Nigeria: APGA – Swelling the Ranks!

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Many images of what I wanted to be as a child conflicted with each other in my head. Topmost was a priest, then a lawyer, and then a soldier and I admired men of these professions greatly. Because I lived with my aunt at a place where we operated a provision store on the major road, I admired the bus drivers and conductors too. If not for any other thing, becoming one of them would afford me the opportunity of enjoying free ride from Enugu to Onitsha, the two greatest cities in my mind then. But I cannot remember whether my mind had for once had a flip of being a politician. Of course, as children, we did not know them as such. Though we admired their big cars whenever we saw them, the term politician was too amorphous. Politics is not profession. Though we also wanted to be the presidents of our country and the governors of our state, we never associated them with the noisy politicians we used to come across occasionally in their places of meetings.

Later in life, I came to realize one fact about politicians. They have neither permanent enemies nor friends. Note well that even the saints have at least one known enemy – the devil. But the politicians have no permanent enemies. Their greatest enemies turn into their best friends wherever and whenever their interests meet. This may be counted as good quality for them. It has to be noted too that it is only a harlot that has no permanent friend. Her business does not know friendship. It only knows money and she can open her laps to any man who strikes the highest bargain; thieves, kidnappers, house boys, tenants, landlords, chiefs, dwarfs, giants and anything that goes in trousers in so far as you have your money in hand. Sometimes, when the day becomes too dry for business, the harlot can settle for anything, even just a meal and you have your way into her. Recently, their business has been ‘improved’ to include dancing naked for money. They are as cheap as that. The politicians are not different. They can go to any extent to achieve what they want, including dancing naked around the market places and before fetish deities. They can worship both the devil and God simultaneously. Many a time, when they are in the church, it is just to show off and make their presence felt. Their minds are not in the worship of God, the Father but in their godfathers. It is not difficult for them to change positions. That is why it is folly to hold onto their words. An author said that they promise to build bridges where there are no rivers. The women politicians are said to be more dangerous.

Most recently, there is a deluge in the fortunes of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) especially in the South-East. Apart from Governor Obi’s winning of the February 6 Gubernatorial Election in Anambra state and his subsequent swearing-in for the second term, there seems to be a mass movement towards the party in the state. Two legislators in the Anambra House of Assembly have decamped from the PDP to APGA and one member of the House of Representatives is set to decamp from the PDP to APGA soonest. The arrangement is said to have been concluded. This does not include many other supporters of the major players who decamped with them.

A major break-through is in Abia State, where Governor Theodore Orji with his numerous supporters decamped from the Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA), the party in which he contested and won the Abia Gubernatorial polls in 2007 and joined the APGA. That was after an alleged protracted inclement political condition in the hands of his godfather and mentor, the former governor of Abia State and the Chairman Board of Trustees of PPA, Orji Uzor Kalu. It was said that the influence of the mother of the former governor, Mrs. Eunice Kalu, alias Mama Excellency, who with her son, was alleged to run the affairs of the party as a family business, became too much on the governor and he had to seek refuge elsewhere. He found APGA. Attempts had earlier been made to deny this rift between the governor and the Kalu family but the recent events exposed the fact. Another big fish that moved into APGA with Gov. Theodore Orji is Senator Uche Chukwumerije, one of the most respectable and vocal senators of Igbo extraction. This finally sealed the coffin of PPA in the country.
Also, the APGA came very close to clinching the governorship of Imo State on the 16th of July, 2010 through the Supreme Court judgment. However, the judgment went the side of Ikedi Ohakim, the incumbent governor of Imo State and a decampee from the PPA to the PDP. The Supreme Court ruled that the relief sought by the APGA candidate, Chief Martin Agbaso is basically an election petitions tribunal matter and cannot be entertained by the Apex Court. Though Chief Victor Umeh, the National Chairman of APGA accepted the verdict, he pointed out that both the Election Petitions Tribunal and the Appeal Court had earlier declined hearing on the matter. That was why they went to the High Court. However, he and his supporters must have been greatly consoled by the previous Supreme Court judgment that finally ratified the expulsion of Chekwas Okorie, the former Chairman of the party from the fold. The chairmanship tussle had lasted so long and nearly marred the chances of the party winning any elections. It was a big relief and a plus having it solved for the last time. You cannot win all the time.

