PRESIDENT ELECT SNOOKERS APC LEADERS OVER UNANNOUNCED UK TRIP

Major-General Muhammadu Buhari’s unannounced trip to the United Kingdom last week has caused disquiet among several bigwigs in his All Progressives Congress (APC) as it is the first clear signal that the President- Elect is a man of independent thinking determined to govern the Buhari way.
Sources informed Ashiwalu.org that not only did the President-Elect choose not to inform the party’s leadership of his intending trip, he travelled to the UK with only 2 Personal Assistants, Seriki Abba and a Mr Tunde . He was received at the door of the aircraft by High Commissioner Sarki Tafida and rode in the embassy official car to his usual central London holiday flat booked by his brother having rejected the hotel booked by the High Commission.
His friend and backer of several decades, Mamman Daura was already waiting for him at the flat and they both drove in company of Seriki Abba to No 10 Downing Street to meet with British Prime Minister, David Cameron where they discussed issues ranging from security to corruption and the immigrant crises facing Europe. Unlike his Chatham House visit with several APC bid wigs, this was done without their knowledge and the President Elect clearly needed his Buhari time.
But once APC chieftains got wind of Buhari's departure, quite a few of them comprising the party’s National Leader, Bola Tinubu and Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi scurried off to the UK in hot pursuit of Buhari.

PDP APPOINTS EX-MINISTER, HALIRU MOHAMMED, ACTING CHAIRMAN

The Board of Trustees of Nigeria’s ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has appointed a former acting national Chairman of the party, and ex-defence minister, Haliru Mohammed, as its acting Chairman.
However, President Goodluck Jonathan rejected the position of the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the meeting held at the Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, the board’s secretary, Senator Wali Jibrin, said Jonathan declined the offer.
Mr. Mohammed’s nomination was endorsed Monday night by the PDP’s BoT at a meeting at the Aso Rock presidential villa, Abuja.

FAYOSE, FEUDING EKITI LAWMAKERS MEET IN AKURE

AN end may be in sight as regards the crisis between the Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose and the warring 19 lawmakers as they met Monday in Akure, the Ondo state capital.
Security at the meeting was relaxed as the governor and the representatives of the lawmakers exchanged banters.
Governor Fayose and five of the lawmakers led by the former Speaker Adewale Omirin met behind closed door at Sunview hotel in Akure for over five hours.
The closed door meeting was equally attended by the Director of SSS and the state Police commissioner John James, the Chief of staff to the governor Dipo Anisulowo., the Attorney General and Justice Commissioner Owoseni Ajayi and a newly elected PDP lawmaker Pastor Oluwawole Kola.
Former Speaker led others APC lawmakers who include the Deputy Speaker Hon Orisalade Tunji, Orilowo Bunmi, Churchill Adedipeand Gbenga Odebunmi.
Speaking after the meeting, the governor said that they have met to chart a new course for Ekiti.
Fayose said ” today we have met( the executive and the legislators in the overall interest of the state believing that we will be able to find solution to the problems that all”
The governor who declined to answer further questions asked if the former Speaker has a comment to make.

GOVT DEBT: APC, OSINBAJO MISLEADING NIGERIANS - PDP

• Taunts APC, saying Nigerians expect monthly N5,000, other promises from June ending 
• Says majority of the debts are from APC-controlled states
Incoming main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated Vice President-elect, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, accusing him of misrepresenting facts regarding the nation’s economy particularly, the correct status of the nation’s government debt stock, stating that it is ostensibly to further the attempts by the in-coming APC administration to discredit the PDP.
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, on Monday, criticized the Vice President-elect for failing to be bold and honest enough to also inform the nation that the bulk of the $63.7 billion debt was incurred by APC states.
“It is indeed unfortunate that the Vice President-elect who has the details of the debt stock chose to be economical with the truth and to mislead Nigerians just to discredit the current PDP-led administration and rationalize APC’s unpreparedness for governance.
“Prof. Osinbajo is aware that the $63.7 billion is made up of external and domestic debts belonging not only to the Federal Government but to federal and state governments and accumulating since the 1960s, yet he deliberately misrepresented the facts to give the unsuspecting public the impression that the amount was exclusively incurred by the current Federal Government.
“Perhaps the Vice President-elect avoided the details so as not to expose the fact that the APC controlled Lagos state has both the highest external debt stock of $1,169, billion as well as the highest domestic debt stock of N278, 867 billion.

GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR BABY FACTOR IN ANAMBRA STATE-MRS EZE

Chigozie Philip
Awka
The Anambra state government has been imputed with the responsibility of increased baby factory in the state. The illegal baby industry has over the years waxed strong due to serious dereliction on the part of
the government.
Tenderlove orphanage proprietress Mrs Helen Eze in an interview with National Link disclosed that the government had a big role to play in curbing the activities of illegal orphanage homes in the state. She faulted the government for abandoning orphanage homes in the state and allowing them operate without regulating their activities. 
She said “I blame the government for the upsurge of baby factories in the state because for every organization they should be a regulatory body. So every affair of the homes ought to be controlled by them.
They are supposed to provide orphanage homes with guidelines with which they should practice”. 
“The government is doing nothing towards regulating the operation of orphanage in the state, because if they are working their staff ought to be on the filed to monitor every homes activity so that if they deviate from what is expected of them, they could be checkmated.” She recommended that for ‘baby selling’ in the state to be squelched,

Anambra State Stood Still As Two Pupils Donate Library To School

Chigozie Philip
Awka
Two boys of 12 and 15 years of age, little master Ntochukwu and Gozzy Nwogbo respectively, had built, furnished and donated a complete primary school library to Amaenyi Community Basic School in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Although Ntochukwu and Gozzy did not school at Amenyi Community Basic School, the Step-Mother of their father, our correspondent reliably gathered, taught in the benefitting primary school for years before retiring from teaching job.
Handing over the key of the school library to the Anambra State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Kate Omenugha, Ntochukwu Nwogbo, said they embarked on the project because they were heartbroken immediately they visited the school only to be embrace by her dilapidated infrastructure and non-functional library.
His words: “Our parents always taught us to be grateful for the things they are able to provide for us. They taught us that giving to those that do not have is lending to God. They practiced these teachings in their own lives by always seeking opportunities to bless others.

Hope Rises for Prisoners As Anambra State Chief Judge Announces Date for a Tour

Chigozie Philip
Awka
Prison inmates in Anambra State will soon regain freedom on amnesty as the Chief Judge of Anambra State, Justice Peter Umeadi, on Friday, said he would visit three prisons situated in the state.
Justice Umeadi, had in a similar visitation in the recent past liberated some prisoners on what could be described as amnesty.
 Disclosing this to newsmen, the Chief Registrar of Anambra state High Court, Barr Mrs. Doris Ezeani, announced that the goal delivery exercise shall start at 10 o’clock in the morning at Onitsha prison on 1st June; Aguata prison on 3rd June; while that of Awka prison holds
on 5th June.
Justice Umeadi added that the tour was in-line with judicial powers invested on him as the State Chief Judge, stressing that some detainees may gain justice but in accordance to the established law
and degree of the offences committed.

Pearl Look 2015 Beauty Pageant

Pearl Look 2015 Beauty Pageant - 

ARE YOU GOOD LOOKING?

Do you have what it takes to be the next pearl look queen?

Opportunity is here for you!!!

Download application form on www.pearllook.com, print it out, fill it and come with it during casting.

Registration is free!!!

PRESS RELEASE: Imagine Ear-Piece Cannot Cost Anything Less Than Two-Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (#250,000)---Oduah

This is  the way the former Aviation Minister ( whose knack for  financial recklessness is still under probe) has been allegedly paying  for advertisements of different types to “celebrate” her  victory at the polls. Can’t this money be expended on  skill acquisition projects where her innumerable unemployed  constituents members can learn skills and then be self-employed  afterwards?

     Who conducted a media survey to ascertain whether “her purported victory” is  acceptable to Anambra North electorate or not? Isn’t her  election being challenged at the election tribunal? Isn’t  she being  tried at the court of public opinion on  charges of stopping voting at Ochuche Umodu- her
 opponent’s community and stronghold; for intimidating  voters at Onitsha North and South Local Government Areas on  election day, using her innumerable uniformed men and thugs  to best her advantage?

STAKEHOLDERS MEET SENATE, BEGIN FUEL LIFTING TODAY

Stakeholders in the petroleum sector, at a public hearing organised by the Joint Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources(Upstream and Downstream), on Monday resolved to mobilise their members for the immediate distribution of fuel across the country.
Senator Magnus Abe, who read a communique signed by the stakeholders after the session, explained that the Finance Minister/Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and other stakeholders, who attended the meeting, unanimously agreed to the peace deal, in the interest of the nation.
He also explained that following the intervention of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the strike embarked upon by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and the Petroleum and Energy Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, had been called off.