Fashola Extends Maternity Leave to Six Months with Full Pay

Lagos state civil servants will now eat their cake and have it.Female civil servants that are pregnant are now entitled to six months maternity with their full salary.Initially,it was three months.

The Hip Hop Governor-See How Rotimi Amaechi dressed to Psquare's Paul Okoye and Anita Isama's Wedding

This Rivers state governor sha!The man is always showing us that he is different in many ways to most governors so far produced since democracy started in Nigeria.When hip hop star Paul Okoye of the popular Psquare went all the way to Port Harcourt for his traditional wedding with Anita Isama,celebrities from far

Latest News:Oshiomhole sacks commissioners,Special Advisers

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on Friday sacked all his commissioners and special advisers.

Oshiomhole, who addressed a valedictory session of the State Executive Council in Benin, thanked all its members for assisting in the delivery of his programmes in his first term as well as ensuring his re-election.

The governor made the surprise announcement ahead of his swearing in for a second term on Monday.

He also told the commissioners and special advisers that their appointments would

BREAKING NEWS:PRESIDENT JONATHAN SACKS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER,OTHERS

The news fast making this headlines now is that Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has finally sacked the national security adviser, General Andrew Owoeye Azazi (retd).He has been replaced by Col. Sambo Dasuki, also a retired military man.Unlike Azazi who hails from the South-South, Dasuki's profile shows he is from the Sokoto caliphate.It is widely believed that he would use his influence in the northern part to solve the escalating rate of terror in the north.

Also sacked alongside Mr.Azazi,according to reports are, minister of defense,Haliru Mohammed.We also heard that the Chief of Defense staff, Air Mashall Oluseyi Pentrin
The security chiefs were relieved for obvious reasons-inability to find solutions to the escalating problems of Boko Haram bombings and violence in major parts of northern Nigeria

MONEY RAIN FOR IMOKE TONIGHT AT TRANSCORP HILTON, ABUJA

  Today, there would be a gathering of business moguls and policians at the Congress Hall,Transcorp Hilton, Abuja at  the fundaraising ceremony in honour of  former Governor of Cross Rivers State, Mr. Liyel Imoke. The event according to information available to gistmaster, would starts at 7 P.M under the chairmanship of Chief Tony Anenih,a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).Senator Victor Ndoma Egba, a legal luminary and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) is the Chairman of the Fundraising Commitee.

Mrs.Imoke

Mr.Imoke

 Trust,money bags are expected to raise funds toward the return of Mr. Imoke and Barrister Effiok Cobham's to government house after they were sacked by the Supreme Court.The gubernatorial election comes up very soon.

I have attended the fundraising events for some state governors in the past (I remember i attended the one for Dr. Bukola Saraki in 2003) and its usually very interesting when you hear the Billionaires donating millions upon millions of Naira for the purpose of making their friends win election so they can get patronage later yet some of them (NOT ALL), have done nothing to improve the lives of the less priviledged.

-Niyi Tabiti

  

LATEST NEWS:THOSE WHO FUND BOKO HARAM UNCOVERED

This followed the recent arrest of key members of the sect and appointment of a new police chief in Nigeria.

Nigerian agents appear to have made a major discovery in their investigations into the sources of funding of the Boko Haram Islamic sect. According to the Nigerian Tribune newspaper, the State Security Service (SSS) and its local and international counterparts have now traced the group's sources of funding to some Al-Qaeda-linked organisations in the Middle East.

Recently arrested key figures of the group reportedly told security agents that while the organisation initially relied on donations from members, its links with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM, opened it up to more funding from groups in Saudi Arabia and the UK. Nigerian Tribune said sources in Boko Haram confirmed that Al-Muntada Trust Fund, with headquarters in the United Kingdom, had extended some financial assistance to the sect.

Other sources of Boko Haram funding reportedly uncovered in the investigations are the Islamic World Society with headquarters in Saudi Arabia and some prominent local businessmen, including one who donated a bus and loud speakers and an in-law to the sect's founder, Mohamed Yusuf. A businessman from Bauchi State is said to have developed links with Al-Qaeda in Somalia, having received training from Abu Umar Al-Wadud, its leader. The suspected financer later fled to Somalia in 2009 following the onslaught on members by security forces.

