The phones no longer ring By Reuben Abati

As spokesman to President Goodluck Jonathan, my phones rang endlessly and became more than personal navigators within the social space. They defined my entire life; dusk to dawn, all year-round. The phones buzzed non-stop, my email was permanently active; my twitter account received tons of messages per second.
COntinue..

BREAKING NEWS: INEC to disqualify Buhari for his missing....

INEC to disqualify Buhari for his missing gap teeth because the Nigerian dental and medical council couldn’t find the missing tooth…

Lols Lols.

BREAKING NEWS: INEC to disqualify Buhari for his missing....

North Korea Confirms Successful Testing of Hydrogen Bomb

North Korea announced a successful test of a hydrogen bomb in a special statement broadcasted by the country's central TV and South Korean TV channels.

According to the statement, Pyongyang claimed the reason for the test was the country's right for "self-defense," and promised not to use nuclear weapons if the international community respects its sovereignty.

Photos: The Most beautiful house in Nigeria ?

 Is this the most beautiful house in Nigeria ? See more photos bellow. - See more at: http://ooduarere.com/news-from-nigeria/breaking-news/photos-the-most-beautiful-house-in-nigeria
See more pics bellow.

INEC Announces Results Of Tai Election, Rivers, Declares APC Winner

'Amina Zakari and INEC just made it known that Tai results will be released. They had a meeting today with stakeholders of APC, PDP and other political parties.

And that elections can't be this August and not in September too, because of Edo and Ondo elections.

So that they are looking at October for any possible elections in Rivers State, but that everyone has to first of all agree to it'.

4 Marines killed after gunman attacks 2 military sites in Tennessee

Terror comes to the US. According to breaking news, four US Marines were killed when a gunman attacked 2 military sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee, today Thursday July 16th. The man has been identified as 24 year old Muhammod Youssuf Abdulazeez & he was born in Kuwait. According to FBI, 11 minutes before the shooting, ISIS twitter account used derogatory words to insult the US and wrote #Chattanooga. This is being treated as a terror attack.

BREAKING NEWS: LAGOS STATE - Buhari Wins Lagos #NIgeriaDecides

LAGOS STATE: 20LGs, 14Parties  Registered Voters: 5,827,846 Acredited Voters: 1,678,754. AA 1795, ACPN 3038, AD-4453, ADC 2072, APA 2177, APC 792,460, CPP 1125, OHP 255, KOWA 1000, NCP 1430, PDP 632,327, PPN 1041, UDP 269,UPP 244, Total valid votes: 1443686, ReJected voted 52289, Total votes cast: 1495975

FCT Election Is A Shame, PDP Says

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the just concluded Federal Capital Territory (FCT) area councils election as a shame, saying that the federal government, officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security operatives manipulated the elections in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

B'Haram reportedly takes over Ashaka Cement factory in Gombe State

In accordance with a breaking news report by Sahara Reporters, Boko Haram members have got in the Ashaka cement factory in Gombe state. The sect members were said to have arrived the factory in a convoy of pickup vans and started shooting indiscriminately, security the security guards and staff to run race for safety.

B'Haram reportedly takes over Ashaka Cement factory in Gombe State

Breaking News! Buhari wins 2015 Presidential Election (Ọmọ Oódua - polls)

Ater over 3 months of Open online Poll – ‘JONATHAN Vs BUHARI: Who Would You Want As Your President In 2015.’ Probably one of the fairest and longest online poll Suggests Buhari wins 2015 Election by a great margin.

Total number of Voters: 8,103
Pro BUHARI (75%, 6,097 Votes)
Pro JONATHAN (25%, 2,006 Votes)

We wish either of them best of luck!

Delta EPZ project crisis: Tompolo denies any involvement, blames Uduaghan, Keyamo

Ex-militant Ekpemupolo, (alias Tompolo) has denied any involvement in the $16 billion Export Processing Zone (EPZ) project crisis rocking Delta State. In a bid to clear himself of any wrong doing, Tompolo released a statement today where he accused the current Delta state governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan and his predecessor, Jame Ibori of trying to use the project to collect the land belonging to his people, the Ijaws of Gbaramatu kingdom.

He also accused human rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo of being used to blackmail his person. See the long statement after the cut...

You have some explanation to give - Yobe state governor tells GEJ

Following the killing of 47 students in his state today by Boko haram members, the Governor of Yobe state, Ibrahim Gaidam says that President Jonathan has some explanation to give to the Northern region over the increased attacks by the militants. The governor said this in a statement issued through his Special Adviser on Press Affairs and Information, Abdullahi Bego. See it bellow.

Plane bound for Senegal with 7 people on board goes missing

According to breaking news reports, a small plane heading to Senegal from Burkina Faso carrying 7 people including a sick French woman who was being evacuated, has gone missing. Senegalese authorities said the plane lost contact very late yesterday after disappearing from radar when it was 111 kilometers (69 miles) west of Senegal's seaside capital, Dakar. The plane was carrying the sick woman, a Senegalese doctor, two nurses and the three-person crew of the Senegal air-operated flight. Senegalese authorities said a search party is scouring an area off the Atlantic coast of Senegal for signs of the wreckage.

#NotMyPresident: Angry Americans Take to Streets in Protest of Donald Trump Win

In the wake of Donald Trump's election to the US presidency, more than 10,000 Facebook users say they will show up at demonstrations in New York City.

Breaking NEWs: Outgoing President Jonathan signs Tobacco control bill, 5 others

Nigeria's active president, Goodluck Jonathan, has finally signed the Tobacco Control bill into law, hours to the end of his regime.

