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Thursday 19 December 2013

‘I’m Retiring Man’: Justin Bieber Shocks Fans, Publicly Announces He Is Quitting His Career As A Singer


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Pop sensation, Justin Bieber has claimed he is retiring.

In a radio interview on Tuesday, the 19-year-old announced that he he is taking a step back from the music industry when his new album, Journals, is released next week, and it could be permanent.

‘After the new album, I’m actually retiring man. I’m retiring,’ he said.

The Power 106 host, Kurt Alexander, better known as Big Boy exclaimed in shock at the news and audible gasps could also be heard in the studio moments after Bieber made the announcement.

Perhaps due to the intensity of the reaction he got, he backtracked slightly suggesting he has not quite made up his mind: ‘I want to grow as an artist and I’m taking a step out, I want my music to mature.’

Well if he does choose to retire,teenage girls across the world would certainly be heartbroken.

WOW: Guess What 2Shotz & Wife Are Doing In This [PHOTO]


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Nigerian Rapper, William Orioha and wife, Precious Jones are going so strong that they even decided to publicly express their love for each other on instagram.

2shotz and his wife expressed how much they are in love, how lucky they are blessed to be together and how they compliment each other.

2shotz and his wife, Precious Jones got married in April this year.
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LOVE GROWING STRONGER: Jim Iyke & Nadia Buari Spotted Together PLUS Nadia Flaunts Her Engagement Ring [PHOTO]


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Celebrity couple, the beautiful Ghanaian actress, Nadia Buari and her boo, nollywood actor, Jim Iyke were spotted at the Ovation Christmas Carol in Accra this past weekend.

Meanwhile there are claims that Jim Iyke has proposed to Nadia Buari and was spotted flaunting her engagement ring throughout the event.










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SHOCKING PHOTOS: See Dino Melaye’s Battered Wife & Hospital Records As PROOF Of Domestic Abuse


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Tokunbo, Wife of Former Kogi State House of Reps member, Dino Melaye has filed for divorce over her husband’s constant beating, turning her to a punching bag, domestic abuse and going as far as bringing different women into their matrimonial bed telling them his wife had died.

Meanwhile popular blogger, Stella Dimokokorkus who already had pictures of Dino’s vicious assault on Tokunbo On Oct 1 2010 has shared them as proof.


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Stella reports a complaint was lodged with the police, and a police constable was instructed to accompany Tokunbo to the Hospital.
Also attached are medical records from the 2005 and 2010 assaults.

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Source: Dimokokorkusstella Blogspot

Nollywood Actor, Jim Iyke Gets Mad [Photo]



Nollywood Actor, Jim Iyke is definitely angry about the report that broke out yesterday of him being arrested in Ghana after a fight over $10,000 and he took to twitter to vent out his anger.

Jim Iyke has blasted the blogger Chris Evans at Ghanacelebrity.com responsible for the report that has gone viral calling him a bisexual nincompoop.
See his tweets below

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“I Don’t Care About Obasanjo’s Private Matters” – Femi Fani-Kayode Responds To Iyabo Obasanjo’s Letter



The infamous 11-page letter which was purportedly written by Senator Iyabo Obasanjo to her father, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been a source of controversy since its publication yesterday.

Some members of Obasanjo’s family has come out to deny that the letter was written by the senator, while some people close to Iyabo Obasanjo maintained that the issue raised in the letter are concerns Iyabo Obasanjo had always had, therefore, only her could have written it.
A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, who had initially taken to Twitter to deny the authenticity of the letter on behalf of Iyabo backtracked, stating that he was confused as to his initial claim.

He cited various “conflicting reports” as the reason for his sudden change of posture noting that the supposed letter by Iyabo should not sway Nigerians from demanding a reply from Jonathan on the sundry allegations leveled against the President as contained in Obasanjo’s letter.

Fani-Kayode, a former spokesperson of ex-President Obasanjo, said there was no need to start poke-nosing into the “privately family matters” of his former boss, saying he will now rely on whatever is said personally by Iyabo.

“(I) don’t know what to believe about who wrote the letter to Obasanjo published by a national newspaper anymore. Let Iyabo Obasnajo herself talk because there are conflicting reports. I am more interested in the letter that OBJ wrote to GEJ and the issues raised there than OBJ’s private family matters,” Fani-Kayode wrote on his Facebook page.

Yes, Iyabo Obasanjo Discussed Some Of The Issues About Her Father With Me, Says Osoba


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Renowned journalist and two-time former Ogun State governor, Aremo Segun Osoba, yesterday weighed in on the controversy generated by a letter purportedly written by Senator Iyabo Obasanjo to her father, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying the details of the letter as it pertained to him were correct.

