incandescentena:


Calm down.... It's a gradual process. I am sure they will address they issues affecting the economy as a whole and living standards .


Ps: You can criticize the government of BAT, he is a refined Democratic unlike his predecessor, Buhari. But it is wise to criticize goverments, CONSTRUCTIVELY.

The main issue here is, if the masses are asked to "sacrifice " their comfort for a better Nigeria, what then are the leaders, from the president to governors, members of national assembly and other political office holders sacrificing? Have they announced any austerity measure taken by them to persuade the followers. Leadership should be by example, I believe.

Tinubu must have some affinity with France. During the ENDSARS, it was rumoured he eloped to France. Now it is also rumoured that he is sick ad in a France's hospital

taiwotimitt:
Seriously I think this woman has gotten the attention she needed. From requesting for 100m to threat of life.

Waiting for her next drama

I think this woman is just catching fun with life of her son. The proper thing to do us to allow investigation completed a d if she suspect fowl play she can make her opinion known again. But shouting like this while investigation from different quarters is ongoing speaks volumes of her intentions

budaatum:

Sue who, exactly? Did the man and his company drag her to her death or did she willingly, albeit foolishly, go usher all by herself?

She was not employed by the man and his company, or was she?

You're very correct

This is tactical. Be on offensive so that your opponent will think they are winning. Whereas, you know what you have done with the documents. To show to your opponent that you're not in connivance with INEC, you start accusing the commission. Nice game!

Why must every corruption allegation involve Saraki? It does mean that there are more to it than meet the eye. He who must come to equity, must come with clean hands.

I commend Abike Dabiri for making that statement,if not, the ministry of Foreign Affairs wouldn't have made any statement on this issue. How many time have they spoken about xenophobic attacks in South Africa. If you failed to do your job appropriately, others will take up the responsibility. It is high time our leaders began to communicate effectively and efficiently to us.

Yesterday? Has Olorunisola ressurected? A close look at that picture showed Mr Funmilola Olorunisola, a former Press Secretary to late Oba Okunade Sijuwade.Olorunisola died some months ago. So that story could not have been yesterday. It's a staled story, please.

This is not a recent picture. A close look at the picture showed Mr[code][/code] Funmilola Olorunisola, the former Secretary to late Oba Okunade Sijuwade. Olorunisola is also late, about two month ago. So the story is staled please.

Aminat508:
Before now, the world hardly knew of the rivalry between Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi and the former Osun State Senator, Prince Iyiola Omisore.

But thanks for the intervention of the good people of Osun State, the fight between the Ooni and the former Senator has been finally resolved.

According to Amiloaded Correspondent, Prince Iyiola Omisore yesterday stormed the Ooni of Ife Palace to pay his royal highness a courtesy visit. The former Senator is an indigene of Ile-ife. Ooni was very happy to finally meet the political icon.

See photos below.


http://www.amiloaded.com/2017/02/prince-iyiola-omisore-finally-visits.html

This is not a recent picture. A close look at the picture showed Me Funmilola Olorunisola, the former Secretary to late Oba Okunade Sijuwade. Olorunisola is also late, about two month ago. So the story is staled please.

Aminat508:
Before now, the world hardly knew of the rivalry between Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi and the former Osun State Senator, Prince Iyiola Omisore.

But thanks for the intervention of the good people of Osun State, the fight between the Ooni and the former Senator has been finally resolved.

According to Amiloaded Correspondent, Prince Iyiola Omisore yesterday stormed the Ooni of Ife Palace to pay his royal highness a courtesy visit. The former Senator is an indigene of Ile-ife. Ooni was very happy to finally meet the political icon.

