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The newly appointed Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe who branded himself the Presidential “attack lion” who was alleged to have evade completion of a job after obtaining a mobilisation sum of about N200 million for a N300 million project during the regime of Senator George Akume of Benue State is no more ferocious and can be declared media AWOL. Was this as a result of the allegation which was brought to fore by the leading opposition party, ACN or is the attack lion just chilling in its den? You will remember that the ACN National Publicity Secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed in Ibadan described as false and deliberately misleading a statement credited to the spokesman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, Mr Wilson Uwujaaren that he is not aware that Dr Doyin Okupe is under investigation, as it is on record that Dr Doyin Okupe was in the custody of the EFCC in Lagos for almost one month between July and August 2006, on account of a contract he obtained this time from Imo state but which he failed to execute after collecting a hefty mobilisation fee.
The party reiterates its earlier position that retaining Dr Doyin Okupe as the administration’s spokesman on Public Affairs is not just an insult to the collective intergrity of all Nigerian but also flies in the face of the administration’s flaunted commitment to fighting corruption

kettykin: The gradual but steady Islamization of the SW is almost complete ,
By the Time the Naive and Gillible Yoruba Christians wake up it will be dam too late , My guess is that the fate of Yoruba Christian will be worst than that of Middle Belt Chistians who uptill now are mute and are still wondering when and how and what actually happened to them . The Bakares and OBJs who are busy fighting Goddluck Jonathan instead of fighting thier own battle, U na do welloo

when you noticed that your corruption card did not work u stealthy introduce the religious card. Yorubas are no bigots - the governor can come from any religion what matter is delivering on the Job. every Yoruba have a muslim and a christian in their line of descent so muslims and Christians in this part of God's earth are one. Lagosians voted massively for Otedola not because he is a christian. Igbos voted for Abiola/Kingibe (A muslim-muslim candidate) so bro, you cant induce an educated and multi-ethnic people of Lagos. and for Goodluck and Bakare he is the president so they have a right to "busy" criticizing him but you are sure not a Lagosian can you leave us with our choice? agent of anarchy

[/quote]As it is now, no one can say who will be the next governor of Lagos state, just as the opposition party PDP are pulling all the strings to upstage the ACN come 2015. It is indeed going to be a very good scenario because ACN as a party is well-rooted in Lagos state and the PDP is not leaving anything to chance.[quote]

at a point sef the paper confused itself. Any person or group of persons deliberately trying to smear Asiwaju - Oduduwa will confuse their ranks (ase)

Billyonaire: ACN in Lagos is more corrupt than PDP. I am yet to see what they do with IGR and State Allocation from ABJ. Lekki-Epe road is a PPP project. Badagry rail-line is world bank loan. IGR from each location is what is used in planting flowers in those locations. LAWMA are paid by households as Lagos State presents bills for that on monthly basis. Tinubu is richer than ACN and anoints each candidate. Indeed Tinubu is the god of ACN. PDP conducts primaries, ACN does not. This anointing should stop henceforth, let the best man win during primaries.

Billyonaire or what is that you name; you say Fashola is not doing anything, am sure you stay in ur village somewhere in the east because if you are in Lagos you won't say so . Tinubu is the National Leader of a party and the leader of the Yoruba just like his Baba, Awolowo in the UPN and AG days. and taking about primaries there is no section of the electoral law that mandates it neither does the constitution of Nigeria. its bera not to do primaries that the Kangaroo primaries that tore the dirty fabrics of PDP in Lagos till date.

what then will the administration do for the people - its not Ebele's fault shebi dis same APGA endorsed him in 2011; no wahala na una endorsed the shoeless

usmanyaro17: This Tinubu sef,na wetin be him problem,make him thread carefully because if he talk too much the spirit of Awo go hunt am..

Tinubu did not commission Sam Omatseye to write the article. its not a press statement from Tinubu's Media aide its an op-ed - its the writer point of view and thats the beauty of Journalism. sam Omatseye is the culprit here not Tinubu.

