You didn't seem to have gone thru the market properly before going into it, what's keeping your competitors in the market is the sports, most especially the premiership, if you want to get thru to use give us some football.

davidonyema@yma:



when you mixed up issues like this, it becomes difficult to objectively scrutinise. This particular case did not involve the print media house in Lagos/Ibadan expressway attempting conspiracy to propagate propaganda or dishing out unbalanced biased reporting

This was from an unknown source and yet the government took it serious, if it was in Nigeria the minister would have claimed it was her detractors that planted it and the voice was manipulated to sound like her own, that's when people will start knowing Adobe premier can be used to distort the truth, if a news media in Lagos Ibadan expressway was on some propaganda was the evidence cooked up ?

Lol for those of you that think marriage is compulsory did you also notice that Paul never got married ? And what about catholic priests ? Come on please people snap out of it, shey na only synagogue dey conduct deliverance ? There has been churches conducting deliverance before synagogue and we never saw a big push for star actors like the one we are noticing from synagogue well for all of you that are there already may your wished be met, God is the ultimate find him and your eyes are opened not human worship that we encounter this days.

securi: Amaechi is just busy wasting rivers state money anyhow. The roads in ph are in sorry states, we pay heavy tax everymonth&he's busy dashing out what is meant to provide amenities to tax payers to some useless miscreants called NANS Leaders, former Speakers of House of Assemblie&others. God dey o!

Taaa see yourself which roads are in a sorry state ? guy go and follow your dumbo chop money okay ? this present NANS president is a big joke a tool in the hands of Jonathan.

lol wonders shall never end, the other people that have been delivered what has happened to them ? can they just please stop disturbing people ?

ifyalways: Baby steps but commendable.

I hope they'll still be existing in 2015. The problem with many of such NGOs is continuity. . . Dunno if its the Nigerian terrain that's unfavorable or the love for the cause(losing the plot) that waxes cold?

I also wish you guys can also look into child violence too. (house helps, foster kids, orphans with aunts, child witch hunting etc)

Not an easy one, may God give una strenght and grace.

The Wellbeing Foundation has been in existence even before 2003 I suggest you go to our website and know more about the organisation we are partnering the United Nations foundation on the Every Child Every Woman initiative, so with that you will realize its a growing institution and soon we will stop being known as a Toyin Saraki's Foundation but a foundation that can stand on its own.

Check us out on www.wellbeingfoundationnig.org or www.wbfafrica.org

thanks for the comments

Hi Y'all,

I work for an NGO in Nigeria and recently we did a video that spoke against domestic violence and would want my fellow nairalanders to help spread the word and the message to more people please you can share the videos to others as well as they are going to do a lot of good to our society.

thanks

An introduction to The wellbeing Foundation Nigeria-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF3rtjF0rGQ&feature=plcp


Voices From Nigeria In Support Of "Reducing Domestic Violence"-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFqv8Azlsjc&feature=plcp

Every feed back will be appreciated.

thanks again

Has anyone really seen her designs ? Think they are wonderful and lovely, the babe's doing a great job.

this is not a clear cut prophesy jor, everyone can do that and deny it the next day.

Re: Explaining Islamic banking & Finance
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The evils done by compounded interest on our economy especially from the irresoluteness of our foreign borrowings over the years, and we kept lavishing our oil earns on is why i shield tears, if it was obantala that will give us the best tune as to banking let it be called-there's no need rebranding the moon as to calling it big lantern, a moon is a moon, and i'm sure that exactly is your only problem with the awesome Islamic Banking,

I'm a professional and i'm terribly conversant with what financing is all about,

Consider-a situation where one would borrow money and never be able to repay  till death comes, imagine



Like you most have seen in the article I posted, We Nigerians do not have a problem with Non interest Banking, the issue is  the laws that govern it, there are secular laws that govern non interest banking, it most not be under the Islamic Law and that is precisely why we Nigerian Christians are against it, the FG or the Central bank can give anyone a license and the person can decide who they want to give the loan to either a muslim based bank or just anyone

Got this from somewhere, and I think it explains the anger and all that is wrong with the Islamic Banking proclamation in Nigeria.

http://saharareporters.com/article/chief-imam-central-bank-nigeria-part-ii

Like Sani Yerima, the former Zamfara State Governor, like Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Governor of Central Bank.

