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Politics / Re: The Founding Of AAC - The Facts-malcolm Fabiyi, Director General TIB Sowore 2019 by FemiOtawa: 12:55am On May 22, 2019
Politics / The Founding Of AAC - The Facts-malcolm Fabiyi, Director General TIB Sowore 2019 by FemiOtawa: 12:54am On May 22, 2019
The Founding of AAC - The FACTS

I have read a lot of misinformation about the origins of the AAC. For the avoidance of doubt only three people can consider themselves founders of the AAC - Dr Malcolm Fabiyi, Dr Leke Otunuga and Omoyele Sowore.

I began the registration of the AAC starting in May 2018. No one - except Sowore knew about this. The reality is that the AAC was a child of necessity. We did not start out wanting to register a new party. We wanted to align with one of the 68 existing ones. However, as I led the TIB/Sowore 2019 team through those negotiations, it became clear that we were better off using our own platform, if we could get one.

Our chances of getting registered were very low - so, we set out on that effort as a secret project that no one, except Sowore, myself and later Dr Otunuga knew about. We only brought other people on board once we had been assured of registration.

The secrecy was necessary. We realized that if word got out that we were attempting to register a party, our negotiations with other parties would be affected. Secondly, we were concerned that if the government got wind of the fact that Sowore was attempting to register a party, pressure would be applied to INEC to stall the process.

Every dime used for registering AAC came from mine, Dr Otunuga’s and Sowore’s personal funds. I paid the INEC registration fees - N1 million. I paid a lawyer N1.5 million to steer the registration process. Paid N3 million to secure the secretariat, N1.5 million of which came from Dr Otunuga.

As soon as INEC received the N1 million registration fee in June, we were guaranteed of registration within 30 days, based on a clause in the electoral law. All that we needed to do was to ensure that we had a party office and a set of adhoc officers that came from at least two thirds of the states.

The original documents we gave to INEC had me as chairman of the party and Leonard as secretary. He had no idea that I had placed his name in the party registration documents. I could not tell him because of the secrecy of the efforts. My reason for making him the secretary was simple. A party must have geographical spread - and I believed that it made sense that if I was on the party documents as the Chairman representing the North Central region, then a southerner should be secretary. Leonard was one of our leaders from the south - and so the choice was an easy one.

Leonard did not see any of the party documents until around July 20th when I asked him to move 26 of our coordinators to ABUJA for INEC’s inspection. The ABUJA visits occurred twice. For the first visit, Sowore gave Leonard 520k. For the second visit, I sent Leonard 500k.

I am not given to public engagements and debates about facts. However, I also realize that silence might mean consent. The records need to be set straight and I will as time permits, continue to share the founding documents and actions that led to the formation of AAC.

Malcolm Fabiyi

Director General TIB / Sowore 2019

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Politics / Re: Do You Know What A Luta Continua Means? By Pius Adesanmi #tributetoprof. by FemiOtawa: 12:16am On May 22, 2019
Politics / Do You Know What A Luta Continua Means? By Pius Adesanmi #tributetoprof. by FemiOtawa: 12:16am On May 22, 2019
Do You Know What A Luta Continua Means?

By Pius Adesanmi

May 7, 2017

I was wet behind the ears. I was a Jambite. It was matriculation day at the University of Ilorin. After matriculation on the main campus of the University, I returned to the mini-campus in the company of new friends – fellow Jambites. At the entrance gate to campus, we ran to a chaotic mass of policemen, soldiers, tanks, guns, tear gas.

Students advanced, retreated, advanced, retreated, screaming, chanting, rallying. In all the chaos, the protesting students (Nigerian authorities always demean their struggles by calling them rioting or rampaging students) had one rallying call which fascinated us as Jambites:

A luta continua

A luta continua

A luta, a luta

A luta continua

Thus it was that on my very first official day of University life, on matric day, I had to return to Isanlu for two months because the University was closed down. The two months I spent in Isanlu was not a waste. When Baba Adesanmi heard me chanting “a luta continua” one day, he asked: “Bola, who taught you that thing you are saying?”

