Opinion: Mrs. Buhari Will Vote For President Jonathan by Obasi Akpa

As a father of five daughters, whenever I think
of Muhammadu Buhari, what comes to my mind is a regime that was. completely insensitive to the feminine gender.

First of all, Muhammadu Buhari had an all male cabinet at the very time when the world had very good examples of the sterling nature of females in power. including the Iron Lady herself, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher of The United
Kingdom and the phenomenal Indira Gandhi of India. Does it mean that neither of these women could inspire Buhari to have included even one woman in his cabinet?

All his ministers and advisers, his Military Governors and the ambassadors he appointed were men! And to rub salt to injury, Buhari is promising to close down the office of the First Lady if he is elected! In the year 2015! Are we moving forward or backward?

President Jonathan has been campaigning and
everybody sees his wife by his side. If I may ask, where was Mrs. Buhari until recently presented for political purposes? Is she wrapped. up in seclusion somewhere? Does her complete isolation from the public personae and campaigns of her husband not indicate that he still does not think that women have a role to play in government even if is ceremonial? And nobody should tell me that it is unislamic to honour your wife with a visible place by your side.

Is Buhari more Muslim than the people of Indonesia who elected a woman to head their government in the person of Megawati Sukarnoputri?

Is Buhari more Muslim than the people of Pakistan who elected a woman to lead them in the person of the late Benazir Bhutto?

I deliberately cited Indonesia and Pakistan because they are the largest
and second largest Muslim nations in the world with deep Islamic traditions that date back to centuries. If these nations can entrust women with political power at the highest levels, why should Buhari tend to put women in the background? I dare to say that it has not escaped the attention of Mrs. Buhari that President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed more women into his cabinet and into other high positions than any other government before his.

Again, I suspect that Mrs. Buhari is not unaware of the respect and recognition which the President accords his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan. Seeing how a secure man treats his wife and seeing how she has been relegated not just to the background, but to obscurity, I have a strong feeling that Mrs. Buhari will not vote for her husband. I do think President Jonathan would score an unexpected vote from the Buhari household.

I mean, take a look at the campaign rallies of the All Progressive Congress. How many women do we see in prominent positions? Not many or not at all.

Look at the report we are reading from Taraba. On Christmas Day, we were awaken with the headline 'Taraba: Buhari rejects female APC guber candidate'. From the story, we understand that General Buhari was not comfortable with the candidacy of Senator Aisha Jumai Alhassan who made history as the first woman to win a gubernatorial ticket on a major party and with a landslide at that.

As a former gubernatorial candidate, I know what it takes to win a party primary for the
gubernatorial ticket. It is a heavy weight fight in which the winner must defeat several heavy weights.

After Senator Aisha Jumai Alhassan performed this feat, instead of being congratulated, she met with rejection from Buhari. It only goes to show how deep seated his prejudices against women is. If there were ever any doubts as to the role Buhari expects from women that story wipes it away. If the women of Nigeria want to undo whatever gains they have made in the
last four years where they have had 12 women appointed as ministers, in which they finally had entry into the Nigerian Defense Academy courtesy of an Executive Order issued by President Jonathan and the first female Chief Justice of Nigeria appointed under President Jonathan, they may go ahead and vote for Buhari.

But before they do so, they better ask their husbands to buy air conditioners for their kitchens because they may be spending the next four years there.

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Chief (Dr.) Obasi Akpa Obasi is a former Gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress in Ebonyi State.

The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
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Breaking: Catholic Diocese Of Warri Reshuffles Her Priests In Various Parishes

The Catholic Diocese of Warri, Delta State, has announced the transfer of her Catholic Priests in several parishes across the diocese.

The transfer comes as a surprise to the lay faithful; though not the priests, for they are constantly rotated and shuffled into various parishes every two-years interval.

As at the time of filing this report, it remains unclear the total number of Priests that were transferred this time around. However, in the coming days, things should become clearer.

The new transfer takes effect within two weeks.
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Idoma Students Commends Senate For Sustaining Democracy | NEWSBEAT PORTAL

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Idoma Students Commends Senate For Sustaining Democracy

The National Association of Idoma Students wish to eulogize the doggedness of the Senate President and the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for their unflinching commitment to the Sustenance of our nascent democracy.

In a statement jointly signed by the President of the union, Igoche Egwa and the Secretary, Tony Onazi, the union also sympathized with the people of North eastern Part of the country on the terror unleashed on them by the insurgency and salute the courage of the Nigeria armed forces which, it said have not relented in battle to sustain the nation's sovereignty and reclaim its territory from the insurgents.

''We sympathize with our brethren from the North eastern Part of the country on the terror unleashed on them by the insurgency and salute the courage of the Nigeria armed forces which have not relented in battle to sustain our
sovereignty and reclaim our territory from the insurgents.

