Buhari leading with a wide marging, Rochars Okorocha leading Atiku at the moment. Atiku is second to last while Ndi Isiah is without a vote. Counting still on

GMB is leading by 10 to 1 by counting.......... Atiku is way behind, Rabiu is currently occupying the second position

The counting has begun and i am live at the venue, Buhari is leading thus far, and Rabiu Musa on the other hand is closing up on GMB. Atiku is way behind at the moment.

Interesting times ahead people....... #TeamBuhari

TheRealMrStan:
Pls be specific on the unverifiable news that was posted on FP, and whether 'source' was indicated or not.

If source was indicated, what makes Premium Times or TVC more credible/verifiable than the source our mods quoted?

Ur response will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

I remember reading a post about some APC's presidential candidates stepping down earlier, though you have quoted a better source this "Sahara"

Keep the work going guzs

What are the Mods doing with front page? Are they trying to mislead us the members? Seun kindly step in and ensure you verify every information before taking it to the front page. Its so unprofessional reading all these unverified information on front page.

Try and encourage your mods to watch TVC or follow Punch and Premiums Times

Today indeed is a great day and I am most excited about the showdown of today's APC presidential primaries.

However, its important I state here clearly my total support for the general, and I wish him the very best of today's victory.

Regards to all the candidates, I love them all and we are glad we men like them in the party.

#ChangeInAbuja

He came to have a good look at the office ahead of next year

Jimi Gbaje wins Lagos PDP Governorship primaries. Congratulations to him.

One do not need to be a prophet to know that PDP would be the main opposition come next year after the general election, but do see the PDP as formidable force? Imagine Doyin Okupe, Ruben Abati and Olisa Metu ditching out press release about the APC lead government.......

Its going to be very funny and real to many...... Please drop your view

Source: Premiumtimes

While Nigerians wait for closure on the $15 million arms money seized by South African prosecutors, authorities in the two countries appear to have agreed on an unholy barter to exchange bodies of South Africans who died in the Synagogue Church collapse in Nigeria, for South African-made arms needed by Nigeria to fight Boko Haram, The Mail and Guardian, one of South Africa’s most respected newspapers, has reported.South Africa confiscated the money from arms brokers who traveled there to procure arms for the Nigerian military.

Mail and Guardian said it saw two letters written by Jeff Radebe, the South African special envoy in charge of facilitating the repatriation of the bodies, to JP “Torie” Pretorius, of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations, also known as the Hawks, and Dumisani Dladla, head of South African National Conventional Arms Control Committee, NCACC, secretariat, seeking to assist the Nigerian government to get the weapons, despite two court orders freezing the money and continued probe into the dubious deals by investigators.

On November 16, with the supervision of Mr. Radebe, 74 bodies were repatriated to South Africa following the September collapse of the Synagogue Church in Lagos, Nigeria. Majority of the dead were South Africans who visited the church hoping to receive miracles from the founder, T. B. Joshua. Many in South Africa hailed Mr. Radebe as a hero for being able to secure the release of the bodies. But the news that he might have entered into a sinister swap agreement with Nigerian officials to accelerate the return of the bodies has cast a pall over that heroic persona.

The South African government has dismissed the Mail and Guardian’s account as an attempt to “discredit the collaborative efforts of the South African and Nigerian governments to repatriate the bodies of South Africans that died in Nigeria”. But the paper, in a follow-up report, said it stood by its findings, as they were backed by documents and confirmations from government officials.
“It includes correspondence from Minister Radebe to the Hawks and internal emails from senior government officials,” Mail and Guardian editor, Angela Quintal, said. “The email trail clearly shows that these officials were discussing the minister’s request that the investigation be halted and that they were concerned about this.”
In the letters Mail and Guardian quoted, Mr. Radebe, who is also the Chairman of NCACC and a minister in the South African presidency, tried hard to whitewash the deals as legitimate.

