Why Judge dismissed $12.4bn Gulf Oil Windfall suit

Former President, Ibrahim Babangida

The judge said the applicants had no “locus standi.”

Justice Gabriel Kolawale of the Federal High Court in Abuja, Thursday, dismissed the $12.4 billion gulf oil windfall suit filed by some civil society organisations against the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

While delivering ruling on objections raised against the application, Mr. Kolawole, in a judgement read for over one hour,  held that the court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the matter. He also ruled that the applicants did not have the requisite “locus standi” to institute the action.

Though the application for the information was filed by six groups, the judge de-listed three of them for “wrong representation.”

FCT Minister names street after Peruvian

FCT Minister names street after Peruvian

The Nigerian State of Flux and its Resonance With the Egyptian Situation

Thousands,even some are reporting that tens of thousands of Egyptian youths have again gathered in Tahir square.For anyone who is an ardent or cursory follower of current affairs especially last year into this year, would have realised this is reminiscent of the  modern day revolution waged by Egyptians which led to the toppling of the erstwhile President Hosni Mubarak.Now Egyptians are  back on the streets, protesters and bystanders alike being tear gassed as they pelt the Police with stones and anything to hand.

REAL STORY OF NIGERIA

                                               

How Ifeanyi Ubah Swindled Me of N21bn By Cosmas Maduka -THISDAY Newspaper | Sahara Reporters

How Ifeanyi Ubah Swindled Me of N21bn By Cosmas Maduka -THISDAY Newspaper

Posted: November 13, 2012 - 03:41

For the past 38 years he has operated quietly behind the scenes, only visible in the press when absolutely necessary and in that space of time, he has built the Coscharis brand from an upstart with little or no capital into a colossus with tentacles spread across major auto luxury brands – Range Rover, BMW, Ford, Jaguar, etc. And with a reputation that opens doors and access to mega funds both locally and internationally, Cosmas Maduka was on a roll.

According to him, it took hard work, sweat and focused determination, in the process, riding through rough times with a dogged tenacity to get to the very pinnacle of business success. Maduka appeared to have all going for him until one bright summer morning when fate chanced a meeting between him and Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah, chief executive and founder of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited in an aircraft.  It is not unlikely that he will curse that day forever going by what he knows now. It set the stage for the biggest mistake of his business life. As is often the case with that element called trust, one party is left bruised and bloodied while the other party has run away with the loot.

IFEANYI UBA EXCLUSIVE ‘The Lord will fight for me

Persecuted MD/CEO of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, Dr. Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah, has handed his current travails and tribulations over to the Almighty God.
In a chat with us soon after breathing the air of freedom, Ubah who insisted that the time was not yet ripe for an elaborate interview only said: “The Lord will fight for me – I’ve handed over this matter to Him. Thank you”.
Ubah spoke to YES International! on Friday, October 19, 2012 at SFU, Milverton Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, where he had been for over a week. Adorning a navy blue South South attire, the Nnewi, Anambra State born billionaire and father of five looked cool and calm as he chatted with us. Surrounded by friends and well wishers, among them Barrister Ben Chuks Nwosu, former Speaker, Anambra House of Assembly, Barrister Emeka Ngige, SAN, Mr. Chike Chikeluba and Chief Austin Ndigwe, he headed home thereafter, looking relieved and relaxed.

Friended: How the Obama Campaign Connected with Young Voters

By Michael Schere 

In the final weeks before Election Day, a scary statistic emerged from the databases at Barack Obama’s Chicago headquarters: half the campaign’s targeted swing-state voters under age 29 had no listed phone number. They lived in the cellular shadows, effectively immune to traditional get-out-the-vote efforts.

For a campaign dependent on a big youth turnout, this could have been a crisis. But the Obama team had a solution in place: a Facebook application that will transform the way campaigns are conducted in the future. For supporters, the app appeared to be just another way to digitally connect to the campaign. But to the Windy City number crunchers, it was a game changer. “I think this will wind up being the most groundbreaking piece of technology developed for this campaign,” says Teddy Goff, the Obama campaign’s digital director.

British Man travels Round the world without a Plane

I normally dont post much of theses sort of articles but i just couldn't resist posting this because it is so inspirational,we only have one life to live and damning the consequences and going off to do what we want is really living the fullness of life.

If anything can be said about record-breaking globetrotter Graham Hughes, it's that - throughout his travels - he's always kept his feet firmly on the ground.

The 33-year-old adventurer, from Liverpool, has become the first person to visit all 201 countries in the world - without using a plane.