Sharia Law has not just been a part of the Nigerian law, it is also constitutionally guaranteed. However when mischief maker like Sani Yerima of Zamfara decided to launch his own “political Sharia” as an instrument of political vendetta and for his own political relevance and upgrade against the then new administration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo all hell was let loose. What iwas new that Sani Yerima offered to the Nigerian Muslims of Zamfara State that was not already in practice long before he became the Governor of the state?, this is the nature of dishonest projects when launched to fish in trouble waters towards selfish ends. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi in defense of Sani Yerima in his article titled: The Shariah Debate: A Muslim Intervention, wrote inter alia:

“It is this attribute of injustice, this tendency to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it that will destabilize Nigeria, and not introduction of Shariah. When archbishops hold press conferences and spread unsubstantiated rumors of amputations it is they, not the Zamfara state government, who threaten the peace. Christians should judge shariah by what the shariah is. The historical church is no yardstick for measuring Islam”

He Sanusi apparently saw nothing wrong with the troubling and shenanigans filled re-introduction of Sharia, he took a swipe at the Catholic Church based on the medieval perception and history of the church, the transformation that the church has undergone over the course of several centuries does not count to him.

Mallam Sanusi wrote “It is the paradox of our times that the greatest defenders of the rights of religious minorities and secularism today in Nigeria are the fathers of the Catholic Church. Secularism as an ideology is antithetical to Christian teachings and papal encyclicals. It grew as a reaction to the ignorance and tyranny of the Catholic Church and is a direct product of the revolution called "enlightenment". That a Catholic archbishop should now be the ideologue for secularism is indeed remarkable”
He also took a swipe at the generality of Christians when he wrote inter alia “Christian leaders have continuously asserted that the Shariah will lead to oppression of non – Muslims. Islamic society has never been known to oppress members of other faiths in the manner that the Christian church, for instance, oppressed Jews and those considered as belonging to heterodox sects”…
“Muslims understand why Christians associate religion with tyranny. That has been the experience with the church. It is also what they read in their own Holy Book, the Bible…”

It should not be a surprise then that Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has chosen Yerima’s model to launch his Shariah banking system in Nigeria.

Like Sharia law, “non-interest banking” (NIB) or “non-interest financial institution” (NIFI) has always been recognized under the Nigerian laws specifically Bank and Other Financial Institutions Act 2004 known as BOFIA.

What is not known to the law is an attachment of a particular religion or any religious undertone for that matter to it. When BOFIA was promulgated in 1991 the law already recognizes non-interest banking, as loss and profit sharing bank which under section 66 its interpretation provision simplicita means “a bank which transacts investment or commercial banking business and maintains profit and loss sharing accounts”

Profit and loss sharing or non-interest banking is the major feature of Islamic Banking, that feature is not only known to Shariah practice or Islamic laws, it is has been a part of the Mosaic law in existence since Biblical days as can be found in the Book of Exodus 22:25, Leviticus 25: 35-37, Deut. 23: 19, Psalm 15: 5 , etc among many Nigerian ethnic groups, it is known as esusu, it is done in a form of general contribution which is loaned out among contributors interest-free on rotational basis, in the contemporary financial system it is known as private equity. Therefore anybody or a body of people whose economic practice, religious belief or traditional orientation falls within this provision and is willing to set up a bank based on that could legally apply for a license from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Jaiz International PLC was incorporated in 2003 when Chief Joseph Sanusi was still in charge at CBN long before Mallam Lamido Sanusi. It was incorporated to take the advantage of this provision using the Islamic law model. In 2004 they got approval in principle with a commitment by the CBN to issue them with a license when they are able to raise the required 25 Billion Naira minimum capital requirement which was introduced by Prof.

Charles Soludo during his banking reformation. The inability of Jaiz International PLC to raise this capital requirement was the only thing that had stood between them and a license to operate non-interest banking based on Islamic model since 2004, five clear years before Lamido Sanusi. How come nobody was protesting?

