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DickDastardly:
Buhari the Dullard shut up and give us CHANGE. Moronic Dogonyaro

your are f00l! Id1ot! I don't really like Buhari but he is my president. Meanwhile Buhari is been very calculative, he will recover all those our money stolen by the last corrupt administration by that Otueke man, it a very difficult job, Mr President is working hard, it just a matter of time we will start seen, feeling, enjoying the effect.We should be patience till the end of this year.

Tinubu has decide to handsoff, una see the outcome? This was exactly what he was trying to avoid

Saraki is a big thief

Daura President??

dustmalik:
It is only fair if a PDP governor is appointed into such committee. It shouldn't be seen to be an all APC affair when, in fact, it's a national issue. Buhari is only being fair here, and nothing more.

Again, this doesn't amount to anything other what I stated above.

now you are saying this, assuming it GEJ am sure you will be singing a different tone. Naija shaaaaaa

ddippset:
G

G for God

ziccoit:
Let's assume we go the way of Balarabe Musa to implement his suggestions as the way forward, he would still come forward to attack whoever is occupying that seat. Musa is an activist, a social crusader like late Gani Fawehinmi, those that hardly see anything good in government of the day. He is just doing what he knows best which is putting the government on his toes.

Nobody I repeat Nobody can be compare to late Chief Gani Fawehinmi!

The Unity Forum, group loyal to the Ahmed Lawan faction in the tussle for the leadership of the Senate has tabled six reasons why the election of the Deputy President of the Senate Ike Ekweremadu is dangerous for the APC-led Federal Government.

The group in a letter to the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), insist that Ekweremadu must go.

The June 21st letter reads: “It is with utmost humility and a deep sense of responsibility that we write to appraise you of the dire implications of the emergence of the PDP Senator, Ike Ekweremadu as Deputy President of the Senate at this critical time when our party should have been properly positioned in the Senate to enable the smooth take-off of this administration.

“While doing so, we reckon the great expectation the Nigerian people have had on us as agents of change and our party manifesto as a facilitator of this breakthrough.

“Although the tradition in the Nigerian Senate concedes much power to the Senate President, it is indeed the Deputy Senate President that directly interacts and controls the day to day activities of the Senate.



” Some of the functions of the office include:
•Regularly presiding over the plenary session of Senate especially during those times the Senate President may be away attending to other functions. This could afford him and his party the opportunity to frustrate the good intentions of our government.

•The Deputy Senate President is chairman of Constitution Review Committee, which conducts the exercise of carrying out fundamental changes in our Supreme Law. This position may give him and his party, the PDP the opportunity to frustrate necessary and vital constitutional amendments in the course of this administration.

•By legislative convention, the Deputy Senate President collects and supervises the final budget documents in the preparation of the Appropriation Bill. This is the most important piece of legislation in the realization of our party’s manifesto which must not be left in the hands of the opposition party.

•The Deputy Senate President is statutorily the chairman of the Governing Council of the National Institute of Leguslative Studies (NILS). This institution is charged with the responsibility of building capacity for our legislators and their supporting staff.

•The Deputy Senate President also represents the Nigerian Legislature at the ECOWAS Parliament as Speaker. It is certainly a misnomer for a government to be represented at the international level by someone outside our party.

•And many other functions that might be assigned him by the President of the Senate.

“With the above functions of the Deputy Senate President, we feel extremely concerned about implications of a PDP Senator occupying this exalted position at this time when Nigerians have voted for

http://abusidiqu.com/unity-forum-tables-six-reasons-why-ekwremadu-should-quit-as-deputy-senate-president/?UA-34095171-2=.”

Proof that VP appointed him and not PMB

Change! Change! Change!

