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You all should follow @DOlusegun on twitter.he is giving blow by blow of events at d stadium...i think he is a delegate,maybe

Am not surprised with all the criticism n false allegations levelled against GMB.after all the so called prophets n son of God were all criticised n crucified,we all know how d stories end.Buhari is d only Rtd General n former head of state dat is in d opposition,he ignored d easy way to still be in d corridors of power n partake in d looting of our resources.he understands u can't eat from d systerm and fight it.therefore i implore all of us to please look at d situation in our country and tell ourselves d truth if we want it to continue or change for d better...
I want a change and i cant imagine another 4 yrs of GEJ clueless administration!
I want change and i believe a GMB presidency will give Nigeria d desired change!
Vote Buhari!
Vote APC!

Very sensible talk my guy! All this muslim/muslim ticket nonsense na wash,na just antics of APC distractors to push d party to field weak candidates.Please my people dont be deceived by their foul cries,lets vote for credible n competent candidate and shun religious and ethnic divide.either xtian/xtian or muslim/muslim ticket i believe what we need is a strong-willed n visionary leadership,and clear GEJ cannot offer us that!....i support GMB,cos i believe in him.i enjoy you to do same for sake of the future of our crumbling nation.

He has my vote 100%,and i will canvass more votes for him too...may God help me
Click like if u will do same

Am addicted to d album already....either blasting from d home theater speakers or earpiece plugged to my ear everyday,i just cant get enough of dos songs...Tubaba,u are my baba for life!

Osun State Government has introduced
parliamentary system of government
across the local government councils in
the state.
The Commissioner for Information, Mr.
Sunday Akere, who said this in an
interview with our correspondent on
Tuesday, explained that local
government chairmen would now be
elected from among councillors elected
at council poll.
He spoke with our correspondent on the
sideline of a book launch by a veteran
journalist, Mr. Olalere Fagbola, to
commemorate his 60th birthday.
Fagbola, who worked with Punch
Nigeria Limited until he retired in 2000,
wrote a book entitled, ‘Journalist And
The Hand of God’ to mark the occasion.
The commissioner, while explaining
reason for seeking to create additional
27 new council areas, stated that this
would bring development closer to the
people.
He said, “The governor presented the
bill for the creation of new 27 local
government council areas in order to
ensure that development gets to the
nooks and crannies of the state.
“The new councils would operate a
parliamentary system of government in
order to avoid financial constraints. This
means that nobody would contest to be
elected as chairman. You will first
contest as a councillor, after that the
councillors would elect the chairmen
and vice chairmen among themselves.”
He said this would save cost and put
the chairmen on their toes to perform
because they would not see themselves
to be more important than councillors.
The commissioner said the
parliamentary system of government
would be used across the existing 30
LGA and the new councils to be created.
In his remarks, Fagbola urged
journalists to put God first and strive to
be agents of positive change.

They hate Buhari because Buhari remains the only Army General who has refused to join PDP to loot the treasury.

This singular sentence means a lot! Let someone points to a rtd officer in politics dats nt in pdp...

I love Buhari!

Adex097: V.Poor ..his answers to some pivotal issues were too evasive for my liking.


*i thought he was not clueless*

#my-bad#

Lol....now u kno bro!

Truely,a lot of tins we do at our leisure time reflects our personality.
For me political post is my first call,den I go fr strange/bizarre post,foreign news,my fav celebrity post(like 2baba),religion(islam)....and finally I settle wit d literature n romantic posts

Lobatan!

jmoore: And what if she doesn't get pregnant, will you return her virginity?

Good question....dat is wat we call "test b4 u buy",pathetic

He has said it all.....Nigeria my country,where did we all got it wrong?!

I watched d interview live and I was really impressed with d young lady...she talked abt a debate coming up btw d APC n PDP youth wing,we are getting in our polity

If u say APC should face their bizness n leave d presidency alone, I began to wonder wat other bizness d opposition has, than to check n balance d govt in power through criticism.GEJ govt has always been leaving room for serious bashing frm d opposition due to its clueless leadership unlike wat we have in Lagos state where d opposition has been placed on silent mode due to d vibrant leadership n govt present.
When our president speaks,he is so unaspiring n uncharismatic.'Luck n destiny' has put him in leadership role,but enough of dat! We need more than luck to rescue dis our nation.
He is too feeble to handle dis country and we thank him for his trying effort,let him go n enjoy his pension and stop pushing his luck too hard.