On Thursday February 3, 2011 as reported in the Vanguard of Friday 4, 2011, Sanusi climbed to the rooftop to proclaim what can be likened to ‘ O ye faithful Moslems of Nigeria, I Sanusi Lamido Sanusi shall grant unto you Islamic bank in Nigeria soon’ Are you kidding me? Islamic banking as always been permitted under the enabling laws for banking in Nigeria, this is known to the practitioners in the industry and one already got an approval in principle 7 years before…what exactly is Sanusi commencing? Just like the political Shariah, there you have your political Islamic banking introduced and championed for personal aggrandizement of a man with savior mentality. A sitting CBN Governor for that matter.



It is pertinent to mention here that attempts are being made by some to reduce this to Christians protesting an introduction of Islamic banks in Nigeria and that whereas they are available in many countries like Bangladesh, Malaysia, South Africa, Egypt, Pakistan etc and even well known Christians dominated countries like United States and Britain. Nothing could be far from the truth. The question we should ask is why was there no protest when Jaiz International PLC was licensed in 2004? The then CBN Governor was professional about it, simply approved them under the existing laws and did not constitute himself as the champion for Islamic banking. But 7 years after the first would-be Islamic bank has been approved, Mallam Sanusi introduced the guidelines for non-interest banking which read in parts that:


“transactions, instruments and contracts under this type of services are non-permissible if they involve: Interest; uncertainty or ambiguity relating to the subject matter, gambling; speculation; unjust enrichment; exploitation/unfair trade practices; Dealings in pork, alcohol, arms and ammunition, pornography and other transactions, products, goods or services which are not compliant with Islamic rules and principles.” “

CBN under the direction of Mallam Sanusi also define Non-Interest Financial Institution (NIFI) to mean:

““a bank or Other Financial Institution (OFI) under the purview of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which transacts banking business, engages in trading, investment and commercial activities as well as the provision of financial products and services in accordance with Shariah principles and rules of Islamic commercial jurisprudence.”

With these guidelines Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is not only deploying the instrumentality of the state to enforce Shariah law, he has singlehandedly while acting like one-man National Assembly and the President disqualified people of other faiths who might want to take the benefit of non-interest banking provision of BOFIA and surreptitiously attempted to legislate Islamic Banking into existence by using guidelines to trump the substantive laws! Is this fraudulent or what?

Sanusi’s guidelines for a provision of law that has no religious coloration was reported to have mentioned Shariah 26 times, he is reported to have proposed CBN Sharia Council, Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions, Islamic Financial Services Board etc. Some reports also had it that he is appointing for himself a Grand Khadi to serve as his adviser on Islamic banking. I believe he forgot to set up same for Obatala worshippers who might be willing to set up their own non-interest financial institutions, with a Babalawo adviser to boot; there you have your Chief Imam of Central Bank of Nigeria.

This is the crux of the matter for some of us. I think it is unreasonable to be against Islamic bank since all it does is to offer Nigerians more options in banking, just like it would have been unreasonable to go against the original Shariah law as entrenched in our constitution since it will only be applicable to Muslims. But like the political Shariah of Yerima that was deployed to abridge the rights of non-Muslims in a country that professes secularism and guarantees the right of every Nigerian to live and practice his faith unmolested. Sanusi’s Shariah banking is designed and deployed to hijack and abridge the rights of other Nigerians to benefit from the non-interest banking provision of BOFIA. I have read people who wrote about the compatibility of these “guidelines” with our Constitution and other laws, to me that is not just the matter, but the right of Mallam Sanusi to constitute himself to a one-man legislature.

The duty of CBN is to license banks under the existing laws, the mode and corporate policy in lending should be left in the hands of the operators with minimal regulation to ensure compliance with the law. If anybody wants strict Islamic Banking institution independent of what is already known to our laws at this point, such person should sponsor a bill to the National Assembly through their representatives. The attempt by Mallam Sanusi to cover up the arrogation of powers to himself by reducing the debate to Christians protesting Islamic Bank, the same way he lambasted Christians for protesting Yerima’s Sharia is to say the least ridiculous.

His hypocrisy stinks to high heavens when he was reported to have recently told Muslims not to join issues with their Christian “brothers” in order not to heat up the polity, I think Sanusi himself heated up the polity with the arrogation of power of life and death over the banking industry to himself and not his audience.