I told him that the chant was the energizing spirit of the student protest that had sent me back to Isanlu. All the senior students were chanting and screaming “aluta” and all the Jambites joined them. He smiled casually and took out two books from a shelf in the family library. One was entitled, Mozambique: Sowing the Seeds of Revolution, authored by a man called Samora Machel. The other was an edited selection of the speeches and writings of the same Samora Machel.

I knew enough of African and world affairs to know that Samora Machel was the President of Mozambique who had died in a plane crash in 1986. But I did not know that he was one of Africa’s greatest sons, one of Africa’s greatest freedom fighters, one of Africa’s greatest revolutionaries, one of Africa’s greatest radical theorists, one of Africa’s greatest thinkers.

Samora Machel was thus my entrance into the intellectual force field of African radical revolutionary thinkers and freedom fighters. Samora Machel was the path that led me to the writings and work of Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Eduardo Mondlane, Steve Biko, Patrice Emery Lumumba, and Thomas Sankara. Beyond Africa, Samora Machel was the path that led me to a life time of reading the writings and thought of Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Paulo Freire, and Regis Debray but I am jumping ahead of myself.

A luta continua! Generations of Nigerian students have chanted it, have been defined by it. Portuguese for “the struggle continues”, Samora Machel and his FRELIMO freedom fighters originated that chant as their antiphonal call and response formula for mobilizing and motivating the people of Mozambique in their historic struggle against the evil Portuguese colonialists.

Samora Machel developed a musical, deeply-textured and sequenced way of screaming “a luta” from the podium when delivering his rousing speeches and the people would respond in unison, “continua”!

Samora Machel’s call to struggle moved across Africa and the rest of the world to become the rallying call of struggles and protest movements. In Nigeria, it became part of our national lexicon and the very definition of the student experience. Of course, we took Samora Machel’s chant out of context and divorced it from the totality of his meaning. We would not be true Nigerians if we didn’t do such an anti-intellectual thing.

Thus, very few Nigerian students actually know the origins of a luta continua. I wager that few in the post-1980s generation have even ever heard of Samora Machel and FRELIMO. Fewer still in the newer generations would know that Samora Machel never stopped at screaming “a luta continua” from the podium. When he had worked the people to a frenzy of excitement with the “a luta continua” call and response, he would suddenly stop and ask:

Against what? In other words, Samora Machel was not just interested in empty sloganeering. He would ask: against what precisely must the struggle continue? Samora Machel, the great educator, knew that because he was leading Mozambique and, by extension, Africa, against a particular form of oppression, it was easy for people to understand praxis as an exclusive struggle against imperialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism.

As important as the struggle against colonialism and imperialism was, Machel understood that it had to go in tandem with and be underwritten by other internal struggles and dynamics without which the broader struggle was doomed.

Against what must the struggle continue?

Samora Machel would answer his own question to the admiration of his audience:

Against tribalism!

Against ignorance!

Against illiteracy!

Against superstition!

Against misery!

Against hunger!

In other words, the most important aspects of what Samora Machel meant by a luta continua, what he specifically defined the struggle against, have been left out of its Nigerian appropriation by generations of Nigerian students. When the Nigerian student – or even the Nigerian – casually vents, “aluta continua”, tribal hate and religious bigotry are not even remotely in his mind for these two demons are the natural constitutive elements of the Nigerian oxygen.

The Nigerian student chanting aluta continua is thinking of some forces of oppression in the most fuzzy and abstract terms. He is not thinking of tribal hatred and religious bigotry – two of the most significant negativities that Samora Machel and his generation of African freedom fighters and thinkers defined the struggle against.

If Samora Machel and other freedom fighters understood that tribalism, religious bigotry, and superstition were enemies of progress, enemies of the national project, enemies of the liberation struggle, they also understood perfectly that these things were fed by ignorance and illiteracy.

