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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...