Former president Goodluck Jonathan has appealed to Nigerians to vote for
PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 election as he
is the only one that can guarantee three square meals for everyone.The
former president made the appeal when he spoke at the flag-off of the
2019 presidential election campaign by the PDP in Sokoto state today
December 3rd.“We have seen four presidents, from Obasanjo to our late
brother, Yar’Adua, to myself, and to the current president. You have
seen how the various presidents and the various parties have worked, and
one thing that is very clear is that PDP is still the number one party.
There is something that all of us need as human beings, everybody eats,
everybody, every day must eat, and if you cannot eat well, then you are
not happy. PDP is the only party that can make sure all of us eat very
well, in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening.Let us not
make any mistakes, those of us that are adults, old enough to vote, if
we vote wrongly, our children and grandchildren will not forgive us.
Today, our country has a lot of challenges; look at all the presidential
candidates, all of them are good people, but among all, we have seen
that it is only Atiku that can deliver'' he saidSpeaking further, he
said“If you have a soccer match, you go with your best 11, you don’t
manage, if you have a wrestling or a boxing tournament, you go with your
best, you don’t manage. Atiku is experienced enough. He has
demonstrated clearly from his personal life and his business life that
he has that capacity to bring this country to one, and make our economy
grow, so that all of us will have food to eat''.2019: ''Vote Atiku so we can all have food to eat three times daily'' Goodluck Jonathan tells Nigerians
Former president Goodluck Jonathan has appealed to Nigerians to vote for
PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 election as he
is the only one that can guarantee three square meals for everyone.The
former president made the appeal when he spoke at the flag-off of the
2019 presidential election campaign by the PDP in Sokoto state today
December 3rd.“We have seen four presidents, from Obasanjo to our late
brother, Yar’Adua, to myself, and to the current president. You have
seen how the various presidents and the various parties have worked, and
one thing that is very clear is that PDP is still the number one party.
There is something that all of us need as human beings, everybody eats,
everybody, every day must eat, and if you cannot eat well, then you are
not happy. PDP is the only party that can make sure all of us eat very
well, in the morning, in the afternoon, and in the evening.Let us not
make any mistakes, those of us that are adults, old enough to vote, if
we vote wrongly, our children and grandchildren will not forgive us.
Today, our country has a lot of challenges; look at all the presidential
candidates, all of them are good people, but among all, we have seen
that it is only Atiku that can deliver'' he saidSpeaking further, he
said“If you have a soccer match, you go with your best 11, you don’t
manage, if you have a wrestling or a boxing tournament, you go with your
best, you don’t manage. Atiku is experienced enough. He has
demonstrated clearly from his personal life and his business life that
he has that capacity to bring this country to one, and make our economy
grow, so that all of us will have food to eat''.Caption this photo of President Buhari and the Prime Minister of Netherlands, Mark Rutte in Poland
What do you think the Nigerian leader is telling them?One dead and 40 others injured as bus carrying youth football team crashes in US
One
child is dead and dozens of people are injured after a bus carrying a
youth football team crashed in Arkansas. Arkansas State Police
spokesman, Bill Sadler explains that a charter bus carrying the youth
football team crashed and overturned. The bus was returning to Memphis,
Tennessee from a championship game in Dallas, Texas, when it crashed
west of Benton.“One child is dead and at least 40 other individuals,
most of them children, are reported to be injured. The injured have been
transported to area hospitals in Little Rock and Benton. The bus driver
is alive and is being questioned by state troopers,” the Arkansas state
police said in a Facebook post.Court grants EFCC leave to arraign former minister of petroleum, Alison-Madueke
Today,
the Federal High Court in Abuja granted the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) leave to arraign former petroleum Minister,
Diezani Alison-Madueke, and a former Chairman of Atlantic Energy
Drilling company, Olajide Omokore, on February 25th. Alison-Madueke
and Omokore, are to be arraigned on five counts bordering on conspiracy
and illegal act of accepting and giving gratifications. Trial judge,
Justice Valentine Ashi, granted the EFCC leave, after the prosecution
counsel, Faruk Abdullahi told the court that while investigations were
on going, the former minister left the country and is currently in the
UK. The suspects, are to be arraigned for allegedly accepting and giving
gift of properties described as penthouse 22,Block B, Admiralty Estate,
Ikoyi, and penthouse 21, building 5, block C, Banana Island, Lagos. The
EFCC said the alleged offence, contravened the provisions of Sections
26(1) and 17 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act,
2000. The prosecutor, Faruk Abdullahi told the court that while
investigations were on going, the former minister left the country and
is currently in the United Kingdom. He also said that on invitation by
the EFCC, Mrs Madueke refused to honour the invitation but everything
has since been put in place to ensure she comes back to face trial.
