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Still on Okezie Ikpeazu Vs Alex Otti

2016-01-01T10:13:00.000+01:00

The last biggest news to come out of Abia state, and indeed Nigeria, was the appeal court verdict in Abia state. It is no more news that governor Okezie has been told to leave the seat of power in Abia state. According to the higher court, after all legal jargons, Alex Otti of APGA should be sworn in immediately.

I do not really know how I feel. The whole world knows I have always supported Alex. But with the few months Okezie has been in power, he has done okay. I must confess I was beginning to have a soft spot for him. That, however, does not remove the fact Alex Otti won that election, to be candid.

I think Alex would do better than Okezie. He is more experienced, and has a reputation to protect. Okezie is also good, and people do not dislike him. The jubilation in Abia after the verdict was not because they never liked him. Abia's major problem is the person that brought him to power. The very much hated TA Orji, who failed as a governor, is the problem Okezie had, and still has. People cannot forget in a hurry what transpired during elections. They want the state to be free from that man. They cannot wait for that man to be probed. And who else would probe him, if not Otti?

If Okezie, as expected, heads to the supreme court, then we would be in for another wait. I want Alex to take over. But whatever happens, it is a win-win situation. Okezie is also good. Abia has never had it this good. But then, the people spoke, and we all know what they said.

I doff my heart for Okezie. If, eventually, he does not make it, then he should not be so disappointed. He has done his people, Ngwaland, proud, and posterity would judge him well, unlike his predecessor, who cannot walk the streets of Abia happily. For Otti, he already knows where he is coming from. Expectation is so high

, so he would have to hit the ground running. With him, Abia is secure.

I remain proud to be from Abia state.

Biafra Protesters Were Still In Aba...

2015-11-23T22:50:00.001+01:00

Pro-Biafra protesters were out in their numbers on Monday. The crowd was unimaginable, but the event was commendably violent-free.

Enough Of The Insults On Igbos!!

2015-04-06T22:34:00.000+01:00

“It is a fact that most of d pirates I see selling
pirated CDs and DVDs are
Igbo,” he unbelievably said. “1 even threatened
me after I seized my film
from him. Why?” he asked. And with this, all my
respect for Kunle Afolayan
went off the window. How could someone who
claims to be so educated mutter
such utter nonsense, in an already heated
situation?
I do not even want to go into the foul-mouthed
tirade of Oba of Lagos,
Rilwan Akiolu. He appears to me as uncivilized
and brash, so I won’t even
blame him. All he has done is do more harm to
APC’s chances in Lagos. But
Kunle Afolayan? What was he thinking? Was he
drunk? High on some cheap
stuff? I can never tell.
Yes, he probably was bitter over what pirates had
done to his business. But
a man of his standard should have thought
better. I am disappointed. Now
let me let him know something. In Abia state, a
Yoruba man tried to sell a
pirated copy of Chinua Achebe’s ‘There Was A
Country’ to me. Let me also
shock him by telling him about a certain Yoruba
man who sells pirated
Nollywood movies at Narayi, Kaduna. Does he
also know a lot of Yoruba men
move round the streets of Aba selling what of
course should be ‘concoted’
herbal drugs? But nobody ever blamed the
Yoruba tribe, even if people did
not like the issues at hand.
Let me use this opportunity to advise people to
stop this insult on Igbos.
During the presidential election, we endured lots
of embarrassment. We were
insulted and told to “go and die”. Now, a certain
Oba has told us to perish
in a lagoon. Now, brother Kunle has accused us
of piracy. The Igbo tribe is
a great one, proud of itself and never would wish
it were from another
place. I, for one, am proud of my Igbo roots. I can
never imagine being
from any other tribe.
Igbos respect other tribes. You can never see an
Igbo man insult an Hausa
man in the east. It is not possible. No Igbo man
would arrogantly dismiss a
Yoruba man in the east. If anything, they accord
those tribes all respect
they deserve. So why this?
The time for us to be serious is now. We can
never succeed in this war
against tribal differences like this. I cannot wait
to see a Nigeria
devoid of tribal differences. I cannot.

As Buhari Beats Jonathan

2015-03-31T20:51:00.001+01:00

Gen Muhammadu OKechukwu Buhari has won
the presidential election at umpteenth time of
asking. I can do nothing but congratulate him
and wish him all the best. He has proved to be a
determined fighter.
I also want to commend president Goodluck
Jonathan, a fine gentleman, someone you cannot
but love. This is not the end for him. Politically,
he still remains young. Who knows, he could
come back to Aso rock one day. I wish him all
the best.
I hope Buhari's victory would bring the change
we have all been looking for. That is no more
than Nigerians deserve. Let this country thrive.
I want to congratulate people like Babatunde
Fashola and Rochas Okorocha who have shown
that APC could really work, as they have shown
in Lagos and Imo respectively. This victory is for
them. I also want to blame those PDP
governors; they know themselves and people
know who I have in mind; who have failed
themselves, their various states and its people.
This loss is in no small measure their faults.
As we enter a new dispensation, let us now
know peace, joy and unity. Ethnic and religious
differences should be a thing of the past, as we
move towards creating a new Nigeria.
Thank you

Chinyere Wilfred And Angela Okorie Show Comic Side

2015-03-27T00:17:00.001+01:00

Veteran actress Chinyere Wilfred is sure showing the comic side of her. She has some hilarious location pics here.

Amber Rose And Temptation

2015-03-27T00:04:00.001+01:00

As a friend would say, "odiegwu really really"

How To Vote Out A Failure

2015-03-26T23:51:00.001+01:00

On Saturday, I will love something to happen. I
may be confused on who to
vote for on the presidential election, but there is
one reason I am
optimistic. Somebody would get disgraced, and
he is TA Orji. There is
nothing else he deserves than that. He has failed
Abia state and himself.
This is a man who has spent eight years as a
governor, and has nothing to
show for it. This is a man who has all at his beck
and call to succeed, and
he failed to utilize it. This is a man who is yet to
understand the true
meaning of democracy. He is the one to lose.
What a way to end his political career. He has
decided to deride himself
for the last time and contest for a senatorial seat.
God forbid that such
people represent us. Abia is moving forward and
no more backwards. We shall
put hands together and vote him out, while he
waits for EFCC. Justice would
be done.
For eight years, our roads got worse. For eight
years, we suffered
lethargic and inconsistent payment of salaries,
gratuities and pensions.
For eight years, we suffered unemployment. We
suffered intimidation and 13th
century administration. We endured all these,
even as corrupt media houses
sang the praise of a failed leader who spends
handsomely to get praised.
We Abians, home and abroad, would make a huge
statement on this election.
We will start on Saturday by pushing him out of
our state. Then we will
vote in his successor. That successor would be a
man who has distinguished
himself in the banking industry and is ready to
clean up Orji’s mess. His
name is Alex Otti.

