HOW EX-PRESIDENT OBASANJO DESTROYED PDP. (@PDPNIGERIA, @APCNIGERIA)

Former President Obasanjo, as we can see, used the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to rule Nigeria for eight years. As soon as he assumed office in 1999, he made up his mind to reduce Nigeria to a one-party state, his pet party system which he canvassed vigorously while Nigeria conducted its transition to civil rule programmes. 

The first part of this serial chronicled how he shrivelled the opposition parties and made the PDP into a colossus that dominated the political landscape. Eventually, most leading lights in the opposition parties decamped to the PDP.

By 2007 when Obasanjo was constitutionally forced out of power, PDP was at the zenith of its power and glory. It had 26 out of the 36 governors, 260 out of the 369 members of the House of Representatives, 85 out of the 109 senators and an emphatic command of the majority in the state legislatures and the 774 local councils. It was at this point that the party started priding itself as “the largest party in in Africa”, and some of its chieftains boasted that the PDP would rule Nigeria for “sixty years”.

STRANGE DISEASE KILLS 14 PEOPLE IN ONDO.

An unknown disease has reportedly killed 14 persons in Ode-Irele, headquarters of Irele local government of Ondo state.

The existence of the killer disease in the community has been confirmed by the state commissioner for health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju.

He said several others were on danger list, stressing that the symptoms of the strange disease include headache and loss of sight.

POLICE ARREST MAID WHO KIDNAPPED THE THREE OREKOYA KIDS.

KIDNAPPER- MARY AKINLOYE

The Lagos State Commissioner for Police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti has advised employers of domestic staff such as nannies, cooks, drivers and gardners to seek the services of the Divisional Police and Police Area Commands in their localities to do a profiling of their new employees before they bring them into their homes.

Aderanti made this appeal during an interview on Channels TV Sunrise Daily show, Thursday morning.

He spoke against the backdrop of the kidnap of the three kids of Mrs. Adebisi Orekoya, by a nanny, Mary Akinloye, whom she employed, last week Monday, through OLX (an online sales portal).

BUHARI (NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT ELECT) & WIFE CHANGES TWITTER HANDLE.

Nigeria’s president-elect and his wife have changed their Twitter addresses. President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari has switched his Twitter account from @ThisIsBuhari to @MBuhari while his wife, Mrs Aisha Buhari will now tweet from the @ABuhari.

For the latest news and updates on both as they transition into being the First Couple, the @MBuhari and @ABuhari accounts will be a key channel of communication as the president-elect works to fulfill his promises to the nation, a statement issued by State Craft Inc said.

OREKOYA KIDS ARE FINALLY BACK HOME.

The three kidnapped OREKOYA BOYS  are back home after about 1 week in the kidnappers den. Recall that a maid employed by their mother disappeared with the boys just a day after she resumed for duty. Rumour indicates that the maid was employed via OLX.

The mother of the kids took to her facebook account to make the announcement.

There is no information on the ransom paid as the kidnappers had earlier demanded for N13m from the parents.

The Police must ensure that the kidnappers are brought to justice.

NIGERIA'S 2015 HISTORIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND THE TASKS AHEAD.

Nigeria’s 28th March, 2015, Presidential election was, perhaps, one of the most bitterly fought in the annals of the country’s electoral history. The election occurred after a controversial six-week postponement following insistence by security agencies that it should be pushed forward for them to accelerate the battle against the insurgency in the North East.

It was possibly the most divisive election, drawing Nigerians into a devious web of mudslinging as well as ethnic and religious chauvinism. Eventually the election turned out to be largely a referendum on key national issues pertaining to the state of the country’s economy and security. This historic election was fought-and-won by Nigerians who appeared to have crucially determined to assert their position as the real employers of those in power, and on whose behalf and on whose benefits power should only be exercised.

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.