37 PDP Reps defect to APC

Thirty-seven members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the House of Representatives ended
months of speculation on Wednesday as they... formally defected to the All Progressives Congress.
The development increased the numerical strength of the APC from 135 to 172. With this, it now has a simple majority in the House as the PDP now has171 members. Seventeen other lawmakers are members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Labour Party, Accord Party and Peoples Party of Nigeria. The APC had 137 members at a point but Mr.Bamidele Opeyemi, a member from Ekiti State,defected to the Labour Party, while Mr. Benjamin Aboho (Benue State) moved to the PDP.
This left the APC with 135 members before the 37 former PDP lawmakers joined the party.
Thirty-six of the 37 ex-PDP members came from four states (Kano, Rivers, Kwara and Sokoto), whose governors had earlier defected to the APC.
The 37th member (Dogara) came from Bauchi State. Curiously, members from Adamawa State, whose governor (Murtala Nyako) had also joined the APC,
did not defect on Wednesday. The defectors wrote a letter to the Speaker, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, citing alleged “divisions and factions” in the PDP as their reasons for moving to
the APC. The speaker read out the letter and the names of
the defectors on the floor. They stood up to acknowledge their decision to abandon the PDP amid cheers and clapping by the APC lawmakers.
 

The letter reads, “We, the undersigned members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of the PDP, wish to inform you that we have joined the APC.
“This action is as a result of the division (factionalisation) in the political party that sponsored our election into the House ofRepresentatives.

Cool FM Christmas Praise Jam, the biggest family concert is back!

Tickets: N1500 regular, N5000 for VIP and N10000 for VVIP.

Comedy by: Akpororo, Yaw, Nedu, Igos, Emmaohmygod and many more. Music by: DJ Mordu. Host: Alibaba. Date: December 25^th. Time: 2pm. Venue: Eko Hotel and Suites.

Tickets available at: Cool FM offices in VI, Chocolate Royal outlets, all Sweet Sensation outlets in Lagos, all quick teller atm outlets nation wide, US Polo Surulere and Eko Hotel Victoria Island, Bruno Place Saloon Ikeja City Mall, Genesis Deluxe Cinema at the Palms shopping mall 


 This year we celebrate 10 years of fun, laughter and dance! Main act: Lionel Peterson all the way from South Africa. Also performing: Sammy Okposo, Buchi, Eben, Solomon Lange, Flo, Daystar Mass Choir, Zoe and many more.
This year’s Praise Jam will provide exciting entertainment for children: face painting, photo booth with santa claus and mini goodie bags for every child. Santa Clause will also be bringing a gift. A car! Who is going to win the car? Be there to find out.

Cool FM Christmas Praise Jam 2013 is brought to you by Golden Penny, the home of good food.

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‘Dear Daddy, You Don’t Own Nigeria! --- Iyabo Obasanjo to OBJ

Is it now an Era of Open Letters????

           

                                                                                                                                                                  

Senator Iyabo Obasanjo in a letter to her father accused him of having an egoistic craving for power and living a life where only men of low esteem and intellect thrive.

In the 11-page letter dated December 16, 2013 exclusively obtained by Vanguard, Iyabo accused her father of orchestrating a third term for himself as president, cruelty to family members, abandonment of children and grandchildren, and also, a legendary reputation of maltreatment of women.

Iyabo who forswore further political engagements in Nigeria denied any political motive for her missive, and described Nigeria as a country where her father and his ilk have helped to create a situation where smart, capable people bend down to imbeciles to survive. She particularly noted her experience as chairman of the Senate Committee on Health when she led the committee on a retreat appropriated for in the budget only for her to be prosecuted for it.

Iyabo, first child of the former president, started the letter titled, Open Letter to my Father with a 4th century Chinese proverb by Mencius which states: “The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.”

Her letter:

“It brings me no joy to have to write this but since you started this trend of open letters I thought I would follow suit since you don’t listen to anyone anyway. The only way to reach you may be to make the public aware of some things. As a child well brought up by my long-suffering mother in Yoruba tradition, I have been reluctant to tell the truth about you but as it seems you still continue to delude yourself about the kind of person you are and I think for posterity’s sake it is time to set the records straight.

Lovely! Lovely!! lovely!!!

Get into the Xmas Mood with this Lovely and Melodious Video by the A capella Group PENTATONIX Titled Drummer Boy...