...As We Decide...

2015-03-26T23:43:00.001+01:00

The mood is just so tense. This is surely not how
I found it in 1999. It
was not this way in 2003. In 2007, the mood was
better. Even in 2011, it
was much better. Maybe I am wrong; I could
have been too young then,
afterall. However, we still cannot but notice how
different this election
period has been.
It just feels like it’s a last chance for us. Heck, it
feels like we would
never get it right again, if we failed this time.
President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan; a gentleman, soft spoken and quiet
man, the devil we know, is on
the one hand. General Muhammadu Okechukwu
Buhari (Igbo names have become so
lovely all of a sudden); a no-nonsense, outspoken
and strict man, also a
devil we know, is on the other hand. For the first
time, an election
contest looks too close to call. From 1999, every
presidential election has
come up and ended the way I predicted it. This
time, there is not a
slightest chance of prediction.
I have never told any friend where I stood on this,
and that is because I
stand nowhere! I love president Jonathan. This
man-with-no-shoes from
Otuoke has always shown himself a gentlemen.
Never talks too much, never
fights; he just seems too gentleman to be a
president of a rough country
like Nigeria! But make no mistakes. I must
confess Jonathan has done okay.
He has not done well. He has done just okay.
From what he has also put in
towards stopping the deadly book haram sect, I
believe he would deal with
this scourge finally, if he returns. General Buhari,
from what they say and
which I cannot confirm, did well when he held
forth many years ago. But
then, I naturally love this man. I do not know
what else he has done.
Come Saturday 28 (that is in a few hours), I will
surely get to the polls.
I wish I knew who to vote for! But whatever
happens, I wish us well. I also
urge us not to cause any form of violence.
Nothing here is worth dying for.
Let us shun violence, and vote in THE MAN!

Fani Kayode And The Abia Disgrace

2014-12-01T21:58:00.001+01:00

You know you have encountered a
failure when an unserious character
praises
him non-stop. So I was not surprised
when Femi Fani Kayode, a disgrace and
a man who talks more than he should,
decided to deride himself further by
singing the praises of a controversial
non-performer.
According to Fani Kayode, we need more
leaders like Governor T.A Orji in
Nigeria. Why? Because the rate of
development in Abia state, according to
him, is extra-ordinary. First, I am not
surprised one bit. Fani Kayode has
always had this terrible description of
success. Anything bad seems great
to this loquacious left-thinking man.
What exactly is extra-ordinary in
Abia state? The good road networks the
people have? New infrastructure?
Salaries of workers that are being paid?
Payment of gratuities and pensions
of retired civil servants? Cleanliness of
the environment? Civilized tax
payment system? What exactly? Really,
this Fani Kayode man does not respect
himself. He seems to love embarrassing
himself at any and every opportunity
he gets.
As for the leader every Nigerian should
be like, according to Fani Kayode,
I think even he would be surely shocked
by that admission from a man whose
mouth runs like pipe-borne water.
Because surely he knows everywhere in
Abia has collapsed and the people
cannot wait for his tenure to elapse. In
truth, this “leader everyone should
emulate” should start thinking
seriously. If he has a conscience, he
should sit down, call himself to a
meeting and have a sober reflection.
One, he has failed Abia. Two, he has
allowed sycophants surround him. And
like every political jobber, they have
not let him down.
Come 2015, whether or not he wins the
senate, whether or not his preferred
successor wins, he would know the true
meaning of being alone. No praise
singers, no executive powers, and no
awards. Then, even Fani Kayode would
have jumped ship. If bloggers he invited
to the state, who were treated
with ‘love’, could express
disappointment, then what else does he
need to
know?
Fani Kayode has failed himself again.
But then, that is a constant
occurrence. However, if I were him, I
would stop talking. This latest noise
was, in all modesty, one too many.

What Else Needs To Happen In Abia?

2014-09-28T22:49:00.001+01:00

There is a piece of good news from Aba!
Now the city can be compared to
Lagos. Anyone who leaves home for
another location in the same city gets to
spend hours on the road. Where the
problem lies is the Lagos situation
would be as a result of distance. The Aba
situation?
For the last seven years, we from Abia
state have heard lots of stories on
how Abia has become the America of our
time. Roads have supposedly been
repaired and people are in love with the
governor. The sad part is that we
only get the evidence from the corrupt
Nigerian media alone. Honestly,
whenever I move through the streets of
Aba and Umuahia, I wonder whether I
have run either mental or I probably am
in another state. This is because
nothing of all the noises the corrupt Abia
state government make is true.
Roads in Aba are unbelievable and
shockingly embarrassing. Sometimes I
wonder whether the governor is on
leave. Sometimes I wonder whether he
loves Aba the way it is. Sometimes I
wonder how heartless humans could be.
Is he doing this intentionally, or does he
just not know what to do? Why
does he leave his job to chase shadows?
Even if the former governor of Abia
state kept him in bondage; even if the
former governor of Abia state
performed worse in his own time; does
that explain this reckless attitude
towards the enterprising people of Aba?
I guess I can never get an answer.
After all we are in Nigeria.
I must confess I do not know Etcetera,
even if his name rings a bell.
Whether he is an actor, writer or
musician, I sincerely do not know.
People, I believe, have contrasting
opinion about whatever he writes. I
honestly have not read much of them, so
I may not know where I stand.
However, having read his write-up on
the condition of Aba, I am forced to
ask a question. Is it, as an Igbo proverb
says, that the barber cannot
barb, or the razor blade is not sharp?
Must this state be heard of for the
wrong reasons all the time? I am
honestly sick and tired. But why would I
be?
In a state where salaries, pensions and
gratuities are not paid; a state
where potholes have become a blessing,
because almost all roads are
actually no different from gutters? I am
honestly tired. Aba, that popular
city, has become a joke. I must say I
disagree with Etcetera on something;
he actually committed a grave sin of
understatement.
2015 is around the corner. We are going
to correct all the mistakes. That
is sure. If not, then Aba would be gone
completely. We do not want that to
happen, so we are going to do the
needful. One lesson must be learnt from
Aba. Aba is on its knees at the moment.
But the people’s consolation
remains that the downfall of a man is
certainly not the end of his life.
Aba would rise again. Thank you dearest
Etcetera. On this, I stand with,
and by, you. We would be back. Abia
would rise again. I do not think there
is any question about that.
Finally, Mr President would come to Aba
again for his campaigns. We are
patiently waiting to see the road he
would move through. Patiently.

