Monday, April 27, 2015
Pres. Jonathan orders immediate release of report of forensic audit of NNPC accounts
We have noted with concern, the allegation by the spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed that officials of the Federal Government are engaged in “last minute looting of the nation’s resources, rushed privatization of key institutions and hurried recruitment into the public service”.
We also consider as most unfortunate and uncharitable, the suggestion by Alhaji Mohammed that the Jonathan Administration is trying to “tie the hands” of the incoming government merely by continuing to discharge its constitutional responsibilities until the end of its tenure.
Ohimai Godwin Amaize: The way forward for PDP
PDP was a great party. It is still a great party, but more instructively, great in the nostalgic sense of what rose from a political party founded on nationalist ideals in the wake of Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999, to a behemoth at the prime of its glory in 2007 when former President Olusegun Obasanjo was winding up his tenure in office.
Carried away by the lust and lure of political power, the party’s misfortunes can be traced to the days when it began to put politics above leadership and national interest. It was a fancy tale in Nigeria how PDP was Africa’s largest political party, how the house of Nigeria’s political heavyweights was too solid to collapse and how the party was going to rule Nigeria for the next 60 years. Such were the brazen expressions signature of the heydays of the PDP as Nigeria’s ruling party.
The PDP Titanic ship may have been sunk in 2015, but the party’s head-on collision with the icebergs of public perception had become evident as far back as 2011. By the time Nigerians went to the 2011 presidential polls, the public reputation of the PDP had become so battered that the average Nigerian considered those three letters – P.D.P. – synonymous with impunity, corruption and incompetence. It was so bad that President Goodluck Jonathan was voted into office in 2011 largely on his individual goodwill.
As Nigerians grumbled and public opprobrium mounted against the ruling party, the party leadership, just like the autocratic Bourbon monarchy of France, heeded little or no attention. So much was taken for granted.
US Daily Beast in new article, calls Tinubu 'Heroin Kingpin'
General Muhammed Buhari’s political partner is a former bagman for two heroin traffickers. But that’s just business as usual in Nigeria. Nigeria’s election last month was celebrated as an unlikely victory for democracy in an African country with a tenuous record of free and fair representation. But the man most responsible for midwifing General Muhammed Buhari’s ballot triumph over current President Jonathan has a spotty CV.
Former Lagos provincial governor Bola Tinubu, affectionately nicknamed the Jagaban, is today seen as a shrewd if not “deeply Machiavellian” Svengali in Nigeria’s politics as well as the architect of a hugely successful anti-corruption platform. But 20 years ago he had to forfeit nearly half a million dollars to the U.S. Treasury Department after being named as an accomplice in a white heroin-trafficking and money-laundering ring that stretched from West Africa to the U.S. Midwest.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Photos: Meet the woman who is the First Nigerian on the North Pole
Tuedon Omatsola Morgan, a married mother of four, has made history as the first Nigerian to set foot on the North pole. The 42 year old marathon runner, who has finished marathons on seven continents twice, achieved this feat recently. She placed the Nigerian flag on the North Pole, in Alaska.
courtesy: linderikeji
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