aytech360:
I am now a mugu to be nice to them I won’t fill for a month I will now see if she won’t cook

From everything you've said I have come to the conclusion that you're a weakling hiding under the guise of being nice.
You prefer to waste tour own money rather than tell her to leave your gas alone.

You're weak. Simple!

Very soon you'll run here again when you marry to complain about the wife.

It's very unfortunate the kind of men we have these days. Always running to nairaland to cry instead of confronting their problems

Vevejoy:
Plesse forget the errors and focus on the content.

So here's my issue.

I've been married for 6yrs and it's been a blissful journey- of course with minor issues here and there but nothing to worry about until May 5th 2020 when I'd say things turned upside down.

We live abroad and struggled to have kids but God finally blessed us with a beautiful daughter in Sept 2019. Child care being super expensive here, we wanted one of our moms to come help us with the baby when I return to work after my maternity leave. So on the eve of our wedding anniversary which was the 4th of May last year, I asked my husband for the say 10th time about beginning the procedure of bringing a mom over to help since I'll be returning to work. He asked which mom and I said in my exact words; "of course my mom" because I know that when a woman gives birth, her mom usually go to help her. Did that change our story? My God, marriage has been one hell of a thing since that day.

My husband said I am selfish, disrespectful, and want to dominate him. He said things will never be the same again and since then, my marriage has been a stress zone.

My husband is numb to my feelings. He's been ignoring me, I've been a nag I'll admit since tue incident last year. I now talk alot and mostly complain about everything whenever we are together. It's sad and I've actually had conversations with myself to ignore him and stop nagging but I continue to do it, I need help on how to shut up and observe.

I can cry from now to die kingdom come and this man wouldn't be moved. He cannot shift his stance because of me at all. He does whatever he likes and disregard everything I say. E.g before this crisis, we had an appointment to see our Dr to start trying for baby number two because the Dr's advised that since we just had a baby, it's best to try for another soonest given that we had challenges conceiving the first one. This man cancelled the appointment with our Dr and has blatantly refused to start trying for a baby right now. He says when the time comes he'll let me know. Up till now the time has not come despite the fact that delaying may impact our chance of conceiving again. What a life!� � �.

Also, he has decided that no parent will come and I'm back to work already. My poor baby who use to sleep till 9am now suffer in this winter getting up at 6am to be dropped off at daycare all because her father is angry and want to make sure he doesn't do anything that will make his wife smile. He'll rather spend thorns of money paying for daycare even after I've told him that I don't mind his mom coming. Mind u, I have a very good relationship with my inlaws, especially my mom inlaw so it's not an inlaw fight.

The worst of them all is that despite living abroad for 17yrs, this man believes so much in native doctors to the extend that I can't even explain. Infact it's something that I've always fought him about and talked against. I've even complained about it to his family. And guess what, when I talk against, he tells his native drs who of course has ignited the fire in our home. Can you believe that in this chaos this man took me on a vacation in August last year that he wanted to clear his mind so we can start a new chapter and be happy again only to tell me that I have been trying to use a charm on him in the past months thats why things got rough. He said the 3 women I am using appeared to him but he is stronger ����. I am laughing because I felt pity and ashamed for him. How can a grown man be this vulnerable to suitsayers? I have never in my entire life visited a native doctor for myself not to talk of going to take a charmI didn'tvisit the native drs when I was strugglingto have a baby and this man thinks I'llvisit one now to charm him. Wondering y he will even believe such a thing. Infact I don't even know any native doctor. So when he said that, I told him that if I had known that his change of attitude is because of this stupid reason, I would not have fought for my marriage like I did. Of course I got so mad and told him a piece of my mind. I am even ashamed of telling people that despite this man's exposure he consults native Dr's in Africa more than even the people in Africa. Infact if they say yes that's what he listens to. He has even paid a flight from here to Africa because a native Dr told him that his dad who raised him to be the man he is today is trying to kill him and he should come for protection.

I decided to tell his mom about the accusation. His mom told me she scolded at him and warned him never to say such nonsense. Well I just pity him and I'm praying for him. But truth is I regret my marriage to him because of these his believes. I just don't believe in divorce and don't even have the heart to move out I would have done so. Mind u, I am 100% independent so it's not an issue of being scared of surviving alone.

