Policeman Battered By Naval Officer Goes Blind

<div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaLxKduiY-ytYCo5iUH9t6BgTLvRKnWn7IR7Ag-0k8RkjTxkJICaZCYW2CsSUhGAt-HwHgPVR7PYsDQuu19Lak_S_nm6V3ohLDRtnHb5ZkwpVNJZYFyYdO73LIbmD2r878LoNiopJ1Bsg/s1600/Mbila-702x336.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaLxKduiY-ytYCo5iUH9t6BgTLvRKnWn7IR7Ag-0k8RkjTxkJICaZCYW2CsSUhGAt-HwHgPVR7PYsDQuu19Lak_S_nm6V3ohLDRtnHb5ZkwpVNJZYFyYdO73LIbmD2r878LoNiopJ1Bsg/s1600/Mbila-702x336.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <b>When Emmanuel Mbilla was enlisted into the Nigeri­an Police Force 31 years ago, he might have dreamt of serving the country meritoriously and gloriously before handing over the baton to the next generation. Such dream has now been shattered by one ugly encounter with a naval officer.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Just four years for the long serving of­ficer to say goodbye to serving his country in uniform, what seems a tragedy struck on February 22 which abruptly cut short his long anticipated exit from the force. The singular incident had steadily sunk hole into his pocket, leaving him to now beg before he eats.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The victim’s second wife, Patience Mbilla, who witnessed the incident, told Saturday Sun that it all started when the naval officer, Enejor, drove recklessly to hit the pavement of her shop with his ve­hicle.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It has been nine months since the As­sistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) has been suffering after being allegedly attacked on the eye by the naval rating, identified as Warrant Officer Unaji Ene­jor on February 22 in the Kirikiri area of Lagos State.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Saturday Sun learnt that the 50-year-old victim had suffered glaucoma on his left eye before the incident, and a punch from his attacker on his right eye dealt a big blow to his overall sight.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> All efforts made by Mbilla to regain his failing sight proved abortive. He told Saturday Sun that he had visited many hospitals in Lagos in a quest for a cure for his battered eye.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Presently, the policeman, who was previously doing virtually everything on his own, including driving his car, has now turned vegetable, relying on his two wives for help.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In her narration, the second wife said: “My husband and I were in my shop, when we suddenly heard a loud noise like a crash just outside my shop. We rushed out, only to find out that the pavement at my shop was hit by a vehicle. My hus­band told the driver of the vehicle to find a solution to what he had done, but the driver quickly identified himself as a na­val officer and told us to get out, boasting that we could not do nothing. My husband also identified himself as a police officer.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “The man wanted to escape, but my husband refused him, only for the na­val officer to forcefully hit my husband in the eye with the car key. My husband fell to the floor, screaming for help. At that point, the naval officer ran away but unfortunately for him, his car got stuck in a gutter. It was the sympathizers that were running after him that were able to stop him from escaping. Two other na­val men immediately came and wanted to help their colleague escape but the crowd overwhelmed them, and the assailant was eventually taken to the Kirikiri Police Division. Later, the case was transferred to Panti, Yaba, where he was released on bail.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Saturday Sun further gathered that an investigative panel was set up to look into the incident by the naval command. But Mrs Mbilla accused the Navy of hiding the suspect.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “The police have written letters to the Navy. They sent two officers from the Navy to enquire about the incident. I told them what I knew about the matter and they promised to return to meet my hus­band, but we have not seen them since then. I believe they are hiding the naval officer from us. We demand justice,” she stated.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Speaking on the challenges they have been facing in the aftermath of the inci­dent, she said that life had been tough for them as their financial well has run dry and they now run from pillar to post to fend for the family.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Since the incident, it has not been easy for me and my family. We have spent all we have on treatment; going for one test after other in different hospitals and eye check centres. My husband can’t do anything anymore as I have to be with him 24 hours to take care of his needs. We have spent over a million naira and I have sold almost all the valuables we have.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “He always feels pain and headache. We still buy drugs weekly. We want the Navy to produce the officer that attacked my husband so that he can share in our burden. Most importantly, we want justice to take its course but without further de­lay”, she lamented.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She also pleaded with well meaning Nigerians, authorities including the Lagos State government and NGOs to come to their aid financially and otherwise.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The victim, who hails from Ohafia Lo­cal Government Area in Abia State, is the only surviving child of his parents, with two wives and six children under his roof. Until his blindness, he was the breadwin­ner of his family.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Before he was rendered blind, the re­tirement plan, it was gathered, of the po­liceman who was a United Nations Peace Keeping ambassador was to establish a security outfit.<br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Credit: <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=97336">The Sun</a></b></div>

