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The DISHONORABLE House of Represenatives members now want to pass a law tha will make them immune from arrests so they can go on with their looting of the nation treasury without favor!
What impudence!!!
What kind of clowns do we have in that place?
Is there not ONE single person there with integrity!!
SHAME ON ALL OF THEM

Leave siasia alone. Na signs of the time. There is NOTHING that nigeria can do right again. NOt when we have a sickly confused president!!

@spONE and snowdrops!!
Make una dey shame!!!
If u guys dontv have tangible things to say, be quiet!!
What contribution have u made to the state that makes u have mouth diarrhoea!!
Una own too much

@$poOne- Do u really just sit down and wait to hear any news from Edo State and blame the Governor? What is it with u and this belly-aching? Did u apply for a job and couldnt get it or u get paid for this work? It baffles me why u would want to ascribe anything to non performance by comrade oshiomhole.
So if a man falls from a motorbike, it is comrade oshiomhole's fault?
Get a life!!!!

I would add Bishop Ayo Oritsejafor, Pastor Panam Percy Paul, Pastor Jeffrey Iyonawan and Pastor Abioye

@madam L-Thanks for the nomination jare! Lets appreciate our own. No one is perfect not,

MRS. Irene Keyamo, estranged wife of the Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Festus Keyamo, yesterday told an Ikeja High Court that her husband (Keyamo) only tells lies before the court to feign pretence that he takes good care of their children.

However, Keyamo, who was in a face-to-face argument with his wife, denied the allegations, saying he has always wished and gave out his best for the children in-spite of his wife’s attitude allegedly preventing him reasonable access to the children.

He said: “I cannot be more magnanimous than that. What I want is for my children to attend the best of schools in Lagos and not a slum school in Ketu. I spent millions on their education and they split the money and put the children in some slum school in Ketu. I do not want custody, what I want is for the respondent to give me two days to register my children in the best of schools in Lagos.”

Justice Elfreda Dawodu-Williams is handling the case.

At the resumed hearing of the case yesterday, the court stood down the case while urging them to agree on some terms. After the conference both parties agreed that they be registered at Hallifield school.

The court granted an order on terms agreed by the parties. In her ruling, Justice Dawodu-Williams ordered that “the petitioner and the respondent should be involved in the registration of the children from Wednesday (today) and Thursday. They shall remain with the respondent pending the time of the suit. Every two weeks , the petitioner shall have in custody the children from 12 noon Saturday and return them by Sunday noon.”

Both parties presented their case before the court with Irene insisting that his husband was unfair to her over the children’s care. In her evidence she said: “ Its just quite unfortunate that everything he has said are all lies. He has not send any money.

I was the one begging him to be responsible to send money to cater for his children. He threatened me by saying that after all when the children grow up they would want to know who their father is. It is unfortunate that he is saying all this now in the court.

It was April last year that I sent him text messages to wish him ‘happy father’s day’ on behalf of the children and after that he responded by sending me money (N50,000) and thereafter he called me back and said that he wanted to see his children. I asked him where? He said his office or Mr Biggs and I opted for Mr Biggs and when I got there he saw the children and later on he said that I should take them home.

“I want the court to ask him how many children he has and how many of them he has taken care of. I do not want any woman or house help to take care of my children for me while am alive. Never!”

However, Keyamo insisted that he gave the best for the children. He said “because of the inordinate wish of the respondent to be lone with the children and to prevent me from taking them away on regular basis and returning them to her afterwards, she is prepared to destroy their educational future.

This trend of insisting I should not take my children away, even for one hour has continued for more that two years now. I only desire to see my children regularly and give them my fatherly love and care as they grow up.

“I have so far been responsible for my children’s medical bills and in the past two years I have shopped for the clothes of the children on many occasions when I traveled to different parts of the world.”

Further hearing in the case was adjourned till November 11, 2009.

MY OPINION-Keyamo is just a mouthy person! Who wants to know how many millions he spends on school fees or that he shops for clothes for the children abroad? Is that the crux of the matter? With so many children from various women, he is unfit to look after any child. Is money the criteria for judging who a good father is? His inability to ZIP UP shows that he is emotionally immature and so cantbe trusted with a child since he cant be trusted with his sexual urges

@$poOne-Ur level of ignorance is mind boggling. When the PDP thug BOB IZUA was terrorizing edo state, WHERE WERE U AND WHAT DID U DO? Ask ur relatives in Edo State if they didnt see worse under previous administrations and why didnt u scream then? Ask your relatives if they havent met one youth who has been recently employed by the state. Ask them ,
@Bluetooth- Thank u too for noticing these people who cant see any good except complain
@naijaking1- IF the story turns out to be true. Unfortunately for these disgruntled elements, the story isnt true!!

