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Eziachi and GenBuhari(didnt knw He is Igbo)

Good job.

Blackteeth:
Poster your title is very incorrect. This has nothing to do with the nurse calling the name of Jesus. The nurse simply failed her duty

See me see wahala o?
Am I a journalist?

A 51 year old Nigerian-born UK resident nurse, Omolayo Abayomi, has had her Nurse's licence withdrawn by the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council for throwing her hands into the air and begging for Jesus to help, as a baby she was supposed to be taking care of suffered a heart attack.
According to Daily Mail UK, Omolayo Abayomi 'panicked' when the child, who suffered from a chronic lung disease, turned blue and stopped breathing in his cot at home. The nurse called for divine intervention more than 20 times before the vulnerable boy's mother told her to 'shut up'.
The nurse was constantly saying "Jesus help him" and waving her arms around,' a hearing was told.
What is wrong with these oyibo people, don't they know in Nigeria, we can't do anything without calling the name of Jesus?, :-). Continue reading,


The nurse 'provided wholly inadequate care' by leaving the frantic mother to resuscitate her lifeless son, while the father dialled 999.
Abayomi was found guilty of a string of charges by the Nursing and Midwifery Council at a hearing in central London.
Sydney Topping, for Abayomi, insisted his client's behaviour had represented no more than a 'bad day at the office' and urged the panel to let her off with a caution.
'Once in a while you have a bad day at the office,' he said.

'I would suggest that on April 8 the registrant had a bad day at the office. It was no worse than that. She has bounced back since then.'

The hearing heard that the child, referred to a Patient A, and his twin sister were born three months premature at Homerton University Hospital in Hackney, east London, and as a result suffered from a number of serious illnesses and so required round-the-clock care.

Joanna Dirmikis, for the NMC, said Abayomi had been employed by private nursing firm Paediatric Nursing Link to look after the infant, who required 22 hours of nursing care every day.
The parents were woken by a knock on their bedroom door at 5am on April 8, 2007, to find their son lying lifeless after suffering respiratory cardiac arrest, the panel was told.

'While Mrs A was trying to resuscitate the child, Mr A called 999,' said Miss Dirmikis.
'The twin sister of the little boy was also present during the incident and can be heard crying in the background during the call.'

'She panicked and at one stage even summoned divine intervention, calling for Jesus,' she added.
Paramedics rushed the boy to Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone, east London, before he was taken to Great Ormond Street Hospital on the same day for further treatment.
Giving evidence, a tearful Mrs A said Abayomi had effectively 'abandoned' her during the incident.

'The nurse was constantly saying "Jesus help him" and waving her arms around,' she said.
'She said it more than 20 times. I felt I had to do everything - at that point she was doing nothing to help my son.
'She never offered to take the lead at any point and at no point did she suggest calling 999.
'I can't change what's happened to my son, I know I did the best for him but the nurse just completely abandoned her duty.

'If I can save just one other person from having to go through what we have been through, then that's what I want to do.'

The panel heard Patient A, now aged five, made a full recovery from the incident but is still totally dependent on others for his care.

Abaymo claimed the mother had pushed her away and refused to let her help.
She denied calling out for Jesus, panicking and failing to provide care or basic life support.
The nurse further denied failing to properly handover the case to paramedics and making inaccurate and false notes about the incident.

She was cleared of specific charges that she suctioned the child's tracheostomy tube or that she failed to record observations taken but was found guilty of misconduct and ruled unfit to continue working without restrictions.

Striking Abayomi off, panel chair John Williams said: 'This was a failure to accept responsibility for her role in the events by the registrant.
'She has shown a lack of empathy with the parents of the child and there has been no admission or apology, and therefore no insight.
'This failure is incompatible with her continuing to be a registered nurse.'

http://lindaikeji..com/2011/11/nigerian-nurses-licence-withdrawn-in-uk.html

Tinubu's inlaw and House of Rep. Member, Oyetunde Ojo was yesterday evening arrested in Abuja by vice president Sambo's security aides for obstructing the VP's convoy. Mr Ojo was coming from his Nancy suites when he ran into the VP's convoy. He was detained at the VP's lounge in Aso Villa, yesterday but has since been released.

I guess knowingly or unknowingly obstructing a VP convoy is a security breach.


http://lindaikeji..com/2011/11/house-of-rep-member-arrested-in-abuja.html

The title of the 23rd James Bond film has been confirmed as Skyfall.