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Explosion reported at Federal Prison in Ekiti state

As indicated by a breaking news report by Radio Continental, a blast shook the Federal Prison in Ado- Ekiti in Ekiti state at the beginning of today.

The report says numerous detainees got away from, some were recaptured.

Explosion reported at Federal Prison in Ekiti state

Breaking news regarding armed conflict in Ukraine, by Scott Humor

On Monday November 28th, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced that they have initiated a criminal investigation of war crimes committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Chess in the Age of ISIS

by Tom Mysiewicz

“Iraq is breaking up before our eyes and it would appear that the creation of an independent Kurdish state is a foregone conclusion.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to John Kerry in Paris, 26 June 2014

“The goal is to proclaim a ‘Kurdistan’ straddling the border between Iraq and Syria, and then expel the Syrian populations who live there, followed by the transfer of 10 million Turkish Kurds to this new state.”

Thierry Meyssan, 2015

Unfolding now is a multidimensional chess game comprising centuries-old animosities, petrodollars, pipelines, a neo-Ottoman sultanate, plans for balkanizing the Mid East into manageable ethnic states, Israeli energy plans and oligarchs, Neoconservatives, the U.S. military-industrial complex, Daesh-ISIS, NATO, the EU, Kurdistan, Ukraine and a gaggle of nation states. I first addressed this hard-to-fathom situation in my 2014 piece “War With ISIS: Multiplexing a New World Order.”

Iran Not Arming Houthis, Claims US Thirst for Yemen Oil Provoking Bloodshed

As the US has intensified its saber-rattling rhetoric about possibility of a military standoff off the Yemeni coast, Iranian officials and political analysts insist that Iran is not pursuing any military aims in the area and that its navy, which is present there, has the sole purpose of protecting its trade fleet.

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US officials have said they suspect the Iranian warships are carrying arms to the Houthi rebels in Yemen, which the United States and Saudi Arabia claim are backed by Iran.

“From the very start of the Saudi Arabian airstrikes on Yemen, the US has launched a wide scale campaign in its media aimed at pushing Iran into the Yemeni conflict,” Hossein Sheikholeslam, a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly and the Iranian ambassador to Syria, told Sputnik Persian.“Iran however has not interfered into Yemeni internal affairs: we have neither sent any weapons to the country, nor have we sent any servicemen on the ground. All the claims about Iran supplying weapons to the Houthis is a joint plot of the US, Zionist regime and Saudi Arabia to suppress the uprising of the Yemeni people for their freedom and independence. The Yemenis are capable of and full of determination to define the fate of their own country without any enforcement from outside,” he stated.

Hassan Hanizadeh, Editor-in-chief of Iranian news agency Mehr News, has explained that the Iranian navy’s only purpose in the area is to protect its trade fleet.

“Iranian military vessels have been present in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Gulf of Oman for a number of years,” he told Sputnik Persian.

“As the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait is being constantly attacked by pirates, Iran has sent its navy there to protect its merchant ships,” he added.

“Iran has repeatedly protected various trade vessels flying the flags of different countries from the attacks of naval pirates without breaking any laws on navigation in neutral waters. Iranian naval vessels only carry out their commitment to protect trade vessels. Like Great Britain, France and a number of other countries, Iran also has its naval present in the area.”

“The Iranian navy, however, can’t and doesn’t have the purpose of supplying any side of the Yemeni conflict with any arms. On the contrary, Iran, in its turn, has suggested a plan on regulating the Yemeni conflict and the termination of Saudi Arabian airstrikes on Yemeni territory. The plan has been handed over to the UN. And we hope that the sides of international law will take it into account. In any case, neither Iran, nor the US, are interested in any naval clashes in the Red Sea caused by the Yemeni conflict,” he said.

“Although yes, the US is trying to declare that Iran has allegedly tried to arm the Yemeni Houthis. But everyone is aware that Iran is not pursuing any purposes of the kind,” he stated.

Aftermath of coalition airstrikes on Yemen

Foreign affairs and Middle East analyst Sabah Zanganeh has told Sputnik that the US is always pursuing its own goals when instigating a conflict in the region.

“The US is always acting in such a way that the blood of innocent people is being shed and international human rights are being gravely violated in a country where there is a military conflict,” he said.

“Under the pretext of a fight against Al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization, the US has approved the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) strikes on some districts of Yemen. It resulted in the killing of dozens of civilians. Now they (the US) have mobilized its navy there. And we will again witness the foremost crimes against humanity by the US military forces. While pursuing their own interests – to get an access to the Yemeni oil resources – they are ready to launch any military activity,” he stated.

Protesters rally against the UN Security Council Resolution and air strikes by coalition headed by Saudi Arabia

Hassan Hanizadeh also added that for over a month the Saudi Air Forces have been conducting airstrikes on Yemeni civilians, but the UN herewith has been silent and the US is providing military support and is providing arms to Saudi Arabia.

“All the above is a blatant violation of the UN laws and its Charter. The closure of the Yemeni airspace is a grievous violation of the sovereignty of a UN member state. And therefore, Saudi Arabia has to answer for its military crimes again other state in an International Tribunal,” he stated.

FG Stops Paying The School Fees Of N’delta Students In Foreign Universities

President, Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, has raised the alarm over the plight of over 6,000 Niger Delta students on Federal Government’s scholarships in some foreign universities.

He said the authorities of the foreign universities had started delisting the students, majority of whom were Ijaws, due to the alleged Federal Government’s failure to pay the students’ fees.