Thursday, 3 November 2016
Kendall Jenner celebrates her 21st birthday with family(Photos)
Man charged to court for widrawing #150,000 from #1m which was mistakenly sent into his account
Rochas Okorocha:One year after, APC hasn't been able to manage its God-given victory
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
See photos of Rihanna as she slays in black fur coat, timberland boots and dreadlocks on set of new movie
Tuesday, 1 November 2016
President M.Buhari reacts to Senate’s rejection of $29.96bn loan request
Senate rejects President Mohammadu Buhari's request for external $30 billion loan
Group Insists Ameachi, Onu Must Resign Over Bribery Allegation, Drags Buhari To Court
The Chief Justice of Nigeria,Mahmud Mohammed blames President M.Buhari for failing to act at the right time
Iledare Oluwajuwonlo popularly known as Jaywon welcomes baby boy
Popular Musician,Taylor Swift and Her Squad Just Delivered the Ultimate Treat on Halloween Night(Photos)
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World Cup trophy sculptor, Silvio Gazzaniga dies at age 95
Monday, 31 October 2016
Obasanjo and his 25 billionaires
This comment comes as response to Alakija’s accusation that ex-president illegally took an oil block allocated to her company. Remi Oyeyemi, journalist, poet, writer and public analyst in this opinion piece explains why Muhammadu Buhari should probe Obasanjo.
There is nothing unusual about Obasanjo – Onyejekwe’s failing to create 50 Nigerian billionaires as he intended. He has always failed Nigerians in every endeavour he has been involved. But the larger question remains the inability of our leaders to follow due process in exercising power. Our rulers often act as if they are kings of the jungle and that the laws of the land do not apply to them.
They exude beastly instincts permeated with ruinous vendetta in manifesting congenital need to demonstrate crude power. To Mrs. Alakija, until she was allotted oil wells, no one has really heard about her. She was never associated with any known business endeavour. She did not descend from any rich family or was previously married to a billionaire of credible means. She became a billionaire because she was allotted oil wells. She is emblematic of the mis-governance that has always characterized our clime. She got to be allotted oil wells in a system where nothing was ever fair and without due process. She only used her connections with our power aphrodisiacs euphemized as rulers, to get the oil wells.
Mrs. Alakija is a Yoruba woman. Like the retired General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma she got many oil wells because of her proximity to crude power in Nigeria. None of them is from Niger – Delta. With the publicly available list of the owners of oil wells in Nigeria, the people of the Niger Delta have been evidently short changed. How many Niger Deltans became billionaire as a result of owning oil wells?The bottom line is that Mrs. Alakija did not get the oil wells through due process. When Obasanjo-Onyejekwe was acting like a bull in the china shop breaking everything in his path, he never followed due process in taking the oil well from Mrs. Alakija. The allocation of oil wells in Nigeria has always been part of crude exercise of power by our Military and civilian rulers. Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha, (the hero of President Mohammadu Buhari who never stole a dime of Nigeria’s money) were the guiltiest of this genre of power dispensation. Be that as it may, the poverty of Obasanjo – Onyejekwe’s leadership was manifested in the reported expressed statement that he wanted to create 50 billionaires during his tenure. This poverty of leadership in one’s estimation could only be surpassed by that of former President Shehu Shagari and President Mohammadu Buhari. One is not very sure, given the positive economic indices under General Sanni Abacha whether he could be added to this inglorious list outside tendentious fascistic and dictatorial idiosyncrasy. It is not surprising that Obasanjo- Onyejekwe could only think this way – making 50 billionaires during his tenure rather than building an economy that would create authentic billionaires. One of the questions raised by this revelation is whether Obasanjo – Onyejekwe is one of the new billionaires that were created during his tenure in Aso Rock? If so, how did he become a billionaire from having only 23,000.00 naira in his account in 1999 before assuming office? How much was his salary and emoluments as the President of Nigeria for him to become a billionaire in 2007? If the politicized EFCC under President Buhari is not able to probe Obasanjo – Onyejekwe who has literally convicted himself of corruption through this public statement, then he needs to abandon his fake anti – corruption wars. It should not surprise any unbiased observer of Buhari administration if the probe of Obasanjo- Onyejekwe did not take place. It won’t take place because Buhari was not able to go after Ibrahim Babangida and Abubakar Abdulsalaam, apart from Obasanjo- Onyejekwe. He