Melaye: I’ll mobilise Nigerians against Buhari

<div class="article-photo"> <span class="set-image-border" style="float: none;"><img alt="Melaye: I’ll mobilise Nigerians against Buhari" class="setborder" src="https://www.thecable.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Melaye-653x365.jpg" style="float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" /></span></div> <div class="article-controls" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"> <div class="date"> <div class="calendar-date"> </div> </div> </div> <strong>Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, has threatened to mobilise Nigerians against the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration if it does not revert to the old pump price of petrol within seven days.</strong><br /> Melaye, who participated actively in the #OcuppyNigeria protests, which forced the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan to shelve the idea of removing fuel subsidy, accused the current administration of going against the campaign promises of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<br /> He asked John Oyegun, national chairman of the party, to advise Buhari to revoke the increment.<br /> “My sincere advise is for the National Chairman of our party to suggest that the federal government immediately reverse the announced increase in the pump price of PMS,” he wrote on Facebook.<br /> <a href="https://www.thecable.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/image17.jpeg"><img alt="image" class="aligncenter wp-image-105416" height="379" src="https://www.thecable.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/image17.jpeg" width="550" /></a><br /> “If after seven days from Monday, there is no reversal, I will mobilise Nigerians from all walks of life for the mother of all protest. This is not what we promised Nigerians.<br /> “The time is not right and the negative effects will be unbearable. A word is enough for the wise.”<br /> Melaye is not the first APC senator to oppose the new price regime in the oil sector.<br /> Shehu Sani, the lawmaker representing Kaduna central senatorial district, has also <a href="https://www.thecable.ng/opposed-new-pump-price-says-shehu-sani" target="_blank"><strong>expressed reservation over the hike</strong></a> in fuel price.<br /> “My position remains unchanged, crystal clear and unwavering; I stand opposed to the removal of petroleum subsidy and I STAND opposed to increase in pump price of petroleum products,” he said.<br /> “It will do nothing other than add to the suffering and further impoverish the masses of our people.<br /> “It amounts to capitulation and outright deception for those of us who led millions of people, out in the street, few years ago, against pump price increase and against subsidy removal to now give economic excuses to justify same.<br /> “The moral flag we raised in the past is now the scale of justice to measure the degree of our conscience in the present.”<br /> Sani, a renowned activist, also took part in the anti-subsidy protest in 2012.<br /> source: thecableng

Melaye: I’ll mobilise Nigerians against Buhari

Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, has threatened to mobilise Nigerians against the President Muhammadu Buhari-led adm...

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EFCC Searches Fani-Kayode’s House, Arrests Domestic Help

<div class="image-container" itemprop="image"> <img alt="Fani-Kayode" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="250" src="http://omojuwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Fani-Kayode2.jpg" width="412" /> </div> Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday stormed the Abuja home of a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, and arrested a domestic servant.<br /> It was learnt that the operatives stormed the house located at 5 Zuma Close, Aso Drive, Abuja in the afternoon and searched the compound.<br /> However, the detectives could not gain access to the main building as it was said to have been locked.<br /> The spokesman for Fani-Kayode, Mr. Jude Ndukwe, told our correspondent on the telephone that the operatives stormed the compound without a search warrant.<br /> Ndukwe said, “Operatives of the EFCC invaded the home again. They did not even have a search warrant but harassed everyone in the compound.<br /> “They could not gain access to the main building so they decided to search the quarters where the domestic servants reside. They arrested the laundry man and took him to their office but later released him.<br /> “Chief Fani-Kayode is already in their custody. I wonder why they are still behaving this way even though he has been cooperating with them. This executive rascality must stop.”<br /> The ex-minister was on Monday arrested by the EFCC for allegedly receiving N840m in February 2015 when he was the spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation.<br /> The money which Fani-Kayode admitted to receiving was said to have emanated from the account of the Central Bank of Nigeria.<br /> The ex-minister, however, said he did not know that the money emanated from the account of the CBN.<br /> <strong>Credit: Punch</strong>

EFCC Searches Fani-Kayode’s House, Arrests Domestic Help

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Tinubu: Fuel price hike is necessary pain

<div class="article-photo"> <span class="set-image-border" style="float: none;"><img alt="Tinubu: Fuel price hike is necessary pain" class="setborder" src="https://www.thecable.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Tinubu-653x365.jpg" style="float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" /></span></div> <div class="article-controls" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"> <div class="date"> <div class="calendar-date"> </div> </div> </div> <strong>Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has appealed to Nigerians to take the difficulties that might arise as a result of the new pump price of fuel as a sacrifice for a better future.</strong><br /> In a statement issued by his media office, the two-term governor of Lagos state, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for taking “a bold step”, telling Nigerians that “this pain is necessary”.<br /> He said the new development will clear the rot in the petroleum sector, and push out “fake businessmen who became true billionaires over night”.<br /> “We all want fuel at a cheaper price under the subsidy, we got the right price but not the fuel,” the statement read.<br /> “This change will mean higher fuel costs in generally. I would be lying if I said this will cause no pain or dislocation. However, it will rational supply and end the hidden buy substantial costs associated with long waits and delays for fuel. The days and hours of waiting for fuel will be a thing of the past.<br /> “As originally envisioned, the subsidy formed a basic part of the social contract between the people and their government. It was a benefit all were to enjoy. Yet, because past governments were not for and of the people, the true meaning and objective of the subsidy policy became lost. Over the years, the operation of the measure was distorted to where it no longer functioned for the benefit of the masses but for the undue enrichment of a small club of businessmen, some legitimate in their work, some not.<br /> “Instead of remaining a positive aspect of the social contract, the subsidy was transformed into an opaque haven of intrigue and malfeasance. It was turned into a shadowy process from which the unscrupulous extracted large sums of money without providing the services and products duly paid for. Fake businessmen became true billionaires over night as if by supernatural force. They paraded themselves as such.<br /> “To allow this unfairness to continue would have been a breach of the promise made by this government to the people. While we all have an emotional and sympathetic attachment to the ideals upon which the subsidy was founded.”<br /> Tinubu said allowing the situation to remain the same would have translated to a breach of the agreement which the ruling party had with Nigerians in the electioneering period.<br /> He confessed that even though he would have ordinarily preferred that the sector was sanitised and not totally liberalised, he believed that the current government took a decision that serves the people best.<br /> “This administration entered office with a mandate of CHANGE. The government could not forever sit back and allow this dire inequity to continue less it forfeit the essence of its mandate,” he said.<br /> “I wish we could have sanitised the subsidy regime and thus continue it, but I believe that President Buhari is removing it not for the austere purpose of saving money but for the nobler purpose of putting those same funds to fairer, more equitable use in order that government might better serve those of us who are truly in need.<br /> “While this may not be perfect, it is a much better deal than the one the subsidy offered us.”<br /> credit: thecable