See photos below.


http://www.amiloaded.com/2017/02/prince-iyiola-omisore-finally-visits.html

The management of THISDAY Newspapers on Wednesday took a decision to dismiss 13 employees who issued a strike notice to the publication on Tuesday, PREMIUM TIMES can report.A top management staff within the company told PREMIUM TIMES that Nduka Obaigbena, Chairman of Leaders & Company Limited, which runs THISDAY Newspaper titles and Arise TV Network, wrote in an internal memo that the 13 journalists attached to its bureau in Abuja should be paid due salaries, but should be compelled to pay all outstanding debts they owed the company before their contracts are terminated.“Please work out what each of them is owed including pensions, net off all debt to the company and terminate all the appointments with immediate effect,” the source quoted Mr. Obaigbena as saying in an internal memo addressed to the company’s acting head of human resources, Emmanuel Efeni. “This company has policies and will not be run in the village square.”The sacked workers had in the Tuesday correspondence appealed to the paper’s management to clear backlog of salaries, a situation they said had left them unable to “meet our obligations both to our families and other responsibilities.”Citing, amongst other concerns, “an abysmal disregard” of their contribution by the company’s management, the distressed workers warned the company of their resolve to embark on a week strike if their demands fell through.“Should the management fail to pay us by Friday, June 10, 2016, we will have no option than to embark on a one-week warning strike from Sunday June 12, 2016 until June 19, 2016,” they wrote. “Please, note that an indefinite strike will ensue at the expiration of the warning strike.”In the notice, which was collectively-signed by Tobi Soniyi, Olawale Ajimotokan, Patrick Ugeh, Senator Iroegbu, James Emejo, Omololu Ogunmade, Paul Obi, Ndubusi Francis, Dele Ogbodo, Damilola Oyedele, Chineme Okafor, Godwin Omoigui and Onyebuchi Ezigbo, the workers said, “For several years, we have sacrificed everything – emotionally, physically and materially – to ensure the continued survival of THISDAY.”But in his memo, our sources said, Mr. Obaigbena said the reporters “canvassed” for adverts for the newspaper which were not paid for, saying the nonpayment had contributed to the more than N1 billion the paper is being owed in revenues.“For ethical and governance reasons, this should not have been the case,” our sources quoted Mr. Obaigbena as saying in his memo.Another senior official of the company also echoed that position in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES Wednesday.The official, who also elected not to be named, said the matter was more about advertising revenues the reporters owed to the company than it was about their salaries.“These people were going about bringing adverts to the company from individuals and companies who ended up being unable to pay,” the official said. “Up to N400 million is being owed the company now as a direct result of this.”The official said the reporters acted against THISDAY’s long-standing policy that prohibited reporters and other members of the editorial staff from facilitating adverts for the company, saying the reporters flouted the rule because they had hitherto been able to circumvent any formal reprimand.“For more than a decade, we had a rule in place that made it an offence for journalists to solicit adverts from people,” the source said. “They continued the practice because they’ve managed to escape being sanctioned until now.”The source added that most of the journalists fired were owing the newspaper more than the salaries and allowances they complained of being owed.For instance, a reporter is said to be owed N300,000 in unpaid salaries against about N890,000 the said individual owed the company. Another reporter is said to be indebted to the company up to the tune of N1.5 million while the company owed him far less than that.The source also said the company uncovered how some of the reporters were allegedly running advert agencies, a situation he said had had an adverse effect on the output of the company’s marketing department.“We’ve learnt how many of our journalists registered as advertisers in order to take adverts from businesses and earn huge commission,” the source said. “They then fail to remit advert revenues, leaving the company in difficult financial situation.”In a follow up notice sent to the paper’s management early Wednesday, the journalists admitted to taken out adverts that were not paid for, but said that they did it to help bolster the company’s coffers.“To accept that position will amount to punishment for helping the company to bring adverts and improve the company’s financial base,” one of the journalists said.The reporter rejected the company’s decision to force them to make up for unpaid advert revenues, saying “Payment of adverts is not a precondition for salaries.”The latest crisis came a few months after Mr. Obaigbena abruptly terminated the contracts of about half of the company’s employees in Lagos, following disputes about workers’ punctuality. It is unclear if Mr. Obaigbena reinstated any or all the dismissed staff


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/204971-unpaid-salaries-row-thisday-publisher-obaigbena-orders-dismissal-13-journalists.html

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Osun state Chapter has threatened a showdown if Osun State Government implements a recent judgement of the State High Court which affirmed the right of female Muslim students to wear hijab on their school uniforms during the school hours.

