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T
his is authoritative, a grand plan is on.
And the primary objectives are to
extend influence, political power and
wealth.
The ploy is to make Folake, wife of
gone very low profile socialite, Tunde
Oshinowo widely known as Teddy
Shine as the Deputy Governor of Oyo
state.
And to achieve this, the promoters of
the agenda are backing former Senate
leader, Teslim Folarin above every
other aspirants, and particularly
former governor Adebayo Alao Akala to
clinch the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) gubernatorial ticket.
This is despite widely held assertions
Akala enjoys more popularity on the
streets.
Sources confirm the main propellers of
the Folake Oshinowo for Oyo Deputy
Governor are husband, Tunde and
Ekiti state helms man, Ayodele Fayose.
Both Fayose and Teddy Shine are long
term friends.
Fayose currently enjoys massive
influence with President Goodluck
Jonathan and within his party
hierarchy based on the manner he is
successfully snuffing out the influence
of All Progressives Congress, the virile
rival political party and major
headache of his PDP.
He is believed to posses the magic
formulae of ‘caging’ the opposition
based on the manner he has reduced
their conducts to the barest minimum
in his Ekiti state.
It is on the strength of this ‘influence’
that based on the urging of Teddy
Shine, the candidature of his wife as
Oyo Deputy Governor is being
propelled by backing the emergence of
Teslim Folarin as PDP Gubernatorial
candidate.
Findings revealed the Fayose/
Oshinowo faction prefer backing
Folarin against Akala based on ‘siding’
with the aspirant that would provide
better room to operate.
Akala is a former deputy governor and
Governor- he knows all the nooks and
crannies to stifle the operation of his
deputy. And he is doesn’t have good
relationship with the Oshinowos,
though he is casual friends with
Governor Fayose.
The favoured aspirant, Teslim Folarin
has good rapport with the Oshinowos.
He is a very good friend of Governor
Fayose and rumoured to have
supported his emergence as consensus
candidate of Ekiti PDP back then. The
former Senate Leaders bond with
Folake was forged better when the
later was a member of the Federal
House of Representatives before her
election was nullified by the court.
Both Folake and Folarin belong to
opposing faction of the state PDP from
Akala.
Insiders further revealed Fayose’s
support and backing by Senate
President, David Mark – another major
factor in national PDP affairs has
virtually handed the Oyo PDP
gubernatorial ticket to
Folarin, making the chances of the
Folake’s emergence as running mate
very strong.
More digs revealed faced with this
looming possibility, more popular
aspirant on the street – former
governor Alao Akala is contemplating
defection.
He is said to be exploring two options,
moving to Labour Party to make an
attempt to achieve his gubernatorial
ambition. Or crossing to the All
Progressives Congress to directly
challenge the emergence of Folarin by
supporting the re election of
incumbent Abiola Ajimobi in return for
a Senatorial ticket.
Informants further revealed these
contemplations are against backdrop
of offers of a Ministerial position or
Senatorial ticket if he stays in the PDP.
However an insider in his camp with
less conviction than when the race for
the PDP ticket began, claims he is still
making a go at winning the ticket with
the assertion ‘ the odds may not favour
him now, but remember in politics
things are dicey round the clock...5
minutes can make a whole lot of
difference’
www.societynowng.com/Tunde-Oshinowo-Lobbies-Ayo-Fayose-To-Use-Influence-With-Presidency-Make-Wife-Folake-Deputy-In-Plot-To-Use-Teslim-Folarin-As-Oyo-

In the face of Pre 1994 Rwandan Genocide,the world stood selfish and unmoved about all red light signs,the world didn't make any attempt to come to the rescue of millions of rewandans that was wipe out of the planet. Factually speaking,all the excuses and sorry speeches that were rendered after the genocide were just mere words that can't healed the minds of those who were affected. Like Boko Haram on going war crimes like the Rwandan Genocide. For the sake of clarity,genocide becomes genocide when a group of persons decided to massacre or wipe out a group of people who are not in support of their ideology. Having known this,the on going war in the North east of Nigeria is not just a war committed by Boko Haram it is a genocide. Like the 1994 genocide in Rwandan,the world never make attempt to stop or atleast firmly put in place measures in which will stop or eliminate the genocide. When a government is weak in defeating a conflict like the Boko Haram activities then there is a need for the UNO to help in quelling such. The response of the UNO now is synonymous to that of the pre 1994 rwanda genocide. The UNO as a world governing body should understand that the Boko Haram activities in Nigeria is no longer a war on Nigeria alone its a war on Human kind. UNO needs to know that 80percent of Nigerians are scared,scared to go to work,scared to go house,scared to party, scared go to school,scared see BREAKING NEWS, scared to hear the words BREAKING NEWS. The UNO should also understand and know that No Place is safe just like the Pre 1994 Rwanda where people obviously know they are scared,the filling station is not safe, churches are not safe,the mosques are not safe.The UNO should also know that the Nigeria Government is obviously weak in quelling its own conflict which ofcourse paved way for the UNO to act and act now,the UNO needs to face reality that the blood of innocent school kids,Nigeria security men and women,market women and men is on the world body and not on Boko haram invaders alone.
The recent activities of the Boko Haram is no longer about Christianity or about the security men and women its about Human kind,the amount of the people killed since 2009.is closing to the amount of people killed by the Genocide. The UNO should stop condemning the activities of these mask men called Boko Haram,why?because all Nigerians are tired of the condemnation and needs UNO to act and act now

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/171138-afcon-2015-super-eagles-can-beat-african-team-nff-vice-president.html




The First Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Seyi Akinkunmi, Thursday said that the Super Eagles has the capacity to beat any African team.

Speaking to PREMIUM TIMES in Abuja, the Football administrator said the Super Eagles have the skills and the means to defeat any African team based on the support the team is getting from the NFF.

“The players that we have, actually, if they put their mind to it, and they get the kind of support we have been giving them, they have the ability to beat any African team,” he said

Mr. Akinkunmi said the internal scuffle within the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, cannot stop Ahmed Musa and Vincent Enyeama from picking up a CAF Awards which they have been nominated for.

“Both men have performed creatively well and their records in Europe have been impressive.”

“We appreciate them and I hope one of them wins, and I urge other players to showcase themselves in a more positive ways than the negative way,” he concluded.

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Shell Explains her side on the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa


The 1995 executions of Ogoni
leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight
Ogonis by Nigeria’s military
government attracted international
condemnation. Although SPDC was
not responsible for those tragic
events, and SPDC - and Shell
International in London – had
attempted to persuade the
government to grant clemency, the
family of Ken Saro-Wiva and others
brought a court case against Shell.
The allegations being made are
false and without merit.
SPDC started operations in Ogoni land
in 1958. The company withdrew in
1993 because of violence against staff
and actions targeting our facilities. At
the time, oil production from Ogoni
land – some 28,000 barrels a day (b/d)
- accounted for a small proportion of
SPDC’s total production in Nigeria of
around 1 million b/d.
The rising agitation coincided with the
activities of the Movement for Survival
of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), which
was campaigning for greater control
over oil and gas resources on their
land, for economic development, and
autonomy over their affairs, (including
cultural, religious and environmental
matters). MOSOP – of which Ken Saro-
Wiwa became president in 1993 - also
alleged that the oil industry was
causing ‘environmental devastation’.
There was ongoing violence and in
May 1994 four prominent Ogoni
leaders were murdered. The
government arrested Ken Saro-Wiwa
for complicity in the crime. The
charges were unrelated to his
criticisms of Shell, which had no
involvement in the case. No member of
Shell staff was on trial, none was
called as a witness, and neither Shell
nor SPDC was mentioned in any of the
charges. On October 31, 1995, Ken
Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogonis
were sentenced to death for inciting
the murder of the four Ogoni leaders.
They were executed on November 10,
1995.
Despite Ken Saro-Wiwa's criticisms of
the company before his arrest, SPDC
publicly said that he had a right to
freely hold and air his views.
During the trial, Shell stated that the
accused had a right to a fair legal
process. After the trial verdict was
announced, the then Chairman of
Shell’s Committee of Managing
Directors, Cor Herkstroter, sent a
personal letter appealing to the Head
of State to show clemency on
humanitarian grounds to Ken Saro-
Wiwa and his co-defendants. To our
deep regret that appeal - and the
appeals made by many others - went
unheard. We were shocked and
saddened by the news that the
executions had been carried out.
www.shell.com.ng/environment-society/ogoni/ken-saro-wiwa.html

