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a lot of petitions are going to AU and UN from Nigeria politicians because of their lack of trust in Nigeria judiciary .
Lawyers in the house say something

The season film called 'Ekiti drama' is selling fast i hope you have bought your copy

Kennywills7:
Did APC actually said that?

Press statement release by Fayose himself

Press statement release by Fayose himself

Threat to make Ekiti ungovernable: Fayose drags APC to AU, UN

on April 22, 2015 / in News 2:41 pm / Comments

The governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, has noted that he has reported the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) on the imminent reign of impunity by APC as from May 29, stressing that there is an alleged threat by the party to make Ekiti state ungovernable.

“In alerting the international community on what to expect from May 29 as regards the threat by the APC to make Ekiti ungovernable, I have decided to put on notice the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) on the imminent reign of impunity by APC as from May 29.

“Since Ekiti people are certain to resist the planned plundering of their land, Nigerians and the world at large should know who to hold responsible in the event of anarchy in Ekiti State in particular and the entire Yorubaland,” he noted in a press statement.

Read full statement below:
It has become imperative once again to address the media on the constitutional and political crises being foisted on our dear State, Ekiti by irritants of unbridled ambitions, who are not only devoid of spirit of sportsmanship but implacable even when all odds are against them and roundly rejected by the good people of the state.
Fayose and Buhari

Fayose and Buhari

It is no longer news that I defeated an incumbent governor in all the 16 Local Government Areas in the State and that for the first time in the history of Nigeria, attempts were made to use the courts to prevent someone who clearly won a governorship election from assuming office.

Since June 21, 2014 that the All Progressives Congress (APC) suffered that humiliating defeat, the party has suffered defeats in the entire local government areas in Ekiti State in four other elections, the latest being the House of Assembly election in which APC won no single seat out of the 26 seats.

Ekiti people have been persistent in their preference for me and my party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to correct the ills of the last four years and set the State on the path of greatness.

Despite that Ekiti people have consistently spoken with their votes against the APC, Nigerians are witnesses to the litany of illegalities being woven by both the national leadership of the party and its Ekiti State chapter, all in an attempt to rob Ekiti people of the mandate freely given to me.

Despite receiving bloodied nose in both the political and judicial arena in the hands of the Ekiti masses as represented by me, these desperate politicians are unrelenting in their shenanigans, the latest being the information at my disposal that even after May 29, the state would not know peace.

I however trust Ekiti people to do what is right in securing peace in their land.
I have been severally informed that I became the prime demolition target of the APC national leadership because of my overt and unalloyed support for President Goodluck Jonathan during the campaigns.

Insiders in their party also told me that APC leaders were also yet to get over the fact that in the entire South-West, Ekiti was the only state they could not “rob” for General Mohammed Buhari (rtd). The eagle-eyed surveillance of Ekiti people ensured that.

I wish to declare unequivocally that I remain loyal to President Jonathan even after May 29 as my support for his re-election and administration was not about bread-and-butter. I was convinced he was moving Nigeria in the right direction, despite all the noise. I have no regrets supporting him. If same situation presents itself again, I would do it all over.

Let me state It clearly that if President Jonathan is deserted by all Nigerians today, I, Ayodele Fayose, would remain with him. I have chosen to be his last-man standing.

If for this show of loyalty to Mr President and my party, APC and its leaders believe that the best way to pay me back is to make Ekiti ungovernable, the decision on appropriate reaction belongs to the people, whose mandate I keep in trust.

It is ironic that those who said worse things about the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) when they were in opposing parties, are the ones milling around him today, using him as an electoral talisman and demonizing us for saying things of lesser magnitude during a campaign that was mainly characterized by hate-messages from both divides.

I also want to put on record that if all PDP members decamp to APC today, I will remain the last-man standing for the party, even as I have no cause to denigrate the office of the president.

I also promise APC a robust and engaging opposition both in the South-West, and nationally, with me playing a prominent role.

Let me again state that I will continue to seek peace with my traducers and troublers of Ekiti.
Since the Supreme Court judgement which held my 2006 impeachment as illegal, unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect, my preachings have been peace. This is to see if a hand of fellowship as urged by elders in the state and the nation at large would bring sanity to the opposition camp. It definitely has nothing to do with cowardice; as Ekiti is a land of the brave.

In alerting the international community on what to expect from May 29 as regards the threat by the APC to make Ekiti ungovernable, I have decided to put on notice the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) on the imminent reign of impunity by APC as from May 29.

Since Ekiti people are certain to resist the planned plundering of their land, Nigerians and the world at large should know who to hold responsible in the event of anarchy in Ekiti State in particular and the entire Yorubaland.