According to Iyabo in her letter, she met with Mr. Osoba in the United States last September by coincidence and offered to give him a ride to his destination during which they had extensive discussions on issues relating to her father and the country.

“Iyabo was relating with me closely and it is true that we met, I confirm that and it is true that we had (a) conversation”, Mr. Osoba said.

He added: “She didn’t tell me that I rigged election because I never rig elections, and in any case, I reported the meeting to the father in the church early November in the presence of the Awujale of Ijebuland inside the church.

“So, the meeting took place and I reported the meeting to the father which made the father to phone. After discussing with the father and telling him that I saw his daughter, he must have phoned his daughter,” Osoba said.

He, however, denied any knowledge of a claim by Iyabo in her 11-page letter that the former president promised her a senatorial ticket on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, saying “The issue of she being given ticket by APC, I don’t know who promised that, please put my name clear from that”.

37 Reps Dump PDP For APC


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The crisis rocking the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) came to the fore on Wednesday as 37 members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of the ruling party formally defected to the major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress.

With the move, the APC now has 172 members as against the PDP’s 167. The remaining 21 seats are shared between the Labour Party (LP) with 10, Democratic Peoples’ Party (DPP) with one, All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) with five and Accord Party (AP) four.

It however, remains to be seen if the Speaker, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal will toe the party line by declaring the lawmakers’ seats vacant.

The members in their letter to Tambuwal which was read during a plenary session yesterday, cited “division and factions” in the PDP as their reason for moving en bloc to the APC.

The defecting lawmakers are believed to be from the five states whose governors recently left the PDP to join the APC.
Among the defectors are the Chairman, House Committee on Publicity, Mr. Zakari Mohammed (Kwara) and Dakuku Peterside (Rivers State).

They said their action was in line with Section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

It would be recalled that Governors Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) had earlier defected to the APC after months of open confrontation against the Bamanga Tukur-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP and verbal wars with the presidency.

“Iyabo Obasanjo’s Letter Is A Forgery” – Obasanjo’s Family Members Claim


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A shocking letter purportedly written by Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in which she mocked her father as a liar, an abuser and a hypocrite, is fake, family members, and aides to Mr. Obasanjo have revealed.

In the 11-page letter, published by Vanguard newspaper Wednesday, Ms. Obasanjo-Bello denounced her father as a self-seeking man lacking in all key expectations of a father and a leader, but often appearing quick to accuse others of the same ills.

Mrs Obasanjo-Bello, a former senator, purportedly said her father confirmed to her his failed effort at securing a third term as president. She spoke of her father’s “stupidity and cruelty”, and deplored him for all the “many atrocities” he has been able to get away with.

“Nigerians were your enablers every step of the way. People ultimately get leaders that reflect them,” Ms. Obasanjo-Bello was quoted as saying by Vanguard.

She said the letter came in the spirit of open letters since Mr. Obasanjo had last week penned an acerbic piece to President Goodluck Jonathan. But she made it clear her writing was not in support of Mr. Jonathan, or the opposition All Progressive Congress, APC, but an “outpouring from my soul to God.”

But in multiple interviews early Wednesday, close family members of Mr. Obasanjo, who claimed to have spoken to the former President about the matter, and two of his close aides called the letter a forgery and vowed Ms. Iyabo-Bello would not write to her father that way. One family member said Mr. Obasanjo spoke with Iyabo only two days back and apparently both related as cordial as always.

“I can tell you that such letter never existed. I can tell you authoritatively that it only existed in the imagination of those who forged and published it. It the height of desperation by those who masterminded it,” Tunde Oladunjoye, an aide to Mr. Obasanjo, said.

Mr. Oladunjoye said he could confirm that Mr. Obasanjo had not received any such letter from his daughter.

One senior family member, refusing to be named for security reasons, said with all of Mr. Obasanjo’s faults, he knows his children and their likely behaviour, and that the letter does not fit into any of their behavioural pattern.

A former aide to Mr. Obasanjo and former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, said based on his knowledge of the two individuals, it was impossible for Ms. Obasanjo to have sent her father such mail.

“I can tell you the so-called letter was forged by those in government,” Mr. Fani-Kayode said. “They think they can get at Baba that way. But they are mistaken. One thing is that if they want to fight Baba, they should face him and leave his family out of it. Baba has spoken the truth and they should respond to the issues he raised.

Ms. Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello could not be immediately reached. She is yet to respond to multiple emails sent her by this newspaper.

It was learnt that she is currently in the United States.

However, all family members and aides who work closely with Mr. Obasanjo quickly placed the blame for the allegedly “forged” letter at the doorsteps of the presidency as a desperate response to Mr. Obasanjo’s own stinging letter to President Jonathan last week, in which he accused the president of being inept, corrupt, and clannish.

