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donphilopus:
It's now audible to the deaf, visible to the blind and vocal to the dumb that Buhari controls there!

Simple and concise !!!

donphilopus:
It's now audible to the deaf, visible to the blind and vocal to the dumb that Buhari controls there!

Simple and concise

This is one of the most Educating post I've come across in Nairaland,keep it rolling I love it!

Best of luck to the Nigerian contenders in all the categories

Best of luck as you check your result

ABU zaria have released the 2013/2014 post university Matriculation result. Here is the link to check the result.
http://forms.abu.edu.ng/putme/

Who then wrote the letter........let's ask Doyin or Maku is that the best they got?

I Did Not Write Any Letter to My Father,
IYABO OBASANJO Speaks Out!
December18, 2013 IYABO OBASANJO (On
Rainbow FM):
"I have never seen or heard this sort of
fabrication in my entire life! I, IYABO
OBASANJO never contemplate writing a letter
to my Loving Father. I speak with him almost
on daily bases.
"Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo is the best
father in the world. He gave birth to me, he
raise me up and gave me the best of
Education. I wouldn't have achieve whatever
I did without my father. IN FACT, WHO AM I
WOTHOUT MY FATHER? "As a father he never
disappoint his children in any way, he is a
father anybody wish to have.
"If President Jonathan want to reply the letter
my father wrote him, he should be man
enough to reply direct. Why are they trying
to make me a scape goat? I know my father
very well and I don't question his judgement,
I believe my father wrote his letter in the
best intrest of the nation.
If Mr. President disagree with some of the
allegations in the latter, let him be man
enough to talk directly to my father, he
should stop involving me in an issue I know
nothing about. "How can you write a letter to
insult my father and claim I, the daughter is
the source.
If that is how Ijaw people insult their father, I
am a Yoruba Woman, we respect our parent
in all circumstances.
"I, IYABO OBASANJO did not write any letter.
Nigerians should please take note. "The
purported letter is a malicious lies intended
to rubish the good name of my family, when I
get to the source of the letter, I will waste no
time to take the necessary legal actions.
"I love my father and I never disrespect him."

After hours of endless waiting by journalists,
leaders of the Academic Staff Union of
University, emerged from the Senate
Building of the Federal University of
Technology, Minna, venue of the National
Executive Committee meeting of the union,
to harass the anxious newsmen.
They shouted repeatedly, “who invited these
stupid people.”
One of the notable members of the Union
that instructed security men to order the
journalists to leave the building is the
Chairman of ASUU in FUT, Minna, Dr.
Abdulfatai Jimoh, who went ahead to assault
the Daily Trust correspondent, Aliyu
Hamagan.
Jimoh had earlier thought Hamagan was a
member of the Union and invited him to
come closer. He then asked, “Who brought
this stupid people inside? What are they
doing here?”
Hamagan, however, responded, “I am one of
the people you are calling stupid. I will not
have you insult us like that.”
Jimoh, on finding out that he was speaking
with a journalist, pushed Hamagan and
asked him to leave the premises, saying,
“You people are intruding, we did not invite
you. Get out of this place now.”
The meeting, which started at about
11.30am and holding in behind closed
doors at the Senate Building of the FUT,
Minna, was ongoing at the time of filing this
report at about 7pm.
The scenario took another twist when
members of ASUU NEC LOC emerged to
inform journalists that some of them (ASUU)
are not comfortable with the presence of the
pressmen.
Jimoh, who was at this time furious,
threatened the media men, saying
“Anything wey una see, make una take am
like that, because we didn’t invite the
media.”
However, there was a disagreement among
the members over the presence of the
media. Some suggested that the journalists
should stay because they were doing their
job, others persisted that “we did not invite
them. When we need them, we will invite
them.”
The Vice Chancellor FUT, Minna, Prof.
Musbau Akanji, who got the news that ASUU
assaulted some journalists, rushed to the
venue pleading with the journalists.
“Although, I am not a part of the meeting,
but I am apologising on their behave
because they are in my territory. This place
(FUT, Minna) is a Federal Government
institution, and it is a public place that
everybody including journalists can enter
especially when they are discharging their
responsibilities,” Akanji said.
www.punchng.com/news/ASUU-leaders-assault-journalists-in-minna-over-strike-report/

Wishing Him the best in his professional career!

