READ HOW AMBODE WON IN LAGOS.

The gubernatorial election in Lagos was unarguably the toughest governorship poll ever held in the state since the return to democratic rule and proved the sagacity and strength of the political leader of the state, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Indications that the 2015 governorship election would be tough emerged early. It became very obvious after the March 28 Presidential and National Assembly elections where the PDP gained a lot of electoral mileage in the state.

Though General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), the presidential candidate of the APC won in Lagos, his margin of victory was not very significant.

CHIBOK GIRLS STILL IN CAPTIVITY AFTER OVER 365 DAYS.

It is now one year since Islamist terrorists of the Boko Haram sect stormed the premises of the Government Secondary School in the serene town of Chibok in Borno State and made away, unchallenged, with close to 300 schoolgirls. The girls, who were preparing for their final examinations when that cruel fate befell them, have remained in captivity ever since, with any hope of their eventually breathing the air of freedom ebbing away by the day. Their fate since that forced journey into the unknown has become a matter of conjecture.

When the news of the incident of that fateful night – April 14, 2014 – broke the following day, there were many who probably reasoned that, with a responsible and responsive government in place, the girls would soon be reunited with their loved ones. Even the girls must have harboured in the inner recesses of their minds the thought that their rescue would come as a matter of course. The escape of 57 of their colleagues, who took advantage of a breakdown of the truck that was conveying them to mount a successful bid for freedom, could only serve to strengthen that thought.

NIGERIAN OAP ADAEZE RAPED IN GHANA. #SAYNOTORAPE.

On Air Personality, Adaeze Onyinyechie Ayoka, born to a Ghanaian mother and Nigerian father from Abia state, was reportedly kidnapped a few days ago and allegedly raped by her abductors in Ghana.

According to media reports, her colleagues said the last time they heard from her was Easter Friday but when they didn't see her throughout last week, they declared her missing yesterday Monday April 13th, 2015.

On Monday night, her abductors reportedly posted nude photos of Adaeze to her Whatsapp and Facebook page using her phone. The three men in the photos, who didn't show their faces, pinned Adaeze down and opened her legs, and said they’d taken turns on her.

(VIDEO) MOTHER OF THE 3 KIDNAPPED OREKOYA KIDS CRIES FOR HELP!!!!!!!!!

The 3 Orekoya kids, kidnapped by a maid, just a day after she was employed are still missing. The kidnappers have asked for N13million ransom from the parents of the kids.

The kids - Aderomola Orekoya, 11 months, Adedamola Orekoya, 4, and Demola Orekoya, 6 are still in danger as the ransom has not been paid so far. 

TVC met with their mum for a brief chat. 

APC SWEEPS GOVERNORSHIP POLLS ACROSS THE FEDERATION. (@APCNIGERIA)

With ferocious intensity, the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, swept into its kitty most of the 29 governorship seats contested at the weekend. The huge victory has catapulted the party to the enviable position of the dominant party in Nigeria.

With the results announced at press time, the APC won in 19 states and was leading in Plateau and Kebbi states while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won in Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Gombe and Enugu and was coasting home to victory in Rivers, Delta and Taraba.

This came as the PDP made in-road to the Lagos State House of Assembly winning six seats for the first time as APC’s Mr Akinwunmi Ambode won a tightly contested governorship election beating PDP’s Jimi Agbaje.

(PICTURES) GBEMISOLA WEDS AYODELE.

GBEMISOLA WEDS AYODELE

My friend from way back tied the knots with his best friend , Gbemisola,  on the 21st March, 2015 in Lagos.

See some of the pictures after the cut.

DOWNLOAD VIDEO OF THE FAST & FURIOUS MOVIE SOUNDTRACK "SEE YOU AGAIN" - WIZ KHALIFA FT CHARLIE PUTH.W

SEE YOU AGAIN

Download the soundtrack of the movie Fast & Furious 7, dedicated to the memory of Late Paul Walker. 

Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth did a fantastic job on this.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD.

DEAR LAGOSIANS..... #GOVFASHOLA WRITES TO LAGOSIANS AHEAD OF SATURDAY'S ELECTION.

