February 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Ekweremadu, Nnamani, others in a secret meeting

February 11, 2019 3:40 am

About a week ago, the former Senate President Sen. Ken Nnamani called a meeting in his Abuja’s residence to review All Progressives Congress plan towards winning the South East, Africa Daily News, New York exclusively gathered from a reliable source.

At the meeting were Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Gbazueagu Nweke Gbazueagu and two others our source did not know.

During the meeting, they reviewed the success of their planned takeover of the South-East. They said they had enough materials and money to commence house-to-house campaign this week .

As the meeting was on, Sen. Nnamani reported that Governor Obiano of Anambra …

Jubril’s administration is the worst so far in Nigeria- PDP

February 11, 2019 2:36 am

The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said Jubril Al-Sudani being paraded as President Buhari has failed his integrity test and has no moral rectitude whatsoever to pontificate on corruption, his administration having been enmeshed in high-profile corruption.

Vanguard reports:

The party said if there is any person whose activities of corruption have become a threat to the coming election, it is President Buhari, who it alleged is financing his campaign with looted funds, while surrounding himself with politicians indicted for corruption.

The statement read in part: “The PDP, out of respect for the …

Oyedepo, Gambari, others endorse Jubril, the impostor

February 11, 2019 2:02 am

Twenty-three elders in Kwara led by Dr. Dr Hezekiah Oyedepo have endorsed Jubril Al-Sudani being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of APC.

News Agency of Nigeria reports, and addresses him as President Mohammadu Buhari:

They also resolved to vote for governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APV) in the state, Alhaji AbdulRahman AdulRazaq, Oyedepo told journalists in Ilorin on Sunday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the press statement was signed by the 23 elders, including Chief Cornelius Adebayo, Brig Gen Saliu Bello (rtd), Prof. Ibrahim Gambari and Engr Simeon Daramola.

According to the …

Nigerians caused rift between Obaseki and I – Oshiomhole

Oshiomhole warns APC chairmen, secretaries against laxity

February 11, 2019 1:37 am

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman Adams Oshiomhole yesterday warned state chairmen, secretaries and governorship candidates of the party against complacency in the coming elections.

He said the party must win in a free and fair manner.

Oshiomhole spoke at a crucial meeting with state critical stakeholders ahead of the presidential election scheduled for the weekend.

The meeting, which started at about 8.30pm also have in attendance, party’s governorship candidates with the exemption of siting governors who are seeking re-election.

The Nation gathered that the state chairmen, secretaries and governorship candidates were briefed on preparation for the elections and what …

Jubril – the impostor, Atiku war over alleged vote-buying

February 11, 2019 1:17 am

ABUJA —AHEAD of the February 16 presidential election, Jubril Al- Sudani being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed fears over alleged new threats to the election via vote-buying by those he said looted the treasury in the previous administration.

Vanguard reports and addresses the impostor as President Mohammadu Buhari:

The general election in the country is starting on Saturday February 16 with the presidential and National Assembly elections. But President Buhari said reliable evidence gathered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, revealed that those who had looted Nigeria’s treasury, now with huge resources at their disposal, were …

Peace Pact: Clinton, others to monitor Jubril, Atiku

February 11, 2019 12:39 am

Former President Bill Clinton of United States is to watch over a second peace pact to be signed between Jubril Al-Sudani, the impostor being camouflaged as President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, opponent, Alhaji  Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday.

A statement by National Peace Committee, which is facilitating the agreement, also acknowledged the role of the Kofi Annan Foundation in the effort towards the peace project. Besides President Clinton, Secretary-General of Commonwealth, Baroness Patricia Scotland, will also be present at the agreement ceremony to build confidence and win the commitment …

Conduct credible, free, fair elections, UN tells Nigeria

February 11, 2019 12:04 am

ABUJA — United Nations, weekend, challenged the Federal Government and all stakeholders in the upcoming general elections to work harder at ensuring that the outcome of the exercise was acceptable to all and sundry.

UN  Special Representative of Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohammed Ibn Chambers, gave the charge at a  national workshop on broadcast media coverage of 2019 general elections with the theme: Fake News, Hate Speech, Vote and PVC Buying, in Abuja.

Chambers, who was represented by Takwa Zebulun, said Nigeria, as the big brother that had played a stabilising role in many parts of Africa …

Beyond Chains, an absolute expose` in contemporary Africa

February 10, 2019 10:24 pm

Beyond Chains

In Beyond Chains, Michael Nnaji must free himself from a damnable incarceration. The young pastor hopes for a miracle to get that, and one just wonders the possibility of it.

Michael Nnaji is young, affable and extremely brilliant, but still struggling. He dedicates the entirety of his life to ecclesiastical service, and the anointing upon his life is a major source of blessing to many that come across to him.

However, anointing without money is an annoyance, so his superior in the church, Pastor Kunle Martins orchestrates a multi-million dollar deal that requires his information and communication …

Malaysia’s trial of the century is set to begin

February 10, 2019 12:54 pm

This case has a $250 million yacht, a Picasso and a Lindsay Lohan link. Prosecutors Tuesday begin detailing charges of abuse of power and money laundering against an ex-Prime Minister and other top officials accused of embezzling $3.5 billion from a state fund called 1MDB. They deny the allegations.

(CNN)…

ALARM! Fake Army uniforms sowed in Sir Emeka Offor’s house

February 10, 2019 12:22 pm

Over 1000 Nigerian Army uniforms have been sowed and packed in Sir Emeka Offor’s house in Orafitte. 5 tailors were kept in the house for two weeks sowing the uniform of various sizes.

How they exactly want to make use of them for the election is still not clear.

Their desperation to rig the forthcoming elections at all costs is clearly manifesting on daily basis.

Using Emeka Offor as a willing tool is so unfortunate.…

The hatred and fear of the Igbos II

Reality with Odumodu: The hatred and fear of the Igbos II

February 10, 2019 11:36 am

By Odumodu Gbulagu

They declared NO VICTOR NO VANQUISHED yet they call us their slaves and vowed that nothing will make us smell power again.
After the war comes the 3 RRR’s. RECONCILIATION, REHABILITATION AND RECONSTRUCTION.
They were abandoned as soon as they were propounded.

The only useful thing that came out of the reconciliation is the founding of NYSC, which has outlived it’s usefulness as Igbo and Southern Youth Corp members are killed in the North at every slightest opportunity.

The war ravaged East was not reconstructed nor rehabilitated.
There were no government presence at all.
We labored and …

The real story behind the Nigerian 1966 Coup

February 10, 2019 11:07 am

The last surviving planner, and executor  of Nigeria first bloody revolution, Colonel Emmanuel Nwaorah Nwobosi (rtd) has made a broadcast in honour of the historic event.

In the no-holds-barred broadcast, he explained the reason why they attacked the polity. Which he described as a move, “To stop a Jihad and bring sanity to a Nigeria steeped in nepotism, corruption and mass murders.”

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