Saturday 27 April 2013
PHOTOS: 12 Sexy Nollywood Actresses And Their Tatoos...
Tattoos are fast becoming a fashion statement in the Nollywood industry and a few Ghollywood actresses are also in on the trend.
Say whatever you like about them, these actresses are expressing themselves with their body art and they gladly show off their ink without remorse. Check out some of the sexiest actresses as they rock their tattoos;
Karen Igho
Big Brother Africa winner, Karen Igho got into movies after she emerged winner of the popular show which saw her smiling to the bank with over 20 million naira. The fast rising actress who has featured in a couple of movies has a big rose flower tattoo on her right boobs.
Say whatever you like about them, these actresses are expressing themselves with their body art and they gladly show off their ink without remorse. Check out some of the sexiest actresses as they rock their tattoos;
Karen Igho
Big Brother Africa winner, Karen Igho got into movies after she emerged winner of the popular show which saw her smiling to the bank with over 20 million naira. The fast rising actress who has featured in a couple of movies has a big rose flower tattoo on her right boobs.
Salma mumin
Salma is one of the most daring actresses Ghollywood boasts of, and she is definitely taking the center stage in the movie industry with her boldness and professionalism. She also loves tattoos and a very simple one written like a sentence in her arm, shoulder and a flower on her left leg.
Salma is one of the most daring actresses Ghollywood boasts of, and she is definitely taking the center stage in the movie industry with her boldness and professionalism. She also loves tattoos and a very simple one written like a sentence in her arm, shoulder and a flower on her left leg.
Vivian Amegashie
Call her a tattoo freak and you wont be wrong, this pretty half caste Ghana actress has tattoo drawn all over her body. The whole of her arm has a written book on it.
Call her a tattoo freak and you wont be wrong, this pretty half caste Ghana actress has tattoo drawn all over her body. The whole of her arm has a written book on it.
Cossy Orjiakor
Controversial singer who started as an actress Cossy Orjiakor also has tattoos in different parts of her body and she loves to flaunt them as well.
Controversial singer who started as an actress Cossy Orjiakor also has tattoos in different parts of her body and she loves to flaunt them as well.
Vicky Zugah
This daring Ghanaian actress is a stunner any day irrespective of her petite figure. She is one bubbly actress who loves to have fun and she is also a tattoo freak. She has tattoos all over body, her arms, thigh and other places.
This daring Ghanaian actress is a stunner any day irrespective of her petite figure. She is one bubbly actress who loves to have fun and she is also a tattoo freak. She has tattoos all over body, her arms, thigh and other places.
Uche Ogbodo
Light skinned actress, Uche Ogbodo was among those who trail blazed the tattoo trend in Nollywood, she got her arm tattoo several years ago when she was head over heels in a steaming romance with her boyfriend cross, and to show how crazy about him she was, she drew a tattoo (cross and flower) on her arm. Though the two have since parted ways, the indelible tattoo has stuck to her body.
Light skinned actress, Uche Ogbodo was among those who trail blazed the tattoo trend in Nollywood, she got her arm tattoo several years ago when she was head over heels in a steaming romance with her boyfriend cross, and to show how crazy about him she was, she drew a tattoo (cross and flower) on her arm. Though the two have since parted ways, the indelible tattoo has stuck to her body.
Annie Macaulay
Tuface Idibia’s lucky bride Annie also wears a tattoo and she loves to flaunt it especially in movies. Annie, who is now an actress with lots of movies to her credit, has a tattoo on her ankle.
Oge Okoye
Sexy and slim actress, Oge Okoye has been a lover of tattoo before she got into Nollywood. The pretty mother of two has 3 very small tattoos on her body, one on her ankle, arm and boobs.
Tuface Idibia’s lucky bride Annie also wears a tattoo and she loves to flaunt it especially in movies. Annie, who is now an actress with lots of movies to her credit, has a tattoo on her ankle.
Oge OkoyeSexy and slim actress, Oge Okoye has been a lover of tattoo before she got into Nollywood. The pretty mother of two has 3 very small tattoos on her body, one on her ankle, arm and boobs.
Anita Joseph
Fast rising actress, Anita Joseph also makes this list. The shapy actress who has got a killer figure has a tattoo on her arm and her waist as well.
Fast rising actress, Anita Joseph also makes this list. The shapy actress who has got a killer figure has a tattoo on her arm and her waist as well.
