I’m still here, says Mohammed Ali: Daughter tweets photo of boxing legend to dispel rumours (SNAPSHOT)

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• Image of Ali enjoying the Super Bowl appeared on Twitter
• Daughter says the 71-year-old former heavyweight champion is ‘fine’
• Rumours the boxing star was close to death emerged after his brother claimed he may not ‘survive the summer’

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali was pictured enjoying the Super Bowl this morning after his daughter knocked down rumours he ‘could die within days.’
An image of the iconic former world heavyweight boxing champion emerged in the early hours on Twitter holding his fists in the air and wearing a Baltimore Ravens jersey at his family home in Phoenix, Arizona, where he watched the Ravens’ 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers with his wife Lonnie.
His daughter May May Ali said she talked to her father on the phone and he was fine.

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali was pictured enjoying the Super Bowl at his family home in Phoenix, Arizona

She said: ‘He’s fine, in fact he was talking well this morning.
‘These rumours pop up every once in a while but there’s nothing to them.’
The family later posted a photo on Twitter of Ali sitting in a chair wearing a Ray Lewis T-shirt.
The rumours of his declining health began when Ali’s brother, Rahman Ali, said the former heavyweight champion cannot speak and no longer recognises him.
He feared his 71-year-old brother may not survive the summer.

Muhammad Ali’s family have denied reports that the legendary fighter is close to death (file photo)

Danger: Former world champion Ali last had a public health scare after the funeral of boxing great Joe Frazier

Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1984 but remained active for many years and made a moving appearance at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games where he lit the flame.
However, he was seen looking particularly thin and frail at the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony where he was helped across the stage by wife Lonnie.
Rahman has in the past accused his sister-in-law, who has been married to Ali for 26 years, of refusing to let the family visit the ailing champion.

Warning signs: Ali, pictured with wife Lonnie, left, was very frail during his appearance at the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, pictured right with Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti

Glory days: Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1984

Rahman, who was also a professional boxer, said he last saw his brother in July at the Sports for Peace Gala in London and is only allowed to speak to him over the phone.

The brothers, born Cassius and Rudolph Clay, grew up together in Louisville, Kentucky.
Ali’s most recent public health scare was December, 2011, when the champion was taken to hospital after falling unconscious.
Emergency services were called days after Ali made a frail appearance at the funeral of fellow boxing great Joe Frazier.
He was treated for dehydration after collapsing at his 6,000 sq ft estate in Arizona.
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Oprah under fire from Christian groups for show on sexual torture, domination, ‘BDSM’ on OWN

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Morality in Media is calling for a nationwide protest of Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network citing the reckless glorification of s*xual violence and torture depicted on the network.
The season premiere of Lisa Ling’s Our America on OWN portrayed the graphic depiction of “BDSM,” a form of “love making” that involves torture, whips and all kinds of things that scare us in the bedroom.
Dawn Hawkins, executive director of Morality in Media stated, “Women want to be loved, adored and cherished, not whipped, dominated and humiliated.” She went on to say, “Oprah and her OWN cable network seem desperate to bootstrap their flagging ratings to the tawdry and titillating world of torturous love portrayed in the bestseller, 50 Shades of Grey. This is purely trash TV and worse, it is entertainment likely to foster domestic abuse, primarily of women.  I would have thought Oprah should lead the charge against such exploitation.”  And added, “A responsible journalist would have at least mentioned that this form of activity has long been recognized as a mental disorder in the American Psychological Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.”
“Morality in Media believes all women, children and men have a natural human dignity, and that programming of this sort is inherently dehumanizing, corrupts healthy relationships, and grossly distorts a proper view of human sexuality,” said Hawkins.
Morality in Media is asking the public to contact OWN to protest this glorification of abuse and torture and return to the kind of uplifting programs that we expect from Oprah.
What do you think, did Oprah go too far?
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Tinubu, Mimiko Shun Each Other, Finally Shake Hands in Akure

Sworn political enemies, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo and Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) have exchanged pleasantries in public for the first time since the October 20 governorship election in the state.

