HOW PDP DEPLOYED CHRIS UBA TO EKITI TO RIG FOR FAYOSE

Ekiti APC spokesman, Segun Dipe wrote.....Chris Uba, Omisore, Obanikoro and the Commissioner of Police in charge of the election are right now at Pathfinder hotel in Ado Ekiti, mapping out strategies of how to rig Saturday's election. We would like to inform them that we know all their plans and they should be ready to kill as many people as possible because we shall resist their rigging plans with all our might. We are prepared! Obanikoro WILL NOT LEAVE EKITI ALIVE if he rigs.

Akunyili For Burial August 28, Family Welcomes Tributes

Former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. (Mrs.) Dora Nkem Akunyili, OFR, will be buried on August 28, 2014, the family has announced. “Details about the funeral arrangements will be made available to the public in due course,” Prof. Akunyili’s husband, Dr. Chike Akunyili, said in a statement issued today in Awka, Anambra State. Dr. Akunyili thanked Nigerians for the great love they extended to Dora both in life and at death. He also expressed his family’s appreciation to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for the special valedictory session of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) held in honour of Dora. Dr. Akunyili advised anyone who has a tribute or testimonial in honour of Dora to send it by e-mail to amazon4life@doraakunyilionline.org, amazon4laif@yahoo.com, or amazon4laif@gmail.com. He advised people who wish to make enquiries regarding Dora’s funeral to call any of the following numbers: 08181333222, 08103198444, or 08098020976. It would be recalled that Prof. (Mrs.) Akunyili, a former Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), died last Saturday, June 7, after a two-year battle with cancer. Prof. (Mrs.) Akunyili, who was a delegate to the on-going National Conference in Abuja, would have turned 60 on July 14, 2014. Signed: Dr. Chike Akunyili (Husband) Awka, Sunday, June 15, 2014.