The counsel for the second defendant, Tayo Adeniyo SAN, told the court
that his client was not served with the charges and his client is ready
to clear his name.Lady's declaration of love for her boyfriend of 4 years is going viral on Twitter... See why
A
pretty Nigerian lady, Patra Patience, has taken to Twitter to reveal
why she is still with her boyfriend of over four years instead of going
into 'runs.'Here is what she wrote: Why I stick to my boyfriend for the
past 4yrs...I no he has a feature, some day he will become a man with
full of wealth. I don't believe in doing runs,, jumping from one old
men to another. It doesn't pay, rather you are killing ur stars as a
lady.I love u Mr Ezekiel Umaru. 
4 tenants arraigned in Lagos for exhuming landlords corpse and selling his proper
Four
persons, who allegedly exhumed the corpse of their landlord before
selling his property today appeared before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’
Court in Lagos. The three accused men and a woman are Silifatu
Abisile, 60; Jimoh Abisile, 52; Gbade Bakare, 56; and Isaiah Bakare, 45.
They are facing a-five-count charge of conspiracy, kidnapping, breach
of peace, forgery and false assumption of authority. The Police
Prosecutor, Williams Ologun, told the court that the accused committed
the offences on November 1, at Ishola Daniel Street in Oshodi area of
Lagos. He alleged that the accused had conspired to illegally sell the
house they were living, which did not belong to them. He said that a
prospective buyer had insisted they relocated the grave that was in
front of the house before he would make payments. “My Lord, they forged
an exhumation of corpse permit from Oshodi -Isolo Local Government and
dug up the corpse of the house owner, Sumonu Bakare, who was buried in
the compound. They also kidnapped the son of the deceased; Gbenro
Bakare, who is crippled, thinking he was the only surviving child of the
deceased,” he said. Ologun said that the first and second accused were
relations of the deceased while the third and fourth accused were long
time tenants on the property. He said that the third and fourth accused
had registered for change of name to ‘Bakare’, which was not their real
names, claiming to be the children of the deceased. The offences
contravened Sections 76 (1) [c], 168 (1) (d), 271 (1), 365 and 411 of
the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. They, however, pleaded not guilty
to the charges. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Peter Ojo, granted the accused
bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties each in like sum. In
his ruling, Ojo insisted that one of each accused sureties must be a
blood relation and must be resident within the court’s jurisdiction. He
said each of the sureties must also show evidence of three years tax
payment to the Lagos Government and be gainfully employed. Ojo adjourned
the case until January 10 for trial.Man gets slammed for saying "suicide is for losers" while sharing his success story
A
man, while sharing his success story, criticized people who commit
suicide and his comment about suicide has got him criticisms from
Twitter users.@Biigthings tweeted:Failed jamb 3 times, failed Waec
twice, Home for a year before i enterted school and then I was expelled
in my final year, my mum had to sell and borrow for me to start again, I
started fresh again, look at me now with 2 degrees and 4 certification,
suicide is for losers abeg.Twitter users called him out and told him
that he could tell his success story without criticizing other people's
struggles. But he was adamant and stood his grounds.Read screenshots
below.
