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My first impressions are usually mistaken. If I have a good
first-impression about someone, it generally turns out to
be wrong. But if I have a bad first-impression, it usually
turns out to be right. However, if my bad first-impression
remains bad; or if my good first-impression remains good;
it means my view of the person is bullet-proof.
Attahiru Jega
My first-impression of Attahiru Jega was very good when
he was appointed INEC chairman in 2010. Then, as I
watched him for hours painstakingly collating the results of
the 2011 elections with the help of university vice-
chancellors, that first-impression was more than reinforced.
I concluded that the winner of the 2011 elections was Jega
himself. That led me to ask myself: since we have this kind
of man in Nigeria, how come we never elect someone like
him as president?
My opinion of Attahiru Jega has not changed. He remains
one of the best presidential materials we have in Nigeria
today. He is also by far Nigeria’s best public-servant, as far
as I know. Here is a man who is not only highly-educated;
he is also very competent and scrupulously honest. He is yet
again, the real winner of the Osun election; and he is doing
a fantastic job transforming the electoral process in Nigeria
for the better and even the best.
God has given us in Jega a man that is making what we
thought was impossible possible. He not only deserves to get
a second-term as INEC chairman after his term expires in
2015; he would also be a shoo-in if he were to run for
president thereafter. He already has my vote. I want to take
this opportunity to congratulate Jega and his entire INEC
team for excellent job they have been doing. They are really
doing Nigeria proud.
New politics
The Supreme Court decision that led to the staggering of
some gubernatorial elections has provided Jega and his INEC
team with training-grounds for perfecting our electoral
process. One-by-one; from Edo, Ondo, Anambra, Ekiti and
now Osun, we have had election results that, by all
accounts, reflected the true wishes of the people. That is a
sign of progress in a Nigeria where progress is often few
and far between.
As INEC has grown, so have some of the actors in the
political process. Growth in the PDP is evidenced by
increased internal democracy. PDP candidates are now
chosen through popular democratic elections and not through
the diktat of the party leadership; as used to happen during
the Obasanjo presidency.
Governor Kayode Fayemi showed great maturity in
accepting defeat and in congratulating Ayo Fayose after the
last election in Ekiti. When INEC announced the victory of
Ogbeni Aregbesola in the just-concluded Osun election,
Goodluck Jonathan immediately congratulated him. Ayo
Fayose of Ekiti also extended to him a right-hand of
fellowship as neighbouring governor in the South-West;
even though they belong to opposing parties. These are the
nascent signs of new democratic politics in Nigeria.
Cry-wolf APC
In all this, there is still one big problem: the APC. The APC
calls itself a progressive party, but in actual fact, it is
antediluvian. It cannot recognize the sign of the times.
When Fayemi accepted defeat in the Ekiti election, the
bigwigs of PDP Central persuaded him to reject the result.
They came up with such ludicrous allegations as ballot-
papers with disappearing ink. One thing is clear; the APC
does not recognize any election that it loses. Moreover, the
APC cries wolf in every election it is going to lose, or is
afraid to lose.
APC clearly does not believe in democracy or in the
democratic process. It is the party of threats and blackmail.
It is the party of Muhammadu Buhari; who says the dogs
and the baboon will be soaked in blood if the 2015 election
is rigged. It is the party of Bola Tinubu, who declared that
in Ekiti it will be “rig and roast.” It is the party of Murtala
Nyako, who says there will be civil war if Goodluck
Jonathan runs for president in the next election.
Before every election, APC goes to town shouting itself
hoarse that the election will be rigged. It brings out all sorts
of fictitious documents showing “beyond reasonable doubt”
that the PDP, in collusion with the INEC, has perfected
outrageous plans to rig the election. Then when it loses, it
says “We told you so” and decides to contest the results
frivolously in court. Apparently, the only election that is not
rigged in Nigeria today is the one that APC wins. At least,
we are yet to hear APC say it is going to court to contest
the Osun results.
Pyrrhic victory
Before the election in Osun, the APC went to town telling
the whole world it would be rigged. Every so often, it came
out with broadsides as to the discovery of fresh plans to rig
the election which it discovered through its detective
agency. Its Sherlock Holmes in this regard is Lai
Mohammed, its Publicity Secretary. Lai Mohammed has the
unique capacity to smell smoke where there is no fire
whatsoever. These days, whenever he makes an
announcement, it is to cry wolf yet again.
A dishonest party will tend to presume dishonesty in others,
especially when it discovers that its traditional channels for
manipulating elections have been blocked. The APC doctrine
implies that no election can be won in the Nigeria unless it
is rigged. This doctrine cannot be conveniently jettisoned
now that APC has won in Osun. The APC position is like
the backward belief in Nigeria that, if anybody dies, he or
she must have been killed. Likewise, if anybody wins an
election in Nigeria, it must have been rigged, according the
APC.
Since, therefore, the only way the PDP could have won the
Ekiti election was by rigging it; then by the same token, the
only way the APC could have won the Osun election is by
rigging it. Therefore, the APC needs to tell Nigerians how it
managed to rig the Osun election. Otherwise, Lai
Mohammed, John Odigie-Oyegun and the entire APC party-
apparatus owe Nigerians, the PDP and INEC a big apology
for maligning virtually everybody just because it was
running scared of losing in Osun.
APC damage-control
The very fact that Osun was a make-or-break election for
the APC, leading it to cry wolf again and again, shows that
the APC lost the election in Osun even before it took place.
Here is a party that has pretensions of overthrowing the
ruling PDP nationally in 2015. And yet, this same party was
scared to death of losing an election in what is supposed to
be its backyard.
Can anyone imagine the PDP being afraid of losing an
election in Bayelsa or Akwa Ibom? Of course not! But this
is what happens to an APC party that, in spite of all its
bluster, had been trounced in Ekiti; one of its putative
strongholds.
Under normal circumstances, Osun should be a cakewalk for
APC. It is supposedly an APC redoubt. The incumbent
governor belongs to the APC. In the last presidential
election of 2011, Osun was the only South-West state that
PDP lost to the ACN. The voters opted massively for the
ACN by a nearly two-to-one margin vis-à-vis the PDP. Why
then should the APC be so afraid of losing Osun if it were
not for the fact that, instead of growing stronger, the party
is actually growing weaker.
The APC has been running petrified since Ekiti. The entire
party has been suffering from high blood pressure. Every
other day, Lai Mohammed or John Odigie-Oyegun comes up
with yet another wolf-cry, alerting everybody that would
listen that the PDP, in collusion with INEC, has perfected
plans to truncate the democratic process, rig elections and
retain the PDP and Goodluck Jonathan in power forever.
Since the APC ended up by winning the Osun election
convincingly, it can only mean that this ginormous PDP/
INEC rigging machinery is not up to scratch. As a matter of
fact, it apparently fails every so often. It failed in Ondo,
where Mimiko and his Labour Party prevailed over the PDP.
It failed in Anambra, where APGA, and not the PDP, won
the gubernatorial election. Since it has failed yet again in
Osun, it cannot be what the APC is touting it to be.
The truth is that it is all a figment of APC’s anti-
democratic imagination. APC bigwigs are not only sore-
losers, they are sore-candidates. Such temperament is not
needed in today’s new dispensation.
Bad omen
In the end, Governor Aregbesola of the APC won the Osun
election convincingly. His margin of vis-à-vis his PDP rival
amounts to a landslide victory. But placed within the
framework of the forthcoming presidential election, the Osun
election is a major defeat for the APC. It actually suggests
that, without the benefit of incumbency, and with a
Northerner as opposed to a Southerner as the likely APC
candidate, APC will most likely lose Osun to the PDP in the
forthcoming presidential election.
I repeat; Osun was the only South-West state that Jonathan
lost in 2011. PDP obtained 188,409 votes to ACN’s 299,711.
That is a relative vote-share of 38% PDP to 62% ACN. But
three years later, in this gubernatorial election, PDP
obtained 292,747 votes to ACN/APC’s 394.684. That is a
relative vote-share of 42% PDP to 58% ACN/APC. That
shows the strength of the PDP has increased in Osun state,
relative to that of the APC. When you factor in the APC
power of incumbency in Osun, then this election becomes
nothing short of disastrous for APC’s presidential
aspirations.
If PDP can defeat APC in Ekiti, where APC had a sitting
governor; and if PDP can take 42% of the APC vote in
Osun, where the APC also had the advantage of a sitting
governor; and since Ekiti and Osun are supposedly APC
strongholds; then the APC does not have a prayer in the
coming presidential election. It will not give any serious
contest to the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan.