The Central Bank in every country is a conservative establishment. The Governors or by whatever name the man in charge is known they are never heard on political or religious issues. Mallam Lamido Sanusi should quit his grandstanding, quit his playing to the gallery, quit his nose-poking into the messy political terrain and must also operate within the laws of the country. Nigeria’s economy needs healing not noise making.

Ayo Turton is a USA based Lawyer

Hmmmmn I think this is most reasonable post here, can we have the evidence ? is there any evidence that shows a country that uses that system of banking really prospering ? not in States where one assumes the Landlord position and the rest just follow, We really need to think alot, and for you my tears shedding friend are you just looking at it cos its Islamic or genuinely looking at the advantages ?

Okay so we should islamize Nigeria cos of your penny's then ? hmmmn We stand against it, just practice in your states and lets see how it goes

I dont understand why people are talking about Jonathan rigging here, sincerely from the pulse of the people around was that of voting in Jonathan, they had their reasons and they felt Jonathan should be given a chance I personally voted for Ribadu becos I felt he is the only one that can bring in genuine change, but its not all about me, its about the majority, we should just learn to accept things as they come

Awwwwsh is it not Kelly Handsome we talking here ? He can do anything for publicity, now when last did anyone of you heard the name around you ? But you've seen it now and even talking about it, then aim achieved and now unto the next, he needs controversies to be remembered.

Hmmmmn I had rather him not take that position as it will mar his good record.

If you are a follower of political events in this country then this should amaze you, We all have been talking about democracry and we felt the PDP has done pretty bad with the stories of rigging here and there, then a party came and it has a slogan that says democracy for ever, but looking at the fall out of their recently concluded primaries one would wonder are we in a democratic set up yet ? or we are all still playing to the gallery? please read this story and make your own comments.

ACN State, House of Assembly and National Assembly primaries is a fraud
The primary elections of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, across the country have been marred by violence, intimidation and imposition of candidates, my checks nationwide have shown.
In controversial consensus arrangements, candidates for the April general elections have emerged in some states, most times, against the will of the majority of the electorate.
It was learnt that some popular candidates who enjoyed the support of the electorate were forced to withdraw for endorsed candidates.
Candidates who refused to withdraw were disenfranchised while the endorsed candidates were selected by godfathers instead of being elected by the electorate as it obtains in any democratic process. This has led to protests in many parts of the country.
Former Director General of the Center for Democratic Studies (CDS), Prof.Omo Omoruyi described the House of Assembly and National Assembly primaries of the Edo State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, as a fraud.
In Oyo State, all the governorship aspirants were summoned to a secluded hotel at the Nigerian Breweries area of Ibadan where the leadership simply announced to them that the ACN leadership, particularly, Bisi Akande, the national chairman, had resolved to present Abiola Ajimobi as the consensus candidate for the 2011 governorship election.
The leadership did not stop there. They also came with a list of names of their anointed candidates for all elective posts in the state, and only wanted the congress called to ratify them.
The flames that started the crisis that eventually consumed the Alliance For Democracy have one real live source with multi-dimensional outlets. And the one “real live source” was ignited on January 1999, when the AD had its closed primaries. In what has been referred to as the night of the long knives, a group of 23 “old wise men” simply chose former presidential candidate, Chief Olu Falae, rather than allowing a primary between him and Chief Bola Ige, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice.
The move was the genesis of the disintegration of the Afenifere, a socio-political group and the Alliance for Democracy (AD), as Ige joined the Olusegun Obasanjo-led PDP government after the 1999 presidential election. This move which was condemned by the Afenifere leadership eventually led to the death of Bola Ige.
Bola Tinubu also benefited from the influence of those old men. At the Lagos AD Primaries, Many AD members claimed Funso Williams won at that time, but Chief Ayodele Adebanjo signed the papers for Bola Tinubu as the winner.
Again, today, Funso Williams is no more, brutally assassinated just like Bola Ige. And like Bola Ige, his killers has never been found.
In this year of our Lord 2011, in this 21st century, it would seem that history is repeating itself in Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, a reincarnation of AD.