Meanwhile, the team investigating the January 15 escape of re-arrested Boko Haram kingpin, Kabir Sokoto, has concluded plans to bring him before detained Commissioner of Police, Zakari Biu, Punch newspaper said. The meeting between the two, a security source told Punch, would enable the investigators to verify Biu's claims on how Sokoto escaped from police custody. Sokoto was re-arrested on February 10, 2012 in Mitum-Biu, Taraba State in the northeastern part of the country. Punch learnt that the ongoing interrogation of Sokoto and the sect's spokesman, Abu Qaqa, was also aimed at unmasking other leaders of the sect and its accomplices in security circles.

- By Kimeng Hilton Ndukong

LATEST NEWS:MATTEW MBU IS DEAD

 

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Chief Mattew Mbu, an elder statesman and retired diplomat is dead.The death has been confirmed by members of his immediate family through a press statement which was made available to the media  today.

Ambassator Mbu died at the age of 82 in London.He would have been 83 on November 20 this year.

The burial arrangement, according to the family, would be announced later.

The late Ambassador Mbu's biography shows he was born in Cross River State.After his early education inhis home town, he proceeded to Middle Temple and University College, London where he bagged his LL.B and LLM degrees in Law between 1955 and 1959.

gistmaster.com gathered that Mbu was Federal minister of labor in 1954. He was appointed Nigerian High Commissioner to Britain between 1955 and 1959.In 1966, he was designated Nigeria representative in Washington DC.He was also a minister of Foreign Affairs durning the era of self styled military president, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. Mbu political empire continue withhis children, one of whom is Senator Mattew Taiwo Mbu (Jr).

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SUPREME COURT SACKS FIVE STATE GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA

 

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Abuja - Nigeria's Supreme Court on Friday sacked five ruling party state governors for over-staying their positions in a move that has added to confusion in a nation reeling under security woes.

The ruling, which overturns a decision by a lower court, affects governors from President Goodluck Jonathan's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) who took office in May 2007.

Five governors won re-run elections a year after their initial victories in the 2007 polls were annulled because of irregularities.

A high court ruled in January last year that they had to start a fresh term, but supreme court Judge Walter Onnoghen said on Friday that their tenure started the day they were first sworn into office.

“To allow the governors seeking tenure elongation will allow a culture of impunity in the system,” he said.

Affected states are Adamawa, Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi and Sokoto.

Governorship elections are to be held in four of the affected states next month, while a new governor was elected in Kogi state in a December vote, although he has yet to be sworn in.

“No person can remain in office more than the four years provided for by the constitution,” said the ruling by the country's top court.

Jonathan is grappling with a surge in attacks by the Islamist Boko Haram sect and mounting social discontent.

The PDP controls around two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states and the nation's capital Abuja. - Sapa-AFP

OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY NIGERIA's FINANCE MINISTER ON ALLEGED PLAN TO RESIGN OVER SUBSIDY REMOVAL

It has come to our notice that a well coordinated campaign of calumny against the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, founded on outright lies and despicable distortions is being executed by cowardly persons hiding behind the ongoing controversy over the government’s decision to deregulate the petroleum sector.

 

For obvious reasons, the faceless campaigners have elected to tell their lies online because the normal journalistic principles of facts and balanced reporting are generally absent there.

 

For instance, we have received numerous enquiries regarding an alleged threat by the Coordinating Minister to resign if the government goes back on its decision to end the fuel subsidies. The threat was supposedly made during the emergency Federal Executive Council meeting which held yesterday.

 

This speculation, like numerous others is absolutely false. DR OKONJO-IWEALA WAS NOT AT THE MEETING BECAUSE SHE WAS OUT OF THE COUNTRY WHEN IT WAS GOING ON. In other words, they are saying that she made a threat at a meeting that she did not attend. She made no such threat physically or through any other means. She had no reason to.

 

The agenda behind the alleged threat and similar stories is obvious: to inspire public hatred and odium against her person by manipulating public opinion so that she is seen as the sole person pushing for the removal of subsidies.