Former North American Bureau Chief of The Guardian, Laolu Akande,  has resumed as the spokesman of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
Pastor Akande was in the Aso Villa on Monday as President Muhammadu Buhari and his V.P officially relocated to the seat of power.
Vice Presidential Spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande in a warm embrace with Mr. Bayo Obisesan (r) at a parley with State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Photo by Abayomi Adeshida
As a journalist reporting for the leading Nigerian newspapers including The Guardian, Pastor Akande is regarded as the longest serving African correspondent at the United Nations, and the only Nigerian journalist so far to have interviewed a sitting American president in the White House when he interviewed former President George W. Bush. He has also exclusively interviewed American folk hero, General Colin Powell, billionaires like Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Donald Trump and several African leaders and presidents.
Pastor Akande started his journalism career as a Reporter in 1989 writing for the Guardian titles and later moved over to the founding team of The News Magazine in 1993, where he became that magazine’s Senior Writer. In 1995 he joined Nigerian Tribune titled first as Special Projects Editor and later became the Editor of Tribune on Saturday in 1997, before he relocated to the US in 1998.
In the US where he is also an adjunct college professor, Pastor Akande is the founder of Empowered Newswire, and has continuously reported about Nigerians and Nigerian issues especially in the US and Canada in the last 13 years.
He had earlier worked with leading American newspapers including the Philadelphia Inquirer, and New York Newsday. Also at the United Nations, he worked briefly as a Press Officer and later as Advocacy Consultant between 2002-2004.
He became a pastor in 2007 at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Jesus Friends Assembly in Long Island, New York. Pastor Akande is Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, CANAN’s Executive Director.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/rccg-pastor-laolu-akande-resumes-as-osinbajos-spokesperson/

OREMUSSANCTUS:
We don't nid his position, all we want from d old man, is for him to appoint ameachi as d ambassador to congo

I rep Genea

President Muhammadu Buhari was yesterday urged by the South-South community in Abuja to zone the position of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, to the area, stressing that such would ensure equitable distribution of leadership positions at the federal level.
President of the group, Barrister Lawrence Alobi in a statement observed that the offices of President, Vice-President, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Deputy Senate President and Deputy Speaker have been distributed among the North West, South West, North Central, North East and South East, leaving the South-South zone in the lurch.
Alobi, who had served as Commissioner of Police in the FCT averred that appointing SGF from the zone would give the region a sense of “While Mr. President continues with his consultation on the best individuals with cerebral potentials and proven integrity to form the federal cabinet, we wish to state that the present outlook of leadership at the federal level is with a seeming national spread except that the South-South zone was yet to be integrated.
“While we have no doubt in the ability of Mr. President to make the right decision that is best for the country, we wish to lend our voice with a passionate appeal to him in the interest of justice, equity and fairness, to balance the spread and appoint the Secretary to the Government of the Federation from the South-South zone to give the zone a sense of belonging, and also making his government all-inclusive,” he said .
The South-South community in Abuja ended the statement by applauding President Buhari for his international and regional engagements towards finding a lasting solution to the menace of terrorism in the country and sub-Saharan Africa.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/06/22/south-south-community-begs-buhari-to-give-region-sgf-slot/

Kaduna—For allegedly refusing to part with N500, some unidentified soldiers in the early hours of Monday shot a truck driver conveying potatoes from Zaria to Kaduna.Protesting the shooting, other truck drivers used their vehicles to block both sides of Zaria-Kaduna highway.The development led to several hours of traffic gridlock at Tudun Wada Dankande, near the old toll gate, scene of the incident which reportedly occurred at about midnight.
From his hospital bed at St. Gerald’s Catholic Hospital in the Kaduna metropolis, where sympathisers rushed him, the driver, Abdul Saminu, said the soldiers forced him to stop and that after confirming that he was carrying a consignment of potatoes, demanded N500 from him.
He recounted his ordeal: “The soldiers used their van to block the road and I had to stop and they found out that my truck was filled with potatoes.
“They then asked me to give them N500, but I told them that I had only N200 on me. They were not happy, so they dragged me out of the truck and started slapping me before one of them pulled the trigger and shot me in the leg. They entered their van and drove off.”
Efforts to reach the Army spokesman at the 1 Division of the Nigerian Army were unsuccessful, as he did not answer repeated calls to his phone.
It took the intervention of Kaduna State government for the tanker drivers to be persuaded to end the blockade at about 3p.m. yesterday.
Deputy Governor of the state, Bala Bantex, and the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Umar Usman Shehu, visited the scene and appealed to the protesters to call off the action, assuring them that the relevant authorities had commenced investigation into the matter.
 