source
www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/apc-lost-osun-election/

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The delay in freeing the over 200 girls
seized from Government Secondary
School, Chibok, in Borno State, may have
exposed them to radicalisation by their
captors, who are now using them for
suicide bombings, a source has said.
The source spoke about the possibility
that the girls had been indoctrinated by
the terrorists in the last three months of
their captivity, hynotised and sent into
various parts of Nigeria and beyond with a
view to carrying out deadly missions.
Serial attacks carried out by female
bombers in Kano, last week, lent credence
to the claim.
The source, according to reports from
Vanguard, who has contacts with the Boko
Haram leadership, pointed out that it may
be difficult to change radical orientation
of the girls, who may now see their
malevolent disposition as an act of
righteousness.
“It may shock you to know that some of
the girls being used for suicide bombings
in parts of the North are among those
taken from Chibok in April this year,” the
source said.
Continuing, the source insisted that “it is
rather unfortunate that government
wasted precious time in rescuing the girls
either through negotiation with Boko
Haram or other means possible.
“It was clear from the outset that the girls
would not come out the same, after being
kept with their unwanted hosts for a long
time”.
Although the Federal Government said,
last Wednesday, that the Chibok girls
were not among the female bombers, its
spokesman did not provide any evidence
to prove his claim.
At a media briefing in Abuja, Coordinator
of the National Information Centre, Mr.
Mike Omeri, tried to ward off the
suggestion that the 219 school girls
currently in the captivity of Boko Haram
insurgents could have turned suicide
bombers.
It will be recalled that few days after the
abduction of the girls, a human rights
activist, who had taken part in failed bids
to broker a truce between the Federal
Government and Boko Haram leadership,
Shehu Sani, had raised the alarm that the
girls could be indoctrinated if not urgently
freed.
Sani in a recent interview revealed that
the prolonged detention of the girls by the
terrorists could dramatically alter their
fate and orientation.
According to Sani, the longer the girls
were being kept by their captors, the
higher the potential of their being
brainwashed to accept radicalism and
terrorism.
He said:”But the danger of keeping these
girls, without either using negotiation or
force to free them is that, everyday these
girls are being brainwashed by the
insurgents.
” If we are not careful, the Chibok girls
that would come out of captivity would
not be the same girls that went into
captivity. They would be indoctrinated,
they would be hypnotised and
brainwashed to the point that they would
be transformed into insurgents
themselves. And of what use would they
be?
“These are very young girls in their teens
with very open and vulnerable minds but
open to dangerous ideas. You can see how
a man would abduct a girl whose parents
don’t like him and, by the time the girl
comes back she is ready to fight her
parents.
“So, the danger is that as the clocks ticks,
it is ticking for us , for the girls and for
our reputation and integrity as a country”

Source

www.today.ng/news/chibok-girls-fingered-as-suicide-bombers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chibok-girls-fingered-as-suicide-bombers

