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This man should realise his time is up and look for a new cash cow!! No more army as personal protection, no more 200k as monthly pocket money for the grandkids.

A few days after independence, ahmadu bello called igbo's coackroaches and said he'll rather employ expatriate that igbo nigerians in the northern civil service, in 1966, major. Nzeorgwu killed key members of the federal govt and left the head, azikiwe who was his brother, post civil war, awolowo cheated igbo's of their compensation and gave each 20 naira contrary to the instructions of gen. Gowon.....after all this we re still singing one nigeria. rubbish! This nation is cancer patient who is being bombarded with chemotherapy against it's wish by greedy children who want her alive to feed on her wealth, but one day, she'll surely die!!!!!!!!

APC are lairs, they act as if this anti igbo sentiment in lagos started today! Even fashola deportees igbo's to their homeland and had to apologise for it. I remember when I went to lagos, though I was not no igbo, the yoruba's landlord of the house I stayed in though I was and could not stop shooting veiled insults my way, one time he called me and showed me the incredibly deep well in the compound and asked if the lazy people in the east can build dig this, all they know is chase money. If not for his age I would have insulted that man....tribalism is and will always be in nigeria, instead of politicians to deny it, they should advice people grow a thick skin. nigeria's dysfunction did'nt start today.

It is clear jonathan did the right thing as a person but to his party, he betrayed them. You will soon see them dumping on him, jonathan post presidency will be a statesman, get a gig somewhere in Ecowas or the AU and live a fulfilled life, meanwhile the PDP will be picking up the pieces of it's shattered party, from the premiere party of 16 years to a party who lost the presidency, national assembly in one election, who knows what will happen this weekend? Well, I thing it was a worthy price to pay for the sake of peace.

All you APC swines should shut your shot hole, did the president call any name? He just gave a general warning against problems leading to elections and you are all here vomiting rubbish!! Brainless political hacks!!

Evacuation ordered on government buildings and museums.

More..

Police block off road leading to white house as power outage hits.

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D.C. hit by power outage

The power outage in the Washington area was caused by a small explosion at a power transfer line in southern Maryland, according to a U.S. official. CNN has been told that The Department of Homeland Security is closely monitoring the ongoing power outage.

The outage struck everything from the White House to the State Department, where government employees and reporters saw lights and power flicker out.

Power at CNN's D.C. bureau twice flickered off and on early in the afternoon.

The power went out during the daily State Department briefing, with Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf using a phone light to continue taking questions from reporters. Power remained off for the State Department as of 1:15 p.m., though most other affected buildings appeared to have power restored within seconds of it going out.

Police and fire officials were dispatched to the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative's Ryceville power substation, which appears to be the cause of the D.C. outage, Charles County Sheriff spokeswoman Diane Richardson told CNN.

Charles County spokeswoman Donna Fuqua said fire department officials were responding to "a substation that caught fire on Ryceville road," as of 2 p.m.

A spokesman for Pepco, the city's major electric utility, told CNN that the company is aware of the outages and is investigating the source of the problem.

The outage also forced the Smithsonian to evacuate four of its museums in D.C.

The power outages did not appear to affect major buildings outside of the District besides the power substation. Neither of the city's two major airports, which are both located in Virginia, were affected.

A White House spokesman says the power outage that affected many parts of the city also affected the White House complex. The White House was on a backup generator and is now back on normal power.

In addition to the briefing room, power went out very briefly in the West Wing and other portions of the White House. Building maintenance workers ​were circulating through office space ensuring power had been restored, which it had.

A spokesperson for the city's Metro rail system says 14 stations are on backup power, meaning no escalators or elevators working -- but lights are on and trains are running.

CNN's Jim Sciutto, Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew Hoye and Jamie Crawford contributed to this report.

D.C. hit by power outage - CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/07/politics/power-outage-washington-dc/

There is nothing like nigeria and there never will. Unity my behind.

Nigeria reminds me of the middle east which is in flames today because all the countries the British created after world war I across ethnic boundaries is breaking up. This country was never meant to be but they keep fighting for it's existence. It's stupid! 100 years and no unity, how many more years do you need?

It's almost too perfect to be true - Joel Burger is getting married to Ashley King.

Joel and Ashley are childhood sweethearts from Illinois, USA, and they actually announced their wedding by taking their photo next to a Burger King logo and sending the picture to their friends.

The Burger-King wedding will take place on July 17, and news of the wedding has reached so many people, that Burger King has now agreed to pay for all the costs.

Usually the woman's name would go first in the announcement (making it the King-Burger wedding), but in good humour the couple flipped it so that it has officially been listed as the Burger-King wedding.

Incredibly, after hearing about the wedding, Burger King contacted the couple and offered to pay for the whole wedding, which came as a lovely surprise.


At the least he didn't buy her an onion ring...
Burger King made a Skype call to the couple, but didn't tell them they were paying for it until the very end of the call.

The couple said they were blown away.

"When we heard about the happy, Burger-King couple, we felt an overwhelming urge to celebrate their upcoming marriage," said Eric Hirschhorn, Burger King Brand spokesman. "On so many levels it felt like fate; they found each other and their story found us."

Burger-King wedding: Man called Burger is marrying his childhood sweetheart... Miss King - Mirror Online
http://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/burger-king-wedding-man-called-burger-5471318

See the kind friends our incoming president is keeping and he wants to fight corruption!!! we are watching....

The only thing I know about him is his smile. Which I like.

Collynzo9:
I thought APC was also in control of the house?

the PDP is the majority in the house except defections happen following the swearing in of a new assembly.

