Governor Obi donates N1.46bn to mission primary schools

Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra has donated cheques totalling N1.46 billion to mission primary schools for infrastructural development.
Presenting the cheques in Awka, Obi commended the Church for their support in rebuilding the schools and urged them to remain steadfast in their support for government activities.
He said his administration was making “final push” to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Obi said that about N12.5 billion would be spent on education before the end of his tenure.
According to the governor, N5 billion will be spent on each of the eight MDGs, to ensure a secure future for the children of the state.
“This government would at least employ 2,000 primary school teachers, 2,000 secondary school teachers and 2,000 civil servants before the end of the year.”
Obi said that a separate account had been opened for the payment of the 6,000 would-be workers till December. 2015.
He said that the government would donate N750 million to each secondary school in the state for library and another N750 million for sports development.
He said the pledge would be fulfilled before the end of his tenure.
The governor also said that about N1.5 billion would be injected into agriculture, while 510 primary and secondary schools across the state would receive a bus each.
He further said that the government would provide each nursing school with N200 million while seven new fire-fighting trucks and stations would be provided for new areas.
“We are giving the cheques today because we know you (Church) can drive and make things better for us because we want Anambra to work.

“The Church has proven to have spent our money far better than government,” Obi said.
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, commended Obi for his prudence with state funds, diligence and sacrifices.
“The savings Obi has done for the people inflicted pains on party members but we have realised that it was for the common good of our people.”
Earlier, the state Commissioner for Education, Dr Uju Okeke, said pupils from the state were performing creditably well in national examinations.
Okeke urged parents, traditional rulers, presidents of communities and stakeholders to visit schools and monitor how the monies were spent with a view to giving reports where necessary.
Also speaking, the Commissioner for Local Government, Mrs Azuka Enemo, emphasised that Obi handed over schools to missions to revitalize and inculcate moral values in children.
“As a result of his visionary leadership, the governor identified education as a solution to the social vices that had hitherto bewildered our society.
“He has been able to improve our education sector and I urge you people to support continuity by electing a responsible successor.”
The Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Prof. Chinyere Okunna, said that the governor’s approach to development was aimed at achieving the MDGs of which the state ranked tops among others.
Speaking on behalf of the beneficiaries, the Most Rev. Christian Efobi, the Archbishop of Aguata Diocese, on commended the governor, especially for utilising public funds for the intended purposes.
“The Church will continue to be grateful to God for giving us a leader who is fulfilling the mandate given to him.”
Efobi promised that the Church in turn, would not fail the governor in the utilisation of the funds. (NAN)

Father catches man raping daughter

A suspected rapist (name concealed) has been nabbed by men of the Oyo State Police Command for allegedly raping a girl in Oluyole area of Ibadan, the state capital.
The suspect was said to have been caught by the girl’s father after she was held down in a nearby bush by the rapist.
DailyPost was told that the suspect allegedly deceived the girl into a nearby bush, forcefully teared her cloths and was having canal knowledge of her. However, the cry and shout of the victim drew attention of the girl’s father who caught the man pants down.

In confirmation of the story, Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, Olabisi Clet-Ilobanafor, said; “The father of the victim, who reported the crime, said he heard his daughter screaming in a nearby bush and that when he rushed there, he saw the suspect on top of his daughter, having canal knowledge of the victim by force.
“The father said he saw the suspect holding the girl by the neck.”
The suspect was thereafter arrested and taken to the State Criminal Investigation Department; SCID after the girl was rescued.
It was further disclosed that the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed Indabawa, had asked the Command to immediately charge the case to court and be treated like other rape cases.

“Stop talking like an area boy” – Middle Belt Forum reacts to El-Rufai’s comments on Oritsejafor