That is why they invested so much of the struggle in mass education and instruction, public pedagogy and the reduction of ignorance. On the personal level, many of them understood that there was no alternative to a lifetime investment in erudition. They were polymaths with an encyclopedic knowledge base in philosophy, history, literature, culture, music, economics, mathematics and the other sciences. They led by example. You could not mobilize the people against illiteracy and ignorance if you were not erudition personified.

The tragedy of Nigeria is that we destroyed the informing spirit of education. Without this informing spirit of education, Nigeria has been building new Universities, Polytechnics, and Colleges of Education in a national project of mass producing and graduating largely ignorant and barely literate armies of ethnic hate, religious bigotry, and invidious superstitions.

Nigeria’s self-destructive demission from the informing spirit of education has come full circle as social media is now exposing the consequences of our dereliction of duty: entire generations of graduates whose only meaningful lifeline is ethnic hate and religious bigotry fed by ignorance and illiteracy.

Hate for hate’s sake. North, south, east, west, these armies of hate and bigotry went through the University screaming “a luta continua” without even understanding what the real owners of that historic liberation chant said that the struggle must be against.

There is also no understanding of the fact that Samora Machel and his generation saw personal development – understood as reading ceaselessly to attain vast erudition – as the principal building block of aluta.

Hence the many contradictions of our blighted existence in Nigeria. Boastful public anti-intellectualism – I don’t read! This essay is too long! – is worn around the neck like an Olympic gold medal by people screaming “aluta” on social media. People who live for hate and by hate on the basis of ethnicity and faith also go about screaming aluta.

Education, real education, remains the greatest weapon against hate. And this is where my generation still hasn’t come to terms with its own failures in the Nigerian national project. We are the ones raising the younger generations who are so totally defined by hate for hate’s sake. We watch all the purulence on social media, gnash our teeth, and shake our heads without understanding that we are responsible to a great extent for this state of affairs.

If you are in my generation and your kids are currently undergraduates in their early 20s or late teens, you fail to understand that the Nigerian education system in its current condition cannot educate them and enrich their minds. I have written again and again that the rot and destruction in our education system is deliberate. The politicians will never fund educational institutions and make it possible for them to produce an educated and informed citizenry.

We do not need to repeat the well-known fact that the rulers of Nigeria are animals. They are the worst humanoids in the world. The education of your children is not in their best interest.

If you intend to run Nigeria the way she has been run by generations of moribund and stupid leaders, the first thing you do is to mass produce an under-educated citizenry easily polarized by ethnicity and religion. If your children were educated and enlightened, where would these leaders find the armies of hate and division they need for their self-perpetuation? They will continue to underfund and destroy education for this reason.

Read more: https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/do-you-know-what-luta-continua-means-by.html

Politics / Re: President Buhari Leaving King Abdul’aziz International Airport,jeddah For Abuja by FemiOtawa: 3:07pm On May 21, 2019

Politics / President Buhari Leaving King Abdul’aziz International Airport,jeddah For Abuja by FemiOtawa: 3:05pm On May 21, 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, May 16, departed the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja for Saudi Arabia. The president’s trip to the Holy Land followed the invitation by King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, the king of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.


President Buhari was seen leaving the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today, in a video tweeted by his Personal assistant on New media, Bashir Ahmad,he left through the Royal Terminal of the King Abdul’aziz International Airport, Jeddah for Abuja. And he is expected to arrive the country in some hours time. .



Watch video:https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/president-buhari-leaving-king-abdulaziz.html
Webmasters / Re: Meet Nigerian Born Facebook Engineer Olaoluwa Okelola From Oyo State (photos) by FemiOtawa: 10:27pm On May 20, 2019

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Webmasters / Re: Meet Nigerian Born Facebook Engineer Olaoluwa Okelola From Oyo State (photos) by FemiOtawa: 10:25pm On May 20, 2019
Visit: https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/meet-nigerian-born-facebook-engineer.html


Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg and Okelola seem to be enjoying a great working relationship.
The presence of these remarkable Nigerians calling shots in big tech companies in Silicon Valley is evidence that Nigerians are one smartest set of people on planet earth. However, Nigerians can do more to become more by chasing their dreams and aspiring to attain remarkable heights. Let's wish Olaoluwa good luck as he is making all Nigerians proud of him!