Well one Sunday night as usual I talked to him like crazy and he said "all he wants is for our relationship to work and he will put in his best effort with support from me. I said I want same and will put in my best effort with support from him too*. This happened around september and things have been like normal on and off since then.

I have a few worries which I'd like you to advise me on the way forward.
- My husband is heartless. No matter how I lament, cry, beg, approach him nicely. Infact no matter the manner in which I bring up an issue to him, he doesn't get moved at all. He stays on his stance and doesn't care. How am I suppose to live with a man like this. He goes mute when I try having a conversation with him.

- I have a weakness of talking alot which I acknowledge and I'm doing my best to work on it though I'm yet to change completely. But I can say there's a huge improvement. Infact I'm able to walk away now.

Can a marriage really work out out without a compromise from both parties? I feel like I am compromising alot but this man is doing whatever he likes. In all of these he doesn't cheat but has abused me physically 4times in our 6yrs of marriage which I'm still pained about. The worst abuse right now is emotional abuse and I've told him so several times.

We use to be an exemplary and happy couple up till this may 2020. What will you do in a situation like mine With? With a man like my husband who I'd say lacks empathy and a concience how do I deal with him? His mom said she talked to him but I don't see any difference.

I feel miserable right now in my marriage. Since I got married this is our hardest hit and unfortunately it got prolonged probably bc of his native Dr's who told him I am using a charm on him which he believed.


Help me out please

From your comment "of course my mom" and your admittance that you have been nagging him and crying nonstop, it tells a lot about the kind of wife you are and also explains why your husband feels you're trying to control him.
1. You seem to be someone who always want to have her way and if you don't get your way, nobody would have peace;
2. You seem to want to always dictate how things are done in the house;
3. You use cry as emotional blackmail and your husband has become numb to it that's why he's no longer moved.
4. You nag him incessantly as a way of forcing him to do your biddings and it appears he has tuned off your voice to the point he doesn't even hear you anymore.
5. In all this, you didn't say he is neglecting you or your child, it means he's still living up to his responsibilities, your anger appears to be from your inability to manipulate him and have your way anymore.

My advise to You is to give yourself a break; stop nagging him, stop the crying drama and learn to seek his opinion and allow him to take the lead.
If he stops hearing the nagging and crying voice, he may actually open his ears to what you have to say

where's you location?

Abduli2019:
I just wish this writer knows very well his onions in politics else he wouldn't have such armature thoughts. To make my rejoinder clear and for it to serve as a guide for you to polish your skills to defend a propaganda you are so posed to please make the following note from your submission.
1. That Ango Abdullahi believes that the only way the government can prove its success so far is for the prisons to be overflowing with inmates and convicts of corruption make him somewhat of not being a true northern elder questions your authority in the the vast political gapes you are promotiong. This administration came solely to fight amongst others corruption and yet take a toll of convictions vs the expose scandals and compare the ration then come out to publicly declare to us if its a good achievement. In this same manner, the same government accuse its own anti-corruption tsar of being corrupt with even possible reminder by way of easing him out, come out boldly and tell me what does all that indicate and what makes Ango Abdullahi what you are saying
2. That Hakeem Baba Ahmed had lobbied for a post and stuffs like that, what do you expect of politicians if not to lobby for the best position they feel they can serve the government they help to bring and form. So just because he has lobbied for a position and he didn't get, makes him such a terrible person that he longer have sense of reality to make positive criticism of this government or what. In fact, for him to have had the guts to lobby or vie for such elevated seats tell much of he didnt come from no where but rather was part of the binding fabrics of the APC and the president for him have made it that attempt and in a typical way those that had substance during the formative and struggling days of the presidency have suddenly turn out to be nobody after the government worn, could it be the government was brought in by bad eggs like Hakeen and Buba Galadima but yet it is sacrosanct.

Ango Abdullahi, Hakeem Bello and all of them na the same. theres nothing new. if they had been given positions in the government, would they have been making noise?

I am disappointed at the kind of men we have now as husband. so called men who can't take decisions about what affect them most. men who go about crying over every issues with their wives rather than stamping their feet firmly as head of the family. from everything you have said so far, its obvious you are weak and your wife knows it. that is why she and her family have turned you into ping pong ball.
when you are done asking for advise on nairaland, you will go back and face the consequence of your "didirism".
just remember that your children are waiting for you to make the right decision and that decision would not be made for you by the people you find here.