 

Their calculation is that Nigerians are so angry and so gullible that they will believe anything if the lies are supported with manufactured “facts”. But we believe that fair minded Nigerians are not fools.

 

It is clear that governments and certainly the Jonathan administration do not work in the manner that the peddlers of falsehood are saying. It is not only naive but also highly disrespectful to the President and the government as a whole to suggest that the entire decision making machinery of government is the sole preserve of any official.

 

We urge the media and the Nigerian public to ignore the antics of people who obviously believe that Nigerians are fools.

 

For the avoidance of doubt, Dr Okonjo-Iweala supports the decision on fuel subsidy removal because she believes that ending the subsidies will drastically reduce corruption in the downstream sector.

 

Deregulation will also help to end the waivers enjoyed by powerful cabals at the expense of the Nigerian people. In addition, the vast majority of Nigerians will also gain as the proceeds will be redirected into safety nets, other identifiable social interventions as well as provision of sorely needed infrastructure projects nationwide. 

The statement was signed by Paul C Nwabuikwu,the

Senior Special Assistant to the Coordinating Minister for the Economy/Minister of Finance

 

OIL SUBSIDY PROTEST BY NIGERIANS IN UK ON FRIDAY-SEE VENUE,DATE AND TIME

Nigerians in the UK have concluded arrangement to protest against the recent fuel subsidy removal by the Nigerian President, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan and members of his national executive council.
 The London Metropolitan Police hours ago granted permit to Nigerian Students In Diaspora

CHRISTMAS DAY BOMBING IN NIGERIA RECORD DEATHS IN CATHOLIC CHURCH

 Just as millions of people all over the world are celebrating Christmas, several people in abuja are morning deaths of their loved ones in Abuja when suspected Islamist group, Boko Haram denotated explosives killing unspecified number of people.

  The christmas day bombing, gistmaster gathered, happened inside the St Theresa Catholic Church located on the outskirts of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. Eye witnesses disclosed that several persons died in the bomb explosion.
 Security agents from the military and police force are already on group at the scene of the incident.Officials from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) are also there to help evacuate the dead and injured victims at the scene of the unfortunate incident.

  Boko Haram, an Islamist group had claimed responsibility for various bomb attacks in Northern Nigeria and Abuja. It would be recalled that the explosion that rocked the United Nations office in Abuja and Police Headquarters in Abuja were widely condemned.

 Fightings between a special task force set up by the Nigeria Military and fighters of the Boko Haram sect have have reportedly claimed the lives of over 59 members of the sect.
-Gistmaster

GHANA TO SELL ELECTRICITY TO NIGERIA-DAILY SUN

Ghana’s ruling government has concluded plans to begin export of electric power to Nigeria and other West African countries by 2015.
The country’s Vice President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, who unfolded the plan in Accra, on Tuesday, said the government has already embarked on extensive expansion of power infrastructure to enable them achieve the project.

Mahama explained that a key motivation for the investment was that Ghana presently has competitive advantage in the area of power supply over other neighbouring countries, including Nigeria, which is still grappling with massive power deficit for its estimated 150 million citizens.

The vice president, who spoke at a summit on Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Compact Two in Accra, said the country intends to consolidate on its existing energy infrastructures by exploring alternative sources of supply, including solar power and biomass resources, to ensure that the target of selling power to other West African countries was achieved by the next four years.

Mahama, who underscored the imperative of stable energy in the economic development of his country said Ghana was partnering the United States Government to realize the dream, stressing that raising the nation`s power generation would in addition create wealth and alleviate poverty among her citizens. It was in the light of that initiative that the Millennium Challenge Account Compact two was organized to seek ways of funding power generation and transmission and uninterrupted power supply.

Under the arrangement, the country intends to increase her current 2000 megawatts of electricity to 5000 megawatts with the hope of selling surpluses to needy countries including Nigeria. Also speaking, Ghana’s deputy minister of Energy, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini explained that the country would require about $1.7billion to meet its quest for universal access to power supply, pointing out the President Arthur Mills government had already received about $966.55million from bilateral and multilateral institutions in that regard.
Alhaji Fuseini said there was a` shortfall of about $729million against which background it considered MCA compact two was considered useful.