Tinubu: Fuel price hike is necessary pain

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INEC Releases Timetable For Edo, Ondo Governorship Elections

<div class="image-container" itemprop="image"> <img alt="Inec" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="261" src="http://omojuwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Inec.jpg" width="216" /> </div> The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed June 12 for the commencement of political campaigns ahead of the Sept. 10 governorship election in Edo.<br /> Similarly, it said that electioneering by aspirants in the governorship election in Ondo state scheduled for Nov. 26 should begin on Aug. 28.<br /> This is contained in the commission’s daily bulletin issued on Thursday in Abuja.<br /> According to it, June 12 has been scheduled for the commencement of campaigns by political parties participating in the Edo governorship election.<br /> “July 2 to July 4 have also been set aside for the conduct of party primaries, including resolution of disputes arising from the primaries,” it said.<br /> It stated that official register of voters for the election in Edo would be published on Aug. 11.<br /> It added that submission of names of political parties’ agents should be made to Electoral Officers in the local government areas in the state on Aug. 28.<br /> According to the commission, Sept. 8 will be the last day for campaigns for the Edo governorship election.<br /> For Ondo state, it fixed Aug. 28 for commencement of campaigns by political parties, adding that the parties had between Aug. 22 and Aug. 26 to collect nomination forms from INEC headquarters in Abuja.<br /> It added that conduct of party primaries, including resolution of disputes arising from the primaries in Ondo state would hold between Sept. 18 and Sept. 19.<br /> It also said that register of voters for the Ondo election would be published on Oct. 27, while submission of party agents’ names to Electoral Officers in the local government areas had been slated for Nov. 19.<br /> It fixed Nov. 24 as the last day for campaigns for the Ondo election.<br /> <br /> (NAN)

INEC Releases Timetable For Edo, Ondo Governorship Elections

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Ooni: I knelt before Obasanjo for prayers

<div class="article-photo"> <span class="set-image-border" style="float: none;"><img alt="Ooni: I knelt before Obasanjo for prayers" class="setborder" src="https://www.thecable.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Obj-visit-Ooni21-653x365.jpg" style="float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" /></span></div> <div class="article-controls" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"> <div class="date"> <div class="calendar-date"> </div> </div> </div> <strong>Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the ooni of Ife, has revealed the role former President Olusegun Obasanjo played in his ascendance to the prestigious throne.</strong><br /> Speaking when he visited Obasanjo at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, Ogun state, Ogunwusi said before he was crowned as a king, he knelt down before the elder statesman for prayers.<br /> He described the Nigerian leader as a pillar of support, saying he will continue to get close to the ex-president.<br /> The monarch also appealed to Obasanjo, whom he described as one of the most prominent “black men” on planet earth, to speak up for the youths.<br /> “I remember that when I was still a prince, it was this same sacred room that I knelt down before Baba and he laid his hands upon me and prayed for me in African way. And the result is what we are seeing today,” he said.<br /> “So, for me, I cannot but get closer and closer to Baba. May he forever live long for us not only in Nigeria but to the world. I am happy to be here and I will continue to come. You are one of the foremost black men on the surface of the earth. We implore you that what we grew up to know about is preaching for the unity of this country and it is based on that we are following you so that the unity of this country is not negotiable.<br /> “Sir, in all you do, do not forget the youth. The more we have such person like you, the better the Nigerian society would be. It is the youth that some of the bad politicians approached to cause confusion in the society. And we want to say enough is enough.<br /> “They need someone to channel their energy into productive venture and someone like you who have seen Nigeria and who possesses an incomparable experience is what they need to motivate them to become responsible elders.”<br /> credit: thecableng

Ooni: I knelt before Obasanjo for prayers

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Tyga Breaks His Silence on Kylie Jenner Breakup