 

   

Sit Back, Relax and Enjoy!!!!! Then You can Thank me.....lols

Nigeria: Harmattan is Here Again

Nigeria: Harmattan - a Dreadful Season With Many Troubles

Harmattan season is here again, and the north is the real casualty of this harsh weather. From Maiduguri, where the North-east Trade Wind that brings the dry breeze originates from, to Sokoto State, where the wind finally exits Nigeria, various climatic hazards are associated with its presence, coupled with the damage done to both humans and animals...

There is no season of the year that does not come without affecting people's live, but the negative effects of harmattan season seem to outweigh its benefits on human lives, especially those that live in the northern part of Africa.
Although it is a period that people usually feel a huge relieve from the scotching heat of the sun that accompanies the previous season, but dryness of the weather and the wind that comes with dust often override its coolness. And the resultant effect of this dryness is what makes fire outbreaks spread easily, which is why more fire incidents are often recorded during the season.
Harmattan is usually characterized by strong wind, which blows southwest from the Sahara desert into the Gulf of Guinea between October and March. The dry weather condition has various health implications to human and animals, especially affecting the skin, eyes and respiratory system.
Despite all these negative effects, studies have shown that the harmattan season is not without its health benefits to people. The low temperature associated with it is unfavourable for mosquitoes to breed, thus reducing the incidence of malaria fever.
Among the health hazards it usually poses on people is asthma and other respiratory tract infections.
According to Dr Chibuzo Nath, people with asthmatic health condition or other upper respiratory diseases are the ones that are mostly affected during this season. "Harmattan affects people with certain health conditions; it even affects people whose health is normal. But asthmatic patients are among those that are seriously affected by this season.
"One of the trigger agents in asthma is dust. So during the season, we all know that the wind is dry and it brings a lot of dust, which means that people who are suffering from asthma have recurrent and more frequent attacks during this particular period."
In addition, he said that everyone that is exposed to the harmattan wind is at the risk of contacting an eye condition called conjunctivitis, also known as Apollo. "The wind is dry and it picks up a lot of particles from the environment, which will not only affect people with asthma, but also normal people and their eyes. And if you are not the kind of person that baths two or three times in a day to wash those particles off your eyes, you stand the danger of having conjunctivitis and other related infections," he stated.
As is always the norm, November comes with weather change in different parts of the country, including Sahara areas like Katsina State which is currently experiencing the resurge of the dry wind. Presently, the state is experiencing dusty weather which is cold in the morning and partly hot in mid afternoon.
This change in weather, as should be expected, comes with some challenges, especially health implications. To this end, both the state government and the citizens are taking what could mildly be described as measures to forestall any unforeseen incident.
Although this weather change is unstable with cold and hot alternating conditions, sometimes, drastic measures are being taken by the people. Our correspondent observed that sellers of jackets and second-hand clothes like sweaters are making brisk business as people rush to purchase clothing that will keep them warm.


By Kehinde Ajobiewe, Isaiah Benjamin, Muazu Elazeh, Hussaini Jirgi, Najib Sani, Ankeli Emmanuel, Muh'd Zangina Kura and Yahya Sarki..

My unfinished affair in the House of Reps-Uboh-Adekoya

                                              

Engineer Doris Uboh Adekoya represented Ika Federal Constituency, Delta State in the House of Representatives between 2007 and 2011. Mrs. Uboh-Adekoya is again pushing to return to the House and in this interview explains unfinished businesses she has left in the House. Excerpts:
Between 2007 and now a lot of water has passed under the bridge politically. What lessons have you learnt?

I have learnt a lot of lessons. It is possible you win your elections on the field but you might
not actually get your seat. My experience has been a terrible one.  Like I said, it is one that taught me the lesson and that is you must follow your votes not just at your ward level but all the way to collation because if you fail to do so a lot of things are bound to happen. Eventually in my own case, results were manipulated and that caused it.

South Africa honours Atiku

                                      



Former Vice President Abubakar was on Sunday honored by the South African leadership with front-row seat at both the state funeral and private burial ceremonies of global icon, Madiba Nelson Mandela at the late leader’s native home at Qunu, near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape Province.
Mandela’s body was flown here from Pretoria where he had lain is state for three days for a state funeral attended by 4,000 and a private burial witnessed by 400, reserved for key government officials, a few foreign leaders and intimate family members.
Atiku was selected to be among the few lucky personalities to see Mr. Mandela’s final burial ceremonies in the land of his ancestors in accordance with the Xhosa culture by the South African leadership, with which he has maintained an excellent type of relationship since the days when he, as Vice President and the then Deputy President Zuma co-chaired the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-national Commissions. Those was a period marked by important trade and investment relations between the two countries.
A few African heads of state and international figures including Rev. Jesse Jackson, Iranian Vice President and Prince Charles of Britain were similarly honored.
“In a word: humbled,” said Atiku following today’s services. “Humbled to have known a man as great as Nelson Mandela, humbled to have been a witness today, and humbled to have been so honored by the government of South Africa.”
Atiku flew from Pretoria to Mthatha with President Zuma in the same plane. The state funeral was held with extremely tight security under a vast domed marquee constructed for the purpose in the verdant hills adjacent to the house Mr. Mandela built in Qunu.

