The Peoples Democratic Party has fixed its presidential primaries for December 6, 2014. This was made known to the media by the PDP national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, who also said the primaries for governorship is for November 29 and National Assembly primaries for November 22.

These were the proposals arrived at by the party ahead of its NEC meeting which will ratify the dates. The PDP caucus had met Tuesday at the Presidential Villa ahead of the NEC, while the Board of Trustees of the party (BoT) met on Wednesday night also at the villa.

In a related development the PDP Governors Forum has finally endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole candidate of the party ahead of the party’s December 6 primaries.


The governors, including some deputies numbering 18, arrived at the decision on Wednesdau ahead of the party’s NEC meeting which is very likely to adopt the resolution of the governors.

Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, a presidential hopeful, was not present at the meeting of the governors. His deputy was, however, at the meeting.

Reading the communique of the governors after a three-hour meeting, chairman of the forum and governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, urged all PDP faithful to support the gesture which he said should enable the president to become the sole candidate of the party come 2015.

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Founder of Synagogue Church, Prophet TB Joshua, says he has been facing hard times since the collapse of his church guesthouse in Lagos. He has, however, said that he would survive the trying times.

A six-storey guesthouse belonging to the church collapsed last Friday, and as at the last count, about 80 persons have been confirmed dead with over 140 rescued alive.

TB Joshua has assured all who believe in his good works that would not be destroyed by the incident:

“Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me,” TB Joshua said, adding, “To withstand hard times, stand with Christ. When you face trials, hard times, you can count it all joy if you add faith.”


Quoting the Bible, TB Joshua reached out to his thousands of followers across the world via the social network, just as he stated that God sometimes makes use of hard times to “draw us to Himself.”

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Nigerian soldiers are stepping up their game in the fight against Boko Haram. As you read this, over 400 men of the dreaded Boko Haram sect may have been killed in a shoot out with the Nigerian military in parts of troubled North East, particularly in Borno state.

A source, who is a member of the Civilian JTF, disclosed that the insurgents were repelled back from both Ngamdu, 100 kilometres from Maiduguri on the Maiduguri-Damaturu road and Konduga, just about 40 kilometres on the Maiduguri-Bama road.

He said they were probably heading towards Maiduguri from the two opposite directions. The source, who spoke on phone on Wednesday afternoon, said: “As I am talking to you the corpses of the insurgents are lying the streets in the two towns.”

According to Abusidiq, the source claimed that the soldiers of the Nigerian Army 7 division, headquarters in Maiduguri stationed in the two towns, Konduga and Ngamdu engaged the insurgents in heavy confrontation at the break of the day and killed about 300 in Konduga where they had equally repelled them last week during which over 100 insurgents were killed.

He added that in Ngamdu, 150 insurgents were killed in the exchange of gunfire.

He further revealed that the military attacked members of the sect with the assistance of the local vigilante.

Another person, Bashir Abbas, a member of the youth vigilante group said the attempts of the Boko Haram sect to invade Maiduguri, the Borno state capital was repelled back by the military at different parts of the state with the insurgents suffering heavy casualties.

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Lt. Col. Adeboye Obasanjo, son of former president Olusegun Obasanjo who was wounded in a fire-fight in Bazza between the military and Boko Haram terrorists on Monday, has expressed eagerness to return to the battleground as soon as he fully recovers.

The younger Obasanjo stated this on Tuesday when former vice president Atiku Abubakar paid him a visit at a government medical facility in Yola where he is receiving treatment.

He added that the former vice president praised the gallant spirit of Obasanjo, prompting him to comment that the young man inherited the trait from his former boss.

“He was even marching before me, even as he was recovering from gunshots,” Atiku reportedly said, while wishing him speedy recovery.

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In a fight to take over their towns back from Boko Haram, reports coming in from Adamawa state is that about 8o members of the sect have been killed by youths and vigilantes in Muchika and Madagali local government of the state on Tuesday night, September 9.

According to Punch the dreaded Boko Haram armed with sophiscated weapons who have been wreakingg continuous havoc in the Northern states most especially Adamawa and Borno fled into the rush after running out of arms and ammunitions.

Meanwhile following the presence of troops stationed in strategic places in the state, normalcy has reportedly returned to the LGAs.

According to a resident of Michika, Vandi Joseph, who told journalists on Wednesday in Yola that the insurgents were overpowered by youths and vigilantes said:

“Our youths and vigilance group members ambushed and killed over 80 insurgents who escaped from soldiers and hid themselves in the bush. Our youths and vigilantes saw them and killed them.”

Meanwhile, the Emir of Mubi has denied the report that he fled his palace following Boko Haram’s threat of an impending attack.

The Ismalist group have killed thousands of innocent people in their incessant attacks.

It was reported on Spetember 7, that the Boko Haram Insurgents had taken over Michika Town in Adamawa state.

Just recently on Monday, September 8, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo’s son, Lieutenant.

Colonel Adeboye was shot by Boko Haram during an attack in Baza, Adamawa state but now recovering in the hospital and expressed eagerness to return to the battlefield.

In a bid to win the war against terrorism, on September 9, it was reported over 40 members of Boko Haram were reportedly killed by troops from the 1 Division Kaduna, 3 Division Jos and TRADOC, Minna during a fierce battle at Vimtim in Adamawa state.

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After a secret negotiation, Boko Haram has agreed to release some of the abducted 219 Chibok girls, The Nation learnt yesterday.

The sect has listed 18 of its key members, who it said should be freed from detention in exchange for the girls.

But there was a snag last night because while the government wanted freedom for all the 219 Government Secondary School, Chibok girls, the sect said it would free only 30. The girls have been in captivity for 149 days.