@OP you are only trying to smear Asiwaju's name with this post. Sam Omatseye was never a media manager to Asiwaju get ur facts right and your brain checked

Ak47 bullet: Ratatatatatata kpooooom! I do not beef TINUBU, but his removal of a Vibrant Senator and replacing him with his wife has made me to withdraw all respect I hitherto had for him. He wants everything for himself. Mtschweeeeeee

why not do yourself a favour, Fashola is still offering transport fare for pple who want to leave Lagos because for all i care Lagosians are not complaining. if Jega is not lieing or the International community; she won an election that is free and fair; she was not imposed on the people like madam first lady Permanent Secretary. she is a Nigerian just like your mother and so you know now that your mum is free to contest even if her husband, you father is not Tinubu.

and only News of the People a tabloid carries the story...abegi Ayo dey for im office for Festac.

i notice the recent desperate attempt to demonize Asiwaju but the truth of the matter is that it wont work.

Democracy is a system borrowed from the US, practised in Nigeria but benefited a few.

[quote author=M-16]Yorubastards please think on what you can do to help yourselves , stop thinking about what old stone age corrupt laden ex-governor thiefubu will do for you ,thiefubu lover's getting emotional .you are stuck in yorubastards apostasy .down down yorubastard up up nigeria[/quote]this is what happen wen seun misplaced his priority - banning Garr! When scumbags like dis flourish on NL. If u must advice me must curse or abuse me to achieve dat? If this M-16 is not ban trust me I will conclude Seun enjoys this show of shame.

If judging by his performance today I will rather watch '24' all over again on election day than vote for him. But who knows with dis myriad criticism the president might just be spurn to action. 2015 is still a longtime so let's leave the president to face his work and his fate come 2015.

acidtalk: Someone please tell me Tunibu wasn't the one that quoted the above. I want to believe someone impersonated him or cloned him.

This rogue has the mouth to talk of corruption?

NGERIA IS DEAD!!!

It is because Nigerians don't know their right. If not it is either Tinubu should have willingly gone on self exile or is stoned to death for theft in "Tinubu Square" in broad day light.

start by stoning d convited thieves like Ibori,Bode George,Alams,and co b4 thinking of stoning a man which by legal standard is innocent...Asiwaju's sin is dat he dare to lead an opposition; call him names all u can he is not perfect

Billyonaire: Tinubu, Oriental Hotel, LCC, Alpha-Beta, First-Nation's Airline, Nation News Paper etc, the Lion of Bourdillon, where did you get all these wealth from ? You still wanna grab Mimiko's Ondo State and control them like your robots in Lagos State and other ACN states. Mimiko is a smart motherfvcker. Anyone who beats Tinubu is worth my thumps up. Here we go again, Tinubu has gone on campaign of calumny. Mimiko isnt a traitor & Betrayer, he is smartness personified.

Tinubu is either a genius in stealing or the govt is a dullard in governance. If Tinubu is a thief and was not arrested like Ibori and d rest even wen he travel abroad then pple like ursef shld call GEJ and his govt to their responsibility.Tinubu is neva guility of any crime so labelling him a thief is fictious...take dis advise bro u will do well as a fiction writer cos in dat field assumption is rife

luvinhubby: Tinubu is a Megalomaniac, anybody that he cannot remote control like Fashola, Fayemi & Ogbeni is branded a betrayer or a failure by him. We all know he is worse than PDP in rigging considering what happened in Lagos local government elections & how he bought Justice Salami to give his ACN victory in the appeal courr. He should not decide for Ondo people how they shud be governed, they are capable of doing so.

if Tinubu is the one remote controlling Fashola and co then Ondo might nid the Magical remote control of Asiwaju...but like u said let Ondo pple decide abi Nigerians no decide fresh air?

Cassava bread talk

Michael Jackson was "an emotionally paralyzed mess" who was "scared to death" leading up to his planned "This Is It" concerts in 2009, this according to newly obtained emails sent by the promoters of the show.

In the emails, obtained by the LA Times, AEG's Randy Phillips traded messages back and forth with AEG President Tim Leiweke. In one email leading up to the 2009 press conference to announce the concerts, Phillips wrote, "MJ is locked in his room drunk and despondent ... I (am) trying to sober him up."

Phillips said Jackson was "an emotionally paralyzed mess," that Jackson was "scared to death," and that Phillips and Jackson's manager had to dress him. The press conference ended up being very brief and very strange.