“(It) was, in fact, a legitimate requirement from the government of Nigeria,” he was quoted to have written. “Although the required administrative processes were not adhered to at the time, the government of South Africa deems it a bona fide error.” He told Mr. Dladla to “laise” with Mr. Pretorius to “obtain all relevant information in order to assist the parties involved to apply for the necessary authorisations in compliance with the National Conventional Arms Control Amendment Act (no 73 of 2008);” adding that “Upon receipt of the required permit applications, the national conventional arms control committee will favourably consider ex-post facto approval thereof.” Though Mr. Radebe claimed that the attempt to help Nigeria clean up the arms deal was collectively agreed at an NCACC meeting, other members of the committee are distancing themselves from the agreement.
Also, while he claimed, through his spokesperson, that the committee agreed to help Nigeria legitimise the deals at its October 30 meeting, the letter seen by Mail and Guardian was dated October 6, three weeks before the meeting was held, the newspaper said.

Mr. Radebe also said that the repatriation of the bodies lay under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Lagos State government and “had no relation to the arms matter. ”He said he drafted the letters to Hawks and the directorate for conventional arms control “after consultation with the Federal Republic of Nigeria”. Mail and Guardian quoted a cabinet minister, who is also a member of the arms committee, as saying that Mr. Radebe singlehandedly wrote the letter without consulting other committee members. He said Mr. Radebe merely sought their approval after the letter had been delivered. “Jeff cut this deal all by himself. He wanted to claim credit for cracking this matter [securing the return of bodies,” said the government official. “His colleagues who serve on the arms committee are distancing themselves from the whole thing. They are refusing to back him on this one. If we allow Nigeria to get away with this, it means any country can come and do the same. ”Mr. Radebe appeared to be completely isolated on the matter as prosecutors said they are not relenting in their effort at getting to the bottom of the matter. Paul Ramaloko, a captain with the Hawks said his organisation is forging ahead with its investigation and that he knew nothing about the attempt of Mr. Radebe to withdraw the charges. Mail and Guardian said Mr. Radebe’s letters are being discussed within the country’s diplomatic circles with officials wondering what to do with it. An email the newspaper claimed it saw read: “What concerns the NCAI [National Arms Control Inspectorate] about this case is that there are no documents … end-user certificate, or otherwise … from the Nigerian government that they had ordered the arms and ammunition. Thus far, there is no proof that has been provided that the Nigerian government ordered these goods or is in any way involved in this deal.” The officials who wrote the email added that, having bought arms from South Africa before, “the responsible officials in that country understand the administrative and legal process that South Africa requires”. Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, could not be reached for comments. His spokesperson, Adebisi Adekunle, could not also be contacted as calls to his telephone were unsuccessful. A spokesperson to President Goodluck Jonathan, Reuben Abati, did not also respond to calls to his phones.

brownlord:
Banicanst, Gbawe and cohort must have reported to the paymaster for exposing their motivating factor. And the Gbawe faction no longer comfortable with him here after exposing their a s s

All in all, you still inconsequential and won't even notice your exit.

People that reason like you shouldn't be here you know

Seun are you trying to check the functionality of the new Mac Pro by posting this piece? lol... Its nice to read a post from you, you should share your pics with us soon...

Its funny to me in all ways..................

When good men run for elective positions, they always win, and am certain of our General#ThinkAbuja #ThinkSokoto #ThinkLagos

Shortly before Yar'Adua died, NITEL/MTEL was retrieved from Trancorp for a re-sale. Then, New Generations Telecommunications Consortium offered of $2.5 billion, while the reserved bidder was Omen International Limited with price offer of
$956.998 million. When GEJ took over, he refused to allow the highest bidder to pay giving series of excuses to frustrate the highest bidder. It was reported in the dailies then that GEJ was interested in selling NITEL for his people. I expect premium times to give us amount offered by New Generation Communications Limited and Omen International in their report. It is very ridiculous that same asset that worth $2.5bn in 2011 is sold for $242.3m in 2014. GEJ is truly the best President Nigeria ever had since independence but which Nigeria should never dream of having again and which I strongly pray to God not to ever have again in the history of this Nation beyond expiration of his tenure in 2015. This is when I expect our so called men of God to start praying for this Nation to have the best leader come 2015, rather one Bosun Emmanuel of RCCG campaigning for GEJ to come again adjudging GEJ and Abacha as the best president Nigeria ever had.