peziz: Please lets hear word jare! Everybody is joining the badwagon turning the issue to politics, tribilism thriving here and there. Who care if fashola communicated the anambra government? Who cares if yoruba and igbo hate each other, who gives a heck if the igbos love whinning and bragging, who gives a damn about all the stuffs written up there? Why are so many irrelevant issues springing up just because of this case. Why does it seem like no one is staying on point, branching out here and there and so many stup!d arguments an foolish counter arguments e.g how yoruba's are accomodating and being taking for granted and how the igbo boasts about helping the economy of lagos. You lots will just die for nothing. All the bigots, sudden bigots/tribalist and aspiring bigots, una go just DIE FOR NOTHING. I am so embarassed about the way ds issue as being handled by supposedly matured men and women, people's parents, ADULTS!!! For christsakes this must be the most disgusting issue trending on nl. If deporting/integrating/ uniting destitutes/criminals/riff raffs/almajiris/men and women who truely have geninue business and held against thier will for six months or more at upper iweka bridge by 3am and left alone by a responsible government, and yet people don't see the wrong in this, then i put it to you lot that indeed the heart of man is wicked and vile. If you rejoiced when the news of previous deportation hapnd to other tribes, you are wicked and vile. This country is messed up.

Wow!...dis huge n precise

Everyday I pray siliently to see dis man BRF become our president .Overcoming our ethnic,religious,tribal,north,south,igbo,hausa,yoruba....etc,either miraculously,incidentally,electing,selecting,appointment anytin dat will see him as d C-in-C..Amen!

A stickler for details, Fashola took on
the Commissioner for Physical Planning.
He said a building appeared to have
suddenly sprouted in-between two
others somewhere on the same street.
He found it curious that people could
build on the space.
He said he could vouch that his
dependable commissioner could not
have approved such; worse still, he said
he “noticed that the building contractor
was just stacking blocks on the road,
thereby obstructing traffic”. He needed
the ministry officials to go there and
check; and he believed the building
would have to give way.
Still on things he picked up, he said
he’d observed that Molue and other
commercial buses were already filing on
the Carter Bridge again and causing
congestion.
He touched on almost all sectors from
health to social welfare, the aged and
underprivileged, et al. In the health
sector, Fashola said, “Rwanda is
stealing medical tourism from Nigeria”.
Though he admitted that “war throws
up opportunities for fresh
breakthroughs” and “I also think our
own challenge with terrorism can also
help build our own doctors without
borders”.
Demonstrating that if “you do not
constantly evolve for the better, other
people would catch up with you, he
stated, “Just look at Spain yesterday
against Brazil. The world has caught up
with Spain and there ticki-tacki style
and that was why the two teams from
Spain were roundly defeated during the
Champions League competition; the
same happened yesterday”.
“My people”, he continued, “the lesson
for all of us is that we cannot rest. We
need to keep striving to break new
grounds. That people are saying we are
doing well is not enough. Other states
are also striving”.
Akabueze, buckets of cold water and a
gov to the rescue
But if you think that the earlier
exchanges were heated, what
transpired when Akabueze and his
team presented the Lagos State
Development Plan, SDP, was something
else.
The LASG EXCO is not an easy place to
be. The EXCO meeting is not a place to
try to flaunt your intellect. If you think
you are intellectually grounded, try
bamboozling your way through the
presentation of a memo. It is also not a
place where you pull wool because
there are people waiting with buckets of
cold water – they would pour the water
on you and your wool.
After what appeared to be an admirable
presentation by Akabueze on
projections and prospects for a Lagos in
2025, his colleagues took him to task.
He took their observations in good
stride.
The plan, for the overall development of
the state, would be driven by public and
private sectors as well as civil society. It
is for all and organized in three parts –
Lagos today, Lagos tomorrow and then
the implementation. It has a 15-year
life-span programme with development
pillars.
The vision to strategy is hinged on the
following:
1. Economic development
2. Infrastructure development
3. Social development and security
4. Sustainable Environment
For each of these, there are objectives/
outcomes; policies and strategies; and
MDA sector policies.
By the time his colleagues punched
holes in some of the projections you
could not but feel sorry for Akabueze.
For instance, the projection that today’s
unemployment rate of 8%, which is
expected to become 5% by 2025, was
thought to be unrealistic.
There is expected to be a 40% access to
homes for the population.
In some cases, the plan was short on
details.
Fashola, who excused himself and later
came back to rejoin the meeting after
about 90mins, would occasionally
interject or amplify a question or
response regarding the plan.
Akabueze was, however, up to the task.
He took his colleagues’ reservations one