In the 18-page letter exclusively published by PREMIUM TIMES, Mr. Obasanjo accused Mr. Jonathan of making plans for a violent election in 2015 and preparing to launch snipers against the opposition and critics, of whom at least 1,000 are currently on the government watch-list.

Mr. Obasanjo’s letter has stirred a swell of reactions with calls for investigation into the many allegations. Many Nigerians have also dismissed the former president as lacking the moral authority to condemn his successor.

Beyond asking Mr. Obasanjo to substantiate his claim that the government is training snipers, the presidency has yet to fully respond to the letter. An earlier statement said Mr. Jonathan had directed aides not to respond, as he will personally do so at the “appropriate time.”

Regardless of the directive, groups believed to be loyalists of the president have in the past days launched what appears to be a massive campaign of calumny against Mr. Obasanjo.


Wednesday 18 December 2013

UNBELIEVABLE: Maheeda Takes Off Her Clothes Complétely


I don't understand Maheeda's motive for disgracing womanhood. What made a lady who said she was a gospel singer turn around to become a séxual nuisance? Really sad!! See the exposed photo below...










 

Why should a reasonable wife and mother share this photo for everybody to see on the social media?


EXPLICIT: Nollywood Actress Goes Complete Nudé With A Guy


Most struggling actresses in Nollywood these are so desperate that they can do just anything to get popular in the saturated move industry. See the complete Ă©xplicit photo below...









Is this a drama or a soft p0rn movie?

  

Jonathan Is Behind That Stupid Letter ––Iyabo Obasanjo Blasts



Obasanjo exposed the bitter truth and the man helped made president decided to blackmail him?

"If President Jonathan want to reply the letter my father wrote him, he should be man enough to reply direct. Why are they trying to make me a scape goat? I know my father very well and I don't question his judgement, I believe my father wrote his letter in the best interest of the nation. If Mr President disagree with some of the allegations in the letter, let him be man enough to talk directly to my father, he should stop involving me in an issue I know nothing about. 

"How can you write a letter to insult my father and claim I, the daughter is the source. If that is how Ijaw people insult their father, I am a Yoruba Woman; we respect our parent in all circumstances.

Reacting to the fake letter against her father, Iyabo Obasanjo further stated that...
"I have never seen or heard this sort of fabrication in my entire life! I, Iyabo Obasanjo, never contemplate writing a letter to my loving father. I speak with him almost on daily bases. Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo is the best father in the world. He gave birth to me, he raised me up and gave me the best of education. I wouldn't have achieved whatever I did without my father. In fact, WHO AM I WITHOUT MY FATHER? As a father he never disappoints his children in any way, he is a father anybody wish to have.

"I, Iyabo Obasanjo, did not write any letter. Nigerians should please take note. The purported letter is a malicious lies intended to rubbish the good name of my family, when I get to the source of the letter, I will waste no time to take the necessary legal actions. 

"I love my father and I never disrespect him."
 

Season Of Open Letters Part 2: You’re A Two-Faced Lying Hypocrite, Manipulator, Legendary Wife Beater, Power-Hungry Man – Iyabo Obasanjo Tells Father


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The proverbial “Hen has come home to roost” for former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as a scathing 11-page open letter written to him by his daughter and former Senator, Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo, in response to his own missive to President Goodluck Jonathan has found its way to the public domain.

The former president’s daughter vowed never to have anything to do with him for life, describing him as a liar, manipulator, renowned wife-beater, two-faced hypocrite determined to impose on President Jonathan what he would not have tolerated from anybody as president.

Senator Obasanjo in the letter further highlighted her father’s sins which include initiating the infamous ‘Third Term Agenda’, foisting an apparently ill President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on Nigeria for selfish political interests, abandoning his first wife and her children as well as his other numerous children and grand-children and having an egoistic craving for power and living a life where according to her, “only men of low esteem and intellect thrive”.

In the 11-page letter dated December 16, 2013 exclusively obtained by Vanguard, Iyabo, as she is more fondly known, also swore never to have anything to do with Nigerian politics and denied any political undertone for her open letter just as she described Nigeria as a country that her father and his ilk have helped to create a situation where smart, capable people bend down to imbeciles to survive. She particularly noted her experience as chairman of the Senate Committee on Health when she led the committee on a retreat appropriated for in the budget only for her to be prosecuted for it.

Iyabo, who is the first child of the Owu Chief and former commissioner for health in her home state of Ogun, started the letter titled, ‘Open Letter to my Father’ with a 4th century Chinese proverb by Mencius which states: “The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart”.

