The Oba of Lagos does not speak for the APC. From Gen. Buhari down to Desmond Elliot, even true APC supporters, no hate speeches made so far
— APC Nigeria (@APCNigeria) April 7, 2015
APC Nigeria tweeted shared the tweet “The Oba of Lagos does not speak for the APC. From Gen. Buhari down to Desmond Elliot, even true APC supporters, no hate speeches made so far” and some Nigerians feel that was a strong message to Desmond Elliot.
See how Nigerians react to the message bellow.
A former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, is not a member of the All Progressives Congress and cannot speak on behalf of the party.
Tinubu said this at a rally in Iganmu, Lagos, while reacting to the controversial comments of the monarch on Tuesday.
The APC National Leader, who noted that he was the first Yoruba governor to ever appoint an Igbo commissioner, said the Peoples Democratic Party, having failed to win last week’s presidential elections, were desperately trying to pull the APC into the Akiolu controversy.
He said the Coordinator of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, Ifeanyi Ubah, and the PDP leader, Bode George, were only making baseless accusations against the APC.
Tinubu said, “The oba is not a politician. His job is to accommodate all political parties, whether PDP, APC or SDP. So, what did he (Ubah) go and do at the palace?
“To you Igbos, don’t we pay your children’s school fees like others? Or is it the palace that pays for it? When we conducted an exam and a spelling competition, an Igbo boy, Ebuka, from Anambra, came first and he became the governor for one day.
“Those that won the competition three times in a row were Igbo. Ebuka was sent to Switzerland computer school and then Obafemi Awolowo University. We did not say he was an Igbo boy and he would not enjoy. He became an executive in Oando and he is now in Canada.
“Another boy, Felix, won and went to Switzerland and OAU. We paid his scholarship; we did not deny him because he is Igbo.”
In a separate statement, the Lagos State APC Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, said the monarch spoke out of anger.
He urged his kinsmen not to take out their anger on the APC governorship candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, who knew nothing about the incident.
The statement read, “Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos is not a card-carrying member of APC. He is not a leader in the APC. He does not speak for the APC. He did not speak for Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state.
“He did not speak for our national leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He did not speak for the incoming governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode. His Royal Highness is at liberty to speak for himself and he spoke for himself only.
“Lagos APC appeals to Ndigbo not to take the statement as the position of the party in Lagos. We passionately appeal to Ndigbo not to carry the statement credited to Oba Akiolu too far so as not to put a knife on things that have held us together for more than 50 years now.
“If out of annoyance, you throw your cap away, a mad man will take it and use it forever.”
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A Christian group, Northern Christian Leaders Eagle Eyes Forum that endorsed the All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd), before the March 28 poll, said it is not surprised that Buhari won the poll.
The group’s endorsement of Buhari during the electioneering, drew the ire of the Christian Association of Nigeria, led by Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor. CAN condemned and distanced itself from the endorsement.
Addressing journalists in Kaduna on Tuesday, Chairman of the Forum, Pastor Aminchi Habu, also said under Buhari, Nigeria would take its rightful position among the comity of nations.
Saying that the forum had confidence that the President-elect would steer the ship of the nation to greatness, the cleric noted that he and his other colleagues, believed that the Katsina-born general deserved his electoral victory because he worked for it.
The chairman specifically hailed the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; Senator Bukola Saraki, governors Rotimi Amaechi, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Magatakarda Wamako and Ahmed Abdulfatai for working to ensure that Buhari won the presidential election.
“These men are not only quintessential politicians but also political strategists in their own rights and so deserve special commendation as they worked tirelessly to ensure that Nigeria changed for good,” he said.
Habu claimed that in 2011, the Christian community overwhelmingly voted for the outgoing president, Goodluck Jonathan, lamenting that the President failed the entire nation because of lack of performance.
He urged Nigerians to accept Buhari as the “change messiah” that was being expected.
A lady gave birth to an infant on the streets of Lagos today April 7th. Eye witnesses said the girl was on her way to the market when her water broke.
She started screaming for help and some people gathered around her and once they saw the baby’s head had been being released, they helped her deliver the infant right there. The lady and her baby are doing well. More photos bellow…
The wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, hasn’t been seen in public places since President Goodluck Jonathan lost the March 28 presidential election to Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) of the All Progressives Congress.