IT would be recalled that Ghana has one of the largest dams in the world had in 2009 celebrated her ten years of uninterrupted power supply. Authoritative sources say that the Akosombo Dam built by late President Kwame Nkrumah has the potential to supply the entire West Africa with electricity if fully utilized.

It would be recalled that President Goodluck Jonathan had shortly after being sworn-in in May reviewed the nation’s power roadmap, raising fears that Nigeria may continue to live with power shortages in the foreseeable future.

TINUBU's AMAZING WEALTH +WHY HE SENT ME TO PRISON-BODE GEORGE

 Chief Olabode George, former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), did not hide his angst against the plan by the Lagos State government to bill motorists that travel on Lekki-Epe Road, saying it would be a rip off without the provision of  an alternative route. He also spoke on his Abacha days, his trial and conviction for contract splitting as well as the fate of the PDP in Lagos and the South-West. Lasisi Olagunju, General Editor, and Sulaimon Olanrewaju, Deputy Editor, bring the excerpts.

YOU were at the Aso Rock Villa during the time of General Sani Abacha, you worked with General Oladipo Diya. How was it?It was a most trying period because when we started, there were some misgivings after the annulled election of June 12, 1993. I remember that young officers were fed up; they wanted to pull out and go to the barracks and let civil authorities be in charge. The military was divided. I remember when they were going to appoint administrators, General Abacha asked us, the senior military officers, whether we wanted civilians to be the administrators or we wanted military officers. The debate went back and forth; eventually we said if we were taking full responsibilities for our actions, it had to be military officers. So, it was decided that military officers would be the administrators while civilians would be their deputies.

The next issue was that of MKO Abiola. He was hiding somewhere and suddenly, he went to Epetedo area where he declared himself president. Many of us didn’t like that. I remember that we were at another meeting at the villa where a decision was to be taken on whether we should arrest Abiola. I can never forget that meeting. The head of state was the chairman and I was the secretary of the meeting. All the senior officers were at the meeting. Some said he should be arrested because he had committed a crime, while others said he had not committed any crime. I think it was a trying period in the military and I pray to God Almighty that the military will not venture into governance any more in this country. The camaraderie that we enjoyed, the oneness, the trust, the brother’s keeper concept was destroyed. I will also plead with the civilians to be careful so that they don’t give any excuse to the military authorities to say they want to have a taste of government again.

At that meeting, I told the head of state that if Abiola was arrested, some people would think that he was being punished unnecessarily. I told them that there was no way anyone who declared himself president at Epetedo could be guilty of treason because there was no way he could have seized power from Epetedo. I said since we were planning a constitutional conference, he should be left as a freeman so that he could also participate in the conference.

Less than a week after that meeting, I was out of service.

That means you were also a victim of the June 12 struggle?In a way, yes. But as military officers, we didn’t get concerned about what the civilians were doing, what we wanted was to save the name of our service and organisation. We wanted to save it from the vagaries of the political manipulation.

You travelled out of the country shortly after your retirement?Yes, I thought discretion was the better part of valour. The situation was not quite what I expected it to be, so I went on self exile, I needed to cool off. When the heat started coming, I didn’t like it and I knew worse things were going to happen, that is why I had to leave.

What informed your return to the country, when you did?I was in London when I got a message that General Sani Abacha had died. It came like a thunderbolt. Not long after that, Baba (Obasanjo) was released from prison; he then visited London. Stella, his late wife, was the one I knew very well, we grew up together. When they got to London, Stella called me and I went to see them. We went out to dinner. When I was a Staff Officer in the Villa, Baba used to come and I was the one handling his visits when he wanted to see either General Abacha or General Diya. So, Baba also knew me. So, when we met, he was asking me why I left the country and I told him I had to take cover. We chatted and later parted.

Again, they were in London and they called to inform me. We met again and Baba was telling me that some jokers were asking him to contest the presidential election. I told him to ignore them that he should not allow himself to be dragged into politics. That was my first reaction. Later, I got together with my good friends, Ebenezer Babatope, Yemi Ogunbiyi, Tunji Ayanlaja and Niyi Alonge, and we were discussing this matter. I then came to a conclusion that if Obasanjo was needed at that time, he should answer the call. Then, Nigeria was in a state of flux and a tested captain was required.