He's a big "phool" and a joker.
Why didn't he make the same statement before he emerged as the party candidate.
Slowpoke

Whykaveli:
Hmmm, dem don dey shift responsibility. Like make Boris Johnson tell Queen Elizabeth to take care of security responsibility in UK.

Hey! The Queen is not your conventional traditional ruler o, the Queen is a Head of State of the United Kingdom of Great

See grammar, there is fire on the mountain and you are busy speaking turanci.

Until the people are ready to fight back, these criminals will continue to think they're above the law.

whats your location?

make a deposit of 20 million and pay a balance of 50 million within 3 months, right? May i ask who your target market is?

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Hundreds of Shiites member took their protest to a new dimension as they invaded the national assembly and the presidential villa gates shooting sporadically. two police men were killed in the process while several others were injured. they also damaged several vehicles around the place. many of the injured police men were taken to the national hospital where they are receiving treatment, with some still on life support.
There is now serious panic that the group may target markets and other worship centers just like boko Haram did when they invaded Abuja

kayez:
Forget the messenger focus on the message...

OP has gone berserk!!

And what is the message?
If there's any message to be heard, it shouldn't come from Obasanjo.
He's one of our biggest problem as a nation

Arant nonsense. Who's Obasanjo sef?
Always seeking for relevance.

Editor’s note: In this mind blowing piece, Robert-Sam Isaiah, a serving official of the Department of State Services (DSS), Kaduna command has debunked reports of mass retirement of DSS personnel among many other media reports. Although Isaiah clearly stated that he does not officially speaks for the security agency, he highlighted various benefits of serving as a DSS official in Nigeria. In his words he said that most reports about the agency in the media space are “nonexistence lies”.

1. In the last few months I have watched as various reports about the Department of State Services (DSS) have made its way to the public space. As a personnel of the service who is set to retire next month after thirty-five years of active Service, I am deeply saddened that my dear service is being dragged in the mud. I have always wondered if this was the same SSS that produced respected men like Abdullahi Mohammed (Maj.Gen/rtd), Alh. Umaru Ali Shinkafi, CON of blessed memory, Ismaila Gwarzo (AIG/rtd), Chief AK Horsfall, Chief Chukwuemeka Nwoduah, OFR, and many other prominent and respected personalities including the present crop of distinguished Men and Officers. 2. I am pained about the nature of lies being dished out in the public on daily basis. Irony is these lies are being believed by gullible and unsuspecting members of the public. If you don’t hear that salaries and allowances are no longer paid, one will hear that operations are not funded or that there is a mass resignation for lack of training, inspiration, motivation and other nonexistent lies and reasons. Na wa o!!! 3. I am not the spokesperson of the DSS, and I have observed that the service hardly responds to public criticism since the inception of this new leadership. I do not know what has informed this style, but I am so disturbed that I feel a sense of duty to go public. This is on my own. No one has asked me to. I am driven by my patriotic zeal to defend the only organization I gave all my strength, youthful energy and pride. READ ALSO: Not happy with Buhari’s govt, massive resignation hits DSS I do not know how the DGSS and his management team will feel about this write up, but I am not going to hide any longer and I urge all compatriots and lovers of the service to speak up and say the truth about our beloved SSS. 4. In the course of my stay in the SSS, I have had the privilege of being exposed to government bureaucracies, international system and this is the story of every personnel of this service. This organization gives you opportunities for career advancement and development through diverse trainings within and outside the country. 5. Having stated these, I wish to unofficially address some of the issues raised in recent media reports, and this is from a first person narrative. The SSS is probably the only government agency that pays its staff salary before the 24th of every month and this is verifiable from the banks. This is as a result of management’s commitment to staff welfare. To the best of my knowledge, all statutory allowances – course, housing, leave, duty, travel – are paid as and when due. Recently, outfit allowance was paid, same as incentive. 6. As a government Institution whose operations are guided by the Constitution, the service adheres to the principle of federal character. From the recruitment of cadet officers/other ranks, to the staff deployment at the national headquarters and across the state commands, deliberate efforts are made to ensure equitable, just and fair distribution. I am aware the SSS is run on merit first and foremost. Nepotism therefore exists only in the minds of a few mischievous and cowardly individuals. 7. Staff motivation does not end at paying salaries and other emoluments. Modern, state-of-the-art equipment have been acquired, while technological prowess of staff have been improved upon to ensure operational efficiency. These have in the recent past, led to the arrest of high profile criminals and terrorists like AL-BARNAWI, Nigeria’s most wanted person. READ ALSO: EXPOSED: Buhari is not in control of his government, appointments In addition to adequately funding all covert and overt operations, the service maintains viable intelligence networks and safe houses from where strategic intelligence is procured and disseminated to sister agencies such as the police and military. This is a function of the professionalism that is at play within the service. 8. Let me reiterate that training is one area the service takes very seriously. There are currently several ongoing courses at the various training Institutions across the country. This is in line with the determination of the current management to enhance the capacity of its personnel to deal with emerging security challenges. In addition, the Training Institutions owned by the SSS have witnessed increased participation from various security, law enforcement, regulatory bodies as well as government agencies. For instance, its executive intelligence management programme at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) is modeled after similar ones run by the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) and the National Defence College (NDC). 9. On the issue of accountability, it should be noted that the service, like every other MDA presents and defends its budget before the National Assembly. The implementation of these budgetary provisions is monitored by the House and Senate Committees on Intelligence, as part of their oversight functions. 10. Patriotism is the watch word of the service and is highly encouraged by the management. Deriding its leadership is a great disservice as it hurts not the individual, but the institution. In the words of the great philosopher and author, Elbert Hubbard, “If you work for a man, in heaven’s name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him – speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and then when you are outside, damn to your heart’s content. But I pray you, as long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution — not that — but when you disparage a concern of which you are a part, you disparage yourself. More than that, you are loosening the tendrils that hold you to the institution, and the first high wind that happens along, you will be uprooted and blown away in the blizzard’s track — and probably you will never know why – – – Get Out or Get in Line.” 11. As far as there is life and the entity called Nigeria exists, there will always be SSS. So why don’t we join hands now and more than ever to serve with honour and glory so that God will help us. Those of us already on our way out encourage those we are leaving behind to live above board and discharge their duties responsibly. This is not about Lawal Musa Daura, the current DGSS.

