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April 20, 2015 Jonathan Has Been Abandoned, Big Men No Longer Visit Him You can't know your true friends when the going is good. When you fall inside a 'gutter', you are on your own. Those who used to wine and dine with you will have excuses why they can't be with you. How sad! Just few weeks after President Goodluck Jonathan was defeated by Muhammadu Buhari of the APC, his above, the Aso Rock seat of power, has become a shadow of its once boisterous self. Most noticeable is the shrinking figure of influence peddlers who frolicked with the first family round the clock, including joining in the morning prayers at the Villa Chapel. Sadly, none of the big men have time to come and pray with President Jonathan again. Most of the visitors who hitherto made the place a beehive of activities have deserted the place. LEADERSHIP’s investigations in the last four weeks revealed that while about 800 people daily visited the presidential villa before the election, fe...

Jonathan Goes After Okupe Over His Failed N100m Bribe The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe from a reliable source in the State House is in serious trouble with President Goodluck Jonathan. It was reliably gathered that President Goodluck Jonathan gave Dr Okupe the sum of N100 million in Dollars to mobilize the Labour and Accord Party in the South West since they agreed that President Jonathan is their joint Presidential candidate. Problem however started when Okupe didn't share the money as Jonathan instructed but started putting up a very expensive mansion. He was said to have also bought a Range Rovers Sport. But his workers in the State House were not paid for three months leading to the presidential election. “I have taught that the Election period will be our breakthrough but unfortunately, it was the worst as Dr Okupe could not even engage us in any of the campaign activities despite the facts that we are in ...

April 17, 2015 Just Get Out Of My Sight – Jonathan Blasts Allison-Madueke President Goodluck is very angry and from what  OluFamous.Com  gathered, he believes it is the corrupt acts that were perpetrated by Diezani Allison-Madueke and other powerful ministers in his government that made Nigerians see him as a weak president and refused to vote for him on March 28. Consequently, after a picture of the Minister of Petroleum, Allison-Maduake, in the house of ex-president Abdulsalami Abubakar to beg for forgiveness from President-Elect Muhammadu Buhari leaked, it was learnt that Jonathan was angry to the extent he does not want to set his eyes on her again. When she attempted to see Jonathan, he immediately shouted on her: "Just get out of my sight"! The situation is so bad that former Head of State, Abdusalami Abubakar, on Thursday led the Minister to a closed-door meeting with President Jonathan in his office at the Aso Rock Villa. Alison-Madueke arrived the Vill...

Thursday, April 16, 2015 Nigeria faces cash crunch - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala In an interview with CNN's Richard Quest, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said this will be a difficult year for Nigeria financially because of the cash crunch we are experiencing, but said with the financial assets the current administration has been able to build over the years, our cash flow will improve over time. "Under this administration we began the work of truly diversifying the economy and the proof of that is that much of the growth in this past few years that has come to the country has come not from the oil sector but actually from non-oil sectors like Agriculture, telecommunications, manufacturing, the creative industries. The fact that oil prices fell by 50% makes it very difficult in terms of cash flow but Nigeria is asset rich and that is why when people say the country is broke I say no.  In economic terms, with the kind o...

Thursday, April 16, 2015 Face of the nanny who kidnapped the Orekoya boys Above is Mary Akinloye, the nanny who kidnapped the three Orekoya boys. She has since been arrested. See another photo after the cut...

April 16, 2015 Tinubu Is My Role Model – Says Alleged Drug Baron Kashamu It seems desperation is the name of the game for this man; he has been trying to become overnight friend with all those he attacked and rubbished when President Goodluck Jonathan was fully in charge. Ogun State PDP Senator-Elect, Buruji Kashamu, has described the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as his role model. Kashamu, who is the chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of PDP in the South-West, paid a rare tribute to Tinubu, describing Tinubu as a true hero to be emulated by every Nigerian. Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo want him to be sent abroad to face criminal charges but from the look of things, Kashamu is trying to be friendly with APC to escape arrest. In his open letter addressed to Tinubu, Kashamu said, “Truth be told, men like you are made up of sterner stuff and are rare to come by in every generation. Little wonder you are called the Asiwaj...

April 16, 2015 DETAILS: How FEC meeting held with sad faces in Aso Rock Since President Goodluck Jonathan lost the presidential election to General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, there has been graveyard silence in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Immediately he conceded defeat and called Buhari on March 31, the President received a few persons who came to commend him for what they called his rare display of sportsmanship. With that over, the seat of power became silent. The lull in activities in the villa forced a journalist to exclaim unconsciously recently inside Aso Rock that “failure is indeed an orphan.” When news filtered in on Tuesday that Jonathan and his ministers would, on Wednesday, be holding the first Federal Executive Council meeting after his electoral loss, some of us looked forward to capturing the mood at the meeting. As of 9.30am, members of the council had started arriving the Council Chamber – the venue of the meeting. Unli...

Kidnapped Orekoya Boys Have All Been Found Mrs. Adebisi Busayo Adekunle Orekoya, whose three kids were kidnapped by their housegirl in Lagos has just confirmed that the boys have all been released and reunited with the family. Good news!