ASUU Finally!!!

Reports Reaching us is that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is finally going to call off its Strike after Resolving issues with the Federal Government...

 Its been 5months since the Strike Action started, which has been a worry on the minds of Parents, Guardians and good Nigerians...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Great Nigerian Students, Oya stack packing your Loads ready to go back after the xmas celebrations....

Senator Ahmed Yerima Again!!!

The Things This man does leaves one wondering.......

                     

The Above Picture is of a young Egyptian girl and Senator Ahmed Yerima of Zamfara State and also the Former Governor of the State....
The Senator who received Criticism and Insults following his Marriage to a Child-bride is at it again, He has reportedly divorced his 17years old Egyptian wife just 3years after marrying her..

According to a Source the Reason Yerima divorce Marian who has a child for him and is now 17 is to enable him take another wife since according to Islamic injunctions, he cannot marry more than four (4) wives...
Senator Yerima along with four men, alleged to me Members of the Zamfara State House of Assembly were in Egypt weeks ago for the Wedding Fathia of his new bride who is said to be 15 years old...

Senator Yerima is recalled to have opposed the deletion of the section of the 1999 constitution that puts the official Marriage age at 18 years in Nigeria......

Hmmmmm..............

SOCIAL MEDIA- The Great Effect it has on the People and the Nations Image

                                     

According to Wikipedia Social media refers to interaction among people in which they create, share, and/or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content." Furthermore, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. They introduce substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organizations, communities, and individuals.

 
In Essence, Social Media is a way of communicating and passing Information online which necessarily doesn’t have to be Relevant or Meaningful to the Recipients..

NIGERIA -With a population of 167 million and 56 million internet users as at December 2012, Nigeria is the biggest internet market in Africa. Of the 115 million mobile telephone subscribers in the country, 35 million use their handheld devices to access internet data services.

Between 2000 and 2012, internet penetration grew from a paltry 0.06 percent to 34 percent, and there are indications that this trend will continue well into 2020.

Nigeria will remain the largest internet market on the continent in the near future because it has a large youth population (one-third of the population is between the 10-24 years age bracket) and a growing middle class estimated at 23 percent (appx. 39 million) of the population by Renaissance Capital in 2011. Nigeria has a fast-growing number of the two classes which traditionally drive internet usage around the world.

 

Read More After Break

GOD HELP NIGERIA...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and two of his top ministers may be attempting a cover-up on what clearly competes as Nigeria’s biggest fraud ever, involving the illegal diversion, or theft, of over N8trillion crude oil sales proceeds.........

In a frantic and unusual memo to the president on September 25, 2013, Central Bank governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi detailed how government-owned oil firm, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, had systematically diverted N8trillion, being sales proceeds between January 2012 and July 2013.
CBN governor revealed that for all crude oil sales within the period, NNPC paid only 24 percent proceeds into the federation account, and diverted or stole the remaining 76 percent-totalling N8 trillion.
As the CBN calculated, the NNPC sold at least 594 million barrels of oil within the period, and should have paid N10.3 trillion (USD65.3 billion) into the federation account. But the corporation paid only N2.5 trillion (USD15.5 billion), Mr. Sanusi said, citing documentation from pre-shipment inspectors.
Unbelievable: The whereabouts of the huge balance is unknown…

The weight of the differential is clearer if evaluated against the fact that the tiny percentage remitted by the NNPC managed to finance the nation in that period, raising the question of how much the total would then have achieved for a country unable to pay its university lecturers who have been on strike for five months.
Put simply, for each barrel of oil sold, say at an average of USD100, the NNPC illegally cornered $74 into an unknown account and gave Nigeria only $26.