Read more: https://www.naij.com/914898-read-truth-mass-retirement-rocked-dss.html

Why is it that Ambode doesn't seem to focus on the person he is having a hand shake with? Is he avoiding eye contact or someone that is easily distracted?

na wa o! sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar sugar........4 mins pass. and that's a song? and you even spend money to shoot a video for that?
soon, Nigerian music will get to be abandoned just the same way Nollywood was abandoned if nothing is done and very soon too ....
time will tell

y Aliyu Smith Musawy, IMN

Sometimes, a tragedy occurs not because the odds are against you, but because God wants to free your mind from the shackles of intellectual vacuity.The Zaria massacre has completely changed my perspective in ways I never imagined. It has changed the way I regard Islam and certain Muslims who hold a barbaric view that we can be killed with impunity. It has changed the way I even discharge my humanitarian pit projects.
I am less angry with El-Rufai and Sunusi Lamido who think the best way to dispel the phantom allegations that they are crypto-Shitte is to seize the tragedy, demolish our sanctuaries, desecrate our graveyards we painstakingly built without having to pester on government for pecuniary support and launch vitriolic attacks on Shi’as just like the way Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel massacres Palestinians with a view to evoking anti-goyim sentiments whenever elections are around the corner. I am also less angry with Burutai than I am with Buhari, a devilish army officer because he wouldn’t have committed this heinous atrocity without a prior order from the above.
The Zaria massacre has hitherto made me reflect life in ways I was unable to do when I was a Northern fanatic. It made me realise that Goodluck Jonathan was truly a democrat, despite his shortcomings and unsolicited peccadilos, he is a lesser devil in comparison to Buhari.

He was pelted with stones in many states including my state Bauchi; he was cartooned in the most derogatory ways, his wife had been made a media favourite for her idiosyncratic English and campaigns of calumny were launched with the surreptitious connivance of such high ranking politicians as Obasanjo with whose hands the fabrics of the Nigerian economy was destroyed.

