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wydmag:
One thing most Nigerian Artists don't understand is building up a good calendar, Nobody is saying no one shouldn't rest. My opinion is that, the rest would have been better before now that it is festive period and certain carnivals with cool cash to be made!

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The Ondo state governor elect, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) says it will take hardwork to surpass the track record of the state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko.

The governor elect was speaking during a courtesy call on governor Mimiko in Akure.

Chief Akeredolu said he and the people the state owe the governor depth of gratitude for his service to Ondo state and the country at large.

The governor elect maintained that governor Mimiko displayed exemplary leadership quality in various capacities he had served.

He noted that history is being made in the state with the seamless transition between his team and that of government.

The Ondo state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko promised to put in place seamless transition to usher in a new government in February next year.

He noted that In the history of the state, this was the first time to have a seamless transition between civilian to civilian government.

He assured him of his support to ensure he succeeds in the task of governing the state.

Dr Mimiko who noted that peace was one of his greatest accomplishments enjoyed the governor elect to sustain the feat.

Come February 24, 2017, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) will be the 6th civilian governor of Ondo state.

https://breaking.com.ng/nigeria/akeredolu-visits-mimiko-says-it-will-take-hard-work-to-surpass-his-achievements/

Youths carrying placards calling for the postponement of Saturday election in Ondo State as a result of removal of Eyitayo Jegede's name from the final list released by INEC.

A politician from Okitipupa Local Government area of Ondo State, Mr. Olufemi Johnson took to his Facebook page to give account of an assassination attempt on his life by yet to be identified people. He also went further to sound a note of warning to whoever is behind it.

This looks like a movie scene, popular Fuji Musician, Alhaji Abass Obesere captured Hawking.

Before I congratulate my dear brother, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, on his prayer that was granted by the appeal panel which sat in Abuja today, let me quickly educate the people of Ondo state that the ‘Leave of Appeal’ which the panel granted him is just for him to be able to file an appeal against the June 29 ruling of Justice Abang out of time.

Constitutionally, he was supposed to have filed the appeal in the 2nd week of July but he didn’t hence Abang didn’t grant his prayer to file the appeal out of time two weeks ago.

For the sake of information, granting a ‘Leave of Appeal’ only means that the applicant can file an appeal out of time. It doesn’t mean that INEC must return his name back on the candidates’ list.

Now that the leave of appeal has been granted today, my brother (Jegede) can file an appeal against the June 29 ruling, a process which can never be fast-tracked (it must take between 90 to 120 days, and election takes place in less that 16 days).

Filing the appeal or let me say securing a notice of appeal doesn’t not nullify the October 14th ruling of Justice Abang which INEC is currently acting on (The ruling is making Jimoh Ibrahim to be the PDP candidate for the Nov. 26 poll.

Even if my brother (Jegede) files the appeal which constitutionally won’t be decided until February, 2017, his notice of appeal doesn’t have the capacity to make INEC remove Jimoh Ibrahim’s name from the candidates list (Even when it is clear to all that Ibrahim can never win his own local government let alone the whole Ondo state).

INEC will remove Ibrahim’s name if only the appeal can be heard and made to favour Jegede before the election but it is a fact that the appeal cannot be decided before the next 90 to 120 days.
Granting you a right to appeal doesn’t mean that your claim is just. Even a condemned criminal is given the right to appeal.

Another question: Can the appeal court rule against the opinion of the Nigerian Judiciary Council (NJC)? Let’s remember that the NJC had yesterday said in the media that all the rulings of Justice Abang on the Ondo PDP crisis are very right.

I love my uncle’s (Jegede) partial victory today and I will call to congratulate him but before I do so and also before my paternal uncle (Governor Mimiko) finishes his public dance at Oja Oba this night, let me say these:

INEC said it wanted substantive ruling from the appeal court before October 27 so it could retain Jegede’s name.