''Our heart goes to the fathers and mothers, wives and children of these great men who laid down their lives in the defence of our great country and pray that God gives their family the fortitude to bear the loss,'' the union said.

On the forthcoming elections, the students' body reiterated its support for president Goodluck Jonathan and the Senate President for their effort in keeping with the tenets of democracy.

In view of their commitment to Nation building and sustenance of democracy the Union, made the following declarations:

"That the Idoma Students shall vote and defend their Vote for President Goodluck Jonathan at the Forth coming polls, that Senator Dr. David Mark remains the best representative the idoma Nation can produce and urge Idoma Students to come Out en-mass to vote and defend their vote.

"That the National Association of Idoma Students shall declare any individual who contends with Sen. Dr. David Mark a personal non-grata keeping in mind that the choice of a Senator who will return as President of the Senate surpasses any form of personal or group interest who will jeopardize the chances of the Idoma Nation.

"That there is no better candidate than Prince Terhemen Tarzoor who has all it take to turn around the fortunes of the Benue people.

"The National Association of Idoma Students shall mobilize to deliver a fellow Youth as Governor come 2015 and that all students and youths conduct themselves and Shun violence during the forthcoming election as Nigeria
students are better than being thugs to selfish and greedy politicians.
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The Figures That Convince Me President Jonathan Is The Man For 2015 By Adeyemi Johnson

Recently, some APC stalwarts principally the party's chairman claimed that Nigeria has deteriorated under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and that APC offers a better solution, but is that true ? Rather than make subjective claims, it is better to examine the facts by global verifiable standards.

The most acceptable global composite standard for judging progress or development is the HDI Index. Many accept that Nigeria has not moved as fast as it should in this index. It measures three basic dimensions of human development, such as long and healthy life, knowledge and a descent standard of living.

The highest development is measured as 1, and anything below from 0.9 to 0.01 are a continuum from very high to very low respectively. But if we examine the facts from this measurement, in 2013 the Nigerian measurement on this index is 0.504. ln 2010 when Jonathan assumed office the Nigerian measure was 0.492, but in 1985 when Buhari left office Nigeria was second from last at the bottom of the table with our rating at 0.421. So, although Nigeria has not reached the highest ratings such as 0.810 to 0.870, under the Jonathan administration, it has moved up the Index since the time of Buhari.

But to show that this is a factual measure, If we examine some of the key indicators which make up this index such as life expectancy, which measures how long a person will live if all the prevailing conditions at his/her birth remains so throughout the person's life, we also see that, in 2012 the life expectancy of a Nigerian was 52.7, in 2010 it was 51 when the Jonathan administration assumed office.

There are some who will say that this is an effort to polish the image of the administration, but these measures are not conducted by Nigeria but by independent organs allied with the United Nations to measure the progress of mankind, and they often speak frankly to developing nations to let us know that where we are presently is far from the ideal and we should keep aspiring to that ideal.

But what is the APC offering? Looking back at the life expectancy of Nigerians in 1985 when Buhari left office, it was 47.18years and by 1999 when the civilians took over from the military that claims to have come to correct the ills of democracy, the life expectancy of Nigerians had actually fallen to 46.71years.

Moreover, it must also be pointed out that, although the national average in terms of HDI measurement is used as the standard for a country, it does not reflects the lived reality of everyone or the reality everywhere in a country. This is especially true for some of the indicators used to measure the HDI such as the standard of living which usually takes account of things like poverty rate and distribution of poverty. If we take the national distribution of poverty, low life expectancy and low literacy rates in Nigeria, it is discovered that the worst indicator measurements can be found in states that were formally ANPP.

The leadership value of ANPP can be directly associated with the leading presidential candidate that APC is offering as an alternative to the Jonathan administration. And the APC is saying publicly that the development that Nigeria is boasting about does not reflect on the people, but in actual fact, it is states under the leadership of the legacy members of APC which is pulling down the national average.

The data from states under Buhari's former legacy parties, are pulling down the national average. If we take away the data from these states, we might fare a lot better, what this means therefore is that what has worked better in other states should be emulated by these states, not the other way round.
So ,the question is: What is APC offering Nigerians? Is it progress or regression? Because apart from these quantitative facts, the APC is also offering qualitative expectations. They tell us that Buhari is an upright leader without administrative blemish. But many have pointed to the public records not political statements to verify this claim.

They point to human rights abuses. For example, Tai Solarin spent 17months in jail arrested with an illegal warrant of arrest which had only a photocopy of the signature of the Chief of Staff Supreme Headquarters. A Nigerian journalist, Vera Ifudu published that she was informed by the late Chief Olusola Saraki who was then in the Nigerian senate when the matter was probed that, the 2.8Billion United States Dollars which was missing at the NNPC under the Obasanjo regime while Buhari was Minister for Petroleum was traced to Buhari's private account' at the Midlands Bank in the United Kingdom. She was forced to resign because of this story without evidence to refute her story. While late Fela Ransom-Kuti was arrested for possession of Foreign exchange by the Buhari regime, money that was meant for the upkeep of his band on a foreign tour.

