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9jatriot:
This is one of the results of "Subsidy is gone, it is gone"

Now people are no longer afraid to invest in refineries.

As for GEJ, I think he will not mind going back to Aso Rock if he is sure the road is clear. Only very few can taste power and not wish for it again. That is why when APC dangled consensus candidate to him in 2023, he practically fell for it until it was removed from his feet.

Azikel refinery is older than 'subsidy is gone'.
I can't explain why people just want to spin and tell tales!

Inege:
Obi is putting the cat before the horse

Why not the zebra before the horse or tiger before the lion!

Every dodo want to take a swipe at Peter Obi.

Why Segun Odegbami hasn't been made Sports minister still baffles many an ardent follower of sports in Nigeria. Mathematical Segun Odegbami played football to its pinnacle for Nigeria, he was an ace in Sports Broadcasting, and has been always brilliant with his analysis of all issues.
When will we organise this country?

Chibuzoc:
Zombie talk

How can someone like a post more than once? This post deserves many likes. Abeg make we dey like am dey go

Jose Mourinho named new Tottenham manager succeeding Mauricio Pochettino

Jose Mourinho has been appointed Tottenham manager, succeeding Mauricio Pochettino who was sacked on Tuesday.

Former Chelsea and Manchester United boss Mourinho has signed a contract until the end of the 2022-23 season.

"The quality in both the squad and the academy excites me," said the 56-year-old Portuguese. "Working with these players is what has attracted me."

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy said: "In Jose we have one of the most successful managers in football."

Tottenham reached the Champions League final last season under Pochettino but lost to Liverpool in Madrid.

The Argentine, who was appointed in May 2014, failed to win a trophy in his time in charge of the north London club with Spurs' last silverware being the League Cup in 2008.

Levy added: "He (Mourinho) has a wealth of experience, can inspire teams and is a great tactician.

"He has won honours at every club he has coached. We believe he will bring energy and belief to the dressing room."

Mourinho still lives in London and won three Premier League titles and one FA Cup in two spells at Chelsea, while he won the Europa League and Carabao Cup with Manchester United.


He has also previously managed Portuguese side Porto - where he won the Champions League - Italian club Inter Milan, with whom he claimed a league, cup and Champions League Treble, and Spanish team Real Madrid, who he led to the La Liga title.

Mourinho has been out of work since being sacked as Manchester United manager in December 2018.

He takes over a Spurs side that are 14th in the Premier League and without a win in their last five games.

Mourinho has turned down a number of job opportunities, including in China, Spain and Portugal, since leaving Old Trafford.

More to follow.

Source:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/50483023

Great to hear. We hope he brings progress to the people of AK with his election!

Preshy561:
Luke is a very humble guy and akwa ibomites love him so well.

These sort of wolf cry is fowl! Why is Marwa saying stuffs he knows are false?
Technology has made rigging difficult.
Let the will of the masses be. Stop statements capable of incitement.

afroniger:
http://thenationonlineng.net/marwa-alleges-plan-to-manipulate-election-results-in-southeast-south-south/

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Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi is a great Nigerian. He is one every young Nigerian should learn a lot from. History will be fair to Amaechi for standing on the side of justice, fairplay and truth. I followed Amaechi story right from the 'K-leg' story of OBJ. OBJ nearly didn't make Nigeria know this hero. But the natural laws forbade OBJ! As governor Amaechi made his predecessor look like councillor! Port Harcourt wore a new look and CHANGE was announced in Rivers State! Roads were opened up (traffic drastically reduced)! World class schools and hospitals were built. Federal roads projects were taken over and executed with classical finesse (take a drive from Omagwa airport to the boundary with Imo State and understand how sweet driving can be)!

