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For all I know, Rochas is a traitor

ladej:
she wont take it easy. the power, wealth, position is something she isnt used to, so hence the abuse

U got it wrong here.... She has been at the corridors of power for over 16 years. She might have been too domineering but do not take it away from her, she is a strong, rugged and agile woman. The direct opposite of her husband. She is really a great woman but with excesses.

jamace:
Buhari is going to rule through a new brand of democracy which I will call military-democracy.

He might not make it to the end of his tenure as he might face impeachment. Nigeria is bigger than the Certificateless Graet Grand Pa Almajiri promoter

jamace:
Buhari is going to rule through a new brand of democracy which I will call military-democracy.

He might not make it to the end of his tenure as he might face impeachment. Nigeria is bigger than the Certificateless Great Grand Pa Almajiri promoter

haywire1:


GEJ don finish our money ooooo ;



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Pls just keep quiet.

these are the group Great Grand Pa certificateless Almajiri Buhari should start his anti corruption campaign with if he is really serious. Anything less will be perceived as witch hunting and vengeance.

skullbaba:
That what I called leadership. He is already telling the military gear up for a real fight but this time around with direction. A leader must takes responsibilty on many front, first he must takes responsiblity of the past whether good or bad, GEJ was a product of the BAD past but he never admitted it, in a sane country he can never be a councillor but for the grace of OBJ who imposes him and UMY on us. GEJ want to enjoy the goods in governance and not the bads. A leader must take responsiblity to all bad that happen in his administration and his inability to clean his precessor mess. Buhari job now is to clean GEJ mess and take the nation a step forward with a clear direction cos now we are lost in the wilderness and we have been trecking in it for the last 40yrs. May God help sai buhari may God save Nigeria

Which fight are u talking about here? the one he probably started that GEJ has almost finished.

Pls Buhari should bear in mind that after May29, we will start protesting and chanting Buhari bring out your girls.... #Buharibringoutyourgirls. no more #Bringbackourgirls