The President had last Tuesday conceded defeat and called Buhari on phone when it became clear from the outcome released by the Independent National Electoral Commission he had lost his re-election bid. Some dignitaries including serving and former government officials had visited Jonathan to commend him for conceding defeat and solidarise with him on his loss.
Among the visitors had told a correspondent that Mrs. Jonathan also received visitors within the President’s official residence same day.
“After meeting the President in the new Banquet Hall located within the premised of his office, I also visited the First Lady inside the President’s residence before leaving. She was in high spirit when I met her,” the former government official said.
But since then, the President’s wife had not been seen in public. She did not attend the Good Friday service held inside the Aso Villa Chapel with her husband neither did she attend the Easter Sunday service inside the same chapel.
Mrs. Jonathan and the President’s mother, Eunice, had always been accompanying Jonathan to such services. The last time she was seen in public was penultimate Saturday when she and her husband voted at their polling unit in Otuoke, Bayelsa State.
While many believed however that she must have been too devastated by her husband’s electoral loss to appear in public so soon, our correspondent’s investigation however showed that Mrs. Jonathan might have travelled out of the country.
A Presidency source who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent that Mrs. Jonathan travelled to the United Kingdom during the week to sort out some domestic issues.
“She is in UK. She may use the opportunity of the trip to visit her children,” the source said.
President’s wife would come back to the country. Mrs. Jonathan’s spokesman, Mr. Ayo Adewuyi, did not pick the calls made to his mobile telephone line on Monday. Adewuyi did not also reply a text message sent to him on the mater.
It will be recalled that Mrs. Jonathan had during one of the presidential rallies she organised ahead of the elections claimed that Buhari would send her to jail if he was elected.
The Peoples Democratic Party has demanded the immediate suspension of Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, till after the governorship and state House of Assembly elections in Lagos State.
The party called on Governor Babatunde Fashola to suspend the first-class monarch. It said this was necessary in order to guarantee free, fair and credible elections in the state. In a statement issued on Tuesday by Lagos PDP Publicity Secretary, Mr. Taofik Gani, the party stated that it had also alerted the security agencies to hold the monarch responsible for any attack on non-indigenes or PDP members in Lagos.
According to the PDP, which is the major opposition party in the state, the silence of the governor of the state, Fashola, over 48 hours after such inflammatory statement and threat to life suggests that the king acted on behalf of the state government.
The statement said in part, “The governor is thus a conspirator in this threat to life and must also be held accountable for any violence in this elections. We have at this point been vindicated about the desperation of the APC to retain Lagos state at all cost including the All Progressives Congress’ plan not to concede the imminent defeat on April 11.
“The positions of the PDP are coming on the heels of the now viral threat issued by the Oba of Lagos to Igbos that they must vote for the APC Governorship Candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode, or be drowned in Lagos water.”
Despite the alleged threat to their lives, PDP urged Lagos non-indigenes and others to be part of Saturday’s voting exercise.
The Kenyan air force has said it destroyed two al-Shabab camps in Somalia, in the first major military response since the armed group massacred students at a Kenyan university last week.
Gunmen from the al-Qaeda-aligned group killed 148 people on Thursday when they stormed the Garissa University College campus, some 200km from the Somali border.
Jets pounded the camps in the Gedo region on the other side of the frontier on Sunday and Monday, Kenya Defence Forces spokesman David Obonyo said on Monday. The mission was part of efforts to stop fighters from those camps carrying out cross-border raids into Kenya.
“Our aerial images show that the camps were completely destroyed,” he said, adding that cloud cover made it difficult to estimate the death toll.
Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabab’s military operations spokesman, told the Reuters news agency that none of its camps were damaged in Sunday’s raid, and that the fighter jets had instead struck farmland.
After besieging the university, the al-Shabab gunmen lined up non-Muslim students before executing them in the armed group’s bloodiest attack to date.
The attack claimed the lives of 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers.
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday pledged that the attackers would face justice for the “mindless slaughter” and vowed to retaliate for the killings in the “severest way.”