Hughes used buses, taxis, trains and his own two feet to travel 160,000 miles in exactly 1,426 days - all on a shoestring of just $100 a week.

Casey Legler is a woman working as a male mode Read more: http://style.time.com/2012/11/20/male-models-the-female-of-the-species/#ixzz2DRcNY4Jc

Casey Legler is a woman working as a male model. She looks wonderfully comfortable shrugging into tailored suits and chomping on cigars. But assigning words to the experience isn’t as easy. In an interview in her New York City studio, Legler steers around phrases like “gender identity” and “gender expression” in favor of having a conversation about freedom.

“I understand signifiers. We’re social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other,” she says. “But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something.”

Carney's Rescue Mission

BY; MEHDI HASAN

The ten things you need to know on Tuesday 27th November 2012...

1) CARNEY'S RESCUE MISSION

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the (former) governor of the Bank of Canada. Mark Carney was yesterday announced as the new man in charge of our very own Bank of England; he told reporters back home that he was "going to where the challenges are greatest”. Uh-oh.

The chancellor George Osborne, announcing the appointment of Carney to surprised MPs in the Commons yesterday afternoon, described the Canadian as "literally... the best person in the world to do this job".

Invinsible children,Forgotten voices victims of society

"He asked me to remove my pant and lay down on the cardboard.He started to touch me all over my body and put his thing inside me.I was crying when he was doing it because it was very painful but he covered my mouth with a dirty smelly cloth and told me not to make any noise or the police will arrest me, blood was coming out of my body the first time he did it and my body was paining me.He gave me 50naira and bought ice cream and coke for me..He does it to me every night after everyone has slept,when i tell him i dont want to do it anymore he threatened to kill me…since my thing started to smell with a bad odour and some fluid was coming out,he has not done it with me again and he gave me some tablet and pure water to use"…(name withheld age 7years old)
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"Daddy always sleeps with me whenever my mother is not around. He tells me not to inform anyone each time he sleeps with me”(name withheld age 10yrs old molested by 62 years old)     
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These short but vivid accounts are real life occurrence  that have occurred in the lives of  children living in Nigeria.The first account occurred with an 8years old girl who is an orphan but lives with a guardian who brought her from Maiduguri born state she is forced to beg on the streets of Lagos with other children who are her age mates and then turn over the proceeds of the day to her guardian.They sleep under one of the bridges in lagos on the mainland, leaving them open to older adult sexual predators.The perpetuator of the molestation in the above scenario is  Musa,a disabled hausa man in his mid forties who is disabled and also begs for alms in the same area.He also sleeps under the bridge and indulges in molesting the child during the night after everyone has slept.

Tony Rapu Joins The Private Jet Debate

Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and his wife Helen

The controversy surrounding Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor’s recent receipt of the gift of a jet has cast a harsh glare of scrutiny on the Church and its leaders. It has also caused no small dissension among pastors and Christians. This has been amplified by the social media where the vigorous debate has gone viral. As president of the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, he is seen not only as an important and influential figure in Christian circles but also, the most prominent representation of Christian leadership in the country. His profile also makes him influential in the corridors of power where he is seen to represent the Christian position on national issues. All this has made his acquisition of a jet an issue of contention. Of course, he is not the first to own a private jet. Some other pastors and clerics do and so do a number of politicians, tycoons and socialites. But perhaps because of his profile, his pastoral vocation and prominence, Oritsejafor has drawn attention and ire. Or perhaps because the media in very recent times has been awash with heated debate on the issue of ownership of jets in Nigeria, the acquisition of yet another jet by yet another prominent Nigerian was just more fuel for the fire of contention.

How Jonathan and Obasanjo fell apart

How Jonathan and Obasanjo fell apart

ormer President Olusegun Obasanjo is the benefactor of President Goodluck Jonathan. But as it is the way of the world, there seems to be a river between them at the moment. We explore the events that led to this ugly development and their political implications.
In Abeokuta last Friday, governors, leaders of the National Assembly and political heavy weights gathered to lay the foundation stone of a mosque at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) complex.  Even former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who has had a bitter political battle with former President Obasanjo, attended the event and donated N5 million towards the project. Conspicuously absent was President Goodluck Jonathan. He was not there in person. He was not represented by any minister or presidential aide.

Malabu N155bn fraud: How Keystone Bank helped presidency, ministers broker huge money laundering deal

Malabu N155bn fraud: How Keystone Bank helped presidency, ministers broker huge money laundering deal

Why did Oti Ikomi, former Managing Director at Keystone Bank, and the one with a velvet banking resume and experience, fire what appears to be a disturbing internal memo to staff at about the close of business hours on Thursday, October 11?