Policeman Battered By Naval Officer Goes Blind

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Genevieve Nnaji Explains Why She's Still Single

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgftolHHf3jutHR2KMPdjxexSWlL-ZHck83bv05IkMivG0hb58yTrD1TEzF-GPEVjJPeopUyNjvC0qfh3mjE9HOj8YUI1jq1KynXDQyJRdjbVwzvqqpkEmjEaWJY4l6OiW3sDNK3p03VN4/s1600/genevieve-nnaji-new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgftolHHf3jutHR2KMPdjxexSWlL-ZHck83bv05IkMivG0hb58yTrD1TEzF-GPEVjJPeopUyNjvC0qfh3mjE9HOj8YUI1jq1KynXDQyJRdjbVwzvqqpkEmjEaWJY4l6OiW3sDNK3p03VN4/s1600/genevieve-nnaji-new.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Nollywood actress, Genevieve Nnaji is inarguably one of the most eligible spinsters in Nigeria and many have been left wondering why she hasn’t yet taken the big step of marriage.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 35-year-old Genevieve has spoken out on the reason for her single status and her expectations from marriage.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She said in an interview with <b><i>Vanguard</i></b>:</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"> "If I get married, I really want to stay married and staying married is not an easy thing. It means you are completely in tune with your partner.</blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"> “It means you have found your soulmate because you will have to be able to stand a lot of disappointments that would definitely come but then again you have to learn to forgive,” she added.</blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Genevieve had earlier been romantically linked with musician, <b>D’banj</b> after they were spotted together and she featured in the video for his hit song “Fall in love”.</div>

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Ogun 2015: How Osoba's SDP May Spoil Show For APC

