₦airaland Forum

ajebuter:
Oloshious candidate, lo bi awon molebi e Nile.,, God has always and will always protect me.. Iwo ni ko so Iowa e.. Omo ale Ibadan radarada.. Oponu ayirada

u cant say amen and u want gej to continue,make boko haram kill us finish.u be oloriburuku se baba were.I STILL stand on my words

ajebuter:
Back to sender in Jesus name!
Mumu illiterate!
Next thing na curse, slowpoke,

oloriburuku do u know the meaning of slowpoke,awon opon ur father no teach u 4 house.I REPEAT MAY GOD PROVIDE SECURITY FOR UR FAMILY AS GEJ DEY PROVIDE FOR US IN THE NORTH

ajebuter:
Back to sender in Jesus name!
Mumu illiterate!
Next thing na curse, slowpoke,

oloriburuku,do u know the meaning of illiterate awon oponu,ur father.Dey no teach u for house

danielmichael:
Go tell yur popsy an yur mumsy whr dey grave

Idiot

GEJ till yu die

may ur family be run like gej is running naija

ajebuter:
GEJ till buhari knows how to use laptop!
GEJ till amaechi stops drinking kain kain
GEJ till tinubu stops taking cocaine
GEJ till Laid Muhammed becomes ' honest ' Muhammed
GEJ till Atiku supports and campaigns with buhari
GEj till oshiomole wears agbada and stops telling people to 'go and die'
GEJ till professor whole Soyinka shaves his hair
GEJ till fashola becomes handsome
GEJ till also akala stops bleaching
GEJ till ambode looses his fat stomach
GEJ till 2019!
Kai buhari

may ur family face the same situation we are facing in the north in jesus name

Atigba:
Gej till 2019

awon were,GOD WILL provide for ur family the same security gej is producing for us in the north amin amin

tittop4:
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan- u are the man of the people. Ride on till 2019. Cast ur vote to Goodluck,dont waste ur vote, vote PDP.

may God run ur family as Gej dey run nigeria oloriburuku maseafaniyi

To pdp lovers-May God run ur family as gej dey run naija.MY people abeg help me say amen

Prophessor:
*modified*

on two occassions APC supporters have gotten killed in their campaign, have you heard of any deaths in PDP'S own, it was when the Jobless thugs were intimidated by this that they burnt down PDP'S bus

Again Buhari has been contesting for president for years without his certificate but now absence of it is implicating him

what more do you need to know that all these misfortunes that are befalling APC are signs that shows that Buhari's government would be of bad omen to Nigeria

buhari's thugs should not quote me

GEJ till 2019

story story,what are u saying oga ade

Gogetta:
Choi! See wetin N1,000 dey cause! Poverty!!

:-D;-) abi oo my brother,nigeria will be delivered soon

olupops:
Yes I love GEJ I love nigeria . Buhari please go and rest. Don't trouble yorself again. If your son have school cert you can bring him in 2019 may be because of your loyalty we can vote him.or beter still write your weac next year you can still make it.God bless you sir.

are u a learner

Five strange things people do on trains
 January 18, 2015
 Written by Olabisi Kehinde
Fresh from a train ride, Olabisi Kehinde
recounts some of the weird and out-of-the-
world activities that some passengers engage
in on board.
A quick train ride from Lagos-Ijoko will surely
shock any passenger who is new to the route.
Lots of weird activities, ranging from smoking,
drinking, gambling to, wait for it, browsing.
Recently this reporter rode on the train from
Apapa (Lagos) to Ijoko (Ogun state) to avoid
the road traffic that had become intolerable
going into the New Year.
The first shock this reporter received was that
a good number of the passengers seemed to
board the train for the simple fact that it gives
them an opportunity to several other drinking
friends and engage in endless drinking spree
all through the journey.
Best place to drink
Interestingly, a couple boarded the train at
Yaba station. You could tell that they were
lovebirds and not a few heads turned as they
negotiated their ways to empty seats in a
corner, even as they chatted endlessly. Not
long after, the man excused himself and up.
But after waiting endlessly for a while, the wife
stood up to look for her husband. But along
the line, she met his friend, who told her that
her husband was on top of the moving train
drinking. Asked why he had to go all the way
to the top of the train to drink, her man told
her that it is the best place to drink, because
he feels the breeze and see things around him.
Best place to browse
After a while, this reporter also observed that
some guys were migrating to the top of the
moving train to browse. Perplexed, she
approached one of them, Ebube to ask why.
“That is the best place to browse” he replied.
He said it is always a great feeling and
preferable to browse at the top of the train,
because the network is always good and really
nice. It does not matter to them how
dangerous this great adventure is and that
they could lose their lives in the process. In
fact, investigation revealed that many lives
have been lost in the course of this reckless
action, and it is a wonder that others have not
learnt any lessons. Somehow, they always
believe that are safe.
Reserving seats for those still at home
Another funny but annoying habit is the fact
that some people purchase multiple tickets
mainly to reserve seats for their friends and
families, most of whom might still be in bed
(in case of early morning rides) or yet to get
to the station or waiting for the train at the
next stations.
In the process, legitimate passengers who are
qualified to sit are made to stand, frustrated,
while new entrants stroll in to claim the seats
reserved for them. This has also resulted in
crises. One passenger recalled how one
evening, a man kept a ticket on the seat to
reserve it for a passenger yet to get on board
and a group of guys who felt enough was
enough flung the tickets aside and took their
seats. An argument ensued, which eventually
led to a fracas.
Corrupting the checkers
This reporter also discovered that some
criminally-minded passengers have formed the
bait of tipping the train checkers, thereby
corrupting them in the process. A passenger
actually chipped in that most of the checkers
always end up collecting the tip, as it is either
they collect or such passengers ride free.
“They prefer to tip the checkers with N100,
rather than buy the ticket of N230, thereby
shortchanging the railway corporation.” One
passenger chipped in.
Dangerous hangers
This might be a familiar sight to a lot of
people, but it is nevertheless dangerous and
an eyesore. Passengers have been known to
fall off, while a particular story was told of
how one of the men who was hanging, was
snatched by a thick branch in the middle of
nowhere, as the train sped off and flung to the
body of the heavy steel machine.
Needless to say, neither the train nor the other
passengers stopped to take another look.
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JANUARY 18, 2015 BY ARUKAINO UMUKORO
AND GBENGA ADENIJI
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Pastor T. B Joshua
In this piece, ARUKAINO UMUKORO and
GBENGA ADENIJI examine the 2014
prophecies made by some Nigerian clergymen
which did not come to pass
At the twilight and dawn of every year, it has
become customary for Nigerian clerics to reel
out prophesies on what to expect in the New
Year. While few of these predictions manifest,
many of them fail to see the light of the day.
Predictions are, however, not limited to
Christian clerics. Members of other faiths and
beliefs are known to have made predictions
not only in Nigeria but all over the world.
Notable in Nigeria in the last two decades of
the last century were Prof. Godspower
Oyewole, a metaphysician, and Prof. Sam
Akpabot.
While Oyewole gazed into his crystal ball to
give earth-shaking predictions on a wide array
of subjects including politics, economy and
environment, Akpabot limited himself to
sports. He was called the Oracle of Nigerian
sports. The two gentlemen are now deceased.
Like in the past years, some of the prophecies
made in 2014 by some Nigerian seers did not
come to pass, causing many Nigerians to take
some of these prophesies with a pinch of salt.
Aregbesola will be abducted — Olabayo
The founder of the Evangelical Church of
Yahweh, Theophilus Olabayo, predicted late
2013 that Osun State Governor, Rauf
Aregbesola risked being kidnapped in the New
Year of 2014.
Olabayo, who prophesied in his 2014 Book of
Predictions that a South-West governor would
be kidnapped, told a national newspaper (not
THE PUNCH) during an interview to expatiate
on the predictions that the governor could
also be killed.
He said, “Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun
State has to be watchful so that they will not
kidnap and kill him in the New Year. He has
to be very careful so that he can survive the
year.” However, the governor was not killed in
the year and no attempt to kidnap him was
recorded.
2014, Nigeria’s year of economic boom —
Olusegun
For Akiode Olusegun who is the General
Overseer of the Ogun State-based Divine
Ministries International, 2014 would be a year
of economic surplus for Nigeria. He had
specifically noted among other predictions
that “2014 is a year of economic growth for
Nigeria.’’ It was number 24 of the 33
predictions made by the pastor for the year.
Last year was, however, everything but
financially buoyant for Nigeria. The decline in
the price of crude oil affected the government
to the extent that the Minister of Finance and
the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, outlined government’s
austerity measures aimed at cushioning the
impact of the oil slump on the economy.
Olusegun further said in number 30 of the
prediction outline that, “Some notable people
will commit suicide by drinking poison to
escape hammer from government.’’ Rather
than this, Nigerians only witnessed a higher
level of impunity from individuals in
government circles.
Presidential ticket will split APC — Suleiman
Apostle Johnson Suleiman, who is the founder
and Senior Pastor of Omega Fire Ministries
Worldwide, was also among the clerics who
predicted major occurrences in 2014. He had
said the contest for the presidential ticket to
select the individual who would be the
standard-bearer of the All Progressives
Congress for next month’s election would split
the party. However, the opposition political
party managed the primary election so well
that the eventual winner and former Head of
State, Muhammadu Buhari, was congratulated
by fellow opponents.
Buhari contested the primary election against
Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso,
former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, Imo
State Governor, Rochas Okorocha and the
Publisher, Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-
Isaiah.
Suleiman also said, “I saw a colonel in the
military trying to stage a coup but he will
fail.’’ Such a development did not happen in
2014.
Another prophecy of his that, “I see CBN
printing high denomination naira notes this
year,’’ also never materialised in 2014.
Chibok girls will return unhurt — T.B Joshua
Popular Pastor Temitope Joshua, the General
Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All
Nations with headquarters in Lagos is one
cleric who regales his followers with
predictions which they claim come to pass.
In a two-minute, 55 seconds video clip on
tbjoshuawatch , TB Joshua, as he is popularly
called, said, “Unless I’m not called by God, I
place my career and calling on the line that
these 200 schoolchildren and girls that were
kidnapped have to be released immediately,
unharmed and unhurt.” The video quoted
Joshua as saying this on May 3, 2014.
More than seven months after, the girls have
yet to be released. The few who reportedly
escaped had told the world of the sufferings
and assaults they underwent in the hands of
Boko Haram insurgents.
‘Missing Malaysian plane ‘ll be found’
Joshua was also said to have declared to his
congregation on March 15, 2014 that the
missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370
would be found. In the same video clip, with
“SCOAN Live Prophetic Service” on its scroll
bar, Joshua said, “There is a big controversy
going on in the world about the missing
Malaysian plane. They don’t know where the
plane is. I’m the only minister, if not only me,
that God used to speak about this issue. But
the whole thing is coming to an end. The
whole thing has come to an end, in the sense
that they would discover the plane, they would
discover the particles, everything would end
any moment from now. So, this coming week,
we are not going to be talking about it again,
rather the families concerned would know their
fate.”
The Malaysian plane is yet to be found.
‘Write off Ebola Virus Disease’
In another video clip reportedly recorded in
August 2014, the synagogue preacher declared
that Ebola would be a ‘write-off’. He said,
“People of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea
are released. The whole thing is (a) write-off.
The life we have been living before now, we
are back to that (sic).”
While Nigeria has since been declared Ebola-
free, the dreaded disease has killed over 8,000
people and infected over 20,000 mainly in
Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. And it is
still raging.
‘There will be terror attack in UK’
According to tbjoshuawatch , “On August 29,
2014, the UK’s Joint Terrorism Analysis
Centre changed the UK threat level from
international terrorism from substantial to
severe. Two days later, Joshua predicted a
terror attack in the UK sometime between the
middle and end of September.”
No terror attack was launched on the UK in
the said year.
Nigeria will do well in Brazil — Olubode
Prophet Michael Olubode of the Celestial
Church of Christ is another seer who reels out
predictions to Nigerians at the twilight of
every year, giving them a glimpse into the
coming year.
Writing on his website, Olubode said, “Nigeria
will perform exceedingly well in this year’s
World Cup but the Super Eagles will not win
the cup. This is how the breakdown of how the
game will look like: The Iranian team will
either draw with Nigeria or place the Super
Eagles in a qualifying state on the game to be
played on June 16, 2014. Then, Nigeria will
record impressive victory against Bosnia and
Herzegovina on June 21 and another victory
against the Argentina team on June 25.”
The 2014 World Cup outing has been the
worst for Nigeria. Nigeria crashed out after
losing 0-2 to France in the second round.
Although they played a goalless draw with
Iran and won only one match, a 1-0 win
against Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Eagles
lost 3-2 to Argentina in the group stages.
‘Nigerian will win world class beauty peagent’
Olubode also said, “It has been revealed to me
that in the latest news of BBC and CNN,
Nigeria will once again be announced as the
winner of one of the world class beauty
contests this year. I advise stakeholders and
lovers of Nigeria to pray well that this great
expectation will come to pass. Many nations
will envy and respect Nigeria for this.” This did
not happen.
‘Buhari, Atiku will be abducted’
“I see Atiku Abubakar, the former Vice-
President under Obasanjo, taken captive with
the unfortunate politicians to suffer and
possibly die over the coming crisis in the
country. He will, however, be saved
miraculously from the pangs of death and
torture. The crisis will not spare the ex-head
of State, Muhammadu Buhari. He will be taken
with some Nigerian politicians this year at his
residence while dinning and winning and
enjoying himself with his guests,” Olubode
also said.
This also did not come to pass. Neither
Abubakar nor Buhari was attacked or
kidnapped.
Similarly, Olubode said, a country that is least
expected will win the World Cup.
This too did not come to pass as Germany
who had earlier won the tournament three
times lifted the coveted trophy for the fourth
time in Brazil.
US will overrun Syria — Ayodele
Founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church,
Oke-Afa, Isolo, Lagos, Primate Babatunde
Elijah Ayodele is also renowned for his
prophecies. He said about 2014:
“President Jonathan needs to be prayerful as
there are plans by the international
community to embarrass his government.
America will take over Syria no matter what.
The President of Syria may be killed if he is
not careful, as many nations would rise
against him. The Emir of Qatar will be
troubled by reforms.”
Syria is still in the throes of a bloody civil war,
while some parts of it have been overrun by
the terrorist group, ISIS. The US has yet to
take over the country. Also, the President of
Syria is very much alive, while Qatar has
remained trouble-free.
Akpabio will lose office — Ituen
Founder and Spiritual Leader of CDM-Christ
Deliverance Ministries Inc. Lagos, Prophet
Ekong Ituen prophesied that Akwa Ibom State
would have a change of government in the
outgone year.
He said, “Akwa Ibom State will soon have a
change of government through the court of law
as earlier predicted. I am urging the governor
to put his office and documents in order in
preparation for a new government. I advise
the good people of my state to keep their faith
alive and watch out God in action. It may take
a little but I am confident because it is
obvious in the spirit that your governor will
not complete his tenure in office. Governor
Godswill Akpabio should put his office and
documents in order in preparation for a new
governor.” This was never so. Up till now
Akpabio still holds sway as the governor of
the state.
Mr. Bola Ilori, a public commentator, told
SUNDAY PUNCH that some clergy men often
speak in parables.
He said, “There are some men of God who
instead of being blunt couch their predictions
in parables hence they are neither here nor
there. Some people have, however, labelled
these people as being smart in their
predictions.
“One which came to mind is the one given by
Oyewole before the 1983 general elections. He
was asked who would become Nigeria’s next
president. He told his interviewers that the
name of the winner is in the Old Testament of
the Holy Bible. The supporters of Chief
Obafemi Awolowo were quick to jump to
conclusion that it was Awolowo, as his
Christian name was Jeremiah. When the
results were released, Shehu Shagari won.
When accused of making a wrong prediction,
Oyewole disagreed. He told them that the
name Shamgar was in the Bible stating the
book, chapter and verse.”
Ayodele, also explained that misconceptions
occurred because of people’s poor knowledge
about prophesy.
He said, “Nigerians don’t understand when a
man of God speaks. We should not blame
many men of God who said things in the past
that did not come to pass. Everything is in the
hands of God. He is the one who has the final
say about everything that happens.”
Similarly, Olubode, while responding to one of
the persons who faulted some of his
prophecies posted online that, “I just want you
to know that I am not a prophet appointed to
compete for a medal. I am not also expected
to deliver accurate prophecy all the time, but
all these imperfection has (sic) not also
disqualified me from being a prophet of God.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when completeness comes, what is in part
disappears. Many are of the view that a
prophet must be perfect in his vision all the
time, this is not so.”
Speaking on the issue, Director of Studies,
United Bible University, Lagos, Prof. Kunle
Macaulay, described clergymen making
predictions as uninformed. He added that the
era of prophecy had long gone.
He said, “Our people do not know that the
ministry of prophets has ended. We are now in
the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The beginning
of prophecy was when the elders of Israel
demanded for a king to judge them (1 Samuel
. Those who still prophesy do not have the
required spiritual knowledge. The prophecies
they are making will not come to pass once
they are not from God.’’
Macaulay, who likened predictions to
guesswork and psychology, noted that
whatever did not emanate from God would not
come to pass.
“The work of God is progressive and as far as I
am concerned, one will know when a prophecy
is not from God,” he added. Copyright
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Amaechi, democracy watch dog
By: Bethel Nyimabari
2015-01-16 14:35
If the President is good, only a fraudulent
Governor will, like a distorted mirror present
him as bad. If the image of the present
president is bad as reflected by indefatigable
Governor, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the
Federal Government and its PDP members
should see beyond their noses and do the
needful instead of blame game because Rt.
Hon.
CRA is their mirror or watch dog. They can
also search their consciences and ask
themselves in all honesty the contributions
they have made to correct the smeared image.
Should the truth be told, a sane woman who
finds out from the mirror that she is ugly
doesn't break the mirror or curses the mirror
for her ugliness rather she simply and
painstakingly seeks and applies the best
cosmetic (manicure and pedicure) available
and affordable to improve her ugly
appearance.
If the woman prefers the doubtful expediency
of breaking the mirror which reveals her ugly
features, she will soon find out to her chagrin
that the ugliness remains exposed to the out
side world with an additional knowledge that
the woman is not only ugly but insane.
There is only one sensible option open to the
woman, stop apportioning blame on the mirror
that reveals your real stature but do the
needful.