'Blame Game' finally released!!

2014-02-17T11:50:00.000+01:00

I had always been bullied by pals who felt the time had arrived for me to publish this book. Now I have done that, and I feel happy about it. This book promises to touch lives in ways unimaginable. Get yourself a copy of BLAME GAME and you would not regret. To order for this, contact me on kelechiyusuf@gmail.com. you can also visit www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00IHDONUU/ref=redir_mdp_mobile to buy a copy. Love you all.

Thomas Hitzlsperger Reveals He Is Gay

2014-01-08T21:38:00.002+01:00

Former German international Thomas Hitzlsperger has revealed he is gay. The former Aston Villa and Everton midfielder waited until he retired from football to make the announcement. Err...*lips sealed*

What Is Wrong With Manchester United?

2014-01-06T16:37:00.001+01:00

It surely can never be the performance. Manchester United are playing well at the moment. Could it be bad luck? This is sad. Now the club would have only carling cup to play for. Because realistically, the club will not win the champions' league. What is the problem?

Asari Dokubo Writes Open Letter To OBJ (FULL TEXT)

2014-01-05T10:31:00.000+01:00

02 January 2014 Olusegun Obasanjo Balogun of Owu Obansajo Farms, Ota, Ogun State. RE: BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE (RE: OBASANJO’S LETTER TO PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN) Ordinarily, I would not want to dignify you with a reply to your ill-conceived letter, as that has a way of oiling your elbow or prop your self- importance – provoking your well-known self- will.

I have also delayed my reply for one reason- to perfectly gauge public opinion on your latest onslaught against President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan – President of a country full of mind-boggling contradictions that you’ve always, falsely regarded as your personal creation. At least that’s the spirit behind your insolence, impudence and make-believe that point to the fact that you’re above national censure, ideological / ethical direction and control.

Finally, I have had to reply you because of the nature of my past encounters with you – encounters that I feel should convey my deepest sense of grief, as it relates to your recent gaffes, shocking errors and dwindling self-esteem. It is a common knowledge that if not for the imperious nature of Nigeria and the monumental fraud that attended its creation, caused primarily by the 1914 Lugadian error, it would’ve been very difficult for the likes of you to stand before me, talk less address me as a leader. This is so as my royal pedigree, as an Amachree and as an Omubo with dignified accoutrements would’ve denied you such leverage. In comparison to your nebulous background, I doubt what your shadowy pedigree is, what you’ve always avoided in all your discourses, and which you’ve deliberately shrouded in obscurity. Because if indeed your pedigree is anything significant in the Owu quarter of Egbaland, many like me would’ve long known it, or deduced it from your puffy, inestimable swan-songs that reinstate your pride and vaulting ego.

Nobody has ever attested or verified the history of your background. The background of a man is important because it is what depicts his social standing and sense of history. Many even doubt if you are a true Yoruba man. With such strings of doubtful pedigree attached to your person and with a history of dreadful perversities that is attached to your memory – this is as your characteristic way of life- defeats customary belief, ground norms and persuasions. I wish to state that but for history and posterity, my grandmother Princess Okukuba W.D.Goodhead scion of the great King Amachree, royal lineage of the Kalabari state, in the Ijaw heartland, taught me the need to clear all false accusation or charges that are designed to malign and mislead others, whenever they are hatched by depraved trouble-makers like you. Connected to this is the need not to allow any cowardly abuse or insult to go unanswered, especially when mischievously made by the lowest of the lowest amongst rascal folks, to whose rank you belong. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that you once led this country. I find this very enlightening that you seem to provide the true reason why this false entity called Nigeria; have had unending, mysterious and tragic incidences ever since you were thrown up to direct the affairs of this geographical area called Nigeria- striving vigorously to dictate her down-ward push, down the edge of a vaulting, irredeemable precipice. Your negative influence over Nigeria seems to define and redefine this fraud-state called Nigeria that has since her creation, done more harm than good to those entrapped in it. In other to educate you on my background, I am Mujahid Dokubo-Asari; was born Melford Dokubo Goodhead( Jnr) to an aristocratic family in Kalabari.

