Sunday, 2 August 2015
PDP Staff Reply Party Leaders: Face Your Corruption Not APC
They thus vowed that such a weak shot from a mortally crippled arsenal of witch hunt is incapable of breaking the resolve of the staff to expose the thieving in the NWC and restore the core vision of the party.
We are not surprised that the allegation will become the most fashionable means of covering tracks.
A statement Saturday by the Chairman of the Association, Ngozi Nze and Secretary, Dan Ochu-Baiye said the allegation is a wide window into the impressionable character of the man who has been in saddle as the party’s image-maker and an ominous signpost into the shallow manner the publicity of the party has been run.
"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 way of political life but are also the repository of the party's 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 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 given to him by President Jonathan.
"Last week’s controversial congresses in Anambra is another signpost to the destructive trajectory which the likes of Olisa Metuh is 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 Onitsha Main 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 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."
DAN-OCHU-BAIYE (Chairman) | NGOZI NZE (Secretary)
We are not surprised that the allegation will become the most fashionable means of covering tracks.
A statement Saturday by the Chairman of the Association, Ngozi Nze and Secretary, Dan Ochu-Baiye said the allegation is a wide window into the impressionable character of the man who has been in saddle as the party’s image-maker and an ominous signpost into the shallow manner the publicity of the party has been run.
"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 way of political life but are also the repository of the party's 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 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 given to him by President Jonathan.
"Last week’s controversial congresses in Anambra is another signpost to the destructive trajectory which the likes of Olisa Metuh is 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 Onitsha Main 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 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."
DAN-OCHU-BAIYE (Chairman) | NGOZI NZE (Secretary)
Indecent Dressing: The Cause and The Effect
This practice does not conform to the norms and values of our society. This practice is now so common in public places like churches and offices. Indecent dressing is caused by common phrases which are the problems of our generation like:
“Only God can judge me, you can’t”; “Leave them alone”; “Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion”; “Mind your business”.
These shameless phrases have become so common in our society that one can’t condemn any wrong doings again because the rewards are usually malice, hatred and condemnation from ignorant people.
Indecent dressing is the major cause of the various assault and s*xual harassments recorded in the society, overtime. In the name of fashion, some ladies dress half n*ked to functions with miniskirts, bumper shorts, armless and very revealing tops, etc.
Guys have been subject to arrests along with hooligans because of this ill. Boys nowadays fix hairs, pierce ears making them look like hardened criminals, so one can't really blame police for arresting them.
But it could be checked in our society. Parents should act as role models to their children, churches should promote the culture of decent dressing, dress codes should be introduced in places that need them, the mass media should do more to promote decency in dressing among youths, etc.
by Ifeoluwa Antar-Laniyan
Introducing electic singer, Maka..
Incandescent rapper, Naeto C calls her “the next big thing, Africa’s Lauryn Hill”, and celebrity OAP, Tosyn Bucknor giving her a thumbs up as an artiste with a personae to thrive in the music industry on both local and international music industry.
Officially, MAKA’s musical career begins today the 1st of August, 2015 with a live social media campaign titled #MakaIsComing to enable fans across the world experience ‘Her Royal Awesomeness’ in all of her glory. To show her love, warmth and heart she is titillating the Nigerian and African music audience by providing access to two singles for streaming and downloading purposes (OH! Take It Away and Ife) onwww.vuga.fm and www.soundcloud.com/theofficialmaka and on major Nigerian and international blogs.
Follow @theofficialmaka on all social media
Meet Maka
MAKA, Profiled!
MAKA is decided on an innovative trail less travelled to achieving industry uniqueness through her music that makes a splicing statement by conniving with and splitting from trance to fusion, hiphop, RnB, metallic, rumba, highlife to traditional gangan sounds to create her signature Afrocentric soul art. She is set to take centre stage as an artiste driving her music on wheels of purpose while strutting heels of sound, lyrical and instrumental perfection, delivering her self-styled music like messages in envelopes sealed and opened as singles to reveal vapour that simmers off inspirational scents of love, culture, trends, God, history, lifestyle, corporate life, everything and all of everything.
Born Nwamaka Sam- Ejehu, MAKA is an eclectic singer and songwriter. With a singing career nursed from the age of three, she began as part of the children’s choir led by her mother at her church, where she rendered her first solo at age six before an entire congregation. This childlike love for singing blossomed into song writing at age 12 leading to the build-up of a professional music career influenced by maestros and song birds that includes Everly Brothers, Sade Adu, Lauryn Hill, Pharell, Robin Thicke and Asa to create the rippling, soul searching MAKA coined riveting-afro-soul genre.
