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The Peoples Democratic Party, Bayelsa State chapter, has described the decision of Chief Alex Ekiotenne and his followers to dump the party for the All Progressives Congress, as not only embarrassing, but disgraceful. The PDP said such defection was motivated by greed, stressing that Ekiotenne and his supporters were people who had benefitted immensely from the Seriake Dickson administration in the state. However, the party in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Osom Makbere, described Ekiotenne as a self-centred politician. He stated that Ekiotenne, who is the Publicity Secretary, Bayelsa Peoples Consultative Assembly, had allegedly benefitted so much from the present administration, in terms of award of contracts and appointments of his siblings, relations and close associates. Calling on him to tell Bayelsans the truth and the main reasons for his sudden cross carpeting, the party said his action was being influenced by greed and selfishness. It noted that the self-styled spokesman of BPCA was defecting to the All Progressives Congress because the Governor turned down his request to hire one of his guest houses for a monthly fee of N150m, as was the case during the previous administration in the state. The State Governor, according to the statement, saw the hiring of the said guest house as unnecessary and a waste of the scarce resources of the state and turned it down. It pointed out that it was for this reason that Ekiotenne abandoned the PDP for the APC. The BPCA spokesman had, during a news conference during the week, accused Dickson of poor management of the state’s resources. Ekiotenne who, until the news conference, was Honorary Special Adviser to Dickson, alleged that lack of strategic planning, prioritisation and a result- oriented advisory system had given productivity and sustained performance of Dickson’s administration as serious impairment. He had also alleged that Dickson’s administration had squandered its political capital and that the psyche of the people of the state had broken down irretrievably under the governor. He had stated, “While productivity was expected to rise, there was a steady decline in productivity and good performance of government in almost all sectors, which has inexorably led us to the present state of gloom. “The decline in federal revenue is a universal issue that all states have to grapple with as a result of the drop in oil revenue. But can we justifiably attribute all our woes to the drop in federal allocation? Successive governments of the state got carried away with the fat federal allocations over the years and so did not think of developing the industrial, agricultural and commercial sectors of the economy that would have been able to promote internally generated revenue in leaps and bounds. “Bayelsans believe that if consultations and strategic planning, including prioritisation had been sustained, we would not have found ourselves where we are today.”

TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Nifemi Bamigboye was a very vibrant young lady. Vivacious, she was the toast of her family as the last born. Her father, Mr Oladele Bamigboye (61), really doted on her and had made up his mind to make sure that she got to the peak of her academic career. Her starting point was her admission into The Polytechnic, Ibadan, where she was a Level One National Diploma student in the Department of Business Administration. But the father’s dreams were rudely cut short on May 14, 2015 when a driver of one of the shuttle buses, popularly called Ajumose bus, being run by the Pacesetter Transport Services Limited, crushed her to death at Samonda area, along Sango-UI road, Ibadan. Sunday Tribune learnt that the bus with registration number OYO 14B-73OY was driven by one Ogundele Mukaila in an alleged reckless manner. It was gathered that the driver tried to overtake another vehicle and, in the process, knocked down the girl who was riding on a motorcycle which was on its own lane. As the girl was thrown off the motorcycle, the driver was said to have run over the girl, crushing her head under the big tyres of his vehicle. Nifemi died on the spot, her head broken, with her eyes popped out, even as her brain matter got spattered on the road. Police investigations had revealed that the driver was not duly licensed, thereby not qualified to drive on the public highway. A police report attached to the documents filed in the court by the Bamigboye family’s lawyer also indicated that the accident occurred due to the recklessness and negligence of the driver. As if this was not enough pain for the distraught parents of the deceased, the father of the deceased, Mr Bamigboye, who spoke with Sunday Tribune, lamented that the driver and the company he worked for had not shown any sympathy towards the monumental loss experienced by him and his household. Aside not visiting the family to commiserate with them on the loss before the burial, Mr Bamigboye said that the meetings so far held by the family with the representatives of the company, led, one Adeyemi Oluwakorede Oluwole, who was the General Manager before Governor Ajimobi dissolved his cabinet had not yielded fruits. According to Mr Bamigboye, “after several failed promises, my family members had a meeting with the former General Manager on June 18, 2015, and a representative from the Ministry of Transport at the company’s premises at Eleyele. They told us that they were able to raise N500,000 among themselves and that an insurance company would come in later. He asked us to withdraw the case from court. “We told them we would go and discuss within the family and get back to them. But the family rejected the amount, after it was learnt from impeccable sources that N1.5 million was approved for the family. It is an insult for the transport company to offer N500,000 as compensation for the irreparable loss we have suffered. “While we are not trying to make money from our daughter’s death, we believe that the company’s gesture underrates the emotional and psychological trauma that the action of its driver has caused the Bamigboye family.” Mr Bamigboye said that his health had nosedived since his daughter’s death. Sunday Tribune learnt that the mother of the deceased had to be admitted when she learnt of her daughter’s death. The father was also hospitalised for two weeks after the lady’s burial. He disclosed to Sunday Tribune that he was on admission in the hospital for two weeks due to high blood pressure which refused to abate despite all medications. “I almost died if not that God spared me. I am a tailor but I was preparing for a restful old age through my daughter who was the last of my fruits. I am also disabled in the leg; now the driver has destroyed the future I planned by killing my daughter,” the man lamented in tears. Attempts by Sunday Tribune to speak with the General Manager shortly before the state governor relieved political appointees of their duties were met with rebuff, even as he rained expletives on this writer. When he was approached for his comment, Oluwole said he was not competent to talk as a government official. Further moves to explain why he needed to speak on behalf of the transport company were interrupted by him. Suddenly, he became angry and started using obscene words such as “What the f—k?”, “I don’t care a f—k”, “you are getting on my nerves”. He later dared the writer to “go and write whatever you want to write”, walking away. Lawyers to the Bamigboye family, Crown Solicitors, had written a letter addressed to the General Manager of Pacesetter Transport Service Limited, demanding a sum of N200 million for the Bamigboyes “for the irreparable loss of their daughter, late Miss Nifemi Bamigboye”. “Most disheartening and arrantly callous is the fact that your company has been taking the issue as if it is not a life that is involved,” the letter stated. It further read that the family would not hesitate to put all legal machineries in motion if at the expiration of seven days of the receipt of the letter, the Pacesetter company refused and/or neglected to accede to the demand. The attitude of the company, through its General Manager, has prompted the Bamigboye family to approach the court to assist them to get the compensation for the loss of the young lady. In a writ of summons with suit number I/348/15 and dated July 2, 2015, between Mr Bamigboye Bamidele (claimant) and Pacesetter Transport Services Limited, Oyo State Government and Alhaji Ogundele Mukaila (defendants), Mr Bamigboye is claiming N200 million as “special and general damages for the perpetual loss suffered by the claimant (Mr Bamigboye) and his entire family as a result of the death of his daughter, Miss Nifemi Bamigboye caused by the third defendant’s negligence while in the employment of the first and second defendants.” Among the particulars of negligence stated in the summons were that the third defendant was not validly licensed and not qualified to drive on public highway and he was driving at a speed which was excessive under the circumstances.

MrsChima:
I will curse him and walk away. I will get police involved to start a paper trail.

I know the power of legal system when it comes to domestic violence. It is much sweeter than hitting him back or getting my brothers involved.

from ur words, ti seems ur brothers are gym instructors

Nneka123:
I will just rub my soft cheek look at him deficiency and walk away.

I will deal with him later.

u mean u going to sex starve him?

Nneka123:
I will just rub my soft cheek look at him deficiency and walk away.

I will deal with him later.

u mean deny him of punny?

