SOME FACTS ABOUT GMB: NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT-ELECT YOU MAY NOT KNOW

17 Amazing Things Nigerians Should Know About President-elect

By getting more than 15 million votes to Goodluck Jonathan’s almost 13 million votes, General Muhammadu Buhari becomes the first man to overthrow (by the poll) a sitting Nigerian president. Here are about 17 things you may not know about ‘Peoples General’.

All Progressives Congress presidential candidate becomes the first man in Nigeria’s 16-year fourth republic to overthrow a PDP presidential aspirant. 

For the first time, Buhari is no longer a leader of northern Nigeria. Statistics of this election show former military ruler now has the national approval he sorely lacked.

This is the first time in four attempts that Buhari has won more than one state in the north-central zone. Before now, he never won a state in the southwest.

                           General Muhammadu Buhari: Nigeria's President-Elect

The Authentic 2015 Election Results As Released By Independent National Electoral Commission-INEC

Elections 2015

The Presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria were held on March 28, 2015 (Saturday). Total votes of 36 states (Ondo, Osun, Kogi, Enugu, Ogun, Ekiti, Oyo, Nassarawa, Kano, Jigawa, Katsina, Kwara, Kaduna, Anambra, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Plateau, Ebonyi, Niger, Lagos, Bayelsa, Gombe, Cross River, Rivers, Adamawa, Zamfara, Kebbi, Benue, Bauchi, Yobe, Edo, Taraba, Sokoto, Delta, Borno) and FCT Abuja, according to the INEC were declared as follows:

• Goodluck Jonathan / Namadi Sambo of PDP (43.67%, 12,853,162)
• Muhammadu Buhari / Yemi Osinbajo of APC (52.41%, 15,424,921)
• Ambrose Albert / Haruna Shaba (0.03%, 7,435)
• Oluremi Sonaiya / Saidu Bobboi (0.04%, 13,076)
• Ganiyu Galadima / Ojengbede Farida (0.14%, 40,311)
• Chekwas Okorie / Bello Umar (0.06%, 18,220)
• Tunde Anifowoshe-Kelani / Paul Ishaka Ofomile (0.08%, 22,125)
• Rafiu Salau / Clinton Cliff Akuchie (0.10%, 30,673)
• Godson Okoye / Haruna Adamu (0.03%, 9,208)
• Martin Onovo / Ibrahim Mohammed (0.08%, 24,455)
• Mani Ibrahim Ahmad / Obianuju Murphy-Uzohue (0.10%, 29,666)
• Ayeni Adebayo / Anthony Ologbosere (0.18%, 53,537)
• Sam Eke / Hassana Hassan (0.12%, 36,300)
• Allagoa Chinedu / Arabamhen Mary (0.08%, 24,475)
• Invalid votes (2.87%, 844,519 Person)

The Five (5) Notable African Incumbent Leaders/Presidents Who Concede Defeat To Opposition

These Are The African Presidents Who Are As Of Today Otherwise Known As 'Heroes Of Democracy': GEJ Of Nigeria Just Made The List!

The singular act of President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria after the presidential elections held on Saturday the 28th of March 2015, has elevated him to the status of a statesman and Hero of Democracy, not only in Nigeria, but Africa where such action is a rarity.

According to a research conducted via Wikipedia and  Naij.com, the following African leaders numbering five, have been discovered as the renowned Hero of Democracy since 1967.

1. ADEN ABDULLAH OSMAN DAAR (SOMALIA): Aden Daar is a Somali politician popularly known as Aden Adde. He was the first President of Somalia, serving from July 1, 1960 to June 10, 1967. Daar joined the incipient Somali Youth League (SYL) political party in 1944, a nationalist organization that campaigned for an independent Somalia. Quickly rising through the ranks, he became the local secretary of the SYL’s Beledweyne branch in 1946.

A decade later, he became Chairman of the National Legislative Assembly, and would eventually lead the SYL itself two years afterwards. By the time Somalia gained its independence in 1960, Daar had attained widespread prominence as a nationalist figure.

ADEN ABDULLAH OSMAN DAAR

In short order, he was elected the country’s first President, a position he would assume from 1960 to 1967. Fellow SYL member Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf would serve as the first President of the Somali National Assembly on 1 July 1960.

FIRE OUTBREAK AT INEC OFFICE, ABUJA-WHAT REALLY HAPPENED!

There was a minor fire outbreak at the electoral institute of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja on Saturday night, March 14, 2015.

According to Punch reports, no harm was done as the fire was swiftly contained and carefully tackled.

Confirming the incident, the Chief Press Secretary to the chairman of the commission, Mr. Kayode Idowu, said no electoral material was affected by the fire.

According to Leadership report, the fire started at 11p.m. on Saturday night and was extinguished at 2a.m. Sunday morning.