Ehi is 2face Idibia's daughter with Pero Adeniyi. He sure has strong genes. See more photos below
Tosyn lived, bigger than life, bolder than death - Husband, Aurelien Boyer writes touching tribute
Aurelien
Boyer, the French hubby of late Nigerian broadcaster Tosyn Bucknor who
died on November 19th has just written a touching tribute to his late
wife. And according to him, 'The Service of Songs organized for Tosyn
was an amazing outpour of genuine love honouring the impact, love, joy
and happiness she created in all of us.Here was my tribute 'Guguru
morning,I can say it at any time of the day, at any point in time, now.
For you have changed days into nights and nights into days. You are
irreplaceable. But you also made our lives sweet. Wyfo, you gave me the
happiest days of my life. 1 wedding, 2 weddings, 3 weddings, 4, and
1,722 days more. How would I summarize this in a lower number of
words?Labalaba mi, your pure heart saved mine when I thought it was
already gone for love. And we've flown a première classe flight ever
since then on your long and fragile wings. Irawo mi, you were a star to
me. You were a Star to all. I remember seeing on one of your to-dos,
titled 'before I die' and showing: 'oscar, grammy, golden globe'.You
wanted to achieve something that only 37 people had achieved in the
history. But guess what? You've achieved it in our hearts and deserved
many more awards. You were way too unique for these awards anyway. Where
would be the award for how funny you were? How cute you were? How
creative you were?BOML, you were a true beauty. 'In and out' would be a
an understatement to describe your beauty. Area Boss, I fell in love
with you listening to your shows. I was a fan of yours: it helped me
understand you. 'What is your traffic situation? What's the weather like
in your area? What's DISCO like in your area?'. Some simple questions
that actually had a deep meaning. It meant you had love for people. It
meant you always wanted to listen to people, genuinely cared for them,
and were able to impact each and every human being you met.Even my
family, despite the language barrier. Punk, oh my, you were such an
annoyingly lovely person. Who will tell me 'don't annoy, usbano' now?
Me, I want to annoy. Who's going to tell me 'pele se o gbo', now? I
don't want to hear. Who am I going to pretend I listen to the loooong
gists of? Ok, fine, I actually always enjoyed listening to you. Who will
I call to get your attention as 5 of your phones are off and you won't
pick the last one?My tribute shared during the Service of Songs for
Tosyn'Con.tra.diction. You were one. On and off stage. Strong but
fragile. Hesitant but determined. Confident but not confident. Explosive
but simple. Sophisticated but natural. Beautiful but different. Small
but tall (or at least 1cm taller than Funke). Leader but follower.
Modern but conservative. Messy but organized. Hard working but
laaaaazy. I could go on for days.And although we all knew you, there
was still so much we didn't know about you and will never do. You were
special in many ways and accepted the difference, to create something
great out of it. You accepted me with my differences, my goods and bads.
I learnt a lot from you and about me thanks to you. This will guide me
all my life. Now that you are no more on this planet, a lot of questions
come to our minds and we don't have all the answers. But I guess if we
could #asktosyn , you would have answers available for us. And if don't
know the answers, why don't we ask you?And if we don't know what to say,
we'll say like you: Peace, Love and Amala !And if we don't know what to
eat and don't want to, we'll eat like you: some gewd Amala, again !And
if we don't know what to drink and don't want to, we'll drink like you:
coca-cola.And if we don't know what to tell our friends, we'll tell them
Tosyn lived. Bigger than life, bolder than death.And if we don't know
what to tell our kids, we'll tell them this is just another Tosyn's
game.And if we don't know if we should shed our tears, we'll let them
go, for you will accept them in your ocean of love.And if we don't know
what happened, we'll remember that you had a great life, better than
many.And if we don't know how to dance and don't want to,
well...ahem...let's try not to see you as a role model on everything,
ok? People used to wonder if you were the one writing for me. Well, I
guess not. You were just such a great material to write about.You were
my wife, are my wife and will be, till my end. I've loved you, I love
you, and will love you till my end. As you were saying in your song:
binti layie, here today, gone tomorrow. Sun re o, wyfo.Cheating Zimbabwean Nurse ordered to repay her ex-boyfriend £116,000 over an alleged affair with another man in the UK
A
cheating Zimbabwean Nurse was ordered to repay ex-boyfriend £116,000
following an alleged affair with another man.37-year-old Trish Garikayi
who is based in the UK admitted that she was given a Porsche 911 and a
£100,000 diamond bracelet by love-struck businessman Wisdom Penfold, 58.