Nneka123:
I will just rub my soft cheek look at him deficiency and walk away.

I will deal with him later.

u mean deny him of punny?

Nneka123:
I will just rub my soft cheek look at him deficiency and walk away.

I will deal with him later.

u mean deny him of punny?

if my wife slaps me publicly I will try to be as mature as possible, but I may later punish her as there are many ways to punish ladies, but won't disclose any. If she she sincerely apologise I will forgive and put in place measures to make sure it never reoccurs

Jboyossai:
[color=orange]You know what? Will just hug her tight...kiss her fore head and say softly in her ear...''its ok, you still own my heart...lets go home'' ...[/color]

and I hope u will continue d kissing when u get home abi?

If na u wetin u go do? I know d ladies have forgiving heart, they will surely let go

In dis 21st century a gurl don't hv 2 ask a guy out all she have to do is open up, if d guy is nt a slowpoke he will take over, I have dated so many girl and nobody asked anybody out it just started as mere friends

Wicked girl, but wait ooo is dat real

stupor:
Please bro-i have a brother who is in dire need of ICAN study packs for Corporate Governance and ethics.please if there is anyway you can help,I wouldn't mind.Thanks.

I gat d studypack, which state u dey?

I've to say u no get brain, mttchheeeew, stale!!!

coolebux:
He's daft, dumb,diabolical and a dullard

he is simply 4D

coolebux:
He's daft, dumb,diabolical and a dullard

he is simply 4D

A 32-year-old man, Kayode Oke, has been remanded in prison by an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates' Court sitting in Ekiti State, for allegedly attempting to murder » his own blood mother, accusing her of being the witch behind his misfortunes. The prosecutor in the case, Sergeant Bamikole Olasunkanmi, narrated to the court that the accused attempted to hack down » his aged mother with a machete in Igede-Ekiti on June 29, 2015. The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 320 of the Criminal Code, Cap C 16, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012. Chief Magistrate Idowu Ayenimo, who did not take the plea of the accused, ordered him remanded in prison custody and adjourned the case till August 7.