Rukky Sanda
Tall and pretty Rukky Sanda was known to have a little tattoo on her ankle and arm since she came into movies until recently when she added a new one to her collection. It’s something similar to that of Tonto Dikeh, drawn all over her back but looks more like a floral design.
Tall and pretty Rukky Sanda was known to have a little tattoo on her ankle and arm since she came into movies until recently when she added a new one to her collection. It’s something similar to that of Tonto Dikeh, drawn all over her back but looks more like a floral design.
Nadia Buari
Pretty Ghana actress Nadia Buari is also a lover of tattoos, though she only recently got one. It’s a relatively big tattoo that looks like an angel drawn behind her right shoulder and another on her left arm. The light skinned actress came up with the tattoo after she worked on her physique as she now spots a slimmer figure.
Pretty Ghana actress Nadia Buari is also a lover of tattoos, though she only recently got one. It’s a relatively big tattoo that looks like an angel drawn behind her right shoulder and another on her left arm. The light skinned actress came up with the tattoo after she worked on her physique as she now spots a slimmer figure.
Tonto Dikeh
Call her Nollywood’s most controversial actress and you will be stating the obvious. The light skinned actress who ranks as the most daring in Nollywood is one who you can call a tattoo freak. She has over 4 different tattoos all over her body. She made the news recently when she drew a very massive tattoo on her back; she also has on her neck, her waist and belly.
Call her Nollywood’s most controversial actress and you will be stating the obvious. The light skinned actress who ranks as the most daring in Nollywood is one who you can call a tattoo freak. She has over 4 different tattoos all over her body. She made the news recently when she drew a very massive tattoo on her back; she also has on her neck, her waist and belly.
PICTURE Of The Man Who Was Deported For Being Too Handsome
I was on tumblr today when i stumbled upon one of the men who were deported for being too handsome. The man is quite good looking but that doesn't justify his deportation.
Meet The Most Beautiful Woman In The World
Meet the most beautiful woman in the world 2013, Saudi Arabian queen, Fatima Zohar-Godabari.
Fathima Kulsum Zohar Godabari who was once a royal Princess is now an official Queen in Saudi Arabia.
She was recently photographed without niqab covering her face and the pictures were published on the internet, exposing her beautiful facial features to the world for the first time.
Since the release of the pictures, many have argued her to be the most beautiful woman on earth.
More photos below
Fathima Kulsum Zohar Godabari who was once a royal Princess is now an official Queen in Saudi Arabia.
She was recently photographed without niqab covering her face and the pictures were published on the internet, exposing her beautiful facial features to the world for the first time.
Since the release of the pictures, many have argued her to be the most beautiful woman on earth.
More photos below
My Mum Encouraged Me To Go Into Prostitution – Dance Queen Kaffy
Dancer and musician Kaffy dropped a bombshell while she was addressing a group of youths at a recent programme.Kaffy reportedly said her mother nearly made her go into prostitution so as to make ends meet.
The dance guru added that she had to pay her way through school as she did not attend the conventional school that every other child attends.She had to wait for the regular school goers to close from school so that she could borrow their books and cover up but luck smiled on her when she made a record for herself and country at Amstel Malta World Marathon Dance, by breaking the existing record for the Guinness Book of World Records through dance.And ever since, she has not relented on her oars.
Kaffy believes people need to learn how to read between the lines so that they won’t be misguided ’cause sometimes, the people you look up to may be the one that will lead you astray.
The dance guru added that she had to pay her way through school as she did not attend the conventional school that every other child attends.She had to wait for the regular school goers to close from school so that she could borrow their books and cover up but luck smiled on her when she made a record for herself and country at Amstel Malta World Marathon Dance, by breaking the existing record for the Guinness Book of World Records through dance.And ever since, she has not relented on her oars.
Kaffy believes people need to learn how to read between the lines so that they won’t be misguided ’cause sometimes, the people you look up to may be the one that will lead you astray.
Wednesday 3 April 2013
Two Men Pour Acid On Four Sisters
An acid attack left four sisters in north India with burns in a particularly brutal example of what is a growing problem in South Asia, police said Wednesday.
The youngest sister, 19, was admitted to hospital with severe injuries after two men on a motorbike splashed them with acid on Tuesday evening in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the capital.
The sisters, aged between 19 and 24, were returning home from a government school where three of them work as teachers. The fourth is a student.
