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mercylicious:
i bought it for 1400 on friday. Thank God i don complete plastering dt soakaway, i for cry for this new price.

I dont know if this increase in price has anything to do with the festivities. I sent my supervisor to buy roofing sheet this morning and the price of alumunium span increased by 100 naira for each lenght.This increase just messed up the quote i was given previously. He advised that we should wait till after the festivity. i just hope its d festivity and not the increase in lending rate that is affecting these prices.

I advice you buy what you can now even if its half the quantity

Why him keep gp tank for parlor na ?

Has BBM finally improved with the latest update ?

By Abiodun Alade, @biodunpen

National leader of the All Progressives Congress and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has denied allegations raised by online journal, Sahara Reporters in its report titled: “Threat of perjury trial: How Jonathan Blackmailed Bola Tinubu before 2011 Presidential election”, threatening legal action if the publishers fail to issue a retraction.

Tinubu Media Organisation has also confirmed his interest in the Vice President slot of his party.

Tinubusahara TinubusaharaA human rights lawyer and activist, Olatunji Abayomi, has demanded a retraction arguing that the report is not only false, but defamatory.

“We demand a statement acknowledging your error of trying to damage our client’s reputation as well as a statement regretting the same.

“Please this matter must be attended to immediately otherwise you run the risk of multiple civil suits all over the world in defence of our client, “Abayomi wrote.

The lawyer said the report attempted to defame Tinubu’s reputation by spreading old, utterly false gossip in hope of wrongly destroying his prospects, adding that there was no charge at the Federal High Court numbered FHC/ABJ/CR/04/2011, nor was Tinubu tried or convicted.

Abayomi noted that the United States Embassy, in its February 4, 2003 response to an inquiry by the Inspector-General of Police, stated that there is “no criminal arrest, records, wants or warrants for Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”

“If you had checked readily available records, you would have found that he travels periodically to the United States. Had he been engaged in criminal wrongdoing, he would have been ineligible for entry into that country,” Abayomi wrote.

The said story generated reactions on the social media, as the Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri, urged Tinubu to come clean on the issue.

In a related development, Senator Bola Tinubu has confirmed his interest in the vice presidential ticket of the APC, stating that governance had little to do with religion, region or rumour but more with vision and competence. This was disclosed in a statement by his media aide, Sunday Dare.

Mr. Dare rubbished objection to Tinubu involvement in the race based on his same religion with Buhari, his alleged involvement in drug-trafficking and alleged tainted academic achievements.

Full text of the statement:

Season Of the Wrong Knives-Sahara Reporters Mis-Reports

Tinubu-newThe unfolding smear campaign against former Lagos governor and leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu is no surprise. It had been in the works for years since the Jonathan led government realized that Tinubu commanded a powerful political followership. The successful merger and birth of the APC posed the most potent threat to the PDP and Tinubu an architect of the merger has become a marked man.

The thought of a Buhari-Tinubu ticket confounds the PDP hierarchy and their crisis-battered president. That Tinubu might be nominated as General Buhari’s running mate also incenses the small element within the APC who joined the party not for its progressive vision but to exploit its platform to press forward their vision of themselves. Having failed at halting General Buhari’s bid, the PDP disinformation machine has thrown itself into overdrive trying to stymie the selection of Tinubu. Sadly, some elements within the APC – elevating their personal ambition over party and national interests — have lent themselves to this endeavor.

During the Nazi takeover of Germany, madman Adolf Hitler became jealous of those within his own party who showed independent thought and who would not allow themselves to be bent just so he could satisfy his megalomania. Outraged, he engineered a purge executing the lot of them. This bloody scheme became known as the “night of the long knives.” In Nigeria, we have entered the “season of the wrong knives.”

The recent report on one of the online news websites on the allegations bordering on his academic qualification is not new. What is new is how desperate they have become to stir up a new controversy using an old lie. In the past these allegations were successfully rebutted. Recent attempt to present them as fresh allegations will not go unchallenged.

The online report, published by Sahara Reporters claims that Tinubu withdrew his support for the ACN in the 2011 election due to blackmail by the president. It is rather odd that this report colors Tinubu as the villain. If the report were true, he would be a victim. President Jonathan and his administration would be guilty of the high crime of extortion. This tiny consideration seemed not to dawn on the authors of this scurrilous piece; so fixated on stabbing Tinubu, they implicate their own boss in wrongdoing. So eager to please their master, Jonathan’s mindless men further ensnare him.

If Tinubu had been scared off in 2011, it would make no sense for him to spearhead the formation of the APC against the same president. If the president had such control over TInubu why didn’t the president use that leverage earlier to scuttle the APC before it gained a strong position in the political space? The story makes no logical sense.

The particular accusations in the story further reveal the malice of mind of those peddling it. They claim Tinubu did not attend Chicago State University. They cite as their evidence a letter from the US Consulate. But if you read the letter carefully, the surname stated is “TinubO” not “TinubU.” If the University did a computer check on that name, the check would come up empty. The culprits likely misspelled the last name so that the name search would reveal nothing. This is clever but immoral; it is a wrong knife.

Meanwhile, Tinubu has genuine documents and pictures showing him as an award-winning student at the school. Nigeria should be proud that one of its own graduated an honor student from an American university over thirty years ago when that was more of a rarity than it is today. Instead, his detractors want to pretend he never set foot on campus.

