MY TORTUOUS ELECTION JOURNEY - MUHAMMADU BUHARI

Today, the man who was “rejected” by both the ruling class and the courts has been elected president by the common man. Read the account of many election journeys of Nigeria’s president-elect, General Mohammadu   Buhari, as he told the story in his own words.

It is a story of perseverance and conviction.

The story evoked empathy as he told it. Though it wasn’t the first time he was telling the story, the content always draws emotions from the listener each time it is told. On January 20, 2015, at a public forum in Abuja where he later signed a peace deal with President Goodluck Jonathan, he stood, almost with tears in his eyes, telling the story. That was, perhaps, the first time he was publicly sharing the ugly experience which though personal,  satirizes the Nigerian society in such a pitiable way.

BUHARI REJECTS MINISTERIAL LIST SUBMITTED BY APC GOVERNORS.

President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari appeared to have dashed the hopes of the governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) when he rejected their plans to submit a ministerial list to him.

The APC governors, led by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, had, last Tuesday, visited Buhari in Abuja to pledge loyalty and make some demands.

At the meeting, some requests were placed on the table openly, while the request to drop the list of possible ministers came up for discussion behind the closed door.

LIBERIA DECLARED EBOLA FREE AFTER LOSING MORE THAN 4,000 PEOPLE TO THE DREADED DISEASE.

After losing more than 4,000 people to Ebola, Liberia has now been declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be free of the disease.

I wish I were there to hug the wonderful people I met when I visited at the height of the epidemic in September, when any contact, even shaking hands, was forbidden.

It was a horrible time. Ebola patients stood in line to get into hospitals that didn't have a bed to spare. Thousands of children in West Africa were orphaned. Burial teams roamed the streets carrying victims to crematoriums.

14 YR OLD GIRL RAPED & REVIVED 6 TIMES BY WICKED NEIGHBOUR WHO HAD BEEN RAPING HER FOR 4 YRS. #SAYNOTORAPE.

JANE & EMMANUEL

 Fourteen-year-old Jane (not real name) stared at her feet as she recounted her four-year ordeal in the hands of a neighbour, Felix Emmanuel, an Edo State indigene, who took advantage of her innocence.

At 14, she explained that if she knew that the threats that had kept her quiet from disclosing what she was going through were mere lies, she would have told her mother about what was happening to her before it went on for too long.

Fair-complexioned with sadness clearly showing in her eyes, there was no doubt that Jane had suffered, in silence, as her single mother was none the wiser about the regular sexual abuse her daughter was being subjected to.

RESIGN HONORABLY - GOV AYO FAYOSE ADVICES PDP CHAIRMAN ADAMU MUAZU (@MUAZUAA).

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has described the resignation of British Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, and that of Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, as a vindication of his call for the resignation of the Peoples Democratic Party National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.

The duo resigned after their parties’ woeful performance in Thursday’s British general elections.

Fayose, who said in a press statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka, that he had no personal scores to settle with the PDP National Chairman, added that it was morally wrong for Mu’azu to remain in office after leading the party into its first national electoral loss.

BUHARI'S MINISTERS, SENATORS & HOUSE OF REPS MEMBERS TO GET N9BN FURNITURE & HOUSING ALLOWANCE.

Senators and members of the House of Representatives that will constitute the 8th National Assembly and ministers to be appointed by President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on assumption of office receive welcome perks amounting to N9bn.

The perks of office include the housing allowance which each of the incoming office holder is entitled to receive once a year, the furniture allowance which they are entitled to once in four years and motor vehicle loan which they are entitled to once in their tenure.

The perks are some of the non-regular allowances that the political office holders are entitled to as prescribed by the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission.

APC'S MARSHALL PLAN - A MUST READ ARTICLE.

As Outlined by Dr Kayode Fayemi, Director of Policies for APC.

Marshall Plan:

1. The cardinal agenda of the APC government and over-arching themes will be SECURITY, CORRUPTION and UN-EMPLOYMENT; APC believes that corruption has a very strong negative link to both security and unemployment.

2. There will be no 'real action' until around October 2015, partly because the 2015 budget is GEJ’s; the new APC government will seek to align the electoral and fiscal calendars to avoid this type of problem in future.