The distractions and frustrations from 'Powers' then started, and Amaechi won all his battles
1. The over-bearing force of the president's wife!
2. The public shame of the NGF election where Akpabio didn't know the name of his fellow governor calling Rauf Aregbesola 'Osun' and like and emperor warned 'Osun' to stop recording the elections proceeding.
3. The Rivers State House of assembly impeachment sham by Wike and his boys. Amaechi drove to the Assembly and quelled the marauders
4. His party's (PDP) 'I don't care stance to Amaechi's travails and Amaechi's suspension . - saw how difficult it was for Amaechi to leave PDP. He even told announced to Mr. President at the Liberation Stadium in PH that he would remain in PDP, if Mr. President returned the Soku and Etche wells to Rivers State.
5. The very loud silence from Mr. President.
6. The seizing of RSG's plane.
7. The embarassment and lock-out from Ekiti during the election there.
8. The lock-out from accessing government house PH
......... and many other oppression against the governor of Rivers State

People (especially Rivers people) are too quick to forget all of these. But in all of these Amaechi was stellar.

I celebrate you my role model Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi. I pray you continue in you truthfulness and tenacity to positively affect our nation Nigeria. May God continue to grant you His Grace and courage. God bless you sir.

Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi is a great Nigerian. He is one every young Nigerian should learn a lot from. History will be fair to Amaechi for standing on the side of justice, fairplay and truth. I followed Amaechi story right from the 'K-leg' story of OBJ. OBJ nearly didn't make Nigeria know this hero. But the natural laws forbade OBJ! As governor Amaechi made his predecessor look like councillor! Port Harcourt wore a new look and CHANGE was announced in Rivers State! Roads were opened up (traffic drastically reduced)! World class schools and hospitals were built. Federal roads projects were taken over and executed with classical finesse (take a drive from Omagwa airport to the boundary with Imo State and understand how sweet driving can be)!

The distractions and frustrations from 'Powers' then started, and Amaechi won all his battles
1. The over-bearing force of the president's wife!
2. The public shame of the NGF election where Akpabio didn't know the name of his fellow governor calling Rauf Aregbesola 'Osun' and like and emperor warned 'Osun' to stop recording the elections proceeding.
3. The Rivers State House of assembly impeachment sham by Wike and his boys. Amaechi drove to the Assembly and quelled the marauders
4. His party's (PDP) 'I don't care stance to Amaechi's travails and Amaechi's suspension . - saw how difficult it was for Amaechi to leave PDP. He even told announced to Mr. President at the Liberation Stadium in PH that he would remain in PDP, if Mr. President returned the Soku and Etche wells to Rivers State.
5. The very loud silence from Mr. President.
6. The seizing of RSG's plane.
7. The embarassment and lock-out from Ekiti during the election there.
8. The lock-out from accessing government house PH
......... and many other oppression against the governor of Rivers State

People (especially Rivers people) are too quck to forget all of these. But in all of these Amaechi was stellar.

I celebrate you my role model Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi. I pray you continue in you truthfulness and tenacity to positively affect our nation Nigeria. May God bless you sir.

Following the defeat suffered by President Goodluck Jonathan and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, during the March 28 and April 11 elections, the President has asked the party and government officials who handled campaign funds to refund monies not spent, or those not judiciously expended, SUNDAY PUNCH can authoritatively report.

Jonathan, credible sources said, has also set up a committee of five to get those with the funds to return them.

Sources within the party and government told our correspondents that President Jonathan was disturbed that despite giving campaign coordinators, ministers, special advisers, close aides and friends, support groups and traditional rulers over N2trn in cash, most of them could not deliver their polling booths and local governments.

The President was said to have been further irked by the results of an investigation he ordered. The probe showed that some coordinators used campaign funds to buy very expensive properties, especially in Abuja, and luxury cars. Some of the funds have also been traced to the bank accounts of senior party and government officials who were charged with the disbursement of funds to voters and groups.

A reliable source within the Presidency told our correspondents that one of the President, who recently admitted to a few close aides that it would be difficult to retrieve all the funds, was bent on getting senior party and government officials who received funds to account for all monies collected.

The source who is a close associate of the president said monies given to traditional rulers in different parts of the country, for example, would not be demanded for. But the source was quick to add that the President was determined to get his ministers, close aides and special advisers to make refunds.

