BBA 2014 winner, Idris Sultan purchases new home

Big Brother Africa season 9 winner, Idris Sultan from Tanzania who beat Nigeria’s Tayo Faniran to win the prize money of $300,000 showed off the new home he just purchased. Big congrats to him. He also posted a long message for his fans on instagram.

 

Congrats!

My Stand! Are you for Goodluck or Buhari?

I have watch very closely the events playing out with respect to the elections coming up this february. With due respect to the actors involve, I will like to make my stand know and vote base on what each individual personality represent especially with their antecedence in the years back and their impact in the lifes of the people they claimed to be leading. Anyway GOD BLESSES OUR PRESIDENT!
As a CHRISTIAN I would have voted Goodluck instead of Buhari if only I was looking for one who
will represent Christian organization (i mean religion) but I represent ETERNAL LIFE. I would have
voted Goodluck if I wanted someone who will use Lokojo-Abuja road project awarded for the past 10years for campaign.I would have voted Goodluck if I wanted a leader who will change the Yaradua's decision of dredging of River Niger in Lokoja. I would have voted Goodluck if I wanted a
leader who make excuses rather than using the power at his disposal to nail those challenges in the bud before they raise their ugly heads. I would have voted Goodluck if I wanted a
leader who will criticize the activities of Terrorists in Nigeria but never made any effort to put an end to terrorism.I would have voted Goodluck if I wanted a leader who will accuse opposition as terrorist but scared to expose ordeal with them.I would have voted Goodluck if I wanted just a Ruler who is confuse of what step to take at a time when leadership actions are to be marshal. I would have voted Goodluck if I wanted a leader who will make life so difficult for the people rather than giving them a relieve and formulating the right policies to improve their standard of living. 
I would have voted Goodluck if I wished to have a President who will initiate cashless policy but still carry huge cash to buy arms from South Africa. I would have voted Goodluck if I wanted a leader who will not frown at corruption and corrupt people.I would have voted Goodluck if I wanted a leader who believes in god-fathers’. BUT I have chosen Gen Buhari because I want a leader who wants to serve but not to rule eventhough I am not saying Buhari will take us to the Promise land but he can start the process for the CHANGE that we needed at this very point in time. I want a leader who will treat the people with equity, fairness and justice. A leader who can bring sanity back to Nigeria. 
A leader who's integrity counts before any other thing on earth.A leader who has served my country with no single corrupt charges.A leader who made Nigerians proud by making 1Naira equivalent to 2
USD. I have finally concluded that I need good governance and a government who can put food
on the table of the people of Nigeria. I urge you all Nigerians to collect your Permanent Voter Card and vote Buhari in this coming election.
This is My Stand! May God Bless The Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Why Should President Jonathan Be Voted Out?

February 14 is at hand, the time when all Nigerians are going to elect their president to steer the ship of the country for the next 4 years. After critical analysis, It was observed that the president lack the technical know how of how he can put things to work in Nigeria. The flag up of his campaign in Lagos was a reflection of his level of incompetence and qualities that make up his personality. Some critical look at some of his "so call" achievement are mere political talks that hold no water.

WILL YOU VOTE A LIAR AS PRESIDENT?

 ANTI-CORRUPTION
This is an area where the GEJ administration has failed woefully. There is presently no political, institutional and, perhaps, public will to fight corruption. Under GEJ, the two (2) main anti-corruption agencies, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) have been demystified and stripped of their independence thereby rendering them ineffective.
This is not in any way surprising owing to the President's perspective and perception of corruption.
On May 5, 2014, while responding - on national television - to allegations that he was not doing enough to curb corruption among his ministers, GEJ had claimed that most of what is referred to as corruption is not really corruption at all. According to him, “Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing”.
The President - whose wife, Dame Patience Jonathan was in September, 2006 accused of money laundering by the then vibrant EFCC - is not alone in this ludicrous assessment.
Less than two (2) weeks after the President's display of warped logic, Ekpo Nta, the Chairman of the ICPC, told a delegation of Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) that visited the commission in Abuja that “Stealing is erroneously reported as corruption. We must go back to what we were taught at school to show that there are educated people in Nigeria.”
The ICPC boss also went further to liken the Nigerian penchant to regard theft as corruption to be as erroneous as calling a roadside mechanic an engineer.
Little wonder then that today, GEJ's most trusted allies - Diepreye Alamiesiegha, Bode George, Buruji Kashamu, Ayo Fayose, Mohammed Abacha, Femi Fani-Kayode, Ali Modu Sheriff - are all men who have benefited greatly from his benevolent view of corruption.
Little wonder then that under GEJ's watch, it is now 'normal' for billions of dollars to "develop wings and disappear".
Little wonder then that despite overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence, no single Fuel Subsidy thief has been prosecuted.
Little wonder then that under GEJ, arms and ammunition are purchased with millions of dollars of undisclosed and undeclared cash loaded in suitcases aboard private aircraft.
Little wonder then that, few days ago, IBB declared that compared to GEJ's administration, his (IBB's) corruption-ridden administration was 'saintly'.
And, little wonder then that richlifestyle.com and Forbes Magazine have ranked GEJ as one of the most stupendously rich (and corrupt?) leaders in the world.