The emails were part of the discovery in an ongoing lawsuit between AEG and the insurance company that backed the tour ... which is suing to get the $17.5 million policy

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/02/michael-jackson-this-is-it-aeg/#ixzz25PbDfcMM

Bobby Brown's wife, Alicia Etheredge, was hospitalized after suffering a seizure September 1, the "My Prerogative" singer confirmed via Twitter.
Etheredge had a seizure in the couple's Kissimmee, Florida, hotel room while Brown was at a soundcheck for that evening's New Edition concert at Gaylord Palms Resort. She was taken to a nearby hospital. "The report that my wife was rushed to the hospital is true. She is recovering and is in good spirits and doing well," Brown, 43, tweeted. "Please keep my family in your prayers."
Despite Etheredge's hospitalization, Brown and his bandmates Ralph Tresvant, Ronnie DeVoe, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Johnny Gil performed as scheduled. Brown, who entered rehab in mid-August as part of a plea deal stemming from his March 2012 DUI arrest, was in exceptionally high spirits. "I'm seven and a half years off of narcotics, 21 days clean of alcohol, and I go by the name Bad Ass Bobby Brown!" he told the crowd

thought the finance minister wanted to educate us like she said;

i almost didn't say anything...till i listen to the track

apology?...oti o

musiwa6: tinubu is not sellable... he knows that, that why he did not seek election to be president... tinubu was not the reason why ACN won... if i say they should not vote for the ACN or pdp and put another party name.. that party will win against ACN or pdp... do a small research about me.. if you doubt my statement.. ACN can test with ondo state election.

let put it this way.. by his grace that no man can boost i can make 1 million people stand in one stop to show you.. my word means alot.. i had a divine background.

if u are not a paid "Hater" of Tinubu can u just leave d man and go to the work where u get paid.

Roman Abramovich has won his $6.5bn legal battle with his former mentor and business partner, in the biggest private court case in British legal history.

The Chelsea FC owner, one of the richest and most private men in the world, was accused of black-mailing Boris Berezovsky into selling his interests in the oil company and aluminium conglomerate they founded together at a knock-down price.
Mr Abramovich in turn, accused Mr Berezovsky of extorting money from him for political influence and claimed he had paid him $1.3bn to buy his freedom when Mr Berezovsky fell out of favour with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Mrs Justice Gloster said that because of the nature of the factual issues "the case was one where, in the ultimate analysis, the court had to decide whether to believe Mr Berezovsky or Mr Abramovich".
She said that because "both the Sibneft and the RusAl claims depended so very heavily on the oral evidence of Mr Berezovsky, the court needed to have a high degree of confidence in the quality of his evidence".
The judge added: "That meant confidence not only in his ability to recollect things accurately, but also in his objectivity and truthfulness as a witness."