The latest 007 adventure will star Daniel Craig for the third time. Leading ladies have been confirmed as French actress Berenice Marlohe and Naomie Harris.

Skyfall is being directed by Sam Mendes, who won an Oscar for 1999's American Beauty.

Mendes said the storyline will take the secret agent to London, China, Turkey and Scotland.

It will see Bond's loyalty tested to M, his superior, while espionage headquarters MI6 faces an attack.

The movie, which sees the return of Dame Judi Dench as spy boss M, will also star Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney and Javier Bardem as the villain of the piece.

It will be released in the UK on 26 October 2012.

Craig told reporters in London that the cast would start filming sequences for the new movie later on Thursday.


Daniel Craig and French actress Berenice Marlohe on their roles in Skyfall
Much speculation about the new film has focused on what Mendes will bring to the franchise, with some suggesting he will tone down - or even abandon altogether - the action sequences.

But the director denied that this was the case. He told reporters in London that the "fantastic script" had "all the elements of a classic Bond movie, including - to quell any rumours - lots of action".

When asked what fans could expect from the latest film, he added: "The movie will reveal everything, and there's lots of surprises."

Producer Barbara Broccoli said no-one had yet been chosen to write and perform the Bond theme tune.

Financial troubles

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Bond movie, 1962's Dr No.

James Bond is one of the longest-running franchises in film history, but Bond 23 will mark the end of a four year gap.

The last 007 outing was in 2008's Quantum of Solace, directed by Marc Forster.

Continue reading the main story
Ian Fleming's unused story titles

Risico
The Hildebrand Rarity
The Property of a Lady
007 in New York
Work on the 23rd film was suspended in April 2010 because of uncertainty over the company's future.

The franchise had been on hold amid financial troubles, with MGM filing for bankruptcy protection last November.

A rescue deal and restructuring plan put US firm Spyglass Entertainment at the helm of MGM, which had struggled due to several box office flops and a DVD sales slump.

Craig - who made his Bond debut in Casino Royale in 2006 - is the sixth actor to play the British secret agent in the official Bond series.

Sir Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Sir Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan preceded him in the iconic role.

Casino Royale, was the most successful instalment in the franchise's 49-year history, making $594m (£385m) worldwide.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15558355

Lokoja – A 30 year-old-man, Lanre Aremu, has been arrested by the Police in Kogi for allegedly raping a 96-year-old grandmother, Ige Samuel in Iyara, Ijumu Local Government Area of the state.

Parading the suspect before newsmen at the state Police Command Headquarters on Friday in Lokoja, Mr Samuel Ojo, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in charge of Criminal Investigation, said the act was an abomination, ungodly and inhuman.

The daughter of the victim told newsmen that the incident happened on Oct. 31, when most of the residents were in Church.

She said the suspect forcefully pushed her mother into the room and raped her, adding that she was alarmed when her mother suddenly started behaving funny and speaking incoherently after the incident.

One of the sons of the old woman, who is in his 60s, said the incident happened because it was on a Sunday morning and the woman’s guide had travelled to Ekiti.

He added that the suspect jumped out through the window, leaving behind his pair of slippers with the helpless old woman panting and writhing in pains when he noticed that people were returning from Church.

He said their father died a long time ago, adding that the suspect must have committed the crime for some ritual purposes.

He urged the police to compel the accused to reverse whatever he did to the woman and do everything possible to restore his mother’s sanity.

The suspect, who spoke in Yoruba, denied the allegation, saying that the old woman beckoned on him through the window for assistance only for him to be accused of rape.

In a similar matter, one Promise Uche, a businessman of Olobayo Housing Estate, 200-unit, Lokoja was also paraded for allegedly raping his neighbour’s 19-year-old daughter on Oct. 31.

The Police said Uche allegedly abducted the girl into his room and raped her, adding that doctors’ report confirmed the act.

He said that the suspects would be arraigned after police investigation. (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/man-30-rapes-96-year-old-woman-in-kogi/

Bliss4Lyfe:
David Mark will make a good Northern President of Nigeria. Na rule of the minority we dey so for Nigeria; Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa/fulani should rest.

I know say ur mama or papa na from David mark village. U be half Igbo abi? lol

By Godwin Oghre
Sapele— Crisis is brewing in Mosogar Kingdom in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State following the suspension of some first class chiefs and political players in the kingdom by the Ovie of Mosogar Kingdom, HRH Udurie I, Samson Omene, and his council of chiefs (Oguidion).