Twelve years after the gruesome murder
of Bola Ige, former attorney general of the
federation, in his bedroom at his Bodija,
Ibadan residence on December 23, 2001,
politics in Osun State is still being
moderated by issues surrounding the
mysterious assassination.
Although the Nigeria Police had assured
Nigerians that it would get to the root of
the matter and unmask the brains behind
the murder, nothing concrete has come
out of the investigations.
Many people have gone in and out of the
court over the matter. At a point, Ige’s
family elected to discontinue with the
court case asking the state to continue if it
wished.
One of those still having the scar of
allegation of complicity over Ige’s death is
Iyiola Omisore, a two-term member of the
Senate (2003-2011). The senator was
among those who were arrested and
charged to court over the assassination of
the man fondly called the Cicero of Esa-
Oke. After some years, Omisore was
discharged and acquitted by the court.
However, the acquittal has done nothing
to change the perception of some people
of him.
At one time or another, there have been
comments and innuendos to drag him to
the issue of Ige’s death.
For instance, when it became obvious that
Omisore was preparing to contest the
governorship of Osun State, Ige family
issued a statement that an aspirant
wanted to parade a fictitious member of
the family who would exonerate him from
their father’s killing. Recently also,
Muyiwa, the eldest son of Bola Ige, who is
currently the commissioner for Lands and
Physical Planning in Osun State, had
during a recent interview said his father’s
ghost would continue to haunt those who
killed him.
Although he did not mention names,
Omisore said the finger-pointing was
toward his direction.
By the same token, Rauf Aregbesola,
governor, Osun State, who is seeking re-
election on the platform of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) and some
civil society groups had earlier in the year
called on the Federal Government to
revisit the trial of Ige murder suspects.
Again, Omisore said that the governor
was alluding to him, urging him to provide
new evidence which linked him with the
killing. According to him, “If there are
fresh facts why didn’t they appeal the
judgment on Ige’s murder over these
years, why now that election timetable
was released by INEC?”
Pundits say that until the gubernatorial
election is over, Ige’s murder will remain
a strong campaign point, particularly
between the APC and the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) candidates.
According to them, while the APC will be
trying to make political capital out of it,
telling the people why they should not
vote the PDP candidate, the latter on the
other hand will be defending himself,
trying profusely to impress it upon the
voting masses that his hands are clean.
A commentator told BDSUNDAY that the
call on the Federal Government to reopen
the Ige murder may not be heeded if it is
aimed at opening the books and re-
arresting the likes of Omisore, who has on
his own re-opened the case at the Federal
High Court, Ibadan, challenging his
“malicious prosecution” and demanding
N2 billion as damages.
Like in Ekiti State where the selection of
Ayo Fayose as PDP flag bearer for the
gubernatorial election billed for June 21,
is drawing flaks from members of the
opposition who see the decision as
infantile and indicative of PDP’s tolerance
for thuggery, the emergence of Omisore as
the PDP candidate for the August 9
election in Osun has also been described
as symptomatic of the ruling party’s
penchant for absurdity.
Omisore emerged from an array of
aspirants who competed for the slot in a
primary conducted in Osogbo, the state
capital, under the supervision of Adamu
Aliero as chairman of the gubernatorial
primary election. Omisore reportedly
polled 1,128, while Wole Oke had five
votes; Olasunkanmi Akinlabi had 35 votes
and Adetunji Adeleke had no vote.
Again, like what happened in Ekiti, the
APC government in Osun scoffed at the
result of the primary and said the
umbrella party made a grievous mistake
by choosing Omisore.
Describing the primary, which Omisore
won as a kangaroo exercise, the APC said:
“We all expected it, even his co-aspirant
has had to withdraw from the race
because the candidate and his gang will
stop at nothing including violence to pick
his party’s ticket. And he already has it.
However, that development makes things
easier for the APC because with an
Omisore, the PDP has a candidate that
lacks pedigree, credibility, responsibility
and focus.”
Reacting to APC claim, Diran Odeyemi,
Omisore’s director of Media and Publicity,
said: “We don’t expect them to meddle
into our affair. The emergence of Omisore
at the gubernatorial primary is purely a
PDP affair and does not concern the APC.
They should go and face their campaign
and let the electorate decide who would
be their governor during the election.”
A PDP stalwart, who spoke with our
correspondent on the choice of Omisore
said when going to war, an army goes with
its best soldiers, and that a good coach
goes for a competition with his first
eleven.
“Politics is not played on the basis of
sentiments. You must field your best
candidate. When going for a football
match, you go with your first eleven. You
don’t go to war, for instance, with
students of the Nigerian Defence Academy
(NDA), but you go with experienced
soldiers. In the case of Senator Iyiola
Omisore, a two-term senator is not a
political neophyte. He is astute and knows
the rule of the game. He is capable of
governing a state. PDP don’t just give
anybody ticket to go and preside over a
state”, the source said.
On the allegation trailing the candidate,
the source said: “PDP is not a court of law.
It is a political association. It is not
possible for the party to punish or limit an
innocent person’s ambition based on mere
allegations. Nobody has found Omisore
guilty in relation to Ige’s murder. So until
and unless a court of competent
jurisdiction convicts a man of wrong
doing, what is said in the market square
about him does not make him a guilty
person.”
A member of PDP in Lagos State, who
craved anonymity, said from the reaction
of the APC in Osun following the
emergence of Omisore, it appeared that
the broom party was jittery.
“I took time to read Governor Kayode
Fayemi’s reaction to the emergence of
Ayo Fayose as PDP flag bearer in Ekiti
State; the governor was accusing the
national secretariat and the Presidency of
supporting thuggery and all that. Again,
the emergence of Senator Omisore has
become a big issue among the APC in
Osun. What it means is that the governors
of Ekiti and Osun recognise the
capabilities of Fayose and Omisore in
their individual states. Now, if they say
they have done wonderfully to please the
people of their states through the
provision of the democracy dividends,
there should be no need for them to feel
threatened. And come to think of it, they
have the incumbency advantage; so it is
clear that they are not really confident of
themselves. If Omisore is as unpopular as
his state government wants people to
believe, the ballot box is there to prove
that in August”, the PDP man said.
However, Ola Thompson, who claims to
hail from Osun State, said it was doubtful
if the people of the state, because of the
Ige’s matter, would elect Omisore as their
governor.
“In Nigeria, a man is guilty even before he
is proven so by a law court. Sometimes,
even if a man is proven innocent, it does
not change the perception of people who
had already found him guilty. For
Omisore, the stigma is there. Even though
he had won elections twice to be at the
National Assembly, he only represented a
senatorial district; it is different from
seeking votes from various parts of the
state. Well, in Nigerian politics, it is said
that the more you look, the less you see,”
Thompson said.
Source:
www.businessdayonline.com/2014/04/osun-poll-iges-murder-resonates-as-apc-pdp-test-might/

In the face of election in Osun state, military Dogs are part of the military strategy to man the election.

Former governor of Osun State, Prince
Olagunsoye Oyinlola and his party,
Peoples Democratic |Party (PDP), are
about parting ways…for good.
The retired general believes President
Goodluck Jonathan does not want him in
the party even after going the extra mile
to prove his loyalty.
Oyinlola in a July 30, 2014 letter to the
President said he would not be doing
himself any good “if I don’t think seriously
about my political journey and take a firm
decision.”
The former PDP National Secretary
enumerated the various efforts he and
others including his friend and former
colleague in the army, Senate President
David Mark, made to reconcile with the
party and said: “I may, at this point, need
to look beyond the party and take my
destiny in my hands.”
The letter, 00/PDP/5, reads in part:
“Your Excellency, you are very conversant
of all efforts made by me and very
importantly, by respected leaders of the
party to get this matter resolved and truly
reconcile all aggrieved parties.
“I, however, learnt that you were not sure
of my support for you, given my closeness
to former President Olusegun Obasanjo
hence the decision to disallow me from
returning to my legally recognized
position as the National secretary of the
PDP.
“I have met you on several occasions on
this matter to pledge my loyalty. At my
last meeting with you, which was at the
instance of the party’s National chairman,
Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, you requested that
I be part of the ongoing Osun State
governorship campaigns. Mr. President
would remember that I stated that the
minimum the party leadership could do to
get me to campaign was to instruct the
Ogun State chapter of the party to
withdraw its appeal at the Supreme Court;
or alternatively, obey the Appeal Court
order, and allow me to resume duty, the
same way the party obeyed the faulty
Federal High Court verdict that ousted
me.
“To the foregoing, I wish to state that I
was promised some positive response
which never came, up till this moment.
The Chairman of the party’s Board of
Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih CFR, has also
on several occasions, after discussing me,
met with Your Excellency on this matter
assuring you of my loyalty to you and to
the cause of the party.
“I am also aware that the Senate
President, Senator David Mark, GCON,
has similarly met with you and made a
case for my return to office. Senator Mark
went to the extent of asking you to hold
him responsible for all actions I might
take as National Secretary.
“Mr. President, allow me to state with
emphasis that what joins Senator Mark
and my humble-self is more than politics.
The military family that binds us does not
know double-dealing or disloyalty. A part
of our training, we keep our words, hence
we are called “Gentlemen Officers.” That
precisely was why the Senate President
could most frontally vouch for me.
“Your Excellency, allow me to also recall
that on three occasions, Senator Mark
informed that I had agreed to submit to
you a pre-signed resignation letter, if that
would allay all fears of insincerity; and all,
in a bid to ensure that the injustice of my
illegal removal from office is redressed.
“I wish to respectfully state that I do not
go back on my words, just like I don’t
abandon my friends, associates and
leaders, no matter how hard the situation
might be.
“That explains why as a State Governor, I
remained very loyal to my boss, former
President Ibrahim Babangida, GCFR, even
when he had some issues with the
government of former President Olusegun
Obasanjo, I wish to respectfully recall
very respectfully, that Chief Obasanjo
never made any attempt to move against
me on account of these differences.
“The same spirit today drives me as I
maintain my loyalty to former President
Obasanjo, who may, or who may not have
any relationship with your government. It
was that same spirit that made me insist
on your approval of my candidature, in
your capacity as national leader of the
party and president, before I agreed with
my brother-governors request in 2012, to
contest for the position of PDP National
Secretary. I should like to state that I am
not a fair-weather fellow. To my friends,
the spirit is very similar to marital vow.”
Oyinlola said it was unfortunate that
President Jonathan was unprepared to
listen to entreaties by party leaders on his
behalf.
He added: “Mr. President, I wish to
observe that with all these efforts by me
and other credible leaders of our party, it
appears clearly to me that you are not
totally convinced that I am who I have
always been in my journey through life.
“I have, therefore, come to the conclusion
that it is this mindset that is at the root of
my challenges in PDP. It seems to me that
I am not wanted by the national leader of
the party; and I know that.
“Therefore, I will certainly not be doing
myself justice and good, despite
everything, if I don’t think seriously about
my political journey and take a firm
decision.
“Mr. President, I may at this point, need
to look beyond the party and take my
destiny in my hands. I sincerely hope that
this will solve the problem.
“Conclusively, Your Excellency, if I am
doing the above and take further steps
without telling you, I would be negating
the pledge of loyalty which I had earlier
made to you; hence this correspondence
to Mr. President.”
Source
www.thenationonlineng.net/new/oyinlola-writes-jonathan-offers-to-quit-pdp/