3. A corrupt-free cabinet will be announced very quickly, WITHIN ONE WEEK of inauguration on 29/5/15; anyone with A WHIFF OF CORRUPTION or other tainting or pending corrupt charges will NOT be appointed into APC's cabinet; GMB’s body language will reflect ZERO TOLERANCE for corruption from Day-one. STEALING WILL BE DEEMED AS CORRUPTION.

MATHS TEACHER JAILED FOR 5 YRS FOR HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH A 15 YR OLD STUDENT.

In the UK, a married Maths teacher at Max Clifford's former school has been jailed for five years for groping a 15-year-old pupil in his car.

'Rising star' Paul Shorter, 32, blamed his actions on the pressures of an upcoming Ofsted inspection, during sentencing at Guildford Crown Court.

He had been working night and day to turn around his troubled department when he began grooming the schoolgirl because he 'could not cope' with the stress of his job, a judge was told.

I WENT TOO FAR WITH THE KANYE RANT - AMBER ROSE ADMITS.

Amber Rose has previously said more than a few cruel comments about the Kardashian brood. But this time the 31-year-old mother-of-one might be ready to admit she went too far when she bashed ex Kanye West during a recent nightclub appearance at Supper Club in Los Angeles. The bombshell criticized the 37-year-old rapper for not writing his own lyrics and music.

On Friday, after much thinking, the estranged wife of Wiz Khalifa expressed her regret and tried to take back her words by posting a photo on her Instagram account that read: 'My face when someone tells me what I did while I was drunk.' 

In a YouTube video dated May 2, Amber can be seen and heard taking over the nightclub's microphone to address the DJ and the packed crowd.

'Stop playing n****s I used to f***,' she shouted referring to the Kanye songs played earlier.

'Why don't we play the n**** who writes the songs for the other n****?' she continued before yelling the name of famed collaborator Travi$ Scott.

HORRIFIC DETAILS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE BY ISIS - RAPE VICTIMS ARE TRADED. #SAYNOTOTRAPE.

 

An Islamic State terrorist group forced a sex slave to marry 20 fighters and even made her undergo surgery each time to restore her virginity, a United Nations official said.

The group paraded and traded Syrian and Iraqi girls in 'slave bazaars' before the victims were shipped to other provinces, it was claimed.

Zainab Bangura, special envoy on sexual violence in conflict, travelled to five countries and interviewed dozens of women and young girls who had survived brutal sexual abuse.

ONE CONFIRMED DEAD & SEVEN INJURED IN YOBE SCHOOL SUICIDE ATTACK.

A suicide bomber suspected to be a member of dreaded Boko Haram sect armed with Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and AK47 rifle on Friday launched an attack on the College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) Potiskum in Yobe state.

Potiskum is North west and about 100km drive from Damaturu, the Yobe state capital.

The Information Department of the institution said that the bomber stormed the school around 8:00am and started shooting sporadically at the gate before entering the school shooting at students and teachers alike aimlessly.

HOW 20 YR OLD "MHAIRI BLACK" BECAME UK'S YOUNGEST LAWMAKER IN 348 YEARS.

Politics student rides SNP surge to defeat shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander to become youngest MP since 17th century. But first, she has to complete her dissertation.

The odds were heavily stacked against the SNP’s Mhairi Black winning the Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat to become Westminster’s youngest MP for centuries.

She was up against one of the best-known Labour MPs left in Scotland, Douglas Alexander, who was defending a majority of more than 16,000. He was not only shadow foreign secretary but had lots of election experience in abundance, enough to secure him the job of Labour’s UK campaign coordinator.

GUNMAN OPENS FIRE ON STUDENTS IN BAUCHI, INJURES SIX.

A gunman opened fire on students after walking into a high school in Potiskum in northeast Nigeria, critically injuring six, witnesses and a humanitarian aid worker said.

It was not immediately possible to ascertain whether the gunman, accompanied by a second attacker, was from Islamist jihadi group Boko Haram but the attack was in their style.

Boko Haram has been trying to carve out an Islamic state in the northeast of Africa’s biggest economy for the past six years but Nigerian troops with the help of Chad, Niger and Cameroon are pressing an offensive against the militants.

COURT STRIKES OUT EKITI LAWMAKERS SUIT AGAINST FAYOSE.

A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday struck out the suit filed by the embattled Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, his deputy, Hon. Adesegun Orisalade, and 17 other All Progressives Congress (APC), challenging their removal from office.