INSECURITY
Despite having spent over $6 billion per year on the military sector for four years, the GEJ administration has not recorded any remarkable success in dealing with Nigeria's security challenges as posed primarily by Boko Haram on a daily basis.
 
POWER SECTOR
Having spent billions of dollars on reforms in the Power Sector, the tale still remains "Plenty motion, no movement". And in spite of government propaganda to the contrary, most Nigerians still lack access to regular supply of electricity.
Can Mr President tell Nigerians the amount of Power generated, distributed and transmitted? the amount his government met before 2011 and how much Megawatt he added to it?
Can Mr President explain to us why Petroleum products prices have not come down since He said we are buying at international price.
 
ELECTORAL REFORMS
This is perhaps the only area where the GEJ administration can be permitted to beat its chest and claim some level of success. It must however be remembered that credit for the noticed improvements must go to the civil society for massive voters' education.
And, quite ironically, the electoral reforms will face the sternest test so far, on Saturday, February 14, 2015 when GEJ and General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) go head-to-head in the Presidential Election.
Personally, in spite of his many inadequacies, my greatest problem with GEJ has to do with his penchant for telling barefaced LIES.
Space constraint will not allow me to exhaust all of GEJ's brazen mendacious statements but a few instances will suffice to buttress my position.
1. In 2010, while drumming up support for his bid to contest in the 2011 Presidential Election, GEJ had promised that if voted into Office, he was not going to seek re-election. He later did a volte-face and claimed that he never gave such a commitment - even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. LIE!
2. On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, GEJ - while responding to a question about whether Nigerians now had access to regular power supply - told Christiane Amanpour, CNN's Chief International Correspondent that most Nigerians now enjoyed regular power supply. LIE!!
3. In June 2014, while campaigning for Ayo Fayose in Ekiti State, GEJ had told the Ekiti people that if they voted for Fayose, immediately after Fayose's victory, he (GEJ) would begin to pay attention to Ekiti State's development through Federal Government projects. But few weeks ago, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved Four Hundred and Thirty Billion Naira (N430 billion) to construct roads and bridges across the Federation in 2015 and Ekiti State was conspicuously missing on the list. LIE!!!
4. About a month ago, GEJ paid a visit to IBB at his Hilltop Mansion in Minna. After the visit, GEJ and his media team told journalists that IBB had declared his support for GEJ's re-election bid.
However, a couple of days later, an embarrassed IBB came out to denounce the report, explaining that he NEVER endorsed GEJ's second term bid but only advised him on how to tackle the insecurity challenges in the North. LIE!!!!
5. Last week, during the flag off of his presidential campaign in Lagos, GEJ had told his audience that the October 1, 2010 bomb blast at the Eagle Square had been orchestrated by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) which had been contracted by "some politicians" to assassinate him. This was coming from a president who - even after MEND claimed responsibility for the attack - had insisted to the whole world that intelligence reports clearly indicated that MEND was NOT responsible for the attack. Chai! LIE!!!!!
6. During the same Lagos Rally, GEJ had equally told his audience that during the entirety of GMB's reign as military head of state (December 31, 1983 to August 27, 1985), he (GMB) did not purchase "a single rifle" for the Nigerian military. However, facts and figures have now emerged that show that as the then head of state, GMB did procure sophisticated arms and ammunition for the Nigerian military armoury. LIE!!!!!!
The Yorubas do have a saying that "Eni ba n paro maa j'ale (meaning, "a liar ultimately becomes a thief").

In essence, a vote for a liar, is a vote for a thief! And nothing can be more perilous - and more stupid - than trusting a thief to run the affairs of a country.
Against this backdrop, it is instructive for the Nigerian electorate to ruminate before casting their votes on Saturday, February 14, 2015.
Do not vote for somebody who couldn't offer much when he had something to lose, but is now promising you heaven and earth when he no longer has anything to lose.
As for me and my house, come Saturday, FEBUHARI 14, 2015, we will NOT vote for a thief ... we will cast our votes for GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI (Rtd) - a man you can at least, hold to his word!

