Channels TV Presenter, Modupe Ogun Flashes boobs On Live TV Show

Wow, this isn’t something we get to see everyday on Nigerian stations.

It’s probably a wardrobe malfunction but it’s still something considered to be definitely unprofessional.

A channels newscaster going by the name, Modupe Ogun gave male viewers a little more than they bargained for as she flashed her bosom live on TV.

The left bosom seem to want a little media attention too as it popped out looking all perky.

The question however is was she wearing a bra?

The many lies of Agric Minister, Akinwunmi Adeshina

BY ADAMU BELLO

I have decided to put on record the authentic performance of the Agricultural sector of the Nigerian economy from the year 2000 to 2013. I say authentic in the sense that the source is the National Bureau of Statistics, which is statutorily responsible for national economic data jointly with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). I have decided to use 2000 as the base year as I took over as the Minister of Agriculture on the 8th of February 2001.

 I hold myself responsible for the performance of the sector from 2001 to 2007, noting however that my last full year in office was 2006. I admit, with full appreciation and gratitude, to the guidance, direction, support and cooperation I received from President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR, who I used to call Chief Minister of Agriculture because of his total involvement and the vanguard role he played in the various presidential initiatives that were undertaken.

I also want to put on record the support I received from all the state Governors particularly Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, CON. Worthy of mention at the Government level also was the support received from all the Deputy Governors of that period especially the role played by President Goodluck Jonathan as he was at that time the Subcommittee Chairman on Rice Production under the Presidential Initiative on Rice where he served creditably well.

All the stakeholders, especially farmer groups and cooperatives, were most helpful. The table below displays the performance of the Agricultural sector in terms of GDP growth: Performance of the Agricultural Sector Year Growth Rates of GDP for Agricultural

 Sector 2000 2.95%

2001 3.88%

 2002 4.25%

2003 6.47%

2004 6.50%

 2005 6.70%

2006 7.40%

2007 7.20%

2008 6.30%

2009 5.90%

2010 5.60%

2011 5.60%

2012 3.97% (Target 8%)

 2013 4.50% (Target 8%) Source: National Bureau of Statistics / Central Bank of Nigeria – Annual Reports (http://www.cenbank.org/documents/annualreports.asp)

 From the performance levels indicated, the growth rate of the Agricultural sector has been on the decline since President Olusegun Obasanjo left office.

 I have however noticed that the achievements being mentioned at various fora especially by the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, have no basis except that they were stated by the Honourable Minister in charge of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina (pictured).

 I have personally spoken with the SSA as to his source and he gentlemanly told me that he got all he said from the Minister.

I reminded him that there are independent government agencies especially the National Bureau of Statistics that he should check with, and he promised to take up the issue with the Minister and revert back to me.

Fertilizer Claims On the issue of fertilizer, it is only God the Almighty that will judge the unfair way past administrations are being portrayed.

To claim that there was subsidy of N870 billion spent on fertilizers since the use of fertilizers was initially encouraged by the Government about 40 years ago is most unfair, as I doubt if the entire agricultural budgets for the whole period was up to that sum.

 For a fact, from 1999-2007, the total subsidy on fertilizers was under N25 billion. This can be verified from the Budget Office of the Federal Ministry of Finance. However, according to Dr. Adesina the subsidy which was abused and corruptly taken was claimed to be N26 billion annually over a period of 40 years.

He further claimed only N2.9 billion reached the farmers annually. Any discerning person can see clearly that under Obasanjo’s administration, we had only N3 billion on average per annum for fertilizer subsidy. How can N26 billion be corruptly taken annually when only N3 billion was allocated annually? And where did the figure of N870 billion subsidy on fertilizers come from when only about N25 billion was committed in eight years, which represent 20% of the 40 years mentioned?

It is clear that there is no basis for the claim being made by Dr Adesina except for the purposes of getting unearned awards at the expense of those who served in previous administrations. Middlemen in Fertilizer Distribution The Minister of Agriculture proudly stated that he stopped corruption of 40 years in 90 days. This statement is misplaced, as over the purported period, he had not overseen the purchase of a single bag of fertilizer.

This can only be accepted as a statement of intent and not an achievement. Dr. Adesina can only claim this as an achievement if there was successful supply of fertilizers to farmers during that period. Under the Obasanjo administration, we NEVER HAD A SINGLE MIDDLEMAN. Fertilizers were sent directly to state governments that then arranged distribution to their own farmers. It is a great pity that Dr. Adesina keeps on making claims instead of doing his job and allowing to be judged afterwards. I would not have had any problems with his false claims except that it tends to disparage those who served before him and their respective Presidents. Facts on the Nigerian economy should be taken from the National Bureau of Statistics and the CBN, not plucked from space, massaged and deployed to malign others, pull wool over the eyes of members of government and the public, and gain unearned credits. I hereby appeal to the Government to set up an inquiry into the spurious claims on the Agricultural sector by the Minister to stop the embarrassment of the country, particularly when his bogus statements on performance can be easily dismissed with highly reliable and readily available data from the National Bureau of Statistics

Tribunal upholds Fayose’s victory

The Ekiti state governorship election tribunal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the petition filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Kayode Fayemi, challenging the victory of Ayodele Fayose in the governorship election of June 2014. According to the court, the petition was “lacking in merit”.