Read more: https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/meet-nigerian-born-facebook-engineer.html

Webmasters / Re: Meet Nigerian Born Facebook Engineer Olaoluwa Okelola From Oyo State (photos) by FemiOtawa: 10:23pm On May 20, 2019
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In 2007 Olaoluwa Okelola graduared from Howard University. Later, Olaoluwa went to Avi-Cenna International School in Lagos and finished his secondary education in 2002. He continued his education at Howard University, Washington DC, where he studied systems and computer science. In January 2005, Ola joined Microsoft as explorer intern, but left it in August the same year for Google where he worked as an engineering intern. In 2007, he joined Facebook and he has been working there up till date.

Visit: https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/meet-nigerian-born-facebook-engineer.html

Webmasters / Meet Nigerian Born Facebook Engineer Olaoluwa Okelola From Oyo State (photos) by FemiOtawa: 10:21pm On May 20, 2019
Olaoluwa Okelola a Nigerain, born in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital. he attended the International School in Ibadan. (U.I) Okelola went a long way to become one of the most trusted employees in the company is working as an engineer for social media giant Facebook.

- Olaoluwa Okelola is working as a software engineer for social media giant Facebook - - His success is not just pure luck but the result of good education and hard work The story of Olaoluwa Okelola shows how a young but talented man can achieve success by being outstanding in his own way. Nigerian born Okelola is currently living in San Francisco, the United States of America (USA) and working as a software engineer for social media giant Facebook. His success is not just pure luck but the result of good education and hard work. From September 1996 till December 2000, he attended the International School in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.

Religion / Islamic Cleric Buhari Omo Musa Encourages Youths To Engage In Fraud by FemiOtawa: 12:07am On May 17, 2019
Controversial Islamic encourages Nigerian youths to engage in fraud, particularly yahoo-yahoo scam. In of his sermon which went viral online, he categorically emphasized the need for youths to engage themselves in fraudulent scam. He stated made his sermon with his funny Yoruba dialect, that the economy is poor and a typical Nigerian students, after graduation no jobs in the country for self-sustenance.


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https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/islamic-cleric-buhari-omo-musa.html

Travel / Canada Is Sad And Depressing:life Experience Of A Nigerian Student In Canada by FemiOtawa: 11:16pm On May 16, 2019
A popular you-tube Vlogger shared his thoughts and sad experiences of himself and other international students studying and residing in Canada. He highlighted several forms of depressions Nigerians in Canadian Universities are battling with. He complained bitterly that Nigerian Students are facing a lot of pressures in the country. "Many students here gets high and drunk, just to pass away stress,depression and pains they are going true" He said.


He further shared his thought about his experience in Canada, were student have a lot of bills, having to sort out for funds to finance the outrageous school fees of Canadian Universities. He said: "Theses are just some of my thoughts on the day to day life in Canada. I’ve talked with many people and they experience these things too. Some students commuted suicide in The university of Toronto and in VIU - Vancouver Island University in British Columbia witnessed a suicide by a student recently too"



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https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/canada-is-sad-and-depressing-true-life.html

Car Talk / Re: This Is How Electric Cars Are Charged-(video) by FemiOtawa: 9:58pm On May 16, 2019
Car Talk / This Is How Electric Cars Are Charged-(video) by FemiOtawa: 9:58pm On May 16, 2019
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Any electric car that uses batteries needs a charging system to recharge the batteries. The charging system has two goals:

-To pump electricity into the batteries as quickly as the batteries will allow
-To monitor the batteries and avoid damaging them during the charging process.

The most sophisticated charging systems monitor battery voltage, current flow and battery temperature to minimize charging time. The charger sends as much current as it can without raising battery temperature too much.