I am the son of my father, Hon Justice Melford Dokubo Goodhead (Snr) a descendant of a long line of jurists, inventors, scholars, statesmen and successful business men. Because of my outstanding background and seeming feat of personal success, I’ve repeatedly shunned the toga of false, foreign and dubious praise-singers that you crave in your bid to get every attention from all quarters. I don’t seek to be venerated by men or pursue inordinate hero-worship from perceived lackeys – what you’ve lived for and pursue with zeal. Therefore I remain who I am – Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, Alabo Edi Abali of Kalabari – a great scion of the King Amachree dynasty. The Kalabari kingdom to which I belong, is rooted in the heart of the Ijaw nation and has been known for her sound ideals, strong mercantilism and sovereign links to the civilized nations since the 15th century, before it was stealthily and falsely brought under the present Nigerian contraption, by unenlightened British imperialist that the likes of you have officiously revered and worshipped being forebears of your programme of mass impoverishment, economic emasculations, genocide, and utter destruction of other nations with superior idealism and sound socio-political systems. Despite the long history of deprivation, oppression and genocide that the Nigerian state has meted on the Isokos, Orons, Ibibios, Ogonis, South-South Ibos, and the Ijaw nation, just as you personally pursued a deliberate programme of mass impoverishment and total emasculation of these nations in all your brutal regimes- and the endangering of the aspirations and dream for their freedom, equality and development. I’ve never denied being an Ijaw man. This has been my way of life from the start and I will remain an Ijaw man till I die. I have had cause to assert this fact before you while you belatedly exhibited gross intolerance, denigration of the values of others, with unveiled tribal tendencies. My first encounter with you on this flank occurred on Friday June 11th 1999, when you had just assumed then, leadership of one of Nigeria’s most regretful administration- being a beneficiary of a long war against military dictatorship, it is expected that you would run a people oriented and all inclusive government, instead you ran a Nazi style regime that perfected the art of ethnic cleansing and total disdain for the due process of the law. On that faithful day – 11th June, 1999, I was one of the few Ijaw spokesmen that addressed you at the River State Government Executive Council Hall, where you came to troubleshoot on the conflict between the Ijaws and our Itsekiri brothers in Delta State; conflicts that were inflicted on our people by centripetal forces unleashed by the Nigerian state, and designed to upturn the fight for our freedom, unity and self-worth. Your public rating then, was at its lowest ebb, as your acceptability across Nigeria, was in doubt. The structure of the Nigerian state was shaky, troubled and disgorged. Determined to translate your diabolic promises into action you moved against all forms of dissent maniacally. And also because you were largely known as a foxy, brutal and vindictive soldier that had been hated in the past for gross abuses that all knew would reoccur even though you now wore a civilian look, having not won a single state in the South-West, dominated by the AD, at the presidential elections that you were said to have won, but which were rigged by your ilk; in which you did not win majority vote in your polling booth in Abeokuta. Nigerians understood your antics when you said your re-election in 2003 would be a “do or die” miasma. Your policy of mass killing of perceived opponents, in which high profiled leaders died on the streets, is part of your personal history. If you recall the events of that day, Friday 11th June,1999, I didn’t stand up to honour the Nigerian National anthem when it was sung. Neither did I address you as “President” when I took the microphone to speak on behalf of my people. I never conceded to your leadership nor the status of this evil entity called Nigeria. In the presence of your forces of repression and cruelty– police, state security officials and the military, I addressed you as an Owu man and you accepted it without hesitation. Was Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan the President of the Nigerian State at the time? Your confession at the time – which is the mind-set of all Nigerians, is that you are first and foremost an Owu man before a Nigerian. I met you few months later at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, as a member of a delegation of South-South elders where you exhibited your clannish fancies and preferences. As a frontline cultural ambassador of my people, and extremely proud of the ijaw culture, I tied a George wrapper as it is customary, and attended the meeting without shoes. The result was that you tongue-lashed and sought to persecute me. As soon as you saw me in the side-lines of the meeting, you asked disdainfully; “I hope you’re not an Egbesu Priest?” And I replied you; “I am not; I am a Muslim.” Later, not satisfied by your attack on me, and at the close session, you asked how I became a Moslem and I told you I was a Baptist before my reversion. And you replied; ‘You are a Moslem now, I said yes, I am.” And you retorted with a smack of officious persecution, diatribe and hypocrisy and said; “I am sorry, for you are lost.” And I replied, saying; “you’re the one that is lost.” How then can you say in your letter to President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan that you’ve always believed in the unity of Nigeria that he shouldn’t see Nigeria as a North-South or Moslem-Christian dichotomy? On another occasion, just before the heavily flawed 2003 election, you sought to muzzle me into the bandwagon of anti-people disciples, and I rejected your cruel and mischievous conspiracy. A delegation of South-South leaders led by Chief EK Clark came to see you. I was once again among the delegation as President of Ijaw Youth Council. In the course of the meeting, I made suggestion as to how the NDDC – that you stifled with lack of funding – can be effective. My suggestion at that time was that a department for Women and Youth should be created in the NDDC so that the body will be broad based and people – oriented. You accepted my submission and immediately offered that I should become the first Director of the department and I promptly turned it down, and insisted that being the President of the Ijaw Youth Council , my position was better than your villainous offer and you were shocked and displeased. Some elders tried to persuade me to accept your offer and I told them it will be a betrayal of Ijaw youths who elected me as their President to come to you under the title of Ijaw Youth Council President and then sweep that aside to pursue a personal agenda. I never saw you again until 30th September,2004, when you flew me with a Private Jet to Abuja, to make peace between me and your infamous federal government because the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), in which I was a ‘volunteer’ had successfully disrupted and brought oil production to an all-time low after series of successful confrontation with the Nigerian Military, the Police, State Security Service officials, etc. After several days of meeting with you, and because the NDPVF – for the first time in the history of Nigeria aided the cancellation of the October 1st, Independence celebration, you gave a raucous state address which was centred around the activities of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force. At that time President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan represented Bayelsa state, as Deputy Governor, he was not President. If you recall, I continually described the Ijaws as a nation – I did engraft this depiction into your psyche at that time – and you accepted to call Ijaw, Ijaw Nation. At the end of the meeting, you told Engineer Funso Kpokulokun – your GMD, NNPC – to take care of my needs, which I said wasn’t necessary – which was once again a tactical bribe offered by you to vitiate my good intentions towards my people. Later, we agreed that the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force should disarm, and we completely disarmed and submitted 2, 335 riffles, over 1 million ammunitions, and other explosive materials to your government through the Nigerian military and state security service at Zamani Lekwot Cantonment, Bori Camp, Port Harcourt. While I was in Mecca, on hajj-after 8 days in Saudi, Col Kayode Are, DG State Security Service, called me and asked me to quickly return to Nigeria; this was conceived to be very urgent and highly important. When I returned and landed at the Minna International Airport. I called Col Are and he directed the airline operator to bring me to Abuja. on arrival at Abuja, several vehicles were waiting for me at the Airport. I was driven straight to the State Security Guest House at Asokoro. While the vehicles were waiting for me, I freshened and went to see Col Are and he told me that the President asked him to specially inform me that what I have been agitating for has been accepted by your government. – that you’ve accepted our demands for the convocation of a National Conference. I asked Col Are whether it was a “Sovereign National Conference,” He said; “no, it was a Political Reform Conference.” And I told him that was not what my people wanted – the Ijaw and other oppressed people, who have been fraudulently conscripted into the Nigerian enterprise by the roguish British imperialist wanted nothing short of a Sovereign National Conference to determine their inclusion in the Nigerian state- I added that we can’t partake in any conference that doesn’t address the fundamental issues of sovereignty and the nationhood of various nations entrapped in the Nigerian State. Col Are then continued to persuade me to see reason with you, being convinced of your intolerable sadism and bestial high-handedness – that if I opposed the conference in front of you, you will certainly be angry with me and perhaps do the improbable – maybe kill me the way you killed others and escaped without any sanction. That it is better for me to stoop to conquer than to put up any shade of opposition. As you are known not to tolerate your opponents or any form of opposition, and believes that you know it all- being utterly selfish, greedy and monstrously sly. I told Col Are that such hypocritical double-faced nature that was hinged in murderous threats, was at variance with the noble character of an Amachree. This marked the beginning of my disagreement with you. This disagreement gathered momentum after I disarmed. The next thing you did – while using Dr. Peter Odili, then Governor of the Bantustan of Rivers State, you pursued a policy of divide and rule by creating mutinous factions within the rank and file of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force. Being gullible, many of our commanders gave in to your conspiratorial incitement. They came up to say that monies given for arms at the disarmament programme should be shared among them, when more than 80% of the monies weren’t paid, and bulk of the money that was paid, had been given to those who supplied our arms. Col Are became the personal friend of many of our commanders and did host and feasted with the likes of Richmond Yimbiri, Farah Dagogo, Olo Akalogbo and other volunteers of the NDPVF in Abuja. When the mutiny that you sought to provoke didn’t work, you pettily enlisted your friend, Judith Asuni to attack me, and she threatened that if I don’t become amenable to Government programmes, she will use the Press to bring me down, since according to her I am a creation of the Press. Lady Ann Kio Briggs then challenged her, and there was a big uproar. Judith Asuni thereafter became the mother of diverse cult groups and counter – struggle agents in Rivers state, creating systemic failure in the region and pursuing a dislocation of our local economy, crime-prone attacks and high profiled kidnappings became the order of the day. You as President clearly supported these pseudo-Niger Delta freedom and liberation groups that were secretly behind these anti-people indulgences – connecting them to the NDDC and NNPC through a special programme to empower them. Another of your friend – a Jewish American security agent, Steve Davids, sensing your inveterate knack for bloodshed and subterfuge, warned me that you’re preparing to kill me or put me in prison forever. That I should be very careful of women – the unconventional weapon you’ve chosen to annihilate me with. I wish to emphasize here that anyone who calls himself a leader and uses such unconventional weapon such as “a woman” to execute his personal interests against perceived enemies, isn’t only devious but diabolically nauseating. Being immune to fear and having a huge capacity for faith in Allah , I told him that my life is controlled by Allah and not by the vicious plundering of wicked mortals like you. On this I wish to digress a little to reinstate that am not just religious but also a very spiritual person. I’ve had mysterious spiritual encounters that threats from the likes of you are nothing but the ranting of a novice. I operate more in the spiritual realm than in the physical- I believe that Allah will not forsake me when minions like you, come up to attack or afflict me. Allah will raise up a standard against them. On my perceived spiritual fortification, Steve David told me he wasn’t surprised because the day he came to my camp, he saw my prayer mat and wondered how I could be the only Muslim among hundreds of gun-wielding non-Muslim, whose mental state wasn’t certifiable. And I told him it is not being a Muslim or frontline believer in Islam that mattered but the gravity of my personal relationship with my maker, who has always recued me in time of danger, dire difficulties, vicious conspiracies and violent tribulations. There is need at this time to outline one murderous move you made on my life that shows how brutal and inhuman your mindset is – vindicating your daughter’s revelations.