INEC said there is no new ruling which comes after October 27 that can change the list it published on the 28th october.
INEC also said the list will remain like that since no superior ruling had come before October 27. The electoral body also noted all the fresh appeals (after October 27) remain pre-election matters. It means they have no strength until after the election. Why the dance that my paternal uncle (Governor Mimiko) has commenced on at Oja Oba this evening?

Also before my paternal uncle (The governor) finishes his dance at Oja Oba this night, I want to remind him that the chief judge of the FCT had three weeks ago announced that “filing an appeal” will no longer nullify any existing ruling. He added that the beneficiary of such ruling must be allowed to enjoy his judgment before a substantive appeal is decided against him.

-Aare Abiodun Oluwarotimi is the Chairman/Publisher of Nigerian Concord Newspapers.

Noblesoul123:
Pls this is not a time for name checking. Let's talk to our people to stop soiling Naija's image abroad

this one is not our people. He's from the yeast.

Se e pass this hin comment?

LARRYDKING:


U can make a meaningful comment without seeming tribalistic, I'm sick and tired of reading comments likes urs on nairaland everyday. I support one Nigeria and whether it's coming from Ekiti or Oyo, it's to the glory of God and Nigeria.

Dr. Azeez Olaniyan of the Department of Political Science, Ekiti State University (EKSU), has been awarded a highly competitive fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany.

The Rachel Carson Center is a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum, which is supported by the German Ministry of Research and Education.

As a Carson Fellow, Dr. Olaniyan will spend six months, from January to June 2017, to research on the topic of “forest reserves as security threats in Nigeria.”

The fellowship with a monetary value of € 21,000 adds to the dozens of awards received by the brilliant academic who is also the Assistant Director of the Institute of Peace, Security and Governance at EKSU.

In May 2014, Dr. Olaniyan was a recipient of a postdoctoral research grant of the African Humanities Program (AHP) awarded by the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) based in New York.

A month later, the scholar alongside two of his colleagues at his university got another grant from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for the African Workshop Alumni Networking to organize methodology workshop for graduates in the Social Sciences in the Nigerian universities.

Between January and December 2013, Dr. Olaniyan was a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Social Sciences, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized a filling station and a shopping complex from a self-acclaimed building engineer, Abdullahi Rilwan, for failing to explain where he got the money to buy the properties.
The EFCC Act Section 71 (B) gives the commission the power to commence investigations into the property of any person if it appears to the EFCC that the person’s lifestyle and extent of properties are not justified by law.
The EFCC said in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, that Rilwan was also arrested for offences bordering on operating a land racketeering syndicate, criminal conspiracy, unlawful possession of classified documents, obtaining by false pretence and money laundering.
According to the commission, the suspect was first accosted in the Kuje Area Council of Abuja during a separate investigation into the $2.1bn arms procurement fraud.
Detectives were said to have visited the area to verify the ownership of several properties suspected to be proceeds of money laundering.
In the course of investigating the ownership of a filling station and a shopping complex both still under construction located along Pegi Road, in the Kuje Area Council, operatives gathered that Rilwan was in charge of the construction work.
The statement added, “Rilwan, who was subsequently engaged, denied ownership of the station, but confirmed he was the engineer in charge of the construction work. He admitted to being the owner of the shopping complex. He also told operatives that he was the owner of two companies, Kaibo Oil and Gas and Kaibo Properties, but could not account for the source of wealth.
“A visit to his office, however, revealed that he was involved in several shady and suspicious business transaction deals.”
It was learnt that the revelation made EFCC operatives to beam its searchlight on Rilwan’s business activities. Subsequently, on October 31, a search and arrest warrant was executed at his Kuje residence.
The statement added, “The search unearthed several implicating documents in his custody, many of which he used to sell plots of land. Properties recovered from his residence in Kuje, include letter-head papers in the name of Kuje Area Council allocating plots of land, an ‘Irrevocable Power of Attorney’ in favour of Air Commodore Bassy Inyang, a ‘Right of Occupancy’ document granted to Henryville Farms, Abuja, among other implicating documents.
“The filling station and the complex are currently under investigation, and he would be charged to court as soon as the investigations are concluded.”
-Punch

A new delicacy may have hopped on to the Nigerian menu especially in the northern part of the country as traders from across the country are queuing up to buy frogs in Kano state. The market is at Dorawa Salau Kadawa, a village in Garun Mallam local government area of Kano state

According to Premium Times Frog is a delicacy in some parts of Nigeria Although in the north, people from different parts of Nigeria visit the market to purchase frogs in large quantities to take back home.

