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GspotAngela:
I dey cum

Hwfa nw!!! How re u?

Free? Will government give them allocation? No!! What happens to public school!!! Baseless arguments

GoldenJAT:
See tension!!!!! Even me way d matter no concern.... Politics na real war

I tell u my frnd, me wey dey kwara sev

Pls, can't we do something for sahara reporters?

Yea

K

QueenEdna:
Cool

PM'ed' you, dear

Stunner16:

Rotflmfao... Olodo! Your control of the English language has given you away! You know nothing! Caman gerrarahia mehn, Shit!

Oloriburuku, nd u re up to be my dad ooo, but u re here showing ur madness, werey go find something tangible doing this morning!!!!!

Observing team? Or disorganizing team, this guy doesn't give a damn to bad governance unless you are his

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Let the game continues, I knew PDP's silence during screening means something!!!!!!



PDP schooling APC since .....

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Ahhhhh


Wow, really elated this morning!!!! FTC since when I was in my mum's womb


Shout out to my "better by far" guys, if u wanna sell hostel accommodation PM abeg!!!!

This session is gonna be a boooooooooooommmmmmbbbbb! Started my session with FTC

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Are the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President
Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) aware of the great
expectations their intense advocacy of change in the
campaigns leading to the last general elections aroused
among Nigerians? Are they conscious of the fact that the
greater the time lag between their formal assumption of
office and the manifestation of their promised changes,
the greater will be the growing frustrations of sections of
the populace with the attendant increasing nostalgia for an
idealised past?
It is now nearly five months after PMB was sworn in
following the sweeping victory of the APC at the polls. Yet,
the party is only just putting in place members of its
Federal Executive Council (FEC) to assist the President in
driving the machinery of governance. PMB claims he
needed sufficient time to pick the very best men and
women in terms of competence and moral integrity to
work with him. Yet, impressive as the ministerial list he has
sent to the National Assembly is, any President could have
assembled the team within a month.
For most Nigerians, the APC’s mantra of change remains
just a slogan. No one is sure of its concrete content. Does
its idea of change mean just a shift of power from Dr
Goodluck Jonathan to PMB and from the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC? Nigerians who voted
for the party in droves expect more than that. The very
depth of the PDP rot that the APC campaigned vigorously
against necessitates a higher degree of sure-footedness,
decisiveness and sense of urgency in governance than the
APC has shown so far particularly at the centre. This
honeymoon can surely not go on forever.
Any follower of this column will know that this writer does
not share the sentiment of ethno-regional balancing in
perceived juicy political appointments particularly at the
expense of merit. Hence, I have refrained from joining the
bandwagon of critics who fault the alleged ethno-regional
lop-sidedness of PMB’s early appointments. The Federal
Character principle of the constitution serves the latent
function of ensuring a sense of balance and fair-play
among cultural components of a diverse and plural society
like ours. But it also serves the manifest function of
legitimating the criminal extraction and privatisation of
public resources by representative elites in public office
purportedly in the interest of their ethno-cultural groups.
I find it astonishing that in these fiscally and economically
famished times, PMB, apart from having obtained the
approval of the Senate to appoint 13 Special Advisers has
sent a list of 36 ministerial nominees to the Senate for
confirmation. This makes a FEC of at least 49 members. It
is unjustifiable. There is absolutely no difference between