Gunmen have abducted Sani Ribadu,
the younger brother of the former
Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,
Nuhu Ribadu.
A brother to Mr. Ribadu, Arabi Ribadu,
informed PREMIUM TIMES that Sani
was abducted in his farm in Yola, the
Adamawa State capital, on Sunday.
“He was abducted by gun wielding
men in his farm along Fufore road at
about 5 p.m. this evening,” he said.
He also said the abductors took away
their victim and abandoned his car.
“Up till this moment, there is no
communication from them,” he said.
Efforts to speak with the police
spokesperson in Adamawa State has
been unsuccessful as his phone was
switched off.
Adamawa is one of the states worst hit
by the Boko Haram insurgency, with
Mubi, the second largest town in the
state, now under the control of the
insurgents.
Details later…
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/170844-breaking-gunmen-abduct-ribadus-brother.html

Nigeria’s Electoral Law should be
amended to allow the increasing
number of Internally Displaced
Persons, IDPs, who have been sacked
from their various communities in
Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states cast
their votes while in refugee camps, a
lawmaker has said.
Muhammed Ndume, who represents
Borno South in the Senate, stated this
while addressing journalists on
Sunday afternoon in Maiduguri.
Mr. Ndume said the hundreds of
thousands of people displaced from
their towns and villages to refugee
camps calls for an alteration of the
Electoral Act to allow them vote.
He said he had concluded plans to
move a motion before the National
Assembly, seeking for an amendment
of the electoral law when the Senate
resumes on Tuesday.
“I am going to clearly advocate for the
amendment of the Electoral Act to
make provision of the internally
displaced persons in most part of
northeast Nigeria to be able to cast
their votes in the 2015 elections,” Mr.
Ndume said.
The senator said he had no doubt that
his proposed amendment of the
Electoral Law would sail through
because it had become a matter of
urgent national importance.
“The justification is that if I am
displaced from Gwoza to Maiduguri or
from Damboa to Maiduguri, and it is
not my fault that it happened, then
government must ensure that my
polling unit too is displaced and
moved to Maiduguri or even to Yola so
that I can exercise my right of
franchise and my vote to can count,”
he said.
“If Nigerians in diaspora has the right,
as it is being advocated, to cast their
votes on our general elections, then it
is equally okay for IDPs within Nigeria
to also cast their vote in the same
general election,” he said.
“Though the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC, has not
pronounced that it would not hold
elections in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe
but our people are presently
displaced. That is why I have made up
my mind that this week, I am going to
propose an amendment to the electoral
law to accommodate or recognise the
right of IDPs during a general
election. This is because the electoral
act has not clearly defined how
displaced people like us are going to
vote.”
Mr. Ndume told journalists that “more
than 17,000 persons from Gwoza local
government area of Borno state alone
are currently camping as IDPs in
Maiduguri.”
“There is no way such numbers can be
denied the right to express themselves
about the leadership of this country,”
he said. “If elections are to hold next
year, those of us in the displaced part
of Nigeria believe it is our
constitutional right as citizens to also
cast our votes for who is to represent
us ahead 2015.
“That right cannot be abrogated and
we cannot be disenfranchised. What
brought us into this situation is as a
result of bad leadership and people
must not be denied the chance to
express themselves on the need to
change such a bad leadership.”
He also lamented that despite the
increasing number of the IDPs being
ferried into Maiduguri on a daily basis
as the Boko Haram continued to gain
more towns and villages in their
conquered territories, the federal
government had left Borno State to
shoulder such a national
responsibility.
“We are encouraging (the state)
government not to relent on that effort
of housing the displaced since there is
no clear cut seriousness on the part of
the federal government to bringing
this issue to an end,” he said.
The Borno State Governor, Kashim
Shettima, on Saturday visited about
ten IDP camps – mostly in public
schools. He directed that more schools
be opened to allow for more rooms to
accommodate the hundreds of
displaced persons besieging the state
capital.
The governor had also confirmed that
more than eight local councils within
his state were under the strangle-hold
of the Boko Haram while many others
were being taken over daily by the
insurgents who have caused the death
of over 13,000 people since 2009.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/nnorth-east/170833-nigerians-displaced-by-boko-haram-must-be-allowed-to-vote-senator.html

ME: Heheeee! See me, see trouble.
Never believed this country would one
day go to the dogs. All virtues are
shredded, trashed...
Nigeria: What have we done again? I
know you complain a lot...Mr
Complainant; Mr Know-It- All. What is
it?
Me: Yes...should we really not
apologise to Dr. Ishola Oyenusi and all
his other friends for murdering them?
Nigeria: Murdering who? Who was Dr.
Ishola Oyenusi? Where was his
hospital?
Me: You don’t remember Oyenusi? I
know you are a very forgetful nation.
You can forget anything, including
even your wetin call with your
woman...
Nigeria: Abeg, stop that... just remind
me...who was Oyenusi?
Me: The pioneer robbery kingpin you
killed by firing squad in Lagos in
September 1971...
Nigeria: Oh! That one. He deserved to
die. The wages of sin is death. He got
what he deserved and Nigeria has no
apology to offer.
Me: I know you won’t agree with me
but considering what you do with VIP
criminals today, I wonder why you
would insist that he deserved to die.
Nigeria: Can you remember what he
did? Can you remember that the whole
world was shocked by what he did?
30,000 people watched his execution
live at the Bar Beach in Lagos.
Me: Go on...
Nigeria: He was an armed robber who
stole millions.
Me: Millions? No. He stole 10,000...
Nigeria: Ehn..Just 10,000... Are you
sure of that?
Me: I know you are so forgetful. He
stole 10,000 Nigerian pounds and he
was tied to the stake and shot. Today’s
Nigeria won’t remember all these. I
am sure you can’t even remember
what ‘firing squad’ means.
Nigeria: So, why should we apologise
to Oyenusi?
Me: Why shouldn’t we? Have we got
any iota of reason not to feel guilty for
killing over peanuts? What have we
been doing to his successors who steal
billions?
Nigeria: Ha haa, why would you talk
like that? Has any thief escaped the
wrath of the law since Oyenusi? How
many have been shot, hanged or
jailed? You know we have zero
tolerance for any form of malfeasance .
Me: What is the difference between
what Oyenusi did and what many do
today in the name of politics and
business? Oyenusi snatched his first
car on Herbert Macaulay Road in
Yaba, Lagos, to satisfy his girlfriend
who was broke! He snatched the first
car he saw on the road, killed the
owner and sold it for £200. The
girlfriend got the stuff, she was happy
and the romance continued. Many men
who misbehave today do their thing
either to satisfy the greed of their
voracious wives or to keep their
beautiful concubines. And they go on
with their evil ways, arrogant,
uncontrollable and beyond reproach.
Unlike Oyenusi who said at the point
of death that he was “dying for the
offence (he) committed,” the high and
the mighty today would smile,
pronounce their innocence and dare
the law to come for them.
Nigeria: You are so bitter. But have
you considered going to court to press
charges against these people if you
know them?
Me: Me? Press charges? The one the
government pressed against some
potentates, it either withdrew or
frustrated. Now, you are asking me, an
ordinary dispensable mortal to press
charges against men (and women) who
are used to raping the nation
untouched.
Nigeria: At least we are trying our
best. We have landmark cases to point
to.
Me: Like Abacha’s...?
Nigeria: Thank you. If we could deal
with a whole former Head of State,
who else can escape from our laws?
Me: Who else can escape? His son
nko?
Nigeria: Oh! Is it because of the N446
billion case you have been telling this
your Oyenusi apology tale? They are
not related and you know it. Will you
say the poor young man has not
suffered enough? Should he continue
to suffer all forms of indiginity simply
because he and his siblings were
unfortunate to have lost their father?
If the dark-goggled General were
alive, who among you, his traducers,
would have dared ask him a single
question on his reign? I don’t blame
you, death caused the whole
thing...The dead is always guilty.
Me: You meant to say the poor is
always guilty as charged?
Nigeria: The poor ke? Does the law
discriminate on the basis of whose
purse is fat and whose is not? Your
reasoning is dangerous and we won’t
let you poison the land with it. If you
say because you are poor you could
become Oyenusi, you should be ready
to face what the kingpin faced in
September 1971. You cannot
misbehave, rob, kill and later turn
round to blackmail the system with a
puerile claim that you are being
punished because you are poor...
Me: I’m surprised at your argument. It
is because of your double standard
that the nation is no longer safe.
Today, there is a rat race by everyone
to destroy everyone else. Bombs,
bullets everywhere! My friend, the
born again Christian, would swear the
biblical end time is here.
Nigeria: But insecurity is not just our
exclusive problem. There is madness
everywhere. In Iraq, in Syria, in Egypt,
in Libya, in South Sudan, in Mali.
Me: ...And in Nigeria, terrorists appear
firmly in control of the lever of fear.
Churches and mosques are freezing
our liberty to be our usual selves. We
can no longer drive into premises of
God with our women clutching their
handbags. Worship places are now
turning to fortresses equipped with
bomb detectors and guarded by
soldiers.
Nigeria: The world has simply gone
mad.
Me: Is that your response?
Nigeria: What else should I say? One
day, the problem will simply walk away
as casual as it strolled in. Let us
pray...
Culled from
www.tribune.com.ng/columns/inside/monday-lines/item/9906-shouldn-t-we-apologise-to-dr-oyenusi/9906-shouldn-t-we-apologise-to-dr-oyenusi

