BREAKING NEWS: ALIYU GUSAU RESIGNED AS MINISTER OF DEFENCE

General Aliyu Gusau (Rtd) has resigned his appointment as Minister of Defence. It was gathered that the sudden decision to quit President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet arose when the service chiefs refused to meet him in a schedule familiarisation meeting, which the former minister considered an act of insubordination and indiscipline from Nigeria’s top military brass. 

According to SaharaReporters,’ Nigeria’s top military henchmen kept Mr. Gusau waiting for two days after he summoned them to a meeting, with different military service chiefs making excuses for their inability to meet with him and his deputy immediately. Finally, the situation turned testy yesterday when, after keeping Mr. Gusau and Mr. Obanikoro waiting for several hours, the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, showed up alone for a meeting.’

‘When Air Marshal Badeh showed up, the Minister of Defence told him he was expecting all the chiefs of staff within the military, but Badeh reportedly told him there was no need,” said one source at the ministry. Our sources added that Badeh also told Mr. Gusau that he alone would be meeting with the minister as the Chief of Defense Staff (CDS), stating that this arrangement was the collective decision of military officers in the country.’

‘One source said an attempt by the junior minister of defence, Mr. Obanikoro, to intervene was rudely brushed aside as Badeh asked him to “shut up.” “Air Marshal Badeh is said to have called Senator Obanikoro a ‘small boy’ and warned him that the military was not going to be taking orders anymore from bloody civilians like him,” one source stated’.

Moreover, it was learnt that after the altercation, General Gusau (rtd) reportedly ended the meeting and asked the Permanent Secretary in the ministry to transmit his letter of resignation to President Goodluck Jonathan.

Culled :SaharaReporters

TOKUNBO ABODERIN ESABOD PUBLISHER:IRON LADY BLOGGER

Tokunbo Esther Aboderin, aka Iron-lady of Ireland, an award winning blogger, is a blogger, and publisher of ‘ESABOD GLOBAL NEWS’.A graduate of Yejide Girls Grammar School, Ibadan, Nigeria and Dublin Business School, Ireland. Whenever you mentioned bloggers in Europe, whether you like her or not, her name must be on your lips.

Esther is a controversial blogger, believe me, i love her blogs because she blog it as it is with no sacred cow. She is a blogger that blog about the good and the bad in the society.....frauds, prostitutions, bad government, corruptions, fashions, celebrities, gossips etc. While lot of people loves her blog, she is a pain in the neck of some followers that view her blog as too blunt.

According to Esther, she wrote that ‘’The only time that we should truly worry is when we don't hear anyone talking about us at all, this means that you don't have anything going on for people to try and be cynical about. Never run away from what you are doing because someone says that you can't do it, or that you shouldn't be doing it. You know in your heart what is right for you to be doing, so make sure you follow it. Never let anything or anybody stand in the way of you accomplishing your dreams!’’

Esther is not by chance a good blogger; she is from a great Aboderin family in Ibadan, publishers of Punch newspapers in Nigeria.

A fearless lady that is the trait of Ibadan people, she was the winner of 2013 Informative Blogger of Ireland awarded by Singlelink Magazine .keep blogging.

STEPHEN KESHI IS THE BEST COACH IN AFRICA

Super Eagles Manager, Stephen Keshi has been named the 24th best national team coach in the world by The Institute of Football Coaching and Statistics, by this rating; he is the number one in Africa. While the Head coach of Ghana Black Stars James Kwesi Appiah was named as the 42nd best.
 

Vincente Del Bosque, coach of the Spanish national team tops the list with 25188 points followed by Germany Joachim Low with 21422 point, Oscar Tabarez of Uruguay placed 3rd, Italy Ceasre Prandelli came fourth, Netherlands Van Marwijk 5th, Jurgen Klinsmann 6th, Poalo Jorge Gomes of Portugal 7th.

OTUNBA SUBOMI BALOGUN @80

Billionaire business mogul and octogenarian, Olori Omoba of Ijebuland, Otunba Subomi Balogun , celebrate his 80th birthday in good health on Sunday March 9, 2014.

Omoba Subomi is a well loved man by his people home and abroad, what can we do than to wish him more fruitful year ahead.

Aseyi  s’amodun  baba mi.