NeuroBoss:
Since the Oba of Lagos uttered his controversial Lagoon jibe, Lagos has come under a certain attack. It is the foray called, “No Man’s Land.” By that the settlers say Lagos is Nigeria’s city and no ethnic group should lay claim to it as their own.
The position came into play in the just-concluded governor election. It also reared its insular head in the aftermath of the National Assembly and presidential polls in which non-indigenes scooped a haul of seats by besting indigenes.
This sort of attitude is not only arrogant, but. also inherently disrespectful. 
No one settles in a place and displays a proprietary disdain because the indigenes open their hearts and minds and money to them.
The point often made is that Lagos was Nigeria’s capital city, and because of that it soared into a special status in the country. On that score, they argue, the indigenes have lost the right to claim it. It is now Nigeria’s Jerusalem where every tribe and tongue and worshipper has as much right as the other.
This sort of thinking is defective on a number of points. One, it is historical revisionism. That Lagos was a capital city did not happen out of a whim. Where were the other ethnic groups when the indigenes fought wars, built the city, and turned it from a near wilderness into the mustard seed of city? Did they know when Kosoko and Akintoye duelled for the throne? In the colonial era, Lagos was not the only city they treasured. Others included Calabar, Port Harcourt, Lokoja, et al. The reason Lagos transcended others is rooted in the indigenous population’s attitudes to others, their cultural liberalism and economic expansiveness. The colonial authority focused on it, and developed it because it opened itself to such fertility of progress.
Lagos also allowed itself to flower during the fury days of nationalism, breeding names like Azikiwe, Ojike, Mbadiwe, Awolowo, Adelabu, etc. In fact, the dominant party was NCNC, and it was an umbrella for all tribes. The non-Yoruba politicians learned Yoruba, and that itself was homage to the indigenes. How do you learn the language of the indigenes and say it is no man’s land. Zik was fluent in Yoruba, and it helped him ascended the roof in the high noon of Nigerian nationalism. Lagos was not the only port city, and was it the only city that persons surged to make a new beginning? But Lagos exceeded others because of its indigenous people’s open arms.
What happened in the past few weeks with the Igbo against the Yoruba was unfortunate because both ethnic groups have lived together in Lagos for a generation without much rancour. In fact, many of the Igbo have resided in Lagos without a sense of alienation as the indigenes have given them free rein in commerce and culture.
But it was the last election that triggered this, and it was the shadow of President Goodluck Jonathan that we should blame. He came to town to incite the non-indigenes, including those in the Niger Delta, against the APC. By implication, he characterised the APC as a Yoruba and Hausa party. He even held meetings with them without decency and in one of such outings he said INEC was discriminating against them in the distribution of PVCs. Those who are quick to call him a statesman should note this.
Jimi Agbaje, the PDP governorship candidate, fuelled this by ratcheting up the emotions of the Igbo against the ruling party in the state. This ethnic card led to the vote pattern in the presidential poll. Southsouth and Southeast people decided to vote against the ruling party based essentially on ethnic as well as religious grounds. The factor of faith ossified the revulsion against the APC. Even though the APC prevailed, the pattern revealed ominous fault lines of faith and tribe.
The concept of no man’s land is a prostitution of the constitution that allows residency in Nigeria, and therefore allows any person of whatever tribe to contest elections anywhere as long as they are constitutionally accepted as residents. It is prostitution because few adhere although all should. If Lagos accepts and acts it, it is expected to be respected by all. But as far as I know, it is rare to see what happens in Lagos anywhere else in the country.
It is this lack of hostility to strangers that has now been taken to mean acquiescence. Only Lagos has grown to accept the spirit of residency requirement for election. Other parts of the country accept it, but only philosophically.
But before Jonathan, the indigenes have not openly challenged Lagos as Yoruba land. The last time it significantly caused rumpus was in the 1950’s when Zik wanted a Yoruba man, Prince Adedoyin, to step down from the legislative seat for him. He refused and Zik went to his father, and his father, an Oba, shunned him. Zik had earlier boasted about the role of the Igbo as the tribe of destiny in Africa, and that led to ethnic self-awareness among the Yoruba who had naively believed that the Igbo elite were playing politics without tribal fidelity.
The Yoruba, especially with the Ibadan People’s Party, scuttled Zik who was on his way to become the first premier of the Western Region. Zik cried foul, and lobbed a charge of tribal politics against the indigenes. He did not especially help himself when Eyo Ita, a minority in the East, was denied the chance to be premier of the East.
The Yoruba self-awareness in stopping Zik reflects Shakespeare’s words in Hamlet: “Beware of entrance into a quarrel; but being in, bear it that the opposed should beware of thee.” That self-awareness is palpable today in Lagos.
The bad blood in the past few weeks contradicts the feeling of mutual peace both ethnic groups have had for over a generation. Even during the civil war, the Yoruba did not only keep Igbo property, but kept their rents. It is unfortunate that it took the serpentine zeal of a Jonathan to rake up suppressed bad blood. It is the same Jonathan that did not fulfill any major promise to the Igbo and who only fattened its opportunistic elite with juicy contracts and appointments. In Lagos, all ethnic groups have enjoyed dividends of good government. It’s not perfect, but Lagos has remained the state of example.
The United States has always called itself a melting pot, and that means all who come from outside should not impose their will, but be part of the society. That is in contrast to Canada known as a mosaic. In a mosaic, outsiders maintain their full will but outside the mainstream.
The poet Walt Whitman noted this about America. “I am large/I contain multitudes.”
But we have to go back to healing now, and learn to live together. No group needs to be punished for how it voted. It is part of the beauty of democracy. But it means we should learn to understand that diversity calls for the acceptance of the other side in a bid to build a society not hampered by clannish virtues but riding on the wings of merit.

@OP.... Ur crap reeks of rubbish. Every Yoruba man from any part of the world now lay claims to Lagos when they have actually contributed little or nothing to its development and advancement.

What will happen to her young, firm and erect boobby (breasts) now. She is really violent to have gone to carry a knife twice.

fitzmayowa:
A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kano State (names withheld) allegedly abandoned his agbada and jumped a fence, while evading arrest over electoral offences.

Kano State Police Command has declared him and four others wanted for electoral offences during the governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state.

Addressing reporters in Kano, the Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Idris, said suspect, a close associate of a minister, was implicated by 14 suspects arrested by security agents for the destruction of sensitive electoral materials at Kauran Mata, Madobi Local Government Area of the state.