Mr. Tinubu and other ACN leaders had in the build-up to the election accused Mr. Mimiko of betrayal and vowed to unseat him as governor.
The governor in turn fired back during his re-election campaigns, asking the electorate not to vote for the ACN’s candidate, Rotimi Akerodolu, as the state would be governed from Lagos, a reference to Mr. Tinubu.
The venue of the re-union was Saint Thomas Anglican Church, Akure, at the burial ceremony of a prominent leader of the ACN in Ondo State, Wumi Adegbonmire, popularly known as 'Omo-Ekun'. Mr. Adegbonmire died on December 28, 2012.
Arms length, then rapprochement
Although Mr. Tinubu initially avoided the Ondo Governor, the two men later shook hands after the church service. Mr. Mimiko was the first of the two to arrive at the event. The former Lagos governor arrived quietly during the program.
When the programme ended, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, and his counterpart from Oyo, Abiola Ajimobi, approached Mr. Mimiko and appealed to him to make the first peace gesture to Mr. Tinubu. A seemingly reluctant Mr. Mimiko agreed and allowed himself to be pulled by the middle-men towards the ACN leader. He approached Mr. Tinubu and both men shook hands.
Brief History
The ACN, which controls five of the six states in South Western Nigeria, campaigned vigorously to take Ondo, being led by Mr. Mimiko of the Labour Party. The ACN was at the forefront of Mr. Mimiko’s battle to re-claim his victory after he was denied victory in the 2007 elections.
The Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Candidate, Olusegun Agagu, was declared winner.
Before joining the Labour Party to contest in 2007, Mr. Mimiko was a member of the PDP. Analysts had predicted that he would join the ACN if he was eventually declared winner of the elections, a move the governor rejected preferring to remain in his Labour Party.
The former Lagos State Governor, Mr. Tinubu, was said to have personally assisted Mr. Mimiko, financially and morally, during his efforts to reclaim his mandate at the court. Mr. Mimiko has denied ever receiving any financial assistance from Mr. Tinubu.
Shun greed, cleric warns
In his sermon at the burial ceremony, the Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Adebayo Akinde, urged Nigerian politicians, particularly those who are Christians, to shun greed and be committed to the service of the people.
He also advised them not to enrich themselves at the expense of the electorate that voted them into their respective positions.
Mr. Akinde, who expressed disgust over the present situation in Nigeria, noted that the country needed 'political engineering' to move forward. He said Nigerians still wallow in abject poverty because of maladministration. The cleric described the late Mr. Adegbonmire, a former Secretary to the State Government in Ondo, as a dogged fighter who exhibited uncommon high sense of integrity.
"During the days of military dictatorship, late Adegbonmire stood by the Yoruba race through his writing in the old Nigerian Tribune and used his political exploits to develop his fatherland."
"The ACN leader was a principled person, he was loyal to the ideology of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, to the end," he said.
The cleric noted that the deceased was not like many politicians who claimed to be Awoists, believers in Mr. Awolowo’s political philosophy, because of what they wanted to acquire. He said Mr. Adegbonmire believed in 'Awoism' and lived by it; stressing that when he was in government, he never enriched himself.
Mr. Tinubu and the ACN National Chairman, Bisi Akande, in their remarks described the late Mr. Adegbonmire as a man of integrity and a role model, saying he would be missed.
Mr. Tinubu said the vacuum created by the late ACN leader would not be too difficult to fill because of the 'solid' succession arrangement within the party. He said the ACN leadership has developed many young politicians that could occupy any position in the party. The event was attended by some state governors in the South West, deputy governors, federal and state lawmakers, former political office holders, and several Yoruba leaders.
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Europol reveals 380 matches including Champions League and World Cup qualifying games were fixed