In a Communiqué signed by Osun State CAN Chairman, Rev. Elisha Ogundiya, the association threatened that it would direct Christian students in public schools in the state to start wearing church garments to school once Muslim female students start using hijab in schools.

The communiqué was issued at the end of an emergency meeting of the state CAN Executive Committee, the Heads of Blocks and Heads of Churches held in Osogbo, capital of Osun State.

Justice Jide Falola of Osun State High Court had given a judgement last Friday in favour of female Muslim students in public schools in the state and reaffirmed their right to wear hijab on their school uniforms during the school hours.

The case was instituted by Osun State Muslim Community against the State Government, seeking to defend the right of female Muslim students in public schools in the state to use hijab on their school uniforms.

But CAN said the association could not agree with the judgement, saying the body believes that the judgement represents premeditated adjudication that runs against the printed grain of legal submissions made before the judge and that the judgement would be appealed.

According to CAN, “Specifically, Justice Jide Falola deeply violated the principle of fair hearing when he refused and or failed to hear, let alone rule, one way or the other, on the application for a joinder in the case properly filed and brought to his attention in open court by the interested parties whose schools were taken over forcefully by the government and stood to be affected by the judgment he later proceeded to deliver”.

“The state government must be wary about giving effect to this judgment which we suspect was masterminded by Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in line with his Islamization Agenda.

“Where the Osun State Government is inclined to implementing the judgment, Christian students in all public schools will have no choice but to start wearing Christian garments and vestments as part of their school uniform for the propagation of our own faith”, CAN said.


Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/hijab-judgement-can-threatens-showdown-in-osun/150317.html#Kf7vbgxKPFabjm1X.99

I think Nigeria should privatise Super Eagles. Since that's what we know how to do best. Let's sell it to Dangote. After all, he had earlier shown intention to buy Arsenal. Let him start with Super Eagles, charity, they say, begins at home.

This is part of the scheme. Pay journalists and some people in social media to write things in favour of the Senate President, so that he can get sympathy from the people and then proceed to buy the CCB chairman. Great! It's working right? Let the game continue.

I think Maupe should work on her emotion, while presenting. You don't always feel you know better than your guests, or think you have all the information. I love that man for not allowing himself to be cowed.

This plea should go to states that are already sacking their workers. Osun State being the first in the list. The state has commenced sales of forms for interested medical doctors who want to work in the state. Having told the stricking doctors to considered themselves sacked.
Over one hundred of state owned tertiary institution workers have been sacked, in the recent weeks. More are still coming.
If federal government cannot appeal to this government, why then the private sector?

This plea should go to states that are already sacking their workers. Osun State being the first in the least. The state has commenced sales of forms for interested medical doctors who want to work in the state. Having told the stricking doctors to considered themselves sacked.
Over one hundred of state owned tertiary institutions have been sacked, in the recent weeks. More are still coming.
If federal government cannot appeal to this government, why then the private sector?