Despite showering her gifts and money, the jilted man claimed he caught
her having an affair with another man.The court heard £218,000 had been
paid into Garikayi's account after Mr Penfold sold two investment
properties.Insisting the money was a gift, she said that, throughout the
relationship, "if I wanted something, I would get it"."As far as the
discussion I had with Wisdom, they were gifts to me."We were in love,
the relationship was strong at that point. So there was no need for me
to question or query."
Her
lawyer, Chike Ezike, added: "The nature of the relationship was one
where Mr Penfold bestowed and showered Miss Garikayi with lavish
gifts."It was also alleged that Garikayi spent some of the cash on
herself and £91,000 to buy a property in Harare, Zimbabwe, without his
permission.Mr. Penfold was left with no option than taking the matter to
court, where a judge ruled that she "misappropriated" money Mr. Penfold
entrusted to her when blinded by love.The judge then ordered her to pay
£116,000 to her ex-boyfriend also hand him 20% of her £340,000
home.After the judge gave the verdict, Ms.Garikayi hurled her £2,500
engagement ring towards her ex-fiance, who then calmly picked it up and
handed it to his solicitor.
Judge
Alexander Hill-Smith said she had her "eyes firmly on winning the
case"."I unhesitatingly prefer the evidence of Mr Penfold... he gave his
evidence in a careful way."I find his account of the break-up of the
relationship, his returning to the house, his reaction to it, going to
A&E and being badly affected, compelling."Her account of the
breakdown of the relationship was very unspecific."His written statement
is thorough and comprehensive and presents a coherent account of what
occurred."The Central County Court in London heard how Garikayi earlier
claimed to be a "kept woman" and insisted that the money, like the
luxury goods he lavished upon her, was a non-returnable gift.Lawyers of
Mr. Penfold, who is a tree importer, and exporter, say they will be
seeking £62,000 in costs against Miss Garikayi, and the judge ordered
her to pay £30,000 of that within 21 days.Photos: President Buhari attends climate change opening ceremony in Poland
This
morning, President Buhari joined other world leaders to attend the
opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference
currently holding in Katowice, Poland.He is pictured above with the UN
Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres and the Polish President, Andrzej
Duda. See more photos below
"And they say pastors don't hold guns to member's heads" Freeze criticizes RCCG for a banner encouraging members to pay tithe
Controversial
OAP Freeze has called out the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG,
for a banner encouraging members to pay tithe.On the banner can be seen a
thief pointing a gun at a man's head. The text on the banner
reads:Don't be a robber!Pay your tithe.Freeze, who has always spoken
against paying of tithes, criticized RCCG for the banner then proposed a
debate about tithe with the church's general overseer, Pastor E.A.
Adeboye.