Lagos State

The Action Congress of Nigeria in Lagos State may be heading for an internal crisis that might go a long way in affecting the fortunes of the party in the April elections. Members of the party are already expressing their opinions about what has been termed the imposition of candidates by a certain ‘group of Power Brokers’.
The crises of the ACN are about the soul of the party and exorcising Bola Tinubu's enormous grip on it.
In Ekiti State, the primaries conducted in Ekiti Central Senatorial district were annulled by the State Chairman of the Party, Mr. Jide Awe because Awe favoured a candidate who lost out and therefore he annulled the elections.
He escaped being lynched by party faithful who invaded the party’s secretariat in Ajilosun Area of Ado Ekiti. The enraged supporters, mostly youths, demanded that the results be validated in the district.
At the primaries held at the Lagos ACN secretariat, Acme Road, Ogba delegates elected the wife of former Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, Ganiu Olawale Solomon, and Gbenga Ashafa, Permanent Secretary, Lands Bureau as candidates to contest election for the Lagos Central, Lagos West and Lagos East Senatorial Districts, respectively, in the April polls.
Mrs Tinubu will fly the banner of the ACN in Lagos Central Senatorial District; Ashafa in Lagos East and GOS, Lagos West Senatorial District.
In several venue for the primary, there was tension as the atmosphere was very rowdy. Many of the ACN members openly complained of imposition of candidates and vowed to protest against it.
According to Alhaja Kafilat Sholaja from Epe constituency, “I don’t know my representative; they just imposed somebody on us. It is bad. This is not democracy at all and we are going to resist it.”
An INEC official at the ACN House of Assembly and National Assembly Primaries discredited the result of the primaries. The official said, “the candidates emerged under questionable circumstances. After you media were asked to leave the election venue, we were equally ordered out while the officers took the ballot boxes into a room. Later they came out with a paper where the results were written and asked us to sign which we refused.
“It took the mercy of security personnel to see us safely to our cars and as I speak, the result sheet is in our office and we have officially written our reports.
“The absence of agents for aspirants which the party did not allow was the first indication that all is not well with the election,” he added.
Accorsing to Seun Kolade, “Whatever criticisms we have about PDP primaries, and there's so much to criticise, including massive bribes behind the scenes, the one positive thing is the open manner in which votes are being counted. The ACN, which is supposed to be the party of change, is way behind in terms of openness and internal democracy”.

The ACN by the events of the past one week has proven itself to be anti-democratic and utterly draconian; pandering to the rule of one man. According to a Lagosian, "It is an insult on the citizens of Lagos state that Mrs Tinubu or anyone else could be imposed on a constituency by her husband, unopposed”.
He continued; I don't know how anyone would see what's going on in Lagos state politics and not come out disgusted, not just Lagos state citizens.
With the recent escapades of Mr. Tinubu, I'm still at a loss how the Asiwaju has turned Lagos state politics/ACN into his personal fiefdom.
Dr Ola Kassim in his reaction said, The Lagos state ACN is being run like a cult or Mafia. This is not true democracy!"
Apart from the flawed procedures of the ACN primaries and the way and manner, Mrs Tinubu was rubber stamped and imposed as the Senatorial candidate, I believe she is qualified as a bonafide citizen of Nigeria and resident of Lagos state to run for any office in the land regardless of her being married to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
However, Mrs Tinubu`s candidacy has been undermined (tainted and diminished) by the manner in which she secured her Senate ticket for the ACN, notwithstanding the fact that she might in fact be very well qualified for the position she is seeking to occupy.