Hello Mr. President, How Market? By Gbenro
Olajuyigbe
Ambassadors of corruption are parading
themselves as "Transformation Ambassadors",
dancing ‘Skeleu’ with their ‘Dagon’ who has
forgotten, as in Chinua Achebe’s words, that
his palm kernel was cracked by sheer
benevolence.’ Biting the fingers that fed him,
forgetting that those who bite feeding fingers
often end up licking the boots that will kick
them.
BY GBENRO OLAJUYIGBE
JAN 10, 2015
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‘A n age is called Dark, not because light fails
to shine but because people refuse to see it.’-
James A. Michener
Anywhere, whether on the main streets or on
the cyber streets you turn to in Nigeria today
there is one loud but shameless noise of
celebration in the air. People are rejoicing!
Celebrating; naked and unashamed. Virtues
have died.
Values are already in the grave. Come on,
let’s celebrate! It’s their Funeral! Yes, funeral
of values and virtues. That is the reason for
the celebration. "No thought, no sense, no
break! Joro-jara-joro" as Fela has sung.
2015 General Election - Free and Fair
A thorough definition of the Dark Age is
catching fire. It is a time when people rejoice
in falsehood, iniquity, heresy and evil and go
ahead to honour those who package, promote
and market them! The gross darkness is here!
A time when ‘Papa’ Deceive ‘Pickin’ and
‘Pickin Deceive ‘Papa’ has arisen. For the
reason of what to eat, some women, men,
young and old have become lovers of lie,
apostles of falsehood and retarders of virtues.
This type of happenstance was what provoked
Prophet Jeremiah in the Bible to write about
once upon a time in the beautiful city of
Jerusalem in The Book of Lamentation. A city
that then laid barren and reduced to rubble by
Babylonian hordes that invaded it. It was a
tear-stained image of a city that became the
shadow of its old self. Nigeria is fast
becoming the ‘old testament version’ of that
Jerusalem, a city once loved by God, but
battered down by its own rulers.
A city whose rulers are products of whoredom
and whose large number of her people are
given to reprobate mind. A nation where
falsehood has become the foundation for
policy details; and profanity, the guidance of
practice, has slender chance of recovery from
the mire into which it has sunk.
That slender chance is what the February
2015 Election is about. Slender chance of
rescuing the country from those that are
irredeemably corrupt.
They met the pump price of petrol at 65 naira
and they are leaving it at 97 naira. They met
the exchange rate of the naira at one
dollar-147 naira, and they are leaving it at
one dollar-197 naira.
Interest Rate was 14% when they came in;
today it stands at 21%. The Gini coefficient
keeps on escalating, revealing the
exponentially populating of the "parish of the
poor"; widening the gap between the rich and
the poor and crippling the potential for peace.
These are the insignia of their transformation
mantra; turning gold to ashes and making
simple sand grain out of un-cut raw
diamonds.
In their time, men and women are even
becoming robots, in thoughts and in placing
truth in its rings. They have turned to
disgusting abusers of compatriots with
divergent views, cursers of the righteous and
molesters of anyone with a slight air of
integrity.
Ambassadors of corruption are parading
themselves as "Transformation Ambassadors",
dancing ‘Skeleu’ with their ‘Dagon’ who has
forgotten, as in Chinua Achebe’s words, that
his palm kernel was cracked by sheer
benevolence.’
Biting the fingers that fed him, forgetting that
those who bite feeding fingers often end up
licking the boots that will kick them.
What manner of a presidential candidate
would appoint an indecorous light-fingered
hate monger like Fani Kayode as his
Campaign Spokesperson? A man whose
corruption charges were traded for partisan
loyalty to a president who is expected to be
Chief Champion of Anti-Corruption. The man
who recently celebrated his sexual prowess as
veritable tool he used to conquer the widow of
the prime Igbo Chief.
The man who has on several occasions
perfidiously projected the hegemony of his
Yoruba tribe over the Igbos, just as he is
doing currently with the Hausa/Fulani in a
nation desperately craving for unity. The man
that has indiscretionally called for Oduduwa
Republic to the provocation of others. A
perverse and perverted mind with history graft
and betrayal; and who has ordained himself as
‘preacher of hate’, reading his own greed into
the creed of God by adulterating the words of
God.
Deceiver of brethren whose belly is his god.
Little wonder the former President Obasanjo
said "I know Femi Fani Kayode, give him food
to chop, he will sing and dance for you."
What manner of a president would be this
consumed by personal ambition to the extent
of no longer recognizing what bitter division is
all about? How can a president be persistently
holding his political party’s (PDP) meeting in
the State House and did not see that as an
initiation of division?
How can a president of a country, who claims
to be a Christian be gallivanting from one
church to the other like those that Jesus
called Pharisees, making political statements
without giving a damn to the sensibility of
others, more so that a chapel has been built
in the State House to make his religious belief
a private affair; and yet thinks he is not
dividing the country along religious lines?
They go from church to church, from
Jerusalem to Galilee, yet they do not stop
stealing government money! They love God
with their mouths but their heart is far from
God. Hippocrates! How can a president of a
country yearning for national integration allow
a group of rag tag supporters like TAN to go
to the extent of dividing Nigeria football
supporters club by inscribing ‘TAN, Supporters
of Goodluck’ on the T-Shirt worn by
supporters of a national football team during
the Africa Cup Qualifying Match?
Indeed, I agree that such a president needs a
parent. Thank God he has found one among
his type. His newly adopted father is
Babangida. Babangida has endorsed him.
However, Babangida has also made it clear
that his government was run by angels given
the scale of corruption which prevails in
Nigeria of today.
I do not know why people are frowning at
Babangida’s endorsement of Jonathan. The
exchange between the two men-united by
expertise in science and art of corruption-is
mutually beneficial. Through words,
Babangida has endorsed Jonathan. Through
acts, Jonathan has canonised Babangida.
Combining the two, it can be said that what
Babangida can do, Jonathan can do even
better.
Nevertheless, God is fighting back already, the
people’s blind eyes are opening, the Dark
Ages have almost passed out of our land. This
market will soon be over; but before then, and
as TAN would say, "Keep on doing it Mr
President." The dealers with you are more
than the minders who tell you the truth! Hello,
Mr. President, how market!
Gbenro Olajuyigbe is an Abuja-based human
security expert and a human rights activist.
Email: gbenroolajuyigbe@yahoo.com
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BY HENRY UMORU, ASST POLITICAL EDITOR
AHEAD of next month’s general elections, the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP conducted its
primaries last year to field candidates for the
election based on the guidelines and timetable
provided by the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC.
The PDP primaries may have come and gone,
but their memories will linger for a very a long
time especially against the backdrop of the
performance of Jonathan’s men who resigned
to contest. Many of them, at the end of the
day, came out wounded, some humiliated,
defeated while some won with the support of
some powerful connection and influence.
One very interesting aspect of the primaries
was the mass resignation of Ministers, Special
Advisers and Special Assistants, those that
could be described as the President’s men
who left the cabinet to contest for the
governorship position in their respective
states. Following the tendering of letters of
resignation, the Ministers decided to test their
popularity in their various states, by
contesting the governorship primaries on the
platform of PDP.
Many overrated themselves and some possibly
had the notion that their states belonged to
them. There were those who felt that the name
of President Jonathan rang enough bell to
earn them tickets. They believed in the powers
of the Presidency to do and undo. They relied
on President Jonathan. Having served the
President well, it became a seeming statutory
right to emerge governors in their states.
If a minister in a President’s cabinet resigned
to contest for a higher political office, the
conclusion was that such ambition must
naturally enjoy the President’s support and
approval, after all they were President’s men.
They enjoyed the blaring of siren each time
they visited their States and had become not
only special but also high class people in their
states. Again, as top government officials
money was not going to be the problem.
Labaran Maku resigned from his position as
Minister of Information for the Nasarawa
Governorship race; Emeka Wogu resigned from
the Labour and Productivity Ministry for the
Abia race; Musiliu Obanikoro resigned as
Minister of State, Defence to contest for the
Lagos State governorship ticket; Nyesom Wike
left his office as Minister of State, Education
for the Rivers State governorship race; Prof.
Onyebuchi Chukwu resigned as Minister of
Health for the Ebonyi race; Dr. Samuel Ortom
resigned as Minister of State, Trade and
Investment for the Benue State governorship
race; Darius Ishaku resigned as Minister of
State, Niger Delta to contest the Taraba State
Governorship position and Elder Godsday
Orubebe resigned to contest for the Delta State
governorship ticket.
Bala Muhammad, Labaran Maku, Godsday
Orubebe and Stella Oduah
Bala Muhammad, Labaran Maku, Godsday
Orubebe and Stella Oduah
Besides the Ministers who resigned, there were
also Special Advisers, Special Assistants,
heads of parastatals like the Federal Character
Commission, FCC, Nigeria Social Insurance
Trust Fund, NSITF, among others.
As aspirants commenced campaigns ahead of
the primaries and because of the strength of
the office of the president, many aspirants
dropped his name as they went along in their
respective states, telling those who cared to
listen that they enjoyed the support of
President Goodluck Jonathan.
The President’s men thought they had all
what was required to navigate the murky
waters of Nigerian politics, having worked at
the federal level, with the President and
attending Federal Executive Council meetings.
They represented President Jonathan through
their ministries.
The Ministers had also concluded that the
mere mention of the President’s name or the
mere thought that they worked with the leader
of the party, would be enough to frighten and
scare away other contestants.
At worse, even if they lost, the President may
influence the outcome in their favour, after all,
they all sought his approval to quit the
cabinet in pursuit of more juicy political
package. They either got it wrong or were
wronged by the system they had served
doggedly.
Yes, some suffered protest votes and what
irked those who resented them was their
association with the Presidency and the
perceived arrogance even if there was non.
And the man they expected to help them
looked the other way, especially in keeping
with democratic principles.
The ministers had possibly dreamt of the past
where a sitting president would impose
candidates on the people in various states
without allowing such persons test how
popular they were.
But as it turned out, President Jonathan
appeared too busy to put a word cross to the
handlers of the primaries in various states or
force other contenders to drop their dreams.
But there alleged cases where his kinsmen
ensured the emergence of the President’s
favoured candidates.
However, they remain allegations even as
eyebrows are being raised on Rivers, Taraba
and one or two other states. The leadership of
the party was accused of having taken side
with some like in Akwa Ibom following its
quick endorsement of Governor Godswill
Akpabio’s zoning arrangement, that of
Adamawa, among others. In Delta, the
President’s kinsmen had their candidate.
But what picture does the President’s non
interference in many other cases where his
men failed paint? Is it a case of being a true
democrat, leader and father to all?
During campaigns, former Minister of
Information, Mr Labaran Maku who was so
optimistic of getting the PDP ticket for the
Nasarawa governorship race even boasted
after he appeared before the PDP governorship
screening committee at the Legacy House,
Abuja that his DNA was PDP.
Said he: “I believe in the party, I believe that
people should be in the party as a matter of
ideology and principles.
“Political parties are not just platforms for
elections, they are philosophical foundations
for the construction of our own democratic
infrastructure.
“As for me even if you test my DNA, it is PDP.
I’ am saying so because recently some of my
opponents who are so afraid of me in
Nasarawa State, who are scared of my
popularity in the party, who are scared of my
grassroots followership made my posters
under APC, they even designed some
billboards under APC and claimed that I have
left PDP. “The reason was because when we
were rebuilding the party they left to other
parties, when they came back the party was
solid and we were everywhere.
“I’ am very confident because it has been
years of hard work, years of loyalty to the
party, since 1999. I have served this party in
different capacities. I was commissioner of
information, deputy governor. I contested for
the seat in 2007. Somehow, I did not leave the
party like some others who migrated to other
parties looking for platforms to contest.
“I am bringing an experience beginning from
student unionism to journalism, a
development agent before going into politics
where I served as a commissioner, deputy
governor and a minister. If I go there I will be
the unifying force, I will bring development to
my people using my wealth of experience that
I have gathered throughout these years of
service to the nation. So I am ready to change
my state.”
After much political intrigues, manoeuvring,
backstabbing, permutations, the President’s
men lost out in the race of picking the
governorship ticket of their states. Even Maku
whose performance as minister of information
was a shining light for the Presidency failed to
enjoy the support of the same Presidency even
if you may not attribute his failure to that.
Except for former Minister of State, Education
and former Minister of State, Niger Delta,
Nyesom Wike and Darius Ishyaku who
emerged respectively as Rivers and Taraba
Candidates, other ministers like Labaran
Maku; Emeka Wogu, Musiliu Obanikoro; Prof.
Onyebuchi Chukwu; Samuel Ortom; Prof.
Sylvester Monye, among others failed to get
tickets.
At the end of the PDP gubernatorial primaries,
the following persons emerged. Akwa – Ibom
– Udom Emmanuel; Lagos – Jimi Agbaje;
Adamawa – Nuhu Ribadu; Enugu – Ifeanyi
Ugwuanyi; Jigawa – Aminu Ringim; Oyo –
Teslim Folarin; Cross River – Benedict Ayade;
Kaduna – Muktar Yero; Gombe – Ibrahim
Dankwambo; Rivers – Nyesom Wike; Delta –
Ifeanyi Okowa; Abia – Okezie Ikpeazu;
Nasarawa – Yusuf Agabi; Plateau – Gyang
Pwajok; Niger – Umar Nasko; Benue –
Terhemen Terzoor; Imo – Emeka Ihedioha; and
Ebonyi – Dave Umahi.
Others were Auwal Jatau for Bauchi; Senator
Abdallah Wali for Sokoto State; Salihu Sagir
Takai for Kano; Adamu Maina Waziri for Yobe;
Gambo Lawan for Borno; Engr. Musa Nashuni
for Katsina; Darius Ishaku for Taraba State,
Alhaji Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi who was
defeated during the 2011 election became the
candidate of the party for Zamfara State,
among others.
Wike and Ishaku got theirs because of the
support from first lady Patience Jonathan and
former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus
Danjuma respectively.
