Tell Nigerians How Much You Paid Chatham House For Poll Shift, APC Challenges PDP, FG

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOUuRw17RDBEz95_hgzxuaaQM9VuiTxonPyRLKthrNtlB-OQttUD_aBDuWXJC9uX8m7VH9MT9kFwGOnRFZZxYOn3cUetPB-N45b1dyU2SiL0IFDEN8gNQ0myaMRwagoGjkLaQIYS91XWxr/s1600/Dasuki-Sambo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOUuRw17RDBEz95_hgzxuaaQM9VuiTxonPyRLKthrNtlB-OQttUD_aBDuWXJC9uX8m7VH9MT9kFwGOnRFZZxYOn3cUetPB-N45b1dyU2SiL0IFDEN8gNQ0myaMRwagoGjkLaQIYS91XWxr/s1600/Dasuki-Sambo1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>The All Progress Congress Presidential Campaign Organization has challenged the Peoples Democratic Party and the Federal Government to disclose how much was paid to Chatham House to give the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, the platform to call for the postponement of the general election earlier fixed for February 14 and 28.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Reacting to allegations by the PDP that the party spent ₦5 billion to enable its presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari speak at Chatham House, the APCPCO said the government should tell the whole world how much it paid to Chatam House before it granted Dasuki audience.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> While speaking at the Chatam House, the NSA had said the elections were not feasible due to security concerns and the Service Chiefs later informed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that they cannot guarantee security during the elections, leading to a six-week postponement of the exercise.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> However, after Buhari’s address at the Chatam House, the PDP said the opposition party spent ₦5 billion to enable the former head of state deliver his address at the prestigious British institute.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In a statement signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the organization lamented that Jonathan’s administration has taken propaganda to a ridiculous level of childishness, triviality and banality.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Shehu said any suggestion by the PDP that the APC bribed Chatham House to get its presidential candidate speak at the institute was a reflection of the general opinion that the ruling party has not only run out of ideas and popular goodwill.</div>

Tell Nigerians How Much You Paid Chatham House For Poll Shift, APC Challenges PDP, FG

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Wow! 107-Year Old Man Ties The Knot With His 95-Year Old Lover