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/soldiers-shoot-driver-over-n500-colleagues-shut-zaria-kaduna-highway/#sthash.Ss1eydiX.dpuf

OrlandoOwoh:
Yemi Osinbajo is really working behind the scene.

God bless the President.

Very active man

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Nigerians can be funny sha, The Don Dorobucci shared a picture of himself getting a Gorimapa hair cut and his fans swooped on him with funny and ridiculous reactions.


See tweet after the cut:

Rilwayne001:
PMB is working, TANoids are crying. TANoids will by Gods grace cry till eternity.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

Confirmed General!

Sai Baba!

Any name for this?

Fellow Nigerians, please permit me to say right away that the ways of politicians are never that of ordinary mortals. Otherwise, we would not have found ourselves in the present peculiar mess which culminated in the virtual fiasco at the National Assembly, last Tuesday, June 9, 2015. The emergence of Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki as Senate President has ignited an unprecedented conundrum in the Upper Legislative chamber for several reasons known and unknown to the general public. What is clear is that it was a high-wired game of political chess which caught even the most politically-savvy members of our society napping. It is a tale full of sound and fury but signifying nothing but plenty of intrigues and abracadabra.
But it wasn’t as if the outcome of that combustive election had not been predicted and foretold. The platform had been provided by the inability of the amalgamation of different political parties that made up the All Progressives Congress (APC) to enter into a prenuptial agreement, prior to sealing the union, as to how to share power then and in the future. It was similarly tantamount to a polygamist failing to prepare a comprehensive Will ahead of his death and then suddenly dropping dead intestate. The hullabaloo would naturally reverberate across the seas and to far-flung places.
The APC had managed its multi-faceted marriage well pre-2015 elections to the admiration and adulation of most Nigerians who had expected the unification to be scattered to the winds after the primaries that produced General Muhammadu Buhari as the APC flag-bearer. But, mercifully, the cracks were ably glued and even solidly cemented as the Presidential aspirants came together in an atmosphere of uncommon maturity and vowed to work jointly with their Party’s candidate. Such camaraderie was seen as indication of a new political order and remarkable sagacity in our clime. It was one of the reasons many Nigerian first time voters got connected to the change mantra of the APC and gave their unqualified support to an opposition party that was fighting for a life of its own.
Against all odds, including intimidation, manipulations and near-bastardisation of the electoral process, Nigerians went out with renewed determination  to exercise their voting rights and stood stoutly to monitor and protect their votes with anything and everything. The burden of expectation would soon manifest its ugly head after the monumental victory. I had written articles about this and in particular the inherent danger of ascribing talismanic powers to President Buhari and his team. Unknown to us, this was going to be the least of the problems of APC. The lurking danger would turn out to come surreptitiously from a different and unexpected direction, in this case, power-sharing formula.


The CPC had succeeded in producing the President while the ACN got the Vice Presidential slot. The third and very influential bride was the New PDP.  A not too distant party in the wedding party was the ANPP. APGA also played the role of bridesmaid. One would have assumed the New PDP would get a sizable chunk of the vast estate from the deal but this was not the case. Outsiders like us had warned about the danger of not taking good care of all interested parties in this holy matrimony. In fact, I had sermonised in my article titled Let’s Honour Our Heroes (Thisday, May 2, 2015) about the need to accommodate and compensate the New PDP in the arrangement without any prevarication whatsoever:
“The first point to note is that APC must resolve all its power-sharing squabbles amicably and equitably. The greed factor must be jettisoned for fair-play. Every partner in the greatest political merger ever in Nigeria must be treated with respect and decorum. No attempt should be made to treat anyone as an inferior member of the union. Once that is taken into consideration and settled pronto, the party would enjoy the bliss it deserves after a most excruciating campaign. What kills most amalgamations is egocentricity. I already foresee a war of attrition if APC does not immediately halt the present macabre dance by some of its members. The Party and the Government that it will establish at executive and legislative level must not see itself as a coalition of Parties with separate ideologies and detrimental interests. Having fused into one it must behave as such and cater to the core doctrines embedded in its manifesto.