Today is another testing ground for the big boys in Abuja, where only the mighty dares to be. I know you all can't wait for the gate climbing drama season 2, I am as eager as you all are, and I can't wait to see the police getting back today knowing fully well they were outplayed the last time by the big boys.

Please write a script ahead of the event, its high time we know who the real political pundits are on NL.

GAME ON!!!!!!!

Firstly, you are not the leader of APC on NL, once you get that to your fingers and your device keys,then you see how you would be accepted. You are not as progressive as some of us are, its better you stop the attention seeking game. try to be the game changer by being urself

We are also ready to have him as our own Senate president........ With APC in Abuja, Fashola can do so much for the country

pendy179:
I can simply guess you want to earn the money you were promised based on your last thread on NL that you were contacted for pro-government agenda on NL.

Would advise you create your own thread with originality of purpose and intent rather than launching a personality attack on another.

In as much as I'm not speaking for the person you mentioned and the fact I didn't read the content of his thread, I think I saw a ? At the end of the title you refer.
So maybe he didn't see the president's comdemnation, only him could answer that.

By the way, everyone is at liberty to create a thread on NL not sure it calls for scrutiny or critic, counter a thread by creating a counter thread and then provide superior arguement

And do you think you have done same? You should kindly go through his thread before you defend him, he got it wrong with the post.

RIP to a great one

We are intoxicated with politics. The premium on political power is so high that we are prone to take the most extreme measures in order to win and maintain political power, our energy tends to be channelled into the struggle for power to the detriment of economically productive effort, and we habitually seek political solutions to virtually every problem. Such are the manifestations of the over politicization of social life in Nigeria.

Yes, it is true we are progressive, it is also true that we wish for change in Abuja come next year but, we must be liberal in attitude. And when we discuss politics, we must recognize and respect our differences regardless of our political affiliation. Simply, people disagree about issues, so its not strange to see APC and PDP going at each other on NL. Hence, its important we bring one of our own "Cramjones" to order.

I am personally disappointed over his recent thread titled "Has Jonathan Condemned The Kano Bombing?". We may not like Gej administration but, that doesn't give anyone the moral justification to disrespect the office of the presidency. In short, it’s not right to wish for another bomb attack neither is it progressive to address supporters of Gej as fool as indicated in your thread. We must also put them into action, and recognize that implementing an ideal requires weighing the difficulties of specific challenges and searching for solutions that works.

Again, we should begin by affirming what we share and sell our ideals and values to the people. We should also share ideals of positive liberty and equality of opportunity, and our disagreements may be more about how to balance tradition and order with the need for change, or how we determine whether and for whom a solution is working. Again, often the best we can hope for is to affirm the points on which we agree, clarify the points on which we disagree, and respectfully accept that disagreement.

As liberal progressives, we should be able to have productive conversations with both the APC and the PDP. It’s not enough to call ourselves liberal progressives. For those words to be more than mere labels, we must practice them: testing goals against our liberal ideals, and seeking solutions through the progressive method.

OAM.........

Babyboy1986:
He visit no go change anything.

At least he did, GEJ should do same by going to Chibok. His visit is more of moral boost to the people, you have to be a leader to know its essence

The distinction between APC and PDP is clear. APC is a party that is based on ideology, one that values development be it on Health, Education, Policies, Security and human capital development. PDP can decamp for all we care but, they must flow and abide by our ideology. You can keep hating but that doesn't change anything#ChangeInAbuja #APCInLagos

OAM

victorels:

I write my post and copY any that interest me. Have you gone through my profile?
I seem to have read meaning to the point you mentioned progressive and persuasive which promoted me to ask a question. You did not clear me but prefer to counter me.
But not to worry, I have corrected myself.

No beef man, your profile is not bad,2008 is quite commendable, I guess you were being emotional with your first comment. Now on I look out for you here. Lol

barcanista:
I agree with you Bro Ngwakwe I so agree with you. Even if true, I don't expect him to bring such to public, the best he could do is to accept or reject base on whatever motivates him.

You absolutely right, I shared the story cause I want the sender to read it. Its my way of telling him am not interested

Ngwakwe:
You only have 59 posts consisting of 23 topics and 36 comments since 3 years.