May Allah guide those who have plans in engaging in suicide Bombing Ameen

Until we totally change the way we
elect our leaders, until we remove
private money from public campaigns,
lying will be the de-facto method of
governance in this country.
Peter Schuyler
By Fejiro Oliver
Dear President Jonathan,
I’m not supposed to ask how you are the
way I asked my grandparents when I wrote
letters to them in those days, because I
know that you are very fine. I should even
be flogged if I ask such useless question
from you. So the best way to phrase it is how
is America? Kedu m’aka America? Oh yes, I
must ask you that since I know that it’s not
all the people that went there truly had it all
fine. But for you, it’s very obvious that you
are more than fine, even finer than the
United States President, right there in his
own country.
I would have even called you while you were
there, but my Airtel number has been
tampered with by people who obviously
hate my reports and write-up, hence I
cannot call or receive calls. They have made
it possible for me to stay away from the
internet for a full day; hence I could not
even send you a mail. I tried to even send
message to your wife, who is a Facebook
friend, but I have also be reported to Mark
that my Facebook is a source of terror to
people who feel they own Nigeria and Africa,
hence I have been blocked from sending
messages for some time, probably until I
‘repent’ and play ball. I tender my
unreserved apology for the lack in
communication.
I understand that you will be having a media
chat tomorrow with selected media
practitioners, who were picked by Reuben
Abati, media men that will not ask you the
real questions that the masses would have
wished to ask you. I won’t bother to waste
my megabyte in sending you questions via
twitter, knowing that they won’t read it for
you to answer. Please I advise you; do not
try to use your signature language of “I
don’t give a damn” this time around; else
the real media (social media) will chew you
raw and make mincemeat of you. I do know
you will also deny spending 6 billion Naira
for the UN trip, but please, do us a favor by
accepting the blames if need be and not
give excuses or defend yourself. But before
you go on the ‘hot seat’, take 20 minutes of
your time to read my sincere letter to you.
I’m told that you read any of my reports and
write up and this will be no exception.
I’m sorry for not writing this letter to you
earlier, as I had been busy, just the way you
are busy. I read the text of your speech
delivered to the UN general assembly and I
must confess, once again, you disappointed
us. As I write, I cannot remember one
memorable thing written in that speech, an
act that leaders are known for. I cannot
remember the last time that true world
leaders made speeches and writers like us
did not pen down one or two lines as quotes.
You sure need a speech writer and if you
need my services, I will gladly offer it to you
pro bono.
Anyway, that’s not the essence of my letter
to you. How do you find your hotel room in
your favorite hotel, where everything is
working and you did not need to call the
hotel services to pump water for you? Did
you also observe that when you got in, there
was no special display on the hotel brochure
saying, “24 hours light with standby
generator and internet facilities? That is
what most of us enjoy in America when we
lodge in hotels, as there is a 24 hours
internet service and power supply.
When you got to the Venue of the UN
assembly, the streets were sealed off by
security, but did you observe that there
were no battalions of armored tanks with
helicopters hovering over the place? Did you
also notice that the residents there talked to
the security men with smiles on their faces?
Can you remember that there was no stop
and search on any of the citizens who drove
past or walked down the road? That is how it
is done everywhere in America, where we
don’t have gun trotting men harassing
citizens because Obama is around. Don’t
think it’s due to America’s age; far from it. It
has been so even when they celebrated 20
years of Independence.
GEJ, how did you see the fox news you
watched four days ago, where President
Obama was being reported on negatively
and yet there was no cry from his media
aide that such stories were false or did you
check International Newsdesk websites (it
was even reported there on how you spent 6
billion Naira for your UN trip) were citizens
frown at the few security in the UN assembly
complex, which they feel intrudes on their
‘free movement’ and yet his party members
did not have to cry that they were opposition
voices and the Senators did not attempt to
pass a law regulating the social media?
You were in America when Kenyan President
delivered his heart touching speech to the
country on the mall incident, but do you
recall that he never blamed the insurgents
on his political foes who want to make Kenya
ungovernable to him. That is your fellow
African President, in case you think I’m
comparing you with Obama too much.
When you were driven to the New York Stock
Exchange building, your multitudes of aides
stayed back and you did not see vehicles
clearing the way because the President of
Africa most populous country is passing. You
sure did not feel embarrassed as you had to
drive gently without some irresponsible sets
of military men driving and swinging on the
road just to announce you presence. That is
America for you; nobody gives a damn if you
are the President.
By the way, what was that grammar you said
to Obama that he must fix Nigeria? You
obviously must have taken a shot of vodka
to have used the word ‘must’, or don’t you
know that in America, that word is
forbidden? How would you expect Obama to
fix Nigeria if he must fix Africa? Did we vote
for Obama to lead Nigeria? If that is your
language of saying that the problems of
Nigeria are two big for you to handle, quietly