By Bisola Adeniran

An investigation has uncovered allegations of match-fixing in around 380 games across Europe – including one played in England.
Europol said the joint investigation had also identified about 425 corrupt officials, players and serious criminals in 15 countries.
The 380 matches included fixtures from World Cup and European Championship qualifying games, Champions League ties and top-flight league matches in several European countries.
Speaking in The Hague on Monday, Europol director Rob Wainwright said the investigation uncovered “match-fixing activity on a scale we have not seen before”.
“This is the work of a suspected organised crime syndicate based in Asia and operated with criminal networks around Europe,” he said.
“It is clear to us this is the biggest-ever investigation into suspected match-fixing in Europe.
“It has yielded major results which we think have uncovered a big problem for the integrity of football in Europe. We have uncovered an extensive criminal network.”
Wainwright said the investigation had uncovered €8 million in betting profits and €2 million in bribes to players and officials and had already led to several prosecutions.

Asked specifically about the allegations surrounding the Champions League tie held in England, Wainwright declined to identify the match because of “ongoing judicial proceedings”.
However he did say it happened in the last three to four years, adding: “The focus has been on other countries, not the United Kingdom. However we were surprised by the scale generally of the criminal enterprise and just how widespread it was.
“It would be naive and complacent of those in the UK to think such a criminal conspiracy does not involve the English game and all the football in Europe.”
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Lovey-dovey: Elated Beyonce spotted running into Jay-Z’s arms after Super Bowl performance (SNAPSHOT)

She performed to the cheers of millions around the world, but there’s was one only man on Beyonce’s mind following her incredible on-stage turn.
After singing a series of her biggest hits during the Super Bowl half-time show on Sunday, Beyonce was spotted running into her husband Jay-Z’s arms backstage at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
The 31-year-old songstress wrapped herself in a black robe after her high powered performance, which even featured a reunion with her Destiny’s Child co-members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.

He’s the man: Beyonce was spotted running into her husband Jay-Z’s arms after her Super Bowl performance on Sunday

The snaps, which were posted by make-up artist Joanna Simkin, quickly gained traction on Twitter after they were re-shared by singer, and one of her clients, Estelle.
The Love on Top singer is seen leaping into the Black and Blue rapper’s arms as the pair are surrounded by cameras and a curious crowd.
In another shot the two continued to run down down the hallway, laughing as Beyonce struggles to hang on to a Venti-sized up of Starbucks.

Hard to contain her excitement: The lovebirds ran through the backstage crowd

Girls run the world: Beyonce wrote a thank you note for her fellow performers

Putting her feet up: Kelly Rowland was seen glued to her mobile phone while relaxing backstage ahead of the performance

A triumph: Beyonce posted a snap of herself taking a break after the show

Still having fun: The girls jumped about backstage

Just minutes before, the singer took to the stage in style in a plunging leather corset and skirt which she stripped off to reveal a lace underlay while performing her song Crazy in Love.
Black over-the-knee socks and high heeled ankle boots completed Beyonce’s sexy outfit, while she shook her long curly light brown hair around in time to the music.

 The clearly pumped up star began her show in front of fireworks and a lit up giant silhouette of herself after a group of fans ran on to the field to watch, getting close to the action by standing next to the stage.

Her adoring fans: Beyonce shared a snap on her Tumblr of herself reaching out to fans

Strutting her stuff: Beyonge looked leggy in a leather jumper and knee high socks

Slinky: Beyonce tore off her leather skirt to reveal a lace panel

The spectacular show provided an elaborate contrast to the on-field action between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, with special effects including screens showing multiple video doubles of the singer, fireworks, and 72,000 fans singing along.

Among the millions watching at home was Beyonce’s friend Michelle Obama, who Tweeted her excitement about the singer’s halftime show.
‘Watching the #SuperBowl with family & friends. @Beyonce was phenomenal! I am so proud of her! -mo,’ she wrote.
But Beyonce made an extra effort to make sure that praise was also shared with her fellow Super Bowl performers, sharing a thank you note she wrote for Kelly, Michelle, Alicia and Jennifer Hudson.
‘What a proud day for AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN!!!!

