Tuesday, 7 August 2018

Buhari Deserves No Credit For Osinbajo's Swift Action

Anyone who gives credit to Buhari for the firing of Lawal Daura is being disingenuous. This is entirely Osinbajo’s initiative, which may (or may not) put him at odds with Buhari. Buhari is an absent president—in both symbolic and physical terms. That’s a nice way to say he is a lazy, incompetent, detached president who watches blithely as everything around him crumbles, as the nation groans and burns under the weight of his unprecedented ineptitude. And that's why it takes his physical absence for the country to have a chance to see a semblance of the presence of leadership.

When the IGP openly disobeyed Buhari's instruction to relocate to Benue to contain the heartrending bloodletting in the state, nothing happened to the IGP. Kemi Adeosun forged an NYSC certificate and outraged the moral sensibility of the nation. Not a word has been heard from the presidency up to now. Obono-Obla, one of Buhari’s points men in the “war against corruption,” has been conclusively shown to have forged his school certificate. Nothing has been heard from Buhari.

Former SGF Babachir David Lawal fleeced internally displaced people in the northeast of millions of naira. Buhari actually wrote in his personal capacity to defend him! It took the same Osinbajo who fired Daura today to recommend Lawal’s firing. Yet Lawal is still a denizen of the presidential villa, hasn't been prosecuted, and is, in fact, Buhari’s campaign coordinator in Adamawa State as I write this.  The examples are almost limitless. Even APC chairman Oshiomhole was compelled to admit recently that Buhari condones “disrespect” to his office, which was a pleasant way to say that the president is an incompetent, aloof “leader.”

Had Buhari been in the country during this primitive, ironclad strangulation of the legislature by forces of the DSS, we wouldn’t have heard anything from the presidency much less see a swift action. At best, we might have gotten one of those dishonest, mealy-mouthed prevarications called presidential press releases. What we are seeing now is a consequence of what I have referred to as Osinbajo’s “symbolic presence” in previous columns, a quality Buhari sorely lacks. Buhari is a blight on Nigeria and may be the death of the country. Nigeria has never had a more clueless president than Buhari.

By Farooq Kperogi. 

Saturday, 4 August 2018

My son was brainwashed - Osama bin Laden's mother breaks her silence

The mother of deceased al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden has given her first interview 7 years after her son's death, claiming he was a "very good kid" who was radicalised during his time at university.

 Alia Ghanem, the mother of Osama Bin Laden has revealed her anguish at the way her son’s life turned out. Alia in her mid-70s recalled her firstborn son changed during his days in King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, where he studied Economics.

Bin Laden's mother said her son was a very good child until he met some people who pretty much brainwashed him. Alia Ghanen speaking to The Guardian newspaper at her family’s home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, said that her eldest son was ‘brainwashed’ into extremist ideology.

Bin Laden's mother who is in her mid 70s, recalls her firstborn as a shy boy who was academically capable. He became a strong, driven, pious figure in his early 20s, she says, while studying economics at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, where he was also radicalised.

She said: “The people at university changed him, he became a different man.” One of the men he met there was Abdullah Azzam, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was later exiled from Saudi Arabia and became Osama’s spiritual adviser.

“He was a very good child until he met some people who pretty much brainwashed him in his early 20s. You can call it a cult. They got money for their cause. I would always tell him to stay away from them, and he would never admit to me what he was doing, because he loved me so much.”

“I am very proud of him in the sense that he was my oldest brother,” he eventually continues. “He taught me a lot. But I don’t think I’m very proud of him as a man. He reached superstardom on a global stage, and it was all for nothing.”

Ghanem listens intently, becoming more animated when the conversation returns to Osama’s formative years. “He was very straight. Very good at school. He really liked to study. He spent all his money on Afghanistan – he would sneak off under the guise of family business.”

On if she ever suspect he might become a jihadist? “It never crossed my mind,” she said.

Alia went on to reveal, how she felt after her son had become a jihadist saying: “We were extremely upset. I did not want any of this to happen. Why would he throw it all away like that?