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPTf7heHErHnU1oS_aTRve5BRR22EHym-dZGgT5MeAqwmKOugKgl5jJduQX_wlrhNwmyZ4M4_vxhW7gyQ_BGQEjo3d46GQ91FcTyBRoDzJm5T6HmFYfggNLmPnOB0aP92G2uiRaERpe4/s1600/Amosun-Osoba.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPTf7heHErHnU1oS_aTRve5BRR22EHym-dZGgT5MeAqwmKOugKgl5jJduQX_wlrhNwmyZ4M4_vxhW7gyQ_BGQEjo3d46GQ91FcTyBRoDzJm5T6HmFYfggNLmPnOB0aP92G2uiRaERpe4/s1600/Amosun-Osoba.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>There is no doubt that Governor Ibikunle Amosun and the rul­ing All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State would have to fight the battle to retain the control of the machinery of government beyond the 2015 elections from more than one front, reports Segun Olatunji of the <i>Sun</i>.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The reason for this is not far-fetched. Before now, the race to grab the reins of governance in the state was among three major contenders, including the ruling APC, the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour party. But the sudden and un­expected arrival of the Social Democratic Party on the scene has completely changed the political landscape in the state.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to the <b><a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=97382">Sun</a></b>, the SDP, which is being nurtured by Governor Amosun’s estranged godfather and former governor of the state, Chief Olusegun Osoba, is believed to be mak­ing serious inroads into the political turf in the state, that is, within the little time of its existence.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The current development could be traced to the initial squabbles within the then ruling Action Congress of Nigeria in the state over the sharing of political of­fices which had worsened with the merger of the ACN, the All Nigeria Peoples Par­ty, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to form the APC. The decision by certain forces in the ANPP and CPC in the state, which already had an axe to grind with the Amosun’s adminis­tration to pitch tent with the Osoba group, aggravated the already tense situation in the ruling party.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The defection of Osoba, Amosun’s es­tranged deputy, Prince Segun Adesegun, the three senators, seven House of Repre­sentatives members representing the state in the National Assembly as well as some lawmakers in the State House of Assembly into the SDP, however, marked a turning point in the intra-party crisis that had been rocking the ruling APC since January last year.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Many people, who had thought that the political quagmire created by the disagree­ment between Amosun and Osoba would eventually be resolved, were caught flat-footed when the former governor, the deputy governor, the national and state as­semblies members – and a horde of their supporters – recently took the decision to defect to the SDP.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Lately, some officials of the state, in­cluding special assistants and special ad­visers to the governor have resigned their appointments from the government. They cited irreconcilable political disagree­ments with the Amosun administration for their actions. The last of the government officials in this category is the daughter of the first civilian governor of the state, Ol­ubukunola Onabanjo. Onabanjo recently resigned as the chairman of the Ogun State Teaching Service Commission, alleging witch-hunt by Governor Amosun over her closeness to Chief Osoba.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The TESCOM boss, who made the al­legation in her letter of resignation dated November 18 and sent to the governor, said that she owed no one any apology for the over 40-year-old relationship that had existed between the Onabanjo and the Osoba families.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She added that she was, therefore, not ready to sacrifice the long-standing rela­tionship between the two families for “po­litical gains and consideration.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Onabanjo further noted that she could not continue to pretend to remain in Am­osun’s government when it was already clear that, “it is too late in the day for me to clothe myself in borrowed robes,” dis­closing that she would be joining the SDP.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For many in the state, therefore, the defection of the former APC bigwigs to SDP, which is said to be currently making waves, especially among aggrieved politi­cians of the progressive bent who have an axe to grind with the Amosun administra­tion, has foreclosed any form of recon­ciliation between the governor’s camp and Osoba’s loyalists.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The choice of the SDP by the Osoba loyalists after they were said to have con­sidered many other options, including de­fection to the PDP or the Labour Party, is understandable. Apart from the fact that the group considered the PDP as being “too conservative”, the SDP was the platform on which their leader, Osoba first became the governor of the state in 1993. Also, the fact that the SDP has been re-registered by a chieftain of the Afenifere, the pan-Yor­uba socio-political group and former joint presidential candidate of the Alliance for Democracy/All Peoples Party, Chief Olu Falae with the Independent National Elec­toral Commission, made the party the best option for Osoba and his loyalists in Ogun to escape the alleged witch-hunt by Amo­sun and the leadership of the ruling APC.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> With this development, the SDP in the state is now viewed by some concerned elements in the APC in the state as pos­ing serious threat to the electoral fortunes of the ruling party in the 2015 elections. Many believe the peopling of the SDP by aggrieved APC members may lead to the re-enactment of the 2011 situation where the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN) broke away from the then ruling PDP in the state, culminating in the loss of power to the then Action Congress of Nigeria.