They’re back: The performance featured a Destiny’s Child reunion

Back in black: The trio wore leather bodysuits

‘You are all beautiful, talented and showed so much class! It was an honour to perform at the Super Bowl with you phenomenal ladies!’
The day before the mother-of-one shared an album on her Tumblr of her final rehearsals ahead of Sunday’s extravaganza.
The 31-year-old songstress has been practising all week, perfecting her (live) singing and dance routines.

A crowded stage: Beyonce packed the stage with dancers, band members and back-up singers

Packed house: The Merdeces-Benz Superdome can hold over 72,000 audience members

In her new images, a casually-dressed Beyonce is seen onstage wearing a white sleeveless top and printed harem trousers.
The Crazy In Love star has her hair out in her signature tumbling curls and minimal make-up on her complexion.
The mother-of-one looks around in wonderment at the stadium, which will be at full capacity for the much-anticipated showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens.

Million dollar duo: Beyonce and Jay-Z were pictured on holiday in St Barts last year with their daughter Blue Ivy

Beyonce will perform in front of up to 76,468 people, which is the seating capacity of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
Billions of people around the world will also tune in to see the half-time show and game.
The new snaps come as Beyonce has been posting several images of her rehearsals all week.

Sasha fierce: The singer posted a fierce snap of herself handling a football

It’s almost time! Beyonce has posted snaps of her final rehearsals ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl half-time show on her Tumblr blog

In previous snaps, Beyonce managed to make a long john-style onesie look sensational as she practiced and prepped for the Super Bowl.
And while Beyonce may have appeared as though she had just stepped out of bed, make-up free and her hair in tumbling curls, she looked cute and youthful.
Putting in her all for the practice run, Beyonce showed just what viewers of the famous half-time show are in for when they tune into the sporting event this Sunday.

Wowed: The mother-of-one looks around in wonderment at the stadium, which will be at full capacity for the much-anticipated showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens

Cool and casual: In her new images, a casually-dressed Beyonce is seen onstage wearing a white sleeveless top and printed harem trousers

After her miming controversy at Obama’s Inauguration last week, the Crazy In Love star appeared to be singing live as well as exerting her famous dance moves.
The mother-of-one will be joined by a live band, and could be seen performing alongside a female guitarist.
In other raw snaps, Beyonce was certainly not afraid to reveal a pared down look.

All in one: Beyonce slipped into a long john-style black and white striped onesie as she practiced and prepped for this weekend’s Super Bowl in New Orleans on Tuesday

She wore a beanie covering her long tresses and a basic black T-shirt .
Beyonce added several pictures of herself in rehearsal via her Instagram and Tumblr, including shots of her lying on the ground laughing in the same hat.
One picture even showed the singer in front of her computer – perhaps personally posting photographs to her Instagram page.

Pared back: In other raw snaps, make-up free Beyonce was certainly not afraid to reveal a pared down look as she was seen wearing a beanie covering her long tresses and a basic black T-shirt

Lots of laughs: Beyonce added several pictures of herself in rehearsal via her Instagram and Tumblr, including shots of her lying on the ground laughing in the same hat

In her intimate black and white snaps, Beyonce was seen dancing up a storm alongside a number of back-up dancers dressed all in black.
The diva showed her humorous side as she collapses to the floor laughing after a strenuous routine.
But it’s not just all about Beyonce, the Crazy In Love star also posted pictures of her dance troupe and band, making sure to share the limelight.