"The victims were walking together when two men on a motorbike made lewd remarks and the man who was riding pillion splashed acid on all of them," Abdul Hammed, the senior police officer investigating the case said.
"The youngest sister suffered maximum burn injuries and she had to be rushed to a hospital in Delhi."
Hameed said no arrests had been made and the motive behind the crime was unclear.
Attacks on women have topped the national agenda since December 2012 when a medical student was assaulted and raped by six men on a moving bus in Delhi. S
he died two weeks later of her injuries. Public anger prompted parliament to toughen sex offence laws including doubling the minimum prison sentence for gang-rape to 20 years, but lawmakers voted against increasing the punishment for acid attackers.
They can be jailed for eight to 12 years depending on the injuries inflicted, but the offence is bailable.
Campaign group Stop Acid Attacks accused the government of ignoring the growing trend of such assaults which are often perpetrated by jilted men or their relatives.
It has called for India to regulate the sale of an acid called "Tezaab" which is designed to clean rusted tools but is commonly used in attacks.
"Acid has become the cheapest and most effective tool for men to attack women in India," said activist and victim Archana Kumari, who hails from northern Uttar Pradesh state where Tuesday’s attack took place.
"Why is the government not stopping the sale of acid? Why are they supporting a weapon that has the power to kill and ruin a woman’s life?"she said.
According to the London-based charity Acid Survivors Trust International, about 1,500 acid attacks are reported globally each year.
But many more victims do not report their injuries to the authorities and instead suffer in silence.
In 2011, neighbouring Pakistan adopted legislation increasing the punishment to between 14 years and life for acid attacks and a minimum fine of one million Pakistan rupees ($10,200).
The youngest sister, 19, was admitted to hospital with severe injuries after two men on a motorbike splashed them with acid on Tuesday evening in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the capital.
The sisters, aged between 19 and 24, were returning home from a government school where three of them work as teachers. The fourth is a student.
"The victims were walking together when two men on a motorbike made lewd remarks and the man who was riding pillion splashed acid on all of them," Abdul Hammed, the senior police officer investigating the case said.
"The youngest sister suffered maximum burn injuries and she had to be rushed to a hospital in Delhi."
Hameed said no arrests had been made and the motive behind the crime was unclear.
Attacks on women have topped the national agenda since December 2012 when a medical student was assaulted and raped by six men on a moving bus in Delhi. S
he died two weeks later of her injuries. Public anger prompted parliament to toughen sex offence laws including doubling the minimum prison sentence for gang-rape to 20 years, but lawmakers voted against increasing the punishment for acid attackers.
They can be jailed for eight to 12 years depending on the injuries inflicted, but the offence is bailable.
Campaign group Stop Acid Attacks accused the government of ignoring the growing trend of such assaults which are often perpetrated by jilted men or their relatives.
It has called for India to regulate the sale of an acid called "Tezaab" which is designed to clean rusted tools but is commonly used in attacks.
"Acid has become the cheapest and most effective tool for men to attack women in India," said activist and victim Archana Kumari, who hails from northern Uttar Pradesh state where Tuesday’s attack took place.
"Why is the government not stopping the sale of acid? Why are they supporting a weapon that has the power to kill and ruin a woman’s life?"she said.
According to the London-based charity Acid Survivors Trust International, about 1,500 acid attacks are reported globally each year.
But many more victims do not report their injuries to the authorities and instead suffer in silence.
In 2011, neighbouring Pakistan adopted legislation increasing the punishment to between 14 years and life for acid attacks and a minimum fine of one million Pakistan rupees ($10,200).
VIDEO: Man Tattoos Dogs, Sparks Outrage
Ernesto Rodriguez, an Army veteran and tattoo artist from Stokes County, N.C., inked his two pit bulls -- Duke and Duchess -- on their stomachs. The man said he tattooed his dogs for identification purposes. The 4-month-old Duchess was reportedly tattooed while she was asleep after having her ears clipped.
Rodriguez posted a photo of the job on his Facebook page for Planet Ink Tattoos and later deleted it. However, Mediaite has a screenshot of one of his updates, which stated: "Animal control came looked at my beautiful dog and left.... wow... what a waste of tax payers money... so im still gonna tattoo my dogs whenever i feel like it... good try haters thanks for all the advertisement."
The Facebook post ignited fury, with many people accusing Rodriguez of animal abuse for tattooing the dogs. Animal advocate Caleb Scott disputed Rodriguez's claims that the dog was even asleep.