Showing newsmen  around the affected area, the director of security of INEC, Shettima Ngilladar, said the power surge caused the electrical panel to go up in flames, ruling out any political mischief, while he explained that no electoral materials for the 2015 elections was in the warehouse as they have been deployed to the state.

The INEC security chief said: “these are non-sensitive materials that have been banned in the warehouse. You will see it yourself it is not hidden. It is something clear, this banned non sensitive materials have nothing to do with the elections.

“They are old materials in store that has not been evacuated. These are old stock of non sensitive materials, like bags, envelopes, election forms which were used in 2011 elections. They won’t be used for 2015 elections. Everything here is non sensitive. Police on ground and security investigation is on.”

Recall that some protesting youths under the aegis of Middle Belt Con­cerned Youths (MBCY), shut down the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja on Wednesday, March 11, 2015.

They asked for the immediate resignation or sack of INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, over his insistence on the use of card readers for the general elec­tions.

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CBN New 'Fraudulent' ATM Policies: Milking The Poor Citizenry!

The notable notion I cannot comprehend about this current administration in Nigeria that claims much prowess of transformation is how their policies and agendas are only on the negative impact of the lower and middle class of the citizenry. First, at the assumption of the new CBN Governor, there was the reintroduction of the 'On Us' banks ATM withdrawal charges to customers in a somewhat stylishly ethical module of 'after the first three withdrawals aside your bank of account'. Customers were subcharged a total sum of sixty five naira (N65.00k) in subsequent withdrawals after the initial first three withdrawn aside your bank of account. Just recently, this amount has stylishly returned to the old surcharge rate of one hundred naira (N100.00k); which the immediate past CBN boss cancelled. This new N100.00k subcharge rate, I am yet to experience personally but maybe it's just as a result of me not willing to use ATM aside my bank of account these recent days because of a recent negative experience which resulted to my composing this piece. While Nigerians were hoping for a better banking treatment, now our hopes have been casted back to the old beginning of ATM banking transactions in Nigeria!

As if all the new CBN administration focus is to retrieve the little cash in the hands of the poor Nigerians citizens, now there is another ATM policy of 'immediate card destruction'. With this policy, whether your ATM card is trapped with any of mechanical,  electrical or network ineffectiveness, your card is deemed or due for replacement by your bank of account and with a fee!

Normally, ATM used to withhold a card after three tries of inputting wrong password and without success. And it didn't actually result to immediate card destruction and subsequent replacement. But today, even if the ATM is faulty and thereby couldn't release your card even after dispensing cash to you, this new 'One-way' CBN policy states that your card will be destroyed and subsequently replaced by your own bank where you have account (bank of account). Then, the archaic and ill-treating side of the whole policy is that, one must pay the sum of N1,000.00k (one thousand naira only) for every replacement. What a maltreatment!

If I didn't experience this 'one-way' maltreatment policy personally, I wouldn't have known how mean is this current CBN cum FG maladministration in all zeal to milk the hoi polloi dry of the little income they have managed to sustained their lives with. Just imagine, an ATM had a mechanical fault and thereby couldn't release my card after dispensing cash to me. I went inside the bank (UBA) to complain but only to be directed to my own bank of account (Zenith Bank) as point of collection. I got to my bank the next day only to receive the shocking news of the new CBN policy. I was advised to fill a form for a new ATM card. After eight working days, I received an alert about my new ATM availability but my account had been debited with N1,000.00k! Just answer me: what is my offence to warrant such deduction from my account? Why should a policy be this rigid in this current days of electrical and mechanical malfunctioning of machines and equipment? I think someone should alert CBN to review this rigidity of their policy to flexibility. The masses are already financial handicapped. Much of financial manipulations could result to negative or aggressive resolution. Nigerians need positive treatment not practical and stylish maltreatment.

By: SADOH M. S.

BREAKING: FEBRUARY 14 GENERAL ELECTIONS POSTPONED!

Still unconfirmed from INEC, news from Associated Press had it that the general elections scheduled to hold on February 14, 2015, would be shifted by six weeks. This unconfirmed news formed the basis for the critical meeting held between INEC officials and security chiefs today 7th February, 2015. Thus the elections would be held in March, 2015.

According to other news sources since yesterday (eg, Naij.com), the NSA and the Army chief had made it clear to Prof. Attahiru Jega, the INEC chairman that, there will be no guaranty of security should he decide to hold the presidential elections on February 14. As it obvious that the INEC chairman has no jurisdiction over the security control, it is expected that he would cave in to this decision.

The earlier decision of PVC distribution seemed not enough for this extension decision, but adding the matter of insecurity as a yardstick, even the opposition parties would not deviate from this agreement. According to the military chiefs, the six weeks extension would allow them in collaboration with the multinational troops from Chad, Cameroon, Niger etc, to contain and chase out Boko Haram insurgents from the areas they currently preside as under their caliphate sovereignty. We hope this decision is in the interest of the citizenry and not for political gains.

