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  • POLITICS: President Goodluck Jonathan & The Nobel Peace Prize

    By Efio-Ita Nyok |7 April 2015| 10:35am
    The Nobel Prize is a set of awards in five fields -Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, & Peace; initiated by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor, industrialist and armament manufacturer.
    The Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded annually since 1901to those who have “done the most
    or the best work for fraternity between nations,
    for the abolition or reduction of standing armies
    and for the holding and promotion of peace
    congresses”. There have been a handful of nominees and recipients. Prominent among these recipients are Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, etc. In this piece I intend to articulate a set of propositions advocating for the Nobel Prize for Peace to be awarded to Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the incumbent President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
    28 March 2015 was set aside by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) for the conduction of the 2015 Presidential/National Assembly elections. It was a hotly contested presidential elections between the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and his arch-rival, namely, Major General Mohammadu Buhari(Rtd) of the foremost opposition party, the All Progressive Congress(APC). The later won the presidential election by a landslide margin of over 2.3 million votes!
    On Monday 30th March with a few minutes past 5pm the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan picked his phone and put a call across to his opponent, Mohammadu Buhari, who was obviously the winner, before the votes were totally collated and the  winner was officially announced, to concede defeat. Below is the historic concession speech:
    Caller : Your excellency, sir. Hope I’m speaking
    with General Buhari, sir. President Goodluck
    Jonathan would like to speak with you, sir.
    Receiver: Yes. Okay, hold on.
    Jonathan: Your Excellency
    Receiver: Hold on, sir.
    Buhari: Your Excellency
    Jonathan: Your Excellency, how are you?
    Buhari: I’m all right.
    Jonathan: (Laughter) Congratulations
    Buhari: Thank you very much, your Excellency.
    Jonathan: So, how are things?
    Buhari: Well, I’d congratulate you more
    because you….
    Jonathan: In a few days find time to come so
    that we can sort out how to plan the
    transitional period.
    Buhari: Alright, Your Excellency. Thank you
    very much
    Jonathan: Okay, congratulations
    Buhari: My respects, Your Excellency. Thank
    you.
    The speech was unprecedented and outwitted some. It etched the incumbent’s name in gold. Through this singular statesmanly act an anticipated civil war in Nigeria was averted. Because should have Jonathan refused to honour the results by INEC then there would have been a military take over which wouldn’t have gone down well as there would have been tension and conflict and then a full blown civil war between the minority and majority tribes in Nigeria. Worst still, the just concluded presidential elections were obviously hinged on tribal/ ethnic and religious sentiments and not based primarily on issues or ideology.
    Nigeria comprises over 250 ethnicities with over 400 dialects. It’s a multilingual and multi religious society. It’s has over 170 million citizens. It is Africa’s most populous country. And the continent’s largest economy. Each of the major ethnic groups are over 15/30 million each. So, they are nations in their regard. It stands to reason then that, that singular phone call by Jonathan entrenched both peace and democratic ideals in Nigeria, West Africa and Africa at large as trends in Nigeria are perceived to have spiral effects on the adjoining regions and the entire continent. In other words, that historic phone call did the most or best work for fraternity among the nations of Nigeria, West Africa and Africa, in the words of the Nobel Peace Prize tradition.
    It’s in view of President Goodluck Jonathan’s contributions to peace nationally and continentally that he is been tipped in some quarters to be a recipient of the Mo Ibrahim Peace Prize for the year 2015. While this inclination is commendable I am proposing that Jonathan be made a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his outstanding contribution to peace in Africa in contemporary times.
    While this proposal may be pooh poohed by some on the grounds of his inability to deal a profound blow to the insurgency in the northeast, namely, Boko Haram, it should be recalled that corruption is endemic in Nigeria, and this ignoble trend did not begin with his administration. Besides, it is in his administration that the Corruption Index of the country appreciated positively according to the rating of international corruption index organizations. Finally, Jonathan’s contributions to peace in Nigeria, courtesy of that 30 March historic phone call, far outweighs his inability to curb the insurgency in the northeast of the country.
    It’s on these well founded premises that, I am nominating Goodluck Ebele-Azikiwe Jonathan as a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • NEWS: Mani Appointed As New Chief Security Officer For Buhari

    9:10am 7/3/2015
       
         A new chief security officer (CSO) Abdulrahman Dauda Mani  was appointed for the president-elect Gen Muhammed Buhari (Rtd) as part of security arrangement ahead of his swearing in on May 29.

         Abdulrahman Dauda Mani is an operative of the Department of Security Service (DSS)

         Mani’s appointment was announced by the director general of the DSS Ita Ekpenyong last week when he paid a courtesy call to Buhari. Mani's appointment also came with accelerated promotion by the secret service.

