I felt Mikel should have left the pitch after 35 minutes. Draft in Iwobi to that position then bring in iheanachor or Musa....if he so loves Mikel...he should have swapped his position with that of Etebo who is more aggressive with lots of energy . Ebuehi in for Shehu (rusty and lacking pace).
Wondered why Rohr did that interview after the match in German....He made sure a lot don’t understand what he says...
Mikel on my bench next match....do a 3-5-2 against Argentina and Iceland
Senator Dino Melaye, on Monday afternoon, released a lengthy statement detailing how he was arrested by over 200 policemen and attacked by the Federal Government.
Melaye revealed that he was pounced on by the government for speaking the truth and demanding accountability. He also thanked the Nigerian people for standing by him, he praised the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, describing him as a man with a vision for Nigeria.
PoliticsNGR obtained the statement. Read it below;
"1. Someone once said, that, rock bottom is good solid ground and a dead-end street is just a place to turn around. In the last few weeks, I have been taken to the good solid ground at the rock bottom and they couldn’t go further. I have been brought to the dead-end street but with you standing by my side, I have turned around and bounced back to the chagrin of those who sought to seal my lips from speaking out against tyranny, politics of oppression and blackmail. They, unleashed an endless barrage of physical, psychological, metaphysical and emotional torture and assault on me, but, through the power of the Most High, and you the good people of Nigeria, we have once again, seen the triumph of truth over lies and good over evil.
2. It was Edmund Burke who was quoted as saying that when bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, … in a contemptible struggle. I am of all men, a blessed man, to have courageous and dependable people like you as my fellow soldiers in the struggle to free us from the shackles of political strongholds and tyranny. It is to you and my most wonderful and ever knowledgeable people of Kogi State, especially Kogi West, that I owe my deepest gratitude. You stood by me against the state and your own ‘best political self-interest’.
3. The state unleashed its raw power on me and released a 200 man-strong fully armed policemen - on a man without a knife nor a bullet. It did this because I called injustice by its name and called for accountability. For this they sought to break my spirit and destroy me permanently. In their moment of reign, I was fully shackled. With my hands tied to my back, and hurled into a dark solitary confinement waiting for the butchers knife, you, my people stood by me. You came against a raging fire and stood up against tyranny, lies, filthy lucre, injustice, persecution and greed. While in the dark and unable to fight for myself, they sought to take my mandate, which you had freely given to me. But you answered back and quenched deceit in its wake. You stood resolute and unflinching and defended your mandate to me. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. In their attempt to break me, they have made me stronger.
4. To you my indefatigable leaders; my irremovable President of the Senate, a man of immeasurable vision for Nigeria and true fighter for the enthronement of true democracy and the rule of law, Sen. (Dr.) Abubakar Bukola Saraki. The fearless Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, I thank you both for your steadfastness in the defence of the Nigerian Constitution and the enthronement of the Rule of Law, justice and equity and the emasculation of anti-democratic forces and tyranny everywhere in Nigeria. I am eternally grateful to you. 5. To the entire National Assembly Membership, especially my colleagues in the Senate, I am eternally indebted to you for not playing politics but standing courageously against oppression and terror. You have shown yourself leaders on whom Nigeria’s hope for tomorrow can be assured.
6. To you our governors, ministers, my dear Okun people and leaders, the National Chairman and Kogi State Executive of the PDP, leaders of the Diplomatic Corps, opinion leaders, Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN, Chief Ricky Tarfa SAN, human rights lawyers and activists, and all my well-wishers and lovers of democracy in Nigeria; the Christian and Muslim Community, all of you that visited me in the National Hospital, after I was injured and subsequently detained at the hospital. I thank you all for your steadfastness in the defence of due process and the rule of law. I also thank you for your courage and solidarity.
7. Our ever foresighted and courageous civil society leadership, the media, leaders of thought across the country, our hard-working youth for whom I will give my last blood, our loving mothers and sisters, I lack words to express to you my profound gratitude for the unbreakable chord of love that binds me to you through thick and thin. You have strengthened my resolve and hardened my flesh against those who seek to devour and make meat of me. You have once again proven to me the axiom in the saying that “in prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends." I am very grateful. For your sake, I remain unbowed.
8. I know many of you worry about my safety and life in this new dispensation where life is no longer sacred in Nigeria. But do not be troubled. My bond of love for you, my good people, makes it impossible for me to consider my self-risk, safety, comfort or opportunity in my unflinching commitment to stand up for you, to stand up for truth and if necessary die for the truth and the emancipation of our people from the chains of poverty and oppression. Though they raise spurious allegations against me, bear false witness against me, though they seek to frighten me and lure me into their bounty of evil, I will fear no foe.