has not been able to do so because President Buhari himself is very corrupt in his personal life and during his services to Nigeria. Apart from several evidences in public space on President Buhari’s personal acts of corruption and lack of integrity, his comfort with several crooks within his cabinet and other staff serves to confirm that President Buhari is a congenitally dishonest person. His refusal to probe former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, call his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari to order, fire his Chief of Army Staff, General Yusuf Buratai and hold accountable his Minister of Internal Affairs in Bello Dambazzau regardless of mountains of evidence against them, shows that Buhari is a fake anti-corruption President. President Buhari’s inability to probe Obasanjo –Onyejekwe is derived from his own comfort with corruption. Hence he could only probe selectively. With so much noise made about Diezani Alison Madueke’s stealing, some of which were connected to General Dambazzau, to allow the latter to remain in his (Buhari’s) cabinet is functionally related to the poverty of leadership that Obasanjo – Onyejekwe himself manifested during his own tenure and has continued to manifest since he left office. Deriving from the poverty of Obasanjo- Onyejekwe’s leadership of Nigeria is the abject deterioration of Nigeria’s infrastructures under him and which other presidents since then have inherited and have not been able to do anything about. Rather than concentrate on building Nigeria’s economy through the development of our infrastructures – roads, hospitals, educational institutions, judiciary, airports, water ways, the police, the Armed Forces, agriculture, industrialization among many others – he was busy building the so-called billionaires who contributed little or nothing to the country’s economy. It is very evident that Obasanjo – Onyejekwe is a billionaire today given his new assets accumulated since 1999 and known to the public. But Nigerians do not have a list of the 24 other billionaires that he made during his tenure less Mrs. Alakija that he has admitted publicly as being one of them. Since this is something that Obasanjo – Onyejekwe is very proud of as part of his own achievements, even though he considered himself a failure in this regard, he should be able to come out and tell Nigerians who are these billionaires that he made.In making this disclosure, Obasanjo – Onyejekwe should also avail Nigerians with how these people made their billions from the Nigerian economy under him. What kind of jobs did they do or create? What kind of contracts did they execute? What were the processes followed in empowering them? Or were they just conduits to steal the commonwealth and eventually took their own shares of billions that passed through them? By releasing their list, Nigerians would be able to establish their pedigree and understand if there is the need for them all to be probed to return Nigeria’s billions. If it is discovered that Obasanjo – Onyejekwe’s billionaires have actually bilked the country, then the EFCC should invite him for a meeting. If Buhari’s EFCC would not go after President Obasanjo – Onyejekwe and his billionaires to establish if their billions were stolen from Nigerians, should we still be talking of any war on corruption? Any benefit of the doubt given to President Buhari based on his fake integrity ought to become null and void. Or is this war on corruption only meant for certain Nigerians and not others? President Buhari should know, assuming he has the intellectual ability to understand, that on this war on corruption, he could only deceive some of the people some of the times but not all the peoples all of the times. Nigerians are not stupid and they are paying attention. “In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.”
Jose Morinho and Manchester United players at Unicef dinner live in Thailand(Photos)
This is the 17th edition of the annual United for Unicef event, which last year raised more than £230,000.
Pastor E.A Adeboye warms that they should stop uploading his messages on social network
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God,
RCCG, Pastor E.A Adeboye, has pleaded with youths in his
church to desist from uploading his messages on the social
media, and spare him the torrents of backlash such upload can
attract from millions of social media users.
He also begged not to be quoted.
This is coming after the pastor was widely upbraided over his
counsel to young men and women concerning marriage.
Recall that some months ago, in a video, Pastor Adeboye
Ronaldo Deserves To Win 2016 Ballon D’or – Sir. Alex Ferguson
According to the Scot, Ronaldo is the standout candidate to win the Ballon d’Or.
Ronaldo won his first Ballon d’Or in 2008 in Manchester United under Ferguson and is the heavy favourite to be crowned the world’s best player for the fourth time, having been named in the 30-man shortlist for the award along with the likes of France’s Antoine Griezmann and five-time winner, Lionel Messi.