In a desperate move to counter the movement of Gov. Orji and basically in frustration of seeing the house of PPA collapsing over his head, Orji Uzor Kalu returned to the PDP from which he decamped to form the PPA. Though the state chapter of the PDP has denied the ex-governor’s return to the party, his movement can be likened to that of the former vice-president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who, after a long battle with his boss, Olusegun Obasanjo, left the PDP and became a major factor in the Action Congress (AC), and later returned to the PDP against all expectations. Orji Kalu had a similar battle with Obasanjo and the PDP before he left the party. The politician has no bus stop and stories of such political flirtation abound. This puts a very fundamental question to the numerous parties in the country as regards their principles, manifestoes, aims and objectives. One finds out that the politicians have no clear vision of all these. They just want money, fame and power. The easiest way to achieve these is through political parties. Every other thing is mere story.

However, my focus remains on APGA as a party. Honestly, I fear for its soul. Many people have sought for a party that will grow from the ashes of the PDP and its tattered umbrella. But no party in the past and present has marched its ghoulish powers. It swallowed all of them and their remnants do not last long before they helplessly return to it on their knees to remain the rags for the masters’ shoes. One must note that initially the PDP did not set out to become the shark. Those who formed it had good intentions for the country. But it was made a monster by greed and avarice of infiltrators especially the money-bags who do not brook opposition. That was how it began to swallow other parties

Right now, I see such movement of infiltrators into APGA which may destroy it. It is true that politics is a game but good name is more than a game. It is life. It is greater than wealth. The Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the Chairman, BOT of APGA, should know that it is better to have quality than quantity and that the party has done well is not because of its quantity but quality. I believe strongly that “too many cooks spoil the broth”. Yes. Politics is a game of numbers but not all numbers. It must be a good number. The new entrants into the party should be men and women who have in mind doing good for the people and not just those who need refugium peccatorum – refuge of sinners. Such people, when they get what they want, go their way. It has happened before. I always remember the words of my lecturer, Fr. Thaddeo Onoyima, that, “The recruitment of women is not the problem. The problem is management and control.” It is not all who seek membership into the party that will be accepted. There should be insistence on integrity of the intending members. Any follower of my works will know that my words may not have been accurate, but they have not failed. Beware! APGA, beware!!

Meanwhile, since Orji has found a twin brother in Obi, let the past stories of the stranglehold and god-fatherism in Abia State cease. The money that was allegedly used in maintaining one family can now be channeled to the provision of democracy dividends to the state. The APGA government can rewrite the political history of the south-east and make it the envy of other zones of the country. What it takes is the type of courage that Obi has exuded from the onset. Orji must learn this to do better as we expect the best from Obi.

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Why Genevieve Loves to Act with Majid Michael

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The Love Affair between flimsy Genevieve & Majid comes as a surprise to many fans who have expressed disappointment or fate.

Genevieve can not seem to forget even after Majid Michael Secretly he hired paparazzi camera men to tape their loving means at his residence.

“I do not know if after juju or what but she can not forget this boy Ghana” a Genevieve assistant disclosed to the African Star exclusive. However, sources said Genevieve was not alone; Hood Nolly other actresses are also falling for the actor light skin. In the recent movie, ‘Silent Scandal “Genevieve could not wait for breaks during the shooting juicy to lavish kisses on the lips of Majid. A camera man who was on the scene told an African Star reporter in Nigeria.

Deeply in love with him even though she aware that he had sex with Mercy Johnson and Yvonne Nelson among others, “that does not bother Genevieve at all, a source said.

The rumor which love is now turning into a reality started When Genevieve decided to meet with Ghana’s flamboyant actor Michael Majid at a discrete location after a movie shoot in Ghana, she felt it would be a one-night stand where both measures would discuss their common intimacy, have sex and leave each other.

After the meeting, Genevieve was really pissed to realize that Majid Secretly took pictures of her during that meeting. A Tipster hinted that the African Star Majid called Genevieve and apology for the leakage of the secret sex pictures and confessed that he was in love with her. In tears, Genevieve also pledged her love for Majid but warned him to keep it very secret and discreet as usual.

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Fight Between Dora Akunyili & Charles Soludo disrupts burial

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The dead are either mourned or celebrated, depending on the age at which they passed. But the  burial of the sister of incumbent minister of information, Dora Akunyili  was almost marred by hooligans alleged to have been sent by the former governor of  Central Bank, Prof Charles Soludo, who is married to Prof. Akuyili`s younger sister.  According to Dora Akunyili; “Prof. Soludo has singled her out as the source of his failure to win the Anambra gubernatorial election, and he convinced her sister to believe that she was the cause of his failure.

Hear her: “I came down to my village to join my family, relations and well wishers to pay my last respect to my late sister Gloria but unknown to me, my family and invited guests, a large number of thugs loyal to Prof. Charles Soludo were carefully organized to disrupt my participation in my sister’s burial ceremony”.