this and the PDP era of opulence and waste associated
with the costs of governance. Where then is the change?
Some readers aware of my views in this regard have
referred me to Section 147 of the 1999 constitution, which
requires the President to appoint one minister per state.
That section is non-justiciable. It is just like the section on
the Directive Principles of State Policy, which demands the
implementation of certain social and economic objectives
that can only be at the discretion of the President. The
Federal Character principle requirement can be met across
the different arms, levels and agencies of government and
not just in the composition of the FEC. In any case, as
Professors J. Isawa Elaigwu and Ali A. Garba have argued
“It is important to note that in a federal system, all levels
of government operate directly on the people and not
through another level. That is the import of multiple poles
of power – i.e. non-centralisation”.
However, I must confess that I am also beginning to be
disturbed about the possible mindset of PMB in making
some of his very sensitive appointments. This is
particularly so with his appointment this week of Professor
Mahmood Yakubu, a renowned historian as Professor
Attahiru Jega’s successor as substantive Chairman of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). No
one doubts Professor Yakubu’s intellect, integrity,
administrative experience and managerial acumen.
However, this appointment appears to me very insensitive.
In admitting the flawed nature of the election that brought
him to power, the late President Umaru Yar’Adua exhibited
uncommon nobility of spirit and integrity. He went on to
set up the Justice Mohammed Uwais panel on electoral
reforms, which proposed a wide range of reforms to
strengthen the electoral process. One of these, which the
opposition parties at the time vigorously supported, was
that the President would pick the chairman of INEC from a
list of three nominees by the National Judicial Council
(NJC). Although, President Goodluck Jonathan from the
South-south did not implement this reform, he at least
picked a man of integrity from the north, Jega, as head of
the electoral umpire.
The least one expected of PMB as a northerner was that he
would emulate this worthy example and also pick an INEC
chairman of intellect, character, experience and integrity
from the South. In this respect, we seem to have taken one
step backward. This is very unfortunate. In the same vein, I
find it curious that a leader with zero-tolerance for
corruption like PMB would not consider an anti-corruption
and pro-human rights legal icon like Mr Femi Falana (SAN)
as a great asset to his government. One seriously hopes
that in his decision making process, PMB is not becoming
hostage to a narrow ethno-regional cabal the way Jonathan
was.
Due to the utter naivety of its politics and rank indiscipline
within its ranks, the APC, which controls a majority of
members in the National Assembly, is today burdened by
an ethically challenged National Assembly leadership that
gravely imperils PMB’s much trumpeted anti-corruption
war even before it takes off. This is why beyond the media
razzmatazz; there is hardly any difference between the
utter lack of seriousness and rigour that characterised the
screening of ministerial nominees under the PDP-
dominated Senate of the past 16 years and the new APC-
dominant Senate.
We still have the absurd situation in which Senators are
asked to scrutinise and interview ministerial nominees
whose portfolios are unknown. It is very comical. Indeed,
with the very strong pro-North signal sent out by PMB’s
new appointment of the INEC Chairman from his ethno-
regional zone, it will be very interesting to see the pattern
of his allocation of portfolios to his confirmed ministerial
nominees. I hope we will not all be turned into ethnic
chauvinists now.
I write this as a wakeup call to the APC. Time is ticking. The
people are expectant. If an incumbent party and President
could be defeated in 2015, the same feat is not impossible
in 2019. The party cannot afford further complacency.

