F*I*R*E!

Jonathan Cannot Win Free and Fair Election in 2015 - Buhari.

**let South South people vote for him when 2015 comes.
**I don’t take the decision of South-South leaders seriously.

**Buhari criticized Govt for not prosecuting those indicted in the pension, subsidy and other scam.

The defeated Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and former Head of States, Maj Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) has dismissed the call by South South leaders that it is Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 or no one else.

The retired general believes those rolling drum for the president were member of the leading People Democratic Party (PDP).

Buhari stated this in Kaduna when the party’s governorship candidate for the October 20 election in Ondo State, Mr. Soji Ehinlanwo was received by him.

His words: “I don’t take the decision of South-south leaders seriously. The South-South people said it is Jonathan or nothing; I know they are members of the Peoples Democratic Party, let them vote for him.

“In a free and fair election, let us see if they can give him the ticket against other geo-political zones. Let them give him the primary ticket first. Let them vote for him when 2015 comes and let us see if he would win.”

He stressed that, “It is also up to the elite to participate and ensure that elections are free and fair. It is not necessary for them to be card-carrying members of political parties. They know how to participate; they should not sit and look. They can go to their constituencies to identify and enlighten their people on the need to entrench free and fair election to stabilise the country.”

The Kastina-born former leader had asserted that it was only in Nigeria that workers would serve the government for 10 to 35 years and come out without due compensation as they end up joining the queue to continue in another phase of struggle in order to survive.

While lamenting the delayed in prosecution of those indicted in the pension, subsidy and other scam, Buhari maintained that “this can only happen in Nigeria”.

Who is wise?....

 

#5000 will bring all of us to poverty...Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.



IF I AM CBN GOVERNOR, I WILL PRINT #10,000 note...Former Bank Chief, Atedo Peterside. Great Nigerians, how far?

At Gatwick Airport, Air Nigeria Asks Passengers To Donate £40 Each To Buy Fuel For Flight To Lagos

 

In a scandalous twist of events, SaharaReporters learned that an Air Nigeria crew at Gatwick Airport yesterday asked passengers to contribute £40 each to enable them purchase fuel to depart for Lagos several hours after the flight’s takeoff was delayed.
About 190 passengers on Flight LOS-VK 0292/08 said they were surprised by the request.  They confronted the airline official who had made the request, and he quickly disappeared from the riotous scene.
The flight, which was scheduled to fly out of London at 9:50a.m, eventually did so at 5p.m., arriving in Lagos at 12:30a.m.   But the ordeal of the passengers was hardly over.
A passenger, Lekan Fatodu told SaharaReporters that when they arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, they discovered their baggage had not arrived with them. They were left stranded for several hours before an official of the airline told them to return the next day for their luggage.
It was learned that the airline’s bag handling service, Swissport, refused to provide ground-handling services to the airline because Air Nigeria had not met its obligations to the company.
Air Nigeria’s embattled owner, Jimoh Ibrahim, last week announced the sacking of over 500 workers at the airline and suspension of all flight services starting from tomorrow, September 10.
Mr. Ibrahim claimed that his workers were disloyal to the company but the workers said during a street protest that Mr. Ibrahim was a bad manager who diverted funds given to the airline by the Nigerian government and is negligent in aircraft maintenance. The workers have not received salaries since April 2012.
Mr. John Nnorom, a former chief financial officer of the airline told SaharaTV yesterday that of the 11 aircraft in Air Nigeria's fleet, only one is serviceable. SaharaReporters learnt that most lessors have repossessed their aircrafts from Air Nigeria, leaving it with only four aircrafts.
Following the publication by SaharaReporters of a powerful petition by Mr. Nnorom detailing the troubles facing the ailing airline, Air Nigeria’s operations were suspended.
The petition appeared on June 4, one day after a Dana Air MD-83 aircraft crashed near the Lagos airport killing 159 people.
The international flights were operated through a wet lease arrangement between Egypt Air and AirNigeria.

Can This Be True?

 A rumour about the purported death of Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has started making the rounds as she remains incommunicado for the third straight week.
Following enquiries by anxious Nigerians who wanted to know if the story of the First Lady’s alleged death is true or not, News Express put a call across to Dr. Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, around noon. His phone rang but was not picked.
News Express then sent a text message to Dr. Abati, requesting his comment on the news. About four hours later, the presidential spokesman is yet to reply even though the phone showed that the message was delivered. Dr. Abati had on Tuesday evening last week (Sept. 4) dismissed Dame Jonathan’s reported illness as a rumour after News Express and some other media reported her medical trip to Germany.
As reported by News Express on Sept. 5, a spokesperson for Horst Schmidt Klinik, the hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany, where Dame Jonathan is believed to be receiving treatment, had revealed that she was in a bad state of health when she arrived the hospital for treatment two weeks ago.
The official disclosed that initial records showed that the Nigerian President’s wife had earlier been treated for food poisoning back home before being brought to Horst Schmidt Klinik, where she underwent a major surgery for a ruptured appendix to remove the poisons in her intestine.
Though admitting that Dame Jonathan travelled to Germany, presidency spokesmen had claimed that she went for a rest but kept sealed lips on her whereabouts.
Horst Schmidt Klinik is gradually becoming a choice hospital of Nigerian top government officials. It was the same hospital that late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua once received for kidney-related ailments.