Vanguard gathered that the suspension of the affected chiefs was due to alleged “unfavourable acts of the said chiefs to cause crisis and work against the Ovie and the development of the kingdom.”

The suspended chiefs are immediate past chairman of Ethiope West Local Government Area, Dr. Wilson Omene; Chief Joe Omene, President-General, Mosogar Development Union; Mr. A. Bobor; a former Housing Commissioner in the state, Mr. Oghenedoro Ugbune and Dr. Omonigho Ogbakpa.

It was gathered that the chiefs had to be ostracised from the kingdom as “they have been fanning the amber of disunity and causing breach of peace” in the kingdom.

Senior Political Adviser to the state Governor and Otota (spokesman) of the kingdom, Chief Ighoyota Amori, confirmed the development to Vanguard on phone.

He added that Ovie’s action received the blessing of the number one Chief of the Kingdom, Chief P. Ojarikre and the people of the kingdom

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/tension-in-mosogar-kingdom-as-monarch-ostracises-chiefs/

ABUJA – Major marketers and operators in the oil and gas industry, yesterday, expressed their support for Federal government’s plan to remove fuel subsidy, even as they urged the government to quickly deregulate the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry in order to save the national economy from ruin.

The Executive Secretary of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, Mr. Obafemi Olaowere, who spoke in a briefing at the background of the 5th OTL Africa Downstream Conference taking place in Abuja, stressed that the subsidy culture had engendered corruption in the system to the detriment of competition and economic expansion.

He noted that the argument by those that oppose deregulation that the poor would suffer when subsidy is removed is baseless since many poor people hardly enjoy the subsidy in the first place.



He pointed out that the government, however, should engage different agencies and operators to properly enlighten the public on the benefits of deregulation to the economy.

According to him, “The time to deregulate the downstream sector was yesterday; we are already wasting so much time. The states are going broke and soon will have no money to carry out normal everyday business of governance. We submit that if there is a legal way to deregulate by the Executive it should go ahead and do so for the sake of the economy and future of the country.

We shouldn’t deceive ourselves any longer. Deregulation is the only way to save our economy. Some of us will continue to say it whether it is emotionally or sentimentally palatable or not. The fact is we brought ourselves to this mess and we should work now to get ourselves out of it.

He added that, “Government should not have introduced regulation when it did in the late 70s. Now, to go back has become a problem. The fact remains that until you deregulate, no investor will go and put his money into building any refinery when someone else will dictate to them how much to sell their products.”

Olaowore admitted that initially there might be a small rise in the prices of petroleum products, but noted that competition will eventually crash these prices. “We are talking about full and total deregulation of the sector and not the partial deregulation the nation witnessed in the first six months of early years of democracy.

“If you recall, the small or partial deregulation we had in the early 2000’s brought about substantial investment in the downstream sector, and gave opportunities for many of the operators in the industry today. You can only imagine what the impact of full deregulation will bring to the industry as many investors will come in and build the refineries that we badly need to get our industry out of the doldrums it currently finds itself.

“For now, we will be deceiving ourselves to say we are licensing refineries; those 18 licenses will continue to be licenses. Until we deregulate, you cannot give an investor any assurance that he will recover his cost not to talk of making reasonable profit.”

He argued that deregulation will bring back memories of old times when customers who drive into a filling station have the option of buying premium or regular, and the consumer is free to drive to any station of his choice if he thinks the price is cheaper.

He added that instead of worrying about the import of deregulation or otherwise, Nigerians should rather expend energy on finding ways to ensure that government judiciously applies the savings from the subsidy to improve the lives of citizens.

“For us, the question is not whether deregulation is desirable or not but whether the government uses the savings from removal of subsidy for the development of our decadent infrastructure. That is what we all should come together and hold the government accountable. They should tell us what they will do with the savings, and then we must monitor closely to see that those things are done.”

He added that, “Nigerians at all levels should mobilize and form committees to hold government to account. The Nigerian Labour Congress and other groups who are talking about revolution should hold their peace for now, and should unleash revolution when the government fails to do what it promises to do with yields from the subsidy removal. That will be the time to shut down the country, not now.

“We are concerned because this is about the future of this country; it is about the future of our children. We all mustn’t wait for the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee to dole out money monthly to states before they can pay teachers and carry put basic programmes.”