The court dismissed all issues raised in the petition, including the claim that Fayose was ineligible to contest the election “based on his purported impeachment and certificate forgery”. Fayose, who contested on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was declared winner of the election after polling 203, 090 votes to beat Fayemi, who scored 120, 433 votes. He also won in all 16 local government areas of the state. Opeyemi Bamidele, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), received 18,135 votes to place third.

After casting his vote, Fayemi immediately claimed that Musiliu Obanikoro, the minister of state for defence, was violating the election procedure. “I haven’t been able to get Mr. President or his chief of staff. I had cause this morning to speak to the inspector-general of police, not once, not twice, particularly about this minister of state who was violating the election procedure,” he said. “I have also had cause to speak to the chief of army staff about some untoward activities by his own men on the ground here. “It has not reached a stage where this should be escalated to the president yet, but I will like to think that the president himself will not want a situation that throws Ekiti into jeopardy.”

On June 22, hours after Fayose was declared winner, Fayemi sent a congratulatory message to his opponent, saying: “Yesterday, Ekiti state decided. Following the gubernatorial elections held in the land of honour, Ekiti state, Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially returned the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the election. “If indeed this is the will of the Ekiti People, I stand in deference to your will. If the result of the elections is an expression of the voice of our people, we must all heed your voice.

“I have just spoken with my brother, Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose, congratulating him on his victory. In a few hours from now, I would be meeting the governor-elect to discuss the future of our dear state and how we would work together to institute a smooth transition programme.” The rare congratulatory message raised hopes of an unusually seamless transition, but they were soon dashed when both men got involved in a number of public verbal spats.

The trouble started in September when thugs believed to be loyal to Fayose attacked Justice John Adeyeye during the inaugural sitting of the election tribunal in Ado Ekiti, forcing an adjournment of the sitting to October 14. Both men disagreed over the crisis and the curfew declared by the outgoing governor. At his inauguration on October 16, Fayose promised to banish hunger, but he also directed verbal jabs at Fayemi. “Let us also observe a minute for the departed soul of APC in Ekiti state. Not in our history again will they come back. They will never return to this state again,” he said. “You can put a tar on the road but if I don’t have a car and I’m hungry, then that tar is meaningless. Tarring our road is wonderful but putting food inside this stomach is very important.

 “When I defeated them, they said it was as a result of stomach infrastructure. How can an incumbent be saying that when he had the money, he had the power, he had the might but disconnected himself from the people. They are gone.” Two weeks after his swearing-in, Fayose accused his predecessor of “ruining the state”. “The previous administration of Kayode Fayemi was a monumental disaster to Ekiti and its people. Dr Kayode Fayemi ruined Ekiti state economically. He has put the state in financial bondage till year 2020,” he said. “As of today, after paying a total sum N15, 221,207,088 (i.e. N14,299,085,088 repaid from the N20bn bond and N922,122,000.09 from the N5bn bond, the state government is still owing N26.749bn! That is the situation that we are confronted with.” He lamented that “in a state like Ekiti with less than N3bn as monthly federal allocation, Fayemi spent a whooping sum of N604,961,645.72 just to furnish the new governor’s lodge built for the comfort of himself and his wife.” Fayemi denied all the accusations.