Former Vice President and APC
Presidential aspirant, Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar has promised to accept
consensus arrangement ahead of the
Presidential primary election of the
party.
APC presidential aspirants
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar disclosed this
during his mobilization tour to
governor Tanko Al-makura of
Nasarawa state in Lafia on Saturday.
He said he would accept consensus
arrangement, if all APC Presidential
aspirants unanimously agree to adopt
one aspirant ahead of party primaries
slated for December 2, 2014.
“I am not against consensus
arrangement, as long as all APC
presidential aspirants unanimously
adopt one aspirant. I will support any
arrangement, be it consensus or direct
primary election if the process is
transparent.
“I am ready for any of the two options.
Our priority in the party is to take over
powe from PDP in 2015″. Turaki of
Adamawa added.
Governor Tanko al-Makura had earlier
urged Atiku Abubakar and other
presidential aspirants to accept
consensus arrangement to promote
spirit of oneness in the party.
He noted that the arrangement would
prevent the party from post primary
election crisis.
www.africanexaminer.com/apc-primaries-atiku-to-accept-consensus-candidate/

www.m.news24.com/nigeria/MyNews24/Defense-Chief-cannot-protect-his-own-village-from-Boko-Haram-20141104


Boko Haram terrorists swore to pin
their flag atop the house of Nigeria’s
defense Chief, Air Marshal Alex
Badeh. Thursday Boko Haram lived up
to their pledge capturing Vintim, the
defense Chief’s town and violating his
home.
This as the Army Chiefs and President
of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
publicized a preposterous claim of a
ceasefire agreement with the
terrorists, clearly completely being
taken for a ride by the terrorists, the
Office of National Security, the
Minister of defense and whoever else
has been involved in their tactical and
operational decision making.
According to reports on the details of
the sack of the Chief’s town, Boko
Haram was not simply allowed to take
over Vintim; on the contrary, the army
Chiefs positioned way more troops
than ever at Michika to defend Mubi
local government and Vintim. 4500
troops were stationed. But to the
nation’s shame, only 300 Boko Haram
members reportedly sent Badeh’s
4500 Nigerian poorly motivated,
equipment sabotaged and poorly
directed, hungry troops running for
their lives.
It goes without saying: if the defense
Chief cannot defend his own village,
he clearly cannot defend the nation. If
the current leadership continues to be
in charge of the non-war against Boko
Haram, the terrorists will surely soon
overthrow the entire north of Nigeria
local government by local government
and eventually the entire nation.
Also Read: Refugee centres bulge
as thousands flee Adamawa
People in Mubi have narrated,
shockingly, that the Boko Haram
terrorists told them that they are
supported and armed by the Nigerian
government. This is not so much a
surprise as recent revelations by a
Nigeria employed Australian terrorist
negotiator, Stephen Davis implicated
Nigeria’s army Chiefs and an ex-
governor of Borno and tight friend of
the President, Ali Modu Sheriff as top
sponsors of the sect. The Nigerian
government has also been recently
exposed for scandalous and illegal
cash and arms smuggling; these
unregistered, under-the-carpet
operations have been linked to the
arming of terrorists.
Nigeria is desperately begging for a
new strategy on terror. 18 billion US
dollars of budget money over the 6
years of the Jonathan administration,
meant to equip the nation’s army is
largely unaccounted for. The Nigerian
army under the current management is
sabotaged and unable to check this
terror menace. The terrorists are
ruling large chunks of the northeast
and continuing to get stronger daily by
forcefully conscripting youth and
knife-edge and obtaining arms and
ammunition from the government of
Nigeria and the governments of
neighboring Chad and Cameroon. The
absurd and politics motivated decision
by the government to unilaterally
cease fire against the active terrorists
has enabled them to regroup and re-
launch most sophisticated and
coordinated attacks on the defenseless
populace.
It is passed time for Plan B. And as
has been postulated and as is working
in Iraq against ISiS, with Kurd, Shia,
Sunni and all available civilian militia
battling the terrorists, the only
alternative to dealing with a menace
beyond the capacity of the Nigeria’s
40,000 worn-out troops is the
immediate arming and engagement of
the thousands of battle tested and
desperately ready Civilian-JTF,
hunters, ex-soldiers and all other
eager volunteer Nigerians who will
take the battle back to Boko Haram,
free their towns and eliminate the
threat once and for all. There is simply
no other way than with the people…
privatizing the response to terror, so-
to-say (in the terminology this
Presidency understands all too well
and utilizes in earnest only in defense
of its pockets). It is time for an armed
civilian Patriots response to terror. The
army under the current and past army
Chiefs has failed.
Are Nigeria’s humane and sensible
governors, elders, religious leaders
and statesmen going to wait till a
hoped for transition of government
before coming to the aid of the
hundreds of thousands of Nigerians
under Boko Haram rule being
displaced, killed, raped and forcefully
conscripted? Or will they stand-up now
and push for the immediate arming of
a civilian force able to defeat Boko
Haram as urgently as is needed before
the situation gets completely out of
control, which it actually has already?
Where are Nigeria’s leadership
worthy?