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguJXpXYsqkGXQ_qv7ypBu3JHkJU_emm5RhW7mYqB-dv37dzqwAoMHdcFKpuGFvUEDLyqM6Mqdg7zpZ6U0t9fyACkKH0jaln9rfbeus_1x6dlOpZKH17Nkt8gXKro6izzG06bEikOo1ejUN/s1600/Old+Couple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguJXpXYsqkGXQ_qv7ypBu3JHkJU_emm5RhW7mYqB-dv37dzqwAoMHdcFKpuGFvUEDLyqM6Mqdg7zpZ6U0t9fyACkKH0jaln9rfbeus_1x6dlOpZKH17Nkt8gXKro6izzG06bEikOo1ejUN/s1600/Old+Couple.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>For 70 years, Elder Dikam Garba Dabo’ok and Mrs. Ka’a Nafung had lived together as husband and wife. But the couple, now 107 and 95 years respectively, have found a new sparkle to rekindle their marital love in the church.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The church ceremony in Plateau State, has remained the talk of the town in the social diary of the state and may remain so for a long time. This is particularly so because the celebrants are the first couple in the history of the state to be administered marital vow at such unusual ages.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> At 95, the bride is well past her menopause. Her surviving first child is 65 years old. The groom, popularly known to many in his neighborhood as <i>Baba Dikam</i>, is 107 years old and may no longer be sexually active. But all that is not enough to discourage the couple from walking down the aisle arm-in-arm for a new marital oath.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The ceremony, which was held at the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), Chizu village in Bwai, Mangu Local Government Area of the state, was a delight to watch as it was packaged in the manner that young grooms and brides would walk down the aisle. The groom was dressed in black suite and a red neck tie to match, while the bride stepped out dressed in a pure white wedding gown with a neatly made hair to match. They drove to the church in separate vehicles, as if they never met before. The groom was accompanied by cutely dressed men and the bride by a long bridal train.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> They had a procession and matched into the church separately as if they never met before. They only came together after they were wedded by the officiating pastor. The officiating pastor of the church, Rev. Tongwe Sale, congratulated the couple and admonished them as if they were young couples. He said: “Marriage is ordained by God and it should be kept sacred.” He charged them to keep faith in God since they are still alive, noting that although they are old, they can still be important in the lives of their children and grand children.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Taking his message from Genesis 1:26-27, Rev. Elisha Pam spoke on the topic, “Marriage: Highly mysterious” and pointed out that when God created Adam, the woman was already in existence in the body of man, after which she was brought out in a mysterious way and Adam named her Eve. He noted that the grounds for a solid marriage are patience and obedience through Christ as he read Ephesians 5:21</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> They happily took the oath that they would love themselves until death do them apart. They also vowed not to allow a third party in their marital life. They signed the marriage certificate after the service and marched out of the church dancing to the admiration of their guests.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> When they got outside the church auditorium, the newly wedded couple posed for photograph in various styles and angles. After the photograph session, they moved in a car and zoomed off to the reception ground accompanied by their guests, children, friends and family members.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> When it was time to cut the wedding cake, the couple walked hand in hand to where the colourful cake was placed. The groom continuously gazed at his wedding ring in a manner that suggests that the occasion was a dream come true for him. Like marksmen, they held the knife firmly and on completion of the spelling of Jesus, they cut the cake and feebly smiled at the guests. They trilled their guests with the ceremonial culture of couple feeding one another with the cake and non-alcoholic wine. After feeding themselves, the newly wedded couple danced to the music blasting from the loud speakers in “old school” style to the admiration of their guests.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It was celebration galore at the reception for the family and friends of the couple. The couples told their excited guests at the reception their true life stories. They said it was the grace of God that allowed them to solemnise their marriage in the church.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The groom narrated his life story thus: “I had seven wives and 32 children during my younger days, but I did so because I did not know Christ. But that made me great among my contemporaries as only those who were wealthy could do that. But in spite of that, God remained faithful and merciful for me. I have a lot of testimonies to show that God was so faithful to me. I am now in a better position to advise my children and my well wishers to live the life of Christ. I don’t want any of my children to emulate my past life style, because you may fall out of the grace and mercies of God. But I’m so pleased because my children are committed to Christ; they lived the life of Christ, they were the ones that insisted I must come to Christ and take their mother to the altar.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Before now we lived our lives outside Christ, but from today, we are now confirmed children of Christ. It would have been worse for us if we had died without Christ. But God has protected our lives up till this moment to come to Him.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> One of the children of the couple, Barr. Zephaniah Garba was full of appreciation and praises to God when he spoke with our reporter. He said: “I am full of joy today because my father has come to profess Christ at his old age. I have been looking forward to this day and I thank God they were able to make it. I want to encourage those who did not conduct their marriage in Christian way to try and do so; it is never late. My father’s own should be an example to others, you can still do it”.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> There were goodwill messages from the Chairmen of PCC Kabwir, Rev. David Musa, and Langtang North LG Chairman elect, Hon. Daniel Dandul, while various dance groups added colour to the event as the couples cut their wedding cake.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Credit: <a href="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/drama-as-107-yr-old-man-takes-heartthrob-95-to-altar/">The Nation</a></b></div>

Wow! 107-Year Old Man Ties The Knot With His 95-Year Old Lover

For 70 years, Elder Dikam Garba Dabo’ok and Mrs. Ka’a Nafung had lived together as husband and wife. But the couple, now 107 and 95 years respectively, have found a new sparkle to rekindle their mari…

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Default In Subsidy Payment, Cause Of Fuel Scarcity - APC