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The Spanish Football
League (LFP)
president has insisted
that Barcelona will no
longer be able to
compete in La Liga if
Catalunya gets independence.
The region has long campaigned for
separatism from the rest of the country
due to their cultural and linguistic
differences.
Barca have long been a symbol of
Catalan independence but LFP chief
Javier Tebas says that they would not be
able to continue in the Spanish football
system under current regulations.
"I don't like to speculate about
impossibilities. Catalunya will always be
Spain," he is quoted as saying by AS.
"And I'm not only worried abut
Barcelona, but Nastic, Girona, Espanol,
Llagostera and Sabadell. If the Sports
Act remains the same, they could not
compete in our league.
"We would have to change the Sports
Act. Andorra, for example, play in our
competitions because the law
specifically states they can. There's an
additional provision.
"Initially, Barcelona could not compete
in La Liga unless there is an inter-that
state agreement."

Source
www.m.goal.com/j/en-ng/news/4994588

TWENTY CANDIDATES TO CONTEST OSUN GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

Twenty candidates are to contest the Osun state governor-ship election scheduled for 9th August 2014. The candidates, with their running mates, are: (1.) AA, Babatunde Oralusi (Governor), Hon. Adekunle Rufai (Deputy); (2.) Accord, Niyi Owolade (Governor), Opawuyi Bolaji Abdulganiyu (Deputy); (3.) ACPN, Olufemi Adeleke Hammed, (Governor), Famiran Lawrence Olusola (Deputy); (4.) AD, Senator Sunday Olawale Fajimi (Governor), Ogundele Kamarudeen Adeyemi (Deputy); (5.) ADC, Comrade Ojo Gbenga Gabriel (Governor), Comrade Adebiyi Adedayo Segun (Deputy); (6.) APA, Agboola Azeez Obasanjo (Governor), Oseni Kazeem Adebisi (Deputy); (7.) APGA, Akintunde Adebimpe Adetunji (Governor), Oladitan Olabode Joseph (Deputy); (8.) APC, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola (Governor), Grace Titi Laoyetomoti (Deputy); (9.) CPP, Alh. Rafio Shehu Anifowose A. (Governor), Raji Sofiyat Bodemi (Deputy); (10.) LP, Akinbade Fatai Akinade (Governor), Adenipekun Michael Isola Tunde (Deputy); (11.) MPPP, Chief Babatunde Adetoro (Governor), Faremi Raphael (Deputy); (12.) NCP, Afolayanka Olanrewaju Jimoh (Governor), Akinlabi Babatope Sunday (Deputy); (13.) NNPP, Prince Adefare Segun Adegoke (Governor), Mrs. Adebowale A. Mujidat (Deputy); (14.) PDM, Oludare Timothy Akinola (Governor), Wayilat Titilade Adeleye (Deputy); (15.) PDP, Senator Iyiola Omisore (Governor) Rafiu Adejare Bello (Deputy); (16.) PPA, Ganiyu Abiodun Lawal (Governor) Mrs. Grace Mabayoje Ojofakuade (Deputy); (17.) UDP, Funso Toyin Bunmi (Governor), Phillip Samuel (Deputy); (18.) UPN Adeoti Ibrahim Abiodun (Governor), Salokun Folasade Bukola (Deputy); (19.) UPP, Prince Victor Olusegun Adeniyi (Governor), Mrs. Christiana Oluwatoyin (Deputy); and (20.) SDP, Akinwusi Olusegun (Governor), Alhaja Rashidat Taiwo Olaigbe (Deputy).

Osun state has thirty (30) local government areas and 332 Registration Areas. The state also has 3,010 Polling Units and 3379 Voting Points.

A breakdown of the voter population by local council:
Ayedade 51,252 voters,
Ayedire 25,899 voters,
Boluwaduro 16,844 voters,
Boripe 47,137 voters ,
Ede North 49,130 voters,
Ede south 35,931 voters,
Egbedore 33,925 voters,
Ejigbo 51,623 voters,
Ife central 95,471 voters,
Ifedayo 13,066 voters,
Ife East 81,430 voters,
Ifelodun 57,592 voters,
Ife North 45,435 voters,
Ife South 44,555 voters,
Ila 33,527 voter,
Ilesa East 54,746 voters,
Ilesa West 52,286 voters,
Irepodun 36,556 voter,
Irewole 53,487 voters,
Isokan 38,493 voters,
Iwo 66,657 voters,
Odo otin 48,720 voters,
Ola-Oluwa 25,554 voters,
Olorunda 71,580 voters,
Oriade 47,113 voters,
Orolu 24,914voters,
Osogbo 110,670 voters.
INEC said the release of the document was in compliance with section 31 subsection 3,4 and 5 of the electoral Act 2010 (as amended).

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has accredited twenty nine (29) local and foreign observers to observe this keenly contested election. They are:
(1.) Centre for Civic Education (aka: Transition Monitoring Group, TMG); (2.) Justice and Equity Organization (3.) NEPAD Nigeria (4.) Reclaim Naija (5.) Centre for Democracy and Development (6.) Centre for Peace Building and Socio-Economic Resources Development (7.) Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room (Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre) (8.) Nigeria Bar Association Election Working Group (9.) National Association for Peaceful Election in Nigeria (10.) Independent Election Monitoring Group (11.) Rights Monitoring Group (12.) Election Monitor (13.) Police Service Commission, Abuja (14.) CLEEN Foundation (15.) Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolutions (16.) Research Initiative for Sustainable Development and Gender Awareness (RISDGA) (17.) Justice Development and Peace Commission (18.) The Forum of State Independent Commission of Nigeria (FOSIECON) (19.) Women Arise for Change Initiative (20.) EU Delegation-Abuja (21.) International Foundation for Electoral System (IFES) (22.) United States Mission to Nigeria (23.) High Commission of Canada (24.) British High Commission (25.) UNDP/DGD-Abuja (26.) Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands (27.) Embassy of Switzerland (28.) Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and (29) Embassy of France.