AN OLD SOLDIER COMMITTED SUICIDE IN IJEBU-IMUSHIN

The question in the mouth of many residents of Itamogiri, Ijebu-Imushin, on Sunday was that, what prompted this ‘old soldier’ to commit suicide!

A retired soldier from the Nigerian Army, name unknown, but referred to as ‘old soldier’  was on Sunday night suspected to have committed suicide at the open space at the back of his house in Itamogiri, Ijebu-Imusin in the Ijebu East Local Government of Ogun State.

According to the source, the deceased man was an Isoko man from Delta State State, was said to be living alone without his wife but his grown up children do visit him regularly.

However, a day before the incident, it was gathered that one of his children came to visit him and gave him some money with a promise that his siblings have decided to buy him a motor bike to use for commercial purpose.

On the day of the unfortunate incident, it was told that the other tenants in the house had gone for the yearly Ebibi Festival and the man was alone in the house,; it was when they came back they found his body hung on a tree at the back of the house.

Moreover, some people believed there was foul play as a critical look at the dead man does not portray that of a man who hung himself.

We on ‘Blog with fury’ suggest that the Ogun state police command should look into this issue critically.

THAILAND ZERO TOLERANCE TO DRUGS: A NIGERIAN IS DESTINED TO DIE THERE

Godwin Chinedu Agbarakwe, 35,a Nigerian, residing  in Thailand has been caught and arrested on immigration and drug  related offences  after officers found crystal  methamphetamines hidden in his anus.

Agbarakwe who has been an illegal immigrant for 14 months was stopped by Pattaya Tourist Police on a Third Road side street on 24 February after he was spotted acting suspiciously.
The drugs were found on him as the police searched every part of his body.

According to Police, the suspect claimed he turned to selling drugs when his clothing import-export business failed.
Officers said that Agbarakwe entered Thailand on a three-month visa on 8 September 2012. He’s been overstaying that visa since 8 December, 2012.

WHY WE DECIDED TO REVIVE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY...FALAE

Former Finance Minister, Chief Olu Falae has given reasons why himself along with leaders of some other political parties decided to revive the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the political party on whose back the late Chief Moshood Abiola won the controversial June 12 1993 elections.

Falae said that since many Nigerians had experienced firsthand the impact of the SDP during the military era and accepted it as a party for all Nigerians, they decided that such a platform will be a better alternative to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), the two parties that he said have not shown Nigerians that they have the ability to address their problems.

The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation and presidential candidate of the coalition, All Peoples Party (APP) and the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the 1999 elections, noted that they revived the SDP to be a third force in the nation’s political environment.

Falae who spoke in Lagos said, “What happened was that 15 political parties on their own came together and came to me to come and lead them. I told them that I tried a mega party without success in the last four years, they said no, that this time they are serious, we have since then revived the SDP, the SDP of Abiola, the party that won the Senate, House of Reps, 22 states out of 30, that SDP is back today.”

“The ban placed on it by the military has been removed, now we are a registered political party in Nigeria since April this year, very soon we will be launching it. We think it is part of the solution to the Nigeria problem. The two ruling parties are in my own opinion the major problem, they need a third force that has won before, that has been embraced across Nigeria, that will continue to bridge all the division in Nigeria, be it religious, sectional or regional, that is the Social Democratic Party, it is part of the solution to our problems.”

Falae who also used the opportunity to speak on how best to eradicate corruption, which he said is setting Nigeria back among the comity of nation, from the system, urged political leaders to take charge of the affairs of their state and the nation.

He said, “For you to effective fight corruption, it is for whoever is the head, either at the local government level, the state or the federal level to be transparent, you don’t need to preach a sermon, it is left for the ministers to know that oga no go gree, they will take their cue.” “I was Managing Director of a bank from 1981 to 1986, I want to thank God that not a single case of fraud happened during my tenure, because I called my officers into my office and said, I retired as a permanent secretary from the Federal Civil Service, this job I am doing is a transitional job before I finally retire, so there will be zero tolerance for corruption, stealing and bribe taking here, if you take bribe I will not only get you sacked I will send you to jail. Nobody took a bribe in the five years; no fraud in that bank for five years, after I left fraud came,: he said.