after the other. Firstly, he pointed out
that “Nigerians delude themselves that
‘in Nigeria there are good plans but it is
a problem of implementation”. That
can’t be true, he said because every
good plan must be implementable
because implementation is part of a
plan.
In any case, if a plan is simply about
little vision, then you can as well
continue to do the routine.
Waterfront Commissioner’s intervention
about the enormity of the problem of
coastal erosion in terms of its financing
was cut by the deputy governor
because it was becoming a seminar on
its own. Even as he attempted to
continue, Orelope-Adefulire said he
should present a paper on that to which
the Waterfront Commissioner said
“Ben, I will come to you so we discuss
this later”.
Some of the commissioners also
believed that with the challenge of
power and finance, actualizing the plan
would be very difficult.
To this, Fashola admonished all to think
locally and be more creative in raising
funds.
He maintained that a vision needs to be
very ambitious.
In 1999/2002, there were 34committee
reports; by 2004, they were
compressed to the 10-point agenda. All
these were diagnostics and from
2007/2008, “we began to solve the
problems”.
Now, the governor said, we have three,
four, five year plans. “Physical and
economic planning is the back bone of
what we’re doing and both will
determine our success or failure”.
Then came a strange but ingenious
suggestion. From Fashola and
Akabueze came the idea that
commissioners should look inwardly for
funds that may not be of priority
utilization that can be consolidated in a
pool for the purpose of taking care of
the housing needs of the people of
Lagos.
Come and make your case
This is not about pork-barrel. You must
earn that allocation.
Though it was not the operating rule,
you could discern that the aggression to
have more resources for your ministry
so that you can perform played a role in
the arguments and debates. In any
case, there was also the seemingly
unwritten brief that your points of view
had to be grounded in intellect and
logic. That way, pouring cold water on
you would not be an easy thing.
Then you had the chairman of EXCO,
Fashola himself, who kept engaging his
commissioners like a lecturer dealing
with a bunch of precocious students.
Not that he always had his way –
because there were a few times when
presentations were being made and you
could see Fashola nodding or taking
notes.
Left handed though, part of the
governor’s luck is that his parents did
not force him to change and become
right-handed – it is thought in this part
of the world that being left handed is
not good for children and, therefore, in
their formative years, they should be
forced to become right-handed.
A medical report, decades ago in the
United States, found that students, who
were naturally left-handed possessed
some very unique qualities. Forcing
them to become right-handed, alters
the natural thought process and
patterns. So, all thanks belong to the
senior Fasholas.
In terms of style, briskness was it. You
may miss the sequence if you are not
attentive:
“Motion moved for adoption, seconded;
counter? If none, by consensus?
Okay moved”. Then the governor
reaches for the gavel and hits it on its
receptor. That is how motions are
moved after exhausting the debate.
When he intervenes, he does so to save
both arguing parties from one another.
He does not allow time to be wasted. As
the meeting was going on, he was
attending to files.He called the man in
charge of PPP and admonished him to
cut the needless bureaucracy in signing
agreements in the power sector
“Be hung for taking initiative; let me be
the one to complain that you are too
fast”, Fashola charged.
At about 3pm, there was lunch break.
By 3:30, the EXCO chamber was filled
with members to continue.
Is the EXCO just a rubber stamp for
Fashola’s agenda? Not at all.
From what the eyes could see – apart
from the deputy governor and the chief
of staff, the EXCO members did not
know of our participation – the
members, too, have earned their stripes
a la Fashola. The governor had insisted
that the meeting would come to a close
by 6pm. It didn’t. The meeting ended
by 7pm. And to think you arrived
Fashola’s office from 8am.
But there was a Whitepaper on
government views and decisions on the
report of the committee to examine
sources and management of IGR of
state owned tertiary institutions. The
examination of the Whitepaper took so
much time.It was Bill Cosby who said: “I
don’t know the key to success, but the
key to failure is trying to please
everybody”.
Throughout the meeting and, as issues
were being debated, you could decipher
that these were people who were not
interested in pleasing one another.
Some who had been cracking jokes
before the meeting started began to
tear one another’s points of view to
shreds.
And Fashola, who does not appear to
suffer fools at all, cannot be described
as infallible.
He cannot also be described as a saint
because once he doesn’t agree with a
point of view, he remains adamant – he
only evens it out by ensuring that a
superior argument is presented. But
just as John Craig had said, that “no
matter how much work you can do, no
matter how engaging your personality
may be, you will not advance far if you
cannot work through others”, the
governor, working through his EXCO
members, cannot but be appreciated.
And that is why he appears to be very
popular in Nigeria.