Addressing Media Professionals recently, the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, said the Commission was determined to make the Osun governorship election better than the Ekiti governorship election which it conducted last month.

He averred that it was the hope of the Commission that the Osun governorship election would serve as a fitting prelude to the 2015 General Elections which would be the best conducted under this Commission’s watch.

Culled from Nidsa facebookpage.

A police Inspector, identified as
Sunday Mefo, attached to the Patrol
and Guard (P&G) Unit of the Aba
Central Police Station (CPS) in Abia
State command, on Tuesday
accidentally shot himself dead.
According to a police source who
pleaded anonymity, unfortunate
incident occurred at about 10p.m as
Mefo tried to check the working
condition of an AK 47 rifle, which he
was to use for night duty.
The source said the deceased had
allegedly pulled the trigger of the gun
and in the process, one of the bullets
in the cache accidentally went off and
hit him in the leg.
Mefo was reportedly rushed to a
nearby hospital for medical attention.
“But unfortunately, he gave up the
ghost in the early our of yesterday
morning, the source hinted.
The state Police Public Relations
Officer (PPRO), Geoffrey Ogbonna,
when contacted for reaction, said he
was yet to be formally informed about
the ugly incident, whi threw the entire
Abia central police station into
tension.


Source
www.africanexaminer.com/police-inspector-accidentally-kills-self-in-abia/

Morning I open this thread for my people who graduated from Uniosun so dat we can relate well in the course of our service especially in giving helping hands in areas that one needs help.
I rep Ikire campus.

I don't know where u getting urs from,well will it be ready today?

wentworth123: going for it 2moro

Same here,I rep uniosun

wentworth123: I have been posted to ekiti state. I finished from Futminna, mechanical Engineering. I will be going from my base in Ibadan. Please if you are posted to ekiti state let us meet here. Thanks

How did u get ur call up letter?

Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory,
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has lost his son to a car
crash.
Hamza El-Rufai died this morning in Abuja.
The father of the deceased broke the news on
his faceboook page at about 8:00 am Tuesday
morning.
Its read thus:
From Allah we came and to Him we shall return. Please join our family in praying for the repose of the soul of my son Hamza El-Rufai who died this morning in a motor accident in Abuja.
- Nasir El-Rufai

Source
www.thenationonlineng.net/new/breaking-el-rufai-son-dies-in-car-crash/

One of the world’s latest and deadliest diseases is Ebola it is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, or other bodily fluids of infected animals. It is spread in the community through human-to-human transmission. It was also documented that through the handling of infected fruits and animals it can be contacted.
It is not new that the world is now full of deadly diseases and one of the best ways to prevent and control all these deadly diseases can begin from family unit. Gone are the days when couples will be too careless about each other and their children. Communication and togetherness are very essential in marriage these days. Information can be easily shared in a home where there is emotional availability of both parents. A father who is emotionally available can save his home from deadly diseases. Mothers, don’t be too careless and busy at the expense of the welfare of your home. Children need information and how can they get it when you not emotionally available.
No licensed vaccine for EVD (Ebola Virus Diseases) is available. Several vaccines are being tested, but none are available for clinical use. Sir& Ma, your marriage can be saved if it can have more of your love, availability, emotional connection, communication, adequate fatherly and motherly roles, responsibilities and tender loving care. Be available to order the steps of your children on a right path. God heals but our responsibilities as couples and parents also counts.
Hold your wife’s hand with your children and let love bind you against any deadly disease.
Exo 15:26 Then he said, "I am the LORD your God, and I cure your diseases. If you obey me by doing right and by following my laws and teachings, I won't punish you with the diseases I sent on the Egyptians."
May the GOD of Heaven save you and your household from deadly diseases of this time in JESUS name.

What is Ebola?
Ebola virus disease, which used to be
called Ebola haemorrhagic fever, was
named after the river in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, where one of the
first two villages to report cases in 1976
was located. The other was in Sudan.
Ebola is a severe viral illness with a
sudden onset that comes from direct
contact with infected living or dead
rainforest animals, including chimpanzees,
gorillas, monkeys, fruit bats, forest
antelope and porcupines. It kills up to
90% of those who are infected.
How is it transmitted?
The virus is passed from one human to
another, carried in blood and bodily fluids
and secretions, but also beds, sheets,
clothes or other surfaces that a sick
person has touched. Burial ceremonies
that involve touching the body are also a
risk. The virus enters the body through
broken skin or mucous membrane.
The group at highest risk are health
workers, caring for those with Ebola. They
have to wear full protective clothing,
including facemasks and goggles, and
should change their gloves between one
patient and the next.
What are the symptoms?
The early signs are sudden fever, intense
weakness, muscle pain, headache and a
sore throat. Vomiting and diarrhoea
follow, raising the chances that the sick
man or woman will infect somebody else.
The kidney and liver are affected and
there can be both internal and external
bleeding, which is why it was originally
called Ebola haemorrhagic fever. Patients
are infectious once the symptoms show,
which is two to 21 days after they have
contracted the virus.
What is the treatment?
There is very little treatment. Patients
will need intensive supportive care, with
intravenous fluids or oral rehydration
salts. They must be kept in isolation and
their nurses and visitors must wear full
protective suits. If people are to be nursed
at home, their carers need instructions
and equipment to safeguard themselves.
There are no drugs to treat the disease or
vaccine to prevent it, although research on
a vaccine is under way.
Why is there no cure?
It has proved very hard to find drugs to
treat viral diseases from animals, from
influenza to HIV. Although the death rate
is high, outbreaks of ebola are infrequent
and have so far been contained each time.
As with many of the so-called neglected
tropical diseases, there is not a potentially
lucrative market for drug companies, so
they will be reluctant to invest in research
and development.
If outbreaks can be contained and
brought to a halt with good infection
control, why do they return?
They can be contained in human
populations but the viral reservoir still
exists in animals. There will always be a
risk that hunters will kill infected animals
or that people will pick up those that have
died of the infection in the forest and the
virus will be reintroduced to the human
population.
Will closing borders help?
Containment is key to the strategy against
ebola. Quarantine has been used in some
outbreaks for the relatives of people who
become sick. Because people are not
infectious until they become obviously ill,
it should in theory be possible to focus
efforts on the community where the
outbreak began. In the past, that has
usually been villages in close proximity to
rainforests.
Confirmation of a case in a city such as
Lagos is a real concern, but transmission
must involve direct contact with a sick
individual, so is more likely in a family
setting or a hospital. The biggest worry is
probably that somebody showing
symptoms will be taken to hospital where
nursing staff are unprotected, because the
disease is not recognised, sparking an
outbreak that spreads to their families in
turn.
Closing borders may not help keep the
disease out because borders are
permeable in much of Africa. The World
Health Organisation says closures may
hinder travel and trade without detecting
cases.
Is the rest of the world threatened by
ebola?
Clearly somebody infected with the virus
could theoretically get on a plane and
spark an outbreak – probably in a hospital
– anywhere in the world.