So, on his next visit, I told him that he should consider taking up the offer. He was surprised and I told him that if after consulting with his family and friends, he decided to take up the challenge, I would join him. We left it at that but I meant it. When he finally decided he was going to run, the very day he was going to launch his coming to politics, I landed in Nigeria. I was with him throughout the period of the campaign.

After the election and Baba won, we all moved to Abuja. When he was constituting his cabinet, he asked me what I wanted and I told him that with my experience in the military, I could be his chief of staff. He said no that he had already decided on who would be his chief of staff. Again, he asked what I wanted and I told him I would go to the party. He was surprised, but I told him I would go to the party to work for him. I had wanted to be the Deputy National Chairman but due to some intrigues, I became the National Vice-Chairman (South-West). My plan was to win the South-West for the PDP.

You have been so critical of Senator Bola Tinubu, could it be because of your inability to take over Lagos State from him as you did in other states?I have nothing personal against Bola Tinubu, nothing at all. When he first came in, despite the fact that we were not in the same party, we supported the Lagos State government in every way we could. But when we saw his own concept of operation, the Alpha Beta issue, we had to change. There is no government, since General Johnson, which has so raped Lagos State as this chap. From 2000, using Alpha Beta, he has been collecting a percentage of the treasury every 30 days. Imagine the kind of money he has taken from the treasury. That is just one source. What about LASTMA? When you are fined by LASTMA, the company that collects the money is owned by Bola Tinubu. Highway Mangers belongs to Bola Tinubu. Go to Ikoyi and the choice areas of Lagos State and see the amount of properties belonging to Tinubu. If General Johnson was that greedy, because he could have been, would there have been anything left for Tinubu to now appropriate?

Even the governor that is there now, I feel sorry for him. Did he have one nominee as a commissioner? Did he have anybody as a local government chairman? Does he control any policy in the state? Unfortunately, he will be the one to answer to the people of the state. There will be a day after his job. For the rest of his life, they will be asking him what he did as governor.

We know what General Johnson did, we know what Jakande did, we know what Mike Akhigbe did, we know what my friend and classmate, Gbolahan Mudashiru, did in Lagos and all the other governors. What would they say he did? Flooding. They have pumped so much sand in the whole of the riverside; reclamation without environmental impact assessment. I am still rebuilding my house which they damaged because of their greed.

How many houses and properties would Bola Tinubu carry to Iragbiji? He has also acquired the former site of the Lagos State Polytechnic at Isolo. I have just learnt that his wife also owns one of the modern cemetaries in Lagos. They do not only want to control where we live, they also want to control where we are buried.

There is so much corruption in the state.  When we saw the allegation against the speaker of the state house of assembly, we were shocked. And despite all these, Governor Fashola has the nerve to ask students of the Lagos State University to pay N250,000. Despite taking about N3billion every 30 days from the treasury, he now wants to start charging toll on the Lekki-Epe Express road. Anywhere in the civilised world, once you build a tollgate, you must build an alternative route so as to allow anyone who does not have the funds to pay to go through the alternative route. Where is the alternative route from Lekki Phase 1 to Epe? It means the whole population living down there is in prison. If you want to get out you pay Bola Tinubu, that is what it means. Let him come and start collecting the toll. If he does not provide an alternative route, he should just forget it.

The tollgate will become effective next week, is there anything you can do to stop it?
I will lead a protest against it. I have told him. The day they plan to start collecting the toll, I will lead the people in protest. Let him bring the police. Let the governor seal the leakages in the state coffers where Bola is looting like hell. He should do that and give good education to the future leaders of the state. Some of us got bursaries when we were in school, which is why we are where we are today. Increasing fees from N30,000 to N250,000, what moral authority does he have? I do not blame him, he was not elected; he was selected to be there.