He said, “Some ministers did not get less than N20bn each. None of them can deny it because this fact isn’t hidden within government circles. The only problem with such monies is that there is no receipt to show that they collected money. The sad part is that almost all of them performed woefully. Even in the states where the PDP won, some ministers could not deliver 100,000 votes. They could not mobilise their people to come out. The President is not happy. They all went property and car shopping. This was the most expensive election in the history of this country, yet there was no result.

“The sad part was that even after the President lost on March 28, more money was given to all of them to make up for the dismal outing by winning their states during the April 11 elections. But that turned out to be a bad decision because apart from losing the governorship election, we didn’t perform well at the National Assembly and House of Representatives polls.

“They must give an account of the money since they didn’t use it for the election. The President is not particular about the funds spent on genuine campaign needs like the hiring of jets, advertisements and the rest that also cost billions of naira. His focus is on the individuals that collected billions to deliver their states but couldn’t even win their polling booths.”

Our correspondents gathered that apart from the N20bn given to some key ministers and senior special advisers, especially in states where the PDP hoped to capture from the opposition All Progressives Congress, some pro-Jonathan support groups received about N16bn.

A former legislator who was to print five million recharge cards, T-shirts and base ball caps has also come under pressure to account for the billions she received because only a few people got the items she was paid to produce. Also, a top female politician in Lagos who got a contract to produce and supply thousands of mobile phones with pro-Jonathan messages was said to have produced just a few and pocketed most of the funds.

It was learnt that the funds Jonathan released were disbursed in three phases. Some were released before the March 28 elections, others on the day of the presidential election and more before the April 11 governorship polls.

Already, the committee of five has started asking some of the campaign coordinators and ministers who received a minimum of N20bn each to give an account and also refund residual funds where applicable.

However, our correspondents learnt that most of the people who received the funds had not cooperated with the committee. While some have not been forthcoming, others have simply ignored the committee.

Jonathan is said to be particularly focusing on the South-West and northern states.

In Lagos, a popular PDP chieftain who lost in his polling booth reportedly received $50m in cash a few days before the governorship elections.

A senior PDP party member who spoke to one of our correspondents in Lagos over the weekend confirmed the cash splurge in Lagos.

The source said, “Lagos was a show of shame. A few days to the governorship poll, about $150m was received in cash by about five top campaign coordinators. But they failed again, even more than we did in the presidential poll because we lost some areas we won on March 28 to the APC on April 11. They were to share this money to the local governments and the masses.

“Please understand me, I am saying that the sum of $150m was just for the governorship election in Lagos. We are not talking about the sums they got for the presidential election. Only one out of the five people that shared the money gave some of it to local government chairmen. This person disbursed about N2bn. The rest of them sat on the money.

“The coordinator that collected the sum of $50m later went to a Federal Government agency and complained of not having enough funds for the election and got an additional $20m. The story is the same in almost all the South-West especially Oyo, Osun, and the northern states. A female minister from the North, who got the highest amount of funds for that region, lost her state in a shameful manner.”

Confirming that campaign directors in different parts of the country had been asked for an audit, the PDP Campaign Director in Akwa Ibom, Mr. Idongesit Nkanga, said the instruction was not new.

He stated that the PDP’s campaign organisation in the state had concluded its audit.

“It is the normal thing. It is the right thing to do for transparency’s sake,” he said.

Nkanga said he would not be able to comment on the refund because he did not collect money from anyone.

According to him, the PDP’s campaign organisation in Akwa Ibom State received a letter for an audit from the PDP campaign headquarters.

He explained that “because the letter emanated from the national headquarters of the party, they were under obligation to submit the audit report about the campaign’s expenditure to them.”

He maintained that at the campaign headquarters, some of the information was available, adding that he would not be able to give SUNDAY PUNCH accurate details offhand to avoid possible conflict in the figures.

Asked what sanctions would be meted out to defaulters, Nkanga said they might be prosecuted.

However, our correspondent reports that prosecution, while not impossible, may be difficult as most of the monies disbursed were not receipted.