God bless our land.
Ayo Fayose,

Governor, Ekiti State
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Why did jonathan wait so long for the reform?
He removed Abba because Abba refused to be used.

He that pays the piper calls the tunes.
But when the piper is no longer cooperating you fire him.
This is Nigeria democracy(demonstration of crace).

Home / News / Jonathan fires IG Abba over polls …names Arase in acting capacity
Jonathan fires IG Abba over polls …names Arase in acting capacity
April 22, 2015 : Olusola Fabiyi, Olalekan Adetayo and Eniola Akinkuotu 229 Comments



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Suleiman Abba

Suleiman Abba

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday sacked the Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba.

Abba, who became IG less than nine months ago, was replaced by a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, in acting capacity

A statement by Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati, gave no reason for the sack of Abba.

The statement read, “President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has relieved the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, of his appointment and duties with immediate effect.

“President Jonathan has also appointed a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, as Acting Inspector-General of Police, also with immediate effect.

“Until his appointment as Abba’s replacement, Arase was the Head of the Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department.

“Mr. Arase holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Law as well as Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Political Science and Strategic Studies. He is also a Fellow of the Nigerian Defence College.”

The PUNCH however learnt that the controversial governorship election in Rivers State was the main reason that cost Abba his job.

It was also learnt that the Presidency and the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party were unhappy with the sacked IG for the way he handled the March 28 presidential election.

The PDP and its presidential candidate, Goodluck Jonathan, lost the election to the All Progressives Congress and its candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.

The PDP also performed badly in the governorship election, a development it believes was traceable to Abba’s action.

A reliable government source in Abuja, said that the Presidency did not only feel that Abba failed to mobilise enough men for the PDP during the polls, it believed that he was “tactically working for the opposition (the APC).”

For example, the source said that Abba deployed over 2,800 riot policemen in Rivers State on April 4, a few days to the conduct of the governorship election. The team was led by an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Tunde Ogunsakin.

This action, according to him, was taken by the sacked IG to negatively affected the hitherto arrangement by the Presidency and the PDP for the conduct of the governorship election in the state.

It was also gathered that when Ogunsakin arrived in the state, he called a meeting of all governorship candidates but that of the PDP, Nyesom Wike, refused to attend.

Wike, who is now the governor-elect of Rivers State, was said to have told the AIG that he did not have confidence in him and therefore would not attend the meeting.

A highly placed police source told one of our correspondents that few minutes later, Ogunsakin received a call from the Presidency ordering him to leave the state “immediately.”

He said, “The AIG didn’t sleep in the state as he left immediately. I think he slept in one of the neighbouring states.”

The riot policemen were also ordered to be “demobilised” and not allowed to be part of the security men used for the governorship election.

Infuriated party leaders from the South-South and across the country were also said to have complained to the Presidency about the conduct of Abba, who they accused of working for the APC.

Abba was also accused of not giving enough protection to the nine PDP members of Ekiti State House of Assembly opposed to the move by the 19 APC lawmakers to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose.

A member of the PDP National Working Committee, who also spoke with one of our correspondents said, “You can see that the IG has forgotten that President Jonathan and his party are still in control till May 29 and that he should not be too eager to satisfy the incoming government.”

It was said that the Presidency decided to yield to the pressure from the PDP and a “powerful woman” from Rivers State on the need to relieve Abba of his job.

When contacted on the sack of Abba, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, said anyone asking about it (sacking) “should go to the President.”

“The question on whether our complaint led to the sack of the police boss should be directed to the President,” he said.

When one of our correspondents visited the Force Headquarters in Abuja at about 3.20pm on Tuesday, one of Abba’s aides said, “ the IG is not aware of his sacking. No one has informed him and he is in the office working.”

Also, a PDP leader, who spoke to one of our correspondents on the condition of anonymity, said Abba failed to act according to the script given to him by the Presidency.

He said Abba was believed to have approached the APC leaders to broker a deal which would elongate his tenure.

“Apart from that, immediately Buhari won, Abba threw caution to the winds and negotiated with the APC to help them with the governorship election to enable him to remain in office after Jonathan’s exit.

“He began treating Buhari like the President even while the President was still in office,” he added.

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pdp,the party that ruled with impunity for 16yrs could be whispering like an old woman.
I see a better Nigeria.

posterity will judge Abba.

the romance has come to an end.
GEJ is tired of Abba,shekina.

S-East, S-South regions call for Nigeria’s restructuring



By Innocent Anaba

The Lower Niger Congress, LNC, made up of people of the South-East and South-South geo-political regions, has called for the restructuring of the country to allow each region feel equal with other regions in the country and to control their resources for the betterment of their people.