“On [Rodriguez's] first Facebook post, he said he was ‘bored and tattooing.’ I think now he’s backpedaling saying he’s identifying it," he told WGHP.
Now, the Stokes County Health Department and Animal Control are investigating Rodriguez, according to WXII 12. No charges have yet been filed, but the health department issued him a cease and desist order for tattooing in his home without a proper permit.
Meanwhile, the dog owner continues to defend himself.
"I didn't just plop her on the bed and tattoo her," he told WXII 12. "She was already [under] anesthetic. She was asleep, completely asleep. I even used topical anesthetic, too, on the skin. So she didn't feel anything."
Adding, "I love my dogs. There's people out there saying that I'm cruel,that I hurt my dogs, that I don't love my dogs, that I shouldn't be doing this, that I should be in jail. None of it is true. I paid a lot of money for my dogs. I take care of them."
The National Association of Professional Creative Groomers (NAPCG) said temporary dog tattoos first became popular about three years ago, and the trend has increased in popularity since, according to USA Today. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has spoken out against the practice, saying it is insensitive to the animal's dignity, the report notes.
Lagosians To Enjoy Free BRT Bus Ride For 1 Month
Thousands of residents in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, will enjoy free BRT rides throughout the month of April, RLG Communications Nigeria Limited said on Tuesday.
RLG, a subsidiary of AGAMS Group of Companies, is a pan African company engaged in the production of communications equipment such as mobile handsets, electronic notebooks, tablets, laptops, LCD TV monitors, and has been trying to break into the Nigerian market since it moved in from Ghana.
The BRT buses are easily identifiable and will ply Ikorodu – CMS, Okokomaiko – Mile 2 and Ajah – CMS routes, said Taiwo Latilo, RLG Nigeria Chief Operating Officer.
“We therefore enjoin Lagosians from all walks of life to feel free to enjoy this service wherever they see the buses,” Latilo said.
The decision to provide free buses for Lagos residents, Latilo explained, is based on the belief that their business is more likely to do well in a flourishing society where citizens are happy.
“Lagosians should therefore see the free bus service as a gift and a promise from us to always put them first,” Latilo said.
He however called on the residents to be orderly in boarding the buses and allow as many people as possible to benefit from the opportunity.
“They should also avail themselves of the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the road traffic signs as will be explained by our representatives on the buses,” Latilo said.
Mr. Adeoye. Irelewuyi of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, said everything is set for the free bus ride to be successful.
“We want to thank RLG for making life better for an average Lagosian and we are happy to work with them,” he said on the behalf of the FRSC Sector Commander, Mr. Nseobong Akpabio.
RLG is completing an IT factory in Osun State, southwest Nigeri, a and it will be commissioned in June, Latilo said.
RLG has offices in Ghana, China, Nigeria and The Gambia with far advanced plans to expand into the West African sub-region, and subsequently into the rest of the African market.
RLG, a subsidiary of AGAMS Group of Companies, is a pan African company engaged in the production of communications equipment such as mobile handsets, electronic notebooks, tablets, laptops, LCD TV monitors, and has been trying to break into the Nigerian market since it moved in from Ghana.
The BRT buses are easily identifiable and will ply Ikorodu – CMS, Okokomaiko – Mile 2 and Ajah – CMS routes, said Taiwo Latilo, RLG Nigeria Chief Operating Officer.
“We therefore enjoin Lagosians from all walks of life to feel free to enjoy this service wherever they see the buses,” Latilo said.
The decision to provide free buses for Lagos residents, Latilo explained, is based on the belief that their business is more likely to do well in a flourishing society where citizens are happy.
“Lagosians should therefore see the free bus service as a gift and a promise from us to always put them first,” Latilo said.
He however called on the residents to be orderly in boarding the buses and allow as many people as possible to benefit from the opportunity.
“They should also avail themselves of the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the road traffic signs as will be explained by our representatives on the buses,” Latilo said.
Mr. Adeoye. Irelewuyi of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, said everything is set for the free bus ride to be successful.
“We want to thank RLG for making life better for an average Lagosian and we are happy to work with them,” he said on the behalf of the FRSC Sector Commander, Mr. Nseobong Akpabio.
RLG is completing an IT factory in Osun State, southwest Nigeri, a and it will be commissioned in June, Latilo said.
RLG has offices in Ghana, China, Nigeria and The Gambia with far advanced plans to expand into the West African sub-region, and subsequently into the rest of the African market.