Contacted, the national leadership of the ruling PDP said it did not know anything about the money spent on its presidential campaign.

National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja on Saturday.

Metuh said only those put in charge of the funds were in a position to account for the monies.

He said, “The national leadership of the PDP is not aware of any campaign fund. We were not part of it and therefore we can’t be asked to account for what we didn’t know anything about.

“There was a campaign committee and only the committee is in the position to account for any fund.”

Efforts made to speak with the Director-General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Sen. Ahmadu Ali were unsuccessful.

Ali, a former national chairman of the party, did not pick his call and also failed to respond to a text message sent to him.

Similarly, efforts to get the Presidency’s reaction did not yield any result as calls made to the telephone line of the presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, as at 10.30pm did not connect

izuch:
anybody that knows her should tell her to shut her poo hole of a mouth, if I had the chance I'll make her the president of this country for just 48hrs and see if this our great country won't crumble in 10hrs under her watch. All this small small children sha! They think presiding over the affairs of a country with more than 170 million people easy? She should stick to singing all those her rubbish songs. Nonsense!!!
Quote me and .........................

No one begs people too become politicians. The reason Why we still fall short in nigeria is people like you who don't think right! Politicians have to be responsible and act to defend the positions They have sworn to!

TheSonOfMark:
I guess it finally dawned on the presidency that this isn't an inter-party contest as it is made to seem but a conspiracy by the HAUSA/FULANI stock to return power to themselves.


JEGA has been comprised obviously and is no longer an unbiased umpire judging from his decision to assign 21,000 polling units to the North and 9,000 to the South. His blatant show of bigotry gave him away.



We thought Maurice Iwu was partial but Jega has proven to be worse.


#OutJegaOrYouJeGba

APC screaming "change" meanwhile they've been implicated by arms smuggling operations gone awry.


https://www.nairaland.com/2135397/police-impound-arms-laden-vehicle-kwara

You use weed instead of thyme for your jollof rice.

uupgrade:
Another ApC thugs killing an innocent Nigerian Soldier RIP boko haram una go soon jam una mates anybody wey want boko haram leader to rule this country Holy Ghost Fire that person shall not find peace

You need to upgrade your brain! You seem to have totally lost your reasoning! It is someone's responsibility to ensure security of lives and properties

BlackTechnology:
Tell your Boko Haram sympathetic Jega to ensure that all PVCs are produced and distributed at places where people registered to allow for easy collection

#NoPVCnoElection

this propaganda won't move Nigeria forward! I am so shocked at the way Nigerians reason!

emmabowin:
I am fully convinced that the ekiti election wasn't rigged. They may be an ulterior motive of the military to rig the election but it didn't came to bear.You can ask INEC to bring the ballot papers for them to be counted again or you can even conduct the election ten more times and fayose would still have won. Now answer this question, if indeed the PDP had rigged the ekiti election, how come they were unable to repeat the same feat in osun in which the Apc won. FYI, it is very difficult to rig election in Nigeria nowadays, thanks to president Jonathan for his electoral reforms and for repositioning INEC

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Where is your 'common' sense? Why is the military now supporting a shift of the February post? Please drop all affiliation and reason 'openly'

President John Evans Atta Mills Storms Tema Port Blast Ceps Enemies of t...:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed57WhR5ouQ via @YouTube

wayodude: Okay. I advise this woman to quit her job and move to London....for her childrens sake!

You see how WARPED your thinking is? I advice you to go ask God to help you, and advice yourself that hardwork pays! People who advice like you have done, didn't have any plans for themselves and from 30 want to live a 'good life' hence get desperate and go after people who have planned their lives. But for our leaders headed by you know who, the ills that your post portrays would have been eradicated from our history!

the_ripper3: Defender of the poor? No o, na defender of the whole earth.

. More like VOLTRON

damibravo: Honestly, am liking dis amechi dude.....
Honourables are better politician than the so called governors and presidents!