Nigerian students spend N160b in Ghana varsities, says Babalakin

 No fewer than 75,000 Nigerian students are currently studying in three Ghanaian universities   incurring a total of N160billion expenditure annually, the Chairman, Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Dr Wale Babalakin, has said.
The expenditure is less than the Federal Government’s total budget for all its universities last year,  Babalakin, Pro-Chancellor, University of Maiduguri added.
 He spoke in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, at the weekend at an award night organised by the University of Ilorin Alumni Association in honour of Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed and three  other  alumni of the institution.
 Also honoured were the outgoing Vice Chancellor of UNILORIN, Prof Ishaq Oloyede; Vice Chancellor of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Prof Abdulrasheed Na’Allah; and the Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of UTC Nigeria Ltd, Mrs. Folusho Olaniyan.
 Babalakin, who was the chairman of the occasion said: “University education is at a crossroad in Nigeria. Only in 1973, four Nigerian universities were rated among the best 20 in Africa. Today, none of them is among the best 30, while none is among the best 1000 in the world.
 “University education is a collective effort. University education can only grow properly with government and active support of the populace. Leaving it for government alone is not fair. Everybody should contribute to ensure education that grows in Nigeria.
 “Since 2009, when the power to appoint VC had been delegated to the university, it has been done relatively peaceful. Most people are surprised that there has not been any rancour in the appointment of VCs. This is the first step towards university autonomy. There are still so many areas that are still not autonomous. It is when we become totally autonomous that all the universities will have the necessary energy to develop at their own pace.
 “The university should be allowed to generate money internally for development purposes. If we generate substantial money within the university and those monies are spent with great discretion, you will be alarmed at how far it will go and the catalytic effect of development.
 “Nigeria government should put measure in place to attract foreign students to Nigerian universities. In the 70s and 80s, so many went abroad for their ‘A’ level and came back to the Nigerian universities.”
  “Before the just concluded Olympic games everyone of us was happy that Nigeria was participating, but I told some of my colleagues that Nigeria would have a dismal outing. This is because we don’t have outstanding primary, secondary and tertiary institution competition.”

SOCIAL MEDIA...GENEROUS but also DANGEROUS

MAJ. Gen. Frank Osokogu, father of Cynthia, the young lady who was murdered in Lagos by her Facebook friends, has admonished all youths to beware of trusting total strangers they meet only on Facebook and other social media. If other youths are saved through this warning, he said, it would lighten his deep sorrow over the loss of his only daughter.

Osokogu who spoke in an interview with journalists in Jos, said it was Cynthia’s friends in Abuja, whom she had visited en route Lagos, who first notified him that she had not returned from her trip, days after she was due back.
 
See full interview  below
How did it all begin sir?
My daughter was in Nasarawa State University, Keffi, doing her Masters programme. She stayed there. I stay in Abuja and Jos, while my wife stays in Jos. So, we are not together.
It became very difficult to know exactly when she was missing from school. But I got to know about everything when her friends started looking for any of her family members and they got to know me and got to know my number.
So, they called me saying that my daughter travelled and she had not come back. From what they had said, my daughter was their schoolmate and friend. She finished before them in the university and they lived in Abuja and she stayed with them anytime she was coming to Abuja.
So, this time around, she (my daughter) called them that she was coming to Abuja on her way to Lagos, because she was going to buy some items and they told her that they were in NYSC camp and not at home.
However, they told her that the key to their flat was with their gateman and she could collect it and do what she wanted to do before travelling.
They said she brought in her belongings and took what she wanted to use in Lagos and left. They didn’t see her; all these were just telephone conversations.
I think it was when the time she told them that she would come back had elapsed and they didn’t see her and they took one or two more days extra, giving her the benefit of doubt, they still didn’t see her that they started looking for any of the family members.
That was how I got to know that she was not in school and had travelled and that she was missing.
How long did she tell them (the friends) she was going to stay in Lagos?
She left on July 22, which was a Sunday, and she told them she was going to spend about three or four days.
When did the message finally get to you that she was missing?
That should be about the end of July. I told you it took about one week after the time she said she was going to come back before they started looking for family members.
I can’t remember the exact day now, but it should be around July 31 or August 1 or thereabout.
What did you do?
Immediately they called and told me her car and some of her belongings were there and they wanted to return them to my house for safekeeping, I said they should bring them. I gave them the description and they brought the car with the items.
When they came, I told them that returning the items was just not enough, that they had to go to the Police to make some statement … and they agreed.
So, we drove to Gwarimpa Police Station, because they live in Gwarimpa and that was the last point my daughter must have travelled from, and they made statements and the Station referred us to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the Federal capital Territory (FCT), where they have the technological know-how and facilities to track missing persons, missing telephones, coordinating or whatsoever, which the ordinary Police don’t have.
They gave us quick passage to SARS. We went there and they made statements too. The SARS swung into action.
Before this time, did you have any inkling of her movement?
No, no! I told you she was in school; she was a postgraduate student and was a big girl now. I don’t stay with her or follow her movement.
I phoned her from time to time and she would tell me if there was any problem. Occasionally, I visited her and come back to my base.
Within this time, you did not phone her because there was no need to?
I had just seen her before she got missing. I went there and saw her. She told me that their examination was on, so practically there was no need to disturb her.
As she was growing up, what type of girl was she?
Oh, she was a very good girl, very serious, very focused. She had done very well. She finished her youth service about the age of 22 and had never been lagging behind.
So, I was very confident that she was full of promises, full of potentials and we didn’t have any problem with her.
You must be pained reading all the comments about her and the incident, how do you feel as her father?
Well, definitely, it is one of those things. When things like that happen, a lot of speculations and insinuations will come, but that is not my problem now. My problem is to get focused that at least, somebody is dead, and luckily, the Police have been able to do a thorough job from what I was told. I have not gone to Lagos to see the Police, but my brother and my son had been there and from what they told me, the Police from the beginning, did a marvelous job in tracking down the suspects.
So, we are worried about how to move forward with the case, not about what people say. I don’t work on rumours; I don’t work on stupid foundations. In fact, there is no need for that.
For your information, I have always had a standing order allowance for my daughter from the age of 15 till now. When she was going for youth service, I had to give her a car as gift.
I am sure she must have been getting some little allowance from her brothers too, and of course from her mother. So, I don’t see any reason why she should not have at least enough money to go on for people to begin to insinuate that she was a “runs girl” or whatever they mean by that.
So, I don’t want to talk more on that.
How do you feel sir, losing your only daughter?
Well, it is very painful; it is devastating, it is incomprehensible. Our consolation is that when some things happen, you just take it with equanimity. What cannot be helped must be endured.
I believe too that the situation that is unfolding is a big lesson for other youths. They have a lot of lessons to draw on why they should not just be chatting with strangers on Facebook, the Internet or Blackberry or whatever and then decide to go visiting them when they don’t know them.

ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU AT OBAMA's CAMPAIGN

E*X*P*O*S*E*D!
Tinubu Lied about Obama’s Invitation.
**he paid $5,000 for VIP seat at the convention.
**“it is immoral to deceive anyone that we are who we
are not.” - DNC
**DNC did not invite him, he bought his ticket like others.

**this gentleman (Tinubu) is not like your popular National icon,
businessman Moshood Abiola whom we know. - DNC.

Fresh facts have emerged that Leader of the Action Congress of
Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, paid $5000 to obtain the generic invitation from the Democratic Party campaign office, but claimed he was personally invited to attend by President Barack Obama as leader of Nigeria opposition.

Obama, it has been revealed, did not personally extend what has been dubbed by Tinubu “a gold card invitation” to him to attend the Democratic party convention (DNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. contrary to claims by him and his aides.

This is not the first time Tinubu has been enmeshed in controversy bothering on false claims. The controversy surrounding his academic qualifications, his claim of being a Certified Public Accountant, and discrepancy in his age records are still fresh in memory.

According to investigations by reporters of a United States based online medium, Sharpedgenews.com, the invite received by Tinubu was a generic kind sent out to donors by the campaign organization.

The medium which is attending the convention, also revealed that the DNC denied ever inviting Tinubu on any official capacity as the “ leader of opposition” in Nigeria
The media team of Tinubu had claimed that he was invited to the Democratic National Convention in his right as the leader of the opposition in Nigeria.

According to his media aide Sunday Dare “ Tinubu will be at the ring side as the Democratic Party conduct activities that will
culminate in the nomination of President Barrack Obama as its
candidate for the November 2012 Presidential elections in the USA.”

“Tinubu receives a gold card invitation which is prime and with this,
he will be joined by three other eminent personalities – Governor
Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state, Speaker Lagos state House of
Assembly Adeyemi Ikuforiji and former Commissioner for
Information and Strategy in Lagos state, Mr Dele Alake.” His
statement added

DNC sources irked by the suggestive news reports which is being
interpreted that Barack Obama may have extended a preferential
invitation to Mr. Tinubu in spite of similar politicians in his native
country of Nigeria, said that such notion was further from reality as
was claimed by the ACN leader

The DNC source explained that the invite that was given to Tinubu
was a generic type that similarly went to whoever donated more
than $5,000 to the Obama campaign.

“The invitation card sent to Tinubu, the former senator from
Nigeria, was generic and it generally goes from the campaign
organization and not personally from President Obama,” the highly
placed source explained under condition of anonymity.

The source said that it would be difficult for anyone to implicate
Obama in attempts at foisting a preferred leadership on Nigeria or
Africa as that would negate the philosophy of Washington’s new international engagement.

“Nigerians are capable of determining its destiny,” said the source.

The source said that politicians are free to strategize, while
explaining that “it is immoral to deceive anyone that we are who we
are not.”

“This gentleman is not like your popular national icon,
businessman Moshood Abiola, who was well-grounded and at
home with many people in government and private sector.
Americans don’t want to be dragged into the affairs of any country
through personal preferences. The man probably did what he had
to do in order to gain access to the convention ground.” The
source said. Is is a Shame!