<div class="image-container" itemprop="image"> <img alt="Kylie Jenner joins reported boyfriend, rapper Tyga, as they serve up Thanksgiving dinner to the homeless at the Los Angeles Mission in downtown Los Angeles, CA" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="749" src="http://omojuwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KY1.jpg" width="1024" /> </div> <div class="description mt"> <i>Kylie Jenner joins reported boyfriend, rapper Tyga, as they serve up Thanksgiving dinner to the homeless at the Los Angeles Mission in downtown Los Angeles, CA. Pictured: Kylie Jenner and Tyga <br /> <b>Ref: SPL899299 261114 </b><br /> Picture by: London Entertainment /Splash<br /> <br /> <b>Splash News and Pictures</b><br /> Los Angeles: 310-821-2666<br /> New York: 212-619-2666<br /> London: 870-934-2666<br /> photodesk@splashnews.com<br /> </i></div> <div class="post-content text-block clearfix post-content--groupedn-txt column cols--md-s" data-align="left" data-hook="scrollable-block" data-social-animate="true" id="video-int-txt-0"> <section data-swiftype-index="false" data-textblock-tracking="text-block-video-text"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: black;">Just hours after news of <strong><a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/kylie_jenner" style="color: black;">Kylie Jenner</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/tyga" style="color: black;">Tyga</a></strong>‘s <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/764292/kylie-jenner-and-tyga-break-up-again" style="color: black;" target="_blank">split was revealed</a>, the rapper was in New York City to promote his upcoming clothing line collaboration with <strong>Marcelo Burlon</strong> for a Saks Fifth Avenue capsule collection.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: black;">E! News caught up with Kylie’s ex to see how he’s been doing since the breakup and he admitted, “I’m good, you know? Just another day and working hard and trying to get to that next level and achieve big things and evolve.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: black;">Tyga added that he’s definitely working on designing his own line eventually, but added that he “won’t put a timeline on it.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: black;">But when it comes to his breakup with Kylie, an insider previously told E! News that “it was a long time coming.”</span></div> </section> </div> <div class="post-content text-block clearfix post-content--groupedn-txt column cols--md-s" data-align="left" data-hook="scrollable-block" data-social-animate="true" id="video-int-txt-2" style="text-align: justify;"> <section data-swiftype-index="false" data-textblock-tracking="text-block-video-text"><span style="color: black;">Our insider added that the couple’s relationship drama “takes its toll.”</span> <span style="color: black;">Meanwhile, a second source explained to us that “their relationship is complicated.”</span><br /> <span style="color: black;">The reality star <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/587522/is-kylie-jenner-dating-tyga" style="color: black;"><strong>began dating</strong></a> the “Rack City” rapper in October 2014, though it has been a rocky romantic road for the duo. On Tyga’s 26th birthday in November 2015, the pair <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/717833/kylie-jenner-and-tyga-breakup-on-rapper-s-26th-birthday" style="color: black;"><strong>surprisingly split</strong></a>.</span><br /> <span style="color: black;">Now, with the news of their second split, sister <strong><a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/khloe_kardashian" style="color: black;">Khloe Kardashian</a></strong>‘s remarks to E! seem to be truer than ever. </span><br /> </section> </div> <div class="post-content text-block clearfix post-content--groupedn-txt column cols--md-s" data-align="left" data-hook="scrollable-block" data-social-animate="true" id="photo-txt-4" style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="column post-content__image--left post-content__image" data-swiftype-index="false"> <div class="article_pinterest"> <span style="color: black;"> </span></div> <span style="color: black;"><img alt="Kylie Jenner, Tyga" class="image--full" data-hook="portrait-img" src="http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2016412/rs_634x1024-160512053358-634-Kylie-Jenner-Tyga-J2R-051216.jpg" title="Kylie Jenner, Tyga" /></span><br /> <div class="image__credits"> <span style="color: black;">Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images</span></div> </div> <section data-swiftype-index="false" data-textblock-tracking="text-block-photo-text"><span style="color: black;">“I ask Kylie…’I think you were just somewhere for New Year’s with him’ and then like one day, they’re not together,” Khloe told E! News’ <strong><a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/catt_sadler" style="color: black;">Catt Sadler</a></strong> exclusively earlier this year. “That’s the life of an 18-year-old…So I stopped asking her, because it’s confusing and I hate telling people, ‘Oh, they broke up’ and then all of a sudden, someone pulls in my driveway and I’m like, ‘Oh, s–t, I thought we were done with this one.'”</span> <span style="color: black;">“I’m just as confused!” Khloe added, joking, “I need like a ‘Note to self—who is everybody dating in this family.'”</span><br /> </section> </div> <div class="post-content column cols--md-s cta clearfix" data-align="left" data-hook="scrollable-block" data-social-animate="true" id="cta-5"> <div class="column cta__thumb" style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: black;"><img class="image--full" src="http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2015813/rs_300x300-150913074012-600.kylie-wang.cm.91315.jpg" /></span></div> </div> <div class="column cta__thumb" style="text-align: justify;"> Source – e online.com</div>

Tyga Breaks His Silence on Kylie Jenner Breakup

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Buhari deceived Nigerians, says Falana

<div class="article-photo"> <span class="set-image-border" style="float: none;"><img alt="Buhari deceived Nigerians, says Falana" class="setborder" src="https://www.thecable.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Femi-Falana-653x365.png" style="float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" /></span></div> <div class="article-controls" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"> <div class="date"> <div class="calendar-date"> </div> </div> </div> <strong>Femi Falana, Lagos-based human rights lawyer, says President Muhammadu Buahri has reneged on his campaign promise of not increasing the pump price of petrol.</strong><br /> Describing the increase as illegal, the lawyer demanded a reversal to the old rate. He said the government lacked statutory power to introduce new price regime because the body empowered to take such decision is yet to be constituted.<br /> He also advised Buhari not to allow “neo-liberal ideologues, with intent to punish the people” hijack his administration.<br /> Falana said this in a statement issued on Friday.<br /> <h4> Below is the full statement</h4> <em>During the campaign last year, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari pledged that if elected as President by the Nigerian people his administration would not remove fuel subsidy. Since he won the election last year President Buhari has consistently resisted pressures from the neo-liberal characters in the government to remove fuel subsidy and increase the price of petrol. On January 18, 2016 the federal government allayed the fear of Nigerians when the price of petrol was reduced to N86.50k per litre. In justifying the decision to the people the federal government claimed that the reduction was due to an implementation of the revised component of the Petroleum Products Pricing Template for PMS and household kerosene.  </em><br /> <em> It would be recalled that following the popular agitation against the removal of fuel subsidy in 2012, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources had announced the decision of the Goodluck Jonathan administration to set up 30 green field refineries in the country. </em><br /> <em>Shortly thereafter, the policy was jettisoned due to pressure from the cabal of local fuel importers. In 2013, the Jonathan administration secured a loan of $1.6 billion for the maintenance of the country’s four refineries. At the end of the repairs the refineries could only refine about 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day instead of 445,000 barrels earmarked for domestic consumption. </em><br /> <em>The Buhari administration has also spent millions of dollars for the so called turn around maintenance of the refineries. Barely a month ago, Dr. Kachikwu had announced that fuel subsidy had been removed through his ingenuity. In celebrating the “success” recorded by him in the management of the petroleum industry he disclosed that Nigeria was saving $1 billion in subsidy removal and $1 billion in fuel importation. He also stated that “for the first time, our refineries are ready to work now. Crude has been pumped from Brass to Port Harcourt. </em><br /> <em>Pipeline is being used for the first time in 10 years for the first time in six years. For the first time we are able to pump to Ilorin, we have not done that in 10 years.” (Nigerian Tribune, March 16, 2016). Curiously, Dr. Kachikwu’s “giant strides” in the petroleum industry appear to have collapsed completely before our very eyes!</em><br /> <em>Hence, without any public debate or consultation with relevant stakeholders whatsoever the federal government took the Nigerian people by surprise yesterday when it decided to increase the pump price of petrol from N86.50k to N145 per litre. Not too long ago, the federal government had supported the imposition of higher tariffs paid on epileptic supply of electricity by consumers. </em><br /> <em>In sentencing the Nigerian people to excruciating economic agony the Ministry of Power defied a court order which had restrained the government from giving effect to the proposed electricity tariff. In the same vein, the decision to increase the price of petrol is also illegal and contemptuous. In the case of Bamidele Aturu versus Attorney-General of the Federation (unreported suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/591/2009) the Federal High Court declared illegal and unconstitutional the policy decision of the federal government to deregulate the downstream sector of the petroleum industry contrary to the combined effect of the provisions of the Price Control Act and the Petroleum Act.</em><br /> <em> In total defiance of the said order of the federal high court the federal government has deregulated the downstream sector of the petroleum industry. In justifying the illegal policy, Dr. Kachikwu claimed that “PPPRA has informed me that it will be announcing a new price band effective today, 11th May, 2016 and that the new price for PMS will not be above N145 per litre.” </em><br /> <em> Since the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) which is statutorily empowered to recommend the price of petroleum products has not been reconstituted the unilateral decision of the Executive Secretary of the body to fix the pump price at N145 per litre is ultra vires and illegal in every material particular. In view of the illegality, insensitivity and immorality of the price increase the federal government should cancel it, revert to the status quo and consult widely with all relevant stakeholders in the society.</em><br /> <em>However, due to the ongoing fuel crisis in the country the Directorate of Petroleum Resources (DPR) recently invited fresh bids for the setting up modular refineries. At the end of the screening exercise sometime in March this year the DPR announced that it had awarded 22 licences for modular refineries with combined capacities to refine 1.429 million barrels of crude oil per day. If the policy is genuinely pursued the construction of the refineries ought to be completed within the 9-12 months. If such refineries are established in the country the importation of fuel and the fraud associated with it will stop. In the interim, instead of importing oil from Europe and the United States the NNPC should refine crude oil for domestic consumption in neighbouring countries which have functional refineries. After all, Nigeria refines 60,000 barrels of crude oil per day in Cote d’ivoire which is not an oil producing nation.</em><br /> <em>If subsidy had been removed over a month ago and the country has been saving $2 billion (from fuel importation and subsidy removal) while the refineries are now working at full capacity Dr. Kachikwu should tell Nigerians the justification for the new removal of fuel subsidy announced by him yesterday. The cost elements that make up the N145 are provocative. If the total landing cost of a litre and other charges are fixed at N138 what is the basis of fixing the price at N145? For goodness sake, why should motorists be made to pay NPA/NIMASA charges, demurrage within and without /storage/ bridging charges etc?</em><br /> <em>At this stage President Buhari ought to prevent neo-liberal ideologues from hijacking the administration for the purpose of punishing the Nigerian people for the looting of the treasury and mismanagement of the national economy. Contrary to the position of the parasitic ruling class that prices of goods and services be fixed by market forces the federal government has a legal obligation to protect the people from exploitation. For instance, the virtual collapse of electricity supply has forced many corporate bodies and individuals to invest heavily in generators and diesel throughout the country. Although the price of diesel has crashed all over the world it has continued to increase in Nigeria due to manipulation. The federal government should, as a matter of urgency, abolish the monopoly in the importation and sale of diesel. There is no justification for the monopolistic control of goods and services under a free market economy!</em><br /> <em>source: thecableng </em>