You Should be rather tired of yourself! Where is reason in all of these statements on Amaechi? Can you say categorically what wrong he has done? Do you live in Rivers State? This man is been treated like thrash in a state that he is governor! What would you do if you were Amaechi?

Davo93: I have an issue with Premium News with the way they report their news. They show their political interest in a group and in Amaechi. Why would they report Amaechi as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum when we are all aware there is an issue going on there, betterstill why not Amaechi led faction of the Governors forum??

I have no problem with Amaechi or Jang rather with the way Journalism is been portrayed by Premium News. This is the second time i am noticing this with them.

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You and all those liking your post are anti-democratic period! Did you not watch the NGF voting clip on Youtube? Did you not see how Akpabio was feeling like a senior governor and commanding governor Aregbesola (whom he called Osun, Shame Akpabio does not evn know a fellow governor's name) not to record the voting process? What other evidence do you need? What do you think has kept Nigeria and Nigerians in the doldrums till this day? If you are old enough, it is the denial of the June 12 mandate! Why are you all supporting illegality? What if your sponsors are denied their electoral victory? You guys need to think deep!

kenny.slim:
na you pay am? talk wetin u sabi!

Tell us wetin we no sabi!

Why is this gathering being criticised if not for fear? I am disgusted at people who PRETEND that all is well with our democracy.
You cannot compare the Boko Haram menace to the recent crisis in Rivers State. The BH menace (like terrorism) required quick intervention by the C-in-C. This intervention as is with his norm came too late after many lives have been lost in peace time Nigeria.
Now the Rivers State crisis is a crisis of suspicion! We all can see the powerful hand on which the five fingers (legislators led by Evans Bipi - a guy not fit to be a ward councillor - shame to Ogu Bolo for 'selecting' Evans to represent them) operate! The same powerful arm that was slow to act in the BH crisis has been quicker than the laser beam in the harassment and intimidation of 'perceived opponents' in Rivers State! We all have seen the travails of governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi (RCA)!
Is it a crime to have ambition if at all that is Amaechi's sin?
I beg to disagree with anyone criticising any peaceful rally to say no to tyranny! GEJ is graduated from 'an Ijaw boy having no shoes' to one who suppresses any suspected / perceived opposition! Should our democracy be judged by brotherhood? In a democracy, there should be nothing like my brother cannot challenge me! It is a shameful precedence that only weak minds support!
Where were these people when Wole Soyinka and the SNG demonstrated in Abuja to free Nigeria from the claws of the cabal and got GEJ to be president in 2010? The same Soyinka is now being called names! Enough is enough for these weak minds who cannot see beyond their selfish interest!

I make bold to ask, has the plight of the Ijaw man improved since GEJ became president? If you answer in the affirmative, you are selfish with the truth! Search your conscience and may God help the Ijaw nation, the South South and the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

texaco1: Don't mind that guy wey dey ikeja come here come dey form say he dey usa .nairaland is where every nobody pretends to be somebody

You think say I be you? I sabi pass you period! Try write better than me, then I go dey follow you everywhere including TWITTER! I dey wait for your convincing post!

Billyonaire: I saw arrogance, I saw false charisma, and I saw a man who disobeys the "First of the 48 Laws of Power" without a standing in the transgression of the law.

In his statements, he said he does not discuss about his sub-ordinates, yet he wants The President to discuss with him.

In politics, diplomacy is the order - Doing the harshest things in the nicest way, but Amaechi has been openly insulting a sitting President that was voted-in by majority of Nigerians and by extension, the majority of Nigerians are pained by these insults.

I understand that Nairaland age group is majorly 21-25 yrs so many Nairalanders are just advancing bracket who are either just out of school, seeking jobs, and inexperienced as is normal in that age bracket, but for those who pay the pipers, for those in the age bracket of 25 to 60s, we know what it means to have an insubordinate person in a chain of command, so when I watch this video about Amaechi, I feel terrible with his utterances. He is clearly done in politics and is trying to bring GEJ down with him. Arrogance and Pride has no place in politics.