Yet, the man had never resorted to imposing his wills upon voters thereby letting popular wish work its way. But one thing I have found striking about the mindset of some Buharist fanatics is they think critiquing him is tantamount to apostasy, more blasphemous than killing 1200 people including hapless women and 73 infants and more irksome than burning our members alive. But what I want people to understand is, my slain friend Bukhari Muhammed Bello Jega and I worked tirelessly for the success of Buhari, but the only thing Bukhari Muhammed Bello Jega received in return is death together with his beautiful wife and effervescent daughter while I am rewarded with the killing of my fiancée.

We would like to categorically make our position clear that, we will not resort to violence in sharp contrast to Boko Haram who embarked upon violent confrontations just because they were extra-judicially treated the way we are treated.

The solution is not to let bygones be bygones, no, but to use everything legal at our disposal including our mighty pens to tell the world the true reality of our dear country under the stewardship of a person who has made us a butt of his petty vexation without not even a wink of sympathy over the tragedy that has befallen us; a president who finds it hard to utter a word about the greatest massacre during his presidency but he’s quick to condemn a terrorist attack in US that killed only 12 people.

Well, many a reader may deride this humble elucidation of mine as iconoclastic, but the truth must be told no matter how bitter it may seem.


Read more: http://newsrescue.com/how-the-zaria-massacre-made-me-think-different-of-jonathan-buhari/#ixzz3x8KQE25P

3,000 people rescued and still no CHOBOK GIRLS; it makes me wonder if they were ever abducted..
only time will tell.
naija we hail thee!!!!!

The Big Data Plan Rip-Off, By Tope FasuaPremium Times August 24, 2015 The Big Data Plan Rip-Off, By Tope Fasua2015-08-24T07:09:33+00:00 Opinion Comment
So, just like in 2001, I think we should pitch these phone companies together. In the first place, I sometimes feel they are rigging the game. Y’know, just like we drive to the fuel station and we see N87 per litre on the metre, but the damn attendant is selling to us at N120 per litre! How they do it I don’t know. But DPR just closed a few of them lately. Welcome to Nigeria; the most religious country on earth. If filling stations can rig metres, why not ISPs?.

This matter is touching me to the marrow right now. Imagine! So, these our phone companies and Internet Service Providers are trying to convince, abi na ‘confuse’ me, that I use 1GB (one gigabyte) daily! Bia, when did I start hearing of ‘Gigabyte’ sef? I just did a quick google search and it says the first Gigabyte Hard-drive, IBM 3380 was manufactured in 2013. You see, Gigabyte used to be the stuff that ‘mainframe’ computers, as huge as a fridge was made of. But now, MTN says I used that much everyday!

Not only MTN. Which haven’t I tried in Nigeria? I’ve tried Visafone, Spectranet, Startech, Starcomms…all the works. Same result. Sometimes, some of them are unnecessarily slow, so you just want something that works; at any cost.

Then they start to hit you. We live in the knowledge age, and everyone of us will get smarter over time. Google is everyone’s friend, to ask questions and find out stuff. That means that we will protest every now and then. The emerging global economic terrain is one whereby technology creates seamless transparency which challenges businesses, their profitability, and of course, the wages of workers and jobs too. I am of the view that the greatest contribution of technology is to make life cheaper even if it takes jobs away. But life will become cheaper, quicker for societies who are aware and who speak up.

I buy 7.5GB of data from MTN for N8,000. Within a week, everything disappears. In my office, we buy 50GB of data from Spectranet for N17,500. In 10 days it disappears. In between using my own data on my MTN phone – which I also tether to my laptop, I sometimes rely on my wife’s internet subscription. Same story, different network. If I have to renew my MTN data (as I usually do), I spend at least N24,000 ($110 monthly). I hardly stream videos, mind you. If I renew for my office, I will spend N52,500 (about $250). Between myself and my wife, and our offices, we spend about N100,000 (over $450) on internet services alone, each month!

I think what is going on here is akin to what went on in the beginning of Nigeria’s mobile phone epiphany. In 2001/2, we would actually purchase a sim card for between N20,000 and N30,000 and under the flat N50 per minute tariff regime, some of us spent another N40,000 monthly just to talk to each other. Sometimes I think about the ‘stupid’ manner we (or I) have spent money in the past and shudder. Indeed it is a Nigerian thing. We just spend. I don’t think it is sustainable and this is not how to run a society but our leaders seem not to care about these things. The average Briton thinks about how best to spend his/her money, seeks bargains. Ditto an American. But the Nigerian just spends. He spends, knowing that that God loves him more that the Brit or Yankee, and would always bail him out before he hits the ground. God shows up actually, but the Nigerian helps himself too many times. If he is a civil servant, that is when he gets desperate. If he is a cashier in a private firm, he pilfers.