As late as August 2012, Tinubu visited the university and was given a special reception and a tour by the school’s president. This would not have been done for a stranger. It would have been done for a distinguished alumnus.

After graduation, Tinubu landed jobs with two well established international companies, one the accounting firm Deloitte and Touche and the other, ExxonMobil. Such companies investigate an applicant’s academic background. If he had not attended school, these companies would not have hired him. He would not have excelled in them but he did.

The rumor about drug running is the lowest form of calumny. He has never been arrested, charged or indicted for any drug-related crime. Had any such suspicion existed, the American government would not have granted him political asylum during the Abacha era. Under American law, asylum cannot attach to anyone who has broken or offended that same law.

Moreover, Tinubu travels frequently to the states. This means he has a visa. American law prohibits visa issuance to anyone reasonably suspected of drug dealing, let along being convicted of the same.

If I were Tinubu, I would place a wager with the PDP. He should offer to fly to America if the PDP would also send Mr. Kashamu. Both can fly to Chicago. Then he should bet the PDP who would return to Nigeria first. We all know the answer.

There is a vicious campaign to deter Tinubu from the APC ticket; this campaign is being run from the PDP’s basement. They fear him. They cannot assail his competence and experience. He has been an able senator and governor. They cannot assail his commitment to democracy. He has personally sacrificed more for democracy than all the PDP hierarchy combined. They fear his ability to campaign, to get out the vote and to protect that vote, especially in the southwest because they know that is the pivotal region where the election will likely be won or lost.

These assailants desperately try to scuttle Tinubu’s potential candidacy. In that the truth offers them no solace, they resort to lies. They seek to ambush the man under cover of innuendo and untruth. But their aim is off and their knives are wrong. In the end, what they use to injure him will turn to point against them. Such is the outcome when one engages in malice.

Thus, they seek to prevent a person who may be controversial yet he is perhaps Nigeria’s most able and versatile politician, strategist and policy maker. For perhaps the most gifted politician of his time not to seek national office is a luxury a nation in this dire circumstance can ill afford. In the end, governance has little to do with religion, region or rumor. It has to do with vision and competence. The wrong knives will never be able to cut that truth.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/sahara-reporters-tinubu-threatens-legal-action-wants-to-become-buharis-running-mate/

major466:
The funny thing about "Ameachi Fiasco" is that, despite spending huge sums of money (Sadly Rivers Wealth) to finance APC and it's campaign department, the top leaders of the party are still wary of him. Wary not because he didn't do a good job. But are wary of him because of his antecedents. If a person like Rotimi Ameachi could be used to fight against his own brothers and sisters in the South South, what will happen if he decides to rebel against them?

they're more concerned about his careless mouth

The air conditioner

APC people said the killings were justified.

silversheep:
.Pls vote for my baby OLAOLUWA CALEB ADEDEJI as the next Pz cussons baby of the year. Please make it happen for him by 1) clicking on the link below .. Cussons Baby Moments
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you have a lovely kid, I just had to cast my vote for him

ISpiksDaTroof:
Shut up, you hypocrite! When he went at it alone without the "corrupt" individuals how many of you voted him?

so the corruption should be condoned now because he is your candidate ? Smh

Adminisher:
Mark will go before xmas but it is GEJ they want.

I don't care who goes or stays, they should just reduce their crazy pay by at least 70%

They should as a matter of urgent national importance reduce their stupendous take home pays

mikolo80:
ahn ahn, you no fit answer yes or no ni?

whatever dude, I don't like murderers and those who condone murder

mikolo80:
do you still beat ur wife;yes or no

pathetic

Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.











And what you can do

PhockPhockMan:
You can do better this, your crying general will cry again.

I've already ordered a box of perfumed ladies hankies for him to use after the elections

mikolo80:
we don't rig in my house and we are not stupid enough to do it where we are not in the majority

I asked a Yes or No question please don't beat around it

mikolo80:
what if they were caught rigging

if your brother or sister was caught rigging during an election, would you support people who want to kill or have already killed them ? Talk true o

CPC agents went round police stations bailing out those that were arrested during the mayhem. We know the real blood suckers in this country

University admission at the age of 14 . By the way, that signboard looks beautiful, who designed it ?

$150,000 on overdrive

Oluku girl

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So Amaechi flew in a "war chest" for Atiku ? Not surprising sha, he has been doing the dirty work since the days of Peter Odili

so Idumuose was right all along ? CHAI !!!

Hamza al Mustapha is the greatest leader Nigeria will ever have if allowed to rule us.

azzima:
Obasanjo decimated our foreign debts to single digit number by using his experience and personality to lobby for debt waiver from our foreign creditors. He was already a respected personality before he became prevident. Remember he was Nigeria's representative to the United Nation(talking about pedigree unlike the Otuoke Zoologist). He also increased our foreign reserve to very high numbers(close to 50 billion Dollars) when he left office. Today under Jonathan, our foreign reserve is in single digit from almost 50billion??. These are how you judge an economy NOT about building bridges and refurbishing airport( which is more like a way to siphon money).can you please tell this unofficial Jonathan spokesman??

hmmmmm ..."Today under Jonathan, our foreign reserve is in single digit from almost 50billion??....." EASY bro

Wack battery life

E K Clark should stop making noise and write his own book/memoirs. Obasanjo is his age mate and has written his own

The way Obj slept with his son's wife

UjSizzle:
Okay, thanks

ure welcome, mention it