9. Yes, my traducers and torturers wish that I keep quiet; though they seek to seal my lips, to silence my voice forever, I remain ever more resolute and committed. I am committed to this cause for which I am a politician; the cause of the down trodden, to speak truth to power and stand against oppression and injustice. On these issues there will be no compromise. I owe no apologies and I tender none.
10. Like I have always said, you speak the truth, you die, you don’t speak the truth, you die. I have chosen to speak the truth, dead or alive. Rev. Martin Luther King Jnr., once said, “Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politics? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.”
11. To my people, I promise you this and this only. I have taken my position, I will not hold back, I will not hold my peace, I will not be shut down, neither will I shut-up, not as long as injustice and falsehood continues to reign, as long as I will live, I will not bow to Baal.
12. May the Almighty continue to keep you all and be your bulwark until victory is assured. Once again, I thank you all so much.
Who is Dino in the scheme of things? Can you say exactly what he contributed to Buhari's election? This was someone who lost his House of Representative re-election bid! In fact, i can say he is one of the politicians that hid behind Buhari to get elected!
meethumb: ABACITYBLOG has obtained a video showing the embattled Senator representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye, where he threatened to kill himself and put the police that arrested him in trouble.
The senator who was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, According to a tweet, posted on his Twitter account on Monday morning, was on his way to Morocco for an official engagement.
Before his arrest, the police had declared him wanted. The lawmaker was declared wanted alongside Mohammed Audu, son of a former governor of Kogi state, Abubakar Audu.
According to the Police, the duo have also been placed on Interpol watchlist for allegedly providing false information to the police in relation to an allegation of attempted murder on Melaye’s life sometime last year.
Click the link to watch the video showing how the senator was sitting on a bare floor while the security agents surround him.
waiting for him to shout “sai Baba”....BTW no peace for criminals, it’s simply time dependent ...when you joined in fighting “A” to get “B “ in place,and succeeded....then you start fighting “B crew” . When “B” mobilizes for you indirectly/directly ...sign your death warrant. “A” is just by that pepper-soup joint laughing at you...LOL
joseph6071: The Very Controversial Cynthia Nwadiora, also known as CeeC has revealed why she accused Alex of throwing herlself to other male housemates.
Recall during the live show yesterday, CeeC told Ebuka that Alex was fond of throwing herself at all the male housemates, showing off her boobs and ass everywhere. In her words: so much bitterness in her!
“Alex throws herself at all the guys in the house, showing boobs and ass everywhere,” She told BBN host, Ebuka after he asked her about the relationship between Alex and Tobi.
However, when asked by Nina why she described Alex that way, Cee-c said “Khloe told me that Alex took away Leo from her and Bambam also told me the same with Teddy A.
“So, what I told Ebuka about her tonight with Tobi is what I heard from other female housemates.”
President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate to confirm Festus Okoye as National Commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Mr Okoye is among 26 new appointees the president wrote, in separate letters, to the Senate for confirmation.
Mr Buhari’s request on Mr Okoye was contained in a letter read by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, shortly before the Senate adjourned plenary on Tuesday.
“In accordance with the provision of section 154(1) of the 1999 constitution as amended, I rise to forward to the distinguished senators the name of Barrister Festus Okoye for confirmation as National Commissioner representing South-east geo-political zone.
“While hoping that this request will receive the usual expeditious consideration, please accept Mr President the assurances of my highest regard,” the letter reads.
Mr Okoye, an indigene of Imo State, is the Executive Director, Human Rights Monitor, and a Solicitor at the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
In other letters dispatched to the Senate, Mr Buhari also sought the confirmation of 23 members of National Population Commission and two non-legal practitioners as members of Federal Judicial Service Commission.
The two non-legal practitioners are; Abba Ali (Katsina-North west) and Mohammed Sagir (Niger-North central).
The 23 nominees for the National Population Commission are; Nwanne Johnny Nwabuisi (Abia), Dr Clifford Zirra (Adamawa), Mr Chidi Christopher Ezeoke(Anambra), Barrister Isa Audu Buratai (Borno), Navy Captain Charles Iyam Ogwa(Cross River), Sir Richard Odibo(Delta), Okereke Darlington Onaubuchi (Ebonyi) and Mr A.D. Olusegun Aiyajina (Edo).
Others are; Ejike Ezeh (Enugu), Hon. Abubakar Mohammed Danburam (Gombe), Prof. Uba S.F. Nnabue (Imo), Dr. Abdulmalik Mohammed Durunguwa (Kaduna), Sulaiman Ismaila Lawal (Kano), Prof. Jimoh Habibat Isah (Kogi), Dr. Sa’adu Ayinla Alanamu (Kwara), Nasir Isa kwarra (Nasarawa).