Now, Tinubu is multiplying himself in other states: in Ogun, Oyo, Osun and Ekiti. I know Ibikunle Amosun, he came from the stock of PDP. He wouldn’t want to be a stooge of Tinubu. Abiola Ajimobi is a seasoned administrator; he won’t want to be a stooge of Tinubu. Now, he (Tinubu) has the audacity to say he wants to be the Yoruba leader. The Yoruba people have come a long way and can’t take the like of Tinubu as their leader.

This is without prejudice to the people of Osun State. I have been through the nooks and crannies of the state. In fact, I have been to Bola Tinubu’s village in Iragbiji to campaign. They showed me the primary school he attended and what his real name is and his nick name, which is Archipelago. He only went to primary school there. This is a public challenge; let Bola Tinubu show us his certificates. Let his friend, Akiyelure, who said they recruited him, show the certificate with which he was recruited. We know his brother was at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, does he bear Tinubu? Raufu Tinubu wrote a book, tracing their genealogy and listed every member of their family. There is no mention of any Bola Tinubu in the book.

When Bola Tinubu’s mother died in Iragbiji, he did not have the nerves to attend the funeral because he was afraid that the truth would be revealed. So, what kind of person is this man? He has corrupted most flying agencies. The only one he has not been able to corrupt is the State Security Service (SSS).

Your contract splitting problem...A week after the appointment of Farida Waziri as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), she came to Lagos to see Tinubu. Let her swear with whatever she believes in that that is not true. Tinubu railroaded Bode George into prison, thinking he had drowned me, forgetting that I am a sailor; the more you press a sailor seaward, the more he manoeuvres and pops out. The fact is that no human being can drown me. It is only those who live in perfidy that will die in perfidy. I am not afraid of him and his co-travellers because the truth cannot be drowned. They railroaded us and took us on trump up charges and said that we split and inflated contracts. In fact, I thought it was all a huge joke. Now, the case was Federal Government versus Chief Olabode George and others. Michael Aondoakaa, who was the Attorney-General of the Federation, did he sign the fiat? It was Supo Sasore, then Attorney-General of Lagos State, who gave fiat to Keyamo.

What did we do to warrant our conviction? Was I an executive chairman? Did I have any authority to sign any kobo in NPA (Nigerian Ports Authority)? Procedurally, an executive director of whichever branch would bring memo to the boardroom to discuss; they themselves would present the memo.

The EFCC said we split contracts, which contracts? If a user department decides this is what they want to do and he is able to defend it, the board will have to approve. The man who brought the memo to the board was not charged along with us. The executive director in charge of finance was not even tried. The worst part of it, the board meeting was every quarter. The minute of a meeting held this quarter, for instance, would be read at the next meeting in the next quarter and ratified before it becomes law. During that period, the memos and everything done would have gone to the ministry because the ministry had a representative at that meeting. So, if we did not follow any administrative instruction, shouldn’t the ministry have intervened to stop it? If the ministry did not intervene and the memo was brought back, it meant the ministry had acquiesced. So, what exactly did we do?

The judge who did the dirty job was promised that he would be promoted to the Court of Appeal. Let Farida tell the whole world why she sent Oyewole to a seminar in South Africa. Oyewole has never been a staff member of the EFCC, so why should the EFCC pay for his participation in a seminar in South Africa? It was a reward for doing Farida’s dirty job.

What is the hope of the PDP in the South-West?I think the PDP in the South-West needs a post mortem. I think the vice-chairman and all the mangers of the party need to call a meeting very urgently, we need to get together. I have been championing this and shouting about it. Let us sit down and look at what had really happened to us. We know that Ekiti and Osun are a different concept because they stole our mandate. I said it before and I will say it again; the judges sat down and started removing and cancelling figures and stole the people’s mandate.

But beyond all of that, the PDP in the South-West has to meet to strategise. When we meet, I have three or four options I will suggest for consideration. One, did our governors perform well or not? We need to look at that. Two, are the Yoruba people angry for one thing or the other, maybe the PDP offended them? The third option is, were we careless? The last option could be a combination of all or some of these?

We need to do our findings and aggregate all suggestions and come up with a unified solution. I have my own view on the way forward but a tree does not make a forest. One thing I know that the Yoruba people want now is to be at the centre. So, it is up to us to do our homework well and we shall bounce back in the South-West.