SADOH M. S.

UNCOMMON TRAGEDY: FIVE BURNT TO DEATH FROM FIRE OUTBREAK IN SULEJA!

It was an arena of tears and sorrow on the 22nd January, 2015 at Chenchenya area of Suleja, Niger State, when five members of a family of eight including the father, got burnt to death in an eccentric inferno that broke out around 11.00pm.

Nobody actually knew the cause of the fire outbreak as even the three fortunate survivors couldn't tell the genesis of the whole scenario. What the eyewitnesses could only say was that they saw the uncontrollable inferno around 11.00pm with voices of dying people crying from within.

According to the story from one of the survivors, the family head, Mallam Usman who had two wives, managed to rescue his younger wife with her only daughter and his younger brother who lived with them, at the early stage of the inferno. While they were outside the house on fire, the yells and cries of his elder wife and her three kids didn't allow him any composure as it was obvious that they were totally trapped in the burning flame and needed soccour. Even as the situation seemed not salvaging as the weight of the burning flame was uncontrollably unbearable, Mallam Usman went against all odds and hopped into the heavy flame of fire in a bid to rescue his second family. 

                                    The burnt building...everything burnt completely

The situation that made Mallam Usman hopped back into the inferno to save his family would've been averted if only the sorrowful screams: " laillah ilallah...laillah ilallah...laillah ilallah..." was not on continuous echo that attracted every ears around. He dived into the fire unconsciously but the salvaging and soccour mission which he intended was never accomplished. He was consumed by the fire along his first wife and three children. As at the time the fire burnt out completely in the morning, Mallam Usman was found holding the window protector in his elder wife's room in a burnt skeletal body. His elder wife was discovered with her four months old baby on her chest, both burnt to skeletal statures on a completely burnt mattress. The two other little girls both got burnt separately on the floor...it was an extreme horror to behold.

According to the sympathetic throng that gathered around the vicinity at the early morning hours of the next day of the incidence, it took a wholesome efforts of the 'mairuwa'numbering over twenty who came with their wheelbarrows filled with jerrycans of water to hinder the inferno from spreading to the other houses in the neighbourhood. They became the fire service locally as no known fire fighters are presently available for such tragic incidence at that area of Suleja.

Suleja is a suburb of Abuja, apparently the second largest town and the commercial nerve centre of Niger State, North Central, Nigeria. It was formerly the town called Abuja before the name was donated to the new seat of power in 1976 and thereafter renamed as Suleja just as we have it today. Historically, only few Nigerians know that the current Abuja was actually planned and plotted in Suleja.

By: Sadoh M. S.

READ THE SYNOPSIS OF BUHARI'S BACKGROUND, EDUCATION, LIFE, CAREER; IF YOU STILL DOUBT

                                     Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), APC Presidential Candidate

Well, not exactly the untold story of former military head of state and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). It is more like Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘unknown’ story, as not many Nigerians are familiar with the book written by Rosaline Odeh, the then Head of Research and Documentation Section, Federal Department of Information, in May 1984.

The book, Muhammadu Buhari: Nigeria’s Seventh Head of State, was published by the Federal Department of Information, Domestic Publicity Division, Ikoyi Road, Lagos. It is in seven chapters of 95 pages, and details the early life, educational qualifications, career, and thoughts of the then head of state.

IF YOU WERE PRESIDENT JONATHAN, YOU WILL DO THE SAME

      President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

The main credible feature of a good leader is to be able to stand up to the challenges of his region whenever they arrive. As a citizen of a country, it's not right while at the hem of affairs and sees things go sour, you then decide to bog instead of measuring up to the challenges as they appear on the political scene.

RONALDO WINS FIFA BALLON DO'R 2014

                      Ronaldo with the Ballon d'Or as the FIFA World best player for 2014

The Portugal international has been voted the best player in the world for 2014 by national team captains, coaches and journalists, with Lionel Messi second and Manuel Neuer third

The Real Madrid attacker Cristiano Ronaldo has won the 2014 Fifa Ballon d'Or ahead of the World Cup winner/Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, scooping up the prestigious individual award for the third time in his career.

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YAYA TOURE WINS CAF AFRICAN PLAYER OF THE YEAR FOR 2014

                                         Yaya Toure

After two hours of fun and excitement from musical artiste and breath-taking dancers ushered in by Flavour, Lagbaja and co., the African Player of the Year was finally announced. Yaya Toure of Cote D'Ivoire and Manchester City FC, wins the award for the fourth consecutive time, equaling the record of Samuel Eto’o Fils of Cameroon. Furthermore, he just broke the record of being the first player to win the award four times consecutively. Although Samuel Eto'o won it four times, only three of his award came in consecutive time while the fourth came after some years.