"Why Buhari Can’t Be President Again"
Alhaji Mohammed Abdulrahman is former vice president, Kaduna Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KADCCIMA), ex-Economic, Political and Security Adviser to General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua; Adviser on Politics and Economy to the former SGF, Alhaji Aliyu Mohammed (Wazirin Jama’a); and member, National Executive Committee, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF).
In this interview, he declared that President Goodluck Jonathan had failed the country. He also gave reasons General Muhammadu Buhari failed to win the 2007 and 2011 presidential elections. Excerpts:
Buhari cannot rule Nigeria again
You witnessed what happened during the Buhari regime and that was why Buhari was removed. People who had contracts with government and voluntarily executed the contracts were accused of corruption. We know all the black and white of award of contracts in most of the countries in Africa and even overseas.
What happened was not the business of Buhari to send the people to jail. I remember, Mallam Ishaku Rabiu in Kano was jailed too. Well, we wouldn’t call it jail; they were incarcerated unnecessarily without term, indefinitely. Some of them died from the complications, arising from such an action. Some, who had money, just paid to free themselves, not because the law said so, they paid because they didn’t want to remain there. Hypertension, stroke, diabetes, blood pressure, so many things killed most of those who remained there.
Buhari can be a good leader but he will never govern Nigeria again, for the singular act of incarceration of politicians without reason or cause; for the singular act of causing the reason of ultimate death or early death of most of the people he incarcerated. That is the reason he may never be president again.
The families of those people, who died have decided to connect with God permanently, seeking God’s mercies on their departed souls. You think those families will not make sure they spend all their earnings to make sure Buhari never becomes President of Nigeria again? It is their right to pray, we cannot stop them. But everybody should understand the issue of the law, its applications with the intention of bringing about good governance in Nigeria.
Accepted, Buhari was a dictator but since he was a dictator, he had no business analysing political processes and direction. That is why he too, under the political process, suffered. The reason Buhari has never succeeded is that people only use him as a launch pad to win elections into the National Assembly and other positions. Buhari was a die-hard dictator; he is the one, who convicted the drug carriers and the newspaper men, who exposed the truth.
Between Obasanjo and Buhari
There was a major difference between Buhari and Obasanjo. Buhari has respect for person; he could be rude, very rude but you cannot compare that with crudeness of Obasanjo. Obasanjo’s own is what we call divide and rule. A man, who never has regret for his mistakes. A man that can subject even himself to inconvenience in order to displease people. Buhari will never inconvenient himself, he will never.
Yet, he (Buhari) cannot be President of Nigeria again. Yea! It takes more than being a good person to be President of Nigeria, considering other factors, like human, ethnicity, religion, etc. Even though Buhari had this Decree 9 and incarcerated journalists, those were military days. We are not comparing Obasanjo’s military regime and Buhari’s military regime. We are comparing Buhari as a man and a leader and Obasanjo as somebody, who came to being a Head of State and later a president. It is a question of attitude and we need behaviour, responsibility and attitude in governance. Buhari has them. So, Obasanjo should retire to being a statesman. People like Buhari should be organisers, they should advise the next generation. The next generation is those there now.
In 2011 when I fought for Jonathan to become the President of Nigeria, I fought the Northern establishment. I had quarrel with the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF); I fought the former Heads of State because I wanted a regime change. I wanted those old people, who have been part of Nigeria’s leadership in the last 50 years to step down. The result of the last 50 years has not helped us. They were the ones who kicked the civilians away by their coups. Then the civilians and the soldiers who have been in the leadership platform in the last 50 years have not changed Nigeria, it is worst.
What are we witnessing today? Mindless public act of vandalism. Whether you call it Niger-Delta youth restiveness or you call it Boko Haram, whatever you call it, it is pushing us backward. You bring in foreign contractors to come and build your land and you kill them mindlessly, do you want us to go back to riding horses and donkeys? You want us to go back to farming with our hoes, not tractors again?
The Jonathan Presidency
He has a wrong team and a wrong group, whether as executive cabinet or as economic management team. From the week he set up his economic management team, I told Jonathan in the newspapers that these are people, who have conflict of interest in Nigeria’s economy and they will wreck the economy.
On the issue of excess crude account, if you have enough money, use it to develop. The result of the development will improve the economy. You should be able to get all elements of economy correctly, exportation and so many things will happen, industries will pick up, then we can start having a very strong exchange rate and interest rate.