Dear Lagosians,

First let me thank you all for turning out to vote on the 28th March 2015 and for doing so peacefully to make history by electing the All Progressives Congress candidates in the Presidential and National Assembly elections.

Once again, I must address you as we approach Saturday’s elections, when you will be electing a Governor who will continue after me and consolidate on the progress we have built together.

You will also be electing members of the State House of Assembly who will make laws on your behalf to assist the Governor and his team in the Executive arm.

Although your votes will be cast for one political party or the other, let me remind you that you will actually be voting for your wellbeing, security, prosperity and future.

AKWA IBOM PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULT WAS BOUGHT BY GOV AKPABIO FOR N2.5BN, ANONYMOUS INEC STAFF ALLEGES.

The presidential and National Assembly elections in Akwa Ibom State were systematically rigged, an anonymous group in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) alleges in a petition to the chairman, Attahiru Jega.

And results for next Saturday’s election have already been written, the group, “Concerned Staff of INEC, Akwa Ibom State”, said in a petition dated April 6.

They said that the March 28 hoax was perpetrated by the State Governor, Goodswill Akpabio, the Resident Electoral Commissioner and the Commissioner of Police, in league with some staff of INEC, and detailed how the election was rigged state-wide.

APC WINS MAJORITY SEAT IN HOUSE OF REPS.

The All Progressives Congress will firmly be in control of the 8th House of Representatives as the majority party with over 214 members.

There are a total of 360 seats in the second chamber of the National Assembly.Figures emerging from the outcome of the March 28 National Assembly poll, show that APC members are now 214, against the Peoples Democratic Party, which has 125 lawmakers.

The statistics gives a gap of 89 between the APC and the PDP in favour of the former.

(VIDEO) SOUTH CAROLINA POLICE CHARGED WITH MURDER OF UNARMED BLACK MAN #WALTERSCOTT.

A South Carolina police officer was charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black man after authorities obtained a video that showed him unleash a volley of gunfire while the victim ran away, officials said.

North Charleston Police Officer Michael Thomas Slager was charged Tuesday in the death of Walter Lamer Scott, 50. The charges were filed less than an hour after the city's mayor and police chief received a cellphone video that appears to show Scott fleeing as Slager fires at least eight shots in his direction.

AFGHAN WOMAN IS CARRYING THE THIRD CHILD OF THE MAN WHO RAPED HER. #SAYNOTORAPE.

It is an unimaginably hideous outcome. To be raped by your cousin's husband; be jailed for adultery as your attacker was married; to suffer the ignominy of global uproar about your jailing and assault, but be pardoned by presidential decree; and then to endure the shame and rejection from a conservative society that somehow held you to blame.

The solution in this society? Marry your attacker. That's what happened to Gulnaz, who was barely 16 when she was raped. She's now carrying the third child of her attacker, Asadullah, who was convicted and jailed -- though this was then reduced.

Gulnaz's plight -- like so much in beleaguered Afghanistan -- disappeared from the world's gaze once she was pardoned and released courtesy of a presidential pardon. Instead of a new start, what followed for Gulnaz was a quiet, Afghan solution to the "problem" -- a telling sign of where women's rights stand in Afghanistan despite the billions that have poured into this country from the U.S. government and its NATO allies during more than a decade of war.

NOT AN EASY WAY TO VICTORY - BUHARI'S STORY.

Victory did not come easy for Nigeria’s President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari. Being the strongest rival to incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the presidential election was keenly contested.

From the onset, his acts as a former military dictator appeared to have posed a challenge but it was a challenge he stooped to conquer.

This was his fourth time out after 2003, 2007 and 2011 against a president from the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP). However, it was the first time that he is heading an almost united opposition, which greatly increased his chances, although his credibility has taken a few knocks.

AISHA BUHARI - BEAUTY AND BRAIN IN THE VILLA.

 

Few would have believed that the taciturn, austere General Buhari had a soft, smiling and sweet woman at home.