Commissioners of Finance and Accountants
General of the 36 states of the federation on
Tuesday distanced themselves from claims
by the former Minister of Finance, Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, that they were part of the
decision to withdraw and spend $2bn from
Nigeria’s excess crude oil revenue account
last December.
Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, and
his Kaduna State counterpart, Nasir El Rufai,
had, after the National Economic Council
(NEC) meeting in Abuja on Tuesday last
week, accused Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala of
unilaterally approving the withdrawal of
about $2.1 bn from the $4.1 bn left in the
Excess Crude Account (ECA) last November
“without authorization”.
But in a swift reaction, the former Minister
had vehemently rejected the accusation,
describing allegations linking her to the
allegations as “false, malicious and totally
without foundation”.
Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala’s reaction, conveyed
through a statement by her Media Adviser,
Paul Nwabuikwu, said all expenditures from
the ECA “were discussed at meetings of the
Federation Accounts Allocation Committee
(FAAC) attended by finance commissioners
from the 36 states”.
“It is curious that in their desperation to use
the esteemed National Economic Council for
political and personal vendetta, the persons
behind these allegations acted as if the
constitutionally recognized FAAC, a potent
expression of Nigeria’s fiscal federalism,
does not exist,” she said.
But in a stern reaction on Tuesday in Abuja,
members of the FAAC, under the aegis of the
Forum of Commissioners of Finance,
disowned the former minister, describing her
claim as “misleading and far from the fact”.
“It has come to our notice the statement
credited to the former Coordinating Minister
of the Economy and Honorable Minister of
Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that the
Federation Account Allocation Committee
(FAAC) approved the withdrawal from
Excess Crude (Foreign) Account the sum of
Two Billion U.S. Dollar
($2,000,000,000.00),” the commissioners
said.
“This statement is far from the fact and is
misleading,” the statement said.
The FAAC meeting for November 2014 ended in confusion
when the then Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda,
could not explain how the balance in the ECA had dropped
from $4.1 bn at the end of October to $3.1 bn.
Prior to the October FAAC meeting, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala had
told reporters that the balance of the ECA stood at $4.11bn,
while the country’s external reserves rose from $36.6bn in
June to $39.48billion as at October 16.
Regardless, the then Chairman of the Forum of State
Commissioners of Finance and former Ebonyi State
Commissioner of Finance, Timothy Odaah, had denied
knowledge of any decision to withdraw from the account,
insisting that none of its members was aware of the
withdrawal.
“No state knew how the $1 bn difference reported in the
Excess Crude Account balance, between October and
November, came about,” Mr. Odaah told reporters then. “The
discrepancy has been noted for discussion at the next FAAC
meeting. It calls to question how transparent the
management of the excess crude revenues has been.”
Till the end of his tenure, Mr. Odaah, who later claimed
reconciliation was ongoing with the Finance Minister, did
not reveal his findings.
However, several months later, Mr. Oshiomhole stirred the
controversy afresh last week with the allegation that the
former minister was economical with the truth about the
country’s finances.
Mr. Oshiomhole had lambasted Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala over her
claims that Nigerians knew what the three tiers of
government usually collect through the State Finance
Commissioners who usually attend the monthly FAAC
meetings.
The power to take money from the ECA, Mr. Oshiomhole
argued, is vested in the NEC, an institution created by the
constitution, and not State Finance Commissioners, who are
not known by the constitution.
In disowning Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala, the Commissioners’
Forum pointed out that the law setting up FAAC, which
predates the ECA, “cannot approve withdrawal and has not
done so in the past.”
If anything, the Commissioners said, records of FAAC
meetings show that members have always queried the
activities on the ECA, and therefore did not decide any
withdrawal.
Although the Commissioners said they observed the
withdrawal of $2bn from the ECA in December 2014, the
then Minister of State Finance and Chairman of FAAC, Mr.
Yuguda, had explained during plenary that approval came
from former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The withdrawals were to help pay subsidy claims to oil
marketers, who had threatened to stop importing petroleum
products.
“FAAC did not and could not have approved, nor took the
decision to withdraw the sum of Two Billion U.S. Dollar
($2,000,000,000.00) from the Excess Crude Account,” the
Commissioners said.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) are in
advanced talks with former Nigerian international
Sunday Oliseh over taking over as Super Eagles
coach.
The NFF on Saturday, July 4 sacked former
coach » Stephen Keshi over what they called 'lack
of commitment' on the side on the two time African
Nations Cup winner-as a player and as a coach.
NFF technical director Shaibu Amodu and assistant
coach Salisu Yusuf were placed in charge of the
Super Eagles on interim bases » while the search
for the next coach contines.
According to BBC Sports, Oliseh who played for
Juventus and Borussia Dortmund is in advanced
talks with the NFF and will be appointed in a few days
time.
The 40-year-old won 63 caps for Nigeria and
captained the Super Eagles during the 2000 African
Nations Cup.
Oliseh was part of the Nigeria squad that won the
1994 African Nations Cup and the 1996 Gold winning
Dream team in Atalanta.
He also played at the FIFA World Cup in 1994 and
1998 where is scored a memorable log range winner
against Spain in a group match.
Oliseh has been working as a pundit, sport consultant
and FIFA Technical committee member.
Oliseh has little management experience, having
coached only Belgian lower league side Vervietois
between 2008 and 2009.
He does hold the Uefa Pro Licence and in an
interview TEDxEuston said he is qualified to coach
Nigeria.
He however waved off the idea of becoming Super
Eagles coach suggesting that too many troubles come
along with the job.
"So many people have been asking me, 'why don't
you go and coach the Super Eagles? I want to live
long," he said.
"I'm very much qualified [to coach NGA] but I'll
rather share my experience & allow my thoughts &
knowledge reach a vast majority."