Aside the governorship race, some of
Jonathan’s men who were very loyal and still
loyal like governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of
Delta State who had wanted to come to the
Senate to represent Delta South; Sullivan
Chime of Enugu; Martins Elechi of Ebonyi, all
with senatorial ambitions lost out. Uduaghan
did not contest as he withdrew few days to
the election allegedly on the advice of Mr.
President who wanted his fellow Ijaw man
James Manager to continue after 16 years as
senator. The emergence of Ifeanyi Okowo also
had the Ijaw touch although huge credit
should go to Uduaghan for providing a level
playing field. Ijaw man is Okowa’s running
mate and PDP appears to be united in Delta
although some candidates believed to be loyal
to Uduaghan are being substituted by those
they defeated in the primaries. Will they defect
too? Will APC gain from this?
That’s for DeltaJust as Senate Majority
Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma- Egba;
Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and
Business, Senator Solomon Ita Enang,
Chairman, Senate Committee on Women
Affairs, Senator Helen Esuene, Senator
Heineken Lokpobiri representing Bayelsa West,
among others lost out. Manager is tipped to
replace Victor Ndoma-Egba as Majority
Leader in the Senate. Presidential power, you
may say but he and few others who enjoyed
such support also played their game well. And
why did others fail?
Was it an indication that the Ministers were
merely Abuja politicians, even though Ortom
and Maku have dumped the PDP for the All
Progressives Congress, APC and the All
Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA
respectively as their governorship candidates
for next month’s election? Maku has
succeeded in flushing out his PDP DNA now
and having that of APGA. May be after the
election, he would then have a combination of
both.
Why the abysmal performance of Jonathan’s
men at the primaries? Could it be an
indication that he left them to be on their own
or was it that he worked against them and
what with those who suffered protest votes as
associates of the President?
These were those who were believed to parade
their association with the President as their
only quality and suffered protest votes. Wike in
Rivers would have suffered same but for the
doggedness of his team coupled with the
intimidating support of Patience Jonathan
who was allegedly quoted as vowing that Wike
would emerge the next governor of Rivers
State. So what happened to the other
President’s men? What does their failure
portend to the party in next month’s election?
Would it have an implication on President
Jonathan’s re- election bid? Will those who
lost out still remain committed to the victory
of the president?
Saturday Vanguard sought to know from PDP
leaders, Stakeholders on the implication of
Jonathan’s men losing at the primaries as the
party begins campaigns ahead of next
month’s general elections and here are their
comments.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa
Metuh noted that their failure to get the
tickets will not affect the President’s re-
election bid.
He said that some of them like Obanikoro are
powerful in their states which explained why
the PDP would want them to remain.
Also in his contribution, former Edo State
governor, Professor Oserheimen Osunbor said,
” This is a direct consequence of the internal
contradictions and manipulations which
characterised the primaries generally. I believe
that those who lost out know that President
Jonathan was not responsible for what
happened to them and have no reason to get
back at him by working against his
reelection.”
In his remarks, former Senate Chief Whip,
Senator Rowland Owie, said, “No implications
at all for Jonathan’s re-election. The problem
with most appointees to the Executive arms at
the federal and state levels,is that as soon as
they assume duties, they lose touch at the
grassroots, to fulfill the destructive parable of
” A FRIEND IN GOVERNMENT, IS A FRIEND
LOST”
“They no longer get in touch with the local
leaders and those who worked for the party to
win the elections on which basis they got the
appointments. Such appointees certainly can’t
win party primaries. However there are good
ones who maintain good relationship with
their constituents and when such seek elective
positions, they will surely get through. In
addition the failure of such Aides of the
President at various party primaries, go to
show that Mr. President does not interfere
with party primaries.”
Also reacting, the Political Adviser to Vice
President Namadi Sambo, Mallam Abba Dabo
who noted that it will not have any negative
effect on the party because they did not lose
to other parties, said that what happened was
a true democratic process, an indication that
the President never wanted to interfere in the
election process as against the wishes of the
people, adding, “Contest in PDP is very keen,
people think that as a minister, once you
come out, the deal is sealed, it is not true, the
party is democratic, everyone can win, we had
an array of contestants. In other smaller
parties, once you come out to contest, you
become a colossus, it is not the same in PDP.
PDP allowed both the Ministers and non
ministers to come out and contest.”
In his contribution, former Minister of
Transport and member, PDP Board of
Trustees, BoT, Chief Ebenezer Babatope said,
“Not at all, it will not have any effect on
President Goodluck Jonathan’s re- election
bid. What happened to them was that he did
not lift his hand to influence the process, he
did not influence the decision of the
electorate; it is a plus for the president, what
happened boosted the image of Jonathan as
did not interfere in the choice of the people.”
But there are party faithful who are not
comfortable that many of those who remained
loyal to the President and were known to have
played tremendous roles in serving the party
were schemed out or outplayed in the
primaries.
“You can’t ignore the influence of some people
who will not likely to be committed to the
Presidential election any more,” one PDP party
faithful said. For the fear of being tagged anti
party he preferred anonymity. Same with a
party chieftain who spoke from Enugu. Said
he: “There’s no way this crash by President’s
loyalists will not reflect in the election results.
It will not make Jonathan lose but he will
surely lose some votes.”
Many in the opposition parties feel that the
crash of President’s men will be to their
advantage. Even a sitting governor has moved
his loyalists to another party in Ebonyi State.
Also contributing, former Member, House of
Representatives, and Executive Secretary, Anti-
Corruption Network, Otunba Dino Melaye said,
“Nine Ministers have resigned from
Jonathan’s cabinet to contest political offices
primaries. (Nyesom) Wike (Rivers PDP
governorship candidate) bulldozed to win.
Seven Ministers lost their primaries. That is
the pronouncement of the disenchantment of
Nigerians against the government of
Jonathan. The PDP is a Trojan Horse, Nigeria
is in the Intensive Care Unit, Nigeria is in the
Hospital. The time for our rejuvenation is now.
General Muhammadu Buhari is the only
answer, antidote and remedy to corruption.”
In his contribution, a member of the 2014
National Conference and Executive Director,
Human Rights Monitor, Barrister Festus Okoye
said, “Different considerations other than the
political travails of some of the Ministers and
Special Advisers will determine the outcome of
the 2015 elections. Some of the Ministers had
no concrete base in their states and relied on
Federal might. Unfortunately for some of them
domestic realities played a major role in their
defeat. Barring electoral fraud and Violence ,
Religion,ethnicity, money, inc**bency and
performance will determine the outcome of the
2015 elections.”
In his contribution, former governor of
Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife
who described the primaries conducted as
imposition by those he described as cabal in
the system, stressed merit, success and ability
were thrown out, just as he said that the
Ministers went to conduct the primaries and
the people told them how they a****s them,
adding that the defeat of the Ministers during
the primaries would not have any connection
with the President’s re- election.
He said, ” we are not doing democracy, I will
talk on this after the election. I have always
spoken in support of a two party system. A
cabal is bringing out people instead of the
people doing that. Only direct primary election
is the way forward. What we have now is
imposition by a cabal and not democracy.
APC does not do direct primary, PDP does not
do direct primary, you must select candidates
on the opinion of the people and not on
persons.
“In Ebonyi, the Minister of Health who fought
Ebola with international recognition and who
ought to have won the primaries was not
given, merit does not count, success does not
count, ability does not count, only who
supports you. “
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What Buhari never said
By: Peregrino Brimah
2015-01-09 19:31
Let us set the records straight. As Nigerians
prepare to vote for progress and change in the
upcoming Presidential elections, it is pertinent
certain popular statements attributed to chief
opposition candidate, General Muhammadu
Buhari are set straight for God and man.
Firstly, did General Buhari ever say he or they
will make Nigeria ungovernable? The answer
to this is a resounding, no!
In an earlier write-up we carefully researched
this inflammatory statement and discovered
that it was made by a then PDP politician,
Lawal Kaita from Kaduna. This is why the late
NSA, Andrew Owoye Azazi said that it was
internal PDP politics and their squabbles on
zoning/rotation of the Presidency that led to
the “sudden sophistication of Boko Haram.” It
was within PDP that the discussion of rotation
of the presidency came up, and Lawal Kaita
was perturbed with Jonathan’s decision to
continue late Umaru Yar’Adua’s term in
violation of the parties zoning policy. This was
when Jonathan promised to only contest/
occupy the top spot one additional term (in
addition to his completing Yar’Adua’s term)
and also when some northern PDP stalwarts
and party founders threatened to make Nigeria
ungovernable. There was no such confusion in
Buhari’s CPC and thus no need and reason for
such inflammatory pronouncements from his
quarters.
When Reuben Abati spun this statement upon
the person of Buhari, the General took him to
court for libel and the court judgment as
awarded in Buhari’s favor. Buhari dragged
Abati and The Guardian to court via suit no.
ID/837/2011 and demanded N1billion
damages. President Goodluck Jonathan then
begged Buhari to settle out-of-court . See in
DailyPost of January 13th, 2013: http://
dailypost.ng/2013/01/13/presidency-begs-
buhari-to-settle-slander-case-out-of-court
/. The empathetic General agreed and Reuben
Abati and the Guardian where the libelous
article was published were made to publish an
unreserved retraction of the slander against
Buhari which they did in the Guardian of July
11, 2013. This is why Reuben Abati is called
Nigeria’s evil genius. Our full article on this
with all references can be read here on
ENDS.ng: http://ends.ng/fact-it-was-pdp-
that-promised-to-make-nigeria-ungovernable-
in-2011-buhari-never-did/
Did General Buhari promise election riots in
2011? The answer to this is again, no!
General Buhari never prescribed riots or made
any threat related to such in regards to the
2011 elections. He took the case of election
rigging to court and never made a single
statement containing threats in relation to it.
The Lemu panel investigation of the post-
election riots cleared the General of any guilt
of complicity. The General released an
exemplary press statement on the court’s
ruling which can be read on SaharaReporters
of December 28, 2011: http://
saharareporters.com/2011/12/28/statement-
general-muhammadu-buhari-regarding-
verdict-supreme-court-jonathans-election
Buhari did however state that if 2015 was a
repeat of the rigging on 2011, there will be a
fierce fight He used the kare jini biri jinni
Hausa proverb, which roughly cuts as ‘the dog
and baboon will be soaked in the same blood,’
but is an idiom which means, there will be a
real battle- could be legal; could be protests
or any other battle, as this is a mere
proverbial statement. Of course those who
wished to paint this statement with the ‘blood’
contained in it did so eagerly as we see they
have done in many other of his statements
and statements attributed to him. Read more
on the idiom here, by Dr. Aliyu Tilde on
PremiumTimes: http://
www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/5195-
buhari_vs_pdp_the_dog_and_the_baboon.html
The third hallmark statement attributed to the
General: did Buhari ever say that a war on
Boko Haram was a war against the north? The
answer to this statement as with the rest is a
resounding, no!
Why are all these false statements attributed
to Buhari? Well, for one reason the General is
rather not that outspoken and is a man of
extreme patience and tolerance who evidently
only used legal means to redress the libel and
false accusations against him planed and
sponsored by the Presidency.
So what did General Buhari say in 2013? He
said, the institution of a State of Emergency in
Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states was a
declaration of war on the north of Nigeria.
He did not say that fighting Boko Haram was
a declaration of war against the north; no,
after all he fought and destroyed not only
Maitatsine terrorists, but also the Habre
fanatical forces of Chad. He clearly
understands the need of a real war against
terror; he however saw that Nigeria’s
President and the then army Chief, General
Azubuike Ihejirika who has been labeled a
Boko Haram sponsor by my organization,
ENDS and Boko Haram negotiator, Stephen
Davis, were not fighting any real war against
the terrorists but were silently facilitating the
continued reign of terror and seeking all
means to destroy the northeast as it is today.
Also read: Dear Buhari!
When Buhari wiped out Maitatsine in
Adamawa state, he did not need to declare
any phony state of emergency. He did not
declare one either when he expelled the Habre
Chadian forces from the 19 Nigerian occupied
Islands in the northeast.
Today the entire Nigeria saw the wisdom of
elder statesman Buhari’s position against the
declaration of the state of emergency and the
senate thereby refused to extend the more
harmful than good emergency rule that failed
to yield meaningful results since it was
instituted in May of 2013.
I as a proponent of the State of Emergency in
2013 and one of those who canvassed and
pushed for it did not quite agree with the
General at the time but now I understand his
reservations and how this declaration and all
others by the President including his recent
cessation of fire have all been declarations of
war against the Nigerian people, particularly
those being decimated and displaced in the
northeast by French foreign forces being
organized and directed from Idris Deby’s
Chad.
In conclusion, the Jonathan government who
without any investigation exonerated MEND
who had claimed responsibility for the October
1st 2010 Abuja bomb attack, since then
decided to pick on General Muhammadu
Buhari, his most formidable perceived
opponent and in so doing allowed and as
some say, actually supported Boko Haram’s
continued existence and carnage while his evil
genius press and media men and the Femi
twins continued to spew slander upon slander
and libel upon libel against the person of
Buhari, spinning his every proverb out of
context, publishing twisted versions of his
every word and even reflecting other people’s
statements upon him.
Proverbs 19:9 says… who breathes out lies will
perish.
Indeed the liars shall perish. For “Their throat
is an open grave; they use their tongues to
deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their
lips.” Romans 3:13 ESV.
- MyNews24