Boko Haram sent the list of its commanders and the 30 girls to be swapped to a minister, who is also a lawyer, an elderstatesman and a key facilitator of peace with the sect, Comrade Shehu Sani, who is also the President of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, according to sources.

The list, it was learnt, was sent after secret talks between a government delegation and a Boko Haram commander, who is being detained in Kuje Prison in Abuja. But there was no confirmation of this last night.

According the sources, the delegation, whose membership was kept under wrap, discussed with the commander, who is simply described as Umar.

One of the sources said: “Some top officials met with Umar about two weeks ago in Kuje Prison to discuss issues connected to the fate of the Chibok girls.

“We heard some inmates sharing this information that the sect might swap the girls with Umar and others. But all the details are still secret because Umar keeps to himself a lot.”

But another source said: “The delegation had a fruitful negotiation with Umar, who is one of the highly-rated commanders of Boko Haram. The group assured Umar of a swap and he has been looking forward to it.

“The sect has given a list of 18 of its members to be swapped with the abducted Chibok girls.”

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I wonder why a woman will have to fight a girl because of her man, when it’s not like the girl used a long rope to drag your man from home. Very childish! A bitter housewife has bitten off the ear of a female student for having an affair with her husband in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State.

The woman, identified as Mama Ijeoma, had long suspected the girl, an SSS3 student identified as Ada, of doing things with her husband, but for some time she couldn’t do anything about it.

However, the woman was said to have blown her top when she caught Ada and her husband having a nice time in a beer parlour along Ojo Road in Lagos.

Mama Ijeoma was said to have slapped the beautiful Ada twice; an action which made her own husband, identified as Papa Ijeoma, to give her two resounding slaps…


Having been slapped by her husband because of a small girl, the aggrieved woman promised to “deal with” Ada and, before anyone could intervene, she pounced on the hapless girl and tore her top to shreds.

All efforts to appease the woman by her husband and other onlookers proved abortive, as the woman, in a rage, revealed that the girl had been dating her husband long before they got married last year and that she had had enough, after warning her to leave her husband alone, to no avail.

In a shocking move, the woman overpowered her restrainers and pounced on the girl a second time, biting off her ear in the process. Serious wahala!

According to Leadership, immediately her ear was bitten, Papa Ijeoma pushed his wife aside and rushed his fine babe to a private hospital for medical attention, while his wife escaped from the scene.

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Elder statesman, Edwin Clark has asserted that Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa state is not qualified to be president of Nigeria. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain who said this while reacting to the governor’s opposition of the President’s endorsement by the North West region to contest the forthcoming general election also said Lamido lacks the qualities required to succeed the incumbent president.

“Apart from the fact that Jonathan has another four years, Lamido is not qualified to be president of Nigeria. “Lamido should not speak, he’s not the fit-and-proper person to govern Nigeria. One, educationally, he is not qualified. Nigeria is made up of very qualified people; let him tell me what his qualifications are.

“Aminu Kano was the one who brought him up, tell me what his qualifications are to take over from someone who has a Ph.D., who has been a lecturer, who has been a governor, who has been a deputy governor. The arrogance must stop.” Ads by BetterMarkItAd Options Speaking on the dispute between President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state would soon be resolved.

Despite belonging to the same south-south zone and (previously) the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Amaechi and Jonathan ensured a torrid relationship, and the governor defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Clark is of the opinion that Amaechi is to blame, but he said said efforts were being made “to readopt the governor back into the fold because he is one of us”.

He further reiterated his earlier opposition to the waiver that was granted to Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to contest the October 11 gubernatorial election in Adamawa state on the platform of PDP. “Ribadu is not a stable man and I have said it openly at a press conference and an open letter to the national chairman that Ribadu is a political liability; I have said that Ribadu cannot win any election,” he said.

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The big and beautiful actress, who disclosed that she is related to former Governor Segun Osoba, is not ready to give her heart to a handsome man, even if she was single. But why? She said:

“I don’t like guys that are too handsome and too ugly. You know when a guy is too handsome, it is a problem because ladies will be chasing him but when he is averagely handsome, he’s okay by me. When other ladies see my guy, the will go for someone else and not my guy.”

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Ayobami Lam-Adesina, who is the eldest son of a former Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lamidi Adesina, has said he will run for governor of the state on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.

Ayobami told our correspondent during an interview that his late father, who was a leader of the Alliance for Democracy, was responsible for the structure of the APC in the state and denied that the party structure was designed around Governor Abiola Ajimobi.

He said, “I am going to vie for the governorship position in Oyo State as the APC candidate. I will continue from where leaders like Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Bola Ige and my father, who are all late, stopped. I will push for the implementation of true progressive policies. Free education, free health services, rural development, creation of employment and social services are some of the policies of the progressives.

“Constitutionally, I am qualified and I have the experience to succeed as a governor. There is the provision for primaries in the party so I don’t think there will be any problem with my coming out to contest.

“I know the history of the progressives in the state. The structure of the present APC in the state started with the structure put in place by the Alliance for Democracy. My father, the late Bola Ige, Michael Koleoso and other notable politicians nurtured the party to maturity.”

Ayobami, whose father contributed to Ajimobi’s victory in 2011, described the Peoples Democratic Party as a party that had mismanaged the resources of the country.

Ayobami’s governorship ambition and the expected division it may cause could weaken the chances of the APC retaining the governorship seat next year following the defection of its only two senators in the state, Senator Ayo Adeseun and Senator Olufemi Lanlehin to the PDP and the Accord Party respectively.

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