Do you think the PDP will ever take over Lagos?Yes.

When?By the grace of God the journey has started. The last election gave Lagosians the opportunity to see things for themselves. Lagosians now know there is so much deceit by the ruling party in the state.

They say ‘Eko o ni baje’ but the people know that the state is going to the dogs. Go to my house, when I moved there, I could see the lagoon. Now they have sand-filled the lagoon almost halfway. So, the water level of the lagoon has risen so high that houses are regularly flooded.

Now Bola Tinubu has seized a fishing island between Lekki and Ikoyi, which is where he wants to have the headquarters of his empire. The Lagos State government used to have a guest house at Bourdillon. The house has been taken over. Even the house where Bola Tinubu lives on Bourdillon, we all know how he got it and how he eventually arm-twisted the state to pay for it. They have raped the state blind and the people are beginning to see that these people are rogues. So, there is no doubt that at the next opportunity they will be voted out.

If in the last local government election the ACN rode roughshod over you, what guarantee is there that things would be different next time?You see, in that local government election, we won a couple of councils, but the chairman of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), a retired chief judge of the state, collaborated with the ACN to manipulate the result. This man, when he was going to announce the result, said “ACN won all the local government chairmen.” Up till now, there is no breakdown of the results. We have filed our papers at the tribunal. We are taking that step to ensure our people do not resort to violence. But I can assure you that it will not happen again.

Where are the human rights activists? Why have they kept quiet over this injustice? If it had been the PDP that did what the ACN had done in Lagos, the so-called human rights activists would have taken over the airwaves but now, not a squeak from them. That tells us they are on the pay roll of Tinubu. But all of that will change. I can assure you of that.

-Note: This is the complete detail of what he told Tribune Newspaper

IDRIS WADA WINS KOGI GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

 

 

The result of the Kogi State governorship election shows that Captain Idris Wada is the winner. He scored 300,372 votes as against the 159,913 votes scored by his closest rival,Abubakar Audu of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
However, www.niyitabiti.blogspot.com gathered that Audu a former governor of the state and his party, ACN are disatisfied with the conduct of the election, alleging rigging by the PDP.Plans is already in top gear to challenge the election result in court.
  The newly elected governor of Kogi State is a rich and famous pilot and businessman with about 30 years of career experience.
-By Niyi Tabiti

BREAKING NEWS:OJUKWU IS DEAD

Chief Emeka Ojukwu, a former governor of the old eastern region is dead. Ojukwu, who has been hospitalised for moths died on his hospital bed in London, where he has been receiving treatment. Ojukwu who holds the title of Ikemba of Nnewi, amongst other titles would be given a state burial in Anambra State with the support of other governors in Igbo land. 
 Gistmaster gathered the federal government is also expected to play a pivotal role in the burial of the late elder stateman who led the Biafra war.
 Ojukwu's biography : Ojukwu was born in 1933 at Zugeru in the northern part of Nigeria to sir Louis Phillipe Ojukwu, one of Nigeria's richest men at that time. He was a radical who hates discrimination and cheating. The young Ojukwu got into trouble in 1944 for assaulting one his teachers- a whitewoman who matreated a black woman. 
After secondary school, Ojuwku studied History in the United Kingdom. On his return, Gistmaster, gathered that Ojukwu joined the Nigerian Army against his father's wish. He was one of the few graduates who enlisted in the army at that time. He rose to the position of governor eastern region (Controlling Igbo states).
 In 1967, he declared the eastern region a sovereign state , proclaiming that Igboland have secceded from Nigeria. He called it, Biafra Republic. This led to war between the federal forces and the Biafra Army. The war ended in 1970 with Ojukwu scampering abroad. He was later pardoned in durning the administration of Alhaji Sheu Shagari.

  He married his best friend's daughter, former Miss Bianca Onoh. Despite the refusal of Chief C.C Onoh's refusal to bless the wedding,Ojukwu and Bianca went on with thir love life. Ojuwku lost his friendship to Onoh while Bianca also lost her crown to the romance. The organizers of Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria had to dethrown Bianca because of the controversies sorrouding her romance with the Ojukwu.