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Already, aspirants, who lost in the pri­mary elections for the various elective positions due to the alleged imposition of candidates, especially in the ruling APC, are threatening to defect to the burgeon­ing SDP to realise their political ambition. Since the conclusion of the party primary elections in the state, supporters of aspir­ants who lost out have been demonstrating their dissatisfaction with the whole process by staging protests even at the Governor’s Office in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> They have not minced words by sternly warning the governor and the leaders of the APC in the state that the ruling party risked losing out completely in the forthcoming 2015 polls if they continued to thwart the decision of the delegates who voted in the various primaries.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The whirlwind of change currently sweeping across the ruling APC in Ogun began on November 12 when the three senators from the state, Adegbenga Kaka (Ogun East), Akin Odunsi (Ogun West) and Gbenga Obadara (Ogun Central) – for­mally announced their defection from the APC to the SDP on the floor of the Senate. The three senators backed their action with the presentation of their letters of defection to Senate President David Mark.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> They hinged their decision to dump the APC in Ogun on the factionalisation of the party in the state and the existence of paral­lel state executive committees.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> While addressing National Assembly correspondents on behalf of his colleagues in Abuja, Senator Kaka also disclosed that seven out of the nine House of Representa­tives members from the state had also no­tified the National Assembly of their de­fection to the SDP in Ogun. The House of Representatives members include Adekun­le Adeyemi, Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, Kehinde Odeneye, Bukunola Buraimoh, Babatunde Ogunola and Olumide Osoba.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The National Assembly members made their position known barely 24 hours af­ter three members in the Ogun House of Assembly dumped the ruling APC for the SDP. The state legislators, who jumped on the bandwagon of defection to the SDP include Oludaisi Elemide, Olufemi Allen- Taylor and Elizabeth Anifowoshe. Five other members of the state assembly also crossed over to the PDP the same day.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Political observers in the state have, however, continued to express fears that what Governor Amosun who recently emerged the standard bearer for the APC in the 2015 governorship poll has achieved in the infrastructural development of the state may pale into insignificance when com­pared with his inability to keep the fold of the ruling party in the state together ahead of next year’s elections.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Already, fears are also being expressed in political circles in the state that candi­dates of the other political parties may take advantage of the ongoing debilitating crisis in the APC in the state to attempt to oust Amosun and the ruling party in 2015.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The unresolved intra-party crisis within the APC in the state has seen the loyalists of the estranged godfather to the governor, Chief Segun Osoba and other aggrieved members defecting in large number to the SDP while others have taken refuge in the equally troubled Peoples Democratic Party where they hope to take their pound of flesh from Amosun. The defection of the three senators, seven House of Representa­tives and about 13 state House of Assem­bly members from the APC to the SDP is a very big political deficit for the ruling party in the state and the Amosun admin­istration.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Amosun and the APC’s chances in next year’s governorship poll in the state are said to have been further weakened by the recent defection of the Deputy Governor, Prince Segun Adesegun to the SDP. Ade­segun, who has been at loggerheads with his boss over certain issues, also declared his interest to contest the governorship of the state on the platform of the SDP against his boss the same day Amosun emerged the standard bearer of the ruling APC for next year’s poll.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Also, there are fears within the ruling APC that the current trend among political parties in the state to pick their governor­ship candidates from Ogun Central where Governor Amosun hails from may spell doom for the party and the governor in the 2015 poll.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> This strategy, which is believed to be part of the Amosun-Must-Go campaign by a burgeoning coalition of the opposi­tion parties, is said to be a ploy to defeat the governor by dividing the votes in the senatorial district during the forthcoming elections in the state. The SDP also poses no less threat in this regard.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Therefore, in spite of his lofty pro­grammes and laudable achievements, Am­osun might find the odds stack against him too high to surmount in his bid to return to the Oke-Mosan Governor’s Office next year if the ruling APC goes into the 2015 polls as a divided house.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The SDP has become one party that should be watched in the race to the Ogun State Governor’s Office in 2015. There are strong indications that the SDP is poised to give a good account of itself in next year’s polls in the state.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Among the top contenders on the plat­form of the SDP for the top job is the dep­uty governor, Prince Segun Adesegun. But expectedly, Adesegun has the Herculean task of scaling the hurdles placed on his way to succeeding his boss, Amosun, with whom he has politically parted ways, as the next chief executive officer of the state.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But owing to his background and po­litical experience, the deputy governor, our correspondent gathered, is being largely backed by some APC and SDP supporters at the grassroots in addition to being the preferred choice of the elders and some traditional rulers in the state.