Boko Haram rapes and kills
By: Peregrino Brimah
2015-01-09 09:38
“Fear of collateral damage” was the – I must
say — rather lame and exhaustively repeated
excuse Brigadier General Olajide Laleye,
Director, Army Public Relations tried to feed
journalists in a press conference on the spate
of Boko Haram deadly terror and occupation
of most of Borno and the northeast, held in
Abuja this Wednesday.
It is the same excuse the Jonathan-led
government and army gave when Boko Haram
was holed up in Sambisa forest till June this
year: the Alex Badeh-led army and Jonathan
government claimed that the reason why the
Nigerian army failed to go into Sambisa and
liberate the 234 abducted Nigerian girls from
Chibok was for fear of harming the girls.
Under this unprecedented protection by the
Nigerian government, Boko Haram in the
months after the abduction, came out of their
comfortable positions in Sambisa and
occupied 20 out of 27 local governments in
Borno massacring thousands of Nigerians and
forcefully conscripting thousands of youth.
It was our ENDS organization that exposed to
the world the location of the terrorists
camping freely under the military’s watch in
Sambisa with the abducted girls. The Nigerian
government and army chiefs, current and past
– accused of terror, General Azubuike Ihejirika
– are yet to explain why they never crushed
Boko Haram in Sambisa for the 5 years prior
to the abduction when the excuse of the girls
being their shields was traded. [See our April
25th widely read release: National Security
Update: Details Of The Sambisa Camps
Holding Our 200 Abducted Daughters;
link: http://ends.ng/?p=848 ]
ENDS, on behalf of the Civilian-JTF in the
Northeast and thousands of able and ready
hunters had formally pleaded the Jonathan
government give us the permission to raid
Sambisa forest, liberate our abducted girls and
guys, and defeat Boko Haram without fear of
being killed by the Nigerian military in such
engagement.
The Jonathan-led government refused to
respond to our formally sent letter requesting
permission to go into Sambisa which the
Nigerian army had proven unable or reluctant
to. [Refer request sent 26th April,
2014: Request For Executive Authorization to
Recruit, Mobilize, Train and Deploy Concerned
Volunteers Against the Boko Haram
Insurgency; link: http://ends.ng/?p=864 ]
Boko Haram Occupation Is Worse Than Any
Form Of Collateral Damage
Today the crisis has spun out of proportion.
Boko Haram according to reports from
Nigerians who recently escaped from Bama
when the Cameroonian army invaded the
Nigerian occupied city, have described that
Boko Haram is actively and freely conscripting
hundreds of youth and torturing and killing all
those who will not fight for them. This is
worse than any form of collateral damage
possible.
The exterminator Boko Haram now constitutes
a nuisance for neighboring Cameroon where
they go for food and have invaded over 5
towns. The terrorists are sending the
thousands of recruited poor youth from the
occupied northeast as sacrificial soldiers on
high risk escapades in search for food as they
continue their French-Chad sponsored mission
to displace and annihilate all life in the
northeast.
The longer the Nigerian army cooperates with
the terrorists, granting them treasonous
cessations of Nigerian army fire to allow them
regroup and recoup and protecting them by
failing to invade the occupied territories to
liberate the people and hinder the grave
violations against humanity with the terrorists
killing our elderly and recruiting our youth as
happens freely in occupied local governments,
the more deadly a calamity Boko Haram
becomes not only for Nigeria but the entire
region and world.
Nigeria's defense chief Alex Badeh has
bragged that he liberated his Mubi from the
terrorists in just 14 days from the occupation
of the towns, north of Adamawa which
occurred October ending. Assuming his claims
of credit are true and the brave Ibn Fadlallah
warriors and man hunters who the government
and police insanely clamped down on, are not
responsible for that liberation, why then has it
been 6 years of Boko Haram operations freely
in Borno that Ihejirika and himself have failed
to abate as he showed was posisble within
just two weeks of the terrorists invading his
home state and town?
These are questions Nigerians are asking Alex
Badeh and President Jonathan.
- MyNews24