He was forced to spend 18months in jail, by a judge who was forced to imprison him by the Buhari regime, whereas on the same matter of illegal foreign exchange, when the Buhari regime was kicked out, his head of security, Lawal Rafindadi was found to have operated several personal foreign accounts, and until he died he was still fighting to unfreeze the accounts seized from him.

Also, Buhari and his deputy, Tunde Idiagbon made a law for Nigerians, that no one, under 18years should go on pilgrimage to the holy land Mecca but Idiagbon himself was found returning from Hajj with his 14year old son, when they were dethroned. Buhari was aware that Idiagbon went on hajj with his under-aged son. So they made one law for themselves and another for Nigerians.

Similarly, while Buhari was Chairman of PTF, an audit of the Agency found that over 25 billion Naira was missing though the agency, his relative Ahmad Salihijo, whom he appointed as the sole consultant in charge of all the transactions of the agency, died when the audit committee was constituted, some say he committed suicide to hide the facts, we will never know. But the audit report found many cases of clear over-invoicing and importation of expired products by the agency.

Therefore, looking at the quantitative progress of HDI indicators since 1985 and qualitative evidence the farce of Buhari's mythical uprightness, it is hard to understand, where the confidence of the APC lies that it is offering Nigeria a better choice for 2015

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The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author, Adeyemi Johnson
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Opinion: Why I Endorse The 'Clueless' President For A 2nd Term By Uzochukwu Okafor

I have been thinking seriously on why President Jonathan is constantly being derided and abused by a few but vociferous individuals. The most recent being that emanating from President Obasanjo's latest book. But what now propelled me into contributing to this debate is the article written by Mr. Nnimmo Bassey, who I have very high regard for since our student days at the University of Nigeria, Enugu campus.

In that article captioned " A Clueless president," he stated how an African friend he had not seen in years asked him about "his clueless President." This demonstrates the need for us to remain decorous even in instances of very sharp disagreements. Quite often, Nigerians complain of disrespectful treatments at the airports by immigration and custom officials.

There is a saying in Igbo land to the effect that when you describe your cooking pot as useless, people will treat it as rubbish. We Nigerians have often not been mindful of the damage we do to our country and ourselves when we denigrate our institutions and our leaders in a careless and reckless manner. It is even more so when such recklessness comes from a former president who should be more thoughtful and circumspect in his utterances and writings.

As we approach the 2015 presidential elections, the denigration of the office of the president is being escalated. The launch of the book, My Watch, by former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ) was seen in this light by many commentators. The opposition party, the APC is also determined to do maximum damage to President Jonathan and the office of the President. The utterances from its leadership need a lot of moderation and scrubbing. They have also at various times described Mr. President as clueless and one who runs an auto pilot government. The radical changes promised by President Jonathan during his campaign were captured in the Transformation Agenda document.

Programmes identified in this document will be used to evaluate the government of president Jonathan to see if his government can be described as clueless and running on auto pilot. An important barometer of a viable democracy is the sanctity of the voter's wish.

When late President Yaradua took office, he acknowledged that his election was largely flawed and vowed to clean up the electoral process. President Jonathan who succeeded him have not disappointed in this regard. It is to his credit that subsequent elections have been largely declared as free and fair by international observers. Another important index and benefit of democracy is the freedom of expression, freedom of association and statutorily guaranteed access to information.

Under President Jonathan, freedom of speech has remained unencumbered in spite of some unwarranted abuses his government has suffered. President Jonathan remains to date the most demonised, abused and derided President Nigeria has ever had. But it is to his credit that he has never used the security apparatus at his disposal to persecute any one. One can also acknowledge that he signed the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill into law, a bill that the previous governments avoided for years.

Under President Jonathan, the power sector has witnessed the privatisation of the generation and distribution companies. If international and local assessments of this process are anything to go by, the bidding process has been mostly transparent. With this process concluded, one can anticipate an irreversible process in achieving stable power supply in no distant future, the same way the telecommunication sector benefited from privatization.

The rehabilitation of the railway system deserves special mention. This important means of transportation has been unfortunately ignored by previous governments. The progress being made in this sector in reopening the railway links to the major cities in Nigeria is commendable. This is being complemented with the dredging of the lower River Niger. We also take particular note of the ongoing construction of the new bridge over the River Benue and the commencement of work on the Second Niger Bridge.

The aviation sector is another area that has witnessed significant transformation. The modernisations of the existing airports and construction of new airport terminals have improved the standing of Nigerian airports within the international aviation community. It is therefore not surprising that Nigeria has attained and retained the FAA Category One status. The launching of the National industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP), and the National Enterprise Development Programme has led to the resuscitation of Nigeria automobile industry.