A 35-year-old Georgia, USA woman, Tabithia
Grooms, has been arrested and charged for assault
after allegedly beating up her boyfriend because he
refused to have sex with her » , the police in that
country said.
According to investigation, Grooms had asked her
boyfriend for sex early in the morning » but when
she refused, she got mad and left the home for
several hours before coming back in the evening.
When she came back, she descended on the man and
beat him up several times, hitting him on the face,
head and neck before biting his arm.
During the assault, Grooms reportedly confessed
that she had sex with numerous men because he
refused to sleep with her early in the day.
Her boyfriend escaped to the bathroom and called
police and when police arrived, she threatened to
run over one of the officers with a baby carriage.

Are u sure d bus wasn't carrying igbos, jus remembered Akiolu sha

hardbody:
May they do same to your sister and give her N200.

God will punish you if you do not say AMEN.

so u don vex? I'm jus wondering y she collected d money

Shebi dem give her #100, what more does she want? Mtchheeewww :PShebi dem give her #100, what more does she want? Mtchheeewww

Bitches aint loyal

Jollyjoy:
500naira? Is dat too much to give as t.-fare?

hmmmm speaking from experience

Jollyjoy:
evil dear,i have witness such be4. A gal actualy visited a guy house on a first date just to be raped not only by the guy bt with his two frndz, men are pure evil to tink they chased the poor gal out in the cold penniless. Man have an inbuilt wickedness.

chased out penniless huhn? So u expected dem 2 giv her @ least #500

It just depends on self-decipline, love between male and female is normally connected to sexual urge

sheymoni:
Saraki never see anything. His political career is going down just like that of ribadu. How can you ridicule the office of the VP by calling the VP a mere commissioner. A lagos state commissioner is like a governor in kwara

true talk

Being a guy with lot of body milk, out of sympathy I sometimes like some ugly looking bitches pics and even at times tell them some lies

Alikaxon:
There is dis girl I've toasted before but didn't acept, so I moved on but she kept coming closer to me, sending me text nd all that. At these point, I thought she had changed her mind but couldn't say it verbally; So, I now wooed her again, I was surprised that she didn't stil acept, and I am not d type that continues to pester girls around, so I tried to forget totally about her but she is still coming close to me. The whole situation is funny, as in sometimes, she calls me twice a day. Not that we can't be frds if I toasted her nd she didn't acept but am amazed by her, bcox of these, I can't get over her bcox she always makes me think of her. What is she up to?? If she doesn't wana acept me, she shud let me be, so that I can get over her, nd not makin me feel she loves me. Yes! She is making me feel she love me and I don't understand. My brother, na so e be o, I really tire, wetin I go do?

this kind of tin don happen 2 me so many time, d solution is simple. Just play along and pretend u are already dating, try to light up conversation with her and pretend 2convide in her, as time goes on u can introduce touching.....believe me it works like magic

lacasera14:
Romancelanders i need u guys to help me out on this. Okay she said am her bestie but d greenligts that followed suggests she wants more than just a friendship thing. I'll outline the greenlights to help you guys understand better.
#whenever we see she always reminds me of how cute i am
#always saying things like "what of your gf?" shey u refused 2 pick my cals cos of ur gf"
#has promised 2 kiss me severally
#has promised 2 hav sex with me if the opportunity presents itself.
#stares right into my eyes when talking to me
#always hugging me for no reason.
#always telling me how much she loves me but does it jokingly.
So i decided to pop the "do u really love me?" question and i got the shocker "i love u as a friend" am still trying to wrap my head around that answer. With all those greenlights there should be a chemistry na am still marveled. What do i do cos am so in luv with her?

she don already fall 4 u, all u need do is 2 start relating with her as if u are actually dating, nt asking her such silly questions

StarMogul:
WTF!!!!!!

hmmmm, jus wondering where she will start d eating from