“Let me be more specific. The APC has been locked in a logjam over the zoning of the highest positions in the land. The way I see it is that CPC has already produced the number one slot. ACN has provided the number two. ANPP has secured the boss of all bosses the National Chairman of APC. The New PDP which came into the union with five formidable Governors and a multitude of National Assembly members is yet to get any position. This appears to me as grossly unfair and disproportionate. It is one of the reasons many onlookers and non-party members like me supported the candidacy of Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki as Senate President. We must learn to honour our heroes. Dr Saraki with Governors Rotimi Amaechi and Rabiu Kwankwaso risked everything to make this Change Movement possible. They and their other colleagues took the bulls by the horns and took the battle to the doorsteps of PDP. It is unfathomable how anyone would say they don’t deserve any chunky positions in the grand alliance…”
Unfortunately, it seemed no one hearkened to my admonitions. Obviously, Saraki was vehemently opposed by some top guns and practically turned into a pariah within his own party. Yet he was the first to throw his hat into the ring for the position of Senate President.  It seemed that other contestants were only put forward mainly to thwart Saraki and not because of the added value that they would bring to nation building. Without any fear of contradictions, Dr Saraki is one of the most cosmopolitan politicians in Nigeria today. He is in the league of the El-Rufais, Donald Dukes, Babatunde Fasholas, Rotimi Amaechis, Adams Oshiomholes, Kayode Fayemis, Pat Utomis, Godswill Akpabios, Rabiu Kwankwasos, Tanko Al Makuras, Ibikunle Amosuns, Abiola Ajimobis, Waziri Tambuwals and many others who have shown enough promise of a greater Nigeria. I will be proud to showcase a Saraki in the gathering of world leaders and wondered how anyone would seek to suppress the obvious potentials of such an urbane and confident politician.         
I followed the shenanigans that ensued with rapt attention and keen interest. Every obstacle was placed in Saraki’s path to make sure he did not emerge as the winning candidate for the post of Senate President. Feeling rejected and dejected, but nevertheless determined to succeed, he must have turned to his former friends at PDP for support. At any rate, it should have been obvious to any discerning mind that it would be difficult to win the election without the co-operation of PDP Senators. The numerical strength of the PDP, with more than 40% of the Senators, made this a matter of stark fact. Since it did not appear some powerful members of his party favoured him, Saraki was buoyed by the support that he would get from the PDP. This was the beginning of the chaos that would explode and engulf the House of APC.  
What happened when the APC leadership decided to shoot itself in the foot by summoning a Party conference with the President at the same time the Senate was being inaugurated is now the subject of intense speculation as to who, how, and why?  What is clear is that this opening gambit played spectacularly into the hands of the Saraki faction.  Call it what you want, a coup, double cross, ambush, outflanking, outsmarting, or any other nomenclature; this was surely a great military strategy at work.  It is interesting that some of those in the forefront of the denouement are all military, from Senator David Mark to President Buhari.  The deft move cut the opponents dead in their tracks.  Whislt they were scurrying back to the Senate, having been left in the lurch by a President who had earlier stated in no uncertain terms that he was not going to interfere in the matter, Senator Saraki was being returned unopposed as Senate President by 57 Senators elect out of 108.