Chibok: Just in case there are no more girls to bring back

The show of solidarity for Nigeria very recently over the missing Chibok school girls have strengthened the hope of most stakeholders in the Nigerian project, that after all, Nigeria could still be noticed by world powers, and not just leave us to our fate, with a wave of the hand comment that ‘leave those people, abnormality is become normal to them’. First from the United States proclaiming their interest in coming to help search for the abducted school girls, United Kingdom, France and several other countries have moved troops down, with the latest being Iran. All parties have always expressed optimism about finding the girls, just as the Nigerian government has promised that it will stop at nothing to find the girls. Clerics have also joined in, calling for prayers and fasting, with the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev Paulinus Ezeokafor proclaiming in a recent news report that the time for the girls to return is very near now. The sect has remained adamant to all the #BringBackOurgirls campaign, instead the leader of the Islamic sect, Abubakar Shekau has released more videos, claiming in one that the girls will only be released in exchange for their detained colleagues, and in another that the whole world put together cannot find him or the girls. For a man who speaks with such boastfulness and assuredness, we would have been forced to pause and think again that; it is either they are no girls to find as Asari Dokubo had campaigned or the girls have been conveniently disposed of(God forbid). One writer I love so much is Chinua Achebe. His works are usually laced with proverbs that can match all circumstances, but now is not about proverb but about his entire work; Girls At War. No one has bothered to think that the Islamic sect may have wiped out the girls, the reason they boast that the whole world put together cannot find them. We simply hate to think so, but we must weigh all options available, so that it will not be a shock to us if it comes. Beyond having wiped out the girls, do we not also think that the ‘our girls’ whom we clamour so much for their release may now have become ‘their girls’? Since the #BringBackOurGirls campaign started, our whole idea of the girls is one of a chaste, harmless, innocent little girls who were studiously studying to sit for an exams but were rounded up in one fell swoop and taken captive. The picture above may not be far from the truth, but with the long stay with the rudderless bunch called Boko Haram, what is our assurance that the girls we clamour for their release will on their release still see themselves as our girls? What is also our assurance that the girls we shout ourselves hoarse for their release are still safe and could be released in one piece? Lets wonder about these too. Not to instill fear in parents, but because the parent of a little bird which constitutes itself into a nightmare to farmers told it, “if you eat the farmer’s yams, also do well to eat a little of the root of trees, so that when the farmer harvests his yams you can live on roots’. See a summary of the short story Girls at war, written by Late Prof Chinua Achebe. It could be described as the first #BringBackOurGirls campaign ever embarked on, but this was done by a character in the story, Reginald Nwankwo. The first time Reginald met this girl was while traveling from Enugu to Onitsha. She was a fresh school leaver and was hoping to join the military service to assist in the Nigeria/Biafra war. He had given her a lift and had advised her to pursue her education and shun joining the military. Reginald liked her, he may have been a womanizer, but he felt this was a small untainted girl, and since fate had brought her his way, he owed it an obligation to help direct her future and nurture her. The next time they met months later, he was travelling from Onitsha his base on a weekend to Enugu to see his family. It was in Awka that he ran into this checkpoint, and his usual flash of his identity card and short introduction at checkpoints in a deep throated voice, ‘Reginald Nwankwo, Ministry of Justice’ did not do the magic. The civil defense lady who flagged him down searched him thoroughly before introducing herself as the girl he gave a lift the other time. She explained that she could not get into the military, so she was making do with Civil Defense. Reginald could not help but like her even the more for her tenacity. That she insisted on searching him even though she knew him made him like her the more, he offered advice to her and sped off, but his mind was still preoccupied with her. The next time they met was just some months after the second meeting, and Reginald had given her a lift while travelling from Onitsha to Owerri. She was no longer the little innocent girl Reginald knew, she wore a wig, and a high pair of shoes, and Reginald wondered how much transformation could have happened in just months of his seeing her last. Though she was going to see a friend as she claimed, she ended up in Reginald’s place, and he was so surprised when after a night party she entered his bedroom and asked him, ‘you want to shell?’, a slang word among soldiers during the war for having sex. She proceeded to tell Reginald, ‘don’t pour troops’, another slang for; don’t ejaculate in me. Reginald concluded that such is the harm war can do to young innocent girls. There was famine everywhere and as the war bites harder, the cheaper girls were becoming. Reginald, moved to tears about the state of a once upright and innocent girl decided to rescue her. Availability of food he thought in this hard period would be the first step, so he took part of the food stuff he had brought home that was meant as relief to soldiers and gave her. He was thinking of other packages that can help #BringBackHisGirl, but food was number one. As he drove her back to Onitsha, suddenly there was an air raid, the driver parked the car and ran out to save his life, and Reginald did the same. The girl never succeeded, and so all of Reginald’s effort to #BringBackHisGirl wasted. We hope that such will not be our lot with the missing Chibok girls, but now that Boko Haram has written principals of Secondary Schools in Borno, threatening to met them with the same fate as the Chibok Girls secondary School, then we must begin to also see how we can stop further reoccurrence as well as bring back the already kidnapped, instead of concentrating on bringing them back and leaving our flank wide open for others to be taken.

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HOW GOV OBIANO TOOK THE NEWS OF HIS VICTORY IN COURT YESTERDAY

A source told this blog that immediately the news of his victory in the tribunal was disclosed to him by his aides who were at the tribunal, Chief Willie Obiano, Governor of Anambra State who was in his country home waiting for news from the court jumped up and broke into a dance. "He scampered out of his living room to the sitting room and started dancing in the traditional Aguleri war steps, brandishing his right hand as if it were a sword. he did thiS for like 45 seconds all to the admiration of his supporters."

Akunyili died thinking of the betterment of Nigeria – Obi

Late Prof Dora Akunyili, former minister of Information and immediate past Director General of National Agency for Food and drug administration and Control(NAFDAC) has been described as a woman who died thinking of how to make Nigeria better. A release by former governor Peter Obi stated that Akunyili died on Saturday morning at about 10am in an Indian cancer specialist hospital, after battling the ailment for close to two years. Recall that Akunyili, despite ill health accepted to be a member of the national conference and also contributed actively in the on-going conference, but had to leave for India to receive medication in an Indian hospital. A release by former governor Peter Obi stated that, “On behalf of the Akunyili's family, I wish to officially confirm the death of Prof. (Mrs.) Dora Nkem Akunyili, OFR, in a Specialist Cancer Hospital in India this morning at 10 am, Nigerian Time, after a two-year battle with cancer. “In spite her illness, Prof. Akunyili was unwavering in her belief in a better Nigeria. That was why she defied her condition and was part of Anambra State Handover Committee and the National Conference. “The last time I visited her in India, even when she needed all the prayers herself, she was full of concern for the abducted Chibok girls, security and other challenges facing the country and told me that she remained prayerful for the release of those girls and for God to help President Goodluck Jonathan to overcome all the challenges facing the Nation. She therefore urged all Nigerians to remain prayerful and committed to building a better society for our children. We all prayed together and I promised to be visiting her every month. “We thank all those who remain fervent in prayers for her recovery and urge them to remain prayerful for the peaceful repose of her soul.” Akunyili had been rumoured to have died several times, but has continued to defy death until Saturday morning.