Buhari’s Belated Choice Of Running Mate, The Height Of Incompetence - PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the belated choice of Professor Yemi Osibajo by General Muhammadu Buhari as his running mate, six clear days after his emergence as the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), as the height of incompetence.
The PDP also declared that the eventual choice of Osibajo is a confirmation of its stand that the APC is the personal project of a cabal commanded by former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu, to expand its political and economic frontiers.
The ruling party, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh on Wednesday said, “should power get to this cabal, who is desperate to control the political and economic power centre of the nation, then Nigeria is finished.”
“By the choice of Osibajo, a well known acolyte of Tinubu, who served under him as Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, the APC, General Buhari and Tinubu have boldly recreated their well-known notoriety for sectional and personal interests.
“It is particularly worrisome that General Buhari has surrendered his first official responsibility of choosing a running mate, invariably his powers to Tinubu even before he goes to the field to ask for votes.
“This is not surprising of Buhari, who has consistently exhibited a track record of incompetence. This is the same man who as military head of state surrendered all his powers to his second in command. The story of his headship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) is not different, as he also got lost before the flurry of portfolios of paid consultants.
In 2011, as the leader of the CPC, Buhari failed woefully. His whimsical interference in the choice of candidates for his party not only muddled up the process but ended up creating an electoral malfeasance and confusion that eased out federal lawmakers elected on the platform of the CPC from his native Katsina state.
“Our citizens should indeed be concerned about this: that it took the APC, six days to produce its vice presidential candidate and that the founder and funder of the party, Tinubu, as always, had his way. No doubt, this is how Tinubu is going to impose his mercantilist interest on major decisions affecting the entire country.
“This is the problem with the APC, a political party built on the narrow interests of very few individuals. Any political party that subjects its collective will to the whims of an individual, as it is with the APC, is indeed not ready for leadership.
“Fortunately, the PDP offers to all Nigerians a truly national party and a Jonathan/Sambo ticket ready to build a better tomorrow.
“In PDP, the focus remains to ensure that we continue to deliver on our promises and put the interests of Nigerians first in all our party decisions and policies of our government.”
Signed:
Olisa Metuh
National Publicity Secretary

Ondo Youths Stone Mimiko at Akure Gas Explosion Site, Accuse Him of Corruption

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State and his entourage, having descended the hills of the circuit city of Idanre where a Gala night was held to mark the grand finale of the annual tourist Mare festival, nearly got lynched at Arakale in Akure, the state capital on Saturday night.
Mimiko had allegedly gone with siren blaring-escorts to sympathise and join in efforts to rescue trapped victims and put out the raging inferno at a cooking gas depot on the busy Arakale road in the state capital.
Irate civilian rescuers had allegedly been worked up by the lack of quick response from the fire service department. Fire fighters were said to have told first responders when the gas explosion that triggered huge fire balls started that they could not come because there was neither fuel nor hydrant in their trucks to fight the fire.
Apart from the poor response and cold shoulder from confused officials, angry youths and centres of the landmark city also said that they were holding Mimiko responsible for deliberately closing his yes to the way in which a culture of corruption and nepotism has now destroyed whatever the state used to boast of in terms of proper urban and regional planning.
 “The gas depot ought not to have been sited along a residential area such as Arakale. But in furtherance of the evil sectional agenda of weakening and destroying Akure, the administration continues to pack ajeles into positions for which they are not skilled or competent,” said Olu Aladenusi, who claimed to have narrowly escaped being hit by the canisters and cylinders that exploded moments after the fire started.
Olaniran Obe, a young University graduate said that he did not know that the explosions had not stopped when he joined other sympathisers in efforts at rescuing victims.
“No sooner did we begin to assist that cylinders began to lift into the air with fatal consequences, my brother, I ran. I lost my shoes. I thought I had been caught or killed, but the moment I found out that I was still running, I knew I had not died,” Obe said.
The people of Akure who charged after Mimiko also threw objects at fire fighters who came long after the fire began.
 “Whatever had the symbol or look of government was our target,” said a youth who declined mentioning his name for security reasons said.
He explained that the vehicles, properties and officials of the state and federal administration have become icons of corruption. The people at the scene of the tragedy accused Mimiko of squandering resources on a “wild dream of trying to relocate the capital of Ondo state to Ondo town. He has perfected an agenda of selecting and anointing idiots and buffoons as “ajelese over Akure people”. Lately, he moved from the political turf to threatening to impose an Adesida whose mother came from Ondo as the monarch of Akure. That would be resisted. Everyone knows that it is the turn of Osupa ruling house to produce the next Deji, said one of the youths who claimed to have derived pleasure from joining to chase Mimiko away.

Soldiers from the 323 Brigade of the Nigerian Army were later drafted to the scene before things could be brought under control.
 The youths said that the soldiers did not shoot at any defenceless citizen.
“Oh if they did, then we shall defy them and chase Mimiko out of Akure,” said another youth.
The casualty figure from the explosion which started at about 6.45pm was not yet clear. But an eye witness claimed that more than twenty bodies must have been removed early Sunday morning.
Another independent source said he only saw one body late Saturday night. The injured were also said to have been taken to hospitals “which are poorly equipped as Mimiko has strategically taken everything that would have assisted in managing trauma to Ondo, his native town”.
Notwithstanding, the Arakale fire is likely going to affect the future of city planning around Ondo State. A popular debate programme on the local OSRC channel had drawn attention to the danger inherent in the location of gas stations around residential buildings. While the government reacted swiftly by X-marking some structures for possible demolition, many people sent messages to the host of the programme accusing him of being meddlesome.