Buhari deceived Nigerians, says Falana

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Proposed Ban On Muslims Entering The US Was Just A Suggestion – Donald Trump

<div class="image-container" itemprop="image"> <img alt="trump" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="786" src="http://omojuwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/trump.jpg" width="1048" /> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “We have a serious problem, and it’s a temporary ban — it hasn’t been called for yet, nobody’s done it, this is just a suggestion until we find out what’s going on,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told Fox News Radio’s Brian Kilmeade.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Trump first introduced the proposed ban back in December and he explicitly and authoritatively said in both a speech and in a press statement: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> So his sudden change of stance calling his ‘statements’ a ‘suggestion’ is seen by some US political <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>analysts as a plot to get on the ’emotional’ aspects of voters as it’s almost certain he will compete against the much more gentle and less volatile Hilary Clinton.<center> </center> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Trump also emphasized that the proposed ban was ‘temporary in nature’ when asked if he will back down on his statements.</div> <div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “No, it was never meant to be — I mean that’s why it was temporary,” he said, when asked if he would consider backing off the controversial ban.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Sure I’d back off on it. I’d like to back off on it as soon as possible, because frankly, I’d like to see something happen. But we have to be vigilant,” he said to Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren..</div> <div style="text-align: justify;">  “There is a radical Islamic terrorism problem that our president doesn’t even want to talk about.”</div> </div>

Proposed Ban On Muslims Entering The US Was Just A Suggestion – Donald Trump

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Cameron: I’ve made unforced errors under 24 hrs

<div class="article-photo"> <span class="set-image-border" style="float: none;"><img alt="Cameron: I’ve made unforced errors under 24 hrs" class="setborder" src="https://www.thecable.ng/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/David-cameron-653x365.jpg" style="float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" /></span></div> <div class="article-controls" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"> <div class="date"> <div class="calendar-date"> </div> </div> </div> <strong>British Prime Minister David Cameron says he has made many “unforced errors” in the last 24 hours.</strong><br /> Speaking when he was summoned by the house of commons over disparaging comments about Nigeria and Afghanistan, Cameron made a U-turn, saying both countries were making “remarkable steps forward” in their anti-graft war.<br /> “First of all I had better check the microphone is on before speaking…  tips on diplomacy are useful, given the last 24 hours I have made many unforced errors,” he said.<br /> “The leaders of Nigeria and Afghanistan are battling hard against very corrupt systems and have made remarkable steps forward.”<br /> Angus Robertson, Scottish national party leader, was said to have asked Cameron if he had heard the complaints of some Nigerian anti-corruption activists who said their efforts were “seriously undermined” by the UK authorities.<br /> “The role of London’s property market to conceal stolen wealth has been exposed in court documents, reports, documentaries and more. What is the Prime Minister going to do about this?” Robertson reportedly asked.<br /> Responding he said: “Action is necessary by developed countries as well as developing countries and the steps we are taking to make sure that foreign companies that own UK property have to declare who the beneficial owner is will be one of the ways we make sure that plundered money from African countries can’t be hidden in London.”<br /> Cameron had come under severe criticism ever since the video of a private conversation he had with the Queen went viral.<br /> In the meeting, which had Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, in attendance, Cameron referred to Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt countries”, a remark that did not go down well with Welby, who vouched for the integrity of the Nigerian leader.<br /> credit: thecableng

Cameron: I’ve made unforced errors under 24 hrs

British Prime Minister David Cameron says he has made many “unforced errors” in the last 24 hours. Speaking when he was summoned...