Anambra Tribunal: Victory dance as Obiano floors Obidigbo, Ngige, Nwoye

Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano can now heave a sigh of relief and deliver democracy dividends to the people of the state. This is following a favourable judgment by the Anambra Governorship Election Petition Tribunal yesterday. The three part judgment dismissed the application of the factional candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance(APGA), Dr Chike Obidigbo, his All Progressives Congress(APC) counterpart, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige and PDP candidate, Comrade Tony Nwoye for lacking in merit. The first judgment read by the Justice Ishaq Bello led tribunal on the matter between Dr Obidigbo and Chief Obiano stated that that Chief Obiano was validly nominated as the candidate of APGA, and that the election that brought him to office was conducted in compliance to electoral act as amended. The tribunal also dismissed the issue of multiple registration, saying that no criminal charges were brought against Obiano by any Magistrate or any high court in the state. The tribunal also struck out the petition brought before it by the APC candidate in the 2014 governorship election in Anambra, Dr Ngige on the grounds of irregularities in the election for lack of evidence. Contrary to the claims of Ngige’s counsel that the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) lacks the power to extend the date of election, the tribunal held that INEC has the power to do so, insisting that in the case of unforeseen circumstances, but the important thing is that the election when held should be in consonance with the electoral guideline. Reacting to the victory of Obiano against Obidigbo, the National Chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh said that the judgment of the tribunal has vindicated his party and absolved it of any wrong in fielding Obiano. “We have been vindicated, we sponsored only one in the election, and that is Obiano, and he is the winner. We won the election in a landslide victory, and the tribunal has confirmed so. “For Obidigbo, he was ignorant of the law and the electoral process to have brought this petition to the tribunal, because we never sponsored him at all. All their claims and noise that we sponsored him has fallen today because all the submissions by his counsel and ours were reviewed. “He was trying to rely on a particular judgment that he is the valid candidate of the party, but he did not bring it to court, he knew what would have happened to him if he had brought it. With this victory in Anambra, the party is set to do very well in the next general election.”

Tension in Anambra as tribunal delivers judgment on Obiano, Obidigbo suit

There is currently tension in Anambra State as the State governorship election petition tribunal commences delivery of judgment on the suit filed by Chief Chike Obidigbo, challenging the victory of Chief Willie Obiano as governor of Anambra State. The tension in the state stems from the fact that citizens are not sure yet where the pendulum will swing as Obidigbo has been exuding confidence of his emergence. The petitioner had approached the court seeking to be declared the candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance(APGA), on the grounds that he is the rightful candidate of the party, having emerged from the Maxi Okwu faction. As at the time of filing this report, the Justice Bello Ishaq led tribunal had commenced execution of judgment. Our reporter gathered that there is water tight security at the Anambra State Judiciary Complex venue of the tribunal sitting. Only lawyers and few journalists were allowed access to the court room, while politicians and other supporters are thoroughly searched before they are allowed into the court premises.

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PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME'S DEFENDS SELF FOR DIVORCING HIS WIFE

“I am here for your concerns about the ongoing domestic issue with my wife and I know it affects you directly, being the ones under her leadership. This is not an organisation or a political party, so it’s not a place for you to air your opinion or scrutinise what we do. We had a vision, started and you joined us. If you don’t like what we do, you can get out. Churches where members air their views never grow. Some pastors wives think when they marry a pastor they are equal to the pastor. My wife thinks so, as a matter of fact, Rev. Tom was her pastor before I married her and Rev. Ray and Evang. Owase were her leaders long before I married her. How come she thinks she’s senior to them now? I already started Christ Embassy before I married her. I didn’t marry her and said we should start Christ Embassy. I was already pastoring. I already set my sail and knew my direction before I married her. I only said come and help me. Be careful of the friends you keep.