We can never go beyond where we are standing with the kind of interest rate the Central Bank is operating.
The late Professor Sam Aluko did better than these people a hundred times better. These people are not good enough for our economy. They do not know anything other than the book they have read and how it is written in the textbook, both of them. They cannot help the Nigerian economy, because it is formula plug-in that they know. These people are people of letters, most of them have divided interests in Nigerian economy. It is not about books from Harvard, it is about common sense, responsibilities, what we should be doing.
Jonathan should ask himself, from the day he became acting president and these people came on board, what has happened? Has the economy changed? Has anything drastic happened? Nothing! Everybody is milking the cash cow. We need to sit down very well in Nigeria and ask ourselves, what is the way forward? That is where the PDP has failed. PDP is supposed to present economic blueprint for the country, as a party that produced the president. They ought to be injecting these things into the president’s working paper. Do they do it? The answer is no! They don’t even have a manifesto, if they do, they don’t respect it.
Jonathan beyond 2015
The people, who are against Jonathan are so much in his government that they will stop him from getting the correct people to lead him to the Promised Land. The government of today has enough people in the government to dissuade Jonathan from listening to the right people who can lead him to the Promised Land, because they have divided interests. Most of them are helping the , who want to come in to even start their government. Something is wrong.
The Yoruba say, Kokoro to n j’efo, inu efo lo ngbe, meaning, “the insect that is devouring the vegetable garden lives inside it.” The problems of Nigeria and Jonathan himself are inside Aso Rock, they are the kokoro. Jonathan’s problem is in Aso Rock.
Jonathan can use his performance between now and 2015 to convince Nigerians on his status. But I will tell you, even within the PDP, there are people, who want to make sure that Jonathan is disgraced out of office. Didn’t they do that to Yar’Adua?
Presidential pardon for former governor Dipreye Alamieyeseigha of Bayelsa State and others
Some people condemned Jonathan’s action but I will hasten to say, they are all wrong. The word pardon shows that the person has already been convicted and he has paid the price for the offences he was found to have committed. So Bulama, the former managing director of the Bank of the North and Alamieyeseigha have paid the price because they were convicted. They served their terms and nobody said we should ask for a pound of flesh.
Even the Bible and the Qur’an have cautioned us on the elements of pound of flesh. If Jonathan wakes up one day and announces pardon for them, we can quarrel about the procedure, not the pardon itself, because they served their terms. I will restrict the rest of my comments to the real thing, what is right and what is wrong. The issue of pardon has to do with prerogative of mercy, human kindness after the punishment. The punishment is there, if they had spent only one day there, they have already fallen from grace to grass and that is enough.
In this interview, he declared that President Goodluck Jonathan had failed the country. He also gave reasons General Muhammadu Buhari failed to win the 2007 and 2011 presidential elections. Excerpts:
Buhari cannot rule Nigeria again
You witnessed what happened during the Buhari regime and that was why Buhari was removed. People who had contracts with government and voluntarily executed the contracts were accused of corruption. We know all the black and white of award of contracts in most of the countries in Africa and even overseas.
What happened was not the business of Buhari to send the people to jail. I remember, Mallam Ishaku Rabiu in Kano was jailed too. Well, we wouldn’t call it jail; they were incarcerated unnecessarily without term, indefinitely. Some of them died from the complications, arising from such an action. Some, who had money, just paid to free themselves, not because the law said so, they paid because they didn’t want to remain there. Hypertension, stroke, diabetes, blood pressure, so many things killed most of those who remained there.
Buhari can be a good leader but he will never govern Nigeria again, for the singular act of incarceration of politicians without reason or cause; for the singular act of causing the reason of ultimate death or early death of most of the people he incarcerated. That is the reason he may never be president again.
The families of those people, who died have decided to connect with God permanently, seeking God’s mercies on their departed souls. You think those families will not make sure they spend all their earnings to make sure Buhari never becomes President of Nigeria again? It is their right to pray, we cannot stop them. But everybody should understand the issue of the law, its applications with the intention of bringing about good governance in Nigeria.
Accepted, Buhari was a dictator but since he was a dictator, he had no business analysing political processes and direction. That is why he too, under the political process, suffered. The reason Buhari has never succeeded is that people only use him as a launch pad to win elections into the National Assembly and other positions. Buhari was a die-hard dictator; he is the one, who convicted the drug carriers and the newspaper men, who exposed the truth.