@Missy B- Be kind oh! Why are u stingy? Help the underprevileged so that "congeal" no go kill them!
lol

The whole NYSC thing is simply CRAP! While the influential ones buy their kids posting to safe places with lucrative companies, the children of the masses are sent to God knows where to serve where they may be slaughtered, or raped to death!!

Media reports that Pastor Kenneth Oyakhilome, currently pastor of Christ Embassy (CE) Church in Houston, Texas, USA was convicted in a South African court in 2007 for fraud and corruption have provoked a minor public storm amongst members of the faithful, with clarion calls for him to step aside. Court records made available to Huhuonline.com, revealed that on September 11, 2007, Kenneth Imo Obome Oyakhilome, a.k.a Pastor Ken was convicted of fraud; fined R20,000.00 and received a two-year suspended sentence for three years with choice of imprisonment .

“We are shocked by this revelation that Ken is a convicted criminal. He is a fraudster and this is not a matter that is subject to any debate. We cannot have the Gospel of Jesus Christ besmirched by such people, who hide behind the innocence of genuine believers to commit fraud”, exclaimed Pastor Javed Masih of the Jesus Fellowship International Society in Randburg, South Africa. 
Chris Oyakhilome

   
Chris Oyakhilome


When Pastor Ken left his family in South Africa and boarded a plane back to Houston, Texas, where he currently serves as Pastor of the Christ Embassy Church, CE officials in South Africa, qualified the move as a spiritual sabbatical.

But it is now emerging that the decision to transfer Pastor Ken from South Africa to the USA was a well contrived attempt to douse the smoldering inferno that was threatening to consume Ken’s pastoral career and that of his elder brother, Pastor Christian Oyakhilome, who founded the Ministry and himself is now locked in a huge public relations battle to salvage his own battered credibility.

The Christ Embassy Scandal

The moral questions hovering over the head of Pastor Ken, has cast a huge shadow of doubt over his elder brother, Pastor Christian, who has refused to take the blame for any problems associated with his brother’s profligacy and lack of moral character. The Christ Embassy Church in Houston, Texas, scorned requests for explanations from Huhuonline.com while Pastor Ken continues to defy public criticisms of official misconduct, and still retains his high profile position as Pastor of the Houston Church. Yet the Pastor Brothers have been pushing to make sure that the public remembers them -- or rather, remembers what they want them to remember. Pastor Ken is a troubled man. As long as allegations of official misconduct continue to swirl around him, the Pastor will forever be distracted from his official pastoral duties.

The distraction will come chiefly from a scandal that threatens to weaken his capacity to function as an effective Spiritual guide and leader of the Houston church. At a time when the Pastor ought to be preoccupied with issues that affect the welfare of his congregation, he has been busy rehearsing how he would defend himself against serious allegations of financial impropriety and abuse of trust. Some Christ Embassy Church members have expressed genuine alarmed at the way in which Pastor Ken is reported to have run riot in South Africa and questioned whether he still has the moral high ground to continue working in Houston as “God’s Messenger.” If religiosity in general comes with the capacity to numb the intellect, and defraud and exploit the innocent faithful, the brand of Christianity that has been on the ascendance in Christ Embassy for the past decade fosters a certain incuriousness that borders on total intellectual surrender.

For the truth of the matter is that in its practices and dynamics, the Christ Embassy Church itself has become an expression of the character of its founders.

In the current configuration, the Christ Embassy Church operates more or less like a business enterprise out to make profit. It was no coincidence that Pastor Ken was more to be seen mixing it with the South African political elite (governors, ministers,), than with ordinary members of his Congregation. Such was the social proximity between the Christ Embassy Church officials and the South African elite that rumors were floated that the Christ Embassy Church and Pastor Ken had the political benediction of the ruling ANC party in South Africa.

Pastor Ken, in a dynamic that works quite well for the Church and serves the ends of holders of political power, attends their (office holders') birthday ceremonies, blesses their respective families, and, at the end of each year, unfailingly prophesies positive things for the country they so spectacularly misgovern.