He disclosed that when security agents stormed the suspect’s residence to effect his arrest, he jumped a fence and escaped into the bush, abandoning his flowing gown, agbada.

Mr. Idris further said the command recorded 26 electoral offences, in which 76 suspects were arrested and 78 sticks, 16 knives, 32 cutlasses, four swords, two catapults, 15 arrows, one axe, wraps of Indian hemp, among other exhibits, recovered.

He also disclosed that it arrested an INEC ad hoc staff at Bankamawa polling unit 003 in Shanono council for thumb-printing 53 ballot papers for a governorship candidate.

and 16 House of Assembly ballot papers, in a hospital room.

He commended journa-lists and other stakeholders for the successful comple-tion of the elections in the state, noting that no single life was lost during and after the exercise.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/pdp-chieftain-abandons-agbada-jumps-fence-evading-arrest/#sthash.hd0kxiRq.dpuf

No guns, no RPGs, kano people still dey learn work.

ItsAnderson:

Told her I wouldnt wanna have sex again until I Got
married (which will be, at most, three years from
now), and the next day she sent me a text message
ending the two year relationship. I'm now caught
between a cliff and a high wall. She never told me
why. I just hope it's not because of the sex issue.
Honestly, I feel used because she was my first and
only. I Am 24 and almost through with my bachelors
but I've never found sex that appealing. We've dated
for more than two years but had sex a total six times.
I now feel horrible. I am not very religious but I just
feel like sex before marriage is just wrong. But I dont
think I am willing to let her go either.

If u think its because of sex she is quiting, Pls give nairalanders her contact (phone no or email) they will fix her for u

themilanway:
No wonder your uncle with PHD was booted out in favour of a certificateless old grand pa.Dont you get it?The people dont give a middle finger about your age and qualificationN,they want to see you make a difference.

Maybe he is happy his people remain uneducated almajiris whom he will always use for his political ambitions. what an irony. Snake no fit born frog naa!!

teejah03:
d picture seem not to be real

ow can somone av dat sore on the head and he wont die immediately and he will still be upryt

pictures deceives somtyms

before i say #nopicsure then #idontbeliveit but its way round nw

Who is ur weed supplier? his stuff is real good

mekadinho:
HAUSA GUYS? ON THEMSELVES? GREAT NEWS, LET IT CONTINUE LIKE THAT, YORUBAS ON YORUBAS, IGBOS ON IGBO, IJAWS ON IJAWS; ESP FULANIS ON FULANIS, THEY SHOULD LEAVE INNOCENT BENUE CITIZENS ALONE.

Fulanis have really dealt with Benue people. E remain for Benue people to flee their land from these cattle rearing marauders.

Bayswater:
And the usual pandering continues. This is a law passed by the state house of assembly. This law can only be changed by the men that passed it. Buhari needs to chill and stop feeding on the ignorance of the Nigerian masses.

I dont think he is feeding on the ignorance of Nigerians, rather I think he himself is ignorant and still reasons like a military dictator. At the rate he is going, he will make history as the first president of Nigeria to be impeached.

lolaxavier:
Still on this certificate matter. Una no dey tire. So easy to judge which tent you belong to....Anyway, he has won and he is now confirmed as the president-elect. If you are not satisfied, there are many life wires and transformers that are available for hugging. Try one...

Even if i jump into Kainji dam or jump inside Geregu power plant, it wont give Great Grand Pa certificateless Almajiri Buhari a WAEC certificate.

dridowu:
Colonel Sambo Dasuki, (retd), Nigeria National Security Adviser (NSA) has given an assurance that the Federal Government was making every effort to ensure that the girls along with every other Nigerian abducted by terrorists are rescued.

The NSA who spoke to PRNigeria, a media agency that distributes press releases on behalf of security agencies, also promised that Sambisa Forest, the fortress of Boko Haram terrorists and one of their last remaining camps will be stormed and liberated before the May 29, 2015 presidential hand-over date.

Dasuki spoke on the occasion of one year anniversary of the kidnap of the over 200 girls from Chibok, Borno State by Boko Haram militants.

Kashim Shettima, the Governor of Borno State recently told journalists that the missing Chibok girls were being held in the dreaded forest. “Right now, all Boko Haram camps, except Sambisa Forest have been destroyed,” the NSA said.