Nigeria has moved from a net importer of cement to a net exporter of cement by increasing installed capacity from 16.5 million metric tons per annum in 2011 to 39.5 million metric tons per annum in 2014. The transformation agenda of Mr. President, if implemented faithfully, will no doubt significantly improve Nigeria economy. But we must be mindful of the fact that its impact and success rests on tackling the monster of corruption. One, therefore, cannot fairly evaluate this administration without assessing its approach to addressing the issue of corruption. Although Nigeria has improved slightly with respect to the perception index of Transparency International, perception of corruption in Nigeria is still high.

While there is often a mismatch between perception and reality, one cannot ignore perception. The truth, is that Mr. President needs to demonstrate that his government abhors corruption. While I agree with Mr. President that dealing with corruption is not about parading people on the television but devising creative and systematic means of addressing it, there is still need to combine the long term measure of Mr. President with some short term prescriptions.

One short term measure could be initiating an executive bill to set up Tribunals dedicated to trying cases of corruption. These tribunals should be presided over by credible retired judges. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has often complained about their frustration with the process at the existing courts. The conviction of Governor Ibori at the UK Court vis a vis the merry go round experienced in the same case in Nigeria is a case in point.

Having stated the issues above, it will be germane to acknowledge what this administration has already done to tackle corruption at its roots. These include the restructuring of the pension payment system, the restructuring of the integrated salary payment system, and the deregulation in the oil and gas sector to check corrupt practices in the downstream sector.

The disappearance of perennial queues at our filling stations is one testimony to the success of the creative approach to stemming endemic corruption in the oil sector. Signing of the Anti-Money Laundering Act into law, introduction of an electronic-wallet scheme, that has reduced significantly decades of corruption in the fertiliser and seed sectors are also very creative.

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The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author, Uzochukwu Okafor
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Top 10 Trending Hashtags In Nigeria For Jan 14, 2015

As the February 14, 2015 presidential elections draws closer by the day, it appears the incumbent president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is gradually making waves on TWITTER - one of the most popular social media platform in the world.

Among the hashtags created in Nigeria, president Jonathan appears to be heading back to Aso-Rock going by this hashtag: #Gej_WillWin. This is has been trending now for the past two days and it remains to be seen how strong it can go.

Here are the hashtags that have made the list so far:
#EveryVillainNeeds [image] Promoted
#GEJ_WillWin
Zahra
#Presh_Davido
#GEJistheChange
#OGAARA_byBrain
#Courteville10thAnniversary
Nigeria
Ronaldo
Baga
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UNIBEN HOSTEL Accommodation Update: Unity Bank To Process Payments

BANK CHARGES: all students are advised to pay their bank charges into the banks as specified below.

1) Hostel access and maintenance charges: unity bank Ugbowo campus. All students: 1000

2) SUG dues: access bank ugbowo campus.
A) old students; 300
B) new students ; 500

3)Clearance charges: Guaranty Trust bank, Ugbowo campus.

4)School fees: payment online.

5)Students record file(new students): First Bank Plc, Ugbowo Campus

NOTE:
receipts for hostel access and SUG dues are to be presented to the deans office, students affairs division before registration for hostel request.

Old students could commence their request for hostel accommodation with effect from 15th Jan, 2015, provided that:
A)their sessional result have been approved by
senate and
B)they have paid their school charges

Please also note that hostel allocation are strictly on a first come-first serve basis as the
bed spaces available are limited.

Signed: Prof Victor Edosa Omozuwa
Dean of students.
14/01/2015
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Exclusive: Delta Central APC Councillors Hold Two-Days Meeting

Newsbeatportal can authoritatively report that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Councillors from Delta Central Senatorial District are holding a two-days meeting.

The meeting is ongoing at the secretariat of the party in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Ughelli, Delta State.

The priority of the meeting is to make proper preparations and strategize towards the forth-coming general elections in the state and Nigeria at large.

The governorship candidate of the party, Olorogun Otega Emerhor, is expected to meet with the councillors tomorrow, the 15th of January, 2015.

Delta Central Senatorial district consists of eight Local Governments; namely, Uvwie Local Government, Ethiope East Local Government, Ethiope West Local Government, Okpe Local Government, Ughelli North Local Government, Ughelli South Local Government, Sapele Local Government, and Udu Local Government.


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Satisfied With Electricity In Nigeria? Engage PDP Now On Twitter

The Largest Political party in Nigeria and Africa, The Peoples Democratic Party, is currently engaging Nigerians on the state of the power sector in Nigeria.

Earlier today, the party, through his social media handle on twitter, wrote:

"@PdpNigeria will be answering questions on the Power Sector today. Tweet using the hashtag #AskPDP"

Wherever you may be, as long as you have access to twitter, kindly engage the party today. You are at liberty to ask your questions as you deem them fit.