What laws are you talking about? I am surprised at your late entry to this discuss! You didn't have power in your area or your computer had issues?

Can you justify all Rotimi Amaechi's travails in recent times (the most painful is the president's wife interference)! Have you heard her speak again? She has humiliated not only herself, but those that sent her! Push has come to shove now, and Evans Bipi's jesus christ is suing for peace! She should organise a press conference and be interviewed let us hear her own side. E don do for una! We don tire for all this yeye.

mooregan: One Ministerial appointment to you and de topic go change.

YOU LIE!

texaco1: stop comparing usa with nigeria ,
bros , we are talking African politics here , it is a different ball game entirely from all that usa or uk politics .

Can you define African politics? Please desist from deception! You should know what affects you. And you should be ready to contribute positively to it.
I don't know which level you stopped your education, but there's what is called constructive criticism, and this brings out the best in you. The opposition should spur the govt in power to perform in order to keep them quiet. In our case we see criticism as challenge.
If you were Rotimi Amaechi, what would you have done. Nigeria's democracy isn't a monarchy! GEJ is not our King! He BEGGED for our votes and we voted him in. I am sure Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi contributed in no small measures to get him elected in 2011. What right has Patience Jonathan got to tell the whole world that she's has been angry with the governor of her State for the past four years? Is this what you call African democracy? Please stop embarrassing yourself!
When you watch Barack Obama and Mitchel Obama speak aren't you moved? These two have forever made the black race proud! And for you information, Barack Obama is African! His father is Kenyan.
I urge all nairalanders to contribute positively in this forum. We should not allow online forums to be hijacked by people who aren't sure of what they are saying! But for the Rivers crisis we would not have seen / known the likes of Evans Bipi who are a desperate and willing (half-backd / unbaked) tool, who cannot even comport themselves / speak passable English, who call people 'jesus christ' and want to attain speakership / leadership by force and with the tacit support of some powerful hands.

It is high time we take true talk to our communities, to our streets and neighborhood to avoid a mistake in voting for credible leadership. I plead with the media to ensure that all those seeking for elective positions come out and debate and let the electorates properly assess them so that we can enjoy genuine democracy. God bless Nigeria

betrani: And what truth is that?

Go and (re-)meditate on your post.

betrani: GEJ and PEJ may have been "disgraced" like most think! But an unerrodeable..truth.remains "many ways to kill a rat" U might not know this; but Amechi sees clearly! And like a man drawnin in turbulence Amechi is struggling to survive! He can only do this by clinging to whatever life support available; lies, cheap Blackmail, weak and irrelevant Interviews, "rallying Outside support and sympathy"

You are miserly with the truth!

gbawẹ́e:
You cannot aprobate and reprobate. Amaechi is saying the President has no right to stand between him and his ambition and willy-nilly, he is saying Wike has no right to harbour his ambition. Does it make sense?

YOU STILL DON'T GET! I give up!

kaeto: True! The yorubas are working hard against GEJ, using every necessary tool to bring him down and amaechi is the tool they are using now. Be that as it may, i expect my yoruba brothers who are hier to noise making ancestors to always remember they have not made any president in Nigeria before and that whoever they support loses. MKO's case was different, all the regions made him. I mean look at all the people the yorubas supported in times past, they all failed. From awolowo, olu falaye, buhari in 2003, atiku in 2007, nuhu ribadu in 2011. The list is endless. They make good threats as well as political losers. Tinubu also knows he can't father an arrogant son like amaechi so why the hypocrisy? Its a pity amaechi's hands are not clean, with multi billion dollar refinery in ghana, investments littered all over the world, me think his wealth fuels his arrogance.

I am sorry to say, you rant! The Yorubas (I am not one), massively supported GEJ in the April 2011 elections! Even before then too! You go check the days of the SNG! Remember the Cabal? Who constituted and mobilised the SNG - Pastor Tunde Bakare, Yinka Odumakin, Prof. Wole Soyinka!
I wonder why the shallow memories..... it is just a shame that people are losing objectivity