She announced in a lengthy summary of her judgment: "On my analysis of the entirety of the evidence, I found Mr Berezovsky an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable, witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to suit his current purposes.
"At times the evidence which he gave was deliberately dishonest; sometimes he was clearly making his evidence up as he went along in response to the perceived difficulty in answering the questions in a manner consistent with his case; at other times, I gained the impression that he was not necessarily being deliberately dishonest, but had deluded himself into believing his own version of events.
"On occasions he tried to avoid answering questions by making long and irrelevant speeches, or by professing to have forgotten facts which he had been happy to record in his pleadings or witness statements.
"He embroidered and supplemented statements in his witness statements, or directly contradicted them."
The judge said "the burden of proof was on Mr Berezovsky to establish his claims".
She referred to his "lack of credibility as a witness".
The judge said she had concluded that "in the absence of corroboration, Mr Berezovsky's evidence frequently could not be relied upon, where it differed from that of Mr Abramovich, or other witnesses".
She added: "I regret to say that the bottom line of my analysis of Mr Berezovsky's credibility is that he would have said almost anything to support his case."
Announcing that she found Mr Abramovich to be a truthful and reliable witness, the judge said she rejected the "serious allegations" that he was a thoroughly "dishonest and cynical witness" who deliberately called witnesses whom he knew would give "as they were intended to do, thoroughly untrue evidence designed only to mislead the court".
The judge added: "Neither the evidence, nor my analysis of it, supported that allegation.
"Likewise I reject the allegation that he manipulated the trial process or engaged in improper collusion with his witnesses, or was part of a 'smears and innuendo' campaign."
The judge also ruled that Mr Abramovich did not make either express or implied threats to Mr Berezovsky with the intention of intimidating him to dispose of his alleged interests in Sibneft.
In a year-long case that became highly personal, one of Mr Abramovich’s associates even accused Mr Berezovsky of sending a threatening text message to a potential witness, signed “Dr Evil”, the pantomime villain from the James Bond spoof films, Austin Powers. The message was never produced.
Mr Abramovich’s lawyers also accused Mr Berezovsky of “truly prodigious powers of self-deception” and giving evidence coloured by his “vanity and his self-obsession.”
They claimed that Mr Berezovksy was an “angry and embittered man” of “remarkable vanity and self-importance” which was “aggravated by a highly personal resentment of Mr Abramovich.”
“Large parts of his evidence can only be described as mendacious and dishonest,” they said in submissions to the court.
“He believes that Mr Abramovich has supplanted him in a position which is rightfully his and that he has acquired a sort of political influence under President Putin which he once enjoyed under a very different regime of Boris Yeltsin.”
Mr Berezovsky was once a “classic power broker” and one of the most influential oligarchs in Russia but the relationship was founded on krysha - political protection – and “the activities of a krysha or protector are inherently corrupt,” Jonathan Sumption QC, for Mr Abramovich, said in a written statement.
Mr Berezovsky "thought he had personally created Mr Abramovich out of nothing and put him in a position where he had only to sit there for vast sums of money to flow into his lap,” he added.
Laurence Rabinowitz QC, for Mr Berezovsky, had told the court that the two men had worked together during the Russian privatisation sales in the mid-1990s that followed the fall of communism to acquire an asset that would make them “wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of most people.”
In the process they “became and remained good friends” he said, but they fell out when Mr Berezovsky, who had adopted a high political profile in Russia through his control of a television station called ORT, fell foul of the Kremlin and was forced to leave the country and seek asylum in Britain.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9509975/Abramovich-wins-biggest-private-court-case-in-history.html

confusion247: Only a fool and a lazy man is afraid of independence. What is wrong with people seeking for freedom, self rule and self determination. Will every other tribe die because IGBOS have a country of their own? can't other tribes exist without the IGBOS? Why are you so scared at the mention of biafra? i am sure you are from a lazy tribe that feeds from crumbs that fell from igbos dining table.

are u serious? Well sha ask ur people if the bravery needed for self rule is "cyber" cos all u ve is "e-bravery" nothing more. Is it not better to be lazy and wise than to be brave and stupid? Ur food is not even enuf for u how crumbs wan take fall

chosen04: I have also discovered same thing. . . . . . . . .

If one says that the north should leave niGERia you will hear all the Yoruba peeps and others hailing that statement. But once one says that the Igbos should leave the cursed entity called nIGERia you will hear the same set of people that supported Hausas to leave shouting one niGERia . . . . . .

We Igbos are wiser now..........We are BIAFRANS and not niGERians.........To hell with those who have sworn that we must remain with them in this cursed entity. . . . . .

If they love niGERia so much let them and their loved ones enjoy the cursed entity and leave Igbos alone . . . .

someone just clone ur stupidity wit a "like"...sure a reason to celebrate ur folly

CHESSBOARD: Coward that why you remain slaves even in 21st century and you slaves die even b4 the braves u r talking about

d only reason y I chose to respond is cos I cant stand a coward like u calling me names...well am sowie if my post make u angry bt going by d number of ur so calld "braves" dat was killed during d civil war u can understnd I dnt want to lose my friend, Emeka, uche, ify, chuks to anoda senseless war. But if u re brave and not a slave hoist the flag, it will make a better pix for ur obituary or wat do u think?

Mr President dis is wat we mean by veing balls...nyc one on this and pls continue.

Be brave ye soldiers of Biafra...and ur testimonial shall be ur obituary poster

ednut1: I remember being called names by friends wen I told dem dis was a stunt, 9ice nd rugged, dbanj and jazzy are also stunts too

did the name calling include "gullible" cos that best defines u. Am close to the family and b4 Afo of city people interviewed her she told me d "prank" but just dat she wasn't laughing