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FIFA appoints first female secretary-general

<div class="article-photo"> <span class="set-image-border" style="float: none;"><img alt="FIFA appoints first female secretary-general" class="setborder" src="https://www.thecable.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FIFA-653x365.jpg" style="float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" /></span></div> <div class="article-controls" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"> <div class="date"> <div class="calendar-date"> </div> </div> </div> <b>Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura, the Senegalese and 21-year United Nations veteran, has been appointed as the secretary-general of FIFA.</b><br /> The announcement was made by Gianni Infantino, FIFA president, at the 66th congress of the federation, which held in Mexico.<br /> “Fatma is a woman with international experience and vision who has worked on some of the most challenging issues of our time.” <a href="http://fifa.com/" target="_blank">FIFA.com quoted Infantio</a> as saying.<br /> “She has a proven ability to build and lead teams, and improve the way organisations perform. Importantly for FIFA, she also understands that transparency and accountability are at the heart of any well-run and responsible organisation.<br /> “It is essential for FIFA to incorporate fresh perspectives – from outside the traditional pool of football executives – as we continue to restore and rebuild our organisation. No one exemplifies what we need more than Fatma does, and we are thrilled that she has joined our team.”<br /> Samoura has expressed her happiness over the appointment, promising to put in her best.<br /> “Today is a wonderful day for me, and I am honored to take on the role of FIFA’s Secretary General,” she said.<br /> “I believe this role is a perfect fit for my skills and experience – strategic, high impact team building in international settings – which I will use to help grow the game of football all over the world. I also look forward to bringing my experience in governance and compliance to bear on the important reform work that is already underway at FIFA.”<br /> Samoura is the United Nation’s resident/humanitarian coordinator and UNDP resident representative in Nigeria.<br /> credit: thecableng

FIFA appoints first female secretary-general

Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura, the Senegalese and 21-year United Nations veteran, has been appointed as the secretary-general of FIF...

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Reuben Abati: May Day, Tiwa Savage, Her Husband And Nigeria

<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Tiwa-Savagere" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="640" src="http://omojuwa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Tiwa-Savagere.jpg" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: move; display: block; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; width: 647.875px;" width="640" /></em><div class="entry-content inside_single" itemprop="description" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ol’boy, man don see something oh.” </em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Wetin you see?”</em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“My eyes don see something. My ears don hear, and my mouth sef, I for talk something join.” </em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Talk make I hear”</em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“No be dis Tiwa Savage and him husband matter? The husband wey say him wife offend am, he no gi am food, him wife dey form for house but him dey open leg for other men, and na another woman they give am edible catering, and the man come vex he wan jump inside river for Lekki-Ikoyi bridge”</em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Who the hell are you talking about?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Tiwa Savage and her husband”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “And who are those?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Tiwa, now. Marvin First Lady.  She is one of Nigeria’s topmost female artistes. And her husband.  They are quarrelling. The husband tried to commit suicide. She says her husband prefers to follow other women, take cocaine and ignore his responsibilities as a man and a husband. Social media is agog with the news. Mainstream media is feeding on it too. The man even tried to jump into the Lagoon.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “And has he done so?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “No. He was restrained by Banky W and Peter Okoye.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “And who are those? Red Cross Officials?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “You are in this country and you don’t know Banky W and Peter Okoye?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “There is no way anyone can possibly know all the members of the Red Cross? ”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “They are musicians, not Red Cross, not NEMA”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Oh, I see”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Don’t tell me you are one of those dumb ones who do not know what is going on in this country?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “I don’t get it. Am I supposed to worry about how Tiwa Savage and her husband are savaging the public space with their dirty linen and turning their marriage into a subject for beer parlour gossip?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “It is a serious matter.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Oh really? So, how has their matter affected the supply of petrol, the price of foodstuffs and the payment of salaries?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “It is the biggest news of the week.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Of course, because the media does not know what to prioritise anymore”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “There are issues involved. Tiwa Savage’s husband wanted to commit suicide. The same week, there was a report about a man who killed his target of amorous desire and stabbed her mother  in Ilorin because the lady refused to love or marry him.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Love is the most potent poison in the world. The graveyard is a prison yard of unrequited love.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Tiwa Savage’s husband says…”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “You keep mentioning the wife.  That husband doesn’t have a name? They should have allowed him to jump into the Lagoon, and have his wife do a special song at his funeral and go home on the left arm of another man.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “They call him em em. actually that is the problem if you would listen to the wife. She is the breadwinner, she says and the man likes to squander money and so on and so forth.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Look, I am not interested in that story.  I don’t want a taste of Tiwa Savage’s #Lemonade. I don’t want any tales about the #Becky-with-the-Big-Hair that served her husband “edible catering”. Or do you want the National Assembly to have a special session on a derailed marriage, or may be you want President Muhammadu Buhari to issue a statement on it? One of these days, Nigerians will start insisting that the Nigerian President should become a marriage counselor and he will be blamed for marital squabbles.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “We are talking about celebrities. And come to think of it, in a normal country, Tiwa Savage’s husband will not have to depend on his wife. He will have a proper means of income.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">E ma gba mi ke. Doro Tiwa and husband fight and Nigeria no go hear word? E joor oh. </em>As you lay your bed, you lie on it. These things happen every day. Human beings pay for the choices that they make. They learn from the outcomes of their choices. Can we have the media focus on serious matters beyond sex, infidelity, cocaine and the poverty of matrimonial matters in the household of Tiwa and Tee Blliz? Which kin name be that sef?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “<span data-term="goog_1653781184" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tomorrow</span> is May Day for example”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Nigerian workers should actually carry placards <span data-term="goog_1653781185" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tomorrow</span>, screaming May Day, May Day, May Day!!”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “You want them to scream for help?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Yes, because the Nigerian worker today is hungry, angry, sinking, helpless, jobless, over-used, under-paid and in despair. State governments are not paying salaries. Companies are retrenching staff.  The latest I read is that First Bank is planning to sack 1, 000 workers, Aero Contractors, 100.  I know a couple, who have both just lost their jobs and they have five children. Some other companies are closing shop. Massive divestiture in the economy.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Incidentally, you know the people who caused the melt down. “</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Tell me”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “I don’t know.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “If you don’t know, then you don’t know, before you say something that will make me give you a punch in the face. But I think all that President Buhari needs to do <span data-term="goog_1653781186" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tomorrow</span> is to give the people hope.  In a situation like this, you give the people hope, you reassure them.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “You are recommending rhetoric. Speaking for speaking sake.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “No. I am saying hope is a strong weapon. When a leader gives the people hope, he calms down their blood pressure. It is a strong pill.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress are not asking for hope. Nigerian workers know what they want. They are asking for N56, 000 minimum wage.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Chai”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “You heard me. N56, 000”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Chai. Do they live in this country at all? Do they have economists among them? Does it make sense to ask for what you know you cannot get?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “You can ask for what you think you deserve.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “But in matters like this, you look at the economy too. What they are asking for is called wage indexation. That is not sound economics. Wage indexation is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you base your calculations on it, there will never be an end to it, and it will undermine the economy.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Which economy? An economy where some people grab N2 billion, and millions of dollars all in the line of a day’s arrangement, and workers cannot get the existing N18, 000 minimum wage?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “If I were the NLC or TUC leader, I’ll be more interested in giving the government ideas about how to pay the current minimum wage and ensure that the welfare of the people is properly the concern of government. NLC should be pragmatic. Get all salary arrears paid to start with, and get government to pay all emoluments as at when due. Uncommon sense.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Sorry, Labour leaders don’t claim that they are economists. They just want the best for the Nigerian worker. That is their mandate.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Don’t speak for them. When they meet the President and the Governors <span data-term="goog_1653781187" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tomorrow</span>, let them say so. I wonder if anybody even reads those long speeches on Labour Day. Nigerian workers are looking for unpaid salaries, but their leaders ride exotic SUVs, and live in mansions. I beg.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “You are beginning to sound like a government spokesperson. Come, are you still one of us?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “I beg”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “By the way, what do you think is likely to happen in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), now that the party leadership says the Chairman of the party must come from the North East, and the South West members are threatening to pull out?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Are you sure anybody in the South West is threatening to pull out?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Yes. You don’t read the papers? <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Na one of your brothers even talk am</em>”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Who?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “The Lion himself”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “A lion in my family?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Have you forgotten so soon? <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Abi as your phone no ring again, your brain no ring too? You no know the attack dog, the Lion?”</em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Lion. Attack dog.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Hen hen now. Him say if they don’t make somebody from South West the Chairman of the PDP, the South West wing of the PDP will leave the party.”</em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “I’ll advise you not to lose sleep over what politicians say.  What you can be sure of though, is that before 2019, there is likely to be interesting re-alignments.  Nigerian politics may not be the same again before and after 2019.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Na dem sabi. Make they just give us the mekunnu, power, good roads, jobs and our salaries at the end of the month. Me, talking for meself, I don see say e no matter which party win election, as long as the economy dey kampe and man fit chop, pay school fees and get light to do welle for night. My broda, na the better thing wey matter pass be dat.” </em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “What is welle?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “You no know Welle?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “No”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Kai. Lord of Heaven. No be the thing wey dey cause problem between Tiwa Savage and her husband be dat?” </em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “I still don’t get it.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You no watch her interview?  As the girl they talk, dey cry, without make up, looking like an angel, doing her eye like this, her shoulder like that, e just dey pain me say dem no allow the husband jump for inside river. If I see Banky W and Peter Okoye, hen, the kine slap wey I go give dem.” </em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Are you alright? Have you been sniffing cocaine?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “C’ommot there. You just carry book for head, you no know how life be?”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “I am sorry for you.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Sorry for yourself.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Na you go sorry for yourself. And why your head dey always shine like this? You no get hair? You never reach old age, your head don become desert. Na people like you women dey look for?” </em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “This is a special haircut, you can see that the shaving of the hair is completely clean.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “This is not a haircut. This is called desert encroachment, or the desertification of the human skull”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “I did it this way, in the shape of a shining mirror, in solidarity with the people of the Edo Kingdom who have just lost their revered monarch, the Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo,  Erediauwa I”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “Only Benin sons are required to do <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gorimapa</em> in honour of the great king that has ascended to the rafters.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “There is no law that says other Nigerians cannot honour a revered monarch who kept the dignity of the throne and left behind a legacy of honour, character, royal grace, and dignity.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You don spake my broda. Make I add my own; Oba gha to kpere”</em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ise-ee”</em></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</em>May his path to the great Beyond be one of illumination and grace.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “So let it be.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"> “So mote it be.”</div> </div>

