Saturday, 14 March 2015

SHOCKING: witches back Jonathan to win election


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At the mention of witch, many would take to their heels even though it is difficult to pin point who really is a witch. While others are hiding, Dr Okhue Iboi is a bold witch and an herbalist born with strange features. He doesn’t hide his identity. As the National Coordinator and Spokesman of Witches and Wizards Association of Nigeria (WITZAN), he has made headlines of several national dailies with his spiritual revelations. In this interview with News Editor, Ajibola Abayomi, he was down-to-earth about the group and spoke about activities of witches and their intentions.

Who are witches?
Witches are normal people like every other human being. Some are nice while some are wicked. Witches are everywhere; they are found in the church, mosque, government agencies and other human endeavours. Spiritually, some of them have five or six eyeballs.

Tinubu lied, I didn't offer him VP slot - Jonathan




President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said there was no truth in the claim by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that he offered the former Lagos State governor the opportunity to serve as Vice President in a proposed Interim National Government.
Jonathan, who spoke with State House correspondents in Abuja through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, described Tinubu’s claim as absurd and ridiculous. 
Tinubu had, in a statement by his media office on Thursday, claimed that the recent attacks on his person were because he rejected the offer by Jonathan to serve as the Vice President in an ING.
He claimed that having refused the offer, the President was looking for ways to take him out either by killing him or getting him arrested based on trumped up charges.
But Abati insisted that the position of Jonathan had remained that the idea of an ING is treasonable. 
He said the President had made it clear that he had neither proposed the idea at any forum nor discussed it with anybody.

Friday, 13 March 2015

Fire gutted Mile 12 market, kills two

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No fewer than two people have been confirmed dead and property worth millions of naira lost in a serious fire outbreak that gutted the Mile 12 Diesel Black Market this morning.
 Although the cause of the fire had yet to be ascertained as of press time, it was learnt that no fewer than 20 shops were consumed by the inferno.

The General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, however, told our correspondent that preliminary investigation revealed that petrol and diesel were stored in the shops.

Four vehicles, five motorcycles and two trucks were reported to have been destroyed in the outbreak.
 He said, “Fire outbreak occurred around 4:45am at Mile 12 Market . About 20 shops were completely burnt down, five motorbikes, one car, three buses and two trucks were also burnt.

“We recovered two dead male bodies from the shops.”

The LASEMA boss said the fire was put out at 8.40am, while recovery operation was ongoing.
 Our correspondent was told that policemen and officials of the Lagos State Fire Service and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps were also at the scene of the incident.

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Photos from Linda Ikeji blog

I rejected the offer to be Jonathan's Vice President - Tinubu

photo credited to elombah

National leader of the All Progressives Congress [APC], Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says the recent attacks on his person were because he rejected the offer by President Goodluck Jonathan to serve as the Vice President in an Interim National Government.
Tinubu said in a statement by his media office on Thursday.
He said Jonathan blamed him for the successful merger of the APC and the momentum the APC presidential candidate, Maj.  Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) was gaining.
The statement read, “With the election less than three weeks away and the outcome possibly against them, the Goodluck Jonathan Presidency and the hardliners in the PDP have embarked on a new strategy to put a brake on the momentum Buhari seems to be gathering.
“This strategy is novel and seems to be the outcome of a desperate calculation in that the PDP has shifted its attention from the APC in order to attack on multiple fronts the former governor of Lagos State and APC national leader, Bola Tinubu.
“From what can be gathered through informed sources, the PDP and Jonathan Presidency had recently tried to fracture the APC by offering Tinubu the position of Vice President in an interim government if he would agree to part company with the popular Buhari.
“Once Tinubu rebuffed the offer to participate in the interim scheme, the presidency decided to change tactics. It would no longer try to entice Tinubu with sugar but would now move to silence, and if necessary, neutralise him. 
“The APC National leader has caused President Jonathan’s team countless headaches this campaign season, his declining the interim government offer is just the latest.
“The Jonathan government sees Tinubu as the linchpin of the APC and its successful electoral strategy. They also consider him one of the government’s most prolific and able critics due to his long standing and often strident critiques of Jonathan government policies, from economic development to national security.
“More to the point, they blame him as the man who is most responsible for placing them in their current electoral quandary. 
They believe without Tinubu’s efforts, the successful merger of the political parties into the APC would not have occurred and they would not be facing possible defeat at the hands of this new party.”
The former governor said the recent televised hate documentaries were part of the desperate attempt by Jonathan to discredit him.
The statement added, “The agenda to tackle Bola Tinubu and weaken his political influence nationwide and to undermine his leadership in South Western politics can be said to have gone into the overdrive.
“The first part of the strategy is to dredge previously discredited claims of illicit wealth in hopes of silencing Tinubu or lessening his public image. However, they fear this public relations attack may be too soft as Tinubu has been taken before the ICPC and the case against him dismissed.
“If this attack does not deter his party activities, the presidency and PDP are prepared to take more drastic action if they believe it is necessary to win the election by throwing the APC into disarray.”
But the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has described all these allegations as baseless and false

