President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said that Nigeria would disappoint all those who predicted that the country would break up in 2015 by continuing to remain one indivisible entity.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Nigeria won’t break up in 2015 –Jonathan
“For those who are predicting that this country will separate in 2015 based on the fault lines as of the time of amalgamation, they will know that this prediction will not be of any consequence. Nigeria will continue to remain one indivisible entity,” the President said.
Jonathan said this while receiving members of the Muslim community in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja who paid him Sallah homage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, as part of the activities marking this year’s Eid-el-Fitri.
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Lagos ‘sends’ fresh 46 destitute to Osun
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OSOGBO – Osun State Government, yesterday, said it received 46 additional destitute including two children evacuated from Lagos State.
Receiving the destitute at the National Youth Development Centre, Ode-Omu, yesterday, the Special Adviser to Governor Rauf Aregbesola on Youths, Sports and Special Needs, Hon. Biyi Odunlade said that the state government has no option than to take care of its citizens in any part of the country.
According to him out of the 46 destitute evacuated from Lagos, only 26 were genuine indigenes of the state after their screening.
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Winnie Mandela releases journal on prison life
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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie on Thursday released a book about her detention by the apartheid regime, a time she described as the darkest part of her life.
The book “491 Days: Prisoner number 1323/69″ is based on a journal Winnie Madikizela-Mandela kept in prison during her detention. “In my mind I felt that we needed to tell the story to the future generations, so that what happened there never happens again,” she said at the launch in Johannesburg.
In the book Winnie shares some of her journal entries as well as letters between her husband and herself.
“Solitary confinement is worst than hard labour,” she said.
“When you stretch your hands you touch the walls, you are reduced to a nobody.”
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Tinubu, Akinrinade predict doom without true federalism
*We’re in a state of war — Sen Ojudu…
FORMER governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and former Chief of Army Staff, General Alani Akinrinade (rtd), Wednesday, warned that the continuous shying away from the practice of true federalism portends doom for the country.
FORMER governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and former Chief of Army Staff, General Alani Akinrinade (rtd), Wednesday, warned that the continuous shying away from the practice of true federalism portends doom for the country.
They said this at the commemoration of the 70th birthday celebration of Prof. Ropo Sekoni, the presentation of the book: ‘Federalism and the Yoruba Character and launching of Yoruba Insight and Innovation Initiatives,’ at the Muscon Centre, in Lagos.Tinubu disclosed that the unification Decree 34 of 1966, which makes Nigeria a unitary state, still exists after 47 years, noting that only true federalism will bring about democracy.
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Why Okonjo-Iweala should resign now!
She was recently listed as one of the most powerful women in the world. Her name conjures up the image of an Amazon who symbolises excellence and the height of intellectual achievement. She is by no means a role model and a worthy example of the level Nigerian women can attain if given the opportunity to excel. There is also no doubt that the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is one of Nigeria’s proud exports. One cannot but admire her simplicity and self-effacing demeanour. Personally, I am in awe of her spartan fashion style.
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Rivers Assembly leader,Mr. Chidi Lloyd gets ₦10m bail, released
THE embattled Majority Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Mr. Chidi Lloyd, finally regained his freedom at about 4pm on Wednesday.
The Deputy Speaker of the House, Mr. Leyii Kwanee, who informed our correspondent of the development in a telephone interview, said Lloyd’s counsel had fulfilled all his bail conditions.
Kwanee said, “We have fulfilled all the bail conditions and Lloyd has been released. We have been at the Port Harcourt Prison to ensure his release. By tomorrow (today), his physician will examine his health condition.
“On Monday, we will also approach the court to appeal for a waiver of one of the bail conditions, which is the depositing of his International Passport with the court.”
Meanwhile, there was anxiety in Port Harcourt on Wednesday when security operatives took away the Majority Leader after the court granted him bail.
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GBAM: Any party that fields Jonathan’ll lose —APC **Opposition confused, desperate power mongers, says PDP
The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday continued its war of words with the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party over the suitability of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan for the presidential election.
Any party that fields Jonathan’ll lose —APC **Opposition confused, desperate power mongers, says PDP
While the APC believes that fielding Jonathan as a candidate would be suicidal for any party, the Presidency and the PDP argued that he remains the best to contest and win a presidential poll in the country at present.
The latest war of attrition was spurred by Tuesday’s invitation to the President by the APC Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, to join the newly formed political party if he was fed up with the crises in the PDP.
Akande had said, “We (the APC) don’t even close our door to the PDP. If Jonathan is tired of the crises in the PDP, he is welcome in the APC.”
The Presidency however reacted immediately to the invitation, saying it was an acknowledgment by the APC of Jonathan’s sterling leadership qualities.
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MUST READ: OUR FUTURE IS BLEEDING - Akan Imoh
I shed hot, bloody tears for the future of Nigeria. It is a pity that the so called 'Giant of Africa' is gradually becoming a grave.
Thank God for the squabble between the PDP and APC; at least, one thing that was achieved was the realization that we youths of this country have been totally sidelined from the most important things.
The average age of the Leaders in these two parties is sixty (60). According to one of them from the APC camp, the National Youth Leader of the PDP camp is seventy (70) years old; yet we say we are the future of Nigeria.
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Sallah tragedy: Auto Accidents Took Lives of A Dozen
The first accident occurred along Bungudu-Maru Road in Zamfara as a result of head-on collision involving Golf and Toyota cars where seven people died instantly, others sustained serious injuries.
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Notorious South-West robbery: My father was a gambler, a great drug addict – Godogodo
My father was a gambler, drug addict – Godogodo
The 36-year-old man, who spoke in emotional laden voice, said he was the eldest of the children and his mother who he said was a sickler, died from her sickness.
My father was a wayward man
“My father was a wayward man. He was a drug addict and a gambler. My mother was a sickler and she died after giving birth to my youngest brother.Continue After The Break...
“But my father, who got married to another woman, didn’t bother to take care of me. As a little child I struggled through primary school, picking bottles, iron and rubber from refuse dump.
Woman molested & Killed 2 Days Before Her Wedding
May her soul rest in peace
VIDEO: Police brutality in US - human rights violation on daily basis
Peaceful protestor Brian Summer was assaulted by highway patrol during a peaceful protest which was calling for President Obama’s impeachment. The rally was held near Highway 41 & Shaw Fresno, California. The assault immediately sparked concerns over severe violation of Mr Summer's First Amendment liberties. More specifically, human rights advocates assert that the police officers have of the inalienable freedom of all American citizens to redress grievances. (VIDEO)
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Former bank chief Jim Ovia sets up mega school in Agbor, Delta State
GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Six men set ablaze By Landlord in Ogun state for smoking Indian hemp
According to Premium Times, six young men accused of smoking Indian hemp and gambling have been set ablaze in Abeokuta, Ogun State, by a house owner in their area. The landlord, identified as Agba, in Ago-Oko area of the town where the incident occurred, had warned the boys on several occasions to desist from their acts, warnings they ignored. And one day, just this past Tuesday night August 6th, Agba felt he was god and decided to punish the guys.
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HEARTLESS: Cultists/Butchers Cut Off The Hand Of a female NYSC member in Bayelsa
The incident occurred, Monday, at about 8.30pm at Obunagha community in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.
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