeria that were to be amended. "I never toyed with the idea of a third term," Obasanjo said.

Obasanjo was condemned by major political players during the Third Term Agenda saga. Senator Ken Nnamani, former President of the Nigerian Senate claimed Obasanjo informed him about the agenda shortly after he became President of the Nigerian Senate. “Immediately, I became Senate President, he told me of his intentions and told me how he wanted to achieve it. I initially did not take him seriously until the events began to unfold”. He also insinuated that Eight Billion Naira was spent to corrupt legislators to support the agenda. “How can someone talk like this that he didn’t know about it, yet money, both in local and foreign currencies, exchanged hands,” he asked. Femi Gbajabiamila corroborated Nnamani's account but put the figure differently, “The money totalled over N 10 billion. How could N10bn be taken out of the national treasury for a project when you were the sitting President, yet that project was not your idea? Where did the money come from?” In the following quotes, Nnamani said President George W. Bush warned Obasanjo to desist from his plan to contest presidential election for the third term: “If you want to be convinced that the man is only telling a lie, pick up a copy of the book written by Condoleza Rice, the former Secretary to the Government of the United States of America. It is actually an autobiography by Rice. On page 628 or page 638, she discussed Obasanjo’s meeting with Bush, how he told the former American President that he wanted to see how he could amend the Constitution, so that he could go for a third term. To his surprise, Bush told him not to try it. Bush told him to be patriotic and leave by May 29, 2007.”

POST-PRESIDENCY

He became chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, with control over nominations for governmental positions and even policy and strategy. As one Western diplomat said, "He intends to sit in the passenger seat giving advice and ready to grab the wheel if Nigeria goes off course." He voluntary resigned as the chairman board of trustees of the PDP in April, 2012. Afterwards, he withdrew from political activities with PDP.
Obasanjo is a member of Club de Madrid, an independent non-profit organization created to promote democracy and change in the international community. Its members are over 100 former democratically elected Presidents and Prime Ministers from more than 60 countries.
In March 2008, Obasanjo was "supposedly" indicted by a committee of the Nigerian parliament for awarding $2.2bn-worth of energy contracts during his eight-year rule, without due process. The report of this probe was never accepted by the whole Nigerian parliament due to manipulation of the entire process by the leadership of the power probe committee. It is not on any official record that Chief Obasanjo was indicted.
Obasanjo is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. Every year, the Panel releases a report, the Africa Progress Report, that outlines an issue of immediate importance to the continent and suggests a set of associated policies. In 2012, the Africa Progress Report highlighted issues of Jobs, Justice, and Equity. The 2013 report will outline issues relating to oil, gas, and mining in Africa.
Obasanjo was appointed Special Envoy by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo. He held separate meetings with DRC President Joseph Kabila and rebel leader Laurent Nkunda.

AU Observation Head - President General Olusegun Obasanjo visits President Robert Mugabe -Zimbabwe General Election 2013
During the Zimbabwean election of July 2013, Obasanjo headed a delegation of African Union election observers.
On May 2014, Obasanjo wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan requesting that he should mediate on behalf of the Nigerian government for the release of the Chibok girls held by the Boko Haram militants.
On 16 February 2015, he quit the ruling party and directed a PDP ward leader to tear his membership card during a press conference. He was later to be known as the navigator of the newly formed opposition party, the APC.

FAMILY AND EARLY LIFE

Ọbasanjọ was born in Ogun State and grew up in Owu (Abeokuta). His first name, Olusegun, means "The Lord is victorious".
In 1987, his second wife/ex-wife, Lynda, was ordered out of her car by armed men, and was fatally shot for failing to move quickly.
On 23 October 2005, the President lost his wife, Stella Obasanjo, First Lady of Nigeria the day after she had an abdominoplasty in Spain. In 2009, the doctor only known as 'AM' was sentenced to one year in jail for negligence in Spain and ordered to pay restitution to her son of about $176,000. Obasanjo has many children who live throughout Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States.

His son, Dare Obasanjo, is a Principal Program Manager for Microsoft.