Anambra State

The situation was the same in ACN Anambra Primary where Dr Chris Ngige, like Chief Bola Tinubu in Lagos State has constituted himself the alpha and Omega.
The result of the Primary held in Anambra South showed that CID Maduabum scored 3169 while Benchuks scored 820 votes in the ACN House of Reps primary. (see full detail of result here), same happened in the Senatorial race where Senator Ikechukwu Obiorah was replaced by Sir Chris Atueqgu despite Senator Obiorah's overwhelming victory,
Dr Chris Ngige , “let out his anti democratic bent by Unilaterally changing the result! He has arbitrarily declared Ben chuks winner with 820 votes over CID with 3,169. Can you beat that? Let’s see how the ACN democratic claims prove true in this saga”, I was told.
When asked why the results were changed, Ngige’s camp defence was that Ben Chuks has been with ACN since 2007 and loyal too. “One cannot jump from PDP to ACN overnight and win the primaries. Besides, the Supreme Court has ruled that a political party has the right to impose a candidate. So there is nothing wrong if ACN via Ngige imposes Ben Chuks”
However, Benchuks having been in the Party since 2007 and whether it is right for someone to jump from PDP or elsewhere into ACN and just win the party primaries "just like that" is irrelevant once they have been accepted as bona fide members of the party and nomination forms sold to them to enable them contest.
Is it justifiable to give Benchuks Victory he didn’t merit simply because he has been a party member since 2007?
When the aggrieved members threatened to take the matter to the ACN National body Ngige said “Tinubu will not tell him what to do in Anambra as nobody interferes with him in Lagos”.
Tinubu is now used as a reference point an aggrieved ACN member lamented, adding; “Must we support an "undemocratic move" by Dr Chris Ngige because he is emotionally attached to Benchuks and Atuegwu? In ACN with their democratic postulations, one would expect that the electorate decision is ultimate in an electoral process? Should we support scoring of cheap political goal in a moral goal post?”
Another place where confusion and violence were recorded last week over the ongoing primaries of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) is Ekiti State, with many people reportedly injured in some parts of the state and two persons clamped into police cell.
The matter took a dangerous dimension when party loyalists who allegedly felt they were being short-changed by the absence of party officials to conduct the primaries resorted to self help

Edo State

The primary elections conducted by Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to elect contestants into state and federal houses of assemblies was also violent in Edo State as three persons were reportedly killed and nine others seriously injured in clashes in various parts of the state.
Reports had it that two of the victims were shot at Udo, Ovia South West local government area while the third person, a woman, was allegedly shot dead and nine others injured at ward 5 in Akoko Edo local government area of the state.
A security source also said a KIA vehicle belonging to the Akoko Edo local government was burnt during the bloody fracas.
Fighting and violent protests erupted and raged among the party faithful, all resulting from disagreements regarding the outcome of the conduct of the primaries.
Election materials were allegedly not supplied to some wards, particularly in Edo Central and Edo North senatorial districts and so the primaries could not hold in those places, and yet results emanated from such wards.
At polling stations where elections took place through the open ballot system, however, it was learnt that some party leaders allegedly colluded with some party members, particularly in Uhunmwode local government area of the state, to skew the primaries in favour of candidates of their choice by shutting out other aspirants who lacked the financial strength to post or maintain agents in their respective constituencies.
It was also gathered that some aspirants provided financial inducements to party members in many parts of the state,with specific incidences occurring in Oredo, where an aspirant gave out N5,000 to each of the party member; and at Eguare Primary School, Ekpoma and Uwenuje Primary School, Irrua, where youths were said to had a free-for-all while scrambling to collect their respective share of the monetary incentive.
The result of the the state and National Assembly primaries, the Edo State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN]election was then announced FORTY- EIGHT hours after its conduct amid frustrations, condemnations and protests by party members who accused the leadership of the party of skewing the results to favour certain aspirants.
The party state ACN publicity secretary, Chief Dan Owegie, did not give any reason for the delay in releasing the result of the primaries.
A university lecturer, Prof Mercy Obamogie, who contested for the Edo South Senatorial ticket, described the actions of the leadership of ACN as despicable, saying that she rejected the announcement of Uzamere as the winner of the primaries in its entirety.
Speaking in similar vein, Edo State Commissioner for Arts and Culture, Hon. Abdul Oroh, who sought for the party’s ticket to represent his Owan people in the House of Representatives, alleged that voters were financially induced and intimidated; saying that the outcome of the primaries was pre-arranged. Oroh lost to Pally Iriase, Secretary to Edo State Government.
Similarly, protesters from Oluku Ward 6 in a letter signed by its chairman, Elder Samuel Obazee, said there were defined irregularities on the part of those who came to conduct the primaries in the ward.
These irregularities prompted former Director General of the Center for Democratic Studies (CDS), Prof.Omo Omoruyi to describe the House of Assembly and National Assembly primaries of the state chapter of the ACN as a fraud, explaining that the exercise was marred due to the alleged ambition of a top official in the state to take over power from Governor Adams Oshiomhole at the end of his tenure.
He alleged that “there is a secret cult going on and if you are not in it you cannot succeed and that is what happened to my Dr Festus Imuetinya, my elder sister’s son whose name disappeared from the ballot paper”.
Omoruyi, who spoke to newsmen, while reacting to the exclusion of his nephew from the list of those contesting for the House of Assembly seat in Orhionmwon Local Government Council, asserted that “ I just read the list of those elected in the ACN Primaries and I want to say that thing is fraudulent.”
In describing his ordeal, Hon Patrick Obahiagbon who lost ACN house of Reps. primaries in Benin City to Rasak Bello Osagie lamented: ''This has made me suffused With Emotional Narcolepsy That The Homo Sapiens In The Metro-political Geographical Enclave of Edo Have Opted For Owanbe-ing Over Legislative Quomodo Dicis. Such A Reckelss Display Of Narcissistic And Flamboyant Hedonisim Is CapableOf Encumbering Our Nascent Democracy With Insidious Repercussive And Cataclymic Exingencies''