Enter Raji Fashola
At exactly 9:34, Governor Fashola
cames in, dressed in a black bow tie,
grey suit and a sky-blue shirt.
Devoid of any formality, he simply took
his seat at the middle of the five seats
at the head of the siting arrangement
and the meeting continued as if nothing
had happened. His only interjection was
to say that Omatseye and I were in the
gathering to observe and “you can
behave and conduct yourself as if they
are not here”. The governor added:
They have earned their stripes and
should know what to publish and what
not to publish”.
That statement, coming from the
governor, transferred the responsibility
of censorship to us.
As he warmed his way into the meeting,
he threw banters with the Economic
Planning Commissioner, Ben Akabueze,
the only non-Lagosian in the EXCO – he
was inherited from the Bola Tinubu
administration.
His entry did not in any way alter the
course of engagement.
Perhaps, dwelling on the fable that the
Executive Council of the Federation,
EXCOF, meetings, when Olusegun
Obasanjo was President, played out no
more than a very powerful king holding
court with subordinates, the EXCO
meeting of Lagos State can be
engaging.
Of importance is the quality of the
discussion as would be discovered later.
There was an update on the issue of a
pedestrian bridge that was reported to
experience an “imminent collapse”. To
this, the Works Commissioner insisted
that there was no “imminent collapse”
but that the bridge was distressed..
“When you say imminent collapse”, the
Works Commissioner charged, “it
means the bridge would collapse today
or tomorrow but when we inspected it,
it showed that the bridge was
distressed and we are already on it”.
Fashola and a few seconders made the
commissioner understand that the
observation that the mail he got read
“imminent collapse” and that it was for
the commissioner to explain and
address the house on the correct status
of the bridge. The commissioner’s
contention was that the use of the
phrase imminent collapse was
inappropriate. This engagement lasted
for some four minutes.
Putting the people first
The health commissioner made a
presentation on the virus presently
giving concern to the Saudi and French
authorities; the Saudis, moreso,
because of the up-coming Hajj. For an
EXCO that is religion-blind, every
contribution during the discussion was
how best to protect the pilgrims from
Lagos.
Therefore, the advisory from the Saudi
authorities about not sending
terminally ill, elderly, pregnant women,
children (12 and under defined as
children) on pilgrimage this year, was
extensively discussed. Conclusion:
High-level consultations with the clerics
and some stakeholders would be held
with immediate effect.
But the EXCO members were also
concerned about other sources that
would supply pilgrims, if they would
take the advisory as seriously as the
Lagos government was doing. In terms
of ratio, the World Health Organisation,
WHO, and the Centre for Disease
Control, CDC, are hopeful that with a
globally recorded case history of 77
with 40 fatalities, the virus, contracted
from bats, with a common symptom of
cold, “is not as deadly as the SARS
global pandemic which struck in 2003.
Indeed, the EXCO made a resolution to
possibly buy the machines for detection
at the state’s major entry point – the
airport.
Incidentally, last Monday was Tunji
Bello’s birthday. A special cake was
brought in and, at about 10:06, the
meeting was broken for Bello’s birthday
cake-cutting ceremony.
That done, business resumed.
The virtual governor
After the meeting resumed, the pace
changed.
Fashola disclosed that he needed to
make some points which he “had
picked up in the course of the previous
week”.
Mind you, these points he “had picked
up” are products of the e-mails, the
letters, the telephone texts, postings on
Facebook and twits from you and I, as
well as personal on-the-spot informal
assessment of some assignments.
The governor pointed out that in the
Abraham Adesanya Estate, Lekki, some
of the roads therein were going bad. He
ordered immediate remedy. He also
said he noticed some abandoned
ambulances at the entrance of the
Lagos University Teaching Hospital,
LASUTH. He wanted to know why the
situation existed. He had one issue or
the other to discuss and seek remedy
for.
Next was the exchange over the Central
Business District, CBD.
Fashola said while he was driving
through Nnamdi Azikiwe last Sunday,
he discovered that the refuse points
were overflowing. He charged the
Adviser in charge of CDB to be more
functional. She, in turn, made it clear
that the solution was already in a memo
she’d recently sent to the governor.
The exchange was both revealing and
instructive. The Adviser would not
succumb to the suggestion that she
was taking a back foot; just as the
governor stuck to his gun that whatever
needed to be done should be done to
clear the mess.
At a point, the Adviser requested for
privacy to which the governor retorted
that there could be no other private
forum that the one they both already
were in. She then told Fashola point-
blank what needed to be done. At that
point, a pall of silence fell on the
chambers. But because here was a
governor who had set tasks and
deliverables, he did not push to argue
against the Adviser’s suggestion which
is going to be very drastic. This
exchange lasted for almost 10minutes.