Between Obasanjo and Buhari
There was a major difference between Buhari and Obasanjo. Buhari has respect for person; he could be rude, very rude but you cannot compare that with crudeness of Obasanjo. Obasanjo’s own is what we call divide and rule. A man, who never has regret for his mistakes. A man that can subject even himself to inconvenience in order to displease people. Buhari will never inconvenient himself, he will never.
Yet, he (Buhari) cannot be President of Nigeria again. Yea! It takes more than being a good person to be President of Nigeria, considering other factors, like human, ethnicity, religion, etc. Even though Buhari had this Decree 9 and incarcerated journalists, those were military days. We are not comparing Obasanjo’s military regime and Buhari’s military regime. We are comparing Buhari as a man and a leader and Obasanjo as somebody, who came to being a Head of State and later a president. It is a question of attitude and we need behaviour, responsibility and attitude in governance. Buhari has them. So, Obasanjo should retire to being a statesman. People like Buhari should be organisers, they should advise the next generation. The next generation is those there now.
In 2011 when I fought for Jonathan to become the President of Nigeria, I fought the Northern establishment. I had quarrel with the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF); I fought the former Heads of State because I wanted a regime change. I wanted those old people, who have been part of Nigeria’s leadership in the last 50 years to step down. The result of the last 50 years has not helped us. They were the ones who kicked the civilians away by their coups. Then the civilians and the soldiers who have been in the leadership platform in the last 50 years have not changed Nigeria, it is worst.
What are we witnessing today? Mindless public act of vandalism. Whether you call it Niger-Delta youth restiveness or you call it Boko Haram, whatever you call it, it is pushing us backward. You bring in foreign contractors to come and build your land and you kill them mindlessly, do you want us to go back to riding horses and donkeys? You want us to go back to farming with our hoes, not tractors again?
The Jonathan Presidency
He has a wrong team and a wrong group, whether as executive cabinet or as economic management team. From the week he set up his economic management team, I told Jonathan in the newspapers that these are people, who have conflict of interest in Nigeria’s economy and they will wreck the economy.
On the issue of excess crude account, if you have enough money, use it to develop. The result of the development will improve the economy. You should be able to get all elements of economy correctly, exportation and so many things will happen, industries will pick up, then we can start having a very strong exchange rate and interest rate.
We can never go beyond where we are standing with the kind of interest rate the Central Bank is operating.
The late Professor Sam Aluko did better than these people a hundred times better. These people are not good enough for our economy. They do not know anything other than the book they have read and how it is written in the textbook, both of them. They cannot help the Nigerian economy, because it is formula plug-in that they know. These people are people of letters, most of them have divided interests in Nigerian economy. It is not about books from Harvard, it is about common sense, responsibilities, what we should be doing.
Jonathan should ask himself, from the day he became acting president and these people came on board, what has happened? Has the economy changed? Has anything drastic happened? Nothing! Everybody is milking the cash cow. We need to sit down very well in Nigeria and ask ourselves, what is the way forward? That is where the PDP has failed. PDP is supposed to present economic blueprint for the country, as a party that produced the president. They ought to be injecting these things into the president’s working paper. Do they do it? The answer is no! They don’t even have a manifesto, if they do, they don’t respect it.
Jonathan beyond 2015
The people, who are against Jonathan are so much in his government that they will stop him from getting the correct people to lead him to the Promised Land. The government of today has enough people in the government to dissuade Jonathan from listening to the right people who can lead him to the Promised Land, because they have divided interests. Most of them are helping the , who want to come in to even start their government. Something is wrong.
The Yoruba say, Kokoro to n j’efo, inu efo lo ngbe, meaning, “the insect that is devouring the vegetable garden lives inside it.” The problems of Nigeria and Jonathan himself are inside Aso Rock, they are the kokoro. Jonathan’s problem is in Aso Rock.
Jonathan can use his performance between now and 2015 to convince Nigerians on his status. But I will tell you, even within the PDP, there are people, who want to make sure that Jonathan is disgraced out of office. Didn’t they do that to Yar’Adua?
Presidential pardon for former governor Dipreye Alamieyeseigha of Bayelsa State and others
Some people condemned Jonathan’s action but I will hasten to say, they are all wrong. The word pardon shows that the person has already been convicted and he has paid the price for the offences he was found to have committed. So Bulama, the former managing director of the Bank of the North and Alamieyeseigha have paid the price because they were convicted. They served their terms and nobody said we should ask for a pound of flesh.