Exhausted: The star is seen lying on the ground staring into the ceiling after one strenuous routine

Documented: Beyonce was joined by a photographer who was documenting the performance

Shady lady: Beyonce also donned shades during one of her dance routines

As well as Beyonce’s personal snaps, a new Super Bowl promo photograph of the singer was released on Tuesday.
Dressed as a football referee in a striped and black hot pants, she shows off her curvy figure in daring thigh high boots.
When she steps on the stage on Sunday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Beyonce will be hoping to put the recent lip syncing controversy of her Inauguration performance behind her by putting on a dazzling show.

Uploading: One picture even showed the singer in front of her computer – perhaps personally posting photographs to her Instagram page

The diva was accused of miming the National Anthem at President Obama’s inauguration ceremony, when a spokesman for the Marine Corps Band said she opted for a pre-recorded track of the song instead of singing live.
But hours later, a Marine spokesman backed off the claim and insisted he didn’t know one way or the other: ‘No one in the Marine Band is in a position to assess whether it was live or pre-recorded’.
The star defended her lip sycing at a Super Bowl press conference where she said she did not feel confident singing live.

Ready to rumble: As well as Beyonce’s personal snaps, a new Super Bowl promo photograph of the singer was released on Tuesday

‘I am a perfectionist,’ she explained. ‘I practice until my feet bleed and I did not have time to rehearse with the orchestra. Due to no proper sound check, I did not feel comfortable taking a risk.
‘It was about the president and the inauguration, and I wanted to make him and my country proud, so I decided to sing along with my pre-recorded track, which is very common in the music industry. And I’m very proud of my performance.”
She had insisted she would be singing live at the Super Bowl. ‘I will absolutely be singing live,’ she said. ‘I am well-rehearsed. This is what I was born to do.’

It’s personal for her: Jennifer Hudson opened the show with the choir from Sandy Hook Elementary School at the Super Bowl on Sunday

Raring to go: Jennifer looked excited, if a little nervous, as she made her way to the pitch

Girl on fire: Alicia Keys sang the Star Spangled Banner Who’s the fairest?: Alicia was pictured admiring her stunning dress in the mirror backstage
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Jonathan Is Obasanjo’s Worthy Successor By Okey Ndibe