Source
www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/28/ebola-outbreak-africa-key-questions

The Lagos State Government says the
Nigeria Ambassador to Liberia, Chigozie
Obi-Nnadozie, three staff of the Economic
Community of West African States,
ECOWAS, and 55 others had contact with
the victim of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD,
Patrick Sawyer, who died in Lagos last
Thursday.
Late Patrick Sawyer, diagnosed with EVD
died on Thursday in Lagos
Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year old WASH
Consultant, Finance Ministry in Liberia
was diagnosed with EVD in Lagos last
week after he collapsed at the Murtala
Muhammed Airport, Lagos, Nigeria.
Addressing a World News Conference on
Monday in Lagos, Lagos Commissioner
for Health, Dr. Jide Idris said 59 people
had so far had contact with the Ebola
victim, who arrived in Lagos on Asky
Airline Flight No KP50.
“So far, a total of 59 contacts have been
registered, consisting of 44 Hospital
contacts (38 Healthcare workers and 6
laboratory staff) and 15 Airport contacts,
comprising 3 ECOWAS staff-driver,
Liaison, and Protocol officer, Nigerian
Ambassador to Monrovia, 2 Nursing staff
and 5 Airport passenger handlers.
“As of the time of this report, 20 contacts
had been physically screened of which
50% had type 1 contact and 50% had had
type 2 contact. Airline manifest has not
been provided by the airline at the time of
this report and therefore the precise
number of passenger contacts is yet to be
ascertained, especially as two flights were
involved (Monrovia-Lome and Lome-
Lagos),” he said.
Idris said “preliminary laboratory
investigation conducted by the NCDC AI
virology laboratory of the Lagos
University Teaching Hospital and the
World-Bank Funded African Centre of
Excellence for Genomics of Infectious
Diseases (ACEGID) Redeemers’
University detected viral DNA and in both
blood and urine samples obtained from
the patient were positive for the Pan Filo
virus analysis and Ebola Zaire MGB virus
strain- specific analysis. Samples were
also collected for further confirmation at
the WHO Collaborating laboratory for
Ebola in Dakar.”
He disclosed that an isolation ward has
been designated by the Lagos State
Ministry of Health at the Infectious
Disease Hospital, Yaba for case
management, saying that designation of
three other health facilities is underway.
The commissioner further said that a total
of 100 Personal Protective Equipment
(PPEs) were procured by the Nigeria
Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) an the
Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and
distributed to the private hospital and the
State Ministry of Health, while World
Health Organisation (WHO) also donated
250 PPEs to the NCDC/FMOH.
He said in adhering strictly to WHO
guidelines, the body of the deceased
patient was decontaminated using 10%
sodium hypochlorite and cremated, with
the permission of the government of
Liberia as a cremation urn had been
prepared for dispatch to the family,
adding that the vehicle that conveyed the
remains was also fully decontaminated.
Idris explained that the Liberian victim
had arrived at the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport Lagos from
Monrovia via Lome on Asky Airline Flight
No KP50, on his way to Calabar for the
8th ECOWAS Retreat of Heads of Offices
meeting, as a senior ECOWAS official in
Liberia.
“His plane was reported to have had a
brief stop at Accra and Lome, and the
aircraft was changed at Lome. He was also
reported to have fallen ill while on board
and remained very ill on arrival at the
airport in Lagos. He was then assisted by
various airport and ECOWAS protocol
staff to a private hospital named First
Consultant Medical Centre, Obalende, and
Lagos.
“An initial diagnosis of suspected Viral
Haemorrhagic fever was made. He was
admitted and investigations were carried
and supportive treatment was
commenced. The private hospital
immediately notified the State Ministry of
Health who also notified the Federal
Ministry of Health. The patient however
died at about 6.50am on the 25th July
2014,” he explained.
“We can categorically state that as of
today we have only one case of imported
Ebola and one death. No Nigerian is
infected, but all contacts are being actively
followed. We call on all Nigerians to be
calm and not panic and do hereby assure
them that both the State and Federal
Governments and up in arms to ensure
that the virus did not escape and that no
Nigeria is infected with this virus,” Idris
stated.
According to Idris, “the Joint Federal and
State Team on the basis of all experiences
gathered from the response to this
outbreak recommends the following:
Mobilize funding for response activities,
logistics and supplies; train and orientate
health staff on the Ebola outbreak
response Standards Operating
Procedures, supply laboratory diagnostic
supplies or activate the mobile VHF
laboratory, provide adequate Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE); organize
psychosocial support and provide
incentives to health personnel involved in
Ebola outbreak response; design key
messages in the local language and
intensify public enlightenment in the local
languages and involve the community in
response activities.”

www.africanexaminer.com/nigeria-ambassador-3-ecowas-staff-55-others-had-contact-with-ebola-victim/