Even the Bible and the Qur’an have cautioned us on the elements of pound of flesh. If Jonathan wakes up one day and announces pardon for them, we can quarrel about the procedure, not the pardon itself, because they served their terms. I will restrict the rest of my comments to the real thing, what is right and what is wrong. The issue of pardon has to do with prerogative of mercy, human kindness after the punishment. The punishment is there, if they had spent only one day there, they have already fallen from grace to grass and that is enough.
Female Student Paid Man For Sex, Then Claimed He Raped Her
A California student accused of filing a false rape report with police had placed an ad on Craigslist in which she sought to hire someone to beat her in exchange for sex, according to prosecutors.
Morgan Triplett, a 20-year-old student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, pleaded not guilty to charges in court March 29.
Prosecutors said a police investigation revealed that the young woman had placed two separate ads on Craigslist on Feb. 16, while visiting UC Santa Cruz for a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender conference. In the first ad, Triplett wrote that she wanted to hire someone to shoot her. In the other, posted later that night, the woman wrote that she wanted someone with a "strong hand" to "punch, kick and bruise her," stated that she would compensate the participant with sex, and said that "no charges would be filed," according to police.
In an interview outside court on Friday, Assistant District Attorney Johanna Schonfield told Santa Cruz Patch (which, like The Huffington Post, is owned by AOL) that Triplett placed the ads because she "was suicidal and she wanted something to bring her back to reality."
Triplett wrote in the first ad, which was quoted in court records, that she was looking for someone to shoot her in the arm or shoulder "with the smallest caliber bullet possible."
Schonfield said several people responded to the second ad. One of them, a man who is now cooperating with police, met with Triplett on the UC Santa Cruz campus Feb. 17, beat her and had sex with her as planned.
Court records stated that after having sex, Triplett "used a cellphone screen reflection as a mirror to see if [her] injuries were bad enough" then told the man to "hit her some more."
Afterward, Triplett called 911 and claimed she had been raped on a campus trail. She provided UC Santa Cruz police with a description of her attacker, but police determined the rape report was false 10 days later.
"Ms. Triplett essentially orchestrated this event," Schonfield said in court. "This case caused a lot of widespread fear in the community."
In an interview with the Register-Pajaronian, Triplett's father disputed prosecutor’s claims, saying that the physical attack on his daughter was invited, but the sexual assault was not.
According to the San Jose Mercury News Triplett could face up to six months in jail, if convicted, and could be made to pay restitution to the UC Santa Cruz police.
Morgan Triplett, a 20-year-old student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, pleaded not guilty to charges in court March 29.
Prosecutors said a police investigation revealed that the young woman had placed two separate ads on Craigslist on Feb. 16, while visiting UC Santa Cruz for a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender conference. In the first ad, Triplett wrote that she wanted to hire someone to shoot her. In the other, posted later that night, the woman wrote that she wanted someone with a "strong hand" to "punch, kick and bruise her," stated that she would compensate the participant with sex, and said that "no charges would be filed," according to police.
In an interview outside court on Friday, Assistant District Attorney Johanna Schonfield told Santa Cruz Patch (which, like The Huffington Post, is owned by AOL) that Triplett placed the ads because she "was suicidal and she wanted something to bring her back to reality."
Triplett wrote in the first ad, which was quoted in court records, that she was looking for someone to shoot her in the arm or shoulder "with the smallest caliber bullet possible."
Schonfield said several people responded to the second ad. One of them, a man who is now cooperating with police, met with Triplett on the UC Santa Cruz campus Feb. 17, beat her and had sex with her as planned.
Court records stated that after having sex, Triplett "used a cellphone screen reflection as a mirror to see if [her] injuries were bad enough" then told the man to "hit her some more."
Afterward, Triplett called 911 and claimed she had been raped on a campus trail. She provided UC Santa Cruz police with a description of her attacker, but police determined the rape report was false 10 days later.
"Ms. Triplett essentially orchestrated this event," Schonfield said in court. "This case caused a lot of widespread fear in the community."
In an interview with the Register-Pajaronian, Triplett's father disputed prosecutor’s claims, saying that the physical attack on his daughter was invited, but the sexual assault was not.
According to the San Jose Mercury News Triplett could face up to six months in jail, if convicted, and could be made to pay restitution to the UC Santa Cruz police.
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