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The United States admitted Monday that it has no immediate plans to rescue its nationals stranded in war-torn Yemen and urged them to flee the raging conflict by sea.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf could not tell reporters how many American civilians are thought to be caught up in the conflict, as citizens of other nations take to ships.
But she said US authorities would contact those that it could, and advise them of opportunities to board ships from allied nations docking to pick up their own nationals.
“At this point, we have encouraged all US citizens to shelter and secure locations until they’re able to depart safely. The airports are still closed, is my understanding,” she said.
A protest website representing Yemeni Americans — stuckinyemen.com — has accused Washington of abandoning dual nationals last month in its haste to close its embassy in Yemen.
Asked about a claim that 200 US citizens have signed up to the site, Harf said officials had been unable to confirm the figure and urged them to sign on to a State Department list.
France has evacuated 63 foreign nationals from the Yemeni port of Balhaf and frigates from the Chinese and Indian navies have rescued 450 and 100 people respectively from Hodeida.
Nigerians haven’t any respect, trolling the Oba of Lagos…haha. Many people had an opinion in regards to the Oba’s comments yesterday and many of them were hilarious.
Read the tweets & memes used showing defiance, mockery to the threats made by the traditional leader yesterday.
More bellow.
In a related development, the state police have arrested one lady simply identified as Sabbath for selling her 5 day old baby for N90, 000. Sabbath gave birth to a set of twins and decided to sell one of them, blaming it on poverty.
When interrogated, she said ‘It was poverty that led me into this mess. It is true that I sold one of my twins for N90,000.00 to Mr Akpanam and Mr Samuel to be able to train the other baby. My husband’s family should forgive me for what I have done, it was poverty that led me into this’ she said.
The information collected is then used to commit fraud against those customers later. Most of us (banks) are aware of the development and we are very vigilant now. What some of us have done is to get a patrol team of security men to start combing the affected areas and the ATMs from time to time. We will get those guys soon.” the anonymous banker said
Grafton Entertainment is proud to unveil the official video for “Bad Girl Special Remix” by Mr. 2Kay featuring Cynthia Morgan and Seyi Shay. The video was premiered on MTV Base last week, followed by several other cable and terrestrial music channels across Nigeria, Africa and the UK.
Mr. Tonye Ibiama, CEO of Grafton Records decided to release the video today, as the label could no longer handle the pressure from fans of Mr. 2Kay and lovers of the song. In his words, “The demand for the video on social media and the mainstream was overwhelming and convincing. Our original plan was to release the video two weeks away, but it’s all good.”
My friend is from Ijebu ooooo, we are both Yoruba girls and that statement was made by her mum. We are still friends today and her mum got over it. Please educate people around you. Vote who you want, vote your conscience but please stop with the tribalism comments. Our beauty is in our diversity. It is a distraction, don’t fall for it. Let’s all live as one.’
A Russian Cabinet of Ministers commission on Monday approved the ratification on an agreement to create a pool of conditional currency reserves for BRICS member states at $100 billion.
MOSCOW – A Russian Cabinet of Ministers commission on Monday approved the ratification on an agreement to create a pool of conditional currency reserves for BRICS member states at $100 billion.
The Russian Foreign Ministry and Finance Ministry introduced the legislation to create the joint bank between the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS).
“The overall volume has been set at $100 billion. China’s share is $41 billion, South Africa’s is $5 billion, and Brazil, India and Russia’s is set at $18 billion each,” according to the document, published on the Cabibet of Ministers’ website.
The currency pool will be maintained by a board of directors, a permanent committee, and a coordinator, whose functions will be performed by the state chairing BRICS.
A country-borrower may use up to the 70 percent maximum of state-limit funds if it has an approved International Monetary Fond (IMF) crisis stabilization program and fulfills its obligations under the agreement, according to the document. Up to 30 percent of the resources may be used without such a deal with IMF.
The agreement will be considered at a government session, according to the Russian Cabinet of Ministers.
The agreement on the creation of the pool was worked out by the finance ministries of the BRICS countries at the June 2012 meeting in Mexico.
All roads leading into Ekiti state have now been blocked today by those loyal to Governor Fayose following strong rumours that the APC members of their state House of Assembly were planning to carry a sitting today to start impeachment proceedings against Fayose.
Many loyalists also annexed the roads leading to the state Assembly complex with police men and DSS keeping watch.