It insisted that the outcome of the just concluded general elections was a conspiracy by the South-West and the Northern regions to sustain a master/slave relationship between and among the federating units.

Spokesman of the group, Mr Tony Nnadi, who addressed newsmen in Lagos on the just concluded general elections, that said the 75 million people who make up the Lower Niger, will decide whether they want to remain in the Nigeria federation and under what constitution such relationship will be.

Artists representing Nigeria perform during the opening ceremony of the FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013, held before the Group A football match between Brazil and Japan, at the National Stadium in Brasilia on June 15, 2013. AFP PHOTO /

Nnadi said that the celebrated democracy in Nigeria has left a deeply fractured nation where the ethnic nationalities that make up the Lower Niger region are treated as conquered people, who have lost their power to participate in the Nigerian state as equal pruners.

Nnadi said the brazen manner in which the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, treated the Electoral Act with disdain, the flagrant abuse of voting in the North, the manipulation of the card reader scheme were all done to weaken the voting strength of the Lower Niger region while the North was given unfair advantage in the electoral contest.

He added that the Lower Niger Congress was planning a self determination referendum in the region comprising of the South-South and South-East zones.

Meanwhile, President of LNC, Elder Fred Agbeyegbe, said: “Even though many disputations around our constitutional foundation remain unattended to and particularly without any hope of federalism being ushered into Nigeria, Nigeria has, once again, had an election, which the international community with their so-called interest in the workings of democracy, have, from reports submitted by their appointed observers, adjudged peaceful, free and fair.

“We are, nevertheless, compelled to observe that, even if the rest of the world cannot see through the facade of a penchant for democracy, we, the ethnic nationalities, minorities, owners of the resources, victims of and for whose sake the Nigerian brand of democracy was wrought, are aware that their commercial interests in a peaceful Nigeria, overrides any pretended interest in democracy.

“Why else should the European Union and the United States of America, the citadels of the principles of equality, equity, fairness and justice, accept rules of democracy couched from a slavery-enacting document like the 1999 Nigerian Constitution imposed by one group in Nigeria over all else who had no participation in its making and from whence comes the Nigerian notion of democracy, considering that the Constitution is the instrument mandating the elections they came to Nigeria to observe?

“Perhaps it is better left to posterity to ponder Foreign Secretary Kerry’s goading to quick elections in Nigeria in the same 2015, in which, based upon knowledge that so many ethnicities are entrapped in its slavery, some other Americans predicted that 2015 would usher in the death of Nigeria as a nation state. For our part, the writing is now on all walls, that it is time that those of us entrapped in the Lower Niger, the area more at the receiving end of Nigeria’s feudalistic system driven by the 1999 Constitution, should, soonest, examine our obviously un-abating status of ‘’slaves.”
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It seems Mimiko has made a wrong move by defecting to pdp,
his political structure is falling apart.

Mimko,i hope this is not beginning of a long crisis in your state.
Fayose,your neighbor is not finding it easy,the activities in Ekiti are in standstill.

Total cost including custom papers 2005 highlander and sienna 2001/2002 and Camry 1999

Obasanjo is the name the two guys dread.
Let see how they will survive

which discipline?
Political thug in corporate suit.

The state has known no peace since he was sworn in as the governor.
He is an embarrassment to Ekiti state.
Fountain of knowledge has become home of thugs.
I weep for my brothers from Ekiti state.
I know GEJ,Metuh,Ifeanyi Ubah and Secondus will be smiling somewhere
for evil they have done in Ekiti.
God will surely Judge U.

No peace for the wicked.
I pity Ekiti state since you came in as d governor, peace has disappeared from d state.

u can only run but cannot hide.
ur sin will find u out

Jona u can now see d true colors of ur supporters(sycophants)
They are after ur money,i believe u ve learnt ur lesson.

Go and tell that to GEJ,you caused his defeat to GMB due to your mouth diarrhea.
Go and tell that to GMB for wishing him dead.
Go and tell that to respected and well bred Ekitis for bringing shame to their homeland.
Go and tell that to Omoluabis for disgracing Yorubaland

What of those your thugs had eliminated?

Nigerians living abroad remitted $21bn in 2014 —World Bank
on April 16, 2015 at 12:43 am in Business




By Omoh Gabriel

The World Bank has disclosed that Nigeria received a total of $21 billion from its citizens living abroad as home remittance in 2014 saying that growth of remittance is expected to slow this year.

naira-DollarThis fact is contained in the latest issue of the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief, released in Washington at the ongoing Spring Meetings of the IMF/ World Bank Group. It said that officially recorded remittances to the developing world are expected to reach $440 billion in 2015, an increase of 0.9 percent over the previous year.