tender your resignation letter as soon as
your Presidential jet land. Obama should fix
while you loot. When you budgeted 6 billion
Naira for this trip, did you seek Obama
consent?
Here we are; waiting for you to explain to us
how many people you took to US and how
many billions you budgeted, since your
aides are denying the report, you are busy
asking a black man like you who does not
earn half the salary you earn to run your
government for you.
Before I continue, I want to point out to you
were you goofed in your watery speech to
the UN; you kept using the word “Mr.
President” while addressing them; or
weren’t you told that Prime Ministers and
Monarchs were in attendance? When you
spoke on the Syrian issue, you condemned
the continous use of chemical weapons
there, but you refused to state Nigeria stand
on the issue,whether the US should use the
instrument of war on Syria or not. Was it
part of the weakness you have in you, that
you could not tell Obama that we reject his
planned invasion to Syria?
You were asking for support for Nigeria
seeking a non permanent seat of the UNSC
in the 2014-2015. What rubbish support?
Do the people back home support you,
before you stood up to ask the world to
support you? On what ground do you have
to combat terrorism, when few members of
the Boko Haram sect have grounded the
North. Didn’t you hear over there that the
man, Shekau who was alleged to be dead is
not dead, but alive and kicking as he gets
ready to make our soldiers scamper for their
own safety? When next you want to ask for
international support, please seek our
collective consent before you embarrass us
in the comity of nations.
Did we hear you right that you are offering
assistance to Kenya in order to combat
terrorism? Common, don’t make us laugh;
you must not play April fool with everything.
How can you render assistance when you
have worse scenario in your birth place?
What manner of assistance will you offer
when Borno state burns and your soldiers
kill innocent citizens in Apo and tag them
“Boko Haram”? Please stop taking serious
issues like jokes; we beg of you.
Do you know I forgot to ask you how the
roads you were driving on is? Sorry my dear
president. Did you hear any bump sound as
you drove past the various buildings in New
York and did you see that there were no
patch roads? Those roads are over 55 years,
built by ministers of works like the ones you
have in Nigeria and none of the money
allocated for it went into building of
mansions for themselves.
You watched the CNN more often there; I
hope you remember that there was no time
in all the days you stayed that you saw the
First Lady of America, Michelle Obama
appearing and making long speeches? You
didn’t see her, not because she hates
publicity, but she knew that she is not an
elected official who should be seen often;
rather she was in the white house taking
care of the home.
You wife must have learnt a great lesson
seeing that nobody in America knew who
she was, as you people entered the $10,000
hotel. Did you see that she was greeted
casually as you entered the lift with her,
with nobody falling over themselves on who
will bow down first before the Jesus of
Okirika? Certainly, America don’t give the
f**k who you are as they go about their
duties.
We have a version of the African Union First
Ladies meeting, which is hosted by your
wife after the African Union meeting is held,
with even a proposal by her to waste our
collective wealth on an African Union first
ladies peace mission building. Do you think
Michelle Obama cannot do a thing like that
and name it United Nations first ladies anti-
terrorism building? She can, but American
Senators will never allow her, hence she
can’t even dream of it. Who will take the
land of former President George Bush wife
and give to her in the first place? That is the
America you stayed and enjoyed.
I forgot to ask you about your arrival and
departure at John Kennedy Airport. Did you
see that there was no stern looking security
frisking passengers as you have in MIA? All
the passengers you saw there are going to
live at the exact time on their ticket and
failure to do some may attract penalty from
the America Government. It’s not like the
Arik airline I fly to Abuja, when I leave by
10.30pm, when my ticket bears 8am, and no
government official listens to me when I
complain. That’s America for you and if you
think I’m lying,tell your pilot to delay for five
minutes when he is supposed to take off and
watch for yourself how he will be arrested
and queried, before he would be allowed to
go after an apology from you.
I didn’t forget to ask you how it felt like to
look through Pierre Hotel windows at night
and there was light everywhere, without
sound of generating sets deafening your
ears. They are not magic o. They are electric
light with some powered by solar, should
you be thinking otherwise. When you got to
the meeting, I’m 100 percent sure that there
was no blink of light for a second; that is
America for you where money is used for the
right purposes.
The call you made across New York did not
have to ‘cut’ as you answered as there was
neither network failure, but the call you
made to Nigeria I know had to ‘cut off’
annoyingly at every 2 minutes; typical of a
system that don’t work, which you head. I
bet you that should you have network
problem America, that telecommunication
network will be very sorry for themselves.
You have enjoyed America with our money
and have seen the civility of governance to
respond less to criticism and work hard to
earn even the praises of your enemies. We
do not expect you to be the best for there
are no best men anywhere. The only places
where best men exist are in weddings; just
as there are no saints even in the temple;
yet we have men who remained immortal.
This you can be. Jona, Kedu m’aka America?
These little things matter… www.theparadigmng.com/?p=3976