I want to remind you of the startling move you made on my life during the momentous days, leading to the historic Isaac Boro celebration on the 16th of May 2005. At that time the Bayelsa state Government was under Chief D.S.P. Alamieseigha. Chief DSP Alamieseigha had warned that the 1million man march the NDPVF was organizing to protest the injustice of the Nigerian state against the Ijaws and other oil bearing nation should not hold and would not be allow into Bayelsa state because of a security report that emanated from you that I didn’t know at the time. The report or plot to truncate the march was grave and dangerous, as the Executive Governor of Bayelsa State Chief D.S.P. Alamieseigha, told me the Bayelsa State Government couldn’t guarantee our security – my security. In the background of this starling murderous plot by you and feigning his lack of protective security shield occasioned by you, I was also shocked by the grave support that the Rivers State government offered us because it was happy that I was leaving Rivers state to Bayelsa state, and gave several vehicles to support our protests march.

The response we had from our people was startling and unprecedented, as huge crowds came, and well over 3000 vehicles, were hired from neighboring states of Abia,Imo,Delta, Anambra, Enugu and Edo state to convey participants to the Bayelsa state capital of Yenagoa. On the appointed day, men of the Nigerian Military stopped us at Elele and refused to allow us free passage to Yenegoa. The Governor, Chief D.S.P. Alamieseigha was away in South Africa at the time. Goodluck Jonathan was then the acting Governor of Bayelsa state, and asked us not to come into Bayelsa state of course we brushed off all obstacles whether real or imagined that were mounted not to let us into Yenagoa. Many other participants in the proposed rally were also blocked at the Ahoada junction. We were surprised that the rally was being frustrated by the people, governments and institutions that ought to benefit from it. Finally, after much persuasion we decided to converge at Obuama- my hometown. We stayed there till the next day, 17th of May, 2005, and dispersed without achieving our noble objective which was to sensitize our people, on the evils of the heart-wrenching Nigerian state that you’ve always pontificated in the media as your life creation and alter-ego. When Chief D.S.P. Alamieseigha returned from his trip to South Africa, I made an appointment to see him through his Commissioner of Information, who was also a former Comrade – Barr Oronto Douglas – and met him at his private residence at William Jumbo Street, Portharcourt. In the course of our discussion, I accused Chief DSP Alamieseigha pointedly – in my usual bluntness and characteristic manner – for sacrificing Ijaw interests for his political gains and deceiving the people of the Niger delta that the Nigerian state will accommodate our Interests. Chief D.S.P. Alamieseigha then informed me that you – General Olusegun Obasanjo, sent 5 snipers to kill me in Yenegoa and that he -Chief D.S.P Alamieseigha accommodated them at the government house in yenegoa. That he traveled out of the state and directed the Bayelsa State government not to allow me into Yenegoa to avoid my being killed in Yenegoa by your snipers – as he didn’t know if you had sent other snipers into the state. It downed on me, why Dr. Peter Odili, gave us all the resources we sought– it was to push me into a den of your snipers – because he offered us assistance even when we are not the best of friends, providing all the resources we needed to convey us out of town. I’ve decided to relate this incidence because of your reference to snipers while writing your hypocritical letter to President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan. I wonder why you, the Chief Assassin of all times, would accuse President Goodluck Jonathan of training 1000 snipers and having a watch-list of political opponents when he has tolerated your insane excesses along with your mutinous gang which no head of government the world over would have so tolerated forgetting so soon that this was the same infamous journey you embarked on during the regime of General Sanni Abacha that nearly cost you your life. Until date, the mystery surrounding the death of your kinsman and former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Late Bola Ige’s death has not been unravelled. So also is that of my kinsmen AK Dikibo and Chief Marshall Harry. At the time they were felled, AK Dikibo was national vice chairman (south-south) of the PDP while Chief Marshall Harry was former national vice chairman (south south) of the PDP and also the national vice chairman (south-south) of the ANPP, as president of the Federal republic of Nigeria you were the national leader of the PDP. At that time, many public analysts described the PDP as a nest of killers.