Watch how electric cars are charged:
https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/this-is-how-electric-cars-are-charged.html

Fashion / Re: Nigerian Women Turns A Fashion Show Runway To A Party Ground-(video) by FemiOtawa: 9:25pm On May 16, 2019

Fashion / Nigerian Women Turns A Fashion Show Runway To A Party Ground-(video) by FemiOtawa: 9:24pm On May 16, 2019
Nigerian women lightened up some positive vibes at a fashion show held in England. The women danced energetically to the amazement of onlookers at the events. The Nigerian women entertained the guest present at the fashion event with Nigeria dance steps, particularly "Shakushaku" which got the people so excited.


It's often said that Nigerians are fun and happy people to be with, they are as well change makers in every facet of life, these fantastic Nigerian women break the normal rules of cat-walking on the runway by being creative with their own indigenous dance steps, which thrilled the crowd at the Fashion show event.


The mysterious performance has generated a lot of positive reactions on social media giving much kudos to the ladies by making Nigeria proud at the international scene.



Watch video:https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/nigerian-women-turns-fashion-show.html

Travel / A Nairalander 6hours Bad Traffic Experience On Old Lagos-abeokuta Highway. by FemiOtawa: 4:03pm On May 15, 2019
6 HOURS IN TRAFFIC ON OLD LAGOS TO ABEOKUTA HIGHWAY; WHAT A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE!


By 'Femi Akintade-Otawa.





I was on a quick visit to Abeokuta from Lagos last Saturday. I had one of my worst and woeful travelling experiences on the old highway of Lagos to Abeokuta express route. Often time, while travelling to Ogun state from Lagos, I prefer plying the new Lagos to Abeokuta highway, just for convenience reasons; the highway is safer and it’s less time consuming unlike the Old express-road.

I often wonder if there is a Government in Ogun state at all? The Government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun and the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has failed Ogun state by not delivering dividends of true democracy, and basic amenities to some regions in Ogun state. Some however, are even confused of the tier of government responsible for the repair of the Old Lagos-Abeokuta highway. Countless pleas from every quarter, residents and passengers frequent complains on Radio and Television programs, daily news, et al, concerning this deadly and porous highway, yet the Government turned a deaf ear to all these pleas and bad experiences of road users on this highway.



My terrible experience on that highway kick-started when we halted at Singer junction in Sango-ota, numerous commuters and passengers were left stranded in a motionless traffic-jam for 6hours. Initially, I had already planned to arrive Abeokuta in 2hrs time (as of the time I left Lagos), by this time it’s already 2: pm (Nigeria time) while inside the traffic for some hours. The Driver and some passengers and I alighted from the vehicle to see what is happening. I was so curious to know the cause of this traffic lock-jam, a young man I met on the highway told it rained heavily overnight till the early hours of Saturday around Sango and Ifo axis, which flooded the bad portion of the highway.



Around 7:PM, the traffic situation is still moving in a ‘snail motion’; Muslims faithfuls who are observing the Ramadan fast, immediately formed an alliance to organize an impromptu communal prayer on the highway, they all came together to observe (the maghrib prayer) and aswell do the breaking of their fast inside the traffic, as there seems to be no hope of steady movement on the highway. At last, after enduring the slow traffic- jam, we had breakthrough around 8:PM, everywhere is dark until I arrived Abeokuta.



Funny enough, it’s so surprising a times when I see Ogun state Hallelujah Boys, chanting unnecessary praises “NEXT LEVEL” “NEXT LEVEL” “SAI BABA” “GO SEN.SIA”, and giving undue accolades to a government who has failed woefully in delivering their mandates across every regions (Rural and Urban) in the state without no prejudice.



The new Governor elect in Ogun state, Prince Dapo Abiodun ,SenatorIbikunleAmosun and other senator elects in Ogun state; should be more proactive in their functional duties as a leader of the masses. Quality service delivery and good governance should a priority and a right for every individual.



For another 4 years, as a citizen,we must hold our leaders accountable, the Nigeria of our dream won’t fall from the sky, however it’s not a rocket science for our leaders to deliver basic amenities for the benefit of both rich and the less-privileged in the society.