Ikengawo:
Empty seat tins.
And it's illegal to be campaigning right now, INEC has a timeline, but I didn't expect APC is be law abiding as it's full of high caliber criminals.

grammatical blunder

eaglechild:
Osibanjo this and Osibanjo that.

Is GMB not the presidential candidate or is there something APC is not telling us.

I hope you guys are not planning of getting rid of GMB.

idi0t...mumu(u neva c anything

OBADITAN
If General Muhammadu Buhari is voted
into power, come February 2015, the army
general-now-turned democrat, will follow
the footsteps of Charles De Gaulle of France,
who was the man of the moment in the
crucial hour of that nation.
De Gaulle was a statesman, dominant
military and political leader of France for
much of the period from 1940 to 1969. Like
Buhari, he was a man of integrity, who
refused to accept armistice with German
invaders in 1940, and thereby set up his
base in London, proclaimed himself the
incanation of France, and created the Free
French Movement. During the war, he
rallied the overseas colonies (especially
Africa), organized the resistance from
abroad, and struggled to gain full
recognition from the British and Americans.
He was a firm proponent of democracy,
who later became the leader of the
Provisional Government of France following
its liberation in 1944.
De Gaulle like Buhari, was a retired
military officer; a Brigadier General, who
retired in 1946, but returned in 1958 as
France verged on civil war over the
Algerian crisis. He was voted in as President
in 1958 to 1969; the New fifth Republic of
France. De Gaulle was a political stabilizer;
who stabilized the turbulent political
system of France, and restored the nation’s
economy. He made France to dominate the
European Common Market by vetoeing
British entry and keeping the U.S at arms
length.
It is on record that Buhari overthrew a
democratically elected government of Alhaji
Shehu Aliyu Shagari on the 31st of
December, 1983. The military intervention
was welcomed by majority of Nigerians,
who were already disgusted by the corrupt
and ineptitude regime that had just rigged
its second term election. The Buhari/
Idiagbon regime brought changes that
remain a reference point till date. “War
Against Indiscipline” led to orderliness in
every sector of Nigeria. For the short period
the regime lasted, war against corruption
and criminality were successfully fought.
Buhari’s D ecree N umber 4 o f 1984 and
the retroactive decree that led to the
summary exucution of Mr. Ojuolape and
others, for alleged drug trafficking were
dents on the new democrat record, but
show me any of our past and present head
of state and governments that does not have
a but or short comings , then I will show
you a virgin in a maternity ward. Every
saint has a past. Paul the apostle, in the
Bible, described himself as head of the
sinners, who was not qualified to proclaim
the gospel of Christ. Paul eventually wrote
more than half of the New Testament books.
De Gaulle was accused for being critical to
criticism, he eventually resigned his
leadership position, but his reputation as
the greatest of French leaders since
Napoleon remains unbeatable till date.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan must
have done his best, but his has not been
good enough to salvage the nation from its
multitude problems; such as shortage of
power, unemployment, insecurity, economy
downturn, poor health facilities.
The various elections so far conducted
under Jonathan have been under the jack-
boot of the security agents. While other
African countries such as Ghana and South
Africa have made a lot of improvement,
Nigerian elections have been characterized
by executive intimidation. President
Jonathan has continued to defend the
anomalies in our electoral processes. He has
equally justified the use of soldiers and
other security agents as a necessary evil.
But by now, our leaders ought to live
beyond anti-democratic practices.
Democracy is about freedom of choice as
guaranteed by the Constitution. Nigerians
must be allowed to determine those who
govern them through the ballot.
The August 9, 2014 governorship election in
Osun, where about 100, 000 security agents
and sniffing dogs were deployed to
“capture” Osun and the insistence of the
Presidency to rob the people of their choice,
despite their resistance, is a dangerous
signal to what Jonathan can do in the
February 2015 general elections. The
opposition must be at alert as we approach
the campaigns and the election. It was Ni­
cole Machavali, who described power as
sword, and that once it is worn, everything
should be done to keep it. The PDP will not
surrender power easily to any opposition,
but with vigilant and internal cooperation
among those who want a change, PDP is
beatable.
De Gaulle oversaw the development of
French atomic weapons and promoted
foreign policy independent of ‘ Anglo
Saxim’ . The Buhari administration, if
voted in, should be able to take us beyond
clueless foreign policy, to a new era, where
our voice as a nation would not only he
heard, but we must be seen as a leading
African nation that other countries in the
continent will be willing and happy to fol­
low through pragmatic and dynamic foreign
policy.
“Our friends at the Republican covention
were more than happy to talk about
everything they think is wrong with
America, but they didn’t have much to say
about how they would make it right. They
want your vote, but they don’t want you to
know their plan.” This President Barack
Obama’s statement is applicable to the
Nigerian leaders since 1999 that have been
running the nation adrift.
The ruling party has been talking about
how they would fixed our economy, oil
price had been sold for $106 for 15 years,
yet the number of jobless youths keeps being
on the ascendancy, health sector is worse
hit, as health workers and doctors have
closed down the hospitals till today; poor
funding of tertiary institutions, poor road
network across the nation. The Nigerian
Immigration Service recruitment tragedy is
an open secret. Till date, nobody has been
held responsible for it. Neither did Mr.
President fulfill the promise made to
relatives, who lost their loved ones over
jobs that were never avaliable.
The Chibok girls adoption tragedy, the late
response to the incident and the politics
introduced to the calamity, will forever
haunt this present Federal Government,
whose constitutional responsibility it is, as
encapsulates in Section 14 sub-section 4 of
1999 Constitution; to ensure security and
welfare of the citizens. Till date, the Boko
Haram insurgency has become octopus, that
has killed thousands of people and is still
killing and maiming.
On the accusation of religious bigotry
against Buhari, we must not allow religion
to destroy our nation, Buhari himself has
admitted that he is not a muslim fanatic,
what we should do is to accept what Sir.
Ahmadu Bello told the Christians mission
that “Differences in religions need not bar
people from working together for the good
of all.” Alhaji Bello further told the great
Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe that we cannot forget
our differences as suggested by the latter,
rather he stated: “ No, let us understand
our differences. I am a Muslim and a
notherner.
You are a Christian, an Easterner. By
understanding our differences, we can build
unity in our country.” Buhari’s first
daughter got married to a Christian
easterner, an evidence that debunked the
insinuation of religious bigotry.
.Obaditan writes from Osogb

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brosss: Nice write up, but Contrary to what you suggested, Mr. Netenyahu has been one of the most admired isreali leaders, who takes protection of israelis as priority.
Any sane leader wouldn't sit back and allow an unprovoked shelling to go unanswered..... Shelling so sever that under 3days, over 2000 shells have been fired into israel. But for the prudence of developing the iron dome system, we might have been looking at a more severe terror. Now recall that, and as Hamas knows, Israel is a nuclear harmed state. Everyone knows what happens if even one lone missile hit a nuclear station.
I have followed this development carefully both on cnn and aljazeera and realised that Hamas are just been the terrorists and islamists they are for the following reasons;
1) Unprovoked and unannounced shelling of israel- over 2000 rounds intercepted in two days
2) Forcefully Digging tunnel and trench networks from innocent palestinian homes into israeli territories
3) Turning down a humanitarian cease fire, and playing it down as joke
4) Inability to provide a reason for the resent spate of attacks on israelis- the hamas spokesman, just couldn't answer the question.
5) Using innocent palestinians as human shields.