Olaowore further stressed that, “The only way to run a proper federation is to free up funds for states to do what they must to lift their people out of poverty, while private business is allowed to flourish. Deregulation of the oil and gas industry remains the only answer to the present state of stagnation; any other issue that comes up after that, we can sit round a table as intelligent people do and resolve it.

Meanwhile, operators in the oil and gas industry have said that they are already primed to take advantage of a post-deregulated economy, pointing out that they have already started acquiring more farm tanks, haulage trucks and filling stations to cope with the expected expansion within the downstream sector.

Organizers of the conference explained that it is targeted at increasing value across the energy chain as well as to provide an opportunity for different operators to share linkages, network and knowledge for the development of the downstream sector of the nation’s oil and gas industry.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/major-marketers-urge-jonathan-to-commence-deregulation/

By PETER DURU, Makurdi

Even as the Judiciary is yet to finally dispose off litigations arising from the April 2011 Presidential elections, the Idoma people in Benue State have endorsed their son and Senate President, David Mark as the next President of Nigeria come 2015.

The Senate President’s ambition which had been an open secret in political circles reverberated during a reception in his honour by the Idoma League of Professors, ILP, led by Prof. Owoicho Akpa, with Mike Omeri, a former special adviser to the Senate President had canvassed for Senator Mark’s Presidency at the next general election; arguing that the Senate President had the pedigree to lead the nation after President Goodluck Jonathan.

Also speaking in the same vein, the president of the ILP, Prof Akpa, rallied support for Senator Mark by calling on all Nigerians to support the enthronement as the next Nigerian president in Though at that occasion, Senator Mark had urged his supporters to refrain from further campaigns and warned that it would be too early in the day to start talking of the 2015, he did not categorically deny having such ambition.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/david-mark-endorsed-for-presidency-2015/

WTH is OBJ?
Bells University?
No petroleum minister?
Library project?
Ota farm?
16billion for darkness?
Bola Ige, Dikibo were murdered?
Zaki biam and odi mass massacre abi na community cleansing?
Sleeping with other people's wives?
Sleeping with his son's wife?
No known project except GSM?


For now OBJ is a bloody criminal, killer and imbe/cile.

Is there any wrong to catch a babe on NL?
I don get so many better and reasonable people here.

Flashaldrin:
Finally ebonyi state is the most backward state.
No structures, not even one flyover or four storey building, nothing!
only a few hotels, few banks, and few secondary schools. The only better thing dem get, which is the university and hospital is depreciating at an alarming rate.
The state is very underdeveloped and the current Governor is not helping matters at all!! All he does is to build glorified culverts which he called 'unity bridges'. That's why the president hardly visits because there is nothing to comission.
He desolved most things the former governor struggled to establish even the state football team.
Well the only thing that keeps the state relatively content is that they are not populous and are mainly made up of local people that have not seen better!

WTH?

namfav:
that would be selfish of south easterners

Please tell the world how.
Talk, I am listening.

meonbooty:
^^^ DOnt hate, just learn small okay, FROM US!

hate ke?
I am more concerned with your overall mental status.
you are not normal. Do you understand?

U f0rking people stop turning every god damn news to a tribalistic one.

meonbooty:
Triumph of good ( Yoruba) over Evil ( Ibo)

Iwere yi, se oni lo sun ni?
Ki lose e. Them dey remote u for ife ni?
agbaya osi.

Thank God Good triumph over evil. Allah akbar.

Ke nde umunwanyi no neba? Onye eze abatala go ozor.
Ke ndi igbo biri na Missouri na Minnesota?
Achorom soso umu nwanyi maka abum nwoke na chu nwoke. lol

Who the heck is Dbanj and Tuface when U have this wonderful guy who remixed M I's african number one.
Abeg see correct talent jare.
[flash=400,400]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD_xKyr8tPo[/flash]

I love the Enugu Urban accent. I wanna love it die.
My cousins in Enugu wow.

ogugua88:
It's quite scary sometimes. All my hope is on this younger generation of ours to at least lay a good foundation for ones after us to follow. All one can do is play his or her part, as you said.

By the way, I love your profile pic sir

Asanwa, I wan marry those three girls in one day.
How I go do am?
Chei! See umu asa.