A Lawyer by profession, MAKA funnily made a test leap into music-dom as an undergraduate of the University of Lagos, recording her first song ‘Angry’ for the DonJazzy Enigma Freestyle Competition. With the song gaining momentum to Top 50 best entries, MAKA has continued to pedal forward, throttling with the introduction of her first official single, ‘Coming Out’ followed by campus audience pleasers such as No Dull, Oya, Malera, and Loving You featuring RnB singer, Byno which won Beat FM’s FreshBeats’ competition for March 2012.
Her young career has seen her performing backup roles for notable artistes such as Jesse Jagz and Dipo, credited for her backup vocals for BlackMagic’sConfam and Shakara off his Vision 2.0 album and featuring as a new gal on the block on incandescent rapper, Naeto Cs forthcoming album. MAKA also wrote the theme song for Indigo, a new entry music series showing live on Ebony TV.
1. full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-wj9yabyuA&noredirect=1
2. freestyle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spRz_GeyPuo
3. Montage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KonJiwEB31Q
Where Is Senator Dino Melaye Getting All These Money?
Saraki Runs To Emir To Help Beg President Buhari
The signs of danger ahead is now clear to Saraki. In his efforts to make peace with the Presidency before things get out of hand, plus his unacceptable composition of the senate leadership, Saraki, has resorted to seeking the assistance of emirs and traditional rulers to help him beg President Muhammadu Buhari.
In realising this objective, the senate president, has sought the help of the Emir of his home town, Ilorin, Kwara State, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, an aide of the emir told Punch.
President Buhari, since the inauguration of the 8th Senate on June 9, has been shunning Saraki whose emergence and that of his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu of the PDP, did not go down well with the leadership of the APC and the Presidency.
According to the emir’s aide who spoke on condition of anonymity, the senate president has requested some prominent traditional rulers in the state led by Sulu-Gambari, who is also the Chairman, Kwara State Council of Traditional Rulers to intercede on his behalf with Buhari.
It was gathered that the monarchs had wanted to meet with Buhari but could not as a result of the President’s visit to the United States and his recent visit to Cameroon to seek for regional collaboration against Boko Haram.
In fact, this would not be the first time the emir had interceded on behalf of Saraki concerning the senate presidency.
According to him, the Emir of Ilorin before the emergence of Saraki as the Senate President had sent a team of emissaries to the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, with a view to getting the former Lagos State governor soften on his stand against Saraki’s ambition to occupy the exalted position.
He said Saraki is now more worried with the resolution of the leadership tussle in the House of Representatives, where the Speaker, Alhaji Yakubu Dogora, after meetings with Buhari and other APC stakeholders acceded to the party’s decision and announced the APC's choice, Femi Gbajabiamila, as the House Leader.
It is obvious that Buhari is angry at Saraki for his total disregard for the party he joined after people like Tinubu had built the party from nothing to something. Now with the police report that shows the rules used to elect Saraki and Ekweremadu was forged, Bukola Saraki is in more trouble than he had expected.
Snoop Dogg stopped in Italy for carrying too much cash
Snoop Dogg found himself in trouble with Italian Customs agents because he was carrying too much money when he entered the country.
You know how they ask you to declare money you have in your possession if it's over $10k? Well Snoop was stopped at an Italian airport with approximately $422,000 in cash in his Louis Vuitton luggage, said an Italian lawyer representing him.
Half of the money was impounded by Italian customs, the other half will be given to him after they determine how fines he will pay.
"We clarified everything from a legal point of view. The money came from concerts he had performed around Europe. There was no crime; it was just an administrative infraction," Parisi, his Italian lawyer said.
Hopefully this tour gets better for him and he returns home to the US without anymore incident
Baby Factory Busted By Police Detectives In Delta State
Spokesperson of the command, DSP Celestina Kalu, said the baby-making factory was discovered after some detectives, acting on a tip-off, swooped on the premises.
“On July 30, 2015, Police detectives from GRA Division Asaba, raided a suspected baby factory opposite the Federal Radio Corporation, Asaba, and arrested its operator, Mr. John Ihezun.
“Detectives also arrested two boys, one Prince Chukwu and Obum Nwankwo, in the premises of the baby factory,” Kalu said.
The command said it found eight pregnant girls. The command said it had commenced investigations into the matter, saying that any person found to be involved, would be prosecuted.
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