After just 13 months in office, and two months after he painted a rosy vision of the future he would take the bank, Mr. Ikomi dramatically fouled the mood at Keystone when he told staff he was, unceremoniously, stepping down.

VIDEO: All church leaders buying jets must go to prison, then hell, says Tunde Bakare

VIDEO: All church leaders buying jets must go to prison, then hell, says Tunde Bakare

Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie and the limits of art, By Kehinde Owolabi

Mr  Kehinde Owolabi's retort to Chiamanda Adichie's eulogy on Chinua Achebe where she touched on several salient points  regarding his controversial and highly contentious book "There was a country"
 Its a lengthy read but i will carve it up into several paragraphs for easy reading.

Kehinde Owolabi faults Chimamanda Adichie’s comment on Chinua Achebe’s new book saying she shielded Ojukwu and Achebe from blame in the starvation of millions of Biafrans to death

The agonies of illegal migrants in Europe

Drogba may not be a fantastic footballer but his fans, mainly refugees, cheered while the five-aside game lasted.

The game ends.

PENKELE MESI (An enigma in Nigerian politics)

For any student of the history of Nigerian politics especially western region,you must have heard of this often quoted "penkele mesi" which is attributed to a notable politician of yoruba (south western)tribal affiliation.Below is a short exerpt and historical background of the great man.

Omission,dearth of criminal justice system in Nigeria

An audible sigh escaped my lips when i read the accounts of the three siblings arrested for armed robbery in otto-awori local government council.

source;http://www.joisaysblog.com/2012/11/we-cant-survive-without-robbery-3-blood.html#more

Woman Who bored hole in Brain with black and decker dies

THE DAILY MAIL'S MATT BLAKE REPORTS that a Woman who used black and decker  drill a bore a hole into her head live on tv in bizarre health ritual dies a decade later from drug abuse.

Role of Community organising in The Role of Nigerian Elections and Modern Democracy

 I have been deliberating on this for a very long time and i am actually working on an article concerning this as well.as we all know machinations,meetings and political horse tradings has already started surreptitiously of course amongst  nigerian politicians concerning the 2015 elections.While the new wave of online new media revolution amongst nigerian youths have been very commendable,i strongly believe and am that sure in my convictions that we can take it a notch higher by approaching campaigns and elections in a totally different way.

Jail is too good for Nigerian pastors

HELLO THERE GUYS,FOUND THIS ARTICLE WHILE TRAWLING THE ONLINE NEWSPAPERS AND I THOUGH IT MADE FOR A GOOD AND COMPELLING READING.
WHAT DO YOU RECKON

A Cursory Look at Voting Psychology

I just got back from work and settled in to do my daily rounds of the online newspapers like i usually do including feeding my twitter addiction,blogs and generally just to keep up with current affairs in nigeria and the world at large.
Then the headline caught my eye '1.3billion is grossly insufficient for feeding-presidency'

Achebe’s Igbos Before Others Fairy Tales By S. Kadiri

CONTINUATION AND CONCLUSION OF THE ARTICLE

ACHEBE'S IGBO BEFORE OTHERS FAIRY TALES BY S KADIRI

Awolowo has been vilified by Achebe and his ilk for giving only £20 to Biafrans irrespective of what individual Biafran claimed to have lodged in the bank before the war.

 Achebe, as a head of external broadcasting service in the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in Lagos before he fled to the East during July 1966 coup, was on super scale salary. Based on that fact Nigerians will like to know if he had any saving in the bank at the time he fled Eastward; How much money did he have in his bank account and what happened to the money? Without waiting for Achebe to answer the questions I venture to assert that those who fled to the East in 1966 and had money in the bank withdrew them in cash and travelled with them to the East as money was the easiest of

Achebe’s Igbos Before Others Fairy Tales By S. Kadiri

 I HAVE BEEN AWOL FOR A LONG WHILE ON THIS BLOG,AND IT HAS TO DO WITH A LOT OF THINGS I AM JUGGLING IN MY DAILY LIFE..THIS BLOG IS ALWAYS ON MY MIND AND GOD WILLING ONE OF MY RESOLUTIONS WILL BE REGULAR UPDATING WITH SOME OF THE ARTICLES GLEANED FROM OTHERS AND ALSO A COUPLE OF MINE AS WELL.
I FOUND THIS BRILLIANT PIECE BY AN INDIVIDUAL BY THE NAME OF S KADIRI ON SAHARA REPORTERS AND JUST KNEW I HAD TO POST IT ON HERE FOR POSTERITY.
I WILL POST IT IN TWO PARTS FOR EASIER READING.