Her letter:
“It brings me no joy to have to write this but since you started this trend of open letters I thought I would follow suit since you don’t listen to anyone anyway. The only way to reach you may be to make the public aware of some things. As a child well brought up by my long-suffering mother in Yoruba tradition, I have been reluctant to tell the truth about you but as it seems you still continue to delude yourself about the kind of person you are and I think for posterity’s sake it is time to set the records straight.

“I will return to the issue of my long-suffering mother later in this letter.

“Like most Nigerians, I believe there are very enormous issues currently plaguing the country but I was surely surprised that you will be the one to publish such a treatise. I remember clearly as if it was yesterday the day I came over to Abuja from Abeokuta when I was Commissioner of Health in OgunState, specifically to ask you not to continue to pursue the third term issue.

“I had tried to bring it up when your sycophantic aides were present and they brushed my comments aside and as usual you listened to their self-serving counsel. For you to accuse someone else of what you so obviously practiced yourself tells of your narcissistic megalomaniac personality.  Everyone around for even a few minutes knows that the only thing you respond to is praise and worship of you. People have learnt how to manipulate you by giving you what you crave. The only ones that can’t and will not stroke your ego are family members, who you universally treat like shit (sic) apart from the few who have learned to manipulate you like others.

“Before I continue, Nigerians are people who see conspiracy and self-service in everything because I think they believe everyone is like them. This letter is not in support of President Jonathan or APC or any other group or person, but an outpouring from my soul to God. I don’t blame you for the many atrocities you have been able to get away with, Nigerians were your enablers every step of the way. People ultimately get leaders that reflect them.

“Getting back to the story, I made sure your aides were not around and brought up the issue, trying to deliver the presentation of the issue as I had practiced it in my head. I started with the fact that we copied the US constitution which has term limits of two terms for a President. As is your usual manner, you didn’t allow me to finish my thought process and listen to my point of view. Once I broached the subject you sat up and said that the US had no term limits in the past but that it had been introduced in the 1940s after the death of President Roosevelt, which is true.

I wanted to say to you: when you copy something you also copy the modifications based on the learning from the original; only a fool starts from scratch and does not base his decisions on the learning of others. In science, we use the modifications found by others long ago to the most recent, as the basis of new findings; not going back to discover and learn what others have learnt. Human knowledge and development and civilization will not have progressed if each new generation and society did not build on the knowledge of others before them.

The American constitution itself is based on several theories and philosophies of governance available in the 18th century. Democracy itself is a governance method started by the ancient Greeks. America’s founding fathers used it with modifications based on what hadn’t worked well for the ancient Greeks and on new theories since then.

“As usual in our conversations, I kept quiet because I know you well.  You weren’t going to change your mind based on my intervention as you had already made up your mind on the persuasion of the minions working for you who were ripping the country blind. When I spoke to you, your outward attitude to the people of the country was that you were not interested in the third term and that it was others pushing it. Your statement to me that day proved to me that you were the brain behind the third term debacle. It is therefore outrageous that you accuse the current President of a similar two-facedness that you yourself used against the people of the country.

“I was on a plane trip between Abuja and Lagos around the time of the third term issue and I sat next to one of your sycophants on the plane.  He told me: “Only Obasanjo can rule Nigeria”.  I replied: “God has not created a country where only one person can rule. If only one person can rule Nigeria then the whole Nigeria project is not a viable one, as it will be a non-sustainable project”

“I don’t know how you came about Yar’Adua as the candidate for your party as it was not my priority or job. Unlike you, I focus on the issues I have been given responsibility over and not on the jobs of others. It was the day of the PDP Presidential Campaign in Abeokuta during the state-by-state tour of 2007 that Yar’Adua got sick and had to be flown abroad. The MKO Abiola Stadium was already filled with people by 9am when I drove by (and) we had told people based on the campaign schedule that the rally would start at noon.

At 11 am I headed for the stadium on foot; it was a short walk as there were so many cars already parked in and out. As I walked on with two other people, we saw crowds of people leaving the stadium. I recognized some of them as politicians and I asked them why people were leaving. They said the Presidential candidate had died. I was alarmed and shocked. I walked back home and received a call from a friend in Lagos who said the same and added that he had died in the plane carrying him abroad for treatment and that the plane was on its way to Katsina to bury him.

I called you, and told you the information and that the stadium was already half-empty. You told me to go to the stadium and tell the people on the podium to announce that the Presidential candidate had taken ill that morning but the rest of the team, including you and the Vice-Presidential candidate would arrive shortly.  I did as I was told, but even the people on the podium at first didn’t make the announcement because they thought it was true that Yar’Adua had died. I had to take the microphone and make the announcement myself. It did little good. People kept trooping out of the stadium. Your team didn’t arrive until 4pm and by this time we had just a sprinkling of people left.