        He was deployed by the DSS as a security detail to Buhari in 2011 weeks before he launched his campaign that year.

    Daily Trust learned that security has been beefed up around the president-elect a day after he was presented with a certificate of return by INEC.

    Extracts from Nairaland

  • ACCIDENT NEWS : SHOCKING: pastor accused of murdering his pregnant wife.

    By Nelson Amaobi Osuala. 07.04.2015,  08:46am
    A Ghanian self proclaimed prophet and evangelical preacher has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his pregnant British wife in a hotel room.

    The body of the deceased, Charmain Adusah, 41, was found Dead in a hotel bath face down where she was alleged to have been lying for four days. Her husband, Eric Isaiah Adusah, was alleged to have left the hotel room hurriedly on the said day just like someone that is been chased by a Ghost. He told hotel managers on his way out that his three – month wife was ill and would not like to be disturbed.

    A closed family friend said that Mr Adusah, 28,flew back to london but later returned to Ghana after his wife’s body was found by concerned hotel staff.

    Now, Mr Adusah is being held in police custody in Ghana on suspicion of murdering his wife, whom He married suddenly last september, following a whirlwind romance. Family members and friends confessed that such a swift wedding was a great shock for all of them.

    Prior to the time of the incident at the hotel z, reports had It that the couple had argued at the starting of the trip and that Mr Adusah had consequently booked himself into another hotel alone, leaving her to stay with their conference host, Bishop Yaw Adu.

    Mr Adusah, who was until this time the leader of Global light Revival Ministries based in Tottenham, north London was described in a conversation with journalists as a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’, stressing that the husband had brain washed his wife.

    The couple had travelled to Ghana early this month so that He, Mr Adusah could preach in a 3-day religious conference hosted by the controversial evangelist ‘Bishop John Yaw Adu, who has been exposed for chaining up mentally ill patients of prayer camps for days on end in the guise to heal them through prayer.

  • Entertainment: Ciara New Album Causing A Stir As Jermiane Dupri Claimed Its A Rip Off Of 'U Got It Bad, By Usher Raymond'. Ekun Samuel 7|April|2015, 8:37

    Ciara forth coming album will be released May 4th named Jackie which she named after her Mum with a single 'I bet'. This will be Ciara sixth album and the first in two years. Meanwhile Usher producer Jermaine Dupri has claimed its was “a complete rip off” of U got it bad by Usher Raymond.
    Dupri was speaking in the aftermath of last month's ruling at the US District Court in Los Angeles, where Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were ordered to pay nearly $7.4 million to Marvin Gaye's family after a jury determined their 2013 hit 'Blurred Lines' copied elements of the R&B legend's 1977 single 'Got To Give It Up'. The producer and so-so def rapper later said he, Cox and Usher will be asking to be credited.

  • ENTERTAINMENT: Behind-the-scene pics from Wizkid's video shoot today

    Anyone know how much that luxury car cost? Wizkid shared photos from his music video shoot today with director, Sesan Ogunro.

  • NEWS: Pastor arrested for stealing from various churches in Lagos

    45 year pastor Tope Kolawole pictured above has been arrested by the Lagos state Police command after a failed attempt to rob a church in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos state on March 31st.

    According to the Lagos state Police command spokesperson, Kenneth Nwosu, the suspect, Pastor Tope, who until his arrest specialized in breaking into churches and stealing music instruments, wall clocks, offering and tithe, had gone to the said church where he robbed them of their amplifier, two music mixers, one keyboard, one stabiliser, two DVD players and one Samsung plasma 32 inches television and was about to run away with the stolen item when he was nabbed.



    Confessing to the crime, Pastor Kolawole said

    “I specialise in stealing from churches. I steal music instruments. I have a receiver and buyer known as Alausa. Without him, I would not have gone to churches to steal. When he heard that I have been arrested, he went into hiding. I steal in the churches I worship to avoid suspicion. I have been succeeding except this one. I was remanded in Kirikiri prison by Task Force from Alausa for hawking on the highway. I am a qualified pastor because I went to theological school and was ordained pastor in 2008 at Ile-Ife by Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) but I worship at Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) at any of their parishes. It is the devil that caused my frustration that made me to steal in the house of God. My wife Bunmi is a nurse with children. I live in Sango and go to Lagos to operate because Ogun is good for hiding after operation. It was what the Task Force did to me that made me to become a thief because they made me lose everything I had got in 10 years. I used to gather items at about 10:30pm and by 5am, I go to nearby road to look for taxi to take me to Oshodi. Where the taxi driver is in doubt, I call Alausa who claims to be the General Overseer of a particular church I once stole from. He is the one that pays the taxi driver once I deliver the goods. I am now a born again; if I am released, I will open a church and appoint those suspects elders of my church. We will not rob again but work for God.”he told The Nation