thenationonlineng.net/apc-pmb-not-yet-the-change-we-voted-for/

Presiding bishop condemns same-sex marriage
Jos, the Plateau State capital, witnessed a mass
wedding involving an unprecedented number of
couples last Sunday. YUSUFU AMINU IDEGU reports
the convivial atmosphere that characterised the
unusual event.
Jos, the Plateau State capital, witnessed an unusual event
last Sunday as a Catholic church joined 52 men with 52
women in a mass wedding ceremony involving an
unprecedented number of couples. St. Moses Parish of the
Catholic Church located in Tudunwada, Jos North Local
Government Area, Plateau State, facilitated the tying of
nuptial knots by the love birds who took turns to take
marriage oaths before they were formally joined in holy
matrimony.
The mass wedding was the first of its kind not only in Jos
but the entire Plateau State. Of course, there had been
mass weddings before that day, but none of them involved
more than 20 couples at a time. The ring road that passes
through Tudunwada community became almost
impassable for motorists as the community where St.
Moses Catholic Church was located witnessed the biggest
crowd in its history. The road witnessed the most hectic
traffic congestion ever as both the celebrants and their
guests and relations as well as other road users struggled
to wriggle their ways out of the snarl. Ironically, many of
the new couples were happy that their wedding could
account for so much traffic congestion.
Interestingly, all the couples had been married in the
traditional way and most of them had lived together in
marriage for years. Many of them had even raised children
and were looking forward to their grandchildren. But they
felt that their lives were not complete because they had all
along shut Jesus Christ out of their marriage. Even in the
church, there was a limit beyond which they could not rise
because as far as the church was concerned, they were not
officially married. Even the larger society mocked them,
hence their resolve to take their marriage oaths before the
congregation.
It was observed that many of them could not arrange for
white garment wedding before they began to raise children
due to their poor economic conditions. Because they could
not afford the cost of church wedding, the husbands and
wives agreed to go ahead to raise children while praying
for the day they would have enough savings for church
marriage.
One of the couples identified simply as Mr and Mrs
Samuel, said: “As Christians, for everything we do in life,
we ask God to take control of our plan. Ours is to have the
plan, it is God that executes it. We also believe that God’s
time is the best. We might have had it in mind to confirm
our marriage all this while, but that did not come to be
until today. So, we believe that this day is the day chosen
by God for our church wedding.
“It is all for good because even without coming before God
in marriage, God has been with us. God has blessed us
with children. God gave us boys and girls, and we consider
that as a huge blessing in our lives.”
Another couple, Mr and Mrs David, said: “All fingers
created by God are not equal. Organising a church
marriage in this modern life is not easy. But you must get
married at the ripe age irrespective of your economic
situation. So after our traditional marriage, we decided to
postpone the church wedding pending when we would
have sustainable income to sponsor our wedding.
“But we appreciate God for sparing our lives till today to
make our plan real. Some were not lucky to get to this day,
so this wedding is a celebration of our married life. It is
about celebrating God for the number of children He has
blessed us with. It is also a thanksgiving to God for our
lives.”
Mr and Mrs Stephen: “It was a burden on our heads that
we were not able to have our marriage confirmed by God.
We feel so relieved today that we have taken that burden
off our heads.”
According to the Parish Priest of St. Moses Catholic Church,
“the essence of marriage is for a couple to live happily.
These couples have had happiness in abundance in their
lives since they have been together. They are happy and
contented irrespective of their weak financial positions.
“So, marriage is not about money or expensive marriage
ceremony. It is all about the couple being happy and
contented with where God has placed them in life. So I see
their holy sacrament today as a celebration of happy life,
happy couples and happy family.”
Interestingly, some of the couples had to wait for their
children to sponsor their weddings. They had struggled to
train their children only for the children to grow up and
realize that their parents’ marriage rites were not
completed. It became a challenge to them. To them, their
parents must have sacrificed the money they would have
used for marriage to pay their school fees and feed them.
So when the children discovered this, they picked up the
challenge to pay their parents back by making sure their
marriage rites were performed. The church has the record
of members who need to complete their marriage rites. So
it decided to set a date for such members. The chosen date
was October 11, 2015.
Due to the importance the Catholic Church attaches to
marriage, the oath is often conducted by the Archbishop
himself. So on that fateful day, the Catholic Archbishop of
Jos, His Grace, Bishop Ignatius Kaigama, was there in
person to officiate. When it came to taking marriage oaths,
he asked all the 52 couples to repeat some words after
him, and they all did. The couples took the oath in chorus,