Regina Askia as the beauty queen immediately Bianca was dethroned.
-By Niyi Tabiti

LATEST NEWS:TINUBU BUYS BELVIEW AIRLINE

  A former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has floated his own airline. Tinubu bought the moribund Bellview Airlines for amount which obviously set him back with millions of Naira. Already, the new refurbished airline company is expected to be one of the aviation industry top players within a short time. The airline has already been renamed First Nation Airline. Recruitment into the company has already been carried out some months ago.

GADAFFI CAPTURED, DIED FROM WOUNDS+THE MAN WHO SHOT GADDAFI

Col. Muammar Gaddaffi the despotic ruler who held Libya to ransome for all of 42 years is dead. The death has been confirmed by the Vice Chairman of the National Transitional Council.
 The fighting inside Gadaffi's home town of Sirte has been going on for sometime. But the Transitional Council declared victory over it when it overwhelmed Gaddafi's troop and conquered them. More coming soon!
The amazing part of the story is the man who shot at the former Libyan ruler, Muammar Gaddafi. Let keep our fingers crossed,it would be revealed soon.

ACTRESS CHIKA IKE's EX-HUSBAND VEERS INTO POLITICS

  After working many years in brand marketing and later UBA Plc, Tony Ebireri the handsome husband of one of Nigeria’s popular actresses, Chika Ike, has veered into politics. 
 Latest news from Delta State says that Tony has put all the problems in with Chika behind him, now he is focused on his ambition to become the next Chairman of Sapele Local Government in Delta State. Ebireri, a close associate of Great Ogboru is contesting under the umbrella of Democratic Peoples Party (DPP)

Tony could not be reached on Sunday via phone but someone who is in the know says he is ready to deliver the dividends of democracy to people in the grassroots.

LATEST NEWS:COURT REMANDS GBENGA DANIEL IN EFCC CUSTODY TILL FRIDAY

  Otunba Gbenga Daniel, a former governor of Ogun State was today arraigned before an Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta on 16 count charges of corruption. The EFCC who made the charges against Daniel said he used his position as a former state chief executive to steal and divert public funds for person use.
According to what Gistmater gathered from EFCC
 Otunba Gbenga Daniel allegedly converted the sum of $3 million(a dollar is now N158 to $1) from the domiciliary account of Ogun state with FCMB (First City Monument Bank) into personal use.
 EFCC said Daniel used the money to buy equity stake in a private company, Glanvill Enthoven & company Nigeria Limited.The offence is punishable under section 390 (4) of the criminal code CAP 29 laws of Ogun State.
EFCC also alleged that the ex governor used his position to fraudulently withdrew the sum of $1 million (USD) from the same domiciliary account of Ogun State with FCMB to buy shares in 21st Century Technology Limited.
The anti-graft agency also alleged that Daniel converted several billions of Naira meant for public use into personal use.
 Justice Mabekoje adjourned the EFCC lawyer, Mr.Jacobs respond to the bail application brought by Mr. Daniel's lawyer, Professor Taiwo Osipitan (SAN) and Mr.Tayo Oyetibo (SAN).

LATEST NEWS:ABDULMUTALLAB,NIGERIAN BORN SUICIDE BOMBER PLEADS GUILTY IN THE US

  Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, the Nigerian terror suspect who was caught in failed attempt to blow up an international flight near Detroit Airport, USA has pleaded guilty to charges brought against him by the American Government.
  When Addulmuttalab  was asked by the district Judge Nancy Edmunds, he pleaded guilty to the act of terrorism and attempted murder. Most people were shocked.This is Abdulmutallab's second day in court.He had earlier told FBI agents that he was sent by agents of Al-Qaida.He was influenced by Anwar Al-Awlaki the American born radical Muslim cleric killed in Yemen recently in a air strike conducted by the US.
 Mutallab, whose father is a rich businessman and former Chairman of First Bank Nigeria Plc, faces prison sentence up to life imprisonment.
 Abdulmuttallab was arrested inside a Northwest airlines flight 253 on christmas day in 2009 after the under wear bomb he targeted at all passengers of the flight and himself failed to worked.