Okey Ndibe

Nigeria’s crisis of leadership has grown so malignant that one is frequently tempted to cry, “Where is Fela Anikulapo-Kuti when we need him?” The latest distraction is news that former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his posse are at war with President Goodluck Jonathan and his circle. Were Fela alive today, he would have deployed his rhetorical genius to examine this astonishing drama. Fela had this inimitable facility for finding the right expressive idiom to lay bare the machinations of “authority people.”
Trust Fela: he would have come up with the most eloquent phrase for the absurdity playing itself out in Nigeria, the “government magic” behind the supposed feud between a man, Obasanjo, and his beloved son, Jonathan.
At any rate, that musical maestro with a prescient philosophic acumen would have recognized the precise nature of Nigeria’s tragedy-in-progress. We are starved for true, tested, focused leadership. We desire – and, I dare hope, deserve – a leadership that understands that the space called Nigeria is woefully backward in every index that counts. Nigerians are hungry for a leadership willing and able to meet the arduous challenge of humanizing our environment. Instead, we are being treated, once again, to some silly, inelegant theater that presumes to be a war.
The latest incarnation of this manufactured war was provoked by Oby Ezekwesili – a former minister and due process czar in the Obasanjo Presidency. In a speech at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ms. Ezekwesili (most recently a top official of the World Bank) implied that the Umaru Yar’Adua and Jonathan administrations had irresponsibly squandered much of the nearly $70 billion they inherited in foreign reserves. You’d think that she had questioned the law of gravity for the fury of the response that issued from Mr. Jonathan’s coterie. She was pilloried as a liar, categorized as a yeoman for Mr. Obasanjo, accused of elephantine wastage during her ministerial stint, and described as unworthy of engagement in a debate she called for. In Nigerian parlance, she was both “rubbished” and “finished.”
The Ezekwesili World War was still simmering when Mr. Obasanjo opened up a different sector of conflict. Last week, several Nigerian newspapers culled an interview in which Mr. Obasanjo, again, censured Mr. Jonathan for failing to arrest Boko Haram’s terror scourge. In a fierce response, one of Mr. Jonathan’s aides told Obasanjo what the present administration thinks of him – not much!
This whole messy affair should disturb Nigerians because, as an American friend of mine would say, there’s nothing there. It is a typical political exercise, a concatenation of attacks and counter-attacks in which nothing as substantial as a principle is at stake. It’s an ego-driven, feigned war between two men – Obasanjo and Jonathan – and their two camps. But the two sides share the same fundamental outlook on misgoverning Nigeria and impoverishing our lives.
At heart, both Mr. Obasanjo and his protégé, Mr. Jonathan, are one. For all of Obasanjo’s veiled and direct criticisms of the late Mr. Yar’Adua and Mr. Jonathan, the fact remains that he foisted both men on the Peoples Democratic Party as candidates. Obasanjo was the closest thing to an imperial president. He could easily have chosen any other pair and forced the PDP to acquiesce in his choice. Instead, he insisted on a Yar’Adua hobbled by grave illness and a Jonathan whose record in public office – as a deputy governor and governor – was far from impressive. And he was the ubiquitous, visible campaigner-in-chief for the two men. He dominated each campaign event. At each stop, he seized the podium to vouch for his self-chosen successors. He told Nigerians that the tag team of Yar’Adua and Jonathan was the only one to safeguard, sustain and build on his achievements as the (self-proclaimed) founder of modern Nigeria – never mind that his tenure was tall on propaganda and short on real, enduring accomplishments.
Call me a sucker for conspiracy theories if you wish, but I suspect that Mr. Obasanjo knew exactly what he was doing when he decided on his successors – and underwrote their “landslide” triumph in an election he notoriously declared a do-or-die affair. Nigerians had denied Obasanjo his fantasy about a third term in office. If you ask me, then, I’d hazard that a miffed Obasanjo set out to give us grief. He designed a future in which he could assail the men he installed in office as weak, confused and ineffectual – and be assured of our collective assent and corroboration.
Those possessed of a long memory should not be fooled. Often, I receive telephone calls from friends or acquaintances who argue that Obasanjo’s presidency was better than those of Mr. Yar’Adua and Mr. Jonathan. On such occasions, I give two responses. One is to remind my interlocutor that it makes little sense to apply the word “better” in discussing three mediocre, middling presidencies. It strikes me as odd to describe a pupil who scores 30% in an exam as better than another who scored 26%. The important fact is that both students FAILED. Beyond that, I also stipulate that the Yar’Adua and Jonathan administrations ought to be properly seen as extensions of Obasanjo’s legacy.
Life for everyday Nigerians continues to deteriorate, to descend into ever more brutish, nasty states. Mr. Jonathan’s apologists boast about improvements in the power sector. Yet, during my recent visit to Nigeria, I visited a friend whose area had not had one second of electric power in five straight days. Of what use is it to tell such a man that Nigeria now generates twice the quantity of megawatts from the levels when Mr. Obasanjo misran the country?