Source: https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/6-hours-in-traffic-on-old-lagos-to.html

Politics / Audu Ogbeh: Reduce Visa To Nigerian Youths By EU by FemiOtawa: 2:02am On May 15, 2019
Reduce Number Of Nigerians You Give Visa, FG Begs EU

Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has appealed for support from the European Union Mission in reducing the spate of youths’ migration to the union’s member countries.

Ogbeh gave the appeal in an interview with newsmen at the end of the monthly meeting of Heads of Missions of European Union member countries in Abuja on Tuesday, NAN reports.

The minister, who said that youths’ migration was not sustainable, disclosed that a joint committee would be set up to advance the programme.

According to him, rather than youths going out, the FG wants them to come back and invest in agriculture.


“We met today to explore areas of support for agriculture, agro-industrial growth and put forward the European Union proposal for partnership and enhanced support.

“We also looked at the possibility of their private sector investors coming into Nigeria to play a part.

“We also raised the issue of migration of our youths across to Europe and the fact that it is not sustainable.

“It is something that Nigeria will like to see come to an end by creating economic activities here to make sure that young people stay back at home.

“The response of the European Union was very encouraging.

“We want to set up a joint committee that can advance this programme because rather than youths going out, we want them to come back and invest in agriculture.

“We are also lucky that Nigerian youths are interested in agriculture, different from youths in other countries. Even those who studied other courses are interested in agriculture.

“We did raise the issue of kidnapping of investors here, we do not want any Nigerian or foreigner investing here to be kidnapped and taken away,’’ Ogbeh said.

On the exportation of agriculture produce to the EU, he said the government would also partner with the quality control departments of the union to avoid exportation of contaminated and harmful agriculture produce.

Ogbeh said that issues dealing with value addition, livestock production, training, seeds improvement, training, Economic Partnership for Africa (EPA) were also discussed during the meeting.

“The EU are asking us to lay areas where we want them to participate like value addition, livestock production, training, seed improvement, training, Economic Partnership for Africa which has not been resolved,” he said.

Mr Richard Young, the Deputy Head of EU Delegation, said that challenges and opportunities in the agriculture sector in Nigeria were discussed at the meeting.

Young noted that the meeting with Ogbeh also discussed the ease of doing business between the Nigeria and the EU.

On lifting the ban on Nigerian dry beans by the EU, he said, “I think the issue of the beans has to do with the phyto-sanitary standards and that will be sorted out in due cause but this depends on the improvement of the quality of the beans to meet the standards that we require.

“There are many challenges in the agriculture sector but also there are vast opportunities.

“We were very concerned to focus on the role of the private sector and how private sector investment can contribute to enhancing production in the agriculture sector,” the EU deputy head said.


Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.ng/reduce-number-of-nigerians-you-give-visa-fg-begs-eu/amp/

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Politics / Re: “I Am Confident That The Abuja-kaduna Road Is Now Safe"-governor El-rufai(video) by FemiOtawa: 1:40am On May 15, 2019

Politics / “I Am Confident That The Abuja-kaduna Road Is Now Safe"-governor El-rufai(video) by FemiOtawa: 1:40am On May 15, 2019
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Governor of Kaduna state, El-rufai was interviewd by State House Press Corps, after he just finished briefing the President,Muhamadu Buhari on the recent security situations in Kaduna state and the current development put in place to curb the frequent activities of Bandits on the Abuja-Kaduna highway. El-rufai stated that he is very confident that the Abuja- Kaduna is now safe for everyone. He stated that various measures had been put in place by the security agency through Kaduna State Government.

"“I am confident that the Abuja-Kaduna Road is now safe, based on the various measures now put in place by the security agencies.” he said.