The Middle-Belt Forum has urged former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, to control his utterances in the face of insecurity challenges in the country, rather than insult the sensibilities of Nigerians.
The group stated that the country at this time was in dire need of people who would exhibit patriotism and commitment to national unity and find solutions to the numerous challenges facing the country so the country could move forward.
Its National Youth leader and former member of the House of Representatives, Jonathan Asake, while reacting to a report that El-Rufai allegedly described the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, as “a man who lacks credibility,” said; “Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, as a man who was given the opportunity to serve in a responsible position in the country, is expected to act and talk responsibly, especially on issues concerning national challenges like insecurity.
“But what we see is that people who are expected to exhibit decent behaviour like El-Rufai are instead worsening the situation with their utterances. The last time on Liberty FM in Kaduna, he spoke with denigration on the person of the Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Muhammed Namadi Sambo, and his office, and he didn’t stop there.
“The recent one is about Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, where he referred to the CAN President as the PRO of PDP. The PDP of which I am a member has a National Publicity Secretary; he is not the CAN President, definitely not Oritsejafor.
MBF noted that Nigerians had given El-rufai the opportunity to serve the nation as FCT Minister, therefore, he shouldn’t destroy what he has done just because he is no longer part of government.
“He is bent on destroying the government because he has lost out of power and political relevance. El-Rufai should stop talking like a Street Boy or like an Area Boy.”
Meanwhile, the Presidency has also reacted to the statement credited to the former FCT Minister that Jonathan’s government was a failure.
In a statement issued in Abuja by the Special Assistant (New Media) to the President, Mr. Reno Omokri, Jonathan urged the public not to be misled by the machinations of El-Rufai, “a man in dire need of prayers and perhaps psychological assistance.”
The aide referred to the former minister’s position at a meeting with Ambassador John Campbell in April 2007 that Jonathan, then vice presidential nominee of the PDP, “is clean and honest,” and that “Jonathan was the only candidate that met Obasanjo’s guidelines – honesty and Ijaw.”
Omokri said, the ambassador kept a record of their conversation, which is now a public record in America.
“Beyond that, El-Rufai, who had gone into voluntary exile under the Presidency of Mallam Umaru Musa Yar’Adua after he was accused of corruption and abuse of office while the minister of FCT, felt safe enough to return to Nigeria as soon as President Jonathan ascended to power.
He recalled that when El-Rufai returned to Nigeria in 2010, he visited Jonathan at the Presidential Villa on May 11, 2010, and was the first major political figure to call on him to contest the 2011 election.
The aide chided El-Rufai as a man fond of double-speak, who now rally round Gen. Muhammadu Buhari contrary to a damning conclusion on the former Military Head of State in 2010.
“I think that where Nigeria is today, only someone like Buhari, with the experience of having run the country before, and having run it along certain principles of discipline, integrity and accountability, that Nigeria needs,” Omokri quoted El-rufai.

However, he recalled that the same El-Rufai had, in October 6, 2010, said that Buhari was not a suitable person to rule the country, stating thus; “Mallam El-Rufai wishes to remind General Buhari that he has remained perpetually unelectable because his record as military Head-of-State, and afterwards, is a warning that many Nigerians have wisely heeded.
“His insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well known. In 1984, Buhari allowed 53 suitcases belonging to his ADC’s father to enter Nigeria unchecked at a time the country was exchanging old currency for new.”
“Against all canons of legal decency, he used retroactive laws to execute three young men for drug-peddling after they were convicted by a military tribunal and not regular court of law.
“Buhari was so high-handed that he gave himself and his officials immunity even from truthful reporting. That obnoxious Decree 4, against which truth was no defence, was used to jail journalists and attempted to cow the media as a whole.
“That tyrannical legislation shows the essence of his intolerance. These are facts of recent history. The story of counter-trade and import licensing, the cornerstone of Buhari’s stone-age economic strategy and those whose interests it served, is a tale for another day.”
Omokri said he wondered how El-Rufai could go from warning the nation about Buhari as a man unfit to govern Nigeria and one who is “perpetually unelectable because of his parochial nature,” to saying that it is the same man that can best lead the nation.
“It is obvious to all that there is more than one personality in possession of the mind and soul of this man called Nasir El-Rufai,” he continued. “Can any sane person trust the words of a man who is so unstable?
“Today, El-Rufai, perhaps banking on what he thinks is the short memory of Nigerians, is attempting to rewrite history. But it is such a difficult task to paint over the truth with a lie.
“Nasir El-Rufai wanted something from the President, which was why he visited him at the Presidential Villa to heap unsolicited praise on him in 2010.
“When he did not get what he wanted, he became bitter and since the days of yore when the fox that could not get the grapes tagged them ‘sour grapes’ to mask its frustration, it has always been the habit of persons who cannot compete on the basis of ideas to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it.
“Thus, El-Rufai, having run out of ideas, has tagged this administration ‘incompetent”
Omokri further highlighted the achievements of Jonathan’s administration in the aviation, rail and agriculture, education, economic and other sectors. He spoke further: “Why has it taken an ‘incompetent’ President Jonathan to grow Nigeria’s economy at over 6 per cent per annum since he ascended to the Presidency?
“Why has it taken an ‘incompetent’ administration to get Nigeria to be promoted from a ‘Low Income Nation’ to a ‘Middle Income Nation’ by the World Bank? Again, it took an incompetent administration to ensure Nigeria won its first Africa Cup of Nations in 19 years.
“If previous administrations had been this ‘incompetent,’ then Nigeria would have long since overtaken South Africa as Africa’s largest economy, but we did not achieve this feat until an ‘incompetent’ Jonathan was brought to office by the votes of over 22 million Nigerians.” the aide said.

Rukky Sanda explains her Nip Slip incident at Yvonne Nelson’s movie premiere

In a recent chat with National Encomium Magazine, Nollywood actress Rukky Sanda talked about her kind of man, and her nip slip incident during Yvonne Nelson’s ‘House of Gold’ movie premiere in Lagos last July.
You will recall that the slip was so bad that Rukky had to use her hands to cover her cleavage.
See excerpts:

• Who is your ideal man?

That will be someone that has a good heart. And he must be focused and intelligent. He must also be creative so that we will grow together.

• Can you marry a fellow actor?

There is nothing wrong with that. Its the individual that matters, not job description. You have to know who you are getting involved with in a relationship.

• How comfortable is Rukky Randas as a spinster?

I thank God, am in a very good place.