Now, let me state categorically that israel has never resisted a free and independent palestine. Matter of fact, they have always supported a palestine that's free from the clutches of terror organisations like Hamas and hezbola. Here are the few commitments made b israel...
1) Evacuating the entire gaza strip, even after constructing estates to accommodate some of its six million people. The relative size of gaza to israel is like, ibadan to Nigeria. Imagine the cost and discomfort. Why, because they wanted sustained peace.
2) Proposing and honoring a cease fire, till hamas called it of by rocket fires, looking to catch israelis of guard.
3) Giving a 6hour humanitarian cease fire while enduring rocket fire, to give the innocent palestinians time to move out of the comflit zone.
4) Pre- announcing their reason for entering into gaza, to snuff out those trench rats trying to dig into israel to cause havoc.
5) Israel has maintained that her goal is for a sustained peace! Which isn't out of place

Mr Netenyahu has always stated that its not Israelis desire to roll into gaza, but she is been systematically forced to go into gaza to protect her citizen.... In military terms, meet he enemy in her territory, so your land, won't be the comflit zone,,,, also.... Its always better to meet your enemy at the gate.

Palestinian can get all the independence they desire,afterall, Israel has never and never desires to colonize any state not to talk of Palestinians. They can equally elect as much presidents as they need.... All israel asks, is.......SUSTAINED PEACE for her citizens, so they don't have to run to bomb shelters every hour of the day without warning.


Last bullet......... If only someone like Netenyahu was our president......... Boko haram would have been-----------(you complete the sentence)





Humbly

oga read news very well before u post, one of the demand of hamas is for the isrealis to end the blockade of gaza so get ur fact rite before posting

Nigerian Military: #BringBackOurGirls Now, They Are Dead
Already!
By: Peregrino Brimah
2014-07-14 11:24
The Nigerian military just released a statement in which they
‘explained’ why they have not yet – after three months – brought
back our precious Chibok abducted girls. In the statement as
presented in the media, the military claimed that their problem
was ‘bringing back the girls alive.’
Director of Information, Defence Headquarters, Major General
Chris Olukolade said, “To the best of our knowledge, they are still
accessible. If we tried to force our way in, they may be killed. If we
force our way there, they will kill them. This is what we want to
avoid at all cost; rescue operations of that nature should not be
done in a hurry. Sambisa (forest) is not impenetrable. But let me
say it here: they mined almost everywhere around where they are
keeping these girls.”
The position of Nigeria’s security department under Chief of
Defense staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, Security head, NSA Sambo
Dasuki, Minister of defense, ex-NSA, Spy Aliyu Gusau and
ultimately the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan, is shameful, wicked and embarrassingly
treacherous to put it mildly.
The girls are dead already. Quit the BS. The girls – being raped and
killed in Sambisa forest are no better than dead. Our lazy,
unwilling, unable and impotent, corruption riddled and grossly
sabotaged security services are a sham and disgrace. They are
afraid of dying on mission to rescue the girls. This is the truth
about their position; harm to the girls who are harmed already
beyond human redemption, is the least of their worries. Nigerians
and the observing international community are no idiots. We are
not in the least fooled into believing that the preservation of life is
the least of the Nigerian security department’s worries. The
military should just quit already and step aside so the willing
coalition of Nigerian civilian patriots demanding the right to be
armed and allowed into Sambisa to do the dignified, can go ahead
and rescue the girls, dead or living-dead.
We call on all international organizations to initiate and enforce
strict sanctions against Nigeria’s government and military
personnel who have demonstrated indignant dereliction of duty to
protect life and defend the nation against militants armed from the
nation’s armory.
According to media reports, 7 more parents of the abducted girls
have recently passed. The pain and trauma to the direct victims,
families and larger nation can no longer ever be meaningfully
reversed. The Nigerian military continues to stand aside and allow
Boko Haram unlimited ability to reign full and uninhibited terror
on Nigeria, including the continued abduction of even more
innocent victims, with over 90 including 60 females, being
abducted again this past month.
We the people vote no confidence in the Jonathan regime and the
current military leadership of Nigeria.
We urge all traditional leaders and international players with the
fear of God at heart and the will to act and act firmly towards the
preservation of human life, safety, dignity and hope, to come out
and press for real and clear action against terror.
In the recognition of the unwillingness and inability of the nation’s
security services to perform their constitutional duties and paid
obligations to the nation, we demand the Nigerian government
immediately respond to the request of the people, the Civilian-JTF,
Vigilante’s in the north east, traditional hunters and thousands of
Nigerian willing and patriotic youth across the country, for the
right and support of the government, to be armed appropriately
and allowed to enter Sambisa forest to engage Boko Haram and
rescue all abductees, ASAP, dead or living-as-dead. Government
armed civilians are currently the resisting force in Iraq against the
ISIS advance. Similarly, armed civilian patriots were key to
checking a similar reign of terror in Algeria in the 90’s ‘Black
decade.’ It is time for our government to act responsibly and stop
aiding and promoting the genocide of its vulnerable, defenseless
farming and trading, northern communities.
We the people, further call on the military to pull out of the north
east. It can no longer be argued that the military presence in the
conflict parts presents greater safety to life than it facilitates and
exacerbates insecurity and danger to the communities of northern
farmers most severely affected in this pogrom. Boko Haram are
armed today with weapons from Nigeria’s armory. The terrorists
continue to easily sack military installations and obtain
sophisticated guns, light tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers,
APC’s, which they utilize with absolute impunity, to inflict maximal
causalities on the indigenes of the north east. Military helicopters
are even said to give cover and assist the terrorists in their
operations. The recklessness and carelessness of the Nigerian
military, allowing its arms and vehicles to be obtained and utilized
against the unarmed people of the affected zones constitutes
unthinkable crimes against humanity and malicious sabotage of
the people it is its duty to protect. In this light, the Nigerian
military which has continued for the four years of Boko Haram’s
worst carnage, to be unable to confront the terrorists in their
hideouts and to arrest them in their advances or recover stolen
government military vehicles and weapons, is in effect aiding and
abetting the continued reign of terror on the people of Borno state
and neighboring states.
Every additional day, hour, minute, even second is too late! We
refuse to continue to wait. Go to Sambisa, or step down and let us
go.

The Secret of the Niger (2): The Riot and the Visitor
By: Peregrino Brimah
2014-07-14 12:10
Whenever Sule woke early in the morning, he heard Daddy reciting
the Quran in a most beautiful sing-song tone. Daddy had a golden
voice. Was Daddy up all night? What time did daddy get up to start
this recital? Sule always wondered, but no matter how early he
woke before the sun was up, daddy was already there, on the mat,
left shoulder propping him, eyes closed, reciting the Quran in
such a melancholy, melodious tone, with pitches and falls that
sounded like a naturally changing climate. Dad would open his
eyes; see Sule and smile, while beckoning to him to come close;
wrap his arm around him while never losing his rhythm. It was a
feeling like those warm rainy nights when he could hear mom
calling his name; only if mom was here.
Dad had built an unshakeable fascination with religion in Sule. His
stories were simply amazing. Once he told Sule that he could
perform magic. Sule’s eyes were wide open. “Any Muslim can
perform magic,” Dad had said. “I can move this table here.” “Move
it, move it,” Sule had demanded. “No, why do so?” Dad
responded. “I only use my powers when I absolutely need to. You
see so many Muslims have used their powers in the past to do
wonderful things, but you do not want to waste the power. Today
many use their powers for very bad things.” Sule was left
dreaming of this magical power. He wanted to be just like his dad,
but he also dreamt of something else, something far off that he
couldn’t quite recognize. “You are dreaming again!” His dad jolted
him back to reality. “It’s time for makaranta!”
Makaranta
The thirty something boys were reciting at the tops of their voices.
Makaranta was a bunch of tattered rubber mats that were moved
around to catch the shade under a big tree at a corner of a large
compound. Malami sat in front and all the kids formed a half
circle around him, sitting on the hard, dusty, stony floor with
flattened and torn paper thin mats that barely separated bottom
from sand.
Malam trained the students to read in Arabic; they had to learn to
read the entire 6236 verses-long Quran. This part of their
education took the first two to three years. Then they learned
several books of ‘Fiqh’ (the understanding of the Quran and the
wisdom of Muslim conduct and societal structure and
jurisprudence). This part of the training took a few years and
could literally last a life time. There is a ceremony as soon as you
first complete reading the entire Quran in Arabic. Sule was excited;
he was graduating this stage next week. Hamza was lagging behind.
They both started together, but Hamza missed many weeks of
school whenever he ran away from home. That could not happen
to Sule, because he had the ‘best dad in the world.’
As they recited at the top of their voices, Sule picked a drone in
the background. He couldn’t quite make out what it was. Later the
other boys noticeably picked it up too. They started getting excited
and distracted as the rumble got louder and louder. ‘Thwack!’ was
the sound of Malam’s whip cracking on the ground in their midst.
“Read!” he commanded. “You want to feel my whip?” Then they
saw the first rioter run across the open gate; and then another and
several more. It was a riot. “Jihad, Jihad,” the boys running
outside were calling out. By now all the boys at makaranta were on
their feet. “Go straight home!” Malam ordered. The boys
scampered out of the yard. Someone said something about a
Christian teacher having touched a Quran or something. They
weren’t quite sure what it was about, but who really cared? Most of
the boys joined the rioters. “It’s the Jihad,” Sule thought. “The
world had come to an end. It’s time to fight for Allah.” Sule
remembered his last riot experience – it was quite fun.
They were running to the market place. Boys were setting fires.
Everyone picked up a branch. Sule too picked a branch. He wasn’t
quite sure what for but he did so. They were waving down cars. A
car almost hit a boy as it sped-by, refusing to stop. Shops were
ablaze in the central market. People were making away with market
wares. And then things started getting rough. A group of men
came to fight off the rioters. Someone fired a shot. Sule was not
sure whether he ran or tumbled more as he scuttled his way
home.
Alhaji was standing at the door with another tall dark man. There
was a grim look on Alhaji’s face. “Where were you, Sule?” he
barked. “Did you join the riots?” Sule looked down. “Come inside
now, do you want to kill your father! Haven’t I told you never to
join the riots?” After some more scolding and stern warnings from
his dad and the tall visitor who apparently was Sule’s uncle, Sule
was sent off to wash himself and join the two for dinner.
“The problem is who are we?” Sule’s uncle was saying. “What is a
nation? Where is our nation? What is a man today? I work every
day but barely make a living. I thank Allah for my life-- but where
is the hope? Where is the pride? Where is the hope for our
children? What does the future have for them-- are my children
going to be Okada riders like me?” Okada riders, was the name
given to motorcycle commercial transporters. “But you are making
a decent living in Abia, are you not?” Alhaji asked Uncle. “I think it
is better for you there than for us here.” “Here and there, there is
no future for our kind. The world has frowned on us. We come
from a wealthy Kano heritage, but today, we are cobblers, we are
garbage men, we are water carriers. We are no more than
‘amenities’ (in the society). Many are content with this life, but I
think we need to find who we are. We need to find our national
value.” “You think too much,” daddy told him. “Live on the earth
as though every day is your last, the noble Prophet taught us. Is
that not enough for us?” “But do we not pray to have in this life as
well as the next? I do not believe any people should lack
opportunity. Our name and even our religion is being soiled by
our attitude-- and all this violence. This is far from our great
history. This should never be so. Our generation has failed to find
our destiny; perhaps these younger ones will succeed and find
our true place, where we could not. We need to give them the
opening. Maybe they will discover the answer, the reason.”
Sule remembered Uncle. He always came to talk to dad about
politics and social matters till late into the night. Uncle smiled at
Sule. “How are your studies?” he asked. “Fine, uncle,” Sule
responded. “Why do you call us Kano people when we are
Kanuri?” Sule asked. It had always been on his mind. “We are
Kano,” uncle responded. “Your grand father was from Borno, but
we are Kano.” He continued. Sule knew not to pry any further.
“Perhaps he’ll understand these things later; he sure didn’t now.
“Have you told him?” Uncle asked dad. “What?” Sule interjected
eagerly. “Your uncle is taking you to Abia,” dad answered. “You are
sending me away! No daddy!” Sule ran to hug his dad. “I’m sorry
for joining the riots, I will never do it again, please do not send
me away, Alhaji.”
“I am not sending you away, my son. I will never send you away.
You are all I have left. Your uncle believes you will have better
opportunity in Abia. You will learn the English you always wished
to learn there. You may even get an education.” Something felt
tight in Sule’s chest. The tears started to swell up in his eyes. He
never knew his mom and now it felt like he was losing his dad
too-- and all his friends. He could see in dads resigned eyes that
the decision was already made. “After you graduate next week, we
will be travelling to Abia together.” His uncle finalized. “You will
like it there. You will help with the work and make new friends.
You are a man now.” As Sule packed the dishes to wash, it felt like
the saddest day of his life.
A little story, a little while, discover the Secret of the Niger.
Unedited, from a book in writing.
To be continued…