That evening after the disaster of a rally, you said you had insisted that the Presidential candidate fly to Germany for a check-up although you said he only had a cold. I asked why would anyone fly to Germany to treat a cold?  And you said “I would rather die than have the man die at this time.”  I thought of this profound statement as things later unfolded against me.  Then I thought it a stupid statement but as usual I kept quiet, little did I know how your machinations for a person would be used against me.  When Yar’Adua eventually died, you stayed alive, I would have expected you to jump into his grave.

I left Nigeria in 1989 right after youth service to study in the US and I visited in 1994 for a week and didn’t visit again until your inauguration in 1999. In between, you had been arrested by Abacha and jailed. We, your children, had no one who stood with us. Stella famously went around collecting money on your behalf but we had no one.  We survived. I was the only one of the children working then as a post-doctoral fellow when I got the call from a friend informing me of your arrest.

A week before your arrest, you had called me from Denmark and I had told you that you should be careful that the government was very offended by some of your statements and actions and may be planning to arrest or kill you as was occurring to many at the time.  The source of my information was my mother who, agitated, had called me, saying I should warn you as this was the rumour in the country. As usual you brushed aside my comments, shouting on the phone that they cannot try anything and you will do and say as you please.  The consequence of your bravado is history.

We, your family, have borne the brunt of your direct cruelty and also suffered the consequences of your stupidity but got none of the benefits of your successes. Of course, anyone around you knows how little respect you have for your children.

You think our existence on earth is about you. By the way, how many are we? 19, 20, 21? Do you even know?  In the last five years, how many of these children have you spoken to? How many grandchildren do you have and when did you last see each of them? As President you would listen to advice of people that never finished high school who would say anything to keep having access to you so as to make money over your children who loved you and genuinely wished you well.

“At your first inauguration in 1999, I and my brothers and sisters told you we were coming from the US. As is usual with you, you made no arrangements for our trip, instead our mom organized to meet each of us and provided accommodation. At the actual swearing-in at Eagle Square, the others decided to watch it on TV. Instead I went to the square and I was pushed and tossed by the crowd.

I managed to get in front of the crowd where I waved and shouted at you as you and General Abdulsalam Abubakar  walked past to go back to the VIP seating area. I saw you mouth ‘my daughter’ to General Abdullahi who was the one who pulled me out of the crowd and gave me a seat. As I looked around I saw Stella and Stella’s family prominently seated but none of your children.  I am sure General Abdullahi would remember this incident and I am eternally grateful to him.

Getting back to my mother, I still remember your beating her up continually when we were kids. What kids can forget that kind of violence against their mother?  Your maltreatment of women is legendary.  Many of your women have come out to denounce you in public but since your madness is also part of the madness of the society, it is the women that are usually ignored and mistreated. Of course, you are the great pretender, making people believe you have a good family life and a good relationship with your children but once in a while your pretence gets cracked.

When Gbenga gave a ride to help someone he didn’t know but saw was in need and the person betrayed his trust by tapping his candid response on the issues going on between you and your then vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, you had your aides go on air and denounce the boy before you even spoke to him to find out what happened.  What kind of father does that? Your atrocities to some of my other siblings I will let them tell in their own due time or never if they choose.

Some of the details of our life are public but the people choose to ignore it and pretended we enjoyed some largesse when you were President.

This punishing the innocent is part of Nigeria’s continuing sins against God. While you were military head of state and lived in Dodan Barracks, we stayed either with our mum in the two-bedroom apartment provided for her by General Murtala Mohammed or with your relatives, Bose, Yemisi and your sisters’ kids in the Boys Quarters of Dodan Barracks. At QueensCollege, I remember being too ashamed to tell my wealthy classmates from Queen’s College, Lagos we lived in the two room Boys Quarters or in the two room flat on Lawrence Street.

No, we did not have privileged upbringing but our mother emphasized education and that has been our salvation.  Of my mother’s 6 children 4 have PhDs.  Of the two without PhD, one has a Master’s and the other is an engineer.  They are no slouches.  Education provided a way to make our way in the world.

You are one of those petty people who think the progress and success of another takes from you.  You try to overshadow everyone around you, before you and after you.  You are the prototypical “Mr. Know it all”.  You’ve never said “I don’t know” on any topic, ever.  Of course this means you surround yourself with idiots who will agree with you on anything and need you for financial gain and you need them for your insatiable ego.  This your attitude is a reflection of the country. It is not certain which came first, your attitude seeping into the country’s psyche or the country accepting your irresponsible behavior for so long.

Like you and your minions, it’s a symbiotic relationship. Nigeria has descended into a hellish reality where smart, capable people to “survive” and have their daily bread prostrate to imbeciles.  Everybody trying to pull everybody else down with greed and selfishness — the only traits that gets you anywhere. Money must be had and money and power is king. Even the supposed down-trodden agree with this.