“ I have never seen the number of thugs I saw on Friday in any event. The thugs were also instructed to embarrass my invited guests. As you may be aware, Prof. Charles Soludo is marrying my late elder sister’s daughter Nonye”. “So we are in-laws, but since he lost the last gubernatorial election in Anambra State, Prof. Soludo has singled me out as the source of his failure to win the election, and he convinced my sister to believe that I was the cause of his failure. All efforts by people to make him understand that I alone cannot make him Governor have failed”. “So he brought that anger, grudge and frustration to the burial of his mother in-law who is also my elder sister. All arrangements made by me and my other siblings to receive guests at Isuofia, where my late sister was residing (which is also Soludo’s village) were vandalized by Soludo’s hired thugs. They followed this up with text messages of blackmail to my guests, friends and well wishers”.

“When the environment in Isuofia became too insecure, tense and hostile, I quietly relocated to my father’s compound at Nanka which is few kilometres away just to avoid trouble. But Soludo’s thugs also trailed us to my own village Nanka to commence trouble but the security agents quietly dismissed them”.

“I want to remark that my late sister Gloria was a very peaceful, Godly and well brought up woman. While she was alive, I enjoyed her love and friendship as a sister no matter what Soludo and his hired thugs think. Because of this, even in death, I will do nothing to dishonour her because what Soludo and his thugs has done is to dishonour her but God has taken control”.

“ I therefore wish to thank all my invited guest for their understanding and the church for their prayers”.

Nevertheless, sources who claim to be familiar with the family melodrama labeled Prof. Dora Akunyili a liar; and asked, who does not know that her nephews and nieces actually banned her from attending their mother’s burial?

Who in Nanka does not know that she has not been in talking terms with her sister (even when she was sick) for the past five years before Soludo contemplated contesting the Anambra elections?

Continuing, the source said, “See who is managing Nigeria’s image. She is not even ashamed releasing that self-indicting statement. Dora is a fraud of the highest order”.

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Why Majid Michael refused to come to Nigeria

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It might take almost forever to convince ace Ghanaian actor, Majid Michael to come to Nigeria again to act like his peers Van Vicker, John Dumelo, Jackie Appiah, and Nadia Bhuari are doing.

Earlier, it was reported that Majid said he won’t come to Nigeria, because Nollywwod producers are not professional , but NFC can authoritatively tell you that the story is not true. Majid actually ran for dear life.

The fair skinned star decided to give Nigeria a wide gap after he received death threats on phone from “actors” who felt he was taking the shine off them. Majid was gradually etching his name into the annals of Nollywood last year.

He was just like one of the boys. He easily blended-in with actors and had a thriving relationship with the girls. Some even said he was having one or two things going with Nollywood star, Genevieve Nnaji. He was becoming the first choice ahead of our own stars and he could act to save his life.

Majid stole lots of hearts with Guilty Pleasure and was becoming the number one face on our posters when trouble started for him. He started getting anonymous calls and death threats telling him his days were numbered. Some of the SMS revealed directions from which they came . Some read “you think you can come here and take away our livelihood?, and “Watch your back, your days are numbered”. He went home to consult his wife and she told him to stay put in Ghana because she needs him alive.

This has put paid to the talk that he quitted acting in Nigeria because of the quality jobs he was getting which made others envious. How has Van Vicker been surviving? It’s because unlike Majid, he doesn’t mix that much and he is more of a politician. He takes what is thrown at him, complains less and refuses to be entangled with the girls. But for Majid, he was loud and could outperform almost any Nollywood actor hands.

Other actors who starred in the same movies with him had to make a little extra effort , because he could expose just how much they still needed to learn in terms of delivery.

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Nigerian Born Ghanaian 419 Pastor Busted

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A Nigerian Born  Ghanaian pastor, Monday Tufe Kpanoko, has been arrested by personnel of the Vetting and Crime Analyses (VCA) Unit of the Ghana Police Service for fraud.

The 43-year-old self-styled apostle, who is a member of the Evangelistic Vine Ministry at Nungua, Accra, was arrested on July 20, 2010 for dubbing documents on the internet containing some exploration works of Newmont Gold Ghana Limited and using it to defraud a Canadian investor.

According to the Director of VCA, Superintendent Denis Ako-Dem Abade, Kpanoko posed as a Ghanaian businessman who had a gold concession at Nyafoman in the Eastern Region for sale.  Using the name Michael Frimpong, he managed to contact one Canadian investor via the internet to buy the concession at the cost of $10 million.

The man had also successfully obtained a Ghanaian passport with the name Felix Azuma and traveled severally outside the country with it.