This is the story of the Lagos State
Executive Council, EXCO! More
importantly, however, it is the story of a
state governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola,
and how the state EXCO takes decisions
that affect the millions of people living
in the state. It is a story that is at once
compelling and revealing.
From the very serious to the very
mundane and sometimes ridiculous,
spending about 11hours observing the
EXCO members and their chairman
invokes a feeling of appreciation
regarding what it takes to govern the
complex state called Lagos. This is a
first part in what can be described as a
fairly formal environment. Another
session, open-ended, would be
presented.
“E mi-o ni gba o” (I no go gree-o, I won’t
allow it)
Abraham Lincoln once said that “if you
would win a man to your cause, first
convince him that you are his sincere
friend”. That, perhaps, is what has kept
Lagos State together under the
governorship of Babatunde Raji
Fashola. At first, it was like a very
difficult pill to swallow for Lagosians –
his style, the need to change Lagos
State and make it a mega city, the
demolitions, the new rules he created
on how to operate and govern; the
apolitical posturing, sometimes
bordering on the stiff-necked – because
the old style, the affable, politically
induced aura of inclusiveness and
tolerance that his successor, Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, had created, was seen
by many as a template for success in
governance.
But here was a man, a gangling lawyer,
thrust upon a polity of clashing socio-
economic-religious and political
interests, in a manner most shocking;
and pushing an agenda that was
considered alien and finicky! It was so
bad that even between Fashola and
Tinubu, there was a disagreement on
matters of style.
However, today, because Fashola took
Lincoln’s admonition to heart, that
there was need to first convince Tinubu
and Lagosians that he is indeed a
sincere friend, he has been able to win
many, very many, to his cause.
Decisions thought to have been rash
and anti-people appear to be yielding
results. The catch-phrase in Lagos is,
Eko o ni baje (conditions in Lagos will
not be allowed to degenerate)
*Exco in session
Therefore, when Fashola told members
of the EXCO, last Monday, that “E mi-o
ni gba o”, he was insisting that he
needed to make his position clear about
the need to “keep faith with the
promise and commitment made to the
original shop owners of the burnt
Tejuosho market”, by allowing them the
right of first refusal – that is, allow them
to come forward, make a bid to buy the
shops and then be disqualified by their
own incapacitation to comply.
This was at the 106th Lagos State
Executive Council meeting.
A Council of Equals
The observation of the EXCO meeting
was up close.
The meeting started at exactly 9:20am:
2011-2015, 106th LSEC MEETING.
The EXCO chambers, on the first floor of
the Governor’s Office, is well laid out.
With 71 chairs, arranged on two simple
terrace floors, it was a packed chambers
and any form of lateness is not
tolerated. The EXCO members are 43 in
number (see box)
Indeed, there are fines for infractions on
the established rules of the EXCO
meeting. As is always the case when
Fashola has a private, close-knit public
function, telephones are either kept at
bay or totally switched off. So, at the
security entrance in the buildings, all
phones – including commissioners’ –
had to be deposited.
Anxiously, you expected the governor
to come in through a designated back
door that links his office to the
chambers but he was not forthcoming.
While you expected him, it was Adejoke
Orelope-Adefulire, the female deputy
governor, who called the meeting to
order.
And contrary to some views about her
lack luster persona, she acquitted
herself with enviable dignity and
decorum. She took charge.
“This meeting is called to order”, she
bellowed into the microphone.
While a few of the commissioners were
still bantering, she called them by their
designation – “Works, please sit down;
Agric, please the meeting is called to
order”.
Within seconds, there was pin drop
silence in the EXCO chambers.
From where she sat at the head of the
arrangement, to her immediate right
was a vacant red leather chair; to her
left is another woman, the Secretary to
the State Government, SSG, Dr. (Mrs)
Idiat Oluranti Adebule. At the other end
of the five-seat arrangement sat the
Attorney General and Commissioner for
Justice, Ade Ipaye, and to his own left
sat the Chief of Staff, Lanre Babalola.
Before the commencement of the
meeting, the deputy governor
announced the presence of the duo of
Sam Omatseye (Chairman, Editorial
Board of The Nation) and I! We were
warmly welcomed.
Businesslike, Adefulire started the
meeting, she moderates while Fashola
chairs.
“Let’s have a look at the minutes of the
last EXCO meeting”, Orelope Adefulire
announced – after an opening prayer.
Because you are not a member but a
first time observer, the next thing you
heard from the presiding deputy
governor was a bit confusing: “Page 1,
2, 3, 4…….10, 11, 12, 13”.
At that point, one of the commissioners
noted an observation in the minutes on
page 13.
That was when it dawned on you that
fast as she was reading out the
numbers, the deputy was not merely
engaging in numeral recitation. The
commissioner noted a correction on
page 13. After the formalities of making
the correction, she continued counting.
There were other observations on pages
20 and 27.
It was a 34-page minute, printed on
yellow papers.