Nigeria accused me of fraud with the Ministry of Health.  As you yourself know, both in Abeokuta and Abuja I lived in your houses as a Senator. In Lagos, I stayed in my mum’s bungalow which she succeeded in getting from you when you abandoned her with six children to live in Abeokuta with Stella.

I borrowed against my four-year Senate salary to build the only house I have anywhere in the world in Lagos. I rent out the house for income.  I don’t have much in terms of money but I am extremely happy. I tried to contribute my part to the development of my country but the country decided it didn’t need me.  Like many educated Nigerians my age, there are countries that actually value people doing their best to contribute to society and as many of them have scattered all over the world so have many of your children.

I can speak for myself and many of them; what they are running away from is that they can’t even contribute effectively at the same time as they have to deal with constant threats to their lives by miscreants the society failed to educate; deal with lack of electricity and air pollution resulting from each household generating its own electricity, and the lack of quality healthcare or education and a total lack of sense of responsibility of almost every person you meet.  Your contribution to this scenario cannot be overestimated.

You and your cronies mentioned in your letter have left the country worse than you met it at your births in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Nigeria is not the creation of any of you, and although you feel you own it and are “Mr Nigeria” deciding whether the country stays together or not, and who rules it; you don’t.  Nigeria is solely the creation of the British. My dear gone Grandmother whose burial you told people not to attend, was not born a Nigerian but a proud Ijebu-Yoruba woman. Togetherness is a choice and it must serve a purpose.

As for Nigerians thinking I have their money, when it was obvious I was part of the Yar’Adua (government’s) anti-Obasanjo phenomenon that was going on at the time. The Ministry of Health and international NGOs paid for a retreat for the Senate Committee on Health.  The House Committee on Health was treated exactly the same way. The monies were given to members as estacode and the rest used for accommodation, flights and feeding.  While the Senate was on the retreat in Ghana, the EFCC asked the House Committee to return the monies they received for their retreat and asked us in the Senate to return ours on our return which I refused, as it was already used for the purpose it was earmarked for in the budget that year which was to work on the National Health Bill.

The House Committee had not gone on their retreat. I did nothing wrong and my colleagues and I on the retreat did our work conscientiously. I asked the EFCC not to drag my colleagues into it and I am proud I suffered alone. As is usual in a society where people who are not progressive but take pleasure in the pain of others, most Nigerians were happy, not looking at the facts of the matter, just the suffering of an Obasanjo.

As the people that stole their millions are hailed by them the innocent is punished. When the court case was thrown out because it lacked merit even against the Minister, no newspaper carried the news. The wrongful malicious prosecution of an Obasanjo was not something they wanted to report; just her downfall.  But it really wasn’t about me, it was about right and wrong in society and every society gets the fruit of the seeds it sows.

How do you think God will provide good leaders to such a people? God helps those who help themselves. I have realized that as an Obasanjo I am not entitled to work in Nigeria in any capacity.  I am not entitled to work in health which is my training, or in any field or anywhere in the country or participate in any business. I have learnt this lesson well and there are societies that actually think capable, well-educated people are important to their society’s progress. Apparently, unless I am eating from the dustbin, Nigerians and possibly you will not be satisfied.  I thank God it has not come to that based on God-given brains and brawn.

When I left Nigeria in 1989 for graduate studies in America, you promised to pay my school fees and no living expenses. This you did and I am grateful for because, working in the kitchen and then the library at University of California, Davis and later, working on the IT desk and later as a Teaching Assistant at Cornell gave me valuable work ethics for life. I wouldn’t have it any other way.  As a black woman in the early 21st century, I have achieved much and done more than most. My wish is that black girls all over the world will have the capacity to create their lives, make mistakes, learn from it and move ahead.

Moving back to Nigeria, thinking I wanted to serve was obviously a grave mistake but one brought about by the tragic incident of April 20, 2003. This was the day five people were shot dead in my car.  The mother of the children was an acquaintance I had met only one day before the incident.

We had attended the same high school and university but she was there ten years earlier than I. She had also studied public health in the UK as I had in the US. It was these coincidences that made us connect on our first meeting and then she decided to visit on the Saturday of the election of 2003 when the incident occurred. I am scarred for life by that incident and I know the mother was too as we both looked back to see two men on each side of my car shooting.

I understand her trauma and her behaviour since then can be judged from that. Nigeria is a nasty place that pushes people to lose their compass. I participated in the campaigns leading to the elections that day, more because this was my first experience of electoral process in Nigeria. Growing up there were no elections and I was too young in the 1979 and 1983 elections. It was interesting to see democracy at work.  When Gbenga Daniel who I campaigned for offered me a job, I probably would have declined it, if not for the memory of the dead.