The Director said his outfit had been monitoring the suspect after receiving complaints from the company that one Michael Frimpong was in possession of their exploration works and using the information to lure foreign investors into the country.

Kpanoko aka Frimpong is said to have convinced his victim that he had gold concession worth $10 million and was scouting for prospective clients.

Unfortunately for Kpanoko, his unsuspecting victim in Canada contacted a compatriot, who is a local employee of Newmont Gold Ghana, over his intention to buy the said concession of the company.

It was at this point that the victim, who had then sent some $500, upon Frimpong’s request to cater for some miscellaneous expenses, realized he was dealing with a fraudster.

He then liaised with his friend in Ghana to carry on with all further arrangements with the intention of getting the police to arrest Frimpong.

A meeting was arranged between the two at East Legon for further discussions on the investment, where the victim was also to pay a commitment fee of $200,000.00 (two hundred thousand dollars).

The police, who had then mounted surveillance in the area, popped up and arrested suspect Kpanoko.

During interrogation, Kpanoko admitted to the offence and indicated that he forged the documents to lure the investor into the country to invest.

The police boss said ongoing investigations had revealed that Kpanoko had contacted several other foreigners and duped them through similar means.

A search in his house revealed a Ghanaian passport and a visa electron card bearing the name Felix Azuma, as well as Western Union Money Transfer receipts indicating various sums of money he had collected from unsuspecting victims abroad.

He would soon be arraigned when the police complete their investigations.

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Nigeria’s oil spills dwarf gulf disaster

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LAGOS, Nigeria, July 21 (UPI) — The BP oil spill is a major tragedy for the Gulf of Mexico region, yet the people in Nigeria have had to live with similar environmental catastrophes for decades.

While the BP well in the gulf may or may not be capped, oil keeps flowing into fields, rivers and lakes in the Niger Delta, where Western companies have been drilling for oil for several decades.

A 2006 report compiled by international environmental groups and the Nigerian government estimated that on average, a spill the size of the Exxon Valdez has been occurring each year in the past five decades. According to environmental groups and the Nigerian government, there were more than 7,000 spills between 1970 and 2000, spewing at least 9 million barrels of crude into the delta, home to vast wetlands that form the livelihood of millions of people.

But while the Deepwater Horizon spill has mobilized the entire U.S. political scene, in Nigeria, an increasing number of the population has had to suffer — undetected by Western politicians. And that’s despite the fact that the United States imports roughly 10 percent of its oil from Nigeria.

“We see frantic efforts being made to stop the spill in the U.S.,” Nnimmo Bassey, Nigerian head of Friends of the Earth International, recently told The Observer, a prominent British Sunday publication. “But in Nigeria, oil companies largely ignore their spills, cover them up and destroy people’s livelihood and environments. The gulf spill can be seen as a metaphor for what is happening daily in the oilfields of Nigeria and other parts of Africa.”

Big Western oil companies including BP, Shell and Exxon Mobile operate in Nigeria; the environmental groups accuse them of being ignorant to their spills — an estimated 2,000 contaminated sites have yet to be cleaned up. Moreover, locals and non-governmental organizations claim the companies operate old and rusty pipes and are often too slow or indifferent to reacting to spills.

The many Nigerian governments of the past, which have earned billions of dollars since drilling began in 1958 but gave little to their people, have been largely unable to pressure companies into cleaning up the mess.

The companies deny the allegations, arguing the spills are mainly due to acts of vandalism and terrorism, and are dealt with in a timely manner.

“We have a full-time oil spill response team,” a Shell spokesman told The Observer. “Last year we replaced 197 miles of pipeline and are using every known way to clean up pollution, including microbes. We are committed to cleaning up any spill as fast as possible as soon as and for whatever reason they occur.”

But the spill in the gulf has reduced trust in the oil companies, with some Western countries openly accusing multinationals of behaving recklessly when drilling for oil in poor countries.

“Spills, leaks and deliberate discharges are happening in oilfields all over the world and very few people seem to care,” Judith Kimerling, a professor of law and policy at the City University of New York and an expert on oil development in poor countries, told The Observer. “What we conclude from the Gulf of Mexico pollution incident is that the oil companies are out of control. It is clear that BP has been blocking progressive legislation, both in the U.S. and here. In Nigeria, they have been living above the law. They are now clearly a danger to the planet.”

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Nigeria’s refinery project to create 7,000 jobs

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LAGOS (AFP) – An estimated 7,000 jobs will be created in Nigeria’s southern Bayelsa State when a refinery is built there in a joint project with China, state oil officials said on Thursday.