Governor Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia state, clearly stated that your hands may not be clean regarding the brutal killing of the then Vice Chairman of South- South Zone of the PDP – A.K. Dikibo. PART II On this part I’ve resolved to dwell more on what I have said before – your veiled reference that President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, is listening to his kinsmen – since I’ve chosen to ignore other parts of your letter. I would start by saying that President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is an Ijaw man. There is no way you can remove that truism from him. It’s just as you are a Yoruba man – although that has some element of doubt. There is no way you can divulge a man of his roots – his clan, people and culture- to do that is to kill the man. My interest here is to state that you are more clannish than any other leader that has been conscripted to rule this backward enclave called Nigeria – no gainsaying the fact you’re the most clannish of them all. As President of this sickening country that’s full of inequities, you were the Balogun of Owu – a tiny section of Egbaland. As Balogun of Owu, which means, Commander of Owu Armed forces, you were also Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the Nigerian state. How will a commander command two forces at the same time and be loyal to both – no one can serve two masters. There lies your infamous dubiety. Secondly, and this is most annoying – you funded and midwifed the Yoruba Elders Council and armed it against the already existing Afenifere, in the battle for the control of the soul of the Yoruba people. Like an Octopus your clannishness is boundless, extending its vicious and overbearing frontiers to the level of your personal interests, untamable greed and forbidden frontiers – all these, while you were President of Nigeria. Name one Nigerian leader that wasn’t known for his clannish, ethnic and tribal interests. How has Nigeria fared since independence if not on the tuft of steely ethnic considerations? How do you expect President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan to be divulged of this, after you led many others in the display of ethnic and tribal purges? Chief Obafemi Awolowo – one of the ‘ founders’ of the Nigerian state was primarily, a super- founder and member of the Yoruba Social – cultural organization Omo Egbe Oduduwa. There was no time Chief Obafemi Awolowo, believed in a country like Nigeria – he defined it in his book, “as merely a geographical expression.” Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Gambari Prince of the North and the leader of the Northern Peoples’ Congress said this “The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the north as willing tools and the south as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future.” – Parrot Newspaper October 12, 1960. He was always at logger-head with other ‘nationalists ‘from the contraption and had no ambition to rule such an entity – this was so because Nigeria didn’t really matter to him; what mattered was the Othmaniyyah Caliphate . To demonstrate this, he brought his political stooge – Alhaji Tafawa Balewa to be Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, an equation which marked the beginning of Godfatherism in Nigerian politics that you are well known for today.

As leader of the Northern Union Progressive Elements, NEPU, Mallam Aminu Kano later sought a progressive path that would have cured northern redundancy and developmental ineptitude even then how many non-northerners were members of NEPU? Aminu Kano’s progressive inclination was only progressive as it relates to his conception of northern Nigeria and has no inclination towards pursuing a progressive ideology that includes ijaws, Yorubas, tivs, igbos, etc. Joseph Tarka followed suit and named his political voice, Meddle Belt Congress- MBC – concerned primarily with the affairs of the middle-belt that the oligarchic North believed were slave-port to fight her battles, and launder her parochial interests. Our daddy in the politics of the time – Chief Harold Dappa Biriye, upon realizing the truism of Nigeria’s facile, clannish political thrust and boring leverage– founded the Niger Delta Congress, that was repulsed in the East for clamouring for the freedom of the Rivers Ijaw people.

It was only DR. Nnamdi Azikiwe’s NCNC that had a pretention to national universality, even then, your Yoruba brothers fought the NCNC to a standstill and ousted her from controlling the western region. This is why I cannot be fooled by your recent mantra in your letter that President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan must rise above Ijaw beliefs or ethnic consideration as if President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan fell from the sky– this is even as President Goodluck Jonathan has not done anything tangible for the Ijaw nation as is expected and as he should have done. The few Ijaw ministers still remaining in President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration were initially appointed into government by President Umar Yar Adua they are Deizani Allison-Madueke and Godsday Orubebe. Your record of impunity and Hitlerian tendencies were fully brought into play when you descended on fellow citizens placed under your care and protection by the constitution on which you took the oath of allegiance to protect; the people of Odi and Zakibiam are not different from the people of Damaturu, Maiduguiri or Bama. This Boko Haram scourge started under your watch and encouragement in 2012. You incubated it, so as to use as a vicious war head against succeeding governments, which was why you knew the homes of their leaders and embarked on a tragic journey to visit them. What was the outcome of this infamous journey? As stated above, no Nigerian leader has been influenced to take any decision or advanced policy without primordial ethnic consideration?

Why did IBB annul the June 12 election, adjudged to be the freest and fairest in Nigeria’s history? Was it not because he served the interests of the Gambari? Why have you singled out Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan to be sacrificed on the altar of ethnicity, sectional and bloody intrigues, designed to incite Nigerians against the Ijaws and his government? Is it because Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is an Ijaw man or as you once described him – as a weak minority leader of Nigeria whose aspiration must be limited because he is an Ijaw man. What often creates violence, especially in Africa is when unguarded utterances are made by well connected ethnic chauvinists that provoke untenable ethnic bickering, bad blood and insinuation of violence, amongst hitherto friendly people in a multi-plural state. I find your warning that President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan maybe the last Ijaw to rule Nigeria a little childish. I believe you think the Ijaws are far too small, too few and deeply insignificant to assert any ambition to rule Nigeria. The dream of Ijaws is not to rule Nigeria but to rule a country that is theirs – a truly great and free country that believes in the dignity of labour and the virtues of good leadership.

