APC to host Google Hangout session with Nigerian youth

Ahead of the upcoming presidential polls next month, the opposition party APC is hosting a Google Hangouts session, with VP candidate, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola for the youth. The goal will be to “Discuss the APC’s plan to get Nigeria working again”. It will provide an avenue for public debate with a focus on APC’s promise to create millions of jobs every year if elected into power, and also how they hope to achieve it. The Hangout will hold January 27t, 2015. 

According to APC, the session will be available for subsequent viewing via the APC’s YouTube page

Visit HERE to Check in.

I Believe - AMBO feat. Mi,Olamide,Flavour,BankyW,Funke Akindele,Yemi Alade,Desmond Elliot,Uti&others

Lagos Guber Aspirant Akinwunmi Ambode features Mi, Banky W, Desmond Eliot, Flavour, Funke Akindele, Yemi Alade, Uti Nwachukwu & Other AMBOssadors in the "I Believe" video.
AMBO says - "I believe we can build the Lagos of our dreams"

US Secretary of State John Kerry In Nigeria, Holds Meeting With GMB in Lagos

Sanusi Reveals More Secret About Misappropiation of Nation's Oil Funds

In a country where untold oil wealth disappears into the pockets of the elite, the oil corruption scheme he was investigating seemed outsize — and he threatened to lay it bare at a meeting with Nigeria’s top bankers.
The rabble-rouser was none other than the governor of the country’s central bank. Weeks later, however, he was out, fired by Nigeria’s president in an episode that has shaken the Nigerian economy, filled newspapers and airwaves here, and even inspired a rare street demonstration.
The bankers were going to have to open their books, the governor, Lamido Sanusi, warned them at the recent meeting. He wanted to see where the money was going — $20billion from oil sales that, mysteriously, was not making its way to the treasury...

Job Creation, Fight Against Corruption, Top APC Manifesto

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has put job creation and the fight against corruption as two key areas of focus in its manifesto whose details will be officially unveiled on Thursday.
Addressing journalists at the APC secretariat in Abuja, interim National Publicity Secretary, Lai Muhammed, said an important highlight of its public opinion poll was the fact that several Nigerians who responded to the survey enquiries agreed that governance priority must be on dealing with unemployment and corruption.

Open Release: Sadiq Sani Abacha writes Prof. Wole Soyinka

Sadiq Sani Abacha is one of the sons of late military dictator Sani Abacha. Below is an open letter he wrote to professor Wole Soyinka days after the Nobel Laureate said it was an insult to share an award with his late father, Sani Abacha. Sadiq says Prof Soyinka attacking his dad is an act of cowardice...

If you want to think, speak and act logically then you should know all three. 1. The law of identity  2. The law of excluded middle  3. The law of non contradiction.

Now let's look at each one of these and see what they mean in practice.
1.The law of identity
The law of identity means that things are what they are, which at first doesn't seem very illuminating, but wait; it implies also the following, that things are what they are, whether you like them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you know them or not, it implies that things are what they are whether you agree with them or not. Continue...

However, if you don't like the facts as they are you are going to have to put up with them, because facts are what they are, if it's raining on your golf day, get used to it! Because the facts are what they are and are often not what you want them to be, like if the traffic lights turn red when you approach, stop complaining! The law of identity means that you must adapt yourself to the facts and start your work from there, it implies that the facts will not bend to meet your expectations. You must first adapt yourself to what life is and then get to work changing and improving things in your life, be brave to meet reality as it really is and not how you would wish it to be.

"Elrufai Is Weeping For Contract Not Sanusi" - Reno Omokri

Reno Omokri says "If Malam Nasir Elrufai can deny that his firm, Elrufai and Partners did not get a major contract from the CBN under Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, then I make a solemn oath to resign from my job as Special Assistant New Media to President Jonathan."

]Presidential Media Chat Holds Tomorrow

In case you didnt know, another edition of the Presidential Media Chat will be broadcast live on the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the Voice of Nigeria (VON) at 7pm tomorrow, Monday, February 24, 2014.
During the programme, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will, as usual, respond to questions from a panel of journalists and media executives on current national issues and developments.
All other radio and television stations in the country are urged to hook up to NTA and FRCN to relay the programme to their listeners and viewers.

THIS IS MY STORY –– Mallam Sanusi Finally Opens Up

Did you know that President Goodluck Jonathan who is accusing Sanusi Lamido of acts of financial reckless is in actually fact angry because Sanusi refused to spend $2billion for gadgets for him in Aso Rock? Well, that is one of the "sins" of the CBN governor. Because he gave money, from what he has able to make through his diligent work, to some universities and bomb blast victims, the Presidency got angry.
During the tenure of Charles Soludo, the highest money CBN ever gave the federal government was N8bn but today Sanusi has given the same government over N600billion. Why didn't they ask him how he was able to make so much money in the CBN when others could not? That is the sad reality in Nigeria today.
Read Sanusi's story below as stated by him...

My story, by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
As at the time I came into office, several things had collapsed. From banks to stock exchange, they had crashed. Inflation was at 15.6 percent three months before I became Central Bank Governor; there was already instability in every sector of the economy. When I look back, I thank God for the people who supported us and criticized us as well because criticism has made us stronger. Also, when I look back, I can point to several things that have changed after our arrival and till date.