You can follow the party on twitter by clicking http://twitter.com/pdpnigeria

What are you waiting for? Tweet your questions now using the hashtag: #AskPDP
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ECTL Fourth Quarter Investors Update Now Available Online

Dear Shareholders,

The Ellist Communication Technology Ltd fourth quarter business activities came to an end today [January 14, 2015].

The main drive of the ECTL is traffic; more traffic generates more revenue. Our technology is built so rigorously to monetize every web traffic we get. The digital advertising landscape is advancing everyday and more large portals are building their own in-house advertising program to monetize their huge web traffic.

Hence we lost some of the largest web traffic sources such as Naij.com, National Mirror etc. This also led to the loss of some of our major advertisers like mobofree. Because of this trend, we decided to build our own traffic sources to consume our adverts, hence we started our flagship project http://talkafrica.co

Within 3months+ of its launched we have driven the traffic to over 20,000 daily unique but this is still far from the projected minimum daily traffic of 200,000 Africans needed to attract large institutional advertisers. We can achieve this in the next quarter as we have been able to master the pattern and, with better funding and completion of the mobile apps for the platform, traffic will be greatly improved.

Dividends
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There will be no dividend for the fourth quarter as our revenue has greatly been affected by low traffic buildup. We hope to steer the business to success this coming quarter.

Outlook for the Fifth Quarter
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(i) The ECTL is currently building a datafeed technology to enable all shareholders view the companies daily revenue real time. Our policy has always been hinged on openness and transparency. The core businesses of the ECTL is done online and all business data and recorded online, we intend streaming this data to all shareholders daily.

(ii) With lowering revenue, we are inviting shareholders, who can volunteer in supervising some of our web projects as telecommuting team members, to join the team. It is important to be part of the growth of the ECTL.

Our Challenges At the Moment
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The ECTL has been able to massively invest in building some of the very important technology required in monetizing web traffic. We have a link advertising technology, Social media monetization technology, banner and contextual ads monetization technology and finally we have built a robust portal technology to drive traffic and make these technologies developed profitable.

At this stage, we need aggressive campaigns and better advertising budgets to reach out to millions of internet users in Africa. With large traffic comes better revenue.

Our challenge at the moment is getting the right funding to promote these project, we have currently placed 5% of the companies share to raise the required funding needed to massively grow our traffic source this coming quarter.

Without aggressive campaign, it may take longer to get to the required traffic levels where revenue will be meaningful.

Regards!!!

ECTL Team

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UNIBEN Bans Stanbic Bank Located Inside Ugbowo Campus

The University of Benin, Benin City, UNIBEN, has given an order to STANBIC IBTC Bank to stop collecting payments from students who are applying for hostel accommodation.

STANBIC IBTC Bank has a branch inside the University Campus at Ugbowo, Main Gate, Benin City.

As a result of this new development, all new students have been advised to put an hold to all Hostel Applications until the university authorities make provision for another alternative.

However, for those students who were quick to make payments to the aforementioned bank, the university will sort out whatever issues that may arise.


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Joke: Five Parachutes, Four First Class Citizens, One Jet Plane; Who died?

A plane was about to crash and there were only four parachutes in the plane. Meanwhile there were five people on board the plane.

The first person was Cristiano Ronaldo and he said: I am the best footballer, I can't die now" so he took 1 parachute and left.

The second person, who was Aliko Dangote said "i'm the richest man in Africa and i'm too young to die" so he took a parachute and left.

The third was President Jonathan and he said: "I am the smartest president in the world so i cannot die right now, my people still need me;" so he took 1 and left.

Then It was left with Pope Francis and a little
school girl. The Pope said to the little girl: "take the last one, I am ready to sacrifice my life for yours". Astonishingly, the little girl replied: 'no need for that, there are two parachutes left.

The pope asked her: how come? The little girl
replied: 'the Nigerian president took my school bag.

What do you think will happen to President Jonathan according to this joke?

Ologbosere Martins Tolulope wrote in via Facebook.


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The Beef Continues: Reno Omokiri's 14 Questions for General Buhari and the APC.

I have questions for Gen Buhari and his party and I hope rather than insults we will get answers to these factual questions.

1. Has Buhari apologised to Ben Ogedengbe's family for killing him for a crime that did not carry death penalty when he committed it.

2. If Buhari really believes that power is from God as he says, then why did he take it by
force in 1983?

3. Has Buhari apologized to the people of Lagos for cancelling Jakande's Metroline & forfeiting the $50 million Lagos paid for it?

4. Why did Buhari regime use violence to stop the September 1985 National Conference of
the National Association of Nigerian Students?

5. Has Buhari apologized for heading the ONLY
military administration that did not have a transition plan to hold elections?