[quote author=*Ileke-IdI link=topic=794705.msg9470342#msg9470342 date=1320289114]If this ever happens in Ekiti, I'd prolly become a serial killer until I'm content.
But we won our war sha. Ekiti parapo war, well planned and well carried out [/quote]You go kill peole with your sharp mouth. serial mouth killer. olenu. lol


[quote author=na2day! link=topic=794705.msg9470337#msg9470337 date=1320288722]lol
What was the difference between Biafra (1967-1970) and Vietnam (same time)?
The two had a taste of hell, but one was able to beat back the aggressor while the other crumbled and disintegrated to pieces!
Looking at all the pictures and videos, i see no difference between what happened in My Lai and Asaba (massacre)
Biafra was already HELL second home at that time.
Oh! of course they'd have become a communist state, at least their dream of sovereignty would have been realised,
The people that died wouldn't have died in vain.
The secret of every war is getting a powerful ally to counter the force stacked against you and at that time, that force was USSR.
Nigeria getting USSR behind them was a master stroke, and they reaped the reward in military hardware.
Look at China and Vietnam! though they are communist
They've been able to morph the ideology to suit their economy and their states.
I believe capitalism is over rated!
I'd rather have a communist Biafra than a dead one.[/quote]Are you serious?
Biafra would have been target for spies and every odd experiment for the capitalist.
Biafra would have been a specimen.lol

^^^^ Alh harem go to bed.
Alhajih sanni will come with correct koboko now.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=793878.msg9470202#msg9470202 date=1320283368]exactly !! Just what I expect. Good night brother and Allah protect us all from the evil One. Amin

Kachifo

"why is it that people insult you when you win an argument?"

You've mutilated their egos and their sense of security in the world.

It's a typical reaction for humans who stick to an ideology as if it were an absolute; they go off the deep end.

By the Hechmen[/quote]Allah Akbar!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go to bed you mischievous one.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=793827.msg9470135#msg9470135 date=1320281831]you see how silly these people are at times

The same Baifra account that said in the west, Yorubas did not chase them infact kept there children and properties for them are now the same people that were lucky to be alive in lagos.

Silly people.

The same yorubas that told them not to leave the west in the 1960's Yet they still left for the east only to blame yorubas for killing them when there children were still in lagos

The same yorubas that told them not to leave the west 1993 yet they still left for the east only to blame yorubas for them dying and being robbed on the road to the east

the same yorubas that told them not to leave again 2007 census, they still left for the east only to say they are 60 % of lagos. something they can not claim in abuja, rivers or kano

the same yorubas that told them to stay again 2011 elections only for them to say they are 45 % of the western population after they were allowed to stay. You see how dubious this people are at time

read this

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1968/11/12/the-legacy-of-the-biafran-war/[/quote]part of the rubbish info.

THE stereotypes are, of course, just images, but the images are not entirely exaggerated. For both cultural and historical reasons, the North is the least developed section of the country. The bulk of the Nigerian army before the crisis was Hausa; for the uneducated the army is a road to advancement.

The Ibos in Nigerian history were a relatively insignificant tribe, but their society had achievement-based norms that adopted quickly to Westernization. All over Nigeria they formed a merchant and professional class. An engineer said, "If you are a businessman and you need engineers, you read applications and you don't look at tribes. Fifteen of the twenty men you hire will be Ibos."

The Yorubas fall somewhere in between, but closer to the Ibos than the Hausas. They are literate; they're politically sophisticated, but they look at life with a grin.

Thus, the Yoruba and Ibo came together not so much because they feared the numerical preponderance of the Hausa, for it would have been more politically expedient for either group to make peace with the Hausa against the other, but because they feared the political dominance of an uneducated majority. They could see the resources of the East and West financing the development of the North, and they envisioned hordes of inefficient Hausa bureaucrats.

This kind of friction--educated versus uneducated--is not new. In 1953 the Yoruba party called for independence after three years. The Ibos supported the demand, but the Northern group opposed and defeated it, well aware that independence in 1966 would mean economic and administrative subservience to its more developed neighbors.

The propaganda arms of the Ibo and Yoruba party labelled the Hausa traitors and stooges of the British, while in the North rioting between the feuding groups broke out.

In 1953 the British mediated the feuds; after independence they were unchecked. The Hausa government elected in 1964 amidst cries of foul play was topped by an Ibo-led coup in January, '66. The new government which had seized power to "clean up the country" did so with a vengeance, and the deaths of former Hausa leaders sparked riots and unrest in the North.