This are mere party officials,not elected public officers which should be d one to bother us.Let someone tell us d composition of pdp officers too n compare wit Apc...frankly,religion can not be overlookd wen we talk abt our politics,bt dis mata is an in-house matter whc is best left to d party to decide

akpomeme: Please point of correction this event has been schedule long before NGF election. If you don't understand the workings of the president's schedule you should ask.

And everybody knos dat d NGF meeting holds a day before d NEC meeting once in every month....u see?!

@Op...babe u too fine!

Cheating is unpardonable.

Thank you

Yet another evidence of d greatness of d holy prophet(SAW).....where did we get it wrong in dis country my people??

The Unilag leg of the Campus Connect: 2face
and Friends Tour 2013 has been postponed.
This decision was announced on Friday by the
organisers of the tour "due to unforeseen logistic
challenges".
The tour will however continue as scheduled but
will now start with the University of Benin stop
on Thursday, May 9. Uniport will follow on
Tuesday, May 14; IMT Enugu will be on Thursday,
May 16 while UniAbuja will be on Thursday, May
23.
Unilag was initially billed to kick-off the tour on
Tuesday, May 7 but the new arrangement would
see Unilag as the final school to be visited once
the issues have been taken care of.
The Campus Connect: 2face and Friends Tour
2013 is being produced by NM En.Core and
sponsored by Nigeria’s No.1 premium non-
alcoholic brand, Low-Sugar Amstel Malta while
Soundcity is the official media partner.
The tour which would see 2face reunited with his
university roots also has a clutch of artistes in
tow. They include: Hypertek’s hot boys Dammy
Krane and Rocksteady alongside Vector, and
long-time collaborator Sound Sultan.
Other class acts billed for the tour include Sasha
P, Seyi Shey, Timi Dakolo, Phyno, Crystals,
Harrisong, Capital F.E.M.I Solid Star and Jus’
Kiddin’s EFA.
Regional cameos will include crowd pleasers like
Christian, Nonny D, Fame, Errigga, Mr. 2Kay,
Maxi, Sele Bobo, Tee Gee, Dil, Ameena, Shyne,
MC Amanna and Ruff Coin. The gigs will be
hosted by the king of kool himself, Andre Blaze.
2face earlier spoke of his excitement at
returning to perform in schools after almost a
decade of absence.
“I’m looking forward to my return to the campus
circuit. It’s been a long time. Due to timing and
availability issues I have been unable to play
some of these venues in like eight years or more
and for me, this is big deal. It’s going to be an
emotional return to these campuses. I have
received and still enjoy massive support from
these spots. They are my personal people,” he
said.

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One love 2baba!

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A majority of Muslims
around the world want sharia law to be
implemented in their countries but are split on
how it should be applied, according to a study
released Tuesday.
The comprehensive Pew Research Center survey
conducted between 2008 and 2012 focused on
38,000 people in 39 countries drawn from a
global Muslim community of 2.2 billion people.
A solid majority, notably in Asia, Africa and the
Middle East, were in favor of sharia — traditional
Islamic law — being adopted as “the law of the
land” in their countries, it found.
“But I would also note that support for making
sharia law does vary,” said Jim Bell, Pew’s
director of international survey research.
From 12 percent in Turkey, support for sharia as
official national law stood at 56 percent in
Tunisia, 71 percent in Nigeria, 72 percent in
Indonesia, 74 percent in Egypt and 99 percent in
Afghanistan.
But Princeton University professor Amaney
Jamal, a special adviser to the Washington-
based Pew Research Center, emphasized there
is no one common understanding of sharia
among all the world’s Muslims.
“Sharia has different meanings, definitions and
understandings, based on the actual experiences
of countries with or without sharia,” she said in a
conference call with reporters analyzing the
findings.
Titled “The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics
and Society,” the study also revealed many
Muslims favor applying sharia in the private
sphere to settle family or property disputes.
However, in most countries surveyed, there was
less support for severe punishments, such as
cutting off the hands of thieves or executing
people who convert from Islam to another faith.
A majority of Muslims are also in favor of
freedom of religion, even while backing sharia.
In Pakistan, for example, 84 percent of Muslims
want sharia enshrined as official law but 75
percent believe non-Muslims are free to practice
their religion.
Around half of Muslims in the survey expressed
concerns about religious extremism, particularly
in Egypt, Iraq and Tunisia.
In most countries, a majority of Muslims said a
wife must obey her husband, although a
majority also said a woman should decide
whether or not to wear a veil.
Most Muslims said they do not feel tension
between their religion and modern life, prefer a
democratic regime, and enjoy music or Western
movies, even if such pastimes are sometimes
regarded as undermining morality.
An overwhelming majority viewed prostitution,
homosexuality, suicide or alcohol consumption
as immoral but there are sharp differences on
issues such as polygamy.
Only four percent polled in Bosnia and
Herzegovina considered polygamy morally
acceptable, against 87 percent in Niger.
A strong majority surveyed said so-called honor
killings could never be justified. The only
exceptions came in Afghanistan and Iraq, where
majorities condoned executions of women
deemed to have shamed their families by
engaging in premarital sex or adultery.
Violence carried out in the name of Islam was
also widely rejected.
In the United States, 81 percent of Muslims said
such violence can “never” be justified — against
a global median of 73 percent.
However, substantial minorities in Bangladesh,
Egypt, Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories
said violence was permissible.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/most-muslims-want-sharia-law-bu-t-study/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

We have no regard for law and order. We are not angry because we benefit from the breakdown of law and order" @DOlusegun
My bro n sis,wat dis dude said is nothing bt d truest reality of our society today.Everyday we criticise d govt fr poor performance n corruption,bt we engage in one vice or more each day.we disobey traffic rules,pay bribe n solicit,tax evasion etc nd we are doing all dis tins unchallenged most times because d systerm encourages it.If we,as ordinary citizen can go scot free most times wen we break d law den i dnt see d reason why dos in power wont do worse....we need to be angry,bt to be angry we need to do d right tins first

Events are unfolding.....