6. Has Buhari apologized for jailing Tai Solarin & denying him his asthma drugs simply because he campaigned against military rule

7. Has Buhari apologized for jailing Nduka Irabor and Tunde Thompson for writing a truthful report which embarrassed his government?

8. Has Buhari apologized for raiding Papa Awolowo's house and seizing his passport so he couldn't travel out of the country?

9. Has Buhari apologized for throwing VP Alex
Ekwueme in jail even though it was proven that
Ekwueme DID NOT steal?

10. What reason did Buhari have for jailing Ojukwu in 1984? Ojukwu was not in Shagari's government and he did not steal!

11. Can Buhari explain to young Nigerians why he banned the Nigerian Medical Association? Does he hate doctors?

12. What reason did Buhari have for jailing the
activist Beko Ransome Kuti who campaigned for his brother, Fela's release?

13. They say Buhari is now a democrat. Really? Then why did he treat the Oputa Panel with such disdain and refused to appear?

14. Why did Buhari jail Fela Kuti in 1984? What was Fela's crime? Singing against military
government?

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Reno Omokiri is the SA on Social Media to the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
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Open Letter To General Muhammadu Buhari By Chika Onuora

Since I heard that the All Progressives Congress (APC) voted you in as its presidential candidate, I have been worried about so many issues, some of which I will mention, but others I will raise at other fora.

To start with, as a woman, I am pained that you will not have an office of the First Lady. Many have said that the constitution does not have a provision for that office, which I believe is true, but I still insist that you bring your wife to Abuja, and into the Aso Rock Villa, to help better our lives. She can only do that with the full paraphernalia of an office, so I advise that you reconsider your position.

Again, Sir, it is not about that office, but about the dividends. Most of us do not like Patience, but we like what she has gotten for us. I am not so stupid and irreligious to believe we will equal the men, but at least we can consolidate on the 35% we now have. With you, the future is grim and foreboding.

Dear General, Sir, I may be sounding disrespectful at this stage in my letter, but it is for a good reason because as a woman who has nurtured children with a supporting husband, I cannot understand why a man who served in the Nigerian Army and rose to your rank can be described as an officer and a gentleman. An officer maybe, but a gentleman definitely not. And I thought one of the reasons given for wives decorating their husbands on promotion was to show they were a rank higher. It appears to me that for some of you, while you are officers, your wives are fresh recruits.

Pardon my anger, but I must keep speaking until I ventilate why I can never, ever, vote for you, even if my husband thinks you are what Nigeria needs. He is still suffering certain deprivations for suggesting that in a discussion with his friends to my hearing.

I read the other day that you claimed to have forgiven those who sent you out of Dodan Barracks, but I think all that is politics. If you could not forgive a divorced and dead wife, only fools, including your newfound friends, especially those of the South-West who propped you up, will believe you. That is if they are that foolish! I can wager that Ibrahim Babangida did not believe a word of that your comment. Knowing him as I do, he will work his best underground against you. So will his boys.

Sir, where exactly is your second wife, Aisha? There are too many stories in the open concerning her; and her continual absence either proves the stories have a semblance of truth, or you are just the good, old Buhari that cannot change.

I do not wish to comment on President Goodluck Jonathan or his wife, Patience, but I fear gravely that with you in the Aso Villa, our gender will lose all the gains that Jonathan's presidency gave us.

Dear General, I read something written by a woman on the back page of the Punch newspapers of Thursday, January 8, 2015 concerning your "missing wife", but this was the most instructive for me. The writer wrote: "There are several reasons one can adduce for Buhari and his wife's photo hide-and-seek. One, the culture of lovey-dovey is simply not him. Like the Igbo proverb that says a man cannot learn to be left-handed in old age, I wager that this is a left-handedness that Buhari has not learnt and is probably a far harder lesson than removing his cap during a church service.

"Two, he probably thinks being seen with a woman will detract from his famed militarist discipline and Spartan image. He has done a lot of bending just to project himself as a non-Islamic fundamentalist (and) pan Nigerian statesman but the woman aspect just does not resonate well with him – yet. Third, the religion and culture Buhari has known all his life do gift a second-class citizen status to women."

Sir, Is this writer right in her summation? If that is the case, we may have to wait until you are 76 years old and recognize how important we are as women to vote you in.

See you in 2019! 

Chika Onuora wrote in from Asokoro, Abuja via chikamadubuikeonuora@gmail.com.

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Facebook Share n Earn Secret On TalkAfrica Cracked

It is always a great pleasure to constantly reveal to you great secrets towards ensuring that your earnings swell on a daily basis; after all, what is the point of labouring day-in-day-out, when one cannot reach the minimum payout threshold of N2000 monthly?

