POHAMBA WINS MO IBRAHIM PRIZE FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE

Hifikepunye Pohamba, 79, Namibia's outgoing president, has been named winner of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for "good governance" in Africa. President Pohamba is only the fourth winner of the $5 million annual prize, launched in 2007 with the aim of encouraging and rewarding good governance across a continent.

The Ibrahim Prize is the largest annually awarded prize in the world, consisting of

US$5 million over ten years and US$200 000 per year for life thereafter.

                     
President Pohamba, a former rebel who fought for his country's independence, has served two terms as Namibian president. He was first elected in 2004, and again in 2009. He is due to be succeeded by President-elect, Hage Geingob.

It is important to note that ‘the Mo Ibrahim Foundation was established in 2006 with a focus on the critical importance of leadership and governance in Africa. By providing tools to support progress in leadership and governance, the Foundation aims to promote meaningful change on the continent. 
The Foundation, which is a non-grant making organisation, focuses on defining, assessing and enhancing governance and leadership in Africa through four main initiatives: One of the founding initiatives of the Foundation, the Ibrahim Prize celebrates excellence in African leadership. It is awarded to a former Executive Head of State or Government by an independent Prize Committee composed of eminent figures, including two Nobel Laureates.

The Ibrahim Prize

*recognises and celebrates African leaders who have developed their countries, lifted people out of poverty and paved the way for sustainable and equitable prosperity

*highlights exceptional role models for the continent

*ensures that Africa continues to benefit from the experience and expertise of exceptional leaders when they leave national office, by enabling them to continue in other public roles on the continent

Criteria

*former African Executive Head of State or Government

*left office in the last three years

*democratically elected

*served his/her constitutionally mandated term

*demonstrated exceptional leadership

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ELDERLY WOMEN GOES HALF-NAKED IN PROTEST OVER ACTIVITIES OF LAND GRABBERS IN IKORODU

 Some elderly women in their 60’s, indigenes of Ilu Oloye in Ogun State, stripped half-naked in protest over the activities of land grabbers (Omo Oniles), whom they claimed have been oppressing them for years.

They took to the streets after the arrest of their fathers, husbands and leaders for being involved in a land tussle with the land-grabbers. According to them it was not the first of its kind but the people are now calling on relevant authorities to come to their aid and save them from the oppressors.

Speaking on behalf of the aggrieved people, legal counsel to the community, Barrister Oluwatoyin Sadik, explained that ,“the farmlands stretch as far as Shagamu and overnight, people just come up with certain issues and send the inhabitants away forcefully.

 “The Baale and a few other people were arrested and detained over charges of conduct likely to breach peace which is a minor offense, but someone was sent all the way from Abuja to arrest and prosecute these people.

“We are in court and we have tried to address this issue but it seems the people are helpless because the police have not helped in this matter since the oppression began.”While alleging that the Police may have been conniving with the land grabbers to oppress the indigenes, the legal practitioner explained further stating, “let me tell you their modus operandi. The police will enter the community but behind their vans are the hoodlums fully armed. After making noise in the community, the police will tactically withdraw and the hoodlums will take over.

“They invade villages at random, and as we speak, they may be in other villages. We have prepared our papers since last year to take the land grabbers to court, but because the land is in Ogun State, we cannot proceed due to the strike by courts in the state.

“We are appealing to the Inspector General of Police and other government agencies to come to the people’s aide. If the land grabbers claimed that they bought the parcels of land, they do not have any court order to move in and destroy these mud houses, some of which had existed for over 200 years.

The people arrested have since been released on bail.

When contacted, one of the people the community alleged was involved in the issue told our correspondent that he was in Saudi Arabia and did not know anything about the dispute going on in the country.

“Truly, I bought acres of land from the community, but I do not know why they are in dispute now. I was surprised to receive this call asking me if truly I instructed people to send them out or beat people up.

“Currently, I am in Saudi Arabia and as for the people in dispute, I truly do not know what it is all about,” he said.

THE MAN IN THE PICTURE IS NOT MY DAD OR BLOOD RELATIVE..PROF OSINBAJO

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. APC- VP candidate took to twitter to put the record straight and correct the assertion that the old man in the picture making the rounds is related to him. He also tweeted that his own father died on the 22nd of July, 1996, while his mother, who is 82yrs old, is alive and well in Lagos. See the tweet after the cut....

TINUBU TO SUE AIT FOR CHARACTER ASSASSINATION

Press statement from APC Chieftain Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's media office. Read below...

"All Progressives Congress National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is set to sue the management of the Daar Communications Limited, owners of the Africa Independent Television, AIT for the defamatory content of a documentary aired on Sunday.

Counsel to Asiwaju Tinubu, Tunji Abayomi, said a letter asking Daar Communications to apologize for the content and stop further airing was delivered this afternoon.

A part of the letter to AIT reads, " ... You aired an hour long documentary focussing on our client (Bola Tinubu). Clearly pre-occupied with political resentment and hatred neither warranted, necessary, proper, or justified, you published several false allegations against our client...More disturbing is your misrepresentation that the said documentary was "sponsored" without disclosing the "sponsors". You cannot under law, hide under media freedom to maliciously injure a citizen's reputation".

The letter also demanded for N20billion (Twenty Billion Naira) as cost of damage done to the reputation of its client failing which the client will sue the company.

Another part of the letter reads: "…to affirm the right of our client against your defamatory publication, we demand that you confirm to us within 24 hours of receipt of this letter, an apology and retraction of the said publication/documentary."

BIRTHDAY: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO 'DADDY G.O' @73

General -Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye is 73-year old  today March 2nd. Wishing daddy G. O many more successful years ahead!

ZIMBABWEAN LADY JAILED FOR MURDER A 10-MONTH OLD BABY BY STUFFING HIM IN A DRAWER

A Zimbabwean nanny, Violet Moyo, 22, was sentenced on Thursday, for 22 years for the murder of a 10-month-old baby, after being found guilty of murder over what the judge said was a "very cruel and brutal" death, the state-run Chronicle newspaper reported.

Moyo, was left in charge of the baby boy while the parents went to work and had fed him and put him to bed.

But the child woke up after five hours and started crying, the prosecution said.

Moyo tried in vain to calm the boy and in frustration she wrapped him in a blanket, "for crying too much" and stuffed him in a linen drawer and shut it while she went to watch a film on television.

She went to check on the child after three hours and found he was dead, the newspaper said Friday.

High court judge Lawrence Kamocha described the baby's death as "very cruel and brutal".

"Despite the baby's distressed cry, you chose to ignore him and went to the lounge to watch a television movie which is quite clear you wanted to kill him," Kamocha said.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: SS1 CLASSROOM IN BAUCHI SECONDARY SCHOOL NIGERIA !!!

This is allegedly an SS1 classroom in a Government Secondary School located in Hardawa, Bauchi State.This is saddened, barbaric, crime against the youth of Nigeria and our future leaders!Isa Yuguda needs to be probed and impeached urgently.

 It is important to state that Isa Yuguda contested and won the gubernatorial race of Bauchi State in on May 29, 2007. Yaguda was re-elected governor on 28 April 2011.