exchanged the marriage rings at the same time and later
signed the marriage certificates under the watch of the
Archbishop.
Bishop Kaigama, who is the President of the Catholic
Bishops Conference of Nigeria, said: “The Catholic Church
will not relent in its support of procreation in the country,
against the ideology of some societies campaigning against
it. The 52 couples joined today is an unprecedented
number in the growth of the family of Christ and the
diocese. The sacrament of marriage also witnessed
alongside the sacrament of confirmation of 217 soldiers of
Christ.”
He added: “We, as leaders saddled with the responsibility
to shepherd the flocks of God, the church would continue
to support procreation in the world because the living God
said we should go into the world to multiply and fill the
earth.”
Bishop Kaigama expressed deep concern about the
negative ideology of some countries in the world
championing same-sex union and want to compel other
nations in Africa and other parts of the world to legalise
the same-sex ideology.
He said: “Let me use this opportunity to warn the rest of
the world not to accept the ungodly ideology of same-sex.”
The Parish Priest of St. Moses Catholic Church,Wada, Jos,
Rev. Father Joseph Mancha, who used the opportunity to
eulogise the Bishop of Jos Catholic Diocess, described
Bishop Kaigama as a true Shepherd whose selfless work is
not just within the diocese but the world at large.
Father Mancha described Kaigama is an ambassador of
peace, following his recent award by an Italian based
reputable international organisation, Archvio Disarmo or
Richerche International Institute as the recipient of their
Golden Dove for Peace.
Mancha said: “This is the fruit of your local and
international tireless and selfless efforts in building
bridges and the consensus of ecumenism on the interfaith
dialogue, peaceful co-existence and inter-religious
harmony in the world.
“By this, we are proud to note that you have joined the
illustrious company of great statesmen like Nelson
Mandela, Perez De Cuellar, Jesse Jackson, Mohammed
Elbardei and Jane Goodall in building a peaceful society in
the world.”
Mancha stressed that the parish and the parishioners were
blessed with the presence of the Kaigama, adding that the
bishop had strengthen the spiritual growth of his people.
The newly confirmed couples marched out of the church to
have their photographs at the end of the service. Most of
them later took their guests to their family homes for
reception as there were no enough parks or gardens in the
city to accommodate them and their guests. Besides, it was
obvious that most of them could not muster the funds to
rent a park.
Included among the new couples were: Mr. Chrisantus and
his wife Lucy; Mr. Jonathan and his wife Catherine; Mr.
Thomas and his wife Christiana; Mr. Kenneth and his wife
Evelyn; Mr. Augustine and wife Mary; Mr. Bitrus and wife
Josephine; Mr. Francis and wife Catherine; Mr. Ishaya &
wife Patricia: and Mr. Bitrus and wife Angela.
Others were: Mr. Joseph and wife Margaret; Mr. Samson
and wife Pekes; Mr. Raymond and wife Justina; Mr. Joefrey
and wife Cecilia; Mr. Peter and wife Mary; Mr. James and
wife Grace; Mr. Haruna and wife Charity; Mr. Emmanuel
and wife Roseline; Mr. Williams and wife Esther; Mr. Bitrus
and wife Margaret; Mr. Victor and wife Tabitha; Mr.
Anthony wife Grace; Mr. Francis and wife Regina; Mr.
Sunday and wife Rose; Mr. Peter and wife Sarah; Mr. Luka
and wife Mary; Mr. Thomas and wife Esther; and Mr. Ernest
wife Esther.
Also on the roll were: Mr. Godwin and wife Ruth; Mr. Isaac
and wife Magdaline; Mr. John Paul and wife Hanatu; Mr.
Thomas and wife Victoria; Mr. Daniel and wife Josephine;
Mr. Lawrence and wife Grace; Mr. David and wife Charity;
Mr. Samson and wife Mary; Mr. Theophilus and wife
Antonia; Mr. Boniface and wife Tabitha; Mr. Yohana and
wife Deborah; Mr. Cletus and wife Longret; Mr. Peter and
wife Grace; Mr. Joseph and wife Abigail; Mr. Kefas and wife
Charity; Mr. Moses and wife Ruth; Mr. Moses and wife
Mary; Mr. Peter and wife Angelia; Mr. Raphael and wife
Margaret; and Mr. Stephen and wife Gloria.
thenationonlineng.net/history-in-jos-as-church-conducts-mass-wedding-for-52-couples/

USA don score

GMan650:
These Startimes analysts no get brain ooooo; we all know the Croats are more desperate to score yet they are criticising Amuneke for the Croats possessing majority of the game.

For goodness sake, they are saying the boys should play like Nigerians . If the boys should play like Nigerians we go lose the competition from here

U dey mind them? See has I low my TV volume ehn? Baba Sule better pass them sev

Zaikon:
but I think the selections this time is fair I mean age.

Na so, because from looks nd characters sev

DrHighchief:
Half time.. Croatia 0 vs Nigeria 1. Croatia r dominating possession.

Na possession we won chop?

I don go sleep guys! Double wahala for me as my antenna no clear nd d commentary dey skip

Half time, dem won gimme hyper tension with corners

Zaikon:
bro the shout pass commentator voice.

Na indeed U17,see has dem dey shout like toys

See corner kicks flying like beans make we it dem on counterattack

God why, my antenna no clear

Guys, really wanna know your views about these two things that we can't do about.


Remember players like sergio Busquests, Roy Keane are for football
When players like Mario Balotelli, Marco Icardi, Jack Wilshere are going for sex


Mine is FOOTBALL!!!

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