Dangote Meets APC National Leader Bola Tinubu In Lagos Since the victory of the APC, wise businessman Aliko Dangote has been romancing the strong men who made things happen and probably pledge his loyalty for the good of his business. Sharp man!

Spot the difference: Presidents of Argentina, Brazil & Chile in the 70s vs today The Presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Chile in the 70s above and what we have today below. They have come a long way- from dictators to female presidents.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Lol. Governorship candidate removes Transformer he donated to Community because he lost Politicians sef! Lol. According to a report by Daily Trust, a transformer donated to the people of Sabo community in Ibadan, Oyo State by PDP governorship candidate in the state, Sen Teslim Folarin, was removed a day after the election on Sunday April 12th by some aides of the former Senate Leader. He had donated the transformer just weeks prior to the election, but when he came 4th in the election, he probably decided the people were not loyal enough and took back his gift...:-). Continue... From  Dailytrust An alarm raised by members of the Sabo community on sighting those removing the Transformer in the early hours of  Sunday  did not move the perpetrators who eventually removed the transformer to an unknown place. Members of the Sabo community instantly stormed the palace of the Sarkin Hausawa, Alhaji Ahmed Dahiru Zungeru where they expressed ...

Remembering Chibok Girls - one year after they were kidnapped Today April 14th marks the one year anniversary since the abduction of Chibok Girls. On the night of April 14th, early Tuesday April 15th, over 200 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, by Boko Haram militants.   The kidnap sparked international condemnation and outrage which gave birth to the famous hashtag, #bringbackourgirls. But 365 days later, our girls haven't been found.   219 children have been selected by BBOG group to represent the girls that were kidnapped. They will lead a procession to the Ministry of Education in Abuja this morning.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Pics of celebration in Ado Ekiti over Fayose's victory at the Supreme Court Governor Ayo Fayose joined his supporters on the streets of Ado Ekiti today to celebrate his victory at the Supreme court. More photos after the cut...

April 14, 2015 The Girls Are Alive: Chibok Girls Sighted In Gwoza The schoolgirls abducted from Chibok community by Boko Haram insurgents were reportedly seen alive in the Gwoza area, according to a report by BBC. More than 50 of the girls abducted by militant Islamists in Nigeria last year were seen alive three weeks ago, a woman has told the BBC. She saw the girls in the north-eastern Gwoza town before the Boko Haram militants were driven out of there by regional forces. Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from their school in the remote town of Chibok, in Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, on the evening of April 14 last year. Fifty-seven managed to escape soon afterwards but the remainder have not been seen since an appearance in a Boko Haram video in May last year. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has claimed they have all converted to Islam and been “married off”.

Buhari's Certificate Saga and Nigerian Military: THE UPDATE NIGERIAN MILITARY AND BUHARI’S CERTIFICATE DRAMA: ACT ONE SCENE THREE By Terfa Naswem When General Muhammadu Buhari’s school certificate issue came up, I wrote an earth-shattering article against the Nigerian military and PDP stating that I suspected a foul play in the issue. The article was supposed to be published in the Nation and Thisday. But after due consultations with my media colleagues and two of my friends who are Barristers, they advised me not to send such an article for publication yet and should wait to see how the drama between PDP in collaboration with the Nigerian military against Buhari ends before I can do that. I thought of it and later decided to take a stand-by-the-side-and- watch approach. My responsibility as a professional and practicing journalist is to stand for the truth at all times irrespective of who is involved and to be ready to pay whatever price it takes for justice to prevail...

April 14, 2015 Buhari's Certificate Saga and Nigerian Military: THE UPDATE NIGERIAN MILITARY AND BUHARI’S CERTIFICATE DRAMA: ACT ONE SCENE THREE By Terfa Naswem When General Muhammadu Buhari’s school certificate issue came up, I wrote an earth-shattering article against the Nigerian military and PDP stating that I suspected a foul play in the issue. The article was supposed to be published in the Nation and Thisday. But after due consultations with my media colleagues and two of my friends who are Barristers, they advised me not to send such an article for publication yet and should wait to see how the drama between PDP in collaboration with the Nigerian military against Buhari ends before I can do that. I thought of it and later decided to take a stand-by-the-side-and- watch approach. My responsibility as a professional and practicing journalist is to stand for the truth at all times irrespective of who is involved and to be ready to pay whatever price it takes fo...

April 14, 2015 World Bank backs General Buhari to Probe Fraud in NNPC The World Bank has thrown its weight behind President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, to probe the rot in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, over allegations of missing funds. “One norm that has to change is the norm of impunity. I am from Brazil myself. So I am also used to a country where people could be corrupt and escape justice. That keeps the people to keep doing it. “So, the current stand of the government-elect to look into what happened in the past hopefully will have consequences for the future. And those consequences will be that institutions will be stronger; norms will be cleaner and people will not have to steal millions of dollars from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. “People have alleged in the past that there had been major corruption scandals there. If that stops, then that will have very high returns in terms of the money staying around to be spent on edu...