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/170789-tambuwal-my-fate-as-house-speaker-in-gods-hand.html



The embattled Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, on
Saturday said his fate as Speaker of
Nigeria’s second lawmaking chamber
is in the hands of God.
He also said his colleagues, who
elected him Speaker, rather than
anyone else, would determine whether
he should continue to lead them or
not.
Since defecting from the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] to the
opposition All Progressives Congress
[APC] on October 28, the PDP and the
Nigeria police have been plotting to
oust him from his position as Speaker.
While the PDP plotted to reconvene
the House from its current
adjournment without Mr. Tambuwal’s
consent, the police withdrew his
security aides, saying since he
defected from the party on whose
platform he was elected into the lower
legislative chamber, he had ceased to
be Speaker.
On November 3, a Federal High Court
sitting in Abuja granted an injunction
stopping lawmakers of the PDP from
reconvening the House of
Representatives from recess.
Ruling on a case brought by APC
lawmakers in the House, who alleged
that PDP lawmakers were planning to
reconvene the House in defiance of its
leadership, Justice Ahmed Ramat
Muhammed ordered PDP legislators
not to take a decision to reconvene the
House at least until November 7 when
the case would be heard.
When the case came up for hearing on
November 7, the judge directed
parties in the case to maintain the
status quo until November 17, the next
hearing date.
The court gave the order as the
Federal Government, through the
Attorney General of the Federation
and Minister of Justice, Mohammed
Adoke, and the Inspector General of
Police, Suleiman Abba, pledged not to
do anything that would undermine the
Office of the Speaker.
But speaking to journalists on
Saturday, Mr. Tambuwal said he had
left the matter of his remaining in
office or otherwise in the hands of God
and his colleagues.
“My fate in the National Assembly is in
the hands of God and my members of
the House of Representative insha
Allah, “ the speaker told reporters
shortly after the North-West zonal
meeting of the APC on Saturday in
Kaduna.
He declined to answer further
questions including that which sought
to know his chances against other
aspirants in the APC vying for the
position of governor in his native
Sokoto State.

A Nigerian church accused of
linking poor discipline to witchcraft
wants to open an independent
school in Kent.
Winners' Chapel International, which
is currently under investigation by the
Charity Commission, wants to open the
school at its Dartford site.
Human rights campaigners and the
National Secular Society are urging
the government to turn down the
school bid.
The church, whose leader Bishop
David Oyedpo was filmed accusing a
woman of being a witch, declined an
interview.
The organisation, which has its
headquarters in Nigeria, is known as
Living Faith Church Worldwide and
also Winners' Chapel International
(WCI).
Bishop Oyedepo, its leader in Nigeria,
has been shown on YouTube slapping
a woman and accusing her of being a
witch.
His son David Oyedepo Junior is the
pastor at WCI's European
headquarters in Dartford, where the
church organisation wants to open
Kingdom Heritage Model School for
children aged four to seven.
But groups including the National
Secular Society (NSS) have raised
concerns amid claims the church links
child "disobedience" to witchcraft -
citing the David Oyedepo Ministries
website, which states "disobedience
is as terrible as witchcraft".
Stephen Evans, from the NSS, said the
Metropolitan Police had investigated
27 cases of child abuse related to
witchcraft this year.
He said: "There's a need to be vigilant
and there's a need to tackle this.
"You don't do this by allowing
organisations that believe in witchcraft
and are associated with witch-hunting
to open in the UK."
The school application is being
considered by the government
The Charity Commission confirmed
concerns raised about Winners'
Chapel International included
conflicts of interest and the charity's
financial management.
In 2011, Bishop Oyedepo's fortune
was estimated at $150m (£94m).
Nigeria 'different context'
Human rights activist and Nigerian
Humanist Movement founder Leo Igwe
said the church obtained money from
its members using what it called a
prosperity-in-gospel narrative.
He said: "They make this money using
this narrative and then they use it to
establish business, universities,
schools."
The Evangelical Alliance, which
represents the UK's evangelical
Christians, said both church and
school should be supported.
Spokesman Yemi Adedeji said: "The
context of what happens in Nigeria
and what happens here is very
different."
"Most parents want their children to
go to a faith-based school because of
moral issues and I think we must
salute that."
The Department for Education (DfE)
said it had received an application and
was aware of concerns.
A spokeswoman said: "All independent
schools must meet stringent standards
before they are registered. These
include tough rules on welfare and
safeguarding.
"Police intelligence and criminal
record checks are also carried out on
the proprietor of the school, and any
links to organisations which suggest
the school might not meet the
standards are investigated."
www.m.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-29937091

It is a situation many of us have
been in. You send an important
message on WhatsApp and then
eagerly wait for a reply.
One little tick appears to your
message. Then two. Then nothing.
Your heart sinks.
The important message has been
ignored - or has it?
Up until now many users incorrectly
thought the double check indicated a
message had been seen.
Actually it meant that a message had
been received by the handset, not its
human owner.
However, WhatsApp's official website
has confirmed the messaging service
has a new feature, so you'll know
when someone has definitely read your
message.
We introduce to you, the double blue
tick!
If a group of people are chatting, the
two blue ticks will appear when
everyone in the group has read the
message.
Two grey check marks will show up
when everyone has received the
message.
You can also find out the time a
message was delivered and read by
pressing the message with the double
tick - then holding it for a couple of
seconds, before selecting "info".
Other messaging services already have
similar types of notifications to show
when someone has seen a message,
like Facebook.
In 2013, instant messaging apps like
Apple's iMessenger, WeChat and Viber
overtook the traditional SMS text
message for the first time.
Research company Informer found
almost 19 billion messages were sent
on chat apps in 2012, compared to
17.6 million texts.
Newsbeat has contacted WhatsApp for
an official response. But we're still
waiting for the double blue tick...
Source:
www.m.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29933261?ocid=socialflow_facebook