So, just like in 2001, I think we should pitch these phone companies together. In the first place, I sometimes feel they are rigging the game. Y’know, just like we drive to the fuel station and we see N87 per litre on the metre, but the damn attendant is selling to us at N120 per litre! How they do it I don’t know. But DPR just closed a few of them lately. Welcome to Nigeria; the most religious country on earth. If filling stations can rig metres, why not ISPs? In this instance there is no way of benchmarking or confirming anything. Everything is in the ‘clouds’. Oya, go and find it there na! I feel that these bytes thing is running faster than ever these days! Why?

In 2003 or so, Glo came on board and spoilt the market for MTN, which never refunded the excess charges it had ripped off Nigerians and transferred in Dollars to its South African investors. Ehmmm… Not that Glo was just using its ‘church mind’, but that was the ONLY way it could come back into reckoning having lost ground seriously due to a rift with government. In fact, a certain obnoxious policy whereby unused credit in one’s account disappeared after two weeks had to be ditched when it became apparent that subscribers were ditching Glo phones fast! Interconnectivity was a nightmare in those days and so, subscribers who enthusiastically put N15,000 call credit in their accounts saw most of the money disappearing after two weeks. They couldn’t believe their eyes.

Before writing this I called around to find out how this internet data thing works elsewhere. In the UK, for about 18 pounds (N6,000) a month, most homes have UNLIMITED data. In the US, same thing, maybe a little more expensive. My friends abroad should help me confirm how it works though. As I stated earlier, TECHNOLOGY, which we don’t produce, is only good for making life easier and cheaper. But apparently those who are in the first line of disseminating technology (which they don’t produce), in Nigeria, take delight in keeping Nigerians in the dark for as long as possible… and ‘hammering’ us!

UNLIMITED DATA ACCESS is apparently now the fad around the world, and I believe strongly that we can pay a lot less than we are paying for these things. Every of these big businesses in Nigeria tells us of all the infrastructure problems as if small businesses exist in a different planet and don’t also face the same challenges. Small time you will hear of ‘diesel’ and ‘generator’. Truth; they all see Nigeria as good for ripping off only. That is why MTN, Hilton, Shoprite and some other chains make their most money from Nigeria. It is Nigerians I pity. The tunnel vision is something else. So long as we have avenue to get some, we don’t ever think about the collective. But whether you are ‘blessed and highly favoured’ or something to that effect, remember that when you pay for these exorbitant services, you are basically a mugu. Money spent can never be regained. And what goes around surely comes around. When you get an avenue to rip off the system and ignore systemic malaises, you end up running from pillar to post in a dysfunctional society. They are not ‘mumus’ in developed countries for thinking the way they think and organising their societies in a SUSTAINABLE manner.

Now, biko nu, Dan’Allah, Ntori Olo’un, what do we do about this data rip-off? Which ISP will give us unlimited browsing for like N5K a month?

Tope Fasua, an economist and consultant, is CEO of Global Analytics Consulting.