In return, he reinforced public perceptions of being a handmaiden of political power in a country where the majority of the population (including most of his own congregation) continues to wallows in absolute immiseration?

Shell-shocked Christ Embassy Church members in South Africa are still at a loss to understand a situation where Pastor Ken who was (and in some quarters, still is) widely respected for his preachings on austerity and moral rectitude, has now abandoned Christ’s gospel of austere pietism to embrace material aggrandizement and conspicuous consumption. Before his sojourn in South Africa, the Christ Embassy Church was renowned for its emphasis on a rigorous, no frills personal regime for its members. Such unflattering apothegm was a testament to the perceived doctrinal severity of the Christ Embassy Church.

This image was to change with the ascendance of Pastor Ken - and the Church's rapid transition into a new era, marked by a departure from this somber model and the development of a new, less abstemious, theological outlook whose modus operandi was primitive material accumulation.

Court records showed that Pastor Ken owned a fleet of luxury cars including: a Red Chrysler; a Silver Mercedes Benz; a Gold-pleated Peugeot 407 and a Black Audi 8-cylinder series. And although married with three children, Pastor Ken paraded a harem of wivelets and mistresses drawn mostly from the congregation, including married women, who share his bedroom under the euphemistic guise of “serving the man of God.”

For emphasis, the point now is not about the criminal conviction of Pastor Ken or his material possessions, including his harem of girlfriends. The central nexus of the unraveling scandal raises fundamental questions about whether it is morally ethical for Pastor Ken to continue as Spiritual Guardian of the Christ Embassy Church in Houston, Texas. In the interest of full disclosure, if Pastor Christian, the founder of the Christ Embassy Ministry is certain about his junior brother’s innocence; if he is concerned about the impact of this salacious affair on the integrity of the Christ Embassy Ministry (not to forget his own patchy morality), he should advise his junior brother to step aside in order to facilitate an independent inquiry.

An independent inquiry is guaranteed to produce one of two outcomes: a moral acquittal that should help to cleanse Pastor Ken of the stench that began to gush out since the scandal broke; or an indictment that would shred forever his name, his honor and his status in society.

If he refuses to step aside, he can expect to preside over a disorderly Congregation for the rest of his tenure as Pastor of the Christ Embassy Church in Houston, Texas.

In proceeding, it is only fair to state that in taking its message to the world, the Christ Embassy Church has also, almost predictably, taken in a considerable part of the world. Today's Christ Embassy Ministry, with churches worldwide, is no doubt a successful religious brand, but like all brands, it has had to forge all sorts of shabby accommodations with sponsors and politicians, including even fraudsters and criminals.

Obvious material success and a fatal conflation of ethos with criminal enterprise mean that the Christ Embassy Church that redefined Biblical economics is now in clear danger of being consumed by its creation.

It is certainly not a good evidence of moral leadership for a Pastor to be confronted with daunting revelations of criminal conviction. With or without Pastor Ken, the Christ Embassy Church in Houston will still continue to exist. But whether it would be an effective Church or a disorderly House of worship would be determined by current and future events.

@tudor- Eunuch AdeJALE aka Daddy GOat
2. Bishop OLEdepo Aka papa of winners
3. Pastor "fine boi" Chris and his albino wife.

If this isnt rudeness, then,

Grace Ushang was a young Nigerian woman who had every right to expect a bright future. Now she is dead merely because she was female. On the day that Nigeria celebrated its 49th Independence Anniversary on 1 October 2009, NEXT Newspaper reported that Ms. Ushang from Obudu in Cross River State, a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Maiduguri, Borno State, was raped to death by some men still at large, who, according to the story, “took offence because she was wearing her Khaki trousers – the official uniform of the youth corpers.” , read more(oizeg@.com)

@ttalks- The point? lets talk about who is who. Its objective, educative and also fun!
@kshow1- So say the ones u know even if its one!
There are some good ones who are unheard of, no be everyone be attention seeker

@ Tudór, the least u can do is be polite and not be rude. No one forces you to make a comment but be careful how u address any man of God (irrespective of the person's errors!)

Please can you nominate your top 100 Nigerian Pastors (sex irrespective). However, they must be people with INTEGRITY!!

@$poOne, u again!! Why do all your posts have to be on Comrade Oshiomhole and attacking him?
Any sadistic pleasure from this?