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The deputy governor, who once served as the youth leader and a national officer of the APC, is said to enjoy the goodwill of some prominent people in the state who are believed to be pulling all the strings to ensure his emergence as the standard bear­er of the SDP in the 2014 governorship election. In fact, because of the respect he commands, many card-carrying members of even the ruling APC in the state have vowed to fight his cause.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> While formally declaring his ambition, Adesegun told journalists and his teeming supporters that he was offering himself for the governorship of Ogun next year after careful and extensive consultations with the various stakeholders in the state.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Reacting to the news of his deputy’s declaration of intention to contest the gov­ernorship seat of the state on the platform of the SDP, Amosun said that the develop­ment was part of the beauty of democracy and should be encouraged.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The governor added that he wished his deputy well in his decision to contest against him in the forthcoming governor­ship election.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The deputy governor’s supporters be­lieve that being a major player in the Amo­sun administration, he would endeavour to improve on the incumbent’s initiatives by focusing on human and infrastructural de­velopment of the state.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> However, feelers from the SDP indi­cate that the deputy governor may have to contend with a former member of the Na­tional Executive Committee of the APC, Mr. Yemi Sanusi and the former manag­ing director of Guaranty Trust Bank, Mr. Fola Adeola who was the vice presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2011 elections and also hails from the central senatorial district as the incumbent governor, for the governor­ship ticket of the SDP in the state. The SDP has yet to conclude its primary elections in the state.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> On the speculation that the SDP would spoil the chances of the ruling APC in the 2015 poll, Senator Kaka said that the party was only interested in winning all elec­tions in the state.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The lawmaker also denied insinuations that the SDP has forged an alliance with the PDP for the purpose of the 2015 elec­tions.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Kaka said that contrary to insinuations within the ruling APC, the SDP was genu­inely interested in contesting and winning the 2015 elections in the state.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He stated that the defection of the Oso­ba group to the SDP was to ensure that the wish of the aggrieved former members of the APC was preserved.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Kaka, therefore, assured that the SDP in Ogun State would present candidates for all the elective positions in the 2015 gen­eral elections.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to Kaka, the SDP would con­test and win elections in 2015 to the cha­grin of those he accused of “destroying the state.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said: “SDP is not out to spoil any­body’s chances. We are out to win elec­tions because we are the true representa­tion of the people. So, if we have promoted some people and they have failed the peo­ple, we still have to go back to the peo­ple and tell them that is not the message we sent them. That is not the direction we want them to go. This is the direction; this is the way forward and that is the exact thing we are doing and we are so confident that the people know their leaders and they know those that they have tried and they have their trust in them. So, by the grace of God, we are far from playing any spoiler role. We are out to win and win handsome­ly to the chagrin of those who are destroy­ing the state.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The lawmaker said that the aggrieved former members of the ruling party in the state would not agree to a reconciliation, which would be biased. He, however, said that although reconciliation should not be foreclosed, there was very little time left for the process.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The state Deputy Governor, Prince Ade­segun said that those currently exhibiting over-confidence about winning next year’s elections in Ogun should be prepared for a shocker.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> While urging the people to join the SDP train, the deputy governor warned politi­cians who have the belief that they would win next year’s election to stop deceiving themselves.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Adesegun stressed that the people of the state knew who their real leaders were and would not be cowed into voting for any particular candidate during the poll.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Four days ago I was somewhere and I observed some saying a particular person would win the forthcoming elections. I laughed and laughed because I know that such people they are talking about, that they would win the elections, if they do, they would only be elected to run their households and not the governorship elec­tion or the House or House of Representa­tives because they only heard people are contesting and then they came out,” the deputy governor said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Sola Lawal, has dismissed speculation that the SDP would spoil the chances of the ruling party in next year’s poll. Lawal stated that the SDP has not be­come formidable enough to pose any threat to the electoral fortunes of the APC in the state.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> According to the APC spokesman in the state, “The insinuation is bunkum. SDP is a non-issue that would give anyone any headache.”</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But political observers believe that the deluge of sympathy and support currently pouring in for the SDP may eventually make the party the dark horse in the 2015 election. Described by some politicians as the small but potent force, which could dis­place the giants in the 2015 poll in the state, the SDP currently appears more concerned with taking its sensitization campaign and membership drive to the nooks and cran­nies of the state.</div>