For some time now, popular Yoruba
actress, Omotunde Ogundimu, has
been off the movie scene. But if you
think she has found another passion,
then, you are wrong. At the moment,
the mother of three is battling a
debilitating ailment that has since
removed the shine from her acting
career. In this interview with DUPE
AYINLA-OLASUNKANMI, she
ventilates her pains and hope,
among other issues.
You seldom appear in movies these
days. So, what really is responsible
for this?
I have been ill.
So, how do you feel now?
I am still very weak. I was at the clinic and
the doctor revealed that, even if I have the
money readily available, I can’t undergo
the surgery now because I have lost so
much blood. So, I was given some drugs to
help boost the blood back to the level it
should be.
Which hospital is that?
It is called Beachland Specialist Hospital
in Arepo, Ibafo, Ogun State.
What is the nature of the ailment?
My period comes like 10 to15 days; then,
it will stop and come again. I menstruate
twice in a month. I noticed it last year
before my husband passed away. Anytime
we had intercourse, I would always bleed.
I took it for something else, so I didn’t
really pay attention to it. But when he
became sick and we couldn’t have
intercourse any more, it (the bleeding)
stopped. Then, I didn’t have time to study
it at that period too.
But what I noticed is that my menstrual
circle changed, so I would menstruate
twice in a month with very heavy flow. So,
at that time, I just felt it was one of the
signs of menopause because I am way
above 40. But last year, I had to go to the
hospital to complain and the doctor said I
had fibroid, even before the tests and scan
were conducted. When the scan was done,
it was discovered that the fibroid was fully
grown in my womb.
You said during the period your
husband was sick, you were not
having intercourse. But were you
having the heavy flow at that time?
Then, it was normal. But the only time it
became abnormal was when we had
intercourse, so I thought I was
approaching my period.
What do you think is exactly wrong
with you? Don’t you think it might be
a spiritual problem?
No; I don’t think so. You can only say
something is spiritual when you don’t get
a solution to your problem. But in my own
case, I have been able to find out what the
problem is and the remedy. Every woman
has fibroid, but it is only when it is
overgrown that it becomes a problem that
needs to be attended to. When it started, I
had people who shared their own
experiences with me and I was directed to
the hospital.
So, how have you been coping,
financially?
Well, I am presently in Ibafo, Ogun State,
which is close to my home town. When my
husband passed away, my family asked me
to come back home, so as not to be left
alone in Lagos, where I don’t have
anybody. So, I came home and rented an
apartment. But my children are in one of
the boarding schools in Lagos. I didn’t
want to change their school.
Whenever they are on vacation, they come
here and we spend time together. Sending
them to one of the best schools in Lagos is
part of my huge financial commitments.
But I am glad that I can do that for them
because I want them to have the kind of
education that I didn’t have.
With your state of health, you
definitely need some help. Is anyone
living with you?
Some of my siblings do come over to help.
But most of them are married and I
cannot force them to come and stay with
me. So, whenever they volunteer to come,
I am always glad to have them around. If
not that it went online, nobody knew I was
sick. I am a very quite person.
Why did you have to make the
ailment hidden for this long without
going public with it?
I am just a private person and I just felt I
could raise the money and go for the
surgery before anybody could know that I
was sick.
I don’t go to functions anymore because of
the state of my body now-I am so lean.
Nobody will see me without asking what
is wrong with me. Even the last time I was
on location, many of my colleagues felt I
was dieting and they complained that it
was too serious.
As a crossover actress and one who is
popular in both the Yoruba and English
sectors of Nollywood, one would expect
that you would have a lot of people
coming around you.
As I said, the news just got online some
days ago and I have been receiving calls
from every one of them, promising to do
something in any way they can. Most of
them didn’t know I was sick and the news
going online has drawn their attention to
my plight. I also got a call from the AGN
president, Ibinabo Fiberesima, asking me
to send my details and home address; she
promised that they will visit me.
How much do you need to undergo
the surgery?
N500,000.
Are you sure the N500, 000 you are
requesting for is just for the operation?
I pray the money will be enough. The
actual money for the surgery is N350,
000. But I just feel I’ll need some money
for my upkeep till I am able to stand on
my feet and get back to work. That is the
reason I summed up the whole money to
N500, 000.
But do you think you need as much
as that to undergo a fibroid
operation?
Yes, that is true. But it is a private
hospital and for someone like me to come
out and say I need N350, 000, people will
say I should be able to afford such an
amount of money because I am an actress.
But people do not know what I have been
doing all the while. I have single-handedly
been training my three kids and I have
been struggling to ensure they go to the
higher institution, which I did not attend.
Also, the treatment and drugs that I have
been taking have cost me a lot of money.
Right now, I don’t have any other business
I am doing apart from my acting career. I
was hoping I would be able to save some
money and set up a business. But all that
is on hold now.
Does that mean your in-laws were
not in support of the union?
The circumstances that surrounded my
husband’s death are best known to them.
He was married to five wives and he died
at the age of 41. After his death, they sold
one of his property in Abeokuta and
shared the money among us his wives and
gave a whole building to my children.
After that, no calls to even ask about the
welfare of their children.
What is your position among the
wives?
I am the second wife.
Didn’t you know he was married?
I never intended to go into the marriage.
But sometimes in life, some things take
place that you do not plan. You know
when you are in love with a man, you
believe everything he tells you. When we
were courting, he only told me he had
someone that bore him a child. When I
was pregnant with my first child, he took
me home to meet his father, who asked
me if he had told me about my senior (the
first wife); so, that was when I knew.
I didn’t understand what he was saying
until he told me that the man I wanted to
get married to already had a wife and a
child living with him. I left and told him I
was going for abortion. But he went to my
mum in Ibafo to inform her about my
decision and she came down with him to
Iyana Ipaja that same day to plead with
me. He knew I am the only child of my
mother and that she was already looking
forward to having grandchildren. That was
how I found myself in a polygamous home.
And then, I was working as a clearing and
forward agency at NAHCO, Ikeja, Lagos. I
had my own apartment, so he was always
at my place. But he was a lovely man and a
good man. He took care of me. But you
know, when there are so many women
involved, it is a different story.
Is it that you do not have friends in
the industry because you said none
has paid you a visit?
(Laughs) That was before! You know, it is
said that no matter the multitude, there
will always be a disagreement. But at the
moment, I am not fighting anybody. So, I
have been receiving calls and prayers from
most of them, promising to come and pay
me a visit. Most of them didn’t know I was
sick. As I said, I am a very private person.
We have had cases of stars seeking
help from the public. So, is it that
you people do not save for the rainy
days?
I understand what you are saying. But in
my own case, I have been managing on my
own all the while without asking anybody
for assistance. But the truth of the matter
is that the money we are paid here is
nothing to write home about. It is all
about helping your colleague, when he or
she wants to shoot a movie. So, it is
whatever the person has that you will
collect. All the stories they tell about
some people collecting N600, 000 for a
roles are lies.
But most of you live flamboyantly;
so, where do they get the money
from?
I don’t know o! I only know about myself,
my sister. Yes, some of them earn well
and are into other businesses. As I said
earlier, if I get back on my feet and start
working, I will get something else doing
aside my acting career. Some make
money from the movies they produce,
especially if the movies sell well.
Having been in the industry for over
a decade now, what can you say
about your experience as a
producer?
I have done three movies: Temidun,
Origun Meta and Abiamo Toto. I would
have produced another one, but I don’t
want to produce any movie that will be
below the name and standard that I have
been able to build for myself over the
years. But my first three were hits in the
market. That was when movies still had
values. What we have now are marketers
who always complain about low sales.
And I can proudly say I was able to make
good use of the proceeds from those
movies. I opened a wholesale wine shop,
but that is history now because that was
where I was collecting money when my
husband fell sick. And you know how
business is, once you don’t add more to it,
it will collapse.
I learnt Tope Alabi brought you into
the movie industry. Why have you
not sought her assistance?
We were in the dance group, Sunny
Wonders Performing Group, before she
left. We were into dramas and stage plays.
But after a while, we met again and I
stayed with her at her parents’ home,
which was not far from my uncle’s house
where I was living then. But when we met,
she started telling me about finding my
way into the Yoruba movie industry,
instead of wasting my time with the group
that promised to take us abroad to
perform. That was how she introduced me
to Alade Aromire Group. But I don’t have
her contact and that is the reason I have
not been able to reach her for assistance.
I am someone who does not like to bother
people. Sometimes, when you expect help
from a particular person, you might end
up being disappointed. And at the end of
the day, you will feel bad. That is the
reason I don’t like telling people about
what is happening to me. I am a fighter, if
not for the fact that Mr. Idris Bello of
Shybellmedia got in touch with me and
asked what was wrong. I told him I was
sick and he came visiting the next day.
When he saw me, he told me not to keep
mute on the issue. He said I should let
people know about my state of health,
stressing that those who would come to
my aid will do and those who will talk will
talk. I told him they would say, ‘Is she not
an actress? Why wouldn’t she be able to
afford such an amount? And he told me
that I have my life to live.

Source
www.thenationonlineng.net/new/help-im-dying-nollywood-actress-omotunde-ogundimu/

dadicvila: The money APC spends on Social media propaganda can be used to do some real grassroot campaign,why can't they learn from Ekiti and Anambra??are they so daft to keep believing that social media can sway the opinions of a large majority of the voting class in Nigeria??how many voters read all these trash they write on twitter and nairaland??......this post is a complete hoax just like the post of Fayose saying he doubts PDP can win in Osun,Nairaland is now a complete joke,but as long as the owner is making money,wetin concern me??

Whao,God bless you broda,calmly speaking seems Nairaland is becoming political in some news that are making the FP.