The parties had, in February, announced their
plan to merge into one party to be known as All
Progressives Congress, APC.
Consequently, the parties went into series of
meetings during which it agreed on the
constitution, manifesto, logo, motto and slogan.
Some of the documents are to be submitted
alongside the application for registration to the
Independent National Electoral Commission at
the end of the national conventions of the parties,
where the merger is to be approved by members.
According to the manifesto, exclusively obtained
by PREMIUM TIMES, the association spells out an
ambitious action plan to aggressively tackle
corruption, which a source said generated hot
argument before it was finally adopted last week.
Some members of the association reportedly
canvassed the need to include specific details,
which will endear it to Nigerians above the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which it believes
has not done well in that regard since assuming
power at the federal level about 13 years ago.
The APC specifically declared in the 29-page
document that if it comes to power in 2015, it
would not only renegotiate oil deals, but would
also remove the secrecy surrounding the
ownership of 40% of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural
Gas, NLNG, and query the utilisation of the over
N50 trillion oil revenue it claimed accrued to the
Federation Account in the last 13 years PDP has
been in power.
During the period, the PDP produced three
Presidents, namely Olusegun Obasanjo
(1999-2007), Umaru Yar’Adua (2007-2010) and
incumbent Goodluck Jonathan (2010 till date).
The 20-member APC Manifesto (Logo, Slogan and
Motto) Committee was headed by Audu Ogbeh, a
former National Chairman of the PDP.
“We shall negotiate oil deals, unveil the secrecy
surrounding the ownership of 49% of the Nigeria
Liquefied, NLNG, query the over N50 trillion Oil
Revenue which accrued to the Federation Account
between 2000 and 2013 and recover billions of
US Dollars which Ministries, Departments and
Agencies, failed to remit to the Federation
Account,” the association declared on Section 1
Page 5 of the adopted manifesto.
The APC also declared that it would not only
strengthen and make independent the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission, ICPC, and other anti-graft
agencies by repealing the laws which inhibit their
independent, it would also review public service
rules and financial regulations which currently
permit outrageous impropriety in public finances.
It also promised to push for the removal of the
immunity clause in the constitution which shields
the president, vice president, governors and
deputy governors from prosecution while in
office.
“APC in Government shall muster the political
will to wage strident war against corruption;
otherwise our post-oil-economy will be
disastrous,” the manifesto stated.
“It is our considered view that none of our
cardinal programs will succeed if the current level
of corruption and looting going on in the land is
allowed to continue.
“We shall plug all leakages which accelerate
monumental corruption, recover looted funds, cap
and trim unwarranted allowances to public office
holders.”
With a view to sanitising the electoral process if
it comes to power, the APC also adopted for its
manifesto some recommendations of the defunct
Electoral Reform Committee, otherwise known as
Uwais Panel, set up by late President Umaru
Yar’Adua.
Among the recommendations listed on Page 6
under the same section, are that it will “make the
appointment of the chairman and top officials of
the National and State Electoral Commissions
public” and that the “Burden of Proof shall rest on
the Electoral Commissioners.” It did not expatiate
on the recommendations.
On power, APC said in Section 4 Page 8 of the
document that it will pursue the expansion of
electricity generation and distribution of up to
40,000 megawatts in the four to eight years of its
administration.
It added, “The party will also work assiduously at
making available power from renewable energy
sources such as coal solar, wind and biomass for
domestic and industrial use, whenever these
prove viable.”
The APC also said in Section 23 Page 25 of the
manifesto that, upon its assumption of office, it
will begin wide consultations to amend the
Constitution with a view to decentralizing the
police command and expand local content.
It also promised to establish a well-trained,
adequately equipped and goals-driven Serious
Crime Squad to combat terrorism, kidnapping,
armed robbery, militancy, ethno-religious and
communal clashes nationwide.
On politics and governance enunciated in Section
24 Page 26 of the document, APC promised
among other things, to initiate action to amend
the constitution with a view to devolving powers,
duties and responsibilities to states and local
governments in order to entrench Federalism and
the Federal Spirit; remove immunity from
prosecution for elected public officers in criminal
cases; ensure full implementation of the Freedom
of Information (FoI) Act so that government held
data set can be requested and used by the media
and public at large and then publish at large, and
then on regular basis; and restructure
government for a leaner, more efficient and less
expensive public service.
“APC believes that our politics is broke. Our
nation urgently needs fundamental political
reform and improvement in governance to make
it more transparent and accountable,” the
manifesto stressed.
On the social scene, APC also said it would not
only invest in massive human capital that would
encourage the youth, it promised to “assist
Nollywood to fully develop into world-class
industry that can compete effectively with
Hollywood and Bollywood in due course.
Read more: Premium Times