Also nominated are: Barrister Aliyu Datti (Niger), Yeye (Mrs) Seyi Adererinokun Olusanya (Ogun), Prince Oladiran Garvey Iyantan (Ondo), Senator Mudashiru Oyetunde Hussain (Osun), Mrs Cecilia Arsun Dapoet ()Plateau, Dr. Ipalibo Macdonald Harry (Rivers), Sale S. Saany (Taraba).
sarrki: You are the only Governor working in the east
Carry Go
it’s gradually glaring to note that you just won’t stop ranting all over any thread. Because of his soft spot for your buhari that’s the reason to tag him the only governor working in the south east...learn to speak the truth always or STFU....
lodgerill2: BBC reporter, Stephanie Hegarty has slammed the Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture for attending Golf Game in Abuja while Dapchi school girls are missing.
The concerned BBC journalist wrote via his Twitter handle; "Ten days after the Dapchi attack and 110 school children are still missing, meanwhile Nigeria’s Minister of Information is sending out press releases about golf."
niyica: Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed doubts over Nigeria’s exit from economic recession.
He made this known in his keynote address while picking the Silverbird’s 2017 man of the year award in Lagos during the weekend.
He said: “Last year, we celebrated the fact that we exited our first recession in 25 years. To me, that celebration was premature. You might be right...
“After contracting for five consecutive quarters, Nigeria came out of recession in the second quarter of 2017 with a GDP growth rate of 0.55 per cent. In the third quarter, we fared better with 1.40 per cent.
“While this looks somewhat like we exited the recession, the reality is that when you factor in our population growth rate of 2.3 per cent, which is one of the highest in the world, have we really exited a recession? Technically, yes, but in reality, it is doubtful.”
lawman88: Something will definitely happen: It's either oyegun go down or tinubu go down.....but it seems tinubu may be the one to fall...buhari is desperate to get south south , so oyegun is still very important to him, he can get southwest without tinubu......
Where were they when part of there land have been ceded to Their masters up north
Fulani's
honestly, you sound like a kindergarten most times, and as if you’ve got no other life apart from your cheap lines here. Get a sound life....it will show when you have one.
PMB is certainly going back to Daura come 2019 and so shall it be.
I know many people will start condemning the messenger now, not focusing on the message. As for me, I know that IBB is not a saint himself, I know OBJ is also not in the right position to condemn PMB, neither is GEJ also has the right but the good news to me is that BOTH GOOD AND BAD PEOPLE HAVE ALL REJECTED PMB!
So, PMB, pack your loads and get ready to go back to your cows in Daura. Enough is enough!
abeg,ambode try and teach him how to develop his state....he doesnt know anything
move around states outside yours ( if lagos is even your state) and get more education. Enugu Govs ,past and present have been great with developing the state.
fulaniHERDSman: To think that this wretched ragtag subhumans are the 1st class citizens and owners of Nigeria. Filths, scums and lowest of lows of sapiens. What burden is bigger than being a Nigerian?
Fred days after by Olo kpa! Most likely. ....This country sef
I simply just cant believe that the Nigerian Army are still peddling this obvious lie, that they were were chasing a truck full of arms and ended up in Kanu's compound?
If it was actually true that the Nigerian Army chased a Truck full of arms into Kanu's compound, why is it that no one has seen pictures of this truck full of arms?
Surely, the Nigerian Army that loves to display bodies of boko haram fighters killed and the cache of weapons recovered from them, just could not show us the truck full of weapons they chased into Kanu's compound?
Yet, the very next day, the Nigerian Arny released a statement pronouncing IPOB as a terrorist organisation and the nearest they said IPOB came to having guns was the one "they tried to snatch"
Yet, the Nigerian army claims they chased a truck full of arms into Kanu's compound? Which no one has ever seen even a picture of?
I can only but laugh in French
they tuned this up on Abaribe , probably because of his comment on OBJ’s letter against PMB
lawman88: If you think they are targeting only Benue and Taraba, you are dreaming. It is time the entire south and middle belt take fierce action to deal with this people regardless of political affiliation. OPC should rise up and show them. It's time we form militia group or vigilante force in all southern states and middle belt. After all, they have Hisba police arresting southerners doing legal businesses in the North. Yoruba e ronu! Middle belt think twice! Southerners wake up, their agenda is real!!!!!!! Their agenda is not only to islamize, it is also to 'Fulanize' the south and seize it leadership as they have done to the Hausas. For the past 30 years, there is no top political or traditional leader from Kano that is Hausa.meanwhile Kano was once 100% Hausas before the jihad....
Ever since the love letter sent by OBJ and the total rejection of this government by Nigerians and Donald Trump, a lot of the paid agents have lost their 50 Naira per post and are beginning to sang on low tones
Party ko, Well meaningful Nigeria ni
am not used to this ....you are been a Pussy .I have been reading your ass licking post on APC and Buhari ...A man stands for what He believes in.
After OBJ’s letter, sense has gradually fallen on you.
Ur talent would have been more useful only if you had stood for fairness and justice.
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