The National Publicity Secretary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh has been accused of squandering N450 million media vote even as he was said to have worked against the party’s presidential candidate in the March 28 election, former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Speaking under the aegis of PDP Staff Welfare Association, the workers at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, described as “bunkum and blackmail”, an allegation by Mr. Metuh that staff members were being sponsored by the APC to destabilize the party.
A statement signed on Saturday by the Chairman of the Association, Ngozi Nze and Secretary, Dan Ochu-Baiye, reads, “We are not surprised that the allegation will become the most fashionable means of covering tracks.”
“We wish to state that this is a man whose conduct, demeanor and media outings have been a repulse to professionalism and a source of embarrassment to party members.
“We therefore place on record that the majority of the establishment staff of the PDP are not just unrepentant members of the party who have spent over sixteen years in service; who have assimilated the PDP ethos as a way of political life but are also the repository of the party’s institutional memory whose spirit can hardly succumb to the ephemerality of power loss.
“Who plays anti-party you may ask? Staff members who are genuinely resisting the morally repugnant and obsessively corrupt NWC so that the PDP will survive or the likes of Olisa Metuh who has a track
record of anti-party given his open endorsement of APGA candidate in 2013 Anambra governorship election, the subsequent denigration of PDP candidate and his chances on live television program less than 24hours after the election, even as the result was being awaited?
“Earlier in January 2010 Anambra governorship election, Metuh as National Vice Chairman, South East abandoned Chukwuma Soludo , the PDP candidate while openly galvanizing support for Hope Democratic Party candidate, his friend and benefactor. The PDP did not only woefully lose in Otolo Nnewi Ward 1 of the Party’s zonal vice Chairman but came a distant third in his polling booth! What a
faithful party officer!
“Again, we have incontrovertible evidence that the man who is PDP Publicity Secretary worked assiduously against the presidential candidate of the PDP, former President Goodluck Jonathan in the last election in order to requite the ex-President for rejecting him as Director of Publicity of the Presidential Campaign which was given to Femi Kayode, a development which came after Metuh had squandered a whooping sum of 450 million naira media fund earlier approved for the office of PDP Publicity Secretary by President Jonathan.
“Last week’s controversial congresses in Anambra are another signpost to the destructive trajectory which the likes of Olisa Metuh are driving the PDP to. The chairman of the congress, Ike Abonyi, no doubt, a veteran journalist is at present in Olisa Metuh’s employ as his media adviser.
“Another member of the committee, Collet Odenigbo is Metuh’s friend and adjutant on special assignments while the man returned as State Organizing Secretary, Sam Ben is Metuh’s personal assistant. The process was so personalized to the chagrin of party members, especially leaders who were also illegally compelled to part with certain amount of money. As we write, the party is still waiting for the result of the congresses a week after it was held, pending when Metuh is done with his conclave of distortion and extortion.
“This is the same man who we reliably gathered, is surreptitiously scheming to emerge as the Organizing Secretary of the party next year, to do what? Turn the party organization into Idumota Market and
institutionalize exaction, graft and impunity.
“This is a man who started in 1999 as a zonal youth leader, then National Ex-officio, Acting National Auditor, Zonal Vice Chairman and now publicity secretary. It is either his umbilical cord was buried at
Wadata Plaza or that he can’t survive on any other thing except the PDP.
“We make bold to add that the worst form of anti-party is the mindless plunder of the party resources by the NWC which Olisa Metuh is integral part of, in fact the leader of the body’s extortion gang.
Recall that the same man was the Chairman of Kogi State congresses which held last week and match it with the fact that the widely rumoured request for One billion Naira from the State governor
emanated the same week.
“Indeed labeling the staff of the PDP could be a veiled attempt to justify the huge sum of 70 million naira which Metuh collected in July in the name of fighting the APC in the media.
“We wish to therefore advise him and the NWC to respond to gritty issues raised in our press briefing without which the fortunes of the party will continue to dwindle”.

Not quite true. Tafawa Belewa stayed there during his visit just to the US on July 25th, 1961. It was a proud moment in our history just after independence.

Don't bother your head applying for that job unless you want to work for free. Ask those working there when last they received their salary.

Unveiling Gen Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd): The Man Standing Between Nigerians And Buhari
ReportsApr 29, 2015

As President-elect Muhammadu Buhari readies himself for the onerous task of putting aright a country on the brink no thanks to years of profligacy and graft, one man stands between him and his mission. He is Lt-Gen Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (retd).

“Dambazau has constituted himself into a principality of some sort around Buhari since after the election”, a source within the APC top hierarchy who craved anonymity for this story, told Ekekeee.

“He shields everyone; including persons who have plenty of good intentions, from having access to Buhari. If Buhari knows what’s best for him, he has to dispense with Dambazau’s services as soon as possible”, the source added gravely.

Dambazau’s antecedents make for depressing reading as well. As Chief of Army Staff in the Yar’adua administration, he was a member of the cabal who made sure an ailing President Yar’adua was prevented from handing over power to Jonathan who was his number two man.

“Jonathan had to pay him off through IBB. This man who is today positioning himself as the ‘be all’ and ‘end all’ around Buhari, is a dangerous man”, another source added.



Dambazau’s first task as Chief of Army Staff was to fritter over N2bn (two billion naira) sum left by his predecessor for the furnishing allowance of the military officers’ quarters, our investigations have revealed. Only the intervention of his in-law who was once a prominent Emir, saved his career and prevented him from answering for his crimes.