The Chosen Church and the Failed Miracle ala Lazarus

The prophets of the Chosen Church promised a miracle ala Lazarus, but this miracle failed to happen in a community in Imo state.

The story below is a wake-up call to all gullible Nigerians who believe everything their pastors tell them, hook, line, and sinker.

The Chosen Church and the Failed Miracle ala Lazarus

The book of Matthew 24:24 says: "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. 25"Behold, I have told you in advance".

This Biblical injunction freely and clearly offers an advance warning that many Christians are yet to heed. It warns about the rise of false prophets masquerading as men of god that use God's name to swindle, deceive and hypnotize the gullible. That was exactly what happened in Umuezii, Nguru Mbaise where the Chosen Church of God prophets embarked on a failed mission to resurrect the dead. This is not the first time the Chosen Church is directly fingered in fake miracles and spiritual hocus-pocus.

A young man, from Umuezii community died in Burkina Faso in November last year under mysterious circumstances. A month after, his sealed body was brought back to Nigeria and was buried the same day in his family compound in Umuezii, Nguru Mbaise, Imo State.

Trouble started when prophets and seers of the Chosen Church of God prophesied that the dead-and-buried young man was still alive (six feet beneath the earth) as his soul has persistently approached them via telephone calls and other spiritual means, requesting immediate exhumation. His elder sister, who is a member of the Chosen Church, communicated this prophecy to the entire family, leading to a family resolution insisting on the "divinely ordered" exhumation.

The decision to exhume the dead body did not go down well with the community as such act was considered an abomination both under the native tradition and under the prevailing Catholic norms deeply established within the community. All entreaties to the family made by the traditional ruler and parish priest of the St. Luke Catholic Church, Umuezii to refrain from such religious charade fell on deaf ears. It got to a point that the deceased family representatives openly accused the church and community leaders of killing their late brother, and preventing his "god-ordained" resurrection. The family of the deceased coming out to offer apology

As a lasting solution to the impasse, the traditional ruler of the community invited the Chosen Church seers and prophets to sign an agreement of performance failing which they will be handed over to the police authorities for prosecution. The second condition was that the miracle will be performed in full public glare and in the presence of other independent witnesses. Proudly beating their chests and boasting deafeningly about their "majestic powers", the seers and prophets signed the agreement and a date was mutually agreed for the resurrection miracle.

On the appointed day, a horde of prayer warriors, choristers, singers, speaking-in-tongue experts, seers, prophets and the like stormed the village as early as 6 a.m. The traditional ruler also invited the police, radio commentators, reporters and correspondents from local newspapers and the state-owned Imo Broadcasting Corporation. Chosen Church of God seers boastfully started with an early morning prophecy that the dead young man will "resurrect" by 12 noon prompt. The digging up of the grave followed immediately until the body was exhumed.

Then the singing, violent shaking, screaming, cursing, loud yelling and other theatrical displays in the name of deliverance prayers ensued while the large crowd of keen onlookers watched with deep interest. From 6 a.m. till 12 noon, there was no sign that the young man was preparing to wake let alone resurrect. Seeing that the 12 noon deadline had passed, the seers quickly issued another prophecy shifting the hour of resurrection to 3 p.m. By this time, the prayer and singing sessions became even more intense and violent. 3 p.m. came and went. No sign of life. The Chosen Church prophets again, quickly handed down another prophecy declaring 6 p.m. as the divine resurrection hour. 6 p.m. also went by, and the dead man remained still, lifeless and unresurrected till this day!

Understandably impatient and angry after the 6p.m deadline, the policemen on standby arrested all the prophets, dancers, singers, clappers and everybody that accompanied them to the community. But before then, the Chosen Church prophets had forwarded messages to their head office requesting for spiritual reinforcement. Undeterred by the arrest of their team members, an additional team that arrived around 6 p.m continued with the prayer sessions even more aggressively and vociferously. They prayed and sang all through the night till the following morning. Still, no sign of resurrection! The police officers, who had then totally run out of patience, arrested the remaining Chosen Church members, and everyone connected to the resurrection miracle including the deceased's family representatives.

Some of the arrested Chosen Church members are currently on bail, while a lot more are still in custody till date. The dead body was deposited at the morgue at the Federal Medical Center, Owerri, as exhibit, pending further police investigations and prosecution of the false prophets.

I was present at the New Year church service held at St Lukes Catholic Church, Umuezii, Mbaise where the parish priest's sermon harped on the infiltration of false prophets into the Christendom, warning parishioners to be wary of them. He then invited the members of the deceased family to tender an unreserved apology to the community for the abominable acts they committed. (PICTURED ABOVE) The deceased's elder sister tendered what seemed like a half-hearted apology on the family's behalf.

What happened in Imo State is reminiscent of the stories that feature on Nkan 'Nbe, a popular Yoruba TV Program that features latter-day mystical occurrences. The Imo incident provides a compelling and cogent rationale for the effective regulation of the nefarious activities of churches whose stock in trade is to constitute public nuisance and to deceive and hypnotize the gullible. As a direct result of this incident, some Mbaise communities have proscribed the activities of Pentecostal churches in their localities.

All eyes are on the Imo State Police Command to see how they would handle this issue, and ensure that measures are put in place to deter future sinister activities perpetrated under the banner of religion. Perhaps, its time to ban the churches and their abracadabra miracles. That time is NOW!

By Victoria Ohaeri - PM News

http://www.informationng.com/2014/01/the-chosen-church-and-the-failed-miracle-ala-lazarus-pm-news.html