I felt I had to engage in making the country progress and to avoid such incidences in the future.  I don’t need to tell you or anyone what kind of governor and person Gbenga Daniel is. As usual when I found out, you would not listen to my opinion but found out for yourself. I also campaigned for Amosun for the Senate in 2003. I have had some wonderful Nigerians do good to me, I will never forget the then Minister of Women Affairs, who saw me talking in the crowd at a campaign event and was alarmed and said “bad things can happen to you out there, I will give you one of the orderlies assigned to my office to follow you”.  This was the police man that died in my car that day.  I never really thought bad things would happen to me, I moved around freely in society until that shooting scarred me and I accepted a police detail.  I was constantly scared for my life after that.

You called me after your vengeful letter as usual, looking out for yourself and thinking you will bribe me by saying the APC will use me for the Senate. Do you really know me and what I want out of life?

Anyone that knows me knows I am done with anything political or otherwise in Nigeria.  I have so much to do and think to make this world a better place than to waste it on fighting with idiots over a political post that does no good to society.  That letter you wrote to the President, would you have tolerated such a letter as a sitting President?  Don’t do to others what you will not allow to be done to you. The only thing I was using that was yours was the house in Abuja where I left my things when I left the country. I eventually rented it out so that the place would not fall apart but as usual you want to take that as well. You can’t have it without explaining to Nigerians how you came about the house?

As I said earlier, this is not about politics but my frustration with you as a father and a human being.  I am not involved with what is currently going on in Nigeria, I don’t talk to any Nigerian other than friends on social basis.  I am not involved with any political groups or affiliation.  You mentioned Governor Osoba when you spoke to me, yes I was walking down the street of Cambridge, Massachussets a few months ago, when I looked up and saw him reading a map trying to cross the street.

I greeted him warmly and offered to give him a ride to where he was going.  This I did not do because I wanted anything from him politically but because that is how I was raised by my mother to treat an adult who I really had no ill-will towards. Some said he was part of the people that manipulated the elections for me to lose in 2011. I don’t have any ill-will to him for that because I think they did me a favour and someone has to win and lose.

I had told you I wasn’t going to run in 2011 but you manipulated me to run; that was my mistake.  Losing was a blessing.  As usual you wanted me to run for your self-serving purpose to perpetuate your name in the political realm and as the liar that you are, you later denied that it was you who wanted me to run in 2011.

In 2003 I ran because I wanted to and I thought getting to the central government I will be able to contribute more to improving lives and working on legislation that impacts the country. I found that nothing gets done; every public official in Nigeria is working for himself and no one really is serving the public or the country.

The whole system, including the public themselves want oppressors, not people working for their collective progress. When no one is planning the future of a country, such a country can have no future.   I won’t be your legacy, let your legacy be Nigeria in the fractured state you created because, it was always your way or the highway.

This is the end of my communication with you for life. I pray Nigeria survives your continual intervention in its affairs.

Sincerely,
Iyabo Obasanjo, DVM, PhD
Massachusetts,
USA.
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University Administrator Allegedly Ran Phone s*x Business From Work


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A longtime administrator for University of Colorado, Denver, was recently suspended after officials learned she was likely taking calls for a phone s*x business during her office hours.

Resa Cooper-Morning, 54 — a cultural diversity coordinator for the school’s Ethnic Studies department — was placed on paid administrative leave after CBS Denver exposed the operation, which included a website that featured numerous unclad photos of the woman and an option to chat for $1.49 a minute.

The website, msresa.com, was recently shut down.

“It’s very important to us that our employees uphold the values of our organization while they are in the workplace,” the school’s vice chancellor of communications, Leanna Clark, told the news station.

Tuesday 17 December 2013

PDP Dealt Another Blow As 23 Rivers LG Chairmen Decamp To APC


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Twenty-three local government chairmen in Rivers State have ditched the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC, following in the footsteps of Governor Chibuike Amaechi, who defected to the opposition party over a fortnight ago. 
 
The chairmen also assured that they would mobilize grassroots support for the party.

Chairman of Port Harcourt City Local Government and Chairman Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Rivers state, Mr. Chimbiko Akarolo, who spoke on behalf of the other chairmen during a meeting with the acting chairman of the party in the state, Mr. Davies Ikanya, said they were going to work for the victory of the party in their local governments in all elections.

He said: “We want to assure you (referring to Mr. Akanya) that we will work with you collectively.  We want to reassure you that as mobilisers and grassroots politicians, we are leaders; we will not disappoint this party.

“We want to reassure you that as various leaders in the various LGAs, we will continue to sensitize our people on the programmes of our party sensitize them and re-engineer them on the manifesto of our party and where the party is going to and how progressive the party is”, he said.