It can be so frustrating that, in spite of the many promises this forum aim to fulfil to millions of Africans, only few publishers are cashing out monthly; everybody deserves to be paid monthly, but your being paid monthly depends on the efforts, time, energy you put into activities on the forum. Nobody is going to pay you for not being active here; because you must be active in order to get paid. So, what must you do to be paid this month?

Until few a couple of weeks back, publishers are only paid 5kobo for every IP that clicks on the topics they created. However, everything changed with the introduction of a new payment system by the management. Under the new payment system, things became streamlined and more efficient. Thus, we had two main instant rewarding programs: The Share n Earn program and the Publishers program. At the moment, the Share n Earn program is more rewarding for you are paid N1000 for every 1000 valid IPs.

How can you get valid IPs to quickly boast your earnings and reach payout? The trick is to engage your social media contacts on twitter, facebook, LinkedIn, BBM, whatsapp, Badoo, 2go, Pinterest, etc. It is important to point out here that the focus of this article is solely on the use of FACEBOOK.

Facebook has a lot of real audience and if you are looking for valid IPs, then this is one of the most important social media platform to begin from. But, if you may want to ask this question: how can a publisher effectively use facebook to drive valid IPs to TalkAfrica in order to increase earnings?

There are several strategies that various people use to achieve this aim:

1. Posting topics already created on your timeline by using the Social Media Sharing Tool named [b]Share n Earn[/b]; you will find this tool at the bottom of every topic created.

2. Posting topics on Facebook Pages, Fan Pages, Group Pages.

3. Making comments on Sponsored Pages, such as Jumia, Kaymu, OLX, etc

4. Tagging your friends on facebook when updating your status.

5. Searching for friends who are from your location, country. For instance, if you are a from Nigeria or Ghana or South Africa, it is suggested that you search for your fellow active country people. By adding fellow active country people to your list of friends, you are potentially creating wealth for yourself in return.

6. Engage your friends on facebook, especially when they make comments on your posts; because, the more your friends find out that you like their comments are also engage them, the more they continue to follow your posts.

So, what are you waiting for? Are you ready to start working immediately or you still want to explore more avenues? It is always better to work with the ideas you already have and build on them.

Do you have any tip and contribution to add to what has been written above? Please, kindly drop them using the comment box so that more publishers can learn and earn income monthly from this program.

Are you a guest reading and having the feeling of giving this program trial? I can assure you that those feelings of yours are good feelings and you need to act on them by clicking on the link below.

Cheers!!!

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Nigerians Must Not Vote Based On Religious Sentiments, Nuhu Replies Tamunokuro.

You can call me sentimental or biased, and I will call you a stupid idiot. I will cast my vote for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan because he is a southerner and a Christian. I'm sick and tired of all these people talking about sentiments and all rubbish.

Northern muslims will not vote for Goodluck, not because he has not performed, but because he is neither a muslim nor a northerner, despite the fact that he did more for them on education than any of their past leaders including Buhari by trying to educate the Almajiri that the leave in the streets to turn to boko haram fighters, gave them 12 new federal universities. Read more here: [url]http://talkafrica.co/ng/p/21561/20788-updates[/url]

Chris Tamunokuro
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I have read your post. Go and take the statistics of the following please.

1. How many muslim dominated state in the north that are having Christians as the deputy governors and compare to how many
southerner state dominated Christian that made a muslim their deputy governor if any?

2. How many southerners that live and own properties in the north compare 2 how many northerner dat live and own properties in the south?

3. How many churches in the north compare to how many mosques in th south?

4. Minister of finance, petroleum, CBN governor and Nigeria president, these positions have never bn occupied by a particular section of d
country in our history before now, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan started it now just for him to perpetuate stealing.

I will advice you to do yourself a favour and keep aside ur religion and tribe because you and I have no direct contact to GEJ/GMB; only their good governance we can benefit from and one of dem is corrupt while one is not although none of them is a saint.

You now have a choice to vote whoever you feel will protect ur interest as a nigerian not as a Christian/Muslim or northerner/southerner. No mater the persecution nobody can wipe away any religion or tribe away but we can all make nigeria great together except you are telling us there is a particular religion/tribe that support
corruption.

May God open your eyes to see what is good.

Ibrahim Nuhu from Facebook.
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Northern muslims will not vote for Jonathan, writes Chris Tamunokuro

You can call me sentimental or biased, and I will call you a stupid idiot.

I will cast my vote for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
because he is a southerner and a Christian. I'm sick and tired of all these people talking about
sentiments and all rubbish.

Northern muslims will not vote for Goodluck, not because he has not performed, but because he is neither a muslim nor a northerner, despite the fact that he did more for them on education than any of their past leaders including Buhari by trying to educate the Almajiri that the leave in the streets to turn to boko haram fighters, gave them 12 new federal universities.

They are the major beneficiaries of his agricultural policy, especially fertiliser sales and dry season farming.