The cost of building many government
houses in Nigeria is far higher than what it
takes to build many universities in the
country with some state houses gulping as
high as nine times more than the cost of
building a university, Saturday PUNCH
investigation has shown.
It was also discovered that in many states
where billions of naira were expended on
building bogus and expansive state houses
for the first families, universities owned
by such state governments were in
terrible conditions.
In addition to this, many programmes run
by these state universities are yet to be
accredited by the National Universities
Commission, the regulatory agency for
universities in Nigeria, due to lack of fund.
To accredit a programme for study in any
university in Nigeria, there are minimum
acceptable standards required by the
NUC. They include availability of adequate
facilities to run the programme as well as
minimum number of staff both academic
and non-academic.
[/media-credit] Delta State University
A former Executive Secretary of the NUC,
Prof Peter Okebukola, said, ‘’The
requirements are essentially facilities and
staff. Both need money to put in place.
However, in the case of staff, a long-term
investment is needed to procure quality
staff.’’
Depending on the number of programmes
to be accredited, accreditation of courses,
according to him, could gulp between
N1.8bn and N2.7bn with science-based
courses gulping more money than non-
science based courses.
But Saturday PUNCH investigations
showed that some states that could hardly
afford to spend as low as N800m on
accreditation in their universities, spent
billions of naira to build state houses for
their families.
New Bayelsa governor’s
office
New Bayelsa governor’s office
In Bayelsa State for instance, a
Government House Complex named “The
Glory Land Castle” gulped at least N24bn.
The edifice, located in the heart of
Yenagoa, the state capital, was initiated by
former governors Diepreye
Alamieyeseigha and Timipre Sylva.
The same state has begun the construction
of a new Governor’s Office project at
Government House, Yenagoa, at a cost of
N3.8bn according to the state
Commissioner for Works and
Infrastructure, Mr. Lawrence
Ewhrudjakpo.
Justifying the cost of the project, he
described the impressive edifice as one of
the best in Nigeria and West Africa with a
captivating aesthetic ambience.
Paradoxically, there is high level of
infrastructural decay at the Niger Delta
University being run by the state
government.
The Chairman, Academic Staff Union of
Universities, Niger Delta University
branch, Dr. Tuboukiye Sese, told one of
our correspondents on the telephone
during the week that lack of infrastructure
had been the major problem of the
university.
Sese said, “Honestly, the state of
infrastructure at NDU is nothing to write
home about. Successive administrations in
the state have been neglecting the school.
“When the incumbent governor, Seriake
Dickson, paid a visit to the university
recently, he saw things for himself. The
structures in the permanent site of the
institution are those provided by
TETFUND (Tertiary Education Trust
Fund). The governor then awarded
contract worth N1.2bn. Unfortunately, up
till now, nothing has been done.
[/media-credit] A lecture room in
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
“In the university, internal roads are non-
existent, office space is a sad development
and student hostels are in poor state.”
He lamented that due to absence of staff
quarters, academic and non-academic
workers alike operate from Yenagoa, the
state capital, a journey of close to one
hour.
Though he could not be specific on the
number of programmes in the university
that are yet to be accredited, he recalled
that many of the university’s programmes
were not accredited during the last
accreditation exercise.
He said, “We lost quite a number of our
programmes during accreditation. This
development is giving us cause for
concern. As it is, many lecturers risk
losing their jobs because of the
development as students will not want to
go to a school where most of their
programmes are not accredited.
“The state government should help us in
this direction. The university’s
management is running round the clock
and using its initiative to ensure the de-
accredited courses are accredited.”
In the same vein, the Kaduna State
Government has just completed a N9.6bn
new Kaduna Government House/ Office
Complex that was recently inaugurated by
President Goodluck Jonathan. The state
Governor, Alhaji mukhtar Ramalan Yero,
said the project was executed in six
phases.
But shortly after the inauguration,
medical students of Kaduna State
University stormed the street to protest
the non-accreditation of the institution’s
medical courses by the NUC. They also
protested poor conditions at the Barau
Dikko Specialist Hospital, which is
supposed to be the university’s teaching
hospital.
Akwa Ibom State
Governor’s office
Akwa Ibom State Governor’s office
The protesting students lamented that the
Faculty of Medicine started since
2008/09 academic session and none of
the students had gone beyond 300 levels.
According to them, the hospital’s ICU/
dialysis centre has been abandoned; the
pathology laboratory is not supplied with
equipment; and all other works in various
departments are moving at a very slow
pace.
The spokesperson for the Medical
Students Association, Hassan Abu, who
called on the state government to address
the problem urgently, said a set of medical
students had been transferred to Uganda
to complete their studies due to
inadequate facility at the Barau Dikko
Specialist Hospital.
The story is similar in Akwa Ibom State
where the government constructed a State
House with a sum of N16bn and a Banquet
Hall with 500 seating capacity with the
sum of N18bn. In other words, N34bn was
spent on constructing a state house and
banquet hall, according to the state
Commissioner for Special Duties, Mr.
Enobong Idem.
Saturday PUNCH investigations showed
that the state government had not been
funding the Akwa Ibom State University
adequately.
Akwa Ibom Govt House, Uyo
It was learnt that the state government
only released N1.5bn for construction
projects, expansion and renovation of
academic blocks, including the acquisition
of laboratory equipment in the university.
The government was said to have set up a
task force headed by the Commissioner
for Education, Prof Atim Antai, to execute
the projects and guarantee their timely
completion.
The NUC between July and August
accredited only 11 courses in the
institution’s Faculty of Natural and
Applied Sciences. Some of the courses are
Physics, Mathematics, Statistics,
Chemistry, Computer Science, and
Geology. Others are Marine Biology,
Biotechnology, Microbiology, Botany and
Zoology.
Apart from the Faculty of Natural and
Applied Sciences, the university also runs
courses in other faculties like Business
Administration, Arts, and Education,
among others. But none of these other
courses which are over 40 have been
accredited.
While Delta State Governor, Dr.
Emmanuel Uduaghan, in 2012 said his
administration would spend N6bn on the
building of a new Government House,
Ekiti State former governor Kayode
Fayemi borrowed N3.3bn to build a state
house.
Both governors justified the huge
investment in building the state houses on
the need to build befitting edifices for
their states. Uduaghan had said, “The
current Government House in Asaba has
always been a temporary arrangement,
not a permanent feature. But we cannot
continue to live in a temporary
accommodation. We have to do the right
thing and do it well.’’
But it was learnt that as of the time
Fayemi spent N3.3bn on the state house,
the state university was in terrible
condition.
According to the Student Union
Government President of Ekiti State
University, Babatope Ibitola, the
institution lacks basic laboratory
equipment. He said, “We still lack lecture
theatres because the available ones are
not sufficient. Our core sciences lack
laboratory apparatus except the College of
Medicine which is well equipped.” He
appealed to the state government to
hasten the accreditation process of the
college of medicine.
New Kaduna Govt house
Investigations by Saturday PUNCH also
showed that while it was convenient for
states to budget billions of naira to build
state houses, governments did not make
such bogus budgetary allocations towards
establishment of new universities.
For instance, the Federal Government
provided just N2bn, about a quarter of
what should ordinarily be needed, for the
take-off of each of the nine universities it
established three years ago.
President Goodluck Jonathan approved
N18bn for the nine universities. The sum
was among others to assist them in
developing their campuses as well as
providing administrative blocks, libraries
and Information Communications
Technology centres. The nine federal
universities are located in Jigawa, Katsina,
Gombe, Nasarawa, Kogi, Ebonyi, Bayelsa,
Ekiti and Taraba states.
Providing insight into what it would cost
to establish a new university, the
Registrar, Elizade University, Ilara-
Mokin, Mr. Omololu Adegbenro, said a
minimum of N7bn is required to establish
a standard university in Nigeria.
According to him, one of the NUC’s
demands from promoters of private
universities is that they must have 102
hectares of land. Adegbenro said, “This
alone is expensive to acquire. Even if you
are starting with two faculties, you will
need to construct the faculty buildings.
You need at least two halls of residence
for the students; one for female and one
for male.
“You will also need to build a cafeteria, a
library, administrative complex, banking
halls, road networks and provide
Information Technology facilities, among
others. These are huge projects and that is
why you need a minimum of N7bn to set
up a good private university in Nigeria.
New Ekiti Govt house
“You will also need to start with at least
four professors; the principal officers and
other personnel are also there. The NUC
also requires that you must have at least
N500m in your account before takeoff.”
A former NUC Executive Secretary, Prof.
Peter Okebukola, said though there was
no minimum amount specified in the
commission’s guidelines for setting up a
standard university, there are minimum
facilities and human resources that should
be available before a university is
licensed.
According to him, the minimum amount
to set up a university can be estimated
from the cost of such facilities and
resources. He said the amount was N3bn
in 2003, but it is about N5.5bn now.
He, however, said Covenant University,
Ota, Ogun State; Landmark University,
Omu-Aran, Kwara State; American
University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa
State; and Afe Babalola University had a
cost range of between N7bn and N12bn at
take-off.
The former NUC executive secretary,
however, said it would cost more to
accredit science-based courses than non-
science courses.
He said, “If we have an admixture of the
two which is the typical scenario in most
universities, the cost can range between
N1.8bn and N2.7bn if the programmes are
to be elevated from the denied status.
“In 2004, Kogi State University spent
about N900m to get about 20 of its
programmes re-accredited. In 2014, a
number of universities seeking re-
accreditation for about 20 courses are
asking their proprietors for about
N1.5bn.”
Okebukola, however, blamed the
governors’ preference for luxury at the
expense of investment in education on
members of their state Houses of
Assembly who approved money for giant
Government Houses.
He said, “Education is a potent tool for
fast-paced development and investment in
the sector should never be made
secondary to luxury. No governor will
start using tax payers’ money to build a
giant Government House without
approval by members of his state House
of Assembly who are the representatives
of the people.
“The greater concern is not the governor
who spends the people’s money on a
structure in his state, but those who steal
the money to build giant structures in
Dubai, the United Kingdom, the United
States and South Africa, among others.’’
The Dean, Faculty of Education,
University of Lagos, Prof. (Mrs.) Mopelola
Omoegun, said, “According to the NUC, it
will cost a minimum of N9bn to build a
standard university in the country and I
think it is not fair for governors to spend
almost same amount to build their lodges.
“The state of education in this country will
continue to fall if there is no adequate
funding. We have been talking about this
all the time. What is the root of the falling
standard of education? It is inadequate
funding. There is need for adequate
funding. If our governors will play their
politics right, they have to fund this sector
well even if they have to sacrifice their
comfort for the benefit of all. They should
make it viable.
“Some of the state institutions are the
direct victims of this menace. That is why
it may be difficult to even establish new
higher institutions in such states. To all
the governors, provide facilities and funds,
and we will get the results we want,” she
added.
Also, an Abuja-based lawyer and social
commentator, Mr. Jide Oluyemi, said it
was still unacceptable for a state
government to spend billions of naira on
building one Government House when the
Federal Government gave each of the nine
newly established universities N2bn as
take-off grant.
Additional reports by Kamarudeen
Ogundele, Simon Utebor and Etim
Ekpimah
www.punchng.com/news/govt-houses-costlier-than-nigerian-universities