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April 3, 2013
Baba Deborah and Mama Deborah
started having issues after the birth
of their 2nd child. At some point,
they stopped sleeping together.
#Magun 1
Baba Deborah suspected Mama
Deborah was getting the ‘koko’ from
other men but he couldn’t establish
this. He filed for divorce! #Magun 2
At the Customary Court, Agege,
Baba Deborah was shocked when
Mama Deborah informed the Court
that his something was too small for
kerewa. #Magun3
The judges advised them to go back
home and settle the matter
amicably. Baba Deborah was
humiliated. That week, he watched
‘Thunderbolt’. #Magun 4
The movie by Mainframe
Productions provided the answer to
Baba Deborah’s question: How do
you stop a wife who sleeps around?
#Magun 5
Baba Deborah was introduced to a
herbalist at Oranyan Area of Ibadan.
He got d package at the cost of
#1,250. Magun to badt! #Magun 6
Meanwhile, Mama Deborah kept
shaking her tail feathers around
Agege. She sampled any koko that
came to her attention. Koko
Sampler. #Magun 7
Mama Deborah heard about
Asunmo’s legendary koko. Asunmo
was a member of NURTW, Agege.
They made a deal. Venue –
Okanlomo Hotel. #Magun 8
For almost a year, the only place
Baba Deborah had sex with Mama
Deborah was in his dream. He
started laying d magun (don’t climb)
for her. #Magun 9
Asunmo & Mama Debo started
exchanging sms over their proposed
rendezvous. “Boda Asunmo, Olohun,
ma d* yin pa!” She texted him.
#Magun 10
“Iwo bawo? Ti mi o ba je k’osunkun,
pe mi ni omo ale” Asunmo
responded just a day before their
date at the hotel at Agbado Ijaye.
#Magun 11
As usual, Baba Deborah dropped the
magun on the floor for Mama
Deborah to cross on the D-day. She
told him she was going to the
market #Magun 12
Asunmo had taken enough paraga
before leaving the park. He was
waiting for Mama Deborah in the
hotel room. She came in with an
Alaroye. #Magun 13
As soon as she entered, Mama
Deborah threw away her wrapper
away. She had nothing underneath.
Asunmo’s koko went gaga! He
rushed her. #Magun 14
Asunmo placed Mama Deborah on
the bed and went to work
immediately. She was reading Iwe
Iroyin Alaroye. “Boda Asunmo, se e
ti wole ni?” #Magun 15
“OPC kilo fun Boko Haramu”
Mama Deborah kept reading from
Alaroye while Asunmo continued
digging into the hole of life. #Magun
16
It appeared Asunmo was about
reach the climax when he suddenly
screamed “Yeeeee! Omi o! Water!
Water!!” Mama Deborah dropped
the Alaroye. #Magun 17
Asunmo rushed to the fridge to get
water. He drank two big bottles of
Eva table water. “Kukuruku!”
Shouted Asunmo like a cock.
#Magun 18
Before Mama Deborah knew what
was happening, Asunmo did a
somersault. That was when she
knew it had to be magun. Someone
had placed the charm on her.
#Magun 19
She was aware of how most
‘maguns’ operate. The victim takes
water, crows, does seven
somersaults and drops dead. She
was in deep shit. #Magun 20
To even think Asunmo’s ‘koko’ was
not as endowed as widely rumoured
around Agege. But, how would she
get out of this mess? #Magun 21
Asunmo knew he had misfired. This
was definitely ‘magun’ in action.
“Chei! I shouldn’t die like this na” he
thought. Somersault number 5.
#Magun 22
To even think Mama Deborah’s
something was as wide and deep as
a well. Asunmo was also sure this
would be a trip from a well to hell.
#Magun 23
By the time Asunmo did the 6th
somersault and Mama Deborah
could not hold him, she screamed.
“Ara adugbo, e gba mi o! Help!”
Door was locked. #Magun 24
Just before his 7th somersault,
Asunmo thought “What if I didn’t
climb her? What if she climbed
instead? What if I used condom?”
#Magun 25
The hotel door came down as
Asunmo finished the 7th somersault.
Not even Messi could break the
‘magun’ record. No one has ever
done 8. #Magun 26
That was the end of Asunmo. Mama
Deborah is still in Police detention.
I’ll sell the story to ‘Iwe Iroyin
Alaroye’. #Magun 27
THE END
Question 1: If ‘Magun’ means “don’t
climb”, would it make any
difference if the woman climbed
instead? #Magun
Question 2: Shouldn’t condoms
provide enough protection against
‘magun’? #Magun
Question 3: If you gave head to a
‘magun-laden’ woman, would you
live or die? #Magun
I posted these tweets on my TL last
nite.
I am @SagaySagay on twitter.

Btw,your bro should have just move to another bank...almost all banks here operate western union
Uba is the last bank I will transact with!

kingoflag: Yes, and just a few days ago this same David Cameron accused GEJ of pilfering over $100billion that was meant for the development of the Nigerian people.

Maybe, that's the what's "hard to believe" that the fine Briish gentleman is talking about.

Just like he accused Amanpour of lopsided info,he has committed same sin of deliberately ignoring the $100billion pilfering by his master's govt yet by the same British pm