Photo - Buhari at Chatham House in London

It doesn't seem APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari has gone for treatment in London.

Don Jazzy and crew dazzles in new photo

Dorobucci crooners are still keeping it strongly together, thumbs up guys.

Jonathan commissions a plant Obasanjo commissioned in 2007

Photo - Yaey! Its the Oscars

Celebrities graced the 87th Academy Award yesterday at Hollywood, California. It was a show of fashion on the red carpets, from Versace to KardashianKollections and so on.

Joke Silva and Olu Jacob covers latest edition of Hello! Magazine

Aww, this kind love naa wantintin.
LOL

Tonto ex-boo playing love with new girlfriend

Seems Tonto's ex is having fun with his gf, Adeola Smart. Happy for them sha.

Fleeing Boko Haram insurgents drown in Lake Chad

A large number of Boko Haram insurgents have drowned in the Lake
Chad as they fled the heavy bombardment by Nigerian Air Force

heralding the advance of troops on mission to flush them out of Baga.

Though the number of the dead terrorists was not given, it was said
that many of them met their Waterloo as they fled the aerial attacks by NAF jets on Baga, the location of Multi-National Joint Taskforce base seized by the sect in January, 2015.

A statement by the Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade in Abuja on Saturday, said the insurgents had buried land mines in over 1,500 spots on the routes leading to the town.

It said all the land mines were skillfully cleared one after the other,
noting that the mining of the grounds could not save the terrorists from the aggressive move of advancing troops.

“A large number of terrorists have drowned in the Lake Chad as they fled the heavy bombardment by Nigerian Air force heralding the advance of Nigerian troops on mission to flush them out of Baga.

“Not even the strategy of over 1500 spots with land mines on the routes leading to the town could save the terrorists from the aggressive move of advancing troops.

“Many of the terrorists died while an unknown but substantial number of them fled with various degrees of injury, in the series of encounter along the routes of advance of the troops headed for Baga,” the statement added.

Olukolade said apart from the five anti-aircraft guns and the rifles
captured from the terrorists, over 34 motorcycles and five vehicles
including trucks being used for operations by the terrorists were
destroyed in the course of the fighting as troops headed for Baga, noting that the troops finally began clearing the terrorists on arrival in the town early Saturday morning.

The Defence spokesman said a comprehensive cordon and search
phase of military operation has now commenced to enable troops mop up arms and ammunition and also apprehend any terrorist who might be hiding in the vicinity.

The exercise, he added, would also determine details of the casualties inflicted or incurred in the course of the operations to clear Baga and environs of terrorists.

Olukolade said similar exercise is being carried out in over 15 locations namely Gajigana, Ngaze, Ngenzai, Marte Junction, Mile 90, Yoyo, Kekeno, Kukawa, Cross Kauwa, Kangarwa, Amirari, Kichimatari, Borokari Barati, Kauwa and other localities where troops have flushed out the terrorists in the operations preceding the entry to Baga.

“The troops are now dominating and conducting aggressive patrols in the locations; The morale of troops remain high,” he stressed.

Source - Olufamous

Tinubu - 'You have enough shoes now, its time to return to Otuoke'

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, has advised the presidential candidate of the PDP,
Goodluck Jonathan to return home as the nation has provided enough shoes for him to wear in his village in Bayelsa State.

It would be recalled that President Jonathan had during his campaign in 2011 claimed that due to his very poor background, his parents could not afford to buy him shoes as a child.

Speaking in Ibadan, Oyo State on Thursday, Tinubu urged the President to return to Otuoke since he had got enough shoes.

In his words: “Go and collect your PVCs to enable you vote PDP out. It is your possession. Don’t let poll robbers rob us again.

Jonathan has ruined our economy. He came and said he did not have shoes. We have bought shoes, shirts and ties for him now. Enough is enough.

“For six years, he gave us excuses that there is no money; it is time
for him to go. And again, we have somebody here whose tenure has
witnessed an unprecedented development in the history of Oyo
State. Ajimobi has performed very well.

“So on the day of the elections, get to the polling centres early enough, vote and record the voter card number, and wait till they count your votes. With your support, we shall send PDP packing."

He said APC government would develop sectors of the economy to
help Nigerians realise their potentials.

Source - Olufamous

GEJ promises to free Lagosians from bondage if re-elected

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that he would free the people
of Lagos State from the "bondage" of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which has ruled the state since the inception of the fourth republic in 1999.

He asked the people not to vote for APC during the rescheduled general elections but to cast their votes for all the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates contesting elections, so as to be free from APC's alleged 16 years of oppression in Lagos.

The President said this yesterday when a group of market women in
the state paid him solidarity visit at the State House, Marina, Lagos.

Jonathan promised the market women that a PDP led administration in Lagos State would provide the enabling environment for traders to ply their trades without hindrance, unlike what they are said to be experiencing under the APC led
government.