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https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/i-am-confident-that-abuja-kaduna-road.html

Politics / Re: Watch The Moment President Muhammadu Buhari Was Declared Winner By INEC Chairman by FemiOtawa: 12:32am On May 15, 2019

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Politics / Re: Watch The Moment President Muhammadu Buhari Was Declared Winner By INEC Chairman by FemiOtawa: 12:30am On May 15, 2019

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Politics / Watch The Moment President Muhammadu Buhari Was Declared Winner By INEC Chairman by FemiOtawa: 12:29am On May 15, 2019
General elections were held in Nigeria on 23 February 2019 to elect the President, Vice President, House of Representatives and the Senate. The elections had initially been scheduled for 16 February, but the Election Commission postponed the vote by a week at 03:00 on the original polling day, citing logistical challenges in getting electoral materials to polling stations on time.

Incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari won his reelection bid, defeating his closest rival Atiku Abubakar by over 3 million votes.

The elections were the most expensive ever held in Nigeria, costing ₦69 billion more than the 2015 elections.

After the election was declared by INEC chairman, President Buhari was seen in a calm mood, a video shared on Twitter by Personal Assistant to President on new media- BashirAhmaad shows Buhari is so confident of the result.



Watch the video: https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/watch-moment-president-muhammadu-buhari.html

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Crime / How Nigerian Army Battles Against Bokoharam (video) by FemiOtawa: 5:05am On May 11, 2019
This video, shows how Nigerian army combats the deadly terrorist Boko Haram in the far Northern region of Nigeria.



Nigerian soldiers were seen exchanging gun battles with the Islamic terrorist, Boko haram. Although it looks like a dangerous attempt on the path of the Nigerian soldiers, the Boko haram group are well sophisticated with arms and rifles to challenge the Nigerian soldiers.



Watch the video:https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/how-nigerian-army-battles-against.html

Celebrities / VIDEO: Davido In Exile. Scared To Return Home - Kemi Olunloyo by FemiOtawa: 4:36am On May 11, 2019
Controversial Nigerian Journalist, Kemi olunloyo alleged in a recorded video that Davido is scared to return to Nigeria.



She stated that the Nigerian Hip-hop singer is currently on exile in America, as a result of the on-going election tribunal of his uncle, Senator Adeleke who had lost the Osun state gubernatorial election to Oyetola.



Kemi said that the first governor of Osun state, late Senator Isiaka Adeleke was his dad's boy when he was sitting as the governor of Osun state. She alleged that Senator Ademola Adeleke killed his brother, Isiaka, so as to become the next governor of Osun state.

Watch video: https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/video-davido-in-exile-scared-to-return.html

Politics / BREAKING: Jigawa Assembly Speaker Impeached by FemiOtawa: 7:08pm On May 09, 2019
Mr Isah Idris, the Speaker of the Jigawa State House of Assembly, has been impeached at an emergency meeting on Thursday morning.

The speaker was removed by 20 out of the 30 members of the house.

He was immediately replaced by Mr Idris Garba, a former speaker.

Details later..

Source: https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/breaking-jigawa-assembly-speaker.html

Politics / Watch How Flood Takes Over Some Part Of Lagos In An Heavy Rain by FemiOtawa: 6:50pm On May 09, 2019
At the early hours of today, there was an heavy downpour of rain in some areas in Lagos. The rain which began as early as 8 o'clock this morning, which rained for some hours, the heavy rain was recorded to have damaged some shops and properties in mainland, the heavy downpour caused massive flood on the Island and some parts of mainland.



A video went viral on Twitter, were some vehicles were stucked in the flood. Several attempts was spotted by motorist trying to maneuver their vehicles away from the flood.



Watch video: https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/watch-how-flood-takes-over-some-part-of.html

Politics / Electric Cars: My Colleagues Are Not Functioning In The 21st Century-ben Bruce by FemiOtawa: 6:11pm On May 09, 2019
Senator Ben Bruce, in an interview with BBC talked more about the good potentials of adopting the latest automobile technology, (ELECTRIC CARS). He stated the benefits and impacts it would have on users in Nigeria.