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpfOpdR2UduwsUsJjwq81BG9sba0VCeDg7xLMyeTLKy-AuAdYJr0o8htPsoCn_cG2mAVmdEvHJIVs5oI24t23e3jiw57H88-aMh50ibeo9zOLlFaoAevRUiVK-yz1HQWFWOcdy6ehe93gI/s1600/Fuel+Scarcity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpfOpdR2UduwsUsJjwq81BG9sba0VCeDg7xLMyeTLKy-AuAdYJr0o8htPsoCn_cG2mAVmdEvHJIVs5oI24t23e3jiw57H88-aMh50ibeo9zOLlFaoAevRUiVK-yz1HQWFWOcdy6ehe93gI/s1600/Fuel+Scarcity.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the real causes of the debilitating fuel scarcity across the country are President Goodluck Jonathan's administration's failure to pay fuel subsidy and the cost of interests on bank loans to oil marketers, thus making it impossible for them to begin another round of importation of refined petroleum products. </b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The party also said the crisis in the energy sector could be traced to an alleged looting of the $12 billion domestic gas fund under President Jonathan's watch.  In a statement issued on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the PDP and the Jonathan Administration decided to divert attention from those problems by accusing the opposition of being responsible for the scarcity - a most laughable and irresponsible statement by a sitting government that is always so eager to blame everyone but itself for the nation's woes. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It recalled that the self-styled Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had, in February, promised to pay all subsidies owed to the marketers then in the sum of ₦264 billion, along with the accrued interest. APC said, however, that the failure to meet this obligation has made it impossible for the oil marketers, who are being owed heavily, to finance another round of products importation, <b><a href="http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/apc-links-fuel-scarcity-to-default-in-subsidy-payment/203217/">THISDAY</a></b> reports.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> ''The truth is that this profligate government has run Nigeria aground, and the oil sector, whether upstream or downstream, has particularly suffered hugely.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "The quantity of petroleum products that was imported has almost been fully consumed, without fresh products being brought in to augment supplies that have now fallen well below re-order level .</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> ''The implication is that in addition to worsening power supply, crumbling prices of oil at the international market, weakening Naira and unprecedented corruption, Nigerians - who routinely provide their own electricity to power their homes and business, now".</div>

Default In Subsidy Payment, Cause Of Fuel Scarcity - APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the real causes of the debilitating fuel scarcity across the country are President Goodluck Jonathan's administration's failure to pay fuel subsidy and th…

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VIDEO: Al Jazeera Talks To Goodluck Jonathan

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVEzVFSfQVbley_pvV5smyvvkq9FUHcrLLapChrnR8Gg-HNXshy9QSKZcC3UIT4yHz1BCxy0x52EwaBNwG6DFngHJwhtLX305b5961AvaRSzMdkO4JPQH1dgXjbZLsLZM805fqac_NHH9/s1600/GEJ+AJ.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVEzVFSfQVbley_pvV5smyvvkq9FUHcrLLapChrnR8Gg-HNXshy9QSKZcC3UIT4yHz1BCxy0x52EwaBNwG6DFngHJwhtLX305b5961AvaRSzMdkO4JPQH1dgXjbZLsLZM805fqac_NHH9/s1600/GEJ+AJ.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has pledged to defeat Boko Haram, the armed group that has killed thousands of people in the country's northeast.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Jonathan denied mishandling the Boko Haram crisis and allegations that a recent escalation in military operations against the group was politically motivated.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In the interview, the President reaffirmed that the he is not thinking of sacking INEC chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega saying the position is a sensitive one no one would wake up and fire the helmsman.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He also expressed fears about violence during the upcoming presidential election which was postponed because of a lack of security.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> When asked if he would bow out gracefully if he loses, Jonathan was not emphatic in his response. Rather than a straight forward response, he boasted that he would not lose the election.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Al Jazeera</b>'s Yvonne Ndege spoke to Jonathan in Lagos.</div> <br /> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="400" id="flashObj" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=4088836693001&playerID=1513015402001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAmtVJIFk~,TVGOQ5ZTwJYzP5l-b5uZA0wXezQXHPxp&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=4088836693001&playerID=1513015402001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAmtVJIFk~,TVGOQ5ZTwJYzP5l-b5uZA0wXezQXHPxp&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="640" height="400" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Source: <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2015/03/al-jazeera-talks-goodluck-jonathan-150302191010773.html">Al Jazeera</a></b>

VIDEO: Al Jazeera Talks To Goodluck Jonathan

In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has pledged to defeat Boko Haram, the armed group that has killed thousands of people in the country's northeast. Jona…

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