The court presided over by Justice Saliu Saidu, while striking out the suit in his bench ruling, also awarded a cost of N100,000 against  Omirin and other 18 APC lawmakers.

Omirin and 18 other APC members of the state  House of Assembly, had approached the court to challenge what they described as an ‘infraction in the House’.

The defendants in the suit are; the factional Speaker of the House Hon. Dele Olugbemi, Hon. Samuel Ajibola, Hon. Adeojo Alexander, Hon. Adeloye Adeyinka, Hon. Isreal Olowo Ajiboye, Hon. Fatunbi Olajide, and Hon. Olayinka Abeni (first and seventh defendants).

FAMILY MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH DURING ILLEGAL POLICE STOP AND SEARCH

Four policemen have been arrested in Lagos for mounting an illegal checkpoint at the Mile 2 end of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway and conducting unapproved stop-and-search. It was gathered that during the exercise, a tanker ran over a businessman, Mr. Henry Dimoji.

It was learnt that Dimoji, who was returning with his wife, Linda, from a public function, had been asked by the police to stop for a search when the incident occurred.

It was gathered that 48-year-old Dimoji, who hailed from Imo State, and his wife were returning from a wake keep in the FESTAC Town area in a Honda car.

POLICE UNCOVER RITUALIST DEN IN OTA-OGUN STATE, RESCUE WOMAN.

Ogun State Police Command yesterday uncovered another suspected ritualists’ den in Unity and Peace Estate, along Itele-Lafenwa Road, Ota, Ado Odo-Ota Local Government Area.

Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Muyiwa Adejobi, said the latest discovery was made possible by the escape of a 28-year-old lady, who had been kept bound in an uncom-pleted building in the estate.

The lucky victim was said to have been told by her captors that they would come for her in the night, but she struggled to free herself and rolled towards the entrance of the building before she was noticed. Passers-by saw her and came to her rescue.

She did not disclose her identity before policemen from Itele Police Station arrived and cordoned off the area.

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PDP IS HEADING FOR TOTAL DESTRUCTION. - SENATOR DAVID MARK.

 

Senate president, David Mark, yesterday warned that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is heading for total destruction if the present in-fighting among members is not curtailed.

Mark also expressed concerns over the continued acrimony between factions in the party, regretting that “unless we halt the bleeding and find the necessary therapy, we may be heading for the final burial of the party.”

The Senate president made these remarks yesterday when the deputy president of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu who heads the PDP post – election assessment committee visited him in his office at the National Assembly.

Describing the PDP as “already hemorrhaging and in a comatose status,” Mark insisted that, “we should do all we can to resuscitate the party rather than this unnecessary rancor and bulk passing.”

ANXIETY IN SSS OVER HURRIED PROMOTION OF MARILYN OGAR AND FEW OTHERS.

There is an uneasy calm in the State Security Service over a promotion exercise conducted recently by the leadership of the Service.

No fewer than 45 officers of the Service, including its spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar, were promoted to different grade levels during the exercise.

Mrs. Ogar, a deputy director, who was recently fingered in a bribery scam, and 28 others were elevated from Grade Level 15 to 16 while 16 others moved to Grade Level 17 from 16.

The exercise, believed to have been hurriedly undertaken by the leadership of the SSS in anticipation of its exit on May 29, is embroiled in controversy as some officers, who were also due for promotion, were left out.

AGBAJE WILL NEVER GOVERN LAGOS - OBA OF LAGOS INSIST.

Barely 23 days to the inauguration of Lagos State governor-elect, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, Oba of Lagos,  Rilwanu Akiolu I, yesterday, narrated how some of his relatives wanted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje and not Ambode to succeed Fashola.

According to the monarch;  “On May 14, 2014 when I first told all residents of Lagos that the next governor of the state will be Ambode, many didn't believe me.

“I knew all the waters that have passed under the bridge,  including my own blood relations, who without consulting me went with others to say that Bola Tinubu, Fashola and Oba Akiolu have pocketed Lagos, saying that this time, they will not allow that. And I told them that Jimi (Agbaje) will never be the governor. I still maintain it. There is no going back,” he added.

The Oba continued, “I have no doubt in my mind, with the cooperation and prayers of everyone, Ambode will perform very well. I told many people that Bola Tinubu planted the seed, Fashola came and watered the seed and it started germinating in geometrical progressions. We have just started.”