Photo: Suspected ritualist apprehended in Delta
The
little boy who is alleged to be a ritualist, was apprehended in Jesse
town in Delta state this morning. Ossai Success Ovie who is an aide to
the Delta state governor, shared the photos on his Facebook page this
morning and said the boy was caught in the act. Posting the photo above,
Ossai wroteTHE END OF RITUALISTS IN DELTA STATE.CAUGHT IN THE ACTThis
small boy came all the way from Jesse to Oghara to behead someone for
ritual purpose But unfortunately luck ran out of him .God help my
generation.May God keep exposing evils around us
The governorship candidate responded to this during a tweet chat with his followers.'Not one notable politician or political party has spoken up publicly for Deji and this sickens me' - FFK speaks on Deji Adeyanju's arrest
Read
the article by Femi Fani Kayode below... I do not agree with him on
everything and I deplore his views about my friend and brother, the lion
of the east, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu yet the truth is that I love and admire
my younger brother Prince Deji Adeyanju. I consider the outrageous
things that the Buhari government is doing to this deeply courageous
man, who has always resisted tyranny and injustice and who has always
spoken up for others, as unacceptable and I am utterly astounded at the
silence of the entire political class in the face of this
injustice. Where are the voices of the leading members of the
opposition and opposition political parties? Where are the voices of the
Shiite Muslims whose cause he often championed? Where are the voices
of the human rights and civil rights groups who he stood shoulder to
shoulder with in his quest to make Nigeria a better and safer place? Why
have they not condemned this injustice and outrage? Not one notable
politician or political party or so-called leader has spoken up publicly
for Deji and this sickens me. When will they learn that what has
happened to Deji may end up also happening to them or theirs if not
challenged and checked? When will they learn to comprehend and come to
appreciate the adage that says "an act of injustice against one is an
act of injustice against all?" When will they stop being self-serving,
self-centred, shortsighted, lily-livered cowards and learn that we
must all speak for one another and watch each others backs? This is
especially so regardless of how we may feel about the victim of the
governments tyranny at any point in time? Whether you like him or not,
it is Deji today but it could be any of you tomorrow. When will they
accept the fact that this battle is not merely about winning an election
but about breaking the yoke of tyranny and liberating our people from
wholesale bondage, modern-day servitide and good old-fashioned
slavery? When the history of this age is written, amongst the heroes
that will be listed will not be the regular politicians and desperate
office-seekers who regard themselves as todays leaders but rather
selfless, courageous and strong-willed men and women of principle, honor
and vision who were prepared to put everything on the line including
their lives and liberty for a better tomorrow like Deji Adeyanju. It is
not members of today's ruling elite and political class who are,
generally-speaking, fearful, timid, weak and frail and who, more often
than not, are given to compromise with evil in return for gain but
rather the non-conformists and great and heroic figures like Adeyanju
that are the true architects of what will eventually and inevitably be a
new and free Nigeria where justice, the rule of law,
self-determination, free speech, freedom of association, true democracy
and liberty has its place. Deji may be in detention today and they may
be planning to rearrest him when he is released and lock him up again on
terrorism charges but the truth is that it really does not matter
because tomorrow belongs to men like him. And most important of all, no
matter what they do, they cannot break his indomitable spirit. I weep
not for Deji Adeyanju, I weep for Nigeria.Jubril: 'I donate understand why Bishop Oyedepo keeps going this far to peddle falsehood and disinformation about President Buhari' - Tolu Ogunlesi
Tolu
Ogunlesi, one of President Buhari's media aides has reacted to
yesterday's sermon by Bishop Oyedepo where the man of God addressed the
issue of 'Jubril' from Sudan and its consequences. In the sermon, Bshop
Oyedepo quoted an article (a satire) from The Nation newpaper and
concluded that, 'If the President does not refute Jubril Al-Sudani, then
he is not our president'. Tolu Ogunlesi in his response said;Olatunji
Dare, one of Nigeria’s finest satirists,wrote a piece titled ‘Buhari’s
Double’ on November 27 and Pastor of one of Nigeria’s LARGEST CHURCHES
cites the SATIRE in a sermon (apparently yest) as evidence PMB likely
dead.I know the Bishop has always detested PMB (its a free world,
really, the right to dislike anyone is guaranteed constitutionally
atink), but I don’t understand why he keeps going this far to
peddle/amplify (from the pulpit) falsehood and disinformation about him.