Kwara State

In Kwara State, suspected arsonists attacked the home of Pa Rahimi Popoola, father of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chairmanship candidate in Offa, Kwara State, Saheed, destroying property worth several thousands of naira.
The 82-year-old man, along with his equally aged wife, were forced to escape through the window at the back of the house during the incident. The house, main sitting room and some other rooms were burnt during the invasion.

Oyo State

The action of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Oyo state chapter was comical. As members gathered at the Olubadan Stadium, Ibadan, to elect candidates to fly their flag for the state's elective positions in the forthcoming 2011 general elections, Younger members of the party threw decorum to the winds as they shouted down their leaders, who came to conduct the elections.
Earlier, speculations on the attempt to imposed candidates on members by the leaders spread ominous signs across the state.
When candidates visited the party state's secretariat to collect forms, they were turned back on the excuse that the forms were not available yet. That was just a day to the commencement of the screening exercise for the aspirants.
Later, rather than screen the aspirants and allow them to go and test their popularity on the field, A five-member screening committee, headed by Adeyeye Olatoye told the seven governorship candidates, who came for the exercise, to meet the leadership of the party in Lagos, by 12 noon the following day.
Though, the agenda of the meeting was not announced, it became obvious that it had to do with the rumoured effort of the leadership to pick a candidate among them without going for the primaries.
Finally, all the governorship aspirants were summoned to a secluded hotel at the Nigerian Breweries area of Ibadan.
The leadership summoned them to announce to them that the ACN leadership, particularly, Bisi Akande, the national chairman, had resolved to present Abiola Ajimobi as the consensus candidate for the 2011 governorship election.
The leadership did not stop there. They also came with a list of names of their anointed candidates for all elective posts in the state, and only wanted the congress called to ratify them.
The announcement, understandably, did not go down well with other aspirants, who felt cheated by it.
According to NEXT, Storming out of the hotel, other aspirants, Olufemi Lanlehin, Adesoji Akanbi, Kazeem Adedeji, Ismail Adewusi , Wole Oyemakinde, and Wale Akinboade wore dejected look.
"They have announced Ajimobi. They told us that was the decision of the Chairman. That is after the promises to give all aspirants fair ground to contest. Is this the kind of fairness they had promised us?, asked one of the aspirants.
The disappointment was not limited to the governorship candidates. At the stadium where the list was presented for adoption, members roundly rejected the idea, insisting that they would prefer proper primaries.
Interestingly, the rejection also came from supporters of Ajimobi, who came in large numbers to savour the victory of their leader.
Other governorship aspirants and most of their supporters boycotted the venue of the primaries after being told of the decision of the party leaders.
Already, fears were mounting on the possible consequences of the action on the party's chances in the next election. Some of the aggrieved members were openly announcing their readiness to work against the party and ensure that it loses in the next elections.
A gubernatorial aspirant, Olufemi Lanlehin said that the party was yet to get a candidate for the next governorship election. He said the party's primary election did not comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act and the party's constitution.
An Ibadan ACN Member summarised his position thus: In 2003, The AD failed because it did not recognise loyalty. The AD, before the election, became a conclave of narrow interest. It became impervious to rational reasoning. The AD was turned into a gerontocracy while a few old men were stifling the strength of the youths. Eight ( years on, the ACN has inherited the ugly trait, Let's see how they will win Oyo state, I dey laugh!