It was also gathered that the buyers have erected camps at the village and their activities have had a positive effect on the village’s economy.
However, some of the patrons spoken to said the trade in frogs is not a new line of business. One Sadikatu Ajiboye said she has been in the business for 15 years.

According to her, she was bringing kolanut up north to Kano, until she realized that frog meat have a greater turnover in the south.
Mrs Ajiboye has been in the business for 15 years Ajiboye, 56, said the trade in frogs earns her huge returns on a weekly basis.
She said a small carton of the reptile fetched as much as N5000, with a piece sold at N200. She distributes the delicacy across states in the South-west, South-east and South-south, adding that people even paid upfront for the frogs.

On his part, one Solomon Nwafor from Abia state said he is a hunter of frogs in the village in Kano. Nwafor said he wakes up as early as possible in the morning to hunt, and sometime late in the evening too.
Nwafor said he makes an average of N20,000 weekly in sales of the frogs. He also spoke about the relationship between the frog marketers and the villagers.
His words: “Because of the understanding that exists between us, we the frog marketers and our Hausa (hosts), our business has kept growing by the day with more people coming to purchase. Some (patrons) even export to Asia.”

The game is getting serious in Ondo State, just as Jimoh Ibrahim; the controversial flag bearer of PDP display over 100 cars and patrol vans for the November 26th election.

How many of you can do this?

According to eye witness report, peaceful protest is currently going on in Bolorunduro, the Headquarters of Ondo East Local Government. This is as a result of the removal of Eyitayo Jegede's name from the final list released by INEC.

If no be say the guy na celeb, I for talk say hin UGLY

A former Deputy Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Sports who was also a former Director-General of the National Sports Commission, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye, on Saturday dumped the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, attributing the decision to personal reasons.

His resignation letter, which was formally tendered to the Ondo State chairman of the PDP through its Chairman, Akoko North East Local Government in Ikare-Akoko, was obtained by journalists in Abuja.

The resignation letter by Elegbeleye, who was also a former Director-General of the National Sports Commission, was entitled: “Re: Resignation of my Membership of Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State.”

The letter reads, “I write to inform you of the resignation of my membership of Peoples Democratic Party effective from the date indicated in this letter. This decision is personal and is without prejudice to the existing political situation in Ondo State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party.

“I sincerely thank the party leaders at all levels for the relationship that existed between us all this while. Thank you, Otunba (Hon) Gbenga Elegbeleye.”

But a source close to him, who pleaded anonymity, said he may have struck a deal with the All Progressives Congress, ahead of the forthcoming governorship election.

“Otunba (Hon) Gbenga Elegbeleye may have struck a deal with the APC and in a few days time may be moving to join them because that is where it is happening. He will officially and publicly announce his intention in a short while. I do not want to say more than this. Let us keep our fingers crossed.”

http://punchng.com/ondo-gov-poll-elegbeleye-dumps-pdp/?utm_source=Feedcabal.com&utm_medium=News-Archive

Long live the King!
Yoruba's unity is non-negotiable

There is an uneasy calm right now in Akure following the removal of Eyitayo Jegede's name from the final list released by INEC yesterday.
Jegede's name was substituted with that of Billionaire business man; Jimoh Ibrahim.
All major roads in Akure are being blocked and tyres are being burnt as protest spreads to other areas within the metropolis.

My advice for you is that "Time heals every wound". When you look back at today in the next two years, you will have reasons to smile. Number one reason is your baby.

For the cost of an iPhone, you can now buy a wind turbine that can power an entire house for lifetime

Indian startup Avant Garde Innovations has developed a low-cost wind turbine that can generate 3-5 kW hours of electricity daily.