Then came the July coup, when Hausa officers struck back and installed a Tiv tribesman, Yakubu Gowon, as head of the military government. Some say that Gowon came to power because he was regarded as a man with an even temper and no strong personal ambition. Others said that in the tribal politics of Nigeria, Gowon held an ace, for his tribe dominates the artillery corps.

Whatever the reas

Whatever the reason, the compromise candidate could not hold Nigeria together. He tried. After the Ibo massacres, he offered concessions, but whatever he did was interpreted by Governor Ojukwu as one more sign of duplicity and hatred. On the one hand, it seemed, Gowon offered friendship, while on the other, the people he governed murdered Ibos. Gow- on was caught. Only punishing the Hausa mobs involved in the riots would have placated Ojukwu, but to punish Hausas when the bulk of the army was Hausa would have been political suicide.

Gowon also has to deal with Hausa-Yoruba feuds that even the war emergency has not laid to rest. Observers, some with government jobs and official contacts, have said that when the Ibos seceded, the Yorubas would have gone with them, but Yorubaland was quickly occupied by the Nigerian army.

Government printing centers publish enormous amounts of propaganda, most of it directed against Ojukwu, but a recent broadside from the Ministry of Information in a northern city attacked the pretentious inellectuals of southern groups (Yoruba and Ibo).

It reads: "Events have always proved these 'intellectuals' not only wrong, but blind and ignorant tools of prejudice. They still masquerade about in Universities brandishing intellectualism which they equate with Ph.D. but do not prove by thinking properly."

Looking at Nigeria's history, particularly the past twenty years, the outbreak of war isn't surprising. That same broadside which criticized "southern intellectuals" admitted that the country had been divided for a long time: "It is clear," the article said, "that the 'Nigeria' which was forged by the British was a purely artificial creation comprising three main groups which had very little in common apart from their dark skins."

Yet everywhere there is a feeling of indignation and surprise that the Ibos had actually seceded and started a dirty civil war. It was irrational. It must have been the work of a madman, many Nigerians feel, and they blame Ojukwu. The press often compares him to Hitler.

Just how many government officials really believe this version of events is impossible to tell. However, it is a very dangerous line of thinking, for it implies that all evil will disappear once the devil is gone. With that idea, the army presses on, and people look to the surrender or death of Ojukwu as the end of Nigeria's troubles.

Peace will, of course, just mark the beginning of Nigeria's real difficulties, because instead of waging a relatively easy war, the government will be facing staggering problems of redevelopment, relocation, rehabilitation. And the old spectre of triablism will draw strength from the inflamed passions of war.

Yet, when you walk the streets of Lagos, you have to look hard for signs of war. True, between radio and T.V. shows sinister-sounding announcers say, "Challenge anyone doing anything suspicious. Save precious lives. Save Lagos from destruction." But everyone has heard those lines so often that they've become the butt of innumerable jokes.

At 7 p.m., traffic in and out of Lagos State is closed by soldiers at checkpoints. Originally, the measure was intended to cut the flow of infiltrators. Traffic within the city goes all night, though, and Lagos night-clubs are uninhibited.

Lagos is a cosmopolitan city, and like any growing capital, the new and old exist side by side. In one of the open-air markets you bargain; in one of the big department stores you pay a flat rate for a sundae or a sweater. Just a few miles outside the city, the University of Lagos is literally rising out of jungle forest.

The war is far away to the east, and so life in Lagos goes on as usual, apparently. Even young men have no worries, for the federal army is entirely voluntary. In fact, government propaganda points to Ojukwu's use of conscription as one more sign of his evil nature.

But there is a conflict in the West. It's quiet and personal.

Barring any last minute changes, Governor Timipre Sylva’s hope of retaining his seat in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Bayelsa state, may have been foreclosed. Competent sources have revealed that Governor Timipre Sylva, who is the chief

security officer of the state, has become a liability and security risk to the Nigerian security agencies and cannot be trusted with the responsibility of governance.

His actions and utterances, penultimate week, caused panic within the presidency and Nigerian security apparatchiks. President Jonathan was said to be highly disturbed by Governor Sylva`s conduct that he hurriedly summoned a meeting of security chiefs in Nigeria, with Governor Sylva in attendance, to defend himself.