"I urge you all to vote for PDP. Our victory at the polls will free all Lagos traders from oppression. You need to be free; we will remove Lagos from bondage," he said.

He commended the women for supporting his re-election bid and
urged them not to be intimidated by the opposition, saying, “I have
listened to you; you have been carrying the PDP flag; you have been
humiliated but you still marched on.
“Thank you for working hard for PDP. This is the final struggle and the time for us to use all our strength to achieve victory. If we struggle and win Lagos State, everybody will do his business without being harassed or intimidated,” he said.

Earlier, the leader of the visiting team, Hajia Aminat Hussein, had told the president that they had stood behind the PDP since its inception but regretted that the members suffered harassment under the APC led government in the state.

She said that in spite of the attempts by APC “to buy over many of the market women,” the women would mobilise themselves in the state and in other states to ensure victory for the president.

Source - Olufamous

Fayose claims Buhari is receiving treatment in London

I don't know whether Ayodele Fayose is trying to make himself the spokesman of General Muhammadu Buhari on health matters.

Governor Fayose has again alleged that the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, who traveled to the United Kingdom for a supposed working visit, is in a London hospital.

According to him, Buhari is being treated at a hospital located at
Cavendish Street, Cavendish Square, W2 London West End, London.

The governor said this had vindicated his earlier stand that Buhari was sick and lacked the required capacity to rule Nigeria.

Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications
and New Media, Lere Olayinka Fayose described the claim by the
APC that Buhari would give a talk at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London as a “deceit taken too far.”

“This is not to mock Buhari or wish him dead. Rather, it is to expose the falsehood of the APC and desperation of its leaders, especially
Senator Bola Tinubu to foist another Yar’Adua saga on Nigeria.”

The governor challenged the APC to prove him wrong.

“If the APC people are saying otherwise, let them publish the picture of Buhari boarding the plane and granting interview to aviation
correspondents at the Abuja Airport."

In his reaction, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said, “We are not ready to join issues with unserious people, but if they say General Buhari travelled for medical treatment, they should show us the photograph of Buhari on hospital bed.”

Source - Olufamous

Obasanjo - Nigeria's Democracy must be Protected at all Cost

Former President had this interview with Weekly Trust 48 hours befire he dumped PDP. Olusegun Obasanjo spoke about the shift in dates for the
elections, politicization of military and his quest for a better Nigeria.

Some believe Jonathan is not ready to leave office. Do you think he
is afraid of life after office?
Obasanjo: I believe the president’s concern or fear is not life out of office per se, because he and I have occasions to talk about this both seriously and jovially. I believe he would want an opportunity to disengage peacefully and have a nice, decent and glorious exit. I believe the president’s fear is, particularly, motivated by who he
sees as his likely successor, that is General Muhammadu Buhari.

What’s your reaction to the postponement of the elections?
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo: For me, that was a bad precedent for
democracy in Nigeria. It meant that it doesn’t matter what preparation or lack of preparation any electoral body could make in Nigeria, the final decision whether election will take place on the day scheduled for it, lies in the domain of the security chiefs.

It is a sad day for democracy in Nigeria.

And I will say this...

We must all feel concern before democracy is killed. What would
appear to be happening is that the president has a grand plan to ensure that by hook or by crook, he wins the election or if it all fails, he scuttles it and create chaos and confusion in the whole country.

Because it is the duty and function and responsibility of the security
officers to provide security, the President is the Chief Security Officer of the country and he is the Commander-in-Chief and if security is required anywhere, anytime, it is his duty to provide it.

Failure is dereliction of duty, pure and simple.

Either the President is following his own grand plan or his aides and
associates are working a script which must have got his endorsement, if not initiated by him.

What again it looks to me is that the President is trying to play Gbagbo; Gbagbo was the former President of Cote d’Ivoire who made sure he postponed the election in his country until he was sure he would win and then allowed the election to take place. He got an inconclusive election in the first ballot and I believe this is the sort of thing Nigeria may fall into.

If I am right in what I observed as the grand plan and then in the run-off, Gbagbo lost with 8% behind Ouattara and then refused to hand over. All reasonable persuasion and pleading was rebuffed by him and he unleashed horror in that country until nemesis caught up with him.

WT: As a security expert, what is your own view on the roles played by the security chiefs in the postponement?
Obasanjo: That’s why I said it was strange to me. It wasn’t the duty and responsibility of security chiefs and service chiefs to tell INEC, ‘we will not provide or we are not in the position to provide security for you’ because it is their job. If they said they cannot do that, they have failed. I want to believe that this was forced on them, but whether it was or it was their initiative, it was very bad.

It was even made worse when the president in his media chat claimed not to have knowledge or not to have authorized it. I get very worried that if the president of Nigeria is not in charge of security, maintenance of law and order and such a decision can be taken behind him.