MIMIKO:
THE LEGITIMACY OF LOSS :
sincerely hope the Vuvuzellas of the Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, won’t say I have been paid to do this. I also do not intend to bore you with academic jargons In political science.Legitimacy is the popular acceptance of an authority, usually a governing law or a régime. Whereas "authority" denotes a specific position in an established government, the term "legitimacy" denotes a system of government — wherein "government" denotes "sphere of influence".Political legitimacy is considered a basic condition for governing, without which, a government will suffer legislative deadlock(s) and collapse. In political systems where this is not the case, unpopular régimes survive because they are considered legitimate by a small, influential élite.The political legitimacy of a ruler and government was derived from the Mandate of Heaven, and unjust rulers who lost said mandate therefore lost the right to rule the people.In moral philosophy, the term "legitimacy" is often positively interpreted as the normative status conferred by a governed people upon their governors' institutions, offices, and actions, based upon the belief that their government's actions are appropriate uses of power by a legally constituted government.Political legitimacy derives from popular explicit and implicit consent of the governed:"The argument of the [Second] Treatise is that the government is not legitimate unless it is carried on with the consent of the governed. "Legitimacy is the foundation of such governmental power as is exercised, both with a consciousness on the government's part that it has a right to govern, and with some recognition by the governed of that right. Charismatic legitimacy derives from the ideas and personal charisma of the leader, a person whose authoritative persona charms and psychologically dominates the people of the society to agreement with the government's regime and rule. A charismatic government usually features weak political and administrative institutions, because they derive authority from the personality of the leader, and usually disappear without the leader in power. However, if the charismatic leader has a SUCCESSOR,a government derived from charismatic legitimacy might continue.The word successor is the key point of this writing as I do not intend to bore with academic terminologies.For a right and fair thinker in Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko or say ‘Iroko” as WE all call him has lost it on all fronts and sides. He has failed as a leader by whatever measure. Charisma,Persona, moral or influence.This was a governor that rode on the popular goodwill of the people and men went all out at the detriment of their homes, career, family and damn all consequences to align and be identified with. I know because I was a part.There are two types of general elections. The first are those in which the results are clear in advance, such as Mimiko enjoyed in 2012. The second are those in which the outcome remains in the balance until very late, like the just concluded Presidential election of 2015. The next election will be far closer to the first kind than the second.Ten months out from 2016, one fact is already evident: MIMIKO will not win an overall majority and by that I mean who ever he and his party tips to succeed him. There are many reasons why 2016 elections will be a mere staging-post (and an uneventful one in electoral terms) on a journey towards, in all likelihood,an APC led government in Ondo State. The first of these apocalyptic horsemen is the PDP’s plight among ethnic minority voters. That it is probably the least significant, is no comfort. On 19 June 1815, after the battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington declared that ‘nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won’. Two hundred years later, Olusegun Mimiko might feel the same way as they sit in Alagbaka. Any elation over victory by the end of this year for him will be quickly overshadowed by the thought of troubles to come — in all likelihood insurmountable troubles for either man.Everyone has known for years when this election will take place, with the result that the campaigns starting gun has been fired even earlier than usual. Mimiko is busy prophesying continuity, basking in the lost fame of 2012; while the ‘Original PDP' is warning that the party won’t survive in its current form if it has to be the Gbasibe ways. As Mimiko recently brandishes appointments like oranges given to little kids in the period of dryness, it is an evidence of the spur on by a fear of failure. Defeat for either of them (Mimiko or the PDP) would almost certainly mark the end of their political career. Mimiko’s political life would be over after this election except by a dint of luck and divine influence. He would be e the man who couldn’t deliver his state to his party in an election despite wit and resources available to him. His modernisation programme would be dismissed as an out right failure and his friends and allies would be forced out of positions of influence in Ondo State.Though losing would be hard for hyper-competitive Mimiko, it might be even harder to bear for his band wagon. He would have to face up to the fact that he ruptured his relationship with his brothers’ and associates for an unsuccessful stint as leader of the opposition. (As chairman PDP governors forum)But if defeat would be dire for the man, winning would not be much better.Whoever ends up in Alagbaka by the February of 2017 will be the weakest governor of Ondo State in living memory except economy improves or some miracles happens,not by the extent of needless debt the state has been thrown into. They will be forced to implement the most difficult half of the austerity programme with a slim to non existent parliamentary majority at a time when the house of Assembly will be PDP and the Government a different party.The next few months will be the most dramatic in political memory. PDP and the APC will attempt to break the mould of Mimiko politics. Ondo State ……… Ibi Giga laaye Wa.


AYODEJI OLOGUN, A political analyst, public speaker and broadcast journalist writes from Akure.

I don't think it's an option to be considered. God is the only one that has the right to take one's life, cos, He created it after all.