At the meeting Governor Sylva took responsibility for his utterances and conducts, citing frustration on his part and lack of support from President Jonathan as being responsible for his misdeeds. Subsequently, Governor Sylva knelt down and begged the President and the security czars present to forgive him. He was then asked to cease and desist from making threats capable of heating up the polity and return to Yenogoa immediately.

However, security has been beefed up around President Jonathan, his family and interests inNigeria, particularly in his home state, Bayelsa.

To this end “Famou Tamgbei”, a security team, consisting mainly of mobile policemen which was constituted by Governor Sylva and is alleged to be loyal to him, has been disbanded by the Inspector General of police, Hafiz Rigim.

Irked by Governor Sylva’s conducts, leading members of the People Democratic Party (PDP) of Ijaw extraction has begun shopping for his replacement. It is however uncertain if they have the backing of President Jonathan.

Huhuonline.com understands that Governor Sylva in a telephone conversation with President Jonathan`s brother and former Bayelsa state commissioner for Health, Dr. Eruani Azipanu, had threatened to kill him, President Jonathan and his wife, Patience, if he was not re-elected as Governor.

In a telephone conversation with Huhuonline.com, Eruani said:

“Governor Sylva called me one early morning, and I answered and said Good morning Your Excellency. Sylva responded, Please don’t call me that, I heard the President wants to remove me as Governor and install you, so that is why you refused to return as commissioner?

“Let me tell you something. THIS WILL BE THE LAST FIGHT; I WILL KILL PRESIDENT JONATHAN, HIS WIFE, PATIENCE AND YOU. YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THERE IS BOKO HARAM. I WILL MOBILIZE THEM TO YENAGOA AND WILL SINK THE STATE IF YOU PEOPLE MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO REMOVE ME”.

Our investigation reveals that for several months, Sylva had complained to the Inspector General of Police, Haffiz Rigim that he does not have access to President Jonathan. He said as the Governor of Mr. President’s home state, he was supposed to have unfettered access to the President.

However the president’s inner caucus decided to move against him because of his role during the health crisis of former President Umar Yar’Adua that created power vacuum. According to security reports,it was alleged that Governor Sylva provided Five hundred million naira (N500, 000,000.00) as bribe to the National Assembly to make sure that Goodluck Jonathan does not emerge as acting President.

Attempt to reach Governor Sylva was unsuccessful, calls to his phone were not answered, neither did he respond to our text messages as at press time.However, sources close to the Governor insist that his threats was a political ploy, aimed at putting the President`s men, who are opposed to his re-election on the defensive.

Asked about Governor Sylva’s threats vis-a-vis, his right to freedom of expression, a leading constitutional lawyer from Nigeria, who craved anonymity, said, “Governor Sylva crossed the line, the Nigerian constitution, (Chapter 4, section 33), guarantee every citizen the right to life, and states no one should be deprived intentionally of his life. It is wrong for anyone to threaten another life, talk less an elected Governor to threaten to terminate the life of a sitting President”. This is political suicide, and unless President Jonathan let this slide, Gov. Sylva may have ended his political carrier, he said.

In a related development there are indications that the removal of the former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa, Chief Dairus Obiene, would have negative effects on the struggle by the incumbent governor ofBayelsaState, Chief Timipre Sylva, to secure the party’s governorship ticket.

Investigation revealed that the governor, who lobbied spiritedly for Obiene to retain his job as part of the grand plan to win the PDP primary slated for November 19, 2011 became worried as the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) approved the appointment of James Dugo as the substantive chairman ahead of the February 2012 governorship poll.

The tenure of the former state chairman was characterised by bickering and series of complaints by PDP major stakeholders and members, regarding lopsidedness in the party’s hierarchy.

President Goodluck Jonathan, Governor Sylva and Obiene are from Bayelsa East Senatorial District, a development which generated ill feelings within the party members in Bayelsa.

Also learnt that the decision of the NWC to ratify the appointment of Mr James Dugo, on Tuesday, inAbujahad terribly rattled the camp of the governor’s loyalists against the forthcoming primary election.

The source further hinted that Sylva had approached elder statesmen from the Niger Delta region and Amanyanabo of Nembe Kingdom, Edmund Daukoru, the leadership of Ijaw National Congress (INC), Bayelsa Founding Fathers Forum, Bayelsa Elders Forum and paramount ruler of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Otuoke community, HRH Lot Ogiasa, to prevail on the president to give him a chance.

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