Argentine skipper Lionel Messi has revealed
there are no easy opponents in world
football after the La Albiceleste were drawn
against African champions Nigeria, Iran and
Bosnia Herzegovina.
Messi who is in line to win a fifth consecutive
ballon d’or 2013 admitted that he was
happy facing old foes Nigeria in Brazil.
“Happy to meet rivals (Nigeria) in Brazil
2014 World Cup,”
“But there are no easy teams and all groups
are complicated.” he revealed.
Messi who is recovering from a tear in the
grounds of the AFA in Ezeiza will lead his
charges against Bosnia and Herzegovina in
their opening fixture at the Maracana in Rio
before tackling Iran in Belo Horizonte
Mineirão with their final group game against
Nigeria on 25th of June at the Beira Rio in
Porto Alegre.
www..com/messi-eagles-wont-easy/

In a string of tweets, the player also hit out
at chairman Michael Johnston and claimed
he had not been paid by the club he signed
for in April.
Gabriel tweeted: “I just see video of Alan
Johnstone telling that he has not seen
enough of me. Be honest with me and fans
you have see me training for months.
“I have train with you everyday for some
months working very hard. I’m ready to play
for the fans. This is why I come to Scotland.
“You don’t pay my wages, my house and
manager say he dont see me train when I
train everyday. Unfair treatment by two
Johnstones. Very strange.”
‘Must do better’
But Johnston insists Gabriel must do better
to have any chance of forcing his way into
his plans.
He said: “It’s good that he’s disappointed
not to be playing but it’s a bit silly putting it
on Twitter. That’s just not done.
“At the end of the day, you are playing on
merit and he has to do more himself to get
in the team.
“He’s obviously been a good player when
you see that he has been involved in the
national team.
“But you play in the first team on merit and
because you’ve played for Nigeria doesn’t
mean you automatically get picked for the
first team.”
Johnston added: “There are rules in place
that you’re not meant to talk about football
on Twitter or Facebook or whatever.
“I’m sure he understands the rules. I will
speak to him and hopefully he learns his
lesson.
“The main thing for him is that he’s got to
work harder to get himself in the team.
“He needs to do better. At this point, there
are a lot of good young players in front of
him.”m.scotsman.com/sport/football/latest/johnston-nigeria-s-gabriel-must-earn-killie-place-1-3197633

The month of Muharram is the first month of
the Arabic year, and it is one of the four
sacred months of Allaah. Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
“Verily, the number of months with Allaah is
twelve months (in a year), so was it ordained
by Allaah on the Day when He created the
heavens and the earth; of them four are
Sacred (i.e. the 1st, the 7th, the 11th and
the 12th months of the Islamic calendar).
That is the right religion, so wrong not
yourselves therein”
[al-Tawbah 9:36]
al-Bukhaari (3167) and Muslim (1679)
narrated from Abu Bakrah (may Allaah be
pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
“The division of time has turned to its
original form which was current the day
Allaah created the heavens and earth. The
year consists of twelve months of which four
are sacred: three consecutive months, Dhu’l-
Qa’dah, Dhu’l-Hijjah and Muharram, and
Rajab of Mudar which comes between
Jumada and Sha’baan.”
It was proven from the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) that the
best fasting after Ramadaan is fasting in the
month of Muharram. It was narrated that
Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with
him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
“The best fasting after Ramadaan is the
month of Allaah Muharram, and the best
prayer after the obligatory prayer is prayer
at night.” Narrated by Muslim, 1163.
With regard to the phrase “the month of
Allaah”, mentioning the month in
conjunction with Allaah is a sign of its great
status. Al-Qaari said: it seems that what is
meant is all of the month of Muharram.
But it was proven that the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not
fast any month in full apart from Ramadaan,
so this hadeeth is to be understood as
meaning that it is it is encouraged to fast a
lot in the month of Muharram, not to fast the
whole month.
And Allaah knows best.

Telecommunications operator, Globacom, has said the rationale behind the slashing of its BlackBerry tariff by half is to encourage Nigerians to use data more frequently.

In a statement, the firm said the unprecedented move was aimed at liberalising access to the modern tool for social and business networking.

In addition to the tariff drop, it said there was a considerable increase in the data allowance for both BlackBerry 10 plans and the generic BlackBerry plans.

The statement signed by Globacom’s Coordinator, Marketing, Mr. Adeniyi Olukoya, explained that the Absolute Month platform, which hitherto was N2,800 with 3GB data, now goes for N1,000 with 3GB data.

The Absolute Week plan goes for N500 with 700MB and the co-month and co-week plans go for N899 and N400 with data allowance of 3GB and 700MB respectively.

According to the company, the new BlackBerry subscription tariffs are for both old and new customers.

The statement said, “Globacom is the first network to introduce BlackBerry service in Nigeria and we have continued to maintain the lead by offering subscribers the best and most pocket-friendly BlackBerry rates. Glo always has exciting offers for both existing and potential customers.

“We are offering these new tariffs to encourage Nigerians to use data more frequently. This will make life more abundant for our subscribers.”

”www.punchng.com/sports/glo-justifies-blackberry-tariff-slash/