Global remittances, including those to high income countries, are projected to grow by 0.4 percent to $586 billion.

It said “The top five migrant destination countries continue to be the United States, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Russia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) while the top five remittance recipient countries, in terms of value of remittances, continue to be India, China, Philippines, Mexico and Nigeria.

The release said “Nigeria alone accounts for around two-thirds of total remittance inflows to Sub Sahara Africa, but its remittances are estimated to have remained flat in 2014, at roughly $21 billion”.

It said that “growth of remittances to the Sub-Saharan Africa region is projected to slow to 0.9 percent in 2015, amounting to $33 billion. The regional growth in remittances in 2014 largely reflected strong growth in Kenya 10.7 percent, South Africa 7.1 percent and Uganda 6.8 percent. The level of remittance dependency varies across countries. Remittances in the Gambia, Lesotho, Liberia and Comoros equal about 20 percent of GDP in 2013, the latest available data. Remittance flows to the region are expected to pick up to $34 billion in 2016 and $36 billion in 2017. In Somalia, concerns are rising about the impact on remittances due to “de-risking”– the closing of bank accounts of money transfer operators by correspondent banks fearing risks of money laundering and financial crime”

The World Bank said that “growth in global remittances, including those to developing countries, will slow sharply this year due to weak economic growth in Europe, deterioration of the Russian economy and the depreciation of the euro and ruble.

The 2015 remittance growth rates are the slowest since the global financial crisis in 2008/09. Nonetheless, the number of international migrants is expected to exceed 250 million in 2015, and their savings and remittances are expected to continue to grow.

The slowdown in the growth of remittances this year will affect most developing regions, in particular Europe and Central Asia where flows are expected to decline by 12.7 percent in 2015.

“The positive impact of an economic recovery in the U.S. will be partially offset by continued weakness in the Euro Area, the impact of lower oil prices on the Russian economy, the strengthening of the US dollar, and tighter immigration controls in many remittance source countries. In line with the expected global economic recovery next year, the global flows of remittances are expected to accelerate by 4.1 percent in 2016, to reach an estimated $610 billion, rising to $636 billion in 2017.

Remittance flows to developing countries are expected to recover in 2016 to reach $459 billion, rising to $479 billion in 2017.

The global average cost of sending $200 held steady at 8 percent of the value of the transaction, as of the last quarter of 2014. Despite its potential to lower costs, the use of mobile technology in cross-border transactions remains limited, due to the regulatory burden related to combating money laundering and terrorism financing, says the Brief. International remittances sent via mobile technology accounted for less than 2 percent of remittance flows in 2013, according to the latest available data.

In addition to sending money to their families, international migrants hold significant savings in their destination countries. ‘Diaspora savings’ attributed to migrants from developing countries were estimated at $497 billion in 2013, the latest data available.

and $132 billion

over 70% of government allocation is used to pay their salaries and allowances still they are not satisfied.
Ungrateful bunch of people

Stolen mandate.

They wanted to put their stooge in government house so they can continue business as usual

Desperate to embezzle government funds not rendering selfless service

Half of Oyo workers voted for me —Ajimobi

April 17, 2015 : Olufemi Atoyebi 0 Comments











Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi
Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi
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Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi, said on Thursday that he was aware that only a half of the workers in the state civil service voted for him in the April 11 election.

The governor said this at the retirement thanksgiving and book presentation organised for a former head of service in the state, Tajudeen Aremu, in Ibadan, the state capital.

Ajimobi, who attributed his success at the governorship election to God, also said that he encountered difficulties when he introduced changes in the state during the early days of his administration.

He said, “One thing I have noticed is that people don’t always want change. If there is no change, there cannot be transformation. When I brought changes at the beginning of this administration, I was criticised. Developing knowledge is essential in life.

“Civil servants are never satisfied because the more you give to them, the more they demand. When people told me that the civil servants in the state would not vote for me, I said that I have done enough for them.

“I have increased their salaries in three folds, offered training opportunities to them and we continue to give 13th month salary for the past three years. But once you omit something that you have been giving them, that is what they will use against you.

“So when eventually I was told that they did not vote for me, I said at least some of them would still have voted for me. Even God allowed devil to exist. Once you are able to get 50 per cent of the votes, you have won the election. I like to believe that at least 50 per cent of the workers voted for me. I must congratulate those who did not vote for me. I can assure them that the next four years will be better. My impression about civil service when I came has changed because I have realised that there are intelligent ones among them.”

In his tribute to the former head of service, the governor noted that hard work, focus, perseverance and positive vision were necessary ingredients of success

God is greater than pdp,Jona and his gang

shameless pdp and group satanoids