• Do you have a man rocking your life at the moment?

If there is anything like that, you will get to know about it.

• Recently you wore a boob popping dress to the movie premier of one of your friends and colleagues, Yvone Nelson, which generated a lot of reactions within and outside the country. What’s your comment on this?

People see only what they want to see, and say what they want to say. Left for me, I am only concentrating on my career.

• Okay, what informed what you wore that day?

What did I wear? I wore a nice dress, and I was comfortable with it.

“Education is important” Naeto C, Kefee go back to school

Naeto C is probably the only rapper who can get away with leaving the music scene for a masters and coming back to take over. He has done it before and he is doing it again.

 In a recent interview with PUNCH, his mum Dr. Kema Chikwe , said he is in London at the Oxford University taking a course in Energy Economics. He is there with his wife and baby. He is a son any mother would want.”

Also,  Branama crooner Kefee Don Momoh has temporarily relocated to the United States Of America where she is presently pursuing a course in production management and Film production editing at the Chicago Access Network Tv.

Kefee will graduate in November and probably return to Nigeria before the Christmas celebrations.
She is presently getting jobs to perform at shows and will be performing in New Jersey next week.

Isn’t she lovely! Peter & Paul Okoye share photos of their luxurious limo truck

 The Psqaure brothers are done with their US/Canada tour and they had a little ‘let’s get drunk party’ some hours ago in their limo truck to celebrate their successful year so far.

See photos below:

Rivers crisis: Wike gives Amaechi conditions, as Obuah, others call for his resignation

Minister of state for education, Nyesom Wike has given Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi condition for reconciliation.
Wike at a Grassroot Development Initiative event that took place at Omoku, Ogba-Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Council in Rivers State said Amaechi was not the only individual that could give conditions.
He said for Amaechi to get back the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, structure in Rivers State, he should first relinquish the Supreme court mandate that was given to him in 2007 to former Governor of Rivers State, Sir Celestine Omehia.
The Minister vowed that without that, Governor Amaechi should accept defeat.
According to him, “No amount of going to another state to give condition can change anything. What people don’t understand is that they will push some people to the wall and the people will react.
“We are good people, we are willing to make peace. We are willing to surrender the party structure if you will also surrender that mandate the court gave you in 2007. Give it back to the man who owns the mandate. The time has come, there is nothing you can do again.
“Let me tell you something, anybody who says Jonathan will not come back, let him go to the state which he belongs to. Rivers State has made a decision that come 2015 we will back our son, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan”.

However, Chairman of PDP, Felix Obuah at the same gathering called on Governor Amaechi to step aside.
Obuah said the number of people that came to show solidarity to GDI was evident that the people of Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni were tired of Governor Amaechi’s administration
Similarly, former governorship candidate of the All Nigeria peoples party, ANPP, at the 2007 election, Sergeant Awuse also called for Amaechi’s resignation.
He alleged that the Governor had lost the support of Rivers people, noting that “You cannot stand before a moving train. Amaechi has failed Rivers people. If Jonathan should have opposition, his opposition should not come from Rivers state. Amaechi has failed Rivers people despite all the money he is getting. All he does is to move the money to other states. We reject him totally. Amaechi has failed us. He should resign”.
Meanwhile, Oba of ogba land, Eze Chukwumele Nnam Obi II has called on political bigwigs in Rivers state to maintain peace and unity in the state.
Eze Obi II gave the advice when minister of state for Education led Felix Obuah and members of GDI to pay him homage.
While calling on Rivers people and the people of South-South to support president Goodluck Jonathan to be re-elected in 2015, Eze Obi admonished his visitors to promote true democracy.
He also called on those opposing president Jonathan’s second term bid to drop the argument.

We are working tirelessly to better the lives of our people – President Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that his administration was working tirelessly to give the people of Nigeria a brighter future.
He added that the Federal Government was making efforts in critical sectors of the economy to create employment for Nigerians.
The president stated this through the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bukar Aji, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, on Monday during the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) 2013 annual national management conference.
Jonathan who lauded NIM for its willingness to partner with the Federal Government to better the lives and well-being of Nigerians, noted that government would continue to deliver dividends of democracy to the people.
Jonathan who described the theme of the conference, “Essentials of good governance in the progressive transformation of Nigeria” as apt, said the theme was in line with the transformation agenda of the Federal Government.

He said, “By choosing this theme as the focus of this year’s conference, the institute has further demonstrated that it is always committed to supporting the Federal Government in achieving its drive to reposition and turn around the nation’s economy.
“The numerous and conscious efforts we are making in the critical sector of the economy, to get it up and run it again cannot be overstated.
“The transformation agenda is about taking implementation measures today in order to give our people a brighter future. It is about creating jobs and ensuring the greater deals for Nigerians.
“This is an onerous task that requires the support of all our country men and women. Also central to the transformation efforts is the creation of political and stable environment in which economic activities can flourish.
“To this end, we are strengthening our democratic institutions and confronting the challenges facing our country with great determination and firmness. We can emphatically say that as a result of our economic policy, there have been significant improvements in our economic transformation drive” He concluded.