As of may 2015, for the first time in our democratic history, different parties will control the two chambers in our national assembly and that is when those who say the two chambers serve not function will know the difference and it won't be pretty! In fact, we shall see the evils or some will say beauty of bicameral legislature.

BASIC POWERS OF THE SENATE(APC)
Confirmation of ministerial nominees
Ratification of treaties and foreign policy
Confirmation of judges, military leaders,ambassadors, etc
Oversight, etc

BASIC POWERS OF THE HOUSE(PDP)
Passing a budget.
Power over the purse of the nation.
Appopraition of money bill, revenues.
Power to raise taxes.
Impeach the president., etc
Oversight of ministries.

This is are brief overview of both houses and their powers, so if president muhammadu Buhari is not able to unite warring factions, or if both parties don't put country above party, it will be a tough four years to come... imagine how long it will take to pass a budget? imagine how hard it was when one party controlled both houses. Goodluck nigeria!!! Welcome to divided government.

The political jingle of the PDP rivers state gubernatorial aspirant, nyesome wike which has been playing on radio in p.h has been termed as a vieled threat to voters in the state as tension runs high, it goes like this.
"Wike dey come o"
"Wike dey come o"
"Wike dey cone o".
"I no go gree, stay for your house o"

What do you think?

Let me see how the general wages war in the north and south with our dwindling economy, rising debt and falling revenue! You want power? Take it!!! We are watching in 3D.

No girl would have even agreed to shake him!! ..i know the guy! Person we book wan kill, he has no life outside academics which is really bad. Always looking unkempt with a certain worn out school bag he even brought to his convocation.

Let's not write his political obituary just yet, wike can still win the governorship and he will still remain relevant in rivers politics and government.

Nice!! Better make your services known to the APC, with a little ageing makeup and agbada, you'll look like him znd he he starts getting sick which we all know will happen, you can be his double to deceive nigerians.

A former staff of the royal family in his memoir documented that after this shargari trip to the u.k where he was personally invited by the queen to stay at Buckingham palace, he and his staff looted their the various Buckingham palace suites they stayed in...since then no Nigerian president has spent a night in the palace!!

Sounds plausible because it is easier to rig on a state level than the federal in his current age, Jega cannot be in every state if the federation so if PDP pulls off the coordinated scam it did in the rivers presidential election, wike will be governor, and if tinubu's touts work hard enough, they will retain their control of lagos and most south west state.

sweetgala:
While Ngo baby might not get accused of graft , she would be muddied by the revelations, as Finance minister she is well aware of all on-goings and I doubt the world bank would be accepting her with open harms.

She'll probably make a good snitch and whistle-blower

she is aware of all the going on's? As she now omnipotent and omnipresent? This is the same woman who raised alarm over the isolationist economic tendencies of the NNPC, ministry of petroleum and other oil agencies...whatever your hate for her or the witch hunt the buhari administration will carry out on her, she will emerge flawless and forge ahead with her impressive career internationally, she did it in 2006 under obasanjo and she'll do it again.

SirDorianGray:
E go shock you...

na here we dey!

timunstopable:
Ngozi never worked for IMF but world bank

And so if she misappropriated funds world bank will say Buhari should free her.

Your sense of reasoning is apalling

thanks for the correction, unlike me to make such a flaw, ngozi is a woman of integrity! You can disagree with her economic policies or claim those polices have wasted money but you can't accuse her of theft, which is something the APC has never and will never do despite all the hot air they throw around, and that is why she remains calm and resolute whole other scramble in reaction to the change in government. And lastly, I do not engage in childish and mindless name calling..

kenonze:
U never see something!
Maybe u are born in this indomie generation.
Dont underrate the Peoples Generals.
He fangs are dangerous.
Fighting corruption is his hobby

you think we are still in the umari dikko era? If he wants to fights corruption, he will do it within the limits of the law and not personal wimps and witch hunts.

Most Useless politician in the history of Nigerian politics!! What did he even bring to the administration? To the point he could'nt even deliver his home state where he was governor.

cyril83:
If sidelining women in government would transform and move our nation to a better country, so be it.

We can't continue to diminish or affect our future all in the name of women involvement in politics... It is time we call spade a spade.

you call what spade? What spectacular thing did the men who occupied these posts before these women do?

luvmijeje:
What kind of sexist remark is this? is Angela Merkel not a woman? Is Hillary Clinton not a woman? Is GEJ a woman?

Let's stop all this foolish generalisation.

leave the cave man! His policy towards woman is that they should be illetraite, barefooted, pregnant and in the kitchen.

This is one thing ngozi okonjo iweala will never do! Ones may 29th comes, she'll just jet back to new York and the IMF will welcome their illustrious daughter with open hands! The buhari administration cannot do anything against such a woman with international pedigree.

The idiot obasanjo calling for corruption to be fought allocated most of this wells, tomorrow some airhead nairalanders will come and hail him and we wonder shy this country is in the gutter!

Well, it's time for tinibu's own oil well, just by being godfather of lagos politics, look at the amount of illegal buisness he has been able to scoop up, he was smiling to the bank. Now as godfather of national politics he will be smiling to the central bank.

Jumia is destroying their buisness with all these stories making the rounds and people are connecting with the stories because it has also happened to them or they know someone it happened to, my sister also bought a blackberry Z10 from Jumia and less than a month, it crashed for no reason and can't be repaired, she called Jumia and they said her warranty period has elapsed...i have a z10 I bought before hers and it is still going strong. shame if them, never done buisness with them and never will...

Shameful! One is not impressed.