Though he’s no Fela, presidential spokesman Reuben Abati last week struck a plausible note when he called yesterday’s men and women hounding Mr. Jonathan by a fitting name: hypocrites. Ms. Ezekwesili was once hyped as a champion of due process. Yet, that gloss was extremely thin. She served in an administration that blew $10 billion or more on the power sector – with nothing to show for it. Did due process go to sleep as Mr. Obasanjo paid huge sums of cash to companies that simply disappeared, never to do the job that was paid for – or to be seen again? She was also there when US authorities caught one of Mr. Obasanjo’s closest aides for ferrying close to $200,000 in raw cash on a presidential jet into New York City. Part of the money was used to buy a Mercedes Benz, and close to $50,000 to purchase equipment for Mr. Obasanjo’s farm in Ota, Ogun State. That bizarre transaction violated both US and Nigerian laws about cash movements. US authorities extracted a fine of $26,000 from the president’s aide. Nigerian authorities pretended that – to use a popular Nigerian saying – “nothing spoil.” Did Ms. Ezekwesili ever raise any objection to that scandal, or insist that the presidential aide face the legal consequences?
It bears repeating: the spat between the Obasanjo and Jonathan crowds is not informed by any differences in principle. Why are we even arguing about the size of foreign reserves when our citizens have no decent hospitals to go to, our schools – from elementary to university – are dilapidated, our roads are a shambles, power supply remains woeful, and most Nigerians have to pee and defecate in the open, like animals?
Serious leaders around the world spend their waking hours thinking up strategies for improving the lot of their people, and positioning their nations as players in the global economy. Nigeria’s pretend-leaders spend half of their waking hours scheming over who, among a set of undesirable parasites, is to become the ruling party’s next chairman of the Board of Trustees; the other half on depraved conspiracies to corner scandalous sums of public funds for their private use!
In the end, the Obasanjo and Jonathan camps do not disagree on a fundamental point: that the mindless, unconscionable screwing of hapless Nigerians should continue. In fact, to speak about them as two camps is a misnomer. They have a shared consensus on the things that matter to them.
They hurl accusations of corruption across the faux lines, but they will never unmask themselves – never let Nigerians into the real gist, or initiate any serious prosecution. They’re staunch believers in the sharing of oil blocks among themselves – at the price of a breeze. They believe it’s better to transport themselves and members of their families to foreign hospitals rather than fund modern healthcare for all Nigerians. It makes more sense to them to buy up more private jets and acquire more swanky homes abroad than fix our roads. They will continue to cart away billions of dollars each year in security votes and constituency allowances. They don’t mind in the least that our police academies are unfit even for rodent habitation; they see to it that those of their number guilty of stealing billions of naira from the police pension fund should receive nothing harsher than the slightest slap on the wrist. No, they are in no hurry to mandate public declaration of assets. They’re even less willing to consider erasure of the odious constitutional provision that grants immunity to governors and the president when they commit serious crimes.
My hunch was always this: that once all the smoke disappears, Nigerians will awake to see Mr. Obasanjo hugging President Jonathan, his beloved political son, the two men beaming like sin. That scenario played out last Sunday as Mr. Obasanjo joined President Jonathan in a photo-op worship at Aso Rock chapel. That was proof that the so-called disaffection between the two “gladiators” is a smokescreen. There’s nothing in the ongoing fray that cannot be settled in the usual manner: the award of a juicy contract or two, or the trading of one or two oil blocks. 
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See How Wizkid & Banky Turned Against Each Other

The split between Banky W and Wizkid, inside sources say, resulted from an alleged high difference in what Banky W gets from revenues made by the young star, Wizkid.
The ‘injustice’, according to what TON gathered, has been bothering Wizkid until he summoned the courage to ask for an improved contract from Banky W, which hit him (Banky) by surprise.

“You know Wizkid is the backbone of EME music label. The boy (Wizkid) feels that Banky W has been milking too much from him with the large chunk of what Banky W takes from what the boy makes. “Wizkid has asked for an improved contract because the present one allocates much of Wizkid’s earnings to Banky W. You know when you are coming up, you sign any kind of deal because you just want to climb stardom.

“That is the situation the boy finds himself but Banky felt hurt that Wizkid could ask for an improved offer after what he (Banky W) has done for him.
“This was the beginning of the problem between them. The boy even threatened to leave the label sometimes ago but Banky W felt it was a joke. He took it with a pinch of salt. Now, he is at a crossroad and confused on what to do,” a source told Aproko 247.
Wizkid’s mum waded into the matter but Wizkid reportedly ignored his mum advice and stood his ground on leaving the label. “Wizkid’s mum has also tried to talk sense to her son but it seems the guy (Wizkid) is bent on moving on with his life.”

 InformationNigeria