Pathetic Story Of A Nigerian Whose Kidney
Was Stolen In Malaysia [MUST READ]
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We saw this story and we thought it wise to share
it. It’s touching and shocking and we hope we all
learn from it.
I’m 26 years old and last year after graduating
from one of the Polytechnics in Nigeria, I couldn’t
get a job. I needed to travel out of the country to
better my life and that of my family. I planned on
going to Turkey but fell into the hands of dupes
who gave me fake documents and I was thrown
out of the Turkish embassy during my interview
and almost got arrested.
Standing outside, I met an old acquaintance, a
young guy I met through a mutual friend. I found
myself telling him about my plight and how I had
been duped into paying for fake documents.I told
him how my dad sold his plot of land to ensure I
traveled. How was I going to tell them their
money went down the drain?
He then told me the best thing was to tell them I
got the visa , so when my dad sends money for
my flight ticket, I use it to go to Malaysia. He said
he had an agent who would help me and also
give me a job once I get there. He said several
guys had gone to Malaysia too.
I told my excited parents that I got the Visa and
would need money for my flight. I raised 600
thousand naira which was sent to the agent I had
never met and was given a 1 month visa. I got to
Malaysia expecting to see the agent but never
did. It was 3 weeks, no job, and paying my hotel
bill, I had exhausted all my money. The so-called
agent I had been calling suddenly switched off his
phone. It was one week to the expiration of my
visa.
So I decided to step-out and find other Nigerians
who could help me. I was unsuccessful as the two
guys I knew way back in Nigeria were club
bouncers and had no connections. Was shocked
because they claimed to be big boys.
I was on my way back from one of my
unsuccessful outings. I was wondering what to do
when a short Indian man intercepted me. “Hello
my friend you looking for a job? I have a job for
you. How will you like to earn 3 thousand dollars a
month? I was speechless” He told me “Lets go
and have a drink and talk about it”
I was so happy. He took me to a spot not far from
where we met. It was like a private house and I
saw two other Black boys who the man
introduced me to saying they were also
beneficiaries of the job. I was just about to ask
what the job was when a waiter brought me a
drink and he told me to give him a minute to
bring papers which would show me my job
description.
I don’t know what happened next. I found myself
in an uncompleted building. I was confused at
first and felt I was dreaming. But the cold was
unbearable to be a mere dream and the sharp
pain on the side of my belly was too intense to be
real. I saw my shoes on the floor. I was confused.
How did I get here? What about the job? Did I
loose my chance by getting too drunk? Then I
recalled I didn’t drink alcohol. I decided to put on
my shoes when I noticed my legs were so swollen
my shoes didn’t size me anymore..
I left the place with no money in my pocket,
didn’t even know where I was. I tried to ask some
Arabs to help but no one even listened to me. As I
kept walking, I saw 2 security men and walked up
to them. They were Nigerians and after telling
them about my plight, they took pity on me and
asked me to sleep in the factory where they
worked for the night. They gave me some pain
killers to relieve me.But advised me to go for a
test the next day. The next day I told them I had
no money to even go for a checkup and I was
probably going to be deported as I had just one
week for my visa to expire.
The elderly one told me there was a job opening
as a life guard at some private beach. I couldn’t
be more grateful.
I took up the job but the reoccurring belly ache
which I kept suppressing with pain killers was
getting more intense. Then after rescuing
someone who almost drowned, the intense stress
which accompanied that made me fall ill. And
after several tests, they couldn’t ascertain what
was wrong with me. I had used up all the little
money I earned from my job as a life guard and I
had no option but to give myself up to the
authorities so I could be deported since I couldn’t
pay for my flight ticket .
I returned to Nigeria seriously ill and my parents
took me from one hospital to the other and they
couldn’t detect what was wrong with me. We
went to several prayer houses even very popular
miracle pastors who claimed it was evil people
from my village chasing me. Destiny killers they
said. I was ordered to fast for 21 days and four
days later I collapsed . Then my father ran into an
old classmate who owned a hospital. He told him
about my plight and he told my dad to bring me
over.
He ordered a full scan to be run on me and while I
was alone, he came to me and said” Young man,
why did you have one of your kidney’s removed?”
I was shocked ‘My Kidney? Sir I don’t get”. He
smiled”At least if you want to have your kidney
removed, do it well. You must have earned a few
millions from it so what did you do with the
money? Why didn’t you treat yourself
properly?”””
I was confused and I insisted I knew nothing and
he showed me the scan. Yes one kidney was
missing. He also said the closure was perfectly
done and skin was used to cover up the stitch. He
said only Indians did such perfect cover-ups. After
insisting there was a mistake somewhere, the
doctor said the fact was one of my kidneys was
removed and he told me the dangers of selling
my kidney which many Nigerian youths do these
days to make quick cash I was in tears and I told
him I didn’t know what he was talking about then
I recalled the Indian man I met who told me he
had a job for me .
It hit me that that man had me drugged and took
me to an unknown place and had my kidney
removed and then dumped me in that building.
Now I’m a 26 year old man who put my parents
through hell and I’m now living on one kidney
and very ill. I keep hoping this one doesn’t
develop a problem. I want youths to be careful of
where they go to and who they interact with.I
just found-out its a cartel and several African
jobless youths have been trapped and have their
kidneys removed without their knowledge ..
It’s a wicked world..

Yu v bin datin ds guy/lady for quite a yl nd bin finkin or plannin a weddin,so u guys went for a general med check-up as usual,nd u got to knw dat u both have AS genotype

U lov him/her,yes we all knw nd cud c dat. Will u break up or go ahead wit d weddin? As a medical person ,i knw d consequences,infact v seen many victims. Buh am also religious i belivs veri much in God nd miracles,i cn continue to faith it.
Ds is abt our health nd future,so lets talk

1. Someone calls you at 2 a.m in the
mid-night and ask you, are you
sleeping? Answer: no, I'm picking beans
to cook.
2. When its raining and someone
notices you going out, yet they ask; are
you going out in this rain? Answer: no,
in the next one....,Smellon!
3. You're making out with a girl, then
you start pulling her pants then she
asks; what are you trying to do?
Answer: i want to wash them for
you...,haha! can u imagine!
4. They see you coming out of the
bathroom, wet; did you just have a
bath? Answer: no, i fell into the toilet
bowl..,ehe nah
5.ur kissing her,N she asks,wat R u
doin,u replied,no jus rubbing off ur lip
glus...hahaha
6. Your boyfriend comes home with a
bunch of flowers, and you still ask him;
are those flowers? Answer :no baby,
they're carrots!
7. You're in the toilet and you locked
the door, someone knocks on the door
asking; is anyone there? Answer: No! it
is poo that locked the door.lol
8. You're in queue at the cinema to buy
tickets, a friend sees you and asks;
what are you doing here? Answer: i'm
here to pay my school fees!p Punk.
9. When people see you lying down
with
your eyes closed, they still ask; are you
sleeping? Answer:No, I'm practising to
die. hiss
10. You are cleaning ur room with a
brush and someone asks are u
sweeping?
Answer: No, am teaching the brush how
to dance. .
......Add Yours lets Go!!!

Kwankwaso’s silent revolution in Kano
Posted by: Jide Oluwajuyitan in Jide Oluwajuyitan
1 day ago
Poverty is a common affliction of our people. It
strikes you directly on the face whether you are in
Ughelli, Owerri, Ekiti or Kano. And the consensus
of experts and friends of Nigeria including Britain
and the US is that poverty in Nigeria is
government-induced either through its policies
that have no direct bearing on the lives of the
people, or as a result of mindless looting of the
nation’s resources by those who have access to
power. What this therefore means is that the
battle for poverty alleviation will have to be led by
few in government ready to offer selfless service. I
think when we see some that are making efforts
at implementing policies that have the potential
to reduce poverty among our people, they
deserve to be celebrated.
One such creative response to the scourge of
poverty is Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso’s
‘organized mass marriages and empowerment of
women’ in Kano, which he initiated at the onset
of his administration three years ago. If his
initiative received any attention at all, it could
only have been in form of severe criticism by
uninformed non-indigenes of Kano. In fact it was
the scurrilous attack on the person of the
governor in the social media by professional
mourners who weep louder than the bereaved
that compelled me to take another look at Rabiu’s
initiative. It turned out in my view that the
governor’s ingenious response to poverty
alleviation in Kano which focuses on women
training and women empowerment is a silent
revolution. This is because the UN as a body has
long established that the neglect of women in
terms of education and empowerment, described
as ‘feminisation of poverty’ is partly responsible
for poverty in the Third World nations.
The forth phase of Kwankwaso government’s
‘divorcees, widows and spinsters mass marriage’
programme of 1,111 including 60 Christian
couples took place last week, at a cost of some
N278.270 million to the government. This meant
that government is investing an average of about
N250, 468, on each couple. The amount
according to the governor covered procurement
of furniture, textile materials, foodstuff as well as
grants for the brides and other essential items.
Kwankwaso who wears the shoe and knows where
the shoe pinches also stressed that ‘the marriage
programme would help ‘people strengthen the
family institution and halt social crimes in the
society, most of which were as a result of erosion
of family values.’
The governor has also initiated a special ‘family
orientation programme aimed at preventing and
minimizing the rising cases of divorce in the state
in addition to evolving capacity building
programmes especially for women to enable them
support their families.’
The governor did not stop at that. His
administration refurbished 20 cottage industries
and handed them over to women co-operative
groups accompanied with empowerment
packages to the beneficiaries.
With these measures in place, the governor has
gone ahead to perform what was considered
impossible in the history of Nigeria and West
Africa,- signing in to law ‘the Street Begging
Prohibition Bill 2013’ which prohibited children
and adults from begging on the streets, motor
parks and other public places. To give the law a
human face, the state government would train
2,205 people with disabilities in various
entrepreneurship skills that would suit their
individual capacities. He has also promised to
absorb those so trained into the public service
while ‘’the state government will give N10,000
monthly to those with disabilities that lack the
wherewithal to engage in any trade.”
I think we must salute the governor for this bold
and creative initiative. It will most likely succeed
because of its focus on women who, studies have
shown, will spend about 80 per cent of their
earnings on their children. Rabiu initiative will also
appear to have better prospects than the federal
government nomadic school project which was a
reaction to Boko Haram insurgency. As we have
seen in the case of federal government
involvement in ‘unity schools’ and federal
universities, funding may dry up for the nomadic
federal government initiative. In any case mere
provision of school building and facilities to shelter
those picked from the streets will not
automatically turn those who are already
hardened into good citizens. What we all know is
that the socialization processes that will enable
children imbibe positive values starts at the family
level.
I think Rabiu’s modest initiative can serve as a
model for many of the states in the north
currently battling the social malaise of almajiris
who often become easy tools for violence and
other crimes. Empowerment of over 1000 women
in Kano has the potential of grooming about
10,000 children yearly for a secured future.
Of course other states outside the north also have
much to learn from Rabiu’s initiative. What some
of the virulent southern critics of Rabiu initiative
have failed to see is the parallel between the
social malaise called almajiris and thousands of
young men who cannot read and write hawking
smuggled substandard products on the streets of
Lagos and other southern major cities. If this
southern equivalent of northern almajiris are not
taken off the streets and trained, they are going
to become a threat to those we are currently
investing on as leaders of tomorrow in our various
universities. And already in Lagos, it is the
focused leadership of Governor Fashola that has
invested heavily on security, which has reduced
incidences of gun totting ‘hawkers’ holding up
motorists inside traffic demanding for money,
trinkets and telephone handsets.
Besides Kwankwaso’s modest efforts at attacking
the root course of poverty and securing a better
future for Kano children, he is said to be setting
the pace in other areas such as leadership by
example, transparency and accountability in
governance. Dapo Thomas in a piece in last
Sunday edition of The Nation called attention to
Kwankwaso’s unique attempt at removing the
myth of secrecy surrounding governance by
advertising the minute of his state Exco meetings
every week, spelling out in details, debates on
government policy initiatives and policy
implementation for everyone to see. Cited in one
of such advertised minute of Kano exco meeting
by Thomas was the approval of Kano State
Scholarship Board’s recommendation and
government approval of N320, 000 to each of the
53 Kano indigenes that qualified for Law school.
Kwankwaso’s modest efforts are aimed at
reclaiming the soul of Kano, a beautiful city of life,
energy and humanity, a city with paved ways,
uncharted safe alleys and ever bustling Kirki
market where the heterogeneity of our nation is
in full display daily as one encounters a Christian
Yoruba woman trader momentarily take over the
wares of her Hausa co-trader observing one of the
five daily mandatory Muslim prayers. But it is also
a challenge to not only his brother governors but
also the federal government where we hear
stories of missing N500b SURE-P funds, NNPC
unremitted $48b now negotiated down, to $
10.8b, N500b missing kerosene subsidy payment
etc.
There was a report by a committee set up by
President Jonathan to look into issue of
abandoned projects early this year which stated
that, if no fresh projects are initiated, it will take
three years of annual capital budget to
implement abandoned projects on which
substantial payments had been made. These
contractors are Nigerians and some of them are in
government. The 2014 budget proposal was
presented to the National Assembly early this
week, yet not even the constituencies have been
told what percentage of the constituency projects
supervised by the lawmakers was implemented.
Kwankwaso is set for the battle for the soul of
Kano. Talk to Kano tomato retailer or orange
hawker in Lagos, they will tell you of a cousin in
Malaysia or USA on scholarship. But beyond this,
he has also hinted at the source of pervasive
poverty in our nation and has demonstrated by
his own personal example that it can be
eradicated by a leadership style that removes the
myth of secrecy about governance.
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