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Fayose: Jonathan lost because of ‘elders’

<div class="article-photo" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #171717; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> <span class="set-image-border" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="Fayose: Jonathan lost because of ‘elders’" class="setborder" src="https://www.thecable.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Fayose-653x365.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: none; float: none; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; width: 624px;" /></span></div> <div class="shortcode-content" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #171717; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 20px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"> <div class="cableads" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 604px;"> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4634537558011240" data-ad-format="auto" data-ad-slot="3820811019" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: block; height: 60px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;"><ins id="aswift_2_expand" style="background: transparent; border: none; display: inline-table; height: 60px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top; visibility: visible; width: 604px;"><ins id="aswift_2_anchor" style="background: transparent; border: none; display: block; height: 60px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top; visibility: visible; width: 604px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="60" hspace="0" id="aswift_2" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_2" scrolling="no" style="background: transparent; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;" vspace="0" width="604"></iframe><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, on Friday said former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the 2015 election because most of the people who advised him were elders who lacked the idea to steer the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to victory.</strong></ins></ins></ins></div> </div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> Addressing reporters at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, Fayose said it was time for the elders who allegedly misled Jonathan to take the back seat and allow young people introduce new ideas in the party.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> He was reacting to the pronouncements of some PDP stakeholders led by Jerry Gana, former minister of information, who asked Ali Modu Sheriff to step down as chairman of the party.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> The stakeholders also declared the forthcoming PDP convention slated for Port Harcourt on May 21 as null and void, saying it had set up a 21-man committee to preside over the affairs of PDP in the interim.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> But the governor said nothing would stop the convention from holding.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “That convention would hold as proposed. You can wish anything but God’s plan for the PDP is that the May 21 convention cannot be stopped,” he said.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “If you are leading as elders and we lost election, then something is wrong; most of the people who were Jonathan’s advisers were elders and we lost election.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “We won’t say they should go but they should take a back seat. In most of the advanced democracies, if you lose election, it is just decent for you to allow other people to try, especially young people.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “I have no apology over that statement, and I am saying it again that if I am struggling for a position with my son, it is ridiculous.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “I was governor at 42. You need a lot of energy to be a leader, not when they are giving you Panadol to be strong. Age is a disease on its own.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “New generation should take over this party and build it. Anything you are doing and your children do not have insight into it will perish.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “Since this party started we have always referred to the elder, but are we saying that we should continue to say the younger generation should go to blazes?”</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “Are you saying that you will call somebody in the village to come and take a position? That era is gone. You have to struggle; you have to make efforts and show that you actually need that position.”</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> Fayose said the fact that there was so much in-fighting among PDP members was an indication that the party was still strong.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> The governor said before now, most of those who held leadership in positions in the party were unwilling characters, “but now willing characters are coming out that is why you see the struggle that much”.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “As a result, a lot of people will be displaced or feel displaced. A lot of people are feeling displayed but it is not displacement as it were,” he said.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “The fact that everybody wants to be relevant in the party shows that the party is strong. If there is no future for PDP, there would be no such struggle.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “Have you seen a party that is not in crisis when it comes to interest and leveraging of interests? Politics is about interests.”</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> Fayose said that in spite of the differences in the party, there was need for PDP members to settle the squabbles internally.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> “We will have differences; it is normal in politics but washing your dirty linen in public is bad. Let the young men take over in Nigeria,” he said.</div> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"> credit: thecableng</div> </div>