He is credited with polarizing the Nigerian Army along religious lines and still reports to the Hill-top mansion of former military ruler Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB).

“He is IBB’s boy and that worries us”, a member of a Buhari support group which contributed in no small measure to the success of the candidate at the ballot, told Ekekeee.

“Dambazau has alienated Buhari from all the men and women who were instrumental to his election success. Even Tinubu and the South West APC stalwarts are fuming at Dambazau’s antics. There is a power tussle within the APC structure post-election and Dambazau is the major negative catalyst fanning the embers”, the Buhari supporter said.



When an ailing President Yar’adua touched down in Abuja subsumed in an ambulance, Dambazau it was who ordered that the airport lights go off as a Commander-In-Chief who was holding on to the last breath in his lungs, was sped off in a convoy in the dead of the night. His job was to ensure that the cabal never handed over power to the Vice President.

“People remember the Yar’adua cabal for Turai; the late President’s wife. But Dambazau was the head of the cabal. Yayale Ahmed who was the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) at the time, took Dambazau to Quanish Jeddah, Saudi Arabia before Yar’adua was transported to Nigeria. Their discussion centered on the ailing Yar Adua and the need to take over the reins of power to “avoid” a constitutional and national crises. Dambazau duly obliged the other members of the cabal and with the Nigerian Army at his beck and call, he was moments away from becoming Nigeria’s next President before common sense prevailed. He is a slick and cunning (if very brash) operator. The kind of man Buhari doesn’t need around him at this time if he is serious about changing Nigeria”, the source said.

But Buhari has a long standing friendship with Dambazau forged through years of mutual respect. The former Army Chief is currently the Director in charge of the Security Directorate of the APC Presidential Campaign Council and reportedly staved off many attacks on Buhari during the electioneering campaigns; a fact not lost on Nigeria’s President-elect.

“But it is now very clear that Dambazau staged most of those attacks on Buhari and prevented same to curry favor from the people’s General and put himself in the frame for an appointment as the National Security Adviser (NSA) in Buhari’s cabinet. No one in the APC likes this man and for some strange reason, Buhari does”, our source lamented.

It’s a lobby that appears to have paid off with Dambazau now in pole position to nick the NSA job, all his previous baggage nonetheless.

“The worry we have now is that this man still reports to IBB and his loyalty still lies with IBB. What becomes of Buhari’s presidency when the man in charge of his security is an errand boy of a one time military ruler who toppled Buhari in the ’80s? The same IBB who alongside other Nigerian leaders brought this country to its knees and who looted the country dry?” an APC chieftain who would not want to be named for this story because he was not authorized to speak on the subject, told Ekekeee.
its appears Dambazau has a dream of becoming president through the back. While he may have failed to achieve this during the Yar'adua saga, he may be giving it a second try by positioning himself as the next National Security Adviser (NSA).Similarly, using his closeness to president Buhari, he is trying to muscle the secret service from Villa and replace them with personally selected boys from the military to give him unfeterd access to the president.

Maj.-Gen. Dambazau was the General Officer Commanding, 2nd Division of the Nigerian Army in Ibadan before his days in the Y[truncated by WhatsApp]

shachris:


which workers? the workers that were protesting were pdp paid agents. Most rivers state workers were paid.

the thunder that will fire that your mouth is still doing press up. Thats how you start covering up evil under the guise of political support and when evil befall you, you will claim to be innocent. you are obviously not from Rivers State.

ptoall1000:
how much for COZA members?

for COZA member, come with what you have, am sure we can agree on something
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The Police in Borno said five persons died when a suicide bomber attacked an abattoir in Maiduguri on Tuesday.
The Commissioner of Police in the State, Aderemi Opadokun, stated this when he spoke with journalists in Maiduguri.
Mr. Opadokun said the attack occurred at about 11.30 a.m.
“A suicide bomber, who was shouting “Sai Buhari”, and dancing in the abattoir, detonated Improvised Explosive Device strapped on his body when people had gathered around him.
“Five people, including himself, died, while eight others sustained injuries,” he said.
Mr. Opadokun added that policemen were mobilised to the scene to evacuate the corpses and the convey the injured to the hospital, adding that investigation into the blast was ongoing.
(NAN)

source:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/184247-suicide-bomber-screamed-sai-buhari-before-killing-5-in-maiduguri-police.html