Mr. Sanusi said he was “constrained” to hint the president after observing the huge shortfalls for years. He accused the NNPC of breaching two key federal laws, and urged the president to act expeditiously by ordering sweeping investigation and prosecution of those found culpable.
Two months on, the president has refused to act on the damning memo delivered to him personally by the CBN governor. In fact, after receiving the letter, the president, presidency sources say, questioned Mr. Sanusi on why such letter should be prepared in the first place and sent to him.
PREMIUM TIMES can also confirm that finance minister and former World Bank chief, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is also aware of the CBN’s information and has done nothing about it; while petroleum minister, Alison Diezani-Madueke, implicated in several corruption probes in the past, is said to be fully in the know about the massive plunder of crude oil money by the NNPC.
President challenged on corruption

Details of the president’s failure to act on such a massive scale of misappropriation came amid an increasing criticism of Mr. Jonathan’s response to corruption, as several senior officials of his government, accused of stealing or wasting public funds, have been spared of indictment and prosecution.
The weightiest of such concerns came on Monday from the speaker of the House of House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, who publicly accused the president of consistently displaying a “body language” that encourages corruption.
Citing past scandals, the most recent being the N255 million armoured car fraud involving aviation minister, Stella Oduah, Mr. Tambuwal said the president’s penchant for duplicating committees to investigate corruption cases, rather than directing law enforcement agencies to probe them, showed Mr. Jonathan was less committed to curbing fraud.

“By the action of setting up different committees for straightforward cases, the president’s body language doesn’t tend to support the fight against corruption,” the speaker said at an event in Abuja.
Between 2011 and 2013, the House of Representatives has investigated the NNPC multiple times, and has in many cases found officials of the corporation wanting. But no one has been sanctioned by government.
In 2012, top management of the NNPC and the petroleum minister, Mrs. Madueke, who directly supervises the NNPC, were recommended for prosecution by the House in a shocking fuel subsidy probe. They accused officials have remained at their posts.

The CBN’s allegation is the most scathing yet for a corporation notorious for secrecy and corruption.
The diverted or stolen amount-N8 trillion between January 2012 and July 2013- is the nearly the equivalent of the total federal budgets for two years.
Put together, the sum can run the entire country for the period, build several new roads and railways, pay wages of millions of workers, cater for the nation’s teeming unemployed, build thousands of hospitals and schools, complete ongoing power projects, and on an urgent note, clear multiple times, all government financial obligations to university lecturers, whose ongoing strike has kept the universities shut for more than five months now.

More losses and the ECA
Even so, when compared with prevailing data from different government agencies, the figure admitted by the CBN is still lesser than what Nigeria should earn from oil sales.
While the bank said its computation, based on pre-shipment details, showed that Nigeria sold N10.3 trillion worth of oil in 19 months, PREMIUM TIMES’ analysis shows the government should rather realize N10.6 trillion in the first 10 months of 2013-Janaury to October-alone.
PREMIUM TIMES’s estimates is based on the government’s data of daily production average of 2.11 million barrels of crude, sold at an average price of $105.84 per barrel.
If multiplied and converted to naira, the government should have realized N10. 6 trillion in 10 months alone.
But in that period, total oil receipts data provided by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, claimed between January and October, the government made N5.8 trillion.
Also, our estimates show that the government has not only lied or misled Nigerians about its total receipts from oil sales, but is also deceitful about its earnings in the contentious Excess Crude Account.
The ECA holds the difference between the real market price for oil and the government’s projection in the national budget yearly.

For 2013, the government approved rate is $79 per barrel (called benchmark for oil price), meaning any raise in price at the international marker, will go into the ECA.
For most of the year, oil sold as much as $112 and $114 per barrel. At a conservative rate of $105 per barrel, the government should have realized $26 as difference per barrel for the Excess Crude Account.
Calculated at 2.11 million barrels per day, that should amount to $17.3 billion (about N2.695trillion) earned as excess crude revenue from crude oil exports as of October 2013.
But the government claims it generated only N986.6 billion in the Excess Crude Account.
No explanation

No government official could explain the huge gaps for the 2013 figures. The ministry of finance did not comment when contacted multiple times. Paul Nwabuiku, a spokesperson for the finance minister, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala, promised a response but refused to give one several days after.
A spokesperson for the Central Bank of Nigeria, reacting to our findings (not Mr. Sanusi’s letter) said as the government’s banker, it could not provide the requested information, as it was unlawful for a banker to divulge details about its customer to a third party.
“We maintain a customer/banker relationship with the government in the execution of our mandate. We do not divulge such information to third parties,” Mr. Ugochukwu said on Thursday via a text message.
Controversy over Excess Crude Account
PREMIUM TIMES’s own evaluation of government oil earnings began well ahead of obtaining Mr. Sanusi’s letter to President Jonathan.