Fayose: Jonathan lost because of ‘elders’

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, on Friday said former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the 2015 election because most of the p...

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<p dir="ltr"><img src="http://i1.wp.com/thebossnewspapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Screenshot_2016-05-13-23-43-57-1.png?zoom=2&resize=340%2C286"><br></p><p dir="ltr"><a href="http://i2.wp.com/thebossnewspapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Screenshot_2016-05-13-23-43-57-1.png?fit=1440%2C1212"></a></p> <p dir="ltr"><b>By Dele Momodu</b><br> Fellow Nigerians, let me posit on this page today that Nigeria is in dire new of learned teachers who can imbibe in our youths the spirit of entrepreneurship. The reason is simple. The biggest problem confronting our beloved country today is that of mass unemployment. And something very drastic has to be thought of and activated to avert a cataclysmic collapse of the entire system. The anger in the land is palpable and it does not discriminate.<br> I started the Ovation 20th anniversary series as a way of reaching out to our young friends and demonstrate how tough it is to build and grow any business or brand. I have had the privilege and opportunity of speaking to African youths globally and I have had to take many questions about starting and sustaining the Ovation brand.<br> The first question is about funding a new business. More often than not it is usually difficult to raise all the required money required to take off. We opted for a slow start since the supersonic version was not available to us. We were lucky to have dependable families and friends who chipped in their widow’s mites from time to time. We reached dead-ends a couple of times but God sent Angels down to us. Chief Oyekunle Alex-Duduyemi would always call out of the blues on such occasions not just to offer his support but to also sermonise on the profitability of hard work. He was fond of saying “ohun ti ko to si maa po to maa seku…” (what is not enough today will become too plenty in the fullness of time if you persist…). It was as if he was clairvoyant as he called several times at critical moments.<br> We had our young friend, Toye Ariyo, who was introduced to me by Nduka Obaigbena and our case was a matter of love at first time. He would call and tell me to go somewhere and pick up some support. Toye made it possible for us to cover our first major event in Ghana, the 40th birthday party of Mrs Edwina Baaba Banda, the gorgeous wife of shipping magnate and airline owner, Alhaji Asoma Banda. It was at that celebration that I first met President John Agyekum Kufuor, who had just been sworn in days earlier. That would open up many opportunities and our decision to expand our operations to Ghana and other West African countries.<br> There was a finance company headed by Ayo Kuteyi and we were offered helplines on many occasions that we ran into great difficulties. We had Tunji Fadairo who became our effective credit control manager and ensured that we stayed alive. What many do not know about media business is that it is too capital intensive. This is why most publications die as soon as they are born. The situation is much worse in Africa where most companies hate to spend on patronising local brands but rush to foreign media organisations. We were fortunate to come up with the idea of targeting more of events. The unmatchable quality of our magazine attracted readership as well as invitation to people, places and events of highest calibre.<br> Moving the magazine to different destinations was another big challenge. London became the centre of our printing and it is located right in the middle of Nigeria and New York. The bulk of our cargo was to Nigeria and the freight cost was astronomical as we were not ready to risk and compromise print quality. We were lucky to have a good friend in Kayode Odukoya the Managing Director of Bellview Airline who entered into a barter deal with us and flew in our magazine and staff between Lagos and Amsterdam. This meant that we had to truck the magazine from London to Amsterdam and this often caused major headache for us and the airline. Kayode Odukoya is a genius who was just ahead of his time. If he enjoyed great support from his home government he would have had the more lucrative direct flight to London very early and many Nigerians would have benefited immensely. We had two experienced agents, Tony Osibodu and Lekan Owodunni who helped to calm down the principalities at our airports. That is a story for another day. Our international distributors including Julie Ugbowankwo, W. H. Smith, John Menzies, Fola Tinubu, Nike Faleti, Veronica Mills Lamptey and Rachel Obilor helped to spread our wings massively.<br> Many have asked how we gained access to the high and mighty and my answer is brand integrity. We decided to be as objective as possible and allow the readers to draw their own lessons or conclusions. We were never going to practise censorship by behaving holier than the Pope. Everyone would be allowed his say or appearance. We shall tell our stories through pictures. There would never be an editorial abusing anyone but we shall let everyone express their views without intimidation. We had strict codes for our Bureau Chiefs everywhere, including Yinka Agboola, Remi Aboderin, Tosan Aduayi, Jean Frances Maduakor, Anne Sekyi, Laolu Akande, King Nee, on how to be fair and reasonable at all times.<br> Ovation metamorphosed several times before it settled mainly for events like weddings, birthdays, funerals, outdooring, housewarming, concerts, beauty pageants, fashion parades, lifestyles of the rich and famous, travels and tourisms, etcetera. We made people feel comfortable and it became aspirational. People dreamt of the day they would eventually appear in Ovation. Many brides said they were anxious to get a good husband so as to experience the feeling of gracing the pages of Ovation. Parents were proud and used Ovation as albums and souvenirs. No one ever throws the magazine away. We made and nurtured contacts. That’s our biggest assets.<br> How did we feel when people started copying us? We felt very flattered. I read somewhere that imitation is the best form of flattery. So many magazines came after us but there was no time we felt intimidated. We understood the fact that a marathoner would make a fatal mistake by trying to see if others were catching up with him. We tried to maintain our own speed and pace. Many came and threatened to give us a run for our money but we had no money. God and passion kept us going. We promised to publish a world class magazine and we did. Even our biggest critics could not quarrel with that fact.