Well none of you christ Embassy members have answered my question, we agreed it was not for the money, but I disagree that its for crowd control, cos crowd could be controlled by giving free invitations, we have seen weddings where only people with IV's are allowed to enter, so then why the money ? they have billionaires like that INEC guy .

Guys for me, no explanation is going to make sense, everyone knows that some people that exception to this very day to go to church, what has happened to God directed me to come to this place and from there I got born again? So Christ Embassy has had all the effect that God has her to the world to have as a ministry then ? Now Christ Embassy aka believers world or Maybe its Pastor Chris is not longer interested in making diciples of all nation, he has become too big for that commision, the other ministries he supports should go ahead and make deciples all he is interested in is keeping the ones he has made, because those ones have grown into maturity he can afford to levy them, they are no longer babies in the lord so they can eat the and break the bones of the gospel but the baby christian can go find their own salvation elsewhere, except this is the case then there is no Justification whatsoever for any gate takings in the church, and if that is the case then am sorry for Christ Embassy, you are beggining to lose it, seek God quickly, I rest ma case.

When people talk about control, I have attended free parties that fees were not charged yet the crowd was controlled, what about have people RSVP before the events and give them the invitations for free? or since you know people are going to come from other parishes and you know the capacity your church can accomodate, then allocate seats for those that will register for the watch night service and have the rest watch from the satelite churches? there was no need at all for any gate collection, the church was built from the people's offerings and tithe, and for those saying Pastor Chris gives money to other Ministries, does the money come from Pastor chris' pocket ? is it not from tithes, offerings and maybe thanksgivings and seed faith that he receives from the members of the Church ? Pastor Chris as far as am concern does not have any money that belongs to him, everything he owns belongs to God (that is if he is serving God) and the ministry, and the Ministry is not Pastor chris' but God's so lets stop making room for excuses and accept that he made a mistake.

The gidi homes website only has a few houses listed, and they are at locations one wouldnt wanna go to, need a place @ Ojota, Surulere or Onipan and environs mini flat if they can accept a year then am good.

Na wa for Nairaland, becos this does not talk about something intriguing no one bothered to comment on it.

Well its a touching story, I have read it several times and all the time it get me to near tears.

Its funny the way people respond to issues its been quite a while that this debate have been going on but from what I read there it was never conclusive, it was this same City people that started the talk about the colabor with Kellz and I waited for the song to come out then they said it was not true in one edition of their Magazine they had a picture of Tuface and Kellz and it was explained that the Colabo was done seperately, Kellz did his part and then Tuface finished his own right before the song was released, and they said they heard from an informed source or whatever they called it, So we did not see Kellz Publicly deny Tuface and I wonder where is all the noise coming from? am sure they are going to deny the one with Blige too abi?

Was there any prophesy concerning Nigeria in this tournament from the Prophet?

Heard this song over the radio, and I Loved it, ts great does anyone know about his artist? I wll need ti get the song He featured MI in the song as well.

Hmmm,

Thats funny, but you know for sure whoever is sending the message is taking a step in te right direction.

Guys,

AM not exenorating Yar adua, He has been a bad experience for the country nigeria, We have seen lots of stuff that the guy has done against the Nigerian State, am not a FAN of his or even admire him for once, but when one sees the truth and keep quite because its your enemy, then you are inviting the same thing over your head. We have a situation In Nigeria, yea But we cannot keep quite while someone is Killing People openly when we are in a position to do something, where are the democrats that said he worst Democratic Government is better than the Best Military Junta? can we be reasonable for once here?

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Where was Yar Adua when police masacre the innocent civilian during Boko Haram uprising? That guy Boko Haram was shot at point blank range by Nigeria police. Nigerian are still waiting for the outcome of kangaroo investigation set up by the masterkiller himself. Not that I condone the actions of Boko Haram but what about the rule of law?

That something of that nature happened in Nigeria does not mean Nigeria cannot tell him to stop what he is doing afterall the Boka Harram Leader was not innocent, He was a man that sanctioned the killings of innocent people in Maiduguri and other places if not that the Government came up quickly it would have amounted to a serious crisis in this country.

I wonder why some people are so obsessed with 2face having different kids from different women and we have finally forgotten people like Fela that had so much yet we called him a prophet and also the king sunny ade and many more artiste but to mention a few w