Ogun 2015: How Osoba's SDP May Spoil Show For APC

There is no doubt that Governor Ibikunle Amosun and the rul­ing All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State would have to fight the b...

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Rapper Olamide Flaunts His Newly Acquired ₦38m Automobiles

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0GQawmZTF3x80ddUq9XccI4YAm37LVrJhNwP1NA-h3nglbuYHbRh3IehJQxga0EvCMBCAXe4RW8eCCqLh72NyyYCgTt_znltGYMrNQ90q6BCGLD0ZCklUMRllbvyWTjNnEIvchgedVuM/s1600/olamide-baddo-Gwagon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0GQawmZTF3x80ddUq9XccI4YAm37LVrJhNwP1NA-h3nglbuYHbRh3IehJQxga0EvCMBCAXe4RW8eCCqLh72NyyYCgTt_znltGYMrNQ90q6BCGLD0ZCklUMRllbvyWTjNnEIvchgedVuM/s1600/olamide-baddo-Gwagon.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Top notch Nigerian rapper Olamide Baddo has had a successful year this 2014 and got a Mercedes G-wagon as a present for his hard work.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The <i>'story of gods'</i> singer showed off his brand new white Mercedes G-wagon on his Instagram page and captioned it <i><b>"My baby is finally home ... Black range x white G  .. Thanks to God and my fans .. Xmas gift of life .. We done hustle small ds year"</b></i>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Olamide who is an ambassador for the Guinness <i>'Made of Black' </i>campaign has been very prominent in the music scenes this year especially with the release of his 4th album <i>'Street O.T'</i>. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Tomorrow, December 28, 2014, Olamide will be hosting his highly anticipated concert called <b>OLIC</b> (Olamide Live In Concert) alongside other big names in music.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> See how fellow artiste, <b>Davido</b> reacted to Olamide's post on his new purchase.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU3N_-Pwah43Vz4vA2CCUFRPOUItZFg11gRGDFOyNSYIdtqENrEzTpxqdf_MZoCizOWPk3JgRT7DSOqKz0lrLpr4fjT-_wfTZqjfI-HUZtFuWi2CWiKPuICB7Q3lhRlELCs1mLnVyrqjQ/s1600/davido-and-olamide+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU3N_-Pwah43Vz4vA2CCUFRPOUItZFg11gRGDFOyNSYIdtqENrEzTpxqdf_MZoCizOWPk3JgRT7DSOqKz0lrLpr4fjT-_wfTZqjfI-HUZtFuWi2CWiKPuICB7Q3lhRlELCs1mLnVyrqjQ/s1600/davido-and-olamide+(1).jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div>

Rapper Olamide Flaunts His Newly Acquired ₦38m Automobiles

Top notch Nigerian rapper Olamide Baddo has had a successful year this 2014 and got a Mercedes G-wagon as a present for his hard work. ...