If Ijaws won’t rule Nigeria then they must seek their own country, in line with universal principles of self- determination and rule ourselves because Ijaws won’t succumb to be made slaves- Never! Therefore there is no gainsaying that Nigeria is a pseudo-nation of powerful ethnic, clannish and parochial interests, as shown by the gust of bitterness and ill feelings with which the North – Which you have joined to fight Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan- awfully demonstrated when it resisted, fought and nearly frustrated His presidency. I have met countless Heads of State, right from the days of military President Ibrahim Banbangida to you. I want you to know that none has the vaulting impudence and self-centeredne ss that you openly command.

None is so ethnically flawed as you. Because as President you created billionaires from area boys, simply because they are your kit and kin, and made them the darlings of forbe’s list of billionaires – all from the stolen wealth of the Niger delta that you so artfully cornered for eight years, as President and Minister of Petroleum. You attempted to pipe Niger delta oil and gas to Olokola, and create an LNG plant there. What influenced you in the siting of the LNG in Olokola if not ethnic and tribal considerations? In a chat with Late President Ya’r adua’s special adviser on economic matters, Dr Tanimu Turaki, he told me your Olokola dream will not see the light of day, as it is an avenue to divert Niger Delta resources to the West – conceived and hatched under your control. What I find very intriguing however is your voodoo hypocrisy that you’ve always resisted sectional interests, etc. How many Ijaws has President Goodluck Jonathan empowered the way you empowered, stole and transferred the resources of the Niger delta to your Yoruba folks? Finally, your evil plot to put me away before the 2015 general election failed in the Republic of Benin. insha Allahu I will be around to carry out the duties the almighty has assigned to me. There is hardly any speech that you make nowadays without painting a vindictive and devious picture of my humble profile. A curious fact is the spate at which others- even former heads of states have joined you, in your point- blank black-mail of my person, and vexatious insinuations that I am capable of misleading President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. I find this very nauseating, traducing and embarrassing. Your reference to me in your letter to President Jonathan offers a full confirmation of your diabolical hatred for me that you exhibited long ago, when you tried to blackmail, intimidate and silent me with a treasonable felony charge and subjected me to an heroic trial and subsequent incarceration for nearly two years in several prison, detention centres and finally under solitary confinement at the state security underground dungeon for ten months and eleven days and – if you recall I refused to be brought under your influence even when you sought to break my spirit.

I end this piece by saying Allah is on my side. Despite your brutal attack on me, and plot to kill me, Allah has been my helper and has not abandoned me. Your blood-curdling incitement of the authorities of the Republic of Benin against me, at my exiled home, so as to have me docked, tried and sentenced for national security related offences replays what you did before. The fact that I escaped unhurt when all hope was lost is a pointer to my supernatural fortification, leading and protection. In your plot to have me sidelined, Allah used President Goodluck Jonathan to rescue me. On this, I remain grateful to my Lawyer Barr Festus Keyamo, the Igbo and South-South Diaspora communities in the Republic of Benin and many others whose support and goodwill I enjoyed tremendously. General Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, I close this letter with the solemn pledge that our struggle is unstoppable. Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari Alabo Edi Abali of Kalabari

RIP James Avery

2014-01-02T15:53:00.000+01:00

I remember his role in Fresh prince of bel air vividly. His role was never going to be forgotten. This is wishing the family of 'uncle phil' all the best as they go through this trying moment. May his soul rest in peace.

Happy New Year People!!!

2014-01-01T09:32:00.000+01:00

This is wishing you a prosperous 2014. It would be the year of our dreams. The year 2013 was a good year for me, afterall I am still alive to write this. Happy 2014 to Nigeria. It shall be well.

Champions League Predictions: Arsenal In Big Trouble

2013-08-29T19:24:00.001+01:00

Well, every dog has its day, you know. This could be a refreshing change. For once, Arsenal would have to work to be recognised in this season's champions' league group stage. No question about that, Arsene Wenger must be fretting! And David Moyes?

Well... In GROUP A, Manchester United would start the post-Ferguson era with a sticky group stage!! Shakhtar Donetsk is a very dangerous team. But having lost Willian to Anzhi and Chelsea, Fernadinho to Manchester City and Milahahhhak (ok, no shame in my inability to spell the long name) to Borussia Dortmund, maybe they are not the team they used to be. That then means Bayer Leverkusen, who have started so well in the Bundesliga, could pose a greater threat. But what of a very vibrant Real Sociedad? Fact is, if Manchester United do not treat this with the seriousness it deserves, then Moyes could be in trouble. For me, Manchester United and Leverkusen could make it to the next stage.

In GROUP B, Carlo Ancelotti and his £100 million winger would have to get through Gianluigi Buffon and a compact Juventus team, a task which seems tough. He would also do well to know his former darlings from Turin have a very strong team, ready to pounce. Galatasaray would be waiting on the wings, should any of the two mess up, but Fatih Terim is experienced enough to know it would not be possible. All they have to do is struggle with FC Copenhagen for a place in the Europa League. Real Madrid and Juve to qualify, for me.

In GROUP C, Benfica and Paris St Germain (PSG) must be happy. They can expect to wipe the floor with Olympiakos and Anderlecht. That is a dangerous thing to say, but who cares? PSG and Benfica to make it to the next round, I am sure!

In GROUP D, FC Hollywood, that German team everyone loves to hate, would not be the centre of attraction. Manchester City would be. For once, they have a relatively easy group. CSKA Moscow and Viktoria Plzen are not teams to set pulses racing. I expect Bayern Munich to top the group, with Man City joining them. That would give everyone the opportunity to praise Manuel Pellegrini for getting City out of the group, and cuss out poor old Roberto Mancini for being bad. But even Mancini's sky blue scarf would tell us they were always in tough groups all year. Bottom-line, Bayern and City to qualify.

Chelsea have 'the happy one' back, and they would surely be happy with the way GROUP E has panned out. They have a tough task, I'm sure Mourinho would say, against an injury-ravaged, badly managed Schalke 04. And he may have a point. If this German team can do away with team gaffer Jens Keller, who does not inspire confidence, then they can give Chelsea a fight. But I cannot see anything but Chelsea topping this group. FC Basel and Steaua Bucuresti make up this mismatch. I expect Chelsea and Schalke to make it. Simple.