Soon after assuming office, Kerala (southern state of India) Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan kicked up a storm by publicly supporting the Athirappilly hydro electric project, which environmentalists said, if implemented, would create ecologic imbalance in the area and destroy the Athirappilly waterfalls, the largest natural waterfalls in the state.

It is not that the government is oblivious to the impact that the project could make, but it says it has no option but to leverage existing means to check the growing power crisis in Kerala, which partially depends on the private sector for electricity.

Things are no different in other states either. While Kerala has attained almost 100 per cent electrical coverage, many parts of India still remain in the dark. For a large portion of the Indian population, electricity to this day remains a distant dream.

Enter two siblings who want to make India’s energy crisis a thing of the past. The duo has developed a new solution they say will not even slightly impact the ecological balance.

Avant Garde Innovations, the startup founded by siblings Arun and Anoop George from Kerala, has come up with a low-cost wind turbine that can generate enough electricity to power an entire house for a lifetime. The size of a ceiling fan, this wind turbine can generate 5 kWh/kW per day — with just a one-time cost of US$750.

“Our goal is to eliminate energy poverty, reduce dependence on struggling state power grids and create energy self sufficiency for all the needy ones through distributed, localised and affordable renewable energy. In doing so, we believe we can collectively usher in our world a cleaner environment, new economic prosperity and social change,” reads the company ‘What We Do’ statement.

“Our first offering is a highly affordable small wind turbine suitable for residential, commercial, agricultural, village electrification and other uses, which is aimed for a market launch during 2016.”

Incorporated in 2015, Avant Garde claims to be a startup with a ‘green’ heart and soul.

For the startup, opportunity is massive. India is the world’s sixth largest energy consumer, accounting for 3.4 per cent of global energy consumption. Federal governments in India, and the central government for that matter, are unable to bear the huge infrastructural cost required to bring electricity to remote villages.

Erecting electric posts and electric lines require huge investments that could cost millions of dollars.

This is where Avant Garde comes into picture. “When small wind turbine generating 1kW energy costs INR 3-7 lakh (US$4,000-10,000), our company plans to sell it at less than NR 50,000 (about US$750). Costs will decrease further through mass production,” Arun said in an interview to The Times of India.

The company launched its pilot project at a church in the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram in January this year. The small wind turbine prototype that it has developed is highly scalable for power capacities of 300 kW or even higher, Arun told e27.

“Our passionate aim is to introduce innovative, affordable and sustainable solutions that take renewable energy self sufficiency and energy empowerment to the next level through a distributed and decentralised approach using pioneering strategies the world has not witnessed yet,” the company says.

This revolutionary product has also won them a spot in the Top 20 Cleantech Innovations in India. The company has also made it to the list of 10 clean energy companies from India for the “UN Sustainable Energy For All” initiative under the one billion dollar clean energy investment opportunity directory.

According to the Global Wind Energy Council, the country ranks 4th in terms of global installed wind power capacity, after China, the US, and Germany.

Maybe, if Avant Garde Innovations takes off, Kerala can keep the Athirappilly waterfalls untouched.

Source: http://educateinspirechange.org

May God help our children and guild our leaders right to do the right thing at the right time. Our heart goes out to the family of the dead children.

He feels it's not front page worthy or what do u think?

Keneking:
But where is lalasticlala sef

really?

Idydarling:
the have-nots enjoy sex more than the haves

Guess this happened at one of Nigeria's numerous IDP camps. Marriage isn't about what you wear but what you are. Happy married life though.

Universities in South Africa will commence BSc in Witchcraft very soon. How many of you will apply and what is the job prospect?

Some members of Lord Chosen went out on "evangelism" yesterday. What do we call this?

Popular Nollywood actor; Sam Dede celebrated his 50th birthday over the weekend with this unique fish (instead of cake).
His word: Me and my wife on my 50th birthday. Note my birthday cake. I always rep #Africa.

See how beauty runs in a family See this lovely sisters dancing Shoki.