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Gunmen Kill Policeman In Cairo

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi583PeCrukT1tIYeleGUegncBXu0f3s8x7SBC_CRhXy9pW2pWY01WKm-qN4lqhwTcOt4j2Pj-nY1dab1kpqbUf-v4icPtaXmyZqQpjGR6ZKY5MZhAHx1ubUgRBgNscA1DR3M_LlV9A_mI/s1600/Egyptian+police.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi583PeCrukT1tIYeleGUegncBXu0f3s8x7SBC_CRhXy9pW2pWY01WKm-qN4lqhwTcOt4j2Pj-nY1dab1kpqbUf-v4icPtaXmyZqQpjGR6ZKY5MZhAHx1ubUgRBgNscA1DR3M_LlV9A_mI/s1600/Egyptian+police.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Gunmen on a motorbike killed a policeman and wounded another in a drive-by shooting in the Egyptian capital on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “Armed men on a motorcycle opened fire on the police before fleeing,” ministry spokesman Hani Abdel Latif told AFP.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The police officers had been guarding branches of two foreign banks, Britain’s HSBC and Union National Bank of the United Arab Emirates, when they were attacked near a Cairo square.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Scores of policemen and soldiers have been killed in bombings and shootings since the Egyptian military deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Most of the attacks have been in the Sinai Peninsula, the deadliest of them claimed by Beit al-Maqdis, a militant group that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State organisation.</div>

Gunmen Kill Policeman In Cairo

Gunmen on a motorbike killed a policeman and wounded another in a drive-by shooting in the Egyptian capital on Saturday, the Interior M...

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No Going Back On My Gov'ship Ambition - Maku

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-FyrPS4ZD9AaVoJ-K6VC4RnD70i2kjmSkIMQSr9BldLEuvwKlAEJr71KHrLM0tws2E4X9b-zOccMF7vZYsrXTPN2aOb2v6v2vEkJEzetrxQ4yblWkW5BZq2Q9PxjK1pDOIKisrS3Hvc/s1600/labaran-maku.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-FyrPS4ZD9AaVoJ-K6VC4RnD70i2kjmSkIMQSr9BldLEuvwKlAEJr71KHrLM0tws2E4X9b-zOccMF7vZYsrXTPN2aOb2v6v2vEkJEzetrxQ4yblWkW5BZq2Q9PxjK1pDOIKisrS3Hvc/s1600/labaran-maku.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Labaran Maku, former Minister of Information, says he will eventually become the governor of Nasarawa state in 2015, despite losing the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).</b> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Maku stated this on Saturday while addressing members of different ethnic groups who paid him a Christmas visit in his country home in Wakama, Akun Development Area of the state. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said that no amount of intimidation from any group would stop him from becoming the governor of the state in 2015. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “It is the people of the state that called me to contest for governorship seat in order to rescue them and bring peace to the state, and I have answered their calls. But what went on in the primaries of our party, the PDP, was uncalled for and everybody is aware of that,” he said. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “I want to tell you that there is no going back on my gubernatorial ambition come 2015. Those who are thinking that my political ambition is stunted should start having a rethink; my 2015 governorship ambition is still on course. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> “I want to call on you to continue to support me and vote for me during the 2015 general election. When the victory comes, we will all celebrate together and I want to advise you not to give up on my 2015 gubernatorial ambition but to preach my gospel for governorship.” </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He called on Christians to use the season of Christmas to pray for peaceful coexistence among the diverse ethnic, religious and political groups in the state and the country. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He noted that no nation could progress in an atmosphere of rancour and crisis, as security challenges facing the state and the country have negatively affected human lives and the socioeconomic development of the country. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Maku urged the people, especially the youths, to be law-abiding and to respect constituted authority while engaging in meaningful ventures that would help them to be self-reliant. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Earlier, Francis Namo, who spoke on behalf of the different groups, said that they were in Maku’s house to felicitate and celebrate with him on the occasion of Christmas. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He assured the former minister of their continued support in his bid to become the next governor of the state. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The different ethnic groups that visited him include Eggon, Alago, Mada, Hausa-Fulani.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <b>Credit: <a href="http://www.thecable.ng/maku-no-going-back-governorship-ambition">TheCable</a></b>

No Going Back On My Gov'ship Ambition - Maku

Labaran Maku, former Minister of Information, says he will eventually become the governor of Nasarawa state in 2015, despite losing the...

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