In GROUP F, Arsenal would be in an awkward situation. First, they have always been in easy groups. Then again, they have always qualified without a fight. Well, things have changed. They are in arguably the toughest group in this season's group stage. Marseille of France could be tough. That is the fact. But then Napoli, managed by a rejuvenated Rafa 'rant' Benitez, are dangerous. No wonder a certain Gonzalo Higuain elected to join a dwindling Italian league, and not the gunners. But if Arsenal can beat these teams, then wait for the German juggernauts Borussia Dortmund. They are here, guys. Now Arsenal would have to worry. I can say they are inexperienced here, no kidding. For me, Dortmund could and should make it. Arsenal would battle it out with Benitez and his rants. But if any of these people joke even for a second, FC Marseille would be waiting! That is how tough it is.

In GROUP G, FC Porto have once again been drawn in an easy group. Just like Arsenal, they always are. But wait a minute. Would you call an Atletico Madrid team, with a rampant Diego Costa and David Villa easy? You must be kidding me. And who would say a certain wealthy Russian club, Zenit St Petersbough, which boasts of Brazilian play-to-the-gallery striker, Hulk, is easy?? Now, that means I pity potential whipping boys Austria Vienna. However you look at it, I expect Atleti to qualify. Who joins them, between Porto and Zenit, we would wait to see.

In GROUP H, we see a group that promises a lot but would give so little. FC Barcelona have played AC Milan a thousand times in recent seasons. Now, we are bored of these repetitive tortures. Ajax do not possess the boldness to take advantage while Celtic would just make up the numbers. For me, this is just the weakest group...the most predictable, you may say. Barcelona and Milan to qualify. Let the games begin!

Crisis In Egypt Intensifies

2013-07-03T17:03:00.000+01:00

We all thought the ousting of the much-maligned Hosni Mubarak would make Egypt better. How wrong we were. Egypt is fast moving into a state of anarchy, with protests and deadline to the president Mohamed Morsi, by the military, causing fresh fears. This is praying things get better.

Governor Amaechi Reportedly Pays For OJB Treatment

2013-07-03T16:57:00.001+01:00

If the stories are anything to go by, then ailing music producer has every reason to smile now. Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state has reportedly donated the sum needed for his treatment. I hope and pray this is true, considering the false stories peddled around on how some of OJB's colleagues gave him millions. I wish him all the best, and may God bless Governor Amaechi, if this story is true

Painful Remembrance

2013-07-02T13:36:00.000+01:00

And again, 2nd July is here. It would always be here, and we would always remember it. It would always come and we would always have a sober reflection; we would remember that life is short; that life is borrowed; that everyday we live is a miracle; that we should be thankful; thankful to God. Franklin Agbarakwe, a brother and friend, would never be forgotten. He died a painful death, and we would always feel that pain each time 2nd July comes. He would be missed. But we his friends would live long for him, to always remember him. Continue to rest brother.

Obi Plans Retirement From Politics

2013-07-01T13:04:00.001+01:00

Anambra State Governor Mr Peter Obi has stated he would leave active politics once his tenure expires next year. "A very prominent person called me today and asked me of my plan concerning politics after my current tenure. This is what I told him," he stated. "For me, I have come to the end of it; I want to quit and rest." He did not forget to praise himself though: "I have been praying to God that for the sake of the good people of Anambra State, please give them somebody like Peter Obi," he boasted. "The level of greed in Nigeria is overwhelming, where people cannot see the suffering of other people; they are just accumulating wealth. For me, it is time to go. I wonder why one person should own a house in Ikoyi, Asokoro, Dubai and he is not using them for anything. People accumulate what they do not need; it is madness. The level of greed in Nigeria is intolerable." No matter what anyone says, I love this man. He is considerate, prudent and strong. These are qualities needed in an ideal democracy, which Nigeria does not have. This makes him seem different from other Nigerian politician, if you ask me. "The cost of running a governor's office in Nigeria is too much," he confessed. "When I came in as a governor, I found out that the state had 70 workers in Abuja office; apart from their salaries, we spent close to N15m maintaining that office. They had nothing doing other than going to the airport and welcoming me." May Anambra, and indeed Abia, get a governor like Obi next time!! Obi is my hero all day!

Ex-Footballer Thompson Oliha Dies

2013-06-30T19:04:00.000+01:00

This is not the best of times in the Nigerian football family. This is because Thompson Oliha, who represented the Super Eagles with an admirable level of commitment, is dead. He was aged 44. Oliha played for Bendel Insurance (1985-1987), Iwuanyanwu Nationale (1988-1991), Africa Sports (1992-1993), Maccabi Ironi Ashdod F.C. (1993-1994) and Antalyaspor (1994-1995), and before his death, was one of the coaches in the Kwara State football academy. May his soul Rest In Peace. He will surely be missed.

Pictures : Ngozi Nwosu Looks Good Again

2013-06-26T14:43:00.003+01:00

Star actress Ngozi Nwosu, who looked all bad when she was about to leave the country for her surgery, is all alive again. God is surely good. This is wishing her the very best.We cannot wait to see her on screen again!

Support Continues To Mount For OJB Jezreel

2013-06-26T14:36:00.000+01:00

Music icons Tuface Idibia, Don Jazzy and Ruggedman have given financial support to ailing colleague OJB Jezreel who needs the sum of 15 million naira to perform a surgery. Also, messages of support have flooded in for the talented music producer. "OJB Jezreel, you’ve got our support and prayers. We can’t afford to lose you. Thanks peeps for also showing love for a brother," Peter of psquare tweeted. In all these, the support, if not financial but also moral, OJB has received is highly commendable. Surely, he would pull through this. I wish him all the best. You can be part of this. Please no amount is too small. BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER: UBA, Babatunde Okungbowa, 1015075120

No Apologies To Afrocandy

2013-06-26T14:06:00.000+01:00

I posted an open letter to the unrepentant Judith Opara Mazagwu, aka, Afrocandy, on the blog of my good friend Stella Dimoko Korkus where I advised her to change her ways. Rather than change however, she decided to go ahead and insult me, using 'anonymous' a lot of times. I will advise her for the last time to change her ways. Since I started blogging, I have never criticized any movie star, and I will not. Afrocandy, obviously, is no movie star. Therefore, let it not be said I criticized an actress. No way! I only criticized an attention-seeking lady, who had every right, no matter how fundamentally human, to do so. However, it affected a few people, even if not me. So, I advise she changes her way. It is still not late.