CAREER

In 1958, the age of 21, he enlisted in the Nigerian Army. He attended the 6-month Short Service Commission training at Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot in England, and was thereafter commissioned as an officer in the Nigerian Army. He was also trained in India at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and at the Indian Army School of Engineering. He served at 1 Area Command in Kaduna. Promoted to Chief Army Engineer, he was made commander of 2 Area Command from July 1967, which was redesignated 2 Division Rear, and then the Ibadan Garrison Organisation. During the Nigerian Civil War, he commanded the Army's 3 Marine Commando Division that took Owerri, effectively bringing an end to the civil war.
Although Brig. Ọbasanjọ did not participate in the military coup of 29 July 1975, led by Murtala Mohammed, he supported it and was named Murtala's deputy in the new government. As chief of staff of Supreme Headquarters, Obasanjo sought advice from Rogerlay of Akobi and gained support of the military. On 13 February 1976, coup plotters, led by Army Col. Dimka, marked him, Murtala and other senior military personnel for assassination. Murtala was killed during the attempted coup, but Obasanjo escaped death. The low-profile security policy adopted by Murtala had allowed the plotters easy access to their targets. The coup was foiled because the plotters missed Obasanjo and General Theophilus Danjuma, chief of army staff and de facto number three man in the country. The plotters failed to monopolize communications, although they were able to take over the radio station to announce the coup attempt.
Obasanjo and Danjuma established a chain of command and re-established security in Lagos, thereby regaining control. Obasanjo was appointed as head of state by the Supreme Military Council. Keeping the chain of command established by Murtala, Obasanjo pledged to continue the programme for the restoration of civilian government in 1979 and to carry forward the reform programme to improve the quality of public service.
in 1979, was modeled on the Constitution of the United States, with provision for a President, Senate, and House of Representatives. The country was prepared for local elections to be followed by national elections, in the hopes of returning Nigeria to civilian rule.


LATER CAREER AND SECOND PRESIDENCY
During the dictatorship of Sani Abacha (1993–1998), Obasanjo spoke out against the human rights abuses of the regime, and was imprisoned for alleged participation in an aborted coup based on testimony obtained via torture. He was released only after Abacha's sudden death on 8 June 1998. While in prison, Obasanjo became a born-again Christian.

FIRST TERM

In the 1999 elections, the first in sixteen years, Obasanjo decided to run for the presidency as the candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Obasanjo won with 62.6% of the vote, sweeping the strongly Christian Southeast and the predominantly Muslim north, but decisively lost his home region, the Southwest, to his fellow-Yoruba and Christian, Olu Falae, the only other candidate. 29 May 1999, the day Obasanjo took office as the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule, is now commemorated as Democracy Day, a public holiday in Nigeria. During Democracy Day, Nigerians host celebratory dinners and festivals around the country, having fun with family, friends and plenty of food.
Obasanjo spent most of his first term travelling abroad. He succeeded in winning at least some Western support for strengthening Nigeria's nascent democracy. Britain and the United States, in particular, were glad to have an African ally who was openly critical of abuses committed in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe at a time when many other African nations (including South Africa) were taking a softer stance. Obasanjo also won international praise for Nigeria's role in crucial regional peacekeeping missions in Sierra Leone and Liberia. The international community was guided in its approach to Obasanjo in part by Nigeria's status as one of the world's 10 biggest oil exporters as well as by fears that, as the continent's most populous nation, Nigerian internal divisions risked negatively affecting the entire continent.
Some public officials like the National Assembly speaker and Senate president were involved in conflicts with the president, who had to battle many impeachment moves from both houses. Obasanjo managed to survive impeachment and was renominated.

SECOND TERM

Obasanjo was re-elected in a tumultuous 2003 election that had violent ethnic and religious overtones. His main opponent, fellow former military ruler General Muhammadu Buhari, was Muslim and drew his support mainly from the north. Capturing 61.8% of the vote, Obasanjo defeated Buhari by more than 11 million votes.
In November 2003, Obasanjo was criticized for his decision to grant asylum to the deposed Liberian president, Charles Taylor.
On June 12, 2006 he signed the Greentree Agreement with Cameroonian President Paul Biya which formally put an end to the Bakassi peninsula border dispute. Even though the Nigerian Senate passed a resolution declaring that the withdrawal of Nigerian troops from the Bakassi Peninsula was illegal, Obasanjo gave the order for it to continue as planned.

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEBT PAYMENT

Before Obasanjo's administration, Nigeria's GDP growth had been painfully slow since 1987, and only managed 3 per cent between 1999/2000. However, under Obasanjo the growth rate doubled to 6 per cent until he left office, helped in part by higher oil prices. Nigeria's foreign reserves rose from $2 billion in 1999 to $43 billion on leaving office in 2007. He was able to secure debt pardons from the Paris and London club amounting to some $18 billion and paid another $18 billion to be debt free. Most of these loans were accumulated from short term trade arrears during the exchange control period. (Point of correction). Most of these loans were accumulated not out of corruption but during a period 1982-1985 when Nigeria operated exchange control regime that vested all foreign exchange transactions on the central bank of Nigeria. The naira exchange rate to the US dollar and other major currencies during this period was highly regulated and artificially high. Nigerian importers paid local currency equivalent to the central bank through their local commercial banks but during the oil glut period of 1982-86 when foreign exchange was scarce the central bank did not have enough foreign exchange to pay for current imports. This resulted in short term foreign trade payment arrears. Short term trade arrears averaged about US$3.0 billion each year between 1983 and 1986 when the new military government of General Babangida floated the naira and imports were thereafter paid for on a current basis.