He compained bitterly on how his colleagues in the Senate chamber are not moving with the current trends in the world of technolgy advancement, by implementing the use of electric cars in Nigeria. He said: "Nigeria has become a laughing stock in the world, because my colleagues are not functioning in the 21st century, electric car is very efficient, as you are driving it tells you how many miles you have driven,it charges after 100miles but my colleagues in the senate are still living in the stone age, our politicians are moving in the opposite direction, whether they like it or not, the world is moving towards electric cars because thats the car of the future"





Watch the video:https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/electric-cars-my-colleagues-are-not.html

Travel / Look Inside The New $1.3 Billion Complex Singapore's Changi Airport (VIDEO) by FemiOtawa: 8:51pm On May 06, 2019
Singapore's Changi Airport just opened "Jewel," a $1.3 billion mall boasting the world's tallest indoor waterfall, an IMAX movie theatre, and a hotel.


Singapore's Changi Airport has already snagged the title of the world best airport for 7 years running and its newest expansion is only tightening


In April 2019 Changi opened up jewel, al lifestyle hub of the airport.

The multi-billion Changi airport complex host the world largest indoor waterfall in the world. All the water is harvested from rain and re-circulated through the waterfall 24-7.


Watch the video of the beautiful $1.3 billion complex:

https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/look-inside-new-13-billion-complex.html

Crime / Blood Will Flow On OAU Campus- Cults Threathens. by FemiOtawa: 2:26pm On May 06, 2019
In the early hours of Monday, students of Obafemi Awolowo University were woken up to shock.
Sequel to the Credit Alert Party Cult Attack that got an OAU student stabbed, a threat message believed to have been sent by the leader of the cult group that attacked has been circulating on WhatsApp.
The message reads;
TO THE PRAWNS AND SUIRELLS OF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY
So Zlatan was coming to Ife, Ko ya base wa. Son of the yellow soil did not came to bow to the soil.
We did not take it to heart. We did not ruin his show.
Information now got to me that the boys I sent to ensure that sanity is quality.
Awon omo ile that I sent to put everything in order and prepare to sina laye.
To expand the base. To settle the opodi akese si danu u egun.
You beat my boys. While they were in the body of blood.
You mutilated them. E tu Ko won sinu van, you took them to your security station.
Alaye yin ma baje ni.
Not to do long talk. The yellow viper will crawl over Obafemi Awolowo University
Blood will flow.
We will go from every hostel to every hostel.
We will wash your school with the sins of your people.
Motu gbo nipa Awon Man o War.
We will burn down your base and tie you to the pole.
June 1st. You can call the whole Nigeria army to defend your school.
Nothing go save this blood shed.
Never forget how you take helpless for 1999. Ta Awon omo okun dudu baye yin je.
For every of our people that you take. We go take 7.
Blood for blood.
OJU
The eyes that sees all.
NB: Although, the authenticity of this message hasn’t been 100% confirmed yet, we advise every Great Ife Student to tread cautiously.


Source:

https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/blood-will-flow-on-oau-campus-cult.html

Business / We All Can’t Be Entrepreneurs. Maybe You Don’t Need To Quit That Job -AKIN ALABI by FemiOtawa: 9:48am On May 06, 2019
Watch this amazing Video by an astute entrepreneur AKIN ALABI (Founder Nairabet) .



The Sport Billionaire highlighted many factors that an entrepreneur do face everyday. He further brief: "Not all of us will be entrepreneurs, some will make it more being an employer, I know quite number of employees making money than some entrepreneurs. What matters most is what you make out of the money you are making.



Watch the video:https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/we-all-cant-be-entrepreneurs-maybe-you.html

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Politics / APC UK Celebrates Buhari's Victory In Grand Style by FemiOtawa: 7:39am On May 06, 2019
Group of APC stalwart (Women Wing APC-UK) were seen dancing in a glamorous celebration for the Victory of President Muhammadu Buhari during the last election. The event which host top women Leaders of the party in the United Kingdom .



Watch the moments of celebration:
https://www.femiotawa.com/2019/05/apc-uk-celebrates-buharis-victory-in.html

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