The Instagram King, Dan Bilzerian was Kicked Out of a Miami Club

A millionaire playboy gambler dubbed the Instagram King has allegedly been banned from a Miami nightclub after kicking a woman in the face while dancing on a platform.
Dan Bilzerian, 34, was reportedly filmed celebrating his birthday at LIV Nightclub in Miami, Florida, lashing out at a woman in front of him who tried to break up a fight on Saturday night.
Dim footage shows a figure standing on a podium, dressed in a tight t-shirt moving to music. The tall, muscular figure then leans casually forward and kicks out, after which a crowd of people throng round.
Celebrity gossip site The Dirty reported that the video showed Bilzerian, who allegedly left the woman battered and bloody, then was thrown out of the club.
The alleged victim later claimed she ‘did nothing to deserve’ being kicked and was left bleeding from her eye. The woman, who has not been named, also said she would take legal action.
Bilzerian shot to fame in recent years thanks to his huge social media following enticed by images of his over-the-top expensive lifestyle.

 Source: Dailymail

Arms Belong To French Government But Detained Plane is Theirs Says Russia

Russian Government who denied through their Nigeria’s Embassy twitter page that they had no ties with arms carrying plane bound for Chad which was seized in Nigeria yesterday, has accepted the plane actually belongs to them in less than 24 hours of denying it.
In a fresh round of tweets this afternoon, the Russian Embassy tweeted that the plane is indeed a Russian one but was hired by the French government to convey military hardware for its peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic.
The Embassy tweeted in French but Premium Times already translated it in English. Continue below.
“Military equipment on board aircraft in Kano enroute CAR (Central African Republic) via Chad, allegedly owned by the French peacekeeping mission, one of the tweets read.
“The detained in Kano Russian plane chartered by the French peacekeeping mission in Chad and transporting its property, another tweet said.
“The Embassy is taking all measures to ensure the departure of the detained in Kano Russian plane with the French military equipment on board,” they concluded.

PDP Governors in Secret Meeting with Obasanjo

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors on Thursday afternoonshow up at the former President Olusegun Obasanjo's residence, Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, in over a dozen vehicle convoy.
The governors who arrived Obasanjo's Hill-Top Estate mansion at exactly 12:40pm, quickly went into secret meeting with their host who had been waiting for them.
Eventhough the names of the visiting governors could not be ascertained but it was discovered that the Akwa Ibom state governor, Godswill Akpabio is in the entourage by virtues of the number plates seen on the governor's escort vehicles. The vehicles bear the state's marks.
Other governors believe to be on the trip are Cross Rivers state governor, Liyel Imoke, Niger state governor, Babangida Aliyu. The reason for the meeting might not be unconnected to the frosty relationship between President Jonathan and Chief Obasanjo.

M.I, Olamide, and Pasuma performed for Ambode Governorship Declaration

 

Onikan stadium was agog and full to the brim for Akinwumi Ambode’s declaration speech, as Lagosians surged in numbers into the stadium.

Thousands of his supporters were present at the declaration ceremony. Dignitaries, All Progressives Congress Chieftains, party members and Royal fathers of Lagos were also present at the venue which witnessed a high security presence.

The ceremony officially started about a few minutes to 11am, and the Chief Imam of Lagos state, Alhaji M. Garuba Akinola Ibrahim mounted the podium to say the Muslim opening prayer, after which the adviser to the Governor of Lagos state on religious matters took the Christian prayer.

Speeches were made by different dignitaries, as the crowd was entertained by artistes, Pasuma, Olamide and M.I.

Akinwumi Ambode arrived the ceremony at about 11:38am and was greeted by the massive crowd who cheered him as he walked round the stadium. More dignitaries spoke before Ambode was called up to the podium to make his declaration speech, titled “Continuing the progress, securing the future”.

 Some excerpts from the speech:

“The presence of thousands of supporters today is an attestation of the state-wide consultations that we commenced since last year. The acceptance and popularity of my candidacy, the great turn out and the fantastic support we have received from every corner of the State and beyond, from all sectors and various religious persuasions confirm that this is a divine moment in the history of Lagos State.”

“In recognition of this support, I, Akinwunmi Ambode, in your presence and in the presence of God, formally put myself forward to run for the position of the governor of Lagos state.”

“I make this declaration with the highest sense of responsibility. I am putting myself forward because I believe I have the qualities required to continue the giant strides, which our great party, All Progressives Congress has achieved in Lagos in recent years.”

“I am resolved to offer you genuine leadership that will be accountable with all the principles of good governance, a government of inclusion that will not leave any race or gender behind. Everybody counts. The aged, widows, artisans, students, children, the physically challenged, professionals, we all have a part to play.”

“Come February 2015, Lagosians will once again elect a governor that will not only continue the great works of these fore-bearers, but will also lead the people of Lagos to greater economic heights, prosperity, accountable democracy, and more importantly, the protection of lives and properties.”

“I stand before you today as a bridge between the elderly and the youth. I hold before you a beacon that summons us all to building together a more prosperous Lagos. I have the competence, experience and determination to lead Lagos State to greater economic heights and prosperity.”

“I ask for your support and your votes that will send me to Alausa to continue in my tradition of selfless service to this great State of ours.”