  • NEWS: Photos: 3000 PDP Members Decamp to APC In Benue, Publicly Tear Membership Card

    By William Oyo-Ita 6 April2015 7;18pm

    3000 PDP members in Benue state tore their party membership cards as they decamped to the APC at a ceremony in Benue state recently. Lol. The ruling party is the winning party

  • POLITICS: INEC Insist On The Use of Card Readers(CR)

    By Efio-Ita Nyok, 6 April 2015, 1:48pm

    Following concerns on the challenges as well as fears from some political quarters on the use of the Card Readers(CR), the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), through its Secretary has reiterated its stance to use the CR in the forthcoming gubernatorial/House of Assemblies election slated for 11 April 2015.

    It has been perceived that most of these concerns are genuine. For instance, the CR, during the just concluded presidential elections of 28 March 2015 is noted to develop some technical hitches. Like the battery running down, network failure, inefficiency of the staff handling the machines etc. On the other hand, some of those pooh-poohing the use of the CR are those political parties, like the PDP, who are afraid of the free, fair and credible elections the use of the CRs occasions. Be that as it may, the insistent use of the CRs by INEC is commendable. However, the genuine concerns raised by critics should be looked into by INEC. Below, is the reading of INEC’s official position.
        

    The Independent National Electoral Commission wishes to inform all Nigerians that Card Readers will be used for the April 11, 2015 Elections.
    The provision of the Guidelines for the conduct of the 2015 General Elections which outlined what is to be done if a Card Reader fails and cannot be replaced by the Commission within a specified time frame (i.e. Reschedule the election to the next day) will be enforced.

    2.      The relaxation of the Guideline on 28th March 2015 was only with respect to the Presidential and National Assembly elections held on that date.
    3.      The Commission has reviewed the operation of the Card Reader in the 28th March Elections, identified the challenges and has taken adequate measures to address them.
    Mrs. Augusta C. Ogakwu,
    Secretary to the Commission 

    2nd April, 2015

  • NEWS: You Will Die If You Fail To Vote Ambode – Oba of Lagos Threatens Igbos In Lagos

    By William Oyo-Ita 6 April 2015

    Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu has threatened Igbos in Lagos, saying any Ibo man or woman who fails to vote Lagos state APC governorship candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode as Governor in next Saturday’sgovernorship election will die within 7 days. According to Oba Akiolu, he owns Lagos and his bidding must be done by everyone in the state.


    Daily Independent reports that Oba Akiolu gave out the threat when he met with Igbo leaders resident in Lagos at his Palace yesterday April 5th.

    “On Saturday, if any one of you goes against Ambode who I picked, that is your end. If it doesn’t happen within seven days, just know that I am a bastard and its not my father who gave birth to me. By  the grace of God, I am the owner of Lagos for the time being. This is an undivided chair. The palace belongs to the dead and those coming in the future. On Saturday, if anyone of you, I swear in the name of God, goes against my wish that Ambode will be the next governor of Lagos state, the person is going to die inside this water.
    For the Igbos and others in Lagos, they should go where the Oba of Lagos heads to. When they were coming to the state, they didn’t come with all their houses. But now they have properties in the state. So they must do my bidding. And that is the bidding of the ancestors of Lagos and God. I am not ready to beg you. Nobody knew how I picked Ambode. Jimi is my blood relation and I told him that he can never be governor in Lagos for now. The future belongs to God. I am not begging anybody, but what you people cannot do in Onitsha, Aba or anywhere you can not do it here.

    If you do what I want, Lagos will continue to be prosperous for you, if you go against my wish, you will perish in the water. I am for the progress, growth and development in Lagos, Ambode is highly cerebral, he’s a symbol and he is going to deliver the message which I the Oba of Lagos have said. And he will govern the state for another eight years. He is going on a mission and God will give him the wisdom and knowledge to fulfill that mission. Almost a year ago, I declared that Ambode will be the next governor of Lagos and it will not change. From time immemorial, the previous occupiers  of this house will say what they wanted after consultation with other people. And this hasn’t change and it will not change at this time.” he allegedly said

  • ENTERTAINMENT: Keeping Up With The Kardashians' Star Responds To Wearing A Black Face

    By Ekun Samuel 6|April 2015

    Keeping up with the Kardashian Star Kylie Jenner took to Instagram and posted a photo of her latest shoot wearing a black face shinning face. Followers on Twitter later accuse her of wearing a black face.

    The 13 year old reality star later removed the photo and posted another one which She caption, This is a black light and a neon light people lets all calm down”, which she tag the photographer, makeup artist, hairstylist and studio.