Nigeria stopped accumulating short term foreign trade payment arrears beginning from 1986. Before then, yearly accumulation of around US$3.0 billion created the foreign debt for Nigeria. Subsequent growth of Nigeria's debt was due to interest on the previous year's stock of short term trade debt owed to export credit agencies and non-insured creditors (According to CBN Annual Reports 1983-1986). This information to refute the claim that corruption was the source of Nigeria's past foreign debt is supplied by Osarenren F. Asemota Former CBN Balance of Payment Staff).

CABINET (FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL)

Obasanjo made frequent changes to his cabinet of Federal Ministers and Ministers of State during his two terms of office, and periodically split or combined ministries. He made a major cabinet reshuffle in June 2000. In January 2001, he dissolved his cabinet, appointing Mr Mike Umelo his speech writer, who turned down the offer in favour of accepting a place at Leeds University to pursue a Post Graduate study in Philosophy. In December 2004, he named 12 new ministers. In June 2005 he reshuffled his cabinet again. In January 2007, a few months before leaving office, he made yet another drastic overhaul.

As elder stateman and former President, His Excellency, Gen, Olusegun Obasanjo celebrates Eighty(80) of a fulfilled life on earth on Sunday 5th March, 2017, kindly leave a comment here, to congratulate this man of uncommon spirit, a fearless man, the man who says it as he sees it no matter how close you may be to him. At 80 years, he has continued to remain relevant in Nigerian politics and matters of national concerns.

We shall be exploring the lives and times of this great Nigerian. Love or hate him, he remains arguably, the greatest Nigeria to have ever lived.

THE MAN OLUSEGUN OBASANJO
Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo, GCFR, was born on the 5th day of March 1937. He is a former Nigerian Army general who was President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. A Nigerian of Yoruba descent, Obasanjo was a career soldier before serving twice as his nation's head of state. He served as a military ruler from 13 February 1976 to 1 October 1979, and as a democratically elected president from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. From July 2004 to January 2006, Obasanjo also served as Chairperson of the African Union.
Olusegun is a member of the Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of ten distinguished individuals who advocate at the highest levels for equitable and sustainable development in Africa. As a Panel Member, he facilitates coalition building to leverage and broker knowledge, and convenes decision-makers to influence policy for lasting change in Africa.
His current home is Abeokuta, the capital city of Ogun State, where he is a nobleman as the holder of the chieftaincy titles of the Balogun of the Owu lingeage and the Ekerin Balogun of the Egba clan of Yorubaland.

The Nigerian Police paraded the remains of the notorious kidnapper and robber, Henry Chibueze, also known as Vampire at the police headquarters in Owerri on Thursday.

The police also revealed at the same time the mind chilling killings carried out by the gangster and his followers.

According to the police, Vampire, by his own admission, had killed over 200 people, beginning from wiping out his girlfriend and eight members of her family in Lagos. “He had earlier confessed to the murder of his girlfriend, Sandra and eight members of her family, among them six children in Lagos State. “He alleged that the girlfriend stole his N45 million share of N110 million ransom paid by the family of one of his victims in Omoku, Rivers State,” said CSP Jimoh Moshood, the Force headquarter spokesman.
The police described Vampire as a cultist who later turned into a vicious and dangerous kidnapper and armed robber. He was first declared wanted in 2013. Police said he was responsible for many cases of kidnappings, robberies, murder of notable and prominent personalities in Imo and other South Eastern and South-South States. “He is a serial killer who also confessed to have killed over 200 people in various kidnappings and armed robbery attacks. “He claimed responsibility for the murder of the following persons; Placid Ejimadu (Nze Ji Obi), Jonathan Ibemere aka gwuogwuo and Livinus Iwumune all natives of Agbaja Nwangele Local Government in Imo.’’ Police said Vampire also killed a member of the Imo State House of Assembly at Orji in 2015, and murdered the wife of the traditional ruler of Mbaise in 2015. The woman’s corpse had not been seen till date.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/vampire-killed-girlfriend-200-people-police/

Islie:
[b]Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, raided the residence of General Sarki Mukhtar and recovered jewelry worth millions of naira





http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/health/efcc-raids-mukhtars-house-recovers-millions-worth-of-jewelry/187570.html


Pic: Sarki at a security meeting while National Security Adviser

Does that mean that any office holder in past is not qualified to own houses and luxury items again?