A pest control firm exterminated 4,400
rats over two days at a state-run hospital
in India with thousands still on the
premises, its chief executive said on
Thursday.
Sanjay Karmakar, head of Laxmi
Fumigation and Pest Control Service Ltd.,
said that Maharaja Yeshwantrao in
Indore, south of Delhi, was still home to
over 10,000 rodents.
However, the complex consists of seven
buildings across about 10 acres.
“We have only tackled a part of the
grounds so far they are riddled with
rodent burrows, at least 1,000 of them.
“Each would have four to eight rodents,
we have not started on the buildings yet,
the pest control firm is baiting the rodents
with different food each day.
“One day, it is peanuts and clarified
butter, another day its roasted chickpeas,
potato cakes and so on.
“If one of a family dies after eating
something, the other rats will not touch
the same food, so we have to keep
changing the menu,” Mr. Karmakar said.
Operation Kayakalp (transformation)
began on October 28 and is scheduled to
run until December 4.
Mr. Karmakar’s company ran a similar
operation at the hospital in 1994 soon
after an outbreak of pneumonic plague in
the neighbouring state of Gujarat.
“We cremated 12,000 rodents at the local
electric crematorium in the presence of
government officials after Kayakalp I in
1994,” Mr. Karmakar said.
However, there was no follow up by the
hospital authorities and the rodents
multiplied again.
Report says the 950-bed hospital is one of
the biggest government-run healthcare
facilities in Madhya Pradesh state.
It includes a medical college and is visited
by over 1,100 outpatients daily.
Officials said that poor refuse disposal
was the main reason for the rat
infestation.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/foreign/170667-4400-rats-killed-in-indian-hospital.html

The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) has announced that
the 2015 presidential election will take
place in February. However, Nigeria’s
ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
and the main opposition party, the All
Progressives Party (APC) has yet to
conduct their primaries -- during which
their presidential candidates will be
nominated and approved to contest the
election.
The PDP, it seems, will nominate
President Goodluck Jonathan; while the
APC will either nominate General
Muhammadu Buhari or former Vice
President Atiku Abubakar. However,
conventional wisdom indicates Buhari will
get the nod. If he does, it would be his
fourth time contesting the presidential
election. But what does Buhari want; and
why does Jonathan think Nigerians want
him?
In the case of Buhari, being a perennial
candidate does not, in itself, disqualify
him. His supporters and admirers believe
that he has the strength, the vigor, the
political sagacity and the vision to be the
president of Nigeria. What’s more, history
is replete with perennial candidates. For
instance, Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the
far-right National Front, has been a
candidate for the French presidency five
times. Ibrahim Lipumba, leader of the
Civic United Front, has contested the
Tanzanian presidency four times and lost.
Same is true of Zambia’s Godfrey Miyanda
who ran four times and lost.
Harold Stassen and Ralph Nader are the
most famous perennial presidential
candidates in U.S. history. Stassen, a
Republican, ran twelve times between
1944 and 2000. And of course, there was
the little known Norman Thomas. History
show that between 1928 and 1948, he ran
for president half-a-dozen times as the
Socialist Party of America candidate.
However, the most successful perennial
candidate of all is Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva.
Luiz Lula da Silva ran unsuccessfully for
the Brazilian presidency in 1989, 1994 and
1998 before winning in 2002 and was
reelected in 2006. He is today considered
a hero and one of the most successful
presidents Brazil has ever had. And so, the
tide could also turn for Buhari. But so far,
Buhari has yet to articulate his vision.
Why does he want to be the president of
Nigeria? Why should the electorate ignore
Jonathan and instead vote for him? What
does he bring to the table? What unique
leadership skills and qualities doe he
possess?
That he is not corrupt – and seen and
believed to be so – may not be enough to
move the country forward. What are his
agenda and how does he intend to
actualize them? And while it is true that
he made some headway as the military
head-of-state (December 31, 1983 –
August 27, 1985), the times are different
now. Has his worldview changed? Is he
now a democrat at heart, and willing and
able to abide by democratic principles?
On the other end of the spectrum is
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. He
has many factors in his favor – least of
which is that he is the incumbent, and has
the advantages of office and the might of
private and public institutions at his call
and beck. But really, why should the
voters reelect Jonathan? What has he
done to improve the lives of the people
and the deteriorating condition of the
country? And while him and his
supporters speak of his ‘transformational
agenda,” what are his real and actual
accomplishments?
How does President Jonathan’s score card
read in the areas of education, health,
public infrastructure and public policy,
security, food, portable water and the
environment? What does his score card
read in terms of fighting corruption and
official malfeasances? In what ways has he
strengthened the nation’s governing
institutions and the rule of law? He
speaks of transforming the country, but
has anything been transformed for good
since he assumed office as the substantive
president in May 2010?
Under Jonathan’s watch, the security
condition of the country has worsened.
And although the Boko Haram menace
was already there when he took office, the
security condition are now intolerable and
out of control. As we said last week, his
“government does not have a coherent and
intelligent plan in place in fighting the
group; second, it lack the political will to
take on a group with moral, political and
financial support in and outside of its
current enclave; third; the military and
the intelligence agencies – perennially
underfunded and poorly trained -- seems
to have underrated the group; fourth, the
Nigerian government seem to lack
widespread international support; fifth,
its approach to combating violent crimes
and terrorism seems to be antiquated; and
finally, the president himself seems to be
equivocating and wavering in his
determination and approach.” So, how
then do you reelect such a president?
Why should Nigerians vote in Buhari?
Why vote in a candidate who has not made
his case, who has not convinced the vast
majority of Nigerians that he is the man
to be entrusted with the Nigerian ship of
state and with all the resources and
responsibilities that come with it? On the
other hand, why reelect President
Jonathan when nothing measurable or
tangible has changed for good for the
country? Perhaps the people need an
alternative to Buhari and Jonathan?
THE SHAME OF A NATION….
According to several news sources,
militant Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has
renamed Mubi as ‘Madinatul Islam,’
meaning the city of Islam. Mubi is in
Adamawa state. This and other recent
incidences confirm what many have been
saying for several months now: that the
Nigerian government is incapable of
dislodging Boko Haram. The group is
getting more audacious and more violent
with the passing of each week. Through it
all, the government seems helpless, and
her responses clearly disorganized.
Although we are dealing with a terrorist
organization; but how can a rag-tag team
overrun the Nigerian Armed Forces? How
was the group able to dislodge properly
constituted authority and then install its
own governing authority? And now that
Mubi has fallen, what other cities and
villages will fall into the hands and control
of Boko Haram? What’s the purpose of
government when it cannot or is unable to
provide safety and security for its
citizens? This is clearly a stain on the
image and integrity of the Nigerian
government. If it cannot protect itself and
its citizens from marauding and
murderous groups, then, perhaps it is
time government move aside.
www.huhuonline.com/index.php/letters/4681-backpage-buhari-s-candidacy-and-jonathan-s-presidency

Oklahoma State Football team forward
Courtney Dike has rejected the $7000
paid to her by the Nigeria Football
Federation for participating at 2014 FIFA
U-20 Women’s World Cup in Canada
saying the honour of playing for the
country was enough reward for her.
The 19-year-old, who is the younger sister
of Super Eagles forward Bright Dike,
represented the country at the
competition where she scored the fastest
goal in the tournament’s history.
NFF Head of Competition Sanusi
Mohammed told Sports Radio, Brila FM,
that the player rejected the outstanding
allowances accrued to her for representing
the country at the 10-day tournament.
Sanusi told Brila FM, “When we called her
mother to confirm the delivery of the
allowances, she declined it and insisted
that the opportunity of playing for Nigeria
was all the reward the family needed.”
Dike’s elder brother, Bright, featured for
Nigeria at the 2013 Confederations Cup in
Brazil but missed the 2014 World Cup by
a foot injury which side-lined him for four
months.
Meanwhile, the head of the Nigeria
Women League board Dilichukwu
Onyedinma has said the player deserves a
national award for her patriotic act.
The Women’s league boss told Football
live, a programme on Brila FM, that what
Dike did was worth emulating by other
players in the country.
Dilichukwu told Football live, “She is a
star and patriotic Nigerian who put
service to her fatherland above money.
The minister is aware and we will push
the act before the NFF so it can inspire
many others.”
She added, “Doing this with the backing of
her parents, Courtney Dike should be
applauded and perhaps celebrated.”