WT: We understand that the decision of the service chiefs was hinged on the fact that they needed to tackle some security challenges in the North East. Would you say this is genuine?
Obasanjo: For me, you can give any excuse, rationalise anything. Look, Boko Haram has been with us since 2009 and now you said what we have not been able to achieve since 2009, we will achieve in six weeks. A country like Syria had elections while they had full- scale war. Iraq had elections while they had full-scale war.

Afghanistan had elections where the incumbent had its tenure and moved out. So to say that what we have not been able to achieve in five years, we will now achieve in six weeks, let us wait and see. But in any case, the argument also said that there would now be a multinational task force made up of five countries, Nigeria,
Cameroun, Niger, Chad and Benin Republic. I happened to be at the
last AU meeting in Addis-Ababa when this issue was being discussed and Benin Republic did not speak.

The four countries concerned were talking about a force of 7,500 and one of the presidents, not from the Lake-Chad Basin Commission, actually from Southern Africa, said look ‘What are we here for? If it is to
endorse these countries to have a multi-national joint task force, that’s the easiest thing to do and let’s say yes, go ahead, but do they really need to come here, if their sovereignty is being threatened, to ask us for endorsement before they fight to save their sovereignty? And if they are serious, would they be asking the UN to come and pay for the operation of Multi-National Joint Task Force?’
That President came to me after the meeting and said look, is it really true that Nigeria cannot fund a force of 7,500 troops if that is all that is needed to beat Boko Haram?

Of course, if for solidarity, I believe that a task force of that size might be okay but if you really want to get the job done, the job will be got done by Nigerian troops properly trained, motivated, equipped, with high morale and properly led.

WT: Speaking of General Buhari, what is your view on his anti-
corruption stance?
Obasanjo: Corruption must not remain part of our national life.
Whoever comes in at any time in future, will fight corruption and we
must even encourage it. Judging by his track record, I believe he will try to fight corruption. I believe he will give firm leadership, which is what is good for a country like this.

I believe he knows the military well enough and understands the damage that has been done to the institution, as it’s been rendered
almost impotent by a number of things that have happened. I believe he will do something about it.

Awolowo, Soyinka and Pastor TB Joshua listed as Yoruba icons

The sage and founder of the modern Yoruba nation, Obafemi Awolowo has been named the Yoruba Man of the century.
The announcement made on Thursday by IrohinOodua, the pan-Yoruba media online also listed Professor Wole Soyinka and Pastor TB Joshua as outstanding Yoruba personalities that have made unequalled contributions to the upliftment of the glory and grandeur
of the Yoruba people.

While Pastor TB Joshua was named as the Yoruba Man of the Decade, Professor Wole Soyinka was listed as the Yoruba Man of the Year 2014 in what represents the group’s maiden edition.

IrohinOdua describes Soyinka as a “stainless steel and the most righteous of the living Yoruba faithful.”

The statement was signed by the Editorial Board Chairman of IrohinOdua, Prince Babatunde Adeleke. IrohinOdua was established
as the first pan-Yoruba news medium with an outreach of over half
a million of mostly Yoruba people across the world.

According to the statement, the three personalities were selected after a careful consideration of the role each had played in the annals of Yoruba modern history regarding placing the Yoruba on the positive angle of global reckoning.

Eulogising Pastor TB Joshua, Prince Adeleke said, “amazing is the testimony of boost up from Nigeria and across the world by the poor, the rich; the haves and the have-nots, the high and low, but most astonishingly, people of all faith in Africa, Asia, America and across Europe, even in the remotest, hilly and isolated Islands that dot the great rivers and tributaries of the Pacific Ocean.”

He said that Pastor T.B Joshua had brought honour to his people, the Yoruba, perhaps, in measures inestimable. Irohinodua stated “he
began his ministerial career at a swampy location in Ikotun Egbe Lagos. Today, this ancestral origin of the Synagogue has transformed from a dingy wasteland into a local Disneyland drawing, in one year millions of visitors to Nigeria from Africa, Europe, the Middle East and America.”

According to Adeleke, through tonnes of email correspondents sent
to IrohinOdua, Pastor Joshua received commendations for his
meritorious services to mankind.

He stated “We see in his handiwork, a quiet revolution to transform the world in ways unimaginable. Since we blew the whistle for nomination, we have received incalculable, baffling testimonials from royals and ordinary street folks leading us to a hidden light in a dark, malicious world where the poor remain the dreg and the end butt of repression neglect and perpetual want.”

The statement noted further that “the Yoruba has a long, cherished history. In the early part of the 9th Century, we had an organised system of government. By 10th century, the Yoruba already had a city state, Ile-Ife, which flourished through the golden ages. Our forebears exchanged trade with Europe and the Middle East, as far back as the 11th century. We are a proud nation that has produced icons over generations. We had produced men and women in peace and war time; icons in the field of trade and commerce. In the 18th century, spurred by technology and the art espoused in war, Ogedengbe, the Ekiti-Ijesha war general was invited to England for a state visit by the King of England.

It added “every generation brings forth, like a star never to dim, icons that stand tall like a colossus.

Source: Nigerian Tribune