Hailing the Portugal captain’s achievements in a year that saw him win the Champions League as well as the Euro 2016 Championship, Ferguson cannot think of anyone better to receive the players’ top recognition.
Ferguson told Marca, “Cristiano’s achievements are unsurpassed; he has had a wonderful year.
“ I cannot think of anyone better to lift the Ballon d’Or trophy .
“He won both the Champions League with Real Madrid and captained Portugal at Euro 2016 where, despite having to miss the end of the final through injury, he was on the sideline cheering on his team-mates, such was his desire to lift the trophy. It was wonderful. “One of the moments when I feel most proud is the thought that Manchester United played a role in his career and we wish him well.”
Ferguson, who is viewed as one of the greatest achievers as a manager, paid tribute to Ronaldo’s attitude and work ethics and believes those factors are the driving force behind the player’s success. He added, “Having him under my orders from the age of 17 has allowed me to see his progression, but also understand what made him a star of that magnitude. “Cristiano had the work ethic needed to become a complete player, as well as the natural talent.
“He had this amazing determination, that desire to be the best to obsessive levels, topped with an amazing discipline in training. “That constant desire drove him in his daily work and even as a young player at United he was an example for everyone.”
$2.1b Arms deals: Dasuki intends to call former Pres. Goodluck Jonathan as witness
Obafemi Martins acquires N216m yacht as birthday gift
Hillary Duff apologises for her Pilgrim costume and her boyfriend's American Indian Halloween costume
Sunday, 30 October 2016
See England cricketer Liam Thomas continues fielding after losing artificial leg(Photos)
Disabled cricketer Liam Thomas made sure nothing was going
to stop him from performing his fielding duties for the England
Physical Disabilities (PD) team when they faced Pakistan.
Nigerian girl breaks record in Indian university
A 17 years old 200 level student in Amity University, India,
Esther Ruby Daniel has won various medals in different
sporting events in the University, The Nation reports.
Miss Daniel who is from Akwa Ibom state won silver medal
during All Indian Law Student University Game during her
first month in the school.
Check out this throwback picture of Basket Mouth
Basket Mouth shared this picture on Instagram with the caption
"Since Linda Ikeji has carried this picture we've
been hiding for over 15years....lemme Kuku post it"
Actor Idris Elba wins first pro kickboxing fight with savage blows(Photos)
Idris Elba has won his first professional kickboxing bout with
footage emerging of The Wire actor impressing with a series
of kicks and punches at York Hall, Bethnal Green.
Man scales building with his bare hands to save two- year-old child hanging from a window in China
A real-life 'Spider-Man',Liang Lie by name climbed up the outside of a building
with his bare hands to save a child left dangling from a
window in an estate in Liaocheng, a city in the east of China's
Shandong Province China.
Gareth Bale extends Madrid deal to 2022
Gareth Bale who moved to Real Madrid from Tottehham Hotspur
in the English Premier League in 2013 and has won two
Champions League titles with the Spanish.
Gareth Bale have agreed an extension to the player's contract, keeping him at the club until the 30th of June 2022.
Gareth Bale have agreed an extension to the player's contract, keeping him at the club until the 30th of June 2022.
See Nigerian guy who excaped from this mangled car without a single scratch
Nigerian computer programmer resident in Lagos was involved
in a near fatal accident that left the front part of his car a
crumpled mass of metal. Uche, who goes by the Twitter name
See Father who strangles 2 of his children to death and offers them as sacrifice to his dead father
A 35-year-old Thomas Matthew who lived at Mountain village
opposite Dantata Camp, Asokoro, Abuja, claims his late
father initiated him into an occult group. He also claimed that
his father appeared to him and commanded him to sacrifice his
children to him on different occasions.
Chris Brown's daughter,Royalty dresses as Selena for Halloween
Chris Brown's daughter, Royalty, dressed up as singer, Selena
for Halloween. Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was an American singer
who was killed by her very close friend, Yolanda Saldívar , who
was obsessed with her and stole money from her.
Saturday, 29 October 2016
Kannywood banned actress Rahama Sadau spotted with in L.A with Akon
music star, Akon and prolific movie director, Jeta Amata
recently.
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