<br> Was there a time we felt like quitting? That was never an option but we were faced with monumental challenges that almost knocked our existence but for the benevolence of God. One of the strategies that helped was the diversification exercise. Being international ensured we were never bored or totally encumbered by the whims and caprices of powerful people who may wish to oppress us for the fun of it. We learnt great lessons from the days we fled Nigeria and decided never to keep our eggs in one basket. We spread our wings across the continents and covered events in over 60 countries.<br> How did we coordinate our international affairs? Chief Alexander Opeyemi Akinyele was one of the first people to invite us to cover a wedding beyond Africa and Europe when we travelled to Mumbai (Bombay) where the Ondo Chief married his Indian wife, Maria Bernadine Calvaho, on July 4, 1999.<br> John Fashanu was also very instrumental at the beginning. He used his wide contacts to introduce us to people and places. He invited us on a visit to the United Nations where we met the then Secretary General Dr Kofi Annan and the famous British politician Mo Mowlam. John introduced me to Ms Isha Tejan-Cole who became our greatest facilitator in West Africa. Isha introduced us to The Gambia in 2000 where we met President Yahya Jammeh and his Moroccan wife and the richest Gambian at the time Ahmadu Samba. We promoted tourism and John Fashanu attended the launch of Ovation in Banjul. We took Nigerian fashion designers Funmi Ajila and Graces Hats to showcase their talents before a powerful audience including the Vice President Madam Isatou Njie-Saidy.<br> We were invited to Sierra Leone in 2001 just as the fratricidal war was ending but there were remnants of the rebel forces. I invited my friends Mayor Akinpelu, Kunle Bakare, Folabi Odeyemi, Tunde Adewale (Tee A) along on those trips. We were received warmly by President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and hosted by the most popular Nigerian businessman in the country Chief Tony Izubundu Chinyere. We met former military ruler Johnny Paul Koroma. We visited Nigerian peacekeepers and travelled through the danger zones of Port Loko District. Our gallant soldiers were very happy.<br> Our exploits took us to so many places. We were invited in 2002 to Dubai on a special tour to market the place to Africa. Dubai wasn’t this popular then and it was mainly patronised by traders. Dayo Adedayo the Nigerian-born London photographer invaded Dubai with his Mamiya cameras and came back with crispy pictures. We dared to change the famous slogan “see Paris and die” to See Dubai and die!”<br> We were invited on sight-seeing and tourist exploration to the Eastern Caribbean island of Commonwealth of Dominica by Valery John (of blessed memory). There we met the then oldest woman in the world, Elizabeth Israel (aka Ma Pampo, born in 1875) and the Prime Minister of Dominica, Mr Pierre Charles. We had a team of seven, Segun Fatoye, Tosan Aduayi (our North American Bureau Chief), Mike Effiong (who was Editor of Encomium magazine), Gbenga Olunloyo, Tunde Adewale (the comedian known as Tee A) and Photo Editor, Ajayi Oyebo…<br> Which were the stories that made us extraordinary? We had so many, beginning with Mohammed Al-Fayed. We wrote stories on Moshood Abiola, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, James Onobiono of Cameroon, the Olympio Brothers of Gabon, Samuel Adedoyin, Rasaq Okoya, Anthonio Oladeinde Fernandez (one of our most ambitious stories in New York, Paris and Scotland), The Ooni Oba Okunade Sijuwade, The Awujale of Ijebuland Oba Sikiru Adetona, The Sultan Ibrahim Dasuki, The Alaafin Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, The Emir Ado Bayero, Wole Soyinka, The Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II, The Esama Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion and Lady Cherry, The Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, The Ibru Brothers led by Olorogun Michael Ibru, Parakoyi Bode Akindele, Baba Ijebu Kessington Adebutu, Gani Fawehinimi, Agbaakin Harry Akande, Pastor E. A Adeboye, , Sonny Odogwu, Subomi Balogun, Alex Duduyemi, Bola Kuforiji-Olubi, Bode Olajumoke, Michael Adenuga Jnr., Bola Tinubu, Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Fola Adeola, Tayo Aderinokun, Tayo Amusan, Keem Belo-Osagie, Tony Elumelu, President Nelson Mandela, President Olusegun Obasanjo and Stella, President Ibrahim Babangida, Head of State, The Abachas, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, The Abachas, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.<br> The Ikemba Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and Bianca, President Gnassingbe Eyadema, President Jerry John Rawlings, President John Kufuor, President John Evans Atta-Mills, President John Dramani Mahama, President Jacob Zuma, President Omar Bongo, President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Kola Abiola, Lt. General T. Y Danjuma, Daisy Danjuma, Fela, Florence Ita-Giwa, Folorunso Alakija, Cletus Ibeto, Sayyu Dantata, Kanu Nwankwo, Jay Jay Okocha, Terry Waya, Sam Jonah, Asoma Banda, President George Bush Jnr., President Bill Clinton, President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Richard Branson, Prince Charles, Oba Obateru Akinruntan, Bola Shagaya, Cosmas and Charity Maduka, Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, Pastor T. B Joshua, Pastor Chris Okotie, Evangelist Ebenezer Obey, King Sunny Ade, Kwam 1, Chris Uba, Bisi Onasanya, Lisa I’Anson, SEAL, Erelu Abiola Dosunmu, Erelu Ojuolape Ojora, Paul Boateng, Mai Deribe, Fifi Ejindu, Angelique Kidjo, Tunde Baiyewu, Patty Boulaye, Agbani Darego, Bode Ajagbe…<br> What was our staying power? Naturally we must thank God. We also mastered how to reinvent our brand. We did some of our stories in French, Portuguese, and Hausa, subject to request. We introduced Ovation television last year as a weekly program using existing platforms of AIT, Silverbird, GhONE Ghana, BEN Tv London and Afrotainment in the US and Canada as well as YouTube. We started an online newspaper www.thebossnewspapers.com to be a very authoritatively objective news portal. There is much more to read when our books are published.<br> No matter the difficulties, we shall continue to encourage our youths to keep hope alive. 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By Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, let me posit on this page today that Nigeria is in dire new of learned teachers who can imbibe in our you...

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