Jonathan, ECOWAS leaders meet on terrorism, others

Security situation in the region is one of the issues that will be on the agenda on Monday as President Goodluck Jonathan hosts his colleagues from West Africa.

Jonathan will be hosting the 46th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Abuja.

According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, on Sunday, the one-day summit would also review political situation in the region.

Abati said apart from receiving a briefing on recent developments in Burkina Faso, the summit will also elect the chairman of the body for next year.

President John Mahama of Ghana is its outgoing chairman.

Buhari’s VP list: Oshiomhole, Fashola, Fayemi, Amaechi

The All Progressives Congress has pruned its search for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd.) running mate to three incumbent governors and a former one.

Ashiwaju.org reliably gathered on Saturday that the leadership of the party has the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN); his Edo State counterpart, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole; and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, as well as former Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on its final list of four.

It was learnt that the APC governors had demanded that one of them should be picked as the running mate of Buhari, who emerged as the party’s presidential candidate on Thursday.

Our correspondents gathered that Oshiomhole and Amaechi made the list because some leaders of the APC feel that South-South should produce the vice-president in order to cut down the votes of President Goodluck Jonathan, who is also from the geo-political zone.

Buhari’s VP list: Oshiomhole, Fashola, Fayemi, Amaechi

The All Progressives Congress has pruned its search for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd.) running mate to three incumbent governors and a former one.

Ashiwaju.org reliably gathered on Saturday that the leadership of the party has the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN); his Edo State counterpart, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole; and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, as well as former Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on its final list of four.

It was learnt that the APC governors had demanded that one of them should be picked as the running mate of Buhari, who emerged as the party’s presidential candidate on Thursday.

Our correspondents gathered that Oshiomhole and Amaechi made the list because some leaders of the APC feel that South-South should produce the vice-president in order to cut down the votes of President Goodluck Jonathan, who is also from the geo-political zone.

2015: Voting may follow ethnic lines

The emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan and a former military Head of State, General Mohammadu Buhari (retd), as presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress respectively have set the stage for a political war among various ethnic and cultural groups in the country.

SUNDAY PUNCH enquires showed that while some of the groups have taken decisions to queue behind either Jonathan or Buhari, others are in the process of taking decision on whom to support.

This is happening even as some of the groups have, however, chosen to be neutral.

NIGERIANS KNOW THAT JONATHAN HAS PERFORMED, SAYS ABATI

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, on Sunday said despite the criticisms being directed at President Goodluck Jonathan, majority of Nigerians are aware that the Federal Government under his watch has performed creditably well.
Abati made his position known in an interview he granted the Voice of America.
He said it was on record that the government had turned the nation’s economy into the largest one in Africa.

Dad is not harsh — Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s daughter

Yasmin, a daughter of business mogul, Hakeem Belo-Osagie, tells Ashiwaju.org about her father
Tell us a bit about yourself.
My name is Yasmin Belo-Osagie. I’m the second of Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s four children. I had my primary school education in Nigeria, then left for a boarding school in England when I was 10 years old. I was there for eight years then went to the United States where I studied at the Princeton University. I now live and work in Nigeria.

Wike is Rivers next gov, says Patience Jonathan

The wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has restated her endorsement for the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State, Nyesom Wike.

The First Lady, who spoke at the burial ceremony of Senator Tari Sekibo in Okrika on Saturday, expressed her confidence that Wike would be the next governor of the state.

It was her second public endorsement of Wike.

Why I’m still single – Genevieve Revealed

Award winning Nollywood actress, Genevieve Nnaji, reportedly disclosed that staying married is not an easy task.

The actress, who won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2005, revealed her opinion about marital relationships in a recent Vanguard report.

“If I get married, I really want to stay married and staying married is not an easy thing. It means you are completely in tune with your partner.”

Tinubu Rejects Offer to Run as Buhari’s VP

Former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has rejected offer from his political associates to pick himself as the running mate to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari.

The associates of the former Lagos State governor who is also the national leader of the party has been mounting pressure on him to run as he VP to Buhari following the concession giving to him by Buhari to pick this running mate.

Presidential primary: Okorocha Owe Ndi Igbo Apology Says- South-East APC

The All Progressives Congress, APC, South-East chapter, in an emergency meeting converged today in Enugu, has dissociated self from the move made by  Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha for taking part in the party just concluded presidential primary , described him as a lone ranger  operating in his own world.

this was disclosed in a statement signed by the publicity secretary of the party in the zone, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, and made available to newsmen, he said Okorocha’s ambition cost the zone important positions in the party.

The statement read, “May I express my dismay over statement in national newspapers credited to Governor Rochas Okorocha, the leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) in my zone the South East to the effect that, ‘By participating in the contest, I have been able to prove that the president can come from any part of the country. It is the understanding of APC that the president should come from the North ever since. I know about that, but I don’t like those facts, so I have come to distort those facts which are not the truth.’

“May I ask His Excellency is the distortion facts more important than the collective interest of the marginalized Ndigbo?