@snowdrops and spoOne, I dont know nor am i interested in who asylh (what a name) is. So anyone who doesnt agree with your point of view is liable to receive all kinds of insults? Have some form of decourum. Calling people who disagree with u is not only rude but is also immature. And i still dont understand why you are so bitter over this Oshiomhole matter!
U have an underlying personal issue with him?

@ and u obviously are one of those who think she is above mistakes!! Last time she said, ALL nigerians were criminals! and now this!!
Men, keep worshipping her
i dont

VERY FALSE!! The least Oprah could have done was ask her assistants to make a research or enquiries and not go blabbing lies. Well, we know americans are not exactly the smartest people on earth anyway

@asylh- Thank you jare! Na me be paid agent and na snowdrop be wetin for CRPP? and which media he dey talk of sef? Let him show a newspaper publication link to support his claim that the media are asking questions. As for the House of Assembly, well, we all know to whose tune they dictate- MR. FIX IT
@Witi- abeg help me ask Yar'Adua oh! Did Comrade Oshiomhole just jump and forced himself to intervene in the crisis abi na mr presido say make he intervene

Na waoh! Only 2face knows what link he has with armed robbbers. Na only him be musician for naija? Wetin sef!!!

@$poOne- [right][/right]journalist was so brazenly murdered a few days ago? And insecurity from neglect of Niger Delta over many decades, how does that translate into OSHIOMHOLE?
@ibiking1- So in ur warped imagination, as far as u are concerned, anyone who defends Comrade Oshiomhole is obviously on the governor's payroll? This is very INTELLIGENT reasoning!
@ snowdrops- u are simply absurd!! u have any receipt showing the 350million spent on thugs!!! lol. I dont even think even OBJ in his hey days spent that amount on presidential election. Talk less of Edo State!! U just hear something and jump on it without even considering the absurdity of the amount?
if u think "beautification" of ring road means planting of floors, then u must be either very ignorant, not smart or simply sent to spread gossip! It is NOT 900million and it is not to plant flowers in ring road!! And i dont know which school u attended that taught u that beautification means to plant flowers!
150million for swimming pool? My guy, how old are u? who spends that amount on a swimming pool? na champagne dem wan use for the pool instead of water? abi na gold floor?

6 mopol to giude his mother? this doesnt even dignify a response. It is obvious u have gone on a mission to find faults instead of contributing meaningfully to the development of Edo State.
Oh and by the way do u know that the College of Education Strike has been resolved?
By the way, do u have a job or ur goal in life is simply to snoop around for any news (no matter how idiotic) about Oshiomhole?

1. The biometric System for your information is not for 100 people (Again, u "PROUDLY" display your high level of lack of information about Edo State. The Biometric System is capturing ALL Edo State civil servants as well as pensioners under the state payroll (Surely, even to you, this is more than 100 people). The data for workers have just been captured and a database is currently being built now. Then the biometric capture of all state pensioners is next to be done.
2. Do you have any document to show the so called "huge contributions" Comrade Oshiomhole made to ENA? And kindly teach us at NLanders, the law that forbids a serving governor from offering any assistance to an organization with noble goals or do u think he is trying to buy favor?
3. For your information, Comrade Oshiomhole recently donated some funds to cover the hospital bills of some patients at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH). Some of these patients have been treated but couldnt leave the hospital because they were unable to pay their medical bills! Now why would the governor do this? Perhaps he is trying to buy favor again?
A man is trying against all odds and pessimists (like u) to succeed and put a smile on the faces of people and your only contribution is fault finding?
WHAT EXACTLY HAVE U DONE TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIVES OF PEOPLE OF EDO STATE (apart from your copious baseless complaints ?).
For your information, the state government has one of the most equipped and staff Information and Communication Technology unit which has 4 major projects on hand:
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[li]Biometrics
E-payment
Auto Reg
Geographic Information System[/li]
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Edo State- truly the heartbeat of Nigeria