Source
www.punchng.com/news/dike-rejects-7000-world-cup-bonus/

www.ng.supersport.mobi/football/africa-cup-of-nations/news/141027/Caf_outlines_Afcon_qualifying_rules


The Confederation of African Football
(Caf) has set rules for choosing the best
third placed team in the current 2015
African Cup of Nations qualifiers.
According to Caf, the third placed team
with the highest points across qualifying
groups will join the top two from all
groups.
The first two teams in each group will
qualify for next year’s Africa Cup of
Nations that will take place in Morocco.
Caf rules allow the best third placed team
in the seven groups of qualifiers to reach
the finals, but on definite procedures.
If two teams or more are equal in points,
goal difference will be decisive. If goal
difference is the same, the team that
scored more will play in Morocco.
Finally, if two teams are equal in scored
goals, they should play a decider match to
choose the winner.
Egypt are third in Group G with six
points, just one point behind second-
placed Senegal and four away from leaders
Tunisia.
On Sunday, Caf officially informed the
Egyptian Football Association that the
third placed team with the highest points will be chosen.

Which of this our stations go carry the match.

lokito:
Pix or forget the celebration

Done

On this day 2013 at Ilesa Grammer school hall,we had our engagement and I married the most beautiful woman on earth. Odeyele Titilayo Mary.

www.m.goal.com/j/en-ng/news/5430871

The goalkeeper, who is competing for
qualification with Nigeria, is worried
about the deadly virus being passed
on in Morocco and has called on the
competition to be shelved
Oct 24, 2014 07:38:41
Nigeria goalkeeper
Vincent Enyeama has
pleaded with the
Confederation of
African Football (Caf)
to consider cancelling
January's Africa Cup of Nations due to the
risk of Ebola being spread at the
tournament.
The virus has killed thousands of people in
Africa since the outbreak began earlier in
2014 and there are fears that a tournament
involving players, fans and officials
congregating from across the continent
could spark a major health crisis in
Morocco.
Enyeama, whose Super Eagles are likely to
have to win both their remaining matches
to even have a chance of defending their
title in 2015, has called for Caf to start
taking calls for Afcon to be shelved until the
Ebola danger has been reduced.
"I really wish it doesn't happen with all the
people that will be moving around,"
Nigeria's No.1 told reporters after Lille's
0-0 draw with Everton on Thursday in the
Europa League.
"But I'm not Caf. I'm not the one who calls
the shots.
"It's risky for everyone because you go to
Africa and then everyone is hugging you and
shaking you, and what can you do? You're at
risk.
"But if it happens I will play, if we qualify."
Michel Platini has already been slammed by
Caf for suggesting that the organisation
consider alternative options to hosting
Afcon at the start of next year.
The host nation itself had requested
postponement of the finals, but Caf rejected
the north African government's initial
appeal.

The father of Dominic Adesanya, a 23-
year-old man who jumped the White
House fence Wednesday night, said his
son was mentally ill and had been
previously arrested at the White House
gate. Adesanya was hospitalized with dog
bite wounds on his arms, back, chest and
knee, a Secret Service official NBC.
Adesanya’s father, who declined to give
his name, said his son suffers from
paranoia and heard voices. He said his son
was “fussing at the people” and wanted to
talk to President Barack Obama about his
situation. “It’s been hard. It’s hard to be in
your house and not know if the person
you’re living with is trustworthy and to
know they’re mentally disturbed like he
is,” his father said. He said the family had
sought help from the government for
Adesanya’s illnesses but “nobody has
wanted to help us get help for him.”
Adesanya was unarmed when he was
subdued by two police dogs on the White
House lawn on Wednesday. He kicked and
punched the two dogs, Hurricane and
Jordan, who were treated for minor
bruises and cleared to return to work at
the White House. He was charged with
two counts of felony assault on a police
officer, one felony count of making threats
and four misdemeanor counts of resisting
and unlawful entry.
Adesanyo’s actions came hours after a
man went on a shooting spree at Canada’s
Parliament Hill complex in Ottawa. That
man, 32-year-old Michael Zehaf-Bibeau,
shot and killed an honor guard at Canada’s
National War Memorial at point-blank
range before making his way inside the
Parliament building across the street. He
was shot and killed by Kevin Vickers, the
ceremonial sergeant-at-arms at the
building. Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper deemed it a terrorist
attack.
Last month, Omar Gonzalez was able to
hop the White House fence and make it
into the White House with a knife before
being subdued by Secret Service
personnel. He faces weapons charges. The
incident led to the resignation of Secret
Service Director Julia Pierson.

Culled from
www.ibtimes.com/white-house-fence-jumper-dominic-adesanya-mentally-ill-father-says-1711114

President Goodluck Jonathan has finally
announced his interest to contest in the
2015 presidential election, informing
leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) on Thursday that he would get the
nomination form of the party before the
deadline.
The party had said it would not shift the
deadline for the procurement of
nomination forms.
Jonathan's body language over time had
also shown that he was prepared to seek
re-election even though his government is
believed to have carried along with it, a
baggage of various challenges.
To ensure a successful declaration
exercise that is scheduled for between 7th
and 15th November, the President has set
up a Presidential Declaration Committee
headed by Dr. Haliru Bello, a former
Minister of Defence, to prepare the
programme for the declaration.

Source
www.africanexaminer.com/breaking-news-after-uncontested-rumour-jonathan-finally-declarers-to-re-contest/


Or

www.huhuonline.com/index.php/more-news1/4618-jonathan-finally-declares-interest-to-contest-in-2015


Or
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/169994-nigeria-2015-finally-jonathan-announces-bid-for-re-election-names-declaration-committee.html

A fresh crisis is brewing in Nigeria
football circles as a Jos High Court on
Thursday annulled the September 30
elections held in Warri that brought in
Amaju Pinnick and new executives into
the football federation.
The Court ruled that Chris Giwa, who
emerged President in a highly disputed
election process in Abuja, on August 26,
should instead return to the seat of power
in the Glass House.
The latest decision may plunge Nigeria
into fresh crisis even as world football
governing body FIFA had warned that
Nigeria will be suspended in the event
that that any party tampers with the
democratically elected board.
Unless a quick move is made, the Super
Falcons billed to star in the finals of the
Africa Women Championships might be
the first to be hit as a suspension of
Nigeria might see them not playing this
weekend’s finals.
More details later …


Source
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/169984-fresh-crisis-hits-nigeria-football-as-court-sacks-new-nff-board.html

Icon4s:
Yeah I remember that song:
In Nigeria, West Africa
there was something terrible
On d 19th of October when dey killed our journalist....
Mennn, was in primary school then

Btw what was so special abt Dele Giwa sef?

A reputable Journalist,husband and a father.