Most of his political appointees are northerners. Yet they preach against him in their mosques, set up boko haram to make the country ungovernable for him.

They have even started burning his campaign buses. Yet some stupid and clueless southerners will come out at Owerri, Awka, Enugu, etc to shout Change.

If you think the Hausa man is ready to live
as one Nigeria with us, you are mistaken.

I am sure Jonathan has learnt his lesson that you can never please an hausa man as long as you're not his brother.

You are a big disgrace to Igbo land and Christianity if you cast your vote for a northern muslim who imprisoned Ekwueme while Shagari was enjoying at home.

The northern muslim that imprisoned the best governor Imo state ever had.

Chris Tamunokuro writes from Nigeria on The Nigerian Peoples' Parliament Group Page.
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Quit Unemployment Today and Join The TalkAfrica Revolution; Get Paid This Month

Talkafrica is becoming increasingly popular and more Nigerians are joining the forum on a daily basis; however, not everybody will be paid this month. [No 1 Premise]

To be paid by the end of this month, your e-wallet needs to exceed N2000, but many people will not even hit N1000. [No. 2 Premise]

I have already exceeded the N2000 payout threshold and I am going to be paid as from 29th of this month; this brings me to "Premise No. 3: many people will still not be paid because they will ignore the secret I am going to reveal to them here. [I have written so many threads on this forum, why should they even consider reading this?]

On December 9th, 2014, I persuaded @tejiri2009 to join me here and convinced him that this is a very great opportunity to earn a living. After he joined, I exposed him to all the secrets of being successful here: I had written several of these topics on the TALKAFRICA SECTION. He followed these secrets and reached payout within 13 days.

The Secret Of My Success On Talkafrica
http://talkafrica.co/ng/p/17988/20788-updates
Tejiri2009, Referred By Newsbeat, Wins Talkafrica's Best Member For December http://talkafrica.co/ng/p/14626/20788-updates

Advice: All Publishers Must Own A Blog To Earn More On TalkAfrica http://talkafrica.co/ng/p/8898/20788-updates

Here is another article on the Webmaster Section: Urgent!!! Every Publisher On TalkAfrica.co Network Should Read This http://talkafrica.co/ng/p/2564/20788-updates

Have you read the above articles? Then you are most likely to reach your first payout before the end of the month when publishers are paid. Have you not read them? Then, you still have the opportunity to do that.

For those who have done that, you may have observed that it was easy hitting set targets with the secrets above; however, it is even easier now with this new secret I am about to share with you. But, what is this secret?

The secret is: SHARE TOPICS AND EARN. So, if you want to quickly reach payout, you should focus your energy on this program.

There are three ways of making money on this forum at the moment; first: Referral program, second: publishers program, third: Share n Earn program. For this critical stage we are in, every publisher should focus heavily on sharing of topics on social media.

All you need to do to reach payout is get 2000 Africans (persons) to read any topic created on this forum; 2000 Africans will give you N2000. You receive N1 for every African who read the topics you share.

So, what are you waiting for? Are you not on twitter, facebook, linkedIn, BBM, WhatsApp, 2go, Nimbuzz, badoo, etc? Start sharing now and be paid at the end of the month.

It may also interest you to know that you receive a maximum of 5kobo for every Non-African person who read the topics you share.

Are you ready to cease this rare opportunity? Click to register http://talkafrica.co/signup/newsbeat

Thank you for reading!!!

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11 Reasons Why Nigerians Must Vote Back Jonathan By Ishaku

Here are my eleven reasons why Nigerians should vote back incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

-Goodluck Jonathan signed FOI bill that obasanjo refused to sign and you say Goodluck is bad.

-GoodLuck approved #18,000 Minimum wage from 7,500 Which Obasanjo refused to sign and you say Goodluck is bad.

-Goodluck dualised federal roads (about 25,000km) which obasanjo abandoned and you say Goodluck is bad?

-The rail system is working which obasanjo Sunk in billions of dollars without result and you say Goodluck is bad.

-Goodluck has been conducting free and fair elections whereas the ones conducted under obasanjo are Shameful and national disgrace yet you say Goodluck is bad.

-Goodluck established 12 new universities, 9 in the North yet you say Goodluck is bad.

-Goodluck established the Almajeri system for those deprived of education by their own people and you say Goodluck is bad.

-Goodluck has been building dams and improving the country's power from 2500mW to 6000mW -And successfully privatised the sector which many analyst believed is the best way to go and you say Goodluck is bad.

-Agriculture have been revamped and you say Goodluck is bad.

- Airports are wearing world class looks and you say Goodluck is bad.

-This administration has employed more than any other in the history of Nigeria and you say Goodluck is bad.

Now do you think Buhari will perform magic if you vote him?

My people say -any cow that is in a hurry to go to America will soon come back as corn beef.

Writer: Akyala Ishaku
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