@spoONE
So u knew a crook was a governor and what exactly did u do? Same man u praised a few lines ago, now u say he was thrown out and u are in full support (confused?),  for your information, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is FULLY accountable to the electorate. This is why he feels very free enters the market place to talk one on one with market women, bike riders, e.t.c! He doesnt hide behind security barricades.
Like i said, why dont u come to the state yourself and then see for yourself what he is doing. Ask the common man on the street. And if u are unable to come, check the website (www.edostate.gov.ng) and then u can talk with a minimal level of knowlegde
Do you really think it makes sense to judge the man based on 8months of administration?
And when u say "LIES" exactly what do u mean? What are u parameters for deciding or judging?
1. Is it a lie that Comrade Oshiomhole has just resolved the strike by COESAN?
2. Is it a lie that benin city is currently undergoing massive beautification?
3. Is it a lie that Edo State has started biometric exercise of all its staff?
4. Is it a lie that roads in the state are currently being rehabilitated?
5. Is it a lie that the state would start the implementation of the new Teachers Salary Structure (TSS) in January 2010.
6. Is it a lie that the Edo National Association (ENA) Annual Convention held from  September 4 – 7, 2009 in San Francisco, California – USA, supported the efforts of Comrade Oshiomhole?
(ENA National President, Mr. Samuel Isokpunwu commended Governor Oshiomhole for the bold initiatives embarked upon by the present administration. Mr. Isokpunwu stated that Edo indigenes in the Diaspora were looking forward to seeing Edo State take its leading position among the 36 states in the federation, adding that they are confidence that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole led administration has both the moral capacity and political will to propel the state to a greater height.)
7 Is it a lie that: Joromi road, college Road, Akpakpava Road, desilting of drains on Ugbowo Road, and lots more have been rehabilitated?
8. Is it a lie that Comrade Oshiomhole has said all pregnant women should be treated FREE OF CHARGE?
My brother, be sure of your facts before u judge.
Give Comrade Oshiomhole a chance and time. He has an unblemished reputation and integrity to maintain. While some other governors were cavortting with Aso Rock, Comrade Oshiomhole's unassaible committment to delivering dividends of democracy to the average Nigerian has never been in doubt!
Perhaps, u are aware that even the late Gani Fawehinmi believed in Comrade Oshiomhole's ability to deliver.
Remember the saying:
, rush in where angels fear to tread?

@$poOne.
So as fas as u can recall, it was when Oshiomhole became governor that there was
1. unemployment?
2. Increased cases of armed robbery
3. Kidnapping (even though it had unfortunately become the norm of the day in the Niger Delta)
4. Increased thuggery (Even though right from the days of OBJ, thuggery became the rule in politics)
5. “marshal law”- ( Do u even know what marshall law is? if u did, what would u call OBJ's era. ribadu's era, or the governor in one of the yourba states who would not give u any appointment except u take an oath before a shrine? e.t.c)
6. That u can call a man like Comrade Oshiomhole a "fool" speaks volumes of your integrity and sense of decorum.
7. Can u please kindly educate NGlanders on the achievements of the googled professor of law? Perhaps it is looting state funds to feed political leaders that falls within your realms of "performance"
Please feel free to visit Edo State and see the work that is going on in the state.
Do always get your facts straightened out first before jumping. The work before Comrade Oshiomhole is immense and even he is aware of this and he needs every single help from concerned citizens.
A man messed the state for EIGHT solid years and another came in ILLEGALLY to deplete an already almost exhausted state treasury and Comrade Adams Oshiomhole came in and in the face of a PDP controlled Local Government and Legislative and DWINDLING monthly federal Allocation and he is trying to fix things ONE STEP at a time and the best u can offer is mouth diarrhoea?

Please whats all these belly aching and crappy talk meant to achieve? Comrade Oshiomhole has been in power for less than one year under a not too cooperative legislative arm of government. He has started measures to massively boost the IGR of Edo State. Beautification of Benin City is going on, road rehabilitation and construction is in progress, unemployment is being aggressively tackled with placement of skilled youths in various fields of expertise. All these and lots more in the face of dwindling monthly allocation from the Federal Government! Haba!! What do u guys want?
When the imposter professor was governor, what did u guys say?
Where someone else was governor in this state for EIGHT ( years, what were his achievements?
Anyone with half a brain knows all these crappy talks come from a particular political party who are obsessed with ruling forever in Nigeria.
Sorry, a change has come and it has come to stay!!
Lets us all join comrade Oshiomhole and build Edo State
P/S; as for @kosovo, your ignorance is mind boggling!!! Is comrade oshiomhole in charge of N.U.T (a national body) strike?

Sure, we have reasons to celebrate
check here and see the reasons:
www.oizeg..com and read them all!!

@akanbijm. Whats ur addy on yahoo? anyway i am waiting to hear from u.

Please they are not executive prostitutes oh! they are simply executive HUSTLERS!!
Let me join you all in pondering as we ponder towards the pond

First Bank, in Benin did same thing with my N120, 000!!