You aren't even consistent nor participatory. How come this PR Recruitment Officer able to judge your power of persuasion, creative ideas and influence?

Sorry, your story and your Nairaland records are contradictory

I believe you more active on the romance section so am not going to join issues with you. However, its important to let you know that I am a busy person, I don't have to have thousands of post for you to believe my story. People like us don't crave for FP as I believe its a big reward for people like you. My handle here is same with my Punchonline, I guess you have check that as well.

victorels:


"He sounde progressive" and you quote Cramjone, bacanister etc that are loud mouth progressives and your topic is PDP. How far guy.

If you envy them, why don't you stop coping and pasting news from Punch and write your own post, that way we know you belong to the league.

barcanista:
I was recruited by my conviction and my conscience. I don't promote the government, I only advocate for change. My confidence and promotion of General Muhammadu Buhari is out of patriotism and never for material gains(of course I will gain when things get right in Nigeria just like everyone else).

Thank You

There are few people I admire on NL, and you happened to be one of them

I hard a very busy day yesterday at the office, and as a result I couldn't go through my mail last night "I checked NL doh" on checking my mail this morning, I was surprised to see a mail from an unknown sender with the caption "The New Age" the content of the mail was direct and straight to the point. The sender stressed the need for me to accept the offer of taking part in the social media campaign ahead off of 2015, taking into consideration how the opposition has hijacked the social media from the present administration.

The sender ended the mail by saying its an offer of first refusal. And I replied by saying am not a blogger neither do I work for a media house. I was shocked to get an instant reply from same sender within 10mins. This particular sender went further in telling me about my various post on Nairaland not minding my hard stand against the present administration. He claimed to be fascinated by my growing writing skills "Believe me all Gov PR teams are on NL". Sensing how serious this unknown sender was, I asked him to reveal his identity if he wants me to consider his proposed offer, and surprisingly he mailed his phone digits numbers to me. I called him and we talked for some minutes, he sound progressive and persuasive in a way but, that didn't move me at all.

#Cramjones, #Barcanista, #Amabeautifulchik, were you all recruited this way by people in Government?
I promised to mail him back within the week.

abeautifulchick:


It dosnt matter if i am number 3 out of 26.There is this popular saying that less is actually more.It dosnt take much people to make a right decision.Even the way to heaven is narrow not too many people are needed.Majority of the people condeming him will do worst in his situation.JUDGE NO ONE.

So as educated as you are, you believe 3 is more to 26? Please do not think like your pay master knowing the fact you a lady.. Think positive and try not to rubbish your beautiful piece above

When there is a GOOD leader, there is a PLAN, and when there is a plan, we witness DEVELOPMENT, it then bring PROSPERITY to the people. And when we prosper, PEACE comes to play. And when peace is present UNITY is achieved.

How best can we relate our present administration to the above piece? I like Gej but, I hate his administration..

Please kindly add your views

[quote author=abeautifulchick post=28382289]Vote for Goodluck because:

1)To me he is the best president so far despite boko haram issues.

2)By the time he comes back for second term,the northaners will now be convinced that presidency is not their birth right

3)Goodluck is a good man,he only have so many bad advisers.

4)There is freedom of speech with goodluck.there are certain statement people make and go scot free with goodluck that they cant even attempt to during previous regimes.

5)Remember oil block licence will soon expire thats why the Abokis want power because they are afraid of its renewal under G.E.J.Is it originally theirs?

6)Because Buhari and co are only using our heads now.

7)The devil you know is better than the self aclaimed angle you dont know

Good luck might be corrupt but you cant rule out corruption from every nigerian.Look at yourself first,if you are corrupt free then you can point fingers.

9)I have this strong believe that he will do better

10)This bokoharam issue that everyone is blaming him for,dont you remember it all started when his enemies lost election and threatened him?

11)At least boko haram does not have the balls to attack other parts other than the north because they started it and they threatened him.

12)I still think he is the best candidate among other power hungry canditate i have seen so far.

13)He got to aso rock by God's divine intervention,He did not fight for it.always remember that.

I hope these are more than enough reasons for you

Very nice, you sound convincing but, you are number three against 26. I just hope you are duly registered to vote come 2015