See more photos bellow
Airport cleaner, Josephine Agwu says she didn’t receive N12million from TREM church last Sunday when she was hosted by the Presiding Bishop and general overseer of the church, Dr Mike Okonkwo.
“I was at TREM for the Easter service but it is not true they gave me N12 million. I got a call from TREM asking me to come for their service. It is a lie that I was given N12m. I did not even see the report” she told Encomium magazine.
But she refused to reveal how much was handed to her, only saying that of all of that was not offered to her, prayer was the most crucial to her “Prayer matters most. That’s the most crucial thing to me. Every other thing may follow. That prayer is the most crucial” she said
According to a military source, At least six children were killed after the Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes and hit a school in central Yemen.
Yemen has been hit by violent clashes between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to the country’s president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
In late March, the situation in Yemen deteriorated after a Saudi Arabia-led international coalition launched airstrikes against Houthi positions.
At least 74 children were killed and 44 injured since the beginning of the airstrikes, according to the the UN children agency UNICEF.
In past two weeks, over 500 people have been killed, and more than 1,700 injured in Yemen, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Thursday.
Son of late ex-governor old Anambra state Chief C.C Onoh and ex-member in the Enugu state House of state, Dr Josef Onoh has vowed to drag the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu to the International Criminal Court of Justice over the anti-Igbo comments he made during his meeting in some Igbo leaders resident in Lagos last Sunday.
Addressing Vanguard, Dr Josef Onoh said
“Let it be known that whether Oba Akiolu’s threat comes to fruition or not, I have concluded to take him to the ICC where he will keep company with the like Charles Taylor and answer to human right charges that will be preferred against him” he said
You realize when individuals have an opinion about you and just can’t chill for the proper moment to let you to know…:-). Nollywood director Ifeanyi Ikpoenyi aka Mr Hollywood reacts to Kunle Afolayan’s tweets
“I almost ignored Kunle Afolayan’s useless tweets about Igbos being the only Pirates in Nigeria because to me, Kunle is just an over rated Nollywood film maker. He’s not better than Izu Ojukwu, Teco Benson, Obi Emelonye, Chineze Anyaene to mention but a few.
The secret of Kunle is his DOP Yinka Davies who does everything for him and at the end of the day Kunle will just come and announce ‘action’… Give him another local DOP and see if Kunle is worth all the praises his kinsmen showers on him. Kunle should thank Peace Anyiam Osigwe for giving him the platform of AMAA as a pedestal to limelight. Trust me, if Kunle walks the street of Onitsha, Aba, Enugu or any where outside yoruba land, not even one person will recognise him as a celebrity. I will rather worry myself with the Oba’s threat to Ndi igbo than spend one second of my time thinking about Kunle’s senseless tweets about the Igbos.
Ifeanyi Ikpoenyi (Mr Hollywood)
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said within an interview that the Houthi command hasn’t made a decision regarding potential attacks on Saudi Arabia, which includes been leading international coalition efforts from the rebels in Yemen, although there’s a genuine likelihood of such move.
“As of now, the leadership in charge of military action in Yemen has not decided whether to cut off the Bab-el-Mandeb straight [which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden] and launch attacks on targets in Saudi Arabia, despite the fact that they have such capabilities,” Nasrallah said.
According to the leader of the Beirut-based militant group, Saudi Arabia and the coalition are suffering a “catastrophic failure” in their efforts to defeat Houthis through airstrikes as the attacks have turned Yemeni residents against the authorities.An international coalition led by Saudi Arabia has been carrying out airstrikes against the Shiite Houthi rebels since March 26, following a request for military aid from Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi who has left the country amid the hostilities.
The rising death toll from the violence prompted Russia to call for a “humanitarian pause” in fighting. A UN resolution to this effect is currently being considered by the 15-nation UN Security Council.
Hezbollah, a paramilitary and political organization originating in Lebanon’s Shiite population, was established in the 1980s. The group’s primary goal was military opposition to Israel’s occupation of Lebanon.
Hezbollah has been helping the Syrian government fight ISIL extremists and radical Sunni militants, including al-Nusra Front, a Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda.
Hezbollah is considered a terrorist organization by many Western governments including Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and many European states, but not by Russia.