The PDP which had co-operated in securing the Senate Presidency for one of their former colleagues suddenly saw a wind of opportunity as there were still not enough APC members to elect a Deputy Senate President from the ranks of APC.  Seizing the moment they immediately put up Senator Ike Ekweremadu as thier candidate for Deputy Senate President.  He duly won.  I believe there was nothing Saraki could have done about this even if many feel he should have waited for his late-coming colleagues. APC simply did not have the numbers at the time and there is nothing in the Constitution stopping the PDP from doing this.
Indeed, given the disunity in the APC it is a wonder that PDP did not decide to go for the Senate Presidency itself.  With its block of 49 solid votes it would only take Senators Lawan or Saraki to split the APC vote for a PDP candidate to win by default.  There would have been nothing wrong with this, as the Constitution does not stipulate that it is the sole prerogative of the ruling party to present the Senate President or indeed the Deputy Senate President.
There is no doubt that the Constitution expects some sort of democratic input into the selection of the Senate President and his Deputy.  It envisages that all shades represented in the Senate must participate in this process. If it wanted only the majority party to present a candidate or candidates it would have said so.  In any event this country had just come from witnessing the glorious feeling of what true democracy can bring about.  Why should APC which is the prime beneficiary of that spirit of democracy seek to egregiously deprive one of its own from engaging or enjoying this kind of spirit?
It is also instructive that ACN, one of the integral parties of the APC spearheaded the PDP revolt which led to His Excellency Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State becoming Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2011 over Honourable Mulikat Adeola who was the anointed candidate of the PDP.  PDP cried foul at the time but APC blew the trumpet of democracy and the constitutional right of members to elect their leader.  The PDP realising the truism in this position sheathed their swords and embraced Tambuwal thereafter. The Party closed ranks and worked together. It is not clear what the difference is now and why APC should be complaining when what is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander.  What goes round comes round. For PDP it was certainly payback time. And they did so real good. At least, APC should have pretended that it was not pained at all. After-all, our dear Brother, Tambuwal remained The Speaker to the very end despite picking the gubernatorial mandate of APC and PDP bore its anguish with equanimity.
Now APC must, like PDP in 2011, must close ranks and move forward.  It is gratifying that the number one father of the nation and  the quintessential leader of APC, President Buhari, immediately congratulated the new leaders of the National Assembly and pledged to work with them. Other national leaders including the Chairman of the APC, Dr John Oyegun, and the projected Chairman of the Party’s Board of Trustees, former Vice-President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, also did the same. This is what Nigerians need in this climate of change and I know that my dear brother and Publicity Secretary of the Party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed would now have the chance to join his fellow Kwarans in jubilating a rare feat by Oloye Saraki.


I must again single out for praise Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the stoic way he has handled the smashing of his carefully laid plans.  Like the statesman that he is, Asiwaju has refrained from pouring oil onto the raging fire even though he is obviously piqued and miffed.  That is as it should be.  At the end of the day it is Nigeria’s interest that is paramount and not personal interests. Tinubu has the culture of bowing to superior logic and I’m he has risen above unproductive altercations. I’m looking forward to seeing that special photograph of reuniting with his dear Aburo in the next few days. Nobody wants a divided ruling party because that cannot augur well for the much sought progress that the country and its long-suffering citizens are clamouring for.
These are momentous times for Nigeria.  Everyone agrees that Dr Bukola Saraki has the qualities for making a good Senate President who will work in grand collaboration with the Executive led by President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the rot in our polity.  Like the President, Saraki wanted this position and worked for it.  He is not a reluctant candidate who simply contested or was drafted for the sake of it.  The problem he faces currently is the strong suspicion that he may enter the Presidential race in 2019. We shall elaborate more on this speculation, sooner than later.
But whether true or false, this is no justification for throwing away this charming baby with the bathwater. God bless President Buhari for dousing this volatile tension.

Pendulum by Dele Momodu,


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/saraki-and-the-battle-for-2019/211856/

Good point

Irrelevant

that cool

femi4:
Very good! Now do the cummulative frequency. How many times did Athletico win it?

bro I think chelsea has only won the EPL once in last 5yrs does that mean they haven't been good? The thing is Athletico won it and that shows the league is very competative

femi4:
Arsenal finished third this season, Liverpool was second last season. The arrangement keep changing every season. Apart from last season, laliga was stucked at Barca-Madrid . I considered last 5 seasons

you are wrong, last season Barca and madrid were second and third, looking at EPL beside last season it has always been Mancity-Man utd-Chelsea among themselves in top 3, now in La Liga 3rd and 4th has alwayz been rotating yearly