Amaechi Summons Emergency NGF Meeting Over Sanusi’s Suspension

 
Governors in Nigeria are meeting over the suspension of Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi by President Goodluck Jonathan. The suspension has generated many comments and reactions, with questions also asked about the legality of his suspension.
The House of Representatives have called his suspension illegal. The governors will however make their opinion known after an emergency meeting on the issue summoned by chairman of their forum, Rotimi Amaechi.
In a statement Friday by NGF Director- General, Asishana Okauru, the Monday meeting though an emergency one is the third NGF Meeting in 2014 and will be chaired by Governor Amaechi at the Rivers State Governor’s lodge, Asokoro in Abuja at 8pm prompt.

Okonjo-Iweala Denies Resignation Report

The Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has denied a report that she had tendered a letter of resignation to the president.

This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Paul Nwabuikwu, Special Adviser on Media to the Minister, on Friday in Abuja.
“It has come to our attention that a story is circulating online about the purported resignation of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
“For the avoidance of doubt, this story is not true. The Coordinating Minister is still in her position,’’ it said.
According to the statement, the minister has assured Nigerians that the Jonathan administration is committed to the continuation of the current economic policies and the maintenance of macroeconomic stability through tight fiscal and monetary policies.[ 

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Again, Former VP Atiku Abubakar Dumps PDP

Former VP Atiku Abubakar

 Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will formally submit a letter tomorrow announcing he has decided to abandon the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and join the All Progressive Congress (APC).
In a press statement in Abuja today, he described the PDP as bereft of ideas and refusing to live up to the promises it made in the past.
He said his decision was the right one, recalling that in 2006, he and his supporters were pushed out of a party they had worked tirelessly with other compatriots to build as a vehicle to restore democracy to Nigeria.

House Committee Rejects Okonjo-Iweala’s Answers To 50 Questions, Plus The Full 50 Questions List

Nigeria's Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, failed to answer many of the questions sent to her by members of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance on the ‘true state’ of Nigeria’s economy, the lawmakers have said. In a review of Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala’s response to the 50 questions issued to her by the committee, the lawmakers said some of the questions were “either not answered, partially answered, outrightly ignored or completely misunderstood.”
The lawmakers’ response is contained in a letter addressed to the minister, dated January 31, and signed by the Chairman of the Committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin.
The committee also said it observed several lacuna in the minister’s response.
“The Committee further noted glaring missing gaps in the responses, absence of supporting proofs to assertions and lack of relevant documents to back up the presentation as is the practice in any legislative oversight or investigation.
“Many data and statistics provided were inconsistent with subsequent information provided while answering other questions,” the committee said.
 
The 50 questions
The 50 questions were issued to the finance minister on December 19, 2013 by the committee. The questions bordered on the state of Nigeria’s economy.
Though the committee gave her two weeks to respond, the minister sent her response and made it public on January 16. The presentation of the questions to the minister had sparked controversy between her and the House committee on December 19, 2013, when she appeared before the lawmakers.

Jonathan Will Become Vulnerable If I am no more PDP Chairman –– Says Tukur

The battle for survival by the National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, is getting serious as more PDP governors have vowed that he either step down or they will be left with no choice but to dump the party and join their colleagues in APC.

But Tukur is ready to fight to the end and he his describing himself as the best man to be there in the interest of President Goodluck Jonathan's 2015 ambition,claiming that those calling for his removal are plotting to make President Jonathan vulnerable to be defeated in 2015.

Bayelsa Elders write GEJ, Say They're Not Feeling the Impact of his Government

President Olusegun Obasanjo is the first Nigerian president to prosecute his Secondary School friend, the man he appointed Inspector General of Police, a sitting Senate President, his serving Ministers, etc. But when some "idiots" want to talk on TV and Radio programmes, they will say Obasanjo do not have the moral right to write such a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan. How ridiculous!

Now President Jonathan's people have written to him complaining about the same lack of development:

"Whilst it takes the federal government the better part of the century to connect us by road, there exists a vast and expanding network of oil and gas pipelines across our territory connecting prolific oil wells to flow stations to export terminals and so on. In some 40 to 50 years of oil and gas production, the Nigerian government has in league with the oil companies virtually drilled the life out of our communities."

PDP IN MORE TROUBLE

The suit by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asking a Federal High Court in Abuja to sack the G5 Governors for defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been faulted and dismissed as an exercise in futility.

“Now that PDP is at the receiving end of the same medicine they administered on others and they are window shopping for ways to have their cakes after devouring them. What a pity as about seven more PDP Governors will be joining APC by the first quarter of 2014 at that time they will be preparing on how to bury PDP formally by 2015.”

“The suit is laughable and betrays the ignorance of the PDP leadership about the laws of the land. It is also a further demonstration of the impunity associated with PDP in its disdain for democracy and due process,” erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of New PDP, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, said in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja.

Trouble in Rivers as Policemen Shoot Assembly Members away from the house complex

Crisis again broke out in the Rivers State House of Assembly in Port Harcourt on Thursday as the police on the orders from above disrupted the sitting of the state House by looking down the Assembly complex when the lawmakers tried to resume their lawful duties.

The 25 lawmakers, in the absence of the speaker, then decided to sit with the deputy speaker presiding but men of the Nigerian Police fired live bullets at the lawmakers live in peoples presence...

The actions of the police, according sources is because majority of the men are loyal to Governor Rotimi Amaechi and the Presidency don't want Amaechi's loyalists to head the house.

As at the time of reporting, there is chaos in the area and I hear some people have been injured by the police