Some personal letters seized in the raid that killed bin Laden show that his son, Hamza, is set on avenging his father’s death.

Former FBI agent, Ali Soufan, while speaking to CBS News in an interview said: “He tells him that…he remembers ‘every look…every smile you gave me, every word you told me."

Former WWE champions Glenn Jacobs otherwise known as Kane elected Mayor of Tennessee

Johnson, who is a popular known as Kane in the ring, beat Democrats Linda Haney in the elections after winning two-thirds of the vote in Knox County.

Former WWE star Glenn Johnson, 51, has joined the league of sports and entertainment stars who took their career to another level by taking up political challenge as he was elected the Mayor of Tennessee in the United States.

Having won the elections, he became the second WWE star to win public office in the US after Jesse Ventura, who was elected mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota in 1990, going on to be elected state governor in 1998.

Jacobs became a celebrity in the mid-90s after playing the character Kane, the masked half-brother of The Undertaker.




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Congratulations to Glenn Jacobs (Kane) for being elected new mayor of Knox County, TN.


According to BBC, Jacobs won the election after promising to taxes low, and also improved infrastructure while "transparency" becomes his watchword.


"There are so many great things our county has to offer, and frankly the rest of the country needs to know about it."




Tuesday, 31 July 2018

Cristiano Ronaldo appears in first Juventus training session ahead of Serie A debut

Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo was involved in a tough fitness exercises during his first training session as a Juventus player on Monday, July 30.
The former Los Blancos star met some of his new team-mates at the Juve's Turin training base following his move away from the Santiago Bernabeu.
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The ex-Galaticos superstar landed in Turin on Sunday night, July 31, following an extended vacation after representing Portugal at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
On arrival, some supporters of the Serie A side were on ground to welcome him at the airport, capturing him with their mobile devices as he was stepped off a private plane.
Ronaldo is yet to meet the rest of his teammates who are away on a pre-season tour to the United States with club’s boss Massimiliano Allegri.
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CR7 briefly exchanged pleasantries with new club mates including Juventus forward Gonzalo Higuain.
The Argentine played alongside Ronaldo's at Santiago Bernabeu before he left for Napoli in 2013.
Higuain joined Juventus for KSh 9.8 billion from Napoli and is reportedly linked with a switch to Chelsea this summer.
As the Portuguese star was shown around his new base in Turin, he also Ronaldo also met Argentina midfielder Paulo Dybala.
The Serie A champions face Ronaldo’s former side in the International Champions Cup on Saturday, August 4, but that will be too sudden for the new signing to face his ex-teammates.
However, Ronaldo is expected to continue training in Turin ahead of his much expected competitive debut for Juventus against Chievo in their Serie A opener on Wednesday, August 19.
The United ace was in Greece briefly with his family after Portugal crashed out in the round of 16 fixture against to Uruguay, before heading to China for his annual CR7 brand tour with Nike.
The Portuguese arrival in Turin signifies the commencement of another serious ‘journey’ for the five-time Ballon d'Or winner.
The 33-year-old has been afforded an extended break following his World Cup campaign with Portugal but that time off is drawing to an end.
Some Juventus supporters were waiting at the airport filming with their phones as the KSh 13.1 billion signing landed.

Source: Naij.com

Thursday, 5 July 2018

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE;

A story is told of a Monkey who clapped it's hands as it watched the Elephant and Hippo fighting.

One of the legs of the Hippo was eventually broken.

The Medicine man said he needed the veins of the Monkey to prepare the medicine.

When the Monkey was caught and told the reason it sadly said,
 "I would have reconciled them if I had known that the conflict would eventually affect me. " It was too late for the Monkey.

Let us all be part of the positive solution. Every crisis you see or hear about, close or far away will one day affect you too.

Use your opportunities well by preaching peace, unity and love. You may also cry one day if you don't help today.

Hate speeches encourages/causes disunity which is inimical to our collective survival and well being.