According to him, the forest would have since been liberated but for the unfavourable weather condition prevailing in the area as all needed reconnaissance activity and necessary deployment of troops have been made for the operation.

“Every movement of the terrorists is being monitored and every necessary detail is being taken care of to rid the country of the last bastion of terrorists infestation,” Dasuki disclosed.

He insisted that government is concerned about the welfare of every single Nigerian including the girls adding “aside the Chibok girls, other Nigerian girls, boys, men and women were abducted by the terrorists and all efforts are being made to rescue them all.”

While appealing for a little more time to complete the routing of terrorists, Dasuki recalled that before elections were postponed in February, over 20 local governments were occupied by Boko Haram and that most Nigerians were pleasantly surprised that so much was achieved against insurgency within six weeks.
While commending President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on the successful conduct of the 2015 round of elections, the security adviser however, noted that nobody pressured the President into conceding defeat in the presidential election.

“President Jonathan had already given his words to all the security and service chiefs before the election that he would abide by the decision of Nigerians. At the meeting, he also told them to perform their duties professionally during the polls.

“While we anticipated that he would congratulate his opponent if the result is announced in favour of opposition candidate, he gratuitously without prompting of anyone conceded defeat to the surprise of all,” the NSA said.

“By that singular gesture he had saved the security agencies and the nation of unnecessary tension and stress in maintaining law and order and curtailing excesses of likely protesters.”

While commending the fairness of media in the coverage of elections, he nevertheless urged them to be conscious of malicious reports being sponsored by vested interest. He denied a report that he was at any polling units during the last governorship election and was never involved in any meeting with judicial officers to truncate any democratic process.

Immediately after the postponement of elections in February this year, Sambo Dasuki had assured Nigerians and international community that all known terrorists’ camps would be destroyed while most of the occupied communities under Boko Haram in three states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe would be liberated to allow for peaceful conduct of elections and collection of more voters cards by the electorates.

“All known Boko Haram camps will be taken out. They won’t be there. They will be dismantled. In addition to the acquisition of more sophisticated armaments and training of our troops in guerrilla warfare the new military co-operation agreed to between Nigeria and its neighbours will prove decisive against Boko Haram.”



http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/04/14/fg-will-rescue-chibok-girls-before-may-29-dasuki/

If the military destroys all boko haram fortresses b4 may29, that means Great Grand Pa Certificateless Almajiri Buhari will not have any other security issues to tackle since his campaign was mainly hinged on the issue of boko haram insurgency in the north and fighting corruption. I hope Dasuki is right so the president Elect will concentrate with delivering on his campaign promises and developing Nigeria rather than be distracted and frustrated with insurgency and terrorism just like Jonathan.

texazzpete:
Keep watching with your hate-filled eyes. The rest of us Patriots will look to Buhari for good governance.... Which encompasses a whole lot of things. Including security, power, respect for human rights, a strong anti-corruption campaign and a restoration of Nigerian pride.

If Buhari does not deliver, we vote out APC in 2019.

I like your sense of reasoning. I only wish Great Grand Pa certificateless Buhari would desist from being sectarian in his utterances, and when or if he assumes office, he will fulfill his campaign promises as president of Nigeria not president of northern Nigeria.

shammah1:
This morning, we read that the PDP governorship candidate in Oyo state, Teslim Folarin, allegedly removed a transformer he donated to a community after he lost in the election. Well. he just released a statement saying it's not true. Read below...

"It is with sadness that I learnt of a particular incident which purportedly took place in the Sabo area of Ibadan on Sunday. I understand that a transformer which I had donated to the community was the subject of controversy between the youths of the area and some leaders with either side accusing the other of trying to sell the transformer. The PDP youths in the area subsequently took the transformer to a safe place within Sabo area itself pending an amicable resolution which I understand was resolved by the leaders of the community.
Fact; I was not aware of this incident until this morning when I was woken up with headlines all over the internet that I had taken back the transformer because I had lost an election. It is instructive to note that no media house had even contacted me to find out the truth.

I have since contacted members of Sabo community and they confirmed that the matter has been resolved.