Senator Yerima Divorces 17year Old Egyptian Wife, Marries Another 15yr Old


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Three years after marrying a 14 year old Egyptian girl named Marian, which was widely protested in Nigeria, former Zamfara state governor and serving senator of the federal republic of Nigeria, Sen. Ahmed Yerima, has reportedly divorced her to marry a new wife, City People reports. According to the magazine, Yerima and four men, said to be members of the Zamfara State House of Assembly were in Egypt a few weeks ago for the wedding fathia of a new bride said to be 15 years old.

Marian who is now 17 and a mother of one, is believed to be the daughter of the former governor’s driver whenever he visits Egypt. The reason he divorced her is to enable him take a new wife as he’s not allowed more than four wives.

The Senator is alleged to have married and divorced a few women in the last few years but has never changed his first three wives, only the fourth ones.

Sen. Ahmed Yerima this year was strongly against the deletion of the section of the 1999 constitution which pegged the official marriage age in Nigeria as 18 years, saying it was anti-Islam.


Jealous husband stabbed his wife 15 times, ran her over then sent her a Christmas card as she lay dying in hospital


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Jailed: Minta Adiddo, has been convicted of murdering his wife


  • Minta Adiddo, 38, thought that Akua Agyeman, 32, was having an affair
  • He stabbed her in front of daughter then ran her over with his car
  • Blamed the attack on 'devils' in Christmas card he sent her in hospital
  • Killer sentenced to 17 years in prison after being convicted of murder

  • A husband has been jailed for 17 years after he killed his wife by stabbing her at least 15 times then running her over with his car because he thought she was having an affair with a neighbour.

    Akua Agyeman
    Akua Agyeman
    Minta Adiddo sent Akua Agyeman a Christmas card as she was being treated in hospital, blaming the attack on 'devils', the Old Bailey heard.

    The 32-year-old mother of two died two months after the brutal stabbing, which was witnessed by her five-year-old daughter.

    Adiddo, 38, was today given a life sentence after being convicted of murder, with a minimum term of 17 years.
    The Sainsbury's worker from Enfield, North London, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter, although he denied murder.

    The court heard he suspected his wife was having an affair with their neighbour Oledapo Etti-Williams in October 2012.

    Mr Etti-Williams denied it, but said they exchanged three to four 'sometimes flirtatious' texts a day - and phone records showed they had sometimes sent as many as 80 messages in one day.

    On November 5, Adiddo stabbed his wife with a large kitchen knife in their bedroom while their one-year-old daughter slept in a cot next to them.
     
    Ms Agyeman managed to escape through the living room window, waking neighbours with her screams.
    But her husband chased her down and stabbed her again in the street as she lay on the ground, leaving her with 15 separate stab wounds.

    When he realised she still wasn't dead he got in his car and tried to run her over, almost ploughing into shocked witnesses who were tending to her.

    Ms Agyeman's last words as she lay injured were to ask if her children were all right.

    Court: The killer was given a life sentence by a judge at the Old Bailey, pictured
    Court: The killer was given a life sentence by a judge at the Old Bailey, pictured
     She fought for her life in hospital for nearly two months, but she was so badly injured that she would have been permanently paralysed if she had survived.
     
    Adiddo fled the scene but was arrested after police spotted him driving his car shortly the next day still wearing his blood-stained shirt.

    In a phone call to a relative he admitted stabbing his wife and said he planned to kill himself before police caught up with him.

    When Ms Agyeman was in the the Royal London Hospital, Adiddo sent her a Christmas card ascribing his behaviour to 'Satan' and 'devils'.

    'I know the devil used Williams to destroy our family,' he wrote. 'Please, please, please, I need forgiveness from you - open yourself to God.'

    In victim impact statements read to the court, Ms Agyeman's family said the 'vibrant, sociable and intelligent' 32-year-old was 'irreplaceable.'

    The judge heard her relatives in Ghana were now struggling financially without her support.

    They said they had accepted Adiddo as a son and treated him with respect and dignity 'but all he has done is inflict pain and suffering on our family'.

    The court heard her two daughters are now being cared for by relatives but the family are 'forever saddened' she won't get to see them grow up.

    Sentencing, judge Brian Barker QC said: 'I accept this was not a planned killing but was done out of frustration and temper, and in my view was cowardly and selfish.

    'This was a shocking waste of a vibrant life and loss of a mother which will be long felt.

    'I was moved by the words of her family who described Akua as a loving sister, caring for her children and extended family in Ghana, and providing financially for them.

    'They feel betrayed by your actions and find it very difficult to move on. There is nothing we can do or say to turn back the clock but she will not be forgotten.'