Nigeria is the only country in the world
whose Muslim faithful are celebrating
Eid-El-Fitri (the end of Ramadan
festivities) today following the
controversial announcement by the Sultan
of Sokoto, Abubakar Sa’ad, on Saturday
night that the new moon of Shawwal was
sighted in some cities across the country,
PREMIUM TIMES can report today.
This newspaper gathered, through
extensive investigations and interviews
with leading Islamic clerics, that the
Ramadan fast in other parts of the world
would only end today (Sunday), with the
Eid-El-Fitri celebrations holding on
Monday.
The Chairman of the Nigerian National
Moonsighting Committee, Hafiz Wali, as
well as a member, Sheikh Habeebullahi
Al-Ilory, told PREMIUM TIMES that in
no other country was the sighting of the
moon reported by anyone.
“It will interest you to know that Nigeria
is the only country celebrating Eid-El-
Fitri today,” Dr. Wali said. “That is
because it is the only country where
people claimed they sighted the moon.”
Dr. Wali said his committee advised the
Sultan that it was impossible for the moon
to be sighted on Saturday but that the
Sokoto monarch came under pressure
from people who claimed they sighted the
moon.
“By the estimation and calculation of our
committee, the moon could not have been
sighted and we did not sight it,” the moon
sighting committee chairman said.
“We gave a report that the moon was not
sighted but the Sultan received a lot of
messages from people who said they
sighted the moon. The Sultan could not
tell them they lied. He made his
announcement which is the right thing to
do.”
Mr. Wali said he and his committee would
however continue the search for the new
moon on Sunday night and that the Sultan
and other NSCIA officials would be
briefed on the outcome of the exercise.
In his own comment, another member of
the moon-sighting committee, Sheikh Al-
Ilory, the Rector of the Marcaz Institute of
Arabic and Islamic Studies, said the
Sultan’s announcement misled Muslim
faithful in the country and made Nigeria
the only country on earth observing the
Eid celebration on Sunday.
“The moon was not sighted anywhere in
the world,” Sheikh Al-Ilory said. “As at
11:00 p.m. on Saturday, our committee
advised that the moon was not sighted but
the Sultan still went ahead to announce
the end of Ramadan. I’m just wondering
why we have to do this to Islam. Is our
own moon different from the rest of the
world?
“As far as we are concerned, tomorrow
(Monday) is Eid-El-Fitri.”
Sultan Sa’ad, who is also the President of
the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic
Affairs, NSCIA, had around midnight on
Saturday announced the sighting of the
new moon and therefore the end of
Ramadan.
“The new month of Shawwal was sighted
in different places within Nigeria and
therefore tomorrow (Sunday) is the first
day of Shawwal equivalent to 27 July
2014,” the Sultan said in an announcement
aired on the Nigerian Television
Authority [NTA].
The Sultan made the announcement
despite receiving the report of Mr. Wali’s
Moon-Sighting Committee that the moon
was not sighted.
But when contacted after the Sultan’s
announcement, the Secretary-General of
the organisation, Is-haq Oloyede, a
professor of Islamic Studies, said he was
not aware that the moon had been sighted.
“I spoke to the Sultan about four times
tonight and he did not tell me that the
moon has been sighted,” Mr. Oloyede told
PREMIUM TIMES. “In any case, any such
claim is ridiculous and unscientific. It
cannot be right.
“The National Moonsighting Committee
has not informed us of any credible
sighting of the moon. Rather, they said the
moon wasn’t sighted. The new moon was
only born at 11:45 P.M. tonight (Saturday)
and it will take several hours for it to be
sighted.
“Is our own sky different? Is our own
moon manufactured in Nigeria?”

Source ----www.m.premiumtimesng.com/news/165660-moonsighting-controversy-nigeria-only-country-in-the-world-celebrating-eid-el-fitri-today.html

MisterLongman: Lagbaja Allegedly Declines to Perform At Iyiola Omisore’s Campaign Rally

Masked musician, Lagbaja, is alleged to have turned down an offer from the Iyiola Omisore Campaign Organization to perform at the grand campaign rally and reception for President Goodluck Jonathan coming up in Osogbo next month. Lagbaja was reported to have declined to perform at the rally because, he was convinced that Senator Iyiola a Omisore, the PDP gubernatorial candidate in the Osun State election was culpable in the death of his mentor and benefactor, Chief Bola Ige. 

Lagbaja was quoted to have said “Though the court of the land discharged and acquainted you in the murder case against the Former Minister of Justice in Nigeria, The Late Cicero of Esa – Oke and Foremost Nationalist; Chief Bola Ige, I have deep rooted innermost conviction that you are culpable in the death of my mentor and benefactor, if you offer me all the allocation of Osun State during your four-year tenure par-adventure you win (which I seriously doubt), I will not perform for Iyiola Omisore Governorship Campaign Rally” 

http://www.societygists.com/lagbaja-allegedly-declines-to-perform-at-iyiola-omisores-campaign-rally/

Nairaland is become annoying,why is that fake news are always making front page? Even the source of this article is feeble.

Well ,Nairaland is not even helping matter,words that are not suitable especially used in describing our leaders should be removed,there is a need for morals to be instill on this forum.

The campaign train of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) came under
attack at Ilesa rally, as PDP candidate in
the forthcoming August 9 governorship
election in Osun, Senator Iyiola Omisore
and other PDP party leaders narrowly
escaped death.
Our Correspondent reports that SSS
officers attached to Sen. Omisore were
injured in the attack. Also, the vehicle
conveying the party chairman, Alh Gani
Olaoluwa was badly smashed though both
Omisore and other party Chiefs escaped
unhurt.
The attack was allegedly led by the “state
boys”, a group of political thugs working
for the All Progressive Congress (APC).
The Director of media and strategy of
Omisore’s campaign organization, Mr
Diran Odeyemi said in a statement that it
was APC supporters that instigated the
violence.
His words: “Since the commencement of
our rallies, we have not recorded any
violence or breach of the peace. You will
recall that Aregbesola had said at
different campaign fora that Osun would
march on blood if he fails to win the
August 9 governorship poll.”
“Out of desperation to win at all costs,
Aregbesola had on four occasions called
on voters to go to polling booths with
charms and weapons and that they should
also confront soldiers in defending their
votes. So, what happened in Ilesa today
may be a signpost of their planned
violence before, during and after August 9,
2014.”

Source---- www.africanexaminer.com/breaking-news-omisore-pdp-chieftains-escape-assassination-at-ilesa-rally/

lawyer: That is a Very silly and insensitive thing for Fayose to say and it just shows how ungrateful and classless he is. He belongs to Pdp and no matter how badly Omisore is performing through the Polls, his duty is to prop up his party's candidate till the elections are over. Win or lose he should propagate Omisore's chances of winning the election but if he is already conceding defeat for his own party candidate 2 weeks to the election, he should be probed for anti-party politics. If other Pdp candidates and stalwarts have shown the same kind of lukewarm attitude that he is oozing before the Ekiti Election, would he have won? Very Silly Ingrate.

My brother,na u dey mind does supporter of APC party,just relax and wait small...the real Fayose will talk another thing.