Which brings me to the worrying conclusion that a well orchestrated and sophisticated campaign of calumny has begun against my person as a precursor to the 2019 elections. I would advice my supporters to take heart and remain peaceful as this is only one in a long line of attacks that I will expect from enemies of my progress.

For now it is a time for healing and introspection, we have had a long campaign and everyone needs to rest and thank God for his or her life before asking God to prolong our lives to the said 2019.

I thank the good people of Oyo state for your continued support."

One love.

Oloye Teslim Folarin
PDP Gov Candidate Oyo State


http://lindaikeji..com/2015/04/statement-from-oyo-governorship.html?m=1

So na because of election u donate transformer? Pls go and bury ur head in shame. Nigeria does not need politicians who will only remember to do stuff for their people only when they need to be voted for.

OAM4J:
What about PDP?

Base on the same sentiments you gave, can we also say PDP is gradually turning to SS and SE party?

cant u see that the emergence of APC divided Nigeria between ethnic lines. study the voting pattern and tell urslf the truth. I Pity the westerners because soon the north will muscle them out of governance and the romance will end abruptly.

franciskaine:
Hmm! APC cleansing itself of nefarious filibusters. This is a child's play compared to what Buhari will do to political criminals.

Story for the gods....may29 no far

HaroldFinch:
I think he's right. I wonder what the military drones have been looking for all this while, if there are any at all or why the military is not even close to giving us any information. But I don't agree we should stop the talking as well. This issue is one that needs to be repeated, we can chose to forget corruption cases once the hype is gone, but please let's keep asking them to #bringbackourgirls

After may 29, it'll become #Buharibringbackyourgirls

bugs1:
http://leadership.ng/business/425559/pib-nupeng-threatens-strike-if

The Petroleum Industry bill is one reason I loved the Jonathan adminstration, but the enemies of Nigeria never want to allow the bill passed into law. please if NUPENG can help us, we will appreciate.

Why cant these war mongers, terrorist financiers and imperialist country keep out of our matter. Na for our hand dem dey get mouth. Make dem go rest joorrr. I'm tired and wary of that country called USA

NgwaManNaija4LF:
BOKO HARAM CAME INTO MY MIND...AS AN IGBO MAN..I WAS NOT HAPPY WITH NIGERIA HAVING A WEAK PRESO AND WE IN DIASPORA WANTED HIM OUT AT ALL COST. THANK YOU NIGERIANS FOR VOTING THIS CLUELESS MAN OUT.

U are among the minority igbo that voted or supported Great Grand Pa Certificateless Almajiri Buhari.

babamadiba:
You forgot to add. HE WAS A LIAR!

I strongly believe that APC as a party has told more lies than the devil himself. Devil dey learn work from Lai Mohammed hand seriously!

Biting the Finger that fed him

His biggest mistake till date is not keeping OBJ satisfied, biting the finger that fed him. You see, those who rise to power on the shoulders of others depend on the fortune and goodwill of him who has elevated them, Jonathan let his rift with OBJ thrive and that was a very, very grave mistake. You see, so far the Old military junta, so far the former military leaders live, Obasanjo is still as relevant as he was in the old days…..He should never have underestimated the power of the Iroko of Owu…he should never have!
In choosing enemies, make sure you know everything about your enemy….his alliances, his strengths. Obasanjo is a man who has ruled this country for a combined 11 years so he knows the inner workings of governance including its weaknesses. GEJ should have been wiser.



U mean u support the idea of God fatherism?? I weep for Nigeria. With such opinions, Nigeria is not ready to move forward.

maureeoy:
learn to talk matured please. that's very rude for you to say about your president.
he is your president and there is nothing you can do about it.

Great Grand Pa certificateless Almajiri Buhari is not yet the president until may 29 and mind u he still has a court case to answer on april 22.

maureeoy:
learn to talk matured please. that's very rude for you to say about your president.
he is your president and there is nothing you can do about it.

That he is d president-elect has not given him any certificate nor stop him from being a great grand Pa

YoursGEJ:
Apology rejected. This boy must be impeached

U can start with ur family and impeach ur Dad first! Fayose is a strong man loved by his people.

Badgers14:
Negotiating her jail terms, perhaps

Mumuness....sorry ignorance is not a disease, it is an affliction. U need urgent help.