She was finally unveiled to Nigerians as the campaign unfolded, and to some extent, also got her own campaign bruises. While her husband suffered the pains and knocks from the hard hitting PDP campaign, Mrs. Buhari’s pains were not just that her man was under attack, but she at one time during the campaign came under physical attack of hoodlums in Ilorin, Kwara State.

What manner of style Mrs. Buhari would bring to her time in the villa would undoubtedly be dictated by her husband. Given that the general finally unbuckled to expose his wife to the rudiments of the campaign, it would not be a surprise if he allows her to perform the perfunctory duties of the wife of the president.

THE MEN WHO MADE BUHARI'S VICTORY POSSIBLE.

The significance of Muhammadu Buhari’s victory is underlined by the fact that this will be the first in the history of Nigeria’s electoral process when an incumbent president is defeated. It was no small feat that was achieved by some of the country’s most prominent political figures.

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
The former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is considered a master political strategist who guided Buhari’s aspiration to a success at the party’s national convention last year.

Tinubu was able to ensure that not only did Buhari get the block vote of the Southwest, but also ensured that many states outside the region that did not have governors in the contest supported Buhari.

APC WINS MAJORITY SEAT IN THE SENATE.

The result of the National Assembly election declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday has pushed the opposition All Progressives Congress to the majority status in the 109 membership Senate.

Before the election, the Peoples Democratic Party enjoyed the majority status in the red chamber with 64 members while the APC has 41. Other parties, like the Labour Party, the Accord Party and the Social Democratic Party, shared the remaining five seats.

The APC will now have 64 senators; the PDP, 45; and the Labour Party, one.

HOW PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN LOST THE ELECTION.

If President Goodluck Jonathan was afraid of the outcome of the just concluded presidential election, he never showed it. Before the election was held, he had started giving conditions on the type of people he wanted to dominate the forthcoming Eighth National Assembly

 “I would want you to elect members of the Peoples Democratic Party to the National Assembly so that I can work with people who are not rancorous” – President Goodluck Jonathan told party supporters at one of his numerous presidential rallies.

But like the biblical Moses, Jonathan has failed to lead his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, to his dreamland. His reign has brought to an abrupt end the 16-year uninterrupted reign of the party, whose former National Chairman, Vincent Ogbulafor, had boasted would remain in power for at least 60 years. A senior employee of the party told our correspondent in Abuja on Tuesday that the former party chairman could have probably meant 16 years in his projection.

APC ORDERS 19 EXILED EKITI LAWMAKERS TO RETURN IMMEDIATELY.

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has asked the 19 APC lawmakers in the state to return and commence sitting, saying the end of impunity has come with the victory of Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

“Buhari’s victory marks the beginning of sanity in the polity wracked by lawlessness, corruption and impunity. All democratic institutions will operate unfettered within the ambit of the law.

“On this note, we urge our 19 members in the House of Assembly to return to work immediately and take control of the affairs because a new era of law and order has returned,” the Ekiti APC said on Tuesday in a statement by its publicity secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun.

HOW IMMATURE EX-MINISTER ORUBEBE DISRUPTED THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF ELECTION RESULTS LIVE ON TV.

The fever generated by the eagerness of Nigerians about the outcome collation of the presidential election results in Abuja inched to its peak on Tuesday, when the Peoples Democratic Party’s agent, Godsday Orubebe, caused a row at the venue.

Tension rose as those within the hall and others watching the exercise on the television sets in their homes began to entertain fear that Orubebe’s attempt to stop the proceedings from going on could truncate the electoral process.

The drama had barely ended when Orubebe’s profile, was immediately updated on Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, as attempting to disrupt the announcement of the presidential election on Tuesday.

PDP HAS ESTABLISHED A LEGACY OF DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM, REJOICE - PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said despite his defeat in the hands of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of the All Progressives Congress in the last presidential election, the Peoples Democratic Party should be celebrating rather than mourning.

In his statement after the announcement of the election result, Jonathan said the PDP should be rejoicing because it had in the last 16 years steered the country away from ethnic and regional politics.

He said, “To my colleagues in the PDP, I thank you for your support. Today, the PDP should be celebrating rather than mourning. We have established a legacy of democratic freedom, transparency, economic growth and free and fair elections.