State-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said in a statement that the Bayelsa refinery is one of three to be built across the country with a total installed capacity of 750,000 barrels per day.

The three ‘Greenfield Refineries‘ will be located in Bayelsa, the commercial capital Lagos and central Kogi state, the statement said.

“An estimated 7,000 job opportunities would be up for grabs courtesy of the planned construction and operation of a Greenfield Refinery in Bayelsa State by the NNPC, in partnership with the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC),” the statement said.

The lack of employment is often cited as one of the main causes of armed militancy in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Two months ago, the NNPC signed an agreement with CSCEC to jointly seek debt financing from Chinese banks for the funding and construction of the three refineries and one petrochemical plant at a cost of 23 billion dollars in one of Africa’s biggest tie-ups with China..

The Bayelsa refinery is expected to produce about 500,000 metric tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas per annum, NNPC director Billy Agha said.

During a meeting with NPPC and Chinese investors, Bayelsa Governor Timipre Sylva urged NNPC to establish the refinery in Oloibiri, the community where commercial crude oil exploration and production first began 53 years ago, the statement said.

The Lagos refinery alone will cost eight billion dollars.

The sprawling city of some 15 million people experiences regular power and fuel crises.

Officials said the refinery will have the capacity to refine 300,000 barrels of oil per day and 500,000 metric tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas per year.

The Chinese state firm will contribute 80 percent of the capital while the NNPC will take care of the remaining 20 percent, they said.

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Nigeria Sells $698 Million at Bond Sale

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Nigeria sold the largest amount of bonds in at least five months at a sale where demand outstripped supply as Nigerian banks seek to invest in “partially risk- free” assets, Source Capital Nigeria Ltd. said.

The West African nation sold 105 billion naira ($698 million) of bonds at its monthly sale yesterday, the Abuja-based Debt Management Office said on its website today. That’s the most since at least March, data from the website show.

“It is partially risk-free buying bonds, so banks are looking for such risk-free avenues,” Kweku Brown, an analyst at Lagos-based Source Capital, said by phone today. “The financial crisis they faced last year makes it imperative for them to become cautious with their money. So long as liquidity is high, the sale of bonds will continue to rise.”

The Central Bank of Nigeria last year dismissed chief executive officers of eight lenders that gave out non-performing loans totaling 700 billion naira ($4.7 billion), and used 620 billion naira to bail the banks out.

Nigeria expects to clear $10 billion of lenders’ toxic debts and purchases of this debt through state-owned Asset Management Corp. of Nigeria, or Amcon, will cost “roughly” $5 billion, central bank Governor Lamido Sanusi said July 1. Amcon will be funded through government-guaranteed bonds, he said.

Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, plans to sell 867.5 billion naira of bonds this year to fund its budget deficit, Abraham Nwankwo, director-general of the DMO, said on Feb. 12. That’s the most since at least the three months through June last year, data from the website show.

The nation sold 35 billion naira of three-year bonds at a marginal rate of 7.48 percent, 35 billion naira of five-year securities at 8.85 percent and an equal amount of 20-year bonds at a marginal rate of 10 percent at yesterday’s auction. Three- year bonds were 2.1 times oversubscribed, while demand outstripped supply on the five-year securities 1.8 times. The 20-year bonds were 2.1 times oversubscribed.

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Nigerian senate votes for earlier elections

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The Nigerian senate has voted to change the constitution to bring forward the date of next year’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

The changes mean elections originally set for April could take place in January.

President Goodluck Jonathan has not yet declared if he will stand for election

Nigeria’s House of Representatives must still give its approval to the changes.

The new date is intended to allow any legal challenges after the election to be settled before the new president takes office in May.

Correspondents say the announcement puts pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan – both to declare if he will run, and to push through reforms to ensure fair elections.

Senators backed a proposal to hold the general election “not earlier than 150 days and not later than 120 days before the expiration of the term of office” of either the president or a state governor.

Under the current rules, polls must be held between 30 and 60 days before the new president’s term begins.

Nigerian presidents take office on 29 May.

Attahiru Jega, the head of Nigeria’s electoral commission, said the election could be held some time between 8 and 15 January if the constitutional changes became final.

Nigeria has a long history of electoral fraud, and courts are still dealing with disputes over the April 2007 poll. International observers said the election was seriously flawed.

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It is not about WHO will change Nigeria

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It is not about WHO will change Nigeria. It is how WE can change her instead. Nigeria is the sum of our thoughts and actions. I’ve trained myself not to think anything but positive thoughts about this great country of ours since God and the people of Nigeria gave me the opportunity to serve- GEJ

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