Really puzzling.Watch Bishop Oyedepo's sermon below..Photos: University of Lagos medical students sleep on the road due to power outage in their hostels
Medcial
students in the University of Lagos College of Medicine, have been
forced to sleep on the road as their hostels have been without power
supply for a few days. The students say no one has explained to them why
they have no power as other buildings surrounding their hostels have
power. See more photos of them below
Nigerian man in Denmark expresses shock after seeing the Mayor of Odense doing grocery shopping without bodyguards in sight
A
Nigerian lady residing in Denmark, was taken aback over the weekend
when she spotted the mayor(governor) of Odense, the third largest city
in the country, doing his grocery for his family in the same mall where
she was shopping as well. According to her, no security entourage was
with him, a thing that is very peculiar to Nigerian politicians. Read
what she wrote about her encounter belowThe mayor of Odense shopping for
his family in thesame shop as me?Cant imagine the governor of Lagos
state or even the governor of the smallest and most rural state in
Nigeria shopping for his family? Let alone standing in public withput a
thousand entourage of body guards and dressed in his biggest agbada?N.B
Odense is the third largest city in Denmark one of the most happiest
country in the world, and the least corrupt country in the world! Btw
that man right up anchored my wedding''.
Singer, Ashanti, 38, took to Instagram to flaunt her hot body in yellow bikini while posing inside a yacht.
LUTH strike: Doctors cry out over 3-months unpaid salaries
The
Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Lagos University Teaching
Hospital (LUTH) Branch, has lamented over the non-payment of its
members’ salaries by the hospital’s management in the last three months.
It called on the Federal Government to come to the members’ aid to
enable them end the strike, which took effect last Thursday. The
hospital’s ARD President, Dr. Adewale Oba, in an interview with The
Nation at the association’s secretariat in LUTH, Idi-Araba, said the
non-payment of salaries has affected his members negatively. According
to Oba, many resident doctors could no longer transport themselves to
work, feed their families and take care of other basic things because
their September, October and November salaries have not been paid.
However, a statement by the Head, Corporate Services, LUTH, Kelechi
Otuneme, said the hospital’s management has engaged the Ministry of
Finance and other appropriate ministries/ offices to correct the
shortfall in payment of allocations, adding that efforts have reached an
advanced stage to resolve it and pay outstanding salaries. But, Oba
said the association would continue with the strike because no specific
information was made available to them on when the salaries would be
paid. He lamented that many doctors have been borrowing money to cope
with the economic situation in the country. “We never wanted to go on
strike, but we have been praying that things would be resolved before it
got this worse. We have tried all forms of engagement to ensure that
salaries are paid but till now, it has yielded no result.Over two weeks
ago, we gave an ultimatum to LUTH management and the Federal Government,
which lasted till last Wednesday. Following the ultimatum, the Congress
of ARD LUTH took a decision to go on a total and indefinite strike,
which began last Thursday.” He noted that the association was informed
that LUTH’s budget was cut short of about N3 billion from what it used
to collect. Oba added that his members were informed that letters have
been written to Ministry of Finance, “but there is no fruitful result
yet”. He said: “We cannot continue to be working without getting
salaries. This is unthinkable and it is discriminatory. We hope that
this situation does not get out of hand because Nigerian citizens do not
deserve all of this. The resident doctors are the defence for
consultants because we are in training and it is expected that the
training we have been given should transfer to the patients. So, if we
are not working, the consultants alone cannot see the patients in LUTH
because of the massive inflow of patients into the hospital.Southampton sack manager Mark Hughes after Manchester United draw
Premier
League club, Southampton, has sacked Mark Hughes after an awful start
to season which have seen them grab just one win out of 14 games this
season.Assistant first team manager Mark Bowen and assistant first team
coach Eddie Niedzwiecki have also left the club.The dismissal comes
after Southampton slipped into the relegation zone and dropped a
two-goal lead against Manchester United on Saturday, in the game which
ended 2 - 2.In a statement, the Premier League strugglers announced: 'We
would like to express our thanks to Mark and his staff for all of their
efforts during their time at St Mary's,' a statement read.'The search
for a new manager to take the club forward is already underway.'The
club's legend Kelvin Davis will take charge of Wednesday's game against
Tottenham. 