The review was prompted by the lingering controversy over the ECA between the finance minister, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala and the Rivers state governor, Chibuike Amaechi.
Mr. Amaechi had accused the government of depleting the account, usually shared between the federal, states and local governments.
The governor said $5 billion had gone missing from the account under Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala’s watch.
Defending the administration, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala accused the governor of “playing politics” on the matter, and said the outstanding $5 billion had been shared to states as monthly allocation and local governments, with Rivers State being one of the major beneficiaries.
The frustration of CBN governor
But in his letter, Mr. Sanusi said he had long been frustrated by the NNPC’s secrecy with oil sales, and that he raised concerns twice to the president as far back as 2010 about his observation that a huge chunk of sales proceeds were not remitted to government treasury.

He said the shortfall in revenue as a result of oil theft and vandalism in the Niger Delta was insignificant compared to the scale of money unaccounted for by the NNPC.
“Your excellency, you will recall that as far back as late 2010, I had verbally expressed deep concern about what appeared to be huge shortfalls in remittances to the federation account in spite of the strong recovery in oil prices,” the CBN governor wrote, indicating the losses extending years back far surpasses the N8 trillion of between 2012 and 2013.
There is no evidence the president acted on those concerns.
By 2012, he said the situation had gone worse that the government made more money from tax paid by oil companies than from actual sales of crude.

“This means, Your Excellency, that in this first seven months of the year, taxes accounted for 76 % of the total inflow from this sector, while NNPC crude oil proceeds accounted for 24%,” he said.
The CBN governor called for a thorough audit of all domiciliary accounts held by the NNPC outside of the CBN, and a probe of companies involved in oil lifting and oil swap.
“As banker to the federal government and Economic Adviser to the President,” he said, “I am obliged to draw the president’s attention to these serious issues of which you have most probably never been aware in this detail,” he said.

The Special Adviser to the President on Public Communications, Reuben Abati, was not available for comments. He did not answer several calls made to his telephone. He is believed to be travelling in South Africa with the president, who is attending the funeral of late South African President, Nelson Mandela.
 
SOURCE- NAIJAONPOINT

Another baby Factory Discovered at Imo

Why is all this Happening in Our Beloved Country?? Lets stop doing this to ourselves..

According to
Weeklystandard,

The police also rescued 16 pregnant girls, including one whose two-hour old baby girl was sold without her knowledge.

Leading his Police Ambush Squad to the No. 40 Egbu Road beside Somachi Automobile Market, Owerri, where Dr. Ezuma, a native of Ndiokeke Ndiakunwanta in Arondizuogu, Ideato North LGA of Imo State, operated his NGO, Ezuma Women and Children Right Initiative, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammad Katsina, also rescued a three-year-old boy who was also brought to the place alongside his pregnant mother.

Our reporter observed that the 16 pregnant girls were kept in two rooms that had no windows while repulsive odour oozed out from their rooms.

Speaking with journalists after rescuing the victims, the commissioner of police said, Dr. Ezuma who has been very notorious for gun-running and trafficking of human beings, was eventually apprehended at his residence by the Command Ambush Squad on Tuesday 26th November, 2013 through credible intelligence.

 

He said the course of his arrest, search was conducted in his premises purportedly registered as an office for an NGO, which turned out to be a baby factory, where teenage girls are encouraged to get pregnant and take home the sum of N100, 000 at delivery, on the condition that they would abandon their babies who would be eventually used for purposes ranging from child trafficking to rituals. The police boss disclosed that the suspect was arraigned before an Owerri Chief Magistrate Court 1 on November 1, 2013, for the offence of conspiracy and unlawful possession of firearms. He said the pregnant girls rescued in the premises of Dr. Ezuma were aged between 14 and 19 years, and that after further search was conducted, an automatic
eight-loader pump action gun (which is prohibited) was found in his house.

7 Years Jail Term For Social Media Critic- Senate

Reports reaching me are that the Senate has reached an advanced stage to pass a bill that seeks seven years jail term for social media critics found guilty of inciting the public against the government..

Beware all pronounced Critics of the Government. I don't want to start mentioning names sha.....

Nigeria!! A Beautiful Country, Beautiful People, Beautiful Cultures...Lets live Beautifully

NIGERIA A Beautiful Country with lots of Intelligence.......