At least 45 serving and past presidents across the globe are expected to grace the 80th birthday ceremony of former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, an official has said.
The Chairman, Publicity and Media Sub-committee of ‘Obasanjo at 80’, Dayo Adeneye, stated this on Wednesday while speaking with journalists.
Mr. Adeneye, who is the Ogun State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, said the high point of the ceremony will include the commissioning of the multi-billion naira Presidential Library and Mosque
He said the world leaders would witness the opening of the two major projects in Abeokuta.
He described Mr. Obasanjo as a worthy and exemplary leader worthy of emulation
Mr. Adeneye described the celebrant as the architect of modern Nigeria.
He said the grand opening of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) attested to the popularity and honour bestowed on him as one who has continue to contribute to the development of the nation and humanity.
“Obasanjo is a worthy and exemplary leader, who, most leaders in the world, are emulating his leadership skills. Let me say that no fewer than 45 serving and past presidents and 700 important personalities in the world would attend the grand opening of OOPL this weekend,” he stated.


“The library is first of its kind in Nigeria and has over 42 million knowledgeable materials, books and documents, including Obasanjo’s primary school uniform, shoe, military cap and uniform, first car (Volkswagen) and other personal things”, he added.
He said despite the fact that the former president was no more in government, he still relates with present and past leaders in Nigeria and other countries, due to his vast experience in government.
‎Speaking in the same vein, Peter Okebukola, Chairman, Obasanjo at 80 Celebration Committee, described the former president as an epitome of knowledge, who has used his wealth of experience in government and agriculture to transform his country and others.
Mr. Okebukola said the history of Nigeria would be incomplete without mentioning Mr. Obasanjo.

ironheart:
Sound like what they call metal bearing of the crankshaft, they normally change it from under the car. But be careful cos they can do a shoddy job n ur car will start blowing oil through the rings. Happen to me

ok. Tnx

LeJeun3:



Is that the recommended oil!?

5w30 is recommended and 5w40 is suitable. Moreover, the service record book that came with car it that the car was serviced with 5w30 and at some points 10w40 or 5w40 Total.

Merciful God. To you be all the glory

Love Machine:
No be the same Obasanjo send soldiers to go and destroyed odi and zarki biam?Hypocrite.

How does this come in to make any sense here?

Plenty Sons-inlaws

Are Dangote trucks and Peace Mass buses competing for accidents on Nigerian roads?

diportivo:
Ur car uses a timing chain

Na d katikati sound wey u dey hear be dat

Out of curiosity, which oil dyu use in servicing it?

I use Total 5w40.

GAZZUZZ:
record sound, send to me on whatsapp. 08033910382

Ok, i will. Tnx

mosbus:
What kind of car is it,and I hope your air recycling switch is not off,bcuz in most cases when the switch is off there is a door inside the engine room in which the switch controls,once the door is opened the air from your engine will be passing through.so confirm the switch and put it ON
Here is the switch below

Ok, tnx

mosbus:
Before you refill gas into the air conditioning system.It is important to vacuum the system to remove any air or moisture that can cause harm to the system,and also reduce the amount of gas quantity the system will take.
By definition AIR occupy space.
Air in the system reduce the cooling performance of the air condition and also allows the pipe to freeze up.
Then the ice produce will dissolve and produce condense water.
Condense water practically corrode the AC system e.g EVAPORATOR.
The evaporator is where the ice is been form and before you know,it will start leaking.
Always make sure that your A/C system is vacuum before refilling of gas.
if you have any issue on your auto air condition fill free to ask question,here is my whatsapp group number 08026941215.
you can also give me a call on same number

Air blows out of one of the air vents in my car (the driver's side) when the car is in motion, but without the AC on. Any cause for alarm, sir?

Inception:

Gazzuzz! Your attention is needed at the porter's lodge!

That may not be the really description of the sound, it's something like that or kikikiki . If you know what am sayin, drop a needful comment, otherwise, remove your headset and receive healing to ears now.

Help, my car Nissan Primera car ( from within the engine passenger side)give a katikati sound at cold start, but later vanishes or stops after long in motion. Also at times, a strange noise (chain-like-sounds) come on when on motion, particularly when climbing a hill, but later stops. I told this to my mechanic in Abuja, he said it is oil seal(can't really remember the name again) that has 'chopped' and needs to be replaced.