Elombah News

Thursday, 12 March 2015

why we don't want voter card readers - Sambo


 Vice President, Namadi Sambo; Photo credits: Desert Herald
The Nigerian presidency has expressed concern with the use of voter card readers for the forthcoming elections, questioning its legality and efficiency, and defending an earlier position of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on the matter.
Vice President Namadi Sambo said Thursday that while his party was not against the use of card readers, which the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says will help curb vote fraud, it was concerned whether the decision is backed by law and about the possibility of many Nigerians being disenfranchised.
The PDP has strongly criticised the use of card reading machines for the polls, while the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, backs INEC’s plan to deploy them for what is billed to be a close poll.

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Obanikoro named as Minister

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Mr. Obanikoro was named recently in a leaked tape as a principal actor in the state’s governorship election rigging in 2014, sparking national outrage.
The Nigerian government has refused to investigate the claims.
The Senate approved Mr. Obanikoro’s nomination as a minister, Wednesday, after repeated deferments, despite protests from senators from Lagos State, Mr. Obanikoro’s home state, and other opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, who had vowed to stop the clearance over the Ekiti scandal.
As a former senator himself, the Senate allowed Mr. Obanikoro to “take a bow and go”, without answering questions, a privilege reserved for former federal lawmakers.
APC lawmakers responded by walking out of the session in protest.
 
by Daily Sun

6 ways your wear/package could cause you your dream job (II)


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photo credited to google

                             
 YOUR BELT & SHOE:  just as I said last week, your packaging go a long way to determining the impression the panelists will form about you, and their impression about you will also affect their grading of your performance. It will be absurd to see an applicant who claims to be CURRENTLY engaged wearing tattered shoe or torn belt. For fresh graduate, it may be understandable, even though that may jeopardize his chances; for someone who wants to change job, especially a good job, his appearance will go a long way to determining how his claims will be taken seriously. That informs why some experienced job seekers borrow cars to attend some interviews (just to enhance their packaging). Do you now see that how you present yourself for interviews matters?    

GENERAL APPEARANCE: One thing I have come to realize about how man value things is in the way the things are packaged, if animal excrement could be packaged for man to buy, what would man not ‘buy’ if well packaged.  Going for interviews should not only be seen as question and answer session is should be seen as an avenue to ‘sell’ yourself. Package yourself in such a way that you will be liked, and with an above average performance at the questioning session, the liking will spur sentiments in your favour, and that is it. If on the other hand, you did above average and your packaging is zero, it will take the absence of an equally good person with better packaging for you to land the job.

On a final note, I once conducted interview for a couple of IT Administrators, one of them dressed so shabbily that I almost wrote him off; but as a professional in the job (which most panelists are not) I assessed his expertise, eve nthough I scored him low on dressing. At the end of the interview, he was so lucky that he met most of the requirements for the job, so I gave him the opportunity to scale through to the next stage along with others. The next stage comprises of a team of interviewers. Luckily for him (maybe because of my comment on his dressing) he dressed better to the next stage, and he eventually got the job. But because his packaging is poor, he is not getting the respect he ought to command holding such office because his dress sense is equivalent to staff of lesser grades so people of his level merely relate with him as though their level is higher than his. And staff junior to him relate with him as if they are on equal level. This shows how far presentation of oneself, if you like call it packaging, can go a long way to telling how one will be treated or accepted. Hence the popular saying “how you are dressed will determine how you will be address”.


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