Sunday October 19, 1986 was like any
other day in the somnolence of Evwreni
countryside. The tall rubber trees that
seemed to form an impregnable fortress
round our dwellings stood where they
were, firm and stolid, but occasionally
swaying to the lulling breeze that usually
blew now and then. The cassava
vegetation, shrubs and tall elephant grass
also must have rustled. It was October,
the season when the sun shines with a
lulling and enchanting caress in the
morning and gradually metamorphoses
into a haunting intensity at noon. We went
about our domestic and farm chores as we
prepared for the new school week. Then,
Evwreni was nature and nature was
Evwreni. The ambience was almost edenic.
But somewhere in Lagos, at 25 Talabi
street Ikeja, the atmosphere was an
agonising contrast with the idyllic
Evwreni scenario. At 25 Talabi Street,
there was wailing, lamentation, grief,
confusion and other indices that the fiends
of hell were visiting. A substantial part of
the house that bore number 25 had been
shattered and charred by a bomb
explosion. A television set, louvers, chairs,
a table, breakfast set and other domestic
appurtenances were blown apart and
charred. In the midst of that midday
Armageddon was also the bruised and
bloodied body of Sumonu Oladele Giwa,
style-named Dele Giwa. In the throes of
indescribable pain, Dele Giwa moaned
agonizingly and sustained the refrain
"they have got me!". Dele Giwa was at
home having a late breakfast with a
colleague, Kayode Soyinka when a
postman brought a parcel addressed to
him. The parcel was delivered to his eldest
son, Billy; then 19 years old. Billy handed
the parcel over to his father. The latter
looked the parcel over and commented
"this must be from the president", because
it bore the seal of the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria. Dele Giwa
tried to open the parcel and lo, it emitted
a deafening and deadly explosion! The
parcel was a letter bomb meant to blow
Dele Giwa out of existence. The bomb
badly lacerated Dele Giwa's body, but he
didn't die immediately. He was rushed to
the hospital and he sustained the
refrain'they have got me!". He gave up the
ghost.
Dele Giwa was, at the time of his death,
the editor-in-chief of Newswatch
magazine, Nigeria's, and probably Africa's,
most prestigious news magazine. The son
of a washerman, Dele Giwa, through dint
of hardwork, grit and courage rose from
obscurity to celebrity. After a chequered
adolescence and early adulthood in
Nigeria, he left for the United States of
America in search of the proverbial
golden fleece. He studied English and
Communication Arts at the University of
Brooklyn and achieved the rainbow tinted
dream when he bagged the Bachelor of
Arts and Master of Arts degrees
respectively. His star shone when he was
employed as a journalist with the
prestigious New York Times and he left
no one in doubt that he was a journalistic
thoroughbred. He soon became a
highflier.
In 1976, he returned to Nigeria on
invitation to work with the Daily Times
group, then Africa's most prestigious
newspaper. He excelled at Daily Times
and by the early 1980s the business mogul
turned politician, Late Bashorun M.K.O.
Abiola invited him to join in starting the
Concord Group of Newspapers. Dele Giwa
edited the Sunday Concord and the paper
became an instant hit. At the Concord,
Dele Giwa's image was larger than life just
as he was gradually becoming a household
name in Nigeria. Soon, disagreement crept
into the relationship between Dele Giwa
and his employer, Bashorun Abiola. He
soon resigned and became part of the
quartet that founded Newswatch the first
news magazine solely owned by
journalists in post-independence Nigeria.
Dele Giwa's journalism career was
exciting and it reads like the stuff of which
fairy tales are made. He was an enchanting
prose stylist and a fearless and committed
investigative journalist. He represented
the best of his chosen profession. Dele
Giwa took on the authorities, his pen
through his column PARALAX SNAP
flayed those twerps who retarded
Nigeria's growth and foisted a regime of
socio-economic inequity on the people. He
was a thorn in the flesh of incompetent
rulers and for that he suffered frequent
harassments including detention by
government. Having known what it was to
be poor, Dele Giwa saw journalism as a
tool for social reformation. Dele Giwa
loved life and lived it to the full even
though his life was cut short at youthful
39. He loved women and wine. He was
also debonair. He loved excellence too.
He, together with Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese
and Yakubu Mohammed took Nigerian
journalism to avant gardist heights and
conferred respectability on the profession.
The emergence of their brainchild
Newswatch revolutionised, repositioned
and redefined Nigerian journalism. The
quartet mentored a generation of intrepid
journalists who are today maestros in
every sense of the word. Dele Giwa loved
journalism which brought him fame and
fortune. He enjoyed the fame and its
attendant connections which made him to
be too close to power. His breathtaking
biography Born to Run written by Dele
Olojede and Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo points
to the fact that Dele Giwa cherished and
prided his romance with men of power; a
factor which made sensitive state secrets
accessible to him. This was his undoing.
The powers that be had thought that Dele
Giwa knew too much, and that was
dangerous. He had to leave and not live to
reveal what he knew.
Dele Giwa's death was by no means
fortuitous. He saw it coming. Days to his
earthshaking exit, he was physically and
psychologically harassed by Nigeria's
topmost security chiefs. They accused him
of gun-running and plotting a socialist
revolution. Dele Giwa had asked his
attorney, Chief Gani Fawehinmi to sue the
security chiefs before death was delivered
to him through the parcel bomb. After
Giwa's death, Fawehinmi was unrelenting.
He pursued the killers of Dele Giwa as far
as to the Oputa Panel in 2000. Unto this
day, the police have not been able to
answer the question that made the
headlines 29 years ago "Who Killed Dele
Giwa?"
Dele Giwa's death signaled Nigeria's
descent into the Hobbessian state of
terror where life was short, nasty and
brutish. Since then there have been scores
and scores of murders whose causes
remained unresolved. But Giwa's spirit is
resilient, it will not die. It lives in poems,
books, essays he wrote and those written
about him as tributes. Dele Giwa shall
never be forgotten. This was the theme of
the madrigal by school pupils at Ugbekpe-
Ekperi, Dele Giwa's native soil and final
resting place 29 years ago. In a tune
reminiscent of "Beast of England" in
George Orwell's Animal Farm the pupils
had sang:
In Nigeria, West Africa
There was once a journalist
On the 19 of October
When they killed our journalist
Dele Giwa, Dele Giwa
Dele Giwa you are gone
Dele Giwa, our journalist
We shall never forget you!
As Written on this day in 2006 by Sunny Awhefeada .

The Ekiti State Government on Saturday
announced the sack of the administrators
of the 35 Local Government Areas in the
state. The 35 local government areas
involved are the original 16 and the 19
Local Council Development Areas,
LCDAs, in the state.
This is contained in a statement signed by
the Chief Press Secretary to the State
Governor, Idowu Adelusi, made available
to News Agency of Nigeria in Ado-Ekiti.
According to the statement, all the 35
council chairmen along with their
secretaries and other members of the
caretaker committees have been relieved
of their appointments.
It stated that Governor Ayo Fayose had
approved the immediate dissolution of all
the councils.
The statement also ordered the
immediate dissolution of all boards of
parastatals, agencies and commissions.
It directed all the affected caretaker
chairmen to immediately hand over to the
directors of administration in their
respective council areas.
Caretaker chairmen had been in control of
the 16 council areas throughout the four
year tenure of the immediate past
governor, Kayode Fayemi.
The former governor also appointed
caretaker committees for the 19 newly
created LCDAs few days after the June 21
gubernatorial poll which he lost.
Mr. Fayemi’s attempt to hold council
election in the 16 councils on February 4,
2011, but was halted by the state High
Court ruling following a suit filed by the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the
state.
The PDP had alleged that some of the
members of the State Independent
Electoral Commission were card carrying
members of the then ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC.
Mr. Fayose, at his inaugural speech on
Thursday in Ado Ekiti, vowed not to
recognise any illegal creation made by the
immediate past administration.
He also promised not to uphold
appointments and promotions carried out
after the former governor lost the
gubernatorial election in June.
“Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended
clearly spells the authorities and
procedures for the creation of local
government,” he said.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/169717-fayose-sacks-all-ekiti-council-chairmen-secretaries-boards.html

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